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General Room: Good. Alright!

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General Room: Good evening, everyone I'd like to call to order this evening's Westland Wilsonville School Board Meeting.

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General Room: I am going to pass it to Director Douglas for the roll call, please.

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General Room: Thank you, director, shoemaker.

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General Room: Here, director, sloop here, chair, Taylor, present vice chair, Wyatt, direct Trivida. Here. Thank you.

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General Room: Alright. Thank you for that.

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General Room: We are going to roll right into district communications, and this is one of my favorite parts of the meeting. So we're going to start off with our representative from Riverside High School, Lucia Karamba.

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General Room: Hello, Dr. Ludwig and board members. Thank you for having me here to Update you on Riverside

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General Room: since I saw you last month we've had another information. Night on January 29, th lots of potential future students and their families came to learn more about riverside. Some students from raptor crew gave tours to everyone there to show them their potential high school learning environment.

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General Room: We also have another information. Night coming up on February 26.th Anyone who wants to learn more about our RHS program is free to come from 6 to 7.

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General Room: 2 days ago, on February 8, th we had our winter formal dance. It was beautifully decorated by some parent volunteers, and everyone took lots of amazing photos

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General Room: coming up these next couple of weeks. We have the Isa Fair rapidly approaching with judging day being on February 24th students are finalizing their projects, making sure every aspect of it is perfect for the judges. They are all competing for a chance to get to state and potentially to get to nationals.

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General Room: Our winter sports are coming to a close with our swim team districts and girls wrestling districts this Friday and Saturday boys. Wrestling districts are on February 21st to 20 second, and our girls last basketball game is this, Thursday, while our boys last basketball game is on the 25.th

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General Room: We are so proud of all of our student athletes who put so much effort into this wonderful sports season.

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General Room: Yesterday, on February 8, th Miss Wilhelm hosted a luncheon for some of our women athletes for national women athletes day, they all got recognized for their hard work in their chosen sport. This season

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General Room: we have our next school play coming up. The death of Vinnie Keller remains a mystery. Over 100 years later can the paranormal investigators figure out who is responsible? Come, see our new drama play crossing over on March 13, th 14, th and 15th at Riverside High School.

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General Room: Riverside is hosting more tours for all of the 8th graders at all of the middle schools. We are so excited to finally give them the opportunity to see Riverside before they make their decision. On which high school they want to attend this Wednesday. We are inviting Rosemont Ridge Middle school this Friday. We are having Wood Middle School next Tuesday. We have Athey Creek, and next Thursday we have meridian and 3 Rivers.

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General Room: Our Rotary interact club is trying their hardest to find a date to play, to place our peace pole somewhere on our campus. The club board has been discussing this at every meeting and are close to ordering the poll for the ceremony we hope to have in the near future.

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General Room: Today we also have our business business teacher and some business program students to speak about how great this program is.

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General Room: Thank you so much for having me here. I'll be up here again soon.

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General Room: and I will come back to our Westland representative. She stepped out for a second. So we're going to just jump to Wilsonville High School, Carter Christensen, please

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General Room: forward to districts, and the season has been full of great competition with lots of Prs.

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General Room: Our wrestling team recently had a great meet against Milwaukee, where they won 58 to 18,

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General Room: and the snowboard team competed this last weekend and had multiple athletes place in both slope style and border cross.

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General Room: And finally our cheer team is looking very forward to state this upcoming weekend. On the 14th and 15th

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General Room: our unified basketball teams were invited to compete during the Blazers G League game this past month, which was a tremendous opportunity for the students and our unified teams to go out and show their skills to many people, and said it was a great experience.

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General Room: We also had our annual macho volleyball competition, where we saw great competition from all greats

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General Room: with the juniors ending up coming on top. The money from this event was used to help the leadership class

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General Room: raise funds for their goals and future events. We hope to host and plan

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General Room: as well as we had our 3rd athletic signing day, and with we saw many of our student athletes committing to where they would spend the next 4 years of their lives.

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General Room: and our drama department also got going with competing at regionals, and they are very looking forward to their performance of radium girls, which will be opening February 27.th

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General Room: We also had our dance team compete very well with their team, earning 3 second place trophies in their jazz, hip, hop and palm routines, and had 3 members among 10 in drill down competition.

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General Room: Also. This last week Wilsonville High School, trained about 30 students in the sources of strength program. The students were trained

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General Room: are called peer leaders, and within the clubs they create school-wide campaigns to help students take the time to reflect on their strengths and empower to lift up one another. The hope is that with the help

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General Room: of this they will help to build community of people who are uplifting and encouraging throughout the entire school. Thank you again for allowing me to speak today, and I look forward to giving you next month's update.

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General Room: Now for our West Lynn High School representative mia Harmony.

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General Room: So thank you so much.

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General Room: Good evening, Westland Wilsonville School Board. I hope you're all having a nice day so far.

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General Room: should I just keep going? Okay.

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General Room: Westland, with many new fun activities and achievements, the amazing race has officially started at Westland High School. The amazing race is an annual competition that Asb hosts where 12 teams of 2 seniors compete in physical and mental challenges for a charity of their choice. All charities receive a donation. But the greatest sum goes to the winning team's charity. This year the race will last a month with about 3 challenges per week.

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General Room: and our overarching theme of the race is kids. TV shows. While only seniors can compete in the race. All grades contribute to the race. At the end of each leg Asb creates video recaps like episodes of a reality TV show and broadcast them to the whole school. Each live class casts their predictions for the team's placements, and throughout the race they can vote to give teams advantages, and during week 3 they even get to vote and eliminate a team back into the race.

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General Room: Another tradition that has begun to take place at Westland is our annual May Day celebration. While the May Day performance is in for another 4 months. Seniors already have started applying to be on court, and Asb has already been discussing themes this year. We're giving our student body more of a say on what the theme is by letting them nominate themes and then vote on their favorite one. We are excited to see what they come up with.

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General Room: This week is national Kindness Week, which Asb is promoting in many fun ways. This past month Westland leadership class has been making kindness clips which are little clothespins that are decorated with bright colors and kind phrases. During kindness week these clips are distributed amongst the student body. Students can either trade their pins, gift their pins, or secretly PIN one of their classmates while they see them to brighten each other's days.

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General Room: Asb is also selling kindness grams where students can write a sweet message to their friends, which will be delivered on Friday, along with a treat.

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General Room: Throughout the week. There will be fun activities in the library to help spread kindness across campus.

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General Room: February is also black History month to celebrate. Asb has teamed up with our black student Union to sell black history month T-shirts in our student store. All proceeds, go to Bsu, who will be hosting a black history month celebration for our student body at the end of the month.

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General Room: This this past month Japanese classes had a traditional Japanese mochi making class in our Commons, students and staff, including Mr. Mena, had an incredible time embracing the Japanese culture and learning this new skill.

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General Room: Our Thespians had an outstanding performance at the northeast Oregon's Thespians regional competition, and many of them achieved the title of regional finalists, including musical duo, Miriam Kelly and Leo Wilson, Musical Duo Rowan, Seacrest and Brody Olson, musical soloist, Lucia Laviolet.

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General Room: our state qualifiers who are headed to the Oregon, Thespian State Festival in April are musical, Duo, and Sophie Lucky and Gabe Pearson, musical soloist, Miriam Kelly, dramatic acting Duo Cadence Cox and Maggie Mckenzie and pantomimist, Taryn Kepler.

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General Room: all 3 Westland robotics teams placed in the top, 10 teams at the Hillsborough qualifying tournament last Sunday, meaning that all 3 will be advancing to the next level of competition.

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General Room: The team technical difficulties even received the runner up inspire award which is the highest award a team can receive, and will automatically be advancing to state.

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General Room: Our boys basketball team is currently ranked 8th in the State, and our girls basketball team is ranked 10.th

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General Room: Unified basketball has their senior night this Wednesday, which we will be celebrating with henna by our Muslim student union and half court shots for lion gear.

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General Room: swim, and wrestling, have been killing it in their seasons, and both teams had their senior nights last week.

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General Room: Dance has taken home multiple 1st place trophies so far, and our cheer team has had a very successful season so far as well, with 3 1st place, trophies for their game, day routine, and 3, 1st place wins for their traditional routine cheer heads to their State competition this Saturday at Oregon City High School, and performs at 8 Pm. The girls made history last year by being the 1st cheer team ever from Westland to win a State championship, and have been working extremely hard this year in hopes of becoming back-to-back champions.

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General Room: That is all I have for you tonight. Thank you so much for having me. I look forward to next month

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General Room: we would normally dismiss you, but you know, in our recognitions. We have some of your fellow students. So do you guys want to stick around just for at least 5 to 10 more minutes and and see them. If not, you are more than welcome to walk out on them.

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General Room: so there's no guilt in there. So, but I will move right into recognitions and turn it over to Dr. Spencer Iams.

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General Room: Thank you so much. We are very excited tonight to feature one of our exciting new

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General Room: career and technical education programs at Riverside high school that is just really living into our goals, around, connecting with community and partnerships and exciting new ways for students to apply learning in real life situations. So enough for me. Let's hear from the students, and let me start with Mr. Mike Mitchell, who has

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General Room: plan this program and been the implementer all throughout. I also want to give a shout out to Lauren Nappy our career and technical educational coordinator who has supported every bit of this as well, so, Mr. Mitchell, come on up.

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General Room: Thank you for hearing us out here.

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General Room: Dr. Ludwig, board others that are here. I'm just going to set these up while she's handing. If you can hit the play button on the video, there's a video that'll be going at the same time that way I can.

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General Room: But the things I'm setting out are students work things they've done with some of the machinery with.

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General Room: Put a printer on there.

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General Room: And what do you call it?

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General Room: Yeah, on the screen. It's a direct to garment printer. That's actually one of the students made these Totes on that. She was 6. So she's not here today. That's Ruthie. The banners you can see over here. We just finished putting together 10 of those for the district to get out on the dual language program.

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General Room: So so these are just visually some of the things you could see as we get going. So go ahead and roll that up.

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General Room: that allows me to kind of get us introduced. You'll also see in front of you a purple folder

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General Room: that is, work from the students over the course of the last year, really.

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General Room: to give you an overview of the program, our idea talking with Nick working with Miss Nappy. So Mr. Chapin and Miss Nappy. And everybody has really been about, how do we get kids to have an amazing experience in business and marketing?

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General Room: I know there's always an apprehension when we talk about student stores, things like that. And so, as we talked about that, the vision was very different than than your potato chips and pencils that you might hear what we've really done. And you can see the work in front of you.

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General Room: we've gotten them to be using industry standard materials, whether that's machinery software, whatever it might be, starting to work with the public in there you'll see the different jobs they've completed. I'll let them talk about all that. But the idea was really for that to be an experience where they're getting out, meeting people, shaking hands, doing all the things you would do in business.

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General Room: and not having just an internal experience in what it is to be in business. When I wrap up, I'll give you kind of also some last pieces

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General Room: that talk about our goals and and hopes and dreams, and all those things as we go through. But I want to turn it over to the students. We'll start out with

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General Room: Val Val.

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General Room: So if you click twice, that'll get to a vow.

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General Room: Be done there. One more

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General Room: Hello! My name is Val Bonner. I have been in the Westland Wilsonville School district for most of my life. I went to Trillium Creek Primary School, and then went to Rosemont Ridge, Middle school and then. Obviously, now, I'm at Riverside High School. So I have done 3

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General Room: business centric classes. I've done intro to business, which is just the intro business management, where we learned a lot about how to manage a business terminology, just everything like that. And then marketing, which we did where we did a lot more, I'd say. Sort of hands on printing and graphic design and stuff like that.

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General Room: I'm not actually in the Cta pathway for business. I am aspiring to be an Ib candidate and get the Ib diploma. But even though I'm doing the Ib courses, I still have time on my schedule. So I have been really prioritizing the business classes, as I do want to get some sort of degree in business. When I go to college.

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General Room: I am the treasurer for the Business Club, which is called Deca, which is a sort of formal institution where you can go to competitions and things. And I

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General Room: yeah, so sorry I really enjoy the team building exercises and just genuinely learning things about how the business world works through both the business classes and the business Club. I've learned industry standards like adobe illustrator which have allowed me to

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General Room: graphic design was sort of a mystery to me. I didn't really understand how it works. And now I guess I know how it works, because I've learned how to use adobe illustrator. I've learned how to

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General Room: move things onto printers and to digitize them, which is apparently very, very helpful for the business world. I didn't know how much you needed to really like vectorize and digitize, or else things look pixelated and things.

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General Room: I. Personally, we sort of have these niches in the classroom where one person, one person, will be the shirts person, or I handle the banners. The banner prints that we do as you saw. We printed some of those we've printed banners for this cafe named Roxy's

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General Room: I since I'm the treasurer, I handle invoices, and I will, learning how to do an invoice was something in and of itself which I thought was very helpful. Again. I didn't know what an invoice was. I didn't know anything, and I think it's real. It was really useful to actually be able to do it because actually built like building an invoice and billing people and billing and talking with actual clients is a lot better than anything you can do on a worksheet or a test

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General Room: the Business Club has grossed about $7,500 in revenue, and we are steadily gaining new business. We just

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General Room: obviously we did the banners for the district. We recently did the band T-shirts for our school band. We did

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General Room: Roxy's cafe, and this company called After Hours, which is a maintenance company, so I really, personally enjoy just learning the business skills. And I'm excited to see where we can go in the future.

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General Room: Okay, thank you for your time.

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General Room: It's interesting.

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General Room: Next up will be from Reagan.

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General Room: I've been the school district since elementary school. I went to Willamette, Primary Athe Creek, and now I go Riverside.

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General Room: I've gotten a lot of involvement in the school so much more than I ever have. I've been in the band program and business program, and it's all been so amazing. And business program has taught me so much about how to create my own designs, and also how to use other people's designs and make a contract, so I can continue to use the design and sell it to make profit for the band program. For example, the shirt I am wearing.

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General Room: Ms. Lugwood also has one

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General Room: I have been able to use the skills from the business program so much, and I continue to use it every day. It's always been so helpful, Mr. Having this having Mr. Mitchell, because every time I have a question or just a little bit of advice, I always have him to go back to.

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General Room: Don't think I think much else to say. Good job.

