001all right I will call this meeting in order at 6 PM we'll start with a roll call please have pleas sorry I said no but I li it's okay I forgot my binder thank you all right ksey here Merl here Heidi here Len here Jenny here Robert running late probably stuck on I five Crystal here if you'll join me for the flight salute 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 I would open up the floor to agenda considerations I'll make a motion we accept the agenda just presented do I hear a second I'll second any discussion move to a vote all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries we'll move
002to public comment we have Mr roer did I pronounce that correctly yes hello positive feedback for you just one minute Robert join the meeting at 6:01 p.m go ahead good evening board members superintendent Bush and community members my name is Charles roer and I live in Aurora I'm here tonight with my parents Alan and Sally roer who are sitting behind me we're here together because we wanted to express our heartfelt gratitude to superintendent Bush Diane lch and the entire North Marian team for the incredible support they extended to our family last summer my niece and nephew Rita 3 years old and Adam 6 years old faced a dangerous situation that made it necessary for my parents and me along with many others in the community to step in and help secure a safe and stable
003life for them here in Oregon my parents in particular were suddenly reintroduced to Parenting during retirement which brought some unique challenges fortunately we weren't alone in that effort I work at GK machine and when the owner Gary Gren heard about the situation he personally renovated a home in Donald to welcome Adam and Rita into the north Maran Community the school district immediately stepped in to help as well and their support made all the difference within 24 hours of hearing about the situation Dan and Diane took action to ensure both kids could enroll in summer school giving them a much needed opportunity to feel stable safe and supported their fast response was incredible and it left a last an impression on me especially knowing that Dan had just stepped into his role as superintendent but what
004happened afterward was even more impressive the entire North Marian team worked together to support two children who arrived with significant behavioral challenges through a combination of patience guidance and structure the district gave my niece and nephew exactly what they needed to succeed in the classroom their teachers worked hard to help them develop emotional regulation skills using tools like kelo's choice when Adam struggled with focus and behavior early on his teacher Mrs Casey robless reinforced Positive Choices with positive pup Awards something Adam took a lot of pride in I brought a picture with me tonight of the eight positive pup Awards positive pup Awards Adam earned during his time at North Maran I remember how proud he was when he brought home his first one his teacher had written a note that said Adam had earned
005the the award for being on task with his reading partner a new activity that required focus and Independence moments like that made an enormous difference for Adam and he treasured those Wars keeping them safely locked away in his little treasure chest in his room beyond the classroom Adam and Marita met regularly with Mr Matt hanning the school's guidance counselor they both told me they always felt safe and comfortable with Mr Matt something that meant so much to our family during a difficult time the support continued outside of school as well my father stepped in to handle transportation for Adam and Rita's extracurricular activities this allowed Adam to participated in North Maran soccer program a sport that became an important outlet for him his coach Amanda kale who also happens to be a teacher in the
006district consistently reinforced the same principles he was learning in the classroom that consistency was key to his growth Meanwhile my mother attended weekly parenting classes led by the primary school principal Kimberly Jordan those classes became an incredible resource for my parents as they navigated the unexpected challenges of parenting again throughout the school year the entire North Marian team provided an amazing structure for my niece and nephew and their lives are forever changed because of it I know that this kind of environment doesn't happen by accident it's a reflection of strong leadership I truly believe this positive culture exists because of the dedication and guidance of Dan Diane and the entire administrative team including you School Board I'm incredibly grateful for that and I wanted to be here tonight to say thank you before I close
007I'd like to share one last thing I brought another picture with me tonight a poster that Adam proudly made for his bedroom wall in big bold letters it says I love Casey his first grade teacher I don't know how many kids love school so much that they make a sign like that but to me this poster says it all it's proof Pro that North Marian is more than just a school district it's a place where students feel safe valued and supported thank you for creating that kind of environment and thank you for the lasting impact you've had on my family I plan to connect with superintendent Bush to see how I can best give back to the district and help ensure this Positive Growth continues for other families to experience through my role at GK
008machine I'll continue supporting programs like manufacturing day and Welding classes opportunities that provide students with valuable skills and Pathways to success as a Boy Scout leader I'll keep working to ensure students have access to extracurricular programs that build confidence leadership and character values that North Marian teachers are already reinforcing so well in the classroom and through my volunteer work with the city of Aurora I'll do my part to help maintain a strong positive relationship between the city and the district so that North Marian students Contin continue to thrive in a supportive and enriching learning environment I'm grateful for all you've done and I'm committed to doing my part to help support your ongoing success thank you for being here for all you do next we have Ben Bosell hi hello welcome hi sir so can
