001You all stand. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation with liberty and justice for all. >> First the district's vision statement. Our vision is to strive for a learning environment that partners with the community to fully prepare lifelong learners to thrive in a complex world. Our mission statement is to engage with students, families, staff, and community members as we provide accessible, relevant, and meaningful education experiences. We are going to start with our community and student recognition. And I believe board member Heidi W has something to say. Uh we're thrilled to take a moment tonight to officially recognize the incredible work of the Smart Reading program in our district. Smart, Start Making a Reader Today, is a vital literacy effort that
002pairs caring community volunteers with students at Aster Elementary. This isn't just a program. It's a supportive environment that provides crucial one-on-one reading time. This consistent, personalized interaction is essential for students who need extra encouragement to build foundational reading skills and confidence. We see the results firsthand. Regular sessions help transform struggling readers into enthusiastic lifelong learners. The impact the impact goes beyond decoding words. Smart helps instill a genuine love of books and enhances the comprehension skills critical for all academic success. We thank the selfless volunteers, site coordinators, and local organizers who commit their time and hearts to this cause every week. The Atoria School District Board proudly recognizes Smart Reading for his exceptional contribution and looks forward to our continued partnership in support of Astra Elementary students. And tonight, representing the SMART program, we have Mr.
003Frank. I have the pleasure of being the smart site coordinator for the second year. But I do have to acknowledge that we have three smart volunteers here also. Some of you may know Jerry Swinson, not all of you. Jerry is the longest serving volunteer of smart here in Aster. Um and then and that's pretty amazing because Smart's been in existence for 33 years. Um and Astra was one of the earliest schools in the state to be part of the program and not quite 33 years pretty much with my predecessor as site coordinator longtime volunteer volunteer. Damn freeze who's also one of our volunteers and then Dan who's with us tonight. Thank you all. And I also want to acknowledge the smart program this semester. Sorry in large part because of Katie Corn. She unique as
004you all know. Oh, sure. >> Can I ask you a question? >> How do you become a smart volunteer? >> Excellent question. give me your name, phone number, but also on our smart website, we have contact information to volunteer anywhere here on the north coast. >> Okay. Or if you if they just >> I'll take a few. >> Thank you so much. Thank you so much for all you do. Um, we'll now go on to our EHS student representative. >> Um, so like a little fall sports recap in our start of fall sports. Football is 3 and won their homecoming game against Gladstone. Our soccer girls are 14 and two and boys are 15 and two and they play St. Helms yesterday. Cross country just had an SC boost with Arthur Harvey being our top
005finisher with a PR of 1743 and the girls varsity in did not participate. Um volleyball is 10 and three and today in St. That was yesterday. Little review of our homecoming week is Monday we have pajama day and a volleyball game after school where non volleyball players uh play against other volleyball players and juniors first. Uh t Tuesday we had a thirsty day. Wednesday um was a pink out and uh the senior and freshman team won our uh non football players football game and uh Thursday was color wars which were just different colors of like fisherman which was like white, purple, gold and black and Friday was purple and gold with the pep assembly which means like we had a relay of mattress sliding along the gym floor. Class cheers, dance and cheer performed. It
006was It was something. And then Saturday we had the high school dance, which seemed like it was very well received. Um band leadership position, uh Jacob Silver, the chief president of band. and uh theater the you can't take it with you play is expected to happen in November. Um we had cross elections for ASB. Um our business manager is Emily Nemo. Our activities director is By Gustoson and our presidents are Teslan and me with many representatives from 9th 10th and 11th grade. And some upcoming events are football goes to for the first league game, volleyball has a tournament in Seaside, soccer uh play tomorrow, boys are home and girls are away and cross country has a meeting in seaside this weekend. >> Thank you. >> We'll now move to item four agenda. >> Let me
007mention one thing. We also figured out today that our attendance rate at the middle school and high school increased last week during homecoming week by significant. So I expect I told them today I expect that spirit week every week not just a spin-off and Kate's school drop. >> I'm so no one seems to be I'm upset about it coming back. Yeah, sorry I mentioned that too. >> Yes, >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda. >> Oh yeah, I'll second. >> All right, approve. Sorry. >> All those in favor? >> I vote. All right. Item five, reports. start with our administrative reports. We're working on lots of cans of heat. I had a recess group with me today, a practice recess group. Um, also Monday I have parents club dating and it wasn't ideal. I
