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>> I will call the

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school board legal budget interview

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session to

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order at 4:48.

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we have two openings on our committee

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for our candidates to interview.

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mr. Kessler, would you like to introduce the

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topic and so forth?

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thank you, jared wallin.

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mr. Lance submitted his application

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for our

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open positions

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and don't know how familiar we are

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with oregon's local budget law, but

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we have five citizen

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members that work with their school

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board who was elect to that large

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and the five citizen members

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by

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the school board. Our purpose this evening

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is to

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interview you and consider

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you as a candidate for this position and

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at the top

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of the notes, there is more information

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about the role of the committee.

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it's not a

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policy-setting committee, but a physical

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planning committee

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. It does have some

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important tasks that are part of it

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in preparation and ultimate adoption

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of

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a budget under local budget law.

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one is

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tax rate that is approved by the legal

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budget committee

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the school board while it may modify

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other elements

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of a budget approved by the legal

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budget committee, they

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cannot increase

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a tax rate

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by the legal budget committee without

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that going back to the legal budget

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committee

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for approval.

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the approval of the legal budget committee

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is a step precedent before the full

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school board acting in that capacity.

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before

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the school board itself can hold a

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hearing and ultimately

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the budget. We appreciate your interest

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and I

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will turn it back to chair wallin.

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>> that's

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good.

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what we have

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is some questions for you, then we

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go around and each one of

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us will ask questions and we will

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start over here with

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director bills.

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>> good afternoon.

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how are

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seeing you here.

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>> we

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have a history.

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so, the first question is, please

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by sharing who you are, why this

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is important to you and why you are

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interested in serving on the district's

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budget

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committee.

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>> first thing, thank you

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for inviting me in to this process. I'm

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philip arzt and I'm retired. I was

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a healthcare and finance

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administrator, as I like to say. I

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worked in hospitals and physicians practices.

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I did a lot of budgets over the years

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and mostly two or three

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each year. One of the reasons I'm

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in this

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is because I have three grandsons

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in your schools.

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two at forest hills and one in middle school.

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I just love being here. We moved here

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two years ago to

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get closer to the grandkids

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. It's just a great place.

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I know the schools

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and the success of the school is important

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and really contributes

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to the community

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and to the desire of families to move into

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lake oswego

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the value of real estate .

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that is why it is important to me,

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mainly our grandkids. Why do

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I have been looking around

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and retirement leads to boredom sometimes.

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things and this seems to be something

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I had experienced before

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and I can probably help and would

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like to contribute

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my brain just needs a little bit more

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exercise. This would be a good process.

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reading, so

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that may fill

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it and we know that you already put

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it on paper here, but tell us a little

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bit about

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what skills, abilities and expertise

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you bring to the legal budget committee.

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us a little bit already.

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finance background is

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very helpful in this process, but

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was on a school budget committee

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and a much different kind of school district.

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and, on a school board. I have been

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through this

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process a number of times. I'm kind

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of familiar

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with the laws and stuff.

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the beginning . It was right

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in measure five and 50 were passed

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and when it went into effects to change

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everything. I'm kind of familiar with

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that. I've been through the process

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and I know how that could go.

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the other thing I want to

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mention is what I did in my application.

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I tend to be more of a listener

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than a speaker, so that can help keep

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the meetings shorter.

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I looked at this process

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and you have already been through

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it a little bit, but it's a lot like

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could be a kill the messenger kind

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of process. I haven't seen many of

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your board meetings

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and stuff, but that could be tough.

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know I've been through it it and

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my experience was he

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you just have to let everyone's viewpoint

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go, whether they were nicely set or very

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stridently said. It had to happen.

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you have to hopefully

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get in the end that everyone felt

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at least they were heard, but you

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still have

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to make the decision in the end. That's

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the process.

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got more complicated.

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our interview, you reviewed our strategic plan

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. Are there questions or observations

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you have in relation to

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the plan and its goals?

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over my head and I'm not familiar

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with a lot of the terms and acronyms.

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as worries. It is a very good plan

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and I think I got the gist of it,

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my worries was how this whole budget

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revision and reduction process, what

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the priorities and strategies to that process?

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what are those priorities and

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strategies given the executive orders

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that had been

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signed and

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the threaten

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elimination of the department of education.

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we have a daughter who works at the

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va and

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it's just crazy. It's crazy.

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the past three years had

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unprecedented challenges creating

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operating conditions unlike any experience

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modern times.

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without unduly focusing on those conditions,

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what are one or two things that we

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are doing well and what are one or

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two things that we can

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my grandkids again, but they are

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doing well, so that's good. I

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think the way you handled the initial announcement

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of the budget shortfall of getting

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good thing. The frequently asked questions

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I appreciate that.

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frequently asked questions with the

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graduation rates that

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you quoted, they were great.

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the improvement on 85%

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was 32% over 10 years.

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of the ideas. I have one more

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that I was asking my landlady what

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they thought

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that was something

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going well and they mentioned

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that the learning

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interventions that they have experienced

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went well and the

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small group learning.

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now,

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could improve on. My grandson

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said meals could improve

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. He

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said there should be a little more

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variety and it's not really what

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he likes. The other thing is probably

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nonparent community members.

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it's hard

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to hear or know about the school district

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and I don't have any ideas

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of how to fix it.

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nonparent members that have

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to get contacted and involved.

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a difficult one. That's true.

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I don't speak much, so it probably

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won't be 10 minutes.

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when I was going through researching

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and thinking about this process, I

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initially thought

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that it would have been nice

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to keep some of those financial reserves

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prior years for this point in time

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the process developing the budget

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this year.

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that's not the challenge.

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it is balancing human resources with

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financial reserves

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and the ending fund balance

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. You know what it is, but you don't

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the value .

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of what the

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human resources are. You can't

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measure it and you don't know it until

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it's gone. That's

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what I see.

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that's all.

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>> thank you

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very much. What

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is the timeline for announcements?

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>>

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our board is conducting the interviews

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this evening, then

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they will be taking action

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on at currently scheduled for march

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10th meeting and would move that

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up or delete it, but currently we

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are

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shooting for march 10 , that after

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the board takes action, then we notify

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the candidates as to

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what the decision was

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, then there is an on

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boarding process that we start shortly

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after for the two candidates.

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>> we have

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four candidates. If you are not chosen,

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we love your expertise and would love

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to keep your brain active at some

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capacity if this doesn't.

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>> no problem.

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>> thank you so much.

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>>

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I didn't have the chance to change

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into my

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professional attire .

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>> welcome. Would

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you like to give an intro?

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>>

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yes, lucas, thank you very much for

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your interest in our legal budget committee

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and we have two positions that

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are open and we have

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four candidates for this evening's

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activities to

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conduct interviews of those four candidates and

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how familiar you are

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with oregon's local budget law, but

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our legal budget committee is comprised

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of five citizen

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members and five citizen members

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are reported by the board and they

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serve alongside

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our elected board members and 10

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of them together comprise our legal

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budget committee , so

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the legal budget committee is a

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financial advisory committee of the

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school board

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. It's not a policy-setting body.

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it is still the domain of the

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school board, but certainly decisions

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that are made

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as to what priorities

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--the legal

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budget committee also

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serves a very important role under

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local budget

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and tax rate or tax levy once approved

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by the

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legal budget committee, the school

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board has

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some authority afterwards to change elements

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of the budget that has been approved

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by the legal budget committee, but

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they cannot increase

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a tax rate or tax levy. That always

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has to go back to the

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full legal budget committee for any increase

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and property taxes.

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the little

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--the citizen members

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perspective are more varied

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than what we do every day and hopefully

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also serve as information sharers

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out in the community.

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that is the role of the legal budget

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committee.

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>> makes sense.

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from the

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soccer thing, I'm the coach on the field.

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I'm just joking.

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thank you for that. I appreciate the explanation.

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my first time trying to get a volunteer

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position

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like this, so I appreciate the context

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and background.

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>> we sent you a questionnaire, so

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we will

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just go around and ask questions.

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>> sounds good.

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>> could

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you please begin by sharing who you are,

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why lake oswego schools are important

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to you and why you are interested

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in serving on the

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budget committee.

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>> sure.

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lucas sommer, I'm born and raised

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in oregon

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and in newburgh, actually. Both of my

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parents were teachers and ended up

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getting

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into the administration, so my mom

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was super

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intendant and my father was a buzz

408
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about true wood and wilson high school,

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so I guess it runs in

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the family. On a

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personal level , I pursued a career

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more in entrepreneurship and small business

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and I have done

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variety of professional projects

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and a bunch of different arenas.

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I think that experience

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is practical in regards

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to budgets

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and being fiscally responsible and

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being able to produce the goals of

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any organization .

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I think my interest in getting involved

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here

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stems from having two kids that goes

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to lake oswego

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schools. They are in

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forest hills . I

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have been coaching for a couple of

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years and volunteering the time with

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the youngsters . I have good relationships

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with a lot of

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the parents and the same group

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skin coming back and signing up. I feel

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plugged into the community

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and my office is walking distance

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away in town

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at the first edition

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. My wife brings the kids over

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and walks over to school every single day.

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want to help improve it the best way

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I can and

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as I get a

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little bit older , things like this

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become a little bit more rewarding

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and get back a little bit

446
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and see what other aspects I

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could have an ever so slightly

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influence on to improve services and benefit.

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>>

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thank you.

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why don't you tell us about the skills

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and

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abilities and expertise you bring

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to the legal budget committee?

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>>

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I would say

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--let me try to summarize it. I've

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always been the

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small business entrepreneur guy and

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I've never gone

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and taken a normal job.

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this will be my first interview of

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any kind and probably a decade.

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I have always been out there

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in the wild having

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to create my own budget for

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sales and budget on people,

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taxes and everyone

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--running a small business. A

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have

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seen so many problems and challenges

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in the private sector and

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I'm not employee number 700 on

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a team of thousands to where

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the decisions that I make have tangible

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impacts on the people that work there

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and the customers relying on us to

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deliver products

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and services , so I think I have a

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wide variety

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of skills. That is just in

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regards to operating something from

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a cfo level standpoint and

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I need more technical

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perspective.

486
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there is nothing

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in excel I can do. I'm a wizard at

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that point. I have a

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lot of experience in business intelligence,

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data visualizations,

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deeply integrated with ai and the tools

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that have come up rather recently.

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I have probably done 50

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tax returns professional and corporate

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for myself over the years.

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sometimes clients have hired me to

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do financial modeling

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and forecasting to cast things out

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in the future

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. Dynamic

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models for if we change, what's impact

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on why?

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just

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kind of speaking in generalities,

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but in terms of technical proficiency

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and the ability to use

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software tools to contemplate financial

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decisions I'm very well suited to

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do that.

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I think I have lived in a world where

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I have

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to take into consideration the various

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stakeholders and

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stakeholders attached to a particular decision

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or budget to

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balance all of those.

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hopefully that answers that question.

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>> prior to your interview,

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we gave

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to our strategic plan and in relation

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to the strategic plan and

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its goals?

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>> I checked out the pdf

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and read everything

525
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on the accordion sections there.

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I wouldn't say I have any questions,

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but some of them, there is a distinction

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and

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I'm always solving for, what is the

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kpi and how you measure some of those

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great for some

532
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of those goals , I

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think one of the stated goals was

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grade level proficiency

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or something like that.

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I can conceive how to measure that

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and some of

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the other ones are a little bit softer

539
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metrics. My question is,

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is there some sort of dashboard for

541
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lack of a

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better word or quarterly review where

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we are measuring those goals

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and

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I think my first question about how

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we are measuring,

547
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there are four goals there and

548
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all of those.

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>>

550
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it is something that we review

551
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on a regular basis these

552
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items that we've progressed.

553
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the dashboard is something that has

554
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come up is

555
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an idea.

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>> I don't understand fully the inner workings

557
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and referencing

558
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the school board is actually doing,

559
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so to me unlike, where do those goals

560
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come from? What can the

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committee do and my potential role to

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implement or have any impact on those?

563
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on one hand, you see the budget

564
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and you can make some recommendations, but

565
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you mentioned the policy itself, so

566
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how would the person in my role see

567
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those goals and use that to inform any sort

568
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of recommendations and what would

569
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be the best methodology for

570
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doing that?

571
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>> it's a hard question to answer.

572
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there are two different bodies and

573
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you are advising on the budget and

574
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providing a citizens perspective.

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in terms of committees

576
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that implement our strategic plan

577
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, the superintendent appoints a lot

578
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of those for the

579
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most part

580
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and they are a little bit perpendicular

581
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to that, but I do think

582
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where we choose to spend the money

583
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does determine how we will

584
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achieve goals.

585
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>> okay. Makes sense.

586
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>> I think I recall in our legal budget

587
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first meeting where we kind of have

588
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a review of the goals

589
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and how we are doing .

590
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>> sounds good.

591
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>>

592
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I have the final question.

593
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the past three years had unprecedented challenges

594
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creating operating conditions unlike

595
00:24:16,290 --> 00:24:19,290
any experienced in modern times

596
00:24:19,293 --> 00:24:21,693
without unduly focusing on

597
00:24:22,296 --> 00:24:23,297
these conditions. What are one or

598
00:24:23,297 --> 00:24:25,297
two things we

599
00:24:25,299 --> 00:24:26,300
are doing well and what are one or

600
00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:28,300
two that we

601
00:24:28,302 --> 00:24:30,302
can improve on?

602
00:24:33,307 --> 00:24:34,308
>> when I first saw that question,

603
00:24:34,308 --> 00:24:35,309
my initial response is, I didn't even

604
00:24:35,309 --> 00:24:38,312
notice but it's also around here.

605
00:24:38,312 --> 00:24:41,315
we are killing it. I love lake

606
00:24:41,315 --> 00:24:44,318
oswego. I think that would be

607
00:24:44,318 --> 00:24:45,385
my response is one

608
00:24:45,385 --> 00:24:47,321
or two things you are doing well is

609
00:24:47,321 --> 00:24:50,290
like, I can just compare

610
00:24:50,290 --> 00:24:52,290
to my experience.

611
00:24:53,293 --> 00:24:55,693
newburgh versus lake oswego.

612
00:24:56,296 --> 00:24:59,296
going with lake oswego all

613
00:24:59,299 --> 00:25:02,302
day. To me, it feels like a fantasy

614
00:25:02,302 --> 00:25:04,302
little area

615
00:25:05,305 --> 00:25:07,307
of a lot of things are pretty

616
00:25:07,307 --> 00:25:08,308
idealistic here , so I would give

617
00:25:08,308 --> 00:25:09,343
some credit or kudos

618
00:25:09,343 --> 00:25:13,543
to you guys that despite the challenges

619
00:25:14,314 --> 00:25:15,315
, it has been great.

620
00:25:15,315 --> 00:25:16,316
the kids are happy and there are all

621
00:25:16,316 --> 00:25:17,317
types of programming and things they

622
00:25:17,317 --> 00:25:19,317
are able

623
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,290
to do. I haven't heard any

624
00:25:23,290 --> 00:25:25,292
negative comments from them and

625
00:25:25,292 --> 00:25:28,295
my wife does a lot of afterschool

626
00:25:28,295 --> 00:25:29,296
type things and more engaged with

627
00:25:29,296 --> 00:25:31,296
the

628
00:25:32,299 --> 00:25:35,302
other moms , but I haven't heard one complaint.

629
00:25:35,302 --> 00:25:37,304
lake oswego is the place to be

630
00:25:37,304 --> 00:25:41,308
. When we moved out here my wife is like,

631
00:25:41,308 --> 00:25:42,342
I was living in

632
00:25:42,342 --> 00:25:44,311
for the for a while and she said,

633
00:25:44,311 --> 00:25:45,312
if we come back it's lake oswego only.

634
00:25:45,312 --> 00:25:47,314
she said, look at the schools. I'm

635
00:25:47,314 --> 00:25:49,314
like, all right.

636
00:25:50,317 --> 00:25:52,717
good job. That would

637
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,289
be it.

638
00:25:55,289 --> 00:26:00,890
I didn't notice that there was a problem.

639
00:26:01,295 --> 00:26:02,296
>> fantastic. Do you have any final

640
00:26:02,296 --> 00:26:04,296
questions or

641
00:26:05,299 --> 00:26:06,300
comments?

642
00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,301
>> I don't think so.

643
00:26:07,301 --> 00:26:08,302
I think you guys have choices and

644
00:26:08,302 --> 00:26:10,302
decisions to make .

645
00:26:10,304 --> 00:26:11,305
to me, I'm very transparent. I'm like

646
00:26:11,305 --> 00:26:13,305
the entrepreneur

647
00:26:14,308 --> 00:26:16,308
technical software approach

648
00:26:16,310 --> 00:26:17,311
. Those of the people that I deal

649
00:26:17,311 --> 00:26:19,311
with and work

650
00:26:20,314 --> 00:26:21,315
with, so the perspective from those

651
00:26:21,315 --> 00:26:23,315
folks

652
00:26:23,317 --> 00:26:24,318
is important to

653
00:26:24,318 --> 00:26:26,320
you guys, then maybe I would be a

654
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,289
good fit for that, but if not that's

655
00:26:29,289 --> 00:26:31,291
all right. There's tons of other

656
00:26:31,291 --> 00:26:32,292
perspectives out there. To me, that's

657
00:26:32,292 --> 00:26:34,292
the lien I

658
00:26:35,295 --> 00:26:37,297
live in and I'm pretty

659
00:26:37,297 --> 00:26:41,301
unbiased and a notch not afraid to

660
00:26:41,301 --> 00:26:42,369
share my

661
00:26:42,369 --> 00:26:44,304
opinion on things but just trying to

662
00:26:44,304 --> 00:26:45,305
get my foot in the door and be more

663
00:26:45,305 --> 00:26:47,305
active

664
00:26:47,307 --> 00:26:49,307
and continue

665
00:26:49,309 --> 00:26:50,310
to invest in a place where I know

666
00:26:50,310 --> 00:26:51,345
my kids will be

667
00:26:51,345 --> 00:26:53,313
going to school and make it better

668
00:26:53,313 --> 00:26:54,314
if I can.

669
00:26:54,314 --> 00:26:55,382
>>

670
00:26:55,382 --> 00:26:58,982
we have two positions for applicants

671
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:00,320
, but as you noted there are

672
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,289
other committees. If this doesn't

673
00:27:02,289 --> 00:27:04,289
happen, we hope

674
00:27:07,294 --> 00:27:08,295
that you will consider other things,

675
00:27:08,295 --> 00:27:09,296
as well.

676
00:27:09,296 --> 00:27:10,297
>> I'll be

677
00:27:10,297 --> 00:27:11,431
back in the hot seat soon enough.

678
00:27:11,431 --> 00:27:14,301
>> this is the hottest seed of all.

679
00:27:14,301 --> 00:27:16,701
>> great. Okay. That's it?

680
00:27:17,304 --> 00:27:19,704
thanks, guys. All right.

681
00:27:20,307 --> 00:27:22,307
see you.

682
00:27:59,313 --> 00:28:01,313
>> mr. Warner. >> how

683
00:28:01,315 --> 00:28:02,316
is everybody? Thanks for having me.

684
00:28:02,316 --> 00:28:04,316
>> absolutely.

685
00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:07,321
we are interviewing for the

686
00:28:07,321 --> 00:28:10,321
legal budget committee commissions and

687
00:28:11,291 --> 00:28:14,291
are financed superintendent will give

688
00:28:14,294 --> 00:28:16,296
you a little overview

689
00:28:16,296 --> 00:28:17,297
.

690
00:28:17,297 --> 00:28:18,298
>> thank you very much for your

691
00:28:18,298 --> 00:28:20,300
interest in this position

692
00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:23,303
and I don't know how familiar you are

693
00:28:23,303 --> 00:28:26,303
with oregon local budget statute

694
00:28:28,308 --> 00:28:29,309
, so it prescribes that government

695
00:28:29,309 --> 00:28:31,309
agencies have to

696
00:28:32,312 --> 00:28:33,313
have a legal budget committee , which

697
00:28:33,313 --> 00:28:35,315
is comprised of five citizen members

698
00:28:35,315 --> 00:28:36,316
that are appointed by the school board

699
00:28:36,316 --> 00:28:38,318
that together with the five elected

700
00:28:38,318 --> 00:28:40,318
board members comprise

701
00:28:41,288 --> 00:28:44,288
our legal budget committee and

702
00:28:44,291 --> 00:28:46,293
the legal budget committee

703
00:28:46,293 --> 00:28:50,493
is somewhat of a financial advisory committee

704
00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:56,303
and the ultimate adoption of a

705
00:28:56,303 --> 00:28:58,305
budget for the school district.

706
00:28:58,305 --> 00:29:01,905
while it's not a policy-setting body,

707
00:29:02,309 --> 00:29:03,310
there is work that we have to

708
00:29:03,310 --> 00:29:05,312
run by the legal budget committee

709
00:29:05,312 --> 00:29:07,314
and it has to

710
00:29:07,314 --> 00:29:11,318
be approved by the school board and significantly

711
00:29:11,318 --> 00:29:14,321
a tax rate or tax levy that

712
00:29:14,321 --> 00:29:18,521
is approved by the legal budget committee

713
00:29:19,293 --> 00:29:20,294
and the school board has broad authority

714
00:29:20,294 --> 00:29:23,297
to change others of the budget, they

715
00:29:23,297 --> 00:29:25,299
can't increase a tax levy

716
00:29:25,299 --> 00:29:26,300
without it going back to the legal

717
00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:28,300
budget committee.

718
00:29:29,303 --> 00:29:32,306
it serves an important role in that regard.

719
00:29:32,306 --> 00:29:35,309
I think esther wallin noted with

720
00:29:35,309 --> 00:29:37,709
two positions and four

721
00:29:38,312 --> 00:29:41,312
candidates, so it is to

722
00:29:41,315 --> 00:29:44,318
have you answer some questions and

723
00:29:44,318 --> 00:29:46,320
provide our school board with a little

724
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,290
bit more knowledge about your interest in

725
00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:52,292
what this committee has outlined

726
00:29:52,292 --> 00:29:56,296
in those detailed questions. Are sounds good.

