001our student uh discuss we have our student discussion further down in the agenda, but I'm gonna go ahead and move it up before accentuate the positive if that's okay. Um and did you want to do a quick introduction? Yeah, just thank you Mr. Kemp for um you're kind of a expert at this. Thank you for bringing your students to um you know ask questions of the board and the board loves these uh meetings to um answer questions, be in front of students because this is why we do what we do. Um and just for you know we do this in the at Phoenix High School as well in the fall a day meeting and then this uh middle school meeting is in the spring. So super happy to have you and uh I know the
002board is happy to have you as well. By the way, I'm Brent Barry, your superintendent. Why don't we do some quick introductions and then I know you have some questions for us that I'm excited to hear. So we'll start with you Rebecca. Hi Rebecca Weathers. I've been on the board since 2021. I've got two kiddos in the district and one graduate. I'm Don Watson. I've been on the board since 2013. I had two kids that went from kindergarten to high school and graduated to the district. I'm Paulie Fairmont directing healthcare. Um I am a graduate of Phoenix High School and this is the end of my first four-year term in the board and um we are all running unopposed who are running this year. So I'll be serving another four years coming up. I'm happy
003to be here. I'm Michael Campbell. I'm the board chair. I've been on the board for five years. Um, I have a second grader at Orchard Hill and a barrel four-year-old who will be at Orchard Hill in two years. So, I'll be warning whoever's the principal at that time. Um, um, and um, yeah, love doing this work and um, serving the community and and all of you. Um, would you like to introduce yourself? This is one of our student reps. My name is Javier. Um, I'm a senior at Phoenix and I've been on the board for two years now. So, I I've been involved in leadership and a lot of different roles throughout the high school for a lot of years since my freshman year and I'm just happy to be able to give back and
004believe that actually change. Can I say something please? Because Javier is very modest. Yes. um went to the National School Board Association's conference in Louisiana and talked about rural schools to all schoolboard members in the United States. So he does he is making great changes and he's a great leader. I just wanted to put that on your resume. Yeah. So so something Yes. something how many is this all eighth grade class? Yes. Okay. So, something for you all to know. Um, once you get into 10th grade, you have an opportunity to serve as a student rep on the board. And we have currently four student reps. Um, so there's an application process and we do interviews and the board selects um, student rep. So, Javi, this is his second year doing it. We have another
005board rep, Aubrey, who is serving her second year. Um, and it's a really cool opportunity to um to give student voice to the important decisions that the board um makes. So, something to think about if that's something that you're interested in. It's good to start thinking about it now and kind of talking to the right people. I'm sure Javi could be a resource for anybody who has questions. Um, but that is definitely an opportunity. And then we're working on expanding opportunities for our student reps um to to be able to get involved with some leadership training and some mentoring and things like that. So it's really really cool thing and always expanding, always looking to improve it. So um Sarah, would you like to introduce yourself? Sorry. Crawford school board member since 2016. Three graduates
006of the district. huge fan. Invite me to your stuff. I'll show up. She will. She will. She will. Um I would like to just I know she's plugging in her laptop right now, but I would just like to recognize um Sarah. This is this is actually her last um day board meeting with students. Um she'll be event. Would you love me? We do love you, sir. Um Sarah's term ends this this uh June 30th and um we very much appreciate her service and we're going to miss her very much. So thank you Sarah. Um okay oh yeah we're not going to get rid of her that easily. Um okay. Um all right let's get to your questions. I I don't know who's going first. I I'll let you guys handle that. If you could just
007introduce just say your name and and ask your question and we'll do our best to answer. What's that? What's that? Calvin. All right. Hey, Calvin. Yeah, it's okay. We're not gonna fight. My question is, what does it take to become? All right. Um, I'll take this one. So for a school representative like like a student representative or school board members. Why don't we do both? Yeah. Go ahead and talk about like a student representative. Like they mentioned there's a application that you fill out in the beginning of the year like maybe towards the end of first quarter. And what you have to do is you have to interview from a student perspective. You have to interview a bunch of your peers like 15 of them about a school topic. And it could be the first
008day of school, the first football game, um, homecoming because that should have already happened by the time you're doing this. And you're basically just showing that you can get information from your peers that would benefit everyone. And then you have the ability to like see different perspectives that would help you make good decisions on on popping into the board that make the decision. So you'll do that. you'll turn that into the office and then you'll be able to have a interview in front of all of them giving um basically your your speech your your presentation of what you of what you collected in front of them and from there you get nominated. Yeah. Very good. Thank you. You want to answer for the board? Me? Yeah. Yeah. Ronnie should answer. Okay. I'll I'll answer. So
009what does it take? So, there's I think there's a like a logistical answer to your question and then there's a um there's a philosophical answer and the second one's a lot longer and I'll try to keep that short. But, um so, logistically, you have to live in the district. You have to have been a resident of the district for one year. You have to be at least 18 years old. And then our district because we have parts of Medford and Phoenix and Talent, we have two different zones. And so you have to um you have to apply to run for the board um based on which zone you live in. So there's Talent and then there's Phoenix and Medford and parts of rural Phoenix that are in that zone. And that's that's pretty much it.
010Um, uh, there's a lot of commentary I could provide about there not being any more requirements to be able to run for board. And then philosophically, you know, I think we all have our own answers for why we're here and why we want to do this work. Um, but, um, ultimately, um, hopefully a board member seeks to do what's best for kids, for all kids in the district. um we are nonpartisan positions. So um you know try try to come in with that big picture perspective of how we can best serve our students. Um we we oversee the budget. We um pass policies and oversee policies and we provide governance for the school district and we also advocate for the school district and for public education regionally, statewide and and nationally. We've had a lot
011of people who travel to Washington and um like the National School Board Association. Don is on the Oregon School Boards Association executive committee. So, um, that's a big deal. So, and then we're we constantly show up in Salem, um, to advocate for laws that best support you all and in our staff and our community. So, um, yeah. Did I miss anything? Yes, you have a question. I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. Let's get you a microphone if you don't mind. So, that No, that's okay. It's okay. I'll repeat the question. Go ahead, Sarah. Sarah, yes. Do you have a rainbow sticker on your your I have um this is Armadillo text. Really cool. Thank you. Yeah. Um do you know about Armadillo Technical School? It's Armadillo Community Charter School now. And that's one
012of the things that our school district, well in Oregon, the way charter schools are set up is you have to have a host. You have a hosting district. and Phoenix Talent School District hosts Armadillo Community Charter. Yes. Good. And um they're located in Phoenix and they support students who um maybe aren't as successful in a traditional school environment who may be looking at a GED or maybe working or may just have life situations where going traditional school just isn't a good fit. and um love us summer Brandon who was their executive director and um yeah that's one of the stickers. So there you go. I have no idea what I can't stop Can you say your question? Oh yeah, those are just snacks for the meeting. Is that what you're asking? Yeah. Yeah. Every once
013in a while we get snacks. Sometimes they're better than others. We have We have a Sometimes we have a meeting around dinner time and we actually get fed. I love Yeah. Yeah. Those are like one of the few perks. No, I'm just saying there's a lot of perks. Yeah. Thank you for your questions. Um, okay. What's next? Um, what is your most memorable moment as a member of a lot? By the way, Nancy, just would you like to introduce yourself, Nancy, before we Yeah. Thank you. Buenos, good morning. Nancy Castillia Mckenz, and I am also one of the board directors. And um you want me to say, how long you been on the board? I've been on the board for four years, almost five years. And I am also up for reelection this year. Um,
014it's really an honor to get to serve the community. And part of what I think it's really important is to listen to youth, to listen to families. Um, but also be aware and help presentation. So, this is why for me it's incredibly important to be on top. Okay. So, the question was your most memorable moment. So, does anyone want to share a memorable moment? I can share one. Um, I had the opportunity to travel with Javier who is our student representative and I hope that you're all eighth graders, right? So, my hope is that you um might consider supporting us and by a way that you can support us is the way that um Javier shared what his role as a student representative is on the board. But um I had an opportunity to travel
015with as his chaperon to a nationwide conference where he was one of four students on a panel and he talked about what what it means what it feels like to be a student in a rural school. And I was just really humbled and grateful and honored to have someone from our state, from our community, represent us at a national level. And he did fantastic. People were very proud of him. He shared what it means to him. He talked about the importance of those schools. He talked about the importance of engagement, the importance of adults showing up. And it was just like I learn from him every time I have conversations with him. So that was one of my absolute favorite moments as a school board member. Anyone else I can share? I'll share a recent
016one because it speaks to some of the legislative um so um Don and I went to Salem and we had planned the date um around our schedules to go over spring break. Happy spring break. Sarah do soon. And um we got to go to Salem and we had the opportunity to be in the room when Representative Marsh presented to the leg to the House Education Committee um continue uh funding protection for our schools for the um ADM, which is how schools get paid for the fire impact because the students our population of students has not come back into our community. the population of families haven't come back. And so to be in the room that day and to hear that and remind how far our community has come since then and how far we still
