001Flag salute to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Chair, I'll make a motion we approve tonight's uh agenda and also the approval of the regular board meeting from 9:10. >> I'll second. >> Okay. I have a motion by Steve to approve the agenda and the board meetings from September 10th and a second by Marsha. All in favor? >> I under after Winterlakes Elementary, we have one for the junior high by Albert Dixon. I'll make a motion to amend our current agenda and add under 2.0 a second school spotlight for the Cookill Junior High >> by Albert Dixon. Under our agenda to add uh the junior high as a school spotlight. All in favor? >>
002I >> Okay. Um let's talk real quick about these future meetings. Um, in two weeks is the road show at the ESD, which the road show is starting at 7:00, but at 5:30 is a >> training about public meeting law. So, I don't if you're planning to attend, let Julie know. >> I know Marcia said she is and I'm planning on attending, so I don't know if anyone else is, but let Julie know so she can register you. Um, and then next month for our regular board meeting, we're doing another work session which is going to be also superintendent. >> It's probably a ball game. >> Okay, let's move. Let's get planning. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay, let's turn the time over to let's move on to 2.0 and turn the time over to
003Tommy Senko to talk about Winter Lakes Elementary. Um Sean, would you mind queuing up our presentation? Um >> Okay. So, good evening, um school board. I am addressing you tonight as the principal of Winterlakes Elementary, not the curriculum director. I'm sure you'll notice that there are some embellishments on the tables in front of you. Um and I'll explain why you have them there and also why this is on my finger. Um, but I did bring some guests apart from mini-legged guests and I'd like to introduce them to you and one of them also brought their adult. So, this is Miss Angie Thano. She's one of our EAs at SLC. This is Zach Scott and he is one of our junior high students. He's going to talk to you about our ro program. This is Miss
004Randy Bole. She is our EA in the resource room. This is Aiden Sweet and he is in Mr. Anderson's robotics class and he's here for general support. And then Mrs. Estelle and she's going to talk to you about the food part program that we have. And then this is Mr. Chris Anderson who's Latino students and also teaches sixth and eighth grade ELA uh and runs a programming elective and social science. Um I do want to let the board know that one of the things that was brought to my attention was we really needed to update our website. So, the ineimitable Cheryl Johnson helped me um gave me a quick quick fast tutorial and we do have a newsletter. So, if Mr. Wire would click on our newsletter link for us, you don't need to read
005the staff, but what's important is this picture. It's for Mr. Gallagher. Mr. Gallagher said, I just realized I put the crazy cat lady at the building that has stray cats everywhere. I said, the universe has spoken and decisions were made. This is Little Bit. Little Bit is the unofficial campus pet. Um he doesn't really he's not in the campus, but he's campus adjacent and he may or may not get fed by one of my employees. Let's be clear, it's not me. Um you can see all the information about our Winterlakes staff. It is presented in our newsletter. Goes next. We have a morning routine at Winterlakes. Um, we're not going to do the first part of our morning routine for you because we've already recited the pledge of allegiance. But at precisely 8:21, everybody on
006my campus convenes in the gym and at that time we recite the pledge of allegiance corally. We we choose a patriotic song because we are the patriots and so far we've worked on the Star Spangled Banner. Uh, my country t of thee and America the beautiful and I did have a couple of student volunteers, maybe not so much volunteers. Will you come up? Um, we did a campus challenge where we asked classrooms to illustrate tax. Hey, front center. Yo, will you guys come and hold this? Come to see it, please. >> So, this is from Oh, thank you. Hey, all of you. Uh, this is from Miss Mary's fourth and fifth grade class. U, they chose to illustrate. I bet you can guess which song is this that they illustrated. America's >> that part. That's
007a good guess. Look in the sky. >> Oh, star. >> Correct. Now, it was so cute because there's a peacock in here, I'm told. There's a rabbit. We have some graves. Um, but also they asked permission if they could draw the bombs bursting in air because they're being aware of, you know, school climate. So, Miss Mary's class is going to have a classroom um word for a word. So, thank you. All right. So, we also when we have a birthday and I'm a crazy person, so I have listed like this that has everybody's birthday on it by month. And when it's their birthday, one of the things we do is we serate them in English and then either French or Spanish so that they're learning how to sing happy birthday in those languages. Um, we
008did a a September schoolwide project with Mr. Wba would click. I used my office as an example. Um, and I had kids come in and I said, "Look around my office. What do you think are are things that I like just by looking in my office?" And of course, the theme of cats came out straight away, which is a true statement. Um, rocks and friends. So, they were very insightful. They came in as classroom groups and did a little tour and figured out what they would like to present and their all about me projects. And many of those went home with families at our open house. Um, we declared the week of the woolly bear and that's why I have a woolly bear in my hand and that's why you have woolly bears on your
009tables. Um, these are also woolly bears that were made in large scale. Notice the improvisation of the paper. Um, they said we didn't have black and orange pipe cleaners. We didn't really make those. And so we also have gone out on blocks. First, second or K1, sorry, and fourth fifth went out and we have a carton of Bears. Some classrooms have them and they're hoping to watch them go into the Cuba and then Crystal and come out as as the moths that they are. They're very beautiful. So, we did a variety of activities and behind the right my right side of the board um we had tasks that we did as a class about woolly bears, learning about them and and the documents that you have on your tables that are blank. Um that was
