CHIRINOS BASH WILL FEATURE BLUE B-DAY CAKE

By Juan Montoya
Heard about the birthday cake being prepared for newly-elected Brownsville Independent School District trustee Jose Hector Chirinos by his large number of admirers?
It seems that everywhere he went, whether at the main office, Porter High School or the BISD Transportation Dept. the charismatic administrators nurtured a growing female fan base.
At the high school and main office they were called "Las Barbies" like the doll. At the transportation department, he called them 'Las Princesas." In each case, they were a loyal support group, especially after BISD administrators homed in his department after shortcomings were detected through cursory audits.
The final straw was the performance of the forensic audit which found that Chirinos openly admitted that the widespread abuse of overtime for bus drivers existed when he arrived and continued until he was removed to another position after the administration had had enough.
The forensic audit, for example, indicated that over the five or so years that the affable Casanova was at the helm more than $3 million in unjustified overtime was doled out to department employees. A new audit performed just recently indicated that the overstocking of inventory at the bus barn totaled into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. What's worse, some of the items overstocked are no longer of any use to the district or are may be obsolete.
Today, BISD administrators say they will save more than $106,000 monthly after they implemented cutbacks on the generous overtime practices kept in place by Chirinos.
Unfortunately, Chirinos is now a new BISD trustee and some BISD employees wonder whether he will attempt to get back at the administration that removed him from his loving followers.
For the moment, however, it is said that at his approaching birthday this month, the Princesas and Barbies will bake a cake for Chirinos in his favorite color, blue.