001It's time for the regular meeting of North Penn School District Board of Directors here on November 7th, 2026. I'm Nathan McClintock. I'm the chairman. We have Vienna Wiedeman, and we have Julie Haye, and Hewitt, Shel Roberts, Megan Cronk, and Kale, I'm sorry, and Carol Yardley. And um All right, that's number of the next is to flags. If we would uh stand and lights over here. Good. 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. And uh would anyone like to make a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Moved. I'll second. A second. We got a second. Okay. Any discussion about the agenda? None? All right, let's vote then. All in
002favor say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? It passes 7-0. Next, we have public participation. I do have one person who's going to be here to speak with us. I have to say this beforehand. The board welcomes comments and questions from the public. If you wish to address the board, please fill out a public participation sheet available at the table and give it to the board secretary. That's what has been done here. We ask that you limit your comments to 3 minutes. The board will not engage in discussion with members of the public during this time, and it's a time for public comment only. The board chair has a discretion to limit the number of comments on a particular topic. Speakers may offer objective criticism of school operations and programs, but the board will not
003hear comments regarding individual school personnel or board members uh, to board policy. So, what we have is Is it Clinton? Clinton Harold? Clinton, come on up here. Have a good night. Fine, how are you doing? Doing well, thank you. All right. Who's keeping track of time? I Mike's got it. >> All right, you got it. Okay. All right. All right, fair enough. Shoot. Good evening, board chair McClintock and members of the board. My name is Clinton Harold and I live at Ever Avenue in North Bend. I'm looking at your road map for fall 2026. It is nothing more than a high-price shell game. You have authorized $36,000 just to have consultants research new bus lines while your actual enrollment numbers plummeted to just 1,955 students. You're paying for studies on how to move children like
004cargo while you maintain $300,000 in redundant administrative and utility overhead by keeping buildings on life support that you refuse to consolidate. But, let's talk about the millions you don't mention. You claim poverty while you play politics with the urban renewal budget, nearly walking away from a $4 million federal grant and a $300,000 property tax cut for our families. Meanwhile, your reserve fund balance is projected to plummet to just 4.2 million, nearly exhausting the safety net we rely on for basic stability while you gamble with workforce housing funds for the very educators you claim to support while the city sits on millions in untouched reserves. The data shows you're spending $1,198 per student on administration alone, nearly 14% of your entire budget. While the instructional support line under function function 2200 is being squeezed, your student
005to teacher ratio is 19 to 1, worse than the state average. Only 55 cents of every dollar you spend actually makes it into a classroom. This isn't an educational strategy. It's managed decline. You're polishing the brass on the district office while the actual classrooms are being emptied to protect a bureaucracy we can no longer afford. You tell us this is reconfigured You tell us this reconfiguration is for the well-being of the children, but the math says otherwise. You've drawn on maps, you've counted the bus rides, but you've ignored the parents and the reality of the numbers. Enjoy the decline. Richard, it's time. Thank you. Next uh we have uh communications, board reports and communication. Any board reports? Didn't think so. I don't think we ever really do, but you know, it's on the agenda. Uh
006Okay. Uh student representative, do we have student representative? Oh, that's too bad. Okay. We like having student representatives. They usually very informative. Um I will tell you that uh graduation's coming up on the 5th. And um it's getting real close. Anyway. Uh okay, association report. Garrett? Thank you for uh allowing me to present our association report to you. This is an opportunity for me to get to do it. Usually Eva's here, but she's busy with family things. So, um to begin, spring fever's in the air. Course, if you're around the schools, you know and and see that. Um a lot of increased restlessness and uh decreased focus among our students this time of year. You know, when the sun comes out, it's it's fun time for the kids. So, uh it's common. There's a lot
007of academic burnout possibly at this time of year. Warmer weather certainly for all of us. And of course, the anticipation we all feel of the oncoming summer. So, um with only a few weeks remaining of year, it's it's more important now that we uh keep that same energy that we started the school with educational uh wise. Um as we head down the home stretch, it's important to maintain clear consistent routines um that help manage the uncertainty and anxiety this season. And our families should ensure that students are getting adequate sleep as well uh that it that erratic sleep patterns can also be uh difficult on students as seasons change, okay? Um highlights we'd like to to give a shout-out to some of our academic teams that don't get mentioned as much maybe as some of
008our athletic teams. Um teammates Aubrey and Cayden Smoor as well as Francis and Betty Helen were recently crowned Oregon Battle of the Books state champions. This is a huge honor for them and we're certainly excited about that here at the district. Um our wildland firefighter team. Um that's a class that basically allows students to acquire their red card certificate if they pass a test, which allows them to join wildfire fighting crews in the summer. Which might be a good year for them this year to to obtain a job. Um they finished second place at our regional firefighter challenge last week. Um so that was a really great effort. And our Northmen High School knowledge bowl team finished uh the season in second place. Now, that kind of sounds like a bummer, but uh them and
009Brookings Harbor battled to a tie in the final round. And they experienced the first extra inning match that they've ever had. And they just got nicked in the end. So it was a great match and uh good time was had by all in sharing that that energy. And finally to highlight a few individual student accomplishments at our school, saxophonist here at school, Alexander Peck, won the first ever solo band state championship in Northmen High School history. So and he did this while he's playing baseball and everything else. So pretty amazing effort on his part. So something we're really proud of. Um in a different field, Trang Vo, one of our freshmen, has recently passed the stamp Vietnamese language proficiency test and will be awarded that seal of biliteracy as she graduates when she's a senior.
