thank you for your dedication to the district students we value your time and input it is our goal as board members to ensure sfu sd creates conscience for students to thrive. in the spirit, thank you for your partnership. i want to begin with a quick story. left week you may have heard that all 7 board commissioners received a fantastic training by national government expert aj crab. he lead us through work he leads the upon governor work for great city schools which sfu sd is a member. speaking for myself the training was excellent. and have in the experienced that as in that type of train nothing a long while. instead of the traditional sit and get the training it was more like a high level interactive lots of learnings and examining our own foundation as a school district. and really the work ahead that lies for us as a governing board. and i m thrill body that work that will be embarking on. aj challenged us. pushed us to name our responsibilities as board member and