At last evening's meeting of the Board of Selectmen, the Selectmen approved a new financial/managerial policy: a Fraud Prevention & Detection Policy.
This Policy is set forth to communicate the Town's intentions regarding prevention, reporting and investigating suspected fraud, abuse and similar irregularities. The Town desires to create an environment in which employees and/or citizens can report any suspicions of fraud.
Further, this policy is set forth to communicate the Town's desire to protect the assets, resources and reputation of West Boylston. It is through this policy that the Town also seeks to protect all officials, employees and associated parties from false or erroneous allegations by providing them with sufficient knowledge and training relative to the Town's fraud prevention policies and procedures to ensure that they fully understand the culture of the environment they are operating within. This Policy provides management with specific guidelines and responsibilities regarding appropriate actions in conducting investigations of alleged fraud and similar improprieties.
All employees of the Town, including elected and appointed officials, as well as the citizens of the Town may utilize the newly created Fraud, Waste & Misuse Complaint Form to be found on the Town Administrator's website to report any instances of fraud in the community to the Town Administrator. If anyone has any questions about this new process, please feel free to contact me at my office.
Leon A. Gaumond Jr.
Town Administrator
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