For the past two or three days this blog has been sent comments said to be from sources "deep inside" the Brownsville Independent School District administration that the promised $1,200 stipend for district employees will not happen and that the announcement will be made after the November 6 trustee election.
The Big Lie, if repeated often enough, gathers a life of its own, so BISD trustee Lucy Longoria has decided to nip the rumor in the bud."We took board action in this year's budget to give our employees a $1,200 stipend in two parts," she said. "The first one will be included in the December paycheck and the other will be in May. Since it's an earned stipend, we didn't authorize for all of it to be given out at once."
Longoria said the motivation for floating the rumor appears to be purely political and is aimed at hurting the reelection bid of incumbent Caty Presas-Garcia in favor of her opponents. The action take during the vote for the 2012-2013 budget cannot be undone unless there is a board action on an agenda to reconsider.
"We already took the action and it's not going to be recalled unless a board member who voted for it asks for it to be put on the agenda," she said. "Whoever says it's going to happen is plain out lying."
Most suspicious is why incumbent candidate Minerva Peña has not dismissed the rumor, some BISD insiders say.
"We know where this is coming from," he said. "They don't say that the stipends were approved by a board action and cannot be undone by the administration unless the board approves it "
Longoria is even more emphatic.
"This is an outright lie perpetrated by people who want to hurt Caty's campaign," she said. "This has caused a lot of unnecessary worries in our employees. It's a mean thing to do and it's not true."
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