August-19-2019-Regular-Board-Meeting-Segment-2
[00:00:00] [00:01:00] All right. We'll bring this meeting back into session. And we will begin with a board member reports Chelsea. Would you like to start us off? Hi, everyone. Let's see. What can I report on it's August. So I didn't prepare like a really formal report. I'd say the couple of highlights would be the retreat that we had a few weeks ago was just really nice to bring us all together and have a stive into the work and a concentrated amount of time and the film that we watched as well.
Intelligent lives. I think it was called was just super touching and just a joy to watch with my cohort here and then the bond and local option Levy [00:02:00] renewal campaign committee meeting was last week and we were all there and that was really cool to work on something so important for our. I'm collaborating with not just my fellow board members, but a lot of really great people from the community from both Westland and Wilsonville showing up and the energy in the room is just palpable and people are so excited to be doing the work they believe in the work and we have a really strong team of really competent and motivated people.
So those are my recent highlights.
I think my heart's just went under with all the recent events with shoots in Dayton and El Paso and I was reminded today when I was at one of our school that are. Always planning for keeping our kids safe [00:03:00] that the bond is such an important aspect of moving forward with the safety plans that were recommended by our community students staff and parents who met Together made recommendations to the board last year.
And those are those are just things that I'm thinking about as I see. Excitement of staff and teachers and students and parents going back to the school year that there's also those more tender thoughts. So we have about what has been happening Across the Nation and what we're doing to do our best to keep kids safe and I just think it's a renewed I heard.
That there's more and more outcry among communities that were no longer going to accept this to be a part of our life. That schools shouldn't have to be [00:04:00] spending their bond money on safety. Wouldn't it be great if we could be spending it? Grading equipment for the next careers that are coming up.
So those are just things I've been thinking about in the movies.
So I've just been trying to do lots and lots of learning. I feel like right now I'm drinking from a fire hose and I have a feeling I'm going to be doing that for the next year or so, but I've spent a lot of time on OS va's website just learning as much as I can about board member and. Being a new board member and what we can do and what we can't do and what our responsibilities are and what we do and what the superintendent does and just continually going over and over that information until it's.
Secondhand to me. I've [00:05:00] also spent time reading the book that dr. Ludwig gave us the white fragility bucks. So I've been doing that as well and just listening to being out there with some parents and I took a bike ride with a family to school to study some of our safe routes to school and. Again, most of it is just really just learning.
I'm reading over all of our board policies and and then just asking my fellow board members to remind me when when I might step out of line or do something that maybe I'm not supposed to or something like that. So anyway, I've just spent a lot of time learning.
Thank you Christy. And I assure you that we all felt like we are drinking. I'm about fire hose early on it is absolutely normal. And I'm really happy and excited that you're taking the time to learn. That's that's huge. So thank you and I in the past couple months have. I [00:06:00] spent time responding just to inquiries to the board from members of our public.
I also had the opportunity to attend the OSB a summer conference this summer and there was a lot of learning that went on it seemed to be a relatively. Equity intensive multiple Equity learning opportunities there which I thought was interesting in light of some of the work. Our board has committed to engaging in this year.
It just it pairs nicely. I did last week have the opportunity to welcome on behalf of our school board all the new teachers to this district and that. Always kind of a very fun morning and you know, you think of new of kids going to school and being a little nervous for their first day of school and I kind of imagined that at the little bit of the same for our teachers is they're getting to know each other and and their learning communities, but it was it was a wonderful morning and the summer my family's had the opportunity [00:07:00] to participate.
I should have students in both summer school offered as well as some of the crust camps both were incredibly positive and very good experiences for my kiddos. And then I to as Chelsea mention just really looking forward to kind of digging into the work ahead of us with regards to trying to pass.
The local option and bond and just share information with our community and educate them of the need to vote this November. And with that doctor Ludwig will turn to you and your report. Thank you, and I have a per point from my report.
Okay. [00:08:00] So we typically pick a theme for the year and last year. Our theme was leading for all and it resonated for so many people in the district. It was hard too. Pass it on and not have it as a theme again. So we are going to continue with the theme of leading for all but we're going to dig into that part of the phrase in District goal.
Number one that talks about generating Equitable outcomes and the idea that we can do a lot of planning in our leading. But what are the results that we're getting and digging into some of those outcomes and staying laser focused on that? So we're keeping that same theme but with a focus on really thinking about how we generate those Equitable outcomes.
