Classes may be cancelled or postponed, heads may roll, and relatives may get canned, but there is one thing certain about the Brownsville Independent School District: the rumor mill will grind on.
This week the hot rumor at the water cooler and coffee klatsch is that BISD CFO Lorenzo Sanchez had been asking the Human Resources to check at how many hours of vacation and sick time had accrued. This led to a spate of rumors which had him cleaning out his office and that he would be all cleared out by Friday.
Sanchez is one of those bureaucrats who have followed "Coach" Joe Rodriguez since his days as football coach of the Brownsville High School Golden eagles of the late 1960s. Tom Chavez, currently football coach at Rivera High School. They have formed of a cadre of Coach Joe's team since then.
Chavez was made AD/Rivera H.S. coach sometime back and then opted to stay as football coach at Rivera. This year, he compiled a lackluster 2-38 W-L record from 2015 to 2018. Last year (2010) he was perfect at zero wins, 10 losses, equaling his perfect W-L record in 2015 (0-10).
Lorezo Sanchez went on to the Big City at Raymondville ISD. Sanchez, who was first hired as a business consultant at RISD back in 2008, was ousted from his job in July 2011 and hired as the district chief financial officer a month later.
The previous board, in a 6-to-0 vote in September of that year, hired him after he worked as business consultant for the district for the last 3-1/ 2 years.
A Rodriguez favorite and protege, Sanchez in 2016 assumed the role of interim Chief Financial Officer at the BISD after he was hired on as a "consultant" to assist former CFO Lucio Mendoza, since exiled to the hairnet crowd at Food Service. Sanchez was tagged after he was released from his duties as RISD helper to superintendent Johnny Pineda.
Pineda, by the way, is also a former BISD super who went out to the bush league after his stint in Brownsville. He was the guy who engineered the 11.25 property tax increase and diverted the TRE vote to funnel money to Joe's pet projects.
The BISD could not, or would not, confirm Sanchez is departing, but since Rodriguez was rejected by the voters in the November elections, it is evident he does not have the support – or the protection – of the board majority anymore. Can you blame him?
Other rumors that may not turn to be rumors after is that the artificial turf fields at Rivera and Porter Early College High Schools are not regulation size and UIL sanctioned games may not be held there because they are "substandard." The vendor is Paragon Sports, you know, the ones that Coach Jose said constructed the best artificial turf fields "in the world."
Then there's the lingering issue of the $1.4 million scoreboard at Sams Stadium which was purchased as a turnkey item through a purchasing co-op (TIPS), only to have the district pay for construction and engineering costs through their purchase order, a no-no.
The word is that the vendor VCRNOW is demanding it's last retainer payment of $168,716 and the board's refusal to approve the project as being "substantially complete" has prevented it. The administration paid the company a second payment of $461,208 even after board during the previous meeting refused to accept the project as substantially complete. She did it on her own.
VCRNOW, in a demand letter, is asking for the last payment immediately or threatened to go to the TEA (those guys again) with a complaint.
The artificial turf fields and the scoreboard were Rodriguez's pet projects and Superintendent Zendejas and CFO Sanchez helped to move the matters along to please the old coach. Now that they have to clean up the mess and answer to the new board for what for what they helped Rodriguez do, will they bail?
11 comments:
lock her up!
Mr Sanchez is past seventy. He has so many years in TRS he has no need to work. His retirement will be the same as working or close. By staying until December it counts as full year for his retirement. He is the best CFO BISD has had for many years. He knows what he is doing.
CFO needs to go TO JAIL !!
HE HAS DONE WRONG TO ALL TAX PAYERS IN CITY OF BROWNSVILLE.
BISD personal were working on the score board when it was supposed to have been installed by the vendor.
For your information, Johnny was not on board when the TRE was passed by the voters. ( and approved the projects that were listed as those to be supported by the TRE funds.) Now, go back to HR and find the person that Sanchez talked to, and get her or him for disclosing personnel information. That is why the district gets in trouble. People do not follow regulations and back stab each other out of envy and seeking to become popular among peers for feeding them the scoop ahead of time.
If you want to fix maintenance and facilities you have to clean house from the top.( top people that work in maintenance and facilities. )
The personal in charge of facilities suck up to Lorenzo Sanchez and lie to the school board for personal promotions with high salaries.
they are all corrupt.
Maintenance personal created positions with high salaries with out advertising in HR. example: ( Jerry Martinez ) he needs to go !!
someone running scared!
que he dont need to work
well then why did he come to bisd?!
pa rrobar!!!
no need to work yet claiming his leave
Pinche pueblo lleno de Piojos. Mexicans need to go back to Mexico!
And don't forget the PORTER head football coach Carlos Uresti who is one of Joe Rod's disciple who was named head coach to quiet the detractors who wanted to know why Tom Campos and Joe Rod purchased 28 rings for the soccer team along with 40 Letterman jackets to the tune of $60,000 dollars. Uresti was placed as head coach to stomp out any investigation. He also went 0 and 9 in district. No wins for a kid who is way over his head. Mary Solis should have breathing room to final rid her school of a kid who doesn't know how to win. Principal Mary Solis filed a grievance against Joe Rod for trying to force her through Zendejas to order equipment from BSN who sell rings and jackets. She won her grievance and was told to sink or swim at Porter. Now that Joe Rod is gone, many educators and coaches are demanding she rid that school of any connections to Joe Rod. Look no principal is gonna make moves as long as Zendejas is there. The district can not be fixed with Zendejas imposing her will. The board has enough illegal activity on Zendejas and we as the people, need to hold the new board accountable.
Too much corruption at BISD MAIN OFFICE !
Certain individuals are earning too much money.
Dr.Esperanza Zendejas so called friends and old Joe friends are earing too much money..
you want names ?
Year round schooling is next that's why we elected a new board...
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