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Board Room: Okay looks like we are ready, so i'll call this meeting and the Westland Wilson middle school board of directors to order.

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Board Room: And miss Douglas we please call.

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Board Room: me slope.

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Board Room: The steeler burger King President 50 Thompson here justin right here, thank you.

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Board Room: Alright, we are going to start with.

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Board Room: Our district communications our student reports, and I am so excited we have students here in person, so we will start with is Michelle Quinn here and there, she is okay great.

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Board Room: Things first and then come back yeah sorry I missed that.

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Board Room: Okay, great thanks anything school board members last month we celebrated the fall season, where we had the opportunity to try fresh homemade apple cider pumpkin donuts.

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Board Room: We carve pumpkins and crew and we all ended up making jacqueline's with different expressions, some of us took a pumpkin home, while others chose to keep them in the hub, to make them make it more faster.

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Board Room: or tech students have been encouraged to join most simple high school clubs that I started meeting over the past month and i'm happy to say that a portion of our students have joined everything from drama Club to book club and even the bullet.

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Board Room: And first period crew, we have been encouraging team building in the form of playing games having meaningful conversations that include our hopes and dreams for the future and getting to know more about each other.

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Board Room: Over the course of the past month, I feel that we have become a big group of friends that can trust each other and have fun today.

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Board Room: Thank you, Michelle and lucinda fine from Westland.

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Board Room: Hello everybody, my name is lucinda and i'm the Westland high school student body President today, I just wanted to share a few things.

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Board Room: Over the past month we've celebrated breast cancer awareness month and, with that we had breast cancer Awareness Week, where we dedicated every day of the week to pink.

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Board Room: And just representing and responding to breast cancer awareness, we raised $1,435 for breast friends, which is a local breast cancer organization.

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Board Room: And we raised that money by putting jars in the library, we did $1 day in classrooms and then we had a pickup football game where we also had.

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Board Room: lots of money donated so that was super exciting and then I wanted to share a story from a class that I had over the past month that I thought you guys would like to hear.

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Board Room: Tom Jones is my history teacher he's on the western City Council he's an awesome man.

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Board Room: But we were doing a mock trial simulation and it was the first time in over a year and a half for every single student in my class was really engaged, they were eager to learn.

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Board Room: And I could tell that everybody was smiling under their masks it was so fun to be in class, and I even talked to Mr Jones about it after about.

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Board Room: how grateful I was that we had the opportunity to participate in the simulation even just in a normal history level class it wasn't even a paid.

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Board Room: It was just really awesome to see kids so eager to learn and so passionate about what we were doing and I hadn't seen that in a super long time so I thought y'all would like to hear that story, so thank you for your time.

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Board Room: And can I send that and Miguel to hey that from Wilson I school.

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Board Room: School good yeah so, a lot has happened with this model, I did not know where to begin when I was making the slide.

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Board Room: But let's start off with what I first did, which was the band choir and orchestra concert, we have them spread out throughout the week.

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Board Room: And they were all successful in it, which is so good for like the arts to be performing again last year, we have like a makeshift concert, that was a little rough but this year, just so nice to sing in harmony again.

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Board Room: And then we were football champions This weekend we played can be on Friday and you're victorious and it was just so exciting there's such a big thrill.

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Board Room: And there's so many students that showed up because we encourage a lot of like student involvement and then as a lot of you guys know November 1 is like.

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Board Room: early action slash restrictive early action like deadlines and stuff and so a lot of my fellow classmates have been applying to college.

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Board Room: By today, and this has been a stressful hectic week but we're lucky to have wonderful staff that have helped us essays like revise and then.

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Board Room: just get out all those letters of recommendation and then the last thing we had was a festival, which was on Saturday, which was sponsored by link crew.

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Board Room: This year we're making link or more involved with students and just freshman orientation, so we invited them to come through on Saturday, and then we had like.

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Board Room: 40 freshmen show up, which was not a lot, but it was a good start, and we hope to keep expanding as the quarters move along in the previous.

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Board Room: Okay, I missed something you were going to stop me ready for the students went and I said i'd come back so is this a good time to come back sure.

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Board Room: I would like to add to our agenda on your board business a discussion and possible decision to make a calendar adjustment for November 12 as a non instructional day.

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Board Room: And was thinking we could just put it at the end, as the final item for us to discuss tonight.

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Board Room: Sorry i'm making a motion to make that agenda change Okay, so we have director Wyatt moving to add an item to the agenda, around a calendar change.

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Board Room: And I do believe I need to ask for a second i'm superintendent looking at what you just need to board members to add an agenda item So if you have to interested board members, I hear one.

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Board Room: If you have to, then you can go ahead and just place it on the agenda and then get to that topic when you get there, yes yeah is there a second person who's gonna that's what i'm asking.

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Board Room: Also okay great there we go, thank you, thank you.

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Board Room: Okay, very good so we'll move on to recognitions and we have miss lauren Bruce be the director of student services, good evening.

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Board Room: Well, I have the distinct pleasure tonight to share with you about a group of dedicated staff members that are integral to the work that we do and less than most adults.

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Board Room: So this slide just demonstrate some of the areas of professional expertise of our school psychologists our school psychologists are small, but mighty group.

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Board Room: We have seven fabulous deep professionals who are committed to supporting and bolstering new professionals in the field, as well as the work that they grow and learn in every single day.

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Board Room: Together they support and lift the work and experience of to school psychologists interns and it is just an honor to share with you.

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Board Room: And our Community, some of the great work that this team of professional does this slide just indicates five of the areas that they lean into.

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Board Room: And as much as it's fun to look at this slide I really want you to see them so hold on to these pieces and.

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Board Room: We can head to that next slide so every day school psychologists wraparound student outcomes they work to understand the ways that students learn best to support teams and living into creating school setting that promote and support academic outcomes.

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Board Room: Whether it be data analysis, through our math assessment progress monitoring curriculum based measures or panorama data this team is putting into this information to support, educators and individualized instruction and interventions for students.

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Board Room: i'm going to share a little bit in this of examples of some of our fabulous team.

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Board Room: So for our new CEO semi recently defended her dissertation uses data analysis and culturally responsive strategy is to provide consultation to families, teachers and administrators this past year, she worked collaboratively with her polly.

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Board Room: Including our school counselor to use school wide data to drive interventions and support it's just one example of academic support outcomes of this team support.

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Board Room: Our schools like support positive behavior and mental health as well.

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Board Room: They support communication and social skills, promote Problem Solving anger management and conflict resolution and reinforce coping skills and resilience.

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Board Room: Mike Miller, one of our school sites as part of a team that implements sources of strength, which is an evidence based practice Suicide Prevention program it's designed to harness the power of peer.

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Board Room: Peer social networks to change unhealthy norms and culture, ultimately, preventing suicide bullying and substance abuse.

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Board Room: This program mobilizes a group of diverse and powerful peer leaders to spread messages of hope, health and strength throughout the school and community, this is certainly exemplifies the promotion of positive behavior and mental health community.

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Board Room: Our team also support students who experienced disabilities and meaningful it's a meaningful component of the school psychologist work.

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Board Room: Often, one might think about a school psychologist in the context of a special education evaluation or process.

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Board Room: And this work extends being thought partners in the word, one of our brand new newest school psychologist Jody demon shelly who joined Western Wilson build Community just this past month.

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Board Room: she's already joined her school team, including parent educators learning specialist speech language pathologist ot PT.

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Board Room: To come together and think deeply about individual students to share their their expertise together develop shared understanding and really hone into plans that create consistency and commitment throughout the day.

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Board Room: Our school psychologist facilitate behavior support plans partner run circles, will support train TEAM members on crisis prevention and step into wrapping around students in teams with unwavering care.

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Board Room: They also lean in to create safe positive school climate.

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Board Room: are supposed to call just work to support school connectedness through school climate promote positive discipline and promote our our seven components of inclusive and equitable learning communities.

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Board Room: Including deep work on restorative practices, one of our school psychologist kelsey less men.

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Board Room: shares the building a relationship with a student shared an experience of building a relationship with a student or an assessment process.

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Board Room: It allowed her to be a trusted adult with that student and help the student reframe their self talk promote a growth mindset here's what she says.

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Board Room: The student helped me understand how impactful our relationships with students, we work with are even just a few words we same passing or how we greet students in the morning.

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Board Room: matter, and I would hope the students learned from me ways in which to be a good friends, I also hope the student learns that we're not defined by the mistakes that we make.

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Board Room: but rather I how we own up to them and move forward kelsey is belief in the student coupled with her strong relationship and social emotional skills and implementation of restorative practices exemplifies our team's role in supporting safe positive school.

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Board Room: Lastly, i'll hit on the concept of our our team really leans into strengthening family and school partnerships.

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Board Room: And this team builds relationships and care with families to strengthen that families will partnership.

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Board Room: Andrea Ramos one of our school sites is proud to have been a part of developing and supporting our strong early childhood evaluation set.

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Board Room: This opportunity allowed her to be a part of the growth and success of our districts youngest children and their families.

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Board Room: Another school psychologist Aaron pelton shares that her personal mission is to support parents in fully actualize and they're incredibly important roles as TEAM members and partners.

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Board Room: She notes over the past few years are learning communities have not been defined or restricted to the school fence line.

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Board Room: Our kitchens have been classrooms or living spaces, have been learning spaces, she hopes that, while our understanding of what education looks like.

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Board Room: has been challenged what has always been true is not unmistakeably clear, we are all the learning community, we are all invaluable.

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Board Room: Members of students teams and our partnerships are critical to keep students success as the week of November 8 approaches.

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Board Room: Please join me in celebrating this dynamic group of school psychologists who lean in every day to support our community in so many ways.

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Board Room: i'm going to close by sharing the words of one of our school sites Jen assignments this work would not be possible without the care that is consistently reflected in our Community and work culture, thank you for celebrating this team.

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Board Room: Thank you so much, Miss briggs me for sharing that those moves and introducing those people, and I just want to also express on behalf of the board.

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Board Room: our gratitude and i'll open the floor if anybody else wants to speak looks at the superintendent would like to.

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Board Room: But yes to the boundaries of schools, changing the past 18 months and really us recognizing the importance of partnerships and family being one key partnership.

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Board Room: And I know anecdotally from listening to parents, how important these services are on to the well being of the family into the success success of the students, thank you to all the whole team of psychologists.

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Board Room: I just like to add, I again ECHO shirking sentiments and thank you, Dr briggs before just such a complete and descriptive.

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Board Room: narrative of all the work that our school psychologists do, and I know, years ago, the role of a school psychologist was pretty much in an office and you did an evaluation, with a student.

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Board Room: gave a report and then kind of went back to the office and queued up the next one.

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Board Room: And that may still happen in some districts, but it has been a number of years that our team really felt that they could extend beyond that they could see themselves as capacity builders.

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Board Room: That when they know a bank of knowledge, how do they share that with administrators and teachers.

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Board Room: And really think about what they discover about children feel maybe an evaluative process How does that really change what's happening in the classroom.

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Board Room: And then see themselves as coaches as partners in the work you can see in the picture, they get right down on the floor with students, they cozy up next to they know them well in the classroom and they're eager to be more than just a person who does an evaluation.

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Board Room: Maybe leads a workshop here there to really being a partner.

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Board Room: and knowing families and students so deeply so we're really fortunate to have school psychologists that have that type of mindset and want that type of role in the district.

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Board Room: it's not true everywhere, but certainly is true here so just enormous gratitude to our professionals and for all that they do so thank you for sharing about their work with us tonight, and we look forward to recognizing the next week during national school psychologist week.

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Board Room: Alright, thank you we'll move on to the board and superintendent report and we'll start with Vice chair Thompson.

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Board Room: You and I wanted to highlight two.

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Board Room: So I attended the student services parent collaboration meeting that was on October 26 through zoom and it was led by lauren.

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Board Room: it's my understanding that these parents collaboration so correct me because I was taking notes really fast when I attended, and they happen four times a year.

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Board Room: And there are opportunities for our parents of our special needs students to get together to collaborate with our district, to provide an ongoing venue for our parents have special needs students to collaborate again and continually improve the supports in the education of their students.

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Board Room: Because providing and include or being an inclusive district is one of the hallmarks of our district, now that we're somewhat settled back down into somewhat normal.

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Board Room: School this is kind of one of those areas that I just want to press into and learn more about, especially because we are a district that other people come to to take a look at.

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Board Room: we've kind of paved the road thanks to Dr Spencer items and, as far as being an inclusive so it's something that I wanted to learn more about.

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Board Room: And i'm sitting in on that parent collaboration was a great way to do that.

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Board Room: And some of the things that were discussed some amazing things that are happening, first of all, we have our adult transition services, we have two students in that program that are attending.

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Board Room: classes at clackamas Community college because of a partnership that we have with them, and they have the opportunity to take classes during the day, such as meal prep.

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Board Room: Maybe personal finance health and wellness and then several of them go to job placements or internships afterwards.

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Board Room: We also have and again correct me if i'm getting any of this wrong, our first ever inclusive preschool at sunset Presbyterian of sense that Presbyterian i'm sorry son i'm perfect school.

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Board Room: I was at Stafford Okay, thank you, I wrote down SPS without so thank you for correcting me um and that's in conjunction with the clackamas yesterday, and one of the goals that they are working toward is making our playgrounds and inclusive so that was something talked about.

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Board Room: And then the other thing that would they talked about and discussed with parents was recovery services for special needs students.

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Board Room: And we talked about recovery for all of our students, but what does that look like, for some of our special needs students So those are the some of the things I got to hear about and lauren and stephanie.

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Board Room: I just want to thank you, that you're providing this opportunity for our parents to be a part of their students learning.

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Board Room: And just for your enthusiasm your energy and the passion that I got to witness during that meeting so i'm glad that you're here tonight, and thank you for correcting me.

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Board Room: And then the other thing I wanted to highlight is, I attended the Wilson ville Rotary and again just my desire to be more Community minded to and be in the Community and partner with the Community.

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Board Room: And one of the things that i've talked about with a couple members actually they approached me was how do we encourage volunteerism in our students and i've talked a little bit with Dr Ludwig about that, and I know just from personal experience at Wilson bow high school that we have.

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Board Room: Also, our national honor society and then there's a new club leaders for Wilson villain and they're all.

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Board Room: focused on serving the Community, but then My other question and kind of an ongoing question that I have as a board members, how do we encourage all of our students.

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Board Room: That maybe aren't a part of those specific clubs to be volunteer minded and who can we partner with and how do we do that and.

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Board Room: You know one thing that kind of crossed my mind, is, I know we we give out a by literacy seal you know, is there some sort of something acknowledgement, we can make at.

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Board Room: A graduation that shows this student has completed X number of volunteer hours in our Community and I don't know i'm just thinking and kind of.

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Board Room: Pushing that out there, that I know all of us in this room, and all of us up here know the value of volunteering that's what we are as volunteers and that not only does it give to your community but it gives back to you and.

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Board Room: So just trying to think through what can we do to encourage that in our students, so that is it Thank you.

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Board Room: All right, Director Taylor.

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Board Room: i'll be brief.

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Board Room: I had a good time walking through the Charter school which, being in this community of now for nearly 18 years.

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Board Room: I had no understanding of what our Charter school was in meant to this district so actually getting a walkthrough meet the staff meet the students watch.

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Board Room: The way that that Community thrives was was a really, really eye opening time for me, I think that.

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Board Room: One of the things that I loved about it was the the open environment that the kids are exposed to so when we talk about building curriculum to the edges right.

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Board Room: A talented and gifted child or that child that may need a little more help it was nice to see that.

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Board Room: If a if a kid wanted to be pressed or wanted to try something that was a little more advanced and they can sit from a fifth grade class for the seventh grade class and be able to continue to be engaged to be pushed that they wouldn't get bored and so.

