001get started. I had no idea there was so many people in that sign up. Just kidding. I know it's a lot of music, folks. Thanks for coming. All right, with that, uh, let's call the order. We'll have a flag [Music] pledge to The United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation with liberty and justice for all your hosts and we have seven folks here. Hey Agenda item two, approval of you speak. Could you speak a little louder? Nobody back here can hear. Okay. Thank you. No worries. I'm kind of eating my D points. Okay. Uh approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as written? There's a motion, Dallas. Second and a second from Carol. Uh any discussion? Okay, we'll have a vote. All in favor
002say I. I. Okay. Agenda item three, public participation. It's great to see you here all night. It's good to see there's some passion in the community. I think I know there's a lot of folks here for music. That's great. Um, we do want to be Northband. It's an aspirational uh hope on my part, but we do need we do want to be viewed as a destination school district. And the reason for that is uh we want to be distinguish ourselves in the area of academics, music offerings, career technical education or athletics program. So it's great to see so many folks here tonight. Hey, I got a little uh blur I read at these. Normally we got like 10 people out in the audience. I see a whole house. That's great. Okay. Public participation. The board
003welcomes 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. We ask that you limit your comments to three minutes. The board will not engage in discussion with members of the public during this time. It is for public comment only. Board chair has the 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 hear regarding comments regarding individual school personnel, the board members, and that's policy BDBH. Now, with that, there was because I know there's so many folks here for the music, there was a joint statement sent out on May 29th, Thursday, and that was regarding district music
004programs for 2025 26 from the North School District and the North Education Association. I'm not going to read the full full documental pull two pages, but it is it says sincerely Amber Yester, Janet Lee, Sarah Massie, Music Instructors, North School District. Eva Vga, president of the North Bend Education Association, and Vince Wagerty, superintendent, North Bend School District. Just going to read the first paragraph. Supporting a strong and sustainable music program. The Northbend School District and the Northbend Education Association recognize the vital role music plays in the development, well-being, and academic success of our students. As we walk through necessary budget adjustments, we will remain united in our commitment to maintaining a robust and sustainable music program that serves our students and community. In response to the district's financial challenges, we have collaborated closely with our
005music music educators to develop a revised plan that preserves our core music offerings, particularly grades 4 to 12. These changes are being implemented through thoughtful input from our music teachers, ensuring continuity, quality instruction, and shared vision for student success. So, I'm not going to read the entire target. Um, getting on to public comment, we received, I think, where we at, Michelle, was it 25ish? Oh, I think so. Plus or minus the exact numbers, uh, a significant number of them around the music program. So, we probably this evening have an hour, an hour and 15 of board business to cover. And out of respect to board members and others that are probably here that have day jobs that have to be to work tomorrow, we try to finish up at 8:00 PM if we can. And
006that's known as the Christina Simpson. And Christina loved to finish a day earlier because she had big time. So with that, um, you know, we're going to have 10 public speakers, three minutes each. So that's a total of 30 minutes. So I have selected six, seven people around the music and then there's going to three other people from some other topics that are on there. So with that uh you get three minutes and the light goes on. How much time do you have left when the yellow light goes on? 30 seconds. 30 seconds. Thank you. Okay. So you get three minutes with that. I know Taylor Thompson is here. There you go. Taylor, you uh you have senior night you'd like to get there. So I'm always senior here. Okay. So obviously another topic of
007uh why I'm here. Um I'm a senior in high school and uh was made aware of the changes that are going to be in next year. Uh mind you, none of these affect me at all, but these affect each and every one of these kids that showed up today. Uh these are my friends, family even that are going to be affected. Um it's simply to the point where music has changed my life for the better. I think you guys have all heard the same story I've told you every single month where I was supposed to go over to Marshfield and the reason why I came over to Northbend was our band program and implementation. So with the biggest thing into that is that because of that like striving for band that made your guys' district
008a destination district right there because of your band program. Now I understand that a meeting was placed and I was made aware of it and everything and that uh a bandate was basically put on. But now we're killing out K through2. I remember being in Mrs. Rogers class. That woman right there that started everything. She is the reason why I have the medical the the musical success I have to this day. She's the reason why I placed third place through men because she started it all with with her stuff with all the bells we did all the band stuff we did with everything. I'm not looking out for just the students but I'm looking out for the teachers. My mother is also a teacher and I've seen how teachers have to live dayto day. It's
009rough. It's a so much work and just to get treated so little and to get paid so little and as someone who has had to experience it firsthand from with my mother, the teachers can't pull off all this. You we're basically killing out K through two and then putting the musical responsibility upon them and they are already struggling with the fact that we're having the classes and we're combining them now because of budget cuts. I understand you guys are all humans too. You know, you can't control everything that's happening, but our band program has been extremely successful for the past three years. Yet again, Destination District Northbend has been publicized heavily because of our state championships. Northbend has been publicized heavily because the band program has been succeeding for years now, especially with Miss Yester,
010right? But not just Miss Yester, just as vital of a component, Miss Massie. Now, I I understand that uh it's basically told that Miss Massie is supposed to be sent over to uh the middle school and everywhere and we're not supposed we're not going to be able to have her at the high school for marching band and everything else. Massie is a vital component, a vital component to each and everyone. If you want your students inside of your district to have the success and you want them to grow up and take their children to this district and you want to be a destination district, I suggest be reinstate and have both of them stay in their exact same positions. Have them teach the same subjects. Have them teach the same kids. That's all. Taylor, I
011want to thank you for being the student representative for at least two years. Yeah, we have always enjoyed your updates, your humor has lifted many spirits. May you farewell in the Coast Guard. I I hope that credibility impresses you guys here. Thank you. Next up is Jess. Can you please let me know if I'm not speaking loud enough? After growing up in this community, I chose to raise my children here. 25 years ago when my children entered the school system, our district had made budget cuts to the music program. I knew that research studies showed how important the arts were to a child's developing mind. I wanted more for my children. I got together with other like-minded parents and we spent many hours writing federal grants. We brought in enough outside money into this community
