According to the Tribune, the leadership of the APS is spending over $600,000 on an unnecessary and unnecessarily luxurious board room. It turns out that the number is low; really low. So low that you will never find out how low it really is.
If you don’t believe it, ask APS' Rigo Chavez or Joeseph Escobedo for a candid, forthright, and truthful response. Ask them how much money was really spent in that room. Note that when the too low number was published, the leadership of the APS did not offer to correct the mistake. They were comfortable with the community believing in a lower number. It is dishonest.
While you’re asking for the truth, ask who is responsible for spending money on an unnecessary board room; while Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary School is “falling apart”. The school is an all portable classroom campus. Assuming $30,000 per portable classroom, instead of an indefensible investment in a new boardroom, there would be 20 new classrooms. Who is responsible for that decision? Ask, you will be stonewalled.
So how do voters hold an unidentified administrator or board member accountable for spending a still secret amount of money against the public interest?
Elect someone who will hold themself, and the leadership of the APS, honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
The buck stops where?
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I think the pat answer to this type of question is that Facility Master Plan has to work with whatever money the state distributes each year, which can vary, so things are prioritized and penciled in for the five year plan.
The reason that a Board Meeting is subject to the public meeting act meant that the room itself had to meet certain accessibility standards, for disabled people. The City inspector made them spend some of that renovation money, because it didn't meet life safety standards, I believe. Checking with the city to see who inspected the Board Room and getting a copy of that inspection would be a start to the answer of this quandary.
And, as always, I could be SO wrong, maybe the Board all just wanted individualized padded velour thrones, I dunno.
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