 Hello, and thank you for joining us today. My name is Bayby and this is Carol and you'll see us here at the center. We'll end here at the center. To get these starters, we'd like to welcome all of the students who have been here for a long time. Thank you very much. Thank you. It should be. Thank you for being here today. I'd like to first just say our record communications gallery where we're putting this wonderful event together just to settle in it. Because I'm here between telling this epic story and kind of the constraints of the purpose of today. Because to really tell the story, we would all need to get back past and go on the long trail for about a week and talk about it as we fight over a fire night and mourning and a new repackage. There are so many stories to be told, just to scratch the surface. So as we celebrate the beautiful new building, this is a story that leads together the concepts of collaboration and actually leads throughout a very complicated journey. This type of project doesn't happen often in public education systems across our country in lower value and racially and enlistingly diverse communities like ours and in the midst of global pandemic. Or from the very beginning, a myriad of teams have come together with great passion and resolve to accomplish this moving circle. If you think of a team that I will describe each as an essential and interdependent part of a beautifully complex piece of art like a beautifully buddhist motto, you can visualize how all kinds of folks with different skills have come together to create something involving mental health and eating culture. One of the teams that's been instrumental throughout has been our school board, turned in by Allen. The idea of this project was supported and shepherded by former members for many years, like Mac and Neal, Jen Corrigan, and Dr. Carmen Bass. Specifically, former board president, Mike DeCarro and his leadership brought this school board out of chaos over a decade ago and into skillful, strategic and compassionate governance. Mike and fellow board member, Dr. Allison, were the consistent board leaders of this project starting from the beginning and helping the community to trust in WSE and believe in the need for this investment. I know Allison Kamal and the current board continue this legacy of excellent governance and ensure the care of this community asset. Now, I wanted a picture to folks running around in surgical masks, taking student temperatures with our hats on, all the while working with the students, parents, and staff to keep safety and learning in the forefront in the midst of my plan of arms packing and unpacking classrooms and offices and re-learning circuitous routes around our construction site, slash school. These are our principals, Kate, Jean, and Sarah, our directors, Nicole, Mohamed, Kirsten before Mohamed, Bailey, Michael, and Catherine and Robin, thanks to the leadership team for your heroic efforts to keep the train running amidst the constant challenges of COVID construction. And also, I'd like to give our board director of communications and development, Emily Kacker, a shout out to all of her amazing work on this project. Thank you for the support of WSE as we went in and out of our public learning, changed our building entry, traffic patterns, and delayed the opening of the schoolway. Our PTO, led by Laura Lee, and her team provided delicious staff appreciation meals and jumps at the drop of a hat to come in and help us set up a classroom when we need extra help. And our students, well, they're just amazing, adaptable, and are already making this place their home. Thank you to our families. Our staff worked with unprecedented flexibility to take care of students in each area throughout and kept their eyes on the prize of knowing that we were working for this fabulous outcome that you're in today. Now, they will get to work with leadership and students to leverage these new spaces, continue creating rigors and engaging learning that our students deserve. Thank you. A special thank you to all the staff who volunteered this time on the front end of this, the original panel project planning committee that worked with David Ham and Truex Moe to build guiding principles to the design of this project. I'd also like to thank the City of Newsy Leadership, the City Council, and our state staff, who are now with their partnership throughout, and especially Jesse Baker, for being my friend, and for being a part of this project. Jesse Baker, for being my leadership partner, and John Rauscher, for coordinating city projects that we couldn't have done in the past. So the Newsy community supported our 57.8 million dollar bond and there are many other contributors to making this project an architectural construction and financial success. For instance, we are so fortunate in Vermont to have equity-focused and passionate congressional delegation who made themselves and their staff accessible to Vermont. Recently retired Senator Patrick Sating, current Senator, Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch, and Representative Fackaball have all contributed in supporting the federal actions and bringing resources to the total of over five million dollars in this project via after-election. And a shout-out to their staff who have a lot more in the long way in supporting the Senator to represent and work directly with us today. Also with the federal bill, we have great partners in the USDA who are financing a long-term bill at an incredible interest rate of no more than two and a quarter percent. Specifically, I'd like to thank... Yeah. Could be anything under five and a half. Yeah. And I'd like to thank Eric Law, community program director for Vermont, New Hampshire, who has really a partner in mind throughout this. He was incredibly responsive to our call. He showed amazing vision throughout. One of the many qualities that makes Vermont special is that our care and