001Seeing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Passed. Unanimous. >> Superintendent evaluation templates. I think we just decided that we're going to uh have a work session before the next meeting. >> Yeah, we just discussed um how that looks. We have sever I gave you several examples in your board packet what's been used in the past. um and uh what we would like to see going forward and um I think we we should probably have a work session to come up with some different ideas, some input, some different questions. I don't think that the those are really great examples because they don't really fit what's all going on right now. So, um I think we'll work it look at maybe having a work session before regular session in April, but
002please review those templates and if you get a chance, maybe shoot me some questions that you would like to see so we can have something maybe kind of put together before that meeting so we can get the ball rolling on that. Next up, uh the OGC filing statement for economic interest. >> Yeah. So, it is a um a law that uh as you serve as a public board member, you need to have um filed what's called a statement of economic interest as a public entity um member. And that has to be filed through the state by April 15th. Um, if you're a new board member, you probably got emailed a token um, if you do not have that or whatever because that's going to give you access to answer those questions. I gave you a
003pamphlet um, a guide on how to go in and fill out that um, that statement of economic interest. Um, and so if you have any problems, let me know. I can help um get you going on that and or um give you the information who you need to contact if if your token has expired um or whatever. But it does need to be filed by April 15th. Uh they do they say they can um charge up to $5,000 fine if you do not file that. So please be diligent in getting that in. They'll start sending you reminders if you haven't done so already, gotten some in your email if you haven't filed that. And basically it's just a statement. Um you've you filed it before, right? You've had to do it. Yes. >> David and
004I both called in. >> Yeah. >> I'm like it's just easier sometimes just to call in. And >> it was it was simple when we called >> simple questions, but they're basically making sure you're not um gaining any financial gains or anything from serving in your position as a board member. So um those are the questions that they have to have on file that you answered. You have to report all the pizza here >> cookies. >> Do we have an HMK construction update? >> We do. So, a couple things tonight we need to take care of. One, >> um they've had we've lost our girl Amelia with HMK. She's moved on. So, Paul is our front and center now with that. And so, um, bit of a an agenda challenge we presented ourselves with is
005April was inadvertently left off the, uh, GMP paperwork. So, um, Royy's going to amend the agenda, uh, for decision item on the GMP, um, for a decision later on in the meeting. We also have Paul here um to talk us through a couple different things around that that process. So want to go ahead and amend the agenda or you want to talk first? >> Let's let Paul go through. >> Yeah. >> All right. Yeah. So a couple of uh key things that took place this month or last month month of February. Uh we met with the city council um or the city council met we we I think we got a great outcome with regards to the discussion that we've been having with them over course of the last several months. Uh they >> kidding
006me incredible >> sorry >> it was an incredible outcome. >> It was a great outcome. >> $400 million >> quart million save. [laughter] Um so we took uh yeah went down from 245 $245,000 down to estimated to around between 10 and 15,000 is my rough estimate on actual cost for staff time probably going to be less than that. I'm just I'm a conservative estimator. So I think it's a great great win for the for the district and I think um it really uh means we can put more money to the project itself which is great. Uh one uh so with with good news I you know I have some not so good news. The project did bid higher than we were anticipating. Uh so we went out to the market we got received 159 bids
007over over the uh 32 divisions across the board. Uh we came in uh higher than we were anticipating and some key areas specifically mechanical um mechanical controls uh electrical and um and um >> geotech and sort of the structural elements of the the uations. Yeah. So those key areas we uh we we saw high numbers and we were planning for. So what that does is yes we got a win but we also that win was offset slightly. So um we take we take it as we as it comes. So um so I do have some numbers to present to you tonight. Uh the GMP uh recommendation to award to triplet wellman for for the bond program. um you have that in front of you as well as for uh alternate prices for alternate ad that
008or add alts that you can add to the project. I have those alternates here and Mike has them up on the screen as well. So alternate one represents uh complete classroom renovation. Sorry. Alternate one is the site a full courtyard paving between the new addition [clears throat] and east wing outdoor gathering and instructional space. So that's where the new the new um proposed addition and then where it's grass between there and the band room and art room will remain grass or this alternate would then concrete that. So it' be more of a hardcape in there. alternate two is just some aesthetic wood paneling in the high school and elementary school with vestibule. Um it's like a a ninewood paneling. It's it's really just to give it an aesthetic look. Um it's um I'd say it's
009a a like to have as opposed to a mustave. My interpretation [clears throat] of it, it's a the architects like to embellish and we like to make sure we get the the core of the project done before we we beautify. So >> yeah, and that was, you know, one of the themes as we designed, if you remember, was making sure we represented our timber industry and our native culture. And so that wood piece was kind of an element. And then up here on the on the screen, you can see where um you know, this is wrapping around those high school bathrooms. Um if you can imagine, this is uh Adam and Zoe's room, Aria's room. Our new office will be here. anywhere there's yellow here and at the this is the elementary vestibial they had
010these wood accent walls so Paul's point those are kind of nice to have versus must haves alternate three is a complete classroom innovation of a 34 to to basically bring that up to a usable or like bring that up to a like a more functioning teaching space it's currently not part of base scope um but you know to Mike's point I think It's a um be a betterment to those. >> Yeah, if I had to choose one alternate that I would be putting as a priority, it would be this one, which is this room just on the other side of this wall. Um you walk, it's a relaxation station or whatever it's called now. But essentially, it's turning it into more of a a classroom. This office would be removed. Um the carpet would be
011removed and polished concrete, but keeping the casework and things like that. So, um, if I had to [snorts] choose one that I would be and and it actually in the scope of the work needs to go this summer when we're doing all our demo and put back so it's ready to go for fall. Um, >> and and then alternate four is a glass sliding door in the commons and student success center. So, the ability to close. >> So, basically, um, this is our existing office. Um, this is where Chris Waggler sits daily. Um, and so if you're looking at it from our commons area as it sits now, these are the doors that go down the hall to the cafeteria. Um, and that is that wall is going to open up. And the idea would
012be to have a sliding storefront in there. So you can close that off and you know if it's noisy in the hall and your counseling center is not getting blown up with hallway noise. So um, this is the existing commons area. This is where Chris sits. This would be where that slide back wall. [clears throat] So, you can use this as a bigger venue. Uh if you need to be. So, it'll be bigger venue. It's whether we put that door in or not. And it's $13,000 or something change. So, there are several contingency pots that we have kept aside to keep safe for this specific scenario. So for appro bidding over budget and the district intent to add additional scope. So I want to list those off for you. Now uh the district has been
