Can the APS School Board commission its own police officers?

During the school board's discussion
of their response to Bernalillo County
Sheriff Dan Houston's MOU, APS
COO Brad Winter was called to the
podium.

Winter told the board that he had
received a letter of support from
Alb Police Chief Ray Schultz.

Winter then read from his letter.


Schultz claims, a statute exists,
under which the board could
commission its own police officers.

Nobody else, including APS' own
lawyers, has heard of the statute.

If it actually exists, there would
have been no need for the APS
to have gone to the legislature
twice in failed attempts to create one.


Board member Peercy asked Winter to ask Schultz to identify the statute.

So far, apparently, he has not. Perhaps because he cannot.
It would appear that Schultz' imaginary statute is just that,
and nothing more.

And still, Winter refuses to surrender a candid, forthright, and honest accounting of public spending on their new board room. Are board members really sitting in chairs for which we paid eight hundred dollars each?




photos Mark Bralley