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quarter, good evening everyone good to be here with you.

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WLWV Board Room: And we will start with our roll call this Douglas.

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WLWV Board Room: Christie taxing here Chelsea came here with Taylor here Kelly slip here, thank you, thanks, and thank you to our high school students for being present it's always a highlight to see you here and i'll call up first from Wilson build high school Miguel to Haider.

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WLWV Board Room: Right more.

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WLWV Board Room: For Wilson ville we began our dorm Becker fundraising we started off with the students versus staff basketball games.

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WLWV Board Room: which the tournament was a success there's a lot of students, there is a lot of participation and i'm glad to say that my team beat the staff.

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WLWV Board Room: We also had spring fest the dorm Becker carnival on Saturday, which is also a success, we had a lot of people show up.

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WLWV Board Room: And we even had like a baseball games going on for the youth and a lot of the parents are purchasing wildcat gear for their younger students, which is really nice that are not even in high school so that was really cool.

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WLWV Board Room: We also have started our seniors page that where they're going to be attending university next year or college or just if they're going to be taking a gap year or working.

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WLWV Board Room: And we're pleased to announce that we have like around 50 posts almost and we started that today, so we have a lot of people posting.

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WLWV Board Room: We also have had a success with spring sports tennis has only lost one match, which has been really successful horrible symbol, especially since we're playing a lot of six day schools we're taking on Westland on Thursday, which i'm really excited for.

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WLWV Board Room: spring break was also super beneficial for all of our staff and a lot of our students it's good to see people refreshed and just ready to keep going and then for me spring break was a fantastic week.

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WLWV Board Room: I got into the more universities and right now i'm pleased to announce that my top two or princeton or Stanford.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I will be committing by next month, so I look forward to sharing where I will be attending next month and that's everything that has happened in Wilson about this last month.

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WLWV Board Room: And I hope your voice got a little bit of a break over spring break because you are at every event hearing the loudest so yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright, with arts and technology high school Michelle Quinn.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening our tech will be continuing the field trip or field trip tradition again in April will be going to blow ankles next Thursday and I can tell you everyone's really excited to say we're very competitive is an understatement.

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WLWV Board Room: So someone's gonna be disappointed when they lose it won't be me.

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WLWV Board Room: Our graduation planning committee has designed and ordered Arctic hoodies for everyone, hopefully, they should be delivered within the week and we're all very excited to get them.

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WLWV Board Room: The art tech graduation details are almost finalized students and staff have been working together to plan the event, we will have a graduation on June 8 at 4pm and the Wilson will auditorium.

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WLWV Board Room: The ceremony will be immediately followed by a smaller section with friends and family under the white 10s in front of the school there'll be orders and plenty of opportunity to take photos we're always taking photos.

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WLWV Board Room: There will be a senior's only breakfast the morning of graduation during the breakfast graduates will have a practice run through of the ceremony.

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WLWV Board Room: During the breakfast there will also be an academic awards ceremony students, where students will receive that honor chords or it on ourselves of scholarships will be announced.

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WLWV Board Room: The breakfast will also be a great chance to have a good time with each other, during our last few hours of the seniors.

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WLWV Board Room: And from Westland high school lucinda.

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WLWV Board Room: hi everyone it's good to see you I miss you all last month, I was in California looking at schools and i'm excited to announce that I will actually be attending the University of Oregon, even though I heard schools in California.

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WLWV Board Room: But i'm really excited about that and i'll be committing by the end of the month.

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WLWV Board Room: Some things happening right now in our school is we're prepping for mayday still which will be on April 29.

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WLWV Board Room: And i'm really wanting all of you guys to come, it would be super awesome to see your faces So those are the two showtimes at 1:30pm and 7pm.

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WLWV Board Room: And you can see a little picture of us in our petticoats we've been practicing in those the past few weeks, learning a waltz and a fast dance.

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WLWV Board Room: In this week we have auditions for the talent portion so students of all grades can audition to show dance, they can do stand up comedy they can sing.

