April 15, 2026 Riddle School Board of Directors Meeting

001We will uh stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> All right. I would like to uh welcome everyone for coming tonight and I think we're going to get started right in with a presentation. >> Okay. >> How'd you like that? Just move you right up. You want to do a little preamble or? >> Yeah, I will do a preamble to the constitution. The um you know 2024 the district completed a a long range facility plan and we enlisted Joe Slack from HG&E to help guide us through the process. The district got a $25,000 grant from the state to help with that process. Um

002and so our um uh facility committee on site uh we've uh well we had a kind of a subcommittee meeting with Russell, myself and Joe a few weeks ago to look at those tiers, tier one, tier two, and tier three with the facility committee had prioritized trying to think about if if this community would support funing local property tax bond levy to do a chunk of work. We think that, you know, maybe we could get up to, you know, $4.5 million locally, $4.5 million through a what they call the awesome grant through the state to match a potential bond levy and we'd have up to nine, maybe $10 million. The nice thing about these bonds, you get the money right up front. If you have if you stick it in the bank and get six

003or seven% interest on it, you actually have more money than you actually the taxpayers and the state provided. So, it's a good good way to do things. Um, so Joe is here tonight. We asked him to come and kind of present some options because you had a what was the total facility worth? 30 some odd million dollars. >> Yeah. 25 27 billion. >> Yeah. And so we thought, well, let's go back and look at those 2024 estimates and see if you can park us in with those priorities for the in that $9 million range. So he's done some preliminary work for us. We've got hard copies, but we've got on the big screen as well. >> Thank you. Yeah, here's the last >> some of these touchcreens. So, see like like we mentioned um we've

004done we did a facility assessment report in 24 and then we collaborated with uh brick out of Portland for the long range facility planning. If you guys all remember a lot of I see a lot of familiar faces and that long range facility plan uh was about I think we had ended up with three three uh long range facility planning committee meetings plus steering meetings also with Dave and Russell and we kind of zeroed in on u the facility needs as well as the planning needs. And so the uh this report that I thought Dan put in your packet, this this is just the front end of it. doesn't have the appendixes but um one of the processes in this besides uh educational adequacy and law and uh forecasting on what the enrollment will be

005part of it was to prioritize the um the improvements and what they added up to in different tiers. We had tier one, tier two, tier three. the tier tier two tier one those if you have a chance to read through that not tonight or anything but uh if you look back at it tier one were really uh projects that uh the committee thought could be handled without bond measure work. In other words, it could be budgeted and uh those could be implemented you know with some strategy on funding. Maybe have to save for a couple years on some items but that was the plan. So tier two and tier three had to do with uh projects that really needed outside your regular budget. And so the tier 2 projects added up to about 12.6 million.

006And u those are what we went through oh four or five weeks ago. And but it was a little more than what kind of what we wanted to shoot for. And so I'll uh kind of I'll show I'll show those projects um the best I can and then and then like Dan said, we've got some options uh to go with these. Well, so this I don't know how you get that to be not zoom or what do I do? >> If you could scale it, you can on the sidebar on the right. You can kind of move it up and down if you top it. >> That magnifying glass right there. If you click on that, you can change the percentage. >> Oh, there you go. Oh, I see it up there by the print.

007Yeah. >> H by the H. >> Right above the H >> where right down from there. >> Right there. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. I don't >> That's a There we go. He hit it with his finger. Good job. >> Okay. So, so this is this floor plan is of course the elementary school right out of the report and those little those little blue symbols have to do with uh areas that we've identified uh whether it be building envelope, fire life safety issues, um functionality or finishes and the like. And so the elementary school is actually in pretty good shape. Uh we didn't have a lot of items uh identified, but the big ones are ones that we spent >> the big ones we'll spend all this money on. You won't really know it because

008it has to do with replacing rotten water piping and failing sewer lines. So those are kind of the biggest big ticket items for that school. It does the building does have some ADA uh issues that we'd want to fix. So the yellow the yellow are kind of the areas where you'd actually see uh some of the some of the work that was identified in that tier 2. Uh the one on the on the right that's the existing what we call multi-stall restrooms and those are identified to be remodeled to make them safer and uh all fixtures all working and of course ADA compliant. There are some windows that are identified to be replaced that a lot of the windows have been replaced in that school. And then the middle the middle yellow rectangle is the

009kind of right at the front office area where it's really tight and constrained. Uh not a good spot for all like admin and parent meetings or teacher parent meetings. And the bathroom's really small. So you'd want to make it ADA compliant. And then that long uh rectangle that has to do with enclosing the um that open that open breezeway that connects all those classrooms just to make the building more secure. So you leave the classroom, you're still in the in the school, you're not outside the school to provide a little more security. And then those blue lines on the far left that was identified as as a possible solution to separate the bus and pedestrian pickup drop off. Uh that could be the the student pickup drop off area and the buses could be separated.

010So that that was identified as well. So that's at the elementary school. And then uh the high school, we have a few more blue circles. Um of course there's a lot of buildings there. Um the high school is the one that's or the main high school building is the one with the most identified uh deficiencies. And I'll try to kind of work through this fairly quickly, but um you know ADA again this school like the elementary school with mechanical and plumbing are kind of the big ticket items. And then upstairs really it has to do with access to those two really goodiz classrooms. There's one of your bigger classrooms in at the school. this one right here and then this one right here. This is a band room and um it just has Yeah, we

011all know it has there's no way to get to it if you're disabled and can't cl can't negotiate stairs. So, we need vertical access or an elevator. This stair this fire exit should be replaced as well. So, those and that's a fire life safety thing. So, the things that visually that you could potentially consider that people would notice uh that's in the tier 2 report are the uh the big the biggest one, that kind of funky L-shape. That's the locker rooms to totally renovate those, make them ADA compliant, safe, um, cure the building envelope issues, and, uh, create new or new locker or team rooms. And then that little rectangle tagged onto it would be vertical access to an elevator to serve that second floor. And then another big one is that rectangle by the

012the entry that gets used a lot. That's not really the main entry. This this rect this this rectangle right here. Um the the the deficiency and the thought to put a cure on is to create a main entry that's accessible that provides a secure vestibule to create a single port of point of entry to campus and as opposed to trying and we'd move the office function that's right here over to this area. At the same time, we would uh remodel the restroom there and then remodel the restroom over on this side. Same with this this these are restrooms over here that are identified as non-compliant as well. So that's that's uh kind of the big thing at the high school. And then this illustrates the uh access to the second floor. So just in a

013nutshell, that's uh that's one of the big ticket items that uh we kind of could visually show you. And then this is a little bit hard to read, so I have a hard copy. So I started out, this is option one. I actually did option two at first. And uh with the awesome grant, we're trying to keep this trying to keep the uh keep it at eight or nine million somewhere in there is what was sort of a target potential the school district community potentially could support this in terms of thinking of in terms of cost per thousand, you know, down the road. And so that was kind of the goal. And so, like I said, I did option two first, but it was too much. So, then I backed out a little bit. So,

014what we have is for the elementary school, we have electrical upgrade work. We have replace domestic water piping, uh, sewer, sanitary sewer piping replacement, and then improve student restrooms for accessibility and safety. um that that last one is the yellow that I showed. That's what you'd end up uh seeing. The thing to keep in mind though also is with the water piping and the sewer piping, we would um potentially they could kind of double up with the bathrooms because we'll end up in there replacing piping and then we're going to be dealing with fixtures that aren't working properly and then we'd be replacing them. So, a lot of that work can go hand in hand. And then the high school uh similar water and sewer piping replacing and then uh student improve student restrooms for

015accessibility safety and then the uh create a secure vestibule, relocate the main office, and then uh replace the mechanical system in the main building. And then the biggest takeout item is those is the locker room renovations. And so that's 6.6 mill at the at the high school and two million at the uh elementary school for a total of 8.6. So this kind of gets you in that target whether you want to whether district wants to do these job these projects or or swap them out with others. That's kind of where we're at now is just to kind of toy around with that. So then if you go to number option two yeah so this uh the the red items are in addition to option one. So the the additional item at the elementary school is