And that picture will make more sense to you after Thursday. So there is there's our district goal until you the new revision tonight. [00:09:00] This is how it reads. And so we're just lifting that phrase and thinking about Equitable outcomes for all students asking, how are we doing are we starting to see the evidence of our work?
In at our Leadership Retreat as we were unpacking components of that I shared honey Fizzles thinking about roles of leadership when you are looking at generating Equitable outcomes, and he is the founder of the center for equity and inclusion. I've mentioned this Center to our board before I think at our Retreat that this is a local organization in Portland that works with.
Businesses nonprofit school board's school districts around goals and actions for Equity equity in the work around diversity equity and inclusion and any Fazal talks about if you're going to lead. For Equity here are four [00:10:00] roles that you take on and in my mind. These can be pretty Universal. They can apply to a school board member as superintendent principal teacher even a student and so we're going to use these roles this year to unpack and say how are we doing around being Learners ourselves around championing the Quest for equity in that board goal that you're where you're talking about disrupting systems of.
ISM that's about being a champion. How do we make real strategic decisions based on data that we're seeing or evidence of the work? And then how do we hold ourselves accountable and that's that link back to generating Equitable outcome. So I'll be talking more about these four roles with our staff on Thursday and you will all be there as well so I won't bore you twice.
It's been a busy summer. Not only for your children learning. But for our staff this really is the district [00:11:00] that never sleeps and you can see opportunities of student learning on the left if your students were in summer school or some integration for our ninth graders with success, of course, our summer reading program or summer school, and then the many camps that you were mentioning we had made commitments even before the budget tightening we had made commitments to.
Chef's I'm learning for teachers and so we finish those commitments this summer. We had already budgeted for them last year. We had already made commitments to our teachers to wrap up those summer camps. And so we did follow through with as many of those as we felt we needed to primary math came back and did some work around looking at mathematics.
We had again our friend Letitia Perez who has been working with our middle school and also some high school science did spend a couple days. Is two days with our middle school science teachers at Rosemont [00:12:00] High School language arts high school social studies and then. Just this morning. We had our special education kickoff and had about I'm looking for dr.
Spencer Holmes. I think there are about dr. Fauci about a hundred and fifty to two hundred people there this morning. Yeah. These are learning specialist counselors. Psychologists. Speech pathologist OT PT nurses para Educators. Yeah and getting back into and getting up to speed on some new opportunities to.
Burn they also viewed intelligent lives number them hadn't seen it. So again coalescing around that idea and did some learning together this morning. So thank you, dr. Fauci for organizing that and dr. Spend times and your team another number of instructional coordinators who were organizing that.
Our own Leadership Learning we did have our principals assistant principals and instructional coordinators. Come back on the 13th and 14th did some work around looking at positive [00:13:00] classroom environments and then with our principles thinking about what were the impacts of your cycles of inquiry this last year your school work plans and how do you think about moving forward so they were doing something reflecting in June that then led into their own time in the summer?
And then of course it our administrative Retreat on the first and second we built in lots of time for that. Those are just some very tiny pictures of of our wonderful and busy teachers also a number of the high school language arts and social studies were teachers leading the workshops for other teachers.
And so they were they met in June and did a lot of preparation for that time in August one, thank dr. Soy sauce and and the teacher leaders who were a part of that.
There's just some more pictures you can see from our administrative Retreat that the two on the left. There is our chair Reagan Molitor on the top right corner addressing all of our new teachers. She had a lovely. [00:14:00] Metaphor and story to share with them about rocks in a tumbler that through friction and tumbling polish into beautiful stones and that they'll be X gr.
That don't go as smoothly as we all hope but what they are doing is polishing our expertise and our relationships with each other. So it was a beautiful metaphor the bottom middle picture joking. That's. Some presentations this summer. So there were some conferences is Summer and we did have staff lead some of those that want in the bottom is principal.
Saskia Dressler and a few of her teachers talking about the mission in the work of Arts and Technology school and the Tyler says meet them where they are and so thinking about personalized education and how we can you know Flex some of those up experiences in high school for students and where they are.
The picture in the bottom right is a number of our fantastic teachers as well as dr. Jennifer Spencer items who [00:15:00] last weekend volunteered at the special education is called the Northwest try try Unity day. All ability try and its students with disabilities who are doing a number of athletic Feats and activities and the whole Community coming around to support them.
