001the laws governing Boards of require that their work be done where the public can observe their actions please remember that this is the board's meeting for the public to observe Others May participate only with the board approval please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance to the FL of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and jce okay has anyone not signed the guest list everybody has thank you very much um hang on number two is approval of the executive session meetings from February 10th 2025 and approval of the regular board minutes from 20 from February 10 2025 I move to approve the February 10th 2025 Cascade Schoolboard minutes second it's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of
002the February 10th 2025 um exec session and regular board minutes any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries prioritize the agenda Mr drill I think we can go straight down the line sir D might then that means you're up superintendence report all right good evening um welcome to March I can't believe we're saying that but we're getting close to Spring Break and then suddenly we at three quick months and you're standing on the stage at graduation so that's a fun that'll be a fun time one um just to update real quick we've been talking about uh student numbers the entire school year and this month this right at the end of February beginning of March is when our student numbers actually now exceed the numbers that we
003had last year right so last year went up like a peak and came back down this has kind of done this and stayed flat all the way across so it's a little different than last year but uh that does allow for us to kind of say hey this time last year we were about the same my guess is we'll probably stay a little bit ahead of our last year's numbers for the rest of the year um that helps us some financially um Scott can kind of explain that if you need him to but the reality is um you know we've spent half a year behind so that means that um from a financial standpoint we won't be seeing any big increases in in in dollars right it's really connected to how many students you have
004so a flat number is a good number um in this day and age across the state when so many districts are losing kids uh and don't have as many as they did the year before having a right about the same is a good thing all the way around um the uh State Legislature is still in session um and we got past one hurdle which is they get a February Financial forecast they'll get one in may as well the reality is that they will probably not set a number for K12 education until they get to the May forast which is usually I think it's the second week of May when that comes out um so once we see that uh they'll start to wrap up the legislature we'll have a pretty good idea uh of what
005we'll have financially to deal with uh appreciate Scott handling that um he's doing a lot of wh ifs in his budget what if it's this number what if it's that number how do we play that game and U you know I think we're in pretty good shape um um dealing with those unfortunately those unknown numbers we just also don't know exactly what we landed on with regard to our negotiations so this this is a year it's a little more un unknown but you know we're we're trying to make sure that all the other pieces of it are really really clear for us in our budget budgetary process so and then uh also like to thank um he's actually in the crowd tonight so I'd like to thank Olen uh and I would like to thank
006Joe uh uh for uh checking our bus routes in the morning on winter mornings um that's just part of it so you know they get up at 4 start checking along with our bus company so we have all corners of our district checked they check it they give me an update by 5:30 if we go to then they stay out till 7:30 if we actually go to school then they just come to work and then work the rest of the day so really appreciate that always want to say thank you to them publicly uh if you get a chance please thank them um that really make sure that we do a good job and I feel like we do a pretty good job of trying to make sure that people are safe but that we
007uh take care of our business financially and making sure kids come to school with regard to the two days that we missed right uh back in February please remember that we are far more hours than we need with regards from the state of Oregon my recommendation would be considering how hard everybody works and the evenings of weekends that they put in that we don't um go up that we don't make those up if we get to three or four or five days then you know normally that's been the tradition from this board that we go ahead and do that it's not a a motion that I put on tonight but um if I get nods of heads then we can kind of go ahead and move forward and let that know if you got a
008big problem with it please you know speak up and let me know any other questions I got two questions for you yes one's an OD question the lights at Cloverdale were adjusted last week much improved thank you very much for your diligence and follow up on that please also thank Albert um he's the guy that really got on that um um we're basically checking in and he does our lights in combination with taking care of our it stuff right he's our liaison along with Brian dier so those two guys together helped to make sure that that happened took a little while for get them to come out took a while but it it appears that it was the right thing so thank you for that okay AB my second question is I see a lot
009of stuffs on the news at the federal level about stuff going on with the Department of Education Etc how bad how much will that affect us if things are massively change at the federal level it's a problem um you know most districts in the state get somewhere between nine and 11% of their budget with regard from the feds okay that was part my question we're not quite as affected as other districts um but we are affected with regard particularly to the title programs and as Scott talked to our staff today about Medicaid Medicare right because what that does is our state actually collects a lot of that and if they don't have that they're going to need money to replace it the money they would go to right so so really saying that 11.36 billion
010would be affected by this potentially could be it could be not only that but the pur increase right they had the governor set that number before The Purge increase popped up so we didn't really see that double hit could be it could be 1136 is far better than the 10 three 104 that we're 102 and a half that we're getting now so the answer is we don't know what the what's coming from the federal level at this point correct a lot of speculation but who knows right um we've talked about it uh the title program Mr Dyer and I work on that as well we're looking at a 25% decrease in title so we need to account for that in the process that's not a large number for us but it's not small right it's
011significant enough that we need to look at it and are we have people that are hired directly from title money right to help with our kids that are poor help with our kids that are struggling and reading and those things particularly at the elementary level so we're going to have to to do some refiguring about how that process so if that just let disappeared that money how soon would it affect us could it could it affect us tomorrow or are we a year out it could affect us tomorrow or they could wait for it to take effect the next federal um calendar year so it just depends same answer still don't know yeah so unknown is a great is a great thing as is our tar tariffs however you want to say it um any
012of those things those that's very much an unknown so you did not answer my question I'm sorry I couldn't tell you sorry I I apologize but uh if I did know I would not be here they would have me somewhere else speaking right now all right that's a fact any other questions for Mr drill all right thank you Mr drill thank you moving on finance director's report Mr pillar this is is this all right anybody hear meor about that the top just the top works okay that's it I'd like to thank Mr drill for giving my financial report today thank you that's all I have for you no um the uh answerer one partially expand a little bit on the federal uh Federal programs number typically the federal programs the money that we get for
013federal programs we get about $2.8 to $3 million every year in federal program money that money is usually set in the year prior so however the current Administration is now actively starting a continuing resolution to keep the budget going for currently and that is actually that budget um resolution is setting the federal funding funding that we receive for next fall starting next fall so so there is like as Mr drill said there is an opportunity or a chance that some of that a significant drop in that Federal funding could occur as early as September for us and so that is that's the the money the funding flow from the feds their fiscal year ends on September 30th so which is you know typically around our school school year start so so we typically have a
014little bit left over from the prior year that we spend early in that year and then we move into the next year so so we have a little perhaps a little bit of flexibility but not a lot if they if it was to go away completely most of that money though is set in a federal law that has been around since the 60s including idea uh title programs those types of things so the chances of by executive order any changes in that in my opinion are are fairly low okay as Mr Joe mentioned uh you know we're keeping an eye on a lot of what FS when it comes to the budget uh fortunately we've got a kind of a newer system in terms of position-based budgeting and so um we're doing a lot of
