Even Robert Lucero, the board's most vocal opponent of accountability for administrators or board members, pointed out on the record, that any accountability audit should be done before the new superintendent takes over.
The new superintendent should have been handed the results of a full scale impartial accountability audit of the leadership of the APS. Only with the truth in hand, would s/he have been able to eliminate the waste of power and resources through incompetence and corruption.
As it is, the truth that will be handed to the new superintendent will be crafted by the good ole boys. They can be expected to protect their own interests. They will surrender neither their corrupt, nor their incompetent, nor the system that they have crafted which tolerates and enables public service sans standards and accountability.
There are only two real possibilities. The first, the possibility that the board will hire a superintendent that will expose all of the corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS, is not really a possibility at all.
The other possibility, (certainty?) is that the new superintendent will be folded into the club. The easiest thing to do is to hire someone who is already in the club; like well, Linda Sink for example.
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume the board hires a superintendent prepared to take on the good ole boys.
Corruption, incompetence, and the practices which enable them, are the biggest problem APS has; by far. There is no legitimate agenda for the APS which does not move forward on the day that honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct, begins.
Accountability is fatal to corruption and incompetence.
S/he will establish meaningful standards of conduct and competence. S/he will enforce those standards by means of a system that is beyond the undue influence of even the most powerful public servant, and even against their will.
But, any superintendent whose agenda is to clean up the administration of the APS ,will stand alone. Alone against the most formidable opposition imaginable.
Board Member Marty Esquivel is the only man of the history of the leadership of the APS, who has ever stood on the record in favor of a full scale administrative accountability audit.
His silence on the subject now speaks volumes.
The good ole boys are not to be trifled with.
The administration, the board, and Modrall
have a way of getting their way.
Friday, January 04, 2008
New APS Supt Doomed to Fail
Posted by ched macquigg at 8:34 AM
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If APS pays the Board Members, would they then at least not be held accountable to the same standard that other employees are not held to?
Maybe that is what theya re angling for - pay. If they can get 30 k or so a year for being a Board Member, then they would not have to work shifts at Kmart like City Council Members.
I worked at a car wash, did a paper route, worked security, I am not against woking extra for what you need, and Kmart is a repectable job. I am saying that maybe if we want to hold them accountable, we pay them.
I am using the royal we of the people, not the royal we of the APS Good Ole' Boys, natch.
APS BOE member Robert Lucero and Modrall lawyer Art Melendrez, are on the record on the issue.
Board members are not accountable to the employee code of conduct because they are not "really" employees.
I suspect that their W-2s list APS as their "employer". My right to inspect and or copy their W-2s, as public records, was abrogated by the leadership of the APS and Modrall.
While I appreciate the need to pay all public servants a fair wage; the worst offenders on the board and in the administration have plenty of money.
They were corrupted by irresistible temptation; and now they are trying to cover their tracks.
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