001little. All right. Ready? We're going to do something a little bit funky. We're going to start with a budget and we're going to get it to school board. First the budget. First of the Americas Last time we met, uh, we approve budget. So, now we're going to be calling for any public input on the budget. Fascinating. Man did a fantastic job. Our financial are all fantastic. Is there anything I need to read or we need to read? Um, not necessarily just the uh the resolutions. Um, I can give like a little quick summary before we go into that. Do you say that would be fantastic? So on May 21st, 2025, the budget committee of the Van School District approved the 2025.6 fiscal year budget in the amount of 20,257,76. The 2025 approved budget provides sustained
002funding for currently filled current positions with several consolidations planned to increase efficiency. It maintains current programs and services and provides continued support for a full year full year access to professional development, curriculum and materials purchases and necessary building and ground maintenance. We recognize that like many districts across Oregon, we must make strategic adjustments and find ways to cut tax costs in order to operate within our financial means and adjust if revenue is lower than projected or if expenses are higher than. This responsible approach will help ensure that the school district remains stable and strong into the future. Even in the face of fiscal pressure, our focus remains unwavering to be resourceful, responsible stewards of public funds and to ensure that every student continues to receive a comprehensive high quality education that prepares them to reach
003their goal. Awesome. Thank you. Um, one last comment. If anybody wants to join our board next year, it's fascinating how school budgets work. It's a lot of numbers and graphs. Amanda does a fantastic job of making it simple so I could understand it. So I figure if I can understand it, most people can understand it. Um, thanks for doing this. I know it's kind of when our school. So all that I'm going to make motion to close. Can I make uh can I get a motion to approve our budget approved for 27 favor? No. Whoever decide who wants to read it. agend. Last meeting is that make a motion to close the budget hearing. So close. Now, let's open up school board meeting. Yay. Is there any additional any public input for items on our
004agenda? We'll go to the consent agenda. Approve regular minutes for last month will be 12,25 [Music] second favor [Music] or discussion. point I'll say thank you admin for your time this year and all your reports with your process been fantastic consations been fantastic we'll jump down to 5.0 No. Pay the bills. Have a vote. All in favor those billings. Approve the 5.02 approved. Goes 2526 district calendar. There's more revenue reading. any special to our founders. Can I get an approved or can I get a motion? I approve. Any discussion? Second. One question. I know a question. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. We have be any adjust to the start of school. Thank you. Yay. So, can we get a vote? Uh all in favor calendar. Three. Now the resolution approve resolution one dropping the budget making appropriations
005and grossing taxes taxes all. Yes please. All right. So when I get to all these beer or just say all right whereas the budget committee of the abandoned school division 50 will suit the budget for fiscal year 2025 six the amount 20,250,7 $76 on May 21st, 2025 and therefore the resolutions adopting these budgets may appropriations imposing taxes and categorizes adopting the budget resolve that the board of directors contain school districts 54 by the budget for fiscal year 2025 six and the total amount is 20,257,76. This budget is now on file at the district administration office 455 9th Street Southwest. Be it resolved that the amounts shown below are hereby appropriated for the fiscal year beginning in July 1st of 2025 for the following purposes. General fund total 13518,241. Special revenue fund public 4,198,916 debt service
006funds total $546,549 capital projects funds total $1,994,000 total adopt budgets of 20 million $257,76 resolution tax following Following the law property taxes are hereby imposed on the assessed value of all taxable property. Then the district of tax year 2025 2026 one in the amount of $39702 or $1,000 assess value for permanent tax rates. Two in the amount $451,358 for debt service and general obligation bonds. Resolution categorizing tax. Be it resolved that the taxes imposed hereby categorized for the purposes of article 11 of section 11B as subject to the education limitation permanent tax rate $3.97 for $1,000 general obligation bond that service $451,358. The above resolution statements were approved and players adopted for June 9th, 2021. All in favor of budgeting resolution one uh 5.03 3 approve resolution one adopting budget making and appropriation of proposing
007advis more discussion favor John for reading that it's pleasure hear and Now we're going to stay or go. I will leave it up to All right. Can I say I I just wanted to thank Samu. Uh, I know David's not here either, but I want to thank you for your years as service on board. This is your last. Well, community is very important. So, thank you. I appreciate you giving your time and effort now. Well, I appreciate it. We are, you know, being chosen by citizens to do that. I was kind of surprised that they said, "Well, we like the way your kids turned out, so see what you can do." And David is not here but I hope I hope we get back to him that we appreciate his years. Yeah, he is stuck