012to start an arts integrated charter school where our children learned about music. That school is the Lighthouse Charter School. At the time, it became part of the Northbend School District and was housed at North Bay Elementary School. As other parents in our community saw our school teach music starting in kindergarten on a much smaller budget than the other district schools, they started asking, "Why can't all students have music in school? Things started to change. The Northbed School District built up their music program. Over the years, I saw our students go on to major music in college and have careers in the music field. Our district has been excelling in music education. A few weeks ago, I find myself at Oregon State listening to the state band competition. When I listened to Northbend High School's band
013perform, I kept thinking, "How could a high school band sound so good?" They were stunning and amazing to listen to. When the judges announced that Northbend High School had won first place, the auditorium exploded with joy. This was the seventh state band title, third in a row the district had won under our band instructor Amber Yester. When buses filled with East Champion band students and drove into Northbend, they were escorted by fire trucks with sirens and lights. The streets were lined with our community members rejoicing in our district's music program's accomplishment. Our community has made a full circle since my now adult children started school. Music is not measured on a standardized test, but music stays with us our whole life. My husband's band occasionally plays music at a nursing home. After residents have lost
014so many of their abilities, they still join his band by singing and using shakers. When not much joy is left in life, music still fills them with happiness. Budget cuts are hard. Let's have creative minds look deeper into how our district can cut expenses in different ways. Sometimes coming to music class is the reason a student wants to go to school. Sometimes parents will move their children to a school that has a good music program. Good attendance and more children bring in more money to our district. Let's not dismantle a very successful music program that we are so proud of. Music stimulates the mind and produces joy that will stay with our students their entire life. Next up, Ken Gber. Is it part of my three minutes? No. Okay. So, my kids were at Grace
015Luther and this is probably going on 17 20 years ago and so there was music program going to at Marshfield. It was the Marshfield choir and they needed some chaperones to take the kids from Price Lutheran there. And I said, "Sure, I'll I'll go. I'd love to go." You know, and I got to say I pretty low expectations, you know, but it was fun to be with your own kids. And so we went there to the auditorium and you know, you know that the Marshfield Auditorium acoustics are fabulous and the choir came and surrounded the kids and and sang some incredible music. I think it was Angels on I was one of them. It was just fabulous. And uh I never missed one after that. And then uh in a turn of circumstances, uh I
016don't know exactly what I'm sure you know, but we had an opportunity to pick up Ken Greyber in a trade for North. I'm going to be talking about that. He became a bulldog and so that was a great trade for us. So with that, Ken, go ahead. All right. Thank you. Uh first of all, I want to thank you for the opportunity to provide input. I know these difficult decisions that are being discussed. Um I don't know if it's by choice or by law that you're listening to us, but uh either way, I believe it's valuable because as we all know, good decisions are never made in a vacuum or be behind closed doors. I'm going to skip a bunch of stuff because of three minutes. I thought it was five. I've lived in this
017community for about 36 years and 17 of those were spent working with children in the neighboring district where the music program at the high school was highly valued and supported. But the music in the elementary schools was not. As a high school music teacher, I was asked to help in develop and maintain the struggling middle school program. And so that was struggling in large part due to the lack of music education programs at the elementary level. One day I asked my seventh and eighth grade students. I asked, "How many of you had an elementary music experience?" And about 75% of my class's hands went up. And I was like, "Where did you go to school?" Well, I I transferred in from Washington or I came from Medford or I came from Glide or I came
018from Brookings. These kids were not from our district. The majority of my kids were coming from other places where they had had music programs. Um, it went on and on and I could see the writing on the wall and I was we were desperately trying to maintain a quality high school experience without the investment where it mattered the most, where it had the greatest impact on the lives of the children in and from our community. And that was really heartbreaking. At the time, Northbend District was taking a different path. It it was a district where they chose to invest where it mattered the most in quality, consistent, stable music education for all its students K through 12. An education that would provide the best benefits for all its students for the long run. And you
019knew the district was investing in the students because the buildings still looked like they were from the 50s. They didn't have ex they didn't have excessive administrative salaries. The monies were going to where it made the biggest difference in the teachers who had direct contact and time with the students and their education. They were thinking ahead and I knew that what I was going to bring to the table fit into that vision and that's uh where I wanted to be. I don't regret the decision to spend the last 12 years with the Northbend School District because I could see the quality of life these students were able to develop given their educational opportunities here. We're now at again a point where we're now again at a point where decisions about what, when, and where we
020choose to invest in our children is on the table. And I sincerely hope the district doesn't lose its vision to provide a full comprehensive and lifeenriching music educational experience for all its students K through 12. Thank you. Next up, Maggie Green. Hi. Um, I mean, obviously I feel like a lot of what I was going to say has been said already, but I think it's worth restating. I am here. I graduated just last year in 2024. I was I've lived here since 2013. I had Miss Rogers for four years. I had Massie for three up through and then up through high school. And I had Yester for four. I speak as somebody that has experienced the full benefits of the program that you guys have put so much time and effort and that they have
021put so much time and effort into building. This program would be absolutely nothing without that woman over there and the two back here and they have put so much love and poured so much time into every student that's come through their program. I have sisters at a K through second grade level. I would not be half the musician that I was when I graduated without the elementary school music program that I benefited from. And and the girls in my house will be fine. They will have access to music either way. But I'm here to speak for the kids whose parents will not provide that. There are more kids in this district than you know whose parents do not care about their music education. They don't know the benefits and they don't know how that's going
022to impact their children throughout the rest of their high school career. They will not be the same level of musicians that you guys are accustomed to if they do not have the support from an elementary level up. If they come from zero music education, kindergarten through 2 grade, those are some of the most formative years the kids have for their developmental for their brains, their education concepts stick easier with younger kids. When you hit middle school and you try to join a band program and you've had no music education, it shows. And I'm not saying that in a negative way towards the kids who have tried, but it is a different level. I have worked with kids that have come from Pillrest. I've worked with kids that have come up from North Bay that I
023was in their band program. I've I teacher aided from Massie in 8th grade with her sixth grade classes and you can see the difference. There are kids that come up having a strong music education with parents who care and teachers who care and they go on to do amazing things. We've had recent graduates that are teaching band programs that are placing in state championships. We had um a graduate that recently placed third in the 3A state championship and she came from Massie yesterday's program. She came up in this district and I just I can't stress how crucial this program has been to my life and I know that a lot of the kids here agree I would not be the same person that I am without the music that I've had. I would not be
