001Did you put gibberish under the language? Is that an option? Are we going? Even though you turn it off. [Music] Oh, okay. You want to read it? Yeah. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Recognition of visitors. Thank you, lady. Awards recognition and correspondence. Uh just classified appreciation week uh last week, last week um building did something for the classified employees. Um build us Monday or Tuesday in the morning out throughout the district. So just really appreciate all of our great classified employees got a chance to celebrate it. We won the trampoline $10. Katrina is adjustments to agenda. Uh, one, two adjustments. Um, 8.11, uh, we're going to add the
002Secure Rural Secure Rural Schools Act resolution. And in 10.2, to maybe the resolution making a decision about the resolution public comment on non-aggenda items this far. I'm just so happy to be here. Yeah. Okay. The fifth agenda for 6.1 approve media minutes for February 2025 which I was present at HR report and lines of renewals. Do we have a motion? Make a motion we approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor say I. I. Say n. Motion carried. All the time. Get it one of these days. Okay. Fiscal overview. Huh? Huh? I know. Already there. The HR report was already done. Oh, HR report. Well, I said it kind of all together. Okay. Like it. Um, so as you can see, we're continuing to stay pretty evenly. Um, everything is going great. Uh, no big
003scares or anything. Uh, budget is coming along. I have a meeting with Mr. Plex next week. Hopefully, I will be to a point where I can do anything he needs. Other than that, everything seems to be going well. We have a great district and a great group of that are willing to get grants to help pay for things. So, that's pretty great. Awesome. Thank you. Um, now over here 7.1 monthly summary and forecast year-to- date summary, monthly checking list. You guys have any questions on that list? There were quite a few checks. So if you have questions ask me lot of construction check. Yeah. Yes construction things are happening. That's a good time. Yeah. Closing out. Okay. Reports and discussions. 8.1 students body reports. Hello. Hello board members. I'm Cooper Campbell and a public relations
004officer from the Lincoln Middle School leadership team. Life at Lincoln has been pretty calm lately, but we have a lot of things coming up. School is flying by. We just had third quarter midterms and spring break spring break is coming very soon, which means state testing is right around the corner. We will start with ELA state testing that will start on April 14th. Girls basketball and wrestling wrapped up their seasons recently. The wrestling team finished their season at the district meet in Glendale. We had four first place finishers, four second place finishers, and two third place finishers. Two of our wrestlers even went to regionals, and they both placed. Plus, our one wrestler, Sally Elway, is competing at state at state this weekend. Everyone is proud of all of the wrestlers this season, and the
005coaches saw lots of improvements and can't wait for next season. Track practice starts next Monday. Miss Hamilton, Mr. Chrissy are very excited for this season to get started. We have over 50 kids signed up to participate. And here's Emma for more information about LS. Thank you, Capri. Hi, I'm Emma Gordon and I and I am on the hype crew within the Lincoln Middle School leadership team. Our choir class is pretty grace of this. They traveled to the Douglas County Courthouse today and performed. Also, next week they will be going to sub to participate in the music this week. Choir has also joined forces with our drama class and are preparing a performance of the Wizard of Oz. The performance will take place on May 14th. On Monday, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we are hosting
006a dress up day. We are challenging the students to deck themselves out and brave the class of the most participants. Also, in honor of classified appreciation week last week, I would like to take a moment to recognize all of our amazing classified staff. We work really hard to keep it running smoothly. We appreciate all that you do. Thank you for having us. Good evening. Thank you. Hello, I'm Jaden Thirdp and today I'm taking over Hannah. She's currently at an FA event. Freshman finished their seasons sending five student athletes to state. They all represented well. Basketball's done for the year with a great finish from the boys basketball team. Placed third in state. Also earning sportsmanship award for two years in a row now. Track and fields gotten a great start with their practices and the
007athletes are very optimistic about their first meet on the 20th of March. Softball is starting off strong with dedication and perseverance to have a good outcome on their first upcoming game. They are seeking vengeance after a hard season ending loss in the playoffs last year. Baseball's working hard and giving their all practices in order to prepare for their first games next week. Yesterday, the band had competition with a great performance and qualified for state. Leadership is covering many different aspects of our school spirit with students in charge through different projects. Some projects to decorating the display case in front of the office, creating food boxes for the students during spring break, schoolwide bingo, and organizing the Chromebook cards in the classrooms. Oakland FFA hosted their chapter first FFA week two days ago with daily activities
008and assembly staff breakfast and roadside cleanup on Driver Valley. Oakland FFA had multiple students compete at the sectional leadership develop equipment competition and some students will move on and compete at state convention next week. Tonight there will be a pie social grant in hand and chapter degree ceremony. where FFA members who have dedicated their time and efforts chapter and supervised cultural experiences earned an award. Lastly, on Friday, our FFA officers are running the Seah Hawk and Spring Ling dance from 7:30 to 10:00 for many students for come. In our last blood drive ran by National Honor Society, we collected a total of 47 donations from students and community members. For the months of March after school program, the theme is rockets and race cars run by Mr. Osa and Mr. Burke. So far, the students