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WLWV Board Room: Really anything you can think of will be featured at mayday.

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WLWV Board Room: something happening in our performing arts right now is band choir and orchestra or prepping for their trs competitions and actually tomorrow we're hosting choir in our auditorium.

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WLWV Board Room: And then Asp is prepping for prom which will be on may 14 at the zoo so we're getting really excited for that.

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WLWV Board Room: And same as Miguel, we will also be starting an instagram account where we'll be announcing.

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WLWV Board Room: More seniors are attending colleges if we're going on mission trips if they're taking gap years and we haven't started that just yet, but once I get started i'll be sure to email you guys, so you can check it out too so i'll see you next month, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much for sharing your excitement with us, and all the fun things you're up to and you're welcome to stay or leave whichever one you're comfortable with.

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WLWV Board Room: And I will now turn to recognitions and Dr bb so Jason.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening i'm just introducing I have the extreme pride and pleasure to introduce becky hancock halina kill strum and amy shower our.

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WLWV Board Room: mighty CREST team and whether, during we're looking at during the pandemic, making sure that K five students had science and that they weren't just staying inside on screens.

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WLWV Board Room: Whether it has to do with looking at how we have ongoing work at each primary school whether it's looking at how do we revive science fairs.

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WLWV Board Room: These three make sure that K 12 our students and our teachers are touched by CREST and, additionally, when we say all students, we mean all students with our commitment to inclusive practices and they're going to describe that for you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Dr swanson and thank you, members of the board for allowing us to speak to you tonight, my name is amy shower and the science instructional coordinator at CREST and we have a few slides to illustrate some of the things we wanted to share with you.

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WLWV Board Room: get those up here.

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WLWV Board Room: that's the last slide.

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WLWV Board Room: alright.

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WLWV Board Room: that's the first slide.

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WLWV Board Room: For those of you who are not familiar, I want to just very briefly recap, a rather beautiful story, and I will not do it justice.

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WLWV Board Room: CREST began in school year 2001 2002 it was dedicated by Dr Jane goodall whose image always graces a slide shown here with Dr will, who was intended at the time.

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WLWV Board Room: And they've tagged me, who was the Community Community partnerships coordinator at the time, unfortunately, not in the picture, because he was probably.

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WLWV Board Room: being very busy working with students and teachers and engaged in every aspect of the celebratory event and dedication is Bob carlson who.

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WLWV Board Room: actually created and directed CREST and in the first 16 years of its history.

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WLWV Board Room: Bob created a place that inspired curious and nurtured curiosity about the natural world and built skills and knowledge about environmental sciences and natural history sustainable practices and agriculture.

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WLWV Board Room: And CREST is was located in former family home on the same campus with bloomsbury and would middle school.

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WLWV Board Room: Then about four years ago we held a Community summit and we took stock of wordpress was then we had involved diverse stakeholders, we had.

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WLWV Board Room: And Community partners and we looked at what Christ had accomplished and then talked together about where it could go next to you know use these new standards and advances in science and education to drive a vision of what we sort of referred to as CREST two point O at the time.

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WLWV Board Room: This collaboration brought out some new priorities to increase crests role as a learning Center for both students and teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: And to strengthen as Dr Susan said equitable learning outcomes for all through crests outdoor real world hands on classroom extensions of learning and we develop new.

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WLWV Board Room: Learning experiences for K through 12 to connect deeply to our next generation science standards and skills which also, incidentally dovetails very nicely with CTE skill development.

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WLWV Board Room: So coming out of the pandemic lockdown we realized that we were about the only place teachers could take a field trip, so we got a lot of.

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WLWV Board Room: visitation, especially at the primary level we quickly realized that some of the purposes of CREST, as discussed at the summit came into focus nicely when viewed through the lens of research, could we have the next slide please.

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WLWV Board Room: The the big our interest, if you will, because CREST stands for the Center for research in environmental sciences and technologies.

