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WLWV Board Room: Alright. Good evening, everyone.

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WLWV Board Room: get our meeting started this evening, so I'm gonna call to order. We don't have the gavel

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WLWV Board Room: this evening's Weston Wilsonville School Board

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WLWV Board Room: of Directors meeting, and I will pass it to Director Douglas to cast the

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WLWV Board Room: the roll call, please.

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WLWV Board Room: You're after slip here.

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WLWV Board Room: Chad Taylor, present

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WLWV Board Room: Director Bidda. Here.

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WLWV Board Room: let's chair away.

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WLWV Board Room: She will be here later.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Shoemaker.

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Dan Schumaker: I am here.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for that.

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WLWV Board Room: We're gonna get right into district communications and

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WLWV Board Room: from Riverside High School.

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WLWV Board Room: Principal Nick Chafin

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WLWV Board Room: board. Thanks for having us tonight. I would like to introduce Lucia Corimbo, Lucia. You may notice, Lucia, because she was here 2 years ago as an 8th grader speaking about Riverside.

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WLWV Board Room: It's about 2 years ago, right? Fantastic student, involved in all kinds of different things. She's going to talk a little bit about that. But we're excited to have her representing Riverside High School this year.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, Board Members. My name is Lucia, like Mr. Chapin just said, and I'm a sophomore at Riverside High School this year.

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WLWV Board Room: The start of the school year has been wonderful. It has been awesome to see how much Riverside has grown throughout the year. Every student feels like they belong here, giving a great sense of community. And compared to last year, when everyone was still comparing, like figuring out how Riverside was going to be organized this year seems evident that everyone has found their place

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WLWV Board Room: over the summer. Students in raptor crew helped organize and create an exciting and enjoyable environment. For the 9th grade and new student orientation around 75 kids came with a tour and fun activities. We are proud to say we have 170 kids attending our riverside this year, including 2 exchange students from Brazil and Germany.

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WLWV Board Room: In June last year Riverside officially got Ib certified just in time for all the juniors and advanced classes to start their Ib programs.

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WLWV Board Room: Either the Cte career path or the Ib diploma program

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WLWV Board Room: which the team will speak more about in just a few minutes.

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WLWV Board Room: Riverside is very happy to share that we have our first, st ever students in the National Honor society and a National Technical Honor Society. We have 6 students in Nhs and 3 students in nths.

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WLWV Board Room: Our 4 fall sports have officially started volleyball soccer and cross country.

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WLWV Board Room: Soccer and volleyball have already had some games, and the riverside students definitely showed up. Many students have shown their support from the bleachers in the sidelines

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WLWV Board Room: to our competing athletes.

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WLWV Board Room: Any student who would like to sign up for any club or just browse through which clubs we have to offer have the opportunity to to attend the Club fair on September 20, th

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WLWV Board Room: as well as any clubs that have not continued their old schedule will continue to after the Club fair.

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WLWV Board Room: We have a curriculum. Night coming up on Thursday, September 12.th From 6 to 7, 45.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for having me here to update you on Riverside High School. I look forward to talking with you next month.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And 1st time, great job, it'll get easier right, and our faces will become more and more familiar, so great job on your 1st

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WLWV Board Room: presentation. So I will move over to Wilson. Oh, excuse me, West Linton High School.

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WLWV Board Room: where principal, Trevor Mena

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WLWV Board Room: will introduce our student representative.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Board. It is my pleasure to introduce Mia Harmon mia is a senior at Westland High School. Not only is she our Asb President. She is also a State captain or sorry State champion captain of our cheerleading squad, really excited for her to represent Westland High School. She's an amazing lion. I'll turn the floor over to Mia.

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WLWV Board Room: Really.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Principal Mena.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, Westland Wilsonville School Board. I hope you're all having a good evening. As Mr. Mena said. My name is Mia Harmon, and I'm the asp president for Westland High School this school year, as well as the cheer, Captain, for our State winning Barstein cheer team.

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WLWV Board Room: I have lived in Westland my whole life, and have been in the Westland Wilsonville School district since kindergarten. So I'm beyond thrilled to be speaking to you here today.

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WLWV Board Room: although we are only starting our 3rd week of school, Wesland has already had many successful and fun events.

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WLWV Board Room: Asb started the year with our annual summer retreat on the week of August 16.th

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WLWV Board Room: During this retreat we talked about our goals for the upcoming year we landed on a goal that actually fits our acronym of Asb really well, because, while it technically stands for Associated student body, we came to the conclusion that it will also reflect our goal for this year, by standing for all students belong.

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WLWV Board Room: we want to ensure. We continue making Westland High School a place that every student is excited to attend by creating events that give everyone a good time as well as events that give them a voice. We also believe that we can accomplish this goal by highlighting our 6 pillars at Westland High School

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WLWV Board Room: community compassion, integrity, inspiration, perseverance, and pride. We have already begun to highlight these pillars at our retreat by decorating the entire school in green and gold flags and streamers which help create a sense of community and aim to inspire students as they entered the building

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WLWV Board Room: next Asb hosted a breakfast and put on an activity for our Westland High School staff at their staff meeting on August 20.th

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WLWV Board Room: During this activity our staff was challenged to solve a Westland High School themed word Search, and a lion puzzle once completed, they were taught one of our student section's favorite football cheers, shake it, and had to repeat it back to Asb officers correctly.

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WLWV Board Room: Once they had done this they were sent to their final challenge to complete a fill in the blank of the Westland High School fight song.

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WLWV Board Room: We had tons of fun putting together this spirit challenge for our staff, and we believe our staff had fun performing it.

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WLWV Board Room: On the morning of August 26th the class of 2,025 attended their senior sunrise on the football field. Krispy Kreme donuts were served along with apple juice, orange juice and hot chocolate that was made by Asb's very own senior class director, Stephen Walker.

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WLWV Board Room: following the senior Sunrise seniors were able to decorate one of our senior parking lots with chalk

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WLWV Board Room: in the world of athletics. Both boys and girls soccers had their openers, their home openers for the year. This past week

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WLWV Board Room: our boys played Grant on Tuesday, and our girls won against Lasalle in their game. On Thursday.

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WLWV Board Room: Our volleyball and football teams will both have their home openers this coming week with our volleyball team hosting Lake Ridge on Tuesday, and our football team hosting Sherwood on Friday.

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WLWV Board Room: and lastly, our theatre department, hosted auditions for their fall. Musical Cinderella. This past week we are all super excited to see them perform soon.

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WLWV Board Room: With that I would like to thank you for having me here today, and I look forward to reporting back to you next month and this following year. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Mia great job. And it's good to see all the preparation and hard work of you attending these meetings last year.

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WLWV Board Room: you know willingness into to a reality. So good job on that. So

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WLWV Board Room: and last, but not least, Wilsonville High School, Principal Kelly Schmidt. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. Thank you for having us. I'm going to introduce to you this evening. Keller Kirschman Keller is our Asb spirit director. He is filling in this evening for Carter Christiansen, who is our Asb. President. But

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WLWV Board Room: Keller's wonderful to be here. If you've been to any of our unified events, you'll see Keller there as a student leader supporting his classmates. He's also a member of our baseball team and is involved in so many things.

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WLWV Board Room: Pillar's a bright light in our school. It makes perfect sense that he would be here tonight to cover for Carter. So, Keller, go ahead.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Ms. Schmidt.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig and members of the School Board on behalf of leadership and asp at Wilsonville High School. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Keller Kershpin, like, she said, and I'm the Sports Commissioner at Wilsonville High School. I'll be filling in for Carter Christensen, the sport, the

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WLWV Board Room: Asp President this evening

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WLWV Board Room: the 1st couple of weeks have been fun and productive. It's wonderful to be back in classes where we are familiar with our schedule and classes

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WLWV Board Room: to start the year. More than 80 Link crew leaders have helped welcome our 9th graders to the 9th grade orientation.

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WLWV Board Room: Last Friday, our annual Club fair, we saw engagement from our student body who really liked this opportunity to get involved and show what it's like to do. Outside of the classroom

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WLWV Board Room: we saw clubs like Fca. The bowling team as well as restaurant club set up booths. During life class.

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WLWV Board Room: One of our newest clubs, mountain climbing club was started by 2 freshmen who learned about this, who learned about starting clubs while attending our summer camp wildcat Camp

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WLWV Board Room: this summer program, helped to bridge transition to high school from 8th grade.

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WLWV Board Room: The performing arts programs are underway. Our fall musical is anesthesia, and auditions are taking place this week.

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WLWV Board Room: This the show is set to run mid November jazz band and sold out, have held their auditions.

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WLWV Board Room: We also had our senior sunrise this last week, where we saw a great turnout from our senior class.

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WLWV Board Room: We used our brand new drummertron to watch the movie as we awaited the sunrise. People got to take pictures, and also it was awesome to see our senior moms come out and prepare food for that morning.

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WLWV Board Room: All around it was a nice start for the class of 2025.

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WLWV Board Room: We also had our senior Sunri.

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WLWV Board Room: Excuse me sorry we had our fall sports are off to a strong start with more than 335 students signed up to play

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WLWV Board Room: our cross country team, hosted 55 schools at their annual night meet 2 weeks ago. This is a fundraiser co-sponsored with our band and wrestling programs. Football is a part of our new special district this year, and we'll be playing some new opponents. This Friday was our 1st football game. It was a thriller filled with ups and downs against Nelson High School.

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WLWV Board Room: The cats came out with the win.

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WLWV Board Room: The students really brought the energy, and it was cool to see everyone excited for this year, as you can see up there in that corner really had a good turnout, and everyone was really excited just to be yelling except the freshmen. They're a little nervous, but

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WLWV Board Room: both soccer teams are off to a 2 and 0 start and volleyball is 2 and one.

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WLWV Board Room: We invite you to join all of our fence this fall.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much for your time, and looking forward to a fun year. Thank you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And great job, and not sure if we'll see you again since you were filling in. But you're always welcome, of course, and make sure you make your buddy buy you lunch

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WLWV Board Room: for that, so we always extend this opportunity

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WLWV Board Room: for Dr. Ludwig to share a few words. You're letting me interrupt. Keller, do you feel comfortable? Commenting about the new logo? Is that something?

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WLWV Board Room: can you? Can you pull the the slide back up that Keller had?

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WLWV Board Room: So when the slide comes, so you'll notice in the top left corner. We have a new logo for Wilsonville High School. Last year we did an inventory, and I think there were about 35 different cats around the school, and probably double that many number of letter of W's.

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WLWV Board Room: And so if you look at the forehead of this wildcat, there is a W up there. And this was designed by kind of in collaboration with some students. Some coaches, some advisors, our athletic director and administrators. So the other wildcat, which was from the beginning of time, when Wilsonville opened in 1,995, was a student art

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WLWV Board Room: contest, and while that was a lovely Wilsonville wildcat for the last 30 years. It also was a cougar and not a wild cat, and it also was very difficult to scale up on publications and prints and things. So it was time to kind of re regroup on that. So this is the new Wilsonville wildcat.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: We also use this time to extend to our students the opportunity

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WLWV Board Room: to exit and go on about this beautiful evening, and you are also more than welcome to stay for the Full Board meeting, which is really fun. And so if you, if you've never stayed through a full one.

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WLWV Board Room: knock yourself out, but if not.

