001Uh this is the time schedule for the regular meeting of school board breakfast. And it's time I to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Next we have the uh approval of agenda. Anybody wish to take a motion to approve the agenda? >> A second. >> I'll second that. Don't be shy any discussion. Discussions call for the question and all. All in favor approval of the agenda. I I fell passes. Next is public participation. Um the board welcomes comments and questions from the public. If you wish to address the board, please fill out public participation available at the table to give to the board. Secretary Perry and Michelle. Uh we ask that you look at comments for three
002minutes. The board will engage will not engage session with members of the public during this time meeting for public comment. Board chair has a discretion number of comments on a particular topic. Speakers may offer objective criticism of school operations and programs, but the board will not hear comments regarding individual school personnel or board members for our policy. Do we have any public comment? >> Well, I wasted my time saying that. >> Okay. Well, then we'll go on to the next item, which is communications. I have a Steve Bri who's going to be here to talk about the North School Foundation. Welcome. Good to see you. >> Thank you. Thank you for giving me some time at your board meeting. For those who don't know me, I'm Steve Grime, former teacher and coach at Northbend High
003School and uh the voice of football, basketball, and track meets. So, if I give you a first down Bulldogs, you might recognize the voice. Um I'm here tonight representing the Northbend School Foundation. want to make clear that um we have a Northbend community scholarship fund which is a different group that only focuses on raising money and giving scholarships. My wife's on that one. Um I'm on one a different one and I put a a little piece of paper on your desk that looks like this. And our the first bullet basically tells us that we're here to raise funds uh for staff members at Northbend School District at all levels at all elementary schools, middle school, and high school and take applications for grants for projects. And we're looking in particular for things that aren't funded
004by the district or are like um kind of exciting things or or new things that like they go to won't want to go to a science conference or maybe there's a a piece of equipment that would make the science uh or the shop a better place, that type of thing. And um we don't grant every request, but um I'd say probably eight out of 10 or something like that typically. We typically get 15 or so requests and u this year I wanted you to know that um the board members on the second bullet uh Don Thompson's uh been the chair probably since 2015 when this board was created um Kathy Rose uh is our treasurer and the other members are Julie Woodman, Jerry Zabriski who is a a Northbend class of 52 I think Dena
005myself Jim Campbell Bron Nogle and Roxy Ekis. All of them have some connection with Northbend School District in the past and this is a way that they want to serve. There's um some other folks that may join us again this year. Typically um the grant application is on your website and we we look for people by the end of June to uh send us those grants. you know, it's uh hopefully they've been thinking about something and after they clean up the classroom in early June, uh it's time to think about the next year and most of them come up with some idea u and send us that. Um and then what I typically have done is I've gone to the superintendent, went to Mr. Swaggery in July and said, "Hey, here are um 14 or
00615 grant requests." and I go over it with them because I want the school district to know what teachers have been innovative, what they're thinking, and does this fit with your idea. For example, there was a teacher at an elementary school that wanted a certain type of math curriculum and and the superintendent said, you know, we use a different math curriculum and we don't want an outlier in the district. We want the whole district to do the same thing. So, that's the kind of thing the superintendent might say to us. In the in the past, there have been some people that have wanted some physical aspects to their classroom, like a new wall or a garden or something. And sometimes the superintendent says, um, you know, that should be on the district. And in fact,
007this year, I've talked to Tim about it. There are there is a teacher, special ed teacher that that has a desire for something that we didn't think the foundation didn't seem to fit the kind of thing that we've done in the past, but Vince had told me, "Hey, have that person describe it to me and we'll see what the district can do." So, and if sometimes it's a deal where you do it for one special ed teacher, you might have to look at how the others do it. Sometimes it's like you do it for one third grade over at North Bay, you do it third grade in Hillrest. So, there's some things we try to work with the district. Once we get that input, by the end of July, we'll go back as committee and