And we had a number of our teachers volunteering for that because a number of our students participated so families teachers and students there for that it just, you know, I think it's a symbol of our again our district never sleeping even in the summer when teachers could be. Off and are with their families, they're still coming to these kinds of community events because they know their students are there and so I thought that was a great reminder of how dedicated our staff is.
next so we. Are busy also in terms of getting a number of projects completed this summer. Those are the modulars at Beckman Creek. And if you have not been over there you should [00:16:00] they do not look like the ones we were moved from wood or the kinds of modular classrooms that are still on some campuses of some school districts This Is How They come now their pre created and brought in and they really look like office.
Buildings and Suites the the ceilings are high. They're not low ceilings down a corridor to the restrooms no longer restrooms in the classroom their spacious the classrooms are at the same size if not bigger than building classrooms. And so you can see a picture of a classroom down in the bottom right corner, and these are right if you go behind the building of Beckman, Where you see the softball field that you can see from Wilsonville high school.
It's nested right there and our third grade team will be out in the modulars this year other projects going on. We are doing some remodeling of the music classroom that Bolton. Also [00:17:00] inside Beckman Creek is getting a complete refurbishment. This is part 2 so last year they had been done. If you recall in the front office and some walls moved and reconfiguration.
And then this year they're going back through all the corridors and doing all the finishing work and repainting Andre would work to make it all seamless and the new track is being constructed at. New performance field lighting began today at Wilsonville High School softball field. We've got new carpeting installed at a number of classrooms at Cedar Oak Park the crosswalk flashers at Westland High School were converted from solar power to line power.
And mr. Woodley says this was a bigger deal than one might think. New sound absorbing acoustic attenuation finishes installed the Athey Creek Band Room walk-in freezer refrigerator installed at Stafford primary new glass entry system installed in [00:18:00] Wood Middle School library Atrium new bleachers installed in the main competition gym at Westland High School tennis courts resurfaced at both Westland High School and Wilsonville High School.
And the sunset Bell was repaired and reinstalled. it had. Fallen and broken within the remodel that they installed it and it just had some compromise the installation and mid-year did fall fortunately. It didn't break didn't get a crack in the bell and it has been repaired and reinstalled. So we've had a busy summer all year round and I want to thank Tim Woodley Jeff Chambers Pat macguff and the crew for managing.
Overseeing a number of these projects Bob Teeters our project managers overseeing the inside of Beckman Creek and Tim Woodley oversaw the installation of the modulars at backman.
[00:19:00] So on Thursday, each of our board members will be at Westland High School. To welcome back our all of our staff will meet again upstairs of the high school in the Commons for breakfast and then head into the main Auditorium as you did last year will have the front seats reserved for you and have you all there and cheer Molitor will give the opening when the opening welcomes to the staff.
And our first day of school is Monday August the 26th. I was asked to briefly share again little reminder of where we are with the Student Success act. This might be a monthly update to you. It's quite a large Endeavor and there's a lot of Shifting pieces. What I have for each of you here is what some might become handy in some ways.
It's just a little timeline. And if you go to the next slide Joe just a reminder for those in the audience or at home and certainly our [00:20:00] board members the two billion dollars that was allocated from House Bill 3427 half of that is going to What's called the student investment account and that has four buckets.
Of criteria or areas that that money can be allocated towards that's mostly what we're going to be talking about with with board expanded learning time student health and safety class size reductions and well-rounded learning experiences. The other 50% is in divided around some other. Around the state like for funding for measure 98, you can see some Equity initiatives Student Success teams, and then you could even see some allocation towards early childhood.
Next so that student investment account that 50% What we will now begin to do is to complete what's called a Sith or a continuous [00:21:00] Improvement plan for our school district. That's the first responsibility and then the template for the grant will come out and we'll have a due date for that and.
School districts will need to fill out what they plan to do in those four buckets with the funds. What's new is this idea of what's called A needs assessment and we'll get you involved in understanding and hearing about that. In other words. What does the community believe that money should be allocated towards of the four.
Buckets, so eliciting from the community some feedback around. Where do you see the vision of the district? What do you think students need now quite a few of quite a number of the activities that we've done in the last year year and a half May suffice as part of that needs assessment. So think about for example the board safety advisory committee.
That was a question. What do you think? We need we could very [00:22:00] likely use a lot of that feedback. A community as part of our needs assessment. So this is what's going to happen. Now between districts and state is are going to ask are there components of some work? We've already done with our community that would qualify as areas of the needs assessment.