013earning investment income on the bond proceeds over the course of the last year while they've been sitting in investment accounts waiting for the project to begin. That current balance is anticipated to be at $139,000 by the time we spend out the project. So that that is funds that you you the board could allocate to the project in order to fund some of these additional projects as well as a unallocated contingency value that is part of the pro project budget. It's currently $147,000. You could use that for some additional projects as well. So we would be asking the board to um to get us so the project did over budget. So we we are asking the board to move funds as a part of the award of the base if that makes sense. So the project
014is about 400,000 over. So we need to draw from some of those contingency items to get us over to base. But there would be additional funds if you chose if you wanted to proceed with one or two of the ultimates as well. That makes sense. And a couple other things to know is we [clears throat] have most of our furniture, classroom furniture, desks and chairs and things like that ready to go because we HMK uh hooked us up with a vendor that was liquidating some stuff really cheap. I think it was actually free. Um and so we we have that in storage ready to go. So f uh furniture fixtures, we need to do our office areas and our culinary kitchen. So we have about 250,000 in that for FF and E um which is
015pretty significant for that. So um my recommendation would be to uh and and three of the four can be add alternates at a later date if we're doing great on our budget. I would I would recommend to the board to approve the GMP with the approval of that classroom work which is alt three um just because it needs to go in the scope this summer. >> That's the project right there. >> That's right here in this room um in that process. The rest of them can they're more aesthetic and we can add those as we go or um after we close out the bond we can contract out differently on that as well. So they're nice to haves, but while we're demoing and they're polishing concrete and they're removing carpet, it makes the most financial
016sense to do that um at this point. And then as we buy down our risk in the project, um I've done this enough times to know that until you get out above dirt, um and based on our geotech here, um that that's my concern in that process. And if we put an alt in, we can pull the alt out. Uh but it's harder pricing wise to get it in at a later date without dealing with escalation costs. So, um, just because we're voting it in doesn't mean that we're totally committed to it, particularly until we get going on some of the dirt stuff. >> Can you explain, especially new bodies, the geotech what we ran into? >> Yeah, we have what's called fatty clay, which uh I was like, wow, that's a new term for
017me. But essentially, what I think they took everything from this elementary parking lot, pushed it out that way, and then built a school on it. Um in today's engineering standards um it they have to do these uh aggregate peers. So they drill a big hole and then fill them with gravel which is basically um what you would do like with concrete uh piles or things like that. So those are spec to go 20 some feet deep and there's multiple of those to carry that wing out there. So that added an escalation of probably about $120,000 from the projected cost um in that process. So um >> who would have thought? >> Yeah. Well, we knew we had sketchy dirt just because when we did the pavilion down here, we ran into that same same material.
018So I think that when they redid the track, >> it was a mess down there too for a while until they got that under control. We have trucks sink trucks. >> So, um, [clears throat] you know, we own we own a great place for pottery, [laughter] >> I guess. I don't know what it means, but it costs money to build on it. Um, once we get above that, I and then I think we did make some choices internally in the pricing um to make sure that we stayed with our same uh Johnson Controls. uh they were specking a a different uh provider but our whole system is Johnson Controls which is all our building automation and we didn't want to mix systems in that um and and we have a really good relationship with NCC
019so you know and out of re out of uh sanity for my maintenance people and and having consistency um we went ahead and and spec uh project to carry those same brand of controls and same system >> and Adam has done a lot of research and I think >> Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean I wasn't going to >> he felt like Yeah. Let's >> I've done this enough times down the road and >> you buy bad controls. >> Yeah. Replace controls down the road. So I think that was a good good fix. And actually, I think the some of [clears throat] the input we got was from our folks out at the tribe that just had Snider Controls put in out there at the new and they were like, "Yeah, I don't know if we
020would do that again." >> So, so to summarize to to award base bid plus alternate three, it would exhaust your interest earn it would exhaust your unallocated design contingency. So the contingency we had allocated for this specific event and it would also uh take a portion of the unused permit fees that we saved from the permit fee um discussion and allocate that to the project in order to fund this this award. It would still leave you with a half a million dollars of construction contingency to manage any unforeseen conditions during construction and $200,000 for furniture to fit out the classrooms post construction. >> And of that 200,000 you're thinking we can save >> um I don't know. I have to meet with the our vendor uh through HMK, their furniture person. Um one of my
021one of my goals is to always put new and new new furniture in new spaces. Um and so um we need to meet and kind of get a a ballpark on like secretary desks and office desks and things like that. So I think we're going to be okay on that. Um but classroom furniture um we are good on. I just need so like three teacher desks. Um and then we're also writing a grant uh the community fund grant at the tribe for our culinary. We met with their culinary folks out there and they encouraged us to to apply for that. So that could offset because that's culinary is a big a bigger ticket um when you start looking at cold storage and um different things like that. So, but I I feel pretty good where
022we're at right now with that recommendation. Any other questions? >> Because this was not on the agenda, we need to amend. >> You can you can go ahead and do that. Yeah. So I move to amend the agenda to include the decision decision item on amendment one guaranteeing maximum price to triplet wellman for the capital bond project. >> Second David. >> Okay. It's been moved and seconded to uh amend the agenda to include the decision item on amendment one guaranteeing maximum price to triple Wellman for the capital bond project. All in favor or any discussion? >> You're just moving it down to number seven >> and it will be added at number seven. All in favor please say I. I >> opposed. Motion passes. And then we have to do this one as well >>
023when we get down to decision items. >> Okay. What's he saying? >> Yeah. Pretty much. >> And consent. >> Uh consent agenda. [snorts] I have a motion to accept the conent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent agenda as pres presented. Second. >> I second. >> It's been probably moved and second to accept the consent consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? None. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion passes. Superintendent report. >> All right. I'm going to be brief. um celebrating some great student successes. I think we had uh a co-op cheer that we co-op with Sheridan third [clears throat] at nationals. >> Yeah. >> And what was really interest like Newport was there and they won it, right? >> Yeah. Different divisions. >> Different divisions. So, cheer is alive and well
024in Western Oregon, I guess. >> Eight teams from Oregon. >> Yeah. >> Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. Congratulations. uh wrestling. Our our boys team was fifth at state and we had a couple champions, a runner up and some other places and you know that's always interesting when we consider that a an average year for [laughter] you know but they're already talking about next year we can probably pull off yada yada. So um that was good. Um, we did a community listening with uh the tribe uh parents or uh that was through some of our title uh six stuff where we um met with a parent group and they just kind of got a give us their thoughts on how things are going with our school and and students and um we learned a lot in there.
