001All right, we're going to go ahead and call the 14. Please stand for the flag. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Well, good evening everybody. Nice cool day out there today. Um, see that there's nobody online to speak to the board. We'll skip the public forum sign up and visit your guest books. Is there any announcements? No. Okay. We are thrilled to have a new student rep this year. Uh, this is Noel. She unfortunately wasn't able to join us last month, but is is here this month. And so we are going to have her take the student rep uh oath to office. So you have okay go ahead and stand
002and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I >> I >> Noia Morales >> Morales >> will support the Constitution >> and the laws of the United States >> the state of Oregon >> and the laws thereof >> and the policy of the Mount Angel School District >> and the policy of the Mount Angel School District >> and will discharge the duties >> I will discharge the duties >> of student representative >> on the board >> to the best of my ability Thank you. We're we're thrilled to have you as part of our team and look forward to working with you for the rest of the school year. >> I I hear that you were able to have your first meeting with uh Superintendent Harland. >> Yeah. >> So things are off to a
003great start already. Yep. Great start. >> And Dia, what year are you? >> I'm an incoming senior. That's exciting. >> Thank you. All right, moving on to our agenda. Is there anything we would like to add or change? Or if not, please accept a motion to approve the agenda as is. I >> move second and second. Discussion. Okay. All in favor? >> Is accepted as is. All right. Consent items. Looking over our our school polic board policies second readings are are in there from last month as well as the grants. Anything that you see that needs to be for these first. >> If nothing you'd like to change, I would accept a motion. >> I'm ready to approve consent as presented. >> Motion seconded. discussion. So all in favor of all rights not seeing any
004license or classified representatives present. So we're going to move on to the budget report. >> All right. >> Do you guys want me to share? I sent over two reports or two reports for each year. Do you want me to go over both report both years? >> You could just maybe give like a a okay summarization of of the last year and kind of where we're you're seeing maybe different changes allocating more money. >> Okay. So, um these first two are the preliminary numbers I sent to audit um last week. Um there's always some journal entries and stuff that needs to be done. Um like if you um had money left over on a grant or vice versa, things like that. Um and so there was a little bit of a change, not much. Um
005our total revenue uh for the month was 96,382. Um so again, there wasn't anything different. you will see um there's a negative amount under4500 and then a positive amount in 1155 or excuse me 11,552 in state that was just a a a grant that got reported incorrectly. So it was supposed to be a state grant and got reported as federal grant. Um any questions on that part up there on the revenue part? Okay. And then expenditures uh total expenditures was little little less than 1.8 million. Uh, I don't remember off the top of my head. I could look and see. I don't there I know the difference wasn't much um between last year um or excuse me last month and and this month. So what I'm sending forward is a annual fund balance of a
006little less than 2.5 um million and and I kind of broke that out when when we go and look at next year's um some ideas in terms of um what we want to do for savings. Any questions at all on this one? Okay, >> great job. >> And then lunch fund, there was no changes, I believe, on this one. It that's pretty um cut and dry. It's it's own fund and there's not a lot of things that happen in that. So, we did end up with a positive fund balance of a little less than 30,000 um for the year. So, that was exciting. We also got another uh quarterly payment. Um you'll see that in the next um report, but we got another quarterly payment from the CI which is really awesome. So any questions
007on this one? All right. So we are um we're scheduled to have our our field audit in October. So um they're just get collecting all this information and these are the final numbers that we sent in. Okay. So here is general fund um for July and because you know obviously it's early in the year once we hit September then I'll have more accurate um oh why did it do that? I must not have opened it big enough. I'm going to pull up my other report so you guys can see the without the hashtags. So just a second. Um I did an estimate of what I think every the monthly um salaries and benefits will be those because that's obviously our biggest expenditures uh for um sorry I can't do two things at once uh for
008the rest of the year. Once we hit September and we see what a full payroll looks like then that might get get adjusted a little bit. Um how do I Sorry guys. >> You're okay. They have words, too, though. >> Well, I know, but I just don't You guys don't get to see those numbers. >> Ours have the hash. >> They do. >> Okay. I'll send you guys updated ones. >> Oh, there's do. Oh, sorry. Okay. >> Yeah. Sorry, I didn't catch that. Okay. So going back um revenue is we do get a double payment for state school fund. Um so that is uh in there for this month um and taxes and is usually pretty light this year or this time of year. So total revenue um without including the beginning fund balance um
