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Any jiffes with holding on, being, if you can, please, the permission is done.

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No, I don't know. I just want to look at the court.

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I didn't see that.

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Oh, it's mostly about fuel.

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The position we got, as you're reading with ladies' present, that's about one.

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No, no, no.

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It was a patient.

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It was like one.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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We're gonna ring it.

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Oh, well, I got two trees, good enough.

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That was in the release and we were in the shell.

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You did this in the last V1 time.

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Oh, we had no soul.

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That's a good one.

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That's the only time that it lasts for us.

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No, this is a good one.

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You know, this is a good one.

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You know, this is a good one.

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No.

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Does that the letter?

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That's not hard.

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Yeah, it was after the quote, the letter.

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The blizzard was friday.

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And then there was a woman.

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But that was before the fuel went up.

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No, the notion in the column story is that we should be no

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and not your day.

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The day is the day.

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The two I see day.

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The five became the day.

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The two we had.

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Yeah, actually I would love to have a little questions.

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All right, so we'll noodle around with some

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Lifeless Mechanicals until Rob's daughter is here.

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Oh, that's okay, and she drove five,

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I don't know what she's doing in the house,

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but she had planned to come Friday to help me out with something.

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And then I told her about this.

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She said, well, mom, I'll go.

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Oh, sure.

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Oh.

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Yeah, no problem.

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I knew it.

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I knew it.

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I knew it.

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All right.

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So during that evening, the Rockford took place.

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Now, in session last one of the 2021, 2022 season,

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and of course, the last one, after 10 years,

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it's like your favorite Broadway play coming to a close.

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You can decide if you want to be in style.

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I'm sorry.

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You will not have to be the widest.

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Maybe that's the worst places to spend 10 years.

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Yeah, well, yes.

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Like every other place, they're all over the grid.

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It's creepy.

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All right, so we'll do a couple of quickies, so first in L, I think we have a couple of

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do.

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We have the following items, a resignation from the team of the Monde and resigned from

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her position as the elementary paraprofessional effective to 22nd Karen Chambers, resigned from

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position of kindergarten paraprofessional effective on the 22nd, a retirement, Kenneth

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or retire from this custodial position on August 9th.

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A leave request, Kiana Tina, we'll take maternity leave from August 9th, return in January 3rd.

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A couple of appointments, Elizabeth Douglas appointed as middle school counselor, and Molly Kate Silver appointed as elementary school school speech therapist for the next year.

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And we have another Lillian Duffy rescinds her intent to retire at the end of the 21-22 school year.

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Now the kids are happy about that.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Are the first knowledge?

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Is that the approximate cause for the MOA that says from now on, the rest of the year 90 day?

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No, it's for sending, which is also related to that, actually.

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Okay, so I'm assuming there may not be any public participation.

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Oh, fresh, sir.

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Let's do advisory.

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Can you wrap?

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Maybe we should just do the L-O-A's.

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Okay.

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A couple of L-O-A's in there.

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There's a bunch of jobs, descriptions.

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Why don't you have the description on here?

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But for the L-O-A's, the date to rescind, notice of retirement.

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sort of timely there is that any member of the bargaining unit who tends to rescind their

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intent to retire must be so at least 60 days prior to their intended data return.

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So that gets us out of a situation where you want to realize you want to get out and get this

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good person who can during advertising season hunting season, especially in a lot of positions

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and 60 days should certainly be enough time for someone to decide whether they're going

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make closure on their time or not.

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So that's the first one.

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And the contract had been signed on to that.

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So there was no language to that.

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And then the other one was on Skidbold Half Days

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with regard to a sick day or a personal day.

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So we over the years have been sort of

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seriously adding half days before vacations.

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We had a couple.

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We've been adding them sometimes in lieu of what

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you're able to offer contractually.

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and for them that's worth money because it's time if someone happens to be sick that day they have

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an entire day deducted but it's only a half day so what that does is correct that so if you

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happen to have a personal day that day it's a half personal day or a half sick day and it would

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be retroactive they'd go back and find out who had done that over that period and then we correct

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their accrual of days with reference to Habs and said,

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a hole in that seems to be the right thing to do.

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Is there any reason to limit it to the dates that are actually

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listed there instead of just saying, for any halftain?

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So what happens on a professional development day?

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Well, because they should have been there for that full day.

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So even though you only had kids for halftain.

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So for a professional development day, it's a full day.

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It's a full day sickness.

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And we had some of those situations where you could use a personal day twice in a four-year

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period of time on a day before a vacation or holiday, and now those are half days, so out

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of there, a cruel, it would be a half personal day, deduction, even though it's one occurrence.

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And those half days, so counts as one time, not half a time, because it's one event.

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But their total sort of accumulation of days, which they, at the end, if they

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conserved those, they're able to cash them in and right now they're losing

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value on and they're as compared to their colleagues who are present that day,

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but are released at noon with no obligations.

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And it's only, we're trying to, for this school year, it's one on the same.

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It's only for this school year.

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No, we would go back through and trace back.

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over the years.

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In the end, the 2022 school year, the bottom of being, the bottom of being, the bottom of being.

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This is written by the RTI, so if they are only well incorporated into the 21-22 collective

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bargaining agreement, but I think the intent is, under B, parties here by, so yeah, half

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days during the 21-22, so it's just they're not going back.

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They're collecting back, you know, those that sort of once they picked up the correctable error.

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And they're actually pretty friendly to do that.

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They look pretty round.

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Yeah.

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So those are the two MOAs.

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So I think we have to prove this, right?

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You do.

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The motion to approve the two MOAs has presented.

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So, thank you.

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All of those in favor.

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Bye.

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I'm ready. I hope you want to just sign on what it'd be done.

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Okay, all right. What a surprise.

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This is a rally crowd. They put their own book, and it goes up to a book.

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I'm going to just have a book.

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I've read lots of words.

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I've read lots of words.

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I've read lots of words.

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You're not being married.

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I've read lots of words.

