001And the first item of business is accentuate the positive. Yeah. Now is it on? No. Now is it on? You have to sing a song in order for Okay. testing. Option B. I don't know till she I just have to speak a little louder into it now. Can you hear me or is that just my Are you getting on the recording? Yeah. As long as we're getting if she can hear or whoever else is on Yeah, as long as we're getting I can hear you. I can hear you all. I just have myself on mute. Okay, as long as we're getting levels there, we're good because we can hear you in the room. Okay, perfect. Go for it. All right. Good evening, George. Kayen Ross, proud principal of the pirate ship. Thanks for uh coming
002tonight to our beautiful facility. We um just have a few things we're really excited about. It's classified staff appreciation week. Um and each day we've been able to honor our wonderful staff with just a little bit of appreciation. Um we've had lunches. Our leadership is downstairs right now setting some things up, but I know our student reps are going to talk more about that. But we're just really thankful for the work that our classified staff do every day. Um, and a week to show our appreciation really isn't enough, but I'm glad to have it. I wanted to let you know that our um school spirit is very high right now. Our um student reps are also going to talk about this, but um really would like to invite you to the basketball game on Saturday.
003Um it's going to be a great time and tomorrow we also have a basketball game. Our girls are on the road. So um hopefully you can uh come cheer them on. We're boarding buses between third and fourth period. I will email you that exact time because we'd like to come cheer on our our girls basketball team. Um we had a BSU cookout last week after the Black Youth Leadership Summit. Our BSU group uh invited all other regional BSUs to attend a cookout to celebrate Black History Month. It was very well attended and um kids and staff just had great things to say about the community that um has created there. So, we want to shout out to Tyreek Kamore who is our BSU coordinator. He's a wonderful um young man and we're so happy to
004have him on our campus. We uh had our Pirates to Raiders program kickoff this month. We have a new coordinator. We work with SOU um to have that program and our new coordinator is Jasmine Casares and she's doing a great job even already of building community for our students. Uh we want to shout out to our counseling crew. You heard a little bit about this last meeting but we have been working really hard with hatching results to create a comprehensive school counseling program. So Tammy Ingerson, Michelle Carlson, Jordan Ruiz, and Angelica Mendoza are just amazing school counselors that support our students every day, and we're just thankful for the work that they've been doing. We um got to roll out the news of our new college and career and financial literacy um credits that are
005required for this year's juniors. We're going to start that next year, their senior year. they're very excited to pay attention um to and learn a little bit about what exists for them outside of high school. So, college and career planning and also that financial literacy that people have been um excited to learn about. So, we're excited about that. And last but not least, we have been doing our OSAS testing or state testing. We finished up science uh about a week ago and that was wonderful. And we started our English language arts testing this week. Our teachers have been prepping for that. I mean, for a really long time, but especially the last month and feel confident about our students just showing off what great things they've been learning and showing off um just how how
006much they know. And so we want to shout out to those teachers and also there's a lot of this behind the scenes work that makes that happen. So Alyssa Barber, Germina Hernandez, Maggie Taylor, and Britney Clots have been instrumental in making sure that has gone smooth. So thanks to them and that's all from the pirate ship. Thank you. Sure. Good evening everybody. I'm Thomas, principal at Phoenix Elementary School. I just have two short announcements. The first I want to echo what Kaylin said about classified appreciation week. Um yesterday we had our staff meeting and I I opened it up with we appreciate our classified staff because and then we just shared that out with each other and uh it just was really awesome to hear all the comments that people felt about our classified staff.
007And what was cool is that I noticed that everything that they shared was student centric and I pointed that out to them and we just you know there's such a team feeling here at PES and one staff member who's been work she's worked at another school in our district but she's also worked for other districts. She shared that um at our district she said classified staff are very valued for who they are and the role they play and that in other districts she felt less than but she's never felt that since working in our district. So I thought that was to share. So, I just want to give a shout out to our office staff, our custodians, our instructional aids, our sped support, our behavior specialists, our media managers, our custodians. We couldn't run schools
008without them. So, just big shout out to them. Uh the next thing I want to share is that we have our we had our OBO competition last week. We had 22 students on seven teams participate and battle it out. The the what are the the name is the minions of King Bob. the name of the group that won a bunch of fourth graders or four fourth graders that did a fantastic job. At our Friday assembly, we were able to showcase a a mini battle for our entire school to get our K through two students excited and understanding what OBA is all about. So, I really want to give a big shout out to our club advisor, Zoe Boilles. And then we had a ton of support with Elliot Gima, Estraa Madano, Amy Hartley, Anniva, and
009then during the battles Christy Dixon and Karine Calhoun. So, it's a big team effort to make that worthwhile for our students and so want to say congratulations to our participants and their staff to support that. Uh, good evening everybody. Heather though over at Colin Elementary. Um, thanks Ze and Ditto for usual. Um, just want to echo with these two center classified staff. They're amazing. Um, and I especially lean heavily upon our office staff as you know the only one up there. Um, the only admin and not a lot of support. So what we what Cheryl um and Alma and Kim do to support kind of the business for as principal and we certainly would not survive without them. So I want to call them out specifically. Um I also want to share that next week
010we have our district math meeting here at Phoenix High School um uh 5:30 to 7. It's really fun and just a lot of gratitude to Tiffany and Charlene who are really orchestrating all of that for the district. It should be fun. Um, and then this is kind of awkward because Mark's right there, but tomorrow, uh, we're having our, uh, PTA is hosting a family dance night and and I was going to sing your praises, so that feels weird. Yeah. Is also our PTA president and has been serving in that role for three years. Oh, nice. um really getting the PTA back on the ground and really a really energized group of folks right now. So, thank you Mark 5 actually know. Um but yeah, should be fine at 6 to8 if you want a boogie.
