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Panetta lecture series. Before we begin, i want to first ask that on this memorial day, we have a moment of silence in honor of all those men and women who have died while serving in the United States armed services. Thank you. This season we are discussing the health of american democracy, and it is very fitting that we recognize the individuals who have given their greatest sacrifice for our freedom and our way of life. We honor their commitment to country. Our guests in our discussion this ev...

How did this particular structure evolve . We talked about this and what some of the features that were problematic to the district. That if we were going to make any changes like splitting up the reserve, wed also change the first and foremost of those changes regarding the lay offs. For that matter, allowing the majority to change the conditions. Those actually came from the controller as well through sort of a brainstorming discussion and, you know, i think those are those would be very favor...

Much restrictions for how they could take it out, its been growing so that 25 percent, once weve established our eligibility for that certain year has been a lot and certainly in the years we were most desperate because with the budget issues, so i dont why should there be a restriction on how much we could take in one year . I do understand that should this language as proposed go through, we could change that rule 2 3 of the board could change that rule so maybe we want that limitation of 50 p...

School feeder pattern and staff was very hard to look at a granular level at the number of Seats Available to determine that the middle school feeder could be at the Everett Middle School and Daniel Webster would be at james lick and we heard very positive reception of these feeder pat erns. Er earns. Patterns feature meetings the next meeting will be scheduling in the fall. Report from the [inaudible]. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. So we had an action item in support of the update for to our ...

Parallel. In other words, we apply, but also run this through the various committees and have our decisions and if for some reason we decided we werent interested we would withdraw our application. Were not sure were still working on it and the feasibility of getting it in, but i think thats no problem of referring it to the committees. Do we have consensus about that . We will hear this in the committee, but the district will pursue this grant opportunity, paralleling our authorization process....

Supporting the amendment. I think one of the toughest tasks the members have had has had to do with lay offs. Really just a terrible situation and so your first bull let bullet point, im very interested in seeing that change. I think if we think about the lay off process that weve had to go through in the past years, its very cruel and unusual punishment for or valuable assets so im interested in making this charter amendment. Commissioner [inaudible]. I had a question. Go ahead. Were you going ...

Committees. Do we have consensus about that . We will hear this in the committee, but the district will pursue this grant opportunity, paralleling our authorization process. Commissioner i dont have any reservations for applying for taking advantage of this opportunity, so i would assume move for a waiver on approval on First Reading if thats allowed. You would have to post that in the agenda and it wasnt posted in the agenda. Could we just bring it down for second reading at the meeting without...

Through the task of identifying some specific edits or mark ups to propose at the committee whenever it takes place. And then as a part of our preparation process for input, it is along the lines of what youre informing us here and then the possible changes. They are this is an ongoing conversation but the last large bull et point regarding withdraws in your presentation, that is on ongoing conversation, or youre here to get the temperature of the board . These are concrete changes wed like to s...

About 100 volunteers work together each year to put food on the table for those in need in the Lake Norman area for Thanksgiving.