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Monroe School District 1J Monroe, Oregon Board Meeting March 10, 2025

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YouTube / Monroe School District
Date
2025-03-11
Location
Benton County, OR
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Transcript
Extent
4,570 words · about 26 min
Collected
2026-06-08

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001caller meeting order 6 o' minutes anyone see anything on minutes no I can motion to approve the minutes I'll second that those in favor I any additions to the consent uh bills anything in the bills that jumped out I like these spreadsheets of the power well one thing I was noticing about the power is um while all of them all the years have gone up it seems like the grade school jumps are a lot heavier than the high school I don't do we have any feeling as I mean I know the price has gone up but if you just compare year-over-year in school is increasing at a lot higher rate than high school and I would feel that the grade school should be more more efficient um about like weekend Mage and gr School use

002more in the weekends in high school I would basketball and volleyball is there more square footage there than compared to high school yeah the square footage hasn't changed from 2022 no I know but that [Music] was 2500 increase from yes but I think is weird it was actually not as much from 2023 to 2022 to 2023 and then 23 24 that jump wasn't very much even though we had a huge freeze last last January right but then there was like ,000 between last January and this January which I think is interesting we have that crease but I guess if the power is out you're not Ur that could also be part we've all seen our power go up going to raise them again I think they're talking N9 to 12% again are there the electric

003meters down there or you know the digital ones or are they still coming out and checking the I believe they're on electronic thing I was thinking maybe it had to do with those the um teat pumps that are struggling I don't know if that would add to it but that's the only thing that I was thinking about that did have the ventilation system that was a system that wasn't there in right there you go that that do it there you go and that's a big they're big fans probably I do like seeing the conversion and seeing that yeah if we could keep seeing these that would be great it' be nice just to find a trend yeah and it's going to take a couple years anything else in the bu you guys wanted to come

004think I tag [Music] um next order of business approval of notifications and contract 25 26 licensed administrative staff um I think I think as a board we're having questions about some of this stuff um like a little more elaboration so I don't know if anyone discuss it a little bit or I know there we can't speak of anyone individual so maybe we need to do special meeting or whatever you guys want to do I'd like to uh make a motion to remove item C from the consent agenda and schedule a special board meeting to review the contents of the 2025 26 licens and administrative staff I believe the meeting could be scheduled for Wednesday you have not time as well second okay those in favor calendar uh I like November looked a little more manageable

005yeah we tried to get so that it's no longer no school November [Music] how many extra days do we have built in like for the you know when there's snow and that three right noad days and one for the corre um you develop these with the principles and stuff you guys are all I guess with [Music] that modif second those in favor I uh next thing Communications smile club [Music] newsletter I guess I didn't realize all the things that they do yeah nice we have a small Club representer all here tonight looks like they're very busy delegations or presentations uh meet the teacher any teachers here to [Music] speak yeah I mean I'm just I do title so I bu um I take small groups from K5 and we do be intervention for um the

006kids who really need just the extra time to practice reading um yeah these next few weeks are kind of weird because the week before spring bre we have so much going on it's hard to do groups but um we do um mid-February until basically spring break I incorporate the Ida Rod which is a Alaskan sled dog brace um that's currently happening right now so we track mushers they actually um all the kids who are we holl reading Academy they all signed a piece of paper and I sent it up there in January so one of the paper actually on the sled um they'll get mail back first when the race is over and they all get a copy of it at the end so they have a lot of fun I think you watch the

007race we read all about it and kind of what we're we're doing in our land excellent how many Kos do you probably touch and about 60 about 10 from each grade level give or take yeah and that spread throughout the week every day every day every day and then we on Fridays we progress monitor so it's just like a quick check in of how we're doing all Fridays and then three times a year we do the whole school but thank you for coming L Lov the I get I still have some old kids i' like like who are youing thank you next will be Nancy Griffith with the lbl ESD so just wanted to come and check in Jason I'm sorry you couldn't make it tonight so uh so thank you again for always inviting

008us to these we really appreciate being able to come and me of our districts and how the boards run and and so that's great the paper that you're getting you get this every single year it's just uh services that we have provided for you um your uh all of these are correct except for um I believe Payton is back as your family support is I now and for a while so but the rest of that would be correct and Roger irvan is your board director for only a short period of time left and we haven't had anybody from the Monroe Area actually um applied to be a candidate for lbl board member so I did bring some of these handouts as well so if you know of anybody who's interested or think would be good

