001Okay, I want to call the meeting to order. First thing on our agenda is the pledge of allegiance. 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. >> Okay. Um unfort Well, let's Okay. Uh do I have a motion to approve today's agenda? >> I'll second. >> Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any objection? Hearing none, the agenda is approved. And unfortunately that means that we're dismissing to executive session and we're going to have to ask all of you in the audience to um journey out into our hallway. Um I don't anticipate that this is going to last very long. Probably 10 15 minutes at most. >> I can happily do so. But
002first I have one question. What topics are being discussed that the public cannot be trusted to hear? Uh, this has to do with public employment. >> Public employment. Can you please elaborate a little bit? >> Yes, it's the employment of one of our staff members. >> Understand? Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. We're dismissing to executive session based on OS 192 6.660 660 subsection 2 subsection A to consider the employment of a public officer, employee, staff member, or individual agent. >> We'll have to wait for David to return. I think we should go to the cafeteria. >> He puts the shirt out and us and >> I don't think Rebecca joins >> it's not but I'll have to move Kim to Recca. Was there another link that I was supposed to go to for
003this part? >> No, you just stay right there, Kim. We're moving. >> Okay. Okay. Hey, can people online hear me? >> There you can. >> Okay, here's my question. I want to know if anyone else is having trouble hearing the board members in the back of the room or if it's just my speakers and computer. It's hard to hear. So, when we go back on, you just kind of I don't know. There's no >> I'm also having problems hearing too. >> Okay. Thank you. I'm like maybe I just need hearing aids. But, um I was like if this is like this every time. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I'm having trouble too. >> Okay. Yay. I'm hoping it wasn't just me. I told David and he's like, I haven't got this, you know, anybody saying
004this before. So, I was like, well, I'm glad to know it's not just me. >> I thought we're back from from the nonpublic session. Uh, next is the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? >> I'll motion to consent for the consent agenda. >> Thanks, Kim. Do I have a second? Oh, second. >> Thank you, Mie. It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Is there any objection hearing? None. The consent agenda is approved. Okay, we are on to Oh, no. >> No, >> sorry. Um, okay. Out of state travel. Would you like me to stand? >> And talk loud because they can't. >> I see. Hello. Um, I'm Daria Coffeeoffe with the Marshfield High School's Black Student Union. Um, I'd first like to thank you for having
005me here. It means a lot. Um, secondly, we're asking for permission to go outside of Morgan to go to the Washington DC Smithsonian National Black History Month, which it'll last about four days, and we're here to go because not only learning about black history, it shows us what happened in the past, how does it affect us in the present times, and how can it impact our future? And so she's our advisor for Black Student Union, Miss Hardy. And I'm the chair for our union. So, um, would anybody in the board like me to elaborate on any questions or >> Yeah. How many kids would be going? >> Um, so from our school, we have 11 students going. We have most of our leadership going and then we have two students from Brookings and then four
006chapters. And have you fundraised for this or >> Oh, no. So, this is sponsored by the South Coast Health Equity Coalition, which I mean, it talks about like self- advocacy, diversity, and how to have hard conversations and just not advocating for yourself, but people around you. And it focuses on equity, diversity, inclusion, and having a brave space where you can feel safe. >> Does anybody else have any questions? Sounds very exciting. When When >> would you go? Yeah. >> Oh, this is the 21st through the 24th, which is right when spring break. Right when spring starts. >> I'm very excited as well. >> Are you going? >> Yes. I've never been to Washington DC, but this is definitely first. >> Oh, it's so exciting. >> Kim, did you want to say something? >> Yeah, I
007just said it's a couple of weeks, and that is very exciting. I'm I think that you'll learn a ton and get to experience so much there and good luck and have fun and be safe. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um another thing I'd like to add is we're not only visiting the Smithsonian um history museum. We're also visiting two museums to be exact. The Natural History Museum and the Black History Museum. And then the last the second to last day we're going to be visiting the National Mall which is like the monument the White House. It's just it's and I'm very excited as well as the other people going. >> It's a really amazing place and it the nicest part about it is pretty much everything's free. >> Exactly. >> When you're there, you
008know, they've made everything for you. All the museums and you know, so you can see history for nothing and learn about your past. >> Exactly. >> Okay. So, we have do I we have to approve the out ofstate travel request? Do I have a motion? >> I'd make a motion that we approve the out ofstate travel request for the NHS Black Student Union and their trip in March. >> Second that. >> Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? >> Kevin, >> I >> Diane. I >> Kim >> I >> and chair votes I. So we look forward to hearing when you get back about your trip. Please >> I was there last year. If you have any restaurant need restaurant advice, just >> shoot me an email and I'll send some things
009your way. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay, Warren, this is your part of the meeting. Y I'll be going over five topics. Uh if I speak too fast or if uh I'm going on tangent, just cut me off if you have any questions or any concerns. First, we would like to inform you of our new play Alice, which is recently casted roles and will likely debut in mid April. We also have our charity charity pageant fundraiser on February 7th. Next, basketball went to Lrand, Oregon, who played in class 4A state playoffs on Friday, March 6th at 5:00 p.m. Over the last week, on I believe Thursday, juniors and AVID students were given a college experience taking place at the school. Finally, we have upcoming spring sports along with the
010ASVAB to be expected soon. Any questions? >> Thank you, Warren. Okay, it's time for public input. Did we have anybody sign up today? >> Did anyone in the audience sign up to speak publicly today? >> No. Okay. >> Perfect. We'll move on to Mr. Crook and CBEA business. How's it going? Get that up for you in just one moment. >> Good deal. All right. So, we got uh two staff members to highlight today. Uh we'll go ahead and first one, Mr. Akre. Uh so, he is our choir teacher at Marshfield. It's been there for four years. Um now, this is another one that's kind of part of that survey that they do at Marshfield for the students. And then they basically uh in the survey they kind of talked about what they like about this
011teacher. And so what's this what the students have to say about Mr. Akre is he is caring, welcoming and highly effective teacher who makes choir and school in general a more positive place. They praise his ability to create a safe, inclusive classroom where every student feels accepted, supported, and encouraged to be their best. Uh Mr. Baker is noted for balancing high expectations with humor and kindness, keeping students on task while making learning fun and approachable. His passion for music, strong communication, and genuine belief in his students has a lasting impact, motivating them to grow both musically and personally, and makes many students love choir because of it. Uh what he loves about working at MHS is he said, "I get to make music with students every single day." She does a great job. And then
