May Budget and Board Meeting 2026 Meeting Recording

001And they better not comment. They get us on here anyway. Good. >> [laughter] >> We have pictures. >> [laughter] >> Oh, there's worse ones than that out there. >> [laughter] >> So, um for you guys uh Betty called this morning or text I guess this afternoon. She's not feeling well, so she's not going to make it. And then Ron had reached out to me 2 weeks ago and had called both of you with the about the time that you got his letter packet in the mail. Oh, you know But you probably wouldn't have opened it then. So, uh but anyways, he's not going to make it either. So, she'll see us next meeting in June. All right, acting chair, you're on. >> [laughter] >> You were the vice chair last year, Kate. Why do I

002get to >> [laughter] >> What? If you call it to order, the first thing you got to do is elect a uh budget committee chairman. So, How did I get this position? >> were vice chair last year. I was your chair? >> [laughter] >> Yeah, so unfortunately it's right here. I don't know what you know what's tonight. I'll call this meeting to order. >> [laughter] >> And what? Then your first order of business is you need to elect a chair. Yep. Unless Unless you want to Unless someone nominates Unless you want to keep your title. >> No, I think you're the best at this. Let's honor on. So, let's open how it's a world famous Open for nominations. >> [laughter] >> Okay. So, I don't have to do it. I'll make a motion that Justin's

003chair. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> We'll let Justin be the new chair. Is there a second? Seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Well done, Kate. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> I nominate Michelle. >> [laughter] >> Second. Second. Okay, Michelle as our vice chair. Let's vote on it first. You got to vote on it first. All in favor? Aye. She passed. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> You want me to go over these minutes? Is that my job? Uh you just have to ask our motion as Because they should have already read We have a motion to approve the minutes from the previous meeting last year. So moved. Second. We second. Thank you. Motion voted and carried. Is that right? Uh well, you got to You call vote. All those in favor? All in favor? Aye. All right. Okay,

004new business. Um so we are um I apologize for this part. It's the rules, so yes, I'm going to read you the budget message that I wrote and it's not short. We have But it does give a summary of the budget and a summary of the budget. So you guys have already read it and you love listening to my melodious voice, so I will read it to you. >> [clears throat] >> The Oakland School District budget message is intended to provide a summary of the proposed budget and how this budget differs from the prior year. In developing this budget, our focus continues to be directly tied to the district's mission. The pandemic is in our rearview mirror. We are still working to fill in the learning gap created by the time away from school. We

005have exceeded our pre-pandemic attendance numbers, and these extra students have helped our funding numbers, but also bring some challenges with being as full as we currently are. The budget is built on an official estimate by the Oregon Department of Education issued in March of 2026. 25-27 biennial budget and state school fund distributions are projected predicted at $11.3 billion state appropriation. Biennial split 49-51, so next year being second year of the biennial, Oakland will receive 51% of the state school fund appropriation. Over the years, Oakland School District has been very conservative in our budgeting process and has been able to build a healthy ending fund balance and reserve. Oregon citizens passed two additional uh school funding sources in 2019, the Student Success Act and the High School Success Act. They were both fully funded this year

006with Oakland's SIA SSA allocation at $711,128. Um that's $27,000 less than before uh 47 more than it was originally allocated by ODE last year. We hired counselors at each school and an on-site mental health instructional assistant and skills trainer to help meet the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of our students. We also hired an additional music and art teacher to expand those programs into the elementary grades. Oak can also benefit greatly from the our high school success funding at 201,722 thousand dollars 7911 more than last year. Our high school success funding has enabled OHS OHS to purchase Chromebooks and other technology as well as built an expansion of our metal and wood shop for our career and technical education program. We also added two storage buildings for our CTE supplies and purchased a sawmill to

007help mill wood wood shop. We are also hoping to move on to the development of a culinary arts CTE program that will also use these funds. All these sources are really allocated. This year's budget is showing the continued effects of our increased enrollment. While many other districts are being forced to cut >> [clears throat] >> cut staff and take furlough days due to decreased enrollment and ESSER fund sunsetting, we are not in that position. While we are being mindful of the future and possible budget issues coming from the state, we are putting that extra money from increased students back into the schools in a variety of ways. Last year we added IA positions at OHS, OMS, and OES. We also added developmental learning classroom DLC at OES. That was one teacher plus two to three

008IAs. A special education program serving students with significant developmental or intellectual disabilities. DLC focuses on life skills, communication development, and foundational skills, pre-academic skills, and academics that are often highly modified while supporting general education participation. This addition has helped ease the burdens on our OES resource room and the staff for balancing an extreme range of service and behavioral needs. This budget does not add any new personnel for next year. We are making another large transfer in the capital improvements in order to continue to try and improve the infrastructure of our facilities. We've improved our softball area, developed extensive in the area behind the bleachers, expanded some paving at the middle school, are completing more sizing projects and are nearly nearly completion of the new middle school gym. With this transfer, we are hoping to add

009bathrooms to the far side of the track, add a safety vest pool to the entryway of OMS, have money to add to the OHS classroom sizing, to update long hall bathrooms as well as lighting at OHS, and continue to add exterior lighting and some more paving to campus. Technology is also getting a large transfer. This will allow a s- allow this will allow us this allows this will allow us to start a rotation of replacing Chromebooks, staff computers that are going out, and upgrading and repairing the you saw in Shelby having in each classroom. We've also adopted social studies curriculum for next year and are keeping on pace with all the scheduled textbook adoptions. These are all the investments into our school uh into our school to continue to offer the best possible educational experience

010we can. Oakland will continue to be conservative in our budget planning without minimizing services to our students staff. It's our goal to preserve our educational system over time to the best of our ability. So, the summary of that, our budget's [clears throat] in great shape, mostly because we have a large number of students. Um we are at a highest uh than we've ever been. I'm not going to say ever, but ever since I've been here. And uh we've taken that extra money and put it back into our facilities. We're able to do that again. Last year, we did a split on adding to our facilities and adding personnel. We added IAs in all the buildings, added the DLC classroom, and so forth. Feel like we're we are stocked really well, we're staffed really well in

011all buildings, so we are not adding any additional staff this year. Um we instead are making a big transfers and we'll talk about that as it has Corey breaks it through those two our budget presentation. We're adding money into technology so we can get on a rotation, catch up a little bit and get on a rotation. We made big purchases in our Chromebooks, ViewSonics, all of that technology right before started right before COVID hit and then continued on through COVID and so those Chromebooks are aging out, some of those teacher ViewBoards are aging out, ViewSonics are having some problems, so we need to get on a rotation to start upgrading those, so put the extra money in the technology. And I'd say this year I won't say it could be our last, we're hoping for

012one more year that we can do one last big transfer into facilities and continue our capital projects. We're we really are well over the halfway point, minus even with the seismics we're over halfway, but trying to wrap up those last little projects and how to get the um the uh buildings dialed in for our uh future for the next 75 years before we're finished with the buildings, yeah. Uh we are curving. We're not looking to grow, we're not trying to grow. Um we have eight of our 13 grade levels are closed right now. We'll reopen all of those cuz we have to by law reopen them all to start next year, but some of those might be closed even before the school year starts, so we're monitoring those grade levels close. Um I guess one

013thing that did make the budget message, we did add right at the end of the year summer last year, we got our numbers on our two grade two and three were very were both right at 60 and so that was four boxes of 30, so we added a two-three, we were able to hire a two-three teacher um and do a blend, but um I think we had 18 kids in there, so we were able to pull almost five kids out of each classroom, so drop those numbers down to more acceptable. A blend brings a different set of um challenges um but we were able to get through there. A couple of hiccups early but for the most part made made the building really well. At this point and this budget it feels keeping that percentage

014teaching is moving up to 34% or actually Um so with that I'll hand it over to Corey. She'll go through her um presentation. I have a couple of things to add as we go along but that's the highlights of it. So I put a new presentation on your space in front of you because if you're like my dad he wants to be able to see it up close but sometimes the screen can't be seen. Um so first thing I want to go over is move this one I can't see too well. There. Okay. Okay. Budget Committee roles and responsibilities. So again the Budget Committee's job is to receive the budget budget message and the budget document. Provide members of the public the opportunity to ask questions and comment upon the budget and the document. Approve

015the budget document and refers it to the school board for adoption. And the Budget Committee can make changes to any line item in the budget to meet the goals and programs outlined. But the Budget Committee cannot change rules on staffing levels, salary schedules that are negotiated contracts. So no personal changes. Um there is a correction to your budget um on page 69. After I had printed it I realized that um interfund transfer should read 100,000 and resources and beginning fund balance should read 60. That would be in your textbook. It's not in the fund 207. It does not change um the grand total for revenue in that fund it just moves it. Um on. So, I just always put this out here for you guys to remind you the differences between the funds from the

016state. Always 100 is general fund and accounts for the fiscal resources and expenditures of the district are not legally contracted required to report to a separate fund. Like food services 299, federal is 201. General fund is what makes the school function. That is always what general fund is. Um special revenue funds, which is where you see a majority of our transfers go, support services for students and initiatives that fall outside the scope of the general operations. These funds are designated to manage federal and state and local resources, which is why it has all the interfund transfers allocated for special purposes. So, once they go in the 200, we can't take them back out and put them in 100. It's in its own little nesty spot. Um the debt service for our fund 300 accounts for

017the accumulation of resources and payments of general long-term debt principal and interest. That's where our bond payment comes out. Um let's see. Capital funds 400, that's a Jess's favorite right now. Um is the accounting of fiscal resources used to acquire and construct major capital facilities projects. So, we put that's why we put so much in there because there's so much that is being worked on at the moment. Uh 600 is our internal service funds. That is going to be our Oakland's unemployment fund. We keep that separate as per ODE guidelines so that if we have staff that leave or go on summer break and they get unemployment, it's in its own separate thing. It's not part of general fund. Um and then our trust fund 700 is going to be our scholarship fund where we