009you please please be a little agent yeah absolutely right so so there's been a bud of cuts but anyway my my name is Ben Bosell and I haven't been part of the robar team I North Maran for for the past three um three years I am currently a freshman at the high school I I have heard that some classes and clubs might be cut at the high school next year and I and I um I am worried that that Ro box could be one of them I I wanted to um tell you why ra Bo should not be cut first off it is the only engineering class offered at the high school second of all ra box is a place where people are challenging and can learn your F outside the box to solve your
010unique Pro problems they also learned how to build and cor robots which can't help students who are going into F like engineering and computer science in the robar club students learn some of the same skills as well as learning teamwork collaboration perseverance and critical thinking skills it also teaches B valuable interpersonal and Leadership skills needed for ra box competitions for each tournament you your your team has to have a strategy if the strategy is not working you have to adapt and make the necessary changes in a box tourament we are paired with different teams for each qualifying match after qualifications alliances are chosen for the elimination rounds teamwork is essential if you want to win a match match with your part partner team also during during elimination rounds you have to be carefully about which
011which boss you want to want your ally with often times teams will try to arrange it ahead of time which teams they want to pair up with with for for the the elimination around um learn to communicate well well with over Cham is important as a future engineer the the skills I am I am learning in robotics will help me be being more um more successful in the future as you decide which classes you keep and which classes you c um please cons please consider keeping robotics Ben thank you so much for having the courage to come and speak before the school board and thank you for coming and do public comment tonight right okay you're welcome and and just you know this was initiated by him great thank you okay board communication we have
012classified employees Appreciation Week celebrating all of our classified staff yeah so last week was uh officially classified appreciation week and so uh I being on every school's uh email I got to see loads of appreciation being shared and uh it seems like Friday especially at the intermediate school there was lots of good food shared and um you know one uh story I've heard about classified employees that's kind of stuck with me over the years is uh you know if you build a structure especially something that uses glue when the glue dries sometimes kind of glue can be invisible there but that glue if it's not there the it'll fall apart and that's kind of what our classified folks do for us they are the glue that holds things together a lot of their work is
013unseen like that glue and um you know and and they play such a pivotal role with a variety of different skills uh from the secretary in the office to the custodian to the aid working side by side and uh I know that our licensed staff and administrators would say uh their their work would be would be a hundred times more difficult if it wasn't for our classified staff so um I know it was last week but we really do appreciate all that our classified folks do yeah absolutely thank you so much um High School ASB reports it's just Peter tonight yeah the Kane and Riley are both sick Kane Kane had a thing called whooping cop for a week and then she got food poisoned last night oh so she's been going through it um
014but hopefully I can step into her shoes Okay so uh I guess to start off we have um ASP uh ASB just hosted our winter sports assembly and are excited to announce that we are introducing reintroducing um the concept of spirit points for next year um we'll also be test R doing a test run of spirit week for prom so we're kind of working towards um doing a test run with Spirit points towards as a like for prom basically so um just kind of making sure uh it works out and um basically classes are competing to earn a pizza party at the end of the year because who doesn't like pizza um for fpla FPL is gearing up and excited for the annual Zoo field trip with the Big Brother Big Sister um program as
015well as prepping to send uh me and Abigail into Ste so um we're getting we're excited to that for that um FFA is getting ready for their state convention in Redmond next week and then the livestock sale for a bare animal shortly after um followed by their annual spring plant sale and then uh Key Club recently visited the primary schools to celebrate literacy day uh with the the kids they handed out fun bookmarks and spent the day reading to classrooms and helping encourage kids get excited about reading it was really fun um sorry uh NHS is continuing their homework help on Mondays um and they're excited to open new uh applications for any new members that are excited to join so uh junior you or sorry sophomore year actually now um if you're interested you
016know uh skills us skill is excited for their state competition on April 11th and 12th at Knife River training facility in Albany um they have five competitors for culinary three three of those are also doing Bakery and pastry and two in two in construction four in welding sculptures and one in photography a robotics team and one participating in in prepared and that's a long word and extreme horn is speaking don't know that word they're excited and looking to show up strong for North Maran I'm GNA guess it means [Laughter] uous and and yeah that's all for the that's all for the update for this month um some big words in there that I didn't know so K will be mad at me but it's okay um yeah I appreciate you for any time any questions
