001Good evening, everyone. We'll call the meeting to order. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, welcome everyone. And we have a guest list. If you have not signed the guest list, please do so. And moving on to number two is approval of the minutes of the May 11, 2026 budget meeting and regular meeting. I move to approve the minutes on May 11, 2026 for the budget meeting and regular school board meeting. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the budget and regular meeting from May 11, 2026. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign.
002Motion carries. Cool. And before Mr. Drill, we get to the prioritization. I would like to say to yourself, to Mr. Rasmussen, to Ms. Thompson, fabulous job Wednesday night. It was great. I know it's team effort, but it was awesome. So thank you all. Well done. Good job, everybody. I would love to take some credit, but the guy sitting in the front and the lady sitting behind are the ones I just kind of show up. So thank you very much, Mr. Rasmussen and all staff and Ms. Thompson. Thank you very much for getting it ready, but it did go well. It went very well. So much appreciated to all of you, everyone involved. Thank you. Thank you for all that you did. And I know we're going to get to it and you'll talk about it,
003but our bond, I don't know if it's officially been announced yet, but I want to thank Greg for all the hard work you've done. I know you've also had a team behind you, but well done. Thank you. Thank you. Everything you did, much appreciated. You're the man. Yeah. On that note, Mr. Drill, prioritize the agenda. I think we can go straight down the line. All right. Then on that note, we'll go to 4A, superintendent's report. Mr. Drill. Good evening, everybody. I would like to take a moment and thank all of our administrators for doing what they did. We had our final admin meeting today for the year before we come back in August. And just wanted to say thank you to all of them. You know, when you start a school year, you don't quite
004know what the twists and turns were going to look like. And mine this year had some definite twists and turns. But at the end of the day, like I said to them today, I wouldn't want to go into battle with anybody else. There are 23, 24 really, really excited and hardworking. Experienced administrators that know different parts of their job. We went around the room today talking about safety, talking about making sure we were recertified for food service. We were handling different buildings, taking care of ELL issues, just all the things that you would think a full-service school district of our size should be able to take care of. It just feels like everybody's on top of their game. They're doing the right thing. Though one of us did say, and I won't say who. They
005were in this room. They said, man, this feels like June because everybody's sitting here with a little bit of a glassy-eyed look, kind of spacing out. And that's true. That's true. You get to the end, and we talk a lot about the idea that this is a marathon and not a quick race. And there are those moments where it really does feel like a marathon. So I wanted to say thank you to everybody there. Some brand-new administrators have joined us this year. They've done a great job. Some veterans just continue to provide. Outstanding. Thank you. They're outstanding leadership in their spaces and just really happy with how it goes. So lucky to be the superintendent here and just enjoy watching everybody do a good job. As you're aware and as you mentioned, Mr. Stigl, we
006are ahead. In our bond, the 15th will be the day that they certify it, and then we're done, and then new issues begin. And we'll start talking to those. I think Mr. Koskela tonight will give you a quick update about what that looks like, what that means. So excited about that. And like I said, just like that, school year is done. Doesn't look like it outside, but school year is done. And, you know, we get a chance to breathe. And we've got state conference for administrators coming up here next week. And some people are going to take a little bit of much deserved breathing time to take the 4th of July weekend. And realize it or not, we are starting a week early in August because of how late Labor Day is. So summer for
007administration and everybody around here and all of the people that work here in the summer is one week shorter than normal. So they're on a quick, quick condensed week or summer. So we'll try to get back to it. So really excited about next year and excited to get ready to go. Any questions? Questions? No, we're good. Okay. Thank you very much. Yep. Next is the finance director's report. Mr. Wong, welcome. Good evening, everyone. And I think this has been a fabulous year for me. And next year will be even more fun. Now we have a $30 million plus $10 million bond. And in the back packet that attaches my monthly cash flow track. And we're going to end, like we were discussing in the last board meeting, maybe two board meetings ago. The projection is
008at $2.2 million. And that's about 5% of our revenue. So that allows us to moving to the next fiscal year was the cushion that budgeted last year. So we did really good this year. Stay on track, control our spending, and be prepared for the 27-28 jump. And I appreciate it. Personally, I want to thank Mr. Drill and all the admins and my three staff in my office. It's been a great year that everyone has helped me greatly to learn about Oregon, to adapt to the system, to adapt to Cascade. And I think there's going to be challenges. It's going to be challenges along the way with our budget next five to ten years. But I think, like Mr. Drill said, we have a great team. And I'm very excited about the next couple of years,
009how we can handle the challenges that everyone has in the state. So any questions? So I do have one comment, one question. First, thank you for what you do. And I appreciate your attitude and your desire to be involved in Cascade. So thank you for that. It's really positive to see. But when I look at the financial report, help me out on the salaries. Why is this month's or June's projected salary? Double, two and a half times what all the other months are. June, we do three payroll. Okay. So for all the teachers, they don't get paid in July and August. They get paid in June. Their checks get cut in June, July, for June, July, and August all at one time. They actually get sent their check on the 25th of each month as
010per the contract. I'm going to correct that. When I look at July and August, those were $200,000 and $400,000. So they were total payrolls in those months. So they were other than... Other than our regular folks. Right, right. Yeah. Okay. That's fair. All right. That answers my question. Thank you. Yeah. From a budget perspective is because these salaries are budgeting this physical year. Right. So it has to be on the book before June 30th. Right, right. Okay. That's fair. Okay. Any other questions? Nope. Wonderful. Thank you. Appreciate it. Moving on, we've got Director of Food Services report. That's going to be... Kendall. Welcome. Good evening. It's good to see you all. I missed you guys earlier this year. I just want to talk about a couple things in addition to the report that I gave
011you all. The first thing was one thing that didn't get included was that there is a new sugar regulation that is rolling out this next year. All calories have to be less than 10% for added sugar. And so that is something that's new coming from USDA that will start. They've kind of been introducing it for... A little bit. But this is going to be the big push is this next year. Another one is, as Darren kind of talked about a little bit ago, was we did resubmit for our community eligibility provision. We submitted our documentation. It actually came back today that we did meet the eligibility percentage again. And so we will be able to recertify for another four-year cycle, which will push us out to that 2030-2031 for us to be able to provide
012free meals to all students for breakfast and lunch, which is huge. Oh, wow. And great news. We're recertifying around the exact same percentage. There's a couple more administrative steps that we've got to take, but it will push us out to those years, which is really great. Another one is that we did start a new program this year, which was Breakfast After the Bell at the junior high. And it ended up being really successful. What it kind of looks like is we have two employees that go over with carts, and they've got grab-and-go bags. That's a complete breakfast that students in between their first and second periods can go up to these carts. And they can go up to these carts and get a breakfast later on in the day if they don't want to go
013for traditional breakfast before school, because it's early. And so they're able to go in, get a breakfast, and it's in between their passing period, which is five minutes. And we served over 11,500 breakfasts for that program alone this year, just for junior high students. Another one is that we started roasted vegetables every Friday this year. And so I just want to give you a taste of what kind of some of them were. One was roasted kale chips. And I was surprised. They actually were really good. They went really well. Maybe not at elementary, but at high school, they did a kale chip challenge. How many kale chips can you eat is what my high school staff was telling me, and they enjoyed it. But another one was roasted mushrooms, which was, that's an iffy one.