016to create that separation of the passenger vehicles with the buses and create a separate spot there for so we don't have the cross traffic. And then at the high school we would add cooling to the library and the annex classrooms. And then also the other thing is we while we're at it with the renovation in the locker room, we would at the same time create some vertical circulation to get upstairs. Um and that ends up at 9.8 million. That kind of where I was with start and then um I was like, is this where I'm supposed to be? And I called Russell said, am I going the right way on this? Because I had another option. and I was up at 12 mil or 13 mil. Joey, you're going the wrong way. So, so, uh,

017then I went took some I took these red things out and that's how I got to option one. So, then the next one is option three and uh, I added in addition to what was listed on one and two, I added window replacement for that should say south wing. south wing. And then we do the we'd improve that front entry office area for ADA and parent access. And then again, we would add the student drop off pickup spot. And then the high school, I don't think I changed the high school. >> Oh, I added a little What did I add? 195,000. >> I did the uh I added the other bathroom in the annex building. I should have made that red. That number got bigger. >> Actually, these are >> Yeah, I might have to

018check my spreadsheet on those two. And that brought me to 10.3 mil. So >> yeah, it looks right. You went from 222,000 on that second line item to 479. >> Yeah, >> that was like this one, >> right? >> That one got smaller. >> Yeah. So this is kind of just at the threshold of u the conversation on um you know how to pick and choose the again the efforts with I thought really productive long range sort of planning work you all did. We ended up at 126 that um you know that included painting, mechanical improvements, plumbing improvements, windows sewer piping, cooling at classroom and restroom renovations at the elementary school. And then at the high school, window replacement, painting, ceiling replacements, mechanical replacement at the high school, plumbing upgrades, air conditioning in the library,

019annex buildings, locker room renovations, secure entry, vest reveal, science room renovations, and restroom re remodels. And that add, like I said, that added up to 126. It seemed like it was too strong of a number. So we kind of pulled pulled out some of that. The thing that we did move into this into this effort was from a from the tier three side was the uh separate passenger drop off spot at the elementary school. Everything else stayed on the tier three side. >> And Dan, that awesome And is it up to 6 million or is it eight? >> We're we're qualified for up to eight and a half million. >> So >> that's a match. >> That would be the match the maximum match for our district. >> So you'd need to to get the

0208 mil. You'd have to pass a bond for pass bond for 8 million. So >> right a buck 90 per thousand probably as your assessed value which gets pretty expensive. What is it? Four was >> four and a half was about 85 cents per thousand of cess which I you know Oakland just passed uh about that about 5 million to do to build a middle school gym and that's what they and Oakland and Riddle assessed property value about the same. So it's kind of easy to to kind of pull numbers and say this is ballpark. So if you're in the 80 to 90 cents per thousand, you could do you could do $9 million worth of projects if you get the grant. And we would we would we qualify and we would get that matching

021grant. We just have to apply for it. >> Is that a one time deal or if we did that off? Is that could you get it again? >> Well, they right now we're prioritized on a list from 197 school districts. We're in the I think we're in the 70 or 80 80th position range. But that means Okay. So, will all those school districts go out for bonds? No. But based on our facility and age and uh so social socioeconomic stuff, we would I think we'd be in good good position to apply and get the match. Oh wow. Just for my short time here, I I worry about So just like the high school boiler system that's just going to get more and more expensive. You got, you know, you can't look inside of a piece

022of pipe. But when you have start getting condensate line leaks, then you know that you know your pH levels have kind of gone up and down. You start corroding from the inside out and all of a sudden you spring a leak and then you're cutting into an asbestous tile ceiling and you're replacing a long rung of pipe and you spent $35,000 on a repair whereas you could have maybe put in three split systems, you know, for heat and cooling. But that's that's kind of how I look at it. It's like you're I think you're maintenance costs on just the high school heating system and we've talked about the water system. Now the sewer line is there is is is it they have a process now where they can run a liner into the sewer or

023is it >> some sometimes you can yeah and these that's the biggest numbers in all this is water and sewer piping and so the numbers are really strong um you know whether you need to use all that or a portion of it we're just trying to be conservative with the cost so that um it covers it But there could be some effort to get that figured out now um to maybe fine-tune the numbers. >> Yeah. So, one that was one of the discussions whatever a year ago or whatever was coming up with some uh mechanical plans for a new system replacing what we have. >> Yeah. >> Something that we could go out to bid with and actually have, >> you know, more solid number, I guess. >> Yeah, we put we put a proposal

024together to do that. The same engineer that helped with a report, we got his um I got feed proposals from him. We we sent it over here a few months ago, but um still, you know, it's costs it's a fee that you got, >> right? Yeah. It takes quite it's quite a bit of work. And we would TV it >> and we would uh part of that proposal was to get a plumber on board to help us with some on-site investigations so we're not just in kind of a bubble in our office. So >> do you recall roughly what that >> I think it was around I think I resent it. So I think it was like 140 or something like that. >> 140,000. >> Yeah. I could resend it over here. And that was

025for plumbing and sewer. >> Yeah. Water. >> Both schools. >> Yeah. Yeah. Both schools. >> Yeah. >> You know, it's like, you know, where do you go from here? Well, um it's obviously a tough one on how to move forward. Um you could do not do anything. Uh you could regroup that really good committee, that long range plan could committee could have easily be, you know, retoled into a, you know, capital improvement bond measure kind of group that can kind of hone in on some of the numbers and decide which ones make sense. If you did decide to pursue a bond measure, you know, we can get a little bit more exact information out. Uh those those floor plans with those big yellow squares are just they're just identifying the area where it would happen

026if you wanted to actually see how it would be reconfigured. uh to maybe help folks uh comprehend and understand what what we after that that could happen too. We you know we we help with b pre-bond stuff um on a kind of a regular basis. So we're helping a fire district right now with fire station funding fund measure thing too. So we've helped other school districts. I think you were thinking November or >> I think November would be early May, a year from next, you know, >> you could put something on a you could put something on the ballot in November. It probably wouldn't pass. >> You wouldn't have enough time to get to your community and get your >> bond uh committee and group together to start pushing it. But it's it's not a

027bad strategy because you know if you ask for 12 million or or even a 8 million or $9 million bond and okay we heard you they vote it down. You come back in May down to the four or five million. Sometimes that's a I'm not saying you just throw it out there as a sacrificial lamb. But yeah, >> you would be probably better served to wait until May until everything was >> you had time to really address the community. >> Well, and then since we're budgeting right now that like we'd want to decide whether we want to work out plans for the water and sewer or just wait another year. >> When I get back, I can resend that fee proposal to you. So, >> yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, I'll resend it. >> Russ

028doesn't have I don't >> seems to be like sections that seem really really high. >> Yeah, >> you guys have had some transition. So, I totally appreciate that. Yeah. I I also think it'd be good to just have some project in there that's a little bit more visible, you know, like I know I know we have the walls open up where we do the >> seismic >> the seismic and and saw, you know, if you you could uh renovate the shop class or something that's a little bit more digital. um a couple classrooms. I think I, you know, I think that would help. >> I'm all for water and sewer >> and boilers. I really am. But I I also would love to to walk in and be able to, you know, really show the

029community like, hey, look at how how much improvement the classroom has gotten on these because of that as well. >> Yeah. You know, option two is the higher of the first two, but like um the security that's kind of a good thing at the elementary school and I feel like >> it's a need at the high school. Speaking of seismic, um, in the interim, you could go after, um, a seismic grant for the annex building at the high school. I know that half that roof is on its last leg, I think, the the west half. And so, usually with upgrades, usually end up ripping into the roof sheathing, meaning you have to replace the roofing. And so that grant program would um pay for that. Great program. We've done quite a few of them and

030um no match money. You know, cost a little bit to put the proposal together, but the district has already had the study done on that building. And that's that's most that's the bulk of the fee to put that put the grant together. And so um up to 2.5 mil and that building's not big enough. you easily could stay within that 2.5 price tag. So those that grant cycle is in the fall closes a week or two after New Year's. So January 27 want to get an application. >> Did you help the district with the application? >> Yeah, definitely. Yeah. We do we usually do one or two every year. We're working on two two that got funded. We're working on those right now. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thanks, Joe. You'll be driving the Costco

