Polishing APS' image

Winston Brooks is out in the community to polish APS' image.
APS' image is so tarnished at this point, that there is a very real
possibility that the next bond issues and mill levies will not pass.

APS spends a million tax dollars a year to polish its image.
It pays Monica Armenta $105,000 a year to polish its image.
It pays a subordinate staff hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year to polish APS' image. It slaughters uncounted numbers of trees every year, to polish APS' image.

The image polishing is deceitful and dishonest.

They are painting an image of the APS using only the colors of its successes.

While it is useful and fair and honest to point to successes, it is not honest to point only to the successes. In order to be honest, the good and the bad must be presented in fair and equal measure.

Winston Brooks and the leadership of the APS are bent on covering up the scandal in the APS Police Department. They are bent on protecting the corrupt and the incompetent in that scandal from facing any consequences at all for their corruption and their incompetence.

Winston Brooks and the leadership of the APS are bent on covering up the scandal in the APS Finance Division. Likely, millions of tax dollars have gone missing in a division

• without adequate policies,
• without adequate accountability to policies, and
• without adequate record keeping.

They are bent on protecting the corrupt and the incompetent in that scandal from facing any consequences for their corruption and their incompetence.

Just like they covered up the M&O scandal, the Gradegate Scandal, and every other aspect of the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

Winston Brooks will go out in the community and blow hard about APS successes, yet he lacks the character and the courage to answer even one legitimate question about even one of APS' failures.

He and the rest of the leadership of the APS seem to think that this is OK; to promote the good and hide the bad.

According to the standard of conduct that Winston Brooks enforces upon students; the conduct is deceitful, dishonest, and therefore prohibited. That is why Winston Brooks will not discuss on the record, the student standards of conduct and competence, or the very real obligation of he, and and every other member of the leadership of the APS, to promote and model those standards.

Bottom line; taxpayers are paying a million dollars a year to be deceived and misled in order to polish the image of the APS.