009have made their own race cars and gotten to race them down school hallways this afternoon. Some of the cars created by Lightning McQueen car, Gro, McDonald's car, cheese car, and much more silly ideas. Next next week students will assemble their model rockets and launch them into the sky. Furthermore, the high school is busy spring sports coming to rotation and positive outlook on the rest year. Thank you. You guys are welcome to principal counselor report which are in your packets. Any questions or updates to those? So, I was impressed by I didn't know you had that many kids with the after school program. How are we doing number-wise all across the board? I say for us we're about 20. I think today we had 25. We usually average like 25 to 30 that signed up, but
010I'd say any given night 20 25. And then we have a couple at night for the high school, too. the last two months with the CTE and then this month with the rockets and race cars. We've invited the seventh eighth graders to come up and kind of get exposed to that which has been great. Done a good job. Um I'd say our average we usually have anywhere from five to six seven kids in the tutoring and then our average has been 10 to 12 in the enrichment which considering we have almost 50% of our student body doing sports as it is I think it's pretty it's pretty good. I mean, it's definitely not as full as the the little metals, but under lots of activities. The race cars this afternoon was pretty cool. Did make
011you cringe a minute in the hallway, but you didn't have any and the bottle rockets will be outside. They will be outside. Thank you. 8.3 maintenance custodial report as well. Questions? hearing them. Okay. 8.4 facility report. Um uh got the stairs done out back. You haven't noticed something left at the end of the day. The stairs coming down from baseball field in those exterior bathroom to baseball. We got the cement board for those. Um we went with super small drop like five to six inch drop and really wide stairs. So, we didn't have we didn't put handrails in there. Um, and then ADA accessibility comes down the sidewalks. Got the uh uh turf got laid in to weed protected laid in. We're going to throw river rocks on that side over there. Those will be
012delivered here in the next while. And we got our sprinkler system put in the front. Our maintenance crew did that. That is in there, but we're not going to bring the dirt in and do all that until the weather starts to pop up a little bit. so much rain. We're just going to see it. Uh so good good progress there. Um new gym is progressing along. Plans been submitted to the city. Um we're in the permit process right now. Have our final things final docs came out this week to um from Pivot Architecture, the architects that are drawing it to our NGC McKenzie who's putting it out to bid. Uh the bid was supposed to go up yesterday or today. Um and then we are doing our bid walk through, mandatory bid walkthrough next Friday
013here. So all the contractors that are planning on bidding on it um will come in for that walkthrough. Um uh still on track to at this point we're still on track to break ground in midappril. Um we feel pretty good about it. We have a couple of the contractors are already on board. Um they've already done some stuff for we did the uh RFPs more mechanical and electrical and um couple others we did them because we knew that they were going we did those early because we knew and basically a design build because we knew they had to order stuff and some of the electrical stuff was 11 to 12 months out depending on what we got. So we had to get on those sooner rather than later. So we have those on some of
014those on board. Um and then we're doing the rest of them. We'll be um at the walkth through next week. So we still on track to break ground in mid April depending on what it looks like. But we're moving in that good direction. Uh OHS gym seismic moving along. Um we have abatement planned next week uh starting next Friday. So kids leave for spring break on Thursday. We'll start the abatement on Friday. And then all of spring break week, they're abating up in the ceiling above the laundry room. and then all other accessible points are going to get up in the ceiling above the restrooms that were basically tearing those completely out in the lobby and a couple other places. Uh there still might be some abatement afterwards, but we wanted to get an early
015early run through the break and get as much done as we can so they can start work basically as soon as possible. Uh we're exploring starting pulling off the HVAC units and pulling the things off the laundry room ceiling. Um maybe before schools out if we can find a place to store. I mean that makes makes logistical sense with the other things we have going on because they can get on there and work during school as long as we're not blocking that access road back there for extended periods of time. So we're not positive on that. We just kind of kicked that around yesterday. Um, uh, still planning on, um, uh, well, Western Testing came in. That was big. We've been, they were in the last two Fridays. Um, they were in, uh, the day
016before our playoff game and they went through and did all of their scanning of the walls to make sure that what's in the walls is fitting with the plans and all the scans came back much better than they did when we did Lincoln because there's actually rebar in the walls like they're supposed to be, filled with cement like they're supposed to be. so much stronger than initially like things we ran in down there that wasn't happening. Um and then they pulled out last Friday they came in and they found I think they took five blocks cut out blocks from different places in the area. They take that back and they do smash tests on those to see what PSI it takes to smash them and then um ZCS uses that and they're planning the phases
