e e e e e right good evening everyone I am Dr Kim H Pro superintendent of AA schools and thank you so much for coming out this evening to learn more about our upcoming attendance boundary changes uh we have a lot of information that we're going to share tonight with you uh this first half of the evening and some of the topics that we'll be going over this evening is just a little on who we are as a school district and how much uh acreage that we cover in the eight cities that we're in what an attendance boundary actually is why attendance boundaries need changing at this time that change process timeline to parameters that were used to form the proposed scenarios that you'll be seeing seeing this evening the transition plan and of course your opportunity to share your thoughts your thoughts are very important to us so tonight will'll include splitting into smaller groups and getting feedback and ask asking questions just after the presentation so as we share information the next 30 minutes uh make sure you take note on any comments or questions you may want to share afterwards so a area schools so before we get started let's just take a small minute to talk about one thing that we're striving to do at oio Area School District so the last dist year we've been working towards becoming one Community for all where all voices are valued and heard that's not just something we say that's something we're living by and working very hard for that to happen so this means all of our stakeholders all of our students staff parents and caregivers and community members play an important part in our district you are a valuable part of our district and we want to make sure everyone here understands that you should feel seen and appreciated as part of oio area schools always whether that's today tomorrow or a few weeks from now and a year from now please do understand that each and every one of you are important to us so the main way that we ensure all voices are valued and heard is through a concept called holding space it's foundational work here in a AIO Area School District and what that means is that holding space means that we're walking alongside another person on whatever Journey they're on without judging them or making them feel inadequate trying to fix them or trying to impact that outcome when we hold space for other people we open our hearts we offer unconditional support and we let go of judgement and control so tonight as we enter our space together we do ask for everyone to be respectful and understand that each person here has their own narrative their own questions and their own lived experiences and we will be inclusive of everyone here your all ideas are good ideas so such an environment will allow us to be ensure that we're able to hear everyone everyone is able to be their authentic self this will help us build a more collaborative community as we venture through this attendance boundary change so I just want to say thank you in advance for th…