024the same musician that I was without the elementary school level. And there are so many kids that are going to miss out on that opportunity if this funding gets cut from those grades. Kindergarten through 2nd is so crucial. It is so important and you will be stripping kids of opportunities that they wouldn't have and their parents if they do care might move to other districts. If you want this to be a destination district, as other people have stated, there's is such a big reason why I know people that I graduated with that their parents taught in other districts and they refused to move to districts that their parents taught in because of this music program that we have. And I know my time is up, but I would urge you to just that K through
025second level is so crucial. And I cannot stress enough how much those kids need that. If you are expecting to have the same level of success in the high school, middle school that you currently do and I will be done. Thank you, Megan. Next up, I did I did show a little difference here. This is a neighbor. Come on. stand up here because this is where I usually stand when I Everything that's been said is spot on. But I wanted to emphasize one more thing. Music is as important as math and reading. The problem is it's not tested. So money tends to go to the programs where that we can test and show the scores and be proud. We have to wait till they're seniors and juniors in high school to see how fabulous our
026music program is. But it doesn't start in high school and middle school. It starts in kindergarten. Reading is helped by people who know rhythm. Yes. Syntax and flow. Yes. Music helps map. Yes. Division of measures and staffs, high and low, rhythms of beat and drumming, and the sound of music. It's all helps to develop the brain. We sing to our babies. Everybody sings to their babies. We want to keep singing. None of my children ended up being musicians. That's not why we have a musician program here. It's because we want to develop the whole person. And I think music is the best way to do it. Thank you very much. Next up, Katie Corella. Back to Paul. Everybody said everything that I pretty much had prepared. Um I just want to let you guys know
027that um as far as your destination school district, um we came here from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Um it's it's a destination. We came here because of the music program. Um I live in Kous Bay, way over on the other side of Mingus Park. My youngest child goes to East Side Elementary. I spend an hour round trip every day dropping off kids. I drive all the way to Northbend, drive all the way to East Side because the buses don't go in to uh Mingus Park. But I just when you talk about um the foundation of this program, you know, it is what it is because of every single step, every single teacher in this lineup that makes this music program in this district. It's important and you know had there not been elementary funding or elementary
028level and the junior high level and all of the levels that go into that we probably wouldn't have looked at this district as closely. You know, it wouldn't have mattered as much to me. But my kid is a mad percussionist and he wants to be involved in a program that is welcoming and that he could step into a group of like-minded kids and feel at home. We're military. We've moved 20 times in the last 20 years. My kid has attended seven different schools. Music has been a huge part of his life. And to think that this program is at risk of losing the foundation, well, it's like taking you out of the knees. You're knocking out the whole beginning step. So, I don't really have a whole lot other to say, but this is the
029destination that we chose because of this program, this music program. So, that's Thank you, Katie. Next up, Melissa Pek. Thank you. I appreciate your time. You know, I have a statement prepared, but I'm not quite sure I can share it with you because you know what? I have all six of them that are musicians. And so, we have been blessed greatly. I loved all the things that Lisa said because I believe that it um rings so true. Um I think I'm one of the only parents at least in this room that hasn't a child metriculated in this school district consecutively for the last 25 years. That's a lot. Six humans to come through one district is a lot. And they have each been impacted largely in part. starting out at Hillrest and then North Bay
030coming up through the middle school and at the high school. We have a lot of skin in this game. So, I know that there's a lot of decisions as a school board that you make tonight. And I'm going to ask you, do not ratify this budget. Don't do it. Go back to the drawing board. Listen to what the people say. Start over. These kids are worth your time. They're worth going back and looking at the inflated numbers. We have some huge salaries that we are paying on the administrative level. Let's look at them again. Let's clean the fat. Let's figure out where we can whittle down some numbers so our children aren't punished. So teachers that have spent their life work wanting to enrich this district, wanting these children to not only start out great,
031but to finish at the top of their game. Look at the numbers again. Say no to that vote tonight. Do not ratify that budget. There are other ways to solve the problem. Getting rid of teachers is not the answer. As parents, as a public, we are on the same side, right? I think you've probably been ostracized a little since the news hit the mainstream media. That is not the goal. Our only goal is to work together as a unified district, both parents, teachers, administrative, school board. We all want the same thing for our children. Don't cut us off at the knees. Don't make the public the enemy. Say no to this budget. Make different choices. We beg you. We plead with you because we don't want to lose what is up and coming. And we
032don't want to forego the dreams of tiny humans that have waited to come and be in this program. 20 years ago when Amber Yesester, I'm sorry, Amber Rescue came to the school district, our son Carter was in her first class. And I remember him coming home and and we love Dennis. Dennis is a dream come true. And Mr. Lindal, they were amazing teachers. He came home and he's like, "She's going to make a difference." Now, seven state titles later and six humans that have come through her classroom, I can validate that truth. Say no to ratifying that budget. Please take Next up, Bristol Underwood. I was way in the back. Do I click something? Start. Okay. Hi. Um, I I uh wasn't necessarily actually planning on speaking tonight, but um I came down to kind
033of support other people and um anyways, if you don't know me, um I teach at the high school. I'm a science teacher. I've been in this district for about four years and I was hired on I applied for something called alternative science and I didn't know what the heck that was but I was my husband was down here so second job and um I didn't know about alternative education and um what we what we had was about 80 of the kids at the high school that have been homeless, have been abused, um have various degrees of mental emotional struggles um up to and including suicidal ideiation. Um that have dealt with bullying or been the bully uh in some cases. Um that are dealing with chronic absenteeism that uh are hugely disengaged from school. What
034else? Oh uh medical various medical issues sometimes too. Um, and our goal was to take those kids and to go from help them go from credit deficient to graduating and also to help support all of those various issues. And I think we did a fantastic job. I've had a number of different subs and people come in and just tell us how wellrun it was and what a good job we did and um how well behaved the kids were. Actually, we had some subs would only sub at Bridges because of how great our kids were. Um, and uh, we were able to do a lot of really cool things with them. We took them on different kinds of career exploration trips. We took them I had a I had a kid that we took to the
035beach who had never been to the beach. She lives in Kuz Bay, but she had a history of homelessness and uh, a lot of home uh, volatility. So, that was something that she had never experienced. And it was really cool to be able to give those kids a place that felt like home, where um they felt like they could trust us. They had a solid adult role model, which for most of these kids, they're there because the adults in their lives have failed them. Like they're they're kids, right? Um they're they're coming to the age where they're more uh able to make decisions for themselves, but they're still coming from what whatever they come from. So, um, anyways, I am incredibly proud of what we're able to accomplish with those guys and I will be