727
00:29:56,296 --> 00:29:58,298
>> we did give questions, so I will

728
00:29:58,298 --> 00:29:59,299
go around and we will ask the questions

729
00:29:59,299 --> 00:30:01,299
. We

730
00:30:02,302 --> 00:30:04,702
will start. Director bills

731
00:30:05,305 --> 00:30:06,306
.

732
00:30:06,306 --> 00:30:08,306
>> how are you?

733
00:30:08,308 --> 00:30:11,311
doing well. Thank you. Begin by

734
00:30:11,311 --> 00:30:14,314
sharing who you are, why you are interested

735
00:30:14,314 --> 00:30:16,314
in success

736
00:30:17,317 --> 00:30:19,319
in lake oswego schools and why

737
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:20,320
you are interested in the budget committee.

738
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,290
>> my name is russ warner and

739
00:30:23,290 --> 00:30:25,292
I have been a resident

740
00:30:25,292 --> 00:30:26,293
for 9.5 years and my family moved

741
00:30:26,293 --> 00:30:28,293
from central washington.

742
00:30:29,296 --> 00:30:31,298
we have been very active in sports

743
00:30:31,298 --> 00:30:33,300
and coaching. I am on the board right

744
00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:34,368
now and my

745
00:30:34,368 --> 00:30:38,305
wife is the soccer club team manager.

746
00:30:38,305 --> 00:30:39,306
I have two sons, a seventh grader

747
00:30:39,306 --> 00:30:41,306
and a sophomore

748
00:30:44,311 --> 00:30:45,312
and my coaching days are gone, so

749
00:30:45,312 --> 00:30:46,380
I

750
00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:48,315
have extra time on my hands and they

751
00:30:48,315 --> 00:30:50,715
have more than I

752
00:30:51,318 --> 00:30:52,319
do and

753
00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:54,321
that journey of my life is kind of

754
00:30:54,321 --> 00:30:57,291
over. The executive of my company is

755
00:30:57,291 --> 00:30:59,291
on the

756
00:31:00,294 --> 00:31:01,295
school board and has been on there

757
00:31:01,295 --> 00:31:02,362
for 16 years and has been nudging

758
00:31:02,362 --> 00:31:03,297
me for probably three or four to try

759
00:31:03,297 --> 00:31:05,297
to get

760
00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:07,301
more involved in the schools

761
00:31:07,301 --> 00:31:09,303
and it just so happened a month and

762
00:31:09,303 --> 00:31:10,304
a half ago I saw

763
00:31:10,304 --> 00:31:11,338
these two open positions and I was

764
00:31:11,338 --> 00:31:12,306
like, I do this every day. Maybe give

765
00:31:12,306 --> 00:31:14,306
it

766
00:31:15,309 --> 00:31:18,312
a shot. My experience and skills

767
00:31:18,312 --> 00:31:19,346
, I have a

768
00:31:19,346 --> 00:31:21,315
construction background in my current

769
00:31:21,315 --> 00:31:23,315
role is

770
00:31:23,317 --> 00:31:24,318
going into the next?, but other than

771
00:31:24,318 --> 00:31:26,320
that I learned from

772
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,321
being on the board is that the main

773
00:31:27,321 --> 00:31:28,288
thing is like being

774
00:31:28,288 --> 00:31:30,290
an advocate for whatever board you

775
00:31:30,290 --> 00:31:32,290
are on

776
00:31:33,293 --> 00:31:34,361
and being able

777
00:31:34,361 --> 00:31:35,295
to speak to the community on what's

778
00:31:35,295 --> 00:31:36,296
going on and the reason why stuff

779
00:31:36,296 --> 00:31:38,296
happens and why

780
00:31:39,299 --> 00:31:42,899
the budget money is said here.

781
00:31:43,303 --> 00:31:45,305
so much to be able to explain to people

782
00:31:45,305 --> 00:31:46,406
why we are making decisions

783
00:31:46,406 --> 00:31:48,308
and to be able to represent the board

784
00:31:48,308 --> 00:31:49,309
and support them.

785
00:31:49,309 --> 00:31:50,410
>>

786
00:31:50,410 --> 00:31:53,410
we always appreciate the communications

787
00:31:54,314 --> 00:31:55,415
. Going on

788
00:31:55,415 --> 00:31:56,316
to number two, what skills, abilities

789
00:31:56,316 --> 00:31:57,317
and expertise would you bring?

790
00:31:57,317 --> 00:31:59,317
>>

791
00:32:01,288 --> 00:32:02,289
a current job, I'm a corporate real

792
00:32:02,289 --> 00:32:03,290
estate facility manager, which is

793
00:32:03,290 --> 00:32:04,358
former --

794
00:32:04,358 --> 00:32:07,958
started as a teachers credit union.

795
00:32:12,299 --> 00:32:13,300
we have been the

796
00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:14,301
fastest growing financial institution

797
00:32:14,301 --> 00:32:15,302
in the u.s. For the last three years

798
00:32:15,302 --> 00:32:16,336
and had 45 locations

799
00:32:16,336 --> 00:32:17,304
with massive growth and donated to

800
00:32:17,304 --> 00:32:18,305
tons of charities and we start at

801
00:32:18,305 --> 00:32:20,305
the foundation

802
00:32:21,308 --> 00:32:23,310
, which we are going into our

803
00:32:23,310 --> 00:32:24,311
second year and we haven't decided

804
00:32:24,311 --> 00:32:26,711
how to distribute those

805
00:32:27,314 --> 00:32:28,448
funds, whether it is scholarships

806
00:32:28,448 --> 00:32:30,317
and going back to our sports programs or

807
00:32:30,317 --> 00:32:32,317
stuff like that.

808
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,354
I have a

809
00:32:34,354 --> 00:32:35,389
say in some of that and this goes

810
00:32:35,389 --> 00:32:36,290
hand-in-hand in seeing what's going

811
00:32:36,290 --> 00:32:37,424
on for budget

812
00:32:37,424 --> 00:32:39,293
issues and stuff like that. Before that,

813
00:32:39,293 --> 00:32:41,293
I was

814
00:32:42,296 --> 00:32:45,296
vice president at the institute

815
00:32:45,299 --> 00:32:47,299
in yakima

816
00:32:48,302 --> 00:32:50,302
, washington.

817
00:32:54,308 --> 00:32:57,311
it's been going on 15 years of experience

818
00:32:57,311 --> 00:32:59,311
in this.

819
00:32:59,313 --> 00:33:00,314
I guess that's it for that one.

820
00:33:00,314 --> 00:33:02,314
>>

821
00:33:03,317 --> 00:33:06,320
great. Hopefully you had a chance

822
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,289
to review the strategic plan and

823
00:33:09,289 --> 00:33:10,357
any questions or observations related

824
00:33:10,357 --> 00:33:12,292
to the strategic plan and its goals?

825
00:33:12,292 --> 00:33:15,292
>> I went through the plan

826
00:33:15,295 --> 00:33:16,296
and I guess the one question I had

827
00:33:16,296 --> 00:33:18,296
as

828
00:33:18,298 --> 00:33:19,299
far as priority three,

829
00:33:19,299 --> 00:33:20,367
sustainability. Have you talked about

830
00:33:20,367 --> 00:33:21,301
and esd programs? It seems like you

831
00:33:21,301 --> 00:33:23,301
are doing

832
00:33:24,304 --> 00:33:26,306
a ton of work and faculty

833
00:33:26,306 --> 00:33:30,310
is doing a ton of work as far as sustainability.

834
00:33:30,310 --> 00:33:31,345
my organization, we started the

835
00:33:31,345 --> 00:33:32,379
program going on two years and it's

836
00:33:32,379 --> 00:33:33,313
basically taking all of that stuff

837
00:33:33,313 --> 00:33:34,348
that you have

838
00:33:34,348 --> 00:33:36,316
done in the program to be able to

839
00:33:36,316 --> 00:33:38,318
explain it to the public.

840
00:33:38,318 --> 00:33:39,319
we are doing all of this hard work

841
00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:40,320
and cutting

842
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,289
costs. Not to put you on the seat

843
00:33:42,289 --> 00:33:44,289
or anything.

844
00:33:45,292 --> 00:33:47,292
>> we love

845
00:33:47,294 --> 00:33:48,395
acronyms.

846
00:33:48,395 --> 00:33:50,395
>> environmental social governance.

847
00:33:54,301 --> 00:33:56,303
we will roll ours out to

848
00:33:56,303 --> 00:33:57,304
the public probably this summer ,

849
00:33:57,304 --> 00:33:59,306
but you don't realize all of

850
00:33:59,306 --> 00:34:00,307
the small things you do really add

851
00:34:00,307 --> 00:34:02,309
up and paint the picture

852
00:34:02,309 --> 00:34:03,310
to the public, because it's a really

853
00:34:03,310 --> 00:34:05,710
good thing to do.

854
00:34:06,313 --> 00:34:08,313
>> I

855
00:34:08,315 --> 00:34:11,318
don't think I can speak to any of that.

856
00:34:11,318 --> 00:34:12,319
our focus has been how we have been doing

857
00:34:12,319 --> 00:34:14,319
a lot

858
00:34:15,289 --> 00:34:16,323
of construction

859
00:34:16,323 --> 00:34:18,292
with focus and sustainability in terms

860
00:34:18,292 --> 00:34:21,295
of energy usage and energy conservation.

861
00:34:21,295 --> 00:34:23,297
>> that's a pretty good

862
00:34:23,297 --> 00:34:24,298
picture to paint, too , when it's

863
00:34:24,298 --> 00:34:26,698
all said and done.

864
00:34:27,301 --> 00:34:32,101
>> I don't know if there are any others?

865
00:34:32,306 --> 00:34:35,906
it's definitely a priority in hours.

866
00:34:39,313 --> 00:34:41,315
>> I have the last question.

867
00:34:41,315 --> 00:34:42,316
the past three years have unprecedented challenges

868
00:34:42,316 --> 00:34:44,316
creating

869
00:34:45,319 --> 00:34:47,719
operating conditions unlike any

870
00:34:48,288 --> 00:34:50,688
experienced in modern times

871
00:34:52,292 --> 00:34:54,294
. Without unduly focusing on those

872
00:34:54,294 --> 00:34:55,295
conditions, what are one or two things

873
00:34:55,295 --> 00:34:56,330
we are

874
00:34:56,330 --> 00:34:57,297
doing well and what are one or two

875
00:34:57,297 --> 00:35:00,297
that we can improve on?

876
00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:01,301
>> obviously, you are doing many things

877
00:35:01,301 --> 00:35:02,302
well and

878
00:35:02,302 --> 00:35:03,303
this is the reason why this is the

879
00:35:03,303 --> 00:35:04,304
most sought after school district

880
00:35:04,304 --> 00:35:06,304
for kids being

881
00:35:06,306 --> 00:35:09,309
raised in the state. My wife

882
00:35:09,309 --> 00:35:11,311
says that schools in sports

883
00:35:11,311 --> 00:35:12,312
are a big priority for us and she

884
00:35:12,312 --> 00:35:13,380
google searched and found a

885
00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:15,315
place in lake oswego. The reputation

886
00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:17,315
is very well

887
00:35:17,317 --> 00:35:18,318
and amongst her peers and graduation

888
00:35:18,318 --> 00:35:20,320
rates are through the charts.

889
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,321
that's one thing that stood out to

890
00:35:21,321 --> 00:35:24,291
me and my kids going

891
00:35:24,291 --> 00:35:25,292
through that rough time, too, I think

892
00:35:25,292 --> 00:35:26,360
you

893
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,296
guys are far ahead of everybody else.

894
00:35:29,296 --> 00:35:30,297
I take my hats off to and support the

895
00:35:30,297 --> 00:35:32,297
decisions you make.

896
00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:35,302
there is no road map for what

897
00:35:35,302 --> 00:35:36,403
we went through and it's a tough time

898
00:35:36,403 --> 00:35:39,306
for a lot of people and parents. Like

899
00:35:39,306 --> 00:35:41,706
I said, I really

900
00:35:42,309 --> 00:35:43,310
--you have done a great job since

901
00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:44,344
I've

902
00:35:44,344 --> 00:35:45,312
lived here and I think it would be

903
00:35:45,312 --> 00:35:47,314
a good advocate to support

904
00:35:47,314 --> 00:35:50,317
you guys in budgeting and stuff like that.

905
00:35:50,317 --> 00:35:51,318
my experience goes hand-in-hand and

906
00:35:51,318 --> 00:35:54,321
I have been in construction my whole

907
00:35:54,321 --> 00:35:56,290
professional career

908
00:35:56,290 --> 00:35:57,291
, so I think I would be a good fit

909
00:35:57,291 --> 00:36:00,294
and I'm here to support you

910
00:36:00,294 --> 00:36:01,295
guys.

911
00:36:01,295 --> 00:36:02,296
>> awesome. >> did you

912
00:36:02,296 --> 00:36:05,299
have any other questions or comments?

913
00:36:05,299 --> 00:36:06,300
>> I don't have much and I did some

914
00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:08,302
research over the last couple

915
00:36:08,302 --> 00:36:09,303
of days. I was really trying to come

916
00:36:09,303 --> 00:36:11,305
up with some questions

917
00:36:11,305 --> 00:36:12,306
and everything looks pretty clearly

918
00:36:12,306 --> 00:36:14,706
laid out and it

919
00:36:15,309 --> 00:36:17,309
looks great.

920
00:36:18,312 --> 00:36:19,313
there is a lot of you and you did

921
00:36:19,313 --> 00:36:21,313
a great job

922
00:36:21,315 --> 00:36:22,316
on that. Like I said, I'm trying to

923
00:36:22,316 --> 00:36:23,417
find

924
00:36:23,417 --> 00:36:25,319
some questions that I couldn't really

925
00:36:25,319 --> 00:36:26,320
think of much.

926
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,288
>> great.

927
00:36:28,288 --> 00:36:30,288
well,

928
00:36:31,291 --> 00:36:33,293
we have four people

929
00:36:33,293 --> 00:36:36,893
for two positions. Obviously, two people

930
00:36:38,298 --> 00:36:40,300
we are not going to select, but we

931
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:41,335
have a lot of committees and

932
00:36:41,335 --> 00:36:43,303
other opportunities, so if you are

933
00:36:43,303 --> 00:36:45,305
not chosen, hope you will

934
00:36:45,305 --> 00:36:48,305
consider volunteering. The timeline for

935
00:36:49,309 --> 00:36:50,310
--.

936
00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:52,310
>> currently,

937
00:36:52,312 --> 00:36:54,314
we have actions for the evening

938
00:36:54,314 --> 00:36:55,315
of march 10th for the board to make

939
00:36:55,315 --> 00:36:57,315
a

940
00:36:58,318 --> 00:37:00,318
selection of candidates

941
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,321
and assuming we stay on that timeline

942
00:37:01,321 --> 00:37:03,321
, my office

943
00:37:04,291 --> 00:37:06,293
will be notifying all four

944
00:37:06,293 --> 00:37:07,294
after work to let them know what the

945
00:37:07,294 --> 00:37:09,294
next

946
00:37:09,296 --> 00:37:10,297
steps are and for the two candidates chosen

947
00:37:10,297 --> 00:37:12,297
, we

948
00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:14,301
offer in on boarding session to

949
00:37:14,301 --> 00:37:16,303
help familiarize themselves with the

950
00:37:16,303 --> 00:37:18,303
budget and how

951
00:37:19,306 --> 00:37:21,308
it's laid out. Under organ local

952
00:37:21,308 --> 00:37:22,309
budget law , a fair amount of that

953
00:37:22,309 --> 00:37:24,309
is

954
00:37:24,311 --> 00:37:25,312
heavily prescriptive and there are

955
00:37:25,312 --> 00:37:27,314
a lot of things

956
00:37:27,314 --> 00:37:28,315
that we layout and process as we follow

957
00:37:28,315 --> 00:37:30,315
to

958
00:37:30,317 --> 00:37:33,320
keep us in alignment with the organ

959
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,321
local budget .

960
00:37:34,321 --> 00:37:35,289
>> sounds good. Thank

961
00:37:35,289 --> 00:37:37,289
you

962
00:37:37,291 --> 00:37:39,291
for having me.

963
00:37:40,294 --> 00:37:42,296
I have lightning when I go to

964
00:37:42,296 --> 00:37:43,297
my office. Hundreds of pounds of printers

965
00:37:43,297 --> 00:37:45,297
in the

966
00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:48,300
parking lots. I

967
00:37:48,302 --> 00:37:49,303
don't know if I will walk up to phrasing rain

968
00:37:49,303 --> 00:37:51,303
or snow.

969
00:37:52,306 --> 00:37:54,306
thank you, everyone.

970
00:43:59,306 --> 00:44:01,306
>> thank you

971
00:44:02,309 --> 00:44:03,310
.

972
00:44:03,310 --> 00:44:05,310
>> hi. >>

973
00:44:05,312 --> 00:44:07,314
welcome. We are interviewing

974
00:44:07,314 --> 00:44:10,914
for two legal budget committee positions

975
00:44:11,318 --> 00:44:13,318
and

976
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,290
we have our finance superintendent

977
00:44:16,290 --> 00:44:20,294
who will give an overview of the process.

978
00:44:20,294 --> 00:44:22,294
>> thank you.

979
00:44:22,296 --> 00:44:23,297
alison heath, thank you for being here

980
00:44:23,297 --> 00:44:25,297
this evening

981
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:29,303
and to be in the hot seat.

982
00:44:29,303 --> 00:44:31,305
I don't know how familiar you

983
00:44:31,305 --> 00:44:35,309
are with the oregon local budget law

984
00:44:35,309 --> 00:44:38,309
and would be really worried

985
00:44:38,312 --> 00:44:40,312
--it provides

986
00:44:41,315 --> 00:44:43,315
policies , practices and

987
00:44:44,318 --> 00:44:46,318
schedules of how

988
00:44:47,321 --> 00:44:50,290
we undertake the adoption of the school

989
00:44:50,290 --> 00:44:52,290
district budget

990
00:44:53,293 --> 00:44:55,693
and that process includes

991
00:44:56,296 --> 00:44:57,297
a citizen

992
00:44:57,297 --> 00:44:58,298
or legal budget committee, which has

993
00:44:58,298 --> 00:44:59,299
five citizen members appointed by

994
00:44:59,299 --> 00:45:01,299
the

995
00:45:02,302 --> 00:45:03,303
school board and

996
00:45:03,303 --> 00:45:05,305
they serve alongside the five elected

997
00:45:05,305 --> 00:45:07,305
board members

998
00:45:08,308 --> 00:45:09,309
and it's a financial advisory committee

999
00:45:09,309 --> 00:45:10,477
and it's

1000
00:45:10,477 --> 00:45:13,313
not a policy-setting committee, but certainly

1001
00:45:13,313 --> 00:45:14,314
there are policy implications in terms

1002
00:45:14,314 --> 00:45:16,314
of how

1003
00:45:17,317 --> 00:45:19,717
we prioritize our spending

1004
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,320
and the school

1005
00:45:23,290 --> 00:45:25,690
board has broad ranges

1006
00:45:26,293 --> 00:45:28,295
of discretion to change a budget

1007
00:45:28,295 --> 00:45:32,299
that has been approved by legal budget committee

1008
00:45:32,299 --> 00:45:34,299
and no

1009
00:45:35,302 --> 00:45:37,302
--oregon

1010
00:45:38,305 --> 00:45:41,305
public agencies increase a tax

1011
00:45:41,308 --> 00:45:44,311
rate or tax levy set by the legal

1012
00:45:44,311 --> 00:45:46,711
budget committee , which would

1013
00:45:47,314 --> 00:45:48,448
require a

1014
00:45:48,448 --> 00:45:50,317
referral if there was subsequent action

1015
00:45:50,317 --> 00:45:52,317
taken to increase

1016
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,920
the property tax levy or rate .

1017
00:45:59,293 --> 00:46:00,394
we usually accomplish our

1018
00:46:00,394 --> 00:46:03,994
process in three meetings every spring

1019
00:46:05,299 --> 00:46:08,302
and there is an on boarding process

1020
00:46:08,302 --> 00:46:11,902
that takes place for new members

1021
00:46:22,316 --> 00:46:23,317
and it's a lot of data that gets assimilated

1022
00:46:23,317 --> 00:46:25,319
for a short period of time. Thank

1023
00:46:25,319 --> 00:46:26,320
you for your interest.

1024
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,321
>> thank you.

1025
00:46:27,321 --> 00:46:29,321
>> we did

1026
00:46:31,291 --> 00:46:32,292
send you some questions and we will

1027
00:46:32,292 --> 00:46:33,293
go around and ask each one of the

1028
00:46:33,293 --> 00:46:34,294
questions

1029
00:46:34,294 --> 00:46:35,295
and hear your answers.

1030
00:46:35,295 --> 00:46:37,295
>> thank you.

1031
00:46:37,297 --> 00:46:38,298
I see you have given responses in

1032
00:46:38,298 --> 00:46:41,298
your application, but just for

1033
00:46:41,301 --> 00:46:43,301
the record ,

1034
00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:46,306
please begin by sharing who you are

1035
00:46:46,306 --> 00:46:47,307
and why the success of the lake oswego

1036
00:46:47,307 --> 00:46:49,307
school district

1037
00:46:50,310 --> 00:46:52,710
is important to you

1038
00:46:53,313 --> 00:46:54,381
and why you are interested

1039
00:46:54,381 --> 00:46:56,316
in serving on the budget committee.

1040
00:46:56,316 --> 00:46:58,316
>> absolutely.