015different scenarios that are going around and around and around we're keeping very close eye on what the legislature has to say in terms of what our funding is going to look like but this is one of the more um I guess challenging budget years that I've ever experienced because because um typically at this time of the year we have a decent idea where we're going to end up and I really don't have much of an idea where we're going to end up this year particularly with the increase in the pur cost that we're looking at as well so um it's going to be a little bit of a challenge so I hate to overpromise and underd deliver so I'm just letting you know it might be really tight it hopefully will be okay so can
016we talk hard numbers what's the pur number we're looking at uh it will probably increase our expenditures roughly between 450 to 550,000 next year alone so half a million dollars more what it's going to cost us that's coming out of our general funding back of the napkin yeah yeah yeah okay yeah okay everything else being and in your report here how caught off guard are we by the temporary um teacher staff lead that we're paying for um fairly offg guard uh you know we typically have uh you know a couple of people that are out on on extended leave at any one time I think paid medical Family Leave has um made it easier for people to take extended leaves and by virtue of that uh we've had more people take that opportunity and uh
017because of the situation in other districts around us uh mainly s Salem Kaiser we've been able to uh attract some very good temporary teachers however they have been more senior in their experience and they far more expensive do you know roughly what we anticipate for Teacher um leave and what we're actually paying this year how much you know do we do we Factor usually 100 Grand it's costing us 300 what do we um we I actually when we build budgets I I don't actually take that until now I have not taken that into consideration I mean there's enough cushion in our in our budget and if I'm trying yeah I haven't even really given a lot of thought to it and and I I so for this year um I didn't put anything in the
018budget for that so to have this big pot of things what is it looking like it's gonna cost us I haven't estimated it so I I I hesitate to give you 600 Grand it's big number okay yeah that on top of the purge that's a uh that's a big chunk yeah we hopefully won't see that as much next year and we do plan to uh put in put in a special Revenue fund just for that particular case the pur or the teacher absence we already have one for Pur remember we've been putting one away for quite a while for the pers experience we started that I think two Bia ago where when we were facing some things um but we're talking about doing some things for some temporary teacher staff okay just because it seems
019like that's something that we're that we're going to be facing for ages along I mean our our work force is changing too you know the demographic of of our of our really solid teachers are you know they're just getting younger they're at that age right no understood okay any other questions no all right thank you all right thank you very much thank you thanks High School principal's report Mr R good evening you guys I don't want to take a ton of time because both Mr woodell and Mr rise have presentations tonight um I just want to make one note though at the bottom there a graphic that uh was given to us by our accreditation getting scolded over here what if I wanted to walk around and get all animated what just talk really loud
020I can I can tell you that but it's not me you're gonna answer to it's gonna be her it's gonna hurt me because all right um at the bottom is a graphic and uh they took some key words from the people who uh shared with our uh the ation committee about our schools and they made that graphic and the word in the middle of that struck me was community and I think that I really want to share just a moment of this is really a moment of gratitude as a principal now here in this district and a teacher and a coach and someone who's raised their kids you really get to see that Community process over the time and you've got board members who had kids come through there you've got students who became principles
021you've got a 20 three-year-old teacher right now who was our kid she's just killing it in our schools and so that that notion of community really makes a difference and that's where I'm grateful um I'm grateful to be here I'm grateful to to to serve this community and to serve with some great people um we have our problems uh one of Mr woodall's favorite sayings is you know there's job security in this job because there's gonna be problems walking through the door every day and he is 100% right I thought I was going to do a whole bunch of different stuff today and I ended up doing completely different things and that's pretty much every day so I just want to thank you for the chance to serve I want to thank you for the
022chance to uh be a part of this community and ultimately our accreditation came back fine um got some good feedback on that but ultimately it was a good thing so if you have any questions that's great otherwise I'm gonna hand it over to these guys no been hand away hand away next think you got your assistant principal report oh High School assistant principal's report yes I do Mr withraw so sorry um first I want to acknowledge is uh at this time last year I came to you guys with the idea of renaming the main gy Mark Stevens court and our first game League game of the year we we put signage up to recognize that and just I I want to thank a few people John Iverson and the metal shop and specifically his students
023Christian Bo and Ryland Collins who put that sign together and I just think it was a great Tri tribute to a man who has meant so much to me and this community and it was a great opportunity just to celebrate him so it was a I was really thrilled to do that the next thing I want to do is um recognize a few staff members the first one is Bob Thompson he is our campus monitor which is kind of a a tough job because you're not in the classroom you're not an administrator but your main job is to go out there and build relationships with kids and keep an eye on students and make sure everybody's being safe and I just really appreciate in a short amount of time how well he has created those
024relationships with students and staff to the point where he's supportive of them but he can also hold them accountable and he's done such a great job in that role and such a great position to have just another set of eyes out there working with our kids so I really appre appreciate that um there's also a few staff members I want to recognize we have a great staff at Cascade High School but the staff members here Matt Dylan Molly Haron Lily Roth and Haley Wright I want to recognize mainly um them tonight because these are all temporary employees who are coming in and just and they are only guaranteed this year with us and not only are they teaching but they are coaching they are volunteering for chaperon opportunities they are running student council they are
025going above and beyond investing in our kids even though this might be the only year they're with us and I think that says a lot about their character and whoever has them after Cascade hopefully maybe we keep some of them maybe we don't they whatever school that gets them is going to be thrilled to have them okay and so I just want to recognize those staff members because you know they are just temporary employees a lot of times they're just teaching and that's it and these um these staff members have gone above and beyond um the next part I want to talk about my main job at the high school is discipline and I consider that a twart thing where student management um 95% of our kids are doing the right thing all the time
026and a big part of my student management is to recognize good things kids are doing and a lot of this we've been doing for years whether it's having teachers write postcards sending them home quarterly each term and putting them in for gift cards and just recognizing those kids you see a list of trips that we're taking kids on who have good grades who have good attendance this week I'm taking a router bus up to Forest Grove to support the basketball teams on Friday I'm taking a group of kids to Top Golf and then hopefully team's still playing we go and we continue support the basketball teams later that day but to me the big part is just to celebrate the great things kids are doing because you know I think we continue to promote that
027and kids realize they're going to get recognized for the good things they're doing and that's kind of a pressure to put on the kids who don't always make the good choices that hey if you're doing the right thing we're going to let you know about it um the next thing that I to talk about is just last year we for the first time we put in an attendance requirement for seniors if they wanted to walk a graduation they'd have 90% or better attendance and la and every six weeks seniors get letters saying whether they have below 90% attendance and saying hey if the year was to end today you would not walk at graduation and we and I would say each time we sent letters out it was about 40 students this year it's between
