001November 12th, 2025 Forest Grove School District Board of Directors meeting is called to order at 5:30 p.m. We will start with roll call of board members present. Resa Franco >> here. Craig Oh my gosh. Kate Grandoski >> here. >> Pete Truax >> here. >> Maya Andrade here. Christy Cocky is here. And Alma Lozano is absent tonight. Like us all to rise for the flag salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it standy and justice for all. >> All right, I'm looking for approval of tonight's agenda. So move I sign. All in favor say I. I. And we're gonna move to student representative report. >> Welcome Maya. Good afternoon everybody. Happy November. Um let's see the report for our school. Um joining for that and we're
002going to present a club. Still a little unprepared so hopefully it goes fine. Um starting November students in A's we have been working hard to give back to our community by hosting a food drive for those ducted by the food benefit cuts. Um this the first two are scheduled um on Monday and Friday of next week. Um and this week they've been working on getting donations. Uh we're actually still happily taking any donations from the community and our drop off boxes are located at the high school throughout the school. Uh additionally our action group has started preparing for a high drive as well to give back to the community. More details on that drive are coming soon. Uh lastly winter sports have up not volleyball girls who did really well as well as cross country
003team. give them to uh stay this season. So really good. And then of course all our other winter sports been amazing. Um I'll wrap up this part of my report by sending them a concert on Sunday from 12 to 5 and a little bit more information on that on their Instagram uh post. Uh so yeah, if you want to hear a beautiful magic performer in real life, stop by and check it out. They're doing amazing. Uh Christie had asked me to uh start I guess representing some clubs. Um, and it was one of my promises this year was to bring more recognition. And so I'd like to start off by presenting our girls high schools club, the the club. Our hardworking theater students stay once a week after school and more at showtimes. Um, started
004writing a bit of earlier. They work with each other to memorize lines, create sets, uh, perform for our schools and our families. And all of them are incredibly talented. Uh, and they'd love to get some more support from the general public. Actually they are currently performing at Ellen Stevens November 14th to 15 21st 22nd at 7 p.m. So for those that want to show us to support and see how great our theater club is, that would be great. So other than that, >> okay, thank you Maya. Uh questions for Maya those activities and the food box if people are bringing things to the high school so they just come to the front door. We'll have boxes there if they director. >> Yeah, I thank you madam chair. I would like to congratulate uh the students
005of Forest Grove High School and students at Cornelius Grade School. I might extend my thanks for their work this morning and this afternoon during the visitation that um Senator Salman and Representative Mlan took part in at Forest Grove High School and at Quinerius grade school. Uh students who were involved in that did an outstanding job and they need to be congratulated and if I had taken time to get their names I'd be writing a letters of thanks to them but I'm incorrupts and I'm actually going to start with director Truax tonight >> um I have one possibly Two things I want to comment on. I had the privilege of attending the 79th annual conference of the Oregon School Boards Association in Portland last Thursday through Saturday because of the Veterans Day celebration at Forest Grove
006High School Thursday morning. I missed the opening session, but the afternoon session was pretty much given over to discussion by various board members on concern over directions by the state department of education to implement the program budgeting and accounting manual. rationale in seeking the delay in the schedule was the process as lined out would create staffing issues and could lead to untenable cost increases for many districts across the state of Oregon. So there was considerable relief when OD announced a postponement and implemented the standards. PBM parenthetically uh our director of finance I mean include sent a wonderful letter off to uh the powers that be at LDE and it played a major role in persuading uh the delay in that implement implementation without more conversation. Also in play at the conference was the adoption of
007new and revised board policies. There was an urgent request that such adoption and notification not take place until after the winter break in December. Putting those policies into play at the same time other year-end requirements were expected to be accomplished would have been an unenviable task. The upcoming projected financial shortfall is also causing considerable angst throughout the state district will be dealing with the deficit especially at the state economic forecast becomes available. And last but most assuredly not least the actions of the federal government regarding immigrant arrest and detention also on the agenda. The behavior of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lovingly referred to as ICE, is disrupting school, and that's an editorial comment, I apologize, is disrupting schools through a variety of ways such as illegally entering schools and asking for protected information, patrolling neighborhoods
