Remarks by Danny Espino
181 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 8
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“Colleagues, any other comments? The only thing I'll say is I had an opportunity to speak to the superintendent about this, and specifically about the items that were discussed at the last meeting. And again, I tend to be very candid up here, and it's just, I think bringing, to use your saying, with you on the takeoff, with you on the landing, I think that was a premium example of that where most of us, especially with regard to your items, weren't on the takeoff, didn't even get brought in until we're about to land, And as we're screaming towards the earth, you know, people wonder why. I…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“But before we get to that, if you can just lead us in. And then what I'd like to do, board members, is hear his presentation, have discussion, and then when we're ready for it, bring the presentation in.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“If I can, the only reason I said to speak first is because, the board members to speak first is because Talk about a transparent process. I know that it has taken long and been sometimes protracted conversation, but everybody can see exactly how we're getting from one point to the other point. This would be the first time in our process that something external comes out and says, this is how we should do it. So I personally had consternations with it, and I figured that we would have a discussion first because, for example, when I get an opportunity to speak, I have an idea which ultimately…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Vice Chair, you had a comment?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. I concur with that. I mean, the only thing that I would say is, and I agree with everybody's saying, I go, I, the only thing I would say is the fact that, I think you might have said it, either you said retread or go back or something, and I agree with that. I mean, every time we make a decision, it should be the beachhead for the next one. And so, for example, we said no to a search firm. And this is a facilitator. That's fine. We'll make that distinction, and the scope and roles will be adjusted accordingly. We said no centralized meetings. What you're saying,…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“I'm going to take particular pride of authorship in it myself.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Board Member Alonzo, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you had said when you were advancing the facilitator that the facilitator would assist in that recruitment.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Hold on, I'm sorry, Madam Chair had a comment beforehand. But thank you, Board Member Alonso, appreciate that.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“is not whether or not to have public interviews, is whether or not to have one or two rounds of it, meaning a semifinal interview round and a finalist interview round, both of which, or one of which, if we only did one, would be open to the public.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you. Board Member Geller, and then we'll hear from our friend here who is like a guest at a family dinner. Sorry for talking about family business.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you. Colleagues, any other comments? Board Member Santos.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Board Member Santos. Look, I agree with you. The only thing I will just bring up, just a slight different perspective, is that while the revised H-2 didn't exclude it The replacement, there was a Section 8 that said scheduled town hall meetings in North, Central, South, and we decided to strike that. So the exclusion of it essentially in the new item is its exclusion by extension. So we didn't have to prohibit it if we just took it out. But listen, to your point, from my perspective, you need facilitation to do your stuff, and if I do stuff over the summer too, I have no problem…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Just a point of clarification. I mean, so there's a difference between his engagements and our number of engagements that we might have that he might facilitate. So what he's saying is this is an engagement, next week is an engagement, we have two more under that $30,000 proposal. You know, it didn't necessarily mean workshops within that engagement. It would mean that within the remaining process there would be two additional meetings at which he would be present. which if you look at it, there's an opportunity for at least two, because there's a special meeting, to at least screen to the…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“I mean, I guess that's like a polling question, right? I mean, is anybody, as we're sort of, this game of inches we're playing, just trying to move the ball down the field a little bit. From my perspective, if it's part of the portfolio of services they're providing, I do think that there is a limited pool of people that would take this job. And so to pick up a phone call, post, you know, they want to post it on their website, that's something we wouldn't have had access to previously. If they know, because this is what they do, have access to put this in front of people to get their…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“I agree. Thank you, Madam Chair. You're welcome. Madam Vice Chair.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Perfect. Thank you. To Board Member Sandoz's point, what I'd like to do is just sort of check off some of these things. Is there consensus to add recruitment to the scope?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“I agree, but the question is, does the collective that we have here right now, do they want two rounds of interview or just one? It's the difference between interviewing... 20-something candidates potentially in public, or as was done in the past, one round of finalists? Madam Chair.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, I mean, I would, colleagues, I don't know about you, but I would not like a scoring that prevents us from identifying semifinalists where essentially we get equal billing to advance those particular individuals because somebody that may, have something less than another, maybe the person we pick. Maybe we pick the most qualified because they have everything checked off. But, I mean, I think part of the conversation we've had up here is that there'd be, and I think you said it, no filtering.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“That's all right. And, again, we each can individually deliberate and use whatever metric we want. I think we're at the point where we could probably entertain, if it's the board's, will to recommend approval of the contract with the understanding that there will be a modified framework with our input leaving it general enough because there's still input from other board members at this time to still obtain and incorporate move it is there a second all in favor say aye aye all in favor say nay oh sorry i'll again say nay seeing none that's recommended to the next board and uh do we”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026