001salute. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice. >> Welcome everyone to the May board meeting. Visitor guest folks over there or if you'd like to speak with the board, uh please sign in. Any announcements from the forge? Nope. Okay, moving on to our presentations. Miss Boxler, you and uh Izzy are here to uh >> give your leadership, talk about all the amazing things you've done so far this year. >> Good evening, board members. If you don't know me already, I'm Aria, the man's president. And right beside me is Victoria Boxler, the man's vice president. Today, we'll be giving a little wrap-up of the end of our year and how everything is going. Before
002we start, I would like to officially invite you to our eighth grade promotion. We hope you can attend to celebrate with the man's class of 2026. >> Thank you. It has been a while since our last meeting, so we have got a lot to recap you on. We have had two dances, a fundraiser, connection day, connections days, support sports, and of course some extra school events. Our last two dances are the spring and winter dance. Spring dance bringing over $363 with 130 students attending. And the winter dance bring us almost $200 with 130 students attending. Everyone had a great time. We also had a fun group which was a coin drop where every advisory competed against each other to have the most change. We had gained over $600 to donate to the Mount Angel School's
003resource center. Everyone had such a fun time going against each other and we are so happy to donate. Miss Johnson's class was the winner and won an ice cream. To add on, we also had another connections connections day where each student got to participate in two fun activities out of the numerous options such as book bedazzling, golf, kissadilla making, rain to the St. Mary students and a whole bunch more that students love to participate in. We also have had a very a very eventful sports season. The track season had just ended and they had a very competitive season with many great runners and field event participants. Softball and baseball are very close to ending with having great seasons and very amazing amounts of wicks. And of course, we've had a few extra events such as
004the band concert and competition at Warner Pacific University and Pentagame. Everyone did awesome playing their music and the fun math competition at Pentagame. Everyone enjoyed. Thank you so much for giving us some of your time at this meeting and we hope that mans will have a successful next year as well. Have a good night. can't leave. Yeah, we got we got some questions. >> Uh what has your been your favorite uh activity or thing that you've done uh with leadership this year? >> Probably playing the dances or just honestly just like talking all of each other and hear each other's ideas like planning the fundraiser and like using in the fundraiser and all that kind of stuff. I'd probably just say the the teamwork that is put into it. It's all really fun when you
005work together and that's probably the best part. >> Is that you're moving to high school? Are you going to continue your leadership roles in high school? >> Yes. >> Victoria, are you going to continue next year in middle school? >> Do you do you help plan field day at all? >> Yeah. Um, >> yeah, we try to raise money for field day and we've reached our goal for money over our goal. >> Over our goal. So, what are you going to do with the extra money? >> Put into next year's. >> That's right. >> Any other questions? All right. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Great job. >> Yes. Okay, >> feel free to feel free to leave. >> Have a great rest of your >> Y conservative crystal. >> All right, moving
006on to our Schwick Community College partnership by Mrs. Jessica. Thank you for joining us tonight. >> Thank you for having me, uh, superintendent, co-chair, and board members. I'm the president of CHMCA. It's my great pleasure to be here. Uh, hopefully you all have this wonderful colored uh, handout, and I'd love to just kind of talk through it. This is an opportunity for for me to help celebrate the students that we share. So, uh, last year, 11 John F. Kennedy High School students paid $30 to participate in our college credit now program. They earned 38 CHMCA College credits, saving their families $5,028 in college tuition and fees. 41.3% of John F. Kennedy High graduates from 2425 enrolled at CHCA. That's an awesome percentage. 48 John F. Kennedy High graduates with a 3.5 or better high school