031run for my wife. So, I'm >> There you go. You're ready. >> Hit Highway 42. >> Yeah. >> Good night, folks. >> Drive back safe. >> All right. Uh 1.0. Uh any recognitions or appreciations? Um I from our from our school we love the or we want to appreciate or know that we appreciate all your guys' hard work with this with the what you've been doing lately late nights um for the school board and dedication for our superintendent search. Amy Chandler for the work on purchasing and organ organizing awards for our quarterly assembly that's happening tomorrow. um our sixth grade tour guides. Um when we had our superintendent candidates come through, our leadership took them around and um gave them the tour of our campus, which was great and they did an excellent job doing

032that. And Marty Fy and the rest of the staff and students were a great drama performance for our students when they came over here during the school day. It was a great time. Uh, thank you John Woody and our maintenance staff and their work with installing filters and working on our water faucets that have been testing that had been testing high-end lead. We'll go over that water report a little bit later. Uh, thank you to Kane Terry, Isaiah Ibrahim, Elelliana Freeman for their work with the superintendent applicants. They did a great job of showing the applicants around the building and representing Brittle Junior Senior High School. Thank you Marty Folly, Don Mills, Sarah Johnson, Donna Wit for the work on this year's play performance. Mr. Policy and Sarah Johnson ran a theater while Don Mills

033worked on dinner theater and Donna Whit did costumes. Other volunteers that were assisted uh during dinner theater were Mindy Woody, Sheila Brown, Lena and Jolie Woody, Taylor Brown, Jonathan Beano, Josiah Sanchez, Angel Hawthorne, and Ethan Hackett. And then thank you to the elementary school for allowing us to invade your space the last few months. I know it's not always easy, especially with your PE classes. Uh, congratulations to our high school band for qualifying for the OSAA band tape pool with their performance at Wamic Band Festival. We have high hope that this will lead to another state competition invite. A huge thank you to ESS for the work with our substitute services. Not only has our bill rate for certified teachers have g gone up, we now have instructional assistance subs, food service, and custodial substitutes,

034which are the first at the high school we've had in years. So, thanks to that company. And then thank you to Nigel Summerland for setting up a field trip to Toad Falls in March. And our business services are here tonight. Angie and Kelly is this is a time of year where they don't get enough thanks because especially these two because you they've got four different school districts they're working on right now and they've come to our Thursday admin team meetings and helped us hone in on what's important, what do we need to fund, what are what are some things that we can reduce or remove from the budget. So, I like the progress we're at and I appreciate you guys being here tonight. >> Thank you. and I have never had contract human resource services,

035so I didn't know how to deal with it for a couple months. And now I wouldn't do anything without it. So I appreciate Holly Hill and her staff >> for being able to um develop job descriptions and send out letters of intent to return. And I mean, it's been a pretty a pretty busy time of year. I think, whoa, what would we do without them? That's the best $30,000 we've ever spent. And then lastly, we have Christine Kaiser who's helping us do reports. She was in district today meeting in the buildings. Karinda, Amy, uh Sheree and Lavela and the principles, myself. Uh and she's just a font of knowledge. You know, I when I met her, it was probably the mid 90s. She's been a kind of a longtime ESD employee and has moved into

036this role of data support specialist and helping us get our um reports done. So want to thank thank her as well. So all right to 2.0 uh consent agenda. Four items on there. We can do them all at once or individually. >> Should we announce our new superintendent at this point? Because I just put in there superintendent over >> Oh, sorry. >> What's that? Did you have >> Did you have any questions? >> I do. I was just looking at that. I'm like I'm not used to sharing mine. >> I know. I kind of gave you a second there. I'll just jump. I was like trying to find my in. So I just have one for Thank you to Kim Hazen, our new school psychologist who started with us in January. She has really hit

037the ground running providing re-evaluations and eligibility determinations for our students um and our sped team. So she's been a huge asset to us. So >> thank you. >> Where did that uh hire come from? >> ESD. Oh, okay. >> Yeah, >> another ESD service. >> Yeah. >> Yes. She's kind of a the Tony Milton doing the re-evaluations and testing. So, her being a school psychologist, she can do a higher level of cognitive and IQ testing. Um, so, and with that also comes our ASD evaluations. So students who might be eligible under autism spectrum disorder, this contract comes with an AD ASD consult from the ASD ESD as well. So, the items on the consent agenda are approving the regular session meeting minutes, uh, uh, the executive session meeting minutes, uh, the resignation of the basketball

038coach, and hiring of Erica Dociler. >> I'll make a motion to consent the agenda. >> I have a second. >> I have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? With no further discussion, all those in favor? Motion carried. Uh district financial report. >> Okay. As of March 31st, has the district uh remains financially stable. Revenues total 6.77 million um which is 92% of the budget. Uh state funding and local taxes are on track and interest earnings are above expectations. Our expenditures are at 3.99 million or 54% of budget and are tending appropriately. The current fund balance is 2.78 million with a projected ending balance of 1.55 million or 21% of the budget. So overall the district has enough reserves to cover about 3 to three and a half months of operations. Uh

039in other business, uh we should I hope that we'll be wrapping up Angie and I will be at the admin team meeting in the morning. Hopefully we'll be finalizing budget wrapping that up so I can get it loaded and get your budget votes done. I'm aiming for the fourth or the 5th, but no later than the 7th so that we can have them to you a week in advance of the committee meeting on the 13th. So um then um in May I will not be able to attend the board meeting. I've already let Dan know this. I'll be out >> um for a few days. And so um either Angie or Rachel Aken, who is our assistant business director, will be here in my place uh during the May, but I will be back in

040June. So, and lastly, I want to introduce you. You probably all already know her. She's been at the district before, but this is Angie Brown. She is your incoming business manager uh effective July 1st. She's already been attending lots of meetings with me. We've had lots of budget discussions so that she um is fully aware of what's going on with the budget and how we're working that. So, we've been kind of going back and forth. She does Glendale, so we've been have a board meeting at the same night. So, we've been kind of training off and going back and forth and getting each other up to speed, but I know she's going to do a great job. Like I said, she's already familiar with your district, so that's going to be a big bonus. >>

041Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Welcome back. >> Thank you. >> Uh building and district reports, uh elementary, >> um this comes usual going through registration. We've dropped a little bit um several families kind of moving out of state but um kind of looking like we're ending where we started but um pulling study about our attendance is up this past month. Um again we've we've kind of adjusted um what we're reporting is we're doing a monthly versus cumulative for the year. So we get a better idea of how we are doing monthtomonth or positive paw ratio. um kind of holding back. We're being we're pretty consistent and um that's our recognition for positive um things going on at the school and that ratio is still holding just around seven to one for our um positives

042to behavior referrals and we look through that. I mean the there's data attached for all of those and um this one right here is the one like what teachers or what staff members are giving out the positive pause and then the one after that are the referrals by month um for the school. So we were down in some referrals but um yeah we've had some adjustments and some of things um in some classrooms and stuff. So hopefully we're we're you know getting back to having less referrals and more public things. But um see the title night our numbers have been calculated for students meeting the year's reading challenge for quarter three. Um so we've done that and we have our assembly um tomorrow recognizing um the reading challenge kids that are on track for meeting

043that reading challenge as well as student of the months um fifth and sixth grade honor roll and pause and paw drawing um and then um some of this John you had talked about and there's a whole there's a slow pages I just kept going um this kindergarten p it starts with that it's I kind of dug a little deeper into the dibble data um some of the reports that you can get. So when you look at the box whisker plots um it will take a little time. So what you can look at and if you want you can email me later um with questions but when you look at the different colors the colors are by year um the black is ob it's 2019 so precoid and then as we go through and um the

