001There we go. Welcome everybody here and some on Zoom. I think welcome families are here. So, it's nice to have a room full of people. So, next we will do the flag salute. Stand for that. And I should add I'm I'm vice chair. Our chair can't be here. His mother-in-law passed away. So she's she's not he's not able to be here. So So next we'll do agenda changes. And we do have one for an item 15 to approve the Alpine contraction management for May Roberts kitchen project. Got that miss construction Alpine construction management for the May Roberts kitchen. We'll add that as item 15 under business. Any other agenda changes? Matt? No. Thank you. Next then we'll have Oh, I'm sorry. We need to vote to approve the agenda change. I need a motion to
002add that. I'll make a motion to change. And Blanca did a second. Second. All in favor say I. All oppose, nay. That passes. So now we can move on to the units personnel bills, the consent items. Um any question on those? Uh make a motion to approve the consent items. Should we have a motion, a second to approve the consent items, amendments, personnel bills? All in favor say I. Oppose say nay. Motion passes. Then next we'll have the high school report. Dana Hernandez. Did I pronounce that correctly? Donna. Welcome. I'm sure. [Music] So, the newly elected officers for the 2025 2026 class have now been announced and they go straight to work. These dedicated representatives are eager to serve their fellow classmates and bring positive changes to the school. As of now, the sophomore representatives
003are working hard at organizing an exciting Easter egg hunt for the entire school. They are aiming to create a fun and engaging engaging event that encourage school spirit and involvement. They are brainstorming creative ideas for hidden surprises and working with staff members to secure locations to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience. The junior reps have been working on creating a project to support our injured sophomore as a way to support her throughout this challenging time and lift her spirits. They're also planning uh they also did plan a spirit day fun in the sun where students wear bright colors to celebrate the break and the amazing period which is spring. The senior rep have been putting in a lot of work into creating a senior owner only scavenger hunt around April 7th. They have been planning
004to create an event where they dunk seniors and a senior sunset for their class. Now clubs um starting with NHS is currently inviting and considering applications for members to NHS. The introduction induction ceremony have been scheduled for April 23rd in the Tiger Hall. Omi has started to learn and learn about debates in current issues such as climate change or weather in Washington DC as well as seniors and juniors have gone on their DC trip during spring break. GSA is preparing to sign up for the April Community Serve Day and is looking for volunteers to come serve with the group. Tiger Times currently has 20 writers on the staff this trimester and publish a paper every month. LA currently has work committees working to teach lessons for their teacher for day project. HOSA has four students
005proudly represented representing Ontario HOSA at the Idaho State Leadership Conference in Pocutello. And one of their upcoming inuitivities including setting up a recruitment table during parent teacher conferences at the high school to showcase hosta encourage students participation. And then yearbook is on the page that I handed out. Um, Smile members have attend members will be attending Smile High School challenge held at Western Oregon University in Oregon State University on April 3rd and 4th. And lastly, FFA has gone to state convention where the freshman information contest team got first and one student posted the first perfect score that they have seen. The farm business management team got sixth in the state and seven students received their f their state degree. All of the agri science fair entries but one for but one won one first and
006will move on to nationals. One student won the state proficiency in agri business and will move on to nationals as well. Lastly, Maya Gomez was was the chair of the nominating committee to help select the new FFA state officers and spring sports have started. Any questions? I live right by the high school. You can't drive without running over a child. So, is this your first report? And it'll be for the next year. Thank you. It's nice to hear. Yeah. Thank you. Now, a middle school report from Santiago O Evetto. Oto. How'd I do on that one? Oto. Good evening. My name is Santiago Goello. I am the middle school student body president. Students in robotics have been learning to code sphere robots. They are learning wordblock coding in the Lego app to program their robot
007base. Students follow a series of steps to build the base using advanced Lego and work to improve and adapt their design. Students are also learning about the Lego submerge challenge and are working on coding and completing missions for that for this challenge. Along the way, students are learning to work together, work as a team to problem solve, use computer skills, delegate tasks, and build things together. TAG students at MS have been busy applying the design thinking process to designing and printing their own TAG logo sweatshirts. Socially and emotionally, students have been learning the value and strategies and having a growth mindset as they spend time with intellectual peers during the advisory and or weekly enrichment period. Opportunities are maximized for appropriate aptitude and interest exploration along with building those important peer relationships. Both MS Latinos
008and action classes have been busy tutoring preschoolers twice a week. Our seventh grade LIA class is partner with MCCDC and the eighth grade class is partnering with OCDC. OM students walk to the library to meet their preschool student partner to work on fine motor skills as well as literacy skills to prepare for kindergarten. Along with their tutoring, LIA students have been busy planning activities that promote service, professionalism, and school pride. Students continue to prepare for the LIA leadership conference in May, which will take place in Utah at Snow College. Smile recently went to Western Oregon University to complete the middle school challenge. Students were grouped with students all across Oregon to complete a STEM challenge. This was a great opportunity for students to make friends, work together, and learn. Students slept in the dorm, ate
009in the and ate in the dining hall, providing for a full college experience. A stop was made at Walt Noa Falls. Most students had never seen the falls, making this an awesome opportunity to see more of the state they live in. The second part of the trip, students visited OSU where they got to tour and do activities around campus. Mrs. Longoria and Mrs. Judson are not available to attend tonight as they are on the outdoor school field trip. Thank you all for your time. What questions can Mr. Martinez or I answer for you? Do you have a call? Welcome. Congratulations. I'll be invited right here. Your term ends another you're another month or two and then you're into school is the end of your Yeah. No, it's nice to hear all these other things besides
010coming to the classroom and learning things, but you got to get out and do different things. Real quick, I've been on the school board for a while and we had a superintendent from the northeast part of the state who would drive the van to take some of her kids from that area to Boisey. Some had never been out of state. Some had never traveled and most people don't realize that. So, I'm glad that's happened. So, thank you. Thank you. Good job. Thank you for your time. [Music] So, I think we'll postpone the classified. Well, no, we're not going to postpone classified appreciation. Appreciate you. Good evening. I am Toby Huddleston, principal at Aken Elementary, and we are here tonight to honor Sheree McMullen. Oh. Oh, this is a really fun award to give. Um, when
011we do this, our staff vote on all of our employees. So, Sheree was voted by her peers and then everybody tells why they voted for this person. And so, I just use this as a jigsaw puzzle and take all of their comments and smoosh them together and it ends up sounding really good. Aken is proud to honor Sheree McMullen as our classified staff of the year. Sheree Sparkles. Sheree is very passionate about supporting students and is sensitive to students emotional needs as well as academic needs. Whenever she sees a child struggling, she stops and respectfully helps them work through how to solve the problem. She is infinitely patient with kids. This lady is always on the go helping kids and she runs a tight ship. I swear I've never seen her actually sit down. Sheree
012does some of the most brutal and taxing bus duties and recess duties. She jumps in to help whenever she is needed. The kids love her and you can see that she loves them right back. Her laughter, smiles, and positive attitude permeate the classrooms she visits each day. She is wonderful for this school and our kids. Thank you for all you do. You're gonna shake hands. And while she's shaking hands with Shereice family, please stand. Good evening. My name is Kevin Caps and I'm the principal at May Roberts Primary School and it's with my pleasure today to celebrate Jana Jones as our classified employee of the year. And uh before I read um the paragraph about her, I wanted to tell you guys, you know, sometimes people don't show up for work and we need everybody
