001Please stand for the flag of the pledge allegiance 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 for all. >> Welcome everyone. Thanks for being here. Um if you'd like to sign in the visit guest book, you're more than welcome to. Um, if you'd like to speak with uh the board, then please tell Jill if you're online. We'll sign over there in public. Moving on to our announcements. Any other announcements from the board? Good. Presentations, leads, awards. >> Which administrator would you like to start with first tonight? >> We're going to start with elementary and then go middle high. Okay, good evening everyone. I get to introduce Harrison Rug to you all. We have been at St. Mary's public
002school for exactly the same amount of time. Harrison just joined us this school year and we have a few staff who nominated him. So, I'm going to read to you what they shared. Harrison is a fifth grade student in Miss Jarnigan's class. He joined our school this year and quickly became a good friend to others. He is always active and inclusive of others at recess and can often be heard before he's seen because he's having so much fun with friends. During his time at St. Mary's, he has maintained excellent attendance and is missed in is missed on those rare occasions when he is gone. Staff at St. Mary's have observed Harrison's compassion and empathy toward younger students around the building, comforting and encouraging them with his quickwittedness. Recently, Harrison climbed under a table to support
003and calm a younger student, demonstrating his caring and attentive disposition. Harrison is enthusiastic about learning and challenging himself. He cooperates well with other students, is creative, and always wants to do his very best. Way to go, Harrison, for being a role model student at St. Mary's. We are lucky to have you in Mount Angel School District, and look forward to seeing you grow and learn throughout the years to come. for Missile. >> Perfect. Okay. And don't go yet because when we're done, we'll take a picture of Mr. All right, Mr. Taylor. Looks cool. I'd like to present to you Leo Perez. So, he also has impeccable timing as you can see. He's coming in from the track meeting. I'm like, "Oh, I really hope he did. So Leo has excellent ideas and works hard in
004math, taking algebra in his eighth grade year. He really likes growing in his math skills strongly and challenging himself. He takes on extra challenges with determination. For example, he recently represented ma'ams at the pend games math competition in class. He kindly shares ideas and also works collaboratively with his classmates. I'd also like to say that Lao is uh running for us in track and he's just joined us this evening. We had a track meet tonight. He's very very involved in school and he had straight A's in quarter three. So, we're very proud of him. If you please help me celebrate later. Yeah. Mrs. President. >> Hello. Good evening. Uh my uh award winner is also a busy lady. Um you'll hear it later in when I report about Dorne Becker Week, but I wanted to
005celebrate Megan Wagner uh this month. Megan has a perfect blend of leadership, effort, and humor. With every challenge that she takes on, she does it with a smile and a witty joke. No matter how overwhelmed she is with her own rigorous courses, she's always willing to put everything down and listen to others who need help. As if being ASV president isn't enough in itself, she's also the FFA chapter secretary. In both of these leadership roles, Megan does her absolute best and puts in 100% to make things happen. She's always well uh someone that her nominator can rely on and delegate a task to without worrying about the outcome. Megan is so extremely hardworking, funny, purposeful, and thorough. So, please congratulate Megan when you see her around. >> All right. And if our award winners can
006come on over here, get a picture of the board. Okay. But it's nice. You're more than welcome to stay around or at this point. >> Yes. Our second presentation tonight is from OTAC, Mr. Lent. >> Hello everyone. >> Well, my name's Andrew Lent. I am from Otac, where the owner's representation firm has been helping the district with all the projects that's been going on. um the first one and two phases are complete and uh through some very true value engineering and uh other tactics we've been able to save quite a bit of money in our program budget for a phase three. Um so that is what we are seeking approval from the the school board aka the local contracting review board tonight to enter into a contract for phase three of the progressive design build
007contract with PNC construction. Some of the materials that you may have uh to reference would be our scope budget uh for phase three. Um most of the work is going to be at MAMS. We did a lot of work to kind of hone our HVAC design for MAMS originally thinking of mini split cooling systems. We've landed on UN events. They're a little bit more expensive than we originally had um estimated more than the uh the mini split systems, but as you can see, our budget there is well within the available funds we have. um still able to use for the program. Um and I think we have a great plan for phase three. >> Any questions for the board? >> Just I would say a shout out to the bond oversight committee who have spent
008um uh countless hours throughout the length of this project but then also served me recently on kind of phase three. And so I know we have some representatives who kind of do double duty, but just they've been a great um oversight and kind of steward. So I think we would be remiss not to mention their volunteerism and good work. >> Yeah. And u thank you for the clear layout on you know what has been selected and then what the costs were the for the other projects. >> Absolutely. And if you have any any questions by all means feel free. >> Anybody else? Okay, that will be um under our action items later this evening to um prove that we're not good. >> Awesome. Well, thank you so much and congratulations to the award winners. That
009was very cool. >> So, thank you so much for being here. >> Hey, thank you. >> All right, moving on to our third presentation for the night for brick architecture, Mr. Hes. He's online tonight. Hi everybody. Thanks for uh letting me attend virtually. I had a busy schedule today, so this works out well. Um what I'm here to talk about is another one of your projects, which is the seismic upgrade at JFK High School, which is scheduled to uh the construction schedule that happened this summer. So, uh, Christie, were you guys going to run the presentation or do you want me to share my screen? >> Either one. I can pull it up if it was easiest. Okay. >> So, this project is uh CMGC. So, we're brick is the architect. We have uh consultants
010working under us and then the district hired through the CMGC method PNC construction uh to do the construction of the building and to work with us during the design phase. So the overview of the project is uh first of all it's funded by a seismic rehabilitation grant from the state of Oregon. So it's not a bond project. The grant amount is a little over $2 million. And then the scope uh for this project is basically seismic upgrade of the north classroom wing at the high school. So in that image uh it's basically everything that isn't, you know, kind of tan or orang-ish. Uh so it's classrooms, hallways, uh just in that portion of the building. And like I mentioned, the the work is going to occur over summer 2026. So as part of the CMGC
011process u at the conclusion of the construction documents when the architect submits their final documents the contractor is uh required to submit what they call the guaranteed maximum price uh which is uh their the the final bid basically on the project. Um so they did that on March 20th 2026. It's uh based on the construction documents that we did and includes all the components of the project. So, you know, it's a seismic upgrade, but that includes architectural, mechanical, and some electrical scopes of work because when you tear a building apart to upgrade the structure, um there's, you know, other things that are affected and you have to rebuild those as well. So, uh, PNC's amount for their GMP guaranteed maximum price is 1,633,540 and that's within the overall budget uh for the seismic rehabil rehabilitation.