011Um and then last but not least, we're in the middle of our checkers tournament. So when we get back from break, I'll be able to tell you who the next reigning checkers champion is at tees. As you know, that's a big tradition and a lot of thanks to Sam Clickle. And then there's a lot of people behind the scenes really volunteering to supervise those. So things are going really well. I do know the former champ last name Schlife. It's pretty shame for academy. Just for those of you guys who are newer, that checker tournament goes back to the 90s. So it's been going on for 30 plus years. So pretty exciting. Um I want to celebrate our one classified employee. So I'm gonna call her out by name. That's Danny Goodwin. And Danny is a
012dynamo. She's our office manager, our registar, our instructional assistant, our playground supervisor, and also just generally runs the show. So like Shauna said and Heather said, we could not run schools without these folks. And so really want to appreciate her. Um and then finally on the district side uh we'll be convening our uh byianual strategic planning committee next week. Uh that's pulling together folks from the community, students, parents um and others try to chart the course for the next two years. It's part of our planning for integrated programs application which as you guys know is where we get a good chunk of our funding including our SIA, our high school success uh and many other grants. And so, uh, looking forward to where that goes and working with the rest of the community. Good evening
013everyone. Kent Valer, principal at Orchard Hill. Shauna, how many kids did you have in Oval? 22. Uh, Orchard Hill will have 23 kids and cool example. excellent classified staff. Um Katie McCormack and Holly Swift are classified staff and they facilitated Orchard Hills uh Oregon Battle and without those two and their willingness to facilitate everything that event wouldn't happen. But uh again, Orchard Hills who had a fourth grade champion, the Penguins is their name that they're moving on to the regionals. Um and I want to highlight uh Katie and Holly for their efforts and also uh all those kids came from Jenny Wever's fourth grade class. Um it's a really good class and those kids work hard so I wanted to thank her as well. Uh today at Orchard Hill uh we had our first of
014the two required uh lockdown secure drills and um every time I have a chance to work with Sergeant Paul Layman and Officer Ashworth from the Medford PD. It is just an honor and those guys do such a good job to keep our building safe, the kids safe and our staff members safe. It went very well. We discovered a few things like doors that might not totally latch. you know, those are good things to know. Uh, and that's why we do do the drills. Um, also excited about um, family math night coming up next week. Uh, Orchard Hill is going to try when we're at high school in the spring, there was always like a boot camp or uh, a boot camp for seniors who just needed to get a little more stuff done to get
015their credit in econ or something. So, we're going to try that model a little bit. Some um, after school math support for some fourth graders. Um, we've looked carefully at their uh, I Ready Math diagnostics and we've got about 17 kids that we think a little more help after school that might put them over the top on on the aspect test. So, um, I'll meet with the parents next Wednesday night here at high school to kind of prep them for that. That's all for what you're doing. I need to stand by middle school. I I mean, my main thing I wanted to shout out was just our classified staff as well. Um, starting with the front office staff. I mean, they are the first people who uh our families came to DC when they walk
016through the door and so the role that they play. Um I am uh live and die by relationships and our classified staff are names that constantly come up when kids uh are talking about the safe people um in their lives. And so our special education staff, our u bilingual, our custodians, our cafeteria um how they continue to show up um for our kids and even when it's hard um even when it's really hard and continuing to show up. Uh, and then I just want one of our um eyes came to Alison and I at the end of the day today just uh kind of it's kind of that like sharing appreciation for being appreciated I guess. Um, but one of the things he said is uh and he works in our special education uh classroom
017and he I think it's hard to realize the impact that we have that all of us have and um he just made a comment that he got a note from a student and um just uh he didn't realize the impact that he had been having in the words that they are saying to him and him just saying hi in the hallway and what that means. Um, and so I think for all of us to realize the impact we have and I think especially for our classified staff who might not feel as appreciative as they should be. Um, and so just really grateful because I think as everyone's saying, our schools would not run without them. So thank you. Any more from the board with me? So I have two. Sorry. Go ahead. We have our
018um person from the uh association who wanted to give an update as well. Sorry. Welcome. Sorry. Hi, I'm Lana Corales. I'm representing the Phoenix Talent Education uh Association. And I just want to share a couple positives. Um Rosario, our vice president, and Laura, our president, have been preparing a presentation for an upcoming NEA leadership summit on how to support BIPO educators in rural unions using the model that we have in our union. Um, since stepping into leadership roles with our union, we've they have worked intentionally to increase BIPOC representation and we're very proud to share that our executive council now includes BIPOCK members and half of our bargaining team identifies as BIPOC educators. Um, this is the progress this progress is the result of thoughtful planning and organizing and we remain committed to ensuring diverse