017to figure out what exactly reinforcement needs to be done for the seismic piece. Um, at this point they feel like they're everything's good and coming out kind of like expected. So they're not anticipating any trouble. So basically as soon as Western Testing get their results back to CCS, they will get us final builds and we will start moving forward on bids for that and so forth. We feel like we're pretty we're much just so much farther ahead of the game than we have been on our other two sizes as we should be. It's the third one. So we're learning as we go figuring out what we get. So been much much more ahead of things there. Um uh still looking at um uh still looking at two phases this summer. We're going to do the
018tear out the roof over the laundry room, those cut trusses, get all those replaced, new roof on there, and they'll replace all the HVAC units. They're going to do the flat roof around. It's like there's three levels of roofing, right? There's the roofing above the laundry room. there's flat around um the kind of the rim around of the top part and then there's all that T111 that's brown and rotting up there and then the roof that's on top of that. So, we're going to they're going to resign all that T111 this summer and and do all of the structural stuff they need for that. They can get to all the structure of that flatter part of the roof around the edges. They'll do all the reinforcement. They'll finish all of that. Um, and then it
019looks like and then they'll do the restrooms, tear all of that out of the lobby and redo those. Once we're done with all that, we're hoping that'll be done because we definitely have to that'll be done by August 15thish. So, we can start fall practices in there. I think we'll be able to knock that out and then next summer they'll come in and do the high roof because there's really no way to protect the high roof. Once you pull that off, it's off until we get it re-roofed. So, yes, we could do that in a window this summer, but they really want to make sure that um that we hit the right weather window and don't ruin the floor. And it's that's near the end by the all of the other stuff we're doing. So,
020if we did that at the end of the summer and did a rain patch and ruin the floor, we're kind of in a mess. So, we're going to hold off on that. Redoing the floor. And then we're looking at redoing the light. We we are going to redo the lights because of the new lights law. to get rid of those lights. We planned on doing it this summer, but they're very concerned about running the lift all over the floor and ruining the floor by doing the lights. So, we're going to push that off till next summer as well. So, next summer, we'll do the roof, the lights, and then do the floor last. And we'll have plenty of time to do all that in. Plus, at that point, depending on what their time frame expectations
021are, we could kick all summer activities to the middle school gym, which should be done by then, if we have to. We think we'll still be able to get both in, but we'll see on that. So, uh, so making good progress there. I feel like we're moving in a good direction. Um, but yes, dirt. Um, I mean, it's been much slower than expected, but you think I would have just started expecting things to just be slow. Um, we did get the balls buried, have all the conduit buried. So, we're just waiting to pull the line. So, we essentially are at a standstill with that because we can't do that until it's spring break when everybody's out of the building because we got to cut the internet for the district while we do that. And we
022assume it'll be a short time down, but who knows? So, because we're cutting all that, we're waiting till spring break for that. As soon as that is done, um we uh as soon as the conduit's done, the internet's back up and running, then he'll do final bearing around that um and do clean up, scrape, get get all that flattened out, um all that excess dirt pulled out, moved over there. And then um and then we have our fence. We've already got our accepted our bid for um doing the fence uh to finish fencing that area with a 10-ft drive-through gate and a 4ft walkthrough gate um along the way. So, we'll have that as soon as that's done. We'll have them scheduled in. So, uh I mean, super optimistically speaking, by the April board meeting,
023we should have, you know, I mean, that should be done as far as dirt work done and then maybe we're lucky and the finish is done, but a little bit later, but close. Uh so, we are moving there. Uh we have had a little bit of headbutting going on between our um engineer who designed the field work over there for us, the be engineer, dirt engineer um who designed that plan for us. Um he went well over the top in his designing of um soil erosion and all the erosion control things that we're supposed to do. So, there's a little bit of a headbutting going on between him and the uh contractor that's supposed to be doing it that's saying, "This is overkill. We don't need to do this much." Well, it's too late now
024because it's on our DQ permit, so we have to do it. So, um played a little bit of refereeing and finally I said, "No, we both need to come up tomorrow." I had a thought, we'll meet, we'll walk through, engineer says this, they can have their arguments, but in the end, this is what we're going to do. Okay, done. So, one of the problems we're running into is the worst the worst of it is the erosion control that we have to do in the field over there. And Larry still has his cows in there. So, it doesn't do us a whole lot of good to put, which we've done twice so far. Put the fence up and the cows just tear it up. So, is what it is. Anyways, we'll get that figured out tomorrow