044three of them across are beginning, middle and end of the year. Um so right now um this first couple where I think I'd like to highlight the most for today. Um this when you go through the up on top is kind of what the test is. So letter naming and then they kind of build on each other. So you have to get these scores up before you start seeing more movement in the next one which is phonic segmentation segmentation fluency. Um, and we kind of talked about this last board meeting. If you look at that the second page with the box, whisker plots with the um, the PSF. Um, at the beginning of the year 2025, which is that blue, you only see the whisker. You don't even see a box. So you're I mean

045that's kind of where we're starting. Um, so we're and but as you go even middle of the year um, you see grow um, from that mid year. So that box is obviously that gray bar is that line where you want it where you want to get to. Um so um we are making growth when we really dig into it but it's not as much when you look at composite scores the overall scores that we saw last week last last time um where we are really focusing in is if you kind of go to the next one the same thing you're seeing that growth the nonsense word fluency. So that would be like being able to see like um the word BIM. Can they rather than memorize it, can they actually look at um like blend

046it into actually use the phone what they've already letter naming and knowing their sounds to actually sound out a word that's really not a word versus just knowing a word by sight. So that's kind of going and getting improving and that kind of builds more. Um so um the nonsense word fluency that's kind of where we are finding that we want to get more growth on and that that's essentially like can they blend to figure out what the word is and so I feel like we've made some good growth with the letter naming and the sound knowing their sounds. So um at this point then we're going to um our kindergarten teachers and our um first grade K1 especially have really focused on that blending can blend and understand the words so or know the

047words. So that um nonsense word fluency as well as the um is kind of where we're focusing a lot of our instruction for our primary. Um this this these pages and it um as you go through it, I'll kind of just explain one. These are the two different classes. Um on my page I have um Dana and I looked at um I did mark and I can mark it on yours later, but where are highlighted which ones would be receiving special education services. So kind of be able to you know see how it how that might affect the different grades. But the composite scores are what I gave you last month. Um but then this kind of breaks it down differently. So you do are seeing some growth in there. But I also did it

048but this is just this year. So the skirts. I like those just because it gave us kind of more of a multi-year look. >> Yeah. >> And kind of broke it down more. Um as you go I did it for all the and then I got going on it. So I started doing all the grades and I did as much as So as you keep going through it um as you go further along past third grade, you don't have as many of those subtests. So you have just or you have reading fluency, you have accuracy, you have maze. Um maze is actually kind of like the comprehension aspect of the testing. And when you get to um third grade will do it. So if you look at the third grade like that um the maze

049is one of the sub tests in there and um that's it's kind of new at that grade level. So it's something new that they have to kind of learn how to take but we are seeing growth in that um on those grade levels because that is a um it's a it's part of the com combined composite score. So that's with those middle intermediate grades, we really focus on the May scores, but um yeah, it's a lot of data to look through and we could spend a lot of time on it, but I am you would ask kind of digging into it a little bit and where we are and where we're kind of focusing um our primary especially um knowing that we're coming in lower, but also um really find what do we want to

050do for the last quarter and that blend getting we know our letters we're knowing our sounds. Um, now we need to put it together to know our words. So, that's all kind of what's going on. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> It's a lot of stuff. So, first >> No, you did a really good job explaining it, too. >> I would be lost, but I think I get it. >> Yeah. >> And like I said, if you wanted to look, Dan and I talked about how to extrapolate like the the sped numbers as well, like that. How does that affect the numbers? I do have those marked on mine, but they didn't I didn't highlight and it didn't come through. as a PDF. So, >> okay, good. Thank you. >> Senior High Russell. >> Okay. Uh

051community 101 grant um on our leadership class received a $5,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation. They then set up a grant process for local community agencies as well as school district clubs and classes. We're hosting our community one um grant award celebration um on April 30th. um something we've been doing the last couple years, awarding grants to different groups um across the state with a little bit of money. It's a pretty cool thing. Uh lead and water testing results. Uh we we have received our most recent water testing results. Um I've attached them. Uh I can communicate that all of our water faucets have passed their lead testing. Um this allows us to put in for some reimbursement costs from OD regarding the testing and maintenance costs that we have incurred by taking on

052this project. That applica application was submitted to OD uh this last Monday. Okay. Um and so if you just real quick if you want to take a look at those water results pages down, it's going to be the EIS report. So, if you turn to page three of the EIS report, you can see the last four water fountains that we had concerns with. Um, that 5.34 is a in a classroom that um is not in use. We installed a filter there. Uh we re reconnected, installed a filter. It's still scoring a little bit higher, but it's within our within realm. Um, I think that one scored, John, was that like 98 last time or something like that? Like it was a crazy number. >> So, we're down quite a bit. And then the other three

053water faucets um have come back with perfectly clean water. So, the water filters that John helped us get utilize um helped greatly on those water fountains. So, thank you, John. >> Now, I'll start selling them to other people. I didn't know. >> Thanks for being the guinea pig. uh senior trip. The seniors are excited. They're they're planning out a senior trip. Um I have put in their possibility of their senior trip after the EIS report. Um they're proposing a camping trip from May 29th and May 31st that heads up to Umpqua's last resort. Um seniors are hoping to camp and hike up and around Topi Falls and Redmond Creek Waterfall. Just wanted to kind of let you guys know about that. If you have any questions regarding that, please get to me. Um Christie, you

054look surprised. Cameron Cameron said he had already cleared this with you. >> So I was like, >> am I on the chaperone possibilities? >> I think this Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just so you know. And so's John and Minnie, by the way. >> Sounds like a great birthday for me. >> Oh yeah. So anyways, so yeah, you can take a look at that. Um, for the most part, I think most of it's pretty good. They have uh the money that they need. The only questions I have right now is the swimming piece. Um, that concerns me a little bit. Um, and so that's the only one I haven't necessarily given them complete clearance on. >> It's it's a school sponsored or not a school sponsor? >> It is. It is kind of school sponsored because it's

055part of senior funds. >> They want to use their club funds. >> Yeah. >> To do this trip. Yeah, >> something we've done the last couple years and they've kind of expanded on it. We can talk more about tomorrow. >> I haven't given them full authorization yet. >> Later on I will not in this meeting but I will tell you how Dave Gianati stuck me on a senior trip in Cameas Valley. >> We went all the way down to Disneyland >> and we did whitewater rafting. We did Magic Mountain. We did I mean this these seniors had made so much they they did so many fundraisers and they had all this money. It was uh but uh Pa was pregnant so he couldn't go. She was due. >> Oh to be continued. >> To be

056continued. >> Senior transitions. Five of our 14 seniors are pursuing a path of the military. U we have other seniors accepted to Western Oregon University in Portland State. Uh last week we helped four students register for fall classes at UCCC. So they are all kind of moving in that direction. Um senior presentation Samantha White a financial adviser from financial advisors. Uh UCCC fire science came in today. Um so web in conjunction with recruit hippo brought down the truck simulator that was used by multiple classes before spring break. That thing is awesome. It's a van and it comes down and they plug it into our electrical and the kids climb up into it and it's like they're driving a big 18-wheeler truck and trailer down and they they can program for you to drive like any

057state, any city. Um, the kids learn very quickly that that's not an easy thing to do. >> Um, some of them tend to go off bridges. Um, but it ends up being fun for all. um attached you have the water testing results, the senior trip itinerary which Christa already found out about. Um ice deep testing data. So that's this wonderful color chart. Um ice deep allows us to break this down by kids and that's kind of how I like it because then I can go help kids. Um, but I went ahead and just kind of showed you through colors. Um, both the, uh, fall this year testing and the winter this year testing. Um, couple things that I noticed right away is the same kids we tested in the fall weren't necessarily the same kids

058we tested in winter. We had some attendance issues in winter where we had some kids who were out. So, some of our numbers are smaller. We've obviously had uh, a lot of kids moving in and out of district, etc., etc. A couple things that I will tell you right now that I am really excited about. We've been running ICT for four years. Very rarely have I had kids with green boxes across every single math category. There's eight of them. This year I have doubledigit kids all the way across. Um and that's not just like one class that's just, you know, above and beyond. I have seventh graders, I have eighth graders, I have freshman, and I have sophomores that are starting to score um across the board in math, which is one of my focal

