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WLWV Board Room: Go ahead and call to order this evening's Wesley Wilsonville School Board meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, everybody! I'm gonna pass it to

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WLWV Board Room: Director Douglas. Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: director, scheme director, sloop here. Chat Taylor. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. We'll welcome everybody, and as tradition has been, we will

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jump right into our district communications. But before I get started there, I wanna let you all know that.

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WLWV Board Room: I brought some lovely signs outside to pass out, so I'll talk a little bit more about that in the board report. So just don't let me forget. I guess that's me asking for a reminder. So

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hopping right into district communications. We're gonna start with our student representative from Riverside Lauro Venegas.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, thank you. Good evening to the board and thank you for having me a quick recap here for the month of October we had our first school dance, the fall festival, which was very well attended around 80 of our 120 students attended our leadership programs, did an excellent job. Planning and funds from the dance will be put towards future school light events.

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WLWV Board Room: Hosa, the health occupation students of America have begun settling into their weekly meetings for the month of October. Their focus was on breast cancer awareness. The Hosta members made pins to pass out around the school and coming up in November. Hosa's focus is on epilepsy awareness. More pins will be made and passed around, and a bake sale fundraiser is in the works set to happen in mid October.

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WLWV Board Room: The Riverside riverside nominates 8 students per month. That shows an I be characteristic. The month of October represented caring, and these students showed empathy, compassion, and respect. They have a commitment to service and act to make a positive difference in the lives of others and in the world around them. So congratulations to those students who are nominated

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WLWV Board Room: coming up in November. Teachers and staff look to nominate students who are good thinkers. These students use critical think critical and creative thinking skills to analyze and take responsible action on complex problems. They exercise initiative and making reason and ethical decisions.

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WLWV Board Room: Coming up tomorrow. Actually, from 6 to 7 pm. Is international baccalaureate information night at Riverside High School. The information. Night is open to all current students as well as interested middle and high school students and families to learn learn more about Ib and the course offerings available at Riverside

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WLWV Board Room: on November sixteenth, at 8 30 PM. Riverside is hosting a winter sports, athlete and family night as an opportunity to raise money for winter sport athletes. There will be a raffle drawing for a riverside raptor spirit pack ice cream party basket and a patio party pack raffle tickets are on sale now, $3 each or 5 for 10

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WLWV Board Room: in November's life classes, students will beginning skills such as organizational methods, cover letter writing and resume. Building students will also be engaging in lessons about indigenous peoples.

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WLWV Board Room: Students at Riverside and other Wesley Wilsonill schools have the opportunity to participate in career and technical education classes or CTE. Classes.

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WLWV Board Room: and a big part of meaningful Cte programs is connecting with industry professionals in class. In the last 2 weeks Riverside's Health Occupations program has had 2 guest speakers who have introduced students into into what life and health care looks like the education process and all the requirements necessary up here on the slide. There's a photo with us and stethoscopes. We learned how to take blood pressure and listen for heartbeats.

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WLWV Board Room:  health occupations, business and marketing, construction, etc., are actively looking for people interested in chatting with students about career paths, leading a job shadow mentoring students on class projects, internships and etc. If you know anyone who might have an interest, there's a link on Riverside's website.

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WLWV Board Room: and then some quick notices riversize repertory theatre is looking for donations. Their first production, the Twelfth Night, is set in 19 forties, London, and if you have any clean, mostly functioning items that would fit the setting they'd appreciate the help the Twelfth Night is set to show in December

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WLWV Board Room: and Isf. Preregistration is now open in Weslin. Wilsonville Isf stands for the international science and engineering fair students in Isf can earn academic credit and have the opportunity for scholarships and other prizes. Students can check with their science teacher for more information on joining. Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: thank you to the Board for having me, and thank you for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: And up next, we have our student representative from Westland High School. Beatrice Gilroy.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, everyone! It's a pleasure to be back speaking with you again at Westland High School. October was a very busy month we started the month with our homecoming. This year's theme was music genres. So each of our 4 porches at Westland High School were decorated in a different music, genre theme, such as disco, rock, hip, hop, and country new. This year we also included our performing Arts Center, which was decorated in a classical theme and the 700 building in an Edm themed

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WLWV Board Room: decor.

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WLWV Board Room: There was something to do every day of homecoming week. We had spirit dress up days like Pj. Day, Barbenheimer, and wear your spirit shirt where everyone wore the Westland High School spirit shirt Asp had purchased for them earlier in the year. That was great, I'd say about 80% of our student body and staff wore the spirit shirt that day. So that was really visually impactful.

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WLWV Board Room: On Wednesday we had our homecoming assembly, which featured class competitions, staff included a cheer off and performances from cheer, dance, choir, and band.

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And then Thursday, during the school day, we had a spirit stick competition where asb hid spirit sticks around the school, and students and staff could earn spirit points for their grade by finding that stick.

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WLWV Board Room: Thursday evening was our homecoming football game versus Tualton and Westland ended up winning, which is great.

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WLWV Board Room: And then on Friday this is something new. This year we had a unity activity. So each life class watched trolls, too, as part of our music genre theme, so intros to all of the characters come from different music genre backgrounds. But by the end of the movie they are able to recognize the beauty in each of their individual music genres. So this really further enforced our overall message that we've been presenting

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WLWV Board Room: teaching at Westland High School this year that we're all lions with different roars. Respect the roar. So we may all come from different music backgrounds or personal backgrounds. But at the end of the day we're all lions, and we want to respect each other. And then on Saturday we ended our homecoming week with our homecoming dance on the baseball field, which featured lights and glow sticks, food and drinks, and even a glow in the dark art table. So students liked participating in that.

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Later in the month Westland High School recognized team Driver Safety Week. This is something we do every year. As we know, it is very important to our community. There was a pledge table in the library where students could take the pledge to drive safely. And then we also featured a video on our live roar and on our Instagram. Just so students could take that extra second and reflect on their driving habits.

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WLWV Board Room: October was also breast cancer awareness month. So October sixteenth, through twentieth we celebrated our pink week at Westland High School, where we decorated the school with pink ribbons and other pink decor. We sold pink shirts in our student store and collected donations at halftime of the football game, with all money going to breast friends, which is a local charity based out of 12, who helps woman recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

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October was also dyslexia awareness month. So our wonderful librarian, Mister Greeney, put posters around the library and featured texts about dyslexia

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WLWV Board Room: to recognize national hispanic heritage month our Latin student Union hosted their inidosancor zone after school on our early release day, which is pictured on the bottom right there was a live mariachi band, food from song blas, and activities run by Latin student union members. It was a very successful and well organized event, and many students and teachers attended

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WLWV Board Room: also on the early release day was a kickball tournament hosted by our fellowship of Christian athletes, and they had a lot of fun with that activity. It's been a very successful month for our sports teams at Westland High School boys, soccer and volleyball both made it to play offs. Our cross country team sent 2 athletes to state this past weekend. Our football team faces Jesuit on Friday for round 2 of playoffs.

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WLWV Board Room: and our girls team. Our girls soccer team upset nationally, ranked Jesuit on Saturday and will be playing in the semi finals tomorrow at Cleveland and our Students section was even named National Student Section of the Week by student section report for our pinkout game enthusiasm. And then, in the performing Arts center our Choi choir, concert band, jazz, band, and orchestra. All had concerts. In October they played wonderfully, and we had 18 musicians make it to the All State ensemble.

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and our theater department's production of Pipin opened last Thursday, and they have shows coming up this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, as well

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WLWV Board Room: normally Asb. Host a carnival during homecoming week. But for scheduling reasons we push this carnival to Friday, October 20 seventh, as one of our final October events.

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WLWV Board Room: we turned it into a fall carnival which took place right before the football game that Friday the carnival is designed specifically for Westland High School community members who may not normally get to participate in on campus activities. This is also an opportunity for our clubs to fundraise and earn money. Each of them get to host a booth with games and food, and despite the cold weather, we had almost all of our clubs, host, a booth, and many families stopped by before heading up to the football game.

