WEBVTT 7 00:00:54.570 --> 00:00:55.200 Board Room: Good evening. 8 00:00:57.900 --> 00:01:05.940 Board Room: I am vice chair Thompson and I am going to call this December 620 21 regular board meeting of the western Wilson bill school board. 9 00:01:07.290 --> 00:01:08.040 Board Room: To order. 10 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:13.980 Board Room: Mr Nicholas will you please call the role certainly director. 11 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:28.740 Board Room: Thank you. 12 00:01:30.810 --> 00:01:44.760 Board Room: Alright, so first we get to hear from our students, which for me is one of my favorite parts, so if I could have Miguel come up from Wilson ville high school and you can share with us what's going on there. 13 00:01:51.870 --> 00:01:52.140 Board Room: So. 14 00:01:54.120 --> 00:02:02.430 Board Room: i'm glad that we've been able to get a lot of things done, we were able to make it all the way to the quarterfinals for football but we unfortunately lost that game. 15 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:13.680 Board Room: But we were still there today on a cloud and then like Leah girls varsity soccer one state championship this year, which is really nice because two years ago we didn't get it, but it was just like. 16 00:02:14.100 --> 00:02:20.700 Board Room: The home run, I guess, and it was amazing and then we also had a huge success of our musical which was once upon a mattress. 17 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:28.140 Board Room: And they sold out for like the last two nights is just crazy I went for like the dress rehearsal and it was amazing it was funny. 18 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:40.230 Board Room: And then we have some photos I mean easy chemistry and ap chemistry has proven to be one of my best classes, I love being there, although it's a challenge it's still very fun to be doing hydration labs and it's just. 19 00:02:40.770 --> 00:02:45.840 Board Room: super fun looking forward to what's happening at the end of this month is that next week, we have sphere week. 20 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:56.970 Board Room: And then, finally, we have our band choir orchestra retreat this Friday, which is going to be so fun just get to be there for like one day and I hope everyone enjoys well, thank you so. 21 00:02:58.260 --> 00:02:58.500 Board Room: Much. 22 00:03:02.970 --> 00:03:07.290 Board Room: Next up and I agenda is Michelle clin from arts and technology high school. 23 00:03:13.950 --> 00:03:20.910 Board Room: And even though it feels like Tom has been flying by quickly, I can safely say just about every student in our tech is already counting down the days to Christmas break. 24 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:33.060 Board Room: Like Miguel said well simple high school wrapped up there, once upon a mattress and our own brewery to dairy and got to play jester and after seeing how much fun rory had playing the jester. 25 00:03:33.570 --> 00:03:40.260 Board Room: Several our tech students have been shown interest in wanting to participate in a midsummer night's dream and are being encouraged to audition. 26 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:48.900 Board Room: Every year, our tech has a tradition of giving every student a holiday gifts gifts and i'm pleased to report that it's going to happen again this year. 27 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:57.120 Board Room: I second art tech winter tradition is the art tech holiday lunch it on the 16th art tech will host it's holiday lunch for students and staff. 28 00:03:57.660 --> 00:04:05.400 Board Room: During the lunch students and staff will have the opportunity to like different play a variety of games and be able to enjoy lasagna and then the other foods offered. 29 00:04:05.970 --> 00:04:12.810 Board Room: During the lunch was also when students will receive their holiday gifts students who are unable to attend will be delivered the guests at a later date. 30 00:04:14.070 --> 00:04:22.050 Board Room: And this Thursday students will also have an opportunity to decorate their own gingerbread houses and we'll be able to keep them and take them home to their families to enjoy. 31 00:04:22.950 --> 00:04:28.770 Board Room: Recently, along with the chaos of holiday events students have been filling out applications for college, as well as student aid. 32 00:04:29.460 --> 00:04:36.060 Board Room: Our tech teachers have proved diligently have worked diligently over the past couple of weeks to help students submit letters of recommendation. 33 00:04:36.390 --> 00:04:44.130 Board Room: As well as helping to answer any questions about applications and soup a force, along with making sure that transcripts are submitted, along with applications. 34 00:04:44.580 --> 00:04:53.490 Board Room: teachers have been teachers have even been giving their congratulations to those who have already gotten accepted into the early action choice, colleges and universities, thank you. 35 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:03.420 Board Room: Thank you, Michelle and, finally, we have listened to from less than high school. 36 00:05:05.790 --> 00:05:08.250 Board Room: Good evening everybody is good to see you again. 37 00:05:08.610 --> 00:05:17.280 Board Room: This past month we had our canned food drive, which I mentioned last month at the board meeting, and you can see, the picture up there of us with the Oregon city elks in the top right corner. 38 00:05:17.580 --> 00:05:26.430 Board Room: We donated many boxes of non perishable food and we donated lots of money to our local Westland food pantry which was really exciting it's been our. 39 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:33.960 Board Room: sixth year with the Western country and we've been with the Oregon city Alex for many years in the past, so we were really glad to do that again. 40 00:05:34.350 --> 00:05:43.020 Board Room: And the top left corner, you can see our first unified soccer game there's me in the middle, with marissa and Carter I scored a goal to sing. 41 00:05:43.740 --> 00:05:51.090 Board Room: It was a lot of fun and it was super fun to play Wilson vote I don't know who actually won the game, but it was it was really good range a little bit. 42 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:59.130 Board Room: But we all had a good laugh, and you can see, the picture there in the bottom that's actually from this morning i'm also in that picture. 43 00:05:59.460 --> 00:06:12.630 Board Room: Today, was the first day of our annual Mr Ms mix Westland competition, which runs today through Saturday every day of the week there's a dress up day for students today was outfit day, so we had all of our Gray on. 44 00:06:13.050 --> 00:06:18.450 Board Room: tomorrow's denim day Thursday is senior senior day, so we will be dressed as elderly folks. 45 00:06:18.750 --> 00:06:27.090 Board Room: and Thursday we will be wearing our superhero costumes and then we'll end with Friday as spirit Friday and on Saturday, we will have our Mr miss next pageant. 46 00:06:27.540 --> 00:06:32.550 Board Room: which I would love to invite all of you to attend if you're available, which will be Saturday at 4pm. 47 00:06:32.850 --> 00:06:38.610 Board Room: In the performing arts Center at Westland high school all the seniors in that picture will be in the pageant including myself. 48 00:06:38.940 --> 00:06:52.740 Board Room: there's a lip sync battle a group dance a formal or portion it's tons of fun and we're raising money for sources of strength, which is a local organization within Westland high school that supports kids mental and physical health needs. 49 00:06:53.340 --> 00:06:59.580 Board Room: yeah so i'm super excited about that kicking off the New Year and in the old with a bang Thank you. 50 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:03.630 Thank you. 51 00:07:05.490 --> 00:07:12.240 Board Room: Can I say something nice, yes, I just want to say I know there's so many events going on at at high school and. 52 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:21.030 Board Room: So many times when i've shown up you guys, are the most spirited people i'm surprised Miguel soon as you still have a voice, by the end of the event. 53 00:07:21.840 --> 00:07:28.440 Board Room: Because you're leading every single section, but your presence has just been noted and appreciated your leadership. 54 00:07:28.890 --> 00:07:35.670 Board Room: is just phenomenal this year and I just want the board to know these folks are so these students are so involved. 55 00:07:36.210 --> 00:07:51.600 Board Room: Their their leaders, but they also lead with such heart and passion for their schools and their their at almost every single event, so I know you're focusing on school your assignments your colleges, but you've really stepped up this year Thank you so much greatly appreciated. 56 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:01.170 Board Room: Thank you again. 57 00:08:02.550 --> 00:08:09.060 Board Room: And we are going to move on to the recognition portion and so every month when we have a school board meeting, we like to recognize. 58 00:08:10.200 --> 00:08:22.650 Board Room: People from our Community or our own staff members and this month, we have the opportunity to recognize the Wilson ville alliance for an inclusive community, so I don't know Garrett, do you want to come up and as Aaron. 59 00:08:23.760 --> 00:08:29.400 Board Room: He couldn't okay i'm going to sit here and read and then i'm going to bring your plaque out to you that's okay okay. 60 00:08:30.150 --> 00:08:37.170 Board Room: So um, this is a special time in our board meetings where we get to recognize our Community partners who are working thoughtfully passionately. 61 00:08:37.530 --> 00:08:45.900 Board Room: selflessly for the betterment of our children and families, we call you partners because we often serve the same patrons in the Community or share the same mission. 62 00:08:46.590 --> 00:08:55.800 Board Room: As the Wilson ville alliance for an inclusive Community you strive to ensure welcoming spaces and places in our neighborhood for all Members to feel a sense of belonging. 63 00:08:56.310 --> 00:09:04.320 Board Room: You have a strong stance on equity and disrupting systems of racism, which is what our school district strives to do as well as you can see, by our board goal one. 64 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:21.480 Board Room: Together we have partnered in several ways by hosting key topic movies key topics movies, like intelligent lives or attending similar events like the equity summits or rallies you are also engaged in efforts with Equitable housing and the Wilson built Community police advisory committee. 65 00:09:22.560 --> 00:09:30.210 Board Room: Myself, I have started attending the Wilson rebel alliance meetings I the last kind of year or so and. 66 00:09:31.560 --> 00:09:44.130 Board Room: What I appreciate about those meetings is that they are looking for mark they're looking at ways to help marginalized in all aspects i'm just something that's near and dear to my heart is just. 67 00:09:45.180 --> 00:09:55.710 Board Room: Our Community members that struggle with mental illness and and that was something that my dad struggled with his whole life and so that's kind of been my focus on just looking at housing and how do we make sure. 68 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:04.350 Board Room: Trying to press into that making sure that the members of our community that have those challenges have places to live so. 69 00:10:05.400 --> 00:10:19.380 Board Room: What I would say about involvement in the Wilson ville alliance is that they're interested in all in all aspects of Arc you know all of our Community members and so just inviting anybody who has a heart or passion. 70 00:10:20.490 --> 00:10:33.930 Board Room: Based on their own experience, their own family experience friends experience whatever, this is a great place to go where they do really press into the needs of all of our Community so that's my own little insert plug. 71 00:10:35.670 --> 00:10:35.820 Board Room: The. 72 00:10:38.130 --> 00:10:47.100 Board Room: But as a board member and residents i'm proud of nonprofit organizations like the Wilson bell alliance for inclusive community and your sister organization, the Westland alliance for inclusive community. 73 00:10:47.550 --> 00:10:58.710 Board Room: Together, you send a strong message that everyone is welcome, and that in our Community children, families, schools, businesses city government places of worship all have an opportunity to set aside partisan preferences. 74 00:10:59.130 --> 00:11:05.460 Board Room: And come together for a stronger purpose belonging and I can definitely speak to that just with my own experience. 75 00:11:05.850 --> 00:11:19.050 Board Room: And the Westland Wilson ville school board wishes to recognize the efforts of your organization, the Wilson ville alliance for an inclusive community and commitment of your Members to our schools and our Community so and we have a plaque. 76 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:31.830 Board Room: And Kelly, do you want to take now you're welcome to be in the picture by yourself, no, no, without me. 77 00:11:57.630 --> 00:11:59.190 Board Room: Definitely um so yeah. 78 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:15.600 Board Room: A little bit of my co chair Aaron woods, who couldn't be here as a he was a kid from the south side of Chicago I grew up in East Cleveland so to think that we would land many years later, in suburban portland is exactly what we planned to do along. 79 00:12:17.100 --> 00:12:20.640 Board Room: just to say a few things about the organization really. 80 00:12:21.390 --> 00:12:27.630 Board Room: In learning and and just the beauty in this Community where we kind of came together right before this whole pandemic it so to see. 81 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:35.250 Board Room: A group of eight to 10 people around there really show up every month on zoom and continue through that in the evenings has been excellent. 82 00:12:35.880 --> 00:12:40.500 Board Room: And i'll just say two things one around our pillars of diversity equity inclusion. 83 00:12:41.400 --> 00:12:46.290 Board Room: Just to put the little respect on the name of tomorrow DS he's an individual who. 84 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:55.680 Board Room: are a lot of times around election season you'll see folks come to our board organization and be kind of buddy buddy and he was somebody who I think he was looking running at school board or city council. 85 00:12:56.010 --> 00:13:06.780 Board Room: On eventually didn't end up running, but he showed up every single meeting since then hasn't been one of those people who just kind of came to drop in and rub shoulders and go along with the election season, but really stayed. 86 00:13:07.110 --> 00:13:15.360 Board Room: month by month and it's helping our outreach in the medical community to the Latino Community here in in the area, and so I thought that was absolutely excellent. 87 00:13:16.050 --> 00:13:24.480 Board Room: And then my work is I was a high school history teacher turned urban planner so a lot of like the structural equity pieces i'm interested in. 88 00:13:24.990 --> 00:13:29.910 Board Room: But it's always interesting like when you hit some things that christy was talking about how. 89 00:13:30.300 --> 00:13:36.120 Board Room: On the the burden and when you look at the kind of systemic things that single parent families face in this Community. 90 00:13:36.510 --> 00:13:43.500 Board Room: Or that people searching for a home that they don't have a place if they were to need one tonight and did talk with. 91 00:13:44.100 --> 00:13:51.540 Board Room: Lynn Rentals of the world at heart of the city or rose money at family promise and to talk with your group about the second home program that you're working here. 92 00:13:52.200 --> 00:14:03.480 Board Room: are good, but then there's also like some more structural systemic pieces so it's good to talk about that, but then also look and see how the stories actually impact people and how that's brought up so. 93 00:14:04.050 --> 00:14:16.620 Board Room: that's been a life, giving and heart wrenching and and all that, in the middle and so that's where we're enjoying doing this work and we're going to keep hanging on in zoom life and make it till we can get in personally thank you. 94 00:14:24.630 --> 00:14:25.590 Board Room: again for coming here. 95 00:14:26.610 --> 00:14:32.460 Board Room: Alright, so we are going to move on to our consent agenda and do we have emotion from the board. 96 00:14:35.430 --> 00:14:37.140 Board Room: We approve the consent agenda. 97 00:14:38.310 --> 00:14:49.440 Board Room: Is there a second Thank you all right it's been moved by director Wyatt and seconded by director Taylor and Kelly, can you please call for the vote at least slip. 98 00:14:51.990 --> 00:14:53.460 Board Room: I miss Taylor. 99 00:14:54.780 --> 00:14:55.500 Board Room: kelsey king. 100 00:14:56.550 --> 00:15:01.530 Board Room: hi Mr Thompson I justin Ryan, thank you. 101 00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:05.520 Board Room: Thank you. 102 00:15:07.170 --> 00:15:20.670 Board Room: it's time to move on to communications and comments from the audience, so it looks like we have some people here to get public comments so just as a reminder i'm going to go over just some of our general public comment I. 103 00:15:22.530 --> 00:15:36.420 Board Room: don't want to call them rules but guidelines and that we like to follow, so we want to foster a climate that encourages and values public input and so when you share, if you would please make sure that you state your address, and your name. 104 00:15:38.790 --> 00:15:50.250 Board Room: you've already signed up and, by the way, thank you for coming tonight I know we're this is such a busy time of year, and so just thank you for taking time to be engaged in your community and come share with your community. 105 00:15:50.610 --> 00:15:56.760 Board Room: And we do really appreciate and we really value our Community input, so I want to make sure that that I state that. 106 00:15:57.510 --> 00:16:02.550 Board Room: The public comment time as a time the board uses to collect information rather than engage in dialogue. 107 00:16:03.180 --> 00:16:10.110 Board Room: We encourage speakers, not to mistake the board silence for a lack of interest or care we are listening carefully and probably taking notes. 108 00:16:10.620 --> 00:16:21.240 Board Room: If you were asking the district or board to respond or provide information, please provide your contact information with the district board Secretary with miss Douglas so that the appropriate person can follow up. 109 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:28.080 Board Room: And the public comment, time is not a forum for singling out individual district employees or students for complaints. 110 00:16:28.560 --> 00:16:37.170 Board Room: If you have a complaint about an individual student or district employee, please do not mention them by name or provide information that would allow for them to be identified. 111 00:16:37.770 --> 00:16:49.470 Board Room: Please use the district complaint process successful on our website to help resolve individual situations of concern, and if we feel like we hear an individual's name come up, then I will stop you in the middle of your comment. 112 00:16:51.510 --> 00:16:56.220 Board Room: Please keep your comments to three minutes we've got a timer up there on the screen. 113 00:16:57.060 --> 00:17:03.840 Board Room: If that is not enough time you're welcome to reach out to the district office or board at a later time or submit materials to the board or the district. 114 00:17:04.320 --> 00:17:19.410 Board Room: And we usually set aside a maximum of 45 minutes, but I do not think we're gonna have a problem with that, and the order the public comment will be taken us first from residence in person, addressing the board residence remotely addressing the board and then non residents. 115 00:17:21.120 --> 00:17:34.890 Board Room: Did I say that in person, yes and residents remotely um, but we do want to start our public comment time with our Larry principal and PTA President, if you would please come forward and share with us. 116 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:48.630 Board Room: I wanted to thank you all for inviting us to to come and study thumb either principal at Larry primary and. 117 00:17:49.110 --> 00:17:57.150 Board Room: Dr Ludwig had asked me to share a little bit about the our first annual Ruby bridges walk to school event. 118 00:17:57.870 --> 00:18:05.610 Board Room: holding this event was it didn't take a whole lot of effort, because of the fact that it's reflective of our values at Lowry. 119 00:18:05.970 --> 00:18:18.180 Board Room: We had a handful of Community members reached out and asked hey there's this event that was generated by students in California, and we would like to participate in the first annual national national event. 120 00:18:18.660 --> 00:18:32.310 Board Room: And, of course, at a PTA meeting with we had that conversation, and it was absolutely let's do it let's make it happen, and so I convened a team of fifth grade leaders and we developed. 121 00:18:32.820 --> 00:18:47.400 Board Room: A message for our students, school wide and they recorded that message and then shared it out what was pretty phenomenal is that I had a first grader come up and say, I want to be a part of that leadership team, but I don't have time to wait until i'm in fifth grade, I want to do it. 122 00:18:48.540 --> 00:18:55.110 Board Room: And it's it's the testament of how our students see themselves as leaders already. 123 00:18:55.380 --> 00:19:04.530 Board Room: And it means that we're doing that work of empowering our youth to really feel like they can make the difference in their school and in their community and in their world. 124 00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:19.500 Board Room: And so I will go ahead and hand it over to this even my doll or PTA President bye Thank you so much sorry that i'm making it all i'm the Lowry primary PTA President. 125 00:19:20.010 --> 00:19:34.080 Board Room: And I don't know if I need to give my address okay great Thank you, I just wanted to first thank our awesome PTA especially megan Parker brooks she's our Vice President. 126 00:19:34.500 --> 00:19:42.930 Board Room: of diversity and inclusion and inclusion for her work, coordinating this with one of our lowery parents. 127 00:19:43.350 --> 00:19:55.140 Board Room: Kristen admirable so it was really their idea to bring us all together from that school in alameda where this first began and. 128 00:19:55.560 --> 00:20:13.830 Board Room: I just wanted to say a few words about about the events and about who Ruby bridges was just really quickly Ruby bridges was a six year old black girl who was going to an all white school and who endured bullying and hardships and. 129 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:30.330 Board Room: When our Community came together on November 17 we really want to show strength and resilience for kiddos just like Ruby bridges and and I just wanted to mention that we had. 130 00:20:31.110 --> 00:20:39.900 Board Room: About 175 students, teachers and family members who walk, and that is huge, especially when you talk about. 131 00:20:40.710 --> 00:20:49.200 Board Room: What we've been facing during the two years of this pandemic and It just shows what we can do when when we really. 132 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:58.560 Board Room: get our Community together and we encourage the Community from the students and the teachers and the parents and. 133 00:20:59.190 --> 00:21:10.710 Board Room: Just I wanted to share with you all a couple of ways we communicated this event and principal a Maya already mentioned that she had a great group of leaders. 134 00:21:11.070 --> 00:21:22.680 Board Room: And the teachers also talked about this in classrooms but from a PTA perspective, we did make a really fun flyer that we gave to all the kiddos and their backpacks. 135 00:21:23.430 --> 00:21:35.670 Board Room: We had posts on social media, and then we did a map, so what was fun about that was kiddos and parents could join the walk as as We walked through. 136 00:21:36.330 --> 00:21:47.730 Board Room: Villa blah our neighborhood to school, so people like emerged from their homes and joined us on that walk and it made our group bigger and bigger and bigger, which was great so. 137 00:21:48.930 --> 00:22:08.820 Board Room: I loved it, I think our kids loved it and I just wanted to say that you know at Lowry primary we want to make sure that school is safe for everybody and school was my safe space growing up, and I just want to thank principal Maya and all the teachers for making school safe for our kids. 138 00:22:17.850 --> 00:22:22.740 Board Room: curtis could we see a few of those pictures I I know we were hoping it would be on a loop but. 139 00:22:23.760 --> 00:22:25.320 Board Room: You want the audio track to. 140 00:22:26.550 --> 00:22:38.850 Board Room: It is talking and know let's let's not do that, but maybe principal Maya and maybe, could you come back up and just talk through very briefly what what we're looking at in the pictures, because I know her and I forgot to mention another. 141 00:22:39.930 --> 00:22:47.250 Board Room: important factor in our walk in case other schools, want to adopt that he began our walk and you'll see this in the first picture. 142 00:22:47.670 --> 00:22:57.210 Board Room: in Sofia Park, this is Sophia parking lot and I think it would be great if other schools wanted to do this if they if they started in a place that everybody. 