WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.490 --> 00:00:07.620 Chelsea King: Alright, the meeting is open and we are together today to look at the. 2 00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:09.840 Chelsea King: to revisit the naming of. 3 00:00:09.870 --> 00:00:18.960 Chelsea King: Our third high school and thank you all for making time and I think Dr Spencer items, would you like to speak to the memo that. 4 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:20.970 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Yes, I. 5 00:00:21.390 --> 00:00:32.700 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): I would thank you so much direct king, and thank you for being here and making the time to revisit this together, and just as a quick reminder in case anyone. 6 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:44.940 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): From the public is tuning in today to this special meeting we've been on a journey to name our new high school and our mission all along, has been to provide a name that. 7 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:57.120 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): is exciting positive will last a long time that's not tied to a specific program in the school as programs could shift over time. 8 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:06.810 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): And the we had set a parameter back in December, when we talked about opening this process that we were going to choose not to name it for a specific person. 9 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:14.490 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): But really something that would just hold positivity for a long period of time throughout different circumstances. 10 00:01:15.090 --> 00:01:28.320 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): We involved our Community, by opening up to suggestions from the Community, and we got something like 256 suggestions that came forward from many different folks in our Community. 11 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:37.320 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Specifically, a number of middle schoolers submitted suggestions, who we know, maybe, our first classes of incoming. 12 00:01:38.340 --> 00:01:47.400 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Students at our new high school and then we had a group process to narrow down from that list of 256 to bring eight. 13 00:01:47.730 --> 00:01:48.990 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): A slate of eight. 14 00:01:49.350 --> 00:02:03.360 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Names forward which we brought to the board last Monday and we work to try to be transparent about what was some of the discussion that happened about each one of those names within the group process. 15 00:02:03.810 --> 00:02:11.610 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): And let me just pause and say our group included Community members staff and students and. 16 00:02:12.930 --> 00:02:29.310 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): When we brought those forward we shared what some of the discussion was about each name any questions that we had about each names or potential were wondering that we might have had we not only brought forward the name but we put in parentheses on that piece of paper. 17 00:02:30.330 --> 00:02:49.920 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): What the initials would be so that we could look at those and CC initials looks like they would be something that would work well for our students in our Community, and so, based on all of that our board voted to select Union river high school and primarily for some of the historic. 18 00:02:52.110 --> 00:03:05.790 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): nod that when Westland first formed the first high school was named Union high school and the geography at Union river brings forward the three rivers that we have in the area and how they come together the. 19 00:03:07.380 --> 00:03:19.230 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Rivers and then the idea of bringing together Westland and Wilson belt, so there was lots of excitement and positivity about that name as we left the meeting that night and moving into the next day. 20 00:03:20.760 --> 00:03:30.780 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): And then we began to get some feedback from our Community and that folks were concerned that one way than they might be shortened might not live into that. 21 00:03:31.590 --> 00:03:39.360 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Positive academic focus high school that we are looking to build that Union river could be shortened to you are high. 22 00:03:39.810 --> 00:03:49.770 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): And that is not the tone, we want to bring just start our new school, so we heard it once or twice and thought well that'll pass by, and we will move on and then we. 23 00:03:50.340 --> 00:03:56.430 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): kept hearing it from different members of our Community and it just caused us to pause and think about board goal number three. 24 00:03:56.850 --> 00:04:03.180 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): That says that we operate in an accessible and transparent manner to encourage and generate Community involvement. 25 00:04:03.480 --> 00:04:14.400 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): As our parents, students and Community partners are integral valued voice in our district, so we thought time to pause and listen to that Community feedback that we have received. 26 00:04:14.790 --> 00:04:27.330 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): And to come back to the board and give the board an opportunity to take that feedback into account and so again the board by policy gets to select the name, but our suggestion is that we bring forward the. 27 00:04:27.810 --> 00:04:39.000 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Other two names that got the most votes on the night of last week, which were riverside high school our hs could be shortened riverside hi. 28 00:04:40.170 --> 00:04:54.180 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): or river's edge high school R E s could be shortened river's edge high so that's the suggestion that we bring to you today, and just a little bit of history in case anyone was listening about why we're coming back. 29 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:55.950 To this meeting process. 30 00:04:57.630 --> 00:04:57.960 Chelsea King: Great. 