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WLWV Board Room: Our biggest event coming up in November is our annual can food drive, which we have already kicked off, and it will run until the last day before Thanksgiving break. So right now on campus, we're rallying the school to bring in those cans in their life classes.

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WLWV Board Room: That's all I have for today, and I look forward to speaking with you all next month. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And last, but not least, our Wilsonville High

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, school members. It's great to see you all again, since it has been some time since I last saw you. My name's Vanessa, and I'm one of the asp presidents at Wilsonville High School. At the last meeting you were informed of the great strides and improvements that we've made at Wilsonville High School. It is my pleasure to let you know that things are still going well.

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WLWV Board Room: Last week Ardiade Los Mortos Festival was a success. It was a wonderful community celebration, where a Latino arts and culture class, partnered with mecha, to organize events full of arts, crafts, food, dancing, and music.

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WLWV Board Room: There was an it was an amazing turnout, and it was great to see our community come together to celebrate this event.

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WLWV Board Room: Our Red Cross club also held our first blood drive. Since 2,019. Last week we had. We had about 70 students and adults donate many students donated for the first time

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WLWV Board Room: all the blood donations will be given to local hospitals in Oregon. To those who need it. It was also a really successful blood drive, and we can't wait for our next one. In April.

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WLWV Board Room: This past weekend our robotics team competed in the Sacramento in Sacramento, at the Capital City Classic. They placed fifth out of 60 teens teens and took home the innovation and controls award. Their system designed to work in automotes and codes were effective, as you can see, that's the girls. Gen. Robotics team on the slideshow.

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WLWV Board Room: As for sports, unified sports has been competing in soccer leading to a third place finish in a recent tournament. This is such a fun and unifying experience. Experience for our school boys and girls soccer are both on to the semi semi-fem finals this week. The boys play at Hood River tomorrow night and the girls play Lasalle at home at 7

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WLWV Board Room: Cross Country complete. Competed at state last weekend. The girls team finished seventh overall.

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WLWV Board Room: Last, but not least, this Friday football will play in the quarter in the quarter finals at home versus Thurston. The students are extremely excited for the U.S.A. The U.S.A. Out theme, and there's already a lot of chatter about the outfits and the energy they will bring. We will also have a special acknowledgement of veterans. Day of Veterans day before the game

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WLWV Board Room: on our calendar. We also have the dedication of the Performing Arts Center, which just recently opened this year we invite you all to this event. On November November thirteenth, at 7 Pm. We will start with a ribbon cutting, and then invite you on tours of the new space and classrooms.

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WLWV Board Room: Our college. Lately our college and career, coordinator and counselors have been even more busy than usual. They have been working to ensure. All students have opportunities that align with their goals after they graduate. We have had 2 career field trips to Clackamas Community College and to manufacturing day.

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WLWV Board Room: This gave students interested in these types of career a chance to have a hands on experience

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WLWV Board Room: and meet with industry professionals. Most seniors have been working on college applications and meeting with their counselors and English teachers for those essays. For those essays a lot more than usual, which I know many students are extremely ga grateful for cause. I know I am

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WLWV Board Room: today our first today, our first generation to go to college group that is being brought back for students as a resource, meant to plan how they would like to support, how they would like support. This year.

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WLWV Board Room: There were so many students that showed up, and many ideas were brainstormed to how these students could be

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WLWV Board Room: comfortable

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WLWV Board Room: and supported. In October we had our homecoming assembly, which went really well. It was a success, and we have already began to plan the Winter Assembly later in December

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WLWV Board Room: for the Winter Assembly. Aside from the different games and performances, we'll have going on starting November 20 seventh, all the way to December twelfth. Asb and Leadership volunteers will be hosting a food drive

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WLWV Board Room: aside from food. We will also be accepting clothes, toys, and toilet trees.

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WLWV Board Room: This will be a live class competition to see who can donate the most amount of food. There will be a live class that will be the winner of all the live classes, and then there will there will be a grade who will win compared, who will win. Compared to the other grades at school the winning life class will get donuts, and the winning grade will get 100 sphere points.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, guys so much for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank all 3 of you, and in the spirit of you all 3, probably getting ready to prep for college. This is the opportunity for you to exit, if you would like, but you're also welcome to stay and enjoy the full Board meeting with the rest of us, if but if you don't want to do that. This is a good time

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WLWV Board Room: for you to take that opportunity. So

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WLWV Board Room:  moving into district recognitions. I'm going to pass it to

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, thank you so much. Director Taylor School Board members. Dr. Ludwig. Maria and I are very excited to just to speak with you. It is national youth, homeless awareness month.

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And we thought this was a really important time to come to you and just bring some awareness to you and to our community. That we do have youth who are homeless in our district.

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and to help educate and know a little bit about what the law requires and what we do, and some of the ways that we wrap around those students as a district, and to just learn a little bit about more about that support system.

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and to recognize some of the people that are helping make things work for students in really important ways that help them move forward and be part of our learning communities in powerful ways. So we're excited to share that with you tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. I am a.

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WLWV Board Room: It's a pleasure to be here. We can start a little bit with the

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WLWV Board Room: this, the history of Mckinivento.

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WLWV Board Room: The homeless Person Survival Act was introduced to Congress in 1,986, and was approved in 1,987, through different advocates and time. It was finally renamed as a Makini Vento Homeless Assistant.

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WLWV Board Room: It is the title 7 of the Mcinty Vento Act that provides the Education of homeless children and youth programme administered by the Department of Education.

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WLWV Board Room: Its purpose is to provide school stability as well as removal of barriers for education. Despite the lack of fixed place of residence

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WLWV Board Room: or supervising parent or guardian

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WLWV Board Room: who qualifies any children.

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WLWV Board Room: child who experience housing instability due to different causes.

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WLWV Board Room: qualify for the program and the districts.

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WLWV Board Room: The school districts

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WLWV Board Room: must be ready to provide the services for those students.

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WLWV Board Room: housing, instability. In our community. There are different ways in which this

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WLWV Board Room:  in our students, in our the families in our district.

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WLWV Board Room: some of our families or students are sharing housing with what we call double up.

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WLWV Board Room: or they get

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WLWV Board Room: get to go to motels right? This is. it could be for different reasons, hardship. loss of housing.

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WLWV Board Room:  illness.

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WLWV Board Room: It could present itself in different ways. There is also those who are UN sheltered. Those situations are, as we know,

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WLWV Board Room: they have no basic services, which is, you know if you know, tense

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WLWV Board Room: and they live on the streets or in their own cars.

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WLWV Board Room: We also have situations in which the students

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WLWV Board Room: out of their their place for different reasons as well. They don't. They are not in the care that moment of a guardian or a parent.

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WLWV Board Room: putting the care of somebody which is a family member or a friend from the family.

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WLWV Board Room: as you can see in the Graphic from the National School Boards Association. You can see the the curve that's. you know, prevalent. And it's going up

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WLWV Board Room:  youth. and in this case you can see, Oregon is one of the highest

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WLWV Board Room: recently, in the last few years due to obviously the pandemic. There were some  steps that we're putting in place right to

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WLWV Board Room: certainly. Compared to some of our neighboring school districts. We don't have as large a percentage or number of children and families that fall into the category of qualifying for Mckinney vento services. But we have families every year who do.

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and our numbers don't have a neat graph, but they ha have average every year. They're somewhere between the lowest we've ever had in the 12 years I've been involved here have been 35, and the highest has been around 70. So we've been in there somewhere. For a family for children that qualify for Mckinney vento services. So that's just in case you're wondering kind of in the local immediate. What are we talking about in terms of numbers. What we have noticed

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WLWV Board Room: this year is the number of students that fall into that unsheltered category is much higher than we've had in the past, and the number also in the motel, and very temporary housing is also higher.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the other things that we meant to say at the beginning is we know language really matters, and language. Around housing is evolving. And so there are some folks that use different language. Some people use house lists instead of homeless.