017need to go was really a poignant moment for me I would say recently. That was a pretty impactful moment. And then all of our favorites probably, well, I shouldn't speak for the whole board, but um handing you your diploma cover at graduation. Super cool moment. Anyone else? Okay. Um next question. Yeah. Is it just on already? Uh, it's just so that people if anyone's watching online just so they can hear. Uh, how do you believe our school should be involved in helping the community? Holly gets this one. Y sorry. So that's a little twist like how do I help the community is more like how do how does our school do you think our board should be involved? Our school district should be involved in the So, I'm a big proponent of I think probably
018like I heard the memorable moments. I get to go to help at track meets. I get to go into the schools. This is my favorite part of being a schoolboard member is participating in also not only our community that I've lived in my whole life and talent uh but also um to be actively engaged in going around to the different schools and observing the things that are happening there for our community. Um I feel like this was really um a spotlight was put on this during COVID and also during um the time when uh we had the fires. Um, so I have two daughters that have graduated from Phoenix High School and after the fires they one was working at the time after she graduated she came back and was working at Phoenix High School
019and my other daughter graduated in 2020 and they together came together to find community members and what happened to them after the fire and kind of helped the district office locate people um and what had happened for them after the fires. Um I felt like this and also during that time we offered um during COVID and also during the fire we offered these our buildings as a place to gather. There was um meals that were that were given out at the schools. I really feel like this is a gathering place and that we need to pay attention to that as well. And we're changing our facilities like there's um things to have like uh solar uh components put in our building so if the power goes out we have a place here where people can
020go to where there is actually power that they can access. Um I never thought in my lifetime I would see my town affected like it was after the fires. Um uh my my ex-husband and my daughter lost their home in the fire and we were pretty lucky that they had other plans and it was a transition point for our daughter to go to University of Oregon. So I have to shout out to Mr. Kemp. Um Mr. Kemp was a huge influence in her life um and and choosing what she does in her life on a daily basis. Actually, she still talks about her the impact that Mr. Kimp had in her life. But I feel like um being a central place for us to gather um is important to have. And so I think that's
021one one way that the schools can be involved in the community. And also offering supports. We have a lot of supports that you would not have access to if the schools weren't here. Mental health, um physical health and things like that. Um so that's my two cents about that. Thank you. Very good question. Uh last one I believe. What is the most successful decision that the school board one decisionful decision successful decision right? Although for mine I think. Yeah. Go for it. mine was the um board decided a few years ago to go out for a bond to um improve the schools. I think there was improvements here at the school and the high school got a whole remodel and I think that was the best decision we had made. We were able to get
022CTE programs um really good CTE programs in the high school and also we got HVAC systems which really helped during COVID. So, um, most schools were trying to upgrade their HVAC systems and we had good systems in place because of the bond. So, I think that's probably one of the best decisions. And again, back to the community, the community voted yes and said yes, the school needs this money and yes, we're willing to pay. So, that is a good example of how the community and the schools work together. Um, I would agree with that. This is I think I say this every year, but it's all a new group of kids. So, sorry, Mr. Camp, but um schools aren't provided a budget for facilities. We have money in the budget that we use to keep
023try to keep our facilities nice, but we don't have money in the budget to build new schools or to make major improvements to schools. The only way to do that is to go out to the community and say, "Would you please pay more on your property taxes so that we can either build a new school or make improvements?" That bond has also helped us make improvements to all the schools, including Talent Middle School with safety things and um heating and air conditioning and uh your cafeteria. I'm not sure if came through with older siblings, but that was that little area outside where you can stand inside now um before school starts was not enclosed prior to 201 19. So, well, but by the time it's Yeah. Yes. Yeah. No, no, it's so credit to the
024community for um for agreeing to support our schools. There's my brother works at Three Rivers and they've tried to pass a bond just to fix their roof and get air conditioning in their buildings and the community has said no. So, I wasn't on the board at that time, but these two were. And I have a lot of respect um for the board's decision to to have the courage to ask make that ask of the community um and to have a good strategy to get the support um and and to do a really really good thing for our schools and our and our students. So, um I would agree that's the most successful decision you all have made for sure. And that decision might feel like I know maybe not essential because we don't see it
025on the daytoday but I have the privilege of like for work I go to different communities and actually just last week there is a community in eastern Oregon that is also working very hard to close and some of the things that the community was sharing and students were sharing and teachers were sharing it's we don't even have hot water in the facility. Um, and and I know that these are much smaller communities, but it makes such a difference. Sometimes it's hard to see how nice some of the things we have because we have them, but it's really I'm not happy that they don't have water, but I'm grateful that I get to hear how um how much work has been done and advocacy and commitment and engagement. And it's really because the community cares about
026you all so much that people do invest in making the schools better. So even though sometimes that can feel like we don't see it, we don't hear about it, I'm really grateful for the community because you are also incredibly important and you are worth all of this effort. And it's not perfect. We make some in the states and we're kind of silly sometimes, but um but I'm grateful that you're here helping us make better decisions for you. Have y'all seen the new tennis courts at the high school? Yeah, that's a good example. So one of the other things that the school board does our only employee is the superintendent and that which you've met right. So that is the tone for our district. And so that's one of the the other I would say important
027decisions that are made by the board is who we look to to oversee the running of the district because his or her responsibility is to hire staff that directly impact who your teachers are and who is answering the phone and helping you with attendance or who's keeping your restrooms clean and who's helping make those decisions. that really do impact that. So, um we've been very fortunate in our district to have stellar superintendent and um so that's also a really important decision. The board made that decision the same year that the bond passed. So, two really good decisions that year. Give you a lot of credit. Do we have I know you have to do you have to get going. Yeah. Yeah, I think um we all thank you for giving us time and your insight
028on what this award is all about and thank you for your efforts in the community and uh so all thank you. We have a tremendous board. The board that serves you as students is um absolutely amazing and we feel very grateful for uh them just taking time to listen to students. That's an important part of their job. Thank you. Thank you all so much. Look at us. Is that Kim? Oh, you want to see yourself like an owl? Come stand in the front. See where kind of lights are that look like eyeballs? If you stand back there like an owl to you. Oh, look. It's blinking. I don't know if that Oh, nice. I think I think your teachers have you headed somewhere else. sit down. Are you laughing at me? Not at all. No,
029we're glad you're here. Um, sit down and join. Okay, next we have accentuate the positive. Wow, that's nice. Are you starting to talk? Did we have a microphone, too? Okay, good. I want a microphone so I can you love me. All right. Um, welcome everybody. Casey said, principal at Middle School. Um, I think just quick shout out to Mr. Camp and the students as Frank said, why we do what we do and so special thing. Uh, just want to give a few kind of shout outs individuals and then some upcoming things we have. Uh, first and foremost, I feel like I don't show her enough, but Carrie McDonald, our school nurse, um, I obviously you guys know it's my first year here. The district I was in last year, we didn't have a lot of
030access to nurse support. So, I took on role principal and nurse in many occasions and uh, that is not my special. I try my best, but um, just her heart for kids and her advocating for kids and making sure. Um, I wanted to give a track update. We had a meet yesterday. Today we have 76 student athletes a part of that. Um and when I was talking with uh our coaches it kept John coming up um and just his support uh the high school um support of our students. Um, next Friday, I know we've talked a lot about web um and what we do for our sixth graders, but next Friday we have a movie night just for our sixth graders that is going to be happening here in our small gym and our students
031are leading that putting that on. Um, and then a shout out to Liz and Bri for just their help and making web happen. Um, and then lastly, uh, just a shout out to the high school. They, uh, we the high school link leaders were here last week, um, to meet with all of our eighth graders to get them excited for that transition and supporting them and some of the conversations from our eighth graders just talking about classes that they can say excited about that. Um, and so yeah, very grateful that they came over and had some fun there. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, my turn. Good morning. Kent here, principal at Orchard Hill. I want to highlight a few staff members and their contributions and accomplishments at Orchard here at Orchard Hill. We're in
032day two of the big game, which means the ESP third, fourth, and fifth graders uh today probably at this hour are completing the English language arts uh section of that. And I just want to thank uh Diane Wolf, Holly Swift, Heather Deg Grandis, Danielle Lee, and Holly Tampon. We've created two special uh testing rooms with uh some great decorations and some refreshments and encouraging uh bulletin boards, but all of those guys went really above and beyond to make an environment where students walk in and they feel that it's a special time for them to take their test. Uh speaking of um Holly Tapper, Holly Swift, our building secretary, uh Erin's been leading, as you know, a group in the district to focus on increased attendance. And each building has various initiatives going on. But I
033wanted to thank Holly. She's put together an attendance initiative raffle. Uh every day a kid is present. They fill out a little raffle ticket, enter it into a big hopper, and on Fridays we have a bunch of drawings for incentives. and it seems like our attendance has increased maybe like 2.7 or 3%. So, it's going in the right way and uh maybe not a huge jump but it's a jump. So, I'm proud of it for that. Thank you. Good morning everybody. Heather Lo from Talent Elementary. Also, like Kent said, we're in testing season and I want to thank you know our especially our title and our uh special education departments because they're orchestrating all the supports that our kids need. So, and of course, we're sponsoring teachers who've worked really hard to prepare our kids.
