001You just Okay. All right. Is this on? I'm on. Right. Okay. Cool. Okay. I'm calling this meeting of the Central School District 13J School Board to order. Boom. Um, oh, I'm sorry. And now, [laughter] uh, Byron is out tonight, so I don't usually have to lead the meeting, so give me some grace tonight is all I'm going to say. Um, let's all stand for the pledge of allegiance. and Orlando, would you please lead us? >> Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. and we're going to go directly to the >> Hi, can I help you? >> Okay. You're not a current school board member, are you? >> Nope. We are not in the budget
002committee. This is just our February board meeting. >> Sorry. [laughter] Paula said we're supposed to be >> no. So, I apologize for if any communication we will follow up. I apologize if that was conveyed to you. I apologize. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you for joining us. >> Yeah. Really? Go Hawks. >> And you all said it, so I'll repeat it. Go Hawks. >> There you go. [laughter] Um, you said we didn't have to adopt the agenda. >> You want me to go through the agenda? >> Yes, please. >> Okay. We're going to just walk through the agenda for this evening. There are a few adjustments. So, we are going to start with some recognition. Then we're going to go to communications to the floor uh from the floor, excuse me. Then we're going
003to shift it up a little bit. We do need to um because people have some timelines they need to meet tonight. They've got other meetings. We're going to move the business agenda up um right after our communications from the floor be able to do that and then we'll go into our standing reports. We have an update on our uh data rep our financial excuse me let me start over. We have an update for our January data reports that includes our attendance and discipline and we also have our 2005 graduation and completer rates that we'll review. We'll go into then I'm going to shift it a little bit. Then we'll go into our average daily membership. We want to talk about as we are starting to go into the budget process because it is going to
004come sooner than we than than we want it to be. But the session is starting. Then we'll go into a average daily membership report and then we're going to go back um as requested by the board. We're going to pull out the finance report that's normally in the consent agenda to go over just where we are with the general fund and then as requested give you an update on the construction excise tax and then from there we'll go into the board report and we will have a short executive session this evening. >> Great. >> All right. >> So we're doing recognitions >> recognitions. So we are excited this evening. And so joining us and I'm have Lori, excuse me, Lion Dory come up, but the rest of you can join please as well. Um, anybody
005I'm sorry, Lion Debbie, I apologize, that's my typo. Lion Debbie and Okay, that's who we've been communicating with. So, Lion Lion Danny and the rest of you, um, please come come on up here as a starting point. And so joining us this evening are is the Lions Club. Uh this we wanted to take please all four of you this is really important for the work that you do for the community. So we wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge the support and services that the Lion Clubs services of the Lions Club in our central school district. to begin just one of the things that they do and there are many many things that they do within our community but specifically for our schools uh their service to our senior class each year through scholarships available
006to all students not only for college but also for trade schools that has been in place for many many years and um just an opportunity for our students to gain those scholarships no matter what you want to go into. Um secondly, one of the other big things that they do for us in the school district uh is at the elementary level and through the Lion Sight and Hearing Foundation and that program they partner with us and every year for I couldn't tell you but been a long long time uh they have put glasses and worked with students on hearing uh to make sure our kids can hear and see um as they're learning and growing. There are so many services that they do. I could literally sit here and go on and on and on
007for what they do not only for our schools but for the community. But I think also we wanted to bring them in. This was also an organization that we all know was near and dear to uh director Moer and um again time we needed to just recognize and continue to say thank you for doing that. So to commemorate that um and to thank them for their services I have a certificate which states as followed. Um, this falls under our community partnership. We have four goals and this is specifically under our community partnership goal. This is presented to Central Lions Club for caring for our students eyes and ears through vision and hearing screenings and for raising money and sponsoring scholarships for our graduates and I as I said many many more things that you do
008for this community. So, thank you from the bottom of our heart for the services for our students. Yeah, not often. >> Thank you so much. And >> as people who've been involved in the Lions Club for a long time and also the Central School District since uh Tim and I first started, welcome and Dave as well. Um, thank you so much and and we are honored but also grateful that we have the ability to do these things and it's because of folks like you. So, thank you. >> We appreciate you. >> Okay, we then are moving on to communications from the floor and we have two tonight. So, I'm going to go with first. I know Abby applied online. So, Abby, why don't you please come up, sit at one of those lovely chairs, and
009the floor is yours. >> Do I have I have to do this first? >> Oh, yes. I'm sorry, Susan. My fault. Susan's got to speak first. I apologize. Jumping ahead. >> Just wanting to make sure. Okay. Uh, comments from the commu community are entertained during the time designated under communications, public comments. If you wish to speak to the board, please fill out a comment card and turn it in to the board secretary or the board chair at the beginning of the meeting. Speaker comments in this forum are limited to three minutes, but the board welcomes additional information in writing. Personnel laws prohibit the board from hearing public complaints about an individual in an open meeting. All complaints must go through the board's approved process as outlined in board policy KL. This form may be found
010at our website or by calling the district office. Typically, a speaker's comment is taken under advisement to allow time for the board to review an issue. However, the board chair or other board members may ask a speaker for additional information or may convey to the speaker some information that addresses their comment. Please note on the speaker card if you would like to receive follow-up communication and if so, what avenue is preferred. Thank you for your attendance at this meeting of the Central School Board. >> Hello, I'm Abigail Duran. Um I >> Abby, can I have you bring that mic closer to you because this is recorded and we want to make sure we get your voice. >> Hi. Um I'm Abigail Durnan. I am currently in ninth grade at Central High School. I'm here to
011talk about the importance of CT and Future Business Leaders of America FBA. I'm one of 15 members of FBA at Central High School. In FBA, we are currently completing challenges in the top three FBA teams here in America who do the most challenges earned a banner. And of course, we're trying to get one. [gasps] Um, one of our challenges is to explain the importance of FBA and CTE to the school board. FBA is the world's largest career techn technical uh student organization preparing middle school, high school and college students for career in business business in business related fields throughout leadership development [laughter] and events real world experiences. It helps students develop essential skills in finance, marketing, IT, and management while offering scholarships and internships and career networking. FBA has changed my life. I get to
012put my passion to the things I love and get to earn from my amazing FBA teacher, Mr. McFarland. I get to meet people that have the same thoughts and processes as me. FBAL and CT are very important to me because I get to put opportunities to build my future self. As an example, I just got accepted to business week at OSU in June. I wanted to end by saying thank you so much um for spending your time and listening to me. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. And then we have another speaker, Sarah Granham or Granom. Is that right? >> Granom. Thank you. >> Good evening. My name is Sarah Granham and I'm a biology teacher and medical terminology teacher at the high school. Uh four years ago, we started a new healthcare CTE
