001I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome everybody. Thanks for joining us. Uh if you'd like to speak with the board or sign in our guest book, you're more than welcome to. It's right over there. Um, we do have one announcement this evening. Uh, the board would uh, director, can we please? I guess the board would like to present uh, super in Kentucky with a small small gift token of our appreciation for the last four years. This is your last uh, board meeting with us. This is gorgeous. We hear we hear you like gardening. I love gardening. We hope you enjoy your retirement and get lots of time to garden. Yes.
002Thank you very very much. I appreciate you all so much. Appreciate it. I'm actually gonna make you guys get together for a picture. Gota get a picture. Rachel's really good at not being in pictures. It's just true. I'm good at avoiding. Did you put that down? Thank you. Now moving on to our leads awards. Superintendent Saki. Yes. Tonight we honor Mount Angel School District students for excellence. The leads award exemplifies the very best of what our students offer to their peers, their school, and their community. Leads, L E A Ds, stands for L leadership, contributions in and for the student body or the school andor representation of the school at events. Effort, short or long-term improvement in individual practices. A achievement unique skills the student represents for the school or demonstrates in the school. Diversity
003and inclusion contributions that increase practices of inclusion for all students in the school and school district and s service contributions in and for the community andor the school. So tonight we recognize one student from each school who has demonstrated one or more of the lead's characteristics. Each student stands out as a model of excellence for others. Tonight each building principal will share with us what is unique about the student. And if we could please start with Mrs. Brendan. Sure. Everybody, I'd like to introduce you to a recent grad from JFK. Ana Anaise was nominated by one of her teachers in the area of achievement and Ana East has worked really hard throughout her career at JFK and in Mount Angel to reach this point. Um and the teacher is especially proud that she has chosen
004to go on to higher education. and she says this. Um, Anaise is a hard worker that is here nearly every single day. As we know, showing up is most of the way there. She stays on top of her studies and the teacher is so proud that she is going on to higher education. So, please join me in congratulating gonna make you take a picture. All right. Congratulations. Mr. Taylor is still that I'd like to present to you this is she was nominated by the entire chef and this is written by one of your teachers. Stella is a seventh grader who brings positivity and enthusiasm to everything she does. Bright, curious, and kind, she approaches each day with a genuine eagerness to learn and a warm smile that uplifts those around her. She is not only
005an excellent student who consistently puts effort into her studies, but also a thoughtful friend who supports her classmates and treats everyone with respect. Whether she's participating in class discussions, helping organize school events, or simply lending a hand when somebody needs it, her spirit of leadership and compassion shines through. She truly makes her school a better place. If you'll join me in congratulating, you know the drill. All right. One, two, three. I'm gonna take one more. Sorry. Thank you, Mrs. D. It used to be spoke last night at the fifth grade graduation. She did just a beautiful job. So, join, this is what your teacher, this is why you were nominated, what she said about you. Um, Miss Sternigan said, "I'm nominating Jocelyn Lama Anacito." I practiced your last name because I had to say it
006last night. Yeah. For the leads award. Jocelyn exemplifies what it means to be a dedicated and hardworking student. One of the qualities she consistently demonstrates is her exceptional effort. In every aspect of her education, Joselyn gives her full commitment. During state testing, she approaches each task with focus and care, always taking the necessary time to ensure that ensure she produces her best work. This approach and tremendous effort has led to her impressive academic cheat. What truly sets Jocelyn apart is her intrinsic motivation. She often takes work home to complete, and this is not because she was asked to. This is because she takes pride in her learning and wants to deliver high quality results. Her dedication, perseverance, and strong work ethic make her a standout student and a deserving student. Congratulations. Got some proud parents
007over there, won't you? Oh, thank you. Yeah. All right, last one. One, one, two, three. All right, we can get our three leads awards winners. Where are their note box? Come over. Should we just do them by the flowers? winner students. There we go. And I can just stand right here. We're gonna we're gonna adjust. You have students in front. You guys are picture perfect. I love it. I'll try not to get laptops. Superintendent, I'm gonna move yours just a bit. Okay. I think we were drawing like on a magazine cover. One, two, three. Thanks, guys. Congratulations. Families, you're more than welcome to stay, but if you'd like to leave at this time, you can do so as well. Thank you so much for for joining us and congratulations again little sisters tonight so much
008sweeter All right, our next presentation is the JFK High School leadership. Unfortunately, Jung had a family matter and cannot attend tonight and he did not send a report. So, we have no uh report for this evening. Uh and Mr. Shecker cannot attend tonight as well. The report is in our packets on the district's property and liability coverage. Um, so if we have any questions specifically on that, Superintendent Saki will take it back to Mr. Shecker and get back to us with the answers because we approve it as a board in July. Do we know what the cost of the princess is between this year? But this one last that was my question. It went up a lot on paper because of it. They included all the bond costs. So I want to say that was
009like 30% that it went up, but when you take out the bond cost, I hadn't figured out the total calculation, but it's probably closer to 20%. But I could email you guys and let you know for sure. It went up about what we were Yeah. we were reporting. Yeah. So, I got a huge shock when I So, when the bond is done, will that go away? Yeah. As soon as they they put a policy on for like the whole year essentially, and then as soon as construction is over, they end it and then we get a refund check. Okay. We hope Well, we did this year. Oh, good. Yeah. So, because they figure out for the whole year, but when construction isn't happening, then we don't have to pay it. Okay. Yeah. Are there any
010other changes? I I read it, but I don't remember from this year. Other than the money piece, is there any other changes that we should know about? Um I don't think changes to insurance. Um I know that they did appraisals of the properties and so that part went up um I didn't have a chance to look at I think that there's new insuranceances um with the SAM um and as well as um cyber security um but that they've been kind of rolling that out. So, it's not it wasn't a surprise like we knew that was coming. Any questions? No. Okay. Thank you, Christie, for answering what you could tonight. All right. Now, we are going to open our budget hearing. Next, the agenda. I would accept a motion to approve the agenda or make adjustments