143 00:22:58.080 --> 00:23:11.100 Board Room: And I think that's super important, and this was the beginning of our walk and you can see the kiddos like with that fluorescent green fine standing there getting ready talking about why we're walking. 144 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:22.140 Board Room: We read a lot of Louis bridge, I think, an improvement that we're thinking about for next year is having like a sound system so everyone can hear us a little bit louder. 145 00:23:22.740 --> 00:23:29.730 Board Room: But yeah It just shows teaching teachers created space for students to develop signs and generate. 146 00:23:30.390 --> 00:23:42.480 Board Room: affirmations and positive messages on their sign we put it out in our post or weekly newsletter to families and so families could also pay your tithes time that home to develop their signs. 147 00:23:42.780 --> 00:23:55.380 Board Room: And also scheduled time for it to for them all to come together as a community as a family was pretty phenomenal is that we had families together walking into school that was absolutely beautiful. 148 00:23:56.730 --> 00:24:07.470 Board Room: And yes, this is one of our families and we have, we should have next year I think we're going to have a poster contest or the have a way to display the messages and the posters that. 149 00:24:08.490 --> 00:24:09.900 Board Room: You know that we're all developed. 150 00:24:11.190 --> 00:24:15.510 Board Room: More pictures from Sophia par this is in school. 151 00:24:17.610 --> 00:24:27.780 Board Room: I mean morning we've ever had on her better, yes, yes, every morning that Larry is is is phenomenal during arrival time because you see the sunrise. 152 00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:39.450 Board Room: This is our fifth grade leadership team, so your brooks maddie vendors on linen palm exhibit a year year and non this and Rebecca. 153 00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:51.480 Board Room: or stay at home, and I also just want to give a shout out to their families, as well, because you know the ideas that they bring forth is also because of their parents and their families to raise them. 154 00:24:52.230 --> 00:25:05.580 Board Room: And so, so your brooks family that his parents are Dave and megan brooks matty vendor god's parents are Jamie and Isaac vendor bomb London ponds parents are Jeff. 155 00:25:06.120 --> 00:25:20.040 Board Room: And Jenny pond Dave you're the days heather and Brett movie yeah year in London is in your best deal and Rebecca successful is send your that will say horns and you're. 156 00:25:21.450 --> 00:25:22.500 Board Room: shut up to this. 157 00:25:28.740 --> 00:25:33.870 Board Room: and, hopefully, some of us sitting up here can join next year on the walk so be great yeah. 158 00:25:38.520 --> 00:25:45.000 Board Room: yeah alright, so our first name is Brian level, you want to come up and state your address. 159 00:25:49.560 --> 00:25:58.500 Board Room: Good evening, my name is Brian live I live at 63 5300 report, I have three children, one of whom attend so Westland high school. 160 00:25:59.100 --> 00:26:07.200 Board Room: Because the public had little to no opportunity to comment on last month proposed day off after veterans day I want to share a few false. 161 00:26:07.800 --> 00:26:16.470 Board Room: I think the difficulty the board experienced with this is partly because there was little opportunity to fully consider and to gain publican books. 162 00:26:17.370 --> 00:26:30.150 Board Room: When the board approved the additional day off a school Labor problem became a parent child care problem and resulted in that much less instructional time which, in my mind was a turtle turtle. 163 00:26:31.830 --> 00:26:40.140 Board Room: Although this year, she was has been more or less characterized as an anomaly, it shows a rushed uninformed decision is usually a battle. 164 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:48.870 Board Room: So unless easy and uncontroversial I submit status quo is normally the better option in such situations. 165 00:26:50.160 --> 00:27:00.510 Board Room: And I want to comment on the school district proposed updated policy on public participation board meetings policy code bd D h. 166 00:27:01.290 --> 00:27:11.640 Board Room: The school district references Oregon house bill 2560 as a primary reason for updating US policy, however, with the school district proposes. 167 00:27:12.360 --> 00:27:22.410 Board Room: does more than conformance policy to the hospital requirements, for example, the current policy requires the board to allocate time a public meetings for citizens to be hurt. 168 00:27:23.580 --> 00:27:33.300 Board Room: The policy, the school district now proposes eliminates that guarantee for the public speak instead the public may be invited to comment as determined by the board. 169 00:27:34.650 --> 00:27:39.510 Board Room: In effect, the proposed policy turns the right to speak into a privilege that's remarkable. 170 00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:52.560 Board Room: Of course, the public may continue to submit as us and writing, but without any obligation to allow or or comments the board risks insulating itself and voters and parents, which I think is problematic. 171 00:27:53.670 --> 00:28:03.660 Board Room: In addition, limiting public participation at board meetings likely would exasperate great anyone's concerned or frustration over not being her are taking serious. 172 00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:11.940 Board Room: Which leads me to a second point, the draft policy requires all speakers model respectful public comment and to be mindful of civil discourse. 173 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:17.640 Board Room: And it gives a board chair authority to stop anyone from speaking with filing policy rules. 174 00:28:18.390 --> 00:28:28.230 Board Room: As written I can envision a situation where the drop policy would allow the board chair to revolt one's ability to speak because their frustration or viewpoint. 175 00:28:28.590 --> 00:28:43.800 Board Room: has been construed a disrespectful to or of others, I recommend the Ward not approved the draft policy as opposed and simply update the current policy incorporating only those changes house bill 2560 reports, thank you. 176 00:28:53.370 --> 00:28:55.740 Board Room: And the name I have here is Mr h. 177 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:02.430 Board Room: If you could state your full name, please, and your address as well. 178 00:29:04.590 --> 00:29:05.160 Board Room: Thank you. 179 00:29:09.690 --> 00:29:10.890 Board Room: My name is Joe how content. 180 00:29:12.270 --> 00:29:23.790 Board Room: Like to not get my address, personally, I do tend to will see skill I don't attend, but my children do have a note that are up here, but to address. 181 00:29:25.410 --> 00:29:25.710 Board Room: The. 182 00:29:27.540 --> 00:29:32.760 Board Room: paper that has signed that talk about visitors and volunteers. 183 00:29:46.350 --> 00:29:52.260 Board Room: i'll get straight to the point in time there's limited Community today regarding your policy on no visitors. 184 00:29:53.430 --> 00:29:55.590 Board Room: or volunteers district schools. 185 00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:57.630 Board Room: Going on month for. 186 00:29:58.830 --> 00:30:04.170 Board Room: At this point, this is testing the patients my family and others in our Community. 187 00:30:05.490 --> 00:30:11.280 Board Room: My wife and I have reached out multiple times to the principal and other district staff to get answers and questions. 188 00:30:12.510 --> 00:30:14.790 Board Room: For only told that this is the current critical. 189 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:25.800 Board Room: district policy from what I can find says visitors and volunteers only on a limited basis, just to be clear doesn't mean zero. 190 00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:29.460 Board Room: What we'd like to know is how long. 191 00:30:31.470 --> 00:30:35.250 Board Room: intend on allowing parents and other family indoor schools. 192 00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:38.670 Board Room: Are wrap up with this. 193 00:30:39.930 --> 00:30:40.710 Board Room: Obviously. 194 00:30:42.420 --> 00:30:46.620 Board Room: This must be a district me decision it's not a state mandate that i'm aware of. 195 00:30:49.230 --> 00:30:51.060 Board Room: School board responsible for this. 196 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:55.560 Board Room: The citizens go about getting this change so. 197 00:30:57.690 --> 00:30:58.080 Board Room: Thank you. 198 00:31:00.630 --> 00:31:09.330 Board Room: The next thing we have down as Garrett prior but he's Left and I think he made a statement that he was planning on making so um alright, the next is john McCain. 199 00:31:23.040 --> 00:31:23.220 Board Room: All. 200 00:31:26.070 --> 00:31:29.280 Board Room: That stuff is much less than 30 minutes and just say. 201 00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:32.130 Board Room: My first. 202 00:31:33.150 --> 00:31:42.870 Board Room: question, I mean to bring to the attention is later today will be getting this on the long range planning Committee I guess what. 203 00:31:44.130 --> 00:31:56.730 Board Room: i'm not confused, but what I look at is that when you consider what certain project started at like 28 million and the estimate, to be a completion be 37 million. 204 00:31:57.420 --> 00:32:08.430 Board Room: Somehow I think that's going over the budget that was recently made when this was voted upon and to make sure the presentation that it's going to be right, it breakeven. 205 00:32:09.450 --> 00:32:18.210 Board Room: is misleading and should be communicated part of the problem is is showing 230 million is going to be spent on all these projects. 206 00:32:19.170 --> 00:32:27.210 Board Room: And we only voted for 206 million we haven't even borrowed two minutes 6 million yet so essentially it's almost like it's good. 207 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:36.600 Board Room: You begin to wonder, is this the reason for the sale rosewall plan, because if the amount that we have that has been approved for GEO bonds. 208 00:32:37.170 --> 00:32:47.310 Board Room: is less than what's these projects you're going to cost the completion, the fact that the money hasn't been borrowed yet it's really a concern knowledge me which should be to the public. 209 00:32:48.540 --> 00:32:51.510 Board Room: And then the other issue that goes along with that is. 210 00:32:52.800 --> 00:33:02.670 Board Room: For one of the middle schools that has been put in the items right up at the people that would attend it are in the boundaries of the current school. 211 00:33:03.270 --> 00:33:14.130 Board Room: Your parents that are in the cedar up school are being requested that they send their children to the new at creek when it opens it's only. 212 00:33:14.910 --> 00:33:24.480 Board Room: In beginning phases they're bringing this up, this is a repeat of what happened when rhydian was opened me try to send kids will aim it out there and candidates were outraged. 213 00:33:25.650 --> 00:33:29.850 Board Room: And the problem is is it's being built. 214 00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:33.630 Board Room: it'll be over there will be under capacity by. 215 00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:35.070 Board Room: A. 216 00:33:36.810 --> 00:33:39.690 Board Room: significant quantity of students like over 300. 217 00:33:41.280 --> 00:33:50.850 Board Room: And so, if it's going to be built for 300 too many and we're going to come through as a community and say we want people to come from other parts community. 218 00:33:51.300 --> 00:34:09.570 Board Room: That go like not to rosemount rich that not are going to have to go here say it now don't wait like was last year last time we're reading built, and then we brought it up of where they wanted students to come from to go to that school it's not what the public deserves and. 219 00:34:10.710 --> 00:34:15.030 Board Room: School district back down and did not do it, and the other part, that is. 220 00:34:17.220 --> 00:34:29.250 Board Room: On the issue is like on the timber that was said there's this belief of certain items, but, to my knowledge we're not an Indian tribe, and the taxes owed to the state for that. 221 00:34:31.200 --> 00:34:32.940 Board Room: First, with your right. 222 00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:38.610 Board Room: But the Oregon department of forestry thought that was. 223 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:49.440 Board Room: provided to him when the Department of revenue which says we're not exempt we do that tax and he goes well that's price every day. 224 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.530 Board Room: If you, please, thank you. 225 00:34:56.250 --> 00:35:04.020 Board Room: matt everyone who signed up Is there anyone else here to make public comment go ahead and come and make you say your full name and your address as well, please. 226 00:35:05.340 --> 00:35:17.670 Board Room: Make sure Thompson as we wait, the next person just want to remind the board that we do have a report from the long range planning committee, so if you didn't hear something in that last public comment and wish to ask follow up with staff that we will have. 227 00:35:18.870 --> 00:35:23.130 Board Room: Accurate information from staff available for you later this evening yeah. 228 00:35:24.510 --> 00:35:26.520 Board Room: hi you guys i'm Janet Bailey. 229 00:35:27.780 --> 00:35:31.800 Board Room: My address is 2655 Southwest 98th avenue in torrington. 230 00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:39.360 Board Room: equity is not equal opportunity equity might sound good, but it is the complete opposite of. 231 00:35:39.810 --> 00:35:49.650 Board Room: Equal opportunity equity demands an equal outcome but equity only happens when you manipulate items in favor of one group or another. 232 00:35:50.070 --> 00:35:59.280 Board Room: So let's understand equity is not the same as equal opportunity this school district is teaching kids to identify. 233 00:35:59.700 --> 00:36:13.440 Board Room: Other kids by skin color and then divide them into groups and then label one group as oppressors and one group as oppressed stop gaslighting our children with the critical race theory lie. 234 00:36:13.740 --> 00:36:24.330 Board Room: By convincing them that children today need to apologize for something they're great great grandparents might have done this leads to division. 235 00:36:24.810 --> 00:36:35.940 Board Room: black people in the past have fought and laid down their lives for freedom, and now this school district is putting a ball and chain around them once again by telling them that they're oppressed. 236 00:36:36.240 --> 00:36:49.260 Board Room: Black skinned people are not oppressed, I am here to come against CRT oppression that schools are hammering into indigenous kids Latinos and kids with colored skin. 237 00:36:49.620 --> 00:37:02.970 Board Room: Equal opportunity is when rewards go to a person who is most qualified that can perform a task on their own merits equal opportunity creates motivation and achievement. 238 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:15.150 Board Room: Equal opportunity is based on people succeeding or failing on their own efforts for reasons, like not for reasons, like religion, sex and race. 239 00:37:15.630 --> 00:37:21.840 Board Room: Stop teaching our kids to be shamed a be ashamed of who they are stopped teaching black and indigenous kids. 240 00:37:22.020 --> 00:37:34.830 Board Room: That they are victims, and they need special privileges in order to achieve success kids are brilliant let them achieve on their full potential without your school altering their grade. 241 00:37:35.340 --> 00:37:48.240 Board Room: CRT is devices toxic and is Marxism ideology that leads to socialism and then communism, the founders of black lives matter openly claim that they're. 242 00:37:48.660 --> 00:38:01.140 Board Room: That they're black that they are Marxist they follow the guidelines of the communist manifesto by Karl Marx blm has no place in our nation or in our schools CRT is. 243 00:38:01.470 --> 00:38:12.540 Board Room: A nightmare let's think for ourselves, I was born in California and grew up with Mexicans blacks and a number of other races and we got along just fine. 244 00:38:14.070 --> 00:38:27.480 Board Room: But it's your responsibility as school board members to educate Oregon schools rank through third from the bottom nationally know in academics according to stay proficiency test this county regs low and reading. 245 00:38:27.930 --> 00:38:39.750 Board Room: Low in proficiency and math we say let's get back to reading, writing math true history and I don't mean to 1619 project stop teaching see our team. 246 00:38:49.110 --> 00:38:52.380 Board Room: Thank you Is there anyone else here to make public comments you didn't have a name. 247 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:56.370 Board Room: All right, this concludes our public comment. 248 00:38:59.220 --> 00:39:08.910 Board Room: Thank you to all of you who took the time out of your busy schedules to come share your concerns and thoughts with the board and now we're going to move on to the next item on our agenda. 249 00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:17.550 Board Room: we're going to look at our Budget Committee appointment and Dr Hughes is not here this evening so Dr ludwick would you like to. 250 00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:25.290 Board Room: Absolutely Thank you so much, this is one of those opportunities, where. 251 00:39:26.910 --> 00:39:30.870 Board Room: Our patrons in the Community, get to serve on a committee and. 252 00:39:32.370 --> 00:39:40.530 Board Room: work alongside staff and the board as part of the Budget Committee to dive deep into our work, our finances. 253 00:39:41.550 --> 00:39:50.730 Board Room: and ensure that public expenditure is being handled in the manner that follow statute and lawn fiscal responsibility So these are. 254 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:58.530 Board Room: Important positions and nominations and, of course, their voluntary from our Community, so we do appreciate when folks step up. 255 00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:07.110 Board Room: We have two positions available position number one and position number four, these are two year terms. 256 00:40:08.070 --> 00:40:17.190 Board Room: And, to date, we have one applicant who was able to get in their application before the deadline so before you, you have one appointment to make this evening. 257 00:40:17.700 --> 00:40:27.240 Board Room: And then, if you determine as a board to direct staff to reopen and extend the deadline we can do that, following this meeting with your direction. 258 00:40:28.050 --> 00:40:42.090 Board Room: So for that we have one applicant mini Agha and I believe many is here tonight, and always the board usually gives an opportunity for an applicant to speak as to why they applied and someone invite. 259 00:40:43.380 --> 00:40:50.940 Board Room: is all going to come and share, about her application and her interest towards this position, as you deliberate this evening. 260 00:40:54.270 --> 00:41:04.140 Board Room: My name is Olga and I have two children who are enrolled in in the middle in the dual language Spanish. 261 00:41:05.430 --> 00:41:06.120 Board Room: and 262 00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:11.700 Board Room: Not gonna help. 263 00:41:12.810 --> 00:41:13.080 Board Room: me. 264 00:41:17.820 --> 00:41:36.660 Board Room: My name is minnie I have two daughters who go to school, and they are in the Spanish language immersion program and i've loved every minute of be on the program it's amazing it's challenging at times, but you know we've overcome a little bit of that and. 265 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.680 Board Room: Just to tell you all a little bit about myself. 266 00:41:41.910 --> 00:41:53.970 Board Room: I was born in India and I finished my doctorate over there and we moved to the United States in 1998 to the Midwest. 267 00:41:56.430 --> 00:42:12.240 Board Room: My husband was doing his residency there and I straightaway jumped into the word, or so I have no background and how schools and colleges work here so once we moved to Oregon and I have children, and then it was time for them to go to school, I had no idea what they are. 268 00:42:13.590 --> 00:42:21.540 Board Room: And it's just like them, I took baby steps and I started volunteering at the elementary school and slowly. 269 00:42:22.140 --> 00:42:27.750 Board Room: I kind of enjoyed doing that and I sort of miss being a part of the school system. 270 00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:36.390 Board Room: And I learned a lot and, needless to say, my learning curve is very steep even when I came here, initially, because you know straight away, I. 271 00:42:36.930 --> 00:42:53.610 Board Room: had no experience even working here so jumping and learning very quickly, but I it, it was something that I was able to do, and then, once I started volunteering at the school, I became an active member of the pdsa various volunteering. 272 00:42:56.040 --> 00:43:02.490 Board Room: Events with them vendors that social media for the school and have ever since been. 273 00:43:05.010 --> 00:43:22.440 Board Room: You know, part of even even have volunteered on quality outcomes for the few school board meetings and done some other stuff i'm part of the seeker that superintendent which is talking about i've been on it for about almost a year and apple and. 274 00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:33.630 Board Room: I am applying for the position when the Budget Committee I don't have direct experience with doing managing by the time but i'm sure there are people who do that but it's more for the. 275 00:43:34.290 --> 00:43:39.300 Board Room: In keeping that we are actually following their own best interest of the children, and I am a huge. 276 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:44.910 Board Room: proponent of children's interest teachers interest and the interest of the school system by large. 277 00:43:45.330 --> 00:43:55.170 Board Room: Most people in my family have been associated with the school system, either as teachers or professors or as administrators so it's in my blood, you know I can't stay away from. 278 00:43:55.980 --> 00:44:06.870 Board Room: So I would be very happy to be serving on the Budget Committee and contributing as much as I can, and if you have questions i'm happy to answer those questions. 279 00:44:10.980 --> 00:44:16.500 Board Room: Thanks for coming tonight and for a plane as well, and you have a question, Dr Mike. 280 00:44:20.790 --> 00:44:25.650 Board Room: Oh yes, and if you are our members of Community and can make sure that they have mass on. 281 00:44:27.120 --> 00:44:27.600 Board Room: Thank you. 282 00:44:30.450 --> 00:44:30.780 Board Room: yeah. 283 00:44:33.930 --> 00:44:36.630 Board Room: And then just also make sure we keep side conversations. 284 00:44:37.860 --> 00:44:43.440 Board Room: And we're going to have them very quiet, so that we can hear the business it's going on up on the board, thank you. 285 00:44:45.300 --> 00:44:46.140 Board Room: Did you have anything else. 286 00:44:47.970 --> 00:44:54.240 Board Room: Okay ready for you to do it um did anyone have any questions or can we just go ahead and bring this to a vote. 287 00:44:56.580 --> 00:44:59.730 Board Room: Alright, so i'm going to make this easy all of those in favor of. 288 00:45:01.080 --> 00:45:06.300 Board Room: Approving many Agha to be on our Budget Committee, please say Aye Aye Aye. 289 00:45:10.080 --> 00:45:23.340 Board Room: opposed yeah I figured I didn't even need that second so congratulations and since we only had work does it matter which position should be just stated as position one let's go ahead and just fulfill that technicality, then. 290 00:45:24.420 --> 00:45:30.960 Board Room: Then we know what physician to post we'll go ahead and do position, one for miss Agha. 291 00:45:34.710 --> 00:45:43.710 Board Room: Will you and your staff and vector Hughes, please open an extender applications for another month Okay, so what i'd like to do is just invite our Community members. 292 00:45:44.730 --> 00:45:54.570 Board Room: A great way to get involved is to be a part of the Budget Committee, so we have one position that is still open, that we need to fill for this year and. 293 00:45:55.290 --> 00:46:00.630 Board Room: there's information on our school district website i'm going to assume, and you can always call. 294 00:46:01.200 --> 00:46:11.910 Board Room: Our amazing board Secretary miss Douglas and she will always be happy to give you more information and to walk you through the steps of application as well, if you have any questions or you are also welcome to contact any of. 295 00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:16.920 Board Room: The Board members, and we would be happy to speak with you as well. 296 00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:20.910 Board Room: For us, will yes. 297 00:46:23.250 --> 00:46:29.070 Board Room: You said, but what period of time, are we opening the application backup. 298 00:46:29.370 --> 00:46:39.990 Board Room: I asked them to extend it for another month are you are we all okay with that i'm on my only concern with that is that well, I think, a month will be fine, but I don't know if we need a whole nother month. 