An effort to recall Bea Gonzalez, who represents area 2 on the College of the Desert Board of Trustees, quickly gathered steam Thursday, Feb. 23, as news of the effort broke.
Gonzalez was elected to a four-year term on the board in 2020. Her term runs through 2024. She currently serves as clerk of the board.
The effort to recall is multi-pronged.
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The Desert Sun released an announcement on the College of the Desert which will host a virtual community forum on its plans for a Palm Springs campus Thursday at 5:30 p.m. The forum, which will be on Zoom at Bit.LY/3Q8RkVn, will also be viewable on COD’s YouTube page. Read full article here
An attorney for College of the Desert Trustee Joel Kinnamon has filed a complaint asking the Riverside County District Attorney to prosecute the college’s former president and the trustee who Kinnamon unseated in last year’s election over what the attorney says were illegal efforts to support the trustee’s campaign and harm Kinnamon’s. Full article here
Over the past six months, the College of the Desert Board of Trustees has reviewed 38 Coachella Valley properties during closed sessions of its monthly meetings. The properties — most of which the college does not own — range in size from one-tenth of an acre to 115 acres. Some parcels are zoned for office buildings and…
The College of the Desert’s Board of Trustees meeting originally planned for Friday, March 17 has been canceled due to a lack of a quorum, COD officials have confirmed. They cited “unforeseen circumstances, but did not identify the circumstances. Trustees Rubén Pérez and Bea Gonzalez reportedly could not be at the meeting, though no reason…
Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. Friday’s article in The Desert Sun, with one trustee bashing another publicly with innuendo and crazy claims about convention centers and presidential suites, was about the last straw for me.
PALM DESERT — The College of the Desert Board of Trustees on Thursday appointed a subcommittee of Fred Jandt and Bonnie Stefan to review allegations against Trustee Rubén Pérez as part of an ethics probe. The ethics probe is in response to written complaints against Trustee Pérez for College of the Desert’s Code of Ethics…
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