012our next one, good old destinations or sorry, Milner Crest. Uh, so this is nurse Molly. Um, she works at Miller Crest Alternative Learning Center. And nurse Molly attends to preschoolers with severe diabetes while also helping with many little injuries and has been vital during these germy times. Miler Grass is so grateful to have her kindness and expertise on site, which I believe this is the first year they've had a nurse on site and it's been great. I'm hearing great things from them and she's having a great time with the kids. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. I've also heard wonderful things about nurse Molly. >> Yay. >> Perfect. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Crook. >> Okay, Morina. >> Hello. Um, I will just go down the list. David, are you going
013to pull them all up one time? Okay, I'll slow. >> So, first is the checklisting for February. There were no significant or abnormal expenditures during the month. >> It is the beginning of a semester, so there's typically some larger supply purchases to start off a semester, but there was nothing out of the unexpected. Does anyone have any questions on the provided checklist? on the one's for the tattooing. Can you explain that? >> Yeah, it's a MHS scholarship committee uh tuition to a tattoo school. >> Just check it. >> I saw it too. Captain Jack school. >> It was an approved MH scholarship committee. >> Any others? >> You're asking for Dr. Lowski. You would have caught that for sure. Yeah, >> it was the one that I was like, >> "Let me pull that." And
014so I pulled it this morning when I was I want to make sure I know what that is. >> Someone's going to ask. >> That would have been a really big tattoo. >> Yeah. Um Okay. Next, we have Sorry, my agenda doesn't work great on my computer, so I have to go back. Next, I have February financials. So, I again apologize for getting them to you guys today. With the night being the board meeting, it's really hard to get the bank statements back, get it fully reconciled and then get it into our system to do any projections. Uh the general fund is looking great. We have officially solidified our ending fund balances uh from last year. So, our beginning fund balances for this year. Note that we are projecting uh to end the year with
015the state school fund formula, the bolded line um at $595,000 above what was budgeted. That is due to the state school fund estimate that changes so significantly um during the year. So essentially we have the same pizza, the same amount of revenue, but based on other districts, all 197 who are enrolled in the state school fund depending on their enrollment and what their actuals were that then gets redivided and spread out all during the year. So I actually bought another um on Friday. So we are expecting an additional $100,000. That is not in here. Um but you'll you'll continue to see that increase uh because we estimate um a reasonable amount when we do do the budget and then it just keeps increasing typically. Other than that, you'll see that immediate intermediate sources are projected
016to be 388,000 below what was budgeted. That was because we had anticipated that we would have some flex dollars with the ESD because um once we have we stopped using them for the adaptive life skills program, we weren't sure to be able to use all of them emergency $2. So we had put it in the budget assuming if we needed to happen that we don't need to we haven't needed to. Um so we we're not receiving that revenue as anticipated. Uh other than that there's no significant uh expenses. Everything's right on track. I'm reviewing appropriations monthly. If I see that we are going to go over an appropriation, I'll bring it to you guys an appropriation transfer. But at this time, it is not looking necessary in the general fund. In the special revenue fund,
017all is looking great. We have just submitted our February grant claims. So, we are monthly tracking now that I present that special revenue report to you guys. We're tracking the grants monthly as well as quarterly. So, we're well within our allocations for all of those and getting them spent down for the end of the bienium. Uh debt service fund, we don't have another debt service until May, which will be our final PERS bond UAL payment. We're really excited about that. >> And then lastly is the capital projects fund. Um things are looking great. As far as I know, we're on track for all of our capital projects that are in place. The Milner Ed Miller Crest Learning Center, education center, um they got the gym painted over Christmas break. They had some flooring and lighting
018replaced where we're doing that also at sunset. I don't know if you've been there lately, but we're doing the hall lights um with some capital projects funds and we're going to keep working on that over spring break. It looks wonderful and we're projecting to end the year at a balance of 1.3 million. If everything comes out according to budget and that we do every single project we anticipate, we typically do not, but we will have an income balance. Pretty significant. Uh does anyone have any questions on the financials? Okay. All righty then. I will move on to the special revenue fund. Sorry, I cannot come up with a better way for it to be easy to read and have all of the data included. Um, but I just wanted to note that you you'll see
019many of our funds with the negative fund balance in purple. That's because the majority of our grants are reimbursement. So, we send down all of our grant allocation and then monthly or quarterly I go in and then clean that down from our grant claiming system. We have been doing it more frequently this year with all of the federal government causes. Um there were some concerns that they would not be paying out grant claims timely or they would not have the funding for those grant claims and so the OD and Albo have suggested that we do more frequent claims this year and so we are doing that now monthly. Uh other than that uh things are looking well in our special revenue fund. There's nothing significant. We don't have any new significant grants in the last
020two months. Does anyone have any on this report? >> Sure. >> Is there a um I guess I'm looking for the percentage of the overall budget that these funds make up. >> The percentage of these funds would make up in the overall budget. >> Yeah. The funds. >> Okay. I can get that for you for next month. It's not included in here because we grant we budget by measure fund and it was all just grouped just to one special that we find but I can get that for you. >> Well, that's okay. Does it say on the other one? Maybe it says on the other one and I wasn't looking closely enough. >> It probably will not. It's about I can do a rough map. Hold on. About 25%. >> Oh, thank you. >> You're
021welcome. >> Thanks so much. >> Yeah, the majority of our entire budget is a general fund, >> right? >> Yeah. Right. >> Good question. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. And then back to the agenda. I think I enrollment left. Enrollment looks good. It's stayed really consistent. Again, it's really hard this year because we have so quickly expanded our alts ed and online programs without a really great way of tracking that on my end. However, Brenda Gber, who thankfully last month uh chimed in and gave us the online numbers, I was able to reach out to her and get that for you guys for tonight. So, as of March 2nd, uh, Brenda had 227 online students. 93 of them were hybrid 9th through 12th grade. 68 were full-time online. We had eight 6 through
0228 hybrid, 32 6th through 8th grade full-time students, and then eight students K5 hybrid with 18 K5 fulltime. So, we have really really expanded that program. You'll see online um I thought last month there was a really significant increase. We went from 164 in January to 208 students in February and then now we're at 244 students. So, um, throughout this year, we're going to work on building a a quicker way to calculate what percentage of FTE these hybrid students are so that we can take that percentage of FTE out of their building to have a really good idea FTE or ADM on site in the building versus the hybrid. So, I'll work on building that with um Dr. Crook and >> does that mean that this chart will change and your asterisk? Nope. Go away.
