001the school board meeting to order. Stand and uh say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Applause] Yes. Okay. First agenda item is board of education. Um we have to approve Justine Flynn's resignation from the board from position number two. That must be a second. Motion. We need a motion first. I move to approve Justine Flynn's resignation. Second. All All in favor to uh to to accept the res to accept the resignation of Jesse Flynn to from board position number two. Second. Say I. All in favor say I. I. I. Vote is unanimous. Vote is unanimous. Um motion passes. Uh, next is the CTE CT presentation. Next
002is the CTE presentation. All right, here we go. I got them all up here and, uh, their mas and daddies got to come watch them talk. Yeah. So, you got a house full. So, um, so basically all we wanted to do was just kind of give a quick overview of our year, um, and how we're ending it up and what it's going to look like for next year. Uh so each one of the guys we brought these each one of these different students um they have their own roles in here and they're going to talk briefly. One of the students wasn't able to come um and so I'll talk briefly about his part um but we've got a little video and we're going to share this video really quick. [Music] My name is Joseph Goodwin
003and some of the stuff I like most about this job is the new equipment that we get to work with and fun educational projects we get to do. I also really like our teacher TJ Wilson. He supports the kids here on many different levels no matter where we started. And overall being a part of the job is has been a great experience that helps us grow, learn valuable skills and feel supported every step of the way. Hi, my name is Quincy. I'm part of my field school and next year I'm going to be in high school. Parts that I like the most about the shop are all the different options to do so. My favorite part is or the go-karts. But there are plenty of other things I'd like to enjoy. What do you got
004going on over here? What kind of machine is this? You think this machine will help you maybe in the future if you plan to go in the I like most about CT different options. Welding may not be my thing, but editing definitely is. Our awesome teacher TJ Wilson just bought us some new editing software. I will be working with Skills USA officers to be helping promote social media for our groups. All right. So, Vander here, like um we just kind of found out that he really loves doing videos and video editing. So, we got him a software and this is his first little tape right here. So, he pulled this together about 2:00 this afternoon. So, we're pretty proud of him. So, um so you saw that laser going on. Um Evan, this is the
005man. So, um he says he gets a little stage fright. So, I'll just show you. Um this is what you saw um cutting out on the laser and their plans this year. So we've always done bigger projects um and we're ending the year up kind of on a manufacturing note and we're really planning to go a little hard and heavy on that next year. Stephen can talk a little bit about that. Um but Evan here um the laser man. So he cut you guys out uh some different things here in front of the table. Um, so Evan, if if you want to just hand them that really quick. Yeah, just hand them their their thing. So, uh, he also made you hand them their cows and their stuff. He also, uh, he made you he
006made you some little vegetable steaks. Uh, just different things we're kind of passing out, you know, and and letting people see, do they like it? Should we change something? Da da. So, so there's what we have on that. I told you I was going to talk a little bit uh about Joe. He wasn't He's playing baseball tonight. Um we've got I mean we're extremely fortunate. We've got major grants to buy major equipment and one of the pieces of equipment that we bought is a hos CNC mill and lake. Um that is not my background. However, um next year we've been talking to Lynn Benton Community College. Um, and I'll go to night school there two nights a week in their machining program. And we have an opportunity to take possibly four students two nights a
007week to the Lyn Mittton Community College machining program. Um, if they're able to do that for two years in a row, they'll actually graduate high school with not a degree, but a certificate in machining. Um, so also this is going to help us like align our program with Lin Benton's uh machining program. Uh, and the teacher will probably come down once, twice a month and teach one of our classes in there. So that'll be pretty fun. But along with our machining stuff, one of our industry partners, and we've been trying to make quite a few of these, uh, but one of our industry partners at West Salem Machine Shop, um, they've been a good sponsor to us. They sponsored all of our students. um the OSHA 10 training, they paid for for all the seats
008and so we had several students get their OSHA card um this year and it was a pain but they were all just tickled when they got it. So what we've decided to do is we're trying to figure out how can we take these machines um and I'm not going to say throw a curriculum to it, but how can we make it valuable to these students and how can we make a direct path? So, what they've done, West Salem Machinery, they send their lead machinist out every Tuesday from lunch until 3:00 in the afternoon to spend time with some of these guys. What we've agreed to do is they've sent us out one of their actual work orders, the what their employees do. They sent us out a set of their blueprints. Okay. So, what we've
009had to do is take these blueprints, we've had to redraw them in CAD. We've had to we've had to rewrite all the cam our own way. Okay. They bring those raw stock this big chunk. Okay. Now what we have to do is we have to build our own fixtures. This takes three operations. We'll send it back and their machine shop will grade the kids who do this on based on their tolerances. Um and then the agreement is once we get all of this done, we'll start making 50 of these at a time for their shop. They'll furnish material and then they'll pay us to to build these things. So along with that um our laser machine, he's passed these guys out, but we're in the fire pit business right now. Um we, you know, we've
010let everybody kind of come up with their own ideas and we've got some cool ones. So um we've got fire pits for the wine drinkers. Where's Logan? Logan, come on up here. We got We got fire pits. Too young to drink water. We got fire pits for the guitar players. Go ahead and hold yours up. Tell them quickly, Logan, what yours is. So, it is a guitar [Music] and you're going to be able to stand it up like this and watch the smoke bill out of the neck and there's going to be legs on the flat part right here so you can cook off of it. So, I'm thinking it's going to look pretty cool once it's done. Thought you were in the mariachi band. Thank you guys. It could be if they have the