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I've read lots of words.

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And you're not being married.

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You're going to throw me in a minute.

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How could you do that?

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I think you can't do that.

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You're not being married.

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They're both to get brine in our house and they have conflicts.

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How old is it?

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It's a very special place.

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No, take a seat.

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Some of my favorite people.

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It's been a while.

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A lot of time.

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Some of these people.

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We've heard of you.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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Oh, really?

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Can they sit at the table as far as I know?

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Thank you.

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So we don't want to vote on any of you.

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I'm here with a motion to adjourn.

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There we go.

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There we call it.

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I'm Harry Porter-Motion.

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We've been voting for Jared and everybody else.

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Oh my god.

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So it seemed like a sitcom and yours later, but we're going to bring you towards.

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We're on time here all the stories.

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Well, thank you all for coming.

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Carl was going to him, but apparently he and Chris celebrated her birthday too hardly today.

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How can you do that?

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I don't know.

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That's very hard.

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That's very hard.

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Carl was getting done the first year I started.

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So he is there as the interview and that sort of thing but got off as of July 1 so he was

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never a sitting board member.

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He told me many times he was wearing the 10 airs.

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He was there with the vote for you.

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Yeah, he was there for the vote.

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And that was interesting and that's all I'm going to say.

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He took full credit for you once you've proved to me.

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Yeah, I have a lot of credit for him.

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He was wearing a kind of hindsight.

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I was a main artist and trust me.

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Okay, and then Heather's husband's birthday today, until we reach she can

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come up.

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So I'm going to rearrange the agenda because I know you would all love to sit with Paul

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and see you in the house.

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I mean, do you know the dogs' wife who's sitting behind Tracy right now?

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I'm going to tell you what.

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I'm going to tell you what.

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Can't decide if we're supposed to ask for her forgiveness.

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I've heard the check-ups all the same.

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All right, so I've got something really special that I want you all to see.

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Also, it's something that was going to interact with their student advisory.

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Many members, but I think they thought last night was the evening actually.

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Tonight.

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So I'm going to modify what I was going to say because some of this would be familiar to you

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and some of it maybe will not.

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really sort of a retrospective going back to past. When we went up to Mount Desert Island,

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as we had a candidate, I thought it was your phone who needed to be interviewed.

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So, um, might the way you there for that, you were? I went there all day long, yep.

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And you, I think Melissa was with us. Yeah, yeah. And was there?

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There's the three of us, right? It wasn't the whole committee.

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It could be that I, um, Carl was not there. Correct. It was apparently another birthday.

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And then we stopped at Richardson's Dairy, and had a nice cream, and we talked about what we

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could see.

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All I think that would be a good one.

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Anyway, I remember during our visit we met both with group and one-on-one sessions

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with community members to get their take on this dream.

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But public and private comments, because we also bought whole people in the hallway

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to see what they really thought.

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match to refugees, something that didn't always happen, but we pulled other people aside on other

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psych visits for other candidates. As the search committee members got ready to take the long

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ride back to Rockport, Rob pulled me into his office and asked how I thought the day had gone.

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Very nervous, very circumstance. That was because another school district in Massachusetts was also

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aware of our interest in our candidate and they actually had scheduled a meeting to vote on

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a final candidate a week before we were going to. So they were going to try and pre-empt us and

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force rocked at the side whether and often in a hand that would expire in 24 hours was better

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than gambling and going through the meeting a week later. As chair of the school community back then

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I couldn't speak to whether we would make an offer

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because of an all-dark team and travel with us

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to Mount Desert and would have to debate in the public

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by before making a decision.

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I reassured her off that he was an outstanding applicant.

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In the back of my mind, I was thinking about the comment I had

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received privately from a member of the Mount Desert

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Island School Committee.

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He was really puffy over the potential loss of rock

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to one of potentially two schools and Massachusetts.

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And mentioned how upset they were to potentially

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lose it, you dryly noted that given that, if no offer came forth, Rob would be in a very

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difficult position, a subtle gentleman, you can try and guess who that was, you're on.

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So as anticipated, Rob didn't even receive an offer from the competing Massachusetts

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School District with an expiration date to force a correct decision, but Rob took a chance

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and bet the farm on us, and I'm sure it was a long week between those weeks.

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But, happily, week later, we bet the farm on him and to massacre that analogy in many ways

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we won the lottery.

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Barbara Tire is a superintendent of the Rockford Public Schools having dramatically improved

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the relationship between the administration and the various bargaining units in unions, establishing

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a level of trust and transparency that have made contract negotiations mutually respectful

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and collaborative.

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It's comprehensive, built through the ground up the light eye of the light night of these

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health budgets have ensured that the public board of select men and the finance committee

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know exactly where we spend our budget annually.

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And also, any of the projects, how much time we have before additional funding is necessary.

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This was critical in passing a squeaker of a prop two and a half override,

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despite a concerted campaign of misinformation by those who do not support the schools,

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leaving his successor in which shape as we navigate with the Rockford Public Schools will

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become on the course of the next decade.

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It's worked with the Board of Health in short that we navigated the uncertainties of

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evolving COVID pandemic.

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Bentemic based on the facts available at the time.

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Keeping both our students and our staff safe with his driving to be one of the first

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adopters of routine COVID testing serving as a model and case study for other

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districts. Yesterday, the CIC group released a report indicating that Rockport had provided

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30,221 samples during our little journal of COVID-15,880 at home tests, and they calculated

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that based on isolating the kids who they identified and having COVID saved us as a result

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1,072 school days, so that's impressive.

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The big with his presence at school plays, musical recitals and sporting events as well as town board meetings or legend.

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As is his moving, opening day, slideshow to all employees of the airport school set system.

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Ending always with his favorite poem with Bible about why one becomes an educator.

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An event which never fails to find some audience members crying.

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And that's a very special moment for me every year as I often have to follow him as a presenter and hard drive, hard drive.

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Well, I want to be considered educator and particularly a superintendent is an excellent question.