013pathway for future medical professionals to get a jump start on their future. Since the start of the program, there have been 14 pathway completers earning certifications in BLS, CPR and first aid, HIPPA, and bloodborne pathogens. We have had a full class of or sorry, we have a full class of students in advanced health sciences starting today uh that will also likely be pathway completers this year. Students have also completed job shadows at Salem Health while in advanced health sciences and internships in a variety of health rellated facilities within our community. 108 students um since the start of our program have earned college credit uh from OAT for intro to health sciences. Approximately 60 have earned credit for bio 200 and many more have also earned credit for bio 103 for anatomy and physiology. We have
014seen success in our programs in the form of radiology technicians, nurses, MAS, and CNAs, just to name a few. We continue to grow the success of this program each every year. I worry that the proposed push for reduced FTE at the high school will limit the success on this and other CTA pathways in our school. To my knowledge, there are just no positions that really can be cut to still maintain our current variety of course offerings and programs. Please look for other avenues to reduce spending in our district budget budget. Student, staff, and our community find value in the programs that are currently available. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, next we're on to the business agenda. Yeah, we're going to shift it here for just a second because we do have an agenda
015item that I want to talk through um with the board. So, in uh this business agenda item is specifically called uh focus on an enterprise zone resolution. I'm going to give you a little bit of detail of what that means. In 2023, House Bill 2009 was passed specific to the Oregon Standard Enterprise Zone Program. This program offers qualified, typically non- retail businesses, a 3 to 5-year exemption on local property taxes for new plant and equipment investments managed by local governments, so cities, ports, and counties. These zones require investments to create jobs, typically increasing employment by 10% and are designed to uh stimulate economic development. The new legislation requires that companies approved for the 5-year abatement in the enterprise zone program pay an additional school support fee to the affected school taxing district and requires that
016school support fees, excuse me, that school districts enter into agreement with the local enterprise zone sponsor. So in this case really it is the city of independence as the enterprise zone. Well, it's really Pulk County but we have enterprise zone in Independence. Um, and then the company that actually is going to help distribute and work through that is called Sedcore. Um, and again, I shared some of that information with you in the Friday report. Um, and again, the city and and Sedcore will work through the administration fees. Uh, the school support fee will be calculated as a percentage of the total abated taxes, again, not just the foregone taxes for the school district in the final two years of that abatement period. Um we have been working with both the city of independence and Sedcore
017and we are recommending the rate to be set at 15% which is stated in the resolution for approval. Um again originally when we started this conversation with both the city of independence and saidcore uh we believe this was just going to be a formality that we didn't really think there would ever be any companies that would come in and actually take up the enter zone prize process. Uh we were wrong. Uh so we do have a company potentially coming in. Again I think those are still the beginning steps but that's going to be the reason that we need to move forward with a resolution because there is some uh potential companies that will come in. I think there could be a benefit um from the conversations that the city of Independence and Sedcore has had
018with them. I think there's some connections we can do with the high school again tied to CTE pathways. Um, again, I think there's a a lot of moving parts um from that perspective that we're still working through. Um, so really what I'm looking for is a motion, but obviously we'll answer any questions and I do have a representative from Sedcore. Why don't you come on up here? This is Alex. He Why don't you introduce yourself and give your title? >> Yeah, sure. Hi, I'm Alex Piscavas. I work for Sedcore. We're the Strategic Economic Development Corporation. for nonprofit uh that's mostly business facing and we are the enterprise zone manager for um a few different enterprise zones including the one for uh PK county the sponsors are this the cities of Monmouth Independence Dallas and then
019the county itself um just to clarify just a couple things uh enterprise zones are there's with it's when a company's making an investment there's an additional property tax they're going to be paying right so they improve the building building gets more expensive or add machinery that bolts to the ground that improves the value the taxable value. Um you get an abatement on the on the difference. So it's not like a it's not a they don't pay they pay whatever they were paying you know before that just not on the extra. Um and the fourth and fifth year zone um this is more or less a a legislative formality that we're going through this process. Um there's still so if a company say this company that we're talking about the potential company that might take advantage
020of this they still actually have to come to they have to negotiate a fourth and fifth year. So we would be doing this again but with a company and then also um kind of talking things out. Um it the enterprise zone uh is a state managed program but it is of course like local zone sponsors and they uh it's it's the kind of one of the few tools that we have to be honest in Oregon for um for economic development tools. And so this is again just part of the three-year process. There's a three-year abatement and a five-year abatement. The three-year abatement is sort of they they just fill out some paperwork and sign some uh kind of administrative pieces. the 5-year, this is what we're talking about here, um requires a few extra things,
021but also the jobs that they create would need to be 150% of county average. So, these are higher paying jobs to be able to qualify for the full abatement. And then there's also a negotiated kind of fee that would happen with the zone sponsor, in this case, the city. Um so, it's not a we're not deciding much tonight outside of setting the fee for the fourth and fifth year. Um and yeah, so happy to answer more questions. It's kind of clear as mud. I apologize. Um but it is uh you know it's a lot of little detail things. So >> we think this is a really good thing. Obviously when anytime we bring in industry um obviously there's differences in taxes right there are tax breaks. This is again more focus on that final year.
022We want to be good partners with them. Again any businesses that we have the ability to do and I think again from a our brief conversations of a potential of one I think there could be some really good benefits. I'm gonna say 612 um where for per opportunities >> and let me also yeah just clarify it the the program requires job increase job creation so it's minimum 10% the incre greater of 10% increase in jobs or one job depending how big the company is and so um like I said it's maybe a little bit of an imperfect tool but it is kind of what we got so we are just trying to be I think good partners and just kind of be open you know open for business and so this is a a hurdle
023that we a little administrative hurdle, the first of a couple that we get to jump through. So, all that to say, yeah, happy to answer any more questions. Um, yeah, >> otherwise we just need a motion to approve the resolution and then we will sign it. Did anyone have a question or do I have a motion? >> I move to I move >> there you go. I move to adopt the enterprise zone resolution as presented. Second. >> All those in favor of adopting the enterprise zone resolution as presented say I. I. All opposed. Forgot to vote but yeah. And it passes or zero. >> Uh thank you so much for moving your agenda around because I have to run a planning commission now. So I appreciate >> Thank you for being here. >> Yeah. Yeah.