025and hopefully be moving in that direction. Softball field trying to dial in the elevations. Uh the last set of plans we got from the architect didn't have any elevations in there which has been problematic. So we instead of waiting for him was notoriously slow. We've moved it a different direction or getting a working off of his plans. We have a um we contracted somebody else to basically do us a model make a model that could be bid off of because we we need to get this out to bid because we're doing it in sections and essentially getting bids for all the different sections. So then we know this is how much money we're willing to spend. This is what we can do. this is where we need to stop. So, we're basically in that phase
026right now. Not really worried about that one because we can't touch it till after Father's Day anyway, and it can spill over into fall, which it probably will, and it's okay to be doing that during school. And then lastly, we're working on the improvements with the OS shop over there, the metal buildings for the polluted metal storage, and that process has to be done by June 30th or at least very close to done. So I think we're we're close to getting the dirt work done and or at least starting on the dirt work. Again, it's going to be under too far down the road of facilities for the most part. And like Cy said, lots of things going on. Lots of money going out. Um the pre- stuff, the in the middle of stuff and
027the coming up stuff and then and then I didn't even mention it's kind of gotten forgotten along the way. We are still doing phase two this summer and we're tearing the locker rooms out of the classrooms. They're going to re that entire hallway um tear that out the new um too. So maybe another little busy summer. Mackenzie's actually sending another soup up. So we'll have two soups on site. One to manage the gym is two high school. You gonna have are you gonna be paving for the gyms, the driveway, the new gym? Uh like that whole field area. Not all of it. We're going to pave essentially from the wall of the 56 annex where that sidewalk is. We'll go out. I'm assuming we'll tear that sement out and we'll pave from there from the
028edge of the annex out whatever the fire road needs to be. I'm going to say probably 12 feet, 10 to 12 feet and it'll go down. So the rest of it still all going to be grass. The discus the discus is still going to go in there. The discus is going to sit discus cage will sit basically kind of where that where we poured that cement for the band about 15 years ago when we built a new um 10 years ago I guess we built a new grand stand. We put that section of um cement there. The discus rain will go work kind of right in there and point towards the ticket booth essentially. I think we have 180 foot thrower. We're gonna have to throw some other flags on, but generally that's not too
029much of a problem. So, yeah, we're only gonna locate that. And then right on the corner, there's a little bit of a dog leg there that's got a flat um flat cement area with it's got like a raised round decorative thing, but it's really to keep cars out of there, out of the middle line. Also to uh um has some seating on it and then the so the fire trucks can come around and then turn around right there. So part of that question 8.5 superintendent uh working on the integrated guidance application um principles and I met with uh our ESD um that helped us with that yesterday and went through all of it. Um, she's going to get me a a copy that has was essentially the new application combined some of the questions off
030our old one. So, we adopted those answers to this and then she's getting a final one that has the new questions that need answering. So, hoping to do that here next maybe next week, might be the week after um because we got to have it done and posted on our website before the next board meeting. And at that board meeting, you guys will see the application, approve the application, and it'll be submitted to the state. After that, it's due by April 30th. Um, I had about this much belief that I'd have it done for this meeting, but we'll do the next meeting. So, uh, we got a food service audit coming up next year, uh, which is a pretty big deal. So we have um or sim daily and uh Amber to a traininee in
031Phoenix or Texas or Dallas where' you say Dallas Dallas there you go Dallas Arizona um sending them to it to basically go through and kind of prep them for what that audit looks federal audit so what it looks like and how to prep for it and manage it while it's going on. uh spend statements that we talked about a couple of months ago. Um we approved taking that money from the state and doing it out. So just a reminder, they the state said we're going to give x number of dollars to to as a bonus for all of our sped workers in the state. So all the schools had to put in our number of sped workers that we have and they took them all in put them all equitable. Doesn't matter if you're a
032sped IIA or a sped teacher or a whatever anything sped related that goes in there that met those qualifications. They're all equitable. Took them all in there. How much was it like $8 million? Is it that much? 6 million 8.3 8.4. It was a big amount of money. Yeah. So by the time you and we were taking bets on how much this was going to break out to each person. So, we have 16 workers that are going to receive this stipen in their April check for $445.86. So, it's better better than nothing and it is an appreciation from the state. So, we're excited about it. So, we'll send a letter out um probably next week to the staff that are getting it so they know it's coming and clarifies, hey, we didn't set the we
033didn't set the amount. We didn't set anything. Yes, we know it's all equitable. Everyone's hit the same. If this is what you're getting, enjoy. So, uh, we did bus eval our second set of bus evac drills back in February. Got those knocked out. All good there. Um, I was out most of last week for the tournament. So, I as I was going back through my weeks of, okay, here's some things I should talk about. That was much for last week. Um, legislative updates. Just giving you kind of a heads up of what's going on. I mean, there's thousands of education bills that affect education that are in the hopper. Really, the only top ones I'm going to talk about is um unemployment for striking workers. That's still that's gaining traction. It looks like that's it's