010And in fact, she's on track to potentially be the very first of uh Northmen student to win the seal of multi-literacy as she plans to take the Spanish language proficiency test as a senior. So, it'll be our first one of those, too, which would be awesome. Um we commend each of these amazing students here at our high school and other and other schools as well as their advisors, coaches, teachers, and parents who of course put so much energy into their growth and their development and help guide them along their respective journeys. So, that's a great thing to to highlight our our school year as we come down the stretch here. Um in closing, we have a few extra mile um mile nominees. One of them is Alexa Lucero, who's our behavior support specialist at our
011middle school. And uh this has been written about Alexa. Alexa is a true gem. We have many great staff, but this is not just a job to her. She will research, implement, revisit, and show up for kids like a champ. I honestly can't explain how much she has impacted my seventh grade child's education and life. So, pretty big compliment if you're an educator. Another person was Amy Molt, and she's our um food service supervisor. Um this was written, Amy holds it down in food service. She handles the daily day-to-day operations seamlessly and is able to tackle the big stuff, too. You may not know, but Amy recently visited Washington, D.C. to do food service advocacy work at the federal level level to communicate the needs of our students in relation to food security. And she
012works tirelessly to ensure food is exciting and something our students look forward to consuming. She regularly looks for ways to select and prepare food so that students will eat it, which if you've ever been around or fed a child is not always an easy task. You know that. Um Amy does all this while maintaining a great attitude, being a person who's enjoyable to work around. Um, food service can get overlooked in the role it plays in a successful school day. So, this is an opportunity to thank Amy for our food service team for what they do for our students. Huge effort on their part every day. Okay. Um, in closing, education definitely takes a village and we're so proud of our entire North Bend School District staff, everybody together, including yourselves, um, for the efforts
013we put in to create a successful school year. One that we believe we've all put a lot of our heart and effort into. So, thank you for giving me the time and thank you for all you do and we'll keep rolling. Thank you, RG. >> Thank you. Have a good day. Next, uh, superintendent's report. Thanks, Garrett, for that very positive report. Um, Garrett mentioned many of the things in my report, which you also have in writing, so I don't need to read the whole thing to you. Um, I did want to mention I didn't catch that if you had thrown that in there, but e-sports also won a state championship and so we're just really proud of adding these additional things to like e-sports, um, is is fairly recent and we were able to take,
014um, some money from ESSER, American Recovery Act, and help kind of develop that program and fund it so that we could, um, you know, again, keep students engaged and it was just a really great program to add and I remember, um, it was exciting to be part of that funding side of it while we had Mr. Gillum who, um, took the lead on that and has just been a great leader for the students and and champion of that program. And again, like O Bob and e-sports, you know, these are students competing against every school in the state that does this. It's not based on size, location, or anything like that. So, this is just another shining star, I think, um, for North Bend students, North Bend School District. As you mentioned, graduation um is coming
015up on June 5th. We're looking forward to that. The budget process is underway with our first budget committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 12th, next Tuesday. Um and so that will be at 6:00 p.m. here in this location. The choir has also qualified for state champi- state competitions, which will take place on May 8th at Oregon State University. Um and band will also be competing at the state level on Thursday, May 14th at Oregon State University as well. I also wanted to tell just share a story about our band. Um Boyd Bjork- Bjorkquist um was our previous athletic director. He's serving as the interim superintendent up in Powers this school year. Um very much looking forward to his second retirement, but I do get to see him um monthly at regional superintendent meetings, and he
016was sharing with me how in Powers they've they've never had a band perform. Um there's employees that work around him, some people there 30-plus years have not seen a band perform for the school. And so he reached out to Amber, and they got a bus organized and got all the band up there to Powers to play for the whole school district. And they and they said it was really wonderful. Um not only to see, you know, our championship band perform, but just to have that experience. And so I thought that was a really wonderful story to share. And he said what was really a highlight was that they barbecued burgers, they had a big picnic for everybody. Every single one of our students very politely took the food and said, "Thank you." They cleaned up
017after themselves. They were at one point out off on a field kind of by themselves. And somebody looked out the window and said, "We we should probably get supervision out there." And then the person said, "Look for what? They're They're not doing anything. They're just perfectly well-behaved." So, it was just again another another person from outside the district just speaking so highly about the the culture and strength of our students and how respectful they were. So, I thought that was a great story. Um And the next one on your report the date is incorrect. And this is a story about modern technology and this is from North Bend history and I wanted to share with you this information about the high school and the problems they are having with phone users. Um there's a problem
018going on at the high school. They're having a hard time accommodating telephone users. But the high school has determined it is too expensive to add an extension line, so they simply moved the phone from the high school office to the assembly room. And this was in 1919. From our history books of North Bend School District and I just thought how fitting where we are facing cell phone issues today and in 1919 the issue was a phone in the office was causing too much of a distraction, so they moved it into the assembly room. That was really funny. Um and as I as I looked into that, I also found that this took place in what was at the time the original Kenny High School building, which is was on the Banger School site and that
019was donated by a local developer, Lorenzo D. Kenny, to North Bend School District in 1908. So, the district built a two-story Kenny High School building and opened it in 1909. Soon as they opened the building, the board discovered that Kenny didn't actually own the land he donated to the district. So, the district was forced to pay for the property itself and they quickly changed the name to North Bend High School. And Michelle, you asked me this at one point, there was a pool in the basement. So, it wasn't where the current high school building is, it was in this building, there was a pool in the basement. The stories the kids are telling are true, just not the same building. And Viking Lane, they're still doing some surveying work trying to get the partition trying