012Um, for the contractor, they have a contingency within that 1.6 million of 75,000 for unforeseen conditions. So if they they've done a lot of homework. We've done a lot of homework trying to understand all the details of the building. I don't think there's going to be a lot of surprises. But anytime you work on an old building and start tearing it apart, sometimes you find things that were unexpected. So they have $75,000 in their budget to cover unforeseen conditions. And then on top of that for the overall program, the school district has an additional contingency of about 50,000 um for their own sort of issues that may come up uh that are outside of the GMP. So there's a pretty healthy contingency. I'm optimistic we won't use all of it. Again, I think um both
013our team and the contractor have spent a lot of time investigating and studying the building and uh uh they're they're ready to go and I think it's going to go pretty smoothly. Uh the other good news is that uh we submitted for permits in February and we've received the permit. uh has been approved and so that's a real relief for the contractor because the project now it's it's really ready to go um after their uh GMP is approved by the school board. So the next steps would be um the board approval tonight of the guaranteed maximum price um and then PNC is going to begin procurement of long lead items. Um given the fact that it's April and they really have to hit the ground running right in June. Uh they're they want to order
014things now that uh take a little bit longer which is mostly structural steel. uh it takes a while to procure that and so they want to get going on that. Uh construction is scheduled to begin the week of June 15 and then their date of substantial completion is August 21 which then gives uh the school approximately a week to contractors to be gone and teachers to get ready for the school year. So that's pretty much my presentation. I'm open to questions about any of it or anything else that's on your mind. >> How confident are we going to hit that end date? >> Yeah, that's a that's a good question. I'll let Dan answer that first. I uh you know, summer projects are uh you know, they're complicated and uh again, you never know what
015weird things going to happen. But the kinds of things that sometimes slow these projects down are um permits, like if you don't have permits in time and the contractor is kind of slow to get started, but we have that. Um, sometimes you have a lot of asbestos abatement, but we've done a a study. We know where it is and PNC has abatement um, dollars in their budget, so they're prepared to deal with it. They they're pretty sure they know where it is, and so they they'll be able to deal with it as needed. Um, and we've we have done some selective um, demolition of parts of the building during design. so that the structural engineer knew, you know, what was what was in place because even this building isn't that old, but the drawings are
016often not fully complete and they don't tell the whole story. Um, so sometimes you have to start deconstructing the building a little bit in pieces to really understand what's going on. So, we did that with PNC's help. they um they met the structural engineer out on site and they looked at the things they needed to look at. So I think a lot of the surprises uh have already been dealt with the potential surprises. You know, the other the other issue would be if it was a contractor that wasn't used to doing these kinds of things and this was their first rodeo, but this isn't for PNC. They do these summer projects all the time. They're a experienced school contractor and they've done all your other projects, too. So, you know, they have local connections and
017I I feel confident that they'll meet the August 21st uh deadline. Um you never can 100% say for sure, but and and if they're not, you know, they're the type of contractor they would give everybody a heads up if there was something that was, you know, going to cause a delay. They wouldn't wait till the last minute. They they'd start planning for it. What day are we going back this year? >> 30. Well, >> the 24th we approve that calendar, right? >> Yeah. The first day of school would be August 31st. And so, I think summer construction is always tight. Certainly, it will be at JFK. It also will be at MAMS. And then just a tiny bit here at St. Mary's. Um, I think what makes me feel better about it is the fact
018that PNC has already done so much work in the district. So they know like they know the building, they know um and so that does make me feel better but it will always make me nervous to have summer construction. So >> is there a plan in place for communication on progress so that we're made aware of any potential delays as early as possible? >> You will be made of any potential delays as soon as I am right in terms of like if there's something um that comes up certainly I'll make you aware of those. um ordering the steel ahead of time, like those long lead items, we'll get them before construction even begins. Those things kind of um make me a little bit nervous. Um in terms of like uh the building itself, like they've
019already gone through concrete to look underneath the building and some of the access tunnels. So, they did a bunch of thought that work beforehand to be able to say, "Okay, what are we getting into? What do we need to factor in in terms of structural engineering?" And so because they did a lot of those investigations, I think we're a little bit more confident or feel a little bit better that they're not going to start tearing something apart and that there's going to be a surprise. Um but again, it's always possible. But yeah, you will know the minute I do and it won't happen because it will be so smooth and and great. But um yeah, as things arise, for sure. >> And just to add to that along the lines of communication, we meet with
020them weekly. >> Okay. So they overly communicate I feel like. >> Yep. >> Any other questions? >> No. N. >> Okay. >> Thank you so much, Mr. H, for being here tonight. Yeah. >> And the board. This is in our second action item this evening. All right. >> Thanks, Dan. >> Thank you. >> Bye. >> Moving on to our agenda. If you don't see anything you'd like to move around or take out, I would accept a motion to approve the agenda as is. Move to approve the agenda as is. We got a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Move it and second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I passes unanimously. Moving on to the consent items. Um, and unless you feel like there's something that we need to pull from the consent items,
021I would accept a motion to approve the consent items as is. Move to approve the consent items as second motion. >> Second. All in favor? >> Moving on to our reports. I'm not seeing anybody in person. Is there anybody for online for license or classified? Oh, okay. Um, and then our student report. Miss Morales cannot be here tonight, so I'll read what she sent uh tonight in her absence. Uh, academics, it's the beginning of the fourth quarter. Both middle and high school are offering after school help to students. Uh and for clubs FLA congrats to the following who placed in the top 10 in their events at the FAA state business leadership conference. Doson third MJ Lema did I say say that correctly 10th um Samantha Beltran sixth team of Nikita MJ and D Chanel