1041
00:46:59,319 --> 00:47:01,321
I'm alison heath, resident for

1042
00:47:01,321 --> 00:47:02,356
lake oswego for the past 18 years

1043
00:47:02,356 --> 00:47:03,290
and I raised our two daughters here

1044
00:47:03,290 --> 00:47:05,290
. Both

1045
00:47:05,292 --> 00:47:07,292
are at high .

1046
00:47:08,295 --> 00:47:10,295
background,

1047
00:47:10,297 --> 00:47:11,298
I'm an educator of 25 years and 20

1048
00:47:11,298 --> 00:47:13,698
years in the classroom. 13

1049
00:47:14,301 --> 00:47:16,701
of those and previously

1050
00:47:17,304 --> 00:47:19,704
seven years at hillsboro

1051
00:47:20,307 --> 00:47:21,308
that have been an instructional coach

1052
00:47:21,308 --> 00:47:23,308
and serve

1053
00:47:24,311 --> 00:47:26,313
our district as an instructional

1054
00:47:26,313 --> 00:47:30,317
support and I support all areas of

1055
00:47:30,317 --> 00:47:32,317
k-12 health

1056
00:47:32,319 --> 00:47:33,320
, social science, secondary tag, travel

1057
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,320
history and

1058
00:47:35,322 --> 00:47:36,290
shared history . I recently completed

1059
00:47:36,290 --> 00:47:38,290
my initial

1060
00:47:39,293 --> 00:47:40,327
principles license

1061
00:47:40,327 --> 00:47:42,296
, so I have a wealth of background

1062
00:47:42,296 --> 00:47:43,430
in all areas of education. I

1063
00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:48,230
know a bit about how budget committees work.

1064
00:47:48,302 --> 00:47:50,702
we just cut, unfortunately.

1065
00:47:51,305 --> 00:47:52,406
we had to

1066
00:47:52,406 --> 00:47:54,308
increase the final number, but upwards

1067
00:47:54,308 --> 00:47:56,310
of 10 million last year

1068
00:47:56,310 --> 00:47:58,312
and where cutting another 5.5 right

1069
00:47:58,312 --> 00:48:00,314
now, so the academic return on investment

1070
00:48:00,314 --> 00:48:02,316
process is something we know very well

1071
00:48:02,316 --> 00:48:03,317
that's part of the reason why we saw

1072
00:48:03,317 --> 00:48:05,317
this advertised.

1073
00:48:07,321 --> 00:48:08,322
I just thought, I've been through

1074
00:48:08,322 --> 00:48:09,289
that. It's a painful process, but

1075
00:48:09,289 --> 00:48:11,291
a process where you can

1076
00:48:11,291 --> 00:48:12,292
relieve you for permission and values

1077
00:48:12,292 --> 00:48:13,293
from your district when

1078
00:48:13,293 --> 00:48:17,493
you make careful choices with your funds.

1079
00:48:18,298 --> 00:48:19,299
part of me wanting to be here

1080
00:48:19,299 --> 00:48:21,301
is to share my experience both as

1081
00:48:21,301 --> 00:48:24,304
a parent or community member or

1082
00:48:24,304 --> 00:48:26,304
educator. Also,

1083
00:48:27,307 --> 00:48:29,307
mains fixes

1084
00:48:32,312 --> 00:48:33,247
my expenses of going through this

1085
00:48:33,247 --> 00:48:34,348
and having gone through it

1086
00:48:34,348 --> 00:48:35,315
again. What it looks like when you are

1087
00:48:35,315 --> 00:48:37,317
building principal trying to write

1088
00:48:37,317 --> 00:48:38,418
your budget. When you are a teacher

1089
00:48:38,418 --> 00:48:39,319
of trying to figure out how many kids

1090
00:48:39,319 --> 00:48:41,319
will

1091
00:48:42,289 --> 00:48:45,292
be in front of you next year.

1092
00:48:45,292 --> 00:48:48,295
how we will shift funds from one

1093
00:48:48,295 --> 00:48:50,295
to another.

1094
00:48:53,300 --> 00:48:54,301
we have to cut staff when you have

1095
00:48:54,301 --> 00:48:57,304
to cut budget. There's no way

1096
00:48:57,304 --> 00:48:59,304
around it.

1097
00:49:06,313 --> 00:49:07,314
>> what skills

1098
00:49:07,314 --> 00:49:08,315
or expertise would you bring to the

1099
00:49:08,315 --> 00:49:09,316
legal budget committee?

1100
00:49:09,316 --> 00:49:10,317
>> skills,

1101
00:49:10,317 --> 00:49:11,318
okay. I have been

1102
00:49:11,318 --> 00:49:12,319
through budget processes multiple

1103
00:49:12,319 --> 00:49:14,321
times and I know the inside

1104
00:49:14,321 --> 00:49:15,322
and out. I know them as a staff member

1105
00:49:15,322 --> 00:49:17,322
and as

1106
00:49:18,292 --> 00:49:20,292
a parent.

1107
00:49:21,295 --> 00:49:22,362
skills and expertise

1108
00:49:22,362 --> 00:49:24,298
, years of experience going through

1109
00:49:24,298 --> 00:49:26,298
this process

1110
00:49:27,301 --> 00:49:29,701
, academic return on investment

1111
00:49:30,304 --> 00:49:33,307
is the process that we use

1112
00:49:33,307 --> 00:49:35,307
and assuming pete

1113
00:49:36,310 --> 00:49:38,312
uses it, as well. That is one of

1114
00:49:38,312 --> 00:49:39,313
my questions . How do you determine

1115
00:49:39,313 --> 00:49:41,313
and where do

1116
00:49:41,315 --> 00:49:42,316
you get funding? I would be curious

1117
00:49:42,316 --> 00:49:44,316
to know more

1118
00:49:45,319 --> 00:49:47,719
about that. I'm good

1119
00:49:48,322 --> 00:49:50,322
with budgeting.

1120
00:49:51,291 --> 00:49:52,292
I am a very good

1121
00:49:52,292 --> 00:49:54,294
communicator when it comes down to

1122
00:49:54,294 --> 00:49:56,294
it. Thank you.

1123
00:50:00,300 --> 00:50:01,301
>> we sent

1124
00:50:01,301 --> 00:50:03,303
you a link to our strategic plan and

1125
00:50:03,303 --> 00:50:04,304
I'm sure you are familiar with those

1126
00:50:04,304 --> 00:50:05,372
in

1127
00:50:05,372 --> 00:50:06,306
general. Did you have any questions

1128
00:50:06,306 --> 00:50:07,307
or observations related to that?

1129
00:50:07,307 --> 00:50:09,307
>>

1130
00:50:09,309 --> 00:50:11,709
just thinking about balance.

1131
00:50:12,312 --> 00:50:13,313
I'm a parent of

1132
00:50:13,313 --> 00:50:16,313
students and special ed students.

1133
00:50:17,317 --> 00:50:18,418
when I think about balance and the

1134
00:50:18,418 --> 00:50:19,319
goal of making sure that all students

1135
00:50:19,319 --> 00:50:20,420
are

1136
00:50:20,420 --> 00:50:21,321
growing my question is, how are using

1137
00:50:21,321 --> 00:50:23,321
processes like

1138
00:50:27,294 --> 00:50:28,295
academic internal investment to

1139
00:50:28,295 --> 00:50:29,296
ensure that while you are looking

1140
00:50:29,296 --> 00:50:30,297
at cuts that you are making sure that

1141
00:50:30,297 --> 00:50:31,298
the students

1142
00:50:31,298 --> 00:50:32,299
most impacted are also getting what

1143
00:50:32,299 --> 00:50:33,300
they are needing, so looking at your

1144
00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:34,468
strategic plan is

1145
00:50:34,468 --> 00:50:36,303
very well written and not that dissimilar

1146
00:50:36,303 --> 00:50:38,303
from ours.

1147
00:50:39,306 --> 00:50:42,306
how do you enact that?

1148
00:50:44,311 --> 00:50:45,345
>> one of the things we do other school

1149
00:50:45,345 --> 00:50:48,315
board is hardly the superintendent

1150
00:50:48,315 --> 00:50:49,316
and director --superintendent of tenets

1151
00:50:49,316 --> 00:50:51,318
that understands the relationship

1152
00:50:51,318 --> 00:50:52,452
and importance

1153
00:50:52,452 --> 00:50:54,321
of these things. We get regular updates

1154
00:50:54,321 --> 00:50:56,321
on board meetings .

1155
00:50:57,291 --> 00:50:58,325
that is one thing

1156
00:50:58,325 --> 00:51:00,294
or a couple of things that really

1157
00:51:00,294 --> 00:51:03,294
helps us make the decisions.

1158
00:51:03,297 --> 00:51:05,299
I don't know if anyone

1159
00:51:05,299 --> 00:51:06,300
else has anything else they want to

1160
00:51:06,300 --> 00:51:08,700
add on the topic?

1161
00:51:15,309 --> 00:51:17,309
>> I

1162
00:51:17,311 --> 00:51:18,312
have the final question. The past

1163
00:51:18,312 --> 00:51:20,312
three years

1164
00:51:20,314 --> 00:51:22,714
have unprecedented challenges creating

1165
00:51:24,318 --> 00:51:25,319
operating conditions unlike any experienced

1166
00:51:25,319 --> 00:51:27,319
in

1167
00:51:27,321 --> 00:51:28,322
modern times without unduly focusing

1168
00:51:28,322 --> 00:51:30,290
on

1169
00:51:30,290 --> 00:51:32,290
those conditions,

1170
00:51:33,293 --> 00:51:34,294
what are one or two things we are

1171
00:51:34,294 --> 00:51:35,362
doing well and

1172
00:51:35,362 --> 00:51:38,298
one or two that we can improve upon?

1173
00:51:38,298 --> 00:51:41,298
>> from a parent perspective, especially

1174
00:51:42,302 --> 00:51:43,303
a parent of a special ed student,

1175
00:51:43,303 --> 00:51:45,305
the complete wraparound services is

1176
00:51:45,305 --> 00:51:46,306
something that I thought was excellent

1177
00:51:46,306 --> 00:51:48,306
with

1178
00:51:48,308 --> 00:51:51,311
this district in terms of the process

1179
00:51:51,311 --> 00:51:53,711
, data gathering process , ability

1180
00:51:54,314 --> 00:51:56,714
counseling staff and to

1181
00:51:57,317 --> 00:52:00,320
the teachers you have that are amazing.

1182
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,720
something that I felt

1183
00:52:03,290 --> 00:52:05,690
very sincerely is that

1184
00:52:06,293 --> 00:52:08,693
warm hand off of,

1185
00:52:11,298 --> 00:52:12,299
we know your child is struggling and

1186
00:52:12,299 --> 00:52:13,300
here we will wrap

1187
00:52:13,300 --> 00:52:15,302
around them 100% and my child has

1188
00:52:15,302 --> 00:52:16,303
been very successful with that.

1189
00:52:16,303 --> 00:52:18,303
>>

1190
00:52:18,305 --> 00:52:21,305
anything we can improve upon?

1191
00:52:21,308 --> 00:52:23,308
>> you know,

1192
00:52:26,313 --> 00:52:27,314
I really need to kick the tires a

1193
00:52:27,314 --> 00:52:30,317
little bit more and looked under

1194
00:52:30,317 --> 00:52:32,319
the hood to say that. I get

1195
00:52:32,319 --> 00:52:33,320
to go to our school board meetings

1196
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:34,321
quickly and I have presented them

1197
00:52:34,321 --> 00:52:35,322
all

1198
00:52:35,322 --> 00:52:36,290
the time. I have not yet been to one

1199
00:52:36,290 --> 00:52:37,357
of yours, so I'm

1200
00:52:37,357 --> 00:52:39,293
really curious to see. It looks quite

1201
00:52:39,293 --> 00:52:42,293
a bit different than ours.

1202
00:52:42,296 --> 00:52:44,298
just really curious to see

1203
00:52:44,298 --> 00:52:45,299
the process that has gone on so far

1204
00:52:45,299 --> 00:52:48,899
and I've heard some things about

1205
00:52:51,305 --> 00:52:52,306
notifications that have gone out to

1206
00:52:52,306 --> 00:52:53,307
certain teachers and am curious

1207
00:52:53,307 --> 00:52:54,341
about what has happened thus far in

1208
00:52:54,341 --> 00:52:55,309
the process and where you are and

1209
00:52:55,309 --> 00:52:56,376
when you

1210
00:52:56,376 --> 00:52:57,311
bring in the legal budget committee.

1211
00:52:57,311 --> 00:52:59,711
what is already decided

1212
00:53:00,314 --> 00:53:02,316
and what is the role

1213
00:53:02,316 --> 00:53:03,350
of the budget committee and finalizing

1214
00:53:03,350 --> 00:53:06,320
the decisions as constituents that

1215
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,320
we are?

1216
00:53:12,292 --> 00:53:15,292
>> were there any other questions

1217
00:53:15,295 --> 00:53:16,296
or comments?

1218
00:53:16,296 --> 00:53:18,296
>> no.

1219
00:53:18,298 --> 00:53:21,301
>> as we said, we have two

1220
00:53:21,301 --> 00:53:24,301
open positions and four people

1221
00:53:24,304 --> 00:53:27,307
. Of course, you bring a lot of

1222
00:53:27,307 --> 00:53:29,309
great skills and we

1223
00:53:29,309 --> 00:53:30,310
have a lot of other committees and

1224
00:53:30,310 --> 00:53:32,310
advisory skill? Groups.

1225
00:53:33,313 --> 00:53:36,313
you are welcome to apply

1226
00:53:36,316 --> 00:53:40,320
for those. I said this to somebody else

1227
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,322
earlier, but this is the hardest

1228
00:53:42,322 --> 00:53:43,290
interview process. We hope you will

1229
00:53:43,290 --> 00:53:45,290
consider that and

1230
00:53:46,293 --> 00:53:47,294
our timeline.

1231
00:53:47,294 --> 00:53:49,294
>> presently,

1232
00:53:49,296 --> 00:53:51,696
we have been scheduled

1233
00:53:52,299 --> 00:53:54,699
for action for the

1234
00:53:55,302 --> 00:53:56,303
two candidates scheduled

1235
00:53:56,303 --> 00:53:58,305
for march 10th of the meeting and

1236
00:53:58,305 --> 00:54:00,307
we stay on that schedule

1237
00:54:00,307 --> 00:54:03,907
and we would notify candidates afterward

1238
00:54:05,312 --> 00:54:07,314
and for the two candidates collected, there is

1239
00:54:07,314 --> 00:54:08,382
an on boarding process

1240
00:54:08,382 --> 00:54:12,582
and we have our first formal meeting

1241
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,223
, which is an orientation meeting

1242
00:54:16,223 --> 00:54:17,324
that takes place in late april

1243
00:54:17,324 --> 00:54:18,292
and the actual legal budget committees

1244
00:54:18,292 --> 00:54:19,293
with consideration to both budgets

1245
00:54:19,293 --> 00:54:21,293
that will start

1246
00:54:22,296 --> 00:54:24,298
in early or mid may.

1247
00:54:24,298 --> 00:54:27,898
>> fantastic. I have been pulling numbers

1248
00:54:29,303 --> 00:54:30,304
from the at a glance report cards

1249
00:54:30,304 --> 00:54:31,305
for the past seven years for my own

1250
00:54:31,305 --> 00:54:33,305
district

1251
00:54:33,307 --> 00:54:34,341
budgeting process and I have been

1252
00:54:34,341 --> 00:54:35,309
doing some comparisons across districts

1253
00:54:35,309 --> 00:54:37,311
in the metro area and this is just

1254
00:54:37,311 --> 00:54:39,311
a little ,

1255
00:54:40,314 --> 00:54:41,348
how are we doing

1256
00:54:41,348 --> 00:54:43,317
all across the metro area in terms

1257
00:54:43,317 --> 00:54:45,717
of student change, percentage

1258
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:47,354
change of administrators

1259
00:54:47,354 --> 00:54:49,289
and teachers in our districts and

1260
00:54:49,289 --> 00:54:50,290
also the staff.

1261
00:54:50,290 --> 00:54:52,292
staffing ratio comparison is kind

1262
00:54:52,292 --> 00:54:55,295
of interesting when you look at

1263
00:54:55,295 --> 00:54:58,298
this, so I was just pulling it

1264
00:54:58,298 --> 00:55:01,298
from my boss last night.

1265
00:55:01,301 --> 00:55:02,503
>> thank you very much.

1266
00:55:02,503 --> 00:55:04,304
>> good to meet you all. >> nice to

1267
00:55:04,304 --> 00:55:06,304
meet you.

1268
00:55:07,307 --> 00:55:08,442
>> we have

1269
00:55:08,442 --> 00:55:10,310
completed our interviews. The next step

1270
00:55:10,310 --> 00:55:12,310
would be

1271
00:55:13,313 --> 00:55:15,313
consider the candidates

1272
00:55:16,316 --> 00:55:19,319
and I will speak to director

1273
00:55:19,319 --> 00:55:21,319
.

1274
00:55:22,322 --> 00:55:24,322
provide her

1275
00:55:25,292 --> 00:55:27,292
feedback and send

1276
00:55:29,296 --> 00:55:30,364
cranston's topic of choices and I

1277
00:55:30,364 --> 00:55:34,301
would suggest you rank them one and

1278
00:55:34,301 --> 00:55:36,301
two .

1279
00:55:40,307 --> 00:55:42,707
is there anything else?

1280
00:55:46,313 --> 00:55:48,313
legal budget committee

1281
00:55:49,316 --> 00:55:51,316
at 5:43.

1282
00:55:51,318 --> 00:55:52,319
>> for our captioner, we will begin

1283
00:55:52,319 --> 00:55:54,719
the regular board meeting

1284
00:55:55,322 --> 00:55:57,322
at 6:00.

1285
01:12:36,323 --> 01:12:38,323
>>

1286
01:12:39,293 --> 01:12:40,294
call the school board into session

1287
01:12:40,294 --> 01:12:42,294
at

1288
01:12:42,296 --> 01:12:45,296
6:00 p.m. Let's see here.

1289
01:12:45,299 --> 01:12:47,699
we will begin with

1290
01:12:48,302 --> 01:12:51,302
welcome and comments from staff

1291
01:12:51,305 --> 01:12:54,305
, learning in lake oswego, world

1292
01:12:54,308 --> 01:12:56,308
language.

1293
01:13:18,298 --> 01:13:20,698
>> we have three students

1294
01:13:21,301 --> 01:13:23,301
here today and

1295
01:13:24,304 --> 01:13:26,304
we have from

1296
01:13:27,307 --> 01:13:30,307
middle school and alice from

1297
01:13:30,310 --> 01:13:32,312
hi. They will talk about their expense

1298
01:13:32,312 --> 01:13:34,314
with world language and learning.

1299
01:13:34,314 --> 01:13:36,314
>> thank you

1300
01:13:36,316 --> 01:13:37,317
for having me here today. Over the

1301
01:13:37,317 --> 01:13:39,717
past six years, I

1302
01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:41,522
have had --I love learning

1303
01:13:41,522 --> 01:13:45,122
language and learning spanish at palisades.

1304
01:13:46,293 --> 01:13:49,296
this year, we have been doing

1305
01:13:49,296 --> 01:13:50,430
each session

1306
01:13:50,430 --> 01:13:52,299
. During language, we do english spanish

1307
01:13:52,299 --> 01:13:54,301
english spanish, so we can

1308
01:13:54,301 --> 01:13:56,303
work on both languages and get the

1309
01:13:56,303 --> 01:13:58,305
techniques done. We have been doing

1310
01:13:58,305 --> 01:14:00,705
a lot of writing

1311
01:14:01,308 --> 01:14:03,308
. For example, a

1312
01:14:03,310 --> 01:14:05,312
couple of months ago, we wrote a short story

1313
01:14:05,312 --> 01:14:07,314
and our teacher led us through each

1314
01:14:07,314 --> 01:14:08,382
step and checked

1315
01:14:08,382 --> 01:14:10,317
the draft and give us tips that were

1316
01:14:10,317 --> 01:14:12,319
helpful when doing it and

1317
01:14:12,319 --> 01:14:16,323
we wrote in english, so we could's practice

1318
01:14:16,323 --> 01:14:19,293
, then we wrote in spanish,

1319
01:14:19,293 --> 01:14:22,296
so we could also do that. And to

1320
01:14:22,296 --> 01:14:23,297
get better. Also,

1321
01:14:23,297 --> 01:14:27,497
another thing that I like doing was

1322
01:14:28,302 --> 01:14:29,369
last

1323
01:14:29,369 --> 01:14:30,404
year in fourth grade, we would read

1324
01:14:30,404 --> 01:14:31,305
a story, then we would sometimes do

1325
01:14:31,305 --> 01:14:32,306
a project after reread

1326
01:14:32,306 --> 01:14:34,308
the story, so it was more fun and

1327
01:14:34,308 --> 01:14:37,311
we did things like that once

1328
01:14:37,311 --> 01:14:40,314
we at it at a play in groups

1329
01:14:40,314 --> 01:14:43,314
after we read the story

1330
01:14:43,317 --> 01:14:46,320
and we presented to the whole class

1331
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:47,354
and I like doing that a lot.

1332
01:14:47,354 --> 01:14:49,323
one more thing that I liked doing

1333
01:14:49,323 --> 01:14:52,292
was at the end of the day, we

1334
01:14:52,292 --> 01:14:55,292
had something called reading groups.

1335
01:14:55,295 --> 01:14:56,296
we would

1336
01:14:56,296 --> 01:14:58,298
get in groups based on the level of

1337
01:14:58,298 --> 01:15:01,301
reading in spanish and we read

1338
01:15:01,301 --> 01:15:02,436
a book , then we

1339
01:15:02,436 --> 01:15:04,304
answer questions about it and discuss it

1340
01:15:04,304 --> 01:15:07,304
in the group. At the

1341
01:15:07,307 --> 01:15:10,307
end, we present and make

1342
01:15:10,310 --> 01:15:11,311
a presentation using a video

1343
01:15:11,311 --> 01:15:13,313
or poster or something like that,

1344
01:15:13,313 --> 01:15:15,313
then we

1345
01:15:18,318 --> 01:15:19,319
get to the class and I like doing

1346
01:15:19,319 --> 01:15:22,319
that personally, so that it

1347
01:15:22,322 --> 01:15:23,390
motivates me to want to learn

1348
01:15:23,390 --> 01:15:25,292
that stuff. I have had a really good

1349
01:15:25,292 --> 01:15:27,692
experience at palisades. Thanks

1350
01:15:28,295 --> 01:15:29,296
for listening.