020to finish up the survey maps for partitioning off the property. So, most recently they contacted us just to tell us that they will be sending postcards to property owners cuz they also want to do some a boring geotech boring in a couple locations around the property to just determine the makeup of the soil. So, they'll let residents know when that's taking place. Road access will remain open of course during that time. So, we are still working through that process and kind of just they have the lead on it. It's just really a matter of as they complete all the steps and the property gets partitioned officially by the county that then we will have a complete sale. That that That was it for that? >> All right. Next is our action consent agenda. Two items
021on both the consent agenda, which is April 2nd 2026 regular board meeting minutes and April 16th work session board meeting minutes. You want to make a motion to approve the consent calendar? Motion to approve the consent calendar. I second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Anybody want to discuss it? Suggest any changes? Right. Well, then we'll vote on it. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? None? Passes. Then we have information on new hires and resignations in the surplus. Surplus it says it says 12 by 10 freezer. I mean is that 12 foot by 10 foot freezer? Mhm. You could put that in your garage. >> I love that it points out it comes with a floor. Comes with a floor, that's nice. 8 by 12 foot box freezer. Take
022up a lot of space in your garage, but Yes. >> sure would be fun. Oh, yeah. >> [laughter] >> Anyway, all right. Next the budget committee openings. We have budget committee opening, but we're not going to be take tackling that until next year, right? Yes, based on our board policy >> [clears throat] >> if there's a vacancy, we announce it at one meeting. Fill it we can then fill it at the next. So, we learned of the budget vacancy just recently and so by announcing it tonight, we wouldn't have time to fill it before the budget committee meeting. So, we will fill it when we have other open seats next year. All right. If as long as the board's okay, or we could fill it at the next board meeting. budget We want to take
023applications and and go through the regular process I would think. That would make more sense. All right, you re-reconfiguration update. Well, as you've heard, we did send out a reconfiguration road map that we intended to provide some information to families. Just sort of a high-level overview of some things that we had planned out and that obviously could change along the way. That map was and the whole process has not actually been led by any consultants as I will throw that in there, too. This is led by district administration and the map was um furnished by Chat GPT after I put in lots and lots of directions and um spent way too much time on it, but I thought it was cute. So, um we will continue to communicate as things um transpire and as we
024are planning for the reconfiguration, we put a lot of time into this um in in ensuring that we can make it a successful transition for our staff and students and the families as well. One of the things that we have in here is the transportation discussions. Um and so, here in the road map, you know, we talked about different things that um that were of overwhelming interest to families. And one of the things we talked about was having a shuttle bus or express route going between the two schools. So, that way And of course, it's not just going to be running back and forth all day long. It's just And the concept is that if a parent has students at both schools or even if they lived closer to one school versus the other and
025they just wanted to start their day by dropping their student off, they could drop their student off at one school, and they could then take a direct route to the other school. And um we might be able to even add in a couple other locations for that process. So, where there would be one right at the school, um if you in a cer- I'm just going to throw out Airport Heights. Like, perhaps there might be a location there, too. So, families could all take their students to one common location if they wanted, and that would be the last stop on that route that would then go straight to the other to North Bay in that example or or Hillcrest. So, the idea is to provide alternate opportunities for students just to go directly to the
026other school. And the same with the pickup, too. Um a route could go straight to that same location for pickups. So, the it's kind of stemmed out of this idea of convenience for families with two students at two different schools. They could drop them both off at the same school and then the one can jump on the bus and go to the other school and then pick take a bus straight back to that school at the end of the day and then they could both be picked up together and or multiple kids, too. So, that is something that that we are working with the bus company to have happen. It's very important to us that it does happen. So, um that's underway. We have our IDTs open already, which is another one of the promises
027we made because we can better plan for the start of the school year. We can do it earlier. And so, we do have the IDTs open, the inter-district transfer requests. We're already receiving um requests. Um as of the the day I wrote this, we already had 15 for K-2, five for 3-5, eight for grade 6 through 8, and five for 9 through 12. And the idea is, and you'll have this in your packet later for approval, is that if we can approve a set of numbers now, early, we can contact these families right away and say, "Yes, you know, welcome to North Bend School District." They can start planning far in advance. Whereas in the past, we would always have to wait till that very end of August really to tell people. We might say,
028"Maybe there's room. We don't know which school you could go to, but we really have to see where enrollment falls." Now, we can just bring the students in, plan for the staffing later because we have more classes to balance out the students across. Um so, our hope is that we can make that process easier for families and make it more inviting to to come to North Bend School District. We still have some staff internal movements underway. Um some people, you know, they're they're expressed they maybe they had interest in uh teaching secondary. That would be our elementary teacher. And if that opportunity arises, in fact, we just um hired someone from the elementary school to fill a middle school science position that became vacant because the middle school science teacher was taking an art position.
029So, we get a lot of this types of shuffling going around at the end of the year this time of year. It's very common. This is the time of year when people that maybe thought about moving, you know, to another location and and so some of those things are happening. So, we're kind of letting all those those chips fall where they where they may before we then continue to do go through the hiring process for the vacancies. Um but we do have a pool open for grades 3 through 5 cuz we know there's some vacancies there. As you know, if you've seen the news recently, there are um pink slips going out around the state. You know, I think, you know, Eugene made it maybe was the most recent over 100 teachers getting laid off.
