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!