RochesterBoard of Education vice president under investigation for alleged threat

Rochester Board of Education Vice President Beatriz LeBron speaks during a special board meeting Tuesday, May 9, 2023. In a statement released Tuesday, Monroe County Legislature Vice President Mercedes Vazquez Simmons claimed LeBron — who's also the executive director of theVazquez Simmons and fellow Democrat Rachel Barnhart were among seven legislators who voted during that meeting against a proposal that would have approved more funding for the Neighborhood Collaborative Project.

"We would be voting to award funding to the Father Tracy Advocacy Center, whose executive director has waged a campaign of threats and intimidation against legislators who ask too many questions," Barnhart said during aMonroe County Legislature votes to reject new contract for critical outreach project

"In the past six months, I’ve been subjected to violence, threats, both physical and verbal," Vazquez Simmons added. "I’ve been harassed in this very chamber.""Why would she do this? I’ve been asking myself this for a while," Barnhart said. "Even though she is the executive director, vouchers show she used ARPA funding to pay herself, as a vocational trainer, $3,900.

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