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The past 10 years starting on the second day of this tenure here, Rob has been buffeted with every major challenge of superintendent can face.

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I won't recite them all to prove the point because many of these moments are rather dark.

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They read like a catalog of challenges you wouldn't want to face and didn't get into teaching to address.

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Suffice it to say two years of an unprecedented worldwide pandemic removed the public community and school staff

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or equally divided on the right solution would seem like a more attractive option to address.

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but he handled each crisis well with empathy and consideration for all involved.

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It's not easy being superintendent.

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In part, that's because the role of superintendent is Google's lies at the nexus of so many relationships.

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Superintendent and teacher, superintendent and administrators,

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superintendent and support staff, superintendent and parents,

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superintendent and students, superintendent and school committee,

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The list goes on and on, although all these groups are united in their common certainty that

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they know better than the superintendent.

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Each of those relationships is fundamentally different from the eye of the beholder, a

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rush-along that turns lane, but at the center of all of them, at the core of all of these

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versions of Rob, is his dedication to the idea that the support and guidance of students

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through more than a decade of social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development

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and the intended effort to secure and protect the resources and human capital that allows these students to develop into critical thinkers and productive adults is a noble pursuit and more than up to the task of answering on a bad day the question why did I ever get into this profession.

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So, how to commemorate the decade of such supportive effort in service, the current school

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committee thought a lot about this and commissioned something that we think is both deeply

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personal and representative of both rock-bought and the gentleman that we have come to know

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as the superintendent.

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So, on there we have rock, honored to thank you for a decade of service in the school committee's

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Native environment in the middle school library and so happy to have so many past school committee members here to thank you with us.

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We really are all stand-ins for a community that deeply appreciates which were done for our children.

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So, with that being said,

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oh, so excited about this.

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I want you to be careful about this.

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It's a giant girl.

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What do we get in drop-out and don't hold it up because there's something you have to do

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it to get the full impact?

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No, my father would do it.

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He would percussion.

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She was a lung pathologist.

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That's what she did.

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She went in there.

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You say all of the Christmas presents, she would percussion.

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All the legal boys per cuss they're per cuss, they're friends, they're friends that play a group, but a picture.

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Are there any boys?

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Uh, yeah.

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That's why you said they started to do it.

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That's a wonderful way to do this because I heard this a little position in Bangor may

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got a part of virus in the original and had a heart attack on it.

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It was a very good hospital, had it for 12 years.

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I don't know, I couldn't figure out how to put it on in my stuff.

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Oh, maybe the other end.

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This is not really good.

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Actually Chase was very good.

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Drumroll, please.

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Haven't you had any questions?

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Do you have any

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questions?

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Do you have any questions?

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I don't have any questions.

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I don't have any questions.

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So our local artist Tina Lamond is usually many familiar rock for its sights on the front,

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but you guys can all see. And there's supposed to be meaningful to rob the bellas on there,

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the bust that he drives, if number one. But that's not all we know about rob. So if you turn that

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wrong, right this way. There you go. On the other side you have Rob's

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boat, Rob's home in Maine, the cranberry island. So we thought he'd hold it like a

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I want to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart, you folks being here, so special, because, you know, you were here when I was nervous and knew what's Massachusetts, what's circuit breaker, what's this, what's it, and it's been a great 10 years and I really couldn't think of a better place to have been able to come.

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And we drove around and figured out my ancestors were from here and I was like, I've got to have this draw up somehow.

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And I can remember walking down the Shalen low with a board, and you were there, Tracy, you're on the big panel up there.

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Arthur, I'm not sure you were on that interview team at the Shalen lowness, I'm sorry.

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But I think Tracy was there and Phil Conrad and Sean, and all that curtain was open and the ocean was there.

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Like I said, I think we can do this.

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We can just sort of like ran into my soul.

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So I mean, I just can't think of a town with more spirit,

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cares more about their kids.

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And I truly believe that runs solid through old World War II movie.

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It's not quite make the right analogy.

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I'm an analogy man, but runs silent, run deep.

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It was about a submarine that went very quietly about it and did its business and I think

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we have a run silent, run deep in our community that understands that their kids are

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what matters.

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And I think in the end it will always come through.

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So I'm just proud of that and I'm proud to give you.

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Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for being here.

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A lot of time away from home over the years. A lot of time away from my own kids. A lot of time away.

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Thank you.

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Thanks for letting him do it.

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Just getting an element now.

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This is the most special gift I've ever had.

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I wish everybody the best of luck going forward with the kids' feelings for all.

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It's all going to be good.

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It's a great community song.

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Thank you.

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And if you misbehave Carolyn, well, it's a big pet.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Does anybody ever want them to really want to share?

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Probably not.

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Put it on the spot.

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Well, I'm going to say, Rob, you've always said you wanted to leave it.

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Invaders shaped and you found it.

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Yeah.

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I think you did it.

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Pretty damn solid job.

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I hope I did that.

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That was our ex-on oil tanker captain.

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It was the chairman of our board,

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from South West Arbor, who's brings cruise ships in and out of our harbor now, he picks

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him up off shore at the pilot, but he then brings them in, and he had a tanker, but it had

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the offshore floor to somewhere, and there was a tug towing of a barge with a space shuttle

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fuel canisters on it, and they got caught and the leftover hurricane, and it was getting

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washed ashore, and he took that oil tanker in and blocked the ocean so that they could

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at that tug-off and save the fuel canisters.

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But what he said to me, oh, I said,

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Rob, I always want to get on a ship, and I want to leave it

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better than when I found it.

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I want to crew to be better.

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I want it to be more efficient.

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I want the paint not to be chipping off of this.

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And I just want to know that when I get off it, it was better

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than when I found it.

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And when you think about that, that's really,

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all that really matters is that you made a mark.

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You've made a difference.

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So, hopefully when somebody walks through the school, they can sort of sense that, you know,

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maybe I had a part of it, and that is the kind of thing that's a legacy union, we really

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want to have that.