007GPA have enrolled as Schmecha scholars over the past decade and Shemecha scholars are awarded a full tuition scholarship to the college. Sheada scholars from John F. Kennedy High have accumulated a total tuition savings of $268,000 and820 and8 268,828,000. It's so much I can't even can't even wrap my mind my mouth around it. 40 John F. Kennedy High graduates who received the Oregon Promise enrolled at Shemecka in the past five years. Oregon Promise recipients who came to Schmecha from this high school have been awarded a total of 108,795 to date through that program. And finally, in the last five years, 93 John F. Kennedy High alumni completed a Shemecka certificate or degree and/or transferred from Shemecka to a 4-year institution. So, thank you so much for being an excellent partner with Shemecka and I'm happy to
008answer any questions you may have. I just appreciate the partnership so much. I know um for students um who are interested and motivated in the partnership that we um can have with teachers for kids to get college credit um is so powerful for kids for them to leave our institution kind of with a leg up or kind of with a head start. And so I think for me I would just be really interested in knowing um if if there are programs um that we're under utilizing or if there are kind of tracks of study that maybe we aren't emphasizing that are more popular um just to expand um more opportunity for kids. >> Well um I mean one obvious sort of category of courses are our career technical education courses. You know those are the
009most expensive. They're expensive for us to offer. They're um we're already seeing high schools uh in throughout our district starting to close the programs, the small programs that they do have because it's a handful of students and they'd rather use those funds for say third grade reading, right? So, it makes it even more, I think, critical that folks uh in our whole network and in our service area consider us a partner because there are school districts who are able to really capitalize on getting students to us and then we serve them in a different number of different ways and then they come back and it's the school day is not over yet. They haven't sacrificed their, you know, high school experience or their after school time. I came from Texas and we did this a
010lot and sort of leveraging the community college as kind of a hub was a fantastic way to make resources go farther. Um it's not the Oregon way because typically in Oregon, you know, it's like everyone is sort of doing their own thing. Local control tends to tends to have make that happen, but in times of uh stretched resources, I think it will force us to think more collectively. And there's so much we can do uh with you all. And um you we've got like a mobile welding lab. So we can now go to the students and what is what opportunities might that provide uh maybe in the summer maybe in terms of you know short-term certificates that allow people to then make a living as then they go to college. I mean just really practical
011things like that. The only other thing I would share with you is if you're like me, you know, there's this sort of idea that you either you when you graduate high school, there's this moment where you maybe you're going to go to college and that somehow reads as a four-year degree, right? Because then that leads to a master's degree and it sort of it's this endless sort of pathway. Or you can turn the other direction and you can go to career in technical education which um may mean a shorter term in you know to get like say a certificate maybe it's a one-year um degree maybe it's a two-year associate of applied science degree but that is the terminal degree. So it doesn't seem like that's sort of the long educational pathway but in fact
012that is not the case. So, CHMCA was the first community college in the state to create an applied balora stacks onto every single two-year applied degree from anywhere. So, you could come to us from Lane Community College, Portland Community College, anywhere. And if you have a two-year essentially a CTE degree in anything from, you know, digital design to paramedic to automotive, right? And it really is a massive spectrum of degrees. Um, and you need a bachelor's degree. you want a bachelor's degree so you can go into management so you can continue to climb the career ladder so maybe you can go on and get a master's this is the pathway for you and it has been absolutely transformative and students have gone on and get a master's after that um which is an important thing
013to say because I think unfortunately people tend to think oh how good can this bachelor's be uh it's excellent and it's exactly it's the most streamlined way if you have a I'll just I'm going to stop soon I promise but this is like my favorite topic you have a two-year uh you know technical degree, you can always decide I'm going to get a you know like a bachelor's in management or something like that. I'm going to go to I'm going to pick the four-year college my child's at, which is Oregon State University, right? He's a senior now. And you I'm going to choose that. Well, the problem is Oregon State's not going to give you credits for those hands-on technical skills because there's no equivalency. So, it's not that you can't there isn't a pipeline.