019voices are included in all aspects of our union work. Um, additionally, the OEA representative assembly is approaching and PTEA recently held elections for members to vote on their representatives. We saw a record number of nominations for these leadership positions, reflecting strong engagement from our members. This is a pivotal year as representatives will be voting on the next leaders for OEA at the Oregon Education Association. Our association is eager to bring the perspectives of rural educators to the broader OEA body and advocate for the needs of our community at the state. Thank you. Gosh, that's a hard thing to follow. like now I have three because I do want to say that I have seen tremendous growth in um our association and Laura is one of those leaders that are working hard to I don't know
020if you know but she's running for vice president I think on April 19th. I know it's that. So I know she's been spending a lot of her time um so she can help represent um smaller regions. So I appreciate that. My other two are I went to the assembly um at Tel Elementary. It was great. It was amazing. I at one point I look over to the side and Miss Low is on the ground mostly and all these kids are around her and it just made my heart full seeing a principal like sitting on the ground assembly and all these kids are around her and that's what it should be, right? the kid should be centered and so and so I and I just wanted to give a shout out and I know all the
021principles really really like are um student centered and it just makes it's really makes me very proud. The last one is I don't know if you have seen on social media, which I usually stay away from but not always, the Phoenix Police Department had a great thing about their relationship with our school and I so much appreciate them and the community having such a great relationship and being proud um of our schools and it was just a sweet little Facebook post. But I really appreciate it and I really thank everybody in this room because it's the partnership we have is because each person really cares about kids in the community. So, thank you so much. Good. Anybody else? I'll go next. Okay. I'm not going to share all the details, but I was able to
022um travel with the DECA team to go to Portland and um for many reasons I'm grateful is that we have an amazing group of individuals that competed in that event. And I spent time in the front row yelling my brains out every time someone in the 1400 people that were competing is on the freaking stage, especially like even in the first position, which makes my heart sing. and um I've been hanging out with this group since 2011 and I'm really proud of that program and what they're doing there. So anyway, that was a real privilege of life to see that. I just want to say um on my way into the meeting tonight that the slideshow on the common screen which is probably showing on multiple screens but I just was loving the messaging on
023there. Take your earbuds out and so just creating that culture of engaging with your peers. And then I also love I like this on the flip side. Scan here to um pick the music for the minute, right? Put your earbuds in. So you're listening to it maybe communally with all of your friends. And I know you talked about that there's a subscription for music, right, for the school that which um I think is great too. And then book club was happening and I was like, how do I join book club at the high school, right? And so just really all of the great things just in my little walk up to the library just really um appreciating um the creating an awareness of creating relationships and and doing those things. So kudos to you guys.
024Anything more? I know a question. The basketball game is Saturday. What time? Oh, the student reps are going to tell us. 3 p.m. 3 p.m. Okay. Are you announcing? No. Keeping score. No, they're all be there. Okay, I'll be there. Uh, I think just on behalf of the board, um, we want to thank our classified staff on classified appreciation week. I know for me dropping off Nora in the morning, I look forward to seeing whoever's there to greet the kids and they do such a great job and it makes me feel good about dropping my kid off at school every day. It's a great start to the day. And Nora may or may not respond, but always have something nice to say as she's walking through the gate. So, you can't tell what kind of
025mood she's in in that moment, but um we know that we could not do this work without our classified staff and we greatly appreciate you. So, thank you. All right. Uh student representative report. Welcome. Thank you. Um you want go this way? Okay. Hi, my name's Rachel. Um, for the accent the positive today, um, I'm going to be talking about the basketball games because both of our girls and boys varsity teams made it to state. Um, yeah, big big props to them. Tomorrow we're taking a rer bus um of some of the leadership kids and some other students that wanted to come along and we're going to be riding up to Newport, I think. Um, no. Uh, Stadium, sorry. Stadium will be playing Newport and No, that was Sorry. Okay, we're going to the game
026and you thought you were going to the coast, huh? But yeah, so that's going to be tomorrow and I'm one of the people going and I went and got some fun blueout stuff for our game, which is going to be super cool to have the students there to cheer on our girls. And then the day after, Saturday, um the boys are going to be playing their state game. Um and it's the first time in 21 years that they've made it to a state game. So yeah, conference champs. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry. It's the first time they're the conference champs in 21 years. Thank you. Um, hi, I'm Eden and I was gonna talk about uh leadership and mostly Skyler has been really working to recognize all of our amazing groups that have been
027just placing and everything going to state like Becca which Bobby will talk about. Um, we have a skier who placed in state. We have someone in equestrian who at least went. I don't not sure if they placed wrestling went to state. Basketball is going of course when we got some we won some things to the state fourth. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure as the plan is to do to recognize next Friday we're going to do a big assembly to recognize everyone in front of the whole school. But we've been doing these recognizations and during the breakfast and we're playing a few games with different groups like basketball will be doing a game tomorrow just to help bring up the hype and the spirit. And I also know we're working on planning our talent show.