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You certainly don't want to leave it worse than when you found it.

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You know, I want to watch it collapse.

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So, two of those eight boats, one right there, one here.

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So, I have to leave six others to get that override pass, which was a huge thing.

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You know, if that override end pass, it would have been leaving that a lot worse than

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We're similar to when you found it, because it was tough to be an actor.

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I know I was happy when he was going to be my boss when I found out that he and Tommy

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Goro were arguing about who was going to clean the chalk up to where I was at.

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And I was like, if these are doing what Tommy did, do his job, then he's okay by the way.

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So for a reason, if somebody had written something in chalk up, I was like, congratulations

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that you can't have that out there.

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And there's a second up yours.

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Just give me a bucket and some hot water and a sponge

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and I'll go clean it off and give something

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or just charge it.

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The kids hadn't done graffiti, like you do somewhere else

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where you spray and get it in there.

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But they kind of, we've charged it.

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And I had actually thought Tommy was the head of maintenance

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because he had such pride.

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You could just tell him you walk in and you go,

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well you can be the head of maintenance.

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There's no doubt in my mind that that's what you do and he's just quiet when about his job and I don't know

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He did

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I called you on Halloween

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I somehow ended up contacting me

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Yeah, that's right

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Yeah, that's a little super pretty young

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On the landing of the house

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No, it's on the back of the gym

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Yeah, he came up at night

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He was in a town that was in nature

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And really needed to come off because it was quite a giant generation.

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So we got the custodians to go out and they cleaned it all off because it wouldn't have been a good thing for kids to come to school.

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No, that's what I was trying to do.

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So that's the beauty of living in the town where you work.

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A lot of superintendents don't want to live in the town they work.

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But I've always felt you got to live where you work.

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People have to know who you are, you have to, and no one's ever called my house or anything like that

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Or bothered me about things they do it during the hours and it's where you belong if you can do it

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You belong in the place where you're having investment in it when you voted effect you do and it's not in, you know

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wherever

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We volunteer to have one of the

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Do you remember back when you first started, you had this all come to your house?

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Oh, yes.

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So we had like a bunch of preschool friends, we all had brand new kindergarteners, there's no more anxious group.

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Who would be called?

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When we just moved in our house, we had like almost no furniture.

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We moved from glass to recloser house, the day any kindergarten started.

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I'm pretty sure I was called Angry Crying.

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And we were able to give you a school here because we were close in our house a day.

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But we had all these kindergarten parents, not enough chairs for everybody

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and Rob came, maybe I don't know if you better

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you're there with a written agenda,

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I'd have been there with their twins, but.

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And so we came and he took all of our questions,

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like kindergarten parents are like, oh my gosh,

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we don't know what's going on.

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Do we, a lot of people, it just moved here,

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people moved from Boston, we moved from Boston,

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we moved from Boston, like, give you to the right thing.

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And as soon as he left,

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we just all would do to where, like, we can do the right thing.

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We're going to be on the district this size, I think.

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Superintendents should know the kids.

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There's just no one from kindergarten all the way

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through them and I've watched those kids graduate the other day. I looked at them when they were

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second graders. I probably was ready to do that, you know, both of them. Whatever. You know,

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went on their field trips and went on some good field trips and I went on some good overseas trips.

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Yeah, they're transitioning overseas trips. I just thought that that was always part of what you should do.

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You should invest yourself completely in what you do. And I've one more quick number on that note,

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so a fifth Потому get and a few years ago, she was probably in Wisconsin's

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second grade at the dancer Idol Entertainment Institute, every year they have

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it in school a lot of chaos, but it's her property and scope and resume gi

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as well a full function, and 20 years ago when she finished vinisitos

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always so good you are glad you were glad you did just want things up

472
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But she was probably by the way I was airez the governor or dancer

473
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,040
But do you have everything that typological

474
00:29:26,620 --> 00:29:31,800
But she was just like, we had something in school at a time and this really wasn't in the city, where are we?

475
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,940
So it makes an impression on all the kids, no matter if you're a little kid into the other kids.

476
00:29:39,180 --> 00:29:43,220
Now one thing that everyone in this room has in common, except are you a rose daughter?

477
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,920
Yes, what are you talking about?

478
00:29:47,260 --> 00:29:55,280
I think we all have a comment except maybe his wife and daughter.

479
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,960
You guys will notice I'm the technicalist for a cheat.

480
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,980
Oh my god. They make the prime flag look modern.

481
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:14,860
There's something about getting to watch if you're after you roll out this spreadsheet. Everybody play the cell.

482
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:26,200
I don't know where I am, but it's so strategic because by the time you get to the fair, you're allowed to ask a question, you're exhausted.

483
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:33,600
And the old man, the poor and still haven't been robbing, robbing, going on, and hit pause.

484
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,780
And one of us likely would agree, say, well that's great, and robbing.

485
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,560
Finish it off, and then when it was time for questions, they would just get it off the table.

486
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,400
We'll look at it.

487
00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:48,800
That's a lot of things.

488
00:30:54,040 --> 00:31:03,420
But I had one argument with Ralph, and I still have told him for giving him for it.

489
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:14,000
And all of the other department heads got huge raises a few years ago incrementally over three years or five years or whatever was because they were so far behind every other community.

490
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:21,340
So, the school board agreed that Rob's are the same because he came in with all that experience,

491
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,800
but we did not, I don't think that a school of able had time to give them a really competitive salary.

492
00:31:27,620 --> 00:31:34,400
So, I looked at the average salary for the state and I also looked at neighboring salaries

493
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,600
for people with much less superintendent experience and I came up with a compromise.

494
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,380
I thought he would have set not going as high as we should have, but something we would have

495
00:31:43,380 --> 00:31:43,840
set.

496
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,420
I think it was like three years in a row of five percent increase or something like that.

497
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,220
It gets into to the average state salary.

498
00:31:50,620 --> 00:31:51,800
And he is well above average.

