001to the district board room for the Tuesday, November 18th board meeting. And we're going to open it at 6:02. Everybody stand for the pledge of >> 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. Okay, that brings us to additions, deletions, amendments to the agenda, and adoption of the agenda. Uh, looks like we have one additional business item to approve the construction excise tax. >> Yeah, remember we had the wrong information in the last four. I move we approve the agenda as amended. >> Okay. There's been a motion to approve the agenda as amend amended by Dr. Albbright and seconded by Dr. Coleman. Dr. Coleman. Director Coleman. Are you a doctor now? If there's no discussion,
002everybody in favor raise your right hand. One, two, three. Motion passes. 5 Z. Okay. Community comments. Is there anybody want online or anything? Okay. Move by that fast. Uh brings us to the consent agenda approving the regular board meeting minutes um from 1014 2025 and confirming employment of Lis Ericson the food service assistant. >> I move that we approve the regular board meeting minutes uh for 1014 2025. >> Okay. There's been a >> You want to approve the rest of the consent agenda? >> Oh, I guess I um >> You can just approve the consent agenda. >> Okay. Approve the consent agenda. >> Yeah. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda by Director Sweeney and seconded by Director Albbright. There's no discussion. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Four, five. Motion passes
0035. Okay. brings us to the finance report. >> All right, I'm going to be giving the finance report and I want to just frontload the construction excise tax information because we had for whatever reason I think a packet from like 2017 last time for the construction excise tax. So, I'll update that. But first, I want to give a shout out to Jan Bun and Deian O'Neal because, as you know, they've been working on um cleaning up some accounting and preparing for our audit, which we had our auditors here yesterday and had anticipated them being here two full days and typically there's some followup, but they finished the audit in one day, which shows how um how well Jan and Dan did with uh their prep for that. and the auditors will be here next month
004to give the report and answer any questions that the board um might have. But bottom line is we did have a larger ending fund balance from last year than we had thought we had. So that's good news. Um there were there will be some findings to report on. But the auditor said that all the findings they had had we had already worked to clean up um as a district. so that they mostly are going to praise us for the work we've done to um to work on our internal controls. Um the construction excise tax. So some some background on this. It was passed in 2007. Senate bill um 1036 allowed districts to impose a tax on new construction to fund capital improvements to school facilities. Dayton School District passed an 0708 uh board res resolution
005to authorize collection of the construction excise tax. As noted, school districts with construction tax revenue are required to develop long-term facility plans, which we do have a long range facilities committee and plans. Copies are available of the current tax index of school construction tax limits from the Oregon Department of Revenue, a summary of a summary of construction excise tax collected since the tax was initiated, and the original board resolution. The construction excise tax receipts are deposited into fund 410, which is our capital improvement fund, which Otto oversees, and are used for projects that align with the long-term facilities plan. Transfers from the general fund and other source of revenue um from 410 um are allowed uh into 410, but you can't transfer from 410 back into the general fund. So when people see there's these
006projects that are going on that the long-range facilities committee approved, we can't take that money from capital improvement and put it into our general fund for other things. Um so uh basically today during the business section of the meeting um we are looking to um impose the uh construction excise uh tax uh listed here for residential $167 on residential um 84 cents to keep up with um uh inflation and the what you'll see here at the um construction excise tax table on the back, the summary um of the uh the raised taxes over time. So you'll see that it hasn't been since 201718 um that anything was amended. And I think that's all I have for the business report. You'll also see in the business report um the fund balance summary included in here. Um
007there's a lot uh >> uh uh a lot of funds that are going to be um looking different here next month because there is a lot of preparation for the audit. So when money need to be moved from one account to another because it was supposed to have been paid out of a different account, we won't see that reflected on this fund balance yet, but you'll see it reflected next month. >> That's all I have for that report. Okay, there's no questions. We'll move on to the superintendent's report. >> Um, so I you'll we included uh student uh data in the board report, but this is from 23 24. It's just a reminder of where we finished last year. So, I'm not going to go over in depth because at the next meeting, we'll be
008able to go over our official results from last year. They're what's called embargoed right now, which means I'm not allowed to share them with you. the Oregon Department of Education has to do some um clean up to make sure all our data is accurate. Um and then we get a chance to look it over and do any kind of clean up ourselves that we need to do. And graduation rates aren't released till what January typically or >> and there be for the >> for the following. Yeah. So, um, at the next meeting, we'll not only go over our data that the state looks at, but also I'll ask our building leaders to report on our diagnost diagnostic data. So, how our students are doing in reading and math as of now. um the this time
009of year. And you'll if you look around the room, you can see a lot of uh shrapnel from some of the work that we've been doing uh with our language arts department. Um as well as our equity committee to make sure that we're eliciting the voices of students, staff, and families and our continuous improvement of our efforts in the district. as well as trying to get a real uh feel or finger on the pulse of what our um alignment or lack thereof of is in our literacy program kindergarten through 12th grade. And those meetings will be ongoing. And I was really impressed with the level of engagement of our language arts team and the level of alignment on what we're trying to accomplish and why. The next step is how we get there. So diving
