001good evening we will call our meeting to order first we have roll call to that we turn to our new secretary louise jackson thank you laila all board members are present great next we have the pledge of allegiance please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you for joining us for our carmel clay school board special session which as our candidates know our finalists know that we are going to be interviewing for the position of the school board member for district 2. on friday august 7 august 27th of 2021 carmel clay schools announced the retirement of district 2 school board member
002pam niles with an effective date of september 13 following the announcement carmel clay school board of trustees began the process to appoint a new board member to fill the remainder of the term for the district 2 vacancy which is until december 31st 2022 as required by indiana statute the board must fill this position within 30 days of the effective data vacancy carmel clay schools posted the application for the district 2 school board vacancy to the district website on august the 27th and district 2 residents who are interested in serving were invited to submit an application no later than midnight september 12 2021. on monday september 20th the school board members met an executive session to review the applications and selected four applicants to move forward in the public interview portion of the application process today
003monday october 4th we are holding a special session to interview these final four candidates the school board anticipates meeting tomorrow evening tuesday october 5th in a special session which will be a live session to appoint the new district 2 board member and to finish the appointment process carmel clay school board plans to swear in the new school board member on tuesday october 12th at the school board work session the board wants to thank the carmel community for their engagement and willingness to serve the students staff and families of carmel several individuals submitted applications and we were very impressed with all of the very qualified candidates that applied selecting the final four candidates for this public interview process was a very difficult decision with so many highly qualified and impressive candidates tonight i'd like to introduce
004an alphabetical order by first name the four finalists and thank them in advance for being here and being willing to serve we have with us jennifer williams jonathan shapiro nikki mcnally and vincat tataconda this evening during this process each candidate will be interviewed independently each candidate will be given the same questions given by the board members and your session will last approximately 20 minutes you will be at the podium and we will have some water up there in case your mouth should get dry before we get started i'd like to ask if there are any questions from the board or any of the candidates at this time well we are excited and thankful that you are here to join us and so we're going to get started i believe the three candidates um jonathan nicky
005in vincott will go with dr beresford and jennifer you get to join us at the podium please just let me know if you have any difficulty hearing me okay that sounds great and we will um we can hear you just fine so if we can hear you they should be able to hear you online as well all right thank you so i'm going to start with a little warm-up question which is kind of nice tell us a little bit about yourself and how your experience will benefit carmel clay schools thank you so i'm jennifer nelson williams i've lived here in carmel for the last 18 years grew up in indianapolis and in addition to being a business owner i own a funeral home here in carmel i have two children that went through carmel schools
006and during that time while they were here i worked in the classroom i tutored english after they were finished i was part of united way's read up indiana program and in addition to those years of helping here in the classroom i'm now doing it again with josh's son who is nine today so we're back to third grade reading and math so i've spent years working in the classroom outside the classroom helping my kids and in addition to my business successes i'm familiar with budgets management and profit and loss so i feel like i'm uniquely qualified to be part of the board thank you my question is what motivates you to want to become a board member can you tell us your why sure so the first is i'm just passionate about the kids and the
007schools i feel that the schools are really the crown jewel of this community and it's why so many of us i know growing up carmel was just a very small community we i went to north central high school i grew up in indianapolis but as my kids were born and i started looking at where i wanted them to be educated i looked to carmel because there was so many wonderful things going on here and for the community to survive and to thrive we really need to put our kids first and it's so important to me to be a part of that process it's really raining out there it's so important because they're our future they need our help we need to put our brightest talents here on the school board and again i just i'm
008so impassioned by it and not only that so you know there are many people as we saw there are many people who are applicants this is a unique time for me that i'm able to do it so my daughter lindsay just graduated from college in july and so you know there's many people who are passionate about being here and being part of the process but i'm have a flexibility now that many parents don't enjoy and so i felt like it was my time to give back thank you can you maybe tell us uh about a time when you had to work with a team or team members to make a tough decision and maybe speak to your process for making the difficult decision yeah well i'm i started a not-for-profit in 2016 something that i
