6-8-2026 NBSD Board Meeting

001tonight. Uh, I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order and we will stand and do the flag pledge. I pledge algiance 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. Okay, we'll do roll call. We have Deian Witman, Julie Hail, Michelle Roberts, Megan Kronsteiner, Cahill, Carol Yardley is going to be joining us virtually. Uh, and Nathan is out supporting his student athlete tonight. And I'm Anna Hwitt. So, you all have to give me some grace. It's my first school board meeting, but we'll get through it. I would accept a motion for approving the agenda if anybody has any discussion. No. >> I move to approve the agenda. >> I'll second it. >> Thank

002you, Megan. Thank you, Julie. All in favor? >> I. Motion passes. >> Do I have to read the public participation if you don't have any public participation turned in? >> I don't think so. >> Okay. So, there isn't. Daniel, you said >> there is not. >> Okay. All right. We're moving on to public hearing. I'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing for the 2026 2027 budget. Did we receive any comments online? No. And no public comments tonight. All right, I'll go ahead and close the public meeting. Moving on to the district budget. This is an action item. Does do any directors have any questions? Okay, I'll call for the motion. Just motion to approve the budget. >> I move to approve resolution 2026 adopting the 202627 budget as presented in the amount

003of 73,373,725 and appropriating the amounts as listed for the purposes indicated within the funds. >> I'll second that. We have a first and a second. All in favor? I >> I >> motion passes. Now, uh we're moving on to the resolution imposing and categorizing taxes. Can I get a director to volunteer to read that 2606 or 2060? Yeah. Oh, let me just be it resolved that the following ad valerum property taxes are hereby imposed for tax year 2026 through 27 upon the assessed value of all taxable property within the district in the amount of the rate of uh $4.1626 per thousand of assessed value for permanent tax rate. in the amount of $0 per thousand of assessed value for local option tax and the amount of $0 for debt service for general obligation bonds. Be

004it resolved that the taxes imposed are hereby categorized for the purposes of article 11 section 11B as education limitation permanent rate tax $4.1626 per,000 and local option tax $0 per thousand. excluded from limitation limitation general obligation bond debt service $0. Um, and I move to approve this resolution imposing and categorizing the taxes. >> Thank you, Megan. I'll second. Thank you, Julie. All in favor? >> I I >> I motion passes. Moving on to communications. Uh, for board reports, I do have a report tonight. I'm involved in the leadership institute, which is uh a training that board members can go to. We we can all go to it. I did the first year. It's a two-year program, and I've hit gold and bronze um levels, but I don't think that we've we fully as a board

005talked about, but I think that maybe we should look at maybe a work session or talking about us wanting to become a board of honor, which is where we would all do some leadership and loyalty training. and until the 26th of this month, we can still have board members sign up for year two. And if you do year two and do the back stuff for year one, you can still get your bronze and gold and become um the loyalty levels. So, I just would like you guys to think about that and maybe look at OSBA because if we became a board of honor, we would have some credentials that could go on our web page. It means a lot for other boards to see that we're doing the work to be the best board we

006can be. So, I just wanted to bring it up. >> Okay. On OSBA. Yeah. All right. Next. >> Is there a deadline to sign up? >> So, the 26th of this month is the deadline to do the second year of board of to do the leadership institute for next year. However, board of honor and the loyalty points, we can do those at our own pace. There's always opportunities to sign up and get them done, but we wouldn't get the credentials till we've all done it. >> But that's a self-paced thing. >> Okay. >> Pretty much. All right, moving on. Student representative to the board, Hannah Wars, is gonna talk to us. >> Come on up. You can sit up here. We appreciate you coming. Of >> course. >> Um, basically, so I'm Hannah Wart. I'm

007a junior and I'm going to be a senior next year. I'm your senior class president to represent next year. Um, this year I would say we had a pretty good school year. Um, I feel like we need more school spirit is the only thing I'm going to try and bring in next year. um to try and have a little more school spirit. I'm going to try to bring the mascot back so we have him back. Um but other than that, I would say that our school year is pretty good. Um I think we need more representation at games and things like that. So, we'll start pushing for that next year. But other than that, I think everything's been going fine, going smoothly, but just a lot to do next year, I think, to end my

008senior year and the rest of my class's senior year in a really good pace. And so, yeah. >> Do we still have a mascot? Like, do we have a costume like that? >> We do, but it's really dirty. >> So, I said >> that would be really cool, though. >> So, I thought about like doing fundraisers um bringing um ASB and the rest of uh student leadership um to try and fund raise for a new one and then we can probably have like before the school year starts maybe like tryyouts or somebody on the cheer team or I know plenty of people who would want to do it too, but they need to know like the cheers and things like that. So, it's something to definitely bring back up and bring back into spirit. So,

009>> is it expensive to buy a mascot costume? >> They're pretty spendy, huh? >> A couple grand. >> Yeah, it is. >> Yeah. But, you know, then if you take good care of them, they they can last a very long time if you take good care of them, but it's definitely an an investment. >> Yeah. But, >> well, we appreciate you coming. >> Of course. Thank you for having me. >> Thank you. >> All right, we're moving on to association reports. Eva Well, good evening. Um, I don't know who advises the cheer or who the student body president that or that that group, but maybe maybe someone should fill out a Northbend Foundation grant. >> Somebody just said >> like I just told [laughter] you, but I'm funny how that happens. It's any hose. [laughter]

010Um >> I bet they'd love to help. >> Yeah, I think they would they would really like that. Um anyway, I cannot tell you how tired we are. [laughter] I am really feeling it. Um a lot especially at the elementary level because so many of us are are being asked to change classrooms and even I I am changing classrooms when yet nothing's happening in my in my room anymore. We thought we'd get a preschool but we're not. But I'm still moving from a from a nice classroom to a closet. So anyway, but everybody's packing up and and and moving and things are going to be really good once we get settled. But there's just so much turmoil right now. We're just all really feeling it and really looking forward to summer. Um but we've had

011a lot of uh really fun um end of the year activities. I know in many of the classrooms and um of course graduation and everything and and my u multilingual families are having a party right now and so when I'm done with my board address I'm going to go return back to that little thing. Um any we had uh two seal of biliteracy recipients this year and next year there will be a larger number of them like maybe seven or eight next year that will be graduating. So that's really exciting. Um, I guess we'll jump into the extra mile because I can't think of anything else. Um, we had four nominees uh this month. The first is Nurse Kelly um who serves across the district. Nur nurse Kelly was nominated by Kimberly Mitchell who shared

012that uh nurse Kelly has been a blessing to us all on so many levels. She holds the weight of all four schools, health and wellness on her shoulders um and then some. Uh when she met um um lost my place a second. When I met Kelly about three years ago, she gave me hope and encouraged me to push myself. She's extremely easy to work with and so down to earth yet focused on the details. After losing a district nurse with a few months left of the school year, she found herself swimming in what she thought was um more than she could handle. However, she has been handling it with grace, patience, and some blood, sweat, and tears. Uh that is just what she puts into it. She deserves to be recognized. She deserves much more

013than that. Actually, I admire her for not giving up and for loving the children. So, go Kelly Conrad. All right. Um, the next nominee is Jenny Green. Uh, Jenny um was nominated by Taylor Tratner, a a parent um who shared, "Mrs. Green has been absolutely phenomenal and is truly an inclusive teacher who advocates, welcomes, and teaches children of varying needs. She has gone above and beyond in making sure my son is able to do activities among his peers and also provides direct instruction to him alongside whole class instruction. Miss Green is a great communicator. She always keeps me the parent in the loop and is constantly talking with other teammates uh from my son's team and implementing new things based off of those conversations. Most of these conversations res re exc excuse me revolve around

014how much he has grown while also communicating to us what we can work on without it feeling too big like like too big of a jump as a as a goal and is celebratory when we do meet them. And um the next one is Chrissy Cook. Whoops. Who was also nominated by Taylor Drer. Um in quote, "Miss Cook has been both my son's teachers now, and she always has great communication and the peers of intentions. She consistently uses the parent app, face-to-face communication, celebration notes that are sent home in backpacks uh to highlight the strengths of her students while also quickly communicating any accidents or injuries that may have happened. She is a calm, well-intended, gentle, and caring soul. She also has advocated for my son who is now in Miss Green's class uh when