013at work because we have lots of kids. And Jana is always willing to step in wherever she's needed. And I don't think I've ever heard her complain. She's literally been our library teacher, our computer teacher, as well as doing her job in the title room teaching her reading groups. And she's pretty amazing at whatever job she does, she does really well. I just wanted to mention that Jana is a dedicated member of our staff, consistently goes above and beyond. Her flexibility and commitment to creating a team environment make her an invaluable asset. She covers the library, keyboarding, or whatever duty is needed when other staff is absent. Jana continually seeks opportunities to improve her reading groups, reflecting on her practices to better serve students. Her positive influence is felt throughout the school, creating a supportive
014and motivating atmosphere. Her her contributions have a lasting impact on May Roberts community. We are so blessed to have Jana on our team, and this is from the May Roberts staff. And she's also going to college. top of all that. So, congratulations. Oh. Good evening everyone. My name is Lionel Martinez. I'm one of the vice principles at Ontario Middle School. And our first staff that we're going to recognize is Terry Hancock. Terry, if you'll come on up. So Terry came to us from the reconfiguration of schools from May Roberts. We're excited to have her. So I'm going to read a quick paragraph about Terry. MS could not be happier to have inherited Terry through the district reconfiguration of schools. Terry's our state testing coordinator. This role requires organization, attention to detail, and the ability to
015teach and train others, which she does at a very Terry's skill in these areas have been admired by all. From the start, Terry has been eager to learn about systems and expectations at OS, which lend to her effectively engaging with students and staff. The initiative she takes daily supports everyone at MS. We are fortunate to have Terry on our team. If Terry's family could stand up for us, please the Second staff member we're going to recognize is Stephanie Raspersonson. Stephanie, if you can come on up, please. So, a quick bit about Stephanie before I read the paragraph. She's actually a pay pirate, but you hear she's a tiger through and through, right? Stephanie is a valuable member of the MS family. Her constant professionalism and vast knowledge of athletics has elevated the MS athletic department
016because she cares about students being successful on and off the playing field. Her can do attitude is reflected in the high level of respect Stephanie has earned from staff, students, and parents. MS is fortunate to have Stephanie on the team and we look forward to her continued growth and success at MS. Stephanie's family could stand, please. Okay. Hello. So, I'm Andrea Buckles and I'm the principal at Alama Intermediate. And tonight we are so so thankful to be able to recognize the person who really runs the school, Miss Carla Wilin. And I she is um Carla has been a picture at Alama for a really long time. She was the parent involvement coordinator. She's been a secretary one. She's been a secretary three. She's been the principal because I've been gone for seven weeks or six
017weeks, however long. Um, but no, I I don't know what we would do without her. So, let me just write read a little bit about her. Um, Carla's dedication to the students and staff at Alama is unsurpassed. Her hard work and consistent support behind the scenes truly makes a difference in creating a positive, efficient, and welcoming environment for everyone every day. She helps keep our She helps That was strange. She helps keep our school running smoothly with a genuine heart for kids. Carla is a resultsoriented person and does not hesitate to help others to complete tasks that need to be completed. This award is a reflection of the care and commitment she puts into her role every day. We love her. She's our family because she spends more time, we talked about this today, we
018spend more time together than we spend with our own families at home. We love her and her positive contributions to our school community. The Alama staff to the M and her family, Dan and Abigail and Penelope, please stand up. Thank you. I'm Ken Martinez. I'm the principal of Ontario High School. And so it's exciting to me about both of our candidates that were selected by our staff is that both are former Ontario High School graduates and they're now back in our building serving our community and serving our district. So Priscilla, we'll have you go first. Priscilla is our uh our head secretary. Priscilla is an invaluable part of OS serving students and staff with dedication every day. She is consistently professional, professional, reliable, and ready to support in any situation. As the front office secretary,
019she is incredibly knowledgeable, communicative, and always willing to help. Her welcoming approach makes her a trusted resource for anyone seeking guidance and support. Her kindness and joy make a lasting impact, and we are especially grateful for her support at OS. Thank you, Mrs. Mendoza, for your commitment to making every day better for all of us. with Priscilla's family stand. Mike Mia, come on up. Mike Mahia. Mike M. Mike is an invaluable member of the OS team, consistently demonstrating patience, dedication, and a deep commitment to our students, especially those with the greatest needs. He works tirelessly with our students, always ensuring that students feel respected and supporting supported while maintaining their dignity. Mike's dedication extends beyond the school day. He is a reliable presence, arriving early for bus and crossing duty at 7:15 every morning without
020fail. His involvement in extracurriculars, coaching football and golf, as well as attending numerous sporting events, further demonstrates his commitment to our school community. Mike goes above and beyond in every aspect of his role, especially in working with students. His hard work, productivity, and unwavering support make a lasting impact on both students and staff. OHS is truly fortunate to have. Would Mike Stanley stand be recognized as well? Congratulations. So, our I'm Bob Bennett, the facilities manager with the Ontario School District here. Our 2425 nomination is Michael Michael Thatcher is our nominee for the 2425 school year. Even though he has only been with the district for nine months, his impact has truly been felt. Michael is always willing to come in early or stay late to get the job done when certain tasks are needing to
021be done. His willingness to help out anybody in the district is second to none. He is also not afraid to ask someone for help if there is something he cannot figure out on his own. Michael has been nominated for this recognition by many of his peers with comments about always having a smile, always willing to lend a hand, being so pleasant to work with, always having a positive attitude, so respectful, and the list went on and on. Michael's efforts and talents make several of our jobs so much easier and enjoyable. Sincerely, Andrew Crushley, maintenance and ground supervisor here. I'm the technology director for the Ontario school district today Christensen. Rob joined the technology department after working for the Ontario school district in another support area. Sorry, Bob. As one of the newest members of the
022team, Rob has excelled in his role as a technology specialist. Rob is friendly, empathetic, loves to learn and help others. His passion for providing assistance is often animated by his warm sense of humor and cheerful laugh. His smile and unwavering kindness have become hallmarks of the exceptional service he provides. Rob, all your hard work and dedication are truly appreciated. Thank you for the infectious enthusiasm you show every day as you help to support the patient. family. Good evening. I'm Pam Sumatzu, nutrition services director, and this is Yena Hernandez, my um interpreter, also my nutrition specialist. And I would like to call up my a amazing ache and nutrition services staff stamp. It's my pleasure to recognize the amazing Aken nutrition staff, Ela Beltran, um Margarita Martinez, and Maria Casares, who could not be here. Um
023these ladies go above and beyond to meet the needs of our students. Aken is a very challenging school to serve meals. The food is transported from the high school and the room transforms from a gym to a cafeteria and then back again. Great teamwork while working fast and efficiently with a smile is a necessity for this job. Jennifer Vienn, an Aken teacher, commented that staff always anticipates the needs of the students. They do everything from making sure they have milk substitutes and special cereals on hand at all times. The list of the amazing things these ladies do for our students is amazing. They truly are a special bunch. Thank you for all that you do. um Margarita Martinez, Maria Casares, Maxim Preparatory. Beyond [Music] They didn't bring any family. Where their family? Okay. Can I
