APS M&O Emergency Reserves are Gone

The Trib reports that the emergency reserve funds in the M&O budget are gone.

"John Dufay, deputy director of the district's Maintenance and Operations Department, gave the figures and acknowledged that they add up.

"These kinds of things are never in the budget, but it has to come out of it," Dufay said.

Two months into the school year, the district's Maintenance and Operations emergency reserves are essentially gone, according to Dufay. But he's confident that other district reserves can cover any further expenses."

The district could also appeal for aid from the Legislature to cover any really large unforeseen issues, Dufay said.

One would hope that our legislators, before appropriating more tax dollars to the APS, will ask for an honest accounting of the money spent by the leadership of the APS on unnecessary renovation of the Uptown Administrative Complex.

So far, the leadership of the APS has declined to provide illumination, explanation, or justification for the money spent on their house, while students swelter in poorly air conditioned classrooms with leaking roofs.

Transparency? Not!