support for each other crosses town, city, and county boundaries. Bruce Liston, highly-certified, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Vermont Food Bank contributed over a quarter of a million dollars collectively to support elements of the project like the necessity to sue over here and the poor return sector, playgrounds, and future mural projects. Thank you. And the other teams on the project are the architects, destruction, and worker teams. We'll hear more later, but I'd like to extend WOSC's WOSC's heartfelt thanks to the two of us calling the team, David and Pam, Stefan, Tracy, Jody, and others who led us for visioning the drawings into a beautiful pension product. And thanks to Jimmy, Cody, Danilo, Mike, Zach, and many, many others who weren't endlessly to dance, to fight the COVID labor challenges and supply chain delays, and a general challenge of building a school while the school could do the same. You guys did a great job of staying. For our personal, because we basically lived together for the last three years, came a new office for a few months, but always together. Tom Hart, our project manager was hired as deputy to this project, his final project after 40 years moving his work on the project. He still really managed to schedule the WOSC and quality. Matthew Thomas, working with his IT team throughout the land, is installing all the new technology that is in this building and having to move tech services several times across the whole project. Nicole Mays, navigating the financial and operational challenges and opportunities to make this such a financial success for our community to move through, and for being a stream of great strategic partners. So these lasting heroes, they have just been amazing at this since the beginning of the last few years. Shane Racine, our facility supervisor. We did have friends at the time. And on a daily basis, not knowing who's going to walk in every day, be it on the attacks, be it a phone, be it a walk-in through the hallways, demands, needs of everybody. We are a conscious of contractors, staff, administrators, and everyone on the team. Shane and Steve did a fabulous work. Thank you. The project manager did an everything, what can I say. He did all the things. An endless stream of questions and concerns. Suggestions on how we can do this better. We've been running for three years, while you were also the chief manager of the office. You became a changing school board, managing needs, and most importantly, leading your family with friends to support your four kids. It was crazy. And while the same God always said, in the darkest moments, it's going to be you. Remember how important this is for our kids. It's really a wonder and I'm grateful for you and all the things that you did, they have always known just the right way for me throughout these three years, whether I was you being angry, whether I was overwhelmed, whether I was ecstatic, no matter what all the emotions were these past three years, they always do and I think the graph would be a pretty good back. Take a long walk with our student and put down an illuminator in your camp or you're going to say, if I had a horse, we're always helpful to try on the regulations for COVID. I think some of you have got their work together, which were just not in just their teams, but they were just the best to deserve a budget-safe community is. We borrowed about $55 million, which is nearly 3 million less than voters improved. At a 1.5 percent, say with an impact. Now 1.5 percent is lower interest rate than model, saving new taxpayers of around $16 million at a cost of over $120 million, not too big interest on borrow information, given the start of the debt. And most importantly, we now have the same healthy, modern and beautiful learning environment that our students, staff and community deserve and I know we'll honor their persistence, creativity as before the same, but many of them are not able to do anything. Congratulations to the students and to the teachers. For those of us who believe strongly about education, we understand the future of this country, whether or not it's a nation created to tackle the enormously complex problems facing us. It depends on the quality of education our kids get. And what we who believe in public education understand is that education must be like poverty for all of our kids, regardless of their impact. And that is what quality public education is supposed to be about. And so I think all of those many, many, many people who are responsible for making the day possible. And it warms all of our hearts to know that especially in this community, maybe the most diverse community in the state of Vermont, that they have done quality work that they have done, and I congratulate them well. Thank you. Thank you again to the federal bureaucracy, the state bureaucracy, the local bureaucracy, school development, A and E.D. tests. But they didn't. Now, the numbers you don't want to touch on in this show, all of these accomplishments, something that we worked on with the delegation that I feel passionate about. As many of you know, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care for all people and the human rights. Something that our delegation is working hard to change. We also understand that dental care is health care. To understand the Vermont and Drowson countries, there are millions of people who cannot afford to get the dentist care that they need. So today I am very proud to announce that because of this enormous success story, we have secured a $600,000 grant to establish a dental clinic right here in the school. The kids, regardless of age, will get access to good quality dental care. It will mean that parents will not have to take off high from work in order to transport their kids to a dentist because the dentist will leave. So, let me conclude by once again direct a little bit. Here's the entire team and the entire city of New