West Covina : School Trustee Resigns Post
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A West Covina Unified School District trustee has resigned from the five-member school board because he is leaving the state.
Elias Martinez, 45, resigned Friday after seven years as a school district trustee. Martinez, a longtime West Covina resident, is moving to Texas to help with his family’s import-export business, district officials said.
Martinez was elected to the board amid a financial crisis in the late 1980s. In 1987, the district declared bankruptcy and was bailed out by a state loan of nearly $4 million. The district completed repaying the loan last year.
The board can either hold a special election or appoint a replacement in the next 90 days.
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