001There you go. >> Oh, thank you. >> Start. Okay. May I move to open session 6 o' >> Looks like first order of business is to nominate the chair and vice chair. >> I'll just say >> I will gladly >> I nominate those all in favor. Okay, positions continue. >> Uh, minutes. Anyone see any issues with the minutes of the last? >> Uh, no. I have a motion to approve the minutes as it >> second. Those in favor? >> I consent agenda. We'll review the additions that way everyone following along can follow along. Uh, let's see. We have um an addition under E. Um Janette Rodriguez. What I missed the notes. What position is that? >> And then um uh Richard Fielder, Monroe school or middle school athletic director, half position. Janelle Edmonds, middle school
002athletic director, half position. Uh Mason Croen, high school athletic director. Assistant >> assistant high school assistant athletic director. Thank you. >> Taking imposed position away. >> Uh and then we have a letter G which is approve some surplus items for the grade school. Uh bills. Anything in the bills jump out to anyone? >> No. >> Oh, I was going to ask about that one. >> So, that would be July. You had a July question. >> I think we pinpointed it down to the Chromebooks, but I told you. >> Yeah. July page three. Oh, >> yeah. Now it's the Chromebook. Okay, perfect. And financial reports. Do you want to guess there isn't much to share, but if you want to kind of recap, looks like we're >> nothing right now. And we're scrolling into the new
003fiscal year. Right on track. Probably just billing. uh like dates. There's a little dip on a few of these, but then the next month's up, so it it's got to be just billing date >> at the the hour or >> Yeah. >> I I want to go back and look. I was looking at um the Monroe grade school name electricity bill is almost always the same as the Monroe High School gym hand named together. Have you ever noticed that? And I don't know if it I it's for sure on both of these reports, but I want to go back historically and look. Is that always been like that? Another >> Yeah, I'll take a look. >> Yeah, >> I know. But just thought that was interesting. >> There's been a fair amount of changes at
004the grade school use. So you think that would fluctuate a bunch in the last few years? >> Like Yeah. Yeah. Historically, yes. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, approval of Monroe Teachers Associated Bargaining Agreement. So, um I think the main points um in this uh Chris and I and the and the teachers group um we agreed to change the cells to where there's 3% between each one. So, instead before it was all over the board. Um we I think we range from 1.8 or something to seven. So, so anyway, this first year is going to be a fair impact uh financially, but then from there going forward, I think we standardize 3% every year if you get a cola and or if you get a a step and >> also because it's more comparable to the districts
005in our area, too. So, we don't have that, you know, full this district is going to pay a little bit more obviously. We're going to be fairly competitive now with everybody. Main thing we found is we were pretty pretty decent on the initial if you're hired first, second, third year, but by the time you got to the top of the scale, we were kind of lacking. So anyway, >> Two years. Y >> did you have anything you want to add on them? Uh we have some letters of resignation. Uh Lindsay Strippling, second grade teacher, and Casey Warden, uh girls basketball assistant coach. Had to see anyone leave, but probably have reasons, I'm sure. Approval to hire Richard Fielder, K principal. Uh, Livia Ferrario, middle school science teacher, pending a science certificate. Uh, Pablo Torres, 9th
006through 12th Spanish teacher. Shelby Presley, grade five. Tanya Caserz, executive secretary. And then, uh, Janette Rodriguez, second grade level here. Guess we already went over these. Uh Richard Fielder, middle school athletic director, half position. Janette Edmmonds, middle school athletic director, half position. And Mason Croen, assistant high school athletic director. And surplus items. This looks like all um we got just main desktops. Just desktop. Yep. If anyone's looking for one, usually they have some pretty good life left in them and we're taking bids. So, >> oh, what are the You've got up here student meal prices. I don't have anything st from last year. I don't know what are I doubt they're going to be very much different. All of our kids eat for free, so this is just adult prices. uh and like extra milk.