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General Room: Hello again. I've been in the district since 3rd grade. I went to Cedar oak, and then I went to Ap Creek, and now I'm at Riverside, as you all know. I have. Last year I did marketing for one of the one of my Ib classes, and I'm hopefully going to be in the business Ib

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General Room: program and last semester. I finished my business management class as well and honestly, my favorite part about both classes was all of the machinery that we get to use every day.

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General Room: and during marketing we got to design and print out all of our creations up. There is one of my stickers that I made.

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General Room: It is the best thing ever I really love doing. I'm wearing one of my shirts that I hand hand designed and handprinted myself.

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General Room: good afternoon. I'm Riley Van Sand, and throughout my life I've been in and out of public school and homeschool. So I have a lot of

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General Room: different stuff experiences. I am president of the Business Club, and I

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General Room: I have done both intro to business business management, and I just got done with marketing. It's been truly an amazing experience. I've learned truly so much, and I have grown so much as a person and a leader, and especially an Ib student.

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General Room: One example is that this was the 1st thing I've made.

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General Room: You may recognize it or this was given to the community.

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General Room: so. I made this without any experience at all. It was I didn't know digital art. I didn't know

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General Room: again. I didn't know anything, so it was truly an amazing experience, because not only did I have to

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General Room: Just learn to be confident in myself, for at that point I was really shy. This was sophomore year, and I was just unsure in my ability, but I had to not only create a design, but I had to go to someone and say, Hey, this design is on paper. How do I put this on shirt? And I had to call them, and

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General Room: all sorts of stuff and communicate and problem solve. And I wouldn't be able to have to do that without having someone to guide me. Which is why I love the business classes. I just continue to grow on and on.

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General Room: Then there was Roxy's cafe, which was me growing in my abilities as a digital they're just doing art for any business, and that was in digital art. On canva.

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General Room: so sorry. That was also really cool, because I came up with different ideas, and we had to choose a design. And I made it, and had to pick different things from different designs that were liked and disliked, and that taught me to be patient with myself, and

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General Room: just to continue to grow in that aspect.

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General Room: And then after hour, I finished that just recently, and this was kind of

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General Room: a big jump a jump. Sorry. Excuse me from the nutritious nutrition services to now, from being able to only draw something and be able to figure out how to go from there to completely going from, and then ending up on adobe illustrator, which is kind of complex. Something. I'm still growing and learning.

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General Room: So.

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General Room: And yeah, it was just a really great experience.

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General Room: and it challenged me a lot. This whole experience with business has challenged me a lot. And even now I'm being challenged to speak to you guys. And yeah, I'm doing so great.

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General Room: So I just, I love the business class because

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General Room: it's taught me to take risks. It's taught me to

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General Room: just push myself even when I'm uncomfortable. But knowing that I'm being uncomfortable is what grows me as a person and grows us as a community. So I just thank you so much for allowing me to be here and to try my best in front of you guys. Thank you so much

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General Room: again. They they say it much better than I can.

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General Room: it's amazing to see them work every day.

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General Room: I just want to kind of give you the the last bits of what the program is trying to be and where we're headed. It really didn't get kicked off and going until about semester of last year when we started to get machinery started to become a little more hands on. You know, they're all they're all able doesn't matter if it's these students additional students. What you saw is up. There was a lot of their work.

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General Room: And they're all able to enter the class at different points, not just exit at different points, but it. It allows them different entry points that they can really shine and do well at what they do.

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General Room: The idea is of the business itself is that we can be somewhat self sustaining. As you saw, you know, we brought in revenue of $7,500. What that does is it allows us. And that's just in a year. But that allows us to buy ink to buy product to

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General Room: Sylvia, before you leave, I just want to thank you and Dan for the leadership that you brought to your department. I know that over the last few years, as leadership kind of came and went, and then I think the 2 of you have brought this next level of communication, and reporting that we haven't had before in our system. I don't know if

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General Room: wait 4 years for the sale of this property, and for that reason I think it was above board to let the city know, once the legal piece had ended, to let the city know in December that we're aware of how long it takes to get something on the ballot.

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General Room: and that's where we are. And I'm sad that it's 4 years later. But that's still where we are. So I hope that that's what happens. I hope that the city will ask the voters. I personally Will would vote for it because I would love for it to stay. I think of the all of us. I think I live the closest to the park, you know, 4 or 5 blocks away.

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General Room: It's nice to be back in the boardroom where I can hear everybody, and we can see each other, and we're kind of on the same level.

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General Room: but I just wanted to announce that today I filed to run for reelection for my position on the Westland Wilsonville School Board. I'm honored to serve the community that I grew up in, and my husband and I have lived in for the last 28 years to raise our family.

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General Room: Thank you. I wanted to give a quick reminder to our community that Director Sloop and I, and parents and family members are going to be in Salem. You could please go to the next slide on February 17, th

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General Room: And last week director, Sloop and I hosted a Zoom session, and this week we will as well. We just need to figure that date out. So we will get this information out. I just wanted to let everyone know that this is something that we, as board members, are doing independently. So this isn't an official

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General Room: I'm known to drink a glass of wine or 2, so if you want to have wine or something like that, I'd be more than happy to sit with you and tell you all of the things that I've been able to learn, all of what I thought I knew, and all of the things I learned that I did not know. So that's my board report. This seat will be open.

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General Room: and if you want to serve your community, serve your kiddos and be a part of the change that you want to see.

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General Room: We have a very powerful leadership forum. I sent you, I think, some pictures and some information about that, but again grounding our leadership staff around how we support our multilingual learners, our multilingual staff.

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General Room: And I think a number of folks that I see in the audience were also at Bolton for their Chinese New Year celebration. And what a fun event! Again, about standing room! Only a lot of families community members as we celebrated the New Year and then did a lot of great cultural activities together.

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General Room: And these things happen, because there's a lot of commitment above and beyond the school day. So I want to thank the Staff Parent volunteers, students, everyone who makes that happen. And on February 12th we've invited the board. I'm looking for the Board of Unified Sports, Oregon

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General Room: special Olympics to come to Westland High School. Dr. Spencer Imes will be there. She's also on the board. So she's invited her fellow board members, and we thought, Let's invite our board members. And so we know that there's other things going on that night but those of you who might be able to come, I think. Chair Taylor, you were the 1st to say, sign me up

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General Room: so in the spirit of advocacy. Not only do we have a State event on February 17, th but on Wednesday, here, at the district office. We'll host our own event. I want to thank again Director Sloop and Vidal, who will be representing our school Board at the event. We've invited Representative Neuron and Walters, the Oregon Pta president.

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General Room: parents who over the last few months have been telling us about their interest in education advocacy. As we went through our small schools process. A lot of them are going to be coming. We will have staff there. Oea will be represented. Wwe osea our associations. And we're going to

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General Room: talk about taking that energy and that commitment that came up during our processes. We've had to look at our own budget and the realities in front of us. And how can we be a collective advocating for others and taking our message statewide, as well as looking at? What are those levers locally that we need to stay committed to and learning about those.

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General Room: And then there was a lot of interest in giving the district input and ideas around increasing attendance and enrollment in the district and family support and resources. So folks who come will get to choose. They'll sit at one of 4 tables, and they'll learn some information as well as have an opportunity to provide information to us.

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General Room: Thank you, Dr. Ludwig.

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General Room: Thank you, director, shoemaker. Aye, director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt, Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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General Room: So I'm wondering if they could go before public comment, since they are signed up at 2 school districts tonight, and they still have to travel to the other one if we could bump them up before public comment. I'm just going to get a show of hands. That's a joke. No, that'd be perfectly fine.

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General Room: good Evening Board Member and Dr. Lethridge tonight we are pleased to welcome representative from Blackmack, Esd. Who are here to present a local service plan for 2526 blackamac, Esd. Play important role in supporting school district and student by providing essential services, resource and empathy across the county, joining us this evening we have Superintendent Larry

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General Room: Well, thank you very much. It is great to be here with you tonight. Good to see all of you, and hear about some of the great things happening in Westland Wilsonville in front of you. I'm hoping you have a hard copy packet that looks like this.

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General Room: and before I talk a little bit about what's inside it, though, I do want to begin my remarks by just expressing some appreciation to a few folks, beginning with your own superintendent, Dr. Ludwig, who is a very important and valued member of our regional superintendents, group that meets regularly, and I want to personally say how much we appreciate her insight, her contributions, her leadership, and her modeling of just outstanding

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General Room: So there are a few documents in your packet, but I want to begin by talking about the one that you're actually being asked to approve, and that it looks like this. And this is the local service plan and the local service plan is annually developed. It covers all of the services that the Esd is providing to our local school districts in the coming fiscal year. It reflects work that begins

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General Room: with our district advisory groups that provide input on that plan development that then goes to our regional superintendents, who deliberate on it, and then, finally, our Esd Board approves that before it comes to each of our school districts for their approval as well.

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General Room: It reflects for this 2526, school year, coming up a very productive partnership between Clackman, Csd. And all of the school districts that we serve. It serves as a comprehensive review of our services, including resolution services, and those are the services that are offered to and paid for by all school districts.

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General Room: and that includes some areas of special education, technology and data teaching and learning support as well as some direct revenue that can be put or applied to Esd services of your choice.

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General Room: It also outlines some contract and grant services that are paid for by multiple State and Federal sources or by school districts that actually request them. And that includes areas for like early learning and student support services, many special education technology and teaching and learning services.

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General Room: And again, this Local Service plan has been approved by our Clackamas Chief Administrators Council, which is all 10 of our Clackamas County Superintendents and the Clackamas Community College President, and our Esd board, and that's here for your review and approval tonight.

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General Room: But we did include a few other documents that I want to call to your attention. One of those is the Westland Wilsonville Fiscal year in review. And this is just a document. That's a detailed report for the 2324 school year about your district, and indicates the overall value of services that were delivered by Clackamas, Csd. And Highlights. Some of the key services that we made available, and in your print packet we also included a copy for each of the other school districts, too, for your reference.

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General Room: But for Westland Wilsonville I do want to highlight a couple things. It does reflect more than 6.7 million dollars of value of total services, which is an increase of about $400,000 from the prior year, and it does reflect more than 3.3 million. That was revenue funneled directly to you.

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General Room: and that's up for about $120,000 from the previous year. It also reflects vibrant partnerships and support for school nurses and counselors helping to address student mental health and behavioral health needs providing early learning support services, support students with significant social, emotional and behavioral challenges, providing data and technology support and supporting improvements and enhancements to curriculum and instruction.

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General Room: especially in diverse areas, such as literacy, math, stem, and cte.

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General Room: We hope the format of that report is valuable to you, but we would really welcome your feedback about how we could make that report even more useful to you in the future. And then another document we included was this one here. This is all in, and that's our annual report, and that's just

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General Room: covers a roughly one year period from the fall of 23, through the fall of 24. And it uses data and storytelling just to provide you

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General Room: some additional information about what Clackamas, Esd and the impact that we have in our region, and we hope that that report is also useful to you, and we would welcome your suggestions and feedback if you'd like to see some other things featured in future reports.

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General Room: And then, last, but not least, I snuck in a copy of this, the Clackamas County Snapshot, and for those of you who attended in December. Our legislative Forum, with board members from our local school districts and the

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General Room: Clackamas Community College. This was developed, and on the back does have our 2025 legislative priorities that reflect the interests of our 10 school districts in Clackamas County. Knowing that you are playing a vital role as advocates. We wanted to make sure you had a copy of that, and know that if you would like additional copies of that, just let your superintendent know, and we'll make sure that we get those to you.

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General Room: and with that I will stop to see if you have any questions right. Thank you.

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General Room: I will start from the left. No questions, Dan. Any questions, Kelly?

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General Room: No.

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General Room: Director. We don't know. All right. Vice chair, Wyatt.

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General Room: I just want to say that your ability to storytell and storytell with data is like

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General Room: incredible. And as always, just blown away by the quality of your materials, as you can see, though we are on our way with our own printing machine. Get ready. So get ready. All right. Yeah. I was. I was sitting there thinking, Hey, we need to partner with. You really should, though beautiful and well told with with data and showing us

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General Room: how you're serving us. And so it would be my honor to make a motion. We make a motion right to approve the local service plan, so I'll make a motion that we approve our local service plan for 2526,

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General Room: I second.

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General Room: All right, I'll pass it to Director Douglas for the vote.

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General Room: Thank you. Director, shoemaker. Aye, director, sloop.

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General Room: Aye, thank you. Chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt. Aye, Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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General Room: Thank you very much. We appreciate that. Thank you. Before you go.

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General Room: I just want to say that, you know

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General Room: Larry sometimes has a challenge, because there's 10 of us in the room as superintendents, and I think we all it's like herding cats. Sometimes we we all get along incredibly well, actually. And there's such a collaborative spirit, and we do want what's best for each other. And we're thinking about our own school districts, and we have opinions. And we're opinionated leaders. And he's incredibly patient and and guides us very skillfully, and I would say, it's

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General Room: it's easy when you have a leader and a mission and an Esd that is so centered on what's right for students. And what's right for Clackamas County for us to be as cohesive as we are. So I want to thank you, Larry, for your leadership. I want to thank your board, who's in the audience

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General Room: for supporting your superintendent for supporting the 10 superintendents as well as Clackamas Community College. Tim Cook. It's very evident to us when we show up at the Esd. That there's tremendous support for our schools. We're known by name. We're acknowledged.

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General Room: and our voices and opinions are heard. So thank you so much. I just want to highlight a couple things that you can see in the brochure this year. I want to thank the Esd for taking on. I think we called you at the 11th hour and said we need some help around early childhood evaluation. We want to switch our model.

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General Room: And there was an absolutely how can we make it happen at the 11th hour? So I want to thank the Esd for taking that on for us this year. If you look on page 39 of the large booklet, you'll see 2 of our high school staff, one of our assistant principals, and one of our 9th grade success Tosas. And they were part of this very critical high school success network that's going on across the county.

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General Room: That's real and relevant work. The data we showed you around our seniors is because there's people coming around and saying, How do we make high school successful for high school students? And how do we pursue every student so that they can graduate?

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General Room: So I know that you'll enjoy going through this booklet, and you'll see some of our staff. Here and there you'll see our student artwork. The art show is always a highlight for our students, but it also is a real story of how Cohesive Clackamas County leadership is, and we take great pride in that.

