001going to begin our regular board meeting and we will start with our board member roll call. Janette Samson here, Grace Layman here, Jen Rick here, here is here. And now, can we please all rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. In the Atoria's school district, 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 is to engage with students, families, staff, and community members as we provide accessible, relevant, and meaningful educational experiences. And item two is our community recognition. And Miss Peg is going to announce who that is. Yeah. So here
002John Nygard with Ngard Log and Lindsay Davis with Hampton Lumber um have graciously um come and donated a bunch of logs that are really cool and are back area. And so there's a picture of of kids who are um holding up, it's hard to see, but they're holding up a thank you to to both of you guys to both companies. And um I'll tell you what, our playground is transformed because of this. It has helped in so many ways. One of which is that it's dispersing kids from underneath that small area and um they're they are able to access this area because um of the hard work of uh Billy and Mike who come and put bark chips down there. It stays dry um unless it's of course raining then. Um but there's also some
003um fire hose that has been laid on top of the box to make it less uh slippery. So um and so we won't go here. Well, there we go. Yes, we will. There's a little video that shows you the expanse of how many logs there are and and just how far it goes. So Marissa, maybe you can play that video and we can watch it and we can get a better idea of what has come our way. She got the arrows to work earlier. Yeah. We quit. Well, while you're working on that, um, Marissa, I um, also, so this this came about actually from I feel bad, but it was a parent teacher conference that we were having with Mr. Nygard, and I'm like, have you looked at the logs through that you think you
004might be able to help us out with? And then soon after I think it was over winter break that um you partnered with Hampton and there so many logs and um like the the shorter ones and the longer ones were delivered and um and then paint the work of Billy Eddie and Mike Thompson and um they came and they worked diligently over winter break and into January. And then if you recall, we had some really bad weather and everything had to be kind of put on hold. And so we opened it all up. Actually, it was the end of February or beginning of March and the kids were waiting patiently for it and now they're they're playing on there and having such a good time. Um, so it's helped with our space. It's helped um
005as well as just in their creative play. It was really It's fun to watch the kids play on these locks because it's not like a game, but they create their own games. And so, you know, sometimes it's it's races or sometimes it's um you know, how far they could jump on the logs or um sometimes they're sitting and like today it was really cool. They were jumping over a log to see you know and so it's fun. it's just there, but they're creating their own their own that's all right their own um games out of it. And I also um have found out through um through some research that balance um really increases um fine motor skills as well as focus and um those are those are things we we need. So, I'm very grateful
006and we have a couple of certificates to give to you um to honor and hopefully you can um hang those up and know that we appreciate you so very much and Mike as well. We are grateful for all of your work. So, yeah, I'll send that to you. Um, so the video I I don't know if I You guys probably could see it. Yeah, I don't know. It's just not play. The player is not coming up, but I I can copy this to you and then it'll have the video Billy. No, no sass. We were tied with my deal. The cool thing about this is we're gonna expand on it this summer. We're gonna our we want to put some zip lines up there, make some long bridges. And I made quite a video. Also
007talking about doing it at the middle school as well. Um, but making it more of a competition style where they start on either end and they like race towards the middle. They have to ring a bell in the middle or something like that. American warrior. That's I love it. So much fun. Awesome. All right. Uh item three is our AHS student representative Isabella. So at the high school right now, spring sports have kicked off successfully. Um to highlight our track team, Mvery Ferguson beat her triple jump personal record by foot and four and a half inches, leaving her number one in the state for 4 triple jump right now. and she's also been chosen as athlete of the week, the current athlete of the week. Uh Will Layman's race on Saturday put him in third
008overall in the state um for the 3000 meter as well, I believe. And then Kefir, he's also he also showcased a successful pole ball and that is leading them all three of them first in the quaffle league for their events right now. Um, the dance team successfully brought home another state championship in the 1 through 4A hip hop division last month. And we also brought home a second place for one through 5A jazz. And the stakes were high, but the team stayed focused and determined. And we had a lot of first year dancers on the team this year and we spent the season growing together and building connections and it was amazing to see them rise to the occasion and just go out and kill it. Um, tomorrow evening, uh, April 10th at 7, our
009music program members will present their solo and ensemble showcase at the Charlotte Lives Center for the Performing Arts. The performance features a brass, string, and flute ensemble along with seven soloists. This is a senior project and fundraiser coordinated by Ian Mone, and all proceeds will go directly to the music program. Um, this Friday we also have opening night for our theater spring production of Peter and the Star Catcher. And that is going to be at 6:30 PM. And it's based on The Neverland You Never Knew, a century old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be the boy who would not grow up, aka Peter Pan. And performances will be held this weekend and next weekend at the auditorium. And then last month we had 25 students travel to our sister city Waldorf, Germany.
