FCPS School Board Meeting - October 26, 2017

001AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE! [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU VERY MUCH STUDENTS. THAT WAS LOVELY AND THANK YOU FAMILIES AND PARENTS WHO HAVE SHARED YOUR CHILDREN'S WONDERFUL SINGING WITH US TONIGHT. IS DR. MARSHAL IN THE ROOM. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL STUDENTS WITH US TONIGHT. IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH SECTION 2.2-3712 (D) OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA, IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE BOARD TO CERTIFY THAT SINCE THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CONVENED A CLOSED MEETING ON OCTOBER 26, 2017, TO THE BEST OF EACH MEMBER’S KNOWLEDGE, ONLY PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS LAWFULLY EXEMPTED FROM OPEN MEETING REQUIREMENTS AND ONLY SUCH PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS AS WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE MOTION CONVENING THE CLOSED MEETING WERE HEARD, DISCUSSED, OR CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD DURING THE CLOSED MEETING. IS THERE A MOTION? MOVED. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, THAT

002IS EVANS, McLAUGHLIN, WILSON, PALCHIK, McELVEEN, STRAUSS, HYNES OBSTABED. A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE TONIGHT'S MEETING IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW A COPY OF THE AGENDA OR ANY AGENDA ITEM THAT INFORMATION IS ON THE TABLE BY THEAATORIUM ENTRANCE. TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS AVAILABLE BY GOING TO THE SCHOOL BOARD ON THE FCPS HOME PAGE AND SELECTING BOARD DOCS UNDER UPCOMING SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, THE MEETING IS ALSO STREAMED LIVE ON-LINE. SELECT THE SCHOOL BOARD FROM THE FULL MENU, THEN CLICK ON THE WATCH LIVE BUTTON ON THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING'S WEB PAGE. PLEASE TURN OFF OUR SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONE. I WILL NOW CALL ON ANNOUNCEMENTS! THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. THIS WEEK IS NATIONAL RED RIBBON WEEK, OCTOBER 23-31, 2017. NATIONAL RED RIBBON WEEK WAS ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF ENRIQUE CAMARENA, A U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AGENT WHO WAS KILLED

003IN THE LINE OF DUTY WHILE INVESTIGATING A MAJOR DRUG CARTEL IN MEXICO. TO HONOR HIS BATTLE AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS BEGAN TO WEAR RED BADGES OF SATIN AND SOME PARENTS BEGAN TO FORM COALITIONS. NATIONAL RED RIBBON WEEK GREW FROM THESE GRASSROOTS EFFORTS TO FORM A NATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST THE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS. ITS ANNUAL CAMPAIGN ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO TAKE A VISIBLE STAND AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MAKE A PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO FOLLOW A DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE. THE 2017 RED RIBBON THEME IS "YOUR FUTURE IS KEY, SO STAY DRUG FREE." NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH - NOVEMBER 2017 NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH STARTED IN 1915 AS AMERICAN INDIAN DAY BY THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. OVER THE YEARS, INDIVIDUAL STATES RECOGNIZED NATIVE AMERICAN DAYS, BUT IT WASN’T UNTIL 1990 THAT PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH DESIGNATED NOVEMBER AS

004NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH. SINCE 1994, A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION HAS PROCLAIMED THE MONTH TO BE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IN HONOR OF THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY THE FIRST AMERICANS TO THE ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH OF THE U.S. THANK YOU. NOW I CALL ON MR. MOON. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. BEFORE I READ I RECOGNIZE THE NATIONAL CORRELATION OF EVENTS, NOVEMBER 2017. LET ME JUST SAY THAT MY COLLEAGUES KNOW THAT I HAVE TWO SONS THAT ARE NOW 26 AND ALMOST 30. FOREVER I KNOW THAT THEY ARE STILL WRESTLING WITH WHAT CAREERS THEY MAY WANT TO PURSUE AND THEY MAY CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND DECISIONS MANY TIMES OVER BEFORE THEY FINALLY SETTLE ON A CHOICE FOR A LONG TIME. FOR MY SONS I HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO SUPPORT WHATEVER DECISIONS THEY MAKE IN TERMS OF PICKING COLLEGES AND

005THE COURSES THEY WILL TAKE AND EVEN JOBS THEY WILL HAVE WHEN THEY GRADUATE FROM COLLEGES; HOWEVER, AT THIS TIME I HAVE OFTEN FELT THAT I AM NOT QUALIFIED TO PROVIDE THE BEST ADVICE TO MY BOYS. IN SUCH, I EXTEND MY APPRECIATION AS A PARENT AND AS A BOARD MEMBER TO THOSE MANY EDUCATOR WHOSE ARE THIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHO WORK SO HARD TO PROVIDE OUR BEST GUIDANCE TO OUR STUDENTS AS THEY EXPLORE THEIR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION AND CAREER OPTIONS AND CHOICES. WITH THAT LET ME READ THE RECOGNITION. NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT MONTH - NOVEMBER 2017 NOVEMBER 2017 IS NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT MONTH. CAREER CENTER SPECIALISTS, SCHOOL COUNSELORS, CAREER EXPERIENCE SPECIALISTS, EMPLOYMENT AND TRANSITION REPRESENTATIVES, AND CAREER AND TRANSITION TEACHERS PLAY UNIQUE ROLES IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR STUDENTS. WITH A FOCUS ON READINESS FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION AND CAREERS, THESE

006EDUCATORS ARE EMPLOYED TO HELP STUDENTS EXPLORE AND DEVELOP THEIR ABILITIES, INTERESTS, STRENGTHS, AND TALENTS AS THEY RELATE TO FURTHER EDUCATION AND ENTRY INTO THE WORKFORCE. THESE EDUCATORS COLLABORATE WITH PARENTS TO ENHANCE ACADEMIC AND CAREER PLANNING FOR STUDENTS. ALL EDUCATORS IN PREK-12 HELP STUDENTS INVESTIGATE SKILLS, QUALITIES, AND ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES THAT RELATE TO CAREER FIELDS, ENCOURAGE LIFELONG LEARNING, AND PROMOTE FUTURE READINESS. STUDENTS EXPLORE CAREERS AND OTHER POSTSECONDARY OPTIONS THROUGH CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, THE STUDENT LEARNING PLAN, ACADEMIC ADVISING, WORK-BASED LEARNING, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES. THROUGH CAREER AWARENESS ACTIVITIES, EXPLORATION, AND DEVELOPMENT, STUDENTS LEARN THE SKILLS AND TRAINING NECESSARY TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN FUTURE CAREERS AND ACHIEVE GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL FULFILLMENT. CAREER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR BUILDING PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES IN ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE SERVICE MEMBERS IN

007THE AUDIENCE TO JOIN ME AND ALL OF THE BOARD MEMBERS FOR A PICTURE. [APPLAUSE] BEFORE I GO TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE FORMER SCHOOL MEMBER. MS. HASTY IF YOU'LL RAISE YOUR HAND. [APPLAUSE] AND I BELIEVE BEN PRESS WHO IS A FORMER STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. I DON'T SEE BEN YET. OKAY. WE'RE EXPECTING HIM. ALL RIGHT. THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS CITIZEN PARTICIPATION. TONIGHT 10 CITIZENS HAVE SIGNED UP TO ADDRESS THE BOARD AND WE ALSO HAVE FIVE VIDEO TESTIMONIES. SPEAKERS ARE REQUESTED TO LIMIT THEIR REMARKS TO NOT MORE THAN THREE MINUTES. THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL NOT HEAR STATEMENTS INVOLVING ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS SUCH AS CAPITOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS, BUDGET AND BOUNDARIES. COMPLAINTS REGARDING INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS OR SCHOOL BASED EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE

008APPROPRIATE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL OR OTHER SCHOOL OFFICIALS. SPEAKERS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM USING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT. PLEASE BE MINDFUL THERE ARE OFTEN YOUNG CHILDREN IN ATTENDANCE AT THESE MEETINGS WE'RE WATCHING AT HOME. THE LANGUAGE SHOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR ALL AGE LEVELS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE COME OUT TO SPEAK TO US TONIGHT. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JULIA CLARK. MS. CLARK. HI. I'M BE SHARING MY TIME WITH KAZMEAN OSMOND. CLOSE TO THE MICROPHONE. HI. I'M A SENIOR. COMPETING IN VARSITY SPORTS AS A BLACK MUSLIM GIRL WILL ALWAYS GET YOU WEIRD LOOKS AND I'VE GOTTEN USED TO IT BUT NOTHING WOULD PREPARE ME FOR LAST WEEK. A MEETING IN WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA WHEN I WAS SURROUNDED BY CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS AFTER A CONFEDERATE VICTORY DURING THE CIVIL WAR. INTO

009MY RACE WAS VERBALLY FACT. A GROUP OF CAUCASIAN BOYS WERE TAUNTING ME AND LAUGHING AND CALLLING ME A TERRORIST AMONG OTHER THINGS. DURING THIS MOMENT I COULDN'T HELP BUT REMEMBER THAT I GO TO A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER A CONFEDERATE GENERAL NAMED SPECIFICALLY TO TARGET STUDENTS OF COLOR LIKE ME. THE FOLLOWING MONDAY I WAS APPROACHED BY MY COUNSELOR, SHE SAT ME DOWN AND SAID THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, SHE SAID YOU NEED TO START PREPARING YOURSELF FOR THINGS LIKE THIS, THIS IS JUST SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH. [CRYING] THAT WAS WRONG. WHEN I SHOULD I TOLERATE IGNORANCE AND INJUSTICE THAT I HAVE DONE NOTHING TO DESERVE. STUDENTS LIKE MY TEAMMATES SAT WITH ME AND CRIED WITH ME IN THE SHORT BODY OF JUSTICE, WHICH IS WHY THIS HIGH SCHOOL REPRESENTS OUR SCHOOL.

010GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JULIA CLARK, I'M A JUNIOR AT JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL. GROWING UP AS A BLACK GIRL I'VE NORMALIZED RACISM AND INTERNALIZED THE CONSTANT DISCOMFORT I FELT. WHEN I GOT INTO HIGH SCHOOL I WAS FED UP. THIS WAS WRONG AND I DECIDED TO MAKE A STAND, WHICH IS WHY I JOINER JOINED STUDENTS FOR A CHANGE. I'VE CONSTANTLY BEEN TOLD BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD STOP PLAY AG RACE CARD AND BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO MOVE ON, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO MOVE ON WHEN WE HAVE BUILDINGS GLORIFYING INDIVIDUALS WHO FOUGHT FOR ENSLAVEMENT SENDING A MESSAGE TO STUDENTS OF COLORS WE DO NOT MATTER. RENAMING JEB STEW TOGETHER STUART WILL ACHIEVE NOTHING AND COST FISCAL RESOURCES. THERE ARE THOSE SAYING WE ARE ERASING HISTORY, THIS IS FALSE, I AND MANY OTHERS ARE SIMPLY FIGHTING FOR A

011BETTER FUTURE. JUSTICE WILL ALSO BE APART OF OUR HISTORY BUT HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE APART OF OOUR SCHOOL. A NEW HASHTAG SHOWS SUPPORT FOR STUART. THIS IS ALSO FALSE. THIS HASHTAG WAS CREATED TO MOTIVATE OUR SPORTS TEAMS, SPICKRY FOOTBALL AND NOT FOR POLITICAL USE. STUDENTS FOR CHANGE FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE, WE FIGHT FOR THOSE WHO ARE CONSTANTLY DISENFRANCHISED BY INSTITUTIONALIZED BIGOTRY IN OUR SOCIETY, IN OUR STUDENT BODY AS WELL AS THE ON-GOING FIGHT TO AMEND THE WRONGS COMMITTED IN THE PAST TODAY. I HOPE THE SCHOOL BOARDS VOTES FOR A BETTER FUTURE AND SUPPORTS JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HASEEB ALI KAHN . GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. MY NAME IS H HASEEB CON. AND MY PARENTS ARE RESIDENTS OF PAKISTAN AND I'M PROUD TO ASK FOR THE KEEPING OF THE

012COMPROMISE ON BEHALF OF THE SILENT MAJORITY OF STUDENTS SUPPORT KEEPING THE STUDENT NAME BUT BECAUSE OF INTIMIDATION, BUILDING AND RETALIATION THEY'VE BEEN SILENT. I'M GOING TO START OFF BY SAYING I AM FOR KEEPING THE NAME STUART. THE FEW OUT OF MANY NAMES I'M AGAINST IT IS BECAUSE OF COST, ERASING OF HISTORY, LEARNING OF HISTORY AND PEOPLE'S VOTE. COST. ECONOMICAL NAME, COST UPWARDS 900,000 PLUS DOLLARS TO CHANGE THE NAME, IN REALITY MORE. WHY YOU MAY ASK? WELL BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ALREADY SPENT THE PAST FEW YEARS ON RUNNING BUILDINGS AND PAYING OVERTIME TO EMPLOYEES ON MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS, THIS COST THE TAXPAYER MONEY AND THE EXTRA SCHOOL BOARD STAFF TIME SPENT ON THE LONG AWAITED DECISION HAS AWAITED LONG TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT STUART HIGH SCHOOL. AND NOW TO THE RECENT HISTORY. OKAY SO WE

013KNOW JEB STUART WAS A MEMBER OF THE CONFEDERATE AND LABELED A RACIST BY TODAY'S STANDARDS BUT STILL APART OF AMERICAN HISTORY. HUMANS ARE NOT PERFECT. WE CAN FIND FLAWS IN ALL PEOPLE AND ALL THINGS. IN MY RESEARCH THE SCHOOL COULD BE NAMED AFTER JUSTICE THUR GOOD MARSHAL. HE WAS SUSPENDED MORE THAN TWO TIMES FOR HAZING IN SCHOOL AND YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE TODAY ARE STRONGLY AGAINST BULLYING, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT EVEN THOUGH SUPREME COURT JUDGE HE DRANK A LOT AND WAS A WOMANIZER THIS IS DOCUMENTED IN THE BOOK THURGOOD MARSHAL AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY IN CHAPTER 19. ALTHOUGH JEB STUART WITHOUT A DOUBT DID SOMETHING WRONG HE DID MANY GREAT THINGS WE CAN BE PROUD OF AS VIRGINIANS. JEB STUART'S MILITARY TACTICS ARE STUDIED AROUND THE WORLD AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO VIRGINIA'S HISTORY. AFTER TWO YEARS OF

014ALL OF THESE MEETINGS AND DIVISIVENESS OF THIS ISSUE WHY WOULD YOU IGNORE THE VOICES AND MAJORITY OF VOTE OF PARENTS AND STUDENTS THAT WOULD HAVE TO BEAR THE LONGTERM COST AND EFFECTS OF THE NAME CHANGE LASTLY, OUR COUNTRY IS A DEMOCRATIC AND A FAIR COUNTRY, NOT A COUNTRY THAT GOES AGAINST THE PEOPLE'S VOICE. SIMILAR TO COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT. ARE WE A DEMOCRACY OR NOT? WHY ARE YOU NOT FOLLOWING THE BASIC PRINCAL PS OF THE GOVERNMENT. KEEP STUART'S NAME. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS SUSAN DANEWITZ . I WILL BE SPLITTING MY TIME TO A NOLA AND SHIRLEY DANWRIGHT. HI. MY NAME IS NOLEA. I GO TO BEVELDEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND I'M IN FOURTH GRADE. EVER SINCE I HEARD ABOUT MY HIGH SCHOOL'S NAME I WAS HORRIFIED. I'VE JUST BEEN LEARNING ABOUT VIRGINIA AND LEARNING BOOKS ON

015THE CIVIL WAR. JEB STUART WAS ON THE CONFEDERATE SIDE, THE HIGHLIGHT OF HIS LIFE EVERYBODY REMEMBERS THE MOST. WHEN I SAW THE NEW NAMES SUGGESTED FOR MY HIGH SCHOOL I THOUGHT MEN OF THEM HAD VERY GOOD REASONS BUT NOW THIS NEW NAME JUSTICE NEXT TO BARBARA ROSE JOHN IS THE BEST SO FAR BECAUSE IT ALSO HIGHLIGHTS MANY HEROES THAT CAN BE GIRL OR A BOY AND THEY ALL STRIVE FOR JUSTICE. THIS WAY WE CAN INCLUDE ALL OF THE GREAT NAMES OUT THERE IN ONE WORD THAT I THINK WILL BE A GREAT NAME FOR THE SCHOOL BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE HEROISM THAT WE ADMIRE. I HOPE THAT WE CAN FIND THE COURAGE THAT THESE HEROES FOUND AND MAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS THE RIGHT CHOICE IN OUR WORLD. GOOD EVENING. I'M SHERRY GINWRIGHT AND I'M A RESIDENT

016OF FAIRFAX COUNTY OVER 40 YEARS. I CHAIR THE FAIRFAX COUNTY COMMUNITY, I WAS A COMMISSIONER FOR THE REVIEW POLICE POLITICS AND PROCEDURES AND LAST MONTH I WAS APPOINTED BY OUR GOVERNOR TO BE A COMMISSIONER ON THE COMMISSION FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION. I AM VERY ENGAGED FOR COMMUNITIES ADVOCACY FOR CIVIL RIGHT INJUSTICE. TWO YEARS AGO AS PRESIDENT OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY NAACP WE WERE APPROACHED BY BRILLIANT YOUNG STUDENTS OF JEB STUART WHO ASKED FOR OUR HELP IN RENAMING THEIR SCHOOL, JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE IT DIDN'T REPRESENT THEM AND WHAT THEY SIT FOR. THIS WAS NOT AN NAACP INITIATIVE AS MANY MAY THINK. FOR OVER TWO YEARS WE HAVE DISCUSSED AND FOUGHT OVER CHANGING THE NAME, TONIGHT YOU MUST DECIDE. WILL YOU BE INCLUSIVE? WILL THERE BE DIVERSITY IN THE NAMES OF FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS?

017THE COUNTY APPROVED A RESOLUTION FOR ONE FAIRFAX COUNTY TO ELIMINATE INSTRUCTIONAL RACISM AND FAIRFAX COUNTY. LET US COME TOGETHER IN ONE VOTE TO MOVE US IN A DIRECTION WE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN LONG BEFORE. THERE IS A MOTION TO NAME THE SCHOOL JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. THE NAACP SUPPORTS THIS NAME IF THAT IS YOUR DECISION. I STRONGLY ASK YOU TO CONSIDER NAMING THE SCHOOL AFTER A PERSON. WE SUPPORT THREE NAMES, BARBARA ROSE JOHN, A STUDENT WHO CHOSE TO TAKE THE SYSTEM ON AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AT THE AGE OF 16. THIS ALLOWS A NAMING OF A SCHOOL AFTER A WOMAN AND A PERSON OF COLOR. JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHAL THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AND A FAIRFAX COUNTY RESIDENT AND COLONEL DEB, A EXCEPTIONAL INDIAN WAR HERO WAS TIED TO FAIRFAX COUNTY, THREE NAMES THAT CAN MOVE FAIRFAX COUNTY FORWARD AS

018ONE FAIRFAX. WE ASK YOU TO CONSIDER THIS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR VOTE. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS BENJAMIN VAN ZANDT . I HAVE A FEW REMARKS IF I COULD PASS THOSE ON TO THE SCHOOL BOARD. YOU CAN GIVE THEM TO THE CLERK, THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, I'M A FRESHMAN AT JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL. I I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THUS PROCESS SINCE FIRST MADE PUBLIC IN MAY 2016. I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE WELL BEING OF OUR STUDENTS AND THE LASTING IMPACT THIS PROCESS AND CHANGE WILL HAVE ON OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY. I CAME HERE TONIGHT TO ADVOCATE FOR THE NAME STUART HIGH SCHOOL, THAT IS THE NAME WE CHOSE IN SEPTEMBER AND THAT IS THE NAME WE ARE USING TODAY TO RESHAPE WHO WE ARE. IN FACT THAT IS THE

019MESSAGE I'VE PRINTED OUT AND SHOULD BE IN FRONT OF YOU NOW. THAT STATEMENT WAS ALSO E-MAILED TO YOU LAST NIGHT, HOWEVER AT 5:30 P.M. TODAY I'VE LEARNED THAT STUART WOULD NO LOCKER BE AN OPTION FOR OUR NAME OR EVEN DISCUSSED. THE MOTION TO CONSIDER THE NAME STUART APPARENTLY HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. IF TRUE WE'VE LOST THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THE RATIONALE AS TO WHY YOU CAN NOT SUPPORT OUR NAME AND US. THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS IT HAS FELT LIKE STUDENT INPUT HAS BEEN PASSED OUT AND INFORMATION DELIBERATELY OBSCURED. ON MULTIPLE OCCASION WE HAVE TOLD YOU HOW WE FEEL AND WHAT WE BELIEVE. RY PEATLY DISCOUNTED, NOW YOUR REFUSE TOOL CONSIDER THE NAME AT THE LAST MINUTE ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU'VE ENCOURAGED US TO CONSIDER STUART HIGH SCHOOL IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE. THIS DEBATE HAS BETRAY OUR SCHOOL AND

020COMMUNITY. WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKED DOWN UPON AS A RESULT OF OUR DISADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES, NEVERTHELESS WE ARE PROUD OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS IS WHO WE ARE. IGNORING OUR STATEMENTS TELLS ME YOU LOOK DOWN UPON US TOO. AS A STUDENT THIS PROCESS HAS TAUGHT ME TWO PROCESSES ARE IRRELEVANT AND THAT VOTING DOESN'T MATTER. THE COMMUNITY VOTE WAS A WASTE OF TIME IF YOU ARE EVEN UNWILLING TO CONSIDER WHAT WE SAID. THAT'S NOT WHAT I THOUGHT OUR GOVERNMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. AT THIS POINT I AM DISAPPOINTED, HURT AND FRUSTRATED. I STILL BELIEVE OUR NAME SHOULD BE STUART HIGH SCHOOL BUT IF YOU CAN NOT FATHOM THAT THEN AT LEAST YOU CAN NOT DISREGARD US FURTHER BY CALLLING IT JUSTICE. VOTE NO TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND IF YOU MUST FIND AN ALTERNATIVE VOTE FOR COLONEL MEN

021DEZ. AT LEAST THAT NAME WAS CONSIDERED AND ENDORSED BY THE ABOUT COMMANDMENT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW A MOTION TO CONSIDER STUART HAS BEEN PLACED BACK ON SO THAT WILL BE DEBATED. THE NEXT PERSON IS JESSICA SWANSON TO BE FOLLOWED BY DAVID HARDISON . GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JESSICA SWANSON. I LIVE IN THE MASON DISTRICT IN THE STUART PERIOD. STUART IS LOCATED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. WHATEVER THE SCHOOL BOARD DECIDES WILL BE CRITICIZED. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE BOLD. THE SCHOOL IS NAMED IN MASSIVE RESISTANCE A TIME WHEN MANY WERE FIGHTING TO KEEP STUDENTS OF COLOR SEPARATED FROM WHITE STUDENTS. FCPS CHOSE TO HONOR A CONFEDERATE AS A SYMBOL TO THE MINORITY COMMUNITY YOU AREN'T WANTED HERE. I EARN YOU TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST THESE UGLY CHOICES BY VOTING TO

022NAME THE SCHOOL AFTER A BLACK LEADER, AN AMERICAN HERO, JUSTICE IS THURGOOD MARSHAL, WHO I HAVE HAD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHOSE LEGACY OF ENDING SEGREGATION OPENED DOORS FOR STUDENTS LIKE THOSE OUR SCHOOL NOW SERVES. JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHAL DESERVES TO BE HONORRED AND ELEVATED AS AHEAD OF THE NAACP DEFENSE FUND THURGOOD MARLS WAS A CHIEF ARCHITECT TO END SEGREGATION. I BELIEVE AN OPPORTUNITY HE WON NEARLY ALL OF THE CASES HE ARGUED INFRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT, ULTIMATELY BEING NAMED THE FIRST BLACK GENERAL AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON. HIS LIFE AND CAREER MODELED ALL OF THE SKILLS WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS A GRADUATE FOR OUR STUDENT. TWO YEARS AGO STUDENTS STARTED THIS MOVEMENT BECAUSE THEY WERE OFFENDED AT THE SCHOOL CELEBRATION OF THE CONFEDERACY. SYMBOLS MATTER. NAMING THE SCHOOL AFTER JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHAL SHOWS THIS

023BOARD IS WILLING TO PUSH BACK FORCEFULLY AGAINST THE WHITE SUPREMACY THAT PLAGUE US THEN AND STILL PLAGUE US NOW. REPLACE THE NAME OF A CONFEDERATE GENERAL BY INTENTIONALLY HONORING A BLACK LEAD, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHAL. I LEAVE YOU WITH A QUOTE I SHARED WITH YOU TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I TESTIFY IN FAVOR OF PLACING THIS INAPPROPRIATE NAME OF MARSHAL. MARSHAL SPOKE THESE WORDS IN 1992 AND HIS WORDS SEEMED EVEN MORE APPROPRIATE IN THESE TIMES. HE SAID WE MUST DESCENT FROM THE INDIFFERENCE. WE MUST DECENT FROM THE ENAPATHY, THE FEAR, THE HATRED AND THE MISTRUST. WE MUST DECENT BECAUSE AMERICA CAN DO BETTER BECAUSE AMERICA HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO DO BETTERMENT HE CONTINUED, WE WILL ONLY ATTAIN FREEDOM IF WE LEARN TO APPRECIATE WHAT IS DIFFERENT AND MUSTER THE COURAGE TO DISCOVER WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY THE

024SAME. AMERICAN'S DIVERSITY OFFERS SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY. TABLING A CHANCE WON'T YOU. TONK. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS DAVID HARDSON. GOOD EVENING. DAVID HARDSON. I'VE GRADUATED FROM STUART HIGH SCHOOL. I WANTED TO BEGIN BY THANKING SUPERINTENDENT BRAVE BRAND FOR EXPEDITING WHAT HAS BEEN A VERY ATTRACTIVE PROS. YOU'VE BEEN OPENING, TRANSPARENT AND THOUGHTFUL IN SOLICITING COMMUNITY INPUT AND FORWARDING YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD. I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE BOARD MEMBER YOU'VE CONTINUED TO ENGAGE WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS. I HAVE NO DOUBT OUR E-MAILS HAVE CONTINUED TO RIVE AND IN THE BOXES. NOW HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE HISTORY AND RIGHT A WRONG. LAST MONTH THE SUPERINTENDENT FORWARDED YOU THE NAMES OF THREE VERY WORTHY INDIVIDUALS FOR CONSIDERATION. FIRST BARBARA JOHNS, A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN WHO LED A PROTEST IN RESPONSE TO THE GROSS DISPARITIES THAT EXISTED

025IN HER CONDITIONS AT HER SEGREGATED SCHOOL AND THOSE AT THE ALL-WHITE SCHOOL IN THE SAME COMMUNITY IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VIRGINIA. SECOND, THURGOOD MARSHAL, PERHAPS THE MOST CELEBRATED AND DISTINGUISHED LAWYER IN GENERATION. WAS APPOINTED TO THE SUPREME COURT BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND LIVED IN THE LAKE BARCLOTH COMMUNITY FOR DECADES. THIRD, BUT NOT LEAST, COLONEL MEN DEZ A TRUE LOCAL HERO. COLONEL MEN DEZ ATTENDED WESTPOINT AT A TIME WHEN VERY FEW MINORITY STUDENTS WORKED SO HARD. HE LIBERATED A FRENCH VILLAGE IN NORMAND AND WENT ON TO SERVE OTHER NOTABLE MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC POSITIONS INCLUDING COMMAND AG REGIMEN IN KOREAN AS YOU GUESSED THE THE RAIDERS. BEM CANNING FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ PROGRAM AIMED AT AIMING CHILDHOOD ILLITERACY AND LATER FOCUSED ON ADULTS AND EDUCATION. HE ALSO LIVED IN THE LATE BARCRAF COMMUNITY

026FOR MANY YEARS AND EIGHT OF HIS CHILDREN ATTENDED STEWER. THE SEVEN JUSTICE HIGH MOTION SEEKS INDIRECTLY TO RECOGNIZE ALL THREE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. IT IS CREATED AND CAREFULLY CRAFTED. THE PROPOSE TOOL RENAME THE SCHOOL DIRECTLY AFTER MEN DEZ WOULD ALSO MAKE A STRONG STATEMENT ABOUT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION WOULD ALSO RESULT IN THE FIRST SCHOOL IN FCPS AT THE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE OR HIGH LEVEL HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL NAMED AFTER HISPANIC AMERICAN. BOTH OPTIONS ARE VASTLY PREFERABLE TO CONTINUING TO HONOR THE CONFEDERACY THROUGH CURRENT NAME STUART. ON A PERSONAL NOTE THIS PAST WEEKEND I ATTENDED MY FOURTH HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, A GREAT ATTEMPT. ACADEMIC FCPS PREPARED TO AND I THINK YOU WOULD BE PROUD OF OUR CLASSES ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ONE MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT IS A SMALL TURNOUT OF OUR MINORITY CLASSMATES. THROUGH YOUR DECISION TONIGHT YOU CAN MAKE THIS SCHOOL

027MORE WELCOMING FOR ITS MANY MINORITY STUDENTS NOT ONLY TO ATTEND BUT ALSO TO RETURN TO FOR YEARS TO COME. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS ELLEN-- HELEN LI. I'LL BE SHARING MY TIME WITH EVA AND SHAREEN. NOW HAVE THE WRITTEN TESTIMONY IN FRONT OF YOU AND I'LL BE READING AN EXERT FROM IT FROM AN KOREAN AMERICAN GROUP IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA HELPING THOSE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH HARD FOR VOTER PARTICIPATION. WE ARE WRITING TO YOU TODAY TO URGE YOU TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF RE-NAMING JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AS MOTIONED BY SANDY EVANS. IN THE WAKE OF THE WHITE SUPREMACY SUCH AS THE CHARLOTTE, VIRGINIA AND BACKLASH IN COMMUNITIES VOTING FOR JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL IS A MEANINGFUL ACTION BY THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION. THERE ARE MEN REASONS WHY

028JUSTICE IS A POWERFUL CHOICE, YOU CAN READ THEM YOURSELF. AS A CREATE AMERICAN ORGANIZATION WE BELIEVE THAT THE DECISION TO RENAME THE SCHOOL TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL IS ONE OF THE FAIRFAX RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE INSTITUTION RACISM. HI. MY NAME IS EVA, A STEINIER AT JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL. I'M ASKING YOU TO CHANGE THE NAME, MY SCHOOL TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. JUSTICE IS INCLUSIVE TO ALL AND OFFERS TON OF OPPORTUNITIES TO INCORPORATE THE NAME INTO THE SCHOOL. JUSTICE IS A COMPROMISED NAME I BELIEVE STUDENTS CAN GET BEHIND AS IT INCLUDES EVERYONE AND SOME STUDENTS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW NICE IT WOULD BE TO NAME HALLWAYS AFTER DIFFERENT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS U. THIS NAME WOULD TRULY RIGHT A HISTORIC WRONG. WE WILL HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE FROM CONFEDERATE GENERAL TO CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES. PLEASE VOTE TONIGHT

029FOR JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND I JUST WANT TO ADD ON THAT I REALLY WANT A NEW NAME. I'VE BEEN PART OF THIS GROUP FOR NOW TWO YEARS AND I GRADUATE THIS JUNE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS SHAREE MONON, FAIRFAX COUNTY YOUTH ADVOCACY AND PARENT OF TWO STUDENTS THAT ATTEND HIGH SCHOOL. AND TAKING THE LONG OVERDUE STEP TO RENAME JEB STUART THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. IT WILL ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DECISIVE STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMAN AND GIRLS. A AS YOUTH COUNCIL ADVISE FOR THE FAIRFAX COUNTY NAACP AND WOMEN OF COLOR AND FIND IT A TRAVESTY THAT ONE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL IS NAMED AFTER A WOMAN OF COLOR. I SPEAK FOR THE BRANCH WHEN I SAY WE SUPPORT ANY NAME THAT ACKNOWLEDGES

030THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RACIAL INJUSTICE AND PAYS MINORITY INSTITUTIONS. I SPEAK FOR THE BRANCH WHEN WE STRONGLY OPPOSE KEEPING THE NAME STUART OR NAME IT AFTER ANY OTHER PERSON WHOSE PRIMARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR ACTIONS TAKEN FOR THE CONFEDERACY. JOHN IS A HERO ALL VIRGINIAS CAN LOOK UP TO T PARTICULARLY WOMEN OF COLOR. IN 1951 AT THE AGE OF 16 ACTIONS CULMINATED TO OUTLAW SEGREGATED SCHOOLS F. COURAGEOUS AND LEADERSHIP SHE HAS BEEN CALLED THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND VIRGINIA'S BOARD OF PARKS. IT IS TIME TO GIVE THE RECOGNITION SHE DESERVES FOR HER ROLES, KEY ROLE IN MAKING OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AN INCLUSIVE AND BENEFICIAL SYSTEM FOR ALL. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NEBAL MAYSAUD . NABEAL. HI. I WILL BE SHARING MY TIME WITH MY GOOD FRIEND, ERNEST, HERE. I THINK IF I CAN GET

031ONE POINT IN THAT THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY. NOW HAVE A LIST NOW. YOU CAN PICK ONE TO REPLACE STEWART AND THERE ARE MANY MORE SO DON'T LET THE NAMES DIVIDE YOU. AND HERE IS OUR NEXT SPEAKER. MY NAME IS ERNEST HASTING, A FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER THAT REPRESENTS PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE HAS THE RISK STUDENTS AT STUART HIGH SCHOOL. I WAS VERY IMPRESSED THE STUDENTS ARE THE ONES LEADING THE DRIVE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL. I'VE HEARD SOME SOME OF THE SUGGESTED NAMES AND OF COURSE I KNOW OF AND GREATLY RESPECT THURGOOD MARSHAL. BUT I'VE LEARNED OF WHOM I'M NOT FAMILIAR SO I DID RESEARCH. I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND ONLY ONE HIGH SCHOOL IN THE STATE IS NAME AFTER A WOMAN. BARBARA JOHNSON WAS A 16-YEAR-OLD, JR. AT

032MOTON HIGH SCHOOL. THE BLACK HIGH SCHOOL IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY. THE SCHOOL HAD NO CAFETERIA. NO GYM AND WAS HUGELY OVER CROWDED. AND THE SCHOOL, THE TAR PAPER CLASSROOMS LEAKED WHEN IT RAINED. THE SCHOOL WAS TOTALLY INADEQUATE COMPARED TO THE WHITE HIGH SCHOOL. THE PRINCIPAL AND TTA REQUESTED HELP FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD BUT GOT NOT RESPONSE. SO IN APRIL, 1951 450 STUDENTS LED BY BARBARA JONES WALKED OUT. AFTER TWO WEEKS SHE CONTACTED THE NAACP, THE NAACP SENT LAWYERS AND THE STUDENTS AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LAWS WHICH BECAME DAVID PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY SCHOOLS AND JOINED WITH FOUR OTHERS TO BECOME THE BROWN VERSES THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND WENT TO THE SUPREME COURT. IN 1954 THE SUPREME COURT STATED IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION SEPARATE BUT EQUAL HAS NO PLACE. SEPARATE EDUCATION FACILITIES ARE INHERENTLY

033UNEVEN. BARBARA JONES WAS A KEY FIGURE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT AND THE COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP SHE DISPLAYED HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED. THE VIRGINIA CIVIL RIGHT MEMORIAL IN HONOR OF THE GREAT PERSONAL RISK THEY TOOK IN SUPPORT OF BLACK STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND STRUGGLE FOR FULL AND EQUAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES IN VIRGINIA. STUART HIGH SCHOOL WAS OPENED IN 1959 FOR WHITE STUDENTS ONLY AND THE TIME OF MASSIVE RESISTANCE WITH THE STATE REFUSING TO ADMIT BLACK STUDENTS, NAMING THE SCHOOL BARBARA JOHNS HIGH IS JOINING GOVERNORS IN VIRGINIA AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND HONORING HER BRAVERY AND REMEMBERING THE FIGHT AGAINST MASSIVE RESISTANCE, WHICH BLACK FAMILIES AGAINST FAIRFAX COUNTY AND VIRGINIA FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN ELIMINATING TO GET PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL. I ASK FOR YOUR VOTE FOR BARBARA JONES HI. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER

034IS WANDA MARTINSON . THANK YOU VERY MUCH I'LL BE YIELDING MY TIME. GOOD EVENING. WELL WE'RE HERE. I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR WORK. SOME MORE THAN OTHERS. I THINK IT IS REALLY INTERESTING THAT- THIS DISCUSSION AND ALL OF THESE SPEAKERS TALK ABOUT THEIR RECOMMENDATION FOR YOUR CHOICES, WE ALL KNOW IT HAS ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN, IT IS JUSTICE, JUSTICE WAS THE CHOICE THAT WAS PUT FORWARD AGAINST STUARTS THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL AND STUART WAS OPPOSED BECAUSE IT WAS JEB STUART WITH A SILENT JEB AND WE ALL KNOW JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL IS JUSTICE MARSHAL HIGH SCHOOL WITH A SILENT MARLS. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S EFFORTS. MY RACIAL PERSPECTIVES HAVE BEEN CALLED INTO QUESTION, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT EVERYONE SEEMS TO THINK THIS IS A DEMOCRAT VERSUS REPUBLICAN ISSUE AND REPUBLICANS

035WANT TO KEEP THE NAME. I MYSELF CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT. I AM HOWEVER A STANCE SUPPORTER OF INTEGRITY OF PROCESS AND IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME AT ALL WHAT THE SCHOOL IS CALLED IF THE COMMUNITY IS INCLUDED IN THE PROCESS TO CHOOSE WHAT THE NAME IS RATHER THAN SOMETHING THAT'S JUST PLUCKED OUT OF A DICTIONARY, AS THE WORD JUSTICE IS. MANY OF YOU, HAVE IN WORK SESSIONS, DOCTOR MOON, SAID THAT THE CHOICE OF STUART AS THE NAME WAS A GREAT COMPROMISE. NOW HAVE CHANGED YOUR POSITION ON THAT NOW. MS. PALCHIK YOU HAVE SAID THAT THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE SCHOOL'S NAME WAS FLAWED AND WE NEED TO FIX IT NEXT TIME AND THAT TO ME IS THROWING JEB STUART UNDER THE BUS, NOT APPARENT AT ALL. I JUST THINK THIS IS THEATER.

