WEBVTT 1 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.790 WLWV Board Room: Oh. they knew to come by 7. 2 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.110 WLWV Board Room: All right. Are we live? Okay, Thank you, Curtis. 3 00:00:27.550 --> 00:00:44.170 WLWV Board Room: Her this was ready for us to start on time 4 min ago. Hi, everybody! I am opening the meeting of the Westland Wilson Bill Board of Directors. Thank you for being patient, as we do all the things for me to do before we get ready. It's good to be with you all. Ms. Douglas. Will you please call role? 4 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.210 WLWV Board Room: Certainly. Director Sloop. 5 00:00:46.570 --> 00:00:54.750 WLWV Board Room: Yes, Chapter Taylor checking here by Strait Thompson here, Director Wyatt. Thank you 6 00:00:56.170 --> 00:01:04.790 WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good. So the first thing we're going to do is hear from our student representatives always the best moment of the evening, and we'll start with Skye Gomez from Westland High. 7 00:01:07.190 --> 00:01:16.130 WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Leadwig and School Board members. I hope you all had an enjoyable spring break, and it is so nice to see everyone again, and i'm excited to update you about some things 8 00:01:16.130 --> 00:01:30.160 that have been happening at West Lint right before a break. We had our 10 days of diversity. Each day a different club or group held activities and games at lunch. It was really fun to get to see all the different activities and interests of some of our students. 9 00:01:30.420 --> 00:01:41.700 We also had a spirit week the last 5 days before break. It had great participation, and was really exciting to see the outfits that some people came up with every day like one of our students were a banana to school. 10 00:01:41.870 --> 00:01:49.430 WLWV Board Room: We also had band, choir and orchestra concerts. They performed great, and it was really nice getting to listen to them all play 11 00:01:49.450 --> 00:02:02.250 tonight. We have 50 students who are headed to the Northwest Science Expo, which is also super exciting, and we'll get to hear how they did later in the week, and then this Saturday we have our senior brunch at the Orient Golf Club. 12 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:23.010 WLWV Board Room: and then in the coming weeks we have our annual Mayday celebration on April 20, eighth, and the theme this year is Hollywood, or like city scapes, kind of. And then after that, we have our powder, puff, flag, football game, and then Prom: so overall we have a lot of exciting things coming up that I can update you about next month. Thank you so much for your time. 13 00:02:28.920 --> 00:02:31.300 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Sky and next month 14 00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:42.900 WLWV Board Room: is May, so we'll we'll be asking you about your plans, for when you're done with being our for our student representative here. Okay, great. And with from Wilsonville High School we have Emily Barry. 15 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:43.980 WLWV Board Room: Come on up. 16 00:02:46.130 --> 00:02:54.430 WLWV Board Room: Dr. Ludwig and School Board members. Thank you for giving me the chance to speak tonight. I'm. Emily Barry, a senior at Wilsonville, and i'm filling in for you. I Tonight 17 00:02:54.740 --> 00:03:01.870 WLWV Board Room: today. Students return from a much-needed spring break, and are looking forward to the rest of the 2,022, 2,023 school year. 18 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:19.290 WLWV Board Room: As the end of quarter 3 is this Friday students are hard at work in their classes. The Friday before spring break our beloved Wilsonville broadcasting network released their second edition of the Cat, a log which features previews for upcoming spring events like springfest and our many spring sports. 19 00:03:19.630 --> 00:03:28.870 WLWV Board Room: our robotics team, Eric Code 0 went to a competition in Salem and won the autonomous award, which means they have the best coding at the district championships. 20 00:03:29.070 --> 00:03:40.700 WLWV Board Room: They also qualified for a future competition in Cheney. Washington Students from our affinity groups were able to lead a circle at the Equity summit and share details about their experiences 21 00:03:40.780 --> 00:03:53.590 WLWV Board Room: at our school. Before the break. We also hosted our band, choir and orchestra concerts. As students begin forecasting for their classes next week. They are excited about the option to take some of the new courses we are offering 22 00:03:54.120 --> 00:04:11.900 WLWV Board Room: our revised schedule for next year allows students to take one additional class. A few of the brand new classes include intro to engineering, applied business, wellness, mind and body offered in Spanish and a medical terminology class. It is hard to believe there are only 10 weeks left in the school year. 23 00:04:11.940 --> 00:04:14.530 WLWV Board Room: Wild cats will finish strong. Thank you. 24 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:27.460 WLWV Board Room: Thanks, Emily. How how was that? As your first time to stand in for you? You did Awesome. 25 00:04:28.190 --> 00:05:03.180 WLWV Board Room: Okay? And then yes, you come on up. You're good. I someone's coming up to introduce someone. I'm jumping in this opportunity to introduce Carrie Wilhelm, who has served as our interim assistant principal, and in the planning of Riverside High School all year, and has done a fantastic job. I cannot imagine where we would be without her expertise passion and work that she's put into so many things with planning for Riverside. And we're really excited because we just had a full process to select the assistant principal 26 00:05:03.180 --> 00:05:21.690 WLWV Board Room: for moving forward not an interim any longer, and Carrie quickly rose to the top, and with many great candidates she was really the right match for Riverside moving forward. So we're really excited. Carrie's here, and I just wanted to jump in with that opportunity to recognize her and let her fill you in a riverside. 27 00:05:24.500 --> 00:05:25.180 WLWV Board Room: Hmm. 28 00:05:27.580 --> 00:05:46.960 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Board chair board of directors, Superintendent. Lovely thanks for having me. Even though I am not a student, I am excited to be part of Riverside now, and in the coming years. So I am excited to talk to you today, as Nick and I have spent the year planning. We have discovered that there are some things in our planning that come 29 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:56.960 WLWV Board Room: pretty easy and are good good, and rollin long, and other things are a little bit more of a challenge, and, as you have seen for the last 2 months, finding a student to be your Board representative 30 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:07.520 WLWV Board Room: when you don't actually have current students is one of our challenges. So we are dedicated to making sure that in May we have a student for you, so that you don't have to hear either of us anymore. 31 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:32.030 But I am excited to talk to you a little bit today about our athletic programs on the previous slide. There were some examples of some of the uniforms that we have designed and already ordered. We actually had 2 boxes of Jerseys come in today, so you can see some up there that we are. This is like it's real. It's happening. We've got some cross country, some track, some soccer. 32 00:06:32.030 --> 00:06:34.740 WLWV Board Room: some volleyball and basketball examples up there. 33 00:06:35.130 --> 00:06:52.790 WLWV Board Room: We at Riverside truly believe that athletics are an extremely important part of the high school experience of a students education. And so we're making sure that our athletics and other co-curricular activities are right there in that developing of the plan of riverside 34 00:06:53.260 --> 00:07:09.930 WLWV Board Room: on the next slide we talk about some of our sports that we are planning to offer. This, of course, is based on student interest. We have to have enough student athletes to feel the team, but we, as we have been enrolling students and talking to them about their schedules and scheduling them. 35 00:07:09.930 --> 00:07:24.510 WLWV Board Room: We have been asking them, what what are you interested in? Are you interested in band. Are you interested in Cho? Are you interested in theater which sports are you interested in and getting a feel for that? And we have a number of students who are interested in a variety of these sports. 36 00:07:24.510 --> 00:07:39.240 and so we're excited to kind of kick. Start our athletic program. We currently have some postings for coaches for our fall seasons, and those are on the Osa website as well as our district website. 37 00:07:39.510 --> 00:07:55.560 WLWV Board Room: And so you all have a job to do, and it is to help us recruit some amazing coaches. So if you are somebody who knows a coach, please send them our way. If they're looking for a new, challenging and exciting adventure to start and build a program. 38 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:02.400 WLWV Board Room: and then we will continue to hire coaches for the winter and spring, as as the next month or 2 approach. 39 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:16.150 So we're really excited to start Riverside High School and our athletic program in the fall of 2,023, and we've got uniforms ready to go, and we're ready for our students and our student athletes to be there. So thank you. 40 00:08:22.550 --> 00:08:32.710 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Congratulations and thank you for being willing to step into the permanent role, and we fully welcome you, even if you're not a student in May we love the students, but 41 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:41.390 WLWV Board Room: there's no no, and no need to retreat. You're welcome to stay students or or head out whichever you prefer. We appreciate you being here and no, you're busy. 42 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:56.990 WLWV Board Room: and with that we will move on to the recognitions, and we've got the School Librarian Appreciation Day and Dr. David Prior is going to come up and speak to that. And is Curtis Nelson coming up also? Okay, Great? 43 00:09:00.140 --> 00:09:12.140 WLWV Board Room: Well, thank you. Board both Curtis Nelson and I would like you to join us in celebrating School Librarian Appreciation Day, which is April fourth, coming up in one day. And 44 00:09:12.350 --> 00:09:25.500 WLWV Board Room: when we think of school librarians we can't. There are diverse roles that come into that that will be celebrating tonight not only the school teacher, librarian, but the librarians assistance, which are pair educators who support them 45 00:09:25.500 --> 00:09:43.520 WLWV Board Room: in everything about running the school library, as well as our Wkoa tosis, who are also have library experience and work right alongside our teacher Librarians, in achieving achieving the goals of their their their job responsibilities. 46 00:09:43.620 --> 00:10:12.160 WLWV Board Room: If you've ever been in a Westland Wilsonville school, you'll know that the library is purposely designed to be the heart of a school, and we know that the library represents inquiry, curiosity, learning, and so it's a huge responsibility in our schools to be a teacher librarian, and we specifically call that role teacher librarian, because all of our librarians are certified teachers that many of them that all have certified have 47 00:10:12.160 --> 00:10:27.030 WLWV Board Room: classroom teaching experience, and they're also either have, or working on their library certifications. So they're a blend of the 2 roles, which is a unique way of of thinking about their their work in our district. 48 00:10:27.070 --> 00:10:28.160 WLWV Board Room: We 49 00:10:28.370 --> 00:10:51.840 WLWV Board Room: for many, many years have been pulling together research from the Oregon Association of School Libraries and the International Society for Technology education to try and distill out the vast responsibilities of their role, and those are organized into 5 pillars, which will give you a brief summary of today because it captures the wide breath 50 00:10:51.840 --> 00:11:00.750 WLWV Board Room: and depth and importance of their work. Or do you want to add anything to that introduction? 51 00:11:00.770 --> 00:11:08.530 WLWV Board Room: The themes of school activities, the inquisitive methods of exploration, the wisdom of expert guidance. 52 00:11:08.560 --> 00:11:10.190 WLWV Board Room: the joy of reading. 53 00:11:10.220 --> 00:11:16.610 WLWV Board Room: the seamless integration, of technology, the self-initiated investigation of a question of the moment 54 00:11:16.650 --> 00:11:21.030 WLWV Board Room: the fun of learning. the collaboration of students and staff. 55 00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:27.450 WLWV Board Room: All of these things are unmistakable, and resonate from our libraries and our teacher librarians. 56 00:11:32.090 --> 00:11:32.870 WLWV Board Room: So 57 00:11:32.870 --> 00:11:53.100 WLWV Board Room: we're all really familiar with this first pillar which is reading advocacy. And, as we've already said, the first part of reading advocacy is creating an incredibly beautiful inviting space that I don't know. If you're like me, you just can't help but wander into. When you come into one of our schools. They have beautiful displays of books that promote and invite students to read. 58 00:11:53.930 --> 00:12:09.330 WLWV Board Room: This is around learning to self-select, appropriate materials that match your interest. Or your learning. Needs it's about promoting both fictional and informational text, both match to student interest, and perhaps coming right alongside to push their 59 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.140 WLWV Board Room: to to grow their reading skills. We 60 00:12:13.150 --> 00:12:24.830 WLWV Board Room: teacher librarians work directly with classrooms to support school curriculum with books that provide not only the content, but also access to all students with different reading levels. 61 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:30.060 WLWV Board Room: The books in the library are purposely chosen to reflect the diverse 62 00:12:30.110 --> 00:12:49.720 WLWV Board Room: individual viewpoints of students. They have lots of ethnic and cultural diversity, so the students can not only see themselves in the text that are in the libraries, but also grow compassion and curiosity around people that may come from different walks of life, or have different viewpoints themselves. 63 00:12:49.940 --> 00:12:56.590 WLWV Board Room: Our Tls are promoting collaborative dialogue and also critical thinking skills around ideas. 64 00:12:56.620 --> 00:13:14.410 WLWV Board Room: They teach students how to read, for meaning, how to evaluate evidence, find main ideas and supporting details, form opinions and draw conclusions. They also build upon current events by providing additional resources to help students develop a wide and deep range of perspectives. 65 00:13:17.610 --> 00:13:33.480 WLWV Board Room: The second pillar is research and inquiry. and not that I want to go back all the way to when I was in high school. But when I was in my school, the chore of creating a research paper was about finding anything. 66 00:13:33.580 --> 00:13:43.580 WLWV Board Room: finding information well, spending hours in the library, looking through books and various materials just to find information that was the Chore. 67 00:13:44.460 --> 00:13:46.240 WLWV Board Room: Today's world is much different. 68 00:13:46.410 --> 00:13:50.620 WLWV Board Room: Finding information is not nearly as difficult as it used to be. 69 00:13:50.900 --> 00:13:53.600 WLWV Board Room: What's more difficult now, is discerning it. 70 00:13:54.100 --> 00:13:59.300 WLWV Board Room: determining the quality of it, the perspective of it, the bias that may be there. 71 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.950 WLWV Board Room: These are all really important skills in today's world 72 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:10.070 WLWV Board Room: that we're we're important before. But frankly, before the chore was just finding any information. 73 00:14:10.150 --> 00:14:22.480 WLWV Board Room: Now, that's not the chore. Now it takes the guidance of an expert who can help identify the kinds of things that are perhaps questionable. 74 00:14:22.530 --> 00:14:40.030 WLWV Board Room: or at least identifying a bias or a perspective that maybe wasn't obvious in in the first place, but just recognizing that that is there doesn't mean that the bias is wrong. It just means it is valuable to realize that it's there 75 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:47.090 WLWV Board Room: as we move into the what students have to deal with in their future. 76 00:14:48.580 --> 00:14:59.070 WLWV Board Room: Students have to knowledge, and information is changing so fast nowadays. What you may have studied even 3 or 4 years ago may be vastly different today. 77 00:14:59.160 --> 00:15:10.320 WLWV Board Room: and that was only 3 or 4 days ago. So in a K. 12 education, you may relearn the same thing. and quite differently. Several times during your education. 78 00:15:10.390 --> 00:15:21.850 WLWV Board Room: and students have to be willing and ready to do that to relearn something that they thought they already knew. and they also have to have a willingness to find out for themselves 79 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:34.960 WLWV Board Room: that's a key phrase that I've used with my children a number of times when you don't know, find out for yourself. And it's okay to go on that journey, and i'll be right beside you guiding you, and that's the role that our teacher librarians play 80 00:15:35.250 --> 00:15:43.140 WLWV Board Room: students. We try to nurture, and a natural inquisitiveness that kids tend to come to school with. 81 00:15:43.250 --> 00:15:47.710 WLWV Board Room: and we want to make sure that they keep that as they go through their schooling 82 00:15:47.800 --> 00:15:52.570 WLWV Board Room: we teach students to be safe, savvy, and discerning researchers. 83 00:15:52.950 --> 00:16:03.590 WLWV Board Room: We also point out the importance of proper citation and copyright. A lot of people think that plagiarism is a bad thing. 84 00:16:03.610 --> 00:16:13.480 WLWV Board Room: but plagiarism done in the right way is actually a very valuable thing where you can cite the appropriate reference and give credit where it's due. 85 00:16:15.750 --> 00:16:25.070 WLWV Board Room: Students acquire a wealth of information during their K 12 education. and they think critically to arrive at their own opinions and evidences 86 00:16:25.090 --> 00:16:30.870 WLWV Board Room: or and perspectives as supported by evidence. not just conjecture. 87 00:16:35.260 --> 00:16:36.470 WLWV Board Room: Oh, it's me again. 88 00:16:38.270 --> 00:16:41.690 WLWV Board Room: technology integration. I'm not sure why David gave me this one. 89 00:16:42.760 --> 00:16:52.370 WLWV Board Room: So the technology tools have brought the power of data and information to our fingertips. As I just mentioned. Getting information is not the challenge, so that it used to be. 90 00:16:52.410 --> 00:16:57.780 What is important is the ability to explore the technologies that are available 91 00:16:57.940 --> 00:17:14.880 WLWV Board Room: in safe fun, challenging and task centered activities. Many of our schools have thriving maker spaces where I like to think of it as kind of a playground kids. It's a common perception that kids 92 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:32.960 WLWV Board Room: are not learning during quote recess. And i'm here to tell you that's just not true. They learn a lot during recess, and so there's a a little bit of an uneasiness for educators as they build maker space environments to. I'm. Not sure what I'm 93 00:17:33.170 --> 00:17:40.480 WLWV Board Room: telling the students to do here. That's okay. Set up the environment. Give them the framework to play in, and they will learn. 94 00:17:40.630 --> 00:17:49.050 WLWV Board Room: It happens, and we will guide them along the way. just as learning to read gradually evolves into reading, to learn 95 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:57.610 WLWV Board Room: learning, to use. Technology gradually evolves to using technology to learn. And we do teach those things. 96 00:17:57.790 --> 00:18:11.980 WLWV Board Room: We do want to help the student engage in a wealth of library experiences from not just reading and books and research and inquiry, but to the array of technology that's available. 97 00:18:12.090 --> 00:18:18.730 WLWV Board Room: always keeping an eye on trying to build a safe learning environment as well. 98 00:18:22.410 --> 00:18:42.080 WLWV Board Room: So this is an interesting pillar professional learning. This is moving towards supporting their peers in learning how to become a stronger teachers. One way that you'll see this happening in in a lot of schools is how to use technology to access information or to provide alternative ways of accessing information. So 99 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:53.080 WLWV Board Room: typically at a staff workshop, a teacher library and might have some time to share new technologies that are coming online and demonstrate how to use it and provide some examples of how to bring it to the classroom 100 00:18:53.110 --> 00:19:23.090 WLWV Board Room: teacher. Librarians are also part of teacher teams. In fact, just today Dr. Soyson and I were visiting with a group of kindergarten and first grade teachers to learn about some of their reflections on supporting students in the area of reading, and the teacher Librarian was part of that meeting, because she had been supporting the teachers, and providing additional support for students who weren't yet at grow up grade level to try to accelerate their learning. And so the teacher Librarians are an active member of staff. 101 00:19:23.090 --> 00:19:41.570 WLWV Board Room: because they have a unique role in being on the cutting edge of knowing about new text and about new technology. They are looked upon by teachers to bring these ideas forward, and not only bring it forward but help Teachers think about. How do we build this into the classroom or provide access for students to 102 00:19:41.570 --> 00:19:45.540 WLWV Board Room: to ensure that learning feels very vibrant and accessible to everyone. 103 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:52.760 WLWV Board Room: The last of the 5 pillars is innovative learning, environments. 104 00:19:52.870 --> 00:20:10.320 WLWV Board Room: and teacher librarians, and teach our teachers in general understand that the nature of today's learners is also different, just like the information, and the way you would retrieve it has evolved. Today's learners are much different. They do a lot of independent learning 105 00:20:10.320 --> 00:20:28.710 WLWV Board Room: whether we we kind of whether it's intentional or not. They are learning all the time, and they're exploring all the time. So we are trying to get our wrap our collective heads around the need of today's students for flexible time, space and mode of learning. 106 00:20:28.710 --> 00:20:45.520 WLWV Board Room: It is why, when we implemented our online Academy it was a completely natural connection that the teacher librarians would have a a big part in that. They probably as much as any of our educators realize that 107 00:20:45.770 --> 00:21:00.940 WLWV Board Room: today's students have different ways of learning. They a lot of them, still have the same old ways of learning as well, but the variance is broad, and rather than trying to teach all students in the same way, which is like when I was in school. 108 00:21:01.670 --> 00:21:21.370 WLWV Board Room: Now we try to acknowledge the individual differences of students and the personalized needs in different ways that can be whole group activities that are different, done in different ways all the way down to one on one activities, and even student-led activities which I think are some of the most powerful. There are 109 00:21:23.230 --> 00:21:31.190 WLWV Board Room: innovative learning environments promote the concept of lifelong learning by allowing self self management of learning activities 110 00:21:31.230 --> 00:21:35.900 WLWV Board Room: that honor the natural curiosity of a moment or an event. 