011as needed. I move to approve the agenda. Okay. Motion. Do I second? Moved and seconded. Uh any discussion? No. Okay. All in favor? This is unle. Moving on to the consent items. I move to approve the consent items as presented. Got a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Moved and seconded. All right. Any discussion or something you want to withdraw? Okay. All in favor? I passes unanimous. All right. Moving on to reports. Um not seeing any licensed or classified reps in here online. Nope. All right. Administrator reports. All right, Mrs. French, since it's your last reports here, we're gonna have you go first. We won't make you wait till the last. Well, I first of all, I feel very underdressed. I would never wear jeans to a board meeting. It's probably my first
012time ever wearing jeans to a board meeting, but I was a dragon today. Mark has a picture of it. It was really fun. That picture it was awesome. I thought it was we were teachers accepted a challenge. Not everybody did it. That was good. But we were in these crazy blow up outfits. It was a sight to be held. Anyway, maybe I don't want to see. Oh my gosh, it was fun and the kids loved it. That is what makes it so wonderful. Anyway, so my report I am so Whoops. excited about what I have to say to you tonight about this uh scorecard. I'm going to start with this. Accessible accessible data that identifies students learning needs, targeted teaching strategies, purposeful planning, and a willingness to be learners and work hard matters. And I'm
013saying this because I looked at our preliminary math scores for state testing and OD often tells you, hey, don't get too aggressive. You you can bump up 3% 3% each year. Anything more than that is a lot. And statistically, they've figured that out. Well, from the pre preliminary data, our school has bumped up 5%. I am so excited. Jeff has even a better story. I won't ruin it for them. Um, I am thrilled and I hope this continues. I am such a believer in how you make this happen is you put well I'm a fan of plan before the plan and I that has happened at St. Mary's in the last few years. We've got a plan. We've got to follow through on the plan. But the beautiful thing is when you make it concrete
014enough and you really involve teachers, passing a torch will not be as difficult as it would have been if there is no plan and we're just flying by the seat of our pants. So Katie, I've got a plan for you. You're going to love it. Keep going with it. Um the next thing I want to talk about, so I told you about 5%. Oh, and I should continue with that. The other piece that I was excited about is ELA went up 4%. So I thought, okay, that's great. Well, remember on this scorecard we talk about English language proficiency and we say, hey, you know, if the percentage of English language learners, right now we're at 10%, we'd like to bump that up to the 14%. Well, you'll see in my scorecard as far as proficiency,
015we only made it to 10%. That's last year we made it to 13%. So that's a 3% drawback. But I've got some The reason I added in this um scorecard the growth is because the growth is outrageously fantastic and Will Holman and I were talking and if you get kids, you know, they're starting at this point and here's the proficiency. if they're, you know, you don't know where they're starting in the growth and maybe they're making lots of progress, but you don't see it. And to see that much growth, if we can keep that up, we will get to that proficiency and I'm positive we're going to pass it. Um, I have to read something to you from Will that was just fantastic. He was trying to help me. I looked to him to help
016me with the number and and things. So, and he was talking really to all of us. I think we all received this email, but I'll just read this first part. It says, "Hello. This year, our multilingual learners have made incredible gains. Students growth at St. Mary's nearly doubled on the ELPA in comparison to last year 20 26% or sorry, comparison to last year. 26% of ma'am students in the EL tested out. State average is six. JFK had for the first time I have seen multiple students test out as well. five of them. My first year here, only one kid in the whole district passed the ELPA. And this year, there were there were 1,400% more students who passed it. And then what he really said, yeah, and what he says, which is really just 15
017kids, but 1,400% is cooler sounding. Okay. I want to thank all of you for supporting our kids. and he's talking to all of our teachers and he's talking to everyone, you know, along the way and pushing them to be their best. Our efforts together have made a difference. I hope that in the future we can maintain that momentum and I agree 100% with Will. I think this English language proficiency scoring, I think it impacted ELA score. I can't say that for sure, but the fact that we grew Yeah, it's it's great. Okay, so on the back of St. St. Mary's scorecard, we talk about student well-being and we gave the Desa twice this year. You can see so for elementary it is the teacher that is reporting out on students. When you go to secondary,
018the students are reporting out on themselves. So, you know, I just like to remind you there's a little bit of a difference. It's how teachers see it. And um one thing I have to keep in mind, we are seeing more significantly traumatized children walk through our door. I don't think that's any secret to any of you and it does put a strain on the system. With that said, those are our kids. So, we will continue to figure out how to make life happen and how to give them a safe learning place and help them feel loved. So, we'll continue working on that. You can see all the things that we've been working on. So, last but not least, I'm just going to say I'm gonna really work hard. I've loved working at St. Mary's. I'm
019not going to talk too long and I'm starting to get emotional, but I loved it. I'm excited about this wonderful person, um, Katie Shamway, and I'm spending my last two weeks working to make sure we hand off that torch and make it really a smooth transition. So, thank you all very much. Oh, you can't leave yet. Kathleen, we really appreciate you've only been here, you know, like literally less than two years. Yes. So you've made a huge impact on our district and really moved St. Mary's forward. So would like to give you Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Congratulations on the wonderful scores. Thank you so much. I'm very excited. Very nice. All right, Mr. Taylor. All right. Before I give you numbers and our data stuff, I
020just wanted to mention Monday promotion. Awesome. Hope you saw the pictures. Tuesday field day. We brought in a foam machine which was a total hit. Hope you saw the pictures there. And then today we had our eighth grade beach trip. Again, phenomenal. Just great trip. Um, but the one I want to chat about just for a second is the time capsule. So my wife has a time capsule at her building too. She couldn't find hers. Now we are so lucky in this community that we have people that have been here for the very long time and we were able to get Sugek and a couple of other people around and we triangulated it into this one area and I had young men with big long steel things going like this in the ground and digging
021things up. It was like a version of holes going if you've read the book or seen the movie as they were digging these holes and we found them and they were just right next to each other 1976 and 2000 and they're big. They're they're this big and um I saw them open because they're PVC pipe just the last little bit. We had kind of a short little ceremony. Had about 15 um community members come in and the entire school was there and we had ice cream. It was phenomenal. Now, if you're a history person like I am and I was there, I was 10 in 1976 and I remember those days. It was just great to read the newspapers and to take a look at the cards and there were letters there from prior principles
