We're asking the board to adopt both. In adopting the minimum plan, they direct us to work full-speed ahead.

In four years, I've never seen us play this well. Everything we work on in practice seems to work with this group. It's exciting to see it happen.

I think it's reasonable for people to expect that the district will be talking to its unions during current and upcoming negotiations about salaries and benefits in the context of its budget deficit.

That's one of the options the board will consider, yes, but there are a number of other options that the board would explore.

A couple of months become a couple thousand dollars. It kills us to have to put these animals to sleep, but not many people give them a chance.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.