025I'll debrief that with our principles once we get those notes. Um but it was it was good. there's some honest conversation in there um and some things we can clean up and grow with in that and how kids are are feeling and perceiving school and you know I think we we've done a lot of work there and uh there's still some things we can we can still clean up in that in that discussion uh that'll help us with parents. One of the things they were excited about was um our calendar change for next year. No late start Mondays. They're like thank you. Mhm. >> Um they thought that was going to be a huge win on their deal. Um working on a summer school grant. Uh we do that every year. Uh I'm working with
026the town on the paving. Um I walked the campus with uh town manager [clears throat] and the mayor and explained to them like you're going to make us pave all this stuff and then I'm going to have to tear it out when we really pave it down the road. And so, um, we've been trying to get creative with, um, parking and different things like that. And, uh, what what constitutes a parking lot versus a gravel place on your campus. And it comes down to striping, I think. So, uh, if I don't put stripes on gravel, it may not be a parking lot. Might save me a lot of work and paint in parking lots. So, I'm I'm working through that. Should have an answer on it this week. But um that paving piece could also
027be part of that um discussion of leftover bond money as we get closer to the end of that. Last week was classified employee week and our staffs did a great job of recognizing our uh folks that take care of uh you know, our instructional assistants, our secretaries, and uh just different things like that. Um we had our first secondary literacy night. Uh we had about a hundred parents show up uh and Cassie was there with uh her crew and I I thought in general it was a pretty good turnout for secondary not knowing that we've never done it before. We have a couple local authors that were there um one gentleman's a tribal police officer. Is that right? >> Yeah. So >> TK yeah so he but kids were all over that. They thought it
028was so cool that he had published books and um kids were able to take as many books as they could. I actually made a rule for every piece of pizza you ate that night, you had to take four books home. Um so a lot of kids were packing stuff out mainly because we don't want to store it all. We'd rather have it in the hands of kids. Um we have a new literacy coach at at the elementary level who's hitting the ground running. She was part of that. Um, our new pavilion is already like doing a great uh great thing where all our mats are in there right now. So when they're down there practicing, jumping and it's raining or sprinkling um all our equipment staying dry, they can actually throw out of that towards
029the shot put pit um and stay out of the water. Uh so um we're we're getting we're getting some good use out of that right now. Um, baseball. Um, we are working co-op. Um, and I just heard we might be being asked to absorb softball as well. Do you want to talk to that at all? >> Sure. Um, for baseball, um, we unfortunately lost our coach the day practice started. Um, and so we were in a pickle on only having nine athletes. do we fight for this new coach position or do we reach out? Um and the basketball coach has graciously said, "Let's work together. Let's figure it out." So, um softball today we are down to five athletes. Um the we can keep trying or we can give all five are seniors. We don't
030want them to lose out on a year because of it and we would love to possibly co-op as well. So, I'm Sarah. I'm the athletic director at Sheridan. Sorry if I didn't intrigue this. >> Yeah. Yes. >> You know, that's the interesting piece is >> um >> yeah, you you don't want to see any kid lose out an opportunity, particularly their senior year. So, I have compassion for that. Yeah. >> Um, you know, the the piece though that um Dererick and I were talking and of course you weren't in the conversation is um you know, we're absorbing these programs and kids and like baseball, we're going to have to add more uniforms [snorts] and you know, so it's like um sounds like Dory and I need to have a conversation about longer term like is
031there some kind of agree and I don't know if there's agreements out there around um you know sharing coaches or salaries, you know, I don't know, but that's on the back end of It's kind of evened itself out because we do co-op for soccer. Um, we supply both coaches for soccer um, in the fall and during the cheerleading year, we supply two coaches to the one coach. So, we're hoping that it'll even itself out. We also do have athletics funds that we can help with our particular athletes if they need to be uniformed or anything, especially because of the last minute request. >> Yeah. >> So, we'd be willing to help in any way. >> Okay. Well, I will ask you to work with Derek on that. >> Absolutely. So, um, but yes, >> how
032does that affect? So, do we absorb their enrollment then for classification? >> And it does like right now, Dererick and I were talking about that today. It doesn't bump us up. So, it like Yes, you're right. We have to combine our enrollments, but because of the way the classifications are there, we're low >> in the technically a two-way school and so our ADMs are fairly low. >> Yeah. Okay. But yeah, that would and that would pretty much kill a deal if it you know because then you're getting bumped into a different league and travel different and >> you know so that's the first thing we look at is is that for sure >> and then coaching too. Who's do we split the cost of coaching or >> we do have currently two coaches prepped and
033ready for softball that are willing to come and help since there will be additional members. Um, so we'd be willing to continue to supply that stuff. [clears throat and cough] Um, that's a great question for baseball. I'd love to work with our superintendents to make sure that's done properly. >> And like I said, we'll get Derek to figure that out with you and [clears throat] see what see what's logical because I know that you guys did do soccer and a few things. So, >> um, >> yeah, >> we have 60 days or less than 60 days to graduation, but are you counting? >> I got too much on my plate to count. >> Um, [laughter] We would love to know if you're going to be attending graduation and uh if you would like to be
034a part of that. I've had board members that have uh handed out diplomas and shook hands and some people like to just go and be in the stands with family. Uh some people prefer not to to come to graduation. So, uh we did change the time this year. Um it's going to be in the morning at 10:00 versus in the afternoon. Um, which is kind of a a major shift for us, but that kind of gets the day rolling and weather can be better. >> I don't know. >> Not as windy. And >> it's a 50/50 rain day. >> But we are set up to go outside. We do have those new set of bleachers. So, we shouldn't have anybody on the track except our ADA folks uh that choose to be down that way.
035So, we should have plenty of of stands this year. Um, and we are picking up a few more students as we move into the second term. Um, I have pricing being I've asked our uh vendor for another pricing on another travel bus. If you remember last year, we talked about two and we chose to buy one. Lisa and I were looking at our bus replacement fund. Um, but we have a couple that are uh starting to not nickel and diamond us, but actually need bigger uh bigger maintenance uh challenges. And um our new one is doing really well and so I'm going to at least ask for bus pricing and see um what they come up with because I think we can get in on the tail end of the 20 fives and maybe pick
036up a better deal than waiting for down the road. And then uh we're a week and a half or somebody told me today 8 days from spring break. It's exciting. So um >> travel bus is the mini bus. We'll be a mini bus. >> I have a bus question. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> Is there anything that precludes why do we have to park the buses out there in front of the district office? There a contract issue. Can we park them someplace else? >> Um the electrics are behind the greenhouse. You know that, right? >> Yeah. So we have five down behind [clears throat] the hill. these I I guess they've always been parked there. >> Well, that's so I was coaching. Yeah. Wrestling when they started that and all it does is create chaos
037there for people coming in for the district office or coming for wrestling pract. So I was like why do we park them up front there when we've got all this gravel lot like that they could park in the back. >> So that's just a I don't know if anybody's ever looked at it but >> Tina's office is at the end of our building and I don't know if that's part of it. >> Okay. I can research it. And >> yeah, I was just that's one of my things I was like, I don't know why we parked all those buses there, but they kind of take up a bunch of space where they could >> one of the things I'm >> been kind of kicking the tires on is if you can visualize where um the