014It's that it's an expensive timeconsuming pipeline. You typically end up doing over a year's worth of work you've already done. This degree that we've offered honors all of that coursework and then adds contextualized leadership and management courses on top of that. So then local employers keep the talent that they've got because if you're going to go into leadership, you need to know how to manage people. You need to do accounting. You need to understand the sector. to understand the various things >> that are why there's a bachelor's degree required in the first place. So, I mention all of that because it has changed entirely this understanding of whether you go left or right. Um, and all of those roads lead to more opportunities, right? And as we um if you if I I would say
015I'm working really closely with uh interestingly the Willamina school district which is a very small school district um and we're doing things him and myself to try to promote collegegoing generally speaking and to change and sort of broaden up understanding of what those options are because I just think we're the product of our own experience and like my mother has no idea what today's community college offers, >> right? And so understanding that so then we can allow students to see all the myriad choices >> and they're they're not all CHMCA choices, but CHMCA has many choices in that mix. I think that's a the disconnect is often at our level is my point. And so how I can help partner um with you, I'm just super interested in that and uh actually taught in high
016school for a while. So it's just kind of a a passion of mine. uh do really really committed to creating opportunities for your students and our students and just let me know. >> That's awesome. Thank you. Super helpful. Great information. >> And what can we do as a board to keep that partnership strong? >> Normally I would have one of my board members with me, the one who represents your community, but unfortunately he had a something unexpected happen. Do you know Ken Hector? >> Yes. Oh my gosh, the man is so committed >> and he would be up here. He would take like three times as long. So there's a positive in him. But um I would say there are all kinds of opportunities for our boards to share information and um you know asking
017questions like what would it take to have more CTE options here? And it could be that it's prohibitively expensive >> but it could be that maybe there's some lowhanging fruit. We might have a couple of opportunities to do something early in the morning if there were many a number of school districts interested like Woodburn particularly has a very very low percentage of its students doing CTE much lower than like Jervis which I find incredible. So this is something that I think with the right questions and there's maybe then the path to yes becomes maybe a little bit different. So because you know we're resource constrained, everyone is >> but how we work together will make those resources go farther. So I'm say keep asking the questions. >> Yeah. >> Thank you so much for having
018me. >> Thanks for >> coming out our way too. I appreciate >> seeing the students. >> Yeah. Fantastic. >> Thank you so much. >> All right. Moving on to our agenda. If nobody would like to change anything, I would accept a motion to approve the agenda as move to approve the agenda. And since >> motion second move to second any other discussion, all in favor? >> I moving on to the consent items. Um, if anybody doesn't need anything to be pulled from the consent items, I would accept a motion to approve the consent items as is. >> I so move. >> Okay. Got a motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. Second. >> All right. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Reports. Um, not see anybody present. Anybody online, Joel? Okay. So,
019no license and classified reports. All right. Miss Morales, student ref report. Only got only got one more to go after this. >> I know. It's going by very quickly. >> I know. I feel like time is going by so fast and like you think and especially the school year like um AP exams which is currently going on. >> How many do you have? >> Um this year only two. >> Okay. >> So last year was a bit heavier. I had three. But um we're trying our best to support our students at JFK with AP exams. Um we have been offering like snacks and like a space for um students to go study after school so that they have time because it's a hard time for sure especially with like you know your other classes because
020you have other classes to you know maintain all that stuff and especially when it's the end of the year when we have grades and everything coming up being finalized. So it's kind of stressful for some students. So we're trying to, you know, maintain that positive environment for sure. Um we also recently had an assembly where we recognized um students academic excellence. So we gave out a lot of awards for students who had a GPA of 3.0. I think it was like around 30 something. And we had an even larger number for honor role which was an GPA of 3.5 which is amazing since like we have a really good amount of students doing really well. So that's really amazing that I think it was very like great that we had like a higher number of
021honor role which is really great but I thought it was really nice. Um we have FA's um banquet coming up so you guys are all invited. Yep. And then um FBA recently had state which was pretty good. I heard I didn't go but I heard it went really well. It was very fun. I guess I got miss out but it's okay. And then um ASB we finished up dorm backers. It was such a big success especially for us being our second year. We raised over $8,000 which was a big big amount especially for such a small school. Um we in this year instead of like the past years we did um best troy ever rather than Mr. JFK which we had a lot of fun doing. I don't know if you guys heard but Maline