009at it or something like that we would really appreciate the communication with them and again all of the information is on this form I'll just make sure before before we leave um did anybody have any questions about any of the work so we just went over the yeah Services provided so yeah and we just we tried to rearrange it so it made a little bit more sense for people so now it's divided into tier one and tier two so that for districts who just want to see what the services are that they for sure get for them to find stuff yep very good well don't hesitate to reach out thank you very much next we have the dragon Pride group hi everybody um I know we were here in January sorry we couldn't come in

010February um we had a lot of illness on our board and so in January we introduced our newer is um Dragon Pride booster club board and talked a little bit about um some of our Visions like why why we're doing what we're doing and what we hope to do in the future um and so we talked a little bit about um just the things that we've done and so some of the things that we've um worked on this year and just really how our we want to continue our goal of supporting our coaches and our teams with equipment and experience requests um we want to continue enhancing school spirit and athletic participation um um strengthening our community and School athletic Partnerships and then really we want to be able to partner to support major initiatives

011with guidance from the school district like track repair and renovation and so I spoke to the grant that we wrote um when um when uh bo and I met with Miranda the track coach and just talked about a writing who were not funded the grant the Oregon track um Grassroots track Grant and so we just wanted to come and we want to continue supporting our dragons um we wanted to I know there's kind of a big hurdle and so that is the Trap um the Geotech survey all the things that it's going to take um to do that and we want to continue supporting I guess we would just like to know exactly how in what capacity the district envisions our role is in that whether it's um you know tapping into our community support

012at our auction we did raise $1,500 with our paddles up we did a kind of a board display and really tried to communicate with the community what the needs um what the need is and how it is a great need um and how many community members and kids in our school district utilize the trft and so um I think now we kind of talked as a group like we we see like what can we do in the next year to maybe is there something that Dragon Pride can be doing in the next year to fix the track I know that the Geotech survey and track redesign is a Massa like over a million $1.5 million was the estimate project is there something that we could be doing to partner with the school so that we

013can look at maybe resurfacing or repairing um and so that's why we're coming to you tonight because we would really like this partnership to be something that we are deciding what next steps are because Dragon side is kind of we're just not exactly sure where to take it yes with what we have right now other than we can continue writing grants we can continue doing this but um you know we're just wondering is there a way to get more bids for possible repair of the track and then we would have another number or is it just the Geotech survey which is several thousand doll that needs to happen so yeah um anyway then we're open to questions you know like I said I gave you pretty much I think yes in a nutshell um what

014we talked about in our last dragon PS U meeting and just looking for ways we can continue this to be moving forward um yeah excellent um I think bill has a little bit of information in this construction update coming up on on some info we got back back from a track company so so we'll have some info for you it may not do a bunch of back and forth though but you'll hear some more Stu and then we can kind of go from there does anyone have any dragon Pride questions thank you for feeding us last really good thank you what are you guys' plans like for future for auctions and stuff plan on doing the same thing at high school are we going to do something different well we did start um think at

015long Timber on the of the month to starting at six that was really I mean it was we kind of it came together really fast last month but it was really well attended and very successful trying to tap into the community so we are going to move the auction to the spring which I think many of us really happy about um because in the fall it's it's just proven challenging with so many things homecoming you know all the things people schedule Educators um that kind of thing is being really challenging so we want to continue the auction um we would like to if the Bingo continues that's just a great Community event that that people can go to or not um and was pretty successful so we just kind of planned that so we have

016some funds between you know continue fundraising so we're not completely liquidated by the time the next auction comes so we didn't try to streamline our uniform like so the coaches know in three years they're on a rotation so they'll know how much their uniforms um when they can expect those um because we have an amazing community so that's what we want to tap into there's been a lot of support of most everything that we've done I mean I've only been here five years so I don't know what it was like prior to that but I do feel like we have a lot of you know asking for things and the baseball field last weekend we put out some things for we needed some some sand and some LOM and some fertilizer and um people you

017know they just come together to make that happen so it's pretty Co I think our plan is to continue doing it definitely trying to make sure that we're doing our supporting equitably for programs you know that need the support obviously some are more expensive than others and that's just a given um and so that's sort of our goal be nice to see some more creative typ stuff maybe getting the auction out of the out of the high school on go an offsite location maybe to offer some other benefits yeah we were talking about that other hurdles to come with that we we through it a little bit um we wanted to have it be a community event and so that's been the like you charge admission and you have expensive tickets you're leaving out a

