Phoenix-Talent School Board meeting 05-15-2025

001Yeah, I felt like I was going, but it was wrong. Well, good evening everybody. Thanks for your patience. Uh, first item is accentuate the positive. And I don't see her, but I'm just going to read this into the record and we'll make sure she gets her certificate. But, um, if you may have heard, it's been everywhere on the news. Um, but we had a high school student um, Tula Heckin. Oh, yes. Um, I asked her to attend um because she was recognized for her outstanding accomplishment as the winner of the state of Oregon Congressional Art Competition. Belula, we proudly honor your work titled Man Walking Through an Alaskan Town, which will be displayed at the US Capitol building in Washington DC. And um we also extend our heartfelt congratulations on her second remarkable piece, the

002colorful desert with huge cacti, which will be exhibited at Representative Ben's Ontario office in the Eastern Oregon. Your artwork demonstrates extraordinary depth, detail, and perspective, and we are immensely proud of your creative achievements. Congratulations. So, we'll make sure to get back to our All right. Um and with that, we'll open it up for the rep of Positive. Good evening everybody. I think this is on. Is it on? Um, it should be. Do you see that white light? Yeah. All right. So, we're still here. And tonight I get to um present you guys. I think back in January, I told June about this um for board appreciation, but our PTA had voted to dedicate a tree knowing that we will be doing um our tree planting this spring. So, this is from our PTA and we've

003chosen to we'll be placing it under the Inqua which is a beautiful tree and we placed it right between TMS and TES on that walkway between our schools and so um it'll look nice under the tree. You know, John's gonna set it up really quickly, but it says, "Thank you for nurturing the seeds of success through your dedicated strength." It signifies hope, uh, strength and resilience. It's one of the oldest surviving trees out there, even survive Hiroshima. So, it's like this really, it's a special tree of you guys are special people, and we're really happy to be able to share that with mom. So, um, and then other names of challenge, uh, tomorrow's our big jog. This year's theme is heroes versus monsters. So, we'll see how the kids show up for that, but it's

004at 1:00. Nobody wants to come by and cheer them on. Um, just this year, we're really focused on raising funds for an artist residence next year in the fall. So, we've got um a local artist who came and presented this week at our PT meeting and shared that she has a vision for creating kind of a mural on J Mall that kind of faces the field um that can be developed over time. So, she's looking at creating kind of a a salmon run imagery with student handrints made out of ceramic. So, fun time. So, really excited about that. Um and then coming up on May 29th, we have our annual spring showcase, which is, you know, a combination of art show. We'll have the garden taste team. We'll have some community swing events with Mr.

005Travis. And of course, celebration of community growth and all their hard work this year. And then um last but not least, just wanted to say thanks to Mr. O and Allison for hosting the fifth graders today, this afternoon. It was great. Um, it's really funny. Mr. O entertained them and hyped them up with a game of good oldfashioned ringer or musical chairs. You go a little crazy on that competitive, but within seconds they were into it, which was really fun and got him excited. And then they broke into small groups and did tours at the school with the web leaders who were just incredible. It was it was as one of my teachers was leaving, he popped my his head in and just said, "Wow, that was the best yet." You know, oh my god,

006you've been there 18 years. So, we've been seeing a lot. So, just thanks to Allison for hosting us. And that's it for me. Good evening, Laurel at Phoenix Elementary School. I just wanted to share a little fun things that are happening at PES. Yesterday, we held a hi the principal party. Thanks to Lori, our secretary, she decided that as an effort to kind of keep putting an emphasis on attendance that we did an like a April attendance challenge and any class that got over 90% attendance during that whole month, we suspected that there would be around four, we ended up with 11 classes over a little pie in the face as a motivator for our kiddos. And so we ended up we ended up roping in um Mr. Kyros, our behavior specialist, and our custodian

007Andrew into the mix. And then teachers got to come up and pie whichever person that they chose, their class chose. And thankfully, I'm really nice and sweet and so I got the least amount of way to celebrate. What I told the kids is that the real prize is a pie in the face. The real prize is you coming to school each and every day, earning an education, getting to meet friends, and those kinds of things. And so, it's just a really fun way to celebrate and highlight the importance of the kids. Um, speaking of that, this is kind of the end of the testing season and it's also evaluation season. And so today, all of our classified evaluations review. And so I've got to spend time with each employee. And boy, let me tell you,

008our students are so lucky to have such a dedicated group of people who are student student centered. They're here for growth. They want feedback. They want to continue to sharpen their skills to serve kids. And so just wanted to to highlight that group of people um for just being there for kids and for what their willingness to grow. And the last or two more things last I want to share or next I want to share that um speaking of growth next Wednesday the 21st is when we will be doing our spring showcase. We'll be having a tamalei fee. We'll be doing um celebrating all of the the end of the year assessments and sharing that with our families. And so this the the way we're engaging families in in elementary school feels really positive and

009just um celebrating growth over time and then really communicating that and using and leveraging our families as partners in helping kids grow. So we're excited about that. And then finally want to highlight two musical things that happened last night. We had our districtwide elementary choir concert. So thank you to um Andre Walcott for that. That was a a a festive event and lots of kids. There's nothing cuter than kids getting up and singing their hearts out. Um, and then tomorrow we uh we um are all traveling. All of our third, fourth, and fifth graders are traveling to the Criterion for a Linkup concert, which is a partnership with the Rogue Valley Symphony. And so that'll be a really fun event um for that. So that's all from the TDF. Sea, before you hand it over,

010Wednesday the 21st. Yeah. 5:00 p.m. Yeah. I just put it up in my calendar. And then 5:30 on the show for tees. I know. Oh my goodness. Because last time, right? Turned a year older. You think you can talk for that long? Hill and Donna talked about testing season and I really want to thank all of our third, fourth and fifth graders and their teachers. I was talking to Sarah um Ingram today and with I Ready testing and with ESPAC testing, they're testing really between 15 and 20 hours behind a Chromebook um over the past several weeks and will continue for several more weeks. But um they're doing a great job sticking with it, trying their best every day. I talked with the girl at recess today. Um something about uh uh how many how

011many seconds were in uh 60 minutes or some problem like that. And she was mad at herself. She could she said she missed it by 20 seconds. And I said, "Did you try your best?" Said, "Yeah." I said, "That's what matters." So they're doing a great job. Um, Shauna also mentioned the music program last night at uh, Talent Middle School. Uh, Andrea worked hard to get all the kids up there singing and I always like to kind of recognize some behind the scenes persons. Uh, Stephanie Hayes has been a longtime master teacher in our district. Um, and she's been really busy organizing field day, the elementary track meet, and she was even at last night's uh, music choir concert to help Andrea with kids. and I really um admire her efforts um and her support

012of kids and Andrea's program. Uh lastly, yesterday we had a great uh PLC meeting at Orchard Hill of all three schools and Jamar Boy and Karen Calhoun and Javier led that and it was great having all the elementary teachers in the same room uh you know on on the same track doing the the work in the district. So, I wanted to thank those three. Casey, good evening board. Casey Homestead, principal at Town Middle School. Um, it was kind of tucked on, but really my first shout out just the elementary schools and elementary principles. Um, all the fifth graders over today and they were just so kind and respectful and quiet when they needed them to be quiet and very engaged and laughing and loud when it was warranted and all the things. It was just

013awesome to see and awesome to have them there. Um, with that, I also want to shout out and I know I've talked a lot about our web leaders, um, and Bri and Liz, but our web leaders is who led the tours for all the kids. And, um, I think it was just a reminder of how much I love this group of students that and what they're doing and them stepping into these leadership roles and how responsible they were. Um, and our, you know, the fifth graders coming up knowing that they are going to have this group of students that are following them around whether they like it or not, but are there to support them uh in that transition. Um on that note, next Thursday we have our fifth grade family night. Um and so

014that uh will be a night event. We have barbecue that the fire department is putting on and then doing other things. Again, just trying to help with that uh transition as much as possible from fifth and sixth because we know how challenging that can be. Um, then a couple individuals I just want to shout out, uh, Eric Richie. Um, he's taken on a new leadership role jumping into our TLC classroom. And I just his flexibility and willingness to jump in, um, it's definitely been huge for the team. Um, and then last but not least, I just want to give Allison a shout out. Um, I think her continued willingness to do whatever it takes for kids. Uh we have a student that um from time to time uh may go to places that he shouldn't

