APS' Paula Maes sez; "NO AUDIT"

APS school board head honcho, Paula Maes has stated flatly that she will never allow any audit of the leadership that would individually identify any corrupt or incompetent administrator or board member.

Maes, and her husband's law firm, Modrall, call the shots in the APS.

There will never be an audit of the public interests in the public schools despite;

Governor Bill Richardson's admission that; the leadership of the APS has a statewide earned reputation for financial accountability.

And despite the recently completed Meyners Audit, which revealed that APS spends a billion tax dollars every year, without adequate rules, without adequate enforcement of the rules, and without keeping adequate records of spending.

Unless there has been a miracle; millions of tax dollars likely have gone missing.

Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez says, the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS is so profound, as to justify the appointment of school board members by the mayor's office.

Former APS Chief of Police, Gil Lovato was quoted in the Journal saying, if the truth ever gets out, there won't be a single APS senior administrator left standing.

The APS cannot pass another mill levy or bond issue past voters, even if our children's education depended on it.

There is an accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS.
Paula Maes says she will never allow an audit that would sort it all out.

There is no one in the APS powerful enough to contradict Maes.

There is only one force powerful enough to put Maes in her place; and begin an immediate, impartial, full scale, forensic audit of the APS;

... you. You, and perhaps a hundred or more of your friends and fellow tax payers.

You can go to the board meeting tonight to demand an audit of your interests in the public schools.

Nothing would go further to repair public perceptions of the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS, than a clean audit.

If the leadership of the APS could survive an audit, they would conduct an audit; if for no other reason than to restore their public image.

There is no reason not to begin the audit, except that it will cost as much as $100,000; less than one ten thousandth of the budget, and far less than the money than will be saved by eliminating corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.

The audit is a threat to no one who is doing their job competently and honestly.

There is no reason not to begin the audit,
except to protect the corrupt and the incompetent
in the leadership of the APS.



You are invited to the board meeting tonight
5pm at 6400 Uptown Blvd,
south of Coronado shopping center

to re-establish your control over power and resources
that are fundamentally your own.

Never has there been a more profound opportunity
to strike a blow against public corruption and
incompetence in public service.

I cannot imagine anything more important
that you could be doing instead.

You will be done by 5:30.