024get everyone to team up picture really quick? Yes. Take everything. Take everything. for next year. Next day Right in the middle. Yes. Okay. Anyone else can come up and take pictures? So, feel free. That was a blur. I'm sorry. I'd like you all to stay though. You're welcome. Washington. That's a beautiful Okay. leave you kind of we'll move on and have a report on the quite Oh, I'm not very good at this. Just skip all around. So each year we're required by Oregon Department of Education to do an annual statement on our safe schools plan. So this will be a lot of review from last year but just to let you know that there has been a whole lot of changes in responsibilities. I am still ultimately responsible for the management of the h plan
025and I also oversee the IPM portion of the integrated pest management program for the Ontario school district. [Music] The Ahira or the Asbestous Hazard Emergency Response Act is under Andrew Cresley's management now, which we've done quite a few changes over the last couple years, but been doing a good job of keeping up on all of that. And then the copies of the healthy and safe schools plan are available here. As you can see, they're on a web page. They can be anyone here or the public? So underneath the pause plan, we do our asbesus management and we also includes the lead in the water testing which we completed in 2023 and that's on a six-year cycle. So it will start again in 2029. We also do keep track of the radon testing that we do
026and that's every 10 years which we completed in 2018. So the next one will come around in 2028. Talks about our web website link and making sure that all of those links are active and that people can obtain results that they want to see for their schools or buildings that they're working in. And then update on the asbestous this year and there this might be slightly different from what we received for packet but we actually completed three different abatement projects. We did the one at Alamita for office area that we remodeled. We had to take up all floor and adhesive that held the tile down. We completed that in June of 24 and the amount spent on that one was $51,000. In 2024, we also completed the window removal project at the high school, which
027was actually over two different years. It was 23 and 24, but we closed it out 24. And that came to a total of $513,762. That was everything. glass block and the window framing area. But the last year we also did the seismic upgrade which included putting a new roof on the high school gymnasium which was an asbestous product up there and we were able to get that abdated in June and July of 2024 and total on that project was $96,457. That was kind of it for our big projects that would have directly impacted the house plan. The only other thing we are asked to go over with you is reminding you of the in the IPM program. The products that we use, we get from a list that's provided to us by Oregon State University.
028Under the herbicides, I'm pretty pretty picky about what we use and keeping the numbers in our list really short. On the herbicide, we use a Roundup Power Max product for all vegetation. And then out in the fields and grass and stuff like that, we use a product called Speed Zone or Q4, which is a broadleaf application area. the insecticides that we use inside buildings. We use tile star as a general go-to for cockroaches, spiders, things that are inside. Um, we use temperate as an outside product. We also use spectraide as a wasp killer when critters start waking up for the summer. Then we also have alhine vest whenever we have mass of bees in areas we can't get to. So that's pretty much all that we have on on stock or on the shelf here
029in the district. That kind of completes our annual statement for helping save schools plan. If anybody has any questions, the test is what does IPM stand for? Good trash. Okay. So, we're here to talk about the 2025 annual statement integrated. Oh, so Bob, you removed a lot of the bad materials and there isn't a lot left, is there? I mean, with the windows as best. Yeah. More than we There's still quite a bit. Every every site has some some part. Some of it's in the hard paneling above. school discovery. Cairo has some of that. May Roberts has some of that. A lot of flooring still in. It's never been removed or dated out. But we've made a lot of progress on it, too. We just recently, well, we're getting ready for Pam's kitchen remodel. Discovered
030that it's in the walls take a texture sheetrock. So, we we find it in those kind of spots. So if you test for it, it's being first of all to find out if there is any. But you're not required to not required to replace it as long as we don't if it's covered and can't if it's encapsulated or enclosed. You can leave it alone, but you have to do six month inspections. He has to go back and verify it hasn't been stirred. about with floors, is it the adhesives that makes them stick where the investus is? Well, so typically if you have a 9 in floor tile, pretty much rest assured that it's going to be have a certain amount of asbestous in the tile and if your adhesive is black, it's a guarantee that
031it's in there. When did they find the picture of how asbestous killed people 30 years ago? Um, we were they were banned from they started banning it in use in buildings in the early 70s. Imagine in the 60s is probably when they started finding out they really started cracking kind of gave gave the industries a chance to get the materials used up. Thank you, Bob. Thank you. And then moving into our softball field, we just kind of wanted to share an update with you. Um, pretty much the maintenance department has taken over the completion and construction of the fields, but we're still working hand in hand with grant the princess softball committee. But um we're hoping not out of the woods yet, but we're hoping to still be able to have some practices down on
032the fields yet this spring, but we're still under construction. But um so I'll kind of break them out. On the J softball field, what we have filled is or completed is we've got all of the concrete work done for underneath the fencing and the back stop areas. And we've also got the pads for the dugouts is completed. Um, we've done the foul sod removal around the outer edges. We've done a lot of gohead removal in the field itself. You drive by, you'll see that the foul line fencing has been installed down both baselines. Um, still to do on that field. The back stops are up. We have two pieces, one on each side, that are being challenging to us. So, we still have those two. So, they're 95% in place. We still need to get
033the bases installed out on the field once we get the, you know, play dirt that's been delivered spread out evenly. Scoreboards will be in the future for that field. We're going to do an outfield fence once we get home base permanently situated and pull our measurements off of that. The dugouts are in. We're 75% complete. We need to put the front fence and the roof on and those will be complete. And then a little bit of seating and the fite posts. On the baseball field side, we're working with Michael Larrett from the soil doc who's been helping out tremendously with it. he uh thought he had his work done when he had the field skinned and then kind of had a work group and pushed the field over another 2530 ft. So he kind of
034had to start over again. So that kind of held him up on that, but the field part is pretty well leveled in. Um we've relocated the city water that goes out there for watering down the field. The new sprinklers have been installed and we're currently waiting for him to fine-tune his leveling and then he's going to be bringing sod in. We'll do the entire infield area with sod. Get that in. We'll be ready to build a construction or pitching mount. Sprinkler zones are in. So then we'll be bringing in play dirt for that field as well. And when we say play dirt, it's the orange D to the baseball softball fields. Uh we still need to that back stop. It's roughed in, but it's nowhere near completed. You can kind of tell where it's going
035to be right now. And then we've got the fencing to get put in and get the bull pins developed over there. The So, the varsity softball field we're holding off on as our goal was to get both of the north fields, North JB fields practiceable this year, playable next year. The overall goal. So, there really hasn't been a whole lot of progress made on the varsity softball field. friend is going to be doing some more fundraising to get that one in completion, but she's also been working with contractors and keeping us on their list for assistance on the concessions building. We have completed all of the electrical and that's been inspected, past, all of the plumbing has been completed now. All fixtures are installed and are operational and that passed its plumbing inspection. We have
036sent a letter to the city to transfer the building permit over to us from friends of softball. So, we're waiting to hear from Eddie on that and then we can get this thing wrapped up. Um, all the all the drain lines and everything for the new building are operational. Got the metal trim finished around the roof leg. You notice part of that was missing for several years. We got that wrapped up now. Those are all cleaned up and ready to go. Now there's tomorrow we're supposed to receive the new counter concessions window and then we can print that out and finish that part up. team room just needs to have some carpeting or flooring put in and then that'll complete that. The district went in and built all new counters for them. Go in there.