023Okay. H that's when the intention is just really really tricky and right when we realized that discrepancy was the beginning of second semester and then it was even harder to figure out who was in what classes. So now that things are a little more solidified I'm excited. >> Oh and Brenda you have your hand raised? >> Yes I do. Just giving you a heads up that those numbers have just gone up after today. >> Wonderful. Thank you. >> Yep. I've been spending a lot of time recruiting essentially when when either introductory transfer forms come across my desk or I've been calling our students that have left us in the past and talking to them about our program and things of that nature in an effort to get them back and I've been pretty successful with
024many some u we we have some some uh there's some programs around the state that offer cash back to families >> that are enrolled in them and so those families have said no thank you. Um but uh many of the families have uh either decided not to leave us and stay with us or are coming back to us and jumping into our online program. So >> that's great and I'm going to keep doing that and >> it's been so great this week we tried to have a conversation of considering next year is that position in additional online teaching because I think what was it like 12 students um they said they gained a week. >> Yeah. and and and essentially every 12 students that are enrolled in our online program from our that's an FTE
025that we we've saved. So if you looked at what we have currently enrolled in our online program, they're saving I think the estimate is about 15 FTE in the district >> that are involved in the junior high school elementary program. >> And I'm assuming there's no case load for instruction. >> There is, but there is. And we're um we >> elementary high school. Yeah, we have an elementary recommended class cap for online and then we have a secondary and we are uh we're getting there in the secondary. The elementary, we're actually a couple over, but we're working with that teacher on some flexibility and she's really great and uh but we I'm hopeful that in contacting families that have left us that I can get enough back to facilitate the hiring of a second person
026over the summer. Um but that we're still 15 families away from facilitating it. >> Gotcha. Thank you. >> Wonderful. kind of one of those things that we knew was being needed and we had no idea how much and now we're trying to figure out the systems that go along with that. Dr. Cook's been doing a wonderful job that lastly I am presenting to you guys um something that you will have an action item on later. It is the contract extension for first student. Um, uh, Gary, superintendent Roberts and I have spent a lot of time working with your student and is it the district manager, area general manager, his name is Andrew Good. >> Um, really working on to what extent does our fleet need to be replaced while making a contract that we can
027afford for renewal. uh we hadn't met I want to say the beginning of February and there was another presenter that was putting on board. Um we asked them to go back and really look at what we can do to make it reasonable for us. We have a great working relationship. We really appreciate and enjoy the relationship that we have with them. Um so we were able to meet was it Thursday? >> Yep. Thursday, Andrea was able to come into town and we met and um they have presented a contract extension a 30% increase in year one and a 12 and a half% increase in year two and then 10 >> 30 it's very standard. Um our our liability insurance last year went up 22% on the standard year. Um, it's been the same contract since
028before COVID, since before routes have changed, policies and procedures have changed. We've had a 3% increase over the last two years. We anticipated a pretty significant increase because we've also pushed our fleet replacement back. Um, the last contract extension, we pushed it and so now we're at the place where it's pushed. We need to replace our fleet I think about 12 to 15 years old. That right? Yep. I'm getting I'm getting the nod from Becky. Um, and so that's a really big priority for us. Uh, 30 is what we had anticipated and built into our proposed budget. Um, and so I'm presenting this contract extension to you guys for >> Perfect. And that's later on. >> Yeah, it's later on. Does anyone have any questions that I or Becky or Andrew can answer? >> Is
029the rent for the property separate from this or is that another situation? This is the bus contract. I don't know >> it's typically separate. We don't like to have involved in contracts. So it is separate >> but they in full transparency they do at least our bus for their storage. >> I really appreciate the breakdown of costs here. I really appreciate being that they would the transparency around all the breakdowns and um and the the other piece that they've sent with the history and all that. It's really really great and useful to read. >> Yeah, it is really useful. >> Really enjoyed working with Andrew and Becky on the process. >> Yeah, thank you. And thank you all so much for time for doing that. I understand >> exciting. >> Oh, I think it's great.
030My very best friend is a bus driver >> and and Andrew had planned on bringing hard a hard copy binder of this with him and forgot it when he left the house in California. He put it in the mail. So if you want to see it in a binder, he's sending us a couple which >> I would take when it's a really really big deal. >> Yeah. And and we are really really thankful. This is one of those things that once it's out of your district, you can't afford to ever bring in. Um it's a 30 while it's a large sticker price is um reasonable and justifiable. >> Thank you. >> And it's year end. >> What's that? >> It's doable year end. >> It was what we had anticipated when building our proposed budget.
031>> Perfect. >> Yeah. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Okay. That brings us to >> I think we're at the superintendent. We are. >> Yeah. Let's try this tonight, David. Let's see how we do. >> Shouldn't have said anything. >> Talk loud. >> Oh, you want to be proper be talking loud. Um, all right. So, originally last month, um, in the previous couple months, Kayla, Dr. Crook and I were prepared to present tonight our all dead uh plan and priorities um with some of the staffing and budgetary things that we have going on obviously you're aware of but I'll talk also a little bit about mayor in a while um and also looking at a couple things um that are coming on the horizon at ESD we've asked to we're going to push that
032back one month we have a more of an understanding ESD is working on some things that will have an effect on us in terms of with the our local service plan um that may affect some of our alternative ed uh planning and priorities. So, plan on next month. We're going to have a nice comprehensive uh uh presentation for you. Uh but for tonight, just a reminder of our superintendent goals. Um tonight, what I'm going to be presenting to start with uh is going to fit right into goal four, which is administering at least two community surveys uh at least two community and student surveys focusing on school climate and student voice. Tonight, we're going to go over uh our student success committee um survey. This survey went out uh to all of our 3rd through
03312th grade students with their home rooms and their advisory. Uh we had 991 students complete um the survey. Um that would end up being around out of about um let's see out of about 2400 we have about 900 almost thousand students complete the survey. Um the areas of the survey uh the first topic included school safety, respect, and belonging. I'm I'm proud to report that of the students that took the survey, a majority of the students feel safe and supported at school. Um uh 86.5% of the students uh are feeling safe at school. 35.1% strongly agree that they feel safe at school and 51.4% by Warren somewhat agree. Uh 90.1% of students feel respected by their teachers and school staff. Uh 85.6% of the respondents feel they have at least one person at school that
034they can talk to. And I think that's so important for our kids to feel like they have a trusted person at school that they can communicate. Um 73.9% of our students feel that they belong at their school. Uh and 64% feel respected by other students. Do do we have a way of knowing of identifying the kids that answered one way or >> I mean because the kids that say no I don't have a support system and stuff. >> Um we did did we make them put email in the survey. So we have the email addresses of the students that now that this meeting you can track them down but we have the email addresses of the students that have answered the survey. Uh that was a way that we can make sure that it wasn't
035done more than one time. It's mainly for that kind of attracting. We did the same thing with that community survey about the start and stop time on the school calendar was so we make sure somebody didn't go in over and over again and just happy click on one calendar. >> Um so we can we can find a way to identify some of the students >> because some of those things you're going to want to respond to I would say. >> Sure. Absolutely. And I think you know we go back now with our administrators and we take a look at the the grows and that come out of the survey positives. >> So this is not the survey that was sent out at the beginning of the year. This was this was a different survey put
036together by the student success committee which is led by David has uh members of the community has student representatives and staff representatives and one budget committee representative >> and are you going to run this a second time or is this just one time a year? >> This will be done multiple times throughout the year but it will probably be done this will be the one time for this year and we'll turn around and go again in the fall and then spring and then fall and spring and maybe more twice a year. >> Okay. But the one that we did at the beginning of the year you're going to run again or no? I don't think so. I think this is where we're going to go with that moving forward. The one that I put together
037was before we we put the student success committee together. Okay. And this was one of their um this is one of their plans and priorities >> was uh getting student voice. >> And I'm sorry this is a these are beautiful slides. They really are lovely. Whoever is somebody's getting really good at all this stuff. But I have to go back to this this picture of the anchor. It says data from 991 students grades three 3 through 12. And then it says community 9991. What does that mean? >> I see. Oh, community is the 991 students that took the survey. >> So that's the same as data. The data came from 991. That's correct. >> Yes. Okay. >> It's the same >> simple graph is >> sure. >> Um, great. >> Second focus of it was
