2026 Jan 12 Regular Meeting of the TTSD School Board

001Evening everybody. I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Tiger to Walton School District Board of Directors and welcome everybody in the audience. I do see your signs. Thank you for being here. Um, I wanted to start tonight by letting everybody know that we met in a work session prior to this to discuss our legislative priorities and now we have our approval of our agenda and our consent agenda. Do we have any changes to our agenda tonight? >> There are no changes to the agenda tonight. With that, the chair would entertain a motion. >> I move to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Vice Chair Urband and seconded by Director Heimes that we approve the agenda and consent agenda as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing

002none. All those [snorts] in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. We now move to recognition and good news. Lisa Burton, come on down. Okay. Good evening. Um, Chair, Vice Chair Irvin, board members, um, student representatives, and Dr. Rudu. So this evening uh we have a special recognition of all of you and I don't think everyone always remembers that you are volunteers, you're elected officials and you volunteer your time to serve on our school board and we are we um very much appreciate it all the work that you do all year long. And so, um, one long-standing tradition that we've had for a few years is we ask our librarians, um, at five schools, and we rotate the schools every year to, um, select a book

003in honor of you, um, to donate to their school and to their school library. So, um, Casey Fernandez, our, um, district specialist, will go over, um, the donation. >> Thank you, Lisa. So, as Lisa mentioned, this is an annual tradition and our library staff really look towards selecting books that they know that the students will really enjoy and we also intentionally choose bacterials that we also believe our board members will like. So our first title is for Tiger High School and it is in honor of Bor board chair Jill Gersme and it is called homebody by Theo Parish and this is a graphic novel and those are about 20% of our circulations right now. Everybody loves graphic novels. [laughter] For Deer Creek Elementary in honor of board vice chair Tristan Irvin. Our class is a

004family by Shannon Olsen. >> Very popular. This one has a special place in my heart since I grew up on Kauaii. It is called It is for Byum Elementary in honor of board member Davided Im. And it is Clair Buoyance by Christristiana Kaha Calila for Durham Elementary in honor of board member Kristen Miles. The first state of being by Aaron Intrada Kelly and for Twaldan Elementary in honor of board member Crystal Weston. Our class is a family by Shannon Olsen. Very popular [laughter] and has so much seal integrated into it. It is just a really precious read that I hope every student gets to enjoy. Um, like I said, we just really appreciate all of uh the work you do all year long, um, in supporting our schools and going into our schools and participating

005in activities and supporting events. And so, um, we just thank you. This is just a special way to honor and thank you each year. So, if we could get a photo with your books, be great. And there's Yeah. And just for the record, Casey mentioned that um there's a plaque in each book that has the dedication to you for the library. So, >> thank you for your service. This is one of the coolest things about this tradition is that when I go into the schools, I get to go visit my books. And now I'll get a chance and the other thing is I know both uh many of us do is we then go out and buy a copy of the book for ourselves so we can read our book at home without actually taking

006it out of the hands of a student. Um and this is my first time getting a graphic novel so I'm kind of excited. Did anybody else have anything? That was it. All right, moving right along. Then we will move to our student representative reports. Um, do our fine folks from Tiger do want to go first tonight? >> Hi board members. I hope you're all doing well tonight. Um uh some of the upcoming events that we have at Talton is a pie for a purpose assembly happening on February 2nd organized by our Talton High School pack leaders where students will get the chance to donate money in order to have teachers pi which will then be used for 9th grade success projects at the high school. We also have mental wellness month which takes place during

007the month of January and multicultural night which is being planned by student voice in the slam group with staff such as Miss Rice, Miss DB, Miss Sao and Miss Nunes helping to get plans off the ground. We have a leap mental wellness and coping skills cafe with the date to be determined still but there will be coffee and donuts provided for students before school. And this is just a little event for students to get comfortable and learn a little bit about coping skills during finals week. MSA is also trying to plan an intermsa night with Mountainside High School. And there is going to be an almost Saturday night live event held at Tolton High School January 22nd to 23rd at 700 p.m. by the advanced theater students. Um, one thing students have reported feeling at

008the high school lately is a little bit of mounting pressure and stress due to finals week and they just want to see some more support and accommodation by the staff and educators while they go through a little bit more of a stressful time. Thank you. >> Um, okay. So, we don't really have that much going on at Tiger High. However, this week is winter week. So every day we kind of have a different drive for different organizations to give back to our community. Um and then on Thursday we have a pep rally kind of to uplift the spirit. I know that over here at Tiger like we're kind of dead in a way that like we're very done with school cuz we're like coming out of break and we're like no more. Um and then

009also at our double header basketball games this Friday um there will be a raffle for AirPods and a MacBook I believe. Um, yeah. And there's also just preseason prep for our sports like baseball, softball, and lacrosse. And winter workouts for track are going on. And skiing and snowboarding teams have been going up to Mount Hood. And that's all we have for Tiger this week. >> Hopefully, there will be some snow up on the mountain for this. [laughter] It's been a bit thin lately. Any questions for our student representatives? Okie do. Then we'll move straight into our superintendent and board communication. >> Dr. Superintendent. >> Thank you and good evening. Um first off want to say welcome to our guests. Thank you for being here tonight. Um you're going to hear in some public comment from

010some of our members in the audience today and it's just about um them advocating for themselves as OCA and u we've been we've been bargaining with them for quite some time now and we haven't quite been able to to get to the finish line but that doesn't mean that we're not committed to to doing so. So we're going to keep on showing up and and keep working with your leadership and remain committed to getting to an agreement. So, uh, we look forward to to getting to an agreement where, um, we're able to, um, compensate you. Uh, we know that, and, I shared this in a memo, um, we do have financial constraints that we're, we we take into consideration and also some financial uncertainties. Um, but to that end, um, we we remain committed to

011showing up at the table. So, again, thank you so much for being here tonight. We look forward to continued conversations. Um, this month is also board appreciation month as we just talked about in uh the good news section of our uh board uh meeting. And I just want to say thank you to our board members. Um, you all are volunteers. Uh, you do so much for our district. You show up to everything from everything beyond board meetings that people don't see, whether that's the committees that you show up for. last week was a good example where you went to the Washington County legislation uh meeting and and advocated for students and um you're also uh just committed thought partners. That's when all of your decisions are I've always seen have been focused on moving policy

012and serving students. So, I appreciate that about you and and thank you for all your service. And I just want to mention it's a volunteer position like you all do not get paid. So, really thank you for your time and your service. It doesn't go unnoticed. And then finally, I want to wrap up um by talking about attendance. So, month in and month out, I'll put up some data or um share a story. And we're continuing to focus on getting students in school. We know when students are in school, students can learn. So, um, we're launching a campaign called Glad You're Here, and we have a short video that we're going to show you in a second, um, that that highlights all the work that we do to try to ensure that students have the,

013um, the supports that they need and also at the point of connection to keep them coming to school. We also recognize that coming to school isn't always a choice. So, we're constantly working to remove barriers for students. Um, we're using a a new tracking tool that we're launching, I think the end of this month, called attendance plus, and I mentioned that before in the boardroom, and we also hope that that's going to help us see trends and identify students who are not getting to school um for one reason or another, and then putting wraparound services to make sure that they're they're able to engage um their classes. So, with that being said, Thor, uh, can you roll this video that was produced by um, TTSD's very own Gustavo Garcia? Schools are kind of like people.