1351
01:15:29,296 --> 01:15:31,296
>>

1352
01:15:31,298 --> 01:15:33,298
[ applause ]

1353
01:15:37,304 --> 01:15:40,307
>> thank you so much for having me.

1354
01:15:40,307 --> 01:15:43,307
I joined the spanish community

1355
01:15:43,310 --> 01:15:44,311
this

1356
01:15:44,311 --> 01:15:46,313
year as an eighth grader and I tested

1357
01:15:46,313 --> 01:15:47,347
in the emergent last year through

1358
01:15:47,347 --> 01:15:49,316
taking the test where my average score

1359
01:15:49,316 --> 01:15:51,316
was a

1360
01:15:52,319 --> 01:15:53,387
4. After half a year,

1361
01:15:53,387 --> 01:15:55,322
and bumped my average score to a 6.5

1362
01:15:55,322 --> 01:15:56,323
,

1363
01:15:56,323 --> 01:15:58,292
which means I can receive my seal

1364
01:15:58,292 --> 01:15:59,393
of biliteracy this year ,

1365
01:15:59,393 --> 01:16:01,295
which marks me as officially bilingual.

1366
01:16:01,295 --> 01:16:02,462
it

1367
01:16:02,462 --> 01:16:04,298
has allowed me to make so many connections

1368
01:16:04,298 --> 01:16:06,298
through my friends.

1369
01:16:09,303 --> 01:16:10,304
it seemed daunting at first to join

1370
01:16:10,304 --> 01:16:11,305
a community where

1371
01:16:11,305 --> 01:16:12,306
so many kids have been together since

1372
01:16:12,306 --> 01:16:13,307
kindergarten or even earlier learning

1373
01:16:13,307 --> 01:16:15,307
a language,

1374
01:16:16,310 --> 01:16:17,311
but this year I have

1375
01:16:17,311 --> 01:16:19,313
been able to make so many friends

1376
01:16:19,313 --> 01:16:21,313
through the community,

1377
01:16:23,317 --> 01:16:25,319
which has been incredibly positive

1378
01:16:25,319 --> 01:16:26,320
for me seeing as I only came to this

1379
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,320
district

1380
01:16:28,322 --> 01:16:30,322
last year .

1381
01:16:30,324 --> 01:16:31,391
it has allowed me to make a lot of

1382
01:16:31,391 --> 01:16:32,292
connections and engage in activities

1383
01:16:32,292 --> 01:16:34,292
outside

1384
01:16:34,294 --> 01:16:35,362
of school. My entire team

1385
01:16:35,362 --> 01:16:37,297
from this year was formed by children

1386
01:16:37,297 --> 01:16:39,299
from spanish immersion in my grade

1387
01:16:39,299 --> 01:16:40,300
. We do a lot of things in spanish

1388
01:16:40,300 --> 01:16:42,300
immersion and

1389
01:16:43,303 --> 01:16:44,304
my favorite is

1390
01:16:44,304 --> 01:16:45,305
spanish immersion social studies,

1391
01:16:45,305 --> 01:16:46,306
because it takes a class that I normally

1392
01:16:46,306 --> 01:16:48,706
wouldn't find challenging and

1393
01:16:49,309 --> 01:16:51,311
adds an extra layer to

1394
01:16:51,311 --> 01:16:52,312
where I can learn a new language and

1395
01:16:52,312 --> 01:16:54,712
engage with peers in

1396
01:16:55,315 --> 01:16:56,316
that language. We write essays and

1397
01:16:56,316 --> 01:16:58,316
learn about

1398
01:16:58,318 --> 01:17:00,320
social studies, which allows me

1399
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:01,321
to stay on track with other friends

1400
01:17:01,321 --> 01:17:02,356
who aren't in spanish

1401
01:17:02,356 --> 01:17:04,291
immersion throughout the curriculum

1402
01:17:04,291 --> 01:17:05,292
,

1403
01:17:05,292 --> 01:17:07,294
but also challenged me and teach me

1404
01:17:07,294 --> 01:17:10,294
a new language. Thank you.

1405
01:17:13,300 --> 01:17:15,300
>> thank you

1406
01:17:15,302 --> 01:17:19,306
all so much for having me, as well.

1407
01:17:19,306 --> 01:17:20,307
I am currently in ap spanish. This

1408
01:17:20,307 --> 01:17:22,307
is

1409
01:17:22,309 --> 01:17:24,709
my fifth year and

1410
01:17:25,312 --> 01:17:28,315
I think spanish is so valuable

1411
01:17:28,315 --> 01:17:30,317
and I think it's even

1412
01:17:30,317 --> 01:17:31,318
more valuable to me and I'm very interested

1413
01:17:31,318 --> 01:17:33,318
in international relations

1414
01:17:34,321 --> 01:17:35,322
and I think now more than ever ensuring

1415
01:17:35,322 --> 01:17:37,291
that students

1416
01:17:37,291 --> 01:17:39,293
have access to his

1417
01:17:39,293 --> 01:17:40,294
incredibly important and I think learning

1418
01:17:40,294 --> 01:17:42,294
spanish allows that

1419
01:17:43,297 --> 01:17:45,297
to happen.

1420
01:17:45,299 --> 01:17:46,300
we learn spanish through a lens of

1421
01:17:46,300 --> 01:17:48,700
cultural learning first where

1422
01:17:49,303 --> 01:17:52,303
we engage with cultural material

1423
01:17:52,306 --> 01:17:53,307
and perspectives that are different

1424
01:17:53,307 --> 01:17:54,374
from ours,

1425
01:17:54,374 --> 01:17:55,309
which can seem so far away from us.

1426
01:17:55,309 --> 01:17:57,309
for example, to

1427
01:17:58,312 --> 01:18:00,712
recognize black history month

1428
01:18:02,316 --> 01:18:04,318
experience in latin america, which

1429
01:18:04,318 --> 01:18:07,321
has been so valuable to me

1430
01:18:07,321 --> 01:18:08,355
and it is something

1431
01:18:08,355 --> 01:18:09,423
that I can recognize would not have

1432
01:18:09,423 --> 01:18:10,324
learned otherwise if it weren't for

1433
01:18:10,324 --> 01:18:12,324
that class.

1434
01:18:16,296 --> 01:18:18,298
we are also vulnerable and it's something

1435
01:18:18,298 --> 01:18:22,302
we are learning for the first time

1436
01:18:22,302 --> 01:18:23,403
. You develop the

1437
01:18:23,403 --> 01:18:25,305
skills and a new language altogether,

1438
01:18:25,305 --> 01:18:26,306
so we have to recognize that we not

1439
01:18:26,306 --> 01:18:28,306
going to do

1440
01:18:28,308 --> 01:18:30,308
it perfectly.

1441
01:18:31,311 --> 01:18:32,312
taking through every single one of

1442
01:18:32,312 --> 01:18:33,447
those

1443
01:18:33,447 --> 01:18:34,314
classes and I develop first and foremost

1444
01:18:34,314 --> 01:18:36,714
in my spanish classes.

1445
01:18:43,323 --> 01:18:44,291
>> you are also

1446
01:18:44,291 --> 01:18:46,293
very well spoken and it's clear that

1447
01:18:46,293 --> 01:18:47,294
you are spending a lot of time communicating

1448
01:18:47,294 --> 01:18:49,294
so well in

1449
01:18:49,296 --> 01:18:54,960
english and I'm sure in spanish, as well.

1450
01:18:58,305 --> 01:19:00,705
>> any of you intend

1451
01:19:01,308 --> 01:19:04,308
on pursuing language in college?

1452
01:19:04,311 --> 01:19:07,314
>> I want to keep doing it and

1453
01:19:07,314 --> 01:19:09,314
learn more

1454
01:19:10,317 --> 01:19:16,317
and go to places and speak a lot of spanish.

1455
01:19:18,292 --> 01:19:19,293
>> I would love to continue spanish in

1456
01:19:19,293 --> 01:19:20,294
college, especially since by the end

1457
01:19:20,294 --> 01:19:21,328
of

1458
01:19:21,328 --> 01:19:22,362
high school I will have enough credits

1459
01:19:22,362 --> 01:19:23,297
to minor in spanish at a college I

1460
01:19:23,297 --> 01:19:25,297
choose

1461
01:19:25,299 --> 01:19:27,301
to go to because of the

1462
01:19:27,301 --> 01:19:28,302
amount of classes I will be able to take

1463
01:19:28,302 --> 01:19:30,702
starting with spanish four

1464
01:19:32,306 --> 01:19:35,306
next year and ap spanish

1465
01:19:35,309 --> 01:19:36,343
. I think that allows me

1466
01:19:36,343 --> 01:19:38,312
to create a broader idea for what

1467
01:19:38,312 --> 01:19:40,312
I will

1468
01:19:41,315 --> 01:19:43,315
do in college.

1469
01:19:45,319 --> 01:19:46,353
>> very similar experience. I had

1470
01:19:46,353 --> 01:19:48,322
an opportunity to gain so many credits

1471
01:19:48,322 --> 01:19:50,324
by take spanish classes from spanish

1472
01:19:50,324 --> 01:19:52,724
three to ap spanish

1473
01:19:57,297 --> 01:19:59,299
. I take it would be a great opportunity to

1474
01:19:59,299 --> 01:20:01,301
continue my learning and not

1475
01:20:01,301 --> 01:20:02,302
lose all of this work I put in.

1476
01:20:02,302 --> 01:20:03,303
>>

1477
01:20:03,303 --> 01:20:05,305
good luck to all of

1478
01:20:05,305 --> 01:20:08,305
you. You are very impressive.

1479
01:20:14,314 --> 01:20:16,314
>> [ applause ]

1480
01:20:17,317 --> 01:20:19,317
>> we will now

1481
01:20:19,319 --> 01:20:20,320
move on . Before I go on, I do want

1482
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,320
to

1483
01:20:23,323 --> 01:20:25,323
note that director

1484
01:20:26,293 --> 01:20:29,296
and will move on to comments.

1485
01:20:29,296 --> 01:20:32,296
we do have some comments.

1486
01:20:32,299 --> 01:20:34,299
we have some

1487
01:20:34,301 --> 01:20:35,302
--I will just read off the names for

1488
01:20:35,302 --> 01:20:37,302
the individuals

1489
01:20:38,305 --> 01:20:40,307
who have written testimony.

1490
01:20:40,307 --> 01:20:43,310
there are a number of people who submitted

1491
01:20:43,310 --> 01:20:47,314
testimony in support of music or performing

1492
01:20:47,314 --> 01:20:49,314
arts programs.

1493
01:20:50,317 --> 01:20:53,317
apologies if I miss pronounce

1494
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:55,320
her name.

1495
01:20:56,323 --> 01:20:58,723
and hadley, emily child,

1496
01:20:59,293 --> 01:21:01,293
elaine, brookline ,

1497
01:21:02,296 --> 01:21:04,296
ted cranes, sarah,

1498
01:21:05,299 --> 01:21:07,299
sarah lindley

1499
01:21:11,305 --> 01:21:13,305
and kiersten.

1500
01:21:13,307 --> 01:21:16,907
three people submitted testimony regarding it.

1501
01:21:23,317 --> 01:21:26,317
>> we have now some people

1502
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:28,720
for in person testimony

1503
01:21:29,323 --> 01:21:32,323
. I will call you out

1504
01:21:35,295 --> 01:21:38,895
and we will start with henry.

1505
01:21:47,307 --> 01:21:49,307
>>

1506
01:21:49,309 --> 01:21:53,313
hello. My name is henry. I am a junior

1507
01:21:53,313 --> 01:21:54,314
at lake oswego high school and I'm

1508
01:21:54,314 --> 01:21:55,315
here

1509
01:21:55,315 --> 01:21:57,317
to talk about the impact that the

1510
01:21:57,317 --> 01:21:59,319
lohs program has had on me throughout

1511
01:21:59,319 --> 01:22:01,321
my high school experience.

1512
01:22:01,321 --> 01:22:06,721
I joined last year when I was a sophomore.

1513
01:22:11,298 --> 01:22:13,300
I did it anyway and

1514
01:22:13,300 --> 01:22:14,301
I was placed in what our school calls

1515
01:22:14,301 --> 01:22:16,301
laker choir,

1516
01:22:17,304 --> 01:22:20,304
which is our beginning choir.

1517
01:22:20,307 --> 01:22:23,310
I knew no one going into and have

1518
01:22:23,310 --> 01:22:24,311
no idea what to expect. Little did

1519
01:22:24,311 --> 01:22:25,379
I

1520
01:22:25,379 --> 01:22:26,313
know that it would be the best choice

1521
01:22:26,313 --> 01:22:27,347
in my life and one

1522
01:22:27,347 --> 01:22:29,316
of my favorite classes that I will

1523
01:22:29,316 --> 01:22:31,318
ever take. While it was difficult,

1524
01:22:31,318 --> 01:22:32,319
having fewer in music was a great entry

1525
01:22:32,319 --> 01:22:34,319
to me and

1526
01:22:35,322 --> 01:22:37,722
talked about ground zero.

1527
01:22:41,295 --> 01:22:44,295
I probably would have dropped

1528
01:22:44,298 --> 01:22:46,298
the class.

1529
01:22:47,301 --> 01:22:50,304
that would impact my life so significantly.

1530
01:22:50,304 --> 01:22:51,305
I met some of my

1531
01:22:51,305 --> 01:22:52,306
favorite people and best friends from

1532
01:22:52,306 --> 01:22:53,307
choir that I otherwise would have

1533
01:22:53,307 --> 01:22:55,307
never met.

1534
01:22:59,313 --> 01:23:01,315
from all of that preparation, I was able

1535
01:23:01,315 --> 01:23:05,319
to join a cappella and I was just

1536
01:23:05,319 --> 01:23:08,322
in passion for music there was

1537
01:23:08,322 --> 01:23:10,322
and

1538
01:23:10,324 --> 01:23:11,291
I didn't know people were so into

1539
01:23:11,291 --> 01:23:13,291
music

1540
01:23:13,293 --> 01:23:14,294
like that. That year, we went on to play

1541
01:23:14,294 --> 01:23:16,294
in

1542
01:23:17,297 --> 01:23:20,300
the a cappella set and it

1543
01:23:20,300 --> 01:23:22,300
was just beautiful.

1544
01:23:23,303 --> 01:23:24,338
that would have

1545
01:23:24,338 --> 01:23:25,372
been something possible without having

1546
01:23:25,372 --> 01:23:26,306
each and every one of us going through

1547
01:23:26,306 --> 01:23:28,306
different stages.

1548
01:23:32,312 --> 01:23:33,313
on top of being a cappella, I was

1549
01:23:33,313 --> 01:23:34,314
a

1550
01:23:34,314 --> 01:23:35,315
department assistant for this year's

1551
01:23:35,315 --> 01:23:38,315
choir and it was a

1552
01:23:38,318 --> 01:23:41,318
--crazy to see the spark

1553
01:23:41,321 --> 01:23:42,322
in young people and the passion that

1554
01:23:42,322 --> 01:23:43,357
they

1555
01:23:43,357 --> 01:23:44,291
get for music . It would be devastating

1556
01:23:44,291 --> 01:23:46,691
to see that be

1557
01:23:47,294 --> 01:23:49,294
taken away. Overall,

1558
01:23:50,297 --> 01:23:51,298
a family and a place to feel and it

1559
01:23:51,298 --> 01:23:53,298
gets school

1560
01:23:53,300 --> 01:23:57,500
and where I found where I was

1561
01:23:59,306 --> 01:24:01,306
.

1562
01:24:02,309 --> 01:24:04,309
>> [ applause ]

1563
01:24:14,321 --> 01:24:16,321
>> hello.

1564
01:24:17,324 --> 01:24:20,294
I'm a soft bar here

1565
01:24:20,294 --> 01:24:23,297
at lohs and I'm here to express my

1566
01:24:23,297 --> 01:24:25,297
concern

1567
01:24:28,302 --> 01:24:29,369
affecting our choir programs but as

1568
01:24:29,369 --> 01:24:30,304
a student involved in different choir

1569
01:24:30,304 --> 01:24:31,471
classes,

1570
01:24:31,471 --> 01:24:32,306
I have experienced the value and importance

1571
01:24:32,306 --> 01:24:34,306
of our program.

1572
01:24:35,309 --> 01:24:36,310
not just for me, but the countless

1573
01:24:36,310 --> 01:24:38,310
students who participate

1574
01:24:38,312 --> 01:24:40,314
every year. When I

1575
01:24:40,314 --> 01:24:41,515
first started, I was someone who primarily

1576
01:24:41,515 --> 01:24:44,318
focused on ap classes with rigorous classwork

1577
01:24:44,318 --> 01:24:47,321
as that is what what the culture

1578
01:24:47,321 --> 01:24:49,323
told us to do. I

1579
01:24:49,323 --> 01:24:50,324
believe that electorates were fillers

1580
01:24:50,324 --> 01:24:52,292
and something that

1581
01:24:52,292 --> 01:24:53,293
was extra and didn't matter in the

1582
01:24:53,293 --> 01:24:56,293
long run. As I pushed

1583
01:24:56,296 --> 01:24:58,296
myself academically,

1584
01:24:58,298 --> 01:24:59,299
I realized that hard classes and burying

1585
01:24:59,299 --> 01:25:01,301
myself in books did it mean

1586
01:25:01,301 --> 01:25:02,302
that I would have a productive future

1587
01:25:02,302 --> 01:25:03,303
if I didn't have something I loved

1588
01:25:03,303 --> 01:25:04,304
in

1589
01:25:04,304 --> 01:25:05,305
my schedule and pushed me to keep

1590
01:25:05,305 --> 01:25:07,305
going every day

1591
01:25:12,312 --> 01:25:14,314
being both my motivation and balance

1592
01:25:14,314 --> 01:25:15,315
for my life at lohs. The way we should

1593
01:25:15,315 --> 01:25:16,316
view classes

1594
01:25:16,316 --> 01:25:17,317
is not just another elective with

1595
01:25:17,317 --> 01:25:18,318
a certain number of students signed

1596
01:25:18,318 --> 01:25:19,319
up for each

1597
01:25:19,319 --> 01:25:20,320
class, but a program that helps build student

1598
01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:21,321
skills and confidence. Each level

1599
01:25:21,321 --> 01:25:23,321
introducing

1600
01:25:23,323 --> 01:25:26,293
kids to music leading them for

1601
01:25:26,293 --> 01:25:27,294
intermediate choir all the way to

1602
01:25:27,294 --> 01:25:28,428
a cappella

1603
01:25:28,428 --> 01:25:32,280
experiencing the most dynamic and asked

1604
01:25:35,302 --> 01:25:36,303
advanced pieces. A select group of

1605
01:25:36,303 --> 01:25:37,538
students who have

1606
01:25:37,538 --> 01:25:39,306
a profound passion for this beautiful program.

1607
01:25:39,306 --> 01:25:40,440
although it's

1608
01:25:40,440 --> 01:25:42,309
a group of smaller numbers, we shouldn't

1609
01:25:42,309 --> 01:25:44,311
view it as a burst, but

1610
01:25:44,311 --> 01:25:45,312
as skill. It is almost as if telling

1611
01:25:45,312 --> 01:25:46,346
a child

1612
01:25:46,346 --> 01:25:48,315
with no football experience jumped

1613
01:25:48,315 --> 01:25:50,715
straight into the nfl.

1614
01:25:51,318 --> 01:25:53,320
it is unrealistic and unfair.

1615
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:55,322
the different classes providing valuable

1616
01:25:55,322 --> 01:25:57,324
opportunities to grow, it can lead

1617
01:25:57,324 --> 01:25:59,324
to some

1618
01:26:00,294 --> 01:26:02,296
feeling disengaged or bored and others overwhelmed.

1619
01:26:02,296 --> 01:26:05,296
beyond skill building, peer support

1620
01:26:06,300 --> 01:26:07,301
a tightknit

1621
01:26:07,301 --> 01:26:09,303
community that is diverse and rare

1622
01:26:09,303 --> 01:26:11,703
too many electives here.

1623
01:26:13,307 --> 01:26:14,441
we have artist to athletes to mathematicians

1624
01:26:14,441 --> 01:26:16,310
and scientists and a community that rings

1625
01:26:16,310 --> 01:26:18,312
communities together based on different

1626
01:26:18,312 --> 01:26:19,346
interest instead of pushing

1627
01:26:19,346 --> 01:26:23,546
them away to one hobby and academic

1628
01:26:24,318 --> 01:26:26,318
interest classes

1629
01:26:27,321 --> 01:26:28,422
clashes with

1630
01:26:28,422 --> 01:26:30,324
another. I urge you to consider these

1631
01:26:30,324 --> 01:26:32,324
cuts as

1632
01:26:33,293 --> 01:26:34,294
more

1633
01:26:34,294 --> 01:26:36,296
than just a class, but a home for

1634
01:26:36,296 --> 01:26:39,299
me and my peers. Thank you for your

1635
01:26:39,299 --> 01:26:41,299
time and consideration.

1636
01:26:48,308 --> 01:26:50,708
>> I'm a senior at

1637
01:26:51,311 --> 01:26:54,314
lohs and I have been in choir

1638
01:26:54,314 --> 01:26:55,349
for all four

1639
01:26:55,349 --> 01:26:57,317
years. It is a unique environment

1640
01:26:57,317 --> 01:26:59,717
and always has been.

