JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 In a scathing report, the city of Jacksonville\u2019s Office of Inspector General discovered improper cafeteria work inside Duval County Public Schools.<\/p>\n
The OIG found permitting, inspection, and verification problems with major kitchen renovations.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n This includes electrical work, gas connections, and mechanical installations.<\/p>\n Officials say this put lives at risk and created physical issues for staff.<\/p>\n The project costs totaled more than $30 million.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Inspectors found cords on the floor and custom installed lines.<\/p>\n The report noted issues at Eugene J. Butler, North Shore Elementary School, and San Pablo Elementary School.<\/p>\n The OIG recommended safety inspections of food service facilities, verifying permits before a project is done, contractor performance evaluations, and disciplinary reviews for administrators who allowed the improper renovations.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n The OIG gave DCPS 10 days to respond to the report, but never heard back.<\/p>\n Action News Jax reached out to DCPS about the OIG report and received the following statement:<\/p>\n \u201cWe take this report seriously and are conducting a thorough review of its findings. Following our review, we will respond directly to the Office of Inspector General.\u201d<\/p>\n You can look at the full report from the OIG below:<\/p>\n DCPS Code Enforcment 2026-00108 Final <\/a> by ActionNewsJax <\/a> <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 In a scathing report, the city of Jacksonville\u2019s Office of Inspector General discovered improper cafeteria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1040,12834,16024,143697,116,118,117,634,95161,143698,36329,53530,143699],"class_list":["post-351310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-dcps","tag-duval_county_public","tag-eugene","tag-j-_butler","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local","tag-na","tag-north_shore_elementary","tag-office_of_inspector_general","tag-oig","tag-san_pablo_elem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}