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General Room: Good evening, everyone I'd like to call together

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General Room: this evening's Westland Wilsonville School Board Meeting. I will pass it to Director Douglas for roll call, please. Thank you. Director, shoemaker. Here, director, sloop here, chair Taylor, present vice chair, Wyatt. Here, Director Vidal here. Thank you.

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General Room: All right.

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General Room: Well, 1st off apologies to everyone. We're getting started just a few minutes late. We had an executive session prior to

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General Room: coming down. So thank you for your patience.

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General Room: And

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General Room: we're going to hop right into district communications and talk to some of our lovely students. And so

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General Room: I am going to bring up from Westland High school filling in

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General Room: for mia Harmon is Adeline Hutchinson.

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General Room: Welcome.

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General Room: Q.

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General Room: Hello. Westland Wilsonville School Board. I hope you're having a great day. I wanted to say. Thank you for having me. I'm not the one that you normally see up here. My name is Adeline Hutchinson, and I'm 1 of our Westland High School Asb's student store managers.

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General Room: and I'm filling in for mia tonight. She had a mandatory practice for their cheer competition. That's happening this weekend

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General Room: the past week wrapped up quarter one at Westland High School, and this past month has been a very exciting one. October is breast cancer awareness month, and to support this cause Asb held a pink out week, encouraging our student body to wear the color pink and purchase pink spirit shirts from the student store

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General Room: all proceeds from the sale were donated to breast friends, an organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer and ensuring that no woman endures the fight alone.

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General Room: As a school we donated $1,500 to breast friends, which is very exciting.

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General Room: Asb also honored October as dyslexia awareness month Lgbtq. Plus history month, October 14th as indigenous peoples day and the week of October 21st as Teen Driver Safety Week.

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General Room: on October 31st Westland Asb celebrated Halloween by hosting a costume contest where teachers voted on students with the best overall diy duo, funniest and most creative costumes.

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General Room: It was quite the spectacle, and got us in the spooky spirit.

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General Room: The Westland High School Spanish Department, celebrated Dia de los Muertos by hosting an ofrenda on our Spanish porch, where students could place a picture or other item of a past loved one to celebrate and honor them.

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General Room: Our band, orchestra, and choir held their 1st concerts this past month.

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General Room: Out of these musical groups 5 orchestra members, 9 band members and 7 choir members were named all State musicians.

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General Room: The Westland High School Fall. Athletic teams have entered their playoff season. Our football team will play in their 1st playoff game next Friday. Our volleyball team has won their 1st 2 playoff games and will play Nelson in the quarterfinals this Friday

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General Room: our girls soccer team beat Aloha in their 1st round playoff game and will face North Medford this Wednesday.

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General Room: Our boys soccer team, took down Liberty in their 1st playoff game, and they played Grant on Tuesday.

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General Room: Our Cross country team killed it in the 3 Rivers League District race last week

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General Room: the girls place 4th with Eleanor Wyatt placing 9th and individually qualifying for state.

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General Room: The boys team got second, so the entire Varsity team qualified for state with Ryan Lippert placing 3rd Isaac Compeor placing 9th and Leo Brown placing 11th

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General Room: State. Is this Saturday, November 9.th In Eugene at Lane Community College.

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General Room: Our cheer team competed in their allstate cheer competition this past month

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General Room: Kate Muzzy, Daisy Kim, and Mia Harmon were named All-state, individual finalists.

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General Room: and all 3 stunt groups who competed in the 6, a all-girl group stunt division played within the top 10.

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General Room: It's been an exciting 1st quarter, and we're looking forward to maintaining the spirit and camaraderie the rest of the year.

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General Room: That's all I have for you guys today, and thank you for having me.

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General Room: And from Wilsonville High School, Keller Kirschman.

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General Room: Good evening, members of the Board and Dr. Ludwig on behalf of our leadership at Wilsonville High School. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I can't believe we're already in our 3rd month of the school time has flown by. But I'm happy to say that we've made a lot of progress last time I left you with our homecoming week, and I'm pleased to say that it went very well with Spirit Week, a parade, and a football game which we won over Canby. We had over 700 students attending our homecoming dance. It was an awesome time to see the students and staff come together to create a safe and fun night for everyone.

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General Room: This month students had the opportunity to take the stamp test

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General Room: stamp test is

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General Room: stamp is the test students can take to demonstrate their language and literacy skills. We had 25 kids taking the test in languages, including Spanish, French, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Farsi.

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General Room: Going into this, we had 2 remarkable students take in the test in multiple. Take the test in multiple languages and demonstrate that they're already multi literate.

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General Room: We hope to add to this number with this test and and another opportunity in this spring.

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General Room: Additionally, this year, we'll mark the 1st graduating class to go from kindergarten through 12th grade. In our dual language program.

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General Room: We are beginning to prepare a special way to recognize these students, commitment and dedication to learning. In Spanish

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General Room: for their senior year we have incorporated a new class this year called Communidad de Literac.

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General Room: This is a cloud. This is an app.

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General Room: This is a great opportunity for kids to help connect in the communities of Wilsonville. These student leaders have taken on leadership activities in our school and community.

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General Room: They work on translating announcements, posters and school newspaper

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General Room: as well as conducting Spanish translated interviews.

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General Room: They help plan our Dia de los Muertos celebration with our Latino arts and culture class. It's an awesome opportunity for kids across our school to connect and bring our school together.

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General Room: They continue to look for additional opportunities to use their language and leadership skills to serve the broader Wilsonville community.

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General Room: We hosted our annual dia de los Muertos celebration. Last Friday we had face painting, sugar, skull crafts, a marachi band, food trucks, and a community performers.

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General Room: This has become a signature event at Wilsonville High School, and is a wonderful gathering that represents the culture of our school.

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General Room: This, this past weekend. We held our unified regional tournament. There were over 15 teams. It was the 1st year Wilsonville got placed in the highest bracket, and it was a tough one, but they managed to bring home the silver medal. This will allow them to participate in a bigger tournament held at Providence Park in a couple weeks.

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General Room: The timbers have their own unified team composed of some of the best kids and student helpers from the State. They hold tryouts and have the team that plays during the summer.

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General Room: We have had students participate in this event in the past, and hope to continue to represent Wilsonville at this level.

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General Room: Looking forward into this month, our play, Anastasia begins, this play will begin in preparation. This this play has been in preparation for many months. Excuse me.

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General Room: and it includes over a hundred people who have dedicated a lot of time to put this together. We encourage everyone who can make it to come out and enjoy the show. Tickets can be purchased@teachtix.com.

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General Room: On the athletic side of things. All of our fall sports have just made playoffs. Football is the 5th seed. Volleyball is the 6th seed girls, soccer, 5th seed, and boys. Soccer is 6th seed as well as boys cross country. One districts and girls cross country took second

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General Room: football will play home against Ben this Friday volleyball is already in the second round. After beating Silverton and looking forward to move on to semifinals playing Churchill this Friday at Forest Grove High School at 3 15

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General Room: girls. Soccer has a game versus Crescent Valley this Wednesday at 7, and boys Soccer will play Redmond tomorrow at 6. Finally, both girls and boys cross country will have state this Saturday. Thank you so much, and look forward to our next meeting.

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General Room: and from Riverside

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General Room: filling in for Lucia Karam, but is principal chaffin. Well, thank you for having me as always when the starting quarterback is a scratch at the last minute. The backup quarterback's not quite as good, so I may not be as prepared. But, anyway, thanks for 1st of all, the Director Videl, for coming out for our board visit. There's some great pictures up here of some

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General Room: oculus living in the 3D nursing environment. It was a fantastic time, thanks for for visiting and seeing all the great things riverside students are doing.

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General Room: we had our 1st theater production, which was not who we thought. On November first.st It was a great turnout. The students had a great time creating a play alongside Miss Roberts, so they helped write it with her. Who's our drama teacher? It was very well attended, and everyone who went loved it. The next production will be

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General Room: crossing over, and the auditions start on November 12.th

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General Room: This year has been going by. In a flash the 1st quarter is officially ended. It's a great time to reflect on some of the great things that we did 1st quarter and think about some of the adjustments and changes we want to keep doing as we move forward into quarter. 2

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General Room: fall sports are closing and we have our fall banquet. This Thursday our volleyball and soccer teams finished with overall winning seasons. Our Cross country team had 6 Varsity letter earners, and the boys finished 7 out of 13th in district districts which is pretty great for not having seniors.

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General Room: Winter sports begin November 18, th and we're offering basketball, swimming boys and girls basketball swimming wrestling through Riverside High School, and then also ski and snowboarding as club teams.

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General Room: This year is very exciting. Year for Isif. This year riverside High School is hosting Isif, which is really exciting. And also, I think, we had about 3 students competing last year, and we have 18 this year. So we're excited about the growth in that program. Lucia and her 2 friends are doing a project on how sleep can affect the teenagers. Brainwaves. So a very exciting topic

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General Room: during October architecture program had the opportunity to go on a field trip to the ABC Pacific Northwest Craft championships. You'll see some pictures up there. It's an awesome time they set up all kinds of different construction opportunities for students to get their hands on and experience, and we had a big turnout. All our construction and architecture classes were able to visit that day, which was a lot of fun.

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General Room: and then, looking into the near future. Riverside is hosting an informational night on November 13, th from 6 to 7. So any students and parents who are interested in attending please come out and learn more about what we're doing at riverside, and our raptor crew will also be there helping out during the night. Thank you so much for having me apologies. I'm not Lucia, but hopefully, the updates. Still the same thanks.

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General Room: I think.

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General Room: Thank you all for those announcements, and this is where we allow

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General Room: the both of you the opportunity to exit the premises, or you are more than welcome to stay and hang out with all of us lovely folks. But if not, thank you guys for coming this evening and enjoy the rest of your evening.

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General Room: No.

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General Room: Adeline could

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General Room: do you, and Principal Mena is the Cinderella performance also coming up in the next couple weeks.

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General Room: Okay, perfect. Thank you.

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General Room: for those of you who have not visited Riverside's nursing room

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General Room: facility inside of that high school, it is unbelievable. So if you're ever in the area, and you get an opportunity to

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General Room: talk with Principal Chapin about what they're doing over there with the oculus and

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General Room: What do you call them?

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General Room: Cadavers and

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General Room: nursing beds? And what are the mannequins whatever?

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General Room: That's why you got to go see for yourself, because I make it up. I'm just making it up right? So right

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General Room: go check it out. There might be some cadavers who knows? So

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General Room: Oh, my goodness, alright!

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General Room: Well, I guess that takes us right into board member and superintendent reports, and I'm going to give the floor to Director Shoemaker.

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General Room: Have a busy schedule, and I'll try to be quick. I got just a couple of things to cover, 1st of all, as the long range planning committee liaison from the board. I want to kind of make sure the board is updated in our October meeting. We talked about those 7 areas that I mentioned last month.

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General Room: and that that are bulleted. And and then we talked about sub bullets for each of those 7 areas

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General Room: which are very general in nature, but allowed us to kind of clarify thinking and make sure that we had things accurate there.

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General Room: The next moves are to further sub-bullet the sub-bullets.

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General Room: and to get to the point of specificity, so that we have bulleted items that represent actual projects at locations.

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General Room: even with estimates of cost, right? The idea being that once we get to that level, we can eventually get to where we might ask our community to look at what we have at the menu of options and and kind of indicate their preferences there. Right? So that's that's where the process is right now. With respect to that.

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General Room: And that's what the majority of the work at the Long Range planning committee meeting was in October.

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General Room: I want to mention also the Small Schools Task Force. There's been a board member at each of those community engagement meetings. We've had 3 of those in-person community engagement meetings with a virtual one later this week, and a 4th

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General Room: school one out of school. And I want. I just want to mention that the task force again made up of

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General Room: parents in our community, and mostly of parents from from cedar, oak, and and Bolton and

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General Room: that that the the I think that their design for these meetings has been effective, and I think they've

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General Room: they've worked hard, and there's been a lot of integrity in the process. I want to remind folks that there are no recommendations before the Board, and so our job at this point really is to listen, and I appreciate

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General Room: our varied attendance at at those meetings, and we look forward to the task force being able to report to the long range planning committee so that recommendations can be made to the board.

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General Room: And then, lastly, I just want to mention that this was a big month, I know, for all of us for school visits. I just want to point out how pleased I was to see the literacy work in action based on the new adoption. Lots of I came away just thinking, wow, these teachers have a lot of skill. And I put a lot of effort into this. They're obviously well trained because I saw different schools, very similar work, a lot of fidelity to the curriculum and a lot of excitement from those teachers about the way things are going.

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General Room: That's it, from from my report.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: director sloop.

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General Room: I'm going to yield my time to provide some extra time to discuss the policy amendments which were moved from consent agenda to the business as a business item.

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General Room: Okay.

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General Room: vice chair, Wyatt.

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General Room: I just wanted to briefly report, I had a chance to visit both Lowery and Trillium Creek.

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General Room: and visit with the principals and staff and students. My focus was to learn more about the high impact tutoring programs. Obviously the implementation of our new Ela curriculum looking at assessment data and goal setting. And then my favorite part, which is always the student panels. And so I had a chance to talk to 4th and 5th grade leadership students about what they liked, about their

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General Room: schools, what they would change, and some of the things they were taking with them as they headed into Middle school. So really appreciate Principal Beckett and Principal Freeman hosting me and the chance to have those visits. It takes a lot of coordination from our assistant superintendents to make these visits happen, and just really am grateful that we have that opportunity.

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General Room: Coming up. I will be at the Small Schools Task Force meeting on Friday at Trillium, and next week I'll be visiting the Bolton Pta, so I'm looking forward to both of those.

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General Room: Thanks.

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General Room: Thank you, Director Vidal.

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General Room: like Vice Chair Wyatt and all of us. I have been lucky enough to visit my schools this month, and I visited Beckman Creek, primary, where we really focused on their literacy work and the huge strides they're making that are so impressive. At Wood Middle School I love to see small groups of advanced math students working together on huge white boards, which were not only on the walls, but also on their desks.

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General Room: And so their desks are actually whiteboards, and those were donated by Nike, and I thought that was pretty cool. We had nothing like that when I went to school, and, like Principal Chapin mentioned at Riverside High School, I got to participate in a nursing class, where I got to use a virtual reality headset in order to wash my hands and do some of those patients

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General Room: safety regimen. And it was very interesting at trying to get into that room. I was not very good at getting into the patient room, and I wanted to say that at all these 3 that all these schools.

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General Room: They have really built close communities.

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General Room: And you can really feel the unique culture in the hallway. And I just appreciate all of them. And I'm just so proud of them. This week. I also was at the Stafford Primary community event on small schools, and I appreciate all the parents and community members that came out to that, and I was

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General Room: privileged enough to sit down at some of those tables and hear the comments. I've also read all of the emails and seen the social media, and I appreciate that

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General Room: on Friday night I was also privileged enough to attend dias de los Muertos at Wilsonville High School, which is a beautiful celebration, and I really appreciate the dancers and the culture and the art that I see there and then. Lastly, I'd like to end on that during this election week. I want to come back

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General Room: to the communities that we've talked about today in our schools. And I want to talk about the communities we've also built with each other.

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General Room: And I'm hoping that when we deal with national issues as well with local issues, we can come back to those communities that we built and really focus on respect and kindness with each other. Thank you.

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General Room: it is now my turn, and I will yield my time

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General Room: so that we can have further discussion on policies that were

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General Room: removed from the consent agenda.

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General Room: So I will now pass it to

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General Room: Thank you. By one of our

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General Room: here we go. This is mentioned by one of our students. We do celebrate

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General Room: in November, Native American Heritage month, and I just want to remind the Board that about 7 years ago Oregon Department of Education

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General Room: worked with a Senate bill that was passed around it was called tribal history, shared history that legislated, that there be curriculum and lessons taught in all of the schools in Oregon. So this was about 7 years ago that it passed, and then it took a little while for the lessons to be created in the implementation. But those are in place in our classrooms taught

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General Room: to our students by our teachers who receive training, and specifically, last year I don't know if you recall, but we brought in Cheyenne height from the Grand Ron tribe

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General Room: as who was instrumental in helping with some of these lessons, as well as Stacey Parrish from Oregon Department of Education, and the 2 of them met specifically with district leaders to talk again about how critical this curriculum is pleased that it's being implemented in our district. And then both of them who identifies indigenous Americans, share their own personal

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General Room: experiences in school and and also shared that with us as leaders. What they felt they needed from schools, what they needed from

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General Room: teachers and principals. And then also again gave emphasis on how important it was that this curriculum was being taught. So I just wanted to highlight that for you as board members, and anyone also watching from home

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General Room: october was busy, as many of our students have mentioned. So this is a repeat of that. Thank you. To the Board members who have been visiting their schools and listening to school work plans. We've also had a number of conferences that staff have been able to attend, and I want to thank Dr. Jennifer Spencer Imes for

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General Room: nudging me, and we were able to be the keynote speakers at the Cosa Special Education Conference. And really what we did was highlight the work of our staff in our district, but also other school districts around us who are in this inclusion journey. And so there were about 4 or 5 districts that we were able to highlight in that in that keynote through video and bringing their voices forward as well as sharing the stage with us.

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General Room: Last week I was able to join a number of our Wilsonville community members at the Oregon Building Bridges Summit in Tigard. You can see the bottom picture there. Officer Kirsey, who's our Sro as well as Representative Courtney Neuron, was there, and Mayor Julie Fitzgerald.

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General Room: and this was an opportunity to think beyond Wilsonville and West Lynn to other communities, particularly in Washington County, Multnomah County, and how we reach across

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General Room: The community citizens elect the board, and the board serves as our voice, and then the checks and balances over the district superintendent, the district administrators, and the staff.

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General Room: Therefore it is important for the community to be heard during board meetings, and not just to observe

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General Room: by changing the language of item number 19 in the policy document, the Board gives the district the freedom

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General Room: Item number 8 says that a board member should understand the chain of command and refer problems or complaints to the superintendent office.

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General Room: This actually contradicts the hierarchical organization chart that is shown in the district website

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General Room: Hi! My name is Kara Clark. I want to make a 1st few small comments about the presentation earlier. One thing that concerned me was that we had made phone calls to see why people left the district. But I'm wondering why we didn't ask why and why. There's no records of the why people left the district, because that is the key element that we haven't really heard about. I'd still love to get that answered, and thank you for the presentation on the funds. I think that that will clarify a lot of people's confusion over the funds of where they come from.

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General Room: But we also need to remember we need to keep people voting for the funds to keep our bond funds and people are dissatisfied. So how are we going to get our community back together? And one of those things that I'm going to ask you today is, please do not vote on any of the board policy today. We know that it was put in the consent agenda instead of being a conversation, and it was just changed this morning. I think a lot of people feel like they were kind of

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General Room: run over by this and surprised by it. I don't think we're ready to talk about it, and I think that even when I was looking at it, a lot of the language is said we were looking at based on legislation changes, and I looked at all the legislation, and the only thing that I saw that was different was that the board is now mandatory reporters, and so the rest of the language has changed. I don't know why it's changed.

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General Room: You guys might be privy to other information, but I couldn't find any information in the legislation as to why there's so many changes in

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General Room: the policy as well as the change in how we're going to be evaluating the superintendent. Because, you guys, as if the community doesn't know and the Board cannot talk about this in closed rooms. You guys can only talk about here, so you haven't talked about it. There's been a lot of changes. I'm looking forward to you talking about it, but I'm asking you to slow down

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General Room: and hopefully talk about it, and look at the legal and talk to legal, and see why these are really changing before you take a vote. Because this is really important when we're in a place where the community isn't trusting the administration, we need to slow down and be very respectful of the community's needs, or we will never earn the trust back for people to come back to this district. Thank you.