009had never done before um it was at a difficult time for women in this community and a friend and i co-founded an organization that brought together many different types of women it's a women's organization women for change and very quickly we grew to almost 15 000 members and bringing all those differences of opinions and different backgrounds rose unique challenges one of the guiding principles of our organization is civility and decorum and so we had to learn how to still be impassioned but listen to others opinions listen to others viewpoints respect one another's backgrounds and then come to guiding a guiding platform and you know develop it we would say you know build the plane as we were flying it and so i think that that is very similar to the situation that we find ourselves
010here today with carmel and where we are there's there's fear there's differences of opinion but i think the thing that brings us all together one is the love and respect for the city the love and respect for our children and the the desire to create something wonderful for our kids and so you know i really believe that we can while being respectful with one another come to some consensus well thank you jennifer again for for being here the next question we have for you is what attributes do you believe are essential to be a successful school board member i certainly can't speak to them all because i've never done this before i certainly will try my best but what i believe they're similar to the things i bring to my work and to women for
011change and to the other organizations that i am a part of it's certainly my desire to do the work i'm not a shirker i dig in i will do the research also my my love of people and i i think the success in my career is because i can connect with one with people and um it's something that is you know part of the 8 000 people or so that i've met with over the 30 years of my career i also am from a long line of people who feel it's important to serve our communities my brother is a city councilor here in carmel my boyfriend works for the city i mean those passions that we bring to these jobs i think will make me good at this position [Music] um and just my love
012of the kids i mean i love kids as we were driving here josh said you know just because you're going on to school board doesn't mean that you know you get to hang out with the kids um but i think that i i have a desire to and i think the thing that brings me here are the right reasons that i just want to make carmel and carmel clay schools the best that they can be thank you so our next question is can you give us one to two examples when you've had to work with others who may have had different priorities different backgrounds different values or even opinions than yours and share what strategies you use to get to an outcome sure i mean i think i have those without going into a specific
013situation i mean i think those things arise at work um where maybe i'm trying to help a family come to i see families all the time and as families grow and and they get larger and people marry you have many differences of opinions on what type of arrangement is best for their family and so i try and listen hear the differences of opinion and try and help families come and reach some consensus similarly with our work for women for change as i said as we try and work towards policies that can benefit women in the community hoosier women we bring to the table all sorts of people from different backgrounds different opinions different viewpoints and we try and work together for the better good and i think listening and respect for another's viewpoint trying to
014you know as they say walk through walk through in someone else's shoes trying to see where they came from what brought them to this time and this place um empathy um is really the best way of helping navigate those differences of opinion thank you can you tell us about what you know and like about ccs and what you could improve you know i've just been very impressed with our years at carmel my kids started at collegewood when we first moved to carmel and then they were redistricted to west clay and then on to carmel high school i was impressed by the teachers and the support staff i was i found their curriculum to be interesting and fulfilling for my children both of my kids were in the challenge program which they made so many wonderful
015friends and you know i really felt like it taught to their ability you know the redistricting process was very difficult it was scary and i we were separated from some children and as anybody who is a parent knows those in those younger ages probably even this just happened to us when my kids were little but you feel like they'll never make another friend so it was it was difficult and scary i i think that probably could always be more transparent i don't know the future of the needs for redistricting but certainly i know that's always a challenge for families but overall i have been immensely pleased with and with my experiences and now watching holden and he struggles with reading and has some issues but his teachers have been overwhelmingly supportive in helping him get
016the the care and the support he needs so that he can become a confident young man so i'm highly impressed with carmel thank you if chosen for the board how will you keep confidentiality of information a priority well i mean i'm very used to that in my work i mean we have sensitive information that we are given about an individual about their cause of death about their social security information and so i'm very used to keeping information close to me it is a top priority so that one can feel that secure that the integrity of the board is maintained so i don't have any problem with that kind of moving off of that topic but on a similar one school board service requires time how much time and energy can you dedicate to this position
