APS' problems paying bills are not new

Editors at the Journal summoned the courage to write about a
problem in the APS, link sub req. They wrote about the fact
that local vendors are complaining that it can take as long as
four months to be paid for their goods or services.

The problem is not new.

APS has never had a record of paying its bills on time.
APS has never had a Finance Division that was competent.

According to the Meyners Audit;
the APS has never had adequate, financially sound, written down policies and procedures, and
the APS has never enforced all of the policies it did have, and
the APS has never kept accurate and complete records.

Because;

APS has always been run by good ol' boys, and good ol' boys
get better at their jobs only by coincidence.

There is no real and compelling reason for good ol' boys to
get better at anything, because there is no consequence for
being bad at anything.

They do not get fired for being incompetent.
They do not get fired for being corrupt.

And even if they do get fired, they leave with a quarter million
or so, in cash.

Any competent audit of the leadership of the APS will reveal
in every single department and division;
a lack of meaningful standards of conduct and competence, and
a lack of accountability to any standards at all, and
a lack of record keeping that could be used to substantiate
claims of corruption and incompetence.

APS problems are not new. They are as old as the organizational structure of the leadership of the APS; a good ol' boy system.

APS problems are not going to solve themselves;
in fact they are no going to be solved at all, for as long as
the number one priority is to protect good ol' boys from the
consequences of their corruption and incompetence.

Despite all of the problems in the APS Finance Division,
no one has been fired, no one has been demoted, and
no one has been disciplined.

Billions of tax dollars have been put at risk.
Likely, millions of tax dollars have been lost or stolen.

And no one has ever been held accountable for putting
public resources at risk.

No one ever will be held accountable, and that is why
things will never really get any better, and

APS vendors will continue to wait four months to be paid.