037Um, all three of the restrooms downstairs have been completed. The only thing we're waiting to complete to finalize that is to get the signage which was ordered in January. We're hoping any day. Um all of all three of those will be ADA compliant. That would pretty well complete that building short of the donor wall that Gran will be working on Field and all. So, like I said, we we were hoping to be able to come today tonight and tell you that it's completed and operational, but nature threw us a couple curves and couple of contractors weren't a weren't able to get there when we thought they would. We're close. We're real close. She's Taran has some pictures up. Well, have you kept track of the district cost? I mean, hours and money. I don't have
038the labor total, but I we've been keeping a spreadsheet on everything the district has spent since we took over the construction. And this morning, I believe we're at 69,000 materials we purchased for equipment that we have right now. I thought it would be a whole lot more. They were um they were a lot further than they realized I think in the construction of it and everything. It was just a matter of getting people there to commit and show up and get the final push. Like I said, that's just the two north fields is just practiceable. Yeah. So big ticket items or scoreboards which have not been purchased or secured or anything. There's people wanting to assist with the purchase of them. Not been committed yet. Did you have to remove a lot of dirt because
039that was We ended up taking quite a bit out on the baseball because of the grass in there. Softball wasn't quite as bad. Baseball we took a lot. Of course, we also I don't think you could have poisoned that killed it. You just got to dig down and to the roots and move on. 12 to 18 in and you just can't hold it. Well, I'm glad you don't have other work you had to get done so you could do this. Yeah. I don't know why it didn't snow this way. We could really knock it out of the park and done. Yeah. Any other questions? says true kind of dropping everything else really making this a priority and to get where we need to to get with it so we can get our kids on on
040there to play so many details and so much work it's been a Thank you, Bob. Now, if I stay on schedule, we'll do boards. Walk up. We've only got two more opportunities. Excellent. Any comment really? Oh, not today. Well, I got to do a bunch of fun stuff in March, March, February/mark. Um, I'm not sure that you're all aware of this, but in early March was National School Breakfast Week, and Pam was so gracious to let me come to Aken. I think we had to get about 4:30 in the morning to make me cook. But it was really fun to see the kids and uh you know spend a little bit of time with the cooks and understand better what life's like for all of them. We handed out stickers and pencils. Boy, a sticker
041goes a long way. So, thank you, Pam. for letting me be involved. And uh also I got to go read Dr. Seuss books to kindergarteners and first graders. Um it was dress up like old people day. Oh my god, these children are older than I am. But it was really fun. There was this little girl right in the front row and she just kept pointing at me and saying, "You're perfect. Perfect." And when we got done, she said, "I love you. I this is one of the things I love about uh being on a school board and participating. Um because those are kind of extremely memorable moments you know you take with you for a long time if not the rest of your life. So thank you when you guys invite me to come hang
042out and do stuff with you. Okay. Well, I u I got to go to Aken school and then like I said in several times, I like Aken because I it was new. I was in the fifth grade there. So, I'm an old alligator, a little Indian alligator. I also got to help. I got I started out with these stickers and then I got promoted to pencils. But I could see how that then all of a sudden there was PE class. I mean I mean it there's not a we need more room at a um we did we had a great time uh with Shakespeare that was here and I I think they were at the high school too but two weeks ago my daughter and wife and I went to Boise and we now have
043uh sponsored uh two more program three more four more in Ontario one at the high school two at the elementary and one at the sixth grade and one of the persons in charge. We were talking to him and as and then my granddaughter called and it turned out that uh he went to he was in seventh and eighth grade drama class with my granddaughter. His name was Ryan. So Ryan and my granddaughter taught, but he said how it helped him. Uh I was at the track meet. I didn't last till 10:45. But it was amazing they did. I mean it was 16 teams and the hund because I again I started trackmates there were I think 16 flights in the hund or something on entry. So it was a very it was amazing. So so
044I enjoyed that. Got to go home and then if I could I graduated 60 years ago so I am a tiger. However, I got a call from my friend in Vil and the Sheffields have a cat and they named it Mike and so I now have a godson in Vale. So I kind of have to follow not a Viking. Okay, that's all. Okay, Devin, your turn. Yeah. So the uh the annual statement of economic interest is uh coming to due um April 15th and so um so you should have gotten an email on March 15th to show you know um how to sign up or how to log in and all that but if you need any help you can always come in and and and will be more than happy to process. So the
045due date is is um April 15th that it's pre-opulated. So it'll have what you last year. So pretty much you just have to go in and click those if anything's changed. But but it it easier after you've done it once. I literally did mine the day that it came and I did it. It took me about I don't know 30 seconds a minute including driving down and asking for Yeah. The hardest part is the password to get in. Yeah. And then um as a reminder, the budget committee meeting is May 7th. That's a Wednesday at five o'clock. Um, so I'll have the uh the packet ready and it'll be up on our website a week before. So on April 30th that'll be ready to go. And that's that's about it. One o'clock. You said five
046o'clock. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Uh next we will do superintendentry. Um yeah, not much in addition to my report um that is was submitted to you um really as you can see in my report we're watching the legislation closely and it um just changes on a dime, right? Some people go through that you don't expect or doesn't go through or or um adjust. One of the big things that some of the big things are obviously um we're waiting to see if if our special ed funding will change. Not there's a cap right now. we can't collect for more than 11% of our kids and we're hoping that goes up because we have uh 13 or 14% I think students but we so 13 or 14% of our student population are special ed under in special
047ed but we only get paid for 11% of them that's the easiest way I can is that statewide 11 so there's been um this um they've been advocating for more funding where that's concerned We'll see what happens with that. Um but that de certainly would mean more funding for us um for those students. Um there's um we're also watching really closely a lot a lot of things going on but something else is that we're watching the the remember the awesome dollar the awesome grant is the grant that was made available to um school districts for facilities. So those were if you passed a bond, you got the matching dollars. And um because that's been a challenge for school districts to pass bonds, they're looking at changes in legislation around that to make those dollars more
048available. So, we're watching that to see if potentially um have matching dollars get the match that they've set aside um or facilities, which would be a great opportunity for us to be able to utilize towards our overhaul of of a safety that upgrades and closure like that. Um and then um another big um bill that's coming out which is is the governor's bill and it's around accountability and accountability measures. Um and uh so we're we're watching um that'll something it'll go through. It's just a matter of the details of that and what that looks like. Um and the measures that they're going to utilize which will there'll be measures around the some of the same things we're already looking at which is uh four year graduation rates by completers grade on track third grade reading.