022Checker won best ever so congrats to her. >> Um we had a lot of fun. We really got to interact with students um hands on with the assemblies. That was a lot of work for sure. So, we're excited to see how next year goes because, you know, we hope that the program grows more and more so that we have a lot more success and we hope to aim to a higher amount of money. So, yeah. And then for um UPS, we recently went on a field trip to Western Oregon University. Um, we had a leadership conference, so that was a lot of fun. And we got to learn a lot more about, you know, hands-on learning about leadership and especially when it's um less of a diverse community. So, we have a lot more um
023representation, especially in a represented um parts of the community and such. So, yeah. >> Any questions? thinking. >> Well, I do have a question. Are the teachers really getting tattoos? >> They already >> I would like to see pictures. >> Okay. So, >> they they had they had amazing incentives for the for the >> We have a thermometer poster. So, it had each goal had a certain amount of money. So, I say the first $1,000, uh, Miss Davis had to dye her hair blue. I think the next amount it was Miss Shman had to get pied. >> Pie in the face. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Did you like raffle like who who got to do the pie? Like, how'd you pick the person who fight? >> Sawyer Kilburn. >> Okay. You can imagine that. Had
024a lot of fun. Um, and then we had Miss Clark get her face painted like um the like almost kiss inspired. So, she had a lot of fun. And then which actually Dollia Woodsman was the one that was in charge artist which by the way we had teacher appreciation week recently and what's it called? She designed the shirts >> and it was so cool cuz we got to you know involve students especially with like teacher appreciation week. >> So that was really cool. She's very artistic. Very artistic. And then um the tattoos. Those were >> shaving of a >> Oh, yeah. >> Shaving of facial hair. >> Mr. Art had to shave his um beard. >> Every time I look at him in math class, I can't see him. I'm just >> looking I was
025like, "Who are you again?" Like, I don't recognize him. Sometimes >> I know. every every time I monitored him like, "Wow, you guys are like getting all these staff and teachers to do cool things." >> Yeah. >> Including matching tattoos. >> Honestly, we don't know how we convince them. >> And that was Mr. Arn and Mr. Morsy, right? They Yeah. They got to the 8,000. >> I thought it was legit or I thought I thought temporary tattoos or like it's a No, >> it says like JFK and then they're real and they're >> in the year that they started teaching. Oh, that's nice. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be hard to top that. Is at some point. >> Did I hear $9,000 next year gets uh sent Harland? >> No. >> I'm up for
026pies. I'm a >> That's dedication right there. >> And then Sherry and Sarah got slimed. >> That's right. That's right. >> That sounds great. >> It was I love those incentives. I think that was >> Who came up with those incentives? I did. >> You did? >> No, that's great. >> Did you I was the one that suggested u Mr. Art and also suggested Mr. Moffet um getting his arms waxed. >> Yeah. Everybody was like you guys should do that. And I'm like I don't think he would agree to that. I was like let's just try to go more realistic. >> Yeah. kind of boxy. >> Pretty much a team player like like >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You let students know that idea for next year. >> Yeah. >> Or just one leg. >> Yeah.
027>> Sorry. Anyway, >> great report. Yeah, >> great ideas for that, too. Thanks for sharing. >> I don't know how you're going to top that report. >> I know. This is so not fun. I love the flamingo idea in my >> popular. >> Yeah, that was such a good idea. >> We wanted it. Well, it was really hard to plan it out, which we actually got that from Statton. We had a leadership conf or field trip, I guess. Not really a conference cuz literally just the two of us. We visit their school and we got to hear like their ideas and we shared our ideas from like our ASBs and they like were like, "Oh yeah, we like do like this flamingo thing for our dorm backers." Got the idea. You guys had to shut
028it off early because you got >> too many too many people, right? >> Yeah, we had Well, the problem was that we didn't have enough time to like fully like finish and do everybody's house cuz there's a lot of work especially with um we had a lot of sports going on and so we had to do like right after and it was also um Mr. JFK's like talent show and stuff on that. We were like trying to balance like the time so it was kind of hard but >> for sure it was a lot. It was really popular. His updates were pretty funny, too. They were great. >> Did you uh get some little at your parents house? >> Yeah. And I was so disappointed because my dad was not mad. I was expecting him
029to be upset cuz his grass, you know, is like his baby. >> Oh, yeah. We weren't, you know, and he was like so excited. He like took pictures of the kids. He thought it was like the greatest thing ever. And I was like, >> "Yeah, you know, in fact, he was upset that he didn't want you guys to take them away. Like he wanted to have them longer." And I think that's was like our biggest success was that we were really able to engage the community. >> That's wonderful. >> So, got to got to make it a little bit longer or get another set of amigos or double the price. >> There you go. >> Next year. >> We're going to do ducks. >> Start it start it sooner in the year. Maybe >> one