008make some decisions on how much we want to fund. Sometimes we'll do partial funding and we'll ask, "Hey, this sounds like initial idea. Let's we'll give you half now. Report back in January. See, let's see how it's going or can you match? Can you guys want to go to a conference? Here's $300 to get you halfway there. Can you raise the other 300?" That kind of thing. So, uh, once that's all done, we typ typically try to give the awards, um, birthday back with all the teachers. Kind of a neat way to start the school year. And this year, here's the list of folks that made a little extra effort to make the school district better, to make the kids better. At the high school, Alli Lancaster, um, this the second year in a row
009as a new librarian, she's wanted to add sections to the library that she thought weren't there. And manga books are something popular with a lot of kids. Um there's somebody in the audience today, Amber, that needed a new instrument and um Howie turned on a six-time state champion. So, she gets a new souafhone that'll probably be used by middle school and high school both at some point. Uh Becky Eddie had some a ceramics project where it wasn't just run-of-the-mill, they're going to work together as teams. And then the part we like is she had this plan for making it public art. She has some ideas of how the citizens of North Ben will see this ceramics project down the road. And that's what made it kind of clinches it for us. Does what you're doing
010have an afterlife? Do the kids that go somewhere come back and do something with it? Or in this case, I think one of my all-time favorite ones, I think we gave $150 to a middle school art teacher for a monitor. All he wanted to do was put that in the hallway and put the art of the middle school kids on it. I mean, that's cheap, but it had amazing effect. I mean, every kid that was in that class got to show their art, and it was a Why did we do this more often? But Emily Hamill um had chemistry classes, and she said there have been eight new elements since since the one she has in her classroom from what she wants now. I mean, science has evolved over the last 25 years, amazingly, and
011so she got two new periodic tables. Eva over here is doing something fun at noon. She's um contracting with a dance instructor for some Latin dance lessons. Hoping kids not only watch the dance, but if they ever get not shy again, maybe they'll actually participate. Uh Greg Gal Galino at Northbend special ed. Uh he he has kids he wants to take out in the community and so they really interact with their community and learn things like how to make change or how to interact. How do you go to a store and in X Y and Z. So he has some field trips um going. Um Heather Bell Skinner is trying to create a recreate a flag team. We used to have a flag team at Northbend High School and she'd like to bring that back
012to um to make the whole football and basketball experience uh game night a little bit more fun. Our drama person Marcy Marant never has enough things and there's certain kind of character shoes that kids don't have or can't afford if she thought she could buy a few shoes that fit certain kinds of drama and and enhance her um her spotlights with some new LED. She didn't ask for a lot, but you know, these little things make a big difference in her. They don't have the budgets for some of these things. Uh Hope Huntley out at North Bay is into a science project with owl pellets. Uh Jamie Morrison at the middle school, she teaches both science and some PE and health. And in their science class, this hydroponic grow tower is something she's going to
013use to talk about, you know, um nutritious kinds of food and how our food is processed. And then these reaction training lights are essentially um things that kids can use during PE classes to uh they can time themselves. They can regulate the lights to like hop from here to here and do all kinds of different fun things. Just make PE fun. It's not just run laps anymore. That's old school. This is far more better. uh two two other uh fizzed teachers um Heather Kylie Woodman and Heather Bel Skinner also have these heart monitor wristbands that they can exercise and get a base at the beginning a year about how kids are doing with their heart rate recovery and then see real results. I mean, if you do X, maybe you get Y. Put what you
014put in, you get out. And this is like physical data. And I I we all thought that was a great idea. And then, uh, Maria Ramirez is also a special ed teacher. And there was a a certain kind of desk that was adjustable that she just I think just one of them is only $300 that she wanted. She's going to try it out and see if it worked, if she liked it. Maybe down the road. Some of these things are like, uh, let's try this and if it works, we'll fund raise or we'll put into the next year's budget committee. I want three desks now because this one works. Sometimes what we're doing is the uh the seed money, I guess you'd say. So, it, you know, the good news is $12,842 went into the
