BRAWLEY â The jury trial of Imperial County Board of Education Trustee Annette Gonzalez-Buttner are set to begin Monday.
Opening statements will be delivered at 10:30 a.m. at the Brawley Superior Court in the long-delayed case that will decide, among other things, whether Gonzalez-Buttner lied about her residency when she ran for her board seat.
There are 28 possible witnesses, including Debra Porter, retired Imperial County registrar of voters, and Todd Finnell, Imperial County Office of Education superintendent.
The trial is expected to go a week or possibly two. Superior Court Judge Christopher Plourd will preside.
Gonzalez-Buttner, an Imperial Valley College Area 1 Trustee, is facing four felony charges, filed by the county District Attorneyâs Office.
EL CENTRO â After the state reached 4 million vaccine doses administered to people living in the vaccine equity quartile the California Department of Public Health announced less restrictive tier metrics that allowed Imperial County to move into the orange tier starting today.
The allowed case rate for the moderate level was changed from a maximum amount of 3.9 new cases daily per 100,000 residents to 5.9 cases.
The county cases rate for the past two weeks has been 5.4 per 100,000 residents.
To reach and stay in the orange tier the case rate must remain between 2 and 5.9 cases.
The seven-day average for positive tests must remain between 2 percent and 4.9 percent. Imperial County is currently at 3.4 percent.
A file photo of a teacher speaking to students during a virtual class outside of the school in solidarity with pre-K educators forced back into the building in Chicago. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools, leaders had to figure out how to get kids online. In a patchwork approach borne of desperation, they scrounged wireless hot spots, struck deals with cable companies and even created networks of their own. Chicago Sun-Times via AP
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools, educators had to figure out how to get kids online. Fast.
In a patchwork approach born of desperation, they scrounged wireless hot spots, struck deals with cable companies and even created networks of their own.
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