038the pave parking out here and that there's kind of a a corner that's grass that goes to the elementary parking. Um, I've been working on some designs to um, gravel that with no lines and I'm waiting for the town to tell me if that constitutes it being a parking lot and then I would have to pave it. Um, we also talk about uh this island area out here >> in the bus loop and and kind of tapping into that for visitor parking um and getting some of that stuff off the side over there that kind of clogs up that whole um evening use gym stuff. So, if I can get that out there where I can park my juniors and seniors out there with the new office being facing that way, we'd have line of
039sight to student parking. Sorry. >> Um, and then I could put staff and uh buses in the back in that process, which would free that up. So, it's on my radar. I just >> I got But we got this construction stuff that's going to displace a lot of us for a bit. So, I have a grand I have a grand parking scheme. I just need to know if it has to be paved or not because that's the pricing that gets expensive. So, >> thank you. >> Yeah, >> I noticed that, too. So, I'm glad you brought it up. >> Well, and what's odd is when when this campus was developed, we own all the street that goes all the way down to the stop sign. And so we have an easement on both sides of
040that or we actually own up like 15 feet off of the curb. So all the development that happens up here, they have to cross us. So um there's some real estate deals to be had. I think that I'm kind of kicking the tires on that would allow us to be um looking at some different configurations without tipping my hand too much. [laughter] So, it's on for sure on the radar. >> The only other question I had was the track pavilion. Now, there have been some kids going down for recess. >> I don't know that it's been offered. I think there were some middle school or teachers that took just taking them down there. But if they've got track stuff in there, is that going to be kind of a handsoff space or >> I don't
041>> because I think we promoted the community that it would be covered playground and track shed and if we just have all the track stuff in there, we might be hearing we don't want elementary kids down there. they'll jump on the mats cuz it was always an issue when they were out out there to keep the kids off the mats. And so >> now they're out of sight, out of mind. >> Yeah. >> So if you get complaints, have [clears throat] we'll we'll we'll deal with it. >> Do you want me to bring up >> or do you have your computer? >> Uh I [clears throat] do. Or you can bring it up too if it's already hooked up and everything. >> Where's it hooked up? >> I thought I shared it with you. >>
042Oh, maybe you did. I don't know. >> Look real quick. We could do the social studies. I don't have the agenda. >> I have social studies. >> Or you I'll just hand you the clicker. Here you go, Booker. All this technology. There you go. I didn't get to do this last time. Okay. What do you guys prefer if I stand up or just kind of do it over here? Um, all right. So, tonight I'm going to present on the uh on the middle school much like I did on the in the fall. Hold on. All right. Here we go. Let's see. Uh oh. Give it a second. >> Give it a second. >> I trust you, Mr. >> Yeah. >> And we're back. >> Hey, here we go. All right. So, tonight I'm just going
043to present on the uh on the middle school. Since we met last time, uh Mr. Mike Solom kind of moved into the role as the vice principal over there and he spends a good portion of his day over there now um helping out especially in the discipline realm. Um moving on to new staff. I think it's been mentioned numerous times. We now have a 6 through 12 literacy coach. That's Marcela. Um she's done a tremendous job. Um just as mentioned we had over 100 people here for the lit night. Um just today it rolled out there's going to be a summer reading program that'll take place where students will pick uh various novels to read over the course of the summer which is another amazing thing that she's done. Um we are are also adding
044starting next Monday um Trinity Lino will be our new TAP coordinator and she is going to help us with uh attendance with our tribal students. um twofold on that. She's also working on her masters in social work. So, she'll be here to help us kind of with attendance as well as just kind of some social emotional issues that may arise with our secondary students, which I feel will be a huge uh addition to our staff. Um but she'll be here, yeah, three days, Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Fridays starting next week. Also, um it's kind of odd how the world works. Um, my little brother, although everybody says he looks older than me, which I love that. Um, >> he's sneaking [clears throat] around here somewhere. I saw I >> Oh, he's probably out at the baseball
045field still. >> No, there he goes. Oh, >> sneaking out the hall. >> Okay, >> Ty. >> Um, my younger brother Ty is here um assisting and helping um Heather Hughes um with the Soore and Lead programs. And he u most recently with JJ's resignation um took on the varsity baseball job very last minute. and he's working very hard to put together a staff, put together a team and kind of get things going, which I'm very excited for him to be on campus um and to help us help us out. I don't think we've worked together since we've been she's all the way back at my father's company and we were 18 years old. So, that's kind of a great addition to the staff. Um also, Mr. Zach Sap um is our new director director
046of special education. He comes from the Falls City uh school district with numerous years of experience um and has done just such a tremendous job working with our students and our staff and our parents. Um his disposition with the with the kids is amazing. And then he also has with him uh Benny who the kids have fallen in love with as kind of a service animal. Benny goes everywhere around campus and it's kind of fun to see. So, you can see we've had some uh significant changes in staff just since last time. Um enrollment, um as you can see, we're kind of down from last year, but since I put this together, oddly enough, we're up six students. So, that kind of just shows you guys it's ever changing, ever evolving. I mean, for instance,
047we had another high school student start today. Um so, it's just kind of es and flows. we'll lose a few, then we gain six, then we gain one, and then after spring break, we'll probably see another influx of of students enrolling. [clears throat] Um, in terms of attendance, this is the one thing that is um a bit of a a bit alarming to me. Um, 49% of our students um are considered chronically absent at this point. And that's that's a huge push as to why we brought on Trinity to help us with attendance. um that means that we have almost 50% of our students missing at least 10 school days um throughout this school year. Now, what falls into that? Say you go on a family vacation um and you're gone for an entire school
048week, that counts against us, even if it's excused. Now, if you're gone for athletics, you're gone for a school field trip, that doesn't count, but a family trip would. But yes, our attendance is the one thing that we definitely see as a as a weakness at this point and that we're working on every day. Um, discipline. It's really hard to see. I wish I had like laser pointer. Uh, hold on. I'm pretty quick at this. So, here's where we are right here. So, you guys can see beginning here. Set the tone. Boom. Down. Down. And now we're right here. Um, so we are down in terms of disciplinary measures that have taken place. Um, and I can say after analyzing the data today, most of those are minor incidents, which is uh exciting for me
049to see. Mr. Soomn does an amazing job over there working with those uh those students on discipline. >> Oh, wrong way. >> All right. So then, real quick, just looking at our diagnostics in math and ELA. Here is our initial scores. Um, green, good, red needs improvement. But as you can see, we start to see more and more green. And same thing here, green is growth. Very, very dark red. Less and less of that. As you can see at the end of semester 1, boom, that dark red is gone in terms of our growth in ELA. Amazing to see. Um, same holds true here. And then in math, you can see we've had 30 students that have moved out far below their grade level just in math. So that's that's a significant increase considering our
050enrollment numbers are at, you know, 165 students and 30 have already got out of that category. Now moving [clears throat] on to ELA. Green is good. Now you can see as a district at the middle school level we're significantly better in ELA more green this [clears throat] not a big of an increase but yes 13 more students have moved out of that category. Um kind of what's exciting for me is this is right there with what Marcela is doing is um we've moved into creating um these one pagers creating literacy showcases. If you walk into a classroom at the middle school now you can see books and novels and atlases and things on the students desks. They are reading on a daily basis now. And I can truly say um at the beginning of the