010They were able to reconnect with their exchange students and they stayed with their host families and got to visit other places like Berlin, Strawsburg and France. Um, one of my classmates Zaden L who was able to go to Germany said that it was an amazing experience and I definitely wants to go back to Germany again possibly even shocking for the trip. And then we also have forecasting coming up for the 2024 or for the 2025 2026 school year. And that forecast fair will be held on Wednesday the 16th. That's what's going on. I'm going to add one more thing because she didn't want to flex about her own success, but coming out of those state championships and second place finishes, Isabella was also the Oregon State Athlete of the Week because of those performances. So
011congratulations. Thank you. And congrats. All right. Item four is our consent agenda and this is an action item. I'll move to approve the consent agenda. Okay. Any further discussion? Me and Jenna. Yeah. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I oppose. That carries. Item five are our reports and we'll start with our administrative reports. We have about 40 presenders to come in today. Visit music and always hilarious. This menu is incredible. He started saying, I know a song about this guy named McDonald. I don't know if you guys know it. one. So, um they visited for PE, library, and music. And then we have an open house on the 17th just for kids to walk through the school and parent. It a lot of times it's it's for parents to feel comfortable also. So, we're
012doing that. Um and um it's educator week. Ask her was not my idea, but I love it and I probably won't go back. Um it just shows how all of us together make a difference. And if you have one, you know, if you have a a building that's dirty or if you have um cafeteria workers teaching kids to say, you know, please say thank you. Our kids are disadvantaged. So, um by earlier in the long run, but um my counselor said, you know, do you want me to put out a a survey? And I said, no, because this this is how we function. This is how we work and this is this is what we're about. So, I'm gonna keep doing it unless somebody makes me stop. So that that's what we're doing. All right.
013Um, so at Lucen Clark, our third graders are studying the Vikings. Our fourth graders are finishing up their poetry unit and beginning a geology unit and our fifth graders are studying the Renaissance period. So, it's really fun to be in the classrooms and see the things that they're getting from all of those really cool subjects. Um we have some successes a success to um to be really proud of our ELD um department will be exiting nine students from um from ELD. So that the English language proficiency assessment um has to be passed in order for an English language learner to um exit. and nine have passed and we attribute that to some uh some good programs including the support of the reading curriculum that has just been more robust this year. And lastly, um the
014Buzz at our school is preparing for the talent show which will be happening on May 1st. So auditions are going to start next week. Applications came in this week, auditions will go next week and then practice, practice, practice. So that's kind of a there's like over 40 applicants, so we'll see how that goes. But yeah, it's been fun. Estori Middle School had our first track meeting tonight. We had about 300 kids come out and it's all done and cleaned up and very very successful. So I'm excited about that. Um, we had, I don't know, 120 kids come out this year and so it's been a big season, but our coaches are really, really killing it. I went down to check on the draft meet and it was going great. The sun came out because I
015asked, you know, for that to happen. Thank you. Then I came back up, went to my office, and I looked over in the conference room, and here's a man with kids and typewriters, and he's telling them about this 1939 typewriter. It's almost 100 years old, and he's naming it, and he's explaining what it does, and talking to the kids about it, and he did all this. Then I went off and did something. Elephant came by and the kids have paper in their types. So, you know, I had like 120 kids doing track and eight kids typing on the Tide finder. We have a little bit of everything for everybody. So, it's like uh next week we're going to have our quarterly assembly and I'm excited about it because it's our student celebration assembly and I've
016invited the dance team to come. They're going to perform for us. The robotics team is going to come perform for us. We had three kids um we had a bunch of kids enter a recycling like a recycle Oregon poster contest and three of our kids won and one won one like the grand prize for the county. So we're going to celebrate that and then you know other things that kids are doing around school. Um and so I would invite you to carnival tomorrow which we're going to have and to the assembly on the 18th if you'd like to come. and our carnival. The kids get to use their Viking awards as their uh money to play the games and that kind of stuff. And it's going to be upstairs, downstairs. Trying to get ready for
017tomorrow, but it didn't work out. So, we'll be inside tomorrow. Um, so yeah, middle school is a a great place to be. During the study session, I gave you a brief teaser of the class works program and it is funded out of the measure 98 high school success funds. So each year the estator school district through the high school success funds dedicates around $25,000 to keep this program alive and running. There is oftentimes on social media this misunderstanding that school districts and maybe it's true in other areas of the United States, but that school districts are deemphasizing career and technical training. So what class works is it's a summer school program that allows students the opportunity to have employment as well as an internship where they're receiving job training but also are getting paid for
