001I call the meeting to order. Please join me for a flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, Madam Chair, I'll make a motion that we approve tonight's uh agenda and the minutes for February 12th, March 12th. Second. I had a first um by Steve and a second by Marsha to approve the agenda and the minutes for um February 12th and March 12th, the Friday. Uh, all in favor? I I Okay. Um, I just need you guys to notice that the June board meeting. So, our next two board meetings are budget meetings. Well, it's the budget meeting right before the next board meeting in May. And then we have our
002second budget meeting May 28th. But that June 16th is actually a Monday. It is not a Wednesday. So, I need you to um take note of that, I guess. And hopefully there's no problems with that. Um it was some schedule issues for myself and Marca that we had to do that. All right, let's turn to 2.0 school presentation. Miss Ye, we'll turn the time over to you. Okay. Well, I have two seniors here. I've got Holly Viju and Emmy Wirebot. And I thought, what better to learn about Coke Junior Senior High School than just to ask some students about themselves and let them tell you about their experience at Coke High School and what what kind of their plans are for their future. So, I'll start with Holly. What are some different programs that you've
003been involved in while at Cochil Junior Senior High School? Sure. Uh, so I've been involved in a lot of sports, volleyball, basketball, and track. Uh, we've been pretty successful like two league titles in volleyball, three or no, three in volleyball, two in basketball, and a clean sweep in track. Uh, three district and three state titles. So, it's Oh, and I'm also involved in uh the National Honor Society. So, that's pretty cool, too. We do like a clothing drive. We do an animal shelter. Uh we do some tutoring and stuff. So, that's really cool to get involved with the community and stuff. Uh I'm also involved in a lot of sports. I do soccer. I used to do basketball and track. I do I'm in National Honor Society. I'm on ASB, which is associated student body.
004Um, I'm also started doing broadcasting this year, which is a cool experience. And I believe that's all throughout the school. Okay. What is your favorite experience from high school? Uh, so I've had a lot, you know, the 3P and the state titles, uh, first state titles. It was pretty cool. Um, also right when I got to high school my freshman year, it was cool seeing the boys football team go up and win a state title. I mean, it really set the whole high school for me. So, yeah, it was just it was cool. I mean, I'm going to have to say the same as Holly. Hanging at 3 or freshman year, sophomore year, and junior year is just like mind-blowing. And being the first women's like state title is just like probably the best experience
005you can get throughout high school. So, I mean, that's that's my answer, too. And both of these ladies played a very important role in those three state titles. What do you believe is the most valuable experience from high school? Um, so the coolest moment was going to the state tournament in volleyball and basketball. You know, it's just like getting there with my team and all the hard work it took to get into that moment and just the community coming out and supporting us at our games was it was really cool to see. I think the most valuable for me would have to be I mean there's a couple I mean soccer we didn't do as great but that taught me a lot like being on the cap being captain and trying to get everybody to
006persevere through like not being the best team. It's hard but I mean it was a good like it me a lot and then especially being on ASX too. I was a pretty shy kid, but being put in that position like has really taught me to be outgoing, be able to talk to people and all of that and like not Coke has really made it so that I can be comfortable speaking in front of people and put me out of my comfort zone and that broadcasting position I wouldn't have done without ASB and that kind of led me to where I want to do in college. So yeah, I mean talk a little bit more about the broadcasting. Uh, so this year I did broadcasting cuz I wasn't participating in basketball and so I did it
007with Lee and Dan and I pretty much commentated on the games and it was pretty great. I got a broadcasting scholarship for $500. So I mean it's just opened a lot of doors for me and that's what I'd like to go do in college. So yeah. So if any of you listened um to the basketball games and heard Holly play or were watching Holly play, you heard Emy's voice broadcasting what was going on. and that was it was really great and cool to see. Uh what is your biggest accomplishment? Um so I have a few uh I've been player of the year in volleyball and basketball and I also have uh three individual state titles in track in track and uh also the team state titles. But I would say my favorite is probably the
008getting the school record for the discus. Um, it was just all the work I put in finally really paid off and so looking for the shot put record this year. So, we'll see how that goes. And maybe another discus record, right? Um, my biggest accomplishment. I mean, there's a few like I just said, like being in the positions I am in NHS and ASB are like pretty big to me. Like I'm ASB president this year and everything. So, I thought that was a pretty big accomplishment. and being able to hold my grades this year. I mean, it's just been kind of hard and being on honor honor roll my entire life and having like a 3.94. That I mean, that's pretty big to me. And definitely the state titles obviously. So, yeah. Okay. And what