1641
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:01,388
my days are filled

1642
01:27:01,388 --> 01:27:02,489
with tense classes and impending doom

1643
01:27:02,489 --> 01:27:03,323
for the next test I take and preparing

1644
01:27:03,323 --> 01:27:04,358
for the next

1645
01:27:04,358 --> 01:27:05,459
challenge ready to rear its ugly head.

1646
01:27:05,459 --> 01:27:09,590
within the difficult and trying environment

1647
01:27:09,296 --> 01:27:10,297
is

1648
01:27:10,297 --> 01:27:11,365
a rare bubble of choir. I savable,

1649
01:27:11,365 --> 01:27:12,299
because it feels like I have walked

1650
01:27:12,299 --> 01:27:14,299
into a

1651
01:27:15,302 --> 01:27:17,302
different world.

1652
01:27:18,305 --> 01:27:21,305
our teacher has taken this

1653
01:27:21,308 --> 01:27:22,342
room into a safe

1654
01:27:22,342 --> 01:27:24,311
and engaging space to create beautiful

1655
01:27:24,311 --> 01:27:27,311
music. Some say best in

1656
01:27:27,314 --> 01:27:29,314
the state.

1657
01:27:29,316 --> 01:27:30,317
it is clear how much he puts to not

1658
01:27:30,317 --> 01:27:31,318
only the

1659
01:27:31,318 --> 01:27:33,320
musical side of the program, but the

1660
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:34,321
community. Through my four years in

1661
01:27:34,321 --> 01:27:35,355
choir,

1662
01:27:35,355 --> 01:27:36,323
I have been a member of three, but

1663
01:27:36,323 --> 01:27:38,292
the one I would like to focus on

1664
01:27:38,292 --> 01:27:39,293
as some have focused on was choir

1665
01:27:39,293 --> 01:27:41,693
and a group of

1666
01:27:42,296 --> 01:27:45,296
all ages. This is a

1667
01:27:45,299 --> 01:27:46,300
small class and for

1668
01:27:46,300 --> 01:27:48,302
a freshman like me back in 2021 out

1669
01:27:48,302 --> 01:27:50,302
of covid,

1670
01:27:50,304 --> 01:27:54,308
I wouldn't have been ready for anything else.

1671
01:27:54,308 --> 01:27:55,409
it was

1672
01:27:55,409 --> 01:27:57,311
very scary to walk back into a choir room

1673
01:27:57,311 --> 01:27:58,312
and I had no idea what to expect.

1674
01:27:58,312 --> 01:28:00,312
this

1675
01:28:00,314 --> 01:28:01,415
was not imperative for my

1676
01:28:01,415 --> 01:28:03,317
growth as a singer, but interesting to

1677
01:28:03,317 --> 01:28:04,351
the

1678
01:28:04,351 --> 01:28:06,320
community of lohs and meeting amazing

1679
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:08,320
people. I find

1680
01:28:08,322 --> 01:28:09,323
myself grateful for this 12 person

1681
01:28:09,323 --> 01:28:12,292
group and it was inspiring to watch

1682
01:28:12,292 --> 01:28:15,295
our improvement and growth. I have completely

1683
01:28:15,295 --> 01:28:17,297
bonded with success and truly believe

1684
01:28:17,297 --> 01:28:18,298
that every woman she spent with the

1685
01:28:18,298 --> 01:28:20,300
class of any size

1686
01:28:20,300 --> 01:28:21,301
is important not just our a cappella

1687
01:28:21,301 --> 01:28:23,301
choir. Without

1688
01:28:24,304 --> 01:28:25,305
smaller classes

1689
01:28:25,305 --> 01:28:27,307
, connection, learning and growth

1690
01:28:27,307 --> 01:28:30,310
is lost. The things we learn

1691
01:28:30,310 --> 01:28:31,311
translates directly to things that

1692
01:28:31,311 --> 01:28:33,311
succeed in

1693
01:28:33,313 --> 01:28:36,313
the larger mixed voice choirs.

1694
01:28:38,318 --> 01:28:39,319
increasing success over the last three years.

1695
01:28:39,319 --> 01:28:41,319
I understand

1696
01:28:44,324 --> 01:28:45,292
results-based analysis and sing success

1697
01:28:45,292 --> 01:28:47,292
over the past

1698
01:28:48,295 --> 01:28:49,296
few years, I

1699
01:28:49,296 --> 01:28:50,297
needed to understand that this was

1700
01:28:50,297 --> 01:28:51,298
not random or lucky, but a long-term

1701
01:28:51,298 --> 01:28:53,298
vision and

1702
01:28:53,300 --> 01:28:54,334
goal behind community building, understanding

1703
01:28:54,334 --> 01:28:55,302
and connection between every single

1704
01:28:55,302 --> 01:28:57,302
student of

1705
01:28:57,304 --> 01:28:59,306
our program that led to the

1706
01:28:59,306 --> 01:29:02,906
second-place finish out of 2024 osa competition.

1707
01:29:03,310 --> 01:29:05,710
impressive growth within myself

1708
01:29:06,313 --> 01:29:09,313
and choir and a koran

1709
01:29:09,316 --> 01:29:11,318
social level. There is something

1710
01:29:11,318 --> 01:29:14,318
beautiful happening every single day

1711
01:29:15,322 --> 01:29:17,322
and hour

1712
01:29:18,292 --> 01:29:19,293
and we would be wrecking

1713
01:29:19,293 --> 01:29:20,294
the safe space for so many valuable

1714
01:29:20,294 --> 01:29:21,295
citizens, students and pioneers of

1715
01:29:21,295 --> 01:29:23,295
our community.

1716
01:29:24,298 --> 01:29:26,298
thank you.

1717
01:29:35,309 --> 01:29:40,709
>> my name is dylan and I'm a junior at

1718
01:29:41,315 --> 01:29:42,316
lake oswego high school and I have

1719
01:29:42,316 --> 01:29:43,350
been in choir since my

1720
01:29:43,350 --> 01:29:45,319
freshman year at lohs. I did it all

1721
01:29:45,319 --> 01:29:47,321
throughout middle school and

1722
01:29:47,321 --> 01:29:48,322
understand how much it would grow

1723
01:29:48,322 --> 01:29:51,325
until I got to the choir.

1724
01:29:51,325 --> 01:29:54,294
I joined our choir freshman year

1725
01:29:54,294 --> 01:29:55,295
and lasted me

1726
01:29:55,295 --> 01:29:57,297
throughout choir and I wouldn't think

1727
01:29:57,297 --> 01:29:59,297
our lives have

1728
01:30:03,303 --> 01:30:04,304
been met or intertwined if

1729
01:30:04,304 --> 01:30:06,306
it wasn't for the class. Travel choir

1730
01:30:06,306 --> 01:30:07,307
was eye-opening to me when I was able to

1731
01:30:07,307 --> 01:30:08,375
sit at

1732
01:30:08,375 --> 01:30:11,311
our first concert and watch perform

1733
01:30:11,311 --> 01:30:12,312
. I remember they had a piece. I don't

1734
01:30:12,312 --> 01:30:14,314
remember what it was called,

1735
01:30:14,314 --> 01:30:15,349
but they are all in bright colors

1736
01:30:15,349 --> 01:30:16,316
and seeing these older groups such

1737
01:30:16,316 --> 01:30:17,317
as

1738
01:30:17,317 --> 01:30:18,318
a cappella was so inspiring and made

1739
01:30:18,318 --> 01:30:20,320
me know that I wanted

1740
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:21,321
to stay and work my way up to the

1741
01:30:21,321 --> 01:30:23,321
most advanced choir

1742
01:30:24,324 --> 01:30:25,292
. This year is my junior year and

1743
01:30:25,292 --> 01:30:26,326
I'm part of

1744
01:30:26,326 --> 01:30:27,294
an a cappella, which I'm infinitely

1745
01:30:27,294 --> 01:30:29,294
grateful for.

1746
01:30:31,298 --> 01:30:33,300
my sophomore year, emitted into choir,

1747
01:30:33,300 --> 01:30:34,301
which was one of the best things that

1748
01:30:34,301 --> 01:30:36,301
could've happened. I

1749
01:30:36,303 --> 01:30:39,306
spent a lot of time working on

1750
01:30:39,306 --> 01:30:40,340
learning music

1751
01:30:40,340 --> 01:30:41,375
theory, rhythms and sight reading

1752
01:30:41,375 --> 01:30:42,309
that helped me prepare and audition

1753
01:30:42,309 --> 01:30:45,309
and make my way into

1754
01:30:45,312 --> 01:30:46,313
a cappella . Each year, my experience

1755
01:30:46,313 --> 01:30:47,314
has been

1756
01:30:47,314 --> 01:30:48,315
unique and helped me grow in its own

1757
01:30:48,315 --> 01:30:51,318
individual way. Freshman year, I was

1758
01:30:51,318 --> 01:30:53,318
soft-spoken and

1759
01:30:54,321 --> 01:30:56,323
was not able to try out

1760
01:30:56,323 --> 01:30:57,324
for a solo without breaking down from

1761
01:30:57,324 --> 01:30:58,292
anxiety and I wasn't able to talk

1762
01:30:58,292 --> 01:30:59,293
in class.

1763
01:30:59,293 --> 01:31:00,294
I would never have been here and I

1764
01:31:00,294 --> 01:31:02,694
owe that to choir.

1765
01:31:03,297 --> 01:31:04,298
by the end of my sophomore year, I

1766
01:31:04,298 --> 01:31:05,432
tried out for solos

1767
01:31:05,432 --> 01:31:06,300
and I was in a small group that performed

1768
01:31:06,300 --> 01:31:08,302
at our end of your concert as

1769
01:31:08,302 --> 01:31:09,303
part of our one of our mash ups, which

1770
01:31:09,303 --> 01:31:11,703
was a fun song

1771
01:31:12,306 --> 01:31:14,306
to sing.

1772
01:31:14,308 --> 01:31:15,309
I learned skills from that small and

1773
01:31:15,309 --> 01:31:16,310
supportive choir and I don't remember

1774
01:31:16,310 --> 01:31:17,377
how small,

1775
01:31:17,377 --> 01:31:19,313
but smaller than a cappella this year

1776
01:31:19,313 --> 01:31:21,713
and both experiences have

1777
01:31:22,316 --> 01:31:25,916
helped me grow an insane amount.

1778
01:31:27,321 --> 01:31:28,322
I believe that choir is not only there

1779
01:31:28,322 --> 01:31:29,389
to teach someone there music

1780
01:31:29,389 --> 01:31:31,325
theory, rhythm or sight reading. It

1781
01:31:31,325 --> 01:31:33,325
is able to

1782
01:31:35,295 --> 01:31:36,296
help social skills immensely and I

1783
01:31:36,296 --> 01:31:37,297
can't help but feel that this is my

1784
01:31:37,297 --> 01:31:38,298
favorite place

1785
01:31:38,298 --> 01:31:39,299
at school and one of the places that

1786
01:31:39,299 --> 01:31:41,301
feels most like home even though it's

1787
01:31:41,301 --> 01:31:43,303
at school, which I don't look forward

1788
01:31:43,303 --> 01:31:45,303
to most days.

1789
01:31:48,308 --> 01:31:49,309
I know d.a. For travel choir and watch

1790
01:31:49,309 --> 01:31:50,310
the young and small choir

1791
01:31:50,310 --> 01:31:51,311
improve on music makes me realize

1792
01:31:51,311 --> 01:31:52,312
how important that your was. That

1793
01:31:52,312 --> 01:31:54,312
is the importance

1794
01:31:54,314 --> 01:31:55,315
of different levels of choir depending

1795
01:31:55,315 --> 01:31:56,350
on readiness and skill

1796
01:31:56,350 --> 01:31:58,318
set. There is a place for everyone

1797
01:31:58,318 --> 01:32:00,318
in choir

1798
01:32:04,324 --> 01:32:05,292
. I

1799
01:32:05,292 --> 01:32:06,326
am forever grateful for the memories

1800
01:32:06,326 --> 01:32:07,294
I made throughout the years, including

1801
01:32:07,294 --> 01:32:08,295
my trips, retreats and every

1802
01:32:08,295 --> 01:32:09,329
concert that has been special and

1803
01:32:09,329 --> 01:32:10,297
inspirational. Each year has been

1804
01:32:10,297 --> 01:32:11,298
an experience I will never

1805
01:32:11,298 --> 01:32:13,300
forget. I hope in a few minutes that

1806
01:32:13,300 --> 01:32:14,301
you are able to see how much

1807
01:32:14,301 --> 01:32:16,303
the choir can impact one student and

1808
01:32:16,303 --> 01:32:19,306
how much it has the potential to

1809
01:32:19,306 --> 01:32:20,307
impact others.

1810
01:32:20,307 --> 01:32:22,307
>> [ applause ]

1811
01:32:28,315 --> 01:32:30,315
>> hello.

1812
01:32:30,317 --> 01:32:33,320
it's a little more nerve-racking right here.

1813
01:32:33,320 --> 01:32:37,324
my name is claire and I'm a senior at

1814
01:32:37,324 --> 01:32:38,458
lohs. I have done choir

1815
01:32:38,458 --> 01:32:40,294
all four years and before middle school,

1816
01:32:40,294 --> 01:32:42,294
too.

1817
01:32:43,297 --> 01:32:44,298
I have

1818
01:32:44,298 --> 01:32:45,332
been part of four requires pretty

1819
01:32:45,332 --> 01:32:47,301
trouble, bel canto, a cappella and

1820
01:32:47,301 --> 01:32:49,303
I guess this year I'm doing dollies,

1821
01:32:49,303 --> 01:32:52,306
which is a four person quartet

1822
01:32:52,306 --> 01:32:54,306
of girls

1823
01:32:55,309 --> 01:32:57,309
and windjammers.

1824
01:32:58,312 --> 01:33:00,712
like my other classmates,

1825
01:33:01,315 --> 01:33:02,416
I want to let you

1826
01:33:02,416 --> 01:33:04,318
know how crucial it is for the success

1827
01:33:04,318 --> 01:33:07,321
in the whole program. Choir is a

1828
01:33:07,321 --> 01:33:09,321
collaborative thing

1829
01:33:12,292 --> 01:33:13,293
and it's a lot about trust and trusting

1830
01:33:13,293 --> 01:33:14,361
yourself and

1831
01:33:14,361 --> 01:33:15,529
others and feeling comfortable making

1832
01:33:15,529 --> 01:33:19,129
mistakes and learning from those mistakes.

1833
01:33:19,299 --> 01:33:21,299
the smaller tightknit

1834
01:33:22,302 --> 01:33:23,337
groups, it's easier

1835
01:33:23,337 --> 01:33:25,305
to get to know people. She gets to

1836
01:33:25,305 --> 01:33:27,307
know you and without

1837
01:33:27,307 --> 01:33:31,311
the bonds created in those early classes,

1838
01:33:31,311 --> 01:33:33,311
it's

1839
01:33:33,313 --> 01:33:34,314
so crucial to the success of a cappella.

1840
01:33:34,314 --> 01:33:36,714
it's not even funny.

1841
01:33:37,317 --> 01:33:38,318
next weekend, I

1842
01:33:38,318 --> 01:33:40,320
think you forgot to set the timer

1843
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:42,720
by the way. I'll

1844
01:33:43,323 --> 01:33:46,293
keep it short. Next weekend

1845
01:33:46,293 --> 01:33:48,293
, the windjammers

1846
01:33:49,296 --> 01:33:52,299
will be splitting up and going

1847
01:33:52,299 --> 01:33:54,699
to all mea district

1848
01:33:55,302 --> 01:33:57,302
competition and

1849
01:33:57,304 --> 01:34:01,308
I will let you know that I'm not worried about

1850
01:34:01,308 --> 01:34:02,442
our success at all.

1851
01:34:02,442 --> 01:34:04,311
I think we will do really well, because

1852
01:34:04,311 --> 01:34:06,313
I know my classmates

1853
01:34:06,313 --> 01:34:07,314
so well and we have worked together

1854
01:34:07,314 --> 01:34:08,315
since freshman year

1855
01:34:08,315 --> 01:34:09,316
and I trust them to do well. They

1856
01:34:09,316 --> 01:34:10,317
make me feel comfortable to bring

1857
01:34:10,317 --> 01:34:12,317
my best

1858
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:14,354
every day. I

1859
01:34:14,354 --> 01:34:16,323
have been with them since freshman

1860
01:34:16,323 --> 01:34:19,293
year, so it's an easy place

1861
01:34:19,293 --> 01:34:21,293
to succeed

1862
01:34:21,295 --> 01:34:22,296
and at the competition, she will be

1863
01:34:22,296 --> 01:34:24,298
connecting us and it's all on

1864
01:34:24,298 --> 01:34:25,299
our own. It is this foundation that

1865
01:34:25,299 --> 01:34:26,333
we have been

1866
01:34:26,333 --> 01:34:28,302
building since freshman year and it's

1867
01:34:28,302 --> 01:34:30,302
so important, because

1868
01:34:34,308 --> 01:34:35,309
we wouldn't be building

1869
01:34:35,309 --> 01:34:36,443
these communities or relationships

1870
01:34:36,443 --> 01:34:37,311
with each other and wouldn't be trusting

1871
01:34:37,311 --> 01:34:40,311
ourselves to come in together

1872
01:34:40,314 --> 01:34:43,314
or to sing well together.

1873
01:34:44,318 --> 01:34:46,320
every piece of the choir program is

1874
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,323
important and I learned so much from

1875
01:34:49,323 --> 01:34:51,323
my time

1876
01:34:51,325 --> 01:34:52,292
in the trouble choir and bel canto.

1877
01:34:52,292 --> 01:34:53,327
I've made some

1878
01:34:53,327 --> 01:34:55,295
friends and creating the success in

1879
01:34:55,295 --> 01:34:56,296
a cappella and I don't think we

1880
01:34:56,296 --> 01:34:58,298
would be as successful as a choir

1881
01:34:58,298 --> 01:35:00,698
without these younger choirs.

1882
01:35:01,301 --> 01:35:02,302
thank you so much for listening to

1883
01:35:02,302 --> 01:35:04,302
us

1884
01:35:04,304 --> 01:35:07,304
today. We really appreciate it.

1885
01:35:07,307 --> 01:35:09,307
>> [ applause ]

1886
01:35:12,312 --> 01:35:13,313
>> now, for something completely different,

1887
01:35:13,313 --> 01:35:15,313
we have kelsey.

1888
01:35:21,321 --> 01:35:22,322
>> there are two of us and you can

1889
01:35:22,322 --> 01:35:25,292
boot me if you want

1890
01:35:25,292 --> 01:35:27,692
to, but --okay. Good.

1891
01:35:28,295 --> 01:35:29,296
go.

1892
01:35:29,296 --> 01:35:30,297
>>

1893
01:35:30,297 --> 01:35:31,298
my name is kelsey and I'm a parent

1894
01:35:31,298 --> 01:35:33,298
of three boys

1895
01:35:34,301 --> 01:35:35,302
entering the lake oswego school district

1896
01:35:35,302 --> 01:35:37,302
and

1897
01:35:37,304 --> 01:35:40,307
I'm very excited to be here .

1898
01:35:40,307 --> 01:35:41,308
I'm here to talk about the bond measure

1899
01:35:41,308 --> 01:35:42,376
and

1900
01:35:42,376 --> 01:35:43,310
the goal for me is to get it passed.

1901
01:35:43,310 --> 01:35:46,313
the first issue I see is

1902
01:35:46,313 --> 01:35:48,315
that your website indicates

1903
01:35:48,315 --> 01:35:52,319
very low approval for the past funds

1904
01:35:52,319 --> 01:35:55,319
in the first phase has 59%

1905
01:35:55,322 --> 01:35:57,722
and phase two indicated 54%

1906
01:35:58,325 --> 01:36:00,325
and phase three ,

1907
01:36:01,295 --> 01:36:02,296
I think you'll have a razor thin margin

1908
01:36:02,296 --> 01:36:04,296
on

1909
01:36:04,298 --> 01:36:06,298
this one.

1910
01:36:06,300 --> 01:36:07,301
one, because of the post-pandemic

1911
01:36:07,301 --> 01:36:09,303
world that changes in the

1912
01:36:09,303 --> 01:36:10,370
federal of what's going on at the

1913
01:36:10,370 --> 01:36:11,305
federal level. Of course, inflation

1914
01:36:11,305 --> 01:36:13,305
and

1915
01:36:13,307 --> 01:36:15,307
tax coming.

1916
01:36:15,309 --> 01:36:18,312
we also have a boater issue and challenge.

1917
01:36:18,312 --> 01:36:19,313
the south side of the lake has had

1918
01:36:19,313 --> 01:36:21,315
their schools improve and we

1919
01:36:21,315 --> 01:36:22,316
have that are likely maybe not voting

1920
01:36:22,316 --> 01:36:24,316
for it

1921
01:36:28,322 --> 01:36:30,322
, so

1922
01:36:30,324 --> 01:36:31,325
we really have to get the community

1923
01:36:31,325 --> 01:36:32,292
to rally together, which brings me

1924
01:36:32,292 --> 01:36:33,293
to the second

1925
01:36:33,293 --> 01:36:34,294
issue, which is the fact that there

1926
01:36:34,294 --> 01:36:35,295
is a choice between updating school

1927
01:36:35,295 --> 01:36:36,296
versus lake grove

1928
01:36:36,296 --> 01:36:40,300
with the cost of lake grove being

1929
01:36:40,300 --> 01:36:43,300
40 million more in bond funding,

1930
01:36:43,303 --> 01:36:45,303
which is not

1931
01:36:45,305 --> 01:36:48,305
financially responsible from my perspective

1932
01:36:49,309 --> 01:36:50,310
and I know a lot of voters are voting

1933
01:36:50,310 --> 01:36:51,311
no based

1934
01:36:51,311 --> 01:36:52,312
on that . Your job is elected board

1935
01:36:52,312 --> 01:36:54,312
officials is

1936
01:36:55,315 --> 01:36:57,317
to be funding of the money

1937
01:36:57,317 --> 01:37:01,321
to ensure that these schools get filled.