024Thank you so much. Appreciate that. >> Yeah. Have a great night. Um, and then those of you that are in the audience, if you you do not need to stay, please feel free to stay if you want, but we do not hold it against you. We are going to do some program report, so feel free to stay. Um, but that's what we're going to be moving to. Okay, we are going to now shift to our January data report. And as we pull up the presentation, I'm going to ask although we're going to start with attendance and discipline, I am going to ask Director Flannry and Principal Dormer to come on up here um because you're going to go right after the attendance and discipline. All right, go ahead. Next slide for me, Emily. So, we
025are here this evening to give the board an update on where we are with three of our long-term performance metrics. Um, as a reminder to the board and the community of what we continue to strive for here is our district mission again that we are focused on building an inclusive culture of belonging and learning for the success of the whole child, whole educator and whole community. And again, got to represent that a little bit with what the Lions does as an example. Um the next slide. Central school district again has a strong strategic plan focused on student growth and achievement, family engagement, community partnership and staff leadership and continuous improvement with clear longitudinal metrics which we call how we measure our pro progress. Again, this document is what we call the strategic plan scorecard. So
026tonight we are here to review the following metrics with the board. our regular attendance and discipline through January. And then we are going to go over and um hand it over to executive director Fenery and principal dormer to talk about the 2025 graduation rates and completer rates and the action steps that the high school will continue to be moving forward with. So as we the district continues to focus on our monthly on our strategic metrics of regular attendance. Uh the next slide is our overarching metric goal specific to attendance. Again, our goal is to be 90% our students 90% of the time in their seat. And of th that we want 85%. That's a little bit confusing, but you have to be 90% of the time in your seat. And we're trying to get to
027our our percentage to 85% of our students across. And then as you look down in our focal groups, 80% for both our disabil students with disabilities and students uh economically disadvantaged. Um this slide, next slide shows our regular attendance K12 of all students the last two years. On the left of the slide, you will see our current September through January regular attendance data in blue. So again, that's the third year that we're looking at. You can see our January data is 63% and one percentage point down from the previous year. So, as I've shared with the board, we're we were flat this past month. Um, which again, it's not a loss, it's not a win, it's just sort of neutral uh with the our overall attendance. for students with disabilities. In January, we were actually
028up one percentage point from the previous year, but again, uh, as we've talked before, a percentage point is is not that much of a gain. So, we consider that a flat, um, assessment. The next slide, you will see our students who are economically disadvantaged. Um, and you can see here we have a 1 percentage point decrease from from the previous year for January. So, January was flat. Um and um again not wins or losses but I think it is just something that we continue to look at um in January and some of the uh things that we still continue to to work through uh during that this month. Uh the next slide shows our strategies and again we're being very intentional about this and trying to share out with families. So again we are focused
029on uh establishing welcome environments uh developing strong classroom engagement strategies and then solid communication with families on the importance of attendance. What is not listed here but it is one of our strategies is uh we uh one of our additional strategies not listed is to gather and share information via student and staff voice via video on the importance of attendance. And if you haven't seen it and if you go to the website, I know I put it in the Friday report, but on the front of the website, uh there is a video uh of several of our student voices on the importance about attendance on the website. So that's coming from an elementary perspective. Again, if you haven't seen it, there's a amazing kindergartener that talks about how her brain grows. It's fantastic. Uh talking
030about how students when they miss school, what they actually miss. So, if you have an opportunity to go take a look at the front of the website for that video that we put together, uh we are working on a second video right now about what's so what's great about our school. So, more to come with that. We think we just want to continue to grab student and staff voices um as we work through our strategic focus on attendance. Okay, next up is discipline. Uh this next slide is our overarching metric goal specific to discipline. As a reminder to the board, we are sort of going backwards because we're we're comparing this from the 21-22 school year. So we had a total number of as a entire school year, we had 620 suspensions across the district
031in 2122. So our goal is to decrease that by 25% uh throughout this year uh specific to our discipline. So next slide is our discipline for the students last year and this year. Again to the left of the side you will see our current September through January discipline data in blue. Uh for January we were one suspension less than last year. So again a little bit flat here compared to last year. However, in regards to January, our discipline for male students, you will see our current September through January and January trend for male suspensions increase by eight compared to last year. So, again, we saw some good growth in December. Um, but have had a little bit of of an upkick in uh suspensions for our males here in January, and we continue to to
032work on that. Our next slide's going to again show you the strategies that we're working through. I think it's really important a couple things that we continue to teach and retach where necessary expectations throughout the school. I think that is constant that we're doing AC across K12 again going over expectations uh with students. What does behavior look like? Um and I think that's continues to be a work in progress. I would also add we continue to support social emotional learning. We continue to have counselors in the building. So there's groups that are be taking place. Um again, both on the academic side, secondary, but then also just overall across K12. We have behavior support staffs in our schools. Again, that's continues to be a very hot topic and and some of the things that we're
033continuing to work through um is behaviors across um the schools. And then obviously the supports of our school-based mental health associates and professionals that we have in each of our buildings. So again, I you know, we always hope to come here and have uh positive data. We also know we're going to be transparent and when we when we don't, we're going to be upfront about that. And there's still work to be done in in uh obviously attendance, but then obviously in discipline because we did have a little bit of an upkick this past month uh for our male students. So, we're going to shift now to our graduation rates. And I want to be clear about this as we start. We we just have received these. So, we haven't done a deep dive of our
034data, but we wanted to to share it with you all. Um, we are going to be our PLC is going to be at the high school here this month. And so, we're going to have a get to be a little bit more dive of of the data and show you a little bit more of some of the things that we've been um looking at data wise and then the the things that Rick and or Principal Dormer and his team are putting uh in place as we move forward at the high school. So again, we are uh here to review graduation rates and completer rates. So up there is our performance metric. Uh that's our overall metric that we want to get to in a four-year have 90% graduating and then obviously our five-year completer rates
035being above 90 90% at 92. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to uh Executive Director Brian Flenry, who's going to share our overall data, and then uh Principal Rick Dormer to talk about strategies and action steps they are doing he is doing with his team to move forward. >> I'm going to speak a little bit to the data um just briefly because again, we just received it, but uh this data represents um uh information in years that that Principal Dormer was not here. So, um, you saw what the goal is. We haven't reached our goal. Um, one of the things to keep in mind with being able to reach that that goal is how many students are we talking about? When we talk about 70 to get to that goal, we're roughly
036talking about shifting 20 25 students to that uh, graduation. And so that's some of the the work that uh Principal Dur is going to talk about as far as the work that they're doing this year to try to make that push and try to get um all of our students ideally there, but uh definitely shift that that 25 that are struggling to to reach that mark. So we've been relatively flat for the past few years um on that graduation rate as you can see. Can go on to the next. We've been up and down um in this uh this metric for looking at uh students experiencing disabilities. Again, we are talking about just the senior class. So, uh this would represent a shift of five students and so five to 10 students at at at
037the most is is what we would need to get to get to our mark. and also what you're seeing over time, which um not to say that that's a small thing because every single student matters to us and we want to make sure that every student's making it. But just to give it clear as far as how much um of of a push we need to be able to make to to meet that mark. And again, uh you'll hear some of the things that we're we're doing at the the school to do that. And uh they'll be able to go into more detail maybe about the breaking down this data when they have some time to do that. um because we just received it. The next one is completer rate and so completer rate is
038uh all the students that have have completed by five years. So that would be the graduation and the and those that uh have have completed some some uh um uh form of of graduation whether it be that they were modified diploma or so forth that they've completed by that point. So, we're again flat there and that's where the work is and we're excited to have uh Principal Dormer here and doing the work he's doing. We've seen a lot of wonderful energy coming from both his team and the staff this year and I uh would love to have him talk a little bit more about that in the next slide. >> Hi, thank you for the opportunity. Yeah, great team. It's I'm thankful to be here. It's a great school and the staff have been uh
039very welcoming. community has been very welcoming. So, we've got work to do and they see that graduation rate and it it just it's it's a number we're at. We're excited. We have a lot of kids crossing the line as I um when they talked about this coming out. I just want to be really clear that it's it's never less than 100% the goal. I mean, obviously, you know, um we know that life happens to uh some families and some kids and uh that's a tough one. the metric to get 90% is is a reasonable goal, but it it's always 100%. As you build relationships, you know, these kids and see what they're going through as they're trying to step out of the adult workforce. So, uh that's our graduation rate goal and and we're never
040it's it's never going to get less than that. So, we're just going to keep fighting for every student across that line and talk about the importance of it. You saw the four-year rate there. And some of the things we're doing coming on here is uh we've started a graduation intervention team. We call it the grit team, graduation intervention team. And um and this is something I did my last school in the first year. We raise the graduation rate 10%. And we believe we can do that. It uh it says a little further down. That first 10% can actually happen fairly quickly as you really focus on those students that are right there. Sometimes you may kind of a low hanging fruit like you can they're so close and there's just some obstacles in their way.