014They awaken and spring to life. >> Students fill them with joy and laughter and endless curiosity. >> How's it going, Rayley? [clears throat] How's it going, Nana? >> Good morning. >> [screaming] >> When students miss school, they miss out and we miss them. >> Thank you. >> [music] >> So come join us every day. >> We're glad you're here. >> And that's it for my board remarks this month or this week. I'll have some in a couple of weeks. >> Thank you. Um, any board members have stuff they'd like to share? Director Weston. >> Thank you, Chair Zme. There's so many things to say today and not enough words. I could speak to the worsening problems I see at the national level and feel righteous, but from where I sit, I know we are almost

015a year into bargaining with our classified staff. And I know times are tough with the cost of living rising every day. I have seen firsthand the difference our classified staff can make for kids who need extra support. And I know we have some of the most incredible, caring, insightful, and dedicated classified staff. I also know the budget can only deliver so much. I won't pretend to have all the solutions or be sure about what we should or can do, but I will say we have some things we can consider can work towards. I support a longer school year and smaller classes with less money towards online learning and devices for children. I support budgets that put more towards staff and less to towards overhead and admin. I support showing up for some great state policies

016that are coming out of Salem. That includes uh keeping students fed Senator Neon Misslin's school meals for all which will help serve our kids. Representative Gamba is working to send more of the kicker to things like PERS, which would benefit district budgets. And this is really important because public servants don't earn as much as they would in the private sector. And so that retirement is important and we have an aging population and pretending that we don't need a retirement or that we shouldn't fund it is false, but we still need that money to come from somewhere. I also appreciate Representative Finger McDonald building on the work of districts, including like ours to have thoughtful plans in place for if federal agents show up to terrify our students. I also hope we can work towards a

017flat budget with no increase in reserves because students today need every dollar we can spend on them. We are all advocating to have in place what students need and that includes our staff. Would anybody else? Sure. I I realize it's been a really long time since we have all been here together and thank you for everyone that is here. I really appreciate your voice and and your time being here. Um in ter and I'll make it brief because we have a other stuff that we want to get to tonight. The one thing that I would mention and it was mentioned briefly earlier was we had the Washington County legislative summit um this last week and so that was really an opportunity for school board members from all across our county. So that's Hillsboro, Beaverton, US,

018Forest Grove, Gaston and Banks um and Sherwood to come together with all of our local representatives. And it what's interesting and unique is we had almost every representative there um senators, reps, um everybody really coming to sit down and have some pretty hard conversations around what we are seeing um in our districts which is where we need and it can't just be right we need more money which we do but really specifically what things are um being missed what areas we are really struggling with our students and our staff are struggling with because we don't have enough resources. Um and then some of the things as director Weston mentioned some of those bills coming down um that we'll start in the short session. So it was a really uh what I will say is that

019all of the people that I spoke with left really understanding it was more than a conversation of schools need more money, but really here are the stories, here are the people, here are the impacts. um here is what it looks like when we're looking at special ed or um high-cost disability kiddos or whatever those pieces are and really understanding kind of boots on the ground how that all trickles down and affects our staff and our schools and our students. So that was a really positive time that I think was really timely because they are going right into short session in about three weeks. Um I also met with Representative Bowman um some folks from the city of Tiger to do their um Tiger kitchen cabinet. So it's sort of like some leadership with the chamber

020or the board um and really talked about some of the same things. So some of the bills and some issues that Tiger is seeing but also has some through lines to how it affects us as a TTSD community. Um and there's some really positive things in the works from both the city and the chamber as well. Director Miles. >> Um the only thing I'll add and I also want to thank everybody that's here. Thank you for your time. Thank you for being here and thank you for your voices. Um the only thing I'll add to what um Vice Chair Irvin said, I was at the Washington County um ledge meeting as well is that um not only were did we have so many legislators there, but I think they said that um every board I

021believe from the region was also there and that may have been the first time that that had happened. So um what I will say knowing most of the regions in the state is that we've got a very activated region that is very well organized and um we that is very motivated to go and advocate for education for funding and for and then for all not just funding but all the other the things that are associated with that that both director Weston and Vice Chair Irvin have spoken to about like it's not just money it's about like what those things affect. It is about programming. is about services directly to students and in the classroom. And so our region is very well put together, very well organized and um and folks spoke um I'm thinking of

022Becky Tim very passionately about like what needs to what needs to happen and what board members and others can do to go effectively advocate at um at the state level with the legislature to try and get those voices heard and those needs met. And that is um something that we are all interested in doing. >> So I won't harp on the legislative summit since everybody's been talking about that. But I will say, you know, we had two of our legislators here this evening at a work session to really cement down that relationship so that we can we are in a really good position to make sure our voices are heard at the state legislature so that if funding is available, we can we can be um possibly accessing it. So um trust that we are

023doing everything in our power as a board to get our students and our staff um taken care of from the state. I also wanted to talk about our PSOS and our uh family planning excuse me partnership advocates. Um we had another meeting last week um to discuss uh the impact of ICE in our community and this was our second such meeting and our PSOS have been amazing coming forward wanting to help um and working with our family planning I keep want to say planning [laughter] family partnership advocates um to to get those uh to get support for families who have been affected by imm immigration enforcement. Um we're really looking especially at the need for effective communication and resource sharing within the community. And I wanted to call attention to the fact that right now

024the TTSD um website uh the the ttsdschools.org the front page is all about immigration resources and you can click through and find all kinds of amazing resources that staff has put together about um frequently asked questions. what can the district do, what can't the district do, what can individuals do, because there are some um very strict parameters about what the district can and can't do. We of course want to do everything we can. On a similar note, I wanted to talk a little bit about fundraising for folks who have been impacted by um ICE actions. The school board has very specific policies and I would encourage people to take a look at policy KMC and GBI particularly the AR so that if you are thinking about helping out a family again it's the rules that

025the district and the board have about where fundraising can and can't happen and what can be sanctioned by the district and what can't GoFundMe in particular is a is a sticky wicket. So I just wanted to put that out. It's not that we don't want to help. it's that we have certain um parameters within which the district and the board must act >> and if there's any questions they can come to go to their principal or come directly to us in the district office and we'll be able to support. >> Okay. All right. So that we will now move into the public comment section of the evening. I have uh public comments signups from two people. Um also at your place you will see there's a written comment from another person. So um I will

026start by reading the rules for public comment the expectations I should say. So after being recognized you'll identify yourself with your full name and zip code of residence. Public comments are shared with the board during the public comment portion of the meeting and are limited to three minutes. You will have a timer up on the screen so that you can keep track of your time. Your comments should be brief and concise. Please be aware the time will start once you've given your name and your zip code. You can also submit written as our one person did and that becomes part of the public record including the meeting minutes. It will not be read aloud at the meeting. However, speakers may offer objective criticism of school operations and programs. The board will not hear comments regarding

027any individual district staff member, board member, or any person connected to the school system. If the current well I don't have to read that part. Um please remember this is no place for bias or hate. There will be no profanity or language that minimizes or car causes harm to anyone else's ident identity per policy ACC. And if such language occurs the speaker will forfeit the remainder of their time and be removed from the meeting. This is no place for violence or threats. So with that, I will let you know that our first speaker will be Danielle Marino and then on deck will be Sarah Wford. So Danielle Marino, come on down [applause] and please make sure you press the little button until it goes green. Hi, my name is Danielle Marino. Um M A R

028I N O. My zip code is 97007. Um, dear superintendent and members of the school board, this is no longer a request. This is a warning. Schools do not function without classified staff, not efficiently, not imperfect, not imperfectly. They do not function at all. And yet, this district continues to operate as if classified labor is optional rather than essential. Classified staff are the infrastructure of every school. Bus drivers get students to school safely. Custodians keep buildings open, clean, and legally compliant. Food service workers ensure students are fed so that learning can happen. Secretaries manage daily operations that prevent chaos. LSAs care for the district's most vulnerable students. Students with disabilities, medical needs, behavioral challenges, and students who require constant hands-on supervision just to be safe at school. These roles are not supplemental. They are critical