011wine glass fire pit and the guitar there together. So Alina So Alena's so so Logan and Alina um they're both this is their first year um to be in here with us. So Alina I gave her a challenge to build a soccer ball fire pit and we worked on it and cut shapes and threw them at each other and got mad and everything else. So, we finally landed on this and this is Alena's first project. So, you tell them quickly about this one. Um, I mean, the original idea was for a soccer ball, but the pieces weren't quite fitting together yet. So, this is kind of what we had to improvise, but I'm not quite done with it yet. I have to finish grinding it and also weld the bottom on it. But, yeah, it
012was supposed to be a soccer ball, but the pieces weren't going together. So, this is it. That's really cool. Super nice. And the last one that we did, it's laying down here on the floor. Um, what we've did like a collapsible fire pit. So, these things are really cool. Um, our goal is is maybe we'll get IKEA bag and embroider will on there or something. And so, these are camp pits. Um, they fold down in one small little piece. You put them in your bag, you take them camping. It's got a grill uh with an adjustable setting on here. Okay. So, that goes on top and uh it's just a really fun really fun thing. So, our intentions is to get to use the equipment. Um the kids get to draw these ideas. Um they
013get to use all of our CNC equipment, cut them out, um and sell them. And hopefully um you know we may not be self- sustainable always but hopefully we're going to be able to get cash flow coming back in here doing some of these projects. And then uh so quickly you got some little glowing things right there and and a couple of you got short changed. We didn't have batteries and David's got broke right there. But we got some new equipment right here. Edwin, tell them about these little guys right here. Well, we made some uh resin printed uh name tags for you guys and with all the new equipment that we got on the 3D printers for the the grant that we got. And we made several things uh such as that and other
014pieces that we've needed up in uh our future. And yeah, it's super fun. So, we do Fusion 360. That's our CAD stuff. So, we'll do flat two-dimensional drawings and then we'll put it into a 3D type drawing. Um, it goes to a slicer software and then a bottle of liquid in UV light makes those things. It's I have no idea how it does it, but it's absolutely amazing. Yeah. So, uh, we're going to end up, we're all done. Uh, we're going to end up with the salesman here. Um, and, uh, I got to tell a really funny story. Um, so the salesman, he's never scared to talk to anybody. He's been freating this all day today. I don't know why. We're down at uh we're down at Medford the other day on one of our
015biggest shows and these boys spot the Texas Roadhouse steakhouse and they're all fired up want to eat. So I tell them, our boys, if you make enough tips um while you're down here at the show, then you then I'll drive you over there and you can get Texas Roadhouse. This dude, he comes back here in a little bit and one of the guys that supports us a bunch. He comes back to the trailer flashing $150 cash. Where'd you get that? He said, "I went to Eric and told him that you was going to take us." So, he put it on the man and he come back with 150 cash. So, I'm going to let him uh I'm going to let him finish this deal up. Um all of you, some of the things he'll talk
016about. Laya um Daisy May is not here. I gave some of you a sheet um right here. Um, and this this kind of goes along with the project um that Stephen's going to talk about. Um, so there's a whole bunch of things that kind of go along with that. It's not just wrenching and hammering on things in the shop. So Stephen's going to close us out. So this year our CTA shop, we've been um we've taken on a special project um a tribute truck. We've taken a bunch of pieces from a bunch of different old trucks and kind of put them together for one for one big truck. Um from yeah from parts and pieces old rigs. We when we heard the news, it only felt right to only felt right to dedicate the build
017to her. Every bolt, every weld, and every detail has taken on a new meaning. It's no longer just a project. It's a way for us to remember Ila and celebrate celebrate what she loved and carry her spirit forward and keep her passion alive in something real and lasting. All right. Well, that's that's our deal. We'll uh we'll have some pictures next year. Our year is almost out, but we'll have some pictures next year of this Leila tribute deal. Um it's going to be super exciting and uh you guys um you'll be really happy with all the machines and all the different things um that these guys are having to use uh to build these projects. So, thank you for letting us have u you know a little bit of time right here and uh yeah,
018we'll talk to you guys later. Thank you. Truck a little bit. It'll explode. Just a little bit. Uh next on the agenda we have um someone to present from the enterprise zone. Yes. Yeah. Come on up. Be right here in the row. Great. Should we just sit? Yeah, you're welcome to sit. Do you need to plug in? No, I have enough battery. All right. So, um a shot. I was thinking about it all day long, too. Yeah, that's one. So, what we have in our packet is you let me try my elevator speed. Like I had it down when I left the other day. Yeah. Um, Sheridan and Willamina have it what's called an enterprise mode that allows uh businesses, new businesses coming in with a certain level of investment to receive some um breaks
019on taxes tax exempt tax breaks. Right. Okay. Now, when they get to years four and five, depending on um the situation, the school district can levy. This is where it gets really goofy for Oregon. um we could levy an additional or a part of an assessment that would come to the school district as a funding stream. The catch of why we would never even though we would I'm encouraging you to approve the resolution at our next meeting um after they talk through it is whatever we would get would then be deducted from our state uh offset. So it's a zero sum game. So we would we would approve it. We would be part of it. We would never basically pull that assessment at the tax at the county level. So it's really good for our
020community. It's good for businesses. Um but it's not really it's going to be a zero sum game for us if we did anything. So the the advice I got is uh we would approve it at probably a 30% in case the statute ever change is that the intent was it would be a good thing for school districts. Right now it's a neutral thing for school districts. That makes sense. I don't know. Yeah, I'll walk through it a little bit. You did a great job. My thank you for that. I'm usually pretty good at the goofy finance stuff. It's cool. It's a goofy one. Yeah. So, I'll just run through this real quick again. My name is Abasha Stone and I'm with Strategic Economic Development Corporation, better known as Sedcore. We're the regional economic development organization