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WLWV Board Room: We have tended to use homeless, because that's what's in the law around Mckinney vento. So that's the term I'm using. Because that's what's in the law around Mckinney vento. So I just want to acknowledge that some other people in the work will use other terms. So just wanted to share that.

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WLWV Board Room: So as we think about that, what is our role in schools? It's a it's a statistic that is so sobering. And so concerning as we think about children and families dealing with such a difficult situation. And we know we're in a really unique

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WLWV Board Room: position to really help children. And the next slide really talks about.

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WLWV Board Room: what can we do? Well, we can do a lot in schools in terms of being that safe place for kids when other things are unpredictable in their lives.

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WLWV Board Room: We can offer that safety and security. We can offer that sense of belonging a place where they can expect consistency and a caring belong environment. Someone that they know is gonna smile and say, you're welcome, and you're here and A warm meal is there for them every single day that security of that organized schedule that they can expect

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WLWV Board Room: regular meals, connections to services. Some of the things that our high school students were talking about that connection to. Here's my education. Here's my plans to move forward, so I can have better possibilities and supports

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for my own outcomes as I move forward in my own life. As we were reading through some of the resources with some of the groups that we work with. We found this beautiful quote from a homeless student in Oregon that said

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WLWV Board Room: through it all, school is probably the only thing that has kept me going. I know that every day that I walk in those doors I can stop thinking about my problems for the next 6 h, and concentrate on what is most important to me.

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WLWV Board Room: school keeps me motivated to move on and encourages me to find a better life for myself.

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WLWV Board Room: So we know that we play an important role in really being there for children that are in these situations. So let's talk a little bit more about what we can do.

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WLWV Board Room: when we are working to improve, which is always, it is important that there be consistent and effective approaches, and that we share a common division. So thank you for that.

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WLWV Board Room:  and we want to do that in ways that include our community. And further our mission. Finally and relatedly, I'm thinking about how school boards do their work effectively. Generally. What does it mean to be a great school board? How do we become great at this work?

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WLWV Board Room: I appreciate the support of our current Board members. You've been generous with your time and quite patient with us new folk.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal. Thank you so much. In October I focused on supporting our levy by visiting with our Ptas. And the Wilsonville Rotary Club. Voting by tomorrow. November seventh is extremely important to secure 90 jobs for our teachers to maintain the academic excellence and support we have in our district.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! There! So I had the chance to visit my 3 schools. In this past month, and so I went to Cedar Oak and Stafford primary schools, and then to the new Athe Creek Middle School, and you know those the visits, and I think you've folks have heard us talk about them, but they're really designed to get us out from behind. These desks and into the classroom to really understand?

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you know, for folks listening. That may not seem like that big of a deal, but I think that sometimes for us, when we are used to reviewing agenda packets and talking through financial reports and long range plans. That chance to be in the classroom is so incredibly valuable, and those visits happen because of the great work of folks here in the district office, and then the folks in the schools who take the time out to walk us through

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WLWV Board Room: test scores and understand how they drill down and provide the interventions and supports that our kids need and it's pretty phenomenal, because again, when we sit up here and we zoom way back. And we're looking at a district wide set of data. It's really different than when you sit in those classrooms. And you know that these teachers and these administrators know the kids that need their help. And so I just really wanna thank

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WLWV Board Room: we have this phenomenal opportunity to really know our students and to understand how this data affects their learning, because we have 90 teachers in our school that are funded by our levy. And so I think, I said, you know, a couple of months ago that I would not let a board report go by without commenting on the fact that we must pass the levy tomorrow night. It funds 90 positions.

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WLWV Board Room: Those 90 positions are essential for the class sizes that make it possible for us to truly understand our students. So if you haven't voted yet. go home tonight, fill out your ballot, and just know that that is what makes our district so strong. So just really hope that folks will take time to support the levy

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WLWV Board Room: and then, lastly, add a chance to go to the A/C Creek Middle School ribbon cutting had a chance to see Director Taylor operate a very sharp pair of scissors, but most importantly, had a chance to see that gorgeous school and again, another example of how, when we invest in our school district, amazing things happen. So really fun exciting month, and looking forward to hearing more over the next couple of months by fellow directors about their school visits, too. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: and just to echo off of what you said a little bit about that local option, Levy. I don't want to be the dead horse, but I brought signs so there's some extra signs out in the hall. If you'd like to put one up in your yard. Please feel free to take one.

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WLWV Board Room: And they went out. And actually, they were the 4 students who cut off ivy, the other we're doing other work on the savannah tree. So kids doing really good things in the community, glad to see him out there using their hands and not on their phones. So I'm always get praised when I see this. So thank you for the time, and I'll turn it over to Dr. Lugwin for the superintendent report.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And while that's coming up, I want to say about that rocking chair director. So it's actually getting a little facelift every now and then. We have to, just. you know. Make sure the paint is updated, and it'll be back in. Some of our art students are actually taking it on as a little project, and it'll be ready soon it'll be back in here. So thank you for recognizing that it was gone.

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WLWV Board Room: And then I'm gonna send you board members a link to this beautiful Mini documentary video that was created in partnership with Clackamus, Esd. Some of the schools in North Clackamus and then some film producers. That is entitled Culture and Connection and Intersection of Indigenous Excellence. And you'll see in there some of the schools in Clackamas County.

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WLWV Board Room: So I'll be sending you that link. So you can watch that video. This, the picture is just a little snapshot of a scene from the video.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, we've heard a lot about the events in October, and I was exhausted after hearing our 3 high school students because a lot has been happening. Some of these are redundant, so I'll just go through them quickly. You can see at the top picture there's the ribbon cutting ceremony for Riverside.

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WLWV Board Room: But I wanna thank our school Board members for the visits that they've made to their to their schools. I know we've got a couple more that are still on the books that are gonna happen in the next week or so. It's an extraordinary amount of time that you spend at least 2 h in each of those schools

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WLWV Board Room: listening so deeply and carefully to principals and the leaders as they share their work plans and their data and their goals, and walking around and interacting with teachers and students in a student panel, and each one of those ones that I joined with you. I just saw how present each of you were, how engaged you were with the staff and the students, and fully committed to that time with them. So thank you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: We did have those 2 dedications. We also had our first of our quarterly meetings with our first responder partners, where we talk about safety in the district, but we also talk about. We talk through scenarios of what we would do in certain situations, and how we would respond with safety for students. So it's a great way for all of us to practice, and then we also sometimes talk about real events that have happened, and debrief those

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WLWV Board Room: I was excited about attending the Cosa Special Education Conference this year, because we had some staff presenting, and in particular a few of our staff were getting their doctorate. Degrees! They were able to present some of their research and it was exciting to to hear those presentations.

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WLWV Board Room: It seems like a long time ago, but we actually had K. 8 school conferences in October, where parents came to school and met their children's teachers and heard about how their students are doing so far. At the start of school, and what roles and aspirations they have in setting up those relationships.

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WLWV Board Room: Lot of professional development that's happening now that we're into October. We kick off a lot of that. Those learning opportunities for our staff 2 that I wanted to highlight are the aspiring Leaders Academy that we've gotten going this year. This is for teachers who want to consider other possible next steps for themselves in terms of leadership, whether it's leadership from the classroom lens

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WLWV Board Room: And then, lastly, it was an exciting and buzz filled space in this room a few weeks ago, and I wanna thank Director Sloop for attending. We had all of the leaders of our K. 8 Pta. Meetings in the room where they got to network with each other. We also talked about or got input from them around literacy and math and social emotional learning for their own children as well as hearing some strategies from principals, and these are quarterly meetings that we're looking forward to

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WLWV Board Room: So in our literacy renewal process with our adoption team, this is where we are right now. We're in this section where we have formulated our adoption team and they are meeting now on a regular basis.