010an activity Miss Brandy came up with for our kids. Um, they had to find out some traits about the bears, urban legends about the bully bears. Then they were asked to do some different creative projects with the poly bears. Um, they really like to make a Minecraft character or a Marvel superhero out of a bully bear. What would it be like? Um, on this side is the answers that were generated into junior high from the activity about the bully bears and their stripes and then the predictions about the weather that the classes made all together. So, this is one kind of campuswide activity. Um, board members, if you could I I know you probably don't want to come to the pumpkin patch on the 14th because it's going to be a lot. Uh, but we'd
011love it if you'd rock out with us on the 17th from 1 to 2:15. We're going to do some rock painting as an entire campus. Um, we are having game and costume night on October October 29th. Um, and we're going to make that a family-friendly event so we have games for everybody. Um, we got to take some candids. Um, some of these pictures include Mr. Alex and his K1 class that want to plant some wild flowers and just some of the kids that play. Next slide, please. Um, some further candids. When you get to work at like 5:30 in the morning, you get to see the sunrise over your campus, which is delightful. Um, swings are always a big hit. Every kid, every age loves to be on the swings, and you have some bigs
012and littles at play. We did some chalk art the other day. noticed that my students who these are second and third grade kids um shamed me with their art skills. So it's always embarrassing. Let's go to the next one. Um so I'd like to kind of segue into some student voice. Um Miss Mary's class is the gallery walk around you and your show and tell artifacts came from Mrs. Daskam who is our SLC teacher. Miss Mary and Mrs. Gallagher's home room. And we have our guests who are going to come up and join us next. If you go to the next slide, I'm going to invite Mrs. Kim Gallagher up if she'd like to talk to you about the kids that aren't always in person on campus and a special event that she experienced this
013week. So, part of Winter Lakes is we have our in-person students and we also have our online students. And our online students for me are a particular passion because I love building relationships with those families that we have at home. I feel that it's very important to keep our enrollment up to have that time to offer for those students. So, I have a Google calendar that has a link that goes out to all my students. If they need help with math or science or any of my subjects, they just click a link and can schedule an appointment with me. I apologize. I was just over at volleyball screening, so I'm a little a little horsearo. Um, so, and some of this is when they're going to present projects. So I met with Miss Aubrey this
014week and she presented her science project on carbon to me. So I got to be on a Google meet with her. She set up a presentation. She gave it to me. I was able to give feedback and interact with her. And this particular student I get to meet with every week right now. My at home students I encourage to meet with me every one to two weeks in the beginning of the school year as they're learning how to work our platform because there is a huge learning curve to effectively work our learning platform. So this is just one of the examples of what I get to do after our in-person students leave. Okay, next slide please Sean. So last year I did a food handlers card and I had 11 students take that class. 10
015of them got their food handlers card for the state of Oregon. And this year it was a pretty big hit. So this year our numbers of students that are wanting to do that are so much larger. So, I'm working with the restaurant because I can only take so many students at a time to the restaurant so that the restaurant can still run effectively and the students can get a good grasp of what it's like to work at a restaurant. So, I'm going to turn it over to Estelle and Estelle's going to give you a rundown of what it was like to work at the restaurant. I can read it. >> Go ahead and go to the next one. Thank you. >> All the students worked at different stations. We took drinks, uh, drink orders, preparing
016salads, and working in the kitchens kitchen with the cooks and, um, working the working the dish pit, serving food, and busing table busing and cleaning the tables. The best part of the day was applying the final touches to the meals. Okay. And I will add one more thing. Um, one of our other electives, I do a lot with rabbits and rabbit 4. And I have, we'll just say a lot of rabbits. We're not going to give a number. And one of our electives that we just wrapped up this month was learning about rabbits. So, the I brought rabbits to school. There may have been a fire drill when there was rabbits everywhere in my classroom, which added a lot of excitement getting the kids out and keeping the rabbits in. Um, but the kids learned
017how to handle them. They learned how to care for them. They learned about nutrition. And this month with we really learned about the digestive system, which is very similar to ours. So, Aiden, would you like to talk about what it's like to work with the rabbits? >> Well, fluffy and I learned rabbits can't vomit. So, yeah, >> that is very true. Parisophagus is a one-way street. Wow. Nice work. >> Shall we turn it over to Zach and Chris Anderson? Thank you, Mrs. Gallagher as [Applause] to talk to you about our robe. Evening board members. ROE or ROV stands for remotely operated vehicle. And in this case, we participated in a competition at the state level in in designing, building, and uh completing tasks with a submersible remote operated vehicle. the students. Uh let me read
018the mission statement of what this uh uh thing is all about so it's clear to you. So 10 years and tasks of students competing to design and build a remotely operated vehicle and the necessary sensors, tooling and complimentary technologies to monitor the health of the aquatic habitats of our blue planet. So we can proactively and competently answer the question how do we move from the ocean we have to the ocean we want. So in this scientific uh competition students design vehicles that have to complete a series of tasks underwater missions. Uh they have to learn a bunch of things about electronics and they also have to run this as if it's a business. It's not just a team effort. they had to uh make a corporation. So, Zach, what was the name of the corporation