008around schools and arresting and detaining parents of schoolage children, which to say the least disrupts the educational process. And it was a good chance to meet other board members around the state, share ideas, complaints, possible solutions, and just general comments. So that was the Oregon School Board Association Convention, which is as old as I am. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> May May I make a comment? >> Of course. >> Thank you, Director Truax. I I'm really glad that to hear that our school board directors from around the state are having these conversations and share the concerns that we have talked about as district leaders. I also want to say in our district so far, ICE has not entered any of our campuses or our schools. They have not asked for any student information or
009staff information to date. Um, so our schools remain safe places for our schools to eat. I I understand that there is concern about that happening, but it has not happened at least. >> Anything else for Turrets? Um, I guess I was urged to also comment or repeat the comments that I made Monday night and the uh city council meeting also concerning this same subject. Uh, and I said, and I quote, I want to take this opportunity to thank Mayor Winsel and council for a chance to comment on the effort by residents to raise their concerns about the presence of ice in our community and its blatant disregard for we the people. These, by the way, are my comments, not necessarily reflect um the feeling of any other any of the other board members. I'm speaking
010for myself uh in that regard. I served on this council on Forest Grove city council 22 years and have worked with some of you on the dis others I've come to know and respect for your commitment to public service. I am now a neopight member of the board of directors forest pro school district school district is also facing this onslaught of autocracy. We are developing, as is every other district in the state of Oregon, policies and procedures to protect our students and by extension their families. Pragmatically, we do this to maintain an environment where learning can take place. We all know from Maslo's hierarchy that certain needs for a person must be met before other goals and needs can be addressed. Personal safety and protection rank at the top echelon of this hierarchy. If a
011student feels unsafe, if a student feels threatened, if a student is concerned about family members, then that student will not be as concerned with parsing sentences, conjugating French verbs, or solving quadratic equations. And that's where all of us come in. I mentioned to the city council that I would rather hope that rather than a work session, they would hold a public hearing on any proposal concerning the state of emergency. And that was the issue they were allowing public comment on or having public comment on Monday night. That decision will be the councils, but we all should have the pathway open for testimony on this proposal. I know it would be awkward. I know it could even get confrontational. That's what we do in a democracy. We cannot afford to use the same weapons as those
012who would rather limit discussion, those who would rather name call, those who would rather do an end run around the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I like to believe that I'm a student of government. I'm still learning at three score in 19 years to plagiarize A Lincoln. We've come a long way since 1776, but the words at the end of the Declaration of Independence are as vivid and strong tonight as they were then. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, our sacred honor. in 2025 at city council and school district and around this country we can do no less and I'll give copies of this to Miss Magnus for the record. >> Thank you, Mayor
013Truax. That brings back um some echoed mayor but always mayor and your care for the city and our schools is noted and appreciated. very glad to have those words on the dis and I will build on that before turning it over to Kate because I did also want to acknowledge the impact of the ongoing ice raids on our community. I was able to watch the city council meeting. Um I have not yet watched the work session but that would also be worth a watch. And I was thank thankful for the comments by director Trex. Also want to acknowledge Melissa Tim, a forest grove educator who spoke out, former forest grove educator that also spoke members of Indivisible which came to spo to speak publicly in support of our community. Um the one woman that resonated