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WLWV Board Room: This is again a familiar slide. I show it every month. This. This is the kind of work our Literacy adoption team will be doing. They'll be doing, looking at research. They'll be examining reading data. They'll be looking at the Oregon rubrics for evaluating materials, going back and forth to their schools to get feedback from their colleagues.

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WLWV Board Room: so that's that's where we are. There's several meetings still, just as a reminder. I'll keep giving you every month and update about how this renewal process is going. And if any board member feels like they need more details. And what I'm giving this month feel free to reach out, and I can

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WLWV Board Room: And then, lastly, we have put together a Fentanyl awareness campaign for this year.

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WLWV Board Room: director sloop mentioned. There's a lot that goes into keeping our young children feeling safe and healthy and well when she talked about the awareness for for students this month, we know that there's a lot around supporting students who are experiencing houselessness. And we know that there's a lot going on in our nation and globally around opioids and addiction.

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WLWV Board Room: That will be getting out in the district newsletters and school newsletters. To help parents find resources and information. And you could just see some samples there on on the slide in January. Our district will host a Fentanyl awareness and information session for the community. So we'll have some folks with us who are experts around addiction and resources joining us for that.

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WLWV Board Room: So kind of broadly kind of wrapping around, coming alongside the classes that are taught. and that wraps up my report for this month. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I move we approve the consent. Agenda. Thank you. Do you have a second?

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

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WLWV Board Room: That was a rough one.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright! We will move into everybody's favorite public comment. We normally run 2 different public comment sections. But tonight we only have 3 speakers. So we're just going to combine them

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WLWV Board Room: speaker, which is Karen Salvetti. Would you like to come forward.

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WLWV Board Room: I appreciate the opportunity to jump to the front as I'm a softball taxi tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, my name is Karen Salvetti, and I applied for the open position on the District Budget Committee.

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WLWV Board Room: I will be having surgery in late November, and will not be able to attend the December meeting, where candidates will be discussed. So I wanted to introduce myself to you tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: I am a newer resident to Westland, moving here in August of 2022. I have been an active attendee here at board meetings and in my daughter's school, Rosemont Ridge.

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WLWV Board Room: I have experience with budgeting and accounting, and both my work, experience and my volunteer positions. I have spent over 12 years being part of Ptas. In all of my children's elementary middle, and high schools.

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WLWV Board Room: I served as treasurer creating budgets. Each year I started the Middle School Pta in Malala, as when my older 2 students went in there was no parent organization, so I started that from the ground up

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WLWV Board Room: I was blessed to serve as wrestling mom for my son's senior year and work closely with the Boosters Club for our wrestling budget.

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WLWV Board Room: I volunteered in multiple leadership roles within our local community church overseeing women's ministry, budgets and events as well as our international mission teams traveling to Guatemala multiple times.

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WLWV Board Room: I have served on the Budget Committee for our local youth sports in Malala before we moved here to Westland.

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WLWV Board Room: In my work experience, I've been in accounting role for the past 12 years as well. I served as the full charge bookkeeper for our local community church, where I oversaw the budget and all financials for

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WLWV Board Room: our audit and the budgeting of over 1 million dollars.

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WLWV Board Room: I work closely with the auditor each year, and ensuring our books were correct with proper policies and procedures. I currently work for a commercial real estate company here in Lake Oswego, with over 80 properties around the Us.

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WLWV Board Room: I have provided my resume for you tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: so that you could see my experience. I have a passion to serve in my children's school lives. My 2 older children are sophomores in college go ducks.

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WLWV Board Room: and my youngest is in seventh grade. I have always cultivated strong relationships with teachers and school district staff, as my children spend so many hours in the classrooms and extracurricular activities. My gifting is with numbers, and to serve the community and my children in this way would fill my heart.

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WLWV Board Room: I know we cannot engage tonight in conversation, but if you have any questions for me, or like to chat or get to know each other, please call or email me my information on my resume. And that's all I have to introduce myself tonight. I'm sorry I will miss the December meeting, but I hope that I'm on your thoughts for voting time. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Up next I have

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WLWV Board Room: Brad. I believe it is Wapki Wopki.

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WLWV Board Room: I know I'm gonna mess that up so you can correct me when you get up

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WLWV Board Room: Thanks. Let me speak today. My name is Brad Webb Key, and I have 2 daughters in the district, a tenth grader at Wesleyan.

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WLWV Board Room: When my older daughter went through Athe Creek she was on the regular track for Math Addison was supposed to be

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WLWV Board Room: I was concerned when our teacher only covered linear equations, systems, and some exponents. Addison's class did not cover any factory and quadratics, including difference of squares, factoring by grouping and other special cases. Her class also did not solve quadratics by graphing, taking square roots, completing square or the quadratic formula.

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WLWV Board Room: They also skipped graphing and properties of quadratic functions. although this disappointed me greatly. She went on to geometry in high school and found success. Since the high school math teachers decided to teach geometry, incorporating only pre algebra level equation solving into the curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: This year Addison's in Advanced Algebra. She is seeing for the first time many concepts skipped in eighth grade as review problems in her current class. Why, Pierre, that went to Rosemont Ridge thought it was review since their eighth grade math teachers taught the material in eighth grade.

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WLWV Board Room: It's a good thing that I'm a high school math teacher, so I can teach her concepts. Her eighth grade. Teacher did not fill in her gaps.

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WLWV Board Room: Now, my younger daughter, Ellie, is currently in eighth grade or Ethi Creek. Last year, in seventh grade she learned the first half of algebra, one as a kid on the regular track this year. She's supposed to be doing the second half of algebra one as an eighth grader.

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WLWV Board Room: I noticed the topics her teacher covers seem like pre-algebra level and eighth grade level.

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WLWV Board Room: I contacted contacted her teacher about what was being taught this year, and she said that she was teaching eighth grade standards from the new math curriculum from ode. The question I'm having a hard time getting an answer to from administration after meeting with administration about 12 days ago

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WLWV Board Room: is, if eighth graders at the creek are supposed to be learning the second semester of algebra one.

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WLWV Board Room: eighth grade standards instead of the second half of algebra, one standards is anyone in the district making sure the same content is being taught by eighth grade math features at Gradient and Rosemont.

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WLWV Board Room: It also shocks me that right after an adoption year, with all the curriculum meetings that take place.

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WLWV Board Room: time and resources spent and sequencing, discuss to decide what standards are going to be taught. When that eighth grade teachers at Ethi Creek are not teaching what the district believes that they are teaching on your middle school math, flow chart.

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WLWV Board Room: Now the flow chart I got said eighth graders are supposed to be.

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WLWV Board Room: you know second half of algebra one I know that we are already quartering the school year, but I would appreciate this being addressed

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WLWV Board Room: while there's still time to teach second half of algebra, one to the eighth graders on the regular track. Eighth graders need this to help them find success past geometry in high school. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: That actually wraps up our

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WLWV Board Room: list. Karen was on twice, so no worries. So that will conclude

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WLWV Board Room: section on public comments.

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WLWV Board Room: And now we get to get into board business, and

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WLWV Board Room: I'm gonna have Mr. Pat Mcguff

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WLWV Board Room: come forward and take it through with the department of oh, oh, okay, I saw remote.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm

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WLWV Board Room: good evening Board. Happy to be here this evening with you. We've got Kim Jordan here, presenting for the long range planning Committee on the Quarterly report for the bond program, so I'll allow Kim to take that over. But I'll be standing by in case there's any questions I may need to help with. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, Hi, Kim.

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WLWV Board Room: thanks for having me. I'm here to report on the quarter 3 meeting of the Bond Oversight

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WLWV Board Room: Committee. We met. On October eighteenth we met at Athen Creek, which is so fun. I had seen it before, but just to look at it and sit in the space and and enjoy

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WLWV Board Room: well after hours. There were also people working and and doing last minute touches, but but anyway, it was great, so it made me start to think about how far we've come. So I was thinking back when I was writing my report. We passed the bond in November of 2,019.