051year that's something I didn't see. And now if you just go in, boom, and there's there's books everywhere. So fun to see. Um, just kind of an update. This is from Mrs. Height. Um, they're working on steady growth, different things. Just got done reading Harry Potter, the Hunger Games, and um, also they're using the intervention read 180. Um, and then we'll get into just a few of our new clubs. So, with our new culinary arts uh program, they've started a culinary arts club that meets after school. Right now, they're meeting in the uh concession stand, but we will eventually have a beautiful new facility for them to uh host this club in. We also have a brand new fishing club >> [snorts] >> um that Mr. Cro started um just last month. And also um
052Casey Anderson does an amazing job with our smile club. They meet every single week and come up with a number of different projects um geared around science and math. Um CTE, this is always kind of fun to see. We do this rotation and these young ladies and young men get to learn how to weld. Um obviously beginning with shop safety, the various projects they do in Mr. Wilson's class, they then progress to the wood shop with Mr. niece and do the same thing, working on simple little projects after they've learned all the safety. And then finally, they wrap it up with Mrs. Shank where she works on um animal science with them, breeding, genetics, and all the different uh species of domesticated animals that are out there, which is kind of cool. Like I got
053to go in there one day and was trying to guess all the different deals with the kids, and I did okay. All right. And then just to kind of wrap up, middle school sports, middle school girls basketball, middle school men's basketball, we had uh 17 young men out this year. And then middle school wrestling, uh we had one district champion, um Malachi Savage, and six uh young men and young ladies that wrestled. I will tell you this um before I get to this. I have seen this trend where middle school sports in general kind of shrinking which is alarming to me and I'm trying to figure out and rack my brain how do we get those numbers uh back up. I don't know if it's a statewide issue. I don't know if it's a club
054issue where um these kids are just playing club sports. Um I do know that a lot of students have gone to playing one sport versus three sports and I think it's affecting our numbers. Um, so I need to kind of I just don't know how to re-evaluate and see how we can get the numbers back up. I know the track is going to start next week. Um, that's a misprint. Track starts next week. Um, we're still working on we do have Marley to coach and we're working on a secondary coach right now. And we have 13 athletes out for track at the middle school level right now, but I just compared it to YC U where my son goes to school and they have 32 right now. So, I'm going to try to continue to
055beat the halls, talk talk to all the kids, and see what I can do to get more kids out for track. All right. And then also coming up, which is kind of fun, uh we have outdoor school coming up at Drift Creek Falls Camp with Coil Outside as our as our leaders. We'll be there for three whole days and two nights. You're all invited to come down, hang out, spend the night in the cabins. >> I drop them off and pick them up. [laughter] >> I can't wait. And then we just [clears throat] spoke about it. Marcelo led the literacy night um which was last week. And then kind of another really uh fun new activity at lunch is Mrs. Ston, our brand new counselor, leads what she calls a lunch bunch. And so students
056come and get their lunch uh very early in the lunch process right after the high schoolers get those their lunches and then they go back and they work on um different uh relationship building activities with Mrs. Sexton as well as playing games. And then kind of the last thing is um this is just kind of an incentive trip that we just went on. any student that had a three-point GPA or higher was here 90% of the time or better in terms of attendance and had no disciplinary referrals. Uh we took to Dallas, went bowling and uh played games and ate pizza and uh and just kind of was a great it was a fun activity um for them to all participate in. And the hope is that we have over 50 in the spring semester
057that are qualified to go. [snorts] All right, questions. >> Mr. Whitman. >> Middle school. >> Yes, sir. >> Sixth graders sometimes don't understand that track is one of those sports that they can participate in. Most of them they can't participate until their seventh or eighth graders. So that's you might >> Okay. >> Get the sixth grade classes. >> Yeah. Shoot. Maybe I could just meet with all of them. Um well felt in one big fell swoop and just remind them of that. That's a good reminder. >> Helmet's acquired. [laughter] Yeah. And track's one of those things that you everybody can participate whether it's running, jumping, or throwing. >> All right. Anything else? [snorts] >> Thank you. Yeah, Mr. Hurl. >> No sunburn even, huh? >> Who's this have to go to now? >> Um, travel
058report. >> Do you need it for your social studies? >> No, I was just gonna kind of Angie was going to zoom in or anything from her. So, >> Angie, she had some >> medical stuff. Yeah, I think she's >> Yes, they do. Okay. >> Yeah, >> keep moving. >> Mr. Evan, student report. >> Okay. >> Oh, my computer turned off. >> No pressure. We'll just stay here. >> Did you want to plug it in and throw it on the screen, too? >> No, [laughter] it's a Google doc with words on it. I don't think everyone needs to stay on it. [laughter] I also know a lot of the stuff I went over was already hit by either Mr. Gas or Mr. Hurl, so just going to skip over those. I was honestly expecting to
059have a much shorter report because February is usually a pretty slow month, but there's a lot more going on than I expected. Uh, I don't remember if it was mentioned, but on the middle school side in regards to sports, there's a softball camp coming up on the 20th that the high school softball team will be putting together for kids. I believe it's grades four through eight. So, that's a cool opportunity for the high schoolers to get new experience and for the middle schoolers and the late elementary schoolers to learn about the sport more. Uh, also the middle school has a talent show coming up on the 19th which uh, Mr. Crow's leadership is working on putting together. Uh, not sure exactly on the details of that, but it sounds like they've got a good idea
060going. Uh, with the true bulldog trip, uh, they had 37 kids go, which is pretty impressive. And from talking to Courtney and some of the kids, it sounds like they had a lot of fun and really enjoyed it. Uh on the high school side, uh as stated, we did have wrestlers competing at state a couple weekends back and out of the eight that went there, five of them placed. Uh Kaiser Savage and Adani Smith both placed first in their weight classes and then Landon Roo got second, Grayson Hubard got third and Paige Baker off fourth. Overall, a pretty good showing from our wrestling team. Not that that's a surprise to anyone. Uh the our grade 4 through 12 smile clubs all have smile challenge coming up on uh the 18th of next month uh at
061Oregon State University where each of them or they will all be going together but they each have their own separate challenges with the middle and high schools mixing with other schools to complete their challenge. Uh [snorts] this past weekend we also had our first Sades or Satie Hawkins dance on Saturday and we had a spear week going along with it with the Satie Hawkins dance being a girls her first. So the girls asked the guys out and it was a casual dance and we had a dress up a week of dress up days going along with it last week and we did have a assembly plan but that had to get postponed to this week where we're having a Friday. We also have our annual school carnival coming up next Wednesday on the 18th from
0625 to 8. It's one of our biggest community events so we've been working on it for the past couple months. we have going on the high school gym and we've been working with national junior and national honor as normally put on, but also for the first time we're working with the middle school leadership class to get them involved and having them each have each of the kids help with the booth to start getting hands-on experience early for that and help prepare them uh for high school. Uh we're also looking for donations of baked goods and pop bottles for our cakewalk and pop bottle toss games and trying to find uh local businesses to donate those. Uh I know with secondary literacy and I know it's been talked about a lot but uh got about a