030Um very unfortunate to see that. Um it is a sign of what's happening statewide with the declining enrollment is a statewide problem. Lack of funding is a statewide problem. And so, we're not in that position. So, we also anticipate a lot of these applicants applying. So, we we we hope to see a really um qualified application pool and we already know that there there is a highly qualified person in the pool. So, one of them might be interviewed tomorrow from what I understand. So, some of those things are taking place and they will continue to take place through the month of May and into June. Um and I anticipate there'll be summer stuff going on, too, cuz there's there always is. There's always something going on. Um another thing we talked about with the reconfiguration
031is the the North Bay campus being a safe location. We know that there were concerns raised and we wanted to address those with the community. You know, our kids are far they're far maybe they're far away from as far than we're used to. Obviously, many families from Airport Heights have had their kids already out there for the past 6 7 years, but we also wanted to make sure people understood that that is a something we want to address and be be mindful of. We have our partnership with Hauser Fire Department um and and you know, they give us as they're rebuilding their building before it burned down, we had access to the building ourselves in the case of emergency. There's water supply there, there's power, but we're also um Daryl is working with um What
032was the name of the group again, Daryl? Well, it was the Hauser Lake Side CERT team that we're granted, but it's the Oregon Department of Emergency Preparation and Resilience. Yeah. That's great. And so, they're going to they're going to give us through this grant a FEMA type 5 container. Well, they have these different levels of containers. It's a full-size container. It's got It's got a generator in it. It's got um GMRS radio base station, handheld units that can be carried, 11 kW generator that can power emergency operations in the event of emergency. So, in addition to what Hauser All right, the department has on one side, we'll have this unit stationed on campus. Um it's going to have 30 days' worth of food, blankets, water. It's got a 500-gallon propane supply. And so, we're anticipating
033that coming in around July 15th. We're going to run power out to it. Um we have to run a 100-amp service to it. So, that was going to be a um an additional cost to us, but they actually said they'd match up to they they Daryl reached out to them and they said, "Yeah, we'll match up to $10,000 if you need it, you know, to to install the power." So, again, another very important thing to have and another way we're we want to respond to the community so they know that the students are safe. Maintenance planning. We've We've walked around the school like we said before. We've We've identified some things that we want to fix. We've also identified some things at Hillcrest Elementary. One thing that I'm really proud to say is that we're
034finally installing a stair lift at Hillcrest. This need to happen regardless of the reconfiguration. Hillcrest doesn't have a stair lift or elevator. So, in the past if a student had a long was going to be um facing uh mobility challenges long term, you know, they they might be put they might be told that they need to go to North Bay because North Bay doesn't have the two levels. Or if it was shorter term, we might have to walk them outside onto the sidewalk, down the sidewalk to the lower level, then back out the lower level, back up the sidewalk to the upper level. And that is something that um we've wanted to address and we now have it being addressed. We will have a stair lift installed this summer. So, we're really excited to see
035that going. We've hired a We we will be hiring a moving company that move the teachers' furniture between the two buildings. So, we have processes in place for identifying what needs to get moved, what curriculum is moved, teachers know the date that they need to have materials on a pallet, we'll get the pallets moved for them. We'll also get um the furniture moved. And it's not that we couldn't have our staff do it. Um we always budget a little extra money. So, when you look in your budget book, there's always a little extra money budgeted for summer maintenance anyways. So, or or for hiring a couple extra support staff in the summer. And we could have done that with those people, but we decided that it might be best to have a moving company come
036help us out with that so that the other task could take place and um it doesn't impact our workers while they're while they're doing that. Uh May 21st, we have the student visitations between the two schools. So, that's coming up here real fast. Uh May 21st, students that will be transitioning to North Bay will be visiting North Bay. We have Wayfinder coming in, flying in to join us. We have some very fun activities planned, things where that the students in those grade levels can already meet each other, do some interactive activities together, um meet their new friends, so to speak. So, you know, they'll be transferring with with friends and they'll have this whole new group, you know, within their grade level. So, we're excited about that. We know that that Wayfinder staff, they're the
037same people that have been doing our community um groupings that we've had on Saturdays. Um so, we've had had what, three of those I think so far, and then we decided to take the fourth one that we had planned in instead have them come during the school week to to lead this process for that. And then meanwhile, the other students that will be the sort of the the first and second grade students will be from North Bay will be going to Hillcrest. So, that will be all taking place the same day, and the fifth graders will be going to visit the middle school and have a picnic that day at Tugman. And then yeah, the 27th and then so following that on So, students get to go experience that. Our hope is obviously that they
038come and share the excitement with their families, and then the schools will be open May 27th for Hillcrest from 4:00 to 6:00, and then North Bay will be open May 28th from 4:00 to 6:00. So, families that want to come see and walk around the school, maybe get a tour, learn about things, have that ability to. Maybe they still have questions. Maybe they they want some just to see what it looks like, you know? And so, that's that's why we have that planned. We also We also have our inst- instructional coaches working on setting up some meetings to do some SEL scope and sequence planning for the social emotional learning programs. Um they're going to cuz we know in our strategic plan that we have culture and and some behavioral issues and bullying challenges that
039we want to overcome and we want to address over time. So, we're going to have our coaches work with teacher leads that are going to develop scope and sequence for each grade level that basically identifies what lessons to teach in what order for each grade level that will integrate the Wayfinder curriculum, which is focused on the the social emotional learning skills and how to how to address conflict, how to plan for your future, and and future ready skills, and just being an overall good person is really the focus of that program. With our Zones of Regulation programs, which is teaching self-regulation skills, how to identify when maybe you're dysregulated and then what tools do you have at your disposal to kind of bring yourself back to a regulated zone. And regulation, you know, being out
