COURT DOCUMENTS DETAIL OTIS POWERS' PAST PERFORMANCE AS BISD TRUSTEE

Otis Powers 

Otis Powers, Jr., currently a candidate for BISD Trustee, Position 2, is a known quantity with already a decade of service on the board.

Like several other former board members, the affable Powers has an itch to "serve" again.

If you believe the old adage that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, some court documents from 2010 are instructive as to what Brownsville students and taxpayers if Herman Otis Powers, Jr. is, once again, elected to serve on the BISD board.

With the respect to the Antonio Juarez lawsuit vs. BISD, Rolando Aguilar, Joe Colunga, Ruben Cortez, Miguel Saldana, Superintendent Hector Cortez and his successors a Memorandum for Summary Judgement was filed June 23, 2010.

That document contains several references to former BISD Trustee Otis Powers, Jr.  Notice this comment about the fraudulent practice of "backdating" contracts.

Here's another reference in the memorandum referring to testimony by Anthony Juarez claiming that Otis Powers, Jr. had asked him to file a "false grievance" against then superintendent Hector Gonzalez.

This next comment simply deals with an attempt to declare Juarez testimony about his conversation with Powers as hearsay.  The court rules otherwise.

In this next segment, the court finds that "corroborating evidence exists to preliminarily establish that Powers was involved in the alleged conspiracy with the defendants to oust Superintendent Gonzalez and to recruit Juarez's assistance in that effort."

From the editor:  We will let the reader "use discernment" in determining if this past performance is what is needed now at BISD.