008at work. So send us regards very ser on the board. So um as go into public comment all see and hear me well enough. Um guys read kind of how we are doing things. Um statement as we start getting into this uh public participation of board meetings is uh governed by policyher should please include your name and speak for an organization name organization post person should be designated represent the group of uh purpose you guys we all get uh three minutes for comment. So if you see me fidgeting with my phone, it's because I'm timing us, not checking it out. So don't think I'm being disrespected. Was trying to keep us all on orderly. Commenters may give effective district operations and programs on public sessions and public. Uh the board will not hear comments regarding
009an individual district staff member including staff members uh should be sent to the super and it will be passed on channels for review of legitimate complaints involving individuals for policy public complaints. uh program board chair or vice chair in this case will connect with the visitor monitor you guys connect with the administrator receive comments regarding personnel or anything like that in hearing how to uh conduct with the board regarding personal personnel shall stuff like that comments aimed at State federal protection classes are prohibited. So careful and courteous. Uh anger, rudess, ridicule, obscene or profane language. Lack of respect to others. Personal attacks. Let's keep it. Let's keep it civil. Um demonstrations in support or opposition to a speaker or ideas. Let's keep it simple. basically we hear love that you all showed up and we
010want to hear each. So um by order of operations we usually go with kids in the district. Um so students parents of students uh if you live in the district then if you live outside of course if you're working here so yeah there's a max of 30 minutes since after this we're going over to the eighth grade graduation. uh promotion notation. We're done by 5:15. We start with the band, right? Oh, there was rather a few people. Um anyway, I was happy to see that the vision for this meeting is to empower all students to achieve their potential. That was great to see. That's exactly what I would like to address. Um, I believe I I'm focusing on speech and debate just because that's what's most near and dear to what I'm doing now. Um,
011I believe that that speech and debate class is the very best class this school has to offer to prepare students for a successful future. It's one where they can formulate and express themselves through the written and spoken word and ultimately prepare them to reach their highest potential someday. I was shocked and disappointed to hear that this administrator wants to transfer the speech and debate team or teacher to the middle school and make speech and debate an extracurricular after school club. I believe this move will be the ultimate end of this program. One of Jim Rome's most famous quotes, one that has been a profound impact on my life is your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. Want to repeat that? Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of
012personal development. Personal growth and development happens when we choose the difficult when we stretch and grow. Especially when we are in a supportive and encouraging environment. Having been the past two sweet speech at events, it became obvious to me that these kids have done a tremendous amount of personal development to rise to the challenge and get on that stage in front of their fierce parents and judges and deliver their performance. These students have most certainly had a supportive encouraging environment with such a robust program. If this program gets gutted to a small handful of kids that are willing and able to take this class on after school and don't have any recipient supports commitments or transportation issues, they're not going to have that critical math support from a larger team they otherwise would have. It's
013part of their student day. Um time but my is a great example of this success uh to help them grow with the class. She's done speech and debate for the past four years competed on national level and you're in a graduation last week. notice she received more scholarships than any other student, my 10-year-old 13, uh, including a full ride. I I'd just be surprised if that level of success wasn't in large part attributed to the skills, the confidence, personal development that she gained through the speech and debate experience that reflected on her um scholarship applications down to um the speech and debate has been obviously very successful program brings students to see uh year after year uh and beyond and nationals and I just believe we have a phenomenal instructor who by the way I've
014never even met u never had a conversation So anyway, I believe this class is best suited for students in the most most formative high school year amongst them um not at the middle school level and that this current uh teacher is the only dual credit certified speech teacher which I think is great. Um and the last thing is that I've heard some troubling rumors that u these involuntary transfers including the transfer of the speech and debate teacher um are in retaliation of the teachers that have been most active in advocating uh on behalf of all the teachers pay. So whether or not that's true, those most adversely affected by this transfer are going to be the students. And obviously we're all here, everyone here in this room is for the students. Uh we want what's