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Board Room: The admissions process for that I had no concept of how that worked and got a better understanding of what that look like for the Community in the lottery system that is used there.

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Board Room: In my mind i'd always thought that it was only this this kind of little school that was set up for only those who could get in but it's not that at all, so I think it was able to.

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Board Room: demystify some of the things that I had thought, and you know, for being here that long, and I think it's.

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Board Room: An amazing tool, the way that we integrate that particular charter school in with the district how it's supported shared services.

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Board Room: And, and I think that's really unique compared to what other charter schools may be looking like throughout the state so.

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Board Room: I was fascinated and to watch how the kids interacted and played on the playground how the staff supported them the open learning environment, it was just it was fascinating so and it seemed like it was one big community.

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Board Room: And so that was that was very, very.

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Board Room: eye opening for me and i'm looking forward to doing more walk drew's and thank you for providing us for the platform.

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Board Room: To be able to actually know what's going on inside the doors of the schools, because I think it's important as board members and being able to give feedback back to.

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Board Room: The Community so the only other thing that I mentioned, is that I spent some time sitting with the Community Members and I had a really good meeting with a gentleman over at willamette coffee house and we got to sit there for about a little over an hour and just hear his feedback concerns.

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Board Room: Things that a lot of the Community has had concerns about and just being able to have that open dialogue we didn't agree on a lot of different things, but we had a really nice conversation and.

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Board Room: And then, lastly, about the plan just do you know when you get it you'll see in those four commitments, a lot of strategies and actions for this year.

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Board Room: That we have an equity summit coming up and we're really thrilled with the work that we did around renewing and reviewing our sro Program.

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Board Room: Thank you superintendent like when.

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Board Room: All right, Miss Douglas will you call a book called the slope.

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Board Room: All right, great and we'll move on to the communications and comments from the audience and we do have a few folks signed up so Hello everybody welcome glad you're here i'm just going to read a few.

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Board Room: guidelines that we follow, and thank you for being here, first of all, and for patiently sitting through all the first orders of business that we go through your voice is important to us.

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Board Room: and hopefully you've signed up here, if you do want to give public comment, and this is a time for us to.

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Board Room: If you do want us to respond in some way provide information back to you and just provide your contact information to us, and then we can get back to you.

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Board Room: and keep your comments to three minutes it's actually a really effective length of time and if you need more time feel free to submit materials to us in writing or draft an email of some sort we have 45 minutes for public comments, we should have no problem with that tonight.

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Board Room: We need this remind us that we have caring hardworking administrators and teachers that have our kids and they're doing the best that they can and it's still challenging time.

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Board Room: I talked to many parents and they have also their children are so happy to be back in school, so we thank you, we will make this happen, we thank you.

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Board Room: My husband and I went to the gross munch end of the year cross country meet at the big Wilson ville park and I couldn't believe the hundreds and hundreds of kids and parents who come out to watch that, even though they only see their child for three minutes coming over the finish line.

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Board Room: Across our country some school districts have chosen to step into curriculum that is opened up the doors for division and controversy.

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Board Room: We would strongly encourage you to keep on giving our children, the excellent education that looked on all the shows with our children and now adventure.

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Board Room: Yes, my name is Christina I am a mixed race mental health therapist educator and mom and i'm here to talk with you tonight about.

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Board Room: Which is why I wrote the book The book and curriculum have been reviewed and vetted by early education specialist child therapist and parents.

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Board Room: Maybe he'll teach me to understand my fears or helped me to see the value of my tears.

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Board Room: And now, on the last page there's a URL for parents and educators to download the curriculum for my website, I also believe this book is.

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Board Room: Okay, thank you, everybody, I think that was everyone who came to speak.

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Board Room: When I have three items that I would like to present to you the first one is a general funds updates the second one's a bucket Committee, they can see and last a purple bucket calendar for fiscal year 2222.

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Board Room: In front of us is the update for finance or summary general fund as of October 31 of 2021.

462
01:12:03.270 --> 01:12:21.900
Board Room: IP report lay out under the income statement was made in the first half of the repo focus on the revenue, the second half, focus on the expenditure and it showed you the ending balance up the revenue minus expenditure.

463
01:12:24.060 --> 01:12:31.200
Board Room: end up great column, this is the adaptive butchered that for our dap in June of 2021.

464
01:12:32.430 --> 01:12:56.520
Board Room: The adjusted columns is throw out a year if we have any significant category that changing in the number and I will come to your board approval, what the resolution or sample I came to pour for the resolution on the pension bomb and one ball too bad I factor, the number.

465
01:12:58.500 --> 01:13:01.920
Board Room: Of the column to met, it becomes what can what can.

466
01:13:03.780 --> 01:13:14.970
Board Room: The blue column here's a the year and protection, this is the information on this column is the information that we pay attention throughout the year.

467
01:13:15.480 --> 01:13:32.100
Board Room: Because this number, based on the year today expenditure last step any protection from now into June 30 that I project that we anticipate to receive or spam throughout the year.

468
01:13:33.750 --> 01:13:55.260
Board Room: So with this when you look at the revenue, there are three area, the first one say the property tax and the second ones that are local option, and the last one is say spoon fun, these are some go up some go down, and I would like to explain it in detail.

469
01:13:57.780 --> 01:14:00.690
Board Room: So this one's talking about.

470
01:14:01.950 --> 01:14:15.450
Board Room: Prominent property tax local optima tax and bond, this information will receive on Black America and Washington counting on October 18 so under the adapter.

471
01:14:17.010 --> 01:14:22.050
Board Room: way, but just 76.2 million for this tree catalog.

472
01:14:23.580 --> 01:14:44.280
Board Room: or proper 18 will receive table for a from the penalty certified and under permanent tasks for the 2.2 million instead of 14.8 million, which is up with a 1.5 million more can be adapted by chat or 4%.

473
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:47.910
Board Room: Now called auction.

474
01:14:49.050 --> 01:14:59.940
Board Room: We backtrack 10 million and it come pain point 9 million with the 902,000 more than the adaptive purchase or 9%.

475
01:15:01.620 --> 01:15:08.340
Board Room: Above born it came very close is only 197 less than what we asked for.

476
01:15:09.360 --> 01:15:21.930
Board Room: So with that the total local revenue from the prominent tax and local an option will be 2.4 million higher than that up the chat.

477
01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:26.010
Board Room: And remember, like.

478
01:15:27.390 --> 01:15:41.730
Board Room: don mentioned, there is the indirect relationship between the local and revenue in space going phone so if the local revenue go on and say spoon can go down, and vice versa, is.

479
01:15:44.370 --> 01:15:46.350
Board Room: This one, it is a spoon on.

480
01:15:47.430 --> 01:15:48.120
Board Room: revenue.

481
01:15:50.070 --> 01:16:02.100
Board Room: We have four columns here, the first one, is this the description that ad blue sample average daily membership wasted.

482
01:16:03.570 --> 01:16:04.080
Board Room: And then.

483
01:16:06.750 --> 01:16:26.160
Board Room: The first column is adopted purchase that we adopted portrait on to import or 2021 based on the information that we have at that time, so we backtracked based on 10,897 ADM w.

484
01:16:27.210 --> 01:16:44.910
Board Room: And it ADM blue SMS to receive night house and $164 so when we do not publication penthouse and 897 ADM w for the night house and 164.

485
01:16:45.780 --> 01:17:04.260
Board Room: With that estimate up 99.8 million and then subtract by don't know corn revenue so in the adult the chat I estimate that the district will receive an appropriate of 57.9 million.

486
01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:13.950
Board Room: And then on June 24 they see the estimate information that we receive from Oregon Department of Education.

487
01:17:15.030 --> 01:17:23.640
Board Room: What the estimate up at MW for 11,000 11,089.

488
01:17:25.470 --> 01:17:35.520
Board Room: And then the revenue per ad MW is 9164 so give us the total space good fun.

489
01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:48.210
Board Room: Is 101.6 million so minor local and revenue estimated time 41.9 million so Oregon department of.

490
01:17:49.230 --> 01:17:55.320
Board Room: Education had the SMS for our school district around 59.7 million.

491
01:17:57.240 --> 01:18:06.000
Board Room: This column right here is information that we have as of October 1821.

492
01:18:07.890 --> 01:18:30.570
Board Room: On that day, the headcount that we help ADM diffuse a 10,257 and based on 9164 the upper 90s it to a point 9 million and then minus the local revenue per se, the 43.3 based on the table for that I received from the county.

493
01:18:31.650 --> 01:18:35.430
Board Room: hubris 3.5 million.

494
01:18:36.900 --> 01:18:41.160
Board Room: And the last column sorry for my Smith spell in here the actual.

495
01:18:46.380 --> 01:18:58.680
Board Room: So this is the actual information that we have for fiscal year 2021 ATM to play, we have 10,537 and that the revenue for the.

496
01:19:02.730 --> 01:19:13.080
Board Room: Get 96 96.5 million and peck away loco and revenue 43.3.

497
01:19:14.160 --> 01:19:16.680
Board Room: Equal 53.1 million.

498
01:19:18.240 --> 01:19:38.580
Board Room: According to already already indicated that they will you the highest number, either for two year 2021 2122 whichever year that we have the highest a BMW, then they will apply that number so.

499
01:19:39.420 --> 01:19:54.960
Board Room: If you look at the agm the player for fiscal year 2021 and the ADM w that we have as of October 18 of 2021 then obviously to 2021 we have higher number so that.

500
01:19:56.250 --> 01:20:12.000
Board Room: Already, will you the highest number was a 53.1 million with that the difference between 52.1 million and the adaptive bucket of 57.9 million a 4.8 million.

501
01:20:13.410 --> 01:20:19.890
Board Room: And we also have the second quarter count with a by the end of January.

502
01:20:21.570 --> 01:20:39.720
Board Room: costs that will will will share with me the information was he does a BMW that we have at that time, so at that time about a BMW is higher than the actual in 2021 then we hope to see more revenue in that same school.

503
01:20:44.070 --> 01:20:57.420
Board Room: So with that you will see here, why under property tax, we have 1.5 million more than the JET and then under local option tax 902,000 more.

504
01:20:58.620 --> 01:21:04.140
Board Room: And under say school fun, we have 4.8 million less.

505
01:21:05.190 --> 01:21:27.000
Board Room: So over on we have 2.4 million in Greece in the local revenue, but we have 4.5 million SMS to reduce in revenue say school fun, so if I asked the two together we look at 2.4 million reviews revenue.

506
01:21:28.950 --> 01:21:39.810
Board Room: Under the expenditure is to show the saving compassion bond a 3.2 million, that is a report that I present to you in September.

507
01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:58.620
Board Room: Under salary and benefits, there are some still moment information that I will report to you more in the month of December so for this month, I only factor in the ship that all point if the shipping on bond that has.

508
01:22:00.090 --> 01:22:04.980
Board Room: been due to the nature of the workflows that we have on a born at that time.

509
01:22:06.060 --> 01:22:18.510
Board Room: So with that at up October 31 we look into the estimate of 14.2 million or 10% of our end and pinball and.

510
01:22:22.410 --> 01:22:28.980
Board Room: that's all I have a general fun updates, if you have any questions for me.

511
01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:43.350
Board Room: Thank you, I do have one question primarily about this data around our declining enrollment or enrollment looks like about.

512
01:22:44.250 --> 01:23:02.280
Board Room: 3% nationwide and that it's been not previously recorded to be that high in two decades, I think, is what I read in your memo from recalling the ration correctly, I have my assumptions about what to attribute that but i'm wondering if in any of that data if there's.

513
01:23:03.660 --> 01:23:09.300
Board Room: Any reasoning given behind this this market national trend.

514
01:23:11.910 --> 01:23:19.350
Board Room: Well, I can share you one data point and that's the pandemic, because as soon as that hit we had.

515
01:23:20.640 --> 01:23:23.700
Board Room: Large numbers of families and students choose to.

516
01:23:24.780 --> 01:23:31.230
Board Room: find alternatives, and while we had our online program and some chose to do that others have shared with us.

517
01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:45.720
Board Room: That they are choosing to homeschool or find a private school or some way to manage learning at home with how they can coordinate it as their family, but that they intend to come back once the pandemic subsides.

518
01:23:46.860 --> 01:23:54.450
Board Room: And for some it's about vaccination access, so we see our largest decline in our elementary schools.

519
01:23:55.080 --> 01:24:08.700
Board Room: And that's a story that's shared across every school district in Oregon and nationally, so how long it takes for public schools to maybe resume that back is just a matter of you know time to see.

520
01:24:10.170 --> 01:24:28.260
Board Room: You know what families choose to do but overnight to see such a drastic drop is about a phenomenon that occurred, and we know what occurred it wasn't that you know 600 people, all of a sudden did something you know dramatically different in terms of.

521
01:24:30.300 --> 01:24:38.700
Board Room: birth rate or a move these were students that we had already and have communicated to us into their principles when we've called an asked.

522
01:24:39.240 --> 01:24:52.740
Board Room: That this is a shift that's connected to the pandemic, others have moved and others have moved in so it does fluctuate and I think we'll see in the winter in the spring, what it continues to do.

523
01:24:53.790 --> 01:24:55.290
Board Room: So that's one data point I would share.

524
01:24:56.880 --> 01:24:59.640
Board Room: and ending, but in.

525
01:25:01.140 --> 01:25:07.050
Board Room: Indian broadband wi fi in the enrollment is we're not faced in this alone.

526
01:25:08.340 --> 01:25:25.830
Board Room: 197 score victory in Oregon are facing the same problem that we're facing so that's why Oregon department of adaptation requests in our press submit the update in government data, so they can run an order information.

527
01:25:27.030 --> 01:25:32.010
Board Room: updated information because the last one day happy, based on the owner of.

528
01:25:33.030 --> 01:25:51.180
Board Room: That when we submit the information back in December, our school district in Oregon hopeful that by September when school resume everyone will go back to spoon and the enrollment will will raise that.

529
01:25:56.460 --> 01:25:58.500
Board Room: They soon information will come up.

530
01:26:00.510 --> 01:26:10.800
Board Room: Also, one more item that I would like to have a board member pay attention to with the the reason that we have.

531
01:26:12.450 --> 01:26:25.350
Board Room: an unbalanced estimate in a positive way it because, last year we receive s s support we have so one, two and Sri Sri.

532
01:26:26.070 --> 01:26:48.510
Board Room: Some of audits conducted days save that money so they can spend it for this year and put the next year, but our school district, because the amount that we receive it not really significant, but it is good enough, as although combine three so is over 4 million we already spent at all.

533
01:26:50.100 --> 01:27:07.830
Board Room: So, another point to pay attention is the total revenue here if I take away the beginning fund balance I only asked up the revenue that we in dissipate to receive, but this year is add up to.

534
01:27:10.200 --> 01:27:28.530
Board Room: 111.9 million, and then, if I add up the expense down here it add up to 107.7 million, so you can see what down the healthy and important balance carry forward from last year.

535
01:27:29.010 --> 01:27:51.930
Board Room: If we just focus on our revenue that anticipated coming in and all the expenditure that in piece of paper and we don't have enough revenue to cover up our current expenditure so going forward, we have to come up with a strategy, how to live within the revenue that we anticipate.

536
01:27:53.400 --> 01:27:55.320
Board Room: That are counting on that.

537
01:27:58.770 --> 01:28:07.320
Board Room: and go hey it was I do have one more question sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you did you want to say some where you still going okay.

538
01:28:08.430 --> 01:28:21.810
Board Room: I just about the way state funding works in general i'm hearing this in your report that, as the local option or as local monies increase, then the money that we get from the state for our ADM decreases.

539
01:28:22.770 --> 01:28:33.360
Board Room: Again, I just want to check my assumptions, I assume that, if that money is not coming from the state to Westland will single school district because it's been adjusted because of our local you know revenue.