022sixth team of D Chanel Guzman and Jackie Nois fifth team of Audrey B and So >> solio think he was friended six didn't say uh which particular event uh they placed in FFA I had the state convention as well and there is an FFA banquet coming up ASB this week is Dorbecker's week um and I think Mrs. Brendan might touch on a little bit on that later, but she put in her notes that Doran Becker's week is a schoolwide fundraising event where we have the opportunity to raise money and awareness for the Dor Becker Children's Hospital up in Portland competition pageant show, best Trojan ever, similar to Mr. Trojan. It's featuring a talent show. We will have activities and dress up days all week. Today is uh kickball at six o'clock at softball field. Tuesday
023has flashlight tag at 8. Wednesday movie night at 6. Thursday burgers and Italian sodas at the track meet. And Friday there is no activity scheduled. And that's it for me updates from Miss Morales. Moving on to administrator reports. We will go in order of the packet. So your way again we this week we have kindergarten roundup on Thursday evening which is exciting. Kimberly tells me it's a big group that has already uh signed up to come. I already pre-registered and she's gotten the information too. It's only 11 on the list and that feels small, but she's telling me that's big for this time of year. So, that's exciting. Um, so we've got a good crew of staff that'll be here Thursday night to um work that. It sounds like it's a pretty welloiled machine. So,
024we get some information about our incoming kindergarters, academics, and other needs. So, they'll take a little tour of the school. So, I'm looking forward to seeing that. We started our second round of intervention groups last week. So, we have 71 kids that we're serving. Um, we're focusing primarily on literacy, but a few groups are in math. It's exciting for us because we saw a lot of growth that first round of groups that we did. It was six weeks long and we had a couple grade levels that there just was not the need to continue serving them in this way because of the growth that we saw. Um, primarily looking at fluency in the upper grades. So we felt really um I guess validated like we wanted to pat ourselves on the back for targeting the
025right intervention and seeing some growth in kids. So we were able to bring in younger kids. So we have a second grade group going and some kindergarten as well too. So that's exciting. We don't have more people or more times in the day but we're just able to narrow our focus. Um, and with that, we were able to work with our partners at the early learning hub to leverage some funds to help support materials that we're finding are working. Um, they came with the benchmark materials, so we were just adding to what we already had with that adoption so that we can get more things in the hands of kids in their small groups. Um, and then our plan is to run this round through the first week of May and then back off of
026third, fourth, and fifth as they're doing state testing and teachers need more time in classrooms. So, we'll focus more heavily on K1 and two. And we really think it will be less of an intervention and more of like a boost into the summer is what we're predicting. So, that feels really good um to see our kids growing. Uh in May we'll start our afterchool literacy class. We feel really confident in selecting which kids will invite to that based on all this great data that we're collecting through the intervention groups we're doing during the day. So this has been done here before through the early literacy early learning grant. Um it'll be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays in May for the month of May. So 12 sessions. Kids will go to four 15 minute groups of targeted instruction.
027We're excited to have um Kelly Taylor, our PE teacher, is going to be one of our group leaders. So, she's doing kesthetic learning of foundational literacy skills through gross motor. So, I don't know what that looks like yet, but she will. It's going to be great. Um when I wrote this, we didn't have any results in yet, but I had five back today of our uh much more than five kids. All of them made progress. And the the one in particular, a third grader who had threes and fours in all of his domains last year, scored fives across the board. So, that's exciting. So, we'll keep watching those to come in. Um, Elus complete. Our EL teacher did a great job getting everybody tested and through just in time for the window to close even
028with a first grade field trip to the zoo on Thursday. So, she did it. Um, and then three through five is in OSA's practice testing. If they haven't started yet, they will be soon. So that kids aren't seeing the test for the first time when they log in. Um, and then beyond that, we're still, you know, working our way through 2526, but doing planning for the next school year. So, um, collecting preferences from teachers and classified staff about what their schedules should look like and preferences for duties. It always surprises me who wants to be a crossing guard and who doesn't. So, I I try to ask those questions because um yeah, there's always a surprise and it's nice when you get to do the thing first thing in the morning that you would prefer
029if you can. Um and then we are fully planning to go into next year with the same kind of scheduling model that we have tried out this year where we move our instructional assistance around based on what students are needing by grade level. with the exception of September, we want to hold that, really steady for our youngest learners and have as much support in our K1 classrooms as we can while they're getting into school routine. So, feels like a a good place to be at in the middle of April and a lot of good student growth. So, it's great. Any questions? >> Nope. Thank you very much. >> Yep. Thank you, Mr. Taylor. Good evening board chair, board, superintendent. Want to hit on three things just very briefly. The first is we were lucky enough
030to be selected by the Blazers organization to win a grant for $6,600 plus a $100 stipen. And that grant will be used for the library. Twothirds of that grant will be used for the physical plant library. We want to find we have a lot of hardscape. We have a lot of hard chairs and hard tables and we'd like to make that a more inviting environment where kids can come in, grab a book, sit down and read and enjoy that area. So, we're looking at lower seating, seating that is more configurable in there, some paint and some other things. Then the other third will be used directly for books and to support the library and continuing to build their books um up. We have an additional three grants outstanding. Knock on wood. Hopefully we'll get one
031or two of those. Um, also for the library. So, a lot of focus right now on building up our literacy resources in order to support that. The second one was school. the middle of that, the Wednesday there was really, really rainy, but all of our students attended at least two days of outdoor school. 95% of them attended all three days of outdoor school. And it was just here in Scots Mills at a terrific place. And we have a really good company that we work with. So some of the offerings, fire science, habitats, shelters and trapping, resource gathering, geography and navigation, foraging, archery, hiking, fishing, wildlife science, and outdoor first aid. And they have a very handson approach, but as they instruct, they don't give students answers. They give them time to wrestle with these things.