034Um, we have a ton going on because it's spring and spring is our busy time. So, just write these down. Tonight, we have our Dod Nino celebration 5 to 7. It's the 100th year anniversary of the holiday, which is really special. And we think it's our 25th anniversary. So, big good times. Um, so you're all welcome. Appreciate you know. Um and then next week on Earth Day, which is Tuesday the 22nd, we have um a walk and roll event. So a couple years ago, we engaged in the safe pops to school um kind of seeking input from our community about things we wanted to do to school. So uh regionally they've hired local coordinator and she's helping us take this off the ground. So that's on Tuesday. We'll start at Chalk Roberts at 7 and
035meet at Rays at 7:20. Um really just encouraging kids to be physically active and make their way to school their feet before they're on a little smaller wheels. Um but that'll be fun. Also next week we have um many of our classrooms who are participating in the video talent art walk in the evening. So 5 to 7 we have student art on display for that art walk. Um, we have Sweet Feet. We have kids art over at the historical society and at least that's cool. Um, and then last but not least, this is why I'm really tired. We have Arbor Day event coming up. So, we've been, you know, you probably remember us years ago years ago, we planted a bunch of things here at Talent Middle School. Um, Talent Elementary will be the site
036for this year's on the 26th. I don't have the time, but I will get that to you. So all good stuff. Morning board evening rising academy. Just a couple things for PT. It's been an exciting whole week at PT doing state testing already diagnostic for the upcoming field trip and we've been very engaged and excited. Uh navigating that state testing from home can be a little bit challenging. So I want to thank our teachers um Heather's blood and Madam Cus for engaging that. I think a lot of extra training actually to make that happen from home. So, I want to appreciate them. And finally, we have our annual trip to Wildlife Images tomorrow starting at 10:45. So, we'll be having uh students as well as well as their families joining us uh on that trip.
037So, that's going to be great. We look forward to that one. We're happy about the weather we're going to have. Um also, Sean is not here this morning. She had another engagement. So, she asked me to share her positives, but they're too long. I may not read all of them. Hopefully, she put the important ones up front. Uh, so according to her from PES, last week our family engagement team hosted our first PES talent show in many years. We held triyouts with 50 acts and selected 24 including singers, dancers, piano performers, joke tellers, a Rubik's cube solver, and many more. One thing to point out is because our IIA Aubrey Kerry teaches students dances during recess, our final act consisted of a group of students from across many classes and grades who performed together. This
038is an example of removing barriers to ensure all students have something to showcase at middle school. Uh Jenny Brown, second grade TVI class, wrote persuasive essays for ideas of a new ice ice cream flavor for Harper's Ice Cream Shop in Phoenix. Milo Wilkerson's Persuasion worked. Our first will be featuring her creation of Apple Flash. We encourage all you to stop by and give it a try. Uh and lastly, some upcoming events from PES. They've got Kinder Launch along with the rest of the district on April 30th. Walk and roll to school May 13th as Heather mentioned and the spring showcase of ES will be May 21st. Good morning. Morning. Kelly Soder, early learning director. I don't get a chance to give you an update very often. So, I just want to do a real quick
039shout out and accentuate some positives at the preschool. Um, we are fullbore into spring. Our want to give a shout out to our staff. Rosario Medina, Diana Martinez, Sandra Munoz, Dana Morales, and Sarah Bellow have just been doing an amazing job all year. Really digging into dirt and paint and water and all kinds of of cool things. Our theme this month is creative me. So, we've had a gardening week, uh, construction week, spring week, flowers, all kinds of fun stuff. It's really, um, super super cool to see how far kids have come this year. We also are are really supporting our staff and growing their expertise and their knowledge. So, I want to give a shout out to Diana Martinez, gearing up to finish her associates degree in early childhood education this summer. Um, Sandra
040Munoz has also earned her child development associate credential, which is another kind of specialty credential. So, just really excited about that. I think we have a third staff member that's getting ready to enter a an kind of a fasttrack RCC early childhood program. Um, really, as you know, shortage in the area of of childhood providers. So, RCC has a fast track program that costs folks nothing. So, I think we have a third staff member that is going to be going through that. So, we're really excited about that. Um, the last thing I wanted to let you know is um we continue to sub contract with early with family nurturing center for preschool promise, but we also have an opportunity to apply to be our own grantee or our own program provider. So, we're in the
041process of completing that application with um the Department of Early Learning. It'll be due um at the beginning of May and we'll uh find out about that at the end of May. Sure. So either way, principal charges forward. Thank you. Hey board, Eric Ooa, assistant principal over at the pirate ship. Uh our proud principal is not in the building today. So here I am um giving you some positives over at the pirate ship. So a shout out to our student outcome teams. Uh all of our certified staff participating in it this year. Um staff chose some high lever practices that they felt would uh make direct input on student outcomes in their classrooms. They worked in crosscurricular groups to develop lessons and tools that would engage students more deeply. And last Wednesday, we listened to
042their presentations by each of those groups. And we'll continue those presentations on day seven. Uh it's amazing to see what these teachers have created and developed. Uh and it's resulted in teachers visiting each other more in those classrooms getting ideas that they can pull from others in our building. Um so shout out specifically to our curriculum engagement specialist Alysa Barber who helped make these groups happen facilitated a lot of the learning uh for those groups throughout the year. Uh similarly yesterday we finished up our distributed distributed leadership uh teams for the year. These groups uh were created after uh staff decided that what they wanted to pay attention to in our building. We talked about creating culture they want to see in our buildings not just letting it happen. So teachers decided to join these
043groups and transform and carry on some positive culture at PHS. Uh these groups range from adult learning and professional development uh all the way to spirit and legacy and great pajama days. Can you just say and so we have great conversations uh yesterday and about those successes. Uh we're beyond excited also for the transition that's these eighth graders coming over to the pirate ship. uh and we will officially board them for next year, next fall. So, we are coordinating several events over the next few months to engage those students and their families and ensure that warm handoff as they jump into the board ship. So, we'd love to invite you all for our future pirate night which happens at 5:30 in the theater on Thursday, April 24th. So, next Thursday, come on over. There'll be
044some good food, display showcase of our of our uh facilities and what we offer. Um we've had a lot of student activities and spirit week. My friend Tubby can talk a little more about that. And also a shout out to Majesty Cheek for her amazing support in ESPback uh supporting teachers supporting me and that planning as well as Maria Lee for stepping in and supporting in getting kids across the finish line for the bud. So that's all I got. Sorry I got a lot. Good morning. Amy Hans Food Service here. And I know uh we've said this before, but I have to give a big shout out to John and his facility maintenance team. It I put in a work order and it wasn't that afternoon and Skyler had already cleaned the fans and had
045the freezer working good. So, it's always nice to know you have them there and ready to react right away so you don't lose food. Excuse me. Uh in front of you, you should have a uh a recipe book from our future chef event this year. Uh, I just wanted to share that with you guys and I look forward to taking it around to all the participants and so they can take it home and remember their time with us. Upcoming in food service next week, we will be celebrating Earth Day with some fun little dessert puffs. On Thursday, I'm excited to go to a Rogue Valley Farm to School Procurement Day um to learn more about some of our local options that we will be looking to move forward to next year. And just for a
046little sneak preview, we will be ending this year with local muffins from Miffy's Muffins. And I really enjoyed getting to talk to Miffy and figure out a game plan to how we were going to switch all of our muffin mix over to this local muffin mix. Oh, nice. Love that. Thank you so much. Um, do we have any anything from the board? I do. I have three things. Sorry. Okay. Go ahead. We're gonna do a student graph report. Sorry, it wasn't on my thing. I'm a prison to the agenda that's in front of it. So, um so first of all, I would like to thank um Canon and Joe. I missed the last meeting and I watched the meeting online and I've watched very many other school district meetings online since I'm the representative of
047Southern Oregon. I watch lots of schoolboard meetings on my my spare time and I am really impressed. You can hear the the break is cut down. You're not fat. You if you need to scroll or pause, it's so much easier compared to the other schools. Like like holy good goodness, it's a dream. So, thank you very much for making it work. Not only I think a lot of schools are just following the law, make it but you actually make it accessible and useful and helpful for the community. Um, second, I got a call from a friend that works at a different school district and she wanted to give kudos to Talent Elementary. There was a kid that was at Telen Elementary, had some challenges and moved to a different district, and they said that all
048of the data and the information that Heather sent over was so great that they didn't have to spend a lot of time um getting they were it was easy to implement the IEP and all that stuff. So, shout out to everybody that is spending a lot of time on that. And then lastly, when I I every time I go to a convention, I realize how great of a district we have. And I was in a uh a tour to elementary school and I said to the person I was with, when I get back, I'm going to go see what our kindergarten how our kindergarten class works. And she's like, will they just let you do that? And I'm like, they ask me all the time. So, I really appreciate the the the openness and welcomeness
049and the trust that um you letting us come into the classrooms and knowing that we're really trying to learn and help advocate for better um things for our students. That's it. Thank you. Yeah. Um I have a couple things you guys want. I'll make it quick. A lot of things you guys already know, but maybe like the student point of view. The first thing I want to talk about is like the tennis grand opening. Totally um a lot of students were very excited for that. I know that a lot of um teachers took their classes out to watch that and like through conversation I heard a lot of um guys were talking about a team for them next year and how they would be excited and a lot of seniors talking about if they had
050the opportunity to join that tennis team this year they would have. Um, and I think that just goes to show that there's a big future for that. This program has obviously seen the grand opening of it. So, that was um something that we were very excited about. And the next thing I was going to talk about is the staff versus student game for Sparrow. That went really well and um uh I think it just brought a lot of people together that um hadn't really connected in a long time also. So, just seeing a lot of familiar faces again and being able to just have a um happy environment especially for a good cause which um was very similar to our track meet that we've been hosting. So we had two backto-back uh meets. We had
051a home meet um here at Phoenix High School and then a track meet for the middle school where both John Cornet was a very big help and um a lot of people also came in to volunteer. It was um it's so crazy how it's very volunteer based and filling up those spots is important, but we always see people come in and to support their community. It was fun to see a lot of the middle schoolers who um are getting really good times and a big future for PHS track. And when it comes to our seniors, we have a lot of things that were that are going on again because college application has basically wrapped up and now it's all the to-dos, all the college housing, um registration and um opening up portals. And so the
052FBC has been a big help with that, especially um with pre-registration happening at the same time for the underassmen. Um we had a longer advisory this week for that for lunch also. And we at the same time got our senior dates. A lot of um upcoming events for seniors coming in um with um just so many things like we have senior awards night, senior um diplomas. A lot of things are being figured out with diplomas and there's a lot to do for the seniors. Also the capstone and the paper. We've also the senior capstone senior paper something that's also been happening especially going into the fourth quarter a lot of people have already started their capstone and a lot of people are finishing up their paper vice versa um DECA leaps for internationals next week
053on the 25th and we are very excited we're going to be competing in Orlando Florida you guys know and we have had um like four practices between stadium now just tuning everything up and and getting ready to try to do our best at the international conference. And we've got a lot of funding thanks to you guys, thanks to the community, a couple gofundmemes, a couple banner sold. So, a lot of involvement coming through for the funding that we got for that. And another thing I want to talk about is uh there's a there's a challenge kind of going around called the USC binding challenge. It's kind of on Instagram between students. And what it is is like bringing awareness to mental health through like dumping an ice bucket on you to get attention and nominating