540
01:28:33.660 --> 01:28:50.310
Board Room: But that money then goes back to the State and is then stays in the education system and is used for K 12 education in some fashion, is that an accurate assumption, or what happens to that money if it's not coming to Westland Wilson bell another.

541
01:28:51.870 --> 01:28:59.250
Board Room: puppy right, I need to verify that with cody that another assumption that another factor is.

542
01:29:00.330 --> 01:29:08.070
Board Room: Other spoon picture at my face in the deep fly in local and revenue so that's why I say spoon fun will go up.

543
01:29:08.700 --> 01:29:21.360
Board Room: So when because it depends on the location of the school district some school districts, they have play in the location that not many tax payer pay all of their effects on time.

544
01:29:21.810 --> 01:29:32.850
Board Room: So they don't receive the local revenue in the amount of time quest sometimes some year in the past, you know we pull request 40 million, but.

545
01:29:33.360 --> 01:29:46.860
Board Room: CAFE say you've got a million so so that, so the money that we get reducing the cesspool fun we'll have our discussion convicted whole lot in common and.

546
01:29:49.950 --> 01:30:02.400
Board Room: it's a system that was set up to create equitability in the state it used to be years ago schools are funded locally, and you can imagine, when you just are funded locally, the difference.

547
01:30:03.210 --> 01:30:15.990
Board Room: That would occur across the state depending on where that school district was in terms of tax base very wealthy and then school district struggling.

548
01:30:16.740 --> 01:30:40.230
Board Room: So when the state of Oregon moved to a state funded system it created an equitability that you would be funded based on how many students, you had a weighted system, and then a multiplier and so you know, then they brought more equitability so whatever you got from your local taxes.

549
01:30:41.370 --> 01:30:50.940
Board Room: If you were a community that provided heavily with local local tax base towards education, the state didn't need to subsidize as much to make it to that equal funding.

550
01:30:51.810 --> 01:30:57.510
Board Room: If your school district is in an area where there is not a lot of local tax base than the State.

551
01:30:58.200 --> 01:31:08.580
Board Room: provides more that funding so that everyone, then, is receives the $9,164 per weighted student now we're all funded equitably.

552
01:31:09.330 --> 01:31:17.580
Board Room: This is not to be confused with the local option bond that school districts are still allowed to pass a local optional levy.

553
01:31:18.510 --> 01:31:28.800
Board Room: that's in addition to that, now that can create some would say some more inequity abilities, but there's some there's CAP provisions in there, so it doesn't go overboard.

554
01:31:29.610 --> 01:31:44.820
Board Room: That money in the local option levy comes fully to us when our tax payers say we're willing to be taxed in addition for our district to receive some more funding and that's how we fund our extra teachers, so does that help.

555
01:31:48.810 --> 01:31:57.270
Board Room: The nest items I have is the Budget Committee vacancy and the proposed budget calendar fiscal year, so you can.

556
01:31:58.230 --> 01:32:13.860
Board Room: You can both it's separate or you can combine that to do together so for the Budget Committee vacancy rates, now we have to position that aspire that data position one and four.

557
01:32:14.520 --> 01:32:30.030
Board Room: So look a bit background about this about policy dp a addicted Budget Committee consists of five member of bore and I elected or appointed by board at require by Oregon budget law.

558
01:32:30.840 --> 01:32:37.890
Board Room: Tom of the appointed member of the budget committees in the district prepare an annual budget.

559
01:32:38.730 --> 01:32:59.250
Board Room: will be doing it with appointment met so that at nearly at practice tickle tickle your Toma one part of the Member aspire each year, so board member will establish a timeline and procedure for deployment of backtrack can be a member so.

560
01:33:00.870 --> 01:33:15.180
Board Room: The first one is with the Christ notion that aspire to impact us 2021 and a second position it, Mrs spirit and why at aspired to impact the US 2021 so.

561
01:33:17.280 --> 01:33:25.890
Board Room: After board member of truth, this the district will announce it vacancy to the local newspaper, and we will.

562
01:33:29.490 --> 01:33:43.950
Board Room: And the timeline is today you're in good shape or form it in with a player to protect commit a position vacant November 3 opposition publication, if you approve it.

563
01:33:44.610 --> 01:33:57.990
Board Room: And then on November 30 we float application and then be simple yoda and regular vomiting then more Member will have the opportunity to interview what application.

564
01:33:59.130 --> 01:34:02.220
Board Room: So with that i'm seeking, for the most.

565
01:34:05.250 --> 01:34:07.230
Board Room: Of all the board because.

566
01:34:08.580 --> 01:34:10.020
Board Room: Number one and number four.

567
01:34:11.070 --> 01:34:15.330
Board Room: People are replacement from the public school system, the budget process.

568
01:34:16.650 --> 01:34:18.780
Board Room: In director Taylor as the motion.

569
01:34:19.980 --> 01:34:24.000
Board Room: I second Dr Thompson or vice chair Thompson the second.

570
01:34:25.080 --> 01:34:26.280
Board Room: Is their discussion.

571
01:34:29.460 --> 01:34:32.610
Board Room: hey seeing nine weeklies called a vote at least clue.

572
01:34:34.200 --> 01:34:34.770
Board Room: scaling.

573
01:34:35.970 --> 01:34:41.610
Board Room: Healthy King I christy Thompson I guess in life, I think you.

574
01:34:43.740 --> 01:34:53.070
Board Room: Thank you, and last items I have a calendar fiscal fiscal year 2223 so this one is.

575
01:34:59.520 --> 01:35:11.730
Board Room: So this information is very much we have under the website for board member of their the only items that I have in here is on my 16 and mateus.

576
01:35:12.120 --> 01:35:31.590
Board Room: This a for work section, if any new bucket committee or Board Member would like to meet with me to understand more about that process and how to read the budget book anything related but chat will scatter so this map 16 and Marc today's.

577
01:35:34.080 --> 01:35:43.650
Board Room: yeah but i'm willing and able to make any board member or any Budget Committee Member at any day that work for you.

578
01:35:45.690 --> 01:35:46.080
Board Room: So.

579
01:35:47.310 --> 01:35:50.040
Board Room: i'm looking for the approval on this one.

580
01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:58.950
Board Room: The Board approves the Budget calendar, as presented a second.

581
01:36:00.450 --> 01:36:03.000
Board Room: Dr Taylor and vice chair Thompson the second.

582
01:36:04.140 --> 01:36:05.220
Board Room: Answer discussion.

583
01:36:08.220 --> 01:36:11.250
Board Room: Okay, see none, please call devote at least slope.

584
01:36:14.040 --> 01:36:18.720
Board Room: fallacy King I christy Thompson I left him well I.

585
01:36:27.690 --> 01:36:29.430
Board Room: should keep going do you need a break.

586
01:36:32.670 --> 01:36:34.770
Board Room: let's take a five minute recess.

587
01:36:51.060 --> 01:36:53.760
Board Room: Okay i'm gonna call us back to order.

588
01:37:02.280 --> 01:37:08.790
Board Room: Alright, we will resume business with the Department of operations, and we have Mr Pat mcgrath.

589
01:37:13.140 --> 01:37:15.300
Board Room: Good evening board members tonight.

590
01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:18.810
Board Room: And he said.

591
01:37:20.640 --> 01:37:21.390
Board Room: Okay, thank you.

592
01:37:22.560 --> 01:37:43.380
Board Room: And I have before you a board resolution to for the authorization to execute a purchase and sales agreement between the district and Maryland Brock marital l Brock for real property located at 22222170 South with Stafford which.

593
01:37:44.610 --> 01:37:53.370
Board Room: right next door to this building is directly east of this building the property consists of 21.3 acres.

594
01:37:54.390 --> 01:38:02.430
Board Room: Located directly used to be most ration building property has a single family dwelling and associated this accessory structures.

595
01:38:03.150 --> 01:38:14.040
Board Room: upon the execution of the sales agreement the district will conduct due diligence activities, including Level one environmental assessment as outlined in the purchase and sales agreement.

596
01:38:14.880 --> 01:38:26.040
Board Room: The price for this property is $2,115,000 with an anticipated closing date honor before February 1 of 2022.

597
01:38:27.390 --> 01:38:33.030
Board Room: So this transaction has been in negotiation for literally years.

598
01:38:34.080 --> 01:38:36.750
Board Room: This is Brock is a former school teacher.

599
01:38:38.040 --> 01:38:50.850
Board Room: And is currently at four years old, and she approached the district that she believed that this that her property her farm that they have been on for all of this time.

600
01:38:52.620 --> 01:38:58.260
Board Room: would be best served to be in district possession, with the adjacent seat to this filming.

601
01:39:00.360 --> 01:39:07.080
Board Room: The transaction has taken so long covert had a major impact or legal representation.

602
01:39:08.580 --> 01:39:09.810
Board Room: bill during this time.

603
01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:23.160
Board Room: And it drove it it prolong the negotiations for almost a year, this is an accumulation of bad or a combination of that.

604
01:39:24.480 --> 01:39:27.120
Board Room: Negotiation that began with the previous board.

605
01:39:28.620 --> 01:39:32.100
Board Room: They did give direction to staff to.

606
01:39:33.600 --> 01:39:42.090
Board Room: negotiate and bring forward the final purchase and sales agreement so that's before you now and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

607
01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:52.950
Board Room: A question about use of the property.

608
01:39:54.870 --> 01:40:07.740
Board Room: you're gonna cheer king, do you want to entertain a motion and a second first and then discussion and questions or do you want us to answer questions and then emotion how what order, would you like to do that, and I think.

609
01:40:08.550 --> 01:40:17.910
Board Room: Often we just take a casual approach and have discussion first, but according to robert's rules which have a motion and a second on the table so let's go ahead and do that and then we'll come right back to that question so.

610
01:40:19.170 --> 01:40:21.870
Board Room: let's see i'm looking for language on emotion.

611
01:40:26.460 --> 01:40:28.140
Board Room: I can make it if nobody else's.

612
01:40:29.400 --> 01:40:32.310
Board Room: Thank you, I think I see three to make emotion okay.

613
01:40:33.810 --> 01:40:35.100
Board Room: Go ahead director sloop.

614
01:40:36.150 --> 01:40:51.420
Board Room: Make emotion, we accept resolution 21 dash oh six to purchase the to tax lots described in the resolution 20 2021 dash oh six for the sale price of 2.15 million.

615
01:40:52.470 --> 01:40:55.260
Board Room: All right, we got to like director soup with the motion.

616
01:40:58.320 --> 01:41:02.820
Board Room: i'll second right Dr Thompson the second all right now discussion.

617
01:41:05.400 --> 01:41:05.790
Board Room: yeah.

618
01:41:07.440 --> 01:41:27.000
Board Room: yeah does that a question about use of the property and did it come with any stipulations as to how it can be used what it can be used for and if not, what is the district's plan or if there is a plan and how we plan to use that property to benefit the district in the Community.

619
01:41:29.070 --> 01:41:29.430
Board Room: So.

620
01:41:30.750 --> 01:41:48.450
Board Room: How many regulations around exclusive Barbados, is very restrictive and very limiting in what can be done with the property today the adjacent to the property, we are allowed to adjust lot lions by up to 5%.

621
01:41:50.430 --> 01:42:03.300
Board Room: As for approximately one acre a little over an acre the lab line could be adjusted to this property what that does is give this property room to now expand.

622
01:42:04.620 --> 01:42:28.320
Board Room: We when we did the renovation of the addition on this building with the 2008 bond we built it to capacity, there is simply no available expansion in this building, should the district grow have the option would be to either relocate departments or relocate the entire administration.

623
01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:42.810
Board Room: So there would be no option for expansion of this building, by doing that and capturing a parking area this building can expand into the existing parking here.

624
01:42:43.680 --> 01:43:00.990
Board Room: The remaining land would just be in a land bank should be zoning property change sometime in the future 4050 years, perhaps it could be a school site, then, if not, if the future boards determine that it's not.

625
01:43:02.250 --> 01:43:22.560
Board Room: A value at that time, they could of course sell the property them, but this district has a long history of buying property well into the future, trying to look far out into whatever growth and expansion may occur, it doesn't always occur.

626
01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:31.650
Board Room: We have bought property and locations, even in Wilson build the turned out we're not useful to the district and we're soul.

627
01:43:33.270 --> 01:43:38.220
Board Room: That helps that helps a lot, and so, if I want if i'm understanding you correctly.

628
01:43:38.880 --> 01:43:49.410
Board Room: we're gaining 5% for a possible expansion of this, then the remaining 95% will stay as farmland and until something else changes within the county.

629
01:43:50.160 --> 01:44:03.960
Board Room: that's correct Okay, thank you, what about access to the barn that's on the property i'm sorry the bar yeah well, that is a very delicate situation.

630
01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:16.140
Board Room: question with the county about occupancy of bad part we are trying to navigate that to work, perhaps that could be converted into a casual meeting Center.

631
01:44:17.190 --> 01:44:25.260
Board Room: Perhaps an extension of CREST we don't quite know what the uses are allowable under county regulations today.

632
01:44:27.240 --> 01:44:44.820
Board Room: As if I had to give a hard and fast answer the answer would be, we could do nothing but keep it as a bar, but we are currently talking with county planners about how we could perhaps get some conditional use for that.

633
01:44:47.310 --> 01:44:55.980
Board Room: And only one other question on the barn if you're using the barn for, I guess, this might be something you don't know the answer to.

634
01:44:56.940 --> 01:45:09.450
Board Room: For school activities say if it's a fundraiser for the elementary school where a lot of times PT essays have to go rent spaces to find a place to do gatherings and do fundraising.

635
01:45:10.260 --> 01:45:30.510
Board Room: Events is that something that possibly could be we use for since we own it, I guess, we would be the owner at that point in time, well, it all has to do with the use the county is not does not distinguish who owns it, it is the type of use and currently as a barn, it is not a meeting space.

636
01:45:32.010 --> 01:45:40.440
Board Room: But have to get a conditional use from the county to turn to convert it into a meeting space should that be done.

637
01:45:41.550 --> 01:45:45.870
Board Room: Any kind of meeting with students or staff or community would be allowed.

638
01:45:46.920 --> 01:46:00.360
Board Room: But that would be a condition that the county would have to approve on even if it's non revenue producing that's correct okay this there's a meeting space it's not conditioned for that yet gotcha.

639
01:46:02.550 --> 01:46:03.000
Board Room: Thank you.

640
01:46:06.180 --> 01:46:15.000
Board Room: Any further questions I wanted to make a quick comment I feel like one of the tremendous strengths of the district has been.

641
01:46:16.380 --> 01:46:26.850
Board Room: planning ahead for the future, sometimes a future that is so far ahead it's hard to picture and the last long range planning committee meeting I felt like a theme that really emerged was.

642
01:46:27.300 --> 01:46:37.110
Board Room: The investment that our predecessors made 2030 years ago a paying off and our ability to build world class facilities for our kids and so.

643
01:46:37.740 --> 01:46:48.960
Board Room: I just want to thank you for planning ahead thinking ahead and and being so mindful that we can make a choice today that could save us a lot of money down the road, so thank you for that.

644
01:46:54.930 --> 01:47:08.820
Board Room: I would also just like to make a few comments piggybacking on that the the the land banking has been a strategic fiscal move that we've made for decades that has served us well.

645
01:47:09.750 --> 01:47:21.570
Board Room: As we've continued to grow, and I also have served on the long range planning committee as the liaison and have heard long range planning committee members expressed an interest in continuing these types of moves.

646
01:47:22.770 --> 01:47:33.630
Board Room: And as you mentioned, we, the board previous to this board did have an executive session, where we were told that the property owner was interested in how to approach the district about a sale.

647
01:47:34.260 --> 01:47:43.200
Board Room: And those you know we indicated an interest, and we, we did not deliberate toward any kind of decision and so that's what we're doing now.