040of regulation could just be a positive thing. You know, you think about the Christmas when you got just what you wanted and how excited that can make you. Well, sometimes we overact react to that and that could be a form of dysregulation. And so that just recognizing how we're feeling, what those emotions look like, what can we do to get ourselves grounded again if we need to. And then Kelso's Choice is another component of that. Kelso is a program that teaches kids really how to respond to conflict. You know, what are appropriate ways to deal with different encounters you might have with others, um or how to maybe stand up for somebody who who's not being treated correctly or stand up for yourself, you know, obviously in the in a productive and positive way. So,
041the integration of these three programs at these early grades and having the scope and sequence clearly defined is designed to help teachers, you know, take that burden off of them, but also to start just changing the culture overall in our schools and creating a more positive, supportive climate so that as our students are going through the grade levels, they're going through the grade levels with the skills they need to be successful through high school and beyond. Which also, I'll skip the translation real quick, is just the intervention schedules, too, cuz that was another thing we promised with the reconfiguration is that we'd be able to add intervention blocks without adding staff. And that is exactly what's happened. And right now, as the schools are working on their master schedules, um they're already identifying these additional
042blocks because again, one intervention team doesn't have to address K through five. They're now addressing K through two or three through five. So, that's doubling the blocks of time throughout a day that that same team can do interventions. We're not changing the staffing levels for that. We're doubling the time that they can impact students. So, at North Bay, for example, their first drafts at their um master schedule is shown that they're able to add math intervention blocks for three, four, and five, something they never had time to do. It was always reading intervention blocks. So, that is an also an exciting thing to see take shape, is that we can now add specific dedicated intervention blocks to provide more support outside the classroom. Transportation came um and met with staff from Mid-Columbia on April 23rd,
043and they explained their um the you know, their vision for for transportation, and and the things they value. So, First Student obviously was awarded the contract for next school year, and um many of the staff at Mid-Columbia were interested in learning more about that, and you know, not quite sure. And by the end of the meeting, I mean, they were they were they were clapping about things. They were happy about things. And so, we're excited to see that First Student, you know, they're they want to bring on the staff members that are successful at Mid-Columbia as staff members for First Student. And so, they they came, they talked about their what they're offering, talked about their their pay, which is a significant increase to what Mid-Columbia is paying our drivers, which is another important part
044of this puzzle, is having staff and our that we're contracting get paid appropriately. So, they're getting higher qual higher quality staff that they can retain, sorry. So. Um they have a strong commitment to student safety as well. It's It was apparent through the RFP process and it was also apparent when they were having their discussions with the staff here. And again, they will be providing a brand new transportation fleet to North Bend School District, which we're super excited about. There There might be some transition fleet going on at the beginning of the year if they all don't all come in at time on time, but we will have brand new buses. So, we know that that's going to greatly increase the safety of the buses. Obviously, they're very heavy safe vehicles as it is, but
045they will be even safer. Um the their buses come with the latest technology. So, when you think about things like in our modern cars that have, you know, like the dangers ahead, you know, you get all your little warning whistles and buzzers, things going off. They have all that installed on their buses, too, which is great. And and not all the bus companies that we reviewed had those options. First Student did. And again, we ordered all the buses with seat belts. Not a requirement. Most school districts don't do this, but we wanted to go the extra mile and make sure our buses had seat belts, an additional safety feature, and also something that will help the students remember to stay seated when the bus is in motion. Hit it all. All right. We We It's
046exciting. There's a lot of stuff going on. And what's exci- I think most exciting about it is just that we're we're just moving the district forward, you know, whether whether the reconfiguration was happening or not, a lot of these things were things that we we kind of saw in our plans anyways, but now we can just really kind of expedite the process, make them come to fruition faster. Any questions on that? No. Anybody have any questions about All right. Well, the next appreciate it the updates. We have National School Nurses Day resolution. They can read it. Um That's that's for one of you guys to read. Pardon me? That's for one of you guys to read. We're hoping anyways. All right. The National School Nurse Day has been observed annually since 1982 and in 19
047excuse me 2026 will be observed on May 12th. National School Nurse Day was established to foster a better understanding of the role of school nurses in the educational setting. School nurses support students and student health every day of the year. On National Labor Nurse Day, we take special time to celebrate and recognize the contributions that school nurses are making to the health and learning of our nation's 73 million children. And then we have a resolution. Would someone like to read the resolution? I don't mind. >> [clears throat] >> Whereas children are the future and by investing in them today, we are ensuring our world for tomorrow. And whereas all students have a right to have their health needs safely met while in the school setting. And whereas children today face more complex and life-threatening health
048problems requiring care in school. And whereas school nurses have served a critical role in improving public health and in ensuring students academic success for more than 100 years. And whereas school nurses are professional nurses that advance the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievements of all students by serving on the front lines and providing a critical safety net for our nation's most fragile children. And whereas school nurses act as a liaison to the school community, parents, and health care providers on behalf of children's health by promoting wellness and improving health outcomes for our community's children. And whereas school nurses are members of school-based mental health teams, and whereas school nurses understand the link between health and learning and are in a position to make a positive difference for children every day. Now, therefore, be it resolved
049that the North Bend School District Board of Directors celebrates and acknowledges the accomplishments of school nurses everywhere and their efforts of meeting the needs of today's students by improving the delivery of health care in our schools and offers gratitude to school nurses who contribute to our community by helping students stay healthy in school and ready to learn and keeping parents and guardians at work, not just on this National School Nurse Day, but at every opportunity through the year. Be it further resolved that the North Bend School District Board of Directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally expressing appreciation to our school nurses for their dedication and devotion to their work and proclaims May 12th, 2026 National School Nurse Day. Adopted this 7th day of May, 2026. In order
