During the last meeting of the board of trustees of the Brownsville Independent School District, general counsel Baltazar Salazar made a pitch for a $36,000 hike in pay claiming that under his watch, external legal fees had dwindled to almost nothing.In fact, he said, his skill at lowering costs had resulted in $100,000s in savings so that a mere $36,000 was just a fraction of what he had saved the district. He then produced his own documentation for the "savings" he had made the district.
Trustees dutifully gave Salazar a $24,000 raise, $12,000 less than what he had wanted originally. That, he reminded them, was a mere 2.9 percent raise in two years and he will now have to struggle to get by on a pittance, $288,000 a year.
Well, we don't have the figures for 2016 that he showed the trustees, and 2017 is not on the books yet. But we remembers we had acquired
the legal expenses some time back and went looking for them. Salazar cam on board – appropriately – on April Fools Day 2013. At the time of his hire he told the trustees he was there to trim costs.He looked at trustee trustee Minerva Peña and said pointedly: "I've known some of you since I was a kid," and said his goal was "not to make money."
He promised he would "tone down your legal expenses" and bring "stability, because you have chaos, and when there's chaos, lawyers make money."
The school district, he told them, had "become a cash cow" because the district did not follow procedure and said he was there "to serve the board as a whole."Well, talk, as they say, is cheap, but not in Salazar's case.
The numbers show that for 2014 and 2015, the amounts paid to outside attorneys climbed from $592,198 in 2013, to $745,096 in 2014 and $814, 546.
It would seem from this partial review, that the BISD under Salazar has remained a "cash cow" with Farmer Balty doing some of the milking himself.
10 comments:
Bro, this stuff is meaningless to my life! Write about what affects me, like about jobs! Where are the jobs???????? Come on LNG!!!!
He is fucking dick worthless piece of shit.
Hes not a dick. He gives awesome kickbacks to US board members!
4:42 anonymous, if so much of montoyas stories are worthless to you then leave. Nothing pleases you. Go away. Wrap it up. Loser
I know Salazar, this guy is full of shit !
He's is a backstabber !
He acts like your friend pretends he cares about you then purposely continues to carry out actions that he knows will hurt you.
Open your eyes board members !
I know how he works wine dine then he will fuck you.
Which costs down? Litigation instead of solving at grievance level? Educate me, how that keeps the cost down?
He doesn't even know how to keep time to limit the time that both board members and public speakers use up. He calls it when he wakes up and he has been called on this by several speakers. I will gladly keep time for the school district at no charge and promise to stay awake through the whole meeting. I can't promise you money in your pockets for your next election, but I will tell you when it is time for you (MP)to shut up your mouth that runs like diarrhea with the same being said over and over. Even Sylvia A has taken him on in regards to validity of some of his callings.
Salazar, a nonfunctional attorney. I'm an attorney, believe me, this guy is dysfunctional. Poor BISD taxpayers, they are getting duped big time. What a very sad situation for the Brownsville community and BISD. It's the Board's fault for hiring a puppet and not a real attorney.
Like most lawyers in Brownsville, Salazar is a corrupt DICK!
Salazar es un pendejo hecho a ser. Sobrevive sinple porque los miembros estan mas pendejo que el. Los ciegos guiando los ciegos. Si estuvieran en un concurso de pedejos acabarian en ultimo lugar...por pendejos.
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