008had a parent who was Spanish speaking and they came and they have like two kids as a little baby and they made a lot of effort to get there but uh um we tried to accommodate with Google translate language line and everything else it just wasn't working and so um created a group today for a translator to be there and we'll advertise that so it was really a drag um so uh we can do better with that so hopefully more parents will feel um and the reading ladies from doing well. So they go to every give feedback on what we've seen with certain things. So that's what we're doing. Um at Wilson Park we've had our character trait assembly um focusing on students who respect um for the last week and we're living much responsibility
009this month. Um fifth graders are out to star base already had picture day this week. Um we also had a a parent club meeting last uh week which was well attended. A lot of new parents especially from some of our newly arriving third graders. So that was that was great. And we have our walkthroughs with the ESD literacy group as well. Uh but it is the following on Kate. So the 16th we'll be doing for meeting with all of our staff and talking about how our students. So, we're plugging right along. Our fall sports much shorter are getting ready to wrap up. Um, in addition, this year we had a cheer and um we have about 14 kids out. Some of those students are some of our homeschool partners. So, that has been fun and
010um it has been very well received and is very successful. Next year, they're looking to grow it to a winter chair session as well, but we're we're starting small and growing. The other exciting athletic news is we will have a girls wrestling team. We currently have 15 girls signed up. >> So that's pretty cool. We're excited about that and that'll start in late October, early November um for girls. Uh on the academic front, much like everybody, we're working through all the things collecting our data for our 100% meeting. Um about two weeks ago the administrators went to a training either in Pelar or Seaside and an idea was presented to us about we assess our reading, we assess our math, we assess attendance, grades, all the things. But we are adding this time anal assessment
011where students can do a survey and tell us if they feel like they're belonging, if they feel like they have a safe adult and we're adding that to our school data. Um, we present them to our staff. They're excited. We don't know exactly how it's going to look. So, I'll tell you next month how that goes, but we are excited about including that in our overarching collection of our data. And we'll be reading the year just like we do reading, math, attendance. Um, and our attendance is up and we got three families that were somewhat missing um back in this last weekend this week. So that was the deciding thing for us. >> Mr. Officer asked us to give a briefing on a program that is in development as part of a landmark opioid settlement.
012Classic county received a significant amount of funds to implement drug and alcohol measures to improve the health and safety of our students. That process is going to be ongoing as the settlements funds distribution will continue for the foreseeable years. And so what that means is that under classic count, class of county and class of behavioral health care, we will be partnering with CBH to have directors, peer mentors, and other staff to help with drug and alcohol prevention on campus. It'll start off relatively small. Tuesdays during lunch, Thursdays during our flex time, Wednesdays during lunch at the middle school. They will be there. There'll be a presence, a welcoming partner, and then that will be rolled out eventually to where there will actually be space for a licensed drug and alcohol specialist to support our students
013who may be experiencing that themselves or a peer or even family members. So that is going to start rolling out as background checks become more current etc. And we will be sending out messaging to parents in the upcoming days and weeks regarding that program. The other thing going on at story high school that hasn't been reported is that we today welcomed Riona age 16 and Mr. Nishiima from Rishiri school. And if you don't know the connection between Atoria and Rishiri Japan it's a cool story. I don't have time to elaborate. Mr. Looked at me and I do your own research on an individual named R not Ronald Ronald and that is history. >> I wanted to share a kinder ready kids our prek program update. Um we currently have 17 enthusiastic three and four year