018have been entrusted with funds from other people to give out the scholarships and we hold them. We don't want to have them in general fund in a special revenue fund. They actually have to be in a trust fiduciary fund, which according to OGE is 700 funds. What's noteworthy fund 100 general fund as continuing for the last 3 years in our budget cycle, our planned contingency and reserve are each at $500,000, meaning that if we spent everything down to the penny in our budget, there would be $1 million left over for next year. We always want to keep the minimum around $1 million because we are a large school. That's like you have 3 months of payroll covered in that. On grant funds, our 204 our major funds that are budgeted are title one IDEA um

019then we have high school success, student success act. All of Jeff's lovely seismic grants are all in fund 204. So, everything is separate over in that fund. Technology fund is our transfer is going to have 75,000 transferred to start the rotation of replacing technology equipment, which is you're going to notice in our if you read your budget, it goes from $10,000 to $75,000 because there's so much stuff that needs to get moving every single year and that's a large bump for us, but there is money there. Uh building improvements for the 400 as Jeff already said, we're doing 550,000 transferred budget to accommodate the goals of having the long-term facility plan in place. Our budgeted funds for this next coming year is going to be our general fund at 12,488,100. Our special revenue funds, which

020is all the 200 funds where we have allocated and set aside money for these certain things, is going to be 10,7 740,000, 740,000. Wow. Uh 104 our debt service fund, which is our bond payment is going to be 449,000 567. Our capital improvement fund is going to be uh 2,015,000. So, I split those out so that you could see. Those numbers might actually be higher than what higher here than what is going to have to be in that fund because we're kind of waiting the bond is done. The building is up. We're just waiting on payments to come out or the invoices to come to us so we can get them out. So, we have 100 and 1,550 560,000 for capital projects and 455,000 of bond proceeds. That is all that is left in the

021bond proceeds. We have done really well this last year getting stuff sent out. Um unemployment fund is at 270,000 and our scholarship fund is at 502,794. Just a very large number. That's mostly due to that last scholarship we got 2 years ago from the parent memorial fund. twice twice Maybe two times. >> years? three years >> and those are 40 not 40,000 bucks. So, it's going down, but we have to have that spent in a that's about a time. So, that's why that looks so big. Cuz unfortunately, we can't spend it fast enough. It's growing interest and it's that we're working on. It grows about 10,000 dollars interest a year. >> [clears throat] >> Um general revenue breakout, which is our next page is our general fund. So, state school fund is our amount that

022we get from the state. Um it's 7.5 million dollars, which make up 53.6% of our general fund. Most of our funding comes straight from the state for general fund. Our beginning fund balance is 2.45 and that is 1.17.5% which is a pretty good beginning fund balance. And our taxes that are coming in locally is at 1.9 million. So, we have quite a bit of revenue coming in, but you'll see we've got quite a bit of of money going out. Um just on this for the state school fund just to touch on this, I put this together. This is the state school fund um formula whereas, you know, we say we have so many students in our school. Um and you'll see this graph you'll have an AMDR and an AMDW. So, what that means is

023AMDR is your real butts in seats versus AMDW which is your weighted. So, your weighted is your average daily membership adjusted to if you've got students with disabilities, if you've got English second learners, if you've got high poverty where it's um sped students that is where that weighted comes in because each student has different weights to them. Um so, you'll see that we've got six What did we say? 600 and 660 yeah. 660 is this year, but you can see that number up here in the AMDW is way higher up here at 853. So, we get paid for that. We estimate every single year though based on 600 students. If things fluctuate, things go wrong, our budget is based on real AMDR 600 students in seats which would be weighted 774. So, where we're at

024really and where we budget is very conservatively knowing if something is to happen we're covered. When we do that build on 600, we've been we've been staying at 600 for quite some time, obviously the year when we dipped down to 5 50, whatever that right over 550 when COVID COVID we uh um I had to adjust, had to make major cuts cuz we were in so low students. So, because we rose above that again, we stayed right at 600. That's that conservative budgeting number. If we if we if we end next year as high as we are, we'll probably adjust that number up and start even still being conservative but start building on say 620, maybe 625. We like to build it about 30 students under what we project because every year, at the end

025of the year, we have 25 to 30 kids that go. We don't know they're going, they just leave for various reasons. It's just we've also had 35 to 40 coming in from other places. So, that's why we budget on that 600 number. And at the end of the year, it's the students your state school fund ends up being the students that are in seats that last day. So, you could have had 60 kids in class all year long, you lose 25, they're going to give the less number of that. Then, 2 years later when they rectify and go back and do all of their number work and say, "Hey, you had 25 less students. We're going to give you a negative state school fund adjustment and we're going to take that money back 2 years

026later." So, we don't ever want to be in that position, so that's why we budget the way we do so that if something is to happen, I don't want a negative school adjustment. It's scary. I've seen some that have just bit themselves and it's scary. Um Ah, expenditures. I love this. So, this is our general fund expenditure based on that um 12,488,100. So, this is how it is broken up. You You see instruction is at 6.2 million and your support services at 4. Um just a reminder that instructions are the 1,000 fund. Any of those teachers, staff, IAs that are in the classroom with the kids. It also covers their textbooks, any supplies needed in the classrooms, any maintenance that's done at that building. Um for not maintenance that's done at the building, but maintenance

027that's done to like their tables or their chairs or their things like that is stuck in that instruction. So we spend half of our budget on anything that physically goes to the kids. Which I think is a great number. But I will also mention that in support services, that is your administration. So your principals, your superintendent, your counselors, transportation, tech, admin, office. So that's a lot. So if you look at the next page, it breaks it down to our salaries and benefits, supplies and material. So I I like to give I know this is fast and a lot of craziness to give you guys. But I like to tell you we're we're spending half of our budget on instruction. And with that, half of that budget is salaries and associated payroll cost, salaries and benefits.

028So this breaks it down by object, which I think is actually fascinating when you see we don't spend a lot and your transfers are not a lot. Your capital outlay is not a lot. But salaries and benefits, which is why the state school fund is so high, makes up the majority of your costs. With salaries and benefits, we are spending this coming year 5.4 million dollars on salaries and 3.2 million on benefits for a total of 8.6 Um and that which means your personal costs account for 69% of your total general fund. Most typical places are spending way more than that, and that's why a lot of places are seeing a lot of cuts. The reason why um they're seeing that is because they've been they went through ESSER, and they said, "Oh, we have

029all these people." And then, when ESSER went away, they went, "Oh, we can't really cut people. We're going to put them in general fund." Now, they're losing students, and they're having to make all these changes and cuts and furlough days. Um, personal costs, yes, account for 69% of the total general fund budget expenditures. That includes salaries, admin, licensed, classified, and any extra duty contracts. Um, also includes PERS, which always this next year was set to go up 2%, which is not bad because I've seen some years that they go up to eight. Um, workers' comp, FICA, insurance, opt-out, and I didn't put it in here. I probably should. Um, paid family medical leave that we pay. That the district pays for on behalf of the employees. Um, the positions are funded that are funded in

030both general fund and special revenue. So, if we have staff that are funded in grants, we also fund them in general fund. That way, if that staff member has something happen and they go out on leave, we have the replacement covered in general fund, and it doesn't make a big drop in our cost. Um, steps and COLA for the third year of our current bargaining unit in for licensed and classified, that is the only increases and changes we are seeing in our budget this year. This is the third year, so we will be negotiating this spring. Most likely in April. Don't tell me that I'm not ready yet. Let's get through this first. Yeah, sorry. Uh, [clears throat] purchased services account for 7% of our total budget at 873,700. Um, our purchased service percentage has

031stayed even for the last three fiscal years, which is just impressive to me. That includes travel trainings, audits, copier leases, um the utilities, electrical, water, fuel. I know you guys we got rid of a boiler um and went to all of the HVACs and things and heaters and stuff and that is actually seeing a lot decrease in a lot of our fuel consumption, so that's pretty great. Um postage keeps going up, legal services keeps going up, but it still stayed at 7%. Supplies and materials account for 3% of our total budget at 407,500. Um so they've stayed the same from last year and this year. However, I did um add for the total amount of the budget is about 50,000 more than last year anticipating the possible upgrades for classrooms and additional supplies for the

032gym, which Jeff said we're going to spend a bit on the gym today when I was talking to you about it. Consumables and non-consumable consumable supplies for the classrooms, office supplies, textbooks, library, computers, computer software. And when it says computer software and hardware, that does not include what is in the 220 fund for technology. This is just classroom things for the classroom, not the computers for the teachers, but technology like that. Only maintenance supplies for the year. We love maintenance. They keep us going. Um other objects account for 3% of the total budget, which is 330,975. That includes dues and fees, capital outlay, our general liability insurance costs. So general liability through PAYS is estimated to go up about 13% this year. I was just talking to our insurance people and they are looking at

033around 11.5 to 12.5, so 13 is just in case it goes up more because numbers are not always set right now. Um fund transfers um account for 10% of our total budget and that is up 3% from last year. So, it's a total of uh 1,190,000. We are transferring 200 into the 202 fund 300,000 into the 205 fund, which is our textbook fund, 100,000. Um in the 206 retiree fund, 25,000. 217 in the trans in the transportation fund is 75,000. That covers our payments on our buses that were leased from prior years. Um 220 technology fund, as we already said, is going to be 75,000. Our food service transfer is going to be 65,000 and our capital fund is 550,000. I'd say just looking at these transfers as a whole, just a couple of uh

034reference points for you. Athletic fund, that's 25,000 more than we put in there last year. As the year referees cost go up, um travel costs go up, all those things. Um textbooks about the same. We we've stuck on 100,000 and been able to do that. So, we're always adopting what we need for next year and going into next year. So, we're always staying ahead of that. So, we're really funding for next for the year after's adoption, which we'll do next spring. So, that's staying pretty flat. Retiree fund, that's our early retirement people, right? That's so, that's a contractual thing and we're down we're that that's going to go away at some point because we we're going to age out all of our early retirees. We don't have very many left. Um that have that because

