EPISD trustee Al Velarde addressed the board Tuesday and urged against approving an external audit into trustee Susie Byrd. The audit would examine whether Byrd violated conflict of interest rules by serving as campaign manager for Veronica Escobar.
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An external audit of EPISD Trustee Susie Byrd found that she did not violate district policy or state law while serving as Veronica Escobar’s campaign manager in the race to replace Beto O’Rourke in Congress.
The 3-page audit, conducted by Gibson Ruddock Patterson LLC, said that a look at email activity resulted…