The news comes after furious parents demanded action at a board meeting on Monday following the release of a damning 80-page report into the bungled response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Arredondo was one of almost 400 officers who converged at the school on May 24, but waited 77 minutes before confronting the gunman.
He was placed on administrative leave on June 22. He resigned from his newly appointed seat on the Uvalde City Council earlier this month.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board intends to meet on Saturday to decide Arredondo’s future, a source close to the discussions told CNN.
At Monday’s board meeting, a family member of one of the victims called for the resignations of the school board members if Arredondo was not fired by Tuesday.
“If he’s not fired by noon tomorrow, then I want your resignation and every single one of these board members because y’all do not give a damn about our children or us,” Brett Cross, whose10-year-old niece Uziyah Garcia was among those killed, told Superintendent Hal Harrell.
“Stand with us ‘cause we ain’t going nowhere.”
Harrell said the report released at the weekend will help the board decide Arredondo’s future. According to The Associated Press, he also noted that Arredondo is employed under a contract and cannot be fired at will.
Col. Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has previously laid much of the blame for the response to the shooting with Arredondo, saying he made “terrible decisions” as the massacre unfolded.
The new report says Arredondo failed to establish himself as the incident commander and didn’t transfer that responsibility to anyone else. It also said he wasted critical time during the shooting by searching for a key to the classroom—but no one had bothered to check if the doors were locked, according to the report.
However, the report also made clear that “egregiously poor decision making” went beyond local police in Uvalde and cast blame across all responding agencies.
“There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making,” the report said.
Arredondo has not spoken extensively about his decisions on the day of the shooting, but told The Texas Tribune in June that he did not consider himself the scene’s incident commander.
“I didn’t issue any orders,” he said. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board has been contacted for comment. Arredondo could not immediately be reached for comment.