017as i mentioned before you know both of my kids are out of the house um i was very busy as they were growing up for many of those years i was head of a single-parent household so i had a two teenagers at one time driving them around taking care of them while working full-time now that lindsay's graduated and ari is a third year med student here in town i have the time and the energy to devote to this and it is my top priority i've been in my career for 30 years so i certainly have the support staff i need i'm blessed that i have a wonderful team underneath me and this is my priority at this time and our last question for the evening are you part of any organization that may cause a
018conflict of interest and if so which organization might that be no i'm not okay does anybody else on the board have any questions they'd like to follow up on or touch on jennifer thank you very much for joining us this evening i just wanted to say i think you all are doing such an admirable job i'm honored to be here and thank you very much thank you okay welcome john thank you happy to be pardon here oh we're going to ask we're going to i guess alternate who's asking the questions we have a series of questions and like i said before that we're going to be asking everybody the same questions okay great and so for your very first question which is a nice easy warm-up question tell us a little bit about yourself and
019how your experience will benefit karma clay schools sure well first of all thank you for having me i'm really grateful to have the opportunity to be here i grew up on the east coast in new york city married a hoosier so i'm a hoosier by marriage and we've raised our son who's a middle schooler here in carmel and i've spent my entire professional career in a variety of youth serving organizations both in the formal education arena and also what i would term as the informal education arena as well and you know feel as a parent and as an educator and as a member of the community i've got a lot to offer to the school district and i'm excited to pursue the opportunity thank you so what motivates you to want to become a board
020member can you tell us your why sure i think simply my why is to pay it forward i've been very fortunate throughout my life to have people who have laid the groundwork in the foundation for what for me has been some really formative experiences and feel that i'm in a position professionally and experientially to be able to do that for others and um you know i've had a number of different volunteer experiences before so servant leadership is sort of part of who i am and this is just another way for me to again pay it forward to other students and families within carmel thank you tell us about a time when you had to work with a team or team members to make a tough decision speak to your process for making the difficult decision
021please sure that's a great question i think i'm faced uh i've been faced with tough decisions uh on a number of different arenas both professionally and personally in the work environment as an example i work as part of a small team and um you know at the end of the day my supervisor expects me to be responsible for that decision however i'm a firm believer in a collaborative effort and ensuring that uh everyone's voice is able to be heard and that voice is valued so uh often uh so i mean as a more specific example budget planning we were just doing that for 2022 at work and um you know it's a interesting environment still in recovery from covet especially in the non-for-profit sector so some tough decisions have to be made as to where
022expenses can go and where they can't go and really part of that process was ensuring that everybody had the opportunity to have their voice heard opinion shared and at the end of the day we have to make the best decision for the group and i think you know it really mirrors an experience that would happen as a member of of any board but certainly the school board as well what's the best decision for the students and families in carmel well thank you john again for being here you kind of answered the question right there at the end but i'm going to just throw it out to you again what attributes do you believe are essential to be a successful school board member thanks mike so i think any board member really the board's role is
023fiduciary oversight and i think specifically when it comes to school board it's that's around budget it's also around evaluating and if it necessary hiring or making an employment decision on the superintendent you know i think our role as board members is to support the professional staff who have the background education and professional skills to be doing their job day-to-day certainly to review policy and i think specifically when you're representing a specific area within carmel it's to hear to listen to the folks with whom i'm supposed to be representing and bring that opinion forward where and when it's appropriate to do so thank you thank you for your patience i'm just jotting notes our next question is can you give us one to two examples of when you've had to work with others who may have
024had different priorities different backgrounds different values or opinions than yourself and share what strategies you've used to get to the the outcome sure i think this happens uh i mean certainly happens in in professional circles i've had the experience thus far in serving on a couple of different boards from different other organizations both here in indianapolis and in carmel and when i lived on the east coast and certainly you know variety of opinion and background uh will always play a role i believe what's really important is to think about primary purpose and mission of the organization that you're entrusted with representing and that has to be the focal point through which you look um you know i happen to be the parent of a child in the carmel schools however my role on the on