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General Room: Is there anyone who may have wanted to speak in the 1st session.

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General Room: and which topic do you? I just wanna make sure it's it's for this session and not the second session.

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General Room: Oh, come on up, come on up! And are you

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General Room: And so now I'm back to social media some, and I am ill prepared. Just want to say that. So it was just tonight where I haven't heard that this was a topic that could come up. But I think

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General Room: even if it's just to make it that we feel heard and understood. It's probably worthwhile for the board. I don't want to tell you what's worthwhile for you, but I would guess that

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General Room: like you said, when we have children take care of or do other things, and still be able to be heard during this time, because these feel like pretty stressful big decisions for us. And we're not on the board. I don't get to have a direct vote, etc, but I think that it is important that we at least get to come here be heard and feel like these people are listening to me

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General Room: So I would just say, if if that's even an option that this would go away. This forum.

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General Room: So we don't know if you're hearing the same thing from multiple different people. Or if people can say, Hey, you know I saw you at the meeting. That was a good comment which has happened sometimes, or it stimulates other people's thoughts for us to partner together that way.

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General Room: I assume you're Westland resident. Yes, I am. And it's Barbara Strat, and, like many of our community members. I value our schools and what they do for our students because of the excellent reputation of Westland Wilsonville School district. Many of us have moved here, specifically seeking an exceptional educational experience for our children.

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General Room: All of this is made possible with the talented staff, the Administration and Volunteer Board of Education, and also taxpayer money. The voters have entrusted our tax dollars as well as the education of our children in your hands.

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General Room: As elected officials, you are responsible for the fiduciary health and transparency of the district. Regarding 7 B. On the agenda, I would like to point out that we have a projection of 10 million dollars extra money. By the end of this school year, for reference. Last year, the school year 2023, 24. We had an extra 25 million dollars left at the end of the school year, according to the same document.

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General Room: While this is good news to be surprised with the extra money, it also demonstrates the degree of inaccuracy of the budget. Planning. This equates to unrestricted fund balance of 16% compared to the national recommendation of between 4 to 10% with the extra 25 million. Why is that? Why is it that the district is saying there's

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General Room: regarding item 7 F dot one on the agenda. The Board is proposing a revised code of conduct that removes the public comment. Section.

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General Room: changing the word for the public to be heard at board meetings. This goes against board goals of authentic engagement with parents and community. Why does the Board not want to hear from the community like what was brought up before on the website the organizational chart, which is not easy to find which, by the way, it has the community citizens at the top. Then the board members, then the super. It is like flip-flopped, and it's really sad.

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General Room: As elected public officials. You have the responsibility of representing the best interests of the community and wisely utilizing public money in efficient and transparent manner. I urge you to evaluate the budget process, to minimize, waste

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General Room: and avoid over budgeting the community needs more transparency and more clear communication from the board and the district. To better understand our actual fiscal situation, to work together, to come up with solutions that don't involve closing schools and causing major disruptions to students. Education.

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General Room: Why are we not hearing about solutions for better fiscal health that don't involve closing schools today. If you vote to exclude public voice by eliminating the public comment section from the board meetings and continue to give mixed messages regarding the budget, the district and the Board will lose public trust

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General Room: while the community would like to continue to support the schools. It'll be very extremely difficult to convince voters to pass future capital bonds and local option levies. We want to see our money being managed properly, and we want and will not be content with writing a blank check.

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General Room: Please put students 1st

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General Room: Don't exclude us. Thank you from the conversation. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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General Room: That takes us over to the business office.

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General Room: You will have a more in-depth report in December, when Dr. Hughes is back in the office, but just to keep a pattern of sharing with you the monthly financial statements. You did get the memo. So I'm not going to go through all the items that were in the memo, except just to point out that, as you see, the monthly financial summary. Now, again, this is the general fund which I had mentioned earlier in my presentation.

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General Room: There are 2 changes so far in terms of where we are in October, and the 1st is, if you see that top row and it says property taxes.

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General Room: And this is because the permanent property tax rate did come in and that was shared. There's reports that are given to each school district

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General Room: from counties, and that came in higher than what was projected last year, because we always just have an estimate, and then that comes in.

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General Room: boost of revenue. We will expect now for to get a report at some point from the State that will lower our State school fund, but we wanted to show you that that had come in.

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General Room: So in terms of the update to our financials, those are 2 things that Dr. Hughes wanted me to share with you this evening.

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General Room: as you can see in the adopted budget.

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General Room: Do we make up for that difference? That's not sustainable anytime. You're even as a family with your budget or small business. If your expenditures are more than your revenue.

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General Room: The reason we have been overspending is, we've had those Federal funds which have given us that reserve and that cushion to keep overspending each year.

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General Room: So we have to bring our expenditures and our revenue closer together, and the way to do that is, reducing our expenditures. In other words, budget reductions

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General Room: that ending fund balance of 10 million carried into a subsequent year is not enough to make up for the difference between revenue and expenditures. We've been sharing this with the board for several years, and you've been watching that ending fund balance get smaller and smaller. You're also counting on us as a district to bring revenue and expenditures closer together, which is what we're trying to do.

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General Room: And lastly, I just want to share that our business office did receive the

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General Room: and that is based on the budget being put together as both reflecting a policy document, a financial plan and operations guide and a communication tool. So I want to congratulate Dr. Hughes and her team. It's a lot of work to put that type of a budget together, a lot of numbers. But also the way those funds interact with restrictions, with

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General Room: So I have the opportunity to zoom in in the presentation that Dr. Ludwig gave us in that middle column with special revenue. One of those State grants is what we're going to be presenting, or what I'm going to be presenting to you tonight and to the community some highlights, and the purpose of that is twofold. One is just. We are always working to try to increase transparency

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General Room: and then about half of it is devoted into grants that go specifically to school districts. For then the school districts to direct those investments

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General Room: half of that that goes directly to school. So that's the part that we get here in Westland, Wilsonville and the goals of the Sia are really 2 very important things. One is continuing to increase academic achievement and reduce academic disparities for all students, and particularly for students who've been historically underserved in Oregon schools.

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General Room: And the other main goal of the Sia is to improve mental and behavioral health needs for students, and we know that those 2 goals are actually deeply interconnected.

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General Room: whereas in the student investment account. It can work hand in hand with the general fund. And so not all of these positions were new positions. Some of them were, and I can always give you more information about that. So

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General Room: and the demand at the K. Through 8 was not as large. But we are continuing to invest at the high school level in our Sia. And last year we were also investing, which is what this report is at some of our younger schools through the teacher, like

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General Room: And then, finally, our Family empowerment Center, which has been a real key connection of developing partnerships with families, especially families in our Spanish-speaking communities. But also we have a group of Ukrainian speaking families, a group of Chinese speaking families and just

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General Room: or different environmental circumstances or different ways that they learn where our traditional high school may not be working as well for them. And the online Academy has allowed us to really support some students who may be pursuing other components. You may see that

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General Room: racing on a race car circuit, and would have missed too much school to be able to pursue his high school diploma while pursuing that work, but was able to do it through our online program. We've had other students who have had health

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General Room: situations that may have made it very challenging for them to attend school in a traditional brick and mortar way that have excelled through the flexibility of the online program. Some students who are working

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General Room: to support themselves or support their families sometimes during the school hours, but are able to continue their studies in high school, often at very high levels through our online learning academy. So that's been a real highlight. We're very excited about it. We've made some improvements in that program that are in place this year that at another time, when I have more time, I'll tell you more about. But it's been a real highlight from our sa investment. Another

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General Room: was with the Family Empowerment Center. And just those 4 quick photos there, one shows the top one is a registration for the partnership that's been developed with Clackamas Community College, where there are continuing education classes offered for families and community members free of charge. Now, through our school district where families can work on learning English.

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General Room: So that's a very tangible. They've been well attended. It's been an exciting partnership that often has led folks to

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General Room: maybe pursue more things through Ccc. Or build other connections that are really supporting their family and helping them support their students be more successful in our programs. Many of the families that are in the Spanish or Chinese language programs often have children that are in those programs, those dual language programs. And then the families are getting to learn alongside them.

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General Room: The picture, the next one over where you might see some children with firefighting hats. That's from our resource event at the beginning of the year, which has been

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General Room: truly transformational in allowing many of our students and families to start the year well prepared and well connected with the supplies that they need with connections, with community resources that grew from. I think we had maybe 35 families attend the 1st year, and we were up at

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General Room: Yes, this last year. So it's really, really grown.

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General Room: I noticed that our students from the high School both mentioned Dia de los Muertos, also Director Vidal. You mentioned that as well. That photo in the left-hand corner is from the performance last year at Dia de los Muertos and

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General Room: the Family Empowerment Center sponsors that as an enrichment activity, so that we can allow students from throughout the district to participate in ballet, folklorical classes and performances, and

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General Room: Maria Horton is there as well, and she has really connected so many families in different ways. Another partnership that we've developed is with the Department of Human Services through Clackamas County, where there are eligibility folks that if you need a family needed to

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General Room: think about getting county services, and maybe they can't get to the county offices because of transportation, or that's too far away. They can come to the Family Empowerment Center and actually get support and get signed up for things like Snap or Tanf, or other kinds of county services as well, which we know when our families are more stable, our children are going to learn more and be more connected and have more academic achievement.

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General Room: In the annual review through the Oregon Department of Education. We're asked to provide an example, a positive example, and a challenge. And I did want to highlight how the data dashboard work that we've had has really helping us

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General Room: connect and focus in on supporting students and knowing earlier, if they need support and being able to highlight, who's doing really well, and we're starting to see that begin to pay off in some of our early literacy in our on track.

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General Room: 9th grade on track rates and our graduation rates as well as some increased ap participation.

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General Room: One challenge that we noted, besides overall funding being a challenge.

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General Room: is still experiencing some challenge. So it is still challenging when you're trying to make a referral for a family to some outside services, and maybe those outside services aren't there or aren't accessible through the insurance that the family has, or are very limited because of a family circumstance, so that still has a real impact on us, and, more importantly, on our children and families in our district.

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General Room: something we just wanted to highlight that that continues to need work throughout the State.

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General Room: So what's next for us?

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General Room: We are now getting beginning the reporting of the 2425 school year. So we are the quarter. One report is due by the end of this month, so we are working on that. We are listening at all the existing community input structures, taking, you know, looking at the notes, finding out what matters to people. We are planning a family survey and focus group

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General Room: opportunities this winter to fill in the gaps from things we haven't heard from people to ask more specifically around grant engagement.

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General Room: We have already completed the intent to apply for the next round of grants, which are the 2025 to 2027 Grant cycle

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General Room: for our district, and the 3 Rivers Charter School, which applied with us before, and they have affirmed that they want to continue to apply with us and be part of our overall Grant, and so we'll be back to the board with some more information about that application process in a few months, and I'm happy to respond to any questions or thoughts you might have.

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General Room: Thank you for that.

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General Room: I'll just start on the left. And, director, Shoemaker, do you have any questions?

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General Room: If you don't mind just real quickly. One of the strategies you listed was around assessing student needs. And you talked about our investment in a data dashboard for intervention. Can you just tell me a little bit more about that?

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General Room: Yes, I was trying to think of a quote about that. There's so much information

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General Room: half an hour to meet together, how can they look at data in a way that is very usable to them? So the system that we have purchased works with our synergy, which is our student information system.

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General Room: And it helps. Take the information. It's already there in synergy. But it's very hard for teachers to get at that data in a very usable way. So it brings it forward. In a nightly connection and update. So the data is always very fresh.

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General Room: And so when a teacher or a school counselor logs in and says, How's how's this student doing? They say, a nice pictorial

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General Room: representation of How is attendance going? What's what was their most recent assessment data showing about their academics? And how are they connect so attendance, academics, behavior and sort of their own student self rated. How do they feel in terms of school, climate and culture? Are they feeling a sense of belonging at school.

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General Room: And so that allows us to really think about some strategies that support students earlier in the process. And we know that early intervention is usually more effective if we wait till students are really struggling or really discouraged because they are not having academic success. And then we try to intervene. That's a whole, much harder hill to climb than when we notice earlier

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General Room: and can intervene in positive ways to help them really get back on track with their learning

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General Room: director sloop anything.

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General Room: But I just wanted to piggyback off

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General Room: into about individual students? Is it disaggregated data? So there's groups. Or is it just overall?

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General Room: Yes, yes, and yes. Okay. So what what we really like about this system is, you can look, I can look as a school district. And look at some data I can think about

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General Room: students by maybe served on 504 s. And pull some data that way we can look by schools so you can have the broad. You can get disaggregated by different demographic data, you know, at the one click. And then you get to see different information. And then you can also think at a very specific student individual data. If if you're a person that has permission to look at that

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General Room: Director Vidal.

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General Room: Given that Oregon is rated either 50th or 49, th depending on who you ask for children's mental health. I believe these funds are crucial for our kids. What funding are you projecting for next year, given this year was 8.3 million.

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General Room: Yes, I'm thank you for that question. And I agree with you about that importance. The 8.3 was the 2,02324, which is my report tonight. Okay, the 2425 was

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General Room: very close. It's right about the same. It's I don't want to say an exact number, but it's it's right near the 8.3 again, and the 2425, which

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General Room: is great except when we talk about staff and staff costs go up every year that then, being about the same, isn't exactly

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General Room: as good as a little bit more.

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General Room: and the Sia grant is funded based on demographics of the district, whereas the the High School Success grant is funded

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General Room: per high school student, no matter

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General Room: what the district looks like or what the demographics of the district is per student, whereas the Sia grant. So the Si Grant will vary

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General Room: And it, you know, the one with the bar graphs with the different amounts on it. One of the challenges is that there's

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General Room: overlay or overplay interplay, I guess, sometimes between the grants, where between the 2022, 23, and then the 2324, the sia increased a pretty good amount, and so that was, you know, celebratory at the same time. That same year the High School success reduced by almost the same amount. So that was less celebratory. And so then you're still trying to think of like, how

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General Room: how do we keep going with our priorities of the district to invest in quality education for each student, while these different variables that fund it are, you know. Come and go up and down every single year.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Buster Wyatt. Nothing.

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General Room: No questions either.

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General Room: Thank you. Thank you.

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General Room: Alright.

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General Room: We will pass it to Dr. Swisson.

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General Room: Good evening.

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General Room: So in talking about the topic this evening, and that's instructional materials, adoption, postponement. Just want to remind us that

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General Room: on our website we have this triangle that is not a Westland Wilsonville invention, and it has 3 sides.

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General Room: and we know that curriculum is highly important, but that

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General Room: and in looking at assessment and how students are doing and for health education, which includes sexuality, education

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General Room: by State

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General Room: standards. It's also important to know that in looking at how students are doing. We look at everything from

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General Room: Oregon, healthy teen survey to the panorama survey student data, and that all continues

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General Room: and the instructional practices that are in place with teaching. This continues when you ask for a postponement of the

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General Room: curriculum. So just want to start with bearing that in mind that it's really important to know that those other 2 parts of the triangle don't. Don't go away

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General Room: you may be familiar, but just to remind us that there is a schedule, a schedule of instructional materials, adoptions that lists the year for adopting new curriculum materials. And it's a continuous cycle. So you finish with one subject area, and you move on to the next every 7 years

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General Room: is typically your most expensive and your most detailed and comprehensive adoption.

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General Room: At K. 5, and then at grade 6, 8, and then at 9 12.

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General Room: and social studies also, just in terms of the complexity of the materials. And increasingly, these materials come where there's several parts to them and several components.

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General Room: The instructional materials. Adoption, of course, is part of division 22.

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General Room: You adopt the year that you're scheduled from the Ode Instructional Materials list.

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General Room: or you postpone adoption.

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General Room: The adoptions that we brought forward last

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General Room: year to the School Board. All of the ones that we have done have been from materials that are on the Ode list.

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General Room: ode does not have a set date or a deadline for requesting adoption postponements, and that's intentional.

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General Room: They prefer

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General Room: that you go as early in the school year as possible. But there's also understanding around budgeting

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General Room: around staff capacity.

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General Room: I will say that in our district. We are part of consortiums at the Clackamas County level

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General Room: has been one that has affected other districts sooner than it has affected Westland Wilsonville, Dr. Ludwig's presentation, that shared declining enrollment that shared kind of the revenue sources is some of the background that's needed to understand why we are requesting the postponement this evening.

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General Room: to be adopted during this school year, and then to be in classrooms for fall 2,025

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General Room: after, you know, looking closely, and we do not take this lightly, we prefer to be with the schedule, but we recommend postponing

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General Room: so that we will run the adoption during the 2526, school year, and materials will be in classrooms in fall 2026,

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General Room: and again.

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General Room: this includes the standards and materials for health and sexuality, education which has become part of. And, as you may recall, we have this comprehensive sexuality education plan that's renewed. And so this does not affect the work with that plan.

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General Room: We're requesting this, based on current budget information

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General Room: and just thinking about that, that the K. 5 math adoption

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General Room: is occurring this year.

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General Room: Those materials have been budgeted for in the 2,02425 budget.

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General Room: and those materials will be in the classroom in fall 2,025. And again, mathematics, especially in K. 5, is a more

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General Room: adoption is also occurring this school year. We will be purchasing those materials after July first, st

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General Room: so they can come from the 2025, 2026 budgets. But the materials

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General Room: can be in classrooms in fall 2,025, and just a little explanation of that in terms of some of the

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General Room: more complex programs, such as language arts and mathematics, sometimes getting all the components of those programs is more

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General Room: checking, believe that that will not be the case with with science.

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General Room: and opioid and fentanyl prevention lessons. Those are ode lessons. They've already been developed.

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General Room: However, there needs to be some

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General Room: and that all of the communication and all of the practices that are in the current

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General Room: with the community, will continue until this next health adoption, and then a new plan is developed as as part of that. So just want to be really clear that it doesn't mean that there's any changes in in those pieces next slide.

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General Room: These practices also, parents will be part of the group that develops the new comprehensive Sexuality Education Plan. We had a parent group last time, a robust group that represented all schools, all levels, and both the plan and the health curriculum recommendations for adoption are brought for this to the School Board for approval

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General Room: until the adoption. The materials that will be used are those that are within the current plan. And we're emphasizing this also for health and sexuality, education and K. 5, those are the great body shop.

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General Room: And then, second step

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General Room: has some of the social, emotional learning curriculum has some of those lessons. There's the Goodhart Wilcox, comprehensive health skills for middle school, and it's corollary, comprehensive health for grades 9 through 12. So

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General Room: that is also we will be continuing with the curriculum that is in place now until we have adopted new curriculum.

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General Room: So again, the cost of the actual materials is part of it.

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General Room: But one of the things that I think we talked about quite a bit last year, and that is that in our district. The reason that we do

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General Room: robust adoptions with large groups is there's a real educative piece to looking at the data

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General Room: to looking at the research current research about best instructional practices.

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General Room: having those who are using the curriculum

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General Room: actually select the curriculum and making sure that you have enough involved, and that it represents everyone across our schools, and that it takes more time to do that, because then there is an expect expectation that this is the curriculum we use.

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General Room: And we don't use other curriculum.