648
01:47:44.460 --> 01:47:48.090
Board Room: And so I thank you for bringing that out that you know we have.

649
01:47:49.530 --> 01:47:54.660
Board Room: arrived that you know, this being able to take take a move, make a decision.

650
01:47:55.710 --> 01:48:09.750
Board Room: And i'm pleased that we get to make a decision on a piece of land like this that is so strategically situated to have land like this that is adjacent to land that we already own.

651
01:48:11.460 --> 01:48:22.860
Board Room: Is you know that's an uncommon situation for us to come across and typically we take advantage when those situations calm and that has served as well, so it's it's a smart location.

652
01:48:23.580 --> 01:48:32.310
Board Room: With being adjacent to our facilities and also it's a safety issue with Stafford and the amount of cars, I did i'm sorry if you already mentioned that.

653
01:48:32.940 --> 01:48:38.730
Board Room: But it's definitely something I think worth mentioning having staff parked all over Stafford on gravel.

654
01:48:39.660 --> 01:48:51.120
Board Room: ditches and walking into you know here and that's that's only going to continue, so I appreciate the fact that the district was viewed as a trusted partner by the owners of this land and.

655
01:48:52.020 --> 01:49:03.930
Board Room: And that they've been that we've all been patient through these kind of crazy times with sicknesses and everything being delayed and bogged down so i'll be supporting the purchase of this land.

656
01:49:11.310 --> 01:49:12.870
Board Room: comments or questions.

657
01:49:15.030 --> 01:49:17.370
Board Room: Okay, if not we can call the vote.

658
01:49:20.100 --> 01:49:20.760
Board Room: i'm excited.

659
01:49:23.550 --> 01:49:24.330
Board Room: This Taylor.

660
01:49:25.350 --> 01:49:27.180
Board Room: Chelsea King christy.

661
01:49:30.150 --> 01:49:30.720
Board Room: Thank you.

662
01:49:35.010 --> 01:49:39.900
Board Room: Good I just make a comment chair king, I want to thank Pat mcgough for.

663
01:49:41.370 --> 01:49:54.600
Board Room: Long patient process here, just so thoughtful and respectful to of the situation that occurred that slowed things down, but really again a great example of.

664
01:49:55.620 --> 01:50:06.060
Board Room: The partnership that we have with our neighbor next door, I also want to formally thank Maryland Brock for this opportunity that she has given the district.

665
01:50:07.530 --> 01:50:15.480
Board Room: And as pat mentioned she's a teacher at heart, and it was her first place that you wanted to go was to really think about.

666
01:50:16.200 --> 01:50:27.690
Board Room: Could the district use this first, before anything else personal for her so grateful to her and her years of being a great neighbor with us, and that certainly.

667
01:50:28.500 --> 01:50:42.270
Board Room: The district will do well with this gift, so thank you yeah I just want to echo that to thank you so much pad for always i'm honoring the relationship, even as you negotiate the business side as well, so thank you for doing that.

668
01:50:48.240 --> 01:50:54.120
Board Room: For a moment I forgot, it was me who's going to move us foreign alright, so we are going to move on to.

669
01:50:56.220 --> 01:51:00.810
Board Room: This is the Board of Directors Community outreach section of the agenda so that.

670
01:51:03.390 --> 01:51:10.020
Board Room: takes us to the school board listening sessions, and this was.

671
01:51:12.270 --> 01:51:22.320
Board Room: This document that we're proposing to you comes from the work session that feels like yesterday, but I guess it was a couple of weeks ago that we talked about.

672
01:51:22.950 --> 01:51:34.230
Board Room: How we could implement what I believe to be the first ever bored listening sessions, or at least the first and eight to 10 years since i've been active with the district.

673
01:51:38.130 --> 01:51:50.880
Board Room: So we have a document that Vice chair Thompson and I collaborated on and we there's some cut and paste from the document that we all collaborated on together during our work session.

674
01:51:52.050 --> 01:52:01.710
Board Room: For example, the purpose is really the language that we all agreed upon and what Vice your Thompson I should I just keep running with this and then you can like yeah.

675
01:52:02.790 --> 01:52:03.390
Board Room: fill it in.

676
01:52:04.140 --> 01:52:18.480
Board Room: Is that we would just plan one listening session for now and implement it, and then we can return and see what did we learn from it and then plan with the next one would look like rather than she and I trying to plan like three listening sessions, you know just Chennai so.

677
01:52:18.900 --> 01:52:30.030
Board Room: We came up with this idea of keeping it to one hour and it being the chair in the vice chair to begin and doing it over video conferencing.

678
01:52:30.450 --> 01:52:36.690
Board Room: part we talked at length about them in person or video conferencing, we arrived here, partly because of.

679
01:52:37.500 --> 01:52:50.100
Board Room: The fact that no one will have to wear a mask and we can all just be seen without you know needing to wear masks in public, we wouldn't have to try to secure a public space and the commuting and the inconvenience with that and so.

680
01:52:51.180 --> 01:52:55.140
Board Room: decided to go with video conferencing for this time and.

681
01:52:56.070 --> 01:53:09.960
Board Room: We were hoping that the district staff may help us run the technology portion of it, even though this is really a recognition that this is a school board effort, and this is for the this isn't you know the Boards work.

682
01:53:10.680 --> 01:53:15.330
Board Room: But, if possible, to have someone to run the tech, then we would ask if the district could supply that.

683
01:53:16.320 --> 01:53:25.530
Board Room: But that the district staff would not be there to lead the discussion or to interject or to present or anything like that, just to basically support us and doing that.

684
01:53:26.280 --> 01:53:31.470
Board Room: And the role of the board members lifted just straight from the language we came up with during our work session.

685
01:53:31.800 --> 01:53:43.050
Board Room: Basically, just it's really a chance for us to seek to understand and to listen and to be accessible and, obviously, we will not have a quorum or deliberate toward a decision so it's not going to be a typical public meeting.

686
01:53:46.050 --> 01:53:54.630
Board Room: let's see what else we also would ask the district support the board and helping us get the information out and as people express during the work session.

687
01:53:54.990 --> 01:54:00.390
Board Room: We would want to be sure that we were targeted and some of our invitation, so that we could make sure that.

688
01:54:01.200 --> 01:54:11.610
Board Room: We have a represent representative group showing up, and so, in whatever ways, whether this be school specific list serves or sometimes there's group specific list service or.

689
01:54:12.210 --> 01:54:16.080
Board Room: PTA so just to help us get the word out and invite people.

690
01:54:16.800 --> 01:54:24.600
Board Room: And then, finally, I think the most exciting part of this is that we wanted to really frame the discussions we don't want to be too prescriptive.

691
01:54:24.870 --> 01:54:31.950
Board Room: As to shut down conversation, but also that if we go in way too broad, that we might end up with topics that actually have.

692
01:54:32.610 --> 01:54:38.280
Board Room: That are totally outside the purview of a school board member, and so, in the spirit of.

693
01:54:39.090 --> 01:54:51.270
Board Room: Starting with something really manageable and starting with something where we can be successful, we decided to frame it, as you know, have a conversation with your boss your school board members about what is the role and purpose of school boards.

694
01:54:51.720 --> 01:55:09.960
Board Room: I mean anybody who's watching the news, right now, no school boards are in the news, and so you know what is it that we do here what is our role what's our purpose, what do we not do, and just have that chance for two way dialogue couched in a topic like that.

695
01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:14.130
Board Room: What else needs to be said, by sheer Thompson.

696
01:55:17.670 --> 01:55:28.410
Board Room: I think you covered it all okay yeah so I guess the only other thing then would be the date that we landed on would be and sometimes it's just like surprisingly, the hardest thing is the scheduling.

697
01:55:29.070 --> 01:55:35.100
Board Room: But we landed on what day did we land on I know I put it in the document it's right at the top of it.

698
01:55:35.370 --> 01:55:47.940
Board Room: yeah okay yeah so Wednesday night we talked about time and decided seven o'clock just made sense for busy families, but that in the future for the next listening session, maybe it's at 9:30am or noon, or some other kind of time.

699
01:55:49.320 --> 01:55:55.740
Board Room: So yeah I think I just would love to hear from fellow board members, if this is hitting the spot or not.

700
01:55:57.480 --> 01:55:58.440
Board Room: I think it's a good start.

701
01:56:00.660 --> 01:56:06.630
Board Room: I think there's a lot of misunderstandings that I would have even had until becoming a board member about.

702
01:56:07.980 --> 01:56:19.710
Board Room: What the role of the Board is within the Community, how we engage parents, how we engage students, how we engage staff and I had 14 years of work experience in higher education, which is completely different than K 12.

703
01:56:21.150 --> 01:56:36.390
Board Room: And although a lot of the jargon peanut butters over what doesn't peanut butter over is that in higher education, your focus on student and student only you don't have to deal with parents right which is a blessing.

704
01:56:38.100 --> 01:56:43.830
Board Room: But in K 12 you have to deal with that and so that is something that you have to adapt to.

705
01:56:44.490 --> 01:56:54.540
Board Room: And that those requests and those needs are different and we have to make ourselves available to address those needs, concerns and ELISE hear them, so I think this is a good.

706
01:56:55.380 --> 01:57:03.270
Board Room: stepping stone, because we do live in a Community where there's a lot of voices some positive some not so positive but.

707
01:57:03.840 --> 01:57:13.110
Board Room: I think there's learning on both sides of the equation when you're listening to both of it all of it and so it's tough to some of the messages might be.

708
01:57:13.620 --> 01:57:20.580
Board Room: We need to hear it, and we need to figure out how we can serve the Community in all aspects, so I like this, as a first step.

709
01:57:21.120 --> 01:57:30.300
Board Room: And I would hope that the Community would view it as a board that is trying to work towards building bridges and mending fences as opposed to what we see on TV.

710
01:57:30.960 --> 01:57:43.920
Board Room: And what our community should represent versus what we see being represented so i'm excited about it, I hope that it's a tool that we all use to to be constructive.

711
01:57:45.510 --> 01:57:58.410
Board Room: And all grow from so thank you for you know challenging and coming up with it as a as a board and i'm excited to see what the Community has to say wrong writer and different I look forward to those conversations.

712
01:58:00.870 --> 01:58:06.150
Board Room: I guess, one thing that I would add on is is that i'm checking and I see this as a starting place.

713
01:58:06.900 --> 01:58:14.160
Board Room: You have to start somewhere and so will every listening session look like this absolutely not will be different topics like she said, we will.

714
01:58:14.850 --> 01:58:24.510
Board Room: Consider different times of the day, based on Community members availability you'll see different board members leading but we felt like this was a good place to start.

715
01:58:25.740 --> 01:58:38.340
Board Room: And, in some ways to just you know it will serve as a little bit of education for our Community, because I know that there have been frustrations during the pandemic and sometimes we don't want our Community wait members wasting.

716
01:58:38.820 --> 01:58:49.830
Board Room: Their precious time we want to teach them how, how do you advocate for your students, for your family, however, and sometimes your board is not where you go first.

717
01:58:50.610 --> 01:59:02.160
Board Room: Maybe it's someone else who's making decisions, and so we feel like not only as an opportunity to hear from you, but to also do some education so that then when we get down the road with other listening sessions.

718
01:59:05.040 --> 01:59:14.010
Board Room: Our men our Community Members understand a little bit better our role and then those can be even more effective because they're better our Community Members are better educated on what the.

719
01:59:14.340 --> 01:59:33.900
Board Room: The Board does, and I would reiterate what director Taylor said it was I was educated myself when I came on the board of what my role is and what my role isn't and what is, in my lane, and what is not, in my lane so and I hope that people will come to this listening session.

720
01:59:35.580 --> 01:59:38.100
Board Room: You know, and come share your thoughts and.

721
01:59:39.870 --> 01:59:48.750
Board Room: Your alou you'll hear a little bit from chair king and I first and then we will just be open to listening so we look forward to it.

722
01:59:52.380 --> 01:59:59.700
Board Room: I want to thank you for putting this together, I think it's a great place to start, and the only question or comment I had was based on.

723
02:00:00.630 --> 02:00:13.350
Board Room: The success of the family empowerment Center session that was held in Spanish, could we find a way to have translation services available for this either closed captioning or.

724
02:00:15.030 --> 02:00:25.770
Board Room: In another way, just to make sure that we're able, as we do this outreach to get a cross section of our school community that we can address that language issue as well.

725
02:00:28.290 --> 02:00:38.760
Board Room: Yes, and I think that that's actually a kind of a feature in the video conferencing that that is, we can use someone can be present, Dr ludwick and I had this conversation, and she spoke to it.

726
02:00:41.190 --> 02:00:53.550
Board Room: Yes, our director of communications and to kill strum works to secure it's actually a person you hire for that evening to do interpretation and then they're the ones that type down below in that closed caption.

727
02:00:54.030 --> 02:01:04.080
Board Room: And then so they're just trying they're just translating and then we could have a staff member, if need be, do interpretation, if in that moment, so.

728
02:01:06.210 --> 02:01:14.460
Board Room: We just need plenty of time ahead to notice here that this looks like we've got about two over two weeks i'm seeing a nod that we could staff that.

729
02:01:16.890 --> 02:01:34.110
Board Room: Thank you for being willing to support the Boards effort with this and onto the board for being flexible and will we can come back and see what we learned and change the next one, accordingly, if I think i'm here i'm seeing nods and hearing by end, so I think we're go.

730
02:01:36.150 --> 02:01:40.410
Board Room: yeah so i'm Christina I will work on that more with.

731
02:01:42.120 --> 02:01:44.790
Board Room: People who can help us okay.

732
02:01:47.610 --> 02:01:49.920
Board Room: Moving forward to.

733
02:01:51.330 --> 02:01:55.080
Board Room: The draft letter to students.

734
02:01:56.790 --> 02:02:00.930
Board Room: And I think this is a good place for me to hand it over to you directly Wyatt.

735
02:02:03.120 --> 02:02:03.510
Board Room: Go.

736
02:02:05.220 --> 02:02:14.220
Board Room: Well, thank you all for entertaining my request for us to discuss this and do this as I had mentioned at the October 4 meeting.

737
02:02:15.450 --> 02:02:16.050
Board Room: I.

738
02:02:17.520 --> 02:02:26.700
Board Room: have really been heartbroken over some of the headlines coming out of public schools and I region and I just keep thinking about our kids and.

739
02:02:27.750 --> 02:02:40.230
Board Room: And how hard that must be on them, and so I really want us to issue a joint statement showing our students and sharing how much we care about them and.

740
02:02:41.100 --> 02:02:49.350
Board Room: we're really affirming that every student belongs and is welcomed, just as they are in our district I just think it's such an important reminder for our kids.

741
02:02:50.460 --> 02:02:53.460
Board Room: I really also think that doing it, this is a unified board.

742
02:02:55.080 --> 02:03:03.330
Board Room: also sends a message that you know we are committed at the at the position that we hold all the way through all of the amazing.

743
02:03:04.410 --> 02:03:11.220
Board Room: policies and procedures we have in our schools to create a welcoming environment for for all of our students.

744
02:03:12.540 --> 02:03:16.530
Board Room: and honestly i've just really greatly enjoyed my first month on the school board.

745
02:03:17.820 --> 02:03:26.400
Board Room: i've loved seeing how dedicated everyone is to their director roles and I really think sharing a joint message about student safety and students support.

746
02:03:27.630 --> 02:03:38.640
Board Room: shows how committed we are to working productively for our kids so the draft letter is image in the packet and I just want to thank you for considering this request.

747
02:03:39.660 --> 02:03:44.730
Board Room: And I would welcome any ideas and feedback and just as a quick overview.

748
02:03:46.440 --> 02:03:55.620
Board Room: I really wanted to make sure that this was you know directly sent to our students with this message that all students belong.

