APS twin towers not in budget cuts.

School districts statewide are being threatened with budget
cuts ranging as high as ten percent, link. In the same report
APS Superintendent Winston Brooks is quoted regarding
where the cuts will fall. There is even a report on the Journal's
sports page, outlining the effect on high school sports program.



Nowhere in either report, is it suggested that there will be any
consideration at all of staffing cuts in the administration at
6400 Uptown Blvd.


When APS bought the twin towers years ago, it was with the
promise that half of the building would be used to consolidate
the administration, and the other half would be rented out to
pay for the building.

Since, every nook and cranny, on both sides of the building
was filled by the stampede to find a slot at 6400 Upyours Blvd.

There are those, myself included, who believe that there is
some dead wood in the administration of the APS. The
existence is hard to prove, as it is nearly impossible to get
any information out of the APS. But the supposition stands
to reason.

There is a way to find out. You pay independent auditors
to come into the APS administration and carefully examine
each and every administrative position; the executive
administrative assistant to that administrator, the administrative
assistant to that administrator, and the secretary to the
administrative assistant to the administrator.

Are there good, decent, capable, hardworking administrators
in the APS administration? Of course there are. And it is grossly
unfair to them to allow their reputations to be soiled by the
leadership's steadfast refusal to do anything at all about the
not so good, not so decent, and not so hardworking friends
and relatives that work there.

APS will be coming to voters in a few months, looking for
another $650M. At the same time, they steadfastly refuse
to allow any audit that comes in and names the names of
the corrupt, the incompetent, or the dead wood in the administration.

They will argue that the cost; a few tens of thousands of
dollars, is too great.

The cost of not doing the audit is greater, far greater.

No audit; no more money. Not even one thin dime.




photo Mark Bralley