March-03-2019-Regular-Board-Meeting-Seg-3
[00:00:00] All right, we're going to reconvene from our break and we're going to move back in the agenda to the public comment section as we do have a member of the public who has come to speak or do you want to say couple of introductory comments before speakers, which is that we are thank you for being here.
We invite our public to come to all of our meetings and speak when we have thoughts to share. Please don't mistake this onto the board as a lack of Interest. We are listening carefully unlikely taking notes. Just when you speak be careful not to identify any. Clear member of the work of any employee of the district attorney students in the district or using information that could identify somebody and please limit your comments to three minutes to three minutes is not enough time.
You are encouraged to follow up with a member of our staff and when you come to the podium, please identify yourself and your address for the record.
Good evening. My name is mr. [00:01:00] Essig Weston High School class of 96 and back from Los Angeles for the first time in 20 years. Could you state your address for the record, please Clackamas County and Los Angeles County approximately sorry give a street address and either Community West Linn or Wilson.
Mr. Dillon hides. Yes, sir. Would you like to tell me where you live so I could knock on your door on Friday night? I'm not here for public comment. We asked everyone that's here to give their address for the record and it get noticed you did not put on the sign-in form. So if you want to speak you do need to give us your address.
All right, okay, and that will close the public comment portion of our meeting will move on to the resolution 20 18-5 in support of Education funding in the sir. So if you want to speak to Anna member of our staff you're welcome to do so, but we've moved on with our meeting.  [00:02:00] All right.  And wondering and wondering mr.
Kills from could you just walk out with mr. SE and get from him what his comment was going to be for the board. Thank you. All right moving on to the next item on the agenda is resolution 20 18-5 in support of Education funding is a resolution in support of Education funding to the level recommended by the quality education model or the qem.
Dr. Ludwig. Would you want to speak to this? Sure, and I'm no though. There may be other members of the board familiar with what's being brought forward tonight essentially ospa as well as oea in and Cosa number of groups are. Working hard advocating for stable and adequate funding across the state.
They have been doing that for years. And as we are moving into a new biennium budget biennium, [00:03:00] these groups are approaching school boards in a effort of solidarity and putting forward. Advocacy towards not just the quality education model but also more adequate and stable funding. So this is a resolution that was drafted by OSB a with an appeal that each School Board take a look at it read it and adopt it as a resolution.
Similarly oea has also drafted a resolution asking its members to look at it and support it as a membership group and then these resolutions would go forward. To the governor's office as a collective group of resolutions, thereby demonstrating that there is collectivities across the state and collaboration in promoting adequate and stable funding as we go into this new biennium group budget cycle.
Thank you, dr. Ludwig before I wrote and read [00:04:00] this resolution to the record and any discussion on this. I was wondering if. Dr. Reynolds you wanted to comment on this at all.  No, I was just going to make a motion. But if you want to read it.
So I would like to move adoption of resolution 20 18-5 its support of Education funding at the level recommended by the quality education model. There are. I second.  All right. Thank you. The purposes of discussion I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas since the passage of measure 5 in 1990.
The state has consistently underfunded schools and failed to adopt a means of sustainable paying for public services and whereas we believe if funding funding a strong system of public education is the best investment oregonians can make to strengthen our economy create thriving [00:05:00] communities and improve the quality of life for every Oregon Yin, and whereas we support a well-rounded curriculum that meets the needs of Oregon students.
Looting art music PE Career and Technical Training and co-curricular activities and whereas we must ensure that efforts to close the academic achievement Gap and supports for students who have been historically underserved or expanded and whereas organs public schools have experienced a prolonged period of unstable and inadequate funding that has resulted in dire consequences teacher and staff layoffs program Cuts unacceptably large class sizes and one of the shortest school years in the country.
And where is the quality education model has consistently defined what a high-quality educational system should look like for Oregon students, but the legislature has never provided the funding to meet it and whereas the legislature has made progress and reinvestments in K through 12, but funding momentum is fragile due to the looming costs increases related to healthcare and purrs and whereas Oregon's political leaders have embarked on [00:06:00] an ambitious effort through the Joint Committee of students on Student Success to Define what our schools can be.
And find the means of sustainably paying for them and whereas school board members need to help shoulder the responsibility for making the case to Oregon's voters that the legislature needs to prioritize investing to the level of the qem to assure educational opportunity for every student in every District in our state now that now therefore be it.
That the West Linn Wilsonville School District Board of Education pledges to join and support the efforts of oregonians for Student Success has campaign to ensure that Oregon's lawmakers prioritize Investments to improve the educational outcomes for organs greatest natural resource our children.
discussion, dr. Reynolds, so I just wanted to. Thank you for placing this on the agenda. And I do think that this is the best opportunity in decades on and perhaps in history for assuring adequate and stable [00:07:00] funding for Education. This is one of a piece of many strategies to assure that it happens this session.
And I also as I was going to include it in my board report, but I would also encourage. Anyone who cares to to visit websites, Oregon future.com in Oregon's oregonians first for Student Success.com in Grassroots efforts to urge decision-makers to go through the part of the legislative steps to assure adequate and stable funding for our students.
So thanks again for putting it on the agenda.
I'll just add that I had.
[00:08:00] [00:09:00] I'm listening to teachers and so there's been quite a bit of research that's gone into like what's going on in our schools. And what do we need to do differently? So so I'll be supporting this resolution because I've seen how much work has gone into this and the how organized this effort is right now.