054to other people. So that's circling background. I know there was like a different version of that a couple years ago, but a lot of students are actually doing that here and a lot of other schools throughout the nation. So that's something I thought you guys might want to know. Cool. Yeah. So thank you so much. Um okay, next we have PTA OCA update. be done. Welcome. Let's Yes, that would be great. Thank you. Hi, good morning. Um, I'm Lori Evans. I'm the engagement and curriculum specialist here at Town Middle School. I'm giving the report for PTA this morning. Uh PTA is feeling very positive and good about the collaborative and respectful nature of this year's bargaining. Um our members uh will be completing the admin surveys to give feedback to the administrators and the results
055will be shared with the ad team. PTEA elections are coming up in May as well as Laura Leam is um running for vice president of OEA and those elections are this weekend at the ref assembly exhibit. Wish her well and PTA is planning a spring appreciation and recognition event for our members at the end of May. Thank you. Thank you so much. Watch out for this chair. Yeah, no kidding. Did we have anyone from OSA? Okay. All right. Uh, next is citizens comments. Do we have anybody in the audience who needs to address the board? Anybody online? No one online. No one's online. Okay, moving right along. Superintendent report. Mr. Bird. Thank you, Chair Campbell. I first want to recognize Diana Rasmmanson who's put in for the open seat. Sarah will be departing. So, uh,
056welcome to this board meeting. A great one to attend and, um, you know, the student voice is very important and we chatted on the way in and so, uh, thanks for being here. Um, I also want to, um, I mean, Joseph continues to be mentioned, but you heard all the activities, everything that are going on. He gets to or gets information for all those and shares that out. I mean, he had a video of the tennis uh, court grand opening out a few hours later. So, um just just always thankful for him. Uh and then finally, I just have as we uh continue to prep for next year's budget and thank Yasm mean and her team so much uh for that tedious and and thoughtful work. Uh we will have many info sessions in our
057first one for the um any of the board members that want to attend will be next Monday and we'll have another one on May 5th. So that's all I have. Thank you. Any questions? Okay. Uh next we have program report integrated guidance. Is that you Aaron? Okay. So we've been uh working the last few weeks um uh with our annual SIA integrated guidance. It's all wrapped in run now. Um and um we're required to share with the board and Erin has a report information to share uh today to meet that requirement from the Oregon Department of Education. Okay, so this is the second time we've um applied for the integrated uh programs application. Um and OD requires lots of things as part of this, but one of these is a report to the board and
058then eventually you guys are going to be required to um when I say eventually I mean next meeting required to have public input and then um approve the approve the plan. So let's go ahead and move forward. try to be as quick as possible here. Um purpose is just to give you guys an idea of what the process looked like, what we landed on as a team, and then um what it looks like moving forward. Um and again, the idea here is look at all of our current data, review our plan from last time, and then see what adjustments we need to make to continue to move forward again in all of these plan areas. um go over here a little bit that um the process requires a lot of community engagement. We have engaged
059with many of our communities including our staff, our students, uh our families, tribal uh tribal groups in our area and um the public at large, our community partners. So there's a lot of um integration that's required. Uh we have to work with obviously our state legislature and um OD as well. But the concept was to try to reduce it. You guys heard last time the concept was to reduce the burden in application by consolidating it to one application rather than one for each grant area. Okay. Canyon. So here's all the programs and they've actually added uh three to the group from last time. So the grants that we're applying for that have been consolidated into this uh grant are application. the continuous improvement planning, the SE our everyday matters which is our attendance uh career
060connected learning that's a new one this year high school success you guys have heard about before obviously the SIA student investment account um EIS that's our data grant uh early literacy is new as of this year so that's been folded into this uh grant as well CTE we had last time and then uh our school improvement the comprehensive and targeted programs so all of Those are being applied within this same application. Next, please. So, this gives you guys more information. I'm not going to read all these to you. Um, the only new ones that I pointed out were career connected learning. Uh, go ahead to the next slide. U, these are all the same. And then the next one, again, early literacy was new this year. You guys have heard a lot about that. Um,
061and then federal school improvement uh was folded into this as well. It was a separate grant last time. So the planning team, this is who was involved. Um again, I'm not going to read all the names, but you can see we have representation from uh district administrators, school level administrators, uh head uh licensed staff, classified staff, uh parents. Actually had some really good input from our parent representatives as well as uh some community partners. next. So, the things that we had to do, um, we had to go through this entire process. Um, and I'm not going to call out each of these things separately, but I will say one of the new things this year, that fourth bullet point, the tribal consultation, we were required to meet with three different tribal uh representatives or representatives
062from three different tribes um to kind of run our plan past them to get their input. That's a requirement of the legislature this time. So, that was new. Uh we need to review our four-year plan, which obviously we did. Um and then get input from a lot of different groups, including our district equity, equity committee, um and take into account our quality education model, etc. But I think there were 22 different groups that we had to solicit input from um and for our local groups. So there was a lot of input that went into this this time as well. stadium the equity lens that we used and this one we actually use in a lot of our work that we do. It's just simply a way of doing business. It's how we consider what making
063sure that we have all of the the necessary voices at the table and that we're being um considerate of everybody's perspective and if anyone is being negatively impacted by any of the actions that we're taking or considering taking. So, um, that's something that we do all the time, but this is the equity lens that we've adopted for this process. Next, here's some engagement highlights. There's a lot of, um, text on that screen. It looks better on computer. Um, but some good some good things, some highlights. Our tribal partners indicated really strong support for our plan. Um, those tribes included the Confederated Tribes of Cousa and Suslan Indians, the Cow Creek band of Indians, and the climate tribes. Those are the three groups who have students with us in our district and that's why we're required
064to consult with them. Um let's go back a little bit. Uh more than half of our students, again these are highlights we found during our engagement process, more than half of our students, 56% at the elementary and 54 at the secondary level feel that there are one or more adults that they have a strong connection with that's supporting them at school. So that's a positive. Um our families we found uh because we we pulled our families on all the investments the or the significant investments we made last time with this pro project. Um and our families we found strongly value our school nurse our middle school counselors and our behavior specialists of the elementary schools as well as the SRO's staff members value a lot of those same things but they also added bilingual instructional
065staff to that as well. So these are things that people are really recognizing the value of our investments uh in those areas. And then finally another highlight u our migrant and ELLL families feel well supported and communicating with their children in school especially at the elementary level. So, that's something that we really pride ourselves in and work very hard at is trying to make sure that we're a welcoming and communicative uh district, especially for folks who may otherwise feel a little bit um isolated or okay. So, here's some of the areas where we found needs during our assessment. Our attendance, as you guys know, has been an ongoing concern. Uh our regular attendance rate dropped 65% last year. that is inclusive of um armadillo but we still have seen it drop it's 8% lower than
066two years ago when we first applied for this consolidated grant state goal of course is 90%. Our special ed attendance is down a little bit as well down to 59% last year. This year we're about 60% right as of this moment. Um academically things that we need to continue to work on our grade three uh English language director proficiency 30% um pass rate state average is 40%. Your grade math we were at 17% which was up I must say from two years ago where we were at 12%. 17% was a 5% increase but we're still 10% behind the average. And then another area that we need to focus on is our Hispanic and ever elelll performance in both reading and math. Those were the lowest of our subgroups. So those are areas that we need
067to uh continue to focus on terms of climate and engagement areas that we need to continue to work on. We saw our third fifth graders perception of engagement of belonging dropped 10% year-over-year this past year. Um our secondary students only cite a 22% perception of positive engagement with their classes. Uh our families identified a need to improve academic performance that ties to the above areas. and our staff members in their surveys identified a need for the district to do a better job tailoring professional development to them. So these are the areas that we've identified in terms of needs. Okay. Uh so our priorities based on all of that input priorities that the team has worked on for these three things. We're going to continue to advance our equity work support all groups. We want to
068improve and expand our programs create a strong well-rounded education. Obviously that's what we're here for. And then finally uh foster engagement for our communities. So here's the outcomes. So the way this works, the plan requires us to de develop outcomes which are like overarching goals, then strategies to support those goals and then specific activities within each strategy. So that's the hierarchy that we're looking at here. These seven outcomes are the same seven that we identified from last time. We basically continued them with a little bit of word smithing. I don't want to read all those specifically, but I will say things that we're committed to continuing to do, making sure people feel included and safe, engaged, that we're closing achievement gaps, we're providing equitable opportunities for every student, and that our students are ready for
069colleges and careers when they're done. So, that's our overarching goals. And here's the strategies trying to get to those outcomes. There's nine of them, and they're all aligned with one or more of those outcomes. Um, some of the things that we're really excited about are our CTE opportunities. I think right you mentioned we have seven different pathways in in our case high school as compared to like two other high schools like Crater larger high school than we are. So we're excited about continuing to offer those opportunities, maximizing our special programs. These are areas where we can serve niche populations of students and families. We think that's an advantage for our district. um and continue to find a broad range of data sources to help support all the work that we do. Okay. Can now here
070are some specific investments and activities that we're uh going to continue to support or new ones that we've chosen to call out. So again, not going to read all of them, but some of the things that have been very popular. Summer school programs have been very uh popular among families and and um been helpful for our students academic success. Um school nurse again was very highly rated. our grad coaches and counselors at the high school along with project youth plus uh and college advisors. They've all identified those as critical for their uh on track nth grade on track students as well as uh our high school graduation rate. They they feel like those are critical for that. We're going to we're going to put some more let's go back a little bit. We're going to
071put some more money into uh transition activities between fifth and sixth grade as well as 8th and 9th grade. We heard from families and students that that was a little an area of um nervousness and concern. So, we're going to try to support that a little bit better this time with these grants. Continue to support primary grade instructional aids. That's been uh very wellreceived and highly rated and effective. We uh are going to continue to support fine arts. That's been a real focus area for us in this last investment. training members, including our classified staff members, improving improving training, especially with respect to our marginalized populations or traditionally underserved groups. Um, and then speech and language pathologist support, we need to continue to support that through these grants along with all those others. So, again,
072not going to read all that, but you guys have that uh you guys have access to that slide. All right, canon. So, if we have additional funding, if we get through all of that and we still have money left over, some other ideas that we have to help continue to support our district, um funding potentially additional CTE pathways, um further expanding our networks programs and then having additional high school pay offerings. These are all things that uh could happen if there's money left over after all those other investments. Uh here's how the state judges our success and you guys know this. Um I'm not going to read all those but essentially it's all those accountability measures that either we set for ourselves those long longitudinal performance growth targets or th those that they set for
073us uh including um graduation rate scores etc. So this is how the state understands success with our with respect to our investments with these grants. And go ahead. These longitudinal performance growth targets that says the OD will co-develop those with us. That was true up until two days ago uh when OD decided they're not going to do that anymore. And so they're going to continue the LPGTs that we developed two years ago. And those are all set around our strategic plan areas as you guys know. So, our third grade uh reading, our eighth grader math, our attendance, our graduation rate, our on track nth graders. Well, it says them all right there. I just listed those out, but um those are continuing to be measured. We're just not going to set new targets on those.
