We had a discussion with Rogers and his understanding of what the crew told him was that the trees would be removed totally. We don't plan to remove any trees completely. I went out there and visited with him and he seemed OK with what was going on.

We trim in various areas to ensure reliability. This particular feeder line serves the hospital and we wanted to make sure we have the reliability we need before the summer months hit.

What we're trying to do is trim a 10-foot safety zone. But each tree is going to be different. We take a look at the species, how old it is and how it's been trimmed before. Rogers' tree had been trimmed privately in the past and most of the growth was upward.

So we are switching to Terra Nova (in order) to continue with Project Soar.

We're looking at doing that, continuing with Battelle in all five areas so we would have science, social studies and writing information also. In order to do that, we needed to change from the Iowa Achievement Test to the Terra Nova, because of the test pool and the large push from Battelle to only support that one test.

We add value to what (students) are doing. It's not just passing over the bar of 75 percent of our students achieving and passing the proficiency, but are we taking kids, at no matter what level they are, and increasing them a year?