commissioner jenny lamb, who has served for five years and who six years.oh, that's a that's a script mistake on my part. sorry. i shouldn't throw six years. well, it's because she she had to be. she was elected so many times. she was elected like 12 times within those six years because because she was so popular and she was showing such good leadership that she kept getting reelected. but it's true. and i just it's been i feel like i've learned so much from you and your leadership. and in particular, one of the things that will always sit with me is how you stepped in after the recall and took the risk, really to make a courageous decision to say we're going to lead the board in a new direction, we're going to get student outcomes governance done. and you did it in a collaborative fashion. you did it in a way that really brought people along, but it was also bold and it was a risk, and i think it was the right risk to take. and it's been shown that it's paid off. and i just think we'll svusd will be in your debt for a long time for that. so just much respe

work that our previous board did and especially under our previous board previous board president jenny lambus into the student outcomes focused governance to really align us around student outcomes, be more student centered in the work we did. having said that, in rewriting a lot of our board rules we swung our pendulum very, very far in the other direction from what our meetings used to be. there are some really i think great benefits to that and i think we've seen some concerns how we we keep hearing over and over that community members want additional ways to engage with us as a board we had for a while last semester our fiscal and operational health committee we heard in public comment tonight some concern about the some of the things that are on consent agenda and there's no real place to address a lot of this with the community right now we have millions of dollars on our consent agenda that we're just going to vote either yes or no with no discussion because we don't have a facilities committee and we are in a time of a huge budget crisis where we really need to be doing a lot to reb

work that our previous board did and especially under our previous board previ board president jenny lambnto the student outcomes focused governance to really align us around student outcomes, be more student centered in the work we did. having said that, in rewriting a lot of our board rules we swung our pendulum very, very far in the other direction from what our meetings used to be. there are some really i think great benefits to that and i think we've seen some concerns how we we keep hearing over and over that community members want additional ways to engage with us as a board we had for a while last semester our fiscal and operational health committee we heard in public comment tonight some concern about the some of the things that are on consent agenda and there's no real place to address a lot of this with the community right now we have millions of dollars on our consent agenda that we're just going to vote either yes or no with no discussion because we don't have a facilities committee and we are in a time of a huge budget crisis where we really need to be doing a lot to rebuild