02815 and 20 and to me what that shows is a culture change in our schools as far as we prioritize you being here because I told kids ask me I'm passing all my classes I'm getting all my credits why do I have to be here I'm like this place is only special because we have special kids and if you are not here this place no longer continues to be special so I stress that to both students and parents that if we want to keep this place being great we we need you here as much as possible and you can go anywhere to get a high school diploma you can go online you can you can transfer to other schools but I think what we have to offer here is more than just credits and I
029want kids to experience as much as that as possible um the next part that I want to talk about and this is just in the very beginning stages is just how can we increase the rigor of our educational experience at the high school some of the things we're um playing around with is just limiting how many times uh students can take ta classes how many times they can get early release late arrival because we believe in what we do here and we think that's important and we want and we nothing finalized there but that's just something going forward is I want kids to experience everything that we have to offer at Cascade even if it makes them uncomfortable because you know when I put in this attendance policy made students uncomfortable I didn't want to
030be here I'm already passing classes parents I have to now force my kid to come to school even teachers pushed back a little bit now kids are going to come when they're sick and I think if we're going to go from being just good but to great I think the important thing is with sometimes it's got to be a little uncomfortable and we got to push people out of their comfort zone to make them do things they don't normally do so we can become that great school so anyway that's my report do you guys I only come once a year so this is it yeah okay so to make them uncomfortable then is it forcing them to take a class that they would not normally choose exactly and that brings its own set of issues
031because you know I'll require a kid to take a Foods elective that's a senior and they have no interest in cooking no interest in doing foods but Don Branch runs a great program and we want you to experience it and even elective teachers will push back a little bit saying know this kid didn't want this class I get that but we feel if they experience it with you they will appreciate it they may not appreciate at the beginning first week second week but we think in the long run that it's an opportunity for them to do something they hadn't done their four year so I think that's important like I said that's in the very beginning stages I'm not sure where exactly we'll take it but that is something I would like to see is
032for those kids to you know try a shop class if they never did a drama class something different other than just what's the bare minimum how do I get it so I can graduate I want them to do more than just that right that's a great IDE actually have another question no no okay I'm just curious about the monitor so I I get the noon time and the in between classes and I think it's great we have one we've needed it for years but what is he doing when the kids are in class is he outsite monitoring ones that sometimes kids aren always in class when class is going on so [Laughter] so we will you know they'll go out and just check on and see what they're doing you know I would say a
033lot of it is just building relationships hey you know where you supposed to be right now how's your school day going I think Bob does such a great job of you know coming off kind and sincere and at the same time saying hey what are you supposed to be doing right now what what where are you supposed to be at so he's inside too asking the consider class oh I love this this is so great yeah it did super high and high school that is wonderful good for everybody yeah mine's not a question I just I appreciate that you do the positive part of it too I think that's huge and um easily forgotten you know so I'm glad you put an importance on it you know and I I always tell I mean whether
034I'm sitting in a kid with a referral or expulsion here I give the same speech every time and you guys probably heard it is the consequence piece is a very small part of what we do I mean every kid's going to experience consequences in school I don't care how good your kid is it's going forward what can we do to support you and what changes can you make on your end so we're not in the same situation again I mean every High School is about making mistakes whether it's with each other in the classroom on a test doesn't matter it's how we grow from those mistakes so I think that's a stress I put on with that job is the consequence piece I don't that could be whatever you can kind of come with that
035but what can we do for you going forward to help support you making better choices okay so I'm going to ask one quick question so you said here that um the the seniors it was 40 to 45 that attended got the letters now it's 15 to 20 do you in your opinion is it primarily the kid is it the parent is it a combo of the two what's what's not bringing that kid to class I I would say uh a lot of times it's just that senior year you have a relaxed schedule not nearly many requirements kids have kind of figured out a way we've made it convenient for kids to mess and I don't want to um the fact that so much of it's online whether it's Google classroom they can get a lot
036of their work from home and I think that has what you know initially kep kids at home is I can still get my work done right well like I said that's such a small part of what we do just schoolwork and now every six weeks letters go out so it reminds them and kids talk about themselves I mean I remember the end of last year Junior saying is this true 90% attendance that and you know we talk about it you know and kids talk among themselves and they realize that hey I gotta be here how many times kid I can't tell you how many times kid said the only reason I'm here today is because I want to lock at graduation I say great it's working it's working so so of the 15 to 20
037kids that got letters are most of those kids passing they're just not here for attendance is it a great yeah I would say I would say about uh 20% of them are struggling some some of them I mean some of the kids on there are they're homeless they literally they live in an Airbnb in Salem that we bust in each day and so some kids have had some major medical issues and that's why we have theal process we realize things do happen right and we do have a requirement that you have to do seat time so for how many days you need to make up to get up to 90% you'll have to stay either after school or if you have a release late arrival you stay then to make up that time and you
038know at that point it's more just to kind of make a point but the idea is by sending the letters out every 6 weeks it's just a subtle reminder hey you need to be here and it's important and I'm more than willing to have that conversation with parents because I do like I said before it's important that you're here because you guys bring a ton to the table when you're here we think your kids important and have a lot to offer other students and the staff got it so all right thank you you're not on trial here saw fine with a an incomplete answer if every one of those kids that takes the late start early dismissal instruction uh ta spot term after term after term if every one of those kids said you know
039Mr wood rall is right I need to be a full-time student if every one of them quit doing all those other things do we actually have enough seats for those people to be full I mean there is definitely you know something that uh we would have to address with Staffing um I I think you know I don't think you could do all of it like ear ta early race you probably have to choose one and you know that would nudge up numbers in classes I think trying to say you know you can't have any of those is not feasible given the Staffing we have right now but I think you know just a simple thing is each year you can get one credit for ta and now you have to take something else or you
040can have one late arrival or one early release during the year you would have to I mean then you have to start making an investment for you know more staff the other thing is if kids are legitimately doing things such as they have a job and they can produce you know I'm working 30 345 hours a week that is a class in our eyes you know it's work experience so there are ways to pick up but we just want to know that you're doing something positive and not just sleeping in and going home early so we'd probably have to get creative with ideas you know some kids will go to sha to take classes maybe that's something we open up if it's a class that we don't offer here maybe we can send them there
041but that's going to take more planning and just more logistical organization to determine that thank you any other questions all right thank you Mr appreciate it so I want to back up no you come on up no you're okay real quick I want to back up Finance director's report Mr pillar it was in your report but I didn't mention it you didn't bring it up congratulations on your SFO certification nice job and I like your landard all right I'm sorry back to the athletic director's report Mr rise thank you uh thank you all for uh having my report there in front of you uh I'll be quick I think um we have some celebration for our winter sports as they kind of to a close here uh both performance-based but also um on the academic