050to adopt it, we needed a someone to make a motion to uh approve the resolution. I move to approve resolution 2026-04 as set forth above. I'll second. Well, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? And I'll call for the question then. All in favor say I. I. I. And that motion is approved. Thank you. Wonderful. Next, we have another resol- these um teacher appreciation week resolution. So, we have a second resolution. Um Teacher Appreciation Week is celebrated every year during the first full week of May. In 2026, it will be observed on May 4th through the 8th. The North Bend School District honored their certified staff during the week of April 6th to 10th, 2026. The North Bend School District currently employs 108 certified employees. Our educators play a pivotal role in our
051students' lives, inspiring a lifelong love of learning and discovery, and making a difference in their well-being and long-term success. The work they do and skills they bring to the North Bend School District is immeasurable. Someone else want to read the resolution? Well. Okay, good. Whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education, and whereas teachers encounter students of widely widely differing backgrounds, and whereas our country's future depends upon providing quality education to all students, and whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons, evaluating progress, counseling and coaching students, and performing community service, and whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the North Bend School District Board of Directors proclaims May 4th through 8th, 2026, to be Teacher Appreciation Week, and be it
052further resolved that the North Bend School District Board of Directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join in with it and personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work. Um Action requested is approval of a resolution 2022-2026-05 to proclaim May 4th through 8th, 2026, as Teacher Appreciation Week for the North Bend School District. Do we have a motion? I move to approve resolution 2026-05 as set forth above. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? I'll call for the question. All in favor, say I. I. All right. Next is Indian education update. Someone Oh, here we are. Excellent. I'm tired of talk. I'm happy to step Yeah, go for it. Good evening. I'm here to share some updates of North Bend School District's Indian education
053program. North Bend School District is committed to supporting American Indian and Alaskan Native students through a variety of opportunities that promote academic success and cultural pride. We're proud to partner with the Coos County History Museum and our local tribes to bring cultural programming, storytelling, and curriculum aligned with state content standards into the classroom. These partnerships also allow classrooms to access opportunities in the community through our local tribes. For instance, the uh CTCLUSI had recently hosted um data canoe and we had some educators being able to attend events. North Bend School District works closely with the Tribal Attendance Promising Practices Program or TAP Program, which funds a family attendance advocate as well. The advocate's role includes supporting attendance and reducing tardiness, ensuring academic success, as well as coordinating and integrating cultural activities, and keeping regular contact
054with our tribes. On April 28th this year, North Bend School District hosted our Native Family Night. An evening focused on building relationships with our Native students, families, staff, and local tribal members. I'd like to thank members from the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians and the Coquille Tribe for not only supporting this event by bringing and hosting the traditional Native American game of shinny. So, not only did they bring the actual equipment and play shinny, they also the Coquille Tribe host I'm sorry, donated a delicious salmon for us to share that night. So, in addition to the dinner, they also not only donated, but actually cooked and then brought the salmon to the event for our family. So, I wanted to thank them. The Native Family Night is an annual meeting and
055it's also an opportunity to review our Title VI Indian Education Grant. North Bend School District is one of approximately 30 districts in the state of Oregon that apply for this federal Indian Indian Education Grant. Our anticipated allocation for this grant for the 2026-2027 school year is $18,960. And I believe at this time we can I don't think there's any action on that. So, just appreciate it. The update. Yes, I'm happy to answer any questions. And this is one of the ones where if we go through the process of opening for public comments, questions, and then close public hearing. So, it's kind of like SIA where we do a public hearing. Okay, well, let's um we'll open a public hearing if anybody wants to ask any questions or make any comments concerning the uh uh the
056Indian Education program. Okay? No one? Then we will close public comment and move on? All right. Excellent. Next item is K-12 >> Then my chair because I'm up next. Yes, also Yes, thank you. Do it. [laughter] And the the just to to specify that that that this was for the federal part of the grant. The TAP grant that that Dana mentioned is an additional sum of money. Much more than this native the the federal grant. And that's what funds the attendance advocate and those programs. Two separate grants. Yes. Cool. Excellent. All right. I'd also like to discuss our health curriculum update if I may. We're so are we are we ready to jump into the next topic? >> Excellent. In the month of March, Director Bruce Martin and I were able to give an initial
057update in regards to our K-12 health adoption. As you know, North Bend School District has completed a review of state adopted health curriculum. This review has included our educators, administrators, and community stakeholders, including both families and board members. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the families that took time out of their days to review health curriculum and use this as an opportunity to be involved in their child's education. We did have, I believe, five separate families come and review. This is an opportunity to thank our teachers and board members as well for their involvement in curriculum adoption. The health curriculums that we have reviewed are state adopted and aligned with current Oregon state health standards, meeting the requirements within the health state standards, including Aaron's Law. North Bend School District is recommending
058the board approve the adoption of the Great Body Shop for grades K through 8 and Live Well Comprehensive Health for grades 9 through 12. North Bend School District seeks to implement the new health curriculum in the fall of 2026 for a 6-year time time frame adoption adoption time frame. Does anybody want to make a motion or have some questions? I have some comments that I'd like to share. Please. So, some of us board members came in and I wanted to thank Dana and Bruce cuz we were kind of hard on them. We had a lot of questions. Um mostly about the standards and I guess that's what I want to talk about as a new board member. I didn't realize that the standards are already approved. There's nothing we can do about that, but I
059really appreciate the district for taking the time to find a way that parents can be informed if there's something they don't want their kid to know about to talk about like maybe posting scope and sequence or something like that because there there definitely some standards that I didn't agree with. But the curriculum is good curriculum and I'm glad that you guys worked really hard and spent all the time to make sure that it works for our families. Excellent. Thank you. Yes, and I do think that there it's a very important um piece. I would encourage any family that has questions about the health standards to to um get a a hot cold of a copy. We'd be happy to facilitate that and happy to get them those so that they can read them themselves as