014Some students never see mushrooms, but that's also a joy of our program is being able to introduce students to new fruits and vegetables that they may not get at home if their parent cares. If your parent hates mushrooms, then you're probably not going to serve your kid mushrooms, right? So that's where we kind of fall in. Another one is our roasted rosemary potatoes. We do them every other week because they're such a big hit for all of our students. And so I don't want to serve them potatoes every Friday, but you got to bring the fan favorites in. And so just to compare from where we are last year at this time to this year, we have served over 15,000 more breakfasts, which is a big testament to that Breakfast After the Bell program. And
015over 15,000 more breakfasts. And we've served over 3,500 more lunches this year. We didn't have as much room to grow because we serve significantly more lunches than breakfast every year. So we're still looking to increase both of them, but we've got more room to grow for breakfast for sure. And then the last thing I want to touch on is where our meal debt is. No student is accruing debt currently. This is all past debt from before we were on the community eligibility provision, but we do still have some and we're working to pay it off each and every year. Every senior has no meal debt at this time. So we're still working to pay off the meal debt. And so we're still working to pay off the meal debt. So we're still working to pay
016off the meal debt. And that's a huge accomplishment. Thank you to both of you guys for helping with that. But we are at a negative $7,581.68. So it continues to get lower and lower. We just continue to kind of work at it each year as students go from to new schools and they graduate and work through it. Last thing is I just want to say thank you to everybody who helped out with my department while I was on maternity leave. Things ran really smooth. Tony and Elisa did an amazing job. I'm so happy to be here. And I appreciate that stepping in and stepping up as well as all administrators. So, yeah. So on your $7,000 debt, and that was accrued years ago when we were charging for meals. Correct. And so how long has
017that been on the books? How long have we been on free meals? Free meals would be two. This is our second year in our cycle. So it was free two years ago. Correct. And so how do we pay that off? There's grants that we apply for if you get them. There's... It can be done in a variety of different ways. It can be done from... I've seen some schools do it through PTA fundraising. I've seen some schools just pay for it. I've seen... Does any... Is any of it assigned to a student or is it just on the books now? It's assigned to individual students. It is assigned to a student. And so when they switch from, let's say, fifth grader... A fifth grader goes to junior high next year, we look at what fifth
018graders do we have before they go to that school to try and take care of that so it's not continuing to follow them. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same with seniors. So we are trying to kind of get in different groups as they go to different schools and decrease it. I mean, otherwise, as people donate to our department and we're able to pay for it. It can be paid for any funds essentially just not from nutrition services. Okay. And so is it such a deal where we would say, hey, you can't graduate because you have an outstanding debt? They can withhold diplomas, yes. Okay. Okay. Mr. Rasmussen, is that something that we would consider doing? Do we do that? Sorry. I'm sorry, they can't
019hear you. Yes. I'll see if Pete has more to add. But yes, they do do that, but they do everything in their power to make it so that that's not the case. Okay, so what's the most that any one student has on a balance on their own individual solving? I mean, I've seen up from 400 to 700. That's substantial. Yeah, I mean, some students will eat because we're never going to deny a student a meal. And so that could be for years and years. One thing I will say is that their debt is never from like our additional sales. Like we have, you know, cookies you can buy or water you can buy. They're not allowed to go negative for that. It's only for breakfast and lunch. Right. Okay. So let me ask you a
020couple more things here. When you do like the breakfast, for example, or lunches. How many extras do you end up with at any given meal? When you're done, when breakfast is all done today, how many extra breakfasts were there sitting there? Today, it depends. It really does. It depends on each school. It depends on how many students are eating. It's kind of like trying to track the ocean and the flow of students because they change their minds. They decide they want this and then they don't want this. And it just depends on our forecasting and what we're at in the year. Surprisingly, our hot breakfast gets really high in winter. And then it will kind of drop. It will drop down a little bit in spring. And so my staff is really good at following
021those trends and looking at previous years. And so we try our hardest to just not have leftovers. And what do we do with those leftovers? Those leftovers are tossed. They all have to. We can't do anything with them. No. If we were to give them away, it would be considered gifting of federal funds. Right. Okay. Okay. Fair enough. Okay. Did you say that the seniors graduated debt-free from their lunch? Yes. Our entire. What happened? A variety. Some students paid. Some parents paid. We had some benefactors. We had some funds used is from my understanding. And from different sources all across the board, all of those were able to be paid off. Okay. So they actually got paid, not just dismissed. No. They're not dismissed. Got it. With the new sugar restriction, which do you think
022breakfast is? Is breakfast probably the one that's going to be affected the most? Yeah. I would say so. I would say the biggest day is their donut day. And so that is where I come in and make sure that, you know, in order for us to have that donut day, that we're not doing other additional added sugars throughout the week. There's already sugar regulations on yogurts and cereal that came out this year. And so that already helps decrease it. Because when it's something like that, that falls on the manufacturers. They have to meet our guidelines. Because they want us to buy their products. And so it's an easy fix for us. We just buy a different product because they adjust it. Same thing with chocolate milk. There was a regulation that came out last year
023to decrease the sugar in it. And so that helps significantly as well. But it's just a balancing act. So I don't take their donut day away. Because that would be heartbreaks across the district. Can you just throw a kale chip on each donut? It is overall percentage. Exactly. So. Is that only for artificial sugar? Correct. So apple wouldn't count into that? Yes. So it is only added sugar. So like the frosting on the donut. But it's not going to be juice because that's 100% fruit juice. It's not going to be from the milks that are sugars that are in that. It's not going to be from your apples. It's not going to be from your bananas. It's only going to be that sugar that's being added in. Gotcha. I just want to say, I had
024a chance to experience the breakfast after the bell. Yeah. In the classroom. They were so excited about it. And I was, I'm really impressed. I didn't realize. Oh, that's awesome. I kind of thought it always had happened. And I now I learned it's new. But it was really exciting. Like, and they make the most of those five minutes. They really do. And just out of curiosity, when is donut day? Just so I know. Every Friday. Okay. On this campus. Every other Friday at elementary. Now you know. Good to know. Okay. Yeah. That's right. I've heard they're amazing donuts too. They got sprinkles and everything. Wonderful. All right. Any other questions? Well, I have another comment. Yeah. I've been privileged to be at Omsville campus during lunch off and on throughout the year. They have got
025your staff there have got that process down. It is so well run. They are an amazing group of people over there and they are an amazing team. So they really are. So thank you. Thank you. Please tell your staff. Thank you. I will. Thank you very much. Any other questions? Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. All right. We've got a Thought Okay. Whatever you guys sleeping and all that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Director of Communication Report. Great. Welcome. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. I know normally we like to just give you our written reports and do something different, but I think in the case what I really want to do tonight is cover as many things as possible about what to expect with the bond going forward. So going to go through
026what I did in the report, but giving a little bit more detail and then give you plenty of time at the end to ask any questions that you have of things that I missed. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. missed. Every bond is different, and every school district is different. We have choices, we can make this the cascade way. And so kind of what I want to do tonight is just give from the research that I've done, like, what we can expect generally and what our options are for things moving forward. So some of the nitty gritty stuff, the board is going to have to adopt a resolution after the results are finalized, which doesn't happen till June 15. But by state law, it has to be done before July 5. So unfortunately, that
027means we'll have to have a called, probably a Zoom or here, however you want to do it, just a simple meeting to approve that resolution. You can work with Mr. Drill after that. But we were thinking that maybe two weeks from tonight, June 22, might be a good time to do that. When we have that stuff done from the lawyers. And then the next thing that we'll do is we're going to have a resolution. So we're going to want to do is we'll want to relatively quickly open some applications for a bond oversight committee. And this is to have seven citizens from the community who will meet three or four times a year until we're done to be able to just review that we're handling our dollars, our bond dollars well, and that we're meeting
028the promises that we put into the bond. And so that's something we want to make sure to do so that we people know that citizens are seeing what's going on and are tracking us and making sure that we are keeping our promises, which we are committed to doing. We're already working, William and I already working with Piper Sandler, mostly William, who, who will actually be the ones. So what we just did is the voters just approved that we can basically be like the reverse of taking out a mortgage on your home, we get to be the bank in this case, in some ways, we sell bonds to whoever is interested, they buy it, we'll get the money up front, and then they'll get paid back their money with interest over 20 years. And that those
029payments will come from, you know, the bank. So we're going to have a resolution. So we're going to have a resolution, the taxes that are now authorized to be implemented by this, by this election. There's a lot of nitty gritty work to do with that. We are gathering the data that our bond counsel and Piper Sandler need. There'll be documents that describe the district's financial position to potential investors. And we will also participate in something called the Oregon School Bond Guarantee Program. That gives us the best chance for our bonds to look desirable. So we're going to be able to make our bonds liable to investors, so that they can feel trustworthy in investing there. And in our in our schools, and that we get them the best benefits of the lowest interest rate possible.
030When we when we sell those bonds. There's a lot more to do with that that William may have to come up to answer if he has some of the technical questions, but we can work through that. William Brackett I'm going to talk more about that in a minute, but I want to just give a picture of that. I know a lot of times we're always like, you know, we can do this ourselves or we want to do this ourselves because it'll be more efficient in the long run. And we want to do that as much as we possibly can. But I want to give like an example. I work really hard to like research and know what's going on. But one of the reasons, one of the things that happened this spring that I was
031really glad that we had outside experts is I filed everything with the county clerk office for the bond in time and all of that stuff. And the county clerk's office made a mistake when they printed it in the newspaper as far as the amount of time that they were allowing for comment. I didn't catch it, but our bond counsel, our lawyers did catch that. And they worked with the clerk to make sure that everything was above board. And it meant that we didn't get our bond number till the very last day because we had to wait for that to all happen. But things like that, our due diligence sometimes on processes and all of that stuff is really helped when we hire people who do this all the time. Because we have really great people
032in our finance office and in our maintenance department, but they don't do construction all the time. So that would be one of the reasons why we want to think of using some of that hard earned money in the bond to hire experts. Because I think in the long run, that will make it more efficient for us and we'll get more done on better time frame and make sure we're following all the state laws. So we will need to prioritize the projects that we have. And part of it is to be kind of just the squelcher of high hopes. Like this is going to take us some time to make all of these things happen. A realistic timeline is that we will be very active probably starting next summer. There may be a few projects that
033we can do during this school year, but we don't want to do something crazy like put an HVAC on the school year. We don't want to do something crazy like put an HVAC on the school year. We don't want to do something crazy like put an HVAC unit on a roof and then have to take that off to do a re-roofing later. We want to make sure we get our sequences correct so that we're the most efficient with our time and our dollars. We all hope that we can stretch our dollars as far as possible. And I think that will happen best if we do our careful planning and take the time to do that well. The big things that we have, I'll talk about in a little bit. We want to make sure that
034we cover those and meet our promises to the voters. The other thing I want to make sure that everybody in the room knows is that there is a new law that takes place every year. And it's called the HVAC Act. And it's called the HVAC Act. And it's called the HVAC Act. That takes effect July 1st, that for public entities like us, even pre-manufactured buildings need to pay prevailing wage. So what that means is we have really benefited from being able to use ESSER dollars, federal dollars from COVID to put in classrooms at Turner and at Cloverdale and here on the campus of the high school to use pre-manufactured buildings at a much lower cost. So that's kind of some hard news for us that we just need to have in our mind as we