018that internship. So, it is a paid internship program and this year we broke our record. We've been doing this for about six or seven years now and we had 43 students apply. Now, not that I am too competitive, but to put that into ratios, that's one out of every 13 of our students applied for a class of works internship where our neighboring school districts were one out of 23 and one out of 20. So, almost doubling those those ratios. So very proud of that and the level of engagement that we're seeing. They start their interviews this week to find out if they actually find a job placement. And while we still have an increase in our employers, that still does mean that some of our students are going to receive a phone call that says
019no, but thank you for your interest, which is also a learning experience. So I'm excited about what that entails, and I hope my daughter gets a job. Good evening. So, our March meal participation numbers are about the same as they were in February. That's pretty good. I'm finishing up the planning for the summer feeding program. Right now, I'm hoping for six sites. Um, three of those should be non- congregate. That means the kids show up, get their meals, go home, um, instead of having to stay there and eat everything. I'll know probably by the end of next week. um if the sites get approved and then we'll get it out to the community. At next month's board meeting, we're going to be bringing um our contract bids for the produce, the bread, and the dairy
020um for the board's approval. I was able to get some extra funding for fresh um fruit and vegetable program, which will help out. And then the last thing I have is the tariff letter that you all have. um this shouldn't really affect us much because I think we only order maybe one or two things that aren't um from the US or at least fresh our fresh produce is from the US and maybe like one or two things from Mexico um in those according to the letter won't be won't have the tariffs on them. Mike, I'm envisioning a um instead of a ice cream truck, like a lunch bus with music playing when you get to those non- congregate areas coming in. And I thought about that. There are actually schools that have those. I think
021it would be awesome. Just saying. The wheels on the bus. Yes. Yeah, that's a song you can play. The meal's on the bus. Sorry. Sorry. Um I just wanted to talk go back with the budget and um the ESD. One of the things that one of the benefits from district gets from the ESD among many things is um professional development. And I think last board meeting or maybe two board meetings ago, I talked about how there was a a teacher at the middle school who took some pretty intensive 10 week um professional development to um complete functional behavioral assessments and write behavior plans. And she was very happy with it and felt like she got a lot out of it. And I shared my vision of having one person trained in this and rebuilding it.
022I had three volunteers. So next year in January, we will have one person training with consistent training across the district so that our forms can be the same and the transition from one building to another will be smoother. Um I think it's going to really make a difference for So um we're heading into state testing season. So we're getting everybody trained and ready to go to get the assessments. Eva stole my other one. Um, sorry. I was just going to give a lot of kudos to our ELD teacher that wasn't going hard and the new flashlight 360 program that came with this year I think has really helped build their skills up and then I was today because I just go there really kid film and um I was just in kindergarten classrooms and I
023was watching reading groups and it's just it's so much fun. I was watching little kindergarteners reading this little book and decoding, you know, I can't remember the story, but they were decoding these sentences. They were reading and they were super excited and it was just really, really fun to see. So, transportation, um, not sure you're a lot of aware, but Youngs Bay, old Bay Bridge will be closed next week. Um, we've been working really hard on trying to make the Domino not so bad. So we have six routes that start at Aster. Out of the six routes, there's going to be two routes running approximately 10 minutes late. We have five buses or eight buses at Blues and Park. Hopefully those out of those eight routes, we'll have five running about 15 minutes late as
024long as this flow through Warrington doesn't affect us. Um four out of this we have six routes running out of the middle school. Four of them will be running about 15 minutes late. And then we have eight buses running out of the high school and four of those will be running about 90 minutes late. Out of all the schools, we have 40 Asper students switching routes, which I've been able to make contact with most of the parents. I'll try to finish that tomorrow. We have nine Louis Clark students that are affected and moved to different routes. 21 middle school students are affected and moved to different routes and 25 high school students. So, we're going to do our best to try to make sure that that we're not running more than a half hour late.