31 00:04:58.110 --> 00:04:59.160 Chelsea King: Thank you so much for. 32 00:04:59.220 --> 00:05:06.120 Chelsea King: laying out just a little bit of the history of how we ended up here this this morning and the two options before us. 33 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:15.540 Chelsea King: I have, I have my thinking and then, I have a proxy vote from director Wyatt and So yes, Dr Ludwig I. 34 00:05:15.630 --> 00:05:27.660 Kathy Ludwig: just want to let you know that director Taylor is trying to locate the zoom link, so I think, as long as there's still discussion that will give him some time before there's about to at least locate that will work with it on this end. 35 00:05:30.870 --> 00:05:31.260 Chelsea King: Okay. 36 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:37.680 Chelsea King: And i'm just so slowing it down a little bit to him. 37 00:05:39.030 --> 00:05:44.280 Chelsea King: director Taylor a chance to hop in i'm very good. 38 00:05:49.350 --> 00:05:51.690 Chelsea King: we're all learning the art of the pause. 39 00:05:54.990 --> 00:06:00.810 Louis Taylor: Because my background is noisy i'm going to keep my mute on you guys hi sorry i'm late. 40 00:06:01.230 --> 00:06:11.970 Chelsea King: hi director Taylor welcome you're you're coming in just had a great time we just got done hearing the history of how we ended up here in this meeting, and we were about to begin. 41 00:06:11.970 --> 00:06:12.360 To. 42 00:06:14.070 --> 00:06:22.350 Chelsea King: Take a discussion or a boat between the two names before us riverside hi and river's edge hi. 43 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:36.390 Chelsea King: So what i'd like to do for ease perhaps is if everybody just says like what their number one choice is out of those two and then you know we can see where we land from there, and then we can. 44 00:06:36.780 --> 00:06:45.150 Chelsea King: If need be, go to what our number two choice is, and then we can take emotion so let's start to just get it all out there, first because that's how. 45 00:06:46.410 --> 00:06:49.890 Louis Taylor: Do you want it in the chat or do you want it just to tell you verbally. 46 00:06:50.310 --> 00:06:53.370 Chelsea King: You can just say say what's your number one choice. 47 00:06:53.910 --> 00:06:54.600 Louis Taylor: river's edge. 48 00:06:59.400 --> 00:07:00.930 Kelly Sloop: I go with rivers inch. 49 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:02.700 Okay. 50 00:07:04.080 --> 00:07:06.240 Christy Thompson: I was going with rivers at riverside. 51 00:07:07.650 --> 00:07:10.980 Christy Thompson: And part of it for me was that, after the. 52 00:07:11.130 --> 00:07:33.450 Christy Thompson: Are you like I just I was worried about the R E H, however, someone might construe the art than the meaning something so I thought, if we just did riverside hi rhs there was less likelihood for something to come from that that was my kind of where I was going with that. 53 00:07:34.200 --> 00:07:44.130 Chelsea King: Okay, and I received them director wyatt's proxy vote and her number one was riverside and i'll add that my number one choice is riverside. 54 00:07:44.520 --> 00:07:58.620 Chelsea King: And I can speak to that just very briefly that I liked the the clean the ease, no, no apostrophe necessary all one word and the the flow and the sound so and that's why I chose riverside. 55 00:08:01.410 --> 00:08:02.370 Chelsea King: Alright, so. 56 00:08:03.540 --> 00:08:07.680 Chelsea King: Bad choice here and good news is they're both beautiful names. 57 00:08:08.280 --> 00:08:16.920 Chelsea King: So I think we, we could take emotion, at this point for one of the names that we heard here and vote on it. 58 00:08:18.900 --> 00:08:22.590 Christy Thompson: I make a motion that we named our third high school riverside high school. 59 00:08:25.650 --> 00:08:25.950 Chelsea King: All right. 60 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:26.880 Chelsea King: Alright christy. 61 00:08:26.910 --> 00:08:34.470 Chelsea King: Has a motion and I will second that and then i'm just going to pause here and allow for some discussion. 62 00:08:38.790 --> 00:08:43.350 Louis Taylor: Actually don't have a problem with that name I do see how you would come to the point of. 63 00:08:44.850 --> 00:08:51.090 Louis Taylor: Wanting to keep it as simple as possible, so I don't have any you no problem with the name riverside so. 64 00:08:52.980 --> 00:08:54.300 Louis Taylor: i'm just putting that on the record. 65 00:08:55.650 --> 00:08:56.010 Chelsea King: Okay. 66 00:08:56.040 --> 00:08:57.480 Chelsea King: Great thanks Dr Taylor. 67 00:08:58.980 --> 00:09:09.750 Kelly Sloop: And i'm i'm I don't either I was trying to just not have it so closely to riverdale which is just in Lake oswego which isn't that far away. 68 00:09:11.040 --> 00:09:12.870 Kelly Sloop: But i'm fine with riverside. 69 00:09:15.210 --> 00:09:31.260 Chelsea King: Okay, great, thank you for that and I appreciate the flexibility and the fact that we have you know, a couple of good options here and that seems to be the riverside might be pleasing to all of us, so if there's no further discussion, we could call a vote. 70 00:09:34.650 --> 00:09:35.730 Kelly Douglas (she/her/hers): Yes, the king. 71 00:09:36.210 --> 00:09:38.520 Kelly Douglas (she/her/hers): I christy Thompson. 72 00:09:41.250 --> 00:09:42.180 Kelly Douglas (she/her/hers): Really scanner. 73 00:09:43.110 --> 00:09:44.550 Kelly Douglas (she/her/hers): I Kelly. 74 00:09:45.540 --> 00:09:47.520 Kelly Douglas (she/her/hers): I thank you. 75 00:09:49.530 --> 00:10:03.900 Chelsea King: All right, we're going to have a beautiful renovated school on the reverse side and we're going to call it riverside high school and thank you so much for working together on this is there anything else, we need to touch on before we adjourn. 76 00:10:05.250 --> 00:10:05.490 Louis Taylor: nope. 77 00:10:08.220 --> 00:10:09.150 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): just want to thank. 78 00:10:09.780 --> 00:10:11.340 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Each board member for. 79 00:10:12.870 --> 00:10:17.190 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): sorry that we didn't anticipate the comments that came forward or. 80 00:10:17.220 --> 00:10:19.380 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): What we did before, but I appreciate your. 81 00:10:19.410 --> 00:10:27.720 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Flexibility in and realizing there are many great possible names here and choosing another one that also came forward from our Community so. 82 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:28.650 Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (she, her): Thank you so much. 83 00:10:31.050 --> 00:10:32.910 Chelsea King: Very good, thank you, the meeting is adjourned. 84 00:10:33.870 --> 00:10:34.710 Louis Taylor: Thank you have a great day. 85 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:35.490 bye.