001to the April 14th school board meeting. Um we are recording this uh meeting and it will be available on YouTube. Um now we have to do roll call. So uh Bridget here Jared here and then Terry and Amanda are absent. All right, let's move along to the recognition of visitors. We have the students from the Washington DC trip. [Music] Would you like to tell us a little bit about your trip? Sure. So, I brought a couple of students from the DC trip. Go ahead. Come on up, guys. This is Matt, Tyrone, and Cash. Uh, I thought it would be a good idea just to let you guys know how it went because I think we had a blast, but I don't want you to take my word for it. I want you to hear it
002from the horse's mouth. So, please go ahead. Wrote a few things down here. I know maybe asking about why was the D trip worth it. What the DC trip gives you is perspective. The side effect of living in a rural area like this is you can live your whole life just around your house basically without leaving Cous County or even let alone the state. Well, this trip opened my eyes to just how big and small the world truly is. big in the fact is there's a lot more than I thought was out there from all walks of life of people living around DC all the processes that go into make the country what it is and small by how close it seems at this point and how much I was able to experience. This trip
003was a great opportunity to learn about political processes and everything that goes into this country as well as state politics. It allows me to learn how I can affect uh politics around me as just locally as well as the state. is an incredible trip and I would recommend it to all future Myrtle Point and any student in the world. Thank you. Hello fellow board members and community members. My name is Cash Miller and this is why the D trip is important to me. To me, the DC trip was really cool because I'm a guy who loves history. So seeing all the monuments and museums and things like that was really cool. I really like the Vietnam Memorial, the World War II memorial, the Marine Memorial, the Air Force Memorial, and all the other memorials and
004museums because they just showed a lot of cool history and a lot of cool like what's building stuff, architecture. Architecture. Yeah. And uh I feel like we should continue this trip because one the history side of it is just really cool and the experience of seeing a bigger place other than Kous County and all these different kind of uh demographics of people and all these different kinds of things and seeing how big other cities are. I just thought it was a pretty cool trip and should be continued. Thank you. Well, I would like to take thank my friends for their remarks and I'd like to give my perspective because I am a returning student. I actually did this trip when I was a sophomore and I enjoyed it so much that I had to come
005back. Even if it was a few, Mr. Hart, he's great. Love the trip with him. Um, what I enjoyed so much about the second trip is I was really able to immerse myself with this experience. The first time I was so scared, I was so excited. I was like itching everywhere cuz I was like, "Oh my gosh, I'm by myself." But honestly, I loved it. And I was able to interact with different kids from different types of cultures like from rural like city, suburban. I was able to hear their piece. Some were democratic, some were republic, some were right in the middle. And I was able to hear how like even like we're the same age. We all have different perspectives on different things and different laws, but we were all willing to hear each
006other out and which it can be hard during these times, but I was able to also learn myself as as I was able to teach other kids. And what I enjoyed was that I was heard and that that I sorry is that most kids don't really get the opportunity to be able to have someone listen to them. And this this opportunity allowed me and other students to let our voices be heard while also hearing some voices that also were left silent. And by going on this trip, I was able to educate myself more on policies and my governors and senators while also reminding myself that these are real people and that sometimes they can be a little dehumanized by the media. And by talking to them, I was able to connect with them and ask
007questions that I deeply cared about. And I would recommend students to return or go on this trip for future years. And I would like to thank you for have letting us have this opportunity. I really enjoyed it and I will remember it for the rest of my life. So now that you've heard their side of the story and I, you know, as teachers we talk about scaffolding all the time, I can let them read it in a book. I can lecture on it, but for them to actually be there and smell the air and interact with the monuments and hear other people tell the history and the story that you don't find in the books, that's what I think is really priceless about it. And I think they did a great job of hitting, you
008know, it's it's an experience. It's not just about education. It's something they take with them and now they've got the hunger to go see other places and do bigger things. But I'd like to open it up a couple of questions. I know that some of the board members have been here before and talked to the students, but if there's anything else that you'd like to ask about it, I think this would be a great time before we wrap it up. What was your favorite part of it? What was the favorite thing that you guys went to? Which museum, memorial, monuments at night were my favorite pictures. I guess my favorite was the change of the guard at the Arlington National Cemetery. My dad is a really big military man and he told me about it.