035we we got rid of that away 8 years ago, but there's a few people that are grandfathered in. I think there's maybe three or four left, three left. And is there anybody that's on that right now? Yes. So, we have a couple that are kind of going through their years. Then we have three left that haven't taken it yet. So, it's it's definitely going to go down. Um but that has went down cuz when we were first doing it, we had a lot more people in there. Um transportation, we de- decreased that a little bit from last year. Um Um 75,000 is a little less. We bought the two buses. Um but when we did that, we also So last year we bought Last year or the year before, last year we bought the two

036new buses and a mini bus. So we also traded in two off of our lease, so that decreased our lease payment. Uh we're in about year seven of our leases, I think. >> Seven on one, eight on the other. Three two three years left of those leases and then at that point, we'll have to decide where we at. We'll own the buses. So do we want to, which I would probably recommend starting to look at maybe taking our worst one and getting rid of it and getting started thinking about adding some new ones in. Our bus fleet as a whole is really solid right now. Minus the DEF issues that we have with them, which I everybody with the diesel generates those issues. Um it has Luckily, we stopped hearing the noise about forcing us

037to go to battery buses and all the electric buses. Those of that noise has went down. Um doesn't mean it's going away and so forth, but we're doing well there. We um I'll drop a little there. Technology, we've already talked about increasing them so we can get those up. Change overs and how to get that into a rotation of probably three to four years and we should be able to turn over all of our Chromebooks, get all of our student use on it up and running correctly and um turn over our teacher computers again. So we try to do that about every six to eight years. They tend to age out. So um we're in that rotation of getting fresh um getting those things out. Um our food service one, that's a hard one. That's

038$25,000 more um and that's going to that's not going to go down. Um that's going to probably continue to go up each year. Part of that staffing, we did um had to add another person in there. Um and we're in the CEP for four more years, which means we're giving free lunch K-12, which is awesome, but that runs in the red. That does They do not They put us in the program, we connect to the program, but they do not reimburse us at the level that the costs are. So, we When you're in that CEP program, you're going to run in the red, which we are. So, we had to add that 25,000. It's a small price to pay for feeding all of our kids. And And it has increased the numbers, which is why

039we had to add staffing cuz it's increased the kids eating. I couldn't tell you the number off the top of my head, but I'd say it's probably close to 400 kids a day eating lunch and breakfast. So, it's a very big big increase in that. And then the capital fund, like I said, um that's what we're just going to like to do that again the next year and hopefully we get one more year out of that. I think he'll be in great shape with the capital. And the next one is questions. You want to talk about budget number two? That's your uh compared scholarship Do you have to spend the interest, too, or just the principal? Uh well, I think the If we read If we read right through it, it's really the principal has

040to be spent. I think in the nature of how we're doing it, I think what our approaches been is what the most realistic uh approaches. We're going to try in the 10 years, like he wished, to spend the $500,000. At the end of that, we're probably going to have another hundred-ish or whatever in interest. I feel like it's a we're we're meeting his wishes and getting his principal spent in 10 years. We will have the interest and probably add another two or three years onto the scholarship on the back end. So, we're not going to continue to raise it. Um I think we're on a path to have it all all of it spent in 10 years, and then the interest that's made on that we'll just tack on another year or two to it.

041And I don't I don't I don't I don't foresee any that I I kind of spoke briefly with Dan about that before he passed and he was for that, so that makes sense. So that's what I'm going with. Now, isn't that going to be a rush that extra money was Yeah, 10 years and I think we can get that one. So, be another two or three years. The money should have been state funded. Money's coming in but I would Is that pretty much set in stone set in stone or >> It is It is for next year. Uh they we went through So, when they passed the biennium, they do do it on a two-year basis until their long session, which was the study of for winter I guess before last when they went through

042that. They approved the state school fund for 2 years. We got the 49%. They kicked around reducing that the second half of that but they chose not to. So, we're getting the whole 51% this year. So, we know that's set in stone. The probable problem but the the next time that they could reduce it would be next next January, February, March in that long session they'll basically do a whole new budget. So, at that point we'll get the next 2 years totals and they'll determine. They're going to have a hard They're in that quandary to beat this same horse but they're in that same quandary now. They're fighting about only don't have a long enough school year. They want a longer school year. We're tight on money. We need to reduce the school funds. You

043can't lengthen the school year and reduce the funds. So, they're going to have to answer some hard questions for themselves pretty quickly. So, I early anticipations, I doubt it'll drop below 11.3 again but if it doesn't if it doesn't increase some our overall costs are going to get us. Cost of fuel, cost of and we're still going to negotiate with both uh um unions next spring. I will say that I think we did a fantastic job at the last negotiation of getting our classified up to where they more so where they needed to be and we did certified too. Kind of got them so it's kind of big raises last time. I would anticipate that not being the case next year. Not saying they're not going to give them what they deserve and how the

044negotiations go, but I think that'll probably be a little more in step with kind of what the market is doing. So. And we are tail end negotiating because there's a lot of people that are negotiating right now, which is a tough hard time to be negotiating with a lot of uncertainty. So, I think the bar is being set a little bit lower. You know with the special needs kids, is there extra weight added to them? Is that covered the active cost? No. It helps. So, basically that and that's the other So, OSBA and COSA have got together and we just met last week as a group of soups and we two meetings ago and in the last meeting we solidified it what we we as the superintendents around the state wanted our focus of COSA

045and OSBA as they go into the um uh into the next long session as they're starting to lobby with with the legislators on where that money needs to come from. The number one thing aside from continuing to raise the state school fund is to raise that special ed cap. It's capped at 11% right now. >> Mhm. It's capped at 11%. So, that means if we have 11% of our kids are sped kids, then we get paid that extra weight on 11. If we have 16% sped kids, which is about where we're running right now, I think we're right at 16.something. So, those extra 5% we are not getting weighted for, yet they come with the same expense. So, COSA and OSBA's focus and we've said that, "Hey, that's killing us. You you have to fix

046that." And they were really close last time until that last at the last session, the last um uh funding forecast came in low and so they bailed on it because they were about to raise it. So, if they raise that, that would be very helpful. We're doing okay. We added the DLC classroom, and that has helped. Um, and we've really worked the model of trying to get them um in general ed as much as we can without disrupting general ed too much for either them or for the other students. And so, the DLC has helped with that. So, does it cover it? No, but it's it's not really hamstringing us too much right now. They have a pretty good balance still. It was that's basically 16%. Is that typical for Douglas County? Uh, I'd say

047we're in the mid mid to lowish, I'd say. County average is probably 18-ish. We're at 16, so Um, unfort- Unfortunately, one of the obstacles that we run into as we get in our district kids, we can't That's not a question we can ask. We have to take them no matter what their disabilities are or whatever. So, sometimes when they come in, that becomes problematic. problematic in the sense of we're not ready to fund that or we don't have the facilities. We Generally, we do with the super high high needs kids cuz there's there's there's two sets sets of sped funding. There's a cap on your your sped kids, and then there's also the high cost disability, which once you get to a certain threshold of dollars that you spend on a kid, like if you

048have to have a one-on-one aide or you have to have um if we were to place a kid in in a treatment treatment up in Eugene, we had to either pay Well, we had to pay tuition to that and/or drive them back and forth every day. Once you get over $30,000 to spend on that kid, and they State School funding, you get roughly $10,000 a kid plus a little bit of a bump for the waiting, but so, once you get over 30,000, you can get reimbursed for some of that high cost disability. They're talking about trying to raise that cap as well. For us, we haven't had anyone that's hit into that realm. last few years. Doesn't mean they're not out there and it doesn't mean they might show up, but So. Any other questions?

049That's it? That's my next thing. And then there's the new discussion rate. Uh that's well, that's the end of the presentation. If you guys think we didn't answer your questions, so you guys have any discussions or concerns or questions. >> [clears throat] >> Discussion. It's worth making a comment. >> [clears throat] >> You guys are sitting in a pretty good position for a budget committee. This is not the position most districts are sitting in right now. Most districts have just been presented a budget where there's a 20% reduction in staff or we, you know, chopping $30 million out of our budget. Doesn't mean that it won't come at a later time like in future years, but we're in really good shape and we are in good shape for one reason and one reason only. Well,

050not only, but because we have a lot of kids. >> of kids. But we also there's we have to get credit to we have always budgeted conservatively and we have made sure that we're spending money where we need to, we're putting money in the classroom, we're spending money on kids and and I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating. It has came at the cost of our facilities in those in those weak years, so we are trying to make up for that in the short window that we have to do it and I plan to continue to do that um at your guys's, you know, with your guys's support um to continue to do that while we can because that window will not be open for very long. So. Uh but that's why

051we're winning. So, the capital improvements for in this budget are primarily related to the high school. The ones that are coming in for next year? Right now our plans around capital improvements are we're doing the high school seismic so we are ready to fund that and that is we know that that is going to at minimum cost us at a minimum of about 250 to fund the bathrooms cuz that's not going to be part of the seismic and to do the lighting while we're doing it. Those two things. We also >> [clears throat] >> the gym floor is coming out of this budget, correct? I budgeted in that one cuz I wasn't sure if we'd get the invoice by then. >> So we know that we're we're redoing the gym floor, high school gym floor

052as the final piece of the seismic on it cuz we're doing phase two of that seismic this summer and we know that gym floor was going to come in about 130,000 over what the seismic grant was. So 130 of it is for that, about 250-ish is for that and then we still have hopes to get bathrooms on the other side of the bleachers and kind of finish that project. Safety vestibule and the entryway in Lincoln and we're looking at doing kind of a storefront instead of a full-blown thing so we think that's going to be a little bit more cost-effective and then um and then a couple other smaller projects that we're hoping to get done and then starting with the exterior lighting coming forward. We took essentially the 250-ish out of our capital from