021that serves Yanhill, Marian, and Pulk counties. And this is Laura Conroy who's with the Midwamtt Valley Valley Council of Governments who also serves as the economic development district for the same threecount area. So the reason why we're here and I think you should have some documents from us that were included in your packet, right, was to make sure that you understood what the West Valley Enterprise Zone was and this school support fee letter, which was um new legislation coming out of the 2023 session. So it is new. That's why it's rolling out. That's why you haven't heard from us about this in the past. Um, so on that first page, I don't know what you what page that is in your packet, you'll see that we have a map of the West Valley Enterprise Zone.
022And you'll see that it incorporates all of or encompasses all of the incorporated parts of the cities of Willamina and Sheridan. It is a shared zone. So both of the cities are joint sponsors of that zone. And my organization, Sedcore, manages the zone. And what that means is that we work directly with the businesses who are making application for the program and with the city to make sure that the transaction uh happens and that it everything's filled out and all the eyes are dotted and the tees are crossed. Um so this zone has actually been in place since June of 2015. It is a 10-year cycle on these zones and what we're currently the process we're going through is just a renewal. So we don't want this it sunsets at the end of June of
023this year and so we're getting in front of that and making sure that we get our renewal in place. Both of the cities have approved the renewal to go forward. So um as a courtesy we inform the taxing districts of the process. Uh but this fee letter is the new thing we have to address. So this is a rule zone. Excuse me. It focuses on investments from traded sector businesses. So this is uh businesses that make and sell a product on a larger domestic and international marketplace. So sometimes I tell people like the the downtown tap house is not a traded sector business, right? That's just that's a retail, it's a main street business. But if they have a brewery and that brewery is now selling beer at the tap house and they're selling beer
024into a different city and maybe a different state, that is a traded sector activity. Agriculture is a traded sector activity. So, this is to encourage traded sector investment in uh rural communities. And the standard enterprise zone is for a three-year tax exemption. And I like to be really clear about this because um it it only exempts the tax for the investment. So, if you have a business, their property is currently assessed at this value and they are making a significant investment in either a new facility or maybe an an addition of a facility, equipment valued over $50,000, and they're hiring more people. So, now the value is here. This delta here is what becomes taxexempt for three years. This tax base still stays the same. The school still receives the base of tax. So, the
025reason that this exemption exists as an incentive for businesses, is that it allows them to get that asset up and running and generating revenue, hopefully profit, before they have to pay the property taxes associated with that, right? They're already paying for the investment, they're paying for the staff, the training, sort of getting it commissioned, and it gives them a chance to to get it working for them before they pay the exemption. Standard program, three-year exemption. there is an option for them to request a fourth and fifth year within that exemption. In order to do that, there's additional requirements. They have to uh pay, you know, it's 150% of the average wage of the area. So, it has to be high-paying jobs. Um the investment still has to qualify be a certain level of investment. They
026have to go before city council to get an approval. and they would have to now go before the school district and negotiate a fee, right? So, so the fee would be a percentage of this delta, not the base, but of the delta. That fee can be anywhere from 15 to 30%, a whole number with the exception of right smack dab in the middle at 22.5. Okay. Um, we have not in my time with SEC core eight years had an application that requested the fourth or fifth year. The three-year is standard and that's usually what businesses go for, but they could go for that fourth or fifth year. Um, let me make sure I explain all these things. Um, a couple of other things. There's some special things with the West Valley Enterprise Zone. We do
027have what's called an ecommerce overlay that allows for businesses that do a lot of online uh business, which is good for rural areas, right? To have access to commerce that's online um to exempt some other uh equipment. So that might be a laptop, things that are valued at a lesser rate um to encourage e-commerce in this zone. There's also an overlay for uh hotels and resorts to try to encourage those types of investments in the community. So, I'm going to run through again the school support fee rate. I'm going to reiterate a lot of the things that Superintendent Gas already said, but again, this came into place um in 2023. The concept behind it was that uh for that fourth and fifth year request of exemption um that schools would have a chance to be
028engaged in the process maybe made whole a little bit faster, right? Because a 5-year exemption it starts to feel long and uh you want to make that investment in the school district. So they said we're going to just automatically include that there's a requirement for the applicant to enter into an agreement with the school district about what that that fee rate will be for that delta. Um unfortunately it's like you know all good intentions ultimately fall apart on the back end. Uh the way that it was structured the school then and and it kind of talks through how this works. Every year the sponsors so that would be the cities of Willamina and Sheridan would interact with the school district and say here's the value of that delta. The school would then do the math
029against whatever the fee rate is set. they would issue a statement or a bill to the business. They would have to negotiate in advance any terms of that note or bill. Um and any uh process for managing delinquencies. So you would be basically bill managing, right? Um if the business did not pay the bill, there is sort of a default way to address that. It would then go to the assessor's office who would add it to uh the tax assessment. and it would be collected on the back end eventually. However, like I said, you know, good intention that kind of falls short after all of the legislation actually played out and everything got written. the the reality is that the school then has to account for that fee um as revenue as earned revenue which