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WLWV Board Room: Not only is CREST an extension of the classroom it's roughly four acres with several different systems represented on that piece of property.

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WLWV Board Room: We have production, agriculture, we have cycles and seasons of different places and systems like the orchard, and the pond and endemic plants we have wildlife habitat and so on.

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WLWV Board Room: So there's endless ways for students to develop their own questions and wondering at craft and design experiments or engineer solutions to what they are wondering about building their skills along the way, and getting better and better at asking beautiful questions.

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WLWV Board Room: Next slide please, thank you, I believe you are never too long young to be an authentic researcher.

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WLWV Board Room: At the K five level i've worked with teachers to create and co teach field experiences in which students come to Christ to collect data and take it back to the classroom to work with the lessons that they're engaged in at the time.

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WLWV Board Room: All those hyphens in the first bullet point I know we're a bit much but.

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WLWV Board Room: They kind of capture best capture the qualities of authenticity and engagement that we're striving to instill in each CREST experience.

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WLWV Board Room: So far this year's primary school students have been asking and investigating questions about things like processes that shape the earth, how can we model those and learn about them on our own terms, using our own hands.

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WLWV Board Room: ELENA our school garden coordinator and I have synced up lessons in the school gardens and a CREST field trip to scale up that learning to larger context and allow students to explore.

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WLWV Board Room: Engineering solutions to ways in which natural processes affect humans, in particular, erosion and soil loss.

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WLWV Board Room: Here we have a second grade class on the lower left developing a model for themselves to visualize the processes of mechanical erosion.

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WLWV Board Room: And in the middle of is one of the eight tanks of spring chinook salmon fry that third graders raised, while studying salmon life cycles and researching temperature effects on salmon development.

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WLWV Board Room: And a fifth grade class over here at beckman creek we do take CREST out on the road from time to time and they're getting up close with micro and macro biskupic life in the watershed at beckman creek.

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WLWV Board Room: The watershed research learning project at backman is a collaboration with the city of Wilson bill and it's partially funded by a Community enhancement grant from metro.

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WLWV Board Room: The salmon research project that I mentioned earlier, was a collaboration between CREST and OD F and w working with the students to provide them access to collect data.

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WLWV Board Room: remotely so that's actually a great science skill in and of itself remote sensing and bringing that into analysis into the laboratory or classroom so in the fall when we couldn't travel to the gorge to see Sam and, as usual, we develop this research project with O D F and w instead.

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WLWV Board Room: Here, we also have third graders looking at structure and function on the lower left in macroscopic features of plants and then coming into the lab in order to take a look at.

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WLWV Board Room: More microscopic features impact on the lower right that's a microscope slide that a fourth grader created using a technique called an epidermal peel.

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WLWV Board Room: Beautiful slides and we've had great success with microscopy this year as low as the second grade level, a lot of skill building their.

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WLWV Board Room: These students were interested in paleontology and we were using tracks that they had made from plaster to create.

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WLWV Board Room: Fossil record stories to better understand how paleontologist argue from evidence that they find in the field so there's a little bit of development of science literacy, as well as skill in that exercise.

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WLWV Board Room: Next slide please Oh, and I should say all of these lessons take a great deal of preparation and we could not do that without the students of the Youth transition program because we are CREST, this is it you're looking at it right here.

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WLWV Board Room: At the middle school level, we have also been spending a lot of time using microscopes lately there's something magical about.

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WLWV Board Room: going out and viewing the macroscopic world and engaging with and it's starting to become more and more curious about more things.

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WLWV Board Room: And then look through a microscope and realize that there are.

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WLWV Board Room: More things on earth that are dreamt of than are dreamt of in your philosophy, you know you look at it and it's very common to see a student first get the microscope and focus and succeed with it.

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WLWV Board Room: And jump up like that, with realization about what they're looking at another very successful middle school project so far has been.

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WLWV Board Room: we're we're piloting or calling an lt eat our project.