499
00:31:52,060 --> 00:31:56,660
And he is experiencing capacity and certainly in his work.

500
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,640
And Robert refused to accept it.

501
00:31:58,780 --> 00:32:03,740
Oh, he was mad at me for offering it.

502
00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:14,580
But there's some extent because we were going to be getting ready for negotiations and he knew that it would put us in a difficult situation, keeping us under our 3% increase with an negotiation.

503
00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:16,780
How was the difference?

504
00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:19,160
so that it could much to be in the legal level.

505
00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:23,680
And my wife has the same size.

506
00:32:26,020 --> 00:32:30,640
And right we saw, I respect her for that, but I just, I've always figured you're

507
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,980
no better than your workers, and if you're sitting there talking to an ed tech, or custodian,

508
00:32:35,140 --> 00:32:40,040
you can't give them more than 2%, that if you will all send them to take 7-8% that's

509
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,500
a hard to look them in the eye and say, we don't have enough money, and this is all we've

510
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:49,180
And here's the override, and then you walk away with a little golden parachute.

511
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,700
I just never could fill us off of clean by that.

512
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:53,340
So.

513
00:32:53,340 --> 00:32:56,180
And there is some chance that would have come back at us during the long ride.

514
00:32:56,340 --> 00:32:57,240
Well, you just gave him.

515
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,320
And also at the next negotiations.

516
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,580
And it was only a couple years before COVID, where there was a whole lot of things.

517
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,160
Or maybe in the year before.

518
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,580
So, you know, maybe in retrospect, I might begrudgingly say it.

519
00:33:10,580 --> 00:33:15,440
And I mean, to be honest, I wasn't going to drag it on too long, but I got paid in different ways.

520
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:20,460
You gave me time, you gave me time to be able to go to the main, and do what fuels my soul,

521
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:29,080
and a lot of places wouldn't do that, you know, and that was worth money.

522
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,920
You know, time was money, because it took the edge off of what you would do for a year.

523
00:33:35,060 --> 00:33:38,220
As long as you didn't leave something behind, it should have been doing here,

524
00:33:38,220 --> 00:33:42,660
then that was an important crush that you gave me.

525
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,640
So that was worth, worth it to wait and go.

526
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,440
I can just say something to that.

527
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,400
Robert is a fantastic boss.

528
00:33:52,660 --> 00:33:53,940
I absolutely adore working firm.

529
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:57,540
He's someone that I can go in and speak my mind too.

530
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,760
And if it's something confidential, I know it's never going to leave his office.

531
00:34:01,780 --> 00:34:04,560
And I was always up the minds that like,

532
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:13,900
Why does he want to Maine in the summer like I don't get it? Rockports beautiful. Why doesn't he just stay here until last summer when I went to visit him and Maine?

533
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:20,500
And I took my family and we got on his boat and he took us in my dog and he took us all around

534
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:25,400
I saw yep, and he just watching him in his element

535
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:33,540
It was crystal clear to me. Okay. This is why he does it. He was the happiest I had seen. I'm not that he's not happy it

536
00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:36,180
He is happy at work. We have a good time.

537
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,200
So it was like, okay, I get this.

538
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,940
And that same boat has been tapped in by Colin Kelly.

539
00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:45,760
It's been writing.

540
00:34:46,220 --> 00:34:46,600
Yep, yep.

541
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,640
But Jackson Altieri, it's been tapped in by the living.

542
00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:51,860
They may even have Captain Hades.

543
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:52,980
It doesn't approve it.

544
00:34:55,240 --> 00:34:57,220
Jackson has a teacher that was down to me.

545
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,460
He got it and now fit.

546
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:08,680
It's also one of those captains was scared to death of the water, and when he got to take

547
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:15,740
his trip on rocks, but his down stairs and was not being controlled into trying any

548
00:35:15,740 --> 00:35:21,700
food from his parents, the raw bastard, you know, he'd like to come up alone with him.

549
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:26,240
And to this day, remember, as he taught him a little routine about how to time, whether

550
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:32,000
next video. After about 10 minutes, we went up to seeing, you know, if we're going to have to

551
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:38,100
anesthetize it. And you just drive in the boat. You know, it's very hard about this. So,

552
00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:45,840
you know, that natural teaching instinct works on land on the sea. Now, we tried really hard.

553
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,400
This would be a pleasure to say if you two. We really wanted to create a lot of we both

554
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,560
been going hard to do that.

555
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,160
Certain expressions that tend to prop up a lot of people.

556
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,340
What do you have?

557
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:01,260
If you send a million to you guys,

558
00:36:01,540 --> 00:36:04,980
the one that's the most innocent is higher good people

559
00:36:04,980 --> 00:36:06,320
and stay out in their way.

560
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:08,880
I don't like the trace of that.

561
00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:13,960
They're smarter and better at the work than you are.

562
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,380
They don't even do their work.

563
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:16,980
That doesn't fit it.

564
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,440
That's what I'm going to read a great book someday.

565
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:22,760
Good to great.

566
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,520
It's a study of weird little corporations that far out

567
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,940
Seed what they'd ever be predicted to do, and the characteristic of what the leader

568
00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:34,720
does in terms of the people that work for them.

569
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:40,380
And those strands are pretty solid in terms of how you empower people,

570
00:36:42,020 --> 00:36:45,340
how you not delegate to them to trust them, trust them to do.

571
00:36:45,340 --> 00:36:49,020
what you know they can do that they may not know they can do themselves.

572
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:57,040
My last story is about that the man I most respected my life was a guy named Wilford

573
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:03,780
Wunker who taught me the boats, had me run the boats and he put me in a small open boat

574
00:37:03,780 --> 00:37:10,320
with just a box compass on the floor one time and sent me to seal hard to pick some people up

575
00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:15,840
linemen for the power company. We had to go out and it was thick fall. You couldn't

576
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:22,400
see anything. And I said, I can't do that. You said, yeah you can. Just go east for about

577
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:28,740
seven minutes. And then if you don't see the end of the island go north and you'll be

578
00:37:28,740 --> 00:37:29,980
in North America, you'll be at sea.

