Friday, March 14, 2008

APS auditing going on, on the sly?

It would appear that the leadership of the APS
is actually doing some impartial auditing.

Most recently the results of an audit of the APS
accounting department were briefly mentioned
in the local news.

Last night on KRQE, I thought I heard a reference
to three current audits, accounting,
human resources
, and one other.

Long story short, I can't remember what was said
accurately enough to quote the story.

So I went looking for APS audit results on the
internet; and found nothing;
not even on APS' own website.

There are a couple of problems with that.

In the first place, audit results are a public record.
And neither I, nor any other stakeholder, should have to
sue APS/Modrall to look at them.

If taxpayers were getting anything but shined on
by Monica Armenta and the million dollar a year
APS Communications Department;

the results of every audit every done on the APS
would be communicated to stakeholders;
readily and easily accessible on the APS website.

It is clear that;
Monica Armenta was not hired to communicate
audit results with stakeholders.

And now, my far more sinister suspicions;

The leadership of the APS is actually doing some
impartial auditing, which is a good thing, but;

they are doing it in the form of several departmental
audits;

each of which will be "released" to the public,
and relatively one at a time, to minimize the impact that
all of them together would create.

Paula Maes'
cronies in the news will present
just enough information to appear legitimate,
and then let the issue die a quiet death,
at the end of one news cycle, unnoticed.

It appears that they do have an interest in fixing
some issues.

But the good ol' boys haven't changed their stripes.

They will fix them in secret,
so no one knows how bad the problems were,
the individuals "responsible" for the problem will not
be admonished, and nothing changes enough to
make any difference in APS' over all levels of
incompetence and corruption.

Good ol' boys may some fix problems; secretly.
But they do not fix other good ol' boys; secretly.

APS stakeholders deserve better than band-aids on the
problems that good ol' boys knowingly permit,
or negligently allow.

We deserve fixes that address the issues that created
the issues; we deserve more than good ol boys will ever
provide.

Trust that wo/man in nothing;
who does not take follow up questions,
on the record.

Trust that wo/man in even less;
who does not take questions at all,
on, or off the record.

And plan to go the the next regular meeting of the board
Wednesday next.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

FYI

Check out the video's on this site. Paula and Robert are not playing well with others!

http://www.krqe.com/global/story.asp?s=8016360

Anonymous said...

Wow! Maybe Paula's not holing all the cards anymore?
Hope so!