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WLWV Board Room: lt R stands for long term ecological research each middle school has a unique habitat around it and plenty of opportunities to define an area in which that students.

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WLWV Board Room: At the seventh or eighth grade can study, year after year after year and it builds from a model that I worked in in the Antarctic, when I worked on an lt are there.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the 28 of them in the world where scientists come back, year after year, and they hand off data to the next group.

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WLWV Board Room: And ultimately students may be able to get publishable data out of these projects it's a very student led kind of thing they're looking at questions that interest them in these settings.

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WLWV Board Room: So at meridian creek, for example, we've been able to develop questions in the school rain garden and study that is a discrete habitat.

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WLWV Board Room: And connected with the other systems of the school and the other environments and then even invite the city and to explain how the city uses that structure to to manage stormwater runoff and what the function of it is.

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WLWV Board Room: The upper right would middle school has adopted the bowl colony the Gray tailed vols that are making holes everywhere in the ground at CREST and we're looking at population dynamics how behavior of the vols can givens coexist with balls lots of good questions there as well.

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WLWV Board Room: and high school and that gradual release where students are now coming and telling us, this is what we want to learn, you know it in primary will often say Christ has a problem I really need you here to help me.

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WLWV Board Room: solve this problem or figure out something here and help them develop the question in middle school you released that a little more at a high school they're coming to us, and so the student in the Center from Westland high school was looking at how to direct.

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WLWV Board Room: problematic animals like beer that common lunch on our garden by planting different plants that might be deterrence to deer in the right places, using wildlife cameras to monitor deer movements.

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WLWV Board Room: We also have a lot of service projects and club activities on the weekend students are eager to give back to the Community.

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WLWV Board Room: They want to come to Christ and work and help make that a learning environment for their peers and for younger students as well.

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WLWV Board Room: And classes like environmental science and astronomy and permaculture find a home at cross to because they can come permaculture in particular came in the fall and get some thinking with us about how to move some of our systems over to a more permaculture based model.

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WLWV Board Room: So there is really too much to tell you about this is really just a sample.

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to invite each one of you at any time, please, to feel free to contact me and come out and share some time with us and the students at CREST and the teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: and see these brilliant minds at work, that would be our pleasure to host you so feel free to contact me, and I would like to turn it over to school gardens with ELENA.

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WLWV Board Room: hi everybody i'm yes i'm the school garden coordinator for the primary schools as i'm sure you've seen.

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WLWV Board Room: every school garden will every primary school has a school garden, and so I helped manage nine different gardens, which is super fun.

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WLWV Board Room: and getting all of the different teachers out there and feeling confident using the space year round, and really specialize on the year round thing.

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WLWV Board Room: i'm sure you've noticed right now, everyone is gearing up for digging in their own garden and in their own yard, as you start to see a little bit of sunshine and I want to show you here we've been in the garden since November.

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WLWV Board Room: We even had some kids working in the garden as the ground was frozen so we're really learning about seasonality this year.

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WLWV Board Room: Which is super fun, my main goal is to enrich in gfs lessons so that next generation science standards that teachers are already doing in their classroom.

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WLWV Board Room: Adding that hands on exploration and then connecting it to the local seasons as well, this is just a simple table I put up here for you to understand how i'm highlighting one grade each month.

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WLWV Board Room: My goal is to have 100% of all of our primary students out in their garden this year and so far it's going swimmingly turns out teachers love taking their kids out to the garden.

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WLWV Board Room: And it's working really well kind of pairing things in the garden with what they're already doing in the classroom taking that step out into the garden to kind of.

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WLWV Board Room: So far, 100% of fifth graders first graders and fourth graders have been out in the garden i'm finishing up with second grade right now, because we had a little bit of a.

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WLWV Board Room: You know spring break happened so we're a little behind schedule, but it's working just well just as well, and second grade is super fun right now, because they're modeling seed dispersal by animals which looks like a whole bunch of second graders moving seeds from one end of a.