032So, you've got some flint and steel, and we've talked a little bit about what are the things you need. You need oxygen, and you need some combustible materials. And then they really step back and let students wrestle with that for a while. And then they'll feed them a little more information and then a little more. And not every kid gets a fire started. And that's good, too. But they do struggle all the way through that in a really productive struggle and had a great time this year. Third thing, pentag games. This last Friday we had three groups. You have a seventh grade group, an eighth grade group, and then an algebra group. Generally, three kids per group, so nine kids total. We had a much bigger and more competitive session this year than we had
033last year, including having Silverton and a couple of other larger schools join us. Did very, very well. My favorite question I actually asked of Charlie, I said, "What did you learn about yourself?" And here's what he told me. He said, "I learned that it's not just about getting it right. It's also being about fast and getting it right. And I said, "Yeah, there's fast and there's right and there's right and fast." And all of three of those really have a place in what we do. And those are great great conversations with the kids as they come back to ask what they learned about themselves. So those are three things we are currently as was spoken for before in conversations around transition. So that's fifth to sixth and that's eighth up to the high school both
034at a more global state when you coming up when am I going down but more specifically kid by kid and how we can make sure that each one of those transition grades has things ready at an individual level >> questions this is Brendan again. >> Um, you have my report there. I'd like to touch on three pieces of it. The first and they're all three in academics because Noelia did a really great job describing Storm Becker Week and what's going on with activities um and athletics in JFK. So, I'll hit on academics. So my report was from last week. The teacher grading day was Friday and so I have new data on that. So 98% of our seniors are now on track for graduation. I have confidence in that last student. She's gonna she'll be
035okay. So our our seniors are um doing great. They're on track. Um 91% of our students are on track for graduation just given who's passing right now. We don't lock in grades until the end of the semester. So that there's still a lot of time to bring that number up and it will grow. In map testing, there are some highlights there about the differences between winter and spring um results. Um but after fall testing, we saw that there was a little bit of a lag informational reading um in readingformational texts. So um together we uh focused on the close reading strategy and it just means reading repeated reading reading more closely reading with different purposes each time you read. And so it might be reading a math problem, reading it first to just get the
036gist, reading it a second time to look at the details that matter and the details that don't, reading another time to make an inference about, you know, which pieces of the math are important. So, we do it all the time in our lives. We read and reread to learn. And so, this is just teaching students to do that a little more explicitly. Um, we did see growth informational texts and students abilities to readformational texts in our most recent spring data. So, it paid off. That's exciting to see. The last highlight that I wanted to give you was the report from the WAMIT promise dual credit data that's also in your packet. Um it's two two separate pages. One is the data from last year and then the other is the cumulative across all time in
037WAMIT promise. So, WAMIT Promise is a program through the WAMIT ESD where they've partnered with Oregon Institute of Technology and Western Oregon University. So, that when students we recruit teachers to teach a class that they teach, but also add extra um activities and and um maybe a little more rigor in order to make it a dual credit class. So, students can get a college credit for that class, too. Some of the classes that we offer give an OIT credit, some offer a Western Oregon University credit. We also have dual credit um classes through Shemecka, but they're not reflected in this data. Um you can see there that the um some of the data about it, but it's really a really big celebration, I think, because our students are rising to the challenge. they enjoy finding
038classes that they can earn some college credits for. Um, and it can help that it's only $30 for the year for any classes that a student takes. So, if a student is in four dual credit classes that are all WAMIT promise, they only need to pay $30 for the credits that accompany those. Yeah. So, it's a huge savings in money over time. And if students take full advantage of our of our courses, it can put them up to a year ahead in college. So, it really is um a big deal. And I wanted to make sure that you knew what kind of impact it's having at JFK. So, those are my highlights for academics. Do you have questions about those or anything else? >> What are some other dual credit classes? >> Sure. Chemistry um
039is one. Uh college writing. Um let's see. Anatomy and physiology. Uh we have 19 advanced placement courses. Um so I apologize for not knowing them off the top of my head. E economics is another one that they can take for advanced or um college credit. >> Okay. That's >> all of our AP classes. Some are So AP is a little tricky. AP is AP, advanced placement class. And if students pass take an advanced placement test at the end of the year, some colleges, if they get a certain score on it, four or five usually some colleges will take that as a college credit and some want different scores or they want something different or they won't take it. So it's a little bit wiggly. But if a teacher of an advanced placement class also partnered
040with Calamity SD to make it a dual credit course, then students can get the college credit. Um, and then the AP passing the AP test is like the cherry on top. It's like a big bonus. So, our AP, some of our AP classes are also dual credit classes. That's a fair question. It can definitely get you a complete list of all of the dual credit courses. >> My question would be what would stop a teacher from not partnering to make their class Yeah. dual credit? >> It's a good question. I have two that um so the the first constraint on that is that the there's only certain classes that are offered. So they come and meet with me every spring and say, "Okay, these are the classes that are eligible for dual credit." So I
