APS' continued disregard for the OMA

A visit to the APS website reveals that there will be a meeting
of the District Relations Committee at 5pm today.

According to past practice, the agenda should have been posted online one business day in advance of the meeting; it was not. Again, if you believe in the binding nature of past practice, the minutes of the last meeting, which will be voted on tonight, should also be on line for stakeholder perusal, and they are not.

How big a deal are these two "violations"? In the overall scheme of things, maybe not all that big. Except that the overall scheme of things for the leadership of the APS is, a casual, sometimes blatant disregard for both the requirements of the Open Meetings Act, and the Inspection of Public Records Act.

If one wanted to make a bigger deal of APS' disregard for open government laws, one could sue them in District court. One will be opposed by one of the largest, most powerful, most influential law firms in the state, the Modrall, whose litigation costs would be underwritten by a large bore pipeline of financial support provided by unwitting taxpayers and their support for the "education" of the 98,000 of their sons and daughters who are APS students.

They will be the same lawyers who defend the leadership of the APS when they erase the public records of all of the previous meetings of the board, link, lest they "become problems later on". The result of that litigation will be the finding that the leadership of the APS should not have destroyed all those records, the leadership of the APS will claim to have learned from their past, and will move toward the future.

The records of course, will remain erased.

And any stakeholders who would like to watch and listen to Marty Esquivel outline the need for an administrative accountability audit, only to be shut down by Paula Maes' announcement that she will "never agree" to any audit that individually identifies the corrupt and the incompetent in the leadership of the APS, will be shit out of luck.