038academic readiness and practical life skills. uh 75% of our students feel like uh that they 75% feel prepared that school is preparing them for a life after graduation and 25% want more and I think Addie that's where it comes into like who are those 25% and what more can we do to support them in filling that they're >> they come out of school with one of our three needs enrolled enlisted or employed >> and yet it's also so important that it's anonymous >> the anonymous yeah that's what >> it's that fine line that fine can't can't use it to >> Yeah. >> of the the areas that they felt that um they wanted more uh included some financial literacy. So things like filing taxes, budgeting, understanding mortgages, and paying bills. Um all good life skills
039to know. Uh and skills, you know, people voice that we don't have, you know, we have manufacturing, we have uh our our cabinetry class, but we don't have automotive anymore and automotive maintenance program. were working on some stuff with squawk obviously with the diesel mechanic program uh but students were feeling and then uh many of them also associated with like home economics and we talked a little bit about culinary arts but I will say we are running into some issues with culinary arts in terms of we have so much demand for culinary arts compared to the slots and the kitchen space that we have um I believe in our forecasting we had 174 kids that requested culinary arts Um, that's more kids than Oh, wait. I think we had 100 kids, more than what we
040can accept into the culinary arts classes. Um, which shows the demand we have for the program. And what a great job Chef Scotty's doing with the program. Uh, but, uh, leaves that we we need to find a way to either provide more opportunities through additional staffing, but then the problem is we don't have another kitchen space. We don't have another culinary arts space. So, um, it's hoped that maybe in time a program like SWAT who's looking at maybe doing a CTE center could help with either overflow of programs or we shift some programs. Um, we've talked with SWAK about some CTE classes that are in demand like cosmetology that we would love to see a program. We may not have enough students at C in Kouspay schools to facilitate a program, but between us, Northbend
041and Koko, Myrtle Point and Bandon, we might have enough students to facilitate a program on their campus site. So those are some things. Um we've had some initial meetings with Squawk as area superintendent. Uh and so I think more is going to come in the next few years on on potential regional CTE center uh partnership with the college which would be fantastic. >> Was there a count of some of these things that are in the boxes? Financial literacy, financial skills, career readiness. Did you I mean >> those were those are things that and David you can speak to that as the >> Do you happen to know 20 said filing taxes, one said budgeting? I don't I don't have that data here, but I can collect that data easily from >> that's I'm I'm interested
042in that kind of thing. And also where it says a 100 unique skills requested, I would love to see what some of those are. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Um >> yeah, I can put that together. >> A lot of a lot of students in the open-ended responses. >> And uh part of this also is uh our student success committee will meet on Thursday to analyze these. This was just a preliminary an analysis, kind of a broad overview of what we received, but we're going to dive deeper into the weeds to try to identify trends and see where we may be lacking. So, that would be a great opportunity for us to collect some of that data for you >> and feel free to say this is a broad overview that I did not know. So,
043I'm asking you all these drill down questions. Okay. >> The uh the last piece that they talked about when it came to career readiness is things like resume writing, professional etiquette, FASA scholarships. Those are things that we can now look at in terms of what we're doing in our advisory classes at the school. We also have some um uh some, you know, additional requirements coming from the state when it comes to like um the personal finance piece that's coming in that Chad's going to talk about tonight uh a little bit later. But eventually when we get to 2027 28, the personal finance uh credit is going to be involved with high school graduation. Uh and so um those are also some areas that can help with some of that financial literacy that students are talking
044about that they need. So we have some pieces coming down the line that are going to help support some of these some of these boxes and questions. Um I wish Dr. Rowski was here tonight because I know how passionate is he is about cell phone. >> Um the impact on focus only 29% of students feel more focused in class since current restrictions were implemented. Now, I have I'm a father of two daughters that are 15 and 13 now. And whether it was impactful for them in class or not, they would argue that it's not impactful of them having their cell phone and that it doesn't help their focus because they're 15 and 13 and they love their phones. So, I think that we um appreciate the data on that. I also have to wonder with
045some students if they they've lived in a cell age that do they know what focus was like without them because I know my 15-year-old might not >> being just honest and transparent. >> uh I'm 18. I uh I was born in a very convenient time. Uh I was there just long enough to see the world before the cell phones took over and I've been here long enough to see the cell phones after they've taken over and I can confidently say that focus is less. I struggle to focus more because of applications on my phone, especially when you start getting into something called short form content. >> Thank you. Appreciate that. >> Yep. >> Um, in terms of safety and anxiety when it comes to parent communication, 74% of students feel anxious or less safe because
046they not cannot easily contact a parent or guardian during the school day. Um, the emergency connection, a top concern is inability to contact family during a lockdown or natural disaster amongst the students. Um, a key concern is the lack of trust in school to store expenses. This if we came up with some sort of way of storing them for them. They don't feel very trustworthy including they do not they have very high opposition to office managed storage of their cell phones. I think the office managed people would probably have opposition in storing their cell phones all day as well. But uh so cell phones continue to be something that I think you know over time it'll be interesting to see when the data comes in two or three years down the road and some of
047these things that have been implemented become more on the norm in the regular. >> Yeah. But we all know it's hard to self >> oh >> judge how how focused we are or >> I'm curious to see the questions and then the numbers of responses on some of these. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um and uh lastly we have technology and equity. a majority of students feel equitable opportunities are available at school uh while technology usage and specific um community concerns are highlighted. So Chromebook usage on average 52% of their school day is working on a Chromebook. Well, you know, we've had this conversation about the K2 level. Uh Principal Ainsworth talked about it. Um we're working on some um again some pilot programs here in the spring to analyze some data from out of the K2
048level. Um, we're also working on some items at uh the 712 level that um provide opportunity for Chromebook usage, but also take into account the amount of money that we're spending on replacement of Chromebooks and whether that's financially responsible of us as a district um when we can maybe have access to Chromebooks in other ways. So, that's also something we're looking at as as a cabinet and an administrative team. Um, a great stat I think though is 84% of students feel they receive the same opportunities as other in the school district. So, you know, a vast majority of our kids feel like the opportunities are there for them in the district just like their peers. Um, there is a perception about sports programs receiving more funding. Um, I'll say that our sports programs are about
0493.4% of the overall um district funds. So, it's it's a very small percentage uh in comparison, but I understand how sometimes kids see Letterman's jackets or they see jerseys or they see some of those things and the perception is oh that that sports programs are very heavily invested in by the district. Um and then again that last one is a you know that the academic leeway approception that sports programs receive more leeway than fine arts or other academic areas when it comes to equity opportunities and and budget. And again, I can see where students come from because they see that the visual, but they don't actually see the transparent data. When we met with the superintendent advisory committee and I did that budget presentation, I was able to explain to them the actual amount that
050we spent on activities sports and athletics in the district, some of them were quite surprised that it was actually as low even at 3.4% as low as the as it actually is. >> So the perceived equity that's 83.8% 8% of the 991. >> Correct. >> And there's actually 2,000 and some. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> And this was also only uh 3 to 12. >> Yeah. >> So, no. >> So, 500k, >> 5 600 kids are not surveyed. >> Yeah. >> Um Okay. So, any questions on the student success committee's um statistics that they're going to spend again more time on on Thursday and do a little bit more deep dive, but I just wanted to give you guys a nice overview of what they were looking for. >> Thank you. Look forward to the
051>> dive. Okay. Um tonight during action an action item, you're going to vote on the 2026 27 uh school calendar. Want to talk a little bit about the process for the calendar. Uh the calendar committee met on three occasions, December, February, and March. Um, in December, we listened to committee feedback. The committee was made up of a building representative from the certified and classified units for each of our buildings. Um, some union representation, um, administrative representation, district office representation. Um, in December, we listened to feedback from that committee and constructed a survey based on that feedback. In February, we discussed those results. We looked at three draft calendars and then sent out a survey to staff on the three draft calendars. Um, in March, we looked at the survey results, narrowed it down to two,
