deputy superintendents, and superintendent, i am susan solomen, executive vice president. last week we spent three days in negotiations with the school district. and yesterday, we spent all day as well. we went into bargaining yesterday and then into the beginning of the workday with the district, the district representatives told us that they could not agree to retaining and or reinstating much needed counseling periods for special education teachers, because of the cost. they are, and this is the quote, focusing resources on total compensation, president kelley asked, what is meant by total compensation? the response was, salaries and benefits. and then, this is what happened. at 10:11 a.m., we got no agreement from the district for daily prep time, for elementary school teachers after the instructional day is over. which is a cost neutral proposal and it is free. the only changes to that article in the contract which is on the days and hours of employment for teachers was a paragraph formatting change and one numbering correction. no language change. a 10:23 a.m. we fou