Jon Barela avoids tough questions.

The board is moving at light speed to install Jon Barela as
Gordy Rowes' Distrtict 7 replacement on the school board.

Rowe announced his resignation Wednesday August 20, 2008.

By the meeting early in the morning the following Friday,
August 22, 2008, all the ducks were in a row and
the whole process was voted in and ready to go.

With no stakeholder involvement at all.

The process smells like the good ol' days, when board members
changed not by election, but by board appointment. link page 12

From 1913-1962, elections were held every two years but a non-incumbent was rarely elected to the board.
(If an incumbent board member decided not to stand for re-election, he or she would resign early. The board itself, including the departing member, would select the replacement, who would then run as an incumbent in the upcoming election.)

As I foretold, Barela will be appointed to the board without
ever having to stand before stakeholders and answer any
questions at all. He will answer only ten questions; link;

not one of those questions is;

Will you hold yourself honestly accountable as role model of the student standard of conduct?

or

Will you present yourself personally to stakeholders to answer legitimate questions about the public interests; will you respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly?

Those are questions of course, that
NO ONE in the leadership of the APS will answer.

Because they have no intention of holding themselves honestly accountable to any standard of conduct at all, and because
they have no intention to ever stand before stakeholders and actually tell the truth about anything.

Nothing in the Journal; nor will there be anything in the Journal
except for the announcement that Jon Barela has been
appointed to serve on the school board, and will enjoy
an incumbent advantage in the February school board elections.

Just like they used to do it when the good ol' boys did whatever
the hell they wanted to, to fill the board with their cronies.

There is no reason to fill the empty seat except by election.
The election is being fixed right before your eyes.

Yet another Modrall lawyer will find himself running a
school system that spends a billion tax dollars a year

• without adequate policies and procedures
• without adequate accountability to those policies, and
• without keeping adequate records.
  (all according to the recent, Meyners Audit)

behind the protection of the Modrall law firm, which makes million of tax dollars litigating exception to the law for APS administrators and board members;

without ever standing for legitimate questions, without
ever answering any questions, and while all the while

refusing to allow an impartial full scale forensic audit of
what ever it is that they are doing.



Because no one will stand up and stop them.