022and to see how they worded things and things like that. And then we've compiled our own time capsule and we will be putting all three of them back into the ground. Now, it's more amazing because there's this awesome plaque that says, you know, from this plaque, take so many steps this direction and so many steps this direction. The problem is that they had moved the plaque into the office. And of course, they had done a remodel since then. And there, you know, we were just literally searching the ground for this thing. If you get a chance, we've put all of the inards of these time caps capsules in the glass cases as you walk into MAMS and it is just a walk down memory lane. And we had a teacher there that was a teacher
023in 2000 who had put some things from her class into the time capsule and she was able to pull that same thing out and read the things that she had written with and about her students. Uh never experienced I've heard about these things, never experienced them. This was a wonderful memory for the school, a wonderful memory for the teachers, and a wonderful memory for the students and community. So, it's absolutely phenomenal and just a ton of fun. Although, I will say the whole journey was kind of like, yeah, this may not work. Or if you remember Heraldo Rivera, do you remember him? Oh, yes. He opened a safe. Do you remember that? Yes. So I I saw that thing and I tried to take a peek in there because I thought this could go horribly
024wrong. This could be my Heraldo Rivera moment here. Okay, couple of numbers. So we ended at 93.44% average daily attendance. A little bit lower than our goal of 94.5, but still up a little bit from the previous years and an upward trend. still a really good number compared to the state particularly middle schools. Our attender uh number which again is the number of 90% or greater attenders of your school up from 76% to 81.88%. That's a significant increase from the previous year and it puts us into kind of a new category when it comes to the state report card. If you think of the flip side of that though, you do have to say, well, 88, you know, what is it? 81.88%. Let's call it 82%. That still means there are kids out there, too
025many that are missing 10% or more of school. And it still does make you think a little bit about what are the circumstances that are causing those things to happen and how can we as a school and as a district take a look at those circumstances and is there a possibility to intervene there. So still a little bit of work to be done there but I think we're in a great good trajectory there on belonging. So we had 88% of students up from 85% last year participate in extracurricular activities. And then we had our connections day which took us all the way to 100% of students participating in some type of interest or extracurricular activity there. We also held a building read of a book and two Saturday events in collaboration with the public library
026as well in order to try to connect with all of the kids that we could on um you heard some of the ELPA numbers. So we had five students graduate from ELPA in our school. We don't have a huge population by the time they get to middle school. That's a really big number for us. I think a couple of years ago we had one like in the whole district. So, uh, lots of great work done there by Mr. Holman and some other folks there. So, um, ELA and math, we were below um the Oregon state average in math. We expect to be above the Oregon state average in math and in fact above by some points. I don't want to predict exactly what that'll be. I do have an idea of where that'll be. But
027we are very very very happy because as I've shared with you, math is a long game. We have ground to make up there. But to be uh multiples of points above the state average at this point in time and to have made more than the double the average that the state expects there uh you know the three points more than double of that it's pretty awesome. language arts killed even worse than that. I mean, it was just phenomenal. And huge thanks to my staff and the work that they've put in there. We should be well above where we were last year, which was above the Oregon state average last year in language arts uh pretty significantly this year, above where we were last year. So, language arts, great, ELA, great, uh, foam machine, great, promotion,
028great. Um, there's some really hardworking people at MAPS and I am just privileged to be one of many that are working hard to get our students with me. Questions? Did you partake of the poem? I did not. I did get close to it and I had to go to the fifth grade celebration and it stained my pants. So, I had to run home and change my pants and Yeah. I'm like, so no water slide either. Yeah. You know, next year maybe next year. I do have a quick question, Mr. Taylor. On the regular attenders, you have it um spelled out with specific groups, the LL Hispanic. Do you have the non-Hispanic um um or do we say white or whatever? Probably. Yeah. And it's I'm putting you on the spot. I was curious how those
029you know because those are our biggest two, you know. So I think on that one, let me grab that. I think on that one the white population was actually slightly below the Hispanic population which would which would tense out given the in order to make that percentage work but I don't recall exactly what that and I'm just curious about that. Yeah and remember we have about a 52 or 3% Latino population and then the opposite side with the other population very small in other groups and other ethnic groups. So, it's about 50 of thoughts, other questions. Thank you. All right, this is Brendan. [Music] Good evening. Um, you have it's a cool table. Um, you have my reports in your report. Um, we had a math uh goal that was to get from 27.7% meteoric
030seating up to 32. We actually landed at 25. We have work to do there for sure. What we did wasn't enough. Um, and it was an implementation year for us um without the same monitoring and assessment tools as what we have in elementary and middle. And so we're going to shore that up next um year looking at what how can we approximate those assessment tools and that data collection so that we can better track students progress throughout the year. We've already set uh non-negotiables with teachers for next year on what assessment tools need to be used and which pieces of the materials to be needed. So we didn't make the progress we planned there. ELPA has good news just like everywhere else. um really exciting. Traditionally, we have zero% of students passing the ELPA at
031the high school level, and that's not unusual. Um ELPA is incredibly difficult to It's not that it's a difficult test, it's the age of the students. It just becomes really difficult to pass the ELPA in secondary and more crucial because then they're getting the service during a time when they could be taking an additional elective. So, we really want to get students exited out before they even get to high school. Um, so I'll do anything I can to support that, but we do have the duty to serve our students in high school. We will continue to do so um despite changes in staffing. Mr. Taylor and I continued to talk about it a little bit today and do some planning um about how we can support students um with the the goal of having them
032pass ELPA. Um but great news there. Really exciting on time graduation. We moved from 82% in 2023 up to 88.5% in 2024. Those numbers are actually incredibly difficult to calculate. But my early by you have to take who were freshmen in that year that these students were graduating. And then you know you have to take our list cross off who has moved away and is legitimately moved away. Their records have been requested. put circles next to the ones where they haven't been picked up anywhere else and then add in the ones who have moved in and then you have your complete pool and you figure out who are four years who do we think are probably five years or GED and then who do we not have tracked into anything yet because we're not sure