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General Room: And so I want to thank you, Larry, for all that you do, and I want to thank your board, and it's very easy for us to approve a local service plan as superintendents when we see the work that goes into it, and the support for all of our school districts. So thank you. Thank you. We appreciate the partnership.

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General Room: and as we do for the students, we would do the same for you. We know that you have places to be so. You, before I move on to public comment. I'll give you all the opportunity to exit, if you like, but you're more than welcome to stay and listen. So

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General Room: yep.

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General Room: right.

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General Room: That'll take us back to public comment and

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General Room: public comment. Etiquette. I won't read all of this.

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General Room: I'll just kind of give you a cliff notes version. We just ask that you're respectful

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General Room: to those who are speaking. No boos, no clapping, please.

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General Room: This is an opportunity for you to address the board

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General Room: and speak to us. It's not an opportunity to use it as a platform to address an audience outside of the board.

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General Room: you will have 3 min, so we ask that you don't go over the time. There are other people who are sitting in the room waiting to speak, and who have families that they may want to get home to. So we ask that you respect the 3 min.

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General Room: We will not respond.

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General Room: If there's something that you would like to address directly with any of us. Please send an email. We do read those, and we do respond as as quickly as we can. So

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General Room: please, please do that.

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General Room: The order that we will go in this evening is, we will

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General Room: take comments from our residents who are here in person. First, st

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General Room: then, we will move to those who our residents and

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General Room: making a virtual comment. So we have people who are at home in the comfort of their their homes that

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General Room: want to address the board. Then we'll move to nonresidents

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General Room: for topics that may not be on our agenda, which we don't have any of those this evening, so

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General Room: I won't even address the nonresident piece, and if there's someone who may have arrived later who didn't recognize the board there to sign up to speak. Please just raise your hand and we'll we'll get your name on the sheet and make sure that you have an opportunity.

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General Room: Don't see anyone but change your mind. Let us know.

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General Room: and we'll get right into it.

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General Room: So we're going to start with Rob Fernandez.

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General Room: retaliatory for putting the Esd board in front of me. Just so, you know. No. Good evening. I'm here specifically to talk about

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General Room: item on the agenda regarding deferring payment back to the land bank.

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General Room: I spent 2 terms on the board.

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General Room: I actually talked Kathy Ludwig into applying for superintendent, and hired her as board chair. And now I have a restraining order against her.

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General Room: Y'all have been through so much, and I do want to just recognize. I think you've done an outstanding job.

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General Room: It's it's not easy, as was articulated earlier, and I think that the community recognizes

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General Room: the unity even while there's, you know, differing opinions about things and it's appreciated. There's a tremendous amount of confidence.

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General Room: And that kind of leads into my specific testimony tonight.

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General Room: I would urge the Board to use all tools available to leverage resources you might have. I don't think our communities quite.

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General Room: I think the reality of the budget shortfall is going to be a little more impactful, maybe, than than people are thinking right now. And so I would urge you, for example, to defer the payment back to the Land Bank and whatnot

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General Room: to utilize those funds as best you can. And we again, there's a lot of members of the community that don't come to these meetings.

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General Room: But we trust you, and we want you to kind of

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General Room: be free to take the actions that you think you need to to support the kids.

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General Room: the results are right there. The graduation rates, I mean, that's cumulative process, right? It starts

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General Room: in pre-k kindergarten all the way through. And it the results are at the end. And so

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General Room: scoreboard, right? So again, good job and great job to the staff. It's it's obviously

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General Room: it's a collaborative effort the whole way. And just one quick thing. I just saw Ginger walk in, and I would urge you, and I wasn't plan to do this. But with regard to your appointing members of the Budget Committee, I think the more experience you have on the Budget Committee.

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General Room: Because obviously, we all know what that role is. But probably the most important role are

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General Room: just a role, play this ambassador back to the community, to to to record Wyatt's comment in terms of clarifying

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General Room: the information that's out there and

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General Room: being extra sets of ears and whatnot. I think the experience would serve you well. So, anyway, thank you very much. And and good luck.

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General Room: Eric Clark.

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General Room: Hi, everybody! I just want to take a moment and talk a little bit about the events of the past, and I want to talk about the

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General Room: mistrust in the community, and I want to talk about what we can do to rebuild it. And when we're coming into these budget conversations from a person in the community, it's very strange to have, even though I know the Wwe wants to have the layoffs before decided before March 20th for Job fairs.

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General Room: However, as a community member, I keep on thinking we haven't even really started the Budget Committee. We're not even going to the Budget Committee yet. It seems like we're doing things out of order from what they should be, and that's concerning to me. I also keep on looking at the amount of teachers that are up, and I

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General Room: I look at and go. How are we going to go to day to day business? We're going to have elementary schools with possibly 30 kids in each classroom. And the one thing that I would like to see more data on is our paras, because they're not under that branch, and we don't know how many paras are going to be leaving.

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General Room: You have a legal responsibility with your parents, because they are the ones who are doing your Iep minutes in this district. I think we need to see how many hours that we need for those pairs and how many we're currently using to see if we can even cut those down and keep our kids in special Ed

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General Room: having their legal minute requirements, because right now that number hasn't been addressed in the public that I've seen, and I would like to see that seen before we continue our communications.

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General Room: I also want to talk a little bit about

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General Room: why the Equity Committee, the eaac wasn't brought into the communication of the small schools, considering that is a huge district decision, and they're there to inform district decisions. And I think it was something that we really missed the boat on. Because if we want to continue on and have these really difficult conversations, we need to be using every tool in our toolbox, so that everybody feels like it is a fair, equitable decision, and I would like to see that happen in the future.

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General Room: The other big concern that I really think we need to address is, where would our labor be if we took out our levy?

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General Room: It is a luxury to have levy. I've been to other Town Hall meetings and districts do not have that.

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General Room: So if we took away that money.

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General Room: where would our base level of service for our schools be, I think we really need to add the hard question.

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General Room: We need to cut things now, we need to come up with the solutions on that base level.

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General Room: build what the community wants with what they paid for the levy.

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General Room: Then it could be. That's how we need to move forward.

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General Room: And we have to do this community, and we have to do it now. So we're not keeping on facing it, because this next 4 years is going to be hard, and we need public education. We need our kids to get the best thing that they can. Thank you.

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General Room: I got Jerry Ross

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General Room: good evening Jerry Ross Bolton parent, I'm used to doing that. I want to start out by saying Thank you to the board, not just for

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General Room: voting to to save the schools, but for the transparency. At the last meeting for 4 months I spoke in front of you guys wasn't always the easiest. That meeting shed a lot of light onto some of the misinformation that spoke to some of the stuff that we would hope we would have had earlier on, and I know that you guys hoped you had earlier on as well from talking individually.

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General Room: I think that that sort of dialogue helps bridge it. The dialogue again earlier today that you guys had when you're just kind of out there jamming for your for your 3 or 4, 5 min. And you're

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General Room: candid. You know I appreciate that a couple of key things I took out of that meeting, just listening, and then drawing up notes. I know I can't point out individually these comments, Mike, tide field. But they're positive. So hope that's okay.

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General Room: There was talks about if we level the schools out mathematically that we can save a million dollars. That's a common sense idea that when the rest of the people around me in that meeting heard, they're like, Yeah, why not? And I know there's logistical stuff to that. But we appreciate those common sense answers. There was comments made about thinking outside the box. We appreciate those. Those are the words that the community used. You guys heard those and then talked with us about those words and why that made a lot of sense.

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General Room: The thinking outside the box. The community does feel that there's a lot of areas that don't involve teachers that can be cut. There's if we're talking about buildings. I know in other meetings we've talked about this building, you know. We can close the school. We can close an admin building. And again, not saying that's the solution or nothing. That's even on the table. But it's just outside the box things that I think the community would appreciate. Some of that

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General Room: thought process, and more of that dialogue that we heard during those meetings, those back and forth, and I don't know

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General Room: how that's possible. I know I've spoken to a lot of you guys on individual levels, and you can get, give and take a little bit there. And so I encourage community members to engage in that to get good information. I got about 50 seconds left. I guess again I would just extend an apology, maybe 1st and foremost, maybe just started with that about the way a lot of you guys were treated in the process. We started.

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General Room: I started. I'll speak for myself. I started from a place of mistrust. And you guys proved me wrong in that, and I appreciate that. I think that

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General Room: district level still has a lot to come to the table with to to balance that. But as a group, I appreciate what you guys brought, I think, as terms of the district, just that communication. And continuing that sort of level again, the

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General Room: related to budget. I just hope you guys keep those individual aspects of what you spoke about and really drive those home. And let us, as a community, know how we can help you succeed in those missions. Thank you.

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General Room: Christy Lance.

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General Room: Guys, excuse my voice.

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General Room: The decision to keep our schools schools open has been so important to our children and our community. And I just want to express my gratitude to all of you.

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General Room: and I also want to say that our work isn't done right now. Teachers are at risk of losing their jobs.

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General Room: and meanwhile we've been told that administrative cuts are coming, but there haven't been clear numbers, and instead of those cuts instead, those cuts are mixed into broad categories like purchase services and paraeducators. Yet when it comes to teachers, we know exactly how many will be laid off. So if this budget is to reflect shared sacrifice, we need transparency.

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General Room: The public deserves to see administrative cuts outlined just as clearly as teacher reductions. And if it is unclear, what's been factored or not? Well, then, that's the job of the school district to clearly communicate to the public what it is doing with our tax dollars

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General Room: tonight we will learn that the ending fund balance is now projected at 12.7 million dollars. That's nearly double the original projection of 6.8 million, and in the past, if the past pattern holds.

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General Room: that number may continue to rise, and if it does, these additional funds should be used to retain teachers. Since 2018 administrative costs have risen by 71%, while K. Through 5 spending has increased just over 16%, and enrollment has declined during that time. So meanwhile

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General Room: this computer community passed a levy to protect class sizes.

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General Room: So what I would urge you guys to do tonight is.

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General Room: don't approve the reduction in force as it stands. Instead, it should be amended to clearly outline the number of administrative positions being cut. You deserve to know exactly what you're signing on to and make it flexible, so that any additional funds beyond this point are allocated toward remaining teachers as financial projections evolve.

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General Room: This is an opportunity for us to demonstrate for you to demonstrate accountability and rebuild trust and prioritize students.

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General Room: I hope this will take. You guys will take this. These recommendations into consideration.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Last name is kind of squished together. 1st name is very, very clear. Barbara,

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General Room: Hi, good to see you guys, I am here, tonight amongst, carpool kids and dinner to ask an important question about priorities, are we making the right cuts?

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General Room: How do we balance the need for financial stability with the immediate need for fully staffed classrooms? When asked how many central administrative positions were cut last year, we were told one position wasn't rehired, but when pressed there was no clear answer as to which position that was. Meanwhile teacher. Reductions and specific are teacher. Reductions are specific and visible.

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General Room: If we are asking teachers to sacrifice, shouldn't we be just as clear about reductions at every level. Other districts are making different choices. Portland public schools are cutting 17 administrative positions. Lake Oswego. Our neighbor, has committed to cutting millions from administration alone. These districts are leading by example, ensuring that reductions start at the top before they impact the classroom.

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General Room: This is the kind of leadership our community is begging for.

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General Room: We know there are financial uncertainties ahead, but we but should Federal policies determine whether we operate on a skeleton crew in our schools while administrative costs remain unchanged. So I ask, how do we move forward together in a way that reflects our shared values? If neighboring districts are making hard choices at the top, why can't we?

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General Room: This is a moment for all of us to come together to make choices that align with what we value most strong schools, well supported teachers and the best possible education for our students. Let's make thoughtful, student-centered choices.

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General Room: You are needed. You are appreciated. Thank you.

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General Room: John Mccabe.

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General Room: Okay, with that one.

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General Room: Good evening.

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General Room: My daughter, being in the fire zone of Philadelphia celebrating, was quite substantial last night.

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General Room: So anyway, the sheets that I handed to you.

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General Room: We're not seems to not be provided to the auditor.

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01:45:51.710 --> 01:45:56.789
General Room: We have been in default on the Land Bank loan.

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General Room: The sheet that I've given you is, when it was passed in 2020

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General Room: was that it was to be paid over equally over 10 years, or accelerated.

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General Room: We've been in default for the last couple of years, which is a

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General Room: critical accounting issue. So the reality is, is just pay it off.

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General Room: Reborrow again, and start the next 10 years, because the 10 years is

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General Room: the state law which we are not following. And that's why I gave you all that sheet, because we're not following the state law.

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General Room: And that's what kind of what are we telling our community? We don't follow state law.

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General Room: So if that were to be removed so that it can be reviewed again.

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General Room: and possibly just pay it off and reborrow and do it right this time.

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General Room: The second one is on the financial report, one part that

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General Room: needed needs. Better. Explanation is the extra $170,000 that is coming in from property taxes sounds great, except we're going to lose it next year.

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General Room: When we get the reconciliation for the 2425 year

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General Room: in 2026, $170,000 will be taken away, because that's the way it works.

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General Room: more or less because of everybody's property taxes up. We won't lose a full 1 70.

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General Room: But to brag that we got 1 70 right now

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General Room: isn't true. We're not getting that once full 1 70.

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General Room: Then, on the auditor's report again.

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General Room: it's not in the management from the school district that they received a letter from the Oregon Department of Revenue.

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General Room: They have been doing non-legal activity.

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General Room: It's not in the report the audit didn't pick it up.

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General Room: The auditors are allowed to miss this as if they are not made aware of that letter.

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General Room: So when the auditors make their presentation tonight, many of you do have that letter from the Department of Revenue, and to ask them did they get it?

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General Room: And if they didn't, we don't have an audit, because it's not complete.

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General Room: They material items were not disclosed.

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General Room: And it's bad on the community. It's bad on the district. We have to disclose everything we have.

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General Room: And then, on the last one.

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General Room: many of you got the email, and I hope you contact Mr. Alvarez with the treasurer's office on debt.

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General Room: and also postpone that decision on that until you get information from him. Because what we're doing is not correct. Thank you.

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General Room: Ginger Fitch.

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General Room: you chair Taylor and Vice chair and board members,

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General Room: and Dr. Hughes and Dr. Ludwig.

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General Room: I am here because I have applied to be on the Budget Committee again.

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General Room: This is a fraught time to volunteer for public committees and public boards.