111 00:21:40.600 --> 00:21:59.910 WLWV Board Room: Oh, yes, I am. Gee! I should have paid attention to this high school teacher, librarian. So we we did invite the teacher librarians to come tonight. Unfortunately, we did that this morning, so we didn't give them a lot of notice. We also didn't want to burden them by having to come, or feeling like they had to come. 112 00:21:59.910 --> 00:22:14.350 WLWV Board Room: There is 1 one in attendance who i'm. Sure David will introduce, but these are the people that work out of our libraries at the High schools. Julie Girton, at Westland High, is our online coordinator for the High School for Westland High. 113 00:22:14.420 --> 00:22:18.440 WLWV Board Room: Connor Green is the teacher librarian at Westland. High 114 00:22:18.470 --> 00:22:27.070 WLWV Board Room: Kate Courson is the teacher librarian at Wilsonville High and Christine Baldwin is the online Academy Coordinator for Wilsonville High 115 00:22:28.070 --> 00:22:46.760 WLWV Board Room: next Slide Thank You Middle School teacher. Librarians didn't get a picture sometimes. When you ask people to send me a picture of yourself, you just don't get it. So 2 people that I didn't send me a picture, Meg wrote, and Emma Pashall, 2 very highly held 116 00:22:46.760 --> 00:22:59.650 WLWV Board Room: teacher librarians. They just didn't get a chance to send me their picture, and then I'm. Julie Zurker at Meridian Creek and Shannon Yoshiwata at 8 Creek. Also, they. 117 00:22:59.750 --> 00:23:06.680 WLWV Board Room: in addition to the teacher librarian role. They are the middle their middle school online. Coordinator. Also. 118 00:23:07.360 --> 00:23:26.660 WLWV Board Room: Okay. Now, now it's my turn. We have 2 slides for the primary school teacher librarians. We do have a full time teacher, librarian at every primary school, and they serve both the library, and if they have students at their school who attend the online academy, they serve their students too. So we have Lindsay, Man Love, at Beckman Creek. 119 00:23:26.800 --> 00:23:33.760 WLWV Board Room: Brooke, Murphy at Bolton. Tara, Perkins at Cedar Kim, hey, Meyer at Boone's Ferry 120 00:23:35.650 --> 00:23:45.310 WLWV Board Room: and Holly Chapman at Lowry. I'm. Going to come back to Amber in a second pull our progressor at sunset. Eric and heronymous at Trillion. 121 00:23:45.310 --> 00:24:14.140 WLWV Board Room: Claire Baker at Blamet, and Amory is actually here tonight, and am I going to call you up for a special gift to represent all the teacher librarians here in just a minute. But we also do want to have a slide where we recognize on the next slide, con their their library pair educators who are also at every school, and these people are direct partners to our teacher librarians, and assume so many responsibilities to make sure our libraries run smoothly. 122 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:22.000 WLWV Board Room: So at the high schools we have Kristy Bray at West Lynn and Laura, Gc. At Wilsonville. 123 00:24:22.030 --> 00:24:28.320 WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Ker. There are middle schools, Terry Willard at at the creek Corey Metinger and in the Wood. 124 00:24:28.350 --> 00:24:44.850 WLWV Board Room: Lisa, writer at Meridian Creek, Laurie Hurley at Rosemont, and at the Primary Schools; Connie Anton, Senate Beckman, Julie Hansen at Boon's Ferry Leslie Mollerby; at Bolton, Sandy Braden at Cedar Oak, Tracy Smith at Lowry. 125 00:24:44.850 --> 00:24:59.230 WLWV Board Room: Sharon, Erksson at Stafford, Maria Carpenter, Sunset Trish, Nelson at Trillion Creek and Kim Jordan at Will Lam it so please join me in honoring all of these amazing staff who enrich our schools in countless ways 126 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:03.000 WLWV Board Room: annually. 127 00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:10.150 WLWV Board Room: Thank you for representing all of our teacher librarians tonight. 128 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:15.440 WLWV Board Room: and you're gonna stand up here. The Board may have some glowing comments for you. 129 00:25:19.910 --> 00:25:36.020 WLWV Board Room: Awesome! What a great presentation! And what an amazing group of people doing really profound work with our students, and just extending that classroom, learning up from outside of the classroom. So, and just the physical space and the ways that you all engage with the students is really remarkable. 130 00:25:36.820 --> 00:25:40.340 WLWV Board Room: I wasn't really planning on seeing anything, but 131 00:25:40.360 --> 00:26:00.020 WLWV Board Room: this is my seventh year in the district. In my second year as a teacher, librarian, and I have found that this role is just truly amazing to do. I think I've really grown as an educator, and I'm being able to collaborate with my other colleagues in my building with the Westland Library. It's been truly amazing 132 00:26:00.090 --> 00:26:12.710 WLWV Board Room: working with teachers and students around literacy and technology. It's just been a joy. So I'm really really thankful for the opportunity and to be a full time teacher, library, and just that Stafford has just been spectacular. 133 00:26:12.710 --> 00:26:24.420 WLWV Board Room: I was able to create a maker space this last year, and just doing really wonderful work with the community. So thank you so much for the opportunity and for the acknowledgment on behalf of all the teacher librarians. Thank you very much. 134 00:26:26.580 --> 00:26:28.950 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 135 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:42.450 WLWV Board Room: I heard a rumor that in the Wilsonville High school library. There's candy for students who want to go there during lunch and and other hidden gyms. So in case anybody was wondering 136 00:26:42.570 --> 00:26:48.590 WLWV Board Room: additional motivation, Dr. Ludwig, would you like to speak? Yeah, unless there's another board member? 137 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.730 WLWV Board Room: No, I I just want to come back to 138 00:26:51.870 --> 00:27:02.710 WLWV Board Room: the way both Dr. Prior and and Dr. Nelson Honorary Dr. Nelson, just open by talking about the history of our libraries in our district, which is unique 139 00:27:02.750 --> 00:27:08.040 WLWV Board Room: to our district, that they are, whenever we build a new building. They are at the hub in the center. 140 00:27:08.340 --> 00:27:15.390 WLWV Board Room: and it really is around this idea of that's where the epicenter of inquiry and research and ideas grows. It's not 141 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:28.170 WLWV Board Room: way off down a hallway, you know, in a closed room. There are no metal detectors. Books are opening on shelves. There's no locked doors, the idea being that access to literature and ideas 142 00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:41.270 WLWV Board Room: really is this free gift that our nation believes in, but also that we believe in our district, and we should make it that way. And then, you know, for a long time our perseverance around keeping teacher librarians 143 00:27:41.320 --> 00:27:58.000 WLWV Board Room: as full time or part time staff. There was a time when we did have to reduce down to part time, but we never cut them fully, which some districts did in those days, when budgets were very difficult, and have not even restored those positions. And we've kept them in the district. 144 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:11.600 WLWV Board Room: and I think that really speaks to many of my predecessors, but also the value of this district around the role of the teacher, librarian in supporting classroom, learning, teaching, student inquiry, literacy, and reading advocacy. 145 00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:20.640 WLWV Board Room: So I'm. Just really pleased that we did this recognition. It's very timely. This is a group that works incredibly hard. They're dedicated to their profession. 146 00:28:21.010 --> 00:28:22.940 And so thank you for putting that 147 00:28:22.970 --> 00:28:26.960 WLWV Board Room: presentation together, and to any teacher librarians watching tonight. 148 00:28:27.030 --> 00:28:37.240 WLWV Board Room: Congratulations! We just really appreciate all that you do. We know, each of you. We know each of you care so deeply about your school and your students. So thank you. 149 00:28:40.970 --> 00:28:47.130 WLWV Board Room: Very good. And at this point we'll move on to our board. Member and superintendent reports, and we'll start with you, Director Taylor. 150 00:28:50.550 --> 00:28:53.690 WLWV Board Room: I have nothing to report for this meeting. 151 00:28:54.910 --> 00:28:57.400 WLWV Board Room: All right, thank you. And Director Wyatt. 152 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:16.280 WLWV Board Room: I just wanted to make a quick comment, coming off a spring break right before. That was the exciting time of school conferences, and every year, during conferences i'm just struck by the time and energy that our teachers and staff put in to knowing our kids. 153 00:29:16.280 --> 00:29:33.680 WLWV Board Room: and then being really communicative and very clear about how they're doing during the school year, and you know I have a primary school student and a middle school student, and in both instances the conversation was around how they're growing as learners. 154 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:50.980 WLWV Board Room: their feelings of belonging their belief in themselves. And I think as we think about, and I know we've all done school visits. You know. We want to see what's happening in the classroom, and I think sometimes as a parent when you get to participate in these conferences. That's where you get to see that upfront. 155 00:29:50.980 --> 00:30:09.560 WLWV Board Room: and I know that they take so much time. And i'm guessing emotional energy to meet with that many at that. Many parents, and especially at the middle School level, where they're con. They're conversing with all of the other teachers and trying to synthesize that into the conference itself. So I just want to take a minute and recognize that 156 00:30:09.560 --> 00:30:24.860 our teachers and staff go above and beyond, up at these conferences. Yes, we have a break right after. Hopefully, that's restorative. I know that sometimes schools will do like a pot like dinner or something, but just really wanted to call out the fact that those conferences matter 157 00:30:24.860 --> 00:30:35.860 WLWV Board Room: to parents who are paying attention. It's a great way to just get to know your teachers. Learn more about the curriculum, and so just want to recognize and thank the extra energy and effort that goes into Conference week 158 00:30:39.540 --> 00:30:41.470 WLWV Board Room: and thank you and Director Sloop. 159 00:30:43.090 --> 00:30:45.310 WLWV Board Room: I have nothing to report this evening. 160 00:30:47.120 --> 00:31:04.190 WLWV Board Room: Thank you by chair. Thompson. Yeah. I'm actually gonna highlight something that I Director Taylor and I went to. And one of the things that I've always shared with other people is one of the amazing things about our community is just our volunteers in our community 161 00:31:04.280 --> 00:31:10.590 WLWV Board Room: that that just to create and go above and beyond 162 00:31:11.060 --> 00:31:29.120 WLWV Board Room: to draw communities together in different events or different ways, whether it's activities at our schools. supporting parent teacher conferences and making meals, whatever it might be. And so tonight, what I want to start off by is just Pam here. Some of you know her. She is a 163 00:31:29.260 --> 00:31:42.080 WLWV Board Room: tireless, fearless, passionate Westland parent and community member. And so I just want to highlight some of her work with our students, and also the work of 164 00:31:42.110 --> 00:31:52.420 WLWV Board Room: the the student group that's at Westland high school. So, Pam, if you're listening, if I get any of this wrong, i'm sorry. So that's why I wrote it all down. 165 00:31:52.420 --> 00:32:02.150 WLWV Board Room: so that hopefully I I I say it right. So on Friday, March, seventeenth, Director Taylor and myself, along with many other community leaders and some of you in here as well. 166 00:32:02.150 --> 00:32:19.600 WLWV Board Room: Who and i'm gonna mention those community leaders later attended the National Drug alcohol Fact week, kick off lunch at Westland High School. This event was hosted by Westland High School's Teen Advisory Board, also known as Tab, and that's how I will be referring to them. 167 00:32:19.610 --> 00:32:30.950 WLWV Board Room: So in case you're wondering what tab is. It's a student volunteer group whose goal is to support and change the way students and adults see and speak of substance, use, and mental health disorders. 168 00:32:31.210 --> 00:32:42.080 WLWV Board Room: This group works to fight the societal narrative that says, using substance substances is just something kids are going to do, but then stigmatizes that use when it becomes a problem 169 00:32:42.670 --> 00:32:55.630 WLWV Board Room: Tab meets during lunch on the third Friday of each month again at Westland High School, with lots of pizza. So, in fact, I I mean, I don't remember how many students were in attendance that day. 50 plus 70, 170 00:32:55.890 --> 00:33:09.040 WLWV Board Room: and there was still pizza left over. So, and then I know Pam is drag, and all that pizza in every third Friday. So these 200 Plus and I got that off their website that there's about 200 plus students 171 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:20.740 WLWV Board Room: involved. Ninth, through twelfth graders, raise awareness and help, educate and advocate for their peers, whose lives have been negatively affected by their own substance, use, or by the use of their friends and family 172 00:33:21.630 --> 00:33:39.130 WLWV Board Room: Tabs fearless and passionate leaders, Pam Pierce, who is, in my opinion, one of our community heroes. She runs an organization called community living above and works tirelessly in our community to engage, educate, and empower individuals and their families in drag and alcohol prevention. 173 00:33:39.560 --> 00:33:53.240 WLWV Board Room: Tab students help provide input and critical feedback back to community living above, while also working alongside community living above, to bring awareness and prevention, education to communities, and specifically to their high school friends 174 00:33:53.390 --> 00:34:08.659 WLWV Board Room: in attendance at this national at the National Drug alcohol, awareness, fact. We kick off. We're representatives from community living above the Westland Wilsonville School, District Andrew was there. Jennifer, Dr. Spencer, Ios was there. Was. 175 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:12.440 WLWV Board Room: Am I missing anybody else from our school district? That was there. 176 00:34:12.699 --> 00:34:13.570 WLWV Board Room: Trevor? 177 00:34:13.659 --> 00:34:21.190 WLWV Board Room: Oh, Trevor Trevor was there. Thank you. Yes. The principal of our High school was there Director Taylor and myself. 178 00:34:21.810 --> 00:34:32.790 WLWV Board Room: the Westland City Council, the Westland Police Department, the Westland Rotary Westland Young life. Westland business leaders, Clackhamus County, Behavioral Health and Prevention Coalition 179 00:34:32.810 --> 00:34:37.590 WLWV Board Room: parents, grandparents, as well as State representative Jules Walters, and many more. 180 00:34:37.600 --> 00:35:03.200 WLWV Board Room: If I missed any of you if anyone can rally support. Pam is really good at it, and I know her reason. And the reason I went through that whole long list is because Number One. She wanted to make sure that the entire community was educated. She wanted to reach out to every aspect of the community that she could and get them involved. And, second of all, she wanted to invite these adults in, so that students saw that adults care. 181 00:35:03.790 --> 00:35:09.240 WLWV Board Room: I know this is an important issue to us, and that we are listening to them. So 182 00:35:09.390 --> 00:35:30.870 WLWV Board Room: that's my long list of just acknowledging everyone who is there. One of the highlights of the kick off. Lunch was when Westland City Mayor Rory, cause i'm not going to mispronounce your last name, so i'm just gonna call him Mayor Rory read a proclamation declaring national drug, alcohol, facts week, and official city events. So there was a proclamation. 183 00:35:30.870 --> 00:35:43.890 WLWV Board Room: and then, during that week, which took place, March 2326 the Tab students hosted a scavenger hunt in the school which asked in which students could win prizes for correctly identifying facts related to drug and alcohol use. 184 00:35:44.070 --> 00:36:03.040 WLWV Board Room: Tab students also spoke at the Westland City Council, and really the goal of the whole week. And again, why she pulled in so many different community people was to flood the community via posters, social media activities, etc., with so many drug and alcohol facts that adults and kids couldn't help but take notice 185 00:36:03.090 --> 00:36:15.750 WLWV Board Room: and learn something. So just you can follow. I don't think there's yeah there isn't an instagram. But community living above has an instagram. It's just community underscore living above. 186 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:27.940 WLWV Board Room: So does Westland High School Tab, and that's just at Wl. Hs. Tab. If you're interested in following either one of those organizations, and this is the next 187 00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:36.600 WLWV Board Room: events that Pam's organization community living about is going to be holding, and it's free. Or the next 2 events. I guess 188 00:36:36.600 --> 00:36:57.770 WLWV Board Room: so. This is free. It's for parents and students. If you want to bring your students along, I would just encourage you to educate yourself and to show your kids that you do care about their drug and alcohol use and to talk about it with them. So for me, this is just personal, because I grew up with the dad, who is an alcoholic, and I don't think 189 00:36:58.430 --> 00:37:02.060 WLWV Board Room: any of my friends knew. I didn't talk about it. 190 00:37:03.190 --> 00:37:16.860 WLWV Board Room: and this sort of organization not only helps support and educate kids about it. But part of it is to support kids who are in homes where they have adults who are living with alcohol abuse, and to let them know that they're not alone. 191 00:37:16.910 --> 00:37:20.910 and I think about what difference that might have made in mind. I just 192 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:27.330 WLWV Board Room: kept it quiet and didn't talk to anybody about it. And so what a great! I just want to speak from personally. 193 00:37:27.770 --> 00:37:46.180 WLWV Board Room: how great it is! Not only getting those facts out there, but having a place where kids can go and feel supported and feel like there's other kids that know how they feel. So pam kudos to you if you're watching if you're not watching. Thank you for all you're doing in our community. And thank you to all of those students 194 00:37:46.180 --> 00:37:56.680 WLWV Board Room: who attend tab who are taking that time to get that drag and alcohol awareness piece out there. So thank you, Curtis. Also for throwing that up my texted you 195 00:37:56.750 --> 00:37:59.880 WLWV Board Room: 15 min before the meeting. 196 00:38:01.410 --> 00:38:03.190 WLWV Board Room: and that makes sense. Thank you. 197 00:38:04.530 --> 00:38:31.710 WLWV Board Room: A couple of highlights for me and things that are going on in the district, and I just want to share about a couple of things I learned recently first is that I had the pleasure of volunteering at the Wilsonville High School track me so if anybody is into track. I highly recommend volunteering, because then you actually can see what's going on instead of freezing up in the stands that those are some dedicated coaches out there for hours and the rain and the cold. 198 00:38:31.710 --> 00:38:52.380 WLWV Board Room: And this week I will be traveling with that air code 0 to Cheney Washington with a yeah car full of the robotics team. So we're banking on the trip to Houston. We already bought our tickets refundable, but planning on going to the world as well in Houston, so couple of highlights, and then just wanted to share a couple of pieces of 199 00:38:52.380 --> 00:39:22.370 WLWV Board Room: like data that I've been engaging with recently, as I've been learning and reading, and one I mentioned at the I think, at the Equity Summit Call framework, called Hope, which stands for healthy outcomes from positive experiences. It's really linked, I think, by sure, Thompson, to what you were talking about. Also like ways that we can interrupt behavioral health issues, mental health issues, and really interrupt trauma that our kids live with, and these for. 200 00:39:22.370 --> 00:39:35.040 and I just want to name them, because, as I have been learning about it, I attended the Hope summit this week. So it's really fresh. I was seeing the ways that Westland Wilsonville School district is doing these so, the first being 201 00:39:35.040 --> 00:39:50.680 WLWV Board Room: really fostering healthy relationships between young people and and you know at least one adult, so healthy relationships, the other one being a safe, equitable, positive physical environments. 202 00:39:50.690 --> 00:39:54.460 WLWV Board Room: parks, buildings, neighborhoods. 203 00:39:54.460 --> 00:40:19.310 WLWV Board Room: the other one being the social emotional development of the individual, and the fourth one being giving opportunities for meaningful engagement and meaningful contribution. So those being like the 4 pillars that if we do these things and we can interrupt, you know, negative patterns. And it just made me think of just a few examples of the way Westland Wilsonville does this with like the emphasis on 204 00:40:19.310 --> 00:40:38.990 WLWV Board Room: teacher, student relationship, and belonging that that is really hitting one of those Hope pillars, these beautiful, secure buildings that we build, and the spaces that we we put around them as well, the fields and the parts and crest and things like that. 205 00:40:39.070 --> 00:40:57.830 WLWV Board Room: And then, of course, this focus on social, emotional learning that we've been doing for some years, even measuring it with the panorama survey and really diving into developing that and our students, and then also the the meaningful contribution. So all these things that our students got up and talking about ways that they can be involved, and 206 00:40:57.830 --> 00:41:09.460 WLWV Board Room: I would love to see a little more middle school. Athletics come back like when I was in middle school. That would be amazing, because I know those kiddos at that stage of their brain development really could use that. 207 00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:24.360 WLWV Board Room: you know, place to engage. And then one other thing i'll say is that I found I learned through this hope some of there's this tool called the child Opportunity Index. It's really incredible a way that you can look at. They have the whole nation mapped 208 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:45.270 WLWV Board Room: by Zip code, and they measured how much opportunity a young person has by zip code. and you can disaggregate the data by race as well, and see, you know that's color coded by opportunity. And you can, you know, desegregate the data by certain demographics and see how even some neighborhoods one zip code. 209 00:41:45.270 --> 00:42:03.910 WLWV Board Room: you know, adjacent to another Z of code, will have very dramatic differences and opportunities to access our access to opportunity. So awesome, really easy to use. Tool called the child Opportunity Index. I got to listen to the the woman speak who created it, and it was incredible that they put into that tool. 210 00:42:05.070 --> 00:42:09.350 WLWV Board Room: That's it. And oh, we'll go to you, Dr. Leadwood. 