074That was just determined by ODA two days ago. All right. Next. So, here's the things that we're focused on to determine if we're being successful with these grant investments. Obviously, we want to narrow our achievement gaps and continue to do that. We want to increase our third grade langards and eighth grade math scores, continue to improve nth grade on track and the graduation rate, which has been great as you guys know the last couple years. Um, our regular attenders want to increase that. And then on the uh engagement side and belonging side, make sure that we can improve and increase those among our staff, our students, our families, and our community. So here's a little graphic of what happens next. We're right at the very beginning. We've created the plan. So now after that, it's
075going to go before you guys for review as well as public comment. Next time we'll submit it to OT. They will review it and uh give us feedback as to whether we need to add any information or change anything. Um and the grant agreements if once they accept them will be sent out. And then once we get those, it'll go before the board again to um accept those grant agreements. That is it as succinctly as possible. Any questions for me or for the rest of the team as far as how we got where we did or specific questions about investments? I just I was privy to this information because I was I got to be part of that. But I think um hearing the dollar amount that some of these grants mean or as part
076or as a component of our budget is helpful information. So yeah, good question. So Brad, you've got information. I think they've recently released the specific amounts. They have the preliminary allocations and so for SIA it's about $2.3 million um a year and then it goes up a little bit in the second year of the bianium. high school success is about 630ish thousand. Um early literacy is going to be an interesting see how that plays out because uh if it goes with the current service level recommendation which is how it was this past this current year it's about 170,000 but the governor's recommended budget is to double that 360,000 for us with those investments. So, that'll be an interesting um something interesting to see how it plays out. That impacts if that happens, it impacts some
077high school success dollars overall because it's just not brand new money. So, it impacts a little bit, but uh our SIA uh increased actually and some districts didn't. So, um if if that recommended budget, governor's budget goes through, then our high school successes is impacted a little bit. hoping that Yasm mean can even give you the specific combined dollar amount of those nine programs right off the top of your head. All those grants that we just talked about combined it's between5 and $10 million. Yes. Yeah. So it's it's a good chunk of change. It's a big range. You're giving yourself a lot of cover there. No. um for for for early literacy. Remind me is that only K through three or K12 and there and there has some uh allocations I believe for um upper
078elementary, but it's it's kind of like high school success where it's a 9 through 12, but you can set spend a portion of your dollars at 8th grade. So, I'm just I'm thinking about our preschool preschools and how especially if that budget doubles, you know, what work can be done at that level. There may be some provisions in early literacy, too. I have to dig in and Tiffany's on her way to a conference today, but there may be some provisions on that end of it as well. So, I know there's transitional activities um but I'm not sure if there's just resources dedicated. And then one of the um one of the biggest things that just kept showing up for me through your presentation is is um I'm not saying I'm against state testing. It's important.
079We need to show up. We need to be prepared for it. You know, that's a snapshot in time where we need to demonstrate where kids are at. Um, but I just wonder is is it a requirement that that's the only measurement we can use? I'm just thinking about all the other ways that we have to show how our kids are doing and these types of things are, you know, we're doing these kind of plans that are done every year that we need real, we need timely feedback and can we incorporate things like I Ready and Dibbles and some of those other assessments into seeing where our kids are. My mom's a high school English teacher and she facilitates state testing. And I'm not saying our third graders are showing up doing this, but the amount
080of kids who show up and just go and, you know, do a fun pattern or something and and don't take it seriously is it's alarming. And so I'm just I'm spending a lot of time thinking about do we know where our kids really are? Um, and it seems like those the supplementary assessments are a good start for that. So, do you want to take that one or Michael? You are now on my team. I spent I don't know how many hours having this discussion. Yeah. When I was in um where were Atlanta, there was a discussion with um the accountability bill that's coming that's up, but might talk a little bit about. So, I was on the phone. Brent answered my questions. Uh Tiffany Lambert answered my questions. OSBA was chatting with me and I
081had several long conversations with Representative McIntyre. Um, testing because in the accountability bill, guess what? There's more testing requirements. So, I am with you 100%. I tried to get the S back out of testing, but I was not successful. Um, not only me, there was a lot of people trying. Um, and so we might actually have more testing at the accountability bill. So, let's talk afterwards and um see what we can do. I'm still Yeah, I'm still working on it, but it's a little bit slow. Is that is that the only measurement we're able to use to as far as the accountability of what we're judged on or how we're held accountable now? Yes. So there is some um you know KOSA and OSBA has really been looking at uh other methods that actually show
082growth instead of just that one snapshot in time in the spring. Um and so that is actually something that we're we're really and a 100% of our students take those I Ready tests. You can opt out of the Smarter Balance test and so that's why the validity of the one-time autopsy and you can opt out of it. Um it it's just but that's not something the legislature I don't think is willing to do right now. I think they're trying. So a conversation I had is that they want there's so many tests right now and they're all different and so they want a test three times a year that's the same and um that's a lot of testing. And I said well are you going to get rid of the other tests that we have? And
083the answer was maybe not. So um and then my question was they want um accountability but I was like and they want the data to come to the board and they want it in a public meeting which is fine. We already do that but not all boards do that. So there's a lot of accountability measures that doing more tests and I think this is a great time. It might not pass this time but talk about all the testings and all the time that testing takes and I had a conversation. And I said, "Can we do some other kind of data form?" And Representative McIntyre said, "Well, I want it. If you do like an apple, test an apple and then an orange and then an apple, then how are you going to know what's going
084on?" And I said, "Well, I want to test the apple tree. Like, why? Like, is the ground okay? How is our is our teachers getting supported? Are our students getting supported? What are we what are we needing around the support system? What are we needing around this apple tree to make it grow?" because it's not just the apple of the apples. And so it's a conversation that I think is going to be multi-year, but I think that's a great question, but I think a lot of it is a big topic right now of accountability. And Brent's been on the accountability um meetings and um it's kind of frustrating because I feel like we need accountability, but there's got to be a way that is going to benefit the students and our staff. We do. It
085feels like there's a lot of systems in place to check boxes to show that we're, you know, and I appreciate the good work that this committee, it's good work. You're operating, but you're operating within the con the construct of what you're given. And we're actually interested in making sure our kids can read and do math. Um, that's what we're and and that we are closing those gaps. Um, and and we don't want to just check boxes. So, um, so thank you for the presentation. Thank you for all the work and just know that this board will continue to advocate to make sure that all that work you're doing makes sense and is actionable and timely for for our students. So, yeah. Thanks, Aaron. Appreciate it. Thank you. Um, okay. On that note, um, consent agenda.