019that you guys? >> The Subnotic Psychos Industries. >> Subnotic Psychos Industries. And how many people were uh part of the corporation? >> Got them all up there lined up, I think. >> Is there eight of you? >> I believe so. >> All right. And uh Zach is currently wearing the uh corporation's uniform. >> Take his uniform. They designed these themselves. And as part of the corporation, they had to come up with a budget. They had to uh do shopping lists. They had to do everything that goes into designing and building a remote operated vehicle. They had to learn soldering and electronic safety. And well, it's falling apart. So, Zach and others designed and soldered together all the circuitry that goes into this. Learned electronic safety and learned even computer programming to plug this thing into
020a tablet that would read off of the various sensors that they designed for all done as a team. So, s what was one of your favorite things about the project? >> Um, I would go up to Newport and meetings And you weren't in charge of this vehicle so much as our secondary vehicle, which what what did it do? >> The secondary vehicle just went up and down and measured the temperature of the water and um we had to graph what we did, what what the float registered. So they had to actively report the metrics that the machine gathered to the judge. The judge would say if they were accurate or not and uh then this device here had multiple arms that we uh attached right there. They completed underwater tasks. Uh we used the 3D
021printer uh to design our own payloads for this thing. And Zach, what was a particular challenge you had with designing those? um they had to at least be able to hook on to the items because a lot of them would just slip off or a lot of fails happened. >> It's a real challenge. And then it was really cool to go see what 13 other schools did with this. Uh, ours was on arguably the most limited budget of I think a little less than $200 and um, uh, schools out of Histori and Portland had very elaborate devices and we actually beat them uh, with our little bit of electric tape and flotation device. >> That's how we do it in the country. That's how we do it. That's how we did in the competition. >>
022That's how we do it very well. >> It is our first time. We uh placed right in the middle out of 11 in our category. >> And we're going to go again this year with two different vehicles. We have to design around two brand new vehicles uh for two stages of the competition. We'll see how we do. Uh nationals this last year competed in the summer in Lake Superior doing real uh tasks with marine life and see if we get there. >> Thank you, Zach. >> Wow. appreciate it. [Applause] >> I I love the name. I think that's great. I don't know how you came up with it, but I think it's it's very neat. Yeah. And I also all the pictures and the un I really like the um that they are all in
023at the restaurant and then here too. I think that shows a sense of pride and that they're all together and that unity in there and that everybody knows who's who there. So I I think that's a great thing that you added towards that. Just >> Kim Gallagher was the one behind the excuse me, the print of the shirts and all that. >> She does some printing in her space as well and we're looking to do some further hunting of apparel and other >> I have to keep that in mind. >> Look, look for our makers market in April. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you guys. First of all, I want to thank the board for allowing the amendment for us to add on tonight. Uh we had a presentation ready and
024uh the kids just wanted to push through and do it, which I'm very proud of them. So, uh presenting for Cochill Junior Senior High uh tonight is our seventh and eighth grade uh ELA English language arts teacher, Miss Little. And I'll let her do the introduction. All right. Thank you, Mr. Dixon. All right. Hi, board. Um, I'm Mrs. Little and this is my fourth year working here um at Cook Junior Senior High School. And today I brought along with me two of my ELA students. So, first I have >> Abby and then I have >> and they're going to help um talk with me about um some of the stuff we've been working on in ELA recently. So, one thing that I really love about teaching um junior high language arts is that junior high
025is a time for students to find their voice. And I really like helping them find their voice through different types of writing assignments, presentations, and um different types of presentation practice. Um, something new that I've been trying this year is, um, this thing called first chapter Friday. So, every Friday when we have school, um, I read the chapter of a new book each week and I let the kids uh, do a little review. They give it one out of five stars and they tell me if they like the book or they also give me recommendations on things that they would like for me to read to the class. So, um, not this last Friday, but the Friday before last, I had a student be like, "Can we please read the first chapter out of The
026Lightning Thief?" And I was like, "Absolutely, we can." And the class absolutely loved it. And I really love getting those recommendations from students. And I'm always trying to find new ideas to expose them to literature. So, um, in addition to that, we've done a couple of writing assignment and art projects this year already. So, we did this assignment with my seventh graders called all about me and it is a presentation that they make so I can get to know them a little bit better. It's really challenging when you start coming to a new school and you really don't know any of the teachers and you don't really know a lot about the students from a teacher's perspective. So, this is an opportunity that I give to my students to be creative, answer some fun writing