030one beaver. Maybe you could have. >> See, that's the thing. I was like, "Oh, why don't we do just like a bunch of rubber ducks?" And they're like, "No, cuz I'm Oh, I see you." And this and that. >> Yeah, I'd pay to have beavers in Chrissy's front yard. I do think there's there's a market there for some >> oh get revenge some rivalry for sure each >> that's great all right okay it's way bigger on my screen than it is on that screen I don't know why it's not doing what it's supposed to do but you guys have it >> we do have it um okay so I'll do the the lunch fund first um so for April um it's a little bit smaller um just because we um it's taking over for or
031it's for March which is spring break. So our total revenue for the month of April was 36,538. Um it did it is higher than last year's April just so you guys know. So it is it is trending um up and then see and then for expenditures um it is it was scroll down here uh 52,49 just a normal month um for expenses. Um Stacey and I did have a conversation um about um food supplies because they are, you know, we're trending over budget and um her goal between now and the um end of the year. She's really trying to encourage the cooks to use the stuff that we already have. >> You know, I do that at home sometimes where you just, you know, go into your freezer and see what's what's in there. And
032so we're going to try to do that to try to, you know, save some money between now and the year and use up some food, too. So right now we are still trending um with a month on fund balance um and it is 24,57. Is there any questions that follow on that? >> Yeah. Let's see if I can just switch over. Well, that's why because I wasn't on the right one. Okay. general fund for April. Um, again, it was it was a pretty just a normal month. You can see that our um interest revenue is going down a little bit because as our balances start getting used up and the rates are going down. Um, you can see our second to the last state school fund amount. um our one for May is estimated um
033at that um 651, but it doesn't take into consideration the amount that we're going to pay back, and that's because I have that in the expenditure side. So, next month you'll see um lower revenue, but then that expenditure will will pop off. Um so, total revenue for the month was a little over 672,000. Um just like food service, um uh April is a just an average month in terms of payroll. there's no sports or anything that gets paid out of um in April that starts um next month. Um and so our total expenses uh for the month was um 90 a little over 91 or $931,000. Um and so we are still trending right now um at a month and fund balance of a little over a million. Um that does take into consideration the
034the amounts that I've set aside for contingency. So when we go to talk about the budget um for next year, you would take whatever that month end fund balance is and then add in that contingency to the to get what our true month end balance is that we're going to carry over into next year. So any questions at all on this one? Okay. No. Okay. I'm going to stop and then re share the presentation. So, I just wanted to give you a quick update on the budget um just to kind of know what to expect um for next week. I did send out the budget today um electronically um so if anybody wants a printed one, I'm working on printing them now. So, um just let me know and I can get uh one printed
035for you. Okay. Okay, so finishing up this year, we are on track right now for um a $ 1.9 million ending fund balance by adding back in that contingency. We already cut off spending in at the end of April. Everybody did a great job of getting their purchase orders in. Um all the buildings did. And so we'll still have some purchase orders go through, but they're all planned. You know, we know graduation, we know some of our um contracted uh things through like the ESD, those will still come between now and the end of the year. We did spend down about $500,000 in fund balance. We started the year a little less than 2.5 and then we are going to go into um next year was a little over 1.9. So, um we did spend
036down some fund balance, but we we expected to do that. Um the OD May reconciliation, we've been talking about this all year. Um we were estimating between 140 and 170 and the final reconciliation was a little bit in the middle. It was 1552. um it's not as is it's tighter than what I wanted it to be. Um there was a lot of variables that happened um at the at the end of the stretch with um with like districts and their estimating and um I could go on and on about that, but 1552 it's not the worst, but I definitely wanted that to be lower. >> Less than 170. That's true. There we go. But more than the nothing. Yes. Um we've also I talked about this earlier the ADM we are budgeting at an ADMW
037of 9004. Um when we did um when when the state calculated our ADM uh for next year um they uh were using a ADMR of 673 um which means that's what our enrollment is right that's what what we were um our enrollment was in um uh in December. So like when we submit our ADM reports at the end of December it's we actually had um enrollment of 683 but then they do a deduction it's called the December to July ratio and they look at what our past history look like and they have seen a trend um where we typically go down between December and June and so they apply that ratio to our numbers um as a precautionary thing um and for us that that dropped our ADMR to 673 Um this was an accurate