029to student safety and access to education. Let me give one example. One of our classified staff recently helped the Secret Service and local law enforcement set up for a senator's town hall. They were asked multiple questions about exits, crowd control, and logistics. Not a single administrator stepped in. It was this classified employee without any additional support who ensured the event ran safely and flawlessly. This is just one example of the level of responsibility placed on classified staff every single day. And yet classified staff just pushed past their limits. Vacancies remain unfulfilled. Remaining staff are expected to cover more students, more duties, more responsibilities, often without breaks, backup, or relief. Proposed wage increases of 60 to 80 cents an hour before taxes are not a livable wage. After deductions, if amounts, it amounts to only a

030few dollars per paycheck. that does not cover rent, food, gas, or healthcare. It does not reflect the cost of living, and it certainly does not reflect responsibility for our students safety. Calling this appreciation is dishonest. Praise does not pay the bills. I appreciate all the praise, but that doesn't pay us. You cannot say students come first when underfunding the people who keep them safe, fed, supported, and learning, especially students with the highest needs. The consequences are already here. Chronic vacancies, high turnover, unsafe staffing ratios, and inconsistent support for students. When LSAs are understaffed, students with IEPs and medical needs lose legally required support. This is a liability. This is not sustainable and it's not ethical. And this board is responsible for addressing it. We are calling for immediate action. real wage increases that reflect the

031cost of living, a public timeline to resolve staffing shortages, and staffing levels that do not rely on burnout, sacrifice, unsafe coverage. Students, >> do not run on, [laughter] >> please leave your your comments. >> Please leave a comment a copy of your comments with the board though, so that we can read whatever it was. Please leave a copy of your comments with us so that we can read the last little bit that you didn't have time to actually say. Thank you. Okay, our next speaker is Sarah Lford. >> Good evening. Um, as you said, I'm Sarah Wford. My zip code is 97527. I'm rarely there so I have to think about it. Um I am Oregon School Employee Association state president. So I like to say oh well first off thank you to chair um

032Zerm mean uh and members of the board. Um first off I'd like to say that for you is sitting in this room OCA is Tiger Tolton chapter 51. I know OCA is chapters. So that's what I see. I see unique individual chapters who face a lot of similar problems when it comes to let's say bargaining. And as someone who sits on a board, really what I wanted to come here and share with you is that as board members, your job, in fact, one of your six bullet points is to guide bargaining. One of your six bullet points is to guide bargaining. That means you need to ask questions. Don't rely on attorney. Auntie Hungerford knows what she's doing. Why don't you know what she's doing? I want to make sure that you are making sure

033that you're classified or being taken care of. And I don't think that asking for a $2.25 raise per hour is harmful to those on the upper scale. If there's compression of a wage scale, that's something the district should fix. That's not something that should come on the backs of the lowest paid workers. When someone realizes that they aren't making enough money, sometimes they negotiate a 22% increase. I just want to say that it's very important to treat classified the same as other people. When the teachers received their wages last year, it was $3.7 million. that was allocated to them. In the last amount of bargaining, it was $3.25 million a classified as. That's less than teachers received. Why is that money not available to them? It is not unreasonable to ask to be paid equity.

034It is not unreasonable for you to ask questions as board members. It is not unreasonable. And I encourage you, use your voice, use your platform. You're not here because you supervised someone. You're here because the members of your community voted you to be here. You answer to them, not to them. So, please make sure you pay attention and ask questions. Thank you. [cheering] >> Thank you very much. Okay, that concludes our public comment section of the agenda and we'll move now into our reports and discussion. We'll start with our legislative priorities update from our work session. And if folks are getting up and maybe we'll give like a 30 second transition time so people can feel like they can leave the room without walking out on us. >> [snorts] >> And >> director Palaskki, would

035you like to come up to the the the thing or >> just to keep us on track? All right. So, um I feel like I've said this a couple of times, but we met earlier um to discuss our legislative priorities. And what I wanted uh this section of the um reports and discussion is just for board members since we didn't have much time at the end of the work session to talk to talk about specifically the legislative priorities handout that was given to us at the end of that to talk about this um ideas, suggestions, comments, concerns about it, questions that we might have for directors um and and or our superintendent. Um, and then one of the things also we could talk about is if we are interested in making this um an item

036that the board votes on and has officially adopted. We don't have to, but we could. So, those are just some of the topics of conversation that I'd like us to have for the next, I don't know, 5, 10, 15 minutes, something like that. If anybody has any thoughts, Director Weston, you're firing up. Let's go. So, I think these are really important priorities, but um I from my perspective, I would prefer to discuss it as more of a blank slate rather than vote on something that's already been crafted. Um, and that's why um, it looks good, but it's not my preference for for from a process perspective. I also think um, you know, we we say we want more money and we're concerned about unfunded mandates, but it's not a very robust year from a revenue

037standpoint. And I think um the time has come to look at specific policies and more than just general asks um because I think we'll get farther with that. Um, I'd like to see um a higher level of adv advocacy where we say where to show up, who to talk to, the bill number, um, and really the nuts and bolts of it because we've been asking for more money for a long time in Oregon for schools. And, um, I like to get a little more specific and actionable. >> It's going to be so great having you on the LPC for OSBA. um because that's exactly the sort of thing those those um legislative action calls will come through that gentle and so please when you get them pass them on to the rest of the board.

038>> Chair, would it be helpful um for those who weren't with us during the work sessions to kind of summarize some of the things that were discussed on on this document that we're talking about? >> Sure. You want to do that? >> Sure. So um and these are aligned with um with some of the ongoing issues that we've talked about related to funding. So we have about four big ticket items when it comes to um legislative priorities. One of them is around addressing PERS cost. You've heard me address that in the boardroom a few months ago and it's something that we're continuing to to stay focused on and if if you will put pressure on the the legislation to address it so that that um piece of the pie how much dollars we pay for

039PERS is reduced so that more of that funding can go to students. So yeah, PERS cost um financial stability and tapping into the financial financial stability funding in the event that uh we have less money, we'll be able to tap into rainy day funds to make sure that we're not compromising services to students. Um we really need to continue to address highcost disability. Um I'd say 50% of our special education funding in our district goes towards um students with high-cost disability. And the reality is our students with um who have needs whether that they're medically fragile or medically complex um they deserve to have access to the education they need. and um we need to make sure that the state is providing funding that matches those those needs and the resources it takes for those

040needs. And then um finally, there's a lot of talk around school accountability and uh we want to make sure that we have agency as to um what the school accountability process looks like and what our role is so that we know u what the target is that we're shooting for and it's something that seems um fair and and seems like it makes sense. And so those are the four priorities that we discussed last week. We talked about them again today during the work session and um those are also issues that coincidentally a lot of our neighbors are advocating for as well with this short session um being um very not you know very short. Um one thing that our legislator shared with us is that we have to be really intentional when it comes to

041um deciding um how we want to uh leverage our voice at the capital. Yeah. So, I was going to say something similar. I think what we have to remember is how to like the two branches. So, there's overarching in terms of we always need to advocate for not just adequate but appropriate school funding. There are these 30,000 foot level things that all we talked about it today. All of the different services need. and in a short session what these legislative priorities are on here are those very specific things to pinpoint in 35 days. Um like I said at the legislative summit it's quick and dirty. It is fast, it's furious. This is there no one's having big conversations. Um and so really how do we hone in and come into those meetings, come into those

042hearings, come into the lobby the you know day on in Salem to lobby for education and have very specific conversations about things that can actually be addressed right now while to director's point still building that capacity for us being a board that is consistently at hearings that is consistently at the hill. People are going to DC and doing the same thing for the federal level. So there's all these other things happening and we continue to be I think we can do more of that and we really need to focus like laser focus what we're talking about for essentially February um to be something around here that can actually have actionable steps taken this legislative session. And I think that's sort of the rub when we're thinking more broadly about education and educational funding. and we're