042side in G GPA all of our winter sports finish in the top half of other state in terms of their GPA compared to other teams in the state um I think this is the first time since I've been here also it was our boys wrestling team that finished highest so they finished fifth in state in terms of GPA which is fantastic for them um I think we had about 135 student athletes in uh the winter uh Sports um again we uh had two state champions on the wrestling team we sent six to state in swim um our boys and girls basketball teams won their first round playoff game this last weekend so they're both to the final eight again in Forest Grove this Thursday um so in terms of performance on the on the court
043or field has has been great but again I think that that GPA side of things is is also very very important to point out um I think as as we transition to Spring just to kind of give you a an idea so we had about 135 athletes in the winter season we will transition to about 225 for spring for spring Sports so um we are up across the board in all of our spring Sports um we're kind of staying steady in girls tennis which uh Mr seli has always had a big team um but every other sport besides that we had a little bit of an uptick um and so our our participation counts are way up there which is great um another another reason that I think that is is because uh we return
044all of our coaches for our spring Sports um except on the girls golf side um we have just uh named Stuart Foster who was new to the business and social studies Department this this year he's uh going to take on the girls gol golf team we have seven girls out for golf for spring so um so again the number side of things the performance in the classroom performance on the field has has been strong again and um and so that is a kudos to not only our staff uh that coach the sports but our staff in other classrooms um our kids miss some classes you know the afternoons and those kids have to go find a way to make up those tests or um turn turn in work they miss so um I I I
045want to thank both the kids and and the in-classroom staff to uh to make that work um a couple things just on the horizon you might start to hear about um the OSAA which is our government body for the classification we compete in again we are a 4A size school next um fall there will be started discussions for the following four-year block um all signs right now point to us maintaining the 4A CL classification for that next block but I would just kind of throw out there for the following block from what we've heard with some you know some growth and potential um uh you know new development in that following so like five years from now I think it's um probably wise that we start thinking about and talking about what it looks like
046for us to move up to a 5as size school so um again the talks will start next fall um by the time we get to next spring about this time next next spring we will have uh you know what our new league looks like what what teams are in those leagues and that as well but you you will start to hear talk probably in August and and we we will see the first draft of those next December is that strictly based off the size of the school so yes it's the size of the school but then the OSAA also has a formula for uh free and reduced lunch and the amount of students that you have on that in your high school basically drops your number down so um like I think this year we're
047in that for them we're at like 550 um but you know we're we're upwards of seven Mr rasm 78 750 yeah okay 760 yeah yeah so okay yeah it's a good question but but again for that four-year block starting again not for next year but the following year um from everything we've heard signs will kind of stay the same and numbers will be about the same I got a quick question so I'm looking at the report here and it looks like the girls basketball dropped off a fair bit is there a reason that happen is it just kind of the EB and flow of kids setting their interests um I think that's a longer discussion um but I think there's a lot of things that play that play into that I I think that it
048is our job not on the girls basketball side but across the board you have an opportunity as a coach and a team and a teammate to win your kids every single day and I think that we have to make sure as a head coach and as a leader of a group that we are doing what we can every day to create excitement to create a great culture and I think that we had some kids that maybe were in the freshman sophomore classes the last couple years that didn't have that same ex experience um and I think that there are some other things that kind of play that kind of play into that but if you would look at the grades where we kind of fell fell off at that freshman and sophomore years okay but
049that's something you guys are aware of and very much um figured out what you need to change I I think we have a good plan yeah yeah okay yeah any other questions all right thank you very much thank you guys all right moving on Junior High principal's report assistant pardon me Junior High Assistant principal's report Miss gayy hello hello good evening thank you so much for having me here um I'm gonna Echo because there were such great presentations ahead of me um Bob Thompson has been amazing for us to at the junior high uh he just you know coming through the hall he's in at lunch he's in at lunch this is the thing that I love the most at lunch I think he goes to almost every table and talks to the kids so
050we have a split lunch we go 7 eight and then we have just our sixth graders um for the other 15 minutes and um he goes around and talks to everybody and it's just it's really delightful to see and the kids really respond well to him um and so it that's he's he's been great and um we know that he'll be willing to help us anytime we need it and um it's just been nice having that extra extra face around that the kids really enjoy um I deal mostly with discipline so um Greg Nolan and I share discipline duties and then he also does athletic director so um I decided that I want to talk about all the positive things we're doing here um at the board meeting uh We've do a at the end
051of the trimester we have a couple awards that we're giving kids totally Tiger has been a fun one because that means you have no discipline no tardies no anything like that and um what I loved is we awarded 238 of those to our kids that's a third of our school and I just thought that that was such a great um we're doing things they're the kids are doing things right they're doing an amazing job uh we also implemented some more GPA things um we recognized a whole bunch of 4.0 students we had a couple students uh with perfect attendance which I I just really admire I think that's a that's a tough gig um with getting sick and everything and they were there every single day our teachers also um give positive referrals so um
052through our new through our power power school system uh they put in uh referrals and positive referrals and so they're positive with Paw positive see it's funny uh little positive referrals uh we print those off send them home go to the classrooms kind of make a deal give them a couple candies um and so that's great and that's coming directly from the teachers and then every month we have a different thing that we um just that we were really looking for with our kids so um we call them the tiger wordss or the RO the aora a words and so that's really fun to try to say all the time uh this month we did treat others with kindness and um I really love that I love that award I have I think I have
053a shirt for every day of the week that says something about being kind um because um I know that if we can instill that with kid to to our kids and understanding that kindness is sometimes you know holding the door open but it's also sometimes not saying anything and you know we can do a lot of different things for our kids for kindness and so teachers uh nominated those again in we recognize them little bit of candy goes a long way a couple certificates and we get it um out to their parents um I wanted to recognize too I wanted to recognize um we had our classified staff week they're amazing our classified staff are out in the Halls uh they do extra supervision um they do study hall after school they do uh clubs
054they I mean they just do anything um we ask and they are just um such a dedicated staff and they just love our they love on our kids all the time but I really want to um shout out to Whitney Ford Whitney Ford is our skills trainer at the Junior High um she is phenomenal um I work with her I mean we we talk every single day about kids and she kids that are having rough days she she grabs them up and gets them back on track and gets them going back into their classes she helps with academics she helps with buy her checks she goes in and out of classrooms um she just is um she is such a a huge asset to our building um I wish we had 10 more of her
055because um we need you know every school needs uh 10 more Whitney and so I just wanted to to highlight her because uh she just does a really phenomenal job for us and uh I really appreciate it last but not least our science curriculum got put in um this last year and it's it's going pretty good it's called twig it's the rigor is a Mr um W all talking about you know increasing the rigor in our schools and I and I think that this curriculum really has it's a lot of real world things um really gets the kids engaged they did a hoverboard so they see they had to talk about a hoverboard electromagnets and then they had to have a villain and a um and a hero in the in the presentations were phenomenal