041need to approach a teacher who taught a new class this year and I can see over here on their list that there's a really high correlation between this new class that he's teaching and the content that's in here. So I'll go talk to him by August 1st. I think he needs to make a commitment to do that. I don't think it'll be a hard sell. Um maybe what would prevent a teacher from saying yes to it would be the amount there's PLC time that's needed. So teachers need to be gone three days out of the school year to go PLC with the dual credit group. Um many love it and don't mind it at all because they get to go get a little breath of fresh air and network with other teachers. But there aren't
042many teachers who I've approached and have said no. And my next wondering, not it's not a question. My wondering is you're always looking to close the gap. >> There's a 2:1 ratio, female to male. So wondering is >> like how we can close close that gap, but I'm sure it's a wondering of yours as well. >> Definitely is. >> Yeah. Open to ideas. Um, we need to maybe I don't I have some I once I'm glad that that caught your eye because it caught mine also. And I think there's some things that we can do. >> TBD, you might see some different numbers next year. >> Well, thank you so much for your presentation. Yes. All right. We see the budget report. All right. Okay. So, is that the lunch one? Yes. So, the lunch
043one first. Um, so for March, uh, you can see that, um, I did the transfer or 80,000 from the general fund. Um I the plan was always to do it was what we budgeted for and I just did it this particular month. And then you can see the revenue um for um February well March but for February's um dates $36,000 in federal reimbursement and then almost 9,000 in state reimbursement. So um total revenue was $126,433 which includes um that transfer. And then for um total expenses was 52,959 a little less than the month prior. Um and so right now we are trending at a little less than 27,000 for a month in fund balance. Um I got an email today about our revenue for next month and we're I want to say like5 to7,000 more
044year-over-year. So, we are trending um with, you know, kids eating more and, you know, the reimbursement rate. So, I thought that was really exciting. We're still planning on doing a transfer next year, but you know, hopefully as we see that go up and the participation go up that maybe we can start backing off on that transfer. So, any questions on this one at all? Okay. Okay. And so for the general fund um we had um our last which is pretty typical our last big amount for um taxes for the year. It kind of will start tapering out um for the rest of the year and then our interest and then our state school fund. You can see that the 650,000 uh 468 that is about what we'll get the next three months give or take
045depending on uh fingerprint charges come out of that. So that's why you might see like a$100 to $200 difference um month over month and um also did some transfers into general fund and those transfers are from um athletic fund or excuse me athletic fees. So the students who participate in sports, it goes through the high school or the middle school's ASB accounts and then um we take um that transfer of them to the district. Um and so total revenue for the month of March was 732,000. And then expenditures um March is a normal month in terms of salaries. So you can see um what our salary of benefits were and that 181 309 in transfers um that is what we budgeted for for transfers. So that includes um a transfer to maintenance fund um the
046food service funding we talked about earlier um bus fund curriculum fund that might be it. Um so that is what that amount is there and then so total expenditures for the month were a little over a million. So, right now we're trending at a monthly amount balance of a little less than 1.15. Um, any questions on this one at all? Okay. Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Oh, did you want is that with the board vacancy? Is that part of my thing or is that later on >> to declare the board vacancy? >> I was going to do that. Did you want me to talk about it at all? >> If you'd like to. >> Okay. So, we had um a member of our of our budget committee resign earlier this month and so
047we needed to um open up uh the vacancy for that. And so, we're going to do a short timeline to try to replace that. It the term is only through the rest of this year. So, it's a very short term for somebody who maybe is interested in learning more about budget. and it's not a huge commitment because it's just one year and then it'll go open again for people who want to reapply they they're more than welcome to. So if you know anybody after the vacancy is declared um send them my way. >> The individual moved out of town so that's >> correct. Thank you for saying that. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Right. Dr. Heron superintendent report. >> Okay chair members of the board. Um tonight's superintendent report has two topics. The first are
048health instructional materials adoption and then the second is the English that is awful as well learner outcomes program um and the fact that we have directed funding designation and so those are the two things that I um just great um so the first part instructional materials adoption so as you know um instructional materials are on a sevenyear cycle cycle um in the state. And so you have a two-year maximum waiver. So any district can postpone adoption up to two years. Um for health materials, we did that. Um and so um there was a postponed of two years. And so this is the year that we adopt health materials. When we do that, there are few things we need to consider. One are the state standards for health. Those were updated in 2018 and then again,
049I think in 2023. And then the second piece is Aaron's law. So Aaron's law is a piece of legislation that requires that districts um provide education on sexual child sexual abuse prevention in grades K through 12. So those are things to consider. Um with any instructional materials adoption, we have a committee and that's generally made up of teachers who teach that content area. Um and we have um curriculum materials that we look at and review often that come from a state adopted list for materials. This year for example um was social studies adoption. We postponed um that adoption because we were behind on the others and so you'll expect that next year you'll see a social studies adoption. The year after will be the next content area and so so goes the cycle. So, for