014olds attending the program. Um, we've moved the we have a new teacher, Miss Stelic, who is amazing. Her enthusiasm and organization, just general care for children, um, has really set the year off on a really positive start. We have Miss All and Miss Bai who have been with the program for a few years. They're bringing their expertise and experience in to support these students. Um, I also want to acknowledge the fact that the principal board was willing to take house the program to move the program to ASA last year and I think it's made a huge difference. One example of that is I was in the classroom this morning and there were these little children but there were also other kids other students that I recognized and Miss Stels pointed out yeah these are alumni
015from Kinder Ready kids and they several of them start their day out interacting with the current prek. So they're they're alumni who are coming back and making connections >> and it just really speaks to what it means to have a program at Aster and that connection and um cohesiveness and community that it builds and I just really appreciate supporting the the program in the way she does. Um, in the past couple weeks, I've had two ESD staff who are helping with students in the classroom comment about how um there is just a really really great feeling and direction in that classroom. And personally, I believe this is the strongest start we've had and it's in no small part to Aster and their staff. Welcome. >> A question. Uh what's the cap for that program? Not
016>> number. >> Yeah, >> we have 18 slots. >> 18 slots. And then how are what's the eligible? Like how are you determining criteria >> and they apply through the state? If you want I can share with you more information. >> You said there's 17 of the 18 fil. >> Great. Thank you. The interesting thing about that is there's they put all the applications in one spot and kids get either picked for the preschool promise classroom or they get picked for head start. We don't have any say that they don't being made outside of our town. So >> well we have our next um Thursday on Friday and so we have kind of few different things going on. We have um early literacy going on at the elementary level with our CTA curriculum and our
017ESD real literacy people coming back in to work with our staff. Secondary literacy um we're working to present some high leverage literacy that they can use at the secondary level alongside the conductive reading strategy and kind of intering those and then Megan Go is doing an ADHD session a couple different sessions. So, um, really our instructor coaches, our literacy coaches are kind of leading some of the training on Friday. So, I think it's going to be a really good time and we also have time for staff to plan together and work on their own. So, I think it's going to be a good day. >> Well, we're currently serving just over 1,200 meals per day. Um, our revenue per meal equivalent for that first month of school. Um, our revenue exceeded our cost at every
018school except for the high school. Um, so we're working on increasing participation, lowering food cost at the high school. Um, I was able to source shredded turkey and gravy for Thanksgiving meal. We haven't been able to do that for a few years. Um, so we've already got it. So that's going to be exciting. Um, and then I plan on adding chili back to the menu for next um on the fall menu. >> Transportation really doesn't have much um other than last month we had a lot of buses breaking down. Wes has done a great job fixing them all. Parts took a little bit longer to get, but that's pretty much all transportation. Um things been breaking. We've been fixing them. Fix the chair today. But for the last couple weeks, we've been getting heating systems
019online, ready to go for their time. Make sure boilers ready to go. Everything will be ready by the end of next week. We have boiler inspectors coming down. Take a look at the boilers at Aster and here at Gray. Um, we also sat down Mike Rhonda and USDA went over some winter preparedness stuff. Um, kind of keep it in the front of our mind because it's going to happen soon. >> Thank you. Item B is finance report. The first item I wanted to talk about um really isn't finance, but it was a a big a big deal. We successfully helped all of our employees enroll in health insurance this year because it was mandatory reenrollment year. Plus, um, we switched our classified staff members who wanted benefits into the group HR, um, the health reimbursement
020arrangement pool that we've had with the certified and admin since 2016. This has been something that Craig and I have been wanting to get going and we we completed it this year. So, that's exciting. And with that, I wanted to thank in this part because there's more people here and usually by the end of the meeting than not, but I wanted to thank the district office staff because every single one of them worked very hard to get everyone enrolled. Um, I want to thank Marissa and Angela and Don and Rob for all of their help with this and also with OCA and what both you help and getting everyone enrolled. Um the other thing is next week is audit for us again but um it's the the work with the auditors for the week and
021then they'll go off and do what they need to do to hopefully have our audit complete by the end of December. And then um the other piece is that we've been hearing some words regarding the 2627 school year um concerned about the finance on funding. And then we heard this week eventually this year's budget has some could have some changes. We're attending every meeting we possibly can and just start planning. That's it. Is there any questions about the finance part? I just um to bring up that in the meeting with the PACE people um or well at our training the other night found out like for our finance committee we can't have two board members there. It has to be a >> so I sent a couple days after that we checked and I sent