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WLWV Board Room: and that will take us into recognitions, and from the Department of Teaching and learning. I'm going to turn it over to

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. David Pryor.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, good evening, Board. I love the description used for our wilsonville High School student, being a bright light in the school, and we have another bright light to introduce to you a new member of our primary school leadership team.

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WLWV Board Room: As you recall. Last year we said goodbye to Kate Donegan, the former principal of many, many years, who relocated with her family to live in Bend, and we were faced with the daunting challenge of finding a new leader to to take over in in her steed, and we feel so proud of who's taken over the hill. I'd like to introduce to you Katie Beckett.

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WLWV Board Room: Katie Beckett comes to us. She's the former principal of Mark Twain, elementary school in Silverton, Oregon, where she served since 2,021, and then, prior to that, she worked in the Tiger Tuilet school district as a literacy teacher on special assignment, leading professional development and coaching staff, and previous to that, as a

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WLWV Board Room: English language, arts coordinator for the David Douglas school district. So she comes with a wealth of experience just in the area that we're highly focused on in primary school this year, as we bring forward our new literacy, language, arts, adoption materials. And

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WLWV Board Room: We knew right from the start that Katie was a Westland Wilsonville leader. She just spoke with such passion and clarity around school leadership. She is known as a leader who is a teacher's leader. She gets into that with them. She lets teachers guide the decision making. She even started her summer by meeting with any staff member who would meet with her and teach her around. What? What are the the shining

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WLWV Board Room: stars of the school, and how to build upon that. And it's just been an incredibly strong start to the school year, and as evidence of Katie's collaborative nature, she actually partnered with Lowry primary school, which is another school, because both Trillium and Lowry have dual language and English only classrooms. So they brought their whole staffs together for our kickoff, and to lead some professional learning around English language arts.

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WLWV Board Room: So it feels like you've been here a lot much longer time. Given the relationships that you formed, but we just could not have.

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WLWV Board Room: We could not have found a better person to join our district. So it's my pleasure to introduce her to you, and I'm sure you're going to see a lot of her, so please join me in welcoming Miss Beckett to be the new principal of Trillium.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm really funny.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, I just want to say how humbled and lucky I feel to have landed here. In Westland, Wilsonville, and at Trillium Creek. It has been. I've said it before in lots of different places. But just a an incredibly warm, genuine welcome that I've had.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm just looking forward to an incredible year this year. Leading, reading initiatives and things like that. But just to get to know the people that fill the building and the district. And again. I just feel very lucky to be here. So thank you very much.

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WLWV Board Room: Congratulations, Dr. Ludwig.

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WLWV Board Room: I know if others had some comments to make, I can go last, or I can go first.st

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WLWV Board Room: director, slip any comments.

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WLWV Board Room: Just wanted to say that we're very excited to have you as the principal of trillium and

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WLWV Board Room: looking forward to a great school year.

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WLWV Board Room: Director. Vira.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah, I wanted to. Welcome you to the district as well.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm not. Oh, there, there, I'm like, where is she?

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, and my son went to Lowry. Dual language is so important to our district and to our communities, and I really appreciate the togetherness of bringing both of those teams together from Westland and Wilsonville. It's really important. So thank you so much and welcome.

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WLWV Board Room: all right, and I know that Director Shoemaker is virtual with us, and so I want to make sure that I don't forget about him. Do you have anything, director, shoemaker, and if I don't hear from you, I'll take that as a no

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WLWV Board Room: Nope, all right.

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WLWV Board Room: And again I just would like to say congratulations, and I hope that the warmth that you feel right now continues throughout your tenure

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WLWV Board Room: at Trillium. So congratulations!

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WLWV Board Room: And director.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, Dr. Ludwig, back in the swing, I think. Last, but not least, that's okay. Well, I just want to add to the comments made here. Welcome, Katie, and we're just so glad to have you at at Trillium. Already. I've unsolicited comments from staff and and parents who've commented to me that they're just so thrilled

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WLWV Board Room: to have you there. It's a pleasure to read the messages in the

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WLWV Board Room: the Owl Newsletter, that again just shares your sentiments, your connection already to the community. And the other day, when I visited the school and

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WLWV Board Room: I almost forgot that it was your 1st week of school almost your 1st day, because it just seems so natural to see you there. You're incredibly approachable. You've been so generous with your time, with parents and and staff to get to know folks and I just feel so good about

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WLWV Board Room: your leadership there and again thank you for saying yes to the job offer and for joining us here. So congratulations, we look forward to a long relationship with you.

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WLWV Board Room: all right, and then continuance of recognition.

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WLWV Board Room: I'd like to call forward Dr. Spencer Iams.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. It is an opportunity for us to highlight some great work that's happening. And as we think about how we develop great thinkers and thoughtful people for the world. We know that rigorous learning opportunities is a really important part of our school district, and it happens in many ways

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WLWV Board Room: in our high schools that can happen through dual credit programs where students are earning college credit and high school credit. At the same time.

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WLWV Board Room: it can happen through things like the Isef program that you hear about where students really go deep in learning, in a particular individual topic of research. It can happen through our strong Ap. Advanced placement programs that we have at both

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WLWV Board Room: And as we opened Riverside we knew we needed to think about what would be a new, unique opportunity to expand rigorous learning in some different ways. And we found the International baccalaureate program.

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WLWV Board Room: and it has become a real pedagogical anchor that fits with our beliefs and values. So we couldn't be more thrilled to introduce our staff.

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WLWV Board Room: We are now authorized as a career related program and diploma program. The career related program ties in nicely with our cte programs. This part of it's for grades 11 and 12. And we're working on our Mip or Nyp for our 9th and 10th graders is really based in inquiry based learning.

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Dan Schumaker: I'm going to defer my 1st board report of the school year until I'm in person. Next month.

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WLWV Board Room: So I'm going to start. September is one of my favorite months. School is back in session. Ball sports kick off their season. Warm days are followed by cool nights

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WLWV Board Room: This September is attendance. Awareness month, as proclaimed by Governor Kotek.

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WLWV Board Room: So every year we identify a theme for our school year of learning together, and this sends some information about the community and shared with you as well. It should look little familiar. This logo. We had a theme last year called elevate, and we're building off of that theme with this idea of rise and run. I thought I'd just share for a couple of minutes how we got to that. So next slide?

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WLWV Board Room: And then, lastly, we do have on the agenda this evening that you will be hearing from both our chief of operations, and myself. Mr. Pat Mcguff, and myself about the letter that was sent out last week with the 2 different task force groups. It was a lot of information to process.

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WLWV Board Room: and Mr. Mcguff will share again that letter and the contents this evening for the record on the Board meeting, for those viewing from home for you as a board.

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WLWV Board Room: We will have a more complete website. We've just got it started, but it will provide information and timelines. It'll be an access point for community members

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WLWV Board Room: The intention is for the Small Schools Task force to be established by the end of this month.

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WLWV Board Room: and the boundary task force does not need to start right away. So we're looking at getting that going in November.

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WLWV Board Room: So we appreciate all the feedback we know. These can be challenging conversations. We want to reassure our community again. No decision has been made. We're at the very, very beginning of this process.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'll conclude there, knowing that we have this as an agenda item later as well.

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WLWV Board Room: was inspirational. So I had this in the Powerpoint and brother leadership retreat, and thought I'd share it with you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Dr. Ludwig.

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WLWV Board Room: That takes us into a consent agenda which requires board action.

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WLWV Board Room: I move to approve the consent. Agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, I'll pass it to Director Douglas to cast the vote. Thank you. Director Vidal.

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WLWV Board Room: director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: to your email, or pull a side by side and have a 1 on one

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WLWV Board Room: If you make, if you wish to make a public comment, and you didn't get a chance to sign up on

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WLWV Board Room: Our form to single out an individual district employees or students for complaints. We have a process for that.

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WLWV Board Room: So please keep your comments to 3 min.

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WLWV Board Room: And the order of public comment that will be taken is the people who 1st signed up. We're going to just go in order.

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WLWV Board Room: addressing items on the agenda. Are this 1st section correct? I did. Yeah. And then residents, not on the agenda next session and non residents, whether it's on the agenda or not, are also just on the second session, just to clear, in case there are some non residents here, and wonder they always have to wait for the second session. Lovely post! Covid rules.

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WLWV Board Room: So we will go ahead and start with the residents, and who are directly in our community.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Travis Wilboy. I live in West Lynn. I have 2 children at Bolton, another about to start in a couple of years.

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WLWV Board Room: This is about the Smaller Schools Committee that's going or smaller schools task force is going to be set up.

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WLWV Board Room: in management's discussion and analysis. Section of the Westland Wilsonville School district's audited financial statements, it is noted the actual revenues were higher than budgeted, due to strong community support through property taxes and local option taxes.

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WLWV Board Room: and we overwhelmingly support the efforts that you're all making. However.

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WLWV Board Room: when parks are sold out from under our feet, and primary schools are considered to be closed.

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WLWV Board Room: This goodwill may quickly erode.

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WLWV Board Room: Furthermore, the schools being considered for closure, serve some of the most vulnerable students in West Lynn

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WLWV Board Room: socioeconomic socioeconomically.

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WLWV Board Room: Bolton is arguably the most disadvantaged neighborhood in West Lynn

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WLWV Board Room: closing this school would add pressure to those families by increasing commute times and logistical complications.

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WLWV Board Room: Additionally, Bolton has the highest test scores, according

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WLWV Board Room: test scores of any primary school in West Lynn, according to the most recent Ode Report card.

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WLWV Board Room: despite being the smallest school with the most disadvantaged students. It's thriving.

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WLWV Board Room: I also find it ironic that the long Range Planning committee's memo on consideration factors of small schools dedicates the 1st 4 pages to the downsize of small schools, only to justify building a new or opening a new high school in the district that serves just 170 students on the following 2 pages.

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WLWV Board Room: This inconsistency raises questions about the logic and reasoning behind the committee's recommendations.

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WLWV Board Room: The Bolton community does not want to lose our school, and I believe that cedar, Oak, and Stafford communities feel similarly about their schools.

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WLWV Board Room: I would hope the district and L Lrpc. Can find better ways to allocate resources. Thank you for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: No. I thought I was clear

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WLWV Board Room: and booing and cheering. I'm gonna let that one roll off my back, but

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WLWV Board Room: I don't know. So, please, but we understand that you're here in support of one another. So

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WLWV Board Room: We will move on to Barbara

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WLWV Board Room: Strap.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm on fire.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello! I am coming here this evening with requests and solutions, not complaints. I was a ptsa president for 2 years at Stafford, primary. I also support families on a daily basis with my podcast to empower parents and supporting their kids. So I'm here for all kids and families not just my own

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WLWV Board Room: making. Kids feel safe and included, is the pillar of this district and ours as a community. And that's why I'm here today reading that the district is even thinking about needing to close. 3 of the 6 primary schools in Westland made me very sad, concerned and aware that community involvement is needed now more than ever to help Westland schools thrive again, because, no matter where your kids go to school in this district, it affects us all creating less schools, but larger in size, does not make kids feel safe

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WLWV Board Room: or included. Stafford primary should be the last school to be considered because it is a unique. It is in a unique geographic location, and there are no other elementary schools in the immediate area, especially with Riverside. Right there. It makes no sense to not have a primary school close by. Also, those Stafford students would have to be sent to schools which are already at capacity board members.