299 00:46:40.620 --> 00:46:52.620 Board Room: Because we need to get people appointed and ready for the budget process to begin and late winter early spring, so do we need a month or you know. 300 00:46:53.730 --> 00:46:56.940 Board Room: If we can get the applications in before the next time the board neat. 301 00:46:58.950 --> 00:47:08.040 Board Room: Would that fit, I think that was thinking is that you would vote at the next regular board that was the kind of my idea that we would vote at the next have applications that we. 302 00:47:08.550 --> 00:47:14.550 Board Room: Do by the neck or do before the next meeting, so that we're able to vote during our next meeting, does that sound. 303 00:47:14.970 --> 00:47:20.730 Board Room: Good we would need it just prior to yeah week or so prior to our next meeting, yes. 304 00:47:21.120 --> 00:47:30.390 Board Room: So when we post that on our website then and make sure, so that the Community knows and will that can that be also be something that goes out in our communications yes perfect it out and list serves. 305 00:47:30.690 --> 00:47:43.200 Board Room: Great and then just a reminder, the doctor Hughes will have an orientation session for new Budget Committee members, as well as anyone on the board, who is new and what would like a refresher. 306 00:47:43.740 --> 00:47:58.650 Board Room: And we'll just go through the process of how to read a district budget and how we get funded by the state or federal government and just kind of some faqs so that folks feel prepared for that first budget official budget meeting yes. 307 00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:03.210 Board Room: Dr Thompson managers just briefly say one more thing sure. 308 00:48:04.470 --> 00:48:13.890 Board Room: i'm not sure if many is still in the room, but I want to publicly thank her for applying I know that she's been serving our schools and our students for many years. 309 00:48:14.340 --> 00:48:29.400 Board Room: And this is not her first attempt at applying to a district wide our budget a board appointed Committee, and so I just really appreciate her push your parents and willingness to dedicate her intellect and expertise to our students. 310 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.500 Board Room: Thank you, and she is in the room, and was able to hear all of that so. 311 00:48:35.850 --> 00:48:47.400 Board Room: And i'd like to thank mississauga for already being in year two of being on a superintendent Advisory Committee and has been a faithful and consistent member of that group. 312 00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:56.550 Board Room: And a great participant so it's gonna be fun to share her with into committees now so appreciate the time she's given. 313 00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:02.070 Board Room: Anything else on the budget. 314 00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:13.080 Board Room: Alright, so we are going to move on to our next agenda item, and that is our discussion board reports on our school work plan visits and normally every month. 315 00:49:13.890 --> 00:49:21.210 Board Room: Each board member might prepare a report about what they've been working on the past month or places that they visited or if they saw something in a classroom and. 316 00:49:22.500 --> 00:49:29.460 Board Room: Some of you may or may not know, but every year, one of the opportunities that each of the board members has is we visit. 317 00:49:29.850 --> 00:49:37.260 Board Room: three to four schools, so we make sure a board member has the opportunity to visit our board members visit all of our schools and. 318 00:49:37.830 --> 00:49:44.910 Board Room: We get to meet with the principal and sometimes the instructional instructional coordinators, sometimes the counselor. 319 00:49:45.300 --> 00:49:57.660 Board Room: i'm here about that schools specific work plan and then have the opportunity to walk into classrooms and see those work plans i'm playing out as far as. 320 00:49:58.170 --> 00:50:01.410 Board Room: The learning that's happening in the classrooms the teaching that's being done. 321 00:50:02.040 --> 00:50:11.370 Board Room: See how our board goals district goals are playing out in those classrooms and so each of us had the opportunity to attend at least three schools. 322 00:50:11.910 --> 00:50:23.340 Board Room: This last month and so that's what we're going to be talking about today, and our observations in those work plan visits and what we saw how the work that we do here in the boardroom. 323 00:50:24.060 --> 00:50:34.710 Board Room: trickles down into those classrooms how it parallels what is on our district goals, so I everyone has kind of prepared a report. 324 00:50:35.160 --> 00:50:41.070 Board Room: And what i'm going to do is just prompt us with some questions and so Chelsea just feel free to since we can't see you. 325 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:56.550 Board Room: To just pop in when you want to pop in i'm actually going to use chair kings she post some questions to us to consider when we were preparing our reports, and so I am going to start with one of her questions, and that was. 326 00:50:58.200 --> 00:51:08.010 Board Room: Where did you see evidence of our district goals and action and I thought I would start with that one, especially because those district goals are kind of the overarching guide for our district. 327 00:51:08.490 --> 00:51:19.320 Board Room: And also because they are displayed beautifully up on our wall right here so they're easy to take a look at so if anyone would like to start off and we'll just kind of have a conversation and. 328 00:51:22.290 --> 00:51:24.090 Board Room: i'll start us off how about that Thank you. 329 00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:33.060 Board Room: I think I saw our district goals being displayed in every school that I walked through and i've walked through several at this point. 330 00:51:33.870 --> 00:51:55.950 Board Room: Lowry meridian also the Charter school and I think there was a few things that stuck out for me as I walked through each each school and I think the thing I was most impressed by I will, I will say this is when we walked into a meridian classroom there was a group of students studying. 331 00:51:57.150 --> 00:51:59.910 Board Room: imperialism between the years of. 332 00:52:02.580 --> 00:52:19.920 Board Room: And it was interesting to see the tasks that they had on hand was to draw an image of their reflection of what they were reading and then put what they were reading in interpreting down on to paper, and as we walked by each student's desk. 333 00:52:21.390 --> 00:52:34.020 Board Room: They the bandwidth of the photos and the images were fascinating because each child was interpreting the information that they were reading in a completely different way and I think that. 334 00:52:35.520 --> 00:52:52.230 Board Room: The foundation of what you were seeing was all the same, but the image that they created to present that back to their teacher was something special I mean, to the point of of images that were very graphic two images that were very kind to images that were. 335 00:52:53.400 --> 00:53:00.900 Board Room: Just showing that everyone's upbringing in the way that they're in doctrine has an effect on how they learn and so. 336 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:07.020 Board Room: I think that as we, as a district continue to develop curriculum that allows every student to learn. 337 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:17.130 Board Room: it's important because, not one teaching style is going to resonate with everyone in the classroom and you see that, through these pictures that these children were were. 338 00:53:18.030 --> 00:53:31.980 Board Room: were drawing and I think that one of the things that I think played a big role in what I was seeing was how social emotional learning was playing a role in what those kids were having to interpret which was such a graphic in a very. 339 00:53:33.660 --> 00:53:39.630 Board Room: I guess you know, at times, very violent part of history as Europe invaded Africa and so. 340 00:53:41.280 --> 00:53:48.990 Board Room: Then you're talking about what it wasn't the 1800s versus what it is today, and how much of it is still going on, and these kids were absolutely floored. 341 00:53:49.590 --> 00:54:04.320 Board Room: When they were having that banter back and forth with the teacher and what I liked about the teaching style of this individual was that he didn't press the child or tried to plant seeds in this particular on this subject in these children's head he. 342 00:54:05.340 --> 00:54:15.180 Board Room: He asked them these very open ended questions and you got to see the brilliance of the children that were sitting in the classroom their interpretation and they were really good at explaining. 343 00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:23.550 Board Room: What they were seeing and how they were feeling and and and then they all kind of rallied around each other's opinions of what they were. 344 00:54:23.940 --> 00:54:32.670 Board Room: Were interpreting so that was really, really neat to see, I think that plays a big role in how we try to challenge staff that coming inside of the district, how we try to. 345 00:54:33.420 --> 00:54:39.810 Board Room: help people of different cultures understand the information that's being taught and so that was a big you know. 346 00:54:40.290 --> 00:54:53.070 Board Room: It resonated with me, which is why i'm telling you about it another thing that I liked was the open spaces, that the that the schools provide, and I think almost every school had an open space that allows kids to kind of go in their own. 347 00:54:54.540 --> 00:55:01.110 Board Room: kind of area in in and and be able to work on whatever the subject is that they're studying, whether it be map or the beer. 348 00:55:01.680 --> 00:55:07.770 Board Room: You know, social studies or whether it be science and they could kind of take that information in and kind of. 349 00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:21.270 Board Room: Just kind of peel off if they needed to not everybody wants to sit next to someone all day and to give them kind of that break in that bandwidth and that ability to freelance and how they learn, I think, is really unique and special and lastly. 350 00:55:23.370 --> 00:55:24.840 Board Room: I think one of the things that was. 351 00:55:26.070 --> 00:55:35.370 Board Room: That also hit me as I walked through loughery was the number of bilingual staff that they have I mean i'm impressed I think there was somewhere to the tune of eight. 352 00:55:36.270 --> 00:55:46.260 Board Room: bilingual staff members, maybe even more that spoke multiple languages and I thought that that was really, really, unique in the show the diversity of that's going how important. 353 00:55:46.710 --> 00:55:57.030 Board Room: It is to have someone who can go speak your native language and make you feel comfortable and maybe coach you back into a space allow you to sit back because English is not your first language so. 354 00:55:58.020 --> 00:56:06.150 Board Room: Those were the three kind of like high level things that had an impact on me as I walked through from school to school and I enjoyed it so. 355 00:56:09.750 --> 00:56:10.920 Board Room: Someone else want to share. 356 00:56:13.770 --> 00:56:15.330 Board Room: I can jump in kelly's okay. 357 00:56:17.100 --> 00:56:27.930 Board Room: So I had the chance to visit beckman creek and willamette primary schools i'm in a little visit bins fairy this week and just want to start off by saying a huge Thank you to Dr prior for being. 358 00:56:28.560 --> 00:56:39.990 Board Room: kind of the main tour guide and really setting the stage for my visits and I feel like the the theme that emerged was really around this concept of collaboration and how. 359 00:56:40.860 --> 00:56:51.750 Board Room: When all of our schools, our staff our teacher our administrators and working together, it really is a rising tide that's lifting all of our schools and all of our standards and expectations. 360 00:56:52.710 --> 00:57:01.440 Board Room: was really impressed with the work of the Westland Wilson bell primary literacy team, the work that they've put together to standardize some of the materials. 361 00:57:01.770 --> 00:57:12.270 Board Room: i'm across all of our primary schools for literacy and then was also incredibly impressed with how you know stressful and busy and hectic. 362 00:57:13.170 --> 00:57:24.300 Board Room: teaching is right now that we are consistently seeing our teachers, step up and take on new assignments and new responsibilities and ways to you know say how are we making our schools better. 363 00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:31.800 Board Room: Even things like saying let's let's pilot a new assessment program let's find new ways to make sure that we are. 364 00:57:32.460 --> 00:57:48.270 Board Room: understanding what our kids are learning and then using that to become better and I just kept thinking about you know, we should all strive to create a culture where that continuous improvement is really built in, and people feel safe and they feel comfortable trying new things and. 365 00:57:49.650 --> 00:57:57.810 Board Room: You know, and then, overall, there was just such a feeling of collaboration, when it came to everything from the instructional coordinator at willamette primary putting together. 366 00:57:58.230 --> 00:58:07.980 Board Room: The entire summer school program last year, or you know different administrators stepping up to take on leadership roles So for me it was really an affirmation that. 367 00:58:08.790 --> 00:58:16.380 Board Room: You know, we spend so much time thinking about our kids and what they're doing at school, but we have these amazing people that are working for our schools. 368 00:58:16.710 --> 00:58:24.480 Board Room: And they're stepping up time and time again they're trying new things, and it made me just really proud to think that that's who's leading our schools right now. 369 00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:34.980 Board Room: And so it was really that commitment that reminder of how hard our teachers are working, and then the bonus is you know, really, seeing that impact on the students and. 370 00:58:35.430 --> 00:58:43.020 Board Room: watching these principles walk down the hall, and they know every student's name they're willing to give a hug to every single kid that comes up to them. 371 00:58:43.410 --> 00:58:50.970 Board Room: I mean it's just an amazing amazing connection that they've built on top of this kind of basis of professionalism, but just. 372 00:58:51.510 --> 00:59:04.920 Board Room: I was just beyond impressed, so I just want to thank the entire primary school team that I had a chance to visit with i'm for really showing that, when we work together, we can build a great strong things, and so it was really, really inspirational. 373 00:59:11.430 --> 00:59:24.420 Board Room: Their sleep, did you want to comment yeah so um I observed cedar oak spafford the two primary schools and then, as well as at creek and they all had the shared goals. 374 00:59:26.100 --> 00:59:30.150 Board Room: With the Board and the focus was trying to. 375 00:59:31.680 --> 00:59:44.220 Board Room: decrease some of that education gap that was lost during Kobe the focus was on math and reading and all three of those schools, and that was with individual small reading groups. 376 00:59:45.420 --> 00:59:56.100 Board Room: With the focus of trying to match those with similar skills and they all had goals having each of those small reading groups have a growth by the end of the year. 377 00:59:56.910 --> 01:00:16.560 Board Room: And then they would to use those benchmarks, they were doing various assessments feedback from the teachers, but as I will reiterate what Kristen said, there was a lot of collaborative effort with teachers asking each other, getting a lot of feedback and in at Crete. 378 01:00:17.940 --> 01:00:24.510 Board Room: As well as the other primaries on they had they're also working on a lot of self regulation. 379 01:00:25.140 --> 01:00:30.210 Board Room: very noticeable in the primaries some of these second graders haven't haven't really been in the classroom. 380 01:00:30.930 --> 01:00:44.880 Board Room: So there's a lot of effort on self regulation and dealing with social emotional learning because they believe, with the focus of that it has a positive influence them on their academic achievement and their confidence. 381 01:00:46.980 --> 01:01:04.080 Board Room: I love seeing the kids in class or they just were so eager they wanted to come up and share what they were reading what they were drawing I went to an ad creative as a science lab they wanted to show their experiment, where you drop these little. 382 01:01:05.100 --> 01:01:08.160 Board Room: hovercrafts and if the ping pong ball stayed in and. 383 01:01:09.750 --> 01:01:13.830 Board Room: It was just very encouraging to see that they were working on. 384 01:01:15.090 --> 01:01:16.380 Board Room: Just the rigorous. 385 01:01:17.460 --> 01:01:21.390 Board Room: academics trying to get them caught up, but it was very individualized. 386 01:01:26.370 --> 01:01:41.580 Board Room: Right, and I would love to share and I want to reiterate what director Wyatt said, and just think all of our principles are school principals and I sees and assistant principals and counselors who met with each one of us. 387 01:01:42.600 --> 01:01:52.080 Board Room: As well as our assistant superintendents and superintendent that accompanied us, we know that you're some of the busiest people on the planet, and so we just want to acknowledge as a board. 388 01:01:52.800 --> 01:02:02.760 Board Room: To take two to three hours depending on out of your days to sit with us and share your passion and your excitement for what's going on. 389 01:02:03.930 --> 01:02:11.250 Board Room: Just as a board, we are really blessed to have the administrators, that we do in this district, so I just want to make sure that that all of you know that. 390 01:02:12.570 --> 01:02:22.170 Board Room: What I witnessed So when I think about board goal one and just talking about growing student achievement, through the use of high leverage instruction and engagement strategies to raise rigor. 391 01:02:23.520 --> 01:02:41.400 Board Room: A couple highlights that I, where I felt like I saw this at Bolton and sunset primary schools and I have opportunity to go to Bolton primary school to sunset primary school and rosemount rich middle school and then I will also be attending less than high school at some point and. 392 01:02:42.870 --> 01:02:51.690 Board Room: Just one of the fun, this is kind of a fun thing but also just how engaged a couple different classrooms at sunset and Bolton, they were doing a quiet reading. 393 01:02:52.410 --> 01:03:02.100 Board Room: And every kid was engaged in reading and the cool thing was um it looked a lot different than it did when I went to school, instead of everyone sitting in their desk. 394 01:03:02.670 --> 01:03:06.660 Board Room: kids were under the tables, they were on ledges they were. 395 01:03:07.170 --> 01:03:16.860 Board Room: You know, they were just curled up in a place that allowed them to really get involved in the reading that they were doing, they were comfortable in there, and you could tell they felt comfortable and safe in their classroom. 396 01:03:17.370 --> 01:03:21.900 Board Room: And to find that spot, some of them are on their backs reading looking up some of around their stomachs. 397 01:03:23.670 --> 01:03:27.840 Board Room: Again super cozy they found their cozy spot and just engaged and. 398 01:03:28.890 --> 01:03:39.690 Board Room: And there were even some there was one student that I saw that i'm head was listening to the teacher read the book audio and was on a computer. 399 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:50.790 Board Room: And that was something that came out of our zoom you know or comprehensive districts distance learning that some of the teachers had set up and have found out that is now. 400 01:03:51.990 --> 01:04:03.540 Board Room: A strategy that works now with some of our students that might have a harder time focusing or just like the sound of someone reading to them and they're able to follow along in the book at the same time um. 401 01:04:04.590 --> 01:04:17.910 Board Room: let's see oh at Roosevelt region middle school I have opportunity to attend our new sixth grade math class, which is a combination of algebra one and two and correct me if I get any of this wrong, please, but. 402 01:04:18.630 --> 01:04:27.690 Board Room: Not only to see students, you know engaged on paper and pen and verbally but also actually hopping as they were learning negative numbers and how to. 403 01:04:28.110 --> 01:04:43.020 Board Room: Add and subtract negative numbers but they had a student actually physically hopping forward and backwards, which I thought was genius and let's see at sunset and rosemount manage another thing, and I think that to my teaching days. 404 01:04:44.460 --> 01:04:55.590 Board Room: And even my learning days, where a lot of it was teacher to student right like here you're you're pushing it out and they're putting putting it down, but what I saw instead a lot in our classrooms. 405 01:04:56.070 --> 01:05:00.930 Board Room: was a teacher taking a few minutes to talk and then telling the students okay turn to each other. 406 01:05:01.530 --> 01:05:07.860 Board Room: and talk about Okay, what did you see here, what did you learn here, and so the students were in conversation. 407 01:05:08.520 --> 01:05:24.090 Board Room: Teaching each other, and I can tell you, as a former teacher, I really learned biology when I had to learn how to teach it to other people, and so what a great strategy to have those students turning and talking to one another, and so I saw that in several of our classes as well. 408 01:05:25.140 --> 01:05:42.480 Board Room: As far as board girl to i'm going to speak to the social emotional learning and effectively using social emotional learning to build competent confident and self advocacy for every student and one of the classrooms I was in at sunset primary. 409 01:05:43.650 --> 01:05:57.390 Board Room: And I can't remember if it was a kindergarten or first grade classroom Do you remember it was, and they were doing responsible and not responsible, so they were making a picture of what a responsible action and a not responsible action and so. 410 01:05:59.070 --> 01:06:12.000 Board Room: Again, just taking all taking that social emotional learning and turning it into an actual lesson and what I appreciate it is how open and transparent the students are with telling you about you know. 411 01:06:12.690 --> 01:06:25.020 Board Room: here's I did this responsible thing, but you know this other day I did this irresponsible thing and they're very open and one of them said talked about needing to apologize for what they had done and I said, you know. 412 01:06:26.190 --> 01:06:33.870 Board Room: i'm so glad you know we as adults that's not going to stop just when you're in grade school that's a good skill that you're going to need throughout the rest of your life. 413 01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:41.850 Board Room: Because I find myself as an adult meeting to apologize, and as a parent meeting to do a lot of apology tonight kit so just. 414 01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:47.040 Board Room: Anyway, that was a great conversation I had with the student and then. 415 01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:54.150 Board Room: One other highlight in this with social emotional learning, I was at a road rosemount Ridge middle school. 416 01:06:55.020 --> 01:07:11.880 Board Room: In one of the Spanish immersion classes, that I later found out director why it's daughter was in and his students got up to read the paper that they had written in Spanish and presented in Spanish, she would call on a student the teacher would and the kids would cheer them up. 417 01:07:12.900 --> 01:07:27.630 Board Room: How could you not be excited to share your paper, I mean immediately, it was like this eruption of students cheering for their fellow classmates and that was just an enormous like it wasn't you could just tell that was a normal part. 418 01:07:29.010 --> 01:07:36.000 Board Room: Of that classroom and so those were kind of the things that stood out to me that, where I saw those board goals. 419 01:07:38.100 --> 01:07:45.180 Board Room: All right, let's see how about is there anything that you saw chair kings jerking Thank you. 420 01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.860 Board Room: chair King hi Thank you. 421 01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:58.200 Board Room: Yes, it's awkward to participate in the discussion remotely but thanks for calling me i'd be happy to share. 422 01:07:59.550 --> 01:08:07.230 Board Room: Some of my insights and I really here, I can echo a lot of what I hear my colleague saying there, particularly around. 423 01:08:07.830 --> 01:08:25.800 Board Room: You know the importance of that that teacher student relationship and the school culture and just the amount of interaction that I saw coming from students and they were communicating with one another, they were presenting their work in front of the classroom. 424 01:08:26.910 --> 01:08:41.340 Board Room: They were having time to sit quietly and think they were using computer they're using paper they're using dialogue, so there were a lot of different modalities in place and a lot of different ways students were interacting and and thinking. 425 01:08:42.360 --> 01:08:50.520 Board Room: So I echo all of that i'd say one highlight of mine was walking into a classroom and seeing that the teacher. 