Reading the Board's response

It has been 7 workdays since a petition, link, was hand delivered to the APS School Board.

The Board was asked to acknowledge the standing of the Citizens Advisory Council on Communication, and to underscore that acknowledgement by;

1. assigning a senior administrator with first hand experience as an adviser to our group, to help the council avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared previous advisory councils,
   
2. presenting a workshop for Council members and other interest holders, that will enable the council's success,
3. the publication on the District website, of all records pertaining to previous councils,
   
4. the use of one of our APS community rooms for meetings, and
5. independent professional facilitators to run and record meetings.

I have been assured that the petitioners will have a response by tomorrow.

"... the letter can go out today. If not, it will be Monday."

If the question is;

Are you willing to tell the truth about the public interests and about your public service?

any answer except yes, means no.

Waiting seven days or more to answer, means no.

The very survival of a number of the leadership of the APS
depends on their gaining control over the Advisory Council's
agenda.

"When the truth gets out, there won't be a single
senior administrator left standing"
disgraced former APS Police Chief Gil Lovato, 2007

If they do actually respond tomorrow, you can judge for yourself whether the leadership of the APS is really interested in open and honest two-way communication with interest holders, or if the promises of open and honest two-way communication they added to;

1. their code of conduct,
2. their school board policy
3. their administrative procedural directives and
4. their district goals,

were put there for some other reason.

I can prove the Journal has known about the petition for at least 6 days (11 if their reporter was at the 8/10/11 board meeting) and as you can see for yourself, has not reported a word.