063hundred kids to attend and 350 books got taken home which was pretty good. That's like about three books per kid, which quite a good amount. Uh then on the the 9th, which that's today, uh we had five students from our CTE program go to McMindville to compete in a TIG welding competition where we had uh Landon Langley and Aiden Campbell both won scholarship awards there. Uh about $3,000 between the two of them, which is pretty impressive. And uh our FFA chapter had a bunch of competitions over this past month. Uh there was district back on the February 19th where our parley pro team placed second. Uh Cassidy placed fourth in Creed, Carter got fifth. Then Rebecca and Lucas both competed in exempt speaking where they got fourth and fifth respectively. And then we had district
064competition last week on the 5th where our probably pro team placed third. Uh Rebecca N got sixth in job interview and Elizabeth N got second and beginning public speaking and she'll be moving on to state coming up in next week. It's starting from uh the 19th through the 22nd. And uh we also took fourth in farm business management test and fifth in the co-op quiz. And lastly, uh Rebecca Nice is also now our 2026 2027 lower WAMIT FFA district president. The So that's a cool thing. And we have several students going to attend state convention coming up next week. There you go. >> I went through that really quick. Any questions? Did you go to Satie Hawkins? >> No, I was basically had plans and I was going to get the numbers of how that
065did, but Mrs. Overfield was gone today. So hopefully at the next meeting I can have more specific numbers on how that went. >> Had 25 students from what I understand. >> One of the things we realized that um >> Yeah, that was good. We have not um we've had homecoming dances and proms, but we haven't had like a casual dance, I guess, is the way she framed it. So, our kids really didn't understand or know what to expect with that. So, we think our numbers um you know, it's kind of that postcoid kind of still hangover like things you [clears throat] just assume people would remember. These kids weren't in the they were in middle school when when we probably did our last one. So, some education to do on that for sure. >> Some
066there was a tribal thing going on, too. >> Yeah, they had the was dance. >> Brenda said that the some of the kids went to Satie Hawkins and then they >> ducked over. [clears throat] >> Do they do like a fatheraughter dance type thing? I know they do one do them in like McMinnvilles. >> I haven't seen that on our radar here. So, good idea. Arch routine actually just did it as a fundraiser two weekends ago and it was amazing. >> Yeah, >> we had a lot of fun. >> Good. The fatherdaughter or just a >> fatherdaughter dance? >> Yeah. Thanks. >> I'm going one Saturday for my granddaughter. Daddy daughter, I got invited. [clears throat] >> Uh is there any audience time? Do we have anybody on? >> No. Okay. Uh, reports and social
067studies curriculum. >> So, Jeremy is kind of our leader on that tonight. I sent Sarah home because she was sicker than a dog and I needed her here tomorrow. >> So, go ahead. >> Introducing. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> Well, I thought I'm talking the whole thing. >> [laughter] >> No, we did not agree upon that. >> Cassie. Yeah, give it to him. >> No, at all. Um, through what I figured to be an a very thorough process starting in the fall, uh, with cooperation and participation from Confederated Tribes of Grand Ron, we worked on the adoption of our new social studies curriculum. Um, and throughout that time, we attended a social studies caravan. We had various companies come in to present. We had materials available here at the school district for members of the
068community, members of the tribe to come in and see, fellow staff members. Um, we settled on what used to be Pearson, if you've heard of that, textbook company and is now called Savis. So, this is going to be the curriculum that we as a team, and I like to stress that, as a team have decided to to go with. Um, and just a big part of that I thought was the input of the tribe. And so on behalf of the tribe, Cassie is here to speak on that and then I'll kind of wrap it up after that. >> Hi. So for those of you that don't know me, my name is Cassie Durk and I'm the curriculum coach um out of the tribe. Um previously before working there, I was a social studies teacher for
06918 years. So I've done three textbooks adoptions, you know, previously um in my tenure. And so, um, myself and then Cheyenne height were invited to be part of this process, even though Cheyenne's a language arts teacher here, but just from her background and her expertise. Um, and so we had two different texts that we kind of previewed and audited um, that were here at the school district. And then we attended the day in Salem. we went through the books and really just looking for like accurate portrayals of history representation um things to help you know not just like when I'm looking at this lens it's not just like are native students going to like feel seen and are things being talked about accurately but like all students and so that's something that's really important and
070so there are definitely um some textbooks that are still written in a way that honestly could make it sound like Native American people don't exist anymore and it's wild to say that in 2026 but it's it's true. Um, and so we were able to kind of say, "All right, we know these texts aren't great. Those are the ones that we don't want to look at." And then, um, we kind of focused more closely on two, one being this one. And really, it just seemed like it was going to be a good fit, not only for the like textbook resources, but the online resources. And then looking at they were one of the few programs that does have a K12 social studies. And so if you know depending on what like elementary is doing with middle
071school and high school it will kind of provide um some consistency for students and you know just like the way the formats work and the online stuff and so um we were happy with it. I have used um Pearson in my classroom before um for geography um and I was happy with it in the resources and it seems like things over time um improve on the tech side and so that's always nice but really important to both Cheyenne and I was looking at actually what's the physical textbook like because since co there has been so much online and I really think there's something to be said of having that physical book in your hand and being able to um use that in the classroom. That's something that we both really value um a lot. >>
072The other [clears throat] and so um we we're using this particular vendor in our fifth grade already. Um, in our K4, our literacy curriculum, HM, um, has a lot of integrated social studies in that. And with the um content that we are provided by the tribe in our lower grades, our elementary folks are like, we've got plenty of stuff to draw from in a local context because social studies in younger grades is really about, you know, my community, my um kind of town. And so as it grows, it goes. Um but you know with Cassie and Cheyenne in the role former as a former uh creator um we have really good stuff that is relevant to our kids and our community it represents well and integrates well. So um the investment side as we get
073going will be more at the secondary level in that process and then we'll continue to augment because our uh tribal partners are doing a great job of developing stuff for us. Um and so that's that's a that's a cost savings and a plus for us as well. Um, the last thing I'd like to add is when we did this went through this process, the second vital piece was we vertically aligned all of our curriculum one more time 6 through 12. And um, being a former social studies my teacher myself, I had I couldn't believe that we didn't offer a freshman social studies class. Like ninth graders were not required to take social studies. And so this is the book that we adopted that we will add to the curriculum starting next year. and every freshman
074will now take world geography um as a required class which to me is very very exciting not only as principal um and a and a former social studies teacher but more more than important than that just just a human being. So, this is great. We're doing this curriculum's all aligned again um in a fluent path. We got all the text to go with it. It will be the book as well as the digital licenses as well. And I will get going on um the next part of the process process which is purchasing the curriculum. Any questions about the social studies adoption? >> So, the what's [clears throat] the digital license? >> What does that cost? What is and what does that give us? >> Well, it gives us access to all kinds of different things
075online that you can integrate directly into like Google Classroom that will I mean so basically the entire textbook is going to be on there. Um you can then pull out all kinds of different primary sources for example um maps, charts, data, anything that you want that you can't find in here. The the other reason you get the digital is as fast as the world changes geopolitically, they update the online and you always once you buy that book, it's what it is. >> It's interesting that a lot of textbook companies like if you think back to probably when you were in school, you'd have the world map, the US map, and you know, everything in the front of the books and you would use that as a resource. They're not as heavy with that anymore because