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WLWV Board Room: You are very educated and were voted in to have the best interests for our kids, so can we please have solutions that make sense for everybody, especially our children and not make rash decisions in the 11th hour. There are different ways, utilize funds, and I have 2

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WLWV Board Room: create a freshman campus. The current enrollment has not been posted yet for Riverside, but I called today, and they said that there was 146 students, while Westland High School has up higher, 19 hundreds, close to 2,000 students.

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WLWV Board Room: I invite you to think creatively and turn Riverside, which is very low, attended into a freshman school for West Lynn. This is a very common thing to do in other school districts, and works very well. This will take a lot of weight out of Westland high school, which is severely overcrowded, and where kids do not feel safe or included, this would be the easiest, quickest, and least expensive way to make a positive impact on the school district and community by stop spending money on a school with very few students

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WLWV Board Room: and not look at the elementary schools.

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WLWV Board Room: Number 2 reorganizing district level positions in order to save funds. A huge reason that numbers are declining in some of our schools is because many people are frustrated by the way things are being run at the top. Therefore they are leaving this school district and finding alternative means of educating their children. Let's do better and think of ways that work best for the kids. Because what you are proposing is not it

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WLWV Board Room: community of West Lynn? Let's get very involved in making sure our kids are being served in the best interest by the district. I am happy to be placed on any committee that to help with smart, safe, and inclusive solutions. And so thank you very much for your energy and your new outlook.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't know that I'm gonna get this one right. But

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WLWV Board Room: I'm going to give it a shot.

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WLWV Board Room: Janice Perrault!

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WLWV Board Room: All right.

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WLWV Board Room: Welcome.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, everyone. My name is Janice Perot, and I just wanted to 1st thank everyone for being here tonight

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WLWV Board Room: showing your dedication to our wonderful schools.

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WLWV Board Room: Second, I'd like to focus on the importance of our school buildings over the next few months. It will be tempting to view them solely on a cost basis. But our schools are a safe haven for many, and the cost to run them is only one piece of the overall puzzle

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WLWV Board Room: just like our own homes. Schools are so much more than just walls, floors, Hvac systems and gyms. They're places where our students go to learn and explore and play our teachers and staff guide their learning and challenge them to create a vision of who they can be.

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WLWV Board Room: Students, form friendships and find a sense of belonging and identity in our buildings. Each school has its own unique history, culture, and tone. They bring tremendous value to Westland and provide opportunities for students to form lifetime ties to their school and local community.

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WLWV Board Room: Lastly.

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WLWV Board Room: there are some concerns among us that some of the processes we are embarking upon are just a formality, and we fear decisions are already in motion.

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WLWV Board Room: We deserve transparency, and an honest dialogue moving forward.

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WLWV Board Room: If a recommendation is made in January to close a school. I respectfully ask you tonight to tell us now, when the closure will take place.

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WLWV Board Room: teachers and staff deserve time to plan and prepare students for next steps as a Pta member and a board treasurer. I need a realistic budget and time realistic timeline, so that we can budget accordingly.

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WLWV Board Room: providing this information now will avoid having your valued employees.

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WLWV Board Room: staff and students, community members walking in fear while planning in the dark

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WLWV Board Room: and in closing. I've been so touched to learn about the district's powerful rise and run mission, and I've seen its direct effects in our classrooms

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WLWV Board Room: as we rise together this school year. I ask that each of us ensure integrity, transparency and honesty are core tenants in our run.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, right.

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WLWV Board Room: Christy, it looks like lance.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, I stand before you today, not only as a concerned parent, but as a dedicated member of our community who is deeply invested in the success and well-being of our children in schools.

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WLWV Board Room: My family and I chose to move to Westland 2 years ago, just a block from Bolton Primary School, primary due to Westland's stellar reputation as one of Oregon's finest schools in the district. Each morning I have the pleasure of walking my son to Bolton alongside 5 other families who share the same commitment to our local school

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WLWV Board Room: as you deliberate on the future of Bolton, Stafford, and Cro. I respectfully ask that you consider the profound impacts these schools have on our children, our families and the broader community.

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WLWV Board Room: This year we have seen the unfortunate departure of cherished librarians, teachers, and other essential staff due to budget cuts.

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WLWV Board Room: These reductions are not just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are deeply felt by our children. It's particularly concerning

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WLWV Board Room: to witness these challenges in our district. While neighboring districts such as Laco do not seem to be facing similar issues.

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WLWV Board Room: This discrepancy leads us to question

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WLWV Board Room: what's happening in our district. I recognize that the district is grappling with a significant budget shortfall, which has escalated from 3 million to 10 million. However, this sudden increase raises several important questions. Cited factors include insurance materials and supplies growing by 15% and miscalculations regarding substitute teachers, costs.

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WLWV Board Room: and having reviewed the budgets, I am compelled to ask in a year where inflation was a known concern, why was it not adequately accounted in the budget?

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WLWV Board Room: Why is the projected insurance cost for this year lower than last year in the previous year's. If the previous year's actuals were unexpectedly high.

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WLWV Board Room: there are also notable discrepancies in the cost for substitute teachers with a decrease of approximately $790,000, from the 2,022 to 2,023 school year to 2324 school years. What led the committee to believe that we would require significantly less funding for substitutes.

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WLWV Board Room: Additionally, there remains an unexplained gap in the budget projections without the actual figures for 2324 school year. I fear that decisions about our schools may be made based on incomplete or inaccurate financial data. Further eroding confidence in the district's financial planning.

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WLWV Board Room: If the district is unable to accurately predict routine costs such as substitute teachers from one year to the yet next, how can we trust the 10 year projections for student body growth in smaller schools?

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WLWV Board Room: This lack of clarity and transparency transparency is deeply concerning.

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WLWV Board Room: I hope that you will

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WLWV Board Room: running out of time. I hope that you will keep our schools open and choose to widen the district, the boundaries instead.

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WLWV Board Room: Ursula Tyre.

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WLWV Board Room: I have 3 daughters that go to Bolton primary

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to remind 1st everyone that on November 7, th

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WLWV Board Room: last year we voted

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WLWV Board Room: on the levy the levy. That was I'm just gonna read off of the Westland Wilson Bill

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WLWV Board Room: website. This is your website and

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WLWV Board Room: this is how I decided to vote. Yes, and I'm sure a lot of other people, 60% of our district voted yes.

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WLWV Board Room: for that tax to remain.

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WLWV Board Room: It says, if passed, what would the local Option Levy Fund.

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WLWV Board Room: If passed the local option levy would continue to provide funding for approximately 90 teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: counselors, and support staff. If passed, the levy would provide funds to the district

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WLWV Board Room: to maintain current programs and staffing levels at schools for 5 years.

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WLWV Board Room: The proposed measure would. And this is a bullet

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WLWV Board Room: preserve about 90 classroom teachers and counselors and support staff.

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WLWV Board Room: And this one, I would like to put

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WLWV Board Room: a lot of emphasis on, maintain the class size and protect class sizes supported by this levy.

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WLWV Board Room: And now we come to the last one is supplement state funding. I don't really understand that one, but the middle one. They maintain class size and protect class sizes.

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WLWV Board Room: And now we're hearing. It hasn't even been a year since this has passed.

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WLWV Board Room: and we are assigning a small school

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WLWV Board Room: task force. It makes no sense.

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WLWV Board Room: We all voted. Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: and now

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WLWV Board Room: we're wondering.

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WLWV Board Room: where did this money go? This is supposed to last until 2029,

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WLWV Board Room: and it's already run out.

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WLWV Board Room: It hasn't even started yet. It's supposed to start in 2025. So

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WLWV Board Room: those questions

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WLWV Board Room: are there? I'm not the only one asking. I have 51 seconds left, so I'd like to tell you

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WLWV Board Room: what, my daughter, my oldest one, asked if

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WLWV Board Room: perhaps they could save their school

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WLWV Board Room: with the Joggathon that is coming up. So

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WLWV Board Room: this is where they're at emotionally.

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WLWV Board Room: and it hurts

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WLWV Board Room: to see that.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: We have.

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WLWV Board Room: Taylor Vanhill.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, come!

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WLWV Board Room: Did help a memory.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, I you know what. Okay. You know what? That is. A long, last name. I didn't know. All of that went together.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, there!

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WLWV Board Room: I'm Taylor, and my 2 girls are at Bolton. Well, they're Bolton Bees. They're in second and 3rd grade, and I'm a lunch lady at Cedar Oak.

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WLWV Board Room: So needless to say, both of those schools matter greatly to me.

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WLWV Board Room: The overall logistics, finances, budget that may or may not be mismanaged

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WLWV Board Room: school capacity, environmental concerns, walkability of schools, foreign language programs, cultural and racial diversity and overall educational experiences are all bullet points that I actually came to talk to you about today.

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WLWV Board Room: Instead, I'm going to talk about community

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WLWV Board Room: and attempt to thoroughly explain the importance of community and what it really means.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't think I fully understood what it meant until my kids started at Bolton.

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WLWV Board Room: which is the smallest school, as we all know.

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WLWV Board Room: but definitely one of the mightiest.

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WLWV Board Room: During the pandemic I met another mom at Hammerley Park.

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WLWV Board Room: a park that shares a huge grassy pathway with Bolton primary.

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WLWV Board Room: Our kids were still in preschool, and we chatted from afar.

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WLWV Board Room: About their futures, with hope in our hearts for our kids to someday someday get that normal school experience

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WLWV Board Room: a normal 1st day of school, and hey, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could have it happen right here? And we both gestured to the sign at Bolton

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WLWV Board Room: we had both moved to the area to be close to the school. We were both granted our wish when our girls were in the same class, for in person kindergarten, 2 years ago.

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WLWV Board Room: It was such a comfort to know another mom and student. This was the 1st step of building our community for me.

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WLWV Board Room: From there we've built friendship that's far beyond the 2 of us.

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WLWV Board Room: So how do you measure community? How do you make decisions based on the feeling that you create in a community. How do you measure the impact and importance of relationships, connection, friendship, and major milestones?

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WLWV Board Room: The Bolton community has given us all of that and more when you eliminate a school, you crush a community.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm certain the same could be said by other parents at other schools. We want them all to stay open.

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WLWV Board Room: Each of them are unique and special, and should not be reduced to a number for elimination.

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WLWV Board Room: Please please come up with another solution.

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WLWV Board Room: Have more meetings, more brainstorms show more empathy, and please care. Try to care somehow as much as we do.

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WLWV Board Room: Could our family potentially have had these experiences at other schools. I'm sure we would

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WLWV Board Room: if you know me. You know I build community. That's kind of my my thing, but we've personally personally done it at Bolton over the course of the last 5 years, and many others have done it before us, and for much longer. We want to keep building this community, a community that is established. Now, right now no heavy lifting is required to build this community. It's already there, getting rid of that school would destroy what we've built. And why? Just because it's the smallest.

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WLWV Board Room: We hope decisions are made beyond our school size, because community is everything to us.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright.

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WLWV Board Room: Athena Contreras

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WLWV Board Room: don't have anything prepared. I just decided to sign up because I want to show my support, and I'm here for my school. We moved here

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WLWV Board Room: looking all throughout the area. We looked at all the schools. That's that was our number one. We looked at the district. Then we looked at the schools. We chose our district, and we chose our school.

