No, it was more like you're kind of sitting there surprised. When somebody makes that decision you've got to respect it. That's it. We have to move on.

With that termination of funding, (the council) made a decision to first decrease her hours to 10 per week. In the next meeting, that I did not attend, they determined that she would no longer serve as director.

I have called Maldini to try and convince him to return, but he has asked me to respect his decision to retire. From our point of view, we won't be asking him again .

We accept and we respect the decision, but we don't agree with it,

I'm disappointed with the decision, but I respect it.

I respect the judge's decision, but I strongly disagree with it.