030of course offsets at the end of the year when you work through um the school appropriation I forget the annual school fee appropriation right so it ends up offsetting we have that could change in the future as superintendent uh Gas said so looking at setting a fee that you're comfortable with just knowing it exists and if ever in the future you decide actually decide to process it and collect the fee, it's at the rate that you want it to be. Most of the school districts that we're talking to right now throughout the state are just saying that's kind of an administrative nightmare for us for no net benefit. Um and they may or may not process uh the note or the bill and that's up to you, right? So I've I've tried to share the
031information of what we've been learning. This is newly being implemented. In all reality, the only reason we're in front of you right now today is not because we have an open application. It's because they also added to this that at time of renewal, we have to set a fee rate with the school district. So, we're going before the Willamina school district and the Sheridan School District to do that as a part of the process. Um, we do need to get that processed uh before the end of June before it sunsets so that we can continue progress and not end up getting behind in that process. Uh things that are getting behind in the process with the state with some of these programs, we're concerned about the amount of time it might take to get it
032back in place. So, um and I think that's it. I did provide a little bit of information in the packet. Um just sort of some Q&A. Uh also some references to additional documentation. If you have a hard time falling asleep and would like to read some of that, you know where to find it. Um Laura and the Council of Governments is managing the process of the reinstatement. So she might have a couple more. Here's the process and timeline to add, but otherwise we're here to answer questions. Anything else to add, Miss Laura? Oh, I was going to take questions. Okay, perfect. And then a what do you need from us? Um answer. So when you're ready to ask that question, I'll I'll tell you. you have a sample of the resolution that'll be in your
033next board packet. We'll go ahead and fill that out. Um my intent would be to support this, not collect it, but also do it at the highest rate in case the rules change. Then we're locked in um and have that maximum gain if it ever became an opportunity. Um, you know, again, it's kind of like when you first when I first heard I was like could be a chunk of change, but if it's only on the delta of the existing property to where or the existing, you know, building or facility or business, it's it's not going to be we're not going to get rich on it. You know, it would be I don't even know if anybody's ever paid it out. Not yet to my knowledge just because it's so new and it just really
034got implemented last year. So I think it's it's a dance we'll do and we'll set up future boards and administration that if it ever happens then it's on the books. How does the um district know which businesses are new and and and and if we're sharing with Sheridan, can Sheridan contact the b business and will Amina contact the business? Is it shared between shared and Wilma? How does that work? Or is it community that the business is in? There's your question. Yeah, there's my question. Uh, so I think I think the question is if you have a business that wants to take advantage of this, who do they contact? I think that was the first part of the question. I think it was a multi-part question. So that Well, just how would the district know
035of the business to contact? I mean, how do we know there's a new business in town? So process I see. Yeah. I'm sorry. You know what? Um you're talking about the school district and I was thinking about the enterprise zone or the economic development district. Sorry, different district. Okay. School district. How will the school district know? I I can take a stab at that initially. So as the zone manager when we receive an application, so especially now that this fee waiver is in place and they say we want to apply for the fourth and fifth year. So now they go into the conversation with the school district. We as the manager walk them through the application process and then would be the entity that would connect them to the school district saying hey we now
036have to ensure that the fee waiver agreement is in place and this is so we would be making that connection with you. Okay. Yeah. The towns are involved as well right the town governments they are but um so the three-year is sort of a it's a given if so long as because it is a state program. so long as their project qualifies and they go through the application process which mostly is again SDC core making sure they fill it all the way out. We have a pre-app meeting with the assessor's office, right? So, we make sure that it passes muster with the assessor's office. We then submit that there's a few other steps with work source Oregon and some other partners. We submit that application to the state and it gets approved. We then generally
037notify the the most local jurisdictions. So, for example, we have um we have a project in process in Sheridan. They just completed their application process a few months ago. So we notified um we did not have to get get the fee waiver at that time because of the timing of it and they also did not request the fourth or fifth year but we notified uh the city council that that application had gone through that they have a business making that investment. Now the city is generally already aware because they're going through a permitting process with them. So, it it's a lot of open dialogue. Um, but there is not necessarily an official process that we're beholden to to send letters to all the taxing districts that it's happened unless it goes into the fourth and
038fifth year and then there's a different process. That would be a Sheridan project, Sheridan School District. Yeah, exactly. Okay. So, it doesn't get shared like that. It's it stays true to the taxing district of the project. respectful what happened. Okay, great. Other questions? All right, we'll have this. We have a a meeting um special meeting coming up where we're just going to be approving some contracts and things for design stuff. So, we'll loop this in there as well. Wonderful. Thank you for giving us a chance to come and share the the program with you. Also, just always want to let folks know this program exists. So, if you have businesses in your community uh that are growing and might uh be looking for resources to support their business growth, uh please send them our way.