053this year to do that parking lot to work having it so that is going to come out of this one. But it sends our capital one down not not below. We try to keep our capital fund at 300,000 at a minimum. We always want to start the year at 300,000 so if our boiler goes bad or any track unit goes down or whatever we have that set and so it's put us I think we're at 5 500 or so. So it sent it down but we felt like we had it to do it and they were already doing a jump foot so this is the time. So, those are the projects that we have in for kind of on tap for next year. We're talking with facilities. Facilities is coming up with some other ideas,

054but I will say we're not we're not looking for extravagant things. We're just our plan is to try and get it dialed in as best we can. Possibly the two other projects that have have been discussed as possibilities um turning over the lower field uh below the OES to um OYB in it. In order to do that, we would need to take the playground under the swings and stuff, pull all those chips out, and pave that so we could so we have a solid surface that's wet for the kids to play on and do recess on. So, that would be one. That'd be a little more cost-effective than say the parking lot cuz it can be a much thinner uh it's not a drive-on asphalt, so it can be much thinner and more cost-effective. And

055then um I just lost it. There was two of them. That one and and another one. There is a large um amount in the incoming money and it for the miscellaneous and the um capital improvement and that is for if we sell uh the strip mall. Thank you. Um the other one was the we've talked about trying to increase not that we have a lot of space, but add some paving at the high school um between the baseball field fence and where the parking is, there's that maybe 15-ft strip that goes the whole way. Possibly looking at paving that. It'd add another row of parking spaces on non-baseball game days, but um and if you happen to come up today cuz you're at the career fair, saw that we had both made our kids pull

056all their cars up on that area so we'd have room for all the other cars coming up. It's really the only place we have left to pave. We might if we did that, we would probably explore cost of paving that chunk right across from on Spruce when you come up high school hill and take a left or take a left to go to OES, that part on the left. Paving that. Problem with paving that is, when you really look to pave it, it's right to the goalie, so what they would allow us to pave it and not have to reinforce that hill would be this morning. So, that's really where our capital is at this point. It just ends. And say you don't do a little bit for the OES side there, cuz if that

057comes back in one grant, we will be over. They continue to fund seismics at 2.5, which they they're starting to talk about it, so that means it'll be at least three legislative sessions before they get around to it to raise it. So, like 2.5 is just not covering it's the bare bare minimum, and and I mean, when they're in the seismic, it's like doing the bathrooms up there, doing the lighting, it's the time to do it. You got the subs in, they're already there, you don't got paying mobilization fees and all those things, but it's still over what costs, so Your raw materials That's the minimum change stuff now. Yeah. Yeah. It's time to do the plumbing, time to do the electrical, time to do whatever changes you feel, so Raw material costs are so

058high that there's no way that 2.5 is going to cover anything. Yeah. And I guess uh um so yes, yesterday, yeah, yesterday. Yesterday we had the um water heater blow out in the attic above the science room, so got to school yesterday morning at 6:00 and the bathroom was flooding, it was a flooded, but it was there was water running out of the ceiling for a long period of time. So, we hadn't really planned on doing a whole lot in there, we had to do some of the exterior wall with the cabinets, so this will probably change it a little bit. We'll have some insurance money that we know is going to come in to replace some cabinets, so that might be the time to also look at the if we can for an extra

059X number of dollars, this might be a good time to revamp the back end of that science room, get some mobile cabinetry, kind of updated and upgraded. That's what we had planned on doing as part of the seismic, much like down here when that happened. Obviously, that was on a much much bigger scale, but but it might be time to do that. So, that too might cost us a little bit. We might throw some money in the supplement the insurance money to do that as well. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Have you ever especially, okay. Yes, Kay. Have we ever thought about now that have we ever thought about selling the property to the west of Washington school? Oh, the strip mall? That's what you're talking about? Yes. Yes, it is actually for sale. That's

060on our budget. We've already talked to talked to the realtor. That's on our agenda for the board meeting tonight. We already We've already surplussed it and have it ready to go for sale tonight. We're going to hammer out the final details and get it for sale. Okay. Would you remind me where that money goes? Like, you sold that mall field. Yeah. So, when we did that, we took that money and put it in the capital and then pushed it right into it. It is basically the parking lot. And that's what we do the same thing with the strip mall. We put that right in the capital and then if two if we sold the strip mall, we put it in the capital and that's what we would We would essentially just take that and flow

061it right through into a project. Your brother wouldn't buy that for you, but my neighbor down the road did. Yeah. I tried to. I'm still working on on leaning on him on the strip mall. There's little kids all over that field tonight. That couldn't have worked out better. That couldn't have been better. That was awesome. Big win for them for the community and for us. Yeah. No, that has worked out really well on there. I think that they're um going to be really They really really wanted to other things down there as far as like do we do we need to put bleachers down here for people to sit? Do we need to plant trees for shade? Do we need more drainage to you know what I mean? So Right. Positive. Yeah, for all we

062need. I've no way of saying that. On that note, if you guys are happy with it, you would be able [clears throat] to make a motion and to pass the budget if you choose. If you do do that It's in front of you. If you decide that you're going to go and want to go to a second meeting, those other part of motion is on that. I move to approve the open school district proposed budget with presented updates for the 2026-2027 fiscal year ending June 30th, 2027 in the amount of $23,977 $771 and unappropriated ending fund balance across funds totaling $2,488 $50 for a total budget of $26,465,821. dollars. I also move to approve the taxes provided for the proposed budget of a permanent tax rate of $4.6397 per 1,000 of assessed value for the

063general fund operations. I'll second that. And Was there any favor? I ask for discussion. >> Discussion. Is there any discussion on the motion? Discussion? Was there any favor? >> [clears throat and cough] >> I. Okay, the motion to approve budget is passed. Do we want to also call it in for the next meeting? If you pass it, we don't need a next meeting. I guess if we did not >> That's it. We did not. Yeah. All right. Thank you guys again. There's only three of you voting committee members here today, but thank you guys for your services. If you chose to or are willing to serve again, we'd love to have you. If not, if you let me know in the next couple of weeks or so you position possible that we would like to

064continue on. If you could just let us know that that's possible. Thank you, Joel. Yes. Thank you, Corey. Thank you, Corey. I used to do a lot of talking. >> [laughter] >> I heard. All right. >> [laughter] >> Thank you, guys. Thank you. Yeah. [clears throat] I'll see you later. >> Mhm. >> What happens if you put out somebody takes somebody crazy? >> [laughter] >> I call to order this meeting of the Oregon open school board Wednesday May 13th 7:00. Please join me first in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America [clears throat] and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty [clears throat] and justice for all. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Oh, looks like we got our students

065here today. Awards, recognition, correspondence. Uh teacher appreciation week uh not for the problem recognized throughout the week for variety of some things. Church of Christ came up and brought made one one time Wednesday. Another one brought donuts district wide on Thursday. Building a variety of things going on for them so that day. Ended the week feeling appreciated. Yeah, just going right on this we liked it. Already going on and tell them that same Uh adjustments to the agenda. I don't know. I say we could scratch our action item unless well, let's just leave it at that. Okay. Go to our discussion. Any public comment on non-agenda items? Hearing none, we shall move on. Our consent agenda which consists of the minutes from April 2026 as well as the HR report. Any questions from you? Entertain

066I make a motion that we accept the consent agenda. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. Um, any discussion? I believe I thought somewhere in here it was a minor thing. It maybe said that you're going to add 88 parking spaces instead of what I'm assuming is 38. [clears throat] But now I can't find it because I didn't highlight it. It would have been handy. Okay. Uh, if it's if it's on there, I don't know what it is. If it's on the bond one, yes, 38. 80 is the other parking lot that I was looking at. Yeah, I figured this is just a motion. Um, that's all I have. I don't know if any other second. I asked her I asked her to put that in there incorrectly to see if you

067guys were actually reading. No, this is You did. Uh, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed? Hearing none, that's uh, the consent agenda passes and we'll move on to the fiscal overview. You guys aren't listening to me talk yet? No. Uh, so this is our year big um, for April of the this last month, which is the year on a bi-weekly. Everything looks great. We are on track and our revenue is coming in strong and our expenditures are staying right where we were really wanting them to be and it looks like we'll end with a fairly clean ending balance. Yes. Any question or any questions on the check? That's my favorite. If my brain works. Just cuz I'm not used to it, but there's a two different times checks to

068the textbook depository. Is that just cuz one textbook came earlier and later or Middle school, high school, elementary. One was for middle school and one was for the high school. High school. When we adopt textbooks, we do it but I mean we come together as a group. But every team will decide what we're going to adopt. We don't always go with the same publisher, but we don't necessarily always do it depending on what the standards are and so forth. But when we do determine what we're going to do, they go back to their buildings and they order for their building. So they don't always do it at the same pace and it comes from a different company. They come at different times. But that way it's all within that one of of middle school, high

069school, elementary. Anyone else have any questions for the board? Sure, I want to check something. All right. Thank you. Uh reports and discussions. Up first our student body report. Hi. As you guys all know, I'm tired and last school board for me. I'm going to cry. You're supposed to be like sad and crying. >> [laughter] >> Okay, bye. I don't So, good evening. Um this past week our softball teams have been continuing with their big win streak from right after their Pendleton trip. They earned their league title and ended up undefeated with a their own league for the season. Then this past Friday they had their senior night and we recognized three seniors, Maddie Del Bertie, Avery Case, and Kelsey Pa. And our baseball team, they've had a rough season this year with their main

070focus being to be able to grow as team rather but then focusing on the number of wins that they had. Which overall is a better thing to look at seeing as they've grown as a team according to our senior Andrew Mason who was recognized tonight at baseball senior night. Then moving on, we have our last senior night of school year and we're honoring Marley Woodward for track senior night. And throughout the season they've been on their own PRs and they've grown throughout the season as all of our sports have within this year. And we wish all of our sports good luck as they finish out their seasons and hopefully they'll qualify for state. Then moving on to FFA, we had just posted our 61st awards banquet where we recognized multiple students within their various project