049Um some of the new ones that we're hearing about are um K2 or K2ish something along those lines. attendance. Um, as well as they looks like they want to layer in an eighth grade math uh data point. And um so we're we're the the other good thing about it is they're we're hoping that they they finish with the piece of being able to um include our own summitive assessment measure which remember is how we we really look at growth of students and we use those summitive measures a lot here. So um and that districts may have the ability to use their own as that. So watching that as well. Um we're also in the middle of negotiations with um both the classified and the certified group and those are going really well. So um working
050through that. And lastly, we're um we were just talking this morning. We're on the home stretch. How how does it get to be where we only have two months of school left? Because Oh man, it is blown by this year. But um really um you know when you look back and look at all of the huge changes that we made this year with especially with the reconfiguration um and knowing that that's finally gotten, you know, over the hump and smoothed out and looking forward to next year where we can hit the ground running and and um I I know that we all feel strongly that it was a really wise thing to do. And I know you started planning for it or discussing it in 2017, 2016, or even before. This district, I found out,
051started talking about it way back in the 80s. Oh. So, but yes. Well, I guess things take time hardcore planning. I would say probably around 2016. So I just a big percentage of the city population. Think I think we'll get there. Um with anything new like this, I think what we found is is that um people get used to things and then and then if you ever like tried to go back, they'd probably do the same thing. versus I think it's common with everyone. Yeah. And and it took us um some time to work out the bumps and I think we have majority of that transportation because issues. Yeah. And I think that transportation's an issue every year at every school and and all that. It will be it will be smoother and plus we're
052actually purchasing some additional um we're transitioning to some different software which will it'll take us some time. It won't be ready for the beginning of the school year but will be very helpful in the long run so that parents can actually go in and and um look at those routes on their own through parent view and put in exact times of of stops and stuff like that. So that'll eventually all happen. We we wanted to before it was super expensive and down on the price. So sure. Yeah. If I could reading through I I read on the last page you listed about 10 bills and I don't know what the chances are that they'll pass but my first thought was who are the people that whose idea was it to do some of these things
053like school won't start earlier than 8:30 a.m.? I I put some of those in there because some of the stuff that goes in front of the legislature is crazy. Like yeah, they might not start at 8:30, but the problem is they wouldn't get out and out of practice until 8 o'clock at night. Well, mom and dad go to work at 8 then I mean then I guess if we transport them then but for 30 years they've said kids shouldn't be going to school till 10 in the morning. Then the one on the state superintendent to make it an elected office. Now the governor appoints the superintendent. Y but anyway I don't I didn't even craz well I think the good thing for us is uh Representative Owens who's I think in his 10th ninth year
054now he's on the Crane school board. I mean, so he's a school board and I think our senator is kind of the same background. So at least they're written to a few to support bills and is being really great about that. Is this establishing an open enrollment process allowing students to attend schools in non resident districts with the receiving district's consent? Is this different from um I don't know the details of that and we're already doing that but there must be some slight changes. Parents competition to you come in. Yeah, we're already doing that. So I'm assuming there are some adjustments. I haven't read the full bill, but then what are you going to do when the chamber community organization trade group corporation sponsors a charter school? Who's Yeah. What? Anyway, well, thank you for
055your report. And now we get to the business items and the integrated application programs narrative responses and our presenter is well I always get to come up and do boring things but I want to share with you Matt inspired me today and he's talked about the you're perfect. Um, I've had the opportunity this week, I get the opportunity this week to stay at the middle school all week and help out. And I haven't been to the middle school in quite a few years, like daily. Had to be there at seven. That's really early. They do it all the time. So, I know they're they're laughing at me. I'm not used to that anymore. Anyway, I bet you I was thinking first day back from spring break, this is going to be bad. I bet you
056I saw no less than like six acts of kindness by kids today. ranging from rushing to hold doors open for people, bending down and picking things up for teachers to spill things. We have super kind kids. We also have weird kids. So, a kid walks by me and he says, "Hey, miss." He said, "I love fried chicken. Did you know that?" And I said, "Yeah, you look like fried chicken." He goes, "No, I feel like fried chicken." I was like, "I don't know to say that, but I love I love that. I love that." All right. So, um, you have the presentation in front of you. Um, it's really wordy. I'm not going to read everything. It's wordy because it's meant to be on our website for the public to read. So, it needs to
057be, um, self-explanatory. Um, but this is on what's it used to be called integrated guidance. It's now integrative program. So, as I've mentioned before, um, our district um, you know, kind of aggressively goes after as many grants obviously as we can. And we're up to I think 12 or 13 state level or private grants now. Um that's in addition to the federal grants. Um the state though has taken a handful of them that are um non-competitive grants and they've put them under one umbrella because what was well I'll explain to you what was happening in a minute but it's a good thing. So that's what integrated programs is. It's a handful of grants that almost all schools in the state participate in and um they call it integrated program so it can be managed um
058more efficiently. So anyway, this is a weird All right. So um today and I'm required to present this to you for your board approval. We're in a um a year where we have to re they call it re reapplying. We are applying. You do have to apply, but um they really just want to know what's your plan with the money that Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. renewed. So um so today we're going to we're going to share with you what the process is and um we're almost actually done with this for your approval. So um on the background, the reason they put them under this umbrella um is primarily for management reasons. It was just kind of all over the place. And so they've become they they got feedback on that and said, "Let's combine this Um
059there are the six programs and goals page. Um this is just a graphic that you're welcome to to look at, but um it it basically explains all of the programs and then how they feed into the common elements and how they feed into the common goals. It's linking all of these these grants together and how they're how they're working toward a toward common uh well common goals. All right, next page. So, we participate um and receive funds for high school success, early lit literacy success, um career and technical education, early indication and intervention systems, and federal school improvement. So, there's different focus for each one of those funding streams, though. So, for high school success, we focus on graduation rates. these and this these are just really general terms. Graduation rates and college and career
060ready readiness. Um the student investment account focuses on mental health, behavioral needs, um increasing academic achievement, reducing disparities for student focal groups, early lit obviously to increase literacy K3 across the state. Um and then CTE, career, career and technical education focuses on improving those um those programs. federal school improvement are are just focusing on addressing academic disparities of the named for the named focal groups. And when they say focal groups, this is what they're talking about. The data has shown historically that there's a difference in per in opportunities um uh performance um accessibility for certain vocal groups. And so the purpose of these is to make sure that we increase those opportunities, close that gap. So focal groups can be students of color, students with disabilities, emerging in bilingual students, students navigating poverty, homelessness or