010into a lot of research on um really what uh secondary what happens in secondary language arts classrooms to really leverage student success. But the bulk of my report is going to be the next two things you see on the list. So an update on CTE and an update on um FFA. >> Okay. Um curriculum and instruction CT is up next. All right. Good evening. Long time no see. Um Amy asked that we come do kind of an update on how things are going in our pathways and CTE programs. So there's a lot of information, a lot of writing that teachers submitted. I'm not going to read that verbatim to you, but uh between the three of us, we can give some updates on how the work in pathways is going. So this year, um you
011can see that we have five pathways that are going. So agriculture is what we've had for many, many years now. Um education is in its second year. You can see a picture there of some of our early childhood education students working with kids at the preschool. Hospitality and culinary is also in year two. Uh fire and EMS is work that we've been doing in a partnership with the fire department for many years, but it's now an official uh pathway through the state of Oregon. So we will start to be able to collect funds after 3 years of uh students completing pathway that pathway and completing courses in that pathway. And then health services is also a pathway that we were able to bring out of dormant status. So we're basically saying that's a year one
012as well because it's in a bit of a reset year. So, I'm not going to talk too much here, but I have um Charlie and Kelly to give some updates on what's been going on in the world of agriculture um including some updates on some of the work we've been doing to try to get the greenhouse up and running uh for the school year. So, I'll turn it to Charlie. >> Hi there, folks. Um so, the agricultural um CDE pathway we really call precision egg. Uh so that's considered to be um the fabrication shop, the mechanical shop, um our basic auto maintenance, which I have been putting quite a spin with the the change of things we've had going on trying to add as much to that to be able to relate it to a
013I've sat and talked with Mitch a lot and um and I've talked to quite a few other people from the community to find out what they're really wanting to keep everyone really happy. A lot of these things parallel up. So, as I do my lessons, I'm trying to keep it um you know, like we would do this necessarily with an automobile, but this would be the same with a tractor or a piece of equipment. Changing a tire and wheel would be the same here on an automobile or packing that wheel bearing would be the same on a piece of equipment and whatnot. So, they understand hydraulics, mechanics, it all goes hand in hand. So, it's not necessarily right now looking so just automobile-based. Um same with the fabrication. We've touched base uh this school year
014on uh MIG welding, arc welding, uh drilling, drill bit sharpening, uh tap and die, uh using drill press, drill presses, hand uh drills, hand grinders, bench grinders, uh measuring, and then we've been quite incorporating quite a little bit of literacy uh in our program. So, watching something and then get in groups and talk about how you would put that in your own words and then pick the group uh maybe that has the best or mix them together to be able to put together basically um a choreographed version to do a video of it. And that's what we've been working on. Uh it's working really well. Uh Mitch Pops in quite a little bit. I've asked him please by all means let me know um what you think the students need. I have no problem uh
015talking to them a little more about electricity instead of where it comes from the plug, but actually a natural resource where it comes from. Uh same with oil and and different things of of how these are natural resources. So trying to keep that egg spirit alive um in the fab classes and the mechanical classes. So >> oh greenhouse. So, greenhouse stuff. Um, we have a small team of staff members so far that we've met twice and we're working on a survey to send out to students to get student interest and see what they want to help with um so that way we can hone in on their strengths and um so we're getting ready to send that survey out soon. And oh, good. today. Um, and one of the things that we're gonna do is
016um, Cody's wood shop classes are going to be making wood planters so we can like make some like pre-planted planters and boxes to sell. And my ceramics classes are making um, little planters for some house plants that we're propagating from my plants. And we put a call out to staff for cutting. So, we're um, Shel and I are propagating like crazy. So, that's been fun. Um, and then Charlie's fab classes are going to be making some custom steel rod like basket hangers and um basket stands. So, yeah, there's lots more to come on that. So, and we've had um quite a bit of community outreach uh regarding the greenhouse, which we knew it's a huge pillar of the community. A huge shout out to Mitch and Ann and Claire for getting it to where it
017is. And so we knew that's a huge piece of work we want to keep going and getting kids to stay involved with that. So it's been really exciting to see the people coming out of the woodwork with these skill sets that luckily they have cuz I don't um to really hopefully have a really successful greenhouse um and add a little new spin to it in some areas. So, um, and then you can see up here from Cody also under that, um, a umbrella, he's got his business classes up and running. They were actually able to sell some swag at the homecoming game and they made like close to $300, I think. Uh, they've learned some mistakes the hard way with banners and shirts. Um, but they're getting the hang of it. They completed an order
018for the grade school recently for their PBIS banners that they're going to hang throughout the school. Um, and they've created a design, which I'll show you here in a little bit, um, to start selling t-shirts at basketball games or sweatshirts. Uh, so the hope is that people can choose from one or two or three logos. We'll start pretty small and say, I want that logo on a hoodie. Um, and then right then and there, Kaden, our intern, as well as other students can press it on the shirt. Here you go. Um, and that's pretty big business. I don't know if you've had little kids at basketball tournaments, those things go for like $85. We will not charge that much. Um, but I think it'll be a really great business learning experience for the kids. Um,
019and then construction, they've done a lot with kind of safety and the basics. And we actually just decided to put together a fun kind of culminating project for this semester's kids in wood shop. And I'm gonna let Charlie talk to that a little bit more because he understands this better than me. >> Okay. Um, so we're putting together the oldfashioned Pinewood Derby. Uh, we're going to get the the basic derby kits that are most inexpensive block kits there are. Yeah. And uh the kids are really enjoying um doing some work in the in the wood shop. um a lot of work in the wood shop, but understanding the basics and more intricate things and measuring things out, tapering, doing some more hand work, chisels, sanding, and things instead of everything just being an automated tool.