025a school board is not that of my opinion individually uh it is collective of again the folks that i would be uh responsible for representing and so it's sort of taking that 10 000 foot macro view and saying okay what are the mission what are the values what are the expectations and are we fulfilling them that way not necessarily what does john shapiro think is the right answer can you tell us about what you know and like about carmel high schools and then what you could improve sure certainly my perspective here is based on experience of uh through through the eyes of a current middle school student um i will tell you one of when my family and i decided to move back here as i mentioned my wife is a native hoosier and grew
026up on the north side of indianapolis and we were living on the east coast and we had some decisions to make as to where we were going to relocate 10 years ago when we decided to come to the greater indianapolis area we actually specifically chose carmel largely due to the school system and knowing that it was a high quality education and that the values were in line with the values that my wife and i hold to be very important and that we try and raise our son on and so we've been really pleased with the quality of education uh both in terms of the academic education but also in terms of character development meeting students where they are i think those things are all done really really well in school i think and a continued
027opportunity for growth in any school system is how do we continue to make sure we're meeting the needs of all students um you know carmel is becoming more and more diverse and that is not just socioeconomically but it's also politically it is values based and the public school system needs to be representative of the students that it's serving and so i think continuing on the path that we're on and ensuring that we're providing equitable opportunity that students can be socially and emotionally safe so that they can be academically successful as needs to continue to be a priority thank you if chosen for the board how will you keep confidentiality of information a priority i mean quite simply what happens at a board meeting is not you know unless it's executive session that obviously is that's
028a a private matter or you know whatever is disclosed in board minutes or is disclosed publicly at a meeting obviously anybody has access to that information but beyond that um you know what happens in a boardroom stays in a boardroom and certainly as i mentioned before some of that may be personnel matters and things that are highly confidential and that really isn't anybody else's business and it's it's almost as if that segment of that experience needs to be sort of put away until it's an opportune time to take it back out so the next question we have is school board service requires time how much time and energy can you dedicate to this position willing to dedicate the time and energy that's needed to fulfill the responsibilities of the role i've had the opportunity to
029talk with my employer about the fact that i'm pursuing this they're completely supportive um and so you know i i know generally speaking what the meeting schedule is and those are things that i you know stand firmly behind being committed to as well as doing anything i need to engage with the constituents in the community because again a priority for me is making sure that they feel as if they have a voice to somebody on the school board and last but not least we're very interested in knowing are you part of any organization that would have a conflict of interest being on this board i do not believe so okay that's fantastic well do you have any questions for us and do you does the board have any other additional questions that you'd like to
030ask at this time do you have anything else you'd like to share you're allowed to say no we don't want to put you on the spot but i i appreciate the opportunity i i uh no i'm uh like i said i'm i'm grateful for the opportunity to be considered i do think i have a lot to offer i think my resume again my experience both in the formal education circles as well as uh just youth serving organizations in general and i think that could be a real benefit to the board well thank you i appreciate your consideration well we are very excited to have you here and thank you very much for joining us this evening thank you it's my pleasure you hello good evening and thank you for joining us thank you for having
031me we have a series of questions and we are asking you the same questions that we've asked the other candidates and we're going to rotate on who's asking which question and i'm going to start and it's an easy warm question so you can just feel very comfortable but our first question is tell us a little about yourself and how your experience will benefit chronically schools okay so i'm nikki mcnally and i have four kids in the school district my husband and i have lived in carmel since 2003 so we're long time residents my oldest son graduated in 2019 and then i have two uh senior sophomore in the high school and our youngest is in sixth grade um having four kids with different interests and different activities i have pretty much been around every activity
032you can think of in carmel clay schools whether it's track cross country swim meets musicals chtv even spellville i've pretty much seen everything so i have a lot of experience volunteering in the classroom volunteering in the library bookstores pretty much everywhere i also kind of stepped up my volunteer game a couple of years ago in 2019 when i co-chaired the parent political action committee for the school safety referendum so that involved basically all the campaigning for the referendum so we met at people's homes we went to events we spoke pretty much all over the city to gather bipartisan support for the referendum so that allowed me to see the administrative side of the district school funding the comprehensive safety plans the things that you didn't see just being in the classroom on a day-to-day basis
