Regular Board Meeting

001Hi, welcome in. Welcome in. Yeah, the outdoor lock. I think the exterior door and it still needs What if you um um key Nicole, do you have the hex key to the exterior door by any chance? No. Okay. Do we have to try opening? Susan usually unlocks it. Okay. It feels like Susan, do you have the uh Oh, no. It's in the exterior door key. I do. It's locked. I guess I don't know. Okay. Yes. Did you send the agenda in edge portal this month or just The agenda is at the beginning of the board packet. It was also a separate page and it and we're live by the way. Okay. Thank you. I think. Oh. Make sure my email is I don't think he was going to ask for a password, huh? That's the

002first rule. They'll never ask you for your password. That's if they ask you for your password. Yeah. I I'm guessing I know which just a couple of things that I like. I'm curious. Okay. I can't guarantee I'll have answers, but I don't know. I can try to find them. I believe we voted you into the authority of making it up if you don't know the answer. Here's the thing. I've been using that authority long before I was given it. I gave it to myself the day I was born. If I don't know the answer, just say something. Sure, I do. Hopefully it stinks. It earned me an art degree. That's how you get an art degree. You know that in your film classes? Oh, yes. That was very intentional. Thank you for picking up on

003picking up Set it for all your keyboard. So we will go ahead at this time and get started. And um see you want to be okay. I alian 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. Thank you. Okay. And approval of the consent agenda. I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented in our packet. And second. Okay. Been moved and seconded. All those in favor? Motion passes. 5-0. Request for agenda modifications. I have two. I still have one. Okay. One of them is uh we will not have a student services report tonight. Okay. Um Kelsey's just a little overhead. And uh the other one in where am I? Uh E under the policies.

004Yeah. Um, I want to make reference to CHCA, which has to do with handbooks and it goes back to the parent request who came in February to talk to us about homework and things like that. So, I want to reaffirm that policy and follow up with the results of it. So, you're going to put that policy. So, CHCA is really up for affirmation. Yep. Okay. Please. And then I have a request for agenda modification that there's a person in the room who doesn't know I was about to do this, but I was wondering if we could move the financial report up to the beginning of the reports so that somebody can go to the game. It's over. It's over. Never mind. I for all my requests. Well, it's almost over. Thank you though. I was

005trying so hard to get you to that game. Okay. Think that the student government report might skip not seeing a student. They're at play practice. So, or dress rehearsal. We might mix that if there's not a student here. Good call. And I will tell you that um uh both of them had emailed me and said we can't be here. Sure. So you want to talk about really good followth through from students to be able to take care of that level of responsibility. So I told them both to break a leg and that was where we went. Yeah. Um, I got one I I'll ask you under school stuff says technology. Um, the phone system. Is there Oh, that's what that is. Okay. Talk about a couple of different things. Okay. Because I I knew that

006they were supposed to in the Friday before spring break and uh Pioneer I don't know if they got their stuff in or not, but we'll discuss that when we get to it on agenda then. I just wanted to make sure we didn't miss No, you're good. You're good. Okay. So, that's all the agenda modification done. Okay. Um, public comment. Nothing. Nothing. Well, the mayor doesn't have public comment. Just here to listen. Although I've been told I will be forced to give comment later. Okay. Reports. There is no student government report. Uh, association reports. PA. Good evening. Um, hi. You know, I'm not coming up to the front. I don't do I know this already. So, um, everything is going well. Uh, we're heading into Barbie next week is our first meeting and conferences today and

007tomorrow. So, I'm exhausted. That's much of a report you're gonna get from me right now. Well, thanks Nicole to sort of tag on tag on to that the conferences. I was I was at the site council meeting for the middle school yesterday and Steve was sharing their results and they they were it was really strong as far as the percentage of of parent involvement studentled conferences at grades six through eight and everything else. It would it went according to him and the other members of the council really well this year. So So I'm going to com commend them on that. Do we have an OCA? I was looking in my email. I don't have one. Okay. Um, school stuff technology. Hi, Laura. Hey, how's everyone doing? Good. How are you doing? Well, I'm doing real

008good. Thanks to your helper there that got me all Well, for those who don't know me, I'm Mark Neville. This is Josh Martin. Um, I'm the technology director and he's our assistant administrator for the district. Um, so we're going to try and keep this brief, but feel free to jump in if you have any questions. We're happy to stop and answer questions. So, just a few things. Uh, first off, we're a small team. There's four of us that support the whole district. Um, we do a lot. We're always busy. Um, but some things you should know is we're always embracing alternative solutions and looking for ways to save the district money when it comes to technology because it's very expensive and trying to find ways that is the best solution for everybody. Um, you know,

009this has allowed us to be flexible as far as systems that we use and support and what we need to move to in the future if something happens or there's a transition that needs to be made. Um it has also allowed us to kill off a lot of expensive annual licensing for software and for services that we use. Um one example is VMware which hosts all of our servers. It's our server backbone and we were using VMware for that and it was very very costly and they were recently bought by Broadcom and the costs of those annual licensings went up from 40 to 60% for districts. We had transitioned off of that just before that. So, we did not pay any of that licensing. We moved to free and open- source software and it's been

010running our district for well over a year now. Very secure. It's been great. Um, few major projects we've completed over the last year or so. Um, this is just to catch everyone up. um the data server which houses all the data for the district like all the sensitive data for our students everything like that. Um we had gotten a quote originally for $150,000 to replace the one we currently have. We ended up paying $17,000 for a server and we managed self-hosted and self-managed system ourselves with again free and open source software and it's been running our district again for over a year safe and secure and we did daily backups. Everything is redundant. Um it's great. Phone system. Here's one everyone wants to hear about. Um that is up and running. the phone system, the

011new phone system is currently up and running. It runs all the phones. Um the only thing, so originally we quoted $70,000 to replace our phone system. We paid less than $30,000 because all we currently bought was handsets and a little bit of licensing for the server itself. Um Albany is currently following suit in this. They are building their own system based on ours and transitioning off of theirs because they reported an astronomical fee. Um the one thing left with the phone system is the service that actually transports the phone calls. We are on the old technology called PRI and that is hosted through Pioneer. We are still on this. Um we would like to transition to SIP which is the more modern technology for phone transport. Um we are in talks with Pioneer. They are

012working to see if they can make this work and provide SIP service with our current phone system. They know we don't want to go out and buy a whole new one and start all over again. So we're giving them time to come and see how they can help us. And if they can't, there are other services that we can transition to that incorporate our home system. And SIP is much more cost effective for us at the district. It's it's a fraction of the price a month is what we pay now. So it'll be a good transition once we do question on the phone. Rick might have the same and very simple to Rick and I both heard from Pioneer board members that felt they weren't given an opportunity to quote a phone system to and

013so I told the woman that contacted me different when they talked to Rick that would ask questions because they so their comment was you know when the school needs something they come to Pioneer for like donations and then when we when you guys need the phone system they didn't ask us. I said I don't know nothing but I'll ask and I see we have the opportunity. So a board member Pioneer's comment is simply one would ask us for money but not ask us to provide well we did have conversations with Pioneer and we never got a formal quote from Pioneer. No, but we did get ballpark numbers from them and they were trying to sell us an entire system which would have been managed by Pioneer which would have again tied us further into Pioneer

014with services and fees. And so we were trying to avoid that at all cost. My answer to him was I said I don't let anybody know they did it in house and save a whole lot of money and so I just told them I'd find out something else. So yeah, that's what I told him is that you guys did it in-house for a lot less money and the the the board member and granted the board member may not know the dayto-day, but the one I talked to said we weren't given the opportunity to give them a number, but but you guys did talk to them. Yes. So we can at least I can tell them that they were given the opportunity. Yes. Yes. And I can tell you there's no way they could have come

015up with a number lower than what we paid for, which is perfect. I just don't have to ask because he question. Yeah. I I I can see going with the lowest number. Mhm. But I also understand that there's some things that just because they charge a little bit more. They do a lot of things for the district as far as scholarships and things like that that um I don't know if they'll go away or not. I I'm not part of them. I I don't want to be part of them. But I I just want us to be uh thoughtful and not always go with the lowest price. Um Oh, absolutely. It there there's a lot to be said for what they've done for us in the past and what they can do for us in

016the future. But at the same time, I don't want us to cost double what it would, you know, um going you the the way that you're going now as opposed to what they offer. Uh I don't think we should have to pay bill, you know. So that that's I I just want us to be fair with them um and and treat them respectfully for what they've done in the past as to what they can do for us in the future if if it's reasonable. I'm completely on board with that and I don't have a problem with that and that's why we're trying to work with them. Okay. Ideally what we would do is we would have a secondary internet service that runs all our emergency services specifically phones specifically security you know and we're working

017the idea would be if we can transition to SIP using Pioneer as our SIP provider they could also run our secondary backbone internet for those emergency service. The reason we want to do this is because Pioneer, who's our phone provider, they've gotten rid of all the POTS lines, all the plain old telephone lines, you know, those work when the power goes out. Yeah. We don't have that anymore. That ability doesn't work anymore. So, we need to have some sort of secondary for when the internet fails. Get a bad phone. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, so no, I I'm not opposed to working with Pioneer to find the best solution. Well, I'm not saying that they were. I I just want to to make sure that we give them a good opportunity to Sure. to provide a

018service if they can do it at a reasonable cost. Sure. Bottom line. Yeah. If I remember correctly, when we had initially spoken, like like Mark said, we didn't get an official quote, but uh but what we were looking at was around $23,000 through loans for the system that we were uh sort of building in house. and they quoted us at four or had estimated four or five times that um and it would be a fully managed system under and then they I don't think they're interested in selling us a system that wasn't managed we prefer to manage it inhouse because we've had better experiences with that. Okay. So that that's the kind of difference that we were looking at wasn't you know 30 and 34. No, no. It you know and like price like don't