015in their highest and best. Uh and if any administrator loses sight of that, then they have lost sight of the core value of their job. It is my deepest hope that the administration can act on their highest and best version of themselves and believe the speech of a program change. Thank you. Hi Ryder. Um well said Danny. You know um my daughter is a freshman. she we live in Langway and we transferred out of um two CJ school district to come up here. Um and so far I've been just really pleased with our experience. Um I'll admit that I don't know to the depths of what the issues actually are. But the people I've talked to and heard from um regarding this change of staffing and shifting people around definitely caught my attention especially if
016students show up and are self-organizing. Um and the fact that the debate team I mean that is like do you guys even know like the level of leaders and speakers that are coming out of this district and is from this program. Uh my daughter was in leadership this past year as a freshman and I was just blown away by the quality of the kids and the teachers. Anyway, like my heart's overflowing for all the hard work everybody does and we definitely don't want to lose that. Um, I know I've got a limited amount of time, but I've worked in multiple school school districts in Hurry County, in Kous County, um, been site council at Harbor Lights, and so I've been pretty involved, um, in the education fields. And I've never seen this type of move
017before um, where students are showing up for their teacher saying, "Hey, this isn't right. We don't we can't lose you. You're important to us." And as a leader myself um in my field and all of you being leaders in yours, I know that you know that this is what we're after. We're we're raising leaders. We want them to show up and speak up. Um and that's what they're doing. And I feel like as a leader, it's our job to be really good listeners and um also like admit of like well it didn't maybe it wasn't the right action for this moment in time. You know, like it's okay to reconsider. Um, so as the people with the power, I beg you, um, without even knowing what I'm begging for, but I have a feeling I'm
018gonna learn a lot today for the rest of the meeting. Um, do you read your Twitter? Oh, okay. I wanted to, um, share just a few things off of a a social media post um, from one of the teachers and she mentioned that other teachers came up to her saying that they agreed with what she said um, that she said it well. Um and that's and Danny mentioned a few of the things but I think the important thing is um to mention is that the discomfort of this change isn't about the change itself because as educators we know that flexibility is a part of the job um and we have to be like resilient and responsive and show up for our kids. Um but you know as an educator myself I understand and this teacher
019who made this post understands like education you become a master and it's a practice and you show up and you get better and you get better and then when you just sort of like pull the rug out and you're like okay I know you're so magical and amazing at what you do now I want you to go do it over here and like relearn it all. So it's um it's a real challenge. Are you saying I'm out of time? I think um so well I hope I was impactful and you what I said just know that I'm here and I just applaud all of you guys for being here and just shout out to our kids and our teachers for all the hard work you do and for all the Thank you very One, I
020want to thank all of you for being on public comment today. My name is Zoe B Surah and like Ken said, we have two girls in the district. One who's entered the middle school year and one's entering the high school. And I mentioned that because obviously I care about all the buildings on this campus. Um, and specifically the middle school and the high school both right now kids that I don't want to seem biased about to say. Um, I came to voice my deep concern over the recent new voluntary teacher reassignments. I learned of them a couple weeks ago. Um, since then I've been trying to learn all I can about what motivated them and what the impact would be on the district and specifically on our kids. Um, we spoken with a lot of
021teachers, other parents, students themselves and also some of administrators over the last couple weeks. And I think that overall my takeaway right now with what I've learned is that I feel like the impact is all um I think maybe because fundamentally we are all here today because of the kids. We can start with them. Um I think what I understand is that the district plans to reassign some of our star teachers in the high school and middle school. um essentially removing longtime teachers who love their jobs um and they have deep subject expertise in the classes that they currently teach. Um so they'll be moved to new positions against their wishes. Heard about Miss Pearson, the speech of the ELA teacher at the high school who has multiple master's degrees. moved to the middle school
022displacing Miss Guzman who's also a star teacher at the middle school. He'll be entering exceptions positioning Perry to the high school to replace Ashen Peterson of Parish there. Um also Katie Ptor who's very inspired longtime history and social studies teacher at the high school. I've only heard amazing things about her classes and how she really gets as excited about history which is saying a lot for high school kids. um she's developed her own curriculum over all these errors and she is going to be swapped with Mr. B who is a real new teacher for middle school. Um I think that that not only the students likely to suffer in these situations because they don't have the teachers in these classes teaching the curriculum. Um but you also risk losing some of your best teachers altogether.