1938
01:37:01,321 --> 01:37:04,321
these schools are in different

1939
01:37:05,292 --> 01:37:07,294
desperate need of upgrades. This is

1940
01:37:07,294 --> 01:37:08,295
not a turf war and I'm not here to

1941
01:37:08,295 --> 01:37:09,296
argue

1942
01:37:09,296 --> 01:37:10,297
neighborhoods, but just numbers on paper

1943
01:37:10,297 --> 01:37:13,297
and this board is making

1944
01:37:13,300 --> 01:37:15,300
a bad decision

1945
01:37:16,303 --> 01:37:17,304
to update

1946
01:37:17,304 --> 01:37:19,306
and unsympathetic to the parents.

1947
01:37:19,306 --> 01:37:21,306
I am.

1948
01:37:23,310 --> 01:37:26,310
I think it's when the

1949
01:37:26,313 --> 01:37:27,381
school was shut down.

1950
01:37:27,381 --> 01:37:29,316
I'm here today to talk about the tax

1951
01:37:29,316 --> 01:37:31,316
of that assessment.

1952
01:37:32,319 --> 01:37:34,319
>> a chair

1953
01:37:34,321 --> 01:37:37,321
of the neighborhood association and

1954
01:37:38,325 --> 01:37:41,295
did a presentation and we had

1955
01:37:41,295 --> 01:37:43,295
several people

1956
01:37:43,297 --> 01:37:44,298
bring up things from the community

1957
01:37:44,298 --> 01:37:45,365
that were not

1958
01:37:45,365 --> 01:37:47,301
board members. One of those that you

1959
01:37:47,301 --> 01:37:50,301
mean to say that we

1960
01:37:50,304 --> 01:37:53,304
could have --it could be

1961
01:37:53,307 --> 01:37:55,307
$40 million less

1962
01:37:55,309 --> 01:37:56,310
if we didn't do lake grove and we

1963
01:37:56,310 --> 01:37:58,310
just did

1964
01:37:59,313 --> 01:38:01,313
the repair, so

1965
01:38:03,317 --> 01:38:05,319
I asked tony for some information

1966
01:38:05,319 --> 01:38:07,319
and exact numbers

1967
01:38:08,322 --> 01:38:10,322
and he was

1968
01:38:11,325 --> 01:38:14,294
not able to get back to me.

1969
01:38:14,294 --> 01:38:15,362
I

1970
01:38:15,362 --> 01:38:17,297
am very community oriented and I am

1971
01:38:17,297 --> 01:38:20,297
chair of the watershed council

1972
01:38:20,300 --> 01:38:23,303
and on the park board and

1973
01:38:23,303 --> 01:38:25,305
I want the bond measure to pass,

1974
01:38:25,305 --> 01:38:28,308
but will we get comments from people,

1975
01:38:28,308 --> 01:38:29,309
$40 million more and if you translate

1976
01:38:29,309 --> 01:38:31,309
that

1977
01:38:32,312 --> 01:38:34,312
into tax return

1978
01:38:35,315 --> 01:38:36,316
property tax,

1979
01:38:36,316 --> 01:38:38,318
then it will be like $250 for the

1980
01:38:38,318 --> 01:38:40,318
500 thousand dollar home

1981
01:38:41,321 --> 01:38:43,321
evaluation, so

1982
01:38:44,324 --> 01:38:46,324
if it's $1 million,

1983
01:38:47,294 --> 01:38:49,296
it will be the $500

1984
01:38:49,296 --> 01:38:52,896
multiply that times 10 years as someone

1985
01:38:53,300 --> 01:38:56,303
--forest hills will want to pay

1986
01:38:56,303 --> 01:38:58,303
$5000 to fix

1987
01:38:59,306 --> 01:39:01,306
lake grove.

1988
01:39:01,308 --> 01:39:05,312
that is a question to be asked and thank.

1989
01:39:05,312 --> 01:39:07,312
>>

1990
01:39:10,317 --> 01:39:11,318
if you stick around, we will have

1991
01:39:11,318 --> 01:39:13,318
a resolution

1992
01:39:14,321 --> 01:39:15,322
on it.

1993
01:39:15,322 --> 01:39:17,322
>> okay. Sounds good. >>

1994
01:39:18,325 --> 01:39:20,294
that is all of our comments from our

1995
01:39:20,294 --> 01:39:23,297
patrons, so we will move to the

1996
01:39:23,297 --> 01:39:24,298
consent agenda .

1997
01:39:24,298 --> 01:39:25,299
>> I would like to

1998
01:39:25,299 --> 01:39:26,300
make a motion to approve the consent

1999
01:39:26,300 --> 01:39:28,300
agenda

2000
01:39:29,303 --> 01:39:30,304
as presented.

2001
01:39:30,304 --> 01:39:32,304
>>

2002
01:39:32,306 --> 01:39:33,307
is there a second?

2003
01:39:33,307 --> 01:39:35,307
>> thank you, bills.

2004
01:39:35,309 --> 01:39:37,309
all in favor?

2005
01:39:38,312 --> 01:39:40,712
the agenda is approved.

2006
01:39:41,315 --> 01:39:43,317
now, we move on to

2007
01:39:43,317 --> 01:39:45,717
item 5.0 ,, from student representatives

2008
01:39:47,321 --> 01:39:49,321
.

2009
01:39:50,324 --> 01:39:52,292
march is

2010
01:39:52,292 --> 01:39:57,920
women's history month and a time to celebrate

2011
01:39:57,297 --> 01:39:58,332
multiple contributions and enduring

2012
01:39:58,332 --> 01:40:00,300
legacy in our schools and beyond.

2013
01:40:00,300 --> 01:40:02,302
tonight's resolution reflects our

2014
01:40:02,302 --> 01:40:05,302
commitment to acknowledging the valuable

2015
01:40:05,305 --> 01:40:07,705
impact of achievements and

2016
01:40:08,308 --> 01:40:10,308
supporting uplift

2017
01:40:11,311 --> 01:40:14,311
. Did you have something you

2018
01:40:14,314 --> 01:40:17,314
wanted to say, as well?

2019
01:40:17,317 --> 01:40:19,317
>>

2020
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:23,323
I invited two students from lake ridge

2021
01:40:23,323 --> 01:40:25,323
high school. Lexi

2022
01:40:26,293 --> 01:40:29,293
is a philanthropy director and

2023
01:40:35,302 --> 01:40:36,336
is a leader of

2024
01:40:36,336 --> 01:40:38,305
our period club, so I invited them

2025
01:40:38,305 --> 01:40:39,306
to read the resolution with us and

2026
01:40:39,306 --> 01:40:40,307
share about some

2027
01:40:40,307 --> 01:40:41,308
of their activities.

2028
01:40:41,308 --> 01:40:42,309
>> thank you

2029
01:40:42,309 --> 01:40:44,309
for having us.

2030
01:40:44,311 --> 01:40:47,311
>> would you like us to

2031
01:40:47,314 --> 01:40:49,714
--. Of course. My

2032
01:40:50,317 --> 01:40:53,320
name is kim and I'm a senior at lakeridge

2033
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:55,720
high school. My club

2034
01:40:56,323 --> 01:40:58,323
--

2035
01:40:59,293 --> 01:41:02,296
basically our mission is to combat against

2036
01:41:02,296 --> 01:41:04,296
menstrual property

2037
01:41:05,299 --> 01:41:07,299
and promote

2038
01:41:08,302 --> 01:41:10,302
menstrual equity.

2039
01:41:11,305 --> 01:41:13,305
also, destigmatize

2040
01:41:14,308 --> 01:41:17,308
periods in our local and

2041
01:41:17,311 --> 01:41:19,311
global community.

2042
01:41:20,314 --> 01:41:21,315
basically, the way that we do that

2043
01:41:21,315 --> 01:41:23,315
is

2044
01:41:23,317 --> 01:41:26,317
we do . Are product drives

2045
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:28,720
, as well as period

2046
01:41:29,323 --> 01:41:31,323
kit making parties.

2047
01:41:51,311 --> 01:41:53,313
in portland. We are also a chapter

2048
01:41:53,313 --> 01:41:55,313
of

2049
01:41:55,315 --> 01:41:56,316
the period organization which is in port

2050
01:41:56,316 --> 01:41:58,316
land. And

2051
01:41:58,318 --> 01:41:59,319
actually tomorrow we are having a

2052
01:41:59,319 --> 01:42:00,320
guest

2053
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:03,323
speaker event during lunch. So we

2054
01:42:03,323 --> 01:42:05,325
are going to have two representatives

2055
01:42:05,325 --> 01:42:07,325
come and

2056
01:42:08,295 --> 01:42:10,295
speak about

2057
01:42:11,298 --> 01:42:13,298
how to get

2058
01:42:13,300 --> 01:42:14,301
more involved in menstrual advocacy

2059
01:42:14,301 --> 01:42:15,302
in oregon.

2060
01:42:15,302 --> 01:42:17,302
>>

2061
01:42:17,304 --> 01:42:20,307
and sorry. My name is lexi. I

2062
01:42:20,307 --> 01:42:23,310
am a junior. Me and my best friend

2063
01:42:23,310 --> 01:42:26,313
are directors at lake ridge. We

2064
01:42:26,313 --> 01:42:29,316
are in charge of everything at

2065
01:42:29,316 --> 01:42:32,316
lake ridge including gold week

2066
01:42:32,319 --> 01:42:33,353
and pink week

2067
01:42:33,353 --> 01:42:34,321
that highlights breast cancer awareness

2068
01:42:34,321 --> 01:42:35,322
and pediatric awareness. We planned

2069
01:42:35,322 --> 01:42:37,322
the

2070
01:42:38,325 --> 01:42:40,294
week for that. Our main job is

2071
01:42:40,294 --> 01:42:41,295
blood drives. We host them with red

2072
01:42:41,295 --> 01:42:43,295
cross. We

2073
01:42:43,297 --> 01:42:46,300
have one march 5th if you want to

2074
01:42:46,300 --> 01:42:47,301
donate blood. It is at the lds church. That

2075
01:42:47,301 --> 01:42:49,301
is our

2076
01:42:50,304 --> 01:42:52,304
big

2077
01:42:53,307 --> 01:42:56,310
thing. I am part of abc,

2078
01:42:56,310 --> 01:42:58,312
asb, obviously and alongside that

2079
01:42:58,312 --> 01:42:59,313
I am active in sports and very active

2080
01:42:59,313 --> 01:43:01,313
with trying to

2081
01:43:01,315 --> 01:43:02,316
get people to come to sports, I feel

2082
01:43:02,316 --> 01:43:04,316
that is

2083
01:43:05,319 --> 01:43:07,321
a very big thing in

2084
01:43:07,321 --> 01:43:08,322
our community. Not enough support

2085
01:43:08,322 --> 01:43:10,322
for

2086
01:43:14,294 --> 01:43:15,295
women's sports. I am

2087
01:43:15,295 --> 01:43:16,330
passionate about people to support

2088
01:43:16,330 --> 01:43:18,730
women athletes, cross-country and

2089
01:43:19,299 --> 01:43:20,300
swim that are my favorite sports.

2090
01:43:20,300 --> 01:43:21,301
>>

2091
01:43:21,301 --> 01:43:22,336
we

2092
01:43:22,336 --> 01:43:23,303
do have a resolution. I think we will

2093
01:43:23,303 --> 01:43:25,703
just go around and

2094
01:43:26,306 --> 01:43:28,306
read it and

2095
01:43:29,309 --> 01:43:32,312
maybe you can each read different

2096
01:43:32,312 --> 01:43:33,313
paragraphs and go around.

2097
01:43:33,313 --> 01:43:35,313
>> okay. Want

2098
01:43:35,315 --> 01:43:36,316
to start?

2099
01:43:36,316 --> 01:43:37,317
>> yep. >> where as the

2100
01:43:37,317 --> 01:43:38,452
advocacy

2101
01:43:38,452 --> 01:43:41,321
efforts of the national women's history project

2102
01:43:41,321 --> 01:43:43,323
led to an annual observants

2103
01:43:43,323 --> 01:43:44,324
of women's history month. Which highlights

2104
01:43:44,324 --> 01:43:46,324
the contributions

2105
01:43:47,294 --> 01:43:48,328
of women to events in history and

2106
01:43:48,328 --> 01:43:50,297
contemporary society and celebrated

2107
01:43:50,297 --> 01:43:53,297
during march in the united

2108
01:43:53,300 --> 01:43:54,301
states.

2109
01:43:54,301 --> 01:43:55,502
>> where as women of

2110
01:43:55,502 --> 01:43:56,303
every background have historic contributions

2111
01:43:56,303 --> 01:43:58,305
to growth and strength

2112
01:43:58,305 --> 01:43:59,306
of our society in recorded and unrecorded

2113
01:43:59,306 --> 01:44:00,307
ways

2114
01:44:00,307 --> 01:44:02,307
>>

2115
01:44:02,309 --> 01:44:05,309
where as despite the contributions

2116
01:44:05,312 --> 01:44:07,314
the role of women in

2117
01:44:07,314 --> 01:44:08,315
history has been overlooked in teaching,

2118
01:44:08,315 --> 01:44:10,317
labor, business and other

2119
01:44:10,317 --> 01:44:11,318
sectors

2120
01:44:11,318 --> 01:44:12,319
>> where as the 2025 theme

2121
01:44:12,319 --> 01:44:14,319
for the national

2122
01:44:14,321 --> 01:44:16,323
women's history month is

2123
01:44:16,323 --> 01:44:17,424
moving forward together, women educating

2124
01:44:17,424 --> 01:44:20,294
and inspiring generations which highlights

2125
01:44:20,294 --> 01:44:23,294
the essential role of women

2126
01:44:23,297 --> 01:44:25,299
in education and mentorship

2127
01:44:25,299 --> 01:44:26,300
and how they inspire future generations

2128
01:44:26,300 --> 01:44:27,301
to inspire future change.

2129
01:44:27,301 --> 01:44:29,301
>>

2130
01:44:29,303 --> 01:44:30,304
where as women have been leaders in

2131
01:44:30,304 --> 01:44:31,338
not

2132
01:44:31,338 --> 01:44:34,938
only securing their own rights of

2133
01:44:35,309 --> 01:44:37,309
suffrage and exactly

2134
01:44:38,312 --> 01:44:40,314
opportunity but also in the

2135
01:44:40,314 --> 01:44:41,315
movement, emancipation movement, disabilities

2136
01:44:41,315 --> 01:44:43,317
movement and the modern

2137
01:44:43,317 --> 01:44:44,318
civil rights movement.

2138
01:44:44,318 --> 01:44:45,319
>> where as

2139
01:44:45,319 --> 01:44:47,319
for

2140
01:44:47,321 --> 01:44:48,322
generations women resolved conflicts

2141
01:44:48,322 --> 01:44:50,322
in their

2142
01:44:50,324 --> 01:44:52,324
homes,

2143
01:44:53,293 --> 01:44:55,295
schools, communities and they rejected violence

2144
01:44:55,295 --> 01:44:56,296
as counterproductive and want to establish

2145
01:44:56,296 --> 01:44:58,296
respect, justice and

2146
01:44:58,298 --> 01:44:59,299
reduce conflict as the surest way

2147
01:44:59,299 --> 01:45:00,300
to peace

2148
01:45:00,300 --> 01:45:02,300
>> where

2149
01:45:02,302 --> 01:45:04,302
as this year

2150
01:45:04,304 --> 01:45:05,305
we have seen magnified strength and brilliance

2151
01:45:05,305 --> 01:45:07,305
that

2152
01:45:07,307 --> 01:45:08,308
women have made and the way discrimination

2153
01:45:08,308 --> 01:45:10,308
is part

2154
01:45:11,311 --> 01:45:14,311
of all women's lives. So

2155
01:45:14,314 --> 01:45:16,314
many women, nurses,

2156
01:45:16,316 --> 01:45:17,317
aids, cleaners, grocery workers, doctors,

2157
01:45:17,317 --> 01:45:19,317
agriculture workers, teachers,

2158
01:45:19,319 --> 01:45:22,919
classified staff and more where on

2159
01:45:23,323 --> 01:45:25,325
the frontlines getting us through

2160
01:45:25,325 --> 01:45:26,293
multiple crisis.

2161
01:45:26,293 --> 01:45:27,294
>> where as additional

2162
01:45:27,294 --> 01:45:28,562
education is needed to

2163
01:45:28,562 --> 01:45:29,296
increase the knowledge of all citizens relative

2164
01:45:29,296 --> 01:45:31,296
to contributions

2165
01:45:32,299 --> 01:45:35,299
of women and girls to

2166
01:45:37,304 --> 01:45:41,504
development of education and the larger society.

2167
01:45:43,310 --> 01:45:44,378
>> now, therefore, be it resolve. Lake

2168
01:45:44,378 --> 01:45:46,313
oswego school district will celebrate

2169
01:45:46,313 --> 01:45:47,314
month of march as women's history

2170
01:45:47,314 --> 01:45:49,314
month

2171
01:45:50,317 --> 01:45:52,717
and encourage our public

2172
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:54,321
schools to infuse instructional learning activities

2173
01:45:54,321 --> 01:45:56,323
to incorporate the contributions

2174
01:45:56,323 --> 01:45:57,324
of women throughout the school year.

2175
01:45:57,324 --> 01:45:58,525
>>

2176
01:45:58,525 --> 01:46:02,725
all right. Thank you very much. [ applause ]

2177
01:46:11,305 --> 01:46:12,306
.

2178
01:46:12,306 --> 01:46:14,306
>> I will

2179
01:46:14,308 --> 01:46:17,908
move to adopt women's history month

2180
01:46:18,312 --> 01:46:19,313
resolution.

2181
01:46:19,313 --> 01:46:21,313
>> I will second. >>

2182
01:46:21,315 --> 01:46:23,317
thank you. All right, all in

2183
01:46:23,317 --> 01:46:26,917
favor. And women's history month resolution

2184
01:46:30,324 --> 01:46:31,325
is adopted. Thank you very

2185
01:46:31,325 --> 01:46:32,326
much. Other comments?

2186
01:46:32,326 --> 01:46:33,293
>> I wanted

2187
01:46:33,293 --> 01:46:35,295
to start off by saying I

2188
01:46:35,295 --> 01:46:38,298
was not able to find any representatives

2189
01:46:38,298 --> 01:46:41,301
for the resolution. But I want to

2190
01:46:41,301 --> 01:46:43,303
say the culture of feminism and women's rights

2191
01:46:43,303 --> 01:46:45,305
is very, very present at lake oswego

2192
01:46:45,305 --> 01:46:48,308
high school. I never had a

2193
01:46:48,308 --> 01:46:50,708
history class where we

2194
01:46:51,311 --> 01:46:52,546
did not talk

2195
01:46:52,546 --> 01:46:56,316
about susan b. Anthony, tubman, wells, parks, all

2196
01:46:56,316 --> 01:46:57,317
of the key figures in the movement

2197
01:46:57,317 --> 01:46:58,519
that

2198
01:46:58,519 --> 01:47:00,320
developed suffrage to what it is today. There

2199
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:02,320
is

2200
01:47:02,322 --> 01:47:03,323
a general culture of respect and acknowledge

2201
01:47:03,323 --> 01:47:05,323
for women's

2202
01:47:06,293 --> 01:47:07,327
rights throughout history

2203
01:47:07,327 --> 01:47:09,296
throughout the school. In terms of

2204
01:47:09,296 --> 01:47:11,296
students forecasting has

2205
01:47:12,299 --> 01:47:13,333
been the big thing going on. Forecasting

2206
01:47:13,333 --> 01:47:15,302
classes next year. Kids are scrambling

2207
01:47:15,302 --> 01:47:17,702
to see what classes

2208
01:47:18,305 --> 01:47:19,506
they can get who

2209
01:47:19,506 --> 01:47:21,308
signs up first, winner-takes-all. Second

2210
01:47:21,308 --> 01:47:24,308
semester is going strong and

2211
01:47:24,311 --> 01:47:27,311
the most significant thing going

2212
01:47:27,314 --> 01:47:30,314
on currently is tomorrow we

2213
01:47:30,317 --> 01:47:31,351
are hosting an assembly

2214
01:47:31,351 --> 01:47:33,320
for our late teacher mario perry. I

2215
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:35,320
personally had him

2216
01:47:35,322 --> 01:47:36,323
two years as my history teacher. I

2217
01:47:36,323 --> 01:47:37,391
loved the man. He was

2218
01:47:37,391 --> 01:47:39,293
loved by everybody at the school. We

2219
01:47:39,293 --> 01:47:41,293
all keep him

2220
01:47:41,295 --> 01:47:42,296
in our hearts and our prayers. And

2221
01:47:42,296 --> 01:47:44,296
on

2222
01:47:44,298 --> 01:47:47,898
march 2nd at 2:00 in the auditorium

2223
01:47:48,302 --> 01:47:50,304
there will be a memorial

2224
01:47:50,304 --> 01:47:51,305
service for him as well.