061foster care, migrant students, students that with experience of incarceration or detention, LGBTQ2+ students and students who've recently arrived or anybody else who in who's you know uh maybe unique even to your to to certain areas that have historically experienced academic dispar. priorities. So that's the purpose of uh kind one of the common goals of all of those grants. So could I interrupt? Yeah. So do you keep track say year by year of the number of students in each group? Is that kind of hard? I mean is it getting smaller? I mean as they go through the as they get the information. Is the disparity getting smaller or are the focal groups getting smaller? So like getting smaller. Yeah, the the focal groups kind of it is what it is. they are you know that it's
062a migrant group's a migrant group um homeless homeless is homeless the our goal is to is to when we see the data come through we see that testing data let's say the testing data across those labeled focal groups are the same across the or getting close to the same across the board um they're all achieving at kind of the same level with everybody else does that make sense that's your goal to increase achievement opportunity Yeah. Yeah. There's no way you can control the situation. No. Can't control the situation. But if if part of your question was, do we track the focal group numbers then we do to the best of our ability. Yeah. Some some groups are more difficult to track than others. But um emerging bilingual students obviously we have a very vibrant m
063vibrant ELLL program and we we do lots of testing. We can see the data there. Um so you take for example that group. you know who those students are and you look at their data across time in areas like literacy um their ESPback scores um how how much participation there is in CTE classes as compared so things like that okay the next page um so just a snapshot here for the next uh this upcoming bianium these are our current allocations um the superintendent mentioned earlier that things change by the minute, but this is what uh we've currently been allocated in each one of those grants. So, it roughly works out between 3.2 and then 3.4 million with just those grants. So, I won't read through these, but we it it's not just me sitting in
064a dark corner working on this. It's a whole team of people who look at it and see how can we take each one of these grants and they all have a different focus. we mentioned earlier, some of them are on mental health, one's on um academics, one's on graduation rate. How do we lay all these on the table and then leverage the dollars to get the most bang for our buck for everybody and that team works hard to do that. Okay, so the required planning process again um I'm not going to read these slides, um but if you have a question, stop me. Um, but this is the plan that we have to use, the planning process in order to um to figure out what our local need is and how we need to be
065spending our money. Um, the money that's allocated to us and it requires input. We've got to use data. We've got to get feedback. All those things. Turn the page on that. Oregon also requires us to use um an equity lens. They have an equity lens actually and they, you know, they they do suggest we use this one. There's others out there, but um the Oregon equity lens just means it's it it asks questions. It asks qu it it it it prompts you to ask questions of the decisions that you're making that kind of force you to think through, is this going to inadvertently hurt people who may be vulnerable? and you you don't really you know we never intentionally do that but it's good that they make you think through it. So that's that's the
066tool we use the organ equity lens. Next page. Um so engagement activities they just want to know kind of how we touch base with the with the community with families. Um there are some examples of how we do it. It's not it's not all inclusive. We do lots of things but that's um many of the events. Next page. So you do a needs assessment. Um and when we that we do the needs assessment is gathering information in lots of ways. Surveys um all kinds of things. Um the things that kind of rose to the surface were the ones you'd think would be at the surface. Safety, mental health, college credit offerings, extracurricular offerings, facilities, academic sports, teacher retention. Those are all the things that be that were important to to parents um to teachers to
067um district employees and community. Next page please. So from there we prioritize and you can see that those priorities um align exactly with the uh needs assessment um for mental health support safety CTE offerings college credit access tag talented and gifted student support early literacy um the extracurricular offerings the spaces and the support um spaces meaning like what you just saw um Bob talk through with the softball field is an example. 9th grade transitional support and teacher retention. Next page. So they also have us um point out what our outcomes are. What what are we do? What are we trying to accomplish here? So what we want to see um a lot of these are to continue. We do a lot of these already, but our goal is always for tiered mental health supports. Can
068tell you there's been a lot of movement in this district toward mental health in the last three to four years. huge gains. Um, lots of support. Um, lots of support. Um, I I I don't I just want to say I'm really proud to work in a district that does have a focus on mental health like this. So, just that's my shout out there. Um, the a layered safety plan. Same my same sentiment there. Just leaps and bounds. We've we've moved towards safety. Um, relevant CCT pro CTTE programs with high participation. So those that actually they can get a job right out of high school in a lot of in a lot of situations. Um barriers to college credit within our control are removed. So in one of our grants we set aside $50,000 to pay
069for tuition for students while they're in high school. So, it's important the public knows that that's um that's a chunk of change and um we follow who's who's needing it, who's wanting it, who's using it. Yeah. Graduation time, didn't you have students stand up? Almost all of them. It was almost the entire class some culture. defend and I also think and Ken you can correct me but I think that all kids are required to take one career technical education class. Are they still doing that? Yeah, it's in the curriculum guide. It's that there are a couple other options but that is where kids typically will go. Yeah, that's that's awesome. Um the tag program, if you've never had a chance to see Valer Reynolds talented and gifted presentation, you need to watch it. um systematic
070implementation of early of successful early literacy. These are these are what we hope to happen or that that we're we we work towards. Um Christie was here a couple of months ago, I think, and shared with you some really amazing early lit data. Uh systematic and intentional nth grade transition program. They do the link crew. Um if you've never been to link crew right before school starts in this in the fall, it's pretty awesome. It's like the day before school starts or something like that. Um and then ret retention of teachers in state tested heavily graded subject areas math, language arts, social studies. Okay. All right. Next page. So our strategies to get those outcomes um improving that safety through the facility upgrades and systems, growing those mental health resources. These are all things we've
071been doing. So it's exciting to have the funding to continue to grow it. Um strengthening those current CTE programs. um talked about about the barriers to college credit PAG um early lit. It actually has its own separate grant that's under this umbrella. So there's been some um a lot of growth there this year as Christie talked about. Um building those high interest extracurricular activities. Those those take time, those take money, and those take manpower. So um people love that. It's the kind of the big shiny thing for the public, but it actually is really complicated. Those are those take a lot. Um conducting those nth grade transition activities and providing those stipens to those um those teachers. And if you turn the page, I'm not going to uh I basically would say the same thing
072to you, but it's where we're putting the money. That's where we're putting the money. And the next page, the state requires us to plan a they call a tiered approach. Um they basic they they're basically wanting to say, tell us what your backup plan is. you're going to tell us how you're going to spend the money and if it doesn't work out for whatever reason um and you still have money left, what's plan B and we'd like to approve it now. Um and also makes you um think through kind of uh you know thinking through plan B helps you figure out the best way to get the most for our kids. So that's the tiered approach and in ours an example is continue moving toward those facility uh safety upgrades, technology replacement and increased mental
073health supports. Those are some big ticket items for us. The next page is um um in a nutshell the state says you have to set goals along the way and we're going to help you do it. Some of them, some of them they want to set in a way because and so they they've kind of set it. Um I'm happy to say in a couple of them they set it uh unrealistically high because we were already so high um in a couple of areas. Um so that's all right. We'll just keep striving towards that. Um but it's always good to have goals. I'm goal oriented so I appreciate these. But that's state they call it longitudinal performance growth targets. They got to give it a big old fancy name, but it's goals. And the next