056I think that they got a post on the on the Facebook page but uh the kids were thinking about what would happen when you know like somebody was on the hoverboard and they were trying to escape from the villain and they had this whole story so they had um total cross-curricular stuff they had the English and they were doing a little bit of math and they were doing art and it just um and that all came from that curriculum you know just um and it has just been a really um a really great thing and Mr Dyer did um some great things with our science crew to get them all together to kind of talk about this be able to have extra time so we really appreciate that the junior high and so that has
057just been been really great so that's it what can I what can I answer for you anything any questions all right I'll ask you a question so yeah I know good try good try so you've got aund pardon me you've got 107 students with 4.0 GPA correct is that typical um you know I don't know and I don't know because this is the first trimester I've done it okay and so um I don't have I could go back and look at the data from um the last couple years uh but this is the first time I've done a 4.0 that I personally have done the seem like a big number and then behind that you've got another seven and eight and eight yeah so that's all of them together yeah and then there's another 105
058with the 35 to 3.99 which is flat awesome if you throw those numbers together so and I can tell you um you know I'm in and out of the classrooms a lot and um talking to the kids and those Don't Come Easy uh you know those they're they're having to put in a lot of the I really do feel that the rigor um and the the work that needs to go in to get those grades is high our sixth grade staff has um their they're on those kids and they get everything in and also U Mrs leay implemented the cash system or cash class which is the last half hour of every day um and the kids have an opportunity to get caught up on homework they have opportunities to go to other teacher classrooms
059to be able to um retake tests or get extra help um that's where we have our IAS are all in through the building going through all the classes and I think that has made a huge difference um in the grades and just the the amount and quality of work that we are getting turned in nice well those are impressive nice job thank you any other questions nope all right thank you very much Elementary principles reports first one looks like Cloverdale good evening good evening can you guys hear me you bet okay um so thanks for having me I wasn't sure what to present on today um and somebody said well why don't you just talk about all the wonderful things that happened at Cloverdale so I started going back through our Facebook and they're really
060are so many wonderful things that we do there so I just thought I was going to highlight kind of just our school year so far so going through we had a family math night which was really fun um we ended up buying a bunch of different floor mats that had games everything was included parents came um it was a great time where we were trying to teach parents how to play math games with their kids so that was really nice um we also had our grandparent Bingo come and we had um lots of grandparents come in and it's really great to see little kids just sitting with their grandparents having a really good time and the grandparents get super excited um we also have like a veterans assembly that we had um this one means
061a lot to me just because my family served in the military um but just seeing and seeing our kids um really just thank all of Veterans for everything that they do is really special um we also have clubs and activities we have like rock wall every other Wednesday which is fabulous they get to use that big rock wall in our um gym and then we also have robotics which our teach sure Mrs isy does um every Tuesday and Thursday which is fabulous and the kids absolutely love it um it's almost over though but either way so that's something special that I think Cloverdale has and then also if you just like when I was first looking at applying for jobs and I looked at Cloverdale I think it shocked me how many field trips they
062did um but really field trips are so fantastic because that's what brings the learning to life and so I want to make sure that that's what kids get the chance to do and you can even see the kids if they're on the bus the minute they kind of get outside of Salem or an area like that they like you can see they just haven't seen that before so sometimes it's really nice to do all those field trips so they've got like the zoo the aquarium multiple different field trips where they get to experience that um the other thing is we have an amazing PTO like phenomenal PTO and they have decided um to bring in like these enrichment art days three times a year so we're going to actually have create a um create a
063memory come to our school and every child gets to make some sort of a pot or something to remember and then they'll take it back fire it up and bring it in um we also are going to start having like an um somebody come in to teach about art history and then the kids get to do the art so something bigger than what we would normally do in a classroom um and then we also have lots of different academic fairs we've had science fairs invention fairs um lots of different times where kids are sharing their work um and you'd be amazed at the creativity that these kids have um with their science you know their science projects their inventions it's just fantastic um and the last thing I brought in it's kind of silly but
064it's special to me um but I have a a pet tortoise and the tortoise's name is tortillini and it was my class pet that I've had for years um and so now it's like our school pet and if our kids are doing really well they earn like a tortillini token and then each week we see which classroom has the most tokens and then they get to have tortillini for the week they get to feed her take care of her give her a bath um lots of fun things and so it's just kind of something that's boosted up the morale of the kids and they're they're really enjoying it having a good time so I know it's nothing about data it's more of the fluff but sometimes that fluff is just as nice to see as
065everything else so anyway short and simple any questions no no no I'm having technical she so you get off the hook for me okay perfect perfect okay do we get to see torini what do we get to see torini um well there's a picture right there if you can see her on there but she is a cutie thank you guys thank you good all right we'll move on I'm limping here but we'll try we're moving on to um Turner Elementary principal report Miss Iverson great thank thank you so much for having me here this evening and I'd like to draw your attention to our math data and why we're so excited about that about a month ago I was in Reading Oregonian and it talked about Oregon students lagging far behind the national average and
066of course as a public school educator I feel defensive I feel like I want it to be better so we really dug deep into our I ready data this is the fourth year of all elementary schools using a new math program called I ready we had math a math program before but it was one that not all teachers embraced so frankly not everybody used it they kind of put together a peace meal math program or used whatever their preference was but now in our fourth year you can see that it's the same test there's no smoke and mirors Apples to Apples all the schools in Oregon using I ready which are most school districts we are outperforming them 26% of Oregon students are two grades or more behind 23% of the nation that use I
067ready we are 10% that doesn't mean that's good enough but of that of that 10% there students that are either new to us have a barrier to learning such as perhaps a disability or are in line to have some testing done to see why they're not performing well 50% of our students are slightly below but of those students that are in the yellow or slightly below about 30% of those students are just right there you know every week we are studying and evaluating the data I am a firm believer as Julia said in all those wonderful experiences and I think we are proving that we can have both we can provide our students with optimal experiential learning but we can also use the data to drive and not only having a curriculum that is used
068with Fidelity across the district but having math coaches that work with the teachers and setup intervention with students for an example as somebody who struggled in math as a kid had I just had some simple manipulatives you know some kids need the tangibles they need to see the four of these equal a whole or 12 of those equal a whole and our math coaches work with students individually with all kinds of math games all kinds of manipulatives to make sure those kids get it because not everybody gets it by looking at a book or by hearing it you know in a class they need to touch it they need to see it they need to work that manipulative for themselves so do you have any questions about our math data or about my report in
069general I'm just G to ask what's your goal for next year you know I'd asked that math coach that because I mean 10% is pretty darn good but it is those those students that we're not reaching um that are on an individualized education plan how can we better serve those kids those are kids that are pulled out and they're not working with a math coach they're going to a resource room so how can we beef that up and frankly 26% of Oregon students are two or more grades behind when we get students in fourth and fifth grade that are so far behind we're having discussions in both literacy and math what can we do can we do some kind of fast track indepth tutoring a couple weeks before school because I feel badly about the