2225
01:47:51,305 --> 01:47:52,306
>> okay. >>

2226
01:47:52,306 --> 01:47:54,306
to

2227
01:47:54,308 --> 01:47:56,310
like kind of fall after what john

2228
01:47:56,310 --> 01:47:57,311
said. I also like agree with, like, the culture

2229
01:47:57,311 --> 01:47:59,311
around women

2230
01:47:59,313 --> 01:48:00,314
and supporting them it is very strong

2231
01:48:00,314 --> 01:48:01,481
at our

2232
01:48:01,481 --> 01:48:03,317
high school. I really love that. Secondly,

2233
01:48:03,317 --> 01:48:06,320
something that I have been hearing

2234
01:48:06,320 --> 01:48:08,320
a lot

2235
01:48:08,322 --> 01:48:09,323
of along with forecasting is concerns

2236
01:48:09,323 --> 01:48:11,323
with what

2237
01:48:11,325 --> 01:48:12,326
classes aren't going to be available

2238
01:48:12,326 --> 01:48:14,294
to take next

2239
01:48:14,294 --> 01:48:15,295
year. People are worried about their teachers

2240
01:48:15,295 --> 01:48:17,297
and like who they

2241
01:48:17,297 --> 01:48:18,298
will not be able to see and take classes

2242
01:48:18,298 --> 01:48:20,298
from. So,

2243
01:48:20,300 --> 01:48:23,303
I know that is a big concern and everyone

2244
01:48:23,303 --> 01:48:26,306
has been talking about it and they

2245
01:48:26,306 --> 01:48:27,307
don't exactly know what is happening. I

2246
01:48:27,307 --> 01:48:29,307
don't either. There

2247
01:48:29,309 --> 01:48:32,312
is just a lot of talk about that and

2248
01:48:32,312 --> 01:48:33,313
people are worried about certain classes that

2249
01:48:33,313 --> 01:48:35,313
are more,

2250
01:48:35,315 --> 01:48:38,915
like, like the choir student said,

2251
01:48:39,319 --> 01:48:40,354
the smaller class sizes that

2252
01:48:40,354 --> 01:48:42,322
are typically smaller and advanced. It

2253
01:48:42,322 --> 01:48:44,722
takes a longer time

2254
01:48:45,325 --> 01:48:47,294
to get to those class es. I

2255
01:48:47,294 --> 01:48:50,894
know people are worried about classes

2256
01:48:54,301 --> 01:48:57,304
like that and those teachers as

2257
01:48:57,304 --> 01:48:58,305
well.

2258
01:48:58,305 --> 01:49:00,307
>> okay, we will go

2259
01:49:00,307 --> 01:49:03,307
on now to our board

2260
01:49:03,310 --> 01:49:05,710
business. We have another

2261
01:49:06,313 --> 01:49:10,513
resolution. It is classified school employees week

2262
01:49:12,319 --> 01:49:15,919
resolution. Classified appreciation week is next

2263
01:49:18,325 --> 01:49:19,293
week.

2264
01:49:19,293 --> 01:49:20,294
>> I was looking around for

2265
01:49:20,294 --> 01:49:21,295
you

2266
01:49:21,295 --> 01:49:22,296
>>

2267
01:49:22,296 --> 01:49:23,297
it is a packed room.

2268
01:49:23,297 --> 01:49:24,298
>>

2269
01:49:24,298 --> 01:49:25,299
I appreciate you.

2270
01:49:25,299 --> 01:49:26,466
>>

2271
01:49:26,466 --> 01:49:27,301
thank you. Thank you. Yes. As we approach

2272
01:49:27,301 --> 01:49:29,301
classified appreciation

2273
01:49:29,303 --> 01:49:30,304
week. An opportunity to come together and

2274
01:49:30,304 --> 01:49:32,304
honor

2275
01:49:33,307 --> 01:49:35,707
the incredible contributions of

2276
01:49:36,310 --> 01:49:38,312
our classified employees and

2277
01:49:38,312 --> 01:49:39,313
their unwavering dedication and hard

2278
01:49:39,313 --> 01:49:41,315
work. Creating a inclusive

2279
01:49:41,315 --> 01:49:42,316
and supportive community for all of us. It

2280
01:49:42,316 --> 01:49:44,316
is with

2281
01:49:44,318 --> 01:49:45,319
deep gratitude I am inviting the board

2282
01:49:45,319 --> 01:49:47,319
to join

2283
01:49:48,322 --> 01:49:50,322
me in reading

2284
01:49:53,293 --> 01:49:54,294
the resolution in their honor. So

2285
01:49:54,294 --> 01:49:56,294
we will

2286
01:49:56,296 --> 01:49:57,364
begin.

2287
01:49:57,364 --> 01:49:58,298
>> where as the education of youth

2288
01:49:58,298 --> 01:50:00,298
is

2289
01:50:00,300 --> 01:50:02,300
essential to the

2290
01:50:04,304 --> 01:50:08,504
future of our community, state, country and

2291
01:50:09,309 --> 01:50:11,311
world and classified employees of

2292
01:50:11,311 --> 01:50:12,312
the backbone of our public education

2293
01:50:12,312 --> 01:50:13,313
system.

2294
01:50:13,313 --> 01:50:15,313
>>

2295
01:50:15,315 --> 01:50:17,315
and, where they

2296
01:50:18,318 --> 01:50:21,321
work directly with students, educators, parents,

2297
01:50:21,321 --> 01:50:22,322
volunteers, business partners

2298
01:50:22,322 --> 01:50:23,323
and community members and.

2299
01:50:23,323 --> 01:50:24,324
>> classified

2300
01:50:24,324 --> 01:50:25,325
employees report the smooth operation

2301
01:50:25,325 --> 01:50:27,294
of offices, safety and maintenance

2302
01:50:27,294 --> 01:50:29,294
of buildings

2303
01:50:30,297 --> 01:50:32,297
and property and

2304
01:50:32,299 --> 01:50:33,300
the safe transportation, healthy nutrition

2305
01:50:33,300 --> 01:50:35,700
and direct construction of

2306
01:50:36,303 --> 01:50:37,304
students and.

2307
01:50:37,304 --> 01:50:39,304
>> where as our

2308
01:50:39,306 --> 01:50:40,307
community depends and

2309
01:50:40,307 --> 01:50:42,309
trusts classified employees to serve

2310
01:50:42,309 --> 01:50:43,310
students and.

2311
01:50:43,310 --> 01:50:45,310
>> I do

2312
01:50:48,315 --> 01:50:51,318
not have access to the document.

2313
01:50:51,318 --> 01:50:52,319
[ laughter ]

2314
01:50:52,319 --> 01:50:54,319
>> where as classified

2315
01:50:54,321 --> 01:50:56,321
employees with their

2316
01:50:57,324 --> 01:50:59,293
diverse talents and true

2317
01:50:59,293 --> 01:51:00,294
dedication nurture students throughout their school

2318
01:51:00,294 --> 01:51:01,295
years

2319
01:51:01,295 --> 01:51:03,295
>> and therefore,

2320
01:51:03,297 --> 01:51:06,297
the end rules, the lake

2321
01:51:06,300 --> 01:51:07,301
oswego school board directors proclaims

2322
01:51:07,301 --> 01:51:09,301
march 3rd

2323
01:51:09,303 --> 01:51:10,404
to 7th, 2025,

2324
01:51:10,404 --> 01:51:11,305
to be classified school employee week and.

2325
01:51:11,305 --> 01:51:12,306
>>

2326
01:51:12,306 --> 01:51:14,306
further resolve that

2327
01:51:15,309 --> 01:51:17,309
the

2328
01:51:18,312 --> 01:51:19,313
lake oswego school board of directors

2329
01:51:19,313 --> 01:51:20,480
encourages

2330
01:51:20,480 --> 01:51:21,315
everyone to join in recognizing the dedication

2331
01:51:21,315 --> 01:51:23,315
and

2332
01:51:24,318 --> 01:51:25,319
hard work of these

2333
01:51:25,319 --> 01:51:26,320
individuals.

2334
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:28,210
>> all right. Again. Thank

2335
01:51:28,210 --> 01:51:34,210
you for representing. Thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ]

2336
01:51:57,317 --> 01:51:58,318
[ applause ]

2337
01:51:58,318 --> 01:52:00,318
>> thank

2338
01:52:00,320 --> 01:52:01,321
you.

2339
01:52:01,321 --> 01:52:03,321
>>> we will

2340
01:52:03,323 --> 01:52:05,325
now move on to -- oh, sorry,

2341
01:52:05,325 --> 01:52:06,293
motion to approve the resolution.

2342
01:52:06,293 --> 01:52:07,294
>>

2343
01:52:07,294 --> 01:52:09,294
I move to

2344
01:52:11,298 --> 01:52:15,302
adopt the classified school employees week resolution.

2345
01:52:15,302 --> 01:52:17,302
that mr.

2346
01:52:18,305 --> 01:52:19,306
bills.

2347
01:52:19,306 --> 01:52:21,306
>> second. >> all in

2348
01:52:21,308 --> 01:52:25,312
favor. And that motion and resolution is

2349
01:52:25,312 --> 01:52:26,313
approved

2350
01:52:26,313 --> 01:52:27,314
and adopted.

2351
01:52:27,314 --> 01:52:28,315
>>> I am 6.2. Superintendent's

2352
01:52:28,315 --> 01:52:29,316
update.

2353
01:52:29,316 --> 01:52:31,316
>> members of

2354
01:52:31,318 --> 01:52:33,718
the board. I am

2355
01:52:34,321 --> 01:52:35,322
going to start with

2356
01:52:35,322 --> 01:52:36,356
what we were talking about. I can

2357
01:52:36,356 --> 01:52:37,324
completely understand it is scary

2358
01:52:37,324 --> 01:52:38,358
for

2359
01:52:38,358 --> 01:52:40,294
students and for staff to not know

2360
01:52:40,294 --> 01:52:43,294
what is going on. I

2361
01:52:43,297 --> 01:52:44,464
can say that we started

2362
01:52:44,464 --> 01:52:46,300
our reduction enforce notices to our employees

2363
01:52:46,300 --> 01:52:49,300
in the district. That is

2364
01:52:49,303 --> 01:52:50,470
going to continue over the

2365
01:52:50,470 --> 01:52:52,306
next three weeks along with transfers. So,

2366
01:52:52,306 --> 01:52:54,306
sometimes

2367
01:52:55,309 --> 01:52:57,311
they, we base all of

2368
01:52:57,311 --> 01:53:00,911
our reductions on seniority and so

2369
01:53:01,315 --> 01:53:04,318
sometimes a school has a lot

2370
01:53:04,318 --> 01:53:06,318
of

2371
01:53:07,321 --> 01:53:08,322
new people to their

2372
01:53:08,322 --> 01:53:10,324
team, they might lose too many so

2373
01:53:10,324 --> 01:53:12,326
they will transfer them to

2374
01:53:12,326 --> 01:53:13,293
another school to get it covered t.

2375
01:53:13,293 --> 01:53:14,328
is

2376
01:53:14,328 --> 01:53:16,296
confusing and it takes a long time

2377
01:53:16,296 --> 01:53:17,431
to get through

2378
01:53:17,431 --> 01:53:19,299
it. We want individual conversations with

2379
01:53:19,299 --> 01:53:20,300
every person that is affected

2380
01:53:20,300 --> 01:53:22,302
and make sure that they understand

2381
01:53:22,302 --> 01:53:24,304
their recall rights. What

2382
01:53:24,304 --> 01:53:25,305
happens when you are reduction enforced

2383
01:53:25,305 --> 01:53:27,305
there

2384
01:53:28,308 --> 01:53:29,309
are for 27 months you can get

2385
01:53:29,309 --> 01:53:31,311
your job back if someone retires,

2386
01:53:31,311 --> 01:53:33,313
leaves, moves, we want to

2387
01:53:33,313 --> 01:53:34,314
make sure we can explain everything

2388
01:53:34,314 --> 01:53:37,317
to everyone. Those things will be

2389
01:53:37,317 --> 01:53:39,319
more public I think in the next few

2390
01:53:39,319 --> 01:53:42,322
weeks. Obviously we want to have the conversations

2391
01:53:42,322 --> 01:53:46,293
with the people being affected first. I would

2392
01:53:46,293 --> 01:53:47,361
also want to stay I am still

2393
01:53:47,361 --> 01:53:50,961
very worried about the state's budget

2394
01:53:52,299 --> 01:53:55,302
and what is going to happen with

2395
01:53:55,302 --> 01:53:56,436
that there are a lot of unknowns

2396
01:53:56,436 --> 01:53:58,305
with the federal government and budgets

2397
01:53:58,305 --> 01:54:00,307
that people count on if

2398
01:54:00,307 --> 01:54:04,311
we don't have it any more can effect

2399
01:54:04,311 --> 01:54:05,345
us in education. I

2400
01:54:05,345 --> 01:54:07,314
am worried about that. John wallin

2401
01:54:07,314 --> 01:54:08,315
and I will

2402
01:54:08,315 --> 01:54:10,317
meet with senator. We were invited

2403
01:54:10,317 --> 01:54:11,485
to come

2404
01:54:11,485 --> 01:54:13,320
down and discuss our particular situation here

2405
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:15,322
in lake oswego with him. I am

2406
01:54:15,322 --> 01:54:16,323
looking forward to that. I also want

2407
01:54:16,323 --> 01:54:18,323
to thank the

2408
01:54:19,326 --> 01:54:20,294
whole community who written letters

2409
01:54:20,294 --> 01:54:22,296
to our legislatures and talked about

2410
01:54:22,296 --> 01:54:23,530
additional funding

2411
01:54:23,530 --> 01:54:25,299
for not only education but special education. Keep

2412
01:54:25,299 --> 01:54:28,302
those letters coming in. I think

2413
01:54:28,302 --> 01:54:31,305
they make a big difference and I

2414
01:54:31,305 --> 01:54:34,308
appreciate it. Then I want to

2415
01:54:34,308 --> 01:54:35,442
go

2416
01:54:35,442 --> 01:54:37,311
to charter schools house bill 3024. Requires

2417
01:54:37,311 --> 01:54:39,311
me

2418
01:54:39,313 --> 01:54:40,314
twice a year to talk about students

2419
01:54:40,314 --> 01:54:43,314
going to charter schools in

2420
01:54:43,317 --> 01:54:44,451
you have over

2421
01:54:44,451 --> 01:54:46,320
3% of your student population and trying

2422
01:54:46,320 --> 01:54:47,387
to go

2423
01:54:47,387 --> 01:54:49,323
to charter school you can deny them

2424
01:54:49,323 --> 01:54:51,325
access. We do not

2425
01:54:51,325 --> 01:54:52,326
have that. We have about 80 students

2426
01:54:52,326 --> 01:54:54,294
it is a

2427
01:54:54,294 --> 01:54:55,295
little over 1% of our population. Does

2428
01:54:55,295 --> 01:54:57,295
not really

2429
01:54:57,297 --> 01:54:58,298
effect us. And remember the numbers

2430
01:54:58,298 --> 01:55:00,298
are only

2431
01:55:01,301 --> 01:55:03,303
good as people reporting

2432
01:55:03,303 --> 01:55:04,304
to us. It may be off, either way.

2433
01:55:04,304 --> 01:55:06,304
>>> we have this

2434
01:55:07,307 --> 01:55:10,310
weekend we had a ton of

2435
01:55:10,310 --> 01:55:13,310
weekend events. Really fun ones,

2436
01:55:13,313 --> 01:55:15,315
actually. The black student

2437
01:55:15,315 --> 01:55:16,316
union festival on saturday and then

2438
01:55:16,316 --> 01:55:19,319
western heritage on sunday. Both of

2439
01:55:19,319 --> 01:55:21,321
the events were so fun. I really

2440
01:55:21,321 --> 01:55:22,322
enjoy today and so did skat. Sometimes

2441
01:55:22,322 --> 01:55:24,322
he

2442
01:55:25,325 --> 01:55:28,295
gets to go to things and he does

2443
01:55:28,295 --> 01:55:30,695
not know. He loves

2444
01:55:31,298 --> 01:55:34,298
these ones. Food, booze, music,

2445
01:55:34,301 --> 01:55:36,303
guest speakers. It was

2446
01:55:36,303 --> 01:55:37,304
really, really well done. The black

2447
01:55:37,304 --> 01:55:40,304
student unions, snell, who you

2448
01:55:40,307 --> 01:55:43,310
all know, did a great job planning

2449
01:55:43,310 --> 01:55:45,310
that

2450
01:55:45,312 --> 01:55:46,313
event. It was in, she worked with

2451
01:55:46,313 --> 01:55:48,313
the --we

2452
01:55:48,315 --> 01:55:49,449
had other students there from another

2453
01:55:49,449 --> 01:55:50,317
school and different adults. So that was

2454
01:55:50,317 --> 01:55:52,317
fun

2455
01:55:52,319 --> 01:55:54,319
to have a

2456
01:55:55,322 --> 01:55:58,325
lot of people there. It was

2457
01:55:58,325 --> 01:55:59,393
great. Then they had traditional

2458
01:55:59,393 --> 01:56:01,295
indian dancing, irish dancing. Lots

2459
01:56:01,295 --> 01:56:03,295
of food. It

2460
01:56:04,298 --> 01:56:06,300
was just, there were kids everywhere. It

2461
01:56:06,300 --> 01:56:07,301
was downpouring outside and all of

2462
01:56:07,301 --> 01:56:08,302
these

2463
01:56:08,302 --> 01:56:10,304
people having a blast. Fun. Great

2464
01:56:10,304 --> 01:56:12,304
job to everyone

2465
01:56:12,306 --> 01:56:16,310
who helped plan all of those. Performing

2466
01:56:16,310 --> 01:56:18,310
arts

2467
01:56:19,313 --> 01:56:21,313
we do

2468
01:56:22,316 --> 01:56:25,319
have a musical coming up february 28th-marchth

2469
01:56:25,319 --> 01:56:27,719
8. They are fantastic. Please

2470
01:56:28,322 --> 01:56:29,323
go to them. I think you are

2471
01:56:29,323 --> 01:56:31,325
going --march 8th. They are fantastic. I

2472
01:56:31,325 --> 01:56:33,325
think

2473
01:56:34,294 --> 01:56:36,296
you are going to

2474
01:56:36,296 --> 01:56:37,297
love it. Another february 27th, 28 and

2475
01:56:37,297 --> 01:56:39,297
two shows

2476
01:56:39,299 --> 01:56:40,300
on march 1st. If you are looking for

2477
01:56:40,300 --> 01:56:42,300
something to

2478
01:56:43,303 --> 01:56:44,338
do, be amazed by our

2479
01:56:44,338 --> 01:56:46,306
student performers. A lot of them

2480
01:56:46,306 --> 01:56:49,306
are in choir and use

2481
01:56:49,309 --> 01:56:51,309
those skills to

2482
01:56:51,311 --> 01:56:52,312
perform and to entertain the community. Construction. A

2483
01:56:52,312 --> 01:56:54,312
ton of construction

2484
01:56:54,314 --> 01:56:58,318
going on all of the time. The first

2485
01:56:58,318 --> 01:57:01,321
one I want to talk about,

2486
01:57:01,321 --> 01:57:03,321
lorac. It is

2487
01:57:04,324 --> 01:57:07,924
not done yet but getting near

2488
01:57:10,297 --> 01:57:12,297
completion.

2489
01:57:13,300 --> 01:57:15,302
it is not done yet. The

2490
01:57:15,302 --> 01:57:16,303
pools are filled with water and that

2491
01:57:16,303 --> 01:57:18,303
is a

2492
01:57:18,305 --> 01:57:19,306
really good sign. Everything is getting

2493
01:57:19,306 --> 01:57:21,306
last minute

2494
01:57:22,309 --> 01:57:23,310
finishes and they are starting up the

2495
01:57:23,310 --> 01:57:25,310
heating systems, the

2496
01:57:25,312 --> 01:57:28,912
plumbing, all of the things they

2497
01:57:31,318 --> 01:57:34,318
need to check to make

2498
01:57:37,324 --> 01:57:39,326
sure and then the review. They need

2499
01:57:39,326 --> 01:57:40,294
to make sure they are safe. That is

2500
01:57:40,294 --> 01:57:43,297
where we are at right now. It

2501
01:57:43,297 --> 01:57:44,298
is going to be soon. We will keep

2502
01:57:44,298 --> 01:57:46,298
you

2503
01:57:46,300 --> 01:57:48,300
posted. There will

2504
01:57:49,303 --> 01:57:51,303
be a

2505
01:57:51,305 --> 01:57:52,306
ribbon cutting at some point. We are

2506
01:57:52,306 --> 01:57:54,706
all excited. Lake oswego

2507
01:57:55,309 --> 01:57:57,311
middle school is going

2508
01:57:57,311 --> 01:57:58,312
as plan. It is ahead of school. If

2509
01:57:58,312 --> 01:58:00,312
you just look

2510
01:58:00,314 --> 01:58:01,315
at it, you definitely can see there

2511
01:58:01,315 --> 01:58:03,315
is a building

2512
01:58:04,318 --> 01:58:06,320
there from country club. The two story

2513
01:58:06,320 --> 01:58:07,321
class room structure topping out. And

2514
01:58:07,321 --> 01:58:09,321
they

2515
01:58:10,324 --> 01:58:13,293
have done so much with concrete

2516
01:58:13,293 --> 01:58:15,693
and masonry and it

2517
01:58:16,296 --> 01:58:17,297
is coming along which is so exciting. Hvac

2518
01:58:17,297 --> 01:58:19,297
upgrades. We

2519
01:58:19,299 --> 01:58:22,302
are trying to get all of it for

2520
01:58:22,302 --> 01:58:24,302
the equipment

2521
01:58:25,305 --> 01:58:27,307
right now for the air-conditioning. So,

2522
01:58:27,307 --> 01:58:28,308
we are anticipating that summer insulation

2523
01:58:28,308 --> 01:58:30,308
to

2524
01:58:31,311 --> 01:58:33,311
make sure those

2525
01:58:33,313 --> 01:58:34,314
things will get cleaned before school

2526
01:58:34,314 --> 01:58:36,316
starting. And hardware and

2527
01:58:36,316 --> 01:58:37,317
part of our ongoing safety and security

2528
01:58:37,317 --> 01:58:39,317
is assessing

2529
01:58:39,319 --> 01:58:40,320
all of the door hardware. Some of

2530
01:58:40,320 --> 01:58:42,320
the doors in

2531
01:58:42,322 --> 01:58:43,323
the older buildings they have different hardware

2532
01:58:43,323 --> 01:58:45,323
to make it

2533
01:58:46,326 --> 01:58:49,296
hard to lock them from the inside. We are

2534
01:58:49,296 --> 01:58:52,296
replacing those. And, right now

2535
01:58:52,299 --> 01:58:55,899
they are doing a complete assessment

2536
01:58:56,303 --> 01:58:57,304
of all in the district.