060well. I do think that that's important part of this. So thank you for saying that. Anybody else? Okay. Does anybody wish to make a motion to approve the uh the health adoption uh Um I move to approve the adoption of the Great Body Shop for grades K through eight and Live Well for grades 9 through 12. Motion has been made. Any second? I'll second. We have a second. Okay, any further discussion on the matter? Then let's vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Uh no no none opposed. Motion carries. All right. Back to you, Mr. McClintock. Thank you very much. Uh okay, where are we at here? Uh we have uh adoption of the 2026-27 board meeting dates and work session schedule. Uh which we have before us. Uh Approval is requested
061for the proposed 2026-27 board meeting and work session schedule. The schedule lays out the regular meeting dates and designated work sessions for upcoming school year. Um I think you have that before you. And action requested is to approve the 2026-2027 board meeting and work session schedule as presented. I move Questions, concerns, thoughts? Okay, someone will make a motion. I move to approve the proposed 2027 2027 board meeting and work session schedule as presented. I think that's supposed to say 2026 to 2027. Yeah, it is. 2026 and 2027. I'll second. Uh we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I'm going to call for the question. All in favor say I. I. >> I. I. Any opposed? Yeah, it passes. That was a hard one. Uh okay. Next, um we have classroom staffing ratios
062and course offerings. All right, my turn. Mike's going to put a presentation up on the screen for us. We're going to go over some numbers with you at all three different levels that we have and some of the changes that occurred, what our projections are. >> [clears throat] >> So, we're going to talk about an an elementary, middle school, and high school enrollment and class size update, the changes that have occurred. I think you you have a little packet here, the same thing we're going to see on the screen in there. And Mike, you can go ahead and move to the next screen if you would, please. Uh first, we'll look at the elementary schools. And you'll notice in the yellow color there are projected enrollments in each of the schools. Um and Oops. Scroll
063three bars. Each of the schools and then our combined enrollment for our elementary grades K through five. What you'll notice in there is our enrollment change from this current year to next year projected is a loss of 59 students in there. And our four-year projected rate is a loss of 159 students. So we we continue to see that loss and it's going to probably carry forward until we balance out over the next two or three years in there. Um with that in mind, we did do some reductions because we lost those numbers. We were we reduced the fourth-grade classroom and a fifth-grade classroom. We're able to keep the numbers fairly equal because of the the reconfiguration in there. But we also did some additions. We were able to add a music teacher back and we're
064going to add music at both buildings back for all kids in there. So that's a positive in there and that also has a result at the high school and at the middle school as well for some more offerings offerings we'll share later on. So we're excited about that. And one of the other things we were able to do is we're able to offer because of the arrangement of the kids in the the K2 and a 3-5 building, we're able to offer a science specialist back in for some of our upper grades, fourth and fifth grade especially. So we can do some hands-on science tied to our curriculum in there, which is something that it is difficult to do in the classroom at the level we see that we can do. Luckily, we have a person
065in that with our ELL teacher that has seen a decline recently in the number of ELL students we have, so has a little more time and flexibility in her day. So she's going to be able to dedicate about half of her day to teaching those right now we're projecting fourth and fifth grade students at North Bay some of that hands-on type of science tied to our curriculum. That may change a little bit depending on what her schedule is, the number of ELL students she has, and if she has if there is a need at the high school to teach an additional Spanish class. But either way we see her having the ability to teach some science at that fourth-fifth grade level in there. So we're excited about that. Those were the And And the when
066you see the reductions, that's That's not laying people off. Those are through attrition. So, we're not filling positions. We're We don't need to fill the position. So, it's a just a natural way. And that's something again that we've tried to maintain that promise over the the years is to plan ahead for any budgetary concerns by addressing things through attrition, not by laying people off if at all possible. Exactly. And you know, even though we're seeing that decline, they're making move on to the next page. Thank you. Um even though we're seeing that decline in there, um we hope to be able to offset that through a couple things. One is as Tim talked about earlier, uh approving IDTs earlier. We're hoping we can see an uptick especially at that K1 level. And then with the
067new housing coming online, we plan to see additional students coming in during that time that will both through the enrollment throughout the district, not just at the elementary, but throughout it as we go through. This page you're looking at um what we have in an enrollment this year at the bottom where it says 25 26 and and yellow across there. And what our projected enrollment per grade level is uh and the class size the class size is actually in yellow for next year up there at that top line. So, you'll see in kindergarten we're maintaining projecting to maintain about a 23 uh student average in there. First grade 24. We're able to reduce that a little bit uh from the 26 we had this year. One of the things we're excited about though is if
068you look at the very bottom on there where it says 24.5 and 27.5. So, that's At North Bay they're running 27 and 28 in the classroom out there. And at at uh Hillcrest they're running 24 and 25. We'll be able to balance that. You know, we don't have those discrepancies uh that you see down there. One of the big discrepancies this year, if you slide across and looked at fourth grade over there, you'll see 29 in fourth grade at Hillcrest and 22 at North Bay. You know, when you have them all in one building, we should be able to balance that uh out going forward, and there'll be uh less class size gains um and they'll be distributed more equally as we get a few students in there. Especially what we're experiencing this year is
069two classes, you know, if you get four kids in, it makes a big difference in numbers or six kids in. Uh whereas if you're balancing that out over five or six sections, it's not near the increase that you see in there. But you'll see class sizes maintain even with reductions very similar to what they were uh this year. They're maintaining similar class sizes in there, even though we're offering a few less sections in there. One less section in fourth grade and one less section in fifth grade. And those are projected numbers. We don't know exactly what they're going to be. We have intent return forms out now. We know that we're going to get some IDTs in. We've already had some in, and we also know that that new housing project comes online starting in