036FAIRFAX COUNTY TAXPAYERS NEED TO KNOW THEY'RE PAYING FOR THIS. IT IS NOT A RACIAL ISSUE, OR A NAME ISSUE IT IS A PROCESS ISSUE. AND I THINK THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN TOTALLY RUN OFF THE RAILS. ALSO MADAM CHAIRMAN I WISH YOU WOULD MAKE A MOTION. I UNDERSTAND MS. CORBET-SANDERS HAS TO LEAVE EARLY TONIGHT AND IF WE DO NOT GET TO A VOTE HER VOTE WILL NOT COUNT FOR WHATEVER REASON BECAUSE SHE HAS TO LEAVE THE MEETING AND I THINK THIS IS A BIG ENOUGH DECISION TO BE MADE FOR ALL OF THE COUNTY TAXPAYERS AND FOR TENS OF YEARS FROM NOW THAT SHE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO STAY HERE AND VOTE FOR THE ISSUE WHERE ALL MEMBERS BE ABLE TO BE ON RECORD AS TO WHAT THE VOTE IS. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW EXHAUSTING THIS

037HAS BEEN. I KNOW IT HAS BEEN FOR YOU TOO AND I ABSOLUTELY AM READY FOR IT TO BE OVER BUT I WILL NOT STOP HONORING THE INTEGRITY OF PROCESS THAT YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE HONORED AND MS. McLAUGHLIN PROPS TO YOU. PROPS TO YOU FOR YOUR MOM AND FIGHTING YOUR WAY BACK HERE FOR THIS VOTE. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS CHRISTIAN BARBOSA . I WAS ASKED TO READ THIS BY JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WHO WANTED TO READ THIS ANONYMOUSLY BECAUSE HE AND HIS FAMILY FEARED ON BEHALF OF HIS OWN SAFETY. EXCUSE ME. GO AHEAD. I ACTUALLY WISH I COULD BE UP ON THIS PODIUM MYSELF PEEKING MY OPINION BUT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT BEING BULLIED AND SPEAKING MY TRUTH. INITIALLY I BELIEVE OUR SCHOOL HAS MANY PROBLEMS AND WE NEED TO FOCUS ON PRIORITIES. I'VE

038SEEN AT STUART MANY PROBLEMS OF ALL STUDENTS, STUDENTS WHO TAKE OTHER STUDENTS LUNCH HOME ON FRIDAY AFTERNOONS SO THEY CAN HAVE FOOD OVER THE WEEKEND FOR FOOD AND SIBLINGS. I'VE HAD FRIENDS ON SPORTS TEAMS ASKED ME TO GIVE THEM FOOD SO TAKE GIVE IT TO THEIR SIBLINGS AGES 12-15. I'M SURE IF OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE FIGHTING EACH OTHER ON THIS TOPIC CAME TOGETHER TO FIND SOLUTIONS WE COULD SOLVE THEM. HOW WOULD THESE STUDENTS PHYSICALLY SUFFERING FIGURE IF WE SPENT THIS TRUE AMOUNT OF MONEY ON NAME CHANGE SPENT ON SUFFERING, THIS IS BESIDE THE POINT. WE HAVE IN MY OPINION SOME OF THE SMARTEST AND MOST GENUINE KID IN THE WORLD OUR SCHOOL IS FULL OF YOUNG, BRIGHT MINDS SO MUCH FULL OF POTENTIAL AND HOPE. STUDENT OF ALL RACES AND ETHNICITY COME TOGETHER TO CREATE

039A FAIR ENVIRONMENT. THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE SAFE LEARNING, THIS IT BAIT MADE ME QUESTION MY SAFETY AT SCHOOL AFTER SO MUCH AGGRESSION AND IT HA. I'VE BEEN THREATENED AND CALLED NAMED BY FELLOW PEERS I'VE BLOWN ALL MY LIFE. IT KILL. [MUSIC] TEE SEE MY COMMUNITY NOW SEPARATED AND FULL OF HATE OVER THIS TOPIC. ANOTHER JOB OF THE SCHOOL BOARD IS TO SERVE THE PEOPLE AND REPRESENT THE PEOPLE'S OPINION. THIS BOARD ORIGINALLY, THE BOARD'S ORIGINAL COMPROMISE MADE IN LATE JANUARY WAS THAT THE COMMUNITY WAS GOING TO BE GIVEN THE POWER TO VOTE IN THE NAME OF THE SCAMP SHE TOOK ADVANTAGE AND KNOWS AGAINST THE PEOPLE SHE VOTED BY TO KEEP THE STUART HIGH SCHOOL NAME. MANY OF THE VOTERS WERE STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME

040MANY OF THE STUDENTS WERE GIVE AN CHANCE TO VOTE ON SOMETHING REAL AND WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION OUR COMMUNITY VOTE WOULD BE THE NAME OF OUR GREAT SCHOOL. NOT ONLY MS. EVANS BUT IF THE THE TIRE BOARD VOTES TO CHOOSE A NAME OTHER THAN JEB STUART THEY ARE TELLING THIS DEBATE THEIR VOTE DOES NOT MATTER. THEY ARE SAYING THEY SHOULD NOT TRUST DEMOCRACY & THAT THEY GAVE THEIR SUPPORT AND BELIEF IN BECAUSE THESE MEMBERS COMPLETELY DISREGARD THE VOICES. THIS IS WHY WE ARE SCARED. WE ARE WORRIED AGGRESS THE NAME CHANGE WILL TARGET US. WE WOULD LOVE TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD BUT THREATENED FOR SPEAKING OUR OPINION AT SCAMP I REALLY HOPE THE BOARD GIVES THE COMMUNITY, ALUMNI AND MOST OF THE STUDENTS WHAT THEY WANT FOR, THE STUDENTS THAT ATTEND SCHOOL EVERY DAY. THEY

041WILL BE DISREGARDING COMPLETE OPINIONS AND HOPE-FOR-STUDENTS OPINIONS AND HOPE FOR FUTURE SUCCESS. THANK YOU. WE NOW HAVE FIVE VIDEO TESTIMONIES AND THE FIRST VIDEO IS PRESENTED BY DEBBIE RATLIFF . YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE SCREENS HERE AND ALSO BEHIND US. THANK YOU. RACIAL EQUITY WILL REVERSE RACIAL DISPARITY TRENDS AND ELIMINATE INSTITUTIONAL RACISM. OPENED IN 1954 AS A SEGREGATED SCHOOL. WHEN FCPS FINALLY INTEGRATED IN 1965 THE SCHOOL BECAME A MIDDLE SCHOOL BECAUSE FACILITY WERE NOT UP TO PAR, DETERMINED TO BE A HIGH SCHOOL. WE ARE STANDING IN A BUILDING THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN FCPS, IT IS ALL AROUND US AND SO CLOSE TO IT THAT WE OFTEN DO NOT EVEN SEE IT. FAIRFAX COUNTY IS HUGE. IT IS COMPLEX TO COVERING SUCH A LARGE COMMUNITY. FOR THIS READSEN EACH MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT HAS

042ITS OWN WRAP ON THE SCHOOL BOARD WORKING TIRELESSLY TO LISTEN TO HER CONSTITUENTS FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS ON THE JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL NAME CHANGE DISCUSSION. THE MASON DISTRICT REP'S MOTION TO CHANGE THE NAME TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL IS A RESPONSE TO THE STUDENTS AND COMMUNITIES DESIRE TO REVERSE INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY. AT THE SAME TIME MANY FEEL THIS NAME JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL FALLS SHORT OF THE MARK. CAN WE NOT BRING OURSELVES TO NAME OURSELVES AFTER A PERSON OF COLOR IN THE YEAR 2017. THE VOTE SEPTEMBER 16th INDICATE THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO NAME THE SCHOOL AFTER A PERSON, NOT A PLACE. ALSO CLEARLY SHOWS WE SUPPORT A PERSON OF COLOR AS THE SCHOOL'S NAMESAKE. SEVEN NAMES SUPPORTED BY THE VESTMENT SEVEN PEOPLE OF COLOR. THE COMMUNITY VOTE DOES NOT

043DECIDE THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL. THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL VOTE ON THE MOTION BEFORE THEM. THE MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT REPRESENTS THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS. THAT'S WHY THE MOTION TO CHANGE RECONNECTED TO AUDIO. THANK YOU. JON ALLEN. THE FIRST PART OF IT DOES NOT HAVE AUDIO. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG. JUST GO AHEAD AND ROLL THE NEXT VIDEO. HI. MY NAME IS JON ALLEN. GOOD EVENING. I'M A CURRENT STUDENT. TODAY THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL VOTE ON THE NEW NAME FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL. THE RESULTS OF THE COMMUNITY AS WE CAN SEE. [TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES] AFTER THE NAME CHANGE VOTE. IT READS IN ORDER TO HAVE A FACTUAL AND UNDERSTANDING BEHIND THE NAMES OF OUR SCHOOLS I MOVE THAT THESE WEAPONS BE DEVELOP AS PART OF THE SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM WHERE STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE HISTORY BEHIND. GIVEN THE NAME

044STUART HONORRED THE CONFEDERACY, WHICH WAS. [TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES] AND GIVEN THAT SCHOOL WAS NAMED STUART DURING AN ERA OF MASSIVE RESISTANCE. [TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES] THAT WAS TAKING AWAY BY THE COUNTY. A HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE OLD NAME THAT HAS TERRORIZED BLACK PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR ALMOST 60 YEARS. BLACK CIVIL RIGHT LEADERS WHO LET THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY OF STUART HIGH SCHOOL. > AFTER TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY SOME MIGHT MAKE A FINANCIAL EXCUSE THAT THE CHOICE IS THE NAME CHANGE WILL HAVE PRIVATE FUNDING. WE BOTH PREFER THE NAME JOHNS, BECAUSE WE FEEL IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT WE MEMORIALIZE MARSHAL. THANK YOU. THE NEXT VIDEO TESTIMONY IS PRESENTED BY [FOOTBALL BAND MUSIC PLAYS] THANK YOU. THE LAST VIDEO TESTIMONY IS PRESENTED BY ERICA FITS PATRICK. I AM A JAPANESE-AMERICAN, I KNOW

045HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO KNOW HISTORY. WHERE FAIRFAX COUNTY SHOWS THE CONFEDERACY IS NOT TAUGHT TO THEIR SLAVERY OR WORSE THAT SHAVERY WAS NOT THAT BAD. STRONGLY CORRECTED. FOR ALMOST 60 YEARS EVERY PENNY SPENT ON MAINTAINING STUART HIGH SCHOOL WAS SPENT ON A NAME THAT MINIMIZED SLAVERY AND IN DOING SO DEHUMANIZED THE BLACK STUDENTS IN OUR COUNTY. AS JULIA CLARK SAID AS MR. MOON SAID ON JULY 27th I'M NEVER GOING TO KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE. BECAUSE OF THIS I THINK IT IS -- SANDY EVANS REPRESENTS THE DISTRICT AND KNOWS BEST WHAT HER CONSTITUENTS WANT. I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO SUPPORT SANDY EVANS MISSION TO NAME THE SCHOOL JUSTICE. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO SHARE YOUR VIEWS WITH US THIS EVENING. I CALL ON MS. VATTIKAONDA. I SUPPORT THE

046NAME CHANGE AND THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO RENAME JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND I SUPPORT COMPLETELY REMOVING THE JEB STUART NAME IN FULL. I KNOW SOME BELIEVE REMOVING JEB STUART'S NAME. THANK YOU MS. VATTIKONDA. STRAUSS, MOON, HYNES. I SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE THREE MEMBER HEARING COMMITTEE ALONG WITH MS. KAUFAX AND CORBET-SANDERS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, MR. KAUFAX, STRAUSS, CORBET-SANDERS, THAT MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. NEXT I WILL CALL ON MR. McELVEEN. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION TO THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE RENAMING OF JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL. SINCE THE JULY 27th THROAT SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSUED A PROCESS TO DETERMINE A COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NEW NAME. AMONG OTHER THINGS THE SUPERINTENDENT SOLICITS SUGGESTIONS AND HELD AN ADVISORY VOTE BY HOUSEHOLDS WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S

047ATTENDANCE AREA. I MOVE THAT THE NEW NAME OF JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL I WANT THEM TO KNOW HOW VERY PROUD I AM OF THEM AND COMMEND THEM FOR BEING INVOLVED REGARDLESS OF THEIR VIEW. THIS HAS BEEN A LONG AND VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS. I AM NOT GOING TO SAY IT WAS A PERFECT PROCESS. THE DEBATE HAS GONE ON FOR TOO LONG HOWEVER WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING BY CHANGING THE NAME TO ONE THAT REFLECTS AND CELEBRATES VALUES WE HOLD DEAR AT THE END OF THE DAY WE NEED TO MAKE A CLEAR AND CONFIDENT DECISION AND WORK TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER WITH A POSITIVE APPROACH TOWARDS THE CHANGE WHEN I GO OUTSIDE MY AND WALK DOWN MY STREET AND VISIT FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS I'M IN THE STUART COMMUNITY. WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I DONATE MONEY

048FOR SCHOLARSHIPS IT GOES TO STUART STUDENTS, WHEN I GO TO STARBUCKS AS A GROCERY STORE, CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS, PTA MEETINGS AND SCHOOL EVENTS IN THE MASON DISTRICTS. I FULLY EXPECT TO DRAW MY LAST BREATH IN THIS COMMUNITY. NO ONE ELSE ON THIS BOARD HADS THOSE KINDS OF CONNECTIONS SO I DO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE AND REGRET THE DIVISIONS THAT HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THIS ISSUE. I HAVE HAD COUNTLESS CONVERSATIONS OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS WITH STUART STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS SO I DO FEEL THAT I'M IN THE BEST POSITION TO GAUGE WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO MOVE FORWARD. THIS MOTION HAS RECEIVED ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT FROM MY CONSTITUENTS. I UNDERSTAND THOSE OPPOSED TO THE NAME CHANGE ARE ALSO STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THIS MOTION EVEN AS IT IS A COMPROMISE MANY, MANY OTHERS HAVE FOUND IT UNIFYING

049AND INSPIRATIONAL. I HAVE HEARD DIRECTLY, FOR EXAMPLE, FROM SEVERAL STUART TEACHERS SUPPORTING THE NAME JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL MANY STUDENTS AND MANY PARENTS AND MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS. ONE ELEMENT THAT MANY PEOPLE ON ALL SIDE OF THIS ISSUE HAVE BROUGHT UP IS HOW WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE EDUCATE THOSE INVOLVED IN THIS ISSUE AND I AGREE. WE HAVE SEEN WONDERFUL SUGGESTIONS AND WE JUST HAD ANOTHER TONIGHT ABOUT NAMING HALLWAYS AT STUART HIGH SCHOOL FOR DIFFERENT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, I THINK THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA AND WE CAN HAVE A MORE ROBUST CONVERSATION AS A SCHOOL AND A COMMUNITY ABOUT OUR SHARED HISTORY AS WELL AS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS SUCH AS JUSTICE MARSHAL, AND KERNEL MEN DEZ. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS FOR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AS PART OF THIS CHANGE. STUART IS AN AMAZING SCHOOL. ONE

050OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE NOT ONLY IN OUR COUNTY BUT IN OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY. ITS MOTTO IS WE ARE ONE AND THEY LIVE THAT EVERY DAY. THEY HAVE RECENTLY HIGHLIGHTED THEIR POSITIVELY PROJECT WHICH WOULD I ASK THAT WE START WORK TOMORROW TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER OVER A NEW NAME THAT EXEMPLIFIES VALUES WE HOLD DEAR. I ASK YOU SUPPORT THIS MOTION TO NAME THIS AMAZING SCHOOL JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. THANK YOU MS. EVANS. [APPLAUSE] IT IS MY HONOR TO SUPPORT BOARD MEMBER EVAN'S MOTION AS IT IS A COMPROMISE THAT ENCOMPASSES MANY VIEWPOINTS, ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF HER COMMUNITY AND EMPHASIZES NOT THE MISSTEPS OF OUR PAST BUT ON THE POWER AND THE HOPE OF OUR FUTURE. I ALSO ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION AS WELL. THIS IS MS. EVANS' COMMUNITY AND

051SHE HAS WORKED THROUGH MANY MEETINGS WITH HER COMMUNITY AND BEYOND TO REACH THIS RESOLUTION. AS MANY OF YOU KNOW I INITIALLY SUGGESTED THAT THE SCHOOL BE NAMED AFTER THURGOOD MARSHAL BUT SOME ON THIS BOARD EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT IT COULD PROCESS CONFUSION WITH A NEARBY HIGH SCHOOL. I LISTENED TO THOSE CONCERNS, HAVE TALK WOULD MANY, AS MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT WERE AVAILABLE AND HAVE BET AS MANY PEOPLE AS TIME WOULD ALLOW IN MY NOW NEARLY 45 DAY TENURE ON THIS BOARD. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED THROUGH READING ALL OF THE E-MAILS, THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE LIGHTS IS THAT WE HAVE TRULY HAD A DIFFICULT HISTORY AS A BOARD. WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO HAVE HARD DISCUSSIONS AND NOW IT IS TIME TO ADVOCATE FOR A RESOLUTION. FOR ME THE

052MOST PROMINENT FACTOR THROUGH THE PROCESS OF THIS DECISION MAKING HAS BEEN HOW THIS DISCUSSION STARTED WITH THE STUDENTS. STUDENTS FROM JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL CAME FORWARD AND BEGAN TO QUESTION THE NAME ON THEIR SCHOOL. THEY FOR ME ARE HEROES. I DEFINE THAT WORD AS SUCH BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT ALL CHANGE BEGINS WITH A SIMPLE QUESTION WHY. THEY ASKED WHY AND RIGHTLY SO. THEIR QUESTIONS HAVE CHALLENGED OUR SENSE OF HISTORY AND IS HELPING TO DEFINE HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. IT WAS THEIR ACTIONS THAT LED ME ON THE JOURNEY OF UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF THE FCPS SCHOOL SYSTEM, OUR COMMONWEALTH AND DESEGREGATION, HOW THE MASSIVE RESISTANCE WAS PART IN PARCEL OF HOW THE NAME CAME TO BE AND HOW FCPS STRUGGLED TO RESPOND TO THE BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION DECISION. IRRESPECTIVE OF HOW WE VIEW HISTORY

053I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE WHAT HAPPENED BACK THEN ISN'T RIGHT FOR US TODAY AND THAT LEADS ME BACK TO THE STUDENTS BECAUSE THAT IS MY PRIMARY FOCUS AND MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE I'VE FOCUSED ON FIGHTING FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN EVERY DAY AND I SIMPLY CANNOT REMOVE THAT LENS FOR THIS DECISION. I HAVE WRESTLED WITH MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE PAST, THE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS THAT SHOWED HOW STATE FUNDS WERE USED TO PLACE THE NAME OF A CONFEDERATE GENERAL ON THIS SCHOOL AND ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE PONDERED THE WEIGHT THAT ALL OF THIS REPRESENTS. THAT WEIGHT IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. IN MY DISCUSSION WITH SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES AND EVE SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY I HAVE FOUND, I HAVE BEEN FACED WITH THOSE WHO CHERISH THEIR PAST AND THEY HAVE A TYPE OF NOSTALGIA.

054I DON'T FAULT ANYONE FOR THOSE FEELINGS, IT IS OKAY AND THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AND I BELIEVE, ARE NOT CONDEMNED IN THIS MOTION. WHAT THIS MOTION REPRESENTS IS A RECOGNITION THAT WE HAVE LEARNED THROUGH PROCESS. THAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US, THAT OUR CHILDREN, ALL CHILDREN IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR BACKGROUND, RACE OR ZIP CODE ARE IMPORTANT AND HOLD POTENTIAL THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE. UNFORTUNATELY THIS SYMBOL THAT THIS BOARD VOTED TO REMOVE IN JULY THE NAME OF A CONFEDERATE GENERAL PLACED ON A SCHOOL USING STATE FUNDS DOES NOT REPRESENT OR ENCOURAGE THAT POTENTIAL FOR ALL STUDENTS. FOR MANY THE CONFEDERACY AND ITS SYMBOLS ARE VESTIGES OF OUR PAST THAT SEPARATED US AS A COMMUNITY AND AS A NATION. THIS IS THE BURDEN THAT I SEEK TO LIFT TODAY. I WANT TO SAY

055THIS AGAIN AS CLEARLY JAZZ AM ABLE THERE IS A BURDEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE NAME WE ARE REMOVING. AS AN ATTORNEY WHO FOCUSES ON IMPROVING THE LIVES OF CHILDREN I AM WELL AWARE OF HOW SUCH BURDENS CANNOT ONLY HINDER BUT EVEN CRIPPLE THOSE WHO ARE FORCED TO CARRY THEM. THAT BURDEN IS INEXTRICABLY CONNECTED TO THE HISTORY OF OUR COMMONWEALTH AND COMMUNITY. THEY CAN NOT BE SEPARATED. HISTORICAL CONTEXT MATTERS. NAMES MATTER. FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS OR SO WE HAVE LIFTED UP A NAME THAT DID NOT SPIRE OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO RISE. WITH MY VOTE I SEEK TO RECTIFY THAT TODAY. WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS AND IT IS MY HOPE TO WALK THROUGH THIS JOURNEY WITH MY COLLEAGUES IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE A FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN THAT LIGHTER AND BRIGHTER THAN

056THE PAST. I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY, I BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE THIS PROPOSAL ENCOMPASSES THE WISHES OF AS MANY CITIZENS AS POSSIBLE AND RESIDENTS, IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE THIS NAME DOES NOT IGNORE OR TURN A BLIND EYE TO HISTORY. IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE THIS NAME DOES NOT CONDEMN OR BLAME ANYONE. IT IS RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE IT LIFTS THE BURDEN OF A WAITING AND CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY. IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IMPACTED THROUGH ACTIONS THAT THOSE SAME PEOPLE COULD NOT CONTROL. AND IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE OF THE SIMPLE WORDS THAT WE ALL SHARED EARLIER TODAY. WHEN WE SAID THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES

057OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLICAN FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT HAVE INSPIRED ME TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION. THIS IS THE ONLY MOTION THAT DOES NOT LIFT THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE PERSON ABOVE ANOTHER. THIS MOTION SENDS THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO OUR STUDENTS AND TO OUR COMMUNITY. MADAM CHAIR, MY FELLOW COLLEAGUES, I HUMBLY SECOND THE MOTION TO RENAME THIS SCHOOL TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. WE WILL HONOR JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHAL FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR EVERY RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH HIS EFFORTS ON THE BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION CASE. WE WILL HONOR BARBARA JOHNS A COURAGEOUS YOUNG GIRL WHO STOOD UP TO AUTHORITIES AND TO FACE EDUCATIONAL INJUSTICE. AND WE WILL HONOR COLONEL MEN DEZ WHO WORE THE UNIFORM FOR

058THIS COUNTRY AND LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY. THEY REPRESENT THOSE SIMPLE WORDS WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. I ALSO BELIEVE I SAW MR. VANPRESS WITH US TONIGHT A FORMER STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE BOARD. YES, HE WAS HERE A MINUTE AGO. OH, WELL. THERE WILL NOW BE A SERIES OF MOTIONS AND AMENDMENTS BEFORE WE VOTE ON THE OPENING MOTION. SO I WILL CALL ON MS. SCHULTZ FOR A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. I MOVE THE NAME OF JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL BE CHANGED TO LIEUEZ MENDEZ, JR. I CURRENT MOVE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. SECONDED BY MS. McLAUGHLIN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION? YES. I'VE PREPARED COMMENTS AND THEN I HAVE COMMENTS. I DON'T USUALLY HAVE PREPARE COMMENTS BUT I FELT IT WAS NECESSARY THIS EVENING. FIRST OF ALL,

059I WILL TAKE THE HIT FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE STUART MOTION. AND I WILL EXPLAIN THAT IN A MINUTE. THERE ARE NO VOTES FOR STUART, THERE ARE NO VOTES DOING NOTHING. I'M NOT SURE HOW WE GO FORWARD IN THE 11th HOUR AND PROCLAIM THE JUSTICE IS A COMPROMISE WHEN THE COMMUNITY NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO VOTE ON IT. BOTH OF THOSE CHOICES ARE THE MOST FISCALLY SOUND DECISIONS AND THE MOST RESPONSIVE TO EVERY SIDGE COMMUNITY AND STUDENT HELD VOTE AND ARE IN KEEPING WITH THE JULY 27th MOTION PASSED BY THIS BOARD, WHICH READ IN PART IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE NEED TO MINIMIZE COSTS AS WELL AS THE DESIRE FOR CONTINUITY FOR ALUMNI AND STAFF, WE REQUEST THAT STUART COMMUNITY CONSIDER STUART HIGH SCHOOL AS THE NEW NAME. THAT WAS

060THE MOTION THAT WAS PASSED ON JULY 27th; HOWEVER, AND THAT'S THE BIG HOWEVER, THE COMMUNITY WAS ASKED TO FOLLOW A PROCESS. A PROCESS THAT WAS ADVERTISED BY THIS BOARD. IN SELECTING THE NAME THAT IS IN THE MAIN MOTION WE ARE VIOLATING THE LATEST IN A PHASE OF PROCESSES THAT HAVE BEEN ADVERTISED TO OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IN THE ULTIMATE IRONY IS NOT JUSTICE. LAST FRIDAY I WENT TO THE STUART HOMECOMING. WE RECEIVED A LOT OF E-MAILS OVER TIME AND I FELT THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO GO AND TO SPEAK TO STUDENTS, TO DANCE SQUAD, CHEERLEADERS, FOOTBALL PLAYERS, ALUMNI, PROPONENTS FOR CHANGE, PROPONENTS FOR KEEPING THE NAME, BUT THREE AND BE PRESENT TO HEAR AND SEE FOR MYSELF WHAT THE COMMUNITY THOUGHT IT IS THE FUTURE SCHOOL. IT IS NOT THE 12 PEOPLE AT THE BOARD TO

061THE SCHOOL AND IT IS NOT OUR MONEY. THIS IS PUBLIC SCHOOL WITH PUBLIC MONEY FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR RETAINING THE NAME JEB STEW FOR THE PURPOSE OF RETAINING THE NAME JEB STUART. I HAVE BEEN A PROPONENT FOR # FOLLOWING AND HONORING OUR ROLE AS SERVANT LEADERS AND STEWARDS OF YOUR MONEY IN THE ROLLOF GOVERNING AT YOUR BEHALF BECAUSE WE ARE SEEKING TO REPRESENT YOU. SO HOW DO WE HEAL A BROKEN COMMUNITY? THAT'S MY ONLY MISSION. THE ONLY POSSIBILITY OF DOING THAT I SAW AFTER LAST FRIDAY WAS COLONEL MEN DEZ. THEY ARE NOW SAY AG NEUTRAL NAME IS A COMPROMISE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A NAME THAT DOESN'T REPRESENT OR ELEVATE ANY INDIVIDUAL NAME FORD TO COMPROMISE BUT THAT OPTION WAS GIVEN AND THAT OPTION WAS SELECTED BY

062THE COMMUNITY. THEY MADE IT. IT WAS PEACE VALLEY, PEACE VALLEY WAS THE FOURTH HIGHEST VOTE IN ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT TO THIS BOARD. THAT CHOICE IS IGNORED BY THE BOARD F. BE WANT A NO-NAME AND NOT ELEVATE ANYONE ABOVE BUT RESPECT THE WILL OF THE COMMUNITY WE HAVE THAT OPTION AND WE'RE CHOOSING NOT TO DO IT. SO IT IS A FAR SUPERIOR OPTION TO WHAT IS DESCRIBE AS A CONCEPT NAME THE WORD JUSTICE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT A CONCEPT NAME IS SUPPOSED TO BE. IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS AND I'VE JUST HEARD THE PHRASE CONCEPT NAME THIS WEEK BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE IT IS GROUNDED IN THE RULE OF LAW DEFINED AS A SITUATION OF THE RULES OF LAW OF THE COUNTRY ARE EMBEDDED IN EVERYONE. WHO DO