023Some of them might feel like might be treated with more consideration and respect than other districts. We don't know how hard it is to recruit find great teachers. Yes. Um I also know that one of them has filed two things against the district because this might be a contract violation which is obviously an expense prospect for the district and I don't really have a lot of extra funds given that the contract negotiation. It's currently stalled can't agree on the teachers. Um so why do this? I been told it's test scores budget shortfalls but none of it makes full sense to me. Um for instance in social studies there is no state testing. So why would that be a rationale for moving ELA or social studies teachers one school to the other if you weren't also
024going to add to your workload and get some budget savings out of it. Um anyway I guess kind of consistent logical answer to this question of why I think that stir up these rumors about who's new and why are all of these impacting teachers also the top leadership of new contractations. So, I'm really craving some answers, some transparency, um just straight talk. I think all of us are. Um so, I hope that this meeting Thank you. [Music] Right. My name is Rebecc. I have three students, well, two students in the district now. My senior just graduated. Um, I'm kind of speaking on behalf of all three of them today. Speaking of had such an impact on my oldest son or my senior, I think it would have brought out had it not been for the
025impact that speech and debate brought out. Um, without this course, it just wouldn't have driven me to school. And we're really concerned that putting this subject off to an after school program is going to drive these introverted kids away. These are exactly the ones that need this program. They need this to come out of who they are because they've been stifled for their entire lives. Um, also I'm really concerned about the amount of misinformation um, rumors that I'm hearing from my students. A lot of what they're telling me they're just concerned. They talk to their teachers, they talk to their peers, and it's whole lot of garble and misinformation and they're scared. It really asks for some clarity for the parents because we don't know what's going on and what we're hearing is scaring us.
026Obviously, yeah, we're all here going, what is going on? What are you taking away from our kids? Because as many of us have said, this whole goal is to provide opportunities for our children to find themselves. And by taking these programs and changing them and taking these teachers who have had long-standing relationships with these students and pushing them over to the middle school, my incoming junior is highly concerned that the art program that helped him process his PTSD is going to leave and he will be left with no outlet at school. Ceramics has been a huge outlet for him to be able to have self-discovery and self-expression. And with police being limited to the students, more children like him will not have the ability to process their emotions. I'm asking for clarification for all of
027the parents here and understanding what is actually happening to our teachers so that we can pass this information along for Linda. My name is and I am my mother is just who you spoke and I am mostly coming here because I am searching for information because for a large the last few weeks I have been advised to not get involved in this whole situation as there was a rumor that it could affect us being able to walk at graduation and rumors and but I would just like to say that the speech and debate program really did help me a lot and I probably wouldn't be able to stand here and talk about day if they weren't for that as I am a very introverted person normally but I would just asked that if you guys
028could figure out any way to limit rumors and the spread of misinformation, it would be greatly helpful for I think everyone in the community and the students to not be so afraid to share our voices and to speak out because I know that was a big fear of mine and my fellow seniors in the speech program because we didn't want to get involved because we all were at risk. of having a future but I and also I don't know the specifics of how the speech and debate program will be affected by being an extracurricular and that is more areas I've heard rumors about but I hope that you all just consider that from my understanding you can only do speech and debate for four years and that's why many people take it in high school
029is So when they are seniors, they are they have access to the dual enroll credit through the college and if they end up taking it in eighth grade, they no longer have that opportunity unless they skip uh a year of being speech and debate and that can very limit their growth in speech and debate. But I just hope that in the future the school board can if at all possible be more open so that there isn't so much fear and spread of misinformation if Hi. Uh, my name's Anna Cruz. I have one child still in the district and one that graduated as a validation parent of two years ago thanks to a lot of these great teachers here. So, I just wanted to speak in support of them. Um, I've been trying to attend as
030many of the bargaining sessions as I could. Um, and frankly been pretty disappointed in what I've seen offered to them. Um, you know, a 4% raise doesn't go very far in. Um, housing prices in the last three years on real estate agent have gone up 12%. Um, let's see. You know, average inflation over the last three years, 5.7%. So that's 4% is not even going to get you there. Um the teachers have come down quite a bit from where they started. They're willing to negotiate. Um I'd like to see the district do the same thing for them. Um they deserve it. I'm a daughter of a teacher. I know how much work they do after the bell rings, before the bell rings, you know, all year long. So, I I just want to see the
