Guess who picked up an election package to the board of the Brownsville Independent School District and is announcing that he is ready to take on board member Catalina Presas-Garcia, the same Catalina that threw him off the board four short years ago?
Would you believe Otis powers?
Yep.
Otis Powers, whose in-laws and relatives such as his wife Sandra Powers (Special Services, Asst. Adm. - $102,885), Mary F. Atkinson Tolman (Special Programs-$103,505), and Sylvia Atkinson (Asst. Sup. for Curriculum & Instruction-$113,004) now occupy well-paid positions in the district. And let's not forget former city commissioner Charlie Atkinson, who was placed in a coaching position at Faulk Middle School while his sister Sylvia served as the Asst. Superintendent for Human Resources.
In this election in November, four sets on the board will be up for grabs.
Besides Presas-Garcia, Minerva Peña, Rolando Aguilar and Joe Colunga are up for reelection.
None of the members whose seats are coming up for renewal has announced one way or the other if they will run. But already some of the names mentioned who will run besides Powers include, Jose Chirinos, Rachel Ayala, and Victor Caballero, former principal of Garden Park Elementary.
Chirinos and Ayala are compadres, so we might expect them to run as a ticket. Chirinos is the former director of Transportation before he was shunted off to curriculum and was drawing a cool $113,004 a year. Ayala was the former Asst. Super. for Educational Services (at $100,000-plus).
Powers, who fell before Presas-Garcia last time partly as a result of the electorate's distaste for electing board members who hold top-paying positions in the district, is also embroiled in a federal lawsuit involving the manipulation of the BISD grievance process in the case of Tony Juarez, the district's former Chief Financial Officer.
In that case, federal judge Andrew Hanen allowed the introduction of a tape-recording where Powers is urging Juarez to file a grievance against former Superintendent Hector Gonzales to give the board majority the justification to fire him.
At the time, Powers was not on the board but had a continuing relationship with the sitting board member on the majority (Rick Zayas, Ruben Cortez, Rolando Aguilar, and Joe Colunga). Partly as a result of that taped conversation, the judge said there was enough evidence to indicate that a conspiracy existed to deprive Juarez of his constitutional rights.
In the tape recording Juarez took to the FBI, Powers is quoted as saying: "So…you gotta, you gotta, I…I…"I’d file a grievance...Your grievance is against Hector Gonzales and the board is gonna love you for that."
Is Otis ready to be confronted over that continuing episode?
Otis Powers, whose in-laws and relatives such as his wife Sandra Powers (Special Services, Asst. Adm. - $102,885), Mary F. Atkinson Tolman (Special Programs-$103,505), and Sylvia Atkinson (Asst. Sup. for Curriculum & Instruction-$113,004) now occupy well-paid positions in the district. And let's not forget former city commissioner Charlie Atkinson, who was placed in a coaching position at Faulk Middle School while his sister Sylvia served as the Asst. Superintendent for Human Resources.In this election in November, four sets on the board will be up for grabs.
Besides Presas-Garcia, Minerva Peña, Rolando Aguilar and Joe Colunga are up for reelection.
None of the members whose seats are coming up for renewal has announced one way or the other if they will run. But already some of the names mentioned who will run besides Powers include, Jose Chirinos, Rachel Ayala, and Victor Caballero, former principal of Garden Park Elementary.
Chirinos and Ayala are compadres, so we might expect them to run as a ticket. Chirinos is the former director of Transportation before he was shunted off to curriculum and was drawing a cool $113,004 a year. Ayala was the former Asst. Super. for Educational Services (at $100,000-plus).
Powers, who fell before Presas-Garcia last time partly as a result of the electorate's distaste for electing board members who hold top-paying positions in the district, is also embroiled in a federal lawsuit involving the manipulation of the BISD grievance process in the case of Tony Juarez, the district's former Chief Financial Officer.
In that case, federal judge Andrew Hanen allowed the introduction of a tape-recording where Powers is urging Juarez to file a grievance against former Superintendent Hector Gonzales to give the board majority the justification to fire him.
At the time, Powers was not on the board but had a continuing relationship with the sitting board member on the majority (Rick Zayas, Ruben Cortez, Rolando Aguilar, and Joe Colunga). Partly as a result of that taped conversation, the judge said there was enough evidence to indicate that a conspiracy existed to deprive Juarez of his constitutional rights.
In the tape recording Juarez took to the FBI, Powers is quoted as saying: "So…you gotta, you gotta, I…I…"I’d file a grievance...Your grievance is against Hector Gonzales and the board is gonna love you for that."
Is Otis ready to be confronted over that continuing episode?
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