063WE HAVE? A NAVAHO INDIAN IN ITS NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH. CAN YOU EMANNEN THAT. A NOV HOE INDIAN, SPANISH, AND MEXICAN WEST POINT GRADUATE WHEN THERE WERE VIRTUALLY NO CADETS WHO LOOKED LIKE HIM. A HIGHLY DECORATED AIRBORNE COMBAT VETERAN OF WORLD WAR II AND RECIPIENT OF THE THREE BRONZE STARS SUPPORTING THE VICTORY OF D-DAY HELPING TO DELIVER THE WORLD FROM THE TYRANNY OF OPPRESSION, OUTSIDE OF THE RULE OF LAW. A COMMANDER IN THE KOREAN WAR, WHOSE UNIT BY THE WAY WERE THE RAIDERS. HELPING TO LIBERATE A PORTION OF A COUNTRY AND MILLIONS OF KOREANS FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE OPPRESSION OF THE ABSENCE OF THE RULE OF LAW. A FOREIGN ENVOY TO COMMUNICATE DIPLOMATICALLY AND EFFECTIVELY. PRETTY GOOD EXAMPLE. DECADES LONG RESIDENT OF LAKE BAR CRAFT WHO PUT EIGHT OF HIS 12 CHILDREN THROUGH JEB

064STUART HIGH SCHOOL. A NOBLE AND WORTHY EXAMPLE TO ALL STUDENTS OF LEADING A SUCCESSFUL, PROFESSIONAL CAREER WITH A SERVANT'S HEART AND A LIFETIME OF COMMITMENT TO HIS FAITH, CHILDREN, WIFE, COUNTRY, TO HIS COMMUNITY AND OTHERS. FOR A SCHOOL THAT IS MAJORITY LATINO AND HISPANIC WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPHOLD SOMEONE WHO PERSEVERED THREW VERY DIFFICULT BEGINNING WHO SEES THE OPPORTUNITY OF EDUCATION AND EXEMPLIFIED STEVE OTHERS. THIS IS AN INVALUABLE CHANCE, A SINGLE MOMENT IN TIME AND IT IS THE ONLY PATH I SEE TO END A VERY PAINFUL PROCESS WITH THE SHRED OF INTEGRITY. THIS IS ALL I KNOW WHAT TO DO AT THIS POINT. I HOPE THAT THIS IS AN AUTHENTIC CHOICE, AN OPTION FOR OUR BOARD TO SELECT ONE OF THE FIVE NAMES AND RESPECT THE RULE OF LAW RATHER THAN TO PROVERT THE

065COURSE OF JUSTICE THAT I THINK WOULD CAUSE THUR GOOD MARSHAL TO TURN IN HIS GREAT THIS IS A BOARD OF 12, IF MOTIONS ONLY REQUIRED THE SUPPORT OF A DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER THEN THE GOVERNANCE WOULD PROVIDE FOR THAT, STATE LAW WOULD PROVIDE FOR THAT. DECISIONS WOULD BE MADE BY THE INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS AND THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR US TO MEET. IT WOULD SAVE ME A LOT OF TIME. YET THE WORK OF THE BOARD REQUIRES US TO COLLABORATE TO WORK TOGETHER AND TO BE FOCUSED ON THE MISSION OF DIRECTING OUR EFFORTS TOWARDS STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM AND TO GOVERN WITH TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. THESE ARE THINGS WHICH A DIPLOMAT, VETERAN AND AN EDUCATOR WOULD DO. WE'VE BUN TOLD THAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD COLLABORATE WITH DR. BROWN IN THIS LATEST PROCESS. THEY PUT FORWARD 73

066NAMES, A LITTLE LESS SERIOUS THAN OTHERS. SCHOOLY McSCHOOL-FACE I DON'T THINK WILL HAVE ANY SERIOUS CONSIDERATION BUT THE COMMUNITY SPOKE, THEY SPOKE IN THE WAY THAT WE ASKED THEM TO WE ADVERTISED THAT PROCESS. IF WE CAN AT THE END OF THE DAY SELECT SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ONLY A DISTINGUISHED INDIVIDUAL WHO GAVE BACK NOT FOUR YEARS IN REPAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR HIS EDUCATION IN WEST POINT BUT 30 YEARS OF SERVICE WHO WENT ON NOT ONLY IN HIS MILITARY CAREER TO BE AN EDUCATOR BUT WENT ON TO LEAD THE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AN EDUCATOR THOUSAND HIS LIFE, DIPLOMAT THOUSAND HIS LIFE AND WAS A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY AND WHOSE NAME REFLECTS THE MAKEUP OF THIS COMMUNITY. THIS IS THE TYPE OF STORY THAT WEAK UP HOLD TO

067A COMMUNITY. I'M OFFERING THIS, HE DOESN'T KNOW IT. THERE IS A STUDENTS, HIS NAME IS AHMED, HE IS NOT HERE BUT I SAW THE VIDEO OF HE AND HIS FRIEND TALKING ABOUT THE SCIENCE FAIR AND IT WAS A GAME CHANGE FOR ME. I JUST SAW IT THIS WEEK. I WAS READY TO JUST LET THIS THING GO. LET'S KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD, LET'S FINDS ANOTHER WAY GOOD THE PAIN AND THE ANGUISH THAT WE CREATED FOR AN EGYPTIAN SUNIESE STUDENTS A SENIOR GRADUATING THIS YEAR AND HIS FRIENDS AND SEEING WHAT WE'VE DONE TO HIM THROUGH THEIR EYES THAT THIS TWO YEAR LONG PROCESS DOESN'T REFLECT STUART. IT DOESN'T REFLECT THAT THE FACT THAT EVERY FRIENDS GROUP IS MADE UP OF EVERY COLOR OF EVERY BACKGROUNDS OF EVERY LANGUAGE, IT DOESN'T, THIS DOESN'T REFLECT IT. SO

068FINDING A WAY FOR TO COMPROMISE AND BEING LED BY A HUMBLE SERVANT, A DEDICATED FAMILY MAN A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY WHO PUT HIS OWN CHILDREN THROUGH THIS SCHOOL AND HAS A DISTINGUISHED STORY TO TELL IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK EVERY STUDENT AT STUART REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND REGARDLESS OF THEIR CREED OR LANGUAGE COULD EXEMPLIFY AND HOLD UP THIS IS HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE. THIS IS THE KIND OF INTEGRITY THAT WE SHOULD BE TELLING AND THAT WE SHOULD BE MODELING NOT PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE SO I'M SEEKING FOR US TO FINALLY COLLABORATE AND REFLECT AND PICK ONE OF THE FIVE NAMES AND HONOR THE PROCESS THAT WE'VE HONORED FOR THE COMMUNITY IN THE END. THANK YOU MS. McLAUGHLIN WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND? FIRST I WANT TO SHARE WITH THE

069AUDIENCE THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE DELIBERATED ON THIS WITH MORE INTENSITY AND COMMITMENT THAN I HAVE EVER SEEN JUST YEARS OF SERVING ON THE BOARD AND WHILE THE TELEVISION OF US CAME IN TONIGHT AND AS OUR BEST UNDERSTANDING IS A TRUE DEADLOCK ON WHAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO I BELIEVE ALL 12 OF US THE GOAL IS TO TRY TO HELP THE COMMUNITY HEAL AND THE STUDENT VIDEOS WAS THE MOST POWERFUL FOR ME TO SEE THAT DIVERSE COMMUNITY REALLY CELEBRATING THE SHARED SPIRIT OF THAT SCHOOL. I AM SECONDING THIS AMENDMENT BECAUSE AS I SHARED EARLIER TODAY WITH COLONEL MENDEZ DAUGHTER, TINA, IN THIS PROCESS IT HAS BEEN PAINFUL AND IT HAS DIVIDED NOT JUST THE COMMUNITY BUT THE BOARD'S UNDERSTANDING OF HOW BEST TO HELP THE COMMUNITY.

070THE SILVER LINING OUT OF ALL OF THIS IS THAT COLONEL MENDEZ'S STORY IS TRULY INSPIRATIONAL. I HAVE LIVED IN FAIRFAX COUNTY NOW SINCE 1995. MY HUSBAND WAS RAISED HERE. MY THREE SONS HAVE BEEN RAISED HERE AND I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD TO BE A FAIRFAX COUNTY RESIDENT. SOMEBODY THAT STUDIED AMERICAN HISTORY, WHOSE SON WILL GRADUATE IN GEORGETOWN WITH A MINE IN HISTORY AND TO KNOW WE HAVE SOMEONE LIKE COLONEL MENDEZ WHO SPENT 60 YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, HERE IN MASON DISTRICT, HERE IN THE JEB STUART PYRAMID AND HE EXEMPLIFIES EVERYTHING THAT I AS AN INDIVIDUAL, AS A PARENT, AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER COULD EVER HOPE THAT WE WOULD RETURN AND CELEBRATE IN THIS COUNTY. COLONEL MEN DEZ SURVIVED NORMANDY. HE SURVIVED THE EUROPEAN WORLD WAR II THEATER, HE SURVIVED KOREA,

071WITH HIS RAIDERS. WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT I WOULD HOPE AND WANT FOR THE STUDENT BODY AND THE THE ALUMNI AND SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN A VERY PAINFUL THING TO IDENTIFY AS JUST STUART BUT TO THINK ABOUT A COMMUNITY THAT CAN NOW IDENTIFY WITH INCREDIBLE LEGACY THAT COLONEL MEN DEZ LEFT THIS EARTH WHAT HE REPRESENTS I THINK THAT IS HOW WE CAN BEST HELP THIS COMMUNITY HEAL. THE FACT THAT HE NOT ONLY SERVED OUR COUNTRY WITH DISTINCTION THAT EIGHT OF HIS CHILDREN WERE PART OF OUR STUART FABRIC THAT HE THEN WENT ON TO LEAD THAT NATIONAL EFFORT FOR THE RIGHT TO READ, PROGRAM, LITERACY, THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, THE FACT THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND WE WANT TO BUILD HOPE AND INSPIRATION AND ASPIRATION FOR ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES

072REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND THAT COLONEL MENDEZ CAME FROM A HUMBLE BACKGROUND LOOK AT ALL THAT YOU SEE I CAN'T IMAGINE A BETTER NAME TO ATTACH TO THE STUART HIGH SCHOOL THAN STUART HIGH SCHOOL. AND WHILE I WAS IN CALIFORNIA AND YES REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT MY MOTHER LOST HER HOME IN THE FIRE IN THE FIRE BUT I SPENT AT LEAST THE LAST FIVE DAYS TALKING WITH MY COLLEAGUES Y TOOK A RED-EYED FLIGHT THIS MORNING BECAUSE I WANT TO BE PART OF AN EFFORT TO HEAL THIS COMMUNITY. I REALLY WANT OUR BOARD TO DEMONSTRATE TO YOU THAT WE KNOW HOW TO FIND THAT COMPROMISE AND COME TOGETHER AND I DO BELIEVE WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHO COLONEL MENDEZ IS WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO NAME FOR F THE FIRST TIME IN FAIRFAX COUNTY HISTORY A

073HIGH SCHOOL AFTER A PERSON OF COLOR THAT NOT ONLY SPEAKS TO OUR STUDENTS OF COLOR BUT TO ALL STUDENTS AND ALL FAMILIES AND ALL RESIDENTS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY AND SO I ASK MY COLLEAGUES AS YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT EVEN SHIRLEY GENRIGHT SHARING WITH US IN HER REMARKS CHOOSING COLONEL MENDEZ IS A BEAUTIFUL CHOICE AND I REALLY HOPE THAT OUR COLLEAGUES WILL SUPPORT THAT TONIGHT. THANK YOU. MR. WILSON FOR COMMENTS. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY THANKS AND APPRECIATION FOR ALL OF THE ELOQUENT SPEAKERS TONIGHT. THE VIDEOS THE E-MAILS, AND FRANKLY THE WHAT'S BEEN SAID. I'M JUST REALLY AMAZED AND I HOPE I CAN BE HALF AS GOOD AS YOU. I HAD NO IDEA WHO COLONEL MENDEZ WAS UNTIL A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY REACHED OUT TO ME, THAT WAS TINA MENDEZ

074AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF OPENNESS TO THE IDEA OF MENDEZ BECAUSE I HAD NOT SEEN MUCH SUPPORT IN THE VOTE THAT WAS HELD AT THE HIGH SCHOOL BUT THEN I READ THE PACKET OF MATERIALS THAT I WAS PROVIDED AND LEARNED MORE FROM MY CONVERSATION WITH TINA AND AT THE ENDS OF THE CONVERSATION AND THIS IS REALLY TRUE AS THE SON OF THE CAREER, ARMY OFFICERS, WORKING COMBAT IN VIETNAM I CAN'T IMAGINE A BETTER THING THAN TO GIVE MY FATHER THAN TO TESTIFY ON HIS BEHALF AND I JUST WAN TO COMMEND THE MENDEZ FAMILY FOR STEPPING FORWARD. WHEN THE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY BROUGHT YOUR FATHER'S NAME FORWARD AS A POSSIBILITY YOU RALLIED AS A FAMILY OF 12 KIDS AND REALLY EXPLAINED WHY HE WAS SUCH AN EXCEPTIONAL PERSON

075AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A FEW MINUTES HERE BECAUSE I THINK THAT IT IS WORTH DOOG THIS AGAIN. SO I'M GOING TO READ THE FOLLOW. BY THE DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE PROVISIONS OF AR600-4522 SEPTEMBER 1943, THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS IS AWARDED TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL LEWIS G. MENDEZ, JR., INFANTRY, UNITED STATES ARMY FOR EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM IN COMBAT WHILE COMMANDING OF BATTALION OF A PARACHUTE INFANTRY REG MINUTE. ONE INSTANCE OF PARTICULAR IN FRANCE THROUGH A WITHERING OBSERVATION OF MORTAR, TIMED ARTILLERY AND MACHINE GUN CROSS FIRE. IN THEIR FIRST ATTEMPT TO WIN THEIR OBJECTIVE THE TWO ASSAULT COMPANIES WERE PINNED TO THE GROUND BY A DEVASTATING ARTILLERY BARRAGE AND SUFFERED HEAVY CASUALTIES. APPRECIATING THE DANGER OF DELAY LIEUTENANT MENDEZ CRAWLED INTO A POSITION IN FRONT OF HIS MEN, LEAPED TO HIS FEED

076AND LED THE CHARGE, WHICH DROVE THE ENEMY OUT OF TOWN. BY HIS CALM, DISREGARD PERSONAL DANGER AND HIS ABILITY TO ACT QUICKLY AND AGGRESSIVELY UNDER FIRE HE TURNED AN EMINENT CATASTROPHE INTO A VICTORY. LIEUTENANT COLONEL MENDEZ'S COURAGE, CALMNESS, JUDGMENT AND DEVOTION TO DUTY WERE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HIS BATTALIONS, OBJECTIVE AND IN KEEPING WITH THE HIGHEST HONORS OF ARMED FORCES. LET ME CORRECT ONE MINOR THING THAT MS. McLAUGHLIN STATED. THIS MAN DID NOT SURVIVE WORLD WAR II HE LED UNITED STATES AND THE ALLIES TO VICTORY. IN HIS PART WITH THE 508. NOW. I'M GOING TO READ ONE OTHER THING BECAUSE I THINK IT SAYS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT MESSAGE ABOUT COLONEL MENDEZ. HE SAYS AS OUR HEAD QUARTERS THE THIRD BATTALION LEAD PLANE APPROACHED NORMANDY ON D-DAY JUNE 6th, 1944, RC-47s HIT A

077DEEP, CLOUDY, OVERCAST AND STARTED TO SEPARATE TAKING INVASIVE ACTION AND CLIMBED HIGHER IN ORDER NOT TO COLLIDE WITH EACH OTHER. WHEN I JUMPED I LOOKED UP AND THE ONLY PLANE I SAW WAS THE ONE FROM WHICH I JUMPED. I DO NOT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE JUMP MASTER. THE COLONEL LEWIS MENDEZ, OUR THIRD BATTALION COMMANDER JUMPED NUMBER TWO AND I JUMPED NUMBER THREE IN THE STICK. I LANDED IN A SMALL FIELD CLOSE TO A HEADROW AND DID NOT SEE ANYONE. I WAS SCARED TO DEATH. I GOT OUT OF MY SHEET QUICKLY AND HEADED FOR WHAT I THOUGHT WAS OUR ASSEMBLY AREA. I REMINDED MYSELF OF THE CHALLENGE I COULD SEE THE FIGURE OF SOMEONE LIEING AND MOVING ON THE GROUND. I HIT THE GROUND WITH A FEELING JUST SHORT OF PANIC. WITH MY FINGER ON

078THE TRIGGER AND AIMED STRAIGHT AT THE TRIGGER AND YELLED FLASH. I DID NOT GET THE EXPECTED RESPONSE OF THUNDER BUT I IMMEDIATELY HEARD CLEARLY, DICK IS THAT YOU? I RECOGNIZED THE VOICE OF COLONEL MENDEZ AND ANSWERED LOUDLY YES, SIR, THEN I RELAXED AND BEGAN TO FEEL BETTER KNOWING THAT IT WAS MY LEADER WHOM I HAD HEARD AND WITH WHOM I HAD TRAINED FOR THE PAST 18 MONTHS. WE WERE BOTH ELATED. THE COLONEL HAD NOT FORGOTTEN. IN THAT BRIEF EXCITABLE MOMENT HE THANKED GOD OUR TRAINING IN RECOGNITION SAVED RISE. AND LASTLY, THIS IS FROM A FORWARD, THESE ARE MEN DESERVE OF ACCOLADES, TALKING ABOUT THE 508. MEN WHO BELONG IN THE HALL OF FAME. WHOSE FACES SHOULD BE HONORED ON STAMPS, MEN WORTHY OF IMMOLATION BY OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN, PUTTING FEAR IN DANGER BEHIND THEM AND

079FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM. THESE ARE THE MEN WHO THOUGHT ME WHAT TEAMWORK CAN ACCOMPLISH IN WAR, WHO OPENED MY EYES, THE URGENT NEED FOR GUIDED MEN, NOT GUIDED MISSILES, WE WHO GAVE MY 12 CHILDREN AND THEIR FUTURE THEIR CHILDREN A FUTURE. WHEN I GOT TO KNOW THE MENDEZ FAMILY I SUGGESTED TO SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT ACTUALLY PERHAPS THE SCHOOL SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER COLONEL MENDEZ AND HIS WIFE BECAUSE HE ALSO RAISED 12 CHILDREN AND I KNOW FROM HAVING FOUR OF MY OWN AND HAVING ALSO JUMPED OUT OF A PERFECTLY GOOD AIRPLANE THAT IT IS A LOT EASIER TO JUMP OUT OF AN AIRPLANE THAN TO RAISE THOSE KIDS AND HE HAD THREE TIMES AS MANY AS I DID. SO I WANT TO AGAIN JUST SAY THANK YOU TO AM MEN DEZ FAMILY FOR BRINGING THIS

080TO ME BECAUSE THIS JUST SPEAKS SO MUCH VOLUME ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS PEOPLE AND WHAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH AND I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I WOULD SUPPORT THIS MOTION FOR COLONEL MENDEZ. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS MR. MOON. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. FIRST, TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS, MENDEZ FAMILY MEMBERS, THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY ON YOUR FATHER'S LIFE THAT IS REALLY BRINGING ME TO TEARS, TRULY INSPIRATIONAL. I'M NOT JUST SAYING HE IS ROLE MODEL FOR THE MINORITIES, HE IS A ROLE MODEL FOR ALL AMERICANS. AND I'M SURE THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE AT THE WORK SESSION AND LAST MONDAY AT THE CIVIC CENTER YOU'VE HEARD ME SPEAK OF MY SUPPORT FOR RE-NAMING THE JEB STUART TO MENDEZ HIGH SCHOOL AFTER YOUR FOGGER OR

081YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHER'S NAME. AND I AM GOING TO SUPPORT THAT THIS EVENING. , HOWEVER, I NEED TO ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS BEFORE I MAKE THE MOTION. MR. CHURCH I KNOW THAT WE BOTH MEMBERS HAVE BEEN TALKING WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, I THINK I'VE SPENT MORE THAN 50% OF MY TIME DOING IT ON TODAY TALKING WITH MEMBERS AND THEY WERE HAVING MANY NEWLY CRAFTED MOTIONS COME UP AND SUM UP THE MOTIONS TAKEN OFF. AND I SEE TWO DIFFERENT MOTIONS READY TO MENDEZ HIGH SCHOOL, ONE IS ONE THAT YOU JUST PROPOSED, WHICH IS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION AND I SEE THE AMENDMENT LATER ON. I MEAN I ASSUME THAT IF THIS SUBSTITUTE MOTION THAT DOES NOT PASS YOUR INTENTION IS WHEN IT GETS TO THAT POINT I WANT TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT. IS THAT

082YOUR INTENT? SO I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION, MR. MOON. THERE WAS DEBATE AMONGST OURSELVES AND I PREPARE CLARITY OF GOVERNANCE IN A CLEAN MOTION H THIS A VERY CLEAN MOTION, WITHOUT A LOT OF FRANKLY A LOT OF LEGAL FOUNDING REFERENCES TO PAST ACTION OF THE BOARD AND THAT HAS BEEN CRAFTED TO THE POINT BUT IF THE BOARD PREFER AS MORE ROBUST MOTION RATHER THAN VERY CLEAN MOTION, WHICH IS SIMPLY TO IDENTIFY WHAT WE'RE DOING THEN I PREFER, I'D PREFER JUST A CLEAN MOTION. IF WE NEED ALL OF THE OTHER ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE AND EVERYBODY FEELS MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE MUFFED UP VERSION THEN MY GOAL IS TO, LOOK, I'VE DONE EVERYTHING I CAN TO COMPROMISE TO GET US HERE, YOU KNOW, MY STUART MOTION WAS BEFORE THE MENDEZ MOTION. I PUT THAT IN THE SECOND THAT WE

083MASS SAID MENDEZ WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO GO ON TO STUART. THEN I TOOK THE STUART MOTION OFF AND ANOTHER SHOW OF GOOD FAITH IN THE HOPE THAT WE COULD JUST VOTE ON MEN DEZ AND BE FINISHED. MY FATHER WAS A NAVY CAPTAIN, THIS IS A HUGE COMPROMISE. [LAUGHS] SO, YOU KNOW, I ASK THREE MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD TO PLEASE CO-SPONSOR THIS WITH ME IN AN EFFORT TO COMPROMISE. I FOUND EVERY WAY I CAN TO TRY GET US TO A COMPROMISE BUT RESPECT THE FIVE CHOICES THAT WE'RE GIVEN TO US, SO IT'S MERELY AN EFFORT TO FIND ANOTHER PATH THAT IF PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IF THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO COMPROMISE I'M WILLING TO DO WHAT IT TAKES TO HELP US. OKAY. AGAIN AS I SAID I INTEND TO SUPPORT THE MOTION TO CHANGE THE NAME

084TO MENDEZ HIGH SCHOOL BUT NOT IN THIS FORMAT OF THE MOTION. WE HAVE SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS, DISCUSSION REGARDING WHAT SHOULD BE THE PROPER FULFILLMENT OF THE MOTION BE AND EVEN THOUGH AS MUCH AS I PREFER STRAIGHT FORWARD, CLEAN, MOTION THAT I FEEL THAT FOR THIS PARTICULAR MOTION WE NEED TEE HAVE THOSE SERVE US BETTER SO I AM NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THIS SUBSTITUTE MOTION WHEN IT GETS TO THE MOTION TO AMEND TO REPLACE THE NAME OF JUSTICE WITH MENDEZ I'LL BE SUPPORTING THAT AMENDMENT AND I THINK THIS MAYBE I JUST WANT TO KNOW AT THIS POINT IN TIME JUST MINOR NOTE OF CORRECTION, AS SOMEONE BORN IN KOREA I SURELY APPRECIATE WHAT MENDEZ SERVING IN KOREA, BUT I THINK IT WAS ABOUT THE EARLY 1960S, 10 YEARS AFTER THE KOREAN WAR SO IN THE

085EARLY 1960S I WAS A SMALL CHILD GROWING UP IN KOREA, WHO KNOWS I MIGHT HAVE MET HIM SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, AND FOR HIS SERVICE FOR MY MOTHER COUNTRY TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY OF SOUTH KOREA AND SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLE. I WANT TO REALLY THANK THE LIFE AND THE EFFORTS OF COLONEL MENDEZ. BUT FOR THIS PARTICULAR MOTION AT THIS POINT IN TIME I HAVE TO I CAN NOT SUPPORT AT THIS TIME. MADAM CHAIR, POINT OF ORDER. I WANTED TO ASK BASED ON WHAT MR. MOON HAS PROPOSED AND BASED ON WHAT MS. SCHULTZ HAS SAID AND BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW THE TIMELINE TONIGHT TO HAVE ALL 12 OF US AT THE DAIS, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE HAVE MS. SCHULTZ, WHO IS THE MAKER OF THE MOTION, TO SIMPLY ADD THAT LANGUAGE NOW AND RATHER THEN WAITING

086THROUGH FOUR OR FIVE MOTIONS AND WE MAY LOSE ONE OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS? I ACTUALLY HAVE MS. CORBET-SANDERS NEXT AND MS. KAUFAX. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE IT IN ORDER AND IF-- ACTUALLY WHAT I UNDERSTAND, MADAM CHAIR, HONESTLY, MS. McLAUGHLIN I BELIEVE THAT WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE IS OFFERED A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO MY SUBSTITUTE MOTION. AND I I WOULD ACCEPT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO MY SUBSTITUTE MOTION THE LANGUAGE AT THAT TIME IN DEFERENCE AND RESPECT TO ALL 12 OF MY BOARD MEMBERS TO BE AT THE TABLE FOR THIS MOTION RATHER THAN NOT. I'M SORRY, MR. MOON HAD A GO-BACK? IT IS A POINT OF ORDER. YES. AND WHEN I LEARNED PARLIAMENTARY RULES, ROBERTS RULES, THERE WAS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. WHETHER MRS. CORBET-SANDERS OR MS. KAUFAX COULD CHOOSE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO ADD THOSE

087MEMBERS TO A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. YES, THAT IS CORRECT. AND MS. CORBET-SANDERS IS THE NEXT SPEAKER. THANK YOU. AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO ADD THOSE MOTIONS TO THE LANGUAGE TO THE MOTION. MRS. CORBET-SANDERS THEN YOU WISH TO AMEND MS. SCHULTZ SUBSTITUTE MOTION. WOULD YOU PLEASE PRESENT THE LANGUAGE OF YOUR AMENDMENT. SURE. ON JULY 27th THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THAT THERE EXIST AS COMPELLING TO NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL. SINCE THE JULY 27 THROAT SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSUED A PROCESS TO DETERMINE A COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NEW NAME. AMONG OTHER THINGS THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS CONDEMNED AN ADVISORY VOTE BY HOUSEHOLDS WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S ATTENDANCE AREA. I MOVE THAT THE NEW NAME OF JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE COLONEL LEWIS G. MENDEZ, JR. OBVIOUSLY I SECOND. IS

088THERE A SECOND. THANK YOU. CORBET-SANDERS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR AMENDMENT? YES, PLEASE. AND I HAVE PREPARED REMARKS. I THINK AS YOU CAN SEE EVERYBODY. ADAM CHAIR I'M SORRY THERE IS A POINT OF ORDER THAT THIS IS -- . WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. THIS IS USED AS A SUBSTITUTE AND MY MOTION IS NOT. IF YOU'LL SEE THAT'S THE ORIGINAL SO THE CLERK NEEDS TO PUT THIS INTO MS. SCHULTZ' MOTION AND WE DO NEED TO SEE IT ON THE SCREEN. OKAY. I WILL WAIT FOR THE CLERK. THANK YOU, MS. EVANS. THANK YOU. THAT HAPPEN TRYING TO KEEP THIS STRAIGHT. YOU COULD CERTAINLY SPEAK TO IT WHILE SHE IS. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. SO YOU ARE, THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE, SO YOU'RE SPEAKING TO YOUR SUBSTITUTE. YES. THE ACTIVITIES AND POLICIES UNDER

089TAKEN BY THIS SCHOOL BOARD PROVIDE A LENS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. I HOPE THAT THERE IS NOT DISAGREEMENT AROUND THE FACT THAT OUR HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND IMPERFECT. IT IS WITH THIS IMPERFECT PASS WE SHOULD COLLECTIVELY STRIVE FOR A MORE PERFECT FUTURE FOR OUR STUDENTS AND COUNTRIES. EMBRACING THESE VALUES AS AN AMERICAN LEAVES NO ROOM FOR THE DIVISIVE RHETORIC OR HATE MONGRELING SURROUNDING THIS ISSUE. THE STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL CURRENTLY NAME JEB STUART LOOK TO US TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF FAIRNESS. THE VIEWS VERY WIDELY IN THE FAIRFAX COUNTY COMMUNITY AND DO NOT FALL ALONG A RACE, SOCIO ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL LINE. EACH OF US HAVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES THAT INFORM OUR VIEWSISM THESE INCLUDE STUDENTS, PARENTS AND ALUMNI OF JEB STUART HIGH

090SCHOOL. PEOPLE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE PYRAMID, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND THE NATION HAVE WEIGHED IN ON THE NAME OF THIS COMMUNITY SCHOOL, OFTEN DRIVEN BY THE HATEFUL RHETORIC, WHICH IS ALL TOO PREVALENT IN OUR COUNTRY TODAY. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS AND TRY TO COME TO A RESOLUTION THAT RECOGNIZES THAT EACH OF US INCLUDING EVERYONE AT THIS TABLE IN THIS AUDIENCE AND WATCHING ON TELEVISION CARE ABOUT CREATING AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT UNITE THIS COMMUNITY AND FACILITATE STUDENTS SUCCESS. FOR MANY THIS ISSUE HAS OPENED UP WOUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN DEEPLY BURIED IN THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO GREW UP DURING THE TIME THAT THE SCHOOL WAS NAMED. THEY MAY OR NAY NOT HAVE LIVED IN FAIRFAX COUNTY BUT THEY HAVE BEEN IMPACTED AND RIGHTFULLY HAVE A VOICE. I COME TO

091THE TABLE WITH A PERSPECTIVE OF BEING RAISED IN THE MOUNT VERNON AREA OF FAIRFAX COUNTY. GONE TO A DESEGREGATED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAMED AFTER OUR PROMINENT AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE 1960S AND HAD AFRICAN AMERICAN CLASSMATES AND TEACHERS THROUGHOUT MY ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL YEARS AT A TIME WHEN THAT WAS NOT THE NORM. I ALSO COME TO THE TABLE WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING AN ALUMNI OF THE ONLY SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY TO HAVE ITS NAME CHANGED. WITH THIS IN MIND I CAREFULLY LISTEN TO AND READ THE MATERIALS SENT TO ME BY MY CLASSMATES, CONSTITUENTS AND THOSE OF ORGANIZATIONS REACHED OUT TO ME. IT CONTINUES TO BE THE MOST HEART WRENCHING AND DIVISIVE ISSUE I'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH ON THIS BOARD. THE PLEAS COME FROM THE MEMBERS OF ALUMNI AND STUDENT BODIES THAT IDENTIFY

092THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL WITH THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER BUT RATHER CAMARADERIE OF THE SPIRIT AND EXPERIENCES THEY'VE SHARE IN THE CLASSROOM AND SPORTS EVENTS. FOR MANY THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE AND YEARBOOKS ARE PROUDLY DISPLAYED AS THE CULMINATION OF THEIR EDUCATION. ORGANIZATIONS WITH OR WITHOUT DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO THE SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY SEE THE NAME AS A CONTINUATION OF THE SUBTLE OR ROLLY NOT SO SUBTLE REINFORCEMENT OF RACISM THAT PERSISTED DURING THE TIME THAT SCHOOL WAS NAMED AND HAS REARED ITS UGLY HEAD AT EVENTS ACROSS THIS NATION RECENTLY INCLUDING IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MOTIVATED THE DECISION MAKERS AT THAT TIME OF THE NAMING OF THE SCHOOL. I DO NOT KNOW, I DO KNOW THAT ONLY A FEW YEARS AFTER BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION DECISION THE NAME WAS NOT INCLUSIVE OF THE STUDENTS

093THAT WOULD SOON BE ATTENDING THE SCHOOL LOCATED IN THE MUNSON HILL AREA RATHER THAN HERE AT LUTHER JACKSON. I DO NOT Y DEE KNOW THAT IN 2017 THIS BOARD WOULD NOT NAME A SCHOOL AFTER A CONFEDERATE GENERAL AND WE AFFIRMED THAT IN THE JULY 27 VOTE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL. BECAUSE WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT NAMING A NEW SCHOOL BUT RATHER CHANGING THE NAME OF AN EXISTING SCHOOL 94-ACTION IMPACTS NOT ONLY THE STUDENTS, STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE IN THE SCHOOL TODAY BUT THOSE THAT HOLD THEIR EXPERIENCES IN THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY DEAR TO THEIR HEARTS AS ALUMNI AND THOSE THAT WILL ATTEND SCHOOL IN THE FUTURE. THROUGH MY OWN EXPERIENCE I AM KEENLY AWARE OF THE IMPACT AND TRAUMA FELT IN THE COMMUNITY OF LOSING THE NAME OF A BELOVED

094SCHOOL. WITH THAT IN MIND I HAVE SUPPORTED AND CONTINUED TO SUPPORT A NAME CHANGE FOR THE SCHOOL. I SUPPORT THE PROCESS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF NAME CHANGES WHEN I CAME ON THIS BOARD, RECS INNING THAT ANY NAME CHANGE NEEDED TO BE COMMUNITY DRIVEN AND NOT BOARD DRIVEN. IN FEBRUARY 2016 I SUPPORTED THE MOTION TO DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS ON THE POSSIBLE RENAMING OF THE SCHOOL. UNDER OUR REGULATION THIS BOARD DID NOT HAVE TO DO ANOTHER THING UNTIL THE SUPERINTENDENT CAME BACK TO US WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR A NAME CHANGE AND POSSIBLE NAMES HOWEVER WE CHOSE AS A BOARD IN JULY OF THIS YEAR TO INTRODUCE THE STEP IN THE PROCESS AND TO VOTE TO CHANGE THE NAME AT THE SCHOOL. WE APPROVED A MOTION REITERATED THIS BOARD'S 90