009are your plans for the future? Uh, so I plan to go to West Point, the United States Military Academy. Um, I tell people I want to study kinesiology, but to be honest, I'm really not sure yet. It's so far into the future that I'm still really deciding. But I just know that that path will be good for me and I'll have a lot of options and just uh serving in the military. It'll uh like I'll be contributing to something that's bigger than myself really. Uh my plans for the future, I got a scholarship for UFO, so I got full tuition there. So I got that due to my GPA in financial need which was amazing. So I'm going there for 4 years and I plan to like my uh major the base will be journalism
010and communications and then I'll kind of minor in sports media so that I can keep doing the commentating and stuff like that. Okay. And do you all have any questions for Holly or Emmy? Who's your favorite teacher? Not going to answer. Who's your favorite principal? Good job, West Point. All right. Thanks. Have you been to New York before? I have. There once. It was really cool. It was like a castle at West Point. All the people were really nice, too. So, yep. Holly visited it over spring break. Okay, cool. And they went to the Statue of Liberty, right? Oh, yeah. So Emmy, I've heard there's a whole bunch of girls from your class that are going to UFO. Yeah. Which I think is super impressive. Yeah, it is. I think it's a total of six
011of us. Wow. I mean, four in Cooko. There's one in Kuz Bay and then one of my friends that used to go here from Eugene is going to. So yeah, there's a few of us. I think there's six total at Cook, I believe. Yeah, that's really impressive. Yeah, it's exciting. It'll be nice to have people I'm familiar with, too. Just going in there blindly is like a little scary, but I have a little friend, so it'll be nice. Well, I think we wish you guys the best of luck. We really do. And we hope to see you back here in a few years telling us about all the amazing things you've done since, you know, in your college careers and your lives after that. Anybody else have questions? All right. All right. Good job. Thank
012you. Good job. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Okay, we'll move on to our Oh, a presentation 3.0. I almost skipped that. Um Tanya for title six oasi E. Is that how you what you you don't say? OC. [Music] Well, good evening. Um, I'm here to present to the board um some information about our Title Six grant, which funds our American Indian and Alaskan Native students. Um through the hard work of Julie Simpson, our liaison this year, we've been able to increase the number of students who are vetted and enrolled in our program, which has resulted in us uh receiving a dispersement of $12,745, which is an increase over last year's $7,551. So, this has brought more revenue in to support our students. And one of the things that we report on in our application for this
013funding um are the goals that our committee, our parent committee has established and those are to increase academic achievement overall for our AI students. And Julie Simpson has been hosting a tutoring session here at the district office once a week for students who might be seeking that support. Another goal is to increase the exposure to post high school opportunities and college. And this is being implemented in large part by our academic counselors and also Miss Sandre Sperling in Tiffany Clapper's building who is leading our TRIO program which gives students exposure and opportunity to post high school opportunities. And our third goal is to increase the connection of our students to their history, their tribal history, but also the history of our area. And we've done that through um having some engagement nights where Julie Simpson
014has done things like prepare fry bread. Um kids have done some beating and we've had some different um cultural connection opportunities. So next year as we are uh receiving some additional funds we're going to again allocate as we have done previously the funding for the stipen for the person who is the AIAM liaison um and in consultation with our tribal um le tribal connection our tribal liaison Marshia Frost from the Kochwell tribe um we are the rest of that funding towards some additional community engagement activities hopefully bringing food, family, and craft cultural experiences together to just increase um the connection that our students have with their district and we with them. We've submitted our application. It's due on the 15th of April. We haven't heard yet if we have been approved, but we will hear
015soon. Does the board have any questions for me? Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to our program uh and school written reports. And I always skip somebody, so I'll try not to time. So, Winter Lakes High School. Um any questions about there? I actually have a question. The team the organ the team organ build so they're funding us or something because I you had that Yeah, we um we got the grant for this and we um get about $30,000 worth of materials to build these sheds that are approved by the federal government and this company. And once we produce those bills based off of all the paperwork and the debts and all the stuff that we got from insurance, then we can donate them back to the community and then we get refunded of materials