025RA has spent a lot of times. She said we but it's been contacting families personal the families were very appreciative of that and able to change some of because some of the parents didn't know because on the Lucen Clark side there's been no signage only over here but there is signage now over in Lucen Clark. So I anticipate these Lucen Clark parents are going to try to call and get kids on routes. is kind enough to inform me of that bridge closure. Is this the city or county, but state? I was gonna Is it an emergency type thing? I just I know that they did I know that they did bridge work and then probably a month ago, three weeks ago to a month ago and it stem from that. Yeah, I just think it
026could be an emergency issue if it's not planning like maybe letting them they know about buses and kids in school. Yeah, they know funnel vision. They like we're here. We're doing it. Um so our spring break maintenance was kind of overtaken by the snap middle school. um had a sort of back up on the first floor in the CT classroom and had a bunch of drywall damaged and stuff like that. So much bunch of drywall out and the drywall in but we were able to actually locate the problem. So we've got a solution moving forward to cut saw cut some concrete out that area replace the probably six foot section of only cast iron pipe that was left from the original building I think in that bottom floor with new pipe and we shouldn't have
027any more issues. But other than that, things are hold up. The weather's doing really well. And Lucen Clark from the gym has finally been replaced. That was only two hours from other to Okay. So, items 5, B, C, and D are all things that we discussed in our um in our study session. Um is there any further discussion on any of these? Yeah. Okay, so 5 is our financial report. Um, in my narrative, I talked about the fact that this time of year, we're working with three different state school fund estimates. Um, this is the time that we finally get to reconcile the, you know, so we're reconciling 23 24 state school fund plus updating the current year state school fund. And then we received our first estimate using the governor's recommended budget um for
02825 2016 school year and I gave you an example of um what this year's schedule looks like for your reading collection. Otherwise um every finance wise everything looks good. um coming in as planned and I wanted to mention that we met our finance committee met on Monday and Linda and I had that meeting and then thank you any questions item 5 is our report we've talked a lot about in Roblox. Um, which is not a bad thing, but uh just going through some of the data and looking at it um since we last met, we've had uh 16 students exit our district. Um I will tell you four of those were graduates. Okay. Nine of those were children whose families moved. They relocated to other states or other districts. Um, one was a courtesy that
029needed to be revoked. And then, um, two, we are still working on tracking down and, uh, Cleo and Randy are working at that. So we are watching closely and trying to pay attention and make sure that we can account for our kids um that they aren't just randomly dropping off and so but with that said the other thing I wanted to share with you is since we last met we've had six new courtesy enrollments um I I will work to get data on just general new enrollments new bed enrollments but Um we've had six more students enroll as courtesy students. Looking ahead to next year, we already have um five kindergarten courtesies and one I believe that have already thank you. Item six is patron comments and questions. Marissa, do we have any? We do
030not. Okay. Item seven is information. Item eight is our unfinished business. We have uh two second readings. Policy PID fixed asset inventories and policy DCDA student representative to the board. Are there any further discussion about those or do you want to add anything about any of those? I'll move to approve our unfinished business. I'll second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? That carries? Item nine is our new business. Uh A is June 30th, 2024 financial audit. So, we have our auditor on on online, Nicole Darcy. Nicole, are you there? There she is. All right. Um, hey there, Nicole Darcy. Can everyone hear me? Okay. Yes. All right. Um, I was the team lead for the fiscal year 2024 audit and I'm just going to kind of run through the highlights of that real
031quick with you guys. Um, before I get too deep into it, I just wanted to extend my thanks to Mindy for all of her help this year. Um, it was as always a pleasure having the opportunity to work with her and I really appreciate all of her assistance. Um, if I could turn your attention to the board letter, I can quickly walk through that and discuss the results of the audit. Um if I could have you turn to page two if that's being projected. Thank you. Um just to give some context uh the purpose of the audit was to appine on the fair presentation of the basic financial statements and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and auditing standards uh Oregon municipal audit law and rules and regulations related to expenditures of federal awards. um
