“The appropriate question, however, is not whether the proposal is perfect, but it is whether it is better than the status quo and better than the other alternatives that are available to us.”

“The one thing on this particular slide that I want to make sure we point out is the actual what we expect to be some annual savings by the decentralization of CEK.”

“It's really important that we identify that this plan is a tax neutral plan.”

“This is really an untraditional way to run a project. Most 99.9% of the time we are moving with a set budget which has already been approved and we're in full design meeting with stakeholders.”

“The education, according to research, is probably better when you have the kids in a K5 or K6 environment. There hasn't been a whole lot of research done about is K2, is that better for kids?”

“I started my career teaching here 37 years ago at Hoover and at that time the building was 36 and 46 and Churchill was K3 and it was that way a long time before I came so it's more than 40 years ago that the split has taken.”

“But the way you just explained it, how I'm interpreting it is that it's not quite that way. It'll be coming from one different spaces, but also over a span of I don't know what that length of time is, but I don't know if there's a simple simplified way to explain it for us of those that are not in the finance world so that we understand exactly where the money is coming from.”

“I am really wondering how necessary it is to tie that investment to the Fidel building and and whether it is and I certainly would defer to the expertise here, but I just based on the way we do other indoor air quality projects and so forth. I don't really understand why it's necessary to relocate that school community for an entire year in order to complete that project.”

“There's a big component of rail which prepares uh the students for living on their own and so we need kitchen a kitchen environment so kids learn to cook and prepare um meals for themselves. Um similarly like a laundry facility so they learn how to um wash clothes, wash sheets, make a bed.”

“I don't for those of us who have had to make decisions about boundary changes, I can't tell you how that is a positive in this. Um because when we did talk about Sunset Terrace being a space, um I I went back and I just looked at a lot of numbers, 467 students, dispersing them to four or five schools and closing a school community. Um whereas in my perspective with Churchill, we're uniting 191 students with the community they are already scheduled to go to with staff who is going to be thrilled to see them three years earlier than they ordinarily would.”

“I would like to remind uh the public that we had this is not the first time we've seen this item. We have had a lot of discussion about a lot of information. So it's not like we're just coming and voting on something that we're seeing for the first time.”