041And and the trick is not with me, but just bringing we have a pretty diverse group that gets in into the office. We talk about you, it's not just our counselors, but we've got uh some of the great people did the work on the 5-year uh goal to get students in summer school to, you know, things that worked better for students that need a little extra time to still get across that line. Um we've got, you know, mental health counselors. I mean, you just bring in teachers and uh we just bring in a bring diverse people and just say, "What do you know?" What's wonderful about a community like uh like Central here is that we know these families. You know, a lot of these these uh students are not strangers to us. So, what's
042going on? what what are some things who who in the family can you reach out to and just help help give that extra push because they are young adults you know for those you raise I've raised two uh teenagers and uh it it's some work you know and they're young adults and and they tell you that all the time no offense Hannah you're absolutely wonderful I'm sure you tell your parents sometimes you know you're a young adult and and you're very bright and you're going places you know and they're doing that so speaking and working with students is a real craft and that's why I have a great team and we connect with families here because we have great families that that support the school and know what's going on so you saw the five-year
043completer rating and get that's just been really hard work um from people like Bob McMath and Nikki Hansen connecting kids on summer school and and they're actually really proud proud and we celebrated that this fall we came back and got some kids across the line by and how how neat for the kids congratulations to them to come in over summer nobody wants you know even teachers don't want to come over the summer and they need that break and they knew it was important they came in at the extra work so that's pretty amazing our teachers do work there we talk about PLC's which are their professional learning communities and and this is once a week uh they have 70 minutes where they get together and connect and a lot of work there where we're lining
044curriculum talking about supporting students especially some of these common students they share you know credit recovery intervention so teachers have time to work together because um administrators you know we're as we oversee we're not really in the trenches with them as much and so giving them time where they can really look eye to eye has been beneficial and we'll keep doing that type of work additionally you could see some of the things that we'll do there just to keep working on it is um just doing some focal work as you saw some of the stats uh doing focused group work on our English language learners and helping them get across the line. Those are just different challenges for some of them and then our students with disabilities. Um and again those are smaller groups of
045the big puzzle and so when you make small gains you can make larger you know percentage gains there. So those are couple groups we're working on specifically um as we talk about graduation and then we have student support teams. There's a lot of intervention teams to try to bring people together to recognize when students are struggling and then just surround them circle the wagons and see what we can do to help out. So those are some of the strategies there. I talked briefly in attendance and and as you all know it's a national epidemic. If if I solve it, I'll certainly buy a tropical island and invol you can all come. But no one solved the attendance especially since the pandemic. But we're trying there's a lot of things as you saw there. I mean
046all first of all I I do want to point out that January data we we've been sick as you see. We unfortunately the high school even had to close. We couldn't safely run school because we had a lot of staff sick and I'm glad you're healthy. Um but I'm sure you know people that are fighting the cold. I mean, man, we got the high school is really sick and now it's traveling. So, that attendance data also has a lot to do with just we just had a really big flu going through. So, >> um >> can I add to that just an example? Um I got a text this morning from one of our lead nurses at the high school. We we are high in students because of sickness. Um and just a reminder to
047the board, anytime we weren't we were almost there at the high school. Anytime we hit 30% or more of students ill, we are required to report that to the health department. So, I'll just say there's a lot of absences right now. Um, so we're having to work through that. And again, I think notoriously we have gotten sickness January through February in this district. And so we'll continue to monitor that. Um, I'd love to say that would change, but even in COVID, we had our largest COVID times during this time. So, um, we're just continuing to work through that as community. >> Is it part of the epidemic or just a variety of what are circumstances? uh we've again it's combination of I'll be honest from the today just in the the conversations was it is
048both flu and cold and co >> so all of that is the normal I that is our norm now um so again none of that really surprises us but um it does continue to follow our trends in January here >> yeah thank you yeah it's been tough months so we're we're hanging in there and and hopefully we'll get to have a healthier February Orlando feeling well you staying healthy Yeah, it's it's a lot of work. Good job. The high school we talked as I came in part of our the leadership group just to talk about the culture of course and again it's a great school already before I got here but just to talk about every staff member's piece of building that culture. I I've talked about it's a some work from early 2000s and
049just our our main goal there is of course building that culture of relationships and just connecting with students and our teachers have so many different ways. It's not just in the classroom. who have great coaches and you see them out at I saw them out I went and saw the susification of Romeo and Juliet saw a bunch of staff there just connecting with kids in those ways. So there's cool stuff going on and so building those relationships and then some of the work there is once you build a healthy relationship and the students know what you're about and what's going on then you can um then you can go further and be rigorous. We're going to keep talking about building rigor and then also just making sure the work you do is relevant. And so
050we talk about that uh because again we have young adults here going places and they want us to know why they're doing now, how that's going to help them later. And sometimes that's tough and sometimes it's really easy because it students just latch on and go. So that's some of the work we do there just to to really build relationships and just be really welcoming kids there. It's um especially again knowing we have those students that drive themselves. You know, we all get the parent side where you see them and you want to tap your watch, but we've talked with staff. Just be thankful they got in there. They might be sick. you know, you don't know what's battling and maybe they were just tired, but these kids are working hard. They're, you know, they're
051going to practice, they're going in the play, you know, they're doing homework, that kind of stuff. It's just it's a crazy time and so when they're in school, welcome them in. Just don't jump in and then be about the cool stuff that's going on in your classroom. So, that's the culture we're working on there. Um, Mr. Piper is uh has upped our activities policy and we know that statistically students get involved in activities tend to do better in school and he's he's um amped that up and talked about just making even maybe more accountable. So to be part of activity obviously not just attendance but academics and he's also building great relationships with our coaches and student athletes. So just an avenue uh to just be positive with students. Uh we're communicating more and more
052trying to attendance and our and the district helps us with that. They have district correspondents because a lot of parents don't realize or they realize well you know I know they took last Monday off and then they see the number and realize oh my students actually taking a lot of Mondays off. You know again the with high school students they're just out so much. Sometimes the communication with parents is, you know, less than it was in middle school and elementary. So, we're just trying to beef up our communication. Um, we're upping our career planning and using some different programs. We have an amazing and Crystal Larson College Career Center. But once students know what's next, that's also a hope that gets them that makes school more relevant, gets them coming. So, we're we're working on
053that. And uh and then of course, one of our big things is CTE. We know that in the state of Oregon, the um for students that take two or more CT classes, their graduation rate is 97.8. I don't have the CHS data I dug for a little bit, couldn't find it before this, but it's also very very high. And so if we improve those, and what's cool is you saw M. McFarland and Abby there with FBLA and that CTE pathway. Um, we saw Mrs. Graham talking about the health science CT pathway. So it's something that the high school's talking about and we know that if we get them in a couple classes, statistics say there that's an astronomical graduation rate. So we want to we want to go down that path as well. So those
054are some of the things. Um, I would do my best to answer any questions if that's appropriate. But thank you. Well, you got like 20 minutes worth of stuff in your short amount of time. So, well done. [laughter] >> I'm speaking to >> We'll have that visit coming up where you get to visit the school and ask some questions. >> And we'll dive a little bit more into that data. There's a couple good things that we've from our uh review of high school success that we've looked at and uh we're excited to be able to share that with you also during that time. >> I was just going to say I appreciate your energy and your passion for our students. It's very very heartwarming. So, thank you. >> You're welcome. Thank you. They're great kids.