043going to be very much um constricted by what bills not just are presented, but which ones make it out of the starting gate. And once we know what those bills are, I think this document can kind of guide us to honing in on which bills we need to focus on advocating for or against as they affect us. >> Director Miles, >> um I like this. I like the priorities on it. a lot [laughter] and um it's ambitious um which I think is great. I mean why why would you not be ambitious? Um Director Weston to your point about getting really sort of granular and and really getting specific about things and not and maybe not being so broad. Um just sort of thinking strategically about that and and the kind of strategies that are that

044are used. I mean, in in my experience, ironically or not, it is often, you know, the our bigger partners like Kosan, OSBA that are the ones that get super strategic about specific bills. Um, it is hard for a one-off district unless the unless Kosan, OSBA, and other partners put out the all call to go do those specific bills on their own. Now, that's not to say that any specific district can't go and advocate on its own, but um for a specific bill, they often do. I know many districts that go and like do specific bills um on their own. Um but that's generally how that works. However, um I think that what we will find over the course of this session and many others is that like we often just as an education community coales

045around all the same interests, right? I mean it's it's I mean I can't think of any district anywhere that would not advocate for these kind of things. And then as my colleagues are saying like then what bills come out of these categories and then you know what do we what do we then go advocate on really specifically and then there's the power in numbers things like you know what what does the all call look like then how many how many boards and how many districts and how many folks can come to you know to Salem and do that thing and advocate. Um but then that is also the job of the LPC right which I know you're going to be on. That's the job of the LPC to figure out what that strategy is at

046state level and I think that'll be that'll be great participation. Um, as far as the question that you threw out, Chair Zurme, about like adopting this, um, in a previous life, in a previous job, we had a very formal, um, adoption of a legislative priority for the district. And I thought that was a really good thing because not only did it signal like to the district at a high level that this is what the board wanted to do, but it also signal to the community that this was like, you know, big work that that we were undertaking. And then it it went somewhere, right? I mean like that was that was stated work that we were all doing that we had committed to that everybody had committed to um and that you know I mean

047not that nobody was taking it seriously anyway but like when the board adopts something that's a formal thing and so I like the idea of of adopting something now I don't know we have another meeting for February yeah we do [laughter] like what does the calendar look like anyway >> and I think this is important too because Like you said earlier, this is really an amalgamation of all of our Washington County school district partners. So this is not different from Forest Grove necessarily like little bits and pieces and numbers, but the idea is this is really so like when we go as OSBA, right? That's a whole OSBA all of us coming together representing different districts coming to say these are our priorities. Um, similarly, we can go and go to Salem and talk with

048our legislators and say essentially as Washington County and all districts, these are and that really is almost like a grassroots all call because we are they don't have to keep wondering what this other person's going to ask for and it's going to be very clear. Oh, everybody and it's not just wanting money. Everybody is concerned about PERS. Everybody is concerned about special education and high-cost disability. Everybody has a whole lot of questions about the accountability bill. whatever those things are. And that really as the experience that I've had, which is somewhat limited compared to you two, that has really moved the needle um when you're doing some of that lobbying or those conversations more than sort of oneoffs and feeling like you're on this little island with our own priorities. Yeah, I think these are,

049you know, these are really good and they're some that everybody is looking at um, you know, advocating for. And so, um, I don't know that we necessarily need to adopt this, but I think it's a good guidance for what we should be doing, what we should be going out and maybe not in this session, but um, in the long run, this is this is exactly what we all need to be doing in all the school districts because our legislators need to know that, you know, we don't want any unfunded mandates. We we need we need money if we they want to put some uh new mandates on us. And this accountability bill is great. We should be held accountable. We can't be um [clears throat] you know behind on on test scores or or where

050we're at. But also there's different ways to um you know measure the measure the capabilities of what the districts are doing rather than with what they're measuring us now because they didn't take it any of our advice into account. So we need to be able to advocate and and so I I love this sheet. Um, I don't know that we should adopt it or vote on it, but definitely it should be something where we all strive to uh advocate for this. >> I will say that I it is um something that many of the Washington County districts have been working on together to to put together so that and each one is personalized to the district, but the idea was that every district in Washington County would adopt some version of this. There is that

051strength in numbers. There's when Forest Grove goes to their legislator, they can say, "Yeah, these are our priorities." Oh, and also these other six districts have the same fundamentally the same priorities and there is strength in that. It gives a stronger position. So, that would be my main argument for for actually doing a vote on it. I mean, if if we're doing this as a coalition with other with other districts, then yeah, it does make sense to adopt it as something that we're going to all partake on, right? And so, um, I'm I'm for that. I thought it was something just for us as the Tiger 12 school board. >> Now, we did the education thing and we kind of borrowed and >> worked on it together. May I ask more about um the process

052or um who specifically contributed to um identifying these priorities? That's kind of what I'm struggling with. >> KOSA, OSBA and the other and Alex, you might have more of this and other districts in the region is my understanding as well as like >> financial partners and superintendents and CFOs also I think contributed. was a very much a a a group effort I believe. >> Yeah, this is I mean in all the KOSA meetings and OSBA meetings that we've been in this these are the priorities that have been highlighted. >> [clears throat] >> I I would um say that it was put together with uh uh input from KOSA from uh OSBA. uh we relied on uh some sim a similar template that Forest Grove School District used and then of course ultimately directed by our

053superintendent uh in terms of identifying what the priorities are and other staff issues like within special education for a lot of districts the 11% uh cap is the biggest issue for them. in our case is the high-cost uh disability that's a bigger issue monetarily and so uh as you as many of you pointed out we have very similar uh goals as other districts do but some are diverge a little bit and that would be a good example of that. >> Yeah. I think also another component piece I remember director western hearing you say that you were concerned about what you were um able to say to lobby for as an individual versus a board member. If we vote on this, we can all lobby on this as a board because the board as a whole

054has voted on it and stood behind it. And so it liberates all of us to be a little bit more vocal in Salem and say, "Yeah, my board says this." Just a thought. Well, one thing we might consider is identifying these as priorities, but coming back to talk about specific bills because the the deadline for bills to drop is this week. And so I'm just um I'd like to have you know the actual bills who's sponsoring it when you folks show up. And I just don't want this to be the end all but I think maybe it's a good first step. What if you think of it this way and said that this is our framework and the individual bills as they drop will pin to one part or another and so the framework allows

055us to work on whatever bill fits here for example and maybe there is no bill for over here. So, not that this isn't an important part of the framework, but this is what we're going to focus on because this is what our priorities said we should and that's where the legislation is that we can help move. >> If you choose to go in that direction, we can our our team can work to align to do to um do a crosswalk on the bills that do align with the the specific >> That's a really good point because that would be after the bills have all dropped. >> Correct. That sounds does that work for you, director? >> That sounds good. But there are bills I know of that don't fit in this. For example, Representative Finger

056McDonald's bill about uh ensuring districts have a response for when ICE shows up, I don't believe is reflected here. Um the bill about PERS would be reflected. um school meals for all would be maybe reflected, but I would hate to adopt this and then learn that it's not related enough to be one of our legislative priorities. So, I just think maybe it's a little bit premature because um there might be bills that we're not quite thinking of that we end up wanting to support and then I don't want to not be able to support those. >> So, Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> I don't see this as limiting. Um I I wouldn't think that we would be as a district constrained necessarily by this that just by prioritizing something that if a bill dropped that

057like we were super interested in just like the two that you mentioned that that we would say to ourselves or to anybody else, we're not going to speak on that. We're not going to have anything to do with that just because we've adopted this. So, I wouldn't think that we would, and I, you know, maybe we should talk about this if we disagree on this, but I wouldn't think that this would constrain us from supporting anything that was really important to us. >> But it does put it as priorities and we might have something that is a high priority. We could say preliminary priorities. >> So, we we are a little bit constrained by time because the legislative session is coming fast. So, what if we say um we'll direct staff to uh do that