052and then I sent out a survey from families asking for feedback on a pre or post Labor Day start. I did that within my superintendent newsletter, then also did it in a separate uh parent squared message. Um, the uh um staff feedback from their survey was in favor of a post Labor Day start. Um it was uh not overwhelming, but there was a there was a majority. Uh the parent feedback on a post Labor Day start was a little bit more solidified. It's more in line with what we do. I then looked at Northbend and Co uh I went with I looked at Northbend's adopted calendar which is very similar to ours post Labor Day post Labor Day full fall break. And I believe Coke is leaning towards a post Labor Day start of our
053South Coast ESD schools. It's about 5050, but we do have two districts in the South Coast ESD that always start pre-Labor Day regardless of when Labor Day is. So, um, in the end, um, we had to look at, again, key considerations for the calendar is the late Labor Day weekend with Labor Day being September 7th. Um, survey data indicated the the desire to have a full fall break like the other districts in our region and how we used to be. Um during that first um committee feedback, we heard about adding professional development opportunities for staff. Um so we took that into place. Now, I'm going to be open and honest that um uh I as a superintendent and our building principles and our cabinet are going to be looking at staff attendance on these Fridays
054of professional development days. One of the reasons that superintendent Aidworth um went away for Friday professional development days was the amount of absences that staff were taking on those days. Um, I want to work with our unions, both certified and classified, to try to help improve um, attendance on those days because we we have a lot of opportunities for person for professional development that we are taking away from Friday PLC's to accomplish. And, um, I don't think we're doing a great job of supporting our staff in the development they need as professionals. And so, um, we've added some days into the calendar to support that. The last thing is we heard from the initial survey and some kind of anecdotal feedback we received in the comments from families was uh addressing that our conferences for
055prek6 and 712 were in the same week and many times on the same night. So if you had a family at um east side miloma and either the junior high or high school you may have to get to three or four different buildings in one night. And I've I dealt with this um more last year than this year but even as a parent this year I had to do just junior high and high school. So, we have come up with a system that's going to help. Um, we're going to do prek uh six conferences a different week from 7:12. They'll still have the same trade day for that for that time, but we're going to operate under a different weekly uh different times for those to help support our families and our staff members because
056as a we have staff members that are also family member, you know, have kids in our district and them trying to attend their child's conferences can be um can be a struggle. So, that is the calendar. Um this is a calendar that you are going to uh hopefully approve tonight. Um we're also looking at a system next year. If you look just for an example, if you look at um October 9th, that is a yellow professional development day and so is uh November 6th. Um October 9th, we are going to use that this year as a preK6 grading day right after fall assessment so we can get instant feedback to families on their fall diagnostic assessments. And then for the 712s on October 9th, that is going to be a professional development day to get
057trainings in their building. That will allow district office staff to attend some of those trainings and help facilitate some of those professional development opportunities. Then you fast forward to November 6th, we're going to flip and that will be a 712 grading day and a preK6 professional development day. Again, allowing district office staff, this is really going to help um Dr. Crook and um Chad uh be able to facilitate professional development opportunities to both grade level bands. Um this will also help again uh do an earlier grading time for our families right after fall diagnostics and we can get some instant feedback because we're going to run conferences the week or two after that October 9th um uh prek6 grading day. We're going to run fall conferences for preK6 and get instant feedback for families on
058their diagnostics earlier than we would waiting until November. So, uh, questions on the calendar? >> Yeah, I guess my only concern is that now you're ending two weeks into June >> when no kids want to be in school in June anyway. >> Yeah. Um, do we have any data about what attendance has been like in June when we end basically a week earlier? >> Um, graduation isn't even going to be till the 12th. >> Graduation will be on the 12th. Uh, SWAK's graduation is going to be on the 11th. We checked into that. And Northbed's graduation will be on the 11th as well. Um, so they kind of are falling in line with what we're doing. Um, I can say that we have we can look at the data for what a normal school year
059is for that last week. Obviously, seniors are gone. Um, and we can take a look at that. We don't have very much data because you have to go back about six, seven years to get to a late >> June um, ending. But that was a concern for many of us in looking at this. Um, but it was more of a priority for families and for staff for that Labor Day weekend. um and to start a traditional post Labor Day time than it was for that. So, we also looked at a calendar with a pre-LOR day start and and a full fall break, but that would have had us getting out of school on Monday, June 14th. And we thought with students and we thought that is doing school on a Monday, the last day of
060school on a Monday was not in the best interest of family, staff, >> the community as a whole. >> They just wouldn't have come. >> Yeah. Shown up. >> No one shown up. Other other questions on the calendar? >> What's the scene on the on the calendar? I'll do Fridays. They'll have to see after >> early release. >> Okay. >> Early release. >> Yeah, Fridays are early release days. >> I have a question regarding the surveys of all of these things. Are the surveys available to us to be able to see what questions are? >> Um, sure. We can provide the survey. We can provide the survey data on the website. Yeah. >> Um, and were those offered in Spanish? They were not offered in Spanish. Uh, other questions. >> All right. Not the last
061slide, but uh, budget reduction process. I just wanted to keep the board informed on where we're at in the budget reduction process. Um, as you're aware, we have a $2 million budget deficit um that has been identified. Uh my goals as a superintendent have been operating within our operating within our fin our fiscal means allocated by the board policy and uh the state school fund and pri prioritizing supporting student outcomes. Um as a leader of the district um I've met with our district departments um now twice um to go over staffing and expenditures. Um, I've met with the building administrators and analyze staffing levels. We've used at several of the buildings uh staffing matrix that other districts use that provide them essentially like here is your number of students. This is the staff number that
062you should be allocated the FTE based on that and have built some projections that way. That was a big help in the process for several of our buildings to look at a matrix that had staffing compared to student numbers. Um then we've now started to review our retirements, our resignations, and our transfers. Those many of those will be approved tonight. Um I've met with uh the cabinet and I have met with all of our building staff in in a uh staff meeting format. Um we've declined the declining enrollment, the rise in costs associated with staffing, and the decline of our reserves as the main reasons um for this uh budget situation we're in. And um here after uh tonight um and into early next week, we're going to meet with the union leaderships and talk
063about the reductions that we have listed. Um and then um we will start meeting with the staff members that will be reduced to talk to them about their options. Um we've again our priority has been trying to absorb as much as we can through resignations, retirements, and um uh things of that nature uh to avoid u reductions in force of people losing their their jobs. And so that's where we're at in the budget. Um we will um again be meeting with union leaderships from the certified and classified bargaining units. Uh not next week, but yeah, next week, excuse me, next week. Uh we're going to go over the list with them. Then we'll start the process of meeting with those employees and I should have a list for you um at the April meeting of
064the reductions that we are are doing as a district. Um and then that will put us into the budget adoption process starting late April early May. Questions on that? All right, some positives to end tonight with some of our pirates. And I've got a a list. I got to put my readers on or else this this could go a crazy way. We got archery, MS archery. Uh we've had quite a few state uh placers. Erica Posakani was third in the female open. Uh Grant Seismore was a state champion in the male um bear bow and Sam How was second place in the female bear bow. Uh at the Oregon uh bow hunters division. Erica Posakani was third in the youth adult uh bow. Max Heen or Henson was a state champ in the female youth
065modern bow. Uh Kaia Russell, who's also on the superintendent advisory committee, was a state champion in the female youth modern um bow and Sam How was second place in the female youth adult bow. MHS swimming had a great run at the state meet. Um in the bottom right corner is the boys 200 meter medley relay. They were third place. That's Carter McGriff, Alex Dunning, Hunter Lohen, and Martin Crook. Um Lily Thompson is up there. She's in the bottom lower left corner. Lily was sixth place in the girls 200 meter individual medley. Uh Avery Bartholomew um who is in the middle um right there. She's got two photos right there. She was fourth in the 50 free and fifth in the 100 free. Isaac Singer in the top left was sixth place in the 500 free.