055>> Questions either from either of you. Any thoughts from that? Graduation rates from you from both of you. >> Okay. [laughter] Okay. >> You're both going to graduate though, right? >> Yeah. >> You are graduate. >> Yeah. >> No pressure. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And again, we'll we'll be seeing them on the 17th. Dive in a little bit more into that. >> All right. So, we are going to move to I'm going to move it a little bit. We're going to focus on the ADM report. Um we're giving you a little bit of a different look. Uh we've talked a lot about when we get into the budget uh budget season as I like to call it. Um really focusing on the attendance and we've talked a lot about that.
056But the other thing that we want to talk about and again CE can't be here tonight so um I'm going to take over and do my best. Uh she is the expert but her and I do a lot of this together. I do believe she's online. if there is questions that I can't answer, she is there um to be able to do this. But today we really want to focus on and excuse me real quickly because I'm also fighting a cold. Uh we want to share with the board information that continues to explain our ADM reporting process that can affect our funding. And of course, I'm going to get a coughing attack as we start this. So, what we want to do, and I'm once it we get the slideshow brought up. So, we're going
057to talk about average daily membership. Go to the next slide for me please. So we want to clarify uh student membership which really is tied around attendance and enrollment. Um so which is collected throughout each day and throughout the school year. So we take attendance K12 every day. Obviously 612 they're taking it every period. So, a lot of our ADM is focused on attendance and our overall enrollment enrollment in which we're going to talk through a little bit of that. Um, could you go back to that one slide for me please? M. Um, couple things that I think it's important to know that districts are required to report to the Oregon Department of Education our student members four times a year. So, really a quarterly look is when we give them both attendance and enrollment.
058Um, we talk a lot about October enrollment. That's one of the big points, but we're we're turning that in uh quarterly throughout the year. When we um submit both of those, it's it's goes through the what's called the cumulative average daily members, which is where we get ADM collection [clears throat] process. So that is through the Oregon Department of Ed. And then this data is then used to calculate each district state funding allocation each year. However, it's on a I'm going to call it a rolling two-year process. Um, so it's based off of estimates that we give the Department of Education as well as actual numbers. So again, it's a estimate, then actual numbers, and then we adjust through the process. Okay? So that's that's a high level of what I'm going to explain to
059you. The next slide which is slide three. I wanted to give you just an understanding of enrollment um and how and why we keep enrollment snapshots. So we start doing enrollment in August. I'll usually do from August through October um either once a week or every two weeks. And then again we'll pick up again. And this is a snapshot that you see here from November of 2025 through the last week of January 2026. And you can see just the up and down of our enrollment. So we could have 10 kids come in and then we could have 10 kids go out. And so this is something that um I'd love to say is not uh is not it's an abnormal but this is normally what happens this time of year when we go o excuse
060me November through January. We have a little bit of an up and down. Um so again I think that just gives you we will now move into looking at enrollment every two weeks. Um, and I'm going to talk through the process. The next slide sort of gives you a graph, excuse me, a table of sort of the outline of what we what we look at. So, when you're looking at slide four, this really sort of explains the table. And I'm just going to talk about even though this is a two-year cycle, I'm going to talk about just sort of what we do for the 2526 fiscal year. So again, we're working off a two two-year cycle, but I'm going to walk you through sort of the here's where the two-year cycle starts and then a
061little bit more detail of where we are for the 2425 here. Um, so again, this is a table and I'm going to give you a little bit more uh information on the next couple pages. But again, this is not only Can you go back one more for me? This not only I think it's important to note here and then I'll walk through. It's not only about our enrollment. So you'll see the CD CSD 13J of what our enrollment is, but it also is impacted by what the state ADM is. So how many students across the state do we have? Is it increasing? Is it decreasing? And then you'll see some of the sources that we use uh to to get those numbers uh throughout throughout the year. So and I'm going to come probably back
062to this table once I go through sort of this explanation, but I think it's a I appreciate cease. she says let's start with this slide to just give the a grounding of it and then we'll talk a little bit more of what that means. So the next two slides are a breakdown of really again sort of the two our bienium cycle but we're going to just really look at the cycle for um the 26 school year. Okay. So in December of 24, which is where we start, the district projected our ADM for the 2526 school year, based on our enrollment trends to be 3,50 students. So we do an estimate and based on our where our enrollment was during that time, we expected that we would be at 3050. So that sort of gives you
063our starting point for for this bienium. Shift forward to March of 2025. The first estimates of this our state school fund was based off of 535,070 students enrolled statewide. So again, that's the first big number of how many students are there across because again, every student, every school district has a portion of that big big pie. um based on where our enrollments were projections were at that time, we have the ability to lower our estimates. So, here's why we lower estimates. If we stay at 3050, they're going to continue to give us estimates and our our actual amounts based off that 3050. I'm going to talk about what's called a look back. And I'll just say a look back means they can take money away from us or they can give us money. What do
064you think happens if we overestimate our enrollment? >> We will owe money. So throughout this process, we continuously are looking at our enrollment and then there are several times throughout the year we can adjust what our estimates are. Um so again that's that's a whole process but this March date gives us what are the actual dates and then we um adjusted at that point to uh 2985 students. Okay. So that was back in March of 25. In June of 2025 the state again updated the total students enrolled in the state which went down. We um the district again as I said we can update our enrollment but at that time we were holding and doing well. So, we left our enrollment at uh 2,915, right? So, constantly looking at it and we tend to look
065to be very honest again we're looking every month but um November, December, January, March and June where we end are are big big moments that we're looking at our ADM uh from that that perspective. So um from that perspective in 2025 we didn't do any adjustments uh from from our what we had had done at that point. Let's go to the next slide. So now we hit January of uh 2026 and based on our enrollments and again you saw a little bit of that snapshot up above uh we adjusted down to 2000 excuse me sorry we adjusted down yep to 2915. So again you see a little bit of that volatility. Um, I expect it might go up a little bit more and then again we usually see a little bit of a decline in