579
00:37:30,590 --> 00:38:00,570
And I just did it, and you couldn't see a thing, watch the compass to exactly what he told me, and at the end of it, 25 minutes later, whatever, I would come to see a harbor in their little mind, and he knew something about me, that I didn't know about myself, because he put his boat out there, and he put one of his workers out there who could have drowned, could have been often France somewhere, but he had the ability to know that you could do it. And as an educator, I think that's the Holy Grail of the Union.

580
00:38:00,570 --> 00:38:04,910
educated. You know when you can do it, you push them to their limit, you get them to the edge,

581
00:38:05,230 --> 00:38:10,890
not over the edge. But you take in places they don't think they can go themselves. And that's

582
00:38:10,890 --> 00:38:15,410
what I was looking for for people to hire. You know, people who didn't inspire me. As an example,

583
00:38:15,590 --> 00:38:22,290
I looked at Nathan Cohen, I would sort of watch what he does. And he's that knows kids, knows what's

584
00:38:22,290 --> 00:38:28,410
in their soul, and gets out of them more than what they probably ever thought they could do before

585
00:38:28,410 --> 00:38:32,910
to get done. As an example, we have a lot of people with that, but these are classic examples of

586
00:38:32,910 --> 00:38:37,670
them. But Rob, you're being backed out. You're being backed out. You're being backed out,

587
00:38:38,170 --> 00:38:43,350
and you're an amagation voice. And what was the voice name? My topic.

588
00:38:43,510 --> 00:38:47,390
My topic. Yeah. So you graduate in? Yep. And you probably wouldn't.

589
00:38:47,630 --> 00:38:53,290
You need a science credit. And he wasn't going to finish school, otherwise he was going to drop out.

590
00:38:54,050 --> 00:38:55,690
So we just spread out charts. Yeah.

591
00:38:56,170 --> 00:38:59,570
taught him how to use the compass and then he did.

592
00:38:59,850 --> 00:39:02,150
Of course, it stopped when I went down to the Cape Ann Marina.

593
00:39:02,410 --> 00:39:05,770
We went all the way around Gloucester with the boat with Tommy Bucro.

594
00:39:05,790 --> 00:39:09,830
He had a pair of flying glasses on that would simulate fog.

595
00:39:10,090 --> 00:39:12,750
So Mike couldn't see it, but we could see.

596
00:39:13,070 --> 00:39:18,190
Make sure he didn't mess up and he followed all of his courses in times and distances

597
00:39:18,190 --> 00:39:21,050
and all the way around Cape Ann and down the Aniswana.

598
00:39:21,830 --> 00:39:23,710
And then when we got to Cape Ann Marina,

599
00:39:23,710 --> 00:39:28,710
We were going to go to lunch at the place of the process 3 years.

600
00:39:32,110 --> 00:39:33,590
Yeah, that's the cause way.

601
00:39:34,290 --> 00:39:36,210
And we get down and he said, I don't want to go.

602
00:39:36,430 --> 00:39:38,810
I think I'll have the pride clams I've never had on before.

603
00:39:39,170 --> 00:39:40,710
And he had a big smile on his face.

604
00:39:42,070 --> 00:39:43,790
He wasn't going to graduate from school.

605
00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:45,910
It wasn't hard to do.

606
00:39:46,010 --> 00:39:49,130
It was just something that I knew he was tied to the sea.

607
00:39:49,190 --> 00:39:50,230
I knew he wanted to lobster.

608
00:39:50,230 --> 00:39:55,550
And that was a skill that he would probably never learn anywhere else.

609
00:39:55,630 --> 00:39:56,270
And it was science.

610
00:39:56,690 --> 00:39:57,510
He had to do it himself.

611
00:39:57,650 --> 00:40:03,330
It was hands on, and it didn't take any of my time really just sort of lunches and things like that.

612
00:40:05,450 --> 00:40:07,150
Hopefully that made a difference for him.

613
00:40:07,510 --> 00:40:08,990
Maybe different players get to it.

614
00:40:14,090 --> 00:40:16,010
Hopefully that made a difference for him.

615
00:40:16,030 --> 00:40:19,930
Hopefully that made a difference for him.

616
00:40:19,930 --> 00:40:22,050
Now, you guys brought a finger.

617
00:40:22,330 --> 00:40:27,210
Do you remember the three little words that would strike fear into it, every public budget

618
00:40:27,210 --> 00:40:27,850
presentation?

619
00:40:29,730 --> 00:40:33,770
It would be a pause if someone didn't have a question and I would be seeing them.

620
00:40:33,930 --> 00:40:34,170
I don't know.

621
00:40:34,410 --> 00:40:34,810
Don't say it.

622
00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:36,170
Don't say it.

623
00:40:36,410 --> 00:40:37,770
I would always say it.

624
00:40:38,130 --> 00:40:39,430
Now, truth and let it.

625
00:40:41,190 --> 00:40:42,170
We're dealing with a thing.

626
00:40:42,390 --> 00:40:47,570
You didn't want someone to focus on it because you're absolutely so honest, it was not going

627
00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:48,050
be called.

628
00:40:49,850 --> 00:40:50,430
He's going to be called.

629
00:40:50,430 --> 00:40:51,530
He's going to be called.

630
00:40:52,030 --> 00:40:53,010
I think we're going to do anything.

631
00:40:54,290 --> 00:40:58,090
I thought you were going to say, Tobie, do you have any questions?

632
00:41:01,470 --> 00:41:02,250
He's going to be called.

633
00:41:02,630 --> 00:41:03,170
He's going to be called.

634
00:41:03,610 --> 00:41:04,890
Some more on his yellow path.

635
00:41:05,430 --> 00:41:07,490
You go back on the yellow path, find out something

636
00:41:07,490 --> 00:41:08,550
you said 10 years ago.