022an email out that oh >> explained it to the point you can't have a committee of two reports back to the board >> and that information came right from Haley who said that original part >> that doesn't >> they're not reporting that >> we can't tell you what we talked about. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So there hasn't been >> Yeah. There hasn't been a according to how Haley herself from OSBA and PACE explained it. We haven't done anything wrong. We thought we did everything wrong. >> So we're okay. It has to do with report committee the reports back. >> Okay. >> And I can res if I can remember I'll resend that. >> Yeah. I just >> I didn't say my regular but that's probably All right. Enrollment report. >> Yeah. So, our enrollment is
023um 1712 kids. We ended the year at 1,690. Um Mindy budgeted at >> 1690. So, historically, it's gone down a little bit, but that's on an average date of membership and we're keeping an eye closely on this. Um, so I don't have class sizes are, you know, pretty good. K through two, three maybe. >> Yeah. Next item D gives to the district to district report as October 2025. Start with Mo Seafood and Chowder for its ASD beginning of the year staff lunchon value of $3,536. Leah Telen the story high school nit shed donations clothing a value of $300. Rayley Telen Atoria High School Nitshed clothing as well $400. Hagen Pancake from Australia for the pancake batter total of $630. Heather Jugen Austral school music two of percussions value of $900. Current total of $5,766 with
024a year to date total $5,766. Thank you very much for all your donations. to item six versus Okay. At this time, I would like to invite any member of the audience that submitted a public comment to prepare to speak and comment about items of interest or concern this evening. Patrons were asked to submit public comment prior to the meeting. We will take comment in order received. Please begin by stating your name. Your name and if you live in the school district, it would be appreciated if you would limit your comments to three minutes so that we can keep the meeting moving in a timely fashion and allow others an opportunity to speak. We ask you that you remember that the Oregon law prohibits us from threatening specific employees or their job performance. Thank you so
025much for your support of the school district. All right. First speaker of the night, Carol. >> Hey, Carl Hberg. Uh, live in the story school district. A um have two children in the school district. So before I get to my primary comments, I want to comment on a comment I made last month uh regarding the initiative look at housing. the comments I made regarding a certain housing project were reflected on something it was like 20 plus years ago. So, Mrs. Gore rightly pointed out stuff and I took that to heart. So, it that place is not like what it was when I was a state trooper there 20 years ago. So, there's like a real nice place to live. So, thank you for pointing that out. Yeah. So, um, I'm here, uh, I'm member of
026the budget committee and the newly emerging equity committee. And, uh, my comments are as a dad, as a taxpayer, as an advocate for this body. So, I know you're all aware of, uh, Senate Bill 732 that created the equity committee, and I know you're well aware of House Bill 2453 that's kind of an addition to that to a Senate bill. So the I'm actually advocating for you guys uh as an elected body. I don't think you can stand to have challenge this house bill uh 2453. The bill itself uh you authority as elected officials. You you alone the body that creates policy for Escori school district. You're it. But if you read this this house bill, it refers to the district equity committee, there's section B here, the school district superintendent may act any recommendations
027of the educational equity committee without approval of the school board. So that's an endound around you guys. Now we've got a great superintendent, Mr. Hopp here. I can't envision a situation where he would go around you guys. But what this does, it puts him in a really weird shirt bag because then he could push one way and around you guys. And I think we have a good superintendent. We need to protect him, too. So, I don't know. I mean, you guys have to have to uh debate amongst yourselves, but I would recommend talk to your lawyer and and and suing the state of Oregon over this issue because you're not the only school district that's facing this one to protect yourselves because this is like say this is supering your authority as as the elected