033i would also say that i learned the ins and outs of the iep process my oldest son left with a very extensive iep and after years of advocating for his education i really learned how things work in very great detail in the classroom so i've been around the block thank you can you tell us what motivates you to want to become a board member tell us your why so i wrote about this in my application so this will not be new to you but since this is kind of for the public record i'll i'll talk about it here there is a quote that's thrown around in volunteer circles that i work in and that quote is that there's no such thing as other people's children and so i might do everything right for my four
034kids at home they might have you know all the educational academic support they need the safety that they have they might feel valued respected but our community on the whole is not successful unless all of the students have all of those opportunities and so i feel like the board is a very impactful way to help other people's children i really do believe that i've volunteered for nearly a decade to try to make not only schools safer but our communities safer i helped to start the moms demand action for gun sense in indiana chapter where we advocate for better common sense gun laws and so that worked on a community level to try to make kids safer obviously i was very committed to school safety and it's really about taking care of all of all of
035the children of the district and i think that is what creates a successful community on the whole tell us about a time when you had to work with a team or team members to make a tough decision would love for you to speak to your process for making the difficult decisions so i've got a long history of working on non-partisan groups where people are on all sides of the political spectrum believe it or not an issue like gun control has really broad support on both sides of the political aisle and so in that organization where i worked for many years we had a lot of situations where people were coming from very different viewpoints and i have found that in working with teams like that you start with common ground what do we agree on
036and you kind of go from there and really over the years of working with bipartisan or non-partisan teams and these volunteer jobs i've found that you end up with deeper understanding of the issues and really more creative problem solving because you're attacking it from different sides you're seeing different viewpoints than just your own little bubble and i think it ends up being very valuable so really being starting with common ground meeting people where they are and then trying to push forward from there well thank you nikki again for being here what attributes do you think are essential to be a successful board member for being a board member um i think one of the things that you guys are hearing about a lot right now is transparency and being able to listen to the community
037i think that's one of the main jobs of a board member is to be able to listen take that whether it's criticism of of the board or the district but really have an open mind hearing all of those different viewpoints and being able to really listen to the community i think a dedication to the kids is obviously paramount to this position really just being fair and moderate in viewpoint and being able to take what the community is giving and hopefully use that to guide the policy for the school next we'd like to know can you give us one to two examples where you've had to work with others who may have different priorities backgrounds values even opinions other than yourself and what strategy did you share to get to an outcome and you sort of
038touched on this but you might have other examples yeah there's um so you know i i do have a day job which i didn't mention before i um i work in insurance and finance and that part of my day is always very boring but in these volun in the volunteer world when you're working with volunteers you don't have the control that you have in the workplace with employees or with you know a very regimented job and so there are so many examples over the years whether it's volunteering we had a big volunteer team with just within carmel with the referendum the political action committee that we didn't always agree on on the approach forward but i think really where i learned to um moderate the teams and the groups and and push people forward is
039with that very divisive controversial work on gun safety legislation what i always found with any gun rights supporter you know whatever they thought i was saying initially we always could find common ground in every conversation you just remain calm you find that common ground and you meet people where they are and we're all human beings we all tend to want the same things which is a better community a better tomorrow for our kids and if you can stay calm and find your common ground i think pretty much everyone could find a way forward can you tell us what you know and like about carmichael schools and then what you could improve well obviously i like it because we've been here for a really long time but over the years i've seen a lot of things
040change i am interested if i'm able to move forward in this position to find out a little bit more about curriculum i had a son in the challenge program as early as 2009 2010 and i had one that just finished in fifth grade last year so a couple of years ago i was one of those parents questioning the board on what is happening so it's gone through a lot of changes i'm interested to learn more just about curriculum in general i have learned more about what happened with that but just the curriculum in general i think i'd like to find out more about and see where that comes from and what we might be able to do to improve things and then i i think that's probably the biggest thing for me i want to