019get me wrong like the lowest price is always great but there are things that we have to pay for and some things are worth the price you know um that's it's it's right now in in the case of power outage are we basically depending on personal cell phones it's yes yes I mean if the internet goes out um all those services you know are halted So, well, plug it into fax lines to get emergency calls through. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Okay. I also just want to maintain the relevance to our role as board members. It's not necessarily to question the decisions that you've made. Um, and I think maybe when board members from other organizations come with questions, we should treat them the same way we would if a parent came to us with

020a question or another community member came to us with a question and direct them to Susan. And I did provide policy to follow. And I did, yeah, I did provide information also came to the board meeting which is not necessarily completely appropriate for our role on the board. So I just want to make sure we apply the same level of respect to everyone. Yeah. Well, I that's what I try to do is is same level of respect and and as soon as I got notification from Pioneer that they felt that they hadn't been in the loop, you might say, my first phone call was to Susan. Okay. What's that? You know, is there something that they missed? Is there something we missed and she took care of it? So, but I'm just tonight took care

021of it so I could take care of it. Yeah. Well, tonight I'm just saying that, you know, my belief is the cheapest isn't always the best. Sure. And and I'll just leave it at that. It doesn't make any difference who the the people are. No, it's the cheapest isn't always the best. And so, u that's all I'm saying. Sure. Joe, I just want to say that, you know, with us working trying to work this out with Pioneer, it is an opportunity for not just us, but it is an opportunity for Pioneer. If they can provide this SIP service that we are asking them to provide to integrate with our phone system, it will lead to big business for them. Yeah. So, it's a win-win for everybody if we can negotiate it. It's reasonable for everybody,

022you know. And just because I'm a nerd, is that SIP CIP or SIP SIP? SIP. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. Any more questions on the phone system or we still move on? Okay. Camera system. It's I'm still recapping here. Sorry. No, that's camera system. Our current camera system is up and running. Uh it was created using the existing hardware from our old camera system. Um, we put about less than $1,000 of bits and bobs into it to make it work right and everything like that. Um, it's incorporated over a hundred cameras. It's got 247 recording, motion detection. This is all built inhouse. This is all managed by us. Um, camera systems are expensive. So, we have been able to do it at a fraction of the cost and it's excellent. Um, Woodland School District

023is following our lead in this. are doing the same thing. Woodland, Washington. Oh, Woodland, Washington. Okay. Yeah, they should reach out and we're asking for help setting theirs up. One thing I forgot to mention on the camera system is that we have the because it's an open source project, we have the flexibility to use more or less whatever cameras we want. So, we're not locked into, you know, when they start jacking prices up, we get stuck, we can just jump to a different manufacturer. Have we added cameras to what used to exist on our campuses or in our schools? We haven't added cameras since the last camera refresh. Um maybe a handful here and there. The thing with cameras, it's not the camera cost that's going to deter us or the software or the servers

024at this point. It's the cost of getting the data line run for the camera. So that's the cost that's associated with cameras. No, they're not wireless. No. No. Okay. Well, no. I'm not a technology. I would I would think for security reasons mostly. Yes. Yeah. Wireless cameras can get they can be jammed. They're just notoriously unreliable. Plus, you then have to provide power for it. So, it's not necessarily wireless. Okay. Um Okay. So, that's camera systems. Um servers. All of our servers are up and running. running smooth, running great. Um, we had one large server out of date that ran everything. It was our big server. Um, it it ran out of date earlier this year, which means no more security updates, means unsecured for the school. Big no. um it would have cost to

025replace the one we had. It would have cost well over $150,000 just to replace the one server that we instead bought a bunch of small servers and clustered them together for less than $6,000 and they run everything on the district and their redundancy and it's easy to replace and maintain. Um, it's great security. Very scare. Very scary. I can let Josh talk about security for a second for hours. Yeah. Know that that's number one all the time. Okay. Even to the point where it irritates everyone. Security. Well, he's a computer gear. He got mine fixed. So, but no, I I was just curious. That's Yeah, security is in the forefront. We work with LBL. We have a standing um sec ops meeting with them, their security specialist to go over cyber security threats and everything

026like that and we are constantly in the forefront uh for with other districts um just in everything that we do. Um we have a great standing and I could come have him talk and brag about us for a while but I keep don't want to put you all to sleep. So all right so moving on these are major projects that we are currently working on or will be working on here. Um so ubiquity it's a name of networking equipment. Currently we are on what's called Cisco Maro networking equipment. Very costly. It's awesome equipment. I'm not trying to say it's not great. It's not top of the line. It's not industry standard. is fantastic. Problem is is it's extremely costly to put in, to maintain, and to replace. Um, we have already switched out our core

027network equipment. So, the big server room where we house everything has been replaced and we have already moved it to ubiquity equipment, which is much more cost effective. There's absolutely zero licensing forever. So, it'll work until we need to replace it. Um, and we've been running the whole district through it for well over eight months. So, this is really good. Now, here's where So, you all heard of? So, um, with our discount, we are going to be replacing our entire network with Ubiquity here at a 60% discount. The total cost for this project at the discounted price for the district of course is $80,000 for the entire district. Now this is in comparison to well over I mean it would cost us about $72,000 just to license our current our current gear for the next

028year but it doesn't take into effect all the replacements that we'd have to life cycle. So, we are going to rip it all out and we're going to put in Ubixity equipment throughout the entire district. And at $80,000, there's no licensing ever. So, when it comes time to replace, we can actually afford to replace it. If something breaks, it's a fraction of the price of Cisco, so we can afford to replace it. Um, we try and run it as lean as possible around here, just forever. So we're clarifying you threw a number of 80,000 but it's really 8,000 you seven you're going have to spend 73 to license what you currently have. So changing it is really the seven or $8,000 number. Yes that but that 73 would just be this year it would be

029that's meaning yeah so your 80 is really no employed because they had to license it one year to 73. Yep. Your 80 is really not an expense. is something you're you're 70 that's going to happen anyway for a year. Your 80 is an 80 for multiple years. Yes. Yes. And the hardware that we're buying should be good for at least five years. I think some of it doesn't seem to have established end of life days. Yeah. So that should carry us at least five years. How often do you have to license where they annual licenses? So when we first purchased the Moro, their licensing scheme is they do three, five, and they used to do a sevenyear. Um, now they do a one, three, and five. I believe their equipment lasts seven years, and then

030they used to be able to transition from one piece of network equipment to another, but because their uh product lines have changed, you would have to buy new licensing for any new equipment you buy. So you'd be stuck buying one for your licenses and then buying them. It's it scheme rolls quickly. They also pull all the licenses together so that they're sort of expired at the same it's like in like just absurd. So when we finally actually sat down with somebody from Cisco and crunched the numbers, we were like, "Oh, this is far worse than they do have to sort of trick you." But yeah, trying to do the math on paper. And it's unfortunate because it is a really good product and it works really well for the district. Um but it's not sustainable.

031Yeah, it's not sustainable, you know, like um we need technology in the school other places. We can't afford to put it all in one thing, you know. Well, if I can just interject because as I mentioned a little bit ago, I'm a nerd. So, last time you came, you had told us I I'm bragging on your behalf for a moment. Last time you came, you told us that to replace 50 switches and the access points, etc. for that system was going to be $82,500 for the license and $178,000 plus $60,000, which I didn't do the math on then, not going to do it right now. And you just said that all of what you did, and obviously there will be little costs here and there, was only $80,000. So, just this evening, you've mentioned well

032over $400,000 that you've saved our district for creative problem solving in the last 12 months, maybe 14. I didn't write down all the dates. So, thank you so much. And I'm again bragging on your behalf because I'm incredibly impressed. Generally speaking, technology costs us more and more and more money and it's harder and harder to find those cost-saving solutions. So, kudos to you both. That's Amazing. Genuinely, for sure. Yeah, technology is expensive and it's not going anywhere. So, we're just trying to find the best ways that it keeps us moving forward as a district, keep supporting our students, keep supporting our staff. Um, which brings me to the doors, STO doors, the door locks that is currently being installed right now. We're hoping to have that done by the end of next week. Our contractors

033are still working on the networking part of that. Um but the server software is built. Um keys are being distributed as needed. Um we have Mary in the district office who is lovely and she is working on creating access for users who need them. Donell, sorry. Sorry, Donell. Equally awesome. Equally awesome. Um yes. Uh it's a completely modern and secure. It runs the most uh modern technology for door lock systems. Our current door lock system, you could copy someone's key with just a something you'd get off Amazon. It was that old. This new this new technology is awesome. Um we can expand as needed. Um it's not going anywhere. They've been around for a while. So, are there battery backups to these door locks in case power goes out? Yes. Okay. Yes. And there is

034a special device that facilities will have once the installation's done. It allows them to unlock the doors. Like it it's basically like a power unit that plugs into the door and they unlock it. There's even if the battery backups go back. Okay. So there's so will be actually access. Um and then the next two things um are technology for the classroom. We are working on changing staff to Chrome laptops from Windows devices. Um the company that we have been sourcing our Chrome Chrome devices from is a company called CTL. They're based out of Oregon. They're in Beaverton. So if there's an issue, we can actually go bang on their door sort of thing. Um, the difference in price between a Windows, a decent Windows device that'll run on our network with proper security is about