009is like about what about 15 1.5 million um total with the beginning fund balance is four a little over 4 million and then I just estimated out um state school fund based on what we're projecting to get right now through the rest of the year. And then um for salaries and benefits um again this is just a short or a smaller pool of people so that's why it's lower but you can see how I estimated um for the rest of the year and trended out to about 100% um because we know that for the most part salaries are usually about 100% benefits could be a little less but usually salaries are at that point. So total expenditures is um a little less than 450,000. So what I did is um I put in um what
010we had said. I thought I Well, let me see here. Is this not the same one that I sent you guys? I'm sorry. Thought I put some notes. Oh, right there. Um I did some different calculations in terms of contingency and what that would look like um with our ending fund balance. Um so if we were to do so right now our ending fund balance is a little over 1.6. Um if we were to put 7% of our general fund expenditures, which is 876,000 aside um for our ending fund balance. So that's in in above our normal contingency. um we would have an ending fund balance of a little over a million dollars. Um and then again, what my goal is is to get us closer to the 10% of general fund expenditures. Um so
011that would be a little over 1.2 and that would give us standing fund balance of 711,000. So I just wanted you guys to see that's the goal is to start moving more money into contingency and relying like on that part, not just always balancing and budgeting to ending fund balance. So, that was the point of this. And so, I'll keep doing that as we get closer, you know, as the year goes on. So, we can kind of see and and plan for next year. Um because between um contingency and our um which is 4% and then our unappropriated fund balance, we're real close to that 800,000. It's just not included in this um sheet. Is that Are you following me? Yeah. >> Sorry. I will send you guys out a new sheet that doesn't have
012a hashtags all over that. I'm sorry I didn't catch that. Um but that's that's kind of where we're going for here is um working towards um keeping those two areas separate. So any So you can see um if you look on this far uh where it says 336,449 that's the unappropriated fund balance. That's what we have set aside. And then that 86,000, that's our budgeted amount. That's that 336 plus our 4%. Um, and it's really close to that 7% total of um savings. And um anyhow, that's what I'm that's where those numbers are coming from, but it's showing 1.6 because we're not including the 4% that that budget or excuse me, board policy requires us to put aside. So, any questions on that? Not on that, but I do have another uh question on budget.
013Okay. Being the second year of the passage of the ability to claim unemployment >> for some of our employees during the summer, is that impacting the district at all or is it impacted more this year than last? What's the trend? >> We do have more this year than last year. Um it's definitely not the impact for us like it is for other districts. >> So, um >> thank you for that information. Yeah. And we are not a selfp paying um unemployment um customer. We have a pool of money that we pay into um and then the benefits are paid out of that pool and then so we pay a rate on our payroll every single um or all of our payroll pay percentage. Right now we currently have the lowest rate possible which means we've
014been doing really good on unemployment. Um but as things change we it that rate could go up. we do have a healthy balance um in there right now. Um and so, you know, I I don't see our rate increasing in in the next year, but they can do mid-year rates changes. Um but yeah, so we that the money comes out of that pool, which is nice. Um any other questions on this one? Okay. And then the last I got to stop this fun. And then the lunch fun is not as exciting this time of year. Stupid So hot in here. My brain's not thinking correctly. That's what we'll blame it on. Okay. Is that it right there? Yes. That chill. Okay. Okay. So, um beginning fund balance, you can see that reflected in there. Um
015summer food program just for the first month um was $7,200. And then our federal reimbursement is the um $16,305. Um and then our actually our quarterly payment must have come into in August because it's not reflected um in here. And then total expenditures is pretty small for this time of year. So right now we're trending at a month end fund balance of about 15,000. So not much to report with that. But >> program like on pay better. >> I mean the the initial payment was bigger than what we received last year. Um but honestly I have not Stacy's I think back tomorrow. I have not heard how it's performing. Um >> I've been there on Mondays. Yeah, >> that's what I >> and so my you know I have nine grandkids that come in but