050this year, um, on our adoption committee, we had Naomi Stadley, who is the, um, elementary counselor, um, who's the one at the elementary school who does the, um, Aaron's law lessons, um, and is the person who primarily does health instruction at the elementary. We have Angie Trager and Chrissy Kukar who teach middle school health, sixth and then seventh and eth respectively, and Joe Kanuk, who is the high school health teacher. Angie Trager and Joe Kooper are also parents. So the first thing the committee does when they meet is look at the health standards and start to prioritize those standards. So what that means uh the high school is a good example is they'll start to say which of those standards appear in which class because there will be a health one class and a health
051two class and then they also look at them and say which of these standards do we go to depth on. So like um with curriculum and with any of the standards, there is more there than we have time in the school year. Oregon is one of the shortest school years in the country and so you know that any curriculum that you get, there will be more there than you're able to do. So one of the first things teams do is prioritize um which standards are the most important and then where would they fit in the system when there are multiple classes materials. Then um there's a scoring rubric that the team looks at to say, "Okay, is this the rubric we want to use to score these materials?" And then all of the materials that
052are on the list have to be double scored, right? So they're scored by more than one person um on the um committee. Um which means for example well it's very likely it's always true that um a high school person will certainly be doing some of the high school materials but will also have to double score for other levels and kind of vice versa after all of those materials are scored. Um, and in this instance, I would tell you again a shout out to the folks on the committee. They spent, I think we had four half days. Um, and so it's pretty tedious, time consuming, brain kind of busting work in terms of looking through things um, and scoring it all with the rubric. Um so after all the materials are scored the committee comes back
053together those scores are kind of calculated and then there's a discussion about um uh pros and cons of different materials and then the committee makes a recommendation um for that instructional material that then um there's a public viewing session and so either resources online or in person those are available for the public to view. So for us the recommended materials um so that the committee recommend um is making a recommendation for approval to the board are K8 the great body shop and so some of the um strengths that they the committee felt um for this was engaging student materials that there's a family bulletin so there's a a mechanism where um families have a login and they can kind of go on see all of the materials and that something is also sent home so
054that um kids and families can have conversations ations that they liked that the material was age appropriate. So, kindergarten looks really different than second grade and that it was available in multiple languages. And then for the high school, it's Gleno Health. Um the strengths were that they like that it was skills-based. Um that there were a lot of teacher resources that were really accessible and easy to use, that the sensitive topics for high school were in a supplementary kind of materials um separately. they felt like it was easy then to um to be able to organize in terms of lessons when those topics were happening and that there's some familiarity there because Glenco Health is currently the um curriculum that's used at the high school or has been used at the high school. Some important
055parts to note um in terms of uh this curriculum but actually any curriculum is the family notification and opt out process. So typically with health adoptions there are some sensitive topics right that are included. One is child abuse ab abuse prevention um and we call that at the younger grade level safe touch lessons um so certainly a sensitive topic. Health and human development certainly can be communicable disease prevention HIV AIDS and then gender identity or gender orientation are often sensitive topics for families. And so because we know that health is a very um personal the health education is a personal and a family choice in many instances. Our goal as a district is to be really transparent about what the health standards are, our requirements are as a district, the instructional materials that will be
056used or could be used, and that parents then receive a notice of instruction anytime those things um that topic or that instruction is going to happen to give them the uh notice and the opportunity to be able to opt their child out of part or whole of any of those things. So it could be a lesson, it could be a unit of study, or it could be the content altogether. So those are parts of this process like they would be certainly for other curricular areas, but this um tends to be one that's more sensitive for sure. Any questions about um about this or the um recommendation that will be before you? >> Are you looking at purchasing then this these materials for the upcoming school year? Yeah, that's a great thank you for pointing that
057out. So, adoption is required and there have been some years well certainly in our very recent past adoptions have been put on hold because of COVID and so we kind of are just getting back on cycles and there have been years where districts have adopted a curriculum. Math and ELA curriculum is a good example. They're very expensive. So, a district might adopt it but not have the funds to be able to purchase it. In this instance, we are looking to purchase um there is a grant through the ESD that will actually purchase the K5 curriculum for us um in terms of cost, which is nice. And then um and we have some other um funds set aside for 68. And then for 912, you know, in in terms of our size, we're pretty lucky for
058912, for example, it would be a class set, right, of each of these materials. So we're not talking about a ton of books which it looks very different for ELA and MAP in terms of cost. So in terms of total cost it might be you know between maybe 17ish,000 maybe 17 and 20 which just on the scope of the whole ELA math is hundreds of thousands. Yeah. >> And and Dr. Harland uh you discussed with me that when we joined that lawsuit though >> talk on that. >> Yeah. So, a few years ago, apparently, the district joined in a class action lawsuit against Jewel, the vaping company or the um product. And so, part of that settlement was $17,000, I think, or uh maybe it was it 13. >> It was um of a settlement.