020Uh so, we're getting the kits. Uh Cody's going to introduce them into his um in his class, whichever one it happens to be. I'm going to offer it up in my classes, my mechanical classes. By all means, those kids uh in fabrication as well need to be able to go in there so they can get a kit uh put them together. And we're shooting for what is it? January 29th uh in the multi to do uh an oldfashioned Pinewood Derby race. Um very studentled um we have a track uh setup that's being donated for for that evening and um we're pretty excited about it. There'll be probably quite a bit of art being done there in Kelly's room. And I think it's going to be a fun way to go from one room of tools
021to the wood shop back to the art room and really uh let the kids kind of work their way around that CTE building and have a finished product, but even better to be able to invite their parents to come down and do something really fun. Um, not only would that be kind of a an open house of a showcase of what they're doing, but I think in the multi- we could also set a few things up uh that we're doing besides that, kind of almost an art display through the shop. So, a very inexpensive way uh to do some really nice work that the kids can all take something home and and and like I say, do a little more intricate work where it's a little more handson instead of just running something through a
022table saw and and and gluing it together with a screw gun. U they're definitely personalized to what their interests are. soon. >> We need to discuss legalities of a a buyin for a pot of money to win if you win the race. Um, so for education this year, our early childhood education students go to the preschool four days a week. So Tuesday through Friday, Tiffany drives them down in the activities bus. Uh Monday they have class up at the high school because with the shortened schedule by the time they'd get down there it probably wouldn't be worth the trip. Um but they're getting much more of a hands-on experience with kids in more of that lab environment. So if they're talking about let's design an art lesson that's developmentally appropriate for four to 5year-olds, they
023actually get to go implement that lesson. Um and the kids have really enjoyed it. there was a little clunky the first week or so to get them to the right spot to get on the bus. Uh but some of our more historically disengaged students really have flourished in this class. So that's really fun to watch. Um they also did the babies recently. So we had lots of the plastic babies that cry and you need the keys and we had keys in my office in case a baby was having a never- ending meltdown. >> Yeah. So, it was it's fun to see and just funny to see some of the kids with their baby on the hip. Go to the next one. Um, again, so there's just more information on that and more details of some
024of the work they've been doing. Um, ASQ screening is something that jumps out at me. I know the year I worked at Head Start, I had to implement that screener regularly with families when I did home visits. Uh, so those are skills that transfer right into the industry if you were to work at a a child care center or even a school. So, it's great that they're getting practice with those tools. And then our education courses. So, right now we have intro to education still going. So, that's the first uh step in the education pathway if you're wanting to work with like the older students. And then education too is the class they would go into next um and really start to look at the technical side of being a teacher. So how do we
025design a lesson plan? How do we think about how to make it engaging? How will we assess our kids? Um and then they do some work in the junior high classrooms with those projects. And then cadet teaching. I don't think we maybe have two in there right now, but second semester we'll have more kids that have filtered through the program this year and last year as cadet teachers again. Uh last year we had over 10, but some of those were seniors that have exited and they had been cadet teachers prior, so they were kind of grandfathered in. Um so that's where they'll get even more of that typical kind of student teacher experience. Uh so excited to see what they do with that this year. Hospitality and culinary. Um we had four Dayton seniors, you'll
026see up there, recently go to the Emwick rally and they were on a panel in the afternoon and spoke to over 150 educators, admin, business professionals, and did kind of a Q&A. Um I had to leave to get back to another meeting, but I heard rave reviews. Um, people sent me pictures and videos, so they did really good. Um, this year, four seniors will earn their pathway credentials, so they will have completed the three credits in the pathway. Um, and then this winter term, we're going to offer four dual credits, uh, cuz Christa had that coming into the district, so she's able to offer that sooner than if we had a teacher that had started fresh. Um, and then she and Kelly are both on the Dayton uh farmers market panel board, I don't know
027you call it, committee. Um, so Dayton is trying to get a local farmers market and there's a ton of interest of course with the greenhouse and with the culinary pathway of getting our kids involved. So, we're really excited to see what we can do there. Um, and then we've met with Dave Recklo about partnerships with the new inn as well as uh industry coming in out at Evergreen. Um, and there's going to be large amounts of jobs coming in instantly with those industries. So, he's doing a lot behind the scenes to get our kids connected to those opportunities. Oh, and then culinary and hospitality did some popups so staff could buy olive oil that they had bottled, balsamic, I think, and then different muffins and treats. Uh they realized going to nationals is expensive, so
028they're boosting that ASB account back up. Uh but it was super fun. They were walking around and you could buy things. Uh fire and emergency. So stu two students so far have passed their EMT class and now are eligible to take the REM T exam after they graduate. Um we have five students in the program overall and then the EMR classes will start in January and wildland fire firefighting will start in June. I don't know if that's correct that might be January. Um but if Frra is working it is June January that's why I thought it was a typo. Um, so he will able to bring his experience to our kids so that they could be trained and if they're 18 potentially go out that summer and fight wildland firefighting. >> Oh, not a June.