058crosswalk with bills that drop and make it out of the gate so that we then can do that crosswalk with our t with our talking points and our priorities and then bring that back for a second read where we can vote on it if we wish or not if we don't. And it does say on the back side, it talks about um access to nutritious food, SNAP benefits, and concerns around ICE operations in their neighborhoods. So, those are bullet points on the back that do mention that. So, when bills drop, we can pull those out more specifically, but they are mentioned on those bullet points. Um, in terms [clears throat] of those concerns and the specifics, >> I mean, if you think about it, the um [cough] I know we didn't hear much about the

059ICE uh bill, but notifying um our public or our parents that ICE was on campus. I mean, we already do that. So, I I don't know how codifying it into a law makes it better, but I'm sure there's a reason for it. Uh, it could also be it could also uh fit under the unfunded mandate because, you know, they're they're telling us to do something without giving us extra funds. So, like, you know, you could take the bills and you could fit them into here. So >> the devil is always in the details and we won't know the details until the bill has dropped, gotten out of the gate and perhaps been modified. >> So I believe that would be an unfunded mandate and that I would still want to support it because not all

060districts do have plans and so ensuring that that happens is important and if we're advocating for state policy then it makes sense to advocate for state policy that benefits the state. So it might be something that we're doing. it might be an unfunded mandate. That doesn't necessarily mean I won't want to um advocate for it. So, I just think that um this um I'm >> okay. >> Not quite comfortable with it, but >> Okay. Well, how about if we bring it back for a second read and and we can have further discussion at that point and also have a little bit more time to read over it, >> make sure we understand. We could also um look at formatting and presentation on this so that um uh if there's anything we can do to make

061>> certain um bullet points on here kind of stand out a little bit more. Um that might be a way that we can address uh this um intentional effort on the the front side of this as well as some of the things that you shared director Weston that I think are represented on this and just don't stand out as much. So, those are things that we can take a look at as well. >> Thank you so much. Um hopefully we'll also have an opportunity to um and I think um having our staff take a look at what comes out. Um but I'll be looking forward to seeing that and making sure um it includes things that I might be aware of as well. Um you'll probably be tracking everything, but >> we'll do our best.

062>> Thank you. >> Director Miles, want to have the last word before we move on? >> Sure. Um, I think we could also maybe just say on it, I mean this is not a legally binding document. I think we could also just say on it that you know if if something drops that we are interested in, this is obviously not language that would be on it that you know that nothing that nothing prohibits us from adding additional support or supporting something that's not on here if something came up that we weren't anticipating. So >> I like that. ever the peacemaker. All right. Um, good enough. Alex, you know what you're doing. >> We feel like we have good dire. >> We have good direction. All right. Then let's move on. Thank you very much. Um,

063we'll now move on to our report and discussion item B, our bond update. And that I believe is Kevin Montag. Good evening. >> Good evening. So, we've been uh really busy in the bond land. I just wanted to give you an update on on where we are. I'll start off with um what we've got planned for this summer coming up. We've got three projects. Um first and foremost is our Deer Creek security and infrastructure project. Um right now we are in construction design or construction document phase of that project. U and that's to add classroom doors, boiler replacement, fire alarm replacement, kitchen upgrades, ADA upgrades, parking lot and lower playground upgrades on that. Uh our construction budget on that project was 2.2 million. And I'm happy to say that during our uh design development estimate,

064we came in with the estimate of right at 1.8. Um I can also say that given that what we're seeing on the ground um with cons with contractors, we just received our first um qualification packages from from contractors that are going to potentially propose on the project and we had 18 proposals. Um there was 38 people that showed up to the to the design uh the initial meeting which is something we have not seen in a lot of years that kind of interest. Um [clears throat] our next project that we're working on is the high school restroom project at both Tiger and Twitin High. Um that project is also in construction document phase and that those are uh duplicate buildings standalone restrooms with six six stalls in each one. a custodial room and a small

065storage room for inseason sports. Um the construction on budget on that was 1.6 and our estimate at schematic design came in at 1.5. So we're we're holding the line on those that project as well. Um we're getting towards on that we're getting towards uh being able to submit for permits. So um things are going to really be happening hot and heavy this summer. Uh the last project we've got scheduled for this summer is HVAC replacements at five schools. It will be a replacement of the last of our R22 cooling refrigerant units. Um the last ones in the district. We did a large project last summer to get rid of some of them and this will be the final uh units that get replaced on that. So, we're doing replacements at Alberta, Ryder, CFT, Mezer, Twatin

066Elementary, and Tiger High. Um, our con construction budget on that was estimated 8 million. We do not have a uh an estimate of what that may be. But I can also report on that that um this is a project that we bid last year um but we didn't ended up not having funding for it out of the 2016 bond proceeds. So, we've rebid it. We changed it a little bit and rebid it. Um, we had to reschedu the the bid walks because we had too many people show up and we didn't have room to facilitate that. We filled the parking lots at um at Mezer Elementary, Toatanel, and Alberta Ryder with contractors that were interested in this project. Um, when we bid it last summer, we had three proposals. So, um, this is this is

067good news for us in in the bond world because we are seeing a lot of competition that is coming up out there. So, hopefully that continues and we see some some good quality bits come in. Um, and then I wanted to move into a Fowler project update because that's um, everybody wants to know about Fowler and where we are in Fowler. Um, so we have completed or our architects have completed the pre-esign. They did that in November, completed it. um and that did an analysis of the site constraints and potential opportunities. They've been working on community input and then working through programming needs to identify size and and all of those other um constraints. Um, one of the things that has come out from the site constraints is where do we put the building and

068where do we as the footprint uh given the site constraints with uh wetlands, sensitive lands, uh, topography, elevation changes, and all of those other things that go on the site. Um, they've identified two locations. um one with roughly 126,000 square feet of buildable space and another with roughly 161,000 square ft of buildable space. Um it right now we're doing analysises on uh a couple of things. what where we do storm water retention because that is a big component that uh putting a a footprint of a building on the site doesn't actually take into account storm water retention. Um and we're trying desperately not to encroach into the um the wetlands or any of the areas that we have to get into DEEQ or core of engineers or that type of situation because that that would

069prove um very costly and and take a lot of time. We're currently also studying whether or not we can um reuse the gym, the existing gym, and make similar to what we did at Quality um and see if that's if the cost benefit will work out for that. Um which would definitely give us more space for water retention. Um and currently the the prevailing theory is that it fits best uh on the football field uh where the existing football field is and that gives us sight constraints given storm water that is the lowest spot on that site. So it's um kind of difficult to get storm water to flow anywhere else on the site. So we have to fit everything into that into that area. We have done um geotechnical surveys on the soils in

070both locations that were identified and they come back essentially the same. Um neither one are really great on a structural component. It's going to probably need some pretty beefy foundations to to take care of the soils that we're encountering. Um some of the other things that we've been doing on on Fowler is schematic design is has been kicked off. Um, we should have preliminary site plans by the end of the month to to show and share. Um, we're working on the exemption process for the CMGC and are hoping to have the CMGC on board um by by the end of April. Um, our architect is also facilitating a uh student class after school class essentially where they are meeting with students at Fowler. um they basically as a club uh of how you put it

071together. They'll be doing that over the next two to three months to get input from students and get that voice uh in the design. Um, we've started the review standards with our consultants going through division by division uh working through our standards and asking questions or they're asking questions as to why do you have that in there and we're explaining why and sometimes they're shaking their heads and we're saying that's why we have it in there because experience has taught us a lot of things. Um and then also there's a divi uh design advisory committee uh that is meeting regularly I believe um last Thursday was our fourth meeting I think maybe third or fourth meeting um that's going quite well there's good participation with staff and community there uh brick is leading is leading