033where they went but we still have connection with them so we try to maintain that connection anyway I think maybe if I have it all right 89% next year like right so we're on an upward ward trend and that's really exciting because it doesn't matter what the end size is, we can continue to improve, right? Despite whatever sizes our classes are um actual the the red part here on interim goals for there's on-time graduation, the bright yellow that says what our current is and then over more to the right there is the green and green and red. That just means that the progress monitoring tool of grade tracking wasn't where I thought it would be. So that's what the that's what the red means. We weren't on track in quarter three. Ninth grade on track
034um is how many students have earned six credits by the end of their freshman year. So, I've been a little obsessive this week checking grades, making sure kids to get work turned in, making sure they have lots of time to study for tests because I really want these nine students who don't appear to be on track to get on track. And uh I'm not sure, you know, grades haven't been finalized, but I'm not sure we're going to hit this um um goal of 96 94 to 96%. We're at 87% right now. It says 77 on the report, but that was on 66. Today is 610. We're at 87%. So that's pretty good. We do have some really rigorous supports that we're going to put into nth grade on track next year. I'm really excited to
035get some of those things started and to see what impact it can have partnering early and often with families who with students who have signs in middle school that say we're struggling. So that's one of our supports of many. So I'm excited to get started there. Um, again, the the the little progress monitoring has to do with grades, not necessarily credits. And so, there is a little bit of a disparity in the colors there. Um, but really what matters is that um that 87% as of today of students who are probably going to be on track by the time the year ends. Um, in our thriving students, really good news to share here. Um, in the fall, 35% of students agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, I I feel like I belong at school.
036In the spring, uh, 61% of students agreed or strongly agreed that they that they feel like they belong at school. So, that felt like a celebration and obviously a move in the right direction. Questions? What are you thinking? First of all, thank you. Great report about the math. What do you think? How are you thinking of tweaking it differently? I know it's just preliminary, but uh so this year was an experimentation year. I sat with the teachers and I I believe I came earlier this year and said this, but um what have you tried math teacher and what have you tried math teacher? These are the great tools. These are the great tools. We must use these things. Okay, here's the things we must use. Additionally, I want to see assessment use and I want
037it to be something that we can, you know, if you are doing assessment, they do assessment. I want it to be in this system so that we can track more closely which standards have been mastered, which standards have not been mastered. Additionally, there's talk of an OD um accountability bill that's sort of working its way through. You see a headline about it every once in a while. In that bill is the use of the interim assessments. So OD has the big you know ESPback OSAS state assessment. They also have these interim assessment tools that are optional to use. Um they may make those mandatory and if those aligns you know I they I haven't looked at them. I assume their blueprint aligns with the blueprint of OSAS that could be a really helpful tool that
038much better tells us exactly where students are at or predict their performance on ESPback more so than map. And so that'll be a conversation to have about how does that look for us and when what are the timelines and stuff. So thank you. Um let's see implementation of shore up. Yep. Those are the things that we have planned right now. I'll have more planning to do alongside the teachers. Um other question my question is under priming students first of all great job on getting it up from 35 to 61 but now like that's still a significant chunk right of our kids. So like what are your initial thoughts on how we're going to get even more students to feel like they belong because they don't feel like they belong. You mean you know they don't
039really care about the academics kind of goes hand in hand. So, do you have any initial thoughts as to like what you might implement next year to try to get that number even higher as a staff? So, I'm convening several task forces over the summer and one of them is on the transformative standards that are mandatory in a division 22 requirement next year. But, we don't want to do them because they're a requirement. We want to do them because it's the right thing to do. We want to want to move this number. That's what we're after. And I have a couple of really amazing brains working on that together with me. We're going to spend two hours sometime before the end of June working on what does the plan look like to to teach these
040transformative SEAL standards. And they're good. They talk about identity. They talk about asking good questions, remaining curious. So making helping students understand that they take up space and so do other people and that we can be here in community. We can disagree. we can learn from each other. That's a that's a big ask. That's the vision for where we want our students to be to understand that they have uh lately hot topic first amendment rights and that those can show up in any way that means something to them with some limitations, hate speech, vulgarity, stuff like that. So um you know we have a big vision and a big dream for what school can feel like for students if we want to move in that direction and the TS cell plan and standards feel like
041a really good way to start with that. Some of their early ideas are like having um of like gatherings during the school day where we hit a lot of the SEAL standards really hard um when it comes to identity and belonging and have sort of a retreat mini retreat kind of a thing for groups of students um and what that can look like and how it could move groups of students toward more community feel. When you say like that time, are you thinking like through their advisory time like that's when the focus is going to be or is we don't have the plans yet. That's like Okay. Yeah. Where we're at? Yeah. Share more on that. Yes. Other questions? Okay. All right. All right. Thank you, director. Beware of the table. Gotten everybody. you know,
042I'll trip. So, um, so I have three as well. My blue one, academic excellence, is not fully complete, uh, because my data relies on school data coming in. Um, if you flip to I guess it's the second page is where it'll say the June update. Uh, the St. Mary's case manager didn't have scores yet when I had submitted it and today got really really busy. So, um I will have it either updated by the time this gets finalized or this will end up being in black. Uh because the only reportable data that I have is from the MA's case manager because the JFK they only tested twice so there isn't like three reporting periods of data. Makes sense. So, um, all I have is Mount Angel Middle School and they tested in math three times.