426 01:08:51.240 --> 01:09:13.920 Board Room: was actually someone who taught mile and son 10 years ago at a different district school, so it was fun to see her and still not first grade classroom Oh, I should say, I visited trillium primary and also would middle school and have on the calendar to visit Wilson don't high school. 427 01:09:15.510 --> 01:09:22.500 Board Room: I think a few things that I know the discussion will probably continue, but here here are my highlight yes. 428 01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:27.450 Board Room: district goal number one being present and a lot of what I observed. 429 01:09:29.040 --> 01:09:42.750 Board Room: There was a real intentionality around creating an academic culture, I heard one principal say that what they're really focusing on is talking about academic. 430 01:09:43.590 --> 01:09:55.380 Board Room: Creating a culture of talking about academic so that is what happens when you are in school, as we do, school and we talk about school and we talked about learning and that really stood out to me. 431 01:09:56.490 --> 01:10:12.630 Board Room: I think, also it's worth noting that both the schools that I visited recognize that our students are transitioning back right now they've been out of regular in person school for a while. 432 01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:19.620 Board Room: You know, we have sixth graders who haven't had that regular school school years since they were in fourth grade. 433 01:10:20.400 --> 01:10:35.430 Board Room: And a real recognition that some students are needing additional support right now, as they manage that transition and that support is behavioral, it is with mental health, and it is with academic. 434 01:10:36.690 --> 01:10:58.680 Board Room: And you know we these administrators did not shy away from showing data that demonstrates that students are in some cohort around some subjects meeting all the benchmarks and then other cohorts with other subjects falling much short of that. 435 01:10:59.820 --> 01:11:07.050 Board Room: And I appreciated the fact that they're measuring it they're tracking it and they're being really intentional about addressing it. 436 01:11:07.980 --> 01:11:19.470 Board Room: And I actually heard one principal say that you know we hear a lot about remediation right now remediating you know, last instructional time for two. 437 01:11:20.130 --> 01:11:37.950 Board Room: And they're using the phrase accelerate to remediate and rather than try to slow down and make up for lost time, like let's keep this train moving forward and get everybody on board, and so I just really appreciated that that dialogue as well. 438 01:11:41.010 --> 01:11:45.270 Board Room: I think i'll just say a couple other things, and then stop talking. 439 01:11:46.380 --> 01:12:08.880 Board Room: One is this idea of being focused on equity, you know the schools have their equity plans and all say yes, we are schools are focused on equity and that's exactly where they need to be focused, because when we look at the data we can see that we get. 440 01:12:10.740 --> 01:12:20.970 Board Room: There are different outcomes for different students our students with disabilities or students who are economically disadvantaged they're not achieving at the same rate. 441 01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:36.600 Board Room: And so we do invest intentionally with certain populations of students to reach those benchmarks that we know we want to reach, and so there you know the moves that our administrators and teachers are making a. 442 01:12:37.740 --> 01:12:49.800 Board Room: Strategic are based on data are thoughtful and and they're they're learning they're following that learner mindset, you know they're engaged in that professional development. 443 01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:58.260 Board Room: and very those perfect I got to see an agenda from one professional development afternoon, and one of the principal shared. 444 01:12:58.830 --> 01:13:07.530 Board Room: And you know they're looking at how to teach they're looking at instructional strategies they're exploring how to implement those instructional strategies in the classroom. 445 01:13:08.970 --> 01:13:15.780 Board Room: So it's just a lot of you know that the district goal number one in action. 446 01:13:21.300 --> 01:13:23.160 Board Room: Thank you, thank you checking. 447 01:13:25.350 --> 01:13:29.910 Board Room: All right, is there anything else anybody would like to share something that inspired you. 448 01:13:31.350 --> 01:13:33.900 Board Room: That really stuck with you after you left. 449 01:13:38.310 --> 01:13:51.720 Board Room: Anything, I just wanted to add is you know I know that school districts and school districts can tend to be very data heavy and we have reports, and we have test scores, and we have findings and. 450 01:13:52.680 --> 01:14:02.850 Board Room: And it was really fascinating to see that data in action, and you know, specifically when we looked at some of the panorama data for schools. 451 01:14:03.630 --> 01:14:14.490 Board Room: hearing how you know as this information was coming in adjustments were being made in the curriculum to weave in that social emotional learning into the established curriculum. 452 01:14:14.940 --> 01:14:23.790 Board Room: And I just was really taken with this idea that you know we can use data, and it can seem very you know sterile and it can seem very statistical. 453 01:14:24.240 --> 01:14:29.940 Board Room: But we have we have this talented staff that's able to say Okay, we have this information. 454 01:14:30.450 --> 01:14:41.160 Board Room: How do we put that into action and and even you know, on that day, that I was visiting willamette they were examining this concept of small wins, and so, in order to maybe boost these. 455 01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:53.640 Board Room: These scores around self efficacy, it was let's make sure our kids know that you don't have to accomplish everything you can find some small wins to get yourself there, and so they will that into. 456 01:14:54.360 --> 01:15:01.980 Board Room: All of the classrooms and even in a kindergarten classroom the teacher was celebrating students who had made some small games and reading. 457 01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:13.530 Board Room: And so I think sometimes at this level, we talk about you know these big reports, we talked about test scores, but then watching that be put into motion to make those changes and those improvements. 458 01:15:14.130 --> 01:15:24.630 Board Room: was just really inspiring and you know, I think, as we continue to have these discussions, we get these reports back just remembering that there's such a human voice behind all of it. 459 01:15:25.470 --> 01:15:30.810 Board Room: was really great for me to remember and see and then again to just see how creatively that was being. 460 01:15:31.350 --> 01:15:44.490 Board Room: taught and you know just seeing how empathy was being woven into social studies curriculum and thinking about how, when we make schools feel safe and welcoming kids want to go and want to attend and so. 461 01:15:45.300 --> 01:15:53.370 Board Room: That was really inspiring for me to see how we were taking spreadsheets and then turning them into action to create these incredible schools. 462 01:15:57.840 --> 01:16:08.820 Board Room: director sloop yes so um The one thing that I was inspiring to me, is all three schools and realize that. 463 01:16:10.230 --> 01:16:12.840 Board Room: According to the World data and just observation. 464 01:16:14.160 --> 01:16:22.950 Board Room: The students are struggling with a sense of belonging and just from being on a computer and not around their peers, and so there was a big focus on. 465 01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:32.640 Board Room: Getting the students to feel that they be you know they were valued and included the inclusiveness and they were using you know circle times. 466 01:16:34.980 --> 01:16:47.010 Board Room: And also, there was, I think it was at cedar oak where they said they were very encouraged with one of the bonuses of the zoom is they had conferences with zoom and they had the highest. 467 01:16:47.730 --> 01:17:01.800 Board Room: parent participation in the school conferences, because they could just pick a time slot and do it over zoom and both parents could attend the conference, because it wasn't something that they had to go to the school, for I thought that was. 468 01:17:02.910 --> 01:17:03.840 Board Room: A great option. 469 01:17:05.730 --> 01:17:06.270 Board Room: Thank you. 470 01:17:07.560 --> 01:17:12.630 Board Room: One thing I do want to speak to his chest and kind of piggybacking on what director Wyatt said. 471 01:17:14.850 --> 01:17:19.560 Board Room: The intentional that with everything everything was just intentional what is done in the classroom. 472 01:17:21.630 --> 01:17:24.630 Board Room: And I felt like it started with you could hear them talk about. 473 01:17:25.710 --> 01:17:37.440 Board Room: How intentional, they are in their professional development, and that it starts there with you know okay what what is it important for students to know what do we want them to know and then, how do we get them there. 474 01:17:38.490 --> 01:17:44.730 Board Room: And then, how do we appropriately assess their knowledge and make sure that we're not just assessing stuff. 475 01:17:45.660 --> 01:17:54.390 Board Room: papers that they turn in you know that we're actually assessing appropriately their knowledge and again just as a former educator just to see that progression. 476 01:17:55.200 --> 01:18:03.420 Board Room: back from the day when I walked into my high school and was given a textbook and here you go here's what you teach and no one really told you much else and there wasn't. 477 01:18:04.350 --> 01:18:10.830 Board Room: I just am so impressed over and over again, with every single school that I attended the thoughtfulness that goes behind. 478 01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:20.160 Board Room: You know, starting in that professional development, starting with those principles and the instructional coordinators down into the classrooms so. 479 01:18:21.450 --> 01:18:33.270 Board Room: That there is a lot of thought that goes behind the learning that happens in your kids classrooms as I guess what I would want our community to know, and then the other thing I would the other highlight I had is just. 480 01:18:34.320 --> 01:18:43.050 Board Room: The high level of engagement every classroom that I walked into, and I understand you know when you when it when a school board member walks in and administrator. 481 01:18:43.620 --> 01:18:51.990 Board Room: Right like I get everyone's on their best behavior, but I also looked in classrooms as I was walking by them right, where I wasn't walking into them. 482 01:18:52.710 --> 01:19:09.870 Board Room: So i'm, just as I walked through halls the sounds of engagement, the actions of engagement kids for engaged and you know, and then there was one kid I noticed that was having a you know struggle, one day, but there was someone right there with them, you know who was. 483 01:19:11.400 --> 01:19:20.700 Board Room: sympathizing with them and empathizing with them and talking the kid through to make sure that you know they could successfully come back into the classroom and into that learning environment so. 484 01:19:21.660 --> 01:19:29.880 Board Room: I just was really impressed with the engagement that I saw happening at all grade levels, all of the schools that I walked into. 485 01:19:35.880 --> 01:19:37.740 Board Room: Checking is there anything else you want to share. 486 01:19:40.650 --> 01:19:57.570 Board Room: yeah Thank you director Wyatt just for that reminder about the human story behind the data and the numbers, particularly since I had spoken so much about that, and my own little spiel there, I appreciate you giving that detail and humanity to it. 487 01:19:59.280 --> 01:20:01.770 Board Room: yeah I would agree with you, Dr Thompson just said. 488 01:20:02.820 --> 01:20:11.850 Board Room: You know that there's rigor occurring and where where there's additional support needed, you know that's happening also i'd say, the one thing happened like. 489 01:20:13.080 --> 01:20:26.130 Board Room: I was trying to like see okay this guy like let me find what's going wrong here all right put that lens on for a second, and there are some students sitting around the table and they're filling out a worksheet right the dreaded. 490 01:20:26.460 --> 01:20:38.640 Board Room: pocket of you know, basic recall occurring, and so I did go up to one student I said, you know what are you doing, and she explained and as someone, what do you, what do you do if you can't if you don't know the answer. 491 01:20:39.210 --> 01:20:53.460 Board Room: She looked at me and she's like oh wow I just I either asked my teacher or I asked my table mates here or I go to the book and I look it up or I can look at my past work. 492 01:20:53.970 --> 01:21:06.930 Board Room: Because it's built on this lesson is built on what we learned at the last lesson and she gave me like five strategies for figuring out dancer she didn't know it. 493 01:21:07.530 --> 01:21:15.870 Board Room: And so I just thought that was pretty good problem solving skills there, and she write down the answer she was working on and it had to do with. 494 01:21:16.260 --> 01:21:29.940 Board Room: Some science i'm sure director tones than you could understand it better than I do, and we are science background and I like do you even know what that means, though, about you know the summer genetics like, how do you even know what that means she's like Oh, because. 495 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:44.070 Board Room: You know, we saw it happening last week and and we can simulate it and you know really the tangible sense of the concept so wasn't just writing stuff down on a worksheet. 496 01:21:44.430 --> 01:21:53.070 Board Room: They were figuring out how to get the right answer, they were understanding the right answer they had been scaffolding up to that point so that was. 497 01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:55.560 Board Room: That was very. 498 01:21:58.440 --> 01:22:01.740 Board Room: Thank you anybody else. 499 01:22:04.500 --> 01:22:07.200 Board Room: Okay i'm gonna say one last thing and just a compliment. 500 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:10.050 Board Room: To the students. 501 01:22:11.160 --> 01:22:15.600 Board Room: In our district, and I think another example of just how the social emotional learning. 502 01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:21.360 Board Room: is affecting our kids every student that I walked up to. 503 01:22:21.990 --> 01:22:32.370 Board Room: wanted to talk and they were confident in talking with an adult and checking just your conversation that's what reminded me that was the one last thing I wanted to say is that. 504 01:22:32.850 --> 01:22:40.230 Board Room: Students wanted to engage with adults and they felt confident engaging with adults, they weren't intimidated by them and so. 505 01:22:41.370 --> 01:22:48.240 Board Room: I just think that's another great skill that our kids are learning is the ability not just to to talk with each other and kids their age group. 506 01:22:48.840 --> 01:23:01.080 Board Room: But their willingness to speak with adults and speak their mind and share what they're learning and share where they're struggling and you know where they were not responsible, so anyway, I just appreciate it that. 507 01:23:03.750 --> 01:23:10.020 Board Room: All right, yes, oh, and one thing I do want to let all of our board members know or Dr Ludwig why don't you go ahead and. 508 01:23:10.470 --> 01:23:22.260 Board Room: yeah, I just wanted to say first of all thank you all for making such an extraordinary commitment to those visits again, as you mentioned, they were two hours minimum. 509 01:23:22.830 --> 01:23:29.670 Board Room: At each location and you committed to that at three schools three or four school so that's an extraordinary amount of time for folks who have. 510 01:23:30.450 --> 01:23:39.330 Board Room: full time jobs and families and and do this evening service as well, so thank you for doing that it is the way that you get to see. 511 01:23:39.990 --> 01:23:49.350 Board Room: These goals and action, otherwise they're just words on a page, and when you step in the school, you see, how does it translate in the classroom are we seeing and hearing evidence. 512 01:23:49.740 --> 01:23:59.220 Board Room: Of this work in the classroom in these binders, you will find that there's a tab that shows the district Improvement Plan, so you have your. 513 01:24:00.480 --> 01:24:10.050 Board Room: Your binder that you can take home you'll have a copy of the equity Action Plan and then each of the 16 schools have their school work plan. 514 01:24:10.770 --> 01:24:21.120 Board Room: And you saw three schools, but I think confidently as you flip through the other ones you'll see that alignment what goals, did we set as a district, and how do they translate in the schools. 515 01:24:21.540 --> 01:24:28.620 Board Room: And then across the board, again with our equity Action Plan, do we see evidence of that also across the 16 schools. 516 01:24:29.610 --> 01:24:40.680 Board Room: And the next steps going forward is i'll invite you at various times when i'm out in schools, doing a learning walk for you to join and that's a time to get into classrooms with opposing question. 517 01:24:40.980 --> 01:24:49.020 Board Room: We might visit science classrooms that day or history classrooms or reading workshop time and we'd have. 518 01:24:49.770 --> 01:24:55.470 Board Room: opposed question by the principle of i'm looking for evidence of something that we've been working on. 519 01:24:55.740 --> 01:25:03.900 Board Room: And we would take notes and debrief afterwards and you'd be part of the learning walk team that happens regularly across our schools throughout the year. 520 01:25:04.350 --> 01:25:11.730 Board Room: So it's another way of you to take this experience and dive deeper in as you engage in a learning walk or you might just engage in. 521 01:25:12.930 --> 01:25:16.080 Board Room: A facility walk with me and we could see other aspects of the district. 522 01:25:17.400 --> 01:25:26.640 Board Room: there's also a tab in here that says the five dimensions of teaching and learning, you probably heard it referenced a lot and you're wondering what are the five dimensions they're listed there. 523 01:25:27.060 --> 01:25:33.780 Board Room: The seven components of inclusive communities it's listed there so as these acronyms. 524 01:25:34.530 --> 01:25:43.770 Board Room: And some of this jargon is mentioned you'll have some reference for that as well as a really nice summary sheet of what are the assessments that we give them the district. 525 01:25:44.160 --> 01:25:53.700 Board Room: or they summative at the end of the year, or they formative so that teachers can use the results right away, and you have access to that, so this binder can become a nice guide for you. 526 01:25:54.360 --> 01:25:58.440 Board Room: If we update anything will be sure to replace it for you and have that available. 527 01:25:59.160 --> 01:26:04.770 Board Room: If we add to it you'll be able to slip it right into your binder might be something you want to bring to your learning walk. 528 01:26:05.220 --> 01:26:20.550 Board Room: So that when we slip into a school, we can refresh or the goals of this school again what will be working on what do we plan to see, and it can be a reference point for you so and then Kelly for putting these together for principals getting those work plans dense that you can have them. 529 01:26:21.900 --> 01:26:30.840 Board Room: And again, thank you, as a board, there are some school boards that don't set foot in schools, they really see their role only as attending these meetings. 530 01:26:31.260 --> 01:26:42.930 Board Room: Voting on policy which will do tonight, but not really taking the opportunity to see it in action in the schools, so your commitment is extraordinary your curiosity your interest and. 531 01:26:43.320 --> 01:26:53.610 Board Room: You really looking at where the students are doing the learning is to be commended i'm very fortunate to have a school board as inspiring as all of you, so thank you very much. 532 01:26:56.400 --> 01:27:09.720 Board Room: Thank you and Dr ludwick on the learning walks is that something where we reached out to you and and are you, I know, in the past year learning walks have used to happen on a certain day or those happening. 533 01:27:10.770 --> 01:27:17.760 Board Room: Always on a certain day or I just want to make sure board members know kind of how to engage in that that they'll be. 534 01:27:18.120 --> 01:27:29.010 Board Room: Beyond this district, we did used to do a certain day we discovered that we were only seeing sometimes the same content area in some of our high schools and middle schools, especially so we wanted to diversify that a little broader. 535 01:27:29.430 --> 01:27:37.080 Board Room: and get to some of those areas that that principles would also like some feedback on so when we do a learning walk it's not to evaluate teachers. 536 01:27:41.040 --> 01:27:41.550 Board Room: To. 537 01:27:44.970 --> 01:28:00.930 Board Room: Give feedback to the principal on where we're seeing evidence of some of the learning that they've identified so when we get those schedules, I can let you know but there'll be a different times during the week great and we'll work on those through me yeah Thank you. 538 01:28:01.950 --> 01:28:09.780 Board Room: All right, I want to just look at my board members and see if you would like like a five minute kind of break I kind of figured that's what I was looking at you director Taylor. 539 01:28:10.710 --> 01:28:20.430 Board Room: So we are going to take a five minute recess, and then we will come back and move on with our agenda by rap to do that. 540 01:28:27.000 --> 01:28:34.020 Board Room: Alright, so we're going to move on to our board policy section, and we have some updates and just so the public knows. 541 01:28:35.310 --> 01:28:41.970 Board Room: One of the most important things we do as of art is we make policy and we update our policies from time to time. 542 01:28:42.690 --> 01:28:47.970 Board Room: policies are brought to the board that are brought to the board, have already been vetted with our legal counsel and. 543 01:28:48.450 --> 01:28:52.950 Board Room: So that will probably be stated by some of our district staff that talk about them, but in case. 544 01:28:53.430 --> 01:29:05.640 Board Room: Our public is wondering, we do have a legal counsel that looks at all of our policies as well, so tonight and we don't have any new policies that i've seen we are up these are updates recommended updates. 545 01:29:06.270 --> 01:29:13.950 Board Room: And some of them have timelines some of them do not sometimes when we look at policy, we will just do a first read. 546 01:29:14.580 --> 01:29:25.710 Board Room: And then give the public a chance to kind of comment on it and and vote on it, the next meeting, sometimes we go ahead and vote on the same meeting that and where that policy is. 547 01:29:26.970 --> 01:29:41.220 Board Room: For update so just to kind of give a little idea to the public about how that works, so we are going to start with proposed policy update AC non discrimination, and I am going to turn to Dr Ludwig. 548 01:29:43.290 --> 01:29:56.490 Board Room: Thank you very much, Mr Thompson the first policy that you have in front of you is policy AC non discrimination and this one has just some minor updates. 549 01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:12.930 Board Room: You have either on the screen if you're following along or in your notes, you can see, the original policy in the Black font and then in red font and those of you viewing from home or in the audience and also up on the screen. 550 01:30:14.460 --> 01:30:28.830 Board Room: Or the updated language and then in blue with strike through is any language that's deleted and this one is just some updated language to further clarify definitions. 551 01:30:30.270 --> 01:30:41.340 Board Room: And inserts with definitions proposed to the Oregon school boards Association and the begin our attorneys that any of the changes, and these were so minor they really are about. 552 01:30:41.910 --> 01:30:53.370 Board Room: just making sure that definitions are aligned and so staff would propose and recommend that you do adopt this policy revision and update there's no substantive change, it really is. 553 01:30:54.540 --> 01:30:57.030 Board Room: just making sure that definitions are aligned. 554 01:30:59.370 --> 01:31:06.210 Board Room: Okay, thank you and just so the board knows what we're going to do after our staff Member speaks to each one of our updates. 555 01:31:06.660 --> 01:31:14.070 Board Room: And then I will ask for an emotion for emotion and for a second and then, once that motion, and second, is made, if someone has. 556 01:31:14.580 --> 01:31:30.540 Board Room: A question for staff members or comment, then that would be the time that you can do that, so does anyone or one of the board members have emotion that they would like to make a move that the district approved the updated policy AC non discrimination as presented. 557 01:31:33.120 --> 01:31:45.300 Board Room: Thank you so director Wyatt has motioned the approval and we have a second from director Taylor, are there any questions discussion comments. 