027prompts and also um use their own style to express themselves. So, I'm gonna hand it over to Abby. That way, she can talk a little bit about her all about me project. >> Hi, I'm Abby. I'm one of Miss Little's seventh graders. Um, probably one of her favorites cuz, you know, who wouldn't love me? So, something we did was an all about me project, which was a slideshow where we got to tell about ourselves and um stuff that we like to do. So, what we did was we used Canva, which is like, you know, slideshow making thing. And I really enjoyed this because we got to have like creative freedom and it wasn't like, you know, it was one of our first projects of the year. So, we didn't have to write a whole essay,
028which is kind of nerve-wracking at a new school. So, we just made little presentation just to share with Miss Little to get her to learn about us. Um, something else that I liked was um she gave us like an outline and prompts so we were able to like get to um be more directed and figure out what we wanted to do. um for our presentation and um so she could get to learn about us better and you could have fun doing it. >> All right. Thank you, Abby. All right. And um in addition to that project with my eighth graders, I already know most of these guys. And I'm like, "What do I do?" And so I can make everybody happy. And all of them like the first day of school, they're like, "Miss Little,
029Miss Little, like this is what we did this summer." And I was like, "I have the greatest idea. I'm gonna give them an assignment about something they can write about that they did this summer or they can even talk about something they did a previous summer or just a fun event that they did in case they just didn't do something over the summer because we do have those students out there who don't really do anything over the summer. So I want to make sure that they feel included as well. So what I do is I have them write a short essay about um an experience that they had and then in addition to that they get to create a collage. So, they get to use magazines, um, different types of colored paper, and they also
030get to include photos if they choose to that they took on that trip. And so, here I brought Miley with me, who's one of my eighth graders, and she's going to go ahead and talk about um her summer experience project. >> I'm Miley. I'm in Miss Little's 8th grade ELA class. And, uh, in ELA, we wrote about our summer experience. And uh we used an outline first to like help us make before the essay so we could do really good on our essay. And we made the collage to represent our experiences and all the fun that we had. And uh the project helped us practice our writing, staying organized and our and being more creative. All right. Thank you, Miley. All right. And so, in addition to um being an ELA teacher at the school,
031I also have this some opportunity to be the leadership uh teacher for the junior high as well. And Aby's one of my leadership students. And um one thing that I really love about junior high leadership in addition to just teaching ELA is I get to interact with a lot of students that I don't necessarily have in my class. Also, um I get to branch out and meet more students and then find different activities um around the school that we can do to better promote like student life. Um one thing that we just did a few weekends ago is we came in on Saturday and we decorated the junior high halls for Halloween. And this was a really fun um bonding experience between like me and my students. The students had a great time and it
032was a really fun surprise to come to um on Monday and a lot of kids seem to really enjoy it and it's a great way to kind of get into the seasonal spirit. Um in addition to that, we're also working on some skits right now for um Lincoln Lions. Um we're going to go to one of their character trade assemblies and this is a project that my leadership students were really really excited to do also. And so if you have any questions for us, we'd love to answer them. I don't have any questions, but I just want to say that your enthusiasm and creativity, I can feel it all the way up here. No wonder you're Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure they're all your favorites. That's what my mom says to all of her grandkids.
033You're all my favorite. >> They They always ask me, "Who's your favorite?" I'm like, "Everybody." >> So, great job. I love it. >> All right. Thank you. >> Do you have any questions for my students here? You're off the >> Are you still going to do your Socratic seminar? >> Oh, yes, definitely. >> Later in the year. >> Yes. When we get to our novel study, we do that in the spring. And I love doing our Socratic seminars. Um, do you want me to talk about that or >> You don't have to. I just I know it was a big thing. My son enjoyed it last year. >> Yes. I really enjoy doing those Socratic seminars. It's a great way to debate and um talk about opinions in the story. um discuss characters, opinions we
034have about those characters, and our whole purpose of that is to have a civil conversation with one another. >> All right. >> Thank you, board. >> Thank you. All right. >> Okay. We'll move on to 3.0 to turn the time over to Tanya for our integrated programs. curriculum director hat. Now, um one of the tasks that we have when we receive funding from the state um or the federal government is that we report and then we have to share our findings um publicly and that looks like posting it to our web page and proving that we have indeed spent the money that we were given in the way that we reported. So, that is the purpose of tonight's presentation about our integrated programs. This is our high school success student investment account um our early
035in intervention indicator um system also now our early literacy grant all of these are reported under this umbrella. Um and so the tasks that we have done so far in allocating and spending out these funds um we met on the 27th and January 22nd last year with our different campus teams. We drafted our SIP plans. Those are our continuous improvement plans by building. Um, and we shared those out on the 22nd. We had surveyed our community. Um, and we took a look at all that data, analyzed it, disagregated it, talked about focal groups, talked about findings and trends that we saw. Um, this is again from last year because we're referencing what we spent last year. Um, we conducted some empathy interviews at Miss Yei's campus. She had some students selected who spoke to us