070fact that we had for an example three fifth grade students that were significantly behind in both math and reading we've only had this year we're sending them on to the junior high and they're not ready for sixth grade so together as a district we need to figure out a plan for students that come to us especially fourth and above it's really challenging I've mentioned before about the fourth grader we received that was prek he didn't know his letter sounds we have him to second grade he's going to sixth grade next year so how does it K get from K to fourth grade without knowing their sounds uh in this particular case School attendance behavior issues all contributed to that as well as now an identified learning disability along with that so that's like a three-prong
071strike but prior to that disability being established do do schools just move them on to the next grade just well it really is attendance as I say how are we doing if they attend regularly if there's no disability and if we've had them because there's and you know it's easy when you see the the stat statistics in the public at large like do they attend school because you know the state of Oregon took away all kind of punitive aspects about attendance I mean we can wave our finger we can send an attendance letter but there's nothing we can do okay and if that if education isn't valued in that at home or not a priority our hands are truly tied so they just get passed along so does a does a child have to meet
072certain criteria before they go from second to third grade maybe that's a silly question or are they automatically a third grader because the second year school ended I'll give you another example we had a student last year that should have been a fourth grader because he'd never been to school before and we taught him how to write his name and there's no exaggeration he didn't know how to write his name he didn't know basic skills at all so I we consulted with our special education director and the lowest we placed him was second because of his age I mean retention for older kids is not a popular option the research shows that that isn't as helpful because then they're just thrown in a class and they can't maybe access that work either and what do
073you do put a fourth grader in with a kindergartener in an intervention so the best thing is is that instructional support from our IAS which many people commended getting those kids one-on-one interventions are really what they need but no school has the budget for that right any other questions yeah the indications are that the general fund will get tighter in the coming years for lots of good reasons right and then the fear of title being cut is where Title One School lille's Title One yep and a key part of the Cloverdale report and now the Turner report and most of the reports we've heard for the last as long as I've been here highlight the relationship between the experiential kinds of learning that happens and the ability to connect to kids academically which leads me
074to think the Partnerships with the ptas are only going to become more and more critical to learning are we as a district I'm sure at the school level you're doing a good job are we at the district level doing a good job in maintaining our partnership with our ptas or are there things that we I can't even think what they might be but are there things we should be paying attention to so we're maximizing the PTA success as opposed to burning out people I think I can you know only speak for my own community and I think we're doing a we are doing a great job in accessing Our Community Partnerships and it also is being present you know in the fall when we have our open house and we have a ducky race and
075it's a buck for a duck and it all goes to a family in need this last year it was a family that tragically unexpectedly lost their dad and then you go into the pizza place in Turner and they hear about it so they hand me a hundred bucks so it is about those Community connections our strong relationships with our families and I I mean that is certainly solid if it weren't for the contributions of our Turner parent club we certainly wouldn't have the the experiential education and the field trips that we do traditionally John um ptas have always just worked with the elementaries so that's an interesting thought that you had um I have been to U you know over the time been to a couple of regional meetings with regard to ptas they've always
076stayed pretty focused on K K5 k6 depending on you know how that works but as we get tighter with budgets it's an interesting idea yeah to expand it because we have some amazing parents right now and like they tell me we only have me for two more years because then their kids leave Turner so if we could access these amazing parents that are really pouring a lot of time into our school but that gets tricky because the kids no longer want their parents stopping by so that's you know it's not just the you know the schools it's the other way around too yeah any other questions about our report questions questions nope all right and before I depart there was a team of us that worked on getting a Cascade Wellness Grant and I know
077that report is uploaded for you and I do want to invite you we have a quarter of a million dollars to use for our staff Wellness over the course of the next five years and if you want to participate in any of those activities from fly tying with Sanam fly casters to country line dancing uh I could send Lisa the latest newsletter has all the QR codes and you could sign up and also the courthouse gave us a free week they just notified me yesterday that they're giving us two free weeks so you can go to the courthouse fitness center try it out but you're definitely an integral part of cascade and I want you to be welcome to participate in any of the activities we have activities we have incentives in each of the
078sites and around the district like if you drink enough water you'll get a a drwing for a prize we also have Education and Training some of the sites are doing weekly training sessions starting last week at Cloverdale and Thursday at Turner so feel free to participate in any offerings that we have so we'll try to bring in the money that we can even though there's definitely a looming deficit so any questions about that all right thank you all right thank you very much moving on we've got El Elementary assistant principl report mville Elementary assistant principal report welcome hello everybody so nice to see you uh you have my report uh on your screen it covers some good behavior data uh throughout the year it talks about some fundraising things that we've done uh something I'd
079like to highlight is our attendance which several people here have already talked about tonight but how important our attendance is uh as you can see it's grown significantly over the last three years uh our chronically absent students which are the ones that Miss 90% Miss 10% of their school um or more they're here 90% or less than 90% right yeah um we have a 133% decrease in those chronically absent students over the past three years which is a huge success for us um and we can attribute that to lots of factors one of them being that our attendance director Ann yunker um she comes to our school every other week I know some schools she meets with only once a month but because we have such a big population at mville she comes every other
080week and she and I and the counselor sit down and we talk about every single student we start at kindergarten we go through we talk about every student we track all of their um bi-weekly or bonly data uh how their attendance is and we go through and see oh this kid's dropping attendance what's going on and we just talk about oh they had you know family sickness they had their tonsils out they had surgery you know and because we can get together with the counselors and all of us as a team we can really kind of come at it from different angles so we can really um talk about each student and and we just go through kindergarten first grade second grade all the way through fifth grade um and then we talk about okay
081what are the next steps um what can I do what can you do who's going to reach out to this family you know we don't know what's going on with this family well what are we going to do about it you know do we need to connect them to Cheryl Harman at the Family Resource Center maybe they're having some car troubles maybe they don't have transportation you know so it's very important that all of us get together and we talk about each kid and their situation so I think that's made a huge impact um the second thing that's made an impact is just our school culture making sure that every kid is important making sure they know that we want them there uh and that comes down to our staff you know hiring super awesome
082teachers and instructional assistance um like several people said our classified week we celebrated them this last week and it was so amazing um just to support them because they do so much work like we would not function without them um and so celebrating them and praising them it was just an awesome week um what's what else um so we talk about each student um and we have a super awesome culture um our daily attendance rate is at 92.8% which is better than almost every school around us um and seeing has how elmsville we we house all of our special programs some of our medically fragile students um it's kind of impressive that we have that such High attendance rate um and then there's some cool graphs there on my on my uh report because I'm