015district this year. And since um uh and additionally over time, since 2015, we've had grants that went to specific things that total another $53,000. A lot of it was uh homeless and uh hunger programs. Uh we could buy coats for kids and and um provide some uh weekend snacks kind of stuff, specific money from Barry Hospital, as I recall. I think the Kquall tribe has donated things like that. So alto together in for the last 10 years $174,000 has come to kids in this district directly uh for some a lot of good ideas that have um you know it just was a bonus to I think staff members to be able to have a way to do something that try something new. You know I don't know if kids are ever going to dance after
016this or not but uh you know try it and maybe that sparks something and etc. um where we get our money. Um we had a big dinner this year. A lot of generous donors came to our dinner. Um Mark Machek at the back alley um gave us some huge discounts and essentially donations to do that. Um I wrote a book 10 years ago about Northbend High School. If you're new to the board and you wonder how this school district got started, read chapters one through three. Uh $20 and that I I just donated this to the foundation. They helped pay for the printing. So, if you uh buy this or anybody else needs one, I've got a couple more boxes left and that's part of it. Um by the Northbound High School gym, Hesper is
017on a rock, big bronze bulldog, and underneath his throne are a number of bricks and pavers with people's names on it. Tomorrow morning, Mike Forester and I uh and maybe Boy Borkquist even are going to put in 12 new pavers and bricks uh into that. So, that's a fundraiser that's ongoing. And then when classes come uh for reunions, we try to get one of our members to speak to the class. Class of 85 uh was here. So, they had their was that 40-year reunion. Um and uh I got to talk to them and they were that's exciting. So, they they a lot of them say, "How do I give back?" And um quite honestly, our scholarship uh uh fund is well off. It is it is an amazing fund. Northbend should be super proud. It's
018one of the probably one of the best in the state for our size. But you know, our fund is much more limited to that. Um, you know, I don't think you've been raising $12,800 a year, but we had a a good amount to start with and there is we've invested some, but um, that's a good way to give back. And, um, that's also on the website and we have a website, nbschooldist.org. It's a 5013C. It's taxdeductible. And a lot of times people at those at those reunions, you hand us checks and or buy a brick or a paper for the Legacy Plaza. So, um it's real fun for all of us to get together and talk about these exciting times and seeing what, you know, teachers are are doing and um it's a way to
019help the help the school district. Since we have some new board members, I didn't know how much you knew about this. So, congratulations on being here. And for the returning people, congratulations. And we certainly hope you have a great year. I'll be talking to district administration again next July. And in the meantime, you you know, I've talked to you, there's one or two teachers that might come to you and say, "No, Vince said maybe we could work something out." So, I'd like to think that the 174 was what we actually gave out, but I'll bet another 10,000 or so has come because the teachers had an idea and the district said, "We'll fund that one. We'll fund that one." And uh so it's worked out pretty well. >> Any questions? All right. Thanks a lot
020and have a good year. Go Bulldogs. Let's start with the students. >> Hi guys, my name is Grace Clark. It is great to be back here today. Like last time, the school year continues on strongly. Starting with our athletics, our JV, JV, our varsity, JV, and JV2 volleyball teams will all be battling College Grove tonight. We have high hopes for the game, not only to win, but to also get a great student section together to cheer our girls on. There may or may not have been a promise of an hourong lunch if we got a 100 students in the student section. So, let's go dogs. Last Friday was our first home football game against Sweet Home, which did not get us a win unfortunately with the final score of 13-32. But our guys played great
021and really gave all the Bulldog spirit. Our next home football game is next week on the 10th, which will be our Miss Flame game to draw attention towards fire awareness. Our soccer team, both men and women's, did great in their game this week. They took home the win against Junction City. And for our cross country team, they ran at the pre-fontaine run with all of our runners doing terrific and some even sending their personal best. Besides sports, our school is up to much more with clubs like Battle of the Books and Knowledgeable off to the races by having weekly meetings to prepare for their battles. For the many students who have elected to take online SWAT classes that are graciously paid for by the high school, those classes have officially started last week and many