029>> Yeah. Uh, so that's a huge opportunity, great money in that, great experience even if you do that in the summers and you go to college or whatever. Um, so we're super excited to keep growing that. It's small, which we knew it would be, but um getting him more involved in January, I think, will help grow those numbers. Health services. Sorry, I'm trying to make it fast, guys. Um, so we have our tech, not our tech, our trainer, yeah, teaching our intro to health services class and she's been doing amazing work. She's working really closely with Shelley Galuchia as well as with Frank Balm Holtz and she's got this thing up and running. And as you can see, kids are getting hands-on experience practice. Um, she's got people that are coming in to do speaking.
030I just signed a purchase today for bleach and chicken wings because they're going to dissect chicken wings to understand like muscular joints, all of that. And I didn't even blink. I just said, "Sure." And I said, "So, it's been really cool to watch her. Teaching is not what she was trained in, and she's doing a really great job." Um, and we put a classroom out in the old weight room in the new gym. So, it's a team room in the evenings for teams when they need it and then a classroom. And that actually has been running really smooth as well. And then she's near all of her equipment that she needs. And I think yeah, some more pictures. Um, and then Frank, I don't think Frank fully knew what he was take taking on with
031this and he is killing it as well. Uh, so he has an intro to human performance uh class that he's running and it's tied to the NASM standards and training. So we actually bought that curriculum and it's not curriculum that is user friendly for high school kids. It's super dense, super wordy. So, him and Shelley are really having to take that curriculum and then almost make a parallel curriculum that is more engaging for students at the high school, but also still hits everything so that if they get through the courses, they can take the test to be personal trainers at the end. And it's again a small group, I think like 8 to 10 kids, but they're taking it really serious and it's not something that's like super fun every day. Um, so I'm really
032proud of them and they are like all in on that potential of being a personal trainer at the end of it all. And then student interns, we didn't we realized we need more updated photos. Um, but we have Kaden fast interning in the print shop in the business classes. Um, and he's working alongside Martin, uh, Carlson and then Cody. Uh, Martin's been intricate this year in getting equipment running. Like we have, I think, every piece of equipment up and running out there >> and he has the time and the knowledge to just get things going. It's pretty amazing what he can do. Um, so that has been so helpful. And then he's able to push out and help in the greenhouse and within all of the programs that we'll have out there. And then you
033can see the logo uh that we had students create for uh potential basketball swag. So excited for that. And then we have Ethan Brush um interning out um helping in the greenhouse. And then potentially we might have them also be at the grade school helping with the garden that they're getting up and running. So I think once we have more to do when it's up and running, we'll keep him super busy. So, okay, that's it. Sorry, it was a long one tonight. Any questions? >> How many kids do we have in the pathway? >> That's a good question. So, I could pull the numbers, but when I ran the reports just for the culinary report I had to do for the revitalization grant, it was like 130 kids. And what was super interesting, it was
034almost a 50/50 split of male versus females. Um, and then white students versus students of color were all within the ratio they should be or higher. So, it's definitely attracting students from all backgrounds, but I can run the >> idea for next. >> Yeah. >> Then, um I I really appreciated all the sort of taking what you are already doing and sort of turning that towards a. Um but I was wondering, do we are we still sort of on track? There will be an a teacher at some point like I'm just an a teacher to to cover things that are not being covered at this point. Yeah. So, we had the posting up for quite a while and it just it's not a good time to hire teachers as you know. So, we took it
035down um with the hope of getting to job fairs, that sort of thing. And recruiting, there has been um some people that have reached out that are interested. So, if the right person falls into our lap and we reopen the posting, like I would be 100% in support of that. We just wanted to make sure that we're being really thoughtful about what we want in that hire and then reopening it because it's easy to do that. >> And either you or Charlie talk just real quick about your CTE advisory committee that you're planning running. So when we met with Reynold Gardner who is the FFA kind of a guru for the state of Oregon at OD, he brought up a great idea of how we really should have some sort of CTE advisory in place.
