NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on June 22, 2009, the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, received a petition for temporary waiver of paragraphs 11B-18.0071(5)(a), (b), F.A.C., from Director Ron Grimming and the Miami Dade College School of Justice. Pursuant to Section 120.542, F.S., Petitioner requests a waiver of paragraphs 11B-18.0071(5)(a), (b), Florida Administrative Code. The Petitioner wishes to temporarily waive that portion of the rule requiring training schools to submit semi-annual forms to the Commission staff detailing how interest earned on Officer Training Money interest-bearing accounts was expended; and, requiring training schools to then submit a year-end report detailing and reconciling all such interest expenditures for the year. Petitioner wishes to waive this portion of the rule requirement for fiscal year 2006/2007 in order to avoid the economic hardship of having to repay the interest moneys accrued and expended during that time which were not reported as required by rule. Petitioner asserts that repaying the interest accrued during the 2006/2007 fiscal year would cause substantial economic hardship to the Region XIV training schools. Petitioner asserts that the underlying statute is satisfied because the interest accrued was expended as required by rule and statute, however it was only the forms required to report that activity that were not filed because of exigent circumstances existing only for fiscal year 2006/2007.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Grace A. Jaye, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, P. O. Box 1489, Tallahassee, FL 32302, (850)410-7676.