Petition to the Albuquerque Public Schools board members who supported the proposed property tax hike:
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KIVA Interview with RPBC Chairman Robert Aragon
on the proposed APS property tax hike. |
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ATP Interview with former APS Board member David Robbins
on the proposed APS property tax hike. |
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We the undersigned, being registered and active voters in Bernalillo County call upon the APS board to withdraw the proposed property tax increase in order to forego the humiliating defeat at the hands of voters for this ill-conceived burden upon us and that the APS Board needs to improve it’s performance before any further increase in expenditures can be considered, de minimus to wit:
Too much bad management to enumerate:
WE WILL VOTE AGAINST THE PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
- Has a miserable graduation rate,
- Has excess F schools,
- $16,000+/student, one of the highest in the nation, almost twice that of Rio Rancho which has better student performance,
- $385/square foot building cost for LEED certified buildings which have not shown any improved performance,
- Declining (1000 student/year) enrollment yet continues to expand facilities instead of instruction,
- Pays off bad superintendents with secret settlement agreements,
- Builds cathedrals to ignorance and useless buildings of when APS could use existing facilities,
- Has a bloated administration,
- Has had $700,000 and $4,300,000 embezzled with no effort to recover the money and in once case, no prosecution.
Too much bad management to enumerate:
WE WILL VOTE AGAINST THE PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