034not a guarantee that it's going to pass, but it's tight. Um rumor has it that there's a couple of Democrats that are going to vote against it, but they're still they still have it. It's still good pass in a very tight race, but there's a couple others that are on the fence. Uh they have been um OSBA and KOSA have been pushing really hard and it seems to be people are listening about putting some provisions in there for schools that essentially say yes, we would have to pay if if our staff were on strike, we would have to pay them um unemployment while they're on strike, but that would then be deducted off of final pay. So in the end we wouldn't have to pay more than their contractual amount of salary for the year
035which is not the case in in the other areas. So that is that's not a given that that's in there but that's one that they feel pretty strong instead of revenue. Um mandatory class size uh at the bargaining table. OEA is pushing that one super hard and also it's gaining some traction. It's not great and they're pushing back against it because it's not the best interest of districts by a long stretch and funding in in tight I hate to say we're in tight funding times but I'm hearing a lot more districts saying they're funding next year than adding. So we have plus B in tight funding times. So that's that's a definitely a bad one. It doesn't require you to do that. It just requires it as part of bargaining. So you could bargain it
036and say we're not class size does not matter but we have to have something in our bargaining. Um and then the other one that's gaining heavy steam and it's actually kind of rolled our way a little bit more although what the final results are going to look like still up in the air. Uh the special ed taking that cap off of special ed funding. Um it's capped at 11% 11% right now. So say you so you get double weight ADM for your sped kids up to 11%. But the statewide average is 16%. So that means that other 5% that cost more to educate our we're just absorbing that. So um originally I think the belief was when that got pushed and asked that they would maybe raise the cap from 11 to 13 or something
037like that. um talked to Morgan today and he said that right now it's trending that there'll be no cap at all. What does that mean? Well, it's hard to tell because it would be nice if that meant they were just going to add to the state school fund the amount that districts have been absorbing for that. But that's not a get. They might just say, "Well, we're going to take the cap off, but we're going to double weight all those kids." But then number is just going to be reduced based on that. That being said, right now 11.36 seems to be the number that is um that they're feeling most comfortable with. The last uh forecast came out two weeks ago, relatively flat for the state. So, not bad. It didn't seem backwards, but it
038wasn't didn't show a great that great increase that they um thrown into that new state economist this year, a new person doing that those projections. And that's um so that changes it. I think that this one he's he's he they I don't know if it's a male or female, they have kind of changed their approach of doing it. So, with the idea being off the record, I guess, but the idea being that we're going to stop having a kicker that's in the billion dollar range, trying to have a more accurate forecast of where the economy is going, so we're not taking all that tax revenue and giving it back, which, you know, anyways. So, that's where that's at. As Corey mentioned, we're beginning the budget committee or budget work um building our budget. so we
039can start working through that, looking through our numbers. Um, everything still seems to be relatively positive for us. So, saying that we're loaded with money and we can start eating eating it by burning piles of money, but I think we're doing um and then lastly, I got a meeting scheduled next Friday afternoon with the city about the Washington properties. finally got that meeting on the books and so we will need to talk about possible swapping or whatever whatever we're going to do to try and get that those fields up for sale. Uh because this field is coming in a whole lot more expensive than we had hoped. So we still have to get somewhere in the nature of 15 to 17,000 yards of fill to get it up to par. So selling that will be
040really helpful in offsetting those costs. That's all I got. That might be it for my voice. 8.6 enrollment report. Same steady 646. Okay. No, but I think we're going to be down two. So, take one from me. So, it is hanging steady. 8.7 policy second reading December 2024 update. Everyone got these last month to review for read on our off time. The good thing was these were shorter and much less two were very pretty straightforward. Any questions, concerns? Just Yeah. I mean like the this section the highlight are we the minute the highlighted part are we eliminating that part in brackets? I mean you just have decisions to make uh like in two three. Yeah. Um I would say that the um highlighted part is what we are taking in and I mean I put
041in high school principal because we needed to insert a administrator if it's a superintendent that's being complained against and the high school principal manage that the rest of them I thought should take um So, we're going to say it's going to be seven. Oh, all right. Seven is going to be that it's just going to be the high school principal. 12 to any district. Yeah. To the superintendent. Oh, designated license administrator or the alternate designated license administrator. Yeah, I have those. Okay. I know it's been a while since I've done these. So, that's in there. So, it goes to the designated or is that person the alter? Okay. So yes, the highlighted stuff is competitive. Okay. And then on a 33 on the back one, but strongly discouraged or prohibited and I was strongly discouraged