031district make. Also, the other thing I've heard um is in regards to the amount of reserves our district has in its budget. Um if anybody can give me the number I'm getting from uh the audit done by the teachers union was upwards of 30% in reserves. Um can you show me a different number? Um, and if it's anything above 8% as a taxpayer, I'd like to see it go to the teachers, um, the people doing the work here. So, that's still a reasonable number. I mean, none of us knows what's going to happen, but I do know if we don't pay our teachers, they're going to leave. The teachers salary stays in this community. You know, they go spend it at big local businesses. They buy houses here. So, you know, that's that's where I'd
032like to see it rather than in a reserve account. So, Burke, I have a whole thing written out here, but most everyone has already touched on the main issues that I had to speak about. I will say that I have two kids in the high school right now. One of them is a fairly amazing speech and debate gal um due to scheduling of things that happened in the middle of the year. Jessica got bumped out speech and debate this year and nothing we could do was possible to get her to somehow still be able to be part of that team. And that was a really rough transition for her. What I do want to talk about just really briefly is um these involuntary changes that you guys are pushing through are hurting our kids. They're
033hurting our teachers and they're ruining morale. Morale is all you guys have. And I just came from a job working at Coast Community Health Center. Anybody heard about what's going on there? So, I can tell you that when these these organizations get topheavy and bloated and they stop caring about what people boots on the ground do, they end up having major problems like lots of employment lawsuits. We paid hundreds and hundreds and I'm going to say it again, hundreds of thousands of dollars in unemployment in employment lawsuits. That's I'm wondering if the board of you guys know what is your deductible on employment lawsuits. Do you know? Because it's pretty high usually for most places. So if you have right now, let's say six teachers that are really, really unhappy with this change. And you
034have six teachers that decide to go to court. That's six teachers and six payouts. And I guarantee you, you'll end up settling. They always settle. Nothing ever goes to court. I managed a law firm for 15 years. I'll tell you, nothing goes to court. You'll end up settling. and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars will swim out of this district because those great teachers are going to leave and they're going to take that with them and then we're going to be here trying to get in teachers from where? I mean, is that the ultimate goal? Are we trying to just get rid of the teachers that are really, really great and maybe been here longer and maybe make more money so we can get some unexperienced teachers in because how does that benefit our
035kids? The fact is I'm very concerned about the um what's going to happen when these lawsuits hit and I promise you they will. I've just been in the legal industry and like I said I wrote all those checks for Coast Community Health. I wrote those checks. I'm the one who worked in finance and cut them and they are really painful to cut. So get ready. All right. So, um, yeah, I mean, a lot of things have been said. Um, my name is Tren Hfield, longtime future of the district. Uh, the way the way I look at it is, um, and I'm not talking about the the contract negotiations. Um that'll I've been through a lot of those and and um I'm talking about authority expert that had to be a tough decision. Okay. And when
036you make when you do a tough decision, you know, one of the things I do is I do a costbenefit analysis. And I just want to lay out how I see it right now. I I see the cost is an excellent speech program. Um, you know, we haven't talked a lot about uh Miss Hoff'sburg, but she, you know, uh, runs a club, runs, you know, a small club here or a small school, but, you know, I know kids that that value that club and and value the time with her. You know, she just volunteered a lot of her time to go on a a trip with me. Um, you know, we have we have some really unhappy teachers. That's a cost. Okay. Um, and we have loss of goodwill, right? Um, you know, I I
037wouldn't say that I've had a whole lot of mental anguish on this. Um, I know that's another cost. There are teachers who've had some mental anguish, but I've definitely had a loss of goodwill. Um, you know, I've been here for 25 years. I I talked my daughter into being a teacher and a man, why would you? Because it's an awesome job. And maybe that's just because I worked in an awesome place that had a lot of goodwill for a lot of lot of years. But that's a big cost, right? We all know you can't do this job well from 8 to 4. You got to come in early and you got to stay late. And that comes with goodwill. That comes with teachers that feel good about their job and feel good about the program
038and feel good about their security. All right. Um, you know, I I'm proud of the field trips I've done for 25 years and I want to do them again next year. Um, that comes with goodwill. Okay. So, what are the benefits of this this change? Well, I've heard that it saves money. I don't understand how it saves money. Staff's not changing. I I don't see that as a benefit. I've heard that teachers requested it. I haven't talked to that teacher. I you know, that's that's not a benefit. Um, you know, there's talk about test scores. I, again, it's it's in a in a one of them is in a the subject that we don't test. I don't I see the costs. They're huge. They're massive. They are massive. They're crushing your staff. I don't see
039any benefit. I see this one is just so simple to me. I just want to say one more thing. I was in a meeting with uh an administrator and that administrator was filling out a form and made a mistake in the form and it was kind of a joke in the meeting and that administrator said you know what mistake you got to fix it I'm just going to do it again I don't want to have a mistake I respect it this is a mistake go back and fix I'll do it. I teach here uh with Trenton and Jen and everybody. Um, I'm mainly here to just speak as a parent though. So, I have two kids in the district in third and fourth grade. Um, we moved here from Eugene because I thought this would