059points. Um we met as a staff to go over some of our reading scores. Um we have reiterated that reading in class is important and not to skip over it. Not just to do lectures and engagement stuff, but sometimes reading in class is important. We're trying to get back to some of those foundational things. Um, with that said, I will also tell you that some of our lowest scores, especially my did analysis of the seventh grade, almost every kid who scored in the red in the seventh grade is a special education student, which the reason why they're instead is because they lack essential skills, which is why they're getting specific um design instruction to help them, you know, close up to their peers. So, that's some interesting data to look at in itself. But overall,

060I think we're doing okay. We're going to do another round of testing probably this next month and hopefully we continue to see that growth um across the board. Um if you want to know how your child is doing, we can talk after the meeting because I actually have the data pulled up on my computer right now. >> Awesome. >> Okay. Um any questions for me? >> Okay. Thank you. special. >> All right. Not much has changed in the last month um in regards to numbers. Um we did have one student who moved from the SST process into the initial eligibility phase. Um Deanna, so K6 has three in the initial eligibility phase. So she's sitting at 44 students. um probably looking at more like 48 by the end of the year. So, it is a

061little bit late in the school year to be holding these eligibility meetings to find students eligible this late in the year, but it it happens. And so, that's kind of just where we're at. And then essentially, you know, they'll have services in place for next year, which will be a good way for them to start the year. Um 7 through 8. um she's got 27. We have one seventh grader who moved from the SST process now into the eligibility phase. So um that one is going and 9 through 12 is just kind of holding steady at 28. Um it makes sense that the lower primary grades have these um initial eligibilities and kids going through the SST process. Usually by 9 through 12 they're identified and receiving services if they need it. Um, some things

062I'll start to add in the board report. So, we are a current event. We're still taking kids um to the YMCA every Monday in Roseburg for hydrotherapy. It's going really well. Um, all the students seem to be really enjoying it and benefiting. Um, we have this um on the 22nd. So, we have six incoming kinders who will be on um IEP. So, when we partner with um early childhood special education, so kids who are in um Head Start Services um who are on an IFSP, so an individual family service plan, and then we transition them into a school age document, so the IEP. So, we will we know for sure we have six incoming kinders who will be on IEP since we'll have a transition day on the 22nd where I work with uh Deanna

063Dodge, the primary spe special ed teacher, and she'll hold all six of those IEP meetings with those families. Um, we will obviously have probably have more coming in who we haven't been identified or we don't know about yet or kids who move into district, but we at least know we have six coming in. Um, >> do you know what their uh what their area of focus is going to be? Like is it speech or is it >> We don't really know until the IEP meetings happen. >> Okay. >> So, we're working on writing the IEPs now. We basically into the Head Start um database system and start looking at those children's IEPs and then or IFSPs and then when we hold the IEP meeting is when we start to identify what is their eligibility criteria

064and what are their services that they're going to be seeing and then usually how heavily are they impacted like what level of services are they going to need. So we'll have a better idea after the 22nd. kind of have a ballpark, but not entirely sure yet. >> So, when they come in from they're coming in from uh prek programs and they come into another district or into our district and you're saying they do go through re-evaluation or it's >> No, it's just we're transitioning. Yeah, it's automatic. They're already on a prek IEP essentially and we transition them into a school age document. Is that is that best practice just to just assume that it's >> yeah they're identified and already eligible and so they come into the school with an IEP. >> Thank you. >>

065Any other questions? I'll just I'll just note I mean we don't have as many speech eligible kids as I would have thought we'd have with 100 kids on IEPs because usually that's a pretty high number compared in other districts I've worked in there, you know, they're either speech only or speech as part of their disability. >> So 11 is low. I I mean just imagine >> only speech you mean? >> Yeah. Yeah. But >> we have a a lot of them are receiving speech and academics, >> right? But >> oh, we don't see that number. We're only seeing the speech only. >> Okay. >> They have a a very high case load. So many of these who are identified as like specific learning disability >> also receive speech. It's just not their primary eligibility. >>

066Okay, that's good. Yeah, that's a speech. Spee speech is one of the only services that everybody in the county gets from the ESD that we don't have to pay for out of our general fund. It's kind of a I had I had a lengthy conversation with Monica Nichols about how things have changed in the 15 years that I was out of the county because it used to be we had what we call a higher uh floor of ESD services. When I say the floor, the amount of money that every district would get from the Daz Creeks and Cameas Valleys to the Rosebergs and South Uquiz, you know, the small and big because ESDs by statute are supposed to kind of even the playing field for small, medium, and large size districts. Yes. And what's happened

067is the superintendent has said, "No, no, no. We're going to we're going to set the floor at $12,500. Well, you can't buy anything for $12,500 except maybe the courier service. But but they said, "Okay, we'll give everybody we'll give everybody speech therapist because everybody needs a speech therapist." And the the other thing is courier service. And then it's like everybody's all over the place, right? And it used to be more of those services that every district would need, the ESD would provide. And then when the cost of that is calculated, then they would say, "Okay, Riddle, you're going to get another 50,000 based on the number of kids that you have to spend on other service that you want to buy." So that that discrepancy between the small districts and the large districts has gone

068off the rails as far as I'm concerned. I'm only going to be here another couple months, but I told Analicia exactly how I felt about this. The way the superintendents have agreed to do this because I think it's wrong. The SDS are here to help every district in the county, especially the small districts. And it's kind of like Roseberg and Winston. I'm not I'm just naming names. And South bigger districts who generate more money because they have more kids for the county. They just basically say, "We just want our money." And it's not right. So, there's my editorial. I hope you got that on the camera because it's really an old guy like me. It's like, "No, that's not right the way they're doing it because they're Anyways, all right. Sorry. >> We're taking away

069two minutes of your update. >> I'll be I'll be brief. Did I roll right into my door after my editorial? >> Uh maintenance. We've done some safety stuff over at the softball field. A lot of mowing and trimming. Uh the uh I got a phone call today which was an interesting got my ear chewed on a little bit about how we've uh uh put chainlink fence over a place where a lot of us kind of go down to the baseball field. So I pulled in our maintenance guy and said, "Why'd we do this?" "Oh, because people are smoking and they're leaving trash." And I said, "Well, how should we communicate stuff?" You know, instead of just putting a piece of chain link fence over place where people use a facility, why wouldn't we at least

070talk to some folks and say, "Well, what's the problem? Why do we need to do this?" And so have that conversation today. That's that's all I'm going to tell you about that. Uh and then there's more maintenance report. You know, usually I just kind of synthesize the maintenance report in my report, but I just gave you the raw data back there on the back. >> Uh I I again I want to thank our business folks because if you looked at the second part of my report, you know, we when we started this budget year, we had a $ 1.5 million estimated beginning fund balance. Then we had the audit and the auditor oh he magically found another $100,000 and so we he raised our estimate to 1.6 and then we came back in January and

071it went down to 1.1 and then we it went up to 1.3 and anyways it's back to 1.5. Right? So there's a reason for that. It's not it's not that our business folks they're trying to hit a moving target and I talked to the staff a little bit about how Oregon's revenue works. It's it's a piece of it's a pie, right? And everybody takes a slice out of it. Big districts, small districts. And there's a look back to last year. And what's happening, if you read the papers, Portland, Eugene, Springfield, uh recent one I saw was Reynolds. They're all laying off 150, 300 staff, 4J school district in Eugene. Well, we think we got a $50 million problem that we're going to have to fix next year. I'm thinking, how does it go? How do

072they get that? Well, you know, the state of Oregon enrollment has dropped considerably uh over the last 10 years. And a lot of the big districts are losing enrollment because they're losing kids uh because they're moving out or they're homeschooling or they're um >> signing up for online charter schools. There's a lot of v variety of reasons, but Riddle sits here at a enrollment of 350 kids, roughly 360 kids, and we haven't really changed much, but every time something happens around the state. Property taxes come in lower uh uh diffs lose students, bigger districts gain students. the pie is all the same and they have to basically adjust how much money they're giving different districts through that state school fund formula. And then the factor locally is how much money are we spending? How much