York for the enormous accomplishment that they have worked out. Thank you all very much. You know, I was here a few years ago when we were doing dental care in the schools. It was great. Yeah, it was a tough job. And, Sean, I listen to you and Eric in condensed form discussions that you rightly said to the county that we have to go on for it. And I was thinking about it as you would describe it, because it really wasn't a possible challenge. This is not a wealthy community. This is a very diverse community. People are struggling to figure out how to get their kids to school. Not just how to get dental care that's totally out of reach. You can't figure out how to get much on the state or dinner on the state to get home. You're really trying to figure out what to do if they're lucky enough to have a car when they get a flyer product. And there is well-answered in many communities around the country. When any of those questions come up from mom or dad who loves their children there's not the answer. They're isolated and they're alone. When the state has a different point of view we're going to build the detention. We're going to find a way to do it. And Sean and you are recounting all of these issues that have to be resolved. How do you get to find it? How do you get to support the taxpayers who really struggle for a multi-million dollar bond? How do the teachers here who have to show up in COVID while the rest of us are home kids and ourselves are safe? How do you make it easy to teach yourself that and put yourself around and have to go with you? You know, there's not any answers. I think it's a community that has hope and how do you have hope against the reality? You have trust in one another that this challenge it's about trying to get in that finding whether it's working on the details of the architectural whether it's having a teacher meeting and trying to figure out a couple of our colleagues that have to double up here. How do we resolve it? You do it by doing the work and you do the work if you know this challenge will come if you do the work. Why do you do it? You do the work because how do you get for people you know in love to have children? And you know that those kids deserve the opportunity of good education of mutual loving support and you're determined no matter what the challenge overcome that challenge to make that possible for the kids in the community. And you know, all of us here are proud of one another. Do you know what? Some rightly proud of one another because what you have chosen in this is to face the challenge of the day to not lose the tension in the conflict as an excuse to get angry but as a challenge to keep forming it head to head. So this is an extraordinary day for women. It's an extraordinary day for the kids who are going to be in these halls for generations and it is an extraordinary beacon of hope to this country that has too much division and too little cooperation and when does he when does he get strong? It is so nice to be here again visiting this school back in January and it's so wonderful to be among so many friends that a lot of friends that have men and it's an incredible honor to share this age with these two men two men who have given their lives to serve us in this state and I am so proud to be standing here with them and I just have to say as a middle school teacher because that's who I am and I call them a middle school teacher I could not be more proud since the end of all of these days. When I visited this school I was struck by the light that was part of this project Everywhere you go there's this incredible light which is so immediate right now. We are in the midst of a mental health crisis among our students among our community members our families and we can create even by how we create space and let it light. So this school building is not just a testament to what we spoke about earlier which is the health and strength of this community and the belief in the students here it's also a new way for all of the people who walk in here to put mental health at the center of the work that we do here in this This project essentially is a poor statement of our shared commitment to the values that are sorely needed in this country right now Hope, as we talked about the belief in possibility the understanding that schools incubate ideas they shore up our very democracy and I'm so proud of this community and all of us here there are so many people here that have a chance in bringing this to completion. What you have done is you have built a beautiful statement to the greater potential of the dynamic and talented students who walk through these hallways every day. That's what we're doing. This morning, thank you very much and to your teams for your ongoing commitment to the community and to this project this current mandate is the school staff the school board members that you are we are we are so city leaders and our representatives it is an honor for my team to work alongside local leaders like all of you there is really a three-legged tool when it comes to community projects and finance part of it is our congressional delegation and the work that they do in this city part of it is through federal agencies or your city that are moving financing and funding that the community itself can't call off but the biggest part that is the local students and their day to create the capital to manage the project to manage the expectations and communications with their community in july of 2020 as the annual development awarded the municipal district $67.8 million to call through our community facility partner it is the largest investment our agency has made ever in state across the state in the same crunch we were also awarded another million dollars to the school across the river and they were also operating and moving out to the building and releasing for five years my point is this U.S.A.A.R. is only the best in education from early years we are embedded in an education and past few years the last time it was cleared even in the middle of a pandemic our community is lost and they are going to focus on quality education for their young people they are going to invest in that quality education now we don't pause here because we mostly with the adults and although I'm a middle school teacher I must once a summer can't tell that I know that so first why is U.S.A.A.A.A.A.A.R. investing in schools weird agriculture and second why did she turn to our rural community she's a city especially compared to the rest of the country so for the students of the audience they are essential learners here are a few cool facts about U.S.