Applicant, I want to say good morning.

Uh and we thank you so much for your willingness to serve all of our applicants.

Uh first is Francine Zania.

All right, feel free to come forward.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Thank you.

So again, we thank you so much for your willingness to serve our community and your neighbors.

It's commendable and we deeply appreciate it.

You'll get one question uh per each commissioner, so three questions, and you will have three minutes timed by our city clerk to respond.

Yep, nice and red in the in the front here.

So we will begin with my uh question.

Uh stepping up to serve as a public servant is commendable, and we thank you for your willingness to do so.

Being a commissioner is just one way of serving our community.

Please share how you have served our community through civic or public service.

This may include board service, previous or current employment or other forms of engagement.

Thank you.

Um it's a pleasure being here.

I have always been interested in civic, especially government.

Closer you can be to people the better.

Um as far as serving uh I've primarily uh been uh a mother and a teacher most of my life.

I have served on a couple of uh boards of education, uh one on an elementary level and one on a um high school level.

Um but I also considered some of my jobs, uh teaching jobs as civic responsibility too, and more like a vocation.

Uh and I enjoyed it for that reason.

I enjoy people, so that's pretty much.

I haven't had a lot of uh visible jobs, let's put it that way.

Thank you so much.

We'll now shift over to a second board city commissioner, uh, Commissioner Isaac's question.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um my question is um can you share with me a time when you work through a conflict at work and how you uh approach uh conflicts in that in the workplace setting.

Thank you.

That's a great question because that's something we deal with all the time everywhere, no matter uh what profession or what uh uh environment that you're in, um whether it's family or whether it's work.

Uh first of all, I like to be direct and I like to find out exactly what is the conflict, to kind of name it first of all, and see what it is about.

Uh for instance, I did uh have a uh child that had a conflict with one of the teachers that I worked with.

I mean, a quite a severe conflict.

And uh I had missed when she sent me a note, I had misunderstood it because it came to me by um what email I think it was at that time, and she was being sarcastic, and I didn't know that.

And you know, sarcasm does not show up very well on email.

Uh and that was you know, maybe it was relatively new to her at that time.

I I'm not sure about that.

But anyway, uh so I did not uh address it at that point.

Then she went to uh a person above me, my principal, and uh uh had complained about how I reacted to it.

So after that, uh I asked her, I asked the principal if I could talk to her directly and find out what had happened, what was the incident, what it happened, and exactly, and then I understood, and then I was ready to make a judgment.

She was right, and then to follow through on that in some kind of uh uh I hate to say, but it you know, you're dealing with kids lots of times it's punishment, you know, in some way.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We will now shift to uh first Ward Commissioner Alicia Marie Belchak's question.

Hi, yes, thank you for being here.

It's really great to meet you and see you in person.

Um my question has to do with the fact that this is a short-term appointment, and there's much that we do at the commission that our collective work is already underway.

So, how would you balance supporting the existing priorities while also exercising your own independent judgment in your representation of the first ward residents, especially when those two things can be in tension?

Yeah, I've already thought about that.

And one of the things that I came to a conclusion about was that it's a sh of course it's a very short time period, and there are already issues on the agenda and things that have to be decided.

So I thought how I would deal with it is that I would first of all listen to what it was, do a little research if I needed to to find out any background information about it.

I don't, you know, to know what the two sides were to understand it, and then to base my judgment on that at that point, not on a personal agenda because I'm really not here for a personal agenda.

I'm here to just deal with what's happening at that time and try to judge if it's fair, you know, if it's just if it's safe for one thing, uh cost efficient, those kinds of things.

Wonderful.

Well, thank you very much.