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General Room: And gave me some pause to think about applying.

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General Room: because I am committed to the efforts that you've taken this year with your bipoc focus, and to extending who in our community is at the table when we have conversations about the school district and our students.

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General Room: I chose to go ahead and reapply for the reasons, I said. I think that

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General Room: there is continuity of experience, and information that both Minnie Bot and I would bring

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General Room: to the committee, having

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General Room: the longevity to know why we have a particular ending fund balance to know about what we've done with our land bank. To

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General Room: have a strong commitment to our mission and our values over time.

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General Room: That is not to say that someone new can't bring in that perspective and and be a valuable part. I just want you to know why I decided to go ahead and apply, because I think we are at a moment where it's going to take some courage as well as that knowledge of how our budget works and how it doesn't work. And

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General Room: I'm glad to answer questions you might have but wanted to at least express.

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General Room: Why I reapplied, and what I think the moment we are in might take

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General Room: when it comes to grappling with

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General Room: local and state and federal issues when it comes to our budget over the next 3 years.

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General Room: Thanks

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General Room: alright. We have one community member who is virtual.

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General Room: and before I go to virtual, is there anyone else who

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General Room: may have come in late who wanted to do you all right? Come on up

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General Room: just will you? Will you write your name on here for me, please?

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General Room: Of course you take your time

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General Room: about that. They can just just put your topic, please.

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: So Athena Contreras, so I just came to say,

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General Room: had big plans to have a little poster up for you guys to say, thank you, because

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General Room: I mean, we're all breathing a sigh of relief. And I know it's not over. We've got a lot going on, but

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General Room: we've all been through this and

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General Room: So I just wanna make sure that I get that through to you guys that

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General Room: everything is ongoing. It just feels like it's never ending. But but you guys voted to keep the schools open. You did the right thing.

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General Room: I have concerns still, which you'll probably hear about in the future. And so

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General Room: But

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General Room: for now I just want to say thank you to all of you guys. So that's it. Thank you.

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General Room: I can do it now.

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General Room: All right, let me get my wits about me.

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General Room: Yes.

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General Room: Oh, yeah, go ahead.

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General Room: What we're gonna do is

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General Room: also give a way for you to come back, doctor, director, shoemaker, Dr. Shoemaker, whichever you want to go by this evening.

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General Room: We're going to give each applicant who has applied for

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General Room: the Budget Committee the opportunity to speak if they would like to

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General Room: and address the Board before we move out of the public comment. Section

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General Room: you. You have something you were gonna say.

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General Room: did you have something, Dr. Ludwig?

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General Room: You had started that you were going to do virtual comments. Is that what you're moving to now, or are you going to pause on that?

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General Room: You know what? Why don't? Why don't we do virtual comment first, st and then come back here.

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General Room: and then we'll give each

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General Room: Budget committee applicant the opportunity to address the board. So that way our community member gets the opportunity to say what they would like

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General Room: so when you have them queued up, let me know. And it is Catherine Gregory.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: Hi! Am I on.

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General Room: Yes.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: Okay, thank you. Hi. My name is Catherine Ryan. Gregory and I live in Westland and have 2 students in the school district, one at sunset, primary, and one at Rosemont Ridge.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: and, as you probably all are aware, last month the trump administration expanded, the power of immigration and customs, customs enforcement called ice.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: and now, federally, ice has the right to conduct raids in places of worship, hospital and schools. I am very concerned with what this means for students and staff across the country, including here in Westland and Wilsonville.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: The school district has made the commitment to create equity and inclusivity throughout our learning communities, and this must include safety for all students, regardless of their or their families. Immigration status. And I want to thank you for the newsletter that was sent out on February 6.th Yes, we do read them.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: the Newsletter explaining that the Westland and Wilsonville schools do not take part in immigration enforcement, that students are safe during school and school related events, and that schools do not provide student information, including immigration status to outside parties.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: And as the newsletter noted this noncompliance aligns with district values as well as Oregon State law. So I have 2 related requests. Firstly, I urge the district to provide school staff and teachers, information and thorough training to know their rights in case of an ice raid.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: Staff and teachers want to know how to protect the young people in their care, and should be equipped with the needed information to safeguard young people in line with Oregon law and frankly, dignity.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: Secondly, I thank Dr. Ludwig for reiterating the every student belongs policy. Earlier tonight I urge the district to add immigration status to that list of protected identity statuses.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: So, to sum up, to nurture learning and growth schools must be a safe place. We, as a community, must take a stand to protect all our students.

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Catherine Ryan Gregory: Thank you.

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General Room: Now we'll move into Budget Committee candidates

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General Room: and allowing them an opportunity to

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General Room: address the board. And so I will

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General Room: start by calling out your name. If you would like to address the board.

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General Room: then feel free to come to the podium and and speak to us.

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General Room: and if you do not wish to.

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General Room: That is fine. We have looked at your application.

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General Room: and had an opportunity to review it, so we will go off of the information that we have

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General Room: and I will start with. Minneaga, is she? She's online.

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General Room: Okay.

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Mini Aga: Hello! Everybody!

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General Room: Hello!

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Mini Aga: Can you hear me? All.

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General Room: Yes.

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Mini Aga: Okay.

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Mini Aga: good evening, everybody. I'm sorry. I am joining in remotely today, just because I couldn't get done from work in time to reach the school district in time.

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Mini Aga: But, I've been listening to all the points that have been made today in the evening, and I agree that this is a very, very hard time

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Mini Aga: that our school district is going through, and

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Mini Aga: I I would still want to continue to be a part of the Budget Committee

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Mini Aga: in our school district, because I've seen the diligence and the effort and the hard work that goes

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Mini Aga: into planning all the

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Mini Aga: all the things that the Executive Board, and all the members do in making sure that West Lynn and Wilsonville School district is one of performing to its utmost potential, and taking into account not only equity and diversity, but the the best that they can deliver to their students.

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Mini Aga: I have been a part of the Budget Committee now for quite a few years, and even chaired it for about a year or so.

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Mini Aga: And, I've been a member of our school system now since the year 2,000 and

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Mini Aga: 11. So I've had a fair share of experience with the kind of population that goes to our schools.

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Mini Aga: I served on in different capacities on the school Ptas in the elementary and middle school. So for almost about 8 years.

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Mini Aga: and then thereafter I joined

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Mini Aga: serving in the school district or the School Board in different capacities. I was a member of the long term Range planning committee. Then I became a member of the

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Mini Aga: Diversity group that we had, which was before the eeac, and I also became a part of the Budget Committee later on.

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Mini Aga: and, in fact, I had the pleasure of serving the dual role of being a budget committee member and representing and being a representative of the eaac, so that we could qualify. I could qualify for the position that the State had, as a requirement to have a person with the double role on one of their Eaac committees.

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Mini Aga: I promise to deliver my best

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Mini Aga: in terms of making the best decisions for the budget to ensure that the budget is fair and square, and that we take the best decisions and supporting the school system in whatever whichever capacity is needed. My background is that of being a scientific researcher. So I'm used to doing a lot of

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Mini Aga: data analysis and tweaking things to get the best outcomes, and

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Mini Aga: being very, very critical and taking decisions not so much with emotion, but with

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Mini Aga: but with a clear-headedness and keeping the end goal in in mind.

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Mini Aga: So I humbly would like to request to add my name to the pool of applicants for the Budget committee. Thank you so much.

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General Room: All right.

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General Room: And just in case everyone in the crowd doesn't know what we are.

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General Room: I kind of jumped over a little bit and just kind of left you out there. Dr. Hughes was going to do kind of an opening, so I'm going to retract a little bit, and then we're going to come back to committee members to continue speaking. But, Dr. Hughes, I'm apologetic for that. I was trying to speed the meeting up.

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General Room: And so I was just gonna skip all of that. Yes.

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General Room: thank you. So this is just summarize up. What? Going on with the Budget Committee on January 13, th the board announced the opening for the Budget Committee. We have the open position number one and position number 4,

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General Room: so both of these position are 3 years participate in approving the district budget for the fiscal year 2526, and 27.

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General Room: So after the board announced the position open, the district publicized the opening, the position through the local newspaper and the district website. And this evening we have 5 applicant

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General Room: of community member who applied for depreciation, and that you know that many anger through Zoom and the rest of the 4 community member here in person to present to the board. So

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General Room: with that, if the board would like to continue to conduct interview. They are valuable, all right. Excuse my manners. Sometimes I get ahead of myself, and so we will jump back into it. We've had the opportunity to hear from Ginger, and we've also had the opportunity to hear from Minyaga, so I will take us right into Rachel beavers

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General Room: because I hate public speaking. I want to start by thanking each of you for all that you've done and continue to do on a day to day basis. I can't imagine what your job entails, but these last several months have been intense for me as an individual, and I imagine for you as a group as well.

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General Room: My family has only been with the district for 3 years now.

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General Room: and both of my kids are diverse.

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General Room: and they've had an amazing supportive community and school. I am so grateful for what we came into and what I had hoped for when we brought them from southeast over here. So it's been really great. My gratitude has deepened. As I've been working with the school district on the Small Schools Task Force. I feel like I've gotten to know some of you, and definitely Kathy

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General Room: and also just heard so much from the community and am so grateful to be part of this community. And I want to support the community in any way possible.

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General Room: So whatever the case, I will be here as a supporting role.

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General Room: I think the Budget Committee role is very lined with my professional and educational background.

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General Room: and I hope that this is one way I can contribute.

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General Room: Thank you, Graham Clancy.

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General Room: thank you for having me. Good evening. My name is Graham Clancy, and I'm honored to be considered for the Budget Committee

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General Room: as a product of the public school system, and the son of long, lifelong public educators.

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General Room: I have a deep appreciation for the value of public education.

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General Room: Professionally I bring over a decade of experience in corporate finance, budgeting and strategic planning.

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General Room: including leading financial initiatives and overseeing multi-million dollar budgets in the banking sector.

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General Room: I understand the complexities of financial stewardship and the importance of aligning resources with long-term goals

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General Room: beyond my career I've been committed to education through my volunteerism and serving on the Associate Board for smart reading.

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General Room: supporting early literary initiatives. Most importantly, as a parent of a preschool, aged son

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General Room: who will be attending Westland Wilsonville schools. Starting in 2028. I have a personal stake in ensuring our district's financial health for years to come.

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General Room: and I'd be grateful for the opportunity to serve. Thank you.

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General Room: The last, but not least, Curtis Smith.

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General Room: Thank you. Board. My name is Curtis Smith. I am a resident of Wilsonville, and I have 4 young children who are 3 of them are attending Boones Ferry Primary School, and one of them hopefully, will find a spot in the district pre-k program next year.

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General Room: I think I bring some pretty unique qualities to the Budget Committee. If I have the honor to be selected, I've worked in quality management and risk-based decisions for the better part of 2 decades within the medical device and high tech sectors as well as some pharmaceuticals. With my role in that position.

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General Room: my, my responsibility is 1st and foremost to our customers and our patients.

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General Room: and making sure that the voice of the customer and the needs of those patients or customers are met, and I can't think of any better surrogate of a customer and a patient than the future of our children.

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General Room: and with my 4 young children I not only have an immediate impact and and vested interest in the success

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General Room: of this school district, but also the long term as well.

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General Room: being a product of public school systems through throughout my entire life as well as public sports and endeavors. I can't see any better way to advocate for my children by offering up my service to this board, and with all of my efforts and my family's efforts most, and my wife

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General Room: to make an improvement and a positive impact on my children's children's education.

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General Room: If if I'm not willing to step forward and offer my insight and my critical thinking and objectiveness to the problems that stand in front of us. Then then why can I ask that of anyone else? So

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General Room: thank you all for taking the time to listen to me and accepting my application?

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General Room: Thank you.

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General Room: Okay.

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General Room: The the next step is as a board. We're gonna have the opportunity to make a motion

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General Room: for candidates that we believe align with

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General Room: our individual thoughts as to how they might be able to fulfill the role.

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General Room: And so I am going to wait for one of you to make a motion

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General Room: for candidates. We've all had the opportunity to review the candidates. Applications.

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General Room: So we've we've read them well in advance, and

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General Room: and some of us have even gone beyond your application and done further research on you. So

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General Room: I will just kind of open the floor up and

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General Room: let one of you take it away.

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General Room: I want to start by saying, Wow, what a qualified group of people, I mean, that's really fortunate that we have so many interested and qualified people. So this is, it's unfortunate that we only get to select 2.

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General Room: But that's impressive.

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General Room: I have no problem nominating someone. If if if

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General Room: if you guys are, have a little bit of stage lockness.

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General Room: No, I'm happy to nominate someone. I thought Director Shoemaker was going to nominate someone. So I was like, I nominate Rachel beavers

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General Room: for position. One. Is that how I would do that?

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General Room: Yeah, is that correct? Okay, great.

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General Room: In all. Second, okay, great. Thank you. All right. That'll open it up for

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General Room: discussion questions from board members around the nomination of Rachel Beavers.

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General Room: I'll start with Director Shoemaker if you have any questions.

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General Room: Yeah. An interesting candidate is weird to be talking about you, Rachel. Just while you're while you're out there. An interesting

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General Room: candidate. With that recent experience on the small schools task force.

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General Room: That's a that's a perspective that

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General Room: might be worthy, I mean, certainly worthy of consideration, along with lots of experience.

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General Room: Anything.

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General Room: Yes, I'm in support of a candidate. Rachel Beavers

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General Room: for being so involved on the small school task force and answer, asking all the questions and being so committed and dedicated throughout the whole process over the last couple of months, and her experiences in finance.

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General Room: You made the motion. So I'll go to Vice chair. White, do you have anything to say?

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General Room: Okay, I don't have anything to say, either, so I will pass it to Director Douglas to

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General Room: cast the vote.

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General Room: Thank you, director, shoemaker.

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General Room: Yes, director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor.

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General Room: Aye, vice chair, Wyatt. Aye, Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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General Room: I'd like to make a motion.

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General Room: Okay, I move to appoint Ginger Fitch to position number 4.

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General Room: Alright.

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General Room: Can I second that one? I will second that one alright. I will reopen the floor up or questions.

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General Room: Deliberation, and I will. I'll start with Director Vidal, and I'll come back to you.

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General Room: I have no questions. Nothing.

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General Room: Vice chair, Wyatt.