015he was in her class. So, it's nice to get nominations from parents as well as staff. So, I encourage um anyone who has great things to say about our our staff um to continue reaching out to me. Um, the last one is uh Deb Rosebury. Um, which if I just double checking it, this one was an anonymous nomination. Um, but I'll share what was written. I just want to publicly acknowledge it. The custodian Debbie at Northbend Middle School because I truly don't think people understand the level of patience required to deal with middle school boy boys every day. My son and his friends are honestly such a great group of kids. They are smart, hilarious, kind-hearted, athletic, respectful, and genuinely good boys. But wow, are they loud. Their hobbies include roasting each other relentlessly, making

016weird sound effects, arguing over absolutely nothing, and laughing so hard at things that don't even make sense, um, that you start laughing, too. They walk around school like a lowbudget podcast nobody asked for. But underneath all the chaos, these are really amazing kids with huge hearts. And I think sometimes adults forget how important it is to connect with them instead of just correcting them all day long. Most adults either instantly shut middle school boys down or avoid interaction altogether. But not you, Debbie. Uh somehow you have figured out how to speak fluent middle school boy. You joke with them, give them a hard time back, keep them in line, and still have their full respect at the same time. Honestly, that should qualify for a paid vacation and free coffee for life. [laughter] My son

017doesn't warm up to adults easily, so the fact that he and his friends act like they just spotted a celebrity every time they see you says everything. They literally will yell, "Wait, I think that's her." Meanwhile, it's just some random woman loading groceries into her car at Walmart. But thank you for taking the time to know that these boys um for who they actually are instead of just seeing a loud group of middle school boys. Thank you for making them laugh, holding them accountable, and making school free a little feel a little more human for them. Uh, kids must or excuse me, kids might forget assignments and lessons, but they never forget the adults who made them feel seen, respected, and genuinely liked. And also, thank you for surviving the smell of middle school boys.

018That alone deserves an award. And like in the morning at the middle school, she'll count down like five. got five seconds to get to your class, you know, and making sure that everybody gets to where they're supposed to be and you can see the kids are really engaged and like Oh, yeah. And they they pick up their pace and anyway, she's a great um person to have on our staff. So, >> I'll say that actually wasn't anonymous. >> That was was that yours? >> And Nicole Hand posted it. >> Oh, that's right. >> I shared it to the district and they asked me. So, I shared it on what's happened in Cous County and continued to watch it. >> Gotcha. >> And >> cuz I copy pasted it and then I'm like, where did this

019come from? But it was Nicole Hand and the amount of people that chimed in on social media to just say how amazing she is >> was so great to watch. >> That's awesome. It looks I'm feeling a little less heavy today just reading these. So, it's amazing. >> My friend that walk when the walk the halls were there, she literally started walking down the hall and all of the kids stopped and started clapping as she walked down the hall. >> Awesome. Cool. Awesome. Cool. Anyway, thank you so much. Enjoy your my party. All right, moving on to food service update, Tim. >> Yes. Um, we wanted to provide a brief food service update for you and we are happy to share that our summer food service program will run June 22nd through August 21st and

020will provide free meals to all children ages 1 through 18 regardless of income. So, this is something that we um applied for and Amy was able to get for us. And what's nice about this is that it applies to any children. It doesn't have to even just be Northbend children. It it is anybody who applies that can come pick these food boxes up um qualifies. And that's another change we've made to this program this summer is it used to be sort of this you had to show up and eat there. Now you don't have to. Now, it's a non- congregate weekly bulk meal pickup model. So, essentially, the family comes to one of our locations and they get a box full of food for the week, five breakfasts, five lunches, they get milk, fruit, juice,

021vegetables um to support meal access throughout the week. And we already had 360 children enrolled as of the this being written. I think it's a lot higher by now even too, which is fantastic for our summer program. and it greatly benefits our food service program, too. So, we're super excited about that. Um, anybody interested um in that, we do have um sign up available, I believe, on our district website. We also sent stuff out on parents square and it should be on Facebook, too. Um, >> hey, distribution sites were at the high school, Hower, and Lakeside. Uh next year we are also approved for the community eligibility eligibility provision that allows all students in all four schools to receive breakfast and lunch at no charge. >> All right, it's you again, Tim, with your superintendent

022report. >> Yay. A lot of information here. Um first, we're celebrating the class of 2026. So on Friday, as you are aware, we celebrated Northbend High School's district class of 2026 as they reached the milestone of graduation. Wanted to extend our appreciation to the family, staff, and community members who have supported our graduates along the way. Their encouragement and partnership play an essential role in student success. Um, I did hear a comment about preschool and us not getting an additional preschool. And to clarify that, which is not in this report, but um, we did get awarded 13 preschool promise slots. We had been hoping for more so that we could open up two classrooms. This, however, means we can open up one classroom. So instead of opening up a program at Hillrest as we initially

023discussed and why um Eva was preparing to move out of her classroom, we're going to expand the program at North Bay. So basically all the preschool will be housed at North Bay as as well as it is now. So we are excited about that. Um it it is going to take some additional work over the summer to get some additional space prepared and I know um Dana's working on some staffing models that will help us um make that e a smooth transition and actually a pretty um robust preschool program that we're very excited about. I can't believe it was only May 14th, so that the state band competition was held and our band won their fourth consecutive state championship. Feels like it was a long time ago. It was only May 14th. So they have

024consecutive titles in 2023, 24, 25, and 26, bringing the program to a total of eight state championships overall. um which makes our band the most decorated band in 4A state history. >> Wow. >> So cool. >> Pretty amazing. >> The sustained success reflects the dedication and commitment of the students, staff, and families and the community members in support of the program. We're also pleased to share once again that we are in the process of hiring a new music teacher to support and sustain a full K12 music program across the district. And I believe um there was also a choir teacher who had resigned and we're also holding interviews for that and I believe Shane was leading that process. >> You stated that one set off just before I came >> amazing >> and that's what

025I heard from from Mr. Brown and from um Miss Yester is that there were just a great pool of applicants really strong applicants for that program. So excited to hear that. I have a spring sport recap, which I was kind of hoping I wasn't going to have to read because I thought the student representative would cover all this, but here we go. Spring athletics concluded this past week, highlighting the strong postseason performances across multiple programs. In track and field, four athletes competed at the state championships at Hayward Field. Addy Horning and Ellie Massie placed fifth and seventh in both the 1500 meter and 30,000 meter events. Noah Bamante competed for the 200 me in the 200 meter and Olivia Smith competed in the javelin. Olivia also qualified for the state tennis doubles tournament with partner

026Grace Clark. In girls tennis, Amelia Pek qualified for singles competition. Boys tennis did not have a state qualifier this season include their year after hosting the district tournament. Baseball and softball both finished third in the league to qualify for the state playoffs. Softball traveled to Atoria and fell 70 to the defending state champions in the first round, marking the final game of longtime coach John Olsen, who is retiring after more than 30 years in the district. Erica Mcclintok was named Skyam softball player of the year by league coaches. Baseball traveled to Scapoose and lost 112 to the second ranked team in their postseason matchup. Girls golf captured first place in the district for the third consecutive year and went on to finish fifth in the state tournament. Top district finishers included Lola Davidson and Emily

027Heaton tied for third and Addie Garrett sixth. Boys golf concluded their season at the district tournament, narrowly missing qualification for state. In emerging in new sports, girls flag football finished second in the league in its inaugural season and is projected to receive official OSAA sport status at the October delegate assembly. Boys volleyball, also in its first official season, finished second in league play and advanced to the first round of postseason competition where they fell in a closely contested five set match at Wamik Valley Christian. Overall, the district sent 14 teams to state level competition this year, reflecting continued strong participation and performance across our athletic programs. We are researching um the possibility of a pension obligation bond and then um there's an analysis being conducted analysis being conducted right now. So districts across Oregon are