017did um Spirit we it's coming back so um did it go away during Co or yeah over Co um and in the previous few years we've kind of tried to bring it back but um there's been some complications so um Tucker's recently stepped in as our uh as our new adviser and so he's um been pretty uh full charge on trying to bring Spirit points back and um yeah so awesome it's great yeah any other questions I have an extemporaneous questions I couldn't answer it all right well thank you guys thank you so much have a great one thank you you too um youme leadership will not be here this evening I'm so correct right um we're gonna acknowledge the overnight field trip F fa huh FFA FFA I know I should brought my glasses
018did I travels on my brain no FFA State leadership conference March 20th through the 23rd 2025 in Redmond Oregon and then we'll move on to the consent agenda and I entertain a motion just one little that's okay so one quick a little uh bit of an announcement or uh clarification is um as I did get an email from uh Merl this evening and I think it's just point to clarification that that contract renewals and layoff procedures or RI procedures are two different procedures um they're two different processes um and for us uh our thinking which was confirmed by our legal council is to move forward with contract renewals should recalls occur later in the spring in the summer those folks would their contract would still be in place for them to return to to work
019so just want to clarify that out there that these are two different processes that we're undertaking thank you for the clarification anything else cleared it up for me that taking the one action doesn't preclude doing the other later and that thank I entertain a motion on consent agenda right yep we um accept the consent agenda as presented do I hear a second a second any other clarifying points besides what superintendent Bas we'll move to a vote all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries we're on number four business and budget corporations yeah I don't know if any of you have any questions on what I present on a monthly basis but wanted to let you know that we did get um our adjusted December to June ratio for 2425 that happens
020every year about dis fire and we are down about $70,000 from that and we did get our first estimate for 2526 and we're up about 146,000 there since I wrote this we got another met for 2425 and we lost another 27,000 so in the end we're about 50,000 ahead of ours so we'll see this will keep happening are there any questions for thank you all right we'll move on to board action um we're going to appoint a budget committee members do you have anything to add to that no Diana May missing any information okay so um do I hear a motion to appoint Jill schlasser how close am I you're very that's that's perfect great um to the budget committee I'll make a motion that we um appoint Jo slasher to the budget committee and
021thank her for her Serv excellent I will second that heing a first in a second any discussion I have a question yes go ahead and this it's not meant as a I just want to be clarifying on this you are you are you married to a a current staff member of maring so I just want to be sure that that's not a conflict of interest okay just want to get that out there I also have a son in the district oh that's great so and I'm a K12 Alan of North Mar so all around I am in okay there is no conflict thank you for clarifying that I appreciate it thank you hearing a first a second and discussion all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion carries welcome to reading
022material of the budget thank you again for volunteering and your service we appreciate you um and then so the recommendation to the non-resident transfers for 2526 is uh is what has been done in the past that there's no changes to what has been done I look forward to learning more about it so I'm not here to present anything uh about that piece and that link is to our website as you can see there so everything is um as has been done in the past couple things I do want to that's been brought up both you know related to the budget uh conversations there have been questions around enrollment and so I do want to just give you some uh data points here so we are still a what you would call a net in District
023in terms of more students coming in than leaving but it's not by a big margin uh we have 67 students uh transferring in and 56 students going out so uh it would be my curiosity to figure out um you know why folks are wanting to go out um we would want to create a place where we want to keep people in and have more wanting to come here so that'll be something that I'll look into you know more into next year but I just wanted that data out there the other thing that I think is another um sort of related topic is uh something that we may need to explore in the future is online programs right now we have 31 students who are not attending North Marian schools because of online um or homeschool
024options and so and we've 13er at the high school 13th the middle school three at the intermediate and two at the primary so clearly secondary uh people are looking to that as an option and so I think that uh for next year it's something that Dez and I have talked a little bit about of figuring out um you know would there be of these 31 students how many of them could we capture to come to us if we had an online option for folks um how much does it cost to start an online option what uh what have other school districts that have an online option what have they encountered so I don't think that we'd be back in the year saying we're ready to start something but maybe back in the year to say