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WLWV Board Room: Before we chose our house. So

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WLWV Board Room: this is the reason we're here. We moved here for this, because the second you set foot on that campus, you can feel the warmth and the energy and the

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WLWV Board Room: commitment, and the

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WLWV Board Room: small. The smallest schools, I think, are the ones that offer the students the absolute best.

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WLWV Board Room: I think they offer something that you can't get at every school, and

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WLWV Board Room: while it's wonderful to be at a large school.

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WLWV Board Room: There are people who.

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WLWV Board Room: you know. It's just very important

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WLWV Board Room: to not shut down that extra resource that does create everything that you guys are trying to build here. So

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WLWV Board Room: that's all I have to say. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Thank you. Members of the Board, Marlene. Yes, Ken, I'm a parent of a 3rd grader and a 5th grader at Bolton Primary. I'm also an attorney in Portland, and I moved from Southern Oregon to the Portland Metropolitan area 2 years ago I am. I was a former Medford School Board member, and so I know that this is a tough job for you, and I commend you and thank you for your hard work.

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WLWV Board Room: I came today to show support for the small schools that you have in this district. My husband and I chose to move to the metropolitan area for our careers, but also when when looking at schools and looking at which area and community to live in, we did our homework. We did our research and Westland fit perfectly when I was in when I was a School Board member in the Medford School district.

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WLWV Board Room: I did not. You know I still hadn't had children yet, but I was not. I was very nervous about putting my children enrolling my children in the public school system at that time. I'm an English language learner in the from the public school system here in the United States, and so my parents are Peruvian. My 1st language is Spanish, and so I saw the struggles in the public school system for English language learners in the United States, and I did not want my children to have to go through that.

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WLWV Board Room: So my children went into private schools. But once we moved into the Westland School district I knew that they were going to have a really good education. We we searched. We moved into the Bolton area, and of course this I was also on the early learning

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WLWV Board Room: on the Governor's early learning division. So I know the importance of small schools, small class sizes, and saw that Bolton was just providing that to all of our children.

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WLWV Board Room: The community. The neighboring community was astounding. I've never seen

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WLWV Board Room: the neighbors coming in and participating with the with the staff and children of the of the Bolton community. And and that's what I saw. We have Hammerley Park. We have the picketball, the racquetball courts there, and there, I mean, there's just so much traffic, and it's beautiful, and it's right on the thoroughfare of 43, right on Route 43,

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WLWV Board Room: which I feel like as a district. You would want your schools to be seen, and that is something. The Bolton school is right there right in the middle of Westland, and and it provides so much to the community.

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WLWV Board Room: Most of the parents that I've talked to have all been in the same situation have all had the same experience that they've told me that they've done their research. This is the district we want to be in. This is the school that we want. I also have a child with special needs.

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WLWV Board Room: and I have to commend Principal porter, because my child has a

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WLWV Board Room: sensory disorder. I'm sorry. If I could just finish for a second he has sensory disorder. Principal Porter

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WLWV Board Room: sat with my child for days

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WLWV Board Room: days because my child was so nervous to go into school, and so, and we wouldn't have seen that at other schools we actually

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WLWV Board Room: encounter different situations and experiences with my son. So this is a really important school, not only to the families at Bolton, but also to the neighboring community, and I hope that you will

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WLWV Board Room: keep your small schools because I feel like that adds to the districts

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WLWV Board Room: goals as well, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Think, I'm just gonna ask a question to

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WLWV Board Room: Mr. Mccabe. I think you're not. You're not on small schools, are you, Mr. Mccabe?

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WLWV Board Room: You are

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WLWV Board Room: okay. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. John Mccabe, Westland, Oregon.

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WLWV Board Room: Let's start big word transparency.

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WLWV Board Room: We were informed last year that there was 406 students

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WLWV Board Room: that were part of open enrollment or out of district

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WLWV Board Room: and flow analytics does study the exact same statistics. And you're actually at 459

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WLWV Board Room: 50 students were not informed. I don't know where they are.

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WLWV Board Room: You don't know where they are.

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WLWV Board Room: Public doesn't know where they are.

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WLWV Board Room: and when you take some of the things like.

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WLWV Board Room: Why the small schools

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WLWV Board Room: is the fact that

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WLWV Board Room: why is Frog Khan?

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WLWV Board Room: Because Wilsonville is way under capacity.

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WLWV Board Room: and the thing that people would need to know is, if you tend

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WLWV Board Room: a Wilsonville school.

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WLWV Board Room: you have to go to Wilson Hill Middle School, and you cannot go to West Lynn.

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WLWV Board Room: There are people now

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WLWV Board Room: better than the Bolton, and and not the Bolton, the Beckman, Stafford

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WLWV Board Room: option.

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WLWV Board Room: They go to Stafford. They go to Athey Creek, and then they end up being a inter district transfer

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WLWV Board Room: to us in high school.

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WLWV Board Room: which the district is trying to discourage.

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WLWV Board Room: and they have not informed

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WLWV Board Room: the Assessor's office. There's going to be new boundary changes

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WLWV Board Room: anywhere anywhere in this district.

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WLWV Board Room: Starting with the

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WLWV Board Room: And when you look at the flow analytics, it's like, are we going to lose?

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WLWV Board Room: Are we going to stop admitting people into our school district that pay the amount of $0 and 0 cents

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WLWV Board Room: for any of our Geo. Bond funds.

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WLWV Board Room: and it's not proper to the community to ask these people not to contribute being able to attend our schools and try to send them over capacity.

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WLWV Board Room: Even when we admit all these students that do not live in the district.

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WLWV Board Room: our enrollments still keep on going downhill.

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WLWV Board Room: We have a significant problem that is not being addressed.

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WLWV Board Room: and the other thing for the boat people. I don't know if they know it.

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WLWV Board Room: but starting in the 2526th year for middle schools. They don't go to Rosemont anymore.

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WLWV Board Room: We now go to Etie Creek.

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WLWV Board Room: and there's a lack of communication.

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WLWV Board Room: And so essentially, you need everybody to be open beyond any of these boards, one of not opening Frog Pond

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WLWV Board Room: until there is a total capacity need

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WLWV Board Room: which won't be till after 2030,

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WLWV Board Room: if not longer because of. There's over 60

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WLWV Board Room: open enrollment kids

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WLWV Board Room: in the Wilsonvilles portion of the school district.

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WLWV Board Room: You eliminate them. No capacity problem at all.

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WLWV Board Room: and then be able to tell these people which high school they can go to. And if you look at it.

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WLWV Board Room: over 12% of the students

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WLWV Board Room: and parents don't send their children to the school district within their area.

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WLWV Board Room: And so

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WLWV Board Room: please reconsider how you really want to do this, because last time this was done

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WLWV Board Room: was when the middle schools, when meridian opened.

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WLWV Board Room: and it was like almost a hijack, and people were attacking people on the task force because they did not appreciate people having to go from Willamette all the way to meridian. And technically, that's what you're doing now. Thank you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Wendy Gorsla.

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WLWV Board Room: It's probably my favorite.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for making time for my rhetorical questions. I'm a parent of a student at Bolton and a neighborhood resident.

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WLWV Board Room: If closing the small schools is purely a fiscal decision. What is the plan for the Bolton property? If the school is closed? Is there a deal already on the table?

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WLWV Board Room: The Pew Research Center Press release October 19, th 2,011 states that quote in the district, study

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WLWV Board Room: the task of putting closed buildings to productive use either through sale or lease, often has proved extremely difficult. End. Quote. The amount of savings to the district will depend largely on the sale of the closed school.

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WLWV Board Room: If this is an enrollment decision, what other options for increasing enrollment have been considered? Have boundary changes been considered for balancing enrollment? To try to keep neighbourhood schools open and communities together, sunset and trillium. Both have high enrollments and border Bolton primary and cedar oak boundaries.

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WLWV Board Room: changing the boundaries, would maintain community cohesion while making use of existing facilities.

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WLWV Board Room: What considerations for the social, emotional, mental health of the closed school students has been considered! The trauma of Covid 4 years ago resulted in educational losses. These young students are just recovering. Studies show that when a school is closed, quote, there are negative effects. 3 to 4 years past closures for students from the closed schools, who had been in grades 3 to 5 in the announcement year End quote Uchicago Consortium on school research, May 2,018.

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WLWV Board Room: This is precisely the group whose entry into school was affected by Covid closures 4 years ago.

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WLWV Board Room: Statistically, they are just recovering from their academic losses quote test scores of students, both from the closed and welcoming schools, are shown to be negatively affected. Following a closing

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WLWV Board Room: with students from the closing school experiencing the largest negative effect end quote, what proposal do you have for mitigating this?

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WLWV Board Room: How has the Board considered school at quality issues in balancing of enrollment and building age. Closing schools has been a simplistic and destructive response to the issue of low enrollment. When neighborhood schools close students are forced to attend schools farther from their homes. The new distance plus the trauma of displacement, can affect student attendance and performance.

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WLWV Board Room: Student achievement. Growth is the best measure of how well. Schools helped students learn. As a general rule, school leaders should never close a school with average or better growth. Doing so will only reduce future student learning for everyone.

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WLWV Board Room: We understand why factors like building age and low enrollments. Fundamentally, financial factors, have to be part of the equation or the conversation. But when all is said and done. A plan falls short if it saves money, but doesn't serve students in the best way possible. Given the financial constraints. Harrison, Martinez, Pavin Tulane and Yale University.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm running out of time. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: Bolton is, has a high achieve is a high achieving school. That serves a low socioeconomic area. I'm sorry if a district has a great team and a failing building, it's essential to keep that team together without a plan for building sale

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WLWV Board Room: in place without a proposal to keep the high performing team of Bolton together. How can the district make an argument for financial responsibility or student success? We have a long way to go to help students catch up post pandemic, and we can't afford to make the problem worse by following faulty precedents and closing successful schools, the community of Bolton primary will be torn apart in the closing of its school. No single elementary school in the area could absorb the whole of our enrollment population and high achieving teams.

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WLWV Board Room: The resulting trauma on students and families, longstanding relationships and success needs to be considered as well as fiscal and enrollment data. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Extend the courtesy that you look

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WLWV Board Room: would like to receive. That's

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WLWV Board Room: what I would say.

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WLWV Board Room: I believe that one of you

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WLWV Board Room: signed up on

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WLWV Board Room: the 8 15. But I believe Zal

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WLWV Board Room: wanna say you you were

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WLWV Board Room: zeal. Okay. I wanted to make sure that you came up during this

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WLWV Board Room: time period. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright. I'll try and fit this in

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WLWV Board Room: good evening. Esteemed members of the School Board. My name is Zeal Bandon Huevel.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm here tonight as a parent concerned, parent of 2 cedar oak students, one who's in second grade and one who's in kinder our family moved here last year from Southern California. We came from one of the best districts in the State of California.

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WLWV Board Room: My son started school there in kindergarten in a school of 500 students. Then we searched for a new home, a new community, and we came here specifically to Westland, specifically to Cedar Oak, and our daughter started kinder this year, surrounded by 349 other students. So I can say we've experienced both a larger school and a smaller school, which is one of the questions your long range planning committee was asking what is too small.

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WLWV Board Room: Hands down. Cedar Oak is truly a special community. We moved here for this school, and we would be really devastated, like many of the other parents here. If you chose to consolidate or close our school

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WLWV Board Room: tonight, you all have heard the themes of inclusivity of warmth, and a meeting learners where they are with the formation of Riverside. This is where cedar oak in particular shines. We have a vibrant community of engaged caregivers, parents, staff educators, and students, as demonstrated by the people who are here tonight, the 80 people who are on zoom, who haven't had the opportunity to speak yet, and all the comments that you've received in advance.