095INCLUSION FOR ALL STUDENTS AND OFFERED IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE THAT THE COMMUNITY CONSIDERS TO IT THROUGH NAME OF THE SCHOOL. TONIGHT THIS BOARD IS NOT DISCUSSING WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE CHANGING THE NAME OF THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL BUT RATHER WHAT NAME WOULD FACILITATE HEALING IN THE COMMUNITY AND INSPIRE CURRENT AND FUTURE STUDENT. UNFORTUNATELY NONE OF THE NAMES ON THE BALLOT RECEIVED A CLEAR MAJORITY ADVOCACY FOR ONE NAME OVER ANOTHER SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A LITINOUS TEST FOR POLITICAL AFFILIATION A COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVENESS OR ALTERNATIVELY WHETHER SOMEONE IS A RACIST OR NOT. I BELIEVE THAT IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT WE CHOOSE THE NAME THAT HAS RELEVANCE TO THE WHOLE STUART COMMUNITY. IF NOT DIVISIVE AND CAN BE EMBRACED AS A COMPROMISE. THE TWO TOP GO-GETTERS, STUART AND JUSTICE DO NOT ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE AND ONLY

096SERVE TO DEEPEN DIVIDES AT THIS TIME WITHIN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY. ALTHOUGH JUSTICE IS A COMPROMISE WHEN TIED TO ALL THREE NAMES THE WORD IS ASPIRATIONAL AND IN THE FUTURE THE COMMUNITY COULD GET OVER THE CONTROVERSY HOWEVER IT WILL TAKE DECADES. I HAVE HEARD ALSO REPEATEDLY FROM CURRENT STUDENTS THAT JUSTICE WOULD NOT BE A FAIR CHOICE AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOVEMENT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THEIR BELOVED SCHOOL, TO NAME A SCHOOL JUSTICE IS SEEN AS IRONIC BY THEM. THIS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN DIVIDED BY THE TURMOIL OVER CHANGING THE NAME ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE JUSTICE WOULD BE A GREAT NAME FOR A HIGH SCHOOL, IT MAY BE BETTER SUITED FOR A NEW SCHOOL RATHER THAN THIS ONE THAT HAS GONE THROUGH SO MUCH. THERE ARE ONLY TWO NAMES ON THE LIST THAT HAVE DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO

097BOTH THE SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY. NOW AND HEALING AND BRINGING THE STEWART COMMUNITY TOGETHER WOULD BE MOST VISIBLE TONIGHT. HOWEVER MY HOPE HAS NOT YET BEEN REALIZED. AT OUR LAST MEETING ON THIS TOPIC ON JULY 27TH, I STATED THIS BOARD HAS NOT, WAS NOT YET READY TO MOVE FORWARD OF ANY OTHER RENAMING PROCESS BECAUSE I BELIEVED THIS PROCESS HAD NOT BEEN A MODEL FOR THE GOVERNANCE. COMMUNITY PANELS DID NOT REACH THE COMMUNITY THROUGH OUTREACH SO WE COULD HAVE A BROADER CONVERSATION. THIS WAS DENIED AND WE OURSELVES HAD NOT DEFINED COMPELLING NEED. DID NOT DEFINE COMMUNITY OR WHICH WAS SUFFICIENT SUPPORT AS OUTLINED IN OUR REGULATION OF 81.77. OUR MOTION WAS VOTED DOWN 6-5 BY THIS BOARD. THAT NIGHT THE BOARD PASSED A MOTION THAT SAID IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE AND THE NEED TO MINIMIZE CAUSE,

098BY CONTINUITY, STAFF REQUESTED STEWART COMMUNITY SUGGESTED STEWART HIGH BE THE NEW NAME. THIS MOTION PASSED 7-1. I ABSTAINED THAT NIGHT. IN THE COMMUNITY PROCESS THAT ENSUED THE MOST THAT GOT THE VOTES WAS STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. STEWART WAS THE NUMBER ONE VOTE GETTER. I HAVE CONSISTENTLY EXPRESSED BY CONCERN OF THE PROCESS TO DATE ON RENAMING ISSUE HAS BEEN FLAWED. I STATED TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND I GUESS I WILL STATE IT ONE MORE TIME THAT WE NEED TO BE CREATING POLICY TO BUILD BRIDGES AND NOT CREATE GREATER CHASMS. WE KNOW THE STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY ARE WATCHING. THEY HAVE COME AND THEY HAVE TALKED TO US ON BOTH SIDES. BUT WHAT I REALLY FEEL HAS BEEN DISHEARTENING AND EMBARRASSING WHEN I GET CALLS FROM COMMUNICATIONS. TELLING US WE ARE CREATING OUR OWN INTERPRETATION OF THE VOTING

099LAWS AND THE LESSON IT'S TEACHING THE CHILDREN AT STEWART AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. YOU CAN HAVE OPPOSING OPINIONS. YOU CAN PASSIONATELY BELIEVE IN YOUR OPINIONS. AND YOUR CAUSE. BUT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO PASS MORAL JUDGE OR CALL OTHERS WITH A DISAGREEMENT. THE ART OF CIVIL DISAGREEMENT HAS BEEN LOST ON THIS PROCESS. [APPLAUSE] IN TODAY'S "WASHINGTON POST," THERE WAS AN ARTICLE ON THE TYPE OF ACTIVISM TODAY. THEY WERE CALLED NAMES, HARASSED WITH MEAN-SPIRITED ACCUSATIONS. THESE ARE SAD AND DIFFICULT LESSONS FOR THIS PROCESS AND OUR STUDENTS TO SEE AND STUDENTS SHOULD NEVER FEAR FOR THEIR SAFETY IN THEIR OWN SCHOOL, NOR SHOULD THEY FEEL THAT THEY ARE AFRAID TO COME AND SPEAK BEFORE THE PUBLIC BODY THAT WAS ELECTED TO SERVE THEM. BUT UNFORTUNATE LY, THERE IS NO SUPPORT ON THE BOARD ON THE COMPROMISE

100MOTION PUT FORWARD TO CONSIDER STEWART AS THE NEW NAME AND AS A POLICY MAKER I STRUGGLED WITH THIS FACT. I TALKED TO MY COLLEAGUES MANY TIMES, HAD MANY DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS. I TALKED TO CITIZENS AND STUDENTS, STUDIED DOCUMENTS AND WRESTLED WITH HOW BEST TO SERVE THE CONSTITUENCY AND BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER AND HAVE THE STUDENTS AT STEWART GET A FRESH START. FOR MY THE BEST CHOICE TO MOVE FORWARD IS NAMING THE SCHOOL AFTER COLONEL MENDEZ WHO SERVED? WORLD WAR II AND ACHIEVED THE CIVIL ARMY CROSS AND AFTER HIS MILITARY CAREER JOINED THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, BECAME THE NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE RIGHT TO READ. FATHER TO EIGHT CHILDREN AND I APPRECIATE ALL THAT HE HAS DONE FOR OUR COUNTRY. ALL THAT HE REPRESENTS TO THIS COMMUNITY, AND I WILL BE SUPPORTING MS. SCHULTZ'S MOTION AND WORK

101IN ANY WAY I CAN TO HELP BRING THE STEWART COMMUNITY TOGETHER TO HEAL AND MOVE FORWARD. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. MS. EVANS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MADAM CHAIR, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN BE UNANIMOUS ON TONIGHT IS JUST HOW MUCH WE HAVE ENJOYED GETTING TO KNOW THE MENDEZ FAMILY. I HAVE HAD WONDERFUL CONVERSATIONS WITH TINA AND LOU AND HAVE REALLY ENJOYED READING THE E-MAILS FROM THE EXTENDED FAMILY AND OF COURSE IT'S A VERY LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY. WE HAVE GOTTEN A LOT OF E-MAILS FROM THEM AND OTHER PEOPLE. I WON'T REPEAT THE WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT COLONEL MENDEZ. MY COLLEAGUES HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB ABOUT THAT. HERE'S CLEARLY A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WORTHY OF HAVING A SCHOOL NAME FOR HIM, WHICH IS THE REASON THAT MY MOTION DOES PAY TRIBUTE TO HIM, AND

102MY INTENTION IS TO HAVE HIM BE ONE OF THREE PEOPLE THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY RECOGNIZED UNDER THE RUBRIC OF JUSTICE BECAUSE CERTAINLY HE FOUGHT VERY BRAVELY FOR FREEDOM AND FOR JUSTICE AND HAS A TRULY INSPIRATIONAL STORY. I HAVE GOTTEN, IT'S BEEN FUN, TOO, TO JUST GET RANDOM PHONE CALLS. I GOT A CALL TODAY FROM AN OLD FRIEND OF MEAN WHO WENT TO SCHOOL WITH ONE OF MENDEZ CHILDREN. I THINK IT WAS PHIL. YOU HAVE A PHIL IN YOUR FAMILY? HE WENT TO SCHOOL WITH PHIL AND REMEMBERS YOUR MOM FONDLY, SHE WAS LIKE A SECOND MOM TO A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. SO I ALSO GOT A CALL FROM A 91-YEAR OLD MAN WHO WAS ALSO A GRADUATE OF WEST POINT AND SAID AFTER SEEING THIS, HE WENT TO THE -- HE HAD ACCESS TO WEST POINT DOCUMENTS

103AND WENT BACK AND JUST WANTED ME TO KNOW WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN COLONEL MENDEZ WAS. THAT WAS LOVELY TO HEAR. I APPRECIATE MRS. SCHULTZ AND MY COLLEAGUES OFFERING THIS NAME. CERTAINLY IT WOULD IN FACT BE A WONDERFUL NAME. I AM NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION HOWEVER BECAUSE I FEEL THAT THE BEST WAY FORWARD IS TO INCLUDE ALL THREE OF THE NAMED INDIVIDUALS WHO RECEIVED SO MUCH ATTENTION FROM THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, SO, I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE GETTING TO KNOW MORE ABOUT COLONEL MENDEZ. WHEN WE GET THROUGH THIS PROCESS, PART OF THIS PIECE IS GOING TO BE EDUCATION ABOUT OUR HISTORY, ABOUT HOW WE GOT HERE AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INSPIRATIONAL TO US. SO I THINK I CAN SEE THE STUDENTS AT STEWART HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING ABOUT

104COLONEL MENDEZ AND BEING INSPIRED BY HIM. MS. KEYS-GAMARRA AND THEN MS. HYNES. AS THE DAUGHTER OF A VETERAN AND THE MOTHER OF A YOUNG MAN CURRENTLY ATTENDING WEST POINT, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE MENDEZ FAMILY. CERTAINLY MY SUPPORT OF THE MAIN MOTION WAS NO INTENT TO DISREGARD THE TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION THAT COLONEL MENDEZ HAS MADE. AS A MATTER OF FACT MY INTENT WAS TO RECOGNIZE THE TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES HERE. I -- I HAVE TO SAY, I CAN'T SUPPORT THE MOTION BECAUSE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE LENS EARLIER. AND AS A PERSON WHO HAS ADVOCATED FOR CHILDREN, I UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE DON'T EMBRACE THE TOTALITY OF THE ISSUE, WE OFTENTIMES FIND OURSELVES HAVING TO COME BACK AROUND AND TAKE THE SAME TEST AGAIN. SO, AS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS, I THINK

105AS MANY PEOPLE OF COLOR DO, THE STING OF RACISM, THE BURDEN OF RACISM, I CAN'T IGNORE THAT PART OF THIS PROBLEM. AND THAT IS THE REASON THAT I SUPPORT THE MAIN MOTION INCLUDING RECOGNIZING COLONEL MENDEZ, I DID BELIEVE HE SHOULD BE A PART OF THIS RECOGNITION AND IT IS ALSO MY HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE A SPARK TO THE FIRE OF RECONCILIATION. I UNDERSTAND THAT A NUMBER OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE HEARD SOME PRETTY UGLY THINGS AND I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. I APOLOGIZE. I KNOW I DIDN'T DO IT BUT AS A PUBLIC SERVANT, THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU DESERVED. I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO GO THROUGH THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS. NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE SOMEBODY THOUGHT I WAS A RACIST, BECAUSE THEY JUDGED ME OR MY CHILDREN BASED ON

106WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. I REALLY BELIEVE IN MY HEART OF HEARTS THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE TOTALITY OF THIS PROBLEM AND SO FOR THAT REASON, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. I DID ENJOY READING THE INFORMATION ON YOUR DAD. IT'S KIND OF NEAT. I WAS AT WEST POINT PARENT'S WEEKEND THIS LAST WEEKEND AND I LOOKED AT YOUR PICTURES AND I WAS LIKE, I WAS THERE. IT'S KIND OF COOL. BUT I CAN'T, I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS NOT A TIME TO LIFT ONE PERSON OVER THE OTHER AND I DON'T WANT TO PIT ONE GROUP AGAINST THE OTHER. I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE AND FOR THAT REASON, I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. MS. HYNES. YEAH. THANK YOU. I CAN'T ADD MUCH TO THAT. I WOULD JUST SAY AGAIN

107I THINK WE ALL ENJOYED GETTING TO KNOW THE MENDEZ FAMILY. WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY. I WILL BE HAPPY TO SUPPORT -- THANK YOU. THEN I WILL ALSO SPEAK. FIRST I WANT TO THANK THE MENDEZ FAMILY FOR BRINGING TO OUR ATTENTION THE WONDERFUL STORY OF COLONEL MENDEZ. I WANT TO THANK MR. WILSON FOR READING INTO THE RECORD THE DETAILS OF HIS LIFE. THAT WAS WONDERFUL. AND WELL, I WOULD PREFER TO NAME THE SCHOOL JUSTICE BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE CONTEXT. WE'RE LOOKING FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL AS ONE YOUNG MAN STOOD UP. WE ARE ONE AND I THINK THE CONTEXT IS OUR DEDICATION TO THE VALUE OF JUSTICE FOR ALL THAT CARRIES US FORWARD TO CELEBRATE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. BUT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US THIS STORY OF COLONEL MENDEZ. I DO HOPE AND I THINK

108WE WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE FOR HIS HONOR IN THIS SCHOOL. IT'S WORTH TELLING THE STORY. I THINK THAT GIVES MOTIVATION TO OUR STUDENTS. SO IF YOU HAD NOT COME FORWARD WITH THE STORY, WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND I HOPE YOU WILL SAVE, THIS IS BEING LIVE BROADCAST. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT AND HEAR THAT IN THE RECORD AND I BELIEVE IT MAY EVEN BE GOOGLEABLE. SO THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU. MR. MOON, DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK AGAIN? JUST BRIEFLY. AS I STATED EARLIER, I WAS GOING TO SUPPORT, I WOULD SUPPORT MENDEZ HIGH SCHOOL AS A NEW NAME. IN THIS FORMAT, THIS DULY CRAFTED WITH MS. SANDERS AMENDMENT TO MRS. SCHULTZ'S SUBSEQUENT MOTION, I AM SUPPORTING. I CAN SUPPORT THIS. IN ADDITION TO WHAT I

109HAVE SAID EARLIER, I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT, I THINK SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES MAY HAVE SAID THIS WHEN I WAS NOT IN THE ROOM. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MAKE UP OF A STUDENT BODY WITHIN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, YOU SEE, PLEASE, PLEASE, WHETHER YOU WANT TO CHEER OR JEER, WE ARE TRYING TO CONDUCT A BUSINESS MEETING. IF YOU COULD LEAVE US ALONE, I THINK WE CAN MOVE ALONG A LITTLE MORE SMOOTHLY THAT 25%, ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR STUDENTS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS HISPANIC. YET WE DO NOT HAVE A SINGLE NAME OF A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER HISPANIC PERSON. IT'S A PERFECT TIMING NOT ONLY TO BRING, I MEAN I WAS TRYING TO PICK THE BEST NAME TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER BECAUSE WE NEED TO DO A LOT OF HEALING AFTER HAVING

110GONE THROUGH THIS FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS. I THOUGHT TIMING WISE AND AMONG FIVE PLUS OR 73 NAMES THAT WAS SUGGESTED BY EITHER COMMITTEE, THAT MENDEZ WAS THE BEST CHOICE. AND IF I WANT TO ADD ONE MORE TO THAT, AS SOMEONE WHO IS ASIAN-AMERICAN, ASIAN-AMERICAN. WHEN I SEE 20% OF THE STUDENT BODY IN FAIRFAX COUNTY ASIAN BACKGROUND, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER ASIAN-AMERICAN SOME TIME VERY SOON TOO. WITH THAT IN MIND, I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS AMENDMENT. OKAY. WITH THAT, I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. I'M SORRY. MRS. MCLAUGHLIN. I JUST HAVE A QUICK GO BACK. IN LISTENING TO MY COLLEAGUES DELIBERATIONS AND I KNOW THAT EVERYONE TRIED TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT THIS. BEFORE WE GO TO THE VOTE, I WOULD ASK THOSE ESPECIALLY WHO HAVEN'T SPOKEN ON WHERE THEY'RE GOING

111TO BE ON THIS VOTE THAT'S ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE RIGHT NOW. THIS IS ONE OF TOP FIVE THAT CAME OUT OF THE COMMUNITY. AND WHILE I APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUE MS. EVANS IN THE DAYS COMING UP TO TONIGHT'S VOTE, ABOUT WHAT WE ALL HOPED FOR, JUSTICE IS NOT ONE OF THE NAMES THAT CAME OUT OF THE COMMUNITY PROCESS. AND IF WE ARE REALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW DO WE HELP THE COMMUNITY HEAL, HOW DO WE HELP THE COMMUNITY HAVE FAITH IN WHAT WE PROMISED TO DO, WHICH IS WE HAD A NOMINATION PROCESS, WE TOOK ALL OF THOSE NAMES AND WE BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY BACK FOR A SECOND DATE A WEEK LATER TO PLEASE VOTE AND THE NAMES CAME FORWARD, AND I HAVE VERY HIGH HOPES THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE COMMUNITY SAID, THESE ARE ONE

112OF THE FIVE LEWIS G MENDEZ IS ONE OF THE FIVE. IF WE'RE NOT GOING WITH THE NUMBER ONE VOTE GETTER OR THE SECOND TOP VOTE GETTER, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. WE NEED YOU ALL TO RESPECT THE FACT WE'RE ALL WORKING AS HARD AND TRYING TO RESPECT THE COMMUNITY AND JUST LIKE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK WITH EACH OTHER AFTER TONIGHT'S VOTE, PART OF THE DIVISIVENESS ON THIS ISSUE THAT IT'S REALLY TORN THE COMMUNITY APART IS THE FACT THE JUDGMENT LEVEL EVEN AS I'M SPEAKING RIGHT NOW FROM PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, PLEASE YOU CAN SO RESPECTFULLY AGREE WITH ME. THAT'S OKAY. BUT JUST LET ME GET MY REMARKS OUT. IT'S MY CONCERN THAT THE MAIN MOTION DOES NOT REFLECT THE NOMINATIONS THAT CAME FROM THE COMMUNITY AND I HAD REALLY HOPED WHEN WE HAD TO DELIBERATE

113ON FIVE CHOICES BECAUSE THERE WASN'T A SINGULAR MAJORITY ON THE NAMES, WE LOOK TO GIVE HOPE TO THE COMMUNITY. AS MR. MOON SAID, THIS IS THE NAME THAT ABSOLUTELY BRINGS US FORWARD AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM AND ALLOWS TO HONOR A PERSON OF COLOR. AND SO, I JUST HOPE THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL TRYING TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO WILL THINK ABOUT THAT BEFORE THIS NEXT VOTE HAPPENS. THANK YOU. I WILL RESTATE THE MOTION FOR THE RECORD. ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THERE WAS A NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. AMONG OTHER THINGS THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS CONVENED AT COMMUNITY MEETING TO SOLICIT SUGGESTIONS AND HELD AN ADVISORY VOTE BY HOUSEHOLDS WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S ATTENDED AREA. I MOVE THAT THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL BE NAMED TO COLONEL

114LEWIS G MENDEZ HIGH SCHOOL. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION AS STATED. MR. WILSON, MS. MCLAUGHIN. EVANS, MR. MOON, MS. SCHULTZ, KAUFAX. I'M SORRY, YOU SAID MS. EVANS. I'M SORRY. MS. SCHULTZ. YES. DID I -- I DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY MS. EVANS. I WAS LOOKING AT MS. SCHULTZ. WE HAVE THAT VOTE? MS. CORBETT. WOULD YOU PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS AGAIN. WE DO NEED TO GET THIS CORRECT. I'M SORRY. MR. WILSON, MCLAUGHLIN, SANDERS, MOON, SCHULTZ AND KAUFAX. OPPOSED. THAT VOTE FAILS ON A TIE VOTE. MRS. SCHULTZ, WOULD WE STRIKE YOUR OTHER MOTION THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IDENTICAL? OF COURSE, UNLESS YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOTE AGAIN. I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE THIS VOTE AGAIN. MR. MOON. DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? POINT OF ORDER. TO BE, TO COMPLY WITH THE MAJORITY, WE JUST VOTED ON

115MS. SANDERS AMENDMENT TO SUBSTITUTE AND THAT FAILED AND NOW WE HAVE, WE HAVE MRS. SCHULTZ SUBSEQUENT MOTION TO THE MAIN MOTION. ALL RIGHT. WE CAN READ IT AGAIN AND VOTE AGAIN. ACTUALLY, SURE. THAT'S FINE. AND MADAM CHAIR, I HAD MY LIGHT ON AND THAT WAS WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK SO I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK BEFORE WE HAD OUR FINAL -- WE KNOW HOW THE VOTE IS GOING TO GO. SO, THERE IS DIGNITY IN THIS CHOICE AND A DIGNITY FOR EVERY COLOR STUDENT AND BACKGROUND, NOT JUST FROM JEB BUT IN FAIRFAX COUNTY WHERE STUDENTS SPEAK 200 LANGUAGES. I AM FAIRLY SHOCKED THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE SITTING AT THIS TABLE WHO ARE NOT SPEAKING WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO HAS A DIPLOMAT HAS AN ADVANCED DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WHO IS A LINGUIST AND

116A PROFESSOR THAT PROVIDES ADULT EDUCATION. THIS IS GOING DOWN AGAIN AND WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO SUCCESSIVE MOTIONS BUT THE ONLY PEOPLE OF COLOR THAT WERE PUT IN THE TOP FIVE ARE GOING TO BE TURNED DOWN TONIGHT. AND IF THAT IS NOT A TRAVESTY WE'RE SUBMITTING A CONCEPT WORD THAT IS SUPPOSED TO WIPE OUT THOSE NAMES AND ACT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ACTUAL ICONS, ACTUAL PEOPLE OF COLOR, ACTUAL PEOPLE WHO HAD A ROLE IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND COLONEL MENDEZ WAS FEATURED IN A NATIONAL MAGAZINE ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. INTEGRATION IN ACTION. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET A BETTER ROLE MODEL TO HOLDUP BUT I BROUGHT BEING BEGGED A LATER MOTION THAT IS ALSO ANOTHER PERSON OF COLOR. SO I BROUGHT TWO MOTIONS TONIGHT AND I AM BEGGING MY COLLEAGUES TO NOT TAKE A WORD OUT

117OF THE DICTIONARY THAT WE NEVER SAID TO THE COMMUNITY, WE WANT YOU TO VOTE FOR A CONCEPT NAME. OR WE WANT YOU TO VOTE FOR THE IDEA OF PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN CIVIL RIGHTS. WE HAVE SAID JUST LAST MONDAY ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES PROFESSED WE NEED TO HAVE A FOLLOW ON MOTION TONIGHT ABOUT NAMING FUTURE SCHOOLS AND FINDING MORE ICONS AND NAMING MORE SCHOOLS AFTER WOMEN AND MORE SCHOOLS AFTER PEOPLE OF COLOR TO BE MORE REFLECTIVE OF PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE COMMUNITY AND YET JUSTICE IS BLIND. IT'S BLIND TO ALL AND BLIND TO COLOR. IT DOESN'T REFLECT ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH THIS COMMUNITY AND NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROCESS. THERE IS NO INTEGRITY IF YOU TAKE OUT OF THE PROCESS THAT WHICH WE ADVERTISED TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE COMMUNITY BROUGHT

118FORWARD NAMES AND DR. BRAVRAND BROUGHT US FIVE OPTIONS. A NEUTRAL OPTION WAS PROVIDED TO US THAT WAS NO NAME. THAT DIDN'T ELEVATE ONE PERSON OVER ANOTHER. THAT'S PEACE VALLEY. THE LANE ON WHICH THE SCHOOL SITS. AND THREE OPTIONS OF COLOR. THREE OPTION OF ICONS. THREE LIVES TO UPHOLD AND SAY ARE THESE THE CHOICES WE WILL MAKE. THE ONE UNFORTUNATELY IN MARSHALL AND I WILL SPEAK AGAIN TO IT LATER, WE HAVE NOT ONE BUT TWO MARSHALLS IN OUR REGION. IMAGINE A CALL OUT TO 911 THAT THERE IS AN EMERGENCY, A STUDENT IN DISTRESS. A STUDENT HIT BY A BUS AT MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL. WHICH MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL? THE THURGOOD MARSHALL UNFORTUNATELY JUST WASN'T A GOOD NAME. I THINK WE SHOULD CONSIDER THURGOOD MARSHALL, IF YOU WANT TO GO FOR THE NAME, GO FOR THURGOOD MARSHALL, THE JUSTICE.

119DON'T WIPE IT OUT AND SEPARATE IT. I OFFERED BARBARA ROSE JOHNS, FOR ME THE ABILITY TONIGHT TO TAKE IN THE TOTALITY OF THESE LIVES AND THE TOTALITY OF WHAT THEY OFFERED FOR THEIR WHOLE LIFE, NOT ON ONE DAY, AS NOBLE AS IT WAS. BUT THE WHOLE TIME AS AN EXEMPLARY MODEL TO YOUNG PEOPLE. THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY IN OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY TO BE LEADERS. IT'S HARD TO COMPROMISE. AND I HAVE COME, I HAVE COME SO FAR TO COMPROMISE AND I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE BIT GIVE FROM WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND SO THAT WE CAN LEAD TOGETHER AS A BOARD INSTEAD OF ONE SIDE WINS AND INTEGRITY LOSES AND NO NAME WINDS UP AS A PROCESS THAT FROM THE FIVE OR THE 73 OR ANY

120NAME THAT WAS PUT FORWARD BY THE COMMUNITY AND INSTEAD WE WIND UP WITH A WORD. THIS IS THE CHOICE RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN REDO THIS VOTE AND 6-6 CONVENIENT DEADLOCK DOESN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN. SOMEBODY HAS TO HAVE COURAGE AND SAY THIS IS SOMEBODY WE CAN HONOR AND UPHOLD. MRS. KEYS-GAMARRA. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS SCHOOL NAMED AFTER A PERSON THAT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS THE TOTALITY OF THE PROBLEM AND THAT WOULD BE JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. THIS BOARD SAID IT WOULD CREATE ISSUES. I DON'T THINK THAT 911 HAS BEEN HAVING A PROBLEM FINDING OUR SCHOOLS. I THINK THEY'RE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO FIND AN ADDRESS. SO IF YOU WANT A NAME I PUT IT UP. I PUT UP THE NAME, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. IF YOU WANT A PERSON, THAT'S THE PERSON. THE REASON WE PUT JUST, I PERSONALLY

121DIDN'T WANT TO AND I HEARD FROM MANY CONSTITUENTS WHO DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE HIM OUT. WHAT I AM REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT IS THAT OUR CHILDREN HAVE OFTEN BEEN TAUGHT AS THIS YOUNG LADY TESTIFIED TODAY, HOW SHE'S BEEN TOLD TO SWALLOW IT BY ADULTS. WE TAKE THE PAST AND WE SAY HONEY, I'M SORRY, THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS. AND AS AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS, WE HAVE ON SIT OUR KIDS DOWN, WE HAVE TO TELL THEM HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POLICE. WE HAVE TO TELL THEM HOW NOT TO MOVE WHEN THEY'RE STOPPED. THAT IS THE THING THAT I DO NOT WANT TO TELL OUR CHILDREN TO SWALLOW. SO IF YOU WANT A NAME, I OFFER YOU JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] OKAY. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION

122ON THE FLOOR. YES. MR. MOON. I AM SO SORRY. I JUST WANT TO AGAIN MAKE IT CLEAR THAT BECAUSE THIS PARTICULAR MOTION IS NOT THE RIGHT FORMAT THAT I SEE, READ IT, I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING THIS MOTION EVEN THOUGH I SUPPORT THE NAME COLONEL LEWIS MENDEZ. I BELIEVE IT DID ADD -- OH, IT DID NOT. MADAM CHAIR, CAN I HAVE A POINT OF CLARITY? SURE. I GUESS DEPUTY CLERK, CLERK OF THE BOARD, I DON'T -- I GUESS WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED SO FAR. MS. SCHULTZ WAS THE MAKER OF HER OWN MOTION AND SO SHE HAD NO ABILITY OF ANY KIND TO JUST MODIFY HER OWN MOTION AT THE TABLE. LIKE BY ROBERT'S RULE SHE HAS NO RIGHT? ONCE THE MOTION IS MADE, SECONDED AND ANNOUNCED BY THE CHAIR, IT BELONGS TO

123THE BODY NOT THE PERSON WHO MADE THE MOTION. SO THEN WHEN MS. STRAUSS TOOK OUR VOTE, WE DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB BECAUSE WE LOOKED LIKE WE WERE VOTING ON THE REVISED MOTION AND MR. MOON POINTED OUT IT WAS THE AMENDMENT. EVERYBODY, LOOKS LIKE WE NEED A LITTLE MORE HOMEWORK. OKAY. YES. THAT IS TRUE. THE LAST MOTION FAILED. MADAM CHAIR -- IT WAS READ INCORRECTLY INTO THE RECORD. IT HAS TO BE REVOTED ON. THE PROPOSED CHANGE AND THEN YOU -- HOLD ON. JUST A POINT OF ORDER. I THINK IT'S CLEAR THAT THE PRESENTATION OF THE MOTION WAS COMPLETE WITH THE ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE SO I THINK WE NEED TO REDO THE VOTE. I THINK EVERYONE WAS UNDER THE MIS -- MISIMPRESSION. IT WAS THE MOTION AS AMENDED BY MS. CORBETT-SANDERS. THAT WAS THE MOTION I READ

124AND FAILED ON A 6-6 TIE. IS THE PROBLEM. SO IT DID GO DOWN. WE ARE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION THAT MRS. SCHULTZ PRESENTED AND THEREFORE WE ARE BACK TO THIS MOTION AND I WILL READ IT AND WE WILL VOTE ON THAT. MADAM CHAIR. POINT OF ORDER. I DO WANT TO CLARIFY THAT IF I HAD BEEN CLEAR IN MY OWN MIND THAT THIS WAS SIMPLY ACCEPTING THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, I KNOW WE DON'T REALLY HAVE FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS, WE ALL WOULD HAVE ACCEPT ED THE AMENDMENTS. I WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO ACCEPT THE AMENDMENT. I THINK THE WAY IT WAS READ, I BELIEVE WE ALL BELIEVED WE WERE VOTING ON THE ENTIRE THING. RIGHT. WELL, WE NEED TO GO ON NOW. I MOVE THAT THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL BE CHANGED TO COLONEL LEWIS G.

125MENDEZ JUNIOR AND THE SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMEND AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION AS READ. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION AS READ. IT IS WHAT IS ON THE TABLE. MR. WILSON, MCLAUGHLIN. SANDERS, SCHULTZ, KAUFAX. OPPOSE, EVANS, PULL CHICK, MCELVEEN, KEYS-GAMARRA. I WILL CALL ON MR. WILSON FOR A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR. ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THERE EXISTS A COMPELLING NAME TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSUED A PROCESS TO DETERMINE A COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NEW NAME. AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS CONVENED MEETINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. I MOVE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL BE CHANGED TO STEWART, A FURTHER MOVE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND AN IMPLEMENTATION. THANK YOU. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED BY

126MS. KAUFAX. MR. WILSON. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION? THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I THINK THAT OUR RECENT VOTE UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMENTS MADE AT THE DIAS ABOUT PROCESS AND BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THE COMMUNITY. OUR PROCESS NEEDS TO BE CLEAR AND GIVE BOTH THE APPEARANCE OF THE PROPRIETY. I'M NOT SURE WE JUST DID THAT. HAVING SAID THAT, LET ME BEGIN BY SAYING THAT ON JULY 27TH, THE MOTION THAT WAS PASSED BY THIS BOARD READ IN PART, THAT THE BOARD DIRECTS STAFF TO START THE RENAMING PROCESS THIS FALL AND THAT IS PART OF THE PROCESS IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE NEED TO MINIMIZE COSTS AS WELL AS THE DESIRE TO FOR CONTINUITY FOR ALUMNI. STAFF REQUESTS THE STEWART COMMUNITY CONSIDER STEWART HIGH SCHOOL AS THE NEW NAME. THE

127COMMUNITY THEN VOTED AND EXPRESSED A PLURALITY SUPPORT FOR THE NAME STEWART HIGH SCHOOL WITH OVER 70 NAMES SUBMITTED, IT WOULD BE UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT A MAJORITY TO VOTE FOR ANY SINGLE NAME. OUR POLICY REGARDING NAME CHANGES IN THE FIRST OPERATIVE PARAGRAPH READS, IN FULFILLING THE RESPONSIBILITY, IT SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SCHOOL BOARD TO SELECT NAMES OF FACILITIES AND AUTHORIZE THE NAMING OF AREAS OF SCHOOL FACILITIES OR GROUNDS TO HONOR INDIVIDUALS. IN FULFILLING THIS RESPONSIBILITY, THE SCHOOL BOARD SHALL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO RESPECT THE PREFERENCE OF THE COMMUNITY. IN MY VIEW, THE COMMUNITY EXPRESSED ITS PREFERENCE. AND WHEN THEY VOTED AT THE ADVISORY VOTE, IN SEPTEMBER, RECENTLY IN THE PAPER, LOCAL PAPER AND I WON'T NAME WHICH ONE, AFTER THIS VOTE AND PRIOR TO OUR MEETING TONIGHT, IT SAYS LOOKS LIKE THE LEADERSHIP OF

128THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS BEEN BOXED IN WHEN IT COMES WITH WHAT TO DO WITH THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS PROPOSED A NUMBER OF LESS THAN INSPIRED OPTIONS THAT EVOLVED OUT OF A PUBLIC OPINION. TOP OF RANKING AMONG THE PUBLIC IS TO DO WHAT WE DID SO LONG AGO. DUMP THE JEB, KEEP THE STEWART. DECLARE VICTORY AND MOVE ON. IT'S THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION THAT MAYBE THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL BE SAVVY ENOUGH TO LATCH ON. WE'LL SEE. UNFORTUNATELY SINCE THE VOTE AND LEADING UP TO THIS MEETING, WE ALL RECEIVED A NUMBER OF DISHEARTENING E-MAILS FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE PROCESS. SOME OF THEM FROM STUDENTS. BUT WE ASKED THE STUDENTS WHAT THEIR PREFERENCE WAS. WE SURVEYED THE STUDENTS. THE SURVEYS, THE STUDENTS SAID THEY DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE.