028continuing to base increased PERS costs. Recently the PERS board chose to maintain a higher contribution rate for the 2027-29 bianium in order to accelerate repayment of the systems unfunded liability and reduce long-term costs. While this decision may result in somewhat higher costs in the near term, it is intended to improve the systems financial position and lower costs over time. Given the ongoing pressures, the district has joined a collaborative effort coordinated by the Oregon Association of School Business Officials to evaluate the potential benefits and risks of a pension obligation bond strategy. Through this partnership, Echo Northwest will conduct three statistical statistically based analysises over the next two years designed to assess the likelihood the investment return would exceed borrowing costs. Participation in this study does not commit the district to issuing pension obligation bonds. Rather, it

029provides objective financial information that can help inform future decisions. If the analysis demonstrate a long-term savings opportunity to the district, I will bring it back to the board for further discussion. Hollywood visits Northbend. So, first, uh, going back in history, I'll point out that, um, John and Jackie Kennedy visited Northbend High School on November 6th, 1959. Anybody here remember that? Sorry. Um, this was on Satie Hawkins day. While it was hard to picture Jackie Kennedy Onasses as a giggler, reports state she was giggling the whole time. The couple was photographed sitting in folding chairs inside the high school gymnasium. But perhaps even better than those visits is that we had the arrival of a film company from Hollywood here to make a film in our high school. They asked to use three rooms for three

030days and even signed on one of the members of the thespian club for a small part in the production. The kids loved this small taste of celluloid history of immortality. Sorry. The movie filmed inside the high school was the slasher film Blood Song. The notoriously and notoriously starred 1950s teen idol Frankie Avalon as a flute playing psychopath. And that came from board meeting in 1980. >> I didn't know this, but >> got to watch out for those flu players. >> What? >> Yeah. >> You play the flute. >> That laugh told me otherwise. [laughter] >> I think the idiots are great. >> State revenue forecast update. The state's June economic revenue forecast provided encouraging news for K12 education. Essentially, it confirmed that we will not see a reduction in our funding during the 2527 bienium.

031Um, I shared that belief several months ago and so this confirms that. Um, the forecast also projects strong state revenue balances including more than 1.2 billion in the education stability fund providing additional protection from future economic downturns. While the state's financial outlook remains stable, school districts continue to face significant challenges and cost pressures. Rising expenditures related to salaries, health insurance, PERS, utilities, contracted services, instructional materials, supplies, and other operational costs continue to outpace revenue growth in many districts, including Northbend. As a result, school leaders across Oregon remain focused on advocating for adequate and equitable funding to meet the increased needs of students, which I will continue to monitor and keep you appraised of. It >> school resource officer >> instructional time update Um, you may have heard about Kate Governor's uh Kate Governor Governor Cotek's

032executive order to preserve student instructional time. Um, we've submitted surveys and identified that our 26 27 calendar includes one fewer instructional day than our 2425 calendar. This is a result of where Fridays fall next year. And so we're essentially our instructional days are being measured to 2425. And if we don't meet that, then we have to have a plan to meet it in the future, which ours was going to be met the following year naturally because we wouldn't have run into the same issue on the Fridays. Um, in fact, next year actually our last Friday fell on Junth, which we don't normally have certified staff on that day. So that would have been the day that they could have worked in their rooms after the kids left. So instead, we had to back it up

033a day. Otherwise, we would have had to go into Monday, which would have resulted in potential bargaining because we would have been changing the calendar. So because it is a paid holiday, but we're confident we're I mean it's okay. We just have to submit the plan. So other than that, um few minor tweaks on things and we're good with that. Instructional time update. Many districts are not in the same position. school resource officer. Um, we want to congratulate Officer Jared Jennig on his upcoming promotion to sergeant with the Northbend Police Department. Officer Jennig has been a valued member of our school community, building strong relationships with students, staff, and families and supporting safe, welcoming learning environments across the district. We appreciate his service and the positive impact he has made and wish him continued success

034in his new role. As officer Jennick transitions, we are pleased to welcome officer Matthew Ortween as our new school resource officer. Officer Ortwine has already begun working alongside Officer Jennig to support a smooth transition. You may have seen a picture of him on our Facebook post partaking in the senior class party. I believe the prom or that too, I think. Yeah, >> they look like they're having a jolly time. He will uh primarily serve North Bay Elementary and Northbend High School while also supporting other schools as needed. Um, Officer Trevor Seiy will continue serving as a school resource officer primarily supporting Ben Middle School and Hillrest Elementary School while maintaining district-wide responsibilities. We appreciate our ongoing partnership with Northbend Police Department and the shared commitment to student and staff safety across our schools. I have

035a question with the student rep. I know we've struggled to get student reps here and then you mentioned that Hannah, you know, you wish she had gone over the sports. Whoever's in charge of that, can't they make like an outline because these poor students, they probably don't know what we want to hear either. >> She did a fantastic job and she probably had no idea. I just um that was a that was just a lot. But I mean, for next year, if we're going to if we're going to ask them to come, if we had an outline, they could probably be more successful and then they'd want to come back. >> I don't know. Just an idea. >> That's a great idea. I think that we could easily provide something like that. It would be

036nice and consistent. Give something to focus on. Yeah. And they may have they may have had that. We've just had a little bit of transition going on. >> Yeah. >> Position that oversaw. So, but yeah, for sure. >> And we'll probably have another next year since leaving. And I know that it's something that the board has always valued. I think the community values it. So, we'll work on that. >> Awesome. >> All right. We'll move on to the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? >> All further question. >> I move to accept the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Megan. I'll second. Thank you, Dan. All in favor? I I motion passes. Hey Shane, you want to come up and give us a graduation update? Good evening. Um, first of all, just want to

037thank, as Tim did, uh, the members of the board that were able to make it to graduation, u, and to help congratulate our graduates. U, we had a great ceremony. Um, we graduated all but two seniors who attend with us in person. Um, and so that's a huge credit to our grad coaches who got some of them over the over the finish line. So, in addition to uh to that, we honor we also graduated 34 honors graduates. Uh, we graduated four seniors uh that concurrently earned their associates degrees from SWAK. Uh we also had another student who's going to be finishing their degree this summer that they weren't able to recognize at at our commencement ceremony because they hadn't finished yet, but that is a fifth senior that that uh pretty much has completed all

038his uh uh requirements for his associates degree that he'll finish up over the summer. So uh we are privileged to have 10 valadictorians. Uh you heard from seven of them at graduation. I thought they did a fantastic job with their speeches. Um, sometimes you get a little worried about what you're going to get from from our high school seniors with their parting remarks, but they all did an absolutely fantastic job. Um, overall the ceremony was was I I thought went off really well. Got a little chaotic there at the end, but uh some crowd control, but overall just uh it was a great community celebration. Uh couldn't be more happy uh uh for our graduates. um in case um uh it was I don't want it to get lost um in anything. So, I want

039to mention here at a board meeting as well that these uh graduating seniors this year earned over $2.1 million in scholarship money um to support them as they move on to uh their next steps. Um they also uh collectively completed u more than 2,000 credits um of college level coursework through SWAT and and our partners. Um so that's a credit to our teachers who offer our dual credit classes both in person and also the expanded options that we're able to to offer through our partnership with SWAK. And so I I think that's uh that's something that a lot of schools elsewhere uh do not have the privilege of. And uh I think it's just absolutely fantastic that we have so many of our students taking advantage of that opportunity and giving them a head start

040on that next leg. Any questions? >> I actually have a question from class night. At class night, two students were given an a a dollar amount in a plaque or something and they were they were asked what staff member they chose. What happens with that? What is that? I know Hample was >> Yeah. So those two staff members, well, one was uh Jennifer Hample as you mentioned, the other one was John Olsen. Uh what that was was it was actually consider a scholarship for the teacher. Um so the they based uh those awards based on nominations that the students uh had nominated. Um and so I was able to deliver those award envelopes to Miss Hample and Mr. Olsen this morning. And so they were thrilled. I told Mr. Olsson open it right away because

041I don't know if he just has a week to spend that or not. So, got we got to figure that out. But, um but yeah, that that's what that was about. Those were awards uh for teachers based on those student nominations. >> That's awesome. Cool. >> It was um also want to thank any of you who were able to make it to our honors uh banquet uh that we had the week prior to graduation. So, we had all but one of our honors graduates attend. um uh they were able to have their honors cord presented to them by a teacher of their choosing um and their parents were there uh to enjoy a meal together and celebrate that remarkable accomplishment. A lot of great feedback about that event. That is absolutely something that we've been

042told should be a new tradition. Um in fact, we have some students who weren't thinking they were going to be on that honors track who have come forward and said, "Well, if you're going to get a dinner out of us, yeah, absolutely. [laughter] We we'll do it." And so, um, so that was a a great event as well. Um, and so I'm just, uh, uh, very grateful for our community that just continues to show up every time our students need them, too. So, it's a fantastic blessing to have. >> I also want to say, I don't know if you saw all the caps, but the caps were amazing. >> They were cool. >> I am so proud of the students and the work they put in. >> Yeah, >> there are some really cool ones.