066Carter McGriff in the middle there, the big picture was second place. He was our highest individual in the 100 breaststroke. And then our girls 400 free relay in the top right and one of the little faces is blocked is uh was third place. That's Avery Bartholomew, Lily Thompson, uh Ella Croen, and Audrey Petley. Um couple other things we've got there in the top left are our state wrestlers. We had two state champions. Uh Garen Castro, he's the little guy at 113. And Skyler Fowl is the big guy at 285. I was going to ask you to pick which one you thought was Skyler. Which one you thought was Garren after I told you their weight classes. And then in the middle we have Charlie Morton who placed I believe fifth at 126 or 132. He's
067in the middle there. Uh Coach Morton there right there on the right. First year head coach did a great job. We're appreciative of him. Um, in the middle we have our speech and debate kids that qualified for nationals which will be in June in Virginia. We have Ty Bellzer who is second in dramatic acting. Zel Quint who was first in dual acting and Ya Coffee Pubu who was first in persuasive speech. So they will be going to nationals in June. Uh the top right we have our Latinx club that was down in Ashland at the Caesar Chavez conference. Um I believe it was last weekend. And then in the lower left, I thought it was cool, the MHS band twice went to Powers and was their home band for their state playoff games in girls
068basketball. >> They learned the Powers School fight song and they played it. They did the national anthem and they um uh did that twice and the people of powers collected money and donated $2,200 to their cause for their um trip to uh Pearl Harbor's to march in the Pearl Harbor parade. >> And so I thought it was really cool that our >> And they fed them too. >> And they did feed them and they said that we had lots of compliments from them how nice and polite our kids were. But I thought it was really cool that they learned the Powers High School fight song. >> Yeah. and went down and played for two playoff games. And the Powers girls did advance to the state playoffs. They lost in I believe the consolation finals over
069there in Baker City. But uh great thing of Pirates giving back to uh one of our area schools. Great. >> And just the last thing, this Saturday, Restron O, we have a culinary arts fundraiser. Um it will be at six o'clock. All the money donated that night will go to the culinary arts program high school. So that flyer eventually and that is all I have for you. Any questions this lovely evening? >> I have a few questions. >> Sure. >> First of all, for repairs and stuff, are the contractors chosen and are prices negotiated with them? >> It depends on what the project is and how much it is. But if it hits, what's the dollar amount? $25,000. It has to go out for bid. And there's a competitive bid process uh that comes in
070for those projects. If it's under 25,000, we can get a local contractor or do the work ourselves with our own maintenance facility. Chris, >> second question. So, if someone enrolled in the school and then was unenrolled and enrolled again, will they count as two enrollments or one? >> Just one. >> Yeah, it' be nice if we could count. >> We'd get more money if we could count for two, but we can't. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Any any other questions from the board tonight? >> No. >> Great. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay, David. Policies. >> All right. Uh, first off, are there any prospective policies anyone would like the policy committee to review? Okay. Uh, so we have our first readings for adoption.
071As as per usual, I won't go through all these. They're available to you on the agenda. Uh they were mostly minor changes. Uh nothing too substantial. Um >> some of them didn't almost didn't have changes. >> Some of them did not have changes. And that uh >> I believe that that wraps up our policy analysis. There may be one or two out there that we tabled at a certain point. So I'll go back and review that. Uh but we are very very near the end of that. Um, a couple of them that uh you will see first reading for deletion. Uh, those are ones that we checked with OSBA uh and they no longer host or support uh those policies or at least the uh the truency one as the laws around that have changed.
072So the AR is no longer applicable. Um and then the the student drug testing uh were optional policies that uh didn't fit our current practice. Uh so those are also up for deletion. Does anyone have any questions about any of the policies? >> Terrific. Um, that's all I have. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. Action items. I think is Chad. >> Yep. Chad's right over here. He's over in the shadows. He's coming out. >> Was over there drinking table over there. I'm here to talk to you about the process of implementing the personal finance class that we're tasked with implementing beginning in the fall of next year or the year after that with board approval. This course, the personal finance class, some of the standards include working um and learning about credit, debt, banking, investing,
073saving, repayment, income, and taxes. And with everything that's going on right now with the budget and our our shuffling of staff, um making sure that we have the expertise in the right place and trained up uh to teach this course, we're asking that um with board approval that we are allowed to implement the the class not this coming fall, but the fall after that. So the rule allows us to either implement this coming fall or the fall after with board approval. So I'm here. We don't have to do anything special to ask for a year. >> Um, you just have to approve it, vote to approve it, and then I fill out a form online and then we can continue the process of making sure that we have the right person in the right place
074to teach the course according so that all of our seniors are able to um pass the course. And this is really good. Um, this is a really good course. I'm happy that and excited that they're going to be exposed to this because a lot of students go through and they get bits and pieces in other classes, but this class should be right for them. Should make a difference. >> Are there any questions for Chad? >> Kim, you have any questions? >> Sounds good. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Chad. >> So, do we have to do a waiver? I complete the waiver. You just have to vote to approve me to go forward with the process. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve going forward with a waiver for one year
075of our personal finance diploma requirement? >> I so move. >> Oh, Kim. >> Yep. I said I so move. >> Okay. >> I'll second. It's been moved and seconded that we um authorize a one-year waiver in the personal finance diploma requirement. Is there any object? I mean any further discussion hearing? None. Kim >> I >> Diane. >> Hi. >> M >> I >> Kevin >> and chair votes I. >> Thank you. >> Thanks Ch. Okay. Contract renewal of licensed educators. Okay. Before you tonight, you have a uh list of contract renewals, non-renewals for our educators. Um, we are asking for you to make a motion and to approve the list of retirements, resignations, temporary contract non-renewals, probationary contract non renewals uh, for cruise based schools. >> Okay, this was provided to us ahead of time.