018part of our community that likes to come but but it's not something that we you know like I said the Bingo is something where we can come if you want to buy a bingo ticket at long Timber and they've been generous to um support us in that and um offer some of the proceeds from the restaurant which is great but yeah absolutely I'll the to ideas for sure thank you excellent thank you uh construction update building inspection committee report um I don't have a vot I was I was curious how we're doing on any of like if Peter's gotten some stuff on the list Mark you know or where we're at there's definitely been things marked off yeah smaller things we can get to anything pop up yeah anything new to add so we do

019have I move to the top of list is repairing floor High School kitchen yeah that's going to have to happen this summer since I remember the contractor last week we get some more information from them look at the different options that are out there because lot other things you can do besides just putting lolan back down but so that's like I said at the top of the list um we've been talking to various people about possibly trying to expand our CTE area shop area to the back um and so we've got some grant funding that that might be able to help us out with that trying to figure out how do we create more usable space even if it's outside under a cover not necessarily in the building right for that application so we're working

020on that uh not sure how how far we're going to get on that how quickly um met with Miranda the other day Junior dragons are going to build some dugouts on the baseball field at the grade school so we went down and walked around and uh yeah good good uh a good set up good plan for bring up some small dugouts and a little bit of fencing make it more of a field field that's not on our list but some Happ also talked to another contractor about the library and Shop sighting issue that we talked about so the sod that's on this building and the shop building which must been built at the same time pry Iden and so we're looking at different ideas for that again it kind of moved down on the list

021for kitchen going to the top so that'll be the top and then we did get some information we did do a lot around with uh a representative from bining track so we walked the track we looked at the issues uh we have a quote back so I would be thrilled to meet with you guys and look that over and see what the that it's relatively reasonable at this point so uh but not the not the full scale underneath this just have they given us a list of what types of boring are no no we just started talking about it they the cheapest thing to do would probably be to put sheet vinyl back on the floor I want look at a couple options yeah we don't want to do a cheap fix we want to

022do a see you know I also want to see like what's allowable well that's what I was ask did they tell us what we could use no I'm waiting for Sher to come back and I get a hold of find out what are the parameters they may say no you can't do I know Bill and I were talking agreement about just the polished concrete like we did down there but with quick Mental Math square footage and that was $7.50 a square so figure if you're buying C for lolium that's crazy expensive so well in concrete for I use that any that's what we don't know think they have some sort of guidance here's your here's your accepted list of things and here not yeah I'm sure they do uh enrollment and attendance administrative update start

023you sure um march three weeks before spring break they always fill up really quick um last week was classified appreciation week so all of our non-teaching staff the teaching staff and um those of us there recognize them so we did something every day um we have 23 classifi staff in the grade school and they do all kinds of different things the library um lots of student support R groups um pushing in the classrooms custodial all of that stuff so definitely really vital part of our school so it was nice to recognize them um I was also read Across America week last week so um that is a national from coinci to Dr Zeus's birthday so we did a schoolwide literacy reading thing um every day which was nice um to have everyone sort of doing

024similar stuff it was also spirit week so it was a real full busy week down there last week so um good timing that we didn't do that with daylight this week just that we hand with so um fifth grade went to the sleet Capital um successful field trip field trip there they got really nice weather which was great um lots of good good feedback from kids so that was nice they got to do that um sixth grade's gearing up for Forest Camp that happens at the end of next month um they'll go to camp tadmore that they have before so that's on the books um e8th grade doing a fundraiser on Friday their um eighth grade versus alumni basketball game is here at the high school uh I think doors are at 5:30 and then

025the games at 6:30 there's a raffle and all that kind of stuff um they we have a um our PBIS team this year wanted um PB is like our um stand for positive behavior interventions and supports so they run our our schoolwide expectations and rewards they've done Dragon bus in school F before and they wanted to try something different so um we're doing these things called brag boards where kids can get dragon tags and they put it on their class board and when the class board fills up they put it on the school board and they let finally filled up the school board which means the Thursday before break we're going to do um a schoolwide um rotation kind of thing in grade level teams so each teacher is going to host an activity and

026kids get to sign up so it'll be fun to see how that goes we did stuff like that a long time ago but it's the first time in a while we've done kind of a reward rotation so that'll be nice um to try um the Friday before spring break is um our PBIS Awards assembly and then um boys basketball versus staff game will happen that day they're really eager for that had to wait girls went before now them um and then ptg is hosting a movie night that night um in the gym at the grade school on the 21st that Friday we're going to show Moana 2 and um kind of are going to Pilot that and see how that event works sooning again after um and then we come back and it's like we