039We'd love to make sure they get access to the resources available to them. Abby, we have a lot of them that do workforce development programs to support CTE as well. So, we love to make those connections. There you go. You got quite the show tonight then. Yeah. Oh, it was great. I know. That was a hard act to follow. I felt like we should have had to go first. That's rough. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see you. Uh the next topic is the consent agenda from last meeting. I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Uh the consent agenda has been moved and seconded. All in favor of uh approving the consent agenda say I. I. I. Uh it is unanimous. Sent agenda has passed. Y you said I too right. Okay.
040Yes. But I pass. Correspondence starting with superintendent report. Uh, next topic is uh uh super superintendence the superintendence correspondence. Yep. And then uh just as we're looking at all these other ones um Angie texted me and she's uh not available tonight um was trying to be online and uh Kayla sent her in as well. So, um, kind of the hottest things going on right now, construction. Roy was part of our committee. Um, we were working on selecting our design group, which is O. Um, they're in fee negotiation right now with HMK. Uh, and so once that's officially done, then we'll need to have a quick meeting to approve that. Um, our district office, we're moving forward with some of the reclamation on that. So, I think hopefully by the time we get to the end
041of school, um, we'll we'll be back in that. We want to do a lot of cleaning, uh, getting that carpet out of there, uh, putting in hard floor surface. Um, hopefully you'll get us there. Um, staff recognition again is June 5th. That'll be out of the, uh, fort. We do a little afterwork suare and do some awards. We've got uh years of service pins. Uh we have uh staff nominating staff for uh recognition, different things like that. We'll have some door prizes and just have a fun evening or an afternoon to kind of wrap up our year. Kindergarten screening. I stealing your thunder. No. Um we had 25 to 30ish uh kindergarteners show up. um which I guess is a little bit lower uh than normal, but uh you know, we're we're working hard to
042get that word out and get them uh squared away. Typically, you can add another 20 to that uh that'll walk in the door at the beginning of the summer and do our kindergarten camp. Uh summer school, we were awarded some dollars for that. So, I'm in the process of filling that out and uh trying to organize what that'll look like um this summer. Uh but we do have about $127,000 $130,000 that we can use, but that covers staff, transportation, uh the whole shooting match. So, sounds like a lot of money, but you know, when you get 80 hours of instruction for kids, uh that'll burn that up pretty quick. Um we do have graduations for kindergarten, 8th, and high school on the map. um and let uh April know if you're going to be at
043graduation would like to sit on the field with us. We'd love to have people down there. You can hand out a diploma and shake hands with with all those kids coming across the stage if if you're available. Um Sarah and Rebecca and Mike went to the TAP state meeting. I won't say any more than that because that's why they're here tonight. Uh budget committee, we got through that Tuesday, last Tuesday. I appreciate everybody's work on that. Teacher bargaining continues. We're into the dollars and cents piece of that. Um, we've gotten through most of the articles on language, uh, which is crazy to edit and go back and forth. It's been a good process, but I think we've cleaned up a lot of things in our contract that make both sides feel better. Um, and then
044April and I were talking about the swearing in of the new board of education members. Typically, that was happening in July. July based on the fact that we're a bit short uh with with Justine's resignation. Um do we want to invite those new members to come on sooner in in the June time frame or that special meeting? They can be sworn in in June, but they won't become active role members until July. That's when they would officially be elected into the position. But we can swear them in and get all that taken care of so they come into the July meeting um ready to go. Yeah. That'd probably be a recommendation in case somebody hits a hurdle in that process. Um, and then, uh, depend on where I'm at in fires. Like I said, Starling,
045I better give Star. Um, and then just want to give a little shout out to JJ Flynn, who is our SRO, who got a big promotion. Uh, so we will be losing him. And Brian Hamlin will be our new SRO. So they're doing about a two and a half week crossover um here over the end of school. Uh but JJ, you know, welldeserved promotion has been a huge asset for us. Uh so we'll be getting be getting fresh legs there as well. So any questions on any of those? It's kind of all I have at this point. Thanks, Mike. then we can roll into the audience audience. Yeah, I'll go ahead and read the statement. So, her audience time. Um, if you have any intent to speak, there's a speak card um out here out
046front. Um, that to I think we have one to be turned in. Citizen input on non-aggenda items shall be three minutes per person, 30 minutes per item. Citizen input on agenda items will occur after the board discussion and before a vote. Speakers may provide objective comments or criticism of a district operation or program. For complaints about individuals, the district has a board policy and complaint process. Please contact the district office for guidance on filing a complaint. And we do have one person that would like to speak. Um Oscar Wares. Yes, thank you. Uh who's keeping track of time? three minutes. Just uh I I can't start without complimenting all this. I mean, this is well whatever. I got you started. Go. Thank you. Uh you know, I'm I'm a product of of CT and for