016for the next year. And the goal of this program is to really help bridge the gaps between the education and the work. So um and it sounds like it's continuing every year. It would just keep re as long as we produce the bills. As long as you produce the bills, which is great. I mean, that's a great way for us to get resources. If you want to come look at them, we just moved one outside so we can put the roof on. Oh, okay. Great. Any questions for Tiffany? Maybe Steve better go check out that shed. See if it's up to standards. Put your spare parts in here. Okay. Uh, let's move on to Coil Junior High. Any questions for Mr. Dixon? I am super excited about the FFA plant sale. I guess that's for
017both junior high and high school. Um, I went last year. Super cool. [Music] All right. um for the high school for uh Miss Any questions? It's that busy time of year where everyone has everything from festivals to concerts to track meets to graduation stuff. I'm also excited about the plant stuff. Any questions? Okay. How about for [Music] CVE? I guess I didn't realize the carnival was coming up so fast. Yeah. And it's the beginning of May. Yep. Um the smart pass. So, is it the students that have it or Yeah, it's something that is we're going to try to um do that this end of the year. It's a a way to get a hall pass and they're just going to do it online and we're going to actually we haven't started yet. We're going
018to start it next week. It's like a free trial. We're going to see if that's something you want to do for next year. But it's to get some data on kids being out of class. So do you log in kind of thing to say I got a hall pass or they give you some electronic thing? Uh they get on the computer. Oh. say and they just create all pass and then their teacher just you know or actually you know they just be approved to go and their teacher gets the data and knows who's been out of class and how long things like that. Okay. So is it to track if the same students are out of class or how long a lot of different things. It'll give you a lot of useful data. Okay. But
019yeah that's you know sometimes you have kids that are out more than others and you want to know that information. So, it's just a tool that we're going to use to uh to see. Any other questions for Mr. Ruiz? All right. Winter Lakes Elementary. So, you have you also just started. I'm sorry that I didn't read yours ahead of time. It wasn't in on Monday when I read it. It does. I read the rest of them that Julie sent to us on on Monday. Uh so you're the state testing you're doing it is that at the same time as the CVE testing or you don't know it's just okay. I didn't know if there was like a rule that like third graders don't know. Yes, there is. Um Mrs. Sinko sets up the parameters for
020us and helps guide each of our schools through T state testing and um works with each of our buildings and yeah we started April 1st. Okay. It was um and kids are doing really well. It's just learn on computer which is there's no resistance at all. Very few opt outs um this year and so a different change up. So we'll see what that good. Yeah. Um, all right. Let's move on to uh Lincoln, the school of early learning. I was going to say I saw here earlier. Lincoln is hosting the prek parent roundup which is tomorrow 5 to 6:30. So, we are looking forward to that and Mrs. Cinko will be over there as well giving out some information about Lake Elementary as an option. Okay, good. Hopefully we have a good turnout for that.
021Yes. Yes. What is our percentage of kids that usually come to kindergarten but don't come to Roundup? Do you know like is it like 20 extra kids or double? I mean it kind of varies. It I mean it gives us a a good range but we always end up with more kids. All right. Um any questions for Tanya, our curriculum director? Okay. Um, CTE special programs, Mr. Philly. Any questions for him? Okay. Um, any questions for Mr. Jones, our athletic director? Say, I was just at the the track meet in Marshfield for a little bit before I came here. Beautiful weather. Kids were having fun. It was so nice. Just they look good in the warm houses. I guess I don't know if it look good. So I had a question. Julie would be an
022appropriate time to push. I think Sure. Go ahead. Yeah. I just know he wanted to speak. So go ahead. His name is Lir. Yes. 129 days old. That's my math teacher for you. Um, I'm up here seeking approval from the board to use the funds and my soccer account to take the team this summer to Seattle out of state uh for the club world cup which is it's a competition that happens every four years. are probably aware of the World Cup which happens between you know international um so USA would play Mexico but the club world cup is like if the Lakers were playing I don't know another international basketball team so it's the best teams from each country and they normally just do the top team that plays but this year they've expanded it
023to do the best like couple teams from each continent to play and so I'm really excited had to bring the guys hopefully uh cuz it's going to be some of the European teams which are the best teams in the world and they'll be over here playing and hopefully an American team can get an upset cuz we're hopefully going to see the Sounders play the Inter Milan. So that would be one of the games we're hopeful to attend. So, uh, that's my little spiel, but you would travel on the 19th and come back on the 21st. And game on the 19th, game on the 21st. Uh, of June. June. Yes. So, right when we get out of school. Okay. I'll put it on. We can consent. We can add that to that consent agenda or discussion