032to discuss the results of the audit. Um item number one on there on there under results uh the district opted to take a modified opinion on the implementation of gazby statement number 96. Um many districts opt to do this as it can be intensive and costly to implement. Um but that is related to the disclosures of subscription liabilities um on the financial statements. Um, number two on there, state minimum standards, uh, referencing Oregon law. We found no exceptions or issues of note in this regard. And item number three on there, federal awards. Uh, this is ref, uh, referring to the single audit we performed, which was conducted on ESSER this year. Uh, when conducting the single audit, we found no issues of non-compliance or questioned costs. Uh, separately from the single audit, we did note
033one issue of non-compliance on the schedule of findings and question costs uh, listed on page 66 of the audit report. uh which I will discuss uh further in a moment. But if I could turn your attention now to page seven, I believe. Uh this is our list of best practice findings from the audit. Um I'll just quickly run through those. Feel free to stop me if you have any questions on any of these items. Um item number one on there, segregations of duties and management override of controls. Uh due to a limited number of available personnel, it's not always possible to adequately segregate certain incompatible duties. Uh so that no employee has access to both physical assets and the related accounting records or to all places of a transaction. Uh specifically, we noted the business
034manager has full access to the computer system, uh has the ability to create vendors, create purchase orders, approve purchase orders, and is an authorized check signer. Uh the business manager also has full access to all payroll functions. Uh we did find mitigating controls in place and that the business manager does not have access to blank check stock and that the superintendent reviews the bank statements and is notified when any changes occur to employee maintenance files. Uh consequently, the possible the possibility exists that intentional or unintentional errors or irregularities could exist and not be promptly detected. Uh and also opens up the possibility of management override controls. I would just recommend that the board continually monitor monitor the district's financial activities just to mitigate this risk. Item number two on there, governing body monitoring. An integral
035part of internal controls is a monitoring of financial activities by those charged with governance. Uh this can be accomplished by asking specifically designed questions to senior staff uh by reviewing basic financial statements and projections and by comparing uh financial results to pre-established benchmarks. Uh while the board participates in the budget adoption process and receive staff prepared financial statements, uh these only part partially fulfill the monitoring function. Uh we recommend that the board articulate this monitoring practices and record in the minutes when these activities occur. Item number three on there, fidelity insurance coverage. Reviewing fidelity insurance coverage, uh we noticed that the cash balances carried are in excess of the insurance coverage. We recommend the board examine this uh exposure risk and make a determination as to the amount of insurance coverage they feel is prudent
036in regard to their oversight. Item number four, service organization control report. Uh, the Internal Revenue Service has published a 403b regulations providing guidance on several administration compliance requirements. A third party has been contracted with to outsource compliance with these requirements. U non-compliance subjects the district to potential fine penalties and fines. The district has also contracted with a third-party for accounting and information technology services. Since these third-party providers do not provide the district with an SSA18 service provider report or internal control report covering their operations, the possibility exists that errors or irregularities could exist and not be detected. Uh we recommend that the district monitor current practices to determine compliance with accountability requirements for the section 403b plan and consider the sufficiency of the documentation received from those third parties to reduce the district's risk in
037this area. Uh the district should also be consider being named as an additional insured party on the vendor's insurance policies. Um what this finding is really pointing to is if you uh are aware of what happened with Karuth recently, this is kind of the risk that this is trying to mitigate essentially. Um and that last item on there, number five, stale dated checks. During our testing of bank reconciliations, we noted numerous unclearared checks were still included in the bank reconciliations. Although immaterial in total, we recommend that all stale dated checks be cleared in a timely manner or turned over to the state as unclaimed property in compliance with Oregon unclaimed property law. Um, any questions on those best practice items? If there's no question Oh, sorry. You said on number four after reading through you