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General Room: Educational research shows that when students experience different curriculum, that there's different schema different ways. They need to think of things, to have it make sense, and that's especially true

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General Room: in mathematics and in language arts. But that is one thing in our district that the reason for

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General Room: maybe spending the the professional learning funds on robust adoptions is then it's this is what we are doing, and we can run. Also, it's not just the year that you buy the materials, but the

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General Room: professional learning. The following year

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General Room: Director Shoemaker referenced that tonight in his board report. Talking about seeing curriculum in action this year is

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General Room: just as important, if not more important, than the year that we adopted the curriculum. And so again, sometimes, when you think of it, you think of well, these, this request for postponement is just for the materials.

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General Room: but it's actually for running the very full and vibrant professional learning also that leads us to do this. And lastly, we don't do this lightly, we would, you know, prefer to be on schedule. We do believe, though, that we have a plan in place with working with the curriculum programs that we have around the other 2 parts of the triangle, the instructional practices.

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General Room: the looking at how students are doing. And I appreciated the question about mental health, because mental health is especially an area with

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General Room: health education that we have some influence over. So those pieces are in place, and in using all of the resources that are available. And again, making sure that the substance

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General Room: prevention lessons are in place. So with that, if you have questions.

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General Room: would

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General Room: be glad to speak to them. And

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General Room: all right.

661
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General Room: I want to mix it up. I'm going to start from the right director. Vito.

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General Room: Is this a.

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General Room: Oh, it is!

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General Room: I can make a motion. I move to approve, postponing the adoption of grades. K. Through 12 health curriculum, which includes health and sexuality education until the 2025, 26, school year, with new materials in classrooms in fall 2026.

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General Room: And do we have a second?

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General Room: All second?

667
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General Room: All right, I'll open it up for

668
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General Room: questions. Now, I was so comfortable listening that I just was gonna move on.

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General Room: So thank you.

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General Room: I'll start with Director Vidal. Okay? Great. The 1st question I have is regarding the Opioid and Fentanyl prevention lessons developed by ode. I understand that those come directly from ode. If they provide any updates during this school year or next school year, will those

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General Room: updates be implemented into classrooms, even though we are delaying this curriculum. Yes, and thank you for that clarification. That's why I mentioned that is because anything that comes from ode and anything that works with it involves professional learning. So we don't just say, go to the ode website and let's use those lessons.

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General Room: But we bring the teachers together for opioid and Fentanyl awareness. We're doing it separately grades 6, 8,

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General Room: and then high school, because the lessons are different and the information is different, and we actually expect that they will continually be updated.

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General Room: And what we really look for is accuracy of information

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General Room: and the information that is there, and we have had

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General Room: some substance, and especially some opioid, and especially some synthetic opioid information in our curriculum. So please know that it hasn't been that there's been nothing there. But we just wanted to clarify that because we're postponing an adoption that does not mean that we're postponing using

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General Room: information that is available to us.

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General Room: and I have one other question or comment. I just want to thank you for bringing up that this year is as important as the year we implemented the curriculum because of curriculum assessment. I agree that our students, sexual health and sexual education is extremely important, so I really appreciate the time to assess the accuracy and the comprehensiveness.

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General Room: Of our curriculum. So thank you, and that's it.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: And Director Sloop anything.

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General Room: Yes, I appreciate the presentation. And as you've mentioned, with the recent adoption of the literacy curriculum

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General Room: I can attest after listening to the teachers and staff on my school tours, that it's a lot

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General Room: of professional development that they're working on. Hmh, has a lot of resources that they are

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General Room: not really

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General Room: digging in completely. So they want more time with that. And then we're adding math curriculum adoption

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General Room: as well as the opioid and fentanyl guidelines from ode. So that's a lot on our teachers. That's a big ask to say that

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General Room: we want you to

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General Room: also adopt a comprehensive sex. Ed, so

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General Room: I will be in support of postponing it.

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General Room: Director Shoemaker.

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General Room: I just want to echo that for the for that same reason I'll be supporting this motion because I've seen just how much work our primary teachers are putting into the current adoption. And what's coming.

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General Room: and then to to give the a little space for that, I think it's

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General Room: worthy.

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General Room: Thank you and Vice chair, Wyatt.

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General Room: I'll also be supporting this motion, for all of the reasons mentioned by my colleagues. But I think it's also a reminder of the budget realities we just heard about, and the fact that yes, budget is one part of this consideration. But it's an example of how we are taking into account the fact that we are overspending. And so, as we think about

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General Room: timing things like this, I appreciate your thoughtfulness in factoring in just budget considerations as well as the other important aspects of curriculum adoption.

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General Room: All right.

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General Room: And

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General Room: could I just offer

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General Room: you know, we're not unique in this coming out of Covid? Most school districts

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General Room: found themselves playing catch up on these adoptions, and requested postponements because it took a while for our teachers to also communicate to us post covid that they felt like. 1st they were spending a lot of time on hybrid instruction, and then after that, back to in person, and then working a lot with students, coming back with learning loss. So we've kind of been

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General Room: postponing for several years now. We asked to postpone the literacy. We asked to postpone the math. The science we're trying to get back on track. Other school districts are as well, and we will get there. But I but I really appreciate you mentioning that every time there's an adoption. There's an implementation. There's professional development.

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General Room: And we want our teachers to feel that the pace is something they can manage, dig deep into and do really well. They're incredibly conscientious. They want to do this work well.

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General Room: As well as just attending to showing up each day with the students in front of them. But serving on these committees and these adoption renewal processes is time consuming. So each one of those 3 that we mentioned literacy, math, and science were also postponed. The Board made those decisions so that we could pace those out coming out of Covid

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General Room: and thank you for postponing this one, and we will get back on that chart and on that track, and other districts will as well eventually. So thank you.

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General Room: And

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General Room: I have similar echoes. I learned a lot on the Walkthroughs, especially from some of our K 5 teachers who are having combo classes, maybe 3, rd 4th grade mixes.

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General Room: And you see how they're having to manipulate the new curriculum to one stretch, our 3rd graders and one make sure that they're not pushing them too far. And all of the supporting documents and everything that comes with the curriculum. And it's a challenge is what I will say, and I'll also say that

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General Room: the teachers that are in those blended classes are.

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General Room: There's no way in the world I could do it, I can tell you that right now.

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General Room: but it's also fascinating to have them walk you through

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General Room: their experience. And and there are teachers that still need to be trained on some of these things that we've asked them to do.

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General Room: And it's a heavy lift, and you see that lift in action, and you realize that there's only so many hours in a day.

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General Room: and I don't know how the staff would

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General Room: be able to add one more new curriculum

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General Room: plus be effective at it, you know you could. You could put it into place if you want to.

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General Room: but I don't know that they're going to have the time to be able to dedicate to it, so I'll be in support of postponing this because we have

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General Room: other things that we are putting on the plate currently. So

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General Room: I'll pass it to

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General Room: Director Douglas to

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General Room: hold the vote. Thank you, director, shoemaker. Yes, director, sloop.

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General Room: Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt. Aye.

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General Room: Director Vidal. Yes, thank you.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Right.

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General Room: That takes us into the department of Operations. Mr. Pat Mcguff. Oh, wait a minute, Remo. How you doing, Remo.

728
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General Room: Good to see you! It's been a while.

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General Room: It's been a little while, thanks board for the opportunity to get to speak tonight.

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General Room: I'm here to present on the Q. 3, 2024 bond report.

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General Room: As you know, the long range planning committee is very busy about updating the long range plan and looking at future projects, but of course they still have that bond oversight role.

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General Room: So I'm here to speak a little bit to our most recent report.

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General Room: I'll jump through some of those highlights, and of course be happy to take any questions you may have.

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General Room: So the the 1st couple bullet points on our memo there, noting that we're 95% committed or contracted

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General Room: and over 90% spent on our current funding that 90% spent is important.

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General Room: We're required by law to have spent 85% by next February. So we're well ahead of those requirements. It means that we're spending the money effectively pursuant to the bond tasks.

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General Room: Following that again, being 90% complete, our projects at Wilsonville High School and Riverside High School are complete. We're chasing one or 2 more invoices from last vendors, and we'll close those budgets out

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General Room: next at Athe Creek Middle School. We're all very excited that Willamette Falls drive is paved and open to two-way traffic.

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General Room: We have sidewalks and bike lanes in place.

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General Room: The contractors are coordinating with pge for the street lights. We're getting some landscaping done, and that work will wrap up as well

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General Room: down at Frog Pond primary School. Some of that work has slowed, we and I, in particular, engaging with our contractor and our architect right now to develop an updated schedule and and get that project moving like it should be, but we have no expectation of any issues of getting open next year

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General Room: the next bullet point. Often we go kind of quickly over, but I'll speak to here as we're considering new future projects. Our 4 summer projects this year speak to our stewardship responsibilities, which is an important core of any of our capital improvement programs, that is, you know, preserving that investment the community has already made in our school facilities. It's very important. 1st and foremost, before we do anything new, or fancy that we're taking care of what we already have.

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General Room: and making sure that students are able to go to school every day.

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General Room: So the 1st off at Boone's Ferry Primary School we replaced the mechanical boilers. Those were original equipment. A lot of the parts were getting difficult to obtain, very expensive, and they were beginning to wear out more frequently. So we had correctly anticipated. And we've replaced those. We can sure we'll have a nice warm school every day through the winter

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General Room: at Willamette primary school we replaced all of the network

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General Room: cabling, and relocated our wiring closets. The wiring closets in that school one was literally in an unconditioned closet, and the other was literally under a staircase

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General Room: in the 19 nineties. That was where things could get fitted in. But doing this proper update where you can have air conditioned, purpose-built spaces to support that tech, make sure it's working reliably. It's not wearing out prematurely due to overheating.

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General Room: It's very important

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General Room: Westland High School, very excited to announce that we've now completed our classroom lockdown hardware installs at every school in the district.

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General Room: and so now, at every school. The staff have those fobs. They're able to press a button combination and lock down every classroom in the building on a few moments. Notice very exciting to have that project done alongside the other 3 major safety components in this program.

751
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General Room: All of the staffs have been trained in how to use those systems, and they're implemented into our regular security protocol drills. So we're very excited at those safety improvements being completed.

752
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General Room: and then finally, at Rosemont Ridge Middle school. We replaced the track, surfacing everything wears out over time, and that that track had had served its useful life.

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General Room: We're going to scrape that rubber, surfacing off, patch up the asphalt a little bit, put down a fresh new track.

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General Room: and it's ready to go for years to come.

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General Room: And then the last bullet point there, I would just take a moment to celebrate our it department. In addition to putting out, I think, over a thousand devices this summer, getting those into the hands of students cycling out old equipment.

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General Room: They've also been doing major overhauls of our cyber security systems, our network storage and our device management

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General Room: which really enhances our network security. A lot of those risks you hear in the news about cybersecurity threats. They've been doing amazing work this year. They probably won't ever say it themselves. So I'm here to just say I've been seeing that work happening. It's really exciting.

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General Room: So that was a speed run through the highlights from this report. Any questions from the board

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General Room: is a non action item, vice chair, Wyatt.

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General Room: so I can't open it up for questions. Any questions.

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General Room: Shoemaker.

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General Room: Sloops.

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General Room: you know. No.

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General Room: What I'll say is one thing that I saw on the walkthroughs is the implementation of bringing cards back

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General Room: for the

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General Room: The book, the all the chromebooks, yes, the chromebooks.

767
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General Room: and the excitement that all of the staff had around those.

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General Room: I didn't know that that was such an important thing to be able to maintain those. So kudos to you guys for bringing that back. I mean, that's how they

769
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General Room: a large impact on

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General Room: on the teachers and and making sure that those chromebooks aren't getting damaged.

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General Room: And so we're having to replace them over and over and over again. So

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General Room: again, credit to to Khan and his new leadership team as he's taken over that department, that all of that work was was his and his teams.

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General Room: But yeah, when when you're talking about maintaining 10,000 plus devices, and how do you preserve them over time and all those things? Those are important decisions. Well, the feedback. Just so, you know, is, it's so positive that the teachers are

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General Room: are saying that they're not on them as much. They're only using them when needed.

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General Room: And they're not walking around school with their chromebooks, you know, in lieu of having their cell phones. The chromebook became the cell phone. So with the carts, it takes them off of technology.

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General Room: And they're back interacting with one another. And you can tell that kids look like kids again. They don't look like drones.

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General Room: So that's a testament to your work. And as excited as I am about the key fob to lock down the schools.

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General Room: I'm just as disappointed that we have to have something like that in our schools. So

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General Room: I'm glad we have it. But it's

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General Room: relatively a sad moment that that's where we're at in society today. So

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General Room: but thank you for protecting

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General Room: kids, especially at that level.

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General Room: Appreciate you. Yeah, I'd like, just on that notion, the the term we use is safe and welcoming schools for our security improvements. And we like to think that takes all that thinking about those factors and puts it on us. The adults who can handle that

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General Room: who do the work behind the scenes or ready for for events, and allow the students

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General Room: 1st and foremost, and those school staffs to focus on what they're doing with education every day. They don't need to know where all the the special features are and how those things work. That's for for us to do.

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General Room: Appreciate you.

787
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General Room: Thank you. Remo. Thank you.

788
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General Room: this is our section. We get the the floor a little bit for

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General Room: board of directors, and I'm going to turn it over to Vice Chair, Wyatt. And

790
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General Room: I'm gonna not meddle.

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General Room: So, as this board knows, we took action at the beginning of the school year to adopt School Board goals and then to agree on work session topics, and then to think through our board schedule. And so this item is an update to all of those things to reflect the discussion that we had in September at our work session

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General Room: to focus our board engagement efforts on our anti-racism policy instead of the engagement events with students. And this is done solely because of limited time and the number of meetings we have on our calendar.

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General Room: And then we've also added some clarity about upcoming times for the Board to be able to participate in community engagement efforts around the long range planning committee's small Schools task force. And so the document in front of you and in the packet tracks changes 1st to our board goals and then to our calendar. So just looking at the board goals, you'll see changes to the 3rd item.

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General Room: where we clarify that in valuing community voice and the authentic engagement of parents and guardians and students with our site visits. It replaces the board. Facilitated student engagement events with

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General Room: language about the Board will engage bipoc, students, parents and staff in listening sessions about their experiences and our anti-racism, policy and procedures. And so you'll see later on in the calendar that reflected. And this is done in order to

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General Room: prioritize the chance to hear from everyone in our district about our anti-racism policy. It doesn't take away from our ability as individual board members to speak with students at our school visits and other opportunities.

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General Room: And then on the following page, you'll see the updated calendar. And again, changes are tracked, and then most notable items here

798
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General Room: you'll see on the right hand side a status of bringing us up to this evening, and then looking into December, a regular board meeting, where we will address our board goal number 2, the monitoring of student achievement and starting to think about receiving quarterly reports on achievement data.

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General Room: We'll also look into January for a potential long range planning committee listening session regarding the small Schools task force

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General Room: heading into February, suggesting that in replacing the community Equity summit, we begin to host our anti-racism, listening sessions.

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General Room: And then that brings us into March to work through a capital bond summit

802
01:55:55.797 --> 01:56:00.269
General Room: and then continuing our board, listening sessions with the community.

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General Room: and that leads us into then budget. Season with our budget committee and the end of the year. So that's a high level overview. I'm happy to speak to any of these in more detail. Again, a lot of this is just looking at the fact, we have the second half of our year in front of us.

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General Room: and so trying to make great use of all of our meeting times, both for work, sessions, executive sessions, and regular meetings. So I'll pause there and see if there are any questions.

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General Room: and I think the recommended motion, if someone was willing to make it would be to adopt the updated board goals and board meeting and work session topics. So I'll pause there.

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General Room: Thank you for that level of explanation.

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General Room: and I know we do have some questions. I'll start with you, director, Shoemaker. I just wanted to comment that board goal number 2 was a multi-pronged goal and remains. So together we will monitor student achievement data, the district integrated plan, school work plans, school visits, and when work session in quarterly board reports.

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General Room: I want to say, I know we've all been working on that. We've been doing our site visits. We're looking at plans and we're getting data. But that Quarterly Board report. I know the district is willing to give it, since we're roughly at the end of the 1st quarter right now. District is willing to give us a board report, but it's our intention that we work together on on coming up with sort of a consistent

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General Room: data

810
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General Room: dumped to us at times of the year, and we just haven't gotten to that yet. So that but that's the subject of the next work session. So we'll get there.

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General Room: Director sloop.

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General Room: So I see on for the month of April, April 21, st it says, continued listening, sessions, if need be.

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General Room: Would that be

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General Room: one of our

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General Room: community engagement like with the students, a listening session.

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General Room: I think that, given we're looking into April.

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General Room: I think my preference would be that we name that we are valuing, listening to what's happening in our community, whether that be from our students related to anti-racism policy or related to small schools, task force and long range planning. And so if

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General Room: that level of

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General Room: vagueness is okay with everyone, I would. I would think we could keep it there and just save that time as a way to really engage folks and hear from them. But if you'd like to be more specific about it, we could also consider that as well.

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General Room: and that would be after our bond summit. So I'll just name that as well

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General Room: could I speak to my recollection when you were

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General Room: going through redoing. This is, we didn't know if we could get all of those listening sessions in February, because you now based on

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General Room: you, remember your September work session where you changed the goal

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General Room: to instead, being listening sessions with students around transitions

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General Room: to, to listening to bipoc families and staff and students

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General Room: and community. So that's quite a few listening sessions, and we just weren't sure if February would accommodate

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General Room: for all those groups as well as for board members. So there was a pocket of time, perhaps, to carry over in April.

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General Room: If you get them all done in February, then April is open to any other type of listening. You feel you need to do as a board host, bond summit, or whatever.

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General Room: Yeah.

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General Room: Good. Okay.

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General Room: Director Vidal.

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General Room: yeah, I just have a question about timelines. So

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General Room: we've been talking about the long range planning committee presenting to the Board in January. But when we look at

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General Room: this timeline I'm confused because we have a work session board goal, you know. In on January 27, th and then we have a capital bond summit, which also

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General Room: includes

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General Room: content. That applies to the long range planning committee, and Small Schools Task Force, and then on April 21, st we could either be talking about the long range planning committee or anti-racism. So I'm wondering

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General Room: what is our timeline.

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General Room: or have we adjusted the long range planning committee timeline

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General Room: to extend it out past January 2025.

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General Room: Given these dates, I'm done so the addition of the time at the beginning of the year in January. So we have a regular board meeting which obviously includes public comment, time, and then additional potential long range. Listening sessions between then and the end of January, on long range planning committee

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General Room: and Small Schools Task Force, which would then lead up to the Capital Bond Summit, and what would be recommended by the long range planning committee for a potential bond. And, Dan, I'm looking at you just to make sure that I'm that I'm capturing this correctly.

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General Room: So this just is giving us extra time in January to hear more from the community and then to Director Sloop's Point and Superintendent Ludwig's Point. The April timeframe is additional time, if needed, on anti-racism or anything else that comes up. Given that one of our main goals is authentic engagement of everyone in our district.

843
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General Room: But I just want to make sure that I'm capturing correctly the timeframe for long range planning.

844
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General Room: You're going to hear quite a bit from the long range planning committee through Pat Mcguffin, Remo, Douglas, and and likely members from that committee and and liaison director shoemaker. Because that long range plan update that you've asked for has several components. So at 1 point you're going to receive the draft

845
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General Room: of the narrative in the long range plan. You'll also receive the capital improvement program which has projects on it. Those things will happen in regular board meetings.

