001e e Susan I think she's going to reach out to her team shortly and start scheding some dates and I'm looking forward to having back it and um a good session with so we we're excited to get started on and um I normally sound like a broken record but continue to be concerned about safety in the district um and just making sure that's continuous very B mind and Technology thank you so when when is your first date that you'd like to I was April 14th was the first the first dat put those out today um as as being able to start the process but getting some of the additional ones out there and I just I think Rick set up to help me very well bers you got the hammer and chisel be no problem
002what all right well thanks nicolea I got um something from fren is one of the co-chairs of usca they're trying to share the weth and have at the meetings and they didn't have anybody signed up for tonight uh they said we would like to apologize for not being able to attend and would like to thank Susan for reading our statement we're excited to share that with monies from our pep fund two of our classified staff were able to attend a training we are always supportive and grateful for extra training for our classified staff um as part of as a personal part of the classified staff here in the FL School District we'd like to say thank you for all who made classified appreciation thank you thank you for having me this evening I'm been looking
003forward to talking to you about all the great things that happening at the Academy semester specifically because I was planning on delivering this last last month also talked about some things that are happen so I kind of want to give you an idea of who we're supporting and how we're supporting them um and so enroll of the academy is continually increasing um with a much larger number of students taking advantage of our support in person something pushing for this year um we saw a number of students who are struggling working from home so we really are looking into next year um providing opportunities to get more students in the building we're starting to look at spacing um because the academy we're pretty much using every single corner of it right now to support the students
004that we have [Music] um um in terms of students we're currently supporting or we have supported over the uh first semester 144 students um 89 of those students are enrolled at the Academy this represents about 62% of all students attending the academy and is six more than first semester of last year 45 will be students attended in person during the first semester um the student attending in person is about 31% of the total students or 51% of fly students we only had up to 25 students attending in person all last year that not yet not all one time and those students were attending Monday through Thursdays in the mornings only um so in this first semester we've seen a 56% increase of students receiving instruction in person know are they new students on last kind
005of a uh currently the number of students attending in person increased to 54 as of today um so we're actually looking at instead of 56% increase increase year today currently new students are only given the opportunity to attend in person as we intake them in the afternoon sessions right now because we're so full in our morning sessions we also have 55 BL enrolls students um that's 38% of our total students and this is an increase of 17 more students um from last year and then we have seven students working on FS and I wanted to kind of share with you enrollment over time so as you can see we're on a steady increase um more dramatic of an increase in terms of students that we're supporting in person um this 144 total students only accounts
006person semester since the end of first semester on January 24th we've enrolled 13 more students so as of today this number is actually 157 students total um and so these numbers that you're seeing from previous years are are representative the entire school year um of course we only have a semester in it so that's um many of our students really need that support so um we're making it our priority to engage those students and then for the students that were um helping that accessing online we're making a point of trying to really reach out and provide that remote support but also providing time that they can come in rece some on one so that's demographics our team feels fortunate support such a wonderfully diverse group of students and personal to to form the academy culture
007um so it's kind of interesting 6% more females attended than any other student last semester and 92% of our students soon B to beart in students by location about 50% of our students are actually from of District um and then kind e to be down two American indianas Native 17 Hispanic n two or more racist and 84 um we service quite a few students receiving special services these could be IEPs 504s modified diplomas tag tag um so we had 41 students receiving special services this first semester 21 of those being 10 six modified and four tax so we have quite quite a number of students that are needing additional services for us the culture at the Academy is something our team takes pride and cultivated we have students from all different blocks of life appar
008wife could arrange experiences that make our culture unique and special to having experience we continually look to find ways to create new experiences together with the different groups support so we've been doing a lot of vision work we haven't really when I came in we didn't really have a defined Vision that we were facing um the work that was really happening on so we really started the first part of this year um building that vision statement and aligning our program with that Vision some of the work that's followed up on that is really establishing what what is that actually look like in class so we're kind of going piece by piece through our vision statement and identifying what our little what does that look like in the physical space what does that sound like what
009does that look like for our students online which is a lot more challenging to kind of see what that you know how that actually plays out so we're really spending a lot of time digging investigating that and defining it um so what this Vision means to us is our team is dedicated to providing a welcoming environment for all emphasizing safety support and inclusion um the staff is appreciative of the diverse group reserve and unique qualities our students possess the strength to celebrate students individuality because of the size of our population we have a much easier time con next so that's pretty posu our team makes efforts to design learning around individual interests and passions this has been kind of the ongoing work in terms of yes we're using an online program but how do we
010enhance those opportunities for our students and make it um so as much as we can what I've found with in an alternative program is many students who have struggle struggle because they don't necessarily see themselves outside of high school and so we're really trying to make connection between what they're learning right now and how that's plays into what you're really interested in doing beond High School um we work to inspire students to be active engage members of society and their Community our team is teaching students to set a positive example for those around them we want students to know that leadership can present itself in a variety ways to were to equip them with skills mindset to do that and provide those opportunity overall our mission is about creating an environment where students throw out
011plan personally as well as receive the support to positiv and positively contribute to the around so what are we doing exactly to ensure that um this Vision can be actually used we're fostering an inclusive and safe re we utilize students surveys to identify needs in different areas as academics um culture all of those things um focus regular professional development around cultural confidence strong inform practices inclusive teaching practices mental health supports and things along those lines um reinforce and communicate strong policies against buling discrimination and exclusion and have a system of support that students feels feeling un avoiding um students do unsafe and marginalized um we actively involve students in decision making and school activities we have me constantly asking our students how we can better support them what they need um we EMP Empower students
012to share their opinions which helps to create a conected and Val Community we have quite a differ um group of students in in one room and then a very tight and so um it's been interesting kind of having some conversations from people that have very different beliefs um and coming together and sharing those opinions and doing it in a civil peaceful way um we Foster inclusive and safe environments uh by utilizing student oh um create a supportive Community we organize events discussions and projects to bring students together to share experiences learn about each other in their cultures and celebrate individual differences we've been able to add program like Science forer exporation High School to actually get ruler um to provide additional support we're lucky enough Mark and I we're trying to dig into some some