036about attendance um, and just kind of impressions of school in general. And we also conducted a survey at Lincoln School of Early Learning surrounding attendance and and what barriers might we find. Next slide please. Um so we learned that we need we as we already were we were going to continue to focus on um improving academic achievement in English, math and science. Um especially looking at those students who are performing below grade level. Um and the board has generously continued to support our adoption um on OD schedule of curriculum that will support our teachers in providing instruction to our students. Um we continued to focus last year and we are this year as well um on attendance um predominantly uh Lincoln School of Early Learning. We know that we are at a low attendance rate
037and we know that that's going to be some that is something that our state looks at and reports about our district on um and we are continuing to partner with CVE and also the junior senior high school in figuring out what is it that works and how can we support kids in getting to school. We are continuing in the social emotional learning. Um the high school already junior and senior high school already had a time kind of carved out, but they've made a more intentional carveout time where that social emotional instruction is happening and Mr. Dixon's really supporting that. Um our social emotional counselors are also working to support in that wayfinder instruction. The ESD has been a strong partner in providing us free workbooks. We are not paying for the workbooks that support that
038curriculum. Um and so that has been a real benefit and they've been very useful in our elementary grade bands. Um we continue to focus on behaviors and use funding to purchase people's labor and skills so that we can support our students who struggle with dysregulation and just support them in general for from our high school success. We pay for our two academic counselors that is Miss Katherine Allred and Misty Snively at Winterl Lakes. We pay for one of our social emotional counselors from this particular stream. We pay for our a teacher at Misty's building. And we pay for part of cosmetology um salary at Mrs. Clapper's building in our student investment account. And you can see the list is is far longer of what we've paid for here um because it's a larger funding stream
039for us. And you'll notice again that the trend is we are purchasing people to support our children. Um that's been a kind of a a real strong trend and a value in our district and we are proud that we can continue to do that um in various areas such as a first grade teacher, additional counseling um having somebody standing before you who is trying to coordinate and make sure that curriculum's adopted and that trainings are scheduled and that um resources are allocated. Um, we did pay for our jump start kindergarten from this source. Um, our equity team, which is a a state law that we must have one. Um, and then additional support for CTE programming and our simulator um, EA, who is Aaron Roberts at the high school. The early intervention um, system is
040a pretty small revenue stream. So, we paid tech team stipens. Um, and then in early literacy, this is one of the new grants that's under this umbrella. It is focused on supporting students age three to grade three. So, we did purchase curriculum for uh Miss May's building. It's called Frog Street, and it supports our kids that are in preK and some of them that are in um the daycare. We also purchased some other phonic um interventions called Gardener's New Alphabet and Secret Stories. It teaches kids um all the phonic sounds um and rules and exceptions and things like this. Uh we do have a targeted tutor at Lincoln which is an EA and we again purchased a lot of books to support literacy and build the library further. We also um conducted UFly which is
041the University of Florida. It's another way of approaching. Um Armando said something really like inspiring in our admin meeting earlier which is you know teachers have this curriculum and they think that that's all they can use and that they have to go beginning to end. And Mr. Gallagher really echoed that. And what I love about our teachers and what they're doing is in addition to what the board generously provides us um to purchase, they are also seeking out those other things that they know are going to work for their kids. And the amazing thing about UFly is free, no cost. No cost at all. And that is the end of all of the revenue stream reporting that are under integrated programs. Um, huge thank you to Denise without her support and reporting on the budgeting
042side. Um, we wouldn't get there. Um, because you didn't hire me to be the numbers person and good job because Denise is the numbers person. Um, and I'm I'm the narrator and I love doing that piece. Do you have any questions for me about how we chose to allocate those funds and where the money was spent? Well, we're on to another round of planning and reporting. So, thank you and thanks for continuing to support us in that way. >> Thank you, Tanya. >> All right, let's move to 4.0. Uh, board goals. Strive to be the best employer on the South Coast. Okay. So, we're here to talk about the board goal of striving to be the best employer on the South Coast. >> So, we did a little bit of digging into regional salaries. This
043is for the certified staff. This is entry level. We're we're a little bit above the middle here. This is this is where we're getting like the the younger families just moving in. It is a lower salary, but if they're taking advantage of things like the daycare, then this is a huge benefit to them. And this is kind of midlevel of a career and really acknowledging the investment in the master's degree. And then this is the maximum step, maximum degree available. And so when we get young families that move in and they're in that low salary range, but they can see if they keep working for Coke and they keep working towards those degrees, they can move up and they can be at the very very top. Then we move to the classified salary and this
044is for the educational assistant. We did three different work groups. This is the EA, not sped. It's just the general eda. Go ahead and go to max. This one is the custodian again right there in the middle. And secretary, we are at the top. So then we have our new language. The language up there at the top is specifically from the new contract that we just negotiated with the classified staff. And so the district is going to fully fund medical insurance for the employee, the employee and spouse, the employee children, the employee and family. So they're not going to have any out-of- pocket premium costs for those staff members. And then we had a total of 63 staff members that signed up for this plan five with the HA. And then 29 staff members opted