038representation of what happened last year. We did have a a decline in enrollment last year. We had the opposite this year. We definitely saw an increase and it stayed. Um we um like I said, we had 683 on that report and then um currently right now we're sitting at 690 and we've pretty stay we've gone up and down, you know, within like two students, but we've stayed pretty consistent. And so when I budgeted at that 904, I was budgeting it based at adding those those um 10 kids back in that they took out for the December to June ratio. So I predict that our our ADM will probably be a little bit higher, but it's it's hard because it's not a full year ADM. And so to go on the conservative side, um that's why
039we stuck with that. So that's about $100,000 um increase um what we're budgeting for based on what OD is estimating it at. Um and so you can see here on this next page, they based it on um an AMW of 895.21 and that was a little less than 8.9. And then um we're basing it on 904 and it's going to be um a little over 8.9. So that's that. So, looking ahead at 2627, um we did have an increase in the state school fund. Um about 6% over what we budgeted and about 5% over what we'll actually get this year. Um so, our general fund revenue increase was about 628,000 or 5% total. Our general fund expenditures increase, we had about a 9% increase in salaries. We had a, you know, a nice cola this
040year as well as we added some extra steps. Um and so that this is um uh that you know contributed to that 9%. And then we did a 5% it was about a 5% increase in supplies and materials. Um we did some right sizing um between the buildings in terms of you know what makes sense why are we giving one building this and another building that and Lisa and the admin spent a lot of time looking at that and what made sense going forward. And so we we have a formula now that um that the buildings um to get their allocation and then then they have the opportunity then to use the allocation how they choose. So but now you know we can explain to them how those numbers came up and then they can
041explain it to their building um how those numbers came. So that was exciting um to process to go through. Um continuing on 26 27 um WMA ESD um our allocation um it only increase about 15,000 or 3% um and um our overall allocation including carryover was actually a decrease of of a little over 30,000 or 7%. And that's because we had a pretty healthy carryover the year prior we had like $48,000 in carryover. Um and this year we only had about $8,000 in carryover. Um and where that comes from is they basically reconcile um the all of the districts and then that is um like the whatever ends up and it gets spread out between the districts. also takes in consideration I found out um e-ate um we um get an -ate grant and a
042lot of those things you have to pay upfront for technology um you know changes and then we get money back from the federal government and so that's also sometimes how you get that money back. Um so you can see overall we definitely went um you know down in terms of our spending uh power um the cost of services paid out of um LSP just to which is the local service plan to compare apples to apples. I just took what we had last year and what we're having this year and I looked at what the cost um uh increase was and it's about 7%. So um you can see that you know we get an allocation of 3% um and then our our costs um go up about 7% that that that's going to hit the
043general fund. So um cost of services paid out of the general fund the amount of of of services that we had to move into general fund or um you know SIA um was an increase of about 20%. So that's a pretty big um number and I just put some things so you can um see like what what that looks like. those substitutes. We have a a large portion of our LSP go to pay for our substitutes. And because other things increased, we had to move some of that money to pay for those. And so now, you know, about $33,000 more of substitute cost is going to hit the district than before when it we hit the resolution funds. And then, um, another example is the Phoenix school slot. So, um, if we have students that
044we send to the Phoenix school in McMinnville, it was a $16,000 increase, um, for that. So, um definitely some increases per fall. >> Yeah. >> Um an update on grants. Um our SI SIA allocation did have an increase of about 30,000. Um you will see in the budget we had some carryover from this year. So, our allocation um for our budget will look higher, but um our actual allocation went up about 30,000. Um and I also added the FTE that's paid for out of these because I think that's important for you to see that that there are um jobs being paid out of these important grants. Um so six little almost seven um FTE is paid out of SIA and that is a combination though most of these are not full FTE they're parts of
045um people's um salaries to you know enhance a program um or offer something that we you know wouldn't be able to otherwise. um high school success uh allocation went up about $8,000 and about 1.56 FTE is paid out of that. um our early literacy allocation had a small increase of 2500 and we pay.35 uh FTE um out of that grant and then title federal grants overall we had a decrease of about 16,000 um title one did see a hit which we do pay um FTE out of that um that is the only grant actually that we pay FTE out of and it's the 1.04 04. It's a combination of like four different people that get paid out of that grant. And so we did see a decrease of that which is um unfortunate and um