036And typically in a bigger school that would be one per each pathway, but that's a little tricky. In a district our size, I think we would be in like non-stop evening meetings. So my hope um and I have a list of names that I need to just get invites out to and get on the calendar is to create kind of a larger body that can help give input from industry, from Schmecka, from the city all over on the greater vision of our pathways, our CTE programs and then have some offshoots. One would be that a offshoot because that's such a big part of who we are and what we do. Getting them at the table for really focused on, okay, what are the needs of your industry? What are you seeing kids are lagging when
037they're trying to be hired? Um, and how can we help bridge that gap? Um, and so Charlie, like he said, has been talking to people in the community as well. Um, and we have a lot of people who said, "Yeah, sign me up. I'll come." A good piece of advice I got when I met with Dave Recklo in Abbashaw who oversees a program we're interested in where our kids would be paid to put in sidewalks and it's something they're doing in Carlton right now is she just said make sure when you have a committee like that you're giving them a reason to be there giving them a task. Um, so I'm trying to be thoughtful in who we invite. So it's not like you're just at the table to listen, but really like here's what
038you can contribute because that's what she said really keeps them coming back. And Piper, your name may or may not be on that list. I think we are thinking about hiring and I look at some of the other farms who um you know over time have people that can kind of come up through the ranks because you don't really just need a farm hand and yet they have to start there so that they understand all the things about it. Yeah. >> But then you want that person hopefully to be bilingual. Hopefully they would have some mechanical skills. So that's you know super valuable. And then um you know the math part of it, the measuring, all those things are so important. Um and it's hard to find someone who's willing to do the hard work
039of just working on the farm and then but also has the capability to move up to, you know, to be a leader, to be a manager and that kind of thing. So >> yeah, totally selfish. Just wondering. >> Yeah. But but I also I mean I say that but by the same token I know these kids who have come up through that and have great successful careers whether it's legislative or wherever they go from there. So you know it really is good for them as well. >> Yeah. Well and getting them to see that you might be doing the hard more physical labor but there really is a path to something higher up because I think that at when you're 18 you just don't make that connection all the time. >> Yeah. Mhm. >> Um
040I have been reaching out uh for hours with a lot of people in the community to try to bridge the gap. Um six, seven weeks ago there was quite a bit of rumble on Facebook and different social medias. And I have reached out and and I've sat with Mr. Coleman. I've sat with Reynold Gardener. I have sat with community members. I've sat with several of the bigger farmers, some of the shops, uh some of the auto parts stores. sat with a lot of people trying to find out what they need and where uh maybe where the disconnect is of to make sure they understand what we are doing that we do understand there's an expectation to continue an egg program and that we're trying to get the right fit not just put that shoe on
041and uh it's I feel that it's really working I I I feel that um in in in the communication um bridging those gaps I feel that the fire has really settled down a little bit obviously some time has passed and and I feel very confident that um we're going to find the right person or that person will find us. But being patient to make sure that we get the proper boot, not just something that fits. Uh because we we've we've got a lot uh to sustain. Um, so in the meantime, just trying to keep it as fulfilling for students and bridge those gaps and communicate with the students of why we're doing this and how come I talk to to the the FFA kids a lot and I tell them if they have any input
042or they're caught up out there if they would like to share their knowledge with some of the other students, by all means, there's the corner of my room. You guys can break out into your own breakout room. I know you know how to weld. Share more knowledge. Let's just keep this rolling. And they agree. So, I'm pretty proud of that right now. Um, it seems like things have really chilled out and it's taken a lot of hours. It's taken a lot of shaking hands and it's taken a lot of communication to get people to understand that we're not eliminating this. We're not stepping back and walking away or ignoring it. It's going to get strong. It's going to get big and it's going to take a whole community to do it. >> Charlie's got some
043good metaphors. And I will add that neither Mitch nor Robin nor Charlie are shy about coming into my office and and and pushing the envelope if there's something they need. And all three of them have advocated separately, I think, without the others knowing about things that are needed to ensure that that program gets off the ground and thrives. I having a teaching job posted can sometimes be like having a house on the market where people shy away if they see it up for nine months without any bites. So I know one of the things that Charlie talked a lot about was that we need to if we have to go slow to go fast to make sure that the teacher in the program matches the vision for the program and really understands the vision clearly
044that we need to do that work and part of the CTE advisory committee as I understand it correct me if I'm wrong anyone over there but is to sit down and really talk about what is the vision for the A program because we'd worked really hard to develop that part the beginning of this year to make sure we're staying true to that vision and Then having the advisory committee say so what do we need in a teacher if we're going to see that vision to fruition um instead of just saying does someone have lensure check are they willing to come to date and check okay here you know we go and and as everyone knows the work that Mitch did in that program was the work of what would be two three FTE so really