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WLWV Board Room: So I started thinking, oh, I'm gonna talk about all the things that have happened since November of 2,019. So I went through. And I said, You know, top 10 things that happened in 2020 and 2021. And and I decided I'm not gonna do that because that's way, too depressing. All of those things we all live through. We all know about that. We don't need to go back, but I think it was worth mentioning, anyway, because that we were able to

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WLWV Board Room: get through some of those really big projects

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WLWV Board Room: despite all of those things. I know we've thanks, Staff, and we recognize them in a in a previous meeting. But again, I just wanna say that what the staff did and how they pulled these projects through those big world events. Is something to really be proud of the job to your team.

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WLWV Board Room: So I'll just run through the projects quickly. We're certainly not done with the bond oversight, but we are coming up on the tail end. So the next time that I see you

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WLWV Board Room: until, or if or when we decide to do another bond, and they know you just cannot get rid of me. I don't think so. Starting with the financials.

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WLWV Board Room: and you have this packet. But, Kurt, do you have the packet for the

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WLWV Board Room: no? Okay. You have the packet. But on the first page. It talks about how I'm sorry I have a little bit of a cold. It does make it seem like I'm about to cry, but it's just like catching my throat. I have a cold 92% of our bond money has been committed. So we're in the home stretch there with that. And there's a couple line of on your financial page about

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WLWV Board Room: money being spent at Wilsonville and Riverside High School. Those are projects that were problems in the existing building that were exposed as they were doing the work. So those are 2 notes that were put in there on the financials.

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WLWV Board Room: Going forward to the Wilsonville project that was on page 3. The project will be closed out by the end of this calendar year. Oh, here we go! Yay!

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WLWV Board Room: So this is the Financials page.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll wait for him to catch up to second. Yay, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: So everything's looking really good on there, and like I said, 92 of the bond money has been committed. The uncommitted. We've still obviously got one more big project at Frog Pond. So that's our our last thing, and I'll talk about that in a second

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WLWV Board Room: and then going forward to the third page about Wilsonville High School. So like I said, we're going to close out that project at the end of the calendar year. This year almost all the spaces are being used, and a week from today is the dedication for that.

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WLWV Board Room: So that is obviously the auditorium. And there's just like a few couple of last minute things that are happening for that for Avy Creek. We've talked about that a lot. Obviously, you've all been there. The majority of the schools open and being used, including that beautiful main gym the most recent thing completed, and the work on the roundabout, if you've gone that way, is

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WLWV Board Room: started. Yay, for all the neighbors. But is it exciting. And for now, if you're not familiar, they're just working on the sides of the road is not closed or impacting school. Opening your closings at all for for right now. So that's

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WLWV Board Room: good for all of us. Riverside High School. The project is done. It's in close out right now. So that's all good news. So again, those 3 projects done schools opened on time.

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WLWV Board Room: That's a pretty big deal. It's pretty exciting.

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WLWV Board Room: Going forward. Yep, those are all the pictures from that. Thank you. And then Frog Pond. So

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WLWV Board Room: Frog Pond, this school is set to open in the fall of 2025.

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WLWV Board Room: So there's a lot of time left. In that project. However, the foundations have been done. The framing is done. The design is really beautiful. One story project that will kind of blend right into that neighborhood. So it's a lower profile school. So it's gonna be really nice for the people who attend right around that school. The general contractor is someone known to us, the same same company that did the Athy Creek project

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WLWV Board Room: so, and people that we know to be good, reliable, and easy to work with.

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WLWV Board Room:  and then skipping forward a little bit to the facility improvements on the very last page of your packet.

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WLWV Board Room: you can see that there's 4 projects left that are slated for work in the summer of 2,024,

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WLWV Board Room: and the secure entries that were planned under this bond are done, and there's just one remaining safety. Item, that's being worked out, and that is

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WLWV Board Room: one of the ones that's listed to be worked on this summer.

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WLWV Board Room: Otherwise everything's looking real good.

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WLWV Board Room: Anybody have any questions for me?

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WLWV Board Room: Did I get it all? Okay?

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WLWV Board Room: Alright, thank you. Thanks for having me.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. Chair Taylor.

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WLWV Board Room: Kim, I just wanna thank you again for serving on the long range planning committee. You've been such a steadfast, committed community member and then coming and giving these reports. Means you have to pay attention at the meetings. But we know it's just such a passion and curiosity and commitment of yours, and you know the building so well. You ask a lot of great questions.

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WLWV Board Room: and I also wanna appreciate your mentorship of the new members on the Long Reach planning committee. Because you've been there for a while, and your institutional knowledge and your experience is so invaluable, especially as we navigate new things ahead. So thank you for your service and your time. Appreciate you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Anyone else.

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WLWV Board Room:  Where am I at?

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, Pat's up. There you are now it's my turn now. It's your turn. Okay. David. What is love hearing from you? You just heard from Kim. Ken has our the longest tenure on our long range planning committee of any citizen member.

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WLWV Board Room: and she brings great historical perspective

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WLWV Board Room: guidance, and she has been a leader through the the whole process with the long range planning committee.

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WLWV Board Room: She mentioned that the focus has been on the Bond Oversight Committee, because we've had an active bond

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WLWV Board Room: It does fulfill the promises that were made in our long-range facilities. Plan

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WLWV Board Room: we. This is our long range facilities. Plan. By the way, if you've not seen it.

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WLWV Board Room: This is the work of the committee that puts this together, and it is one of the most in-depth comprehensive documents that we collectively have.

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WLWV Board Room: It is the long range planning committee

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WLWV Board Room: has been a great committee tool

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WLWV Board Room: for the Board

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WLWV Board Room: to provide guidance for our long-range visions

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: the plan. It does provide the community with the confidence that we have a well vetted process. for when we want to go to them and ask them

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WLWV Board Room: either building or upgrading or maintaining our school facilities.

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WLWV Board Room: was about this thick in 90 96,

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WLWV Board Room: and it's been updated numerous times 4,005, 2,014. And this is what it looks like in 2,019

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WLWV Board Room:  and it was

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WLWV Board Room: if we were the the West. Lynn Wilsonville School district was the first school district in Oregon to develop one.

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WLWV Board Room: Subsequently it did become law. and or S.

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WLWV Board Room: 1, 95 dot. 1, 10 requires school districts to have a plan that's

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WLWV Board Room: valid. For 10 years, however.

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WLWV Board Room: the intent of that was that if school districts did not make any progress, it was still valid. For 10 years

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WLWV Board Room: we have fulfilled all, almost all of the promises in 5 years.

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WLWV Board Room: And so our plan is effectively out of date.

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WLWV Board Room: It is now time to

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WLWV Board Room: update that plan. and there is a very again comprehensive and detailed process to that. That next slide begins with the framework for excellence.

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WLWV Board Room: and that simply is to

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WLWV Board Room: make sure that

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WLWV Board Room: our plan reflects your vision. the Board's vision, the district's values, themes and the educational needs for planning facilities

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WLWV Board Room: and maintenance decisions.

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WLWV Board Room: Long range planning committee will evaluate all of the district plans to confirm. They're still in alignment with the Board's commitment to excellence.

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WLWV Board Room: and significantly enhance the overall quality of our education.

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WLWV Board Room: In this plan in the 2,019 plan. Some of the things that were identified were early childhood programs, inclusive services. world languages, health and wellness.

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WLWV Board Room: Stem.

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WLWV Board Room: And there's a list there.

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WLWV Board Room: This one may include additional visions that you may have, and I'll just suggest a few safe and welcoming schools has been a theme that we've

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WLWV Board Room: had throughout this bond

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WLWV Board Room: inclusive facilities. What I mean by that all of our facilities are Ada compliant, but are they truly inclusive? Are our playgrounds inclusive? Our locker rooms, our restrooms, are all of our facilities. Are they truly inclusive?

