We had heard of a letter sent by Texas Southmost College trustee Dr. Rey Garcia to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, TSC's accrediting body where he is said to have asked them to censure his fellow trustees even as far as pulling the college's accreditation for sacking former president Lily Tercero.
In it, Garcia is said to have called the move by five other trustees on the board that voted to terminate her for cause "wrong," even as she and her Dallas attorney hinted at coming litigation against TSC.We also heard that following the board's decision to sack Tercero, Garcia "as a private citizen," he claims, had written the SACS accrediting commission and said they should reconsider TSC's accreditation for his colleagues voting to fire her.
The key word here, according to Garcia – who has not denied that he wrote the letter or the nature of its contents – was that he wrote it as a private citizen and not in his official capacity as a trustee.
Well, we find Garcia's distorted explanation somewhat disingenuous since the voters elected him to protect the college and support its progress, accreditation being a critical part of the community college's development. Once you are a trustee, anything you do, whether in a board meeting or outside Gorgas Hall, you carry that responsibility with you 24/7.
We have asked the TSC administration for a copy of Garcia's letter and we hear that Garcia has refused to release it to the public citing the privacy of the missive.
Now, we know the letter exists because Garcia has said as much. And we know that he is refusing to divulge it or its contents to the public that elected him to represent them on the TSC board. When one writes such a request to the accrediting body, is he, in effect, in violation of his fiduciary responsibility to the entity he represents?
Garcia is said to have cited "pending litigation" as a reason for not releasing the letter, which implies that he knows something no one else knows, that Tercero sill sue TSC and its board. How does he know? Has he been in touch with the former president or her attorney?
We expect that TSC will have to use the tried-and-true maneuver of asking for a Texas Attorney General's Opinion and delay the inevitable for at least a couple of months. But we are used to having local governmental bodies try to quash our requests for information before and are set to wait him out until the letter by our elected official is ordered to be made public.
12 comments:
Your information is completely mistaken, he requested that sacscoc come investigate the crooked dealings of the new board majority in order to try to save TSC from incompetent leadership.
A trustee is free to disagree with the majority of the board as to any action, including the termination of the president.
However, for such a trustee to ask SAC to pull the accreditation of the school over such a disagreement is a breach of his fiduciary duty. He is now acting against the best interest of the school and students and steps should be taken to remove him immediately.
It must be sad being so much in love and being played like a fiddle. Signs of dementia have set in on Dr. Garcia to the point that he cannot see the joke he is on the TSC Board.
Ask SAC for a copy of the letter.
Senility and a pervert attraction are the causes of this decrepit ancient men actions against his own City's young generation.
Dr. Garcia needs to go too
He is acting against TSC
Dr. Garcia you must be ashamed of yourself, your duty and obligations are to TSC not to Tercero
Agree 100 %
Hos do you know ?
Man is this dude in love with her wtf
Just open your eyes to the incompetent leadership, how could they bring the college to a point they are uninsured.
The frustrated and negative comments above could have been written only by the board madam and her four puppets.
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