014with me the most uh and I believe her name was Sandra. I didn't catch her last name was I think the last person to speak for public comment and she talked her her courage in speaking publicly despite her acknowledge fears were inspirational were I think just incredible incredible and um multiple people have mentioned that what we see happening is is wrong on a constitutional level I think for me personally beyond that and for many although I won't speak again for anyone It's wrong on a human level and I I'm I spend a lot of time thinking about where that's coming from and I think it's a reflection of how each of us are brought up and what we see right now happening despite what our constitution protections and those allow also just how we want
015to treat ourselves as humans. And so I I appreciated the show support by city council, our community that continues to speak out and speak up, including this board. And some of the questions uh are that we're getting as well as the counselor, what can we do? And also people wanting to know what they can do. And we'll continue to remind people that in these roles we are doing we are connected. We will be at meetings next week connected with community partners to streamline our communication. We encourage people to plug in where they can, whether it's donating to Autoante or Centro, the Oregon Food Bank, helping with the hygiene or food drive, or just simply speaking out and speaking to your neighbors about what you're seeing and what is okay and not okay in this in
016this community and in this country. And I'm really inspired by what we're seeing in the leadership in this in this city and in this community and in particular in the school district. We can all pivot there. Uh because speaking of leaders who actually do their leadership with people in mind and professionalism and information and expertise, I do want to second the thanks for director Cloot in her drafting of a letter that had impacts around the state. She and her financial team were able to put together something that included details that we were able to get directly to Senator Sman and Rep. Representative Mlan who were then in real time on the same day able to talk to people in the legislative fiscal office and advocate for the needs of districts around the state. That resulted
017in an immediate change in pause on a process that we believe really needs to be redefined and and looked at. And so I on top of doing the work that this entire team is doing in the midst of more cuts, in the midst of what we're dealing with nationally, our CMO is then basically and essentially advocating for all the kids in the state by providing something that could be used. So, I really just I know we are all appreciative and it's kind of on a level in the weeds that most people in the community would not see, but it is seen, it's appreciated, it's helping other people outside and it's inspirational. Um, and finally, again, we're talking about again leadership that's collaborative with the with kids in mind and uh thanks to assistant superintendent lolene
018today, Bethany Magnus, Dr. West. I want to acknowledge the Hillsboro team. Um Travis Ryman, Rokenova, I know Andre Neville, I Beth Graasier, the whole team that came together today to not get to spend time today talking about what we did, but we were able to be in schools today, seeing our educators um in the midst of all that's going on, doing excellent work in the classrooms with kids that were 100% engaged in learning their letters, their words, their collaborative efforts. being at the high school to see the CTE programs, the kids in the woods program, eating a lunch prepared by their culinary students, students who said that those are the reasons they are staying in school. Extremely powerful for our representatives to see in real time coupled with data that Dr. West and Travis Ryman
019were able to present um that really connected those programs to outcomes for kids. So really proud of the people we're around and we have in our district leading and in our community and um and it's just it's very it it continues to bring people home. So with that, Kate, I I know you had a couple things you'd like to say and then we'll go over the superintendent report. Um well, mine is a little bit different. Um you know, today was a wonderful day. I really appreciate Billsboro and uh our staff here at Westboro. Uh it was just really inspirational and I know everybody was really putting the time and everything was together and very very appreciated what we see. Um I just wanted to share that um even though we we have ice and then
020we've had snap and the challenges we had um historically out in Gail we've always had a Halloween party and the district has been very nice to let us continue that. Um on October 18th we had 80 um people that came to the gym and it's totally volunteered. Um the gym was decorated. um our we call her our mayor and our sheriff um Joyce Saber who's 90 and a half she'll be 91 in February she always runs the popcorn machine popcorn machine and uh she didn't want anyone to take over so it was really um wonderful to see it's mostly little children that come because um you know they're like three four five and going out at night is really challenging to have a week for And um so that was a really good event and