035$1,400. These Chrome laptops that we're getting staff are about $500. They're awesome machines. We've got one right here. Um, if you want to see what they look like or see how they perform, they are better than all of the district laptops we have. kind performance-wise. Um, they're they're not the student Chromebooks. They're not the same rubberized tiny device. They're an adult, you know. Have we started to distribute those to staff yet? We're in the process of starting that right now. Okay. I do have a question. as somebody who is often handed a here everybody gets the same laptop but has a job that requires a very specific more powered in fact I looked to Nicole because I'm a graphic designer as somebody teaching graphic design is there opportunity for staff members to have a souped

036up laptop if it's needed for their teaching we're so the plan is for the the people who need um software that runs exclusively on Windows and requires additional power. Those computers aren't going anywhere. Um they're going to have what they need to get their job done. Um the main thing is what we've realized that the vast majority uh of staff don't. Yeah. And um we've taken a lot of steps and put in a lot of work to make sure that uh things that previously you couldn't do on a Chromebook now can. Um so that covers sort of even more of the fringe cases of things like Microsoft Office um you can do through the browser. Now you can edit PDFs. We had document cameras working. Um, uh, there's there's quite a long list. Um, but

037for the situations like Nicole Cu's, uh, uh, lab, the only difference, the only thing that would change would be we're planning on trying to keep all Windows devices within the district so they don't leave campus. And if you need access to a Windows device uh to run Windows software, Photoshop, whatever else, um what you'll do is you'll take a Chrome laptop and remote control that device from wherever you need to from home. It's a remote desktop. Okay. Yeah. Um that's sort of our accommodation for that. But yeah, we're not leaving the people hanging who need Windows. I know that's super specific. It's just No, you're totally I have been a wounded bird waiting six hours for a video to render before and I hate to wish that upon anyone. So I and I don't mean

038to interrupt, but um these guys are rock stars. I thank you for going. Thank you for recognizing how much they do for the district. Um they come with the mindset of uh what can we do? How can we make it work? So even without me even asking, they already thought of making sure everything's taken care of. So, I just want to say that they're they really make sure that they watch out for everybody's needs and stuff. So, they do a great job for those that for those things that require Windows. Uh are we are our machines or at least some of our machines Windows 11 capable or have we upgraded or are we still running Windows Windows 95? My my Chrome is is not cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. That's why I just went

039to that is the other reason for this push to Chrome laptops is because most of the most of the devices in the district will not support Windows 11 and Windows 10 goes out of date October 14th of this year. So that would be a big lurch come the fall if we didn't do something now. Um so especially for safety and security and Oh yeah absolutely. Um, you know, and the other thing about Chrome laptops as we move staff um to the Chrome ecosystem, it's the same ecosystem the students are using. So that is a lot easier to share, a lot easier to monitor, it's a lot more unified. Um, so it'll help once we get there, it's going to help everybody all together. Um, and it's more secure. the Chrome Chrome laptops a Chromebook is

040more secure than a Windows device. We already have two factor on our email that automatically two factors a Chromebook. So that's a two-factor device. No one outside the district can log into a district device. You'll be able to take your device home and work on at home if you need to or if you want to. Um but it and at the same time if it does break it's $500 to close to $1,400. So it's a win. Yeah. Um oh on the note of the Window 11 compatibility um the I think it was about a third maybe a quarter of the devices that we have will be able to run well technically we'll probably skip one and go straight to Windows 12. Um but uh that includes pretty much all of the desktops in the district.

041So the computer labs are safe. The office managers computers are safe. Um it's mostly the Windows laptops the surfaces that ones that everyone already hates are awesome. Thank you so much. I know I asked a lot of questions. And then the final thing I have is for classroom tech is we are trying to get interactive displays. We've ordered some. We've ordered a shipment of them. Um 10 are due to arrive any minute. They're coming. Uh these we originally were moving towards Clear Touch. That's what this is and that's what CPS has. Um and they're great. They're wonderful machines. I wish we could put them everywhere. The problem is they're so expensive. They're $5,000 a unit. So, we did our research and came up and actually Josh found this one. Uh, it's their new line. It's

042a new line interactive display. It's 86 in instead of 75. Um, it does not have a computer built into it like the Clear Touch does, but it does do interactive touch when you plug a device into it. Um, it is $1,800 as opposed to $5,000 a unit. Um, and it works with a Chromebook, Chrome laptop, Chrome device. It works with a Windows device. Um, they're excellent. So, we've been in the process of testing one out with a teacher trying to work out all the bugs and kinks and we are going to keep going down that road um because that is going to be a lot more affordable to replace all the projectors and smartboards. when you interface with a computer, Chromebook, whatever. Um, is it via cable or is it wireless? It's via USB. Okay.

043Yeah. Or HDMI. Uh, you can do both. You can do both. Okay. Although we do have a wireless option in mind. We wouldn't get touch um ability with the wireless option, but you would get display. Okay. I'm just think there's some classrooms where it can be problematic for the teacher to unless you have a really long cable, which I guess impossible, problematic for the teacher to have their uh Chromebook attached physically to the, you know, via cable to the to the display. You know, if they're whatever the organization of their room, they have their their desk has to be in the back, the screens in the front, that's quite a distance, but I guess that just requires a longer cable. So, more or less. Yeah. We have some flexibility in that too in those fringe

044cases or in those rare cases too because we can reuse um some of the old Windows devices that are no longer Oh, okay. You know, and we can actually devoted to the screen. We can actually put Chrome OS on it and turn it into a Chrome box and then have it dedicated plugged in. Okay. So, there are we we reuse everything here. Well, and I can't help but think if it does have the computer built in, then it can keep up with technology a lot faster than having the computer built in a few years. There's no security because it doesn't run anything. It's just a big DB with Yeah. of the $1,800 one as opposed to the $5,000 one. Does it last approximately the same length of time? And I'm not talking the technology part

045of it because technology goes away with one with a computer, but I mean just will it work when you turn on Sure. Well, they are they are um they're not consumerbased TVs, so their longevity should should their run time should be a lot longer than a consumer television. Obviously, as far as longevity, you know, they're all so new touch. I don't I couldn't give you an honest answer. on that. Well, I feel like that would be just have to hope. Yeah, they they are they're an enterprise product. They're very sturdy. They're very heavy. Like I feel like you could probably give them pretty good punch and nothing would happen. But I mean, if it even if it lasts 50% I mean my quick math says that for $5,400 we could buy three of them. So,

046I mean, if it lasts 50% as long as a $5,000 model, we're still money ahead, right? And the thing with these Clear Touch is because they have a computer built in the back of them, we have to be cognizant of maintaining those as well as the TVs. They're more costly. Yeah. You know, um just in maintenance. What OS do they run? Currently, Windows 10. Okay. U most will make it to Windows 11. I think there's one that needs to be upgraded that will do that. But we do have the option of of the computer modules are removable. We do have the option of ripping it out and then using it more or less the same way we do. Yes. Once it gets to that point. Yes. Yes. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Thank you.

047Yeah. Very very informative for a guy like me. I don't know if any of you guys noticed the technology guy came with a clipboard paper and a pen. That's right. Good point. It's been said that no one hates technology more than people that work. That's right. That's like That's like you don't hear the the stories of the tech people that have flip phones. Yes. Yep. Two days ago I had to get a new one. They stalking in the corral for me. Thank you very much for your diligence and all of your price checking and and everything that you guys do to try to get us the best deal as possible. So, absolutely. And I I just want you all know that we we all care very much about the district and cost, you know, cost

048is at the forefront. Sure. We're always cognizant of that, but I don't want you to think that we're cheaping out on purpose or putting the district at risk for any reason because we would do we would never do that. you know, so we've heard bragging about you and people coming to you for advice on how to secure improve their security. So, well, on behalf of the district, you guys get a ton of appreciation and things for being so diligent about, you know, being the economics of it too, right? Not just technology, but the economics. Many, many things. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thanks for being good. Good evening. the rain. Doesn't look like it's raining right now. Uh, super tennis report. A couple of screen for sharing. So, uh just a couple of things about

049this week. uh a couple of celebrations that we've had. Uh this has been National Assistant Principles Week and so um not often do our assistant principles get appreciated. So it was the opportunity to be able to recognize them. It's also National Library Appreciation Week. So it was an opportunity to recognize all those people that um uh that work in our school libraries. you'll see that um we accepted tonight or you accepted tonight uh Keith Clipfell's retirement um from the Fulock High School library and uh so we'll be diligently searching uh to be able to fill that. She will be um she and Jolene Latz have shared the job this year and both of them will be uh very much missed but we've got a really solid library group that's greatly appreciated. Um as far as

050upcoming uh so that we don't miss um before our next board meeting is that uh teacher appreciation week is May 5th through 9th and national nurses week is the 6th through 12th and it's interesting that nurses week extends in a different order because it has to do with I think the last day of it falls on Florence Nightingale's birthday and so the way that they set that up they always want to end on on Florence's birthday. So, um it's kind of a a screwy way to set things up, but you know that it it honors for the right reasons. Um I put in here uh just some general information about personal electronic devices. Um you know, we've looked at our cell phone information and uh just two day two, three days ago, the personal electronic

051devices, the um the -4 amendment passed the house. um moves on to the Senate and um the real look truly is in what the state is proposing is a belltoell ban um for personal electronic devices. So a couple of things within it um uh you get the amended version. Yeah, I have the amended version. Um, it says, u students and and Mark and Josh left, students who use their own personal electronic devices for curriculum must be granted access to any applications or electronic materials that are available to students who do not use their own personal electronic devices for curriculum. that is a um internet safety and security nightmare. And so uh right now we've got people using students using Chromebooks to be able to get there. We I think we have one student right now

052that's using a personal device. Um, but this really when you're talking about a a more global look, um, takes a really hard look at the safety and security of your networks and things like that when you're setting up to to do something like that. Um, uh, the other part that it says, uh, there needs to be a process and a timeline responding to us. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Wrong one. um uh telephonic or electronic communications during regular school hours or during school events. if the communications are not related to academic activities or independent communications. Um it's saying that uh districts we have a policy but it says um a policy adopted must prohibit the use of personal electronic devices by students from the start of regular instructional hours until the end of regular instructional hours