041make sure that all the hard work we did on the school safety referendum is followed through i know we have a couple more sros to be hired i want to make sure that those safety plans stay strong stay current and they were always being as safe and locked down as we can possibly be my my commitment to school safety is huge i mean i i can't even tell you the countless hours i have dedicated in my life volunteer hours to try to improve safety at schools in the community on the whole and so that's just something i think we are doing really well but being able to take a deeper dive and really understand that we're doing everything that we can is a big priority for me oh one more thing i would say because
042i know you're hearing a lot about this too but uh i i do feel like as an outsider whether i agree with the board's current decisions or not i feel like the communication from the school on the whole to parents has some improvement so it can be improved i think a lot of things the schools do great and letting people know and i'm sure there's a lot of things you can't let parents know and i think that parents right now are struggling with not hearing maybe enough okay if chosen for the board how will you keep confidentiality of information a priority i'm sorry how would i keep confidentiality a priority yes ma'am so i'm married to a lawyer he has been a lawyer for a long time and he has trained me to not talk
043about things not put things in email and i hear about this all the time um confidentiality has kind of been ingrained in our household in general that when somebody tells you something incompetence it is not to go anywhere so obviously that would apply to anything here i my day job i deal with people's confidential information on a daily basis it's something i'm very used to doing well obviously school board requires uh time so how much time and energy can you dedicate to this position yeah so that's probably one of the things that maybe a decade ago kept me from here this is something that i've always had in the back of my mind thinking about doing but i had four little kids so now those little kids aren't so little anymore um my job i
044work for myself i started my business about 17 years ago and it's given me a lot of flexibility to both be in my kids lives in the school and the day-to-day the day-to-day things that a lot of parents aren't able to do but it would also provide me flexibility with this as well and last but not least are you part of any organization that you're aware of that may cause a conflict of interest with you serving on the board no i'm really not part of any official organizations anymore i've got i've done a lot of volunteer work i've been helping the parents the parent group that's supporting the diversity equity and inclusion initiatives and in chrome clay schools but obviously as a board member i wouldn't be able to do those kinds of things directly
045like that so i have no problem with stepping back from those things in order to remain neutral and nonpartisan and that's no problem at all thank you did the board do anybody else have any other questions and do you have any questions or anything you'd like to share with us i think that that you guys pretty much covered it okay thank you very much well thank you very much nikki appreciate it loving cat please join us at the podium somebody forgot their laptop okay i'm ready well that sounds great so venkat we have a series of questions and the same questions that we've asked each of the candidates and we're all going to alternate on who's going to be asking the questions i'm going to get started and it's pretty easy warm question to be
046asking it is tell us a little about yourself and how your experience will benefit carmel clay schools sure um i introduce myself first uh my name is venkata tarakonda i've been a resident of carmel since 2004. i had all of my education in india i'm blessed to have my education with four different religious schools it started with a christian and then hindu and then also a muslim so i have a combination of different cultures diverse education skills and i'm pretty good at interacting with all these different cultures in and out of states too so i've been actively involved in nationality council which has about 60 countries representatives so no one is less no one is more so we are all at the same place and then doing same purpose sharing the ideas and then getting
047getting along with each other so in addition to that i was also part of my own local indian community carmel education foundation and i think i'm blessed to have a expedition program which has opened many doors for me to stay and stick with karmal education thank you can you tell us what motivates you to want to become a board member tell us your why absolutely um there are a lot of things that you can do as a board member the first thing is because i've been in the board for many organizations not just the karma schools it gives a different perspective when you're from a different portfolio like a different mindset right [Music] i've been with the multicultural and multilingual organizations and carmel education foundation also has given a different opinion about what we do
048for the community rather than what we get from the from the schools and community so everybody asks the same question what the school is giving me but what is that you giving to the school is more important so i felt like i mean it's been a while and then i had a successful grad from karma schools and i felt like it's the time to give back and i think there's a time that i decided to be a volunteer for the schools thank you tell us about a time when you had to work with a team or team members to make a tough decision and maybe speak to your process for making the difficult decision please thank you i'm an iit professional i still work as an id professional and we don't deal with only the
049local communities so i work with the teams that are global so they are working 24 by 7. so for me getting a win to win situation is more important than just meaning my point of view across the audience so it is necessary and mandatory that all your messages are sent across at the same level right i mean you there are different languages and different peoples of different skill set and it is necessary to convey your message to the lowest level and then up well thank you venkata again for being here what attributes do you believe are essential to be a successful successful board member i think we need to work together it doesn't matter if they have three groups or four groups i personally feel that carmel community this is a privileged community right so