046IDA is not on here. Um but right now they're just saying flat flat um spending on that but we don't pay any um FT out of that anymore. So any questions? Okay. I appreciate it. Great explanation of everything where it's still going. >> Yeah, we appreciate that. >> As you know, we have um a fairly new budget committee. Um I met with all of them. Um no, I shouldn't say all of them. I met with the ones that have been um appointed so far and we went over the process so they understand it a little bit. Um and you'll notice this year I too I sent you guys kind of a breakdown of of what I would normally talk about in the budget meeting. Um, but I was I wanted to share that with everybody
047ahead of time because I feel like um the committee members are going to want to ask questions and and have thoughts and so to give them some guidance um you know might help with the meeting as well. So >> ready good practice study. >> Yeah. They're all really excited. It was really good to meet with all of them and um so yeah. >> Well, thank you for for taking the time to to do that. Yeah, that was it. >> I mean, you're busy and then to add that on. >> It was great. It was time well spent. >> All right, Dr. Harland, superintendent report. Okay, we got some pretty good pretty good news in this. >> We do. Uh, we do. So, just two topics tonight. Summer school grant and then our end of the
048year activities. Um, and so we just heard kind of right before this. Um, we were awarded a three-year grant. Uh so in the past summer school the grants have been like one year at a time. They've come out quite late. Uh school districts didn't know sometimes really until late May, even early June. If a school district got a grant but didn't couldn't utilize it, they would, you know, deny it and then they would kind of go to the next person on the list. And so it was very possible that you were a district that would have gotten word too late to kind of even do something with. And sometimes the requirements were different each year. So, it was pretty hard to plan sustainably um uh really effective programs. And so, they switched the the grant
049this year to be a three-year grant. Um and some of the requirements um were also different. And so, hats off to both Christie um and to Erica Gordon who were the ones who worked together on that grant proposal. Um so, we were awarded $148,000 per summer for three years. Um the focus is on literacy and math and certainly we'll target um our students who uh are in the most need in terms of um below grade level or below their peers kind of in those areas. But we're looking at a five-week program. It'll be in the morning. We'll be here at St. Mary's um Monday through Thursday. certainly also with some other activities, but um we know that there are going to be three weeks in there, maybe more that there's not going to be air
050conditioning and so we're going to keep it in the morning and we're going to open all the windows at night and it's going to be great. Um we knew that there was construction, but we also knew if we didn't go out for the grant, then we couldn't go out for it again for three years. And so, um, we just thought we'd be real flexible. Um, so, like I said, we'll we'll have some targeted enrollment and then certainly we'll just continue to open it up as we um know kiddos who are going to be able to participate and those who aren't. Also, hats off to all of our district folks who've been so great to work with and super flexible about offering transportation and we'll offer breakfast and lunch for all of the kiddos. Um and
051so people have just done a great job working together to say what are the potential barriers and then how do we just um make sure that they're not a barriers for kids to be able to come. And then of course um we always have great partnerships but but also a shout out to our local library um who will be in partnership with us to do field trips and activities um with kids over the summer as well. So, um I feel really grateful for the staff that we had work on this. Our uh grant scored just solidly right there. Um and I know that we are lucky enough to be granted this because that wasn't true for everybody. And so I'm excited for what it means for kids um and kids who need who who need
052it the most in the summer. So it is six positions. I think it's seven certified, six classified positions. um which is also a great opportunity for staff who want to work um in the summer as well as um transportation and food service staff with us as well. >> Any questions? >> The library partnership is that during the mornings with students and >> Yeah. >> Okay. And then the last bit um are all of the end of the year activities. Um so certainly you know about fifth and eighth grade promotion, high school graduation. We have our last day um is that half day. A heads up that as soon as kids leave on that half day, pretty quickly at both the high school and the middle school, we'll have some things rolling in um to parking
053lots and buildings in terms of things getting set up for the summer work. Um and so it will happen pretty quick on that June 12th day. And of course teachers last day is the 15th and just right after that um we will start um in in earnest demolition um and the like. Certainly both at JFK and Mans. And then typically this is when you get the kind of the graduation week schedule for the high school. It is um always just a dizzying uh display of all of all of the activities, but it starts pretty quickly here um at the end of the month for the deadline for seniors to participate in graduation and all the things that they need to have um done and complete. Friendly reminder that you do you have to participate in