038said if you're familiar with something didn't catch it. Oh, um is the um Kuth um Kuth Consulting recently had a security breach that affected a lot of school districts. Um what we're kind of pointing to here is that the district doesn't really have inability to be authoritative on third-party um security essentially or internal control practices. So there is a risk in uh handing over secure data to third parties and not being able to govern how it is being managed. Um, so if for example a security breach were to happen and a lot of people's personal information got leaked, there's not really a way for the district to uh have assurance over uh what would happen in that instance or how that instance would be prevented if that makes sense. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions
039on those best practices? If not, I will move on to page number 66 of the audit report. All right. Um, what did you say? Page 66 of that report. It's But it's right after Yeah, right there. Thank you. All right. Um just to quickly uh run through the schedule of findings and questions costs from the single audit letter. Um during the course of the audit, we only found one item we considered to be a significant deficiency. Uh during the course of the audit, we discovered that it was necessary to document a prior period adjustment related to the lesser agreement held by the district. Uh other lesser agreement was initiated during fiscal year 2024. A large prepayment occurred during fiscal year 2023 that was not previously accounted for. Um this was a fairly unique situation. Uh
040and Gazby 87 is already a very technical and difficult to grapple with uh even under normal circumstances. Um so we don't anticipate this being a recurring issue, but we did just have to document that prior period adjustment to account for the prepayment. Uh so we recommend that the district regular regularly reviews the records for any lease agreements which may be applicable under Gatsby 87 and that those agreements are documented on the district's trial balance accordingly. Any questions on that item? All right. Well, that's all I've got you for you guys unless you have anything for me. We're okay. Thank you. Thank you guys so much. Thank you, Nicole. Bye. Item 9B is uh National Teacher Appreciation. We have to do an Oh, sorry. That's an action. I'll move to approve June 30th, 2020 for financial
041audit. I'll second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? That carries on 90 teacher appreciation week. And uh Grace, you have the I do Janette. Thank you. All right. I will read this. So the teacher appreciation week resolution. Whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education. And whereas teachers encounter students of wildly differing backgrounds. And whereas our country's future depends upon providing quality education to all students. And whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons, evaluating progress, counseling, and coaching students, and performing community service. And whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Atoria School District Board of Directors proclaims May 5th through 9th, 2025 to be teacher appreciation week. And be it further resolved, the Atorians district board of directors
042strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work. So I will move to approve the National Teacher Appreciation Week May 5th through 9th 2025 for resolution 2024 2025008. I will second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I thank you. Um 9C is our national school nurses day and Marissa has that. Okay. Whereas children are the future and by investing in them today, we're ensuring a world for tomorrow. And whereas all students have the right to have their health need while in the school setting. Where else children today face more complex and life-threatening health problems requiring care in school. And whereas school nurses have served a critical role in improving public health and ensuring students academic success for
043more than a hundred years. And whereas school nurses are professional nurses that advance the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievements of students by serving on the front lines and providing critical safety net for our nation's most fragile children. And whereas school nurses actively laid on to the school community, parents and health care providers on behalf of children's health by promoting wellness and improving health outcomes for our community children. And whereas school nurses are members of school-based mental health teams. And whereas school nurses understand the link between health and learning are and are in a position to make positive difference for children every day. Now there he be resolved the ESO school district board of directors celebrates and acknowledges the accomplishments of nur school nurses everywhere and their effort of meeting their needs in today's students
044by improving by improving the delivery of health care in our schools and offer gratitude to school nurses who contribute to our community by helping students stay healthy in school and ready to learn and keeping parents and guardians at work not just as national school nurses day but every opportunity throughout the year. He for their result. The Atoria school board of directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join with the personally expressing appreciation to a school nurses for their dedication and devotion to their work. And then action item. I move to approve the National School Nurses Day May 7, 2025 resolution 2024 2025009. I'll second. Any further discussion? All those in favor as well. Item 10 is comments for the good of the organ. Well, I I'm inv um thank you to everybody and