076I don't know if anybody's had a chance to review it, but are there any questions? I I I didn't really get a look at it till right now. So, I'll just abstain from voting. That's all right. >> I don't know. I don't know that you have to abstain because the teachers aren't listed by name or anything. They're listed by number for obvious reasons. Um but okay. So, do we need a vote on that? Okay. Do I need a motion? >> Yes. Yeah. >> Can I get a motion >> to accept the presentation nonrenewal and renewal? >> Hi, this is this is Kim. I I so move to accept the contracts uh as listed for our teaching year. >> Okay. Thank you, Kim. >> Yes. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay,
077it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. Diane, >> I >> maybe >> I >> Kim >> I >> Kevin >> abstain. Uh chair votes I. So that passes. >> It passes. >> Okay. Thank you. So we've adopted that list. Now we're on to >> adopting >> the school calendar. Do I have a motion to adopt the school calendar as presented? I'll make a motion to adopt the 2627 school calendar as presented. >> Thank you. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. Diane >> I. >> Mie >> I. >> Kevin >> I. >> Kim >> I. >> And the chair votes I. We have adopted a calendar. Okay. the transportation contract renewal. Do I have
078a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> I move. >> Oh, go ahead, Cam. You have it. You take it. >> I so move to accept our uh contract transportation contract renewal >> with first student. Thank you. >> I'll second. >> Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion on the contract renewal with first student hearing? None. Diane >> I. >> Kim >> I. >> Mie. >> I. >> Kevin. >> Hi. >> And chair votes I. >> Okay. We have two leave of absence requests. >> Yes. You have two leave of absence requests before you tonight. You you have the link to the the letters. I support both of these staff members in their request for a leave of absence if the board so moves to approve. >> I read both of
079the letters. They sounded reasonable to me. So I move to accept the uh what do they want? >> Leave of absence request. >> Leave of absence. That's the word I was looking for. LOA. Yes. >> Okay. For Kitty Deos and Sean Peters. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Do we have a second? >> Okay. It's been moved and seconded that we accept the leave of absence requests for Kitty Deos and Sha Peters. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. Diane >> Hi. >> Maybe >> I. >> Kevin. >> Hi. >> Kim >> I. >> And chair votes I. Okay, now we're going to have a little longer discussion I think on um the National Register designation for Marshfield High School. >> Yes. So, um, as you can read there on the pros and cons, if you
080have it up in front of you, on, uh, February 18th, myself, um, Marina, uh, and LMA, and David met with Caitlyn and Robert, uh, who did the presentation at Heritage Hall, and we discussed the national application process and the limitations, and we kind of took the Marsfield, the vestibule drawings that were done by um, um, Joe >> by Joe Slack. Thank you. Yeah, we use those as an example of like, okay, if we were to be on the National Historic Registry. Um, and we submitted this as a plan to for renovations, like what what could we do, what couldn't we do? We were kind of using as a template to see like, well, you can't do this or you can't do that. And we found out that that's really not the case. It actually helped
081streamline the process a little bit being on the registry. Um the um really it talked about character defining features that would dictate whether what you could do and like can you recreate those in the construction process. And then where things get a little bit more um uh difficult is if you're taking down structures like walls. doesn't make it impossible, but it makes it a little more difficult if you're in the interiors and you're taking down walls that maybe have a significant um significant um uh historical feature. For example, if we went to take out like the vault that is in, you know, the office area that's been there since the school was constructed in, you know, the early 1900s, we would have to indicate the why and what was, you know, the reasoning and things
082of that nature. still doesn't make it impossible. But um um like I said before, you have the pros and cons. And what we really like tonight is to uh there can be a discussion amongst the board on those pros and cons and then see if we'd like to move toward having this go to another facilities committee as the next step in the process. Uh, but we wanted to present our board members with a really good solid pros and cons of the um, uh, details of that conversation with Caitlyn and Robert. Um, based on what we could and couldn't do when it comes to to some areas of construction at Marshall High School's campus if we were on the registry. >> So, that was just a discussion about the vestibial. >> We use that as a
083template to kind of say >> we used it as a template. We also talked to them about like what if we wanted to because the floors at Marshia obviously they've asing from most likely from the past. So we said if we wanted to cover the floors with a um a vinyl flooring what would what would that process be? And they walked us through that the steps are really pretty simple to uh to go through to do something like that. It's really if we were to knock out tear buildings down where things get a little bit wonky or to tear down structures within the school that have historic historical signific it said no you really and correct me if I'm wrong David but the conversation was it really becomes the campus as the whole >> historical
084site. >> Um there are a number of buildings there that would be considered non-contributing uh like so so they're included but they're not contributing to so >> historic >> like pirate hall that was built in 2000 >> or the radio building >> they would have little concern of what we did in those build it would be the character defining features like the main gym the auditorium and the main building. So >> one thing that was concerning to me was well what will happen financially and say no you cannot do that project and then an alternative is significant more cost um if and what do we do in that situation really what they communicate correct me if I'm wrong is that we have to go to them regardless um because of the age of our our
085facility if we are doing any significant changes we have to go to that department anyway and submit a change and We've done that for other work. >> Yep. So, when we did the west, you know, the main gym, when we did the seismic upgrades, we went through them and did all the same work to say, >> here's what we're going to do. What is the historic change? What is the cost of this? And so, they already know essentially how to function with us, but regardless of any change we would do, we would need to go to them. So by being on the registry essentially all of the prep work would already be done and be done through them and it would streamline the process significantly. They have all the historical >> and I looked I
086took a look at some of the grants that it would make us able to apply for and I I didn't see like a whole lot. I mean, it's a little it's a little but and who knows how long >> how um like what order of magnitude are those grants that >> $20,000. Um and the other thing that I was thinking about I mean I I like the idea. Um I'm all for it actually I think but there are some pros and cons. And the other thing that I looked at is the cost and the time to do the whole application and finding the the right people to do it or person That was the other thing I wondered about because when we had the town hall meeting or whatever that meeting was um that seemed
087that was way more significant than I thought it was going to be twice. Yeah, >> I I think um at at the town hall uh what we did see too was a a big community appetite for it and and a lot of people that are vested in that. Yeah. Um true. So, I I I think that if we were to pursue and ask for donations of time >> to do this, um we we may be successful in that route without having to pay a lot out of pocket. >> I think and we we heard that some of it's already done. >> Yeah, we heard about that, too, which was which was >> very nice. >> Yeah. >> Uh LM, I know you're on the the the call tonight or on the the Google Meet. Do
088you have any um concerns or anything that you'd like to share with the board? Uh, no. I I don't have any concerns. I think all my concerns got answered in that meeting we had, you know, a couple weeks weeks ago. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Just uh your opinion would be thumbs up or thumbs down this is a good idea or not? Um, I I think right now ultimately I'm just kind of thumbs down just slightly though. Not as much as I was before. >> I think it's worth >> Sorry to put you on the spot. >> And and I think it's worth passing on to the facilities committee to at least continue looking at the process >> um >> to find out exactly what it would cost and everything to do this. Yeah, >>