054uh June 4th in the graduation practice etc. um it's mandatory to participate in the ceremony. So any questions about any of the end of the year and these were just you know as I started I thought oh just the highlights certainly we have field day at the middle school and certainly we have activities at the elementary school and I think we still have a field trip from here to there. um they're not all inclusive of all that's happening, but the the big pieces. >> Has there been talk about I don't want to jinx anything, but softball, graduation? >> From what I understand, the goal would be to have a morning game, morning time game on >> Yeah. and have the girls back like by by afternoon to participate. That's what I have heard. I believe
055that's what Mr. Moffett is trying to work out if that's what happens with our team. But we have to get to that day. >> Okay. But they did 10 runs late at the night. So, >> all right. Thank you, Superintendent. Thank you. >> All right. Board member reports. >> I I went to uh the science fair um on Thursday night, April 30th, >> and wow, what a turnout. >> Um there you you had a hard time walking in the cafeteria. And so, you know, first time that I can recall ever a science fair happening uh here. % yeah >> in in Matt Angel and they've got a great problem because they're going to have to expand to the gym next year. It was really really cool. Some students partnered up with each other. >> All
056the design that happened with second grade and their marble runs had to be done in class and they had to paint them. It was just a really >> Was it all grades or just >> It was second through fifth. >> Okay. um and second graders take took part during the school day during the swim time and then uh for the older kids it was encouraged to be a family >> project at home and so there's a lot of a lot of entries projects so >> and I think a big shout out to Mrs. She learned she coordinated the entirety of all that. >> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, great turnout from the community and again like Mr. Brendon said it's possible with Mrs. Shether's foresight to let's have a science fair. So yeah, it's really exciting to
057see what she's doing with that program. >> All right, public comment. Anybody online, Jill? No. >> Okay, moving right on to our action items. Uh we do have one uh budget committee member opening and we have one person that applied. That application is in your packet. So if there aren't any questions, I would take a motion. >> I move to approve the appointment of Scott Wall as a budget committee member for position number two with a term ending June 30th, 2026. Have a second. Second. >> Okay. Second. All right. All in favor. >> All right. Our budget committee should now full and we meet on Monday. >> Yes. We'll meet for today. Looking forward to >> may have been influenced by a former budget >> a little bit. That's okay. >> You say we like
058when people need to leave and find people. >> Yes. Your dad says >> positions. Yes. Abs. Absolutely. All right. Moving on to our discussion items. Lots of different uh board policy um here. >> Yeah. So, we have our our kind of new list from OSBA of the updates. The first um chunk that you have in front of you are all of the required updates um that have come out. they are mainly around either changes to public meeting laws um clarify specific um notices for example in our GBN um the notice requirements are are in the policy but it moves it to just a clearer spot um so all of the ones that you see are required legally um our integrated pest management it requires that we post it and review it um and then our
059equal opportunity um employer policy is specific specific around veteran preference status um and and being more inclusive to state to say state service members or former former state service members. So this first chunk are all um required uh changes and thanks to Teresa who who um is the intrepid um uh policy committee and and is steadfast in in meeting and discussing all of these at length with me. So, I know it's probably not the most thrilling um job, but I appreciate it. >> I enjoy it. >> I'm learning a lot by doing it. >> And and we'll have a good chunk for the next several meetings that come through as we just kind of work our way through the list. >> Director Marquez could not be here tonight. Um she had a last minute flight
060for work that she needed to catch. Uh she did want to mention something when it came to the sexual harassment policy. She wanted to give uh input on possibly under the definition part consider adding verbiage not limited to when listing acts that define sexual harassment. So she wanted to make sure that um I shared that for her. >> Any thoughts from the rest of the board members? >> Sounds like a good recommendation. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah, I I agree. All right, we look forward to the the second reading of those policies. >> All right, the June board meeting every year uh we have this discussion due to um the promotions and graduations that happen and the eighth grade promotion is that night that we would normally meet and for the past several years
061we have moved it to the Wednesday night of that week. Um, looking at everybody's calendars, is Wednesday night still available? >> Yeah, >> that would be the test. >> I wouldn't be able to make it, but that's okay. I mean, it's a it's a tough time of the year. I'm going to Bonnie Ray instead. So, >> we're already sorry. Just didn't find us all with you until we called out our meeting, >> but we did have it scheduled. >> Yeah, we had it scheduled for >> previously. But is this something that we just want to want to put in place though that from here on out the June board meeting is >> the following Wednesday >> on the the Wednesday basically it's kind of like the second Wednesday it's >> because of every year we're
062going to run into this this conflict. Does that sound good? >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Anything else before I adjourn? All right. Good government being serves.