022of us seem very grateful for the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school. Northman leadership leadership team led by Miss Sawyer has been working hard to push suicide awareness across our school and community as September was national suicide awareness month. We have posted flyers around the school offering help held information tables in the hallways in the morning as well as having our class participate in the Cous County Out of Darkness Walk to help raise money for the cause. And last but not least, our high school participated in the Bay Area Fund Festival with our float hitting our goal of 50 students and even surpassing it to get a total of 65 students on that float. And so in total, our teams and clubs are doing great, all putting in the work and
023making the school proud. And so as always, it is a great day to be a bullog. >> Actually have a report from the educational association reports from >> Good evening. Um boy, so we've had like a bit of a challenging start to the school year just because there's so many teachers who are in new positions or or who are um teaching different courses than they have in the past. And so, um, not everybody has found their grounding yet, you know, so we're still, you know, feeling our way in and and with a positive attitude, looking forward to the school year, but things are still a little um wobbly, so to speak. Um, but it's getting better. Um, I know that there have been two open houses so far. Um the middle school had their open
024house on Tuesday evening which was well attended and their uh Hillrest is having their open house tonight as we speak and North Bay's open house is one week from tonight. And I don't believe that the high school is doing an open house this year. But of course these open houses were in addition to the uh Tuesday before school started uh meet and greets that each of the schools also hosted. Um, so those are exciting. I know at Hillrest they have the the book fair. The PTA puts on a book fair um, which is a big um, uh, draw for a lot of the families. And does North Bay do the same thing? >> This year. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Sam told me yesterday the book fair will come to North. >> Ah, so maybe not
025on open house night, but it's coming. So, that's that's a positive thing because the kids I know really like that. Um, one one of the things that I know that um with the changes that happened at the end of last year and we're still rolling with this year, one of the things I know a lot of the the staff and even students are talking about is the the loss of music at the primary level. I've heard a lot of children say, "I don't have music this year." And they really miss it. So, this is something to keep in mind. Um but moving forward with our um appreciation I forgot to ask you Joe if you had that ready to go. Good. Um so I don't know if you all are aware but tonight is actually
026um or today not necessarily this evening but today is the national um custodial workers appreciation day. And I thought this was um um I needed to definitely recognize this because we've been short-handed on custodians this year, which has added to our stress um because we haven't had as many uh custodial staff as we normally do. I think we're fully staffed now, >> right? It wasn't Jud's type. >> Yeah, absolutely. It was >> Yeah. So, it was just we've been short-handed. Um but I wanted to recognize the custodial staff as a whole. Can you skip to the next page? So, um, next page, please. So, at the high school, um, there are several, um, custodians, Michael Fitz Henry, Jacob Hill, Caleb Nogle, Lee Ray, and Douglas Warden. Next page, please. At the middle school, um, Justin
027Mangis, Tyler Preston, and Deborah Roseberry. And serving across the district, I oftentimes see him in all of the buildings. um Joe Rich and at North Bay Jason Iverson and Douglas Rickettts and at Hillrest Roger Hakeen Troy Rackley. So this is our custodial staff and they're all amazing. There were a couple that um stood out this this month because other staff members recommended them or nominated them for the extra mile. Skip to the next page. So the first one is um Chris um Curran. Uh Chris was nominated by Michelle Britz who shared that um she had a meeting at the high school not too long ago and he was there filling in as a custodian and he helped her to carry things to the library for the meeting. And she says she would never have known
028that he was filling in outside of his regular duty as an educational assistant at the middle school and she really appreciated his um his efforts to go the extra mile and to help her out. Um the next uh custodian, sadly I don't have a picture. I did reach out to him, but um u Doug Borin was nominated by Frank Murphy. Frank wanted to recognize Doug for the wonderful job that he did um in the summer um cleaning and um just really getting the culinary classroom ready for the school year. Uh Frank said that he washed walls, ceilings, and even the back room. And he said that his his classroom had never been deep cleaned like that before. and he really appreciated Doug's efforts in that regard. Um the next person I'd like to recommend um
