Jon Barela ignores APS BOE Code of Ethics

Jon Barela is a member of the Albuquerque Public Schools
Board of Education, and as such subject to its code of ethics.
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Jon Barela, only weeks into his appointment is already in
blatant violation of a number of rules.

In particular, I call attention to the following rules; each of which
is being violated by Barela.

1. Make the education and well-being of students the basis for all decision making;

4. Establish an open, two-way communication process with students, staff, families and all segments of the community;

6. Accept responsibility and accountability for one’s own actions and behaviors;

7. Avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance thereof and refrain from using the board position for personal or partisan gain;

9. Delegate authority for the administration of the schools to the superintendent and establish a process for accountability of administrators;

Jon Barela violated Rule 7 by accepting appointment to the board. The board was in need of another member who would support at least two of the board's current priorities;

1. to avoid an honest and impartial audit of the APS Modrall relationship, and
2. to conceal the nature of the good ol' boy organizational structure of the leadership of the APS.

Since Jon Barela has recent ties to the Modrall law firm, and because he is currently one of the good ol' boys himself, he has created the appearance of a conflict of interest by accepting the appointment. The appointment was absolutely unnecessary as the vacant seat would have been filled by election in a matter of weeks.

No one in the entire leadership of the APS obeys Rule 4. There is no "two way" communication. Jon Barela and the rest of his cronies in the leadership of the APS steadfastly refuse to answer legitimate questions about the public interests.

In refusing to respond to a complaint that Barela violated NM Republican Party Rules when he did not vacate his state office in that organization, when he opposed other republicans vying for the seat on the school board; Barela is in violation of Rule 6.

Jon Barela joins the rest of the leadership of the APS in obstructing an immediate full scale forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS. Despite overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence of public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS (the Meyners Audit and the public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the APS Police Department, to name but two examples), Jon Barela and the rest of the leadership of the APS refuse to begin an honest administrative accountability audit, and further refuse to explain, defend, or even acknowledge their opposition; in violation of Rules 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9.

If our interests lie in getting the 89,000 of our sons and daughters who are students in the APS, to embrace honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence,
then someone has to show them what they look like.

It will not be, apparently, Jon Barela.

For the record we are now in day five of the NM GOP's
response to the complaint that Jon Barela has violatied
republican party rules, and still no response from the
good ol' boys that run the republican party in NM.


cc Jon Barela at barela_jon(at)aps.edu upon posting.