072that and it's interesting to hear a lot of the things but they're starting to coales around um some of the the north stars for the design and and some of the things that they'd like to see. Um, moving on to our four elementary uh school modernizations. Um, we've completed uh project pre-esign in December and that essentially figured out the scope refinement um and got community input and determined what programming needs are for all four of those schools. Um the brick has conducted uh and gone with building tours uh for their design team to look at that get input and feedback from the from principles and and the school community. Um cohort one which includes Byum and Mary Woodward u those two schools are in schematic design currently to start kicking that process off. And also

073similarly to Fowler, we have the exemption hearing for the CMGC on that project um currently in process with the CMGC hopefully contracted by the end of April as well on the first two cohorts on elementaryaries. Um and again on that we've kicked gone through with the different consultants um with our design standards to make sure that everybody's on the same page with what what we want in our in our schools. Um some other bond update projects that have been going on. Um over the break we installed a new boiler at Alberta Ryder. Um this was a project that that was identified in the bond, but we thought we had a little more time to do it. U it didn't turn out that way, but um we uh we were able to get that installed uh

074over the break. Um a few little minor things to clean up with that, but the the boiler is operational. while I was up there this afternoon and um it's it's working fine. We still are going to also replace the pumps over spring break to to where that boiler room is a completely new boiler room. Um Twality field lights are scheduled to be installed over spring break. They're they're working on that. That's still moving forward with no problems. Uh and Tiger High and Twolitin High field lights are in planning process to get those hopefully. Um I doubt we'll get those this summer, but we are in process of planning those. One thing that or two things that we do other things we have are that will happen this summer. Um the twin high tennis courts. Um

075it does look like although we noted here that it's in the planning stage, it does look like we will probably get that done this summer. Um unless right now it's it's trending that way that we will be able to get that done this summer. And another item that we will be doing this summer is bleacher replacements at 12 high gym main gym. So that will happen as well. Um upcoming bond technology projects. Um I'm just going to go through these. If you have any questions, I'm going to divert those to my colleague to my left. Um so we have K K5 student device replacement at CFT and Mary Woodward. um five secondary school lab replacements, uh incoming nth grade devices, and licensed staff laptop refresh, and then curriculum adoption in the midyear, uh K12 science

076and 62 612 ELA are in in process in alignment with the board policy. That kind of wraps up mine. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to happy to answer those questions. >> No questions for me. Just I'm really pleased to hear that we've got so many people coming out interested in our projects um and bidding on them. It it bodess very well for our budget and also for the work we get done and how quickly we can get it done. >> This is something that in the bidding world we haven't seen for a lot of years. >> Yeah, it's really good. Any questions? Yeah, Director West. Thank you, Chair Zurid. Um, thank you so much for the presentation. Um, I have a point of curiosity. Um, a hypothetical question. If we ever saved money,

077um, on any of these items for the bond in such a way that we had money left over, are we allowed to move that money toward operations or is it specific to the bond? >> It's it's specific to the bond. Um, we do have what we're identifying as a a parking lot list of things that were listed, but we didn't have enough um didn't figure we had enough in the bond program to cover those. Um, and that's where those those funds would be redirected, but we cannot move them to operations. >> Okay. And um I'm not sure anyone else has thought about this, but um has it been considered to have less technology um as far as the onetoone uh devices, especially in elementary school? Um, I know it can be something that uh can

078be controversial, but um I feel that it's something that maybe um our district invested in um and strove toward, but there's a lot of research about um limitations that come from heavy use of technology, especially with younger students. So, it's something I'd be interested in in redirecting um to save money. >> Yeah, thanks for that. And I might um ask one of my uh directors to chime in. One of the challenges with going away from one to one is we have curriculum like uh CKLA which is dependent on onetoone [snorts] technology for all of our students and we just implemented it in the um in the all of K5 and so it would be um I think some undoing to uncouple ourselves from that curriculum which is dependent on one to one. That's one of

079the challenges and is um having one to one also means is having access to a device. It doesn't necessarily mean that you are issued a device and so there's just so much um of modern uh curriculum which is uh involves or requires having um a Chromebook uh iPad or some form of technology to access the curriculum. So that's one of the challenges. So we we haven't considered it yet but we could. Yeah, I know. Um when I was part of the curriculum committee um it came up um like is this particular curriculum option available online and also not online? Um and I know I was supportive of things that had a not online element for that reason. Um, and if it takes ensuring that option as we adopt curriculum, um, I would also be interested

080in that. like if we have to um not support curriculum for 10 years to get rid of some of these devices um that might be what we have to do because you know we're seeing kids without fine motor skills and like um struggling to engage with screens and I know some folks haven't seen it um but I have and I think it's something um that we should be looking at because it's um we're we're spending money on it and I I don't think Um, it's a good value. >> Well, since I I I'm going to ask that we just put a pin in that one because what we're talking about right this evening is the proc the the the progress we've got on the bond items that we have approved. And so, um, I want

081to keep us on target tonight. So, um, maybe we can maybe that would be a conversation you could have with the superintendent and one of your one-on- ones. >> Oh, director Bernard wants to add something. May I just offer to please look at our tech skills that we just went through for K through 12 because it begins to really refine what the skills are that students need to learn at each level. It might be a good place for that future conversation to use that as a starting point. >> Thank you very much. >> Well, I want to keep us moving along. So, if there are no other questions, thank you so very much. >> Thank you. >> Very succinct 10-minute report. Good job. Um, and now we'll move on to our auditor's report, including our

082SIA update, and that is our CFO, Director C. Say, Whoops. Sorry. See, he's right. Okay. I I do that every time, but I I know. And then I then I Oh, I've got it wrong. It's say, and then I do the Oh, and we've got Tara Kemp online. Hi. >> Hello. Good evening. Yes, thank you everyone for joining us. Um, so Tara Camp has joined us via Zoom to present um a summary of the 202425 financial statement audit results. Um, the summary memo starts on page 46 in your board packet and the governance letter is on page 48 and I will navigate slides. Tara, >> sounds great. Thank you, Madame Chair and fellow directors for having me present this evening. My name is Tara Camp and I am a partner with Clear Trail CPAs and

083we are the financial statement auditors for the school district. So, our governing body letter is always issued along with our audit report and it's a nice little summary letter that describes everything that we're required to communicate with you. So, on page one, we summarize the purpose of the audit. And the purpose for the district is three-fold. The main purpose is that we perform the financial statement audit and the entire purpose of that is to express an independent opinion on if the financial statements are fairly stated. Secondly, we perform the Oregon minimum standards compliance requirements. And those are compliance requirements required for most governments in the state of Oregon that have us look at different laws and regulations to ensure the district is in compliance. And lastly, we perform the federal single audit, which is really

084a deep dive into specific grants, federal grants I should specify. and that those grants rotate on an annual basis based on standards and we're really looking at compliance with those federal dollars. And then on the next page, which is the right hand side of the slide, we summarize the results of the audit. I'm pleased to present that the results for the Tiger Twitton School District are excellent. For the financial statement audit, we issued an unmodified opinion. That is a clean opinion with no reservations. For Oregon minimum standards, we found no exceptions or issues requiring comment. For the federal audit, we had no items of non-compliance and no question costs. And also along with our audit, we did not issue a separate management letter, which is a very good result. Further down on that same page,

085we talk about different accounting standards. And there was a new accounting standard implemented, actually two new ones. One affected the financial statement called Gazsby Statement 101 compensated absences. And it required all governments to re-evaluate the um value of the compensated absences. So we can go to the next slide. Other things that we're required to communicate with you, we were required to let you know if we have difficulties in performing our audit or disagreements with management. And I'm pleased to report we had neither of those. The Tiger Toatin School District is always excellent to work with. An audit is a huge amount of work for the district to prepare for and to execute on an annual basis and they do a fantastic job. I really want to thank Jessica, Sarah, and the entire business office staff

086for working with us because we really require a lot of work for them to do. And another thing I wanted to point out is the district prepares um a report that's called the annual comprehensive financial report, otherwise known as an ACER. And that is a financial report that is much larger and broader in scope than is what is required. It is also submitted to the um GFOA, the Government Finance Officers Association on an annual basis um in order to be judged to receive their award. So that was submitted again this year. And then lastly, we always cover um future accounting and auditing items coming up. We have a couple more. Gazsby's coming out. Gazsby 103 is a financial reporting model improvement that'll tweak some of the report for next year. And then on the next

087page, I think yeah, Gazsby 104, um it's just a little bit of an edit to the disclosure of the capital assets. So those are items we'll work with the district on in the next audit to ensure that they are um properly properly implemented. So overall, excellent results. Couldn't be better. And um I can take any questions if anyone has any. >> Does anyone have any questions? >> No question. But really just thank you. Thank you for the TTSD team. Thank you, Tara, for all of this work because as you said, and we've learned this, I've learned this over the years, this is a big undertaking. Um, and we have a wildly long history of really successful audits. Um, and so continuing that is always wonderful news and I just know that's a real heavy lift.

