Pastor asks board not to seek wage recovery from former teacher

Rob Kelly, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Kingman, used the meeting’s public comment period to ask the Kingman Unified School District board not to pursue recovering wages from a former teacher, Kimberly Marroquin.

“I just think it would be beneficial to the school from the evidence that we know about not to pursue taking away her, salary that she's already worked for,” Kelly said. He told the board that Marroquin was “promised” when she started that she could “talk about the Lord Jesus Christ” and had posted Bible verses on a classroom board and distributed Bibles before she was told to stop and then resigned.

Under the board’s rules for public comment, the board does not respond during the call to the audience, the meeting moderator said. The transcript records the board’s statement that it “will not respond except as permitted by ASR 308-431.01 g.”

Kelly said Marroquin is a single mother with two children and that he was speaking to ask the board not to garnish wages or seek repayment for work she has already performed. He also told the board that Marroquin had been told not to tell people about the meeting.

No formal action or vote on the subject was taken at the meeting. The record shows no board response other than the standard public-comment guidance and no motion to pursue or drop a collection action was presented during the public session.

The transcript identifies Marroquin as the teacher at issue but contains no board resolution or staff report describing any pending recovery action or the district’s current position on discipline or contract enforcement related to her employment.

For clarity: the remarks Kelly reported are his account of what Marroquin told him; the board did not provide a formal statement on the personnel matter during the public comment period.