From the Meyner audit of the APS Financial Department;
- District Superintendents have encumbered the District for purchases or services greater than $50,000 without involving purchasing.
- We were unable to locate any district wide policies and procedures that were updated and trained upon.
- Requisition & procurement process is bypassed and contract process not adhered to
- Other District staff have encumbered the District by signing for purchases or services without involving purchasing.
- Requisitions and/or purchase orders for software or high cost items may not go through appropriate authorizations
- Inventories for fixed assets have not been taken and the tagging system is not current
- Equipment that has been issued to various schools and classrooms comes up missing.
- New hire orientation is limited to signing up for benefits. There is no district-wide orientation explaining policies and procedures.
- Access (to programs, networks, vpn) is not always deleted when an employee leaves
Overall Meyners noted;
Lack of enforcement of financially sound policies and procedures in the APS Financial Department.
A profound lack of standards, accountability and record keeping.
I am willing to bet that some of the Billion tax dollars a year sent to the APS have been stolen and wasted.
What do you think?
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Doesn't suprise me at all.
Take for example: in our high school, some 700+ Dell computers were bought. They were tagged with paper APS serials affixed with scotch tape. When an inventory was done, during teachers changing rooms, the inventory for the 3-6 computers in the classrooms was all wrong. "Don't worry about it. They'll [the computers] show up somewhere" was the answer. That was the only inventory in 4 years. Then we got even more computers.
That's just 1 medium-priced ticket item in one school.
"Tip of the iceberg".
--An APS instructor
Where did you get this info? It doesn't seem to be published anywhere.
The information comes from the APS Finance Division 2008 Project Plan, prepared by Meyners + Co., LLC after their audit of the APS Finance Dept.
You can get a copy from Rigo Chavez.
I just hit the high spots.
My mantra.
I will always vote against APS on any and all bond issues. I will not abstain from voting, but cast my vote against the bond issue. Ommmmmmmmmm.
Another Disgruntled APS Employee.
I, too, now become anti-bond. My administrator, a prominent HS principal, kept pushing and plugging to us that the future of APS depends on voting "Yes" on the bonds/land truts.
Now, I feel like a sap.
--An APS instructor
Here is one of the problems - there is not intelligence cycle happening in ANY law enforcement locally, much less APS Police.
APS needs to develop field contacts that can give them data and information, then someone in APS Police (An Intelligence Officer) needs to gather and parse it, make it into usable INTELLIGENCE.
Local lawsuits over the last several decades have made it hard for cops to even keep field contact cards, the very basic kernel of a successful intelligence program.
If you ever watch NCIS, that is a good example of how to have a team parse information into INTEL. You need smart people with open minds to see connections where others don't WANT you to see the connections, and the resources and field agents to make it feasible.
Without an Intelligence service, APS Police is crippled. Without a decent police force, corrupt individuals witin APS will just continue to steal with no consequences.
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