059And so, we will use those funds to purchase health materials, which seems pretty appropriate from a a baby lawsuit. Yes. Um, oddly enough, that's where part of that will come from. Yeah. >> The other thing I should mention too, um, again that we're really lucky is that we have great partnership with the local clinic. So, at the high school, for example, when there are lessons um that happen around um basically what you would think of as typical sex education topics, the local clinic has come to to to teach and to do those lessons, provide those lessons. And so, um that's something that we'll continue to do and continue in partnership. But I think that's also different for us and that we have a local clinic that's great that's willing to come and help out and
060be great partners. Um and so we appreciate that. Okay. Um, we're gonna continue on if there aren't any more questions on the second topic, which is English learner outcome program directed funding determination. So, here's what that all is. In 2021, we were identified as a district basically kind of um a I don't want to say a watch list, but we were identified as a target district specifically for our English learners their outcomes and it was based on data from 2018-19 because they used kind of preandemic data and there were two main um goals and two areas that they kind of looked at. one was um ninth grade on track specifically for English learners and the second was attendance and that attendance looked at students who were ever English learners versus students who weren't. And so
061the district at that time in 2021 there were two goals based on those areas. Um so you know over the course of time the district kind of worked on those goals. there were um uh there were some progress checks and then in this fall there was um basically a progress meeting to say hey here were your goals how did you do you meet them or not um with the idea that districts who um met them would kind of exit that targeted status and districts who did not meet them would enter a new status which would be a directed a cooperative directed funding um scenario So, our two goals, nth grade on track, um we partially met, uh we increased that by 15%. The goal though was an increase of 22%. Um and so while we
062made market progress and anything double digit um is um is pretty remarkable. It's it's hard one um it wasn't enough. Um and you'll hear me talk about that in a second. The second was attendance. So our attendance specifically for our eels improved but we didn't meet because it didn't meet parody meaning the difference between our students who were ever English learners to non-English learners was about 5% the difference was around there and while attendance improved it improved for everybody and that gap of 5% remained and so that's um why we didn't meet um for attendance. So, what this means is that there is a three-year designation that happens um in terms of having directed funding status. And so, OD with the district develops basically the direction for our expenditure for our EL funds. So, as
063a reminder, um English learners, we get more funds as a district for every English learner in order to give them the education that they need. um which includes right um learning English and scaffolds and supports. Our district the funds that we get for that we spend directly on staff and that is our ELD teachers. So we have a full-time ELD teacher at the elementary school and we have a full-time ELD teacher at the secondary school. So I don't have a lot of concern about the um directed funding because we spend it on staff and the state will see that and that's what they would have us spend it on, right? Our EL teachers. So I don't have concern there. I think my concern and frustration really lies in the fact that um one I don't
064know how realistic the goals that were originally set were in terms of not only progress but for example our goal for 9th grade on track. If we would have met that goal um we would have beat out I think most all districts for their all category like it was astronomically high. And I think they just did a calculation, the state did at the time and said, "Okay, this is what it needs to be, but it wasn't realistic or didn't take into account the nature of our population, our size, um, really or anything besides mathematical calculation. So part of what I've pushed for is the opportunity to review and revise those benchmark goals um to make them I think more relevant and um and frankly you know get to the heart more at um what I
065would expect to see in terms of progress for our EL learners um like on track or on track to exit or um and so what this means kind of for the future is every here for the next three years. At some point, um there will come a report I'll bring to you. Um that communicates that the direction that we have for those expenditures to say, okay, this is how much we get in these funds. This is how we're being directed to spend it. Um and that that notice has to go out through the board. It certainly will go out in terms of letters to parents. We need to put it on the website. And so that will happen. That presentation will happen every year for three years. And all of those notifications will also happen
066um every year for three years. But three years is the first chance that we get to be able to exit that status. So even if it is like right lots of growth, great job next year and the year after, you don't have the opportunity to even exit until you've hit three years is the first time. So questions on that. >> It's hard. I think it's Yes, we should be looking at how kids are doing and we always want to improve. Um there's a fair amount of consternation and frustration with the the system and how it's working. Um yeah, and we'll just we'll keep at it. All right, thank you. Moving on to board member reports is a little quick one. I had the privilege of going to the WCA facility during spring break and uh
067it is pretty impressive. That is fact not even describing how well set up all of the different um programs are. Uh, as an example, when you walk into the dental hygiene area, it looks like you're walking into a very welllaidout modern-day tennis office. >> It was just very uh very well laid out and I think our students who do attend have a huge opportunity to to be at that facility and to be learning. So hoping in the future we continue to send our students there and hope they understand what they're getting out of that. But it was it's a really nice welllaid out well-run facility and programs for students to have as an option outside of the standard academics. So very cool. >> Thank you. Anybody else? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Green. All right. Moving
068on to public forum. We do have one person that signed up. Mr. Trigger, you want to come on up? But I'm going to read when it comes to public forum the parameters. >> Okay. Individual comments are limited to three minutes. If more time is required, please submit comments or questions in writing. At this time, members of the public are invited to present concerns to the board. Speakers may offer objective criticism of school operations and programs, but the board will not hear complaints concerning individual school personnel. The chairperson will direct complaints to the appropriate means for board consideration and disposition of legitimate complaints involving individuals. So when let me get my timer. I'm assuming you're speaking on behalf of yourself and not >> and what >> and others. Is that not okay? >> Are you speaking