036so proud to see them walk across that stage tonight, tomorrow night, excuse me. And, uh, I hope that we can be part of supporting the next group that are juniors or sophomores this year and moving forward. Thank you. Great for your time. Thank you, Crystal. Next up, Luna Pendler. Well, um I don't know if the kids that were going to read this entire paper got to fill out the public thing. Um but originally I was going to be here to just do a little recap on our theater program and um I can highlight some other things that our school has done. So I'm Luna. Um our drama theater program has put on three plays this year. We put on Clue um just another high school play and Harvey and we it's drama gives a good
037place for students to express themselves and feel like a good home. Um some other highlights our school has gone through uh this year is the English department took a field trip to Ashland to see the Shakespeare festival. Um, track competed at the OSAA state championship last weekend. Drew Hood placed fourth, Zoya Wilson 12th place, Eva Jensen fifth, Kayiana Mazuki 10th, Ellie Massie uh fourth and third, and a variety of events. Um, Connor McBth 17th, Miles Baxter fourth, oh, and a lot of others placed really highly in uh the OSAA. Um, nine students got to travel to Newport for a research cruise and we were able to launch a boat that we were creating. Um, it was able to actually capture some photos and send it back to us. Um, our golf, girls golf won districts
038and placed fourth at state. Boys golf placed second at districts and took home the third place trophy at the state championship and Owen Baskam took first place at the state championship. Our girls tennis placed second at districts and third players went to state or three players went to state, sorry. Um, Reagan Farm won her second consecutive state championship. Uh we have two new emerging sports, women's flag football and boys volleyball. Um the life skills classroom awards were given to each student within the program. Um and graduation is tomorrow night at 6. And our band won its third year in consecutive state championship last month. So congrats. And finals will be next Wednesday and Thursday. So yeah. And number 10 is Joanna Gosling. Oh, okay. There will be a light. Okay, I'm starting my timer, so
039don't run the light. All right. We're the Golins and uh we've had students in the district for the last 16 years and uh have one more year left and we just wanted to take a moment to uh reflect on what the Northbend School District music program has meant to our family. And um when I first heard about the changes, like there was anger of oh changes, but um just taking time as a family to reflect on how grateful we are for what we've had. I cried when I was going over with him, too. So I'm not surprised that I am now. So, our oldest daughter, Amariah, graduated from Northbend in 2022 and just graduated from college uh in three years, a vocal performance major. The dual credit courses that she was able to take in
040high school, including music theory and the history of rock and roll, gave her a strong foundation in music, as well as saving thousands of dollars in tuition, which we were happy about. Um, our second daughter, Adara, who graduated last year, is pursuing a degree in music composition. Middle school can be such a challenging time for young people, as we all know. Uh, but band is where she found her place in the world. She started the trumpet in sixth grade, then took on the French horn, trombone, and tuba. Band was her thing in school. And our youngest daughter, SA, she'll be a senior in the fall. And although she succeeded academically throughout high school with a 4.0 0 GPA so far. No pressure. Her sophomore year was emotionally and relationally very challenging. So much so that
041we looked at alternatives as a 4.0 student looked at alternatives such as Winter Lakes or getting a GED. Uh but the reason why she stayed at North Ben was because of the band. Uh her junior year has gone much better and some of the highlights have been guitar class and symphonic band. and one of her best friends has really struggled academically this year and SA has been tutoring her so that she could remain academically eligible to compete in the state competition. Uh for each of our girls, music has been such a source of joy in their lives and it didn't start at the high school or the middle school level as you've been hearing tonight. Um it started with Mary had a little lamb on the recorder and Mima Club and kindergarten concerts have really
042built that foundation for them. And the reason why the band is so successful is because the students want to be there. The reason they want to be there is because of the culture of the program. And the culture, as you've heard over and over, really starts at the kindergarten level uh with dedicated teachers who pour into young students and instill a love of music. So, I understand uh numbers and that declining enrollment means cuts and I hope that when making those decisions around cuts, we really look at those uh non- studentent uh interaction, you know, staff salary, you know, whatever we can do that aren't uh affecting students. So, thank you for the strong program that my kids have had to have and we are incredibly grateful for it. [Music] Alexandra Genelli. Hello. All right,
043I'm gonna talk fast to make time here. Um, my name is Alexander Jared Nelli. I teach 9th grade English and intro to pathway at Northbend High School. Um, thank you to everybody for coming tonight. It's been so encouraging to see how much the community values education. Um, I'm speaking tonight for two reasons. First, to model civic participation for my students. In English class, we are studying civic action. We're reading accounts from authors who fought for change. And while powerful, these stories don't show what it looks like when civic systems function well. My students have questions about next year's staffing and elective changes, and they want their voices to be heard. So, I'm here to model what it looks like to speak respectfully, ground concerns and evidence, and to stay open to other perspectives. Second, I
044want to address the academic impact of cutting our high school English language arts team from six teachers to four. The following is a culmination of a couple hours research on the relationship between ELA teachers, graduation rates, class size, and student success. This reduction comes at a critical time as proposed Senate Bill 5516 and House Bill 141 outline an additional 11 billion in school funding. These bills are slated to take effect next month should they pass. And their message is clear. Districts will be held accountable for growth targets and core classes. And failure to meet them could mean that up to 25% of our local school funds will be removed from local control and allocated to intervention programs at the discretion of the state. ELA instruction is foundational for success in every subject. At the secondary
045level, English teachers carry the great majority of responsibility for reading, writing, language, and communication skills outlined in the state standards tested junior year. Success at these skills require students to write regularly and receive timely, meaningful feedback, something that takes significant time. To quantify that, I asked my experienced ELA colleagues to time themselves grading a one-page essay. The average was four and a half minutes per paper. And at first glance, that sounds great. But with class sizes projected at 29 to 30 students across six periods next year, that equates to 13 hours of grading per assignment. Of the eight hours of weekly non-instructional contract time, teachers report spending about six of those on time-sensitive duties like meetings, communication, and lesson prep, leaving just 2 hours for grading. This leaves three options. One, work 11 unpaid hours
046per assignment to provide timely feedback. Two, reduce the number or length of assignments limiting practice. Or three, lower the quantity and quality of feedback. None of these support student success and all contribute to teacher burnout, which has ended hundreds of thousands of teaching careers in the past 5 years. Reinstating just one ELA position at the high school would have a significant positive impact. And this isn't about my role. I wouldn't be the one in line to fill it. It is about protecting instructional integrity, student outcomes, and long-term teacher sustainability. Thank you. That concludes our public. Next on the agenda, we have agenda item four, public hearing on the 2025 2026 budget. Someone singing. Okay, with that, so I'm going to I'm going to use the open the hearing. And let me just state that public
