Representative James McLean
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we're going to come back after adjournment on Thursday and meet and see if we can get some of this agenda taken care of. With that, the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn. Meeting adjourned.
and pick this back up Thursday. Mark will be sending you an email. It looks like we're going to reconvene upon adjournment Thursday. We're really getting backed up on our agenda, and we need to get some bills moving. So Thursday morning at 10, we're going to pick up right where we left off of Representative Hammer, Representative Overby. You will be next up after we take action on Representative Hammer's bill. We're going to see how much we can get done in the morning. We may not get a lot done, but if we don't, if we just get these two bills heard,
1230, and what we're going to do is we are going to go ahead and adjourn
the sermon if I can, Mr. Chair. A fine sermon indeed, Representative Carnot. Now, Representative Hammer, you and Scott, proceed as you wish in terms of responding to Representative Garni's question.
boat, he can. Scott, if you wouldn't mind just coming on up, and maybe you can kind of help with answering some of the questions. And
to present your bill and hopefully at that point if we have a little time left we'll get to Representative Overby's I'm
he had to deal with. That's why he was not here today. we apologize Representative Hammer we are going to give you at least 45 minutes
Do we have a motion from the committee? we have a motion do pass on house bill 1938 all
do we have anyone else to speak for against the bill if not, Representative Alexander you may close for your
you all coming up And thank you very, very much I believe we have one more person to speak for the bill And that's Ms. Brown from the Stevens School District Is Ms. Brown available? And, Ms. Brown, we would just, the committee would just ask, with all due respect, to be brief. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you to the committee and the chairman.
thank you for being here go
in Wiener appreciate you very very much
committee, no one's worked harder for the Wiener schools, for the patrons, for the students, than you. You have led this group. You have been an emotional and inspirational leader for your community, and regardless of what happens, you are to be thanked and I appreciate you very very much and I know the folks
to let the folks know here in the audience and in the
and we've got a couple other folks who want to speak for the bill and then
kind of give us your presentation because we've got about four or five of you
folks in your community. I think it's appropriate that y'all have an opportunity to speak to your legislature. If it's all right with y'all, if maybe we could have a spokesperson kind of, if that's okay,
speak in favor of this bill, and we're going to get all of you all together. The folks who are from Wiener, the friends of Wiener, and it looks like we've got about four of them if y'all want to come to the end of the
and I think that's the economic situation, the economic growth of some smaller rural areas, and are they able to, by no fault of their own, support these schools and remain in their mission to provide a constitutional educational opportunity. And with that, Representative Douglas, do you have a question? Yes, thank you.
and then we have very small schools who are struggling, and they cannot provide those resources, that's not constitutional. That's not fair to those smaller school districts. And that's what Lakeview is all about. We have to provide an equal and equitable educational opportunity for every single child in this state, regardless where they live, regardless of geography. And I think that the resources that you mentioned, I think there's a bigger core issue,
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