045out and are receiving a $500 sip while they're covered under other insurance. And then the next big benefit that we have for working in Coke is the daycare. So, we have 12 classified staff members, 14 certified staff members use the daycare, which is a total of 31 staff member children this year. And that's for $10 a month. And what I found online is regionally daycare for full-time can range from 1,000 to $2,300 a month. So, that's an incredible savings for our family. And I did try to get a couple people to come in and talk about daycare and how it works really well for them this year. But all I got was a quote saying that it's an amazing opportunity. That's what I have. Do we have any questions? If they're insurance related, I'm probably
046going to tap in Denise. >> I have one quick question on the slide that you had for classified you have I think I thought I saw that it was like in between steps six, seven, and eight. How about when our how how are we compared for new new employees and attracting new employees to the district when we need them? So, step one. >> Um, I actually didn't look at that data. I can look at it though and then get it for you. >> I really did look at the top for all of the districts in our area. What's the most that people can get when we hire somebody? I'm trying to get their experience to match out so that I can pay them as much as possible. Wayne loves that. Denise loves that when I'm
047trying to spend as much money as possible when we're hiring new people. But, it really is helping me recruit and then retain the people that we want in our district. You're not really hiring them in at step one then is what I'm hearing you >> I try not to I try to get people in as much experience as possible but we did last year I think all of the EAS that we hired at the beginning of the year last year all of them were step one this year we've gotten some more people with a little bit more experience >> okay that was my question because we talked about new families coming into the area so I was wondering on that same level how >> Yeah I will get you that I'll get you the same
048information it's real quick I have I have it look at it >> any other questions Jeff didn't get to talk at all. >> Well, we also have signing bonuses and we also have some um things that we're negotiating into the contract for special education teachers which is pretty u helps attract to that field. The biggest the biggest benefit that we were able to add in this last cycle is definitely that insurance for us to be able to have that advertising chip that we are able to pay not only for the employee but up to their full family cover that premium for them. That is a gamecher for our employees and I do believe that's something that's going to help us attract more and better highly qualified candidates in the future. Insurance is a big deal.
049And we noticed that for some of our classified employees, I won't mention any names, but for some of them, that is going to be over a $500 savings from what they were having to take out of their check to pay for their family and they're not going to have to do that. Obviously, this does limit their choices because as in that slide, they only have two two either plan five or either H or HSA. It's one or the other. But the the benefit of not having to have out-ofpocket costs for that premium and we're able to through our HA buy the um deductibles down for our employees. Tremendous savings in a very troubling time in insurance. So that was a huge ad for us as well as getting um three-year contracts for both certified and
050for classified. Knowing people know what they're going to get paid for a longer period of time. they can make a accurate plans for themselves and their families. So very excited about getting those contracts settled, adding insurance, and you can see we may not be the highest in every category, but if you really look at everything that we're doing in the Cokeill School District for our employees based on salary, based on insurance, based on um building um and work environments, and also with our daycare, we really truly are the best employer on the South Coast in my opinion. >> Now, if we could just figure out housing Yeah, we do need a new new housing development somewhere so we can bring in more workers. >> Y >> more families. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. [Applause]
051>> All right, we'll move on to our written reports. Um, any questions for Tiffany for Winter Lakes High School? I know you've added students, so that's always that's good news. >> Any questions? Okay. Uh, any questions for Tanya? We just got a bunch of presentations from her about Winter Lake Elementary or her curriculum director report. >> I think you probably answered any questions you might have. >> Okay. Um, how about for sorry Albert Dixon for the junior highfield junior high? Also had a presentation there. Okay, for uh Paige for the Cook Senior High School. Any questions for her? Paige, can you tell me I saw that the homecoming parade is on the 17th, but there's not a time on that. When do they usually and do they I'm guessing they start at the high school
052and the route goes >> Yeah. start at the high school or off campus by CP by Lincoln and then downtown. Um I think it's like 11:15 is when it starts, but we'll push something out on Facebook so the whole community can see. >> Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Uh any questions for Amy about Lincoln School of Early Learning? Oh, I did the second one. Oh, I'm sorry. >> I'll come back to you next. >> So, any questions for Amy? All right. Any questions for Armando for Coil Valley Elementary School? Okay. Um, any questions for Tony, our athletic director? Tony, is your is the report correct when it says the 2425 high school basketball schedules are complete? >> Well, of course they are. >> I forgot to update that. >> 2526. And then the