053including passing time between classes and time provided for serving and eating meals. They're that specific. Um and and we've got people looking at that. We'll have conversations with our superintendent tomorrow to be able to say, "So, what does that mean? What are people thinking? Um uh what are the pros and cons?" Um uh students, uh medical providers orders or IEP or 504 can, um provide um acceptable use, if you will, to be able to do that. Um, it's a long piece of paper. Do we know when it's going to be in front of I haven't gotten the information yet. I I only got that it was um uh approved by the house. Um there do you know when it's going to make it will it's scheduled for a third reading on the House floor. on

054April 15th. Okay. Because we heard that it had passed it passed out of the committee and then after the committee it goes to the Thank you. But has not passed the general my bad then being able to do that. Um, sure. I will also just say that right this particular time in the legislative session. Um, there are a lot of things on the docket. So, the fact that it's scheduled for April 15th does not guarantee that that that they will get to it by April 15th. it might get pushed back. But yeah, the other part of it says the policy must provide consequences for a student's violation of the prohibition against the use of personal electronic devices. This is one of the rare occurrences where I've ever seen in a bill about a policy and

055consequences. So, I mean, and not that it's a bad thing, but it's just interesting in how it's it's laid out. But there is a lot right now in front of the legislative assembly. But the cell phone information that we've put forward um could all change um very soon. You could argue that some of the things in that are uninforceable, but yeah, it is what it is. It's just it's just if it goes through, it's just going to be interesting. And thank you for the clarification about committee versus the house. My bad. um summer learning. Just the reminder that we are moving forward with our high school credit recovery in the last two weeks of June. We will do um extended school year for those students who qualify uh from special education and that will take

056place in August. And then we will do our lit camp again for incoming kinder through third grade students also in August of this year. There's conversation that goes back and forth in the legislative session about uh summer learning money for this upcoming year for 2526. It appears that that's going to be based on comparable determinations to last summer, which if you remember, we were at the bottom of the barrel in terms of um the ranking to be able to even be considered for summer money. And so we're not considering any additional programs at this point. for 26 27 we may see um something as a result of that uh coming forward for us for summer money to be able to begin doing things again. Um the other piece I wanted to share with you which

057I got steeped in big yesterday um has to do with our upcoming integrated guidance application. Where did that go? Um and it's that time again to upgrade for the bianial um integrated guidance. Um Kings Valley met with me yesterday. Uh the ESD met with me yesterday to have some conversation about kind of where we are in planning. So um the applications are due the end of April. um we're not going to get to approve it formally as a board until May just because we're not in a position I had kind of had a hunch that um the uh community survey for strategic planning would have come ahead of the last session we did about um portrait of a graduate um since that was the normal order of things and without that um it kind of

058changes where we're going with input And so um we're going to move forward on that on those assumptions. So uh we want to sh I want to share with you kind of where we are prioritizing and give you information of where you're going so there's not a surprise when you see things in May. Um, if you remember that integration had to do with um trying to combine and and package uh programs together and I I won't belabor that point because there's there's pros and cons on all fronts with that one. Um the the aligned pieces of information um start to take these programs and and wish to weld them together. So what we're looking at is uh in our career and technical education we are a part of a consortium through LBCC my bad um

059uh for funding that that goes through there. So that uh specific to our CTE programs um and the specifics of what happens in those programs and what gets spent is all an LBCC um consortium agreement. We get funding for early literacy. And when you see this CSL versus GRB, CSL is current service level. GRB is governor's recommended budget. So they gave us two different distinctions for possibilities. And what we chose to do was go with the lower end um of these and some of it based on recommendations and some of them are the same um in both categories, but we really wanted to be reasonable. So we're looking at the 98 99850 in a first year for early literacy 103925 in a second year. Our early literacy funding has is going to maintain um support

060of our lit camp uh some response to instruction to an intervention RTI and um oral language especially for our primary students at K1 uh in the support of a speech language pathology assistant um that has seen some incredible gains for kids that aren't quite to the IEP level but just need that little bit of how do I pronounce, how do I hold my tongue, how do I do that kind of thing um that are making some incredible gains. Uh the early indicator um in intervention systems um has to do with you know what are we doing to monitor student success uh in terms of uh uh our ninth graders on track? what if so we do some things with synergy extras or some uh special licensing for software um and that will be the same

061a minimal amount of money across two the both two years everyday matters is about attendance there's no specific funding stream but the request is is um that be attended to across all funding streams high school success went too far. High school success, uh, we're looking at 400 almost $468,000 in the first year, $486 almost 487 in a second year. Student investment account is a million4 um in both years with just a slight increase in that. So, um, that's what we look at when we make choices to be able to do the allocations there. So, this is just really a recap of um it addresses continuous improvement planning and one of the things that we try to work on is to have our integrated guidance plan and our continuous improvement plan for the district to the

062degree possible be the same document. So, we don't have two or three or four different documents sitting on the shelf that nobody knows what to pick up or what to do. And so, that's really important to be able to make sure that all of that comes together. I mentioned the everyday matters for attendance uh career connected learning uh the high school success act uh student investment account the early intervention or early indicator and intervention system. So it's those same programs that were listed the early literacy career and technical education the federal school improvement is not something that we've we've been in as a district. it are it's it uh falls to those schools who are uh in the significantly low academic performance group and they have um specific supports coming from the department of ed

063as a comprehensive support and improvement school or a targeted support and improvement school. So it's not money we get and it's not money we we want frankly um when you're down in the low end. So that doesn't count for us. Required planning process, we have to to take a look at our equity lens. Again, community engagement, which I had hoped we would have other pieces of that. Uh comprehensive needs assessment would continue with tribal consultation. Uh potential impact on focal students. So they're talking a lot about how do you make sure that access is available to traditionally underserved student groups? How do they how do you make sure they have access to the same classes that everybody has? Um uh how do you make sure that there's um an equitability along the way and that

064you're looking out for those needs? The development of a four-year plan with clear outcomes strategies and activities. Um existing plan to review and revise. I missed something there. Uh the quality education model was a part that OD put in there. Um the student success act plans. um some of the recommendations they put forward and reviewing and using regional CTE data and uh being able to take that all into account to be able to make those decisions. So our focus areas and I kind of went through them and what we were looking at really are in the area of academics. We look at supporting literacy and numeracy and problem solving really through a lot of our our RTI activities and in instructional materials adoption. We've added some funding there to be able to say we can't

065use just general funds to be able to pay for a comprehensive uh language arts adoption or math adoption. Um if you want to implement those with fidelity, especially those content areas, they're going to cost more. And so we want to make sure we have enough. um our English language development program. We've chosen extracurricular fee reduction um to allow our students to participate and it it opens the doors to more students to be able to participate in our drama and our athletics. um staff mentoring and that has come up um especially in the last year as being something that we need to make sure we focus more on. And so that is actually coming more to the forefront than it has in the past uh to be able to make sure that we're taking care of

066business both for those folks who are new to the new to the teaching profession but also those that are are new to a school um that don't necessarily need the same things. But how are we looking at longevity and being able to keep people in the profession? Uh social emotional learning, uh career and technical education. When I say school transitions, we especially have especially have beefed up um the 8th to 9th grade transition um with uh the eighth grade success coaches at the middle school and [Music] um I'm thinking of the summer. Can you help me, Nicole? That uh Steve Bennett and company Oh, the bridge bridge. Thank you. Um uh to be able to to support students in those moves. Um high school success. Um are are freshman on track? Um are what about

067our high school graduation rate? What about all those um different pieces and parts? Of course, technology. a lot of the things that we're doing. Um, this fund supports safety and then equitable access. So, those have really been um our important areas to be able to use this funding. So, um the state has progress markers that we have to do and things like that. And so you'll see specific data on those fronts and u what they call longitudinal performance growth targets of if uh in those particular areas. So for third grade reading proficiency, what do you see it projected as gain over time? What do you see for nth grade students on track to graduate on time as the projected over time? So there are some data predictions um that they ask us to make. Um,

068so there'll be a lot more detail that will come back in the plan, but wanted to be able to put forward where we are, what we're thinking. Um, not huge changes from where we were in the past. um in terms of continued funding, but we've really added emphasis to um information that beefs up uh safety concerns and uh the mentoring just as two that we've said we need to make sure we're adding to um that pocket. So um that's kind of just the quick nutshell uh to be able to say you'll see more detail about integrated guidance in terms of the full plan come what did I lose you the two. It's like a second screen. I got there. There we are. I think that's all I got. Okay. Thank you. Anybody got any questions?