028It's still details are in the works still. Same with our staff versus student basketball game. All I believe all of it's going to spare all the proceeds and so everything like that is in the works and just undercoming. Yeah, lot of fun. Thanks. Good evening, board. Um, I want to start off by saying and shadowing off of what Miss Carl said that there's a lot of spirit going on in Phoenix High School right now. Um, from my point of view, a lot of us have been talking about how it's been a really amazing time to be a pirate and how a lot of things are going great and we want to just keep momentum and keep building off of it. and just um in every in every aspect how we've just improved and just um
029also like the leadership that has been going into every team. A lot of a lot of leadership has been going in just from like seniors and or upper classmen just encouraging and helping the underassman and just helping the team grow as a whole. It's been great this year just from my perspective. And I want to talk about DECA. I know you guys have heard of it a little bit but guess more in depth. Um, overall we have six people that went to the state conference and are going to qualify for the ICDC, which is the international conference in Orlando this year. So, um, it's six people overall through a couple different events, but the people that are going to go is Sam, um, Sam Lacroy, myself, Shane Gordon, Zachar, who's here with us today, and
030then Judas Castile, and Bentley Becker. So between us six, we are like placing and going to go to Orlando, but a lot of people have also been in the top 20% or top 20 people in the events as a whole, which means that we have a lot of people that are going to be up and coming and just like are growing and getting better as we go on. And a lot of people place for what's called mini awards, which is you have three basically little categories that go into the overall. a lot of people replacing in those two which is just showing how everyone's um doing better. I also want to talk about um how theater put on a show recently called an inspector calls. I went and saw it personally. I think they did
031great. They spent a lot of time working on it. Just want to give them a shout out. And the last thing I want to talk about is how spring sports are rolling in. So the transition from winter is slowly happening to spring sports. Um and pretty excited to see how how that goes in our years. So, thank you. Okay. Um, I'm just gonna talk about senior stuff because that's what I have. But, um, big things were that this Monday OSAC closed and so did the Ford scholarship and that the FPC was really instrumental in helping all of the seniors get that stuff done. uh because especially at the board, you want to make sure that submission is really solid before it's turned in because it's a really big scholarship. And then uh for FAFSA, we're
032having like a huge number of people apply for FAFSA. We surpassed the amount of people who applied for the last three years already. So, and then we're close to hitting the all-time record, which is 115, and that was done in 2017. And right now, we're around 100 people who've applied for FAPSA. Last year, 84 people applied. So, I feel like that's a pretty good pretty good start. Yeah. Great. Great. That's all I have. Awesome. Thank you. Any questions for our students? Great reports. Thank you all very much. Next, we have citizens comments. Do we have anybody signed up to speak? Is there anybody in the audience who'd like to speak before the board today? Is there anyone online who would like to speak before the people online are either Nancy or Joe? Okay. So, great.