053last one where it says OSA classifications and districtricting when it says September 06 to June 2010. >> I'm not sure, but I want you to know I've read your report. So, of course, but that that is a biggie. >> Yeah. >> On by December 15th, they will once again reconfigure schools as that'll begin in the fall of 26. >> Okay. >> For four years. >> Are they going to go to less classifications? Is that what you've heard or you don't know yet? >> Don't know yet. They just had a uh meeting this past the Monday of this week. So information hasn't really come out about what any new direction is at this point. >> You feel like we're going to change classifications, Tony? >> No. >> Um and then you I saw the NFHS in
054here. I was going to ask until I read it, but is it now or when it will start? >> Yes, we started a few weeks back. >> Oh, we did? Okay. >> And if you want to review anything, go down to the on game. >> I must have the wrong link. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, any questions for Sean, our technology supervisor? Okay. Um, any questions for Marcy about our food services? Okay. Um, any questions for Nate, our transportation supervisor? >> Great find on the new truck. >> Okay. Any questions for John Owens, our school resource deputy? >> I love this small report. >> It's nice when your reports are small, >> meaning that there wasn't problems that he had. Yes, I did see that you had to speak to a student about
055um driving conditions and I'm hoping it wasn't my student. >> Yes, >> I finally saw the driver's ed car out and about in the morning. >> Guys, we're doing good. >> What What time do you start that at? >> We start at 7 and we go till about 7:50. Got four students, very good students. had enough to drive which is nice. So yeah, we're about half right now. >> Good. >> Okay. Um any questions for our assistant superintendent Jeff about what special programs or maintenance? Keeping up on maintenance. It's a big job. not ahead this moment. >> Wow. Nice. >> Okay. >> Good. >> Well, I know there's challenges in both those areas. So, give up a little bit. All right. Let's go on to 6.0, our fiscal director's report. So, I'll turn the time
056over to Denise. Hello. So this past week um our auditors were here and they were um looking over we were giving them all of the documentation for 2425 school year. Um they were here for the week and um things went well and so we still don't know the results on our um uh audit yet but we will and we'll present that in either January or February when we get the reports back. Um but it went well. Um, the business office did a fantastic job. The district did a good job of maintaining and doing all of the stuff of getting what we needed for the auditors. If you look on page three, it is a it is one of the pages that you can see. Um, it's a consolidated so it's not as tiny so that
057you can actually read it. Um, so you can see our first column is the budgeted amount and then you can see our year-to- date actuals through our current month, which this one does go through um, August. And so you can see that information there. You can see what we've encumbered. So you can kind of see where we are heading as of this time right now towards the end of the year. Um, time is flying so fast it'll be here before you know it. It's crazy. But I'm still I We're not under the million dollar um contingency that we did have and um if we were at this point at this stage I'd be a little concerned but we're not. So >> Denise we're holding strong. >> You said page three but I think there is
058it number 34 or page 34 that you're >> 35 35. >> Okay. Page three of of the fiscal report stuff. Sorry I didn't see you put the pages down there. So, no, it's okay. So, if you have any questions at all on that information, let me know. It's just a little bit. You can read it a little bit more. It's bigger. You said this is the Okay. It's on page 35. It is the year. It shows. >> So, the year year-to- date actual current month, that's September. Even though this >> No, it's through it's through August. >> Fine. because is we're always a month behind because we're doing our board meetings earlier than we were last year and so to get all of that information sometimes we're still wrapping things up. >> Okay. So this
059one Marca this one says June 30, 2026 and this one says August. Are you sure it's >> okay? It goes this for this period ending it's going all the way through to the end of the year. So is it >> so this is this has the the first column is the adopted budget the year-to- date actuals through the current month which is August then you have incumbrances >> I think it's this I think >> no it's the one that yes >> so the yearto date actuals you can see it we've spent thus far $3,612,000 that's what we've spent um thus far through the end of August and we've encumbered 15,966,000. >> Sorry, that's for our revenue. And then we've got our expenses down below. So the section up top that says for period ending June
06030 26 that's because that's when this budget year ends >> when our budget year end >> right so I was just helping like does that make sense like this is where the >> it does now >> this is year to date so I'm showing that's when it is ending but through the current month and that would be um August at this point we're always one left behind. So, November we'll be doing we'll be going over well actually >> September's information. >> Yeah, because you won't have October wrapped up because we're too early. >> We won't have it wrapped up. >> We're two months behind. >> Yeah, pretty much. >> Okay. >> Yeah, technically date wise >> like six weeks from >> Right. because it's September and I could not get September's all of that wrapped
061up. >> When we agreed that that was okay. because we wanted the second week instead of the third week. So, we all said yes, we will we will discuss >> be okay with that. >> Yes. >> When do you wrap up your end of month? Usually, >> um I don't get the bank statements until the end the beginning of October or the beginning of any particular month. And so, it does take a little bit of time to go through and do the bank reconciliations, but then to also um make sure that all the expenses have been categorized correctly. So, it usually takes me a couple of weeks. So, if we had the meetings on the third Wednesday, I would be I would have it in time to be able to get it to you that