749
02:03:56.190 --> 02:04:01.440
Board Room: And then backing that up with some of the policies that we have that support diversity equity inclusion and belonging.

750
02:04:02.040 --> 02:04:11.010
Board Room: And then, some of the policies and procedures and programs, you know whether it's a school resource officer program or curriculum selection.

751
02:04:11.760 --> 02:04:23.550
Board Room: That shows that we are welcoming all students that are district so again happy to take any of your ideas and feedback and again, thank you for this opportunity to propose this for us as a team.

752
02:04:26.910 --> 02:04:32.610
Board Room: i'm i'm wondering director Wyatt I don't believe this was in the packet miss Douglas.

753
02:04:33.390 --> 02:04:50.520
Board Room: Was it in yeah okay i'm bored book, I was just wondering if it hasn't gotten in there in time, if you wanted to read the letter allowed I don't know folks at home, have the content it's up to you, I didn't know i'm happy to if you'd like.

754
02:04:52.890 --> 02:04:55.770
Board Room: A different letter that you held up.

755
02:04:58.650 --> 02:05:18.000
Board Room: Yes, so in one book I last Friday Thursday what tractor Wyatt submitted we uploaded to book, which is here, and then today triple asked me to click on so I printed them off and she has a couple yeah so um.

756
02:05:19.050 --> 02:05:29.550
Board Room: We have the letter appear, which is in board book, and so we can certainly read the letter or I think we all have access to it and can see it here.

757
02:05:29.910 --> 02:05:37.620
Board Room: And then, because a director Wyatt and I were collaborating there were a couple different drafts that we ended up with, and so I did ask for a printing.

758
02:05:38.130 --> 02:05:47.760
Board Room: Although when I look very closely at this there's basically I can just tell you what the differences are i'd be happy to give you a copy but.

759
02:05:48.210 --> 02:05:56.850
Board Room: there's you know one one primary difference and and it's that just makes this this letter that's printed shorter.

760
02:05:57.690 --> 02:06:07.980
Board Room: But the value that is added, I think, with the language there I can just tell you what it is it's where the school board also supports these efforts, and that gives particular.

761
02:06:08.970 --> 02:06:16.530
Board Room: moves that the the school board has supported and that's the primary difference with this shorter letter it's just that that those are all deleted.

762
02:06:17.610 --> 02:06:29.430
Board Room: Other than that there's a couple of stylistic things that are different, so we can we can certainly work with this letter here and might be less complicated or I can give you a copy of a printed.

763
02:06:29.970 --> 02:06:40.170
Board Room: shorter draft you everyone has the printed shorter draft we don't know now i'd love to see a copy of that a bit of both of them oh let's.

764
02:06:42.210 --> 02:06:51.510
Board Room: have them there was a little bit of confusion, because of the collaboration with Google docs and different versions, and so we were just going to move forward with this one, but.

765
02:06:53.010 --> 02:06:55.320
Board Room: We can certainly share this.

766
02:06:56.580 --> 02:07:00.600
Board Room: Do you want to just look at this one, or do you want a printed copy of a shorter version.

767
02:07:03.390 --> 02:07:19.560
Board Room: yeah it's on board book also or there's another copy here that just has a deleted section, do you want, but there, too, so there's two there's a shorter letter and a longer one correct well it's the it's the second set of bullets and just so you know.

768
02:07:20.610 --> 02:07:26.070
Board Room: The reason I think it's important to include those is to show the action behind the intent.

769
02:07:27.420 --> 02:07:30.360
Board Room: And you know some most all of these I think we're.

770
02:07:31.860 --> 02:07:41.460
Board Room: About approved or put into practice before our time, but I do think it shows that the district is committed to doing the work to show that all students belong.

771
02:07:43.170 --> 02:07:49.800
Board Room: I would, I wouldn't want our students to think that we say nice things but don't follow up on them, which is why I would like to include them.

772
02:07:50.970 --> 02:07:58.590
Board Room: So, if I may, maybe i'll jump in and just I can even point to just the primary differences between the the shorter version and the longer version and.

773
02:07:59.100 --> 02:08:13.530
Board Room: The the the edits that I would like to see in the longer version, which I think will move forward really nicely, and thank you, Dr Wyatt for initiating this, I will say that, in my experience with.

774
02:08:15.210 --> 02:08:24.360
Board Room: traveling about to other schools and watching students from other schools come into our schools for athletics, that I I do notice.

775
02:08:25.650 --> 02:08:37.530
Board Room: A difference in demographics, with our students than other schools, and when I was at that osb a board chair round table, there was a chair of a board.

776
02:08:39.030 --> 02:08:49.920
Board Room: For district in our conference that has a very different demographic makeup of our student body, who stated that they that she knows that their students.

777
02:08:50.730 --> 02:08:59.550
Board Room: Have trepidation when they travel outside of their school district that when they travel to other school districts, they wonder.

778
02:09:00.150 --> 02:09:08.340
Board Room: Are they just as welcome or they just as secure as they are when they're at home and their home gems.

779
02:09:08.910 --> 02:09:20.730
Board Room: And that really moved me in this this Roundtable came after director Wyatt had talked about desiring this letter to be written and when I heard that board chair speak I thought.

780
02:09:21.570 --> 02:09:32.520
Board Room: We want our students to know that they are welcome in Westland Wilson build schools, just like we want our students to know that they are also safe and welcome when they travel to other school districts.

781
02:09:33.060 --> 02:09:44.190
Board Room: And so that's why I love the spirit of this letter being for students to say you are all welcome and and that we will uphold that and Westland Wilson, though.

782
02:09:45.780 --> 02:09:55.800
Board Room: The the couple of edits that that were in this other draft of the letter that I would like to see in final version I like.

783
02:09:56.580 --> 02:10:06.540
Board Room: director Wyatt what you're saying about keeping those bulleted points to show that there's action being taken behind policies, I think that that's really wise and I support that staying.

784
02:10:07.320 --> 02:10:17.940
Board Room: there's just a couple of stylistic things, for example, I would like to see the names of the signers be at the end of the letter, so I just move that down.

785
02:10:19.890 --> 02:10:29.340
Board Room: And then the first line just begins with the five of us represent, and I think because we're moving the names to the end of the letter.

786
02:10:29.730 --> 02:10:42.240
Board Room: And that first sentence needs to provide a slight introduction, and so it would say something like the five directors on the West one will symbol school Board of education.

787
02:10:43.620 --> 02:10:51.240
Board Room: that's it so it just basically says that they're you know five five directors on the western most of those school board.

788
02:10:55.080 --> 02:10:57.090
Board Room: yeah of education and then.

789
02:10:58.320 --> 02:11:00.180
Board Room: You can leave the represent leave that whole.

790
02:11:01.470 --> 02:11:04.500
Board Room: So that doesn't go away, it just says the five.

791
02:11:05.850 --> 02:11:07.770
Board Room: directors, instead of us.

792
02:11:11.160 --> 02:11:12.210
Board Room: Oh, are you my editor.

793
02:11:13.530 --> 02:11:14.100
Board Room: Okay.

794
02:11:15.150 --> 02:11:27.390
Board Room: you're not my editor or is he it's not a Google Doc I saw someone highlight something I thought oh someone's editing so anyways we don't have to necessarily like added it live action but that's the biggest thing like just move that and then.

795
02:11:32.010 --> 02:11:50.460
Board Room: There was one other thing and I had to do with the language on the bullet points because I wrote those and when and I struggled a bit when I wrote them because of this idea of what is the board role and let's administration role and so some of these verbs at the beginning.

796
02:11:52.230 --> 02:12:07.710
Board Room: I didn't develop a district wide equity plan, I support a district wide equity plan, and so I would like to change that word from developing to supporting because I think it more accurately captures the role of the board.

797
02:12:08.430 --> 02:12:20.940
Board Room: And then similarly with the it says updating the school resource officer program and i'm really proud of the work we did I hear such good things about our sorrows right now.

798
02:12:21.240 --> 02:12:32.970
Board Room: And I feel like that program review is really good but, honestly I didn't update this our program I approved it so approving an updated sro program I just feel like.

799
02:12:33.390 --> 02:12:41.160
Board Room: I feel more in integrity, with my role school board member, so I would ask that we change those things and then otherwise i'm happy.

800
02:12:49.200 --> 02:12:56.970
Board Room: So at this point if there is anybody else want to change any other language you like it to support it and where are you landing with this.

801
02:13:18.870 --> 02:13:21.090
Board Room: You know I don't say.

802
02:13:23.490 --> 02:13:25.560
Board Room: Nothing from another theater camp.

803
02:13:28.140 --> 02:13:38.100
Board Room: So I had a couple just thoughts as I read through it and again to me, I feel like as a board member our highest responsibility.

804
02:13:38.580 --> 02:13:50.010
Board Room: is to make sure that our students feel welcome and valued in our school every single student whether they're in our district or their students coming from other districts so to me that is kind of our most important.

805
02:13:51.210 --> 02:13:57.630
Board Room: job and so completely appreciate and I, like the edits that you mentioned, because.

806
02:13:58.980 --> 02:14:02.220
Board Room: Just reminds people what the school board makes policy.

807
02:14:03.960 --> 02:14:20.280
Board Room: But we didn't develop the district wide equity plan, but we do support it, so thank you for those edits and a couple other thoughts that I had and just wondering when I look at paragraph two i'm not sure which letter I should look at so i'll look at the one on board book.

808
02:14:21.900 --> 02:14:25.320
Board Room: When it refers to headlines and news stories.

809
02:14:27.210 --> 02:14:39.330
Board Room: My thought is is that we speak as our board and for our district, and we don't worry about what's going on out there to me when we.

810
02:14:39.810 --> 02:14:51.150
Board Room: make a statement that's based on what's happening and other districts does that weaken our statement and make it sound like because of what's happening now we've decided to do this or.

811
02:14:51.690 --> 02:15:02.760
Board Room: Do we as a board believe this regardless of what happens in other districts and, for me, I believe this regardless, you know I think it's important to say.

812
02:15:04.830 --> 02:15:13.230
Board Room: You know, we would start with instead of, like many of you and seeing the headlines, we want to once again strongly affirm that creating welcoming learning environments.

813
02:15:13.740 --> 02:15:20.700
Board Room: I feel like there's some caution to following what other boards are doing and commenting on what other boards are doing and.

814
02:15:21.600 --> 02:15:33.450
Board Room: As we all know, sitting in public office Sometimes I feel like people don't always understand what goes on outside in other and I just don't want to be I don't want to start having.

815
02:15:34.650 --> 02:15:46.170
Board Room: Start down a path of commenting on what's happening in other areas, and then, what if something happens, but we don't comment on it and how does that look when we don't comment, I mean I hope.

816
02:15:47.160 --> 02:15:55.740
Board Room: That i'm making my anyway that that's making sense that I would rather just take out that for sense and a half and say this is what we're doing as a board, and this is what we believe.

817
02:15:57.210 --> 02:16:09.540
Board Room: So that is just kind of one of my suggestions and other one is, if you go down into the third paragraph where it talks about promoting student success and disrupting systems of racism and oppression.

818
02:16:10.650 --> 02:16:17.520
Board Room: I feel like our district in line with our district for goal number one which talks about disrupting systems of racism.

819
02:16:18.030 --> 02:16:26.220
Board Room: And I noticed Chelsea in your letter it just said, disrupting systems of racism and i'm wondering if you would stop it there, just to be more in line with our.

820
02:16:26.580 --> 02:16:43.500
Board Room: What our board goals are, and so I would suggest adopting that portion of the letter that just stops at the district if that's amenable to other people, just so again it's more in line with the goal that we've made as a district So those are just kind of by.

821
02:16:45.690 --> 02:16:46.680
Board Room: Two of my edits.

822
02:16:52.890 --> 02:16:55.110
Board Room: For those edits I think those are great and.

823
02:16:57.150 --> 02:17:02.790
Board Room: Part of me wanted to provide context for like why we were doing this, but I hear your point about.

824
02:17:03.870 --> 02:17:06.360
Board Room: This is something we would do even if.

825
02:17:07.500 --> 02:17:21.480
Board Room: A nearby school district wasn't making the choices that they have, so I think if we wanted to strike that and start it with we want to once again, we want to affirm that creating welcoming and learning environments, I think that's great and absolutely I.

826
02:17:22.500 --> 02:17:29.520
Board Room: should have copied the but district goal, word for word, so obviously we can strike out that word as well, thank you for your comments.

827
02:17:33.090 --> 02:17:47.550
Board Room: Okay, thank you, I appreciate the the idea of setting context and also the idea of ensuring that we're working sharing our own message, so I think unless anybody's objecting what we're agreeing to is to strike that first.

828
02:17:48.930 --> 02:17:57.090
Board Room: first sentence of the second paragraph, and just beginning this paragraph, with we want to once again a firm.

829
02:17:58.650 --> 02:18:06.240
Board Room: And then, changing the language to capture and disrupting systems of racism and then crossing out and oppression.

830
02:18:09.720 --> 02:18:15.270
Board Room: i'm saying these things, so I can capture them or view or I can capture them, you know, and I think.

831
02:18:17.100 --> 02:18:19.800
Board Room: director sleep, did you want to say something so and then.

832
02:18:20.940 --> 02:18:29.490
Board Room: I may have missed the conversation, or what for the publication and the titans and the spokesman, besides the email to if it was for.

833
02:18:30.780 --> 02:18:35.970
Board Room: to let the students know what was the reasoning for the titans in the spokesman.

834
02:18:37.980 --> 02:18:38.850
Board Room: For publication.

835
02:18:40.470 --> 02:18:50.700
Board Room: I would like this to be sent to all of our students, but then to keep the larger Community informed about this value that that we're sharing.

836
02:18:52.080 --> 02:18:53.010
Board Room: And to also.

837
02:18:54.060 --> 02:19:02.130
Board Room: You know, make sure that as we think about you know what Community engagement looks like we don't just assume that the people who currently have kids in school.

838
02:19:02.490 --> 02:19:15.510
Board Room: are receiving these messages and so thought that sharing it out and the tidings and the spokesman, would be a way to reach a larger audience to convey what we're doing in our district in our schools.

839
02:19:16.680 --> 02:19:31.200
Board Room: Especially you know related to visitors to our districts and how we're protecting our kids when they're traveling as well, so just really thinking about it more from a, how do we let the Community know that we are really focused on our kids and their safety.

840
02:19:41.100 --> 02:19:43.800
Board Room: Okay, any further discussion.

841
02:19:47.280 --> 02:19:50.460
Board Room: We see a nother revised letter.

842
02:19:51.600 --> 02:19:54.060
Board Room: After this that's a good question.

843
02:19:56.970 --> 02:20:08.940
Board Room: Probably My preference would be to just acknowledge the edits that are being made right now, and I could even read it as the edits or you can read it as the edits exist, so that we could just take final action and not have to.

844
02:20:10.620 --> 02:20:14.280
Board Room: wear it again, or do you want to see well final version.

845
02:20:15.330 --> 02:20:35.220
Board Room: I guess my hesitancy is is that, if this is going to be going to publication and not just to our families that my name is on it that I would want to see the final copy before it goes to the paper, I can make edits this evening and send it yeah that'd be fine I just you know.

846
02:20:36.480 --> 02:20:39.210
Board Room: we're talking about a lot of scratches right now and yeah.

847
02:20:40.830 --> 02:20:47.160
Board Room: So yeah that's been supported the letter I just would like to see the final version that is going to go out to our full Community.

848
02:20:47.880 --> 02:20:55.710
Board Room: So when i'm walking down the street, I could speak to something from a educated standpoint and not get tripped up on oh I didn't see that bullet point or.

849
02:20:56.370 --> 02:21:02.850
Board Room: didn't know that changed yeah sure i'm not to draw it out or take more time, but.