016um >> you know it's not full but you know it's the average amount of kids maybe at the most when I've been there's maybe and we're usually there by 11:45ish so 30 to 40 kids but then so wonder maybe the change I in in the location >> I do think that might have affected a little just because people are used to there they have, you know, the playground that they would go play afterwards. >> People that would be doing things in town would go straight, you know, it was just like kind of part of their route. And >> not that it's like far away, but it's kind of in the opposite corner of what a lot of people are congregating, but um I mean I definitely see people on Thursdays leaving with the bags of
017food. So, >> you know, I do think that it's doing good, but maybe not as good as before. But I can definitely find out and let you guys know. >> I was just getting a general idea if we >> if that affected it. Yeah. When I went down to visit and check, Annie had told me one of the things she had said was that, you know, oh, I asked how it was going. She said, "Good." But she did say that there were fewer this year than there have been past years and they wondered if it was the change in location just >> um yeah, so I anticipate that it will be less. Um the question will be by how much, but >> yeah, I'll send you out the um the updated report and I apologize
018for my technical difficulties. >> Fine. Fine. Thank you so much for the report. Any other questions or comments? Okay, moving on to the superintendent report. >> Okay, board chair, members of the board, we have two kind of items tonight for the superintendent report. The first are AP test results. And so we have um principal Brendan here um to answer questions and because this is like her data from her school and I know they're super proud of it um because it reflects some hard work in getting access for kids. Um and then the second one is just an update on the bond. And so >> sorry now I'm having technical difficulties. >> It's okay. I think there's a little bit of a delay from when we all click where it shows up. coming up in Okay.
019I'm going to go ahead and then as we Oh, look. It's almost like that was >> I just mean that we'll get started and then we'll catch up on the slides. >> Okay. So the first bit of information will be just the am the the tests that were taken the AP tests that were taken and so the total number of tests were almost the equivalent of 25% of the school population. So the number of tests I think was around 48 and this is the the breakdown of the grades that took those tests. you'll see the majority is in 11th grade and that makes sense in terms of the courses that are offered and what that looks like. Um but a healthy chunk of um 10th, 11th, and 12th grade um taking AP tests. The next
020bit of data that you'll see are those tests by subject. Um so what uh what are the subjects that kids are taking? You know, there are some ones like um AP US history, which are typical that you would expect to see. I loved to also see that we had Spanish, physics, computers. like I appreciated that that there were several different ones and that there was a healthy percentage of those as well in terms of the scores. So if those are the tests and the grade levels that are generally being taken, what does this look like? So um a a score of three or above is passing and that often will equate to college credits for students depending on what their score was and of course where they're going to school or college. But of the
021tests that were taken, there's their scores. One, two, threes, fours, and fives. Um, super proud to see the threes and fours. Um, and it's over half. Uh, the fives are always incredible. To me, that's a very, very, very difficult to do. Um, and so, um, my hats off and actually hats off to all of the kids who took the test, um, and tried because I think, um, it's important. So those are our scores um overall. And then when we dig a little bit deeper into those scores, go ahead and head to the next slide. So these are the score the passing scores as it breaks down by grade level. So of the students who scored a three or higher, what grades did they represent? Um, and so the the one of the things that I
022think is really interesting, although 10th grade took the majority of the tests, sorry, excuse me, 11th grade took the majority of the tests, 10th grade, um, you know, passed at a higher rate. Um, at the same percentage, um, having had fewer tests. So, um, I think it's always interesting, but this is what it looks like passing scores by grade level. And then the last is the passing scores by subject. So when you compare, you know, the the percent of tests taken, what what subjects were those? Well, now here are the ones that um had passing scores. So it's really interesting. 20% of the tests taken were Spanish, but that accounts for 35% of the passing scores. So I think that's always an interesting um interesting one to look at as well. That's where the two
023finds were also >> really I mean it's just that's so difficult. Um, so I that's just really really impressive and I know was um you'll back up one for me Joe and I just know it represents a lot of work on the part of the teachers and on the part of the students um they're not easy um exams um prepping for them um making sure students have the material for those to be successful. It's none of that is easy. So, I think that um I think that reflects a lot of hard work on the part of teachers and students. >> Can I ask a couple questions because AP was after I got out and I haven't had a kid go through yet, so I'm sorry these are obvious answers. What is is this AP Europe?