050we have parents who don't have send their kids to the school and the parents who send the kids to the school right and they there are different groups and they have different opinions because once the kid is out of school and then the empty nest they think in a different way when the kids are when their new couple moves into the carmel community their perspective is different and the kids who are sending the kids to the school i mean the parents are sending the kids to school they have they see the schools in a different perspective so it is necessary that we streamline and then convey the message like what we are meant for and what we are doing it here if not then i think they are process information in a different perspective and
051that is you know i was there in couple of meetings and then they all ask about their personal the family and then the person kids how they are performing at school rather than the whole class has about 40 students and they were all given the same level of education or maybe even more some get more and some got less based on their skill set but the the families are asking why my kid is not writing and i curse you writing my why my kid is not doing stuff like that so you know i i did all my math in using log tables nobody uses them now so calculators have taken a lot of you know time out of the individuals so i mean you need to change with that time you know you cannot live
052in the past and then i demand what i have what you have done you cannot be asking that now thank you so our next question is can you give us one to two examples of when you've had to work with others who have different priorities different backgrounds values or opinions than yourself and how what was your strategy on coming you know getting to an outcome correct being an idea id professional we usually make a model before we jump into building the process i think katie might be knowing much better about the idea stuff so before we do anything we do we build a prototype and seek opinions and perspective from each and every team and also every member it includes the lowest level like you know beginners all the way to the seniors so the
053perspectives of each of those individuals are different so every time we need to get a two pages of eyes going through the process just instead of just going through you know whatever comes in your mind is not the truth i believe in that can you tell us a little bit about what you know and like about carmel high schools and what you could improve oh that's a difficult question um i i guess we uh everybody says i mean when something is happening we all fire up and uh get into the social media saying that all kinds of stuff so without knowing the facts and numbers it is not a good practice to jump into the conclusions and then define what's happening and you know there is there used to be a story somebody sees the
054tale somebody sees something else and then they make up the story and then you don't know what is happening around there so i think we have a powerful tool which is a social media and i think it is necessary to make a better use of it on both sides not only just from the karma schools and also from the you know the community too so if chosen for the board how will you keep confidentiality of information a priority uh can you come again if chosen for the board how will you make confidentiality a priority uh that is a very important question um i deal with a lot of clients that includes the state private and public sector and also the federal clients so security is a prime thing for us you cannot share the passwords
055you cannot share the personal information you cannot share even with your own family members because we are dealing with pii personal information so it is very necessary that you cannot share anything outside the box whatever happens inside the laptop stays in the laptop thank you school board service requires time how much time and energy can you dedicate to this position so um this was the same question asked in a different perspective i have four kids so my oldest one was like he she is in that 21 years old and my youngest one is a 13 years old so we have split our work including between me and my wife and also my daughter also travels from home to the school it all depends on work life balance you know i work most of the time
056work from home because i'm an architect i don't build everything every system end-to-end i just build the prototype and then give a demo to the system and then move on so i don't build the entire system end-to-end because i don't have time to am i i'm a very expensive professional to be frank i'm telling the truth i don't want to hide that one and last but not least are you part of any organization that may pose as a conflict of interest with you being on the board i don't know what kind of uh agencies are involved with the carmel clay schools as of now so i don't have any conflict of interest because i work my own terms and then times too great thank you board are there any additional questions that you have and
057do you have any questions or any anything else you'd like to share with us i think i was uh talking to mr b um outside so i think he gave me a brief like what is the process uh until tomorrow i wish you a good luck for all of you guys choosing the right candidate thank you very much good luck to every candidate though i'm not taking your laptop you're still here thank you we have no additional business for this evening may i get a motion to uh during the meeting so moved thank you mr kershner second thank you louise discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye aye motion carries meeting adjourned 4-0 thank you