043>> Yeah. They they set an amazing uh precedent for going forward and I asked them to do so. I said, you know, you guys are the guinea pig group and so if we have any issues, you're going to ruin it for future groups. But they absolutely did not. They were just some there's some pretty awesome designs, tell you the truth. So, >> they were great. >> And thank you and the staff for putting in the work to make that happen. >> Absolutely. >> Definitely. Great. Anybody else have any graduation questions? I >> think so. It was great. I enjoyed it. >> Thank you very much. >> Well, just stay there. We're going to have um Dana and Heather join you to talk about a summer school update. >> That's right. [laughter] >> Oh, thank you.

044Thank you so much. Hi. Good evening. >> Very proud to state here that Northbend School District is a proud recipient of a competitive multi-year grant, the 2026 to through 2028 state summer learning grant. Again, a competitive grant uh funded at nearly $450,000 annually. The focus of our summer school programming is to improve academic achievement with an emphasis on literacy, strengthening student engagement, and supporting social emotional well-being. These goals align with our strategic planning and our priorities. Thanks to this funding, we will be offering an elementary summer school program for our current kindergarten through 4th grade students. that is July 20th through August 7th and that's in partnership with Champions after scale after school and summer school programming. We also have our incoming kindergarten program which is called Splash. This year it will uh to meet

045grant requirements. You know, I'm going to let Heather talk about that. I'm sorry. I'm getting excited and getting myself [laughter] up. We also have a program for our current fifth graders through seventh graders. So, next year's 6th through 8th graders at the middle school and that's in pro in partnership with code dance create. We'll talk more about that. Um, but right now I'll go ahead and turn it over to Mr. Brown to talk about the credit recovery option of the high school. >> Okay. Uh, so you may have heard from a previous meeting we're we're trying something a little new this year, a new option uh for getting a head start on our credit summer credit recovery. So, um we identified students who uh were struggling in their classes to the point that they were

046not going to pass this semester. Um that they just they missed too much work, too much time. Um and we were actually able to start that uh last week. Uh so we pulled them out of elective classes that they were uh passing that they the teachers were uh confident in giving them the grade that they had earned at that point based on their participation. And we have a number of uh staff members with the seniors being gone that have plenty of extra time in their day now to be monitoring monitoring uh those students. And so those students are going to those classrooms throughout the day getting a head start on that credit recovery program. So they've been doing that for uh a week already. This is the second week and we're going to going to

047continue that into uh the following week, the first week of break. uh we will have um a staff member on site to to monitor uh in-person dropins if they want to come here to the school and get that support. Um they'll be offered uh we have lunch and snacks lined up for them uh for the students that do attend that. Uh that'll go from 9 to 11:30 uh every day next week. Well, the with the exception of Friday, which is that national holiday. Um right now we currently have 38 students that are that are taking advantage of that opportunity. Um looking at more than 50 different courses that they're looking at um sort of rounding out for their school year. Um those who do not uh get done uh in that amount of time or

048have more to do uh we'll still have the option of uh coming back for three weeks in August where we offer those dropin services at that point. the same thing we did same program we had at the beginning of this year. So our credit recovery program overall for the year has has been uh a success. Um we have recovered over 350 semester credits um since the start of August. Um in the second semester alone, we've recovered 173 semester credits. Uh including um 48 of our graduating seniors uh recovered a credit um that put them over the hump as far as being able to to earn that uh right to walk across that stage. And so um it's absolutely had an impact. I I look at credit recovery in two different ways. I think it's great

049that we have it, that we have such a good program, that we have two grad coaches that are doing a great job of getting these kids in there and getting them over the hump. I just wish we didn't need it as much. And so that's the that's the flip side of the coin that we want to continue to look at um how do we engage with our students more in the classes that they're in during their normal school day to the point where we don't need gratiance um or other credit recovery options as much. And so, uh, th those are the the the two sides to that coin that we really look at, but that is our plan for our credit sum recovery at the high schools. >> Work our way down. So, at the

050middle school, we're um one of the grant requirements when we filled out this grant was that we uh did have to have community partnership and we had an opportunity to partner with a a a code dancereate uh company. They his name is Daryl Thomas and he works out of uh Western Oregon University. They have a program where um students learn coding. There's going to be this is actually a very very dynamic program. They've got sort of a villains and superheroes theme where they're going to uh students are going to be able to create a character and then they're going to be able to sort of tell stories through coding and some of that coding will take place where they're coding sort of an avatar on a computer. Some of that coding will also include dancing

051and in conjunction with um LED light suits and vests and hats that again the students are sort of coding all of that and then dancing to some of some of that. So there's like a there's some synchronization between the lights and the the dance moves that they're doing. Um we are very fortunate to have this experience happening. Uh we have it August 10th through 21st. Right now, we're really in the thick of of planning. This is this program can support up to 60 students. You can see on this advertisement here that's been sent home that part of their sort of takeaway um and sort of continue learning is that they will have a a take-home drone that they will get to do. There's also um Daryl Thomas from Code Dance Create has um 3D printed

052hats that students can also um use the lights and then those code those hats and actually um pair with some of what they're wearing when they're actually doing some of this coding. So, um very hands-on, very creative, very dynamic. Um, I want to say here that all of our summer school pro programming we have staff supporting u, but we also know that we may have some pockets of students that may need some additional support to be able to access a summer school program and that we've made plans in place for that. And so at this time, Northman School District is doing some hiring of staff that will additionally support our summer programming. And those staff members will be individually working with families to talk through what it may look like, what supports they may need,

053and then making sure that we can provide the level of support that each and every student that signed up can be successful in the program. That's the entirety of the goal is that we have uh students that are um engaged and we have students engaging in literacy and continuing to, you know, keep that summer slide from happening. and all of our programming including the middle school programming meals and um sort of group bus stop transportation will be provided this middle school programming while it's two weeks and it's and they are big days it's 8:30 to 5 that part of that was that our grant requirement was 80 hours of student contact and our code dance create staff are traveling and two weeks was much more immeable for them to be out of out of town

054and instead of three weeks Have you had a lot of people sign up for that middle school one? It sounds so cool. >> It is very cool. Yes, we are sitting over 60 people at this time. However, we've not quite yet gone through yet and rec contacted families and really talked to them about, you know, hey, are you really in for this? We know that sometimes, you know, in in early June your summer plan is one thing and maybe two weeks later it ends up end up changing. And so we I would say that um if there are families interested in still signing up for this, I certainly would encourage them to do so. Uh we do have more than 60 registrants at this time, but again, we just never know who on the list

055may not be able to make it. Um and so I would encourage them to continue to to register. >> How many um students do they expect or like what's their like capacity for how many they can accept? >> Yeah, that's a great question. So we we uh code dancereate is actually also partnering with another company called engaging every student whose name is Rick Reynolds. They are hiring two student workers. So they they're bringing four staff members and then we will also provide staffing. We have three teaching positions. We have like a tossa position that's sort of overseeing the program. >> So what they asked is that they look they're looking for about three groups of 20. So about 60 students is what we can what we can afford. Okay. In that program at this time.