013programming um finds um rer which actually is going through and um doing a a trial and um and we've had the opportunity of doing that so we're actually not paying for two to three years three to four years of using the program um just providing feedback to them so that's exciting we've also included classwise this year than in the district so that provides us an opportunity to interface with students remotely so we can actually see their screams and work through through the work with them so that's made it a lot easier any any way that we can kind of um make it more accessible to support via online um we work to provide experimental learning and problem solving integrate Project based learning field trips and exposure to Career Pathways into the curriculum and outside of
014the class so that students have the opportunity to apply what they learn to realiz information we take advantage of um going to Career Fairs uh looking at Manufacturing in Tech many of our students really want to get their hands and sty so providing them opportunities for exposure in those areas um and then we provide extended um opportunities for students um to further dig into their interests we have the ability through Apex to to manipulate the curriculum so we're spending the time to kind of look at the different things that are being taught and finding ways that we can pull things out of it we're able to replace that and supplement with the extension activities that so that's something that we've really been working working on this year and we'll continue to work on um um
015we encourage students success and need individual students to develop forear plans and discuss prayer Pathways looking at student strengths interests and passions we hold an extensive intake meeting to ensure that we provide a s transition and ensure the student is provided with exactly what they needs to be successful we're able to provide um ways in which some students may want to access of their classes one time while Others May find it easier to focus on one or two and so we change we're able to kind of really Flex with due dates and things like that so that we can keep them on track but also section L [Music] to we recognize that every student learns differently so um we do work on personalized learning plan and congregations to ensure all students have the tools need
016to succeed extra tutoring specific emotional support things like that we weekly student support meetings for SSS we identify students that need additional tier supports primarily those tier two supports um and Contin revise and look at and identify what's working and what's not what needs to be changed um we provide regular feedback to students that focuses not only but also in celebrating those successes the progress teach and encourage gr mindset where students understand that learning process and challenges our opportunities to grow not obstacles uh we're also working to cultivate Future Leaders in lessons and discussion on ethics social justice and Community involvement and students understand the impact that they can have as responsible contributing citizens we really work to build a partnership with families that's why part of our intake and working on different is always
017families so we work together to students are being successful in terms of a attendance we dedicated a huge amount of time as a team on attendant so far this year um because I mean ultimately student so that's really interest uh we have a variety of ways we support our students throughout our program these are different attendance types in case you don't know we serice students in person we service them in home and app and in person and the hybrid style um we have the D students that are working with the high school but also working with the academy class and then we have students that are um only working at home and then we have students that are accessing LBC for beond classes are we working to improved St we created new Poli proceed to
018encourage student attendance we make an individualized call or text student attend that individual communication really important to us and continue that relationship we s out attendance letters to students attendance we students Andes to create mediation agreements for those students that are struggling to get to school trying to identify what those barriers are and really looking at making plans in order to ensure they're in we send out regular newsletters emphasizing the importance of regular attendant we create through created a preapproval absence warant for parents and Guardians to so that when they are going to be gone the teachers better prepared to support that student prior to them missing school and we also have some incentives uh we have a monthly attendance drawing for students who either have missed one day or no days throughout the month
019this starts over every month so it's not like you know lose the first month and year out um and then just taking a look kind of at our attends for the first semester um our attendance last year for first semester was 78.5% um attendance I've spent a lot of time working on attendance and moving numbers with attend so I'm proud to say um we've actually seen a 6.5% um increase in attendance for this semester academics our team continues to strive to create the best academic experience possible for our students and we work daily to improve that experience one of the focuses we have worked hard on this year is to find greater ways to oper enhancements and extension activities to provide opportunities for students to learn in a variety of different ways that may not
020be bed often we'll substitute I kind of talked about this earlier we Substitute Online assignments for Hands-On Project based opportunities for students toare their knowledge uh we really understand that just because um you would like an alternative setting that doesn't necessarily mean that the computer is the best way to do that so that's part of the push to in terms of Conant challenging ourselves to to make extensions in their learning experience um okay so courses for first semester we support all these courses with just three certified teachers one at IA one counselor an office man does just about everything in the office and one administrator so as you can see here um the first semester we had 85 different courses and that doesn't account for eics we the E dyamics lot for more elective classes
021and things and out of those 85 classes we a about six students per class per course so far second semester we were students attending 124 courses and we would love to offer as many course opportunity as possible but we're actually looking toir down um so that we're able to provide more of those extension opportunities in those class although manys are hard much harder to so that's kind of try [Music] yeah so clear having small makes itay top adequate instead um average academic Mark for the first semester this year is 79% so very good stop there um in terms of the G breakdown we have the total or S students um they already pass a total of 20 tests we completed and we have working on complet we're helping to get some students ready to compl
022their so they leave High School reing their completion for their 10 plus years we have anywhere from Juniors you know some sop depending on their AG um and so we can we can get them completed and celebrate the hard they' done and at least one of our students is actually using the GD um to move up in the job they're currently in so they they're still working towards their diploma but they are um they took their D so they could advance in their I'm just going to real quickly how many GP students have you have that are still looking and trying to complete their full we have about three and then just kind of a summary um these are a few quotes from our folks I know it's really small in our um but I'll
023just kind of read you a summary of what kind of things I've Le from parents and students parents and students have shared that the academy provides students with the flexibility and the ability to work at their own paas which has been a lifesaver for a number of students working through outside barriers in their lives such as medical issues and other things that might reg um be difficult to do in regular Hur and water um we have students that struggle with mental health issues and things like that that we able to really help provide specific supports it's another piece of the importance of bringing those students in I know it can be difficult for some of us to experience anxiety and we're able to provide settings for those students um because further isolation has always been