086Do I have a motion to pass the consent agenda? I move to pass the consent agenda. Done. I'll second. Thank you, Sarah. Any objections? Hearing? None. The consent agenda is approved. Uh information and discussion. Legislative OSBA update. This first item. Well, guess what? We are on my list with the accountability bill. So, um Right. So, that's a big There's a lot of stuff in there. There's a lot of stuff of accountability for schools and um it's going to be interesting to see how that goes. It's being controlled by the governor and oh shoot who's the other person that is not the speaker of the someone else informed and so there's a lot of conversation a lot of people trying to have conversation but it is um yeah it's it's going to take a lot of
087work and we'll see where it comes out of and I think we're going to have to massage it in the in later. Um, there's a cell phone bill that passed the House was going through the Senate. It's bell to bell, which we were not looking forward. So, bell to bell means beginning of the day through the end of the day. So, lunch, breaks, no cell phone service, no cell phones for students. Um, I see a big problem of that in the high school. So, I have a feeling that will change. Um, in different states, what's happened is all the kids go outside on the sidewalk and they're on their cell phones. So, um, there that becomes a safety issue. So, that's something that I know that our team is talking about trying to keep local
088control. I know currently we have the cell phone policies in the handbooks and I think that's great because each school can have what works for them and if there's something that comes up I know like AirPods and other there's like glasses now that have music on them and so you can quickly change it instead of waiting for a board meeting and getting the policy and we usually have to make sure the policyy's through OSBA like it would be way quicker if we could just handbook okay everybody next Monday, the rules change. And so I I'm really still advocating for um local control, but I think that I might that might not be as I might I'm not as optimistic as I was beginning of the session. Um advocacy day is coming up. OSBA is having
089an advocacy day. Unfortunately, Sarah and I were going to have a bus go up, but there wasn't enough uh interest. So, um there's a few people from Senate Oregon going up and um a whole bunch of school boards will be talking with their um legislators. I don't know what the plan talks are going to be. They're having a meeting on Monday night, but I'm missing that because it's my husband's birthday and uh but then they're going to give us some literature and I'll have that pretty soon for you. Uh, Ways and Means is going the road show for Ways and Means which are the people making the budget is in Clamoth Falls the 25th. You can sign up. I recommend pre-signing up and they're also taking they're taking on what you're talking about so you
090don't have everybody talking about one item because I've been to those Ways and Means and there's like 45 people are talking about forest and no one's talking about education or something else. Um, let's see. There's also some public meeting laws bills that are going to be interesting. Um I don't know how it's going to work. There's two going out there. One um describes a work session and another one is a little bit more um rigid that is saying public testimony has to be at the beginning of every meeting except work sessions. And so that one makes it makes it a little because it doesn't say what the beginning of a meeting can what that means and it also says a decent amount of time or something like that and that's kind of like what is
091a decent amount of time 5 minutes 20 minutes an hour like it doesn't say it. So I'm keeping my eye on that. Um, sorry I'm talking. You know who's brought that bill before that? Um, I believe no, I I had it in my notes and my notes got deleted, but I can give you the answer to that later. Look it up. Um, I forgot the name of the person that And then um Nancy and I went to NSBA. I typed up because I think it's helpful of what workshops I went to. It's in the thing. I did a lots of different workshops, curriculum, a student voice one. I learned a lot. Um, so, uh, and I don't know if Sarah, Nancy, or, uh, Brent want to add anything else. I'm happy to add something. Um,
092NSBA, we had an opportunity to vote on the policies, all of the policies passed. It is really fascoded out to me was um there was a state that was voting against the policies that were listed and it's fascinating how some especially um when we're thinking about why would somebody vote against this? The rationale was very fascinating and it wasn't because they didn't believe in that work. They really wanted to create protections and safety for their constituents in the school. So my takeaway from that, the value of having conversations with all kinds of people from across the aisle and the value of uh being able to understand one another and support one another in spite of having various opinions. Um that was great. The other piece that I just got really excited about was um a
093conversation around having student representatives. I went to a session around that and I felt incredibly grateful for the support and the continuous um opportunity for us to learn on how to support students and how to engage students and the value of having student representatives. There was a lot of conversation around student representatives being voting members and why that might be important. And while student representatives are not voting members as of yet, I think that that really creates the importance of that connection so we can represent their desires. And I know that um through a lot of conversations, for example, when we were talking about snow days, which can seem maybe um like a discussion about what is important, there was so much dialogue and engagement from the students. And I think that their comments, their
094influence, their questions really influence the way that we get to vote on things. So again, while we might not have that, the second best thing is really having that strong connection and relationship building. um with students. Something that I would love to consider for our next um our next year is having uh not necessarily student representatives that are eighth graders and ninth graders, but having a set, you know, building that pathway for students to come and be ready and feel prepared. So they talked about having um I'm glad I let you think here because we the the different schools talked about having um like policy pardon me I can't remember what they called it exactly but it's it's a pathway to start to coach youth to talk to adults. So like Mr. Kemp just did
095who brings the students and then they ask questions of the board is having something more on a continuous basis. So students get comfortable speaking to adults especially when they're hoping to advocate for something. Um sometimes that connection can feel really intimidating like I don't want to talk to the principal, I don't know if I want to talk to the um superintendent, I don't know if I want to talk to the board. So you're just creating this pathway to ensure and support student success and in student voice in that space. And I what I also really appreciated about that strategy is that it also helps us how to better listen, how to ask questions because sometimes we come in with our adult brain thinking we know all these things and it's just I think it would
096be a huge benefit for us to start um eighth graders, ninth graders especially since we are only considering student reps from 10th, 11th and 12th grade. I think that's a skill set even well I think it's even just a great skill set Rachel to start to learn that even because then it just fosters absolutely so absolutely and some kids have some kiddos have that already right they are so engaged in so many things like I think of the students from Becca that could probably speak to anybody teach us how to talk to other people um but not all the students have that opportunity so how do we create those um those spaces for people to have those conversations. So, I really um enjoyed that. Um great speakers. Oh my gosh. Maybe one of my favorite
097things was the student performers. Holy cow, the caliber of talent and dancing in music. And I I was like crying and excited and clapping. I was just incredibly um proud. And it's just so beautiful to see how students shine and represent when given the pathways and opportunities to do so. I was going to add that I went to a different workshop than you, but they talked about student reps in every single building, even in elementary starting to talk in groups and and giving voice and it was very interesting. Um, so I think that's maybe a workshop com uh conversation we can have. But and then uh piggyback on Nancy, there was some excellent like holy smokes, these are students. Um, there was a break dancing that I swear they should have been on like like
098they Yeah, they should be like doing like the Super Bowl and they were amazing. Yes. But there was this other oh the all um female vocal the they opened up the session chills. I mean they were just so so incredible. And then I felt like I was in Little Havana at the last performance. those students. Holy cow. All the boys and the trumpets and bass and the women and the young ladies just me from music to dancing to singing to playing instruments. It was just really exciting. Okay, one last thing that I'll say the um keynote speaker and oh my goodness, his name is escaping you, but he wrote the book Pivot. Um and he also we got to hear him at the Oregon School Board Association. um conversation and he came and spoke, but
099the way he explained his work and at the National School Board Association was like templed. And something that was just really touching is him creating pathways for students in different places around the world to connect. and he does it through art and music and poetry and um it just really reminded me of the importance of highlighting the ways different people show up, the way people sign up for different things. Well, we might glamorize sports a lot and we might forget how important arts and music and connection and um like those pieces are truly not just like an exaggeration, but they're truly changing people's hearts in connection. He was connecting folks and and this came from students requesting this and he's like, "Uh, I think I can facilitate like a Zoom meeting." And then there's now
100these really amazing programs for students just to connect across literally the world through a lot of differences in beauty and anyways it was it was so wonderful to get to hear him talk and for him to really think about or share this message of hope and that when challenges continue to come as we continue to see them as we will continue to see them. How do we really stay connected to other people? How do we pivot in a way that makes sense for us? So, I was incredibly inspired by So, what I've heard is extra money that was potentially allocated to um in in um advance, increase, expand the fine arts program has strong board and staff support. By the way, Sarah, that support is so important. So, so, so important. Um, at the conference
101that I was at in February, the keynote speaker really highlighted the importance of listening to our teachers. How do we support our teachers? And I know that sometimes they can feel like a really tough balance because we have students, we have budgets, we have family. There's so much. But the people who are doing the work day in day out are those incredible teachers, the instructional assistants, the bus drivers who get to greet the students. There was another suggestion about having like how do we start the day off right? And I love what Phoenix High School has been doing that they have music throughout like passing periods. And I thought, can we really better what are ways that we can better support our bus drivers? They're the first people to see the kiddos. Um, and while
102we might think of them as like this transactional part of the work that we do, they are an intricate part of the work. They get to bring kids home or they get to pick up kids from home and bring them to school. We also get to lead the kids. You know, they're that sort of system, school system that drops off kids that makes such a huge difference. So, support for our staff, for instructional assistance, it's so key. How do we really listen to them and support them? And it's a tough balance I can imagine. But this idea of arts, I was like so amazed. And it made me think of when Don went to Washington DC and oh my goodness, thank God that we have our students displayed at the Capitol, their artwork displayed at