007And if somebody wants a second lunch or a second entree, you do have to charge for that. >> I will motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll second. >> Those in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> The bargain agreement need a separate approval or >> I don't see any communications uh delegations and presentations 23 24 English language learner state report. >> I will see. Yeah. Um you did pick up the copy. Yes. Y so um every year they produce a report and we are required to present it to the board. I think I did this before. Um and it's obviously it's a couple of years old. It's their data from 2324. Um and we're meant to present it before September 1st. Although two days ago they said, "Oh, we've changed it. You can do it up
008till December 1st." But I'm ready to do it, so I'm just going to let you. I was like, "Oh, okay. It's not such a rush. It's only been out like a week. So, um, but it's old data. Um, however, I will give you some of our data. Well, make more sense. Um, you probably seen this. It's the um like the old report. >> Thank you. >> It's got some of our numbers on it over the years. Um, so the state report really is just showing what the state of English learner education is in Oregon and it also has a lot of rules and regs that we're meant to follow and so on and so forth. Um, so I'm just going to really briefly go over some main points of um, but I'm not going to
009open the report. I'll just tell you what's interesting in it and then you can take it home and read through it. >> Okay. Thank you. Um make some notes here. Uh so the the the terminology on the report they have like current EELs. Those are the students that are in my program and need to learn more English, better English, and they haven't passed the state test, the ELPA test. So those are the current EELs. And then former ELS are those who have passed the state test. Um they could be monitored. They have four years after they pass that I need to keep track that they're passing math and English and not failing. And then um forever ELEL's are actually all the kids that have ever been in EL at all. So there's lots of different
010numbers that the state compares to see how we're doing. Um uh our school right now the state has about uh 60% elementary eels. We have 24% in our school and 16% in high school. So um of our students are in the English learning program. Um there has been a an increasing trend in ELS over the state and we too have seen an increase. You can see by the numbers that last year we were up to 59. It's yeah in the in the program which was quite a lot. When I first came we had like 15 20 little things that um it's definitely grown. Uh right now my printer didn't work very well but right now we have uh seven newcomers that came last year. Those kids have no English and they were all in different
011grades. Kindergarten, first, second, third, you name it. one in high school, no English. So they have obviously a completely different program that they need to get started in every subject, science, math, you name it, they need help. So it was quite a the 23 24 year was really a difficult year for all of us. Um uh let's see, Spanish is our pro our predominant home language for all our kids actually um over the state. Obviously, the report will talk about all the different languages that they're dealing with, but we're lucky we just have Spanish, which works really well for us in translating materials and communicating with families. Um, then we have uh of the state has like 197 districts. Our district is part of a consortium because we have fewer than 80 students. we are
012able to put our funds together with this group in lay lane community with junction city and then we pull our funds and then we're able to provide resources and um materials and things to help our schools that sort of like programs um computer programs whatever it is that we need. Um so that's another part that they talk about. Um, aside, not necessarily. Um, oh, special ed. So, special ed kids tend to be overly represented in the EL community. We currently have seven out of our 58 kids that are in SPAD. Um, I don't know if it's like it's like a it's an okay number, but it changes every year. every year we'll get some kids will check out of it or not. But um let's see. And then some of the other um information that
013they uh that I think we did pretty good at is the academic outcomes. So they look at the percentage of English learners that pass the state testing um as a comparison as a percentage. And we had uh the state our numbers are sort of mixed but the state pay 8 was like 6.6%. Whereas we had a 12.1% pass rate in our um English language arts which was higher than the state average. So that's good. Um math the state was a 7.6% slash 2.3 because they did a K5 and 68. uh we were we had a less than 5%. So we're sort of in the middle there on our map. Um the other thing they talk about is the seal of biiteracy which is um something the state's pushing is for our our kids that speak
014two languages is to get certified in their second their first language so that then they get a certificate when they graduate that you're fluent in two languages. And we're working on that program is getting the kids to take the test and a lot of them uh will look, you know, reluctant to go and sit and take a Spanish test, but um so we'll work on that one. Attendance rate. The report talks about attendance and our attendance is actually really good compared to the state. We did have a few kids last year that because we're small numbers, it only takes one or two to actually really not come into school much that drops our percentage down. But um I think overall our parents are very good at wanting their kids to come to school. So we're
015pretty good on that that data. Um and our grad rate is excellent. All our kids have graduated. Our e kids, we haven't had any that haven't, which is above the state average, which is 70%. So we're really good on that for English learners. Um, then it talks about the CCE classes and stuff like that, which I think we're pretty good at at the high school is getting the kids to do that. Um, and then family outreach, making our kids feel they belong and the families belong. And again, Monro is really good at that. We have a lot of families that work in the school and um just in the community in general, we have like outreach activities that we do and connect with them and everything. So um yeah so that's the main part of
016little um I have other information about our program but um last year we had to do well this year we have to do it but I did it last year as a trial um program is to write our district e plan which is currently 76 page document listing everything that we do for our program and and um all the state regulations that we are following and accountable for. So that got written last year waiting for feedback from OB on that but that's a big that's a document that we're expected to follow in our English learner language um educational teaching work. Okay. Um what else did I have? That was that was mainly it. Um yeah that's our program right now. So thank you. You're welcome. Thank you very much. [Music] Uh construction update, building inspection
017committee report. The shop rope is done. Both buildings uh got new roof and new facade around the outside that looks nice. >> Uh the concrete project in the back is almost done. Just some clean up to get that finished up. Trying to think of other things that we've been working on. Those are the two big ones. The kitchen is coming along. Uh the we're going to put an epoxy floor down. Um which seemed to be the easiest slash uh most cost cost effective way to deal with it. Um one thing we learned as we started to dig around in there is that all the stainless steel countertops like the the dishwasher and all those pieces are not built into the wall, but they're not easily removable. Uh and so where we thought we were going
018to be able to just have a open clean floor, uh not going to happen. So we're gonna have to work underneath uh and maybe make some modifications to that to to get that part of it done. But uh supposed to be done here in a couple weeks. So knock on wood, get it finished. Otherwise, I think just a lot of cleaning. I don't think we did anything big at the great school that I can think of except some painting. I am going to sign the uh state seismic grant agreement this week. Uh it's $2.5 million to do this end of this building. Um the one thing that we're a little bit nervous about is that we don't have a big bucket of money sitting behind it, you know, in case it goes over. So, we're
019going to have to be really careful uh and make sure that budget wise we're staying on top. Uh I'll have more for you down the road on that one. Where are we at with the track? Did we make any sort of decisions about >> No, we had we had the the bon rep come out last year and we walked around it. Um he didn't think it was in terrible shape, right? >> Uh about $30,000 was the bill to clean it, fill it, um repaint it, all those kind of things. Not a perfect fix, but at least a fix that makes it >> maybe put something under it, right? To bring it up or >> No. No. >> No. That's a whole different That's a whole different set of problems that I don't think that anybody's
020financially ready to to take on any of that. >> Okay. >> At this point. So, we felt like at least getting the the surface usable uh would get us by for a little while. >> So, no hard plan on that yet, though. Talk Dragon Pride. Like I say, I see Dragon Pride has a banner going out here. That's all we know. Um the inspection committee, you guys haven't had time to do it. Okay. Uh move to uh administrative update. Um, >> you probably have some stuff in your new role, don't you? >> Sure. >> If not, >> summer summer learning's been happening this summer and that was kind of a fast and furious grant application process that happened in May and we haven't done that before. Um, and I think um, it's gone really well.