015go to and uh he loves pory for my ready if you have not met that character. We have the mascot at our school. Um it's not awesome. I didn't mean to say that, but there's someone that gets in that cross all the time. But yeah, it's just like that example and that williness and I'll be in my office like meeting with a student or a family and I just see a bright uh character going by my window um and I know everything's going to be okay. Yeah, just like again her heart and willingness to do whatever it takes uh is awesome. So, thank you No spoilers there. Good evening board. Kaylin Cross, proud principal of Phoenix High School. Um, a couple of things happened in the spring. I know everywhere, but especially at the high

016school. So, I'll try to keep it short. Um, first I wanted to give a shout out to our TOSA, Alyssa, and Barber. We just finished a process that has been a year long. um it's called student outcome teams where we had staff select um different groups that they would like to be part of where they would collaborate to impact student outcomes. And so the last uh couple of Wednesdays we've had staff present on those outcome teams and we had um groups do anything from crosscurricular planning. So we had like CTE meet with science and create some fun projects. We had staff using Brisk, which is an AI tool to help with our NTSS process. We had teachers learning all about Canva so they could um get students to use Canva and use those performative assessments.

017We had vocabulary goals. We had local performance assessment goals. And it was just a great example of how staff um when given the time and the structure is so focused on students and just what beautiful things can happen when that time is given to them. So I just want to shout out to Alyssa um for making all of those opportunities possible and for our staff for just being willing to collaborate and make that magic happen. It was really great. Um graduation is coming up on Saturday, June 7th at 400 pm. Um, and this week we got to um, not well last week we got to notify our saludiatorans and validictorians. And I don't know if you know this, but um, at Phoenix High School in order to be considered a validictorian or a saludiatoran. It

018doesn't just have to do with your GPA. We also have a very rigorous honors diploma program and students must apply for an honors diploma and meet those requirements in order to be considered for a validictorian or saludiatoran spot. So these seven students um not only had those high GPA but also took advanced coursework um comm uh completed community service and campus service and just were all around standout citizens. So, our saludiatoran this year is Violet Cole and our six valadictorians are Aubrey Emmery, Mao Pototts, Sam Lcroy, David Ariano, Logan Gabber, and May Woodward. We're very proud of them and their work and they're working very hard to host a wonderful graduation ceremony. Additionally, um Anna Reading is a rock star and she coordinates graduation. She's in the thick of that right now. And one awesome

019thing I wanted to let you know is this year um we have I think the number is 60 presenters for our graduates. That speaks volumes to the work that our staff does with students uh kindergarten through 12th grade, our classified staff, everyone. And so that's going to be a really great event. So just want to shout out to that. And last, but certainly, oh, I have two things. We're preparing senior capstones. Um, it's different this year than it ever has been before. And so, I want to shout out to a couple of staff members who have helped the planning of that. Um, as you know, this is a legacy and a right of passage for our seniors. And I wouldn't say they look forward to it, but I definitely would say that by the time

020it's over, they feel really proud of what they've done. And so, Riann Williams and Brenda Cely are the masterminds behind making all the logistics work out. And then our English department has worked tire tirelessly to make sure students are prepared and that is um just a beautiful event. So I want to shout out to Coco Deain and Zachi Sarah Kmp and Kelly Fog Johnson who just make that magic possible. And now last but not least um this evening we kick off our theater production spring theater production almost main. Tonight's show starts at 7 o'clock. So, I know we'll be busy here, but there's a lot of opportunities for you to catch the show. Um, tomorrow night at 7. Saturday there's a matinea at 2 o'clock and also an evening show at 7. So, I know

021the theater um students and faculty would be really appreciative if you could show up. It's supposed to be a great show. That's all for me. Thank you. the board quickly. Aaron Santi talent rising academy. Just a couple things. Uh one, our middle school students started their last module in the talent maker city uh elective program today. They've done 3D printing, woodworking, and poting modules and now they're going to be doing uh fabric arts for the remainder of the quarter. They're learning the hands-on skills and discovering and encouraging their creativity. Uh relatedly, I want to say thanks to Heather erys um for uh the effort that she puts in to make that program possible as well as the partnership we have with Talent Maker City. Alli French over there and her crew do a great job

022um just taking our kids on and walking them through every one of those modules. So really appreciate that. They are making a difference. That's it for me. Amy, good evening. Amy Hunts here from Food Service and I just have to share my excitement with food service and give a big thanks to Debbie Rogers. She's just fresh back into work and she's already like hitting the ground running, making sure that we have our summer program going off successfully. We're planning to have all three elementaryaries open for the public pretty much all of the summer minus, you know, those couple weeks of training. So, really excited and hope to see everybody there. I also have to give a big thank you to Kayn and James and Casey and Allison for helping set up extra supervision during the

023lunchtime that we get to have barbecues at both the middle school and the high school. So, both Susie Mishi and Angie Summers, my staff, have worked really, really hard to get those barbecues out and we're having them once a week here, testing it out because we're hoping to hit the ground running next year with having them several days out there and possibly probably some local burger patties out there once in a while. Um, which speaking of, I got to talk to, uh, Diamond uh, Farms, Cattle Farms, so about some beef, um, as well as a couple others that are in Medford, but he's right here in Phoenix. So, I was really excited to kind of start that conversation. And we also had just, yes, no, today in our menus in all of the elementarymentaries, we

024had local Calamoth grown potatoes and all the elementarymentaries with the potato bar. So, some of our fun local stuff that we're getting going and lots of excitement coming up with it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Anything from the board. Okay. Student representative report. Good to see all of you. Okay, I'll go first. Um, I'm just going to talk about senior stuff and let them do the rest of it. But um this week seniors won the spirit competition and we also set a record for spirit points. So that's pretty great. And we're two time winners now because we also won last year. And then this year we also submitted the most FAFSAs out of any class before us. So far we're at 116, but someone could put one more. And so the previous number was

025115. So we had 116 students submit for FAFSA. And that's the really big step towards college for the future. Hi, my name is Eden for those of you who don't know. Um, this is we're doing our last little push to help our sparrow and everyone in their English classes are filling out their sparrow hours forms. We did it in leadership today. Um, as well as ASB elections are getting started. So we're going to be very soon here finally president vice and treasure and as well as leadership applications. So new leadership students are coming in as well as I believe leadership applications got sent to the middle school today or tomorrow. That's pretty much all I have. Um hi my name is Rachel and I have a few but I'll make it quick. Um, first is

026next Friday and Saturday is the track state competition or district competition, which we have quite a few people that are going to be qualified for state this year, which is going to be pretty big for us. Um, our boys 4x1 team is going and possibly our girls 4x1 team and a bunch of individuals that mention pretty great. Um, we had last night was the junior parent night, which was a really greatformational meeting for a lot of juniors and their parents that maybe don't aren't in touch with the future planning center that we have, which is a really great resource at the high school. Um, so that was a really great way for our college advisors to like reach out to the incoming seniors to kind of start that prep, which was really great. Um, we

027just wrapped up our unified sports, which is a really great program where some of our student athletes get to be involved with helping um, our TLP programs like get to have that experience of being on the team. I know I did it last year and it was really beneficial. And so talking with the kids after their sports, it's just really great seeing like the light up on their faces of like, oh my gosh, I just went and played basketball. Like, yeah, you did. Um, and they also have a field day coming up pretty soon, which leadership is going to help get that set up for them and run it for them. And then we also have our freshman field day coming up, which link crew hosts, which is a really big motivator for our freshman.