027and talent show thank you yeah talent shows on the night thank you Jenna um Lori Beal comes back and runs that with Rosie fman so they do auditions and wishes me could show up and if they can they can hang like doing their thing then they're in and so that happened um the 19th at 6:30 in the prade school gym what is the attendance usually like for Forest Camp do you have any six graders that stay back sometimes yeah and then they just follow the normal schedule they they hop on to like seven grade or something like that and usually it works pretty well with the teachers that are left and stuff so yeah there's generally like a a small handful of them pack a packet last year to do not L [Music] but excellent

028I see yeah pretty quiet so far this week I think Sun being gone kind of lowered the energy levels but uh you know spring Sports got fired up uh you probably saw an aural like with Tim M field coming day so that's the excit excitement around that's kind of been the blood of the campus um you know gearing up for senior projects April 11th is presentation day so um you know I think seniors are ending day with a lot of things this time of year local scholarships County scholarships senior project that's kind of like the big home nation and then after that kind this by those things just took a group of Juniors to open state for a career convention so every year we try to do two one the seniors one the Juniors the

029the LBCC senior fair was um kind of Acts this year they're not going to operate anymore so now it just start but they said that it was a great great experience one of the better ones um for News Wolf actually some of our kids to the mo their so make those connections let's see our well the well the sixth graders at Forest Camp we last two years um we've had seventh and eighth grade kids come up to the high school we call it the Hands On Learning day and so we kind of do a little mini forecast with them to see what their interests are um they come up we kind of meet with them and then they get to go you know our the high school kids have an early release but some stay

030back and kind of work with the kids and the teachers and they do shop projects um drama culinary arts uh you they get to see kind of the weight room and kind of the fitness portion of it so it's it's been a really well received day over the last few years so looking forward to that that's um the end of April as well yeah trying to trying to wrap up you know High School Success funds and a lot of things going on in kind of matching forecasting with offerings of electives that we might be up to offer next year so Wonder BR we try toy gain interest um are was one of the spur offs that kind of picked up you student interest so we had the fund and we put that as growing a

031pretty good little program kind to have some interest in broadcasting with possible like media typ thing you game interviews play byplay our new huddle system that we have for All Sports there um two cameras right now but um you can plug in and you can actually do live play byplay interviews halftime reports talk about using it in the day we do our paper daily announcements but maybe do want student student Le you know here's our YouTube link and click on it for first gr class or something like that so trying to get kids engaged to the things that could potentially have you know CER outcomes but also give them something to kind of take ownership of yeah just just because I I thought that there's a fundraiser Golf Course golf tournament at di Woods coming

032this spring I can't remember the dates but Chad Smith over that football program typic go spring busy it seems like Yeahs like do you do a survey with the eth grade come in on CP stuff like what they like or uh well well we'll send down a Google form just to see what their interests are and so I P so I give them options but not I try not to make it too leading they don't say like interest in welding but like you like work with your hands do you like so then based on that information I put in the class this short session and then so they get a sample of you know they get a me to teach in the environment I think they do three different sessions in the rotation and then

033the next week or two weeks after then I go do their forecasting about the the specific courses they want EXC thank you sir Bill anything you wanna uh old business uh reminder March 15th through April 15th is the filing window for annual verified statement of economic interest through the fics commission let your form that work one we have L yeah yeah right yep and then reminder March 20th uh is the last Daye of file for school board vacancies for the election in May if anyone hasn't please do uh and then second reading of revised policy administrative regulations and forms bring those back I do not I like IET that my last second I didn't bring it ik page five of n let's decide on little right about Will yeah m is it's whether you can

034take the test in different language yeah any any insights looks like I got a check next to wheel would there be any reason not to make a whe for ikf page five and then what was the other did uh ikj page one of two it was the artificial intelligence you learn any more my notes Phil will tell us more I don't think that's really very so your think we'll just do a wanted beginning of the year that notification paragraph will just be this prior to allowing students to use generative artificial intelligence as part of the class the teacher will provide notice to parents with an explanation of its use because then the second one is the district or the school right so I think what is the one below staff so it's saying at some

035point we're going to leave you know we have to leave what's in yellow but what I think we can choose whether or not Peri right this part yes but the teacher would have to or the district or the school are our options we're choosing do it the one beginning that would be I agree which I agree with that how will we what will we put that in make sure that it's there we need to put that on somebody these lists now that this is a policy so that it gets added okay the other option is not choosing any of it right just leaving the whole blue section out we should be on the district first year done coverage yes call second reading of rised policy administrative regulation forms to include the will in ikf then