073do we think we're going to spend to get us through the rest of the school year? So the closer we get to the end of the school year, the more accurate we get with our budget. So I'm just happy to see that we're on track for ending the year with about 1.5 million. I don't think it'll change much. She said, "No, I won't either, but next month it could be 1.4 or five or six." So, it is we we have no control over what happens around the rest of the state. And when they when because the amount of money from last year and for this this year for the bianiums is a fixed sum. And then um the only time it got really bad was in early 2000 when the state didn't the revenues didn't

074come in and we all a lot of us didn't have enough money to meet our June payroll. We had to take our reserve money pay people because the state delayed our payment >> because they didn't have enough money. So I think those days hopefully are gone. You're still projecting next year to meet if all stayed the same for us to have to dip into our general fund a little bit though, right? >> Not much. It's a beauty of having a pretty stable enrollment. Be nice if we had 450 kids in the district. We'd have, you know, a million and a half more money to to do stuff with. Passing a bond would be great. Uh, I kind of messed up last month on the cops grant because I opened up my file and I pulled

075up what I thought was the only document I need to put in your board packet. There's two. There's the elementary and then tonight you're going to see the high school. So, we approved 300,000 last month for the elementary. Well, there's another 300,000 for the high school. We have a $500,000 cops grant. That's that's you know Russell would have caught that but unfortunately he had a conflict with with a uh with your your father but uh so I'm sorry for that but you'll you'll have to just approve the high school side of it tonight if you will. Um my contract uh not that because you're because the new superintendent's contract I'm very jealous of. It's that uh that was just a joke. I part of my contract is because I don't take insurance. You, you know,

076I don't take, you know, PERS. Uh, I don't get a technology stipen. I don't get there's some things I just said salary and then put some money into a TSA for me because I don't really want to show the income. Well, so you hired me in November, missed that payroll, took December and January to kind of get the third party administrator to talk to my uh Lutheran Brotherhood, now called Thrivant Advisor. And my Thrivant Advisor had gallbladder surgery. And so uh the money started going out. When was it? Uh February, I think money went to Thriving and then March. Well, then they didn't they didn't have the the the TSA set up for me. So, when I called Tina, I said, "What's going on?" She said, "Oh, I was out and I just now reaching

077back out to the thing." Well, now it's April. And what she advised me to do and if it's if you guys are okay with it, just pay it out to me and then I'll do my own uh IRA so that I can um lower my tax burden for the for this year. I can do one for 8,500 then I'll put one in Joan's uh my wife's account because she can only do 8500 max individual that we can put one in hers to for the balance. So and Joe is here and I really appreciate um Russell and Katrina putting some data together. I think like there's a there's a guy named Edward Demming that I used to follow quite often in World War II. He kind of he was into total quality total quality management, total

078quality control. Nobody in America was really interested in in working with them. So he went over to Japan and essentially rebuilt them using this total quality control concept where you don't have you know uh you don't have many if at all failures through the manufacturing process because everything is done right up front. We just we test for quality control. to send the product out. And that's kind of why Japan kind of took over the American car car market in the late 60s and early 70s. They had better quality, lower cost, and started buying Hondas and Toyotas and and back, you know, Nissan. They used to be Datson. You remember that? Anyways, his thing is plan, do, study, act. Those are the four words that I kind of live by. make a plan, implement it, study

079the results, and then act upon what the data that we saw tonight. You have to act upon that. You can't just present the data. You have to say, "All right, now what do we do with it?" We have to act. So, I'm glad to say you're looking at the data. What are we going to do to make uh student learning improve? And it's not just the academic side, right? It's also we look at the behaviors and we put kids so they have career options to look at. So we want to educate the whole child. But if your if your behavior is improvement is one of your plans, collect the data, put us a plan together, study the results, and then make an adjustment. So that's what I hope we can do the rest of this

080year and continue on into next year. I appreciate the data that you developed and showed with with us with us tonight. And that's all I've got for tonight. Thanks. >> U discussion items. Uh exploration of bond for facility improvements. Discussion on that. Yeah, I appreciate Joe coming out and going through that. >> Yeah, I just think it sounds like the next step for that was to possibly reconvene the longterm range facilities group back as a potential bond committee instead. >> I think that's a good idea. the you you've done all the leg work in terms of getting estimates and identifying the needs of the buildings. Now, you know, as Joe started to do tonight, is what do you really want to try and get your community to support? What are the projects? I think you're

081you're on on mark with, you know, people want to see something when they when they say, "All right, you're going to raise my my annual property tax bill$ 200 or $250 a year. what what are we going to get for that? >> And all that, you know, the water lines and the sewer lines, it's like it's not it does it's not very showy, is it? It's just kind of you could talk about the needs for the safety part of it, which is important, but they kind of want to see, oh, we're remodeling the locker room at the high school. Come in. We're going to do a tour, show you how bad it is, and then we'll give a plan for how we're going to refurbish it. >> Yeah. I definitely think there's a line though

082like you know something visual for the buy in but don't go too far because then people think it's like super don't it's unneeded and we went too far and I think that was one of the big problems with the initial one. It was like >> why are we doing so much >> and I think that's why it failed >> for sure. >> Yeah. And I think it'd be just more like you know renovate a couple classrooms to create a more a better learning environment. >> That's what I was thinking. We're going to make something that can, you know, present a story. So, if you're going to do the shop >> because we're bolstering CTE or doing something like that, like >> have tie into something, not just to do a to-do list. >> But we

083talked, I think, at the facilities like science room, >> um, shop, things that that most all the kids do rotate through there, use, you know, band room, you know, things like that. visibility. >> Well, I feel like the vestib um removing that just that part alone would be a visible and security. It's a necessity too for me. >> Although, what are we doing with the front door? Are we just walling that off or >> No, I don't think you make any changes. >> Mess with the front door. >> You know what I mean? You can lock it, you know? Keep it these people. >> Question is that with the fence going up and it blocks off and locks in my room and it's hard to my building right now. Okay. >> I was just if

084you block enough that then >> so at the next board meeting maybe or and facilities meeting would we be able to just have a draft of of critical dates and timelines that we would have to meet if we were going to go for May of next year. Uh because that's one of the issues that when they went out the last time and they got they lost they they weren't successful. they were gonna go out again, but a critical date got missed. >> Um, and so right off the bat, I mean, those are probably pretty set in stone dates. Um, and if if we knew that, what's the average amount of meetings typically have? You know, do you have three planned meetings and then what phase should you be getting it out to the public? Um,

085things like that. I think that would be really helpful. And maybe that comes from the first uh bond meeting, but if that's stuff, you know, are able to draft, it'd be good to look at. >> Yeah. And I'm just curious if there's a difference between like the percentage of successful bonds in a May election versus a November one because November one definitely has a higher turnout that a May. So, is it better to go for May or is it the opposite? like >> well November like you I just think everybody's thinking about Christmas and all the expenses and tax bills and then May you've gone past that flowers are blooming grass is great >> my little tax return I can I can get all that for you for the last >> I was just curious

086>> no yeah for the last probably the last 10 years on the OSBA website if it's not on the website I can get them to send it to but May is the sweet spot November it's hard to That's a bottle. >> Unless you live in Eugene >> or parts of Portland. >> So, you're already looking at it like what now? >> Oh, >> I didn't think about that. >> Yeah. >> A lot of things working against you. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, >> I can get you some timelines that we did in Oakland. Like I said, we went out in November and got got hammered because, you know, then we passed it in May by about 30 votes. It wasn't >> Wow. >> But a lot fewer people voted in May and we made some

087adjustments because we had security lights and stuff like it came right down to it. We basically the old if if you've ever had your kids or if you ever been to Washington gym in Oakland, if Riddle ever went there in junior high to play, it's a kind of a death trap. That's where and that's where middle school kids played ball, >> you know, volleyball, basketball. >> That's where we and it's split level because it kind of rolls down and the and you just couldn't go downstairs. The fire marshal finally said enough's enough. you cannot use this as a gym anymore. So, that seemed to be enough to help the community say, "Yeah, we we we get you. We've been in the Washington gym. It's no place to have kids or adults or whatever." So, that