076of the way things are changing. So like that big map section at the back, it is not what it used to be. >> And with the state requirements changing, we were able to add personal finance as well as um civics as well. So civics, personal finance, which are kind of our 112 classes, added this at the freshman level. So it's all going to kind of be in a very uh great sequence now, I guess you could say, within the company adoption. The reason I was asking, ironically, um, I went with Kaylee Kid and we took students over to CHCA and we had a little bit of extra time. So, we're both like, well, let's go take them to the bookstore and show them what college books cost. And the um the gal that was in
077there, she said, "Ironically, most of ours are digital because a book is $250 and they can get the digital and download it for less than 100 bucks." And I went, "Okay, actually makes good sense." And like you said, once it's printed, it's printed. So that's why I was curious. >> Yeah. And with every student supposedly most of them having a Chromebook. >> I don't think so at the middle school level. >> Yeah. At the middle school level, Chromebooks are not one-on-one. >> Right. >> Yeah. Right. >> So I can tell you right now with the quote I got. So these are roughly $115 a book. And then for digital licenses you can buy out to five years which drives the price down. So yeah, the the days of like college books this would be probably
078$250, $300, >> right? we can get these currently brand new editions for 150 per classroom set. >> The other the other thing that we are up against um instructionally [clears throat] is um we Oregon in their statute requires minimal credits 24. Um and so if you don't have required courses as they move through a course sequence then you get these kids to a senior year where they like what do I do? you know, they they're filling it with kind of air. Um, you know, and so I like being able to prescribe in the earlier years some of these things that drive them to a higher academic standard. Um, you know, the other I just sent to principles this last week, a study was released that showed Oregon as a state has one of the shortest
079school years day-wise. [clears throat] And so over the course of a kid's career in an Oregon school, theoretically, they miss a year of instruction. Oh my gosh. >> Okay, that's how that's how the disparity is. Um, then you factor in things like field trips, you know, state wrestling, sickness, family vacation over the course of a kid's career, that could be another academic year in theory um of of direct instruction. So when we think about why are kids two and three years behind, it makes a lot of sense when you lens it from the fact that you got a short year, we've got minimal requirements and we have a lot of things for kids to do other than school in a school year. And so, um, you know, one of the things that we're trying to
080do is build in some of this academic, uh, opportunity and, uh, making sure that kids have the advanced classes at the other end their senior year where they can choose earn it, like a a an ethics class or, um, you know, an environmental class that they can get college credit for, while we're still paying for it out of our public money. So, um, as we start to redesign and and look at our curriculum and and verticality, um, you'll see probably next month, I had I just met with our leader, our staff leadership today and lined out our professional development plan for the next two years. Um, and that's really centered around all of this work and how we uh, amp that up and and really get kids more of what they need that process. So
081hats off and thank you Cassie for your work on the social studies and I know I kind of allen asked you told you to be but I think it's it's good for us to have those conversations and um you know I think it was a great inclusive process. >> April, would you like to talk about the uh budget calendar? Oh. Um, the only thing about the budget calendar was um we're just moving the meetings back to Monday. Last year we had moved them to Tuesday to accommodate um a schedule change for a a board member at the time. So those meetings will be moved back to Monday. I think we started them at 6. 26 27 school calendar. >> What about the budget calendar first? Yeah. I don't see a timeout there, but six o'clock.
082>> Yeah, >> we need to adopt those. >> You need to adopt both of them. Yes. >> Motion on one at or can we do them both at the same time? >> If you go to your green paper, that's part of that. >> I did. I did. I just was there. Do we have a motion for the calendar, the budget calendar on the green paper? >> I move to adopt the 2026 2027 budget meeting calendar as presented. Second. >> It's been properly moved and seconded. Thank you, Sean. Uh to adopt the 2627 budget meeting calendar as presented. There's no discussion. All in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. [clears throat] >> And I move to adopt the 2026 2027 school year calendar as presented. Right. >> Bingo. >> I
083second. It's >> been probably moved and seconded to adopt the 2627 school year calendar as presented. No discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion [clears throat] pass. co-op agreement for Sheridan uh chair and soccer. >> What would we like to have next month? [laughter] >> Ready motion to approve the co-op agreement with Sheridan for cheerleading and soccer for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Second. >> Thank you. It's been properly moved and seconded to approve the co-op agreement with Sheridan for cheerleading and soccer for the 2627 school year. There's no discussion. Comments. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion passes. >> Uh motion to approve the social studies curriculum K12. Uh, I move to approve the social studies curriculum K through 12 grade starting with the 2026 2027 school
084year. >> Second by David. >> It's been properly moved and seconded to uh adopt the social studies curriculum K12 grade starting with the 2026 2027 school year. There's no discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion passes. >> So the next um set of >> numbers >> for personnel contract renewals. Each um category of renewals has to be made individually for teaching staff and administrative staff. So I know it's kind of a process, but that's what we have to do. So, if you refer to the purple sheet in your packet, the motions are there. These are the people that were reviewed at executive session or the staff that was reviewed in an executive session last month. >> So, start with number one, teaching staff. >> We're doing all that now. We're
085doing number one. >> I move for the renewal of two-year contracts for all district licensed contract personnel for the 2026 through 2028 school years as recommended by the superintendent and presented to state. >> Second. >> I second. It's been moved and seconded for the renewal of two-year contracts for all district licensed contract personnel for the 26 to 2028 school years as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. >> There's no discussion. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Do I abstain since I wasn't involved in that? >> You can vote. You're here. [laughter] >> Just call my protocol here. I'll abstain just to make sure. >> All right. Mark him up. >> Next, >> I move for the renewal of the thirdyear probationary license staff to be considered contract for the
0862026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded for the renewal of the third year probationary license staff to be considered contract for the 2026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. There's no discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Abstain. Next, >> I move for the renewal of the second year probationary license staff to be considered third-year probationary for 2026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented to date. >> I second. It's been probably moved and seconded for the renewal of the second year probationary license staff to be considered third year probationary for the 26 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. There's no discussion. All in
087favor say I. >> I. Opposedion [snorts] number four, >> I move for the renewal of the first year probationary license staff to be considered second year probationary for the 2026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. >> Second. It's been probably moved and seconded that the renewal of the first year probationary license staff to be considered second year probationary for the 20 26 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented at this date. There's no discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Abstension. >> Okay. [snorts] And number five. I move for the renewal of [clears throat and cough] probationary one licensed staff under a restrictive lensure to be considered probationary one for the 2026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date.
