“Talk a little bit about the relationship with the mayor. You may have read a newspaper today kind of gives a little insight into that. The mayor is pioneering a unique role of mayoral involvement in the school system. Typically the mayor has been somewhat involved but more on funding than anything else. Mayor Dean has made it his first priority in trying to help our schools and we are trying to work on that relationship to make it an effective one.

“The article that was in the paper this morning was his announcement of an outsourcing of the libraries in our school system to the Nashville Public Library. It sounds like an intriguing idea. The problem is, there really wasn’t any discussion with the school system about it. So, we’ll have