028body. Now, uh, an appointed body is able to, uh, create policy for the school district without your consent, which I think flies in the face of of our process here. Uh, and two, you will want to protect the superintendent because, like I said, he's he's get stuck in this real weird trick bag where he get pushing him and it could be completely contrary to what what the school district is has put in policy. So, that's my comments. So, that's it. So, yeah. Our next patron is Cindy Moore. >> Right. Greeting greetings to the board members and to superintendent. I'm here um as a parent of an Astro an Estria school district um student as well as a graduate a Fisherman graduate recently and as the Astro youth athletics um um president and board member along
029with um Jennifer um to discuss an item that is a board policy that's affecting um the work that we do as volunteers. Um, we just like to make you aware of some challenges associated with sports photos. And we appreciate that you deal with a lot of different um, really difficult topics. And this one maybe not hasn't risen to the top, but here here it goes. Over the past few years, we've worked really hard as volunteers to create these posters and banners that celebrate our um, high school seniors that um, are athletes. And we get these out to the community. We we're really proud of the work that we do to um get the community involved. Our businesses love hanging up these posters um and the banners go up uh at the different facilities to celebrate
030our seniors. Um this was done long ago. We brought it back recently. Um one of the challenges with creating these is that we need a photographer that provides the service and and as volunteers Tina takes the lead on um coordinating with the photographers. We uh work closely with the high school staff to um to get this done as part of their team photos. We don't want to take a lot of time to um from the athletes and the coaches to get these done. So the team photos get done, these photos get done. We work with the companies to um develop this design. We've gone through several companies over the last few years. And one of the things that keeps coming up as a challenge for these companies is that the school district through a board
031policy is not allowed to share parent emails with them. So they don't aren't allowed the opportunity to market the way that their companies are um built in this new day and age and and what they need um to be a successful business. We have um the company that we've been working with recently has been has stellar customer service. They um are responsive. They provide free photos for us to give to OSAA to put on online. They provide the photos for the yearbook. They've just been doing a really good job. Um and it has come up again that without having direct access to parents. Um they their business model fails and they they have shown the sales at Estro High School is much less than other high schools because they don't have that information. and they
032said um and we've had some conversations about how that's somewhat unusual that a lot of school districts do allow time. I apologize. Um, I just wanted to to ask from AYA and actually from from the high school because this takes a lot of resources from the high school staff to try to push out information that could be done directly by that company because they have to try to get that people to sign um to to the paper goes from the company to the school or the high school and then to the coach and to the student and maybe to the parent. That's a lot that he really has to go through. So um I we've through the years this has been an issue. We've talked to principal Jackson and um superintendent and and they said
033comes to board. This is a board policy. Um so the we really appreciate the security you have with parent information. I'm a parent. Please don't send my information to anywhere. But for a photographer that's doing official work for the city, I mean sorry work for the school district. Um potentially there could be we're asking that maybe there would be a policy reconsideration where under strict guidelines and the management potentially of the superintendent. Is there a way that we the board might look at that policy and allow for that information to be shared in under certain circumstances with course conditions if they don't share that information? >> Thank you. Item seven's information. Eight is unfinished business. A is the personal electronic devices. >> So we reviewed this in the um study session and I wrote in
034several we go at the end of the first paragraph after it could go after I have it written down after the footnel number one. It says electronic devices may be used after school hours when on trip at the discretion of the supervising adult and I'll make sure that when Marissa will help edit it, but I'll make sure it's just after school hours on trips, not just after schools, but on trips at the discretion of the supervisors. All right. Okay. Um trying to think think about that footnote if we even need it. >> So maybe the footnote number one should go after that statement not before I think so if you're okay with >> So can we approve it? Yeah, >> that I'll move to approve business um with the modification policy JF CB as stated