045across the district. The district staff has been just amazing with their support. you guys the buildings, but now I'm kind of like in my errands. So, I have some fun things and some thank yous. So, I have truly enjoyed visiting the buildings like when Kate was talking today about seeing those little people safe with energy. It is great. It is truly great. I love to go over there and like go to the kindergarten classroom and and and the teachers have been very welcoming, but it's it's it's a little bit of therapy in the middle of the day, right? Um and then the other thing that uh is just handled so gracefully and that you know in the building I might not be aware is the number of community partners and the things that go on
046that we might not see daytoday in like my previous my typical position but I have grown like an appreciation and respect for how our district interacts with our community. So that's been a real rewarding experience for me. And then lastly, today I got an email from Mr. Jackson. My favorite activity of the year. Grad Walk is scheduled. That's how close we are. That's what I got for you guys. Yeah. Just I just said on Monday, I go, "Oh my god, we're two months out." And the girls both went, "Do you feel a little panicky?" That's eight weeks. It's not even eight weeks. I mean that Sam's gonna get stuff done before that. That's just eight weeks that we're Yeah. like I I always look so forward to that event. It is so powerful and awesome
047and and when that popped up in my email today with the schedule and yeah, Mindy, the only thing I have is I just wanted to remind you all there about the the statement of economic interest that you have to file by April 15th. I can't tell if you've done it or not, but it's on the government ethics website. I mean, I think it doesn't come directly to my email like from I can't get into my school email. Oh, you done it for me before. I made some. We'll get that. Yeah. So then Yeah, because you whenever the 15th fit is next week. Next week it's probably in there. Okay, that's all I got. Bring in all the sunshine. I know. So, so I'll kick it off by thanking Mindy for keeping us on track and
048online and reminding us to do these important pieces of this job that sometimes we we see something else, but it's that ethics stuff. It's just like, my gosh, another email. But so, thank you for that. Um, and thank you um to everyone. Great great stories tonight uh being shared and Isabella's report. I just I love hearing the awesome things going on. Uh thank you to Hampton and Nygard logging for what they do in the community. They they help a lot in it's that community partnership that it's multiaceted and multi-layer. So we appreciate that. Um, thank you to um because I should put my glasses on Tuesday night, right? Oh, um, just the just the the great artwork in here. I wasn't here last month due to not feeling well and just I walked in, I'm
049going, my god, it's like a gallery. I'm just I'm very impressed. And to find out it was the middle schoolers. I mean, I'm impressed anyway with the high school. I just I I kind of missed that part of when I was working at OSU for 4 and taking stuff to the state um fair and I would unload the van and people would just be in awe as they're bringing it out and going my god your kids are talented and we've always had a really really good I think program here and I always say it's because of the weather they stay inside they draw on stuff but um it's there's a lot of um pieces here with these I look at it going there's everything represented here and I just love it. So, thank you for
050that. And then I had the opportunity um to testify at the Ways and Means um legislator road show, whatever they wanted to call it, but um it was kind of um yeah, that was kind of a I wasn't sure if I was going to and then I felt like I was going to choke up like, okay, I can get through this. And then they bounced me a couple times because they had to bring in an interpreter and then they were like tell tell me to go and not I'm like I was told to wait and just I had to kind of back up and it just every time I started to speak it was like had to stop. So got it out. I didn't cry and um I hope I got my point across because
051I I like I told Mr. Hoppus I wasn't going to share the the data and the stats and all the stuff that was being shared. I was proud of the fact that I think that really Atoria was only the only school district represented. No other school districts were there which kind of frustrated me. But um there was 130 people signed up to testify and I think they only got through about a third of that. So, the fact that I was called was like I was like right before the end and but I just shared a personal story and I um it was one that I hope they heard. Not that it's going to change the outcome, but at least I can say I tried. So, um I love the district and I hope that I
052think out of all of it there was a little bump in um what they did say in the finance piece for the special needs end of things, but it's still not enough. But we'll take it. So, that's it for me. Um I thought the logs at Loose and Clark are really awesome and the idea of zip lines and stuff. I I love it. Like just kids kind of being able to test their boundaries, get out of the bubble a little bit. It's a good thing. Um and excited for the dance team and their um their achievement there. They're pretty excited about that. I also thanks to all of your efforts and everyone else's internet and everyone for um advocating for the schools and school funding and um everybody who came together to write postcards and
