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paper. We have to move away from the paper. We have to move this district to apaperless School Board functioning district. We can do that and there is a mechanismto do that. We start first with you. As I said before, we want to equip you with laptopsso that we can E-mail this information to you and you can get it in a timely fashion. Bythe way, that cuts down on staff having to jump in automobiles and deliver this to you atthe last minute. Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not trying to use this as anexcuse. But it is what we face. My apologies for piling on such heaps of information,but this is what you request. My last comment is we don’t have untold numbers of staffwho can crank this information out. When you ask for data and for in-depth questionsabout concerns that you might have what generally happens is staff will stop conductingtheir day-to-day activities to pull this information together. And they generally respondto it almost in a crisis mode. So let us hope that the combination of the change of ourschedule and having us move towards being a paperless school district will put us in abetter position where I am not putting you School Board members at a disadvantage bygiving you the information so late.Comm. Atallo: Thank you. At this time we would like to make a motion to move theresolutions on C-1 with the exception of the three we mentioned pending theexplanation from the Superintendent’s office on that preschool program as Comm.Vergara raised those issues. We can get those answers on these resolutions with theWindsor Academy, Windsor Prep Incorporated, and Windsor School, and also with theTRC Energy Company Inc.Comm. Brown: Point of order, Dr. Atallo. If you want to pull something we have tomake an amendment to the main motion and it has to be voted on first. If not we haveto either vote it up or down.It was moved by Comm. Atallo, seconded by Comm. Vergara that C-1 be amendedwith reference to the Windsor Academy, Windsor Prep Incorporated, WindsorSchool, and TRC Energy Company, Inc.Comm. Brown: Do you want to state the amendment again for the record please?Comm. Atallo: Yes. The amendment is that I move this resolution with the exceptionthat we exclude those three items pending a response from the administration.Comm. Brown: What are the three items again please, sir?Comm. Atallo: It was the preschool program that Comm. Vergara raised. Actually, itwas five items because the Windsor Academy is three different items. They are theWindsor Academy, Windsor Prep Incorporated, Windsor School, and TRC EnergyService Limited Liability Corporation.Comm. Brown: Do we want to have a discussion on that amendment?On roll call all members voted as follows on the amendment:Comm. Atallo: Yes.Comm. Moody: Yes.Comm. Santiago: Yes.Comm. Sayegh: Yes.Page 42 11/9/05