035by Cot. >> All those in favor? Anybody? IMD was immunization school sports participation in concussions and other brain injuries. >> All right. Item nine, new business 2024 2025 division 22 standards. Yeah, this is our annual um division 22 asurances that we present to you. Um so go ahead and go to the next slide. So just a quick review of what are division 22 standards. So they're standards for all 12 transcision 22 is where they come from and they have the different rules. So the standards are um from the Oregon legislature or the state board as determinant must be read in order to be what's considered a standard school district and it really just kind of sets the floor with the baseline services across the state. Um so it's kind of about an equitable education for
036everybody. Um next slide. There are five categories of division 22 with over 50 rules that are inside each one of those categories. We have our high quality learning experiences, aligning both educational systems, engaged parents and communities, safe and inclusive schools, and they're committed and supporting staff and slide kind of shows an example of um kind of what of those 50 rules kind of where they are divided up. So under high quality living experiences, we have some rules around requirements and our materials adoption. In the engaged partners and communities, we have things like our procedures um and our equity and community. In the aligned and focused educational systems category, you'll see things like require instructional time and our schooling. In the safe and inclusive schools category, we have things like our substance use prevention and intervention
037plan and the every student requirements. And then the last one, committed and supported staff. You'll see things in there about like teacher administrator abominations just so just some examples of where where they fall. Next slide. So this is just an example of what are the requirements for each of the rules. If you're interested there's links there. Um the rules and grant summary is a really great one that just kind of really succinctly summarizes it. The other ones give you detail if you are interested. Uh the next slide basically is talking about what are the asurances that we are doing right now. It's kind of a combined accountability model. So the local accountability is what we're doing tonight which is reporting to the school board by November 1st and then we make the report available on
038our district website. And then the state accountability part is that we will submit our assurances to the state and then they will review it and see if there's anything that we reported out of compiance on and then they'll support us in that. Um, next slide. This is just talking about why they do the standards and assurances. Um, signals are committed to providing higher quality education for everybody. um kind of articulates the floor of the education that should be provided to everybody, not the ceiling, but kind of like the basic everybody does this floor and then the asurances just provides an opportunity to make sure that we are in compliance and if not to get the support to be in compliance. Next slide. And this one just kind of is an overview of what was happening
039if the district is out of compliance. The main thing being that OD provides support for you to um become in compliance and then if not I mean at some point they could withhold your funds but ideally they're there to support us in 2020. Next slide. So this is our report for the 2425 school year. We always report on the year before because it takes all year long in order to show that we're compliant and everything. Um so the next slide shows what are the waiverss for last year. Um assessment uh ski essential skills for graduation has been waved since COVID through 2728 and so have the essential skills for English language learners. So we will not be reporting on that. And then a few revisions. Um, beginning in the 2425 school year, district had to
040have a planned K12 instructional program for social emotional learning and a planned 912 program for personal finance and the higher education and career path skills standards. And then so you'll see that reported in the asurances. And then the next slide talks about other revisions. One of them was around informing parents and families about different options and then um around the comprehensive substance use prevention and intervention plan which includes required um opioid prevention lessons that OD provides. So you'll see that in the asurances as well. Next slide. So this is our report. We um were in compliance with all of the standards except for um two. One of them was the PE requirements for the middle school which I know you are aware of. We had a corrective we had a corrective action plan for a
041couple of years now. Um we did have one in place last year and we really tried to work with the DE but with the cut in staffing it just was we just never could quite get there. We did add a halftime fee teacher year helped but we still didn't get to the required time. we will meet the standard this year because we had it back at that time division. So that was that corrective plan. And then the next slide um our other corrective plan was around local performance assessment requirements. So grades three through eight and ones in high school are required to do a work sample with a competition guide for those um four areas and we did do that last year and teachers put examples of them and the rubrics into a shared order.