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A first of all U.S.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A. we do everything from providing benefits to thePop to fighting wildfires to teaching these farmers and helping to build houses at your school and others like it are being part of improving a quality of life for rural We were founded by Abraham Lincoln and we were called the People's Department. We are one of the oldest federal departments in the country, and that's why we do so much appropriate for the past, and the past, and that over the years. And our funding through my agency, World Development, does only go to global merit, but there is a population size limit to that eligibility. So even though you are a small city for Vermont, you are actually still a little bigger off than the rest of the country. So, since you need to use a mama for us, not just because you used our partnership for the school, but also because we have another set of millions of dollars invested in your wastewater infrastructure, and another set of millions of dollars invested in your streetscaping and our walkable campus design, and building out your vision for this community. We are a crowd of big investment people, and we are excited to be here with all of you. And this school is special. I know that our next couple speakers are talking about the facility has incredible green design and energy efficiency, something that will continue to foster learning, as well as build a legacy of the youth department and vision for the future. And this is where our young farmers are most often occupied and often do some of their business around climate change. I am proud of the Biden-Harris administration, and with the commitment of the Congress, we have billions of dollars invested in federal agencies to help our country work towards the deep part of the situation, to help advance climate-smart technologies and industries, and to reduce costs for families and children. Finally, I just want to say that each of those students who are here today and to all of your friends and classmates, how special you all are. If you've only ever heard it from your family or your favorite teachers, or your guardians, let me say that even for those of us who do not know you, we are excited about your potential. We are here because you are here, and we believe that if you want to, you can make our community benefit from this solution today and tomorrow. So today, we celebrate you all, and know all the things you have left to teach us. Thank you. So, wow, what a great event, all these words. I don't usually get nervous about speaking, but I want to know today who came to form, so I actually have a chat at GBP right now. It sounds a little generic, you know, maybe that one. It's an honor to be here and to see how the path of UX comes from the artistic project. You know, they say it's a real ability to raise a child of a particular village to build a school hall. And in this case, it was a cat of hundreds. A well-planned and fun plan for the village project, school leadership, the board, teacher's statute, the USDA, our congressional delegation, owner's rep on farm, we are company, and our team at Truex Halls. I want to make sure to personally thank our team of 10,000 mom, Steffen Poston, Jody Weizner, Kail Benard, and Tracy Dunner, and for many others, for those I particularly want to thank, this project wouldn't have happened without them. It's really been the labor who has this project. You know, real labor, but real well too. And I want to do a special thank to Sean, and this project would not have happened without our leadership, so I think we all are in our goal at Truex Halls to create projects that build stronger communities, that create a better sense of self, and to do this requires a partnership with an owner of a vision, and places their sacred trust in us to bring that vision to life. And I can't express how grateful we are to have this opportunity. I would also like to speak a little bit about the vision for this project. You know, as Sean mentioned, early in the process we had a vision workshop, and we developed what was called tagging principles for this project. They not only guided the design development, but they also really helped us navigate some tough decisions about buying products. I think it will help you see the product when you're looking around, and think about this. The tagging principles say that the schools will support the need for whole child development, social, emotional, academic, physical well-being. That the school design should support a student-centered approach that will promote calmness and tranquility. That the design should form well-being through actions with fresh air and acrobatics. That the design should support a school's team-based approach to learning, and to have spaces that celebrate student life and learning. That the school should have a welcoming environment for those community integrations and access to services, and collaboration between students, staff, and community. And I hope, and I think, as you look around, you'll see features that express these ideas everywhere. Finally, if you want to come back to the leadership community on your new school, I hope some of the service and