021u usually last year we didn't have as many children and this year we ended up having to leave and get more candy and it was always good. Um and the other thing is I continually um support Cornelius Elementary School. I would like to go to every school and I uh help in the library for way books and then I I read um to the prek kinder, kinder and also first grade. and there's been a reduction in staff. So having an extra body in the classroom has been very very helpful and they've been appreciative and and I get the joy of all the blood. So I really appreciate being able to learn. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I need to comment on directors statement about Joyce. When I was a fuzzy cheek graduate
022of Pacific University, here comes another history lesson. Um, in 1969, I got a job just before I got that incredible job off of United States government uh for foreign relations. Um, I worked at the News Times. Uh I was the interim editor of the news and it was my job to edit the material and came in on the various correspondents from Delhi from Gaston Laurelwood and from Gail's Creek Joyce Server was the lady that sent the material in was the Gail's great correspondent. And like I said, it was my job ahead on knowing uh I learned rather quickly uh that I edited and made changes to Miss Sabers's input. Um at the threat of my own life, um there were points where I would get a phone call saying uh you need to understand. and
023I grew to understand and uh let her material pass um unmarked by my red pencil but uh choice is is a contribution to that community that has uh enriched it over the years. story. You brought back memories and thank you. >> I think she's enriched the Forest Road too, you know, the historical um community and also blacking all these houses of Forest Road and the research that they're so I mean you're never too old for giving back for your human. >> It's true. All right. Thank you for that. We're gonna um we're gonna go over to Dr. West for superintendent report. I she said yeah check >> super thank you. Um I want to begin with gratitude. These last few weeks have been extraordinarily stressful for many people in our community. And we have remarkable
024staff that continue to show up for kids and for each other. And so I I want to start by thanking the staff of the Forestro School District who are going above and beyond every single day to support our community to support each other to do what's right for kids at this moment. We've already talked about the impact of ICE and it is real. People are afraid and we have young people in our community, students that have been directly impacted because they have lost one or both parents to apprehension by ICE agents. We have families that are fearful of leaving their home that are no longer going to work that are finding it difficult to find groceries. And again, we have a tremendous community. We have our staff as well as community members and community partners
025that are stepping up to help in whatever way they can. >> I want to share with the board that the school district is taking some measures to try to relieve some of the pressure that our families are feeling at least in terms of education. We have in some instances been able to identify where we can make alterations to bus routes so that students have more direct access to the bus so they don't have to walk five, six, seven blocks or or more to get to their bus stop. And we're hopeful that that will help some of the students who haven't been attending school. We have some staff that are standing outside the school in the morning or walking across the street to help students get across the street because some of our students are very
026close but still fearful of walking by themselves in the school. So, we have escorts that are taking place in several of our school rotations as well. We have staff that are collecting food and hygiene items and making deliveries to homes. I I'm really excited to hear about the food drive at the high school and the upcoming hygiene drive. I think that would be very helpful to our families, not just to those impacted by ICE, but as we said, SNAP benefits were cut off for a period of time and that that is really harmful to many in our community. So, thank you for that and we'll work with the high school on that as school district wherever we can. We also are working with a partner school district, the Hillsboro School District, which we mentioned today
027we spent some time with during the legislative visit. Hillsboro has had a longstanding online education program. We do not and it is cost prohibitive for us to suddenly create one or stand one up. Uh, so we are in conversations with the Hillsboro School District to buy some spots in their program so that for students for whom we simply cannot get to school in this moment, they can access their education through an online means. And our high school is doing something similar for high school students that may not be able to attend. The high school has um been using a learning management system called Canvas that we began using during the pandemic. They never stopped. So the high school actually has mechanisms in place already where they can start to offer some online learning to students.