103the Capitol. And we don't highlight that as much unless we go on a yearly basis. But we talk about football, we talk about baseball, basketball, you know, all those other things. And I would just love to do as you said, ensure that we're focusing and investing in the arts because it really does it really does create a change in transparency and compassion. Sorry for the interruption. Web letters during the passing period, please stop by the counseling office. Web letters to counseling during passing period. Thank you. Extracurricular activities are not ways that my brain works to connect. I knew my kids needed to play sports and I was like, "You're playing all the sports and they loved it." So, that was great. But thinking about arts and dancing and music and poetry and all those other
104things, like I think about our band, they go to national competitions and they're doing really great. Like, how can we just continue to elevate that? So that's a growing opportunity for me to be more thoughtful and I just really appreciate you Sarah if that continues to be the theme that you support and advocate for. Perfect transition to a financial report um and how we how that's going. Um, great idea. Did you want to Yeah, you just have a a financial report up through March and uh just thank you to Yasm means to really consolidating and estimating our ending um fund balances and really um looking at the incumbrances to make sure that they're accurate. So, I'll turn it over to you. Hello, everybody. Yes. Yes. Me caras, director of accounting So um for the financial
105report we were able to update all the way through March and um as you can see the income balance projection is going to higher. Um one of the reasons is that we remove the the grand reserve because we're not going to need to use it before the end of the year. Another one um intentional usage of grant funding. So the difference between January and now there were some grounding that is going to end at the end of June and we were able to switch some of the FPS to grounding and that's why it also um so that's really what I have to share for the general fund. As for the bond projects fund, I changed it a little bit from capital projects which uh also had SB129 monies for energy savings and it also had
106the TMS solar grant included and I figured it would be best to just present the actual bond project so you can see because some of those other grants may take away from the balance. So we wanted to see a true balance just from the bond monies. So as of March 31st, we still had 2,250,000. And my projection for the end of the year is with all incumbences we have right now to finish up the the high school tennis courts. So we're going to end up about $2,70,000. Um other than that for construction excise tax as of March, we have about $625,000 on that fund. H the projection is to end up in about 351,000 if we're able to finish up with the TMS solar grants before June 30th. And um some of that money is
107going to come back next year once we're able to get um some of those rebates for energy savings. Um so that money is going to come back about $300,000 that will come back to the fund. So anyway, I think that's all I have for now. Any questions? Remind me again of the timing of the ADM security. When when do we typically get that? So for ADM security, we went ahead and um and claimed the monies for the 2324 allocation in April and we received the full amount. But for the 2425 allocation, which is the last one, it's projected to be paid until the summer of next year. And then so we will have until J uh June of 2026 to spend it. Okay. And and that's it for that group. So that's one of the
108reasons, you know, where we're trying to take advantage as much as possible from ground funding so we can intentionally grow the general compounds to prepare for losing that funding. Yeah. No. Um, other than that, you know, the only thing I had to mention is property tax collection seem to be lower than I was expecting. So, that's going to play into the states fund formula. So, it just switches from Cisco fund to property taxes, but I wanted to mention it to you just um as a side note, I may need to um do another revision to that estimate of revenues in membership before the they cut it off for the maintain which is the representation payment. And just to confirm, I know we talked about this Yasm mean, but we are looking okay. Sometimes at the
109end of the year, we pass a resolution to make sure we have appropriations, but we should be okay. There may be um a situation where we have to come to the board in June to pass a resolution, but uh I just appreciate you staying on top of that and um understanding where we are. So far so good. So, if something comes up or something happens at one of the schools and John needs to spend more money, then I'll definitely begin looking. I meant to ask during legislative where are we at with ADM security? So, it's not it's it's essentially on hold. It's in ways and means and so it'll be just a while. It's sitting kind of sitting there, but um I think on purposeish. So, um, letting it lie and then when that when
110that comes up for, uh, allocating funding to that, we'll we'll have to have some testimony on that. So, and thank you to our legislators, especially Pam Mar. She is absolutely and and I think she's put in a lot of favors like please, please, please. So, um, I'm I I'm more optimistic on that than any other bill that's out there if that helps you or not. But does um Yeah. Good. And just a reminder, that's a that's a one year, not the original four year, the one year support. But there was talk about because one school is almost there and one school is way below and then we're kind of in the middle. And there was talk about, you know, if you need more support, maybe possibly later, but not all three schools because one is
111like what are they 40 students away from back to ADM. So I don't think they're going to need money. Well, or as much. Yeah. because if it just doesn't if it just holds harmless till the 2019 ADM, it just they still um are included in that just may not need as it may not it just won't impact the fiscal as much. Yeah. And that's what we kind of said for the four year like hopefully we don't need it three or four years down the road because we have building or places for our family to move back in. So it just hasn't been that hasn't been the case. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Yasmine. Appreciate it. Um, okay. Uh, student handbooks are there for your review. Any questions come up as you've reviewed those? Hey,
112we might when is if that law does in fact the bell to bell? Is that in effect for the next school year? I declaring an emergency like they like to do. So, there's like five or six amendments to these bell. There's like two or three bills and five or six amendments to some of them. Yeah. So, I'm not exactly sure. I want to say next school year will go in effect. I'm 98% sure it'll be next school year. And just so you know that we have we submitted testimony that really or I submitted testimony as their superintendent supporting the bill with the local control piece and now it passed the house with some amendments that were bell-to bell with no really local control. We're actually going to submit testimony to the Senate opposing the bill,
113which seems weird, but it's it's the strategy that has to be used so that they really see how and we made the same letter, the same document and just put a pose rather than support because it says the same thing. We want control. Yeah. Well, yeah, we don't need to debate the the merits of it right now, but I, you know, these mandates come without support for, you know, bringing in parents and explaining the rationale behind it and how does enforcement work and what's the practicality of actually what happens with the phones then? What are they just in a back, you know, all the things? So, Michael, get your money. But here's what Pam Marsh believes too because our we had a legislative call Wednesday morning who said this we are all in for accountability.
114Let's let's get something accountability that makes sense. This cell phone ban bill just distracts from accountability. Mandatory class size distracts for uh you know accountability. Some of these things let's just go all in on accountability and not have any other distractions. But this is a rare I don't know if it's rare but this is something absolutely require a revision to handbooks. So just be aware of that. Um so this is what we have right now but we might need to update those uh for the next school year depending on what our Oh this is this actually brings up a good Yeah, go for it. I just looked at the surplus list. Sorry I moved on. Oh we're on item I4. Are we moving down? No problem. I could appoint you chair for the last few
115months if you want. Go out with a bang. Sort, right? Um, go for it. So, Brent, you and I had a conversation about potentially looking at um doing some different things with maybe career pathways. Are these really something that we should surplus? I mean outstand and this this will come back uh to it will need to be approved next meeting. So I'll make sure these are really old. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, but if there is something salvageable that will we'll we'll we'll talk to John about that. Thanks for bringing that up. I was going to ask if we want to spend the rules on that, but it sounds like we want to Okay. All right. We got a little like to wait. Yeah, absolutely. That's a good good thought. Um okay. Oh, next is the
116targeted feedback survey um proposal from OSBA. It looks like this is both that and just general support for the whole superintendent evaluation process if I'm understanding this correctly. Does that sound correct to you? I was thinking it's just for the targeted feedback. This is just the component for the targeted feedback. It says present a proposal for superintendent evaluation and targeted. Oh. Oh. So this includes So this is an updated includes targeted. So they won't do just the targeted beacon. No, no, no. This is saying this is saying the way I interpret this what we had her do this year in addition to the targeted feedback. Yeah. Okay. And they will thank you for that clarification. will not OSBA will not do targeted feedback if they're not doing your OSBA superintendent saying I'm sorry Denise. So
117that um Got it. But this is not just a proposal for Got it. I understood. Yeah. But they'll do just the evaluation without the target feedback button. But the targeted Okay. It's like a little extra part items. Okay. Which I um I'm I'm for this. I think that this will help give a fuller picture horrible word to the board and um information uh for the superintendent evaluation. Yeah. Any other thoughts? I was just going to say um with conversations I've been having about accountability um and people asking me does your board do this, does this your board do that? And I'm like yes and yes and yes and yes and yes. So, I think that the pathway we're taking is going to set us up for success with accountability coming down the pipeline that our
118board is going to have the data and the knowledge and the tools to like bring things up versus I think it's going to help us more. So, I think it's worth the money. I agree. That's very reasonable. So, okay, great. We're scheduled to take a recess. I think Brent has to leave at noon. Do you all mind if we just power through the action items? Is that okay? Do you want to excuse administrators? Yeah, if you guys if you need to go. I know you have schools to run. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you, Erica. I don't know who's in charge of the high school right now, but if it's Tammy, it's probably fine. Tammy and Jim could probably handle it. Yeah. Thank you all so much. Um, oh, he's gone. Yeah. Hey, finish
119strong there, Jav. All right. Okay. Next is interd district transfer slots. We have zero. Well, zero are Yeah, we have. Yeah. And and we I haven't looked at necessarily all of these to see if they qualify for hardships. That's just a number we Okay. So, yes, I'll take I move to approve the interd district transfer slots as presented. Second. Thank you, Paulie. Thank you, Don. Any discussion? So, just to clarify, we may not transfer 17 out. This is just how many applications we're having. Okay, got it. Because we're only doing partnerships. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We shall vote. Nancy. Yes. Rebecca. Yes. Sarah, yes. Don, yes. Holly, yes. I vote yes. Uh food service contract. Hopefully you all I and thank you Yas mean for getting that to the board. Um I wanted you all
