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Navarro school board president comes under fire for residency, handling of board appointments Community members call for more transparency on the Navarro ISD School Board
By Cindy AguirreHerrera
(Seguin) – The KWED Christmas Angel is hoping to filter through a list of your nominations for this year’s holiday cash award of up to $500. In year’s past, only local kids have been invited to explain to the KWED Christmas Angel whey their families should be blessed with some holiday cash. This year, however, has proven to be an entirely different year, one that has become
challenging for many. That’s why the Christmas Angel is allowing anyone in the community to nominate a family who could use the extra help. Again, all adults are invited to share a little bit about someone that they know could use some help. The Christmas Angel says nominees don’t have to be heroes; they just have to be good deserving people who could use a hand this holiday.
Whether it’s the loss of a job, an illness or just the strains of everyday life, the Christmas Angel wants to hear from you. Letters don’t have to be long By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera or fancy, they just have to tell why someone is (Geronimo) -- School Board President Dr. deserving. Greg Gilcrease came under attack during
Wednesday night’s meeting of the Navarro ISD Board of Trustees. During the public comments portion of the agenda, several members of the community not only spoke on the lack of transparency used by Gilcrease and the rest of the board in filling a pair of board vacancies, but they also accused See LETTER page 3 him of not living where he says he lives.
The letter can be handwritten or typed and should explain in a few words why this family deserves or is in need a cash prize of up to $500.
The comments came minutes before the school board moved forward with administering the oath of office to its newly appointed trustees Tracy Large and Melissa Sartain. The board was forced to fill the positions after the top vote getter in the Nov. 3 school board election, Katherine Ewald, officially declined the position. The second vacancy was that of Rick Martin, who died in October. Instead of appointing the candidate who appeared next in line in the election, the board opted to fill the third available spot by choosing from a pool of resumes. Sharing his thoughts on this route was Weldon Dietze, the Nov. 3 candidate who came in fourth and who drew 300 plus more votes than Large who was an incumbent at the time and who again, was welcomed back as one of the newly appointed trustees. Dietze says public perception of how the board chose to fill the seat was “not good.” He says the people clearly spoke during the election and would have hoped that the district would have listened. Dietze says his words are not about being a sore loser but more about the lack of transparency throughout the whole process. See RESIDENCY page 2