042in mind. Oba model sample policy promptly is kind of what I look like. Yeah, I mean I highlighted it, but we can't really uh delete it. Yeah, I do think you should add in there. Yeah, right. So, I had a a broader question about this. So, most policies seem to have you I don't know if you call it cause and effect. Something happens. This is what you do. This these are just standards. Are are we holding anyone to these standards? I mean, not that I'm against having ethical performance standards, but I would say that the idea is you hold all of your it's really kind of putting into words the fact that we're holding all of our people to these standards. So, everyone is held to these compet standards, okay, that are subjective and that's
043what I would and and not tied to a contract or anything of that nature. Are they and are those distributed to staff? I mean, who who sees these? Well, I mean, our policies are on the website for everyone, right? That's that's and I feel like that that part really falls under the employees responsibility to know what their expectations are for them. So, and then I think there was this I apologize I did not write a bunch of notes this time. I just kind of read through them. I know they're just black. I know. Um seemed like so there was still a part about sexual conduct within this policy. Yes. Which which policy you talking about? This is that DCAA still looking at that. So on page 26. Yeah, I guess. So um under sexual conduct
044does not include you can send a C. Anyway, I guess there are a couple places where it still talks about contractors, agents or volunteers. Is that appropriate for a standards for competent and ethical of Oregon educators? I mean is that well I think the idea is they run they when they don't become educators when they come on campus they then have to meet those stand a set of standards that educators have to meet. So that's why they leave those in there. And um they also some of those I mean you think contractors those are just um some of those contractors are educators our school psychologists our um medical personnel I mean those people that come on are people that our sped staff speech people all those guys those are they're also contractors that come on
045board but they're also educators right so that part made sense but like you know volunteers I it's kind of the idea is volunteer and and obviously they're going to have a harder time holding time holding volunteers to these standards. The expectation is there probably to a lower level but the broad sub the broad object the broad objectives of how they should act are still there and our way of managing that is no longer allow obviously we need to take bigger steps depending on what happened. Right. Yeah. So this I view this policy as more of a general expectation of laying out how you expect your people on campus to act that are well and I think too from the public standpoint if you're you know one who reads school district policies on the website it's
046certainly not a bad thing to have. Yes I agree. I think it shines shines a good light on everything. Yeah. Yeah. I was just curious. Seemed like the last one. Yeah, it's pretty much the same. Any other questions? 8.8 Enterprise Zone Info. This is a weird one. Um, I swear every time I think I'm well I never think I'm done learning but crying out loud. Uh, so uh myself and Mr. Prestoni at Subin got approached by this um Suban Oakland enterprise zone. Um, and essentially they're asking us to enter into an agreement. I'm not asking you guys so I sign on the action items to do that. I just wanted to present it to you to get a feel for where you're coming from. and I told them we had an hourlong Zoom, myself and
047Terry with the two ladies that are running this program. Uh, one works for the city of Sut and the other one I think was the state representative for the program. Um, anyways, essentially these enterprise zones, I'm going to paraphrase, so don't quote me as this is all fact, but this is my interpretation of enterprise zones are set up to try and create tax breaks to get businesses to come in and open up in your area. Um, they have to meet certain standards. Um, there's pretty stringent set of standards for them to meet um to be able to be in this program. if they're part of this program, then essentially for the first three years, they're the taxes are abated. They're basically tax-free for those first three years. And then years four and five and six
048have some um looser requirements, so they're not as stringent in the taxes that they pay. But as part of this enterprise zone, we um the school districts are allowed to to put a um essentially between and we have to assign a fee between 15 and 30% in a whole number um increment to tax them in those first three years. So they pay that 15 to 30%. We have to build them. we have to make sure they pay us and then when we get that money from them that money is reduced from the our state school funds. So it's a it's a it's it's supposed it's supposed to be a wash for us meaning that we're not going to get any more money for it or any less money for it but we are getting less
049money for it because we're now taking on the extra responsibility of running these down. Um I asked these pretty pointed questions. They said, "Oh, yeah. Um, there's there's quite a few around the state." So, it just happened that the example, the resolution example they gave us was from Mororrow County. I know the suit from Mororrow County really well. So, I called him. He's like, "Yeah, that was in place before I got here and it's for their whole county and they did it for I want to say they were they're either Amazon or Google, one or the other. Has a bunch of stuff in Mororrow County." So they put it in place for them and they put the 15% in and he said it's been it's been it's been difficult. He said it's doable. Yes, we
050get our money. Yes, it works. Yes, it's fine. But it's kind of a pain. And the idea is we're doing our part to help them have to pay some taxes, but we're trying to encourage growth in the area. So, we asked specific questions. This group that's coming in here is not is not part of this program. And right now, there's zero businesses that would meet this um this enterprise zone. And there's at this point, to their knowledge, the two ladies room, there's zero businesses on the horizon. But the idea being this would encourage more businesses to come in. I said, I'll give it to my board and see what they say. to the city of Oakland. Uh the city of Oakland is not one of the um I don't know the answer to that. It