846
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General Room: We'll just give like half an hour.

847
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General Room: you know, 35 min for those kinds of presentations and for you to interact with the long range planning committee members who come and present. That's all for the long range plan building up to the capital Bond Summit that you've identified for March. Okay, after that summit you have some conversation because you want to debrief. Well, what happened in the summit? What did the community members prioritize. How does that inform the capital improvement plan

848
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General Room: and going forward whether you're going to authorize or propose

849
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General Room: a ballot measure in November. So those will be additional conversations you'll have with representatives of the long range planning committee, Pat Mcguff, Remo, Douglas, and Board liaison. Dan Shoemaker. In subsequent regular meetings we think we have a lot of that work can happen in regular meetings in terms of that January work session

850
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General Room: that one is set aside for the long range planning committee to report to you on their recommendation the recommended options based on what they hear from the small Schools Task force. Okay? So the Small Schools Task force will present their findings. Longridge planning committee in December.

851
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General Room: then in January, the longest planning committee will take those findings

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General Room: and some recommended options as they've worked through it and present that to you in January. Okay, so we wanted to do that in a work session, because we anticipate that presentation, your questions and your interaction with that group

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General Room: to extend longer than a regular board meeting. Okay, that help with some of that is helpful. I would just then ask to edit the 3rd column over so April 21, st I would ask to edit that to board goal number one and board goal number 4 and I would like it to say, continuing, continued listening sessions debriefing the

854
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General Room: capital bond summit

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General Room: or anti-racism policy. I just think it's important. Given all the feedback we've been given giving to the community that we are as

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General Room: clear as possible.

857
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General Room: So that's where the this is coming from. So

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General Room: yeah.

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General Room: okay.

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General Room: anything else?

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General Room: No. And but I ideally this would have a motion and a vote, just because these are our goals in our calendar. Yep.

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General Room: So we can have a a motion with the amended changes

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General Room: to take place, so do I hear a motion to approve

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General Room: the amended board goals for the remaining of the year.

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General Room: I move to approve the amended board goals for the remaining of the year.

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General Room: Second.

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General Room: All right, I'll pass it to Director Douglas

868
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General Room: for the vote. Director Schumacher.

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General Room: Hi! Check to sloop.

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General Room: Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, Mr. Wyatt.

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General Room: direct, Devira.

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General Room: I thank you.

873
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General Room: And we will get those Updated on the website where the goals are. You also have your table tents that you have your goals on, we'll make sure those are updated and

874
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General Room: The board calendar stays the same. But you now know what topics you'll have within each of those sessions.

875
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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Alright. That takes us into.

877
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General Room: We have an item from the executive session that will

878
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General Room: required

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General Room: board action.

880
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General Room: and

881
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General Room: just to communicate. We've received 2 complaints at the board level.

882
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General Room: but due to the confidentiality protections, we will not be discussing these complaints in open session.

883
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General Room: So what I'm looking for is a motion

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General Room: to

885
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General Room: no

886
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General Room: forward

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General Room: with the executive session, decision.

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02:06:52.710 --> 02:06:56.850
General Room: or or or discussion that took place earlier. Please.

889
02:06:57.150 --> 02:07:09.940
General Room: I move that the Board take no further action on a complaint. Number one, and I further move that the Board delegate to Chair Taylor, the authority to prepare a written response to the complainants on behalf of the board. All right, and do we have a second?

890
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General Room: A second?

891
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General Room: All right, Director Douglas, please cast a vote.

892
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General Room: Director, shoemaker. Yes, director, sloop.

893
02:07:19.580 --> 02:07:21.590
General Room: Yes. Chair. Taylor.

894
02:07:23.290 --> 02:07:24.689
General Room: vice chair. Wyatt.

895
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General Room: Director Vidal. Yes, thank you.

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General Room: You're right.

897
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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Do you want me to do those independently. Yes, we do.

899
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General Room: That was for

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General Room: complaint number one, and

901
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General Room: for complaint number 2, same

902
02:07:47.740 --> 02:07:50.890
General Room: conditions apply. So do we have a motion.

903
02:07:50.920 --> 02:08:03.480
General Room: I move that the Board take no further action on complaint number 2, and I further move that the Board delegate to chair Taylor, the authority to prepare a written response to the complainants on behalf of the board.

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General Room: We'll give me one second.

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General Room: All second.

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General Room: Okay.

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General Room: Director Douglas, please cast a vote.

908
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General Room: Director, shoemaker.

909
02:08:12.890 --> 02:08:15.590
General Room: Yes, director, sloop. Aye.

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General Room: chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt.

911
02:08:18.720 --> 02:08:21.659
General Room: Director Videl. Yes, thank you.

912
02:08:26.440 --> 02:08:27.190
General Room: All right.

913
02:08:27.990 --> 02:08:29.240
General Room: Board policy.

914
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General Room: Dr. Ludwig and Director Douglas.

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General Room: I'll turn it to you.

916
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General Room: hey? Thank you.

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General Room: Oh, yeah, you know what? Why don't we take a take 5? No, no, that's fine. I need 34. We'll take a 5 min. Pause so, and I'll come back and adjourn from there.

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General Room: All right. Board meeting is back in session.

919
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General Room: and we shall continue

920
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General Room: so I will turn it back over

921
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General Room: to.

922
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General Room: Where did I leave off

923
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General Room: Superintendent, Dr. Ludwig and Director Douglas

924
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General Room: for board policy? Thank you.

925
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General Room: So just a couple things before we get into these 1st

926
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General Room: we often routinely will put board policies in consent agenda for board members to look at. You get board book before the meeting, and any of those policies that you want to bring forward or pull out to have discussion.

927
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General Room: Is always something that Staff is prepared for and prepared to speak to and for board members to have conversation with each other.

928
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General Room: The last few, I think, have been mostly housekeeping, and so you haven't

929
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General Room: exercised that action that you can take as board members, but clearly we have

930
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General Room: 4 in there that

931
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General Room: We were anticipating for you to exercise, taking them out of consent, agenda. But we got a signal this morning to go ahead and just do that before this meeting. Second thing I just want to share as a reminder to board members and others who may be listening or have come interested.

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General Room: The language for policies always comes to us through an organization called the Oregon School Boards Association, Osba.

933
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General Room: Their attorneys draft the language around the policies, the updates to the policies. They make sure they're aligned to new legislation that they are not in contradiction to any other

934
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General Room: legislation or statutes. So it's not language that we actually write when they arrive to us. It comes from the attorneys at Osba.

935
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General Room: We then, in turn through

936
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General Room: Ms. Douglas, send

937
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General Room: those revisions to our own legal

938
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General Room: council so that they can review our policies in light of that, and provide any input or suggestions.

939
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General Room: And so just want you to know that's always standard practice for us to go through that. And so it's been vetted then by 2 sets of legal counsel, both at Osba as well as our own legal counsel.

940
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General Room: And then, in terms of these 4, I can understand how there was some confusion about the 1st one that we'll talk about policy Bbf. Code of conduct. The recommendation from Osba on that one was just again to clean up some language, and if it was in contradiction to any other legislation or statutes, or in one case.

941
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General Room: Oregon public meetings law. But I just want to reassure you that you do have policy. B Ddh. Which is a whole policy on public comment at board meetings. So the code of conduct policy that revision in there was not, does not negate that you have a whole board policy

942
02:12:22.930 --> 02:12:24.689
General Room: on public comment.

943
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General Room: so that

944
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General Room: never was changing. There's never any intention to eliminate public comment because we already have a full policy on that. So when we talk about this 1st one, just keep in mind that you already have a policy on public comment at board meetings.

945
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General Room: and there was never any

946
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General Room: intention and ever any, no matter what you change in policy. Bbf, you have a whole policy that stands around public comment. So just want to share that with you, and if you wanted to look at it, you can certainly bring it up on your laptops, or I have a hard copy of it.

947
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General Room: So you've asked for all 4 to come out of consent, agenda, so just we'll just work through each one.

948
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General Room: The 1st one, the proposed update from Osba

949
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General Room: is around policy BBF. Code of conduct for how board members shall conduct themselves, and in that proposed update from them you'll see in Red Font.

950
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General Room: where they have made

951
02:13:31.810 --> 02:13:40.109
General Room: just some additions, and often these recommendations come because school boards across Oregon are looking for more clarity.

952
02:13:41.345 --> 02:13:42.350
General Room: The

953
02:13:42.740 --> 02:13:54.020
General Room: the sentences that have a strikethrough are where Osba believes there is some redundancy or some confusion, and so they're trying to make it more clear

954
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General Room: by those strikethroughs.

955
02:13:56.790 --> 02:13:59.300
General Room: And you can read through

956
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General Room: all of those.

957
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General Room: And now proposed 26 of those items. Of course, the numeration would change

958
02:14:08.280 --> 02:14:09.870
General Room: if some of them

959
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General Room: pass through your recommendations. Number 15, for example, is a redundant one, because you already have policy Bbfa, which speaks to

960
02:14:23.900 --> 02:14:29.780
General Room: conflict of interest. And so it doesn't need to be reiterated in there.

961
02:14:29.970 --> 02:14:41.810
General Room: Number 21 is probably just not there because they didn't give us an explanation. But just because it's it's nuanced and maybe shouldn't be in a policy. It just

962
02:14:41.820 --> 02:14:48.729
General Room: reminds board members to stay up to date on educational issues. They also believe, with Number 23,

963
02:14:48.750 --> 02:15:02.630
General Room: that you may have an agreement amongst yourselves about being on time to board meetings, but that it's not typically recommended to put something like that in a policy. So this is Osba doing some housekeeping

964
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General Room: to all school boards across Oregon, around

965
02:15:07.400 --> 02:15:11.030
General Room: tightening up some aspects of this policy.

966
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General Room: And then, because number 27 is spoken to in Number 25,

967
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General Room: there's a sense that that has some redundancy.

968
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General Room: So I will stop there to see what your questions are

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General Room: around.

970
02:15:26.870 --> 02:15:29.210
General Room: Policy. Bbf.

971
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General Room: and maybe, while I just speak to in terms of Number 19, which has caused some confusion

972
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General Room: is that Oregon public's public meetings. Law says that the public has the right to view

973
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General Room: public meetings, but not the right to be heard.

974
02:15:48.860 --> 02:15:53.219
General Room: However, the Board can create policy.

975
02:15:53.643 --> 02:16:01.860
General Room: Specifying how they would like to hear public comment, which is why you have your policy. BDDH. So I

976
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General Room: remember Osba is sending these recommendations to all school boards across Oregon. So what they saw in Number 19 was actually a conflict to Oregon public meetings law and suggested it be removed there. Knowing that School Boards

977
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General Room: could then create their own policy. Bddh, on how they wanted to hear public comment, which is one that

978
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General Room: does stand is still standing and is not up for change tonight.

979
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General Room: so I'll stop there.

980
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General Room: vice chair, Wyatt.

981
02:16:35.650 --> 02:16:53.738
General Room: Oh, yeah, thanks. I wanted to do some untangling, because it seems like there was. There were a lot of misconceptions about this and language that was being used and shared about what the intent was. And so, Andrew, I'm wondering if you could share that slide for me, please.

982
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General Room: So I think, in addition to that excellent explanation. I think here is like the unraveling.

983
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General Room: So Osba language in blue

984
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General Room: recommended this language, respect the right of the public to attend and observe board meetings, because our prior version of our code of conduct included the term be heard at the strikethrough, implied that we were getting rid of the ability to hear.

985
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General Room: and suggested that we add, observe, so the language would match Osbas. And so what I would like us to consider is this proposed language, which just matches both of those together and includes attend, be heard at and observe board meetings. So we preserve what was struck through in our original

986
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General Room: policy with the update from Osba, and it preserves, I think, what we're all trying to do in our board goal number 3, which is to value community voice. And again, this reminder that ultimately the policy that dictates

987
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General Room: the value we place on public comment at board meetings is not this. This is just how we operate.

988
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General Room: It's board policy. Bbd. H. As well as State law that opens up our meetings to the public. So just want to make that abundantly clear in terms of what drives public comment, but also recognize that our code of conduct could be better understood if we make this potential clarification. So just offering this as a way to crosswalk all of the different things that are in front of us tonight.

989
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General Room: Any other questions? Yeah, I just have a comment. And I don't really mean to play devil's advocate here with respect to your proposal, but I guess I will a little bit. It seems to me the word right is, is the key here. We don't confer rights on people. That's not what. That's not how you get rights. School boards don't give people rights. Those rights are conferred either through the, you know, by the Constitution or by State legislatures.

990
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General Room: I suspect our attorneys are just trying to clean that up

991
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General Room: and set to say that

992
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General Room: it's not really technically right to say people have a right to be heard.

993
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General Room: but that doesn't prevent us from as a board

994
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General Room: saying that we are going to offer this opportunity to be heard, so I guess I don't tech. I guess I don't have a problem with

995
02:19:29.080 --> 02:19:32.609
General Room: the proposal, except that I don't love the idea that

996
02:19:33.250 --> 02:19:41.240
General Room: that it suggests that we're offering. We're conferring a right on people when that right doesn't technically exist. I wonder what our attorneys would say to that

997
02:19:45.040 --> 02:19:50.219
General Room: I got what I'm saying right isn't a layperson's term right? Right is a legal term.

998
02:19:55.220 --> 02:19:58.630
General Room: I am not an attorney, so I will not try to challenge that.

999
02:19:58.770 --> 02:19:59.550
General Room: But

1000
02:20:00.570 --> 02:20:03.230
General Room: I'm not an attorney either. I am.

1001
02:20:03.660 --> 02:20:06.849
General Room: I agree with the proposed language.

1002
02:20:06.950 --> 02:20:21.790
General Room: I have a question about the other numbers. Are we going over those as well, or we just one at a time. Okay, okay, got it. I agree with the

1003
02:20:22.780 --> 02:20:31.339
General Room: can. I ask what happens if if we I mean, if we pro, if we make a different proposal and do do with it, what does the State come back and say, Hey, why are you guys.

1004
02:20:32.020 --> 02:20:34.689
General Room: why is your district not complying with what we suggested?

1005
02:20:35.850 --> 02:20:39.540
General Room: Well, I mean, it's not ode right? It's Osba Osba.

1006
02:20:39.790 --> 02:20:42.240
General Room: It's the attorneys at Osba

1007
02:20:42.350 --> 02:20:48.649
General Room: that have vetted the language and presented it to the board, so that you can feel confident

1008
02:20:48.690 --> 02:21:01.700
General Room: in a language that's presented, and then we present it to our legal counsel. So I would. I would always advise a board if you're going to craft your own language, that it should be run by our legal counsel, so that we're not back here

1009
02:21:02.180 --> 02:21:03.330
General Room: later

1010
02:21:03.400 --> 02:21:07.729
General Room: with this same policy. So if you don't, if you feel you'd like

1011
02:21:07.790 --> 02:21:13.990
General Room: to amend what both attorneys are proposing, then we probably should do this as a 1st reading.

1012
02:21:14.240 --> 02:21:23.289
General Room: and pause, and not take a vote, and then we can take it back to our legal counsel and say, what are the implications of not having this strike through

1013
02:21:23.550 --> 02:21:25.200
General Room: with Number 19,

1014
02:21:25.590 --> 02:21:34.260
General Room: keeping the word right to be heard? Does that is that confusing? And does it conflict with Oregon public meetings law

1015
02:21:34.380 --> 02:21:38.120
General Room: 194.6 10.

1016
02:21:38.710 --> 02:21:40.839
General Room: If, no matter what we

1017
02:21:40.850 --> 02:21:56.359
General Room: decide, we're going to have public comment, the way we've had public comment, absolutely. Because we have public, we have policy. B bdh, yeah, so that's not the one that was changing. So public comment is is absolutely here to stay.

1018
02:21:56.660 --> 02:21:58.439
General Room: So I I guess.

1019
02:21:59.920 --> 02:22:01.270
General Room: for simplicity.

1020
02:22:02.350 --> 02:22:04.110
General Room: If Bvdh

1021
02:22:04.520 --> 02:22:07.139
General Room: is our public comment

1022
02:22:07.530 --> 02:22:09.180
General Room: policy

1023
02:22:09.220 --> 02:22:10.720
General Room: for our district.

1024
02:22:12.080 --> 02:22:15.870
General Room: I'm not seeing where there's an issue ultimately

1025
02:22:16.050 --> 02:22:17.779
General Room: with any of the language

1026
02:22:17.950 --> 02:22:29.370
General Room: up there. Obviously, if you add the be heard, you're going against what the attorneys have advised, because even in BDDH. The attorneys did not use the word. Have the right

1027
02:22:30.310 --> 02:22:35.119
General Room: for that public policy. It's that you you are allowing public comment

1028
02:22:35.160 --> 02:22:37.530
General Room: to be to occur at your meetings.

1029
02:22:39.030 --> 02:22:42.020
General Room: So it's it's that it's that word

1030
02:22:42.290 --> 02:22:44.515
General Room: right? And just to further

1031
02:22:45.440 --> 02:22:50.169
General Room: let's suppose we had someone making public comment.

1032
02:22:50.320 --> 02:22:51.470
General Room: and

1033
02:22:51.780 --> 02:22:55.030
General Room: they were being a you fill in the blank. They're being something

1034
02:22:55.200 --> 02:23:01.579
General Room: and share. Taylor says I'm gonna cut you off because of what you're doing. Are you denying them a right?

1035
02:23:03.260 --> 02:23:06.370
General Room: Have. We said they have a right. And now you're you're taking away rights.

1036
02:23:06.850 --> 02:23:10.510
General Room: Sounds like we need to have a a conversation with the attorney.

1037
02:23:10.940 --> 02:23:16.869
General Room: So let's and but also to point out currently be heard at is in our current policy.

1038
02:23:16.880 --> 02:23:18.000
General Room: So

1039
02:23:18.080 --> 02:23:20.369
General Room: we're striking something that we've had.

1040
02:23:20.510 --> 02:23:22.189
General Room: So it makes me wonder

1041
02:23:22.650 --> 02:23:26.320
General Room: why do the attorneys allow it at 1 point. But now they're

1042
02:23:26.530 --> 02:23:28.989
General Room: and is this part of Osba's cleanup?

1043
02:23:29.270 --> 02:23:50.229
General Room: So I would. I would also maybe want to ask that question. Yeah. In policy. Bddh, the language, says, the public has a right to attend public meetings held in open session, and may be invited to share comments, ideas, and opinions with the Board during designated times on the agenda.

1044
02:23:50.300 --> 02:23:55.130
General Room: which is what you do on a regular basis. You set up public comment, which

1045
02:23:55.230 --> 02:23:57.480
General Room: could be at times.

1046
02:23:59.302 --> 02:24:00.910
General Room: Someone might have to

1047
02:24:01.130 --> 02:24:04.679
General Room: be told they can't share it. There were times, I think.

1048
02:24:05.160 --> 02:24:18.259
General Room: this board may remember, when there was behavior that came to board meetings, and during Covid and such that board chairs did suspend public comment sometimes at a meeting.

1049
02:24:18.890 --> 02:24:23.190
General Room: and it wasn't because and that didn't become an encroachment on a right.

1050
02:24:23.260 --> 02:24:25.050
General Room: But it was your

1051
02:24:25.280 --> 02:24:30.980
General Room: purview to suspend the invitation to have public comment at that meeting.

1052
02:24:31.650 --> 02:24:34.279
General Room: So the invitation still stands.