069Uh financial report. Jennifer, try to be short and sweet again. Uh thank you for offering to have me go earlier. The game was just about over when you said that, but they ended up winning. So, good. They're six of one now. Doing well. Yeah, it's good. Um, we're working on finishing up budget building for the 25 26 year. We finished up all of our meetings with the buildings today. We just have one more with special programs, I think, to go over wants and needs for the next year. Uh, we're still using the 11.4 billion bananual budget. We haven't heard any updates on any um adjustments to that. Still waiting to hear if there will be any additional special ed funding that comes through that would help out. Looking at enrollment, we're still holding steady same

070amount and we've been all year. We don't still not anticipating a huge increase for next year and that's why um where we're sitting at for the state school fund for the budget living. We're also waiting for information on the 2324 May reconciliation payment. OD released an estimate. It was not complete though, so we're waiting for the 15th. They're going to do another estimate. I've anticipated that we'll be about even. We shouldn't, if anything, we will owe a tiny bit and they've removed that from our May payment for this current year, but I I've done some estimating. I don't think it will be a big adjustment. We've heard about our high cost disability reimbursement. Um we get that as an estimate on the first year and then when they do the reconciliation they go through and

071take reporting from all the districts and recalculate the high-cost disability reimbursement. When they gave us the initial estimate it was about a 49% reimbursement for the cost that all districts reported we would get 49% back. They've recalculated it and it's about 22% now. So, our high-cost disability payment for 2324 has been reduced by about $20,000. Um, there's just not enough to go around for the increase in what everybody is claiming. And then, um, so for the current year, it's it's still estimated at 49% of just because they haven't updated it. So, we'll see that again next May for the current year. um in three years again. And then I included appropriation report for you as well. We're monitoring those. Everything looks pretty good except the pool fund. I'll probably have a resolution for you next

072month. With the increased usage from Osborne being closed, we've obviously had more staffing. We brought in some more revenue. So, I'm going to u monitor that as we go through the next month and see what we bring in and what we're going to have to do for appropriation. We may not have to do a big adjustment, but we definitely by the end of this year, we'll go over the appropriations. So, we need to fix it before we get to that point just to follow Oregon budget law. And I'll have more for you in May on that as we look forward to that. Um, other than that, I don't have any other big news. Okay. I got a question. Uhhuh. Student population. Are we being funded at last year's level right now? Yes, we're still at.

073And then if it stays down to where it is now for next year, we'll just be funded at that level. It's the better of the two years previous. Yeah. So, okay. If we go down for next year, we'll still be funded at this year's rate. At this year's level. Yeah. But it won't go all the way back to last year's rate, which was Yeah. much higher. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Thank you. Mhm. All right. Um, as always, a good report. Well done. Anyhow, um, 19th Street Construction on strategy and discussion. I think we're almost done. Um, there will be some some night work um that will resume next week that will close um at night. the uh 19th from Applegate to college. Um while work is done there at night, um we have been able to

074shift back to we we had Clemens primary students being picked up. uh they were walking students over to the middle school and and the bus was picking them up there because the fire lane had to be more of a traffic lane uh for people to work through. Monday, we started the return of picking up our Clemens primary students in that fire lane um after school and there will be a little bit of time that we will be let know that some of the um patching work will be done in the fire lane where there will be a closure for a couple of hours. Um, but they've been very good with being able to time those in parts of the day when we don't have lots of folks going here and there. So, we know that

075it's not going to hinder the buses at the end of the day where they're going to have to go around another direction. And then at that point, we think that 19th Street, at least for us, gets put to bed. and probably looking at the 1st of May, being able to put the the expectations of the fire lane back to what they were before the construction started. So that we have those time periods when the buses go through when we don't want cars to go through and and we'll come back to be able to hold to that. Do we know the timeline of final paving of 19? Right now it's all patched. Yes, sir. Hi, Mr. Mayor. Um I don't have an exact date, but it'll be over the summer. Okay. Um that's what I figured

076I'd just do. Yeah, because there's a little city and county in Yeah, but it's the county is doing the whole project, including the city's portion. We're just because they already have the contractor, we're just paying a little extra for them to do our portion, too. So, it'll be over the summer when school's out. I don't know the exact date. I don't know if the county's selected that yet, but um but yeah, they'll be doing all the way from Chapel up to like Fun bumpy ride. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was some patching done. There was. Yes. Uhhuh. That was good. Big chunk of my week is hearing people's thoughts on that. Going north on Yes. 19th. They have fixed much better. Yes. The holes that you have to drive through. And a car is bad enough.

077A dump truck is like 10 times as bad. I can only imagine. That car turned itself toward the high school earlier. It was fine. Oh, well, good. Perfect. So, self driving where I was going anyway. It was fine. Question. Um, I just since they had 13th closed yesterday, I had to run 19th. Okay. And you come north on 19th and there's a sign right there by where the little white poles start. Oh, and it catches your attention more than the the white poles. Is there some way that we can put something on that first white pole to kind of bring attention that there is poles there and it's not just a painted line like the yellow and black tape up the pole or something that you kept well whatever I I don't know what they

078would put on it but I mean something cuz I I caught the sign over here on the left the crosswalk sign in the middle. Yeah, I think it crosswalk that you know it stuck out like a sore thumb. Okay. But if you move over a little bit to miss that, you're right at those white poles. Okay. Especially in a truck, they bounce back up. Sometimes, but no, I I'm just talking about the poles that are roughly the size of a human being on the side. Those are plastic. Sorry, I'm just teasing you. I'm just teasing you, Rick. Yeah. Well, they're little short things that when you're in a truck, they, you know, kind of get lost out there. But, uh, just something on the especially on the first one that kind of sticks out that,

079hey, there's something here. It's not just a painted line. Okay. Um, let me ask. Yeah, because I mean, they're going to have to take those out and put them back in again this summer anyway when they repave it. Okay. Well, I'm I'm just talking, you know, like Ryan said, if you put some green tape, you know, like the the coats and stuff are, you know, something that that stands out, you know, it wouldn't have to be reflective because I mean, it probably Well, at night that would help, but during the daylight that doesn't help really. Yeah, but if something catches somebody's eye that there is something over here besides a white line, sure, I'll ask. Yeah. Yeah. But I just noticed that because I hadn't been on 19th Street. always used 13th to stay away

080from the school zones, right? And I had I was forced to come up there yesterday. I was like, "Wow, that's close." Yeah. Okay. So, okay. Not school related for half a second. When they're doing when they have the 13th closed. Yeah. I watched all these poor log trucks and chip trucks because there is no sign on Chapel that says road closed to head. There's a sign that says road going to be closed. So, those trucks came down. I think it has the dates that after you pass 19. Oh, so those trucks end up they have to take a right they go back fur to bell fountain road try again because they can't make the corner on the grain tunnel. So there's a long line of trucks one morning because they get all the way to

08113th and the barricades are up says you can't turn but they put nothing back here. So, and we're trying to get back business school non-stop trucks making a big U-turn back around Fern and coming back around again. Okay. So, just a side note, more signage. No shortage of signings. Just turn like the detour sign at the That's not C the little street. Uh, the car res. Yeah, there's a detour sign there. You can't take a truck down there. I was going to You're not driving a chip truck. Dump truck. Dump truck. Shorter than a chip truck. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Um, safety committee updates. Yeah. I finally had the opportunity to start putting together some of the data from um our couple of sessions. And so what I put up here

082and what I'll share is um in the we we did a um listening sessions we did um uh an online survey and on the online survey there were responses and in that we had categories. So, I'll just hit the first one. Emergency protocols and response with the first question being, how do you feel about updating protocols for fire emergencies? How important are those things to you? And we did it on a scale of uh one to five. Can you zoom in just a bit on that, Susan? It's hard to see over here. Thank you so much. Thank you. Is that better? Yeah, much better. Yeah. And so, you can see that the the lockdown and shelter in place and communication systems during emergencies were were two of the higher in that one. Um and then

083I pulled out all the comments uh because it it asked for the rating and then it was what are the comments that you have in these sections and then uh we get into uh threats and incident response and this is where you start to see developing clearer protocols for reporting and responding to threats of violence 4.08 08. So you've got a significant u improving threat assessment procedures 3.83. So you you can see that jump um in those particular areas as being something of of import. Uh again the comments disregulated student behaviors 4.44.46 4.25 4.4. So um this really becomes the heart um of of at least from well from this survey and you'll see it in the other side too of of where our level of importance or or where the level of concern is.

084Um and like I said I will share this information. Um staff injury prevention and response. You've got a four at developing strategies for presenting and managing workplace violence against staff and then adequacy of staffing levels to ensure safety addressing physical safety of staff during student behavior incidents. Again, it pairs itself back to the other um other commentary and then uh again the comments of what are your biggest safety concerns that are not addressed in the survey. Um, I'm just going to whip through. What specific suggestions do you have for improving safety protocols and response? Um, what resources or training would be most helpful to you in enhancing safety? And are there any specific areas where you feel communication about safety could be improved? Uh, what voices are we missing? Um, so it says teachers. Um,

085and I'm thinking that that has to do more with um, not just asking the voices of teachers in the survey, but just as a whole, uh, being able to make sure we're listening to that. Um, because it would be easy to say, well, you had the opportunity to answer the survey. We've got teachers voices. But I understand that there is another layer. um or I'm assuming that there's another layer in that um that has to do with listen to us in something other than um just a survey and u other comments and suggestions and you can see that the responses were primarily licensed staff classified staff were our second largest primary grade representation 50% were elementary um the 32.7 were secondary and then these folks identified as K12 um which could cover a myriad of

086of folks. So you get the the hit of of where things are are there. So then we took the go the information from the um input session and I think I may have mentioned that we had I had nobody in the morning session and I had 27 people u attend the afternoon session with a cross-section from um really all over the place and so um asked that group to be able to put information on postits. Um, and then we kind of talked through what people were thinking. And so the first cut that came back, I pulled up and and thank you artificial intelligence. Um, I plugged in all the comments into that to be able to say, so let's prioritize from from what we get. And so you can see immediate threats and emergency preparedness.