088probably helped uh pass that bond, but just the safety part of it. And then basically build a new uh gym for the middle school up behind the football field. And then they're doing they did some renovation to the softball field. Um and again, you know, I was talking to Jeff the other there's another they passed about four and a half million. They they've got another 400,000 in interest that they've gotten from the bond uh uh to spend on other projects. >> Awesome. Yeah. Cops grant the little high school portion. >> Yeah. I just kind of explained that was my mess up from last last meeting. And then uh fire and marshall annual inspection. >> Yeah, that was um they came through. We did pretty well. We've got uh the building principles. We got some exit

089signs we need to to do. We got some flammable cabinet stuff to do. Um the we did some electrical work at the concession stand at the softball field because it it was not not a good situation. So that was replace a little subcircuit brought in to make it bring it up to code. Some ground fault interrupt circuits and I think I think we actually fared pretty well. >> The only issue we had was our fire system. that it wasn't being inspected enough. >> Yeah. >> By a contractor. >> Yes. By our outside contractor. He's he's due out >> Friday. We said, "Hey, where you been? We you need to come out and look at our alarm system." And >> like the whole district or was it like specifically high school or elementary? >> Whole district.

090>> Supposed to be inspected every year >> and he had not been out since last March. So it was passed to for inspection. He's supposed to have logs and everything else and he had been keeping logs and he's supposed to be turning those into the state and he hadn't been turning those into the state and we have logs of us trying to contact him and >> trying the only guy. >> He's got his own company. He does have one employee. >> Oh, I mean is he the only guy around doing it? >> No. Uh this is a guy that there there are he's out of Grants Pass area. There is a company in Roseberg that we used to use. This was before I was an admin. I don't know, but I know when I talked

091to Dave, Dave felt like that company had burned us and so he had gone to this guy who had promised us better. >> They're one and the same. Grants Pass and the Roseberg company are the same. They're just in different locations. >> Was engaged for >> Huh? >> A million years, >> have been a while. So So he'll be back on Friday. All right. So, we already talked about 54 and was there any uh any more on the student assessments we need to talk about or having a data work session? I guess >> I mean I think what would be good is after we have our next interimm assessment because that's where you're going to see those next spots on those that information at least for the elementary school for the both those are interim

092assessments. Right now I we can dig into like our progress monitoring but they don't I don't have reports like what I showed you for progress monitoring that would look like that. it would be kind of different but the interim our final mid the third interim assessment would be some good data. So we can meet on that and dig into that. But I would say after we do that, which will be >> late May, June, >> early June, >> early meet early June >> and we're going through state testing right now. So that's >> But we can set up a time to meet and do a work session if you guys want and then kind of look at what we want to do for next year. >> Yeah. Yeah. From a community standpoint, I think it'd

093be good if we had eventually a page on our website where it it kind of outlined our curriculums and approach, >> you know, so parents who are even exploring bringing their kids to our school would know this is our K through8 curriculums and this is the the way we approach it. >> Yeah. A lot of the curriculum when kids have accounts like they can access their their assignments there are helps that like the parents can access it but maybe something we could do without having a student in the in the class maybe we can have tutorials or something. I think John's just needing like a onepage summary of our overall like education concept that way people who are coming into this district or looking at us potentially, right? a lot. I mean, we have like

094some dual credit stuff that's super outdated on there. I think that has to go through that entire area of the website and make a lot of updates and it's stuff that we'll have to do as a collaborative team because I don't know >> if my own kid isn't participating what you got going on there. I don't know. >> It would be easy enough to say this is our reading program. >> This is the math uh curriculum we use. >> Yes. But last like maybe I'm like this is our reading program. We like to focus on >> right >> XY Z >> right >> and it' be I mean as a board member it'd be really good for me to be able to then direct parents you know like oh yeah if you ever have a

095question look at this page you know kind of outlines what what the approach is at >> Riddle yeah >> it's a whole page >> and I think that would be nice also with the special dubtail that with the special education department just because like when you have whether they're identified as special education or they're just receiving intervention services like how do that how does that work like if your kids struggling like okay what does that process look like what are what supports are they getting and then when those are still not working what does that process look like to get to an SST to a >> it probably the number one question I've had since I've been in on the board is uh I I want my kid to be on an IEP because I

096don't feel like it's get he or she is getting what he or she needs and can you help get there. And it would be so great if I could be like because usually I just say, "Well, you know, you need to talk to the principal's first step um or the or the teacher um and then but if they did have that page where it explained the the MTSS approach and and all the levels before we got to get there, >> you know, that's that's great because even Mindy and I had a hard time understanding the different of the uh plans and and when you when you need to um try to push her more. You know, >> I can work on that. Karinda's done a really nice job working with me. We now have a

097special education tab and if you go there, I'm starting to help build like different things that are going on. And um so that process um I could definitely map that out and get some links on there that are resources for parents. >> Awesome. >> Yeah, definitely. >> And I think we were we've been discussing how process goes through like because you know you have four and then for interventions you looking at title support and then if title support like how what does that go how how does that work um for parents to understand like well it's either classroom or special education well there's a lot in between and I don't think that's as much um communicated with parents so they don't understand that as much and then the general public so I think looking at

098that and um we had talked about that um title is with funds for title is you know not a ton to support like a full teacher but looking at that um that stipen or that extra duty contract for a teacher that kind of kind of umbrella that um and that would be someone that I would we would tie into with a special education but also the core and then how does that look to get that and support students faster where it doesn't go all the way to from A to Z. We we do a lot of stuff in between and showing that um and streamlining it better than it is right now. >> Well, can I ask you a question? Like when we first when we did have a title teacher and the the data

099was trending positively and when we lost the title teacher and did some shuffling around. It seems like ever since that title position was always tried to oh well we have a principal and they're going to be able to do that and it doesn't really seem to work and it and not just in your position the principal before um I think it it is too much. Do you do you believe that we can really fix and continue to trim the right direction without the district supporting a title position? Um >> as a certified teacher >> is that what you mean? >> I just mean like do we we obviously have pretty much unfunded a title teacher. Do we need to bring it back and prioritize it as a board is my question. Um I mean if

100>> you want to say yes >> yes if you had all the I mean when you're looking at funds and title funds and it's not they're not trending in the direction to support that necessarily. So I think if we can look at and maybe we try that for a set amount of time and that's something like okay this is our goal we want to do this but to just jump from here to here we might that might just dig us in a hole. So like okay well that's maybe because a lot of the teachers like they're already doing a lot of those interventions they already know the intervention programs they know that but like just having them kind of overarching the support of like okay there if there's a it's not a full-time job but

101it's an you get an extra duty contract let's say for that you're going to these are those duties that we want you we want to look at the a data team colle the the groupings we're going to do you know response intervention and is it working? Are we doing above the Aines? And I think that person could help support the IAS because right now the IAS are kind of just they're scattered a little bit because they don't have that person in the classroom. But I think um my hope is that kind of it's really hard to you dig into a full-time certified teacher and that's a big chunk of money and I don't know if that's necessarily would I like that? Yes. But I don't know if that's best for the district financially right now.