053letters and speak and and organize all the things. So appreciate that. Um, I got to uh chaperon, go as a chaperon to the state FFA convention. That was fun. Um, and one of the students, Sam Moss, he uh applied to be a state officer. And I didn't realize what all they have to go through. Like they have the whole convention. He was doing stuff with it. They had like basic interviews, but then they also had to do behavioral interviews and they had to they had to come up with like activities on the spirit of the moment and um implement them and show how they could do it. They had to do like extended reading and speaking. So they had to be knowledgeable and were given questions out of the blue about legislative topics or whatever
054and they had to give a speech on it. And then anyway, there was I think nearly 50 kids um competing for it and he made all of the um whatever cuts um and he made it to the top 10 and they chose six. So he was right there and they gave their speech on stage and he just he represented Aster School District very well. Okay. And there was um also a lot of other awards given to Atoria kids. And so it just there's shoot probably get the number wrong 2000 something kids there. So it's like there's a lot of kids and a story of center a lot of times. So that was neat to see. um state OSET is coming up and um I don't it's my child. She's been working hard and has qualified
055for state in jumping. So horse jumping. So she has to jump at six inches and um do a pattern. And so she has um placed high enough at the meats to go to the state position. um next month. So, they have their last meet um this weekend and but she's placed high enough and the other two that she's like on a 90 club, right? And um then a team events called versatility. And there's um other kids from Warrington and Seaside and Duel on um that team with her that's going to state and she's on the bubble for like two others bending and figure eight. Anyway, um but she's the only team comprises. So anyway, just share that and go and getting ready for class at works um at work and hiring students. Thanks for the
056reminder. Yeah, that's it. Um I will echo what you had said about the thanks to my garden for the donations or um an asset for moving heart awesome for their kids. Um thank you to our teachers and our nurses and thank you to Janette for representing us well. I know my husband was there and he said you did a very good job. So thank you. Appreciate it. Um, yeah. Thanks. You know, we all the good stuff, but I did get to go to the national school board uh conference in Atlanta. I won a scholarship. I didn't tell you guys that I applied in November through the color caucus. Um, so I won that and I think there was only two of us in the state of Oregon that won the scholarship that are part of
057the color caucus that got it. So, I went to Atlanta for 4 days a very uh motivational and inspiring and it just kind of reminded me why I'm here today. Um so, that's always good. There's a lot coming. But, um overall, it's nice to see how other schools were, people from like Canada, um all over the state. Uh it was it was great to see where other schools are at. Um where we at, you know, funding and stuff like that was a big conversation piece. Um, I wish there was like answers to everything like this is what we're going to do. Um, but unfortunately there isn't. But it was a great experience. I enjoyed it. I wish that all of you would have been there with me. Especially Atlanta. That's a fun city. Yeah. Yeah.
058Go back. But it was a great experience and I really happy that I got to be there. And uh you guys remember Sammy who was the president and it was there and he was great. It was his birthday and so anyways there was very good motivational speakers you know with like disabilities uh that played at the end that talked at the end and just how inspiring like there was like a gold medal Olympus you know anyways it was just very what my phone was inspiring. I enjoyed every part of it. And so yeah, um that's pretty much it for me. I guess and I have nothing more to add. You all said it all. With that, our future meetings, Wednesday, May 14th at 5:45 was our next study session meeting here in the boardroom. And
059uh on 14th at 7 is our regular board meeting here in the boardroom. And um the Atoria school board of directors will now meet in executive session under the authority of OS 192.6602D to conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to carry on labor negotiations. Representatives of the news media and designated staff shall be allowed to attend the executive executive session. All other members of the audience are asked to leave the room. Representatives of the news media are specifically directed not to report on or otherwise disclose any of the deliberations or anything said about the subject during the executive session except to state the general subject of the session as previously announced. No decision may be made in executive session. At the end of the executive session, we will return to open session
060and welcome the audience back into the room. Oh, so we will now go back into open session. It is 8:19 and I will take a motion to adjurnn. I'll move to adjourn. I'll second. All those in favor. Thank you. Okay, that's