087And I put the comments in or the the post-it notes in here as as a high priority. Um with um student behavior and staff safety the other high priority. Then you start getting to communication and reporting a medium priority. I mean and again this is this is um uh policies and procedures medium priority. school climate and culture medium to lower but foundational infrastructure and resources medium to lower administrator training and support uh medium. So uh and and some of this I know had to do with the number of times um information was raised. We've also discovered that um there are some things that especially in the the the group commentary the the group that came together um that said we need a safety committee at every school and originally it was like oh that's going

088to how how tenable or untenable will that be and the more we've talked about it the more we've said you know it might not be a bad idea to do something at every school um that then aggregates to a a more common so everybody gets to hear everybody um at least a couple of times. [Music] Um there are also a couple of these things that we are going to consider moving to uh the facilities and infrastructure side of the house. the um uh the lockdowns and the drills and things like that, which I had made kind of an assumption that they might be on the student safety side. Really, um they're looking like they they could and should fall um on the other side of the house. So, um we're we're talking right now about

089how do we line out which of those pieces um and because we had more input than I thought we were gonna which is great than I thought we were going to get. Um, I had set up a meeting for April 17th, which is next week, for our safety committee. There's been some communication about, well, who is on the committee and who wants to be. And so, the the the general conversation, which I haven't had a chance to have outside this, is to be able to hold that meeting, but make it more of an open meeting to lay out the framework and the groundwork um to be able to make sure we're hearing what we need to hear to then move forward because Joey and um G and Kelsey and I have have not had the

090time in the last two weeks to be able to get together to be able to make sure that we can absolutely line out of what the pieces and parts are. Um, I've also looked at inviting a guest to be able to come talk to us um, specifically about um, their dealings and their protocols around student behavior and uh, staff injury and things like that. So, um, I'm sorry I can increase that too. So, um, it's always nice to be able to get the data and put it into, but really it looks like we're talking about the one side that has to do with facility infrastructure and um, uh, evacuation, lockdown, reunification, those kinds of things. And the other side that really has to do with student behavior and um student dysregulation and um staff student

091injury, that's kind of the the line of um of how things are seem to be shaping out. I have a question. Um this that you put into the AI tool, did you include the survey results with this also or not? This was this was only from the inperson um uh because I want and and but that's the next step is then to be able to how do we meld them together and make sure they line from first blush when I started looking at them. Um that's what I did this morning when we didn't have internet was I took all the postits and plugged them in and then when we got internet back it was this. Um, but it was a way of being able to say how do we take a look at kind of

092how things fall and where they're putting together and and what's our common common end. Um, so that's where we are. And when is that meeting on the 17th? It is good question. Um, I had put um a 3 to 4 assuming that it would be 3:15ish because we know we get our high school folks out um later. And that's kind of what we did with the listening sessions. We did a like a 3:15 to 4:00. Okay. Um, and that's why we did the post-it notes was to be able to get um a structure that would allow people to be able to be um in and out um in that reasonable amount of time. And where will that be? That I don't know yet. Okay. But I'll make sure that we get the information out. Um

093I thought about gee, you know, we haven't had a chance to come together and have the conversations, but um I don't want to delay. And so it was like, let's keep moving forward. Are you able to send me a copy? Yeah, I will. I'll send I'll send them out. That'd be great. I'd love to have that as well. Yeah, I'll make sure you send and I'll make sure that they go, Nicole, to your you and um to our OCA group, too. Thank you. You're welcome. Very informative. The other thing that we determined was um there there are some differences between priority and need, not entirely, but some differences in priority and need from secondaries, uh middle and high school and elementary. Sure. that the the the staff injury and um that side of it really

094seems to be more elementary. That that's that's the level of concern. Oh, really? Yeah. And I get it's it's you know we've got these little bodies that aren't quite sure what's happening to themselves that when you get to high school um typically you've you've developed some coping skill or some communication skill that allow you an opportunity to not act in that same way. But um uh there are also the discipline concerns within the high school for um a different setup of safety. And so, um, it really it what it's lining up as because we're talking about if we had safety as a, um, a big part of our fall-in service. Those are some of the things that we're looking at. we had some segments there. Um what it's looking at what do we need to

095do that might fit for everybody K12, but are there some things that we may want to actually split the group based on priority and need um to really maximize what we're giving people and what they want. Okay. Facility update. Yep. I just get to keep yammering away. Um last month I provided um this particular image and talked about facility needs and um you know kind of where we're at and what we're thinking and when we can bond and um uh we're struggling right now especially with Poland Academy and uh space needs there and and what do we do? And so, uh, over on the the bottom side here, it was about, uh, we want to maintain. Do we look at purchasing in the community or short-term rental or renovating or remain status quo? What do

096we do? And it was really putting it out there because I know there are some people who have seen us. Um, we actually did some looking um, a couple of times at the old Full Family Medicine building. um we we went and walked through it to be able to see if something like that might be um an opportunity uh more for the movement of the district office that would provide the academy with more space. Once we started looking at that and looking at the um I mean it was it it kind of had that exciting flare. Um, but as we started to to think about it more and more and to look at renovation cost, which you know would be here, we'd have to carpet and paint. There'd be a couple of walls you'd need

097to knock out and some different kinds of things. Um, and and then the the the running technology lines there um to make sure that we would have internet and and just simply the purchase price. um when we came back and talked about it after the second time we went to visit um and Jennifer's communicated with them with Rubicon that not at this time. We had conversation and said it really is not where we are budgetarily fiscally prudent for us to put a million dollars into a facility um and and make sure that we can have the renovations and all kinds of things like that. Um, so it's it's for sale. It's not for lease. It is for lease, but the the you know the same thing we were looking at is if we were to

098get into it because of the costs, we would look to purchase rather than lease. And um uh it just it just didn't seem fiscally prudent to go there. And so we've backed out of that look um and wanted to be able to bring it forward because we know um there are people that probably saw us in and out of that facility and are saying, "What in the world are they doing and what are they keeping from us?" and and it's nothing, you know, it it just it um um we're still looking for how to um take a look at academy space, but then we start looking at okay, now that we know that that a purchase in the community isn't in the realm of what would be um a prudent decision at this point, what

099are the other things that we can look at as we uh continue to move forward? So, just wanted to put that out there and put that in um the public record that um it's not in the cards for it. Sure. So, is Rubicon the owner of the building or the management company for the building? They are they are they own it. Okay. I have a qu over space, but just just in random thinking, if the academy wasn't in the administration building there, what was that space used for? previous or do you need that space? It was our boardroom. Besides that, did you guys use that space during the day? Meetings probably. Yeah. For for meetings. Right now we're cramming into my office for meetings. Um and so yeah, it was used for um a bunch

100of different kinds of meetings. It was a space where if you, you know, if it was empty and you needed to have a private phone call, somebody could go and have a private phone call. Um um we've also looked at uh if we wanted if if we wanted to add district staff because there's been conversation about can we put um uh a human resources director at least part-time. We don't have a place to put them. We just don't. And so um uh that's kind of what we're looking at. Um we can't move the FOMO academy back to the high school. It's just not a good fit. If we put them in the library, um uh they have to enter into the core of the school to be able to use the restrooms and things like

101that. And it just it just they have their own home. If we went to the middle school um and looked at the modulars, we'd have to outfit the modulars with we'd have to do restrooms because we don't want passage into the middle school to be able to use the restrooms in the school. And um uh so it's all those kinds of things we're taking a look at right now to be able to say what might make the most sense. Well, I was as you're talking I'm just thinking you you keep mentioning the wing on the primary school that was in the plans and if you were talking about moving the office and and think about a whole another property. I think it was more affordable to build that wing and move the academy there. leave

102your office set because moving things like all your communication stuff that's very expensive but your office is if your office is satisfactory maybe it's looking at moving the academy or I mean I just assume if you're looking at buying a building adding a wing would be in the similar ballpark of finance right and and we figured that um because of the age of an older building um that we might be able to talk it down get it for less it had been on sale for I don't how long I mean so all those things kind of came into play but during bonding that's one of the things that we've said um is that wing going to be a piece of of when we go after a facilities bond and so now it's really about what

103what makes sense if anything to do um right now in another way um that that could give us some additional space in the interim until we can get to that bonding Okay, that's that's it. Okay. On the discussion and action items, the student representatives to the board. I only raised that simply because this was on our agenda from a year ago. Sure. Where we started to have the conversation about the process for being able to find student members for next year. And so I have no um grandiose plans or thoughts, but it was really about wanting to put that back on the board's radar. Um uh we also know that that some of it went through um ASB. I would love to have that be the approach again this time to have the students elect

104their representative or representives, excuse me, to the board during their student government election, right? if it could all be on the same ballot then and so at the same time. Yeah. And where it is is we have a new ASB instructor this year. So, it's just going to be interfacing and talking with um the new person in that slot that's been there through this year to be able to talk them through the process. And it was kind of like um last year it was Erin, I know you owned pieces of it. Are there things I need to do? Are there things that that the board wants to do? Um it was just about saying I don't want to forget the process. That's all. Yeah. And I think Dave kind of shephered it in the end.

105Um during that transition Dunham during that transition over to the new leader um of student government at the high school. Uh one thing that we had mentioned before was is there ever going to be interest for a middle schooler to want to join? And I would be curious to see how we might do that in the future. Okay. So, that would be a great question, I think, for our student representatives on the board right now if they have any ideas whether that's a feasible um possibility or not. Um even if it was just having them come to the schoolboard meetings every once in a while for that student government report and giving us a little a report from their school. Um be curious to see if any other schools in the state have have middle

106schoolers. I think that it was mentioned at one of the OSBA conferences that there are some who have um kind of reporting too but not seems seems awful young but cool opportunity. But yeah, if somebody was interested, hey, they can be mayor for a day. Might as well. Exactly. Um, but yeah, I think if we could run it through the student government election process at the high school the way we did in the fall, I think it's important for them to be a representative of their peers um and be chosen by their peers. Um, so I think I think I sent you the uh paperwork that I had access to on the the Google Drive for that. I'll search my email. Yeah, it would have been this time last year or three months from now

107last year. So, nine months ago. Um, yeah, I think I I just think that is a simple approach and it allows the representatives to be just that representative. And who runs the SB class or program right now? Is it Jessica? Jessica Matson. Yeah, Jessica Matson. Okay. So, would the board like me to reach out to Jessica as a start or would the board like to do it or how would you like to proceed? Go for it, please, Susan. Thanks, Andy. Sure. That's what I'm here for. Okay. Can I take care of that? Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that we keep the keep the process moving. Okay. Close the 2425 interd district transfer. Uh the request of our administrators was to close any interd district transfers from now until the end of the year.