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WLWV Board Room: And then, of course, athletic and recreational facilities? Do they need to be

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WLWV Board Room: next slide if you would.

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WLWV Board Room: What is the existing capacity, the potential for growth, the educational trends and the factors that could impact future facilities needs.

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WLWV Board Room: They will examine the current learning capacity. And what that means is how many students

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WLWV Board Room: They have nuances and idiosyncrasies to each one, that it may not be a identical number at each primary school based on the architecture of the building.

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WLWV Board Room: They'll examine that the potential capacity impacts of a school program. For instance. if we decide to have more maker spaces or expand world languages to more schools. What would that do to classroom capacity

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WLWV Board Room: dating way back. drop off. That gives us more capacity

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WLWV Board Room: to perhaps put forward another bond to the voters, and still stay under our commitment of less than $3 per 1,000.

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WLWV Board Room: They'll look at the future projected and enrollment for a 10 year period.

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WLWV Board Room: Candidly, we have one now.

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WLWV Board Room: no longer relevant, no longer valid.

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WLWV Board Room: based on what happened during covid

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WLWV Board Room: we do need a new

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WLWV Board Room: enrollment projection performed by professionals

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WLWV Board Room: that we will look into the development within the existing urban growth boundary. We all know that there is development happening down in Wilsonville around Frog Pond.

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WLWV Board Room: but the law has changed to allow infill construction for multifamily housing that can be happening even in West Lynn. and finding out what that impact could be

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WLWV Board Room: to enrollment and school capacities.

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WLWV Board Room: We'll also talk with the leaders. Around what is the projected timeline to perhaps bring new land into the urban growth boundary from the reserves.

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WLWV Board Room: We meet with city and county and metro leaders, our own

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WLWV Board Room:  our own consultants. And we just talk what is going to happen in 5, 1020 years

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WLWV Board Room: that can help us. Forecasting growth for greater than 10 years. Now, when you get out longer than 10 years, that gets a little harder to predict.

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WLWV Board Room: But at least we'll have a general sense of

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WLWV Board Room: areas that will come into the urban growth boundary areas that could and that can infect

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WLWV Board Room: what our strategy is for potential land acquisitions in the future. Should we purchase land in this area over that area based on what the projected growth is.

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WLWV Board Room: and the last are the capital improvements next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: And what that does it. It takes all of this information and recommended capital project improvement list, and it collects it all together, all at the same time. So

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WLWV Board Room: you will have the ability to set priorities

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WLWV Board Room: based on recommendations by the long range planning committee.

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WLWV Board Room: It also allows us to consolidate debt and have the most efficient use of bond funding. and it it's an opportunity

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WLWV Board Room: to for the district to communicate to county and city and other governmental leaders what we're doing, what our plans are.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the things that spurred. The very first long range plan was. We were talking to officials in the city of Wesley, and they were building like crazy then.

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WLWV Board Room: and they and we said, Well, what's your plan? And they turned around and said, What's yours?

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WLWV Board Room: We didn't have one. And it it finally

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WLWV Board Room: dawned on all government entities that we should plan together. And this is that opportunity.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: tonight I'm here on behalf of the long Range planning committee

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WLWV Board Room: as an advisory committee

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WLWV Board Room: to the Board that they need direction to accomplish this task.

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WLWV Board Room: Long range planning committee is therefore recommending to the Board that the Board Commission, the long Range planning Committee

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WLWV Board Room: to perform a comprehensive update of the 2019 long range facilities plan. And there is a proposed motion.

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WLWV Board Room: Do we have a motion?

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WLWV Board Room: I move that the Board Commission, the long-range planning committee to update the district's long-range facilities plan.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll second

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WLWV Board Room: Director Douglas. I'm sorry

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WLWV Board Room:  questions. Discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm going to as your board liaison to the the planning committee. I was at that last meeting. I was a little surprised to learn that the process is for the committee to ask the Board to give the committee

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WLWV Board Room: permission to so thank you for asking us to ask you. I would. I would say that a really important point that folks made, and and Kim was part of that. Is that 5 years is a is a long time to hold on to a plan.

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WLWV Board Room: Things change as we know the last 5 years. Things change the way we teach changes the way facilities need to have some agility to handle that

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WLWV Board Room: makes it absolutely necessary that we, I think, and I'll be voting for this. I think it's absolutely necessary that we we look at another at at the next iteration of a plan.

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WLWV Board Room: I will also be supporting this and one thing that I think is important to remind folks is this is authorizing this committee to bring in the experts that really know how to do this work. The experts on future projection enrollment on potential growth, on trends in schools and educational programming.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's not just pat and remo spit balling about potential growth in the district, as I think some armchair urban planners in the region. Sometimes think but this is really based on the science of

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of planning, on how we grow, and then making sure that we have the facilities in the space to accommodate that growth. And so I know, as in past years, with folks like Kim on the committee and the staff that we have that they will staff this out and bring in the resources that are needed to do another plan. Update that will be as exceptional as our current plan. So

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I'm just wanted to make that clear, because this really is the start of a a, a big effort. And I'm just really pleased that we're able to kick things off tonight. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll I'll just echo a little bit of what you said, too. In my last few years, or gosh, 2 and a half years on the board.

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WLWV Board Room: working with you and your team, and and watching Kim do the work that she consistently does. I have nothing but the utmost faith in

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the committee and you and your team and Remo. and it's I know that you guys will get the right people in the room to

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WLWV Board Room: prepare yourselves for the forecast and for a future bond that may need to be introduced to our community.

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WLWV Board Room: people understand that a short-term blurb of Covid is not going to disrupt the long-term growth of this community and this area, whether you like it or not.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: it's just the way it goes. And so I hope that as you go through this process, if there's any way that we can support you. You'll have my support, I can tell you that. So like

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WLWV Board Room: I'll be oh, can I? I'll be supporting this update as well, because I really do believe that planning for the future is critical to meet the needs of our students

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WLWV Board Room: and our growing community. And I wanna thank you and Kim for your leadership. And our community also for passing a bond that provides our students with excellent facilities that match their excellent education. And I can't

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WLWV Board Room: say enough how fortunate we are to be in a district that cares so much about its facilities and the environment our students learn in and we can be really proud of that. So yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: alright, Dr. Ludwig.

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WLWV Board Room: I want to thank you for your comments so far, and I would I would say, this is an extraordinary amount of work and task that potentially, you're going to give permission for us to do but I think to anyone in the community watching, you know, if there's a question out there, you know, hey? I see houses going up, or I'm kind of wondering what's going on the district.

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WLWV Board Room: Does the School Board know? And are they making any plans? And that document, Pat? If you could hold it up again? That's exactly what that is. It's about paying attention, bringing in the experts looking ahead, being good stewards of our patrons, most precious resource, their income, their investment in their homes their community and doing right and when we have beautiful schools that we can open and people wonder

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WLWV Board Room: how they got there and the timing of them. It's because school boards before you superintendents before me tasked a long range planning committee to do that far vision that we're reaping the benefits of today. And so this move, this vote tonight allows our long range planning committee to look well into the future and make sure that

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WLWV Board Room: children of the future in this community, and homes and businesses and future school boards have the same resource and ability to ribbon, cut and open the new school, or make sure that the roof is still working on a school, and somewhere in the district, or that the resources are there for the next wave of technology that we know we might need in a few years.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's it's large work. All those pages on there represent an extraordinary amount of research and reports. And different task force groups that do some studies and then bring their findings that go into that report. And Pat looks like you want to say something. It's on our website.

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WLWV Board Room: I would encourage anyone and everyone to read it. I tried to be more general in my description, but this is a very in-depth process that will take

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WLWV Board Room: well, well over a year.

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WLWV Board Room: We bring in professionals, in demographics, in long range, planning.

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WLWV Board Room: An architectural team that helps lead us. This is a very detailed process, led by professionals that do this work.

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WLWV Board Room: each one individually.