009He sent me videos. He was like, "Son, this is something you're really gonna like." And I think just seeing it in person and seeing the like the culture around it and seeing how dedicated they were to protecting the tomb of the unknown soldier was really incredible. I think for me it was visiting the museums. I I love enjoying history and being able just to see it to see like all the artifacts, the bones of like the animals and being able to like interact with like activities that they had was it taught me a lot more than just from reading from a screen. On the day with like the program closeup, we got to go see the World War II memorial, Korean War Memorial, and the Vietnam Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, but there wasn't a lot of
010time to go. So on our spare day, we me, Miss Gray, Eli, and a couple others, we went and saw them at night, which was another really cool experience. We got to see just reflecting off the What's the water? The pool. Yeah, the pool. It was really cool. Anything else? Don't be shy. Because this is one of those scaffolding moments for us, too. It's not every day in Myrtle Point that you get to go in front of a board and speak with, you know, pillars of the community or or people that you look up to. So, I I think this program provides just so many different levels of experience. And I know I've talked to the uh Rotary Club plenty of times now and they love it because now they have a whole group of
011students that they didn't know about because not every parent, not every grandmother, not every, you know, relative is in one of those community programs. So, this gives students another chance to get a couple more scholarships later down the road, meet some people with some experience that might be able to guide them, you know, down a certain path that they're looking forward to. But if that's it, oh yes, not necessarily a question, share, if I may. Um, not necessarily a question, but just a comment. Uh, because this presentation just fills everything like my entire cup. Um, this is why I want to do this work on school board. I'm a huge advocate for student leadership. um leadership opportunities. And when you talk about um when you talk about how you dehumanize the how the the political
012system is dehumanized and the ability to go back and see how that works because we we live in this silo sometimes where we don't think we're that impactful and that we can make the change that needs to happen and that's so far away that we can't get there and do it. But we really can. Thank you. All right. Thank you guys. So definitely in the future I'll have the paperwork filled out. I want to start fundraising a year earlier this time so I'm not rushed. But this is it. Like I think this is my passion project as far as working here at Myrtle Point. So thank you again for a second year of really great memories among the students. And they did mention a video Miss Gray helped me. Miss Grade did not get enough
013credit in those speeches or from me yet. This was my travel partner this time and she had all of the little gaps filled that I couldn't make it or if I was, you know, busy doing something else, she had my back. And now that they're gone, other teachers, I want to brag even more about Miss Gray. Students have talked to other teachers and said that they saw another side of Miss Gray because students, they don't know us as the teachers. They don't realize that we're humans, too, and we love to have fun. So, so, right. So, Miss Gray actually took him out and uh the last day we we opted to have a spare day just in case we didn't get to see everything we wanted to see. So, did you do the scooters with
014them? No. Okay. So, there was a group that did scooters around Washington Mall and they said it was the most fun experience they've ever had just zipping everywhere and getting to see all these extra things quicker. Uh, but to understand that your teacher is approachable and they are here to help you, I think is priceless. So, thank you guys again. recognition respondents. We have administrative professionals day coming up April 23rd. That is for the secretaries and any other workers. So Carrie, we would like to thank you for all that you do. you do a lot for us and we'd like to thank all the other secretaries and the we think people that work in the office and Lacy too. All right. And adjustments to the agenda. We have to add 8.7 integrated guidance and 10.4
015which is the application and action item. And then we have to add 8.8 8 L Floyd Ingram scholarship committee and 10.5 scholarship committee and then we're adding 8.9 which is a quote from French building and development and 10.6 Since crunch for the crunch. Any other adjustments to the agenda? Okay. And then do we have any public comment on non-aggenda items? I said not. Okay. And then consent consent agenda. I entertain a motion to approve the consent. I think I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Uh they don't any name. All right. Uh fiscal overview at least. Um we haven't changed a lot in our ending fund balance projection. It's still not the same. I included the club fund balances. They like to do that once or twice
016a year. Um there are a few negatives, but those are um there's money in the Hillary club. Um the No, no, it isn't. The um booster club. Thank you. Um so each of some of these clubs like football, softball, track, whatever, they have money stored and so when they get spent too much with us, we request a check from them and then that balances them out. Um, but I did tell our secretary that they don't get to spend below anymore. So, she's doing a good job with that. So, those will all be back to the positive here shortly. And so, also, I told our secretaries, we're doing a soft freeze. Don't spend anything. You know, it's that time of year. Don't spend anything unnecessary. Um, so they are scrutinizing a little better, which is nice.