071areas and honored eight 2026 degree state degree recipients as well as our chapter and green hand degrees recipients as well. Then we proceeded to recognize our seniors within the chapter by bestowing them their graduation cords. And then we heard our senior officers, Colby Chenoweth, uh K Seven, and Emma Wingfield's retiring addresses. And then we ended off the banquet with our newly elected officers. Then this past month we've been putting together our leadership team has been putting together a talent show. We held auditions just last Thursday and we'll host our talent show later this month. I'm not too sure of what the date that will be, but we're hoping to both to boost morale and encourage our students to finish off this year strong. And with NHS, we're continuing our work throughout the backpack program every

072Thursday right before lunch, students go into the student council room and put together packs for students to be able to take home to their families and work with the food that we've given them. And also, we've been working to plan out our the citywide garage sale that we're going to and we're helping sell off all the school's old desks and filing cabinets and all that. So, hopefully with that we're able to meet our NHS membership dues. Then also, adding in senior stuff. Today, we did our career fair fair for ninth through 11th graders. And then, while that was happening, our seniors did their senior presentations. But then, for groups, uh with the group I was in, uh all of our presentations ended up pretty well. We all all of grown throughout the year within our

073senior projects and it'll but like all of our senior projects, it'll hopefully lead us all into success after high school. Then lastly, with our after school program, it's centered around being outdoors and building skills in many different areas, kind of like how we were last week, or not last week, last month. And that's all I have today. For my last board meeting. >> Well, thank you. Thank you again. Thank you for all your reports that you shared. Appreciate it. And then, good luck wherever you're headed next. Thank you. Hold you to that. Well, actually performing today via satellite so bear with me and show up today. >> [laughter] >> Good evening board members. My name is Wendy Jimenez and I'm a sixth sixth grader uh on our leadership team. Life at Lincoln has been a

074whirlwind of activities. We have finished our ELA state assessments and will transition into our science test this week for the fifth and eighth graders in math will follow. We have been working hard in all our classes to prepare. Next, our track season has just finished. Last weekend was the district meet. Our boys team placed first. We had lots of top eight finishers and a few first place finish finishes. Ronnie Woodruff won the district championship in the 800 meter run and the long run. His 17 foot and a half jump also set the new middle school record. Overall, it was a great season. Leadership is in the middle of hosting the third annual spring Olympics. We are about a halfway done and it is a close competition. The seventh grade is currently in the lead but

075that could change it. The winners will be announced June 1st. Also, as you all know, we are we're finally able to get our new gym yesterday and the students are very excited. And for PE classes, we will get to start using the gym next Monday. Thank you for your time now hearing me. Hello, my name is Wendy Jimenez. I'm a fifth grader. Yeah, a lot of fun is coming up at OMS. Tomorrow, the seventh grade is going on their annual volcano field trip to Bend. We are also going to be gone all day but it should be a lot of fun. Next, the eighth grade went up to the high school for work habits for their classes next year on Monday. And next Monday, we have have our freshman orientation night at the high school.

076They are very excited. Also, our drama performance of Beauty and the Beast is on May 28th. I hope you all can come and see their performance. They've been working very hard. Then, on June 4th, leadership is hosting a seventh grade apron neon dance in fifth and sixth under the sea movie night. Lastly, on June 10th, LOMS is hosting the eighth grade promotion where we will say goodbye to all our eighth graders. Then, June 11th will be a and an exciting field day for the rest of the students. In conclusion, life at OMS has been very exciting exciting and we've been looking forward to finishing the year strong. Thank you for having us this evening. Have a Have a good night. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Thank you all and by all means, you're always

077welcome to stay for the meeting, but we understand if you >> [laughter] >> All right, you too. Thank you. We have our principal and counselor reports in our packets. Anyone has any questions for our principals? Do the multiple children do this? May I add in one thing? Maybe maybe two. >> Sure. One, thank you for the for joining us today for senior projects in our career day. I think it was a great day. Yeah, yeah, It was a great day. Um and we are finished with state testing at high school. And then finally, in the awards I should We should talk about this, but I wanted to recognize Johanna Holm. We all nominated Johanna as the Sorry. Um as the Sutherland First Citizens Teacher of the Year. So, they had a First Citizens banquet last

078Saturday and I think it's the second year in a row that they've been invited or extended over to recognize an educator of the year. So, the honor was ours this year and she and I went and like nice evening so she showed up he was well. That's right. Thank you. I didn't hear anything it's I mean they're kind of our citizen group is kind of followed after Rotary and included Oakland in that so they had a massive there. Last year was our first year we did it. George Washington medal mention last year and then I helped them in high school. Sure. And When do you get results from which test? We get the preliminary that are not we can't share them with the public yet, but we get them almost immediately on some of the

079tests. Then the the ELA tests where they're going to write those it's the performance tasks those take a little bit longer and so they kind of give you a plus and minus. At the end of the school year is generally when we get the test results we can share. The limit there we we need to be looking. >> [laughter] >> They look very good. Good. Yes, but there's jump from last year on the ELA. Just what I'm seeing. Yeah, so but it's preliminary and I'm not Okay. But the green bubble is bigger. >> [laughter] >> Good. Green is good. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Um [clears throat] the custodial maintenance report also in your packet. I think I think has anyone questions regarding that? I ask you to say that again. I mentioned

080it last night and I know most of you guys were there that shout out to the custodial staff because or maintenance and custodial because they're they get rocked their world for years with all of these projects have been done. So on a day like yesterday when they're trying to get everything ready for yesterday morning and last night and oh by the way, you know, we have a flooding classroom here. They did everything off balance and then they go. So, they did a really good work and we're planning for their similar summer projects, which are different than normal because the high school's off and high school's off and that's and so elementary for the first four weeks of summer school is out as well. So, they'll spend their time down here and get things going and

081then pop up. So, this year we're not hiring. Normally, we always hire at least one adult and sometimes two students to work on our summer maintenance crew and we're not going to do that this summer just based on the fact that we won't we won't have that ability to keep them busy. Something I meant to look at last night I was watching if we could and I don't know if it's on the list, but the fencing we're going to do a facelift to that. >> I don't think Are you talking about the new ones that look older? Yeah, we have lots of painting this summer. Is it white? Oh, that We'll find out at least get them to a paint on. Blue or like general white? What's that? Blue or like general white? Uh, ooh.

082I guess it'll probably go back with white, but >> Cheaper. Yeah. We can probably get some surplus army green. Orange [laughter] or green, Jim? Black. Freddy, this is middle school. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> I was just going to say I was impressed that maintenance was still smiling yesterday morning despite the news of the week. So, and then and then last night Yeah, yeah. Uh All right, eight point of order, facility report. Uh, actually pretty short report or [clears throat] change. Um, phase two is done. We got that final inspection on that five-six hallway and we had that rapid set pictures, which we did. So, that's good to go. That was done. Obviously, we got our final inspection on that new gym as well. That just had off that it um uh, it's open. We now

083have our occupancy for that. So, we're be to go there as well. Um on a high school gym seismic, we are uh set to um they're going to start tearing out the floor on the 12th, uh which is the last day teachers are there, so they'll start kind of getting in there and and uh cutting up some pieces of the floor cuz we need to get some chunks cut up and moved over so then we can on Monday we'll start bringing the flooring in cuz it's got to sit in there for a couple weeks to acclimate to it. Um we're going to save all of that flooring save it to go in the shop over on the side. We've been the metal shop has been at her through shop I mean has been reusing the

084stuff that we pulled up from Lincoln, the madrone that was in that floor that got ruined with the water. Uh we had it in one of our connexes, so they've been slowly um using it for a variety of projects to do the same thing with the maple out there. So um we'll get that cut out. We um saved some money on where we're going to they're cutting it up, but we're going to haul it out. We'll be our maintenance crew and we're going to move it over there, so we'll take care of that. That'll save us almost 50% and just those beams. So uh so that's on tap. Uh the roofing guys will get on that roof um also on the 12th um the day after students are gone while teachers are still here, they're

085going to get on the roof and start tearing out the high roof and get that done. Brent has been in there with uh mostly by himself because it's really a one-man show. He's been putting up the um support beams that need to be going in there. Um he's I think there's six of them that had to go up and he is um uh he's got to for each one he's got to put a a beam in, strap it down, and so forth, and he's I think got three of them done. He has three left to go. So he's he's uh doing that on Fridays and Saturdays trying to get that knocked out so that when the roofers come in they can pull the roof go and then get the flooring done. Uh classroom seismic, um

086the science room threw a little wrinkle into it. I'll know a little bit more tomorrow as we sit in our construction meeting. The plan was to not while we still I know [clears throat] this is a little frightening since we're 3 weeks out or 4 weeks out. We don't have a 100% plan, but a pretty good base plan. Current base plan is we're going after the short hall. We're going to start the exterior work. They got to cut do a few footings on the outside on both sides of the short hall. >> [clears throat] >> And then take a few of the windows out and put in some some beams and such. And then uh And then we were going to put the temporary wall in the library. Not temporary, the permanent wall in the

087library. And that essential that will essentially create that classroom where that accordion wall is now. It's going to be about 10 ft to the counselor's to the main office side of that. So, the library will shrink by about that much. And then uh And then we're we have to do a That's a full-blown cut the floor out, put a new footing in, and then that wall goes all the way to the roof. Um it's a a brace wall. So, we're going to put that in. And then we're going to leave the the the bathroom wall there, so that classroom will be about 12 ft bigger next year than it will be the year after. Then we'll pull out the bathroom wall and then the 12 ft and make those bathrooms to match the lobby bathrooms.