025these are the pros and cons that we've learned in that process but as as we've been talking about budget and to enrollment as a key contributor of it those two questions about transfers and Charters or online programs have continued to surface so that's just some information for you related to that topic so still an action item still on the table for you there yes um any other questions do we exit interview um or we don't okay maybe we can't consider that that might beond we do some intervention strategies on some requests out such as you know by law were not allowed to ask them why they want to leave sure but if they offer that and they're just struggling then I can turn to one of the principles and say hey what's what's your support
026or feedback on this request out and there are times where um they will meet with the family and then the inex St I just got just catch them before they go through the CBS yeah yeah morl you got a question where does Orca fit into the online situation and funding Orca yeah Oregon the charter yeah the charter it's one of the charters they're a public online Charter yeah it means when a student ask to enroll in then they transfer out of our district into the district that is housing that and so those School funds go to that new District so we don't get funds if students in our district are enrolled under them yeah Orca Connections Academy um orva which is a like another one we were looking up a bunch of them yeah there
027you go Frontier also yeah Sheridan Summit there's one in Baker M Baker Colton so of the 56 going out are they going to other schools or is that home schooling Charter so that 56 number hold on a second here I don't have the the locations of where they're going um but is that is that included so no that's those are people that are look at Diane's chart here Diane so do you go ahead the 56 out are transferring to another public school not an online program do like candy or Wilsonville or Woodburn or you know a surrounding District okay typically those reasons are based on Child Care Logistics of the workplace um Credit Recovery U numerous reasons a bilingual program any other questions before we do a motion Mar one other comment I've heard in
028the community it's not from very many people is that Sports were a reason that FR I don't know how widespread that is no that's not allowed well okay I'd entertain a motion I will make a motion that we I'm sorry I'm looking for it on my where we at recommended to approve non-resident transfers 2025 2026 in do I hear a second a second any other discussion hearing none we'll move to a vote all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion carries District Operations report all right uh this might be my shortest report um so uh I linked to you a a letter that uh the area superintendent uh in the wsd sent uh regarding our uh recommendation for continued support for CTE with regional Career Centers um and so during this
029legislative season it's important that we continue our advocacy efforts for things that make a difference for kids and so you can look at that letter and and read the fact that we do have um a shortage of of workers and lots of opportunities for kids to exit our school system ready to work and so these Regional centers are going to be important just for the state of the economy uh for the future besides what it provides for kids um as you know we're participate we participate in the wamic Career Academy um with the WD uh we do anticipate having a more a little bit more participation next year the the WCA has been responsive to the concerns that we've had and we just know that these programs while when they're new they take a little
030bit to get started but we know that there are plenty of careers for kids to enter into and we need as an educational system need to be better equipped at being um repairing them for that so I'm just linking that letter on there um when Linda and I get to talk a little bit about the budget there's going to be some other opportunities that we can reference in terms of our advocacy for funding for things that support public education um you all know this because you're on my emails that I send you but if the public is watching uh we have gone through a pretty uh thorough process for our high school principal uh uh process and we are down to three candidates um and we're we're pretty excited about the strength that the candidates
031present because of the um the reduction process happening this week we did pause the process uh um or postpone it a little bit so that we could focus on that work this week uh Dez and I will be doing uh site visits to three school districts to learn more about the candidates and hoping to go from three finalists to two uh and have two candidates in front of our high school staff on Wednesday of next week so that is where that's at and uh thank you Jenny for being an observer of the process uh the business manager update is that we are uh starting interview process this Friday with two candidates for that position and thank you Glenn for stepping into that process um with that I'm gonna kind of open up this way a
032little bit to have uh Linda participate in this um we don't have a lot of new news to share you've been in on emails and Community uh Communications with that and uh this has been a a tough road for our staff um and we know that that impacts the community um I just need to express my how incredible our staff have been the professionalism through this process knowing that whenever news is on its way that's not positive it can this is a human business you just work with human beings all day and so to try to kind of keep that face front when you're working with little humans is hard to do and our staff have done an amazing job of doing that um we are since the last update to to Move It from