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WLWV Board Room: Teachers are echoing that by having them create pollinator models in their classroom and.

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WLWV Board Room: Creating these little bees and flying around the classroom and pollinating things in the classrooms it's it's all very adorable I really would love to have any of you out at any time to see one of these lessons because it's the cutest thing ever.

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WLWV Board Room: let's go to the next slide I have some pictures for all of you and.

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WLWV Board Room: Aside from working with teachers alongside them and enriching and DSS i'm also just trying to get kids more comfortable in the garden space we're dealing with kids after a pandemic so.

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WLWV Board Room: They haven't been in a garden and haven't interacted with space in a really long time and just understanding how to be curious is something that they have to relearn honestly.

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WLWV Board Room: So the more contact time I can get them into the garden, the better i'm doing this through a couple different things.

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WLWV Board Room: At one school, we now have recess in the garden so as kids are rotating through recess the garden is now one of the rotations and there's simple tools for them to use.

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WLWV Board Room: And things like Trolls and magnifying glasses so it's okay for people that are taking care of recess duty nothing crazy.

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WLWV Board Room: But just simple interactions in the garden, to use the space and be curious daily, and we also had a couple teachers approached me and they were talking about how kids should use the garden, in a way, where.

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WLWV Board Room: they're not planting anything they're not doing science they're not using a science tool but they just want to hang out in the garden and have it be a calm space, so we now have converted a couple garden beds over a Bolton actually.

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WLWV Board Room: To be just used for making fairy houses kids love it they do it during recess and then.

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WLWV Board Room: ramps and roads, so we have a bunch of like toy cars in the garden for them to just use the dirt and have that sensory moment and like have fun during recess, which is kind of fun, I also have anytime bins now in all of our garden sheds.

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WLWV Board Room: I used trust funds to purchase those so that teachers can go out into the garden at any time, and feel like they have the tools that they need.

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WLWV Board Room: or whatever that next step is for them go to college whatever and they're going to be better at asking questions in all environments, so thank you for your time come see us.

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WLWV Board Room: Great Thank you Kathy it's my pleasure to invite our district literacy specialist Michelle Murphy up to share some information around an upcoming event.

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WLWV Board Room: So this event will begin with storytelling session for the whole family performed by our amazing and energetic public Librarians and then we will shift into can we go to the next slide please.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much, Michelle and Dr Edwin why I just want to say, Michelle Thank you again you have been such an asset to our district, since you joined us for years ago.

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WLWV Board Room: And we just wanted to bring it to you to get your help and spreading the word so that anyone can attend this event, thank you, thank you, Michelle.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, slides for my report, thank you curtis and Joe.

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WLWV Board Room: So, as several of you've mentioned, we we've been quite busy since the last board meeting, not only have there been school events and typically I share with you some of those school events.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, inviting them so that they could give us feedback and it may be something that we share with the other school districts in clackamas county.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, just the last couple things to think you have a few of these flyers maybe in your folder Kelly, I sent you an email.

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WLWV Board Room: And then lastly we're getting into those months, where you're going to be hearing about the budget so just a reminder again for you as a board.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, Dr Taylor has a second will you please call boat Thank you Kelly sloop.

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WLWV Board Room: Trafficking I christy Thompson hi tiffany my I thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, very good we'll move on to communications and comments from the audience.

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WLWV Board Room: looks like we have Mr mccabe so you're pretty well versed and these.

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WLWV Board Room: protocols, but the, the main thing, just as a reminder, in case anybody's watching are out there and hasn't yet signed up.

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WLWV Board Room: And this is not an opportunity to single out an individual employee or a student, we have a separate complaint process for that.

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WLWV Board Room: A good evening guess.

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WLWV Board Room: So substantial increase in revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the situations have.

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WLWV Board Room: Though in this district is the property taxes that have been collected, this year, this is just from the number that was turned into the Oregon part of education has is now report is 4064 and eight $800.