211 00:42:14.060 --> 00:42:15.150 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 212 00:42:18.010 --> 00:42:25.990 WLWV Board Room: Just gonna have a brief report tonight because I am sharing my time with our fellow colleagues from Glacamus Community College, who will invite up in a little bit 213 00:42:26.050 --> 00:42:43.120 WLWV Board Room: next slide. Just have a little bit that we're moving into, of course, April events. And you heard from our high school students about a number of those. Thank you, Director. Why, for talking about student led conferences. I wanted to also use this time to just thank 214 00:42:43.120 --> 00:43:03.160 WLWV Board Room: our educators for all the time they put into that. And when their student led, it means also that the students put an extraordinary amount of time into preparing what they want to share with their parents and guardians about their learning so far, and who they how they see themselves as a learner, and the goals that they've created for themselves. So we want them to own their learning, and this is their opportunity for them to share about it. 215 00:43:03.430 --> 00:43:22.040 WLWV Board Room: We're at deep into spring sports and activities, as you've heard about, and we've brought back our K 5 enrichment classes. As you may recall, we to pause those during the pandemic. And then, even when we were came out of it, they're heavily reliant on volunteers and people in the community. And so we had to work through 216 00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:43.350 WLWV Board Room: just some of those requirements with either proof of vaccination or exemptions. And so we just gave some space for that. But we've got those spring. I'm looking out for David. There. We've got those spring enrichment classes now up and going, which is another opportunity for students to have a significant adult that that they're working with, and also for ways to be involved in school. 217 00:43:44.090 --> 00:44:03.450 WLWV Board Room: And then just for everyone to know that April kind of becomes this this point in time when we're still in this year. But we start to think about next year, and so we've got an information out for folks to register for next year for enrollment. You saw some sneak peek at some classes that the high schools are excited about as they move into a new schedule for next year. 218 00:44:03.450 --> 00:44:12.830 WLWV Board Room: So a lot of our communications to our families are about thinking about next year, letting us know if they plan to be here, and already for our students to do some forecasting at least 219 00:44:13.640 --> 00:44:26.140 fifth graders who start thinking about moving up to middle school. We have eighth graders who start thinking about high school. So a lot of those transition kind of conversations and visits are being planned for those to then happen later in the spring. 220 00:44:26.630 --> 00:44:37.020 WLWV Board Room: And then, of course, we've got Riverside. That's deeply enrolling for students, and some of those new courses as you saw are aligning to our cte career pathways. 221 00:44:39.210 --> 00:45:00.940 WLWV Board Room: I want to spend a little bit of time just talking about safety in our school district. You may have seen a message that we sent out to the community today in light of the school shooting in Tennessee. We did get, you know it was over. Spring. Break some outreach from parents remind us again about the district safety procedures, and maybe families who 222 00:45:00.950 --> 00:45:20.020 WLWV Board Room: weren't looking for that information before. But when this situation came up there now, i'm wondering about it. And so our communication director, Andrew Kelstrom, did put together a list serve that went out. We want to to let our community know that safety is one of our top priorities, as you mentioned also in that 223 00:45:20.430 --> 00:45:33.780 WLWV Board Room: hope framework around having safe spaces for a number of years. Now we've contracted with a safety consultant group, a national consultant group, actually international, called True North. They used to be called alert and associates. 224 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:45.870 We brought them back this year to do another audit or review of our safety procedures. They had come in 2,016, had done a thorough analysis, and given us some recommendations which we've implemented. 225 00:45:46.050 --> 00:45:53.260 WLWV Board Room: and we thought it's been about 7 years, You know we're on this side of the pandemic. Now I have them come back and look at what we've done. 226 00:45:53.280 --> 00:46:05.980 WLWV Board Room: and see if there any gaps or or updates or revisions. They're part of our three-tiered approach that we use in safety, so they'll have those results for us shortly 227 00:46:07.100 --> 00:46:20.820 WLWV Board Room: part of their recommendations, and our work, also funded by our capital bonds and in our long range plan, have been around safe and secure entry ways this year, you may recall, we created those buzz in entries into the vestibule. 228 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:39.280 WLWV Board Room: We do have intrusion limiting glass that should say in key areas instead of is key areas. We don't advertise where that is, as you can understand, for safety reasons. But it is in key areas. We have locked down hardware with just the flip of a fob. 229 00:46:39.340 --> 00:46:57.030 WLWV Board Room: Classroom. Doors can get locked right away. Don't have to fiddle and find keys. We have our emergency standard response protocols as parents. You probably get those announcements of when your students have practiced a evacuation or lock out or lock down. 230 00:46:57.260 --> 00:47:00.120 WLWV Board Room: Now we call the lockouts as secure. 231 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:20.780 WLWV Board Room: And then, of course, you have these quarterly joint safety meetings, which I know as board members. You've attended. Some of those. Those are tabletop exercises with our local law enforcement and our partners, so that we can practice scenarios and talk through what we would do and how we would communicate, and steps we would take. We also update each other on any changes in our organizations. 232 00:47:21.130 --> 00:47:29.460 WLWV Board Room: and then we keep updating and making as comprehensive as possible our safety website family. So just wanted our community to know 233 00:47:29.700 --> 00:47:48.450 WLWV Board Room: that. Well, we certainly think about the families in Tennessee. It's, of course, natural understanding that people think about their own child at school and wonder what their school district is doing. And so that message was to provide that information once again, and folks may not have seen it, but might be listening to this Board meeting, so wanted to just share that 234 00:47:50.790 --> 00:48:02.920 WLWV Board Room: next. So, as you know, we are me deep now in this K. 5 Literacy renewal process, and you did some important work and board approval last month. 235 00:48:02.990 --> 00:48:21.770 WLWV Board Room: getting us kind of moving into this, and it's very clear that there's a lot of interest in our community. But there's also interest among the current board, and likely the new board next year. And so what i'll be doing is just each month. I'll have at least one slide that will just keep the board updated on where we are with the renewal 236 00:48:21.770 --> 00:48:34.010 WLWV Board Room: as a reminder. You do have this document that I sent each of you that kind of summarizes the K 5 reading renewal process. So if you look on the side that has the blue bar 237 00:48:34.420 --> 00:48:35.860 WLWV Board Room: in the green bar. 238 00:48:36.220 --> 00:48:41.760 WLWV Board Room: You can see what what years we're in, and some of the hot, the kind of 239 00:48:41.980 --> 00:48:44.310 WLWV Board Room: 60,000 foot level 240 00:48:44.460 --> 00:49:03.330 WLWV Board Room: view of the actions, and you can see that the last couple of years, including this year we've really been focusing on our getting back to our instructional practices, coming out of comprehensive distance, learning and hybrid, and getting back to in person, learning, renewing those strong instructional practices and looking at our data 241 00:49:03.550 --> 00:49:07.680 WLWV Board Room: where we need to help students get caught up or accelerate their learning. 242 00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:19.560 WLWV Board Room: and then we will move into the the process. The formal process with the Oregon Department of Education around researching, identifying, and adopting curriculum. That will happen next year. 243 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:34.750 WLWV Board Room: and then it doesn't end there, because then you get the materials and then teachers need time and opportunity for professional learning, and we monitor that implementation that that's not just a one and done kind of thing. It's a process. So you have that description there 244 00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:42.550 WLWV Board Room: and then for so for tonight I just want to share a couple of things that we're we've done, and that we're doing currently. So next slide. 245 00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:56.030 WLWV Board Room: just last last month, our principals, with Dr. David Prior leading, and all of our IC. Spent a half day doing some preparation work 246 00:49:56.120 --> 00:50:04.290 on just setting the stage. For as we go into this renewal, let's let's really establish what are our guiding beliefs about teaching reading. 247 00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:13.560 WLWV Board Room: Let's think about that that active expert reading instruction and what it entails, what makes high quality reading, instruction. 248 00:50:13.770 --> 00:50:23.970 WLWV Board Room: and then reviewing again, it's those 5 essential components of reading which are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. 249 00:50:24.310 --> 00:50:43.070 WLWV Board Room: And then they spent that time working with those ideas, the thinking about the focus of each of those wanting teachers to become better reading teachers and establishing the lens Of what? What are we going to look for as we begin this journey, and think about new materials, and remembering that learners need different things, and especially as we think about our multilingual learners 250 00:50:43.070 --> 00:50:48.620 that they do need all 4 components of a literacy program, listening, speaking, reading it. writing. 251 00:50:49.020 --> 00:50:53.870 WLWV Board Room: So that was one activity that's happened already. and next 252 00:50:54.960 --> 00:51:11.750 WLWV Board Room: in April, and likely into May, as we probably won't complete all of this we are going to give an opportunity for every K 5 teacher to have a couple of couple of 3 sessions around some professional learning to look at their current practices self check where they are. 253 00:51:11.750 --> 00:51:16.420 review those 5 essential components, how they fit with a comprehensive literacy, learning. 254 00:51:16.770 --> 00:51:28.670 WLWV Board Room: and then to clarify some key overarching practices, and especially pull out that focus on word study and by word study. What we mean is phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, those kind of components. 255 00:51:29.210 --> 00:51:48.810 WLWV Board Room: And then in the sessions 2 and 3 they can use right now. We are using our current materials because we haven't adopted new ones, yet so, using those current materials make sure teachers are using them with fidelity, and that they have, if they have any questions about any of those materials. Now is the time to raise that and highlight some of the key instructional practices. 256 00:51:48.810 --> 00:51:59.980 WLWV Board Room: What does a 1520 min direct instruction, daily session of word study look like, Get some exemplars and some models and practice delivering those. 257 00:52:00.980 --> 00:52:06.150 WLWV Board Room: So that's some work we're going to do April May. and then 258 00:52:06.270 --> 00:52:26.190 WLWV Board Room: what we've got slated already, for right when school gets out. We've got a team who's going to attend the Institute for multi-sensory Education the acronym is Imse. This is a 5 day training so the team that will go will receive this training. The instructors at Imsc are all certified around reading instruction. 259 00:52:26.670 --> 00:52:44.810 WLWV Board Room: and the training applies to. Here are strategies for students who are struggling with learning to read or write, due to either dyslexia or learning disability, and the strategies that they'll emphasize in that training are those that come from Orton, Gillingham, or Wilson or Barton reading system programs. 260 00:52:45.180 --> 00:53:01.390 WLWV Board Room: and so that team will then bring back that information training to help lead elements of the K. 5 renewal process as it has as we work with around helping developing readers, and especially those who might have challenges and planning our august Literacy symposium when staff get back. 261 00:53:01.910 --> 00:53:15.120 WLWV Board Room: and then, of course, as they learn any updates, if they want to make any revisions to our Literacy Handbook, which is not a static document. It's an evolving document. We keep updating it as we learn more. There'll be opportunity to do that to share that. 262 00:53:15.990 --> 00:53:28.930 WLWV Board Room: So that's just a very brief, you know. Each month i'll just give you a little bit more about what we're doing in that timeline where we are with the process, so that you as a board can keep updated with it. But of course you could always reach out at any time. 263 00:53:29.590 --> 00:53:43.680 WLWV Board Room: And then, lastly, just very quickly, just a reminder that April is the month that kind of kicks off us thinking about our annual budget process and looking at next year's budget, and one of the things that we do as a district is, we do engage the community. 264 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:55.010 WLWV Board Room: and so I will be putting together that information session the last few years. We've done that as a Webinar which we have found has actually engaged more people than when we've asked them to come one night here in person. 265 00:53:55.230 --> 00:54:04.380 WLWV Board Room: so families at home can participate in the webinar. And then there's an opportunity at the end to give input with the survey. 266 00:54:04.530 --> 00:54:20.420 WLWV Board Room: and then that input is folded in to the document that you then receive, and the Budget Committee receives. So you get to see the results of the community input within the draft of that budget document in May. So you can see the survey results from Nancy. 267 00:54:20.420 --> 00:54:28.570 WLWV Board Room: What kind of items the community wants as investments with our budget and feedback that they have for how we have spent. 268 00:54:28.590 --> 00:54:35.150 WLWV Board Room: and what they would like to see how we spend district finances and grants, or 269 00:54:35.170 --> 00:54:36.880 WLWV Board Room: program finances. 270 00:54:37.030 --> 00:54:52.950 WLWV Board Room: And in that Webinar These are just some of the the items that I go through. Just also just giving information about how how is the public School district Budget developed? It's very different than a personal budget, or maybe some private organizations, but it has a different process to it. 271 00:54:52.950 --> 00:54:58.430 Our investment strategies, where we get our resources for revenue and expenditures, and those kinds of things. 272 00:54:59.190 --> 00:55:15.380 WLWV Board Room: So just want the community to know that's coming up, and we'll get that advertised. The reason we don't have a set date is because we actually give the community plenty of time to watch the Webinar and then to give their feedback. So it's not one static date anymore. It actually has a window of time in April when that occurs. 273 00:55:15.810 --> 00:55:27.300 WLWV Board Room: So be looking for that and board members are welcome to watch the Webinar and to take the survey as well. and that's it. And at this time i'll yield. The rest of my time by inviting 274 00:55:27.390 --> 00:55:32.310 WLWV Board Room: our colleagues from Ccc. Is is Bob Cochran here? 275 00:55:32.330 --> 00:55:47.700 WLWV Board Room: Great great to have you and you have an update for us about your bond projects at Ccc. I'm. Bob Cochran, I'm. Dean of campus services for clackness, community, college, outside of clackness. That would be director of facilities. That's what I do is take care of our buildings. 276 00:55:47.790 --> 00:56:07.940 WLWV Board Room: I've been blessed to work on our bond projects for the last 9 years, and I'm just here to give you a what we call a victory lap and tell you what we've done and share our excitement with you. The director on our board that represents Westland Wilsonville is Aaron Woods. He was recently elected to the Senate. I think he's busy now, so he should be right here. But he's not. So. It's just me. 277 00:56:09.610 --> 00:56:18.800 WLWV Board Room: So. Yeah, there we go. So in 2,014 we were forced into. Have the the voters in our district approve our bond. 278 00:56:19.200 --> 00:56:22.020 WLWV Board Room: That little blue box on the right is one of the most 279 00:56:22.510 --> 00:56:38.910 WLWV Board Room: exciting things for me. We passed a 90 million dollar bond. The State matched us with 32 million dollars. We received 9 million dollars, in premium and bond sales, 3.6 and grants, and 1.7, and interest for a total of 136 milliondollars and 280 00:56:38.950 --> 00:56:49.220 WLWV Board Room: and available money to do projects like you see on the list. I'm only going to talk about the first 4 projects, because those are our big buildings. We do a lot of other work in on the campuses. 281 00:56:49.940 --> 00:56:52.680 WLWV Board Room: so our first project was our Harmony campus. 282 00:56:52.740 --> 00:57:04.660 WLWV Board Room: which we call Harmony West. It's over by clock in this town center, and the aquatic center is usually the home that people say all those buildings. So this was the site of our former dalek is junior High. 283 00:57:04.660 --> 00:57:28.450 WLWV Board Room: If you're familiar with that we shared that building with all it for several years, and then, when the bond passed, this was the first project we we completed. So this was. This building was constructed to complement the building that would be right here. Our Harmony East building, which is our Allied Health Building. So this building was constructed solely, not solely, primarily, so that students in the Allied health program 284 00:57:28.770 --> 00:57:35.760 WLWV Board Room: would only go to one campus for their classes. They wouldn't have to come up the Hill for a and P. Or other chemistry, they could do everything there. 285 00:57:35.770 --> 00:57:46.780 WLWV Board Room: We also have our small business development group in this building. Large community spaces, generic classrooms and criminal justice. All reside out of this at the Harmony Campus. 286 00:57:47.150 --> 00:57:56.280 WLWV Board Room: There's a few shots of what what the insight looks like. This is our lobby. You see the upstairs looking down at the bookstore. 287 00:57:58.650 --> 00:58:02.990 WLWV Board Room: This is our one of our biology labs, where we do a. And P. Chemistry on the right 288 00:58:04.660 --> 00:58:10.860 WLWV Board Room: and the next building we did on the Oregon City campus was the hold, an industrial technology center. 289 00:58:10.970 --> 00:58:26.590 WLWV Board Room: This is our manufacturing building where we teach Cnc. Machining, renewable energy. This building has 3 bays that we move from, as you can see, our manual machining there. The photos will take you into our our Cnc 290 00:58:26.650 --> 00:58:52.840 WLWV Board Room: area. That's where the the students write program. Send it to a manufacturing machine, and then a little part spins out. It's pretty fascinating. This building was named after long time colleague and career, technical education supporters Terry and Cheryl Holden from Camus, who or from Malala, who just wanted to make an investment in the college, and we have changed the name from the Itc to the whole industrial technology center. 291 00:58:54.800 --> 00:58:58.790 WLWV Board Room: In this space also, we have the Les diocese 292 00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:00.690 WLWV Board Room: work. 293 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:11.360 WLWV Board Room: Someone else use that term to the maker space. So this space is available for public to come in with ideas they have to create whatever they want to create. This was named after les diocese, the 294 00:59:11.430 --> 00:59:20.660 WLWV Board Room: the founder of benchmade knives, who passed away, and his his family wanted to remember him in this space. So that's the less the Us's maker space in the 295 00:59:20.750 --> 00:59:22.510 WLWV Board Room: in our itc building. 296 00:59:24.460 --> 00:59:30.100 WLWV Board Room: Our next building on this campus is on the Oregon City campuses our Desjard and Hall Science edition. 297 00:59:30.290 --> 00:59:46.150 WLWV Board Room: This this space replaced some really old awkward chemistry labs, and science space that we had in that were constructed in the early eighties. So from we took those classes. We put them in this fascinating building here 298 00:59:46.190 --> 00:59:59.440 WLWV Board Room: and now we have a state of the art, chemistry, biology, water, environmental technology, a and a and P. And just this amazing spot. And, as you can see there, we also, in constructed 299 00:59:59.460 --> 01:00:06.070 WLWV Board Room: a transit center as part of this. If you've been on the campus. We have a transit center. Now that services both try that 300 01:00:06.100 --> 01:00:16.180 WLWV Board Room: and the Malala shuttle and the South can be shuttle. So those shuttles come into the into the Transit Center students offload, and and it just turned out really Well. 301 01:00:16.350 --> 01:00:24.350 WLWV Board Room: one of the things we're most excited about most. We're all excited about all these buildings. But in this building we did a lot of science on display or passive education. 302 01:00:25.240 --> 01:00:26.840 WLWV Board Room: for the next slide will show us that. 303 01:00:27.970 --> 01:00:32.780 WLWV Board Room: Oh, this is. This is a chemistry Prep. Area on the left, chemistry lab on the right. 304 01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:53.220 WLWV Board Room: and this is our science on display. We really focused a lot of time and energy to make sure that this was a fun science building. On the left You can see we have a large bird and duck waterfowl, a display. We move that from the old building into the new. We got a Mini grant from our foundation for a Beluga. 305 01:00:53.220 --> 01:00:56.050 WLWV Board Room: a whale skeleton, and on the right. 306 01:00:56.490 --> 01:01:14.790 WLWV Board Room: We really worked hard to bring the science outside. This is what we call a DNA wall. This is actually after the DNA of a cougar, our mascot. So we worked with our architect and our our contractor to make this DNA wall that is, I think, it's beautiful, but it it really just. It is the 307 01:01:14.830 --> 01:01:18.800 WLWV Board Room: the DNA of our our mascot. So it was a lot of fun putting that together 308 01:01:22.590 --> 01:01:29.300 WLWV Board Room: minor project that we did. And when we built the hold an industrial technology center. We moved old. 309 01:01:29.650 --> 01:01:39.230 WLWV Board Room: old and new equipment out of out of our automotive areas and over to there that allows us to open up and double the size of our automotive service and our collision shops. 310 01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:49.540 WLWV Board Room: So we added 12,000 feet of of shops. 2 flex labs. I think we have 12 automotive bays. This is one of the first areas 311 01:01:49.680 --> 01:02:02.610 WLWV Board Room: Post Covid, that we're starting to see a lot of activity students really struggle doing automotive repair online, right. So so we're really seeing a lot of activity in this auto-service area. It's just been a lot of fun to bring students into this new space. 312 01:02:06.600 --> 01:02:10.340 WLWV Board Room: Our last building, a major building is our what you know. Welcome center. 313 01:02:10.380 --> 01:02:20.990 WLWV Board Room: This was really a fun building to put together to, because before this building a student would come on campus and maybe have to visit 3 or 4 different buildings to get their financial aid. Advising counseling registration. 314 01:02:21.200 --> 01:02:28.790 WLWV Board Room: We saw a need to bring these students to one spot, and then have those departments come down and meet their needs. So this is our welcome center 315 01:02:29.010 --> 01:02:30.460 WLWV Board Room: with the model that 316 01:02:30.970 --> 01:02:37.760 WLWV Board Room: I'm. A student goes through the front door there, as you can see on the right, there's a welcome desk there. They say I need help with 317 01:02:38.140 --> 01:02:52.640 WLWV Board Room: registration. A register will come down from their office, meet them right at their space, take them to a desk or a cubicle. and just deal with their needs. So instead of having students travel all over the campus trying to find the right person, we're getting really discouraged. 