BISD Candidates for November 4th Election

Position 3	Position 4	Position 5	Position 6 (Open)	Position 7
Otis Powers	Pat Lehman	Rolando Aguilar	Joe Cadriel	Joe Colunga
Catalina Presas-Garcia	Rick Zayas		Minerva Pena
			Moises Gonzalez

Yesterday, August 26th, was the filing deadline for candidacy in the November 4th BISD Board Trustee elections. When the elections were held in May, the filing deadline was 62 days prior. Now that they're held on the General Election day, it's 70 days out. I never knew that until today, FWIW.

A few notes:

• Obvious kudos go out to Colunga and Aguilar for avoiding opponents.
• There's a fresh face or two (at least to me) in Moises Gonzalez and Minerva Pena, both vying for the vacated spot against veteran trustee Joe Cadriel.
• Presas-Garcia is back and I guess either of her claimed residences should qualify for District eligibility this time around in her race against Otis.
• Rick Zayas, while ably chairing the BISD Bond Oversight Committee, presents a more-than-welcome challenge to Lehman.
• It should be noted that due to the movement of the elections to November and in an effort to more equally stagger the various terms, Position 4 (the one Zayas would occupy) is a 2-year term.