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Monroe School District 1J Monroe, Oregon School Board Meeting June 16, 2025

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YouTube / Monroe School District
Date
2025-06-17
Location
Benton County, OR
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Transcript
Extent
2,073 words · about 12 min
Collected
2026-06-08

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001[Music] Thank you. Okay. um move to our regular board meeting. Um the first part of this is the public hearing for 2526 budget. Um if anyone in the crowd has any questions or comments, um they may speak now or if something comes up later, just get our attention, feel free to to ask your questions out there currently. Okay. With that, we'll continue on our normal board meeting. Uh minutes. Anyone see any interest with the minutes? Uh I will motion to approve the minutes as presented for both May 12th and May 13th. I'll second. Okay. Those in favor? I uh consent agenda. Christine, any addition? Yes, we have a few changes. Um, under consent agenda item E, if we can remove that. Okay. And then add item J, approval to hire for 25 26, Susan Clark.

0025 FTE, special ed, grades 9 through 12. Then add item K, accept letter of resignation from Tim Hammet, first grade teacher. And please add item L, review election results from the May 25th, 2025 election. Excellent. Uh, review of bills and financial reports. I like the graphs comments on this hour. Good times. It's amazing how it's just jumping up and then the the actual the gray boxes. Well, the regular bills. I didn't see anything jumped out at me. Okay. You I didn't uh That's all the normal lots of buying for cleaning and stuff. It looks like time project. Yep. You notice we had to repair a couple HVAC units at the um head start. One of them. Yeah. What do you think? Um, and I guess we could do this in the construction section, but landscapers,

003they've been doing okay with the fields and all that stuff. Yep. And they're very responsive. When I've asked them to do something, they've been really I know we got a little behind down here by the tennis court, but then they came in. They didn't have the right key. Oh no. Okay. Excellent. Yeah, I noticed they were spraying today. So, I like how they wait to do some of those things. Um, approve forest camp advisor 2425. Um, Lance Casey was our science teacher. Did that just get missed earlier in the I didn't have the um grant information and he hadn't completed this oh yeah portion. Okay, just catching up on that. Um let's see. Approval to reissue coaching and extracurricular contracts. Any Big shuffles on this list. Phil [Music] real quick. Chad Smith is doing football

004now. Pretty excited, wasn't he? Or are you? Oh, yeah. That's got to be hard. Okay. [Music] Uh, approve resolutions um 4.5001 transfer revenue between funds to district special projects. Would you like to enlighten us a little bit, Hillilary? They're just the normal transcript that we do every year to bring those funds fell in. I mean, this is an estimate and I think it's really close, but I think obviously process final. So, okay. Same thing on the 24 25 002. Um, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. 001 is the the district submit for this. So, those are our accounts that were textbook. 02 is the one that we're asking off. Okay. 03 including further appropriations for the budget and then 04 is um category. Great. I don't think we have those, but they're at the back. But there

005was there at the bottom of the Oh, there. Perfect. Okay. Approval of summer workers 2025. We got Pipe Luber, Austin Hernandez, Josh Dennis, and Wyatt Wlette. Have they done that job before? Sure. Excellent. And then student garden interns. What do we got going there? I see we got a new fence. Is anybody that put a fence up? It looks nice. We as a district put it up, but keep deer and stuff out of the garden and maybe expand it a little bit later. They fixed up that little like shed. There's like a door and windows now and looks really good. Excellent. I like it. Um and then summer food program cookless. Nice. That'll make her happy, I'm sure. Um, approval of GAD F94 position description. K8 special program coordinator. Quite a few um functions in

006here. So, we don't have any questions on the job description. Um, approved transfers 2526. Chad Smith, high school success coach. Um, Kim Guile, K8, special programs coordinator. And then Janette Rodriguez, literacy coach. Obviously, it's a transfer. They're all people we have in the district. Approval to hire Susan Clark, special ed 912. She's been helping out already, right? And let's see, accept the letter of resignation. Uh Tim Hammet is the first grade teacher. Sounds like he had to pick hard and long front his letter. So, hate to see anyone go, but hopefully he finds something that makes him happy. And then, um, see, review the election results. Looks like all four of you get to stay. We have to sign this. No, just Oh, you just you accepted us. Okay, with that that is our consent