042So we do have that um requirement in place. So we were um um we did that required this year this last school year. Next slide. So this is just looking ahead for what's going to be required for this school year to be in compliance. So the next slide shows that we will uh we are required to have committee in place by September 15th. The next slide shows there are some new requirements around the seed survey which is an equity survey which students are given as part of the Oregon state assessment system and also just changed some things around the health screener making it just clarifying some language around it being required and just some clarification around districts by the provisions regarding test records. I think that has to be around like how well you're supposed
043to keep different test records in your file access. Um the next slide, uh they're going to be changing the administrator standards in Oregon. So we will have until September 30th, 2027 to align our administrator standards with the new ones that they chosen. So the next slide talks about um what we'll need to do in order to be in compliance next year. We do have our district equity committee in place and we did meet in September. Um we already give the seed survey annually as part of our Oregon state assessments and the ELPA screener is also given to all of our new students. The only thing that we will need to work on over the next couple years is updating our administrator standards because they currently are not aligned with the ones that they chose. And
044then the next slide is just questions. You do have the full asurances form attached there as well as if you have any questions. There's also a link there. It's a new um form that will be provided this year around frequently asked questions. >> All right. Thank you. I'll move to approve 2024 2025 division 22 standards. >> All those in favor in guidance approval the presentations. I'll move to approve the integrated guidance. I'll second all those in favor. Anybody? >> Okay, moving on to comments for the good of the order. Yeah, I have a few. Um, one, uh, it's not great, but it is news. Um, I think he mentioned it in her report, but I've had two meetings, have another one this Friday. The state legislature funded schools on 11.36. We're getting information to us
045now that we may not receive all of that 11.36 this year and next year. So like when I think about it, it feels like 2012 when we planned for what we budgeted for, but the state's not going to come through with the money now because they don't want to. >> That's I think I'm going to find out more. So I don't want to say a lot till I get more, but it's having to come down with some federal funding gaps that the state has to make up. There are other areas not associated with education, but it is part of the state class. Um it's concerning um because the further we go along in a school district in a year, the harder it is to cut because you're already in the middle of a school year.
046So that's there. Um couple things. There was Cindy came up and did a public comment on the directory. We had had that conversation four or five years ago. Um I'd like with the board's approval to bring it back. I've done just a little bit of work and can do some more on what some other school districts are doing um with changing of the directory information but also things that they're doing to communicate with parents that stay within the policy um like opt outs emails and things like that that I would like to collect that information and bring it back along with the policy to share that with the board and then we can go from there. Is that okay for next month? >> Okay. um had a great donation of over $12,000 to restart a
047food bank program uh with the school. We had a meeting with counselor this morning that was good. We're going to get going with that. Um up to 100 bag a week of local homeless students. Um I've been going out done three of the four staff meetings around the the um talking about the um indicators on our strategic plan talking about enrollment and then I don't I haven't shared with the board but this year is the 100redy year birthday of the column. So we are going to work to do some things within the schools to >> help celebrate. >> Yeah. And then just to mention next month at our study session Aster and Louisa Clark's school group of goals will be presented and then the high school and the middle school in December. So the month
048board members, would you like to say anything? Uh yeah, I actually have something I wanted to uh like bring attention to is uh our ninth grade success group uh went to Portland yesterday and looked at data and noticed that our graduation rate is obviously really high, but the only thing we were looking to improve is the attendance. And um as that's like a hard task to uh cover as uh our student interns and a representative, we came up with the goal to uh have the ability to recover after being absent. So it doesn't like prolong the absence because of not being able to catch up with school. And uh our first step they're going to take is send out a Google form to uh the school just based on how often you show up to
049school. why you miss school, things of that nature. And then there'll be other stuffs like circle groups and interviews with certain people. >> That's awesome. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. I think that's some of what we were hoping for with our student representatives was to kind of have well the feedback but also being able to take some of the things that we're trying to do to the students and so it's kind of awesome to see it working. Um, thanks for reporting on that and um, thanks to AYA for providing >> Yeah. >> these might be and also just I mean I notice the you know posters with the seniors and stuff. I think it adds to our culture and climate school spirit and just recognizing them and appreciate all of your hard work and um