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General Room: I think she said it all when she talked about experience and making tough choices. And that's exactly what we need right now.

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General Room: Director Shoemaker, I'd say that

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General Room: One of my goals is to make sure we had some level of continuity like that in this particularly difficult time, so I think that that addresses my concern to have someone

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General Room: appointed who's part of who provides that. So I'm supportive of okay.

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General Room: I actually will say something about this candidate.

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General Room: and I would say, as I read through all of the the different candidates.

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General Room: I was gonna make a motion, and the motion was going to be for ginger.

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General Room: and I think that her expertise in all of the different areas that she served

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General Room: was attractive for me personally.

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General Room: The depth of of just

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General Room: the broadness of how she served our community, and I think that her background as an attorney is is always something that's an advantage to any committee.

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General Room: And

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General Room: albeit I I did like some of the other candidates also, and I would say that I don't know how this vote will go it. But

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General Room: I liked all of the other candidates, too, I think, where Ginger had an advantage for me over everyone

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General Room: was just her knowledge base, just the amount of ways that she served the community already, and I just don't think that there was another person on there, and with all due respect that matched her resume. So that's where it was at for me, and I would love for those of you who may or may not

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General Room: get this role to please apply again, because, if I remember correctly, Ginger applied last time, a role was open and did not get it

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General Room: with the same experience. And so it's not always experience that, like she has that will get you this opportunity.

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General Room: there's a season that we're in right now, that it requires a level and a depth of knowledge that not everybody possesses. And for me, just knowing the the breadth of what we're going to be dealing with

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General Room: today and moving forward over the next several years.

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General Room: I don't think that you know

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General Room: that was matched for me personally, so I just wanted that to be said. I also want to say that if

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General Room: Ginger does not pass this vote, I have another candidate that I would, you know.

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General Room: make a motion to approve so but

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General Room: again, this is not a 1, and done.

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General Room: Ginger, welcome back, and a Testament to to persistence, and not giving up. So I will pass it to Director Douglas for the vote. Thank you, director, shoemaker. Aye, Director Sluke. Aye, chair, Taylor.

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General Room: Vice chair. Wyatt. Aye, Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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General Room: All right.

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General Room: Well, congratulations to you, Rachel, and also Ginger, and

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General Room: I hope that many Graham and Curtis that you guys would be willing to

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General Room: at least come back and and be willing to serve again in the future.

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General Room: again, like, I said, this is a season. I hope that the next season is much easier.

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General Room: and I don't know that honestly

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General Room: winning that role right now is a blessing. So if anything, when you go home and you see what they have to go through the next several years you might be thanking me

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General Room: so yeah, can I? Can. I just add, these are excellent, as I said before, excellent candidates, who, I hope will perhaps find other ways to continue to want to contribute, really was impressed with your not only what you said, but what you wrote, your willingness to serve. I mean, that really came through. You guys just want to help and

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General Room: thank you for that.

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General Room: I would really like to echo Director Shoemaker's sentiments. I think these are all excellent candidates, and I hope you please stay involved in the school district. We do have other committees, and we do have other ways that we can use your expertise. So I really appreciate all of you and your willingness to serve. Thank you so much.

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General Room: Chair, Taylor. A couple comments. Oh, yeah.

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General Room: one, yes, absolutely incredible applicants. Thank you.

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General Room: And don't disappear too quickly, because I do believe it was last year you had nominated and selected an applicant who then had to withdraw.

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General Room: And so the Board did go back to the list of applicants and make another nomination. So things can happen in people's lives that are unexpected.

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General Room: and you've put your name forward with interest, and if there is an

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General Room: unfortunate but early exit of a current member, for whatever reason, the Board often goes back to this list and ask someone to come back and serve. So

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General Room: just keep that in mind. Second, also, with the legislation. We now need to have a Budget committee member serve on the Eeac.

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General Room: So Chair Taylor, who is the liaison to that committee he and I will meet.

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General Room: and we'll likely come back to the Board to make a nomination then of one of the Budget Committee members to the Eeac

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General Room: from the current slate of Budget Committee members. Of course Minnie Aga was already on the eeac and had gotten selected for that committee, happened to be on the Budget Committee. Her term on the eeac will continue. No one's kicking her off of that. She'll continue to do that. But this does allow for a new Budget committee member to then be a part of that committee.

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General Room: so we we will be coming back to you for another decision in the near future around that selection.

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General Room: Thank you dumb, I will turn it back over to Dr. Hughes to

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General Room: take us through the auditor's report.

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General Room: Yeah, thanks. So the 1st item I have on the agenda is the district Annual comprehensive financial report.

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General Room: We have Timothy Lamott, artist Supervisor from Polly Rogers with us on Zoom

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General Room: to present the annual comprehensive Financial report for the fiscal year 2324.

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General Room: That report offer the detailed overview of the district financial position.

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General Room: This report also lays an important role in maintaining transparencies and accountability of our financial practice.

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General Room: We appreciate Tim and his audit team and the diligent work of Polly Roger in conducting this audit. With that I will now hand it over to Tim to walk the board through the key, fighting

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General Room: theme. The flow is yours.

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Tim L: Sounds good. Yeah, I'm Timothy Lamont just checking that. Everyone can hear me.

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Tim L: Sounds good.

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Tim L: So we have a presentation on

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Tim L: I just realized. Now I don't. I can't really. I don't have the power over there to change the slide.

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Tim L: But maybe maybe I can just say next slide, and and one of you can.

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General Room: Perfect, Tim. We'll we'll run the slides for you.

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Tim L: Sounds good. So if we so yeah. So I'm changing them on. I'm 1 of the like. Someone said, I'm 1 of the audit supervisors here at Polly Rogers, and we did the audit report for June 30, th 2024, if you want to go to the next slide.

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Tim L: And so just a little background on the on what the act for is, it stands for the annual comprehensive financial report that is, a set of financial statements that comply with the accounting standards set by the governmental accounting Standards. Board Aka, the Gatsby Board. Those are just the people who make the new pronouncements.

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Tim L: for example, the leases, new and subscriptions that were a few years ago. It undergoes an independent auditor that's us to ensure compliance with the general accepted governmental government and auditing standards.

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Tim L: and the act for for your guys school district is available online. And you I believe this was sent out. And you can hit that link. Or obviously, it is on the website for any audience member that wants to look at it.

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Tim L: next slide.

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Tim L: These are kind of the 3 key sections that the actual report goes over one's the introduct introductory. This provides a guide for readers to understand the report, and so it has, like an organizational chart.

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Tim L: A letter from your guys district kind of just explains and guides people through the report and how to understand things. And then there's the financial section. This contains the district's basic financial statements, the notes to the financial statements, and then the independent auditors report.

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Tim L: this is like the main bulk of the report. This is where you get all the financial numbers. This is where we put our

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Tim L: opinion letter that Roy, the managing partner, signs, and the next section is the Statistical Section. This offers additional financial and statistical data, including trends to better inform readers of district activities that has all sorts of stuff in there, so you can take a look.

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Tim L: and then the next slide.

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Tim L: This is the purpose of the audit that we conduct. So the purpose of the audit is to ensure that the district's financial statements are presented fairly in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles known as Gap, and then auditing standards.

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Tim L: as well as to verify compliance with Oregon, municipal Audit law and other relative relevant Federal State

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Tim L: and Agency regulations related to the expenditures expenditures of Federal awards. A lot of this is dollars that come from the Federal Government if you hit. If a district hits a certain

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Tim L: amount of money that they use from the Federal Government. They have something to do with a single audit which this district did, and so we did a single audit as well as just a regular audit

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Tim L: next slide.

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Tim L: So this is our responsibilities. So our responsibility is to provide an opinion on whether the financial statement is presented fairly in all material aspects and conformity with Gap, the generally accepted accounting principles.

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Tim L: to assess eternal control over financial reporting, to determine the nature and the extent of audit procedures, and then to test compliance with relative rules and regulations.

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Tim L: Kind of the way. Just a quick rundown of how we did that. The audit involved examining on a sample basis evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. And so we will pull a, you know, a certain amount of

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Tim L: for expenditures, for example, and then we asked for supporting documentation on

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Tim L: just to back that up with, you know. Was it reviewed independently? Was it, you know, was the amount correct, based on the invoice and things like that.

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Tim L: And then we also evaluate the district's environment, including its internal controls, to assess the risk of material misstatements in the financial statements.

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Tim L: If we go to the next slide.

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Tim L: that is, here's our results. And so our main audit opinion is that the audit issue we issued an unmodified opinion on the financial statements. This means we

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Tim L: issued a clean opinion, meaning there are no reservations about the district's financial reporting.

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Tim L: And so this is this is the

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Tim L: opinion that you want. This just means there is nothing material that we discovered that was wrong with the report. You know, we test things like cash

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Tim L: accounts, receivable bond obligations, things like that and those we didn't find anything significant to report the statement of standards. The order found no exceptions or issues to report

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Tim L: number 3. The Federal rewards that I mentioned earlier we found no noncompliance.

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Tim L: Or question costs were identified regarding use of financial rewards. So nothing was found there.

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Tim L: Number 4 management letter. There was no separate management letter issued, as there was no findings to address a management letter is, if there are significant deficiencies, we are required to send a management letter. And so you actually don't want a management letter. And so it's good that none was issued. That means there was no significant deficiencies found. So that's good.

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Tim L: Next slide.

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Tim L: It's just any audit findings, any difficulties encountered in the audit we completed with no difficulties. If there was any disagreements with management, there wasn't any disagreements that arose

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Tim L: during the audit process. The staff, you know, answer any questions that we had.

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Tim L: and so yeah, so this concludes the summary of the act for audit for the Westland Wilsonville School district for the fiscal year 2023 to 2024. The district's financial statements were found to be in compliance with the required accounting standards, and no issues were encountered during the audit.

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Tim L: And that's it. Any questions.

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General Room: Thank you for that. I'll open it up. Any questions from any of you directors.

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General Room: All right, Director Vidal.

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General Room: I don't know if this is for Dr. Hughes or the the person presenting Mr. Lamont. But,

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General Room: It would be great or helpful to explain

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General Room: how Polly Rogers and Co. Is independent from the school district. I know, during some of the small schools, discussions, or town halls there was questions regarding the auditing firms, independence from the school district. So if you could just describe how.

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General Room: Mr. Lamont, maybe how you are independent from the school district, and how you conduct this audit separate from this organization that would be really helpful.

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Tim L: Well, yeah, I I can speak on that a little bit.

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Tim L: I just I don't have any, I guess. Relation to any involvement to the district. I haven't been a student there.

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Tim L: I don't have any kids, so I don't have any kids in the district.

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Tim L: one thing, one thing that people are concerned about is if you have the same auditor year after year after year. And so I understand that concern. This is actually my 1st year.

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Tim L: With this engagement. And so this is this. My, this is the 1st year I I met Dr. Huges and as well as

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Tim L: Brian, who is also on the team. This is the second year working on it. But so we haven't been involved too much. So yeah, this is my 1st year seeing this book, so we try to keep a fresh eye.

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Tim L: one of one of the one of the. Sometimes we have

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Tim L: a a little annoying, but we understand why it's important as we switch up the client teams a lot. So we have to keep learning new systems and new districts, but that's important, because it gets it's a it's a good way to get fresh eyes. So that's 1 thing, and so

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Tim L: I don't know if Dr. Huges wants to add anything else. But that's

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Tim L: I guess I'm just kind of independent, because I don't. I don't have no involvement with the district, really. Besides, the audit.

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General Room: Thank you. Teams.

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General Room: So for the auditor to be independent from the audit from the district is there is no conflict of interest. We don't do like beside provider

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General Room: auditor work for us. There's no order like they are not the district employees. We don't pay them. We don't direct them to do anything because they're not under our supervisor.

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General Room: So they are very independent on that.

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General Room: and also from the State recommendation, or the best practice is for the auditor to rotate. We can.

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General Room: We can hire the same company, the audit company, but every 5 years they should rotate the auditor because we they don't want the same auditor looking at our book year after year, and it could build a strong connection with the business office, and then it could be the business office could be influenced in somehow. So in the tone that

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General Room: at least every 5 year with the same form. But they have to change the new theme.

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Tim L: I I do have also one thing to add on that

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Tim L: is that when we get hired as a firm to conduct the audit. We are working for the board. So you guys, even though we obviously have a lot more discussion with the business department, because that's how we get all the materials for the audit. But

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Tim L: were

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Tim L: we are hired by the board in the school district board the governing body to do the audit. So you guys can reach out to to me or to Brian or the audit firm with any questions you have or any concerns. And we have that governing body questionnaire that you fill out. And so any moment, if you have any concerns, you can reach out to the auditor personally or the audit firm, and we can talk to the Board directly. So that's another way. We can stay independent from the business office.

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General Room: Thank you so much.

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General Room: Yes, and if you

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General Room: if you look at the budget document, you will see the audit and the legal counsel. Budget is under the board function.

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General Room: Any other questions on this side? No.

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General Room: this. This is not an action item. So you don't have to do a vote but just

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General Room: Timothy, if you're still there. Just one more question. Sometimes we get asked whether

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General Room: our bond finances are also audited by our auditors. Could you confirm that you also included

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General Room: bond finances in your audit?

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Tim L: Yeah, so yeah, one of the one of our work we call the work papers. One of the things we test is is the bond obligations. And so we just yeah, we look through there, make sure, you know, payments on time. We're looking the payment to the right funds and things like that. Yeah. So we look at that. Yeah.

885
02:33:16.940 --> 02:33:27.319
General Room: Thank you, because we know our bond staff was sending you a lot of information. So just wanted the board to be made aware that all of our capital bond finances are also part of the audit.

886
02:33:27.610 --> 02:33:28.349
Tim L: Yeah, they are.

887
02:33:28.810 --> 02:33:34.270
General Room: It just one other question to kind of piggyback on that. Do you also look at the

888
02:33:34.570 --> 02:33:41.970
General Room: the terms of bonds, and how those terms of bonds align to state laws.

889
02:33:42.390 --> 02:33:46.910
General Room: for instance. So what if we go over on a bond term limit?

890
02:33:47.790 --> 02:33:53.280
General Room: Is that something that an auditor would find and say, Hey, you've gone past the term limit

891
02:33:53.680 --> 02:34:00.030
General Room: we found, or would you make a recommendation at that point? If, in fact, that did take place.