088But that would we have to tear the entire floor out and do everything, and we don't believe you know, we will not have time to do that this summer. So, essentially we're going to Unfortunately, that means that teachers got to move twice. They got to pack up their room and go in there, pack it up again next year and get out of there so we can redo it. But again, it'll be much better on the back side. So, we're going to do that. And then that way we can we'll put an exterior door into the CTE room, the home ec room. And so we can work on that during the school year, so that room will be unoccupied. That's the teacher that we're moving into that big classroom in the library. So, we'll be able

089to work on that during the school year, which will help take some pressure off of the schedule this summer and next summer. The range in there is the science room. What we're going to do with that if we're now going to try and break into science room and manage it at the same time. We're going to look We're going to talk about that tomorrow. See what that looks like. It would be cleaner if we could do that based on the fact that we're going to get some insurance money for those cabinets. It doesn't make sense to get it put it in place and then move it again or So, we're going to kind of see what that We're going to soft play the schedule and see what it looks like. And uh they are doing

090a little bit more of They've done a little bit more exploratory work on the front to see if there's how much dry rot we think we're going to run into, where we need to do those spindles at. Um and hopefully we have a little better answer tomorrow if we have or not today if they if they are going to be able to just repair the wall without having to tear the whole thing out or not. We're hoping not. Budget-wise, it's it's It'll be easier to do it. It's going to be less more expensive. So, we're hoping that we can just do the same as anything. So, we will do that on the short hall. So, we have We're set to have those teachers start um getting their stuff packed up. I We'll find out tomorrow

091officially how much they have to pack up if they just need to move it to the interior walls or they really need to take everything out there or sure. So, get those answers and start doing that. Um and then parking lot I just asked them today that they can They're flying through that. Tuesday's a paved day uh tentatively right now. So, look at that paved day and then play about two play loose last last time I was up two days after they started striping. Um Once they're done with that, parking's done, where they're going to continue moving north a little bit and then they're going to gravel another like 40 50 something feet up there. It's packed gravel that we'll be able to put our buses on and then we'll have them re-striping. Uh a

092little bit of where the buses kind of park now and then all the new striping will be on there. So, that should be done of pretty soon. Um then, uh that's about it. So, just just want to mention again, kind of talked about a little bit, resurfacing the track, paving and expanding parking lots, continuing with exterior lighting, and doing the seismics safety vestibules, um uh the new bathrooms across the way, and then, um and then possibly paving the playground there. We got to figure out what we're doing with our ticket booth, and then we talked a little bit about sol- solidifying or walling in the stage of the back Lincoln cafeteria. Walling that in and making that a classroom space, and then also a place for the cheerleaders practice, if possible. Not a great answer

093cuz we use our drama We use our drama uh drama drama um plays there now. And it's harder to move. That's the only downside to the drop-down stage that we have. It's not really set for drama cuz there's no curtain, there's no backstage stuff. But, we've got to figure that out. So, that's definitely not set in stone. Just keep it in mind right now. Really need to find a place for our cheerleaders practice. So, right now they just We shuttle them all over the place. It's not ideal. Good movement in the weight room at the high school. But, that just that's not really what we're trying to get away from with the with the wrestlers. Mhm. They're upstairs in the ninja gym. That's where the wrestlers are. High school wrestlers. High school wrestlers. And the

094reason we're moving out of They're at the same time, too. is right now What's that? They're at the same time. Yeah, they wrestle at the same time. So, yeah, trying to We're trying to get away from having to move that weight equipment every day. So, let's see. Still not a great answer yet. And then you You've talked about um basically the security for the middle on the mass. The mass? Yeah, the mass. What What about high school? Uh well, we we're trying to get that one in the plans, [clears throat] but whatever we do there, we're going to do there as well. So, if that doesn't happen this summer, which it might or might not, it'll happen the second summer. So, we'll just do that one second. >> is It is in the plans as

095well. Okay. >> We missed the window on that one, that's why we're coming back to do it, but we're going to do this one at the same time. Either this summer or next. Mhm. 8.5 as the percentage of [clears throat] total. I'm also going to be way quicker than the last one. Rotary auction in the books. I as a as top of the office as a Rotarian, that's part of my duties as superintendent. So, I joined the Rotary been a Rotarian the last four years. I really enjoy it. Um I uh I don't Uh so, we I kind of spent the auction part I spent the day setting up on Wednesday half the day. So, So, and then go to the auction, do that, help load the stuff at night, and show up the next

096day and help us set down. So, it works out great. Um it's they really is a good group of guys. It's a small but good group of people. So, just guys and so but a very hard working women in there as well. Um it's a good group of people. It's just small. There's just not very many attended. Maybe I think our our membership's 29. There might be 10 to 12 really active members if you will. So, it is what it is. It works out good. They spot they they are very supportive. And they were the first club to really include Open in there. They didn't have to do that. They are the satellite Rotary club, but they they brought Open in. I don't know how long it's been, but it's one [clears throat] club. Um

097I did two weeks ago, maybe three weeks, whatever our last bond oversight committee the next day I went to drove to Southern Oregon for page day. Did that as part of that 5% discount that we try and get every year, which is a decent chunk of money. I have have to do that. So, I went over and listened to some breakouts. Just basically go over there and they share the security of the app and [laughter] any risks we take at school and running a school and all these things, but focus was good. Did did that and got that taken care of. So, now I just got to do the follow-up paperwork. It needs to be done by the end of the month. Uh finished OSA stuff. I championship committee. We had our last meeting on

098the 27th and then uh Monday, 2 days ago, I had to go back up to uh present our findings to the board. Did that, so we're good there. Uh FFA auction and banquet uh both uh went off in the last 2 weeks. It's successful and we're on the back side of that. Academic awards, we did that last week and we also had the early graduation. Normally, we've had early graduates before because early graduates usually are still around for the graduation. Our current one, Joseph, is going to be gone on a uh summer internship, so we did a little quick uh graduation for him with the staff down and gave him his diploma. That was really neat. Um just awesome awesome uh thing. And then uh we did the ribbon cutting and open house last night.

099And then uh we are We've done this I want to say two other years. Everything that's down at the strip mall, we have surplus. It's sitting down there for a long time. Even though it's surplus, if you need a new desk or if you need a uh a desk, you can buy from a new one. Or a file cabinet, we'll go down there and grab it. Uh twice we've done that. Honor Society do citywide garage sale. Just pull out stuff out to sell it. We're doing that again um on this citywide garage sale. Pricing it to sell. It's almost going to be like, "Hey, you buy this desk, you got to take a file cabinet with you." >> [laughter] >> And you can get out AS MUCH AS SO, UH HONOR SOCIETY is doing that.

100[clears throat] It's a fundraiser for them. Again, it's not like they get rich off of it. Anything they sell is good for us. So, hoping to get that done. Filled out, but overall it's been going well. Um enrollment numbers are in your packet, but if you have anything to say about those, they're in there. Right on up there. Uh the fact that we're you know, at 655 right now, that's 14 students over last year. We definitely kind of came back, so we started the year 18 students over what we started last year. We're finishing the year 14 students over where we ended last year, so yeah, >> [clears throat] >> still All right. The land use court date 8.7 Um I put this back on here because um Anyway, uh the gentleman that came a

101couple of times and presented to you guys, he he and his wife removed themselves from the case. Not because they don't believe in it anymore, they just are were uh put their time in and they kind of handed it off to these new aggressive quality lawyers, uh Daniel Crowe. Check out his last email in your packet. Um he took over. So, at the last meeting we kind of discussed whether or not we wanted to tap into that USDA land funds and after much discussion you guys chose to not do that. I I alerted him of that. The next day Daniel quickly sent a response, "Hey, you need to get back at I want to talk to the board. I want to convince him otherwise. I'll be in your next meeting." I said, "Well, that's fine.

102It's not like we didn't have a lengthy discussion over it." I said, "One of our board members was absent at the last meeting, so you're welcome to come." I'm like, "Obviously I can't tell you not to, but and then I didn't hear from him again minus a few updates of how the court case is going." So, I put it on here in case he was here because if he was to have the opportunity to ask to It's not my decision to make as I told you before, it's your guys' decision. He was going to try and try and push you in that direction again. And uh so I did enter I did send his or include his last email in the packet for you guys. I mean, it appears that the court that the case

103itself is going really well. So, it says. I do believe he's very positive. Um Uh, what he says here is right on and it does all sound very positive. But I will say that when I talked to OSBA, they there's been two cases similar to this that have went through and and won on every level and got to the Supreme Court and got overturned. The Oregon Supreme Court got overturned. It feels like this where it is where that was heading. He goes, "That's still another year or two away, but but I mean the arguments are good and I do believe at least what they said they're taking a different they're taking a different approach and and if the state is truly, I mean if if if what he says in here is all 100% accurate,

104then the state's going to get chastised pretty heavily at the next at the next uh uh hearing. As they should if they're doing what he says they're doing and if they are dropping 2,500 pages all pre-purchased dated stuff from stuff they've done. If they really are doing that, the judge is going to hit pretty hard. Now, that being said, he also says they'll get another chance to come forward, but the bottom line is it's going to be hard to defend that they're not taking that money and putting it into schools. There's no getting around that. If the state says, what will happen is the Oregon Supreme Court has to determine, are you allowed to do that or not? It really comes down to interpretation. So, it's going well so far here. I had an action

105item if you wanted to revisit it. Um, I think that uh I I think it's going to allow the state this case. I I I alerted OSBA about our decision and I alerted them about our decision. OSBA was said they they were pleased that that's where we landed. They felt like that was the right way to go based on other things. I did I did full transparency want to bring back answers. You can tap into that fund as many times as you want. Um so one of our concerns was if we did access the funds, and and were given it, which is hard from given is it's got to go through two levels of approval for us to even be able to access it. If we were able to do that and then in 3

106months got sued and needed to tap into it again, we could, we would be able to we would be able to ask to tap into it again, and possibly be granted that. The fact that we already went through it once wouldn't have done it. They were clear that it's never been used for something like this before or um uh plaintiffs as opposed to defendants, and uh so they didn't seem confident that even if we had asked that it would have made it through both channels. Neither here nor there, just wanted to give you an update on that's where we're at. So. I still think it's moving along in a good place. Uh I Um so that's where we're at. I do believe he was knowing about the daily and hourly powers that he's allowed to