083artsy fartsy and I like data do you guys have any questions for me yeah you know I do I have two questions of course first um You referred to the school as a super awesome culture was that a self-evaluation or did that come from an outside of course that um and then you there's in your report you said that there's a daily check-in checkout with the trusted adult for kids on the behavior issue my question is does the same adult stick to certain kids or is it whoever's on today hits all of the kids so it's a revolving adult that they they check in with so that formal check-in checkout is always one trusted adult for that one student so it's the same adult to that kid so that kid can build a relationship on
084a one-on-one basis there instead of it being three or four whoever happens to be standing there today right okay and sometimes it's the teacher that they had last year and they already have a strong connection with that teacher and they go in and check in how are you doing today what's going on you know how was your night are you super amped coming into school today okay what's our daily goal uh and then at the end of the day they come back and check in and sometimes they get a prize or something for having you know really good behavior and staying on their on track on their goals um but yeah it's always the same person nice okay Co and I do appreciate your self evaluation awesome uh I and I want to um partner
085on what Pete said about serving the community I'm super thankful to be in this position and I'm super happy that you guys hired me and I love mville and I love my job love having you thank you appreciate it all right moving on to five discussion and communication 5A is personnel and it looks like we're going to 5a1 which is new staff recommendations Mr drill yep you have two names in front of you to finish out the year with different people having to step away as Mr pillar was talking about earlier uh we recommend these two folks to step in and as you notice right both have master's degrees so that means they've got some experience that helps that helps us in the process okay any questions on that nope okay going on to licensed
086employee renewals Mr drill so this is the year or the Year this is the month where we go through that process and we renew everybody so that means all the people on the list right have been reviewed by the administrators that many of which are in front of you this evening and we recommend moving them forward uh either in at probationary status to the next year or probationary status to contract or contract to contract so uh that is the process by law we need to have that done and taken care of by March 15 so the very bottom segment of that on page two says temporary cures retire retire employees to be non-renewed does that mean folks that have hired back and then said hey I'm done we have to by law since they're that
087there pers retirees we have to non-renew and then go back through a process of re rehiring them as well right but that gives you a list um that we have the number of people that are doing that but um the vast majority right um we are very interested in having them come back okay D any questions on that NOP all right moving on is 5B which is the superintendent evaluation and contract um we met with Mr drill this evening to go over the evaluation um I think it' be fair to say that was very positive evaluation of Mr drill and we've elected to um renew his contract and we hope he will accept it accepted accepted yeah Happ be back does anybody want to add anything to that part of the discussion no we are
088grateful for what you do we're there appreciate all the effort and you put into this district and everything you do for all of us up here and the district as a whole thank you appreciate it appreciate yeah um thank you guys for doing that but it wouldn't happen without everybody here you know but this is your moment I thank you I appreciate it I appreciate it I do but there's people in this audience that you know that that remind me that push me that um um argue with me that agree with me and without that uh we're not better so um what I what I appreciate most is the relationship that I get to have with these guys here D we will continue to hold you to the high standard that we've come to expect
089okay thank you very much absolutely anything else anybody nope all right moving on 5c budget committee calendar Mr pillar uh yes you have your budget commit a proposed budget committee calendar we are uh typically our budget committee meets once uh they have the opportunity to meet again if they so choose um but that proposed calendar in front of you needed to be published excuse me and then uh that um tells us how to set up all the publ publication pre-publication deadlines and stuff that we have so that's just something you need to approve is our is our budget committee full right now um I believe it's not not quite not quite not probably will have an appointment next next month's meeting okay yeah I'm not sure exact back okay any other questions questions Noe all
090right thank you Mr pill um we've got 5D an outof country trip request from Mr drill yeah so as you guys are aware we have a travel Club we've had it for geez what do you think Pete six or eight years now um so uh they they raise money and they go on a trip and uh along the way lots of uh learning about new cultures new ideas new places right so this is the year that they go to Spain Italy and Greece uh they've been raising money for that and uh they've done a great job down below you can see 25 uh students and staff chaperon eight five parents and one nurse who's a parent um so they are uh in in the process they need to come to you and ask for permission
091but the plan is to go here I believe this summer super cool wow awesome yep okay fair enough any questions on that can I go you have to talk to Mr drill about that start in with them I think they're next one's planning for next year yeah yeah exactly all right 5e employee recognition second trimester Mr drill so as you guys are aware every trimester we um announce we ask administrators who is just doing an extraordinary job uh in each building and so uh this is the first time that anybody has seen that short of the administrators nominating their person out of their building so right now you can see for the second trimester at Cloverdale Karen cave uh has been selected as the outstanding um educator that's what we call him employee Turner has
092Tara Lynch and Jessica is it Syler is that how you say that Thank you Lisa I want to make sure I get it right mville has Cindy delam martyr and Haley elsasser um the high school has Remy strap and Ashley sharbono that sounds right you got to go home and say nice things to your wife my friend am I supposed to tell her no I don't know if she knows does she know public knowledge now okay well you know something she doesn't you can figure that out you decide how you want to play that game um and then the junior high Raina Gonzalez and Tim Stucker um just do a fantastic job every trimester we say thank you um I'll be writing letters on behalf of myself and you guys the board and thanking them
093just for doing a great job we'll put their pictures out here like we do for the second try and then we'll get to the third try and do it through throughout the summer and into the fall Dynamite any questions on that no all right going on is 5 FBA a proposed board policy updates first reading so the first reading you have in front of you um thank God they're they're smaller in number Lisa and I both agree that I know exactly we both agree that these are smaller uh all of which I believe on here are requirements right that the upgrade the updated process that osba attorneys went through them and said here are the changes they are required all right anybody question Noe we're good all right going on to six which is informational
094item 6A is retired go a retirement uh there and I do believe I'm this is where I miss my HR Director fulltime um please they're going to continue to work uh back so they're going to retire and work back in third grade over at mville all right and next would be the staff leave of absence yes from time to time we do have staff that ask for a continuing leave of absence uh in this situation we would recommend that that is okay we have somebody that will cover uh that process and they if I remember right they'll be back in the fall okay 6C is the coach advisory list so every every uh season right Mr rise and Mr Nolan bring us the names of coaches this is your ongoing list so you see the
095list of names in here so the fall winter and now spring coaches are should be highlighted and we should be almost done with all those coaches so we can turn around in the fall and start over again awesome y but that way you can see who they are and what they're coaching got it so is this list updated because it looks like do we still have thebly shouldn't say that is this updated this and I met last last week okay go go to the microphone thank you thank you thank you you're saving me my friend thank you uh Mrs Thatcher and I meet uh before each season and go through that I'm not looking at that list but we we do meet and go through that list and everything I would say that I've had
096my eyes on is accurate I think there's a coach on here that you've let go okay we can take a look at that it looks like it's in yellow if it's in yellow those are the newest ones for the spring but it might just be for spring okay the yellow highlighted ones are spring the other ones that are not have already been done for fall and winter unless we're missing somebody you're thinking we might be missing somebody I'm gonna look again okay thank you let me know and we can make sure we got it all right any other questions on the coaches nope all right 6D Comm Community meetings long long range planning um I am gonna you okay with that I'm gonna turn that over um to Mr Cella who's been kind of in