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WLWV Board Room: Which is below what I have seen in the past, but what you're you're not it's not being presented tonight, how that difference occurred.

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WLWV Board Room: The only problem is is.

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WLWV Board Room: it's also being presented tonight that may 24.

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WLWV Board Room: Is the.

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WLWV Board Room: scheduled audit date at this time and from communicating with different parties at SOS and O D.

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WLWV Board Room: it's going to cause a problem for every school district in the state they're usually do the reconciliation.

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WLWV Board Room: When we head into budget season for the 2021 year and, until this school district soldered is turned in they cannot do that and the turnaround time from April 24 to may 1, which is essentially a weekend.

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WLWV Board Room: It would have to be done in like three days, which is next to impossible, and so I don't know what can occur.

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WLWV Board Room: To get the pastor because all these other school districts are feeling the pain will feel the pain of not knowing what the reconciliation dollar amount they have to go forward into the following year.

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WLWV Board Room: Sometimes it's millions sometimes it's millions, the other way and sometimes it's little at all, but they don't know until everybody soldered is turned in.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, on another issue going towards the budget is measure three dash 554 past November 2019 there's a three words in there because certain people are.

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WLWV Board Room: worried well is everything going to be spent by February 2020 and an item that was put in, there was to pay bond interest.

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WLWV Board Room: And therefore, since it's in there, they got voted on sorry being used by this district, they could take that portion the jail been not spent and use it to pay down the interest.

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WLWV Board Room: On the Giovanni and give the taxpayers a huge tax holiday, especially with these inflation that we're having right now.

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WLWV Board Room: And somebody say no, it can't be done that way well it's already been done this district, it was in the measure if it's already three minutes, could you wrap it up all right, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, we will turn to the business office, Dr Hughes.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, so the report I have today's a not much different compared to last month, the only different DAS.

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WLWV Board Room: The 1.7 million that goes to support staff compensation and retention that the board approved and passed on Resolution 2021 dash 11.

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WLWV Board Room: So what that the total revenue and expenditure are tracking closely to the protection again so they're new and infant balance for our general fund project, this is 15.4 million or 11.5 to 8% of the total revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: So for the 2021 audit update, as you know, we have top bar cola and water rich where we caught a DK w they had perform the audit for the district for fiscal year 2120 2021.

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WLWV Board Room: This is, they still continue to require for the additional time and the time that they they tell me is April 25 best Ada new project day.

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WLWV Board Room: For the draft completion so i've been in touch with the DK w we have regular communication and I also have.

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WLWV Board Room: Communication reveler with the O D to let them know what's going on with our audit and was the deadline that the tk who had.

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WLWV Board Room: asked for us are presented to us, so I will continue to monitor this and keep you posted so as of now, the day we have is April 25 at the new project day for our rap completion.

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WLWV Board Room: The question for me.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright i'm seeing none at day Thank you so much yeah and I just might add that we're not the only district that's having some delays with the audit there's.

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WLWV Board Room: I think about half a dozen close to 10 other districts, whatever their reasons are but you know, for some of it is staffing with the pandemic, with some of these audit firms so.

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WLWV Board Room: Dr Hughes has been almost weekly in touch with O D who's in touch with the secretary of state's office and the auditors have been in touch with the secretary of state's office so everyone's very aware they're monitoring the situation.

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WLWV Board Room: And there are ways that the Department of Education Michael phone who works there is able to work with other districts, to make sure that they can get things reconciled and move on with their budgets and that we're not holding things up, so we are in touch with them regularly.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright, thank you we've always had excellent outcomes with things like audits and so i'm not concerned about how the process is unfolding Thank you.

461
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WLWV Board Room: And I that's everything on our agenda, other than the important dates was there any dialogue that we needed to have about scheduling or dates, yes, if I could just keep the board for a few minutes also you've got these couple of postcards you may have wondered what these were.

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WLWV Board Room: shy the Walter and her team did an incredible job at the educator fair last week.