318 01:02:52.680 --> 01:02:56.840 WLWV Board Room: We we designed this building so that they come there, and Staff comes to them 319 01:02:56.850 --> 01:03:00.710 WLWV Board Room: so real excited to have that this also has our 320 01:03:01.140 --> 01:03:09.840 WLWV Board Room: veterans center Disability resource center. Asg and other spaces are in this building, and if you've been on campus before the community center, anyone 321 01:03:10.470 --> 01:03:17.990 WLWV Board Room: okay with the dark thing with the flags all around it, we've changed that. We've totally remodeled. That so it's just bright, and complements the new building, too. 322 01:03:21.130 --> 01:03:36.210 WLWV Board Room: There's some pictures of the inside that's the welcome desk. So a new student, any student will go. Stand there and say, this is my need. Then you can see just to the left of that wall that glass that's where they go back and and have the advising session with financial layer registration counseling whoever they need. 323 01:03:36.700 --> 01:03:45.940 WLWV Board Room: So picture on the right, just those 2 floors. This is the community center. If the revisions to that, if that looks familiar at all, it shouldn't because we totally remodeled it. 324 01:03:46.160 --> 01:03:57.950 WLWV Board Room: and a great a great view of our second floor, which at one spot you can see Mount Hood. But I think we've seen it 5 times this year, so we're really excited about the opportunity to see Mount Hood out of our one of our windows. 325 01:03:59.380 --> 01:04:05.650 WLWV Board Room: The last project we did. We just finished up and had a a grand opening in March. Is our 326 01:04:05.660 --> 01:04:20.140 WLWV Board Room: Roger Ro call. This was the location. The first floor, Roger recall, was where all the student services were. We move them into what you know. So we opened up this space. So this is the new, the new home of the executive team, the President, Vice President. 327 01:04:20.170 --> 01:04:37.770 WLWV Board Room: our foundation, Our de offices are all now housed in one new space along with a community room that's dividable. We're having our board meetings in that that room now. Lot of soft furniture out front for students to to study and gather. This one was just really a home run for us, also 328 01:04:40.240 --> 01:04:49.370 WLWV Board Room: a list of other things that we did with the money that we received both from the voters and the State and grants and whatnot we really were. Just 329 01:04:49.380 --> 01:05:06.750 WLWV Board Room: just got a lot of things done. The campus has changed. I've been there 13 years. The we'd redid the road around the the campus we read in stormwater or way findings. Our map. Our signage is just upgraded. It's just really turned into a beautiful campus, and we're really proud of it, and wanted to just show it off. So 330 01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:18.040 WLWV Board Room: when the bond passed our board want us to set 2 goals. They wanted to make sure that we worked with students on the projects, and that we you work with local businesses. 331 01:05:18.050 --> 01:05:24.340 WLWV Board Room: So we put together the sale both program. So the S. The sale is student applied in integrated learning. 332 01:05:24.350 --> 01:05:33.860 WLWV Board Room: and so the board shot for a 1,000 h of student contact time in our project. At the end of the projects we we almost had 2,000 h of student contact time 333 01:05:33.970 --> 01:05:35.630 WLWV Board Room: on our projects. 334 01:05:36.090 --> 01:05:49.810 WLWV Board Room: And then the boat is business, opportunity, achievement, target. We want to make sure that 10% of our capital of our construction costs went to women-owned business minority emerging businesses and businesses within clack in this county. 335 01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:56.810 WLWV Board Room: and we had a 10% goal going into that project. We achieved that with almost a 30 336 01:05:56.890 --> 01:05:59.580 WLWV Board Room: spend in those in those categories. 337 01:06:01.130 --> 01:06:05.500 WLWV Board Room: And finally, we're celebrating the completion of this on August the fifth 338 01:06:05.550 --> 01:06:12.900 WLWV Board Room: on the Oregon City campus from 10 to 3 we're having a a big party with family free food games, activities. 339 01:06:12.910 --> 01:06:27.900 WLWV Board Room: We're putting together a touch of truck, so we're bring in big construction trucks, so kids can be part of the trucks, and and sit in the seats, having some classes, some entertainments, as an opportunity to tour all our new buildings. So please put that on your calendar and come visit us. 340 01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:48.750 WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. That was interesting. When we have our bond projects, we're so proud of them, and I could. Just. I'm so glad you got the opportunity to share that 341 01:06:48.750 --> 01:07:07.590 WLWV Board Room: our students go to Ccc. And so this is an extension of the campus for us. They go while they're enrolled with us. And you know, after they've graduated, and Ccc. Has just been a remarkable partner with Western Wilsonville around Dual credit around a lot of our cts. We're working on some new career pathways 342 01:07:07.600 --> 01:07:21.190 WLWV Board Room: with some of your team there, and just to see that it continues to be a vibrant, engaging, rigorous learning environment for students. It's relevant hands on meeting students where they are. 343 01:07:21.190 --> 01:07:28.500 WLWV Board Room: and just a a a real focal point in the community is great to see. We're proud of Ccc. As our local college. 344 01:07:28.700 --> 01:07:42.070 WLWV Board Room: and your President is a part of our active superintendent group every month, and so we do get updates, and we're just really thrilled for your project completion. and glad that our students get to be a part of this incredible campus. 345 01:07:42.350 --> 01:07:43.880 WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. 346 01:07:47.700 --> 01:07:48.620 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 347 01:07:48.650 --> 01:07:51.660 All right. We're going to move on to the consent agenda. 348 01:07:53.020 --> 01:07:59.440 WLWV Board Room: I motion that we passed the consent agenda. All right. My chair. Thompson moves 349 01:07:59.600 --> 01:08:02.560 WLWV Board Room: Dr. Taylor Seconds. And will you please call the vote? 350 01:08:05.700 --> 01:08:06.640 WLWV Board Room: Hi 351 01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:10.810 WLWV Board Room: checking? I 352 01:08:10.930 --> 01:08:19.310 WLWV Board Room: By St. Johnson, bye. Check, July. hey? Thank you. Alright. Very good. We're going to move on to the public comments 353 01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:31.560 WLWV Board Room: portion from residents who are speaking on something that is on our agenda this evening, and we do have a couple of people signed up, and i'll go ahead and go over 354 01:08:31.689 --> 01:08:38.880 WLWV Board Room: how we do things. So thanks for being here, and we're here to listen, so you'll see us. 355 01:08:38.880 --> 01:08:58.479 WLWV Board Room: maybe taking notes or listening quietly, but it's not an opportunity to engage in dialogue. So if you have a question, you can submit that in writing or via email, but it's we won't. Be responding to questions at this time it's our chance to collect information, and 356 01:09:00.250 --> 01:09:17.850 WLWV Board Room: also, if you have a complaint about an individual. Then we have a separate complaint process for that. So the getting up with the podium and talking about it is not the Forum, but there is a separate forum, and you can access that on our website, and we do a lot 3 min. 357 01:09:17.890 --> 01:09:37.760 WLWV Board Room: and there's a timer up here to increase your public speaking anxiety, or just to let you know that you're almost out of time. And please stop when the buzzer goes off and we a lot 45 min for public comment combined. For all all 3 periods. 358 01:09:39.069 --> 01:09:47.260 WLWV Board Room: Please speak to us rather than to the audience. You're addressing the board, and so speak this direction. 359 01:09:47.460 --> 01:09:58.140 WLWV Board Room: and if you have more that you wanted to say, but you couldn't get it all out in 3 min, and we read all the emails. And if you want to submit something there, we'll be sure to read it. 360 01:10:00.030 --> 01:10:06.380 WLWV Board Room: I get it all right. And with that i'll call up the first name, and that's Karen. 361 01:10:19.030 --> 01:10:33.420 WLWV Board Room: Well, hello! I'm Karen solve Eddie, as many of you already know him. I was just reviewing the agenda before I came today, and I saw that the financial report was back on there same as last time with some updates. 362 01:10:33.430 --> 01:10:43.510 WLWV Board Room: and what I noticed on there was a line on the budget that shows the amount of money given to textbooks and to library books, and I was helping during 363 01:10:43.650 --> 01:10:57.020 WLWV Board Room: the portion where you get to discuss the agenda or on the agenda about the financial report that we could maybe dive into that. A little more could answer my question on why library books are given the same dollar amount as textbooks. 364 01:10:57.130 --> 01:11:09.300 WLWV Board Room: and why that same dollar amount does not have the same procedure behind it as the textbooks. Textbooks are given the opportunity. This is reading from 365 01:11:09.700 --> 01:11:11.080 WLWV Board Room: the 366 01:11:11.100 --> 01:11:14.420 WLWV Board Room: policy of how textbooks are chosen. 367 01:11:14.500 --> 01:11:29.550 WLWV Board Room: says: Provide opportunities for parents to give feedback about material selection at in person or recorded session, using verbal feedback and input on a form, and finally present final recommendation to the superintendent and to the School Board 368 01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:37.290 WLWV Board Room: in a public meeting for adoption. So, while $600,000 is an excellent amount of money to give to both 369 01:11:37.310 --> 01:11:55.180 WLWV Board Room: items. One has a lot of procedure behind it. One has a lot of checks and balances. One has to meet a certain standard that the Board and the school district has put into place, and that they value and they want parent input and they want teacher input. There's a whole section on teachers getting to do it. 370 01:11:55.180 --> 01:12:13.000 WLWV Board Room: Dr. Log would just spoke to that with the new literacy things coming up, but none of that is done with the same amount of money for library books. There is a small thing in regard to teacher librarians coming together. They have a small handbook. They can choose things. 371 01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:27.930 WLWV Board Room: There's no parent input on it at all. I've been told that there will not be anything new created to have parent input in that. So while these parents are putting our money in our community money into $600,000 for textbooks. 372 01:12:28.050 --> 01:12:33.900 WLWV Board Room: why do we not get a say in the same amount of money going into library books. 373 01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:48.820 And so that's my question in that. And is it really $600,000 spent a year on library books. Because where do you put all of those? That's a lot of books, and not that much space, and are already abundant libraries. So that is my questions on that finance report. Thank you. 374 01:12:51.610 --> 01:12:53.040 WLWV Board Room: Mike Sloop. 375 01:13:08.930 --> 01:13:14.400 WLWV Board Room: My name is Mike Sloop, I'm. By education a 376 01:13:14.650 --> 01:13:19.980 WLWV Board Room: degree in construction management biology certified construction manager. 377 01:13:20.270 --> 01:13:34.750 WLWV Board Room: but none of that compares to the education learned at the U. Of Hk, which is the University of Hard Knocks. The tuition paid there and the lessons learned. So what does this all bring up is construction 378 01:13:35.050 --> 01:13:41.350 WLWV Board Room: and the adoption of, or the discussion about, the community benefits contracts. Tonight. 379 01:13:44.050 --> 01:13:45.620 WLWV Board Room: Fundamentally 380 01:13:45.670 --> 01:13:49.050 WLWV Board Room: we agree that we're here to educate children 381 01:13:49.230 --> 01:13:59.550 WLWV Board Room: and stewards of our community dollars. So how does a community benefits contract this benign little thing fit into all of that. Well. 382 01:14:01.950 --> 01:14:10.110 WLWV Board Room: it is important enough that something like this is brought to the Board, and that some Board members believe that it needs to be policy, so it's worth 383 01:14:10.520 --> 01:14:11.790 WLWV Board Room: conversation. 384 01:14:12.930 --> 01:14:19.630 WLWV Board Room: and i'm looking for any. This time. We make a decision whatever. That decision is that it's made 385 01:14:20.130 --> 01:14:21.850 WLWV Board Room: as an informed decision. 386 01:14:23.740 --> 01:14:35.660 WLWV Board Room: This conversation about community benefits is redundant in many, many ways. It is not about wages or the pay that the workers get on our projects 387 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:44.230 WLWV Board Room: depending on the funding source State Federal. It's Bully or Davis Bacon. It's not about training apprentices. 388 01:14:44.270 --> 01:14:50.870 WLWV Board Room: we as an industry i'm a construction contractor for 37 years we are so short 389 01:14:51.310 --> 01:14:54.580 WLWV Board Room: and replacing our aging workforce everyone. 390 01:14:54.650 --> 01:14:56.160 WLWV Board Room: his training, new people. 391 01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:00.580 WLWV Board Room: The thing that happens in this 392 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:09.530 WLWV Board Room: clause or this this community benefit contracts is about employer paid family health insurance. 393 01:15:09.570 --> 01:15:17.540 WLWV Board Room: which kind of in a really weird way becomes a barrier. So how can that be a barrier? In our own school district? 394 01:15:18.300 --> 01:15:21.950 WLWV Board Room: Our employees are not paid family 395 01:15:22.210 --> 01:15:23.510 WLWV Board Room: health insurance. 396 01:15:23.750 --> 01:15:35.270 WLWV Board Room: But this clause is asking for the workers and the companies to pay family insurance for everyone that's on the job site. Well, I can't say everyone, because there's nuances in the the language and the bill. 397 01:15:35.930 --> 01:15:41.390 WLWV Board Room: How difficult is it to by health insurance for a project 398 01:15:41.750 --> 01:15:46.380 WLWV Board Room: for 3 months for one person. You're buying these things on an annual basis. 399 01:15:46.430 --> 01:15:49.020 WLWV Board Room: What this does is, creates a 400 01:15:49.180 --> 01:15:53.950 WLWV Board Room: exclusionary process to those that aren't large contractors. 401 01:15:54.530 --> 01:15:58.340 WLWV Board Room: We can't go by insurance like this. So my 402 01:15:58.350 --> 01:16:03.690 WLWV Board Room: request is, if this needs to be passed for reasons that are important. 403 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:07.340 WLWV Board Room: put it at a barrier at about 15 million dollars. 404 01:16:07.400 --> 01:16:15.400 WLWV Board Room: So those underneath that barrier or that threshold can continue to participate in the community funds. Thank you 405 01:16:17.590 --> 01:16:27.860 WLWV Board Room: all right. That concludes everybody who signed up who is a resident, and is speaking on something that is on our agenda. so we will move on to 406 01:16:32.120 --> 01:16:36.730 WLWV Board Room: the 3 Rivers Charter School Annual report. 407 01:16:37.150 --> 01:16:40.550 WLWV Board Room: Megan, I'll spend. Come on up, Hi 408 01:16:42.410 --> 01:16:43.460 WLWV Board Room: for you later 409 01:16:43.510 --> 01:16:46.040 WLWV Board Room: to get through my speaking first. 410 01:16:49.490 --> 01:17:03.850 WLWV Board Room: Hi, everybody! My name is Megan Elston. I'm the administrator at 3 Rivers Charter school. Thank you to the Board for having me here today, as I expressed similarly last June when I was here. I appreciate the work you all do 411 01:17:03.860 --> 01:17:09.390 WLWV Board Room: for the district in a very calm and respectful way. It's noticed 412 01:17:09.570 --> 01:17:38.690 WLWV Board Room: I can't tune in all the time. I have 2 little kids at home, but when i'm tuning in and watching. I just. I love the demeanor that you all create. I appreciate that. Thank you. I'd also like to thank the leadership team at the district. Dr. Ludwig, Dr. Pryor. Somewhere there I go. Dr. Soyson, Dr. Fries all around. Each one of you has provided connection and support throughout the school year, by including the Charter School in district-wide safety meetings, and the annual equity summit 413 01:17:38.690 --> 01:17:50.890 WLWV Board Room: to connecting me with other principals in the district to helping me decipher integrated applications for Gender Spencer I'm. On this tricky one, and to helping ensure our sixth grade students receive their funding for outdoor school. 414 01:17:51.270 --> 01:17:53.710 WLWV Board Room: Finally, to Miss Douglas. 415 01:17:54.140 --> 01:18:05.570 WLWV Board Room: Such a cheerleader. Thank you. It's always so. Just look there it is there it is cheering me on. I appreciate it. And of course the many things you do behind the scenes for everybody. 416 01:18:05.740 --> 01:18:25.010 WLWV Board Room: I would also be remiss if I didn't thank the it, and the Communications Department, as well as student services as a pretty small school. A lot of the tasks that offices do on a day to day basis. We don't do very often. We only have 110 students. And so a lot of those tasks 417 01:18:25.010 --> 01:18:43.770 WLWV Board Room: become like, oh, man, what did we do last October when we needed to do that? And so all of the people in it, and student services and communications. They're a quick phone call away, and they've been a great guide. They're super helpful all the time when I have lots of questions. 418 01:18:44.040 --> 01:18:50.360 WLWV Board Room: So next I wanted to highlight a few moments from our school year. That picture. Oh, go back one that sorry 419 01:18:51.440 --> 01:18:54.810 WLWV Board Room: it was that was misleading queue. I apologize. 420 01:18:56.640 --> 01:19:11.590 WLWV Board Room: Maybe you can. Anyway, it's fine. That picture is just from outdoor school. We just returned from Camp Luther wood. We go to outdoor school the week before our spring break. I think we're one of the earliest groups that go. 421 01:19:11.930 --> 01:19:19.740 WLWV Board Room: and so we take our 6, seventh and eighth graders. There they are with our camp flags and their cabin flags. 422 01:19:19.910 --> 01:19:30.970 WLWV Board Room: Outdoor School for 3 Rivers is a very important part of our school year. It helps us. You're in the final months for our eighth graders, and we had an amazing time at camp. That's 423 01:19:31.460 --> 01:19:46.190 WLWV Board Room: a slightly misleading picture in that. It's sunny. That was sort of the last day, so little sunshine for about 4 h in the last day. But this year we were also able to bring along 8 alumni as high school counselors 424 01:19:46.190 --> 01:20:04.250 WLWV Board Room: and all. But while all but one of them attend school at Westland High School, or will simple, high. And so these particular seniors were eighth graders at 3 Rivers in my last year, full time teaching so to have them at camp. 425 01:20:04.250 --> 01:20:07.970 WLWV Board Room: mentoring our younger students 426 01:20:08.480 --> 01:20:17.010 WLWV Board Room: and sort of being our partners as the staff. There was just incredible, and it really helps solidify the the circle of 427 01:20:17.110 --> 01:20:24.990 WLWV Board Room: connection that we have at 3 Rivers, and it was especially special for me having taught those kids. 428 01:20:25.120 --> 01:20:26.580 WLWV Board Room: Now you can go to the next slide. 429 01:20:27.410 --> 01:20:52.350 WLWV Board Room: all right. This is just going to be a little video that runs while I talk about all the fun things we've done this year. So some other memorable moments from our school year include some family skits. Our students are split up into 9 families with a 3 leaders at the helm. They ride buses to field trips together. They help tidy up the school several times each term. They sit with each other for our weekly meetings, and they compete with each other and our various PE units. 430 01:20:52.350 --> 01:21:10.990 WLWV Board Room: or sometimes in little minute to win it games. We've had a few great spirit weeks this year. We've had a gingerbread night an art show and a fantastic whole school. Sci-fi literature unit that culminated in a stop motion short film, where the only actual requirement was that it had to include slime. 431 01:21:11.070 --> 01:21:15.600 WLWV Board Room: So they sort of recreated these little Mini- blob, Esk 432 01:21:15.670 --> 01:21:17.320 WLWV Board Room: Short films. 433 01:21:18.940 --> 01:21:35.360 WLWV Board Room: We were guests at Westland High School's production of Matilda which was amazing. We went ice skating as a reward for meeting our school goal in our annual fun run, and we watched an Osu basketball game at Gil Coliseum. It was extremely loud and very fun. 434 01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:38.210 WLWV Board Room: We had our annual plaid challenge. 435 01:21:38.390 --> 01:21:45.950 WLWV Board Room: A few World Cup soccer lunches, and we had an alumni build us an info kiosk as part of his Eagle scout project. 436 01:21:46.270 --> 01:22:04.880 WLWV Board Room: Other academic highlights include sphero robots in both our science classes and our language arts, classes. A special visit from my mom, who is a former children's theatre director, and in some exercises with our 4 to sixth graders, and finally, being able to bring 6 of our students to listen to Kwame Alexander, speak about equity and inclusion. 437 01:22:04.880 --> 01:22:11.110 WLWV Board Room: and the power of being heard, and then writing a poem with him, which was very cool experience. 438 01:22:11.500 --> 01:22:30.500 WLWV Board Room: We are looking forward to the rest of the school year. It's independent project season at 3 Rivers, which means 110 different research projects. IP is essentially a research project with components across curricular areas. But the student is in the driver's seat for most of the process, using skills and techniques they've learned from the school year 439 01:22:30.500 --> 01:22:49.490 WLWV Board Room: helps our students engage in their learning at what can sometimes be a difficult time of the school year with the spring and the sun and the flowers. so this helps them focus their their time in their last moments of their school year. This year our fourth and fifth graders are studying a landmark, a historical figure, or an animal. 440 01:22:49.550 --> 01:23:08.010 WLWV Board Room: Some examples are Machu, Picchu, Mozart, as well as Beethoven, Belugas, and donkeys. That's a personal favorite of mine. And then our sixth of the eighth graders have a little more leeway with their topic selection, but they need to come up with an essential question which they've just started working on today. 441 01:23:08.010 --> 01:23:18.060 WLWV Board Room: Some highlights from this group include invasive species the role of Women in World War Ii. Fast Fashion, and the World Building of J. R. Tolkien. 442 01:23:18.160 --> 01:23:35.630 WLWV Board Room: Our students study amazing things, and by proxy all of us learn a lot, too. I'm: so proud of our Trcs students. They entered the school year more settled and confident in their abilities this year, and also more at ease with what they still need to work on, and what they need to learn 443 01:23:35.790 --> 01:23:48.430 WLWV Board Room: our students Success couldn't be possible without our amazing staff. Their dedication to the school is commendable, and they returned from Spring break, refreshed and ready to go, if not a little confused by the snow 444 01:23:48.440 --> 01:23:53.590 WLWV Board Room: this morning, and this afternoon more thanks go out to our 445 01:23:53.990 --> 01:24:13.660 WLWV Board Room: own Trcs Board members who are helping prepare for our spring fundraiser, reviewing our own Osba policy updates and keeping an eye on our finances. And last, but not least, a huge gratitude to our parent community who continue to believe in their kids and get them to us so they can learn. And then to the myriad of other places for activity sports and events after school 446 01:24:13.660 --> 01:24:23.050 WLWV Board Room: they're very busy. They're very busy people, so thank you for your time. I appreciate being able to share a little bit about our little school with you. 447 01:24:23.310 --> 01:24:28.660 WLWV Board Room: and I have a little gift for the 5 of you. 448 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:41.910 WLWV Board Room: I've already given the gift to to Dr. Spencer, Ames, and i'm kind of making everybody else come to see me to get your gift. So if you're out there you gotta You gotta come over some of you already have a plan on the books. 