637
00:41:09,330 --> 00:41:11,570
10 years ago with this meeting, Rob, you said this.

638
00:41:12,410 --> 00:41:14,830
I mean, he's never called me out.

639
00:41:14,830 --> 00:41:17,730
anything about it. I've watched him call a lot of people out.

640
00:41:18,150 --> 00:41:25,530
Now, is he as bad at home, at taking a compliment to see the flights and not accept it?

641
00:41:25,610 --> 00:41:26,810
Right, he doesn't accept it.

642
00:41:27,150 --> 00:41:31,970
Yeah, because the other phrase we had on our part was, whenever you try to compliment anyone,

643
00:41:32,350 --> 00:41:38,050
hand with some really complex situation or something that had a lot of emotion to it,

644
00:41:38,090 --> 00:41:41,270
can respond to it. It's what you hired me to do.

645
00:41:46,590 --> 00:41:49,950
Yeah, that came from my father.

646
00:41:50,190 --> 00:41:51,910
Yeah, I could feel it.

647
00:41:52,070 --> 00:41:55,190
It would come on if you're watching TV, you're 12 years old.

648
00:41:55,330 --> 00:41:58,790
He had that volume down so low because he was studying whatever you had to be.

649
00:41:59,070 --> 00:42:03,830
Almost in the screen, and he would just come by and say, turn off that infernal noise box.

650
00:42:03,990 --> 00:42:07,870
Read a book, destroy your mind by watching television.

651
00:42:07,870 --> 00:42:10,110
And it was like Gilligan's Islander.

652
00:42:10,230 --> 00:42:11,830
Something the card was before, where are you?

653
00:42:12,110 --> 00:42:13,410
But he wanted your reason to book.

654
00:42:13,710 --> 00:42:15,090
Because life was too short.

655
00:42:15,250 --> 00:42:16,890
You'd just wasting your time watching television.

656
00:42:17,570 --> 00:42:18,210
Read a book.

657
00:42:18,850 --> 00:42:19,430
And then off you go.

658
00:42:19,570 --> 00:42:20,850
He wouldn't slain the TV off.

659
00:42:20,970 --> 00:42:22,210
But he'd leave you at that.

660
00:42:22,210 --> 00:42:23,130
He'd leave you at that.

661
00:42:23,130 --> 00:42:24,970
Sort of pretty well placed guilt-trip.

662
00:42:25,190 --> 00:42:25,590
Yeah.

663
00:42:25,910 --> 00:42:26,830
Time's too short.

664
00:42:27,310 --> 00:42:28,850
I need to make the most of it.

665
00:42:30,690 --> 00:42:31,830
That's not really true either.

666
00:42:33,090 --> 00:42:33,150
All right.

667
00:42:33,150 --> 00:42:33,390
Take it.

668
00:42:33,390 --> 00:42:34,970
Then in the center square.

669
00:42:35,270 --> 00:42:36,270
I don't need this alone.

670
00:42:36,490 --> 00:42:38,050
The center square is a finger card.

671
00:42:38,050 --> 00:42:43,930
It was Rob's precious resource.

672
00:42:44,530 --> 00:42:45,310
It was a child shelter.

673
00:42:45,710 --> 00:42:47,750
And it was so sincere,

674
00:42:48,330 --> 00:42:50,230
but also, you knew it was common.

675
00:42:50,990 --> 00:42:52,770
And so that we lost the silent acting out,

676
00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:54,210
where we said, where was it?

677
00:42:54,670 --> 00:42:55,050
I don't know.

678
00:42:56,510 --> 00:42:59,110
But I think it really speaks to it.

679
00:42:59,350 --> 00:43:00,730
In the 21st century,

680
00:43:01,110 --> 00:43:03,810
much more comfortable with sarcasm.

681
00:43:04,130 --> 00:43:05,550
We don't like gratitude,

682
00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:07,950
It makes us uncomfortable.

683
00:43:07,950 --> 00:43:15,170
And to me, that was sort of the, that encapsulates who rock the boat is.

684
00:43:15,570 --> 00:43:21,270
He really does think of the children as almost precious resources and has acted that way.

685
00:43:21,730 --> 00:43:28,150
For over a decade here, and it hasn't been easy in the coming years, we're extremely difficult.

686
00:43:28,770 --> 00:43:33,370
And it was not the way I think he expected his retirement to go,

687
00:43:33,370 --> 00:43:37,030
I think Keith was going to be a graceful, override,

688
00:43:37,450 --> 00:43:40,070
being taught to flee, supported, and then perhaps

689
00:43:40,070 --> 00:43:42,530
last year teaching at an elementary grade level

690
00:43:42,530 --> 00:43:45,590
to end this career the same way he started it,

691
00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:48,390
instead of fistfighting and recalling.

692
00:43:50,490 --> 00:43:53,270
But here we are, thanks to you.

693
00:43:54,910 --> 00:43:57,150
So did you have an open bar plan in the middle?

694
00:43:58,670 --> 00:43:59,190
Yeah, definitely.

695
00:43:59,650 --> 00:44:00,530
Yep, it's all.

696
00:44:01,150 --> 00:44:03,010
Lemonade, cookies, the batter.

697
00:44:11,150 --> 00:44:13,130
It's really nice to hear your voice wrong.

698
00:44:13,750 --> 00:44:15,010
I miss it.

699
00:44:15,730 --> 00:44:17,830
You know, it's all comedic and he's so hot.

700
00:44:18,150 --> 00:44:20,070
You're making so many really tough decisions.

701
00:44:20,770 --> 00:44:23,190
But to sitting, I'm like, oh my god, I didn't do another section.

702
00:44:25,610 --> 00:44:28,620
Anyway, there's no action.

703
00:44:32,540 --> 00:44:36,860
It's just like, it's just like, it's just such a calming, calming place.

704
00:44:37,260 --> 00:44:41,760
And every one of the school board members, the decision we're always about what was right

705
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:42,300
by kids.