024action. Okay. What can we do? We need a motion to do that to add it to that. Yeah, to add or what? We can wait till we get 7.3. Yeah, 7.3 out of state. I knew Marshall appreciate it cuz I can steal Ian for a weekend. We'll be back from Cabo by then, so you'll be free. Good. Okay. Well, thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] [Laughter] Okay. Okay, let's go to 4.10. Technology supervisor pashad. Does anyone have any questions for [Music] him? Glad all our intercoms are now up and working. Sounds like all four of the schools in the school of all working. Today I walked through with our representative from the company and we met with a couple of the schools that did some finished training at CBE. We went up to
025Lincoln and looked at a couple of discrepancies that they could touch on. Good schools have already seen using the system quite a bit. It's pretty cool. I've seen a lot of positive reactions to I'm glad to hear that. Okay. Um now let's move on to 4.11 transportation supervisor. Any questions for for Nate? Looks like uh you're going to be a new um maintenance on the vehicle guy too. Like can I add that to your bill? It's more more of a a inspector, but yeah. Okay. That's my goal. Okay. Um, food services. Does anybody have any questions for Marcy? The food out there was very, very good. Those cookies. Do the kids get that good of food? I don't know that they do. First girl. We don't have the budget for that. All right. Any questions
026for John Owens, our school resource deputy? So, are we already have you started already taking like filling up the for the for summertime? Um yeah, it's my understanding we have as low as 15 drivers. We've got 12 right now. Oh, good. And we got some weight. So our three and if not then there's some out the district that would want it. Yeah. Well, good. I I I tell people about it all the time. I'm like, your child can't You should do this. This would be a good thing for all of us so we can all be safe. Um, all right. Any questions for Jeff about maintenance? Yes. You said the tracks in ready for Friday. Yep. We'll blow the pine needles off Friday afternoon. We're in good shape. Well, let's hope the weather is as
027nice as it is today. I think Friday should be good. I don't think it's going to be as warm, but no rain, so I guess that's good. All right, let's go to our fiscal report. Uh, turn the time over to Denise or does do you have anything to say or should I just ask for questions? Um, no, I don't really have anything to say this time. Okay. Does anyone have any questions for Denise? I'm sure you've been super busy getting ready for our budget meetings that are coming up next month. Yes. Okay. No one has any questions for her. Then we will turn to our superintendence report and I'll turn the time over to you, Mr. Gallagher. Um, looking at our population report, you'll notice that in the month of March, we were at 1,224
028students. That is actually down 48 students from where we were this time last year. If you remember last month, I reported that we were, I believe, 42 down. Now we're at 48. So, continuing to monitor and watch that population. What did we set our budget at? We set our budget for next year at 1,200. Well, for this year, for this year at 1220. Okay. And we have been above that all year, but if you can see, yeah, we're getting we're getting close and we want to meet that average. Mhm. So we we do we take all the months and then it's your average or is it from October to My understanding is that part of it is your average but we do take it an October one ADMR and then we do a May um
029ADMR as well. Okay. Uh as far as communications, we did have some email communications that went to the board. Um, I did have an opportunity to talk to Miss Shei about that. Miss Shei has met with the parent. Um, and that is a requirement that I want to make sure that parents have a chance to talk to the other principles before I talk to them. Is that this email? So, I will I will respond to this email tomorrow. Okay. And then um I wanted to point out to the board in your packet you have a loose leaf of the board goals that we discussed in our work session last month. I did um take that input from the board and make sure that we included everything. Um obviously I know the board's going to vote
030on this but if there's additional things the board wants to add or tweak or change um we can do that. uh during discussion section. Other things that have come out recently, there's been lots of conversation about demands from the federal government. The latest one that's come out is the demanding of all superintendent having to sign a um asurances that we are not providing DEI opportunities in our district. And so right now that is currently OBE has asked all superintendent to wait. Our deadline is next Wednesday. And as you're aware, there's several things that have come out of the federal government that put superintendent in challenging situations because Oregon law is currently in contradiction with federal law based on some new executive orders. So, that is one thing that's coming up very soon that I'm keeping