028They kind of push through this like slow drag for the end of the year. Um, they have to have good attendance and be passing other classes. So, it's kind of like a little nudge there for them to do that. But, it's really great. We end up having like bounce houses and water slides and snow cones and cotton candy. So that's that's coming up also. Great. Good job. When where is the district track? The district track meet. I know it was supposed to be in Planet, but I think it might have gotten moved home because I know that the JB district's got moved home. So it is possible it's either in Planet Union or We can let you know for sure. Yeah, we'll make sure James Yeah, he's been sending updates right now. And uh we'll

029see about the softball game Saturday, right? Okay. Okay, PTA update. And I know we have Sandra here. We get Let's get you a microphone, too. Oh, great. Welcome. Thank you. Yeah. Hi, I'm Sandra Tilo. I came to Talent Middle School. Um, and I'm here to represent Phoenix Talent Education Association. I'm a building rep for Talent Middle School and then also bargaining chairs. Um, so this year, this time of year, at the end of the year, um, all of our members are working really hard um, celebrating student success, finishing out the year, um, providing fun and exciting opportunities for students. It's also a bittersweet time of year for us because um you know we're all of course looking forward to the rest and rejuvenation that summer brings um but also we're preparing ourselves to say goodbye

030to um these groups of young people that we've come to love and care about over the year. So um are we looking forward to summer? Yes. Are we also a little bit sad also? Yes. Um something that we're really proud of um in PTA PTA is our 97% membership rate um which regionally there is only I believe one other local um district who also has um a membership rate at that level. Um and so we are really excited to see all of those members at our spring gathering that we are planning that's coming up in two weeks. Um it has become an annual event where we um get together and celebrate and appreciate each other. And then we also um recognize um some of our PTA members at that event. And I specifically want to

031recognize Terry Stewart um who is a science teacher at the middle school and she has put in a lot of hours to work with community partners to help support our spring gathering. Um it's her second year of taking that on and it is a big task and it is so much appreciated. Um the last thing I want to talk about is bargaining. Uh we have been working um on this since um January. um number of us here in the room are part of the group that's been working on that. We are down to three sessions remaining. So it is at the point where um we have to really dig in and do the hard work. Um as we go forward in these um last three sessions, um we just want you to know what some

032of our priorities are. Um, fair and competitive compensation is one thing that people always think about, but it goes beyond that for us. Um, our priorities um are that as well as clear and equitable um processes within our contract. Um, a contract that honors the professional expertise and experience of our members. a contract that gives us time to create quality lessons and provide quality service to the families of our community. Um, and finally, reasonable and equitable class sizes and case loads. And so these are the things that we'll be talking about at the table for the next three sessions and hopefully fingers crossed um coming to agreement um before the current contract expires at the end of June. Thank you. Thank you, Senator. Okay. Uh, citizens comments. Do we have anyone in the audience who

033wishes to address the board? No one's online. Okay. No one's online. All right. Superintendent report, Mr. Barry. Thank you, Chair Campbell. Um, I I do want to highlight something a principal said. I was just looking at some attendance data earlier today and uh we are slightly up on attendance overall uh in district. Uh but Phoenix Elementary was up seven points from last year and pie in the principal's face might uh might have to be a requirement for other comment. Um I want to give you an update on the Phoenix High School resource officer. Uh we do have a candidate that we're excited about um that uh is interested and has been on uh staff at Phoenix Police for a while. have been our building a little bit. Uh Kaylin reached out to Rebecca and Rick

034who are going to get we're going to get together and have a sit down and discuss kind of what we're looking for the expectation and see if it's a good fit, but uh we feel like we have a good potential moving forward. That transition wouldn't necessarily happen right away in uh September, August and September. Um Sergeant Hull would be there for a while in that transition as well. Um, and again, just a reminder, Sergeant Hull will be overseeing this SRO program in U Phoenix Police Department. Um, want to give a Culver facility update real quick. Uh, last Friday. Uh, John went over the plans with ZCS and those plans were submitted for permits um to to the city. So, we're excited about that. And we also uh sent those plans, ECS plans to LTM and

035Binham to get some initial costs on some of the uh to get some estimates on what the those projects are going to cost. Um and then with this gives us an opportunity to start uh um CSA and Jay and his work to really do the plot for the Boys and Girls Club. So it is happening uh slow but smooth, I would say. Uh I just want to finish by the economic forecast that came out uh earlier in the or yesterday maybe. Um uh that wasn't super favorable for this legislature and I don't uh envy their job over the next several weeks on um really establishing priorities and funding uh for our state. Um just to to recap, it's uh down 798 million um from our last uh budget forecast moving into the next bienium. And

036so that has a huge impact on not only education but all the other priorities that uh our state has uh for this long session. So uh I know things will start happening really fast. We've talked about ADM security that was we were asking for four years, reduce that to one year. Essentially, that's probably um not going to happen or be on the table anymore. We're not done fighting for that, but that's going to be a challenge to even start a conversation when there's almost a billion dollars less than they anticipated. We'll have more as we get information coming out and we may talk a little bit more when we have our legislative and OSBA update. But um that's all we have questions for Ben. The um the work that goes into Cobra the Cobra project

037and do we pay for that with the bond money essentially to get the cost estimate and things like that? Yeah. Okay. So it's a capital basically. Okay. And we have used some CCT um Oh, connect ice tax on some of those initial contracts as well. Okay, great. All right, next is program report for Little League. Yeah, Matt is here and uh thank you for joining us. You may want to get the mic. There's one right behind you. Oh, yeah. [Music] Um and I have been communicating with Matt for seems like once a month, maybe more for the last couple years or so. uh talking about little league and as we've developed Culver and um he wanted to come and share a little bit an update with the board on their little league and and where

038they stand. So happy to have you. Yeah, thank you. I don't know if this is our It's okay. Mostly for the Zoom recording. Okay, gotcha. Thank you. Um stole a couple of my notes already. Yeah, we've been talking for about two years. Um about once a month. Um for those who don't know me, uh I've been on the little league board for I believe this is my eighth year. a member of the board. Uh multiple different roles, but my primary role right now is uh the representative between the board and the school district. And so, um sometimes it's just a hey, how's it going email? Uh sometimes it's an hourlong meeting. Uh it just depends. Uh as you know, road project kind of does that. Um, so, um, so the Little League, just in case

039you have don't know this background, uh, we've been a nonprofit for, uh, right around 60 years. Um, we're the only nonprofit sports program that's tied to the district. Um, and that's something that we take a lot of pride in being around that long. Uh, we've been in our current location for almost half that time. Uh we just signed a five-year extension to remain at that location. Um but also in that process uh was made pretty clear that that's probably our last long-term extension there. Um which sparked this conversation. I reached out to Brent and said, "I'd really like to uh move forward talking about a lease agreement and what that looks like and kind of getting some of that framework going." Um, so he said, you know, come out and give a little bit of

040uh of that to you guys and kind of where we're at with that. Um, we fund raise every year with the knowledge of this project in mind. Um, with that said, it's hard to do when you're running a nonprofit that only operates at best three months out of the year. Um, so the more support we can get from the public, um, is is going to be super beneficial to us. Um the biggest thing that I've been told when I reach out to people is um you know the proof is on the paper, right? So we that's kind of our goal is to to start working forward with that process. Um there's 170 kids playing Little League this year. Um and just off the top of my head, I I reached out and asked just one

041question. Uh just to kind of reference right now on your varsity softball and baseball team, there's 15 kids uh playing on those two teams that came from big Phoenix Town Little League. Um and I know of other kids that are playing other sports that also came through the Little League at one time or another. So, I I I really believe in Little League for a lot of reasons, but I do think for student athletes, um I think this is a really beneficial project for both sides. Um to get kids used to being coached by somebody other than their parent and going through wins and losses and um you know, the good and the bad that comes from that. Um I really think it's it's an amazing thing. I currently don't have a kid playing little

042league. Um, but I'm still on the board and I'm still here being a part of it because I see the value. Um, so with that said, uh, I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have of me anytime, whether it's here or um, reach out. Brent has my contact information. Some of you guys do also. Um, but that's kind of where we're at and the direction that we're hoping to go. I'll just say Matt's been great to work with. He's been um you know they'll have board meetings. They'll ask any updates and sometimes it's been slowgoing. Um I think once we get through this boys and girls club and then our infrastructure and the soccer fields that we have planned out there that'll kind of give a clearer vision on some some of the needs