449 01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:49.070 WLWV Board Room: everybody else. I'll! I'll come deliver it if I don't see you. How about that at the end of the school year? But for you guys. 450 01:24:49.270 --> 01:24:53.320 WLWV Board Room: this I might not see you. I just have i'm a huge soccer fan. 451 01:24:53.690 --> 01:25:09.090 WLWV Board Room: Hence watching World Cup at lunch a couple of times this year, and so we have 3 Rivers Charter School soccer starts. Maybe you keep you more. I don't know it's not quite the right colors. But 452 01:25:09.200 --> 01:25:11.440 WLWV Board Room: yeah, it's 453 01:25:14.110 --> 01:25:17.300 WLWV Board Room: saw you at the summit. I didn't get my scarf, but 454 01:25:17.460 --> 01:25:18.440 WLWV Board Room: that's okay. 455 01:25:21.660 --> 01:25:31.580 WLWV Board Room: so we'll we'll see you soon. So, anyway, thank you. I appreciate being here. It's fun to come. Talk to you about our little our little school. Yeah. 456 01:25:38.150 --> 01:25:40.350 WLWV Board Room: Small but mighty school. 457 01:25:40.840 --> 01:25:54.130 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Yeah, they thank you. It's soft. Yeah, go ahead. I just want to say, don't scoot out yet, and you may want to stay in case of the Board. Members have questions, but I just want to say, thank you for your leadership 458 01:25:54.270 --> 01:26:04.290 WLWV Board Room: that through your Charter school we're incredibly proud of this small but mighty school in our district. We share the same families. We're we're community together. 459 01:26:04.310 --> 01:26:18.390 WLWV Board Room: Our kids start in our primary schools. They find this space and time between fourth and eighth grade for some of them to to be at 3 Rivers, and then they come back at high school. And so it's really important that we become an aligned system. 460 01:26:18.390 --> 01:26:33.970 WLWV Board Room: and under your leadership, and I know your predecessor who's sitting here in nick Shape, and both of you had this really strong commitment, and and the founding educators of 3 Rivers Charter school leaders to keep the Charter School really connected to the overall mission of the district. 461 01:26:33.970 --> 01:26:40.330 WLWV Board Room: because we share our students and our families, and we have a shared experience together in their their K. 12 journey. 462 01:26:40.430 --> 01:26:58.580 WLWV Board Room: So thank you for being a part of the team. Thank you for your leadership. You've certainly continued that high, that high caliber of leadership that has been a hallmark of 3 Rivers Charter School. Your team is incredible. You've got talented people you've hired. Well, you've nurtured well. 463 01:26:58.580 --> 01:27:08.640 WLWV Board Room: and every time I go over there. Students are thriving. They're engaged. They're happy. And you found a way to make a small school experience 464 01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:22.980 WLWV Board Room: feel really robust and complete, and that's not easy to do, and and you found a way to do that, and so have the other directors of the school, and you've kept that going. So thank you so much. It's great to always work alongside you, and 465 01:27:23.110 --> 01:27:29.210 WLWV Board Room: and I know the school is really lucky to have you. Thank you. I probably should give a shout out to Nick, who is also 466 01:27:29.270 --> 01:27:34.360 WLWV Board Room: my mentor for my for my licensure program. So he gets a lot of phone calls as well. 467 01:27:37.890 --> 01:27:40.600 WLWV Board Room: Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thanks for being here. 468 01:27:42.470 --> 01:27:48.310 WLWV Board Room: All right. We'll move on to the next agenda. Item on Dr. Sunlight, Hughes and the financial report. 469 01:27:53.800 --> 01:28:03.260 WLWV Board Room: Good evening. So in front of us is the financial report for Channel, one as of March. It was the first. 470 01:28:03.550 --> 01:28:11.370 WLWV Board Room: We have 3 area that have different number compared to the report that I presented to you last month. 471 01:28:11.540 --> 01:28:21.570 WLWV Board Room: The first one is under the Ret. That under it that revenue that revenue came to from like a Mac education, or in Schools Literate. 472 01:28:21.670 --> 01:28:22.880 And now. 473 01:28:23.880 --> 01:28:43.510 WLWV Board Room: in last month, report based on their November statement is indicate that the payment that they will met to the school district this year is about 2 million. But few days ago, in their marked financial final assignment, they indicate that 474 01:28:43.510 --> 01:28:54.000 WLWV Board Room: the total payment for this school year will be about 3.1 million, which is about a 1 million more than what I have in the last. 475 01:28:54.110 --> 01:29:03.270 WLWV Board Room: Within a in the last report, or about 518,000 more, compared to the adopted butcher. 476 01:29:04.240 --> 01:29:13.320 WLWV Board Room: The second item that's a different in that report compared to last month. The report is the highest cost, disability. 477 01:29:14.400 --> 01:29:32.610 WLWV Board Room: high cost, that abilities is part of the Say school Fund formula, and we received it money from, or the to support the school district to call for or to upset the expenditure that support the student with disability 478 01:29:32.740 --> 01:29:52.320 WLWV Board Room: and with the current number of Iep student that our district currently have, let's say, say for the business office, to how the projection that the they trip will receive 1.6 million in support from Ode. 479 01:29:53.800 --> 01:29:59.370 WLWV Board Room: The last items is under the expenditure under the contingency 480 01:30:01.100 --> 01:30:06.360 WLWV Board Room: it's. It's a close to the school year, and now, and 481 01:30:06.740 --> 01:30:25.670 WLWV Board Room: we don't anticipate any major expenditure in facility or maintenance. So, therefore, it's safe for us to remove 1 million from the contingency to euro that will allow us to from our ending fund but an infant violence for this year. 482 01:30:26.010 --> 01:30:43.380 WLWV Board Room: So with the 3 area that engine in this month report that give us the estimate ending phone number for 22 to 23 up to 20.1 million or 24.13% of the total revenue. 483 01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:47.910 WLWV Board Room: So that's 484 01:30:48.170 --> 01:30:53.160 WLWV Board Room: this ended from Balin may chain based on the 485 01:30:53.190 --> 01:31:10.440 WLWV Board Room: yeah in expenditure, because we haven't. There is a lot of expenditure that coming in in June before 2 and a half years, and that I will report that either in May or June report to you. 486 01:31:10.440 --> 01:31:16.960 WLWV Board Room: But again they 31.3 point, 1 million is not a concrete number yet. 487 01:31:19.090 --> 01:31:28.200 WLWV Board Room: so that's all I have on the financial report, and if you have any question for me before we invite our audit to come up. 488 01:31:29.740 --> 01:31:35.790 WLWV Board Room: speak to those to that line. Item. Yes, I'm just going to speak to the line item 489 01:31:36.010 --> 01:31:41.580 WLWV Board Room: around textbooks and library books that you can see there. I'm glad that there's questions so 490 01:31:41.720 --> 01:31:50.830 WLWV Board Room: people can, because it's very easy to take things out of context. If you don't have the whole picture we do have in our general budget 491 01:31:51.180 --> 01:32:09.120 WLWV Board Room: money allocated every year towards library, and you'll see that when you're on the Budget Committee, and you get to look at the document you get to see that the reason this is here is because we made a change, and allocated some more money towards textbooks as we saw the cost of that, and moved some things around. 492 01:32:09.250 --> 01:32:28.280 WLWV Board Room: This is not for the K 5 renewal. This is for this school year. So some additional textbooks that we needed to get for high school and some components like that, so that amount that was in the budget originally for this year was not enough, and we were able to allocate some more towards textbooks for our schools, so it's not 493 01:32:28.390 --> 01:32:42.920 WLWV Board Room: a complete number. It's just the change. That's why it's on here. Remember, this financial report is about changes that you get to see. And then the 600,000 towards library is actually towards the riverside. 494 01:32:42.950 --> 01:32:49.850 WLWV Board Room: Sorry for you, but it's 3 purpose, because Megan was here. It's to get Riversides library space up and going. 495 01:32:49.910 --> 01:33:01.500 WLWV Board Room: So we we allocated that in here that wasn't originally in the budget, and so we thought we could do that through bond and and weren't able to. So it came out of general budget. 496 01:33:01.610 --> 01:33:04.620 WLWV Board Room: And so that's what that is, it's not about 497 01:33:04.700 --> 01:33:16.210 WLWV Board Room: the other schools and libraries. It's about getting riverside library space that includes books, materials, and some tech infrastructure to get that library hub 498 01:33:16.490 --> 01:33:22.340 WLWV Board Room: up and going, because, as you know, when we open the new 80 creek. They will take their metric. 499 01:33:22.460 --> 01:33:30.890 WLWV Board Room: their materials with them to the Middle school, so it'll be empty, and so we do need to have a high school library established there. So that's what that is 500 01:33:35.270 --> 01:33:35.910 WLWV Board Room: right. 501 01:33:36.080 --> 01:33:47.460 WLWV Board Room: And I just wanted to make a quick comment. I feel like this is the time of the year when, if you just glance at this spreadsheet, it can start to seem really confusing. 502 01:33:47.460 --> 01:34:06.620 WLWV Board Room: because we're nearing the end of the fiscal year, we're planning for the New Year. We're getting updated numbers, as you've explained. Really well today. And I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to remind the community to watch that budget video and learn more about how we budget 503 01:34:06.620 --> 01:34:08.180 based on 504 01:34:08.490 --> 01:34:33.560 WLWV Board Room: really an estimate of students and a lot of unknown money is coming in from the State and from the Federal Government. And so it can seem at times like when we get these reports that it's that the numbers are moving around and we're not. We're not sure. You know what's gonna happen next month. But what I've observed over the last couple of years is that these reports are tremendously helpful in explaining 505 01:34:33.560 --> 01:34:51.420 WLWV Board Room: how complex it is. It's not like budgeting at home, where you have, you know, income coming in each month, and you're keeping track of what you spend. The amount of of transfers and and grants and reimbursements is is stunning, and I think you've done a wonderful job of explaining that to us. 506 01:34:51.420 --> 01:35:10.480 WLWV Board Room: But I think as we look at, and we head into budget season, we shouldn't look at that number and think we're flush, You know this is gonna be easy. And so I just really encourage folks to watch the video and and get up to speed because this is really complex. And you know, I appreciate all the work that you and your team have done to explain it to us. 507 01:35:11.400 --> 01:35:30.870 WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much for that reminder, because right now, whenever I've received the new information that mit Ctl. And changing the figure especially related to the revenue, I quickly update the war for the expenditure exactly like what you say, because we have to wait until the end of the year 2 508 01:35:30.870 --> 01:35:42.690 WLWV Board Room: to see whether the brain can cover all the expenditure that we say in the narrative or not, if not some of that expenditure, how to ship to the general fund, and that will affect this number. 509 01:35:46.990 --> 01:35:56.050 WLWV Board Room: That's all right. So no question. So with that I would like to invite our auditor and their team. Laura Cassidy. 510 01:35:59.070 --> 01:36:00.250 WLWV Board Room: Good evening. 511 01:36:00.270 --> 01:36:13.310 WLWV Board Room: Thank you for inviting me to your board meeting. My name is Laura Cesar, and I'm. With Polly Rogers. I am the Compliance manager that's overseeing the audit team that did your audit of the basic financial 512 01:36:13.410 --> 01:36:41.340 WLWV Board Room: statements. This year. But first I did want to say that Polly Rogers and Staff would like to thank your staff. They put up with a lot. I mean, we do ask for a lot of documentation, and when that isn't enough, we go back and say, Well, now, we need this. Now we are asking why this looks like a and not B. So they were very swift, very helpful to make this audit a success. So I did want to say that. Thank you. 513 01:36:41.550 --> 01:36:54.590 WLWV Board Room: Okay, without further ado, let's go on. I am going to talk about the purpose of the audit. So there are 3 sections of the audit that we review first and generally accept it, which is gap. 514 01:36:54.680 --> 01:37:06.550 WLWV Board Room: What that is is that we review your financial statements. That's my favorite part, because we basically take everything off your balance sheet, and that is what we test your assets and your liabilities. 515 01:37:06.650 --> 01:37:21.680 WLWV Board Room: The next one would be your Oregon municipal audit law. So an example to that would be is that we do check your budget, and making sure that you do have bids out there whenever you do make purchases over a certain amount of money. 516 01:37:21.780 --> 01:37:29.940 WLWV Board Room: Then we go over to the last one, which is the Federal State and other agency rules. This is when you receive money from the government. 517 01:37:30.280 --> 01:37:37.880 WLWV Board Room: We go and audit and make sure that you do follow all the rules before you get your reimbursement, to make sure everything looks good and 518 01:37:38.110 --> 01:37:48.420 WLWV Board Room: all that to say. I want to say that Roy Rogers a managing partner. He is happy to say that he gave you a clean audit. What that means to you is that 519 01:37:48.430 --> 01:37:57.770 WLWV Board Room: we did not find any material weaknesses or any significant deficiencies, so he has issue a clean opinion on this audit. 520 01:37:59.440 --> 01:38:01.790 WLWV Board Room: It's really short 521 01:38:01.990 --> 01:38:03.620 WLWV Board Room: right here. I don't go 522 01:38:03.730 --> 01:38:09.970 WLWV Board Room: too much in detail. It's really what it is talking about, what the auditors do during the audit. 523 01:38:10.020 --> 01:38:29.760 WLWV Board Room: and then the timing of the audit, and can go to the next page from here. And then I did already explain the 3 steps here. What it is we do. We issue an that modified opinion, and there were no findings in either section, not under the State minimum standards or the Federal awards. 524 01:38:29.760 --> 01:38:37.520 WLWV Board Room: So with that said we did not have a management letter to issue, because there were no significant deficiency. So congratulations. 525 01:38:37.870 --> 01:38:41.260 WLWV Board Room: I did want to give you the heads up 526 01:38:41.360 --> 01:38:54.100 WLWV Board Room: for the fiscal year, ending in 2,023. We do have Gaspy 96, which is Akin to Gaspy 87, and with that I did want to plot thank you for going with the third party. 527 01:38:54.150 --> 01:38:55.920 WLWV Board Room: which is that book I believe 528 01:38:56.200 --> 01:39:09.260 WLWV Board Room: many districts chose not to, and that was very challenging for them. So I want to say thank you Kudos for doing that, and I hope you do consider doing the same for Gatsby. 96 which is going to present the same amount of challenges. 529 01:39:09.360 --> 01:39:14.550 WLWV Board Room: All that to say. I don't have anything else. Are there any questions 530 01:39:18.900 --> 01:39:30.580 WLWV Board Room: in the the draft letter? If if this is the similar to what you're looking at there under corrected and uncorrected in the statements. 531 01:39:31.210 --> 01:39:38.000 WLWV Board Room: The last 532 01:39:38.060 --> 01:39:40.190 WLWV Board Room: it's 3. Yeah. 533 01:39:43.710 --> 01:39:45.810 WLWV Board Room: Your last 534 01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:49.910 WLWV Board Room: 2 sentences read there were immaterial. 535 01:39:50.030 --> 01:40:02.820 WLWV Board Room: uncorrected the statements noted during the audit which were discussed, and with management. the uncorrected misstatements, or the matters underlying them, could potentially cause future period financial statements to be materially 536 01:40:03.050 --> 01:40:04.190 WLWV Board Room: the stated. 537 01:40:04.240 --> 01:40:10.520 WLWV Board Room: even if, in our judgment, some uncorrected misstatements are immaterial to the financial statements 538 01:40:10.690 --> 01:40:14.100 WLWV Board Room: under audit. Can you explain to me what that means? 539 01:40:15.090 --> 01:40:19.320 WLWV Board Room: A lot of it is generic, but sometimes what that means is. 540 01:40:19.480 --> 01:40:24.970 WLWV Board Room: for instance, when we audit your balance sheet and we're taking, let's say, we're auditing your cash. 541 01:40:25.100 --> 01:40:29.010 WLWV Board Room: If there is a a sample there that it's 542 01:40:29.360 --> 01:40:47.640 WLWV Board Room: insignificant under the amount that we consider so which that means insignificant. We just do a journal entry to that, and it's not considered something that will affect your financials. And so, therefore it is not corrected or corrected If you do decide to do a journal entry. 543 01:40:49.280 --> 01:41:00.200 WLWV Board Room: But I like, I said. Most of it is generic, which is, I see, a a face of confusion there, because it doesn't mean that it it that it affected your books. It's just generic. 544 01:41:08.780 --> 01:41:14.190 WLWV Board Room: All right. Very good. Everybody looks. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Do you have any any questions for you? Forward? 545 01:41:14.390 --> 01:41:23.270 WLWV Board Room: I just had 1 one. If you could just address the and just to remind the Board that the reason we have this letter as a draft 546 01:41:23.330 --> 01:41:41.020 WLWV Board Room: is that while the audit is complete. You can see the date on here was January 6. We have received our funding, so Ode knows that our audit is complete. The last component of the process is that it's it's printed, it's formatted, and that way it's presented to us. We can put on our website. 547 01:41:41.020 --> 01:41:59.400 WLWV Board Room: Some staff are absent these last few weeks with attending to matters. And so when they return to the office, they're going to complete that printed document. So that's why you don't have the printed document in front of you. And Laura, though, was very gracious in bringing the letter that will be included in that, so that you can see the opinion of the auditors. 548 01:41:59.400 --> 01:42:05.410 But, Laura, could you address it? Does say in the first sentence that you did audit each major fund. 549 01:42:05.470 --> 01:42:19.570 WLWV Board Room: Could you just speak to some because we have questions from our community about whether our bond has been audited by the poly. Could you speak to that 550 01:42:19.570 --> 01:42:35.240 WLWV Board Room: is able to review, especially the prior years, and you will see it soon. Once we give you the printed version, it'll be available for everyone to see. So basically everything on that balance sheet, including your bonds under a category line called long-term debt 551 01:42:35.420 --> 01:42:51.500 WLWV Board Room: is what we test and it it is, I, at least for me. Before I was compliance manager. It would take me a whole day, because there's so many bonds, so many contracts to review and read, and make sure everything is up to part. So it is. 552 01:42:51.540 --> 01:43:03.340 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Just wanted to assure the Board that sometimes there's questions from the community about whether we have our capital bond audited every year, and just wanted you to hear from Poly Rogers that that is part of their process every year. 553 01:43:03.930 --> 01:43:06.800 WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Laura. Alright, Thank you. Have a good evening. 554 01:43:09.460 --> 01:43:13.820 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And well well done to you and to your whole team. Yeah. 555 01:43:16.840 --> 01:43:23.640 WLWV Board Room: okay, we will move on to the Department of Operations and 556 01:43:23.740 --> 01:43:25.310 WLWV Board Room: Pat. Come on up. 557 01:43:26.900 --> 01:43:28.680 WLWV Board Room: Did you want to speak? 558 01:43:29.040 --> 01:43:48.310 WLWV Board Room: Go ahead and introduce one, I think. I think, since this was a agenda item that you and Director Taylor brought forward for Staff to work on. I'm: happy to, I think. Yeah. So we have this policy. Djc: a proposed update to it. 559 01:43:49.080 --> 01:44:01.300 WLWV Board Room: And what this is about the board will recall. We amended this policy. I think it was early 2022 when there was a new senate bill that prompted our amending the policy. 560 01:44:01.440 --> 01:44:11.740 and we had a board work session about a year ago, where we talked in depth about the topic of community benefits, agreements, and 561 01:44:11.760 --> 01:44:22.080 WLWV Board Room: since then director, Taylor and myself have been having ongoing conversations with Pat and remote about the topic. And 562 01:44:22.430 --> 01:44:37.860 WLWV Board Room: more recently we we're able to get to a place where we have this memo and the amendments, those conversations included representation by legal staff as as well. And 563 01:44:38.220 --> 01:44:40.580 yeah, so the 564 01:44:40.900 --> 01:44:45.960 WLWV Board Room: I don't know if I should say more, or probably let you speak to it for next 565 01:44:46.310 --> 01:44:49.730 WLWV Board Room: I happen to. 566 01:44:49.800 --> 01:45:04.320 WLWV Board Room: So of course this did come about because of Senate Bill 420 that was passed and became effective. January first, of 2,022, and you have before you, Memo, prepared by remote but we actually both 567 01:45:04.470 --> 01:45:08.720 WLWV Board Room: prepared it just came under his name, so I won't, read it for, paid him. 568 01:45:08.980 --> 01:45:14.830 WLWV Board Room: but we did at that point reach out to the contracting community. 569 01:45:14.910 --> 01:45:19.280 WLWV Board Room: to other public agencies to our legal team 570 01:45:19.420 --> 01:45:29.580 WLWV Board Room: to try and learn the lessons learned. Other public entities have enacted community benefit contracts 571 01:45:29.590 --> 01:45:32.960 WLWV Board Room: or community Benedict benefit agreements. 572 01:45:33.050 --> 01:45:36.660 WLWV Board Room: They're kind of interchangeable, but technically their contracts. 573 01:45:38.360 --> 01:45:40.680 WLWV Board Room: It has been primarily 574 01:45:40.910 --> 01:45:52.150 WLWV Board Room: government agencies that deal a lot in horizontal construction, meaning roads, sewer lines, water lines, but they have done some vertical construction with buildings. 575 01:45:52.320 --> 01:45:53.920 WLWV Board Room: They've had 576 01:45:55.090 --> 01:46:02.000 WLWV Board Room: great interest from contractors. They have had competitive bid contracts 577 01:46:02.140 --> 01:46:14.680 WLWV Board Room: with larger contractors that were able to meet the requirements under the these community benefit agreements. and they have also 578 01:46:14.790 --> 01:46:18.160 WLWV Board Room: kind of guided us to where there may be some 579 01:46:18.620 --> 01:46:21.220 WLWV Board Room: areas that you would struggle in. 580 01:46:22.710 --> 01:46:33.090 WLWV Board Room: Apprenticeship is one of the main components of this apprentices, as you, as you've heard. are really hard to find, really hard to keep. 581 01:46:33.160 --> 01:46:43.230 WLWV Board Room: This incentivizes contractors to do that. to bring more apprentices, especially from underserved communities. minorities, women. 