APS, $2,000,000,000, zero oversight.

The leadership of the APS just signed off on a $1.3B budget.
Early next year, they will ask taxpayers for an additional nearly
$1.7B, bringing the total very close to $2B.

How can tax payers protect their investment, ensuring that it
is spent in the best interests of students?

How do taxpayers know that a bunch of that money is not
going to be wasted through incompetence and corruption?

The short answer is that they do not.

The coyotes are guarding the hen house.
Taxpayers questions are answered by the coyotes.
Every audit they do has a confidentiality clause that
guarantees that audit results go to the coyotes, and
only to the coyotes.

The only assurance that the leadership of the APS is willing
to offer is; trust us.

Every audit of the APS that looked at standards and
accountability in the leadership of the APS found a significant
lack of standards and accountability.

The Meyners Audit of the APS Finance Division,
the folks who will be spending this $2B, revealed;

• a lack of financially sound policies, and
• a lack of enforcement of such policies, and
• a lack of record keeping, accurate and complete enough to send anyone to prison.

A recent audit of the APS Police Department, in the wake
of the Peanut Butter Gate scandal, revealed that the
leadership of the APS has a history of ignoring audit findings,
and failing to address issues cited in previous audits.

Taxpayers rely on the APS Board of Education, to provide
oversight over the administration of the public trust and
treasure by the administrative leadership of the APS.
Yet when the board is asked to provide an impartial (forensic)
audit of the entire leadership of the APS, they will not even
talk about it in public.

School Board honcho, Paula Maes said she would never
allow any audit that named the names of the corrupt and
the incompetent in the leadership of the APS, a boast that
so far, she has been able to make good.

There needs to be an impartial audit of standards and
accountability in the leadership of the APS. Taxpayers
need to know if the leadership of the APS has finally created
the standards and accountability that are necessary to protect
the public interests in the public schools.

There will never be such an audit, because such an audit
would name the names of the corrupt and the incompetent
in the leadership of the APS. And the good ol' boys who run
the APS would rather see millions of tax dollars lost or stolen,
than see even one of their own, held honestly accountable for
their conduct and competence as public servants.

Tax payers have no recourse on the issue of an audit that
represents their interests. There is nothing they can do to
compel the leadership of the APS to hold itself honestly
accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence.

There is nothing stakeholders can do, except to deny them any
more trust and treasure to squander.

Vote no on any bond issue or mill levy until the leadership
of the APS is honestly accountable to meaningful standards of
conduct and competence, by a system over which they have
no undo influence, and powerful enough to hold them
accountable even against their will.

Vote no on any money that is not subject to independent,
impartial auditing; audits that report directly to the public record.