066March. I hope that's wrong. Then we could potentially adjust again. But again, we're looking at right now we did our adjustment because again we don't want to be too high because then they're going to continue to give us money and then we would have to pay back there. We do not want to get into that because we are a cash flow business also. We've talked about that uh from that perspective. So in March of of 2026, OD will will give us our actual second period ADM and what that does is factors in the December June ratio. Um and again that that is part of how they set what they're going to pay us for our March through May payments, right? So we're going to adjust then they're going to adjust our payments. We want to
067make sure that we're doing the best that we can uh to not get overpaid. So then um that look back comes back and then we would have to give that money back. So we I think it's important because people ask all the time how's our enrollment? We are up and down. Uh again I've said that and and we want to continue. We also have shared that last year and this year and the next year there's a potential we are going to be flat um as projected with the flow analytics we did several years ago and we are trending in that way. We may even continue to go down a little bit obviously this year and next year before we see that increase again uh that that could come. So again, it's this process is based
068off of what we estimate and then when we get actual numbers and it's just this constant adjustment that we do in a two-year cycle. Again, it's a rolling two-year cycle and we get the better of two years. So if we're at 29, if we at 2985 and we're at 2915 right now, we get the better of that that year. So it would be last year's number. Again, as we move forward, now we're at 29:15. We may adjust that a little bit, but then we would have the next year. We'll go through the cycle and then of those two years, whichever is the highest is what they base our um actual funding on. So, questions and and then M, can you go back to I think slide four does really good job. So, I want to
069just sort of leave it there so um people can take a look at that as we talk through this and and questions that you all have. >> I don't know. Is my mic on? No. >> Yep. >> Is it on? >> Okay. Um I don't know this has a lot to do with us right now, but and I'm pretty sure that you guys don't have this data, but I'm going to ask it anyway. This decrease in students across the state of Oregon, is it a nationwide trend? I guess is one of my questions. But actually the main question is is this possibly the result of the reported lower birth rate. So there are fewer elementary children coming in uh than say fewer middle school and high school. Is that a factor playing into this? >>
070Yes. So I think two things. One um we do have data where kids are going. So I can give that to you. uh we've been tracking that of you know are they going to different school districts are they home school are they going online so we we are uh Jill Love does an excellent job both with our enrollment and then just keeping track of where when we have kids that transfer in and then we do have kids that transfer back you know in and out um so she she does an excellent job of of keeping that data so um we can get that to you um yes you're seeing decreases across the nation you're not hearing a ton of growth I mean certain areas are um but you're not hearing that dramatically across the United
071States. And then third, you bet, birth rates have dropped pretty dramatically even from 5 years ago. So normally when I first got here as a superintendent, our kindergarten classes were in the 200s, 225s. We now sit 165, maybe 175. Um we had a bigger year this year. Um, so we know that that's a big part of that and that's what as as you know, Flow Analytics said to us, hey, you're going to have this period of time where birth rates are going to be down and that will impact your enrollment overall. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, we continue to get um requests for um out of district. So, that's always a conversation. Um, our job is to service our our resident students first, but we do have a lot of outside um groups or students
072that do want in. And again, we have a lot of things that we look at before we approve those and um you know, sort of move forward with that. Other questions? Um because again, we've given you the attendance, but we wanted to give a little bit more dive of this uh to just show just it's a two-year cycle. It's not it's not easy to say, "Hey, budget committee, we're going to go off of estimates and then a look back of what your actuals are as we project forward." Um but we've done a pretty good job. Uh very again my first year when I got here again we had a pretty large increase and I cease and I talked through we we really are trying to be conservative in our estimates because we do not as
073an example there are school districts that have had to pay $800,000 back. We don't want to be in that position. We want to be break even or hey they're giving us a 40,000 because we were down a up a little bit. you know, that's that's an easy thing for us to to work through, but a a $800,000 swing is not something that we want to do. So, we work really hard at this um throughout the year to to try and do the best that we can to give us the the I can't say perfect budget, but as close as possible a budget uh based off our enrollment. Well, as a board member and a community member, I very much appreciate the conservative approach. So, thank you very much for keeping a very close eye. >>
074Yep. >> On our money. >> Other questions? And then we'll continue through again you'll see uh this process will continue through March and May which will then start for 26 27 and then again that's that ruling process that we'll do as we go into the next bianium. What year was that flow analytics assessment? Like five years. >> We did that. >> I did not know that off the top of my head. Years ago, I think want to say I want to say it was 2019. >> It was before the facilities plan. I know that. >> Yeah. I think it was either I think it was 2019. >> It was very interesting. >> Yeah. And we we have they reach out to us every once in a while and say, "Hey, do you want to uh
075potentially look at uh you know going through this again?" And at this point because our numbers they gave us a low medium high range and so we've just been monitoring that. I'll be honest they are they are on track. >> We have not seen any big spike or any large drop of the 10 years that they gave us. So I do think it's going to be a conversation as we move forward. Is that something we want to reook at um and to get some new numbers? I think we had numbers through 2030. >> Is that one of those things you have to do every certain number of years under Oregon law? No. >> No. Okay. >> I this was one of the things I think it's important especially as you look forward financially you have
076to have an understanding of your enrollment >> and then the impacts that it can have on especially in this state on budget. >> Yes, Emily. Oh, so flow analytics was done in 2223. I was wrong. Thank you C's for adding that. So it was much longer ago than that. >> It felt like five years though, right? >> It did or more, but we must have had a maybe not that company, but another company uh give us a projection of enrollment, but I think it's healthy. We do it every once in a while. >> Yeah. >> And if this burst rate continues, um yeah, we're going to >> Yeah. I think that the I again I don't have it right in front of me but I do believe we're going to see a little bit of
077flatten decrease and then as we get to 2930 that starts to tick up again. So I do think there's going to be conversation that will need to happen if we want to do another assessment like that. Any other questions for me or or if there's a question that I can't answer I can get it to cease. Okay. So, we are going to move on to the financial report update. Um, this is normally in the consent agenda. So, there's a couple of documents within your packet. I'm going to start first with uh the general fund update because we are halfway uh through the school year. Um, and that's going to be the spreadsheet that CE gives you. The first page is says fund 100 budget to actual and then this uh the first page is actually