028So they're going to do some of that work to um see if we can support students in that way. So we are taking the steps that we feel like we need to do in this moment to ensure that students remain connected to their schools. This is for the students that we know about. Unfortunately, because of the immigration enforcement, we have also simply lost a number of students. We don't know where they are. We suspect many of them have either left their communities um or they and their families have gone to ground. They're just not in communication with the school district right now. So, this is an incredibly stressful time. People care deeply about the children in our schools, both our community as well as their staff. There's a lot of people working to help. One
029of the number one questions that I have been fielding is what can we do to help and I think in this moment as has already been suggested there's a lot that can be done to help donations can be made to community partners like David Centro donations can be made directly to our family resource center which is located at elementary school and those donations can be monetary but they can also be in non-p perishable food items, clothing, they can be blankets, they can be hygiene items. Um, all of those donations will be packaged and distributed almost as soon as they come in. So, we'll accept those donations. And then I suggest to people as well to check in on their neighbors. The impact that we've been feeling in our community, well, ICE is certainly a significant
030impact. We also have had food services cut off to people who are not immigrants in our community and we had rising health care costs. Now there some people may not be able to afford health care. And so simply checking in on neighbors and seeing how they're doing and offering to take them to a doctor's appointment or cook a meal for them can go a long way in this moment. So, I want to share all that with the board and let you know that we are we're doing all what we can to help connect kids back through their schooling and we will continue to do that for as long as this moment. Any questions about that before I go on? Okay. Um, in addition to that, um, switching gears just a little bit, we had our
031legislative visit today and there will be things that I think will come from that for many weeks and months to come. But one of the things that I want to point out is that we are about to have some very difficult conversations in the state about how do we fund schools? How do we fund a lot of things in the state? There's a budgetary shortfall in the state right now, but especially how do we fund schools? And I'm bringing that up in the context of this other conversation as as resources contract and I think they probably will contract as we engage in conversations with our state elected officials around what schools need. I think we need to keep at the forefront right now that not only do we have meetings around the basic education that
032we provide to students, but the social needs are at least as important in this moment. And I think there's a place for that conversation. And our our elected officials, as I visited with one-on-one today, they're keenly aware of this. It's top of mind for them that our educators and our support staff in our schools in many cases are acting like first responders to the situations that are done before. So, I wanted to bring that up here, too. And then I have just one more thing to share. Uh, and this is very technical and not related to ICE or necessarily the legislative conversation that's ahead of us. Are you helping me or am I doing this? I'm doing it. Great. Thank you. Um, this is our enrollment report and it's a report that I brought into
033the board room every month last year. I'm going to spend a little bit of time on that report here because for some of us in this space it's new. For a couple of us, we've we've seen it a lot, but I want to orient you to what you're actually seeing on the screen here. Um, this enrollment report is broken down by grade groups and then it is compared to what we budgeted for those grade groups and then the variance is shown there. And the numbers that I want to point out to you, the red circle there right now, that's our current K enrollment as of November 3rd, so just a handful of days ago. Our average class size is 20 at the kindergarten level. Our weighted average class size in grades 9 through 12 is
03432. I want to pause for a minute and talk about weighted average class size. So you see there's two different numbers there for the high school. They have 24, but then we also have the number 32. The reason for that is that the high school teachers don't teach every single class period. So we use a formula to determine what the actual class size is based on the fact that class period is not included in the calculation. Then what we do is we compare that to what we budgeted. So, if we look at our budget here, oops, I'm going to go back. For kindergarten, we have 345 students budgeted. We actually have 332 enrolled as of November 3rd. The difference there is 13 students. And so, we are we would say that we have 13 student
035variance. We are below what we budgeted. We monitor this and we monitor it for these different grade bands because our funding is determined largely by investment. The state uh does a smoothing model over a two-year period where for a two-year period they look at um the number of students you have in each year and they fund you based on the greater of those two numbers so that it's not quite such a serious event if you experience a significant economic drop but it catches up with us eventually. Last year, if you remember, we ended this year of about 130 students below our budgeted enrollment projections. We were about 40 students below that, 38 students below now. Um, which is about where we were at the beginning of the last year, too. So, we we expect that