582 01:46:43.310 --> 01:46:46.810 WLWV Board Room: veterans, disabled businesses. 583 01:46:46.970 --> 01:46:55.820 WLWV Board Room: So that is what this amendment to policy Djc proposes to 584 01:46:55.950 --> 01:46:59.770 WLWV Board Room: incentivize, and, as if passed 585 01:46:59.830 --> 01:47:03.280 WLWV Board Room: become part of our contracting strategy. 586 01:47:06.700 --> 01:47:30.170 WLWV Board Room: Very good, thank you. And I I think, just by way of sort of I know it. A year ago, when we had our work, session, community benefits, agreements can be pretty robust documents, and what this is quite simple, put into the policy that those that bulleted list of requirements would be what that agreement would be, that that 587 01:47:30.170 --> 01:47:49.250 WLWV Board Room: prevailing wage would be paid, and that there would be a family health insurance made available to workers; that the apprenticeship would be provided, that the contractor would provide 20% apprenticeship and do good faith, recruitment of minority, women and service disabled veterans. 588 01:47:49.250 --> 01:48:17.430 WLWV Board Room: What the the topic before the Board today is about whether or not to amend the policy to include those requirements; for when we do award our public dollars to construction projects. And then what would be the threshold for that would kick in the policy? Yeah, i'm. Sorry. I didn't address that there are multiple thresholds used by different public agencies. 589 01:48:17.700 --> 01:48:22.560 WLWV Board Room: The larger the threshold, the more 590 01:48:22.840 --> 01:48:24.720 WLWV Board Room: opportunity there is for 591 01:48:24.870 --> 01:48:26.530 everyone to comply. 592 01:48:28.260 --> 01:48:34.340 WLWV Board Room: One of the bills that are being proposed now down in Salem. 593 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:40.450 WLWV Board Room: Sb. 512 actually does 594 01:48:40.460 --> 01:48:54.150 WLWV Board Room: very much the same thing that we are proposing here in this policy. Djc. They have tended ways, started their conversation at 8 million dollars. 595 01:48:54.430 --> 01:49:03.900 WLWV Board Room: When we talk to other larger mid-size the larger contractors. They were comfortable at 5 million. 596 01:49:04.430 --> 01:49:11.310 WLWV Board Room: but everyone will become more comfortable as State law gets into into play 597 01:49:11.350 --> 01:49:26.180 WLWV Board Room: some of our other public agency partners that we've talked to have lowered that down to 2 million, some even less. And that's kind of the choice of the board where you want to set that threshold. 598 01:49:26.580 --> 01:49:33.190 WLWV Board Room: Is it achievable? There will be some learning curve for some contractors. 599 01:49:33.370 --> 01:49:34.810 WLWV Board Room: but eventually 600 01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:44.260 WLWV Board Room: all contractors are going to need to comply with something like this. Similarly in the State, and it's only a matter of time 601 01:49:44.680 --> 01:49:48.410 WLWV Board Room: do we set precedent and begin to lead the way. 602 01:49:48.420 --> 01:49:49.200 WLWV Board Room: or 603 01:49:49.440 --> 01:49:53.390 WLWV Board Room: just wait for the contracting community to catch up to us. 604 01:49:58.240 --> 01:50:04.310 WLWV Board Room: All right. I see some microphones that you want to speak to this, or should we take some questions? 605 01:50:05.840 --> 01:50:06.690 WLWV Board Room: Okay. 606 01:50:08.060 --> 01:50:11.790 WLWV Board Room: Okay. I see the microphones over there 607 01:50:14.550 --> 01:50:21.520 WLWV Board Room: several questions. And just because I I don't know a lot about this, I mean, I remember being in our work session, but it's been a while. So 608 01:50:21.530 --> 01:50:23.770 my first question is 609 01:50:23.850 --> 01:50:35.450 WLWV Board Room: so, whatever our threshold is, Does this mean that every contract that exceeds that threshold would then be designated as a community benefit contract, and would need to follow all these requirements, or 610 01:50:35.830 --> 01:50:41.030 WLWV Board Room: does the board vote each time on whether or not to designate it as a 611 01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:43.390 WLWV Board Room: community 612 01:50:44.060 --> 01:50:55.820 WLWV Board Room: benefit contract each time do we decide like? So the threshold is 8 million, and we have a contract before, since over 8 million each time do we take a vote, or is it just automatically 613 01:50:56.580 --> 01:51:12.860 WLWV Board Room: under these requirements? No, it would not be automatic, but it would allow the Board to then designate projects as community benefit agreements. Currently, you there's no policy that allows you to do that. 614 01:51:12.860 --> 01:51:26.750 WLWV Board Room: Okay, so we would. Still, the the Board would still vote and discuss. That's it would be project by project, but they would be large enough that they would be on your radar anyway. It would be something that would be 615 01:51:27.160 --> 01:51:32.870 WLWV Board Room: so kind of similar to what we do right now. When 616 01:51:32.950 --> 01:51:37.300 WLWV Board Room: I know you brought some things before us where we were. Maybe 617 01:51:39.230 --> 01:51:42.760 WLWV Board Room: I think about the hardware or something else where, you know. 618 01:51:42.900 --> 01:51:56.370 WLWV Board Room: because of a situation, we were changing a little bit the way we were taking, bidding requirements or whatever. So this would be under that same 619 01:51:56.480 --> 01:52:10.210 WLWV Board Room: The ars written the administrative rules written until there's a policy we actually don't know what direction to take it. Once there's a policy we would write the administrative rules that would likely include 620 01:52:10.360 --> 01:52:16.600 WLWV Board Room: notice to the Board. Do you want or question to the board. Do you want? Excuse me. 621 01:52:16.680 --> 01:52:21.180 WLWV Board Room: Do you want to designate this specific project as a community benefit? Agree? 622 01:52:21.850 --> 01:52:29.630 WLWV Board Room: Okay, Thank you. And then are there other school districts in that, in organ or around us that have adopted something similar? 623 01:52:29.910 --> 01:52:30.870 WLWV Board Room: So 624 01:52:31.390 --> 01:52:37.690 WLWV Board Room: Portland public has adopted something similar. They've they've done, I think, 4 or 5 projects. 625 01:52:39.020 --> 01:52:52.030 WLWV Board Room: It. Lane County, specifically, is a very big advocate showing weight down there is who I leaned on for a lot of the information that I got. She was very helpful. 626 01:52:52.550 --> 01:52:54.510 WLWV Board Room: and 627 01:52:54.760 --> 01:52:57.870 WLWV Board Room: the city of Portland also has them. 628 01:52:57.950 --> 01:53:02.150 WLWV Board Room: Other school districts are frankly waiting 629 01:53:02.300 --> 01:53:09.510 WLWV Board Room: opening. Somebody will go First, there's been a lot of conversation with our colleagues 630 01:53:09.590 --> 01:53:15.760 WLWV Board Room: around and other districts close to us. and they have 631 01:53:16.210 --> 01:53:19.660 WLWV Board Room: in their Board policy more aspirational rules 632 01:53:19.990 --> 01:53:26.200 WLWV Board Room: that are just targets with. You know what set of north penalty they just are 633 01:53:26.620 --> 01:53:30.430 WLWV Board Room: hopeful, more or less. This kind of 634 01:53:33.030 --> 01:53:39.600 WLWV Board Room: dictates the contractors you need to comply with these requirements, and, like any 635 01:53:40.040 --> 01:53:41.180 WLWV Board Room: contract. 636 01:53:42.170 --> 01:53:43.450 WLWV Board Room: the the 637 01:53:43.710 --> 01:53:50.820 WLWV Board Room: the vendors and the contractors will respond to whatever requirements she put in. The requirements to work for 638 01:53:50.880 --> 01:54:01.160 WLWV Board Room: the Federal Government are different than local government. Yet there are contractors that will do both because they know how to comply with those. so 639 01:54:01.680 --> 01:54:19.310 WLWV Board Room: we will probably be likely the one of the first in the Greater Portland area. But I don't think we'll be the last. Okay. and then one other thing, or actually, I have 2 more questions, but I can wait if someone else would like to do me a okay. So 640 01:54:19.900 --> 01:54:28.130 WLWV Board Room: let's say our our minimum is 8 million dollars, and we hire a contractor through the community benefit contract. 641 01:54:29.210 --> 01:54:38.870 WLWV Board Room: and they hire subcontractors underneath. Does that mean all of those subcontractors that they hire? So even if they're just doing a small job. 642 01:54:40.390 --> 01:54:46.200 WLWV Board Room: A, and and might be more of a mom and pop type. Contractor would be subject to 643 01:54:46.270 --> 01:55:00.550 WLWV Board Room: all of these requirements. That's part of the ars that we would right right. We do not want to discourage small business from being overwhelmed with bureaucracy, but most of the jobs in that 644 01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:15.140 WLWV Board Room: price range, and above, they will have contractors that are large contractors that already participate in apprenticeship. Programs already provide only wages or Davis make them wages, or it's fully 645 01:55:15.450 --> 01:55:18.850 WLWV Board Room: or and they likely have 646 01:55:19.410 --> 01:55:28.370 WLWV Board Room: offered health insurance. Anyway. What we are doing now is saying, You have to demonstrate that to us, and actively recruit. 647 01:55:28.540 --> 01:55:40.260 WLWV Board Room: How are you going to get apprentices? Where are you going to go? How are you going to rotate them? So? Is there any concern that smaller businesses 648 01:55:41.230 --> 01:55:52.310 WLWV Board Room: might then be shut out of some contracts. because they don't have. You know it's more of a family we're in business, or whatever it might be. Is there that 649 01:55:53.230 --> 01:55:59.050 WLWV Board Room: could that happen as a result of No, I I I mean 650 01:55:59.070 --> 01:56:18.130 WLWV Board Room: we could. We would write the Ars in a way that there might be a dollar threshold for contracts under $100,000 might be accept. Those would be the things that we would look at in that administrative rule. We do not want to discourage small and emerging businesses 651 01:56:18.190 --> 01:56:22.990 WLWV Board Room: that would be actually counter productive to what we're trying to do. 652 01:56:23.310 --> 01:56:30.900 WLWV Board Room: and we want to make sure that we encourage those small family owned startup businesses 653 01:56:31.050 --> 01:56:34.110 WLWV Board Room: that they have an opportunity to been on our work. 654 01:56:34.160 --> 01:56:46.160 WLWV Board Room: Okay, thank you. That's super helpful to me. And then I guess the last question I would I would just have is that, you know. Can you speak to? You know, 2 pros to cons of these type of contracts 655 01:56:46.430 --> 01:57:02.600 WLWV Board Room: from your just perspective as your position in this district. What do you see as kind of the big pros? Do you see any big cons to doing it, because again, this is not my area of expertise. I want to hear from an expert 656 01:57:03.260 --> 01:57:10.680 WLWV Board Room: my pros and cons. I will tell you what I've heard from the contracting community and from our other 657 01:57:11.090 --> 01:57:12.870 WLWV Board Room: public agencies 658 01:57:14.260 --> 01:57:25.590 WLWV Board Room: contracting community. There is really almost 3 tiers of contractors. There's the small contractor that might take something a half a 1 million dollars, and under 659 01:57:25.680 --> 01:57:32.190 WLWV Board Room: there's the mid-size the take 5 million dollars in on her and then there's the large size that take 5 million, and over. 660 01:57:32.730 --> 01:57:39.310 WLWV Board Room: The smaller contractors expressed great concern about the apprenticeship program, and 661 01:57:39.340 --> 01:57:53.430 WLWV Board Room: you know they're not active in craft trade apprenticeship programs, and they are concerned that they won't be able to participate. The mid-sized contractors and the larger contractors are not concerned with that 662 01:57:53.810 --> 01:58:02.080 WLWV Board Room: their only concern is the amount of record keeping. That was their big concern from our community partners there. 663 01:58:02.350 --> 01:58:07.270 WLWV Board Room: or I mean our other public agencies. That I talked to. 664 01:58:07.530 --> 01:58:10.540 WLWV Board Room: Their struggle frankly, was 665 01:58:10.620 --> 01:58:16.200 WLWV Board Room: ensuring compliance. They They had to invest. 666 01:58:16.310 --> 01:58:19.880 WLWV Board Room: you know, and people in positions to ensure compliance. 667 01:58:20.590 --> 01:58:25.760 WLWV Board Room: and they struggle to navigate. What is a 668 01:58:27.270 --> 01:58:29.320 WLWV Board Room: medical plan that 669 01:58:29.510 --> 01:58:35.090 WLWV Board Room: meets this requirement. because in the insurance world there are all kinds of 670 01:58:35.440 --> 01:58:41.090 WLWV Board Room: different levels of medical plans. What's a full medical plan for a family? 671 01:58:41.380 --> 01:58:44.450 WLWV Board Room: And so those were kind of some of their concerns. 672 01:58:47.490 --> 01:58:48.760 WLWV Board Room: Thank you very much. 673 01:58:50.900 --> 01:58:58.240 WLWV Board Room: really direct away. So my first set of questions comes around bullet number 3 in the memo. 674 01:58:58.400 --> 01:59:07.010 WLWV Board Room: And so first question, and this may be what Mr. Mcgrath was just speaking to. But why is employer paid family health insurance in quotes 675 01:59:07.860 --> 01:59:08.840 WLWV Board Room: like? Is it? 676 01:59:09.020 --> 01:59:14.370 WLWV Board Room: Is that supposed to like insinuate something? Or is that like a term that's used? Or 677 01:59:16.500 --> 01:59:20.140 WLWV Board Room: so? I'm just wondering about that. 678 01:59:20.910 --> 01:59:23.810 WLWV Board Room: This is again contractors experience. 679 01:59:25.690 --> 01:59:32.700 WLWV Board Room: Some craft trade employees have health insurance under their spouse or their 680 01:59:33.180 --> 01:59:36.020 WLWV Board Room: partner. and 681 01:59:36.100 --> 01:59:39.860 WLWV Board Room: the contractors will offer them cash in lieu of. 682 01:59:40.620 --> 01:59:44.080 WLWV Board Room: and so it becomes a 683 01:59:44.910 --> 01:59:59.530 WLWV Board Room: a mandate that it doesn't matter if you're household is already covered. It's gonna be provided on these jobs by this employer. And again it when we kind of put that in quotes 684 01:59:59.580 --> 02:00:03.780 WLWV Board Room: employee employer paid family health insurance. 685 02:00:03.950 --> 02:00:10.240 WLWV Board Room: It's defining what that means, because there are different plans that cover 686 02:00:10.670 --> 02:00:13.390 WLWV Board Room: pretty basic, high, deductible 687 02:00:15.450 --> 02:00:17.180 WLWV Board Room: plans or 688 02:00:17.470 --> 02:00:19.910 WLWV Board Room: what we believe we intend 689 02:00:20.210 --> 02:00:21.460 WLWV Board Room: a full. 690 02:00:22.030 --> 02:00:38.930 WLWV Board Room: comprehensive medical plan. because I think what i'm struggling with is, you know, if we're really concerned about small businesses and giving them an entry into working with us, and we know that smaller businesses can 691 02:00:39.110 --> 02:00:52.980 WLWV Board Room: enroll through the Oregon health plan like I think, that the idea of employer paid family health insurance. I think it gets tricky, because I think one thing that I was looking at on healthcare Gov. Is 692 02:00:53.430 --> 02:01:11.900 WLWV Board Room: sometimes when you add the family. It actually gets more expensive, and then they can't get the financial assistance through the marketplace. And so I feel like it's a little bit too specific, I think for me at this point, because I understand what you're saying. But I felt like what was my first red flag was that it was in quotes, and it seems like 693 02:01:12.200 --> 02:01:27.200 WLWV Board Room: what we're. What we're saying is we want you to recognize the full employees needs, but for us to dictate how to do. That seems like I I I feel like I just need a little bit more information on that front. And then the other point on Bullet 3, 694 02:01:27.470 --> 02:01:47.800 WLWV Board Room: and I think i'm guessing the sub bullet is an explanation, but we refer to it as workers employed in apprenticeable occupations. But then the sub bullet is provide trade workers with family health insurance. And i'm just wondering if there's any guidance on how we can be more specific to reach the goal 695 02:01:48.050 --> 02:02:00.730 WLWV Board Room: of finding that community benefit, because right now i'm looking at this, not knowing. Is it every position? Is it just something that has this designation of a principle? So I would just love more perspective on that 696 02:02:00.830 --> 02:02:23.960 WLWV Board Room: to understand like who this would apply to, and that we're not getting ourselves into a situation where we're limiting folks who work on our projects from being able to enroll in the healthcare marketplace if they're with a small employer, so I apologize for not printing it off. But apprenticeship occupations are defined in an or else 660 697 02:02:24.870 --> 02:02:27.370 WLWV Board Room: dot 0 1 0. 698 02:02:27.630 --> 02:02:30.770 WLWV Board Room: So those would be the trades that would be covered 699 02:02:32.130 --> 02:02:43.850 WLWV Board Room: under this policy. Okay, so then, that second bullet that says requires contractors to provide trade workers. Trade workers should be replaced with a prediccible occupations. 700 02:02:44.440 --> 02:02:51.960 WLWV Board Room: Is that right? I i'm sorry, say to you in this, in this, in the bullet, like 3 point, one or the little open circle Bullet. 701 02:02:52.230 --> 02:03:09.570 WLWV Board Room: it says, requires contractors to provide trade workers with family health insurance, but that really should be a practicable occupations as defined in that code site and the the leg, which is sort of interchangeable, but because almost all craft trades have an apprenticeship, almost all of them. 702 02:03:09.810 --> 02:03:13.550 WLWV Board Room: But I don't want to say every single one does. 703 02:03:13.640 --> 02:03:16.910 WLWV Board Room: because they are defined under law. 704 02:03:17.540 --> 02:03:18.320 WLWV Board Room: But 705 02:03:19.030 --> 02:03:20.020 there's 706 02:03:20.240 --> 02:03:31.480 WLWV Board Room: approximately 54 different craft trades. I'm not familiar with every one of them, but i'm familiar with most of them. and almost all of them have a an apprenticeship program 707 02:03:37.280 --> 02:03:41.130 WLWV Board Room: Director sloop. Are you poised with your microphone? Okay. 708 02:03:42.360 --> 02:03:45.880 WLWV Board Room: So i'm gonna pig it back off of Director Wyatt. 709 02:03:47.540 --> 02:03:59.540 WLWV Board Room: because i'm reading this, that the the employer would pay for not only the apprentice, but also the family members for that insurance, instead of just offering 710 02:03:59.570 --> 02:04:02.130 WLWV Board Room: a a program which 711 02:04:02.230 --> 02:04:03.050 WLWV Board Room: isn't 712 02:04:04.830 --> 02:04:14.230 WLWV Board Room: a typical standard in any type of employment opportunity. I'm like. So i'm asking for clarification on that. 713 02:04:14.340 --> 02:04:26.930 WLWV Board Room: And then it just seems like a lot of these are already occurring in the in industry, just because there's a shortage. So apprentices are already being trained. They're being paid the bully or the Davis Bacon 714 02:04:28.970 --> 02:04:31.930 WLWV Board Room: wage as well as 715 02:04:33.270 --> 02:04:40.730 WLWV Board Room: recruiting minorities, women's, veterans. Just because there is such a shortage in the construction industry 716 02:04:40.920 --> 02:04:46.660 WLWV Board Room: correct? So that's kind of a typical standard of operation. Right now. 717 02:04:48.810 --> 02:04:57.300 WLWV Board Room: I'll try and address your first question about insurance. It is the full family. It is not just for the employee. 718 02:04:57.690 --> 02:05:00.380 WLWV Board Room: so that is the intention of 719 02:05:02.470 --> 02:05:05.590 WLWV Board Room: making this change to the policy. Djc. 720 02:05:07.890 --> 02:05:09.410 WLWV Board Room: So the but 721 02:05:09.780 --> 02:05:17.370 WLWV Board Room: so the employer would pay for full benefits for the apprentice, and then all family members. 722 02:05:18.220 --> 02:05:18.990 WLWV Board Room: Okay. 723 02:05:20.100 --> 02:05:26.470 WLWV Board Room: which no other. I mean, I don't even think the State Government does that. 724 02:05:26.660 --> 02:05:30.980 WLWV Board Room: and we don't do that for our teachers. I mean, they they can get it for their family, but they have to pay 725 02:05:32.750 --> 02:05:34.000 WLWV Board Room: some type of 726 02:05:35.620 --> 02:05:37.410 WLWV Board Room: pay it for their insurance. Okay. 727 02:05:45.070 --> 02:05:49.340 WLWV Board Room: where do the unions come into? This is this: is this forcing 728 02:05:51.430 --> 02:05:57.410 WLWV Board Room: people to go in to be part of the Union for construction? So 729 02:05:57.570 --> 02:06:02.200 WLWV Board Room: i'll have to go down to. I'll have to use Lane County as an example. 730 02:06:02.420 --> 02:06:09.670 WLWV Board Room: Unions you can comply with this Union contractors can comply with this 731 02:06:11.090 --> 02:06:14.840 WLWV Board Room: more readily than non-union contractors, but 732 02:06:14.910 --> 02:06:26.580 WLWV Board Room: what they have done down in Lane County was for the first time in my knowledge The Unions have opened up their apprenticeship program to non-union 733 02:06:26.800 --> 02:06:35.370 WLWV Board Room: contractors. If they needed apprentices, they could call the Union Hall and recruit directly from now. 734 02:06:35.580 --> 02:06:38.230 WLWV Board Room: So that's how Lane County worked 735 02:06:38.430 --> 02:06:43.390 WLWV Board Room: with both the Union and Non Union contractors to make this equitable. 736 02:06:47.350 --> 02:06:48.780 WLWV Board Room: because most. 737 02:06:50.000 --> 02:06:53.970 WLWV Board Room: if not all. apprenticeship programs 738 02:06:54.320 --> 02:06:59.220 WLWV Board Room: are sponsored by unions, and so they develop the the 739 02:07:00.320 --> 02:07:03.180 WLWV Board Room: training program that's certified by the State. 740 02:07:04.820 --> 02:07:07.650 WLWV Board Room: And so they they have. 741 02:07:08.690 --> 02:07:15.180 WLWV Board Room: with the exception of electricians, because you can get that through the State through our university system. 742 02:07:17.180 --> 02:07:20.300 WLWV Board Room: But that's how they they're working it down in way and counting. 743 02:07:24.930 --> 02:07:36.040 WLWV Board Room: I I don't have any other questions. I have some things I I would say, just based off the dialogue and questions. I'm hearing. Do you do you have questions. Do you want to go? 744 02:07:36.190 --> 02:07:39.050 WLWV Board Room: Oh, no, you got you 745 02:07:39.730 --> 02:07:54.680 WLWV Board Room: just thank you. I mean, we've been having these conversations for a while, and it's nice just to have it again, as you know the whole board and get to explore these, and I know you. You went through an apprenticeship program yourself, and worked your way here, so 746 02:07:54.680 --> 02:08:01.510 just really respect that just a few things that I I would like to address, just as I hear the conversation. 747 02:08:01.770 --> 02:08:07.530 WLWV Board Room: One is just this, knowing that I have that. 748 02:08:07.530 --> 02:08:36.770 WLWV Board Room: Well, I I was actually married to a contractor, and they provided family and health insurance that the employees didn't have to pay for that, so I know that there are contractors who do it. But also, I think, if if contractors have to struggle a little bit with like, what is family paid medical insurance? And how do we do that? I I think that's a good struggle. You know one of the biggest things that causes bankruptcy for people is not not having health insurance and some sort of major. 749 02:08:36.900 --> 02:08:48.230 WLWV Board Room: You know health catastrophe, and they're losing their house. And so I think contractors struggling with that, if they need to, is is a a worthy question for them. 750 02:08:48.270 --> 02:09:03.850 WLWV Board Room: Also, Around the Union apprenticeships there are, as you mentioned, anybody can take take apprentices from the Union shop, and there also are apprenticeship programs that are private that are not affiliated with Union shops. 