. >> and mary richards? >> thank you. good evening, commissioners, district staff. my name is mary richards. i am an executive director. i will be working at age arhr. before i read the amendment language before you, i am also going to tell you about the content of the packet. the received all strong are mostly strong, and at the back end there is a fact sheet, and there is a description of special education services, which was a discussion point with the other schools, but that is just a clarification, so without further ado, i will read the amendment language of the resolution. >> thank you. >> of course the title. gooauthorization to grant the renewable petition for the charter school, whereas the district superintendent and district staff has completed the review end recommendation regarding the review of the renewal petition on june 28, 2011. therefore, it is subject to the requirements set by law. >> i do not have any public speakers set up for this, and comments from the superintendent thomas -- from the superintendent? roll-call please. i am sorry. did you w

. >> i'll call on mary richards. just when she thought the got away from doing all this.

. >> i'll call on mary richards. just when she thought the got away from doing all this. >> happy to help. good evening. superintendent, commissioners. members of the public. before i read the amended language of the resolution into the record, i just want to make a couple of brief comments. the board members, you should have all received staff's written factual findings concerning this matter, just to explain to the process, it was not a typical review process, only because of the summer schedule and schedule of staff actually here during the summer. when speaking to the petitioner group from rocketship, i conveyed this several months ago before the summer recess so i clearly laid out the schedule, the potential schedule. we did make a request for an extension of that schedule for review and the petitioner group felt it was necessary for us to come to a decision within the required timeline. that would end this evening. so a decision needs to be made. so we did diligence around our review of this petition. getting a

marie and arthur noe were, you know, they were young, they were in love. >> the noes' first baby, richard allen was born in 1949 when marie was 20. one month later, arthur, a factory worker, returned to this house to find the baby dead in his crib. >> i don't think that much is known about what happened to that child. the child really only lived for a few weeks. cause of death is listed as congestive heart failure. we later found out in going back over the material, a lot of the causes of death given to children in the '40s and '50s were really more to make the parents feel better than they were accurate diagnoses. >> marie and arthur had a daughter, elizabeth, a year and a half after richard allan died. when baby elizabeth was 5 months old marie says she found her sick in the crib and brought her to the hospital. she was dead on arrival. an autopsy determined the cause of death to be bronchopneumonia. jacqueline, the noes third child, was born april 23rd, 1952. little is known about her. she survived for only three weeks. and according to stephen fried, most of her medical records are mi

marissa is here with her mom mary kay and dad richard. rything you have been through you weee the one who held the family it was you after all that. >> well, i think that's very sweet. i don't know that i felt like that all the time though. >> you're a woman of great faith. you had to have gone through trying times questioning why something like this would happen to you. >> i did. i didn't ask why it happen. i knew it had. i know that adversity happens tt people of faith, people of no faith, people of some faith. but i cling to the promises i find in scripture and god isok described as our refuge and our source of strength. he's an ever-present help in times of trouble. we will have trouble. and yet t says there that even when the mountains fall into the sea, and that's what it felt like. >> marissa, it's so inspiring to be so close o her. explain what the special trait is about your mom that makes her this way. >> she's just so positive all the time. and just motivational. >> mm-hmm. i just loo1& up to her so much. she's my hero. >> richa

mary kay cosmetics. so nickname could come in handy. ol' richardlike southern boy, like richard milhous nixon his nickname is dick. he is dictator. he happens to be fireman. he is authoritarian, a ruler tyrant, autocrat, despot, warlord and oppressor. has to have his things his way. never open to new ideas. if things don't go his way he take his ball and go home. you can't be dictator and be effective in disaster management. dictator was at louisiana state fair in shreveport, louisiana. you see them couples, you think my god where did they find each other and they got kids. dictator he got married. he married this woman and her name is hesi she is hesitate tore. she is pretty thing. put her lipstick on for this picture. she is procrastinator. she always gets left behind. life pass her buy. she misses out of greatest joyce this life. because she is hesitate. you see what direction i'm going with these taters? little agi. she is ag i have i-tater you can't be dick-tater, hezi-tateter or agie-tateter and be effective. always making live difficult for