129SO WE HAVE THE INFORMATION OF THE STUDENTS. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF AN E-MAIL WE RECEIVED RECENTLY. THE INCREDIBLE DISREGARD OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD HAS SHOWN FOR THE CHOICE OF THE COMMUNITY FEELINGS OF ALUMNI IS STAGGERING. AT THE LAST MINUTE YOU INTEND TO RENAME JEB STEWART TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL CLAIMING THE TOTAL OF THE VOTE SHOWED A PREFERENCE FOR A NEW NAME. THE FIRST CHOICE WAS STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. AND THAT WAS DEEMED A GOOD COMPROMISE. NOW YOU WANT TO SLIP SOMETHING ELSE IN AT THE LAST MOMENT. THE ANOTHER E-MAIL. MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE LIVED IN THE JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL AREA FOR 22 YEARS. WE WERE DEFINITELY OPPOSED TO HAVING THE NAME CHANGED FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WHEN OUR SCHOOL NEEDS THE MONEY. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF PEOPLE FAR AND WIDE

130IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA FIGHTING TO CHANGE THE NAMES OF SCHOOLS, STREETS AND TOWNS TO THE TUNE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THAT SAID, WE WERE HAPPY TO SEE THAT VOTING TO DECIDE THE NAME WAS BEING UPON DONE FAIRLY IN A HONEST MANNER. THE NAME STEWART WAS THE WINNING NAME RECEIVING THE MOST VOTES. I UNDERSTAND THAT NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO MOST LIKELY DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE STEWART BOUNDARIES TRYING TO SABOTAGE THE VOTE AND SAY STEWART WAS NOT THE WINNING NAME. THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE TO VOTE IF THEY LIVED IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THEY DIDN'T. I ASKED IF YOU GO AGAINST THE NAME WITH CLEARLY THE MOST VOTES, WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF HAVING A VOTE? HONESTY AND INTEGRITY NOT A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY? WE WANT TO SHOW WE TRUST YOUR

131WORDS AND ACTIONS. ANOTHER E-MAIL. AS A VOTING MEMBER OF THE STEWART COMMUNITY I ASK EACH OF YOU TO CONSIDER THE MESSAGE YOU SEND TO THE NEXTGENERATION OF VOTERS. IN OUR HOME, WHICH INCLUDES A CURRENT STEWART ATHLETE DISCUSSED THIS COMMUNITY ISSUE THROUGH THE FIRST SPECIAL ELECTION. WE DID NOT TAKE OUR VOTE LIKELY AND OUR CHILDREN THOUGHT THEIR VOICE WOULD BE HEARD AND RESPECTED BY THE DISTRICT. EVEN IF THE NAME THAT WE PREFERRED DIDN'T WIN, WE WOULD RESPECT THE ELECTION. DISREGARDING THE PROPOSAL BROUGHT BEFORE THE BOARD MAINTAINING STEWART NAME, OR A CLEAR WINNER OF ANOTHER NAME BY THE COMMUNITY AND PROPOSING A NAME THAT WASN'T ON THE BALLOT, THE SUPERINTENDENT IS TELLING MY CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN OF OUR COMMUNITY THEIR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT AND THAT IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION, YOU DON'T

132HAVE TO ABIDE BY THEM. THE MESSAGE YOU SEND IF YOU APPROVE THIS RECOMMENDATION IS THAT APATHY AND ANARCHY ARE BEFORE THEM. WE LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE JUSTICE MARSHALL LIVED AND HIS NAME WOULD BE A WONDERFUL NAME FOR ONE OF NEW SCHOOLS BUILT IN THE COUNTY AS WOULD MANY OF THE OTHER NAMES ON THE BALLOT. BUT THE STUDENTS OF STEWART TOOK THE DISTRICT AT THEIR WORD THAT THEIR COMMUNITY WOULD BE HEARD. THIS IS NOT A PRIMARY BALLOT. THIS WAS NOT CATALONIA IN SPAIN. WE ASK YOU TO TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND RESPECT THE VOTE AND THE PROCESS YOU LAID OUT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS LONG AND PAINFUL PROCESS. ALL RIGHT. LASTLY. AM I DON'T KNOW THE CURRENT INCLINATIONS BUT I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU HONOR THE COMMUNITY WISHES WE WERE IGNORED ABOUT WHETHER TO CHANGE

133THE NAME AND WE WERE ASKED FOR RECOMMENDATIONS. NOW WE HAVE AGREED TO THE RECOMMENDATION OF SIMPLY STEWART AND THE STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY ASSUMED THE VOTE MEANT SOMETHING. SO THEY HAVE EMBRACED #NEWSTEW AS A MODEL. AFTER ALL, PLEASE HELP US GET THIS. AFTER ALL THE BACK-HANDED DEALS THIS FAR, IT WOULD BE A REAL SLAP IN THE FACE FOR THE COMMUNITY TO BE IGNORED AGAIN. AND LASTLY, THIS IS FROM THE WASHINGTON POST. SHOULD FAIRFAX COUNTY'S REB STEWART AND ROBERT E. LEE HIGH SCHOOL AND STREETS BE RECHRISTENED BECAUSE THEIR NAMES WERE CONFEDERATE HEROES. THERE'S VALUE IN HISTORICAL INTRO~ SPECTION. NO DOUBT IT'S HARD KNOWING WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE BETWEEN YOUR OFFENSIVE HISTORIC SYMBOLS SUCH AS THE CONFEDERATE FLAG AND THOSE WHOSE LEGACY IS MIXED. YET IT'S A DANGEROUS BUSINESS TO AIR BRUSH THE PAST. A PRACTICE MORE

134CHARACTERISTIC OF TOTALITARIA N COMMUNITIES. IT'S WISER TO LEARN FROM HISTORY THAN PROVIDE ITS CONTEXT THAN TO BANISH IT. THAT'S FROM THE WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL BOARD. I DID NOT VOTE FOR THE MOTION IN JULY. I BRING THIS MOTION FORWARD ONLY AFTER I REALIZE IT HAD BEEN PULLED BECAUSE I THINK THOSE WHO STOOD FOR THE NAME STEWART OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS DESERVE RECOGNITION AND A HEARING AND A VOTE TONIGHT. IT'S VERY UNFAIR TREATMENT TO IMPLY THAT THEY SUPPORT STEWART FOR RACIST MOTIVATIONS. I THINK THAT IN FAIRNESS WE SHOULD DISCUSS THE ISSUES AND REACH A CONCLUSION, PROTECT AND USE WISELY THE FUNDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS STEWART NAME KEEPING THE STEWART NAME DOES EXACTLY WHAT WE ASKED IN THE JULY 27TH MOTION. THANK YOU. MS. KAUFAX. I THINK MR. WILSON FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

135IT WAS DONE LATE IN THE DAY. THE COMMENTS THAT I MADE EARLIER I THINK ARE MOST CURRENT AND I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD AT THIS TIME. I'M SORRY, MS. EVANS AND MS. MCLAUGHLIN. MS. MCLAUGHLIN IS NEXT. ALL RIGHT. SO, I DO APPRECIATE THAT MR. WILSON BROUGHT THIS FORWARD BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY WRESTLED WITH. WE ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS SURVEYED THE COMMUNITY FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY WERE, AND THAT WAS PART OF THE SCHOOL BOARD'S CHANGE IN ITS POLICY. I VOTED WITH THE PRIOR BOARD NOT THIS BOARD, THE PRIOR BOARD TO ALLOW THIS BOARD AND THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM TO RENAME SCHOOLS WHEN A COMPELLING NEED WAS IDENTIFIED AND WHEN THERE WAS GOING TO BE COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR IT. AND WE THEN HAD A REGULATION DEVELOPED BY THE FORMER SUPERINTENDENT

136NOT IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD. NONE OF US SAW THE LANGUAGE OR KNEW HOW IT WAS BEING EXECUTED ON. THE DEFINITION OF COMPELLING NEED, MANY YOU OF HEARD IN JULY WAS NOT DEFINED IN A WAY MANY OF US UNDERSTAND THEN AND UNDERSTAND NOW. BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW IS WHEN THIS BOARD MAJORITY OF 7, 2 TO 2, SAID WE WOULD BE VOTING TO CHANGE THE NAME TO STEWART AS MR. WILSON REITERATED, I THINK VERY IMPORTANTLY THAT THIS BOARD SAID IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE WE WANTED THE STEWART COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER STEWART HIGH SCHOOL AS A NAME THAT WOULD EMBODY THAT SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE. THAT WAS THE DIRECTION THE BOARD GAVE TO THE STEWART COMMUNITY. AND BY A MARGIN OF 2-1. STEWART HIGH SCHOOL CAME OUT ON TOP. NOW IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING AGAIN AS SOMEONE

137WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT HISTORY AND HAS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN HISTORY, IT'S DIFFICULT LOOKING AT THE LEGACY OF A HIGH SCHOOL NAMED AFTER A CONFEDERATE GENERAL IN 2017. BUT WHAT WE ALSO KNOW ABOUT THE STEWART FAMILY AND THEIR EXTENSIVE HISTORY IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IS THEY FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE WAR OF 1812. SERVED AS A CONGRESSMAN. THE STEWART FAMILY HAS A NOBLE LEGACY. I'M NOT SAYING JEB DOES, I'M NOT EVEN GOING DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE DON'T. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY IS CLEAR ON THAT. THE STEWART FAMILY DOES HAVE A LONG LEGACY IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND LOOKING FOR THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE WHICH THIS BOARD PUT IN PLACE IS WHAT WE COMMUNICATED OUT AND CAME BACK NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME BUT FOR THE THIRD TIME. TWO PRIOR SURVEYS AND

138THEN THE COMMUNITY VOTES. STEWART STILL KEPT COMING OUT ON TOP. SO, IN TERMS OF MR. WILSON'S MOTION BEFORE ALL OF YOU, I FEEL THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE STEWART HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY THAT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS THE DIRECTION THAT THE BOARD GAVE YOU AND THIS WAS THE NUMBER ONE VOTES THAT CAME OUT OF IT. IF WE HAD INTENDED FOR THE STEWART COMMUNITY TO GIVE US A 50% PLUS ONE NAME, IN ORDER FOR US TO KNOW WHERE YOU WERE ON SOMETHING, MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE HELPED TO SET EXPECTATIONS BUT WE DIDN'T. SHOULD WE HAVE DONE THE PROCESS DIFFERENTLY? I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE FOR A LOT FURTHER CONVERSATION TONIGHT. BUT I AGREE WITH MR. WILSON THAT WE NEED TO GIVE YOU ALL AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THAT WE DO

139RECOGNIZE THAT STEWART BY 2-1 MARGIN AND THE STUDENTS WITH THE NEW HASHTAG NEW STEW. SAYING WE FEEL A 60 YEAR CONNECTION TO STEWART NOT NECESSARILY JEB STEWART. THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED HERE TONIGHT. I BELIEVE MS. EVANS IS NEXT AND THEN MR. MOON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I ACTUALLY AM GLAD THAT THIS WAS PUT ON THE TABLE BECAUSE WE DID ASK THE COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER THIS AND PROBABLY DO NEED TO DISCUSS IT. IN WILL JUDGE, WHEN WE VOTED TO CHANGE THE NAME AND AGAIN I THINK WE DO NEED TO MAKE CLEAR WE MADE THE DECISION IN JULY TO CHANGE THE NAME. WE'RE NOT REVISITING THAT DECISION TONIGHT. WE'RE ONLY DECIDING TONIGHT WHAT THE NEW NAME WILL BE. WE ASKED THE COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER THE NAME STEWART. WOULD THIS BE A COMPROMISE? AND THE HOPE

140OF SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES WAS THAT THIS WOULD IN FACT BE UNIFYING. IT WAS NOT. WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT IT FURTHER DIVIDED THE COMMUNITY. IT DIDN'T BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. I WILL POINT OUT AS MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE WRITTEN TO US POINTED OUT THAT THE MOST HOUSEHOLDS IN THE VOTE, VOTED FOR JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. THE NUMBER OF MOST HOUSEHOLDS VOTED FOR JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. WE DID NOT IN THIS PROCESS HAVE A RUN OFF AS WE HAVE HAD IN OTHER SITUATIONS WHEN WE NAMED MASON CREST, WE HAD SEVERAL ROUNDS OF VOTING BEFORE WE CAME TO A CONSENSUS THERE. WHEN WE LOOKED AT BAILEY'S UPPER, WE HAD THREE ROUNDS OF VOTING AND THE END WAS SO CLOSE. THE COMMUNITY SAID LET'S HAVE A FINAL RUN OFF IN THE COMMUNITY MEETING AND THAT'S WHEN WE CONFIRMED BAILEY'S UPPER.

141WE TYPICALLY WHEN WE HAVE HAD THAT KIND OF PROCESS TYPICALLY TAKE THE TOP NAME BECAUSE BY THE END WE HAVE MORE THAN 50% OF PEOPLE PARTICIPATING WHO HAVE AGREED THIS IS THE BEST OF THE NAMES. NOW THIS OF COURSE WE HAD 73 HERE SO THAT WAS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT. WE ASKED THE COMMUNITY TO LOOK AT THIS NAME AS A POSSIBLE UNIFIER. MORE THAN 80% CHOSE SOMETHING ELSE. I LOOK BACK AT OTHER HISTORY. WE ALSO HAD A COMMUNITY MEETING WHEN WE WENT TO NAME SOUTH COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL. IN THAT CASE, THE TOP VOTE GETTER THE FIRST TIME AND SECOND TIME WAS HAROLD J. WILSON. WE DON'T HAVE A HAROLD J. WILSON HIGH SCHOOL. THE BOARD CHOSE THE SECOND NAME FROM THE COMMUNITY IN THAT CASE. I RECEIVED MANY, MANY E-MAILS FROM PEOPLE SAYING WHATEVER YOU

142DO, DON'T GO WITH STEWART BECAUSE THAT'S SIMPLY A CONTINUATION OF THE CURRENT NAME. STUDENTS THERE AND PARENTS REFER TO THIS AS STEWART HIGH SCHOOL NOW. SOME OF THE SPIRIT WEAR SAYS STEWART ON IT. IF THE COMMUNITY HAD COME OUT OVERWHELMING AND SAID, SURE, THAT'S A GOOD COMPROMISE, LET'S GO WITH THAT. THIS BOARD COULD HAVE BEEN CONFIDENT ABOUT IT. I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL THE E-MAILS BUT I WILL READ ONE I GOT FROM A TEACHER THERE. I REAL ROCK STAR. WE HAVE ALL GOTTEN THIS. WHILE SOME PEOPLE HAVE SUGGESTED STEWART AS A COMPROMISE AND EASY SOLUTION. KEEPING THIS NAME AFTER THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTED TO CREATE A NEW NAME WILL NOT REFLECT WELL ON OUR COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT. QUITE FRANKLY IT WILL BE AN EMBARRASSMENT NOW MATTER HOW YOU SPIN IT, IT CONTINUES TO

143HONOR A CONFEDERATE PAST THAT DOES NOT REFLECT OUR CURRENT SCHOOL POPULATION AND COMMUNITY. I HOPE YOU HAVE THE LEADERSHIP AND COURAGE TO MAKE A NEW NAME. HE CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT HOW THIS COMMUNITY WILL CONTINUE TO BE A STRONG COMMUNITY NO MATTER WHAT WE DO. HE SUPPORTS THE NAME OF JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND SAYS IT WILL BE GREAT AND HELP US MOVE FORWARD. I'M GOING TO READ ANOTHER ANTIDOTE, HE SAID I READ A COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY AND HER QUESTION WHY SHE AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SHOULD ATTEND A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER SOMEONE WHO WANTED TO ENSLAVE HER? IT REALLY BROUGHT HOME WHY THIS NAME DOES MATTER AND WHY WE WILL BE BETTER IN THE LONG RUN WITH A NEW NAME. I WILL BE OPPOSING THIS MOTION. MR. MOON, I BELIEVE YOU'RE NEXT. BACK IN JULY WHEN

144I SUPPORTED TO CHANGE THE NAME, I CERTAINLY THOUGHT STEWART THE NAME STEWART WAS A COMPROMISE. I SUPPORT IT DIRECTING STAFF TO REQUEST THE COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER STEWART HIGH SCHOOL AS THE NEW NAME. I WANTED TO SEE HOW THE COMMUNITY WAS GOING TO RESPOND TO THAT REQUEST FROM THE BOARD. I WANTED TO SEE THE EXTENT FROM THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE NAME. I HAVE COME TO A CONCLUSION THAT THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO KEEP, HAVE THE NAME OF STEWART AS THE NEW NAME. THAT IS WHY I'M NOT SUPPORTING THIS AMENDMENT. MS. SCHULTZ. YOUR LIGHT IS ON. YOU WISH TO SPEAK? SO, WE DIDN'T SAY TO THE PUBLIC THE NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS IS WHAT MATTERS. WE DIDN'T SAY TO THE PUBLIC AND THEY WERE NO MOTIONS OR AMENDMENTS TO MOTIONS ON JULY 27TH

145TO TAKE OUT THAT LANGUAGE. AND IF THE PROFESSION IS FOR TWO YEARS THERE'S A PULSE ON THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS, THEN WHY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, ALMOST 90 DAYS AGO, WHY NOT SIX MONTHS AGO, A YEAR AGO WAS THERE AN UNDERSTANDING THAT STEWART NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD AS A NAME TO THE COMMUNITY? I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THAT MOTION. I DIDN'T VOTE FOR PUTTING FORWARD THE NAME STEWART TO THE COMMUNITY. SEVEN OF YOU GUYS DID. AT THE TIME I EXPRESSED MY INCREDIT DUALITY THAT WAS A REASONABLE OUTCOME TO THE PROCESS THAT SOUGHT, THE VERY PROCESS THAT SOUGHT TO CHANGE THE NAME IN THE FIRST PLACE. I VOTED AGAINST GIVING THE COMMUNITY THE NAME STEWART BECAUSE I KNEW THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. AND YET THAT COMPROMISE WAS REACHED IN ORDER TO GET

146MORE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THE MOTION ON JULY 27TH AND GET THAT FORWARD. SO IT WAS A FALSE NARRATIVE THAT WAS PUT FORWARD BY THIS BOARD TO SAY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER STEWART. WE WANT TO SAVE MONEY, PLEASE CONSIDER IT AS AN OPTION TO HEAL THE COMMUNITY BUT WE'RE NEVER REALLY, WE NEVER REALLY ARE GOING TO CONSIDER IT. WE CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. WE CAN'T PROFESS THAT SOMETHING IS A PROCESS, THAT SOMETHING IS A REGULATION OR POLICY AND DECIDE HALFWAY THROUGH WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE POLICY. WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE REGULATION. WE'RE GOING TO ADVERTISE A PROCESS. COLLECT NAMES. WE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE VOTE WAS. AND THEN ARRIVE AT THE END AND SAY, WELL IT'S NOT REALLY WHAT WE WANTED. IT'S NOT REALLY WHAT WE EXPECTED AND INTERPRETED WOULD HAPPEN. WE NEVER SAID IT

147HAD TO BE A MAJORITY VOTE. IF IT HAD TO BE A MAJORITY VOTE, A PROCESS THAT COLLECTS 73 NAMES ONE WEEKEND AND DELIVERS A VOTE TO THE COMMUNITY ONE HOUSEHOLD, ONE VOTE PER HOUSEHOLD THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND AND I SAID THIS MANY TIMES, WHEN THERE'S A STUDENT TAG DAY GOING ON. IF WE FIGURED OUT THE STUDENTS DIDN'T GET THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE OF THERE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES TO VOTE. WE SHOULD HAVE SAID, THE PROCESS ISN'T WORKING AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE REFLECTIVE AND WE NEED SUCCESSIVE ROUNDS. WE'RE MAKING UP THE RULES AS WE GO ALONG. IN TERMS OF PROVIDING EXEMPLARY GOVERNANCE, WE ARE MODELLING HOW TO LEAD A $2.8 BILLION ENTITY WITH 40,000 EMPLOYEES TO 190,000 STUDENTS AND 1.1 MILLION RESIDENTS AND WE'RE MAKING UP THE RULES AS WE GO ALONG. AND WHEN THE OUTCOME DOESN'T FIT WHAT WE

148WANT, WE JUST SHIFT LANES. WE JUST, THEY WERE THREE LANES ON THIS. 3 LANES OF PICKING AN ICON FROM A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO DO. WE'RE NOT PICKING ANY OF THOSE THREE. AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO PICK THE TOP VOTE GETTER BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO SAY, IF YOU ADD ALL THE VOTES TOGETHER, THEN YOU CAN WIND UP SOMEHOW SUBVERTING THE TOP VOTE. I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR EVERYTHING TONIGHT THAT IS IN THE TOP THAT'S ON A MOTION HERE TONIGHT. I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR BARBARA ROSE JOHNS. I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR STEWART. I VOTED FOR COLONEL MENDEZ BECAUSE THAT'S THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. THAT'S WHAT WE ADVERTISE TO EFB AND THAT'S WHAT THEY VOTED ON. SO I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR THIS TOO. BECAUSE IT'S WHAT WE ASKED THE COMMUNITY TO DO AND

149WE'RE CHANGING THE RULES AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR AND 59TH MINUTE AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE UP A NEW NAME THAT ISN'T A NAME AND WE'RE GOING TO SUBSTITUTE IT FOR ALL OF THE POSSIBILITIES THE WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES THAT THE COMMUNITY BROUGHT FORWARD THAT'S THE END OF THE TWO-YEAR PROCESS AND NOBODY OBJECTED TO STEWART BEFORE NOW ON THE 27TH OF JULY. SO EFB SHOULD BE VOTING FOR IT TONIGHT BECAUSE YOU ALREADY VOTED FOR IT ONCE. MS. MCLAUGHLIN. THE ONE THING THAT I DID WANT TO ADD TO MY COLLEAGUE'S COMMENTS, IS THAT IF THE LITMUS TEST FOR RENAMING THIS HIGH SCHOOL WAS GOING TO BE THAT A VAST MAJORITY COULD GET BEHIND IT AND SUPPORT IT, WE DON'T EVEN ACCOMPLISH THAT WITH OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT IN THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW TO EVEN ELECT OUR

150PRESIDENT ON A 50% PLUS ONE. IT'S REALLY HARD. WE'RE LIVING IN TIMES WHERE IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND LAND SLIDE YOU KNOW OPINIONS. YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF A DEMOCRACY. BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY THAT SAYS WE MAY NOT ALWAYS BE ON THE WINNING END OF A VOTE. BUT WE HAVE A PROCESS. THE VOTE GETS TAKEN IN A DEMOCRACY AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THE OUTCOME. AND THIS MOTION FOR STEWART, I FEEL THAT THREE TIMES THE COMMUNITY HAS SAID WITH ALL THESE DIFFERENT CHOICES, THIS IS THE ONE THAT HAS THE MOST SUPPORT. AND IF WE DIDN'T FEEL AS A BOARD THAT HONORING PERHAPS THE STEWART FAMILY WASN'T APPROPRIATE, WE SHOULD HAVE SIGNALLED THAT TO ALL OF YOU ON JULY 27TH. WE DIDN'T. WE SENT IT BACK OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AGAIN. BY 2-1

151MARGIN, THE COMMUNITY SAYS HERE WE GO. TO MRS. SCHULTZ'S POINT AND KAUFAX SAID, WE KNOW AT THIS POINT WHAT THE, WHERE THE BOARD IS GOING WITH THIS. VOTE TONIGHT. I DO THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU IN THE STEWART COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BOARD MEMBERS WHO UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH OF THIS FLAWED PROCESS AND THE DEPTH OF POOR COMMUNICATION ON HOW THIS BOARD WOULD INTERPRET WHATEVER RESULTS YOU GAVE US HAS SET SOME REALLY UNFORTUNATE AND FALSE EXPECTATIONS ON YOUR PART. AND SO, I WILL CLARIFY WHAT WAS SAID EARLIER TONIGHT. I REALLY HOPE EVERYONE PAID ATTENTION TO NOT JUST MYSELF TO HOW MANY OF US SPOKE ABOUT HOW AMAZING IT WOULD BE TO HAVE COLONEL MENDEZ NAMED FOR ONE OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS AND IF THAT DOESN'T SPEAK TO OUR CHARACTER, THEN

152WE CAN TURN AROUND AND SAY WE WANT TO HONOR A COMMUNITY OUTCOME ON THIS ONE, I DON'T WANT ANYONE QUESTIONING MY CHARACTER. I WAS STILL ELECTED TO REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY. AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE SHOULD BE CALLED A RACIST BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE STEWART FAMILY LEGACY AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. JUST LIKE I DON'T THINK YOU CAN BE, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING IF PEOPLE WANT TO CALL FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT A RACIST. THAT'S WHAT MR. WILSON WAS TRYING TO SAY. PEOPLE ARE FLAWED. HISTORIC FIGURES ARE FLAWED. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE FLAWED. BUT WE HAVE TO DECIDE THEN AS A SOCIETY ARE WE GOING TO TEAR DOWN EVERYONE WITH THEIR FLAWS AND INCLUDING PART OF THE REASON THAT YOU DIDN'T, THAT WE DIDN'T END UP SEEING OUR COLLEAGUES JUST BRING US THURGOOD MARSHALL THE SECOND HIGHEST VOTE

153GETTER. THERE HAVE BEEN CONVERSATIONS PEOPLE WEREN'T SURE THAT WAS GOING TO SURVIVE THE TEST OF TIME EITHER. I JUST MORE THAN ANYTHING, I REALLY HOPE WE COME AWAY TONIGHT NOT JUST THE BOARD OF 12, BUT OUR COMMUNITY TO STOP LABELING EACH OTHER WITH VERY HURTFUL DEVICIVE LABELS. WE HAVE DIFFERENCES OF OPINION ABOUT HOW TO HELP THE COMMUNITY MOVE FORWARD. BUT I DON'T BELIEVE FOR A SECOND THAT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN THIS ARE RACISTS. I THINK THAT IT'S A MATTER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TRYING TO COME AT THIS FROM DIFFERENT COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES. SEEING NO FURTHER REQUESTS TO SPEAK, I WILL RESTATE THE MOTION. ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THERE EXISTS A COMPELLING NAME TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. SINCE THE JULY 27TH VOTE, THE SUPERINTENDENT PURSUED A PROCESS

154TO RENAME THE SCHOOL. TO SOLICIT SUGGESTION. THE NAME STEWART HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVED THE MOST CHOICE AS THE FIRST CHOICE, I MOVE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIS BE NAMED TO STEWART AND MOVE THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN -- MADAM CHAIR. JUST, I WOULD ASK THAT WE ALLOW OUR COLLEAGUES TO GET BACK TO THE TABLE. ALL RIGHT. I BELIEVE WE ARE READY. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. YOU ARE VERY SPEEDY. SO I'LL CALL ING FOR SUPPORT. WILLS KNOW ON. MCLAUGHIN. SCHULTZ. KAUFAX. THOSE OPPOSED. EVANS, PULL CHECK. MCEL VINE, MOON, STRAUSS, HYNES, KEYS GAMARRA, THAT MOTION FAILS. THANK YOU. NOW I MOVE ON TO ANOTHER MOTION. A SUBSTITUTE MOTION FROM MS. SCHULTZ. I'M SORRY, MADAM CHAIR, I'M TRYING TO FOLLOW, YES, I KNOW WE'RE DOING THE

155BEST WE CAN. THANK YOU. IF I'M CORRECT, THE TOP OF THREE. YOU ARE ON -- OKAY. SO, ACTUALLY NO. YOU ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 2. YES. BOTTOM OF PAGE 2. THANK YOU. I MOVE THAT THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL BE CHANGED TO BARBARA ROSE JOHNS, I FURTHER MOVE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED BY MS. MCLAUGHLIN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MOTION. THIS IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO HONOR PROCESS. IN THE SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AND COOPERATION, SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS OFF THE BOARD. AND TODAY I GOT A VERY PLAINTIFF E-MAIL COME THE COMMUNITY TO PLEASE, PLEASE PUT FORWARD THIS MOTION BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD. NOBODY ELSE ON THE BOARD WOULD PUT THIS. I'M THE LAST DITCH

156EFFORT TO TRY TO HONOR A PROCESS AND HONOR A PERSON OF COLOR. UNLESS THURGOOD MARSHALL COMES UP AFTER MINE. THIS IS IT. THE ONLY OPTION. AND NOBODY ELSE WOULD DO IT AND I SAID YES. I CALLED THAT PERSON BACK AND HAD AN EXCELLENT CONVERSATION WITH THEM. MORE THAN ONE TIME I HAVE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THIS PERSON WHO I DON'T OFTEN AGREE WITH. BUT, THE CIVIL DISCOURSE THAT I HAD WITH THE STUDENTS, THE ALUMNI, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AT THE STEWART HOMECOMING WAS AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE NOT ALWAYS GETTING IT RIGHT. WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THIS PROCESS RIGHT IN TWO YEARS. WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THIS PROCESS RIGHT TONIGHT. BUT WHAT WE SAID TO THE COMMUNITY IS, PLEASE COME AND HAVE A DISCOURSE WITH US AND TELL US WHICH NAMES YOU WOULD

157LIKE TO SUPPORT. THEY DID THAT. AND THEN WE SAID BY THE NAME, AFTER WE GATHERED THE NAMES, THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND ON A SATURDAY AND THEY WERE THERE ALMOST ALL DAY. THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO HAD BEEN DEFINED BY DOCTOR BRAYBAND SAID OKAY. HERE WE GO. ONE VOTE PER HOUSEHOLD. COME IN FROM THE 73 NAMES THAT WERE OFFERED THE PREVIOUS WEEKEND, THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, WHERE IS YOUR SUPPORT? AND OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME, WHICH IS 5% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION. OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME, AND VOTES CASTED ON THE ADVISED PROCESS THAT WAS HOUSEHOLDS. THREE POINTS FOR FIRST PLACE. TWO FOR SECOND PLACE. ONE POINT FOR THIRD PLACE. EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE TO VOTE FOR THREE BASED ON THE SUPERINTENDENT'S ADVISED RULES AS PUT FORWARD BY THE RULE. FIVE NAMES

158ENDED UPCOMING OUT OF THAT PROCESS AS A RESULT AND DR. BRAYBAND IS THE ONE WHO DECIDED HOW MANY NAMES TO COME FORWARD. THAT WAS THE OPERATIONAL SIDE OF THIS PROCESS THAT WAS LEFT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT. AND HE DIVINED THE BEST WAY FORWARD BASED ON WHAT WE ASKED HIM TO DO. THREE OF THE NAMES ARE INDIVIDUALS. THAT JUST LAST MONDAY ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES OF SAYING, BOY IN THE FUTURE WE GOT TO BE BETTER AT NAMING SCHOOLS AFTER MODEL CITIZENS. WE OUGHT TO GO OUT AND LOOK FOR MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR. PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY BETTER. MORE OPTIONS TO NAME SCHOOLS AFTER WOMEN. I TRIED WITH ALL OF MY HEART THE LAST TIME AND I'M THE ONLY PERSON ON THE BOARD WHO HAD TO BRING FORWARD A NAME ON ANOTHER SCHOOL ON A RENAMING AND THAT

159WAS SOUTH COUNTY. I DID EVERYTHING WITH MY FORMER COLLEAGUE MR. STORK AND ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO PLEASE PICK A SEPARATE NAME. THEY DIDN'T WANT IT. THEY WANTED SOUTH COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL. THEY WANTED THE CONTINUITY OF THEIR STUDENTS IN THEIR NEW BUILDING. THEY WANTED TO BE STALLIONS. IT'S SOUTH COUNTY. IT'S AN OVER THERE NAME. AND THAT NIGHT WHEN I WAS DRIVING THE PRINCIPAL CALLED ME AND BEGGED ME TO HONOR WHAT THE COMMUNITY ASKED. I SAID, I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M GOING TO VOTE. I SAT AT THIS TABLE AND AS I WAS THINKING ABOUT IT, I WAS LIKE THIS IS THE PROCESS. THIS IS NOT MY MONEY. THIS DECISION WILL BE LONG AFTER I'M GONE. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AGAIN TONIGHT. I PUT UP MY NAME FOR SOUTH COUNTY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MY COMMUNITY ASKED

160ME TO DO. THEY ASKED A REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT SOMEBODY WHO IS HERE TO LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAID AND INTERPRET AND MAKE A GOOD DECISION BASED ON GOOD GOVERNANCE AND GOOD POLICY TO HONOR WHAT THEY ASKED FOR. AND THE COMMUNITY PUT FORWARD THE TOP FIVE. AND WHEN WE GET TO IT. WHEREVER IT'S ON THE CLOCK, THE THING THAT WE'RE GOING TO PICK NOT GOING TO BE ANY OF THE FIVE. BUT, THIS IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT OF MINE TO SAY, LET'S HONOR PROCESS AND REVEAL FOR THE WORLD THAT WE CAN COMPROMISE THAT WE CAN DO SOMETHING RIGHT AS A BOARD THAT WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AND PUT ASIDE THE DESIRES, THE INDIVIDUAL DESIRES OR GROUP DESIRES TO ACHIEVE WHAT WE WANT AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT. AND THIS, THIS IS THE WAY TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT. MS. MCLAUGHLIN.