047comments were to be taken in written format. Written comments that were received by 8 am June 5th, 2025 will be read during the public comments section of the meeting on June 5th, 2025. So Tim Crriider, any public comments? No public comments. No questions. No questions. Okay. So with that, that's agenda item 4B. There were no public comments. 4 C. With that, I will close the public hearing. Then we will go on to agenda item five, an action item. Agenda item 5A, 2025 2026, budget adoption and appropriations. If one of the can one of the board members read that and it's page 135. Someone could read that. [Music] Resolution number 2025-09. I [Music] don't appropriate on 136. Oh, maybe it's it's a continuation. Oh, I'm sorry. It's just a resolution itself. Yeah, please. Resolution number two
04820225-09. It be it resolved that the board of directors indeed Humes County School District number 13 that's northb hereby adopts the budget for fiscal year 20256 total amount of 68,362,56. Budget is now on file at 1913 me street and northb excuse me we can't hear back in the back rows. Sorry. I did resolve that the amounts uh for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and for the purposes shown below are hereby appropriated. That's the resolution. Sounds good. And so there is uh does anyone want to make a motion? There's a sample motion on the bottom. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution to adopt uh the 202526 budget and set the legal spending authority and spending limitations for other fiscal year by fund and function level to approve resolution 25 2025-09 adopting the
049202526 budget as presented in the amount of 68 million 632,56 6 and approving the amount as listed for the purposes indicated within the funds. Okay, Nathan has made a motion. Is there a second? I'll second that. Okay, there's a motion and a second by Mary and I'll read the motion. Item to approve resolution 2025 09 adopting the 202526 budget as presented in the amount of 68,632,56 and appropriating the amounts as listed for the purposes indicated within the funds. Discussion time. Any discussion? Okay, all in favor say I. I to motion passes 5 to two. The next one is on the agenda item is district budget B resolution imposing and category categorizing taxes. Anybody would like to read that resolution. Thank you. Speak resolution 2025-09 be it resolved that the following add property taxes are hereby
050imposed for tax year 202526 upon the assessed value of all taxable property within the district number one in the amount of the rate of $4,1 yeah $4,126 oh four sorry $4.1626 per $1,000 the value from tax Great. Number two, in the amount of at the rate of0 for $1,000 value for a local tax option. And number three, in the amount of $0 for debt, service, and general obligation bonds, be it resolved that the taxes imposed are hereby categorized for purposes of article 11, section 11, as education limitation, permanent tax rate of $46.26 26 cents per 10,000 and local tax option $0 per 10,000 excluded from limitation general obligation bond debt service $0 that is resolution. Okay, thank you. Uh is there anyone going to make a motion? There's a sample motion on the bottom of
051the page. Motion to approve the resolution to impose taxes at permanent rate computed by the Oregon Department of Revenue. So I move to approve resolution 2025-09 categorizing taxes at $416.26 per 1,000 for the general fund. Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? Second. Make a second. So, the motion requested was approve the resolution to impose taxes at the permanent rate computed by the Oregon Department of Revenue. And the motion is I move to approve resolution [Music] 202509 imposing and category categorizing taxes at 4.1626 per $1,000 for the general fund. discussion. Thank you for that. Any other comments or discussion? Okay, with that we'll have a vote. We'll do a roll call vote starting with Dallas. Yay. Yay. Yay. Okay. 70. Okay, let's see. That is agam item six, communications board reports. Anybody have any
052board reports? I got I think they've covered a little bit of the students, but uh I guess I'd just like to mention Reagan Farm did win the 1A4A girls tennis state championship. That was two in a row. That was a And she's got one more year. And I can tell you I was a tennis player and a tennis coach and you would see Stacy and the grandparents Matt coaching her I can't tell you how many days off season before there was a season that she could compete. So that she's won two individual state championships is no accident she worked extraordinarily hard for Congratulations Reagan. uh individual boys golf state championship Owen Baskin. Congratulations for that. And our seventh band state championship when you win seven, you start to talk about dynasties kind of like Lakers.
053Sure. Yeah. Great. There's congratulations to all the all the participants and support staff that made that happen. Uh also there's a couple retirements of longerving administrators. I'd like to recognize John Davidson at the minister 30 some years. I'm not quite sure. Mike Borer, the athletic director. my three plus seasons and he was a great manager, great athletic director. Uh with that I have one more board report and uh this is for board members since our last meeting and I'd kind of like to kind of reflect a little bit for us on some of the things that uh have happened and perhaps achievements and uh kind of look back and mostly it's past two years and I guess uh many of you who are regular attenders to the board would know this next part and that
054is back And the board developed two goals for the incoming superintendent back in August of 2023. Dana Kaggel, what were they? Oh, I know. It's it's student achieve student behavior and academic achievement. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. But you didn't know I was going to call it. Thank you. So yeah, academic achievement. That's focus on the basics of reading, writing, and math and then student behavior. And one thing having sat through many public comment sessions and uh work sessions with teachers, interrogative meetings in Safeway at church that uh student behavior has a huge impact on academic achievement and teacher job satisfaction and retention. So we did make it a a a priority and I would like to talk a little bit about on the academic achievement front. It's, you know, we're two years in and
055and there is some preliminary year-end data available I would like to share. And I'll start in the elementary schools. And uh I'm going to say this year we've seen improvement in North Bay math, ELA, and science scores. And in particular, the North Bay fifth grade science scores this year are up 17% compared to last year. And that is absolutely huge. So uh we went from I think it was 23% last year uh being below the state average to 40% this year. State average was 30% so we're 10% over that. And uh I know a lot of folks have worked on that. uh and North Bay focused on academic skills coaching teacher teaching aligned to the curriculum interim assessments where the students experience the level of rigor of state testing. So I want to thank all
056the administrators and the DEO and uh Darl as he's sitting there and and your staff and and all the EAS contributed to that. Sorry. Uh, Hillrest continues to exceed the state average by 15 to 27 points in math for third, fourth, and fifth grade. And there similar results in ELA. And the fifth grade science class testing results are 20% 20 points over state average. So, uh, Hillrest continues to really be an outstanding result. Thank you. At the middle school is at or above state average for all three grades in math and English language arts. This was not the case last year and uh there is work to be done on eighth grade science. Um at the high school is at at or above state average for 11th grade testing in math, English language arts, and
057science which was not the case last year. So I'd like to thank the high school for this. So there there remains a lot of work to be done in our schools on the in the academic achievement space, but I'm greatly encouraged by what we're seeing this year. Uh, another item that that the board worked on kind of developed a priority list after giving the superintendent some some those two goals and one of them was uh school safety and the board identified a need for a second school resource officer who was armed and to enhance school safety and security. So we had district administrator Dana Kagel worked in conjunction with police department got a uh $600,000 grant to fund a second position in that SRO arrived in this April. So we have we have four schools