wealth of these years should come. I hope you can honor and help bring your leadership to life. Thank you. We are happy to be here today to celebrate the successful completion of the leadership school district capital project. This project represents years of hard work, collaboration, and dedication to all stakeholders of all. We're incredibly proud that we have played a role in transforming the Lewinsky school district learning environment and providing saving our facility that will support education for generations to come. We recognize that this project is a critical investment in the future of the community. With a geothermal heating system and with the largest rooftop solar array in any Vermont school, this district's commitment to sustainability is a remarkable step forward and will serve the model to follow as our state continues to operate in schools. I think this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the project, including the school board, administration, architects, engineers, all the talented construction workers, trying to become construction workers, and community members who support the project and recognize the importance. In closing, we congratulate everyone involved in the successful completion of this project. And we are accompanying your grateful, who have contributed to such a successful and transformative project. And look forward to many benefits this project will bring to the community for years to come. The only difference is that in the six years of the year we're going to leave the basics in the model and make the whole business easy for you. I'm going to say that we did it. This is one of the easiest projects but it was that a transformative movement like this does not occur without a circulation. And I'm not talking about the project that I'm doing. When I first went to school board in 2017, you were tasked with convincing our community to raise a capacity of 57.8 million dollars long to set this model to set the school board to have the role in the curriculum. This wasn't an easy task. Task, even though we have our supporters, it was not guaranteed that the model would pass. It had only passed by 22 books. As someone who does not look like a traditional footballer, I would start to hear the ignorance constantly in some schools questioning my sanity for both these questions. Even though I often confuse myself as a school board member, some people would question whether I was a blue-skinned resident, and even worse, ask if I owned my home. Ask if I owned my home in town. That's just that matter. So if you could advise me to just go to Lowe's and get an update, even though our boiler was from the 1950s, and if the boiler had been all apart, we would have to e-bay the parts and hope that some school had it. Think about that. Yet I still stop looking at our community, the art of art school. I remember doing one of our community schools with only two systemators filled up. Mark and Carter and I, even the full school, where there were so many questions and questions in the community. There were so many new Americans, and they hate those who say, you know, you were doing the right thing. As a school board member, I was fortunate to see the power of that team. You know, the communities that lived off laws were diverse. They were much more unified as a community that was occurring outside of our school system. It is no accident that when the project first started, we talked about the school being the heart of the system. This new building would be an opportunity not only to educate the president of the future, but it would unite our entire community on the many different facets of diversity we see in the community. This building needs to be. This building involves Dr. Martin Christine's loving her and his son, where he says, darkness cannot join our lives. Only light can be. Hate cannot join our life. Hate. Only love. You see, in this in these schools, we eliminate ignorance with education, not by teaching the hate, but it's by teaching the law of art, not by teaching the communication, the persistence, creativity, well-being, critical thinking, and culture and community. Education, hard work, and depression. Our living experiences may be different, but it's in those differences that make our community stronger because we also want to have an opportunity. This will be a place where everybody in the community can share their dreams and disappointments. A sporting event that will perform an argument or just be in awe of our students' household presentations and demonstrate their proficiencies in their graduate activities. Wasn't it worth it? Well, I guess it was worth it. Yes. I can see in the eyes of our children, whole, and confident in love, because we will lead them. We invested in education because we wanted to be part of our community and, more importantly, art democracy. And in turn, I think that many of them want to stay in our community as plumbers, lecturers, target texts, counselors of your attention, engineers, doctors, judges, chefs, teachers, social workers, visitors, college women, even school boys. And one of our clients in the lab is seeing that these students fall in love on looking through this game in their life so that we can continue to build our own building and education in the industry. So let us stand together and realize that each of us has a responsible in being caregivers and builders of a graduate democracy. Because it is only through education that we provide and build development that is for the people. For the people. How the people find their people. Yes. It brings us to the beauty of diversity and inclusion. By learning that these thoughts by learning that these thoughts this can build visibility for all of our lives. To truly understand what it means to have freedom and community. To my fellow students, let us stand with pride because we now represent the president of the Institute for Pembroke and Laws. Thank you.