558 01:31:49.980 --> 01:31:57.330 Board Room: searching anything I think I would just say that I am going to vote in favor of this and. 559 01:31:58.860 --> 01:32:09.570 Board Room: I appreciate the fact that gender identity is called out more explicitly in the verbiage of the policy rather than a footnote at the end and. 560 01:32:11.130 --> 01:32:12.090 Board Room: All the voting in favor. 561 01:32:14.430 --> 01:32:17.880 Board Room: All right, thank you, Miss Douglas, would you please call for the vote. 562 01:32:20.910 --> 01:32:21.300 Board Room: By. 563 01:32:23.850 --> 01:32:30.180 Board Room: proxy King all right, Mr Thompson I question why I thank you. 564 01:32:32.580 --> 01:32:33.330 Board Room: Thank you. 565 01:32:34.410 --> 01:32:47.370 Board Room: Alright, we are going to move on to our second policy proposed policy update, which is DJ see bidding requirements and pat our chief of operations are you going to handle that one Thank you. 566 01:33:02.370 --> 01:33:28.680 Board Room: Before you as policy, DJ see if it's an update of the existing policy it's actually relevant to our capital projects on project program more than more so than probably any other, the devil is prepared by remote Douglas it simply allows the local contracting Board which. 567 01:33:30.090 --> 01:33:56.610 Board Room: You are to declare our public projects, a Community benefit contract under that it does in certain language about apprenticeship, and if you'll see it in the in the actual board policy in the red phone the paragraph that is added that allows that so i'm happy to answer any questions. 568 01:34:01.380 --> 01:34:04.800 Board Room: Alright let's get emotion on the floor first, and then we'll have discussion. 569 01:34:07.950 --> 01:34:09.420 Board Room: Thanks very much again thank. 570 01:34:10.620 --> 01:34:12.780 Board Room: You go ahead checking out. 571 01:34:15.120 --> 01:34:19.830 Board Room: i'll move that the board, adopt the emitted policy, DJ see. 572 01:34:21.630 --> 01:34:26.880 Board Room: Oh sorry, am I, on the wrong page, no, no that's the right page now here right DJ see and it's our second. 573 01:34:31.200 --> 01:34:37.410 Board Room: It has been moved by chair king and seconded by director Wyatt so we're going to go ahead and open it for questions and discussion. 574 01:34:42.030 --> 01:34:59.370 Board Room: So I just want to make sure that I understand the Community benefit contract, so that means that anyone who applies needs to have an apprenticeship program in place correct, you will always have that option to make that a requirement. 575 01:35:00.450 --> 01:35:09.420 Board Room: you're not required to include that in every public contract, but if you should designate a public contract as a Community. 576 01:35:12.750 --> 01:35:15.510 Board Room: And you can then you are allowed to. 577 01:35:16.530 --> 01:35:22.860 Board Room: insert that requirement in those times, and is it the board that brings that forward and wants to do that is that are. 578 01:35:23.460 --> 01:35:36.930 Board Room: Our operations department that brings that for which you initiate that it would be the board that would direct staff to make that part of the public contract, for instance, of a large bond. 579 01:35:38.160 --> 01:35:51.510 Board Room: project, a new school, you would direct the staff and say, this is a Community benefit project and insert the language for Community benefit project in there. 580 01:35:52.620 --> 01:35:55.650 Board Room: In the contract that contractors would bid on. 581 01:35:57.570 --> 01:36:03.630 Board Room: And can I ask what percentage of the contractors that we work on and again rough percentage. 582 01:36:04.830 --> 01:36:09.150 Board Room: Use the premises, so I would have to make an. 583 01:36:11.550 --> 01:36:12.630 Board Room: estimated. 584 01:36:14.490 --> 01:36:24.540 Board Room: All large contractors in each craft three almost always participate in apprenticeship programs they do that current. 585 01:36:26.040 --> 01:36:35.280 Board Room: it's only when you get down into smaller contracts that they have difficulty meeting those requirements, but that is governed more by. 586 01:36:35.970 --> 01:36:48.960 Board Room: The craft trades and their contracts that they have with with construction contractors and i'll use unions as an example unions have a certain percentage. 587 01:36:49.470 --> 01:37:10.080 Board Room: built into their contract the contract was signed with them so they will say, for every for journey, when you must have one apprentice that system already exists, but that's not always the case with contractors that don't use Union Labor. 588 01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:12.690 Board Room: They will. 589 01:37:15.240 --> 01:37:23.070 Board Room: Use apprentices as they deem appropriate so it does kind of have a little variance in the industry. 590 01:37:24.120 --> 01:37:34.290 Board Room: But all large contractors typically participate and they're actively recruiting apprentices, because the workforce is growing older. 591 01:37:36.180 --> 01:37:46.800 Board Room: journeyman Labor is getting older and they are going to retire, and they must replenish so there's interest on their end as well. 592 01:37:47.730 --> 01:38:10.830 Board Room: But in a contract, we would fold them to specific targets or goals that they would have to demonstrate on track, frankly, there is some accounting that would go with this, and it would it might discourage some contractors, but, as this has been adopted on a state level. 593 01:38:12.030 --> 01:38:18.630 Board Room: I think you'll see more and more contractors just participate because it's in their best interest. 594 01:38:20.250 --> 01:38:29.910 Board Room: question that I have is the the limit of the scope of the board, I guess, just to saying hey you have to have an apprenticeship Program. 595 01:38:30.780 --> 01:38:39.330 Board Room: Or are there other things, that the board may require for someone to qualify as a community benefit. 596 01:38:39.990 --> 01:38:53.670 Board Room: contractor, I mean or does a you know if we came up with a list of covenants let's just say they had to go into a contract, what does that less look like, or is there a list that's already predetermine are made up to consider or. 597 01:38:54.900 --> 01:39:11.400 Board Room: Or can someone just on the board on a whim say hey I think it's a good idea for them to have X X and X based off of the environment or whenever else this this update is in response specifically to send a bill for 20 and those targets in those. 598 01:39:13.650 --> 01:39:17.130 Board Room: boundaries are identified the Senate bill or okay. 599 01:39:20.460 --> 01:39:22.050 Board Room: Sure Thompson when their space. 600 01:39:23.970 --> 01:39:25.140 Board Room: Yes, yes. 601 01:39:26.880 --> 01:39:37.560 Board Room: Right Thank you i'll just say i'm super excited about this policy, and I thank you and remote for bringing it before the board, and I do hope that the board. 602 01:39:38.130 --> 01:39:45.240 Board Room: will have an opportunity to look at that resolution, that the policy is stating that we can vote on you know after the beginning of the year. 603 01:39:47.310 --> 01:40:02.040 Board Room: This senate bill for 20 and what this policy will do is really going to do a lot to encourage those apprentice apprenticeship programs which frankly can be difficult for. 604 01:40:02.850 --> 01:40:18.180 Board Room: Businesses doing state, you know you have their certain requirements for recruiting and training, and so this further incentivizes that and also there's some additional factors that can be as I understand and pat i'm. 605 01:40:19.230 --> 01:40:25.200 Board Room: I welcome you know being corrected, but we there's room for things like the. 606 01:40:26.850 --> 01:40:43.890 Board Room: Women minority emerging small business enterprise certifications to be included and things like a particular percentage of the workforce being derived from a local area. 607 01:40:44.610 --> 01:40:55.620 Board Room: That can also be part of this, and so I even think about you know, a CTE high school that our district is building with a construction trades program and you know how. 608 01:40:55.980 --> 01:41:16.620 Board Room: The monies that our Community is spending on these capital bond projects can be spent in a way that also reinforces the hiring of people who live around here so it's it's an eye on the wrong game, but I just I will be voting yes on the policy and I just appreciate you, bringing it forward. 609 01:41:21.240 --> 01:41:23.220 Board Room: Checking Are there any other comments. 610 01:41:25.980 --> 01:41:28.170 Board Room: Alright sweet please call it for a vote. 611 01:41:29.550 --> 01:41:30.180 Board Room: holly slope. 612 01:41:32.550 --> 01:41:33.000 Board Room: Taylor. 613 01:41:37.320 --> 01:41:38.220 Board Room: 50 Thompson. 614 01:41:43.350 --> 01:41:43.950 Board Room: Thank you. 615 01:41:45.900 --> 01:41:51.960 Board Room: Our next proposed policy update is a CB every student belongs and we're back to Dr ludwick. 616 01:41:59.400 --> 01:42:11.430 Board Room: Thank you, this policy is in front of this board again for updates to language that allows a policy to do more to be more closely aligned to legislation. 617 01:42:12.030 --> 01:42:25.230 Board Room: So the substance is not changing, but the language has been recommended to be more closely aligned to the legislation that prompted this policy so as you see, in the memo. 618 01:42:26.430 --> 01:42:43.860 Board Room: Back in September of 2020 in response to a student request the Oregon state Board of education, adopted a rule which would then transferred into the initial policy called all students belong, which our board adopted in October of 2020. 619 01:42:46.410 --> 01:42:54.030 Board Room: And then, in February of 2021 amendments to the ocr were adopted, including changing the title to every student belongs. 620 01:42:54.570 --> 01:43:04.950 Board Room: And then, in May of 2021 the Oregon legislature adopted house bill 2697 which place many of the same requirements into statute so it's gone through this process. 621 01:43:05.670 --> 01:43:16.470 Board Room: And then again so then a year later October 2021 hour to this year, the or was amended again to more closely aligned with the legislative action. 622 01:43:17.220 --> 01:43:26.100 Board Room: While the general intent and impact of the law have not changed the changes made by the legislature, the state board necessitates several changes to the model sample policy. 623 01:43:26.700 --> 01:43:40.470 Board Room: So that's what you see in front of you again in the black font is what we have in place so far, the Red font is additional or change to the language, and then the blue founders from strike through. 624 01:43:41.490 --> 01:43:46.530 Board Room: So here's an example of alignment to the legislation, so you can see in the fourth paragraph. 625 01:43:47.340 --> 01:43:54.030 Board Room: The blue strike through of ethnicity and age does not imply that we think it's okay to discriminate. 626 01:43:54.570 --> 01:44:02.820 Board Room: based on ethnicity and age, but it's simply because the legislative language did not include those two categories of course we've got a lot of language. 627 01:44:03.150 --> 01:44:11.310 Board Room: In our district around discrimination, we would never discriminate based on ethnicity age so it's not a concern for us that there's a strike through here. 628 01:44:11.970 --> 01:44:21.120 Board Room: But because the legislative language did not include those two there's been recommendations over the course of the year, as this policy has been lived into. 629 01:44:22.290 --> 01:44:28.740 Board Room: That it more closely aligned and so that's some language, we need to take out because it's not in the legislation. 630 01:44:29.580 --> 01:44:46.200 Board Room: And that would be similar to some of those other aspects of the blue strike through they're not in the original legislative language they were added in the sample policy that districts adopted and it's now been recommended that they not be in policies. 631 01:44:48.300 --> 01:44:53.670 Board Room: So that's the justification for the new language and read the blue strike through. 632 01:44:54.780 --> 01:45:03.420 Board Room: does not change the substance of that legislation or how we live into it, but more closely aligned set which is. 633 01:45:04.500 --> 01:45:06.150 Board Room: recommended for school boards. 634 01:45:09.060 --> 01:45:20.250 Board Room: So district staff would recommend that the board approved this update language that we can be aligned across the state with our policy language to legislation, thank you. 635 01:45:21.810 --> 01:45:23.820 Board Room: And I have them worsen from the board, please. 636 01:45:25.140 --> 01:45:41.280 Board Room: I move at the district approved the updated policy a CB every student belongs, as presented Thank you do we have a second Thank you checking it has been moved by director Wyatt and seconded by chair king, so it is open for discussion and questions. 637 01:45:44.130 --> 01:45:53.790 Board Room: And I do have one question Dr Ludwig because I was going to ask why the strike through on the agent ethnicity and you just explained that that's legislative but did they give a reason why. 638 01:45:54.540 --> 01:46:01.860 Board Room: They why they didn't include those two you know our update I don't know i'd have to go back and trace and look at who. 639 01:46:02.190 --> 01:46:12.780 Board Room: initiated the language for legislation, how they worked on it, of course, they have attorneys themselves and whether they felt it was already covered in other places I don't know. 640 01:46:16.080 --> 01:46:23.310 Board Room: But it certainly is not an endorsement to discriminate against those two categories it's just it was not an initial legislation. 641 01:46:25.770 --> 01:46:37.500 Board Room: Right so Thompson if there's faith and, yes, go ahead okay great um I do know we have other policies that do cover you know things like age and other factors as well. 642 01:46:39.300 --> 01:46:44.220 Board Room: And i'm thankful for this policy, I will be voting yes on this as well. 643 01:46:44.910 --> 01:46:53.400 Board Room: And i'll just say that you know as someone who attended world or again public schools, it was not uncommon for me to see things like flock to come. 644 01:46:54.060 --> 01:46:59.490 Board Room: In on the school grounds, and I was just speaking with someone recently graduated from. 645 01:47:00.030 --> 01:47:09.630 Board Room: An Albany high school not not long after around the around the time that I graduated and the confederate flag actually flew in their on their school ground. 646 01:47:10.260 --> 01:47:22.470 Board Room: And so, a policy like this just ensures that we are legislating, you know these types of symbols, because they are they do ignite fear and they call upon it a history of violence. 647 01:47:23.070 --> 01:47:32.580 Board Room: and eradicating them from our school grounds is the only way to make school environment that feels welcoming to all so I appreciate this policy and we'll go yeah. 648 01:47:35.400 --> 01:47:36.330 Board Room: Keep checking. 649 01:47:37.740 --> 01:47:39.780 Board Room: Any other comments or questions. 650 01:47:41.310 --> 01:47:43.530 Board Room: If not miss Douglas can you a call for the vote, please. 651 01:47:44.670 --> 01:47:45.780 Board Room: hi Kelly. 652 01:47:47.160 --> 01:47:49.860 Board Room: hi miss Taylor hi. 653 01:47:52.470 --> 01:47:52.860 Board Room: hi. 654 01:47:54.720 --> 01:47:55.140 Board Room: hi. 655 01:47:57.450 --> 01:48:08.100 Board Room: Thank you, thank you and our last proposed policy update is bb D H public comment at board meetings and again back to you, Dr Ludwig. 656 01:48:09.630 --> 01:48:22.890 Board Room: Thank you bye sure Thompson we have another policy in front of us, that is, amending a current policy bdd ah, and you can see, in your board packet the original policy. 657 01:48:24.930 --> 01:48:32.280 Board Room: We decided, with this one not to do the red font and blue stripe through there was just quite a bit of change with the update. 658 01:48:33.360 --> 01:48:43.350 Board Room: Because of the House bill that had come forward and so you do see the original that has the delete suggestion in front of it, and then the proposed. 659 01:48:44.910 --> 01:48:56.430 Board Room: policy along in your packet and just as a summary house bill 2560 in this year updated laws governing public attendance and common at public meetings of school boards. 660 01:48:57.030 --> 01:49:04.740 Board Room: When public meetings are held and access is made available in person, the Board must provide to the extent reasonably possible. 661 01:49:05.400 --> 01:49:10.890 Board Room: An opportunity to access and attend meetings by telephone, video or other electronic or virtual means. 662 01:49:11.490 --> 01:49:27.150 Board Room: In person or testimonials allowed during a meeting, allowing the public to submit oral testimony by video telephone or other electronic or virtual means and in person written testimony is allowed, allowing written testimony to also be allowed by email or the electronic means. 663 01:49:29.220 --> 01:49:41.190 Board Room: And some might say that our Year of being in a pandemic and having zoom meetings opened up the reality that we have now some technology that allows for that and feedback from Community that. 664 01:49:42.930 --> 01:49:45.510 Board Room: Being able to participate electronically. 665 01:49:47.340 --> 01:49:55.800 Board Room: or virtually remotely has been important feedback for school boards, so, while the substance. 666 01:49:56.880 --> 01:50:05.220 Board Room: And the value of public comment during board meetings is not in question here, I think we would agree that we're not wanting to limit. 667 01:50:05.670 --> 01:50:20.760 Board Room: Or to discourage public common, but to ensure that now folks who are at home participating through zoom or listening on their phones, have the opportunity to provide public comment remotely is what we're doing with this. 668 01:50:21.870 --> 01:50:37.440 Board Room: And then also just clarifying how we organize around that in terms of making sure there's adequate time making sure there's also which is new in here opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities, making sure that. 669 01:50:38.610 --> 01:50:53.370 Board Room: Again, to the extent that we can provide auxiliary aids and services so again, this is not about limiting but actually extending opportunity for folks to provide public comment in a variety of ways and access to that. 670 01:50:54.690 --> 01:51:02.580 Board Room: So you have the draft in front of you you've had that for a while to read i'll just give you time to then consider that and any questions that you have. 671 01:51:08.640 --> 01:51:16.710 Board Room: To support need any additional time to look over, I would like a couple minutes Okay, because I was I didn't know that it wasn't going to be in reading. 672 01:51:17.820 --> 01:51:24.600 Board Room: Well, I wanted to see what the material transom trying to get no worries decipher between yeah so i'll give the board a couple minutes, just to reread over. 673 01:51:25.710 --> 01:51:26.490 Board Room: The policy. 674 01:51:29.730 --> 01:51:36.900 Board Room: yeah so after everyone has a chance to comment or i'm sorry has a chance to read it, and then I will ask for the motion. 675 01:51:41.670 --> 01:51:53.790 Board Room: And I may add that a couple of those procedural components we've had as practices that you've actually read at the beginning of public comment period in or maybe not stated in our policy, but because we read them so often. 676 01:51:54.690 --> 01:52:06.060 Board Room: In our practices, the sample language fit well for us, for example, modeling respectful public comment and being mindful of civil discourse is something that we expected in our practice and we. 677 01:52:06.660 --> 01:52:14.970 Board Room: split would speak to that at each wasn't explicitly written that way in our policy and, so now it has that opportunity to be in there. 678 01:53:31.740 --> 01:53:44.220 Board Room: Taylor, are you good okay and Dr lead, we can you clarify, is there a timeline and that needs to where this needs to be adopted and. 679 01:53:44.760 --> 01:53:54.840 Board Room: i'm just asking like could it be a first read if we decide, we have a discussion and or Is this something that needs to have action on it tonight yeah there's a recommendation that. 680 01:53:55.320 --> 01:54:05.340 Board Room: The public, be able to comment virtual electronically by January of 2022 to have this in place so that's why we set it for this meeting okay. 681 01:54:06.360 --> 01:54:14.130 Board Room: we'll take emotion and then I can share Thompson i'll make a motion Okay, thank you, if i'm not speaking to the type of seminary no no you're not. 682 01:54:15.210 --> 01:54:31.920 Board Room: Okay, great i'm going to make a motion and then i'd be happy to explain it, you know if necessary for a second, but all move that we adopt policy B D D H, as amended with shrike of Point number one. 683 01:54:36.060 --> 01:54:41.010 Board Room: Okay, so it has been moved by chair king. 684 01:54:42.030 --> 01:54:45.060 Board Room: That we adopt policy Dee Dee Dee h. 685 01:54:46.410 --> 01:54:51.750 Board Room: minus number one so i'm just giving all the board members, a chance to read what number one says. 686 01:54:53.340 --> 01:55:09.270 Board Room: Should I read that publicly so so number one says as an organization centered around youth and their positive development all speakers will model respectful public comment and be mindful of civil discourse so chair King you'd like that one. 687 01:55:12.120 --> 01:55:19.860 Board Room: yeah if someone is inclined to second i'd be happy to explain myself but that's the motion Okay, do I have a second to that motion. 688 01:55:23.400 --> 01:55:24.480 Board Room: A second I want to hear it. 689 01:55:25.830 --> 01:55:36.750 Board Room: Thank you all right it's been moved by checking and seconded by director Taylor that we adopt policy bdd ah, with the strike through of number one in shirking would you like to speak to that. 690 01:55:38.640 --> 01:55:58.860 Board Room: yeah Of course I can hardly believe with Point number one that that's what we strive for, and in fact we have a pretty extensive list of guidelines that we read prior to people speaking, my concern is that it's embedded in policy and should. 691 01:56:00.750 --> 01:56:02.220 Board Room: Anybody deem. 692 01:56:03.270 --> 01:56:09.120 Board Room: That we violated that policy, and then we you know we could be held accountable for violating our own policy. 693 01:56:09.840 --> 01:56:18.540 Board Room: So my preferences, rather than embed that expectation into policy that we continue to follow the guidelines that we put into place. 694 01:56:19.170 --> 01:56:38.790 Board Room: And we trust that our public do this and that the Chair do a good job of reading this I do understand the spirit behind this I mean we have had public comment and school board rooms across the nation be all but respectful and all but. 695 01:56:40.140 --> 01:56:49.770 Board Room: We have a long way to go to reach these standards across the nation, however embedding it in this policy I don't think is the right move to achieve the outcome. 696 01:56:50.940 --> 01:57:01.170 Board Room: I do agree with Point number two and that the board chair just always has that the authority to call to call a meeting or to call public comments. 697 01:57:02.550 --> 01:57:07.650 Board Room: So i'll say that and then i'll say one other point before I yield the floor, and that is, with. 698 01:57:08.730 --> 01:57:22.710 Board Room: Point number five a person speaking during the public comment portion of the meeting they comment on any topic, I think that this is an important thing to highlight, because there are public bodies around us, who limit. 699 01:57:23.730 --> 01:57:34.800 Board Room: What people can talk about to only things that are on an agenda and, in fact, maybe that's something this board wants to consider, so that we don't have people speaking about whatever they want. 700 01:57:35.790 --> 01:57:43.200 Board Room: But that we're really focused on the agenda, however, my my inclination is to leave it as it is. 701 01:57:43.650 --> 01:57:53.700 Board Room: Because there is such a desire from the public to have you know, access to their local government, and so, leaving it open ended seems to fit the spirit of that. 702 01:57:54.270 --> 01:58:01.500 Board Room: But I would like to just highlight that point as written actually extends a lot of power and responsibility to members of our public. 703 01:58:04.920 --> 01:58:07.050 Board Room: Then that's all Thank you all right, thank you. 704 01:58:08.280 --> 01:58:10.770 Board Room: Any comments or questions, yes, Director sloop. 705 01:58:16.980 --> 01:58:19.560 Board Room: So with this osb a policy. 706 01:58:23.700 --> 01:58:32.460 Board Room: I do appreciate that the Westland built wasn't bill school board allows public comment through anyone in the Community. 707 01:58:34.440 --> 01:58:36.510 Board Room: But here, it says. 708 01:58:38.670 --> 01:58:42.030 Board Room: The Board may conduct a meeting without public comment. 709 01:58:43.590 --> 01:58:44.310 Board Room: and 710 01:58:46.260 --> 01:58:49.050 Board Room: I feel that we're going backwards if we. 711 01:58:50.670 --> 01:58:56.190 Board Room: take that option away from our Community being able to come to our board meetings and make a comment. 712 01:59:00.060 --> 01:59:05.340 Board Room: As it's it makes it gives us the control of saying we may conduct a meeting without public comment. 713 01:59:12.120 --> 01:59:13.080 And i'm wondering. 714 01:59:14.160 --> 01:59:21.660 Board Room: Does that refer to, if I look under number nine it says the Board will not hear comment at a board work session is that. 715 01:59:22.680 --> 01:59:34.200 Board Room: Was that statement, referring to that or yes, there may be times when the Board has like work sessions and there's not going to be any action. 