088So, thank you for all of your work on this. >> I'll I'll echo my gratitude because yes, it's a ton of work and the team's done great things. I was when I was reading over the Gazsby uh updates, I was tickled actually to find that one of the new requirements is that the detailed analysis should explain why balances and the results of operations changed. I'm like, we've been doing that for years. We always get a detailed explanation. So, I feel like we're um ahead of the curve because we have an amazing team. So, thank you all very much. And if nobody has any further questions, we will >> I just want to I just want to take a moment. I I get to work um next door to Jessica or Director C and see um

089all the hard work that goes into ensuring that our district is covered and that we are um not only compliant but doing things ethically and above board and it is a big lift for her and her team. um they were um they come in uh they stay late. They come in on days when they probably should not be in the district. And so I just want to say thank you to your your team for your effort. The district is in good hands because of you all. >> Thank you so much. Thanks Tara. >> Thank you. Have a good evening everyone. >> And director C gets to stay with us but now she gets to be joined by Charles Rinerson as we go into our demographers report. >> Yes. pleased to welcome Charles Rerson with Flow

090Analytics to take us through um enrollment projections um for the 2627 school year and beyond. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh we're going to you may have copies of the full report with the text etc. Hopefully. And uh good and but we're going to just going to run quickly through the the figures and then have as much discussion as you'd like if if you'd like. Uh the we've updated the map showing now portions of former Mary Woodward and Deer Creek uh assigned to Art Rutkin. Uh no surprise there. And it's uh on the right hand side student density uh spots where there's concentrations of apartments. You have more students, some space to fill in there in the southwest and the river Terrace and Kingston Terrace. Uh let's move on to the uh the high the

091key takeaway here is that the counties and most of the cities have been growing at at half of or less of the of the rate that they grew in the last decade. So in the current the final column you can see how slow the growth is in among population growth among all the cities and the counties. Uh, next one. Same. You've seen this before. It's the same. We don't have great age detail for the district, but the the uh the last decade uh basically no growth in the school age population and decline in the preschool age population which preceded the the decline in the school age population that's occurred since 2020. And next, this one's new. Uh some other districts have asked when they've seen that share of uh child population declining in in the

092tables that we produce like the previous one. They wondered how they compared uh to other area districts. So, we put this one together uh showing the percentage of population under the age of 18 from each of the last three censuses. And the rankings don't change that much. Uh Tiger, Twolitin is has been pretty close to its neighbors in in Lake Asiggo and Beaverton in terms of the the share falling from about 25% to 21%. uh in those over those censuses, but Sherwood kind of stands out in a class by itself in terms of the high percentage of of uh children. The student generation rates on the left uh showing about 4,000 housing units that were built between 2015 and 2024. And there are over 900 uh Tiger Talon students living in those those housing units.

093That's uh 644 in in single families and 270 in multifamilies. But the rate per unit is is pretty low. uh less than one student in every three new single families and less than about one in every seven multif family units. Uh the one thing that stands out here is there have been several uh incomerestricted affordable housing developments recently. And uh if we assume that all the students who live in those are living in units that with two or more bedrooms, which is generally true uh when we've been able to get drill down that far, we can see, you know, 66. So, every hundred new two-bedroom units, uh, there's 66 Tiger Development students. Uh and on the right the map of the development that we've uh accounted for you see a lot of blue squares in

094the Tiger Triangle in the Durham attendance area and a lot of yellow circles in meaning single family developments subdivisions in the Kingston Terrace and Tiger Terrace or River Terrace uh in Deer Creek and Art Rutkin. Uh, and the list comes next. You can peruse that in detail. We didn't There's a a couple there that we didn't put on the map because they're not quite uh in in the pipeline yet, but they're in this list. Uh so next the historical enrollment and this is where we can see almost every grade in the current school year is the lowest that it's been in in this period and the the K12 decline of of 380 students was a lot more than we expected. Uh but interesting. It's very similar to the decline that your neighbors in Beaverton and

095Westland Wilsonville experienced. The Tiger Telton lost 3.4% K12 students. Uh Beaverton 2.7% Westland Wilsonville 2.9% and the the uh kindergarten decline in Beaverton was just about the same as Tiger 12 and the 5% smaller than last year's kindergarten. So, you know, when I saw that, uh, we just got to got to thinking that, you know, it's might be linked with our economy because there's been uh, you know, difficult uh, economic times in a lot of the major industries in in this area. Uh and ne next uh transfer rates uh the number of students coming from out of inside the district is about 2 and a half% and the number uh going to schools other than their attendance area school about 9%. And we drill we drill down to uh elementary in the next slide. Uh

096couple of things that stand out here on the Art Rutkin line. Those uh from Deer Creek students still attending Deer Creek and Mary Woodward. Most mostly the fifth graders who who were able to stay at their previous school. But the other highlights from this ta table are that uh the Bridgeport two-way immersion program that column showing where kids are coming from about twothirds of the students who are non-residents at Bridgeport two-way immersion are coming from Byum or Twolitin elementarymentaries and in the Mezer TWWI column uh about half of the non-residents are coming from uh Tiger uh Charles F. Tiger. Uh but generally close to 90% of students from each attendance area attend their resident elementary school and we we geocode the students every year. So it's maybe a little different than any kind of intra

097intradistrict transfer data that you have. uh but it's based on student addresses. Next uh same for 68. Very few uh students who aren't attending their neighborhood middle school and at the high school level. Uh next slide is about 88% attending their neighborhood high school. a few more going from the Twitin about twice as many going from Towelin High School attendance area to Tiger High School then going the other way. Uh next here's uh where the forecast begins and we're expecting a little in the middle scenario a little increase in kindergarten. uh that uh this year's uh the the ratio to previous births was uh lower than it was in 2024. Uh taking a middle ground there, but we see for the next four years we have pretty stable kindergarten enrollment staying below 700. Uh and

098then there was an uptick in births in the for the first time in the most recent birth data on that top row, the 24 25 births that we get from the Oregon Health Authority that are uh by place of residents of of mothers giving birth for there was actually a bit of an increase from uh 856 last year to 891 in the most recent year. So that's one uh encouraging sign that we're we're keeping pretty close to that level. Uh next there's of course low, middle, and high. And given the the recent uh experience, a lot of districts are wanting to look at a low forecast for especially for budgeting purposes. So uh in this low forecast we assume that the the birth the K to birth ratio is is staying close to where it

099is uh this year and births or kindergarten remains below 700 for the entire 10-year forecast. Uh next grade progression ratios. So the column uh 24 25 to 25 26 that shows why uh a major reason besides the drop in kindergarten major reason that uh the K12 total was so much lower is there was some cohort loss in every grade from fifth grade up to 12th grade. And that's really unusual. You can see all those those greens that are closer to 1.01 1.02 02. That's when you're gaining students from one grade to the next. Uh this year, uh first, second, and third grade weren't too bad, but from uh or second, third, and fourth grade weren't too bad, but from fifth grade on up, uh some some losses that were pretty much uh very unexpected. So,

100uh the forecast, the middle, again, this is a middlei middle scenario forecast. uh tempered a little bit more uh by the most recent uh year. You can see we're not expecting cohort growth at those grades from 5th through 8th. And uh so for the middle scenario uh the one-year enrollment decline for next year is is about 220 uh about a thousand over the 10-year period. The low forecast uh almost as much uh decline as as this year and uh over 300. And then the high forecast shows a loss of about 100 for next year and only about 300 for the 10-year period. And the details are on the following uh following charts which you can scroll through the Yeah, I'll move on to the well either one. The lower the middle the middle ones next.