047the viewership, uh I've u mentored at this place for 18 months or a total of nearly four semesters. Uh, and I can see what the value of of a parent uh intervention has because, you know, it looks like it's it's come to fruition. Um, my compliments to the kids and and TJ for this. Uh, however, you know, I' I've been there for for 18 months and and sometimes you can't just uh look at this without a doubt because I've seen it before. Behind a compliment, there is a great effort and then once the show is put on, somehow it gets dropped and it goes back to the same routine. So, I hope this this continues. this is uh you know this is what I'm hoping for for the benefit of my kid and many other
048kids. Uh so yeah my my compliments this is all I have to say. A minute 21. Thanks Oscar. Thank you Oscar. Okay, next agenda item would be the title six Indian education grant update federal programs and state programs presentation. Yeah. Okay. Well, they're getting hooked hooked in. Um, you do have a presentation. Rebecca. Hello everyone. My name is Rebecca Ardondo and this is Kapuguya land. Normally uh most people know me as the TAP attendance family advocate, but today I'm here with a different hat on um as the title six co-director with Sierra Nord. So, we're not actually going to go into TAC today. That'll be saved for another time. So, um Emily RWS resigned at the end of last year and she was our title six coordinator for the district. Um so, it it left
049a hole and Rebecca and I took it on this year um together because it's a lot of work. Yeah, sure. Um, so normally, um, I take kind of the the behind the scenes. Um, I do a lot of the paperwork, collecting the district 506 forms, tracking, um, tribal affiliation with our students districtwide, um, the reporting for the Title Six grant, the actual grant writing of Title Six, um, and kind of the the busy paperwork stuff. And then we developed um a parent committee um recruiting people that um had our first meeting in February of this year. So it took a while to kind of get things rolling to get the information out there to get people responding um which is why we didn't start earlier in the year but the hope is to actually we
050already have an August meeting so get that rolling um first backing up. Title six is our Native American education grant. It's through the federal um lens. So, it's a federal grant that we apply for every year because of our Native American population, um, which allows us to access funds, um, specifically for Native American education. So, we're going to talk about some of the really cool fun things that we did this year um, with the funding. So, this was a great one. In October, we brought out um, native hiphop performer Superman. Um, in the elementary we do a Native American role model of the month to provide a sense of belonging for our families. Um, so in October our Native role model of the month was Superman and we actually brought him out and he was
051a fantastic speaker. He gave um four different assemblies that day. One to our K2 kids, one to three five, one to our middle school kids, and one to our high school kids. And he did each one a little bit differently and the message was a little bit different. Um he actually showed our littles. Um so right down there on the lefthand corner they are actually creating music with him. Um they created a whole song with him just out of sounds and and rhythms. Um there was a lot of dancing involved. And then as you got up in the grade level it kind of turned more into um empowering our youth um to to go do what they want to do in life um and just believing in themselves. And the message was really good. Um,
052but it was very age appropriate for each of our grade levels and they all loved it. They had a great time with him and that's his he's standing next to the poster there. Yeah, that was his bulletin board we made for him. Um, also in October uh is Indigenous People's Day. It's the second Monday um of the month. And so I put together activities. Um this year it was districtwide, so kindergarten through high school. every grade level had um a culturally focused uh activity. So, kindergarteners um had a focus of acorns. Um first grade did fry bread and we had guests come in um a family here make fry bread. So, Emilina and Lo and her family came in um did amazing. Uh second grade did beating and we had elders come in and do
053beading with with them. Uh third graders made medicine bags. uh fourth grade did stick game and we had guests uh Fabian Quinnell and Nakoa Versier and a couple of other um um younger men come in and do stick game. Uh fifth grade we did watercolor paddle painting. So um paddle shapes have a significance to the tribal uh tribes and regions in our area. Um the different shapes and so they learned a little bit about that and then got to paint on watercolor um the different shapes. uh sixth grade um so we had repeat projects too. So sixth grade did medicine bags as well. Seventh grade um processed pine nuts and turned them into beads um and made bracelets. Eighth grade did fry bread again with our guests. Uh ninth graders did the watercolor petal painting
054as well as the life skills um or not life skills the alternative program um name store. Um, as well 10th graders made drums. Um, and we had guests come in, including uh, a high schooler who helped um, Kiki Mercier helped with that. And we had uh, Bllye. No, dad. Zack. Zack Bllye came in and his oldest son who um, just I think recently graduated. Um, 11th grade did um, pine nuts and bracelets and then uh, 12th grade did stick game. So it was a whole day of um focus and events. Uh in addition to that we um I developed this is the third year running for um WS the uh the elementary native club. Um in middle and high school their native clubs are run from the tribe um that come out in the elementary