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WLWV Board Room: We understand that the school district has, you know, concerns about a potential budget shortfall. That's reality. Money doesn't grow on trees.

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WLWV Board Room: Regarding, you know the cost of renovations. Cedar oak is a great school. It's nowhere near falling apart nor in desperate need of being renovated. The committee needs to look carefully at the list of proposed renovations, and determine whether they are too broad scope unnecessary, or could be addressed in a less costly fashion.

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WLWV Board Room: As you may know, many public works, projects in Oregon, and the Us. Cost far more than they should, due to excessive red tape delays, inefficient procurement practices, uncompetitive bidding, and more.

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WLWV Board Room: Have some experts come in and look at the renovation bits and see what we can actually do to make these schools work instead of closing them. We cannot imagine that there isn't a way to do this better in less of a rush, in a more thoughtful way.

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WLWV Board Room: If school is concerned about falling enrollment, we need to be working with the City Council and the local Planning Commission to revise zoning, and you know, allow the building of duplexes, fourplexes apartment buildings, so that young families can affordably choose to move into Westland, as you've seen in Wilsonville.

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WLWV Board Room: even though, you know, we're an affluent community in West Lynn that can really turn around in a dime if we make decisions that are detrimental to the ability of our young families to grow, and our tax base will stagnate closing popular, well rated elementary schools like cedar oak, and the others that have been called out here

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WLWV Board Room: only have the opposite effect, discouraging families from moving here and wiping away decades of progress and creating this top notch school district. So we want to stress. The importance of decisions cannot happen in a vacuum. It cannot be rushed in 4 months, and that's what it feels like right now.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: Was there anyone who was

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WLWV Board Room: hoping to speak during the 1st session that may have not been able to.

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WLWV Board Room: Please come forward and just

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WLWV Board Room: state your name and

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WLWV Board Room: and if you're a Westland resident or not, please.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll be brief. My name's Aerith Irwin.

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WLWV Board Room: We

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WLWV Board Room: moved here to be near Bolton about a year and a half ago, before we did that, we actually went and met Mr. Porter. We have lived in Portland a long time. We want. We're in private schools with our children.

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WLWV Board Room: The dual language immersion was important to us. We now have a kindergartner who just started 2 weeks ago. We were, I think maybe you were meeting all about how we were going to be committed to this was asked that we would commit to this program in return that we would try to keep our child in there, and the district would be committed to this.

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WLWV Board Room: We have 2 children at Bolton.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't want to say that our family is any more important than others, or argue that this school should be closed at the expense of someone else's tragedy, or, you know, loss as well. But I do think it's a really special place that we chose to buy a home near this school to be at this school.

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WLWV Board Room: and we could be back in private schools which we chose to leave.

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WLWV Board Room: I think it is a great community, and

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WLWV Board Room: I know if you can't keep the lights on, you can't have a business. I understand that from other experiences. So these are real decisions. You can't fund everything you want to fund.

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WLWV Board Room: I know that.

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WLWV Board Room: But I think it's a real special place, and I think the number of people here to show that

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WLWV Board Room: and what we would want to come out and find how we can support this and keep our schools open, even if it meant more from us.

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WLWV Board Room: I didn't know about this before tonight. I'm now hoping to join

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WLWV Board Room: the task force about this get involved. See what I can do.

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WLWV Board Room: But I think

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WLWV Board Room: there feels like

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WLWV Board Room: I can't imagine other businesses I've been in that. We could make a decision this quickly about such a large topic, I know in bureaucracies things never move this quickly. And so I just wonder if there's a real chance of

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WLWV Board Room: saving things or moving things in a positive direction.

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WLWV Board Room: would like to partner

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WLWV Board Room: with the district. See how we can find ways to do that for our families and all the families that are here.

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WLWV Board Room: And it's a really unique opportunity, which is why we left private schools

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WLWV Board Room: and came here to be a part of this community

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WLWV Board Room: and have this chance, and to find out that perhaps this is

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WLWV Board Room: going in a direction that is not sustainable.

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WLWV Board Room: And we didn't know about this coming when I can't imagine this wasn't somewhere already being thought of

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WLWV Board Room: at the time when we enrolled in dual language, and that we moved here and bought a home

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WLWV Board Room: within the past year and a half

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WLWV Board Room: just feels like there's perhaps some transparency I would like to see

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WLWV Board Room: different. Or maybe I'm just missing the information. I don't know, but I would like to argue for ways that we can keep

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WLWV Board Room: the small schools open and see how we can.

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WLWV Board Room: The community can support that and all work together to continue to stay here and not have to go somewhere else to find unique experience that we have here

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WLWV Board Room: all right. We also have a community member

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WLWV Board Room: online

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WLWV Board Room: who wishes to

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WLWV Board Room: speak. And so we have Michael Rossenheimer.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: Hi!

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: Can you hear me?

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, we can.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: Okay. Can you hear me here?

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: Okay. Hi, yeah. My name is Michal Segal Rosenheimer. I'm a West Lane resident.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: I have a

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: a son that graduated West Lane High School, a daughter that a freshman in West Lane High School, and

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: little son that just started kindergarten in cedar oak.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: I'm a data scientist, and for I'm a climate scientist and air quality in my profession.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: And we moved here to West Lane in 2,020 during the pandemic from California. Specifically.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: Well, we moved, but we chose Wesleyan because of the of the school, so I had 2 comments on the topics that were discussed for the small school task force. The 1st one is on the alleged demographic issue. So Wesleyan has seen a surge in young families since the pandemic and mainly due to its school system.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: Among the highly rated schools are the 3 schools that are mentioned in this task Force decision plan, and as a residents resident of the Robin Hood neighborhood. Who moved here like I said, during the pandemic, I personally withstand how the you know, the elderly population of the neighborhood is constantly replaced

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: by young couples and young families. So

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: I really, I think all of us would really like to understand where the data from this demographic report came from, how it was processed. Like as a so, as I mentioned as a data scientist, I know firsthand, that the data sources, the data processing pipeline and the models that are used can be highly

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: manipulated or can give highly different results depends on what you're using.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: I think the real demographic question here that needs to be asked is, what is the ratio of children that are enrolled in the public system versus the children that now goes to home schooling or private schools, and to look at it before and after the pandemic.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: So this might be one of the main reasons for the enrollment decline, and not the low birth rate, or the negative migration, or the high cost of housing, as mentioned in the report. So I think that such a conclusion like will lead to a different planning approach that should actually result in a mitigation plan by the school district of how to bring students back to the public system rather than

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: the current approach of basically throwing the baby with the water by destroying the really amazing communities and and schools in our neighborhood and in the other neighborhoods that I I hear about right now.

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: My second comment was on on the meeting, the long the long term planning committee meeting on August 20

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: they had the discussion there on the improvement of such a consolidation on how such a consolidation can be an improvement. So

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: I think the district needs to assess this improvement on the basis, of

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: of course, the fiscal, but also the educational, the social, emotional, and environmental aspects. And from my initial assessment

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: all these areas will not see improvement. So

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: even for the fiscal the fiscal aspect. You're basically

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Michal Segal Rozenhaimer: taking students and consolidating schools. So it will increase dramatically in the overloaded schools. The number of kids. So you'll need. You'll need more class space, more communal space, more wear and tear, more maintenance, etc, more buses. We don't even have.

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WLWV Board Room: Children

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WLWV Board Room: got it. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: my apologies, but

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WLWV Board Room: we've got to stay on task in.

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WLWV Board Room: I extended it for a couple of folks, and that's the dangers that happens. And then some folks took it.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: I appreciate everybody's comments this evening, and we will have a secondary

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WLWV Board Room: comment

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WLWV Board Room: period at the back end of the board meeting. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Turn it over to

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WLWV Board Room: the business office to. So Dr. Solene Hughes, please.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. Board member.

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WLWV Board Room: So and

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WLWV Board Room: yes.

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WLWV Board Room: so in front of proceed a resolution 2, 0 2, 3, dash 11

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WLWV Board Room: on the left hand side. That, you see, is the original resolution that the Board approve and adopt. It's on June 10, th

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WLWV Board Room: and then on the left hand side, is the revised one for today.

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WLWV Board Room: So the resolution.

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WLWV Board Room: €2,

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WLWV Board Room: 2, 3, dash 11.

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WLWV Board Room: This resolution outlied a budget metapropriation and set the tax rates that will fund how Detroit miss

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WLWV Board Room: up on the board, approve and adopt

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WLWV Board Room: the district budget. On June 10.th The business office submit the budget

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WLWV Board Room: of the fiscal year 2425 to the Oregon Department of Education for Review

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WLWV Board Room: on August 20th

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WLWV Board Room: the Department of Revenue got

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WLWV Board Room: the Department of Education got back to us with a recommendation

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WLWV Board Room: under General Fund.

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WLWV Board Room: 30,000

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WLWV Board Room: is intended as a transfer from the general fund to the non-profit school and food services account.

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WLWV Board Room: This gentle is required to meet the State revenue matching requirement for the National School Lunch program

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WLWV Board Room: in the original resolution.

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WLWV Board Room: The business office list, this under 5 1 Xx. That's the long-term debt

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WLWV Board Room: Oregon Department of Education recommend. We? You fight to Xx. That is a transfer.

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WLWV Board Room: Item number 2 is under special revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: the sum of 1.2 million.

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WLWV Board Room: We categorize on the function Phi. XX. That the order uses

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WLWV Board Room: ode recommend us to you. 5, 2 xx. That did a transfer.

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WLWV Board Room: They consist 1.2 million represent the fund from Utility grant Fund 242,

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WLWV Board Room: which they funded through Oregon Senate. View 1, 1, 4, 9.

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WLWV Board Room: This bill requires Portland general electorate to collect a public puppet jar to support energy efficients project in K. 12 school.

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WLWV Board Room: The funds are managed by the Oregon Department of Energy with reimburse the district for approved project.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that 2 recommendation of changing.

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WLWV Board Room: This chain actually forward.

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WLWV Board Room: but they are important to ensure that our financial reporting are correct.

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WLWV Board Room: So I'm happy to answer any question you may have.

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WLWV Board Room: If there are no questions, then please proceed with the readoption of resolution. 2, 0, 2, 3, 11. So we can submit that back to ode.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay?

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WLWV Board Room: I'll start with director sloop. Do you have any questions about

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WLWV Board Room: what you've just heard?

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WLWV Board Room: No

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WLWV Board Room: director, shoemaker.

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Dan Schumaker: I do not.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal

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WLWV Board Room: Vice chair. Wyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, I don't. I don't have any either.

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WLWV Board Room: So do we have a motion.

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WLWV Board Room: I move to approve the correction to resolution. Resolution 2023, 11 as presented.

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WLWV Board Room: I second

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WLWV Board Room: no questions. I'll pass the vote to Director Douglas. Please

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WLWV Board Room: thank you. Director Shoemaker.

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Dan Schumaker: I.

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WLWV Board Room: Director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor.

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WLWV Board Room: Aye, vice chair, Wyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: From the Department of Operations.