024What is >> AP European history? >> Okay, European history. Thank you. And then I see a ninth grader or at least one took it. Is that very unusual or >> two years into this and one year looking actually digging into the data? So, um I would say yes, it is pretty unusual at our school for a student who is a freshman to be in even in an AP course. We do have an AP course this year specifically for freshmen. We're really excited to get it going. Turns out >> Can I ask what what that course is? >> AP world studies. >> Okay. >> And how do kids get into that? They just ask for it. Yep. And it's full. >> That's awesome. >> I know it's full full, but it's I mean there's there's a
025lot of students taking. It's great. I'm just so excited. >> Thank you for that information. >> Yeah. We'll also have AP psychology in next year scores. That's an every other year course. So, I have a question. So looking at the 12th graders, is there a way to then see how many of those kids who passed decided to are collegebound or you know just like looking to see I was just kind of thinking the the rate of kids that are collegebound kids or how that works. >> Work on it. >> I'm glad to see this. This is wonderful. I mean, it's absolutely wonderful news and it's really positive news. I was just kind of wondering or maybe looking, you don't have to look at the 12th graders. Maybe you could look at the 11th graders and
026then see how many >> will continue on and then go to, you know, >> I was happy to see the amount of tests taken and the variety. Right. in a school district of our size, it it might be common to see a an offering or, >> you know, one or two subjects of AP tests that were taken or being offered. I think it's um I think it's a testament to really to staff and their commitment to be absolutely offering, you know, different um options for kids um that there are as many as there are. Yeah. And it's super exciting that there will be more because that's not it's just not easy to do. in a schedule, a master schedule as small as ours. >> We have a question as well. So, of those who are
027taking the AP classes, do we know the percentage that are taking the test? >> Oh, yeah. >> Or not taking the test. >> Oh, that's a good question. >> It's a good question. It's a It's a big majority, but not everybody. >> Yeah. >> And there's reasons, too. It's so stressful. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. I was just curious about that. >> It's the majority. there maybe are well it depends on the course um in some of the courses like AP computer science is every other year um and I don't think it's a giant group that actually takes the test uh but in AP European history and AP US history uh in AP Spanish AP physics in those classes a majority of the students >> thank you >> do we know how many
028like college credits are earned through this every year So I think if I'm and I'm working from my own like work with my own kid I believe and please correct me if you have different experience that if a student has passed say AP psychology they get a psych credit for the psychology like psych 101. >> Okay. >> I think um certain colleges have certain requirements. So like some have higher scores required >> and they have like certain uh class credits that is available to certain um AP classes. >> Yeah. So depending on the your score and then depending on the college they might award different credits. So it could very well be that if you have a passing score psychology is a great example that it might be worth three college credits because it would
029take the place of a psych 101. if you had a score of a four or a five and maybe at a different college it would be worth more credits or fewer but it depends on the test that's taken and then yeah your score and certainly the college >> great thank you for that information you would be >> really good news it's great >> okay and the next topic is as exciting maybe not as exciting um but in terms of like winding down or getting closer to the finish time. Um, and that's a bond update. So, in terms of the monthly update, we're on budget, on schedule, within scope. Um, as time kind of ticks down closer and closer, right, I don't know if I get more or less nervous. I think it depends on the
030day in terms of, you know, August 25th, staff is back and and things need to be ready to go. And so, um, progress, there was lots of progress last week. I'll be really really hopeful for this week as well. But in terms of what that looks like um at St. Mary's, you'll notice even if you drive by that, you know, most of the painting is done on the outside, there's still um some painting work um to be done on kind of that highest um part. The ephus has all been finished and completed. Um painting on the outside doors as well. The fence along um surrounding a swale should should be getting done. When I went by earlier today, it was almost almost there. um inside should be ready for wax to go down on the