055school. We tried to have that happen a few years ago, but because of the timing of when the the club has to happen, which is after school, um the staff who come out from the youth um youth program aren't able to do that because they have to be at their afterchool program. So, in the past couple of years, uh myself as a TAP advocate and then the title six um person Emily and I had done that the last two years and so this year um I've been taking the lead on that. We are now in the STEM room uh after school once a week and um we have some uh we have Brian Jones who's a STEM teacher who helps out and um Anna Garcia um who helps out as well, one of our um
056assistants. So we have uh about 20 fourth and fifth graders every week. Um they are a mix of native and non-native students. We do all sorts of things um from beading where we make uh necklaces for our graduating Native American seniors and present them to them um before the week before they graduate. We had some guests come in in the fall. We had Jeremy Oua and Joseph Ham from the Confederate tribes of Grand Ron's natural resources department and the nursery out there. They came and we weeded in our first foods garden which is the little garden plot box um outside of the cafeteria. um they were giving out seeds that we were throwing around and talking about things. So that's on the left side. We also had Jordan Mercier come out um from the culture
057department and he brought some different things that were woven and we talked about the different weavingings and then he brought fresh hazel sticks which the kids got to peel um in preparation for basket making materials. We found it takes three years for the materials to be ready to be woven. The first year is you're cutting the tree so they grow straight shoots. The second year you pick them and peel them. They have to dry for a whole year and then they can be woven with. Um, so that was pretty cool. We've done things like make pesto from stinging nettles. Um, we made drums last week and then Emilino and her family are going to come back and do fried bread for to wrap it up. Now heads. I will. I will. Two weeks. Two weeks.
058Um, another thing that I do as kind of a tample 6 thing is Chinukua language support. So you heard me speak in Chinook at the beginning of this. So in the elementary school um I make regular videos about every other week at this point. Um and many of those videos are f focusing on chinuk language. So teaching simple words and phrases um likean is good morning and so saying that repetitively so that kids can be practicing that. Um and we have bulletin boards with the different um phrases that we've been learning. We're talking about asking how are you feeling in Chinook? Um, and the really exciting thing is this year in particular, we can hear kids walking through the halls and either speaking to me shahim or to each other um in Chinuk, which is
059really cool. And again, these are very simple. This is not like a bilingual program by any means, but it is that introduction and that infusion um and that support for the language. And then this is another event that is both tap and title six um kind of coordinated. Uh we did a family game night. This has been something that has been fairly regular um with the exception of the co years. Um and we all get together uh at the tribe and this is for native only families per kind of the two different grants. And um there's raffle prizes and board games and families just come and we just hang out and play board games. Um at this night there were 62 total people. Uh 17 families were represented. Uh and it was a kind of
060a a collaboration or a combination of Willamina and Sheridan school districts so that the they could be um the family game night could be advertised in the afterchool program out at the tribe. So most of the students and families were from Willamina. There was one family from Sheridan, one family was homeschooled, uh, and one from Independence, but that was a Grandon staff members family. There were five Grand staff members there and four, um, school staff members, including Superintendent Gas. And then we are wrapping up the year with a jam. We are super excited about this. Uh, in the fall, uh, in November, there was a jam as part of, um, Native American Heritage Month. the middle and high school did the parent committee um for title six really wanted to do a jam before the
061end of this school year that was for the entire district. So this will be the entire kindergarten through 12th grade students coming together in the high school gym um in just about a week or so May 21st it'll be from 1 to 2 p.m. Everybody is welcome to come. We're inviting families as well. Uh, a jam is kind of like a pow-wow if you've ever been to that in terms of their singing and drumming and dancing. It's a little bit more casual. They don't have quite the same um protocols. Uh, but everyone will be able to go, we'll watch. If anyone knows the dances or songs, they're welcome to go down and participate. And then we just had a planning meeting uh a second planning meeting today where we learned there'll also be there's always