043They did not test in reading. So, again, this is a really like limited data set to report to you guys. So, I reported what I have otherwise but for color coding purposes, it might just be black. Um, so again you can see here as far as uh comparing and again this is the I Ready not uh test. And so I reported all students on IEPs and then split it again whether they had um identified area of math on their IEP or not as that second set. Um and the scores were pretty comparable um using the I Ready Diagnostic Assessment and size is 22. Do you have any questions? I have a question on tag. Do you report the tag kit? I mean the scores on tag kits how they did too. It's not I'm able
044to. We would have to hand pull them. We'd have to hand pull the tags. I was just kind of wondering if they just met or ex or exceeded. That's what I was interested in for tag or we have kids that did not meet even though they are tagged and I'm sure be able to pull that. The principles could probably I have to get this from them and you could pull like okay kids that are identified and that would be it's not a lad that I know of. Maybe you could respond. Kids got up their rating arts and their Okay. So, a middle school and elementary school. Any that have to get pulled, I guess. Yeah. And I don't know. Is that even a flag? You'd have to pull it student by student. I do. Yeah.
045I don't think it's a We don't have We don't have that disagregated area. So I was just kind of wondering how high school kids also if there's any bad kids. I'll give it to you. Thanks. Yeah, I don't have a memorized. Okay. But I think as systems get more robust, we can disagregate by different flags. But yeah, we can do it by students since we don't have like hundreds. No, we don't. And it's just it's just a matter of you know I don't Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be something where we can pull. Um for purple sheet engaging uh family community partners. Um I feel like this is a really strong area. Again though um Teresa is really the lynch pin in that. If you um know Teresa, which I think you all do, um our
046partner, the strongest partner though in the spring has been St. Joseph's um and they have now moved completely over um to the other side. If you haven't been there, um Teresa and Naomi and I actually got to tour last week. They've done a really beautiful job. Um, so they are now the and they will be transitioning um over to they're cutting their uh contract with DHS. So it's going to go back to being a uh family shelter. The referral process will be different. Um so I'll have more information for you officially in hopefully in July by July's board meeting. um because they won't they're not taking any referrals right now while they move in and so by July 1 they should um have their referral process open. This should actually be better for serving our
047community because you know the last few years we haven't been able to it hasn't served our community. Um and so it should go back from my perspective more similar to how it was when the sisters ran it. um for you know those of you who have been here for a while which I think most of you have um so it'll be more of a family shelter style we can refer they still have to abide by the program rules the first floor is the family shelter um and then the top floor is where the father's half uh teen parents will be um and everything just looks really lovely and it's really clean and bright and um Uh it's just really I mean gosh it's like a retreat though like I don't know if teen moms want
048to be out there but like I want to go like read a book out there. It's very peaceful. So So um and Mission Benedict is over there. It's operating. They are going to try to get some even one day of evening hours. So, okay. And then thriving students, just maybe to piggyback on to what Jessica was saying, um, second page and I actually, it's a little bit split, I guess. Um, so I felt like we had some really fun activities. May was mental health awareness month. Um I kind of get to do that twice a year because September we have suicide awareness and then May is mental health. So I kind of get to do this twice which is really um really fun for me um because I feel like in this community um it's
049really been embraced um to be able to celebrate mental health as much as physical health. And so um being here now as long as I have to see how that has evolved has really been a lot of fun for me. um and Brian, you know, last month I'd have to share the goodie bags and um the schools have really embraced those. So, that was that was new and different. I did put in um DESA spring reporting data um one thing that was interesting to me and I added um just a couple graphs for you um one that's a little bit more simplistic but also a reference point. So need for instruction is the red. Um our in our district overall it was at 21% with an average you know if you were going to take
050a cross-section across the United States 16% would be average. So we're um about 5% above what would be expected. So I think you know what we're saying we're feeling is you know this is just another data point to support that um you know on on average we're seeing kids who have more social emotional needs. Um so I put that in there. And then the second graph is looking at that by grade level. So you can kind of see maybe Jessica could attest that maybe that ninth grade group is struggling a little bit more than some other groups. I don't know. So but um and then as a reminder K through five the teachers are doing the reporting and then six through 12 they're doing self-report. So there's pluses and minuses to both um and we'll
051get better at it each time. you know, setting the stage. Um, you know, for those students who are doing self-report, um, for teachers, you know, they'll get better at it each time, too. So, the better that we get at it, the more valid and reliable our data will be. Is there is there a reason why six, seven, eight aren't on? I couldn't tell you. This is just what was in there. So, okay. I don't know if they're Yes. Just I just grabbed what was there as the post. I don't know. I can go back in and look. You guys took it again this spring. I don't have it in front of me, so I'm not sure what it is you're talking about. Desa data. I'm not again. I don't have it in front of me
052today. Did you guys do Desa this spring? Well, there you go. There you go. um dates there for you for the fall. And then um this last thing is something that I'm really excited about. Um purchased a new curriculum. Uh it does have all levels. Um so tiers one, two, and three. I purchased it uh for the direct purposes for tiers two and three for counselors and special education teachers. But hearing um you know the questions that you guys had about well what it you know how is the high school going to address XYZ it would be you know this is something that um administrators would also have at their disposal. Um but of course we're also taking on a new reading curriculum. So it's a lot for everybody to jump in at one time.
053But Wayfinder is a um social emotional curriculum that more than half of the districts in Oregon are using. it is aligned to the T- cell standards um um and a variety of other bills um in Oregon. And so um we were able to purchase it with um some of the sped funds that I still had in our budget. I was also able to get a grant to help um offset some of the funds um in order to purchase it because it's obviously more expensive when you purchase things um that first year. Um and so we'll have um a training um August 20th um for our administrators, counselors, and special ed teachers and the IAS who are also going to be responsible for some of the small group instruction. So I'm pretty excited to have the
054instruction being in small groups push in or it's so massive. It's just here and then they have to figure out how to use it. Yes. So, um, I want to say yes to all of that because it has the capability for literally anything. However, for me, trying to be mindful of the fact that we're doing a district-wide ELA adoption um, is not my intention to be like, here everybody, now go implement this new thing. So, my intention is to just train this small group of people so that they can use it, right, in one-on-one or small group. Um, and then we have our behavior specialist who will be like designing the things, right? So that people can then use it. It makes it makes a lot of sense. So we'll start small and then scale.
