A few years ago, the leadership of the APS decided to move out of their digs on University Blvd. They "needed" to move to shiny new apartments in the sky.
6400 Upyours Blvd.They promised stakeholders the purchase would actually save tax dollars. They told us that they would rent out half the building and make money on the deal. They did not.
Within the building, a brand new board room. You paid a million dollars for it.
In truth, you have no idea what you paid for it.
Nor can you find out.
If you ask APS Chief Administrative Officer Brad Winter to tell you how much you paid for it, he will not.If you ask him explain why fire safety inspections of schools were ended, and the money that was saved then spent on state of the art electronics for the board room, he will not.
If you ask him to explain justify the need for a building new board room, while at the same time, students at Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary School were attending school in portable classrooms that were being used to three times their life expectancy, he will not.
If you ask the Journal to explain why they will not investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, even in the face of elections over $617M, they will not.
photos Mark Bralley
3 comments:
2 properties in the bond were supposed to be sold to pay for the Uptown Center- Aztec & Montgomery. APS has already outgrown the center
At least two contributions to Brad Winters campaign in 2007 came from Robert Caswell Investigations. Not a whole lot of money, but still against city code:
(f) Ban on Contributions from Business Entities and City Contractors. No candidate shall accept a contribution in support of the candidate's campaign from any corporation, limited liability company, firm, partnership, joint stock company or similar business entity or any agent making a contribution on behalf of such a business entity. No candidate shall accept a contribution in support of the candidate's campaign from any person, other than a City employee, who at the time of the contribution is in a contractual relationship with the City to provide goods or services to the City. The remedy for an unknowing violation of this subsection shall be the return of the contribution.
It would be interesting to know if Caswell investigated any other criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators and wrote findings as secret as his investigation of their police department.
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