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WLWV Board Room: Mr. Pat Mcguff.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. Board. I'm here tonight to share the long range planning committee update. It's been a certainly a topic that's been discussed. But

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WLWV Board Room: yeah, I thought it would be important to share with you

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WLWV Board Room: what brought us here.

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WLWV Board Room: So the long range planning committee, their mission is to forecast district facility needs

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WLWV Board Room: and update the long range plan, long range facilities plan.

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WLWV Board Room: The process includes identifying future school facility needs based on available student capacity in existing schools. The condition of the existing schools

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WLWV Board Room: and the future school facility need based on projected enrollment.

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WLWV Board Room: Long range plan becomes the foundation. Should

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WLWV Board Room: board, choose to put forward a general obligation bond

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WLWV Board Room: for improvements in the future.

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WLWV Board Room: So in July the long range planning committee, July 12th was furnished with.

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WLWV Board Room: They received a new demographic study from flow analytics

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WLWV Board Room: that forecast enrollment for all schools in the district

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WLWV Board Room: over the next 10 years.

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WLWV Board Room: During the July 17th meeting committee members noted that the enrollment forecasts were declining across the district.

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WLWV Board Room: but would continue to increase in Wilsonville schools.

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WLWV Board Room: However, they noted that the projections for the number in West Lynn schools continue would either remain relatively stagnant or slightly decline.

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WLWV Board Room: The discussion included the recent budget reduction of 10 million dollars that the District had in the 2425 school year

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WLWV Board Room: with further reductions anticipated in the 2526 school year.

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WLWV Board Room: So during the long range planning meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: they requested that Staff provide them with information about the value

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WLWV Board Room: and the cost of keeping smaller schools

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WLWV Board Room: open with declining enrollment and significant budget challenges.

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WLWV Board Room: They requested information in 3 specific areas.

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WLWV Board Room: the core cost of operation.

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WLWV Board Room: What does it cost to operate a building minus the teaching staff. That would be examples for the price of a cost of a principal

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WLWV Board Room: office staff utilities, custodial staff support staff for teaching

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WLWV Board Room: the second cost. What would the renovations

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WLWV Board Room: cost for our schools that are older and in need of upgrades? This cost would be identified in any future bond

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WLWV Board Room: proposition placed before the voters.

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WLWV Board Room: It includes components to create extended learning areas, porches.

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WLWV Board Room: student service spaces, stewardship responsibilities, roofs, paint flooring, those items.

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WLWV Board Room: And then the last item that or the last topic that they wanted to report on was the educational program and service impact

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WLWV Board Room: the question of if a school with a low enrollment.

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WLWV Board Room: can provide the same educational components

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WLWV Board Room: to create

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WLWV Board Room: opportunities. I'm sorry I lost my place.

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WLWV Board Room: Same educational opportunities with schools with larger enrollments.

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WLWV Board Room: The question was simply this, what is the minimum enrollment to deliver of a comparable educational experience and program that is also fiscally responsible.

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WLWV Board Room: So Staff provided the long range planning committee with a memo that responded to those questions. On August 20th

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WLWV Board Room: the cost of core operations were identified as well as an estimate for building upgrades

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WLWV Board Room: the ideal size for a school

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WLWV Board Room: that to offer the best educational value resources were identified between 4 and 500 students.

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WLWV Board Room: Lastly, there's several key instructional impacts in smaller schools, where this

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WLWV Board Room: were described. After a discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: and it was a deep discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: the committee recommend recommended that a task force be assembled

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WLWV Board Room: to have this conversation with the community with the Board

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WLWV Board Room: and report back to the long range planning committee.

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WLWV Board Room: The Long Range planning committee then in turn will make their findings and recommendations to the Board.

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WLWV Board Room: The task force would be limited to the primary schools in Westland that are

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WLWV Board Room: that of current enrollment at or under 350 students.

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WLWV Board Room: and continued enrollment by the 20,

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WLWV Board Room: 33, 2034, school year, with the same size.

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WLWV Board Room: Those 3 schools would be Stafford, cedar, oak, and bowling.

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WLWV Board Room: because this is a topic that has numerous implications to staff students in the community.

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WLWV Board Room: Any engagement with a community must be transparent and unbiased.

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WLWV Board Room: To meet that goal

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WLWV Board Room: staff is recommending

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WLWV Board Room: that a consulting firm, 3 J.

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WLWV Board Room: Be retained to facilitate facilitate community engagement sessions

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WLWV Board Room: and present their findings to the task force and to the long range planning Committee

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WLWV Board Room: 3 J. Led this effort for Ethan Creek.

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WLWV Board Room: They held those community meetings and they are very seasoned at engaging the community.

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WLWV Board Room: and again they will make their final. The task force will make their final their findings

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WLWV Board Room: present those to the long range planning committee

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WLWV Board Room: will ultimately bring a recommendation to the Board.

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WLWV Board Room: but ultimately it will be a board action.

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WLWV Board Room: So that's kind of

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WLWV Board Room: also

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WLWV Board Room: history that led to where we are.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm happy to answer any questions about the process.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, thank you for that explanation. Pat.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm gonna start with

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WLWV Board Room: Questions from director Shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: Do you have any questions surrounding what you just heard? Director Shoemaker.

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Dan Schumaker: I don't yet. I'd like to hear from others first.st

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, I'll come back to you. Then

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WLWV Board Room: I'll move over to you. Director, salute

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WLWV Board Room: I'm still processing, but I probably will have some questions.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm going to go down the line director of it all.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. My 1st question is, when will the long range planning committee present to the board.

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WLWV Board Room: I we have

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WLWV Board Room: begun to lay out a schedule for community meetings. I don't want to get ahead of that and promise before we actually have made all of that. Those plans known to the public

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WLWV Board Room: I would expect in January.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: my second question is, will the long range planning committee be taking academic performance in consideration. When making their recommendations, they will consider all of the information that the task force brings to them. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: and that would include the academic performance.

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WLWV Board Room: And then I have one more question.

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WLWV Board Room: race the race disabilities and free lunch. Demographics of a school.

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WLWV Board Room: Again, that will be information brought forward by the task force to the long range planning committee who will present that to the board. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: so are my questions. Thank you. Vice chair, Wyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for that presentation. So if parents and families want to stay very involved in this process. Is it correct that kind of the 1st line will be the website that it sounds like is still under construction.

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WLWV Board Room: And then anything that 3 J sets up

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WLWV Board Room: in terms of community meetings

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WLWV Board Room: and any sort of communications they produce

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WLWV Board Room: board reports or anything that happens here at the School Board meeting that are accessed via the email that goes out the day after our meetings and then actual engagement. Then on the task force. Is there anything else that people need to be aware of? If they want to stay? Like, really, up to the minute on everything that's happening.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, there will be

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WLWV Board Room: developments like a FAQ web page. But a lot of it will be information that will be pushed out as well as resources that they can access. At the district website

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WLWV Board Room: there will be a number of community engagement

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WLWV Board Room: sessions that are held.

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WLWV Board Room: We would encourage people to attend.

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WLWV Board Room: They're

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WLWV Board Room: there's lots of opportunity for people to stay engaged.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I know in my day job. Sometimes we talk about like a single source of truth being really important. So you know, you don't

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WLWV Board Room: read a lot of misleading or different

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WLWV Board Room: different things. So with the single source of truth, then be the website in terms of noticing any of these community meetings or other opportunities to engage. Is that kind of going to be the plan or the go to? Or is that still something that 3 J. Was working on?

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WLWV Board Room: No, the information will be, is, it will be open and transparent the

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WLWV Board Room: engagement

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WLWV Board Room: process will be recorded.

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WLWV Board Room: meeting notes posted.

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WLWV Board Room: Most likely they will be videoed.

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WLWV Board Room: People will have a chance to review the video.

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WLWV Board Room: The information that comes forward in this

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WLWV Board Room: will become public knowledge. And I would look to the district's website

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WLWV Board Room: to be the accurate reflection

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WLWV Board Room: on this entire process.

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WLWV Board Room: And I might just add, we have a website established. If folks go on there now, they're not going to see a lot. They'll see the letter that went out

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WLWV Board Room: and links to the demographic report those things that were also hyperlinked in the letter. So it's a very beginning process. But as we move through it and contract with 3 J. That information will be up once the Small Schools Task force is selected, that information will be up. So it's a place that the community can frequently check. There'll be

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WLWV Board Room: month by month, actions taken in terms of what the task force is doing, dates and locations of the meetings. There's just not a lot we can report right now, because the letter just went out last week, and we're beginning the process, so

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WLWV Board Room: it will keep evolving, and we do encourage people to check it frequently.

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WLWV Board Room: i 1 more question if you don't, that's fine, I just want to make sure. I look like Director Vidal had a question after you. Okay, okay, if if someone

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WLWV Board Room: but here's the word task force, and I think I don't have time for that, or I really want to be on that task. Force.

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WLWV Board Room: how? What's the selection process like? And what will that look like, and

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WLWV Board Room: if someone

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WLWV Board Room: is busy, but and so they maybe being a member, isn't in the cards for them. Is there still a way that they're going to be able to like.

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WLWV Board Room: get the inside scoop on what's happening with the task force.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, the task force is a public community task force it is led. It is the entire task force is community members. There are no staff on it.

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WLWV Board Room: We are

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WLWV Board Room: in the process of

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WLWV Board Room: trying to organize how those members are selected.

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WLWV Board Room: We're engaging with Pta Pto. Presidents doesn't necessarily mean that a person has to be a

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WLWV Board Room: member of the Pta Pto. But they should know their school, they should be involved.

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WLWV Board Room: They ought to know the community.

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: that selection process will happen over the next

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WLWV Board Room: few weeks.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal. Will 3 J. Be coordinating the task force.

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WLWV Board Room: They will be meeting with both the task force and the community engagement sessions. Yes, and then how about how many people will be chosen for the task force? Or do you know that yet?

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WLWV Board Room: We haven't

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WLWV Board Room: announced yet? But maybe this is the place to announce. We're looking for 2 representatives from every primary school in Westland. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: that's in the 2.

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WLWV Board Room: Really

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WLWV Board Room: any

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WLWV Board Room: director shoemaker off of what you heard?

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WLWV Board Room: Do you have any questions.

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Dan Schumaker: Yeah. So

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Dan Schumaker: thank you, Mr. Mcguff, for your

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Dan Schumaker: your discussion. Just a moment ago I I wanted to say that as the liaison

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Dan Schumaker: to the Long Range planning committee. I've been present at the meetings in the past year, as you have.

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Dan Schumaker: and my sense was this.

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Dan Schumaker: This letter going out recently was an effort to be transparent. Right?

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Dan Schumaker: I mean that that as a liaison I'm I'm I'm

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Dan Schumaker: I. I listened to that discussion, and that was the whole point was, let's get this out as soon as we can, so that people can hear that.

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Dan Schumaker: So you've heard some response to that right. You anticipated there would be some response to that.

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Dan Schumaker: And and and you've heard some of that tonight, right.

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WLWV Board Room: Correct.

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Dan Schumaker: Yeah. So as we continue to hear, response is, is there an opportunity for

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Dan Schumaker: Some of

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Dan Schumaker: some of the work that's going forward to be adjusted, and how it goes forward I know I'm not being super clear, but I'm thinking about partly what Dr. Ludwig talked about with respect to to

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Dan Schumaker: to rise and run

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Dan Schumaker: so a a as we get more information for the committee community in real time.