007agenda to approve your consent agenda. Second. Oh, that Nicole, those in favor. [Music] Um, no communications, uh, delegations and presentations, uh, construction update and building inspection committee report. I think we have lots of little construction pieces in motion. Huh. Yeah, nothing nothing huge, but uh, talking with the contractor about fixing the kitchen floor, so that that hasn't gone very far yet. We're trying to decide what to do uh with that because the the the stove can be removed, the middle island can be removed, but the pieces the stainless steel countertops that are on the edges all the way around and the the sink dishwasher setup, those are all pieces that would have to be cut out. Um and so the the legs do come up. There is some mechanism to lift them up off the

008floor covers. They also come off. So theoretically, you could take the leg with legs and feet off and still get underneath it. But it does start to limit what you can do. Like I said, that there's no way that they were going to get a sheet of vinyl in there, you know, one solid sheet. So we're looking at other options. He was going to try to find two or three options that we could is concrete the option with the concrete is one of the things we talked about and we also talked about doing some sort of epoxy finish on top of concrete. Um what we learned last year with the concrete that we did at the grade school was it's it's relatively spendy. Um and it's a similar sort of problem in that all those

009legs still have to come off because you can't get underneath everything. So it's it's a little bit tricky. We'll we'll keep you posted on that. We have until we work on that. Uh they started on the shop roof last week and on it today. Hoping to get that done before June. Both the gutters. We're going to do both ropes, the low rope and the high rope, which are the same age. We went with the TL roofing. Um same same warranty, better price. Um, and then they're going to replace the the hair head, the facade around the top. Good. Um, and we're going to put a similar some sort of similar product to what we did on the gym that broken basically. Yep. To clean that up. And then that will also address the the gutters.

010Okay. Those all be working 100%. They're done. That's the plan. Uh, and then some high school success grant money to uh expand the concrete behind the shop. So, we're going to pull it out 30 ft and then run the whole length of that, get all the old stuff out of there. We have three nice rollup doors that we don't really utilize because there's nowhere to go. And so, the thinking is that it's kind of phase one of that project. We want a nice big concrete area where we can roll the doors and work can be done outside when step two can get to it is to put some sort of high high growth kind of outdoor workspace won't be enclosed be kind of open to the elements but we felt like that was actually okay

011we're going to try and do that down the road. So right now just conf they started that brand. Something I noticed at the eighth grade promotion they kind of say what they want to do in high school and there a whole bunch of it was welding. So that was real interesting. Um hopefully that made it to J. several classrooms and there's some paint project grade school. So do some of that stuff. have not uh cracked open the seismic grant yet. So later on and then we have we did have another HA go out here. We decided to just repair it. Yeah. The alternative was a crane. It was Yeah. Yeah, pretty wild. You guys haven't had a chance to do it. As this progresses, then that makes takes some things off the list, I assume.

012Okay. Um 2425 final enrollment. And finally final level was down 22 from a year ago down 14. Does this include anyone enrolled in our online program? They're still counted on this. If they're enrolled in our program, right? Administrative update. You want to take this off? Sure. Where do we go? Um, we had a really busy and fun and good end to the school year. Um May we finish up state testing which is an undertaking to um you have to get teachers trained. You have to schedule it all out. Make sure it's um you know not too large a chunks that you're following all the right procedures. Michelle Paulstead's like our school test coordinator in the library. She did a great job. Finished as on track as we have. It's always kind of tricky getting outs

013and kids pulled in and stuff, but we finished on time, which is great. So, that felt really good to get done. Um, Jenna and team title will coordinate all of our um benchmark testing um which is like our in-house three time a year reading and math assessment. So, it shows the growth we made during the year and then kind of informs how we'll start next year. Uh so, thanks Jenna and team. It's a lot of a lot of little one minute one-on-one tests and full group tests and then a lot of data and input on their end. So, and we rely on that data for a lot of instructional decision making. So, it's really helpful for them to do that. Um, we um had some KPI grant money um an early early learning hub with

