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Today, after tabling the issue last Tuesday, the members of the Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School board voted to fire current Brownsville Independent School District board counsel Baltazar Salazar who was requesting a three-year contract through which he would be paid $18,000 per month, or $216,000 per year.
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Currently, he is billing the district $250 per hour. Members had questioned his billing of hours and said they could not afford the high-priced, Houston-based lawyer.
Did the board members of the Brownsville Independent School District know - or approve of - the fact that Salazar, who commands a $280,000 annual salary, was also moonlighting as board counsel for the Rio Grande City school district?
They already knew that Salazar had tried to expunge three felony convictions and that it was appealed by the Texas Department of Public Service and that the 13th Court of Appeals had reversed the expunction by the 107th District Court in Cameron County, in effect, confirming the convictions.
If the simple ranchers from Rio Grande City had gumption to fire Salazar, what's stopping our BISD board from following district policy against hiring felons? It just so happens that the president of the BISD board - Minerva Pena - boasts about her former employment as a DPS trooper. So who will he side with?
Today, after tabling the issue last Tuesday, the members of the Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School board voted to fire current Brownsville Independent School District board counsel Baltazar Salazar who was requesting a three-year contract through which he would be paid $18,000 per month, or $216,000 per year.
Currently, he is billing the district $250 per hour. Members had questioned his billing of hours and said they could not afford the high-priced, Houston-based lawyer.Did the board members of the Brownsville Independent School District know - or approve of - the fact that Salazar, who commands a $280,000 annual salary, was also moonlighting as board counsel for the Rio Grande City school district?
They already knew that Salazar had tried to expunge three felony convictions and that it was appealed by the Texas Department of Public Service and that the 13th Court of Appeals had reversed the expunction by the 107th District Court in Cameron County, in effect, confirming the convictions.
If the simple ranchers from Rio Grande City had gumption to fire Salazar, what's stopping our BISD board from following district policy against hiring felons? It just so happens that the president of the BISD board - Minerva Pena - boasts about her former employment as a DPS trooper. So who will he side with?