036our enrollment numbers may continue to decline, especially in the light of the immigration enforcement that we're currently experiencing committee. But we will continue to monitor those. The one thing I want to point out here is the high school number right circle. The high school is over our projections. Uh which is serious to us. We do account for the students that we think we will see in our schools from the private schools in our area. Um so this is above and beyond that projection that we would expect to get back every year. But the balance between what we are below in our elementary and levels uh sorry just our elementary levels and the where we are over in the high school still at a negative level. So you you project but if what I'm hearing is
037right you already project a number knowing that there will be some amount of students coming in after correct based on just what the trends have been over the last correct yeah what what is that I mean about how much higher is that >> I'm gonna actually ask her if this out she does this >> yeah um so the budget is where we believe enrollment is going to be February 1st of each year because that's typically our average over the course of the year. Looking at the high school, between now and February last year, they lost about 40 students. So, we do think that 81 is going to drop between now and February 1st. So, that will level out closer to an alignment with what we had budgeted by then. uh because the high school starts
038out really strong and then ends a lot lower um by the end of the year. So we're really trying to look at what that February enroll in is going to be compared to budget. And then as far as budgeting for the enforce community school and the private schools coming in uh to the high school, we typically budget the Neil Armstrong eighth graders and then add 50 students for that influx of our local private schools and communities. Then we have one more slide that we look at regularly and this is the breakdown by building. So you can see the current enrollment for each of our schools and the variance there compared to budget. Again, the high school is still one. Well, Neil Armstrong is once over essentially flat, but the high school is 88 students over
039what we budgeted. And then we look at our current student to staff ratios as well. And we do that because having a ratio number that is manageable in our classrooms is really important. Now what that ratio means is that we may have um some classrooms. So that kindergarten number for example that was an average class size of 20. That means that we probably have some kindergarten classrooms with 22 23 24 in it and we have some kindergarten classrooms with 16 17 18 students in it. So that's how we arrive at that average and that's how we use ratios as well. These are not class caps. These are the targets that we set for ourselves to try to ensure that our classrooms remain manageable for our teachers. What questions may I answer for you about this
040slide? >> Yeah, I'm trying to form it. Um it looks a little the variance at the elementary level pretty much goes across the spectrum. It's not constant. is there an educated guess as to why or do I need some further education as to why that I don't want to call it an imbalance? Um just those differences made me go from uh a decline of 52 at Joe Gale to one hill. We can make some educated guesses. Again, I think that immigration has something to do with at least a a few of these numbers. Joseph Gale seems to be significantly impacted by the immigration enforcement right now. We we also have Echo and Cornelius, our two elementary schools located in Cornelius that have been impacted, but not to the degree Joseph Gail is. When I talked
041about the number of students that were not coming to school, a sizable number of those are in the Joseph Gale boundary area, um those students we know about. So it's not part of the 52. I'm bringing that up because I I do know anecdotally that that community seems particularly impacted by what's going on in the ice. Beyond that, um we would need to do some investigating for why those variances are what they are. We can do we can do that. We can talk to some of our leaders and who are these students that we expected to have back this year. That's >> Thank you. >> So, what percentage of Hispanic students are at Joseph versus units? >> I can pull that up for you. I I'll bring that up in just a couple of minutes
042here. I'll need to pull up a report. So rather than stop this process, I can do that while you're moving on to the next agenda item and then we can come back to it if that's all right. >> Sure. Okay. Our next agenda item is Forest Grove Education Association. I don't believe there are comments from the video tonight. All right. So we'll move to unscheduled public appearance. The board appreciates community members sharing information during public comments. Public comments can be made in person or through Zoom by submitting the designated form on the web page. Public comments can be limited to three minutes as is protocol for the board meetings. Board members will not comment or respond to questions. Public criticism or complaints about school district personnel are not allowed. I do believe we have one
043public comment scheduled for tonight is online and it is Zoom and it is Shaun Lee and I think Shawn is online already if that's correct. did my thing. All right. >> State your name and your role and your reason for speaking to us tonight and then go ahead. >> Hey, teacher, a long time teacher at Ochre of Academy at the Tom McCall site in particular. Um, I have a little short message prepared here. And then, um, just as a side thing, I heard about the thing with Hillsboro online. And uh I just had a quick thought of like maybe this is a place where we could use our migrant worker coaches and maybe people from our DEI team to help coach parents how to access the free online schools that are out there like Oregon
