The need for an impartial administrative accountability audit

is demonstrated by the following;

The need for the audit to be impartial, is simply a necessity in order not to create the appearance of a conflict of interest.

APS leaders auditing themselves is an apparent conflict of interest, on its face. Enough said.

As to the need for an accountability audit;
the most compelling need for an accountability audit stems
from the widespread and deeply damaging perception that
there is an egregious lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS.

1. Every impartial audit of every division of the administration of
the APS, has revealed significant administrative failures.
As but a few examples, I would cite; the M&O scandal,
the scandal in the APS Police Department,
and the scandal in the APS Financial Division.

2. The Governor, Bill Richardson, declared that the APS has an earned statewide reputation for their lack of financial accountability. A concern that was justified by the results of the Meyners Audit, which revealed in the APS Financial Division;

1. inadequate polices and procedures, and
2. inadequate enforcement of what policies that there were, and
3. inadequate record keeping on the spending of a billion dollars a year.

3. The Mayor, Marty Chavez argues a lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS so profound as to justify mayoral appointments to the school board.

4. The former Chief of the APS Police Department said; if the truth ever gets out, there won't be an APS senior administrator left standing.

It is ridiculous to argue that there is not an apparent need for an impartial audit.

The need is abundantly obvious.

If only to cure the public perception that the leadership of the APS in too incompetent and too corrupt to ask tax payers for even another mill levy or bond issue.

A clean audit would cure that perception. A clean audit would justify stakeholder confidence in the leadership of the APS. It would ensure the passage of the next mill levy and bond issues.

And the hundred thousand dollars that the audit would cost tax payers is a drop in the bucket, and would pay for itself many times over in the first year after the audit was complete.

There is every reason in the world to begin an impartial audit immediately,

and only one reason to oppose such an audit;

to protect the identities of the corrupt and the incompetent
in the leadership of the APS.