APS Police Hoping for Raise; Don't Hold Your Breath

Zsombor Peter reports in the Journal this morning
(link sub req) that

"APS officials say they're waiting on the outcome of this year's legislative session to find out exactly how much money they'll have to make good on those raises."

Reading between the lines, we can see that the leadership of the APS has not adjusted their priorities in terms of funding well deserved and long overdue raises for school police officers.

If they had, APS police officers would be getting a decent raise;

and the leadership of the APS would be waiting instead on funding from the legislature to see if they have enough money to add another floor of administrators to the Uptown Administrative Complex.

"Bob Woody, APS' labor relations director, said the district also would try squeezing some money out of next year's operating budget, depending on how much the state allocates."

Again, subject to "more important "operational priorities'".

... perhaps a sun deck, volleyball, and putting green on the roof of the Uptown Administrative Complex.


Coincidently, the $600K it would take to raise police officers salaries is roughly equivalent to the money paid to Monica Armenta et al, to deliberately deceive stakeholders on a number of issues, not the least of which is the issue of funding priorities of the leadership of the APS.