029um honor sorry I think is here tonight Alyssa. Um she was nominated by um her colleague Ben Yester who's also here this evening. Um and Ben said she is kind and courteous to all students and staff members that she comes in contact with. Any project that she undertakes is very well done. Alyssa's thoughts are always placed on positive mental health and well-being of the students and staff that work around her. So, she's a great example of the um spectacular employee that um or what a spectacular employee looks like. And so, we're lucky to have her as a part of our team. Um Barbara Schultz also wanted to recognize and um her team in the resource room, the par professional team at Hillrest. She shared that her assistants have stepped up and helped her to organize
030her room and get student materials ready for groups. Um they have started teaching groups and using previous skills to really help start the school year off right. And she's very grateful to each of them um each of the returning staff that the students love to see. Um and they help her to run her room effectively and the students enjoy um coming to see them. And there's pictures of each of them. This is Lynn and her children on the first day of school. And the next one is Ashley. And the third and final one is Sierra. So those are the extra mile nominations for this evening. So thank you for your time. [Music] starting in October later. >> Next is superintendent. >> Y thank you. Um listening to Grace and Eva, it it's just so evident
031there's so many wonderful things happening in our schools and when we're having a discussion earlier today um from the director of the regarding all the positive things happening schools too sometimes are to to see those and or we need to make a more focused effort I think to highlight those because it's just really impressive what we see our our staff doing what's our students doing every single day And it it just really makes me feel proud. We know these things are happening in our schools. Um as Grace had pointed out, September was suicide aware awareness month. We had students participate in the Goose County out of the darkness suicide prevention walk. We had both I want to talk a little bit about what we've done as a district on the staff side of things and
032we've had both certified and classified staff complete a vsens degree suicide prevention training. Every year we while staff go through safe schools training on suicide awareness prevention and postvention. We also review our emergency operation plans and response protocols. We currently looking into sending a team to the applied suicide intervention skills training as well which we've had staff in past attend so continue to support that. So, we want to just thank you as a school board for supporting the hard work um that our staff put into this and we'll continue to to take this very seriously. Uh National School Lunch Week is October 13th through 17th. If that's something that you're interested in, we would love for you to be interested in this. Um come to the schools, have lunch. Um you can set that up
033with Michelle um if you're interested. And so adult lunches are available for $5 paid directly to the cafeteria. As mentioned, we got our open houses for middle school and Bill Crest is tonight. Middle school was a successful open house. Some events coming up in October to be aware of. Miss Flame October 10th, homecoming October 24th and car giveaway senior night was on October 31st. And that's Northland versus Bill. We did hear a little bit about sports fall sports being underway. I want to just put a shout out to Brandon Stand. She's been a fantastic addition to our administrative staff. It's a lot of skills and new perspective to our athletic program doing a great job. I was at the football game um on Friday nights and there was just so much spirit. People were just
034bursting at the scenes to be there. It was really really a great and Uh, you know, the the kids were just so well behaved as well. I heard that from several administrators that were on site. You know, we just kids were fantastic. No problems that major problems that occurred. And while while the students may not have have won that evening, they they were they held their heads high. They demonstrated pride is for good record that is that school district. Christina Gman has been selected as recipient of the 2025 OSTA outstanding high school classroom teacher award. So we have sent some announcements out on fair square and community about that and just wanted to acknowledge her publicly as well for that. It's a fantastic honor. Another highlight of just the amazing things our teaching that we
035would love to honor each and every one of them individually. So, statewide facility assessment. Um, I talked about this with some of you. I talked about this in our our discussion earlier with some of you regarding a program that we've entered in and we've had questions about facilities and our programs and and maintenance. And, you know, a district that's our age will always have ongoing maintenance issues that will need to be addressed. That's a given. But one thing that I've been very interested in doing is developing a plan, a five-year facility plan. And we've actually partnered with Oregon Department of Education to participate in a statewide facility assessment program. And this will give us a detailed report of deferred maintenance across the district and all of our buildings. This is coming to us for free,