035move forward. We'll have to make sure throughout this process that we're hiring all of our individual contractors with the correct legal process. So that means following state law and board policy and we have to issue requests for proposals, RFPs, and make sure we have an equal and fair manner of evaluating those. And we have to make sure that we have a law that's transparent so that everyone in our community has a chance to do that. When I worked on a previous bond in another school district, we worked really hard and I'm sure we will do that here as well to figure out how to hire local contractors as much as possible. We want to help and benefit our community as well as our schools by making sure that we're getting local dollars invested here as
036well. So let's talk a little bit more about how we get help with all these logistics. I'm really glad for the internal resources we have. William has done a great job already connecting with his peers across the state and getting good information on bonds. I have experience managing them on our previous school district. We've got our own Jesus Chavez, who is amazing at getting things done, and Tom Lovell as well at managing projects. So we have some wonderful. Internal resources and even given that with the scope and the size of all these projects, we likely are going to want to hire some additional outside help. Two of the major ones that most districts do are something called an owner's representative, and that is a company that is designed. Their whole job is to take care
037of us as a district. We're their client and they want to make sure we do things well. So they work with school districts all the time to complete. Yeah. Construction projects. They deal with Oregon law and they have relationships with contractors. They can help us write those RFPs in the right way. They can help with bond accounting, which helps Williams office to not have as much of a burden. They're going to run the bidding process, obtain permits and all that kind of stuff. They watch the overall budget to make sure we stay on track. So that's usually what most districts do is the first step is hiring an owner's representative. The second thing that most districts end up doing as well is hiring. An architectural firm. These are necessary for designing the projects like the
038kitchens and the cafeterias at Cloverdale and Turner. And they can also help with gathering input from staff, helping us facilitate that process of getting the best information at the table. So we make really good decisions moving forward. So I sent you all previous to the board meeting. I just we've done it a couple times over the way. Just that spreadsheet that has the list of projects that we've promised. And kind of what I wanted to do tonight is just go through the ones that the way that it makes it a little bit tricky as we move forward of having to work through the prioritization. We want to be sure that we meet the big promises, which are all the identified roof repairs that are needed, all the identified heating and air conditioning ones that are
039made. We want to make sure we do a major renovation to the three five building at Almsville to get that leaking and stuff taken care of. So we're going to be working on that. So we're going to be working on that. So we're going to be working on that. So we're going to be working on that. And adding a cafeteria and a kitchen to Cloverdale and Turner, as well as some of the renovations on this campus here. Those are the things we have to make sure and do. And they're pretty tangible concrete projects to get our our our hands around the part that's really going to take us some time to work through. And it's the part that is also the biggest bang for our buck. The things that people will see is we have
040two and a half million dollars for exterior. And interior materials and systems. Well, as you can imagine, that covers a whole lot of things across our all of our buildings. And we have way more than two and a half million dollars of need in that. So we're going to have to go through the process of getting our administrators together and our buildings together and talking all those things through and working through lists and figuring that out. Watching how the projects that we want to make sure we deliver for the voters, how much those cost, how much money we have left to be able to deal with those things. And and safety and safety and accessibility. And that's where we're going to be working on the process of getting our administrators together and saying, hey, we
041need to do this. We need to do this. We need to do this. We need to do this. We need to do this. And the responsibility improvement is also fit into that as well spread across all the buildings. So I'm kind of just sharing all that so that we all have out on the table. We're going to not be able we're not going to be able to do everything we know we need to do. And so we're going to do my hope and my commitment is to create processes where we are working together so that everybody sees what the needs are and everybody understands how to prioritize those things across the district. So that's kind of where I'm headed. The next slide, please. and the hope with all of this is that we can be
042as efficient and save money as much as possible so that we'll be able to do as much as we possibly can through this process to make our schools better places. When I did this work in a previous district, I learned how important it is to get staff feedback, to start with a very cautious and conservative plan because of all the unknown building costs, and it constantly reminded us that our best chance of getting the most things done is to be patient in planning and not rush ahead in the initial stages. We also learned how important it is to pick some visible, simple projects that help staff, students, and community see that work is happening and making our schools a better place. So that's my happy part of ending this. I want us to work really
043hard that by the time students come back in September of 2027 and start working on this project, we'll be able to get them back to work. So that's my happy part of ending this. I want us to work really hard that by the time students come back in September of 2027 I want us to work really hard that by the time students come back in September of 2027 they're going to be like, oh, I can see that there are things that are happening. There still is a lot more that needs to be done, but I can see this new paint job or I can see this new whatever that is really making us feel good. And then to watch over a couple of years of more and more of those things to build. What questions
044do you have about moving forward? So when do you crystal ball, when will this project be done? I think that the best kind of gauge is about three years. And part of that is because by law, we need to spend 85% of the proceeds within three years of when we get them. So that's about what we're looking at. Okay, so once this is formal and it starts moving forward officially, who's our point person here? Some of that is going to be dependent on how Mr. Drill decides to... To work things out. I am willing and I've told him I'm willing to be the wrangler of like getting all the people at the table who need to be there. So there's going to be a lot of things that William is going to have to be
045there for and have to know and decide. There's going to be a lot of things Jesus has to be involved with and be a part of. So it's going to be a group effort. It's going to be a group effort. Somebody's going to need to kind of be in charge of that group. Your owner's rep, your owner's rep and your superintendent, your business manager, Greg in this case, because of his experience. Right. And then likely, I said Jesus, did I? I don't know if I did. And somebody with regard to that is usually going to be sitting at a table fairly regularly just on this topic alone. Right. So that owner's rep, which if you go back 20 some odd years, we had some moments with that. Right. But we did find one and we
046did wrap up that bond. That's a big requirement. I would think that would be a wise choice. So that we consider that. Right. And then we can sit down at the table and make a decision. For example, really easily, right? You want to say, hey, we want to do heat and air conditioning. Great. We have six buildings we really have to take a look at. You can't do it all at once, even with the company we regularly work with. Right. First of all, we've got to make sure that the RFP works and that they're the company that actually bids that correctly and wins. Right. But it is likely you could say, hey, we want these three buildings to do that. While we're working on that, the other three buildings, we could talk about what the
047roofing looks like because a company can manage that kind of thing. That decision sitting down is like, okay, how do we go in a certain process? What's the order? So the answer is it's a group discussion. I would hope it would be a small group discussion and then very regular come back and there would be, I would imagine, every board meeting there is some sort of a response back. This is where we are. This is what we've completed. If you as a group of board members say we want those every other month or every month, that's up to you guys. Right. But we will continue to keep those processes going. Right. We will keep those processes going. What's unique for us is that we do have some people that truly understand some of this process.
048And so being able to tap into them, not necessarily have them do it, but tap into them and say, okay, what are the processes for this? Right. Tom Lovell did a lot of work in 2006. Right. But he is essentially part-time. He has talked to me about that. He says, I'm happy to help. But over 20 years, they've changed all the – not all, but many of the rules and laws. Right. About how this is going to go, what do we need to do. So an owner's rep or something like that makes some sense. But then we can turn to our local people and say, this is how we need to get this done. Or this is how we need to convey it to our staff and our community. Right. So it's a great question.
049But I envision a group of four or five or six people that then can convey and share with others as we go. Okay. And on that owner's rep, do we have a rough idea what they charge? I'm assuming. Yeah. I'm assuming it's a percentage of the total. Generally, yes. Yeah. You can write – writing the RFPs to have different ways of doing that. And I think what's great – Mr. Joel said this in the admin meeting. We were one of the few districts who actually passed a bond. So we have a lot of companies interested in us right now. That's the other concern, I guess, is I'm assuming we're going to have a whole lot of friends in about two weeks. Yeah. We already have a whole – What's going on? We already have a
050lot of friends. But what's great about that is it makes them be honest with their bids. So we will say, this is what we need from an owner's rep. This is how we – what's your bid for that? And we'll get a chance to see, are you doing straight? Are you doing percentage? We'll be able to compare that. Right. And they're not going to be able to be like, well, we know we've worked at Cascade for 20 years and so we'll pad it a little bit. Right. There's a lot of interest. Yeah. Right. Okay. Okay. So we're going to have to see if we can get a little bit of feedback from the board. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. But just to know what, yeah. The oversight committee, will they be coming in and giving us their
051feedback? If you want them to, absolutely. Yeah. Otherwise, I just assume they're doing their thing and I have no idea what their thoughts are at all. Right. Right. In my experience in a previous district, they were independent from the board in that they would meet and they would have a working with – the owner's rep would work with them to create basically an annual meeting. Right. And they would then send to the board. Right. This is the kind of things that we are seeing and we are working through. You could easily say, I'd like that quarterly or I'd like that whatever. They're probably only going to meet three or four times a year. So more than quarterly wouldn't make sense because they're not even going to be meeting that often. So they're not really making
052decisions. They're just being informed because they hired this company. They're reviewing. Yes. And they're the ones that are going to be – Yeah. And what they do is they just lay out in front of this group like here's all the costs. Here's the RFPs that went out. Here's everything that's happening and they get a chance to see where every dollar of their tax money is going to. Okay. Do you have more? I just don't. Go ahead. Your report said there are seven citizens on the bond oversight committee. Who else forms that committee or is it just those seven people? Yeah. It's just those seven. So they will meet like – again, in the – Yeah. We can do it kind of however we want. In my past district, the owner's rep was kind of the
053one that took the lead on planning those meetings, setting the agenda, presenting everything that's going on. And then they usually name their own chair or whatever of the oversight committee and they go forward in that way. Thank you. Yeah. Are we anticipating that this new launch starting July 1st is going to change what we're able to accomplish with that bond money? Yeah. Not in what we've promised because when – we're not doing a lot of major construction with this bond. I think more where that falls is in – we had a list from the long-range planning committee, a list of projects that we hope to do if we were able to save enough money. And I think in some people's mind, it was like, oh, we could do a pre-manufactured gym or we could do
054a pre-manufactured whatever. Yeah. And maybe be able to get that in. And I think that's more of where it throws a little bit of cold water on us. Like I'm not sure if that's going to really be able to be done. But we will deliver all the promises of what we promised to the committee. That's non-negotiable. Any other questions? Nope. Great job. Again, thank you for everything. Absolutely. My pleasure. And I guess the one thing I did forget to say is if there comes a point where you want more information and you want to – schedule a work session to be able to work through more of the questions, talk with Mr. Drill and we'll make sure you get those done. Absolutely. I guess kind of what I was thinking in my head and I
055didn't know if it was the right time was maybe put together some sort of timeline. Obviously, it's a loose one. But just to get an idea because I think most of this stuff is going to have to happen in the summertime. You can't put a roof on while the kids are in the classroom. So just some sort of loose idea of what the schedule might look like. If I believe it's correct, and I could go back, there might be Cheryl maybe, Pete maybe. We, during that last bond, there would be – I think we had a couple of work sessions with the board. So like, hey, we're this far along. Here's what our timeline looks like. Right? And then there was questions back and forth. And then we would go away. And then six months
056later, hey, here's our new plan. Here's what we're going to do. Right? Here's our new updated timeline. Right? I heard there were some changes. How does that work? And so there was that conversation. We wrapped it sometimes into a regular board meeting. And if I remember right, I think we had two work sessions during that timeline. So, yeah, there's a way to hand that to you and say, this is what we're thinking right now. And I remember I think the second one was a little more contention because, right, people talk about this all the time. Hurricane Katrina goes through. All the prices go way up. And suddenly we're rethinking. And then the third, the second wing at the high school, instead, we kept both wings at Almsville K2. That's how it ended up playing out.