089I would agree with that. >> I just said I I would agree with that. Um, as being on the facilities committee as well, I think that just, you know, if we just say no right now, I think we've got a whole community that's behind it. I mean, just judging from the folks that showed up and I I don't know who said it there, but we will have uh folks that are willing to donate time and who probably already they might even already have the application already all done. I mean, they seemed pretty excited about it. So, I mean, I think we could explore it more. >> I mean, the facilities committee has done our long range facility planning. They've done all this leg work on our facilities. I feel like >> that would >> I
090feel like the the next step at least the next step the right step is to let them go through uh this pros and cons these these these you know the citizen feedback and things of that nature as as a next step and they could come back to us in another board meeting. >> I don't think I need a vote for that. Is that generally the opinion of the board that we should refer this to the facilities committee >> and have them bring back recommendation? >> Yeah, I think that's great. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Do you need a vote? >> I don't. >> No, no, it's it would be more if we want you to seek a national register or a placement on it. This is more of a we want you to continue to
091find out more about it. Uh so no real action. Okay. Uh, board actions. I'm really sorry that Bri is not here today um because she's always stands out in my mind as one of the best classified employees we've got. But this is resolution number 26 uh 20261 recognition of classified school employees week March 2nd through March 6. Whereas the Kuzbay school district is committed to providing a high quality education and a safe supportive learning environment for every student. And whereas classified school employees, including our secretaries, administrative assistants, educational assistants, media clerks, graduation coaches, custodians, maintenance workers, security teams, and technology specialists are the essential backbone of our district operations. And whereas these dedicated professionals are often the first people students see in the morning and the last they see in the afternoon, providing a vital
092bridge between our schools and the Kuz Bay community. And whereas our classified staff members foster positive relationships, ensure student safety, maintain our learning environments, and provide the technical and administrative support necessary for instructional success. And whereas district administrators recognize that our unsung heroes go above and beyond their job descriptions daily to solve problems, support classroom teachers, and put the needs of students first. And whereas the success of the Kuz Bay School District is a direct result of the collective hard work, compassion, and professionalism of our classified personnel. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Kuz Bay School District number nine board of directors affirm our commitment to ongoing recognition and appreciation of the invaluable contributions of our classified employees, extending beyond the traditional observance of classified appreciation week. And be it further resolved that the
093board of directors encourages all students, parents, and community members to join us in expressing sincere gratitude and appreciation for the vital contributions of our classified staff to the Kuzbay School District. Adopted by our board of directors today. Patty, before you do board member highlights, uh Andrew Good from First Student has joined us. He just got off a plane and he just wanted to take a moment to introduce himself to the board even though I told him, he text me and I said, "We've already approved the contract renewal. You're good to go." But he still want to have just a quick moment to introduce and say thank you. So yeah, I'm going to turn over to Andrew for just a >> Oh, I see snow there. >> I'm It's just It's a fake background. Honestly, I'm
094in the middle of the San Francisco airport update number whatever 47. So, hey folks, I apologize I wasn't on earlier. Our flight got delayed on the Salt Lake City. But on behalf of First Student, we're really honored to take a moment to recognize the strong partnership we've shared with Cous School District over the past 15 years. You know, throughout this time, Becky and her team have done a phenomenal job meeting and exceeding expectations, always keeping students, families, the community, and the district at the center of everything they do. And the collaboration with the school district has just it's been built on trust, communication, and shared commitment to safety and service. And it's something we're truly proud of. We're truly proud of the relationship we have with the district. And as we celebrate this milestone, we're
095equally excited about what lies ahead. We look forward to continuing the partnership for another five great years and beyond, delivering the same high level of dedication, reliability, and care that has defined our work together. And I can't thank you enough. Um, I was so ready to get off that plane, but thank you for your continued trust in First Student for allowing us to be a part of your community. It's really quite an honor, I will tell you that. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Andrew. Have a have a good night. Save Travis. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Thank you all. Have a good night. >> Okay, with that board member highlights. Does anybody have any fun things they did? Kim, let's start with you. I know you did something. >> Yes. Um, let's
096see. I went with um I volunte my husband that we were going to be the moderator and one of the timekeepers for um the uh what's it called the book? >> Obam I did hit my head today. I'm not sure if David told everyone that I I did wreck on my bike an electric bike. So, um, a little discombobulated, so I thought I shouldn't shouldn't drive into the meeting, but yes, we were there for the, um, all the tournaments and it was a lot of fun and I talked about that last time. And then Madison school had a dinner and we were and it was Dr. Seuss and it was so amazing. I saw you Addie was there and Gary was there. It was just really fun to watch the students with their families reading
097and, you know, we were walking around and looking at how they weren't, you know, on their cell phones or or devices. They were reading books in the dark with their little flashlights. And it it was really cute. And then the man, the food they cooked, I mean, it just blows my mind. They just do a great job over there. Really, they really love their families and it shows. I think that's it. I'm sure I did other stuff, but uh the bike injury is taking my brain completely. >> Feel better. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Maybe um nothing. I just um need to talk to Dr. Crook and get over there. Okay. >> Uh I attended the uh OBAB regional tournament in Roseber. Uh we had five teams from our school district uh represented who all did
098uh quite well for the five teams made it to the knockout round. Uh and scored a lot of points and showed a lot of good sportsmanship and really hats off to our uh librarians. They do a really great job coaching and uh inspiring a love of literacy in that group of students. So, it's a great great event. >> Yeah. I volunteered for the during the 3D tournament. >> So, that fundraiser helped y >> put money towards the volleyball uh program. >> Yeah. >> Was fun. >> I bet it was. It brought a lot of uh business to town. Yes. Last weekend. >> Um let's see. I went to the same program, Kim, the Read Across America. >> Um and I took some pictures. I've got them if you want to see them of the kids
099sitting in the dark with the flashlights. I was talking to one of the teachers the you know having the flashlights was almost the most important part of it because the kids would be in the middle just throwing their flashlights around. But >> um it was nice to see the families reading together. Um you know and it wasn't just mothers there with their kids. There were a lot of dads there too. And then today I went to the newly re-imagined site council meeting for Sunset. >> Oh, great. >> And uh heard all about their building learning team, >> their build team, their building implementation team. >> So >> awesome. >> So nothing else. I think we're ready to adjourn. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. Have a good night. >> Bye. >> Thank you.