look in the fine print to find the lie`

there is a picture of the new aps board room in this morning's journal. it was placed where it was easy to miss.

in the fine print; the journal's expose of the boardroom scandal; included the following sentence, (heck, the sentence was the expose)


"It was estimated to cost $500,000, but it ended up costing $750,000 after handicapped-accessible bathrooms and a handicapped-accessible entrance were added."

there in lies the lie. when the trib ran its article on the boardroom's escalating costs, the cost was reported to be $645,000, if memory serves.

it was at least $145,000 over budget at that time because no one budgeted for these obviously necessary elements of any remodeling. these are building flaws which the administration bought with the building; and they knew it.

now they want to use the same excuse again. only this time,

that additional "unbudgeted" cost has "somehow" almost doubled.

but that still isn't the lie.

the lie is in the purpose of the anonymous journal "report"
which is to deliberately direct attention away from the fact that
the whole project is running $750,000 dollars above
any justifiable need.

an impartial audit of the administration of the public interests in the aps, will reveal the identity of those who squandered the public trust and treasure in their new little extravagance.

but if they can prevent the audit,
they will dodge accountability yet again.

yoohoo mayor chavez; where are you? ??