1053
02:24:35.094 --> 02:24:39.360
General Room: You've established that that you will have public comment at your regular board meetings.

1054
02:24:41.670 --> 02:24:48.780
General Room: I would argue that we should keep be heard, because I think the same argument could be made for the phrase.

1055
02:24:49.150 --> 02:25:04.439
General Room: the right of the public to attend. If someone did something at a public meeting in which they were no longer ever invited back to this building because of their behavior, we could then take away their right to attend. So I think.

1056
02:25:04.910 --> 02:25:12.969
General Room: yeah, I think I think we could do that. How can you take away a right and give a right if we just talked about?

1057
02:25:13.850 --> 02:25:19.129
General Room: I'm just asking. No, no, I I'm trying to listen. I'm listening. I'm just doing this right. Yeah.

1058
02:25:19.150 --> 02:25:22.619
General Room: if we're saying we're giving someone

1059
02:25:23.390 --> 02:25:25.339
General Room: the right to be heard.

1060
02:25:25.900 --> 02:25:29.270
General Room: And now you're saying we're we can take away their right.

1061
02:25:31.990 --> 02:25:36.060
General Room: No, I'm saying that if

1062
02:25:36.130 --> 02:25:53.290
General Room: we are saying that the right to be heard isn't actually a right, because if someone is abusing that right by using language we don't allow. We would then take that away and say, Excuse me, you may not speak right now.

1063
02:25:53.500 --> 02:26:05.419
General Room: If someone acted in a certain way where they were not invited into this building because of their behavior and action they took. We could then take away their right to attend

1064
02:26:05.964 --> 02:26:10.230
General Room: so that's just something to think about as well

1065
02:26:10.770 --> 02:26:12.410
General Room: in leaving

1066
02:26:12.470 --> 02:26:15.119
General Room: be heard in there, if that makes sense.

1067
02:26:16.070 --> 02:26:24.670
General Room: No, no, no, no, no, no, no! I just wanted to. Yeah, I think the attorneys were just trying to have that phrase

1068
02:26:25.270 --> 02:26:35.889
General Room: align with what's in Oregon public meetings law, so that they're not in contradiction. Oregon public meetings. Law says their right to to view

1069
02:26:36.694 --> 02:26:39.270
General Room: attend public meetings, but

1070
02:26:39.460 --> 02:26:44.539
General Room: not necessarily to be heard, so they're trying to align.

1071
02:26:44.970 --> 02:26:55.100
General Room: But it sounds like, if you're conflicted, we should get some legal counsel, I mean, I don't realistically see a day where we're not having public comment in our meetings. However correct. If

1072
02:26:55.160 --> 02:27:00.340
General Room: if we table it. I'm fine with that, too, to to get clarity. But what you were gonna say something

1073
02:27:00.420 --> 02:27:01.640
General Room: purchases.

1074
02:27:02.250 --> 02:27:07.130
General Room: No, no, no, I I'm I'm fine with tabling it, but I'll I'll turn it over to you.

1075
02:27:07.200 --> 02:27:20.950
General Room: I just wanted to say that like looking through the policy updates. And you know Osba gives samples, and they have version one or 2, but it's highly recommended. It's not required that we have to, you know, follow exactly what they're saying.

1076
02:27:21.060 --> 02:27:25.899
General Room: And because our policy does say be heard. I think we should

1077
02:27:25.930 --> 02:27:38.459
General Room: keep it because it was vetted by the lawyers originally, and just for consistency sake. So we don't have to refer always refer that we have another policy about public meeting law, because this is just a recommendation.

1078
02:27:39.450 --> 02:27:48.480
General Room: And I'm gonna suggest that we table a decision on this, but for sure. But I would suggest that we take your proposal and throw that at our attorneys, and just

1079
02:27:48.500 --> 02:27:49.640
General Room: see what they say

1080
02:27:51.540 --> 02:27:56.430
General Room: that still includes that word, and if they say you know, they may say you really shouldn't do that, and then we can talk about it.

1081
02:27:58.010 --> 02:28:09.889
General Room: And you know, policies get updated all the the time, even though they were vetted years ago, when that part of that's because they there's case law, new things emerge. You know, policies get tested and

1082
02:28:10.400 --> 02:28:16.018
General Room: get, you know, tried. And so then school boards have to revise them. So

1083
02:28:16.520 --> 02:28:30.860
General Room: I think what I'm hearing is. This was a 1st reading, and that will get some legal counsel to look at, particularly number 19. Is that the only one I have a comment on another one if we're ready to switch.

1084
02:28:31.320 --> 02:28:32.100
General Room: Yep.

1085
02:28:32.420 --> 02:28:34.040
General Room: So we're putting

1086
02:28:34.800 --> 02:28:39.210
General Room: 19 to bed, and we'll table that. Well, we're tabling the whole thing. But

1087
02:28:40.910 --> 02:28:56.079
General Room: right right. I'm just talking about. We're putting 19 to bed. There's no more questions or concern about that. Okay, take it over. Okay, great. So now, I would like to discuss. Number 11. Be open, fair, and honest hyphen. No hidden agendas.

1088
02:28:56.120 --> 02:29:20.982
General Room: So last year I attended the Oregon School Board Association Conference, and I'm going to be attending again this week, and I feel like the phrase hyphen. No hidden agendas incites a lack of trust with the School Board and the district. And I find it very condescending. And

1089
02:29:22.870 --> 02:29:27.889
General Room: yeah, I really dislike it. And at this hour I can't think of another word.

1090
02:29:28.536 --> 02:29:36.003
General Room: But just like, so I I I think we should strike hyphen. No hidden agendas.

1091
02:29:38.140 --> 02:29:38.919
General Room: That's it.

1092
02:29:41.200 --> 02:29:45.420
General Room: Alright you documenting that Dr. Ludwig for

1093
02:29:45.880 --> 02:29:46.710
General Room: okay.

1094
02:29:48.090 --> 02:29:49.469
General Room: any other

1095
02:29:49.790 --> 02:29:51.450
General Room: recommended strikes

1096
02:29:51.560 --> 02:29:52.510
General Room: or

1097
02:29:52.690 --> 02:29:54.140
General Room: one word additions.

1098
02:29:54.330 --> 02:29:56.180
General Room: We're still talking about. Bbf, right?

1099
02:29:56.470 --> 02:29:59.189
General Room: Are we talking about? Yes. Dbf.

1100
02:30:01.210 --> 02:30:01.940
General Room: no.

1101
02:30:02.360 --> 02:30:03.050
General Room: all right.

1102
02:30:03.620 --> 02:30:04.660
General Room: So we will

1103
02:30:05.080 --> 02:30:08.809
General Room: table that one, and we can move on to the next one.

1104
02:30:10.740 --> 02:30:25.069
General Room: Can I ask something? So there are a couple of references in here to the superintendent is the boards, and it was advisor. And now it says employee and designated chief executive officer of the district that that pops up a couple of times.

1105
02:30:25.440 --> 02:30:27.529
General Room: Do we know where where that's coming from.

1106
02:30:28.390 --> 02:30:30.899
General Room: I think it's just updating old language. Okay.

1107
02:30:32.870 --> 02:30:34.679
General Room: advisors. So vague, anyway.

1108
02:30:37.550 --> 02:30:38.260
General Room: No.

1109
02:30:39.550 --> 02:30:40.250
General Room: Okay.

1110
02:30:52.210 --> 02:30:56.299
General Room: Okay. The next one is policy. Cb.

1111
02:30:56.490 --> 02:30:59.080
General Room: title of it just says superintendent.

1112
02:30:59.530 --> 02:31:04.949
General Room: And again, this is updating language using that

1113
02:31:05.510 --> 02:31:06.940
General Room: term. I think that

1114
02:31:07.100 --> 02:31:10.189
General Room: school districts are using now, chief executive officer.

1115
02:31:10.860 --> 02:31:13.730
General Room: and there's 1 strike through

1116
02:31:16.520 --> 02:31:19.380
General Room: which is redundant to

1117
02:31:20.100 --> 02:31:21.770
General Room: the addition at the top.

1118
02:31:22.230 --> 02:31:27.640
General Room: and then also in practice, the superintendent does delegate

1119
02:31:28.270 --> 02:31:29.600
General Room: duties.

1120
02:31:30.360 --> 02:31:33.270
General Room: And so there's that addition there.

1121
02:31:35.870 --> 02:31:37.070
General Room: in that

1122
02:31:37.260 --> 02:31:40.449
General Room: description of the role of the superintendent.

1123
02:31:41.710 --> 02:31:45.169
General Room: You can see legal references down below.

1124
02:31:45.310 --> 02:31:50.690
General Room: and the additions in the red are connected to oars

1125
02:31:50.800 --> 02:31:53.199
General Room: that are referenced legal references.

1126
02:31:55.320 --> 02:31:56.409
General Room: at the end

1127
02:31:57.160 --> 02:31:58.560
General Room: of that policy

1128
02:32:03.760 --> 02:32:05.919
General Room: any questions on

1129
02:32:06.610 --> 02:32:07.989
General Room: policy. Cb.

1130
02:32:09.370 --> 02:32:13.680
General Room: oh, could I? Going back to? I'm sorry. I know we

1131
02:32:14.110 --> 02:32:31.250
General Room: we're past Bbf, but I would say that one of the most significant updates to that one was Number 26, which is about board members being mandatory reporters of child abuse, that that did get put in the code of conduct. You know that already as board members. But it was

1132
02:32:31.730 --> 02:32:33.059
General Room: added into that.

1133
02:32:36.160 --> 02:32:36.850
General Room: Okay.

1134
02:32:36.990 --> 02:32:39.600
General Room: questions about policy. Cv.

1135
02:32:41.960 --> 02:32:42.890
General Room: Shoemaker.

1136
02:32:44.960 --> 02:32:54.530
General Room: No, I would just note that this the Osba list this as a highly recommended policy. One, I think they're definitely cleaning up some language that was overdue. So yeah.

1137
02:32:55.300 --> 02:32:57.000
General Room: alright, director sloop.

1138
02:33:00.690 --> 02:33:02.989
General Room: I did have just

1139
02:33:03.350 --> 02:33:07.651
General Room: curious question, and that was the strikeout of providing

1140
02:33:08.640 --> 02:33:12.559
General Room: like administrative action that's authorized for the board

1141
02:33:12.780 --> 02:33:15.699
General Room: on the in the 1st paragraph, just the last sentence.

1142
02:33:17.510 --> 02:33:25.573
General Room: you know some. Sometimes we get rationale for all of the the strikethroughs, and and in this case we did not. So

1143
02:33:26.020 --> 02:33:28.589
General Room: I can take that to legal counsel if you want

1144
02:33:28.670 --> 02:33:31.100
General Room: more explanation on that. Yeah.

1145
02:33:39.160 --> 02:33:45.130
General Room: Might. I'm going to just guess that it was felt redundant with other sentences within that same paragraph.

1146
02:33:46.290 --> 02:33:49.999
General Room: Okay, so we'll table policy. Cb, also. Then

1147
02:33:50.300 --> 02:33:51.360
General Room: to get

1148
02:33:51.580 --> 02:33:52.490
General Room: Welsh

1149
02:33:52.740 --> 02:33:56.510
General Room: director sloop would like explanation on the last sentence

1150
02:33:57.940 --> 02:33:58.960
General Room: and

1151
02:33:59.040 --> 02:34:02.879
General Room: and the 1st sentence, oh, no! Of the 1st paragraph, right?

1152
02:34:03.250 --> 02:34:06.099
General Room: So did you document that?

1153
02:34:07.190 --> 02:34:07.870
General Room: Dr. Ludwig.

1154
02:34:08.240 --> 02:34:14.609
General Room: I thought I heard explanation on the strikeout, on the strikeout of the 1st paragraph, last sentence, yeah. Okay.

1155
02:34:17.190 --> 02:34:20.719
General Room: Director Vidal, anything on that. No, no vice chair. Wyatt

1156
02:34:22.750 --> 02:34:24.750
General Room: Cb has been tabled.

1157
02:34:26.080 --> 02:34:27.770
General Room: we can move on to the 3.rd

1158
02:34:33.250 --> 02:34:39.060
General Room: The 3rd policy is policy. Cbg. Evaluation of the superintendent.

1159
02:34:39.757 --> 02:34:46.742
General Room: A number of the strikethroughs in the 1st paragraph are for clarity, redundancy.

1160
02:34:47.580 --> 02:34:51.659
General Room: things where it said annual evaluation. Now it says annually.

1161
02:34:53.980 --> 02:34:55.330
General Room: and

1162
02:34:55.350 --> 02:34:57.350
General Room: then also at the

1163
02:34:57.940 --> 02:34:59.879
General Room: The last paragraph

1164
02:35:00.540 --> 02:35:03.999
General Room: again, that's some housekeeping for clarity.

1165
02:35:04.350 --> 02:35:08.870
General Room: The question that I would have anticipated the Board to have

1166
02:35:09.390 --> 02:35:22.899
General Room: that I would have had, which is why we anticipated you would likely ask for this one to come out of consent. Agenda is around the section around what we had in our policy around the evaluation process.

1167
02:35:23.320 --> 02:35:43.589
General Room: And so that would be my question to you around. This is the recommendation from Ospa, and as a 1st read would have been, my recommendation is to come back and to consider whether you want to keep the section in there around the vice chair supervising the evaluation process. Other districts may do it differently

1168
02:35:43.650 --> 02:35:58.919
General Room: who they designate that to. I think it's pretty standard practice when you query other districts that it's the vice chair who kind of oversees that process. It may be that what some districts do is they take it out of the policy and they put it in an AR.

1169
02:35:59.310 --> 02:36:02.690
General Room: Remember, the AR is the implementation of a policy.

1170
02:36:02.890 --> 02:36:09.939
General Room: So that's the question. Before you. Do you want to keep it in a policy? Do you want to take it out of the policy, per recommendation.

1171
02:36:10.190 --> 02:36:14.020
General Room: and direct the superintendent to draft an AR

1172
02:36:14.420 --> 02:36:17.600
General Room: that keeps the vice chair

1173
02:36:18.260 --> 02:36:24.570
General Room: as the person who oversees the evaluation process, which is the implementation of a policy.

1174
02:36:27.980 --> 02:36:30.290
General Room: I'll start with you, director, shoemaker.

1175
02:36:34.830 --> 02:36:37.520
General Room: Don't have questions at this moment.

1176
02:36:38.190 --> 02:36:39.800
General Room: All right, director, sloop.

1177
02:36:40.815 --> 02:36:48.729
General Room: So yes, I I do like that. We have it spelled out. What the expectations are?

1178
02:36:49.410 --> 02:36:52.930
General Room: As far as the process of the evaluation.

1179
02:36:53.050 --> 02:37:02.110
General Room: And then, if you look at Osba, it says, there are no significant changes to policy on evaluation of the superintendent and administrators.

1180
02:37:02.190 --> 02:37:08.200
General Room: They were just asking you to review the policy and make sure that you don't have

1181
02:37:08.230 --> 02:37:09.620
General Room: conflicting

1182
02:37:12.900 --> 02:37:21.180
General Room: language adopted regarding evaluation of a superintendent versus evaluation of the district administrators.

1183
02:37:22.110 --> 02:37:28.890
General Room: So by having our language that we have. Again, it's this is recommended. But it doesn't say anything about changing it.

1184
02:37:30.400 --> 02:37:31.270
General Room: it

1185
02:37:31.950 --> 02:37:35.880
General Room: designates how we do the process for the superintendent.

1186
02:37:36.580 --> 02:37:40.579
General Room: So I would like to keep that and see if legal counsel approves. Yeah.

1187
02:37:43.980 --> 02:37:45.439
General Room: you were gonna say something.

1188
02:37:45.830 --> 02:37:53.709
General Room: No, I was just gonna say, I think, the reason the Osba one doesn't have that in there is, I think some districts have it as an AR,

1189
02:37:54.070 --> 02:37:56.739
General Room: and that is in the policy, and we

1190
02:37:56.940 --> 02:38:16.860
General Room: don't have an AR this one. So we spell it out in our policy. So that would just be my wonder. Do you want to keep it in policy? Do you want to shift it to an AR? But I I'm in total agreement. I need that process, that clarity for me. And so it's got to be one place or the other. But we need it in writing. Yeah.

1191
02:38:19.797 --> 02:38:31.230
General Room: definitely agree about keeping it in the policy. So from the vice chair of the board all the way to the A self evaluation maybe prepared, I think we shouldn't keep that

1192
02:38:31.430 --> 02:38:45.630
General Room: section in the policy. I think it's additional work to put it in an AR that we don't need. And then, when we reference this policy, we would then have to go. Reference the AR, which is more work. So yeah.

1193
02:38:46.850 --> 02:38:48.140
General Room: all right, push your way.

1194
02:38:49.200 --> 02:39:13.020
General Room: I have to admit I hesitated on whether I should comment because I didn't want it to appear self serving, that I want to keep my job in the policy, because it is quite the job. I mean it is. But I do think, for the reason stated, and the fact that we already have it spelled out in the policy, and it's very clear what the process is. We're lucky as a board. We get along really well, we communicate really. Well.

1195
02:39:13.070 --> 02:39:23.350
General Room: I would hate for it to not be clear. And so for every board member to be trying to run an evaluation process for the superintendent. That would be disastrous. So

1196
02:39:23.430 --> 02:39:28.049
General Room: if it's not broken. Let's not try to fix it, and let's leave it in policy.

1197
02:39:29.180 --> 02:39:32.349
General Room: I'm in agreement that it should stay in the policy

1198
02:39:32.790 --> 02:39:33.380
General Room: and

1199
02:39:34.760 --> 02:39:35.670
General Room: you.

1200
02:39:36.090 --> 02:39:45.499
General Room: if we want to treat this one also as a 1st read, then, what I can take back to legal counsel on this one is that our Board prefers to keep this language in policy.

1201
02:39:45.956 --> 02:39:48.519
General Room: Is there any risk in doing that?

1202
02:39:49.070 --> 02:39:56.390
General Room: In terms of why it was recommended not to have it there? Are they recommending it be in an AR. If if they don't see any

1203
02:39:56.530 --> 02:40:02.350
General Room: reason why it can't stay in, then I'll let them know that that's your preference.

1204
02:40:02.830 --> 02:40:04.060
General Room: Then we also.

1205
02:40:04.190 --> 02:40:10.520
General Room: I would assume that even if there is risk, we can then say, we're okay with the risk.

1206
02:40:11.950 --> 02:40:14.179
General Room: I think so. Okay.

1207
02:40:14.790 --> 02:40:16.300
General Room: alright. So we'll table that one, too.

1208
02:40:17.220 --> 02:40:24.499
General Room: Yeah, I think I think we're doing all of these as as 1st read, probably. And since you've since you've taken them out of.

1209
02:40:24.540 --> 02:40:31.759
General Room: Typically, if you've taken them out of consent, agenda, and you're having discussion, and you're asking us to look in, then we treat them as a 1st read

1210
02:40:31.920 --> 02:40:37.970
General Room: unless you're absolutely certain about the last one. Then you could, you know, do that one tonight. But

1211
02:40:38.724 --> 02:40:43.209
General Room: no, I'm just going off of it, says review policy and take action.

1212
02:40:43.310 --> 02:40:44.790
General Room: So that

1213
02:40:44.800 --> 02:40:46.680
General Room: take action piece is the

1214
02:40:46.920 --> 02:40:48.330
General Room: the reason that I

1215
02:40:48.580 --> 02:40:50.600
General Room: made that particular

1216
02:40:51.250 --> 02:40:52.160
General Room: comment.