017Um, Floyd Ingram scholarship. So, Pat Casey, who used to run that, passed away. Um and it is for students with SLD so specific learning disability special education only. Um it is for myrtle point clickial band and empower students. So last and we have the money and so I researched um and found out that we since he passed away we we now couldn't control who received that scholarship. So I had Mackenzie Wallace reach out to those other districts, send them the application for those students. That was last month. So the timeline for students to apply to that is April 30. Um so we need to create a committee of the board members, maybe three people that will choose um who would receive that scholarship. And so there's specific criteria which those three people would receive in
018a packet. And then Carrie's going to help with a scoring sheet that you guys can use. Um, interview involved or no? No interviews. Yeah. No, it's they send three reference letters and they send so three reference letters and they have to attach their eligibility and IEP along with it. So, it is a confidential piece um that you guys would keep to yourselves. And so we'll see who applies to that. But we'll we're having them send it to the district office and then we'll kind of go there. But we should start with a committee and then before when is scholarship night for the high school? Tuesday before graduation. Okay. So probably middle of May and third week of May you guys could work that out however that works. So um there's that and then our integrated
019guidance which I feel like the name changed but maybe not. Yeah, they change it to integrated program. Yes, that. So, we So, Kayle's our curriculum director, so she takes the lead on um submitting our annual application. This is the the state provides high school success money, SIA money, they combine it all. They combine also our early literacy money. So, it's grants. Um and then we have to tell them, here's our activities. Here's how we like to spend it. So, I gave you that. It's the uh budget integrated. So, we didn't change a whole lot of what we already do. Um so, we would still use part of those funds for our music teacher, our um SEAL um staff that help with emotional and social emotional. Um we can also use it for elective pieces. So,
020it can really help boost our elective programs that we currently have. it the school counselor comes out of high school success. Um so each piece we take um decided how much would come out for the next two years. So at the top on page three, four, three and four and five, it gives you the total amount that we are aotted for each of those grants. And so then I put where we think the money would go out of those grants. And so that's what we submitted. So yes, elective teachers, student support specialists, our counselor, CTE supplies, curriculum for early learning, additional fencing, the safety, safety was a big one this data cabling, security, cameras, or stuff we've done in the past. So cleaning up any of that if needed. Um, fencing any there's four buckets
021that it has to fit in. So, as long as you're fitting in those buckets and you have like the survey data and the community data to back it up, then you're fine. So, um, but we, so what we do is we take the survey data, look at it all and look at kind of all the various needs. We use like the facilities planning that we did last year with that big group of people too and that kind of helps drive how some of the money is distributed. But so, it's a 78 page application that with her data that she gathered and we submitted that. So, our final piece is just to submit the board of acceptance and then we're then we're complete. Yeah. Okay. And in front of you guys also have the just the
022snapshot of what the application looked like. We didn't all page like I can email that. So that was my main and with the um scholarship just I'll I serve on the um OSAC board so they have a really good scoring sheet to how to score and makes it very easy to do. So if whoever ends up wanting to do that or help with that it it's not a very time consuming thing. So, any other questions for Lacy regarding the fiscal overview, the integrated guidance, and the Floyd Ingram scholarship. Okay, thank you, Lacy. Moving on to speak for the superintendent report. So, the classified staff had us have now formally reached out for um negotiations since three of you are here. Um we would like to come back with a date or two. Um one would
023be Monday, May 5th, which would be basically 20 minutes, 30 minutes just to get their um offer on the table. Um so that we know where we're at, where we're beginning um and we'll ask um if they can come with that that particular day. And then possibly if these dates are are are um okay with everybody coming back on Thursday the 8th from 4 to 6. So the first one would be just like I said just um listen kind of getting an idea of where we're at, where we can go and then coming back on Thursday and seeing what we can do to uh get it done in the morning. And would be at 4. Yes, we could make the one on the 5th at 5. for for you. It doesn't matter Jerry. Four on
024Monday and five on Thursday. Is that right? You know, so four on the event and then five on the I thought maybe would go. Yeah. Yeah. Four and four behind. Okay, make it work. Deco mile. It'll be short. Like I said, I said that we're just going to listen to the see where we're at. See where we're at. Um, so I will reach out to Renell. Um, we don't exactly know who their representatives are. Um, so I'll reach out to Renell and give her those give her those dates because I think they were willing to do at any time. that they have they do have a change of of people involved. Okay, perfect. And that's really all I all I have at this point. Hopefully next next meeting we'll have a I'll have an update
025on the seismic uh school calendar. We have the you have that in front of you. Um I um Cindy's had it for um last couple weeks. I think we they she has um talked to all the staffs, both staffs, classified, uncertified um and licensed um and I think we're all in agreement. Um there I wanted to highlight a couple of those reduced days on those Friday um early release. That's a 2-hour early release. Um Kaylee is applying for a wellness grant um that has to do with staff interaction, etc. Um and honestly we don't have any time for staff interaction you know prior to and these are all if you see these these are all prior to a week of vac you know whatever so that they could um some kind of a 2-hour celebration.