078revenue sources and then the second page um goes into second and third page go into our expenses. So I'm just going to highlight a couple of things. Again I'm uh I'm ceased for tonight. So thanks uh for bearing with me. uh this reflects uh you can see on the top part of the page this reflects so far the bulk of our property taxes for this year. So you can see again those top lines R11 and R1112 again current year and prior year. Uh we are we are sitting at almost 100% for the prior year and then obviously uh taxes do come in November and through this time so we're already at 94% uh from that perspective. I think one other thing CE wanted me to point out is line uh R14XX. It's about halfway down
079in that first group of the 1000s. Uh that's called all transportation reimbursement. Um we're ahead of budget. Uh some of that is due to our summer learning grants that we have uh applied for and got access to um which allows us to cover transportation costs. So you see a little bit of a gain um within that within that line. We also received an unanticipated reimbursement from the state. Again, this is the through a federal program. Um, and it is line R4500. And again, that is about where is that at? Uh, four >> threequarters of the way down. Yep. Under the fourth under the 4,000. Um and that specifically was um we are required annually to test for all uh district water sources for possible lead contamination. So that's just a reimbursement process for that. So
080again, that was um something that we we didn't anticipate, but we're excited to to get back. I think the biggest area of concern is specifically line R1980 and that is under the top part. If you go back up to the top where it says R1 1980 fees charged to grants. Um, one of the things the amount that we charge for various grants is to cover our overhead expenses. um that's what's called an indirect cost. So again, how we manage the grants, who does that, those types of things, we can charge an indirect uh to pay for some of those salaries and different things that come with that. Um this is an expense in the grants and the revenue in the general fund. Um however, um some of the state grants no longer allow us to
081recover all of those costs. So grants aren't keeping up with the pace which is one of the things we as we as I came into this school district and high school success came on then student investment account they are great grants but again they're not keeping out of the pace of what our uh general fund would be. So um that is one of the things we're having to watch. Um costs continue to go up. Um we're we're going to continue to have those those pieces that come with that. Um so we're working through that. So in order to maintain staff and grants like the student investment account, the increase in direct salaries and associated payroll costs eat into the amount available for recovery of that indirect. So grants stay the same, but costs of employees
082or programs continue to go up. So you're going to have that loss of money. Um, and that's pretty much eating up our indirect or we don't get to get any of that. So, we have a couple grants that we aren't taking much of our indirect costs this year. Again, you can see we budget about we did budget about 25% less than last year. Um, but we're only at 37% of the budget revenue. So, we're concerned about that and we're going to continue to have to work through that. Um, as we've shared, I think that's one of the biggest as we go into budget for next year. our federal and state grants are going to be ones that we're going to have to look at and where might we have to do some cuts. I think
083that is realistic from that perspective. So, we'll continue to to look into that and work with principles and um our our leadership within our unions as we we go through that. >> So, I'm going to pause questions about revenue. was I I I'm not sure if I've misremembered the tech the terminology, but was at -ate that federal grant for the servers? >> Yes. >> So, we're behind a little bit where we should be for half a year. Just a little bit. But is that coming in the way we expect? >> We're just starting to get that. I actually have an email about that today. >> Okay. which I haven't haven't had a chance to look at, but I know that >> can I also mention >> process of of having to give them to get
084some of those um reimbursements back. >> Okay. So, >> as expected, >> I I can add >> memory serves me. Several months ago, we were talking about title title 1 a two and three and possibly >> well anything five or even up to nine. Uh, and some of them were appearing that they'd be funded at zero or so drastically lower than had been in the past. What what's happened with any of that? Yeah. So, we're we're hearing that um bo federal grants are going to be most let me rephrase that. Most federal grants, so title one, title two, and even title three potentially are going to be flat. We are potentially hearing that idea, which is specifically for students experiencing disabilities, actually might be up a little bit. >> Um, which would be great, but
085flat funding is lost because our costs and payroll costs are going to continue to increase. PERS is going to continue to increase. So again, that's we're excited that we're not coming and saying, "Hey, we're not going to get any federal funding." And I think the advocacy that we have continued to do the letterw writing to our not only our representatives but representatives across the country um regardless of of your again politics I think people are understanding the supports that schools need. Um and so I do think you're going to see in the next couple weeks when they pass the budget some at least at this point now we've been warned things could turn in a week and so we're constantly watching that. Um, as I share, we have a superintendent meeting every Friday um, this
086year because of just some of the volatility that we're having to work through from uh, federal funding. So, as of the last time we had our meeting, um, they were still feeling positive about that, but you know, they're in that stages. I believe the the budget is now in the house. >> So, and we're still considered a title 1A district. We are. We still qualify. >> Yes, we do. >> It's tragic. that is better than nothing though. So that's my only positive. That's true. >> Um that we work through. So let's shift to expenses a little bit. Um just to give an update. >> Um we're tracking expenses at 40% 46% of the budget which we are holding the line. I give great credit to not only the the building principles but with the staff
087because the conversations are if it is a need for students, let's let's get it. let's make sure that we're having the tools and the things that we need for staff, but if it's a want, can we hold off on that? Because again, um we're just trying to continue to balance and and be able to keep and move move forward. Um I will tell you the mild winter being 61 degrees outside today is helped us from our energy expenses. uh CISA said many times utilities are one of our largest costs in the district after really after salaries and pers that is our fourth largest line is our utilities so we've saved some money that's line 320 uh when you look at at that so there's there is some savings that we have um so far uh
088this year scar right line 320 which says property services I believe yes so that's that's a that's a good thing Um, I think one of the things that you need to look at is is line 230. Um, because future reports will reflect an increase in the cost of unemployment. Uh, so the legislation allows district employees to collect unemployment and this is specifically for our classified employees during school breaks. So that's summer break, winter break, and then spring break. So again, those three times a year that they can file for unemployment. Um and that went into effect in the summer of 2025. Um although the budget has increased, the cost of the district from June to August uh was just over 142,000. So we expect that to potentially maybe end close to 200,000 for the year.