706
00:44:43,220 --> 00:44:44,580
That's not the same everywhere.

707
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:45,800
It's just isn't.

708
00:44:46,220 --> 00:44:46,320
Right.

709
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,040
People have hidden the genders that get on for certain reasons, their own little pork barrel

710
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:56,140
stuff, or finances, all of you have always just caring about kids, one of what's best

711
00:44:56,140 --> 00:44:56,780
for the kids.

712
00:44:58,240 --> 00:44:59,980
and how can you not want to be part of that?

713
00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:05,590
I think about it. It will become a future. It will become a future. It will become a future.

714
00:45:05,630 --> 00:45:13,270
Right? We will once again, a kid in somebody's hands with no voting power or no anything, and we made it all right.

715
00:45:14,130 --> 00:45:18,810
And so that those young people deserve the same chance that we had exact same.

716
00:45:18,930 --> 00:45:21,930
And that actually, we deserve better than the chances we had.

717
00:45:22,550 --> 00:45:22,850
So.

718
00:45:22,850 --> 00:45:26,550
I just wanted to add to you that made the work on the book committee so meaningful.

719
00:45:27,210 --> 00:45:32,670
I mean, I loved being a part of the committee, just loved it.

720
00:45:32,890 --> 00:45:36,170
Now more than I'm talking about the difficulty of hiring,

721
00:45:37,370 --> 00:45:41,790
and how often times the person you're interviewing is not the person you end up with, right?

722
00:45:42,630 --> 00:45:52,250
And in your case of the shift, amazing, because all of the loving kindness and integrity that we saw during the interview, we saw it.

723
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,820
So I guess if you'd like to cook here some of them there,

724
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:04,260
if you want to look at the paddle.

725
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:08,900
I can't believe that.

726
00:46:08,900 --> 00:46:09,260
I can't believe this is you.

727
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:10,080
I can't believe this is you.

728
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,180
I can't believe this is you.

729
00:46:11,180 --> 00:46:11,540
I can't believe this is you.

730
00:46:11,540 --> 00:46:13,320
I can't believe this is you.

731
00:46:14,380 --> 00:46:19,700
We deferred on the Essex Tech School Committee Member's presentation.

732
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:20,520
I don't know.

733
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:26,230
I can't believe this is you.

734
00:46:29,510 --> 00:46:31,390
So what was the other school district?

735
00:46:31,910 --> 00:46:33,730
Oh yeah, I was doing some good things here.

736
00:46:34,130 --> 00:46:34,870
Good, actually.

737
00:46:36,490 --> 00:46:37,570
Where is that?

738
00:46:37,950 --> 00:46:39,090
If so, I would just want to buy it.

739
00:46:39,470 --> 00:46:40,970
So it's the end of born on your book.

740
00:46:41,150 --> 00:46:42,370
I need a great notion.

741
00:46:43,310 --> 00:46:43,610
Yeah!

742
00:46:45,170 --> 00:46:47,210
I'm going to go to get out of here.

743
00:46:47,610 --> 00:46:48,390
I'm going to get out of here.

744
00:46:48,390 --> 00:46:49,130
I'm going to get out of here.

745
00:46:49,130 --> 00:46:49,870
Right in that building.

746
00:46:50,590 --> 00:46:52,690
It was, you know what their fans were?

747
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:54,510
They're going to get out of here.

748
00:46:55,390 --> 00:46:58,730
They're in a handbook and we have a collection of these over the block.

749
00:46:59,270 --> 00:46:59,810
There you go.

750
00:47:00,070 --> 00:47:01,850
There are high school, there's a lot over the block.

751
00:47:02,970 --> 00:47:06,990
There's a nice place but it wasn't ocean in the nose, here and it wasn't small.

752
00:47:09,170 --> 00:47:09,530
There's the building in the center.

753
00:47:11,150 --> 00:47:12,410
So you're going there, right?

754
00:47:14,370 --> 00:47:18,350
There's the guide to the line for it, and he calls that.

755
00:47:19,230 --> 00:47:19,750
Interesting.

756
00:47:19,750 --> 00:47:21,890
This is one of the things that is going on.

757
00:47:22,910 --> 00:47:25,710
Like a lot of people.

758
00:47:26,290 --> 00:47:26,890
I'm not going to talk to my wife.

759
00:47:27,630 --> 00:47:32,670
You know, you know, you know, you know, she even got the sale of her.

760
00:47:34,050 --> 00:47:35,170
Yeah, so, you can go back and take it.

761
00:47:35,170 --> 00:47:37,450
But I call them back and they take it by me.

762
00:47:38,730 --> 00:47:42,310
But that's kind of what I mean, I don't think it's that kind of thing.

763
00:47:42,310 --> 00:47:43,530
But I don't get a report from the doctor.

764
00:47:43,570 --> 00:47:45,910
But it's true, I'm sure I'm not really going to talk to you.

765
00:47:45,970 --> 00:47:48,670
Yeah. And you'll do that in everything else.

766
00:47:48,930 --> 00:47:50,570
The next ten years you'll play the same yet.

767
00:47:50,570 --> 00:47:57,030
And I don't think I'm pretty good at it.

768
00:47:59,070 --> 00:47:59,550
Will

769
00:48:14,590 --> 00:48:15,310
it come?

770
00:48:15,310 --> 00:48:15,910
I've had my fingers.

771
00:48:16,390 --> 00:48:17,250
My mom actually took it.

772
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,920
I remember they, I was a mom at the, I remember.

773
00:48:24,980 --> 00:48:25,460
I

774
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:33,840
went to one.

775
00:48:35,460 --> 00:48:36,820
Yeah, no one had taken that.

776
00:48:37,060 --> 00:48:39,100
I was just trying to hire you.

777
00:48:39,740 --> 00:48:40,640
Do you want to have money?

778
00:48:41,220 --> 00:48:41,920
No, man.

779
00:48:46,580 --> 00:49:00,840
Thank you very much, thank you very much.