161SO I SECONDED THIS MOTION BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT ONE OF OUR VERY PASSIONATE ADVOCATES OUT IN THE COMMUNITY WHO VERY MUCH BELIEVED IN THE MERITS OF BARBARA ROSE JOHNS WAS SADDENED THAT WE WEREN'T GOING TO HAVE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NOMINATED AS A CINGULAR NAME. A WOMAN, NOMINATED AS A SINGULAR NAME FOR THE BOARD'S CONSIDERATION. SO, WHILE I WAS TRAVELLING AS YOU KNOW, THIS PERSON WAS FINALLY ABLE TO REACH MS. SCHULTZ AND SHE SAID YOU KNOW WHAT, I APPRECIATE THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT, SYMBOLICALLY AND EVEN IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE HEARD THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD CONSIDER, IT WAS ONE OF TOP FIVE. AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DEMONSTRATE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE RECOGNIZE THE MERITS OF THIS WOMAN WHO WAS CERTAINLY RECOGNIZED FOR HER EARLY ROLE IN THE INTEGRATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS, THE

162INTEGRATION OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS SUCH A YOUNG LADY AT THE TIME IN THE PRINCE EDWARDS SYSTEM. MS. SCHULTZ, I APPRECIATE THAT YOUR WILLINGNESS TO BRING THIS FORWARD AT THE REQUEST OF A DEEPLY INVOLVED ADVOCATE ON THIS ISSUE. I JUST CLARIFY, THIS IS THE THIRD VOTE GETTER. ONE PERSON. I JUST POINT OF ORDER. THIS IS YOU KNOW, A LOT OF JUST BEHIND THURGOOD MARSHALL. MS. KEYS GAMARRA. YES. I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT OF HOW WE GOT WHERE WE ARE BECAUSE I CERTAINLY HAD NO INTENTION OF DISREGARDING PROCESS AS AN ATTORNEY WHO DID PRETTY WELL IN CIVIL PROCEDURE. IN VOTING FOR, IN MAKING THE MOTION FOR JUSTICE, I DID BELIEVE THAT THAT NAME WAS INCLUDED IN THE LANGUAGE ABOVE THE NAME, THE CATEGORIES THAT DR. BRAYBAND SUBMITTED TO US. I FELT THAT

163WAS PART OF WHAT THE COMMUNITY DID CONSIDER. BUT IF THIS BOARD, IF IT IS THE WILL OF THIS BOARD TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL, THEN I WILL CERTAINLY ASK FOR DIRECTION BECAUSE I HAVEN'T COMPLETED BY ORIENTATION AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. AND I'M NOT FULLY SURE ABOUT THE PROCEDURE HERE. BUT I WILL CERTAINLY OFFER THURGOOD MARSHALL BECAUSE I BELIEVE HE WAS THE TOP VOTE GETTER BEHIND STEWART AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS WE COULD MAKE IN TERMS OF HOUSEHOLDS AND COMBINING VOTES. I DID RECEIVE A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF COMMUNICATION FROM PEOPLE WHO WANTED THURGOOD MARSHALL. I ALSO RECEIVED SOME COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND ON THE BOARD WHO FELT THAT THAT NAME WAS TOO DEVICIVE AND THAT WAS PART WAS WHY WE WENT TO THE NAME JUSTICE. I DON'T BELIEVE

164IT'S A DEVICIVE NAME. BUT I CERTAINLY WANT TO TRY TO COME TO A COMPROMISE. SANDY'S MOTION WAS CLEARLY AN ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS CONCERNS AND IT WAS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO DISREGARD PROCEDURE. BUT IF IT'S THE WILL OF THIS BOARD TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL THEN I WOULD ASK FOR POINT OF ORDER WHATEVER ELSE I HAVE TO ASK FOR TO COME UP WITH A MOTION TO OFFER JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL AS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. THAT HIGH SCHOOL BEING KNOWN AS JUSTICE. WE WOULD USE HIS FULL NAME. TO FACILITATE YOUR DESIRE, WE CAN LEAVE THIS MOTION ON THE TABLE AND GO TO THIS UP OR DOWN AND THEN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT ANOTHER MOTION, I WILL ACCEPT THAT AT THE DAIS TONIGHT. SO THAT IS YOUR DESIRE SO WE WILL ANNOUNCE THAT. SO WE WILL DO THIS

165MOTION FIRST. POINT OF ORDER, MADAM CHAIR. CAN MRS. KEYS GAMARRA OFFER AN AMENDMENT. YOU CAN ALSO AMEND THIS AND INSERT JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL FOR THE NAME. IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU WOULD LIKE THIS. YOU CAN AMEND THIS MOTION IF YOU LIKE. OR YOU CAN LET THIS STAND. THAT WOULD BE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND I'M NOT GOING ACCEPT THAT AS FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. NOTHING HAS BEEN REAL FROM FRIENDLY. FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS UNDER ROBERTS RULE DON'T EXIST. THE MOTION BELONGS TO MS. SCHULTZ. IF ANYBODY WISHES TO ATTEND MS. SCHULTZ'S MOTION, YOU MAY PRESENT THE AMENDMENT AND THEN VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. IF THE AMENDMENT SUCCEEDS, THEN IT BECOMES THE MOTION. IF THE AMENDMENT FAILS, THEN WE RETURN TO MRS. SCHULTZ'S MOTION. MR. STRAUSS. ANOTHER POINT OF ORDER. MS. KEYS-GAMARRA NEEDS TO AMEND THIS MOTION OR THE MAIN MOTION. SHE

166HAS THE OPTION TO EITHER AMEND THIS SUBSTITUTE MOTION. YEAH. YOU CAN AMEND IT AT ANY TIME. I NEED A BREAK AND A SNICKERS. SO, I'M SORRY. POINT OF ORDER. COULD THE CHAIR PLEASE EXPLAIN THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE. BECAUSE IT'S AN AMENDMENT, THIS IS A SEPARATE SUBSTITUTE MOTION OR AMENDMENT TO THE MAIN MOTION. THAT'S RIGHT. THERE ARE THREE OPPORTUNITIES IF YOU WISH. YOU MAY CHOOSE. IF I MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO MRS. SCHULTZ', SHE HAS TO ACCEPT? NO. IT'S, IT BECOMES YOUR AMENDMENT. OKAY. AND WE VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. OKAY. SO AN AMENDMENT, A SUBSTITUTE OF CHOICES. I'M SORRY. YOU MAY EITHER, WE EITHER WILL DEAL WITH THIS MOTION AS STATED. WE VOTE UP OR DOWN. IF YOU WOULD LIKE, I WOULD ACCEPT AND RECOGNIZE YOU TO MAKE ANOTHER MOTION THAT CALLS FOR CALLING THE SCHOOL JUSTICE THURGOOD

167MARSHALL OR ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE IS TO IF YOU WISH TO AMEND THIS MOTION AND INSTEAD OF THIS MOTION SAYING BARBARA ROSE JOHNS, YOU CAN SAY JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. I WANT TO AMEND THIS MOTION. YOU SAY I MOVE TO AMEND THE MOTION. ARE YOU SURE I CAN'T HAVE A BREAK? I MOVE TO AMEND THIS MOTION THAT THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL BE CHANGED TO JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. I FURTHER MOVE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. OKAY AND SO WE WILL ACCEPT THAT AS AN AMENDMENT. YOU ARE REMOVING THE NAME OF BARBARA ROSE JOHNS AND INSERTING JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO ADD THE LANGUAGE, IT'S UP TO YOU. IF YOU WISH TO ADD THE LANGUAGE. IF YOU CAN FIND IT ON YOUR PAPER. THAT'S FINE. WELL, WE

168NEED TO HAVE IT ACTUALLY APPEAR. AND MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PROVIDE THE INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE SO IT CAN BE READ. OKAY. YOU FOUND IT. OKAY. IF YOU WILL READ YOUR MOTION. ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THAT THERE EXISTS THE COMPELLING NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. SINCE THE JULY 27TH VOTE, THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSUED A COMMUNITY ENGAGE -- CONVENED A COMMUNITY MEETING TO SOLICIT A VOTE WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY. MOVE THAT THE NAME BE RENAMED TO JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL AND DEVELOP THE PLAN BY DECEMBER 2017. SECONDED BY MS. HYNES. YOU MAY SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION. THE PAINFUL PAST THAT REPRESENTS THE NAME COMING OFF OF THIS SCHOOL, THE CONFEDERATE NAME IS UNACCEPTABLE. AND SHOULD BE, SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED IN THE OUTCOME OF A VOTE FOR THIS SCHOOL. AS I

169MENTIONED EARLIER, I AM VERY CONCERNED AND I HAVE BEEN CONTACTED BY A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WANTED WHATEVER NAME WE PUT ON THAT SCHOOL TO REALLY REPRESENT BEING I'M SORRY -- OKAY. REALLY REPRESENT WHAT WE ARE CORRECTING. AND FOR THAT REASON, I OFFER THE FULL NAME, I UNDERSTAND MY COLLEAGUES CONCERN ABOUT HAVING AN INDIVIDUAL AS OPPOSED TO A CONCEPT. I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE MESSAGE THAT WE SEND. WE ARE PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS ESPECIALLY AFRICAN AMERICAN KIDS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS TOLD THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE AFRAID OF THE POLICE. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MAY GET BULLIED BECAUSE OF THE WAY YOU LOOK BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. THAT'S WHAT THE TESTIMONY THAT WE HEARD FROM THAT YOUNG LADY TODAY. THAT IS THE GUT WRENCHING INFORMATION THAT

170I AM FACED WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS. AS I SPEAK TO MY OWN CHILDREN, AS I ADVOCATE FOR OTHER KIDS. THAT'S WHAT I REJECT TODAY. THE MESSAGE WE SEND AS A BOARD I BELIEVE MUST ENCOMPASS THE HISTORIC CONTENT. THAT NAME, THE CONFEDERATE GENERAL JEB STEWART SENT A MESSAGE. AND PEOPLE JUST KIND OF BOWED THEIR HEAD LIKE THEY WERE TAUGHT TO DURING SLAVERY. THEY WERE TAUGHT NOT TO LOOK AT PEOPLE IN THE EYE. THEY WERE TAUGHT WHERE THEIR PLACE IS. AND I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE OPTICS OF WHAT WE SAY TODAY. AND THAT IS WHY I OFFER THIS AMENDMENT. THE COMPROMISE IS TRYING TO RECOGNIZE THE CONCERNS OF OUR COLLEAGUES. PLEASE DON'T ASK US TO SKIP OVER A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO I HAVE READ BOOKS ABOUT AND THINK OUR CHILDREN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THE

171CHILDREN. NO MATTER WHATEVERS IN THIS VOTE, I WANT OUR KIDS TO LEARN ABOUT COLONEL MENDEZ. BARBARA JOHNS AND THE EDUCATIONAL HISTORY THAT IMPACTED HOW WE GOT HERE TODAY. SOMEBODY SAID IGNORING THIS PROCESS IS A SLAP IN THE FACE. WELL THE REASON I'M MAKING THIS MOTION IS SKIPPING OVER THIS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO I ACTUALLY BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION, IS A SLAP IN THE FACE. THAT'S THE UNFAIR TREATMENT THAT MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE USED TO. I THINK THIS BOARD SHOULD SEND A MESSAGE IT STOPS HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY. [APPLAUSE] THERE IS MUCH PAIN ON ALL SIDES AND I HAVE ALREADY SAID I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. I NEVER, EVER WANT TO INFLICT PAIN ON ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL. I HAPPEN TO KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE. I HOPE WE COME TO A PLACE WHERE

172WE LEARN TO RESPECT ONE ANOTHER. I HAVE MET WITH GROUPS THAT DON'T AGREE WITH MY POSITION. AND I HOPE TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO THEM AGAIN BECAUSE WE WILL NEED TO HEAL AFTER THIS. WE WILL NEED TO DEVELOP PROCEDURE THAT EVERYONE BELIEVES IS TRANSPARENT AND RESPECT. SO THEY CAN RESPECT THE PROCESS. I DO NOT SHY AWAY FROM THE HARD DISCUSSIONS. AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ELSE AT THIS BOARD, AT THIS DAIS DOES EITHER. SO THAT'S MY MOTION. THANK YOU. MS. HYNES. THANK YOU. WELL, I THINK, I SECONDED THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW MY PLAN COMING IN HERE TONIGHT WAS TO, IT WAS AND CONTINUES TO BE TO SUPPORT THE COMPROMISE, THE WAY FORWARD SANDY EVANS HAVE FOUND IN HER COMMUNITY. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT WE SO DEFERENCE. THE REALITY IS THE COMMUNITY VOICE WE

173HEARD, THOSE HERE. I THINK MS. EVAN'S COMPROMISE WAS ONE OF OPTIONS THAT WAS PRESENTED TO US. I TAKE ISSUE WITH THE COMMENT THIS HAS BEEN FATALLY FLAWED. GETTING THE PULSE ON THE COMMUNITY IS PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT. I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH MS. KEYS GAMARRA AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU'RE HERE. I APPRECIATE THAT YOU PUT THIS BEFORE US. IF THERE IS SUPPORT ON THIS BOARD FOR JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD RESOLUTION, THAT'S A GOOD CONCLUSION FOR THIS TONIGHT. I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS. MRS. PALCHIK. I WANT TO SPEAK TO THIS AND HOW I WILL BE VOTING ON THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION. I WILL SPEAK MORE LATER. I WANT TO THANK MS. KAREN KEYS GAMARRA FOR THE PROCESS HERE TONIGHT. THIS HAS BEEN QUITE A

174CHANGE. ORIGINALLY WE THOUGHT ABOUT A NEW NAME. MANY NAMES WERE BROUGHT FORWARD. A WOMAN OF COLOR. IN OUR STATE AND COMMONWEALTH WHO FOUGHT FOR BROWN V. BOARD. JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL WHO I DID NOT KNOW LIVED FOR SO MANY YEARS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND A FELLOW HISPANIC WHO RAISED CHILDREN HERE IN THE COMMUNITY AND WHO ALSO WE HAD A CHANCE TO LEARN ABOUT. I THINK IT WAS A LONG TIME AND I HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR PREDECESSOR ON THIS BOARD A COUPLE YEARS AGO ABOUT NAMES. AT THE TIME I REALLY BELIEVED THAT NAMING A SCHOOL AFTER A PERSON HAD BEEN OUR TRADITION FOR SO MANY SCHOOLS AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE. WE HAD SDUG ABOUT THAT. SHOULD IT BE A SCHOOL OR SOMETHING MORE NEUTRAL? A PERSON MORE NEUTRAL. I KNOW WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS OF

175WHAT COMPROMISE MEANS, AND I THINK OVER THE PAST TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS I HAVE CHANGED MY MIND AS I THINK MANY OF US HAS ABOUT WHAT THE BEST OUTCOME IS. AND IT'S BEEN A TOUGH PROCESS, AND I WILL HOLD STEADY TONIGHT AND I BELIEVE THAT WHERE WE ARE NOW, THERE ARE MANY KIDS IN OUR SYSTEM, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WE WANT TO HONOR, WE SHOULD HONOR IN THE FUTURE. SO, I THINK ALL THREE OF NAMES THAT WERE BEING HONORED IN THE ORIGINAL MOTION UNDER JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL ARE NOBLE AND SHOULD BE WORTHY AND GLORIFIED IN OUR SYSTEM. SO, JUST TO BE BRIEF, I THINK JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL DID EXCELLENT THINGS. I THINK HE'S SOMEONE WHO DESERVES THAT. I DO ALSO FEEL THAT AT THIS MOMENT, I WOULD PREFER THAT WE HOLD IT AS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE

176FOR MORE THAN ONE PERSON. I THINK THE VALUE OF JUSTICE IS IMPORTANT. IT'S BEEN THERE FROM ACTUALLY THE GREEKS IN THE 5TH CENTURY BC WHO REALIZED THAT EDUCATION WAS IMPORTANT AS THEY GREW AS A SOCIETY AND BECAME MUCH MOTHER AND FATHER HETEROGENEOUS. SO, I GUESS AT THIS TIME, I WANT YOU TO KNOW MS. KEYS GAMARRA. I'M GRATEFUL YOU BROUGHT THIS FORWARD. I THINK THE PROCESS TONIGHT MAY SEEM LIKE THERE HASN'T BEEN DISCUSSION, COMPROMISE, COMMUNITY INPUT. I THINK THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS PROCESS AT THIS TABLE OR THE AUDIENCE KNOW THAT'S NOT THE CASE. I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS NOT BECAUSE I DON'T SUPPORT JUSTICE MARSHALL BUT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE ALL OF THOSE BROUGHT FORWARD IS A BETTER NAME FOR THE SCHOOL. I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION. I TRIED TO ASK FOR

177A RECESS DIDN'T GET THAT. I TRIED TO SAY OFFER A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. TO TAKE A BLACK MAN AND SAY THE MOTION ON THE TABLE IS FOR A BLACK WOMAN AND LET'S TAKE THE BLACK WOMAN OFF THE MOTION. LET'S HAVE THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION. BUT TO ERASE THE MOTION. THIS IS THE FAILURE OF THE PROCESS AT THE TABLE. I CAN'T SUPPORT THE WAY THIS IS DONE. I WAS TRYING TO SAY PLEASE OFFER A STAND ALONE SUBSTITUTE MOTION AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. LET'S SEE. I HAVE MRS. VATTIKONDA AND MS. EVANS. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. SO I BELIEVE THAT JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL IS THE NAME WE NEED AT THE WORK SESSION LAST MONDAY. IT WAS MY TOP CHOICE. ALTHOUGH I KNOW A FEW BOARD MEMBERS EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT HAVING TWO MARSHALLS. HAVE BEEN IT BEING KNOWN AS JUSTICE HIGH

178SCHOOL WOULD SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS AND I'M SURE 911 WOULD BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL. AND THE REASON I THINK THAT WE NEED A JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL NAME RATHER THAN JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL IS BECAUSE IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT MARSHALL IS THE ONE WHO ARGUED BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE SCHOOL BOARD IN 1959 CHOSE TO IGNORE THAT AND CHOSE TO STAND ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY WHEN THEY HAD A CHANCE FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE SCHOOL SYSTEM. THEY INSTEAD CHOSE THE NAME TO INSPIRE HOSTILITY AND WE HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REDEFINING IT. NAMING IT MARSHALL IS THE WAY OF SAYING WE SHOULD HAVE VOTED THIS WAY IN 1959 AND THIS SHOWS OUR DIVERSITY OF A SCHOOL SYSTEM. MS. EVANS. I BELIEVE THE WORDING IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH IF

179IT'S INTENDED TO BE PARALLEL WITH THE MAIN MOTION WOULD BE I MOVE THAT THE NEW NAME OF JEB STEWART SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. DID YOU INTEND THAT TO BE PARALLEL. I BELIEVE FOR YOUR SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO BE PARALLEL, THE LAST PARAGRAPH NEEDS TO READ I MOVE THE NEW NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT IED. YOU MAY HAVE SAID THAT. BUT IT WASN'T TYPED THAT WAY. SO. I WAS JUST CLARIFYING, IT WAS TYPED DIFFERENTLY. I MOVE THE NEW NAME WILL BE, YES. THANK YOU. SO IF, I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE YOUR AMENDMENT IF THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU INTENDED. THAT MAKES IT PARALLEL WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTION. THAT'S CORRECT. I HATE TO MAKE A POINT OF ORDER. I AM QUESTIONING WHETHER

180THIS IS NOW GERMANE BECAUSE MY SUBSTITUTE MOTION WAS THE CLEAN MOTION, THE CLEAN VERSION MOTION AND NOW, AN AMENDMENT IS TO JUST MODIFY SOMETHING BUT NOT CHANGE THE OVERALL INTENT OF THE MOTION. AND NOW WITH THE ADDITION OF THIS LANGUAGE. THIS IS NOT GERMANE. IT BECOMES A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. SO THIS IS NOW NO LONGER AN AMENDMENT. I CAN STILL RECOGNIZE THIS MOTION. SO THE QUESTION THEN MADAM CLERK. MR. FOSTER SHOULD WE GO BACK TO MRS. SCHULTZ'S ORIGINAL MOTION AND DECIDE WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE AND ENTERTAIN MR. MOON. MADAM CHAIR, I'M SURE MADAM CLERK WILL LET US KNOW HER INTERPRETATION BUT BASED UPON MY RECOLLECTION OF WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE RULES IS THAT SUBSTITUTE MOTION IS A FULL AMENDMENT. IT'S AN AMENDMENT IN A FORM OF A SUBSTITUTE. ALL RIGHT. COULD I PLEASE HAVE

181ADVICE ON A RULING. IS THIS MOTION IN ORDER AT THIS TIME? OR MUST WE DISPOSE OF MRS. SCHULTZ'S ORIGINAL WORDING AND TURN TO THIS? OR TURN TO THIS NOW? YOU CAN DO IT NOW AS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. WE WILL RECOGNIZE AS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. ALL RIGHT. MRS. EVANS THEN YOU WISHED TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. IT'S GOOD TO GET THAT CLARIFICATION. I WILL SUPPORT THIS SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MOTION ON THE TABLE. JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL DID GET THE MOST NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS. IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE NAME OF AN INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS APPROVED. WHEN IT SAYS TO BE KNOWN AS JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL, I ASSUMED THAT MEANS IN DOCUMENTATION AND IN TERMS OF THINGS LIKE UNIFORMS, IT WOULD BE CALLED JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. I'M ASSUMING IT'S LIKE A NICKNAME. BUT, AGAIN -- WELL, SO HERE'S WHERE I

182AM WITH THIS. I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I WILL SUPPORT THIS HERE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MRS. SCHULTZ'S MOTION. I WILL THEN NOT BE VOTING FOR THE OVERALL MOTION BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE A COMPROMISE THAT WORKS. AND I HAVE HEARD MY COLLEAGUES WITH THEIR CONCERN ABOUT THE NAME MARSHALL. I WILL VOTE FOR THIS AS A SUBSTITUTE. THEN I BELIEVE UNLESS I HEAR FROM MY COLLEAGUES. UNLESS I AM PERSUADED BY FURTHER CONVERSATION THAT WE SHOULD GO THERE. THEN I WILL PROBABLY VOTE AGAINST THE SUBSTITUTE, THE OTHER AMENDMENT ITSELF. MR. MOON. WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION AGAIN AS I STATED EARLIER IN THE EVENING AMONGST BOARD MEMBERS THAT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS, THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS MY NUMBER ONE CHOICE WAS MENDEZ. THAT DIDN'T CARRY THE EVENING. FAILED 6-6. I'M GOING FOR MY SECOND

183CHOICE, WHICH IS JUSTICE. I LAID ON MY POSITION WHY I COULDN'T SUPPORT THURGOOD MARSHALL. ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL WITH A MARSHALL. WHETHER YOU CALL IT JUSTICE BUT THAT'S ONLY A NICKNAME. OR OFFICIALLY IT'S GOING TO BE THURGOOD MARSHALL. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER MARSHALL AS A NEW NAME FOR JEB STEWART. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THAT. MS. MCLAUGHLIN. I HEAR MS. EVANS PERSPECTIVE I CERTAINLY VALUE AND APPRECIATE JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL'S REMARKABLE LEGACY AND MANY, MANY AREAS OF ACHIEVEMENT AS A NATIONAL ICON. I APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUE, MS. KEYS-GAMARRA. MAKING SURE I'M NOT SAYING THE OTHER KAREN. ELEVATING HIS NAME BECAUSE HE WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST VOTE GETTER. I HAVE NOT HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF HEARING FROM MY COLLEAGUES WHY WE WENT TO THE COMPROMISE MOTION ON JUSTICE AND LUMPING TOGETHER THE THREE NAMES. AND SO MY

184CONCERN THAT IN MY SIX YEARS ON THE BOARD, WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT IS CHANGING THINGS UP AT THE BOARD TABLE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE MESSIER THAN ANY OF US WOULD LIKE. BUT, FOR THE SHORT TERM, I WILL SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT TO IT. TO MRS. SCHULTZ' BARBARA ROSE JOHNS. THIS ONE DID RECEIVE MORE VOTES AND CERTAINLY WE KNOW HIS LEGACY AND RECORD. BUT I AM VERY CONCERNED JUST IN GENERAL AND PROBABLY WILL HAVE RESERVATIONS LIKE MS. EVANS ABOUT WHAT WE DO WITH THE MAIN MOTION BECAUSE THE BOARD HAS ONLY SPENT TIME REVIEWING MRS. EVANS MAIN MOTION AND A LOT OF US FELT THE HEALING PROCESS COULD COME WELL THROUGH LEWIS G. MENDEZ. OKAY. I WILL TAKE A TURN TO SPEAK. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU MRS. KEYS-GAMARRA FOR BRINGING THIS NAME FORWARD. JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL IS

185A HERO OF MINE. HE ARGUED FOR BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION. IT'S FINALLY WHAT BROKE SEGREGATION. SADLY TOOK VIRGINIA A VERY LONG TIME TO COME ABOARD BUT IT WAS HIS SKILL AND HIS ABILITY TO ORGANIZE AND PUSH THAT THROUGH. HE WAS A DISTINGUISHED SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. SO I AM VERY PLEASED YOU BROUGHT THIS FORWARD. SO WE CAN DISCUSS IT. I AM CONCERNED HOWEVER HAVING TWO MARSHALLS. I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT FOR US ALL ALONG AND WE LOOKED SERIOUSLY AT THIS ISSUE. SO I WILL NOT SUPPORT IT, BUT I WANT THE RECORD TO SHOW THAT FOR ME, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL IS A HERO. AND HE WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN AND MADE A CHANGE IN ALL OF OUR LIVES IN THE LIFE OF OUR CHILDREN. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT FORWARD. OKAY. SEEING

186NO OTHER DESIRES TO SPEAK. YES. FIRST WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS ONE. ALL RIGHT. SO, MAY I GET CLARIFICATION. WE'RE VOTING ON MRS. KEYS-GAMARRA AND THEN ON MRS. SCHULTZ HOWEVER IT ENDS UP? CORRECT. WHETHER IT'S BARBARA ROSE JOHNS OR THURGOOD MARSHALL. I AM GOING TO ASK. YES, I KNOW IT'S GETTING CONFUSING. WE WILL VOTE ON THIS AND YOU CAN SEE IF WE'RE DOING THE APPROPRIATE ACTIVITY. I WILL READ THE MOTION. ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THERE EXISTS A COMPELLING NAME TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSUED A PROCESS TO DETERMINE A COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NEW NAME. THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS CONVENED A COMMUNITY MEETING TO SOLICIT SUGGESTS AND HELD AN ADVISORY VOTE FOR HOUSE HOLDING WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S ATTENDANCE AREA. I MOVE THE NEW NAME WILL BE

187JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. I MOVE THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. ALL IN FAVOR OF THE SUBSTITUTE. EVANS, MCLAUGHLIN, MCELVEEN, KEYS GAMARRA, KAUFAX. DID THAT PASS? ALL RIGHT. AND THOSE OPPOSED. PALCHIK. STRAUSS, MOON AND MS. SCHULTZ. AND MR. WILSON. SO THAT PASSES SUBSTITUTE. YES. OKAY. NOW WE, ALL RIGHT SO WE WILL VOTE ON THIS AGAIN. WE HAVE DISPOSED OF MRS. SCHULTZ'S ORIGINAL MOTION. CORRECT? ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE SUBSTITUTED SO THIS THEN BECOMES THE MOTION ON THE TABLE. SO IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? OKAY. YES. WE ARE NOW VOTING ON MRS. SCHULTZ'S AMENDMENT AS SUBSTITUTED. CORRECT? OKAY. WE'RE VOTING ON THIS MOTION AGAIN. YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I WILL BEGIN WITH MRS. SCHULTZ. SO I HAVE A QUESTION

188SINCE THIS, SINCE I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THE AMENDMENT TO MY MOTION, AND THIS HAS SUBSTANTIVELY SUBSTITUTED THE INTENT OF MY MOTION, THIS IS NOW NO LONGER MY MOTION. CORRECT? RIGHT. SO NOW THIS IS, THIS IS MRS. KEYS GAMARRA'S MOTION. I WILL SAY WHAT WE HAVE AFFECTIVELY DONE, I'M HAVING DIFFICULTY GRASPING THIS. SO ONE OF THE FIVE CHOICES THAT WAS PUT FORWARD BY THE SUPERINTENDENT WAS AND THREE OF THOSE CHOICES WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR. WE JUST TOOK ONE PERSON OF COLOR AND WIPED THE OTHER PERSON OF COLOR OUT SO NOW WE DON'T GET TO VOTE ON BARBARA ROSE JONES AT ALL. THE THREE NAMES THAT WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE FOR. ONE HAS BEEN TAKEN OFF THE TABLE BY DEFAULT. AND I FUNDAMENTALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. I FOUGHT TO SAY PLEASE LET'S GIVE

189THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS TO BE HEARD. I DO THINK IT'S MORE THAN JUST A WELL 911 CAN FIGURE OUT WHICH MARSHALL. IT'S MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT. AND MUCH MORE NUANCED THAN THAT. THAT MAKES THE THIRD MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL IN PROXIMITY. SO FUNDAMENTALLY, WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE AT THE TABLE, UNDOES WHAT I SET OUT TO DO WHICH WAS TO GIVE A VOTE TO BARBARA ROSE JOHNS. SO I'M NOT PLEASED WITH AGAIN THE PROCESS THAT THIS TURNED OUT. SO I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS MOTION. MS. HYNES. YEAH, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE RELIVING THE CONVERSATIONS THE COMMUNITY HAD FOR WEEKS BECAUSE THIS IS DIFFICULT. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONSIDER THIS, WHICH IS WHY I SECONDED THIS. HAVING LISTENED TO MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS. I'M MOVED BY MRS. PALCHIK'S COMMENTS, WITH JUSTICE, THE MAIN MOTION, WE HAVE

190THE OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE ALL OF THE STORIES ISSUE THE GREAT STORIES THAT WE HEARD TO CELEBRATE THE PEOPLE THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT. COLONEL MENDEZ, BARBARA ROSE JOHNS AND THURGOOD MARSHALL. IF WE GO WITH THIS INSTEAD, WE ARE NOT TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE OTHER PEOPLE. MAYBE IT'S JUST THEY'RE ALL WORTHY. AND THE NAME JUSTICE GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. AND TO THE COMMUNITY AND PROSPERITY. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE SUBSTITUTE. I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING IT. MS. EVANS. OKAY. MRS. MCLAUGHLIN. I AM GOING TO BE ABSTAINING FROM THIS. THE REASON IS, WHEN THE 12 OF US WRESTLED WITH WHAT TO DO, STEWART WAS THE TOP VOTE GETTER, THEY WERE THEN YOU KNOW FOUR OTHER CHOICES THAT CAME RECOMMENDED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND WHAT DO WE DO. AND ALL ALONG AND ESPECIALLY I PROBABLY

191TALKED THE MOST WITH MR. MOON, THAT WE WANTED TO MODEL FOR THE COMMUNITY TONIGHT THAT HAS DIFFICULT AS THIS TWO-YEAR DEBATE HAS BEEN, THAT WE AS THE LEADERS OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WOULD LOOK TO FIND THE BEST COMPROMISE. AND TO REFLECT THAT SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP, COMPROMISE AND HOPES OF HEALING. AND WHEN WE CAME IN TONIGHT, WE WERE AS I SAID DEEPLY DIVIDED. 6- 6. ONE FELT TAKE THE THREE NAMES AND HAVE THEM REFLECTED THROUGH THE TERM JUSTICE. THERE WAS THOSE OF US WHO FELT IF WE COULDN'T COALESCE AROUND ONE PARTICULAR NAME THAT YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T STEWART, SO THEN WHAT? I THINK I SPOKE EXTENSIVELY WHY I FELT THAT COLONEL MENDEZ IN MY MIND AND HEART WITH HIS 60-YEAR RELATIONSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY MADE HIM A SPECIAL CHOICE. I HONESTLY DON'T