045getting strategic about how to um make sure that we're hiring someone that can do the job and the job has parameters that are doable so that we know how to expand that if need be. Um, so I think looking at the horiculture piece of it first before we look at expanding it to animals, Mitch just is going to be hanging on there until we cut him loose. >> Yeah. To fill. >> Yeah. >> And I guess the only other piece I forgot to mention is we've also been working with Amy Webster. So after the fall break, she's going to start putting together just some really small videos that kind of highlight each pathway so that we can push that out on social media cuz I think there's still so much that people don't understand, which
046I get. I've been in it for 3 years now and I learned something new pretty much every single day in the pathway world. Uh so just trying to get it out there to parents and community like what does it even mean when we're talking about these different pathways? Um, so I think that will be a fun little project as well. >> Showcase a little bit. >> Thank you folks. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Mitch, you're up. >> Make sure I can can hear me. Um, so I what I'm doing now is I'm doing the FFA component. We don't have the A teacher uh doing the FFA and and for all of you all of our programs, all of our pathways are supposed to have a leadership component with that and that can be FBLA,
047that can be Skills USA, that's FFA and and that's the portion that I'm I'm taking care of right now. Um, and making sure that the students who have already been doing things in FFA, uh, I'm we're not leaving them behind, that we we're taking care of officers. We've elected two officer teams, so they're having FFA meetings. Uh, we had an FFA meeting in October and had pumpkin carving and had, I don't know, had 50 or 60 kids show up to carve pumpkins and and different things. But I want to keep that that's my my job right now is to keep the FFA component still there and working on animals. And so currently we're in the the process of getting uh steers. Steers are a much longer um commitment. And so this year the price of
048beef is up and to get a steer to start with, a student has to come up with $2,000 to buy a steer and then they'll have $1,500 or so in in feed. Um, but the rewards at the end can be it's one of the ones that can pay a lot. We there are there are kids who go to buy $10,000 steers with the idea that they want to place first, you know, have the grand champion. That's not where we're at. we're here to make our kids to make money and it ends up usually we try to get our seniors to have the steers and those things and Kendra is probably going to do a steer and um in in this process this is her working her way up. She started with sheep and then did
049pigs and and now is wants to do a steer and and a challenge herself to do those kind of things. So um I've been work coming in and uh I to I went to nationals with kids. We had we actually had three teams that had qualified for nationals, which um it it's a lot. We make it look easy sometimes, too easy around here, and we've had teams that have qualified a lot. Um but it takes a lot of work to get them to that point. Um and and you have to have won a state contest before you you qualify to go to nationals. And so last year we had nursery landscape, we had food science, and we had uh marketing. And um when it came down to that that moment that Claire had decided not
050to come to teach, we had to give up marketing. Plus, we had girls going to college and and so we gave up on that. Yamhill Carlton was second to us at state. They went to nationals in marketing. Uh and they received a bronze. Um but they also qualified to go in a sales and you probably heard that they took first place in the nation. Um for us uh our kids uh worked really hard and uh we we took nursery landscape and we took food science. Um in both of those teams we had to replace somebody at the last you know within the last month of of going. And so we didn't quite get as high as we thought we would have, but our kids did really well. Um, on our nursery landscape team, I know
051that uh Opel Holland, uh, Eastston Moody and Sydney Lockwood all got silvers. Um, and in the team, so there's a team of there's individual events and that's the silver award and then there's a team event that's added to that. and our team event. We were a high we were a high silver or low gold on our team event. So, and then we had one student that that started late. In fact, I think she was only there for about 3 weeks and that was Arabella Dorenzo and still got a bronze medal and overall we got a silver. Um, but that group really I think if we would have kept the right group we probably would end up in the gold level. Um, so I was really happy with those guys. uh food science, we we traded
052somebody in and Kendra was on food science. Um originally qualified in nursery um but we had uh Kyra had qualified for the food science and in fact who Orion and so those two couldn't come. They they went to college and so we had to replace and so they they worked really hard in food science. uh there's a team event and you don't know what what what it is till you walk in the door and you have to create a product and they they give you all the stuff and you actually go gather the stuff up and you create it. Um, one year we we created um, Honey Bunches Votes when it and that was the year we won national uh, food science with uh, James Sharp and Melissa Sharp and uh, Shelley Bun and Amber
053Gaml all were on a team that took first place and uh, this year they they got together and they did their team event and it it's uh, there's a lot to food science. It's it is truly a science and there's a lot of stuff that overwhelms you. They have to take a test with 50 questions and you'd kind of be stunned at what's on a food science uh test bank. Um so they take a test uh they do tastings uh they do they have to identify smells all the things that a quality control person would have to do in in the industry. Um and so they they learned a ton of stuff. Uh, overall we uh I know that Kendra and Isabella Gonzalez were silvers and then uh Jackson and Quinn were bronze and overall
054we were a bronze team. So we we really felt good about that uh in in the in the essence of having to trade people in and out and stuff. Um, when we go to national convention, we we go to the convention. We do we go there uh there was 73,000 FFA members and guests at the national convention. So, it's it's pretty amazing. And if you you know, you kind of have an idea and you can ask Amy what it's you know, she kind of had an expectation and then it was like way more than that. It's it it overwhelms you with the blue and the gold and and and what's happening around you all the time. Um, we go early and we go for a number of reasons. We go early. We left on Saturday.