036which I think is just it's amazing that we're able to get get on board with this. and they will end up providing us with a comprehensive 5-year capital improvement plan. And what I love about this and and this is something that I wanted to see in place is it gives us a document that it's a it's something that's transparent. The community can see, our staff can see that outlines what our major maintenance projects are, the associated costs of those projects, and a five-year plan to address them. And that gives us an ability to also budget very transparenc transparently for those projects which I think that we will all appreciate in the end. So I'm excited about that process and having that plan in hand will help us identify sort of and categorize the things that
037need to be done immediately things that we could do sort of over this next five years. So we will see those um people on our sites in November and December supports for us um on so one of the things on the I just wanted to bring this to your attention so you're aware on our September board meeting there was an item that you had taken action on on the regional dignity and belonging council and that was something that had been in our packet before that evening that you voted on and as I did some um research on that. We actually did that. That that shouldn't have been in the packet because we didn't need to take action on that as a board. Um that the we can't be part of a regional committee because of
038the size of our district. Um is it's the first part of that. Second to that, the law changed to where it's not um it's not an advisory committee to the board anymore. that the there were some concerns around state regarding the public meeting laws and how some of the information that might come out of this committee might be sensitive and maybe not something that we we would want to necessarily have recorded public meeting and I'm not when I say we I'm talking about the whole state having concerns. So the law got updated and the advisory committee is now on advisory committee directly to the superintendent. And I wanted you to be aware of that so that you're not thinking in a couple months, hey, when are we getting a report from this committee? So the
039superintendent appoints the members, their advisory to the superintendent. So that's just something I did want you to be aware of. We would still send I I would still see the value in sending a staff member to the regional committee to gain in ideas and input and see what's happening in our region and what resources are available, but um it's not um we won't be members of that regional council. Wayfinder is a program you've been hearing about. Um, last year we had a family engagement day and that was our first one ever we tried and we're going to have another one coming up here on October 11th, Saturday. The focus of these days are to try to bring families with their children into our school to work with staff members in in a way that just
040builds connection. It doesn't have to be academic, but but we're here to support each other. That's really what the focus of these days are and and to also teach some skills that the families can take home and and you know, work on and talk to their children about. So, um there's different skills, empathy, collaboration, self-awareness skills that Lifefinder builds. It is a social emotional learning program that we are um rolling out slowly into our schools as not to overwhelm everybody trying to just say this is it and have everybody you know kind of be forced to you but it'll take some time to really get it in place and have everybody comfortable with it but we also are fully invested in having these family engagement days throughout the year to try to build that positive
041connection down. So, you'll see one on October 11th. We encourage you to join us. There's a a time of the day that's for the younger students, elementary students, and a time of the day that's for the the older kids. So, K5 families are from 9:30 to 11, 6:12, from 12:30 to 2. Right in the middle of that is lunchtime, and we'll have a so it overlaps. So, the all families kind of mingle with staff members. We do pay staff members to come because we want to encourage the interaction. Um, and if anybody that that is that is here wants to come, please join us. Um, even if it's just popping in for lunch and saying hi as well. Okay. It's a fantastic day. It'll take some time to to grow it to the scale we'd
042like to see. But I think it just starts with that sort of positive effort, grassroot efforts to bring people together. We just completed the Northbend Middle School control and boiler project. So, just wanted to highlight that these projects take, you know, at least a year from start to finish to start by going out to your RFP to see if you can get proposals to then selecting your your contractor and then planning the project out and getting all the work done and trying to time that in a way to where it doesn't impact the school over the coldest months of the year. Um, so the middle school project has been completed and so I want to thank Tom Construction for that. Um, control systems are working. Boilers are brand new and working at the middle school.
