If you need to get a hold of an APS administrator this week,
you will find that they aren't available. They will be at an ACE conference.
If the ACE conference were a worthwhile endeavor;
why is no mention of it made by APS' million dollar a year
Communications Division on the district website?
I cannot even find out from the APS site, what the acronym
"ACE" stands for.
The last conference, last year, was held at the Inn of the Mountain Gods. a posh casino resort in southern New Mexico.
It was paid for by tax payers, by the APS Foundation, a "silver" sponsor (which solicits donations to "... to support programs that help students and teachers grow, develop and reach for their dreams/ not ACE conferences), and vendors who seek lucrative contracts from APS.
For example; Pepsi was was a "platinum" sponsor of the soirée at the Inn of the Mountain Gods;
If you look at the list of sponsors and some APS administrator decided to give them exclusive access to the entire APS; even teachers lounges. There is not a Coke machine anywhere in the district. (Perhaps Coke will sponsor the upcoming conference, and then be given the exclusive contract instead.)(link), you will find APS' roofer, a company that provides the APS with extraordinarily expensive roofs that dissolve in heavy rains.
The contracts are let by the same administrators who enjoyed the free weekend at a resort that teachers and educational assistants will never be able to afford.
According to the Meyners Audit, the contracts, some in excess of $50,000 were let "... without involving purchasing", under financially inadequate guidelines, and without keeping records that were complete and accurate enough to send anyone to jail.
No one in the entire APS will answer the question;
Why will there not be an impartial full scale audit of the APS?
The closest you will come, is Paula Maes order that there
will not be one.
When people argue that you get the government you deserve; this is what they are talking about.
If a few hundred taxpayers showed up at a board meeting and demanded an immediate, impartial, full scale, forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS;
there would likely be an audit.
If not, then a thousand need to show up.
Note; after a vigorous google; I have found a link (on a high school website) that indicates the conference is being held at Highland High School, with no other details. link I have found another link that seems to indicate the ACE is being held in Taos.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Why is the ACE conference a secret? ??
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I am surprised to see not one single comment on this. If we accept the idea that sometimes large conferences are important even if they produce no immediate tangible results we're still left with questions of why this can't be done in ABQ and how much money it costs to send dozens (guessing here, no accounting) of people to expensive hotels.
You have no idea; it is about 400 administrators and board members.
The last one, the one they held at the Inn of the Mountain Gods,
was paid for by taxpayers, Character Counts!, and vendors who do undisclosed business with the district.
Business, that according to the Meyners Audit was not conducted according to financially sound polices and procedures, and upon which they kept worthless records.
There has to be an impartial forensic audit.
The only reason not to begin the audit immediately is to protect the interests of the incompetent and the corrupt.
torches and pitchforks; Wednesday, next.
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