120to have at least a couple days notice and not get it this morning. Um so hopefully you had a chance to review that. Um did you want to just briefly touch on the did is the increased insurance did that make it in there? I haven't looked at the most recent. Okay. Yeah. Can you hear me? Is that okay? So, yes, I got the information from the base uh authority and she said it's normally $1 million in and uh 2 million total. But so I had already changed it to 2 million. This is based on the OD template. So I left it like that. I also submitted to some exo for review. I haven't heard back from them but um um the reason why we put that note that you know we still need to get
121approval from the OD but I have already had a discussion with Richard Williams. So it looks like it's good to go in front socal there's an exception list on the contract. One of the clauses is like um we're not allowed to hire if the contract were to end management for a year and that one is already in our current contract. So maybe some of those exception um items may move for the actual contract but for now our legal council recommended just to leave it on the proposal because we are accepting the proposal for the contract. Okay. So yeah and and that's it. I I know I put summary of the proposal. It was actually like a lot of pages, but I wanted to make sure that you got a sense of why the committee to
122Yes. Thank you. Yeah, we had a good discussion about it last week, last meeting today. Yeah. And just so you know, so this is on action. So if the board approves this, but if for some reason OD comes back, by the way, dad's gone through this whole thing and actually was really impressed by the contract. Um but if there's something that OD or even Sedexo comes back that wants to modify, we may have to reapprove it. But uh it looks good for now. That increase in insurance is that is that um is that something Sedexo has to have more coverage or Yes. Okay. Which is an increased cost to them. Yeah. It was just recommendation because it's been like that on the template from 5 years ago and if something were to happen, it's protection
123for them and for us as well. So 2 million makes sense. Does Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I will entertain a motion. Uh I move to approve the Sedexo as a successful proposer and the contract to the 2526 as presented including any changes requested by OD and or Sedexo. Thank you Paulie. Thank you Rebecca. Discussion. I just have one question um which is regarding um well I'm just going to use regarding Amy's contract. So, so does it mean that Amy can can stay? Yes. Pending OD. Is this a Is that a pending OD? No. Did I just miss? That's if we went to do our own food service. We got in fact make sure that I put a resume. Okay. is and that was one of the reasons you know some of
124the companies didn't really have a already a general manager and I think you know the service really falls in the pool in right so I I just wanted to clarify that with the new contract it didn't mean that no our contract okay yeah the only reason why needs to go to OD for approval is because they handle that it's a federal grant So they have to be involved on every step and that's why it was too applicable for them because they they they want to make sure that we have pretty much everything that is required by the credit. Okay. And that exception of not being able to hire me is yes as Brent said but it's for anything like even if I were to come be a teacher aid I can you you can't hire
125me for a year. Oh that okay I understand that. So, it's that you can still be employed for just OEXO, but you couldn't be an employee for the district for Correct. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. I had two things. One, thank you for looking at the insurance. Being on the pace board opens my eyes quite a bit and the insurance um claims are going up in prices and so being covered um with more coverage is always a good thing recently. And it's really hard to get more coverage. So that must put good things on us because some districts are having a really hard time getting good coverage prices. So thank you so much for all that. Second, Amy, I appreciate your updates all the time. Um I would in the future now that we're
126doing the farm to school like once a quarter learn more about and thank you for talking about the muffins. I look forward to learning more and so just hopefully we can talk more about that because I'm super excited about that program. That's it. Um I wanted to add uh Don, thank you for um asking Brent about maybe a report on local um rice foods uh type of reporting because I was able to integrate it into the contract it was fine to do that and um so as long as it's approved by the extra as well then it's already in the contract. Oh, yay. Reports from me. I'm happy to share out or even just send over. I mean, we keep a lot of things. That's great. And you do great with reporting. It's just good
127to have because there's a conversation that comes up a lot of the time with students and families and um I've had them all the time and so it's good to say, "Oh, Sedexo just gave this report. You can find it here or I can give you a copy or whatever." So, thank you very very much. I appreciate that. And I hope that we can um outsourcing or resourcing um from local gardeners. I think that would be really great. I don't know if you have a connection with Ro Foodites, I'm sorry, Rogue Food Unites. They have done an incredible job of really partnering with local um farmers, local restaurants to and not maybe the restaurant piece is not applicable to the situation, but I love how they have partnered with other local communities to make healthier
128uh nutrientdense food accessible for our families. And I just think that it it's it's a win-win, right? We support our farmers. We engage our kiddos and we provide healthy more nutrient rich foods. Yeah, I will definitely look into and talk to them as well if you need that connection. I'm I'm happy to facilitate that. Yeah, I would love to have that connection. So, I mean, right now we're working very heavily with Rogue Valley Farm to School, um, as they are partners for the district and other ways like Lincoln County's program that they talked about and shared. Um, they get gardens from their kid gardens even on some level. So, those are things that I'm excited to look into with everyone as it works and um in fact really hope that maybe we would want a
129presentation in the fall from Lincoln County's program just to really a highlight of what Sedexo does with partnerships of schools with some of that local. So, thank you. Yes, that's awesome. Well, I'll definitely be voting to approve this and I think this is a shining example of why we do this process. Um, and it helps just solidify um responding to some of the needs of our kids and our community and and making things be better. And I know that um that sourcing and working with local was a big part of this agreement. And um congratulations to you all. I appreciate you showing up in a big way and and uh making those changes and continuing to be a good partner for the district. So, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for serving on that. Some important
130stuff. Um okay, with that we will vote. Nancy, yes. Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Don, yes. Holly, yes. I vote yes. Um last thing is Yeah. Um, last thing is board meeting calendar. So, just want to make sure um we talked about last time with the OSBA conference having that if you look at November um date, we talked about moving that to the 13th. Um, and then having a work session on the 20th. Um, so I don't think we talked about this, but we've got a board work session on the calendar for July 24th. That would be this summer. Um, so we'll do our organizing meeting on July 10th. That's when we'll we'll swear in our board members. Um, and then the board the work session on the 24th. Once again, we have the jab meeting
131happening in January. I think that was pretty well received. moving it. Okay. Yeah. Um and then we'll have our work session on March 19th. So any any major conflicts with any of those dates before we Is this enough? Did we We only ended up with two work sessions. So there's no second meeting in August and no second meeting in December, right? Is that that's mirrors this year? No, that's that's how it's been the last several years. Okay. Yeah. I knew we had added work sessions in there a couple of months. Yeah, we did. We don't have a board retreat on this calendar. Have we not put that on um I guess that's the summer one. Okay. In July 24. Yeah. It's not really retreat. It's really It's a convening. It's a summer convening in a
132dark room. Yeah. It is on this block. It's not a retreat. No, we are not doing fun things. No, just kidding. Um, so it did seem to me that there was the work sessions were limited, but I don't know. um that and then I don't I wish I knew because my brain is just a little spinning wheel up here, but I did somewhere I was at some workshop that talked about the um and it's fine for this year, but something we can talk about having the board work sessions in the summer is sometimes contradictory because you've already passed your budget. So they have talked about if you talk about your board summer. Anyways, it's just something that we could also do later in the year because there's a work session in like March, but that's
133just conversation that they had talked about. I forgot if it was OSBA, NSBA, or I have no idea what workshop it was that I was on, but they did talk about um having your uh having your all the boards have summer work sessions, but if you're talking about like, you know, anything budget-wise, you have to wait a whole year to incorporate it sometimes. So, everybody's looking Denise is looking at me like I just But anyways, it's fine. I'm just I'm just saying. Yeah, I agree. I mean, one thing we I think we can do and maybe we do this in the summer work session is actually outline because we have two or three consistent things at each work session. Maybe look at what makes sense for the summer work session, what makes sense for November,
134what makes sense for well, we have jab in January, what makes sense for March because we have Kelly's report pretty much in March. That's been consistent over the last two years. um you know and and obviously depending on accountability legislation and how people I mean we may have to actually add more work sessions if there's three times a year where um data is going to need to be presented. So or we could do that in program reports too. So but that might be something to outline what what we want to shoot for in each of those work sessions. I think it's a really good thought. Um, I think I think my recommendation would be let's approve this and let's keep that top of mind because I I agree there's just never enough never enough time
135to to learn and and then what happens is you know you end up with um super long program reports and you know people feel rushed and so yeah I think looking at that would be a really good idea looking at adding one more work session so or looking at the timing of it too. So yeah, especially with board self evaluation. Yes. Community engagement, all of those. Yeah, we ended up doing essentially kind of a mini work session. We added it to to learn more about that. So yeah. Um Okay, great. With that, do I have a motion? I move to approve the 2526 board meeting calendar as presented. I'll second. Thank you, Paulie. Thank you, Don. Any further discussion? Nancy, yes. Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Don, yes. Paulie, yes. I vote yes. Calendar is approved.
136Although we may see that again. TBD. Uh, the agenda for 51 is there for your review. Anything stand out? Just a note. Um, I did not inform Denise and so she didn't add it on here. We will have to open this with a public meeting on the I was wondering because he said that on there. Okay, very good. We'll do that. Any anything else? So, we're next meeting we're reviewing student representative applications. Is Kayn and the team on board to advertise that and have that ready? It's already in the process. Nice. We're gonna have to change the questions though. Well, it's choose an event. So, I think they'll they've just traditionally chosen those events because that's the timing, but I'm sure and different, but I didn't think to share it with you. Oh, okay. You
137can send it out. It's fine. I was just like some of the questions were like, "How was your first day of school?" Well, they have So, they're going to choose three events, right? And I think we gave suggestions of fall events. So, but it'll be spring and there's plenty to choose from. Oh, yeah. One of the questions was how was your first day of school and when did you Yeah. So, yeah. I'm sure she took care of it. I have confidence you find it. Yeah. Great. Okay. Thank you all. We are journed.