043We took the old boilers out of the middle school and they are compatible with a system at North Bay. So, um, what we plan to do for now is that we're going to re refurbish those boilers and and bold them because we have a future seismic, um, retrofit project coming up at North Bay that will take place the summer of 27 and I believe 28. And so, um, part of that project is going to involve a wall that the boiler current boiler. So, we don't want to do anything too soon because we know that that might all be impacted by that site in record, but We also have some boilers ready to develop out there. It feels fantastic. We do have some more projects along those lines planned for the high school as well. Um
044not on this report too. I just just want to mention here so the public is aware. Um we do have on our circle list two properties that um I wanted to just mention. One of them is Pacific House. Um it's it's the house across the street from the high school. Um we're asking the board to surplus essentially saying that these are not needed for school purposes and by surplusing it it gives us the ability to sell if we choose. Doesn't necessarily mean it is it is going to be sold but it gives us the ability to additional property an additional property is 10.10 10 acre parcel uh on Viking Lane and that is also land that we do not use for school purposes and it it is essentially a a chunk of land that is
045sort of off to the side of Viking of of North Bay Elementary School that we we don't we don't really use that. You had the timber priced out maybe five six years ago and it wasn't of value that the trees won't regrow there. um because of the the nature of the soil and so it's not really something that we would do anything with. In the meantime, we have received an offer from Bonville Power on that land which was presented at a public meeting public board session our last one and so um that will be something that we will that we will be asking the board to complaint in the future. But the action tonight would be to surplus it so that we could agree later to enter into the sale. Um and if I may
046just mention to the concept of the theater um publicly um because some of the timeline has been somewhat um the timeline kind of just crushed upon us a little bit and so I just want to mention publicly that I invited the performing arts teachers to visit the I keep calling it the Port Theater. It's a port building originally. It's historically built as the port building and it's most recently been used as a church. It is beautiful seating inside. Um Wayne Chrona donated that building to the church and did a lot of renovations in it. When you go into the building, it's abs I mean for a building that age, it it is really nice. It needs we need some things done to be up to par for our amazing performing artists in our school district.
047Um we don't know exactly which way we're going to go right now. The reason we went toward it was to sort of see what the teachers needs are and we're asking that if they kind of scale that like what would be the phase one immediate needs versus the wants in phase 2 3 4 type of thing. Um another part of that is F is creating some sort of phase plan with alongside our district architect who was also present. he's going to go back into the building and really try to identify what would be needed right away um to make the building usable or some ADA issue to address. And there's maintenance issues across the district we're aware of. That's why I wanted to mention the five-year facility assessment and capital improvement plan that is in
048place. But I also wanted to talk about just the idea that this will not be an opportunity for our school district ever again. The city has a standing offer on that and that offer expires um according to the city soon. Um which is why I wanted to bring it up tonight because I also want to get out staff and talk about this idea and vision behind it. Um this is not something that just serves us today. This is something that would serve our school district and our community. equally for generations to come. The the walls of that building are about 3 ft wide concrete straight up. It's got steel trusses along the top that are all in amazing condition. It is structurally sound. Um so even if we can't do everything right away, it is
049something that will be there for generations. And I just think about all the amazing work our our band does and our choir does and our drama program and our dance program. Having a place those students really could call their own to perform to really highlight their skills and talents would just be something that I see as fantastic. I also see it as part of the fabric of downtown North Bend. When you think about um as Northbend was revitalized and downtown's built up and housing project is built, you know, the the annex is completed. having a place where, you know, families are parking their cars for all of our schools. Parking their cars downtown, walking to dinner, going to a performance to see their children um um perform something they've worked so hard to to really