107have that's the decision that he made. Since you guys had already said no, so that's how I feel about that. And I'm not surprised he's on here cuz I wouldn't have accepted it. Okay. Our calendar. Uh calendar is just an update. I think I I want to say I hit it right at the last meeting, but I can't remember if I did or not. I can't remember when I came out, but in the media um an executive order from the governor about uh shortening the school year. Um we basically have already approved the calendar. Uh some big questions that we I as well as every other superintendent in the state have lots of questions about what does this mean, how is this interpreted, instructional minutes versus student instructional time. Two very different calculations, both um

108referenced in the executive order, confusingly so, and um so the reason that I put the calendar back up here was to So, we approved again. So, the executive order says schools are no longer allowed to take furlough days to budget to balance your budget. You're not allowed to reduce your instruction time. If you've already agreed to do that or reduce your instruction time either this year or next year, you have to do one of two things We have to do two things if you've done that. One, you have to restore it the year after next into last year's minutes. time. If you um and you have to put forth a plan of how you're going to do that. Those are the two things you have to do if you are reducing time. We are reducing

109time next year with the calendar we adopted. We took one instructional day away and added an in-service day. We are still over the minimum hours in all three buildings of instructional hours required by our division 22 standards. We are still over that minimum. And it's worth noting we're over that minimum just and we do not use the asterisk that you get. So, you can be 992 hours. That's what the requirement is at high school. You can actually instruct your kids for 932 hours and use 60 hours, 30 of parent comp teacher conferences, and 30 of in-service training time for your teachers to count as instructional time. Now, this executive order says you can't do that anymore. The rule making it got caught up in rule making and there's a pretty good fight over whether that's

110going to come into play or not. But, it doesn't matter cuz we don't do that. >> [clears throat] >> We are over our minimum hours even with that day we took away next year, we're over our minimum hours without that. That being said, we have the option right now of changing the calendar and sticking that day back in and taking that in-service day away and being good to go, no problems. Or we can continue with the calendar that we've adopted for next year, take that day out like we planned, do the in-service day, and the following year make the flip back. Which would be my recommendation because we've already started planning on the in-service day. We feel like there's some great value in that in-service day, some great training for our bus drivers, for our

111IAs, for our other people that we wouldn't get training for. We made that compromise so it was one day instead of three, so we're not that no classified aren't losing it. Everyone's getting their exact same amount of hours and we're getting a training day in there. Yes, we're losing 8 hours of we're losing an instructional day. It's a Friday, generally not our most um our best attendance day. It's gotten better over the years, but it's it's it's in the 70s. Right? Is that about accurate, right? High 70s where it's been in the 60s before. So it's still in the high 70s. So we're taking out a day that we're not going to have great attendance on and we feel like we're going to get value out of it on that end. We're only going to

112do it for next year. We will and my plan should take about 2 seconds to write, "Hey, we're going to go back to this. This is why we did it." And we if you think you're wrong and make us do it the other way, but we're going to do it and we're going to put this back in like I said. So that's my recommendation. But I needed to put it in here because because it needs to be part of the decision because you adopt the calendar. But my recommendation is we continue with what we've done. We've already let the staff know this is the plan. We already started planning. We We've been working with the SD. We have that day relatively planned out um for a bunch of different outcomes. I uh PD sessions that

113they're going to get on. So, really looking forward to that as our next step. But, probably got some navigating to do, so I throw it out there as a discussion on how you feel. I do not have it as a action item to change it. If you felt like you were if you felt like you wanted to change it, you can easily add that as an action item. You just proposed that there's it's an option to do it next year. You're fine. We are fine. We are well within the parameters of the executive order. We're not breaking any rules. It's just a matter [clears throat] of you got to change that now. What other changes would be How does that >> [laughter] >> I thought for the same reason. >> [laughter] >> Um, and I

114mean, there's still an election in in November. So, the executive order, I won't say goes away, but if a different if a different governor comes in, they can easily make that change as well. Although I do believe that even the Republicans are running on a platform of two short school days. So, who knows where that's going to go. Two short of school year, actually. All right, pass that to the calendar. That's I assume that that's where you guys would land and I definitely think that's the right decision. I think that if we are going to get more value through next year out of that 8 hours of inservice time, then that instruction will roll back this year. I wouldn't disagree with that. All right. 8.9, [clears throat] Washington Old Admin Property, aka the strip mall.

115Uh, so I've already taken two I've already gotten calls and I've I've two or two people through it. One has the idea of making it into apartments, the other one has the idea of [clears throat] making it into storage units. Um, made the phone calls because I pointed him to the city. Those aren't my questions to answer what zoning looks like, what's legal and what's not legal, blah, blah, blah. But I still circle or Eric circled back with to me with conversations about how both of those go. Sounds like both would be okay. Um, have to make a few minor changes. Not on our part, we're selling it, so it doesn't really matter. Um, so I reached out to Ben Tatone, our um, real estate agent who we are connected with. We signed the year

116contract with him, so he's our realtor till August. So I said, "You need to get it listed. You can't do anything moving forward and I can't sell it on my own. You need to get it listed." So he is ready to list it. Um, two obstacles are in play that I want to lay out for you guys tonight so we can, you know, kind of give me some direction on how you'd like me to move forward. First obstacle is a simple one. What do we want to list it at? Um, he gave comps that aren't great because there just isn't a lot of comparables around Douglas County that look like this particular one. I mean, there just isn't. I mean, it's a big building. It's got some issues. It's a sturdy building minus the one

117corner that's falling off. Uh, the rest of it's in good shape. And that corner really is, it's not it's messy. I mean, if you go through and walk it, the rest of the building is great, but it's on a cement slab and if you go into that end room, you can see where it's sloughing off. The floor's breaking. You can see daylight from the inside. It's not good. It's not going to last forever. That's a problem that's going to have to be addressed with whoever buys it right away. Other than that though, the building's in great shape. Roof's in great shape. Uh, the walls are in great shape. Um, so it's in pretty good shape. Uh, through all of the comps, his recommendation his recommendation based on the other comps was 300,000. Um, I in

118talking with him and really pushing him on what those comps are and what the reality there is, I think that's too high. Um uh he he he he but that's what he he recommended. And then when I started kind of pushing back and go, "That seems really high. And what what which which of these comps are you really basing it on?" Well, I mean, you know, you can probably start there, but you're probably going to have to drop it after a little while. I say, "Why?" Right? We we don't need to it's not like a hot and heavy real estate market right now, so I don't believe pricing it high is in our best interest. Uh so but I need a I need a price, so that's the first one that I'd like to kind

119of discuss and kick on. The second one is he did once he did all of the legwork to get ready to list. I I don't know how the city does the little stuff they do. >> [laughter] >> The lot line for that property runs right through the middle of the property. So, like if you're standing at the gate and looking at it, the you got the fence along there, you got the place you drive in. The lot line basically goes right through the middle of the building. So, here's the lot, and then here's this other lot that has the Washington gym included in it. So, what we're going to do is or what we're doing or what I instructed him to do, again, it's all up to you guys, just letting you know. Um he

120he's going to list it as the strip mall is for sale with um one of the uh conditions of sale is that we would we would work out with the city a lot line adjustment. And city knows that. I mean, the city planner, I've already talked to Eric about it. I've I've already talked to I've already talked to the city councilor, the planning commissioner, one of the other 10 people he's got to go to to get it done. But I think that uh it [clears throat] it it's really a formality that we'll be able to move that lot line over. There's also going to be the we've already had I have already had conversations with city council about the city has the alley that goes through there, which also goes through the end of the

121building, um that they would like to move that the alley over right next to the city hall building so they could have a little bit of parking there, and then they would essentially trade the alleyway area would become our property, and then the alley that they own would then they take that equitable slice over next to the bottom of the stairs. Again, a formality that would all be done in one lot line adjustment. Um so that's the only other obstacle, and it and we're not even going to do it right now. We're just going to put it in there as a condition of sale. Once we get it listed, I will probably start working the working through the process with the city. Generally speaking, it takes a few months. So You mean Yeah, [clears throat]

122right away still run right through the building, even when you put it against the stairs? >> Uh I'm going to guess that I don't know the answer to this, but I think they ended the alleyway just short of the building. So if you're thinking about the parking lot here, it goes up here, it stops. So you want to take that rectangle and they just want to move it over there. So it's right there where you come in, so you still have the parking a few parking spots right in the way there. So I don't know if it goes I think they stopped it. I don't know what you call that. No, I would love to know the history of why. Yeah, I don't I don't know any of the hows and whys and how you

123have an alley. You can allow a building to be built in the middle of an alley. It's still but it has something if it's a right away and it's you really want to maybe keep it in the street. Yeah. It makes no sense to have a building in the middle of the The other one is that there's an alley on the other side. That Washington gym in the cliffs to the hills also is an alley. That's the city's alley, so Um I'm not going to I'm not here to debate any of that because [laughter] I got nothing. I you know, my personal opinion, I think as long as the city ended up with some parking they'd probably be pretty happy. >> Yeah. And that's I I believe that. >> And both people that I walked

124through the mall and kind of showed it to them, I said, "Know that in this purchase, here's I basically gave them the same thing I gave you. Here's this rectangle that the city owns and they're going to want to move it over here and trade for that. That will need to be worked out. So, that's the problem. And according to Eric, there'd be lots of there'd be a few zoning hoops to jump through, but he felt like both would be storage units and apartments would both be doable. Um this I think the storage unit guy wanted to do some house outdoor storage too, which he was a little he Eric said that probably won't fly as much, but he was uh but in order to get the process moving, I need a number. That's really