031floors if it hasn't already um gone down. And so that is a kind of a marking point because we just know it'll be um and maybe that's Wednesday because it'll have to to cure for 3 days and then if we leave the weekend we can move some furniture. So that's another kind of tipping point where I'll know like okay um that part is done. the secure vestibule. Um really it's just the finish finishing. Um and then painting all of the walls on the inside have been like sanded and prepped. Looked at that on Friday. So ready for paint. So um getting really close and at the end it will be you know finishing moving furniture and then getting things cleaned kind of top to bottom for staff to come back on the 25th. um for
032Ma'am's flat roof. Um those parts are nearly done. Um gutters were being installed. Um the security fence also being installed. Um I should back up on on St. Mary's and I think I had mentioned this before. The landscaping for the swale won't happen until October. We'll wait until the natural rainy season here to water the plants. They don't die. Um so that piece is still out there. um and then headed back to MAMS. Some of the gates, um they were great in terms of saving some of the old ones, but some of the new gates won't be in until later, and so not all of the gates for that will be installed right away. I think it will be delayed. Um but most of it will be finished. Um and then pulling security access, right?
033like I think they pulled most of the wire um from both the middle school and maybe the elementary, but there's still lots of work in terms of that. Um let's see what else. JFK windows are complete. The the restrooms, those are being um wrapped up. I think all of the hardware has been installed. Um they're pretty close to done. Painting exterior um lots of progress. I don't think they're finished, but I think they're pretty close to done as well. Um, we have as part after the construction is finished at both the middle school and elementary school. Those schools will be cleaned top to bottom and that will be an outside company that does that so that our staff can focus on the high school and because we will need more than a handful of people,
034right? Um, in a two days time, it will need to be whole crews that kind of go in. And so, um, I feel good about the plan that we have to make sure that that's done. And it will be probably a little different than, you know, typical year for sure. Um, the one thing that I know will be um happening after school starts is the elementary school hallway kind of the laminant um that will that will go up. FRL is what they call it. um that um has been ordered but it won't get here um in time for that to happen. So that will happen at on a swing shift and that will happen over the course of probably a few weeks sometime in mid to late September. So that piece will be um will
035be hanging out there um as school starts. Um, so that and the planting are kind of the two things um that I know will have some lingering kind of as the punch list will as well. Like I'm sure we'll get in and we'll find the things and um uh the punch list will happen through the fall, but in terms of like major things, it's those two things. Um I think we have some pictures, but honestly, oh nope. I guess the pictures are last. Honestly, some of the pictures will be out of date just because there's already been more progress this week in terms of the budget. Um, yep. So, one of the conversations that started at the bond oversight committee had to do with the um bond program, the dollars that were committed and the
036budget that we have. We're going to have some funds there that that committee will have to have a conversation around um projects that originally were on the list that it was decided we might not have enough for. Um and or other um infrastructure projects where we feel like systems are are fine. They're not at the end of life right now, but we think they may be in the next three or four or five years, right? So what are those systems? Um and and what are the items that in the foreseeable short future may be a problem. Um what I want to avoid is you know having all of this work done which is great and in three or four years something happening not having the funds to do it and feeling like you know we
037had all of this done work. Why didn't we take care of X Y and Z? It's that the future is unknowable. That's impossible to know. Um, but if we do have funds and it looks like we will, probably in the neighborhood of a million, maybe a little bit more, what are the projects that we deferred? And then what are the major ticket items where we think it's not completely at end of life, but it will be in the next few years. And then I'd just like to take a look at those systems to evaluate whether or not um it would be feasible to either repair um or replace things that we think um that may be true for. and there are some major infrastructure systems that um warrant looking a little closer at. So that's
038part of the conversation that the bond oversight committee will start to have um when it comes to budget. Um and of course any of those things would be for for next summer. Um certainly the bigger things. Um let's go through some pictures and then I will um end with our last part. So again, some of these will be outdated, like the um self um adhered membrane installation. You can't even see that anymore. Like all of that is finished. This needs to be painted. Certainly the new carpet is still new and looks just like that. Um let's see. Oh, the floor. Um so that is um when they first put the floor down, the walls on the side look much better now in terms of being right sanded, ready for paint. Um the vestibule it it