024intensified um the chance for so we want to really help to provide that support um and then we others really appreciate the opportunity toel the school and access those all these 16 portions and and really take advantage of those things moving out of secondary we just want to say thank you you know I greatly appreciate I know my team appreciate the support that we received from you um the fact that you're really committed to providing support C students is really important and the fact that you're supporting us you are shows your dedication to you know the vision you [Music] any questions so you're you're lied on space but 50% of your students are out of District so when we talk about District transfers we talk about the academy I just for I guess I'm just
025thinking for tap for the the form people that need the help in the academy might be getting less help because there's 50% of out District seems concern to me that have is that because other districts don't proper is it NE I guess I'm just just think about the 50% seems like off the yeah I have students back to their [Music] own so knowes friends families but yeah it's definitely impacting you know our side and I think we worked a lot with the district and I think the district's really open additional States we to support students a lot of thect transfer students I'm imagining I would want to drive my yeah I mean some of the communities definitely are taking more advantage of the online although we're try to work withes we're also really looking at
026as we're bringing students in students that have had previous issues with attendance were saying we need make that connection to establish that connection with school groups so seemed like the electives number was really big but I was wondering list are they different El options High School are the same types of el there are some that are similar to the high school there some I remember in the audience might not know we borrowed your facility for a very long time for our board meetings um I remember seeing French on the board and being very I didn't know that is that an elective option yes we do have French we have sign have a lot we kind of work with individual students on where interest so we can get them connected to those have know outl in
027terms I think exp yourself this AG to get better know excited about the um as you were talking I was writing down a lot of the wordss that like they cared with you personally like with you I just wanted to share personally I'm really apprciated that there seems to be so much of future future focus and vision setting and goal planning and working with the stud to do that because like you said there SCH who never picture themselves and there's so much power especially when you're talking about anxiety to give them a go is really important so I just want to you for that and um also you mentioned career like exploration people on this board who have jobs might be interested in volunteering and coming talking to students about it's one of the things
028I love when I get I talk about it everybody's probably so sick of me saying I love Middle School career day and all those different things so I mean I personally love to come do that Ryan you wna volunteer yourself as well I'm volunteer go talk to the I would love that options like that yeah I had an experience pretty early in my career where I was teaching a career um at class and we spent my an entire semester studing particular J you know kind of the old mindset of like what do you want to be when you grow up and um I realized that that question at this point in my career um but at the end of that we took all the students after they done presentations college to get more exposure to
029what done I have one one of my students who was convinced she wanted to beist she went and um she came back and at the end of the day she kind of pulled pulled me to side down to the bus and she's like Mr G I I don't like to touch I could not touch people that much and I and like I got a huge smile on my face and she was kind of upset and I was like it's just as important right now that we identify I mean how much time, that's f my mom went all the way through dental hygiene school until it was like the practicals and then she had to touch someonee and she dropped out she said she couldn't deal with it I'm guessing she had probably a pretty rough
030case but still let's yeah save people their time I'm just really appreciate everything you're doing at the Academy it's it's an important program to have for our students one thing that really good oh I was say I just really you know I really appreciate the opportunity to help leave this incredible team really great experience and this is very one thing that really resonated with me was that you have weekly meetings students to find out what they need we've started to just because of our try to tell and how much individual need have they're starting to meetings afteron kind of just spend time I don't think we always spend enough time reflecting and making sure that we're not missing those short conversations about individual supports and changes that we can make the next support I think
031sometimes students don't know what they need you probably absolutely but the fact that you're giving them an opportunity to explore that but I wanted to be able to some conversation about now um and so what I wanted to he and and this I will send to you because end up in the package is really that we're looking right now and by the way Joey will be here next to be able to talk facili from um but what we've been conversing about and grappling with um is the notion of here we are in Spring 2025 and we can look to um look at a construction Bond so it's how do we make decisions that help us now do not hinder us into the future but we're really thinking comprehensive so I mean the the notion of
032looking to a construction bond in five years is like tomorrow and so those are the conversations we have to have so for instance if there's a particular facility that that we know or believe if we want to do work with um we don't want to put lots of ongoing updates across the next five years into that facility if if something's going to happen so we've had the conversations about that um uh the other pieces that really kind of brings it to brought it to our immediate attention is the notion of the F Academy with class and I can walk in there in the morning and you saw in some of the pictures is just huddled um all over the place um so they're they're kind of getting to a place where the capacity of a
033single classroom for their middle and high school students um is is reaching a Max point and so that's a need right now I know that the question has been raised about what happens if like State enrollment goes down and we end up with room in another school to be able to do some shuffling um uh might that look like and so it's really about playing the game of how do we look at Cross multiple so um we're looking at the what is now uh to make decisions knowing that our targets are really about serving the needs of all students providing positive learning spaces and being good stewards of our reses those are really the essentials we know when we get to a place of looking at a construction Bond do we consider a new facility
034or do we consider remodel of a school or multiples um because a couple of things that we will look at is with the Capac or the bond capacity that we would be looking at at that point and the cost of materials we may not even we may not be able to afford a school um there would be it would be too much of of um an ask for our community for the community to be able to see yes we can support this financially and so we really have to think that direction um and Christopher you mentioned it earlier about how do we you know pull our pull our thoughts and plans um to be able to see if we can maximize in some ways but that has started us out where even five years ago
035we could have said Well we'd like to build a new school kind of like we did the high school when it happened we don't know if we're going to be able to go it and so it's how do we work at the dance of needs that we have right now and um hopes into the future and so would we want in that 2030 an opportunity to look at a new or or remodeled school or schools um CPS this school has always had in its plans another wing on the building does that become a reality what are some of the overall School updates or facility updates we need um we know from years of history that hes community pool is um tenuous I guess would be the word um but we also know that um uh
036decommissioning the pool is not cheap if we get to a place of do that so it's not a place that we want to look at what are the others if there are and the notion of being able to make sure that what we're talking about is meeting the leaders so I put that out to be able to say a couple of things that we're looking at right now we have talked about and brought forward we have fun from the sale at the Kings Valley facility that we have held on to for the purposes of property or facility and um we want to make sure we're being thoughtful and prudent in what we do with that money and we don't want to say well we'll spend it all now and not have anything when we get