102>> The title funds, the federal title funds next year will be about 120,000 >> and that's title one and then another >> two and four that we roll in. >> So we just have to try to get enough to cover. >> Right now we're just funding the instructional assistance for that for those funds. a full-time teacherund salary benefits salary and >> fully loaded. >> We we got in this debate about talking about summer school. We said, okay, the salary and then the summer loaded or the or the fully loaded because in the summer we don't it doesn't I'm sorry. >> What does it actually cost? Yeah, but yeah, the the a teacher would eat up pretty one teacher would eat up almost all the title >> funds. I guess it's good for us to know

103that like it's needed. How do we bridge that gap like within reason? >> So just knowing that >> so we're we're going to >> ideally in the perfect world, yes, the title teacher, how do we how do we cover that? >> We're gonna So our plan for next year is a coordinator stipen. So a teacher who basically a reading specialist who has a lot of experience that if we give you $8,000 right >> to 10 something now it's 10 but 8 >> we have range >> eight to 10 >> but say okay I'm going to take the time each week and coordinate so all the instructional assistants are on the same page what the kids are working If we can if we can do that, that's going to improve it a lot. Kind of back

104to your point, it's that, you know, just having that coordination. >> Yeah. I feel like that that's kind of what uh we're hearing a lot of the the gap is the the difference between the kids that maybe just need a little extra and then the kids that we don't maybe necessarily need a full-blown IEP on. Um, but we end up getting there and I think it's uh it just seems like there's a an unnecessary um transition there for some kids that maybe we could >> Yeah. And that's kind of where this this this my hope is that that position is going to be able to catch those. So when you look at you should this person will be able to look at the progress monitoring data and go okay this aim line where this kid

105is continuing to flatline or go down. we need to do something different and now this kid now and that person will go okay this kid's going to go to this group and do this program then because right now we're just like well just keep doing what we're doing because this is what the program tells you to do and it's hard like but you know you're kind of chasing your tail a little bit I feel with that this person who's in the classroom already and is well verssed in reading will just start and I my hopes is to do with math as well but especially with with what we have for reading like yeah we can respond and intervene sooner versus just continuing to kind of maybe kind of grow like no let's do something like

106we're looking at the data and now what are we going to do we're trying to change this and hopefully make that trajectory a little steeper towards the goal but >> that's kind of the hope >> last code question you know in the uh some of the superintendent candidates looked at the what they call it the stakeholders report you know they kept coming back to curriculum and uh so now we've had this curriculum a couple years have what's the general feel from the staff? Is it what still what they they wanted? Is it does it meet the needs? Um spec specifically for the ELA and the math. Um I feel that no I I think with the math I think we're starting to see some spiraling that is like um our fourth grade one of our

107fourth grade teachers is saying like the kids that are coming in are are you can tell that a lot of the stuff's building on itself so they're seeing some results with the math um with the reading curriculum. I think there's just kind of a disconnect between the two departments. Let's say that um I want to try to kind of meld that a little better where we are you like we buy a whole curriculum and it has intervention curriculum in it. So we need to be using some of that a little better um before we get to the special ed you like the completely like alternate um curriculum like when you do you take them out of court. And so um they I just think we need to access that the intervention within the core curriculum

108a little better. Um, and that's kind of what we've been talking with title with. So that title as well as um sad like how does that be a better continuum than just there and then there you go. You know, I feel like there's that that middle part focus on. >> Yeah. I feel like some of those interventions might um help a greater category of kids that we're not even seeing. Yeah. May not even be asking for the the help. >> Yeah. And those interventions are when they're with based with embedded in the actual core curriculum, they're going to be they follow along with what's going on with the core. And so if you take if you do a replacement curriculum, it's hard to align the same concepts whether even Greek roots. Well, they will might

109do Greek or they might have scaffold sentence starters and stuff. in our sixth grades. I was talking to one of the teachers like they do some online stuff like they can um she's been doing a good job like look um when she has assigns and stuff she can scaffold some of the assignments to like well some kids get the here's the prompt go and the other kids will get some sentence starters type of things to help build in some supports. Um and I think just across the board me knowing like how we're using those scaffolds and then um but also how title and then how does that trans go all the way down to special education. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> All right. Uh new business action items. Uh approve the new

110superintendent contract. I think everybody have a copy of it. Motion to approve it. >> I have a motion to approve the superintendent contract. Do I have a second? >> I have a second. Make a motion. >> I have a motion. I second. Is there any further discussion? >> With no further discussion. All those in favor? All those opposed? Motion carried. Uh, revise old superintendent contract. I thought you'd like the new and the old, >> the incoming, the outgoing. >> We've been talking about a lot now. >> Revising to include one additional year. >> Exactly. >> You're the one who opened it up for negotiation. >> Yeah. Once you open the contract, the whole contract is up for negotiation. He usually tells me, "I appreciate your support." >> I appreciate your support. >> Uh, I'll make

111a motion to allow the uh transfer for the 14,000 some dollars. That's right. >> It'll actually be the full amount because we got refunded from the beginning from the full funding back. So, it'll be the So it will be the full PSA contribution amount of 20 something,000. So >> I don't have that. >> Make a motion to pay the man's money. >> I'll second that. >> Motion a second. Is there any discussion? >> We're getting now discussion. All those in favor? >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Old business action items. uh cops grant approved the high school portion uh to the previously approved contracts. It looks exactly like to my to my uh defense it looks exactly like the I thought well there's two they're split >> and one was 200,000 one was 300,000 is

112that >> there's three three in change and three in change and we have a $500,000 grant and we have a $120,000 match student investment account so 5546 >> I'll make a motion to approve the cost grant to include the high school portion >> I will second Have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? With no further discussion, all those in favor? Motion carries. Uh set next board meeting date. Uh budget meeting. Do I need to video budget meeting? >> Going into a budget meeting. >> Oh, that day. >> Budget committee meetings. You don't >> you have to take minutes, but >> do the same. >> Oh, the video. I mean, you got to take minutes. I know. But you got to do that. Oh, Denise, another night out. >> That's why I

113asked >> what time >> I thought it was six. >> And then will we need to do a 6:00 on the on the 20th also? in the instance where we have to go to a second day which >> usually you open in a budget committee. >> We still do it at seven. >> Yeah. >> You mean because I think you know you open in a budget committee have to go through the first budget committee and then you kick your reg. You have you advertised a second possible uh you advertised a second possible meeting or just the one meeting for the budget committee on the 13th? >> Very >> and then in June we'll do the budget hearing and adoption. >> So May May board meeting will just be >> regular. >> I think I'm gone

114that day. I'm not sure. >> Amanda just have it right. >> I know the feeling. >> I'm the social. >> It's the social calendar right there. >> Regular meeting at seven on the 20th. >> All right. I think that's we're up to public comment. >> Thank the school district for the Easter egg hunt use of the football field. That was great that we've been able to have our community come in and do that. So, our fire department, that was our 76th year >> of doing the hunt. So 76 >> 76 year. >> Yeah. And coming up for community use which the form will go to Mr. Hobson soon is a sadist Jubilee on the last Saturday of June. You guys might have seen a few flyers starting to go out about fundraising and um Tori

115Edwards is doing a youth volleyball out on the grass of the football field and we're trying to get a few more activities going on. Maybe our softball group is going to do something and we might even have a 12U or 14U softball tournament. So, we're trying to get a lot of different things going on and we thank the district for working with us. Also, the community cleanup day bins will be out in the parking lot and we thank the district for that use and help with um cleanup and the district is obviously allowed to use those as well when those metal and garbage bin. >> And when is that done? >> That is Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th. The bins will be in the parking lot of April. >> And people that live

116in city limits, and this would include the school, if you call city hall and you have yard debris, they will come pick it up. You just put it to the edge of the road and then they schedule a pickup. So, if there's anything that needs to be to go somewhere for that, um, what is the next steps with the schoolyard? >> What's happened with that? >> They have one outstanding donation on their budget. Uh it hasn't quite been confirmed. It's not that much, but a private donation of like 50,000 or something, but they did show us their their expense side and the revenue side. It's a million and change for ballots out. Um it's about 8 I'm going off numbers in my head. I think it's about $860,000 worth of actual project construction equipment and

117andund or close to 200,000 project oversight coordination. What am I missing? Anything? >> I think they'd like to get started this summer. >> They have a signage committee that they're working on the signs right now. And the governor signs the I haven't heard >> I haven't heard I think she has until uh the end of this week I think to sign all the bills that were passed in the short session. >> Yeah, we'll definitely wait for that. And then the budget information before when did that go out to be able to be reviewed before that meeting? >> May 7th. May 6th. May 7th. >> Our goal was the week before. >> We'll have uh we'll have some extra ones in the district office for review and budget committee members will get it. Board member committees

118will get it the week before the budget committee meeting and that's our goal. >> Thank goodness the ESD has a printing office print service. >> Is there any other public comment? >> Uh if there's no other public comment, is there any reason for executive session? If there is no reason for executive session, I think we're ajourned.