062a song at the end that regardless of if you've ever danced before everybody is welcome to come down and participate. Um so we're really excited for that and and and like I said you are welcome to come on the 21st. One one more thing um with our parent committee we're actively looking for parents. So, if you know any tribal parents, please spread the word um to come and and get their input. We put out a survey um about a couple months ago just to all of our native families um asking for input on things like attendance um what we can do to improve it. Um asking what they wanted to see title six funds be spent on. Um the elementary really the the feedback from parents was they wanted to see more professional development for
063educators around culture um and more language uh incorporation more chinuawa language uh incorporation within just the buildings um as a whole and more um I think more display of native culture within the middle high school. Yeah, there's a lot kind of at the elementary level but um less so at middle high school. Uh, another thing they wanted to see is um tribal artists, seeing if we can get some of those um set up for next year, like artists and residents. Um, and then at the middle and high school level um additional help for our atrisisk youth. So, they're kind of dictating um where they would like to see the title six funds go and that's the whole point of the committee um is to seek their input and guidance on where they want these funds
064to go. Are there any questions? My juniors enjoyed doing the beat nuts. Then they found out about the drums and like what could have made drums. I would have liked until they found out about the drums. They have to be a super choose. I do have a question for you. Yeah. Are you guys is the tribe do they do anything with like cow heights like processing them? Processing. No. And we get our hides from Centriia. We have gotten our hides from Criia fur and hide. I don't know if they buy hides like but those are the I don't know. Is that what you're thinking? Well, we do a small and we wouldn't we wouldn't sell them. We'd give them. Okay. I will ask. Yeah. Yeah. We'll have two of them coming up here in another
065two months. Awesome. Okay. Yeah, we'll check it out for you. Yeah. I mean, if you want them, they're yours when he comes out to butcher them. Think about that. Well, thank you. S was like, "Oh, what did we do with that?" That's what they did. The whole process to to processing hides and scraping and like there's like a brain thing. There's the whole thing. I know. Native Club. Interesting. All right. I'll think about that. That's what they did years ago. Yeah. 100%. Any more questions? All right. Well, thank you. Thank you. Sure. Items from the food bank zone. There is a grant a small business especially with tribal influence um for culinary area. So, we might want to think about that if there might be grant money coming in to help with the infill project.
066Oh, okay. She just hit me up on that and I had to text myself. So, small business incubator for the culinary area is what she said it's called. It's Francine out at the Grand Ron Food Bank. just tricked my brain that people hit me up with stuff all the time. I can't keep track of it. Sell a lot of cars on Facebook. Yeah, report my Facebook, please. Anybody I just about called you and see you lower price on the dump trader. Stopped it. Wish I had that, too. But the next item on the agenda is decision items. Uh it's the WSD zone one to uh director. Um there was a email attached to look at for reelection of Arturo Vargas. Oh that's right. Yeah. He was the only um applicant for that um position and
067um he's been in the position for a while. Good for him. So I I move to uh we just need to support or um you need to submit a vote for to nominate him. I move to nominate Arturo Vargas for WSD board as our zone one director. Second. Good job. call for a vote for the the WESD zone one director um for Archer Vargas. All in favor? I I I I uh motion passes for Arturo Vargas to WSD board of directors zone one director. April, will you submit that or do I need to? I will submit it. Thank you. Thank you, April. And then future gender agenda items. Um, just reminding you that we'll need three people for architectural approval and then I think our contractor will be then we'll be looking at our partner
068for CMGC. That should hit our regular meeting. So, we're we'll go into summer being set. So, we'll be having a special session May 22nd. Is that the date that they set? I believe so. May 22nd. And I didn't get the time on that. I think we can set the time. Okay. Is that when we vote on the architecture? Yes. I have a Zoom meeting at six o'clock already scheduled for something else. So, what time? at six o'clock. We can do it before 6. We can do it as soon as when do you get out of work? 4:30. I be here at 5:00 if I have to. Can we do Can you do five? It should be quick. I think there'll be some documents to sign. Yeah. Five minutes. I have a fire board meeting that
069night too. So, they'll need him. They'll need someone to sign off on that, right? You need to do five. Five. Five works. I'll just stop there. Have to work. We have budget meeting at 5:30, but it's not going to take very long, right? Budget meeting for fire district. No. 5:30. So 5:00. Okay. 5 p.m. Convene approved. You'll have all the information ahead of time. Where we going to go? Where we going to go? Um where where do you want? We'll probably have to do it here. Right here. We'll just do it. Right here. Okay. Yeah. May 22nd at 5:00 pm. Yes. Send me a reminder. I have a reminder. Put in your phone. Oh, I got a reminder. Put it on the fridge. 5 to 5. She has heard. You have to look at it
070though. I don't look at it. What are you doing telling everybody this? Keeping an eye on it. Right. That's regular. All right. Start at um 6:30. It's my mom and dad's anniversary. My aunt's coming down. Get my grand dress that she wore my mom and dad's wedding. It's an old dress. And then you know, all right. Um the this meeting is adjourned.