All three of our high schools went through a very rigorous accreditation process last year. If you recall and in re accrediting a high school, you have to engage students parents and staff. In a number of questions about how the high school is doing we might be able to pull some of that information so that we don't have to ask again you think about the bond Summit we learned a lot from the community members there and we put out a number of surveys last year where people were able to give us feedback on either those projects or what they felt the community needed.
We might be able to use some of that. So we'll present. That data to the state and see what would qualify we need to make sure that in our needs assessment. We are thinking about. [00:23:00] Some specific student groups and families often. These are students or families whose voice may not come through in some of the typical ways of school districts get information.
So we'll want to make sure that we hear from our students of color or students with disabilities or students who have historically experience disparities in our schools. So we will want to make sure that our focus groups or we are or that or groups that we set up this fall have representation. And so so what you have just here is that timeline you can see where we are in August and you've done some learning already about the Student Success act, but we're starting to make a plan for engaging stakeholders in our needs assessment and then that will take place in September and then Joe the next slide October will be putting together our continuous Improvement plan.
That's do anywhere from November to December. Number 6 so that will get turned [00:24:00] in. Once that is in an approved then you can apply for the grant. for the money from the Student Success act so they do want every District to put a work plan together and then they can apply for the grant and that sip is the work plan and then you can see.
There's a timeline for January February March you can see points in there with says hold a school board meeting focused on your application. So you will be very much engaged in this process and so will the community so this might be helpful to tuck away or keep but for sure this every month you should be hearing something about the Grant and that concludes my report.
Thank you Joe.
All right at this time we'll move on to the consent agenda. Is there a [00:25:00] motion?
I move that we approve that.
It's been moved and seconded any discussion.
All right. Do you call it Christy Thompson? Yes board chair malt or yes Ginger Fitch vice-chair King Martin. I.
All right. This would be the time that we intake Communications and comments from the audience, but there are none today so we will move on to doctors so only Hughes.
inning. I might [00:26:00] note. I'm sure Molitor that are common period was for 7:15 and as we are a little early, I think if we just scan the environment if it looks like someone is coming in then is Waldron. Will you check to see if someone does enter the room and look to make a comment will will suspend and do that again, great.
Thank you. Thank you for calling that to my attention. Good evening. So in fun Russ is a finance so information accounting report for General Point only so as you know this report. Right here display under the income statement format income statement is one of the most important financial report that organization used to demonstrate his performance to publish over the periods of time.
So this one right here it divided into five sections. The first one is the ending fund [00:27:00] balance that formed the last period that carry into did periods. So normally for organization that to monthly income Simon from last month into this month for us from last year and in front of our land into this year and infant balance.
So does it a first part the second part right here focus on Revenue they. You say focus on the current Revenue that we anticipate to bring in this year for us and then the third positive expenditure expenditure that in decay of the requirement that we anticipate to spend throughout this year. And then the fourth part is a surplus of deficits with a protecting the Revenue that's Furniture.
He coded park right here and a lot. This one is the ending fund balance ending fund balance is with had the first part. Was it a revenue [00:28:00] carry forward from last year at is the current revenue and then of the total expenditure equal to ending fund balance. So that's it a for mass of our income statement.
So this one. This First Column right here ETA adopted budget that was adopted for us on tune 10 up last June 10. And then this column right here. It protected information that I have based on the current information that I have a table now. So let's go through the first part together. The first one is the beginning fun ballon estimate a million.
That number right here is when I did the birth chart based on the information I have at a time. So I say, you know estimation we have about a million and a tarp now. I still remained a projection that no chain. This number might go up [00:29:00] and down a little bit because school in before June 30th Sands of the school secretary left school now they come.
Back so they can play catch-up what after June invoices. So this number might go down a little bit or will be surprised so we don't but also remember this number the a million right here also includes the 2.9 Million in Pearl Reserve that last year our Auditor in trucked across to move from special Revenue into general fund.
The second line item here did not include in the adopted budget, but it show up in the projection column here eight up uao Reserve Casa de unfunded liability Reserve that we have. And at your mind recall our last report, I mentioned that we have about over [00:30:00] 4.1 million in the reserve in the pearl Reserve to point I under special revenue and then 1.3 in the ual.