037to a place of supplement of body experience uh we have funds in our maintenance reserve and there have been and may continue to be some state grants for um additional funding for folks that has and so if we had something like that that could help also so what we look at in the long term is what would be the bonding capacity and the amount our community would support and we also have to look at what is the impact of time and and the timing for renewal of bural B so it's how do we look for what's possible what we need and that's part going to be part of the strategic planning we're working on but also right now we're taking a look at if we want to maintain instructional spaces to meet the needs and
038at the fom Academy we've got consistently full class um and we don't have ability to spit art those student GRS so a couple of things that we have talked about to consider and the board knows varying pieces of this is do we find something to purchase within the community what does it give us what does it not give us do we look at a short-term rental in the community what does that give us what does that not give us um renovation of existing space yet have you talked to the scho credit un that building they're they're building a new one West West Town and and and really I this up because what we're doing is is taking a look at how do we um answer answer questions right now our district office um any any
039meeting of size is in my office which is fine um but we don't have a board room um and they're they're shared space we've talked about uh the other classroom in in that facility is right now our Student Services office um we've had conversations about renovation in the district to be able to um move student services then opens a door for the Academy to have another part of a classroom or a full classroom um what it doesn't give us is any bandwidth from the district office to grow if we U have any additional programmatic things or something like that that we need to take a look at and so it's looking at the checks and Balan um we did look at the Von County School's Credit Union knowing that they're moving um that's currently owned
040right now by phth activities Club um and you know it's really about what's the most viable thing to think about doing um it doesn't have a huge amount of space no we couldn't move our whole district office over there and open up the whole district office right now for uh the full Academy but are there some things that would make s that we could do with that um again renovation of existing space are just remaining status quo knowing what it gives us and what it doesn't but we have to think about that in terms of what's what's the Target or the a five years out and some of what we can predict and some of what we can but really the purpose of this and Joey coming back next next month was to put it
041publicly on the table that we are kind of in that D position I spot of really needing to be able to think about what are our needs now versus what are the needs into the future if you remember the F Academy used to live in the uh computer lab off of the F High School uh Library um putting the fom academy back in that environment is not a sound choice for a mar uh we've got the moders over at the middle school that we have talked about one of them is used right now for Middle School classes so if we took that on um we have to move the classes that are in that facility inside the other part of that is there are no restur in those mod and we don't want the students
042walking into an Open Door into the middle school to be able to use the rests in the middle school so you know it's looking at those kinds of things that what are the pluses and minus um of where we are to be able to get us there and so um it's really to put it out there to say we're starting to ask the questions about what do things look like into the future but we're also talking about um wanting to make it real clear that there are some things we may need to do may want to do may have to do um on a shorter term level but we don't want to make um uninformed um random decisions that also don't ask us to think five and 10 years out and so um that was
043really kind of the intent of this conversation and to be able to put that out there was to say you're where we are and if we're not thinking about what we do now in terms of what's into the future um we're going to make some crazy to students and we really need to be able to um have those thoughtful conversations about what do choices that we make now give us or don't give us and and how do we live in them and like I said then Joy's coming back in April to be able to kind of hit some of the B facility I have this with Joey very aware he says he really thinks about repairing repairs of school knowing is we putting this much money into knowing that has a very limited life expected
044serly on life expect does does think through that the thing that I know I already brought up this Bas in the academy to me it's be a hardell ask V saying Academy 50% of out of districts we asking the residents to support the neighbor Community facility which I think would be very hard to bring no but in terms of as a voter if I heard this saying you want bunch of tax money help the neighboring communities I just see that as a hard set that's just my opinion part be educ yeah I mean and all all of those things are part of the consideration um um you know we have to think about that um you know yeah it's it's just we we have to you talk about the the Chisel again we have to
045leave no stone unturn in the process of of being able to really take a look at it seriously not just jump to um what might be an immediate seems like a great idea solution so think very that is on the radar also very much that's one of Joy's um um don't forget refresh my memory did we end uping money from the kvcs in the past not last year we did do that okay I didn't think we did but iate in the general community on this we work really hard the last Bond measure that we passed to make sure Community was very knowledgeable at what we needed and we weren't just going willly and you know spending a bu money on things it's a city and and all those things Happ everything yes just on to
046that and this might be I but when our is of that graduation rates isn't that one of considerations rate is daily membership yeah and then and you know it's that way with any of our other schools to get a sech for our Decline and enrollment how do we respond and what does that look so um it's just going to be the the dance and the constant conversation but the idea with really um saying five years from now is tomorrow so need to with our strategic planning um and our work moving ahead it it's important that we have the voices of numerous people um to be able to help us make well informed educated decisions that serve us now and um all short um uh last week was classified School Employees week and I think it
047took me till Wednesday till I finally um said wait a minute it's what um and so really wanted to give a shout out um and schools celebrated classified employees very very nicely um over the course of that week um there were lunches and cofes and goodies and a little bit of everything and um it's really important that we have our whole group and it's just wanting to make sure that there is is recognition for our individuals that that work as our classified team members and so wanted to make sure that they received adequate adequate recognition um for all the work that they um the um academic calendar I put on here we met on March 10th and uh that will bring us the 26 27 school year calendar uh before you tonight to be approved
048or to consider approving and um the the target for me will always be to have us have two years of a district calendar so we've all we've got 25 26 if if we get 26 27 adopted next year we'll work on 27 28 so that we can always stay in a cycle of having two years um of C in place um the career fair at Oregon State I mentioned last time we got together and it was so fun to see a number of our Juniors some of them dressed up as nicely as they could be um being able to participate in that career fair opportunity and um it it's just kudos to our staff for being able to take kids there and believing in it enough to be able to make sure that that students
049were prepared and that admit something and so that was really important uh the other thing I put on here that we will have another work meeting before it happens but I wanted to put in the CTE Signing Day celebration and the it's a the celebration is April 17th I put in all the students um that were potentials on the list signing um because I think it's important that we've got some students that are already in the pipeline uh to be able to move ahead into LBCC in some of the programs that they got and so we've got three students from the for Academy um moving in uh into different uh uh C Pathways and we have five students from F High School um slated in that same direction um which is is really good and