074page is just a snapshot of what their application planning um looks like. And I've circled kind of where we are. Every two years we essentially have to re to to submit a lot of information to a lot of planning to renew um because it is non-competitive. But they do they they do tighten down and want to know how are you going to spend this and then you got to show us how you're spending it. So, that's where we're at right now is the application process for the next two years. Next page. And what happens next? Um, right now we're on that little blue spot on the Candyland thing. And um, if you approve this tonight, then it goes to OD and they do their their thing and then at some point I come back and
075stand in front of you and said tell you that OD says it's good. Got our grant signed and we get to spend the money. This will be posted on our our school website um for the community um and they can give any feedback they'd like or ask any questions. So, you have questions for me? I think I always do. But on the last page, are there dates like we approve it today then it goes to OD? How long do you think it'll take them to review? And that's a really good question. I don't know. I mean, I don't not because I haven't looked at it. I just haven't seen dates. Yeah, they give us dates. And if I could go back, I didn't want to interrupt too often, but tell me about tag. Do we
076have You said we have a tag specialist. We have one like you mentioned her. Yes. And she kind of oversees all of the all of the Let me Her name is Val. Is she a high school employee or district? District. She works at all school. She was a teacher. She's been a coach for us and a and a teacher for us. to evaluate students. So, primary, elementary, intermediate, and alt school. She identified students in alternative school as talented and gifted. Yes. So, we just don't have a tag coordinator. We're we're doing something super special in this district with identifying kids who would have been look have always been overlooked. not purposefully, it's just we now have the resource and the right person in place to to take a deep dive and she's educating teachers to
077to look at their kids differently too to identify them. So So she's Yes. Yes. Yes. See her presentation. They'll have it here one time. I don't know. Very good. Oh, we have Oh, we got better. Do we have We need a motion. Did make a motion to approve the part of hearing call the integrated program. Yes. I'll make a motion to approve the 2025 through 27 integrated. I'll second motion to second. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Now the fun part. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Number two. Postponement of health curriculum adoption. Um just to give you kind of a backstory, remember that we have a a curriculum adoption cycle or schedule that state puts out. So this year was supposed to be a health
078adoption and as you know they give you they they have a list of approved curriculums that they come forward with and then throughout the year we usually put a team together and we look at the curriculum, review the curriculum, have teachers um review it. Um this year the state came out and they only had one um one curriculum on the list, one proof curriculum. So there were no choices. Um and this was something that um superintendent, school districts across the state were not about and um so what um they received a lot of feedback from those districts saying this is the only choice. So what we started out doing was Jody started working on independent adoption and you can go off of their list. You can go somewhere else to find your curriculum. So if
079you don't want like any of the choices they give you, you can do an independent adop adoption. It's complicated. It's frustrating. It's really really challenging, but we felt like it was a better option than just having one option. Um and so what happened was after all the feedback that the OD that OD was getting um they came back and said that um they were going to postpone things. They were allowing districts to postpone the adoption of the curriculums until they had more options to their list until they I think that was the plan. So anyways, so we decided to go ahead and and postpone our adoption because of that until they could give us more changing. Correct. We're just going to keep status quo. I'll work on that with you. So anyway, so that's so
080but in order to do that we do have to have um we fill out a form submit to OD and we have to have approval anytime we skip a thought. So that's what this is saying. So they postponed it because you're allowing school districts. They're saying we're going to add more to this. So they we said yeah we'll we'll wait for that too. Yeah. Comment. Welcome. No. So, I need a motion to approve the postponement of the health curriculum adoption. I'll make a motion to approve the postponement of the health curriculum adoption. I'll second it. The motion is second. All in favor say I. I. Oppos? Nay. I say I. All in favor? Now we'll do number three to approve the OS sources of strength field trip. Is that And this is the J Foundation?
081Yes. Is someone gonna Anyone want to comment? No, she just gave me the lesson plan. She didn't have anything else. She had it. Look like the kids end up with a pair of boots. Is that I think series magic boots. Oh, they're they're not real. Yeah, I don't think they're real. I think they're cowboy boots and there's a story and a history tied to that and the students go through the program and at the end part of what they receive are the cowboy boots. That's kind of a commitment to wellness, mental health going forward. Where is it? Is it like insan took this group last year as well? So, how many students? I think it's going to be like 10 students. It's a pretty small group. It's an emphasis on suicide prevention. Say that again.
082There's an emphasis as part of that on suicide prevention wellness as to Ken children. Well, I I believe that Susan identified students um specifically with some leadership capacity connections. Yeah. So, she has a sources of strength program. So it kind of comes out of that program which is committed to some of this work already. So many students are already and part of that program is peer wellness supporting their other students students supporting other students and so kids that have been involved in source of strength to date are part of also going and being part of this experience. So does that mean that it includes challenge children and children that are respons? Yes. the students that are appropriate for this setting for this event will be going. So we we would make sure that it it
083has been sure to be a match that way. It's good. It's not 60, right? Yeah. I don't know that the organization's capacity to take 60 kids at a time. They try to small and they try to make it intimate in the experience for kids. And I'm sorry, who who's going to take them? Uh Dr. Susan Hawkstrat, one of our counselors be taking students. I I believe this So, I need a motion to approve that trip. Um, I'll make a motion to approve the sources of street field trip. I'll second. So, we have a motion and a second to approve the um the trip. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. I say I vote I. So all in favor of motion. Then we do policies. And if I could, we have all the numbers,
084but I don't. So if I just the first is family and medical leave. And I read through these and there's just some minor changes in the wording. Isn't wouldn't that be correct? Yeah. And this is who makes these who go through this process? OSBA, Oregon School Board Association. And then they provide it to you. Yes. They have policy experts and then we pay them. Yeah. A subscription. So they have attorneys. And so if we didn't vote yes on something, would we be contesting it? Um no. I think that um you know you still need to they try to update policies with the current law right but there's also some wiggle room in that not everyone everything is based on law based on best practice also so um there are going to be cases where they
085create policy right and so they might make their own adjustments to that policy Yeah, exactly. So, I know we've worked with Wyatt on um some of that, too, that you know, we've had a policy come down through OSBA and has consulted with Wyatt and Wyatt's given us advice about how he believes that we should operate under this policy. So, um and then there's some fine tuning of it, right? Like decision maker or timelines or or things like that. So, um, and and there's many versions of policies. So, um, they might send out an if they send out an update, we might have they might send us four versions of one policy. And what we usually do is I go through and I'll say version two is what most closely matches our version. And we might