040be a great place to raise kids and it has been and uh I want to keep it that way. Um, since I've been teaching at the high school for eight years, I've seen our tech program go away. I've seen our health um careers program go away. We have less teachers and less options for kids than we had. And I'm really concerned about the speech program going away for all the reasons mentioned. Um, if a kid's here for four years, they're going to be they they need to see a lot of different people with a lot of different perspectives. And I'm concerned that when my kids get here, they're they're not going to have some of those options. So, I'm here to speak on behalf of the speech and debate program. And then I'm also here
041as a parent. I want my kids to go to a school where teachers are paid fairly and where they're paid a competitive rate. We do really good work here, Jen and Trent, Kate and I, and I'm only speaking for a high school. Like, we take kids to Yuseite, to the Redwoods, disc golf, like all sorts of stuff where we're gone for three, four days. We're driving. We're with those kids 24 hours. None of that's paid. We've never asked to be paid for any of that. And that's just that's just speaking on the the stuff that I know very well personally. All the teachers do that and and we do it obviously in part because I want to have those programs when my kids here get here. But really why that's done is exactly what Trent
042says. It's goodwill and it's paying it forward and it's essential that we keep that goodwill. Um and and uh you know I'm I'm happy to have moved here. My kids have had a good experience so far. I want it to stay that way. We can't got programs going to keep goodwill that I' they said I get there We're at the half an hour mark. It's been 28 minutes. Okay. So, the thing bothers me most, something our committee said, you said right off bat in second private meeting and it has not led me and I don't know how to deal with it, that we are selfish and do not care about kids. I could find any kid that would state that about me. It says a board may not come from you, but you are backing
043up everything I say here. They've asked me to give you some facts. Besides already knowing we're one of the lowest paid positions in the state of Oregon, you said there was a 23% raise. That means I would make 95,321.31. You are not offering that. You're offering 89922 at end of three years which is a 16.03. If you look at the bottom of every column, that is the least of any column which is this is the column that's most support because we do have nowhere to go. Now I want to talk about other schools that would take over a 19% increase in salary in the first year just to catch. So I'm going to have to skip a lot of this. So let's just talk about because of the those statements the narrative pushed into the
044community that we are getting a higher increase than we are not trying to pit the community against us and this environment has been created. I have applied for multiple jobs. the jobs are only $106,000 and $104,000. That would pay me over 20. Well, if we get your one with your rate, $2,200 a month more. So, if you don't know how my retirement works, it's my best three years. That means I'd make over $1,000 a month for the rest of my life in retirement. If my wife lives into her mid 80s, that means I would lose $400,000 by staying here. If you want to use coil as an example, it' be $500 more a month I would make in retirement, which equates to my wife lived in their mid80s, an extra $200,000. You have shown that
045you do not care at this point about taking care of your long-term employees, especially like I said, I've been here 31 years. I've raising my kids here. You know, I built and just built my last hopefully my last home here. And uh you know I just don't understand the lack of support from you guys. But again I come and do my job every day. I not everyone understands this. I serve a higher person. God put me in this position. I come and do my job. I come and do it my best attitude I can. But you've created an environment. It's getting ugly. My morale is very damp. But I'll continue to find back do the same job I do. against Amy already. That's okay. I just took part of it. Um I'm just piggybacking a
046little bit off of that. I support the teachers. I um know firsthand my family's immortality begins pretty fiercely to the point that we are moving at the end of this month. Um I have two kids in the district. One goes to the elementary school. She's had a great experience because of the teachers and the school admin at that school. Uh it's the only reason we even consider taking her in because of how great they were. Um so I'm glad to keep supporting them. Um, I wanted to say that I'd like to see the board look at the policies fail AR. There's been some changes made. They're not sufficient. You know, there is just churched it up a bit. He click on a button. Um, all of those complaints, sensitive complaints like I tried to make
047was retaliated retaliated against four against the super. Um, there's no solid way to make that complaint. It just says referred to the board chair. I was given in three different ways. One of which went against board policies to make that complaint. I was we get into all that but you really need to look at your policies because you can get a whole new you can get all new steps and abuse will happen if you don't have protections in your policies ar your forms. Can you just make the board chairs email like it's professional email his or her in the future professional email available um to the people so they can make these sensitive complaints because it was terrifying um and I'm an open book if anybody wants this conversation I would love to have it
048because I've been begging for help and I know Google won't know it's small town we know everything and nobody would even Look at me. There's a handful of people that way and I thank you for that. Um, but we're out. You know, we don't have time. My son has disabilities and he's been unable to come to the the high school um because of the experience that he has had. It's been terrifying. Um, so we're out. We won't have time for band to get that together, but I really hope for the up and cominging special needs kids in the district, which is a growing population, I hope make a few tangible changes and stop the retaliation. 0. We're going to make a motion in our meeting.