050manning all the concession stands and but also providing for our students and it was really great to um develop a smart program and I don't know just sometimes we forget how many volunteers are coming in and doing so many things in our school to make them run really Well, so I just appreciate all of them. Um, I've had a lot of fun going and watching the sporting events. It was good to see the football team win. Um, and they learned by a lot. That probably good. What was that? I know a little bit. We were happy that there was a football game for right started off not last time we recorded. >> So excited um it was fun to watch and fun to watch all of our sport kids. Um with the HB2453 I know
051that's come up before and we were kind of concerned it come up like why it kind of bypasses. I don't know if it might be worth looking at. I don't know about suing, but there's some, you know, a letter or something or finding out what the intention is. I because I think that's what we when we discussed before there was like questions on what what the intention behind that was. Not that the committee is a bad thing, but um yeah, just why it does circumvent and I should probably look at the that second part of the bill. I don't know if I've looked at it very closely. So, but I appreciate everybody's help and everything that you're doing within the schools. Appreciate it. Thanks. >> The column is turning 100, but I believe two school
052buildings are as well. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Big big celebration. >> U I've been uh really enjoying the program and budget information. I just want to say kudos to to Billy. I know uh 665,000 seems like a lot of money. Um, but with all of the work they're doing and the projects to keep our schools uh in good shape and our projects done, it's not it's not a lot. Um, and they're doing a lot of work with three staff members. So, just want to say really good job with that. And then I was super excited to see that we did have an increase in our attendance rate. That was good. One score. Um, and then one thing with, uh, you know, talking about some of the budgeting challenges that may come up. Um, I'd really
053like to see some information about possibilities for operational levies or, um, you know, different uh, funding resources that we could look at. So, that's something um, that you could maybe find some information on, share with the board, that would be appreciated. >> Uh, I just want to say thank you to both of our public commenters tonight. Um, good to hear. Um, and I also wanted to shout out I saw in the paper about the varsity art team that um, which I think is really cool and so I just wanted to congratulate them with their getting to do that mural. Um, it was a neat article. >> Um, yes, I also want to say thank you to our public comment. Um, and hopefully we will have some additional discussion and we are at the mercy of
054our schedules and so apologize that we can't necessarily push that through soon. Um, but um hopefully get that on the agenda for November. I wanted to say thank you for that donation too from the anonymous donor for re-establishing that food program. Um especially in this time where food costs are expensive and we do have a very significant amount of our student population that are um food insecure and just a amazing demolition. So I want to thank whoever that person is. Um thank you. Um and to our smart volunteers as well. Um just having um caring adults um present. Um the teachers are um some of the hardest working individuals in I don't know the universe. Um but um to have extra support for reading is so um critical and and those volunteers are like some
055of I don't know they're the salt of their people too and it's just awesome to have those people in their in their lives for the kids. So thank you to them. >> That's all. Sorry. Um, I've had a couple people request like to know ways that they can volunteer within the school district and I I just don't know what they are anymore since I mean other like ways that people can volunteer like there's a smart program AYA you know but um in the schools are there ways that >> yeah they could and we can help with that. We put I haven't put anything out about volunteers in a long time, but I would have to just contact the schools directly. We can we can share some information out. >> Yeah, because it seems like things
056have changed since co and I really didn't know what to tell them. >> Yeah. No, we're volunteers. >> Well, I'm just going to echo off everybody else. Um, I think uh I'm thankful to live in this community and thankful for what everybody does and I think we have a very awesome community that donates and volunteers and I that's what I love about Atoria so much and I don't think it could ever be just because you know everybody and it's you know you build an instant connection and friendship with everybody and I it takes the whole community to get these children to where they go and I am so thankful for every single one of you for your kind, your dedication, your love and support um in every single way. So, I do want to say
057thank you to all our staff members, all volunteers, and everybody in this building. That's it for me. Uh November 6th through the 8th, we do have our OCA annual convention run. Um, Wednesday, November 12 at 5:45, we'll have our boarding study session here in this room. with Wednesday at 7 o' same day meeting at make a motion to adj >> I don't