039looks great. The storefront um those windows look great. That will be exciting. Um let's see what's next. So man security fencing, flat roof work. Those still are true. And then JFK. Yeah, the windows. Um and some new painting inside. >> That library space is so pretty. Yeah, >> it is. It really is. Yeah, Windows make a big difference. >> Um I think the last part of the bond and I know you all got um notification I think in the weekly update, but just as a reminder, the um project manager for us um with OTA has changed. Um, and so Bob Collins, who was I think on the project in the beginning maybe and has kind of been all along in terms of like as far as I know being on emails and things that I
040can see is taking over as the project manager these last couple of weeks um to kind of get us over this finish line. Um, and so that was something that went out in the weekly update. And then our bond oversight committee um, got an email today, but you know, that's out there. And I would say I think I would be um, more nervous if we weren't so close to the end. For me at this point, it's just kind of focusing on what do we need to do um, to get this finished um, and what does it look like for the next few weeks because folks are coming and they're going to come back to some great spaces. So that's my hope. Um questions. >> I I got a question. Enrollment. How does like the number
041of transfers in or new kindergarters or new people to the district? >> What does it look like? Yeah, >> I think we'll know more registrations this week. Okay. um for two days when we looked at some of the numbers that we had kind of rolled over from last year and then looking at transfers um in the grade levels that I've looked at or I've talked to principles about in terms of the numbers it's always been more than what we had uh with the exception of one grade level and so I think we'll know more at registration like the grades that we rolled over to the next grade has that you know did everybody register is everybody showing up. Um we've probably had maybe seven, maybe more, nine transfers um in um it'll be interesting to
042see how many transfers out. Probably as many. I mean, I think it's it might be close to a wash, but we'll know more. Kindergarten's always a little harder to predict >> um in terms of just the numbers. Um, so I'm hoping we'll know more after this week, but for Kinder, it will sometimes be the week Kinder starts, right? You know, um, we're always happy to have all of them. And a few of them are surprises. I think we were going to do transfers out. Were we going to create like an interview while you're transferring out or whatever? I thought there was some some conversation at the end of last year that we were going to just not automatically transfer out. You were going to interview or something. Are we going to do that? >> Not
043necessarily an interview. It was a like a just a kind of like a feedback form that Rachel created um that I give to anyone who's and half the time people I mean they don't have to not required to fill it out. So they some people fill it out, some people don't. Some people just put the reason in the little optional area on the form. I mean it >> I would like to push on that a little more. We can't require people to let us know why. Yeah. No, but you you can't you can interview somebody and in past you could have that they come in and they have to talk to somebody and they >> I don't know that we I'm I don't >> I think you know well the experience of I'm just going
044to say this goes back oh many many years but my granddaughter when she transferred out had to talk to the superintendent. I mean, so it was it was not an automatic transfer out. It was a conversation and a reason why. And you don't have to say you could just sit whatever, but it was more or less I'm just I'm just trying to figure out how you keep more people, you know, or or just know why. Is it because it's private school or whatever? But that would give us another indicator of, you know, what's going on. That's that's all. >> Yeah, I would say. And I think they're probably some somewhere in the middle. You know, Sherry's right in that you can't require verify information, but we could certainly um one of the things that might
045be interesting is to take the transfer requests out. And in the there's a box that essentially asks for the reason and to be able to start kind of collecting that data to categorize what does it look like, right? In terms of, you know, it's because there are more offerings some somewhere else. it's because they feel like either um there was an issue at school, an issue with friends, an issue. But it would be interesting to collect the data and start to categorize it to even >> I would want something like that to begin to happen versus, you know, >> um just thinking of trying to keep enrollment >> and to quantify it, right? So for us to know, okay, if we had 20 transfers out, I'm just making this up, and half of them were