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Dan Schumaker: Might that adjust the process that we're engaged in in real time.

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Dan Schumaker: or or are we just handing it over and saying, Look, we've got a process in place. This is, it's sort of a fixed process.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm not

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WLWV Board Room: quite certain I'm I could say how the process will unfold to be. That would be almost a predetermined path and outcome.

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WLWV Board Room: I would

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WLWV Board Room: probably

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WLWV Board Room: recommend that the task force be formed, and

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WLWV Board Room: let them

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WLWV Board Room: find the information, gather the information and make that presentation. There will be points where we do

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WLWV Board Room: have an opportunity to assess what they're hearing and what they're presenting.

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WLWV Board Room: But, I would think we would want the community to follow that process all the way through.

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Dan Schumaker: I'm thinking, partly with respect to timeline. For instance, you suggested January, as as a as a time might might

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Dan Schumaker: might what we learn in here, push that back.

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WLWV Board Room: Certainly there's no fixed timeline.

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Dan Schumaker: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: You know it. It can unfold. But

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WLWV Board Room: I think

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WLWV Board Room: that the expectation of the long range planning committee was to know something

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WLWV Board Room: to in order to update the long range facilities, plan.

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Dan Schumaker: And is it fair to say that that

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Dan Schumaker: since we have monthly board meetings we have an opportunity to

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Dan Schumaker: update the community, at at least with respect to what we

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Dan Schumaker: I mean, I know we won't have

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Dan Schumaker: full information, but we can at least say here's what's been happening. Right good. Sure.

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WLWV Board Room: Director. Steve. Hi, I have some questions.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, so

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WLWV Board Room: am I correct in thinking that there's going to be

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WLWV Board Room: several community engagement sessions where anybody can come. And then there's the separate task force, I think. Director, Vice Chair. Wyatt mentioned that.

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WLWV Board Room: But when it comes to the task force.

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WLWV Board Room: is it just 6, total, 2 from each primary, 2 from each. So it'd be 12.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, it's not just the the 3 small schools. No, that's 2 from each school in Westland. Okay? So 12.

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WLWV Board Room: And then my other question is regarding the company that created this forecast for our enrollment.

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WLWV Board Room: Have we used them before? Like have they been accurate previously

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WLWV Board Room: we have used flow previously. Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: wow!

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WLWV Board Room: And was it accurate on doing our?

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WLWV Board Room: And it was accurate up until in every school district in nation experienced covid, and that did

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WLWV Board Room: alter whatever their projections were.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Any other questions.

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WLWV Board Room: I have a question.

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WLWV Board Room: When the original flow analytics

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WLWV Board Room: forecast was requested.

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WLWV Board Room: What was the timeline that led up to that request? There was something that must have triggered the long range planning committee to say, Hey.

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WLWV Board Room: I think it's time for us to request a forecast like. When did those conversations begin?

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WLWV Board Room: What was it that took them to a point where they felt like they needed to then

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WLWV Board Room: request it, because as a board member, this is.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, when it came to me just in the most recent, it was okay, you know. Didn't know this was going on?

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WLWV Board Room: So when did that process kind of start for them? And I know they had some turnover and whatnot. So

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WLWV Board Room: it just would.

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WLWV Board Room: When you hear community members feel like.

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WLWV Board Room: Hey, we? We feel like conversations have been going on for a long, long time, and nothing has been said.

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WLWV Board Room: I could see why there might be a feeling of that so like, could you help me understand when that

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WLWV Board Room: talks might have started, and I know Dan is a liaison there, but none of that's ever been brought to our attention

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WLWV Board Room: that I can remember.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: I I can.

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WLWV Board Room: You recall as a board, you did

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WLWV Board Room: direct staff to update the long range plan

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WLWV Board Room: and so correct. The last plan has

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WLWV Board Room: fulfilled its timeline.

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WLWV Board Room: The capital bond is completing.

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WLWV Board Room: There's time, then, for the next long range plan that happens in that sequence. So you, as a board.

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WLWV Board Room: passed a motion to update the next

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WLWV Board Room: 5 to 10 Year Plan

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WLWV Board Room: that triggered staff to then

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WLWV Board Room: move into action around what goes into that long range plan, and part of it is getting a new demographics report.

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WLWV Board Room: because the previous one is now aged and timed out, and we had the dynamic of Covid which altered things

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WLWV Board Room: across the nation. As Mr. Mcguff mentioned.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that, we let you know that we would be

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WLWV Board Room: conducting a new

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WLWV Board Room: demographics report with flow analytics and they just completed their report this summer.

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WLWV Board Room: and we previewed a little bit of that with you at the Board Retreat, just to let you know was finalizing and and then it did come out the following week after the Board Retreat.

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WLWV Board Room: and one of the 1st places it was shared was then with the long range planning committee

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WLWV Board Room: Gotcha. So was that point where that triggered

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WLWV Board Room: the flow analytics to be

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WLWV Board Room: for the new long range plan. And then part of us saying, we want an updated long range plan. This was just one of the pieces within that plan, even though it wasn't

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WLWV Board Room: discussed or whatnot. It's just part of the package

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WLWV Board Room: correct. Every long range plan considers what's happening in the district. Where is enrollment growing? Where is it declining in the past? It's given us information about where we might open new schools where the growth is happening to be responsive around

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WLWV Board Room: new facilities as well as there's an evaluation of current facilities. All of that information then informs a capital bond, projects items. We put on the budget in terms of our schools and our facilities.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay? And did.

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WLWV Board Room: can you add to that, Mr. Miguel? No, I think you summarized that quite well.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, could you remind us, when the levy was passed, the last levy.

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WLWV Board Room: the the last capital bond. No, the levy local option. Yes, the local option was just last November. Yes, just last November, just to

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WLWV Board Room: to get us all on the same page. Timeline wise is why I brought that up. So yeah, yeah, okay, thank you. That's it.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't believe that this requires any board

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WLWV Board Room: action. There is a second. There's oh, parts of the presentation. But wait. No, I want to hear. Take them one at a time. No, okay, okay, sounds good. Let's go into the second. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: this one is much shorter but equally as important to the community.

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WLWV Board Room: The long range planning committee also recommended that a second task force be created to determine the boundary for the new Frog Pond Primary School projected to open in the 25

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WLWV Board Room: 26 school year.

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WLWV Board Room: The long Range planning committee believes that

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WLWV Board Room: the same community engagement process could benefit

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WLWV Board Room: from the same transparent and unbiased facilitation of 3 J.

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WLWV Board Room: So we are recommending.

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WLWV Board Room: that 3 J also lead community engagement meetings.

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WLWV Board Room: and in addition flow analytics will be providing their democratic, demographic reporting

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WLWV Board Room: and utilizing their mapping tools. So

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WLWV Board Room: as people want to see. What would a boundary look like if we move this neighborhood from here to there, that could be done in real time.

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WLWV Board Room: So that is the second task force that was recommended by the long range planning committee.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay,

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WLWV Board Room: thank you. Pat

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WLWV Board Room: questions. I'm going to start with Dan just because he's

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WLWV Board Room: Dan. Any any questions about the

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WLWV Board Room: second part of that.

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Dan Schumaker: No, not about the the boundary task force. No.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: director sloop. No. Director Vidal sounds like, you have a question. Yeah. I was wondering how many people will be on the Frog Pond Task Force. We haven't quite gotten there yet. Okay. But I can imagine it will have a similar structure to that. The Small Schools Task force has representatives from each of the primary schools in the neighborhood.

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WLWV Board Room: and perhaps some community members at large.

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WLWV Board Room: And then when will the Frog Pond task force begin? That is likely. It's not, as Dr. Ludwig said in her report. That's not as pressing, and it likely will start in November. Conclude in late January. Perhaps. February.

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WLWV Board Room: Right? Vice chair, Wyatt. Anything.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't have anything on that, either. So

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WLWV Board Room: any action required on that. It doesn't say on my I apologize. I didn't hear

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WLWV Board Room: any action required on that. No, no, I didn't think I thought they were just all informational. So Nope, this is just an update. Okay, if there are no more questions. Then I appreciate.

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WLWV Board Room: the update. Dr. Ludwig, you got anything? No, okay, thank you, Pat, I really appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: All right.

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WLWV Board Room: This takes us into our second public comment

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WLWV Board Room: session.

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WLWV Board Room: and we'll go in the same format.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm not going to reread

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WLWV Board Room: The public comment format.

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WLWV Board Room: But I will be cutting you off at 3 min, so

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WLWV Board Room: please don't make me rudely interrupt you. I don't wish to do that. So

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WLWV Board Room: and again, just no boos, no claps, please. So give the speaker respect

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WLWV Board Room: And

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WLWV Board Room: I'm going to start with Maria

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WLWV Board Room: Camarina

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WLWV Board Room: is that that's did I get that right

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WLWV Board Room: sorry. It's my 1st time speaking in front of people like this.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Maria. I have 3 children in the Wilsonville schools, one at Wilsonville High School.

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WLWV Board Room: and 2 at Bones ferry primary, Maria. I'm sorry I don't mean to cut you off. Yes. Can you move the mic a little bit closer so they can thank you. Restarted or just. Yes, you can read. Will you please restart our time, Andrew? I'm sorry.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. Sorry about that. Yeah. My name is Maria. I have 3 children in the Wilsonville schools.

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WLWV Board Room: One at Wilsonville High School, 2 at Boones Ferry primary. For the last 2 years I've been trying to advocate for the importance of having toilet seat covers for our children in our public schools.

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WLWV Board Room: I learned 2 years ago that seat covers are not provided for all the students.

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WLWV Board Room: Only certain schools, but they are for staff.

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WLWV Board Room: I think that is a student violation, right?

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WLWV Board Room: If the students don't need them. Staff don't either. Infection control doesn't know age.

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WLWV Board Room: I have a child with special special needs in the primary school, and she has an Iep and a lot of disabilities, and because of our student services at the district.

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WLWV Board Room: she has been approved to use them.

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WLWV Board Room: but has been denied by the school. So I had to go about a lot of things to be able to get that arranged. Finally, it's in our Iep.

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WLWV Board Room: I do have another child that just started kindergarten level.

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WLWV Board Room: and I was told by our principal that even if I provided them I would not be able to use them at our school.

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WLWV Board Room: I

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WLWV Board Room: had to manage to

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WLWV Board Room: think outside of the box I bought her a Fanny pack.

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WLWV Board Room: and I,

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WLWV Board Room: and providing my own seat covers for her so that she can feel safe. She has a lot of anxiety. That also comes from her sister with special needs. They kind of feed off of each other.

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WLWV Board Room: and I certainly don't want my children to sit on anyone else's urine bowel movement. If you look at the whole picture. There is germs, bacterias as well as transmitted diseases that come from other children's homes.

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WLWV Board Room: thankfully I spoke to someone at the school district to be able to talk to our principal, so that my kindergarten child could feel better about

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WLWV Board Room: school and bathrooms.

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WLWV Board Room: all I'm asking for is one seat cover dispenser to be installed per bathroom, so that students can have the right to grab one if they choose to, and they can feel protected

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WLWV Board Room: in my journey. I have also learned that the dispenser is about $10 in a case of 5,000 seat covers is about $60. Nothing crazy that I'm asking for. I come before you all

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WLWV Board Room: today, before I have exhausted my immediate channels for change and the spirit of teamwork. I'd love to know your thoughts.