716 01:59:34.740 --> 01:59:46.080 Board Room: or deliberations towards an action it's a learning time and there are most school districts across Oregon actually don't do public comment during those they reserve them for regular board meetings. 717 01:59:46.560 --> 01:59:56.880 Board Room: There also may be a time when you have a special board meeting that's called 20 within 24 hours notice and we need a quorum of board members and. 718 01:59:58.110 --> 02:00:05.640 Board Room: That would be a time when you may decide we we don't just because we have a board meeting, if you have one like that you'd have to open it for public comment. 719 02:00:06.450 --> 02:00:24.240 Board Room: And we have to notice that give time for public comment, but you can have those special board meetings and without public comment to do just that one task, and I think most of us haven't you've engaged in one of those special board meetings that have occurred sometimes they're about. 720 02:00:27.600 --> 02:00:36.180 Board Room: i'm trying to think of something that we've needed from our operations department and it's imminent within that week and we've noticed it appropriately. 721 02:00:37.260 --> 02:00:42.870 Board Room: But you wouldn't go through the full process of also then having public comment during that time, is there a way. 722 02:00:44.070 --> 02:00:55.890 Board Room: To I would imagine there's only a handful of items that would fall under that category would it makes sense for us to put those handful of items down there or have. 723 02:00:56.970 --> 02:01:03.720 Board Room: You know I hate to reach out to an attorney to have them throw it in there, but or find a way for that phrase to reference. 724 02:01:05.250 --> 02:01:06.120 Board Room: In limited. 725 02:01:07.200 --> 02:01:18.720 Board Room: instances we may need to do that without public comments, so we don't create an atmosphere of trying to be disingenuous and trying to continue to build that Community connection. 726 02:01:19.290 --> 02:01:37.470 Board Room: So would there be a way that we could add that to that line to say not during our normal board, you know, environment, but in case that we have to call an emergency meeting or something of the of the of the source, so that people don't think that we're trying to. 727 02:01:38.670 --> 02:01:47.130 Board Room: start to mute right voices because of its so polarizing today, I think that me, personally I think polarization is good. 728 02:01:48.120 --> 02:02:03.330 Board Room: Because I think that's time that you can make the most impact and the most change, and so I don't fear anyone coming up and saying something it doesn't move me one way or another, I know that everyone doesn't like me, so I understand that. 729 02:02:04.620 --> 02:02:11.370 Board Room: But I do also think that there's a way that we could call that out so it's not off putting current and. 730 02:02:12.180 --> 02:02:25.260 Board Room: Absolutely, you can do that as a board, you can amend, we can make a recommendation to amend that sentence to say something to the effect of the Board will ensure public comment at every regular meeting. 731 02:02:26.430 --> 02:02:34.470 Board Room: And reserves the right to have or not have public comment that other meeting, such as work sessions or special sessions, whether. 732 02:02:35.550 --> 02:02:44.370 Board Room: What if we go back to the previous policy that we have, where it says all board meetings with the exception of executive sessions. 733 02:02:45.570 --> 02:02:57.750 Board Room: will be open to the public, because of our desires to hear the viewpoints of citizens throughout the district shall offer suitable time at all meetings for citizens, but we can be specific on what meetings, those are. 734 02:02:59.970 --> 02:03:10.500 Board Room: You mean go back to the old one, and then add in yeah like the meeting exactly we use some of that verbiage from our previous policy for public comment. 735 02:03:12.300 --> 02:03:23.040 Board Room: And I do share some of the same concerns that you guys do I want to make sure that the spirit of this is not to squelch but for public to know that we do want to hear from them and. 736 02:03:24.090 --> 02:03:25.470 Board Room: I, I think. 737 02:03:26.520 --> 02:03:32.610 Board Room: number nine that talks about the Board will not hear public comment at board work sessions, because those are, I can see that. 738 02:03:35.040 --> 02:03:44.070 Board Room: However, I do think we as a board do you want to have public comment all of our regulars are all of our regular meetings my caution with talking about the special meetings. 739 02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:53.940 Board Room: Is I agree at some of those sorry we were we're just approving contracts and such I don't think that it's necessary to have those. 740 02:03:54.330 --> 02:04:03.570 Board Room: However, sometimes some of our special meetings have been caught called because of other reasons that our public would want would want to comment on so. 741 02:04:04.110 --> 02:04:15.030 Board Room: I want to make sure our verbiage doesn't squelch those sorts of emergence because sometimes we do have emergency meetings that do you have some controversial issues that public is going to want to comment. 742 02:04:15.630 --> 02:04:28.350 Board Room: On so i'm I want to make sure that if we do do an amendment, it still allows for those special meetings with the use of May on nine instead of will meet that need. 743 02:04:31.590 --> 02:04:32.700 Board Room: In giving that option. 744 02:04:34.110 --> 02:04:36.510 Board Room: You mean referring to the board work session. 745 02:04:38.220 --> 02:04:49.830 Board Room: Although we don't necessarily call some of the special meetings work sessions is my only thought, but tell me what you were what you were thinking behind that thinking in the last paragraph, I mean the last sentence and paragraph one. 746 02:04:50.130 --> 02:05:08.880 Board Room: Oh, we may conduct a meeting without public comment, a little can for consistency if number nine said may not hear a public comment at a work session does that still give us that flexibility to as needed offer public comment, knowing that on some of the more mundane perfunctory items. 747 02:05:10.080 --> 02:05:19.170 Board Room: Public comment might not be needed, because I agree that not stifling that option, but I also think this is where we hold each other accountable and so. 748 02:05:20.250 --> 02:05:31.530 Board Room: If there is an item or a meeting that's called without a public comment period and one of us, or two of us believe that it should be, then I think that that would give us that flexibility to potentially add or amend. 749 02:05:34.530 --> 02:05:44.430 Board Room: What what you're discussing and some of this is allowing for public comment during the meeting the public can always give public comment. 750 02:05:44.910 --> 02:05:56.070 Board Room: To written and said I know you're meeting about something and submit something in writing can email send those to you what you're talking about what we're also talking about is. 751 02:05:56.520 --> 02:06:06.660 Board Room: Public comment during the course of the meeting, which is when we pause and stop but nothing is ever excluding that we have here that the public cannot submit. 752 02:06:07.320 --> 02:06:20.190 Board Room: Public comment about any of the topics or none of the topics that the Board is considering deliberating or that the district has as its program or business and the Board should read those and we do have a process for that. 753 02:06:24.120 --> 02:06:24.510 Board Room: I agree. 754 02:06:25.710 --> 02:06:29.160 Board Room: Checking do you have any comments on what we've been discussing. 755 02:06:31.920 --> 02:06:44.340 Board Room: I know I I trust the decision making process that you all are following i'm i'm okay with reading all the emails and having the once a month at the formal meeting but also you know appreciate the spirit of. 756 02:06:44.970 --> 02:06:55.710 Board Room: Being as open and as accessible as possible, and so I don't have anything to add, I trust, where you all are going that one so i'm wondering when we said that. 757 02:06:56.910 --> 02:07:05.220 Board Room: something to the effect that the public has a right to attend public meetings held an open, it will always have. 758 02:07:06.450 --> 02:07:13.380 Board Room: Public comment at our regular meetings and some special meetings I don't something to that effect. 759 02:07:16.650 --> 02:07:17.670 Board Room: i'm not a wordsmith. 760 02:07:19.650 --> 02:07:27.270 Board Room: Would it be appropriate for us to revisit this after yeah, I think, given, given the discussion and. 761 02:07:28.920 --> 02:07:34.560 Board Room: The samples that are suggested this should be a first reading tonight, and we can take it for. 762 02:07:35.970 --> 02:07:44.130 Board Room: A vote in January okay and we'll do our best to live into January with with the legislation around allowing the remote electronic. 763 02:07:45.150 --> 02:07:56.700 Board Room: access and but it sounds like there's some other language in here just about public comment in general that we wanted have our attorneys draft for us. 764 02:07:57.960 --> 02:08:01.560 Board Room: Is that oh i'm fine with that I I do. 765 02:08:03.660 --> 02:08:10.770 Board Room: We go back to number five with chair King bringing up a person speaking during public comment portion of the meeting may comment on any topic. 766 02:08:12.540 --> 02:08:18.390 Board Room: I don't think that we should censor what people want to talk about, but it does become a little. 767 02:08:21.300 --> 02:08:22.170 Board Room: I should I say this. 768 02:08:24.930 --> 02:08:34.170 Board Room: It does hinder progression of trying to do real work when people feel the crowd talking about things that are not pertinent to our school district or or our Community. 769 02:08:34.980 --> 02:08:49.860 Board Room: And my example would be people that come from far away to preach about things that they're trying to fix far away right and so that gets old and and you know it gives three minutes to a soapbox rant on something that is not. 770 02:08:51.330 --> 02:08:54.210 Board Room: It has nothing to do with our Community and so. 771 02:08:55.680 --> 02:09:10.470 Board Room: My goal would be to if there's a way to put something in there that allows us to focus on our Community, not that we don't allow guests from other communities, but it does get a little old listening to week after week. 772 02:09:11.940 --> 02:09:21.000 Board Room: The same people show up, to say the same thing about something that has not even being addressed in our Community, so I don't know how we do something about that. 773 02:09:23.160 --> 02:09:30.720 Board Room: You know, unless we're just you know and like I said most topics are relevant there's some that are just completely irrelevant. 774 02:09:32.760 --> 02:09:42.660 Board Room: So I don't know how we do that, but it is a little distracting and it's annoying for people who live in the Community that come to listen to us and try to find out solutions for their children. 775 02:09:43.200 --> 02:09:50.370 Board Room: Which is what I care about I don't really care about what's going on in South medford I don't you know and so. 776 02:09:51.510 --> 02:10:00.570 Board Room: would love to find a way that we could squeeze that in without censoring our Community and things that we care about around here, but I don't know what that looks like so. 777 02:10:02.550 --> 02:10:09.390 Board Room: I share Thompson may yes please, I just want to echo what director Taylor saying that. 778 02:10:09.930 --> 02:10:28.440 Board Room: While i'm not inclined to restrict comments only to what is on the agenda, I do understand why local governments do that and I have certainly in my seven years serving on the board experienced folks who come in and repeatedly make accusations that have been refuted. 779 02:10:29.520 --> 02:10:38.460 Board Room: And you know make complaints publicly that actually have no standing and they do it repeatedly and I think it does interfere with. 780 02:10:38.790 --> 02:10:56.370 Board Room: Our ability to run an effective and efficient meeting I don't also know what the answer is, but if we're not passing this policy tonight I think it's a worthwhile discussion with former board and perhaps legal staff or looking at what other people do around this too and. 781 02:10:58.290 --> 02:11:03.930 Board Room: Not just provide a soapbox for folks to step up and just say whatever they want to an audience. 782 02:11:05.730 --> 02:11:12.330 Board Room: And I don't say my comment is not set in disrespect to other communities that are fighting for things that are important to their community. 783 02:11:13.050 --> 02:11:33.720 Board Room: I just want to focus on the families and the Community members within our area and represent and try to find solutions for the problems that they're experiencing, and so it would be nice if our legal team or somebody could help us to kind of dampen that and and. 784 02:11:34.770 --> 02:11:45.420 Board Room: And it may be, it doesn't have to be specifically around the agenda, but I think that when sometimes we get the room fills up with a bunch of outside noise it'd be nice to say just so you know. 785 02:11:46.470 --> 02:11:57.240 Board Room: we're not going to be discussing X X X and X we're here to talk about these things, and the things that are important to our Community, so if you got topics that fall in this category and you get up there, and you talk about it. 786 02:11:58.320 --> 02:12:08.250 Board Room: we're not going to hear it today and we're going to pass the MIC to someone else in the Community, who has a Community based issue to address us with so. 787 02:12:09.360 --> 02:12:13.920 Board Room: I I hear you know I believe we there were a few times when we had. 788 02:12:14.460 --> 02:12:27.420 Board Room: Quite a number of people signed up for public comment that well it wasn't in our policy we attempted to do I think what you're describing in our practice where we said we'd like to hear from residents first and then, if we have time. 789 02:12:28.560 --> 02:12:42.060 Board Room: If you're a non resident, you know we'll hear I guess what i'm saying I don't even have time for that is I mean I don't think that we should have time, nor should the parents that come and get babysitters sit here and have to sit through that so that's just my opinion. 790 02:12:43.440 --> 02:13:01.140 Board Room: Well, in to what Dr Ludwig was saying we do have our order of public comment residents in person, addressing the board residents remotely dressing non residents and and we could then you know we, I wonder if we could even prioritize residents addressing the board on agenda items. 791 02:13:02.640 --> 02:13:10.530 Board Room: And then residents addressing the board on non agenda items right non residents addressing the board on agenda items. 792 02:13:10.860 --> 02:13:21.810 Board Room: Non residents addressing the board on non agenda is something i'm just throwing that burger but some things that were we're still hearing, but we are prioritizing so that we are. 793 02:13:22.530 --> 02:13:29.850 Board Room: First and foremost, hearing from our residents and hearing about agenda items and then so giving preference so. 794 02:13:31.410 --> 02:13:38.040 Board Room: I we have what we have our legal counsel draft some sample language that you can then take a look at. 795 02:13:39.180 --> 02:13:41.790 Board Room: But also letting them know they're more than welcome to sit and listen. 796 02:13:42.810 --> 02:13:57.270 Board Room: But you know you know yeah yeah some of my experience has also been that someone sees a connection to something that we may not see and they may believe it is connected to an agenda or a topic. 797 02:13:58.620 --> 02:14:08.280 Board Room: In their experience and are trying to weave the connection that's happened a few times and it's taken a while, for us to see where the comment is going and it. 798 02:14:08.760 --> 02:14:23.400 Board Room: might only be revealed at the very end of how a person is making a connection, so it is, I think, maybe challenging, as some people try and bring a comment or to see maybe where something is going and we may preemptively. 799 02:14:24.840 --> 02:14:36.960 Board Room: miss an opportunity to see a connection that someone's making that could occur if we have language that could be too prescriptive, but I think our legal counsel will have. 800 02:14:38.640 --> 02:14:46.350 Board Room: You know comments about that, and maybe even some experience from other school districts that have worked through those scenarios and how they've guided them. 801 02:14:46.830 --> 02:15:03.900 Board Room: So I will bring those two areas forward one around resident and non resident, the priority towards resident, and the other being on topic with the agenda, and how do we then organize for comments that are not on topic. 802 02:15:05.400 --> 02:15:05.700 Board Room: and 803 02:15:07.260 --> 02:15:19.140 Board Room: I I hear what you're saying and I understand it, but I would prefer it being our guidelines and not my policy because of those unanticipated situations where. 804 02:15:19.740 --> 02:15:27.060 Board Room: A subject matter expert from tiger wallet and wants to come and speak to something here I don't think that. 805 02:15:27.510 --> 02:15:39.870 Board Room: weekend is fate every scenario, especially given that recently some folks from outside, have been more disruptive, but I think to prescribe that and policy would limit our ability to welcome all voices. 806 02:15:40.290 --> 02:15:45.240 Board Room: and on topics that may be emergent that we have not realized yet, so I would prefer to see it in the guidelines. 807 02:15:46.470 --> 02:15:53.010 Board Room: Unless we're able to craft, a policy that still remains inclusive for scenarios that we can't get a mistake. 808 02:15:57.990 --> 02:15:59.640 Board Room: Thank you, any other. 809 02:16:01.020 --> 02:16:02.880 Board Room: comments and. 810 02:16:06.780 --> 02:16:12.510 Board Room: One other comment that I would just make and then, thank you for will, this will be a first read. 811 02:16:14.700 --> 02:16:24.330 Board Room: Is that are we required, then, to offer the audio opportunity for public comment in our January meeting. 812 02:16:25.890 --> 02:16:33.060 Board Room: I know that this is part of the policy but is there legislation that requires us to offer audio comment I that meeting. 813 02:16:33.510 --> 02:16:41.100 Board Room: And we won't have adopted this policy, let me look into whether it means by the end of the month and we'll we'll be able to still do a second read. 814 02:16:41.490 --> 02:16:51.690 Board Room: For by the first of the month, so i'll look into that Okay, I just want to make sure that we're in compliance with what yeah legislatively, we need to do, and that also if we are going to offer. 815 02:16:53.250 --> 02:16:56.670 Board Room: Our Community the opportunity to comment. 816 02:16:58.950 --> 02:17:01.230 Board Room: on our door over the phone Thank you. 817 02:17:02.580 --> 02:17:10.050 Board Room: that they are aware of that sorry Janet before January meeting so um yeah domestic question on that is that for. 818 02:17:11.790 --> 02:17:15.150 Board Room: That audio piece is that for. 819 02:17:16.380 --> 02:17:30.120 Board Room: Anyone can log on to the link for our board link for our board meeting, and then we can be broadcasting and pulling in people from everywhere that could sign up to make public comment is that which is out what that's going to virtually do. 820 02:17:31.560 --> 02:17:41.070 Board Room: They will have to have submitted their interest, prior to the meeting, so that we can arrange for that technology to be in place so would not happen. 821 02:17:42.720 --> 02:17:56.220 Board Room: As live as, for example, tonight folks just walked in and signed in and we didn't know because of the technology and the need to coordinate that those folks will have had to. 822 02:17:57.840 --> 02:18:00.000 Board Room: ahead of time indicate. 823 02:18:01.200 --> 02:18:10.920 Board Room: That they plan to speak so that we can arrange for that technology to occur, so we will know those folks by a certain time, is there a filter system for that. 824 02:18:12.090 --> 02:18:12.660 Board Room: Yes. 825 02:18:14.190 --> 02:18:19.260 Board Room: Did you say their electronic system for that no I said, is there a filter system for that. 826 02:18:20.850 --> 02:18:29.310 Board Room: um in terms of what they plan to say, well, not for what they plan to say, but for the number of people that could surely just show up from anywhere. 827 02:18:29.970 --> 02:18:35.460 Board Room: To make a public comment on some some item that has nothing to do with anything. 828 02:18:36.060 --> 02:18:44.970 Board Room: I think the system would be the same system, you would have currently for in person, we would take a look and see there's seven people who have signed up to speak remotely. 829 02:18:45.480 --> 02:19:05.880 Board Room: You would know, then that there are seven people in person and then work through that process of how to within the 45 minutes and the three minutes each provide opportunity for both so that's that would be in some of our operating guidelines around how to navigate. 830 02:19:07.770 --> 02:19:23.640 Board Room: To hear from some folks in person, some folks remotely and what i'm hearing is a priority of hearing from resident folks first in each of those groups and then seeing if there's still time allowed for non resident in person and some of the non resident remote. 831 02:19:25.860 --> 02:19:43.410 Board Room: Might share Thompson yes, I think, directors taylor's questions and comments around that particular issue raised for me the complexities of this policy, the point of public comment is for the board to hear from the public prior to making a decision. 832 02:19:44.760 --> 02:19:49.350 Board Room: The point of public comment is not for folks to have a platform. 833 02:19:50.820 --> 02:19:57.180 Board Room: And, by introducing legislation, the spirit of which is to increase accessibility. 834 02:19:58.230 --> 02:20:09.540 Board Room: We actually are opening ourselves to providing a platform to pull from anywhere really in the world to speak to an audience that has. 835 02:20:10.920 --> 02:20:21.660 Board Room: I don't think it's unlimited but it's pretty darn big with the district video conferencing capacities of hundreds, maybe thousands i'm not sure what of it. 836 02:20:22.380 --> 02:20:34.440 Board Room: And so it does actually demonstrate that, indeed, this this policy is more complicated than the previous one, because this situation is more complicated, and we do need to think about. 837 02:20:35.310 --> 02:20:55.260 Board Room: You know the points of public comment is the policy meeting the point of public comment or is it in fact actually creating an issue, you know that maybe we can't even anticipate at this moment in time, so I appreciate those questions and comments, Dr Taylor I would vote for a filter. 838 02:20:57.750 --> 02:21:04.230 Board Room: That sorry scratch that last comment from the record my point of filters, just so that we hear our Community I just i'm. 839 02:21:05.100 --> 02:21:09.240 Board Room: tired of hearing from people from other communities about what they think we should be doing here. 840 02:21:09.960 --> 02:21:17.670 Board Room: And I want to hear about from our Community, as to what they think that we should be doing here to shepherd their children through the school system and so. 841 02:21:18.060 --> 02:21:20.910 Board Room: that's My only concern and so i'll leave it at that. 842 02:21:21.690 --> 02:21:32.490 Board Room: would take priority correct and I can bring that comment back to our legal counsel and ask about public comment during a meeting can we limit that to residents who live in the district. 843 02:21:33.360 --> 02:21:46.290 Board Room: Remembering that we can always hear from non residents any other time they're free to email to send written documents in the mail if they have ideas that they wish for our Community or board to hear. 844 02:21:48.210 --> 02:21:51.450 Board Room: So I can bring that forward to legal counsel absolutely in. 845 02:21:54.300 --> 02:22:09.030 Board Room: terms of process i'm wondering vice chair King do, would you do you want to rescind the motion, do you want to vote on the motion, what we have a motion on the floor to adopt a policy with only the stripe through if I remember one checking would you like what would you like to do. 846 02:22:10.110 --> 02:22:12.750 Board Room: ratios and everything my motion, thank you. 847 02:22:14.340 --> 02:22:20.280 Board Room: There we get as far as with the machine has been rescinded yeah and I will be in touch with both the. 848 02:22:20.610 --> 02:22:26.070 Board Room: chair and the vice chair about what I believe I heard tonight, make sure I have the right questions to legal counsel. 849 02:22:26.310 --> 02:22:31.410 Board Room: Okay, we also have the minute so we'll double check that we captured all of the input from all board members tonight. 850 02:22:31.650 --> 02:22:43.890 Board Room: Thank you, and then just making sure our Community is aware of, if there are any changes if there will be that opportunity for verbal comment remotely just making sure that they're aware of that Thank you all right. 851 02:22:44.340 --> 02:22:51.600 Board Room: Thank you board for that discussion, and we are going to move on, then last one quick yes i'm just in the spirit of. 852 02:22:52.290 --> 02:23:01.860 Board Room: The work on these policy updates just wanted to ask the superintendent as we look into the new year, a policy that i'm keen for us to visit is. 853 02:23:02.850 --> 02:23:07.800 Board Room: The legislative authority that was given to school boards to prohibit firearms on school property. 