026So rather than run the buses at 3:15 um 3 whatever it it's just a 2hour early release. Um so so those four particular days, the one before Thanksgiving, um the one before uh Christmas, the one before spring break, and the and the last day of the school year, um or would all be to our early races, but then and that's why it's basically just for for for staff to be able to join um and you know get to get to actually um see people because a lot of a lot of days we don't. So that's what those are for if you have any questions on those. Any questions regarding the calendar? And if you don't have a color copy, I will send you one. If you don't have I looked at it. If you don't
027have a color printer at home, I will send you. All right. Any questions for Steve or about the school calendar? Oh, I got one other thing. Let me add it. So on school calendar, Tokyo beat me to it, which is great. Um, Tokyo is going to a half day Friday. Um, next year, so I was that was on the my table. Um, but I took it off the table. Um, kind of I'm going to see what how that how that goes with them. Um, so now we have Marshfield with a with a reduced Friday. We have Kia with a reduced Friday. We have um Pacific with a reduced Friday. Um, uh, I think a couple there's one P is no school Friday. But P has no school Friday. Uh Resport has no is is going
028to reduce day Friday. So um there there's reasons for it and and the reason for it is is the PD rather than have an 8 hour PD or 7h hour PD. Um it we use you know which we have now PLC days. Um it's hard to it's hard to focus for seven hours. I know I can't. Um and and so in a in a 2-hour PD that you you know maybe you piggy back um couple weeks um in a row for a specific thing um then it helps that it would be not it would not affect the classified group in ours. We would they would not they would not be affected. That's one of the biggest questions when people say you're going to reduce today. Well, it would not it would not have any any
029impact. we would make sure they had something to do so that they didn't lose hours and there's a lot of them that actually leave, you know, that it's they're they're 35hour employees anyway. So, um so anyway, that's that's down the road, but again, I just wanted to toss that out because because it will be something that we will hopefully um look at next year, not adopting for next year, but adopt, you know, but but to look at that and and give ourselves a year to see how that happens because it is impactful for parents and that's that's your deal. So right now I don't know what they do when no when we don't have school on Fridays. So what will they do when when they you know when they when the kids are coming going
030home at 12:30 or 1 on Fridays? Um so that was so that's you have to give parents in the community the you know the idea how how are we going to figure this out? You know what what are we going to do? Um are we going to have an after school program? I know Katie's gonna would have a Friday school um you know that which and there so there's options that would that are really helpful um to those that are that are maybe at risk or struggling. So anyway um that's that's something to look at in the future. That's all I have to meet again. So no we'll wait we'll see. Yeah. All right. Moving on to population enrollment. I didn't have any we didn't really have any changes. I mean very much like too
031much. All right, general. Any questions about population enrollment? All right, moving on to the second reading of policy DB. Any questions regarding the policy DVDA, right? Yes. Do we um have We are all right. Yeah. Yeah. We we we have we have we have a forum. Yeah. We have it. Got it. So, we're in good shape. Which means we have 5 plus 6, we have 11. So, we're good. Review and update policy AC is suggested by OSBA. The only thing they did was they wanted to remove um number two at the bottom and it was highlighted in your packet, but it's gray on here. It's just language because we're going back to the language from 2020 after legislation passed that law. Any questions regarding All right. And then the first reading of policy GBN JBA
032JF JVABN review AC- AR1. Any questions regarding any of those policy changes or update? All right. And then so we're moving on uh to the French building and building. Okay. So the again this has to do with the greenhouse in this case. Um, so the contractor that was supposed to do it for 15,000 last week came back. He's going through a divorce. He sold most of his equipment already. Um, he said he could do it for 30,000. Um, and so we um said probably not. Um, so this is a this is a bid from Crunch um to do the same thing that we were going to get. Ded that it was originally 15,000. We do have the funds. We do have to spend them. right in a very in a very in very by June
03330th I want to remind you by June 30th so we really need this project completed and um I this is this is a bid that I do because the other bid that we had prior to this one was like 40,000 compared in compar in comparison um to the whatever in sums that that gave us the $15,000 bid which seemed to be really low anyway um but he like I said he has since raised it last week to um to double that So bunch of so this is this is um Mr. Kirkpatrick's bid. So we we can get started and get it done. Any questions regarding the French building and development quote? Okay. Public comment regarding agenda items. No. Okay. Action items. adopt the 2025 2026 school calendar. I make a motion to adopt a 2025
