Thanks to Mark Simon for his Sept. 1 column pointing out some behavior surrounding upcoming elections that he calls “downright weird” and “risky” and I call eyebrow raising. Namely, that San Mateo-Foster City school board trustee Noelia Corzo accepted campaign donations from the district’s superintendent, Diego Ochoa. As a sitting school board member, Corzo accepted a significant monetary donation to her campaign for county supervisor, then participated in his performance review and voted to give him a 15% raise. Was this a quid pro quo transaction? While we don’t have the answer, these financial peculiarities raise serious ethical concerns and smacks of impropriety.
The people of San Mateo and Foster City deserve to know that every decision made by the board and the superintendent centers on the best interests of the children, not one candidate’s political career. The SM-FC school board should immediately appoint an independent investigator to determine whether this financial transaction passes muster.
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