751 02:09:03.850 --> 02:09:18.030 WLWV Board Room: The thing that happens with Union shops is actually that the apprentice gets paid, and they don't pay tuition. And so young people go through those programs and don't inquire. They don't acquire student debt 752 02:09:18.030 --> 02:09:25.660 WLWV Board Room: and learn, learn a trade, and also maintain a certain quality of work, product as well as They're taught that trade. 753 02:09:25.990 --> 02:09:45.100 WLWV Board Room: And you know the iron workers, for example, even offer a recovery community for their employees who struggle with addiction, and so they, the Unions, will do things to care for the late the labor force and ways that are significant. 754 02:09:45.280 --> 02:10:00.390 WLWV Board Room: and they they have wait lists, too. So if they, if they can't place the apprentice in the field, they can't take the apprentice and so creating the supply. The supply demand from creating the demand is important 755 02:10:00.390 --> 02:10:07.460 WLWV Board Room: for these young people to have that on the job experience and become accredited. Is that the word 756 02:10:07.870 --> 02:10:17.180 WLWV Board Room: I help you license? You become a licenses or you just become a juryman. You become a master craftsman. There are licensing which is a legal requirement. 757 02:10:17.330 --> 02:10:27.720 WLWV Board Room: and there are other journey security Level craft trades that aren't licensed, but they're red. They're recognized as master craft. 758 02:10:29.890 --> 02:10:35.350 WLWV Board Room: and I think that this the way that the policy is written, you know. 759 02:10:35.350 --> 02:10:50.520 WLWV Board Room: maybe imperfect, and may we may live into it and need to change some things down the road, but the fact that the board is going to get to kind of preview when the contracts come in, and it is an added sort of learning opportunity. 760 02:10:50.770 --> 02:10:55.520 WLWV Board Room: So those are just a few things I wanted to say, based off with question. 761 02:10:55.840 --> 02:10:56.960 WLWV Board Room: And 762 02:10:57.690 --> 02:11:09.710 WLWV Board Room: oh, yeah, yeah, I just want to add some information, because it's been, I think, referenced a few times this evening about what our own district offers in terms of family health insurance, and I think our Hr. Director for 763 02:11:09.910 --> 02:11:23.570 WLWV Board Room: sending me some update information. We do have full coverage right now for full families. We don't do tiered rates. We have composite rates, so it doesn't matter if it's a single family, or the full family single person, or the full family, it's the same cost. 764 02:11:23.770 --> 02:11:31.480 WLWV Board Room: and our classified staff has a plan that covers full family with no cost. We don't force people to take it, but 765 02:11:31.590 --> 02:11:39.910 WLWV Board Room: some some have spouses coverage, but we don't do it a cash out. If they don't, if you take it, it's there you don't have to. So 766 02:11:40.190 --> 02:11:45.330 WLWV Board Room: just wanted to clarify that for the so our staff does not have to pay. 767 02:11:45.920 --> 02:11:54.720 WLWV Board Room: They they don't have to pay health insurance, then a health insurance for family members. If the family members want to be on health insurance, because it's a composite rate. Yeah, okay. 768 02:11:55.250 --> 02:11:56.600 WLWV Board Room: And I don't know if you want 769 02:11:56.730 --> 02:12:21.880 WLWV Board Room: director more than just come up and speak just so that you have. It's been brought up, and I want you to have that clear. I think it's a good thing to clarify. So we do what's called pooling for license staff. So everyone who opts out of benefits that their cap money goes back into the pool. So this year it paid down the cost. So there's full coverage for every full time employee, no matter no matter which plans they choose this year for full family 770 02:12:21.880 --> 02:12:25.160 WLWV Board Room: or for single people for a classified. We have 771 02:12:25.350 --> 02:12:39.340 WLWV Board Room: 3 or 4 different plans. One of the plans is fully covered, but if they choose one of the other plans, there is a cost, but we have composite rates for them, too. So it's the same whether it's a single person or full family. They're paying the same price per month, depending on which plan they choose. 772 02:12:47.860 --> 02:13:04.620 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, and we do offer plans for our part time staff, but they have to work at least 4 h or more, and so obviously they do have a greater out of pocket cost, because they're not working as much, so they get a prorated amount of the cap towards their health insurance benefits. So usually they do have out of pocket costs. 773 02:13:06.630 --> 02:13:24.120 WLWV Board Room: Okay, See, everybody has their hands on a microphone before I go back down the the line, for probably maybe one more round, did you? We haven't had a chance to speak yet. Would you like to? Yeah, I had a couple of questions. Thank you for that. That clarity on 774 02:13:24.510 --> 02:13:33.440 WLWV Board Room: on the health care. I'm. A small business owner. I have employees. I provide full health coverage for my employees because I value them so 775 02:13:33.630 --> 02:13:39.580 WLWV Board Room: I know that everyone doesn't take that stance, but that is the stance that I have personally chosen to take. 776 02:13:41.320 --> 02:13:43.530 WLWV Board Room: I also think that this 777 02:13:44.070 --> 02:13:47.020 WLWV Board Room: proposal is not meant 778 02:13:47.760 --> 02:14:01.660 WLWV Board Room: for everybody to be able to participate. It's meant for the right people to be able to participate the people that do value their employees. The people that do care. The people that do value women, the people that do value minorities, the people that do value 779 02:14:01.720 --> 02:14:09.220 WLWV Board Room: disabled veterans. The people that do about you are young people who want to be a part of this industry. Many of my clients are contractors. 780 02:14:09.260 --> 02:14:11.440 WLWV Board Room: I know they can afford health insurance. 781 02:14:11.580 --> 02:14:16.660 WLWV Board Room: We spend a lot of time together. I know where they live. I know there's room. 782 02:14:16.870 --> 02:14:18.640 WLWV Board Room: Would it be fair to say 783 02:14:20.140 --> 02:14:26.240 WLWV Board Room: that odds are that if you put a contract out for a project that 784 02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:31.020 WLWV Board Room: that contractor who is applying know that these are the requirements. 785 02:14:31.050 --> 02:14:34.110 WLWV Board Room: would probably make a higher bid to cover their cost. 786 02:14:34.480 --> 02:14:49.570 WLWV Board Room: that we are requiring, which ultimately means that we would be paying that higher cost to make sure that they could pay. That is that fair to say, I believe that's first statement. Okay. So the contractor ultimately will not be affected by us requiring this, because ultimately 787 02:14:49.780 --> 02:14:54.670 WLWV Board Room: we are paying for a higher contract. I would 788 02:14:54.960 --> 02:15:14.110 WLWV Board Room: for all that conclusion which would actually mean that we're actually valuing what we say we're going to do, which is diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our school district and treating people equal. Would that be fair to say that I I again would draw that same conclusion 789 02:15:14.940 --> 02:15:17.640 WLWV Board Room: which some people didn't believe that they did. 790 02:15:18.080 --> 02:15:31.110 WLWV Board Room: What i'm also hearing is that we're probably going to incur the cost of this requirement. What i'm also knowing is that we've always had the ability to cover extra cost, because we've just seen it happen on frog 791 02:15:31.420 --> 02:15:35.790 WLWV Board Room: where the where the contract went up by 2030%. No one batted an I, 792 02:15:36.160 --> 02:15:39.500 WLWV Board Room: but it seems like there's always an I about it when there's people tied to it. 793 02:15:40.940 --> 02:15:49.540 WLWV Board Room: I don't understand that that's what i'm really having a hard time understanding as a board member how. when you tie a body to it. 794 02:15:50.490 --> 02:15:56.160 WLWV Board Room: which is a provider of a spouse, children who enter to but yeah. 795 02:15:56.560 --> 02:15:57.920 WLWV Board Room: who 796 02:15:58.300 --> 02:16:06.840 WLWV Board Room: attend our district? Then we have a problem with it. So I'm struggling with that. Maybe you can help me understand that, and and how that fits. But 797 02:16:07.050 --> 02:16:19.220 WLWV Board Room: I think the whole idea of bringing something like this forward is, it gives us an opportunity to be a leader like you said it's moving that way already. If contractors are comfortable at 5. I know they could be comfortable at 2 798 02:16:19.940 --> 02:16:26.020 WLWV Board Room: anytime. Someone tells me that they're comfortable. Then they're not being stretched hard enough. That is the truth. 799 02:16:26.360 --> 02:16:30.110 WLWV Board Room: I think it allows us also to 800 02:16:31.420 --> 02:16:44.639 WLWV Board Room: deliver high standards at a threshold where we're not sacrificing quality, safety, or maintaining ethical practices, so that they're not going on finding cheap labor, or just figuring out what they're going to do to cut the cost out. So 801 02:16:45.930 --> 02:16:53.600 WLWV Board Room: i'm pretty comfortable with what we're proposing. If there needs to be a word smithing on 802 02:16:53.900 --> 02:17:07.309 WLWV Board Room: medical plan, you know, to clean that up a little bit. Every plan has eligibility requirements no different than a 401 no different. When you took your position in the district you had a waiting period of 6 months for your purse. Everything has a 803 02:17:07.370 --> 02:17:18.190 WLWV Board Room: a period where you get vested, and you finally qualify for health care coverage. So even when you're requiring this of a contractor, if an apprentice, if an employee hasn't met that 804 02:17:18.219 --> 02:17:31.299 WLWV Board Room: probationary period. They're not eligible, anyway. So if you have a 3 month job a 6 month job, you might not be eligible for your health plan for a year, just like your 401. So i'm sure there's a way that we can honor 805 02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:39.150 WLWV Board Room: small business owners mid-size business owners large business owners. and find a health care language that makes sense. 806 02:17:41.180 --> 02:17:45.200 WLWV Board Room: and be able to show that we value women 807 02:17:46.120 --> 02:17:55.110 WLWV Board Room: so that we value disabled vets, so that we value small business local community people who want to participate who basically be been boxed out up to this point 808 02:17:55.480 --> 02:18:02.930 WLWV Board Room: and left to themselves, it will not change. We're only having this conversation today because it has not changed. 809 02:18:04.180 --> 02:18:10.780 WLWV Board Room: If women were in construction, if minorities were in construction, we would not be talking about this. 810 02:18:11.510 --> 02:18:14.070 WLWV Board Room: So that is all I have to say. 811 02:18:14.680 --> 02:18:19.200 WLWV Board Room: and thank you for everything that you've had to say. 812 02:18:21.250 --> 02:18:22.030 WLWV Board Room: Alright. 813 02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:27.360 WLWV Board Room: Go ahead. We'll just work our way down for one more round here. I'd like to call motion. 814 02:18:28.230 --> 02:18:50.420 WLWV Board Room: I I would it entertain it, but I see Vicer comes in there like ready for a second round, so we should do that. And then I just have one more question: what is Portland public? Do you know what their threshold is? Partly public school district, you said. That's the one school district you mentioned that has done it before. So I just i'm curious what they're 815 02:18:50.420 --> 02:18:54.879 WLWV Board Room: That was, I believe 26 million. They 816 02:18:55.410 --> 02:19:01.070 WLWV Board Room: They did it on a project. I don't know that they set it at a specific threshold. 817 02:19:01.090 --> 02:19:03.350 WLWV Board Room: Okay, Thank you. That's my my question. 818 02:19:03.530 --> 02:19:18.299 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I know Lane Lane County was where Sean wait from. That's also where I got Most of my learning was through them. They had. When they did this work. They set it at a 1 million, and then they recently lowered it to 500,000, because they found that a 1 million 819 02:19:18.450 --> 02:19:22.469 WLWV Board Room: was manageable. and they wanted to capture more contracts 820 02:19:22.559 --> 02:19:26.280 WLWV Board Room: and Seattle public schools is done. They're a huge They're 821 02:19:26.360 --> 02:19:36.299 WLWV Board Room: There are in other States that i'm frankly not familiar. But Seattle does quite a bit of it. Quite a bit is done in California as well. 822 02:19:36.549 --> 02:19:42.930 WLWV Board Room: And so this isn't unique to Oregon, but it is only now starting to 823 02:19:42.959 --> 02:19:44.290 WLWV Board Room: become 824 02:19:44.309 --> 02:19:47.320 WLWV Board Room: an idea that people are implementing. 825 02:19:47.450 --> 02:19:55.560 WLWV Board Room: So when Portland public adopted this, they didn't adopt. or you're not aware. 826 02:19:55.610 --> 02:19:58.550 WLWV Board Room: informed about the project. And 827 02:19:58.620 --> 02:20:03.550 WLWV Board Room: so I didn't get deep into their policies, or how they got to that point. 828 02:20:04.040 --> 02:20:08.680 WLWV Board Room: I just. I was at that point interested in their 829 02:20:09.370 --> 02:20:12.830 WLWV Board Room: the outcome of their project, and how they managed to. 830 02:20:13.160 --> 02:20:21.090 WLWV Board Room: I didn't hear anything that wouldn't be typical of almost any construction project. So it is a little more. 831 02:20:21.330 --> 02:20:22.060 WLWV Board Room: But 832 02:20:24.080 --> 02:20:43.250 WLWV Board Room: so I I can't answer to that. Okay, thank you. And just a word about how we ended up with those different dollar amounts. And then I know Director Wyatt, you, you, you know, wanted to call for a motion. The 8 million dollars came from the Senate Bill that is moving its way through the Legislature right now and then there was 833 02:20:43.460 --> 02:21:00.490 WLWV Board Room: conversation since Director Taylor and I were working on this together and working with Pat and remote, and spring break was on the horizon, and folks were about to go out of town, and there was some conversations about what would you know we would want to propose, and Director Taylor and I landed at the 2 million dollar Mark 834 02:21:00.490 --> 02:21:05.350 WLWV Board Room: and Pat. I recall that you stated that that was something. You felt confident 835 02:21:05.480 --> 02:21:18.070 WLWV Board Room: we decision, and I apologize. We did not get that in this memo, and that is more by product or bad timing. We've got the memo to 836 02:21:18.430 --> 02:21:21.680 WLWV Board Room: to post on the website officially. 837 02:21:21.980 --> 02:21:33.800 WLWV Board Room: literally, before we landed on the number. So, but I I always assume that that would be part of the conversation tonight, anyway. So it literally is fill in the blank. 838 02:21:34.910 --> 02:21:49.020 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, we were. I was like 40'clock on Friday before we're going down on that. So just a word about how you know Director Taylor and I are comfortable with 2 million. The 8 million came from the Senate Bill. 839 02:21:49.160 --> 02:21:50.740 WLWV Board Room: and that's what you're seeing there. 840 02:21:52.060 --> 02:22:00.380 WLWV Board Room: Okay, we have a call for a motion, and i'm not seeing anybody trying to jump in. So please go ahead, Director Wyatt. I' 841 02:22:02.450 --> 02:22:09.240 WLWV Board Room: I need to adopt the amended for policy. Djc. Bidding requirements as proposed, with a 5 million dollars threshold. 842 02:22:14.930 --> 02:22:18.520 WLWV Board Room: All right, Director Wyatt. Thank you for the motion their second 843 02:22:19.770 --> 02:22:21.060 WLWV Board Room: i'll second 844 02:22:22.640 --> 02:22:26.560 WLWV Board Room: All right. We have director soup with the second. 845 02:22:26.700 --> 02:22:29.560 WLWV Board Room: And is there further discussion? 846 02:22:34.050 --> 02:22:51.990 WLWV Board Room: Oh, I would be open and and and I I hesitate because I don't think us legislating health care policy from this diet is appropriate, but I am can still concerned about the third bullet and affordability by saying family health insurance given 847 02:22:51.990 --> 02:23:08.000 WLWV Board Room: that often it's cheaper to purchase family health insurance from the marketplace when your employer doesn't pay for it. So I I don't know if it is, make sense for us to talk to an insurance agent to talk to an attorney. I'm also comfortable, moving ahead with emotion as made. I just feel like 848 02:23:08.670 --> 02:23:23.490 WLWV Board Room: with something like this, and we're thinking about affordability. There might be more issues at play that maybe we haven't discussed, so i'll just throw that out there. I will be supporting this. But if there was interest in making an amendment to the language to remove family. I'd be open to that. 849 02:23:28.750 --> 02:23:38.610 WLWV Board Room: you know, for me. I just gonna be honest and say, I don't. I just don't feel like I know enough, or have enough of all the information 850 02:23:40.260 --> 02:23:45.120 WLWV Board Room: just having this and and i'm i'm just being honest. So i'm just still toying, because 851 02:23:45.320 --> 02:23:53.510 WLWV Board Room: this isn't my area of expertise, you know I've asked questions and thank you. You've done a great job of answering all my questions. 852 02:23:53.930 --> 02:24:12.330 WLWV Board Room: but I also don't even, and you know I went over it before and put those questions down. But yet I still wonder what am I missing? What other questions should I be asking? And I'm just not sure. So i'm just going to be honest and say that's just where i'm at right now? My heart's kind of beating fast, because i'm not sure. 853 02:24:14.290 --> 02:24:16.320 WLWV Board Room: I'm just not sure 854 02:24:16.570 --> 02:24:22.990 WLWV Board Room: and feel like I would like to do a little bit. Spend a little bit more time. but that's just me. So 855 02:24:24.120 --> 02:24:28.650 WLWV Board Room: can we like, do this as a first read and then 856 02:24:29.950 --> 02:24:34.430 WLWV Board Room: vote next time I mean, is that what you're saying. Director Thompson. 857 02:24:37.830 --> 02:24:45.180 WLWV Board Room: I would be comfortable with that. But I don't know if other Board members. I'm just speaking. Yeah for myself. That 858 02:24:48.630 --> 02:24:49.190 WLWV Board Room: yeah 859 02:24:52.720 --> 02:24:53.610 WLWV Board Room: must be. 860 02:24:55.620 --> 02:25:00.200 WLWV Board Room: You know I i'm not going to be in favor of it at 5 million. 861 02:25:00.750 --> 02:25:05.370 WLWV Board Room: so i'm in favor of it at 2 billionAs 862 02:25:05.700 --> 02:25:10.010 WLWV Board Room: the memo should have stated, the 5 million dollar figure should have never been in the memo 863 02:25:11.410 --> 02:25:24.800 WLWV Board Room: for this very exact reason that we're faced with now. so i'm disappointed in that. But I can't vote for it at 5 million. I don't believe that includes enough people. So if it goes to the vote s 5, 9, and I will be voting now 864 02:25:27.730 --> 02:25:34.710 WLWV Board Room: amend my motion. I had thought that 5 was the middle ground, and that was acceptable. 865 02:25:34.780 --> 02:25:37.590 WLWV Board Room: so I don't know if that procedurally, how you'd want to proceed. 866 02:25:39.180 --> 02:25:45.750 WLWV Board Room: Yes, I think if you're willing to amend your motion, then let's hear it. 867 02:25:47.900 --> 02:25:49.050 WLWV Board Room: Do we need to 868 02:25:50.690 --> 02:25:57.870 WLWV Board Room: made the motion? You can. You can re retract it and make a new motion, or move, move to amend your original motion. 869 02:25:58.820 --> 02:26:07.640 WLWV Board Room: I will amend my original motion. I move to adopt the amended Board policy, Djc. Bidding requirements as proposed, with a 2 million dollars threshold. 870 02:26:09.980 --> 02:26:13.010 WLWV Board Room: All right, Director. Why, it has the motion. 871 02:26:13.440 --> 02:26:18.680 WLWV Board Room: I'll second All right. Director Taylor has a second. and we've already had 872 02:26:18.890 --> 02:26:32.410 WLWV Board Room: some good discussion. And there's also this question around delaying the vote, you know. Certainly that that is an option, and My my personal stance is that 873 02:26:32.800 --> 02:26:48.390 WLWV Board Room: we had. We had the work session. Gosh! It's been a year, but there's some pretty good content that came out of it. And then we, you know, had this information before us for a good length of time, because we had spring break in there, so 874 02:26:48.620 --> 02:26:58.570 WLWV Board Room: it's, it's not. It's not something really new, I mean there's a Senate Bill moving its way through the State as well. Whether or not it will pass, I don't know, but 875 02:26:58.710 --> 02:27:11.750 WLWV Board Room: i'm comfortable voting. Yes, but it's something I've been reading about and talking about and researching for like 2 years, and i'll just speak that for me. I think about those young people. 876 02:27:11.750 --> 02:27:26.850 WLWV Board Room: You know, Kiddos, that we have who are going through our Cte High school, who want to be in the construction trades. This provides that pathway to the career, and and it creates that demand with the contractors. 877 02:27:26.850 --> 02:27:45.970 WLWV Board Room: You know young people who want these good jobs and don't want to go to college, and so that that's the biggest thing that that we're doing here. In my opinion, the health insurance, the prevailing wage, and the minority, you know, women emerging small business. Those are things that are kinda happening right now. 878 02:27:45.970 --> 02:27:58.970 WLWV Board Room: anyway. And so we're going to be codifying it. And we're going to be adding this fact that we're creating a career pathway really intentionally with our public dollars. really, and really spending those public dollars 879 02:27:58.990 --> 02:28:00.150 WLWV Board Room: intentionally. 880 02:28:01.880 --> 02:28:08.710 If I could just make a comment about the timeline when we had the work session. I believe it was almost a year ago April 881 02:28:09.060 --> 02:28:19.130 WLWV Board Room: last year. Out of that came what I understood was some direction, and and I believe the 2 of you offered to kind of 882 02:28:19.400 --> 02:28:24.380 WLWV Board Room: take the direction of engaging more in the topic with remote and pat. 883 02:28:24.400 --> 02:28:36.380 WLWV Board Room: which you then did do. We were supposed to then come back in the fall. and I think we all agree that since it wasn't going to impact this bond. you know Time wasn't as urgent, and let 884 02:28:36.430 --> 02:28:55.040 WLWV Board Room: the fall of the year just run its course. But at some point this year come back to the board with what you had learned with asking Staff to look into it. So that was the direction that we took from the work session was to research this further, and bring that back, and to bring a proposed 885 02:28:56.620 --> 02:29:01.930 WLWV Board Room: either resolution or document. And so I know it's taken a while, and 886 02:29:02.040 --> 02:29:16.350 WLWV Board Room: longer than you know we would have wanted. But it is where we are, under the direction that we believe came out of that work session, which is why we we are here with this amended proposal for the for the policy. 887 02:29:17.490 --> 02:29:29.860 WLWV Board Room: Can I ask a question when we did the work session a year ago? Did we have. I I don't remember having contractors there, I mean I felt like we had the community benefits 888 02:29:29.980 --> 02:29:36.330 WLWV Board Room: contract people who were who felt like it was a good idea there, but I I just 889 02:29:36.420 --> 02:29:37.990 WLWV Board Room: don't remember. 