Friday, April 25, 2008

Larry Barker Rips APS

According to Larry Barker's report on KRQE LINK,

the leadership of the APS made a budget decision not to
allow the Albuquerque Fire Department to continue to make
inspections of APS Schools.

Allowing the city fire department to inspect schools would
require that APS spend $7-10M on correcting violations.

Instead, the money was spent on

  • the Uptown Administrative Complex,
  • an unnecessary new board room with all manner of video and electronic toys,
  • and who knows what else.

APS Facilities Director Brad Winter
came off badly,
very badly in the piece.

About the only excuse he could muster was that he has only
been on the job for three years.

I can't find a link to the piece, which seems odd.
Also odd, Larry Barker's expose of the APS schools who were ignoring fire code, board policy and state law by failing to conduct fire drills. I think Barker used to work for KOAT, and they own the tape on that one.

In which case I would expect that Mary Lynn Roper will not make it available to stakeholders, good friend that she is to Paula Maes.

APS' John Dufay
said; "I don't think it's anyone's fault,
it's just the resources required"

The resources were there, they were spent on something
else, like brand new furniture for board members to plop
their blissfully ignorant asses upon.

Heads will roll.

Not!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I cannot positively,,hands-down say that in the APS schools, there are extinguishers with expired chemical, required equipment checks out of date, missing equipment like extinguishers, body boards and fire axes are missing randomly around the schools.
Fire marshals have been discouraged from doing their mandated inspections, and fire drills have been faked, or in some cases, the incompetent administrator did 2-3 in one day to make the numbers "jive".
Shame. shame. shame.
Our kids are legally endangered and APS is redoing it's beautiful board rooms.
Where are the parents on this?!

Anonymous said...

Here is a link for you~

http://www.krqe.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=2420372&h1=Public%20schools%20lack%20fire%20inspections%2C%20News%2013%20investigation%20finds&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=418767&LaunchPageAdTag=News%20-%20Special%20Coverage&activePane=info&rnd=67416006

Anonymous said...

I went to the video...excellent!
They mentioned an APS violations list, but I couldn't find it.

ched macquigg said...

thanks for the link

ched

Anonymous said...

They mentioned an APS violations list, but I couldn't find it.

Try this link and there will be further links in the article


http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?S=8225201&nav=menu588_2_7

Anonymous said...

Where are the parents on this?!

Now this is something they should be raising holy hell about. They should be storming the school board meetings.
They also should be teaching their kids morals and values, but when they see the examples out board members set, they roll over and play dead.