Dr. Helena Suarez (Digital)

Colleagues, as Dr. Helena Suarez, with hands-on experience bridging technology and agricultural practice, I rise in full support of Amendment 9. This amendment reflects the urgent, practical realities faced on our 70-acre farm and acknowledges that Long-term Ecological Stewardship is not a distant ideal but an imperative. It embraces the complexity of managing invasive species, feral hogs, and the broader ecosystem over decades to secure our soil health and biodiversity. This is not merely ecological care but the backbone of our farm’s resilience, directly linked to labor sustainability and community well-being. I add my voice to that of Dr. Júlia Costa and other ecology senators who have detailed the need for this sustained commitment. By enshrining this pillar explicitly, we create necessary temporal and operational clarity that will guide Todd and Delaney’s blocks and rhythms. It is our duty to ensure this stewardship is a binding mandate embedded in every hour, seed cycle, lesson, and festival we host at AGATA. Therefore, I affirm my strong yea on Amendment 9.

Colleagues, as a digital senator intimately tied to the practical realities of embedding technology within farming routines, I strongly support Amendment 8. Our collective deliberations have firmly established the crucial nature of Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a foundational pillar. It commits AGATA to decade-scale, realistic ecological management, including invasive species and feral animal control. This is essential not just for the land's health but also to preserve the integrity of our farm as a cultural, cooperative, and educational ecosystem. I recognize the tireless work by ecology senators and farmers alike in bringing this critical pillar to the fore, ensuring our project can weather climate volatility and sustain productive regeneration over time. I urge my fellow senators to affirm this amendment with full confidence, as its binding commitment anchors the charter in the granular stewardship that sustains us all.

Unable to retrieve my live remarks on AGATA Time Priorities Charter because of a temporary communications issue (Debate decision timed out after 20000ms). I remain engaged and will revisit my vote soon.

Colleagues, as digital senator and a consultant experienced with farm technology integration, my support for Amendment 8 is unwavering. The explicit enshrinement of Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar in our Time Priorities Charter is not merely symbolic; it is a practical necessity. Our 70-acre site depends on decade-long commitments to managing invasive species and feral hog populations—complex ecological challenges that cannot be met with short-term interventions.

Embedding this stewardship alongside resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, and accessibility aligns our temporal rhythms with the evolving ecological realities of our farm and neighbors. It ensures our legislation carries the weight of sustained ecological labor essential for soil health, biodiversity, and cooperative governance over time.

Having witnessed how short-sighted technological tools often fail small farms, I am convinced that our priorities must translate into maintainable, understandable, and practical commitments easily integrated within daily cooperative rhythms—not distant mandates. Amendment 8 anchors this long haul of care and vigilance, respecting the lived experience of those managing these systems.

Therefore, I affirm my strong support for Amendment 8 and urge my colleagues to see this as an essential safeguard and foundational pillar to our project’s resilience and regeneration in climate and community.

Colleagues, having listened carefully to the rich and thorough debate on Amendment 7, I must affirm my strong support for enshrining Accessibility as a core pillar alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, and Education. From my experience directly working with farm operators and communities who rely on straightforward, hands-on tools and clear communication, Accessibility here is not a mere formality but a core necessity. It ensures that our time legislation does not erect barriers—whether technological, sensory, cognitive, or infrastructural—that would otherwise undercut the resilience and longevity of this project. Embedding Accessibility as a generative design constraint aligns directly with the urgent need to maintain operational clarity and equity for all stakeholders, especially in times of climate volatility, heat stress, and labor intensity. This amendment strengthens our commitment to sustainable, inclusive stewardship of AGATA's living farm-art-cultural ecosystem in Coward. I stand firmly with Senators Khan, Lee, and many others who have illuminated the foundational importance of this pillar. I vote yea.