051does say that says the city of Sunland has recently been appointed um by the Southernland Oakland enterprise zone sponsors, Douglas County, the city of Southerntherland and the city of Oak. not a reason. You know, Tom knows too. They they would come to us about enterprise zone stuff. I don't know, every two or three years and it's just like kind of a presentation and a head nod and that's about all that ever happened. It was because I'm looking at the zone and a lot of it's Oakland like city, right? So, not a lot of room for businesses to grow. It's historical. So, building something there is not very but this is but it's this entire enterprise zone. It's not I mean it's this whole green area. I get we're gonna get kids from home if we
052have businesses that want to move right families within free jobs. But I don't but do we and I don't know. I mean if they build something out here. I believe we still tax that for whether they have children or school district. Yes, you're right. They pay the enterprise zone fee. Right. Right. So, was there a downside if we don't I didn't I didn't get it except for the only downside that I walked away from that meeting with the idea of is someone's going to roll their eyes and go, "Oh, you're not trying to grow the area." Which are we? I mean, seriously, we talked all along about we don't want the schools any bigger. We're at capacity. We don't want to grow. It's not like the city's hot on the, you know, growth, urban growth
053boundaries. How can we grow this? How can we get bigger? I mean, that's just not. So, to me, it felt like if we choose to do it, fine. We do it because we're being a good soldier. We're being a good team player, but it's really not going to have any effect because we're not someone now. Someone could I mean, someone has area. They're working on developing some things and they're working on trying to grow and push. they they are a little bit more in tune to growing. But from my vantage point, I I don't see how it really benefits us except for possibly bringing events. So if someone wants to do it, we don't have to do it or how I didn't get that. That's a question that I didn't answer. I gather that we
054both have to agree to it because it's the Southernland Oakland enterprise zone. So I'm assuming that we both have to do it, but I don't know. I would say that when we walked away from the meeting, Terry was probably on the same page as me. Oh, I was gonna say, yeah, they're really gonna go to do it. We're not. He has some of the same questions. I was going to take it to his board. His boards are on Monday. So, it's either last Monday or next Monday. I don't know which, but next Monday. Yesterday, they just had it. So, I don't know. And I had to ask him today at the meeting if he had done that or not. So, At this point, I'm not asking for a decision out of you. Just wanted to
055throw it at you and give you an idea of what it was. Funny that you said describe that because that's pretty much how I walked away. Good presentation. Get the info out there. Hey, this is what's going on. We don't really have anybody on tap for it. So, I don't know what the rush to do it is. So, how about between now and next board meeting, maybe you talk to Terry and see No, but like I say, you're part of this whole enterprise zone. It's more than just open. I understand. Which really most of it so far has taken place down here, right? That's really where everything's been up to this point and most of those aren't there. Yeah. So yeah, well then like I think you go the state level too like how many
056people are wanting to come to Oregon start with what I deal with. Yeah, it would be different if we got the 30% on top of what we nor that's what I was trying to say to it. We do it but there's no it's a cost. It's a cost loss to us. Yeah. Law work. Yeah. all the way around. I'm like, we need another one to then make sure that we get them. Budget committee roster. I didn't include it in your packet. Just uh I was going to and I just didn't. Um so we got Michelle Kaiser, Justin Harris, Betty Keely, Ron Lane Paxton. Same group from last year. their terms expire at the end of this year after they do that. Ron was the only one that was kind of joining you last year about
057getting off and if you're watching Ron but I he would it was agreeable to do it agreed to do it one more year last year to do it. So to me that extends to this year and his terms up. So um we will have to start probably recruiting some new person this year but we haven't this year. Next scholarship committee uh this is a month early this actually two months early. Usually I think we have them come to the May meeting. We talked last year about getting back down a little bit earlier to try and get away from some of the new craziness. So April they will be at the April meeting to present. Um, you guys can either do it now or you can do it at the April meeting. You guys, just a
058reminder of the process. You listen to their presentation. They both come in or both however many there are come in, give you their spiel, you see their applications and then you guys um uh you guys uh select committee of yourselves of two goes through make your decisions of how much is there and at that point at the April meeting um Cy will have a total of how much is in that account. you obviously don't want they don't want to depends on how much is there give it all away but what whatever you that's where you choose what you're going to give away so just throwing it out there now so you can be thinking about it for the next meeting you'll next meeting you'll permit your select your subcommittee to that are going to go