055We didn't compete till Wednesday. Um, but our kids are not used to the time over there. It's 3 hours. We're on Eastern time. So, we kind of go and we tour and we see educational stuff, but we're also getting kids ready, acclimated to the time change so that they can compete. Well, um, things that we did and and I wrote them in here. Um, one of our first things that we did was we went down to um, Bargetown, Kentucky, and we went to one of the top three Civil War museums in in the United States. And and it was it was pretty amazing. I again, it's one of those things that I I don't know, the kids got stuff out of it, but I don't know that they were ready to get everything that I
056had to offer them. And we're our kids are not really good are are not up to date in American history. And so a lot of that stuff was mindboggling to them or mind it really opened their minds to a lot of the stuff. And and there were I I know Ann and I walked through with a number of kids about five or six of them that were really into it and we really set the time frame and where it was and that that was just amazing. And then they've they brought in cabins and different things there. So it was it was really good. Um they had um part of that one in Bardstown um oh Lieutenant Colonel Moore. It was uh We Are Soldiers. There's a movie if you've ever seen it where he fights
057uh in the Vietnam War. And if you haven't seen it, it it isn't it isn't for kid, little kids, but it it ultimately is a movie that you should watch that talks about what it was really like to fight in the Vietnam War and they ended up on an island and uh he he was there and he was one of these guys that's bigger than life. Um the guy would just, you know, in the movie would just walk among gunshots and bullets and stuff and not a single bullet ever hit him. And they talk about George Washington being the same. George Washington sat at the top of the hill where the battles went and guns and bullets are flying around him all the time. They found over 300 bullet bullet, you know, entry wound things
058in his saddles and his stuff. And he never got hit a single time. And and that's destiny. That's the stuff that's there. And this this Lieutenant Colonel Moore was that same kind of kid, bigger than life. and he fil he was part of the filming of the movie and stuff. So if you haven't ever watched it, it's it's a pretty cool movie and it really sets the tone, but he was from Bardstown and so they're very proud of him and I and for me watching the movie and then going there uh was was pretty special. It was one of those things that I didn't know was there and when it was done it was it brought tears to my eyes and the people the amount of people that's fought for us through the Civil War
059and the people who fought to make the life that we have that's what we took kids for and it was it was pretty cool. Um we also take kids to Churchill Downs. Uh we went to Louisville Slugger. Uh we just the whole thing we went into Indiana caverns and you go way down into a cavern and there's a river in there and you get into a boat and float out and then turn the lights off and you're in pitch black and there were fossils from uh prehistoric buffaloos and beef and all sorts of things down in the bottom. So it it is a it was a cool trip. Um uh it's a long trip by the time you're done. when we leave on Saturday, get back on Sunday. But the amount of things that our
060kids learn and and to be experienced in the leadership component in the national convention, uh pretty amazing um in in the whole process. So that's that was national convention and it was uh we took 16 kids and six adults on the trip and so it's it's pretty good. Amy came on uh Tuesday afternoon and stayed till Thursday afternoon. And uh what' you think? >> I don't think I could conceptualize what 70,000 was in my head until I experienced I think I was like holding on to the back of Ann's shirt like I was a toddler at one point trying to make sure I didn't get lost. So it was I liked uh the enthusiasm of FFA as an organization and the students enthusiasm and pride. I definitely it definitely made me think how do we
061showcase this for people who don't get to go to nationals? How can we demystify what the experience is um so people do see all the work that goes on behind it and what the kids get to experience when they're there? It's awesome. >> Pretty cool. We appreciate that you came. Um currently, you know, that's the end of the year. That's the national convention is the end of everything and now we're already starting back into the next year. So we you start now and and start working towards qualifying to go. Um we just did last week we did a sales and food science district. Uh we took second in a sales, we took first in food science and so we're headed to uh state this weekend over in Lrand. Um they've decided now that it's going
062to switch every other year. It'll be in Corvalis one year and then it's over in Lrand. So we're in the traveling mode. So we're headed out Friday. Um and then we'll compete on Saturday and come back on Sunday. So we have two teams. Uh Kendra is on the a sales team uh and one of the the the teams uh you know and we we only had three days of practice to go to district and and then you know switch gears from food science and or yeah food science and nursery to be doing egg sales and so they they they're doing great and the up upside is is pretty high for that group. If everything happens, got to be good and lucky the same day, but a sales definitely has a a good chance of of
063doing well. So anyway, any questions? >> We are soldier. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Have the kids seen We Are Soldiers, by the way? >> Sounds like a good history uh activity. >> Oh, it's it's worth it. his wife is the one that um during world uh during Vietnam um as uh members of her husband's you know senate or whatever they call it would pass it used to be that you would get um >> what not >> taxi >> yeah they would just you know you would get a no it's not but >> telegram and she his wife said no if someone has passed I want the letter and I will go personally give it to the wife and they continue >> it it totally changed how they how they do that so that's
064very cool >> okay that brings us to the information part of the agenda the first reading of board policy administrative regulations KB V A R public records request. >> So this just a first reading. Um a lot of districts around the state are updating their public records request policy with the with the change in uh technology. We end up with a lot of public records requests a year as do a lot of other districts. Um, and a lot of times, I mean, if we look at John, but they're they're looking for information to market to our district or staff or um to to get information to at least um uh do their research on how to better market to educational entities and institutions. Um, additionally, we just have seen a lot of uh uptick in
065public records requests the last uh few years and as you know it costs a lot of time in uh staffing to be able to pull uh records and to collect um whatever documentation they need. So um what you see highlighted is what we recommend um the change become uh where labor efforts exceed 30 minutes, labor material and out-ofpocket charges will be charged to the requester costs as follows. Clerical time $40 an hour administrative time $90 an hour attorney time $300 per hour um printing 25 cents per page. Uh so that would just be on par with what other districts who are charging are charging for. um public record request. But again, this is the first meeting, so just if you have any questions, >> I don't even think it should be exceeds 30 minutes. I
066just say if you want it, you start getting in charge of the one minute that's >> Yeah. I mean, I do I guess I would only say that as long as it's under that 30 minutes, it allows anybody without means to make a request. Mhm. >> I I kind of like the 30 30 minutes, but I do think if it's past that charge. >> Well, I have another one. >> How how often do we get public? Uh >> for a while it was daily. >> It depends on what the activity level is. >> At least once a week I would say. >> Yeah. On just a regular basis. I mean nothing out of the ordinary. >> Yeah. And they usually come to me and I'm trying to like delegate them to the right human who
067can complete them. >> Um and there's, you know, rules as you can see in policy about the amount of time that I have to respond to someone. Okay, that brings us to the discussion part of the agenda. Schedule board events. The next regular board meeting is Tuesday, December 9th at 6 PM. That's all for that. So, that brings us business health and safe schools plan. >> You can just see in here, Otto has to update this yearly and it's part of our division 22 requirements. Um so it just shows I don't know what what our uh who to contact about things and then the um lead asbestous radon pest management um all the declarations of how we comply with the law in those areas. Oh, I believe it just needs to be approved. >> Yep.