033All right. Moving along. Superintendent report. Mr. Barry. Thank you, Chair Campbell. I just want to uh echo all the appreciation of our classified staff. Uh a tremendous team and uh just so appreciative of what they do all year round. Uh and we get to celebrate them this week. because you know the board's gift was uh a movie night kit um which I think went over really well. I want to thank Denise and the team and uh Tiffany Britain and uh the whole district office staff. It was a little more leg work putting together the uh gifts this year and so really appreciate them and also our licensed staff who just make our classified staff. It's we have our board uh that shares uh um their gifts on one day, but then it's just all week
034long. Licensed staff just and our administrators have um lunches and you know, you name it. So, um thank you for that. I want to share a little bit um mentioned before that there was a potential hearing for ADM sec security next Wednesday, March 12th. that has been cancelled for now, but I'll let you know and keep you guys updated on how we can uh support or give feedback on the importance of the of that funding. Uh and we'll keep you updated as we go. Um want to also mention it, I mentioned this before, but our integrated guidance planning is in full swing getting information. We do have a meeting next Tuesday at 4 PM. We'd love a board representative uh to be a part of that team. I think Don did it last time. Um
035I'm not sure if we had two board members or not, but it's the old SIA um uh planning. So it's the integrated guidance planning where we uh it's incorporates all the different funding sources and we respond to the surveys on how we want to utilize those funds. So if you're interested, I'll have Denise send out an email tomorrow as well um to be at uh the initial meeting uh which will kind of set the landscape and the process uh at 4:00 um on Tuesday. Um, and then finally in your packets, uh, Outdoor Discovery Program is going to do an out ofstate trip, um, Shasta Caverns in Lakehead, California on April 25th. Just so you guys know that for insurance purposes. So that's all I have. Thank you so much. Questions? I have two questions. I'm
036like on a roll. Um, well, one's not a question, it's a statement. The SIA or whatever guidance I would re highly recommend that someone do it because it I learned so much from that and it really helped me advocate and it was amazing to be on that board to listen to everything that I learned. Second is a question for you Brent. Um does that mean that there was a group going to go up on March 12th and is that group no longer going or Yeah, there's there's not a public hearing so we're postponing that. Okay. So, yep. Okay. Um, thank you so much. Um, next item is a consent agenda and I'd actually like to make the motion today because I have a small proposed revision to the agenda. Um, so I would like to
037move approval of the consent agenda with um the edit of moving item J4 and action items to the first action item for the for the evening. Can you show up with J4? J4 is um interviewing our budget committee applicant. Oh, I'd like to move it up. Yes. So, do a vote. We'll have to vote instead of Yeah, we'll have to vote instead of do a consensus. I second that. Thank you. So, any discussion? I just wanted to I see that you're here for the whole meeting. So, thank you for I just wanted to move that up in case you have to go. We can do it sooner. So, um All right. We will vote. Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Rick, Paulie, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. Nancy, oh, Nancy, yes. Yes. I went out of
038order. Thank you. Okay. Um All right. The consent agenda is approved. Information and discussion, legislative OSBA update. Okay. Um, I'm going to start off and then anyone can help. Shoot. I had it all written in my notes and now I can't. Okay. So, first of all, um, March 11th is OSBACOS advocacy equity color caucus. I'm not really sure what that day is, but um I know the color caucus members are going to advocate advocate and then I know I think it's the equity team of KOSA. I'm not sure, but there will be a bunch of people advocating for um schools on March 11th. I believe at the end of April is when OSBA is also going to do another one. Maybe Sarah, I think it's April 24th. Okay, April 24th. And so maybe keep that
039on your calendar. We're going to start promoting that soon and um it might be nice to have a whole bunch of people from our district and our region to be up at the capital. Um Sarah and I are going at the end of March because they weren't able to go and my goal this year is to go like once a month. I don't know why I made that goal, but I'm there and I'm sticking to it. Uh Sunday, uh Kristen Miles or Dr. Kristen Miles is coming down and having a presentation at the Medford Library about what it means to be a school board member and um and just answer public's questions because a lot of times it's assumed what we do but not really what we do. And so to clear that out and
040also help people that are if you want to run learn more information but voting too just to kind of know what kind of questions you should be asking and and um that kind of stuff just to give more knowledge. What time is that again? 3 to 5 on Sunday March 9th I will be there and that's like sponsored by the League of Women Voters. It is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and OSVA. It's a co-sponsor. I if you want a little so League of Women Voters called me up and they said, "We're thinking about doing doing something. Can you help out?" And so I called OSBA and OSBA said, "Yes, we'd love to be in partnership with them." And therefore, I got in the middle, but I'm going to help Kristen and it
041will be great. And I I would really appreciated the League of Women Voters wanting to get um the school board perspective because there is some town halls that don't have as much schoolboard perspective and I really appreciate them reaching out. Um and they wrote they reached out to me because I'm on the OSB executive committee. Um then there's some the hearings coming up and I have them. There's some hearings and workshops for the education both house and um senate that were um I thought pretty interesting that you might want to keep an eye on for the senate. Let's see where I did the senate. The interesting ones were on the 12th and there was one on um requires department education study methods for increasing accountability to public education um system of the state. So that's
042a Senate bill which is like we we're having a lot of talks about accountability. So it will be interesting. Um, when I looked at it today, there was no testimony. But just a reminder, if these bills sound interesting to you, you can always testify. I think 48 hour, you can always write your written testimony 48 hours um after it's been. So, sometimes I like to read both testimony and then pick out the things I liked and add. So, I think that's great. Um also um authorizing an education service district which is ESD um to determine whether a school board has violated a requirement regarding actual conflicts of interest. And I find that interesting and kind of muddy in the water. So I'm kind of interested to see what the pros and cons of this bill
043will be because I see some potentials. But there's a link you can always go to and um see what's coming up. I think the house had some interesting things too. Um they had something on inter interdisiplinary. Um then they had modifies the percentage of amount a school district must pay for state school fund to public charters which might be an interesting topic. But there's a lot of interesting things and interesting workshops there. Pretty soon bills are going to you can't add any more bills. and then the ones that haven't gone into the uh committees will just stop. They will no longer be. So, it's a really busy time right now and really interesting. If you're bored, there's some really great work sessions that are three hours long you can listen to when you're doing your
