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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, October 17, 2022 Page 8 egregious that he needed to be immediately removed from the high school after 9 years of being more than an SRO. If this is the case, your punishment is to change his assignment? That's how you discipline? You move him? This is the same scenario like the Catholic Church who ruined countless lives. Don't solve the problem. Just move them somewhere else. Unless there was nothing needed disciplined. If this situation needed disciplinary action, then maybe there needs to be an investigation into how the discipline is handled by Mayfield Village. Our school is less safe than it was a week ago. A man's reputation is being destroyed by people in this room starting at the very top. It's not too late to do what's right. Correct the mistake that absolutely reeks of politics. Your student, your educators, and Officer Stuart deserve better than this. Thank you. Hannah Peterson 1576 Lander Road Mayfield Heights, Ohio 44124 I graduated from high school last year. I currently attend Kent State University. I was brought back to talk about an amazing person and someone who I care deeply about. There's a lot of people here that can tell you what Officer Stuart does and how he affects students, but I am here to put it into a little bit more of a perspective. I am here to tell you my story about Officer Stuart. My sophomore year of high school, I ended up tearing my rotator cuff and ended up having surgery. My entire high school career I was known for playing sports. With that being said, I lost my identity. I did not know who I was anymore. Without me playing sports, I didn't think anyone knew actually who I was. I ended up becoming very depressed and was diagnosed with depression anxiety. I turned to prescription opioids to try and hide my pain. Officer Stuart was the first one to realize that I was struggling. He didn't yell at me. He didn't scold me. He didn't do anything. He talked me out of it and helped me with my problems. He is one of the most people that I trust and I definitely know he has my back. As being a young African American in the United States, it is very hard to trust law enforcement after everything that's happened lately. Officer Stuart allowed me to put trust back into law enforcement and know that they actually have our backs and are here to protect and serve us. It is very sad that this is happening to a great man. For nine years he served at my school and I know from my perspective and other students at the high school that he means a lot and he does have trust and also other students trust him for having their back as well. So hopefully now from hearing my story and my statement, I hope that you can reconsider replacing him and place him back in the school because I know that if you do end up replacing him; I know that the new SRO will be greatly trained and will do probably an amazing job, but he or she will not have the connection or the bonds that Officer Stuart has created with our students and staff. So, I please ask you to reconsider your decision and do not ruin a man's great reputation. Jenny Wexler 730 Esther Road Highland Heights 44143 I am a preschool special ed teacher. We moved to the high school two years ago. Besides the staff, the first person I met was Officer Stuart. He came down and was so happy that we were co there. He had taken the time almost every single day to come into my classroom. He talked to the