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MINNIE, PHIL MIFFED OVER STYMIED SWEARING INS

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By Juan Montoya
It's an old tradition at the Brownsville Independent School District.
After every school board election, the superintendent usually calls in the winners and has the secretary of CFO Lorenzo Sanchez – in this case Pat Perez, also BISD board secretary– do an informal swearing in in the board room.
"It's like a courtesy from the superintendent and the district," said a former trustee. "Pat Perez usually does the swearing in. Everyone knows about it."

Well, this time there was no congratulatory phone call to the three new members Laura Perez-Reyes, Phil Cowen, Dr. Sylvia Perez-Atkinson, or the single incumbent Minerva Peña.
Sources close to the board say that when Peña and Cowen went to the main office and knocked on the door, no one wanted to open the door. Once inside the building, they knocked on the board room door and CFO Sanchez opened the door just a crack and did not allow them to go inside and let Perez swear them in.

"He told them that he was under strict orders from administration not to allow anyone in the board room," they said. "Apparently, Superintendent (Esperanza) Zendejas wasn't pleased with some of the election results."
Until the jut-passed election BISD election, Zendejas enjoyed the support of the board majority controlled by Joe Rodriguez. Rodriguez, with Jose Chirinos, Carlos Elizondo and Cesar Lopez, gave her a two-year extension and upped her salary past $250,000 just before the elections. Now, with the board reorganization coming up, no one knows what majority will form. Already there are indications that the majority is chafing under Rodriguez's one-man show and may opt to form a majority where he doesn't guide their direction. Rodriguez recently suffered a stroke that left him bed-ridden for almost  a week.

With Cowen going after incumbent Otis Powers for not being more pro-active and involved with the personnel grievances as he should have been and crowing up his achievements in his past live as BISD president, it is likely he will want to take a direct hand in making some changes on the board and the district.

Add the election of Atkinson, a former Assistant Superintendent at BISD, to the board mix, and the dynamics become unpredictably volatile.

Could it be that perhaps the election results didn't go Zendejas' way?
   

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