1217
02:40:52.740 --> 02:40:55.940
General Room: But you have another comment or question about that.

1218
02:40:57.000 --> 02:41:00.675
General Room: Yes, but I had a question on my notes is

1219
02:41:01.870 --> 02:41:11.179
General Room: in the 1st paragraph. I do believe that the evaluation is a valuable method of assessing, so that whole part, and then it also helps the Board's knowledge

1220
02:41:11.250 --> 02:41:12.660
General Room: increase

1221
02:41:13.580 --> 02:41:16.470
General Room: again, was that just taken out? Because

1222
02:41:17.040 --> 02:41:19.390
General Room: it's not part of the sample.

1223
02:41:23.360 --> 02:41:30.979
General Room: So it's after annually in red that we're adding, Yeah, I think sometimes I can ask legal counsel. I think sometimes what happens is

1224
02:41:31.730 --> 02:41:33.850
General Room: subjective or value.

1225
02:41:33.880 --> 02:41:41.420
General Room: Face language is often recommended, not yes, to be in policy, but just to stick with language. That

1226
02:41:42.330 --> 02:41:46.119
General Room: gives direction to the, to the district and doesn't

1227
02:41:47.130 --> 02:41:50.579
General Room: cross into that realm. So that would be my

1228
02:41:50.830 --> 02:41:53.990
General Room: assumption as to just cleaning that up.

1229
02:41:56.670 --> 02:42:00.059
General Room: Well, would you make a note? I don't disagree with it. But yeah.

1230
02:42:00.370 --> 02:42:03.079
General Room: thank you. But I can ask about that one as well.

1231
02:42:05.190 --> 02:42:06.200
General Room: Thank you.

1232
02:42:09.350 --> 02:42:10.220
General Room: Okay.

1233
02:42:11.660 --> 02:42:14.060
General Room: And the last one.

1234
02:42:16.700 --> 02:42:18.780
General Room: And then last, one

1235
02:42:19.090 --> 02:42:26.630
General Room: is policies. Je, CF. This is on interdistrict transfer of resident students.

1236
02:42:27.526 --> 02:42:31.700
General Room: The 1st sentence, again, is just some

1237
02:42:31.850 --> 02:42:33.423
General Room: housekeeping, likely.

1238
02:42:34.540 --> 02:42:56.940
General Room: sentence. That's not needed anymore for this policy in terms of the red font. That's because no child left behind. Obviously, at sunset it and it's now every student success act. So every every now and then Ospa catches some of this dated language. And so there's an update there.

1239
02:42:56.950 --> 02:43:05.080
General Room: In addition to confusion around open enrollment. You remember, there was a House bill around open enrollment that sunsetted

1240
02:43:05.601 --> 02:43:08.160
General Room: and so cleaning up any

1241
02:43:08.420 --> 02:43:15.530
General Room: latent language in there there still is, of course, interdistrict transfers.

1242
02:43:16.100 --> 02:43:20.890
General Room: And then, in terms of the last paragraph around homeless students.

1243
02:43:21.060 --> 02:43:25.400
General Room: There's again some housekeeping changing his her to their

1244
02:43:25.770 --> 02:43:26.730
General Room: and

1245
02:43:29.120 --> 02:43:30.293
General Room: and then

1246
02:43:31.400 --> 02:43:34.440
General Room: just some. The sentence around

1247
02:43:34.610 --> 02:43:38.100
General Room: the strikethrough is because there's actually

1248
02:43:40.060 --> 02:43:45.790
General Room: provision around homeless students that they are allowed to

1249
02:43:46.020 --> 02:43:59.519
General Room: stay the academic year. So that doesn't. There's, as you can see, the legal references below. And also the reference to Mckinney-vento Homeless Assistant Act. So they're taking out confusing language because there's already

1250
02:44:01.290 --> 02:44:08.939
General Room: legal language that gives rights for homeless students around schools that they can attend.

1251
02:44:10.820 --> 02:44:11.939
General Room: There's also

1252
02:44:12.880 --> 02:44:24.866
General Room: then, clarification around how the transportation for homeless students would be in accordance with the law. So again, sometimes policies get written as laws get updated, there's

1253
02:44:25.410 --> 02:44:37.379
General Room: It looks like contradiction between a policy and a law. So in that case they prefer for the law to stand and reference to the law, and take away language that could appear to be in contradiction, which is what's happening in that paragraph.

1254
02:44:37.880 --> 02:44:42.690
General Room: You can see the strikethroughs down below. In the legal references.

1255
02:44:42.910 --> 02:44:56.290
General Room: for example, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which is now no longer applies, so some of those even legal references are being asked to have strikethroughs and eliminated from the policy down below.

1256
02:44:58.300 --> 02:45:03.040
General Room: We can treat this one also as a 1st read. If there's anything you'd like me to look into.

1257
02:45:03.840 --> 02:45:06.160
General Room: I'll start with Director Shoemaker.

1258
02:45:06.870 --> 02:45:11.020
General Room: Nothing that I'd ask you to look into. Okay. Breakfast loop.

1259
02:45:12.820 --> 02:45:16.340
General Room: No, I have my explanation. So thank you.

1260
02:45:16.700 --> 02:45:17.930
General Room: Director Bidahl?

1261
02:45:18.210 --> 02:45:19.320
General Room: Question. Why.

1262
02:45:19.960 --> 02:45:21.540
General Room: I've got nothing on this, either.

1263
02:45:22.050 --> 02:45:28.079
General Room: So is this one that we can take action on. So you don't have to come back with it, or is it? I can?

1264
02:45:28.180 --> 02:45:29.020
General Room: All right.

1265
02:45:30.060 --> 02:45:32.610
General Room: if you'd like to make a motion just on this one

1266
02:45:33.050 --> 02:45:37.239
General Room: can do. We have a motion on the inter-district transfer

1267
02:45:37.570 --> 02:45:39.290
General Room: of resident students.

1268
02:45:39.440 --> 02:45:48.829
General Room: I move we approve updated policy. Jecf interdistrict transfer of resident students.

1269
02:45:49.970 --> 02:45:51.549
General Room: And do we have a second?

1270
02:45:53.290 --> 02:45:55.780
General Room: I'll pass it to Director Douglas for the vote

1271
02:45:56.270 --> 02:45:59.400
General Room: director, shoemaker. Yes, director, sloop.

1272
02:45:59.810 --> 02:46:01.880
General Room: Yes, chair Tailland. Aye.

1273
02:46:01.890 --> 02:46:03.150
General Room: vice chair, Wyatt

1274
02:46:03.530 --> 02:46:06.260
General Room: directed it off. Yes, thank you.

1275
02:46:06.770 --> 02:46:18.499
General Room: Thank you. Chair Taylor. This time. I'd like to request a moment of consultation with you before we go to the next item and wrap up for the evening.

1276
02:46:18.610 --> 02:46:19.400
General Room: Okay?

1277
02:46:21.836 --> 02:46:22.730
General Room: We will

1278
02:46:22.740 --> 02:46:24.259
General Room: have a brief

1279
02:46:24.860 --> 02:46:26.300
General Room: recess.

1280
02:46:27.830 --> 02:46:28.860
General Room: 5 min. Call.

1281
02:46:34.020 --> 02:46:35.320
General Room: Okay? Ready?

1282
02:46:36.430 --> 02:46:41.089
General Room: All right. I will bring the School Board meeting back to session.

1283
02:46:44.780 --> 02:46:48.000
General Room: Alright. So this will take us into our

1284
02:46:48.350 --> 02:46:50.659
General Room: second public comment section.

1285
02:46:51.420 --> 02:46:56.160
General Room: and we have quite a few

1286
02:46:56.670 --> 02:47:02.310
General Room: names for this session. So I will start from the top

1287
02:47:02.560 --> 02:47:04.580
General Room: and work our way down.

1288
02:47:05.590 --> 02:47:07.440
General Room: and I will go over.

1289
02:47:07.740 --> 02:47:09.269
General Room: It looks like we may have had a

1290
02:47:09.360 --> 02:47:11.819
General Room: couple more people come in, so I'll go back over

1291
02:47:11.950 --> 02:47:13.189
General Room: public comment.

1292
02:47:13.200 --> 02:47:15.110
General Room: kind of etiquette.

1293
02:47:15.240 --> 02:47:16.250
General Room: and

1294
02:47:16.430 --> 02:47:18.560
General Room: and then we'll get into this. So

1295
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General Room: 1st off, I'll repeat, it'll be repetitive for some of you. This is a time for you to share with us your voice and address the board. We will not respond to your comment in this moment. If you would like a response, please feel free to email us, and we will respond as quickly as possible.

1296
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General Room: So if you wish to make a public comment, we ask that you sign up. There are a number of names. If there's anyone in here who did not get the opportunity to sign up and would like to speak.

1297
02:47:51.270 --> 02:47:54.979
General Room: I'm more than happy to have you come up and put your name on. Now.

1298
02:47:55.360 --> 02:47:58.549
General Room: did anyone not get an opportunity to

1299
02:47:58.790 --> 02:48:00.570
General Room: to do that? Okay.

1300
02:48:02.980 --> 02:48:04.300
General Room: great questions?

1301
02:49:05.680 --> 02:49:06.450
General Room: Thank you.

1302
02:49:10.430 --> 02:49:16.230
General Room: If you're asking the district or board to respond or provide information.

1303
02:49:16.450 --> 02:49:21.310
General Room: Please provide your contact information with the district or board secretary.

1304
02:49:21.550 --> 02:49:24.690
General Room: so that the appropriate person may follow up with you

1305
02:49:25.480 --> 02:49:28.789
General Room: the public comment. Time is not a forum for singling out

1306
02:49:28.950 --> 02:49:42.809
General Room: individual district employees or students for complaints. If you have a complaint about an individual student or district employee. Please do not mention them by name, or provide information that would allow for them to be identified.

1307
02:49:43.040 --> 02:49:47.209
General Room: Please use the District complaint process accessible on our website

1308
02:49:47.250 --> 02:49:50.299
General Room: to help resolve individual situations of concern.

1309
02:49:50.420 --> 02:49:56.869
General Room: The public comment. Time is for addressing the Board and not the audience. All comments will be given their due respect by the Board.

1310
02:49:57.050 --> 02:50:04.299
General Room: Similarly, we ask that members in the audience be respectful of all the speakers, and refrain from giving cheers, claps, or negative noises, such as booing.

1311
02:50:04.450 --> 02:50:15.090
General Room: and when a member of the public is speaking, or has concluded speaking, please keep your comments to 3 min. I will ask that you not go over, and

1312
02:50:15.300 --> 02:50:23.740
General Room: earlier we had someone go over a little bit. I'm not messing around in this session, so I'm letting you know that now, if you go over 3 min, I'm ending public comment.

1313
02:50:24.940 --> 02:50:26.349
General Room: Please be respectful.

1314
02:50:31.040 --> 02:50:40.320
General Room: We're going to go in the order of Resident, or actually, I'm just starting from the top down those who got here and signed up, and then we'll just roll it on through. So we got quite a few to get through.

1315
02:50:42.360 --> 02:50:43.320
General Room: All right.

1316
02:50:45.070 --> 02:50:49.320
General Room: I am going to start with Tricia.

1317
02:50:49.420 --> 02:50:51.639
General Room: and I don't want to mess this up. But Norisco

1318
02:50:58.460 --> 02:51:15.170
General Room: Hi! My name is Tricia Garisco, and I'm a parent. I have 3 kids who have been so fortunate to attend wonderful schools here in our district. And I've also been a paraeducator for cedar Oak and our adult transition services program. Amazing students and teachers.

1319
02:51:15.490 --> 02:51:22.950
General Room: Thank you for explaining the capital fund earlier tonight. I may ask each of you to please do your part in keeping our capital fund healthy.

1320
02:51:23.760 --> 02:51:31.820
General Room: This requires enthusiastic support from the community. Public schools receive enthusiastic support when you have

1321
02:51:32.950 --> 02:51:34.180
General Room: public trust.

1322
02:51:36.040 --> 02:51:38.269
General Room: we have the most lovely schools

1323
02:51:38.980 --> 02:51:41.510
General Room: with the best teachers and resources

1324
02:51:42.260 --> 02:51:44.809
General Room: we attract the best. Right now.

1325
02:51:45.770 --> 02:51:51.410
General Room: our district is the result of 100 plus years of widespread community support.

1326
02:51:51.710 --> 02:51:58.949
General Room: We are a relatively small but mighty school district. I would venture to say that our schools are the heart of Westland and Wilsonville.

1327
02:51:59.370 --> 02:52:04.190
General Room: We are very connected to each other. This is what a successful district looks like.

1328
02:52:13.390 --> 02:52:15.300
General Room: I do not take this for granted.

1329
02:52:15.540 --> 02:52:17.490
General Room: and I think we all feel the same way.

1330
02:52:18.240 --> 02:52:26.799
General Room: It appears that we are at a crossroads of sorts. One path, as we continue to support what we built and nurtured, or we begin to tear it down.

1331
02:52:28.960 --> 02:52:37.110
General Room: I ask that you please consider that the flow analytics feedback is limited and narrow at best, and includes covid years and doesn't include migration.

1332
02:52:37.210 --> 02:52:41.039
General Room: So instead, please consider actual past enrollment from the State.

1333
02:52:41.260 --> 02:52:45.139
General Room: the Department of Education website for the State of Oregon.

1334
02:52:45.290 --> 02:52:53.880
General Room: If you go back to 2010, we had about 100 more primary students as compared to spring 2024, 100 students.

1335
02:52:54.030 --> 02:52:58.850
General Room: That was good enough to build 2 new schools at the time. And so we did.

1336
02:52:59.470 --> 02:53:07.370
General Room: If you look at our average size of our primary school student body over the past dozen years, you will see that we are at

1337
02:53:07.560 --> 02:53:15.719
General Room: with the Westland. Wilsonville preferred size of primary schools of 400 to 550 students. That's what we have been on average.

1338
02:53:15.850 --> 02:53:22.559
General Room: I ask each of you to recognize that enrollments fluctuate, and I ask you to continue to support our existing schools.

1339
02:53:23.550 --> 02:53:35.390
General Room: I humbly ask you to please take the time to be present at all future community engagement forums to hear from the families that you represent during this sensitive time. This is an opportunity to get it right.

1340
02:53:39.070 --> 02:53:43.090
General Room: and if we can all reflect on the goals that are behind us. I think they're all

1341
02:53:43.370 --> 02:53:57.039
General Room: true, and I think that we live our goals, and that they're evident in all of our schools across the community. And I'm just so thankful. I just want to thank everyone for being here. Thank you to our teachers

1342
02:53:57.840 --> 02:54:00.819
General Room: and thank you for investing in our schools.

1343
02:54:11.010 --> 02:54:14.190
General Room: Next up is Melissa Malosky.

1344
02:54:21.960 --> 02:54:24.050
General Room: Hi! Good evening.

1345
02:54:24.270 --> 02:54:38.000
General Room: My name is Melissa Milobsky, and my husband and I and our 4 children moved to the Stafford area this summer. Can you pause our time for a second? Would you pull your mic up a little bit because there are people listening, and they might not be able to hear you. Okay.

1346
02:54:38.140 --> 02:54:46.309
General Room: my husband and I and our 4 children moved to the Stafford area this summer, and my 2 youngest children started at Stafford Primary. This past fall.

1347
02:54:46.480 --> 02:54:51.989
General Room: We have found it to be an incredible school. Our children have thrived there academically and socially.

1348
02:54:52.000 --> 02:55:07.210
General Room: One of the things that makes Stafford primary special is the way that teachers and administrators know every child there individually. They are greeted by name when they arrive each morning, and really feel known and cared about something that might not happen at a larger school.

1349
02:55:07.460 --> 02:55:15.940
General Room: It is for that reason that I would ask the board to not start with what I deem the nuclear option and making a decision about our children's schools.

1350
02:55:16.220 --> 02:55:26.670
General Room: I refer to it this way because I believe that much like the path of last resort in modern war, closing, any of these 3 schools will leave a path of severe destruction in its wake.

1351
02:55:26.830 --> 02:55:32.530
General Room: Research shows a life negative, lifelong impact on children whose schools closed.

1352
02:55:32.580 --> 02:55:41.149
General Room: This would also have negative effects on the teachers of these schools, impair the educational experiences of other children in the district and schools that they would be

1353
02:55:41.300 --> 02:55:45.130
General Room: move to and cause severe harm to our communities.

1354
02:55:45.140 --> 02:55:51.360
General Room: including losing an important part of what holds our communities together and also impacting property values.

1355
02:55:51.820 --> 02:55:57.710
General Room: The stated mission of the Clackamas Educational Service District is doing what is best for children.

1356
02:55:57.920 --> 02:56:07.360
General Room: For this reason I would ask that all other options be explored before seriously considering the nuclear option of closing schools.

1357
02:56:07.530 --> 02:56:14.299
General Room: please consider looking at all area, other areas of the budget to see if there are other cost savings.

1358
02:56:14.380 --> 02:56:20.090
General Room: Please consider if boundary changes can be put in place for new students coming into schools in the district.

1359
02:56:20.420 --> 02:56:32.280
General Room: Other school districts in the Pacific Northwest, in our situation, have successfully applied for more Federal grants and expanded early childhood education to bring in more revenue? Can we do this as well.

1360
02:56:32.920 --> 02:56:48.420
General Room: Additionally, my understanding of the flow analytics 10 year mid-range forecast is that all 3 of the schools in question are predicted to have roughly similar numbers of students in 5 years, and have slightly increased numbers in 10 years.

1361
02:56:48.470 --> 02:57:04.340
General Room: But if concerns about primary school enrollment being historically somewhat low, are the driving force behind closing schools. I would ask the Board to explore options, to boost enrollment in these schools before any serious discussion of closing them.

1362
02:57:05.000 --> 02:57:11.439
General Room: For instance, there could be enrollment task forces at the individual schools in our district, led by ptsas

1363
02:57:13.040 --> 02:57:19.679
General Room: to conclude closing, our schools would have devastating effects on our children, teachers, and communities.

1364
02:57:19.870 --> 02:57:24.600
General Room: Please consider exhausting every other option before doing so. Thank you.

1365
02:57:32.090 --> 02:57:33.130
General Room: Brittany Graham.

1366
02:57:50.180 --> 02:58:16.330
General Room: good evening. Thank you for allowing me the time to address you all. My name is Brittany Graham, and my husband and I have daughters in 1st and 3rd grade at Bolton. Public speaking is not my strong suit. I actually try to avoid it at all costs. However, while watching last month's meeting virtually my daughter here, Arya, she saw her friends, moms and dads and school staff speaking, and the 1st thing she asked immediately was.

1367
02:58:16.330 --> 02:58:23.019
General Room: Why was I not there? Why was I not speaking? And then the second thing she asked was if she could go speak too

1368
02:58:23.320 --> 02:58:24.220
General Room: so.

1369
02:58:24.250 --> 02:58:50.530
General Room: But then this was immediately followed by But what if they don't listen to me because of my kid? And what if they don't want to hear from me? And I actually told her that director of it all, you specifically said you encouraged everyone to come and tell you how we felt, and I told her that it's just as important to hear from students as it is from the parents. So trust me when I say I would much rather have Aria in bed asleep right now. In fact, when we got here I told her No.

