no offense intended.
The Albuquerque Journal has charged Zsombor Peter with the obligation and responsibility to investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.
It is generally conceded, as self evident,
that as a wo(man) days increase in number,
so does their honor, and their courage and their character.
And their education, and experience and their expertise.
And their capacity to overcome the obstacles that block
their legitimate endeavors.
Young Peter faces the leadership of the APS,
a group of individuals who have formed for themselves;
a good ol' boys club.
They have not been writing down any rules for themselves.
The very last rule that they wrote for themselves was;
the standards of conduct and competence that apply to students;
do not apply to administrators or board members.
Even for the 6.5 hours each day that they enforce those
standards upon students.
They are now, only supposedly accountable to
the lowest standard of conduct of them all; the law.
And only then, as determined by the lawyers of the Modrall
and their legal weaselry,
and their virtually unlimited financial support from unwitting
taxpayers who think they are taxing themselves in order to
provide for the best education of their sons and daughters.
The egregious lack of accountability in the leadership of
the APS is well documented in the public record.
Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez finds the situation
so appalling as to warrant his personal takeover of
the school board.
The Governor of the State of New Mexico, Bill Richardson,
said;
"The leadership of the APS has a state wide
"earned reputation" for their lack of financial accountability."
The "well earned" part was documented by the recent
Meyners Audit of the Financial Division of the APS.
They wrote that;
Despite the fact that they were entrusted with
a billion tax dollars a year,
the good ol' boys in the leadership of the APS,
never bothered to write down financially sound policies
and procedures.
Nor did they follow the ones that they did have.
Nor did they keep records detailed enough to send anybody to prison.
At worst
Brad Winters will be held accountable for bad record keeping and not for negligently allowing millions of tax dollars to be lost to waste and fraud.
They say;
If you're going to steal money, keep lousy books.
No one ever went to prison for keeping bad books.
Brad Winter will not provide a candid, forthright and honest
answer to the legitimate question;
Why were two APS administrators who had intimate
knowledge of the corruption and the incompetence in
the APS Financial Division,
and who did not blow the whistle,
promoted to even more senior leadership
in the mitigation of the mess that they own,
and given every possible opportunity to then guide
the cover up of their previous incompetence and corruption?
You still do not know the names of the senior
administrators who
"encumbered sums of money in excess of $50,000
"without involving purchasing.""
Nor will you ever.
Because the leadership of the APS will not reveal
their names,
nor any other inconvenient truth,
and
Zsombor Peter cannot see that he must
investigate and report back to his readers.
He cannot see the single most important role of a
newspaper in this democracy.
Zsombor Peter cannot see that there is something
wrong when a senior public servant;
Brad Winter,
will not answer legitimate questions about
his public service.
Or about the fate of public resources.
Brad Winter will not tell you how much money he spent on his fancy new board room.
Money that he saved by allowing elementary school students and their teachers to spend another year in portable classrooms that were showing the effects of being used to three times their service life at
Susie Rayos Marmon ES.Nor will he tell you how much money he save by ending fire safety inspections in schools.
And then spent on
Tom Ryan's electronic toy chest;
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of electronic
recording and editing equipment, and technicians,
who cannot manage to get a clean copy of
a board meeting, to a single stakeholder; ever.
The leadership of the APS will not commission
a full scale forensic audit of the entire leadership
of the APS.
Nor will they allow an audit to be discussed on the record.
They will allow
nothing to be discussed on the record.
APS school board head honcho, Paula Maes
has said that she will never allow any audit of the
leadership of the APS which will individually identify the
corruption and incompetence of any APS senior administrator or board member.
A boast which she has so far, successfully backed up.
They will not discuss;
the Meyners Audit;
nor the impartial investigation of the APS Police Department and the public corruption and criminal conspiracy that took place there;
nor the Council of Great City Schools Audit
which revealed APS' "culture of fear of retribution and retaliation",
nor the Council of Great City Schools Audit which revealed that their system of administrative evaluation is "subjective and unrelated to promotion or step placement.
In the face of incontrovertible evidence of an ethics and accountability scandal of epic proportion,
Zsomber Peter is not man enough to do the job.
Or,
there is corruption afoot.
cc Zsombor Peter upon posting
except that he has indicated that he is not
interested in reading even another one of my "silly" posts.