044chores. Did I miss anything, Sarah or Brent or anybody else? I I'll just highlight the accountability that we're talking about. I think it's House Bill 2009. They're also doing a Senate track on the same bill. Yeah. Which I think is two 219. Um but we have had uh conversations with our KOSA parasa from KOSA will be uh giving testimony and we have um some some concerns on what's in there. Um and we'll highlight what we think is um kind of moving in the right direction. But um we're we're really concerned about prescriptive uh uh spending from the state. And so that'll be a conversation that we have. Um not shying away from accountability, but making sure that we have an Oregon Department of Education that can actually have the capacity and the knowledge and the
045expertise to help implement any system of accountability we have. And the Senate bill is Senate Bill 141. Okay. And that is uh March 12th at 8:00 a.m. in case you want to know. Sarah, did you want to add anything? I only just wanted to say that the um House and Senate joint committee meeting that was last week that um in the evening um with the independent report to really look at the structure of Oregon's education um financing and comparatively to other states as well that this was something that came out of the last legislative session, the governor really looking at how education funding happens and um it was it's dense, but it's also really informative to look at. And the bottom line is what we have known is that um Oregon's really been underfunding its
046schools. And so it was really great to hear that from an independent um hired out survey. And um one highlight that came out that um OSBA highlighted was um PERS costs are not um rolled into school district responsibilities in other states. And so when you start to look comparatively um and when you're looking at how much Oregon funds per student and you start to really dive into the details and look at that. Um, so really some great information coming out of of those means in addition to um the cap on special education funding that doesn't happen in other states and um and we've seen of course the increase in special education um funding needs. So uh really interesting things like John said happening this session. a lot to uh pay attention to if you're bored
047and or doing the dishes and want to listen. Thank you both. Any questions? Okay. Uh committee updates start with Yeah, I think you have a facility update in your um in your facility. Don't say it on the board. Um Oh, uh hang on just a second. you will have a facility update. Um, I also uh it's just about the projects we have coming online and then we will um again I think I shared this we're reviewing the secure check or any white men's report um and we're hoping to give more detailed kind of response to what how we're going to respond to that at the work session. So that's all we have. Do you see it now? Sorry about that. And Rebecca was at the safe schools meeting. Yes. Yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. So, we had
048a um safety inter agency meeting yesterday at the district office. Um a lot of it was positive. Um there's a lot of areas of the school where they're going to be adding or adjusting cameras. Um, safety feature updates are going to be happening at OEP and at the crosswalk on Christian Avenue by the middle school over the spring break. I know. Very exciting. It is. Um, there was lots of shout outs to the I love you guys program and to Cynth Cynthia Carz. I'm not familiar with her, but there was a ton of shout outs to her. So, I just wanted to say it publicly at the meeting. So, thank Cynthia Carz. Um there's decals on the windows of the lower level of the high school now thanks to Sergeant Hull. Um he kind of
049led the forefront on that. And then um just how staff and community members and our community partners are keeping our students at the forefront of safety and online as well as in person. And thanks to everybody who attended that meeting. Thank you. Cynthia is our consultant that works with our restorative practices and our conversations and so she's been a great partner. Um she was with us several years ago and she's uh now started her her own consulting business and um really been nice to have her back to help us through that process. Thank you very much. Do we have a DEI committee update as well? I uh Kelly is out of town. I don't know if Nancy had something. They have a meeting to on Monday, so I'm not sure if they have any other
050updates. I don't have any updates at this time, but yes, there is a meeting next Monday. We're just or maybe I said I don't have any updates and then here I am sharing some more. We're still reading um we're reading through this book and um the discussions have continued to be really rich and yeah looking at the um standards at the different grade level standards and um processing them thinking through them through an equity lens has been really helpful too and I think it has given people an opportunity to think about holy moly teachers have a lot to cover. So just a good reminder for folks that might not be in education as directly connected just like the complexity and the depth of all the things that must be in process for like just an
051everyday thing an everyday classroom to kind of function and cover and think about how we can best support students. So lots of good work there's been a lot of good positive engagement from the folks that are participating. So that has been really really helpful and encouraging. Thank you so much. Okay, I'm going to give us five minutes recess and we'll come back and do action items since we're going bell to bell here. Welcome back everybody. Um, first item of action items now is to interview our budget committee applicant. We have one, his name is Mark Krauss. Mark, thanks for joining us. Um, so if you would just like to, um, you could actually come and sit here if you'd like because we've got a microphone there that'll wake you up. Um, just introduce yourself and
052the board may or may not have questions. We're frankly thankful to have uh, someone apply for the position. So, thank you for that. Yeah. Um, well, nice to nice to be here and yeah, thanks for the opportunity to meet you a couple weeks ago. I'm Mark Krauss and I'm a parent of a couple of kids in the school district. Um my daughter is at Talent Elementary, my son is at Talent Middle School. Um and um I'm, you know, fully steeped in education. I'm a faculty at SOOU. And so throughout my career through research and teaching positions, I've always been very much centered in education. And uh I've been um on the P I've been involved in the PT at Talent Elementary since my son started kindergarten. So it's uh six years now going to seventh
053year. And um yeah, so always involved there. um for the last few years serving as president as as Heather mentioned and um so once my son went across the street to the hard scrabble world of middle school I saw you know this little world outside of this little bubble in this sweet little elementary school and um I felt you know the desire to get more involved in um the school and PTA is uh you know it's it's I I love it because it's all about just the students and the families full stop. You just you're there for that and that's great and I want to keep involved in that, but I also kind of want to, you know, work my way out into the community a little bit more and get involved in this capacity.