050pretty incredible for those seniors U that are ready to move forward and make a commitment and uh be a part of the program so it speaks very highly um to our our staff and our students that are involved with um I would be remissed without Oran Oregon Battle of the books um this is something that our district has participated in for a number of years and uh we continue to see things climb um but wanted to put out just what's happening so at fouth elementary school um they actually had 70 students and 14 teams that participated in school battles before they got to a school champion and they actually took this picture at the bottom of as many kids as they could of the ones that participated um and and what that means is those
051kids have 12 books that that their team reads among themselves and um they do do battle with each other answering questions about these books to be able to make a determination of a school champion who then goes to the regional championships um this year at the elementary school the chapter Champions which was the name of the team went to the regional competition on March 8th at Preston Valley high school and that team reached the round of 16 before they lost to Adams Elementary School in foral and at the school level to become the Champions this all third grade team beat out in all fifth grade um which was kind of depressing to the fifth graders um to be able to get there and um uh that the group at the elementary school is primary primary
052led by Molly Bell um with help from instructional assistance and parents because they've got a lot of teenss full with Middle School um I don't have a number um Megan Beno who runs the program at the middle school said I'll email you tomorrow and I said the board meetings tonight can you just tell me who your Regional teams were I'll write them down while in here the middle school so bless her heart she gave that to me and they also participated on March 8th in the Regionals the team was fifth place at the end of play didn't make it into um the bracket ramps but um not a bad showing in any way shape or form and most of those students in that group of the Brave books are sixth graders so there's U some
053room for growth and then at fom high school ke cville runs that group they have yet to do their Regional competition and I most of those students are Juniors and seniors now and and many of them have been doing this for a while and their competition is Actually March 22nd at balis high school for their Regional competition and we'll see how well they do um but it's it's just a nice opportunity when we're focused on literacy development um for students that we've got students that are hungry to be readers and and and thinkers in that way um and then fom with Elementary School being thankful that the solet tribal charitable contribution fund provided them with a $960 Grant to purchase book sets for next year to be able to check out to students which is
054what with the number of students who participate at the elementary level they look for funding every year to be able to do book sets and um it was very nice to to receive that funding from um cel's Char contribution fund to be able to do uh summer learning uh we'll get more information about that later we're going to do the State has yet to decide if they if there will be support in the budget for specific summer learning uh we will have a high school credit recovery which we've done for the past I don't know how many years that'll be the last two weeks in June um we'll have extended school year which we need to have for students who qualify for that service through special education and that will be in August of of
0552025 my bad and then we will also be out of our Urban literacy funds doing um the lit Camp which is a a four-week program in summer in August for our incom Kinder through third grade students so um there will be more information about those but we want to let folks know that those are are they're happening whether we do anything else or not um yeah there there is a propos um the the concern we have one of the concerns we have at this point which I think would be awesome is once that determination is made can we turn around a program that quickly to be able to get sessions set up people hired opportunities to offer and so we wanted to say these these three were we're banking on we know we're doing them
056and if if the Legislative Assembly gives us money to be able to look at that then we'll start looking probably at starting on um what can we do quickly and um efficiently because we've done it before in terms of Sumer learning and and then look to expand in the future that's that's the hope that's the hope and so we'll see what happens in that um technology updates um so just wanted to let you know kind of where we are in a couple of things so we've had new telephones installed across the district and they're set up and and functional and um doing their job which is great um the updates to our magnetic card system will begin implementation uh March 31st and so I figured April was supposed to enough um and that will replace
057our our key card access and it will add couple of other entry points for safety um that we looking at it's just been a time killer to um get the materials that have been on back so that's happening um the other thing that we've gotten to um thanks to our um uh technology um reserves what is Jennifer don't the technology the capital te Capital technology funds thank you um that we are looking to get staff pH books to replace our obsolete laptops and so we will have um staff staff siiz PR books um that have a touch feature uh machines for all licensed staff in place to start the 25 to 26 school year hasle them out of this year's budget half out of next year's budget um with an order in July so that
058we can make sure we have those things out so we know the teachers need um functional technology um we've got funding through uh measure 98 which is our high school Success fund and our student investment account funds to be able to continue the rotation cycle U the replacement cycle for student HS so that we don't get caught to buy 1500 or whatever it is in a year um that that we're constantly doing updates in that cycle the other thing we're looking at is new line interactive technology displays so when we've been at the high school for meetings we've stolen the HS um C touch panel um this is a different rendition of something similar to that um and we are looking at that about Obsolete and failing technology the conversations we just had earlier this
059week are looking at and how many of those can we purchased so when we talk about the the the staff PR books and being able to replace those um in Readiness for the start of the school year might we be closer than we think we are to be able to get um those in every operational classroom um to start the school year and uh you know originally it was kind of like we are we all going to have to fight over 10 um but but the look really says that we think we can do and we're in the process right now a larger look um at being able to implement some of those displays that will um help folks into the future so we're looking hard to be able to make sure that especially our
060staff have um technology that works for them in being able to implement ands and so um the new line displays and a conversation about how many and how much I'm really started in Earnest this week and so uh more to come but um I am encouraged by what I'm looking at um in terms of that Capital fund and what we've got there um that we may not be able to replace ball but we're going to get um I think more than I ever would have anticipated um to be able to get us into next year so we've got principles who are working with with staff um to be able to see who are those that would say replace mine right now if you get one in um who are those that would say don't you
061dare touch my technology until summertime um because I need get through the year um and and who who are those people that need the interactivity of um of a display over and above I really need a TV screen because I want to project images and that's all I'm going to do and so um how do we make sure that things can get the rec license so that's where we are on now um I put in a couple of pieces here of public education at the national level um just with things that I've heard recently and uh just a reminder that our exec the executive orders don't create new laws or change existing ones or provide legally bling swi without action from Congress or the courts many of the executive ERS canot direct to change legal
062requirements and schools do not need to immediately alter policies or practice um as we know um there are people now from the Department of US Department of Education who have can walk out of their eyes um and so um even though the executive order talks about taking steps to close what they to the maximum extent possible um and it's not got Congressional approval the letting go of or locking folks out of their offices going to scch that ball over and so um the The Stance of the superintendent Association at the federal level is that that our our big most of our big kids Title One and special education funding both existed prior to the creation of the US Department of Education and dismantling the department is not the same as e funding of these programs