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WLWV Board Room: That over a

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WLWV Board Room: a very steady but long period of time eventually will produce a document like this.

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WLWV Board Room: But I would encourage anyone that has any questions

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WLWV Board Room: to take the time to read this document. And it's online.

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WLWV Board Room: the printed copy. I seldom use it other than here.

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WLWV Board Room: You can always look at the long range plan. but somebody's planned.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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Shall we turn it over now to Director Douglas to call the vote.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Director Schumacher.

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WLWV Board Room: director, sloop, I chair Taylor, Vice Chair, Wyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal. I thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And we get to talk about another piece of that book.

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WLWV Board Room: with the naming of a new primary school. And turn that over to Doctor David Pryor.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I get to talk about a particularly exciting project. As Kim Jordan mentioned. We have a beautiful school design already being built, you can see changes every time you drive by the Frog Pond property, and so we'd like to bring forward a practice for selecting the name for our school.

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WLWV Board Room: communicating about the school and building a school community having a name of the location is extremely exciting and important. So

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WLWV Board Room: as you likely know, board policy Ff. Provides board members guidance on this matter, and it's referenced. At the end of this memo

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WLWV Board Room: our past practice has been for the district to include submissions by patrons to the board to consider. So that's a strong part of our process. That you'll see. So we have a process that we'd like to recommend to you for

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WLWV Board Room: for your consideration. And it's based on the a process we recently used to name Riverside High School. It's a little more simplified because that was also communicating reasons why we would want people to come to the new high school, whereas this will be a you know, a boundary school district element primary school.

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WLWV Board Room: So the process is that the district will advertise and invite community to submit potential school names

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WLWV Board Room: with their rationale to the District office no later than January, 19, 2,024.

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WLWV Board Room: The district will have a link on the website for public submissions. Our current primary schools will provide information about the naming process and their school updates and on their websites and at school events. Pta meetings, whenever they have a chance to engage families.

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WLWV Board Room: names of community members, current or historic figures, will not be considered for this process.

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WLWV Board Room: and the district will gather a representative group of community members and staff, along with an assistant superintendent and superintendent, to review all submissions and create a slate of top recommended names.

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WLWV Board Room: These recommendations will not be based solely on popularity or frequency of submission of a name.

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WLWV Board Room: and then the final slate will be submitted to the Board, along with the raw data of all submissions. At the February fifth, 2,024 Board meeting

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the Board will review the slate of recommended submissions.

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WLWV Board Room: discuss and vote on a name from that slate at the board meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: That's the process we would like to propose for you, and we're excited. Once you have named a process to begin communicating to the community.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Comments. Say, there's no action needed tonight. We just want to give the board plenty of information upfront. If you have any questions before we go out to the public with this information, you need to know before we start advertising it and getting submissions. So do you have any questions about the process, or any comments about that?

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WLWV Board Room: A vice chair? Wyatt, has a question in policy. FF.

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WLWV Board Room: For that third sentence in the policy considerations for request to name a facility or space will be made for memorials, cash donations, or other reasons at the discretion of the Board.

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WLWV Board Room: What

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WLWV Board Room: do you know? Kind of the intention behind that language? Because that seems it doesn't seem like something you'd find for a public school district.

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WLWV Board Room: I can.

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WLWV Board Room: So that's some older language. We can always be updated by the board. But that does happen. Not typically for a school unless there's some land donation, and and the board wants to consider that. But sometimes there's a smaller facility maybe a sports field area or

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WLWV Board Room: score boards, or you know some smaller things. And so, in the general definition of facility.

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WLWV Board Room: Some of these things might come up, and and boards have just kept that in their policies there could be a consideration made in that regard.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. I just wasn't sure if we were looking at like Dutch Bros elementary. So wanted to make sure that like this was taken into account. Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: Any other questions or comments?

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: Mic first. Dr. Parr, so that the February date I'm just wondering how we came. II know how busy things will be in the next couple of months. I'm just wondering, are we confident that that's

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WLWV Board Room: and add adequate time? Or do we also have the flexibility along the way to say, Look, we need we need more time.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, that's a great question. We do have flexibility. We modeled this process after the timeline for Riverside High School, which did work very well, so that gives us the confidence that we can meet this timeline. But if we need to go back to the drawing board as we start collecting names. We could certainly consider that

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WLWV Board Room: to add more time.

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WLWV Board Room: we've kind of learned sometimes with surveys. If you give too big of a window, people forget, but if you make it a little smaller with a lot of repetition for, get it in, get it in, get it in then. We get pretty good response rate. Lots on people's minds. I appreciate that. II just I always get concerned around. There's certain time of year when it just seems like.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah, it's hard to communicate certain times the year. But if we're not getting a lot of generative response back, we, you know, we can make that decision to elongate the timeline. We want you to have a good solid slate to pick from.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Thank you. We'll get rolling on it.

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WLWV Board Room: Appreciate it.

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WLWV Board Room: Business office. Dr. Hughes. Welcome. Good evening. And it's so nice to see everyone tonight. So I have 2 items that I would like to present the first one, either finance. So updates

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WLWV Board Room: last one, please. Yes. So this is the financial information for general informed as of October 30, first and

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WLWV Board Room: this report this time is we have a few items that different compared to the last report that I presented to you. The first items is the first live. We see the property tax.

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WLWV Board Room: and then the State School Fund and local option levy, and the last item will see the salary and the Benefits Association

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WLWV Board Room: do the salary and then I would like to go to the next slide, so I can explain in depth for that.

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WLWV Board Room: So when I mentioned about the property tax. What difference between the GM. Projected and the adopted purchase is that on October 10 the business office received the letter from the county from the department of assessment and taxation from both Cali.

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WLWV Board Room: Blackama County, and wasn't county that certified that the property tax for the school district 22 8 24 would be 48.6 million, which is like

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WLWV Board Room: and 4 million more than the adopted budget.

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WLWV Board Room: And this the reason the attack levies for 2224

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WLWV Board Room: estimate higher than the adopted virtues is because, there is the assessment value that came in higher than the estimate. So we estimate at 3.2 7%. But the assess value came in it

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WLWV Board Room: 4.2 2%.

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WLWV Board Room: And then the second reason for that is the Osborne renewal from the city of youth. Andville is came in less in this tax year compared to prior year. The reason for that, because they terminate their 2,000 plan with couple of West side area that they

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WLWV Board Room: conflict that So although the county certified rust at 48 points.

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WLWV Board Room: but the county also a virus to factor

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WLWV Board Room: the 96% of the collection rate.

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WLWV Board Room: because the 46% factor is we need to look into the compression losses and the 3% discount. If the taxpayer paid a tax in phone by November thirtieth by November fifteenth.

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WLWV Board Room: and and also that uncollected tax that somehow only unable to pay. So that why, we use a rate of 96%, and with the raise at 96 the difference between what the district anticipate to receive would be 46.7 million versus the adopted budget of 44 million. That give us the difference of 2.6 million higher than the adopted budget

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WLWV Board Room: and the same on this. The second one is the same with the local option. The local option came in a little bit higher, but based on the 96%. It came out in the total of 112,000 more than the adopted budget.

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WLWV Board Room: the next one, please. So there is a invert relationship between the property tax versus the sales fund.

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WLWV Board Room: the poverty tax would consider their local revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: So if you see the needle one that I highlight 2324, general purpose Grant.

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WLWV Board Room: The total of our formula is 104.8 million, that number combined of local and revenue, and the State school fund.

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WLWV Board Room: So just the bottom one. As you see, the total revenue is 45.2 million

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WLWV Board Room: and minus the

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WLWV Board Room: 1109. Here, 109 here combined, of 5 million of the transportation, so 104, without the transportation, 109 with the transportation.

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WLWV Board Room: So it come out to 64.6 million for the stay school fund.

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WLWV Board Room: But now the next one, please. Now. when I

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WLWV Board Room: provide an estimate to ode back in last December, and we estimate 44 million that it coming from property tax.