097charge of that process so I'll let him do the talking um because he's going to get all the dates and all the people exactly correct perfect thank you so we have been doing a lot of work in preparation for the bond and as you know we went out for a bit and we hired a a connection a uh combination of BBL Architects uh wrk engineering and RNC management which is going to lead us through the process of coming up with a longrange plan so that we then have a prioritized list of needs in our district that we can you can use as a board to say here's the plan we want to go out for if we want to choose to go out for a bond and do that process we are really focusing on
098getting Community uh input in that so the committee that we'll meet will begin uh next Thursday May uh March 20th and um then we will meet in the four Thursdays of April as well and those will be looking at all of the facility assessments that were done by the architectural firm what are the biggest needs in each building that need to be taken care of and also then have this process of gathering from the whole group what are what are we going to need for the future in Cascade and then how do we work together to prioritize prioritize those uh we need and would love to have board participation in that group so that you are a part of that process and know what's going on um just because of the way that public meeting
099laws are we don't want to have any more than two board members at any particular meeting so that we don't have to deal with all of that complicated issues of things so it's up to you as a board how you want to handle that it could be that you want to um appoint two of you to be at every one of those meetings it could be that all of you want to be a part of like what's going on at different points and you would set up a schedule of of rotating through that process making sure that there's no more than two for each one um but we just would love to have you be a part of that process however seems right to you so Greg are you here to kind of requ ask
100ask them of that okay yes and um it might be wise for you guys to think about that and then get back to me and let me know if there's like I said it's March 20th which will be next Thursday and then the consecutive Thursdays in April for a meeting so you guys might want to talk about that if you want to talk about it now certainly that's okay if you want evening time what's that is in the evening time evening time 6 we're going to begin at 6 PM the first one we're thinking will be about three hours because it's going to include some tours to different buildings the rest of them should be around two hours they here at the high school yeah we're going to meet in one of the science classrooms
101right over here Co so my my thought would be you know uh consult your calendar check it out um you know one by one check in with the board chair and then um I can get from him or from any of you hey here are the dates I can make it and we can make sure that we've got you guys on the list okay thank you sounds good uh when when it's done are are is there going to be like a presentation to the board on like we're done with it here's the thought yes absolutely that's one of the reasons we've hired RNC Scott Rose who was a way back with the last bomb was a part of it as one of the architectural firms he now is part of an organization that is what's
102called a uh owner rep group where their job is to represent the interests of the school district so he will be coming to you to present the report here's here's what all our findings were here's what's going on we probably also will be taking some of the recommendations of that group back out to the community at large to get feedback from them as well but definitely you as a board will get the updates and the full report from that committee and then we'll see where we go from there does that look like an exec session or is that just part of a board be part of a board meeting okay yep absolutely want have done it we want to do it right in public right in front of everybody see what we're doing right take
103a look at it yeah yeah absolutely and what I would say is is the the big thing that we want to emphasize this time around is where're we have been taking our time to get a lot of feedback in this process we've done surveys already to get impact from the community we are doing this process um to make sure that we have have Key Community folks involved so that we're getting the input so that we have the best input possible for coming up with a good plan that the whole Community can get behind Okay thank you very much good question eron all right 6E statement of economic interest deadline reminder yeah just be reminded that on March 15 uh the statement of economic interest that myself and Mr pillar and the five of you are
104required by law to do right will pop up on March 15th and it closes on April 15th so and the upside is that Lisa can monitor to see whether or not we have completed it and uh when I don't complete mine guess who reminds me of that so Lisa does so yeah so there's two of you yes that's true but uh yeah that's a reminder so that should pop up in your email uh on March 15 and it doesn't take more than about five minutes to finish it up okay just a reminder good any questions on that nope all right next is public comment my understanding is there's no public comment then we move on to resolutions and would you submit it I'm almost there all right resolution 8 A1 resolution regarding new staff recommendations
105be it resolved that the Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the new staff as recommended by Administration second 8 A1 resolution regarding new staff recommendations has been moved and seconded any discussion nope all those in favor signified by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries 882 resolution regarding license renewal list Mr chairman if we could move out of order slightly I'd like to skip that and then declare a potential appearance of a conflict and I'll abstain from the vote not a problem we'll move down the list and Aaron if you wouldn't mind 8 A2 resolution regarding license renewal list okay be resolved the Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the license uh renewal list as presented and recommended by the administration second that 882 resolution regarding license renewal list has been moved
106and seconded any discussion and John you're abstaining from voting on this yes thank you yep all those in favor signified by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries 8B resolution regarding superintendent evaluation and contract John you want to do that one or you want to sure all right I'll uh be it resolved the Cascade Board of Education moves to renew the superintendent's contract based on the completion of the annual evaluation second 8B resolution regarding superintendent evaluation and contract has been moved and seconded any discussion no discussion all those in favor signified by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries 8C resolution regarding budget committee calendar be it resolved the Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the 2025 26 budget committee calendar as proposed by Administration second HC resolution regarding budget committee
107calendar has been moved and seconded any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries 8D resolution regarding outof country trip request by the travel club yet resolved the Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the out of country trip request by the travel Club to travel to Spain Italy and Greece June 3rd through July 6 2025 second 8D resolution regarding outof country trip requests by the travel Club has been moved and seconded any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I oppose same sign motion carries 8e resolution regarding employee recognition for second trimester Excellence be it resolve the Cascade Board of Education moves to congratulate the nine employees selected by the administration for excellence in the second trimester of the 2024 2025 Academic Year the board sincerely
108thanks you for all that you do for T8 second 8e resolution regarding employee recognition for second trimester Excellence has been moved and seconded any discussion all those in favor signified by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries 8f resolution regarding board policies first reading be resolved the Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the first reading of the board policies as proposed by osba second 8f resolution regarding board policies first reading has been moved and seconded any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries future future agenda items Mr drill um obviously right will'll continue to keep you updated on the bond progress and the meetings that we have right so Mr costell is going to be busy busy appreciate that and uh want to thank
109Mr pillar in advance for getting ready for the budget um and we'll have that ready for you so April should look like a normal board meeting and then in may we will have a double meeting with the budget right hearing and then the regular meeting and then June assuming all goes well we'll wrap the budget meeting in with the June meeting at the same time so I'm getting a nod from Mr pillar so I said it correctly um that's always a good good sign to check your Finance person to make sure he's he's saying yes but that should be the things on the list dynamite and before we wrap up I will again tell you thank you for your evaluation and your acceptance and we look forward to another fabulous year with you at the
110lead thank you so much appreciate much appreciated all right anything else from the board all right thanks everybody meeting and Jour thank