063and so there's a stance from your National superintendence that are saying here's where we're coming from and and what we want at a state level um there's also the statement that came from the from the Oregon Department of Education today that said OD is committed to supporting all students and is actively reviewing new federal executive orders and guidance while Federal changes are being monitored no OD administer administered programs have been effective at this time od's funding primarily comes from the state tax dollar with federal funds largely allocated to school districts um he provides resources and guidance to Ure safe and inclusive environments for all students so um these looks have become part of my daily routine as they have for a number of people um to be able to monitor its impacts and what we're
064doing is taking a deep breath uh before we do anything um and remembering that our job is about serving Eng that comes through our our job is to students and teach them academics life um um being in themselves and ready to move forward and and that's what we've got to keep as the goal in mind for where we where we're moving we know that if there are federal fund cuts that um they may impact the decisions about our state budget so and it may not be solely education so if there are federal reductions that impact for instance Health and Human Services if Oregon has to make up some of that they may look at Oregon's budget it's some Shuffle that may take some money out of the education pot to be able to put toward
065help we know that we're watching that Jennifer's in in meetings all the time um as well that that we continue to look at what that could mean for us and where we move forward um but wanting the board to know that that we are attending to this with due diligence I think that at least our regional and and to some degree Statewide our business managers our superintendant are coming together in a way that they've not done in a long time to be able to make sure the messages that are shared are consistent um and um that we're all actioning in some same way and so um I'll continue to put that out there so that there are no surprises and no you know hidden what we see um but we're carrying on so that's my
066super Financial we're talking to you sit down here on the line then thank you for approving the audit uh I just want to reiterate what Cory said about our team in the office they just do a great job sure everything is done well and responsible anding everybody account for finances in the district it's great and it was nice to have her say the same yeah yeah it's great and thank you all for coming to the budget session last week you already the talk for an hour so I won't have anything else to say tonight unless you have any questions everything else is in the board reports there's a lot of information to get out sure time trying to make it Rel understand but it's out there on the moving on strategy and discussion the Safety
067Committee we had talked about two saes committees and I put out some information this week to be able to take a look at representation on the committee um um and just making sure that we've got some of that lined out but I also had some other other thoughts that I'll I'll share with you our facilities and infrastructure Safety Committee um is moving they've been having monthly group meetings um with their next meeting scheduled for tomorrow um and Joey to Jan Angelo our our facilities director is leading that charge and right now it's been made up of facility staff and the campus store the school and there is a licensed representative who has been added to the mix and um we're looking for others that may or may not choose that may choose to enter into
068that from our staff um to be able to take a look at the things that have to do with some of these um we've also included um or Joey W has included um at this point brick and and Brian just to be able to keep on top of as members what what's happening and gather the within them the other side of it gets a little bit more um all-encompassing shall we say so it's it's really about individual Andor system threats and the more I thought about that as we get the committee together because the couple of things we talked about are reviewing an updating protocols for safety emergencies and reviewing response to student staff injury resulting from this Behavior I could put together a committee we could meet for the first time and I know
069that the first thing that I would probably hear is wait a minute I don't want to talk about our evacuation plans I want to talk about what happens if student spit or somebody's going to say um I'm not here to talk about um what happens if student elopes or runs from school I want to talk about um how do I make sure my students are safe if there is PR Mar so the last thing I want to do is set up a committee that has differing opinions of what its purposes and so um new information that I just got finalized today is I have set up two information gathering sessions not limited to um committee members open to anybody um the first one at 7 o'clock in the morning next Thursday at fall High School
070uh um same date at 3:15 in the afternoon at elementary school for anyone who wishes to attend it will be very structured very focused to be able to take a look at what are those priorities so that we can begin to narrow down uh what the work is or if we find that there are two or three very highend issues thoughts um do we need to have sub committees or some kind of way of being able to do things to address more um we Al I'll also put out an opal optional input via a survey that will be open from Monday of next week through spring vacation um because I know there are people that that can't um make it quickly to a 7 o meeting when um I have to be ready to start
071my day with students at 8:00 for um it's not going to happen for everybody to show up so thanks to the recommendation of one of our paa leaders to be able to say what about survey um the survey really is the process of being able to look at what of those priorities and then have established an initial committe meeting for April 17th um when we can start actually coming together for and so like I said this was just established and and into fruition today um to be able to make sure we had all the pieces so this will get out to staff hopefully tomorrow if not tomorrow on Monday because the survey will be a part of it that people will have the opportunity to um and could be we get that down can you
072tell me again who is on the facilities um Safety Committee uh right now Jo always believe it's the facility staff and the district facilities people the school campus stewards which they're they're the the um lead custodial person at elementary middle high and here and um we Joey's reaching out to The One licensed representative we've got and and we're hoping that it'sit training from the high school and expressed interest in being a part of that and that's the volunteer and then the other committee I the individual and system I'm sending out the survey and I've got the two um uh input times to then be able to look at the priorities to to move so from there are you so you scheduled a April 17th committee meeting yep okay and then it'll quickly move forward so
073we can accomplish yep our goals y you expect those to be monthly meetings right that and and if we like I said if we hear that there are reent we got to deal with this yesterday then um we got to make a determination about is there one priority that meets another or do we need to Splinter to a couple of subgroups that address what really needs to happen because we've got people that have expressed interest in a committee and if it's not answering or addressing the things that are a part of what they want or or assume um as part of the committee um then then we're going to lose interest and lose members and so then it's how do we if if we have to go that route restructure to be able to make
074sure that we've got um who we need on however made the commitments right now there's just so many um possibilities that fall under individual or system threats and and I've heard about you know some people are saying if if somebody comes into our school and something happens um I really need to know we need to tighten up our drills because we need to be able to do this we need to practice evacuation we need to work with our law enforcement to be able to say where would the reunification squat be and there's other people that are saying what do we do with the student that runs away from the school what do we do um if behavior is disregulated and something happens in a school C so um and hearing all of those is kind