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WLWV Board Room: Setting up a booth for our district districts all across Oregon go to the Convention Center and her team set up this incredible booth.

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WLWV Board Room: Their principles were able to go and other staff to do interviews of prospective new hires and teachers and these were just some of the.

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WLWV Board Room: qr code kind of marketing flyers that they were giving out to folks throughout the Convention Center and.

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WLWV Board Room: We had some of the longest lines people coming to our district, and even in kind of a low economic and staffing time where the Convention Center was not as full of prospective educators looking for jobs.

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WLWV Board Room: Our corner of the Convention Center was hopping and so I think we're one of the last groups to close up shop because we had people waiting and in line.

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WLWV Board Room: This is a destination district, and people are looking very selectively for where they want to teach and I want to thank the educators who were there interviewing that morning we did find some incredible.

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WLWV Board Room: teacher hires and also to shiloh and Elizabeth Natalia and Casey, who did a great job representing our district at the fair, so thank you and what i'm going to hand out.

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WLWV Board Room: Is the doodle poll results, because we do need to if we can for a few minutes just take a look at this and land on a date, if we can for the middle school listening session that you as a board are going to post with director Taylor and director sloop.

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WLWV Board Room: As the host of that event.

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WLWV Board Room: These were some of the dates that we gave you and April 25 you'll see a line running through it, because that is the new date now for.

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WLWV Board Room: The health and sexuality comprehensive plan Community forum, it was going to be on the 14th we kind of double booked.

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WLWV Board Room: Had the literacy night and that forum and as both events were kind of gaining momentum and especially as literacy night was growing in popularity.

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WLWV Board Room: We just didn't want them to compete with each other and families have to choose which one to attend, so the literacy night is still the 14th Michelle.

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WLWV Board Room: And we're moving the Community forum and we have selected the 25th as the new date for that is a little time bound, we need to get it.

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WLWV Board Room: Get that committee form in before we have the board meeting in May, where we have you adopt the comprehensive plan you'll want to have had had the want to have had the Community Forum and the feedback from that.

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WLWV Board Room: Now the listening session is on your own timeline as a board, so you can look at the dates here and see where your colleagues indicated availability, other than Kelly Douglas at the top, she she and I have to be there.

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WLWV Board Room: you'll see that we didn't have.

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WLWV Board Room: You know, unanimity here, but if you need to go further in the dual pull into may we can certainly extend that and see if we can land on a collective date the.

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WLWV Board Room: First, I have two questions first, can you please tell me the time and location of the April 25 Community Forum, the location would be here, no where's the location bb could you come up to the speaker far.

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WLWV Board Room: We were thinking just to ensure that there's space for all that, we would have it at meridian creek and it would be 630 to 730 on the 25th okay and board members are being creek okay.

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WLWV Board Room: So that that's not the listing session that's right a Community Community forum for the comprehensive human sexuality curriculum date, and then the listening session, when I look at April 19 the checkmark means can be there if necessary.

484
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WLWV Board Room: No okay so April 19 has an x where your name is directed Wyatt yeah okay yeah and when we look at the calendar Passover is on the 19th and 20th.

485
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WLWV Board Room: So that may be something you want to consider in terms of the listening session and families, availability and then on may 3 is IED and I want to thank director why for sending those reminders along as we had put this out.

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WLWV Board Room: So my question then is when I look at this, I see that none of the dates here work for all of us, so it seems to me the question is, are we looking at some later dates are we trying to find dates in between these.

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WLWV Board Room: that's that's the question for you, if you if you feel like you're on a timeline for this listening session and.

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WLWV Board Room: would like to get it in by mid may you may need to talk about these days and see if there's some compromise, I say, if you see that you're not or you know it's not an urgent matter and you'd like to you can move the listening session, maybe further in May.

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WLWV Board Room: We can put some more dates on the doodle whole right okay.

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WLWV Board Room: I could make the third work.

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WLWV Board Room: But it looks like the red check mark is it is it director, why it would not work, for you know those me know, I think.