192KNOW RIGHT NOW FOR MY COLLEAGUES WHO SAID THEY WANTED TO DO THIS COLLECTION OF THE THREE PEOPLE AND HAVE IT REFLECTED THROUGH JUSTICE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, AS YOU CAN SEE, EVEN FROM THE CONVERSATIONS, THE RATIONAL FOR WHY THEY DIDN'T JUST COALESCE AROUND JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. I'M HEARING IT'S THE WAY TO HONOR ALL THREE. WITH MY CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY, EVEN SAID TO ME, SO WHAT DOES JUSTICE MEAN LIKE WHAT IS THE CONNECTION? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE? WHAT IS THE REASON? AND THAT'S NOT EVEN SOMETHING WE KNOW BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T BRING IT TO US. THE SUPERINTENDENT DIDN'T BRING IT TO US AS A TOP FIVE CHOICE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT BE AWARE WHEN ELECTED OFFICIALS ABSTAIN FROM A DECISION IT'S BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEY HAVE INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO

193MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. IF ANYTHING IS REPRESENTED TONIGHT WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON AT THE BOARD TABLE, I WILL REITERATE OUR POSITIVE MARKS. I KNOW ALL 12 OF US, INCLUDING POOR MRS. CORBETT SANDERS, SHE HAS TO BE IN NEW YORK CITY AT 7:00 A.M. FOR A MEETING. SHE MISSED HER FLIGHT AND ON A BUS GOING THROUGH THE NIGHT. SO PLEASE EVERYBODY KNOW WHEN I SAY THE 12 OF US ARE DEDICATED, I BELIEVE IT IN MY HEART AND I HOPE YOU DO TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, MRS. KEYS GAMARRA, I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND YOUR PASSION FOR JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. I FEEL LIKE I'M ABSTAINING BECAUSE I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE BOARD IS ON THIS. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BOARD BECAUSE HE'S A REMARKABLE MAN. I WILL CALL FOR THE, I'M SORRY. MRS. DERENAK-KAUFAX. AS A PERSON ON THIS

194BOARD WHO BECAME THE VOICE OF THE PROCESS OF THE PROCESS. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING TO SUPPORT THE WISHES OF THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY MY PREVIOUS VOTES HAVE BEEN WITH STEWART AS FIRST AND ALSO I BELIEVE THAT THE STORY OF MR. MENDEZ IS QUITE COMPELLING. BUT I TALKED TO MY COLLEAGUES AND I KNOW HOW PASSIONATE THEY ARE AND I KNOW THE COMMUNITY HAS EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR THIS. SO I WOULD BE INCLINED AT THIS POINT IN TIME TO SUPPORT THE VOTE FOR THIS. OKAY. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. AND AGAIN I WILL READ IT ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THERE EXISTS A COMPELLING NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSURED A PROCESS TO DETERMINE A COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATION FOR NEW NAME AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE SUPERINTENDENT

195HAS CONVENED A COMMUNITY MEETING TO SOLICIT SUGGESTIONS AND HELD AN ADVISORY VOTE BY HOUSEHOLDS IN THE AREA. I MOVE THE NAME BE JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL TO BE KNOWN AS JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND FURTHER MOVE THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO DEVELOP AND RECOMMEND AN IMPLEMENTATION. ALL IN FAVOR. SCHULTZ, MIKE KAUFMAN, KEYS GAMARRA. OPPOSED -- ABTENSIONS, THERE WILSON AND MCLAUGHLIN. MOTION FAILS BUT GREAT DISCUSSION. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. I BELIEVE, CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG WE ARE BACK TO THE MAIN MOTION AND I WILL STATE IT. THE MAIN MOTION. I WILL READ THE MAIN MOTION AGAIN. ON JULY 27TH, THE SCHOOL BOARD CONFIRMED THERE EXISTS A COMPELLING NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF JEB STEWART HIGH SCHOOL. THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS PURSUED A PROCESS TO DEVELOP A COMMUNITY PROCESS TO RENAME. AND HELD AN ADVISORY VOTE FOR HOUSEHOLDING

196WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S ATTENDANCE AREA. I MOVE THE NEW NAME BE JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. COMMENTS THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK? MS. HYNES. THANK YOU. TRY TO KEEP IT BRIEF. WE TALKED AN AWFUL LOT. I THINK DEFERENCE AND RESPECT FOR DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS ON LOCAL ISSUES. YOU GO THROUGH YOUR ROUNDS OF VOTING, YOU WORK THE WAY DOWN TO THE FINAL LIST AND YOU SELECT ONE AND, OH, BY THE WAY, WE'RE GOING TO PICK SOMEBODY THAT IS NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM. THIS LITERALLY NOT IN THE ROOM. WE KNOW BETTER THAN YOU, STUDENT POM LAKES, ABOUT WHO SHOULD BE THE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE BOARD. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO DO HERE THAT IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD LEADERSHIP TO OUR COMMUNITY TO SAY WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS SUBSTITUTING OUR

197VALUES AND MORALS AND SAYING THE PEOPLE WHO DID VOTE, THE PEOPLE WHO DID PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT VALUES, DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT MORALS. THEY DIDN'T VOTE CORRECTLY. THE NOTION THAT PEOPLE VOTED SEPARATELY FOR JUSTICE IS THE FACT THAT STAFF INCLUDED AN ALPHABET SOUP OF NAMES TOGETHER, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL, JUSTICE MARSHALL, THURGOOD MARSHALL, JUSTICE. THE FACT THAT ANYBODY WHO CAST ONE OF THOSE VOTES, 339 HOUSEHOLDS WHO CAST A VOTE FOR THAT WERE VOTING FOR THE WORD JUSTICE SEPARATELY, THAT YOU COULD SOMEHOW ERASE THURGOOD MARSHALL AND GET 339 HOUSEHOLDS VOTING FOR JUST JUSTICE IS A PREPOSTEROUS THOUGHT TO SAY THEY DIDN'T WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE NAME THURGOOD MARSHALL. THE ASK OF RECOGNIZING STUART, NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT. THE ASK OF RECOGNIZE THURGOOD MARSHALL. WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO

198THAT. I COMMEND MY COLLEAGUE AS MESSY AS IT WAS FOR PUTTING IT UP. WE ERASED THE WOMAN RIGHT OFF THE TOP, DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO RECOGNIZE BARBARA ROSE JOHNS AND COLONEL MENDEZ, I'M DISMAID FOR THE COMMUNITY, THIS IS OUR LEGACY. IN 58 YEARS, WE'RE GOING TO BE IMPUGNED AND OUR CHILDREN ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DEFEND THIS. I'VE READ THE CHILDREN, MANY IDENTIFIED THEIR PARENTS AS DEMOCRATS. MY DAD WAS A NEW DEAL DEMOCRAT, MY DAD FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. HOW DARE YOU IMPUGN THE ORIGINAL NAMING. TELL YOU WHAT, IF EVER WE DESERVE TO BE IMPUGNED, YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO DO SOMETHING AND YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING AT THE END, YOU MADE UP THE RULES AND CREATED AN UMBRELLA WORD AND IT IS A CONCEPT NAME WHEN THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH WHEN WE

199HAD THREE AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES TO NAME THIS SCHOOL AFTER A PERSON OF COLOR AND WE FAILED TO DO IT TONIGHT. MS. McLAUGHLIN. DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK? SO I'M GOING TO END MY REMARKS THE WAY I BEGAN THEM. THIS BOARD TRIED ITS VERY BEST TRYING TO COME INTO TONIGHT TO FIND A STRONG COMPROMISE. AS YOU SAW, WE JUST COULDN'T GET THERE. WHILE I APPRECIATE THE PASSION OF SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO ARE GOING TO VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THIS MAIN MOTION, I WOULD ASK FOR THE SAME LEVEL OF RESPECT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GIVE THEM. THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE FIVE CHOICES BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, NONE OF WHICH, NONE OF THE FIVE HAD A 50% PLUS MAJORITY VOTE. IT WAS INCUMBENT UPON THE BOARD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO AND

200HOW WOULD WE GET THE COMMUNITY HEAL. SIX PEOPLE FELT LOUIS MENDEZ WOULD HELP THE COMMUNITY HEAL. NOW SIX PEOPLE BELIEVE JUSTICE, COMBINING THREE NAMES WILL REFLECT THAT, I RESPECT THAT IS HOW THEY BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY WILL HEAL. BUT I HONESTLY, AS A BOARD MEMBER, I DON'T KNOW THAT. IT IS NOT ONE OF THE FIVE NAMES THE SUPERINTENDENT BROUGHT FORWARD AND RECOMMENDED TO US. THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T BRING IT FORWARD AS A TOP FIVE CHOICE. AND, YES, I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO SEVERAL OF US TALK ABOUT PROCESS AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS, BUT THAT IS HOW PEOPLE HAVE FAITH AND TRUST IN THEIR PUBLIC OFFICIALS. AND AT NO POINT DID WE EVER SAY WHAT WAS THE THRESHOLD FOR WHEN YOUR COMMUNITY INPUT WOULD MATTER. YOU ALL INVESTED SO MUCH. TWO SATURDAYS, PEOPLE INVESTED THEIR TIME

201ON TOP OF, OF COURSE, TWO PLUS YEARS OF ADVOCACY ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS ISSUE. IN THE END, TO WHAT ANOTHER COLLEAGUE NOTED, DEFERENCE TO THE MAGESTERIAL BOARD MEMBER. I SHARED WITH MS. EVANS, WHO FOUGHT FOR LITERACY AT A NATIONAL LEVEL, THEN I DON'T KNOW HOW WE ARRIVE AT A VOTE TONIGHT. AND THIS HAS GOTTEN BIGGER THAN JUST WHAT THE MASON DISTRICT CONSTITUENTS WANT. IT IS A COUNTYWIDE CONVERSATION. I RECOGNIZE MANY PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE DON'T LIVE IN MASON DISTRICT. I APPLAUD THEIR PASSION AND SUPPORT FOR HOPING WE COULD FIND A WAY OUT. BUT IN THE END, WE STILL PROMISED THE MASON DISTRICT THAT WE WOULD ENGAGE YOU, YOU WERE GIVEN THE VOTES, AND THIS MAIN MOTION ISN'T WHAT YOU BROUGHT FORWARD TO US. I CAMPAIGNED SIX YEARS AGO ON TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

202AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS FULFILLS THAT PROMISE AND THAT COMMITMENT THAT IS INTEGRAL TO ME. I KNOW IT IS NOT A SURPRISE TO MS. EVANS. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS. I JUST APOLOGIZE TO THE ENTIRE STUART COMMUNITY IN THAT WE AS A SYSTEM, IF WE WERE GOING TO SAY IT NEEDED TO BE 50% PLUS OR WE WERE GOING TO MAKE UP OUR MINDS OURSELVES, OR WE WERE GOING TO COME UP WITH A WHOLE NOTHER COMPROMISE, WE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. THAT IS MY HUMBLE OPINION. TO MY COLLEAGUE WHO MADE A COMMENT EARLIER, I THINK MY PASSION FOR LOUIS G. MENDEZ PUTS ME ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND I HOPE MY 11 COLLEAGUES RESPECT ME FOR IT, MY DISTRICT CONSTITUENTS RESPECT ME AND EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE RESPECTS ME FOR

203IT. WE ARE WRESTLING WITH A REALLY TOUGH DECISION HERE TONIGHT. WHEN YOU ARE AT 6-6, THAT MEANS IT WASN'T GOING TO BE AN EASY DECISION FOR EVEN THIS BOARD. MS. DERENAK KAUFAX. THE DEFINITION OF JUSTICE, THE QUALITY OF BEING EQUITABLE, TO ACT OR TO TREAT FAIRLY. THE ADMINISTERING, THIRD DEFINITION, THE ADMINISTERING OF A DESERVED REWARD OR A PUNISHMENT. HOW MANY WILL FEEL LIKE THIS LATTER PART OF THE DEFINITION IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY WILL FEEL, THE ADMINISTERING OF A PUNISHMENT. I VOTED FOR THREE VOTES TONIGHT FOR THIS COMMUNITY. I THOUGHT WERE MORE JUST THAN THIS NAME. I VOTED FOR STUART. I VOTED FOR JUSTICE MARSHALL AND FOR COLONEL MENDEZ. I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR THIS BECAUSE I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT TRUST, TRANSPARENCY AND HEALING WILL COME TO THIS COMMUNITY WITH THIS NAME. I WILL

204WORK TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. I WILL HELP MY COLLEAGUE TO DO THAT AS I HOPE COLLEAGUES WORK AS OTHER NAMES CHANGE, BECAUSE THEY WILL. THEY MIGHT. THERE WILL BE PROCESSES. AND WE NEED PROCESSES THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN TRUST, THAT CAN HELP US TO MOVE FORWARD IN A TRANSPARENT AND EQUITABLE FASHION. AND I WILL WORK TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN BUT I DON'T FEEL THAT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS PROCESS AND I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING THIS NAME. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRMAN. JUST TO CLARIFY, IF WE ARE GOING TO DISCUSS PROCESS IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT, BEN CAN AGREE WITH ME IN THE AUDIENCE, THE STUDENT REP COLLECTION IS DONE DIFFERENTLY, IN A WAY WE WOULD HAVE LIKED THE NAME CHANGE TO HAVE BEEN DONE. YOU VOTE IN MANY, MANY ROUNDS UNTIL YOU GET TO

205A 50% PLUS ONE MAJORITY. UNFORTUNATELY WE DIDN'T GET THAT IN THIS CASE. WE GOT FIVE NAMES. ALTHOUGH THREE OF THOSE NAMES HAVE NOT PASSED THIS BOARD, I THINK WE SMOULD CONSIDER JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL TO BE A POTENTIALLY GOOD NAME FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL. IT GIVES STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT MANY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS INCLUDING THE NAMES WE PUT FORWARD, ZWLURTS GOOD MARSHALL, BARBARA ROSE JOHNS, TO BE NEW IN CREATING A JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. WE COULDN'T GET A PERFECT NAME, I THINK JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL IS OUR BEST OPTION. THANK YOU. MR. WILSON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I ALSO WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING THIS MOTION. UNFORTUNATELY, THE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED ABOUT THE NAME AND WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS ACTUALLY PUT FORWARD TO THE COMMUNITY TO VOTE ON, I HAVE TO AGREE

206THAT I COME DOWN ON THE SIDE THAT IT WAS NOT. I DON'T BELIEVE ALTHOUGH THE LIST OF NAMES INCLUDED JUSTICE FIRST, I DON'T BELIEVE IF YOU READ THE SEVEN DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVE NAMES, THAT THERE COULD BE ANY CONCLUSION OTHER THAN IT WAS JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. AND, IN FACT, OUR REGULATIONS REQUIRE THAT SIMILAR NAME SUGGESTIONS BE REVIEWED WITH PARTICIPANTS PRIOR TO THE VOTE TO DETERMINE IF THEY CAN BE CONSOLIDATED INTO ONE NAME. AND, IN FACT, I HAVE TO AGREE WITH MS. SCHULTZ, HAD THEY BEEN CONSOLIDATED INTO JUST THE WORD JUSTICE I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY WAY I CAN CONCLUDE THEY WOULD RECEIVE THE SAME NUMBER OF VOTES THAT IS PRESENTED BY THE SEVEN CHOICES RELATED TO THURGOOD MARSHALL. FOR THAT REASON, FROM A PROCESS STANDPOINT, I GUESS I CAN'T -- I CANNOT MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT

207JUSTICE ACTUALLY IS THE SECOND MOST POPULAR CHOICE AMONGST THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. I ALSO THINK THAT THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE IS ACTUALLY MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. BECAUSE JUSTICE, AND I APPRECIATE MS. DERENAK KAUFAX BRINGING UP THE DEFINITION OF JUSTICE. SOMETIMES IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THESE AREN'T PERHAPS THE BEST SUGGESTIONS. BUT IS IT JUSTICE TO HAVE MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOR DRUG SENTENCING? IS IT JUSTICE TO HAVE A DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER? PEOPLE CAN REASONABLY DISAGREE ON THOSE CONCEPTS. I THINK THAT IN A SCHOOL LIKE JEB STUART, I THINK JUSTICE WOULD BE A DIFFICULT THING FOR SORT OF THE STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN MY SCHOOL WITH REGARDS TO ME AND MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN LIFE? SO I DON'T EVEN IN THE ABSTRACT REALLY THINK THAT IT IS A GREAT CONCEPT

208FOR THE NAME OF A HIGH SCHOOL. I THINK IT IS PROBABLY TOO COMPLICATED OF AN IDEA IN TERMS OF HOW IS THAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? EVEN THIS MORNING I RECEIVED A MEME OVER THE INTERNET ABOUT WHAT THAT COULD BE INTERPRETED SUGGESTION, A PLAY ON THE WORD JUSTICE. SO IT IS NOT THAT I DON'T, OF COURSE, BELIEVE THERE IS NOT JUSTICE, BUT I WONDER IF JUSTICE WOULD INCLUDE THE JURISPRUDENCE OF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, FOR EXAMPLE, BY SOME OF THOSE SUPPORTING THIS. FINALLY, I THINK OUR PROCESS IS SETTING A PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE SCHOOLS AND AS MY COLLEAGUES KNOW, IN ONE OF OUR EARLIER WORK SESSIONS A LIST OF 32 SCHOOLS WAS PUT FORWARD TO THE BOARD RELATING TO EITHER SLAVE HOLDING PLANTATIONS, SLAVE HOLDERS, CONFEDERATES, AND WE, IT IS CRITICAL, I THINK, AS A BOARD THAT

209WE PRESENT OUR PROCESS TO BE VERY RATIONAL AND TO MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO THE COMMUNITY AS WE MOVE FORWARD. AND ONE OF MY FOLLOW ON MOTIONS IS GOING TO BE A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE LOOK AT OUR POLICY AND OUR REGULATIONS TO SEE WHERE WE CAN MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. I HOPE EVERYONE WILL SUPPORT THAT. I BELIEVE WE WILL VOTE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL WHEN WE VOTE ON JUSTICE. I HOPE THAT EVERYONE WILL CONSIDER THAT FOLLOW ON MOTION FAVORABLY. JUST SO MY COLLEAGUES ARE REFRESHED MR. MOON, MS. PAL CHECK AND MS. KEYES-GAMARRA. THANK YOU, I WILL SUPPORT THE MAIN MOTION PRESENTED BY MS. EVANS. AS I SAID A NUMBER OF TIMES EARLIER THIS EVENING, THAT I HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION WITH A LOT OF US. I'M SURE THAT WE ALL TALKED TO

210EACH OTHER MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF MORE THAN A WEEK, MAYBE 10 DAYS. THAT SOMETIMES OUR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES WERE PRETTY HEATED. SOMETIMES VERY EMOTIONAL. SOMETIMES I COULD FEEL THE FRUSTRATION FROM THE OTHER SIDE. AND I COULD FEEL SOMETHING WITHIN MYSELF AT THE SAME TIME. BUT I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD PROCESS BECAUSE WE GOT TO TALK TO EACH OTHER, HEAR EACH OTHER'S POINT OF VIEW. ONE BEAUTY ABOUT HAVING MORE THAN ONE PERSON SITTING ON A BOARD, OF COURSE, ONE PERSON IT IS NOT GOING TO BE THE BOARD, THAT IS, YOU KNOW, I CANNOT BE ALWAYS THE SMARTEST PERSON. I CANNOT ALWAYS BE THE WISEST PERSON ON SEEING THINGS. KAREN KEYES-GAMARRA, WHEN I HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH YOU, YOU GAVE ME A LOT TO THINK ABOUT AND I APPRECIATE THAT. I CALLED YOU SEVERAL

211TIMES AS A FRESHMAN, BUT WHEN I HAD THE CONVERSATION YOU WERE WISER THAN I WAS. I CERTAINLY FELT AND I APPRECIATE IT, EVEN THOUGH I DISAGREED WITH YOU ON THE CHOICE OF A NEW NAME. HAVING MADE A DECISION, THIS BOARD HAVING MADE A DECISION TO CHANGE THE NAME BACK IN JULY, NOT MAKING A DECISION TONIGHT WAS NOT AN OPTION FOR ME. FOR ME, IT IS A MATTER OF PICKING THE BEST NAME, BEST NEW NAME. I THOUGHT THAT ONE PARTICULAR NAME WAS BETTER THAN OTHERS. DID NOT PREVAIL. I THEN OVER THE COURSE OF WHAT, 18 YEARS I HAVE BEEN SERVING ON THE BOARD. WHEN I DON'T GET MY BEST PICK, I ALWAYS GO TO MY SECOND CHOICE. BECAUSE WE NEED TO MAKE A DECISION AND MOVE ON. I HOPE WITH ALL THE PASSIONS WE HAVE HAD

212DISCUSSING THIS MATTER AMONGST THE 12 OF US, THAT WE CAN FIND A WAY TO MOVE ON FIND A WAY TO PULL THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER WHICH WILL REQUIRE A LOT OF WORK FROM US. OVER MY COURSE OF SERVICE ON THE BOARD THERE WERE A LOT OF TIMES I WAS ON THE LOSING SIDE, IN THE MINORITY. I ALWAYS RESPECTED THE DECISION OF THE BOARD AND NOT TO UNDERMINE THE DECISIONS MADE BY THE BOARD AND SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE BOARD. I STRONGLY URGE, I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES WILL DO THAT, BECAUSE THERE MAY BE SOME HARD FEELINGS AMONGST US THAT WE FIND WAYS TO HEAL OURSELVES BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T DO THAT, WE CANNOT BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER. I WILL SUPPORT THE JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. MS. PALCHEK. MR. MOON, YOU ARE TONIGHT WISER THAN I. I WANTED TO

213SAVE MINE FOR MY VOTE. BUT FIRST, SEVERAL OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT PROCESS AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THEIR THOUGHTS. YOU MR. MOON, WITH YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE AND WHAT IT MEANS. I AGREE WITH YOU. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO RESPECT EACH OTHER. WE DEFINITELY HAVE AN WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS. ESPECIALLY ON CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES. I THINK THIS NOT BEING THE FIRST CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE WE HAVE NOW VOTED ON SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD, I HAVE NOTICED SIMILAR TENOR, SIMILAR DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE PROCESS. UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVEN'T MOVED PAST THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE WILL. I DEFINITELY SUPPORT LOOKING AT PROCESS. I WILL BE SUPPORTING YOUR MOTION MR. WILSON. I'M GLAD YOU WILL BRING THAT FORWARD. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARN FROM THE FIRST TIME WE ARE GOING THROUGH THIS

214AS A BOARD. I DON'T THINK IT IS A REASON TO SAY IT IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. WE ARE A BOARD THAT CANNOT MEET LEGALLY BEHIND THE SCENES, WE CANNOT COME TO COMPROMISES, SPEAK TO EACH OTHER MORE THAN TWO OF US AT A TIME UNLESS WE ARE AT AN OPENING MEETING AT THIS TABLE. SOMETIMES IT MAKES FOR A MESSY PROCESS. SOMETIMES IT BRINGS CONFUSION AND I'M SORRY SOME OF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO SIT THROUGH THAT. WE DO, LIKE MS. McLAUGHLIN SAID, WE UP ON THE BOARD HONESTLY TRULY BELIEVE WE ARE WORKING FOR THE COMMUNITY. WE CAN DISAGREE ON THAT, BUT I HOPE WE CAN COME TO THAT AGREEMENT. AS A PROUD GRADUATE OF FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, LATINA, JEWISH IMMIGRANT AND GRATEFUL NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THIS GREAT NATION, I BELIEVE WE ARE HERE

215BECAUSE WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT OUR COUNTY. OUR VISION IS AS DIVERSE AS THE COMMUNITY WE REPRESENT. SINCE SEVERAL OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SHARED THEIR PERSONAL STORIES, I WILL DO THE SAME, BRIEFLY. I DON'T OFTEN SHARE MY STORY. I DEFINITELY HID IT AS A CHILD GROWING UP HERE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS THE BEST WAY TO BE ACCEPTED AS AN EQUAL IN MY COLLEAGUES. IN 1990 MY FAMILY LIVED MY FAMILY TO FAIRFAX COUNTY AFTER LIVING THROUGH A DICTATORSHIP AND ECONOMIC TURMOIL. GROWING UP HERE, A NEIGHBOR AND A FORMER FRIEND TOLD ME TO MY FACE THAT HE HATED HISPANICS. AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AT THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MY COUNSELOR TOLD MY MOTHER I SHOULD ATENTD THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BECAUSE I'M AN IMMIGRANT. THANKFULLY SHE DID NOT LISTEN. IN 2015 I CHOSE

216TO DO SOMETHING I NEVER IMAGINED I WOULD DO, MADE THE LIFE CHANGING DECISION OVER A LONG YEAR OF CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO RUN FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY. I WAS INSPIRED BY MANY REASONS, BUT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I SAW MY COMMUNITY HAD CHANGED OVER THE LAST DECADE TO BE A VERY DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY. LACKED REPRESENTATION AND EQUAL ACCESS FOR MANY, INCLUDING THE HISPANICS IN OUR SCHOOLS. IN 2015 I WAS TOLD BY A COLLEAGUE ON THIS BOARD THAT WE NO LONGER HAVE INSTITUTIONAL RACISM. I COULD NOT BE SHOCKED. 2017, IT IS ABOUT SOMETHING MUCH LARGER THAN MYSELF. IT IS THE YEAR WE ARE DRAFTING A POLICY OF ONE FAIRFAX JOINTLY WITH THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. AND A TIME WE HAVE NAMED FRANCISCO DURANT AZ OUR CHIEF ECONOMIC OFFICER TO OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM. IN 2019

217THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA WILL MARK 400 YEARS OF -- BEING BROUGHT TO VIRGINIA. OVER THE PAST 400 YEARS THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN BE PROUD OF AND THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM. I HOPE THAT 2019 WILL BE THE FIRST YEAR WE RIGHT ONE WRONG OUR PREDECESSORS MADE IN REFUSING TO DESEGREGATE OUR SCHOOLS AND NAMING ONE OF OUR ALL-WHITE SCHOOLS AFTER A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. I HOPE IT WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF WORK FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES BEING REPRESENTED AND THEIR SCHOOLS AND THEIR LEADERSHIP AND IN THE DIRECTION OF THIS BOARD THIS COUNTY AND THIS NATION. OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS WE HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MUCH MORE ABOUT JUSTICE MARSHALL, BARBARA ROSE JOHNS AND COLONEL LOUIS MENDEZ JR. I HOPE FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY A NAME THAT LEADS TO

218ALL WHO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE LEAD TO UNVEILING AND FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE IN YEARS TO COME. THIS NAME IS NOT PLUCKED FROM A DICTIONARY, BUT INSPIRED BY A GREAT JUSTICE AS WELL AS OUR WORDS OF OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. THE SAME PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RECITED BY THE STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTY AND NATION, AS I RECITED AS AN IMMIGRANT IN SCHOOL AND IN EVERY MEETING IN THIS ROOM. I HOPE WHAT WE DO TO CONTINUE ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL WHO RESIDE? OUR GREAT COUNTY WILL INSPIRE MANY MORE GRADUATES FROM FCPS TO SERVE AND TO LEAD IN BOTH THEIR WORDS AND THEIR ACTIONS. AS SAID SO ELOQUENTLY BY OUR STUDENTS EARLIER TONIGHT, JEB STUART WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF OUR HISTORY, BUT HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A PART OF OUR SCHOOL. WE CAN HIGHLIGHT MANY

219HEROES AND REPRESENT THE HEROISM WE ADMIRE. WE CAN DISAGREE ON HOW WE COMPROMISE AND HOW WE ARRIVE TO DOING WHAT WE BELIEVE AND JUDGE TO BE THE BEST THING FOR OUR STUDENTS. MY PERSONAL BELIEF IS THAT CHANGING A SYMBOL THAT GLORIFIES A SEGREGATIONIST PAST AND MARKING THIS AS THE WAY FORWARD WITH A TEAM OF STAFF, STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY THAT WILL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE, EQUITY AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL IS THE RIGHT WAY FORWARD. OUR STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCESS AND HAVE THE BEST EDUCATION AND OPPORTUNITY WHETHER THEY ARE WHITE, LATINO, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, ANY BACKGROUND. WILL A NEW NAME CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY? NO. I HOPE IT WILL MARK A NEW ERA WHERE WE CONTINUE TO WORK FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. OUR COMMUNITY WAS DIVIDED WHEN JEB

220STUART WAS ALIVE, BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION ONE AND TWO AND DIVIDED HERE AROUND THE NATION. WE CANNOT DENY NOR CAN WE CHANGE IT. BUT WHAT WE CAN DO AND WHAT THIS VOTE CAN DO TODAY AND I HOPE FOR IS OUR COMMUNITY WILL EVENTUALLY FIND A WAY TO HEAL AND TO BEGIN TO FIND UNITY. IT WILL NOT BE TOMORROW, BUT I HOPE WE CAN MOVE ON THAT PATH. I BELIEVE THAT THE COMPROMISE WE HAVE TODAY BEST HONORS MANY NAMES THAT WERE BROUGHT FORWARD AND INSPIRES CURRENT AND FUTURE STUDENTS OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL. FROM A RETIRED TEACHER OF STUART HIGH SCHOOL, I TAUGHT SOCIAL STUDIES AT STUART FOR 38 YEARS, I AM SAD TO SEE A NAME CHANGE, BUT GIVES ME HOPE, HOPE THAT WE PLACE A NAME OCHB THE SCHOOL ALL CAN BE PROUD OF.