069on behalf of the group? >> Sure, just myself. >> Okay. Is it is it okay if I share the same concerns as others? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Whenever you're you're ready, I'll >> All right. Well, I'm just here and I don't know if I can ask if you guys answer questions or whatnot, but the new health curriculum um seems especially for the youngers seems a little bit graphic and highly sensitive for some fourth and fifth graders uh to be looking at learning about and seeing. Um that's basically where I am. I won't go into the high school stuff because I don't think that's uh needs to be right now. Um and my biggest one of my biggest thing is I it sounds like we don't have an option uh you guys
070have to pick something and have a new curriculum. Correct. So my other thing is with that with the op opt out portion of it the opt out portion already failed us once this year when we opted out our daughter from one of the classes. She wasn't taken out of that class. So, how do we guarantee going forward that if we opt out that our kid will be taken out? And for other parents that do the same thing and uh when that same aspect of it, you're we're going over some graphic detailed stuff for young kids and these are things that they will be able to take home. How do we keep those from other children that we parents don't want them to be seen or talked about? How do we separate those things when they
071are taking these pamphlets and whatnot home and they're not going to whip those out of their backpacks and say, "Hey, look at this or what you know what this is." And I'm just curious how we how that plans to be addressed and taken care of going into this new world. of health. Um, and that's pretty much it. >> Okay. because you touched you touched on there's a lot of sensitive stuff in there and you touched on that and that was going to be my other thing but I don't want to go in details but there's just there's worried some parents out there that are wondering what we are exactly adopting here going forward and if it fits on what we as parents want us as a community what we're really looking at here and I
072just you know I don't know what the other stuff was, but we went and looked at this stuff and what I was like presented is this is the stuff that we'll take home, but we don't know exactly what the whole curriculum is, if I'm mistaken, or is that true? Like the stuff we went and viewed at this at the uh district office. That's the stuff that would just be brought home from the kids. >> That is the curriculum. >> That's the whole curriculum. Okay, fair enough. Um, I have something else. >> Sorry. >> Doesn't matter. Anyways, >> there's anything else you want to add? >> No, I No, I sent we sent emails and blah blah blah. So, but I just wanted to come in person and share what our stuff was. So, yeah. Well,
073thank you for your time. I really appreciate it. >> Okay. Jill, is there anybody >> else signed up online? >> No. >> Okay, see that there's no other public speakers, we will move on to our action items. First thing on our action items is the GMP amendment to the bond contract. As Mr. uh Lent was here earlier in the meeting to present for phase three with uh QMC construction. So I will accept the motion. >> I move to approve the Mount Angel School District GMP amendment to the bond contract for phase three with PNC construction. >> Second. Okay. Moved and seconded. Any other discussion on that? Okay. All in favor? And moving on to the GMP seismic contract with PNC construction that uh Mr. Hess presented on earlier this evening. Do I have a motion?
074>> I move to approve the school district seismic contract with PNC construction. >> Second. Okay, we'll give it to Marquez. Yes. >> Any discussion on that? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I All right. Uh, Superintendent Harland present on uh the health adoption recommendation from the committee. Do I have a motion to approve health for Bridge Body Shop 48 and the Glen Co for High School? You let me read them all, aren't you? I move to approve the recommended health materials as presented for grades K12. Oops. Motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. Any discussion before we vote? >> No. Okay. All in favor? >> I I opposed. Okay. We have three approved and one state. All right. the district calendar that was presented uh as uh presented at the last board meeting.
075It was uh mentioned that coming to a a system an agreement that if uh the first day of school was to land on I believe it was the fifth, sixth, 7th, then uh we would start the school year uh the week before Labor Day so that we don't run into uh at the end of the year the Junth holiday and having students come back for half a day on that following Monday. So the calendar has been presented in your packet. Do I have a >> I move to approve the 26 27th district calendar as presented. >> Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? >> Thank you for >> Yeah. Thanks for the calendar. Yeah. >> All in favor? >> I All right. Spring Valley Derry the extension for 2026 2027 in there if you read it
076says four one-year approvals and this would be the second year. >> Okay of the four second >> yeah if do I have a motion to approve the Spring Valley Dairy extension? I recommend the district to accept and award the RFPD 2025 to 2030 Spring Valley dairy for the 2026 2027 school year. Second move and second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I I moving on to our resolution approving the amended appropriations for expenditure. So in there uh Christine in the in the report it mentioned that basically the student body card um funds were put into the general fund rather into than the ASB accounts and so that needed to be fixed. >> Is there anything that I I missed on that exponential? >> Okay. Do you have a motion to make that correction? Uh,
077be it therefore resolved that the board hereby adopts the amended appropriation level from fund 100 the 2025 2020 2026 fiscal year in compliance with Oregon budget law. Under director Marquez any discussion all in favor? Fine. >> I now as mentioned earlier um we had one of our budget committee members move out of town and so now we must declare a vacancy for that position which is just a one-year position. So we have a motion to declare the vacancy. >> Make a motion to declare a vacancy for position two on the Mount Hills district budget committee. Secondly, moved and second. Any other discussions? Just hopefully I know it's quick turn around. We can find somebody. So tell your friends to we have a vacancy. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. And then appoint the budget
078committee member. If you remember uh back to last month, there was three openings. we only had two applicants and then we received this applicant that is in your board packet shortly after the board meeting um since there was still a vacancy. So if we are okay, we would approve to appoint this member to that third vacancy from last month's meeting. I move. >> Yes. >> I move to approve the appointment of Kate Heinline, a special committee member for the position number one the term ending June 30th, 2027. >> Seconded moved and second. Any other discussion? Okay. All in favor I n >> thank you. Okay. Sorry. >> Sorry. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Mark's abaining. That's correct. >> Okay. There's nothing else our discussion items. policies to look over. >> No, next month we'll have three policies
079to look over. They're all um ADA and discrimination policies. And then I would anticipate generally once a quarter. We have policy updates that come from OSBA, but we haven't had any um after maybe the July or August one. And so, um, I thought we would have some after the first of the year and was kind of anticipating a big chunk because when there's a delay, there's usually a whole lift and we haven't gotten it yet, but I know one has to come because there's, yeah, some legislation around policies that have to be um, adopted before the next school year. So, I think our work will be cut out for us here in probably a few weeks when one drops with, you know, a bunch. So far, um, next month I know you'll have three. All
080right. Thank you everybody for coming tonight.