056>> Cool. >> We also are very fortunate to partner with Champions for our elementary school program. I will say that when we wrote the summer school program, we wanted to be able to serve as many students as we could. We wrote the grant for 200 students. We still do have slots available. So, if we know of any elementary age students that are interested in programming, um, and also in this next few weeks, we're going to be doing some very specific reach out to families to see if we can bolster our numbers and and get students involved in this very dynamic programming. Champions will be providing the bulk of the day-to-day structure. Champions has curriculum that they will use. They will be doing lots of the planning. Um and so really some of the master scheduling

057for the dayto-day will be provided by champions. Northbend school district is also hiring staff to support the champions program. Um some of the functions of some of those roles are you know familiarity with students ancillary supports and if we can scale into some small groupoup reading and math instruction then we'll we would look to serve that that need also. That's our ultimate goal is that not only would champions be providing supporting, but if we can scale up and make it so that we have some small groupoup intensified support for students, that's really our goal with our elementary program. It's a three-w weekek program, so the days are just a bit shorter. Students arrive around 8:30 and they're transitioning off campus around 2:30. Again, a breakfast and a lunch will be provided in addition to a

058snack. And transportation will include sort of again those group bus stops. When I say group group bus stop, I mean that we may have a few locations in town that a family may need to drive to to get to a bus or of course they're welcome to transport directly to the school themselves. Um we are feverishly working with our bus company um on some of those pieces. And I really do want to thank First Student because they've been very responsive to us in this time while we've been not only planning for a new school year, but we're also planning summer schooling. >> Yeah. >> Oh, I have a question about that. So, they're using their own curriculum or they're doing science of reading, I guess, just because it's not ours. I just would want to

059make sure they're doing the right type of literacy program there. >> Yeah, we actually looked over that as well. So, what they have is called a literacy booster. And while the while you'll see far less explicit direct instruction in that program, it's very much aligned with some of the philosophies that we would be incorporating as well. Um and so more I think that what you will see with champions is um I think that they will not they will have more holistic a more holistic reading approach. And what I mean by that is I think you'll see um more whole group reading instruction versus small groupoup reading instruction. If we are able to provide small groupoup reading instruction, we would have more intensified support, meaning that we are a little bit more drilled down with the

060skills that students are are actually accessing. It's a great question. We did look over the literacy booster and based on what we saw, we felt very confident that what they would be providing would be able to be accessible to students and and continue to not, you know, not not like, oh, they're going they're doing all this programming, this doesn't make sense to in what we were doing and then continue on with programming one. We wanted there to be sort of that through line also. That's a good question. >> And Heather, you take it away. So, we are excited for the first year to have our kindergarten splash as part of a summer school grant. And like Dana had talked about, the program hours require so many hours. So, that gave us the opportunity to expand

061from just a oneweek program to now we get to have those kids on campus for two weeks. Um, they'll come for just a half a day from 8 to 12:30. It includes their breakfast and their lunch in there. and it also includes the transportation piece as well. Um, so it's really a splash into kindergarten and they get to practice being a big kid at the big kid school. So they're going to practice going to breakfast and going to lunch and classroom routines. They're going to practice recess and how to play on the big play structure and how to do all of that. And um, we hire it will be all of our staff. So mostly kindergarten teachers running the program with support from kindergarten instructional assistance and then some other we like to pull in

062um assistance from the title program, life skills, um sometimes the behavior program to support all of our students in that program. Um and we we have provided kindergarten splash for several years, as long as I've been in this position at least. And the feedback from families is really positive about the students experience at Splash. Just really getting uh over that nerves of the first day of kindergarten and going to a new school and mom also gets over her nerves of going to the new school and letting the 5-year-old stay at school all day. Um which is a big step. Um and we do offer a kind of a parent coffee hour and a bus tour. So we bring in the school bus on one day. So the kids get to get on the bus with

063their parents, tour the school bus and kind of meet the bus driver and hear a little bit about the school bus. And then we take the parents to a different room and we have coffee and they get to meet some of their kids new friends and we just answer all their questions about kindergarten and spend some time just sharing about the school routines and just what they can expect coming into kindergarten. So the parents get a little time too along with the kids. >> How many spots do you have? >> We will run two classrooms two weeks each at about 24. So we're looking around 50 students in that program. >> Wow. >> Awesome. >> Brand new kindergarteners. 24 in a classroom is a lot. >> Yeah. Wouldn't catch me doing it. >> You can

064come volunteer any day. providing you a board update in the fall after the success of these programs. So, we will be we will we will be right back here in the fall excited to share with you some of the incredible opportunities we've had during the summer. We'll make sure to catch some pictures of um the incredible things that they'll be able to do. >> Okay, awesome. Thank you all. >> Thank you guys. We'll move on to Bruce to talk about our key indicators. >> Keep up here with me since she a good looking one up here. >> She's not on my list. >> She's the one that put the data together. So, if I have any questions, I can call on her. She definitely is a big part of these presentations that we put together.

065Um, we call her the spreadsheet queen up there. Does [laughter] a fantastic job with that. I think I think everybody should have picked up with her packet a a set of 11 by 17. I call them the Carol sheets. Carol likes the big ones. I know you're on there, Carol. So, we did that for you. Um, it's got all the data that we currently collect uh based on assessment in there. And we tried to color code all the current data that that are on the sheets to make it as easy as we possibly can as you look at it because there are a lot of numbers on there as you go through. It's the same format that it's been done in the past and it's still being finalized. We're still getting some data in and

066we expect to get some data in. We don't think there'll be huge changes in the numbers, but they might be adjusted just a little bit. Um there's a there's a sheet for elementary school separate. There's a sheet for elementary schools combined. There's a middle school sheet. There's a high school sheet. There's a sheet for participation rates to give you an idea the number of students we have participating. And then at the last part of it, on the last sheet, we have a sheet of definitions that kind of give you some insight into what some of the scores might mean. Hard to remember all those things and they're just numbers unless you kind of can understand that. And we're happy to answer any questions for you on that as well. And I have a little presentation

067pulled together that I wanted to to kind of share with you as we go through this. Um, I want to tell you that we do use these numbers. They're not just put on a sheet there. Uh they're important to us because they tie to our strategic plan. And what we've done, Heather has done uh and we've put together a presentation that shows you kind of where these numbers roll into our strategic plan for goal 1A foundational readiness. You'll see our dibble scores flow right into that. And if you know if you remember, which I I'm sure it's hard to remember all that, but our first goal deals with foundational readiness. And we want 80% of our K3 students to meet the benchmark in English language arts uh as well as math in there as measured

068by dibbles and the star assessment data in there. You can see we've and that's by 2030. We know it's an incremental gain to get there. We won't see all the growth in the first year as we can't target all the goals at one time. We we try to focus on one area and then gradually then move to another area so we can make that a continuous improvement. You will see though that 91% of our kindergarters met the goal uh in there which is phenomenal in dibbles and you'll see we have some areas of growth in in those other areas and again that's goal 1A foundational readiness in there. Anything you want to add on that? >> There is kindergarten math. It's just not in there. calculating and okay >> taking the assessment >> that's a

069districtbased assessment in there next year you'll see uh star math will be incorporated in there it will be star early literacy that has a math component in there and we'll be able to to report out on a norm reference test in there for you as well our first year of gathering that data for kindergarten first grade of of star early literacy the next uh one we're reporting out on is goal 3B continuous academic achievement. Um you can see where our star scores fall star reading and star math in that. Our benchmark is 70% of the students in 2030 meeting that goal. Uh and that's a three through eight and 50% of the students in 9 through 12. It's a high measure. It's a high bar in there. Um, and you know, we'd love to exceed

070that even further, but you can see we have some work to do as we go through uh on math especially in there. Math is a focus area. We know it's a focus area and an area we need to continue to work on to improve as we go through. And if you look at the next slide, which uh takes us to the Oregon State Assessment Test scores, you'll see it kind of mirrors the last one. Math definitely is an area um that as you as kids get a little bit older, they get through the sixth, seventh, eighth grade, you see the store scores start to slide in there. Um and we know it's an area we need to focus on. So math will be one of those priority areas. And again, this is the Oregon State

071Assessment data tied to goal 3B U in there again. So we have the star data which is then compared to the Oregon state assessment data in there along our strategic plan. Did did we talk about before you go um doing some work with the math with I can't remember what we decided is that happening or are we just in the process of talking about doing that kind of like what we do with reading but with math >> I think >> at the grade school level >> I >> there is some math intervention Darl you want to talk to that you've been building the master schedule this So the first year is more of the alignment in this case like something for a while. education move away from. So just like we need to practice on