033the 7th to the 13th we we will meet that deadline we will have this process completed by this Thursday the first phase the first phase first phase of the process um and so we will be issuing uh reduction notices this Thursday um those will be delivered in person um and we do believe that that having that as a half day will be the best for um those receiving that and those having giving the ample time for people to deliver that message uh without the distraction of our our kids being here um that is the only news that we'll be sharing as far as those impacted by that decision so there's been questions about what about people being reassigned or transferred those will not be happening this Thursday um those are a lot of decisions coming
034down the road um a lot of things have taken into consideration before that and so right now making the the layoff notices it has been our priority and is our only priority for this Thursday um you know Linda shared you know a little bit of the budget updates there um I mentioned this to you a minute ago um about advocacy you know we are hearing and that uh some Purge relief might be forthcoming hearing about additional sped funding uh those what those are won't be arriving to us until the end of May maybe in early June so I don't know if you have anything to add to to that because we won't have those numbers I believe that our reductions will be a little deeper than we had hoped but we are hoping to get
035something to maybe be able to add back even one or two people we we won't know that so way late uh as we go through this process we continue to have resignations or people talking about it so that would change things if if someone does resign after we've given out notices on Thursday then that might open up a position for someone else and and a recall could happen sooner rather than later so we're are just keeping as positive as an attitude as we can in this environment and trying to work through it and be as thorough as possible so when we do put out the information it's accurate and letting people know along the way what our process is and to that point you know the one of the reasons for not making assignment announcements
036is if a recall came back in what would that shuffle and so we really that's another reason why we won't want to do that make those announcements now [Music] um escaping escaping me now we will get our state school fund final numbers for 23 24 May 15 and that could mean something to us should mean something to us one way or the other um right now the legislature is is very it we just don't know they're saying that high cost disability for last year could either be funded anywhere between 30 and 80% of your amount over $30,000 per student so for us that's a spread of over $200,000 from to 80 so unfortunately we won't know that till late in the game in this budgeting process and that makes it difficult to you know our
037people asked if we could just do the worst at first we're not sure we can so we're doing the best we can with the information that we have that continually changes and also budgeting that when we hear the potential of something like like that let's still base our decision on the lower number and not hope you know so uh you know to to answer the question have we gone deep enough we're not sure um but we're also not going to be uh making decisions on what might come from the legislature we're going with more of our known that we know and that's one thing I really appreciate about Linda and her approach to this is going with what is more known than and what is unknown any questions for us I don't have a question
038I just have a comment you know Linda one time you had said um that it's just along those lines of like we're not gonna we're going to go with facts and what we know not speculate and and hope so I really appreciate that approach I appreciate you guys' the work and the transparency um not a not an easy time for for any school district that's for sure but um I I feel like you done both for us so I appreciate your work thank you Glenn do you have anything don't Heidi no Merl no Robert nose yeah I just Echo what Jen says like thank you for just continuing to be flexible and updating numbers as you get them and for keeping you know the best case scenarios that we have at the and the positive
039attitudes and stuff and I just like to also thank the staff because I know that this is a tough tough culture and environment to be in right now and to give your best foot forward for our children I just really appreciate that because I know how difficult that can be to finish the school year so thank you for being selfless in that I guess I do have to add um just so you the public knows not I think the board already does but the list went out late last week that showed the seniority of people and that was a very tough day or two for our staff because if you're close to the bottom of those this it's really really hard and I think everyone all of our principles and everyone are trying to be
040as compassionate as possible it's it's so all right good I'm good all right moving on um future meetings and topics number seven we kind of have laundry list there that we're working on but I feel we've probably absorbed enough right now um just one note did we were we planning on a um work session or we not at this point I would say we are not having a work session in March it fell on spring break uh I think that where we were kind of maybe a month ago do we need will we need one will we not need one I think kind of the general consensus is not um so at this point unless you hear otherwise there will not our next next our next meeting will be April maybe think it's the 14
041yeah yeah so our next meeting would be April 14th okay excellent so we're going toj this business meeting but first I want to read the executive session which is number nine um the board will now meet an executive session according to O OS 19. 662 I to review and evaluate the performance of the chief executive officer which is our superintendent we'll be taking a brief 10-minute break and then we'll go into executive session thank you this meeting is a jour