054Um, so I'm not a CPA. Uh, and I'm sure no one's going to give me the combination to the safe is budget committee. Um, and I would imagine if you know if I end up serving on it, someone will tell me what I need to do. And I feel like given what I um my past experiences in working with um you know with with boards and and organizations that um you know I can can learn it and hopefully be helpful to to the organization and and to the yeah the school board. Awesome. Thank you so much. Any questions for that question? What do you teach? Um I teach I'm in the psychology department. I teach classes in pharmarmacology, neuroscience, and um learning and memory. Very cool. And how long have you been there? I started
055SO in 2007. Okay. Well, the phone screens are killing our brains, aren't they? PowerPoint somewhere. Here we go. This is the sign that the board thinks you're more than qualified. We're delving into other things. Learners, right? Learners. Isn't that our goal? All right. But yes, go. Any other questions relative to Mark's qualifications from the budget committee? No, I just have a comment. I just really appreciate you um giving your time to the PTA. I know that that takes a lot of time as a former PTA mom, but I do not I was never PTA president. Um but and moving forward, I think it's really important and I'm glad that you are um wanting to enhance your giving back to the community and I I'm glad that you chose us because there's many other places you
056could have chose and I'm glad that you chose our district. So, thank you. Great. Thank you. Fantastic. Do we have a motion? So for clarity, this is to finish the term or it's a threeear budget. Threeear term. Oh, but technically retroactive to last because this says ending in 2027. So it's this year 24 25. So on the budget committee this 25 26 26 27. So that's just so we're clear on what you're signing up for. Okay. All right. I do have a motion. Thank you. I move to appoint M Mark Cruss to serve on the budget committee for a three-year term ending in 2025. I'll second. Thank you, Don. Discussion. No, just thank you for um stepping up to a district level. You know, that's what we love to see getting involved in the school
057and then oh, what else is happening in the district? So, really appreciate your willingness to serve in that capacity. Sure. You're here. All right, we will vote. I'm going to start with Nancy. Absolutely. Yes. Thank you so much. Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. Congratulations and thank you. All right. Um Denise will be in touch on details and also if um I'm sure he could come in and meet with absolutely you ask me or we can get you up to speed on all things budgeting ahead of time too. So um yeah. All right. Um next is academic calendar 2526. Yeah, there's a couple corrections from last time and then one adjustment that we talked about. um on October 13th and April 10th in the notes it said those were half day in
058services those are actually full they're going to be full day in services actually are now um so those are and the first quarter and second quart or third quarter uh so those are those are full days and then I did not take out a notation in there that I presented last time so that's a correction and an adjustment was June 5th um talking with our team that the suggestion is we we decided with some um shifting of how we're going to uh support seniors at the end. We're going to have that a full day for all schools. It might look a little different at the high school, but for for the most part, it's going to be a full day to maximize that time as well at the end of the year. So, um that's
059the only adjustment and it's uh for your review and approvals today. Any questions? Then I'll entertain a motion. How many? Just because we've had it, there's two enough room for two snow days built into this calendar. So this count this calendar as far as uh instructional hours with once we get our schedules for next year in case our SK bell schedules change, we'll see how much that is. We we should have a little bit more in this um than we did this year in high schools that the but we could have up to over two almost three. So to be actual legal instructional do I have a motion? I move to approve the 2526 academic calendar as presented. Second. Thank you Paulie. Thank you, Rick. Any further discussion? Okay, hearing none. Nancy, yes. Rebecca, yes.
060Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Paulie, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. Okay. Uh, item J2, teacher and administrative contract. Yeah, this is the updated list as of 2 PM today. So, thank you to Jessica and her team um for getting this done to have um an accurate list for you guys to approve. Can I Thank you. And just a note, I'm going to declare a conflict of interest since I have a spouse on this list and um I'm not going to participate in the discussion and I'll only vote if necessary. That would be the same for me as having a daughter here. Correct. I move to approve the teacher and administrative contracts as presented. I'll second. Thank you, Rebecca. Thank you, Sarah. Discussion. Vote. Nancy, yes. Uh, Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Don, yes. Holly,
061abstain. And I abstain. Okay. Next is a snow day makeup. Yeah, similar to last time, just option one and option two. Nothing has changed. Option one um adds the day Friday before Memorial Day, which was a non-contract day originally uh for a full day for students and staff. And then the June 6th um would be a full day uh which was typic which was a minimum day uh and that will get us um legal on instructional hours for the high school. Option two is actually an option that extends us into the summer. Uh and it um essentially makes up most of the time that we lost during snow days. I have one question that I noticed on this one that I didn't notice last time. Okay. Which was the TMS 8th grade graduation is on
062two different dates depending on the calendar. Yeah. Because Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, go ahead. It's typically the last day before the it's on the night before the min minimum day. And so my only concern was if we move it, are there out of town families that have made plans? Like I have parents that came from Michigan for mine and plans had already been kind of made around that. So I'm a little nervous as much as I want every instructional mimic to change from change days for that option one is or is not a change to the which one keeps it option one would not change the the middle school date and um yeah I mean that's a concern that we would have for it is a middle school graduation so it was on a
063Monday rather than Saturday but um there would be concerns for for that. So, um, option one is the least impacted with the schedule that gets us legal but does not make up all the time. I was kind of leaning more towards option one myself is um, what day? What? So, it's a Monday, Wednesday, and I think typically it has been on a Wednesday. Do do you know the TMS middle school record night before the last minimum day of the year? So it varies. On which of these calendars is it the same that it was before? Option one. Option one. Yeah. Option one ends us the same exact date. Okay. that we had the original time. I'm sorry. I know you guys have said that three times the correct way, but I did hear it correctly
064the third time, so would anyone like to make a motion? I was just going to discuss that originally I wanted to wanted option two because it was more time and I am a more time person such as Sarah mentioned. But I do recognize that change for students and staff and family um and the least I don't know one that's not so much change is one and so that would probably be a wiser choice to disrupt people less. Mhm. I also originally thought option too, but after speaking with the student representatives at the last meeting and hearing what their opinions were, even the students that aren't even going to be here next year, hearing their opinions on which option we should pick and then also thinking as a parent of students in the district, I think
065that option one is more viable. Do we have a motion? I move to approve the revised 2425 academic calendar as presented in option one. All second Rebecca. Thank you Sarah. Any further discussion on this option? I would agree. I mean, I think if um if the changes were to give us more instructional time within the calendar that wasn't just tapped on at the end, I I I agree, but I want as much time as possible. I just don't know that that time of year is a quality time of year to get It would be prefuncter, I think. Um so I'm supportive of option one as well. And I think also I think we're Hopefully they're clear, but it is still technically winter. So yeah, you never you never know. This is wood. I am knocking
066on it. Yeah. Any other discussion. Okay. Uh we will vote. Nancy, yes. Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Holly, yes. Yes. I vote yes. Option one is approved. We will get that out to families and share that right away. Make sure people understand the biggest impact will be that Friday before Memorial Day weekend. So, we'll get that out right away. Yes. That impact will be more felt by staff or students. Um, well, it's I don't know. Probably both. So, it'll just be Yeah. Um, okay. Next agenda item is review of next meeting's agenda. Um, did you want to talk about anything? Yeah, just just three items really. The board self evaluation that you guys know. Um, the EDI equity and community care. Kelly will give her annual report. Um, there'll be just more of an
067update. I think we shared some of that disagregated data with the board in our my last uh quarterly uh review. Um but we'll we'll um design something that kind of shares that so and have some feedback. Then I want to really do a facility update on uh the latest over um and the phasing and the costs and um how that's coming along. We're meeting with Boys and Girls Club uh next week so it's timely to kind of share some things with the board. question. Um, would the facilities update give us a tiny update on that piece of property around Bear Creek? I don't know the name of it, but I don't know if there's anything to update on there, but if there is, it might be nice. Sounds good. And Denise, could you do me
068a favor on on item three? Um, could you add a slash that's talks about um skip levels for evaluation? That was a request of Sarah that we talk about um skip level meetings as part of the evaluation process. I'm confused. I have where I'm on on the March 20th agenda. Yeah. Could you just um you could do a couple things. You could do um you could just add it as a separate item or just just put a marker to discuss skip level. Um, so I was just going to talk about that for a second. So Yeah. Yeah. So I was just going to ask to add this to the to the next meeting agenda. Um, it's called a targeted feedback survey. And um, it's something that OSBA contracts as part of their superintendent evaluation. And
069so I got a um quote from Kristen and I'll send it to Denise so that it can be included in the board packet information and just take some time to maybe look at some at um that maybe adding that process to the evaluation. So, and if you haven't done your board self evaluation, this is your plug. Yes. To finish that by not due till the 12th. Yeah. The 12th. The 12th in the Who's done the chair in the vice chair? I can't say much. a lot of free time. Not too not true. Thank you all.