072those skills and literacy found all we've got one kids can as they track their progress and inter the doing the interventions as necessary is emerging next year. So as we shift from being a five school where so much of the title is on those early literacy skills to early intervention. So we have additional intervention. >> Yeah. >> So that's something coming to us from press excited about >> that's one one of the things reconfiguration does allow us to do with our title services in there. And I think they're going to do what was it pushin services for math at Hillrest and K2. they'll be able to do some of those. >> Class will get 20 minutes of support in the classroom. At the end of their math block, the last 20 minutes, they'll have an

073additional person in the room. So, it could be that they're monitoring those working independently. The teacher can pull a small group together or the EA can be pulling a small group together or it's you're able to get around the room and offer feedback and help kids a lot easier with two people in the room than you are with one. >> That's our goal. And then at at North Bay, we're doing a pull out model with our title services there so we can target some of those students that have the most need out there >> For math well and for for reading >> I need the reading. Yeah. So I just want to make sure that was for both. >> We have not been able to offer math services to that level. They've been just reading

074when we've been in the K5 models. So that's one of the benefits we see from being able to to reconfigure there to offer more of those services in there. Very good. >> So the next one we want to talk about is a little bit about goal 3A which is continue with growth and academic achievement. And this is a growth model that we have. Our goal is 80% of the students will have a student growth percentile that is equal to or greater than 50 in the star math and star reading area. Growth percentiles can be uh interpreted different ways within STAR. What they've set up is if you have a if you're at the 50th growth percentile, you're growing better than at least as well as 50 of the students in there. So you're at the

07550 students, let's see, you're at the 50th mark and there are 49 students below you. Basically, you're growing at the 50th percentile or higher. Now, you could be at the 80th percentile, there'd be 79 students below you in there if you had 100 students in that group. And this is norm reference data across the nation that we're looking at. And they're comparing where you start in the fall of the year to where you end. So if you have a lower score when you start, you're compared to that group of students and how that group of students grows during that time. Obviously, we want to see more growth the lower you are um with your initial score coming in to get you at grade level. Now, the state measured growth percentile a little bit different and

076we can talk about that when they get their growth percentiles out. But that's how STAR measures their growth as they go forward. And we want to see kids, we'd like to see 80% of the kids growing above that 50th percentile in there. Going to be a hard measure because there's got to be, you know, kids below that 50th percentile in there, too. But our goal is to get kids to that level as we move forward. Well, that would like to talk just a little bit about where we're headed. So you see we don't see our key performance indicators going away. They will not go away. But the state is putting some new growth measures in there and some new growth targets in there. This is what the state has put out that we will be

077looking at next year sometime. I think it's next year anyway. um of what they're expecting us to look at in there and report regularly on K2 attendance, K12 regular attendance, third grade ELA, eighth grade math, nth grade on track, four-year graduation, five-year completion, and then one of the local metrics that we will choose from on the right hand side, which are preliminary discussions that talked about academic growth because we think that's a key area we need to focus on moving forward in there. that plus the interim assessments are what we'll report to you at least three times a year on um and where we are on that once they give us the the exact kind of model of what it needs to look like. Our understanding is they're going to set some performance measures for

078each district based on the data that they currently have and give us targets to shoot for moving forward in there. But those are the measures we have. Um we're we've got a lot of data. We're well on our way to reporting on many of those things already and we'll come back with complete data on our key indicator sheets uh as we move forward and get the rest of the data in there for you. >> Bruce, are these the items that are tied to funding? >> I don't think there's Well, if if you don't meet for a certain number of years, there's a possibility of them >> directing 25% of your funding. They're not going to take funding away, but they will come in and they will put you on a plan and they will direct

079funding if you don't make achievement in like Tim said. Um, >> but you have a few years to report it. Gotcha. >> I think we'll we should be in pretty decent shape as we move forward in there. Other questions on key performance indicators or growth targets or or where we're at on that data? If you have any, please ask. We'll be we'll be so like Drew said, we'll be updating a lot of these measures to match what the state measures are for the key performance indicators for our strategic plan to align with the local performance growth targets and our student investment account goals. So that way it's one set of goals of targets, not three different sets. And just know we have continuous conversations based on the strategic plan goals that we have and what

080our data is and what can we do to ensure that we're doing everything to improve that and student outcomes as we go forward because we really want to see students at the levels as as high as we can get them as we move forward. There's no questions. We'll move into enrollment board if that's all right. I'm gonna talk a little bit about enrollment as it's a hot topic statewide as you know there decreasing enrollment that that almost all the districts are facing as we go through and and a variety of reasons um that they are facing that you know we see a de declining birth rate. We see our kindergarten classes coming in under a 100 kids, you know, and we see our graduating classes going out with 150 60 kids. As you do that,

081we see uh a population shift, you know, there they talk about number of families or or number of uh residents in Oregon declining as we go through. And we're also seeing other options in education for folks out there. Um and I just want you to know we track information. We track our trends that we have and we look at some of the reasons why they're happening and that's what we'd like to share with you uh tonight. Just a brief little summary of that as we go forward. Um what you're looking at right now are the number of withdrawals that we've had throughout the year for 2425 and 2526 for each of the schools. That's the number of students that have started the year with us and left. So you can see it ranges from a

082low of 50 at Hillrest up to a high of 148 at the high school in there. That's withdrawals. Now that's not the complete picture by any means because we have students enrolling as well. So that doesn't mean every school went down by that number on their enrollment because we have do have new students coming in. But I wanted you to have an idea of how many students that we have lost because that's part of our mobility. That's part of what they face within the buildings as new students come in not quite as ready in some of those areas and academics is is impacted by that mobility rate. So those are the withdrawals that we have in there. And then if we go down to look at student enrollment and what we've tried to do is

083give you a picture of 24 and 25 what it looks like and how those withdrawals have affected our enrollment. For example, at Hillrest the first day of uh first Friday of the year they were at 426. They lost 50 kids throughout the year through withdrawals but their May enrollment is 415 415. So they've really only lost 11 kids. So they had that many students come in to offset the withdrawals in there. You know, it could be a family moving, you know, out of the state. You might have a new family come to the Coast Guard. It could be any number of reasons uh that those numbers change in there. If you look at North Bay for 2526, you'll see they started at 329 this year and they're at 331 at the end of May. So

084they actually had a an enrollment change of a positive two students in there even though they had 72 withdrawals in there. >> That's a lot of your population that that you've lost and replaced with other kids coming in. Middle school 460 470 to 460. They've had a a decrease of 10 students even though they've had 73 students leave during the year. And the high school is the big number in there. And it it always is higher there, higher enrollment, but it's it's a larger number in there. Started the first Friday at 627, ended the year at 562. They had 138 withdrawals, but they're down 65 students in there throughout the year. If you look at the high school, the last year's number, they had 148 withdrawals in there. They had more students leave last year,

085but they had more come in during the year. And so, uh, they only had a net enrollment change of 45, even though they lost more kids throughout the year. More families moved in in there. Hard to hard to really know why all that is, you know, why you get kids in and and you get more one year than another in there, but those are the numbers. And I think we we added in the bottom [snorts] column in there because I think that's important. Evergreen, our virtual charter school. Um if you look at 24 25 numbers on here, they grew by 96 kids from the first Friday to the end of the year. So they had a very positive jump in numbers. And when you go to this year, they went from 803 to,59. They grew

086256 students. You know, we're experiencing that that decline and we're seeing a charter school and we're seeing charter schools across the state with some of the same numbers as you do that. >> Do we know how many of our in-person kids become those evergreen kids? >> I was not. >> I can do one better than that. I'm going to show you the next slide that's going to show you where all the kids go. >> I love that. I've been asking for that. [laughter] >> So, we're going to go on to this slide right here. And there's 24 25 data and 25 26 data. and we track each student that leaves us and try to find out where they've gone and and what's happened to them as they go through. Um, some of the students end