075of like we got people that that maybe may be assuming um not the same thing that I might be assuming and so I don't want set priority and and and the can um weigh in on survey and um any of the the Gathering sessions as well okay Witham April 28th was the day that um uh from folks that I heard from um of the two days that okay um yeah let's go six and that would be um The Joint board meeting their report that they do annually about um Kings Valley performance and the opportunity to see their she so that would be the purpose of that that yeah that's a part of that's a part of their um their report can you make um okay softball field naming I brought this forward because we need
076to make some determination about um we had an official request from Harry who's our our new P High School softball coach to look at officially naming the P High School soft f for your f um and so I will send this to you um I just got together today or excuse me yesterday that um her request was um I'm writing today to ask for your work support and being able to name this um believing in Warrior nation and so on and so forth um and a couple of things that I wanted to put out there that's about process and recommendation so look at the related policy policy FF that talks about naming facilities it said the board makes the final decision of naming or renaming all district facilities or parts of facilities facilities can be
077named for purposes of honoring individuals groups places or events or for recognizing contributing sponsors naming some one of my questions is well let me go to my list and I'll get it there um the naming or renaming of existing facilities to give the discretion of the board which is part of the policy my thought was if moving forward the policy says the board will appoint an advisory committee to consider such a request the committee will consist of a number of members as determined by the board and it continues on but that's the next step in a process of official naming public facility um if so if we go that direction we also need to involve uh collaboration with the confederated tribes Indians thank you and um we have and the reason we need to do
078that is is one of the reasons is we have um based on the revised Statute 33 33275 we have a fiveyear agreement with the tribe for use of the warrior and brave mascot and lo that um agreement was signed November of 2022 and would need to be Revisited in November 2027 I don't I am hopeful things don't change and I don't imagine but I also don't want to assume that that fiveyear agreement because I hate to name a field and then two years down the road be able to say no we got to take it away um because the agreement with the tribe is not in existence and so the idea would be um does the tribe want to entertain the potential of a longer agreement um in order to be able to make that
079question yeah Nam Warrior field is not using the mascot necessary not necessary so I'm just I guess I gu just I'm thinking terms of if if for some reason lost that agreement yeah we wouldn't be able to use the mascot but still use the Nate um Bas based on based on what the the the law is in Oregon the idea was to um at that time when it was created was to get away from um what some believe in communities and what was um denigrating indigenous people was just a question I mean in my mind I can say okay well there's lots of Warriers throughout right so you know the other thing I did was I looked up some other other places and so for instance corval high school has the um Bob fol Stadium
080at Spartan field but Spartan was never officially the Bob was me because it had to do with a person um honoring individuals groups places events Spartan it's kind of do we need to do the formal process or can we name it Warrior field in an informal process um that's where I'm stuck is we can either establish the committee to be able to work through that process let me work through the communication with select to be able to where we are or informally name the field within the parameters of our agreement current agreement with you okay with inform I don't have a problem with that either um I just I I want to do what's right and I wanted to do the investigation with the tribe first but it's kind of like um car put The
081Proposal forward I didn't want it to sit um um without being able to put it out there does it have a name right now softball field have a name no the softball field no okay no but you know it's kind of like when I talked to Coralis they said Spartan field just became Spartan field um as a matter of course and you could call it anything you wanted I still want to connect tribe to be able to make sure that that there is understanding and knowledge and um um good good positive relationship in that um one of my things was does naming for the massot fit the formal policy so I mean that's where I'm going back and forward but but I got to bring It Forward because car asked and um and we need
082to be able to follow through with with whatever that process I think initially feels like I have no problem with it sounds good to me but yeah the other thing I want to make sure is where does it fit within formal we can um in collaboration with the pride even make it an inform because it's the M um um is it's it's kind of like what what I mean which way do we want to go um but I can I can engage in conversation um just because I don't want to um ignore the agreement that we had um to be able to do that so I can enter into the conversation um and bring back information uh it's really about wanting to make sure this was in front of the board um to be able
083to get your direction and what our other we have some Clemens field um for football but that was about um a donor and a Community member um we we''ve got schol we've got uh Terry Stevenson yeah Mar cross country uh Jennifer what is the um MGI field house um is the other one for for Bas soft and so stand building Y and so all those are kind of connected to people so would it be marketing for us to to person I don't know but and and and maybe that's something that that the tribe and others can help us figure out about what that would be I think that that what I got from get and mark the high school was um uh the idea of being able to um appreciate the Celeste for saying we
084don't believe fla has integrated um the tribe with using the war um and and we support its use and so want to be able to maintain that and and that was kind of per chargeing being able to say that's important and that doesn't happen over time sure and so um you know whether it's formal or informal um I just want to make sure well we still have to give a response to the request y so like it needs further discussion yeah so if it's agreeable with the board I will respond to carry to be able to thank her for there you are sorry that's what happens when I don't know who's here so um just just to be able to tell you that that yes we let's move forward with um uh being able to
085make sure that um we're within that agreement and maintaining and I'm not hearing people saying um you think it's crazy to name it Warrior field um really it's kind of um it sounds to me more like a um what's the pathway for formal informal and and just making sure that that relationship continues to be signed and so if that works for you we'll have keep moving forward to me and I know you need to talk to the tribe and get there and verify the agreement can we tally approve it Bas we can say we can say go forth and Conquer is an informal naming process and call Itor well I'm not a tribal council member I'm just I am a tribal member and another set ofers for them but um so I can't give you
086a very visal position but they're the on made me aware that this was going on here and they didn't give me any kind of direction to oppose it and so I'm feel pretty comfortable that they're in favor of doing this that is my assumption um and I just want to be able to make sure that that the um that I can have the conversation with the people that um that I had talked to just just to be able to make sure that we've got those pieces put together but yeah I um we get together and talk about what might be and it to the approprate people absolutely agreement if you do name a field part of it is money you're going to create signs you're going to create whatever so there is a little bit
087of a monetary issue with it that if you did have to change it to years later then it's not a huge am still it's no and and that's that's where I understand the concept I'm sorry no fine my hands I I would like to stay on the formal uh tracks of doing this and that's talk to the tribe don't come up with a temporary feel you know to get through but actually you know go and talk to the tribe and get their response and then we can make an important decision as the board we just put on next next month y if we get a response thank you thank you for paying attention to it it was just really um I I didn't want to just leave it to SM somewhere yeah no but I