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know something the resolution doesn't mention which. It could have is that you know, our our district is somewhat insulated from funding problems with not completely because we have a community that's able and willing to pass Bond measures historically, but if we ever reached a situation where we couldn't pass a bond measure or even if we could think about all the districts that.
It's a it's just a shame that in order to have adequate education with even one of the sort of scores in the countries. We've got to do it with Bond measures from our community and levies right? And so if schoolers can help spur the house legislature to pass these things then [00:10:00] I'll be supporting this and do whatever else I can to support the movement.
Well, I know we're ahead of the budget committee process. But I will say that we in a lot of ways aren't immune because we are funded with radm and radm wait, maybe less than others and the proportion that we get also from state and federal because of our community makes up for that. Absolutely. So we are looking into we are looking at a very tight budget even with the eight point nine seven.
And the costs that are coming our way with with increases. There is also a collective communication effort coming through by OSB a Cosa oea organ promise. Osea asking each School District to create a poster that clarifies and communicates to the public. [00:11:00] What would the next biennium look like with the eight point nine seven which we would.
He making some reductions even with that. What would it look like if the legislation was able to pass a school Improvement fund of an additional billion, what would that then allow us to do in terms of supporting more programs and fully funding measure 98 and then of course, what would as we think towards the qem of the quality education model?
Where do we need to get to? And kind of that stair-step movement. So there is some really good Collective work going on across the state with all of these groups putting the message out to the community that there really isn't any school district immune to it. We haven't had to furlough school days in a while and our class sizes are within a range that we've worked hard to maintain.
But given the budget that is being proposed, you know will be on the higher end of that class size range for sure. [00:12:00] So thank you any other comments. All right, Miss Douglas called the boat Chelsea King Martin I Betty Reynolds. I gallon hide I reckon Molitor. Yes.
Thank you Ford. We will move on to miss hewes for the financial report.
Good evening. This information will be fun. We will go over all of their current investment for polio. That's our School District Health.  So as you know, whenever we receive money. From revenue sources [00:13:00] successor state school funding formula property tax our local not contacts or conduction SI tax.
We put this money into local government investment for is often called the LG IP. Odysseus similar summary background of the LG IP L git run by the government, Oregon Territory that hap all up there. Organization in the stage such as school Community College City County put the money into a pool together in a safe way.
And then this is how it works. When you receive the money you put into the pool when you're ready to spend it you take money out of it and spend it. In August [00:14:00] 31st the maximum amount that is School District or county or city allowed to put in the fourth a49 43 million and this investment through opening on the Enterprise of 2.75, which is very good for this kind of economic.
On the right hand side, you will see the set the allocation this show you how The Oregon Territory invest all of the money into the majority of this investment that they put the money into a corporate with the 52.2% And then the second highest is the territories with the 18%.
This is the current investment that we have 49.3 on the top put into [00:15:00] LG IP this money we can cash out anytime. There is no maturity day. The integrate right now see 2.75%. The next one is 10 million. We put in Charter review. The majority will be so less than a month from now. We see the end of this month and interest on that is 2.18 this 10 million.
I only invest in one month because we have property tax coming in with the would put Rose more than. Forty nine point three million limit that Oregon Territory allow us and I know that we have payroll expenditure coming up. So I have a little bit more than one month to invested money. So that why I choose to invest in church or review.
This allowed us to earn two point one nine percent with the [00:16:00] turnout $32,000 for one year for one month into it. The next one is 1 million. This is what school district and maturity day is June 15 that Capra's 24,000 integrate own.  So offer on when you see here and the par value, we have a total of 60 7.3 million.
Prophetess that we own on this city 7.3 million say 286,000.  So out of this city to avoid City 7.3 million 1 million belong to school district that we invest and then sit. Million dollars [00:17:00] investment corporate and arrest is in church or E energy IP.
The city 2.3 is over here on the left hand side 62 point which is available in 2000 2019 and then 5 million will mature in 2020.
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Yeah, so Dad. This is a very fun and clear because it's this self speaking. You can see the par value who is the issuer the majority days and the internet that we own so we I try to put money as much as I can in the LGI P but. The amount a limitation is 14. I poison tree.  That we only can be more than that for 10 days [00:18:00] within that 10 day.
We have to ship money somewhere else.
That's all right. So the last item on the agenda is a.  a resolution for Pace. Misuse that you want to discuss that yes. Yes. So as you know like three years ago, we also have the resolution as you recall. You only decide one of that Oregon School Board Association and the bowl of pace updates the inter-government agreement.
But now they have a small minor change in the method future engines such as they allow our Charter School to participate into the groove. They also come up with cry recovery was a cover all of the cry for the school district and [00:19:00] Charter School pays for members and osv a warhead. Come to the agreement and side inter-government agreement.
So because we are into the pool after self-insure therefore, we have to present it to our board for review and adaptive settled resolution. So in front of juice is 13 pages of inter. Government agreement, so if you could review and approve it and start up a set of crucial resolution for our school.
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don't see the resolution 28 team would pages that on.
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[00:20:00] I move that we approve resolution 2018 - for the Property and Casualty coverage coverage for Education under pace.
I'll second that. I've asked Oregon school boards Association weather. Oh SBA is a business with which I'm Associated as a member of the OSB a board. The answer is no there's no potential conflict of interest, but I just in the interest of transparency since this does happen angelyn vacations. I did want to mention that I'm on the OSB a board.
Thank you. The other discussion.  All right, Miss Douglas both. That's the King Martin. I bet he Reynolds. I yell and hides I [00:21:00] Reagan Molitor. Yes. Thank you
boy.  All right, Delta last matter on the agenda. So we are officially adjourned. Thank you.