062soon. I don't want to give you wrong information and say, >> "My month end is the 10th of every month, so I would never be ready." >> Yeah. So, it takes time. Any other questions for Denise? All right. Let's move on to 7.0 Oh, superintendent report. >> All right, I have a population report as of September 30th. You'll see that we're at that 1201 number. If the board remembers, we set our budget on 1,200 students. So, 1201 sounds good. However, not all of our students in school full-time. We do have some part-time students. So, if you look at our actual um enrollment, it's going to be slightly less than that. We have our October one um report that we have to submit to OD and I'll let you know what that final number is once
063we're able to make that report. But excited that we hit 1201, but I wish we were actually a little bit more and optimistic that we will continue to see more students as the year goes on, but it's not the end of the world. And then I did want to also point out um coming up in your action discussion items, you have some conversation. Um the first one in action um discussion is going to be asking the board to um concrete removal. There's a bid in your packet from Johnson Rock um for and I did not bring my glasses. I apologize. I believe that says uh >> 963. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Thanks, Steve. Um so asking you to approve that to remove that concrete slab that we walked on tonight. And then any additional
064items will be um at cost plus 10% based on the contract here. And then there's also um a letter from HG and from Joe Slack. There were three bids to do that site surveying of that site. Um, one of the bids came in at 5,000. I believe that's 9,300. >> Mhm. >> And I can't read the last >> 15,000. Thank you. Um, so asking the board to approve the bid for 5,000. Um, that's within our budgeted number. And the last thing that will be coming up in action discussion will be asking the board to approve junior high baseball and softball. Um that was something that was actually first brought to our attention by board member Lucas Taylor. Um, I asked Tony to do some research into that and I think Tony has a reasonable plan
065on how we can add baseball and softball into our junior high sports. um by bringing them into the school sports, we would hire the coaches so we would have control over who was coaching um control over scheduling facilities, scheduling games, and also making sure that students had adequate equipment. So that way students that didn't necessarily have the money to be able to afford to play baseball or softball, we'd be able to make sure that there was equipment provided for them. um any kind of outside of school sports can be extremely expensive for families and by being able to take this over as a school district I think will provide more opportunities for more kids and continue to feed our high school programs. Some of you might remember this last spring we did not have enough
066boys for a high school program. And a big part of that is not having enough kids coming up through the feeder programs. And I can say that our younger youth baseball numbers are outstanding. We did have enough to have a middle school baseball team last year and so optimistic that those kids will continue to participate. So those are some things that we'll be asking the board to approve during action discussion items. Amazing question. Any questions? Okay. Well, let's move into our discussion action items. Uh is there any discussion that anyone wants to have on any of those items? Wayne, the only question I have, um I know we talked about the um project that we're looking at and I think you mentioned that there was some extra in our 405. Is that in this the
067line item 400? Is that the what we're talking about here that we already have estimated? Yeah, within for the the project the project for the concrete removal and the site map would come out of um 405 >> and that's in there that's already in these estimations like we >> add there is money in that account to cover to cover that >> that we're not using that are already in this estimation. Okay. >> Because I see that it's really lean if there's not if we're spending all that we said we were going to spend in the first place. >> I understand. Yeah. No, there's there's some projects that we were not able to complete this summer. So, there is money in there to cover this. >> So, are you looking for a motion for these two
068bids to get approved tonight or is it >> Well, yeah, we need to if we're going to approve them. That's >> that's why do we need any discussion? That's why I was wondering one if anyone wants is there anything you don't like do like or on any of these three. >> Right. Right now we're just looking for a motion for to remove the concrete slab and a sight survey >> and the junior high. >> Oh and the softball baseball. But as far as the facility project itself goes. No, we are just we we are still trying to get this leg work done so we can talk about but we will definitely be bringing more things back >> and we have the funds already in the 400 4005 account >> and the bids themselves we have
069to vote on a bid or does it have to >> this is the board approving me to be able to sign >> and then spend that money >> I'll make a motion then unless there's more questions I'll make a motion to approve action items discussion actions of 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Heather to approve 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3, and the second by Marsha. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Okay, let's move to our consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve consent agendas 9.1 through 9.7. Second. >> Okay. I have a motion by Heather to approve 9.1 through 9.7 and a second by Marsha. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. We will move to 10.0 staff and public comments. Have we received any?
070>> Nope. >> Okay. Okay. Then we will move to 11.0 No executive session to consider dismissal or discipline of or to hear charges or complaints against an officer, employee, staff member, or agent if the individual does not request an open meeting. O RS192.6602B to consider information or records that are exempt from disclosure by law, including written advice from your attorney. OS 192.6602F to consult with your attorney regarding your legal rights and duties in regard to current litigation or litigation that is more likely than not to be filed. RS192.6602H. Okay. Gabos back into open session and adjourn the meeting.