850
02:21:03.570 --> 02:21:15.300
Board Room: Not so it's a really reasonable request, so I think director Ryan, saying that you can make the edits this evening, and then we can send it back out and probably what we'll just do is like if we don't hear any opposition then it's good, but if someone.

851
02:21:15.660 --> 02:21:21.030
Board Room: thinks like mouth and they can stop it okay and i'll read it okay.

852
02:21:25.080 --> 02:21:25.620
Board Room: Thank you.

853
02:21:26.790 --> 02:21:38.640
Board Room: Right I don't think we have to take action on this, I think we just look around the table and see like if folks feel okay with it and it's in alignment with what you would like to say, then you can give us a nod.

854
02:21:39.120 --> 02:21:42.840
Board Room: And superintendent Ludwig did you before we do that, did you want to say something.

855
02:21:43.380 --> 02:21:57.540
Board Room: I just think because all five board members names there's going to be on it you'll just want to really I think confirm that each person feels comfortable being a signatory, on this letter and have real clear sense of that yeah for sure.

856
02:22:02.310 --> 02:22:13.440
Board Room: Well, one thought I have in this is just just based on checking the comments that you made about being at the board chair meeting and and.

857
02:22:14.100 --> 02:22:28.680
Board Room: How the board, Chair of another district how perceived that their kids felt when coming into our schools, so I noticed that we talked about putting it in the tidings putting it in the Wilson full spokesman emailing it to listserv.

858
02:22:30.210 --> 02:22:36.990
Board Room: Just a wondering about how we make sure that those students realize in our other districts that might be coming.

859
02:22:39.300 --> 02:22:48.000
Board Room: That they feel safe and welcome to and I don't know how to you know i'm just throwing that throwing that out there, so that when students from other districts come.

860
02:22:49.080 --> 02:22:57.960
Board Room: That they know that that is yeah that's the desire at the board, I appreciate that I feel like we need to put it on tick tock so i'm gonna reach them.

861
02:22:58.710 --> 02:23:14.340
Board Room: Can someone dance, this can someone do a dance for 30 seconds communicates this that I actually I that's my primary motivators to speak to those young people, and so I would like to maybe send this to the chairs of other.

862
02:23:15.600 --> 02:23:17.610
Board Room: School boards in.

863
02:23:19.350 --> 02:23:24.750
Board Room: You know, in our conferences, for example, like Northwest Oregon conference and three rivers conference they other schools or.

864
02:23:26.070 --> 02:23:36.450
Board Room: Something like that to get it into the hands of students yeah so they know when they come to us, and most of those schools they're welcome yeah Dr Edwin.

865
02:23:38.220 --> 02:23:48.390
Board Room: I think this has a real powerful potential when it does get finalized and you've signed off and it's available and listserv for our principles.

866
02:23:49.230 --> 02:24:00.360
Board Room: To see where this letter could also be very helpful and find ways to lift elements of it in their listserv to reference it often.

867
02:24:00.870 --> 02:24:16.620
Board Room: And it becomes a document that then takes on you know just exponential significance because it becomes a document that we anchor and we refer to could be a document that we end up attaching to an equity plan for example.

868
02:24:17.910 --> 02:24:25.740
Board Room: or principal could use, you know prior to an event and send a copy to that principal of that school so.

869
02:24:26.790 --> 02:24:31.410
Board Room: The opportunities are really limitless in terms of where this message could go.

870
02:24:32.730 --> 02:24:38.430
Board Room: So appreciate all of you, working on this and the message that it sends.

871
02:24:42.030 --> 02:24:50.160
Board Room: i'm definitely not the first time that the Board has drafted a letter like this, we have done this in the past when times have gotten.

872
02:24:51.960 --> 02:24:56.670
Board Room: When we felt like we needed to respond to what was going on in the national dialogue and so.

873
02:24:59.250 --> 02:25:01.800
Board Room: it's nice to have this this boards.

874
02:25:03.150 --> 02:25:15.750
Board Room: names and message on a letter that we have you know, made a move like this in the past as well with a different flavor but yeah same same message so thanks for bringing this forward and.

875
02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:24.960
Board Room: I just need like eye contact in a non from from folks so I know that you're okay with having your name on it.

876
02:25:26.310 --> 02:25:29.400
Board Room: i'm fine with that I just, I just wanted like.

877
02:25:30.450 --> 02:25:38.040
Board Room: Like Dr love it say, for it to get if it's for the student and the student needs to get it, and I think that you know if i'm.

878
02:25:39.660 --> 02:25:48.630
Board Room: i'm trying to adapt to this new world of hug and make everybody feel good right that's not the world, I come from, so that takes a little more for me to.

879
02:25:49.170 --> 02:25:56.370
Board Room: Like not just slap you on the back and say just step up and you're going to be all right right so understanding that the environment is different.

880
02:25:58.350 --> 02:26:01.080
Board Room: People are suffering a little bit different mentally.

881
02:26:02.430 --> 02:26:15.540
Board Room: Then, maybe, an old school mentality was just brush yourself off and move on right different world different time, I just want to make sure that it reaches the people that we wanted to reach because I know that this letter will not be read by my daughter.

882
02:26:16.890 --> 02:26:27.360
Board Room: And I know that my daughter is not really checking her email unless it is something from her teacher that has to do with an assignment, but now I do think there is a group of students.

883
02:26:28.230 --> 02:26:35.550
Board Room: Who might be actively engaged in you know running for student body President and those people that have that polly side type of.

884
02:26:36.060 --> 02:26:46.080
Board Room: interest of course they're going to read this and you know go and do their school thing, and you know in some small group of students will say yes, yes, yes, thank you.

885
02:26:46.620 --> 02:26:58.200
Board Room: And then you're going to have athletes, the majority of them that are going to see it at all, I mean wrong writer and different, and so I just want to be careful that if it's for the kids that we find a way to get it into kids hands right.

886
02:26:59.640 --> 02:27:09.630
Board Room: And if it's for something else than just say that right and i'm okay with that too, but just let me understand if it's for the kids or if it's for us to take a stance.

887
02:27:10.140 --> 02:27:19.650
Board Room: Against just what's going on in our State or in our Community or neighboring communities and i'm okay either way I just need to know so.

888
02:27:20.220 --> 02:27:29.280
Board Room: that's my but I, like the letter it's coming from a place of care is trying to show people that we want everybody to feel good, and I think that's good so.

889
02:27:29.820 --> 02:27:37.530
Board Room: i'm Okay, with my name being on it, because it's for the right things, but I just want to make sure that if it's for getting to the students, that it makes it there, I.

890
02:27:39.600 --> 02:27:41.490
Board Room: Think that's a great point around.

891
02:27:42.960 --> 02:27:47.850
Board Room: You know, we always have to think of that that we just send something out and then just check the box that we.

892
02:27:49.170 --> 02:27:57.180
Board Room: We met you know it was compliance or we we did our due diligence, but how we work with this letter, I think, is what makes it come alive.

893
02:27:57.900 --> 02:28:10.020
Board Room: Is it just rhetoric on paper or do students really believe that they are welcome, safe and supported by the actions that they hear from a board, not just in this letter but month by month by month.

894
02:28:10.770 --> 02:28:19.770
Board Room: Do you live into you know this, this document that you're sending out and we do have students who pay attention to what happened to these meetings they show up.

895
02:28:20.640 --> 02:28:30.150
Board Room: They hear about it one way or the other about decisions were making it a district level there's also an opportunity for us to take this kind of level to some of our student groups.

896
02:28:31.290 --> 02:28:49.320
Board Room: and read aloud and say what does this mean to you how How would you want a board in a district to live into this rhetoric, so that it feels genuine and feels as if it's really something you're experiencing and earlier on, I showed you that panorama survey.

897
02:28:50.340 --> 02:28:54.180
Board Room: that's real data of students telling us you know they can.

898
02:28:54.870 --> 02:29:02.790
Board Room: They write it and they, let us know their experience about what's really happening in school So how do we hold something like that data in the panorama survey.

899
02:29:03.270 --> 02:29:13.530
Board Room: Alongside a letter like this, alongside an equity action plan, a school work plan you know these board goals and salary really living into this.

900
02:29:14.370 --> 02:29:20.820
Board Room: day to day for all students, so I could see some of our student groups, having this letter read to them.

901
02:29:21.630 --> 02:29:28.470
Board Room: And, and then seeing you know what does this mean for you and what else do you need from us so.

902
02:29:29.010 --> 02:29:39.090
Board Room: there's a there's potential there's a lot of potential in this with where we take it to your point exactly how do we make sure that students who really need to hear this to have the opportunity to hear it.

903
02:29:39.720 --> 02:29:53.820
Board Room: I agree, I mean, I agree with what you're saying and i'd be willing to do that work if it meant going to the students assemblies and standing in front of you know 700 kids and read that letter I take that because I know what reach the audience I wanted it to reach.

904
02:29:55.560 --> 02:30:01.500
Board Room: I can tell you that if you're on the outside district coming in, no letter you, but I was going to change the feeling of someone coming into our school district.

905
02:30:01.830 --> 02:30:12.540
Board Room: Westland is known for, whether you like it or not being Westland and so you're not going to convince the kid at tiger that we're different today than we were yesterday because we put out a letter right.

906
02:30:13.290 --> 02:30:19.410
Board Room: But I think our job is to, in my opinion, is to focus on our children.

907
02:30:20.310 --> 02:30:28.170
Board Room: And as long as they know they're being supported by us, I can't help how that influences someone outside of this community and outside of this district.

908
02:30:28.830 --> 02:30:33.600
Board Room: Right now, we would hope that they would feel welcome, because I think we have a Community full of great people.

909
02:30:34.470 --> 02:30:43.710
Board Room: And sometimes you just don't get it right his history or whatever it may be, it just carries itself but i'd be more than happy to go read and.

910
02:30:44.430 --> 02:30:57.150
Board Room: And attend assemblies or student our student events or whatever it may be to make sure it got there so i'm in supportive a lot I don't want it to come across that way, but I think I just want to make sure it reaches the hands that we talked about reaching so.

911
02:30:59.550 --> 02:31:07.050
Board Room: I one last thing that I, I really appreciate that offer, and it could be that there is a student group.

912
02:31:07.530 --> 02:31:19.200
Board Room: That would love when you talked about listening sessions and you're going to host one for the Community there's also this opportunity to have a listening session with a group of 10 students who are who represent.

913
02:31:20.370 --> 02:31:29.490
Board Room: A club or group and i'm thinking our LGBT Q club major club, you know some of our black student Union club.

914
02:31:30.030 --> 02:31:36.390
Board Room: That may want or me appreciate a visit from a board member to accompany this letter and say here was our intent with this.

915
02:31:37.050 --> 02:31:45.480
Board Room: That we want you to know at at the highest level of decision making, you have our support, and we know that you off you don't interact with us directly.

916
02:31:46.260 --> 02:31:57.840
Board Room: But we're going to look out for you and there's decisions we make with that lens in mind with that mindset and that commitment in mind, you have a lot of other adults all along the way, and between you and us.

917
02:31:58.860 --> 02:32:04.440
Board Room: But you need to know that we're a school board that's that's going to have that, as a priority and i'm here today, and you know.

918
02:32:05.130 --> 02:32:14.100
Board Room: What questions do you have for me as a student to a school board member about this letter or anything else, and it could become some small listening sessions, you do with students.

919
02:32:15.690 --> 02:32:17.250
Board Room: i'm not suggesting more work for you.

920
02:32:18.780 --> 02:32:28.890
Board Room: Oh, one last thing and then i'll let it go, but I appreciate you wanting to hit the LGBT Q and the black groups and whatnot.

921
02:32:30.090 --> 02:32:35.820
Board Room: Black student groups but i'd also caution us to be careful about that that's about five students.

922
02:32:36.660 --> 02:32:44.640
Board Room: You know the reality is our district is not very diverse, we need our White friends to hear this message and to buy into it.

923
02:32:45.270 --> 02:32:54.450
Board Room: The old groups already know what they want and need, we need to get that into other hands, so that they can say oh man I didn't think that you weren't feeling included.

924
02:32:55.320 --> 02:33:02.550
Board Room: Now we might be able to change our behavior to say hey I acknowledge you I see you, so I would rather the letter go to the masses.

925
02:33:03.450 --> 02:33:17.670
Board Room: Rather than the groups that don't feel included or feel oppressed or feel some type of way right that's only a handful of people in this Community, the bigger community needs to be influenced because that's where the change is really going to happen.

926
02:33:18.930 --> 02:33:22.710
Board Room: And I wasn't saying either or I was saying, and yeah.

927
02:33:23.190 --> 02:33:33.600
Board Room: send it out to all of these, and if you to your point when you said how does some of the students who may want to hear it get it hurt and that's what I was suggesting we have some of these small groups that are set up.

928
02:33:33.930 --> 02:33:45.510
Board Room: That Perhaps that was where you were leading towards is you know I want to make sure some other kids here too, and so, suggesting we already have those groups yeah it was not an either or with a definitely an end I think we're both on the same page.

929
02:33:47.190 --> 02:34:01.530
Board Room: And, if I may just echo a couple of the things that i'm hearing you say director Taylor, because I think that they're important, and that is that we do need everybody bought into it, you know that the majority.

930
02:34:03.150 --> 02:34:14.340
Board Room: that's crucial and also, we want to be transparent than you know what we say we're the purpose of the letter is really the purpose of the letter and that we're disseminating it to those audiences.

931
02:34:15.330 --> 02:34:20.010
Board Room: With that intent, so thank you for those comments and not everybody is going to receive this this letter well.

932
02:34:21.630 --> 02:34:27.600
Board Room: I mean, it seems like it's the right thing to do, but it's not going to be received by everybody in this Community well and so.

933
02:34:28.950 --> 02:34:32.550
Board Room: You need to be prepared for that, and so I just.

934
02:34:34.320 --> 02:34:35.700
Board Room: want to caution everybody for that.

935
02:34:38.850 --> 02:34:41.790
Board Room: yeah I appreciate that I think it does.

936
02:34:43.620 --> 02:34:43.920
Board Room: yeah.

937
02:34:46.650 --> 02:34:49.380
Board Room: open the door for further response.

938
02:34:50.940 --> 02:34:51.450
Board Room: mm hmm.

939
02:34:55.380 --> 02:35:08.400
Board Room: Okay, so we have the word smithing done for the draft and we've also talked about sort of the purpose and you know potential consequences of the letter so with that are folks still feeling like we're good.

940
02:35:10.650 --> 02:35:11.040
Board Room: Okay.

941
02:35:12.120 --> 02:35:13.740
Board Room: Yes, all right i'm seeing not.

942
02:35:15.630 --> 02:35:29.400
Board Room: Okay, thank you so we'll move on to the agenda item that was added at the beginning of the night by director Wyatt, and this is new business around change and the calendar will hand it to you.

943
02:35:33.060 --> 02:35:44.070
Board Room: Thank you so over the weekend, I learned that some districts are providing I think what some of them are calling would be respite days.

944
02:35:44.730 --> 02:36:03.330
Board Room: or a recognition of how incredibly hard our teachers and staff are working during the school year really trying to get our you know kids to feel like they're returning to school, normally, and you know I I feel like i've seen firsthand my kids teachers working incredibly hard.

945
02:36:04.800 --> 02:36:08.730
Board Room: To just make the start of school successful and so.

946
02:36:09.870 --> 02:36:22.230
Board Room: I wanted to see if there was a willingness to make a calendar change to make Friday November 12 a non instructional day Thursday November 11 is a holiday and so it's it's.

947
02:36:23.370 --> 02:36:35.070
Board Room: unique I guess that students will have a day off in the middle of the week and then returned to school on a Friday and so i'm wondering if, in the spirit of really.