057So, but you guys were, as a group, were informed, hey, here's the changes. This is what we need to make. This makes some sense. Right. Yeah. So we can absolutely do that. Down the road is just something I'd like to see put together at some point. Yeah. You'll see something this summer. I mean, I already have, I kind of think we're in three terms. I already have started a spreadsheet on my computer that's got like minuscule dates we have to hit this summer that's happening. You as the board, I think, would get a little less but a more complex here's kind of what we're thinking of that will be updated as we go. And then already talking with the WSD and other folks, we're going to transition the bond website to the one that had
058like information for the campaign. We're going to archive that and start a new one that's like here's our progress. And one of the first things we're going to have on that is kind of a graphical big picture. Like here's what's happening. Summer of 2027. Here's what's happening school year of 2027. Like with little icons simple. So we'll make sure the public knows at a broad level what's happening. You will know more than that. And I'll save you from my spreadsheet that I worked on. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Moving on. We've got Director of Special Services Report, Ms. Johnson. Welcome. Nobody wants to follow the $40 million guy. Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm
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060and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I got emotional. And to see just all of the teachers, the administrators, and how hard they worked to ensure that all of our kids got to do that and their families got to experience it. I've never cried while doing a board report. But to even highlight that more, Bob happens to be in the audience and I didn't know he was going to be here this evening. A couple of our kids, we knew that it was going to be a big deal for them to walk across that stage just because of being in big crowds and something new and out of
061routine. And we knew Bob because of the relationship that he has made with the kids in our life skills classroom was so profound and so impactful that he was that ticket at the end for them to get to. And I don't know if you noticed that, but I wanted to highlight that because over the course of the year, he brought Happy Meals. He brought Christmas gifts. He brought the football team. He brought all sorts of excitement into those kids' lives over in our life skills program, grades 6 through 12. And he's just a special human. So thank you. Gosh. And on that note, now that I'm going to be done crying, for the first time I partnered with, I reached out to North San Diego Canyon. And North San Diego Canyon is a great place
062to be. And North San Diego Canyon is a great place to be. And North San Diego Canyon is a great place to be. And I'm going to continue that and put on multiple resource fairs throughout the school year. Over the next course of the next probably 10 years, we have it all worked out and mapped out on how we want to increase capacity for our families. And that's all I've got. What do you have for me tonight? I have a question because I've been thinking a lot about those kids since graduation too. I was honored to be the one that gave them their diplomas. And so I want to know where they go now because I know we have them until they're 21. So if you graduate with a modified, extended, or certificate of attendance
063diploma, you are eligible for services until the age of 21. And so our adult transition program is actually at the COC in Marie's building. And we provide services to those students out in the community, in-house. There's a wide range of things that we do, but we're working on job skills, job placement, internships. They're learning daily living skills like cooking and cleaning. It's pretty awesome. So that's their home base. And then they have responsibilities in the community learning type. Correct. Until they're 21. Yes. Okay. And who's Bob? I don't know. Bob Thompson is more than just Marie's husband. But he's actually our secondary campus security. That's what I was wondering. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Well, I've heard great things about you. I'm glad to see it. I have a question. On the diploma, so you said there's
064the regular, modified, extended, and certificate. So when we look at Cascades graduation rate and we talk about that number, where did those, do those fall into that equation? They do. All four of them are part of it? Certificate of attendance does not go towards graduation numbers. However, your regular, modified, and extended do count towards graduation rates. Okay. So the certificate of attendance. There's two. Those individuals count when we're looking at the total totals, but they don't, it doesn't get applied to a graduating individual. Correct. Okay. Okay. That's fair. That's all. That's all. My only question. Okay. Thank you. The resource fair was fabulous, by the way. Thank you so much for your part in putting that on. We didn't seem to have a lot of foot traffic. I was there in my official paid role,
065not my school board member role. But you know, it was very important for me to be able to get the students to come in and see the results. And I think that's what I was hoping to do. I think that's what I was hoping to do. I think that's what I was hoping to do. For the different people there to interconnect and learn what services were needed in the community, so that was good. And I'm not going to be able to look at you because I'll cry with you. But, and you know, I wanted to say, I wanted to commend your staff for supporting a student to go on their field trip. I can't look at you. to go on their field trip and be confident in supporting that student. Not only that, the parent
066was confident that you were going to be able to support that student on that field trip. And I think that's tremendous. Thank you. Any other questions? I'm all in on that. Sorry. All right. Thank you. All right, moving on. We've got Director of Education report, and I think that's Mr. Dyer. Hello, Mr. Dyer. All righty. Well, Kathleen said, how do you follow up a $40 million project? And I think she just did very well. And now I've got to follow up that. You've got to expect some tears. Yeah. Okay, hold on. I'm kidding. Hey, I have some really exciting emotional things. Accountability. Let me tell you about accountability from the state. It's awesome. No, I do want to say, I just want to start off with, we are finishing up. I do want to talk
067about accountability, state testing. And that's where I'm going to start off with. It's in the report. But a lot of the preliminary numbers right now coming from the state, from our state testing, is we're looking really good. We're looking very solid across the board. We're seeing massive growth in many, many areas. We are exceeding the state across the board. And I would say in every category across the district, we are ahead of the state average. In some areas, a highlight, I do want to point out the junior high. Debbie and her staff at the seventh grade and eighth grade. Sixth grade, junior high. They are absolutely killing it right now. We're talking anywhere from 6% to 23% above the state average when it comes to math and ELA. Their science over the last three years
068is looking like, what are you guys up right now? 15% over this year from last year, right? And that's not counting from the year before. I think it's up 33% over the last three years or two years, kind of where they're at. Absolutely phenomenal. There's no other growth like that in the state. Actually, that's not a kind of Trumpist. Sorry. No other growth like that. Sorry. Anyway, but they're just doing a phenomenal job. I want to give a huge thanks out to the testing coordinator, which is Tamara Nixon. She's one that wears a lot of hats across the district now. She's just always willing to do more, and she's taken on that role. She does a lot of the back end, making sure that kids are rostered, making sure that staff are trained, and just
069doing a great job. She's done a great job with that. She also has a staff throughout the district. So each building has a lead in the high school. It's Layla Pitt, Steve Baldwin, the junior high, Selena Mathiason at Turner Elementary, Carrie Ann Gramsdell at Cloverdale, and Jessica Schull and Marie does it over at the Opportunity Center. And again, this is just making sure that we report things correctly, and we're doing that the right way. Because if we don't do that and we don't keep an eye on it, sometimes percentage points get off, and we might not. And so we're trying to make sure that we look as good as what we're actually doing across the state. So good job with that. I would be remiss if I didn't bring up this. It was so nice
070to see Kendall talk today, William and Greg. And we start talking about all the back stuff, the back end stuff that happens. I've been here now at the district office for three years and actually seeing what we do at the district office to really support our principals and our buildings. We are looking forward for you to think about what we're doing, and I think that we're going to see a lot of things that we can do to make sure that we're doing the right thing. Thank you so much. Thanks, Jay. Thank you for having me. And thank you, Dr. Mitchell. I'm just going to go ahead and get my mic up, and I want to thank you all for joining us. I just want to thank all of our principals for helping us get this
071thing going. Jay is included in there. I want to make sure I don't leave Jay out, but also the two ladies up front, Jennifer and Lisa, Tamara. They absolutely do everything. They are really nice to work with, and they help us get things done. And they break barriers down for principals, for vice principals, for teachers, and anything they can do, we just want to help out. So I do want to say thank you. I just worry about education and they worry about all the other stuff. And it's really a pleasure to work with them. And I'm going to end on this. So speaking on accountability, you guys are going to be hearing about something called Senate Bill 141. It's the state's new attempt to hold schools accountable. And there's a lot of it will be
072interesting. I will give you more details in the fall. The reason for that is the state is still building what that's going to look like. And what I do know is that we are going to be held accountable to, and I put it in the report. I believe there's seven categories. There's third grade reading proficiency, eighth grade mathematics, ninth grade on track, four-year graduation rate, five-year completion, K-12 attendance, and K-2 regular attendance. So these are the things that the certain marks that the state is going to put out. And we have to hit these marks. If not, they will come in and kind of, I would say, micromanage how we conduct business. Luckily for us, we've done such a good job over the last couple of years that in many of those categories, I would
073say at least four out of the seven were already there to where the goals, where the state wants us to be, which is great. And I think two out of the rest of the three, we are very, very close. We're talking a couple percentage points. So we can turn the dial up, do a plus one, and hit those marks, and we should be doing what we need to be doing. And again, that's in the Son of Testament. So that's a testament to what the building principals are doing, the teachers are doing in the schools. When does that start? Would that be fall 27? Yeah, we'll be starting it this year. Oh, this year? Yeah. Okay. And so we have to, there's seven. And in July, we actually have to pick a local option. There's a
074local, they give us kind of a menu of things that we can pick from. I think I'm kind of leaning towards eighth grade science. Congratulations. And I don't know exactly. And the reason for that is because she's doing such a good job. job and that would be an easy one to hit. And the staff has hit in the right direction and we're seeing major growth out of that. So yeah, it's starting, but I will be presenting most likely in September to kind of give you guys a little bit more information on the background too. I just want to make sure that you guys have a little bit of information so it's not a shock to you come in September. And does Becky know that? Huh? Does Becky know? Well, she's doing seventh grade a little
075bit right now. So we, part of the growth on that, so with Debbie, she had to make some really, really, really, I don't want to say really big decisions, but they were big decisions. And we actually realigned what we were doing in seventh grade in science from sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade. And so we had to switch some teachers around, topics that were studying and units had to be switched from eighth grade to seventh grade to make sure that it aligned more with the state test. These are reasons why you've seen that 33% growth over the last couple of years. Debbie showed great leadership on saying, hey, this is what needs to happen. You need to get out of your comfort zone and you're going to have to do something different. And they