So after determine of them cut that going on, we believe that it's best for the district to move this money from deaf services on 300 into General poem to help restore back FTE for us. So that why we move it here. Right here.
So now we moved out to revenue. So Revenue we have three different kinds of sources of revenue that we anticipate that come to us. The first one is a local option. The local option is. Includes the current and a private property tax the current and prior our [00:31:00] local option tax children activities and fees and then some interest on investment that we have.
So in here based on the local option here, there's no difference between the adopted budget and the projection because. The property tax that we receive back in. Back in March from size confront. The information is the same a tarp. The June report is based on thirty nine point nine million, and then our projection for tuition and fees is still based on 1.9 sat.
Well at investment introduce 412,000. So the low cone up the local sources. Based on the adoption but chat and based on the projection is just slightly $83 different based on the formula. The intermediate sauce. This [00:32:00] in did money came to respond black Amex ASD. This information is some small spoon.
Just a spoonful and when I distribute the money, they provide 95% to school district and 5% to ESD. So the sdu that 5% to support small school in Detroit that they don't have enough resource or capacity to provide the standard services for their student. So but some of the services that we are very independently provided ourselves, so we did not do the surfaces.
Them so that why every year they distribute some money back to us and this year we anticipate about 1.9 million. the last one from the revenues it has a sauce just a sauce this information right here is have a direct relationship with the local Source because [00:33:00] when the. When we have higher property taxes than the state's funding lawn now if we have low and property tax than just a friend and grownups Ichabod direct relationship that way.
So when we did the budget in May and Bo approve the budget on June 10 is based on a point eight seven billion for the biennium, but then tune come it based on I billion so that why we have 1.2 million additional on top of that. And this one and then when I go down to salaried and you know, why how we do that 1.2 million for so that make up our Revenue.
The adopted budget is say 111,000 and then the current protection of protection. We have [00:34:00] 112 million with a 1.2 million more. Moving down to the expenditure expenditure. There is a bit different in between protection and project protection and adapted because right here we have one point to additional million from the state's current pain.
Grabbing you and then we brought over 1.3 million from ual with that additional money. We restore back 11 licen FTE and all classify fde. That's why it brass our expenditure from salary from 850 a million up to 60 million. The associated payroll cost was is like FICA liquor cost of living post our basket.
Just go [00:35:00] along with the paper with a salary. So we very much 34 37 percent on top of that. So what 1.7 million additional in salary then we have the conversa T2000 in order of payroll benefits costs. Just additionally also what happened in between that time span of when the school board adopted the budget.
And now we completed our negotiations with our classified Association. So we had done some estimating if you recall which could was reflected in the projection and the adoption but then when we finished that did result in us being able to agree to some the role of costs as well things of benefit and additional funding as you recall for.
Professional growth and those items. So that's you also [00:36:00] will notice that we needed to set aside some money for that. The contractor government. Thanks. So for purchase Services, we adopted budget for 11.6 million as up now. So I Still project that we're going to spend the same Supply material will be the same at well, 2.8 million with a like anticipate 5% increase for inflation, but under insurance and fees.
We when I talk with a broker in March. They told me that is about five percent increase. But when they do, you know, okay, I'm it higher. The reason that higher is a slide on the auto insurance. So when we have more accidents than the next three-year is cost more. So for the last three year, we have more cost in our worker calm.
So [00:37:00] that's why for the next three year. We expect that will ensure ongoing up. I don't have the exact number yet, but I will have it for you soon become in September. I hope. So that will affect our bottom line to the last item is a contingency. It's a very normal for the dictate of our side to set aside $1,000,000 for unforeseen able expenditure that may arise in yeah.
So all of the expenditure act up. India adopted perch at is 113 points it million and projection. I have a 116 million. The ending fund balance and we have for my protection in 16.1 million. So was his about five point three percent of our ending fun. By land for this fiscal year last time we were [00:38:00] talking a lot about you know, pay some attention to our ending fund balance based on like gfo a they will recommend 10% and then of the Oregon University, they will recommend 15 verse 10 OS be a six percent.
So right now we are Qui barely there. So does very much for the financial report, but you know, can I ask you a question because you're talking about the ending fund balance. So then that 6.1 almost 6.2 though that would still include the roughly almost 2 million in pers. Reserve that cracked not include 4.3 million per Reserve.
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[00:39:00] so and not only reason I kind of flag that because then that's really if that's set aside then it's really an ending fund balance of two million. Okay, which again is not within? I know we're trying we're striving to you know, create a little bit get a little bit more within those recommendations.