086just update it with that. Or I might say, man, I'd really like version four. It fits better than what we currently have. And that in there. So, um, and as I' I've said this before that, um, there's a lot of policies. And so, usually when I get those policies, if it's a policy, um, regarding special education, I usually give that policy, I'll give those policies like to Melissa and she'll review them and make changes, scratch out things or whatever. you've seen Eric do the same thing if it has to do with a personel policy or something along those lines. And so, um, that's usually how how we do it. So, so, um, they are recommendations, but there also is some law in there that we have to abide by. So, they'll say this is a
087required policy or this is a recommended policy. So, if I could, I mean, kind of group these, but if I could, I'd like to kind of group them. Yeah. On that one, there's this GCBDA, which is family and medical leave, and I think all I can see is a couple of words that change. So that's so I would like I guess a motion to approve policy GCBDA both the AR and the policy you can group all of them okay well if I could then so then on the GC if I could talk And then I'm sorry, but on the my I read through these and it looked like on GCB DC violence, harassment, they're adding bias because the that's the one that it's got a mark on. So it looked like they're adding the word
088bias, which is prejuditial attitudes toward and then they have a definition of what bias is. I couldn't tell. I mean, at first I thought they're removing it, but I think they're adding it. That would my comment on that. And then and then the next one too, ARS. It looks like it's just by it. Yeah, the ARs are just the how to and then the the sick time. I think that maybe is just to kind of keep in compliance with law, the law or court cases or claims or whatever I might call it. The one that I then we have the one about developing the IEP. Now the one that I concerned me or I guess I've never read these but oh we have safeguards all sound good. The one that concerned me was use of
089restraint and I'm trying to figure out what you actually can do. There's nothing because you can't do chemical, mechanical. Oregon has been very active in their legislation around restraint and seclusion. Um and so we have to have um each school does have a team that is trained to safely restrain students who are uh there's an imminent risk of them either causing serious um injury to themselves or someone else. Yeah. And so I think that's the gist of it. Um there are a lot of rules around it. We have to have an adopted program that's state approved and we do we have um two trainers in the school district who train our staff and we very very very rarely restrain students. Um an example of a time we might exrain a student is if they're about
090ready to run into the middle of Idaho Avenue and there's high school driver head heading down the road, you know. Yeah. Um, so it would it really has to be um where there's an imminent threat to the students safety or the safety of another student or staff member. Like perhaps they've climbed up on something that's dangerous. Um they're banging on a an old window that could easily break and cause serious injury to them. So um but there's million pieces, right? You can't be alone. Somebody has to be there. We have people we have people who observe the restraint. We have people who are trained to restrain and um it's really it's a team and it's very thought out and we we have very very few restraints. Every year I post the numbers of restraints that
091we have in the district on the website in a report to Nikki and we we very rarely get that point. I'm not going to say we've never done it because we have had to prevent a child maybe from running into the road or something like that. There are a lot of strategies that we um yeah the training includes a lot of deescalation strategies that you do employ before you get to the point of having to restrain. Well, and this is just minor modification to something that's existed for quite some time. Yeah. So, it just sounds like it's about immediacy being highlighted. Don't wait a week. Yeah. And it's about the the primary changes are about how we report and include parents in the process when we're debriefing. Yeah. And if there's video that we have
092to make the video available. So, those are kind of the slight nuance changes that have happened in the last writing of the law. So we'd have a everyone people are trained we have a team and this applied for uh students only. So is there are we required to have something for adults or Yeah. You teach volunteers or that we call the police. That's all I can say. Right. Yeah. I suppose our staff would if there was a danger a dangerous person on campus and the police weren't there, we would do what we had to do. So then I guess I could have a motion to approve. members. I want a board member to make the motion. Um, I'd make a motion to second readings of number 4 through 14 on the March 31, 2025 regular
093meeting of the board of I will second that. Well done. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Nay. All in favor? Then number 15 is approval of the Alpine construction management for the May Roberts kitchen project. Does Pam want to talk about it? Not really. Got a um we got five bids and the one that was the winning one was um Alpine Construction Management. They're a firm out of Boisey and um the bid was for $382,60 and the engineer told us to budget for a 10% contingency. This is for unforeseen things that might happen with the um plumbing, the electrical things they can't see on the target. We want to start this as soon as um school ends. We want to be finished by the start of next
094school year. They can do it in three months. the plan. Fingers crossed. Well, we better because we feed kids out of that kitchen. So, you will get. Okay. So, we're crossing our fingers, but making a heck of a lot of sandwiches. I'll be calling you in Matt. And I'm sorry on the on the list the the names on the far right are the subs that did get the that you'll use. Yeah. They're the ones that selected right for selected they provided the lower bid, right? But they all came in under recommendation from Alpine for the general contractor. Yeah. So for Alpine the HBAC will be stands heating and cooling. The plumbing will be Inter Mountain Plumbing and the electrical will be hot electric. So those are the subcontractors that the general contractor will be using.
095Should know that. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve the alltime contraction management for May Roberts teaching director of Pam. I'll second that. So I have a motion second to approve the Alpine construction management for May Robert Kitchen project or as we call it the pan project. All in favor say I. I oppose. Nay. No oppos. All in favor. The last item would be topics for future meetings. Um I mean our regular will have more policy on here just seems never ending. Updating policy. Um we um obviously let's see it's May so or Mar or April so we do our certified um honor certified staff oh it's volunteer May is certified. So volunteers field trips becoming next, but a bunch of them just passed. Yeah. Funny things occurring now that this is on. That's
096Judson. That's the trip the sixth grade big sixth grade trip where they go to the coast. Cool. You know, back to what I said. I remember when I was in school, I I thought I was unfortunate, but looking back now, um my father was from North Carolina and if his mother called my grandmother and said, "You need to come out here." We were in a car in three days. It was in the summer. And I guess the way he worked, which was seven days a week, 12 hours a day, he could leave for a month if he coordinated that. Guess he could coordinate it in two days. But so it was wonderful to experience hanging out in Arkansas and North Carolina, but it was pretty miserable in a car. Four of us, mom and dad
097screaming at each other until 3 in the morning. We'd stay in some hotel that wasn't a hotel anymore, but he'd knock on the door and clear the scorpions out of the bathroom to sleep on top of the bed. But most of my friends, their vacations were to Hawaii. And we all have traveled enough to know if you get to go to some other environment. Yeah. It's as valuable as so. Thank God we seen these kids. He was talking about the kids that have never seen a waterfall. Waterfall. Yeah. Cool. So, speaking of trips, I want to thank Toby and Pam for their excursion to Washington DC. Yeah, mainly good. We I hope. Yes. Good. Good. But it's nice to have you back. Was it fun too or just It was It was really interesting to
098learn how everything works. Yeah. All the parts and pieces and um so it was an adventure. Little bit scary too. Government scary. One of the parents was talking about his son going to that trip and he said, "But my my son said that they had to work. They had to learn a lot." I bet. And the father goes, "Which is good." Yes. Yeah. But how exciting. Yeah. Opened up. Life changing. Oh, it is in ways they can articulate and other ways they won't realize. Absolutely. Till they're 25 years. Absolutely. Life's a dream. We can certainly She would love to come. Absolutely. So, we need a motion to adjurnn or do we get? No, I do need a I make a motion to adjurnn. I make a motion to hang out here. All in favor?