076did that. And they're seeing the benefits of that. And Becky's loving seventh grade. She's loving the seventh graders. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So Brian, this might be, maybe you'll get to it when you, we re-talked about this in the fall, but like the first bullet point on this, Senate Bill 141, you say third grade reading proficiency. So if we have to focus on the third grade reading proficiency, we're going to have to do something different. We're going to have to focus on the third grade reading proficiency. So if we have to focus on the third grade reading proficiency, does that mean we're taking our foot off the gas on other areas? Are we going to suffer somewhere else to succeed in this space? Because we can't be a hundred percent efficient on everything. Yeah. Yeah. That's
077a great question, Brett. I mean, to be honest with you, I would like to say no, but sometimes the reality is when, especially with tightening budgets, we're going to have to look at resources. When we look at resources, that's time people, you know, just money. I'm such a huge fan of state testing. Oh, 100%. So there, I mean, are we going to have to, to make some decisions sometimes and balance and do some things. And we were going to have to do that anyway, just with tightening budgets. And so sometimes this might force our hands a little bit about what we, what area we go to. So yeah, in elementary, we might have to focus a little bit harder there or, you know, move resources over. So is it in the, in the student's best
078interest, and I'm just thinking out loud here, is it in the student's best interest, if we pour the emphasis to three grade, third grade reading, because we're, the state's testing us on that and take our foot off the gas on the math, for example, because we're not being tested on that. Are we doing the student a favor to make our numbers look better? I mean, I have to answer that. Yeah, no, no, no, no. I mean, you want my honest opinion. I mean, we're not, we can't necessarily take our foot off the pedal with math. And the reason why, I mean, even though we're going to have to do some balancing, but we'll, we'll get creative. That principles are really good at getting creative on how to use their staff and what they need to
079do to make sure that we still keep a rigorous, scope and sequence for these kids to get them ready. Because the other category, we have to get those kids ready for eighth grade math. Right. So, I mean, there's, we have to hit that third grade. So, right. And, and to be honest with you, we are close to that third grade level. This, our third grade did a phenomenal job state testing this year. And I think we're only, I think a percentage and a half away from hitting the state four-year goal already this year. And so we're very close. So we don't, I don't think we're going to have to change all that much. We just have to fine tune. Right. And I understand. And I would just hate to see us sacrifice the third graders
080math so that we look good on this test for the state testing to, I don't know what. So just, just something to be mindful of. Well, we, we are mindful of it. And I mean, that's, I mean, that's the crux of it all. And that, I mean, I want to be careful what I say. Sometimes what's hard when you have state oversight. I understand. We have to play the game. Yep. Okay. Fair enough. You answered my question. Thank you. Yeah. Do you guys have any other questions? Are you guys ready to go? Yeah. I'm ready to go. Okay. Is there anything else? No. All right. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate it, Brian. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Junior High Principals Report. Ms. Moday, welcome. Welcome. Thank you. You have my board report, but I
081kind of wanted to give you a day in the life or basically a month in the life of junior high, but probably also every other principal in this building or in this district. So I went back from a month ago. So May 8th. On that day, my seventh grade avid group went on to a trade school avid trip. Since then, we have also done science tests, language arts tests, and math tests for state tests in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. We had a district track meet and a state track meet since then. We've had a talent show, cemetery cleanup. We had a choir concert, English language arts or ELL field trip. I ready final diagnostics. We had a band concert, future sixth grade orientation for both students and parents. High school graduates got to walk
082through our campus, which I love seeing. Every year, seeing the kids sit. I love seeing the kids sit and make it through. But it's one more thing on our plate. Choir field trip. Friday, we had our eighth grade dance and party. Then that was till Friday. Now moving forward for this week, we still tomorrow have our ASB eighth grade assembly and elections. Wednesday, we have promotion. And I honestly could not do what we do with our eighth grade without the fabulous parents that we have stepping up and helping us out significantly. And then we have our end of the term field trips to the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade, we have a lot of things to do. And then we have our end of the term field trips to
083the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade, we have a lot of things to do. And then we have our end of the term field trips to the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade, we have a lot of things to do. And then we have our end of the term field trips to the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade, we have a lot of things to do. And then we have our end of the term field trips to the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade, we have a lot of things to do. And then we have our end of the term field trips to the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade,
084we have a lot of things to do. And then we have our end of the term field trips to the zoo and wave pool on Thursday. So for our eighth grade, we have a lot of things to do. parents and everybody to, you know, help us get through this end as successfully as we do. But last of all, Brian brought up the state test scores. I am just super proud of my staff. They have done amazing. My students have done amazing. We've had just about 1,200 tests taken in my building alone. Of those, 138 students made 100 or more point gain. And this is comparable. They hope that you make 15 to 24 points. 138 of those kids made over 100 points, which is phenomenal. I've seen a couple 200s, and I think we had
085one 300 point. So kids are doing great. My staff is working hard. I don't necessarily love the interim tests that are coming our direction, because I feel it takes away from our kids' time in the classroom getting content. But we're going to persevere, and they're going to show what we can do. And our kids can. And we're rocking it. My staff is rocking it. And yeah, we're going to persevere. And we're going to persevere. And we're going to persevere. And we're going to persevere. And we're going to persevere. And we're going to persevere. And we're just, we're in a good place. And I got to say, elementaries are bringing this, if you look at the reading scores, they're phenomenal. Most of my kids that are hitting 55 to 60 percent of our group are meeting
086or exceeding. So in all grade levels. So they're coming to us in good shape. And we're just building on it. So thank you, elementaries. And I think math is just going to continue to get that way, too, because the ELA didn't used to be as strong. It's getting better all the time. So math is just going to continue to, because we're all on the same page, I think. Any questions? Yeah, I have a question. Okay, good. So it looks like you graduated or promoted 202 eighth graders. Yes. Congratulations. Good job. Not quite. There's a couple who are going to be hanging with me. Okay, well, you're a nice person. I can see why they want to stay. I know. That's what I tell them. So how many fifth graders are you bringing up next year?
087255? Yeah. It's the biggest class in our 12 years. I know. This is a loaded question. Where are you going to put everybody? It's going to be tight. Okay. Yep. Well, I didn't have a spare classroom. We have some spare closets, but that's not going to be enough to hold 30-some kids. You can leave them in here except for Monday nights when we need it. Luckily, we added a little bit of wiggle room with electives, so I was able to pull a couple teachers away from an elective one trimester to help with social studies or English language arts. It's not great. Classes are going to be huge and less than ideal, but sixth grade knows what they're getting, so they would rather run big than divide up even more or have somebody on a cart,
088which is less than ideal and not have a true classroom. Right. So what's worst case scenario look like? What are some of the bigger classrooms just in numbers? I know that it's a horrible thing we don't talk about. What are we talking, 30 kids in a class? Probably 33-ish. 33? So a lot, but not ridiculous crazy. It's not awful, but compared to our 26, 27 this year. Yeah, I understand. I mean, hey, listen, it is what it is. But then seventh and eighth graders, get them in a couple years. Right, right, right, right. Okay. No, that's fair. We all get to experience them. Elementary's have had them, you know, all the way through. Right, right, right. My daughter taught a big group, you know, three years ago. It's part of the deal. It's just, you
089know. That's what we'll deal with. Okay. That's fair. And I tried to see was there something in the water that year, but there was not. Because I looked online, you know, was there something weird nationally? And actually, the trend was down. So I don't know what happened to the Cascade area, but we just have extra kiddos coming in. Nothing on TV that year. Not one bubbly year. Yeah, I don't know. So go figure. Awesome. All right. Very good. Thank you. Any other questions? Yes. Debbie, you mentioned reading and how well your students are doing. I have a question based on my nephew teaches at a school in another county, and he teaches middle school. And this year, he's being, this coming school year, he's being told he has to teach reading to his middle school
090students. Are your, do you feel like that's a need of any kind at the junior high? We still teach reading, but it's more being able to access your curriculum. And it's being taught in all content. And so my science teacher was still helping kids access their reading and writing skills. So, and I think reading has changed so much from when we were back in the day, and probably even when my own kiddos were back. Because now you have to go back and, you can't just say Charlotte was a nice spider. You have to go back and prove, find somewhere in the text that proves that she was a nice spider and support your answer. So it's so much more in depth that I think providing the extra you know, answers is necessary. But they're coming
091up to us with not needing to learn to read as much as reading to learn. And, but you still need to provide the background, you know, highlighting. What am I looking for? And you know, we don't highlight the whole entire page just because I like the color pink, you know. So I think it's, you know, just switching who we, what we're looking for moving forward. Thank you. Yeah. But I know my sixth, seventh, and eighth, they're all still teaching reading in all the classes across the board. AVID, that was a huge component, critical reading strategies, those classes. And I think that's what we're going to be doing for the rest of the summer. So, yeah. Thank you. You bet. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on. 4-H Cascade Opportunity Center. Ms. Thompson,
092welcome. Good evening, everybody. You have my board report in front of you. And so I just want to open it up for questions before I go on to the next part. Any questions about the report? Was that a yes? Yeah, it was a yes. Of course it is. So how many, what's our capacity for online students? Well, we usually run about 40-ish. During COVID, I had about 200. So, so. There is, yeah. I have four wonderful CVA teachers that work 10 hours a week. And so what I'm being told, and I'm the teacher record for the non-core classes like PE and health and all of those. So we are able to manage that within that timeframe. And we were able to pretty much do it during COVID as well. I'm not saying that's what we
093want to go for. But when I first started about nine, 10 years ago, there was a cap of about 25, but the teachers worked less hours a week then. But so we average around 40. I just had a conversation this spring with Mr. Rasmussen because a lot of seniors like to spend the last little bit of their high school career going online because they've gotten jobs or they just want to be done. And so we kind of had a talk about being very intentional about who goes online. There's a lot of factors involved with that. But we usually average about 40 throughout the year. It changes, but 40. You had in a perfect world is 40 the number that you think is a good comfort number for us? Would you like to see a 50?