043and um give them some time to see how uh they want to transition as this is going to be an option. We have um we did direct council to draft kind of a lease um starting point and we we've shared that with their them and their council. So um once we um get closer, we'll start kind of looking at that. That's probably a little ways away still though. Okay. Will there also be anou type of conversation too in addition to I think there'll be other I mean similar to boys and girls I think we have the you know those contracts and the lease agreements whatever it might be you say hey these are these aren't necessarily in the contract necessarily but these are expectations thank you for being here really appreciate it um what when

044we think about the culver project do we have an idea of the costs for that portion of it through no and and we can we can get estimates based on um ZCS is really good they put they do field design and everything they haven't done the extensive design they can give an estimate on what a little league field would cost and then um we haven't done the infrastructure out that far yet and I mean have we talked about with the little league what that would look like not even who would be who would Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That would I think be under uh lease agreements andus and things of that nature. Okay. Yeah. I think everything so far has been big picture conversations. Um I've reached out to um contractors, uh large businesses just

045to say, "Hey, this is coming. Uh this is something that potentially can can happen." Um I have a personal relationship with the person that helped develop a similar project in Central Point. Okay. Um, so I've gotten some estimated numbers from them, but they were also a couple years ago, and those numbers are changing drastic. They've been changing drastically and are changing even more drastically now. Yeah. Um, but just rough numbers. They told me to plan on a million dollars a field. Wow. And we're looking at, I would say, three and a half fields is kind of the way to talk about it. Um, so that's a huge undertaking. Um, that's why I say, and the big thing is, um, nobody's going to, I shouldn't say, let me rephrase that. Um, it's hard to get people

046to put large amounts of money into something without knowing exactly the the term, the length, the the plan going forward. Um, they need to know that our relationship is um I'm sorry, I talk to Brent all the time, so but our relationship is soft. Um I I I know that, but me telling them that isn't the same thing, right? Um so that's kind of kind of where we've just been putting the feelers out there saying, "Hey, keep this in the back of your mind that it's coming. It's taking a lot longer than I think we all would have hoped that it Yeah. I actually talked to Marin who kind of filled this role before me today a little bit and and she said her initial phone conversation that she remembers with Brent was in 2007.

047And he said, "Yeah, that's not really something that we're interested in doing right now." Um, and then she said in she believes 2021 was when it was kind of a real conversation. Um, well, in 2019, we really started to kind of get this covert process. really started getting to what is coming now. Um, so it it definitely has been a slowmoving train, but it is I mean there's there's progress. Yeah. Well, that's exciting to hear getting a potential lease agreement or starting to all all of these components in place so that we can start to have that and and get a little um firm firmer type of um indicators for those who might be interested in partnering to the you know Matt does little league as an organization have an infrastructure to support capital projects

048or or campaigns. There is um there is grant programs um that are little league based, sportsbased um outdoor athletics. Um again, the hard part is writing a grant takes time. Um and you have to be kind of good at it. Um is what I'm being told. Uh because I guarantee I couldn't do it. Um, so you know, we're we're a pretty small board of volunteers. Um, which none of us really have those skills. Um, we reached out put feelers out to somebody that might be willing to help us with that. Um, and not to harp on it, but grants have timelines. Yeah. Right. Um, if you ask for the money and you don't meet your benchmarks, um, the money's gone, right? So, um, it's it's hard to get too into that without having a better

049idea of of what that structure looks like. Yeah. Oh, that that's an area we can help with. I I think with Yeah. Once we get there and if there's something I mean I mean John does grants all the time and he's pretty successful and but it's kind of go time grants too like we get the money and we're ready. So when it comes down to that, I think we can have some support in that area. And and I will say uh so I mean the stuff with CCS and you guys have been you've kept us super involved. Um and I and there's I know that there's got to be some financial involvement with what you guys do. Um and so that alone shows uh to me anyway shows desire to have us involved and be

050a part of it. Um because there's finances have never really been talked about. It's always just let's look at this master plan. This has changed. This has changed. Look at this. You know, talked a lot about infrastructure and parking lots and and how we can maybe work together once that time comes. But um I really appreciate I mean it can be really easy to leave that part of your master plan blank and tell us to figure it out. Um and and that has not happened. So I I personally really appreciate that. Wow. Thanks for all the work you do. I have two daughters who are in the league. Yeah. I see you in the board all the time. Yes. In the snack bar, running around doing all kinds of stuff. Burger nights. Yeah. I got

051roped into umping my daughter's game last night. I had to call her out on strikes the game. So, that was fun. I ref So, my daughter's 13. Uh she's moved on from little league. Uh, but I refused the entire time to umpire any game that either one of my kids is part of. It's tough. Let me tell you is that ride home is [Music] swing the back. There's some passion. There's some passion. Thank you for being here. Keep conversations going. Thank you. Um, okay. Consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I want to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. I just have a note. I let Denise know about a typo for a year that she's going to fix. So, I think we can go ahead and Yeah. Um,

052great. Any objections? Okay. Hearing none, the consent agenda is approved. Uh, information of discussion, legislative OSBA update. So, um, to piggy back what, um, Brent said about the revenue forecast, I wanted to add something that I haven't really heard lots of people talk about, but they mentioned the spike of unemployment during March due to the new um, law where uh, classified could do unemployment. And so there was a huge spike this March. So I think that's interesting that they had mentioned it. They didn't give any details on it. Um, so I don't know what huge means, right? Like it's new. So is huge like five or 20 or 100 or a thousand? I have no idea. They didn't get So I think that's just something to kind of get more information on what that means.

053Um because it it was really weird. It had lots of nuances to do with the revenue um report on on the things that they check to see where we are financially. Um on uh most of the bills now are all work session bills, which means there's no testimony. Um they're going to talk about them and then vote on them and then they'll go to then they'll go to the floor or wherever they need to go next. But just a reminder, if you wanted to testify on something that is in work session, you can write the entire committee. I did that last week and so you get one little final chance. This the cell phone bill will be at Senate committee on the 19th. Um and then another note is that on the 19th in the

054afternoon, the joint ways and means education committee is having a work session on fiscal transparency, which might be something of interest. And they are recorded. So, if you're like me and you miss him, you can do the dishes and listen to um the legislator talk about uh whatever session they're talking about. It makes the dishes go a little bit more exciting. So, but you can always look on to see. And I think that's all I have for now. Do you have anything to add? I I was just trying to think um of anything from the Friday update and um just it was really pivoting on the the revenue forecast. No, I don't. But anyway, we're keeping up the good work and we're fighting the fight and we'll keep you informed and you can always ask

055Sarah and I questions if you have them. Thank you. Uh, next is Phoenix Community Art Mural Project. Yeah, I'll just uh say we had um some people approach the uh Phoenix Elementary and we have kind of a space um they walked around with Shauna and looked at spaces and um have a space with our storage facility there. Wanted to bring it to the board's uh attention because it is part of the uh Phoenix Mayor's kind of new art council that they're doing. um and kind of beautifying some of the spaces in town. Um there was um a desire to do a GoFundMe and that kind of wrapped with PES. So I just wanted to make sure the board knew. And Sean, I don't know if you have any other comments on that. Like we're going

056to be weaving that in with our our media manager and our arts still trying to weave it into some some additional projects with students to do some like paint by numbers and things like that. So we have some long range plans for that. But um it's pretty exciting to just try. It's a really that's the space when you walk drive into Phoenix. It's that the the tech building so it's going to be really visible by the road and stuff and we have an artist already picked out who's done a lot of local work. So you did some if you've been to Kids Unlimited he did kind of really kind of pretty cool stuff. Um so I just wanted to let the board know that and we'll keep you updated on how that's going as we

057move forward. who's responsible for are they saying we would like you to do this now go and raise the money and take care over yeah more of a partnership and I think it's it's one of those things where it's like we're working together with Phoenix council and being supplementary so it'll be a joint project okay great and I think we talked about last time and I think Kayyn's mentioned this just about the excitement of you know working with the city on a bunch of different things and this is just another example of that Okay. Uh, recess we'll take let's do a 7 minute recess. We'll come back at 7:05 and we will interview our student rep in a few minutes. Patience. Well, welcome back and welcome to our student rep candidates. We're excited to get