101Uh if you can see the green shading, I mean this this really explains a lot about the K12 decline because even with uh pretty stable uh K5 enrollment uh at least not as much decline as the other grades. The the darker shades are the bigger uh cohorts. So your your very biggest cohort right now is 12th grade. uh second biggest cohorts 11th grade. Uh so as those students graduate the K12 total declines with you know many fewer kids coming in at the kindergarten level. And uh finally uh oh yeah this is uh of note the we are finally uh because Kingston Terrace is finally coming online. We are now including it in the individual school forecasts. So you can see Deer Creek especially uh a few years from now starts to gain enrollment and it's

102the only one that's increasing significantly. Also some increase in Art Rutkin. There still is a lot more uh to build in in River Terrace, but it's come along so slowly that that some of the initial housing is already, you know, families are already aging out from that initial housing. And we haven't yet uh lay layered in the river Terrace 2.0 uh which you know may very well be happening within the horizon of these forecasts but because we don't have those details yet uh they're not included in the individual schools forecasts. And finally we evaluate accuracy. Uh and we had forecast a decline this year of about 100 in the middle scenario about 200 in the low scenario but the reality was 380. So that's uh last year's uh similar chart was a lot more accurate

103than this. So it is this year was truly unexpected. And if there's any questions or discussion, you know, this would be a great time for it. So, I think the the major takeaway that I'm seeing is that birth rates are declining or staying flat. All of the new housing we're seeing going in is not being filled with families with children, but instead with dual income, no kids types. Um, and until we get family housing that is within the financial reach of families, there's probably not going to be much change to our forecast. Is that a fair assessment? >> Yeah, unless the housing development accelerates, >> which yeah, >> possible, but not right now in this current market. I think it's slow everywhere. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. Director Rustin, you had something. >> Um, a

104couple things. When I was reviewing this um a couple days ago, um it looked like the single family like three-bedroom type houses um that had more bedrooms for a larger family were similar to the family multif family housing that had multiple bedrooms. Um, so it didn't sound like it sounded like there was a couple different ways um that development attracted families from what I read. >> Yeah. Well, the the single family most of them I assume have three or more bedrooms. Uh that information is a little harder to come by uh from the sources that we use. Uh but but they yeah the income restricted that 32 in in uh figure six that that's overall for income restricted. So that's a mix of studios, one bedrooms, two bedrooms, three bedrooms and uh that that same

105and that is similar to the single family detached rate. >> Okay. >> So uh but the the market rate apartments, you know, have much fewer students uh than and and this is true for new market rate. Interesting thing, if we were to look at at older housing, we'd see lower uh student generation in single family and higher in multif family because the multif family gets more affordable as it ages. So that that's the newest multif family, the newest market rate multif family is very expensive and prohibitive for families with children. >> Okay. Yeah. because that's not that because it is a couple of options. If you look at single family detached, it's 33 and if you look at income restricted, it's 32. So, it's very similar for those two options even though they're >> they're

106different, but it they're both attracting families. >> Bel mentioned your neighboring districts have higher uh numbers of students per single family detached home. >> Okay. Um, another thing I thought I'd mention is um something we might consider over time. um we're looking sort of sort of okay with um with a combination of an aging population and um and some new development, but over time if we start to have declines um I know California, I believe, instituted um like they're calling it TK where um they're basically having preschool on site and that helps fill up the schools so you're serving more kids. um but in the same building. So, it's doing something good with those buildings. And so, that's a policy um that Oregon could really benefit from because we're headed in that direction. So, just

107wanted to mention that. >> Yeah, Washington is doing that, too. [laughter] >> And we're doing that with a number of our schools. We have preschools. Um thank you so much. This is a ton of information. I always love hearing your report. It's so thorough and it's fascinating to see over time how things have changed in this district. It it boggles my mind that there's only three students per sing [laughter] because that was not the same 15 years ago. Um but thank you very much. >> Okay, thank you. >> Okay, we now move into our action items and director C gets to stay here pretty much all night now. Um, our first action item is to approve our fiscal year 20267 budget calendar. >> Yes, it wouldn't be January if we weren't wrapping up the audit

108and then immediately two agenda items later talking about budget. So on page 93, we have a summary memo, but the content of the publicly facing budget calendar, which complies with local budget law, starts on page 94, just reflecting calendar updates. Um, a notable change might be item seven where we're retooling our community budget workg groupoups, pushing those a little bit back later in the year to have updated um, numbers and scenarios for community members to provide feedback to. And we'll also be doing a condensed version of community budget workg groups on request to meet with different affinity groups or PSOS who might not be able to commit to a progressive three series structure but would still like to know where the district is financially. So anyways if the board approves um this calendar does require

109board approval. >> Are there any questions or comments? Director Weston, >> I think you said this, but I didn't quite catch it. Um, which is the meeting that um will include kind of trade-offs, preferences, and priorities um for discussion for board members, budget committee members, or members of the public. >> Yeah, thank you. So, all um budget committee members are invited to attend the community budget workg groups. Those are currently scheduled to be March 4th, 18th, and April 1st. We um are finalizing the agenda, but we're going to do some baseline um a baseline exercise with community members at that first meeting on March 4th. It's um we're going to kind of look at agnostic educational initiatives just to kind of establish a baseline of parent and student voice regarding um priorities. And then on

110April 1, we'll be able to bring updated TTSD specific scenarios for people to provide feedback on. And so um and then of course everyone is invited to the community the budget committee meeting and that is on Thursday May 14th. >> Thank you. >> I move to approve the 2026 27 budget calendar as presented. >> Second. It's been moved by Vice Chair Irvin, seconded by Director Heimes that we approve the 20 26 27 budget calendar as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Our final action item of the night is the approval of the SIA grant agreement with embedded longitudinal growth targets. >> Yes. And this starts on page 235 of your packet. Um, you know, the

111student investment accounts as part of the student success act really promote transparency and specifically district plans based off of community feedback. Part of our application which we shared earlier in the spring under Dr. McCall's um leadership was including longitudinal growth targets and what we were proposing to work on with OD. Consequently, OD requests that boards um proactively approve the grant agreement, including the funding amount um but also specifically those longitudinal growth performance targets. And so we provided a copy of the grant agreement and a summary memo of the packet. Um just request approval or we'd also like can answer any questions. Are there any questions? Thank you for doing this work. Keeps us out of trouble. >> Oh, [laughter] what was somebody's watching YouTube over there? >> Yes. Chair would entertain a motion. I move

112to approve grant number 39318 student success act student investment account and the embedded longitudinal growth plan targets as presented. >> Second. >> It's been moved by director urban vice chair and seconded by directors that we approve the grant. What was [laughter] I don't have the motion in front of me. I'm sorry. >> Where did you state of Oregon grant agreement student success act? Thank you. the state of Oregon great grant agreement student success act student investment account grant number 39318 as presented that'll teach me to be on the wrong page when [laughter] you guys make the motion [gasps] um is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor please say I >> I all those opposed motion carries unanimously thank you >> thank you >> and my apologies all right and with that

113We are adjourned.