But okay. I was just curious. Well, there have been times that you've heard from the community. If this pers Reserve was for a rainy day. It feels like it's a rainy day and we're optimistic with the Student Success act that is are coming. They're not coming in this year. They are coming next year that additional money.
Of course, you're optimistic about. Capital bond in a local option renewal and so this idea of let's use the funds in our rainy-day account. It's not enough to resolve everything with purrs, but perhaps this is the year that it mitigates some [00:40:00] of the sting of the reductions that we were seeing we were able to use on the was reserved and the additional funds with the 9 billion to bring it down from 20 licensed FTE that we were.
Going to reduce now down to 9 and then also to restore back all of the classified. So and that leaves us then with all in about a 5.3 percent ending fund balance. Of course, we've got a little ways to go families are still enrolling students are still coming. And if we do have one of those hot spots where we do see a class size that it feels like we need to address, you know, like we all make that response which could lower that ending fund balance may be closer to 5% which we've done before but I think this is the year that our community would want us to [00:41:00] think about serving our kids knowing that they have an opportunity to respond with relief for the future.
I guess to I agree with the communities athlete that we serve their kids, but I think the reason I raised it is because sometimes I. We are so involved in the work sometimes no more details and to kind of from that public disclosure standpoint is that you know, we have also received a lot of information that has told us that pers liability is going to increase and we're really not going to see that Plateau out until 2030 which.
10 11 years from now and so that is why we have kept a very modest amount of money and that in reserve in that Reserve Philly would only cover potentially one of those next 11 years. And yes, you're absolutely bring up a great point about your our state is also trying to find ways [00:42:00] not to fund our prayers liability but to fund other other programming which then would free up our.
To utilize these monies. We've been holding towards that debt, but that pers legislation that is going through around bringing some of that cost down for school districts, but will go into effect until maybe mid next spring the latest next year. We just can't benefit from that this early on in the year, but there is work on that that legislators and the governor are working on.
Yes any other question? Chelsea or Ginger? Yeah. Hey two questions. One is just a statement that you made that I want to understand and I may be heard this correctly that when property taxes go up state funds go down and they have this sort of negative correlation to each other. Can you explain that to me?
Yeah. [00:43:00] So the information is. now I billion than the school district will have 90 a million sperm stays cool and fun, but then 98 million minor property tax from from there and then I have that type of so I will send it to you so you can set it minor property back equal portion that we receive. So a minor property that equal 50 a thousand here 58.
call when years ago in the 90s when funding shifted from being predominantly local source and a little bit of the state shifted the other way the states primarily funding schools from the state school fund. With some local Source the reason behind that was to equalize the playing field. So to speak there are some communities [00:44:00] that did not have enough funding locally and the disparity was starting to grow in terms of the funding.
So the state through measure 5 made that decision. To that. It should be the state's responsibility to Bear most of the funding for school districts if school districts happen to be in a community that can collect quite a bit from local sources than the state reduces the amount that they provide so that there still is that a DMW that's is more equalized across all school districts.
The 46% that's from local sources or 47% Do you know is that typical of other school districts is how does how does this percentage compared? It's very close. And actually if you like we can have another Financial [00:45:00] literature section this year because we have four forecast fine and it allow you to compare with any school district that you like to.
This couple a very nice idea so we can come and attend that it's you like but it's very close because they say local source is played a major role in school district Revenue funding Revenue because it's very close to the sales conversion formula our property tax a very much in that rent. I thought the a million 39 million per year.
So and then our state school in pain is about so it's 40 45 to 55 or little bit more little bit land in that range between the local source and stay sauce.
So because I think it's important for our public to be [00:46:00] reminded license ftes. Our teaching staff full-time equivalents and classified ft. He's our office staff and Bostonian. Men and staff, okay and pure Educators as well. Okay. All right, and along those lines we have 16 schools, is that right?
And so just to clarify when we're talking about still being down nine teaching staff. I assume that that's pretty well managed across its 16 schools. So that nine FTE license Staffing a few of those positions are positions that we didn't feel we needed to continue this year that we felt. We were fine.
They were peripheral positions to the [00:47:00] classroom. There are a couple other ones similar and then there are with. With primary we didn't have as much of the roll-up and sometimes it just depends on how students shift if you get a fifth grade class that's very large or configuration. Sometimes the way you can reconfigure staff.
