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Access to high-quality theater environment allowed him to develop his creative talents in lighting design and set design in ways that we never dreamed were possible. This isn't just access to the facility and its equipment, but also learning to use the software products that control the lights and sound equipment. Theater production is a very high-tech industry, and one that brings revenue into the Triangle area. Aidan has been a key participants in EVERY production staged in the Carrboro High School Arts Wing. He has grown enormously in his professional skills in theater production as a result of your decision, five years ago, to fund the Arts Wing at Carrboro High School. Aidan is a senior at Carrboro High School. In the fall, he will go to the UNC School of Arts in Winston-Salem to pursue his Bachelors in Fine Arts degree, with a concentration in Lighting Design. He choose UNC School of Arts over very competitive funding packages from arts conservatories at Shenandoah University and Ithaca College, in part because another theater production major from Carrboro High School is thriving at UNC School of Arts. My son's goal is a professional career in on Broadway in NY. When he gets there, he (and others like him) will be well-prepared and ahead of the competition, thanks in no small part to your decision. So THANK YOU for building the Carrboro High School Arts Wing. I also have a request. When we parents asked you to fund the Arts Wing, we had no idea how important it was to have a fulltime theater manager on staff. It is not clear to everyone that the theater manager position is absolutely critical. This staff position ensures that the facility is well- maintained, that all student production work is conducted in a safe manner (students work at heights and using power tools in theater production), and that the Arts Wing is in good condition for the many rentals that use it. To my surprise, between rentals and school use, the Arts Wing is fully booked throughout the school year. Rentals are helpful not only because they bring revenue into the county, but because they provide mentored training experiences for students like my son. Although the theater managers are not teachers, they do serve as supervisors for students who have internships in theater production. Basically, this spring my son learned first-hand how to be a production manager in a professional theater. He could not do this if there was no theater manager to teach him these skills in a revenue-generating Arts Wing. The theater managers are one of the things we will lose if the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools are not fully funded. For this reason, as well as many others, I am asking you to fully fund the requested budget for the Chapel Hill / Carrboro and Orange County schools. Thank you for your time and your service to our community. And thank you for the Carrboro High School Arts Wing, which changed the course of my son's life, in an enormously beneficial way. -- Steve Marshall From: David Denuo Phone Number: 919-265-3305 Message: Two minutes of your time, please: My name is David Denuo. I am 53 yrs old with a 1 st grader at FPG and a 3rd grader at Scroggs. I won't be able to be at tonight's budget meeting; I'm choosing to be with my 3rd grader before her first EOG in the morning.