087up with a status unknown. Uh, and that might be because they opted to go to a home school. They might have gone to a private school where we don't get records from. They might have gone to a state that doesn't request records. they stay with us in the status unknown category until we get a records request from them or we're verified some way that we know where they're at and we do a good job of calling secretaries due and making sure that they find out that information. But that's the status unknown and we're currently working on resolving some of those uh status unknown situations in there. We have a category moved within the state and that means you know they could have moved anywhere within the state of Oregon. uh and and enrolled in another

088uh public institution in there. It might have been uh cross town. It might have been to another county. It could have been anywhere in there. We have moved out of state is another code. And we report all this information to the state as we go through. Um might have been enrolled in a non-public school setting in like a private school in there. They could have enrolled in that. could have been a personal academic reason or the non-public setting could have been homeschool in there uh as well. And then there are other reasons in there that you have might be expulsion, could be incarcerated, could be any number of reasons. And there could be a health reason uh as well. And then the last one is they've enrolled virtually or online. Um and we do track

089which schools they go to. If I had known you were going to ask that question, I would tell you how many went to directly to Evergreen and I could get that information for you. >> This is great. I just was curious about virtual. >> So, we know that 49 students went to to a virtual setting at the high school level and at the middle school we had 25 went to a virtual setting and then you can see even elementary four and nine as you went through. And you can see last year's data as well up above. It's directly above it up here. um uh there were less that went to that virtual setting at the high school last year and middle school as well as you went through. So that's how we track the data

090and and we we do and I know Michelle does phone calls when records requests come in and people want to go to uh virtual calls. There is a follow-up kind of like an exit interview that she does with them um to gather some more information to find out why they're doing that oftentimes. So we try to track that information. We try to uh encourage them to stay and we try to invite them back as well as we do that. The last two slides I want to uh present to you are the percentage of students that are enrolled in Oregon public virtual schools. You'll see back in 2016 and 17 was about 2% of the population. Really took an upward uh peak of up to 4.8%. 8% at the height of COVID in there. So, we

091had 4.8%. Then it declined and then it's been a steady rise up to above precoid levels. We're looking at 5.3% of the population that are enrolled in virtual online schools. that coupled with the next slide which said >> can I just comment though that that was surprising even to me when I saw that because we don't know we didn't really know until I saw that that we're combating a statewide problem that's outgrown the increase from co I mean sure there was that sharp spike but then >> we thought when it was coming down it was going to continue to come down but we're battling a lot of things >> um we're we're battling back in 2016 there were three or four charter schools in the state of Oregon that were online virtual. Now you're 40

092or or more charter schools and there are a group of online charters that are offering families money incentives to enroll and attend and that's part of the state school fund dollars the districts are collecting. So this is being challenged. Um in fact um you've heard me talk about KOSA that's the coalition of Oregon school administrators. I've joined a work group, a small work group that will be um looking at these laws and very closely to address this through the next legislative session. Um we want to look at charter school funding, charter school accountability specifically, um the online charter schools, because how's anybody supposed to compete? We can't write our families checks and we shouldn't be either. Um and yet these school districts are doing this and I know um right now our neighbor especially um

093is dealing with this at the elementary level on on a significant level. >> It really should just be about what's best for the student. There are some students who >> thrive better better in that and so that's great but >> you're putting a student or keeping a student at home that would actually do better at school, right? >> That's where my mind goes for yourself. But >> I have seen evergreen commercials a lot lately. They're they're actively recruiting. They actively recruit. Our our charter is not paying people to attend. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that's good. >> But you can see from the enrollment numbers that they're running right there at the bottom of the screen, a net increase of 256. It mirrors what we're seeing throughout the state for other charter schools. Last slide I

094wanted to share with you is, you know, we know they're growing by 5.3% or they have 5.3% of the population, but this is the in total enrollment in the state of Oregon. It was approaching 600,000 in the height and it's been a steady decline of the number of students in public education. While that's declining, you know, we're seeing it down uh in the four I think it was 46 560,000 range number of kids. We're seeing the percentage of those students that are virtual students increasing in that steady increase in there. So the number of students is shrinking and at the same time more of them are going to virtual online. So it's a trend that that public education is is fighting right now. >> Yeah. Bruce, have you had any updates on when the apartment

095complexes will know about students coming in? >> We've there's been some um timing with the city that's probably delayed a little bit. I think applications are going to go out um the middle of July. They're going to start that and they think it may be um November uh December before they'll be able to get in there and get the the city to um give the clearance to to occupy the buildings, the final inspection on that because of some parking and some other things that they do. They did receive funding at the housing authority to start on the final two units. Um so that's a go. As soon as they get the the fourth unit, um I think it was 90% complete, they'll break ground on the other two units that they have over there, and

096we'll start on those as well. >> Are those the ones on Broadway in Virginia? >> Yes. >> Is there another set of new apartments also going up? >> Well, there's four units right there that build and right beside them to the south, they'll put another two just like the ones that they have in there. >> Gotcha. Okay. And someday the city will use the URA funds to do something with the annex. >> That would be something super. >> Any questions on on enrollment enrollment trends? >> Thank you. >> I appreciate all the data. >> Thank you very much. All of the information. >> Thank you, Heather. She's >> Yes. Thank you. >> Data queen. >> All right. We're going to move on to a reconfiguration update with Tim. Um, in terms of reconfiguration, we continue

097to have weekly meetings with the transportation company for a student and we're working on establishing some of those baseline routes, looking at some walk boundaries and some options regarding walk boundaries, making sure students have um safe routes to school um and the shuttle but shuttle bus options and that will all accommodate in estimated ride times because the transition is occurring alongside our reconfiguration. ation. Um, our finalized routing won't be available till later in August because there will be some anticipated shifts, but they're unknown who they will be and what numbers we'll be looking at as far as people who maybe historically rode the bus who will no longer ride the buses. And then there will be groups of people who didn't historically ride the bus that are now using the bus services or the shuttle

098shuttle routes that we're talking about. So, what we're doing right now is we're building all this based on the existing transportation data we have for the older kids because they aren't experiencing the changes. And then we issued an intent to return survey that gathered some information from families as far as what they think they'll need to try to establish those routes. So, um we'll continue to keep people posted on that. [snorts] And we've also submitted paperwork to First Students other um partner company, First Alt, which would provide alternative transportation options, which we've talked about could greatly reduce overall ride times because there's a few people in our school district that are that are outliers. they they're they live pretty far away from the main road or from any other bus routes or stops or students.

099So, if we were to strategically pick up a few of those students using First Alt, which is more of a vehicle picking them up, um then that means the whole bus's ride time is decreased because they're not going out on these remote routes trying to pick kids up. So, we're excited about that. Continue to work with them and um a lot of progress is being made in that area. Um again they have whole teams working with us on this which is really quite impressive and they are very professional when they do this configuration classroom supplies and reconfiguration supplies and materials. Um we have moving pallets coming in. Um more boxes have been delivered to the school sites for staff to pack up materials that need to be transitioned. Um the the staff are finalizing inventories,

100looking at the furniture materials and the lists involved with the in with the materials that and the furniture that need to be moved. Um and also um getting all of our instructional materials um laid out as far as where they need to go. As part of the process, we've contracted with a local moving company to help us with the relocation of some of the heavier furniture and equipment that needs to be moved between sites. And part of that involves temporary storage of some materials so we can also move forward with our um general cleaning and floor waxing that takes place so we can have materials pulled out of the building, stored for a couple of weeks, and then brought into the other building. And so, um, we're very grateful for our community partners and the

101moving company in particular for supporting our reconfiguration efforts. So, we know that they're very excited about it. Um, and we had our reconfiguration field trips. So, um, that's where we had our K1 students from North Bay travel to Hillrest and our 24 students from Hillrest travel to North Bay so that they could participate in a transition field trip to visit the school they'll attend next year. Um, they were highly successful. Um, staff was was positive, students were positive. We had a lot of parent volunteers show up that were, you know, maybe questioning things at first, but within a very short period of time, they were smiling, happy as could be, um, about the different opportunities that we could provide at the different school sites. Um, you know, I I participated in the morning before I