068Looking for a motion to accept the health and safety schools plan. >> That we approve the health and safe schools plan as presented. >> We'll second. >> So, we've got a motion to accept the health and safe schools plan as presented by Director Albbright and seconded by Director Sweeney. There's no discussion. And all those in favor, raise your right hand. Two, three, four, five. Motion passes. 5-0. >> Then there's a competitive increase stipen alignment adjustment for 2526. >> Yes. So, you'll find this memorandum of understanding. Um, we had some clubs that were not listed at all in our um bargaining agreement. So, I don't believe uh that youth and government or speech and debate were in there. So, we worked to figure out um what uh they align to as far as um responsibility and
069time commitments. And then we also uh the wording on this should change. So where it says um competitive incentive and adviserss of culinary arts FBA, FFA and speech and debate will receive additional compensation equal to 1% of their current stipen it should say equal to 1% of the current licensed base pay. So the license salary base pay for instance this year is around like 400 1% of that would be like $450. So anyone who um qualifies for any postseason competition would get a onetime bonus of $450. Um, and that's just to incentivize our club adviserss u for making sure they're providing those opportunities for students and then incentivizing them to make sure to have their students um excel in those opportunities. Um, and then it just uh specifies how uh stipen payments can be um
070how payments can be distributed. So either monthly or um or at the uh end of the year or I believe at the semester depending on what the um adviser chooses. So this was something that we had probably more discussions you would you would imagine on from July to this past month and then um not debates just really discussions on how it's it's hard to uh quantify uh the effort of an adviser and rank it according to other adviserss but the union already did vote on this memorandum of understanding um all of us who wrote it missed where it said current stipen instead of base pay so we will change the wording So, so it should read >> of their >> the current licensed base pay. >> Yes. looking for a motion. Um, I would move
071that we approve the memo of understanding between Dayton School District 8 and the Dayton Education um association regarding benefits. >> I'll second. >> Okay. There's a motion by Director Albbright to approve the memo of understanding 2526 between Dayton School District 8 and the Dayton Education Association. A second by director Sweeney. There's no discussion. All those in favor, raise your right hand. >> Is Terry still there? >> Yep. >> All right. Motion passes. Change. >> Yeah, we can get to >> and last uh the construction excise tax. >> We have to vote to approve it. I'm looking for a motion to approve it. >> I u move that we um approve the construction excise tax um of the new rates. Is that what we're doing? Okay. >> As presented. >> A second. Second. There's a motion
072by director Sweeney to accept the recommended con construction excise tax and a second by director Albbright. There's no discussion. All those in favor raise your right hand. Motion passes 5-0. That brings us to pretty much the end of the meeting. And you have anything student reps? who speak with like their teachers to me right now. >> Anything you want. >> Um, so I talked to some students uh this past month. Um, some of them said they didn't like the um like passing times. They want longer passing times. I find it fine, but that's just what they said. So, but um also I talked to Mr. Nan or Mr. N talked to me and um the cabinets or like the countertops in um his classroom are like um eroded kind of. about it. It's the best
073way to describe like you can see the wood on some of the countertops and he just said if you could talk to him, see if we can get it fixed. I don't know. But the countertops in the science classroom. >> I'll just take notes back there. >> Yeah. >> Andrew, anything? >> No. Greg. >> Um, so just shout out to Mitch for FFA and really shout out to Ann for for supporting that. really excited to see where our CTE pathways are going. Um, still want to hear about the welding certification for our kid. Um, and uh, really excited to see that we're we're starting to promote that. >> Viper. Yeah, I was encouraged to see that, you know, the um they were making changes to take what they were doing to at least gear it
074to Agon and and um in the respect of of giving us this time so we don't kids don't lose interest in it. Hopefully, they're discussing it as something that is a part of this program and we just don't, you know, have the right person yet. So, hopefully we find the right person and I do think, you know, how do you fill into shoes? It's really not possible, but we could get someone who has um you know a vision that will um uh inspire kids, bring kids that would otherwise not pick any other, you know, um activity um that seems like that a always would draw those kids and it it drew kind of everybody, but I I love to see who it draws and what it does for them. So, I'm excited for that. Yeah,
075I think this a couple. >> Yeah, >> Craig and I and Amy and Chris and Piper came one day the OSA convention some doom and gloom about upcoming years maybe and the money we'll get. But it was all in all good, very informative. I had a good time. >> You may tell things. might have a little work cut out for us in the upcoming years, but we'll see. Hopefully things change. They actually had some representatives that went up on stage and I figured they'd get a lot of hard questions, but there was no chance to ask them questions. They left Mark. So, >> okay. So, I think that brings us to the end of the meeting. will be journal.