You can make still in the same class range great class sizes, but without one more teacher and so whether it's a blend or undoing a blend we're always looking at that and dr. Pryor begins those conversations is principles as early as April. Asking them to roll up their numbers and then monitoring all summer and we have a little bit of savings there.
But we're holding it cautiously because kids are walking in the door this week and families and there's move-ins and we may need to expend those. So that's where we felt good about where we are with the nine reductions that we can [00:48:00] start school and there aren't big hot spots but. If we do need to maybe that we take a look again at where we can reconfigure some things and add another teacher or two if we feel we need to.
so good questions. Thank you everybody. Are clear.
but those who visual so you can see the comparison between the adopted budget and the projection as of yesterday. That's very much very powerful financial report on general fund and then net meeting will go more into special Revenue fun and deaf services. Thank you very much. Thank you very much doctor.
He is and as we're doing a time check, I will notice [00:49:00] that no new faces of entered in to the room for public comment. So and we get to move on next to General board business and in particular new business and the district goals for 2019 2020, dr. Ludwig. Thank you very much. I'm going to pass out again this infographic that vice-chair Martin King Martin made for us last year that has come in handy as a way of just organizing how goals commitments work plans all configure together.
So you'll notice at the very top are district goals really dry. Mission of the district and for those in the audience are at home. We typically display them here. These are our current for district goals and staff has had input on those you worked on those at your retreat and tonight will be [00:50:00] formally adopting those and then from there and you can see board has input into those District goals the blue box right below and the district has input.
That's why they're shared. Goals board and District goals, once those are finalized we can then move further down and begin to think about the work that those goals inform. So tonight you have I sent you a memo that recaptures the conversation from The Retreat taking the for current goals. And then considering where we might want to make some slight adjustments.
We looked at some semantics removing the words that and applying replace it with the word to so that they were action of these are not attached in your board. Book If you recall I sent them to you as a apologize as an email. Do you want copies? I can have somebody okay. [00:51:00] And then we also added in goal number one high leverage instructional and engagement strategies.
So that would be an added word. And we also added the phrase disrupt systems of racism. So bored goal District goal. Number one. Would Now read grow student achievement through the use of high leverage instructional and engagement strategies. To raise rigor comma disrupt systems of racism, and generate Equitable outcomes for all students while eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps that goal had the more significant changes the other three were semantical changes around removing the words that and replacing with the words to so that they were less passive and more active and so it is the recommendation of District staff.
That the board adopt these District goals this evening.
[00:52:00] Apt the district goals as read for the 2019 2020 Academic Year.
I'll second that it has been moved and seconded. Is there any disc further discussion by our board?
I'll just start comment that I've for pretty amazing. Big they guide our work for a very long time. There wasn't a need to change most of them like. Changes to help the readability and but that that phrase that we discussed adding the to disrupt the systems of racism and the decision to add that into goal.
Number one. I personally am very proud of us to articulate that. You know so clearly in our very first [00:53:00] district goal. We've been doing that work in a lot of ways and our district for many years and to articulate it and announce it in a very clear way is just a very important and necessary step to taking that work to to the next level and hopefully influencing as well our communities and our neighboring districts.
So I'm very proud of us putting that that phrasing.
That. I've been a little ahead of the formal adoption and presenting this likely Board District goal change to various constituents in the district. We've had our secretary breakfast. We've had our new teacher welcome. We've had our. Today launched with our department of operations and I've been sharing [00:54:00] with them the addition of this language and immediately.
I've been getting emails. I'm looking everywhere on the website and I can't find it because I want to update things in my classroom or just Sentiments of Pride from staff and. At the department of operations two-day workshop, which I presented but also we did the whole presentation in Spanish because we have a number of bilingual staff and one of our staff members Latino staff member engineer came up to me and he said I just want you to know that the fact that you presented in Spanish and that you at you talked about racism.
Means everything to me and I want to thank you. So, you know often we don't know how people are receiving or hearing something that we're still trying to figure out how to live into and it's a reminder that there are communities that think about [00:55:00] this every second of the day far more often than I know I need to as a white female the dominant culture and they're listening hard and they're paying attention.
And they feel tremendously supported by these kinds of actions. So thank you for considering it.
Alright, let's call it for a vote, please. Onsen yes. Or chair Molitor? Yes. Injure Fitch vice-chair King Martin. I.