108It doesn't change what we voted on last month for the 2526 year and the slots that are open. What this does is just says from here until the end of the year in 2425, we're going to put the hold on not accepting anyone else in if the board agrees. Do we have to have an official vote on that? We can the the information said that we can uh make changes to those numbers at any um meeting of the board. Uh but the board has to approve um that decision. Okay. So, do I hear a motion? Yes. So move. All right. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Motion passes. 5-0. Great. Thank you. Uh softball field naming committee. So, we talked about last time and I know we've got coach and which before I

109get any farther I have to do the aside because Jennifer talked about the baseball record. What's the softball record? Six and three scored more runs this year than last year. There have to be an equal opportunity. So, um um we talked last month about the process and protocols of facility naming. Um and Jeff Williams and I have continued to be in touch. Um Jeff couldn't be with us tonight. And um so I know Eric is here and um this is good. Um the what I did based on last time's conversation is reached out to the tribe. Um I reached out to um Alyssa Lane Keane and Buddy Keane who have been my contacts um in in all the deliberations that I've done with the tribe. Um Jeff, I'm assuming followed up with them, but I

110know he followed up with the tribe. um and and I'm assuming it was them and um came back and asked a couple of questions um about our agreement and he has said the tribe is happy with what you are doing um and supports um what's happening. The thing that I've not heard because I've not heard back from Alyssa or Buddy is what happens to our agreement with the selects. Do we extend it now or are we still in that, you know, two years left in a 5-year and then we renew it at that point? And so that's I mean and and that's just a minor detail, but that's a piece of the puzzle that um I am still waiting on. But the general consensus from what I hear from from Jeff is that the tribe

111is supportive. So in our policy it says that um the general procedure is nominations shall be submitted to uh the superintendent um in writing which happened in the letter. uh the board will appoint an advisory committer to committee to consider such a request. And so in following that it would be a committee to um meet and deliberate about um and and how that would set up. Uh committee makes the recommendation to the board on any requests and the advisory committee's recommendations include reasons why and things like that. Um, so this is the process. I know that in the the original request there was a desire to name the field sooner rather than later. And um, when I told Jeff about putting together the committee, um, he wanted it to move faster. And I get that

112because one of the things that I had told him is I said if we make a decision now, it's going to be made at the at the May board meeting by the time we you know if we get a committee together, which my suggestion would be if we go that route that the the the board allows me to assign a committee. Um gives me permission to do that, we'll make that happen. But then it's a May approval, which means the softball season is almost done. So it doesn't happen for this year. Can the board I'm asking I'm not suggesting I'm asking can the board wave that and approve it and move forward. Can the board decide I mean there's a policy you're reading can the board to make it happen and then it doesn't go

113in the next year. Can the board wave that and vote on it tonight? And that's I have to defer to the board because it just it says Santa Claus can the board the naming or renaming of existing facilities will be at the discretion of the board. The general procedure for selecting a name for a new facility and it outlines what those are. And so what I told Jeff is I said when he asked me that I said I can't of my own accord walk outside board policy unless I don't want to keep my job anymore. Um so um that was kind of where we where we landed. The other thing that I want is I I also want to be able to make sure that we know what this means in terms of um the

114timing of the official relationship. So, I did tell Jeff that that we could unofficially I mean dependent upon what the board wants, we could unofficially name it um make the approval in May and be able to celebrate it um in the late winter, early spring for next year's softball season as the formal title. That's a way that it could be done. Um um but I it's not my place to be able to it was not my place or decision to be able to step outside our policy. Has there been any suggestion or recommendation of a different name? No, because we haven't opened it. I know. I know. I'm just saying has you heard anything else or any other suggestions or up anything? Yeah. And and and I have heard nothing. What's that? I said I

115I'm sort of the one who brought it up. Sure. Sure. Of course. Of course. I just was was wanting to know if anybody else if there was any reason not to go forward with it because it seems I have no problem with even if it's unofficial going with it like you say, Ryan. It just like almost seems like a no-brainer, but and and it it took a little while to take a look at it because typically when we're naming um it says honoring individuals, groups, places, or events, but then it says the contributing sponsor or all kinds of things like that. So, typically we've not named after a mascot. Sure. In a formal way. Yeah. But there's nothing that stops that from happening because we're talking about honoring groups and places. Sure. Amen. you know,

116in terms of how that plays out. So, to follow through the whole process. Yeah. Um, so, so one of the reasons just to kind of shed some light on the reason why I wanted to name it Warrior, um, aside from the fact that I'm native, too. So, being from a school that has, I like to say logo because it's a little different for me, but um, has the Warriors. We've played two other schools this year that just seeing our uniforms with our logo on it having the Warriors, they had similar logos. They were like, "It's so awesome that you guys get to still have that because we don't have them or our logo had to change or something like that." And when I took over the program, I I wanted to learn everything about it.

117So, I wanted to know all the past coaches, everybody who's donated. And it's been a huge community effort. And so, for me, thinking about naming the school, that's that's what encompasses Warrior Field is it's been everybody. And when we built the new dugout there, we had so much community effort in building the new dugout that for me it was, you know, when I read the policy and read that, you know, it was named after a group or named after, that's my idea is kind of once a warrior, always a warrior. This is naming the field for everybody. And so that's that's kind of my idea where it came from. And then, you know, Oh, no. I love it. Yeah. I've been a warrior for 39 years now. Yeah. Started teaching in ' 85. Well, that's

118okay. But I still I want to go by policy. Sure. Okay. No problem. And we can we can name it unofficially Warrior field for now and still go by the policy and and do the steps because who knows who might speak up when it's in the committee process. Um, and I don't want to get into a big fight with somebody over that. I want to, you know, we have a policy for a reason and it says that, you know, it'll do one, two, three, four, five different steps to get everything done. So, I just assume stay with that. But for the time being, I wouldn't see any problem with unofficially naming it Warrior Field. And I just want to make sure we make it clear that this is an honoring of the tribe and of

119Oh, yeah. relationship we have with them and Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Because I think we have a great relationship with them so far. I mean, I agree. Yeah. So with the with it being and I completely in support with whatever you guys decide. Um with it being unofficial part of the thing part of the including in this and I think I touched on this a little bit in it in my letter is typically when you do any kind of reservation or any any kind of field work any digging any building things like that in native culture there's usually a ceremony that comes with that. And um so one of the tribal members that um Jeff was referring to, Buddy Lane, um is an elder and wanted to come and do like an honor song

120and do that type of thing. Would we be still be able to do that this year or would we need to wait until it's over? The the seniors of this year really have in company like they've really embodied what it is to be a warrior and kind of the the reasons why I want to name the school or name the field this. And so would we be able to do that or would we need to wait until it's officially? I guess that would be a tribe question because they're off they're offering like when can we do this? When can Well, no, that that's what I'm saying because you know it it's it's unofficial but it has to go through the process. I don't see any snags in the process. Okay. So, um I I wouldn't

121have a problem if they want to have him come over and and and do that now. Um you know, that that would be fine with me. question. I don't know that any Huh. I have a question. When is the end of the season officially? Hoping we make it to the playoffs. Not till the end of Not till the end of May. When is your last scheduled regular season game? I can tell you right now. Thank you. Because while we should follow policy and these steps, they are not necessarily long, laborious, drawn out steps. Um, and we can determine the timeline of it. And so, um, if that's something that we wanted to coincide with either the end of the season or the end of the school year, it's possible for us to follow our rules

122and our procedures and still meet that timeline. May 15th is our last meeting. So, we have a board meeting before the end of the season and I don't think there's any problem having a decision through the committee before our next board meeting. I don't think so either. The the biggest thing would be um following the requirements of who is on the committee which it will consist of a number that we determine as the board but it must include members of the general community and may include teachers, students and administrators and a district administrator will serve as the chair of the committee. Yeah. And so we just need to make sure that we cover those, that they're able to meet, that we're able to say, "Submit any alternate names that you may come up with by

123X date, then they meet, determine which name, and bring that to the board to vote on." Yeah, I don't see a problem within the next week putting that committee together. Who who is going to do that? Uh we as a board appoint the committee. So we could tonight say that we would like or that we would like you or you can direct me to or someone and then direct me to round it out to like we could just say Christopher McGuire has to be our community member on the board. I'm sorry the committee we can't draft. Yes. Not going to be a long drawn out miss that. Can the Can the people in the committee meet tonight in about 20 minutes when the meeting's over as our first step? We have We have teacher, we

124have a teacher, we have board members, community and we get to appoint him. So if we just one, two, three, four, we move on. Just teasing. Um I mean technically the school board is also a member of the public. Um, okay. One other thing I wanted for the last meeting, I know there was mention of concern of um the amount of money it was going to cost to do resignage and things like that. I know that was brought up at the last meeting. We've had multiple people volunteer to make signs, do working both uh the middle school and the high school shop departments have offered to do any kind of signage for that. So, that's not a concern and that helps. Cool. I want to restate this. I move that we have a meeting tonight

125of our first committee meeting with any board members willing to stay and public required to stay. I only have two board members but I got a split. I don't know if I would wholeheartedly go with that or not. Um yeah, we have people here but I I appreciate that that that we should probably give it a little more time. Yeah, that's kind of I I agree with Joe there on that that we need to sit down and and and make a list of of the people and and do that. But it'll still be done long before our next board meeting. Yeah. Before the end of your season. Did you hear that? So Rick, I'm going to volunteer myself to work with Susan once we determine tonight how many members of the committee and you can