058in three different locations and now we have two SRO's and uh my hope would be that we would end up with three for each school location had an SRO. Um the board did uh reinstate graduation uh requirements for students who voluntarily want to pursue a Northbend diploma and that starts with the graduating class of 2026. Uh if you remember the the legislature essentially suspended requirements in 20 excuse me they suspended them in 2020 paused them in 2021 and that was seven Senate Bill 744. So for those students who want to go ahead and continue to meet those uh requirements that were in place we offer a north end diploma if they want to pursue that. It's It's a great thing. Um, we did spend probably the better part of a year working on a five-year
059strategic plan that was completed in April this year and it reflects a lot of input from the community. I think a lot of people in this room were probably quite a few of the teams and really represents a roadmap for the district what we plan to do. And lastly, I'll just say we did support uh the feasibility of building a northb salmon northb school salmon hatchery on Pony Park and Pony Creek, excuse me, on school property. Uh great learning experience for our students to get hands-on uh experience with the foundational species of the Northwest and great potential benefits for sportsmen and the community. So, it has it's been a privilege to serve on the board. Um, God bless the students and parents of this North Ben school district in the future and thank you for
060the privilege. I want to add something if I may. Um we had a work session um by O by OSBA um it was February of 25 and what it was they had sent down uh I think it was Jen Nelson or something and it was to give uh us a class on being board members and how to function as board members and we went through it and it was very informative and I think the thing that brought me a lot of uh a lot of joy was at the end of it she commented that we were an incredibly healthy well functioning board and um that was just really meaningful to us because we have put in a lot of work and I myself personally want to just say thank you to our board members who
061are leaving because it has been a it has been a pleasure serving with you plus you know Jim there's been a lot to learn as being the co-chair sitting in actually just being on is uh what is it? Short tail left on my left. Oh, shirt tail on the left. And uh I appreciate all that, but it's been uh you're going to be greatly missed. So, thank you. Okay, thank uh moving on. Agenda item 6B. Did we already have that? We'll call that one. 6C association reports. Who we got? It's actually Eva. I I had asked Meg to step in for me because I was also at the senior class night presenting scholarships and sealed by literacy medals. So, I was early on the agenda over there. So, I was able to make it tonight.
062So um start off um thank you Meg for editing my notes. I appreciate it. What she added was much better than what I had written here. So um as the school year comes to a close, teachers are celebrating the achievements of their of their students and facing um some changes at our schools. As you've already heard, um there were several teachers um who've been informed of reassignments for next year or involuntary transfers. And so many of these uh teachers are being moved to new buildings or different buildings rather and in some instances to different subject areas. And so although this is only a small number of teachers who this is um who are being transferred, these changes impact all of us and some very significantly and the changes are happening um K through 12. So
063it's not like the the changes were only um targeted at one grade level or one subject area. It's K through 12. Um but anyh who we are we are still working through these changes emotionally and professionally as you I'm sure heard this evening. Um on a positive note many elementary teachers recently attended a professional development with Anita Archer an educational leader on explicit instruction literacy and phonics and those who attended reported that it was an an incredibly amazing experience. I really enjoyed that opportunity. Uh last month uh Bridges students and faculty enjoyed a rafting trip on the Road River. This was an excursion that they had planned and saved for throughout the school year. Um the community there at Bridges um has a very unique approach to learning and has been a tremendous support for
064these students and they've built a family among their peers and their teaching team and through these relationships have experienced many successes. Yesterday at Hillrest, the students and staff spent a large part of the day undertaking a variety of projects to beautify the school campus. These included weeding the flower beds, uh bringing in new bark mulch, um raking the wood chips on the playground, hauling brush to the dumpsters, and decorating the track with chalk designs or chalk drawings. And at North Bay, uh, recently students and the community members teamed up with the CUS Wershed Association for a day of of uh, camaraderie and invasive weed pulling, which is, um, something that's always been dear to my heart. I', I love weed pools. And at the end of the day, an estimated 500 plants were removed from
065campus. Um, special projects like this um, helped to end the school year by caring for our schools and practicing teamwork and gratitude. Okay. I think it starts up. Considering um there was so many public comments, I thought, well, maybe I shouldn't do the extra mile um recognition. But no, I I want to do it because this is a huge part of of um or the most positive part of why I'm here. I love this part. And tonight we have a lot of them. Um in part um there were a number of teams that were nominated. So that was something unique and different. Um so I'll go ahead and start with the first slide. Um so the maintenance team um Thomas Hudman, Dane Gilker, and Robert uh Bogart were all nominated by a community member, not
066from not from a uh staff member, but Audrey Caristo um emailed the district. Um I believe she emailed you, Michelle. Yeah. on May 9th. Um, she she says, "On May 9th, I had an incident occur with my two dogs. They attacked each other in my front yard, and I was trying to get them apart. It was horrific. My four-year-old son was screaming at your grounds crew, heard the commotion, and immediately came over and helped me. I was wrestling the dogs in the front yard, and was bitten several times. If not for the maintenance team, the fight would have gone on longer and would have been much, much worse. So on this day, they were my heroes and we appreciate them so much. Make sure they get a paid day off or something for being standup
067members for our community. All right, the next team we have is the check-in checkout team from North Bay Elementary. Uh they were nominated by a colleague, Nora Colin. Norah Collins, excuse me, who said, "This team is responsive and helpful, always on their toes and showing up to work each day in spite of the unpredictable nature of the kids that they work with every day." So, Brooke Davidson, Mike McGarity, and Ben Skinner. And Stephanie Asher was nominated by her colleague Christine Witet, who reports she always has the best and most positive attitude. Her students adore her and so do her peers. She has been the best mentor and because of her I was able to have such an easy year for a firstear teacher. She was always there for any questions and took it upon herself
068to make sure I always had what I could ever need. And if I couldn't or didn't know the answer, she made sure to get it and not leave our team hanging. So Stephanie, the next uh team is from food services also at North Bay. Roberto Willis, Dell Willis, and Julie Tucker. Uh they were nominated by Ed Nichols who who shared at North Bay the heartbeat of our school often originates in the kitchen where Robera Dal and Julie do far more than prepare meals. Every morning they arrive early with warm smiles and kind words, ensuring that each student is fed and cared for. But their dedication does not stop when the last tray is stacked or the kitchen is cleaned. Whether it's a busy weekday or a quiet Saturday, Robera Dell and Julie are here serving
