The Alamo Colleges District Board of Trustees announced this week the election of four new officers from its ranks, each poised to serve a two-year term.
At a regular Board meeting May 17, District 5 Trustee Roberto Zárate was elected chair, with District 8 Trustee Clint Kingsbery — previously board secretary — elected vice chair. District 4 Trustee Dr. Lorena Pulido was elected board secretary and District 2 Trustee Gloria Ray, recently reelected to the Board, will serve as assistant secretary.
Zárate, who first assumed his District 5 seat on the Board in August 2003, has more than 36 years of experience as an educator and previously served as chair of the board from 2006 to 2008. He has also held the roles of vice chair, secretary and chair of the Academic Accountability and Student Success committee. Currently, he's the chair of the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee.
The newly appointed vice chair, Kingsbery, is a former mathematics teacher for Northside Independent School District and has worked with students for more than 13 years. Today, he's a testing center coordinator at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.
Secretary Pulido has 25 years of experience in marketing, corporate and nonprofit industries and is communications manager for VIA Metropolitan Transit. She previously served the City of San Antonio as public relations manager for its Department of Communications and worked for MetroHealth.
Newly installed assistant secretary Ray retired as a senior official from Kelly Air Force Base after 27 years.
Each of the officers will serve two years.
The Board's new officers reflect other recent growth for the district. In May, the district broke ground alongside Northwest Vista College on a new 42,000-square-foot Northwest Education and Training Center, a $23 million multifunctional building near the intersection of I-10 and Balcones Creek Boulevard. Designed by Overland Partners and built by Sunset Construction Inc., it's poised to accommodate 5,000 students with 11 classrooms and 12 instruction labs.
Alamo Colleges District also recently unveiled its new $33.9 million learning center — the Cedar Elm STEM Center — at 3535 N. Ellison Drive on the Northwest Vista campus and financed through the May 2017 general obligation bond approved by Bexar County voters.
Alamo Colleges District was founded in 1945, though the five colleges have a more storied history. The District includes St. Philip's College, established in 1898; San Antonio College, established in 1925; Palo Alto College, established in 1985; Northwest Vista College, established in 1995; and Northeast Lakeview College, established in 2007.