126all email me a name or two of people you would like to see on the committee. And wait a minute right there. There can be two. Christopher had a Did you have a question or a comment? Oh, well I was just going to say I think because I took my public meetings law training Yes. recently that I think if you're creating a committee that's advising the governing board and we have to publicize the meeting that is also subject to public meetings law which requires 24hour notice but that just to say we can't do it I'm thankful we can meet Susan and get a list of names together to approve and then have this committee meeting next week and then you know put it on a fast track basically. Thank you. So yeah, thank you. And

127I hate to say it, but you can't be a member of the committee because you were the person who submitted. Yes. Fair. Um I there would be a conflict of interest. Not not a technical like uh legal governmental conflict of interest because there's no money coming your way. But um so there that's one thing off your plate. Eric's been very quiet. I think he wants to ask or talk or something. So, we'll let him. If I could just make a point. Sure. Um I know that if it helps at all, April 17th, the next this time next Wednesday is uh is when the tri the next tribal council meeting. So, if the committee That's very good. Communicate in any way. Okay. Anything that be important to know. Okay. No, that is a good note that

128that we have if if we need to communicate with them and you know get get a response from them then we think we can do that. So, but yeah, we'll we'll get together with Susan. Erin, did you want to help with that, too? Yeah, I'm happy to help with it unless you feel very passionate that you want to take it on and then both you can both be a part of it. Um, okay. I just want to just wrap up because I started to say the steps. The final step is that the board will make the final selection of the name from the name submitted by the committee, direct the committee to reconsider their recommendations and submit a revised list or make a selection of its own. So those are the those are our three

129options when we come back next month. Yeah. Um I have another monkey wrench to maybe throw into it. That could be a good um we meet again May 8th 8th or something like that. The second Thursday is May 8th. Yes. Um we also have a meeting of this body with Kings Valley as a joint board meetings on the 28th of April. Yeah. Okay. So might we be able to um uh Well, if we have all our ducks in a row, we could do that on the 28th and we wouldn't have to wait till the I'm just thinking if that's an option that speeds things up a little bit. Yeah. Um but we'd have to official meeting. It's a meeting out at Kings Valley, so we'd have to have all the technology hooked up so we

130could have the meeting broadcast, recorded. They have to do it anyway, too, to be able to make sure that we're All right. Well, I'm just No, you're spot on. So, yeah. And I mean, we could possibly have it done by the 28th and that just speed things up for for you, Eric. There's also a general council meeting with the tribe on May 3rd. Okay. So, we got two dates before our next scheduled board regular board meeting. Okay. Is that That sounds great. Thank you all for your help. All right. I you know I I just have a hard time going away from policy because it's it's there for a reason in my mind. So uh if we can stick to it then then I like to so Okay. Um Thank you. Yeah. So that takes

131care of that. Thank you. Um, second reading of policies. Uh, GC CA. And this one here's the same policy. It's just backwards. Yeah. GB N AAA. Uh, JH FFF or it's JHFF. GB M A. And then we also have the CHCA. You want to explain the CHCA or CHCA? Yeah. Yeah, I can do that. Um, we had in February, I want to say, um, um, a parent come to us about, um, obtaining homework for students. Thank you, Eric. Thanks, Eric. Good to see you again. about obtaining homework for students and and policy. And so, um, uh, after some research went back and took a look at policy CHCA, and I don't know if I have it. It's right here. Oh, thank you. Um, is about handbooks. And so because it's short, it says, "In order

132that pertinent board policies, administrative regulations, school rules, and procedures may be known by all staff members, patrons, students, and parents affected. District administrators and principles are granted authority to issue staff and student parent handbooks. The contents of all handbooks must conform with district-wide board policies and administrative regulations. The publication shall bear the name of the district or one of its schools and be of a quality that reflects favorably on the district. The board expects all handbooks to be approved by the superintendent or designate before publication. The district will make published handbooks available to the board for informationational purposes. Uh the research really said um if we were to put a policy in place to say um you can pick up homework at any point in time, we're getting pretty tight on policy. The other piece

133of the puzzle is the the um handbook language for FIA Middle School didn't say that the parent could it says the parent can contact a teacher at any point in time. If you are requesting through the office that the office collect your homework, you wait till the third day. but it doesn't say you can't contact that teacher on the first day. So the handbooks really address the issue. The other piece of that that we know from all schools is if there is a particular student need um we will change the way we do homework requests for those particular students to be able to make it work. And I was going to say in the middle school site council meeting the other day the uh yesterday um Steve clarified this and and said you know this

134is all this is all in the or or will be in the handbook. I think it is in the handbook. It is in the handbook. But what we did what we what I did was I took the snippets from the handbooks of um all the schools that had anything related to um late work or excuse me requesting work when you're out and put those together. And I'm asking the middle school and high school to coordinate and look for the pieces that are fitting. Um the the middle schools is very clear about requesting um homework from when you're out. the high schools is silent on that part but has some other areas of strength and then same thing at the elementary um am asking them to look at those. So, we are cleaning up our handbooks

135to be able to take care of that, but wanted to to affirm that we have addressed this parents concern and um piece of information and the opportunity to say we're going to do it in handbooks and wanted to bring the handbook policy forward just as a reaffirmation to say this is what we still believe this should be. Yeah. That this policy hasn't changed at all. Just reaffirming, but it's there. Yep. And it's Yeah. Okay. So, you want to do these other two together or separate or I would unless people have questions. I would say I'm just asking the policy committee. Yeah, he's on the policy committee too. Well, I know that. Yeah, we should um the two that are the same. It's just uh sort of how you reference into them. Yeah. Whether So, that's

136that's why whether it's through the J's or whether through the G. Yes. Exactly. same policy. Um, so I think we for sure could do those together if not all of them together. Well, aren't looking through the policies, they're all changes normally of like added s taken away. They're just varied. So, yes. And you guys on the policy unless there's something you need to discuss independently, I say we do them all together because they're very little changes. Yep. Yes. I would say um GCAA is primarily um adding and removing acronyms in the first section which you know cool acronyms we shouldn't use because who knows what they mean. Um and then it's also expanding what does and does not um fall under the definition of sexual conduct. Um just for the audience, GCAA is standards for

137competent and ethical performance of Oregon educators and the other two are in relation to let me get the exact name reporting requirements for sus suspected sexual conduct with students and um those are the two different groups of policies. So there was some change under the law I believe around the definition of sexual conduct that necessitated most of these changes. Um, so unless somebody had any questions, I think that we would be safe to vote on these all as one. Approve them all together. Okay. Do I have a motion? I so move. I'll second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion on this? All those in favor? Motion passes 5-0. Thank you. Thank you. Uh on to meeting closure. Uh next meeting agenda items. Well, I think we'll have uh potentially at

138the next meeting the vote for the facility naming committee results. Unless we can do it at Kings Valley meeting. That's that's the next meeting. That's our next meeting. You're right. It is. Um, yes. That was the only thing I had on my list. You have anything to other than just a regular yearly thing that come up for the May meeting? Yeah. And Kelsey will be here to to talk about student services and Jolie will be here to talk about facilities. Okay. Okay. I guess the other thing for the May meeting would be the outcome of the next safety committee meeting. Yep. um sort of the the foundational work whatever is decided there. Okay. Nothing else or thanks. Uh we did it while they were here but I really want to thank our technology people. They

139they uh as was has been stated by many people that they do a lot for us and go above and beyond and uh I'm really appreciative of them. Absolutely. And um I read a nice article in a little local Famouth news um that that gave me something to be thankful for and I wanted to thank our former board member Anton Groo and his family members for starting a new scholarship through the Both Community Foundation. Um I think that's really incredible work and it's exciting to see. So thanks Andy. I'll tell them in person one of these days. Actually, all of the local scholarships, they're all amazing. I shouldn't single any of them out. There are some other great scholarships that come from this table. Um, all of them. We're we're getting into that season again

140soon. Okay. Um, well, I would like to of course thank all the staff. take small and make everything work. Um, then the technology department I think does a outstanding job in not only doing technology but trying to get us the best deal on on the technology and uh I've got one here for the forestry and natural resources like thank them for my new sled shirt. Ooh, nice. That's fantastic. Oh, and a car heart. Yeah, nice. So, I got that from Simon. That's very cool. Very cool. Did you get that because you're a board member? No. I know. $40 sweatshirt. I was asking for a friend. And crazily now Rick wants to boost the forestry. Believe me, I thought it had already been boosted. No, it goes back to a long time ago when I had

141my truck and worked with them a lot more than I do now. Um, I I'd like to think this just mutual respect from them to the people who's helped them in the past and um try to continue to helping them everything. So, I I had a nice conversation with him the other day and trying to get the um skills competition back up and go, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah." you know, because I think that that was a great thing to have and and I I I think that it would be well served to to try to do it again. So, that would be great. But, uh, anytime they do a skills competition, they need to put somebody up there who has no idea what they're doing first so that it's clear how hard everything they're

142doing is. Like the Olympics, they need to do that as well. Just put me up there for the long jump. 7.25 two five inches, you know, like seriously that would be amazing. Yeah. Okay. Short step. Is that all for board? Thanks. All right. Uh board requests. Um I think Michelle, could you please once we determine the meeting, send out that public notice for the naming committee? We'll figure out a time for the meeting. Okay, hearing nothing else, we're journ. Thank you everybody. Thanks everybody for being here. Oh, what just because I I don't want to look it up if somebody knows off the top of the head. What day is graduation? Is it Saturday the 7th? Yes.