014early literacy um money to spend and so we um did a kinder story night which was great. So post roundup when we got them all there we invited them um to two more things um they did kindergartener for a day which we had a pretty good little turnout for I think like 10 came then so they got to come to kindergarten for an hour and parents got um and the kindergarten ready just talked from the two of us um and it was great they like it bumped right up to recess and that it's always you always kind of wonder how kindergarters are going to respond but they all just like went out to the playground and um lots of times we have like teary kindergarteners that are scared to come but we had two that

015were really upset to have to leave and then they came back on um June 4th we did a story night so we fed people pizza and Miss Hayes read the story we sent home with backpacks full of like Bob books and Zuponic stuff and all kinds of things they can do over the summer um and it was all less than an hour like a great little quick school event. Um, so that was really fun. Lots of field trips happened. Everybody got to go on those. Um, we did a student versus staff kickball game. The staff lost pretty pretty bad, but it was a fun time. Um, I feel like we had a couple good plays though. My shoulders are still sore. Um, graduations went great. Kindergarten um did a great job out in the courtyard.

016Fifth grade did their thing. And then the grade graduation was really um well done too. It's it's just really nice to see all those things happen. It's like it's just a really sweet spot in the school year. Um and then all of a sudden it's like summer mode. Like there's boxes in the hallway and things are kind of wrapping up. Um we're doing something um new this summer. Um the state kind of in a like fast and furious way pushed out this summer learning um grant and so we're on board with that. So, um, the grade school's opening that up to incoming first through fifth graders. Um, we have two rounds of it going. Kids will come both rounds, but we're tagging on to Art in the Park. We didn't want to interrupt that. So,

017we'll provide transportation to Art in the Park. They'll do Art in the Park and then hang out for two hours to do some literacy math stuff. And then we're going to extend um into three weeks in August where they will go 8:30 to 12:30. will provide meals and transportation. We're working on getting some field trips set up and um teachers um there's like three or four teachers so far that are um going to help run those groups. I think we've got 15 kids signed up so far. So, there's still more room, but also okay if it's a small group just as we start. So, um it's nice to be able to offer that. Definitely kind of building it as we go, but I feel like summer's the right time to do that. So, yeah. Excellent.

018Thank you. Anything from both? You know, the graduations were good though. They all went well. Wellended. Was a great school. It was good. I think probably just as almost as much attendance between the two. It's amazing. Okay. Uh, old business. Nothing. No old business. New business. Call for final input on the approval of the budget or approved budget. Um, did anyone have anything any questions they'd like to ask or add? Like to um thank Hillary for all her work on this. It's uh quite a bit of stuff going on in there. All numbers Uh, approve resolution 2425 adopting the budget and making appropriations and then I guess these are kind of well probably independent of each other. We need a vote on that. should approve the P425003 adopting budget. Right. Those in favor. Okay. And

019then resolution 2425004 imposing and categorizing tax the least popular. A motion to approve resolution 245004. Those in favor [Music] review and approve 2526 district organization and annual procedural business bank accounts. Um got one here. It's just Is this new um attorney in a part of the same group because Lane Shudderly retired like the same practice or the one? Okay. Yeah, that would be your general. [Music] How often does the tuition rate change in like cost still up but it seems like it's in the same number for I don't think that's fairly accurate anymore and that doesn't track what the state gives her or we don't give anybody right I was just curious like if you were to look at that there's in a way that's could they're with an online program though potentially if someone

020wanted to come or they would just transfer to district motion motion to approve the 20 256 district organization annual procedural business. Those in favor I All right. Last thing I see here is newborn term July 1. Paul, you need me to read this out loud, Christine. I just can sign it. You can just sign it. Okay. You could all read it together and then I see we didn't have any public comments or anything. Right. Okay. Guess with that we adjourn. Section 29. more. Thank you.

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