088>> Second. It's been properly moved and seconded for the renewal of the probationary one license staff under a restrictive lensure for to be considered probationary one for the 2026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this but this this date there's no discussion all in favor say I. I >> I >> Okay. >> Uh administrative staff >> because I was appropriation. >> I move for the renewal of contracts for administrative licensed personnel for the 2026 2029 school years as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. >> Sarah, >> do we need to read the names? >> Okay. >> All right. Second date. Second. >> Okay. >> It's been properly moved and seconded for the renewal of the contracts for administrative licensed personnel for the 2026 to 2029 school years as recommended
089by the superintendent and presented this date. There's no discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Abstension. [snorts] >> Two. >> We don't really need to do number two. Nobody fell under that category. So we can move to number three. >> Number three is jump to >> I move for the renewal of probationary contract for administrative licensed personnel to be considered second year probationary status for the 2026 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. >> I second. It's been properly moved and seconded for the renewal of probationary contract for administrative licensed personnel to be considered second year probationary status for the 20 26 2027 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date. All no discussion all in favor say I. >> I want extension >> and
090then we need to add the h. >> Okay. Number five, we're adding >> a motion and I I'll read it since nobody else over there has it out. I move to approve triplet wellman amendment one including the alternate number three option for the that was for the classroom uh to increasing the capital bond project to 5,379,653 period. Second. It's >> been properly moved and seconded to approve the triplet Wellman amendment one including the alternate number three option which was a classroom increasing the capital bond project to 5,379,653. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Any opposed? I now that I got opposed I never mind. All right. Uh future agenda items. >> So Mike had on there the an executive session as we work into classified negotiation. Um
091although we haven't set any dates for that yet. >> Yeah. Lisa and I'll need some direction from [clears throat and cough] the board on um Thanks, Paul. Um just where we want to go with that. Um we negotiate separately with different classes of of employees kind of on semiannual basis or whatever it is. So we just need to know um how we want to sit in the and compete in the job market for our classified employees in particular on that custodians, maintenance, um cooks, things like that. So we just we'll we'll we'll model out some different scenarios for you to look at and what that impact is the overall budget. Um, but it's kind of important for us to kind of know going into that kind of what our target is or what the board
092is comfortable with as far as compensation for an employee group. >> so are you wanting to do that before the next board meeting, a separate session? >> Yeah, we probably only meet probably 20 minutes, 15 minutes. >> so do you guys want to try to work that in with our work session? Um, so we could do a work session at 5 >> 5:40 540. Do a um >> exec session, >> executive session before regular session. >> Does that sound all right? Just do it all in one night. >> Does that work for you, buddy? >> One night. >> Okay, we'll bring pizza. >> Cool. >> Uh, future agenda items. >> I think we just talked about the work session. I would love Derek to come and uh maybe invite you back just to kind of
093talk like the grand scheme of of where we see things going communitywise and what's co-oping and how we do that in a kind of a >> more predictable structured way and kind of talk through those relationships because you know to me it's important for kids to have opportunities to pursue lots of things. Um the reality is there's less kids in the world and um we're competing with a lot of different things that kids can do outside of school sports. And so um I've been in I've been in a situation as a parent where my kid was co-oping or two schools actually came to a central spot to that third school um and competed. It was way more fun to be winning all the time because we had a lot of kids playing eight man football
094and we had 30 something kids. But um you know at the same time uh you want to you want to build programs and you know athletics is a hub of a it's a it's a it's a pride piece in a community and you know how do you keep that going and >> well my question on that how many how many girls are well my >> how many girls are playing softball >> I have no idea. I mean, >> her numbers are down. I mean, she's she's under 20. >> Competition is great. >> Yeah. >> But >> Are they taking away a spot that But that's where the girl may have to realize if it's a girl from Maya that's getting her spot taken away because she's not performing. It's going to be a tough one
095to >> Yeah. [snorts] >> bite into that. But >> yeah, we can talk through that. There's I mean I coached travel ball for six years and that's the way it was there. But that's travel ball too. >> I think I think uh having enough kids to be competitive is as important as sometimes uh the actual playing time. I think we could >> well and that's what my other point was if if the girls coming from Sheridan, you know, some girls are going to think that they're better than the other one. And are they going to be okay if they just sit on the bench and maybe get an inning or two, which is they're still a group and they they're probably still going to have their fighting and have their bonding. >> I had a
096conversation with our team before coming tonight um about this because I didn't want to do anything the athletes weren't for. I didn't want them being drugged to a team they weren't excited to be on. And all of them unanimously said, "We will be grateful to play." Um, one of our seniors actually has already signed with a college to play softball at that college and it would have been devastating to that contract for her to miss this year. And so I think they're just happy to have a season right now. The the devastating fact of them going to practice today and only having five hit home really hard. >> And we actually saw some value ad from our kids that uh inner district transferred down for basketball. >> Yeah. Um, you know, and we watched that,
097Jeremy and Dererick and I really watched those relationships like was it going to be clickish and >> yeah, >> they've been they've been nothing but kind of >> good students and played well and were coachable and so >> um I think it this year can prove to be a good test site for us, you know, of how we move that forward in the future, >> you know, but I totally hear your point. >> Yeah. With softball, I think they lost seven seniors starting on it. So, it might not be it might be a good year to mesh. >> Yeah, because I I know that is Kaitlyn K. >> Yeah. >> She said they she was like 17, which is low numbers for us in softball. So, I mean, they're young, so having some seniors >>
098um may give us some relief. Got a pitcher. >> I believe our our senior contracted is Yeah. >> There you go. Now, my question was, do we need to kind of give a subtle we're okay with that? I the season started. >> It's not like we just approved. >> Yeah. >> You know, cheer for next year >> moving forward. So, Derek >> So, Derek will need to work through the league. So, I really don't have anything. >> The league has already signed off on it. Both superintendents have already signed off on it >> on softball. Yeah. >> No, baseball >> or baseball. Sorry. Baseball. You're right. Softball was today. Yeah. Um, I don't foresee an issue on the softball side either. Um, Pack West is your guys's current league. It was our league last year.
099They know our numbers and they know how we've played in the past. Um, and they know that we're struggling with our numbers in those areas. We have a track team of 75 kids. That's where most of our athletes are at right now. >> So, they're very well aware. >> They've always had a track team. >> Yeah. I mean, is is it something that we want to bring up with Caitlyn and the girls? >> Yeah. I mean, Derek literally got the call this >> like right before our meeting tonight. So, >> as far as I know, he was doing that today. >> Yeah. So, we'll we'll we'll make [snorts] sure >> I got two connections on the girls. Well, actually, three now. [laughter] >> My brother-in-law, my niece, and my daughter. A lot of these kids
100have also been playing together since they were young in the youth teams and youth leagues and so they already know a lot of each other. >> Make sure everybody's comfortable with it before we >> throw a little gasoline on the fire especially with hearing about some of the girls that >> are a little hotheaded here. >> Yeah, we've worked a lot on sportsmanship in our community right now. It's actually an inerson required class for all of our athletes to take before they play for us. Um, and that has been really effective. Um, and we've had zero ejections for the entire year, both athletes and coaches, because of it. And so I think coming into a program, I I think it'll be great. >> Um, >> some of our girls might have to take it. [laughter]
101>> Well, it comes from a history. I you guys know, so we've had to implement those things for those reasons. >> It's been very effective. Um hopefully this is a great bridge. We've seen great progress with our soccer teams. They actually got the sportsmanship award for the league. Um and our cheer teams, our our three cheerleaders have meshed so well into the program and still represented Willina in great ways. We just held our showcase on Saturday and they wore Bulldog uniforms to it and had Will min cheers in there. >> I was there. >> Yeah. So they're very proud. Anything else for the good of the order? Meeting adjourned 7:29. >> Thank you. I see better play. We