094Would you rather be a 30? That's a good question because I think online learning is a specialty. Kind of way of doing school. And so being an educator for a long time, I always vote for in-person learning, but we do understand that there are circumstances which create a scenario where online learning is the best. So I think as far as being able to manage it, could we go more? Yes, but again, I feel like we need to be intentional about who actually does online because we'll find students who go online because maybe there's a social problem. Or something that is causing anxiety socially for them. And so they kind of look at online as a great way to kind of mitigate some of that those pressures and then they get online and there's a whole
095new set of pressures that they start. They have to manage their own time. They have to manage their own pacing and all of that stuff. And so sometimes, you know, they do it for a trimester and they find it's not the best fit for them. And so we have to have those conversations. So I mean, I always go to what's best for that kid and it's not a blank. It's a blanket statement. It's very individualized for me and what we do at the Cascade Opportunity Center. It's very individual. So, you know, when we hover around 40, it's not bad at all. But when we start getting past 40, I start having conversations with folks at the high school. Like, okay, what's behind the reason for them coming online? Because with a district and secondary campuses
096of the size that we have, I kind of feel like 40 is about a good number. And so last question on that. Are all 40 of these kids district kids or some of them out of state? I mean, we taking them from anywhere or we only take in district kids? They're in district. Yeah. Yeah. Occasionally we'll have a student. We had one student in the past where they were a military family and they had to go overseas and they wanted to finish out senior year. So we accommodated that. There are some laws that support that. And then, yeah, so they are Cascade school district students. Yeah. Yeah. So they're not going to be students unless they are. And we're just not out advertising to anybody who wants to come on board to the virtual. Correct.
097Correct. Okay. Thank you. That's it. Any other questions? Okay. So I wanted to show a video about every couple years I make a video of our students. I know you guys like hearing from students and this is a way to do that in June. The video has lots of pictures. I could have put more. But I wanted to highlight a few things as the video pictures clip along. You're going to see a few things. You're going to see we had Salem ropes. Out in Turner come out and bring their ropes challenges to our campus. So that's a really great way of building team and belonging and just getting the school year kicked off in a really positive way. So you'll see some highlights of that. You'll see industry partners in our building. Miss Waleesa does
098a great job having career fairs and college fairs come to the campus here. But it's a very busy and big environment. A lot of our students don't feel comfortable with that. So we look at our data and we find out what industries they're mostly interested in. So we have them come to our building and have industry chats. You'll see people from Olson Electric. You'll see people from a counseling, I don't want to call it a company, but a counseling firm that has been, we've had relationships with over the years. Garmin, Shemeketa, Willamette Career Academy and so forth. You'll see students that are graduating. This year we were able to have 39 students. We're going to have a lot of them. We have 39 out of our 40, 42 out of 49 students complete their high
099school diploma. And one student completed their GED, which is a new, kind of a new program that we've started this year. You'll see people working outside, a lot of outside activities. You know, about 90, 95% of our curriculum is online. So we try to get them out, get them physical, get them doing some activities that get them along. So we try to get them out, get them physical, get them doing some activities that get them along. So we try to get them out, get them doing some activities that get them along. We try to get them out, get them doing some activities that get them away from their screens. You'll see students participating in horses of hope. You'll see students participating in horses of hope. Horses of Hope is a horse therapy business that is
100on Cloverdale Road. And we had a couple students participate with that and receive horse therapy, which was a life changer for our students. So I just wanted to, just let you know you'll see a lot of fun things. So I just wanted to, just let you now that you'll see a lot of fun things. diplomas and just celebrating their accomplishments. And I just wanted to acknowledge it's because we have a great team at the OC. We have people who really understand our students. They work tirelessly and they're super creative. They're always coming up to me with innovative ideas on how to motivate someone. Today, someone just graduated. We were kind of worried and they graduated and the carrot for them was four, they sell them at McDonald's. It's not the Egg McMuffin, but it's like
101the McGriddle. Yeah, so he got a bag. He got his diploma and a bag of McGriddles and he had the biggest smile on his face. So, I mean, we just come up with all kinds of creative and it's, and I just want to just kind of emphasize that it's individual. We're not a one-size-fits-all campus. It's very individualized. And we are so proud of our students who have really had to work hard. We have students who have some life circumstances and stories that have kept them from coming to school or being motivated to finish that last class and they're making it. So we're, and it's because we have people and staff. We, this year we had a community member, one of our parents volunteered for a project and that was a wonderful gift for us. And
102she's planning on coming back next year. So it's just getting, getting that community feel, community involvement and helping our students feel like that sense of belonging that they all deserve for the Cascade School District. So I appreciate everyone who has been involved in that in one way or another. So I'm supposed to push the space bar on this to get the video started. So I hope you enjoy it. I heard the door open. He's running. We're here. Thanks so much. Ms. Thompson, you had, I think it was, I don't know if it was, before COVID. After COVID or after you came in here, I know we were sitting this way and you and some kids were standing here and you brought in some students that talked to us a little bit about their story and
103just, that was awesome. So if any of those kids want to come back in, we'd welcome it. They, they say they would. It's just hard this time of year. Understood. Understood. Next year in the fall, if they want to come back. We for sure will. Do it again. Yes. It'd be awesome. Great. Good job. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Moving on. We've got Almsville Elementary Principals Report. Mr. Minister, you're welcome. Good evening. Let me get my stuff here. Hot off the presses. Hot off the press. Hot off the press. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you. Here you go. One extra. Thank you. Just reading. All right. You've got my report in front of you and I will chat about a couple of things in there. But first I wanted to share some
104of the things, the fun things that we've done this May and much like what Debbie shared. It was, we had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. And I think when she started that, I kind of gave myself a silent chuckle because it's so true. And I was at the car show a few weeks ago and I ran into Vicki Remy and we were talking about May and how we're excited for May and she had the best analogy that I have heard so far. She said it. May is like running downhill and trying not to trip.
105And it's so true. You're just trying to just keep yourself on your feet. So the thing that, you know, sometimes we have to remind ourselves of is we do these things every single year. And sometimes I get a little, you know, I get a little bit of a hangover. tiresome and burdensome. And I know I felt that way when I was doing student leadership and we were putting on graduation year after year after year. But the thing that like, you know, struck me out of that was this is the first time that these kids get it. So even though May is busy, it is, even though it's a hard thing for adults, it is. We have kids who never went fishing in fourth grade and they went on a fishing field trip a couple of
106weeks ago, just fantastic opportunities. So that really keeps us going, even though there's a lot, there's a lot of things, it's a lot of fun. So just wanted to point that out. So some of the things we've done in the last month, we had a music concert. We had a really fun carnival that our PTC put on. I took little Sophia with me and the whole time she was staring around looking at babies and she made me go find every single baby in the room. So it was great to talk to our families and introduce little baby Sophia. So that was great. We had a bike rodeo and family picnic all on the same day. That was a lot of fun. Every single kindergartner at our school gets a chance to do a PE unit
107where they ride a bike. And we culminate this event with a bike rodeo that all grades participate in. And the three, five students do a bike ride around the neighborhood and the K-2 students do a little bike obstacle course. So that was a lot of fun. We had a lot of parents out there. And then we also had families come in and enjoy a family picnic for lunch on that day. So what such a fun opportunity. Some grade levels went to the zoo. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had that fishing field trip like I talked about. Last
108week we had a yard party for students who made their goal for state testing. That was a lot of fun. We had iJive come out and provide us with some yummy and delicious Italian sodas. And then we had yard games and we had a bounce house set up. It was a lot of good fun. And then tomorrow we have our kindergarten and fifth grade graduation and promotion. And we're doing it all on the same night at separate times. So it's going to be a busy evening. And we're super excited for that. And then we're going to have a lot of fun. And then we're going to have a lot of fun. And then we're going to have a lot of fun. And then we're going to have a lot of fun. And then we're going
109to have a lot of fun. And then field day is coming up the last day of school. That's always a fun time for kids and for staff. One thing I have to make sure I mention, otherwise Mr. Steenslid would be heartbroken, is on the back page of the Panther Press or the Panther paper, at the top it tells you the results of the Salem kids relays. And Almsville does a phenomenal job of representing well every single year. And he wanted to make sure that I mentioned that our boys, girls, and kids are going to be able to do that. And I wanted to make sure that I mentioned that our boys, girls, and kids are going to be able to do that. And I wanted to make sure that I mentioned that our boys, girls,
110and kids are going to be able to do that. And Co-Ed teams for third and fourth grade all got first. And then for fifth grade, all of our boys, girls, and Co-Ed teams got third. And then we also had a unified team, which was fantastic. And I got to run with my good friend Harper, the first leg of it. And that was a lot of fun. She was mad at me because we weren't going fast enough. So a lot of fun, a lot of fun activities, and just great community building. So with that, let's turn to my report. I did want to tell you about my first report. I did want to tell you about my first report. I did want to tell you about my want to just mention we made tons of growth
111this year, which is very exciting. We're not at the place where we want to be yet, but the growth is good and we are super encouraged by that. Of the state testing, we made 5% growth in our ELA, 6% growth in math, and 10% growth in science. And then our Acadians reading data, which shows us reading skills, and we measure that at the beginning of the year, the middle of the year, and the end of the year, we made 8% growth as a whole school. That's the best growth that we have seen since I've been at Almsville, and this is my seventh year there. So really exciting stuff that's happening. A couple grade levels that I wanted to point out is kindergartners, 63% of them are reading at grade level. That's the highest I've seen.