1370
02:58:50.530 --> 02:58:55.399
General Room: 9, 10 too late, but she was adamant. She wanted to stay so she could talk to you all.

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General Room: and I could stand here and tell you a long list of reasons why Bolton is so special to our girls like how our youngest daughter calls her teacher and her paraeducators her school moms because she loves them so much, or how Aria made her principal, Mr. Porter a slide deck for principal appreciation week, because she knows how much she cares about every child at Bolton.

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General Room: But I actually just want to use this time to introduce you to our daughter Arya, and respectfully ask that you truly listen to her.

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02:59:20.650 --> 02:59:37.420
General Room: She might be 8 years old, but she's the proudest Bolton bee that you will ever meet. When she 1st heard the news about what was being considered, she immediately took action. She held a bake sale to raise funds for Bolton, in hopes that money would help keep it open, and she raised over a hundred dollars that she donated to the Pta.

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General Room: Next she enlisted the help of her classmates, and she'll tell you more about that when she goes. So she's here representing not only herself, but also her peers, and while I initially didn't have the courage or bravery to come, speak here publicly like she did. I'm here now because she inspired me.

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General Room: Bolton is worth facing my public speaking fears for, and it's worth so much more than that.

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02:59:59.260 --> 03:00:07.929
General Room: And while on paper its worth might be able to be monetized and redistributed. Its true value and worth is in its community camaraderie and caring teachers and staff.

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General Room: So thank you for taking the time to listen to me, and thank you for taking the time to listen to her.

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General Room: Yep, yep.

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General Room: Andrew.

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General Room: Oh, I know I have it. I just wanted him to reset her timer for her.

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General Room: Alright! My name is Aria.

1382
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General Room: like you heard. Bolton is a great school. Kids, including me. Love Bolton. Me and my friends have been here since kindergarten, and we

1383
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General Room: don't want to go to different schools. We will keep fighting for it.

1384
03:00:55.040 --> 03:01:00.639
General Room: Please do not close Bolton down. They make gloring more fun.

1385
03:01:00.670 --> 03:01:03.369
General Room: Bolton will always be part of our heart.

1386
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General Room: We are the bees that will be us forever. We are a hive, Bolton.

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General Room: Let us have it

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General Room: extra recess, or

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General Room: I mean.

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General Room: you can look

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General Room: a bulletin on Google. But it won't tell you how amazing it is how our teachers let us have extra recess, or how they make school the best. Miss Clearwater is fun artistic. She's a great reader.

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General Room: I love the sounds she makes for each character. I love her ideas. She cares about me and our whole class. They are like family to me. Miss Sampson

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General Room: is my PE teacher.

1394
03:01:51.320 --> 03:01:57.570
General Room: She is fun and funny, and she has great ideas for games, and she

1395
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General Room: and her games are always super fun. She is really creative

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General Room: and makes time for us. Mister Porter is the best principal. He makes Bolton a better place. He always makes time for us. He is kind and nice, and he

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General Room: patient for kids. Everyone at Bolton is the best. I love them. They make me feel like I belong

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General Room: me and my friends wrote you all letters about how great Bolton is, and I brought them with me. I hope you please read all them. So please keep the bees, bussing, thank you for your time

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General Room: of course

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General Room: wonderful job

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General Room: well, I feel sorry for the person who's a follow that act.

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General Room: So

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General Room: we've got.

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General Room: I think I said it wrong earlier, and I'm probably going to say it wrong again, and maybe you can help me. But is it, Michelle?

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General Room: Something like that? Okay, Michelle. I'm gonna leave it at that which you please. Come forward again.

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General Room: Okay, so 2 months ago, when the school closure bomb fell on our heads, I really wanted to believe that the district administrators and staff will firstly, defend the code of ethics which they're entrusted with, and which calls to prioritize the education and well-being of students if they would, the district would have

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General Room: approached the community, saying that they made some major planning mistakes on top of Covid and other budgetary mistakes, and they would like to form a community task force that can put their heads together and find a solution to the current budget deficit, a solution which is equitable across all school levels and across both Westland and Whistleville, however, the district chose a course of destruction, hiding their mistakes and dropping their charges on our backs.

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General Room: Since the beginning of this process their attitude was aggressive and offensive for the Westland community, and the small schools which were actually designed to be small in the 1st place, and are the highest scoring primary schools of the district. The parent parents were put on the stake to prove beyond all doubt that these schools are important.

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General Room: The district keeps on hiding behind

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General Room: non-supportive facts and figures promoting an agenda that Westland community is not growing in their FAQ. Page. They answered the question, what factors are leading to projected enrollment decline in Westland as one low birth rate nationwide. If this is nationwide, it should affect Wilsonville as well. 2 housing costs. In fact, the frog bone houses cost more than houses in cedar, oak, and Bolton neighborhoods.

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General Room: 3 limited housing development in West Lynn, while none of West Lynn longer terms plans such as waterfront and vision. 43, which will fit into cedar, oak, and Bolton were taking into account inflated numbers like 1,800 units on the Frog Pond development are stated as a sure thing.

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General Room: However, if someone would have read the flow analytics report, and specifically their Table 8 and do their simple math, they would see that by 2033, all Frog Pond plans, including the ones with notes that say, numbers or projections and no development plans submitted, are summing up to 746 units.

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General Room: When not considering the ones with no definite plans, the numbers drop to 305.

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General Room: The district's own

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General Room: long range facilities plan report from 2019 table 4, State that the number of primary schools required in addition to existing condition in the 10 year forecast is 0. Yes, 0, hear me correctly. But yet, probably, since no one really read this long report, the district pushed and got the funding for the building of a new primary school in the 2019 bond plans.

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General Room: In fact, in the next bond plan the district is prioritizing on building a new gym for the 170 students in Riverside High School, while closing small schools with 350 students in them. Therefore I plead to the Board members to do their own due. Diligence and figures and facts, confirmation, and not count on memo summaries or factual statements

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General Room: given to them by the district or by the Lrpc. Your decision can be detrimental to the Westland community as a whole to our kids and neighborhoods, and it has to be decided, after thorough investigation and not through a rush, transparent process as the district.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Oh, sure.

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General Room: can I keep stuff?

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: We have. Scott Peterson.

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General Room: Hello!

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General Room: Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

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General Room: I am the dad of 2 kids, one in 5th grade, one in 1st grade. They both go to Bolton, as we've heard several times tonight. Bolton's got great, you know, some of the best academics, some of the best social and emotional learning and development.

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General Room: I've also found that they've got just a really special community in a way that you're just never going to capture in a spreadsheet or or something like that.

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General Room: Right? So when I heard about this small school task force. It caught my interest. Right? I've been to as many of the meetings as I can get to and so forth right. And what I've seen is lots of questions and lots of clouds of very vague and and indecisive responses.

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General Room: Right like the problem is, is a budget shortfall

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General Room: is the budget shortfall 10 million.

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General Room: maybe. Is it 14 million? I don't know. I've heard that, too.

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General Room: we're we're going to save money by closing the schools. How much are we going to save

1432
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General Room: a million? 2 million? I don't know who can say

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General Room: right?

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General Room: maybe the real savings is in the repairs and the renovations, although that's from a different budget. So is that something that matters, or is it something that not matters?

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General Room: Nobody's sure how much of the things that are on that budget can be are mandatory, how much of them can be deferred?

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General Room: Nobody's sure right. And and leaving the money aside.

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General Room: What about capacity?

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General Room: Can the schools absorb the other schools? Absorb an influx of students? If we close one of the schools.

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General Room: nobody knows right? The flow. Analytics projections show

1440
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General Room: the the actual, the I mean, currently the enrollments down, but it shows enrollment increasing in the 5 to 10 year range.

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General Room: Are we gonna have capacity, then are we going to close a school? And then, 5 years later, have to open a new one? That doesn't seem like it's going to save money

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General Room: again.

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General Room: No answers right? Also the capacity, the not the capacity, but the enrollment numbers right? It's mostly decreasing in the higher grades. Right? The the enrollment in primary school has been pretty steady.

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General Room: Why are we closing the primary school? Then?

1445
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General Room: Nobody knows right?

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General Room: And I mean, I could go on and on and on. I mean, we have lots and lots and lots of these questions with very few answers. But my real point right, what I want to get to. Is that what I've seen is a bunch of highly motivated people asking and investigating these questions. Right? They're crawling through hundreds of pages of budget reports. Right? They're sharing Facebook messages. I'm getting reports that are like an out of focus

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General Room: cell phone picture of a spreadsheet printout with pencil annotations. And you know, just all kinds of that right? They're they're motivated to do this and that motivation because we're not being given information. We're not being given decisive

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General Room: concrete scenarios that it's it's being squandered right. And I just would encourage you to take advantage

1449
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General Room: of that motivation.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Christy Lance.

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General Room: thank you for last month's budget lesson. It inspired me to take a closer look and good news. I balanced it

1453
03:11:00.650 --> 03:11:22.919
General Room: by applying a little common sense. I found more than enough funds to keep all of our schools open without cutting teachers programs. As I dug deeper, something disturbing came to light. I believe this board is being misled and that the district isn't being transparent about our financial needs. The budget numbers reveal choices, choices that aren't just poor but harmful for our schools teachers and students.

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General Room: Here are just a few examples, fiscal services. Our district spends over a million more than comparable districts, instructional services. We spend 10 times more than neighboring districts on materials alone, totaling over a million dollars.

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General Room: And they made the exact same curriculum adoptions, assessment and testing our districts spend 6 times more than Lake Oswego computer software, we're spending nearly 1.8 million more than comparable districts. Yes, we're larger. But are we 14 times larger? Should we be spending 1,375% more.

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General Room: These aren't just numbers. These are choices that directly impact whether schools stay open or closed. If these choices don't serve our students and community. We need to start making better ones. Finally, let's address Bolton. The district claims that it will cost nearly 50 million dollars to renovate Bolton. Yet none of that money addresses structural needs. Instead, they plan to tear out our community garden, level our playground, and cut down a century old cedar tree, all for a new parking lot, for a parking problem. At an elementary school where kids walk.

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General Room: ride the bus, or are dropped off. This setup has served us for 75 years. We are right next to Hammerly Park with plenty of parking, so why the push for unnecessary upgrades?

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General Room: The answer is clear. This isn't about improvements. This is punishment for speaking up for questioning the district's decisions, for being the bottom of the hill community.

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General Room: and we won't be silenced. We won't stand by while closures and wasteful renovations threaten our schools. It's time for fair treatment, for respect for our community, our voices, and our right to quality education close to home.

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General Room: The Board seems to be filled with reasonable people, so I hope you will use reasoning when voting.

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General Room: If the Board votes to close schools, we will respond.

1462
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General Room: There will be no new bond. There will be no levy support, and we will be forced to recall those people. I hope it doesn't come to that. We need transparency and accountability in our district. We need to raise all our schools to Bolton standards instead of tearing down our top performing ones. This is about fixing a district culture that has let down our community, and it's time to confront the truth and bring integrity back to our schools.

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General Room: and I haven't

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General Room: full financial report

1465
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General Room: beef.

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General Room: Thank you.

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03:14:00.770 --> 03:14:02.090
General Room: Barbara Stratt.

1468
03:14:03.340 --> 03:14:04.050
General Room: Oh.

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General Room: and

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General Room: Windy, it looks like Gaskey.

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03:14:23.270 --> 03:14:36.180
General Room: Last time I'm really sorry I felt really embarrassed about it. You can go over if you want to. I'd like to go home early, do your thing. I just wanted to apologize. I don't like public speaking, either.

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General Room: The district has told us every reason for closing schools, and that they are done investing in these buildings, that the issues of trauma to students and school closure. Hidden costs will not be considered until after a vote. Then they have told us there is no qualitative data readily available to oppose these closures. They cannot quantify in the timeline they have set what matters to the impacted families, neighborhoods, and communities.

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General Room: while they have the results of their panorama studies, surveys of students, self reporting on school climate. The district has failed to update us on any effort to share results with the community. They say it is due to privacy concerns, but we hope they can remove identifying information as they do from testing results. All we know is Bolton rates highly, but have received no score or comparative results from other schools within our district.

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General Room: We have not seen an effort by the district asking community members to identify what they value in their schools. Beyond the small community meetings at which people need to be present. 3 meetings have already occurred, but we still have not seen any attempt at quantifying the community's values.

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General Room: I have

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General Room: a petition of 947 members of this community, and I'm going to put it in your hands today I want to bring it forward. It is no secret that we want to keep our small neighborhood schools open in this petition. We solicit your assurance that you will require the district to slow down, do due diligence before the community, and to consider pros alongside all the cons. They are more than eager to list

1477
03:16:06.850 --> 03:16:13.039
General Room: on how small schools benefit our community. What you will come away with after reading the full commentary

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03:16:13.200 --> 03:16:27.459
General Room: is that people feel this is not a collaborative, transparent process. Instead, the community feels surprised that no other options are available to balance the budget. That closure fiscal details can't be shared, that the timeline is too rushed.

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General Room: and the process does not allow the community to be a legitimate part of the solution. The district has said they will not slow down the process of deliberating school closures. The only way to slow it down and demand fair deliberation is by a no vote from each of you to hear our voices, or sorry in January we are dependent on you to hear our voices.

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General Room: This will require the district to put the horse before the cart and prove what monies will actually be saved before requiring a decision to be made. How student and community trauma will be handled! It will give them time to find the qualitative data they do not have readily available, and it will require them to reassess how to make this process more transparent and collaborative, if, indeed, it is the only way to save the district.

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03:17:09.650 --> 03:17:16.570
General Room: Before I let the petitioners speak for themselves, I was going to read their comments. I won't. The kind of people who sign petitions are the kind of people who vote.

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General Room: Superintendent just noted that if capital bonds do not pass, the general fund alone cannot support the weight district's wait. If schools are closed, many, if not most, of these people, will no longer support capital bonds. Thank

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General Room: thank you.

1484
03:17:43.160 --> 03:17:45.000
General Room: Athena Contreras

1485
03:17:49.400 --> 03:17:51.360
General Room: Athena Contreras

1486
03:17:52.040 --> 03:17:52.710
General Room: got it

1487
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General Room: welcome back

1488
03:17:59.060 --> 03:17:59.515
General Room: here.

1489
03:18:03.360 --> 03:18:07.800
General Room: so I guess I'm gonna start with the organizational chart, because

1490
03:18:08.430 --> 03:18:11.370
General Room: this is where, for some reason it's got

1491
03:18:11.650 --> 03:18:14.199
General Room: the community citizens at the top.

1492
03:18:14.560 --> 03:18:20.610
General Room: It's got the school board, and then it's the superintendent and everything that runs underneath.

1493
03:18:20.800 --> 03:18:21.940
General Room: And I think

1494
03:18:22.030 --> 03:18:25.829
General Room: somewhere along the way, I think we've lost our

1495
03:18:25.920 --> 03:18:28.570
General Room: our alignment with each other.

1496
03:18:28.630 --> 03:18:30.890
General Room: I think there's a lot of animosity.

1497
03:18:30.980 --> 03:18:32.539
General Room: and I think that

1498
03:18:32.580 --> 03:18:39.529
General Room: works against everybody involved. It works against us. It works against you. I think we can't. We can't work together unless we.

1499
03:18:40.400 --> 03:18:45.460
General Room: unless we have the transparency that everybody is is asking for. That's up there on the district goals.

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General Room: And

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General Room: I want to speak a little bit about some of the stuff that I saw today, too, because the

1502
03:18:53.530 --> 03:18:57.284
General Room: the way that the the budget is divided between the

1503
03:18:57.780 --> 03:19:04.110
General Room: the capital bonds, projects, and the general fund and things like that.

1504
03:19:05.590 --> 03:19:07.909
General Room: We keep referring back to that because

1505
03:19:07.990 --> 03:19:10.860
General Room: who is making the recommendation as a long range

1506
03:19:11.030 --> 03:19:12.160
General Room: planning committee.

1507
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General Room: So we know that that factors in

1508
03:19:14.470 --> 03:19:17.620
General Room: we know that those renovations

1509
03:19:18.060 --> 03:19:19.710
General Room: costs money.

1510
03:19:19.910 --> 03:19:22.980
General Room: But then we saw somebody up here speaking

1511
03:19:23.030 --> 03:19:26.529
General Room: from not Pat, but the the other guy, but

1512
03:19:27.440 --> 03:19:31.479
General Room: included all of these steward stewardship

1513
03:19:31.680 --> 03:19:33.539
General Room: things that were talked about, but

1514
03:19:33.710 --> 03:19:35.070
General Room: none of our schools came out

1515
03:19:37.240 --> 03:19:44.239
General Room: with the smallest. I mean, we're not even that big. So I feel like a lot of these things should have been done in the 2019 as well.

1516
03:19:46.000 --> 03:19:47.779
General Room: And I'm concerned that

1517
03:19:48.160 --> 03:19:52.100
General Room: maybe this has maybe been going on longer than we know, and maybe we just didn't.

1518
03:19:53.310 --> 03:19:58.190
General Room: That's why we're at the tail end of this, because I've never heard of anything happening so fast.

1519
03:19:59.180 --> 03:20:07.849
General Room: We can't keep up. I mean, I think even the long range planning committee. They're working full time, and then they're taking vacation days

1520
03:20:08.230 --> 03:20:12.369
General Room: and they're not. They're not having a chance to get done what they need to get done either.

1521
03:20:12.620 --> 03:20:15.100
General Room: I can't. I certainly can't, you know.

1522
03:20:17.560 --> 03:20:23.510
General Room: so is this a general fund issue, or is this a long range planning issue? Is this a facilities thing? And if it is.

1523
03:20:24.370 --> 03:20:26.640
General Room: can we see the numbers? Can we see?

1524
03:20:26.870 --> 03:20:30.450
General Room: It's gonna save the district, a million dollars per closed school

1525
03:20:30.580 --> 03:20:31.870
General Room: and their general punch?

1526
03:20:32.460 --> 03:20:35.799
General Room: And is that a trade-off that we can't make in some other area?

1527
03:20:36.310 --> 03:20:38.590
General Room: Or can we see? Is it

1528
03:20:38.910 --> 03:20:43.560
General Room: is it security upgrades that are going to be so

1529
03:20:45.000 --> 03:20:46.270
General Room: expensive?

1530
03:20:46.440 --> 03:20:50.520
General Room: And are they going to have the act? Are they really going to do

1531
03:20:51.430 --> 03:20:53.440
General Room: like if we have a single point of entry.

1532
03:20:53.950 --> 03:20:59.324
General Room: Maybe that's more complicated to put into Bolton. Anyways, I'm running out of time. But I

1533
03:21:04.590 --> 03:21:07.060
General Room: yeah, I just wish we're more aligned. Thank you.

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03:21:14.030 --> 03:21:14.930
General Room: Max.

1535
03:21:25.740 --> 03:21:28.385
General Room: Public speaking is also not my big thing, but

1536
03:21:28.920 --> 03:21:30.289
General Room: nice to see you all.

1537
03:21:31.990 --> 03:21:36.750
General Room: I moved here about 2 years ago from Germany with 2 kids.

1538
03:21:37.574 --> 03:21:42.740
General Room: I can tell you. We didn't choose Westland for the dining options or the nightlife.

1539
03:21:43.279 --> 03:21:43.809
General Room: Wait.

1540
03:21:43.980 --> 03:21:45.469
General Room: We came because, like

1541
03:21:45.880 --> 03:21:48.210
General Room: I was living in Germany with 2 kids.