102had some meetings later in the day out at North Bay and um, you know, we had the students were putting their hands on banners for their that that they'll have up in the schools, handprints on banners that they'll have up in the schools when they come in in the fall. And then they'll also bring the banners out when they graduate, which is which is going to be pretty neat. Um, our social emotional learning partner, Wayfinder, also sent four people to help us with North Bay and they contributed to student engagement and did a lot of activities that reinforced connections between students. So, they they all the different group activities involved the students mixing from both schools. And it was neat to see the kids just show up and and actually like look at people they

103knew, you know, they didn't they didn't realize that their friend from maybe their soccer team actually goes to that school that they're going to be going to. So now they're like, "Hey, wait, you go here. I'm that's cool. We get to go to school together." So now they have their current friends from from the Hillrest maybe. And now that and then they realize they already know people out at North Bay. So they were excited about that and it was nice to see that. We went out in the forest and did some exploratory um trails out there which will be part of our outdoor science learning focus. Um we know we're going to have Eva Varga um be be a science specialist for part of her day out there at North Bay participating in this. Daryl

104put in a lot of effort building an actual bridge. >> Um so um we we I don't think we have a I don't know picture with me, but um it's quite an impressive bridge. It's going to be long there long after most of us are around though. So, nice job, Darl. And he was there at 4:30 in the morning that day, making sure the day was a success. Amanda also put in a lot of effort. So did the staff there at um Hillrest. We know that our learning coaches did a lot of work there. Um so did our attendance advocate. And so it was just a it was just a really great day. And then that was followed by open houses at both schools. So then the idea was that if students got excited, they'd

105go home and tell their parents about it and then they would want to go say, "Hey, come look at my new school." And it turned out to be a great success. I mean, I I don't have numbers offh hand. I don't know if anybody else does. Um, but it was a lot a lot of people. >> So, >> great. Fantastic. >> Yeah, a lot of people. So, this was all designed as an intentional transition plan and it was all really a great success and we were we were impressed with that and so happy to see um the the reconfiguration plans progressing. I I have to add that Nora and Jonah, my uh second and fourth graders, both came home that day just so hyper in a good, you know, hyper happy and telling me all

106about it and they were talking over each other and both talking about how much fun they had and they both had new best friends and they were both devastated that they probably would not see them again till the fall. and they're like trying to tell me their name but only their first name and I'm like I have no idea how to track down telling a kid but you know but you'll see them in the fall. So um and I and I did ask the teachers when I came in for pickup how it go and everybody seemed really happy and optimistic and so I thought just from a parent perspective it also sounded like it went really good. >> Great. >> It's awesome. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> All right, we'll move on to the

107policy update. This is a first read. The first copy is the deleted copy and the second is the proposed copy. The changes we're looking at is policy AC uh used to say that the civil rights coordinator was the assistant superintendent, but since that's not a permanent position, it now is going to list our sped director. Uh policy JA will now uh we took out the citations for attendance. policy JGAB. We now say that really clearly that we do not allow restraint. So these are just a first read. There's no action. Tim, is there anything I missed you want to share? >> No, I think you got it. Unless there's any questions. >> We'll see that next time for action. >> All right. Moving on to the summer learning spending. Tim, did you want to explain

108that? Uh so the summer learning grant came in and it allowed us to include some expenses between March and through summer. So between March and June 30th this fiscal year we had not allocated money for this in these areas. So in um so you see that on this we have in the special revenue fund state sources we want to bring in $80,000 of that grant to this fiscal year into this budget. So that money wasn't um allocated. We didn't have appropriation authority. So we wanted to add $80,000 um um and specifically put two 20,000 into support services and 60,000 into enterprise and community services. And so that's what this is. Um sometimes if we don't have the previous um appropriation authority in the budget to spend the money and new money comes in, you'll see

109something like this where we're just telling sharing this with you trying to get the appropriation authority to put it here in the budget so we can legally spend the funds. >> Can I ask that one of the directors read the resolution? >> Uh yeah, I can read it. Just starting with the resolution 2020 or 26 I guess it's supposed to be 27 right there. Yes. Okay. Whereas Oregon revised statute 294.3383 allows for the recognition of revenue from a donation grant gift or request and the related expenditure by resolution. And whereas the district received additional funds by grant from state sources to provide items for the state summer learning grant. And whereas the district did not anticipate the receipt of a of an additional 80,000 in grant grant funds and related expenditures when the FY25-26 budget

110was proposed, approved, and adopted. Now therefore be it resolved that the board of directors of Kuz County School District number 13 Northbend hereby approve and authorize recognition of the additional revenue and related expenditures as follows. Do you want me to read through that too? No. Okay. So with that typo, I'll call for the question. Um, I move to approve resolution 2026 through 27, not '07, accepting and authorizing appropriations in the special revenue funds as follows for the state summer learning grant fund with appropriation for the functions support services and enterprise community services. All in favor? >> I I just everybody's in >> 2026. It it is it's not it looks a little confusing but if you go back to one of our previous resolutions it might have been 2026 and then 06 or 05 like

111we start when we do a resolution at the beginning of a year like next year you'll see if we if we do a resolution I'm sure we will be 2020701 >> and then we'll just go in order at the resolution as we're going in. So when you see the 07 it makes sense that it would look like the 27 motion passed the motion who it was Deian and then who was the second. >> Who seconded? >> I don't think anybody second. >> No. Okay. All second. Thanks Michelle. All in favor I >> Perfect. Carol. >> Thank you. >> Carol's in favor. >> Unanimous. >> Thank you Carol. >> Um okay. >> All right. Tim, do you want to talk about the agreement with the Oak Street property? >> I will. And I I did forget

112to mention something that um when we were looking at those at those online enrollment um it's also important to note that the graduation rates for the online virtualmies are really really low. Um Shane, what was our you said out of our group this year? I mean there were how many pe people graduated out of you said you had two that didn't >> only that two. >> That's that's incredible. Whereas when we look at other charters, other onlinemies, two local ones for example, you might see 55% or 21% graduation rates. >> No. >> So while virtual charter schools do work for some with the right supports from their family, they definitely don't work for a majority. So I think it's important to understand that. >> Um yes. So, cancellation of intergovernmental agreement with the city of

113Northbend for the Oak Street property. So, you might recall that earlier this year, Alan Leiddesma visited us during a work session and talked about having a donor that wanted to potentially build a soccer field, covered soccer field on our property at Oak Street. Mhm. >> So, as we were researching this, we discovered that an intergovernmental agreement existed between Northbend School District and the city of Northbend, the IGA, and it was in regards to the recreational use of the property and it was intended to provide a framework for cooperation between the district and the city for the building of a recreational facility and the use of the facility on the property, ensuring that Northbend School District retained ownership of whatever was built. and basically that we both had to agree to what was built. Um we

114believe that the IGA is not necessary to accomplish its original purpose or the soccer facility. Um when you read through the IG and you have a copy of it here, um it it really it really is unnecessary and and I met with the city man uh mayor and the city manager. Um, city manager was in agreement. This is not something that we need. Um, I we have put together a cancellation draft and our attorneys have looked it over. They agree that this is fine. There is actual no termination language within this IG, which is also very weird. Um, so we decided that we don't need it. So, because the city's ultimately going to get final say anyways, they have to approve all the permits. So, um, that's what this is. Basically, since we're meeting before

115the city, I'm asking for the ability to complete this transaction, so to speak, to follow through with signing off on this if the city approves. And this is going to the city at their next board meeting as well to cancel this IGA. And then we would forward with um um Alan Leesma and we would have them start looking at the property a little bit closer so that they could get some plans drawn up and see see what kind of permits need to be drawn and then come back to the board hopefully in August with something a little more solid for you to look at and vote on. >> Okay. >> But it started cancelling. >> All right. I'll call for the question. I move that the school board authorize the superintendent to execute an agreement

116to terminate the existing intergovernmental agreement between the city of Northbend and the Northbend school district for recreational use of the Oak Street property contingent upon approval of an agreement by the city of Northbend. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Megan. Thank you, Deian. All in favor? I I passes unanimous. >> All right, moving on to board comment. Any comments? Oh, thanks. >> All right, there's some information in the packet and we'll see you at the next meeting and we'll >> Thank you. August, is that what you said? >> Oh, right. Yeah.