Remember the stench that resulted when spoilked babrabcoa meat was served to kids in the Brownsville Independent School District's cafeterias?
The BISD said it was launching an investigation into how meats processed in Mexico (Gomez Palacio, Dgo.) ended up on the cafeteria tables and said it had stopped purchasing from that source.
However, an information request on how much the district had paid to the vendor (Valco Foods, an offshoot of a Mexican company with an office in McAllen) generated a response from the district that it had paid Valco Foods $322,712.35 (see graphic at right) over the last two years.The district is part of the Region 1 purchasing pool and gets the processed meat at a whooping $6.29 per pound. Valco has a contract to provide Region 1 with 20,000 pounds of meat per month for two years with an option for a third one at the end of 2017.
The odor emanating from the bad meat purchase launched an investigation into the Food and Nutrition Service Dept. at the district. It's director, Silverio Capistran was later found dead in his truck of an apparent self-inflicted bullet wound to the head.
We now know that earlir in the day, Capistran had gone to speak with investigators from several agencies. What he said or whether it led to his apparent suicide is not known.
That apparent suicide didn't stop others from inquiring into the operation of that department or the district's relationship with the company and other vendors with FNS for everything from advertising, cafeteria furniture and utensils, etc.
One blogger who actually started the scrutiny into BISD's relationship with Valco was none other than local gadfly and Head Cheez Erasmo Castro. Castro formally requested specific details of BISD's purchases with the company and the district did what every self-respecting bureaucracy dos when it doesn't want to produce the information it is asked. They say they need a Texas Attorney General's opinion on whether the information is exempt from public scrutiny. That little maneuver usually takes from two to three months, giving the BISD time to let things cool off a bit and discourage further inquiries.
That's exactly what the district staff attorney Miguel Salinas did and sent Castro a letter telling him just as much.
The reluctance and food dragging from the BISD didn't sit well with Castro's followers on Facebook. Below is a sample of the responses that some of his readers, a few who are parents of kids in the district, had to say on the issue.
6 comments:
I have pic from a friend of my son that had a spider in his salad a few weeks past
And still no indictments? Board member Cesar lopez must be lighting candles by the dozen. And this type of criminal activity isn't going to stop until the feds clean up this mess. The voters need to vote out every current incumbent up for reelection this year . without fail. Maybe with this incident it will happen.
Lesson to be learned voters of BISD!!! You keep voting for the snakes of the world including pedophiles and sexual abusers lovers in that worthless ex-DPS officer, Pena.
Too many questions on this buying meat from a company in McAllen and operated or controlled by drug cartel supporters or themselves. Doesn't anyone see the conspiracy? You have the director supposedly kill himself and then discovered by a subject who found his brother? You can stage a suicide but there is always evidence to say otherwise. Someone needs to get off their ass and do some real investigating!
All board members need to go, the superintended needs to be held accountable..all this happened under her watch..Yanking my kids out of public schools and I have 5...Charter Schools, YAY.
Ponganse a trabajar y ya dejense de mamadas
Does this investigation have anything to do with the Rice and Beans restuarant shutting down?
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