044Connections and K12 Academy and stuff like that. And maybe that'd be a cool way to save some money. Um anyway, what I'm really here to speak about is something that's been should be have been spoken about for many years honestly. Um but I'm here to talk about something that is I believe simple. Well, not simple so much, but fair and long overdue, and that is differentiated pay for instructional assistants who work in our highest pay, highest needs programs, particularly Oak Academy. Uh, Oakrove serves the most challenging students in the entire public school system. And that's why other districts contract with us to educate their students because few others even have a program like this. That fact alone shows the extraordinary value that Oak brings to our district. We bring in revenue while serving students that
045many other districts cannot. Uh but that value comes at a cost. One that is carried by our staff every single day. We work with students who are often in crisis, who may strike, bite, or throw objects, who can be physically larger and stronger than we are. I've seen staff suffer concussions, broken bones, deep bites, ripped hair, damaged property, including personal vehicles. Uh and every single one of us comes back uh to work the next day smiling, patient, ready to work again with those same students. And that level of commitment isn't normal. It's exceptional. And yet our compensation, the the staff members compensation doesn't really reflect that reality. The job of an Oakrove skills trainer is not the same as a general classroom IIIA or recess duty assignment or really any other kinds of IAS across
046the district. The training, the risk, and the emotional and physical tool are on another level entirely. Differentiated pay isn't about special treatment. It's about fairness and sustainability. That's the important part for me. Oak Grove only works because we have long-term dedicated staff who are willing to do extra extraordinarily difficult work out of love for the students and belief in the program. But even the most dedicated people cannot absorb this level of strain forever without real recognition and support. Oakrove is also highly successful because we have probably the best IIA retention in the entire district and I would honestly put it up against any program in the state. I believe there also needs to be an extension on payroll or another mechanism to authentically and financially reward staff who've been chosen to stay here for so
047many years. My best staff members who have been with me for over a decade at Oakrove net about $1,800 a month. I don't know how they live on that or survive in this community on that. Um, and it makes me feel like this job is going to only be for people who have well- paid spouses or people who are willing to, which is what I currently have, people who are willing to trade their best years for barely being able to afford a studio in this city. Um, or do we want Oakrove just to be staffed by very young people or people who are in life transitions that society just expects to take a low salary? Uh, if we don't act now, I believe that we risk losing the very staff that keep Oakrove and the
048contracts that help fund it alive. Um, paying our people fairly is far less costly than rebuilding the program and definitely cheaper than outsourcing Forest Grove students to other people's programs. I see I'm running out of time and I've made my point. So, thank you so much for hearing me. >> Thank you, Sean. All right, we are going to move to the consent agenda. The consent agenda is made up of routine non-controversial items to be voted on under one motion. Are there any items within the consent agenda a board member or the superintendent wishes to discuss separately? >> Seeing none, I'll look for a motion. >> So move, madam chair. >> I second. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Um any discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> I. Opposed.
049>> All right. Motion passes and we're on to first read policy updates to superintendent Dr. Phillips. >> Great. Is first read. >> It is a first read. I haven't double checked that. Okay. So, you have in your packet um several policies for a first read. The practice of our school districts is that we have a small policy committee that reviews our policy revisions ahead of the first read. So they're able to get eyes on, ask questions, make recommendations. Once we go through that process, and we bring them to the full board for a first read, um, this is your opportunity to go home, I think, do it right now, read through all of those policies. Uh, and if you have any questions about the policy revisions that are proposed, please forward those to me or
050to Bethany Magnus and we'll be sure to respond to that before we bring these back for a second time. >> Questions? >> All right. Thank you. May I answer the question about the demographics of Joseph Gail, this is as of the state report. Uh for the last officials day report, we have a Latino population of 22% at Joseph Gale Elementary School. 36% are ever English learners. Does that answer question? Yeah, I was I was thinking that the number might be familiar with Joseph, but but it's not. No, it's not. Yeah. And I mean Cornelius is higher than it's pretty high. So >> Cornelius and Echos both are about 90%. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So it'd be interesting to tease out why that number. It's something we need to dig into and see if we can
051figure out why. We may not be able to answer all questions. Sometimes when students leave, we don't know the reasons why they leave. But some of these questions we'll be able to answer. Thank you. All right. There being no further business, this meeting is adjourned