059through the applications and make those decisions and I think it was Tom and I left this time that's just a reminder and to say make sure you guys are okay with. We made the scholarship due April 1st. So, you'll have the applications in your permit in your packet and then uh they'll do their presentation at the end of the meeting. 8.11 secure rules uh school act. So, sorry for the change on this. This just came about today at the soup county suit meeting that we had. Roseberg um school district wrote this up. Jared gave a presentation to all the soups. Essentially, it's a resolution saying, "Hey, federal government, why would you stop funding this um secure rural schools act? Um they stopped it. It came around in 2000. We've been getting money every year since
060then. Total money that we get last year was budgeted to come in at 60 for this year. Currently that we're in budgeted to come in at 60,000. We came in at 73,000. So, I mean, it's a chunk of money. It's not I mean, it's not going to make or break the budget, but it's still a fair amount of money. salary um to say, you know, that's gone now. Um so he put this together and wrote the resolution essentially to um and he's encouraging all school boards in Douglas County to do it because we are grossly the entire county is affected by it. We're all going to lose a big chunk of money um from it. And um so I I did not write this resolution. I take his resolution and he just changed all the
061rosary stuff over and stuff because it's the idea behind it is we as a board are saying, "Hey, this money is is directly affects our kids. It affects our budget. We've had it for a long time. We have federal forest lands. We have all we meet all the requirements need to fund this." So essentially, it's a more organized than a petition to send to our legislators to wake up and see what's going on. Any questions? Okay. Public comments regarding agenda items. Okay. Well, I I came just because I like coming to a meeting once in a while and hear what's going on. But I did think of a couple things as I was sitting here. Um you a couple of you guys know that I applied for a grant as chair of the parks commission
062for tree planting roundabout. Well, I I thought it was a pretty good grant, but we we did not make the cut. So, uh that's too bad. I've been retired for a couple of years, so sometimes one less thing is a good thing. So, and uh also, I'm curious. Um have you got some uh I hope you got mostly positive feedback from the community about the new sign. How's that going? I've heard nothing but mass positive. Good. Absolutely. The only complaint that I've heard, it was annoying to hear, but I heard it. Uh there was frustration I guess in the I say frustration. One person sent a text to somebody that was at the game at the tournament that came and told me and showed me it that frustrated that it wasn't getting updated for up
063for what was going on in the games. So my response was well because I said have them reach out to me if they really want an answer but you can tell them that Denene does the upgrading upkeep of the um board and she does not work weekends so she gets off work at 3:30 on Thursday and we don't expect her to stay on call and updated through the weekend. So the only negative that I saw was on Facebook, there was two individuals that said it's just really bright at night. But at the same time, like it was only saying somebody on street lights. Uh so actually I've heard nothing but positive. What do you think as a Yeah. So I I haven't heard any negatives either. I'm just hoping that's the way it turned out.
064But I know that for years people have saying we've got to have better announcement boards. You know, we've been asking about that for years. So that's great. And um and we also I remember in discussion we tried to keep it away from the historic district down near the the truck route pretty much which is Oak Street and uh the light we tried to keep the light down and everything. Right. So yes, and I I wasn't thrilled with the movement of the post. They were supposed to move that pool, but in the end when you're sitting on Oak Street, it is a perfect view. We could not have put it in a best place, which is what I wanted if we were going to go there instead of down at Railroad Park, I thought that was
065better because really at the stop sign where it's safest to read it, right? Yeah. Sit and sit for 10 seconds and 15 seconds and see it all. So So yeah, I've heard nothing but positive. So, I've actually seen cars park over front of the water plant and watch the whole cycle before they go. Yeah, it's been good. Y the true thing will be probably heard when I go meet with the city next Friday. I might hear but at this point it's Action item 10.1. So we need to accept and approve the December 2024 policies to accept. Second motion second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Also motion carried. I know, right? Can't forget that. Okay. 10.2 Oakland School District School Board resolution which was in front of us. We need
066to um or make a motion to either approve or deny. So, do I have a motion for the Oakland School District School Board resolution? I move that we uh approve resolution 24-25-1. Have a second. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Motion carried. So if you guys before you leave can all put your signature on the one. So everybody that's a little Okay. Next up, upcoming meeting input. April meeting is April 9th. Let's see if they the May one is when we'll have our first budget meeting beforehand. I should be able to have or I should have a a light but subjective um overview kind of where we're at with the budget as the budget process kind of lets know about that at
067that point but we should have a pretty good idea. Yeah. for the good of the order. Um I am uh just if you guys are looking for me um not next week but spring break week I'm gonna begin on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I'll back up to work on Friday first four days. So you are looking for me. I guess it depends on where you're looking. So if I need the sign of [Laughter] these blue, hey, any announcements Tuesday or is the 100th day of school to celebrate that we're all going to dress as if we were 100 years. Same as canopy. Okay. Wait.