055Good. Any other questions? Yeah. Thank you. Just what are you doing now that you're not in school anymore? actually or are you back in school? Uh, that's so funny that you said that because everyone accuses me of um I've actually been sleeping a lot. Good. I'm very tired. Thank you for asking. You're welcome. Graduation is Saturday. So, you're done. Done. I mean, you know me. I'll probably Well, yes. So, think of me Saturday. Pray I don't trip. Right. Y'all know I'm Come on. Thank you for asking. Just wear appropriate footwear. I can probably still manage it in tennis shoes. Thank you for asking. You're welcome. All right. Budget report. All right. So, first is our food service. Um really exciting. We got a really um good um chunk of money this month for our um
056reimbursement from the federal and state um of $37,851. So that was exciting. Um plus another $9,000 um so excuse me 37,000 from federal, $9,000 from state um and we also got our second quarter um payout for the C program. Um and it was a little over $11,000 for that quarter. So, um, is this more than we were expecting or Well, we didn't really know what to expect. Okay. Um, because it was new this year. Um, but $11,000 pretty good. I thought um and then we did the transfer this month um to from the general fund. So, right now um our punch fund is is looking healthier. Um and then for expenses, normal expenses, um there is an increase in food costs. she's starting to bulk up um for summer school, summer food program because that
057starts right after school gets out. Um so uh the total expenses were 56,189 and so right now we're trending at um a month and fund balance of 10,569. So the goal is to obviously be positive by the end of um this year and and I think based on the the estimate that I have for next month and then that additional 11,000 we should we should be on track for that. So that was good news. Any questions on this at all? And then um for May um we received our last state school fund payment um which was 842,000 um which is a reconciling of last year's um so 2324 and then the remaining amount for this year. We've we've really talked about this a lot over the budget meetings. Um we will be paying some of
058that back probably at the end of next year once ADM gets reconciled. Um but for right now that is what we've got. Um so our total revenue for May was a little less than 900,88946. And then for expenses, um May's a big month for salaries and benefits because we pay out all of our stipens, um our spring sports and leadership positions, and so there's definitely a bump um this month. So you can see that there. Um and then we also did those transfers that you guys approved at the last board meeting um of the um 115,66. So our total um right now trending month fund balance is a little over 1.9 million. So any questions on this one? All right. Did second with your last one. Is there gonna be like a skit or anything?
059Interpretive dance. There you go. Should have borrowed someone's costume from today. Been great. So, good evening, Chair FA and Director. Tonight's report includes student enrollment as always, transfers in and out, current enrollment, moving on to something called standards of excellence, which I've been giving you a little bit of information over time, but tonight's the bigger picture, and then a bond update. So, transfer requests, zero since May 8th going in or out. Although we are starting to now get all the transfers for next year and there will be a report for you in August and or September for that. I know you like to see that uh that overall picture. Any questions on that? Okay. Enrollment 655. Uh, I I want you to know that um I've been working with Jill and we are starting a
060new protocol, a a formal protocol of data collection. When we have families that have started here in Mount Angel, but are requesting to transfer out, we're now using a series of questions and collecting the data on why, what we could do differently. Uh, so that should stay in place for a while and help us better understand maybe some of this information. Any thoughts or questions on that? I think that's a great idea. I like that. I like that. Right now, parents want people want to leave. We don't have that formal protocol. We just sign off and or they get why and we sign off. Yes. And we have a they can put their reason on, but they they usually do not. And we're not we also get a lot of out of district requests from
061families that never set foot in Mount Angel. And we we aren't at this time considering calling them. We want to hear what what me what would have made the difference for people to stay. That's where at least where we want to start. That's great. Yeah. Make a difference. Uh okay. So this probably looks a little familiar. Uh this is from the strategic plan. The mission, our purpose as a district, ensuring pathways of growth and achievement through responsive adult actions. The vision a little bit more wordy, but these are the things that we have to do in order to ensure those pathways of growth and achievement. We need to be a trustworthy district that values academic access, prioritizes responsive supports, nurtures resilient and independent thinkers who grow to know their own worth. And the reason I'm
062bringing this set up is that this has everything to do with the standards of excellence. And for me, what this has been about, if you go back to the previous slide, something's been missing from the strategic plan. The strategic plan has been wonderful as far as collective efficacy, bringing lots of people's ideas together. But the one thing we did not do is to talk about what does it look like? What does it look like to be responsive? What does it look like to be trustworthy? What does it look like to have good communication? That's what we're trying to answer. What are the behaviors that we should expect to see from others and from ourselves? so that we're really living the mission and the vision and we have clarity around what that looks like. Does that
063make sense so far? So what are these standards of excellence? They are the behaviors and the commitments that are actionable. Why? Why is it important? Well, one, we know that you pay attention to what you want to see more of. has everything to do with positivity and acknowledgement and being able to agree on what are some high standards of excellence for behavior. We can recognize more people and we want that. We want to be able to pay attention to what we want to see more of unity. We want to make sure we're rowing in the same direction. You can have 10 people in rowboats working really hard, but they could all be going in different directions. So that's not we're trying to um strengthen that commitment to our colleagues, caring about each other. I care
064enough to meet the standards and support you. And then finally, the focus on the mission and the vision. So there's been a process that's been taking place since February. Uh I have been working with all staff that I could to gather key beliefs or commitments from them. Classified licensed schools and departments lots of meetings uh so that I could get their input on what was important to them. Identify we did identify some common beliefs. I have been working with a cadre or a committee of standards of excellence folks. We were able to sort through all of these hundreds of responses and come up with the following priority commitments. These were the most popular. Collaboration, communication, being responsive, being trustworthy, and being inclusive. From there, we looked at what those priority beliefs were and how we