854 02:23:08.340 --> 02:23:17.220 Board Room: Is that a policy that we can anticipate seeing in the new year, or is there a time frame for that particular policy from the Oregon school board association Thank you great question. 855 02:23:17.670 --> 02:23:34.200 Board Room: We actually have quite a long list of policies for you to look at this year we limited this evening to just for a given all the other agenda items and also ones that seem to have a timeline to them that one doesn't Our intention is to bring that one forward for first read in January. 856 02:23:35.250 --> 02:23:43.590 Board Room: We do need to work through with our legal counsel and make sure we've they've vetted that language, so the intent is to bring that one forward in January 1 three. 857 02:23:45.060 --> 02:23:46.770 Board Room: yeah good question, thank you. 858 02:23:49.920 --> 02:23:51.000 Board Room: All right, anything else. 859 02:23:52.140 --> 02:23:59.100 Board Room: So under department of operations and Mr dockless or Mr mcgough who is coming. 860 02:24:00.180 --> 02:24:01.770 Board Room: up both of you. 861 02:24:04.200 --> 02:24:15.810 Board Room: And it's me yay Okay, can I just say a few things before, so I just want to acknowledge Kim how many years, have you served on the long range planning committee i'm three. 862 02:24:17.520 --> 02:24:28.680 Board Room: And so I just think it's super important to acknowledge these volunteers Kim is a volunteer that has a family, and you know other responsibilities and has spent hours and hours. 863 02:24:29.880 --> 02:24:38.010 Board Room: On our long range planning committee and I first became aware of Kim during our bomb summit in 2019 the spring. 864 02:24:38.790 --> 02:24:48.000 Board Room: And she stood up and spoke and lead this bond Summit I don't know how many people were in attendance hundreds and I thought you were an employee of the district. 865 02:24:48.690 --> 02:24:56.760 Board Room: Just based on your breadth of knowledge and your presentation and come to find out your volland you were a volunteer, and so I just want to. 866 02:24:57.060 --> 02:25:10.230 Board Room: publicly acknowledge you and thank you for all of that time and just again say thank you to all of our volunteers who are out there i'm spending hours and hours and hours and I don't have time to. 867 02:25:11.340 --> 02:25:21.720 Board Room: You know I don't know who all of you are, but just thank you that's one of the things that one of our greatest assets in our school district our volunteers like yourself who spend countless hours that no one else knows about. 868 02:25:22.410 --> 02:25:26.940 Board Room: To make our district trends, so now, you may start your presentation Thank you so much, and. 869 02:25:27.720 --> 02:25:39.600 Board Room: i'll say it's my pleasure, I enjoy the work very much but also, I have very good boss, who you know, has dragged me along and taught me lots of stuff so but i'll talk about that a little bit um. 870 02:25:40.230 --> 02:25:58.530 Board Room: i'm Kim Jordan, I am here representing the long range planning committee part of our assignment, as you know, is to keep you updated on the bond oversight so that's what we're going to talk about try to stick to the quarterly report, the problem with. 871 02:25:59.610 --> 02:26:10.530 Board Room: Not problem good problem to have is that, as soon as it's published the work is moving so quickly, so if it's okay with you i'm going to go through an overview of the report. 872 02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:21.090 Board Room: And then there are some parts that I know to be true that are updated and i'll just let you know that as we're going along and then, I just wanted to talk about two related things at the end. 873 02:26:21.810 --> 02:26:33.690 Board Room: about the bond and it's funny because I sat down to write my report and I started to write it's such an exciting time and I looked at my notes from last time and that's the same thing I said last time it's such an exciting time. 874 02:26:34.140 --> 02:26:44.280 Board Room: But it is such an exciting time because we're seeing physical changes that it's just it's so fun and to see everything that's going on, so and. 875 02:26:44.790 --> 02:26:53.400 Board Room: In you have a copy of this i'm going to look at my copy and it's also up for the financial overview you'll see that we continue to. 876 02:26:54.360 --> 02:27:04.860 Board Room: Our over under continues to decrease, and that is exactly what we would see on and on bond project like this, and this has happened to us in the past as well, and so, each time we. 877 02:27:05.280 --> 02:27:22.680 Board Room: anticipate that and that will decrease, and then we anticipate that the projects will be fully complete within available funds there's no reason to think that that wouldn't happen $94 million at the current funding has been committed. 878 02:27:24.240 --> 02:27:31.080 Board Room: So financially wearing good decision, if you want to stop me along the way you can do that, or we can do questions or whatever. 879 02:27:33.030 --> 02:27:43.350 Board Room: However, coven impacts on supply chain continued to play with the contractors on some of the different projects are some of the timelines have gotten pushed off a little bit, unfortunately. 880 02:27:44.040 --> 02:27:52.020 Board Room: And you're well aware that the proven supply chain is affecting all kinds of random things that you went thing for exactly like some. 881 02:27:52.500 --> 02:28:03.180 Board Room: plastic liner that you need to put under the ground before you can put types in you can't do any of the other work until that shows up so that holds up like our high school project at West on high school. 882 02:28:05.190 --> 02:28:17.880 Board Room: Our our contractors, though, are really using some creative thinking to try to you know do as much of the work as they can why we wait on those things and there's really nothing that can be done about that. 883 02:28:19.320 --> 02:28:35.340 Board Room: So, for some of the different projects on page three for the first project that talks about the Roosevelt high school there's a great picture on the second page they dug out the basement. 884 02:28:36.390 --> 02:28:42.300 Board Room: So this is a huge project, as you know, and the basement goes down quite a bit, so this is. 885 02:28:43.320 --> 02:28:49.110 Board Room: slated to be done in 2023 and I think if you go one more page on. 886 02:28:51.660 --> 02:28:54.870 Board Room: photos are on pitch for yeah there we go. 887 02:28:58.680 --> 02:29:05.400 Board Room: For the new is the creek middle school at dollar street and the. 888 02:29:07.200 --> 02:29:19.260 Board Room: The items that were listed in here in your board report talk about that the planning Commission approved the project, since then, the city is upheld the planning Commission decision. 889 02:29:19.710 --> 02:29:29.070 Board Room: and work began at the dollar property trees came down in the last couple of weeks and clearing up the site has happened. 890 02:29:30.060 --> 02:29:42.900 Board Room: There, with the timber coming down the kind of some cool things about that or that some of the timber will be sold and so we'll get money back to the project for selling the timber. 891 02:29:43.200 --> 02:29:59.790 Board Room: And some of the really large trees, the more significant trees are going to grow back into the school so there'll be used as maybe stumps is some benches or seating areas will use some long cuts to put up on the walls inside so really making this. 892 02:30:00.870 --> 02:30:08.700 Board Room: saying we but I mean the Community this connection to where the school sits and you know kind of it's it's. 893 02:30:10.500 --> 02:30:18.420 Board Room: it's home and where it's coming from and so that connection to the environment is super important to the OPS department. 894 02:30:20.400 --> 02:30:35.250 Board Room: The third option high school on page seven and eight, and the first phase of the project is to work on the secure entry and moving the offices, and that is all obviously happening, while it's still a middle school. 895 02:30:35.880 --> 02:30:43.410 Board Room: This happens to be one of the projects that I pay attention to as my long range planning Commission position. 896 02:30:44.190 --> 02:31:04.440 Board Room: And so i've been there, a couple times just looking at the site where they've done an amazing job of keeping it separate from the kids so the kids are not hearing the construction during the day, but they can still get worked on in that outside area and those offices. 897 02:31:05.940 --> 02:31:17.220 Board Room: will be starting to move into in the new year and then work for the third option high school will happen when there are no students there once the new middle schools ready. 898 02:31:24.060 --> 02:31:31.890 Board Room: For a stadium and parking it with some high school I just said a little bit about there were some delays, and so the main problem. 899 02:31:33.330 --> 02:31:41.430 Board Room: or situation, there is the work was originally scheduled to be completed by October the hopes were that the football team could do their playoffs at that time. 900 02:31:41.850 --> 02:31:51.930 Board Room: That didn't happen the storm water system with that liner that was missing was part of that problem right now the paving of the. 901 02:31:52.980 --> 02:32:04.590 Board Room: parking lot is meant to happen over holiday break that's weather dependent, so if the weather doesn't cooperate with us, then that will not happen, but if it does, that would be wonderful, because then the students could start using it. 902 02:32:05.040 --> 02:32:09.330 Board Room: After holiday break in the new year so that would be amazing as a. 903 02:32:10.440 --> 02:32:16.200 Board Room: Western high school parents i'm super excited about that as well um. 904 02:32:18.150 --> 02:32:28.380 Board Room: And then the new primary school frog pond there's just one quick update on that is that the architect from IBM is selected to work on that project. 905 02:32:29.940 --> 02:32:36.420 Board Room: there's not a lot for learning with technology so, then I just wanted to talk for a second about facility improvements. 906 02:32:37.080 --> 02:32:57.030 Board Room: Under facility improvements there were two issues that you're aware that we've been talking about for a while, one of which is the gender neutral restrooms and the other one is safety and security so i'm curtis do you have those pictures from amy about. 907 02:32:58.200 --> 02:32:59.010 Board Room: I went. 908 02:33:00.330 --> 02:33:14.340 Board Room: With superintendent Ludwig vice chair Thompson and Mr Reno Douglas an eye toward wood, so we could take a look at the new restrooms and I think with. 909 02:33:16.410 --> 02:33:26.580 Board Room: Well, the process for building these restrooms and getting them where everyone feels comfortable the kids are safe, but also have privacy. 910 02:33:27.030 --> 02:33:33.960 Board Room: has been really awesome because we had a lot of public input we had a lot of discussions around this. 911 02:33:34.320 --> 02:33:45.060 Board Room: And what we believe we came up with is a model for schools going forward really not just an Oregon but nationwide because this is a solution that students are happy with. 912 02:33:45.660 --> 02:33:58.020 Board Room: Parents are happy with this school staff is very happy with, and they look beautiful so i'm on the outside, one of the things that the wood staff really wanted these. 913 02:33:59.040 --> 02:34:06.390 Board Room: Little shelves are so the kids can put their blinders down when they go into the bathroom that's The thing that would you put your binder down. 914 02:34:06.990 --> 02:34:16.230 Board Room: And then you can see there's an open area so it's visible so there's no like kind of way where their students on the inside, where you cannot see them. 915 02:34:16.710 --> 02:34:24.060 Board Room: But they have privacy within the bathroom obviously when they pulled the door shut, and then the hand washing area is. 916 02:34:24.570 --> 02:34:36.270 Board Room: Common Area and that's true in many of our schools, right now, as it is that have the portraits and their sinks are outside of the bathrooms and so they're washing their hands and more fun so. 917 02:34:37.020 --> 02:34:43.860 Board Room: This is really cool design, it turned out great, and I think like I said that we will be a model for going forward. 918 02:34:45.210 --> 02:34:52.500 Board Room: And this design The other thing I wanted to talk about I am many of you might not know, but I was also on the. 919 02:34:54.780 --> 02:35:01.710 Board Room: Safety Committee when several years ago, the board appointed a safety committee and we did kind of an analysis of. 920 02:35:02.850 --> 02:35:14.010 Board Room: safety throughout the district, there was a lot going on with school safety and the both of the committee's did research and made suggestions coming back and. 921 02:35:15.150 --> 02:35:21.780 Board Room: Many of the suggestions that were submitted physical suggestions have been implemented so. 922 02:35:24.150 --> 02:35:33.120 Board Room: Things like secure entries are in all of our schools, except for one right now, which means that there's a double door system and so those can be automatically locked. 923 02:35:33.600 --> 02:35:41.490 Board Room: When we wrap would we saw that they have their interior security curtains are starting to be installed, meaning that the teacher can. 924 02:35:42.300 --> 02:35:49.140 Board Room: shut those curtains and then there are the students are not visible to someone that would be inside of the school. 925 02:35:49.590 --> 02:35:55.050 Board Room: And then, in most of the schools this secure lockdown system is starting to be installed. 926 02:35:55.860 --> 02:36:02.070 Board Room: staff will be trained on that and that will be implemented as well, so to me that's a really exciting full circle thing where. 927 02:36:02.730 --> 02:36:13.140 Board Room: We saw there was a problem, the Community made recommendations we put it in the bond and now it's happening and so thank you for for making that happen for us and. 928 02:36:16.440 --> 02:36:23.850 Board Room: that's all I had to say, are there any questions I went through it kind of quickly because we've been going through it a lot yeah yes. 929 02:36:26.340 --> 02:36:36.930 Board Room: Question and just more of a from the design stuff I think that the bathrooms look amazing, but in that area since it's not technically inside of a bathroom is their cameras. 930 02:36:37.710 --> 02:36:48.930 Board Room: to monitor the area, I guess, I only ask the questions, because when you give kids a private space kids do private things and so that's what i'm asking about So if you have. 931 02:36:49.560 --> 02:36:58.350 Board Room: kids that are going in the bathroom say a male and a female or however you identify two kids going in the bathroom at the same time. 932 02:36:58.950 --> 02:37:05.730 Board Room: That there's a way to you know, and maybe another student complained because something went on in that space, how do we know. 933 02:37:06.570 --> 02:37:15.720 Board Room: And how do we monitor since since that's not technically inside of a bathroom where people are getting dressed and undressed you're not is that a violation or is it possible. 934 02:37:16.260 --> 02:37:33.270 Board Room: Because I also know that in our schools there's a lot of kids who currently babe in in bathroom stalls and all these different types of things, and you can have a camera for that, because that's inside the bathroom so with this new kind of regime of kids doing things that you know. 935 02:37:34.740 --> 02:37:41.220 Board Room: In these bathroom stalls is this an area since it's open in a hallway that a camera would be. 936 02:37:42.000 --> 02:37:53.910 Board Room: allowed to protect other kids who are just trying to go to the bathroom and go back to class I don't know the answer to the camera thing, but if I could say two things about that really quick before someone else answers the camera is that. 937 02:37:55.350 --> 02:38:09.510 Board Room: it's a middle school, not a high school So hopefully we have a little less of what you're describing but but not none and and the location of this bathroom is just adjacent to busier hallways so. 938 02:38:10.500 --> 02:38:20.160 Board Room: So that's a positive and also the bathrooms are very specifically designed to be just big enough so that if you and your backpack can fit you know kind of. 939 02:38:20.550 --> 02:38:33.090 Board Room: go in and shut the door behind you, but not two people in their backpacks would fit in and but I don't know the answer to the question about the camera and the whole day, thank you for the question I I understand it. 940 02:38:34.740 --> 02:38:44.970 Board Room: i'm not aware of any law that would restrict the use of cameras there, I think that would need to be a deeper conversation about the appropriateness, to the proximity there. 941 02:38:46.410 --> 02:38:58.500 Board Room: As Kim mentioned a very intentional part of the design of this was to make it one of alongside one of the most busy hallways in the school so that there's a ton of. 942 02:38:59.850 --> 02:39:17.280 Board Room: All use the term passive supervision that happens just by sheer volume of folks coming by and then one of the images there you saw there's a wide opening on either end and then there's only a narrow column for that wall on either end. 943 02:39:18.450 --> 02:39:26.640 Board Room: So that the amount of supervision is very high it's it's very transparent and the only reason there's any columns because you have to have a pipe for your sink. 944 02:39:28.290 --> 02:39:29.640 Board Room: But the idea is that. 945 02:39:31.050 --> 02:39:37.560 Board Room: The nature of the layout itself this incentivizes that sort of activity, because. 946 02:39:39.120 --> 02:39:52.530 Board Room: You know a thing or something like that is a very small space and that sort of activity or other things that students might attempt to get up to would be much more obvious here do the proximity of the hallway. 947 02:39:53.670 --> 02:39:59.550 Board Room: The doors are also going to have a one inch opening at the base. 948 02:40:00.990 --> 02:40:09.240 Board Room: They they came in full height and we took them because we had doors, but they are going to be trimmed up to that height and then we'll be assessing them. 949 02:40:10.470 --> 02:40:21.600 Board Room: myself and a number of others on our team spent a lot of time laying on the floor at the district operations Center trying to figure out exactly how big that gap ought to be in order to see for safety. 950 02:40:23.400 --> 02:40:25.860 Board Room: But allow it to still provide appropriate privacy. 951 02:40:27.330 --> 02:40:27.780 Board Room: So. 952 02:40:29.130 --> 02:40:38.700 Board Room: All of that to say we've not considered placing cameras directly outside of them, but we believe that this design is much less receptive to that sort of activity. 953 02:40:39.420 --> 02:40:48.090 Board Room: I guess My other question would be that, since you do have a gap in the door does is there, concern for kids sliding cameras underneath the door when. 954 02:40:49.230 --> 02:40:55.620 Board Room: People are trying to go to the restroom that concern was specifically considered when we figured that one inch. 955 02:40:56.880 --> 02:41:05.070 Board Room: And of course I I went on vacation Finally, a few weeks ago, which was really nice but I drove my wife NUTS because i'm always looking at buildings and how things operate. 956 02:41:06.150 --> 02:41:10.020 Board Room: She doesn't like going to Nice restaurants, because i'm studying the architecture, but. 957 02:41:11.580 --> 02:41:14.940 Board Room: I found a common place they're granted in California. 958 02:41:16.230 --> 02:41:25.950 Board Room: Where single occupancy restrooms had even two or three inches in very public places now this district of course gets to decide how we like to do things. 959 02:41:26.940 --> 02:41:32.040 Board Room: But again, those exercises of myself and others laying on the floor operation Center. 960 02:41:32.940 --> 02:41:41.040 Board Room: You can believe, the first thing we did was get the cameras out our phones out we're jamming i'm under there and trying to hit take a picture button and all those things. 961 02:41:41.760 --> 02:41:58.740 Board Room: And we felt highly competent in that one inch and it will be tested in last question and i'll leave it alone smoke detectors Are they in the bathrooms we have accommodated smoke or beeping sensors through the wiring but we've not installed them. 962 02:42:00.090 --> 02:42:05.580 Board Room: So, should the district elect to go in that direction for those restrooms it is. 963 02:42:06.960 --> 02:42:07.890 Board Room: readily achievable. 964 02:42:12.990 --> 02:42:13.320 Board Room: Okay. 965 02:42:15.510 --> 02:42:16.560 Board Room: Any other questions. 966 02:42:19.170 --> 02:42:20.730 Board Room: Checking do you have any questions. 967 02:42:22.890 --> 02:42:29.730 Board Room: I don't have any questions but hi Kim miss Jordan, thank you for being there, I just want to say thanks for mentioning that. 968 02:42:30.150 --> 02:42:41.550 Board Room: School safety and security advisory committee that you sat on I remember when the board appointed that committee and we listened to the public, and what came out of. 969 02:42:42.030 --> 02:42:59.730 Board Room: Those meetings with students and parents and teachers all involved generated those ideas for that capital bond and yeah I had I had forgotten that you serve there also so thank you for that reminder that process your presence there, yes, thank you. 970 02:43:01.380 --> 02:43:01.560 yeah. 971 02:43:02.640 --> 02:43:06.690 Board Room: And I know we've talked about this before, and so I just an update and. 972 02:43:07.410 --> 02:43:15.390 Board Room: We were getting science to place on all of our district own property that's currently vacant just to make sure that the public is aware of. 973 02:43:15.960 --> 02:43:25.290 Board Room: You know this is a district land that is, we will probably use for future development of a school and so i'm just curious where we're at with the sign placement, so those. 974 02:43:28.500 --> 02:43:43.230 Board Room: Those signs, we came up with the design, we made the plan we made the signs and then got a little bit hung up with the approval from each city, the processes different for putting up a sign and how big it is and where it is and. 975 02:43:43.680 --> 02:43:52.560 Board Room: And that kind of thing and then there was some debate on you know where we thought it should go, you know the properties are some of the properties are small so it's easy, but some of them are. 976 02:43:52.920 --> 02:43:57.810 Board Room: Bigger and maybe two sided or whatnot so you know what the strategy would be going forward but. 977 02:43:58.830 --> 02:44:05.880 Board Room: Those I believe I remember that they were both approved in the last meeting and so those should be going up. 978 02:44:06.540 --> 02:44:17.520 Board Room: momentarily so we, and this is like breaking news so even Kim doesn't know yet, but we just set the first one out of the Wall Street property just last week. 979 02:44:18.120 --> 02:44:30.360 Board Room: there's a second one, we have the location set the crews, going to be coming out obviously there was a certain amount of activity there just last week in the sign folks decided they'd rather not be right next to that. 980 02:44:30.990 --> 02:44:38.730 Board Room: Well it's occurring and we just got approval for the permits down and Wilson bill for other properties, so we expect those to go up shortly. 981 02:44:40.380 --> 02:44:41.010 Board Room: Thank you. 982 02:44:44.940 --> 02:44:56.040 Board Room: Again, thank you so much for your Vice chair Thompson yeah well, we have Mr Douglas here, could you speak to the financial page Mr Douglas we heard earlier this evening just some. 983 02:44:57.960 --> 02:44:58.980 Board Room: speculation. 984 02:45:00.900 --> 02:45:03.600 Board Room: Oh we've got to get chair King back on. 985 02:45:04.650 --> 02:45:11.820 Board Room: think she hung up intentionally so we'll get her back on her while we're working on that could you speak to the financials on page one. 986 02:45:12.780 --> 02:45:21.450 Board Room: And how the Community might be able to read and understand that table we know the bond was approved for 286.8 million. 987 02:45:21.930 --> 02:45:39.030 Board Room: We know that we had an awesome grant that there's also bond premium that we were allowed to spend, how does it kind of a Community Member perhaps read this table and come to understanding how we're working within what we've been allotted by the Community in terms of spending. 988 02:45:40.380 --> 02:45:41.700 Board Room: yeah excellent question. 989 02:45:43.530 --> 02:45:49.620 Board Room: Yes, we had a bond vote approval for the $206.8 million. 990 02:45:51.210 --> 02:46:00.630 Board Room: There are times, and this was one of them, where the sale of bonds can result in a premium that those bonds are highly sought after. 991 02:46:02.010 --> 02:46:05.700 Board Room: And times of string economically. 992 02:46:07.260 --> 02:46:11.790 Board Room: are at times when investors are seeking safe. 993 02:46:12.960 --> 02:46:18.360 Board Room: investments such as bonds and so you can see that even further in those cases. 994 02:46:19.380 --> 02:46:33.360 Board Room: So we had that $11.1 million of premium that were experienced at the first bond sale that first on sale was roughly 140 $7 million of the 206.8. 995 02:46:35.040 --> 02:46:40.740 Board Room: We do also is superintendent Ludwig mentioned, we have the state awesome grant. 