069up not just food but community. They know which students need a little extra help or a gentle check-in. They ask about homework, celebrate lost teeth and birthdays, and build relationships that go beyond the lunch line. They don't just serve during the school day. They go above and beyond by preparing lunches for field trips and after school clubs. They also ensure that both students and parents are fed during Saturday events, creating a welcoming space where everyone feels cared for and included. Roberto Dell and Julie embody what it means to serve with heart. And their behindthe-scenes work feeds not only our students bodies, but their sense of belonging, dignity, and care. They are everyday heroes whose presence make North Bay feel like home. got a lot of celebration in North Vegas tonight. Uh Gina Hampton is part
070of the Title One team. Um Gina and her team were nominated by their colleague Norah Collins who stated that um their team um put on recently that if you give a mouse a cookie cafe for read across America week, the students love the cafe transformation in the library and getting to read with the buddy class and the teachers love getting an extra prep and that the school is instilling a love of reading of course. So, thanks team. And lastly, we have Lee Ray, a custodian at Northbank High School. Lee was nominated also by Ed Nichols. He shared at Northbend High School, there's one person whose quiet presence leaves a lasting impact every single day. Lee Ray, our dedicated custodian, his role is of immense value to our school. From early morning arrivals to showing up,
071even on Saturdays when most of the building is quiet, Lee is always here working hard, sweeping hallways, fixing what's broken, and always doing it with a calm humility. Uh, but Lee's work goes far beyond clean floors and tidy classrooms. He knows the names of students, offering a helping hand without being asked, and checks in on teachers not because it's his job description because it but because it is who he is. Whether he's setting up chairs for an event, offering a wrench to fix a wobbly desk, or just stopping for a quick check on a classroom, Lee brings a sense of care and consistency that anchors our school community. He reminds us that showing up matters and that the small, often unseen acts of service are what truly builds a school worth being proud of. And
072Lee's actions have a profound impact on our school community. And for that, we are truly appreciative. Thank you so much. Thanks B. Superintendent report. All right. One of the things I want to mention, we've had several people talking about various students who won state championships and a couple of them were kind of skipped along the way and they were both at state track. I don't mention Drew had a fourth place and I think a fifth place in the last day. She also was gathering state champion. and she did that on Friday and then Miles Baxter was state champion and he just he just drilled everybody. He didn't miss a jump until he was already champion. He was going for a school record before did quite so congratulations to that. Um we I want to give
073you a little bit of a legislative update. Um we of course um build budgets in the in the legislative year before they ever pass the budget, right? The state budget. So, there was some concern this year because the June economic forecast came down lower than than the previous forecast back in March, right, which is this year of the April forecast. And so, there were some things that were out there um that we were hoping to have happen. for example, talked about 11% cap on special ed funding. I don't think that's going to be raised. At one point, we felt like that was probably going to happen, but we don't believe that's going to happen. High cost disability probably not going to be affected very much. Now, we thought that might have a higher number associated
074with that. The one thing that did stay solid though was the 11.4 billion. The governor outlined in her budget. joint co-chairs backed that up, but they backed all those things up whenever the economic forecast were high and so was concerned that they might back off of those numbers. They did not. So the good news is that we're able to fund 11.4 billion statewide and which is what we built our budget on. So that's that that's the good news. But the unfortunate part is there's not going to be really anything else that we can tell. We will be the state back some some money into SIA for success, but we don't know how much of that that we could still see some impact, some loss there, but overall um generally speaking, uh pretty good news. And
075so the other thing I mentioned, there was a cell phone ban that happened do not app. So they'll be at this point in time, they're going to leave decisions about cell phones in school, but district rather than have statewide solution unless the governor decides to have an executive order and when that bill failed she would talk about potential she might do that we we are hoping she does not we would like our cell phone policy to be our local decision and not decision that everybody is all across the state so we want to have the decision that best fits us so u and then uh little tidbit. Um, you know, Valerie is a title one, five hour DA out of one day. She gets to do some of the some of the work of kids
076at the beginning of the year they've done their dibles testing and every day while they were doing that she comes home to tell the stories about the kids she's been working with all year and how they've been scoring at the end of the year and the success that they're having at kindergarten in grades one and they're just really excited about having kids at those levels just flourishing. So I I thank you Darl the work that day has done um she seated in person seed everybody um and she had um one story about she was telling them that they were going to do the walk through today the seat and of course I believe the girls third grader she says why she has no idea what that is or why they're doing that she goes I
077don't want to do that I want to learn so she was she structure your desire to stay learn of course like Washington. So it's so far and I appreciate appreciate the work that everybody's doing, but it's nice to see the younger grades they finish flourish and uh and and I don't you know I just give them great work. Thank you Vince. Agenda item seven, action consent agenda items. Is there a motion to approve the action consent agenda items as presented? Some move. Motion and a second by Mary. Any discussion? Okay, with that we'll have a vote. All in favor say I. I. 70. Agenda item eight, postponement of adoption of the health K through 12 curriculum action item. Bruce and Dana. Yes. Hi, good evening. We would like to request the board approve uh uh
078postponing the adoption of the health curriculum one year. Just a little history on that. It's not uncommon for districts to do this. Um, if you back up three years and you look at what we've adopted in the last three years, it's been the heavier curriculums that we have at some grade levels, ELA, uh, was the not the last curriculum we adopted, but the second to the last curriculum. It's the most expensive curriculum adoption we have, and oftentimes it'll take two budget cycles to get through that, and it'll take two years to get that implemented because of that. Math is similar. It's the second biggest costly uh curriculum that we have to adopt and that was the curriculum that came after that. Science was next and it was supposed to be adopted or could be adopted
079last year, this year in the fall of the current year that we're in now, but we did postpone that knowing that it took two years to implement the math program that we had as well. So, some of these loads fall heavier on some grade levels than others. And as you can well imagine in in elementary uh they're adopting a curriculum oftentimes every year uh and they have to implement that. ELA was a big lift for them. Math was a big lift and science will be a big lift for them as well. So it takes a little bit longer sometimes to get things implemented there. We have until the fall of 27 to implement the health curriculum to to adopt it and implement it. So, we have plenty of time to do that and we anticipate
080doing that in the next calendar year and having it ready in the 20 fall of 26 for implementation moving forward. And we want to bring to you tonight and the next agenda item is uh our science adoption materials that would go forward. But first, we'd like to to get postponement of the health adoption at this time. Any questions? Okay. Anyone want to make a motion when it's on the table? Okay, there's been a motion and a second. I'll repeat the motion. I move to approve the postponement of the adoption of the K through 12 health curriculum. Discussion. We'll have a vote. All in favor say I. I. 70. I guess you guys don't need to change your seats. No, we can switch sides. Agenda item number 8 through 5 6 through 8 and 9 through