892
02:34:01.964 --> 02:34:04.180
Tim L: If if that's something

893
02:34:04.580 --> 02:34:17.909
Tim L: noticed, we would recommend and mention something. The main purpose of the audit is to just make sure that the financial payments are represented correctly.

894
02:34:19.080 --> 02:34:26.179
Tim L: for the bond terms and things like that's that's more of the bond attorney. Slash the people who give you the bonds.

895
02:34:28.810 --> 02:34:31.914
Tim L: That's kind of what their their role would be.

896
02:34:33.460 --> 02:34:37.409
Tim L: But if if it was something noticed, yeah, we would mention again.

897
02:34:38.160 --> 02:34:57.109
General Room: Yes, yes, so maybe I can answer that. So we do have a firm. We do have a broker, Piper Sandler. They monitor all of our bonds, and make sure that when we put our budget together, that the principal and interest in the debt service is accurate. So they review all of our tables and our bonds as well as our bond attorney.

898
02:34:57.890 --> 02:35:05.140
General Room: So for the audit report audit report, focus on auditing the financial statement from the prior year.

899
02:35:05.330 --> 02:35:10.490
General Room: And then for the budget document, we focus on the future projection.

900
02:35:10.780 --> 02:35:11.460
General Room: Okay?

901
02:35:12.860 --> 02:35:16.680
General Room: Well, hell, thank you.

902
02:35:21.600 --> 02:35:27.010
General Room: That'll take us into the financial reports would still leave it in your your court. It's your night.

903
02:35:27.260 --> 02:35:28.520
General Room: Thank you. Team.

904
02:35:28.840 --> 02:35:30.060
Tim L: Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you.

905
02:35:30.060 --> 02:35:31.080
General Room: Thank you, Tim.

906
02:35:31.630 --> 02:35:40.870
General Room: So the next item I have for the board tonight is the general fund financial report. Can I please have my powerful.

907
02:35:49.420 --> 02:35:59.349
General Room: So in this month financial report for the General Fund, the business office have 3 items that we would like to bring to your attention.

908
02:35:59.450 --> 02:36:09.740
General Room: The 1st items is the local revenue that include property taxes, permanent tax and local option tax.

909
02:36:10.080 --> 02:36:18.840
General Room: In November, when we present the property tax to the School Board, we anticipate to

910
02:36:19.040 --> 02:36:21.850
General Room: collect about 96%.

911
02:36:22.110 --> 02:36:26.520
General Room: But going back for the last 5 years.

912
02:36:27.040 --> 02:36:32.239
General Room: we see the average rate of collection in 97.6%.

913
02:36:32.560 --> 02:36:53.640
General Room: And because the district have strong support from community member. So the business office feel confident and safe enough to recommend to bring the property tax rate up to 98%. So with the 98%, the estimate

914
02:36:53.780 --> 02:37:00.720
General Room: property tax collect collection for this fiscal year will be 50.2 million.

915
02:37:01.120 --> 02:37:05.899
General Room: and for the local option levy will be 13.6 million.

916
02:37:07.030 --> 02:37:13.590
General Room: So this one will bring 2 million higher compared to the Bryan report.

917
02:37:13.990 --> 02:37:17.430
General Room: and this is important to pay attention that

918
02:37:17.710 --> 02:37:35.630
General Room: the local revenue and the State School Fund grant they have the inward relationship because of the equation from the State. So when the local revenue. Go up, then the State School Fund go down or vice versa.

919
02:37:36.650 --> 02:37:43.450
General Room: We submit this update to odes on January 27.

920
02:37:43.710 --> 02:38:10.780
General Room: So hopefully in this coming month we will see the update on the safe school fund from ode, and that will tell us what's the estimate. The safe school fund that we have. So for this report, it still show 65.5 million. But I will keep you posted on this coming month. Report from Ode. After they have the new information from me.

921
02:38:12.880 --> 02:38:34.590
General Room: The second item is the salary and extraordinary payroll costs, so as we wrap up the second quarter for the fiscal year, the business office had been working very closely with Grant Administrator to conduct a comprehensive review of staffing allocation.

922
02:38:34.680 --> 02:38:47.590
General Room: we was able to identify 7.4 9 Fte. That qualified to shift from general fund to Sia Grant High school success.

923
02:38:47.690 --> 02:38:51.729
General Room: Medicaid and early Literacy grants

924
02:38:51.990 --> 02:39:03.930
General Room: this strategic allocation, not only maximize the use of a valuable grant resources, but also help release the pressure on the general fund.

925
02:39:08.250 --> 02:39:23.000
General Room: So with that, the estimate and fund balance for the fiscal year 2425 estimate to be 12.7 million or 9.2 1% of the total revenue.

926
02:39:23.490 --> 02:39:32.359
General Room: This estimate will fluctuate, based on the District General Fund revenue and expenditure through June 30.th

927
02:39:34.440 --> 02:39:43.679
General Room: So with that I will stop for all to see if you have any questions for me. I have a question. Is there ever a time

928
02:39:43.990 --> 02:39:46.810
General Room: when the inverse relationship can be challenged?

929
02:39:47.110 --> 02:39:48.150
General Room: Meaning

930
02:39:48.410 --> 02:40:05.020
General Room: because we found that 2 million dollars and they're going to directly offset that because of that equitable practice across districts. Is there ever a time in the event of a 15 million dollars potential deficit that you can appeal

931
02:40:05.160 --> 02:40:10.330
General Room: that or challenge it? Or is it automatically? It just happens.

932
02:40:11.740 --> 02:40:21.240
General Room: Yeah, we can't challenge that. What could? Yeah, I don't know if you heard that we can't challenge that. No, I heard that. Yeah.

933
02:40:23.310 --> 02:40:37.290
General Room: but we also don't know. You know, the state is always reconciling its books just like we are, it's, you know, trying to balance the budget across 197 school districts and Esds and things that happen.

934
02:40:37.450 --> 02:40:49.330
General Room: And so, as they true up their accounts, they come back to school districts. Sometimes they can allocate more, sometimes they actually take away some based on

935
02:40:49.590 --> 02:40:53.090
General Room: how we reported one of the

936
02:40:53.220 --> 02:40:59.870
General Room: practices that Dr. Hughes does on a regular basis is give these changes to ode so that they can track

937
02:41:00.030 --> 02:41:18.083
General Room: are changes, and there aren't big surprises at the end. Some school districts don't go into the system midyear and update information to ode. And so at the very end of the year, you know, they're making their these reconciliations or kind of doing it midstream as well.

938
02:41:19.640 --> 02:41:28.319
General Room: But there have been times when the State has more funding than it thought, and may come back and say

939
02:41:28.450 --> 02:41:36.739
General Room: they're not appealing that inverse relationship. But the allocation they're giving each school district is more. And so in doing that.

940
02:41:36.870 --> 02:41:39.360
General Room: even though maybe our property tax went up.

941
02:41:39.780 --> 02:41:49.279
General Room: the State allocation either stayed the same or went up, because across the board to all school districts they were able to give more funding.

942
02:41:49.900 --> 02:41:51.954
General Room: That actually happened?

943
02:41:53.390 --> 02:42:01.769
General Room: During I forget which one of the years during during Covid, when there was a a significant drop in enrollment.

944
02:42:02.170 --> 02:42:17.730
General Room: But they had the funding allocated to districts already, and so they waived that enrollment criteria and went ahead and gave school districts funding to provide some more stability and didn't hold them

945
02:42:17.940 --> 02:42:20.119
General Room: to a certain level of enrollment.

946
02:42:20.400 --> 02:42:24.310
General Room: So there are times when the State can make those kinds of decisions.

947
02:42:24.440 --> 02:42:26.410
General Room: and then my other question would be.

948
02:42:26.890 --> 02:42:30.760
General Room: I can understand that on the the general property tax.

949
02:42:30.960 --> 02:42:40.489
General Room: But our local option levy is just that. It's an optional tax that we've chosen as a community to pay. Why is that being rolled in

950
02:42:40.830 --> 02:42:45.320
General Room: to the overall tax collection, which is something in addition to

951
02:42:46.140 --> 02:42:48.690
General Room: property tax? So is there a way that we can

952
02:42:49.450 --> 02:42:53.989
General Room: take our local option out and leave our property tax.

953
02:42:54.110 --> 02:43:04.000
General Room: Yes, yeah. The local option did not include in the local revenue under the States. Cone fund from the ode.

954
02:43:04.490 --> 02:43:08.949
General Room: So in, it's not part of the inverse relationship

955
02:43:09.250 --> 02:43:18.339
General Room: in the, in the attachment that behind the financial report that you have, this one did report a coming from Ode.

956
02:43:19.240 --> 02:43:24.480
General Room: It's called a stagecoon fund grant, and under local revenue

957
02:43:24.690 --> 02:43:45.082
General Room: the sum of local revenue is 49.6 million. This is as of June 20th of 24. So at that time, when we view, when the district submit the property tax to ode, we estimate the property tax at that time, with 48.3,000,048.3 million

958
02:43:47.690 --> 02:44:03.349
General Room: at this common school fund was, it's about 1.2 million, and a county school fund of 1,000 that combined give us the total local revenue of 49.6 million.

959
02:44:07.270 --> 02:44:14.219
General Room: So only the 1.8 is is in the in the inverse. Then am I hearing that correctly?

960
02:44:15.840 --> 02:44:18.449
General Room: I'm sorry. Can you repeat, please?

961
02:44:21.210 --> 02:44:33.329
General Room: Can you repeat your question? Yeah. So I'm saying that only the 1.8 that is showing here in the difference, the adjusted from their partition correct, because 170,000 will not reflect. Okay, yeah, thank you. Yes.

962
02:44:33.500 --> 02:44:47.230
General Room: Yeah. So because, you know, like, every year in December of the next year, Ode will ask all of the business manager from 197 school district to go into the system, it

963
02:44:47.410 --> 02:44:57.000
General Room: to submit the estimate membership and revenue to ode. So because one year prior to the actual year.

964
02:44:57.549 --> 02:45:02.459
General Room: The information we have at that time is just estimate. And then

965
02:45:04.290 --> 02:45:11.990
General Room: When we go into the year, like, for example, now 2425. When we go into this year, when we know

966
02:45:12.160 --> 02:45:21.710
General Room: the actual number, or we have strong estimate of our property tax or transportation expenditure, or the number of students

967
02:45:21.910 --> 02:45:32.389
General Room: after the full enrollment, then Ode will encourage us to go into the system, ask them to open the system up, go into it, provide an update.

968
02:45:32.470 --> 02:45:45.920
General Room: So because they are working with 197 school district, some school district very active, one of them in us. We are very active to go in to provide updates.

969
02:45:45.920 --> 02:46:05.720
General Room: But some school district either forget or they did not update. So because of that, odes only have to make the prior year adjustment based on, when they have all of the information that submit from all of the school district in so by May of this year.

970
02:46:05.730 --> 02:46:11.729
General Room: they will announce what is the prior year of judgment will look like for our school district.

971
02:46:11.810 --> 02:46:30.910
General Room: and last year to recall, because we are very active going to the system and update our information very much or not. Every month. Last year the prior year adjustment for our district only 9,000. So really good. Some school district could be a few 100,000.

972
02:46:31.220 --> 02:46:31.940
General Room: No?

973
02:46:32.680 --> 02:46:55.370
General Room: I asked the question. Because if you're sitting on that side and you're thinking about, I've just funded 90 teachers potentially, and the State's going to take that additional funds right back out and do an inverse it would, it would defeat the purpose of us having a local option levy, so I didn't ask it because I needed the breadth of what you just went through. I asked it so that

974
02:46:55.490 --> 02:47:04.909
General Room: people in the crowd would understand that their dollars are not being retracted and thrown back into a pool and sent to another district. So that was the purpose of my question.

975
02:47:05.260 --> 02:47:16.010
General Room: Correct the the line item on the top that says, property taxes, that's the permanent property tax rate. Every every school district has to submit to the State.

976
02:47:16.880 --> 02:47:23.679
General Room: Then. So in that inverse relationship is that amount right? And then

977
02:47:24.830 --> 02:47:35.830
General Room: and then what the state supplements to give us our total admw, so they decide what they're going to give per student to every school district and the weighted.

978
02:47:36.020 --> 02:47:40.579
General Room: And then they see how much each school district collects from the local, and then they supplement

979
02:47:40.970 --> 02:47:43.859
General Room: from the State. Right on top of that

980
02:47:44.430 --> 02:47:54.220
General Room: we have a local option. But it's not part of the inverse relationship. Good because we're. And again I'll I'll move on from this. But as we start to

981
02:47:54.370 --> 02:48:07.650
General Room: talk about as a board, and we talk about as a community, what are other solutions going to be ways that we can be creative. No one wants to be creative and create money that's going to get taken from the State.

982
02:48:07.800 --> 02:48:26.600
General Room: So I just want, as we start to go through this creative thinking process or this solution process to our big shortfall, that our community understands that if we get creative. And we come up with stuff. We're not going to get our money taken from the State and given to another school district. So I think that's just important to know.

983
02:48:26.970 --> 02:48:36.610
General Room: Yeah. So 2 levers that voters have locally to supplement or support school funds are a capital bond.

984
02:48:36.970 --> 02:48:46.080
General Room: which is enough is a tax, then towards capital projects. The way that supports a general fund is that if you can pay for

985
02:48:46.640 --> 02:48:48.180
General Room: repairs on a roof

986
02:48:48.630 --> 02:48:56.229
General Room: or Hvac systems out of a capital bond, then you don't have to pay for it out of your general fund. So that's a lever that

987
02:48:56.340 --> 02:49:02.959
General Room: our local constituents have to support schools as well as a local option levy. Okay, thank you.

988
02:49:05.810 --> 02:49:09.119
General Room: And I would just want to clarify. I know that.

989
02:49:09.790 --> 02:49:33.859
General Room: there's a lot in these memos that get submitted from a Cfo to the board and community members are reading them and also trying to understand. And I would just encourage folks if you have questions feel free to email or call us, we can help interpret the information so that accurate information is being communicated out to neighbors and community members.