996 02:46:42.420 --> 02:46:52.770 Board Room: And that grant was nearly $7.2 million those monies were specifically targeted for would middle school and a decreased middle school at its current site. 997 02:46:54.120 --> 02:47:08.190 Board Room: And those projects have progressed to the point where we've requested for reimbursement for all of that work at both schools, which is good, based on our initial request for reimbursement, we expect that will go through quickly. 998 02:47:09.930 --> 02:47:22.620 Board Room: And so we it Oh, and in addition to that our business office works with an investment firm that helps us to invest the money in an appropriate way, there are regulations around that. 999 02:47:23.850 --> 02:47:30.240 Board Room: That preclude us making too much money and interest, given the economic climate there's not really any risk of that. 1000 02:47:31.320 --> 02:47:34.410 Board Room: But there are there is a certain amount of investment that's occurring. 1001 02:47:35.670 --> 02:47:53.160 Board Room: And I believe it was q2 of this year, where we increased the expectations there we've been talking with them and we've been doing some reinvesting and that's allowed us to increase the expected interest earnings for the Program. 1002 02:47:54.720 --> 02:48:00.480 Board Room: And so, all of that totals up to that $230 million that you've seen. 1003 02:48:02.070 --> 02:48:06.780 Board Room: or I apologize to 227 million in total funding that you see. 1004 02:48:07.950 --> 02:48:16.320 Board Room: And it is typical and has been our standard to project our budgets out to the full amount. 1005 02:48:17.430 --> 02:48:26.700 Board Room: We assume that that we will complete the final bond sale, that we would not intentionally prevent ourselves from completing the Program. 1006 02:48:27.840 --> 02:48:32.190 Board Room: So we believe it's responsible to plan the budget accordingly. 1007 02:48:34.410 --> 02:48:40.950 Board Room: Are there any particular questions around those comments are those are my main elaborate more Thank you and and. 1008 02:48:41.790 --> 02:48:51.150 Board Room: The long range planning committee is also charged with being the bond oversight committee, so they get these financial reports at every meeting and have the opportunity to scrutinize. 1009 02:48:51.720 --> 02:49:02.700 Board Room: All of the financials that are being presented by the bond projects and to ask for accountability, that is the citizen group that you've charged with making sure that we are. 1010 02:49:03.420 --> 02:49:14.070 Board Room: appropriating the funds in the bond appropriately and responsibly, so you do have an oversight committee which Kim Jordan is a member, making sure those financials come in. 1011 02:49:15.060 --> 02:49:22.260 Board Room: As expected, and i'll just just listening to you say that I didn't know that all of those moving pieces were tied to your budget but. 1012 02:49:23.070 --> 02:49:29.460 Board Room: I will concur and confirm that in a bad economic environment there will be a flight to safety. 1013 02:49:30.180 --> 02:49:36.180 Board Room: And bond performance can make a significant difference in your return on that amount of money. 1014 02:49:36.840 --> 02:49:44.400 Board Room: And so any interest earnings on 200 plus million dollars brings a significant amount back in any movement and interest rate or whatnot. 1015 02:49:44.880 --> 02:49:59.340 Board Room: can create a premium environment for a bond, which is advantageous to us, it could also go the other way but in this environment right now I can can wholeheartedly agree with what you've just said, and that makes a lot of sense. 1016 02:50:00.870 --> 02:50:17.250 Board Room: And lastly, I would just add that the long range planning committee bond oversight committee meetings are open to the public they're transparent folks can attend those meetings and observe the discussions and then minutes are posted as well as all the financials so. 1017 02:50:18.720 --> 02:50:31.230 Board Room: My one comment on the that committee is that you know you, you heard him speak tonight as a very thorough understanding of the program where things are at she checks in with us all the time. 1018 02:50:32.490 --> 02:50:42.030 Board Room: And that is typical of the depth of seriousness that these folks take when they take on this role as long range planning committee members. 1019 02:50:43.080 --> 02:50:46.380 Board Room: You know, those of the staff who engage with it enjoy it deeply. 1020 02:50:47.490 --> 02:50:59.880 Board Room: But it's not for lack of questions or that someone just rubber stamps things that we're doing there are deep thoughtful questions and people who take this future seriously and that's why it's fun to engage with them. 1021 02:51:00.990 --> 02:51:06.600 Board Room: You need to be ready coming in, as a staff person to long range planning, because they will have real questions for you. 1022 02:51:10.770 --> 02:51:14.160 Board Room: Thank you for those clarifications and questions anything else. 1023 02:51:16.920 --> 02:51:27.720 Board Room: hi department of teaching and learning and the Chinese dual language program update from Dr Bob so I sent our assistant superintendent of middle schools, yes. 1024 02:51:29.070 --> 02:51:43.200 Board Room: Could you put up the slides for it, this is just a really brief update about the planning and where we are for the dual language program which will be starting at Bolton primary school in the coming. 1025 02:51:45.180 --> 02:51:53.820 Board Room: school year and just you know in being for the world, the trend or dual language program exemplifies that. 1026 02:51:54.420 --> 02:52:08.310 Board Room: We are also very proud that when we've had the dual language program the Spanish dual language program it has grown interest in all schools for world language. 1027 02:52:08.670 --> 02:52:22.380 Board Room: We have more students every year earning the by literacy seal in multiple languages in our school district and that's part of the goal that we increase that interest in worldwide anguish in. 1028 02:52:23.820 --> 02:52:36.360 Board Room: For all students so just knowing that the that that's going on, Dr Garcia Lawrence the principal at Bolton primary before the break. 1029 02:52:37.230 --> 02:52:48.960 Board Room: Two weeks ago, went through thoroughly with all staff there what this would look like and they have started some very specific plans that they're calling cultural celebrations. 1030 02:52:49.440 --> 02:53:08.670 Board Room: The other piece is that the three primary schools in our district, who have Chinese language are also going to be connected to this program especially to culturally, so you can just see their on their the timeline that we have mapped out next slide. 1031 02:53:11.550 --> 02:53:21.750 Board Room: So some of the just the pieces the things that we're working with is, we have an advisory group forming and that's of interest in people in the Community. 1032 02:53:21.990 --> 02:53:31.350 Board Room: Some of them, maybe parents, whose children will be in the program but others are those in the Community who've been associated with. 1033 02:53:31.980 --> 02:53:41.370 Board Room: Chinese language and cultural groups who are expressing interest and we will be having our first meeting of that group before we go to break. 1034 02:53:41.940 --> 02:53:56.370 Board Room: We will be doing the planning for the model for the program also we are visiting some model schools were visiting one this week and revisiting one next week, we have a small team of. 1035 02:53:57.210 --> 02:54:09.750 Board Room: Those who will be at Bolton, and also other principals who are interested in the program because, again we look at this as a strengthening of our whole language Program. 1036 02:54:11.280 --> 02:54:11.850 Board Room: Next slide. 1037 02:54:13.440 --> 02:54:17.730 Board Room: Just a couple of things just to point out that we want to be very. 1038 02:54:18.810 --> 02:54:38.940 Board Room: clear about is the language programs are a little bit different, we have a strand within two schools in our Spanish program two primary schools and that's Lowry and pulliam creek to middle schools and that's would and respond rich and then at. 1039 02:54:40.260 --> 02:54:56.070 Board Room: Both high schools and it will be at all three high schools, we have three high schools, we also have to way immersion in Spanish were at Lowry and it would half of the students first language is Spanish. 1040 02:54:56.880 --> 02:55:12.540 Board Room: We don't have as many students whose first language is Spanish in trillium so it's one way for our Chinese or Mandarin program and it will be Mandarin Chinese that that the program is in, we will have a strand within school. 1041 02:55:13.590 --> 02:55:29.130 Board Room: Our strands and one of the philosophies in our district is a fully integrated part of the school, meaning that it's not a separate part of the school that the students are part of the grade level learning and even with grade level curriculum. 1042 02:55:30.150 --> 02:55:44.670 Board Room: In the Chinese program, we will have one strand, it will be at Bolton, it will be at ap create middle school, but then we will have Chinese language classes at all three high schools. 1043 02:55:45.270 --> 02:55:56.010 Board Room: And again we've seen this play out now in our Spanish program where we have our ninth graders are at less than high school and Wilson high school. 1044 02:55:56.250 --> 02:56:02.760 Board Room: They are taking biology in Spanish, and they are taking Spanish language and literature and we are adding. 1045 02:56:03.240 --> 02:56:11.160 Board Room: Courses each year and then again when you get in grades six through 12 we also have other students join and take. 1046 02:56:11.910 --> 02:56:25.620 Board Room: classes, they might not be part of the dual language program but they may take one course in Spanish so that's just a really quick update and if you have questions but answer but we'll keep you updated about this program. 1047 02:56:27.360 --> 02:56:29.970 Board Room: Thank you, I sent us anybody have any questions. 1048 02:56:31.350 --> 02:56:39.540 Board Room: director right um is this Chinese program also part of the lottery system that has been used for Spanish and can family sign up. 1049 02:56:39.900 --> 02:56:48.900 Board Room: For both languages and see which one they get in or how is that being managed logistically to manage demand it's a great question we have for our Spanish Program. 1050 02:56:49.290 --> 02:57:02.100 Board Room: Families indicate whether they want to sign up for the program at trillium Lowry about and they can choose that we will keep it separate is a lottery for the Chinese program and for the Spanish program because I operate. 1051 02:57:02.700 --> 02:57:21.870 Board Room: A little bit differently and we right now are not sure we get three to four phone calls a week about the program and we've done very low key advertising of it at this point, have some first slide the publication and the information on the website will be up by January. 1052 02:57:23.340 --> 02:57:35.550 Board Room: But it's like our Spanish program we do have a water that we're anticipating that we will we are getting interest from other districts people saying we're actually considering moving. 1053 02:57:36.780 --> 02:57:40.920 Board Room: I think we've had at least one phone call a week since. 1054 02:57:41.970 --> 02:57:52.980 Board Room: Dr Ludwig i'm not sure when you first put that out to the Community, but we are hearing of interest there aren't as many Chinese Mandarin programs. 1055 02:57:55.980 --> 02:57:57.360 Board Room: Sure Thompson yes. 1056 02:57:59.640 --> 02:58:03.180 Board Room: Thank you so much i'm so excited about this. 1057 02:58:04.230 --> 02:58:12.480 Board Room: immersion program and I know you Dr boyce and you know i've been a longtime proponent of these language immersion program so thank you so much, the district for. 1058 02:58:13.410 --> 02:58:23.640 Board Room: Moving forward with that I i'm noticing that the track will only be on the Western side of the district, for giving me a few spoke to that and I didn't feel right. 1059 02:58:24.480 --> 02:58:34.470 Board Room: I am curious about why not Wilson bill and in anticipation of what I believe your answer might be my second question would be. 1060 02:58:35.520 --> 02:58:48.480 Board Room: If it's not possible to have it at both sides of the district, would it be more realistic, perhaps for the Wilson they'll try to have an additional track of the Spanish immersion program given. 1061 02:58:49.530 --> 02:58:51.540 Board Room: The demographics, of the district. 1062 02:58:53.250 --> 02:59:01.440 Board Room: yeah those are there's a little bit of math involved in that, and right now, the reason that we're just starting. 1063 02:59:01.740 --> 02:59:10.530 Board Room: In Westland is we do not know that we will have as many students, we have six primary schools in West one and three in Wilson belt. 1064 02:59:11.070 --> 02:59:22.080 Board Room: The Middle school program will intentionally be at ap creek which is as close to the middle of the school district, as we can get and then in high school, we will have courses at all three. 1065 02:59:22.920 --> 02:59:38.910 Board Room: We study very closely the number of students on the waitlist in our Spanish program and we have two considerations, do we have enough to actually justify another strand in Wilson bill and. 1066 02:59:40.050 --> 02:59:49.770 Board Room: The way it's been running and the numbers, we have this year we actually have more students significantly more students on the waitlist in Westland. 1067 02:59:50.160 --> 02:59:55.350 Board Room: And again, that might be because there's six primary schools versus three primary schools, even though. 1068 02:59:55.830 --> 03:00:04.860 Board Room: You can go to either school and we don't provide door to door transportation, with the bus, but we do provide transportation. 1069 03:00:05.310 --> 03:00:10.770 Board Room: The other thing is with dual language we've learned that you really have to think about what you can do well. 1070 03:00:11.580 --> 03:00:27.750 Board Room: and staffing in the schools and keeping staff which we have been very fortunate that we our track record has has been good with that that we want to make sure that we have the capacity to offer the Program. 1071 03:00:28.200 --> 03:00:47.490 Board Room: But it's never off the table as we watch the numbers each year and look at where we are director came just to see if we would mirror, it would merit adding a strand of Spanish out in the Wilson bill side right now we don't have numbers for that. 1072 03:00:50.640 --> 03:00:55.530 Board Room: And what was the reason for not having a with a staffing issues but not having a strand being at. 1073 03:00:56.100 --> 03:01:05.160 Board Room: Five in the district like we did with the Spanish version I apologize if I missed that answer, I still don't understand, though in the Chinese program are you saying correct. 1074 03:01:06.150 --> 03:01:17.370 Board Room: That we do not know that we will have the amount of interest that we studied programs where we've actually been studying a national link. 1075 03:01:17.670 --> 03:01:33.300 Board Room: Of programs, and following them all the programs across America and what's happened with them over the last 15 years and it's relatively small compared to Spanish, and so we want to make sure we don't know that we will have that many. 1076 03:01:34.200 --> 03:01:52.710 Board Room: Students, and once you start a program and it's a robust program adding another strand is not as challenging so we want to start with the capacity that we have and do it well, and then, if we can add will if there's the numbers to add. 1077 03:01:59.910 --> 03:02:01.050 Board Room: Any other questions. 1078 03:02:06.930 --> 03:02:09.780 Board Room: All right, final agenda item for tonight. 1079 03:02:11.070 --> 03:02:16.860 Board Room: we're going to hear from Dr Jennifer Spencer items about the process for naming our new high school. 1080 03:02:21.330 --> 03:02:33.990 Board Room: Thanks i'm happy to bring us home tonight, and we are so excited, and I say we, because it is collective work of all of us in the room, and many others have and particularly i'm looking at. 1081 03:02:34.320 --> 03:02:45.060 Board Room: Nick cheap, in principle, shape in here, we were very excited about bringing this together today, so we prepared a memo for you, outlining a process for. 1082 03:02:45.600 --> 03:02:58.950 Board Room: Naming our new third option high school and we do want to make it clear, it is the Boards right and responsibility to select the name by our board policies that is your your role. 1083 03:02:59.580 --> 03:03:08.130 Board Room: It is our job to help you and provide some organization and therefore we've outlined what we think would be a strong process moving forward. 1084 03:03:09.120 --> 03:03:22.290 Board Room: As I was just getting inspired about tonight, I found this quote from a English novelist Margaret drabble that says, the choice of name tends to affect the development of the character. 1085 03:03:22.740 --> 03:03:31.890 Board Room: Even the plot, this may be so in real life also so just wanted to take that moment to think how important names can be. 1086 03:03:32.310 --> 03:03:43.740 Board Room: They can be inspiring they can be aspirational they can be something to live into so we are excited and we cannot wait to say something, besides the third option high school. 1087 03:03:44.220 --> 03:03:53.160 Board Room: But have something more exciting about drawing students who really are interested in learning in some new and different ways. 1088 03:03:53.490 --> 03:03:59.970 Board Room: getting involved in construction and architecture, we talked about that earlier chair King talked about that, with the. 1089 03:04:00.210 --> 03:04:08.370 Board Room: Contracts provision earlier, whether they're interested in health occupations and all the doors that could open or business and marketing. 1090 03:04:08.760 --> 03:04:15.300 Board Room: And all the doors that are open for students with that kind of thinking or even just wanting to be in a slightly smaller high school so will be. 1091 03:04:15.630 --> 03:04:23.400 Board Room: part of their community that may be in a high schooler it's a little bit more personal not that our current high schools aren't personal and awesome. 1092 03:04:24.240 --> 03:04:28.620 Board Room: But lots of reasons to drop folks over, but we know coming up with a name as a first step to that. 1093 03:04:29.070 --> 03:04:35.370 Board Room: So here's the process that we've outlined for you and it's in your memo I don't need to read all the way through it here, but we want. 1094 03:04:36.210 --> 03:04:48.120 Board Room: to invite our district is had a tradition of inviting public ideas into the process and that's our public has provided some terrific ideas in the past. 1095 03:04:48.450 --> 03:04:58.290 Board Room: So we would love to open that to the public, through a website, a place where they can submit ideas we did talk about some of oh that should be. 1096 03:04:59.430 --> 03:05:05.640 Board Room: There in the memo sorry we're not going to go backwards in time and it should be moving forward. 1097 03:05:06.870 --> 03:05:10.290 Board Room: It would be our recommendation that we think about aspirational. 1098 03:05:12.330 --> 03:05:21.480 Board Room: names that maybe don't involve Community members or historic figures, you of course could think through this but we've all seen some. 1099 03:05:23.400 --> 03:05:29.970 Board Room: we've seen some ways that that teams and schools have been able to move forward without having to unpack context from the past. 1100 03:05:30.750 --> 03:05:36.090 Board Room: When they think about maybe not using names to name building off of personal names. 1101 03:05:36.660 --> 03:05:44.550 Board Room: But we don't want to just be passive and have names coming into us, we want to get out there and connect with young people and. 1102 03:05:45.060 --> 03:05:55.710 Board Room: principal shaping is excited about hosting some informational events at both our current high schools and our current middle schools, which will be the students, that will be coming to the high schools in. 1103 03:05:56.130 --> 03:06:12.690 Board Room: When the new High School opens so that'll be an opportunity to learn more about them generate some good ideas get kids involved and make sure we're hearing from multiple voices and then we would be bringing together a small group to look at those. 1104 03:06:14.220 --> 03:06:19.470 Board Room: what's been brought forward and bring forward a recommendation of top names and bring it to you. 1105 03:06:19.950 --> 03:06:27.990 Board Room: And we originally had a number in there, like should we get down to 10 should we get down to three, and then we thought well let's see we'll get down to some top names. 1106 03:06:28.320 --> 03:06:34.050 Board Room: And not put a number on it, because, depending on what that is at the same time we don't want to censor. 1107 03:06:34.440 --> 03:06:41.880 Board Room: It might be something that comes through that's not in our top names that you land on, so we will also make sure all the raw data is available to you. 1108 03:06:42.210 --> 03:06:50.040 Board Room: So we're not limiting you but we're providing you some more input in the process, about what has resonated with folks around an inspiring name. 1109 03:06:50.820 --> 03:07:08.490 Board Room: And then we would hope that this would all come to you at the February 28, and that is their work session with an opportunity for you to vote on a name at that point so open to questions or thoughts in this important process. 1110 03:07:10.290 --> 03:07:13.590 Board Room: Thank you, Dr Spencer items any questions or thoughts. 1111 03:07:15.600 --> 03:07:16.260 Board Room: Checking. 1112 03:07:17.580 --> 03:07:23.940 Board Room: Sure i'll jump in there, I had the pleasure of being on the board, and we need to increase middle school so. 1113 03:07:25.830 --> 03:07:34.860 Board Room: I appreciate the work you're going to put into the process in advance for us and the one question I did have was. 1114 03:07:36.150 --> 03:07:45.900 Board Room: The rationale behind the and i'm trying to find the memo where it says, there was a line that basically shows us to not be the name of a person. 1115 03:07:47.190 --> 03:07:50.820 Board Room: In my recalling correctly and i'm wondering if you could speak to the rationale behind that. 1116 03:07:52.350 --> 03:08:01.530 Board Room: Absolutely, and again this is our recommendation and you could choose to amend this if you wanted to but and we've currently been. 1117 03:08:03.930 --> 03:08:18.000 Board Room: paying attention to a lot of places that are changing names or as different figures who have been important to different folks maybe the context around that importance or that. 1118 03:08:19.590 --> 03:08:26.940 Board Room: place in history may shift over time and so that's what we were trying to avoid and with that recommendation. 1119 03:08:32.310 --> 03:08:33.780 Board Room: Did that answer your question checking. 1120 03:08:35.250 --> 03:08:42.300 Board Room: I know sorry I was trying to switch around my audio here, I think this doesn't make sense, so I I appreciate that rationale, thank you. 1121 03:08:43.830 --> 03:08:48.870 Board Room: yeah I appreciate that as well, I think that's a wise guideline yeah I would just say that. 1122 03:08:49.920 --> 03:08:57.960 Board Room: feedback from other processes that have that we have when personal either Community members or names have been brought forward is just. 1123 03:08:58.470 --> 03:09:08.820 Board Room: The challenge, then for the Community their board to feel either some pressure to feel commenting on the value of those individuals or historic figures. 1124 03:09:09.750 --> 03:09:14.190 Board Room: can become sometimes problematic for board Members feel they're in that position. 1125 03:09:14.760 --> 03:09:33.030 Board Room: To if the name is not chosen of a Community Member or the name is and there's sensitivity around that it just presents an additional challenge, which is why, as you'll notice almost almost all other than two of our schools are are not named after people. 1126 03:09:35.460 --> 03:09:36.690 Board Room: picture, why did you have a comment. 1127 03:09:38.520 --> 03:09:43.020 Board Room: I love that there is Community and especially student involvement. 1128 03:09:44.400 --> 03:09:55.380 Board Room: And I think that I have every faith that i'm thinking about that boat in England that was named booty macbook face after some active student participation. 1129 03:09:56.310 --> 03:10:05.520 Board Room: So I would hope that we have some moderation techniques in place to maybe make sure that that list doesn't get too long with with jokes I guess. 1130 03:10:06.240 --> 03:10:15.120 Board Room: Lately, and that's part of why that's not solely based on popularity or frequency, I think that was a frequency vote outcome that you're referring to. 1131 03:10:19.050 --> 03:10:27.390 Board Room: If we don't have any other comments or questions, I just want to refer the board and remind them that we do have a special board meeting. 1132 03:10:28.050 --> 03:10:41.910 Board Room: Coming up on Monday December 13 at noon so just a reminder there our next regular meeting will be on January 10 at 6pm is there anything else I need to know, Dr lead wake. 1133 03:10:47.040 --> 03:10:52.170 Board Room: Up that's it we're good i'm looking over again is Douglas and we've got it. 1134 03:10:53.190 --> 03:10:59.880 Board Room: All right, i'm going to adjourn this meeting of the Westland Wilson for school board, and thank you to all of you who attended listened. 1135 03:11:00.990 --> 03:11:04.260 Board Room: contributed we just appreciate all of you, thank you.