03426 school calendar as presented. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I against hearing. Um. All right. Adopt policy DBEA. I make a motion to adopt policy DBEA. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Everybody in agreement. So no names. All right. Adopt policy AC with OSBA recommendation. I make a motion to adopt policy AC with OSBA recommendation. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Everybody's agreement. All right. Approve IG annual application. I make a motion to approve the IG annual application as presented. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All in agreement. All right. Nominate scholarship committee. Anybody willing to be on the committee? Nice. Well done. All right. Anyone else? Sure. How many like I don't think it's going to be it's going to be
035send to you then send to and I'll just send the applications to you and then you'll and just screen them and send the information back for them and send them back. Okay. All right. So real quick does anybody have to go present it from the committee or how's that because you guys have the money. Well, you mean when we do our awards, it would be at ours, right? And they and in the years past, I've never had anybody have to go do that. Typically, I think I those are ones that I present. But if you're volunteering, Justin, you must go to band. Thank you. All right. So, uh, it looks like we have nominated Jared, Bridget, and Justin for the, uh, scholarship committee. Thank you. Make a motion to um, accept the nominees for the
036scholarship committee. Second. All right. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. None opposed. Okay. Crunches building and development. I make a motion to accept the um yes open quote from the greenhouse quote from Crunches Building and Development LLC. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All right. None opposed. And we have some upcoming meeting input. We're gonna have our first budget meeting. 75% done on the 12th. On May 12th, what time is that meeting? 5 before the regular board meeting. All right. And the second one is the 19th if I'm not correct. Yes. Okay. And any announcements. Okay. Go to the order. We'll start with um Jared. Nice to see the kids from this auction trip to Colum. My kid had went the first time and second time and he's like getting
037out of school, but he really enjoyed it. He's traveled a lot. We've traveled a lot. So, he likes to it's nice to, you know, bring up the point of small town to big town. It's big difference. And and they are they're big, but they're small, I'll say. Small world. So, it's very I I'm really glad that Hartzell's been able to do that. So, I hope it continues. It's good for the kids that choose to to get out and see things, especially the capital. I mean, I've never been to the capital and I would I would like to go spend a week at the Smithsonian, but that's probably not in my in my future, but maybe sometime. So, yes, I agree. I' Cash had a great time. Um, same with us. We travel quite a bit
038around, but um that was the first time I really wanted to go, but then I thought it'd be good for him to go on his own because he's always had us with him. So, it was a good experience for him to do that all on his own. So, they're doing another two years. I if he goes back, I'll probably go this next time. I'd like to go there. I've never been to Washington DC. So, and just everything going good. Um the sports teams are all doing good and got the field under control for baseball down there. Almost floated away. So, thank you, Bridget. Yeah. again really inspired about the students today and what they had to share and the opportunity. Thank you to the school district and the school for supporting the students and the
039teacher to do that. Um this week or the past couple years on fate board of education the number of comments public comment that we get all the time about schools are doing the wrong thing and we need to get back to just arithmetic writing and reading just like the three basics and then I see this presentation and I think how important it is to focus on the well-rounded student. the other things they can get from school, the type of citizens that we want to send out into the community. Um, and the fact that we're hearing students say that um, they felt heard is really important. So, thank you to all the teachers that are supporting that. And again, another um, high pro profile conversation um is our educators and our educators that have so much
040stress on themselves and doing so much in such a high um, stress situation. And so the work that you're doing, Kaylee, around the grants um and the work to support our educators um in this community um just want to um praise the school for supporting that work. Thank you. Yeah, I I agree with all of that. It's the it's so cool to see the kids come back from Washington and they, you know, each have their own perspective of what happened and these are people that are going to, you know, get involved in the communities that they end up in if it's not ours. and and it's just great to see that interaction where they can learn about um how they can help their communities and how they can be a part of things. And I
041always just think that's really cool. Um and I'm thankful to the teachers who go with them because that's not easy to corral. We had zero behavior issues. Well, that's it. Might have said the president, am I retired for this one? It was a really good group. Yeah. And so thankful to Hearts Soul to bring he brought this to us and he's just been so passionate about it that he's really been on it and it's it's been really cool for all the kids. And uh with that I will end the meeting. Thank you. Yeah.