990
02:49:33.980 --> 02:49:37.679
General Room: That ending fund balance that

991
02:49:37.840 --> 02:49:47.290
General Room: increase in the collection rate and some of those fte shifts. We had already factored that in in January, in the presentation on the 13.th

992
02:49:47.520 --> 02:49:53.530
General Room: That's why that number I had actually given you 12.1,

993
02:49:53.700 --> 02:50:09.030
General Room: because we didn't have a couple of those grants shifted quite yet. But it's it's close enough. Still, that's why that was the number reflected in the ending fund balance that would carry over to 2526 in my presentation on January 13, th

994
02:50:09.770 --> 02:50:19.260
General Room: and we hadn't had a financial update yet. But now that we have it, Dr. Hughes is just verifying that to you. So again, if any community member is wondering

995
02:50:20.242 --> 02:50:27.290
General Room: about financial information and and wants to share it with with others and wants to verify. First, st we're happy to

996
02:50:27.430 --> 02:50:29.379
General Room: answer an email or a phone call.

997
02:50:29.950 --> 02:50:31.130
General Room: Thank you. Yep.

998
02:50:31.540 --> 02:50:33.060
General Room: Back to you, Dr. Hughes.

999
02:50:33.710 --> 02:50:49.169
General Room: Thank you, Taylor. So the next items is proposed. Resolution 2, 0 2, 4, dash 0 2 in interfund loan payment postponement. So on August 27,

1000
02:50:49.510 --> 02:50:54.610
General Room: 2020, the Board approved a 1.5 million

1001
02:50:54.770 --> 02:51:17.510
General Room: inter Fund capital loan from the land proceed fund to the general fund to be prepaid in 150,000 annually, installment, starting 2021, and end in 2031 at 0% interest rate, and that is in resolution 2 0 2 0 0 4.

1002
02:51:18.450 --> 02:51:27.659
General Room: On May 6th of 2024, the board postponed 2324 and 2425 payments

1003
02:51:27.760 --> 02:51:35.730
General Room: to ease general fund pressure, and that was in resolution 2, 0 2, 3, dash 10.

1004
02:51:36.150 --> 02:51:47.419
General Room: So going into this coming year. Budget 2526. The business office recommend postpone of 2526, payment

1005
02:51:47.560 --> 02:51:59.269
General Room: to enhance cash, flow, and allow the resource allocation. So with that we sit for your approval on resolution 2, 0 2, 4, 0 2.

1006
02:52:00.530 --> 02:52:02.740
General Room: Alright! Do we have a motion?

1007
02:52:03.560 --> 02:52:09.569
General Room: I'm excuse me. I move that the Board approve. Resolution 2024, 0, 2 as presented.

1008
02:52:10.610 --> 02:52:13.410
General Room: Second, alright

1009
02:52:14.830 --> 02:52:19.889
General Room: Open it up for questions from the directors. Any questions?

1010
02:52:24.470 --> 02:52:47.619
General Room: No, you have one. Yeah, I'll be supporting the motion that I made, because, as we heard from one of our former board members that you know in these times, I think obviously anything we can do to, you know, immediately. Help our budget challenges is the right thing to do. So thank you to our business office for bringing this forward.

1011
02:52:51.420 --> 02:52:59.679
General Room: I will pass it to Director Douglas to cast the vote. Thank you, director, shoemaker. Aye, director, sloop.

1012
02:53:03.950 --> 02:53:11.039
General Room: I chair Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt and Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

1013
02:53:13.660 --> 02:53:41.010
General Room: Thank you. Board. So now I have the last item on my agenda today. So the last items is request for approval of resolution 2, 0 2 4 0 3, refinance series 2015 bonds. So the Westland Wilsonville district is seeking for your approval. On this resolution, which would authorize the refinancing of Siri. 2015 bond.

1014
02:53:41.120 --> 02:53:46.630
General Room: This action will deliver significant saving to our taxpayer.

1015
02:53:46.900 --> 02:53:54.929
General Room: The taxpayer will save an estimate up to 3 million over the next 6 years.

1016
02:53:55.230 --> 02:54:12.279
General Room: There's no chance in the term bond in the in the bond term, as the refinancing bond will still expire in 2031, ensuring that saving without changing any original term

1017
02:54:12.590 --> 02:54:38.060
General Room: district financing a part of our ongoing commitment to responsible financial management, maximizing, saving, while continue to provide strong financial support to our school district. So with that, we ask for your approval of resolution, 2,024.0 3, so we can move forward with this opportunity.

1018
02:54:40.970 --> 02:54:43.009
General Room: Do I hear a motion.

1019
02:54:43.470 --> 02:54:51.600
General Room: I move that the Board approve. Resolution 2024, 0, 3, authorizing the refinancing of Series 2015 as presented.

1020
02:54:51.810 --> 02:54:59.639
General Room: I second any questions, Director Douglas cast a vote, please.

1021
02:55:00.290 --> 02:55:01.020
General Room: Oh, wait.

1022
02:55:01.320 --> 02:55:20.740
General Room: make a clarifying reminder that while this doesn't represent a savings that benefits our budget, this does benefit our taxpayers. And so I know that we often focus on what can help our budget. But this is a instance that helps our taxpayers in our district. So that's also a win.

1023
02:55:21.750 --> 02:55:24.180
General Room: Yeah, like everybody loves a good refile.

1024
02:55:24.850 --> 02:55:30.810
General Room: So Director Douglas, thank you. Director, shoemaker.

1025
02:55:31.270 --> 02:55:39.300
General Room: director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair. Wyatt. Aye, Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

1026
02:55:53.020 --> 02:55:55.409
General Room: Department of opera. No. Are we? Yep.

1027
02:56:04.990 --> 02:56:07.659
General Room: there we are, department of Operations. Pat Mcguff.

1028
02:56:10.470 --> 02:56:12.247
General Room: Good evening again.

1029
02:56:13.270 --> 02:56:27.240
General Room: Before the healthy and Safe Schools Act was created. Ipm. Law was already established, and since the creation of that law I have given reports to this Board every year.

1030
02:56:27.380 --> 02:56:39.275
General Room: it is with great pleasure that I now get to introduce Jeremy Nichols to present that report. Awesome

1031
02:56:40.210 --> 02:56:42.760
General Room: thanks, Pat, all right.

1032
02:56:43.660 --> 02:56:47.060
General Room: Talk about Ipm all this budget talk.

1033
02:56:47.300 --> 02:56:53.410
General Room: No, no. So every year, as you know, through the adopted

1034
02:56:53.580 --> 02:56:59.490
General Room: board policy ebb, also the Ipm

1035
02:57:00.600 --> 02:57:07.719
General Room: policy that was passed in 2012, updated in 2023, the Ipm plan for the district. We give an annual report.

1036
02:57:07.820 --> 02:57:16.020
General Room: and that specifies the pesticide usage across the district, and in the memo that we shared for the

1037
02:57:16.170 --> 02:57:24.390
General Room: the calendar year, January one. Through December 31st of 24, we had 111 pesticide applications.

1038
02:57:24.690 --> 02:57:27.829
General Room: 29 of those were insecticide applications.

1039
02:57:28.020 --> 02:57:34.159
General Room: 28 were bees and wasps, only one other, and then 82 were herbicide

1040
02:57:34.360 --> 02:57:54.839
General Room: applications. We try to be as specific as we can. The reporting is very stringent. When you read through the Ipm laws and what we have to do, we have to keep all the records for up to 4 years. So if anybody's ever interested, we do have those available because the law also states that they can be publicly available.

1041
02:57:55.120 --> 02:58:06.629
General Room: All the applications are within the guidelines of the I, the stated Ipm law, and also the adopted Ipm plan.

1042
02:58:07.140 --> 02:58:07.920
General Room: they

1043
02:58:09.030 --> 02:58:28.020
General Room: and they follow the rules and regulations that we are under. So, as you flip through the spreadsheet, go to the last little section. There, you can see we have increased our usage of pesticides over the last number of years that's been rather intentional.

1044
02:58:28.370 --> 02:58:31.310
General Room: We went through the Covid period when

1045
02:58:31.660 --> 02:58:37.619
General Room: I think it was described last year, when everything folks were doing all sorts of other

1046
02:58:38.330 --> 02:58:48.589
General Room: things to keep the district up and running irrigation was cut to try to save funding for a couple years in a row. Actually.

1047
02:58:49.160 --> 02:58:57.289
General Room: you see, the results of that. And so you go across the district and you know, to to ensure weed control

1048
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General Room: on a large scale for 185 improved acres total of what? 320 acres across the district.

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General Room: It's quite substantial. And so we really have tried to be judicious when we apply the

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General Room: the herbicides especially is what I'm referring to the insecticides. That's always after the fact. That's when little kiddos are getting stung on the playground. Our guys go out there with the with the spray, we always safe it off. That's how we deal with that. And so those those are always reported after the fact as an emergency application. But the herbicide applications are very intentional. We are trying to maintain all the beautiful grounds that we have, and

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General Room: we about half of what you see was pre-emergent. We did a lot of pre-emergent in March and April of last year, and then post emergent when everything, whatever we didn't get kind of starts coming up in the summer. That's what you see reflected in the report, so happy to happy to answer any questions that you may might have

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General Room: questions.

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General Room: I just want to make a comment. I I know that our community has been pretty clear that they they don't want a lot of product

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General Room: out there. And

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General Room: frankly, I'm impressed you. Can you? Could you could do 62 gallons in a year. That's

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General Room: that's a quart a day spread out over an entire district. That's that's pretty good. So well done.

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General Room: 1st loop.

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General Room: I have a question that's not related to this part, but I was wondering how are the oak trees doing after they were treated last spring? We are yet to find out. They are dormant for the winter.

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General Room: The Wilsonville Heritage oak, where.

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General Room: crossing our fingers, we will see there's some upcoming testing actually on that tree. So we'll learn more. They're going to possibly bore into the actual trunk.

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General Room: we'll see. So stay tuned on that, and we'll really see the effects after the winter. So when spring comes we'll see, and we'll do everything we can to to continue to try to save that tree and any others. We've been in really close contact with the city of Wilsonville. That's

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General Room: for whatever reason the centralized Mediterranean oak borer, you know. Epicenter is a lot of oak trees in Wilsonville have

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General Room: have fallen because of it, and they've gotten taken down the big progress one you probably saw that and and others. So

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General Room: we'll keep you posted.

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General Room: I did want to mention also, Pat reminded me. Thank you. We are still battling poison hemlock. I know this was mentioned last year.

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General Room: We've got it in about 4 locations. And I think we talked about it last year about it's

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General Room: We got a lot of adverse effects to, especially animals, but also young children. So whenever we see the poison hemlock we are, we are very aggressive with so a lot of the applications, you see, especially at Rosemont and Westland High School, we have the worst infestations, and so we'll continue to stay on top of that again as spring comes, and they all.

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General Room: It's insidious. By the way, just a little fun fact. When you see one plant of poison hemlock it drops, and once it gets green it drops about 10,000 seeds per plant. So that's why it's really hard to get rid of. So we're trying our best, and we do have it on the run at Rosemont. So we're we're confident

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General Room: any other questions Ipm related.

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General Room: I just want to echo a director shoemaker's comment about, even though we have increased

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General Room: comparatively 62 gallons for the amount of acreage we have is remarkable. It is a

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General Room: an effort on our part to use it when we need to

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General Room: and not overuse it. Just for aesthetics. Yeah, although I will say the years that we paired back considerably due to community. Ask, we also heard from new members of the community, you know what's going on with

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General Room: the incredible growth of weeds.

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General Room: And please start taking care of our property better.

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General Room: And so there is this, how do you strike a balance around

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General Room: pleasing one community group and pleasing another community group and people's opinions about how they'd like property to look.

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General Room: And so I really want to commend you, Jeremy, and your staff. There's incredible training that does happen. I think we also know when you

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General Room: put forward product. We want to make sure that our employees have the safety gear and the training to do that safely, and they go through extensive training for that. And so thank you for overseeing that as part of your Ipm coordinator responsibilities, I appreciate that we also just for the community to know.

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General Room: We also, if we're going to close an area due to an herbicide application, we'll close it for much longer even than the manufacturer even recommends. So if it's a 24 h period, a lot of times, we'll have that area closed for up to 48 h. We just want to. We're trying to be as absolutely safe as possible and and follow through with our commitment to the community. So I just want you all to know that as well.

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General Room: Thank you. Thank you.

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General Room: I think future board members out there.

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General Room: you'll have fun with that one.

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General Room: Yeah, that's a 50 50 toss up on people who like herbicides or who don't, and

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General Room: we got a lot of complaints over the years about the way our schools looked

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General Room: within our community, and it was always well like us. Weagles don't look like that. Well, like us weagles. They're probably using pesticides. You guys don't want that. So it's like.

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General Room: what do you want us to do? So have fun with that one, too. All right, Pat, I'll turn it back over to you. So in trying to keep up with Dr. Hughes. We also have the next item on the agenda, and this is our long range facility planned update part 2 draft. And with that I'm going to turn it over to Bremo Douglas and Miriam.

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General Room: My name is Miriam Pinoli.

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General Room: here on behalf of our schools.

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General Room: long range planning committee in December. I think it's December of 2023. We were asked to revise and update our long range plan. So over the course of 2024 District staff, you as our School Board, and we as the long range planning committee, have worked together on these and on these updates and revisions.

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General Room: so I believe you, as a board, have already received part one of the 2024 long range plan, and so I'm here to present. I believe you have part 2 of the plan, the capital improvement program, or Cip.

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General Room: did, did you receive that? Okay?

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General Room: And so we look forward to working with you and other members of our school community at our updating or at our upcoming bond summit hopefully next month to make important decisions

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General Room: about school facilities priorities that will benefit our students, staff and our school community. Thanks.

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General Room: Good evening, Board. It's it's been a long evening already, with a lot of topics, and thank you, Miriam, for that introduction and and kind of talking through the process. Got here a little bit. We, of course, submitted a couple page memo on some of the history behind this process and next steps.

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General Room: So, having received it, it would be typical now that the Board would meet shortly to review the draft, you know, in the interim staff are ready and willing to have any conversations engage over email, or occasionally there's a small fireside chat to, you know. Talk through questions board members have about the process and what you're seeing in the documents, so that when you get to your work session in a couple of weeks that time can be productive.

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General Room: Also, as noted in the Memo we have A, we have a fantastic long range planning committee group that is so interested and dedicated. And they they said at their last meeting, you know, there's there's so much information here, we really we they've been meeting a lot.