221I HOPE AND URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF STUART HIGH SCHOOL TO JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL AND BRING THAT HOPE TO OUR STUDENTS THAT WE WILL ALL WORK TOGETHER FOR A MORE PERFECT AND JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR THEM. MS. KAREN KEYES-GAMARRA. [ APPLAUSE ] I WON'T GIVE ANOTHER SPEECH. I THINK I HAVE DONE ENOUGH OF THAT TONIGHT. I WANT TO SAY DEMOCRACY CAN BE A MESSY BUSINESS. MS. SCHULTZ, I WANTED TO PUT THAT NAME OUT THERE TO MAKE SURE WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXHIBIT FOR OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS, CONSIDERING THESE THINGS. YOU ARE RIGHT, MS. McLAUGHLIN, IT WAS HARD, BUT WE -- AND WE FOUGHT HARD -- I MEAN, I'M PRETTY SURE I HAVE SOME BRUISES SOMEWHERE, THEORETICALLY BECAUSE WE REALLY WENT AT IT. WE REALLY HAD

222SOME GOOD DISCUSSIONS. I THANK MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY. I DO THINK THIS PROCESS DEMONSTRATES OUR ATTEMPT TO ADHERE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY. SO I WANTED TO SAY THAT. AND I WANTED TO SAY THAT WAS THE REASON I BROUGHT FORTH -- THURGOOD MARSHALL WAS MY FIRST CHOICE, THE -- I'M SORRY, THE COMPROMISE THAT BOARD MEMBER EVANS PUT FORTH I FELT ADDRESSED THE CONCERNS THAT I HAD. I CONTINUED TO SUPPORT IT. I SUPPORTED IT -- LET ME JUST STOP TALKING. I CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THAT. I'M GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THURGOOD MARSHALL. I WOULD HAVE LOVED FOR THAT TO HAVE PASSED, BUT HAVING SAID THAT, I WILL DEFINITELY SUPPORT THIS. THANK YOU. MS. EVANS. THANK YOU. I MADE MY MAIN COMMENTS AT THE BEGINNING, BUT I WILL WRAP UP AND SAY

223WE'VE TALKED ABOUT PROCESS A LOT TONIGHT. YES, WE HAVE HAD SOME -- IT IS UNFORTUNATE IT WAS A BIT MESSY, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE DID GET COMMUNITY INPUT IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. IT WAS WITH PEOPLE COMING OUT, WITH PEOPLE VOTING, WITH PEOPLE E-MAILING, WITH PEOPLE TESTIFYING. ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATIONS. WE HAVE HAD A VARIETY OF WAYS OF TRYING TO GAUGE WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS ON THIS. AND WE HAVE CERTAINLY RESPECTED THE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY DESIRES. TODAY WE ARE RIGHTING A WRONG OF THE PAST. WE DID THAT IN JULY AND WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN TODAY. WE WILL TURN BACK AND REJECT THE LEGACY OF MASSIVE RESISTANCE AND A SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT DRAGGED ITS HEELS ON INTEGRATION FOR A DECADE. I DID WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES. I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN

224DIFFICULT. AND I THINK EVERYONE HERE HAS BEEN EXTREMELY THOUGHTFUL. SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR THE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE ON IT. THIS HAS BEEN THE HARDEST ISSUE I HAVE HAD IN MY EIGHT YEARS ON THE BOARD. BUT I DO BELIEVE AND I WILL BE THE ONE LIVING AND BREATHING IT EVERY DAY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT AS A BOARD MEMBER, I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A DECISION WE WILL BE PROUD OF IN FIVE YEARS, IN 10 YEARS, AND IN 20 YEARS. I'M JUST GOING TO -- I WAS GOING TO READ FROM THE TEACHER OF 38 YEARS, MS. PALCHIK, THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. I HAVE HEARD FROM QUITE A FEW TEACHERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, I WILL READ JUST A COUPLE FROM THE STUDENTS. THIS IS FROM A SENIOR WE GOT WHO IS SUPPORTING

225THIS. JUSTICE OPENS THE DOOR TO AN AMAZING LEARNING OPPORTUNITY. EVEN JUSTICE ON ITS OWN IS A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT THAT REPRESENTS THE REALITY OF MY SCHOOL. ANOTHER STUDENT WROTE TO US AND SAID SHE HAD BEEN INVOLVED BEFORE, BUT NOW SHE KNOWS THAT IN OUR COMMUNITY CHANGING THE NAME IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT. IT SHOULD BE EVIDENT THAT THIS COUNTY IS HERE TO SUPPORT US AND STAND WITH US AGAINST THE INJUSTICES THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE FACED WITH TODAY. THIS WHOLE PROCESS HAS TAUGHT ME IF I PUT MY VOICE OUT THERE I WILL BE HEARD AND THIS GIVES ME INSPIRATION TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND ACTUALLY MAKE A CHANGE THAT WILL IMPACT ME AND THE SOCIETY WE LIVE IN TODAY. HEARD FROM A LOT OF PARENTS. THIS IS A P.T.A. PRESIDENT. OUR SCHOOL PYRAMID

226IS IN A WONDERFUL POSITION AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME TO MAKE A STAND ON THE SIDE OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND JUST FOR OUR EXTREMELY MULTICULTURAL POPULATION OF STUDENTS. SHE SUPPORTS JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL. THE NAME SPEAKS LOUD AND CLEAR NOT ONLY FOR THE INDIVIDUALS FOR WHOM THIS WOULD INCLUDE, BUT THE JUSTICE WE SEEK FROM ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, FROM EVERY RACE, NATIONALITY, RELIGION AND GENDER. I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT I WON'T. OUR FORMER SCHOOL BOARD REP AS WELL AS OUR CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD REP ARE FULLY BEHIND THIS. I BELIEVE WE CAN -- WE WILL COME TO THE POINT WHERE WE WILL CELEBRATE THIS NAME WHICH AGAIN I'M GOING TO EMPHASIZE IS FOR -- SPECIFICALLY FOR THREE PEOPLE, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL, BARBARA ROSE JOHNS AND COLONEL LOUIS MENDEZ. WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM EACH

227OF THEM. I HOPE THE STUDENTS DO, TOO. I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO BRING US TOGETHER. WHEN WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE PUT THE NEW NAME ON THE SCHOOL THIS WILL BE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. [ APPLAUSE ] THANK YOU. I WILL OFFER MY OWN BRIEF WORDS. I DO BELIEVE THAT JUSTICE SPEAKS FOR THE MANY HEROES AND HEROINES THAT FOUGHT THE RIGHT FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN TO BE TOGETHER AND TO GET PAST SEGREGATED SCHOOLS, THE LEGACY OF THE HARD-FOUGHT CIVIL RIGHS MOVEMENT. WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO TODAY. AS EDUCATORS, WHAT DOES JUSTICE MEAN TO US? IT MEANS WE PROVIDE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN HIGH QUALITY SCHOOLS, WHERE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN LEARN TOGETHER REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION OR CULTURE. WE CELEBRATE OUR CHILDREN. WE SAY DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH. THE SCHOOL

228BOARD AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARE GOING TO JOINTLY ESTABLISH A POLICY THAT IS CALLED ONE FAIRFAX. EQUITY OF ACCESS TO ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND ASSETS THAT PROVIDE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL OF OUR CITIZENS. WE ARE MOVING FORWARD. AGAIN, WE HAD ONE STUART STUDENT HERE TODAY WHO HAD A T-SHIRT THAT SAID WE ARE ONE. WE ARE ONE IN OUR SCHOOLS AND WE CELEBRATE THAT AND I CONGRATULATE THE STUDENTS WHO SUPPORT AND HELP EACH OTHER. I'M PLEASED ALL THE STUDENTS ON ALL SIDES CAME TO SPEAK TO US AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY. CHANGING THE NAME OF A SCHOOL IS HARD. BUT WE ARE GOING FORWARD TO CELEBRATE WHO WE ARE AND TO CELEBRATE OUR BELIEF IN THE QUALITY, THE POSITIVE QUALITIES OF JUSTICE AND ALL OF OUR CHURN. I DO BELIEVE OUR

229TEENAGERS WILL HAVE A GREAT TIME TALKING ABOUT THE MEANING OF JUSTICE FOR THEM, WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THEIR FUTURE, PROVIDES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HEROES WHO HAVE FOUGHT TO PROVIDE JUSTICE FOR ALL. I WILL READ THE MOTION ONE LAST TIME. ON 27, THE SCHOOL BOARD DETERMINED A NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME. AMONG OTHER THINGS THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS CONVENED A COMMUNITY MEETING TO SOLICIT SUGGESTIONS AND HELD AN ADVISORY VOTE BY HOUSEHOLDS WITHIN THE SCHOOL'S ATTENDANCE AREA. I MOVE THE NEW NAME OF JEB STUART HIGH SCHOOL BE JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL I FURTHER MOVE THE SUPPORT DEVELOP AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN BY DECEMBER 14, 2017. ALL FAVOR IN THE MOTION, EVANS, PALCHIK, McELVEEN, STRAUSS, MOON, HEINZ, KEYES-GAMARRA. THOSE OPPOSED. WILSON, McLAUGHLIN, SCHULTZ, DERENAK KAUFAX. THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE SEVERAL OTHER MOTIONS

230PERTAINING TO THIS. I THINK WE WILL TAKE ABOUT A TWO-MINUTE BREAK. IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO US, THAT IS FINE. WE WILL TAKE A TWO-MINUTE BREAK AND CONTINUE THE REST OF OUR BUSINESS. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS PLEASE RETURN TO THE TABLE. NOW THAT IT IS FRIDAY MORNING, PLEASE RETURN TO THE TABLE. MR. WILLSON, YOU ARE NEXT. OKAY. I CALL US BACK TO ORDER. MR. WILSON HAS TWO FOLLOW ON MOTIONS. MR. WILSON, I RECOGNIZE YOU FOR YOUR FIRST MOTION. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. NOW IT IS FINALLY FRIDAY MORNING WE CAN GET TO OUR FOLLOW ON MOTION. I MOVE CONSISTENT WITH THE MOTION APPROVED BY THE BOARD ON JULY 27, 2017, THE SUPERINTENDENT IMPLEMENT THE NEW NAME FILING RECEIPTS SUFFICIENT TO PAY FOR A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE EXPECTED COST ASSOCIATED WITH IMPLEMENTATION. IS THERE

231A SECOND. SECONDED BY MR. McLAUGHLIN. MR. WILSON, SPEAK TO IT. SO IN THE COURSE OF, WELL, AS MY MOTION INDICATES, IN OUR JULY 27th MOTION, WE DID STATE THAT THE BOARD FURTHER DIRECTED STAFF TO CREATE A MECHANISM FOR PRIVATE FUNDING WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT PRIVATE FUNDING WILL PAY FOR A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE COST FOR THE NEW NAME. THAT IS CONSISTENT ACTUALLY WITH MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMMUNICATED WITH IN THE MASON DISTRICT. ONE OF WHOM WROTE, I KNOW MANY NEUTRALS IN THE DEBATE IN MY COMMUNITY THAT HAVE A LEGITIMATE OBJECTION FOR PUBLIC MONEY BEING USED TO PAY FOR THE NAME CHANGE. THIS IS A VALID ARGUMENT. THE SCHOOL BOARD COULD MANDATE ALL EXPENSES ARE PAID FOR BY PRIVATE MONEY WHICH PUTS ONUS ON THE CHANGERS WHICH I THINK IS FAIR. IN THE CASE OF JEB

232STUART, THE CHANGERS WOULD NOT HAVE A PROBLEM MEETING THAT OBLIGATION. IN LIGHT OF THAT SENTIMENT, AND THE BOARD'S MOTION IN JULY, I HOPE EVERYONE WILL JOIN ME. I SECONDED THE MOTION BECAUSE I APPRECIATE MR. WILSON'S CONCERNS IN WANTING THE BOARD TO DISCUSS SOMETHING THAT CERTAINLY THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE COST. THAT SAID, I HAVE BEEN VERY CONSISTENT IN MY PUBLIC REMARKS ON THIS FOR AT LEAST A YEAR NOW THAT THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY ABOUT THE COST. IF CHANGING THE NAME IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM NEEDS TO GET ANALYSIS TO FIGURE HOW MUCH IT IS AND AGAIN WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY THAT WANTS TO PROVIDE PUBLIC/PRIVATE FUNDS, BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY SUPPORT FIRST OF ALL WHAT WOULD BE SUBSTANTIAL. MR. WILSON, I'M SURE YOU CAN APPRECIATE THAT PART OF

233THE CHALLENGE THIS BOARD HAS HAD ON THIS WHOLE ISSUE IS WE DON'T DEFINE WHAT THINGS MEAN. I DON'T KNOW IF SUBSTANTIAL MEANS 50%, 75%, SO WHILE I APPRECIATE THE SPIRIT OF THIS PARTICULAR MOTION, I'M MORE CONCERNED, QUITE HONESTLY, DR. BRABRAND, I SHARED THIS WITH MS. EVANS WEEKS AGO, I'M DEEPLY, DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THE DIVISION HAS KNOWN THIS FOR OVER A YEAR AND A HALF, THE COMMUNITY WAS WRESTLING AND DEBATING WITH HOW MUCH THIS CHANGE WOULD COST, THERE HAVE BEEN FIGURES UP TO $2 MILLION. WE PEELED THAT BACK. WE HAD BOARD MEMBERS BRING UP AND SAY CAN'T YOU SPRAY PAINT THE FIELD INSTEAD OF REPLACE THE FIELD. THE UNIFORMS, YOU CAN CHANGE THE JACKET. I SAID TO MS. EVANS, FOR THE CREDIBILITY OF THE BOARD THE PUBLIC KEEPS ASKING WHAT IT IS GOING TO COST. EVEN

234IF WE ALL AGREED YOU GET IT DONE REGARDLESS OF COST, WE OWE IT TO EACH OTHER AS STEWARDS TO EXPLAIN WHAT IT WILL COST. IT DOESN'T REFLECT WELL ON THE 12 OF US WHEN WE SAY WE STILL DON'T KNOW. I HOPED PART OF TONIGHT'S DIALOGUE FOR GETTING THE PUBLIC TO EMBRACE OR AT LEAST RESPECT THIS CHANGES, THEY WOULDN'T GET HUNG UP ON THE MILLION DOLLAR FALSE NARRATIVE THAT HAS BEEN OUT THERE. AGAIN MR. WILSON, I WON'T SUPPORT THIS FOLLOW ON MOTION AND AM MAKING MY PUBLIC REMARKS AND BESEECH DR. BRABRAND TO GET A MORE DEFINITIVE COST. I KNOW THAT WILL HELP MS. EVANS AND REALLY ALL OF US. MS. HYNES. THANK YOU. I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS. WE ARE NO LONGER CHANGERS AND KEEPERS. TONIGHT WE ARE WORKING ON BEING UNIFIED. A COMMUNITY SEEKING UNITY.

235I THINK THIS INTRODUCES -- I THINK I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE TRYING TO GO, BUT IT INTRODUCES CONFUSION ABOUT WHEN IMPLEMENTATION WILL BEGIN. THAT JUST DRAGS THE THEM VERSUS US CONVERSATION INTO THE INDEFINITE FUTURE. WE WENT THROUGH THIS VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS TO MAKE A DECISION, LET'S NOT HAVE ANY CONFUSING STATEMENT FROM THIS BOARD TO SLOW THE IMPLEMENTATION DOWN. SO I WON'T SUPPORT THIS. MS. EVANS. YES, THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THE SPIRIT OF THIS MOTION. I WON'T BE SUPPORTING IT FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. WE HAVE ALL BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY, BUT THIS DID COME IN LATE. WE DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK THIS THROUGH AND THINK OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF IT. THAT IS ONE PIECE. I REALLY DON'T LIKE TO SEE THINGS THAT COME IN QUITE THIS LATE IN THE PROCESS. BUT THE OTHER PART

236OF IT IS WE HAVE GIVEN THE SUPERINTENDENT DIRECTION TO COME BACK WITH AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN IN DECEMBER. I WOULD HOPE THAT THE TIMING ON IT, THAT THIS WILL BE PART OF HIS PLAN. HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BRING US WHEN AND HOW AND WHAT COST, I AGREE WITH MS. McLAUGHLIN, WE NEED TO DIVE INTO THE COST A LITTLE BIT MORE. SO I THINK THIS NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT WE EXPECT TO SEE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT IN DECEMBER. MR. MOON. I THINK MS. EVANS BASICALLY SAID WHAT I WANTED TO SAY. MS. SCHULTZ. SO I ASKED A QUESTION OF MS. MICHAEL OR MS. QUINN AT THE MONDAY WORK SESSION LAST WEEK IF WE DO THIS VOTE AT THE END OF THE VOTE WILL WE HAVE OBLIGATED THE FUNDS. THERE WAS

237QUITE A COMMOTION BUT THE END RESULT TO THE ANSWER WAS YES. SO WE HAVE JUST AS A BOARD COMMITTED SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF $800,640 TO CHANGING THE NAME. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IN THE $2.8 BILLION BUDGET IT IS THAT MONEY IS GOING TO COME FROM. WE DID WHAT I SAID LAST TIME, THE WHIMPY BURGER ANSWER, I WILL GLADLY PLAY TUESDAY FOR A HAMBURGER TODAY. WE WROTE AN $800,000 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BLANK CHECK AND WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT LATER. IF THE COMMITMENT WAS ALL ALONG THE PROFESSED COMMITMENT WAS THERE WAS GOING TO BE OUTSIDE MONEY COMING IN TO PAY FOR THIS BUT WE HAVE NO MONEY ON THE BOOKS AND NOT EVEN SURE WE ARE ENTIRELY SURE WE HAVE FIGURED OUT THE MECHANISM IS THAT WE ARE TRYING, THEN, YOU KNOW, THE GET AN

238IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FROM DR. BRABRAND LATER DOESN'T DEFUND THOSE OBLIGATIONS ON THE BOOK. WE WILL GET TO HEARING WHERE THE MONEY IS TAKEN OUT OF THE BUDGET OR IT WON'T MATTER. IT IS A FIDUCIARY LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY. I REGULARLY REMIND PEOPLE PART OF OUR OATH IS SWEARING TO UPHOLD VIRGINIA LAW, VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION, U.S. CONSTITUTION, IT SAYS WE WILL RUN THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH UTMOST EFFICIENCY. WRITING AN $800,000 CHECK WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE IT IS COMING FROM THE BUDGET AND PROFESSING WE DON'T KNOW WHERE OUTSIDE MONEY WE WILL GET TOGETHER, IS FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE. MS. KEYES-GAMARRA. I APPRECIATE MS. SCHULTZ'S COMMENTS. MR. WILSON, I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT LACKS SPECIFICITY, SOMEBODY SAY IT FOR ME. SPECIFICITY. THAT IS THE WORD I'M TRYING TO SAY. SPECIFICITY. I WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WAS VOTING FOR. I DO THINK

239WE NEED TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS AND I BELIEVE WE ARE SCHEDULED TO DO THAT. BUT I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT WE WOULD BE VOTING ON WITH YOUR MOTION. I'M SORRY. MS. DERENAK KAUFAX. MR. WILSON, I APPRECIATE THIS. AND I, TOO, HAD GREAT CONCERNS WHEN SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES WERE JUST SAYING, WELL, IF WE VOTE ON THIS, WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS AND WE WILL. AND WE DIDN'T HAVE -- AS MS. SCHULTZ SAID, WE DON'T HAVE AN IDEA WHERE IT IS COMING FROM. HOWEVER, THE MAJORITY OF THIS BOARD JUST VOTED TO HAVE THIS NAME CHANGE. AND I DON'T THINK IT'S RIGHT TO PRETEND THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET $1 MILLION FROM SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD OR SOMEONE SOMEWHERE. SO WE SOMEHOW HAVE TO COME UP WITH A PLAN AND WHAT I DON'T WANT IT TO HAVE

240TO DO -- I ALREADY FEEL -- WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH MY FEELINGS ON THIS PROCESS, BUT IF WE DRAG IT OUT UNTIL SOME FAIRY GODMOTHER IS GOING TO BESTOW THESE MONEYS ON US, I DON'T THINK THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I AM VERY CONCERNED BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD FROM TWO OTHER SCHOOLS IN MY COMMUNITY AND WHATEVER PLAN WE USE FOR THIS, YOU HAVE TO BE READY TO DO IT FOR OTHER SCHOOLS. YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHILE STUART IS A NEEDY COMMUNITY, THERE ARE OTHER NEEDY COMMUNITIES OUT THERE. THIS BOARD HAS CHOSEN TO MAKE THIS NAME CHANGE. THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER SCHOOLS OUT THERE WITH SIMILAR SOCIOECONOMICS AND SIMILAR DEMOGRAPHICS THAT NEED NEW BAND UNIFORMS AND NEED THIS. ARE WE ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL? HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS?

241THERE HAS TO BE A PLAN. DR. BRABRAND AND HIS TEAM IS GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK TO US WITH IT AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE DO IT. I WON'T SUPPORT THIS MOTION. I BELIEVE THERE WILL BE AGGRESSIVE FUND RAISING THAT BEGINS TOMORROW. WE KNOW MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE COMMITTED TO TRY TO RAISE AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY CAN, BECAUSE THAT WAS PART OF THE COMMITMENT. SO I REMAIN COMMITTED TO EXPECTING A FAIR AMOUNT OF FUND-RAISING TO GO ON PRIVATE LIE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. OH MR. WILSON, AND THEN CALL FOR THE VOTE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I JUST WANT TO SAY I DID NOT INTEND THIS FOLLOW ON MOTION TO CREATE ANY CONFUSION OR I CAREFULLY TRACKED THE LANGUAGE IN OUR MOTION

242FROM JULY WITH THE POSHS LANGUAGE THAT DIRECTLY LIFTED -- I WOULD REMIND THE BOARD AS MS. STRAUSS STATED, THE MOTION PASSED IN JULY STATED THE BOARD FURTHER DIRECTS STAFF TO FIND A MECHANISM FOR PRIVATE FUNDING WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT PRIVATE FUNDING WILL PAY A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE COST. MY SIGNIFICANT PART OF MY FOLLOW ON MOTION WAS JUST TO SAY THAT THAT'S -- THAT IS A, NOT JUST AN EXPECTATION, BUT WE WANT TO KNOW WHEN THAT SUBSTANTIAL PORTION IS ACHIEVED. MY IDEA WAS IT WOULD BE FOLLOWING THE SUPERINTENDENT, WE WOULD GIVE THE DISCRETION IN OUR JULY MOTION AS WE DID TO OUR SUPERINTENDENT TO ACHIEVE THAT AND PRESENT TO US. I DON'T THINK WE REALLY CHANGE, BY THE FACT THAT WE DON'T PASS THIS MOTION, WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DIRECTED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DO. SO --

243I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT. CALL FOR THE MOTION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE -- MR. WILSON MOTION, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. MR. WILSON, MS. SCHULTZ. ALL THOSE OPPOSED: EVANS, McLAUGHLIN, PALCHIK, McELVEEN, STRAUSS, MOON, HYNES, DERENAK KAUFAX, KEYES-GAMARRA. SO THAT FAILS. MR. WILSON, YOUR SECOND MOTION. OKAY. WELL, I'M REMAINING HOPEFUL I WILL HAVE MORE SUCCESS WITH THE FOLLOW ON MOIGS. I MOVE THE BOARD PRIOR TO ANY FUTURE SCHOOL RENAMING DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO REVIEW THE PROVISIONS OF REGULATIONS 8170.7 AND THE PROCESS IS FOL LOYED TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT. SECOND. I'M NOT QUITE FINISHED. AND TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE BOTHER WITH RECOMMENDATIONS NO LATER THAN JANUARY 2018. I FURTHER MOVE THE BOARD DIRECT THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TO REVIEW POLICY 8170 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN COORDINATION WITH A REVIEW TO BE COMPLETED

244WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT. SECOND. THIRD. MR. WILSON, YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO IT. I DON'T THINK THERE IS A WHOLE LOT TO TALK ABOUT. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP CONCERNS ABOUT PROCESS IN THE COMMUNITY AND ON THIS BOARD. I BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, FURTHER EXPLANATION ISN'T NEEDED AT THE DAIS. I HOPE EVERYONE WILL AGREE AND SUPPORT. ANY OTHER COMMENT. I HAVE LIGHTS. DOES IT MEAN MY COLLEAGUES, YOUR LIGHTS ARE ON. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK OR NOT. ALL RIGHT. I HAVE MS. EVANS. OH, I'M SORRY, MS. SCHULTZ. I OVERLOOKED YOUR SECOND. IF WE DID ANYTHING WE PROVED THAT WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OF THIS PROCESS AND WHATEVER BEGAN UNDER THREE SUPERINTENDENTS AGO, REMEMBER, OR DR. LOCKARD I'M INCLUDING YOU IN SUPERINTENDENT, THAT WE NEED A REFRESH AND BUT QUICK. THAT IS THE

245BRASS TACKS OF THIS. AND WE NEED TO SHORE THIS THING UP BECAUSE THIS THING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WORSE, MESSIER, MORE CONVOLUTED, AND THE FASTER WE GET CONTROL OF THAT WHICH DID NOT GO WELL, THE SOONER WE DON'T REPEAT THE MISTAKE. MS. DERENAK KAUFAX. I HAVE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE PROCESS. AND HOW I DO NOT FEEL IT WAS DONE WELL. SO, UM, I GET TO EAT MY OWN JUST DESSERTS BECAUSE I'M THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. GOES RIGHT BACK TO YOU. DR. BRABRAND AND I AND THE TEAM, WE'RE THERE. OKAY. MS. McLAUGHLIN, DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK THIS LATE HOUR, SHORT. YES, I WILL MAKE IT VERY SHORT. I APPRECIATE MR. WILSON BRINGING THIS. AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN A LONG MEMBER OF THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, I WOULD CERTAINLY WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO

246WORK WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT IN REVIEWING BOTH THE POLICY AND THE REGULATION. ESPECIALLY SINCE SEVERAL OF US HAVE NOTED OVER TIME THAT THE FORMER SUPERINTENDENT NEVER BROUGHT THIS, THE DRAFT REGULATION, WHICH WAS BRAND NEW, NEVER SEEN BY THE BOARD AND I THINK WE WOULD HAVE BENEFITED THE DIVISION IF THE THE BOARD HAD BEEN ABLE TO LOOK AT A DRAFT OF THE REGULATION AND HAD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THIS WOULD IMPACT OUR POLICY WORK. MS. EVANS AND THEN MR. MOON. MS. DERENAK KAUFAX AND MS. McLAUGHLIN HAVE REMINDED ME I ALSO AM ON THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. I'M NOT SURE WE NEED MORE WORK, BUT I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR THE MAKER OF THE MOTION. JUST TO CLARIFY WHEN YOU SAY PRIOR TO ANY FUTURE SCHOOL RENAMING, YOU MEAN AFTER JUSTICE HIGH SCHOOL, CORRECT? CORRECT. OKAY.

247I DO WONDER IF THE TIMELINE FOR JANUARY 2018, DOES THAT ACTUALLY GIVE THE SUPERINTENDENT THE TIME HE NEEDS AND -- THAT DATE CAME FROM STAFF. THAT DID COME FROM STAFF, DR. BRABRAND, DO YOU FEEL THAT GIVES YOU ENOUGH TIME TO REVIEW AND COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS? WE'LL GET IT DONE. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE. OKAY. I FURTHER MOVE TO -- HERE IS MY OTHER QUESTION. SO THE SUPERINTENDENT IS GOING TO GIVE US RECOMMENDATIONS BY JANUARY 2018. HE IS GOING TO GIVE THEM TO THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO REVIEW THEM. IT SAYS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN COORDINATION WITH THE REVIEW TO BE COMPLETED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT. I'M NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND THAT LAST PART. I THINK WHAT YOU ARE GETTING AT IS WHAT WOULD THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE BE DOING WHILE HE

248IS LOOKING AT THE REGULATIONS? NO. I THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH TO DO WHILE HE IS LOOKING AT THE REGULATIONS. YOU DO INTEND US TO BE WORK SOMETHING POLICY 8170 SHOULD ALSO BE LOOKED AT IN CONJUNCTION WITH STAFF'S REVIEW OF THE REGULATION. I GUESS I REALLY AM, I'M AFRAID I'M MORE UNCLEAR. I THOUGHT THIS IS AFTER WE GET HIS RECOMMENDATIONS WE REVIEW. NO, WE ARE GOING TO BE REVIEWING SEPARATELY? I THINK THE REGULATIONS ARE GENERALLY IN THE PURVIEW OF THE SUPERINTENDENT STAFF. OH, I'M SO SORRY. I UNDERSTAND NOW. HE IS DOING THE REG AND WE ARE DOING THE POLICY AND COORDINATING WITH EACH OTHER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. MR. MOON. AND I HOPE THAT IS IT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I AM GOING TO SUPPORT THE MOTION. MY INTERPRETATION OF INTENT

249BEHIND THIS MOTION IS AS WE ALWAYS DO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT SPEAKING. NOTHING MORE THAN THAT. I WELCOME THAT. OKAY. I WILL SUPPORT THE MOTION. IN THE SPIRIT OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, WE CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER WITH WHATEVER WE ARE DOING FOR PROCESS. I'M GOING TO CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, THAT IS UNANIMOUS. OKAY. MOTION CARRIES. DO SOMETHING. MR. WILSON, YOU MADE SOME CONTRIBUTIONS. OKAY. I WILL GO, THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, ITEM 5.03 IS THE FY 18 AUDIT PLAN. I CALL ON MS. HYNES FOR A MOTION. WHAT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR, ACTUALLY. I MOVE THE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVE THE FY 18 AUDIT PLAN AS DETAILED IN THE AGENDA ITEM. SECOND. SECONDED BY MR. MOON. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION, MS. HYNES. VERY BRIEFLY, I WOULD

250LIKE TO THANK OUR AUDITOR GENERAL WHO IS STILL HERE AFTER MIDNIGHT. [ APPLAUSE ] ALL OF HER WORK ON THAT AND THE WORK OF THE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL, THE WORK OF STAFF THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO WHAT OUR AUDIT PLAN TO GO FORWARD FOR THE NEXT YEAR. I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES CAN SUPPORT IT. WE HAVE HAD A WORK SESSION TO TALK ABOUT IT. AUDIT COMMITTEE LOOKED AT IT AND TALKED ABOUT IT. MR. MOON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND? REALLY, NOTHING. BUT THEY SHOULD BE AUDITING THE SANITY OF THE BOARD MEMBERS BEING HERE AFTER MIDNIGHT. OKAY. I WILL CERTAINLY SUPPORT THIS AND GREAT COMPLIMENTS TO MS. COE AND MS. HYNES. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE AUDIT PLAN FOR FY

2512018, THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS. NOW THE DIVISION COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. I CALL ON MR. McELVEEN FOR A MOTION. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I MOVE THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVE THE DIVISIONWIDE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS DETAILED IN THE AGENDA ITEM. SECOND. THANK YOU. MR. McELVEEN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION? VERY BRIEFLY. THIS DOCUMENT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND STANDARDS OF QUALITY 2011. STANDARD SIX REQUIRING A BIENNIAL DIVISIONWIDE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PLAN IS TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR MAJOR INITIATIVES AND OPERATIONAL PLANS. INFORMATION IN THIS PLAN WAS PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD DURING THE PAST YEAR IN A VARIETY OF REPORTS. THE PLAN CONSISTS OF OPERATIONAL PLANS FOR THE SYSTEM. EVERYONE ON THE BOARD WILL REMEMBER AT OUR LAST REGULAR MEETING WE HAD A PUBLIC HEARING ON

252THIS. THANK YOU. MS. DERENAK KAUFAX, DO YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? NO, MA'AM. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE DIVISIONWIDE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UNANIMOUS. IT CARRIES. THE CONSENT AGENDA, ADOPTED RULES OF PARTRY PROCEDURE PROVIDES A CONSENT AGENDA LISING SEVERAL ITEMS FOR APPROVAL BY A SINGLE MOTION. MOST HAVE GONE THROUGH REVIEW AND DOCUMENTATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN ADVANCE. 6.01, APPROVE THE MINUTE TS OF THE OCTOBER 12, 2017 REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. 6.02, AWARD THE CONTRACT OF THE AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM REPLACEMENT AT COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. AND AUTHORIZE THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. 6.03, AWARD THE AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE REPLACEMENT. IS THAT THE SAME MOTION? IN THE AMOUNT OF $306,862. AND AUTHORIZE THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT ORR THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION TO EXECUTE AND ADMINISTER THE CONTRACT

253ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. 6.04, AWARD A CONTRACT FOR THE CHANTILLY HIGH SCHOOL ROOF REPLACEMENT PROJECT. R.D. VEIN, INC, IN $808,865. AND NORZ THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT OR ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO EXECUTE, DELIVER AND ADMINISTER THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. 6.05, CONFIRM THE APPOINTMENTS AND SEPARATIONS FOR JULY 1, 2017 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2017. 6.06, CONFIRM THE SEPARATIONS FROM THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER 1, O017 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2017. 6.07, APPOINT INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON COMMITTEE AS DETAILED IN THE ITEM. IS THERE ANY OBJECTION TO THE CONSENT AGENDA? HEARING AND SEEING NONE, IT IS APPROVED. NEW BUSINESS. FOLLOWING I TIMINGS ACTION IS SCHEDULED FOR A FUTURE MEETING. 7.01, AWARD A CONTRACT TO TIMBER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROOF REPLACEMENT AND EXECUTE AND DELIVER AND ADMINISTER THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF

254THE SCHOOL BOARD. 7.02, APPROVE THE CHANGES TO THE LIST OF THE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL COURSE OFFERINGS AS DETAILED IN THE AGENDA ITEM. SUPERINTENDENT MATTERS, DR. BRABRAND. I HAVE NOTHING THIS EVENING TO REPORT. I WILL WAIT FOR THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY WHEN WE ARE -- A LITTLE FRESHER. I HAVE AN 8:0 A.M. PICK UP BY DR. IVY TO VISIT HER REGION SCHOOL. I WILL LEAVE IT AT THAT. THANK YOU FOR GIVING MEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE YOUR SUPERINTENDENT. ANY TIME YOU WANT TO BE IN A MEETING UNTIL THE NEXT DAY. BOARD COMMITTEE REPORTS. I CALL ON MS. HYNES FOR THE REPORT ON THE AUDIT COMMITTEE AND MR. McELVEEN ON AN UPDATE FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE. AUDIT COMMITTEE MET YESTERDAY. WE GOT THE FINAL REPORTS ON THE FY 17 AUDIT PLAN AND WE GOT AN UPDATE ON

255STAFF CHANGES IN THE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL. WE DISCUSSED THE MENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT THAT WENT WELL. WE DISCUSSED CONTINUING ISSUES WITH THE WEBSITE AND FINALLY WE DISCUSSED THE MOBILE APP WHICH HAS NOW BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CURRENT PHOTOS OF PRINCIPALS. NEXT IS BOARD MATTERS. HOPEFULLY VERY FEW. MS. EVANS. I WANT TO CONGRATULATE HOLMES MIDDLE SCHOOL ON THEIR 50th ANNIVERSARY. THEY HAD A FABULOUS CELEBRATION LAST SATURDAY AND I WAS HONORED TO BE THERE. MR. WILSON. MS. McLAUGHLIN. I WANT TO BRIEFLY THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND SUPERINTENDENT AND LEADERSHIP TEAM MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN KIND TO ME IN MY ABSENCE IN VISITING MY MOM. I ALSO WANT TO SAY IN MY SIX YEARS BEING ON THE BOARD, THIS WAS A TOUGH ISSUE FOR OUR BOARD TO WRESTLE AND I PERSONALLY FELT THAT ALL 12 OF US REALLY

256WORKED HARD TO TRY AND MODEL RESPECTFUL CONVERSATION TONIGHT AND I JUST FELT GOOD ABOUT THAT PIECE. GREAT. THANKS. MS. PALCHIK. THANK YOU, COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MS. McLAUGHLIN. HAVE A GOOD EVENING. MR. McELVEEN. PASS. MR. MOON. A COUPLE OF EMBASSY OFFICIALS VISITED US ON THE LAST FRIDAY TO DELIVER CHECKS TOTALING MORE THAN $90,000 TO SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY SINCE 2011 THE GRAND TOTAL AMOUNT IS CLOSE TO $600,000. GREAT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVOCACY AND YOUR WORK AND YOUR SUCCESS. MS. HYNES. PASS. MS. SCHULTZ. I JUST WANT TO THANK THE P.T.A. PRESCRIPTION -- PRINCIPALS WHO ATTENDED MY P.T.A. ROUNDTABLE. WHATEVER. YOU KNEW IF YOU WERE THERE YOU HAD A GREAT TIME AND WE DISCUSSED GREAT STUFF. I KNOW THAT TAKES TIME OUT OF PEOPLE'S DAY. THE ONLY THING I AM GOING TO SAY

257BECAUSE IT WAS SO TERRIFIC, I HAD A CHANCE THIS WEEK TO PARTICIPATION IN A U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF GLOBAL WOMEN'S INITIATIVES PANEL ON ADDRESSING ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT NEEDS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. NEEDED A LITTLE BIT HARDER THE ONE WOMAN ON OUR VOTE GOT ERASED. I THANK THE STATE DEPARTMENT FOR THAT INVITATION. MS. DERENAK KAUFAX. MS. KEYES-GAMARRA. GOOD NIGHT. AND THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. GOOD NIGHT.