Calendar Queen isn't telling the whole truth

APS publishes a "world class" calendar each year. In an era of
budget crunching, someone is bound to ask, do we really need
a fancy calendar more than we need a teacher or a couple of
educational assistants?

Well, APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta has that all figured out; she claims donors will pick up the tab, link. She claims it cost about $40,000 to publish the calendar and those costs will be underwritten by Lovelace Health System and Albuquerque the Magazine.

She is telling a half-truth;
she is telling a lie.

She has admitted in an open meeting that the calendar is her "biggest project". Doesn't that mean that the cost of the calendar includes the biggest part of her salary, and of the salaries of those who work under her on the calendar project. Doesn't it include the biggest part of the salary of those who work on the calendar even though they were recently moved to the IT Department to make her department look smaller, link?

Armenta claims that the district "... produced 100,000 wall calendars for the 2011-2012 school year at no cost to the district". (emphasis added) So, did she return that part of her salary to the kitty, did she and her subordinates work off the clock, or is she fudging the truth?

The oversight is not accidental; it was a deliberate effort to
mislead interest holders. I would bet money on it.

Armenta makes more than $107K a year to spin the truth
and deliberately mislead interest holders. Welcome to APS
Communications.




photo Mark Bralley