065could make them actionable. We could say, "We believe in being responsive." Okay, but what does that again look like? Right? So, here's an example. We want good communication. Awesome. But what does this look like? It could look like we believe in open communication by smiling, making eye contact, and greeting others in a positive manner. So, that's what the standards of excellence are trying to get at. At this point, we're working on refining, and this is a very, very rough draft mockup of what it might look like. But we want to ensure that there's something that everybody in the district can connect to that goes back to everything that they said, the input that they provided. Uh, and I guess I should probably clarify, these are standards of excellence for our staff. Uh just wanted to
066make sure that you were aware of that at this point. It's not something that we're expecting or wanting or un unrolling or rolling out with students. And um I would say Rachel starting I mean starting with staff that's where you have to start and then students witnessing witnessing the consistent positive behavior difference. And wouldn't it be great if here in the board meetings, and I know this has been a a topic of interest before, if we acknowledge staff also the way that we acknowledge students through the leads awards. That's part of what this is about also is recognizing excellence. So, we're getting close to being um being complete. I'm really trying to get this across the finish line for Dr. McFarland uh so that she can work on the roll out and promotion of this
067and I'm doing that baton handoff with her. She knows that I'm getting it as far to the finish line as I can for her. I have special thanks for these folks who have worked very hard with me. They've been giving up their evenings. They've been they even gave up time last week, the second to the last week of school to work on this. and I have appreciated very much their input in their collaboration. So Annie Vasquez, Tracy Strandberg, Megan Clark, Nicole Frill, Angie Trager, and Kramer have been very very helpful. I'm trying to get out of the sun. It's like following. Are there any questions on the standards of excellence at this time or thoughts? It's great about it. Thank you. Bond update. We love to see the green, right? We've got the budget right
068where it should be. Schedule right where it should be. The scope right where it should be. Budget update. Might be kind of hard to read that, but uh we have paid to date about 4.5 million. Uh what's committed is uh just under 10 million and the revised budget is almost 11.5 million. And that's due to interest. And um if you had deeper questions about the interest, I know that Christie could answer Christie could answer them. Budget remains on track. Design bid build uh that bid day realized a savings of just over half a million dollars to the district. and progressive design build uh had phase two had a buyout that that was the the phase that they called it and realized a savings of um just over $100,000. So this is great news put more
069money in our pockets. The amount of savings that amount of savings has allowed us to fund some other projects that were on the con a considerations list. For example, the basement of JFK has had a consistent sewer plumbing problem that has flooded Sweet Pea Learning Center several times this year. Um, much to the dismay of Marty. So, we've been able to finally Marty's been able to arrange to get in there and get that fixed permanently. Replace one hallway gate at JFK. Uh, maybe that doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's not a safe gate. We don't want kids being around it. So, we're place we're replacing it so that it's the adults that are using it don't have to be so careful about how they're using it. Safe, warm, and dry. That's the motto
070we're sticking with. Replace two unit ventilators at JFK. Additional mechanical repairs around the um heating systems and install controls for air handler units at in the CTE wing at JFK. So having realized some savings, we can put it into those other things. Um the amount that is uncommitted that you saw in that graph uh through the end of May. So it may have shifted just a little bit 1.27 million. Uh we are using a healthy amount of that set aside for any surprises that we find underneath the ETH sighting here at St. Mary's. and the Energy Trust of Oregon incentives almost $160,000. Summer impact, I have an update for you. Robust discussion last month about St. Mary's and oh my goodness, a closure and what is that going to mean and how are we going
071to communicate it? Uh JFK, no changes there. Partially closed but no move out required. Ma'am's pretty much mostly closed except for the office is going to remain open and then we'll have the cafeteria open for a summer lunch program. St. Mary's campus, yes, it's closed. Relocation of the office to room 23, which is down at the end of this hallway with access for families to come in and register. But, uh, it's going to be closed through Friday, August 22nd. The reason I put that asterisk up under August 25th for MAMS, it it is projected to come in sooner, but uh I'll believe it when I see it. So that you know, we'll see how that goes. And I meant to say, I don't know why I didn't put this in my slides. Um oh, it's
072because it's in the uh bond oversight committee report later on, but uh we are going to be able to have the grass area open and the playground open here at St. Mary's. Oh, sure. Yeah, that's really that's great for everybody. It's a win for everybody. And there'll be a six foot fence around the building that leaves room. A nice compromise. Questions. Sorry I didn't ask this earlier when you asked your questions first time. Going back to your side on the district vision. Yeah. where you have, you know, communication trust that that graphic. Um, when it comes to inclusive, like I'm looking at, and this is not to discredit anything that's on there. It's not like taking away from something, right? Because it's a thing, but reading it, it thinks about it just like culturally and
073ethnically, but also being inclusive of other things as well. 100%. And so like I don't know if others people kind of read that the same way I did where it's more of like a cultural ethnicity lens and not looking at being inclusive as a whole in other areas too. Total inclusion. So yeah, total inclusion. But I absolutely that is the intent of that. Thank you. Other thoughts or questions? Hey exciting bond stuff. Wow. Good. It's gonna be a busy summer. Nice. Well, um do you know if um Dr. Carlin has potential like or maybe the OTAC puts together a report at the end to the community that says because of these things we were able to do these things. just kind of like a summary of how successful the bond was to help promote and
074to help with future bond asks. That's going to be a really important handoff and I've shared um bond work history and where we are wanting it to head in eight years time with her and she understands the importance of that. We've spent several hours talking specifically about the bond. So, uh, and this will come up in the bond oversight committee report also. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Any other questions? Right. Moving on to board member reports. Okay. Like to thank the administrators for the wonderful graduation that they did in each of the schools. The graduations were fabulous. You worked really hard and was well attended. Oh, it's been kind of a cold hot, [Music] but we couldn't help with that. Great job. Thank you. Well, and another thing, too. We're not going to