948
02:36:36.750 --> 02:36:42.900
Board Room: Giving staff and teachers, a day off to recharge and reflect as a way to think and honor their work.

949
02:36:44.430 --> 02:36:46.470
Board Room: We could make that calendar change.

950
02:36:48.060 --> 02:36:57.900
Board Room: Dr ludwick has indicated that there are some anticipated staffing issues potentially already arising, given that there's a midweek holiday and then or return for one day.

951
02:36:58.800 --> 02:37:08.490
Board Room: But this idea of adding a day of respite I think could be really beneficial for the wellness of our teachers and staff and so would love to hear your thoughts on that.

952
02:37:09.660 --> 02:37:19.020
Board Room: And you know I had a couple of questions that I could pose that I think might be coming to mind, for you, and so the first thing is.

953
02:37:20.400 --> 02:37:28.230
Board Room: How this would affect our instructional day count and then how you would communicate this out to our Community adequately, given that it is next week.

954
02:37:29.490 --> 02:37:35.250
Board Room: And so perhaps doctrinal good could answer speak to those questions any other questions that you have.

955
02:37:36.150 --> 02:37:48.360
Board Room: But I think it would be again just a way to recognize how incredibly hard or teachers and staff have been working and the fact that next week is a little abnormal given the midweek holiday, thank you.

956
02:38:00.150 --> 02:38:09.060
Board Room: Gentlemen it take questions as they come, or do you want to have more discussion, and then I I can just i'm just noting those questions, and I can yeah I think.

957
02:38:10.650 --> 02:38:22.410
Board Room: would like probably like to do is gauge the interest by saying, if we have a motion and a second before, because this isn't going to involve a calendar change right so it'll be bored action.

958
02:38:24.780 --> 02:38:30.510
Board Room: And we had the motion in the second to get it on the agenda, but we have emotion, right now, did you state the motion.

959
02:38:31.830 --> 02:38:34.950
Board Room: Clearly, and then we can see if there's a second, then we can have a discussion.

960
02:38:36.750 --> 02:38:43.980
Board Room: I move that we adjust the school calendar to make Friday November 12 and non instructional day.

961
02:38:47.580 --> 02:38:49.770
Board Room: director, why it has made emotion, do we have a second.

962
02:38:56.070 --> 02:38:57.060
Board Room: of questions.

963
02:39:01.530 --> 02:39:16.170
Board Room: Oh, do we have to have typically we do I mean just if we're going to follow robert's rules really directly, then we do, and I certainly in my board tenure ship has have seconded motions and then voted, however, I wanted to after the discussion so.

964
02:39:17.520 --> 02:39:21.720
Board Room: I do, would you like to second, so the discussion on and.

965
02:39:23.760 --> 02:39:25.980
Board Room: Some other board members, step up and said.

966
02:39:28.230 --> 02:39:28.620
Okay.

967
02:39:36.510 --> 02:39:42.510
Board Room: And the second just allows us to have discussion and ask questions and and then.

968
02:39:43.170 --> 02:39:55.110
Board Room: Because if there's no second and there's only one board member who actually wants to do something if we don't have a second conditional reason to have a discussion, so the second means that there's a least a will to discuss and so that's why we asked for a second.

969
02:39:57.360 --> 02:40:03.720
Board Room: Okay sounds like in it Okay, we have a second from director soup, and we can discussion.

970
02:40:09.030 --> 02:40:11.070
Board Room: So i'm just going back to.

971
02:40:13.980 --> 02:40:18.630
Board Room: When we made a calendar change at the beginning of the year and.

972
02:40:21.630 --> 02:40:38.520
Board Room: How much work that took to to make a change at the beginning of the year, when we're coming out of the summer months leading up to trying to make a change and now we're making a change potential change.

973
02:40:40.860 --> 02:40:46.740
Board Room: Well 10 days in advance or 11 days in advance, so I guess My questions are.

974
02:40:47.970 --> 02:40:48.990
Board Room: do the same.

975
02:40:50.160 --> 02:40:59.940
Board Room: concerns that existed when we tried to make a change from the summer coming into a starting Day, which was based around vacationing and all these other things.

976
02:41:01.560 --> 02:41:11.940
Board Room: Do those same kind of concerns exist with this and then what is the effect on the budget was the effect on the teachers contract, what is the effect on all of the things that took.

977
02:41:13.650 --> 02:41:16.530
Board Room: You know, took into consideration for the change.

978
02:41:17.820 --> 02:41:25.830
Board Room: At the beginning of the year, and then we also had a change for juneteenth, which was a new federal holiday that was announced.

979
02:41:26.610 --> 02:41:42.810
Board Room: And then that put us in a situation but that's a new federal holiday, which I get it right, but now we're making a change for a wellness day which i'm not agreeing or disagreeing with i'm also thinking about.

980
02:41:45.090 --> 02:42:01.530
Board Room: Community feedback whether the staff, you know contracts teachers Union all the different moving pieces for that, and so I guess, is it possible to make a change for it with all of those different moving pieces or and how does that affect our budget.

981
02:42:02.850 --> 02:42:12.690
Board Room: And things like that, so I don't know those are just things that are coming to my to my head, initially, since this is my first hearing about it so Those are just questions that I have.

982
02:42:14.790 --> 02:42:25.440
Board Room: yeah, so I think it depends on what you're intending to do with this day, and maybe the motion needs to have more clarity in it, we could work with that.

983
02:42:27.420 --> 02:42:32.250
Board Room: If you are intending to have a non instructional day on the 12th.

984
02:42:33.300 --> 02:42:38.820
Board Room: But replace that instructional day somewhere else in the calendar, for example in June.

985
02:42:39.870 --> 02:42:44.850
Board Room: Then we are looking at engaging classified and certified staff.

986
02:42:46.560 --> 02:43:07.260
Board Room: Because you're you've now moved something to later in June, and we would we would engage our licensed staff in that decision, which would take time and what i'm hearing from everybody is this, this is coming up soon and we may not have that type of time and then to inform the Community.

987
02:43:09.210 --> 02:43:17.850
Board Room: If you're in your motion are saying we're declaring this a non instructional day and we don't intend to make up that instruction.

988
02:43:20.010 --> 02:43:32.490
Board Room: Meaning right now there's 175 days for high school you're changing it to 174 or 173 days in the middle in primary school and you're changing it to 172.

989
02:43:33.570 --> 02:43:41.970
Board Room: You can make that change if you're not and i'm going to invite our HR director to come up to the microphone here, just in case she's going to.

990
02:43:43.080 --> 02:43:49.110
Board Room: Keep me on track here, it would not need to go to the associations.

991
02:43:51.690 --> 02:43:52.440
Board Room: For.

992
02:43:53.460 --> 02:43:58.440
Board Room: deliberation or feedback, because you get to make decision about the calendar.

993
02:43:59.460 --> 02:44:05.190
Board Room: You are accountable, we are accountable to the State instructional hours, what does that do to have.

994
02:44:06.510 --> 02:44:14.550
Board Room: six hours six and a half hours less of instruction for primary middle and high do we still meet the minimum that's required and, yes, we do.

995
02:44:16.140 --> 02:44:25.680
Board Room: So you have that flexibility in the calendar to have this become a non instructional day so try to answer a couple questions in there at once.

996
02:44:27.030 --> 02:44:43.110
Board Room: So it's a little different than what we were looking at with our previous calendar change that involved moving and adjusting days a week, and moving things from August September to June.

997
02:44:44.370 --> 02:44:48.180
Board Room: was different than just saying the calendar is set in terms of.

998
02:44:49.410 --> 02:45:00.270
Board Room: Our expectations of staff, except that now, this is going to be a non instructional day and my understanding is, we can make that without you can make that decision without us having to check the associations.

999
02:45:00.900 --> 02:45:06.900
Board Room: Correct we would only have to check with the associations, if we then added the calendar day and then negotiate.

1000
02:45:08.100 --> 02:45:20.010
Board Room: about you, I have another question sorry i'm only asked these questions because i'm just learning of this change, and so I would have asked all these questions in a private environment, but now in a public environment so i'm asking.

1001
02:45:21.510 --> 02:45:30.330
Board Room: So my other thought is, although you know we might support staff having a day off and I i'm.

1002
02:45:31.350 --> 02:45:38.250
Board Room: All for that i'm thinking about how the How does that make families adjust who have corporate jobs, who may not have child care.

1003
02:45:38.700 --> 02:45:43.050
Board Room: who may not have all that because that's another backlash that we're going to get as board members.

1004
02:45:43.980 --> 02:45:53.790
Board Room: Even though we're supporting staff and we're making a concession there to be you know cognizant of their mental well being and how hard they're working and we love them.

1005
02:45:54.300 --> 02:46:08.970
Board Room: i'm thinking about the thousands of families that now have to make adjustments for childcare, who may not be able to afford it, and many of us can, but some of us can't right so i'm just thinking about all of those moving pieces and so, and obviously that's.

1006
02:46:10.320 --> 02:46:12.900
Board Room: something for us to consider as a board.

1007
02:46:14.730 --> 02:46:26.430
Board Room: You know, is it better to support 200 staff versus 2000 families or you say so that's what i'm that's what i'm thinking about, and so I don't know what the answer to that is.

1008
02:46:27.930 --> 02:46:31.050
Board Room: But you can continue that's just my my concern.

1009
02:46:37.260 --> 02:46:42.090
Board Room: director sleep and director investor Thompson with your finger, are you would you like to jump in.

1010
02:46:44.670 --> 02:46:55.560
Board Room: i'm going to reiterate, I think, with the timing of everything and families try it, you know, playing on their kids being in school and then.

1011
02:46:56.700 --> 02:47:08.010
Board Room: 10 days out or however many next friday's having to cover having their kids at home, could be a hardship on our families and then, I feel that.

1012
02:47:10.260 --> 02:47:11.970
Board Room: he's probably just want to be in school.

1013
02:47:13.590 --> 02:47:15.720
Board Room: And is there, another option we could do.

1014
02:47:16.860 --> 02:47:20.850
Board Room: Like doing a special lunch for them, or something on that day.

1015
02:47:22.020 --> 02:47:23.970
Board Room: Instead of just giving them a day off.

1016
02:47:25.200 --> 02:47:26.130
Board Room: Just my thoughts.

1017
02:47:30.000 --> 02:47:44.370
Board Room: Are yeah when I make, I think, yes I love the spirit of honoring our teachers and of making an end up giving them that that I share some of the similar concerns, I think, with the date so quickly approaching.

1018
02:47:46.050 --> 02:47:55.290
Board Room: Thinking about our families and how they might need to scramble to provide care and also just, we all know, we've heard no school November.

1019
02:47:56.340 --> 02:48:03.870
Board Room: You know that that's that phrase that we hear about and then to take away another instructional day in November and.

1020
02:48:05.070 --> 02:48:09.480
Board Room: I think can be frustrating to our families, again, I think, especially at this late.

1021
02:48:10.560 --> 02:48:31.110
Board Room: At the sleep time, also as a former teacher who would plan out, you know I as a biology teacher, I would have already have my lesson plans ready to go for next Friday and sometimes the not having that opportunity that can throw your lesson plans off so just thinking from a teacher standpoint.

1022
02:48:32.520 --> 02:48:37.260
Board Room: And just thinking about the last year and a half that our families have gone through.

1023
02:48:38.790 --> 02:48:46.380
Board Room: And the excitement that our kids and families have for being back in school, I want to get them as many in school instruction hours as possible.

1024
02:48:47.130 --> 02:48:59.880
Board Room: So those are my thoughts just for, and again I love the spirit of hey we want to our teachers to feel valued, we want them to know that we we care about them and we want to acknowledge that we know they're working hard.

1025
02:49:00.600 --> 02:49:20.190
Board Room: And that we know, last year was a hard year, so my not being supportive of this has nothing to do with my not being supportive of teachers or not valuing the good work they do just considering all of the things that I think play into this and feeling like it's just not the timing isn't.

1026
02:49:21.270 --> 02:49:41.160
Board Room: isn't what it needs to be is there is there, another day or that maybe that isn't approaching so fast that that could be considered that gives people more time to adjust understand, like the Thursday and Friday kind of combo could make a lot of sense for an extended weekend.

1027
02:49:42.240 --> 02:49:59.610
Board Room: But we are approaching winter break also right, so I mean and and for those who celebrate thanksgiving and those going to be a lot of days off for decompression and a lot of overeating and over everything else but i'm.

1028
02:50:01.920 --> 02:50:02.610
Board Room: i'm hearing.

1029
02:50:03.630 --> 02:50:19.440
Board Room: i'm hearing concern, and I know that you had two things to say that we're doing so yeah i'm going to I I should have mentioned this earlier because it was one of the common questions that director, why it had when she said instructional hours but also made a comment about.

1030
02:50:20.610 --> 02:50:35.850
Board Room: The impact that staff is having this year, that is unique to a combination of some factors, the pandemic, as well as the vaccination status, we do have a substitute teacher shortage.

1031
02:50:37.170 --> 02:50:39.000
Board Room: We have a license teacher shortage.

1032
02:50:40.110 --> 02:50:49.260
Board Room: We still have not filled about two or three of our know probably about half a dozen of our classified staff postings.

1033
02:50:50.550 --> 02:50:52.350
Board Room: There people just aren't applying.

1034
02:50:53.430 --> 02:51:04.500
Board Room: you're seeing it everywhere across the state, people are trying are scrambling for employees, and that is definitely hit the world of education and the way it's playing out.

1035
02:51:05.100 --> 02:51:11.550
Board Room: And it may not be this way in June, it may not be this way in January, but it certainly has happened since the first day of school until now.

1036
02:51:12.270 --> 02:51:22.140
Board Room: Is that we have a substitute shortage and so that means, even though you remember, I told you, we were we had hired our own permanent substitutes.

1037
02:51:22.890 --> 02:51:37.440
Board Room: That means if there's one teacher out in each building and then there's two for the high school and then we hired one dual language substitute teacher, so that any of the dual language classrooms private middle high could have a bilingual educator fill in for them.

1038
02:51:38.670 --> 02:51:49.470
Board Room: Even with that group we are short teachers every day in this district so teachers are giving up their prep time to teach for someone else and the high school.

1039
02:51:49.890 --> 02:52:01.680
Board Room: Every day, you can see nods by our principles principles are filling in for classroom teachers almost daily the district office staff is now filling in.

1040
02:52:02.190 --> 02:52:17.820
Board Room: For teachers, we did that last week and we've because we're licensed staff we've made ourselves available so that's part of the all hands on deck strain, that is not unique to us but it's happening in every school district in Oregon.

1041
02:52:18.960 --> 02:52:22.800
Board Room: I think beaverton said they were 400 substitutes short.

1042
02:52:24.210 --> 02:52:30.240
Board Room: On and we certainly don't have a number of that large but proportionately it's the same for us.

1043
02:52:32.280 --> 02:52:41.520
Board Room: October 18 and the requirement for vaccination did prompt a number of substitute teachers to remove their names from the role.

1044
02:52:41.850 --> 02:52:51.810
Board Room: Not whether they we don't know whether they agree with it or not, but it could have just been you know i'm a retired teacher anyway, this is getting complicated I think i'm just going to do something else.

1045
02:52:54.000 --> 02:52:58.170
Board Room: It has been a strain and a challenge every day.

1046
02:52:59.310 --> 02:53:05.550
Board Room: Last week there was a middle school, as I was going around That said, we have six teachers out and we don't have subs for them.

1047
02:53:06.690 --> 02:53:20.430
Board Room: And so, other staff filled in for those vacancies so it's it's just a dynamic that probably will not happen again, but it's happening right now, and it may not be as much of a strain in January or May or June.

1048
02:53:21.120 --> 02:53:32.520
Board Room: So what's happening is that there are boards and administrators that are saying, given this additional stress, where do you put some relief in the system.