046because of this, and you know, a quarter were because of this, it would just give us more information about kind of where to start looking and >> maybe there's something we can do about it. And and I would just add that having been on the board a while, this is information we ask with every transfer out and people >> and I I get I get the extra step of inviting people in for getting information. >> We do categorize where they transfer out to because that you get your you get your um transcripts are requested. So we do and we do categorize that. So we must know that we have either private school or other school or whatever. Yeah. >> Or no school. And that's the interesting part of what happens to the no schools. Do
047we reach do we go back out and you know they transferred out but there's no request for records anywhere. So, do we reach back out and see what's going on with them and maybe reach back to get them come to back out? Just looking for any way we can get Yeah. >> Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Superintendent Ro, for your report. All right. Any board member reports? Um, I was just going to share some good news that I heard in talking with Jack PK who's on the city council and he lives right basically on St. Mary's grounds. He so appreciated >> the knock on the door when when the cruisers were going to be working early. He just really thought that was wonderful to see and >> I'm glad I'm glad it wasn't,
048you know, someone's trying to sell us something like that. >> He was very complimentary. >> Oh, that's that's kind I'm glad it was received as it's intended. Yeah. >> Yes. >> That was nice. >> Thank you. Anything else? I appreciate the newsletter, the Bond Project's newsletter. That's really And it's going to be online. Is there another way that is is it going out where? How else? >> Yes. Um >> it's really good. >> Jill has been um doing a great job trying to um figure out other ways. And so our town, >> it's going in our town the September 1st. September one. So it'll go to every person in Mount Angel. >> Oh, perfect. And then we'll also have um we'll also have the newsletter in English and Spanish in the offices and right different
049places. But yeah, everyone will get a copy and so that's um thanks to chill. >> Good job. Thank you. >> Down. >> Yeah, I think it's important for the community to be able to see what their significant investment, you know, the results of that. And oftent times, um I think that's an easy part to miss. Um, but I want them to know what all of their good pond dollars have done, especially when a lot of the projects were infrastructure and it's not necessarily that you got like a new school. So, I think it it's probably even more important than anything else. All right, moving on. Public forum online. Moving on. We have no action items this month, but we do have a discussion around our board policy first reading the graduation requirements. So, Superintendent Harland
050or our lovely policy committee if you would you like to talk about this policy? So, this is a policy the board has seen before and actually has approved. Um we got some feedback around um in the policy it talks about regular attendance and so OSDA said hey you guys in your policy policy need to define what that means within this policy and so the recommendation that you have in in front of you for a first reading is um is is permissive in terms of a certificate of attendance. So, this is generally for students who don't qualify for a regular diploma, don't qualify for a modified or an extended diploma. They're often our students who are in programs until they're 21 um and have attended school and have um done their program and who we want
051to um celebrate as having accomplished um something good and um the completion of their education. And so um the kind of uh regular attendance in this regard um doesn't count excused absences that might be for um uh our students who are medically fragile or for for other um types of absences. And it's the most permissive um to make sure that our students who um um are students who are often facing a lot of barriers get recognition for their accomplishment which is um having their schools and programs. So the the policy is is exactly the same. There's a footnote in there that defines um what attendance means um for a certificate of attendance. >> Any questions from the board? Nope. All right. All right. One uh thing before we adjourn, just a quick reminder, next Monday
052from 4 to 6 here at the district office, we have a work session with uh OSBA um on the superintendent. Um something that will be brought up dinner is um we are going to need to do our sixth towers with them to uh if for any reason um we do not have a superintendent for a year. Uh they do the superintendent search for free and in order to meet that contract requirement we have to fulfill all six hours. So come to that work session in mind uh that you have to schedule those and what we want to have focus on those next four hours to leave. Okay. All right. Anything else? Okay. Meeting is a journ.