058this started. Um, so we have a list in front of us and we're just going to go in the order of that list. Um, so can I Why don't we save the recorded ones for the end? Okay. Even though they're in here, let's just say that my recommendation. Let's do all in person and then Okay, you got it. Yeah. Um, yeah, we can do that. I know which ones those are because they're highlighted. There should be two. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. The ones in red are recorded, so we Yeah, that works. I mean, not darn it to you. the highlighted just I'm not organized. I usually have a spreadsheet. I I take my do this every time. I usually make my own and I did not make my own. So, I am slacking. So,

059I'm gonna have to improvise real quick. The notes function on board looks super helpful. Oh, just saying. What's that? You're just saying that's what I'm that's what I'm going to use. Yeah. Uh I will copy you my Okay. Yeah, whatever works. Um, okay. So, is Emily here? Is that you? Okay. Welcome, Emily. And then Allora had to leave, right? Yeah, she said she'll interview next year. Okay. All right. Well, wait, wait a minute. Say that again. What? The theater production. She's in a theater production. Oh, why didn't we know? We We did, but we didn't know soon enough. We didn't know. She got here right like five minutes before the meeting started and then by the time I connected with Michael she had already left. I told her to stick around but I think she

060we could have had her do the video. I think she was probably a little nervous. She was very nervous. Yeah. I think she wanted to get she was worried about not being there. Okay. I know. But we could have done something. We would Yeah. Yeah. We had some others who couldn't be here record a video but luckily she's going into 10th grade and she'll have Yeah. Lots more opportunities. Okay. Great. Then Ellia, am I pronouncing that right? Ellia. Okay. So, she has a recorded video that will play last. Are you Lincoln? Yeah. Welcome, Lincoln. Yeah. Uh, and then, um, Ava also has a recorded and then we have Rachel and Eden. So, okay, great. Um, so Emily, you get the honor of going first. And so, um, it's more of a presentation than an interview.

061So, you're going to share with us um what you did and we may have some questions for you. We we may not. Um but and I think how much time are we doing? You would think I've done this before. You guys usually give three minutes. Three minutes past. Okay. Great. Yeah, we'll do three minutes. Thank you. You've been here a couple times. That's why you're the validictori. So, well, it's the daytime meeting. Cool. So, we'll we'll plan on that three minutes as a general guide. Um, and you may not need all that time. You may. So, okay, Emily, you are first. You're welcome to begin. And, um, we'll get you a microphone, too. We can You can just go over there. All right. Um, so my name is Emily and I just started in the

062Phoenix District this year. Um, but I really liked it here and I really want to learn about how we do everything at Phoenix. Um, and I just wanted to kind of have an input on that. Um, and then I want to begin by talking about the assignment that was given this application. My choice was spirit week and I surveyed different groups of people from different grade levels and different friend groups. Overall, there was one common answer that stood out. People didn't do the spirit days because they didn't have the supplies available to participate when they wanted to. I believe a big part of being more involved as a PHS is making students or is asking students what they want to do and what they would participate in. The main reason I believe students come to

063school is because there are programs at PHS for people to enjoy all different types of activities. There is a place for all different people from different backgrounds. I think it would be a good student rep because I find passion and interest in things like this. I believe learning how our school works is important and I want to be a part of that. As someone who struggles with learning disabilities, I think I bring a unique perspective to the board and a voice for a group of people who often have a hard time speaking for themselves. Nice. Thank you. Um, oh, hold on, girl. You get question. What were you gonna do? I was just gonna shoot it down while you count it. Please. Um, thank you. Where did you um my Hi, my name is Sarah

064Crawford. I've been on the board since um 2016. Um, we didn't introduce ourselves. We probably should have and I had three kids down through the district, but my question for I loved what you had to say and I'm thankful that you've had a really great experience at Phoenix High School. Um, that as a board member really is what this is all about for us. And um my question is where where did you attend the school before? So I attended at Madrron Trail. It's a charter school. It's right next to Logos and it's in the Medford School District. I don't know. It seems to work. People don't really know where it's We know. We know. We know. We know. But it's not really in Medford school district. So we kind of did things a little bit

065different. Um it was really really small though. It was a big change to come from a really small school to a bigger one, but it was really inviting. So, I think that that was good. And everybody was super sweet and it was like a nice transition from a small school to a big school. Nice. when you said um did you write down any ideas um what students would like to do to sh did when they because I I thought did I hear you correctly when you said um they they didn't participate because they didn't have the supplies did and I I feel like you said you asked them what they would want to do. Yeah. Well, and a big thing um that they were saying is like there could be like a survey or something

066that the students could do so everybody could participate in so that like everybody's needs could be heard and like not necessarily they could type it in because that could go bad. Um but like the teachers could choose like a variety of things and they could vote on that or something. Oh, okay. Um so then it could be kind of more of like an impact of what they want to do and what they could be able to do because there's a lot of things people like, I don't know, I can't really do that. I love that you're already thinking about student voice, which is really what this role, what we as board members, because it's been a hot minute since we've been in our high school really crave is hearing about some of us about the

067students. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great answers. I have a question. Um, did you get to choose Phoenix High School or was that just the option that you had? Um, it was like our main option, but I really wanted to go to Phoenix. Um, I think my other option would have been like Medford or Ashland, but I feel like Phoenix was more inviting and it's a brand new building and my sister went there and so like and my parents went there and their parents went there, so it was like kind of a whole thing. Um, and I don't know, Ashland I've had some I've heard some conflicting things about and Medford it's very very big compared to Phoenix and so I was like that's going to be even better transition for me. So

068thank you. I'm just always curious. Yeah. You tell us that you came from a different district. We're all over that. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Very well done. That was a good start to the interviews. Um, okay. Allora is not here. Ellie has a video. That leaves Lincoln. You're next. All right. Um, hi everybody. My name is Lincoln Pachnik. I'm a junior at Phoenix High School. I've been in this district my whole life. Both my moms are teachers at the Metro School District and they were not a big fan of me going to the Metro School District. So they they told me all this stuff about them school. They're not the biggest fan of the like administration there, but I've been in this district my whole life. I went to Orchard Hill. You were my

069principal. I remember that. I've always loved this district. I found like a really great community here and I love it here. But um I interviewed a lot of different people about I chose the talent show because that was my best pick there and I found that a lot of different people um thought it went really well. There was a very diverse group of students that were there. I asked like why and they all thought that like we all helped try to I'm in leadership if you guys didn't know. I helped raise money for the Sparrow and um the event we put on was for the Sparrow. We had a lot of different acts that came through. It was a lot bigger than last year. Like the first year we're kind of just trying to get

070the ball rolling. It wasn't super great, but I asked a lot of people in leadership what they thought of it this year and it had gone a lot better this year. We really kind of got that ball rolling and there was a lot of different acts. We even had one act where someone was doing sign language. We had loads of different cool acts there and it was really great. Um, Miss Cross also came in on Monday talking about she asked us if any students in leadership wanted to write a testimony on the uh phone policy and I was like, "Oh, that sounds like something fun to do." So, I ended up writing that. Nice. And I thought it'd be a good like idea to ask students what they think of the phone policy cuz it's

071new from last year. We didn't just have this phone policy at the high school. So, I asked a bunch of different students like of all grades, all different like groups and general consensus it was kind of 50/50. Some students were like, "Yeah, it has helped my education." Other students were like, "No, I absolutely hate it. I can't have my phone." But, um, I think a lot of students have found like even though they don't love it, it has had a benefit on their impact. I think personally it's kind of helped me stay off my phone a little bit, but I found that it has helped me like keep my grades up, help me stay more focused, and I think that it has done a great job. But yeah, that's pretty much all I have to

072say. But I've always like loved being in leadership. I love helping people. Love like raising money for the sparrow. I loved doing that. And I want to like learn more about how all of this works. That's why I want to be on the board. I want to learn how you guys make decisions and have like more of an impact because leadership. I love helping the community and doing all this stuff. But I want to like go deeper into this topic and try to help more people on like a more schoolboard level and like try to make the biggest impact possible because I love helping people. So yeah. Awesome. Yeah, go for it. Um, I heard you mention leadership. Um, I'm wondering what other activities or things are you doing besides going to school at Phoenix?