125what I need most of all. That's for human access Uh I I mean, it still has an easement on the backside. When we gave them city hall, we kept an easement to get there, so it's not landlocked per se. You can still get in on the backside of the city hall or that little walkway where everyone walks. There's still that right of way to it, so it's not landlocked. Technically. >> [laughter] >> What's that? You can't drive to it. Uh you can Yeah, you can. We have we move those dumpsters back there. It's It's not great driving. It's not good. It's not a driveway. I got a semi back there, but you know, you can get back there. Yeah. I mean, we we move those. Porta-potties in there. So, the two people you have talked

126to, have they shown interest or not? Put an elevator in there. Uh there I basically told them I was coming to the board to get a price. And that's And so, they said, "Okay." And so, that they thought they were probably going to reach out to me after the meeting and see um see where you guys landed up. >> give you any insinuation of how much they're thinking? Uh well, I told them I was very up front. I said, "We haven't set a price. The comps are this. I believe it's going to go at I said, "Our realtor told us to list it at 300." While we think that's probably that that I think you would I think they'd might be interested in the 200-ish range. I wouldn't necessarily list it at 200 because I

127would go below value from there, but I think you I think that he can Um 250 is kind of what I was saying 275. So you're saying I think 250 makes a more price to sell. I think it'll lure a little bit more interest. I don't think we'll ever get our 250 for a It won't stop the people more interest than 300. That's Yeah. I don't have a clue about it. Yeah, that I I know. >> Maybe it's if a lot I know your five lot. The lot This is the versus the lot of the expensive area that building. Yeah, but [clears throat] I I think I mean both both people that walked through it felt pretty confident that I mean for storage units Well, you don't you don't got to get rid of anything.

128And really for apartments, you might have to put some walls up, but I mean that the outside of that corner, the building's solid. I mean this is solid. I was just thinking I've never really been in it, so I don't know if you could even use it for apartment. You you slap some paint on it. You slap some flooring in it. It's doable. They wouldn't be big apartments. No, you got to get rid of >> could probably put five units up there. No. Five units 1,200 [clears throat] 1,000 square feet. 1,200 units 200 by say 40 50 by There is that covered porch area, so that's a So bigger than you think. I'd say that when I walked through it because I've been in it a lot of times. Bigger than you think. That'd be

129a lot. What's that? It is a lot. I want to say there's there's at least two sets of bathroom. Yeah, and then there's just one set of bathroom. There's one in the little admin Yeah. There's two sets of bathrooms and then there's a Isn't there? Yeah, I think there's two sets of bathrooms and one janitorial closet that has some general water to it. There's plumbing. I did have to tell one of the guys cuz in the janitorial closet there's like a rickety-looking shelf, but there's a tiles are out and that's cool. I really want to see up there. Can I climb up that? No, you cannot climb up that shelf. [laughter] Absolutely not. Oh, come on. Just step outside. You are not. >> [laughter] >> I would just say I would lean towards 275 range

130cuz you can always come back. I'll put it up wherever you want, but I mean I I'm getting it done. I don't want to see the other problem is how far do you want to go down? I want it to go faster than not because the reality is a corner's not going to last for long. So, here's an option, so we start at 275 and get the process going towards moving along and then drop it to quick sell if we get any interest in it. We can always you know, you know. Yeah. If If we don't go ahead and fix the bathroom, that's That's heat to it. It's either way something matters. Well, wall hasn't collapsed. Yeah. Insurance money. I Well, you're not wrong and I thought about that, but I'm pretty sure with the

131insurance money we have to repair it to get it. I don't think they're just going to write us a check and they go, "Oh, that whole building corner of your building, here's $100,000 to fix it." I think we have to actually fix it, which fine. If we get the insurance money and we pay to fix it, then now maybe it is worth 275 cuz they don't have to address that, but 20 building projects up here, I'm not sure I want to take on [laughter] another one there. But >> [laughter] >> So, that's that's kind of where I'm at that. So, I'm I'm good at whatever. I'll just Ben's waiting for my call tomorrow. I'll tell him whatever price you want to put it at, we will get it advertised. Well, I mean, our plan up

132to this point at the city if the strip mall does get sold, I will probably readdress the people that bought the field cuz they had kind of tentatively shown some interest wanting to keep it as a community thing. I'll probably reapproach the city hoping that they would take it and buy it from us for a dollar and take control of it. I don't have an answer. I don't have the options to Those are my two options. There's no No one's going to buy No private person most likely is going to be too eager to buy the gym because of the I mean Yeah, it's going to be needs some money. I mean, we're going to leave the bathrooms down there. So, as is, it is turnkey and workable. But So, I mean, our our goal

133and our hope and our desire would be for the city to take it from us and somebody writes some grants in and gets some money thrown in there. Um I don't know that you really even need that truly upgrade the bathrooms. I think the portables that you have there are good. It needs some insulation and we are running into some freezing issues with the pipes and stuff, but that's easy to fix and then just leave the the bottom side um off limits and then it becomes a pretty workable and keep it as a community gym cuz it is a nice space as far as the gym itself goes, but it's it's a hassle to manage. We We need it out from under us. So, if strip mall goes, that'll be our first I will be

134at the next city council meeting. You should be ready to give them for adults. >> [laughter] >> Right right figure collection. >> [clears throat] >> About 275 and you get a free gym. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> Um I don't know. Straw poll here, what do you think, Mark? Give me a price. There are no wrong answers. >> Yeah, I Yeah, 250, 275, either one sounds good to me. Okay. Now, I'm just sticking at 275. Um Gary, what do you think? Well, if you want something quick, 250 will get you more bites. What is this week? It's kind of like, you know, when you sell something for 999. Yeah. Yeah. >> You know, it's not $500, it's 999 or 999. Okay. Brent? Well, if that's the case, then we're going to put it on for 495.

135>> [laughter] >> Which is Get it for 249. 270. 249. Yeah. I'm going to do 250. 250 or 275. I'm in. All right, come on. What kind of decision makers are you? I don't know. To rock paper scissors? What's going on? [laughter] 250 and Yeah. All right, we'll do 250. 250. 249. 249. >> [laughter] >> Okay. 249. 249. 250. >> [laughter] >> 250. That's funny cuz I was going to say, how about we just go 260? I know. >> [laughter] >> But 250 250 250. >> [laughter] >> Price to sell. 49999. Quiet last. So that alley below that corner that's falling down the city. That is the city's as well that we're falling into. Yeah. Right below there's a little short routine while that is Oh, okay. But that also doesn't go all the way

136through cuz there's a house there. I don't think they own the house. And I think they I think I don't know this for sure, but I think they essentially took and changed the alleys here and then it goes over and then finishes there. I don't think they connect, but I think that's what they did is they moved it over with the Well, they probably put all that into play before the main streets were all cut down and leveled and everything. Yes. Yeah, I was going to say horse and buggy. Did you go up hills? Well, I mean I I mean 1931, 19 I don't the school was actually built before the gym, so I want to say the gym was built the school was built in the 20s, so it's it was a minute ago.

137You ran for the home firewood is laying in the horses and two to the school. To the school? Yeah. I think some of that firewood selling. >> [laughter] >> Okay, well that's what I needed, so I will I will talk to him tomorrow and get it listed. I will I'll probably do the reach back out to those few people and let them know that it's listed at that. See what happens. Okay, good stuff. Just make a deal. >> [clears throat] >> What's kind of learning law? All right. Um then moving on to action items, which we have the the accessing my CPA legal assistance. Trust funds. So what are our choices here? I mean we didn't eliminate it. I mean our choice would be if you I guess if you want to revisit it and

138um re-approach them. I only put it on there because I felt like he was going to >> Yes, that's the bottom of the lawsuit. That's the lawsuit case that they we want to access those funds to that lawsuit. I only put it on there because I thought he was going to work his magic to put weight you guys in that I want to do that we snow the decision then. So, can we just drop this? >> Yeah, I would have adjusted the agenda when he wasn't here. So, >> And Tom, you weren't here so you really kind of I mean, do you want to We can We discussed it the one before. And I was not Okay. Well, I think the other two schools I think they have a lot of And >> That's kind

139of where I'm at. I feel like we've done a We've done our parts and then and they have been that they got us signed on as because there was two other districts signed on and then they have I haven't heard anything from them throughout. So, like if you have done a few things with Well, keeping this in mind too. Yeah. I think it's time for them to pop their heads up a little bit. All right, we'll just scratch that then. Upcoming meeting input. Uh just a a heads-up on your next meeting which is June 10th. That is it's scheduled for 7:00. Our um uh 8th grade promotion is that same night. It starts at 5:30. 5:00 5:30. So, it should be done. I mean, just know I might be sitting in I we might be

140sitting in right at the start of it. So, I'm going to be It's at 5:30. I think we should be fine, but just know that that's happening on the same night. And then uh I kicked the um uh superintendent evaluation piece to that meeting. Again, if we don't get it done, I mean, we'll just table it or we'll do it in the fall again. As I said, I don't care when you put it in. Probably by October, November it'd be nice to know if you were changing things up too much. If I But I Again, I'm not concerned about it. So, um we'll just I'll continue to play that as we go. That's it. Back to the good of the order. I think it's worth pointing out that I have a couple of friends that

141say that their suit their board meetings like 20 minutes and I don't know how that's even possible. I don't know like how [clears throat] do you even get through anything in 2 minutes. But I do I know that's why I was like we're going to have a power hour. So I'm taking that. I do have a couple of ideas though to to that I'm going to present to you on at the June meeting which is things that might speed it up a little bit. Don't feel pressured to take them. If you want them great. If you don't want them that's fine too. So Okay. Cuz I feel like we're pretty damn efficient. As in the June meeting I think we're doing a good job. What? The June meeting I think we're doing a good job.

142Any announcements? I have 25 days. >> [laughter] >> Time to melt. Yeah. I'm sorry. Uh all right. We're done. Thank you. Good work. Passed the budget. 14 minutes and under an hour. It's a successful week.