Brownsville Independent School District board member Phil Cowen's agenda item to have a list of attorneys that trustees could call on demand as their use arose was put on hold Tuesday and sent to die to a quiet death in a policy committee.
Cowen, who has asked the board to place at trustees disposal a list of lawyers separate from board counsel Baltazar Salazar (at $280,000) and the district legal counsel attorneys (more than $250,000), said they were needed to handle cases where the existing counsel were not specialized.After a motion and second was made to table the item ans send it for consideration to a policy committee meeting, trustee Joe Rodriguez said the board needed to vote on the issue because it ha "been vetted at least three times."
Instead trustees Laura Perez Reyes and Minerva Peña argued against voting for it and said the board already had "two competent lawyers" to handle the load and didn't need nay more expensive legal help.
Trustee Dr. Sylvia Atkinson said she had called for a list of attorneys to handle first and second level grievances and then leave the level three grievances for the board. But she said that apart from that, she had never asked that the board hire more lawyers to handle other cases.
The motion to table and send to the policy committee for consideration passed unanimously.
3 comments:
Let it get NASTY AS NASTY CAN GET.
Please pay for Carlos Elizondo legal fees before he sings to the FEDS about all the Brownsville corruption.
Fire Baltazar Salazar he's a worthless scumbags and is way over paid! Shame on you board members that condom this felon!
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