070September and will phase in October, November, and probably be uh fully staffed by that December time period. So, we're building into our process the ability to respond to some of those changes as we move forward. We may be uh saying, "Here's what we're projecting, but come back in September and say, 'Hey, we had to add another section of kindergarten because right now we have 13 IDTs um waiting to come in. We may have 20 by that time and say, 'Hey, we need to add another kindergarten section,' which would be great. Instead of having a class of 92 kids coming in and a class of 150 graduating, we'd get, you know, maybe 110 in that that kindergarten class instead." And that's where we're looking to get those class sizes up a little bit higher uh as
071we move through the system. Not class sizes higher. >> I'm exac- great little size. >> Great little size. Great little size, sorry. We want to get >> We don't want to get the class sizes >> [laughter] >> Oh, that's not our goal here. Thanks, Tim. Next slide, please. North Bend Middle School is the easiest one to do. Again, projected enrollment in yellow on there and you'll see they're 453 projected. We're moving a fairly large class in sixth grade and we're graduating a smaller class out of eighth grade in there. Our large class eighth grade, I excuse me, so it balances out as you go through. Enrollment change of 18 from the beginning of the year time period. Projected four-year trend 29, you know, a loss of 29 students in there. A lot less than you
072see at elementary and you'll see it's a lot less than at high school as well. So, we haven't done much with staffing there. What we did do with some additions in there. We're able to add one or two elective credits in there. We're not sure exactly what those are going to be. I know Jake's working on that at the the middle school to decide what kids have forecasted for and where we need to add some additional classes in. We're also able to add one PE credit. By adding any elective credits in there, which we're going to be able to add two or three classes in, we have the ability then to balance class sizes a little bit easier between the grade levels in some of those core class areas because there's more options to distribute
073kids out in there as you go through. So, we see three additions in there, but the potential of three additions for elective credit classes there. And when you see the budgeted the budgeted enrollment, um the number there matches what's in the budget book. The actual enrollment report by this time of the year might be different than that number, but remember we submit our budgets they're preparing for that in December. We're submitting it to the state in January. So, we have to make our best prediction at that point for the next year's budget, which doesn't get reconciled until the end of the next school year, and then again a the final reconciliation the end of the following school year. So, it's really a 3-year process. So, that's why you'll see a number that may be slightly
074different than where we're at today because of the fact that we've had to submit those numbers early on. So, if if we're lower, we know not to spend that money. We're very cognizant of that. Put it aside. Don't spend it cuz eventually the state's going to get it back. You don't get to keep the extra money. And it really is our best guess based upon the current numbers we have moving forward. But, there's a lot of factors that can influence that as we go in there. Mike, you want So, if we look at class sizes at at the middle school, you'll see um since everybody's required to take ELA, math, and science, you take the number of kids in there and divide them by sections, and you'll see that uh about 27 in our core
075classes at the sixth grade level, 25 each at the seventh grade level, and 23 at the eighth grade level. Uh little bit higher in sixth and seventh grade, but a decrease in in the numbers in eighth grade, solely based on the number of kids coming in because we offer six sections of each of those core classes in there right now. Um we see that going down as our numbers go down a little bit, those those class sizes will go down some. Uh and there may become a time where we're only offering five sections of those those core classes in there when we get to that that number of 100 in a class if that transfers up to the middle school. But, right now those are what we're looking at in there. Going on to the
076high school. High school's a little bit more complicated as we get in there. Um when you look at that, our budgeted number for the high school is 602. Um and based upon that budgeted number, it's a an enrollment change of five uh students from what it was last year. But if you look at that four-year trend, you'll see that it's down 134 kids over the last four years at the high school. There's been a big decrease in that. And if you were to look at the enrollment report in your packet right now, you'd see that the high school's in the the 560 to 570 range. So, they're they're substantially lower than what we budgeted for uh next year. But what happens in the high school typically is, and I've seen it for years, is they'll
077start high and then over the period of the year, they'll go down. And that's a trend I think you see in all high schools that they tend to decrease as you move throughout the year. Um but we have made some changes this year in staffing. Some reductions and some additions in there. And it's all based on forecasting. Shane's been working hard on this, and we've been working with him to to see what we could offer kids that they wanted in there, and to make sure that we were balancing class sizes. We had some classes this year that ended up being uh really small in there. Um and we had some classes that ended up being really large, and some things that kids weren't able to take cuz we couldn't offer them. We weren't offering them.
078So, we tried to respond to that. The first thing on there you see for a reduction is you see that uh uh dance um has been uh is not being offered next year. We didn't have the enrollment to do that, our forecasting to do that. It's not going to go away completely. It's going to become an extracurricular activity, much like cheer is at that point. Um but there wasn't enough to support the uh dance class being offered in there full year. Uh art is going to decrease by two sections, and it's going to decrease because of enrollment. There wasn't the enrollment to support six periods of art in there. So, we'll offer four periods of art, and then the art teacher's going to pick up a couple other classes for us in there. And that
079was student forecasting for the all classes. So, not even the enrollment piece necessarily, cuz if enough kids said they wanted it, it we may have been able to still offer all those things. >> Oh, exactly. It's all based on forecast that we have. So, if it goes back up next year, more kids want to take it, we'll look at adding sections back. But this this helped us address other needs. We reduced the section of civics, a section of global We're back in session now. Um uh let's see. Following the executive session, the board is being asked to consider authorization uh for continued efforts to resolve an ongoing matter with the SD and if necessary to pursue available legal remedies. Actually, what we're being asked to do is authorize the filing of complaints against uh the
080South Coast South Coast South Coast Education Service District. So, um Okay, we have a proposed motion. Does anybody want to make that motion? I can do it. Um I move that the board authorize the North Bend School District uh NBSD to continue to pursue a settlement with the South Coast Education Service District SCSD regarding the allocation of ESD funds intended for NBSD students as previously approved by the board. In the absence of an agreeable settlement proposal, I further move that the board authorize the superintendent and legal counsel to pursue all available legal remedies up to and including the initiation of litigation against S- SCSD and related parties and to take all necessary steps to enforce the district's rights in this matter. I'll second. Okay, any any further discussion? Okay, all all in favor say I.
081I. Any opposed? None. So, it passes and with that Woo.