The school board’s Dec. 6 meeting began with district resident Sara Kate Kanter describing the ThoughtExchange as “unkind and unhelpful.”

Most board members first learned of Chief McNally’s offer, made in August, at their Nov. 15 meeting where some expressed concerns that students of color may feel intimidated by an officer or felt that the money — if it became a permanent position funded by the district — could better be spent elsewhere. Consequently, students were surveyed.

The first days of winter are the best time to admire the architecture and ingenious engineering of trees. The maples and oaks, having shed their leaves, now reveal their powerful super structures of trunk and branch silhouetted against the winter gray sky.

Out of 43 votes cast in the Dec. 13 election, 41 were in favor of the bond issue.

Sam Crosby, Altamont

Bruce W. Dearstyne, Guilderland

Robyn Gray, Guilderland

Bill Klee, Altamont

Dustin Reidy, Chairman Guilderland Democratic Committee

Rebecca Tillou, FASD Self Advocate Voorheesville