Limon Honors Reyes; Reyes Goes Out Amid Controversy
At her last YISD School Board Meeting as a Trustee, Marty Reyes had quite the pomp and circumstance planned.
City Rep Lily Limon, who doesn't even represent the same area as Marty Reyes, took it upon herself to honor Reyes.
Pretty sure come campaign season someone is going to remind voters that Limon honored someone who not only fought against transparency in an era following public corruption, but blew $50,000 of tax payer money to do it.
And ultimately Reyes went out the same way things have been for the last few years she's been on the Board, with a dis to teachers.
The current majority, who will be saying bye-bye pretty soon as a result of the recent elections, prevented Trustee Shane Haggerty from putting an item on the agenda honoring teachers for Teacher Appreciation.
Leave it to that board to pull something like that.
As a result, Mr. Haggerty had to take the rather extreme step of having to actually speak during public comment in order address the issue and honor the teachers. I can't begin to tell you how terrible a message that sends the teachers.
But I know what you're thinking. There's no way it could've been that bad. LionStar must be exaggerating or making the whole thing up.
Well, lets go to the video shall we?...
Go to the 29:00 of the meeting and you will see Trustee Haggerty have to go down to the public microphone from his seat at the dais to address the board.
An obvious embarrassment to the teachers of Ysleta that the board didn't even allow an item to recognize them to even be put on the agenda.
Thankfully for the community the antics of this current board are coming to an end with the swearing in of a new board. The current board likes to immediately go into executive session following the honoring of students, etc. Its an obvious tactic meant to discourage public participation by basically forcing people to wait around all night before they are able to address the board on a given issue. They are the only elected body I know of that does something like that.
Quick side note: When a campaign wins, everyone wants to take credit and defeat is well, as the old saying goes, an orphan. If there is one real winner in the YISD races its clearly Arlinda Valencia and the Ysleta Teachers Association. They did the campaign work to elect a board that is TEACHER-FRIENDLY. No one else should be taking credit for their work to change the face of an otherwise dysfunctional board.
They have now multiplied their influence as the voice of the faculty and staff of the district.
City Rep Lily Limon, who doesn't even represent the same area as Marty Reyes, took it upon herself to honor Reyes.
Pretty sure come campaign season someone is going to remind voters that Limon honored someone who not only fought against transparency in an era following public corruption, but blew $50,000 of tax payer money to do it.
And ultimately Reyes went out the same way things have been for the last few years she's been on the Board, with a dis to teachers.
The current majority, who will be saying bye-bye pretty soon as a result of the recent elections, prevented Trustee Shane Haggerty from putting an item on the agenda honoring teachers for Teacher Appreciation.
Leave it to that board to pull something like that.
As a result, Mr. Haggerty had to take the rather extreme step of having to actually speak during public comment in order address the issue and honor the teachers. I can't begin to tell you how terrible a message that sends the teachers.
But I know what you're thinking. There's no way it could've been that bad. LionStar must be exaggerating or making the whole thing up.
Well, lets go to the video shall we?...
Go to the 29:00 of the meeting and you will see Trustee Haggerty have to go down to the public microphone from his seat at the dais to address the board.
An obvious embarrassment to the teachers of Ysleta that the board didn't even allow an item to recognize them to even be put on the agenda.
Thankfully for the community the antics of this current board are coming to an end with the swearing in of a new board. The current board likes to immediately go into executive session following the honoring of students, etc. Its an obvious tactic meant to discourage public participation by basically forcing people to wait around all night before they are able to address the board on a given issue. They are the only elected body I know of that does something like that.
Quick side note: When a campaign wins, everyone wants to take credit and defeat is well, as the old saying goes, an orphan. If there is one real winner in the YISD races its clearly Arlinda Valencia and the Ysleta Teachers Association. They did the campaign work to elect a board that is TEACHER-FRIENDLY. No one else should be taking credit for their work to change the face of an otherwise dysfunctional board.
They have now multiplied their influence as the voice of the faculty and staff of the district.
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