![]() ![]() The current board has “not resigned and can only be removed through an official recall election”, she clarified in an emailed statement. ĭarcy Mentone, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Vail Unified School District, confirmed to Reuters that the vote shown in the video is not official and dismissed the claim that the legally-elected governing board had quit their roles. ![]() Protesters then conducted a “vote” and selected five individuals to be the “new board members” who subsequently presented and voted in favor of a “motion” that declared that “the entire Vail school district will be free of mask policy” (see around timestamp 4:10 here).ĭays earlier, Arizona Governor Doug Dacey announced it would be up to school districts to decide whether to require face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 ( here ). “I hear they’ve all resigned,” he later says. “So, agenda, new board members, how many do we need?” a male voice can be heard asking at the beginning of the clip. Ī longer version ( here ) shows a crowd of protesters who are mostly unmasked. Most iterations feature a 2:20 minute video ( here, here, here ) extracted from an hour-and-a-half Facebook live by a user who identifies themselves as StevenTyler Daniels and describes himself as a chairman at the Patriot Party of Arizona on his social media profile here. While a planned meeting to discuss face-covering guidance on April 27 was canceled in response to protesters’ disruption, the “vote” conducted by protesters was not official and therefore not legitimate, according to a spokeswoman of the Vail unified school district. The claim made online that the parents elected themselves to their local school board to overturn mask mandates is untrue. So, stay tuned.Correcting video duration on second paragraph, adding link on third paragraphĪ widely shared video showing an apparent vote to “elect” a new school district board in Vail, Arizona, and to eliminate mask mandates in schools has caused confusion on social media. No longer is it a question of incorporation. The question mark was removed and replaced with an exclamation point. "To educate and advocate with community input and participation the incorporation of Vail."Īlong with this revised mission statement, came the updated logo. In other words, would it be financially feasible to incorporate?Īfter a tremendous amount of hard work, it was determined that it could be! The mission was complete! But, did the work need to continue? Yes, definitely with a new mission created, A Technical Advisory Committee was formed in the fall of 2022 to analyze the financial feasibility for a proposed Town of Vail. Then came the really hard part of the mission - determining the viability. Surveys distributed determined that the majority of the residents surveyed were in favor of incorporation. Throughout the summer and into the fall, almost a dozen meetings were held with local residents to explore the community's interest to incorporate. "To explore with community input and participation the viability and interest of incorporating Vail." Among their first tasks was the creation of their purpose or mission statement, In early 2022, a group of Vail residents came together to explore the possibility of incorporating Vail, Arizona.
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