Larry Barker and KRQE scooped!

The name of the APS administrator who started the ball rolling for Modrall's letter to the fire marshal, which marked the beginning of the end for fire safety inspections in APS.

According to Rigo Chavez, APS Director of Communications
the honor goes to APS Facilities Director Karen Alarid.

There is no proof that is was in fact her.

We must take the word of the leadership of the APS, that
it was her, because she created no record of the order.

It was all done "by phone".

For all we know, she drew the short straw and had to take
the hit for Brad Winter,
who can't take very many more hits.


Was Larry Barker scooped?

Did I find and publish the truth before he could, or would?
I suspect that he and his news director Michelle Donaldson
have know for quite some time that it was Karen Alarid.

He, she, or they simply decided not to tell the truth to stakeholders.

So what?

Stakeholders need to know that the person who ordered the end of fire safety inspections to save money, will be held accountable for that decision.

Stakeholders cannot know that she has been held accountable if they don't know her name.

Who cares if Karen Alarid is held accountable for saving some money on fire safety inspections while at the same time spending completely unjustified fortunes on a new board room and audio video toy box?

I don't know Karen Alarid from Adam's off ox.

I am not nearly so concerned that she be held accountable,
as I am concerned that no administrator is held honestly
accountable, to any meaningful standard of conduct or
competence, ever.


So here's the scoop;
the leadership of the APS traded student safety for fancy
furniture and electronic gizmo's for their new boardroom,
the very existence of which, remains unjustified to this day.

And Larry Barker and/or Michelle Donaldson made a
deliberate decision to keep it secret from stakeholders.


Larry's follow up to breaking the fire safety inspection scandal;
he turned up missing pipe that saved taxpayers 8 grand on
project that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

You gotta think taxpayers would rather hear how much of
the public trust and treasure has been squandered at the
Uptown Administrative Complex.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say,
I think way more than 8 grand was wasted.

And what about the tens, maybe hundreds of millions of
dollars that have gone missing in the APS Financial Department,

• which has no financially sound policies or procedures, and
  
• wouldn't be following them even if they did.

Oh yeah, and they didn't keep books on it
that could be used to send anybody to jail.