050um get good at is just to me exactly what a downtown should be. So, um knowing that the city's offer on this is with the intent of caring, it'll be something that I I find somewhat tragic, but um again, if it's not something that meets our needs, then then a little bit other direction, but there is a long-term vision behind this. And uh I just wanted to start that conversation because even if we make this land sale, it wouldn't be the type of thing that we would use that money for staffing because it's one time money that would be coming in from this land. So it really be land for land. Um but for something we could actually use for student purposes and something that we're really the stars are kind of aligning here and
051if it's something we take advantage of, that'd be fantastic. But there is more to be learned before we make that decision. We need to see what these plans are. We need to cost amount. Find out how realistic it is. And really, I want staff to understand kind of the the vision here too, the concept of the onetime funding versus longtime resources and where this go. So, no decisions are being made tonight, but let's get it out there publicly. >> Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Yep. Uh, next item we have item five on the agenda, which is the consent agenda items. I'm just about to mention what they are. Um, there's the board minutes, approval of board minutes of September 4 and September 18th. Uh, the interim superintendent uh agreement, contract agreement, and then
052there's a circa plus property that Tim just mentioned. Uh, there's a list of personal property items that are surplus to be surplus as well as a Pacific Japanese property and a 10.10 acre parcel. Um, with that in mind, uh, we have a motion or amendment to the motion. I I'll move to um approve consent agenda items with the addition for the surplus that um that the property listed as surplus is not required for school purposes by allow it in the judgment. Second. Uh, any discussion? Further discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppos? >> Passes. All right. Next items. Report on compliance to public school standards 2004 2025 school year. By November 1st of every school year, superintendents are required to report on what are known as division 22 standards. Um this
053standards are attached in your board packet and they include uh the categories like high quality learning experiences for all students and aligned and focused educational systems engaging partners and communities safe and their schools and committed and supportive staff. Um There are a series of OARs associated with this and we review these annually. Um we've met in our district cabinet team and went over these and we are in we're reporting on last year 24.5 and we are in compliance with all of these division 22 requirements. Um there's no action necessary but it is required that we presented annually. And I would encourage you, you know, if you want to look up any of these, if you have individual questions, please come see me about them. And that's what that is up there. Next is policy update
054second reading on JFC and JA uh personal electronic device with direct information. Um, we reviewed it. This is the second reading in both of these. If the board any questions personal electronic devices we talked about at the last board session that was our first read of that question there. Anybody have a motion? We do need a motion to approve those policy changes. I move that board. >> Any discussion? Further discussion? We didn't talk about especially personal electronic devices. If not for the question, all in favor say I. >> Any pass? Next time for comments. Anybody have more comments? >> I have two. Um the first one is Wayfinder is amazing. So at I went the first time and mine was it was a great time. So uh try to go if you can. >> Do
055they do they give any good >> the t-shirts? I won't I love my t-shirt. >> I'm trying to t-shirt. Okay. There was pineapple lights that my kids were leading up. There was all kinds of goodies actually. The food was amazing. >> Um it was a great time actually and and one of the staff that was nominated tonight was actually there and my boys have different last names. He didn't ever know they were siblings and when we were all together I got really so that was kind of cool. Um so Wayfinder everybody that was great. The other uh comment I wanted to make is that the board has spoke with Tim a little bit, but we would really like to see a survey go out to staff and we would like that survey to be around
056what the district wants from our interim superintendent um what they're looking for, that sort of thing. So, uh hopefully Tim will be working on something like that so we can get it out and get some feedback. >> We like feedback. >> Yes. >> Yeah. and and you know just along those lines I mean I'm excited about the concept of going through the OSBA process with the court so that we can work that process together some goals moving forward anything else okay all right item nine justformational information we have it doesn't appear there anything else so unless there's anything else from anyone it's time to directly