073Yeah, so I've been in leadership for four years. I've also been doing cross country. I'm a big runner. I love running. I've been doing that since I was like in fourth grade. One of my teachers introduced me to that and I've been doing cross country all throughout that. And Cornet loves you. Likes. He likes me. I do cross country. It's really fun. Um, I also love to rock climb. I'm kind of like a softie for like extreme sports. I work at the Rogue Rock Gym. I'm a youth climbing coach. I absolutely love my job. It's like my favorite thing in the world. Um I coach all the kids classes there and help out and it's really fulfilling to be able to coach these kids and seeing them succeed. And like it's just such a fun

074environment to be and I love like I love being around kids and helping people. And my job is really fun because I get to combine a lot of my favorite hobbies along with like coaching kids and seeing them improve slowly and it's really fun. Um, my family also helps to run this um, 5K. It's called the Run with Grace 5K. Um, there was this girl, I don't know if you guys have heard about it. It's gone really big in the past few years. There's this girl named Grace. She killed herself like suicide when she was 14. And my family every year, we're really close with her mom and we help set up that race every year. So, my me and my brothers get out in the golf carts and help put up all the signs

075and I love helping with that event, but I literally try to be involved with my community and I like doing as much as possible and like trying to go extra and over beyond and that's some of the stuff I do. Yeah. Great. Thank you for that. Are you running for office for leadership? Um, I think I'm going to try to run for treasure next year is my goal. Great. Imagine cross country. How about track? Um, I did track my freshman year, but ever since I got my job, I've been just rock climbing in the springtime and not doing track. How many times a week does Cornet ask you? [Laughter] It's been a while since we've got Cornet's name come up in regards to recruiting people for track. Very good job, Lincoln. Thank you so much.

076Um, okay. Um, next is Rachel. Yeah. [Music] Hi guys, I'm Rachel. Most of you know me already, but I'm Rachel Pepin. I'm gonna be a senior next year. Um, this past season I was a student rep on the board and I'm really looking forward to the opportunity of completing that again. Um, like Lincoln said, with the upcoming elections, I will actually be running for ASB president. So, wish me luck on that. Um, the event that I chose to interview people on this year was our spring and prom assembly. Um, that was on May 2nd, the day before prom, which was a really big hit at the Springs Hotel. Um, the point of this assembly is to kind of like hype up the end of the year and get people get the students to kind of

077remember why we're at school is to like be here and get that community going. And so this assembly tends to run a little bit more low energy because it's the end of the year. The only real hype part of it is that prom is coming up. But this year we had a really great experience. Um, leadership, we really brought the hype. all three of us here. We were down there with the clappers, you know. Um, and we heard from multiple different staff members. Like almost every teacher I talked to said this was our best assembly the whole year. So that was a really like exciting moment for us and that was like a big accomplishment. We had a few different games that we played and then we had our dance off which is a traditional

078thing we have which the dance off in itself was a whole different topic I could have gone on about but pretty much it was really great. We had all four grade levels compete this year with seniors coming out on top again. Um, but there was a lot of variety throughout the dances and it was really great and a lot of students felt really involved with this opportunity to jump in and show like their personality. Um, I talked to multiple different people. I think I got to 13 different students this year around um from different grades, different um like social groups and people that I normally wouldn't talk to. Um, so that was a little step out of comfort zone. Um, but I talked to them about how they heard about this and a lot of

079it was it's an assembly. It happens during school. They saw it on the school calendar. Um, but a lot of them said they weren't really excited for it because assemblies get boring a lot. But afterwards, I came back to them and they said it was a lot more hype than they thought. And it was like actually a lot of them were listening the whole time, which is something we struggle with as we're out there on the floor talking at them, talking at them, and they're not really listening to us. But a lot of them were really involved and listening this time which was really great. Um, a lot of them said they felt pretty included and welcome in like all the games. We tried to get a wide variety of students. We make sure to

080incorporate all the different grade levels as it's a grade level competition and get boys and girls and different people to be part of these. Um, yeah, in our dance off it was the first time having all grades which was a really big it was a push. It was a push. juniors. We made it with one week of practice, but we made it. And then what keeps me and other students at PHS? For me, it's the community. This is kind of like what I said last year, but I transferred my freshman year and that first year was a little rough on me. I didn't have very many friends, but sophomore year, I really started pushing myself into the community and I kind of got back whatever I put in, which was pretty beneficial. And so I

081just started throwing myself out there as much as I could. And I really received everything that I put out there and even more. So that's part of why I want to be on this board again is to contribute back to my school and the community that has given me so much. um other kids that I asked about why like what would keep them at PHS other than other schools. And a lot of them said it was because of their friends, but a few of them told me it was because of their teachers, which I thought really stood out because, you know, you're going to hear the kids talking bad about their teachers all the time. But under all that, they really care about their teachers and see the effort that the teachers are bringing in.

082So, just a shout out to the staff for building those relationships and really keeping our kids involved and because I'm so involved with like I can't even imagine what my life would be right now without being in the school district. And so, I just really want to continue that work. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? That was very comprehensive, girl. I guess I do have a question. What would they what would engage them in an assembly? Like what what was the turning point? Was it like more yelling, more I mean what what's So a lot of it we try to break up how much we're talking like we have students go out and talk so it's not just staff members. Um but a lot of times we'll have issues with the microphone or something or

083someone starts stumbling and everyone loses focus. Um but our transitions were really smooth. So, it was really fluid between our speakers, which was a really big help. And it was also everyone was excited for the danceoff because everyone starts talking about each other like, "Oh, sophomores are going to beat you. Freshman are coming for the crown this time." And so, um, everyone was like really excited to see the dance off. So, and we save it for the end. So, that was kind of a way to drag them on and keep them involved. Do they actually get a crown or what do they get if you went they just get big spirit points big total just yeah there's still another assembly right like the move assembly still do that Yep sitting on that side of their

084lap for four years oh don't say Any more questions? Thank you, Rachel. All right. Um, Eden, you guys know me at all, but yeah, is you. Um, I would like to kind of preface this interview. I have some health stuff going on and I keep having this Netflix spasm and I'm sorry if I have to like bound for a break. Yeah, you're okay, girl. Yeah, we got you. We got you. Anyway, um I know you all know me, but just reminder, I am a 4.0 student. I was scavenger hunt captain. I've been student of the month. I take all advanced and AP classes and I'm on Of course, I graduate with an honors diploma. I'm in leadership and a spirit leader folks and student representative. Yeah. Yeah, that too. Anyway, um I've been out the

085last week. Um so I had a little bit of trouble interviewing everybody, but I did my best. I wasn't able to get as many or as diverse answers as I would have liked to because it had to be all people that I had contact information from. I reached out to about 20. I think I got like almost 10 back. But I asked them about what Rachel said about the dance off because that was such a big event and I knew that just about everyone had an opinion on it. So I knew it was going to be pretty easy for me to get info from not at school. Um the main thing that the students said was that it was super fun. It was um they one complaint was that they wished it could have started

086sooner like planning had gone out like planning information um and that there was a little more staff involvement to keep things like on track which were things we were already planning to work on next year. But other than that, people said it was really fun and it brought them much closer with other people in their grade level and that it was really cool to see some of the kids who don't participate participate in this thing. Like I know the seniors, they had a kid going from Lauron. There was a country kid who never does stuff. He came and did a backflip in the senior performance. Oh wow. Nice. Uh most of them found out about the dance off through PHTV and conversations with their peers. Um it was also diverse in the types of dances

087that were happening and um just like the music and everything like none of not really any of the dances were alike. Like there's also some like culture interpretations like the juniors they did a like a line dance we did line I know sophomores we tried to incur in incorporate a little like older European culture in our Rapunzel part our outfit eight um we should have fun but we're not going there. That was another concept. Did you say your outfit's eight? Yeah, I knew what you just wanted to make sure you might have to translate for my I found out from a lot I heard a lot from the student body was that the sophomores were wrong after in my data afterwards. Is that all sophomores girlfriend? Totally neutral. A bunch of different grade levels. Pretty

088much everyone but senior stuff. and really good job. Yeah, I'm saying we didn't earn the win, but the we tried really hard. interview last couple the seniors I interviewed were a part of the dance off so they were a little biased but um anyway even the people who didn't participate in the dance off they could tell that it was super hype and it made them feel like super included and just brought the group together. I know at least as far as the sophomores, a lot of friendships got made through the dance off and we didn't have a danceoff last year. So now having one this year, we're planning to get a lot of people in and joined the next year to kind of grow the spirit because my class isn't too too good with the