036on code I to J we will allow the district to um use the AI this first first rece Mak sense noi me those in favor I excellent thank you new business integrated guidance reports this is just an overview of our plan for the next few years the integrated guidance covers three big grants we get from OB wanted student investment account which we've had for four or five years the other is the high school Success now which we' had for about the same amount time maybe a longer and then the third which is new is literacy rant which we got last year and we started using this year so I tried to make it as simple and overview as possible on the the page that's folded are the objectives strategies that were planning to you that's

037based on feedback information we over the years a lot of those have not changed besides adding the the ear literacy which is obviously fairly targeted just based on what it is the second page is our uh longterm outcomes um I will have more information for you soon on how we've done so far on that but those are objectives that OD asks us to and guides us to to set so that we can see what kind of progress is being made those pie and then the the top one is probably the important one it's the it's the budget for all three of those grants we're trying to budget out for two years obviously things could change uh in there um the student investment account uh besides dropping a few pieces uh that we no longer do

038have stayed relatively steady uh our big Focus has been the building counselors both buildings as well as the Family Support Le is on Behavior Support through the ESD and then adding one special education position some student services into that High School Success we focused on expanding our CTE program uh we also focus on recovery making sure this graduate that Grant has some overarching goals which is improve attendance improve graduation and CTE so those tend to be the areas that we've focused on that's where the funding for the poin arts program has come from we made several shop improvements and we're looking at doing some more facility improvements out of that brand the next C years then the early literacy Grant we hired um um a literacy ea uh who's working predominantly with the kindergarten group

039this year and because of how the year has flowed we were able to pick up the instructional coach leing coach as well so I think that our plan is to that it's not a huge Grant and that requires a 25% match from the dist that's why there's direct it's pretty simp really this was essentially it was things you were doing but then you had to put them on paper great thank you this is the website somewhere I assume that intern itself is I mean vers previous itation new one let's see accept special education Sion fund from the this really just end up uh they approve appr a special education stien session last year's session so it came do us in the fall essentially everybody in the state have access to it so that's how came

040out based on the number of people I think they had a dollar amount they just divided it by the number of people is it is teachers and classifi staff so help to is there like minimum amount of time they've got to be spending with the% day yeah there were some parameters around it so that if you were if you were a regular classroom teacher you Pi Mar be case managing special ed or working directly special I think it was 75% it wasn't like a guessing it was very specific very than happen spring yeah I think we're going to do it in June and then is this supposed to continue or nobody knows I I one interesting thing was some districts are quite unhappy that couldn't have a payroll cost the payroll cost R about 30%

041for every dollar cost 30 if you're a big District that could be a big number yeah so the staff will get this dollar figure but then we have to pick up okay um oh do we need do I think it just head up you go um line nmc here is just just general discussion with the board here um um I think we would like to at some point figure out how we can review and work through our policies so you know whichever ones we want to start with I think probably maybe the discipline policy would be a good one to start with um i' imagine maybe we plan a special meeting um or a work session or a work session type type thing read through it um I don't know if you guys want get

042it ahead of time and make notes and then we'll all get together I think we need had kind of all this Ming it over and then coming together and discussing I'd also like to see us do our student handbook um and the policy books that they in each of the campuses I doubt they've been reviewed by default and I haven't reviewed one so it's been a while but I think we'll probably need a few sessions you know so maybe just tackle one at a time and with the goal of having it ready for fall so probably any input from um St and what how they use it schedule something else yeah um Can Le get get the paperwork out do us and get looked over and do you guys want to try to do them

043before meetings or do you want to have another day always do an hour before the board meeting your work session and then it's coming on you're a busy time so what's I'm just gonna have to make time it's just all there is to it I'll just have to change my schedule but would it be easier to do it all one day rather than Breaking doesn't matter doesn't it just have to be done I like that idea the hour before then you have one Date to Remember yeah so and we're not on a Time French other than fall so if it you got to just say hey we're just going to meet an hour and get through as much as we can and then schedule one for the next month and get through as much as

044we can no I think it's a great idea MH see our next the e that's what I but it could be wrong oh it's got to be the 14th no the 14th 14 I don't know why my calendar light to so we want to do an hour before got like the 14th at five what going to review on that one I think we'll start maybe with the disciplinary policy policy is there one for the district or is there one for either campuses three all three website right on the website yeah do you want paper copies I can I [Music] like don't get it so I don't have a whole I can send it out early my as well you didn't receive any public comment points no okay uh with that we adjourn com thank you

045thank you everyone

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