890 02:29:38.100 --> 02:29:43.950 WLWV Board Room: Did we have people? I we had someone from Lane County who spoke to 891 02:29:44.480 --> 02:29:45.310 WLWV Board Room: Wasn't she. 892 02:29:45.870 --> 02:29:53.100 WLWV Board Room: I guess My question is, did we have contractors there? Did we have people at the at our session? That 893 02:29:53.400 --> 02:29:57.360 WLWV Board Room: would maybe give different points of view on each side? That's 894 02:29:57.700 --> 02:30:07.160 WLWV Board Room: so at the work session. No; but the subsequently Rio and I have many contacts with contractors. Both large small 895 02:30:07.570 --> 02:30:09.800 WLWV Board Room: medium-size all 3, 896 02:30:10.140 --> 02:30:14.570 WLWV Board Room: and we have reached out to each and every one of them 897 02:30:14.710 --> 02:30:17.140 WLWV Board Room: to hear their candid opinion. 898 02:30:17.430 --> 02:30:20.290 WLWV Board Room: What they may say in a meeting 899 02:30:20.520 --> 02:30:24.860 WLWV Board Room: might be different from what they will tell us privately, and 900 02:30:25.200 --> 02:30:27.690 we are confident we've got 901 02:30:28.240 --> 02:30:32.060 WLWV Board Room: honest responses from them. And 902 02:30:32.310 --> 02:30:36.510 WLWV Board Room: again, those those the large and the medium contractors 903 02:30:38.610 --> 02:30:42.870 WLWV Board Room: will be able to comply, they said, so they'll be able to do that. 904 02:30:43.270 --> 02:30:47.100 WLWV Board Room: We have to make sure our small contractors can 905 02:30:47.280 --> 02:30:49.490 WLWV Board Room: perform the work as well. 906 02:30:49.670 --> 02:30:57.660 WLWV Board Room: and we would do that through our administrative rules that we would write in response to this, to make sure that they have an avenue 907 02:30:57.810 --> 02:30:59.370 WLWV Board Room: to bid on our work. 908 02:31:00.190 --> 02:31:14.460 WLWV Board Room: I think to go back to your definition of what a small contractor was to was also $500,000, and below which is what Lane County adopted. We're talking about 2 million dollars, which is really in the mid-sized contractor range. 909 02:31:14.660 --> 02:31:29.150 WLWV Board Room: If we go back to what you defined as small mid i'm thinking of subcontractors for those mid-size contractors. That's what i'm. I want to ensure that a small subcontractor carpet installer 910 02:31:29.340 --> 02:31:35.540 WLWV Board Room: family own business can bid on our work right. And I think that like you said. 911 02:31:35.670 --> 02:31:43.150 WLWV Board Room: Part of kicking the can down the road was that we had a 300 milliondollar. I'm rounding numbers, so this might not be all the exact. So 912 02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:46.590 WLWV Board Room: I know we have some exact people. 913 02:31:46.880 --> 02:32:05.750 WLWV Board Room: and we kicked the can down the road because that money had already been allocated. The reality is that this district is not building any more new schools in any time in the near future. So most of your contracts that will be awarded will not be at 8 million dollars and 5 million dollars if you have to redo all the H. Fax systems. 914 02:32:05.890 --> 02:32:17.150 WLWV Board Room: how much is that gonna cost? If you redo the roof on some schools. How much is that gonna cost? It's not gonna be 8 million dollars. So if we don't have a threshold that is low enough for people to actually participate. 915 02:32:17.230 --> 02:32:21.220 WLWV Board Room: We have an 8 million dollar figure that will never get hit by much of anyone. 916 02:32:21.530 --> 02:32:30.440 WLWV Board Room: so we'll keep doing status quo. We'll still keep 10 years down the road talking about how we want to have women involved minorities involved, veterans involved. 917 02:32:30.540 --> 02:32:34.450 WLWV Board Room: and it'll be the same as other things that go on which I won't talk about. But 918 02:32:35.100 --> 02:32:40.440 WLWV Board Room: it sounds like at 2 million dollars. You're still gobbling that mid-size 919 02:32:40.950 --> 02:32:49.100 WLWV Board Room: contractor, or you have an up and coming small contractor, who might be able to meet the call and change the whole scope of his family or her family. 920 02:32:49.330 --> 02:32:51.480 WLWV Board Room: or some disabled person's family. 921 02:32:51.550 --> 02:33:03.760 WLWV Board Room: So all it takes is one contract to get your momentum going. That's a small business, and any small business owners sitting in here understands the impact that one right contract does for your whole family's life. 922 02:33:04.090 --> 02:33:07.300 WLWV Board Room: right? So the big contract is they They're gonna be good. 923 02:33:10.260 --> 02:33:24.980 WLWV Board Room: Can I just comment. And then, yeah, we have a motion, I mean, I want to make sure what's understood is I I am a supporter of obviously having women and minorities and disabled veterans. I'm a woman myself, all right. Why would I vote against it? 924 02:33:24.990 --> 02:33:32.930 WLWV Board Room: But I want to make sure that I understand all the impact. So that's I just want to make sure that that is understood. 925 02:33:33.140 --> 02:33:43.690 WLWV Board Room: I just don't. I want to make sure. I understand all of the ramifications for everything and the impacts, and that's where I still feel like I don't know all of that. And so 926 02:33:44.110 --> 02:33:47.630 WLWV Board Room: just wanna make sure that's no thank you. 927 02:33:49.240 --> 02:33:55.590 WLWV Board Room: All right. We have a motion, and a second we've had an adequate discussion. So this Douglas, please call the vote. 928 02:33:57.580 --> 02:33:58.660 WLWV Board Room: Practice loop. 929 02:34:02.180 --> 02:34:05.680 WLWV Board Room: No. this Taylor hi 930 02:34:06.110 --> 02:34:10.170 WLWV Board Room: checking bye Hi! 931 02:34:11.350 --> 02:34:13.730 WLWV Board Room: And direct away bye. Thank you 932 02:34:18.220 --> 02:34:33.360 WLWV Board Room: do so much for just being willing to take a risk on this. It's it's not high risk. It's it's measured risk, but I know going first in the state of Oregon might feel that way. And 933 02:34:33.870 --> 02:34:37.280 WLWV Board Room: that's right. I like that. 934 02:34:37.340 --> 02:34:38.410 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Papa 935 02:34:39.200 --> 02:34:50.980 WLWV Board Room: gonna show them how it's done all right. I think that that wraps up everything on our agenda except for public comment from residents who are speaking on 936 02:34:51.000 --> 02:35:01.550 WLWV Board Room: topics that are not on the agenda. So we'll move to that portion of the evening. Was there anybody here who has signed up to speak who i'm about to call up 937 02:35:01.830 --> 02:35:06.280 WLWV Board Room: who did not hear how we do public comment. 938 02:35:06.840 --> 02:35:17.270 WLWV Board Room: Raise your hand if you're going to speak. But you did not. You weren't here at the beginning of the night. I think most people were here. Okay, great. So I don't think I need to review all that. We'll start with Leslie Jensen. 939 02:35:27.290 --> 02:35:35.480 WLWV Board Room: Hello! This has been a hopeful and critically important day for the 61% of children in Oregon who are not reading proficiently 940 02:35:35.770 --> 02:35:39.070 earlier Today our State House of Representatives 941 02:35:39.600 --> 02:35:50.040 WLWV Board Room: heard public testimony and passed House bill 3,198, a literacy initiative that aims to rework. How oregon's youngest students are taught to read 942 02:35:50.290 --> 02:35:53.430 WLWV Board Room: the bill is now heading to the Ways and Means Committee. 943 02:35:53.590 --> 02:36:03.740 WLWV Board Room: One of the calls to action in this initiative that Governor Kotech is putting her weight behind is that children should be taught with a curriculum that is aligned with the science of reading and writing. 944 02:36:03.900 --> 02:36:20.600 WLWV Board Room: The Bill's definition of science of reading and writing means the convergence of findings that describes the need for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension through explicit and systematic instruction that can be differentiated to meet the needs of individual learners 945 02:36:20.810 --> 02:36:44.080 WLWV Board Room: the literacy initiative will be grant based, and districts that apply for funding will have to have their plans reviewed and approved by the Oregon Department of Education. while districts do not have to participate. Governor Kotek said she would be shocked if there is a district that does not want to take advantage of these dollars, and the guidance that they that we are giving if they want their students to be successful. 946 02:36:44.400 --> 02:37:03.340 WLWV Board Room: the types of support this initiative will provide are funding for high dosage tutoring and attentive summer school programs for students that need extra support training for teachers on curriculum that supports evidence-based teaching practices the provision of professional development, and further instructional coaching 947 02:37:03.450 --> 02:37:13.280 WLWV Board Room: and time for teachers to engage in an analysis of student work and assessment data with the support of Bill 3,198. Governor Kotek expects 948 02:37:13.390 --> 02:37:22.850 WLWV Board Room: that we are going to make sure the science of reading the research guides. What districts do we are expecting movement by districts in the upcoming school year. 949 02:37:23.410 --> 02:37:32.590 This is a pivotal time for our district, with the adoption of our Ela curriculum next March. as our school Board of Directors. It is imperative that you are aware 950 02:37:32.670 --> 02:37:53.600 WLWV Board Room: that you continue to be aware of what is at stake and guide this process. Please feel free to empower. Please feel empowered to ask tough questions. For example, we have a screener that earmarked students who are showing to signs of dyslexia called Ames Webb, which is given to kindergarten students and new students in the district. In first grade 951 02:37:53.900 --> 02:38:06.520 WLWV Board Room: after the screener is given, and the data is back, what instructional supports are given to the students who show signs of dyslexia. Conversely, what supports are given to the teachers to provide the appropriate instruction. 952 02:38:06.710 --> 02:38:09.460 WLWV Board Room: and do parents find out the results of the screener. 953 02:38:09.610 --> 02:38:14.540 The district is required by the State to give a dyslexia screener, but then what 954 02:38:15.030 --> 02:38:30.080 WLWV Board Room: please also feel entrusted to seek directions from outside experts in the field of literacy, talk to teachers about what training and support they need, and discuss with neighboring districts who are making the change to an evidence based curriculum how it is going and examine their data. Thank you. 955 02:38:33.460 --> 02:38:34.900 WLWV Board Room: Julie Fraser. 956 02:39:01.030 --> 02:39:03.710 WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Levy and directors of the Board. 957 02:39:03.990 --> 02:39:12.170 WLWV Board Room: First, I want to thank each of you for taking your time, your personal time to always meet with people outside of of board meetings. 958 02:39:12.370 --> 02:39:16.300 WLWV Board Room: Tonight I like to discuss universal screening for dyslexia. 959 02:39:16.650 --> 02:39:24.390 WLWV Board Room: The first hand out is from the district's web page. It points out that all students receive balance literacy approach to reading instruction. 960 02:39:24.550 --> 02:39:38.690 WLWV Board Room: Students who are having difficulty, will receive additional opportunities with the same instruction. Students with dyslexia will receive a balanced literacy approach that the District page states is explicit and systematic instruction. 961 02:39:39.160 --> 02:39:43.540 WLWV Board Room: Any district that includes a balanced literacy approach is harmful to students. 962 02:39:43.770 --> 02:39:45.580 WLWV Board Room: or, excuse me any instruction. 963 02:39:45.760 --> 02:39:58.140 WLWV Board Room: Universal screening is administered 3 times per year for students in kindergarten. Only after that, screenings are administered to new students in first grade, and students who are in the red. At the end of Kindergarten 964 02:39:58.690 --> 02:40:01.720 WLWV Board Room: the district only screens K. Through one students. 965 02:40:01.960 --> 02:40:07.930 WLWV Board Room: Universal screening is not, which is my next handout is not enough, and that's my next hand out. 966 02:40:08.020 --> 02:40:18.440 WLWV Board Room: This is an article from Education Week that was published this February. The most important question is, what happens next when the students are in the red for screening 967 02:40:18.630 --> 02:40:21.640 WLWV Board Room: the district takes a wait and see approach. 968 02:40:21.720 --> 02:40:31.880 WLWV Board Room: Reasons seem genuinely valid. We don't know how much exposure they've had before kindergarten. We don't know what type of experience trauma they might have before they came to school. 969 02:40:32.420 --> 02:40:39.130 WLWV Board Room: But my question is, why wait? It's not hurting any student to begin support after the very first screening 970 02:40:39.270 --> 02:40:43.460 WLWV Board Room: in my world, i'd include all students who are not in the Green zone. 971 02:40:43.840 --> 02:40:48.130 WLWV Board Room: Students should receive instruction that is, prescriptive to their needs 972 02:40:48.300 --> 02:40:56.940 WLWV Board Room: to fill the gaps quickly. They enter the classroom. Then, with true evidence-based, explicit, and systematic reading instruction, and they get a double dose 973 02:40:57.260 --> 02:41:13.850 WLWV Board Room: continuing with a balanced literacy approach, further complicates the screening process by showing indicators of dyslexia and up to 50% of students. This leads to too many students that need extra support and overloads our teachers, care educators and specialists. 974 02:41:14.250 --> 02:41:26.050 WLWV Board Room: The remaining handouts are organ administration rules regarding dyslexia training. Western Wilsonville trained many teachers in 2,018 since then there has been turnover and movement of teachers between schools. 975 02:41:26.520 --> 02:41:32.420 WLWV Board Room: This has been asked before. But is there a teacher trained in dyslexia in every primary school? 976 02:41:32.640 --> 02:41:45.370 WLWV Board Room: If not, is the districts in compliance with the waiver from teacher training requirements. I've asked for a I'm. Asking for continued transparency on dyslexia screening processes and teacher training. Thank you for your time. 977 02:41:49.870 --> 02:41:51.200 WLWV Board Room: Kara Clark. 978 02:41:59.040 --> 02:42:08.990 WLWV Board Room: I am a privilege to be here tonight. I have a supportive family that allows me the freedom to come to every Board meeting, and not have to pay for child care to have a voice in this district. 979 02:42:09.030 --> 02:42:16.160 WLWV Board Room: I am privileged enough that I can show up in person and voice my concerns. When I do not get responses or actions to emails. 980 02:42:16.250 --> 02:42:27.030 WLWV Board Room: I am concerned the parents and teachers do not have enough voice in this district. Every meeting I go to there is an agenda. There is no room for impact impactful conversation 981 02:42:27.350 --> 02:42:32.590 WLWV Board Room: when, because the district is already and rolling their plan by the time it hits the public 982 02:42:32.840 --> 02:42:45.800 WLWV Board Room: We, as a community, deserve to have dialogue and thoughtful informed decision making. 3 months ago I emailed, but I was interested in creating a Site Council in my school and concerns that I haven't heard of any Site Councils in the district. 983 02:42:45.860 --> 02:42:52.620 I wanted the opportunity for parents and teachers to be able to work together to prioritize the needs and achievements of our children. 984 02:42:52.820 --> 02:43:00.440 WLWV Board Room: I was told that the Pta Ptsos fill the role in the district. According to our district website in our schools. 985 02:43:00.670 --> 02:43:03.050 our Pta Ptsos 986 02:43:03.160 --> 02:43:17.820 WLWV Board Room: serve as our school base site councils. They provide input. And advice to the school leaders regarding the development and implementation of the school improvement plan and ways to increase student achievement and prioritize inclusive practices. 987 02:43:17.950 --> 02:43:29.410 WLWV Board Room: I am involved in the Pts. So, and I have never heard about our schools Improvement plan. This is not a Site Council. a Site Council's responsibilities can include, but are not unlimited. To 988 02:43:29.500 --> 02:43:36.150 WLWV Board Room: to develop a plan to improve the professional growth of staff improvement of the schools and structural programs. 989 02:43:36.240 --> 02:43:49.010 WLWV Board Room: The development and coordination of plans for the implementation of programs under the schools they represent, and the administration of grants in aid for the professional development of teachers and classified district employees. 990 02:43:49.240 --> 02:43:58.850 WLWV Board Room: There are rules about who can be selected to represent the the Council. The council must include not more than half teachers, not more than half 991 02:43:58.950 --> 02:44:11.590 WLWV Board Room: parents or students. At least one member shall be a classified employee, and one member shall be the principal of the building or the principal designee. These min members must be selected to represent their a lot of group. 992 02:44:11.850 --> 02:44:30.280 WLWV Board Room: What we have in our district is not a side council. Our Pto Pta groups consists primarily of parents, and often meet when teachers are in the classrooms with students. They were tired. The ptsos and ptas work tirelessly to create a community events and raise money. But this is not a site Council. 993 02:44:30.520 --> 02:44:44.560 WLWV Board Room: It is time for the district to come into compliance with the Oregon Educational Act of the Twenty-first century Every school has a right to a site Council. If the School District Board determines that a school site is unable to fulfill the requirements. 994 02:44:44.560 --> 02:45:02.320 WLWV Board Room: the School district Board shall establish the Twenty-first Century School Council in a manner that best meets the educational needs of the district. I want to be able to talk to the teachers, and I think that we have a community who is evolved enough to have hard conversations. Please consider it. 995 02:45:02.320 --> 02:45:09.990 WLWV Board Room: and thank you, Dr. Ludwig, for actually committing to give us an update on the Literacy program every every month. I i'm grateful 996 02:45:11.640 --> 02:45:13.170 WLWV Board Room: Christine Garcia. 997 02:45:22.810 --> 02:45:40.840 WLWV Board Room: Good evening. My name is Christine Garcia, and I have children in the Western Miltonville school. District. I would like to start off by thinking the Board for their diligence, and following the procedure for the book review process over the past few months, I felt that you were patient and fair and transparent throughout the process, and it was heartening to see that resilience. 998 02:45:41.020 --> 02:45:46.220 WLWV Board Room: I would also like to thank our teacher librarians for all their hard work, and let them know that they are so appreciated. 999 02:45:46.400 --> 02:46:02.940 WLWV Board Room: I would like to request that the Board consider adding a component to the public comment of school board meetings as we currently identify. Clearly, if we are a resident or not of the district, can we also require that speakers identify whether or not they have children currently enrolled in Western Wilsonville schools. 1000 02:46:03.010 --> 02:46:15.700 WLWV Board Room: I feel like this would add much needed context to public comments that we are not getting otherwise. As lately there's been a lot of input on things that directly affect our kids from people who do not have kids currently enrolled in our district. 1001 02:46:15.840 --> 02:46:26.000 WLWV Board Room: I understand that as taxpayers we all have the right to express our thoughts on how public funds are used, and have no problem with that. But think that adding this step would add some valuable context. 1002 02:46:26.080 --> 02:46:35.450 WLWV Board Room: Finally, I think it's important that we recognize the fact that the attack on books was only the first in a long line of issues headed our way based off of national trends. Yeah. 1003 02:46:35.660 --> 02:46:47.780 WLWV Board Room: As a district, I would hope that the same thoughtfulness with which the book process was handled will apply to protecting our Lgbtq plus families, our diversity and inclusion initiatives and our social emotional learning. 1004 02:46:47.890 --> 02:46:55.080 WLWV Board Room: We really need to be focusing on supporting our students and teachers and creating a safe learning environment for everyone in our district. Thank you for your time. 1005 02:46:59.220 --> 02:47:00.470 WLWV Board Room: John Mccabe. 1006 02:47:16.310 --> 02:47:21.440 WLWV Board Room: John Mccabe, Westland, Oregon. I used to have children in the Western school district. 1007 02:47:21.860 --> 02:47:26.610 WLWV Board Room: Both of them went to Cornell. We'll go from there, My. 1008 02:47:27.310 --> 02:47:32.110 WLWV Board Room: as a budget that was presented today. One of the items on there was. 1009 02:47:32.350 --> 02:47:38.060 WLWV Board Room: If all the staff, all the staff positions were filled off, the dollars were spent. 1010 02:47:38.430 --> 02:47:42.720 WLWV Board Room: This is where we'd be at the end of the year. which is still at 23% 1011 02:47:44.630 --> 02:47:56.410 WLWV Board Room: of an ending fund balance which is above this national State standard the 15. Is I was told by Mr. World Phone. and we do have issues with reading. 1012 02:47:56.700 --> 02:48:09.440 WLWV Board Room: And luckily the one thing the school district has is how much that 10% of the funding in this district is from the local option. and so people are looking for performance. 1013 02:48:09.760 --> 02:48:17.050 WLWV Board Room: They want to see their students get enough educational instruction. and rather than save my let's spend the money. 1014 02:48:17.210 --> 02:48:21.830 WLWV Board Room: it's bringing more staff, more staff, higher level. 1015 02:48:22.160 --> 02:48:34.150 WLWV Board Room: We have the money. There is the need. We need to get these scores back up. and if we're concerned about what we need to save the money. these kids get one chance. 1016 02:48:34.580 --> 02:48:36.890 WLWV Board Room: get one chance to go through the school district. 1017 02:48:37.310 --> 02:48:42.520 WLWV Board Room: and if we're going to have the attitude of let's save the money. Well, then, let's just destroy kids lives. 1018 02:48:43.200 --> 02:48:50.710 WLWV Board Room: Are the scores showed from 2,022, that there is a problem in the school district. Lp. 1019 02:48:50.760 --> 02:48:54.440 WLWV Board Room: a program on it there's a lot of people in the community that fills. 1020 02:48:54.570 --> 02:49:01.450 WLWV Board Room: We have to put more money in for our students. When you consider how much money we're getting from the local option. 1021 02:49:02.020 --> 02:49:05.940 WLWV Board Room: we, we we can't save money. so that these students 1022 02:49:07.240 --> 02:49:09.580 not do as well as they are able to. 1023 02:49:09.650 --> 02:49:16.380 WLWV Board Room: One of the reasons why we're able to get more minus here, which is also concerning to me. because we have a high level. 1024 02:49:16.630 --> 02:49:27.140 WLWV Board Room: The students in poverty in this district there for our 8 am. W. Went up to a second half of the year. We got more money in the State 1025 02:49:27.490 --> 02:49:32.980 WLWV Board Room: again, that we're saving. If we have that many kids in poverty in this district. 1026 02:49:33.480 --> 02:49:36.410 WLWV Board Room: there is needs for those students 1027 02:49:36.480 --> 02:49:49.350 WLWV Board Room: to bring in people to work, especially with them. And if we have this attitude we need to save the money. Well, that's that we're in the wrong direction. Then somewhere here, if we're not here to Sigma, we're here to educate students 1028 02:49:50.490 --> 02:49:59.760 WLWV Board Room: and it's for the audit. I'll wait till it comes out I do have still has certain concerns. And the reason why I speak by the budget at this time is 1029 02:50:00.050 --> 02:50:08.800 WLWV Board Room: there's a good chance that I will have you back in the Ethic have, because awards that a former student in the strict trick is receiving. 1030 02:50:09.900 --> 02:50:14.580 WLWV Board Room: They only happen once in life. You can't miss those opportunities. Thank you for your time. 1031 02:50:17.950 --> 02:50:28.290 WLWV Board Room: Alright, that concludes that portion of public comment and everything on our agenda. So we've got our next work session on the seventeenth at 5 Pm. 1032 02:50:28.690 --> 02:50:31.530 WLWV Board Room: And I'm. Adjourning. The meeting.