089spirit because we didn't really get our transition year from from elementary school to middle school. So, but we're getting there. Um, anyway, when I ask students about what keeps them at school, of course, like Rachel said, most of it's their friends, but I think that's almost an import very important thing of school. Like, yes, we want them to be there to learn, but the fact that everyone is saying that they have friends to keep them there, that just shows like what a great community we have at Phoenix High School. Everyone loves the community and it's just I think it's really good there. I love it. That's about it. Questions? I um what I don't have a specific question for you, so I'll wait till after. Um did you um I'll ask you this first and

090then I'd really like to hear. What has What have you thought of the cell phone policy this year? Me specifically. You specifically? I think the cell phone policy we had this year is pretty good. Um I get not having it in class. As someone my mom's teacher, our family teachers, uh I work with kids like um having it in class makes sense to me. I think that it's our free time during lunch and break. And I think that's great that we get to have that. So the new cell phone bill that's since it's passed I think a little on I wrote it money. Um, yeah. But I think the one we have right now is good. I don't I get the not having it like in passing periods, but I also think that it should

091be a little maybe we could because like also I think the point of a cell phone policy is to keep us focused in class and when we're not in class, I don't fully understand the point of not being allowed to use that. Especially like because parents want to communicate too. Like there's other reasons to be on your phone just like scrolling on social media. Yeah, I get it. So remind me someone. My understanding is that it's not during class and it's not during passing period, but you can have it at lunch. You can have it at break. Yeah. Break and lunch. Breakfast like a 15minute like mini lunch and then before and after school. Okay. First lunch. Yeah. First lunch. Yeah. Pre- lunch and then lunch. Second breakfast daily. Okay. Very good. Yeah. I had

092a question and I forgot what it was. Oh, has this is kind of odd and I don't expect you to have it answered, but one of the conferences I went to, they talked about friendships and accountability to have kids come to school. So in the friendship circles, do you guys I mean obviously the cell phone this is kind of like cell phones you can't have in class anymore and sometimes you would like text your friend like hey um where are you? Um so has that changed at all and how or do you guys even do the accountability piece of like why aren't you at school? Um, personally I do still do that whenever any of my friends aren't there and there's like why aren't you? Everyone gets so sad when you when someone in your

093friend group doesn't come to school and it's good to know why they're not there because a lot of people start to worry but it's hard like if you get to class and you're like wait where are they? But you can't text them figure out and then sometimes you can start worrying about it and then you might not be able to focus and I think that can definitely be an issue of not being able to communicate with people. But I don't know if that outweighs the focus. One school let the first period class text all their friends every for the first five minutes of class and it apparently ra I know K Miss Cross is like dogs quit talking. It apparently raised their um attendance rate by having kids text like where are you? Are you

094coming? What's going on? the f for like a few minutes like you know the teacher's making it taking attendance and you're looking around saying Sarah's not here and apparently that raised attendance but I'm not suggesting that I'm just asking that question why that in my mind during passing period like for me I have or free periods um that's something I use in my car and a lot of times that comes down to especially when I was applying for colleges um needing to check my FAFSA stuff or my email with the colleges or respond for something financial aid um wise and that was just like a quick moment where I could go what are they saying to me and then like open this website or whatever um because it's five minutes right and then it goes

095right back and I'm back for class but that was an idea I had just wanted a voice while we were talking about this we'll have a forum on the cell phone policy at some point I just want to say before we move on to I would wonder what the like having it during passing periods could do to the tardy data, but we could talk about that. No, I agree. I was going to say that's definitely something it impacts is like I would catch myself No, I'm on I for me it's like keeping you in school mode, you I know for me personally, if I was getting it out during passing periods, Yeah. like that shift back into school mode would be challenging for me if I just also the amount of conversations and face-toface interactions

096that they're having, right, is a is completely different than it has been in the past. And I think that that's not necessarily a measurable thing because we weren't like taking a tally off before, but they they aren't even looking at their phones during break or breakfast or anything. I mean, some kids are, but they're interacting with each other. They're having conversations. They're talking to kids they didn't talk to before. So, yeah. Anyway, we should have a whole forum. your engagement for student rep is not based on your self just so that I would like to hear from all of you on the implementation of this year of the self pick a direction let her go because she went first um go ahead real quick as I say maybe that's the reason why every there's more

097people in the dance off because they talked between passing periods sorry I just had to um I did kind of want to bring up that I have been seeing a lot of students, they'll say they need to go to the restroom and I see them kind of like flip their take their phone out of their backpack and put it in their pocket. They're going to go to the restroom and there's a whole line of kids waiting to go to that actually need to and they're in there for like 15 minutes cuz they're texting somebody or doing something. Um, and I don't know, maybe if we go to the like hands on like put in a bucket or something so that you can't do that so people are more likely to be engaged in class, but

098it's still like that thought in the back of your head like, "Oh, my phone. I can still do that." Just a clarifying question, they're allowed to have their phones on their person at all times. Yeah. Because the in the feedback we got from parents and families was that if there's an emergency, they want to get a hold of their student even though they trust that we have a process. It's just like that's their kid and that's like if there's something going on, they need access to their kid. And so that was our compromise. Like we're not going to lock up phones, we're not going to collect them. That also creates some liability issues. And so yeah, our students have them with them. And the ideas is just it's off and away. So off and away

099isn't it can still be on their person but not like in a backpack. It can be it can be in a backpack but like we're not we're not we're not enforcing back we're not going to get into power struggles if someone has a pocket or a cell phone in their back pocket. That's not worth the relationship. Well, it's just somewhere to work. No, I Right. I I'm hearing about pouches, too. Do you guys know what the pouches do? Like I have I think I'm hearing that a for an information and discussion on the cell phone policy might be a good I'd like to keep us focused on the interview. I do I I'm sorry but yes I appreciate that's good. Okay I want to hear it this was timely. This was good. Leave me alone.

100What are you gonna inspire to use now? Sarah Sarah's Yeah, like I said before, I do think that it has been I've seen like a positive effect. Like I've seen students in the hallways during passing periods seem a lot more social. Like when I'm walking the passing periods like last year, I would see students like deep in their phones just texting away like rotting away on their phones and now like it seems like there's all these little pockets of people talking. everyone's a lot more social and like I know a lot of students don't like it and but I do think that it has like a positive impact and I feel like it is that perfect compromise cuz like I don't think students should have bums out during class but I also don't think that

101they should be completely banned so that you can't have they're like locked away in a pouch but I think like having them available at breakfast and at lunch is like that perfect middle ground where you can still like talk to your friends and stuff and like still use your phone but it doesn't become a distra like a distraction class and it's like I think it's just a good balance what we got going right now. But I have noticed that it's kind of gotten a lot like less strict. I remember the start of the year teacher would see be like give me an snatch it and put it in the pouch and it goes straight to the office. And now it's always like two or three mornings like guys put phones away. Like I think teachers

102are just kind of tired of the end of the school year and I know students are too. I am very ready for summer but I think it's kind of gotten a little more lenient but it still like I think does have a very positive effect on the students. Right? Yeah. like what a lot of them said. Don't like it, but it probably does help. Um, I know myself, Emily got me. I do walk out with my phone. I'm like, I have to go to the bathroom sometimes, but I catch myself and I'm like, need to go back to class. So, I think it's definitely helpful to have those rules in place as kind of a guidance of like, yeah, you I'm here for school. I'm not here to rot away on my phone. like I'm

103going to be here to do what I need to do. So, I think it's it's a good middle ground like what Lincoln said where there's time to text your parents before school, at your break, at lunch, and then after school. I think it's pretty well spaced out with our schedules. Um yeah, and our teachers have gotten a bit more lenient because, you know, there's always that one student that they're never going to put their phone away. So, um, they cracked down on those, but I think it's gotten a little bit more lenient than it started off the year with. Have you noticed more I think Lincoln, you said um, easier to pay attention in class. You noticed improvement and that was the goal, right? You guys get that that was the goal. And I think