021Um we have about we I think we have 30 more kids signed up and attendance kind of fluctuates. So for uh five weeks basically in July we piggybacked on to the art in the park program. So, summer learning kids um would do art in the park, uh get breakfast and lunch, and then we would snag them from 12:30 to 2:30. And we had um Karen Humphre and Olivia um Ferrario and Taylor Reed um each taught a different subject and kids would rotate between and the bus would come get them. Um and then last week we started our round two of it because art in the park's over, so we're going 8:30 to 12:30. Um, and Jenna and Janette Rodriguez and Kayla Nighton are our three teachers and they're running more of like a mini school
022day. Um, and it's for kids going into um, first through fifth grade. So, they're kind of broken up by grade band in that way. And they have um, PE in their day that teachers are getting together and leading some math, some literacy. Um, we're taking three field trips. We're gonna go to the Scandinavian Festival on Thursday. Um, which will be fun. And we'll get to watch the opening ceremonies and check that out. Felt very accessible and free. Um, and then we're going to do the Eugene Science Center on Monday and then Avery Park Thursday and that's the program. And so we have some reporting we'll have to do some data tracking and stuff like that. But it's kind of one of those things where it's like I have no idea what this is going to
023look like. And I think it's gone pretty pretty well. It's nice to have um our kids plugged in and to be able to feed them. Tammy has done our food service this summer which has been fun. Um the kids are like really what are you doing back there and have like that in the park went really well. Kindergarten jump start started today. Um 14 kids came. So yeah, it feels like stuff's been happening all all summer long down there. It's good. Thank you. >> Oh yeah. Um, you know, typical start of the year stuff. Uh, first day of camp week starting today. So, a lot of I think there's a younger uh volleyball camp going on in the mornings and then the afternoon that the high school's going and then football kicks off tomorrow. Some
024some early season stuff. First day of fall practices start Monday. So, it's kind of a always it feels like it's a time where like school everything gets gets going. Um, yeah, registration day is coming up on the 20th just to kind of bring some things in and we see some old phases. Um, we did change our a little bit of our structure of the school day. So, not to throw too much out there, but we trying to offer in the last period of the day. It's always been kind of an advisory study hall, but this year we're in the kids kind of forecast and said they would be interested in some other things kind of like more club like activities. Um, so five of our teachers said they would teach something or five staff I
025guess and then about five other ones said they do like a five study call. So kids will get to kind of pick what they're interested in and they'll it'll change every quarter. Um we have a uh Mr. Moldax is doing a like an introductory um sheet metal class kind of with the project um sports media class where it's all things sports related go into broadcasting and some you know branding. Um what else do we have a gardening? We're going to have a garden urban farming thing. Um kind of a reading movie. We had a film studies class that kind of gained traction with some some kid. It's kind of like reading film kind of mixed in with social studies and one more in there somewhere. But oh, and then one teacher is doing a variation
026of things. Our science teacher or salmon bowl team won last year, the big salmon bowl. So, she's going to kind of turn that into a club thing and kind of some science related stuff. So, kind of a nice tweak I think that might keep kids engaged a little longer throughout the day and maybe, you know, hope to increase some attendance is the idea. Um and then yeah, new student orientation day is kind of a fun time. We always suggest they new students to us or any freshmen they come in, meet their teachers, do a rotation their classes, get their walkers, you know, so they don't go to their own class on the first day, whatnot. So just some basic back at it. >> Excellent. Thank you, Bill. Anything you want to add? So quiet. Uh
027let's see. Uh some old business approved the 2526 student handbooks. Um I know we reviewed those before this and made a few amendments. So >> motion to approve the 25.6 as amended. >> I'll second. >> Those in favor. >> Perfect. Uh, new business, OSBA legislative road show regional meeting October 23rd. Anyone's wanting to attend that, probably let know. And got a couple meetings before. Did you get any public comment requests? >> Yeah. >> Okay. I guess with that we adjourn. 627. Thank you everyone for coming. >> Yes, thank you very much. [Music]