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General Room: and they said. You know, we really need to have one more meeting and really get a chance to talk through these things again.

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General Room: As we move towards that bond summit step hopefully. And so we are meeting with them on the evening of February 19, th

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General Room: and so Staff will be gathering up any feedback that comes out of that process and getting it

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General Room: we can.

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General Room: So it may be some some new info there from that evening as well.

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General Room: but once once the Board has the opportunity to go through that process work session. It would be typical then to call for a bond summit. We've just in the last week gone through the list of folks who were invited to the last one. So we have that drafted kind of a you know, not in terms of individuals, names, but kind of roles of who the stakeholders were at that group to forward to the Administration.

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General Room: so that should the Board call for a Bond Summit, we'll be ready to begin invitations. There are individuals we'll look to to connect with administration on such as mayors of cities. If they're to be invited. We may want to do a save the date early versus, you know, rotary club members and others who there may be a group to select from. So we'll be working to make sure that folks know when that might be happening.

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General Room: But you've had a long evening already, if there's any particular questions happy to answer them, but I won't belabor any further with some of them.

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General Room: Alright any questions I just have a quick question. Do we have a estimated date for a bond

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General Room: summit. Yes, we do. Okay.

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General Room: Yeah. March 15, th March 15.th Okay, you had asked us in the summer. I think it was one of your goals and march was targeted, and we usually try and do it on a Saturday. We try and stay away from a weekend that's connected to Spring break.

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General Room: and so that was the soonest we could do in March.

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General Room: so essentially. You've you've got some homework between now and February 24, th if you haven't already looked at part A of the long range plan, the 1st part, you're gonna

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General Room: want to go back and

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General Room: dig that out, or we can make another copy for you and send it your way. That was presented in

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General Room: December.

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General Room: This is part B, or part 2. This is now the projects that would be on a capital bond. So you'll look that over. And then on the 24, th the long Range planning committee members of that committee will join you at your work session to interact with you around what's in that

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General Room: capital bond plan in terms of projects, repairs, renovations, remodels, technology that we predict that we'll need for each school, and you'll get to interact with that information with the long range planning committee.

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General Room: and then that will be the evening to give the nod

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General Room: to the long range planning committee to also

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General Room: go forward and plan that bond summit which each of you will attend on that Saturday.

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General Room: and a representative group of the community will attend.

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General Room: and the community will give feedback on those projects to you. The board

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General Room: after the bond summit. You'll take that feedback.

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General Room: your own thoughts as well. Any questions you have for Staff.

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General Room: You'll start to formulate what you do want on a capital bond based on feedback from the community.

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General Room: Anything else? Alright, thank you.

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General Room: Appreciate you, Remo.

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General Room: Hey, Miriam?

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General Room: Right?

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General Room: And I'm going to turn it over to the superintendent's office to Dr. Ludwig.

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General Room: Yeah. So the last item on the agenda this evening is

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General Room: a motion and action that we do need from the board. This is around determining whether a reduction in force is necessary.

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General Room: For the upcoming school year. And as we can as we plan in the the budget process.

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General Room: it's not a requirement in statute. It's not in our other negotiated contracts, but it is in our license contract. It was written in that one

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General Room: that should the Board determine

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General Room: that a reduction in force is necessary, it shall insofar as reasonably practical, provide 90 days written notice to the Association. So if you call last year, we came to you also at the same time.

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General Room: It was later in the year.

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General Room: because we were later in our budget process and understanding what where we were going to be.

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General Room: But you gave that approval last year, and actually we were pretty far in the process already with the Association. But it was helpful to have that board determination.

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General Room: We're earlier in the process. Some other districts are going earlier as well out of a courtesy to our association for staff to know earlier if they are going to be seeking jobs, and particularly the Ed Fair, which is in March. We're working very closely with our association leaders all along the way.

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General Room: They don't yet know all the details.

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General Room: but as we're able to share those with them, they will know more, and and then we'll be able to share with staff.

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General Room: It gets complicated around positions because of the contract and around seniority and licensure. And sometimes one opening can bump another opening. So we have to be very careful that we've really determined reductions accurately and thoughtfully and carefully

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General Room: in collaboration with our association leaders.

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General Room: which is what we're working on, whether we were going to have one reduction in force or dozens, we would still have to come before the board.

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General Room: So, knowing exactly the number is not what you're approving tonight. You're not approving a certain number. You're just saying we recognize that you'll be. You'll need to make a reduction in force.

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General Room: and we approve that, and then within 90 days, let the Association know.

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General Room: So then you're directing myself and Hr. Director to make sure that we give that specific

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General Room: information to our association as soon as we can, and that we did do last year. Chair Taylor, there was a letter. You did sign it with specific

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General Room: positions in it, and that will be the same thing we'll do when the time is right. Just want to also remind the Board and perhaps community members that I know. Sometimes people want to know specifics

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General Room: early.

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General Room: There are also positions that become identifiable when they're too specific, and we don't want someone to learn about their position being lost.

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General Room: From a board meeting instead of being told in person.

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General Room: There are, of course, broad categories like classroom teacher. We can't get away from those kind of broad terms.

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General Room: But when we can give specifics, we'll 1st give it to the employee impacted. They. They have the right to know. First, st even though we know community members, we want to know right away. But they get to know after the impacted employee.

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General Room: So

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General Room: so tonight is important for the Association, because their members do want to know as soon as possible, so that they can seek employment.

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General Room: So recommend approval for that tonight, so that we can continue forward with our plan.

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General Room: and just quickly, for those who may not know

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General Room: who was all included in the Wwea Association. Like what type of role

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General Room: and what type of positions are in that?

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General Room: Yeah, so we have several categories of employees in Wwas are licensed employees. These are professional educators who have a teaching license or counseling license or nursing license. So they're in our licensed employee category.

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General Room: And then

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General Room: they're represented by Wwe. Then we have a group called our Classified Staff. They're represented by Osea, Oregon School Employees Association.

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General Room: and that they represent all of our employees. They may have certifications and specific industry, licensure, for example, electrician or plumber. Those are also valuable licenses, but they're not education licenses. They're industry and technical licenses. So classified para educators, administrative assistance. Any non educator license position.

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General Room: Then we have another group of employees that are not represented by any union, but hold.

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General Room: perhaps licenses as well. But they're not under the teacher union.

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General Room: So our 3rd category may be what we call administrative positions or confidential staff or supervisors, principals, superintendent.

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General Room: So

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General Room: that help.

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General Room: Yeah, that does help. I just wanted

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General Room: people that might be listening to know what that means, because, you see, the acronym and it doesn't mean anything to certain. Thank you. I should have spelled it out in the memo. Right? Yeah. So this. So the classified union does not have this stipulation. They know that we're going ahead and making those decisions. The other group does not

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General Room: have the stipulation, but it is in our licensed

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General Room: contract. I don't know if that's true of other school districts, but it is in ours, and so we, of course, will follow that agreement.

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General Room: Any other questions, discussion or

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General Room: so. I just want to for clarification that tonight we are voting on a reduction in force. But the numbers aren't. We're not voting on the numbers.

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General Room: Thank you. That is a very important distinction, and that's why your motion does not include the numbers of staff, because things can change. It's February, and I also, in my presentation to you on January 13, th mentioned that should there be a change in funding.

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General Room: of course we're advocating

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General Room: very rigorously that we would prioritize class size and classrooms, so things could change, and they actually changed slightly last year as well. This is a motion just to approve that reduction in force is necessary, and so you don't see any of any numbers in terms of how many in your motion.

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General Room: Okay, do we have a motion?

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General Room: I move that the Board has determined that a reduction in force is necessary for the 2025, 2026, school year, and direct the superintendent to work closely with the wwea President to follow the collective bargaining agreement, and Ors 3 42.9 3 4 procedures. Accordingly.

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General Room: I second alright, so I'll open it

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General Room: back up one last time before

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General Room: we pass it to Director Douglas. Any other questions concerns what not.

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General Room: Okay. The only thing I would say

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General Room: is that we do get emails from time to time about as a board this saving particular positions and whatnot. And I guess I would say to the community that

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General Room: although we appreciate the emails

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General Room: we don't have anything to do with the selection of staff

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General Room: And so when you send us those emails, I'll still respond

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General Room: as a just letting you know that we've seen it. And we've

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General Room: seeing the way that our community like really champions, our our teachers. And it's it's fantastic.

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General Room: But we just don't have

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General Room: anything to do with that. So when you email us, please just know that. And I would also say, you know.

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General Room: out of respect for the person that you're even championing.

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General Room: I mean, it's their. It's their livelihood, it's their job. It's their family. They have anxiety and worries and you sending emails on their behalf

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General Room: and spreading rumors as if their job is on the line when it might not be, is not helpful.

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General Room: And so in your spirit of trying to save their job. You're creating more anxiety inside those individuals, families, potentially. So just be mindful of that.

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General Room: And hopefully, you can have a little bit of faith in the process similar to

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General Room: not closing schools, and and I think that the district and the board will try to be as transparent as it can, and we hear the word transparency all the time, and that means something different to every single person.

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General Room: Some people like transparency in books. Some people don't, so it means something to every single person

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General Room: that is different. So just keep that in mind. As we go through this process, we've made a tough decision as a board to keep schools open.

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General Room: Now comes the other end of that, and so you can't have it every single way you want it, and I'm sorry about that, and we feel horrible about it, and keep going and advocating with Director Vidal and director sloop

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General Room: and asking for funds

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General Room: and hopefully as a community and as a board. We come up with some cool solutions that we save a lot more jobs. I'm going to lean on the community for that. I'm definitely going to lean on our board members for that.

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General Room: And we're definitely going to lean on

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General Room: the district for that. So it's going to take a collective effort. So hopefully, you guys will.

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General Room: I guess, bring positive energy for once, I mean.

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General Room: And and we can all try to just be positive and and come up with something that'd be really, really appreciated.

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General Room: Director Douglas cast the vote or go ahead. Dr. Ludwig, okay.

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General Room: Director, shoemaker. Aye, director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt. Aye, Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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General Room: Dr. Ludwin. Well, I I really appreciate the comments you ended with, and I know that this board

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General Room: recognizes that their role is to support all of their their employees in their district. And there's was a lot of attention on classroom teachers. But I know that you haven't forgotten that we have incredible classified staff, that work

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General Room: diligently with children that have beautiful relationships with them. We have remarkable principles

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General Room: who spend weekends time away from their families as well, evenings doing incredible work, leading schools under extraordinary circumstances. And so all 3 groups have enormous value, and we couldn't do this work without

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General Room: any of our employees bringing to bear the kind of effort and 100% of what they do. This will be a change for us next year.

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General Room: and just remembering that advocating for one group sometimes unfortunately creates a counter narrative that you're not advocating for another group, and I know that's not what the community means. But I do appreciate that the Board recognizes that you. You lead an organization with

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General Room: more groups than just teachers, and that you value all of those employees equally so. Thank you.

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General Room: All right.

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General Room: And that'll take us into our second public comment. We have

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General Room: one community member who wants to address us, and if they're still here, Kyle bunch.

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General Room: Well, thank you. To my trusty assistant, my eldest, Miriam, is gonna pass out some information, and

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General Room: she has taken a vested interest in the topic I'm going to share with you tonight. So she wanted to be here, even though it meant being past her bedtime. So

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General Room: good evening, Dr. Ludwig and board members. My name is Kyle Bunch. I'm a resident of Wilsonville, and I'm coming to you tonight, not only as a father of 3 girls, but on behalf of our rotary

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General Room: I also wanted to acknowledge Nancy Boyle, who co-chairs the district empowering women and Girls Committee with me as a member of Westland, rotary, as well as Chelsea Passen, who from safety compass, who has been an incredible resource and partner to our cause. We'll all be around after meeting. Should you have any further questions? Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about an issue that affects our students, our community, and our future

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General Room: human trafficking is not just a distant problem. It's happening right here in our county.

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General Room: Since 2,018881 survivors of sex trafficking have been identified tragically. 432 of them minors. These are children, some of them from our own schools, including students from both Westland and Wilsonville high schools.

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General Room: The average age of entry has been trending downwards is now 12 to 14.

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General Room: The package I shared with you has more data about our region and the resourcing available from our great partners at safety compass and the Clackamas County human trafficking, multidisciplinary task force.

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General Room: Human trafficking thrives in silence. And the 1st step to prevention is awareness by allowing rotary to bring a human trafficking awareness program to our district. We're giving our students teachers and parents the knowledge to recognize the warning signs and take action. Trafficked individuals often go unnoticed because those around don't know what to look for a single conversation. A single piece of information can be the difference between a child getting help or remaining trapped in a dangerous situation.

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General Room: This program is not about fear. It's about empowerment. It equips students with the knowledge to protect themselves and their peers. It educates staff to identify signs of exploitation. It connects those at risk with resources before they become victims. We owe it to our students to provide them with this life-saving education. Some history on Rotary's involvement.

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General Room: This important topic our District 5,100 has been involved in the Portland region for 15 years, and the Wilsonville Club became involved. About 8 years ago. We approached the school district at the time, and we're told by the the superintendent. Then it wasn't happening in our community, and he didn't want to participate.

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General Room: Shortly after our work in the community led to a bust in Wilsonville. In the same time frame law enforcement carried out a sting in Wilsonville, which was quickly shut down by the city leadership at the time, because it was bringing the problem into our community.

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General Room: We can't continue to wear blinders when it comes to this issue. It's happening in our community and our kids, our parents and our educators and community at large need to know what's going on. Recently we had a community event at Westland High School. We had an incredible panel of experts, a powerful story of survival, and only 50 people. Unfortunately, there was no representation from our school school district.

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General Room: I urge you to take this crucial step in protecting our youth. We need to find a way to empower our students, our families, and our education community. Our rotary clubs and community partners like safety compass are ready to make it happen. Let's work together to ensure that no more students from our schools become statistics instead. Let's give them awareness and support. They need to stay safe. Thank you.

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General Room: All right.

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General Room: Well, if there any parting words from any of your directors.

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General Room: Well, next board meeting will be regular Board meeting

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General Room: will be looks like March 10.th

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General Room: Want to say we got a work session coming up on the 24.th So, looking forward to that

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General Room: meeting, is adjourned.