104that at first a lot of kids when I was talking to them about it were like, "Well, them just telling me I can't have it just makes me do it more." Like I'm being told no, so I'm going to do it anyways. Um like a little 5-year-old. But um I think that's kind of passed now and I think people kind of got the idea and kind of saw that like this does help. So, I think it's a life skill to be bored. And that's kind of what it's taught me a little bit. And an alternative to locking our phones away all day is something that um Mr. Garing does in his class when we test, we put them in a like calculator caddy on his wall and we take a number out and so they're

105there if an emergency happens and if you want to reach a parent, but they're away for the test and I think that's an easily applicable rule for a classroom. Um, but yeah, I think the biggest life skill I've learned from it is that sometimes you have to be bored and that's okay. That's when some of the greatest things come actually in those spaces. You make us more creative and smart. Yes. It's so funny this idea of parents like needing to re like that was not a thing back in what? Well, I had a thing on the wall spiral thing coming out. You didn't hear from your parents. I didn't have a cell phone until Well, no, they didn't. I didn't either. I didn't have one in high school. Like hopefully they'll be in the spot

106they said they would be at 3:30. Well, we had the pay phone at the school yet. Yeah. I said it was a hot minute to the office. There was no parenting for you guys and then I was like, "Oh my gosh, I have to parent because you guys want to start the business." Yeah. I want to be like really great parents and there's more of that and keep going back and forth. Yeah, it's a balance. I think it's less about like transportation stuff when it comes to wanting yourself in the classroom and more about the security when an emergency arises. Yeah. Um that's something that wasn't a thing. It's true. That's kind of came with that. Sure. Absolutely. It's fair. I get I definitely think if we do end up having to use those little

107pouches that they're locked in, I think teachers need to have a magnet. Every teacher needs to have a magnet in case of an emergency because they're like locked with a magnet and you have to use a magnet to open them. I think every teacher needs to have one of those in their classroom in case of an emergency. True. But we'd have to buy it. We should probably watch the videos. Yeah, let's watch it. Thank you all your presentations. That was great. All right. [Music] Just as long as we know. Oh, okay. Also, I was I took your guys' role. I asked her the questions in this video. Thank you. Nice. Great job. Shout out to me. [Music] Hello, my name is Ava Grace and I'm a junior here at Phoenix High School. I've been in

108multiple sports all through my year. I'm in advanced classes and I work with the equity and educational advisory committee of the student representatives to help with the updating curriculum that's going on for this next school year. I'm going to be applying for student rep. All right. Thank you, Kayla. So, what event did you choose to interview people on this year? I chose to interview people on the phone. It was on May 3rd. It happened really. And why did you choose this topic? I chose this topic because it's a very monumental event and a lot of people died. All right. And what were some of the questions that you asked your people you were interviewing? passion my people about how they heard about prom, if they felt the atmosphere was accepting, how the inclusion was overall

109on their like either cultural bias or their gender or just their interests. And I asked about the representation that they felt through the music and through the decorations of the room. So, I talked to a bunch of different people at school from art classes to more athletic backgrounds and most said that they felt included and not represented. This I found is that it stemmed from mostly people who stand back. They felt as placed for more blanket covering just checklist inclusions. So I think working with my peers and working with people who designated the um DJ or worked with the playlist to include more genuinely enjoyed songs in the DJ list will result in a lot more connection with this big population at my school. And I think working with the staff that was at the

110event to have more diverse backgrounds and for them to connect with more students also help the representation problem. Thank you. And what keeps you and other students involved at PHS? I found that speaking with my peers, they've said that their friends in the community with teachers that are at PHS have led them to continuously come back to events and include themselves in big opportunities like prom because of just how the community connects and how small and um intimate it is. They said that prom they felt very welcome, that all the teachers and students and staff that were there were very welcoming and they made the day very special for them. So, I think the people have to address what keeps them coming back. All right. Thank you so much. Nice. All right. One more. Did

111you want me to call them and try to get their opinion on the cell phone? No. was like, "Yeah, put it on speaker." Oh, did she apply last year? Yes. Really? Yes. Hello. My name is Santos and I am currently a sophomore at Phoenix High School. The topic I chose to interview the student body about was the talent show. Now, I chose this topic because the talent show has to offer a little bit for everybody, including the community, as it wasn't just a school event, but a fundraiser for Sparrow this year, Emiliano. 70% of the students I interviewed did attend talent show, while the other 30% didn't because they didn't have time or because of things like extracurriculars, practice, bands, um, meetings. Many of the students said that they heard about the town show through

112the morning announcements or friends were excited to attend. On the subject of what went well, many emphasized that they enjoyed the performances and the amount of participants we had at the talent show. This year we had more participants than last year. So that was very exciting for us. On the other hand, students felt that the coordination, timing, and preparation for this event could have been better, which will be taken into consideration for next year's talent show. I'm part of this leadership class here at PHS. And we plan things like this the talent show and activities and spirit days. So, that will be taken into consideration for next year's. As for the diversity, 70% of students I interviewed and attended the talent show said there was a lot of diversity with families and friends of different

113backgrounds, especially since it wasn't just a school event and everybody was welcome to attend. Along with the questions about the talent show, I thought I could ask the student body about what keeps them engaged and coming to school every day. I felt that getting a response straight from the student body about the student body was a better option for feedback rather than me just answering from just my perspective. Almost every student I asked about I asked this question to had said that their grades were important to them with one even stating she liked the 4.0 free pizza from Figuros and cookie at the end of every quarter. um honoral students get a 4.0 free pizza for fugar girls and a cookie. So that's something that she felt really kept her motivated to keep coming to

114school and engaged. This is one of those things that keeps them motivated to try their best and come to school every day as well as their friends and the teachers who they resonate resonate well with. Although friends are a popular reason among students to come to school, the CTE classes were also something that the students felt kept them engaged well at school with the different varieties that PHS has to offer such as you know culinary um constructions, automobile classes, welding. What keeps me engaged and coming to school every day would be trying my best academically and seeing my friends every day as well as attending classes and connecting with my peers. That was all. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Very well done. I have a question. Is she in PHTV? Because

115she needs to be. Like seriously. She is um generally pretty quiet and just like her personality and so yeah from last year to this year there was a huge difference and like most people have a really hard time doing that kind of stuff including myself generation well Tik Toks five times I like the way so um yeah really really kudos or reals Yeah. Yeah, I know. Oh my goodness. Reminds me how old I am. And my mom, I don't think you're getting the right generation on TikTok. So, yeah, that was very well done. Okay. Um, we're we have a room set up for us to deliberate. So, we're gonna take we're gonna have a welcome back. Okay. The board has um had a very lively discussion. Um, so a couple things. Um, well, let me

116lead with this. We're not going to announce our choice at the meeting tonight. We are going to send an email with our choices. So, we have made a selection because we have people who submitted videos and who aren't here tonight. We felt it was fairest to send it out so that everyone got the information at the same time. Um, so that's how we're going to do it. So after we adjourn the meeting, we're going to work on um sending out an email that'll go out tonight within the half hour. Yeah. So I apologize. Normally we like to follow through on the process that's communicated on how we're going to do it, but a big part of our discussion was the communication piece and we just felt this was the fairest way to do that in

117consideration of how um everything transpired this year. So, um I'm sorry to do that to you, but you will find out very soon. Um and school email. Yes. Do you all know how to check? Will people selected be at the next meeting? Denise will communicate. Yes. So, the next So, it'll be both. It'll be current reps and new reps at the next meeting. A crossover ceremony. All right. Very cool. Thank you for the good question and thank you all for amazing job. The one thing we know is that our students are in good hands with those of you who are representing them. So, um really appreciate your willingness to step up. Um those of you have served and those of you have expressed interest in serving. So, thank you so much. Okay. Um, we have

118one item left on our agenda and that is uh reviewing next meeting on June 5th where we will have our new student reps. Um, and let's see any other questions or concerns about this agenda. Didn't you? Um, I don't know. We have our budget hearing. Um, let's see. We'll have SRO contracts and then Oh. Oh, we'll have some resolutions for the budget. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. Very good. We are journey. Thank you. It was nice to be Alan.