088think that we need to go the formal route and talk to the tribe and not assume anything just because we didn't hear anything negative to it I think to assume something and then somewhere down the road but not to just in future somebody you know throw a red flag on it there you go so yeah so anyhow you'll connect with Susan or Susan and to get that going and hopefully it'll all be done by our board meeting next month and we can put it back on as an action to take care of that that sounds okay question is our agement right now our agreement is with s we needed to select the the there was only one tribe um that that we need to make that connection and um so no we don't but um
089the other tangent piece of that is we have our native Landing knowledgement which we're looking to revise and part of the process within that that was suggested is that would be a place to include the other tribes um in making sure that uh it's acknowledged within our land agreement and uh making sure uh things are put together thank you very much discussion action it license renals and non rals yeah you have in your packet um than Jeff thanks Jeff the information about um um our liced renewal our liced non-renewals we need motions for both we can't take them um just as as a whole we have to approve the renewals and we have to approve non renewals on the list right now you will see um the only two non-renewals on temporary staff we and
090that's something that we have to do those individuals have been notified that the only reason that they are on that list for non-renewal is because of their temporary status it doesn't impact their relationship with the district it doesn't impact their standing um they are not obligated to say in in a job application um have you ever been non-renewed for a job if this is just a technicality because of um your status as a temporary employ so those two individuals have been notified of that um hopefully very clearly uh to be able to so and the license renals they've all receiv received their letters letters are going out soon we have to the board has to approve um the only thing I did for the the the temporary employees was to be able to put out
091I didn't want them to see their name on a non list a board meeting and wonder what in the world did I do um when it it's it's purely about um the the way um agreements and contract that's all so we move individually y LIC all right move seconded all those in favor motion passes favor motion passes Z thank you moving right along the schol calendar proposed SCH calendar for the6 he's been triup check it's been gone over multi yeah we we've really worked hard on that um this is a year that we looked at um kind of mirroring what we're looking at in 25 26 but with the the uh timing of when Liberty fall the decision was to start with staff uh the proposal was to start with staff before Labor Day excuse
092me so we would we would start before yeah we would start with staff before Labor Day Labor Day s and um uh then be able to um we start students to the so students would be a weekend um before we get to um um the labor we and if we were to take that out farther what that does is that gives us an end that's later in June um uh the other thing that we did was um we had had a makeup day prior years on the Friday before weekend and the conversation with the group was um instead to put that at the end of of April so that there could be a 3day week in April and a 3day weekend in May instead of nothing in April and a 4 excuse me nothing in
093April and a 4 weekend in May that was really kind of the biggest change um in in what we look at to be able to put that together Michelle am I missing something from the conversations that we had I don't think so okay and then just so I'm reading the correct as I'm zoing in my eyes are currently aging rapidly right in front of everyone um the last day for teachers Etc would be the 11 the last day would be the 11 and the makeup days are in the calendar so that we want to make it really clear that we have more in leather days or need to CL that we've got um we've got we accept the calendar for 2627 as proposed I will second okay any further discussion in favor motion passes 5
094the calendar committee Ro it and we had this meeting earlier this week and we had half hour the staffs at our schools here we are we want to he and here and we're done so explain labor to me day is called Labor they should be working easy everybody to work for free day uh moving along here the inter District transfer allowances for theic 5 26 those have come in from all the the the principles of schools to be able to look at our starting place and we wanted to do that because now the time um you know from about spring vacation forward when we've got folks who are doing their Advanced planning um that that if they want to make a move they want to be able to know and so we'll start to see
095um enrollment that will come to us and um so we want that and it's the knowledge that we can alter those at any um formal meeting of the board formal meeting work session those can be adjusted I'm slots are filled right now with I mean current current transfers who we anticipate being back next year we know um and and we have we have assumed those people are they're ours so this is this is could this is above and beyond and um this year I went back and looked and there was nobody that was turned away with the Caps that we had set um so they were within a reasonable space to be able to take that and we're also watching for what's happening construction wise in the what might anticipate that's 142 spaces and some
096of those um you know Kinder typically gos up with um but there are other places that that have had their same slots over all year so do we have room at CPS for 30 more students do we have room at the Academy for 14 more we have room at the high school 55 more didn't these recommendations come from the administrators forward are you for the Academy you're talking about being full High graduation rate talk about we have quite a few seniors this year then we can also tolerate some more middle school students about all you can do school students your administrators have helped you make these numbers enrollments down a little bit so the administrators have I just want to say I think when I looked at Jennifer St for enrollment like 70 then there
09760 or 70 off from last year yeah so a top number we may only get okay mov second all those in favor passes 5 thank you and on the meeting uh next meeting item facility report as well out in the Tim manner [Music] either either I'll just put a cave that possibly the one and student services kelse will be School St next month to be able about this will come up I guess as time goes but I guess Jennifer's best person weal been talk about I'm curious a has to be a space for it but wondering what the cash flow like does that through the budget committee where is more it's been brought up brought up talk about that brought up this a big Financial thing where Next Step that you're looking at that building
098a commercial kitchen or yeah or funding it yes I could see that probably being part of our bond project I don't know that we would have the funding to do it ahead of we're not making money on our food service as it is we're not building on no my question was the other way is it costing more oh by not by costing more that would be payments on something we can look at that we could talk about that at our budget as especially Jennifer the office front office staff getting keeping us on our toes and solving financially and also number Oneal contrib F ble book amazing um and Ryan actually for selling ads pay for your books at the elementary school to such a successful level that took two years to to take money figured
099our and plan moving forward so you got Elementary School year books are free now they have some money from the joger phone then we got sponsorship to cover the remaining $6 per kid to cover and our next Target is t-shirts for seconders that when they start at the school they each so probably more to come about that anybody wants to to the talk Ryan about that and then during this meeting I got notification that opening night at a lad Junior was big success very well attended and perance was fantastic so I'm already in trouble with my middle school there being here and there I've been forgiven but um I just wanted to share my thanks to all of the students who work so hard and their family members for driving and voluntears and all of
100the staff and community volunteers that I Tak to put those show on having been involved in a lot of them it's one think not only all of that stuff but the winter sports programs they're finishing up I heard girls W today a and you know Joe said I can't say it enough the entire staff for the whole District that make this District what it is just all so uh is there any Bo requests so I don't know if this is the appropriate time to say this but as someone who has been very closely following news um I would caution USS escalate oure toing and also you know some people not to things us any yes and that's one of the reasons I this week to be able to say's kind things out see what we're
101really looking at and see what the potential is to be able to make wait six months all right well hear else call meeting