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WLWV Board Room: Maria. That would be a great email.

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WLWV Board Room: We don't respond to public comment, but we would be more than happy to have a conversation with you outside of this room. So thank you. Please take advantage of that, and we'll be sure to honor that. Alright. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Kara Clark.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, Board!

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WLWV Board Room: I'm going to ditch what I was going to say, because all that I can think about in this room tonight is trust. And I've been listening to all these parents who say that they've moved into the district. They handpick schools for their kids.

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WLWV Board Room: and I feel like you just lost their trust.

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WLWV Board Room: And I know that experience from special Ed, and my experience in the school district is you have had to regain my trust, and it's painful to see other parents going through that same experience of having to live through knowing that, like your kids

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WLWV Board Room: might not be where they need to be, because of choices that have to be made. And I understand that they're hard choices, but I really hope that

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WLWV Board Room: you will listen to the parents in this, and I know that that is one of your big goals, and I was very excited to see what you guys chose for your goals, but also your goals. And how you guys actually implement your goals can also bring people back to the district who left.

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WLWV Board Room: We need to address racism in this district. We need to address the students experiences and why some students and parents have decided to take their kids out of the district.

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WLWV Board Room: We need to address Special Ed.

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WLWV Board Room: Special Ed, if we can get the special Ed kids who have left the district back in the district. We will have the finances just by the enrollment there. If I had the money my kids would have begun a long time ago.

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WLWV Board Room: and if we can bring that those families back and re-earn their trust.

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WLWV Board Room: then we will be in a different place.

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WLWV Board Room: How can you do this? A special Ed Advisory committee, as you know I've mentioned before.

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WLWV Board Room: How can we do this? We can open the Equity Committee so the public can also give comments to the Equity Committee who are here to make choices about what we do in our district, and how we implement our policies to protect all kids to protect from bullying. It needs to change. And it's time

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WLWV Board Room: it's so pastime.

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WLWV Board Room: And there is no board director on the special Ed collaboration group. So I'd like to ask one of you guys to volunteer to join the special Ed collaboration group so you can see what is happening behind closed doors, and what kind of conversations we are allowed to have that help, all of our children.

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WLWV Board Room: It's time for change.

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WLWV Board Room: The other last thing is, I have a kindergarten going kindergartner this year, and in legislation we have to do the Aims web testing to make sure that all kids are

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WLWV Board Room: sorry. This is hard, but all kids

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WLWV Board Room: have what they need, and can actually be flagged at risk if they have dyslexia or learning disabilities. I am asking you this year, now that we have the new curriculum to tell every single parent

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WLWV Board Room: where their kids scored on the Ames Web test.

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WLWV Board Room: they need to know.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't care if it's green. That is amazing. That is a victory. Every parent should be told about this

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WLWV Board Room: this mandatory testing. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: ready goes. Now

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WLWV Board Room: we got Dale Blanchard.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dale Blanchard. I've lived in West Lynn for 36 years.

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WLWV Board Room: My kids went to Cedar Oak, Stafford, Athey Creek, and graduated from Westland High School.

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WLWV Board Room: and they played a lot of soccer up in Lander Field.

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WLWV Board Room: I

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WLWV Board Room: served on my neighborhood association. I was the chairman of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. I spent a lot of time and energy fighting in West Lynn

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WLWV Board Room: to keep

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WLWV Board Room: the open spaces from being transformed into a whole bunch of big houses way too close to each other.

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WLWV Board Room: kind of given up.

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WLWV Board Room: But this is this is pretty urgent.

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WLWV Board Room: I want to remind you that you're elected to represent us.

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WLWV Board Room: the people that live here and the kids.

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WLWV Board Room: This is frustrating to me because we had this figured out, Westland passed a bond measure to purchase his property for a very generous price. I did some research. When the district acquired this property.

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WLWV Board Room: The the population of Westland was like 16,000 people, and the population of Wilsonville was 1,000 and some. So

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WLWV Board Room: you know, we own most of it already.

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WLWV Board Room: I know. That's it's difficult to

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WLWV Board Room: past tax increases and bond measures. But

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WLWV Board Room: perhaps I wish you would think, instead of thinking about the revenue column of your budget.

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WLWV Board Room: try to think about the future.

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WLWV Board Room: Try to think about the next generation, these people that moved here because of the excellent schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and I know that Wilsonville doesn't understand the need for open spaces, maybe

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WLWV Board Room: because there's plenty of open space. But West Lynn

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WLWV Board Room: has turned so much.

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WLWV Board Room: so much of nature into these big houses

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WLWV Board Room: way too close to each other, and it's beautiful because they name the subdivision after what used to be there. It's carriage meadow. It's autumn oaks. It's whatever it's

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WLWV Board Room: what used to be. Their hood view is the best one. There was this fabulous view of Mount Hood. Now it's condos.

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WLWV Board Room: so.

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WLWV Board Room: please, you know I

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WLWV Board Room: I know you want the money, but

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WLWV Board Room: once you destroy this, it's gone.

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WLWV Board Room: The people want the people need

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WLWV Board Room: this open space

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WLWV Board Room: sports.

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WLWV Board Room: Right?

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WLWV Board Room: You want your kids to get some exercise.

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WLWV Board Room: Thanks a lot.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh.

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WLWV Board Room: and Dean, sir.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dean, sir, in West Lynn live in West Lynn. I want to speak to you tonight. No surprise about Oppinlander. It's been a busy month. I spent a lot of time with a number of you hard oak benches, not a place I wanted to be I am the founder and volunteer leader of friends of Oppenlander and save Oppenlander.

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WLWV Board Room: 2,500 folks engaged@saveopanlander.org filled out a full survey. So we know where they are. The 1st 1,000 in less than 24 h after we launched that website, which was after some discussions in 2021 that you had with the city. There's 1,700 active on our email list. And most significantly, right now, I can, I can tell you that 5,300

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WLWV Board Room: people, 2 to 1, 2, 3 of the voters passed the bond measure 3.5 million dollar bond measure in support of the contract that we no longer have. So the people of West Lynn are willing to put their money where their enthusiasm is, and and they're really showing their support for maintaining Oppenlander as a as a public space, or as the city would have it, as a park. And I know you as the school district wanted that as well. And what I'm here to do here today is to speak about that.

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WLWV Board Room: So there are many people back behind me that are friends of Oppenlander as well. We had a rally yesterday, and we agreed that I would speak pretty much on behalf behalf of all of them. So I am going to appeal for that extra minute or so, and let let you get out of here earlier, instead of having 5 or 10 of us speak

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WLWV Board Room: the opalander trial. One of the key aspects of that was that the district called out the city for lack of good faith.

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WLWV Board Room: or how the city behaved

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WLWV Board Room: at the trial. It was obvious to me, and I'm not a lawyer, but it was obvious that both sides could have done better at the good faith, and it was also obvious, and was highlighted by both sides, that that the city and school district value the working relationship, the history of that and want that to continue so. I think we're all still aligned, even though there was a contractual dispute.

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WLWV Board Room: There are 3 things not to lose sight of. Why we are here, and it's right there. Think of the children first, st and you all are doing that. You do that in the rest of your job. You've been doing that through the Oppenlander process, and I would add to that that it's the community, too. At the rally. Yesterday

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WLWV Board Room: I asked people how long they lived in the neighborhood. And then how? When? Who, who was the oldest, had been at Oppenlander? You know, 30 years ago and 40 years ago, and I was amazed at the number of hands went up. And those kids, their kids are now adults, and some of them still live in town and so on. Their kids are growing up on those fields. As Dale said, it's not just exercise, but that's where you're learning social skills. And you're learning interaction with our peers

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WLWV Board Room: lot better than mobile phones. Second thing, beyond. Why we're here is keep the desire for good faith in your in your minds. Keep that front and center. We were just at a city council meeting. They started at 6 before your same time as you, and the city is in sync with that as well. And then the shared value that we all have for Oppinlander Oppenlanders a unique space in terms of land banking, and how it came to be an athletic complex, because the school district needed that space back

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WLWV Board Room: 2030 years ago. Well, they they land, banked it. But then they used that space as athletic fields. And so it's unique. It's not like, I'm gonna Dean. I'm gonna stop you.

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WLWV Board Room: But I'd be more than happy to continue the conversation if you'd like to

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WLWV Board Room: beyond this room.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, we. We ask that you come back to the table. We would like to facilitate that. Yeah, I hear you. You're you're getting emails. So we appreciate. Please don't put me in this position. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: pay attention to important days for the board meetings. Make sure you mark your calendars.

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WLWV Board Room: I would just like to say to

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WLWV Board Room: the people that showed up tonight, get involved with their Pta a pta ptso

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WLWV Board Room: all the different acronyms.

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: share your voice with whoever is going to be the representatives coming out of your schools, because that

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WLWV Board Room: the way, I kind of feel like it's probably gonna happen as I'm learning some of this as you're learning it

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WLWV Board Room: is that those 2 people will be the voice of a bigger community, a bigger, broader community of people. I hope so. As we learn.

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WLWV Board Room: I mean, get active, get involved. There's many times that

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WLWV Board Room: things come up and people want to process, and we provide a

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WLWV Board Room: a venue for process, and no one shows up. And so I hope that the people in this room actually show up.

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WLWV Board Room: and I will share some of the frustrations that we've had as board members

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WLWV Board Room: have been stopping something, going back, trying to follow a rule

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WLWV Board Room: inviting the community to show up, and no one comes.

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WLWV Board Room: So I'm telling you. Now show up.

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WLWV Board Room: show out.

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WLWV Board Room: voice your opinion, voice it, and give whoever the representative is for your local school.

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WLWV Board Room: the power to come in here with your voice. And so I hope that that happens

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WLWV Board Room: more often than not. It doesn't. I hate to tell you that it just doesn't. And so I hope that this time it's different.

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WLWV Board Room: And as as an elected official, as so many people. You'd like to use

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WLWV Board Room: that phrase.

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WLWV Board Room: we're trying to be as transparent as we can.

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WLWV Board Room: And my kids went to school. Here I sat where you sat, and my kids went to Stafford then Ap. And now at West Lynn.

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WLWV Board Room: and one going off to Oregon, and one who's in asp. So I know exactly what you're going through.

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WLWV Board Room: And I was a parent who didn't have a voice. I didn't go to anything. I was living my best life, so I know that we're busy, and there's parenting and jobs. But

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WLWV Board Room: please show up. Your voice does matter to us. We do listen.

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WLWV Board Room: and like, I said. Sometimes we don't respond because of whatever the complications are. But

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WLWV Board Room: I can tell you, everyone on this board. Since I've been working with them

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WLWV Board Room: we routinely make ourselves available. I meet with people at some of the craziest hours. You would. You would not believe it. People have my cell phone. I get calls all the time.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm not hiding from you. So if you want to have a meeting, and you want to get in

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WLWV Board Room: to my ear, and I'm sure some of these other people's ear. We're we're available and accessible

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WLWV Board Room: to a limit.

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WLWV Board Room: Of course.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: so but I would just encourage you to

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WLWV Board Room: to continue doing what you're doing. I mean, we appreciate it. We really want to know.

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WLWV Board Room: And if we don't get the information, we can only go off with the information that we have. So thank you guys for all coming.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm going to adjourn the meeting. Thank you.