1049
02:53:32.970 --> 02:53:40.890
Board Room: When it feels like it's all hands on deck every day and we don't know every day, you know we're going to have a full staff.

1050
02:53:41.460 --> 02:53:52.530
Board Room: So the only reason that I believe director wide, as we were talking about this, and she said i'm hearing this is happening our is our staff feeling the same pressure and I said yes, and I appreciate you asking.

1051
02:53:53.160 --> 02:53:59.850
Board Room: it's every morning the principal's wake up wondering if they're going to have enough teachers that day and subs.

1052
02:54:00.600 --> 02:54:07.650
Board Room: The unique thing about November 12 is that it comes in, between a holiday and a weekend and we already.

1053
02:54:07.980 --> 02:54:24.480
Board Room: Have 23 teachers, that are not planning to be there that day they've they've taken the day for whatever legitimate reasons they can, and sometimes when a day is position like that it feels like it's more convenient to get some things done or or travel somewhere.

1054
02:54:25.920 --> 02:54:26.970
Board Room: And we have.

1055
02:54:29.430 --> 02:54:40.050
Board Room: Already, a dozen peer educators who are not going to be able to come that number will likely grow we don't know by how much, but it certainly won't stay the same, between now and then so there's a wonder.

1056
02:54:40.890 --> 02:55:00.240
Board Room: You know what What will that 12 look like, as we fill positions when there's ordinary days that we're all hands on deck and now we've got that very unique kind of Friday that's in there is that a day that we may struggle already were nervous about.

1057
02:55:01.680 --> 02:55:20.220
Board Room: Filling every classroom and is that that was why it was a day when director Wyatt asked i'm hearing this strain, is there a day that we could think about wellness and that was a day that some other districts are thinking about, and it was a day that I posed as well.

1058
02:55:22.200 --> 02:55:24.660
Board Room: This will be my last question I believe yeah.

1059
02:55:26.370 --> 02:55:35.910
Board Room: Do you feel, and this is just a direct question as a CEO of this district, do you feel like your staff need a day off one.

1060
02:55:36.570 --> 02:55:49.980
Board Room: Or are you considering this day as a day off because of the vaccination and the lack of people that may be there on a Friday, so the pressure is mounting for who may or may not show up, because we all can take a sick day if we choose to.

1061
02:55:50.790 --> 02:55:54.210
Board Room: And if that's coordinated throughout teachers in the district who talk.

1062
02:55:55.710 --> 02:56:06.840
Board Room: And now the district is short, because it's a day after a holiday and it's there right because they have vacation days and time off and COMP days or whatever it may be, and now that puts the district in the bind as a whole.

1063
02:56:08.040 --> 02:56:17.970
Board Room: Right so, is it that we're doing it and you feel like the staff just needs a day off or are we doing this because we see that there's already.

1064
02:56:18.450 --> 02:56:25.680
Board Room: People starting to put in their time off, and now we feel pressured that we're going to not be able to fill it from a substitute standpoint, not be able to.

1065
02:56:27.030 --> 02:56:34.650
Board Room: have enough staff, which means more pressure for principals and hades and whoever else right, and so I just really want to understand.

1066
02:56:35.070 --> 02:56:43.470
Board Room: If you feel like they need a day off I support you and I would vote for it, if we're doing this, just because we're feeling the pressure of the current environment.

1067
02:56:44.640 --> 02:56:47.160
Board Room: That I have you know reservations.

1068
02:56:49.950 --> 02:57:04.740
Board Room: So, first, I would say, there is no negative presumption on my part around why staff need a day or choosing to take a day I I just don't believe that about who they are they're doing incredibly heroic work.

1069
02:57:06.150 --> 02:57:13.530
Board Room: they're very aware of what last year, what that experience was for students and then working even extra hard.

1070
02:57:14.250 --> 02:57:25.080
Board Room: To assess where students are going, above and beyond, to provide targeted instruction we've got teachers who are working outside their day to meet students to help them get caught up.

1071
02:57:26.550 --> 02:57:35.760
Board Room: The Karen connection they're taking it incredibly seriously, so there there's no there's no I wouldn't even go to that place of.

1072
02:57:36.630 --> 02:57:48.570
Board Room: staff are trying to take a day, so this is not about that this is recognizing that in under any calendar year staff take days here there Friday and Monday.

1073
02:57:49.320 --> 02:57:53.310
Board Room: tend to be sometimes our most frequent days that's an every organization.

1074
02:57:54.000 --> 02:58:06.540
Board Room: Because you can accomplish some things for your family that sometimes building off of a weekend allow for that's just statistics and when we look at the days of the calendar, where we have more substitutes than any other.

1075
02:58:06.900 --> 02:58:17.880
Board Room: They tend to fall in some of those areas that's probably not unique to our district it's not unique to most working organizations that a Monday to Friday, or sometimes vulnerable to that.

1076
02:58:18.810 --> 02:58:26.160
Board Room: In addition to something that falls next to you know, a holiday it just gives a natural kind of move in that direction.

1077
02:58:26.580 --> 02:58:39.810
Board Room: We have families already indicating my child's probably not going to come to school, on Friday, because if they're not on Thursday and we've got the weekend, we might use it as an opportunity, so that starts to happen it doesn't mean we don't hold we can't hold school.

1078
02:58:40.830 --> 02:58:48.720
Board Room: and whatever direction, this is, if we have school on Friday we're going to make it work it'll be a scramble which i'm just telling you already.

1079
02:58:49.170 --> 02:58:58.290
Board Room: Our normal days are scramble and now we see this very unique situation in the calendar that we couldn't have predicted back in.

1080
02:58:59.220 --> 02:59:08.820
Board Room: May or April we were adopting this it wasn't even on my radar and August that this is where we might be, but the lack of teachers and substitutes.

1081
02:59:09.270 --> 02:59:14.940
Board Room: has taken such a dramatic toll on this state that we're all living in it, compounded with.

1082
02:59:15.420 --> 02:59:31.200
Board Room: The vaccination requirement for every substitute teacher to be vaccinated has decreased the statewide pool of substitutes so we're just in a unique place that we couldn't have predicted with this calendar compounded with do we think some teachers are going to take off on Friday.

1083
02:59:32.220 --> 02:59:41.040
Board Room: sure that, statistically happens and some pair of educators and maybe some others and assistant principal might I see my.

1084
02:59:42.330 --> 02:59:51.060
Board Room: account several counselors might, what does that start to do to an already when you think about a rubber band that stretched you know, a system.

1085
02:59:53.070 --> 03:00:06.300
Board Room: Do I believe the staff could benefit from a day of wellness yes, and I support and I wouldn't say that under ordinary years because I think we do a lot we could do a lot to adjust.

1086
03:00:08.550 --> 03:00:13.680
Board Room: You know the way we kind of move with things in our expectations to provide some give and we do that all the time.

1087
03:00:14.190 --> 03:00:24.360
Board Room: we're just in this place of the strain of going into this year with Kobe still with us, is just some unique dynamics that are just very present.

1088
03:00:24.900 --> 03:00:35.670
Board Room: So I think they would definitely benefit from it, I think, even though we have that thanksgiving week staff is going to be working Monday and Tuesday, even though students are off they're committed to.

1089
03:00:36.210 --> 03:00:41.130
Board Room: Working that Monday and Tuesday and bringing their best work and their professional selves so.

1090
03:00:41.610 --> 03:00:49.440
Board Room: it's it's not one or the other, because i'm also very cognizant of the strain in the system, and I do hold that here and wonder and hope.

1091
03:00:49.800 --> 03:00:59.040
Board Room: That if we didn't have that 12th as if we had it as an instructional day we'd be really working hard to make sure we could have somebody in every classroom.

1092
03:00:59.670 --> 03:01:11.280
Board Room: Well, I just say oh you're the leader of your staff your organization this district, and if you feel like your people need that, then I support you 100% and I support.

1093
03:01:12.900 --> 03:01:14.580
Board Room: Taking the 12th off I know it'll.

1094
03:01:15.630 --> 03:01:17.640
Board Room: put some families in a situation but.

1095
03:01:19.560 --> 03:01:20.100
Board Room: You know.

1096
03:01:21.180 --> 03:01:35.310
Board Room: I think what you say, has a lot of value and I respect your leadership, so I can support that because you feel your staff needs a day off, not because we, as a board feel that we should give a kumbaya day, so I back that.

1097
03:01:44.070 --> 03:01:53.310
Board Room: said as well that families have already contacted the schools and said that they're planning on keeping their kids or they're not going to school that day as well.

1098
03:01:56.070 --> 03:02:04.350
Board Room: Could you ask that again directors that families have contacted the district and say that their kids will not be attending school on the 12th as well.

1099
03:02:05.820 --> 03:02:14.730
Board Room: I don't have a number for you, but we've heard we've heard from families and we've heard from staff that just the uniqueness of where that day lands.

1100
03:02:15.210 --> 03:02:27.330
Board Room: provides for both groups have indicated opportunities that they may either request for their day which they can establish off or you know for medical reason or.

1101
03:02:29.040 --> 03:02:36.690
Board Room: Something that's occurring with their family and that some families have also indicated look this we're not sure our child's going to be there we're going to take advantage of.

1102
03:02:37.560 --> 03:02:57.660
Board Room: This day in this weekend, but we haven't pulled anybody we don't know what that number is, we have some pre numbers already on staff, just because some have submitted early about their indications but staff have between now and the 12 to continue to request substitutes so.

1103
03:03:01.260 --> 03:03:24.030
Board Room: we've certainly know that all industries have been suffering from staffing shortages and that the education system as a whole has been under really incredible strain, for a long time and it's not my desire to squeeze productivity, out of human beings, so in that sense, you know I support.

1104
03:03:26.460 --> 03:03:33.990
Board Room: Easing the strain on the system, and I also find that the most compelling argument is the logistical challenges.

1105
03:03:34.560 --> 03:03:47.940
Board Room: it's the it's the one that will resonate most broadly with folks that there's just a real staffing shortage that's going to make that Friday that's couch between a Thursday off and a weekend very difficult to staff.

1106
03:03:49.890 --> 03:03:55.350
Board Room: My hesitation, with a decision is two things one is just because often we.

1107
03:03:56.700 --> 03:04:02.250
Board Room: We needed to add it to the agenda because it's timely and often That means that we don't that we make these decisions with.

1108
03:04:02.610 --> 03:04:06.810
Board Room: sort of it feels like a bit in a vacuum like I don't have opportunity to hear from the public, I.

1109
03:04:07.110 --> 03:04:15.030
Board Room: I don't i'm like looking at faces of administrators like trying to you know hear the voices of staff and teachers in my head, so I don't have you know their input.

1110
03:04:15.750 --> 03:04:21.570
Board Room: But I rely on on yours, because you have your finger on the pulse of the system and so.

1111
03:04:22.170 --> 03:04:29.130
Board Room: I think what i'm hearing is that you know you you do see that this is a good idea, and that it could be recommended, we could certainly.

1112
03:04:29.520 --> 03:04:36.570
Board Room: make it happen and we would because we're Westland Wilson, will we make it happen, but that using the system.

1113
03:04:37.380 --> 03:04:49.140
Board Room: I have a little concerned like what does this do for us long term, so you know we can use the system, right now, but this is remedy anything long term so that's one concern that I just I have.

1114
03:04:49.920 --> 03:04:53.310
Board Room: My kids are teenagers they'll love to have a day to sleep and.

1115
03:04:53.700 --> 03:05:06.840
Board Room: And I won't have to supervise them but families with young kids will it will there be an option for them, they have to go to work they have young kids do, are we going to provide any option for families that are working to have young kids in the home.

1116
03:05:11.250 --> 03:05:28.380
Board Room: So if we're making a non instructional day and staff is not working, then staff wouldn't be there to do that, but we do have you know that the child care contractors often when these things come in plenty of time they will step up and.

1117
03:05:29.400 --> 03:05:44.910
Board Room: On days when we don't have instruction, they often provide a full day and some activities that go with that, so I think those agencies that we know use our facilities will likely do that i'm just going to look over at our assistant superintendent that they often step up and do that.

1118
03:05:46.770 --> 03:05:53.850
Board Room: I don't know about other families other child care agencies that they they work with, whether they be able to offer that so.

1119
03:05:54.330 --> 03:06:05.970
Board Room: But if you're asking with our staff not instruct and then replace that with childcare I that would not be the purpose of having a wellness day to replace instruction with a child care.

1120
03:06:19.650 --> 03:06:23.280
Board Room: or anything any further discussion or questions.

1121
03:06:24.780 --> 03:06:26.820
Board Room: Okay, if not we can call the bone.

1122
03:06:30.450 --> 03:06:30.870
Board Room: Raw.

1123
03:06:32.940 --> 03:06:36.090
Board Room: Mr Thompson know classical.

1124
03:06:42.780 --> 03:06:45.810
Board Room: really hard I wish I had more data.

1125
03:06:55.980 --> 03:06:58.530
Board Room: I honestly don't know, and I cannot abstain.

1126
03:07:00.840 --> 03:07:01.290
Board Room: hmm.

1127
03:07:04.800 --> 03:07:05.100
Board Room: I.

1128
03:07:11.280 --> 03:07:11.850
Board Room: Arthur.

1129
03:08:04.320 --> 03:08:05.070
Board Room: doesn't matter.

1130
03:08:09.540 --> 03:08:10.830
Board Room: Hello yeah I.

1131
03:08:14.880 --> 03:08:29.130
Board Room: Listen i'm I think this is a good indicator also that, while we according to robert's rules can add agenda items and sometimes we do need to because of the timeliness of them that it does make the decision making a little more arduous and so.

1132
03:08:30.090 --> 03:08:38.070
Board Room: Something just to keep in mind as we operate as a board that we don't make it standard practice to add agenda items, if at all possible, at the beginning of a meeting.

1133
03:08:39.660 --> 03:08:51.270
Board Room: If I could just quickly say I did not mean to put all of you into that that situation I just saw this headline from another school district over the weekend, and so it was not intended to be.

1134
03:08:52.440 --> 03:08:57.660
Board Room: To create obstruction or frustration, so thank you all for for entertaining it at this late date.

1135
03:09:02.280 --> 03:09:07.530
Board Room: Dr Ludwig the communication to the public is now of paramount.

1136
03:09:09.480 --> 03:09:12.600
Board Room: importance, we will work on it first thing in the morning.

1137
03:09:18.600 --> 03:09:27.150
Board Room: So we will just look take a look, look at these important dates and then we'll be a journey, so I think.

1138
03:09:28.260 --> 03:09:39.630
Board Room: We just have our next regular meeting on December six and you don't need me to read the rest of the dates there but that's the next time we'll be together we canceled our work session so that we could do the school walk through.

1139
03:09:41.220 --> 03:09:45.990
Board Room: Checking right before we added a discussion needed on your agenda.

1140
03:09:47.070 --> 03:09:49.740
Board Room: We need a special board meeting in December.

1141
03:09:51.300 --> 03:10:09.420
Board Room: Okay, so this was a December 13 at noon option if my memory serves the proposal uh huh and that was a special meeting with one topic, this is for a bond resolution.

1142
03:10:10.770 --> 03:10:27.960
Board Room: And unfortunately it won't be ready for December six otherwise we'd bring it to you on the Sixth there's just the timing of some of these processes that's fine so we just need to know if we have a quorum President for a special meeting on December 13 at noon, I can be present.

1143
03:10:34.680 --> 03:10:42.600
Board Room: It on zoom, and this is a resolution to approve a contract that's correct this will be a construction contract that the bid open I won't be.

1144
03:10:43.800 --> 03:10:59.520
Board Room: Open enough time to prepare it for the December 6 leading Okay, so we don't have to necessarily we just seem to know if we have a quorum present okay we've got directors okay we're good we can add that to the agenda, thank you and we're adjourned.