089So we are going to have to in our budget cycle adjust that again um as we've had that conversation. Again, first year we didn't see as much, but um we've had a pretty big impact this year um within the district. So, that'll be something that we'll have to continue to pay attention with. Um so, those were the big highlights just expense-wise and then revenue-wise, she wanted me to highlight. Um anything else or other questions from from all of you? Again, you can see our some of our largest items are our salaries, which is normal in any school district. Um you know, that's a big part of our budget. Um but that's what we are. or the people business and supporting students in their learning. So, um that's where your biggest amount of money is going
090to be. >> So, it looks like we were expecting our subs to be less because our we had hired more of our um full-time classified staff and it looks like that is still working based on this. Yes, it right. That's great. >> Yes, I would say that's another area that we've we've seen some successes and continue to to talk through that. I think the issue is filling, right? So again, the last couple weeks we've had some issues of uh when we have buildings. Um I'll be honest at early this morning as we're having conversations and having to make decisions. Um when you have, you know, starting off at one time it's 20 and then you're you're seeing people pick up but you're still having seven unfilled positions, you it's very difficult to make things safe
091and secure. We do not like closing school. I want to be very clear about that. But when we don't have enough staff to cover in the um making sure kids are safe and secure and then staff are safe and secure um you know in my 25 years I've never had to do this but it's been hard the last couple years but we're going to keep people safe and I know that's hard for the community to understand but not having as an example seven unfilled positions is a is really really hard. Um, and so we continue to try and recruit and and get more subs into to our um with our group. But I think that's just a continued work in progress. Okay, I'm going to switch to construction excise tax because I know that was
092and that's um the reports also in your agenda. So this is the status of our construction excise tax fund through 123125. And again, the fund balance is $54646,60. So you see that on the bottom right corner of the uh table that CIS has provided for us. Um couple things to note. Uh this we've had final billings for the CHS stadium resurfacing and turf projects come in um in this fiscal year, right? So, we we were finishing off paying for that. Um, and then we have I think we shared a couple years ago, we had a modular, for those of you that were on the board at the time, that burned down >> and so we had to replace that. That was, was that three years ago now? I think that was three years ago. >>
093Um, so that um modular, there were some costs with that. Again, most of that funding came out of the federal pandemic, but there were still some small costs that um came out of that. and we used um construction excise tax for that. So you can see again the 200 what what ce gave us is the 2007 beginning fund and then you can see her working all the way through 2526 um of what our um excise tax is um within the historically within the district. And just a reminder for the board, the revenue for the construction excise tax is generated by building permits in the cities and the county uh of the school district boundaries and the significant impact of the areas um obviously is the slowing down of construction um in our two towns and
094then within the residency or our overall school district. So there's some money there. Um but again we used a lot of that. Again 2023 24 we had about 1.7 but because we have a slowdown in construction or just sort of staying um a little bit idle and not seeing a lot of um profit come in at this time. Questions about that? And we're still working on I know that you had asked for a report of the projects that we're working on. We are still putting that together. we'll we'll get that to you um because I know that was one of the other requests um that came from the board. So, we wanted to give you these two at this board meeting to look at the revenue and then um just so everybody understands capital projects
095we do not have a lot of money. Um that is why in the past we have have talked about and went forward with a bond. So, we just want to be transparent of where we are financially. Any other questions? >> Just a what are we doing in the local area that gave us looks like 1920 $519,000? What was going on in the community that would have produced that much money >> or make sure >> 2019 to 2020? >> Yeah. Uh that was that when they built the big um apartment complex. >> Yes. >> Just curious. That's all. Was like that's >> I think that was around then and there was also that other development. >> I mean there was a lot of more new development then >> on the waterfront. Cease. Please add to that.
096>> You are you are 100% correct. That was >> it's online. >> You can't hear me. >> It's it's really not that big a deal. I just like it kind of jumps out. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. It is the >> Well, if she sends anything through um Emily, just interrupt us cuz >> just so we can share that. Okay. >> All the jumping around. I want to make sure where we're at now. >> Board report. >> Oh, we are at the board. >> Oh, sorry. Cedette, please. Yeah. So, the apartments came in at that which >> Riverplace >> in Independence on >> uh what's that by the sports park >> Deian Drive. Yeah. >> Oh, okay. Yeah. Thank you. >> Board report. >> Oh, course. Thank you. >> Report. literally doing where we're at. So,
097the board will next meet on Tuesday, February 17th at 5:00 p.m. for our PLC over at Central High School. Yes. >> And then the next regular board meeting will be March 2nd at 6:30 p.m. back here in hot call. Um I should just read the board vacancy section. Okay. >> So, at the last meeting, we announced a board vacancy. uh and we have had an application online for some time and I'm here to ask the community to uh consider that because uh so far we have um the the application period closed on February 1st but no one has applied for the position. The board may take additional steps to fill the vacancy including extending the application period or opening the position up to the entire district. And actually that was one of the questions I
098had was whether we make that decision tonight or >> you can. Yes. >> And remind me again if we open it up to the entire district they run until the next term. >> Yeah. Just till the next uh election. But the I believe the rule is it's not that we're just opening it up to people outside the zone. If we extend the time period, if someone applies from the zone from zone one, >> they still would be have priority because we're supposed to have someone from zone one. If we have others apply outside of zone one and they could have even applied in the last period, but yeah, zone one always has the priority. Did anyone have any um thoughts about extending that out? another month or any other time period. >> Are we doing
099any other advertising aside from announcing at the meetings? >> I think we're doing again we're sharing out on social media. Again, I think we've shared out we have a through parent square we have a community um page that we have shared out on. So, all of those pieces, I know people are talking to people, but again, I think we're just sort of at this spot um related to the >> I'm not opposed to extending it out one more month being that it was just the holidays and people are probably settling back into real life and >> January was a nightmare. >> Yeah, it was. >> I'm kind of of that opinion also. But one more month >> gives us more time to publicize it. >> And um because it seems like we h did hear
100some people saying they had interest that weren't in the zone and perhaps they were waiting. Uh but really anyone that has an interest should apply because it's unknown if we'll receive an application from someone in zone one. >> Yeah. And I think just to highlight if someone out of zone one they will only be through the end of that and then when the actual zone comes up it it is required to be out of zone one >> right >> and that's two years away >> two years away 27. So, is that something that we need to vote on, Emily, or can we just do consensus any or any applications at all here? And you already have declared the vacancy. So, I mean, >> yeah. So, you you don't have to take a formal I'm just
101going to say to the public in case somebody didn't hear it. I don't our board secretary Emily Mener said that we can board can move to just if you want to extend it >> um potentially for either zone one andor others um we can extend it for a month and and continue through the process >> if that's what the board would like. >> I think it's a good idea. >> So since we're not required to vote and I'm seeing a lot of nodding heads let's extend it to March 1st. >> Okay. So, we'll the goal will be potentially to make a decision at the March 2nd board meeting. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Perfect. >> And are we ready to recess into executive? >> We are. >> We caught back up. >> Okay. Um this
102is the part before we recess, correct? >> Okay. Just making sure. Okay. We're um under the provisions of OS 192.660 open meeting law, the board of directors will enter the executive session for the following purpose. To conduct deliberations with persons designated to carry on labor negotiations OS192.660 2D spec specific information discussed in executive session shall not be made public and shall remain undisclosed. So now we're um >> going into recess. >> Yeah, we're recessing. That's the where