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WLWV Board Room: But now we estimate 2.6 million more, so that increased the local revenue from 40

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WLWV Board Room: 5.2 million to 47.8 million, and because of that the State School fund will be reduced in order to fit in with the formula that already have for us.

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WLWV Board Room: So back to the main report, please.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm off.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. So with this, the first slide, you see that the year end protection.

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WLWV Board Room: we estimate to be received 46.7 million, which is 2.6 million higher than the adopted budget.

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WLWV Board Room: and then under the fund. In last report I report 64 million, but now it reduced by that 2.6 million.

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WLWV Board Room: so you can see the Gn. Projected. Say school fund is very much similar to the adoptive project that we estimate that years ago.

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WLWV Board Room: and then a hundred 12,000 that projected to come in a little bit higher than the adopted budget.

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WLWV Board Room: So beside the revenue have a little bit of attendance in Litman report. We also have a little bit tangents in a salary, and OP. E. Because we have the sia grant that came in 1.4 million higher than the adopted budget. So we ship qualify Fta

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WLWV Board Room: general on fund into the Sa. Grant, and then we also have High school subset. The actual work came in 250,000 less than the adopted budget, and we also do some shipping to make sure that we stay within the grain of world.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that the estimate for 2324 year balance will be 19.3 million or 14.96% of the total revenue for the general fund.

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WLWV Board Room: I will stop here and see if you have any question for me.

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WLWV Board Room: I just have a statement, and I think it's it's something that that you've talked to before, but just wanted to reiterate, especially since we're in this time of asking for the local option renewal levy, and folks may see that ending fund balance amount and just a reminder that the Government Finance Officers Association of America, which has given us all of these awards over the year for audits and for budgets.

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And I think Dr. Hughes has been recognized individually. For her work. Their recommendation is that any government entity? Have 2 months of revenue. Saved as ending fund balance or around 1516%. And so for our ending fund balance to be at that 19.3 million dollar amount. Is really consistent with best practices. It's really

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there designed for, you know, the emergencies that might happen. And so I know. Sometimes when you look at numbers like this, it can be tempting, as the community to say, why are we asking for more money? But just a reminder that

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WLWV Board Room: we're on track to have, you know, a very responsible, fiscally conservative budget that gives us the reserves. We need to continue our excellent operation. So thank you, as always, for a great presentation on the ups and downs and highs and lows of trying to budget and plan. For all of this I appreciate it.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Any other question for me on the financial information.

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WLWV Board Room: So the next item I have is the quarterly report for the investment.

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WLWV Board Room: So, as you know, most of the money that the district hell, we put this in the Lg IP. That is a local government investment pool, and every year around August, august 30. First, the Lgp. Within the Oregon Charter. They will send out letter to let us know the limitation that the district allowed to put the money in there, and this year's is about 59 million.

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WLWV Board Room: So throughout the year. You can. We have several money that come into restaurant during the month of November. Such active property tax, the local option, the say school fund, and then the capital bond.

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WLWV Board Room: So sometime we have more than 59 million in the Lg. IP. So that while the business office, reaching out to Pipe or Sandler, the investment company to help us with the investment and

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WLWV Board Room: just saw the net report on.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes. So this one

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WLWV Board Room: This a capture on September 29, with a 43 million under the power value but one.

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WLWV Board Room: The first one is 5 million already mature. So in my report, I say 38 million. So this 38 million, it breaks down into a very short term investment like 3 months, no more than 6 months. And this investment, based on the spending plan that the Bond office provided we work with remote and pat, and then they will let me know

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WLWV Board Room: which one how much money then they need for the production project, and then, based on that type. I turn around and then work with 5%. And this investment, and then they show the power value the majority. And then that the interest earned. So on an average right now is on 4.2 2% of the return rate

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WLWV Board Room: next. But the last item or any question on investment. Could could we go back to the financial summary just real quickly?

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WLWV Board Room: I know it's a lot to digest, but I just want to share just maybe layman's terms.

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WLWV Board Room: that relationship between the property taxes. And then

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WLWV Board Room: the State School fund is is that inverse relationship? So what we're describing tonight is

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WLWV Board Room: when we actually realize that we get more property taxes. The county tells us. then our State school fund goes down from the state

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WLWV Board Room: communities that maybe don't collect as much in their property taxes than get more from the State School fund. It's a way of equalizing across Oregon. How much school districts get so that it's not completely contingent on local property taxes. There's an equalization methodology that was put in place years ago through legislation.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's hard to estimate back in May when we're doing the budget. What's gonna happen until we get those reports from the county and our business office does their best with information that they're starting to get. But it's not unusual to then get when we get those actual numbers about what's going to be collected in November projectedly collected, that we have an adjustment to make one way or the other. So

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WLWV Board Room: anyone else?

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All right.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. So the last item I have is

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WLWV Board Room: the distinguished project, presentation award that the district received from Gfoa. So this is, I believe, year number 4 that would receive this award, and this one, the

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WLWV Board Room: Jfoa have a committee. They look at the policy document that we submit the financial plan to operation guys and a communication device. So the district.

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WLWV Board Room: how to qualify the full area in order to receive your work from them.

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WLWV Board Room: So this is a big thank you to the staff in the business office.

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WLWV Board Room: All of our assistance superintendent, director, and school principal, and our wonderful superintendent, and especially Budget Committee member, who spent a lot of time

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WLWV Board Room: come to meet me with me prior to the budget process, and then ask very wonderful question. Allow us to have the opportunity to share the information with public.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. I just wanted to congratulate you on this award. I know that. I also very much appreciate the Budget Committee, but I also appreciate you and all your hard work and the way you make

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WLWV Board Room: this very. It is complicated budget and financial information so understandable to us and hopefully, the community as well. So I wanted to thank you for that cause. I really appreciate it. So thank you. Yeah. Thanks.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. My last item to report is the proposed calendar for 2425 budget.

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WLWV Board Room: So, as you can see, like right now, we already talk about a budget for 2425. So by December I will collect off the information based on the financial trend that I receive, or I have during that time to build a budget for 2425. So therefore, you know, when.

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WLWV Board Room: when 2425 arrives, you know

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WLWV Board Room: the estimate that we make for the purchase is only a year owned.

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WLWV Board Room: So the background for this is this proposed calendar outline the timeline for the fiscal year 2425 budget. the calendar and outlines include information about midden schedule from November 23 to June 20 fourth.

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WLWV Board Room: the first Budget Committee Medicine A, proposed for May twentieth, and follow

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WLWV Board Room: on May 20 s, if needed. So and then the budget adoption is scheduled for June 10, at the overall meeting. So with that I'm shaking for approval on the proposed budget calendar.

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WLWV Board Room: We have a motion. I move that the Board approve the proposed calendar for the fiscal year 2024, 25 budget as presented.

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WLWV Board Room: I second

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WLWV Board Room: discussion questions.

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WLWV Board Room: I think I'll point out, and I think we run into this every May, but the Tuesday after May twenty-onest is Oregon primary election, and I don't. We don't have anything on that ballot. I don't know if it affects participation to do it the night before election day, but I'll just point out something we run into almost every year. I don't.

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WLWV Board Room: I think we could move ahead with this date, but we'll just raise that in case anyone else thinks it could limit

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WLWV Board Room: the participation of a committee or our community.

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WLWV Board Room: I hear. Silence.

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Right?

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. Call the vote director, Douglas.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Shamaker, I vote. Yes, director, sloop. Aye, chair. Taylor. Yes, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: There we go.

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We would move into a second public comment. But we

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WLWV Board Room: address that earlier. And

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WLWV Board Room: yeah, important dates for the board. Our next meeting will be our work session on December fourth

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WLWV Board Room: so.

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WLWV Board Room: and our next regular meeting is on December fourth also. So I if there isn't anything else

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WLWV Board Room: anyone any last final words?

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WLWV Board Room: No. right meeting, adjourned.