08112 science curriculum adoption action. Just a little history on that as we move forward. Uh talk about K5 first and and that's that's a rather large process. Uh as you can imagine, every elementary teacher teaches science in there. So the input that you have is quite different than what you have at the middle school and high school where you may have just specific subject area teachers uh that are looking at curriculums there. It's been a long process. We started with, I think it was nine curriculums that we looked at, limited it down to three, had presenters come in and present to us on the two most popular curriculums we had. And there was a clear winner there and it happened to be Imagine Learning uh TWIG curriculum that they had and that's what was selected
082K5 in there. We even looked at the possibility, you know, if there was a lot of split in there between the two top curriculums we had, maybe there'd be a K2 that'd be a little bit different than the 35, but no, it was a clear winner. Uh, Twig uh from Imagine Learning was the curriculum that was selected. Rigorous curriculum, very engaging in there. We did have community members involved in the process looking at the curriculum that came in and, you know, it was interesting to listen to most of them that came in. They said, you know, they looked at the curriculum and said, gosh, we're going to let let your your experts, your teachers decide because they all look good. They all do. But really, when they look at it, we look at the ease
083of implementation, the engagement of students in there, and then how does it meet the state standards in there as we go through and imagine learning to curriculum did did that at the the K5 level. 68 was a different different subject in there. Um, we've had a lot of change in 68. Uh uh so really a lot of that and we've been looking at the curriculums for quite a while in there. Uh but a lot of it has fallen to to one science teacher at that at that middle school level. Uh the majority of it has along with administration there. John and Wade have been involved in that process. And we've also brought uh new folks that are coming into science uh next year in to take a look at some of the curriculum. And after
084much debate on this and a lot of uh uh deep conversations in there, Potent Mifflin into science was selected. And I think the the the driving force that selected it was a fact that the the rigor that was involved in it. And the one science teacher that was leading the team there, you know, was pretty adamant that that rigor was in that science curriculum and it was embedded in such a way that students were going to benefit from uh teaching that curriculum. We're also switching uh uh some of the ways that it it's implemented. We're going to an integrated approach to science, not just a standalone life science, earth science, physical science each year, but they're going to be more integrated throughout all three years. So, they'll see a variety of those sciences in each
085of the grade levels as they go forward. And that hot methane and two science is the program that that the folks that looked at it thought would be the easiest to implement for somebody that that had not been in the middle school for a while, especially if they were new to to science uh in general. And we have some of those things happening in there at the high school level. Um Christina Gman kind of led out on that with the science team and what they've been doing at the high school they're very satisfied with and it's used in over 70% of the state. It's called patterns science. Uh we're going to readopt that curriculum. We're proposing to ask you to read that curriculum and we're going to update some of the materials in there. Materials
086get old and they need to be replaced and there are a few uh more updated resources available that match that pattern science curriculum. So, we'll be purchasing some of those things in there. The other thing that we have that that we're going to to be buying as well, and it's not part of the adoption, is some of the dual credit materials that are in there that I know we're working with a college with. Uh several staff members at the high school are working with a college to come up with what curriculum we need to match what courses they have there. And there's been some changes in those areas. So, we want to make sure our alignment is there dual dual credit option is still available. questions. Question. I know you know we're adopting three different
087SC three age groups, three different science curriculums. I don't know. I'm sure you guys looked at it. Was there any romance to having the same one for K through five, the six through eight groups? The need one more better. It It's a great question. the needs are so different in there that honestly the the problem that you run into at elementary is science can't always be taught every day. When you get to the middle school and high school, of course it is. And so you want a curriculum that's engaging, that has the flexibility to meet the standards that you can pick the pieces that that meet the standards. And when we looked at the Imagine Learning curriculum, it had the ability to have several tracks that you could do. For example, in K12, you may
088only teach science a couple days a week. At the beginning of the year, you may not be able to teach science when you start out. So, they've got what they call a modified track in there that really will get to the standards, meet the standards, but in a minimalistic way. Some of the other curriculums did not have that component available. So, we're excited to be able to offer that one at the elementary level. Jen, that's an excellent question. And actually after elementary had looked at that twig, that imagine learning product, that was something that we did ask that the middle school also review and to look to see if there was that level of alignment. And ultimately uh that team at the middle school in looking and reviewing materials landed on the HMH into science
089materials over the twig materials. But I do understand what your question is there. And the reason was that they didn't feel the twig material at the middle school level was rigorous enough. They wanted something that had a little more rigor embedded in so was more better. Jim, we'll tell you it was more better. I know what you want to hear. Too late. We hear about the AC. Yes. Yes. Any other questions for Bruce and Dan? I think I think you guys went. Yeah, Dallas. Thank you very much. Okay. Is there a motion? I move to approve the adoption of imaging learning with sciences for grades K through 5 N science for grades 6 through 8 and the readoption of coated curriculum for grades 9 through 12. Okay, there's a motion and a second by Dallas.
090I'll reread the motion. I move to approve the adoption of imagine learning tweak science for grades K through five mlin into science for grades six through eight and the readoption of patterns curriculum for grades 9 through 12. Any further discussion? Okay, with that we'll have a vote. All in favor say I. 7. Excellent. Thank you all. Thank you. Okay, Bruce and Dave, thank you for the work. Item 10, complaint submitted by Joseph Christensen. Uh, just a little background on the board read the documents. We met in executive session earlier in the day and review the documents again, had some questions and answers. And uh with that, is there a board member that cares to make a motion on one of the options? I move to take action on that file with the board and to
091delegate the authority of the board chair to respond. Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? I second that. Okay, there's a motion by Dallas and a second by Carol. And that motion is I move to take no action on the complaints filed by the board and to delegate the authority to the board chair to respond to the complaints. Any discussion, further discussion on this? Okay, with that, we'll have a vote. Let's go. Roll call. Start with you, Dallas. I I I Okay 70. Agenda item 11 for comments. I would just like to thank everyone for coming out. It shows the enthusiasm u passion that you all have for the music department and you know everything else and you know that's part of what drives the school to be as good as it is a
092school district as good as it is. I just want to personally thank you. I'll say the the reason I became board members basically reason in this room. So it's been a privilege to be here and and do this for two years. Thank you guys for tonight. Sorry couldn't get done what you wanted to get done. With that information only there's a district info check register enrollment report and July one available here and with that we'll adjourn the meeting. Thank you Mark.