031my eye on, but OD has specifically requested that superintendent wait until next week before we sign anything as far as that could go to the federal government. My concern is that what it says right now is if I do not sign that, then we forfeit all federal funds. and that would be absolutely devastating for our district. So definitely something that's on my mind. Obviously I don't want to don't want to violate Oregon law, don't want to violate federal law. I want to help kids grow and become the best possible students they can. Um but that is something that some of you may have heard and if you haven't heard that is something that's coming to a head next week. Um, also other federal um, program restrictions. There have been there have been several grants that
032have going directly to OD that have been revoked. So far, there hasn't been a grant that we are currently receiving that has been revoked, but there have been several grants that go that are directly tied to Oregon Department of Education that have been revoked. So definitely something we're really trying to keep our eyes on and a real concern. But that assurances um again you've probably heard I mean it's been national news as far as there have been big districts in Colorado and California and now Oregon is in the crosshairs and they're saying that district superintendent either sign it or you forfeit all your federal funds. So, we're trying to find a way to navigate that in such a way that we can continue to support all of our students, no matter whom they are, but
033yet make sure that we're staying within the guidelines of state law and federal law. And at the moment, they're definitely contradicting one another in the area of DEI. So, I will I will keep the board posted on on that. Um, anything else I have to share in the executive [Music] session. Okay. Okay. Um, all right. Let's move on to discussion action. So, we've see we have the goals in front of us for 7.1 and then does someone want to explain 7.2? Is that what this is? 7.2 is a resolution. I would defer that to Denise to be able to explain why we need to make that switch. Um, we need to uh change the appropriations for the general fund for our major function 1,000. Um we do not have enough appropriations for salaries at this
034moment in time. So we need to move some of those um appropriations from our major function 2000 to cover. We're not over in our fund 100 budget, but it's just by the major function that some money that appropriations need to be moved. Um and you will see that same thing for the um special revenue. We just need to move money within the fund 200 by the major functions. So we're not over our budget. We're still projecting that we're going to be at the end of the year. If we were to end the school year right now, it'd be $1.4 million um in our ending fund balance. So we're not over our budget. We just need to move them from major functions. Does anybody have any questions on that? I know it's a little I deal
035with this stuff all day. I completely know what you're talking about. Good cuz I don't 100%. I'm with you. The board. Okay. Oh yeah. Um and if someone is willing to add 7.3 of approving out of state travel uh for the boys soccer team. I'll make a motion to move or to add 7.3 the out of state travel for the boys soccer. Two discussion action items. Okay. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. I have a motion by Marcia to add 7.3 out of state travel for the boys soccer team to the discussion action uh as a discussion action item and a second by Lucas. All in favor? I Okay, we need are someone want to make a motion to approve those three things? I'll make a motion to approve 7.1 through 7.3 and
036discussion action items. Second. Okay. I have a motion by Marsha to approve 7.1 through 7.3 and a second by Lucas. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, let's move to the consent agenda. [Music] lots of money coming in for track. There's lots of money coming in for the track. Does anyone want to Um, make a motion to Yeah, I'll make that motion that we approve tonight's consent agenda with 81 through 88. Okay. Can I get a second? Second. Okay. I have a motion by Steve to approve 8.1 through 8.8 and a second by Marsha. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. We'll move to 9.0. Staff and public comments. Do we have any? I think they had mic but we took which is better. Um okay we will now move to 10.0 executive session to
037consider information or records that are exempt from disclosure by law including written advice from your attorney OS192.660F and to consult with your attorney regarding your legal rights and duties in regard to current litigation or litigation that is more than more likely than not to be filed or RS1 192.66 6602H. Okay. Should we go upstairs? Yeah. Madam Chair, I'd like to make a motion. I move that the Koko School District Board of Directors authorizes the superintendent to identify and implement budget reductions totaling up to $1.5 million for 2025 and 2026 fiscal year. These reductions shall be made in alignment with district priorities, strategic goals, and legal requirements. The superintendent will keep the board informed of of proposed cuts and provide regular updates as reductions are identified and implemented. Second. I had a motion by Steve and
038a second by Marsha to uh authorize the superintendent to make budget cuts for next school year. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, we're done.