1542
03:21:48.430 --> 03:21:55.520
General Room: They were born during Covid. They watched both of my parents die. They were morbid little guys. They weren't learning German.

1543
03:21:55.690 --> 03:21:59.679
General Room: And I was looking. I was looking everywhere in the Us. I was looking in North Carolina.

1544
03:21:59.810 --> 03:22:01.110
General Room: just about anywhere

1545
03:22:01.320 --> 03:22:04.140
General Room: for a community where people

1546
03:22:04.290 --> 03:22:06.699
General Room: think of their kids first.st It was right there.

1547
03:22:07.370 --> 03:22:12.299
General Room: and I found one like, Look at all these parents. They're all here because they're trying to put their kids first.st

1548
03:22:13.030 --> 03:22:14.020
General Room: So

1549
03:22:14.748 --> 03:22:19.381
General Room: you know, like, this is a sad story at first, st but like my son, he

1550
03:22:20.220 --> 03:22:22.200
General Room: I put them in school in kindergarten

1551
03:22:23.406 --> 03:22:24.579
General Room: and he

1552
03:22:24.670 --> 03:22:29.609
General Room: wouldn't sit for a picture. He wouldn't participate in class. He was severely freaked out.

1553
03:22:30.010 --> 03:22:33.929
General Room: and his teacher, Mrs. Hall, took the time.

1554
03:22:34.000 --> 03:22:38.129
General Room: got to know him, held his hand, made sure he participated.

1555
03:22:38.200 --> 03:22:45.100
General Room: and within a year he had a circle of friends. He was leading them around the neighborhood. He was exploring the rivers around Westland

1556
03:22:45.910 --> 03:22:50.469
General Room: And he had his crew, and he found some stability. And it's

1557
03:22:50.590 --> 03:22:58.216
General Room: it's amazing. We I mean, he goes to the school he asks me to bring him every day. I don't have to hype him up anymore.

1558
03:22:59.410 --> 03:23:01.880
General Room: His brother is excited to start.

1559
03:23:02.730 --> 03:23:07.180
General Room: I mean, how many people move to West Lynn just for that experience?

1560
03:23:10.180 --> 03:23:13.090
General Room: And how do I explain to him that it might go away?

1561
03:23:14.666 --> 03:23:16.490
General Room: He's found his home.

1562
03:23:17.440 --> 03:23:18.540
General Room: and

1563
03:23:18.750 --> 03:23:21.210
General Room: now he's hearing here and there

1564
03:23:22.750 --> 03:23:24.400
General Room: it might be disrupted again.

1565
03:23:26.160 --> 03:23:27.280
General Room: and.

1566
03:23:27.780 --> 03:23:33.940
General Room: as you can see from the annoying parents that come to these things. You have the good luck to have engaged parents

1567
03:23:34.400 --> 03:23:35.920
General Room: and the bad luck.

1568
03:23:38.300 --> 03:23:39.290
General Room: we just

1569
03:23:39.460 --> 03:23:40.980
General Room: we need some answers

1570
03:23:41.420 --> 03:23:45.280
General Room: like in this vacuum of information. We just got an email saying

1571
03:23:45.340 --> 03:23:48.759
General Room: these schools might close. Might be one might be 2 might be 3,

1572
03:23:49.910 --> 03:23:53.819
General Room: because there's a budget shortfall, or there's not enough students.

1573
03:23:54.480 --> 03:23:55.590
General Room: And

1574
03:23:55.620 --> 03:23:56.849
General Room: I can tell you

1575
03:23:57.120 --> 03:24:03.430
General Room: my whole block has new students ready to go, people that moved in who wouldn't be reflected in your numbers?

1576
03:24:08.310 --> 03:24:10.580
General Room: Yeah. Well, I'm happy. I got the chance to tell you.

1577
03:24:10.780 --> 03:24:12.660
General Room: At least, you know, one time

1578
03:24:13.320 --> 03:24:15.480
General Room: I can't make it to all of these.

1579
03:24:17.930 --> 03:24:19.990
General Room: yeah, please give us more information.

1580
03:24:20.200 --> 03:24:21.980
General Room: because in the vacuum

1581
03:24:22.140 --> 03:24:23.250
General Room: going crazy.

1582
03:24:23.460 --> 03:24:28.259
General Room: I have so many ideas as to what you're hiding from us. I don't. You seem like nice people.

1583
03:24:28.834 --> 03:24:32.155
General Room: Yeah, don't let us go crazy, guys.

1584
03:24:38.610 --> 03:24:39.830
General Room: Amanda.

1585
03:24:44.550 --> 03:24:55.740
General Room: I wasn't planning on talking tonight, but something has been weighing my mind, and as much as we all appreciate community involvement. I just want to be straightforward because it's just been sitting on me, and I've been going to meetings, and

1586
03:24:56.270 --> 03:25:09.470
General Room: Director Shoemaker said at the last meeting, made a comment about reevaluating the trust in the community. Well, I there's been a lot of negativity. Obviously we're all mad.

1587
03:25:09.797 --> 03:25:13.250
General Room: And I think I don't know if I've actually heard anyone express.

1588
03:25:13.270 --> 03:25:15.990
General Room: you know. Besides, like the dog and pony show comet.

1589
03:25:16.402 --> 03:25:21.340
General Room: I know you guys are all awesome people, and you're smart and you're great.

1590
03:25:21.360 --> 03:25:29.149
General Room: and nobody wants to close the school. This this board is fantastic. But I just want to say I don't care about the budget.

1591
03:25:29.190 --> 03:25:38.260
General Room: I don't think most of us do, and I'm not upset because of the budget, and I, frankly, I don't need to have the budget explained to me personally, because I've always trusted you guys

1592
03:25:38.300 --> 03:25:41.108
General Room: and in this district.

1593
03:25:42.730 --> 03:26:05.250
General Room: has always taken care of these things, and we've never had to think about it. But the problem right now is not about just the budget for us. It's about every single question that we are coming up with these questions. All should have been asked and answered before any of us even knew that there was a budget problem before we were ever alerted to this problem. And that's why we're mad. It's not because, oh, just you're talking about budget shortfalls or

1594
03:26:05.250 --> 03:26:13.970
General Room: problems. These questions should have been taken care of before we were ever ever brought to the community, and this burden never should have fallen on a task force.

1595
03:26:14.160 --> 03:26:14.880
General Room: And

1596
03:26:15.930 --> 03:26:18.450
General Room: they're just they. They shouldn't have been explored before.

1597
03:26:18.819 --> 03:26:29.020
General Room: Tell us all day about the budget. But the fact we're having to come up with answers to save our school like golden historic school part of our community. It just shows that

1598
03:26:29.450 --> 03:26:38.689
General Room: unfortunately, there's been something going on here that somebody hasn't done their job. And I know there's also talk about accountability and putting. And I just want to.

1599
03:26:39.080 --> 03:26:41.399
General Room: you know, and I work. I'm substitute.

1600
03:26:41.530 --> 03:26:45.689
General Room: Accountability does not mean oh, I'm sorry I was wrong. Accountability is

1601
03:26:45.790 --> 03:26:55.050
General Room: is consequences, and you represent us, and we want to make sure that you hold the district accountable for putting us through this

1602
03:26:56.180 --> 03:26:56.835
General Room: and

1603
03:26:58.540 --> 03:27:07.339
General Room: I just I just wanted to make sure that was said out loud, because we like you guys and we know you're doing a great job. And that's why we're mad. It's not because.

1604
03:27:07.550 --> 03:27:10.529
General Room: like, Oh, our school, you're going to close our school. It's because

1605
03:27:10.970 --> 03:27:11.940
General Room: you didn't.

1606
03:27:12.070 --> 03:27:15.880
General Room: You didn't find all these answers out first.st We shouldn't have to be doing it.

1607
03:27:16.030 --> 03:27:18.669
General Room: but we'll do what we will do what we can to help.

1608
03:27:18.970 --> 03:27:19.800
General Room: Thank you.

1609
03:27:25.930 --> 03:27:26.800
General Room: Clayton

1610
03:27:27.120 --> 03:27:28.120
General Room: Filter.

1611
03:27:33.900 --> 03:27:36.066
General Room: Think I'm still recovering from.

1612
03:27:36.890 --> 03:27:39.119
General Room: think it was aria that was

1613
03:27:39.260 --> 03:27:49.910
General Room: powerful. Maybe she's gone to bed now, and so my time has started. My name is Clayton Filter. I am here to speak tonight about something that seems

1614
03:27:50.090 --> 03:27:54.649
General Room: more aspirational and less important to me than

1615
03:27:55.250 --> 03:27:56.966
General Room: what I've heard here tonight.

1616
03:27:57.560 --> 03:28:01.140
General Room: But I'm here to talk about the fate of Oppenlander.

1617
03:28:01.573 --> 03:28:06.939
General Room: and I. And I do feel a connection actually, to just this idea of

1618
03:28:07.120 --> 03:28:08.180
General Room: M.

1619
03:28:09.200 --> 03:28:11.890
General Room: The good faith of like.

1620
03:28:12.210 --> 03:28:18.820
General Room: I've been part of a lot of Oppenlander conversations lately coming late to that party. Thinking that like

1621
03:28:18.830 --> 03:28:21.439
General Room: I grew up in Westland, and I just kind of thought.

1622
03:28:22.020 --> 03:28:25.039
General Room: I know it's gonna be, it's gonna be okay, like.

1623
03:28:25.420 --> 03:28:27.070
General Room: it always ends up. Okay.

1624
03:28:27.310 --> 03:28:28.490
General Room: because

1625
03:28:29.020 --> 03:28:31.559
General Room: we operate in a transparent manner.

1626
03:28:31.570 --> 03:28:34.090
General Room: And we involve our community partners

1627
03:28:35.440 --> 03:28:37.020
General Room: But I think what

1628
03:28:37.300 --> 03:28:38.490
General Room: I've learned

1629
03:28:38.920 --> 03:28:40.020
General Room: is that

1630
03:28:40.650 --> 03:28:41.830
General Room: it's my turn

1631
03:28:42.640 --> 03:28:43.460
General Room: like.

1632
03:28:44.040 --> 03:28:45.919
General Room: and I'm graduating up.

1633
03:28:46.690 --> 03:28:51.270
General Room: And I bumped into a friend at the football game the other day.

1634
03:28:51.970 --> 03:28:53.249
General Room: and he he said.

1635
03:28:53.460 --> 03:28:57.500
General Room: Well, yeah, I mean, that's he goes. His kids go to Cedar Oak, he said.

1636
03:28:58.280 --> 03:28:59.040
General Room: Well.

1637
03:28:59.190 --> 03:29:00.450
General Room: it'll work out

1638
03:29:00.880 --> 03:29:03.300
General Room: like. That's why we moved back here.

1639
03:29:03.610 --> 03:29:04.840
General Room: and

1640
03:29:04.940 --> 03:29:08.190
General Room: I had moved here from Vietnam. I grew up here.

1641
03:29:08.260 --> 03:29:10.350
General Room: went to Cedar Oak, primary school.

1642
03:29:10.570 --> 03:29:12.329
General Room: Bolton Middle School

1643
03:29:12.787 --> 03:29:18.600
General Room: class of 2,000 from Westland High School, and we moved back here from Vietnam

1644
03:29:18.770 --> 03:29:33.139
General Room: after being gone for 22 years, because this place works, and it's a great, and this is where I work now in Westland School district as well. I love it, I believe in it, and I believe in all of you a highly esteemed board

1645
03:29:33.150 --> 03:29:34.200
General Room: to like.

1646
03:29:34.920 --> 03:29:36.310
General Room: Let's figure this out.

1647
03:29:36.700 --> 03:29:38.989
General Room: Let's figure out, Oppenlander, where we've

1648
03:29:39.670 --> 03:30:00.469
General Room: think we've fallen short of what we can do there. And I guess my real charge here tonight, as Dean, sir, and friends of Oppenlander is is overseas right now, and unable to attend, is to just say, as friends of Oppenlander has grown, as people have said. Whoa! Hold up! That didn't go.

1649
03:30:00.720 --> 03:30:02.409
General Room: That didn't go. How we hoped!

1650
03:30:02.700 --> 03:30:05.090
General Room: But we also believe that it's not too late.

1651
03:30:05.160 --> 03:30:08.549
General Room: And so, friends of Oppenlander is growing

1652
03:30:08.600 --> 03:30:15.129
General Room: with this idea that perhaps we can bring some private funding to meet the shortfall of the the bond

1653
03:30:15.250 --> 03:30:21.480
General Room: and find. Find that. And I guess what I would say about bonds is, I like as a member of the

1654
03:30:21.580 --> 03:30:22.640
General Room: school district.

1655
03:30:23.400 --> 03:30:36.750
General Room: I'm worried about losing the good faith of the community. I live here as well, and my neighbors are talking to me about Oppenlander and the closure of these small schools. And it's like, let's let's bring the faith of the community and get some wins.

1656
03:30:42.100 --> 03:30:44.180
General Room: Christina Harney.

1657
03:30:52.280 --> 03:30:53.649
General Room: That's not it. Okay.

1658
03:30:54.020 --> 03:31:11.189
General Room: thank you so much for listening to all of us and listening to me. My husband and I moved here just literally at the beginning of Covid, from the other side of the river in Milwaukee, specifically for the schools in Westland as we've gone through so many of these meetings.

1659
03:31:11.210 --> 03:31:13.450
General Room: It's not only us. It's

1660
03:31:13.610 --> 03:31:34.310
General Room: 4 to 5 other families on our street alone in the last 4 years since we moved here, all moving here for the schools, and so to us, and not to mention that many others in our neighborhood. To us the schools are a main pillar of the city of West Lynn. That is why people move here, and we truly believe that

1661
03:31:34.690 --> 03:31:40.760
General Room: eliminating any of those schools eliminates part of a huge pillar of our city.

1662
03:31:40.790 --> 03:31:48.550
General Room: And what is that going to do to our city in general? It definitely doesn't seem to be a positive thing

1663
03:31:48.970 --> 03:31:58.039
General Room: that said, I want to share a quick story of my daughter, who just started kindergarten at Stafford, and you know her involvement with Stafford was

1664
03:31:58.570 --> 03:32:15.280
General Room: years in the making because of all those kids on our street who hyped her up and were so excited about their community at Stafford that she day one, would not let us drive her to school. She had to take the bus because she wanted to be with that community of people who were going to help

1665
03:32:15.450 --> 03:32:22.560
General Room: bring her into the school, and even before she started day one she went to the kindergarten orientation.

1666
03:32:22.810 --> 03:32:36.930
General Room: Every every administrator there learned her name to the point where one of our neighbors, the next day at a school event, said, Hey, how was kindergarten orientation? And you know Principal hall was like it was so awesome. It's so great to see the new kids.

1667
03:32:36.930 --> 03:32:55.070
General Room: And she said, Yeah, we have someone on our street who's starting and went to the playdate. Loved it. She goes. Oh, Kaylin! Right? We were stunned. She already knew that we lived on that street with that community of people, and that to me is just something that you wouldn't really get

1668
03:32:55.250 --> 03:32:59.503
General Room: if the schools were larger, because that's really difficult to do

1669
03:33:00.140 --> 03:33:26.309
General Room: Since then I would say the second week of school I had to the you know the I guess. Beginning adrenaline wore off. I had to send my daughter in with Miss hall crying, and you know, but as she's continued to go on and on in these 2 months she is welcomed by everyone. I left the book fair from volunteering. She didn't even say goodbye to me. She grabbed her books and ran to her classroom because she was so excited.

1670
03:33:26.310 --> 03:33:43.359
General Room: And so she's just had a really wonderful, amazing experience. And that's just something that I wanted to share with all of you, because I know you'll see a lot of numbers and hostile comments. But I do want to share that positive story from our experience. Thank you.

1671
03:33:51.340 --> 03:33:53.190
General Room: Do we have

1672
03:33:53.750 --> 03:33:56.390
General Room: 2 Maxes, Max Schulte.

1673
03:33:57.770 --> 03:34:00.620
General Room: Okay, so you, okay. So we got you on there part of something.

1674
03:34:02.450 --> 03:34:03.030
General Room: And

1675
03:34:04.020 --> 03:34:05.759
General Room: Amanda Brookshire.

1676
03:34:07.710 --> 03:34:09.219
General Room: Okay, so they're only twice.

1677
03:34:11.880 --> 03:34:13.650
General Room: And then we have Jeanette Duffy.

1678
03:34:21.350 --> 03:34:24.980
General Room: I just wanted to comment this evening on

1679
03:34:25.050 --> 03:34:31.109
General Room: listening to the discussion about the interdistrict transfer of residents.

1680
03:34:31.280 --> 03:34:32.840
General Room: resident students.

1681
03:34:33.760 --> 03:34:41.189
General Room: just wanted to comment on the terminology. I don't know if it's this is a district's policy or a Board's policy.

1682
03:34:41.706 --> 03:34:46.829
General Room: But if we could possibly, or if there could be consideration given

1683
03:34:46.910 --> 03:34:50.249
General Room: to not using the terminology of homeless student.

1684
03:34:51.955 --> 03:34:52.830
General Room: Homeless

1685
03:34:53.190 --> 03:34:55.989
General Room: is not something that a person is.

1686
03:34:56.430 --> 03:35:02.020
General Room: I know that we all, many of us, not all of us. Many of us, come from privilege around here.

1687
03:35:02.210 --> 03:35:07.849
General Room: and you know a home is a home. It's not a structure.

1688
03:35:08.610 --> 03:35:10.810
General Room: We don't talk about children

1689
03:35:10.860 --> 03:35:12.740
General Room: as being homeless.

1690
03:35:14.180 --> 03:35:15.950
General Room: Maybe they're unhoused.

1691
03:35:16.970 --> 03:35:18.780
General Room: Maybe they're unsheltered.

1692
03:35:18.810 --> 03:35:20.770
General Room: Maybe they're experiencing

1693
03:35:21.150 --> 03:35:22.670
General Room: being unhoused.

1694
03:35:22.970 --> 03:35:24.350
General Room: But please

1695
03:35:24.730 --> 03:35:28.429
General Room: take that writing out of our district. Policies.

1696
03:35:29.130 --> 03:35:30.729
General Room: Lose the language.

1697
03:35:31.570 --> 03:35:32.500
General Room: Thank you.

1698
03:35:39.300 --> 03:35:41.649
General Room: Is there anyone else who

1699
03:35:42.200 --> 03:35:45.760
General Room: may have missed the opportunity to sign up or came in late.

1700
03:35:45.850 --> 03:35:46.465
General Room: That

1701
03:35:47.930 --> 03:35:49.999
General Room: has something that they'd like to

1702
03:35:50.100 --> 03:35:51.250
General Room: share with the board.

1703
03:35:51.610 --> 03:35:52.330
General Room: No?

1704
03:35:55.380 --> 03:35:58.079
General Room: Well, gotcha.

1705
03:35:58.980 --> 03:35:59.860
General Room: okay.

1706
03:36:00.500 --> 03:36:01.489
General Room: all right.

1707
03:36:02.120 --> 03:36:03.950
General Room: Well, that concludes

1708
03:36:03.970 --> 03:36:05.140
General Room: public comment.

1709
03:36:06.490 --> 03:36:07.285
General Room: And

1710
03:36:08.240 --> 03:36:10.490
General Room: next board meeting is November 18.th

1711
03:36:11.150 --> 03:36:12.320
General Room: Meeting adjourned.