112And then in third grade, 68% of third graders are reading at grade level as well. So just some really exciting stuff that we're seeing with the hard work of our teachers and our kids really showing up. So questions? Yeah, I do. So top line on your report shows the enrollment. Yes, sir. It's going from 128, 103, 110, 94, 86, 89. It's trending down. Is that an Almsville thing? Is it a Cascade thing? Is it a statewide thing? That's, yeah, Mr. Drill's making all the head movements for me. Yes, that is not an Almsville thing. We have seen, especially in our kinder and first grade class across the district, those numbers, I think Mr. Drill says for the last 10 years, every number district-wide has started with a two, and then first grade and kindergarten all
113start with ones. So we are seeing this trend down. I will say when we had our kindergarten roundup, we had the most people attend that than we've ever had since we put that on. So maybe next year we'll see a high number in kindergarten. We don't know until we have those bottoms and chairs. But it's a trend that we're seeing statewide that there are less. Statewide, statewide, nationwide, they're just, it is very expensive to have a kid, and fewer people are having kids. So there's that combined with more choices, online, homeschool, whatever the case may be, privates. Yep. Yep. So we have been for the last four or five years, one of the few districts in the area, and we have a handful of districts in the state where we have grown. But we are
114at that place where Pete's going to graduate a large number of seniors, and that difference between them and the kindergartners is about 48 kids. So we're 48 next year before we see anybody else. So that's another trend that William and I and Jay, we've talked about, you know, what does that look like? How do we deal with it? So it's not unusual for Omsville to do that. Somehow, some way though, Omsville is a little different than the other two buildings where they get a number, and then for the last 10 years I've watched the numbers, they go up. They don't kind of peak in October, and then we all start to kind of go down. They just continue to go up. Okay. Don't know why. We started the year below 600. About a month and
115a half ago, we were at 613, and then we're finishing the year at 610. Right. So. Okay. Yep. Just something to be aware of. Right. Nothing we can do about it. Cool. Just a thought on the kindergarten. Do you give all the credit to teachers for kindergarten, or being that the first year, do you see a difference with these kindergartners than you did maybe four or five years ago? Yeah, that's a good question. I think this group, specifically, and Jody, jump in when you need to. This group specifically, I would say, have more skills as far as attention and attending in class. We're not seeing as interrupted behaviors as we had typically seen before, so this group has come to us a little bit better prepared. Yeah. So it's easier to teach those skills when
116we have students who are attentive who are getting those needs met already. Okay. So I think that's a good point. Yeah. So I think that's one piece of it. Another is we do have this grant that's funded by the state called the Early Literacy Grant. And with our allotment, we have provided two aides in the kindergarten classrooms, and they have done a phenomenal job just being an extra set of hands and instructors when it comes to teaching those reading skills. And that's exactly what this money is intended for, is to really inject this life into our early literacy. And that's how we've used it. So I think that's a good point. That's a big piece also. And you don't have them last year. This is our Mr Dyre's second year, third year? Second year. But
117the first year was the first year that he actually shifted down and he made it. The second year focused all the kindergarten. Okay. Cool. And it went back, and I think I shared this parable. One board meeting. It's this story of there's a gentleman at the river, and he keeps seeing people floating on by the river and asking for help. And so he gets them out, gets them out, and And finally, the whole village is out there trying to pull these people out of the river, but nobody goes upriver to see why they're falling in. And it's that idea that really helped us to really say, let's get it at kindergarten. Let's invest this so everybody has these skills as they exit kindergarten. Anything else? Any other questions? No. All right. Thanks, everyone. Appreciate it.
118All right. Moving on, we have Jay, Family Resource Center Directors. Ms. Harmon. Welcome. Hi, everyone. It's good to see you all again. Nice to see you, too. So you have my report. And I just have a couple of things that I want to highlight on that. So this year we had 83 families get assistance from the Resource Center and 154 students. And this year it was a lot more regular families versus McKinney-Vento families. The one big difference this year is that we made so many more connections with families than we did the previous year. So we have over 500 connections with families this year. And that's via emails, phone, just connecting with families in whatever capacity. And last year we had 250. So and we're not done. We're still working with families to help with
119rent. And I have a student I'm still trying to catch here at the high school. So that continues to go well. I do want to say thank you to all the volunteers. Thank you. I have a list of them for you guys. But we've had some staff members who've been great volunteers for us. And we have a few people who help us with the back-to-school resource fair. Mr. Medlock helped us as our bingo emcee. So Mr. Schlede does our Bob Ross painting. We had Ashley Porter took family photos and processed those. So that was one of our things for this year. Jessica Dodge helps us with the volunteers a lot for student volunteers. And Faith Drill and the lifeguards are going to be at our year end event, which is June 16th. So it'll be
120next Tuesday. That'll be our last event of the year. The other thing I wanted to say thank you to is our Cascade Service Integration Team. So I am part of that team. It is a group of probably 40 different resources that come together and help families. This year we've put in 10 requests for funding for a total of 1,931. And they leveraged to help with those bills for people $9,291. So that's how much we've been able to help. I did want to share a couple of success stories with you. So at the beginning of this year, we worked with a family who had some abuse happen. And they weren't comfortable in their home any longer. So with the SIT teams' help. We worked with the Turner Christian Church and the Canyon Crisis Center. We all
121came together and we were able to find new furniture, a new apartment, get them into it with deposits and rent. And Jordan and I and the Turner Christian Church secretary went and put furniture together and decorated the girls' rooms. And it was a great collaboration between our SIT team members to help this family. So that was one of those field trips. And I'm very grateful to have been part of that. And I'm very grateful to have been part of that. So that was one of those feel-good success stories that I wanted to share. We've also, we held a faith leader brunch. And I was telling you guys about that at our last, that was in October. But out of that, we got a group of volunteers from the Marian Church of God to come and
122help us do some sorting and organizing of our center. They also help us with hygiene bags for families. But the best part is that we have a lot of people who are going to help us with hygiene bags. So the best part is that we have a lot of people who are going to help us with hygiene bags. And so we're very grateful to have that. And the best part of that is we have this steady volunteer now. She's an older woman who comes and helps us. And she's just amazing. And we can throw anything at her. She's been a secretary for years and years and years. So she's happy to help. And so she comes and assists us pretty regularly now and getting us ready for some of the events that we do. So
123that's pretty exciting to have a regular volunteer. I know the schools get that, but it's not something that we typically get in the Resource Center. And then just recently we had a family come in, and I'm so proud of this family because they, dad lost his job, mom's struggling with mental health, they had no income. And so they came to us, and they had already contacted about 12 different resources to try and find the funding before they even came to the resource center to ask for help. We were able to get their rent paid, plus they had a court order for back rent, so that was due later this month. So we got both of those items paid and their water bill caught up. And that was just this last week. So it was exciting
124to see a family who had actually did the work. I mean, they did the work themselves. They just needed that one little extra help. So we were able to do that for them, and that was pretty exciting. We also helped one of the kids. The kids at the ATP program get his real ID. So he now, and he's graduating this year, or leaving the program. He's 21. So we were able to help him get that before he left here, which will help him to find a job or just have an identification. So just a couple of stories. And I'm sure that Brett has a question or two for me. Yeah, I actually have two questions. Not a question. But if anyone else has questions, feel free. All right. How's the family? That you got into
125the apartment in the fall? They're doing great. Okay. They're still in the apartment? Absolutely great. They are, and Dad brings them to school here. Because they had to move into North Saniam District, but Dad brings them to school so that they can continue here at Cascade. They've gone through the transfer process. Okay. Good job. Go ahead, Brett. Thanks. So when you talk about the families that you're supporting, is there an age of the student? Is there a typical age that you see? Can you say most of the time, if I had to guess, they're going to be a third grader? Or are the kids all across the spectrum on the families? It's all across the spectrum, even preschool. Okay. We had a family we helped this year who doesn't even have kids at Cascade, but
126they were McKinney-Vento. And so we still have to help them pre-K if they're McKinney-Vento. So we were able to help get some assistance for that family and connect them with other resources. Okay. And then my other part on your report here, you had a survey that you sent out in May. Yes. And one of the questions was about. Preschool or daycare. Is daycare a challenge for local people to find here? Yes. We put out that survey in just two days. We got 120 replies. That's huge. I put out a survey about the resource center and we got 36 over a couple weeks. Okay. I mean, we instantly, the minute I put it out, I started getting responses. And I'm happy to report tonight that we have a preschool daycare who will be moving into our
127building. Not. On their own, not sponsored by cascade, but just moving into our building. And they're going to be providing daycare and preschool for zero to five. So they're like a pay. A renter. They're a tenant and they'll have a business, a daycare business running out of that building. Yes. And how many students or children will they be able to. We don't know yet. She's not sure how many that she can do because she's in the process of looking at how many people to hire and. Right. And all of that. So we don't know yet. We're just. Finishing up the contract with them right now. Daycare is very much a need in this local community. Oh, absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? No. Thank you for coming in to see it. Thank you. I'm
128going to skip out. Thank you so much. Have a great rest of your evening. Have a good evening. All right. Moving on. We've got number five budget hearing. So at this time, we need to open the presentation of 2627 Cascade School District. Budget. Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang, are you doing that? Just go up to the podium. Right. There you go, brother. Year one. It's fun stuff. It's all right. So last month, you guys conditionally passed a budget. Right. And if there's any, we have to open it for this this month. Open it. And Mr. Wang is there to ask, answer any questions. If you have any questions with regard to the budget. If you don't, then you can say no question. And we can move on along the way. All right. Any questions about the
129budget? I said real quick one. All right. Being that now that the bond has passed and some of the funds are going to go to facilities, are you going to change? How do the funds come out? Is there is there a category for that or is that just come from general? And is that going to change now that we know that the bond is going to pass? This is a great question. And. When we do the when I was doing the budget as assumption is if you remember what I was sharing during the budget committee meeting is I budgeted for us to passing the bond so we can appropriate the the bond. So it's so the but the the bond has to be categorized be put into a fund 400 as a capitalized acquisition building
130capital building a capital acquisition. And that so it's not from general fund general funds 100 and all the expenditures going to be coded with being the bond. So what Greg was sharing is all this reporting to the IRS, the form 8038. So all this has a very specific requirement for reporting and has nothing to do with general funds. Did that. Does that help answer that question, Aaron? Or not? I don't think you understood my question. Are you said are you wondering if now that we passed the bond, are there things that we can do out of the general fund that we could use that we could do out of the bond to save money? So if if we could expect that we're now going to have new HVAC, new roofs, all these things that we're
131going to require maintenance, that maintenance bill should go down theoretically. Correct. Are we anticipating that? And do we have a fund already set up for those? Or does those funds just come from the general fund? And in that case, you can't really allocate them in a separate. So yes and no. The bond will help us relieve part of our maintenance pressure from the general fund. Yes. Yes, that will be yes. But no would be the bond when it was proposed a bond to the community is these are the things we're going to fix. There are things that not in the proposal. We still have to pay for it. Right. So I would say that's a yes and no. But I would say majority of the big problems that's proposed in in the bond will will
132use the bond proceeds to pay for it. So that will relieve part of the general fund maintenance pressure. So yes. So in the future, not for this upcoming school year, right, with regard to the budget, but in the following school years, if we said, hey, we budgeted one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to work on roofs. Right. In our regular budget, William might be able to say, hey, we only need to budget one hundred thousand. Right. Right. So you save fifty grand in the process or you could save one hundred grand. It just depends on how it plays out. So that's why you say yes and no. Right. Right. So some areas would come out of one hundred, but other areas would come out of the four hundred area with regard to that. So it's
133just a matter of picking and choosing how that works. Okay. Does that is that a better. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Cool. And you're saying that's a matter of picking and choosing how that works. Yeah. Okay. Cool. And you're saying that's a matter of picking and choosing how that works. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Any other questions or discussion on the bond? No? Any public? On the budget, right? Pardon me. I said the bond. On the budget. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any other budget discussion? No. Any other any budget hearing public comment? Hearing none. All right. No other questions. Then we'll close the budget. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on to 7A. We've got
134an out of state trip request from Mr. Rasmussen. Did you know that, Mr. Rasmussen? Mr. Rasmussen. Sounds like you're going out of state. Where are you going? Discussion for FFA. Yes. This fall, they'll be headed to the Indianapolis for the annual national conference that Mr. Brill tries to take his every other year. And this fall will be his time to take a group of students. He always tries to take a group of students. It's a... I'm going to take a female chaperone as well with him. And he's working on a couple of folks right now who will help him with that. Typically, it's 4 to 12 kids. And I don't know the exact number this coming year. So... He says 6 to 8 in there. But he did mention the other day, it could be
135as few as four but as many as 12. So you nailed the number exactly. Right. Any questions for Mr. Rasmussen on the... October, I believe, is the date on that. October. October? October? Okay. Just a reminder, for out-of-state trip requests, we do need the board's approval. In-state overnight requests, you don't have to do it, but out-of-state overnight requests, we do need your approval. Got it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rasmussen. Appreciate it. All right, 7B, Mr. Weeks, we've got a staff recommendation. Good evening. All right, good evening. Got a couple for you here tonight. One, actually both, over at Omsville Elementary. First is Katie Franken. She comes with years of experience, but also has roots here to Cascade. As well as Gabby Hoyseth, who also has roots to Cascade, is coming from our classified ranks,
136just got the teaching license, and jumping into the classroom with us for special education. So both at Omsville, both with Cascade roots. All right. Any questions? No. All right. Perfect. Thank you. Sounds great. And hang on. We're going to the staff resignation. And he's still standing there. Mr. Weeks. There you go. We got a few in here, a couple different categories. The first one is a true staff resignation. We're sad to see any of our staff go. All of these staff we're sad to see go. But the first is David Hurley. He's a science teacher at the high school, moving on to some other avenues right now. So he's leaving us as a pure resignation. We then have a retirement. Rebecca Cloris has been with us 20 years in special education. And congratulations to her.