075see him for a while. So, enjoy your summer, right? Enjoy your retirement. Thank you. All right. Great. Thank you. Okay. Public forum. Um, anybody online, Phil? No. Okay. Seeing none, there is nobody. We're going to move on. We are now going to uh close the budget hearing action items. The Mount Angel School District budgets. Anything? If not, then I would accept a motion. And is this where this is the blue resolved? Yeah. Yep. The blue sheet. It's right there. Resolved. Yep. So, I will go for it. Be resolved that the board of directors of men school district number 91 hereby adopts the budget for fiscal year 202526 in the sum of 28,82,52 now on file in the district administrative office and all three and then me. Yeah, let's go all three. Okay. Be it resolved
076that the amount for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2025, the purposes shown below are hereby appropriate. Be it resolved, school board of the Matt Angel School District number 91 hereby imposes taxes provided for in the adopted budget at the rate of $4.6268 per,000 of assessed value for operations and in the amount of $1,419,595 for bonds and that these taxes are hereby imposed and categorized for tax year 202526 upon the assessed value of all taxable property within the district. Second move and seconded. Any discussion? Right. All in favor? Passes unanimously. Well done with the budget committee this great presentation. Thank you. You do like I you really do a great job of presenting it in a way that everybody who doesn't live financial life understands. So yes definitely. Okay. Moving on to our uh basically
077our milk contract, right? Is that how you would the Spring Creek Spring Valley dairy? Oh, yeah. We're part of a a consort. Yep. Okay. Do I have a motion? I recommend the district accept and award RFPD205 to 2030 to Spring Valley and Derry for the 2025 2026 school year. Move. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Moved in a second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I passes unanimously. And last on our action items, uh the amendment to the contract with PNC construction. Anybody have any questions about what was in packet? Okay, I would accept the motion. Uh, I'll move to approve the manage school district to the MP amendment to the contract construction. Motion. I have a second. Okay. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I I All right. Moving on for
078discussion items. The student representative to the board. We do have a new student uh rep to the board, Noelia Morales Sandaval. She is going to be a senior next year. I have made contact with her. She was not able to attend tonight. Um but she will be here in July. So, uh Jill, I think I see you on the email later. Yeah. Okay, perfect. Um so eager to meet her and we thank John for all of his work. Unfortunately, he was able to make it tonight. All his work over the past year keeping us informed and being part of our our board. All right, Superintendent Stucky, since uh Mr. Shucker isn't here. Yeah, I now I understand why he feels like I steal his thunder since I now that I'm in his shoes for this.
079Um basic no language conflicts, making sure that we didn't have to clarify anything through a decision- making process. Um and new business involved the safety fencing here at St. Mary's. So again, I've shared that the grass area and playground will be available um and other new business discussion of savings. The the bond as any bond committee as anyone wants to know what is the savings and what are we doing with it and so right now we're going back to another round of a considerations list and two things are happening there. Uh it's it's kind of a wish list, but everything on there to prioritize low, medium, or high, and it has to be fall under the categories of safe, warm, and dry. Uh that is the commitment we made to this community. So, we're not
080going to be adding fluff that might be nice to have, but was not promised. So, um, we are just getting ready to go back and revisit that considerations list next week. Yeah. Okay. Rachel, yes. When will the EPA citing total cost be known? Well, the bid already came in just under what they thought was was I don't Well, I'm just more concerned about unforeseen that could result the surprises that might be found. Yes. Well, we have It's all happening this summer. Oh yes. Okay. So by the fall, no later than end of calendar year, we will know exactly how much that Absolutely. Okay. That's what I thought. I just wanted to experiment. Thank you. That's good. And they're picking like items um that are non-intrusive um for like the wish list to do after. So
081like that way they could do it over, you know, winter break and stuff like that if there's something left over if there are no huge surprises. They're very being very strategic about that. Keeping our fingers crossed for no big surprises. Yeah, for sure. No worries. Yeah. Other new business at the committee meeting was what do we do about s celebrations? You know, this is this has been a huge deal in the launch process. Uh that's involved a lot of commitment, trust, and we want to celebrate that. So, do we want to have tours? do we want to um connect it with events that are already happening? And basically the committee really felt like if we can connect it to events that are already happening, we're going to get a better turnout for any kind of
082a celebration. So that will be discussed in August with Dr. Harland and the the bond oversight committee. Um the committee is taking a hiatus next month. So they're going to reconvene the first Wednesday of August. And that's what I've got for you. Thank you very much. Any change membership on the bond oversight committee that you're aware of? People are still There's a few people that have stopped coming, but they haven't like officially set down, but um I still invite them to everything and they still get all of my stuff. I just attend my meetings. Okay. Thank you. All right. board policy, the graduation requirements. Yes. So, um, due to Senate Bill three from the year 2023, there are some changes to graduation requirements and I believe that we've discussed and heard about them before. uh
083a half credit each of career path skills and personal finance uh need to be in place and there is quite a bit of language around that law. So you'll find in the the u the example for consideration there is a lot of language changes nothing that the policy committee needed to do just a lot of language coming from the law itself. So that's where it is coming from. Any questions from the camp policy committee? Thank you so much for for meeting with that and superintendent. Thank you as well. All right, that was our last thing on our agenda. Any questions before we adjourn? Well, Superi, you made it through your last board meeting. How many more days? I don't know. Yeah. Um it's just better right now not to. I was uh telling Director Concincaid
084earlier that there's a sense of panic that sets in when you realize how many or few days you have left. So I'm just moving forward. Well, enjoy the last couple weeks and we again thank you for everything. Thank you. And I just want to say before you put that gabble down, um this has been such an honor, such a privilege to serve you, and the fact that you put your trust in me for four years to do this really critical work has meant the world to me uh in a way that no other career experience has. So, thank you very much for um making my career experience complete and full circle. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a leader that we can trust. Yes. Yes. All right. Me turned. You did the first
085time.