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WLWV Board Room: Early on, that the aid, and so I think again if we're trying to get all.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah yeah yeah I mean, I think, a month later in the month and we could.

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WLWV Board Room: What i'm sorry it did me, maybe, but I think I would like to make it a heart with with with the new new information we're changing our mind on that, and so, shall we take an.

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WLWV Board Room: effort at finding something right now in person synchronously for after May 12 and see if we get any traction on that, and if we become stumbling about, then we can do a doodle poll for later dates.

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WLWV Board Room: For me, I just would have to be after the 18th i'm in Scotland from the through the 18th so okay so you're starting on the day after the So what if we look at the week of the 23rd through the 27th might we have.

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WLWV Board Room: When.

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WLWV Board Room: Could we do it in lieu of our meeting on the 23rd or is that budget meeting we don't have a meeting scheduled, why do we have a meeting scheduled we don't have a meeting scheduled for the 23rd, so we are regular meeting will be on the 16th the words that month for some reason.

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WLWV Board Room: Three third 24th and 25th or work for me me to school like middle school activities and.

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WLWV Board Room: Do we have access to those calendars.

501
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WLWV Board Room: Actually, was kind of wondering also why it is possible to do this during school hours is that better for our students.

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WLWV Board Room: With my dad first of all, the question the dates that are on here, we already went through and took off the track meets that go until six or so so may the Monday night.

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WLWV Board Room: Those are a bit safer in terms of school events I can quickly check it all the school calendars that most concerts and things are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening, if there is anything.

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WLWV Board Room: So, Dr Susan, would you be willing to just confirm may 23 might work because i'm getting a sense from the board here that may 23 yeah i'll just look really someone day so yeah yeah Monday Monday nights and Friday nights.

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WLWV Board Room: Schools don't plan and stay away from Friday night so yeah but i'll go check right now Okay, thank you did you have something you want to say, Dr Ryan.

506
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WLWV Board Room: I just I wanted to see if I could be excused from the meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: But i'm fine with anything after the week of the 23rd really okay well let's we I think we, we want to find something that everybody can be out right.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah yeah yeah so but that that we doesn't work, for you know the 23rd is great Okay, when you said you want to be excused from the meeting you mean right now, yes okay yeah of course yeah you, of course, what will the 23rd will let you know we decide great yeah you bet.

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WLWV Board Room: Is the championship game.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: On that note, I would hope that, as we move forward as board members in the future that we don't put our board meetings.

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WLWV Board Room: On the championship nights we've had both board meetings on championship nights for football and basketball, and those are virtually holidays in most families, so I think I think they put their games on our board me, I think that it would have please probably right, but if.

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WLWV Board Room: I thought about you today Louis I just say i'm pretty impressed that Kelly your husband is here because you'll notice in mind it's not like I gave him a hall pass and she's still came.

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WLWV Board Room: Looking at the 23rd or close to wrapping up the meeting because that's the calendar topic we had for the.

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WLWV Board Room: fall in that week.

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WLWV Board Room: That works for me to me if she comes back and Lewis, you said you get back on the 18th correct well yeah i'm I am back yes i'm back i'm back again so i'm back on the 23rd on here just saying.

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WLWV Board Room: That, I think the following weekend.

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WLWV Board Room: May 23 is fine, oh.

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WLWV Board Room: So may 23 six to 730 do we know a location yet.

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WLWV Board Room: To be determined.

521
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WLWV Board Room: Burning great okay so morning creek may 23 six to 730 with our middle school listening session right no doodle poll required.

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WLWV Board Room: And I thank you sheila for all those hires you and your team, I noticed that in the consent agenda that was a lot of hires you've been busy I really was yeah, thank you for that.

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WLWV Board Room: And I miss Douglas I do remember when you had your goats at CREST under a giant 10 I have the pictures to prove it okay anything else anybody.

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WLWV Board Room: Right we're adjourned.