137She's getting a chance to actually retire and step away. So congratulations to Rebecca. And then the last two we have in here are PERS retirements. So they are retiring from PERS, but are going to give us at least one more year of their experience. One is Jennifer Maben, kindergarten teacher. And the other over here in the audience is Marie Thompson. So both staff retiring, like I said, from PERS, but giving us one more year. Mr. Weeks, I have a question real quick. No, never mind. Forget it. I'm ready. No. Pass. And then HC. HC, employee recognition. Every trimester, we bring you some names of some staff that have done some amazing things for us. To list every staff that does an amazing thing is impossible. So when we do this, we ask principals, administrators, give
138us a name. This trimester was no different. We had a couple of principals going, I can't choose. But we made them choose to bring them down to you, just so you have a few here. You'll see those in front of you. Cloverdale. Cloverdale selected Hannah Hawkins as a certified teacher. Turner, Rachel Croft as a certified teacher. Savannah Wilcox as their classified representative. At Almsville, we have Katie Elsasser and Lisa Crawford. At the high school, Christina Williams and Tina Christensen. At the junior high, we have Emily Buzinski. Thank you. And Emily Nunez. And then our last one tonight from our Opportunity Center was Linda Bryan. So each staff playing just such an instrumental role. And that sheet you have in front of you gives us a lot more detail to what they've done with us. Any
139questions? Any comments? No? All right. Thank you, Ms. Weeks. Appreciate it. Okay. Moving on is number nine is public comment. And I'm told we have no public comments. So we'll move on to 10A. Hang on. I'm almost there. All right. All right. 10A. Resolution regarding social studies curriculum. Adoption sixth through 12th grade. Be it resolved that Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the adoption of TCI's history alive for grades sixth through eighth and national geographics. America through the lens and world cultures and geography for grades nine through 12. I second. 10A resolution regarding social studies curriculum. Adoption has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. 10B resolution regarding out-of-state trip request. Be it resolved the Cascade Board of Education
140moves to approve the request from Cascade FFA to travel to Indianapolis, Indiana from October 9th to October 24th, 2026 to attend the National FFA Convention. Second. 10B resolution regarding out-of-state trip request has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. 10C resolution regarding new higher recommendations. Be it resolved that Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the new higher recommendations of Katie Franken, Almsville Elementary teacher, and Gabrielle Hoyseth, Almsville Special Education teacher as recommended by the administration. Second. 10C resolution regarding new higher recommendations has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. 10B resolution regarding employee recognition for third trimester excellence. Be it resolved the Cascade Board
141of Education moves to congratulate the 10 employees selected by the administration for excellence in the third trimester of the 2025-2026 academic year. The board sincerely thanks you all for that. Let me try that again. The board sincerely thanks you for all that you do for Cascade. Second. 10D resolution regarding employee recognition for third trimester excellence has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Oh, there we go. Agenda item 10E, resolution approving amended appropriations of expenditures not requiring a supplemental budget in 2526. Okay, so. It's all in the lines. Okay. Resolution approving amended appropriations of expenditures not requiring a supplemental budget in 2526 budget as follows. Perfect. Okay. Second. 10E resolution approving amended appropriations of expenditures not requiring a supplemental budget
142in 2526 has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No. So. We don't have. How is this different than the regular budget? Or is it not? Well, do you want to. Just for clarification. I don't. Why is this separate? So we. We. When I. Because it's an amendment. Or it's a. It's amending. Correct. So. Okay. What happened is our general. Our state revenue came in higher than what was budgeted last year. So when your revenue is higher. You have to have a higher expenditure to match. Your revenue. Okay. Okay. So that's all. That's. That's all you're doing is just. Correct. And then if you go back to the last year or last couple of years, this is like a very standard. If your revenue goes up, your appropriation goes up. Okay. Yeah. Okay. What many people
143call it is the May surprise. And our surprise was very positive. So even if it went down, you'd still have to do it because it's. If it went down. It was a projection. And now you have to. You have to. Appropriate. Or. Or. Or clarify. Or whatever you want to call it. If your revenue goes down, that just means you have to control your spending. So your appropriation won't go up. Yeah. Your appropriation will stay the same level. Appropriation only works for expenditures. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Just wanted some clarifications. Sorry. Nope. Perfect. All right. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. 10F resolution regarding the adoption of the 26-27 budget. The budget of the Cascade School District. Be it resolved, the Cascade School District hereby adopts the budget
144for fiscal year 26-27 in the aggregate amount of $105,185,770. This budget is now on file at the Cascade School District's fiscal office at 10226 Marion Road, Southeast Turner, Oregon 97392. Second. Second. Second. Resolution 10F. Resolution regarding the adoption of 26-27 budget of the Cascade School District has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. 10G resolution regarding the appropriation of the 26-27 budget of the Cascade School District. Be it resolved, the Cascade School District hereby appropriates the budget for fiscal year 26-27 beginning July 1-26 for the purposes stated below. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 10G resolution regarding the appropriation
145of the 26-27 budget of the Cascade School District has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. 10H resolution regarding imposing the property tax levy for the 26-27 budget of the Cascade School District. Be it resolved, the Cascade Board of Education moves to impose the following ad valorem property taxes for tax year 20-27. 10B resolution regarding the appropriation of the 26-27 budget of the Cascade School District has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Opposed, same sign. Any discussion? So moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Opposed, same sign. Opposed, same sign. Aye. Opposed same sign.
146Motion carries. 10 I resolution regarding the categorizing categorizing of tax. Be it resolved the cascade Board of Education moves to categorize taxes imposed for purposes of Article 11 section 11 B as listed below. Second. 10 I resolution regarding the category categorizing of taxes has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed same sign. Motion carries. Okay future agenda items Mr. Drill. So you have a meeting to to create here for the bond. We sound like when Greg, Mr. Koskela was up we were talking about June 22nd. You could do the 22nd or the 29th. You can also do it here which is going to take all of about five minutes. Okay. Okay. So we can do it setting up setting it up via zoom which probably
147will also only take five minutes but it but it could also cause us problems and make sure somebody's not on and all that other kind of stuff. Here's my first thought is I suggest we shoot for the 22nd because if we have a problem we can fall back to the 29th. If we wait till the 29th we start running short on time. Yes. Correct. 22nd works. 22nd works. And it is based on what you're saying I agree if we do it here we're in and out in five minutes. Yes. If we go online we have the 10 minutes. We have a 10 minute time limit on all of the time. Yes. If we have 10 minutes. So if we have 10 minutes and we're done with it that would be the end of this session.
148Okay. So if you have a couple more questions you'll be able to answer them. Okay. If you have any technical potential issues. Correct. Getting Zunes hooked up in all. Yep. Are we all good with that? 22nd seven o'clock. Okay. We'll have one resolution. Something quickly to read. I'm guessing it should take about five minutes. In person. In person. Is it possible to do it sooner? In the hour as far as like can we make it at 5 or 530 or do we. It depends on what everybody else wants or needs. I'm good with 530. 530. Good. 530. 530? You okay with 530? Absolutely. Let's do 530 and then... 530. All right. 530, June 22nd. And then the second part would be that, again, in July, we will not meet until the 27th. That would be
149our regular board meeting, July 27th, just to put into your calendars. Regular time, 7 o'clock. There will be no written reports for July and August like we normally do. Or a report for myself and William and or Jay, if necessary. So, I'm sorry, the July meeting is what day? 27th. 27th, okay. That would be at 7 also? That would be at 7 o'clock. June 22nd, 530, July 27th, 7 o'clock. Okay. That's all we have. Fabulous. Okay. Anything from the board? Anything else? No. No. No. All right. Anything, anybody? No? We're good. All right. Thanks, gang. Appreciate everybody coming. Meeting adjourned.