2537
01:58:57,304 --> 01:58:58,305
>> and

2538
01:58:58,305 --> 01:58:59,306
then our new pool filled pool over

2539
01:58:59,306 --> 01:59:01,306
here, we

2540
01:59:01,308 --> 01:59:05,312
do have a design to convert the pool

2541
01:59:05,312 --> 01:59:06,446
into multiuse space. We are

2542
01:59:06,446 --> 01:59:08,315
really excited about that. It is intended

2543
01:59:08,315 --> 01:59:09,449
to

2544
01:59:09,449 --> 01:59:11,318
decommission a pool, fill it in. Install

2545
01:59:11,318 --> 01:59:13,318
a gym floor

2546
01:59:13,320 --> 01:59:15,322
over the main section of it. We will

2547
01:59:15,322 --> 01:59:17,324
need to get lighting upgrades and

2548
01:59:17,324 --> 01:59:20,294
interior finishes that just to

2549
01:59:20,294 --> 01:59:23,297
make it into a space that we can

2550
01:59:23,297 --> 01:59:26,297
use. And, we also will

2551
01:59:26,300 --> 01:59:28,302
have some repairs to

2552
01:59:28,302 --> 01:59:29,303
the exterior and painting. It is going

2553
01:59:29,303 --> 01:59:30,304
to be a

2554
01:59:30,304 --> 01:59:32,306
larger project. We think we can get

2555
01:59:32,306 --> 01:59:34,306
it in

2556
01:59:35,309 --> 01:59:37,311
a way we can

2557
01:59:37,311 --> 01:59:38,312
use it. Sooner than later.

2558
01:59:38,312 --> 01:59:39,313
>> science

2559
01:59:39,313 --> 01:59:41,315
classrooms. We have round

2560
01:59:41,315 --> 01:59:43,317
two at both of our high schools

2561
01:59:43,317 --> 01:59:44,318
preparing for this summer and the

2562
01:59:44,318 --> 01:59:46,318
contractor is

2563
01:59:47,321 --> 01:59:50,321
on board which makes it

2564
01:59:50,324 --> 01:59:52,326
easier than last year. We

2565
01:59:52,326 --> 01:59:53,293
are excited about that executed efficiently. And

2566
01:59:53,293 --> 01:59:55,293
then

2567
01:59:55,295 --> 01:59:56,296
at the middle school we had the garden

2568
01:59:56,296 --> 01:59:57,431
nearly

2569
01:59:57,431 --> 01:59:59,299
complete. Whether it is finished they will have

2570
01:59:59,299 --> 02:00:00,367
a green lows

2571
02:00:00,367 --> 02:00:04,567
and a learning garden as well. That

2572
02:00:05,305 --> 02:00:06,306
is going to

2573
02:00:06,306 --> 02:00:08,308
be very exciting. Kindergarten. At

2574
02:00:08,308 --> 02:00:09,309
there

2575
02:00:09,309 --> 02:00:10,310
time, 248 kindergartners enrolled

2576
02:00:10,310 --> 02:00:14,314
for next year. Actually we were up

2577
02:00:14,314 --> 02:00:16,316
a little bit from the year

2578
02:00:16,316 --> 02:00:17,317
before. But now we are down. Anybody

2579
02:00:17,317 --> 02:00:19,317
knows

2580
02:00:20,320 --> 02:00:22,320
any

2581
02:00:26,326 --> 02:00:28,726
5-year-olds out there get

2582
02:00:29,296 --> 02:00:31,296
them enrolled. 59t-k.,

2583
02:00:32,299 --> 02:00:35,302
you have first registered for kindergarten transition. 11th

2584
02:00:35,302 --> 02:00:38,302
through the 14th. A small

2585
02:00:38,305 --> 02:00:40,307
program that allows them to see who

2586
02:00:40,307 --> 02:00:41,308
they will be around and see the building

2587
02:00:41,308 --> 02:00:43,308
I think that

2588
02:00:44,311 --> 02:00:46,311
is nice

2589
02:00:47,314 --> 02:00:49,316
for the transition into

2590
02:00:49,316 --> 02:00:50,317
school. Then lastly we had sro's role

2591
02:00:50,317 --> 02:00:52,317
in immigration

2592
02:00:52,319 --> 02:00:53,320
enforcement. I want to make sure I

2593
02:00:53,320 --> 02:00:55,322
let everybody know that

2594
02:00:55,322 --> 02:00:56,323
I discussed it with the police chief

2595
02:00:56,323 --> 02:00:58,323
and he noted

2596
02:00:59,326 --> 02:01:01,295
to me that state law forbids sros

2597
02:01:01,295 --> 02:01:04,298
any of the officers to help with or

2598
02:01:04,298 --> 02:01:05,299
assist with federal agencies in the enforcement

2599
02:01:05,299 --> 02:01:07,299
of

2600
02:01:08,302 --> 02:01:10,304
immigration law. That is the

2601
02:01:10,304 --> 02:01:11,305
only reason they would be there. To

2602
02:01:11,305 --> 02:01:12,306
make

2603
02:01:12,306 --> 02:01:14,308
sure everybody feels better about

2604
02:01:14,308 --> 02:01:17,311
that. Sro on campus does not

2605
02:01:17,311 --> 02:01:20,314
mean they help ice and take a student

2606
02:01:20,314 --> 02:01:22,316
out of our building. That

2607
02:01:22,316 --> 02:01:23,317
would not happen. That is all.

2608
02:01:23,317 --> 02:01:24,318
>>

2609
02:01:24,318 --> 02:01:25,319
yes.

2610
02:01:25,319 --> 02:01:26,320
>> would you

2611
02:01:26,320 --> 02:01:28,320
remind me how

2612
02:01:28,322 --> 02:01:29,323
we are funding the conversion of the

2613
02:01:29,323 --> 02:01:31,323
pool? What

2614
02:01:32,326 --> 02:01:34,326
size gym are

2615
02:01:35,295 --> 02:01:38,295
we talking about? Full size

2616
02:01:38,298 --> 02:01:39,499
gym.

2617
02:01:39,499 --> 02:01:40,300
>> it should be. Basketball court. You

2618
02:01:40,300 --> 02:01:41,401
can

2619
02:01:41,401 --> 02:01:42,302
put tables in there. It is a big space

2620
02:01:42,302 --> 02:01:43,303
you can use

2621
02:01:43,303 --> 02:01:44,304
it any way you want to. I would say

2622
02:01:44,304 --> 02:01:46,304
big

2623
02:01:47,307 --> 02:01:48,308
use would be as a gym.

2624
02:01:48,308 --> 02:01:50,308
>>

2625
02:01:50,310 --> 02:01:51,311
and how, money?

2626
02:01:51,311 --> 02:01:52,312
>> it is funding. >>

2627
02:01:52,312 --> 02:01:53,313
is

2628
02:01:53,313 --> 02:01:54,314
it part?

2629
02:01:54,314 --> 02:01:56,314
>> it is

2630
02:01:56,316 --> 02:01:58,316
part of a

2631
02:01:58,318 --> 02:01:59,319
bond that happened already. We are

2632
02:01:59,319 --> 02:02:01,319
using the

2633
02:02:01,321 --> 02:02:02,322
floor from lj. Recycled the floor

2634
02:02:02,322 --> 02:02:04,322
to use

2635
02:02:05,325 --> 02:02:06,326
it over here.

2636
02:02:06,326 --> 02:02:08,295
>> that

2637
02:02:08,295 --> 02:02:09,296
is great.

2638
02:02:09,296 --> 02:02:11,296
>> yes. >>

2639
02:02:11,298 --> 02:02:13,298
it is

2640
02:02:15,302 --> 02:02:16,303
sustainable.

2641
02:02:16,303 --> 02:02:17,304
>> any other questions

2642
02:02:17,304 --> 02:02:18,305
for dr. Schiele?

2643
02:02:18,305 --> 02:02:20,305
>>

2644
02:02:20,307 --> 02:02:21,308
a lot going on.

2645
02:02:21,308 --> 02:02:23,308
>>

2646
02:02:23,310 --> 02:02:25,310
can

2647
02:02:26,313 --> 02:02:28,313
we

2648
02:02:30,317 --> 02:02:33,917
get lake oswego middle school done

2649
02:02:35,322 --> 02:02:36,323
--

2650
02:02:36,323 --> 02:02:38,323
>> I think

2651
02:02:38,325 --> 02:02:40,325
the

2652
02:02:41,295 --> 02:02:43,295
pool will

2653
02:02:44,298 --> 02:02:45,299
be next couple months.

2654
02:02:45,299 --> 02:02:47,299
>> let's

2655
02:02:47,301 --> 02:02:49,301
bring mr.

2656
02:02:50,304 --> 02:02:53,307
vandenberg up for the bond development committee

2657
02:02:53,307 --> 02:02:54,308
recommendation.

2658
02:02:54,308 --> 02:02:56,308
>> hi. >> I will

2659
02:02:58,312 --> 02:03:02,316
put this on the list, too. Furniture.

2660
02:03:02,316 --> 02:03:03,317
chair wallin, members of the board

2661
02:03:03,317 --> 02:03:04,318
thank

2662
02:03:04,318 --> 02:03:05,319
you for having me here tonight. I

2663
02:03:05,319 --> 02:03:06,320
am here with members

2664
02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:08,322
of our bond development committee

2665
02:03:08,322 --> 02:03:11,322
that I will have come

2666
02:03:11,325 --> 02:03:13,725
up shortly after I

2667
02:03:14,294 --> 02:03:17,294
give a little context. They

2668
02:03:17,297 --> 02:03:18,298
worked thoughtfully to put together

2669
02:03:18,298 --> 02:03:19,333
these

2670
02:03:19,333 --> 02:03:20,300
recommendations over the last year,

2671
02:03:20,300 --> 02:03:23,303
probably more in some cases. You

2672
02:03:23,303 --> 02:03:26,306
know, we have been having these

2673
02:03:26,306 --> 02:03:29,306
discussions for a very long

2674
02:03:29,309 --> 02:03:30,310
time. So, to start about a decade

2675
02:03:30,310 --> 02:03:32,310
ago we set

2676
02:03:32,312 --> 02:03:34,312
out

2677
02:03:34,314 --> 02:03:35,315
to put together a chairfully planned

2678
02:03:35,315 --> 02:03:37,315
3-phase program

2679
02:03:38,318 --> 02:03:40,318
to improve

2680
02:03:41,321 --> 02:03:42,322
all of our schools. To create sustainable

2681
02:03:42,322 --> 02:03:44,322
and inspiring spaces

2682
02:03:44,324 --> 02:03:45,325
that support our students as a source

2683
02:03:45,325 --> 02:03:46,360
of pride for

2684
02:03:46,360 --> 02:03:47,294
our entire community. In the beginning

2685
02:03:47,294 --> 02:03:49,694
we were looking at

2686
02:03:50,297 --> 02:03:51,298
our buildings and we knew we had a

2687
02:03:51,298 --> 02:03:52,332
lot to

2688
02:03:52,332 --> 02:03:53,300
do. The buildings had not been touched

2689
02:03:53,300 --> 02:03:55,700
for a very long

2690
02:03:56,303 --> 02:03:59,306
time. We set out to make these improvements

2691
02:03:59,306 --> 02:04:01,308
and replace one of our schools. That

2692
02:04:01,308 --> 02:04:03,310
school was lake ridge middle school. As

2693
02:04:03,310 --> 02:04:05,310
we

2694
02:04:06,313 --> 02:04:09,316
get into our second phase we

2695
02:04:09,316 --> 02:04:11,318
are now looking at our

2696
02:04:11,318 --> 02:04:12,319
third phase. When completed will touch

2697
02:04:12,319 --> 02:04:14,319
every school

2698
02:04:15,322 --> 02:04:17,324
bringing improvements, we are

2699
02:04:17,324 --> 02:04:19,326
tackling the highest priority projects,

2700
02:04:19,326 --> 02:04:21,295
protecting our investment, where necessary, replacing

2701
02:04:21,295 --> 02:04:22,296
outdated buildings that are

2702
02:04:22,296 --> 02:04:24,298
beyond repair with modern designs

2703
02:04:24,298 --> 02:04:25,432
that

2704
02:04:25,432 --> 02:04:27,301
meet the needs of our future generations. So,

2705
02:04:27,301 --> 02:04:29,303
one of the things

2706
02:04:29,303 --> 02:04:30,304
that we have been talking about and

2707
02:04:30,304 --> 02:04:32,704
we heard a lot

2708
02:04:33,307 --> 02:04:36,310
about is why are we looking at a

2709
02:04:36,310 --> 02:04:39,313
bond program when we have these

2710
02:04:39,313 --> 02:04:40,347
budget challenges. It is a fair

2711
02:04:40,347 --> 02:04:42,316
question. The reason is clear. Bond

2712
02:04:42,316 --> 02:04:44,316
funding

2713
02:04:44,318 --> 02:04:48,322
legally restricts us to capitol improvements. These

2714
02:04:48,322 --> 02:04:50,324
are replacing all of the broken

2715
02:04:50,324 --> 02:04:51,491
things in our buildings. Replacing

2716
02:04:51,491 --> 02:04:54,294
facilities and infrastructure needs. They

2717
02:04:54,294 --> 02:04:56,294
can not be

2718
02:04:56,296 --> 02:04:57,297
used for salaries, utilities or other operating

2719
02:04:57,297 --> 02:04:59,297
expenses. However,

2720
02:05:00,300 --> 02:05:02,300
in covering some

2721
02:05:03,303 --> 02:05:06,303
of the larger expenses we

2722
02:05:06,306 --> 02:05:08,306
do

2723
02:05:09,309 --> 02:05:11,309
help operating funds

2724
02:05:12,312 --> 02:05:13,413
for things like technology and infrastructure, major

2725
02:05:13,413 --> 02:05:15,315
repairs. Relieves pressure on the operating

2726
02:05:15,315 --> 02:05:17,715
budget. For example, you

2727
02:05:18,318 --> 02:05:21,318
think about last year's ice

2728
02:05:21,321 --> 02:05:23,323
storm. We closed a school

2729
02:05:23,323 --> 02:05:25,325
for several weeks. We had to relocate

2730
02:05:25,325 --> 02:05:27,294
kids, operating budgets were effected in

2731
02:05:27,294 --> 02:05:29,296
doing so. Protecting our

2732
02:05:29,296 --> 02:05:30,297
schools where we have these more frequent

2733
02:05:30,297 --> 02:05:32,297
weather events is

2734
02:05:36,303 --> 02:05:39,306
important for us as we move

2735
02:05:39,306 --> 02:05:41,306
forward. We don't

2736
02:05:42,309 --> 02:05:45,309
do this alone. Along the

2737
02:05:45,312 --> 02:05:47,314
way we have our citizen

2738
02:05:47,314 --> 02:05:48,315
oversight committees, bond development

2739
02:05:48,315 --> 02:05:50,315
helps

2740
02:05:50,317 --> 02:05:51,318
us, long-range facility planning, all

2741
02:05:51,318 --> 02:05:54,318
community-lead groups help us at

2742
02:05:54,321 --> 02:05:57,324
every step of the way. As we get

2743
02:05:57,324 --> 02:06:00,294
into our programs we have

2744
02:06:00,294 --> 02:06:03,294
oversight both from community as

2745
02:06:03,297 --> 02:06:06,297
well as staff as well

2746
02:06:06,300 --> 02:06:07,334
as outside consultants. We

2747
02:06:07,334 --> 02:06:09,303
have frequent audits that occur. So

2748
02:06:09,303 --> 02:06:11,305
we are, we have

2749
02:06:11,305 --> 02:06:12,306
a strong commitment to our fiscal responsibility. As

2750
02:06:12,306 --> 02:06:14,306
we

2751
02:06:15,309 --> 02:06:17,311
are guided by the school board

2752
02:06:17,311 --> 02:06:19,313
and dedicated citizen committees these

2753
02:06:19,313 --> 02:06:21,315
groups are deeply engaged ensuring

2754
02:06:21,315 --> 02:06:23,317
every step along the

2755
02:06:23,317 --> 02:06:24,318
way aligns with our shared vision. So,

2756
02:06:24,318 --> 02:06:26,318
let's talk

2757
02:06:27,321 --> 02:06:29,323
about what we accomplished so far. Phase

2758
02:06:29,323 --> 02:06:30,324
one is nearly complete. We just talked

2759
02:06:30,324 --> 02:06:32,326
about the last project,

2760
02:06:32,326 --> 02:06:33,327
the pool. It is coming in. We are

2761
02:06:33,327 --> 02:06:35,327
going

2762
02:06:36,296 --> 02:06:38,296
to be swimming

2763
02:06:39,299 --> 02:06:42,302
any day now. But, our flag

2764
02:06:42,302 --> 02:06:45,302
ship project, rebuilt lake ridge

2765
02:06:45,305 --> 02:06:47,307
middle school. You recall they

2766
02:06:47,307 --> 02:06:48,308
had structural issues. Project was

2767
02:06:48,308 --> 02:06:50,308
very

2768
02:06:51,311 --> 02:06:53,311
successful. Replaced

2769
02:06:54,314 --> 02:06:56,714
broken systems throughout the

2770
02:06:57,317 --> 02:06:59,317
district. These

2771
02:06:59,319 --> 02:07:00,487
include mechanical systems, plumbing

2772
02:07:00,487 --> 02:07:02,322
systems, internet, technology, electricity. We

2773
02:07:02,322 --> 02:07:05,922
add invasion spaces at our elementary

2774
02:07:06,326 --> 02:07:08,326
schools as

2775
02:07:09,296 --> 02:07:12,299
well as our middle schools and stem

2776
02:07:12,299 --> 02:07:14,301
and cte classrooms at our

2777
02:07:14,301 --> 02:07:15,302
high schools. We enhanced safety and

2778
02:07:15,302 --> 02:07:17,302
security, provided

2779
02:07:18,305 --> 02:07:21,305
seismic resiliency to all of

2780
02:07:21,308 --> 02:07:22,509
our schools as

2781
02:07:22,509 --> 02:07:24,311
well as additional infrastructure. Phase

2782
02:07:24,311 --> 02:07:26,311
two, come

2783
02:07:27,314 --> 02:07:30,314
is in progress, we completed

2784
02:07:30,317 --> 02:07:31,318
river grove elementary school that

2785
02:07:31,318 --> 02:07:32,452
opened this

2786
02:07:32,452 --> 02:07:33,320
year. To thunderous applause to the neighbors

2787
02:07:33,320 --> 02:07:35,322
that do not have to experience

2788
02:07:35,322 --> 02:07:36,323
the construction anymore but also the

2789
02:07:36,323 --> 02:07:38,323
students able

2790
02:07:38,325 --> 02:07:39,326
to go into their new beautiful elementary

2791
02:07:39,326 --> 02:07:41,326
school,

2792
02:07:42,296 --> 02:07:43,297
our first elementary school that has been

2793
02:07:43,297 --> 02:07:45,297
completely

2794
02:07:45,299 --> 02:07:47,299
replaced

2795
02:07:48,302 --> 02:07:51,305
in quite a long time. Right

2796
02:07:51,305 --> 02:07:52,306
now we are building lake oswego middle

2797
02:07:52,306 --> 02:07:54,306
school. We

2798
02:07:54,308 --> 02:07:57,308
completed our first two phases

2799
02:07:57,311 --> 02:07:59,313
of palisades world language

2800
02:07:59,313 --> 02:08:00,314
school. Complete renovation of the building. As

2801
02:08:00,314 --> 02:08:02,314
we

2802
02:08:03,317 --> 02:08:05,319
proceed we will be

2803
02:08:05,319 --> 02:08:07,321
adding ongoing accessibility to our playgrounds,

2804
02:08:07,321 --> 02:08:09,323
enhancing garden spaces, upgrading

2805
02:08:09,323 --> 02:08:10,324
our science classroom in phase one

2806
02:08:10,324 --> 02:08:12,324
it

2807
02:08:12,326 --> 02:08:14,326
has occurred and

2808
02:08:15,295 --> 02:08:18,295
ongoing safety and security for

2809
02:08:18,298 --> 02:08:21,298
structure updates. Where are we

2810
02:08:21,301 --> 02:08:24,304
in this phase three? We met with

2811
02:08:24,304 --> 02:08:25,305
long-range facility planning that

2812
02:08:25,305 --> 02:08:26,306
starts the basis of

2813
02:08:26,306 --> 02:08:27,307
what we have done and looking out

2814
02:08:27,307 --> 02:08:29,707
what we need to

2815
02:08:30,310 --> 02:08:33,313
do looking out to the next five, 10,

2816
02:08:33,313 --> 02:08:36,313
15 years. That work was started

2817
02:08:36,316 --> 02:08:37,317
in november of '23. Concluded a year

2818
02:08:37,317 --> 02:08:38,385
later

2819
02:08:38,385 --> 02:08:39,319
in september '24. At which time the

2820
02:08:39,319 --> 02:08:41,719
school adopts the long

2821
02:08:42,322 --> 02:08:44,322
range plan

2822
02:08:45,325 --> 02:08:47,294
and a bond development committee

2823
02:08:47,294 --> 02:08:48,295
is formed. Our bond development committee has been

2824
02:08:48,295 --> 02:08:50,295
at work for

2825
02:08:53,300 --> 02:08:57,304
about a year and completed their recommendations.

2826
02:08:57,304 --> 02:09:00,307
so, our next step is to have

2827
02:09:00,307 --> 02:09:02,307
me invite a

2828
02:09:03,310 --> 02:09:06,910
few of our members up. Courtney,

2829
02:09:12,319 --> 02:09:14,319
andrew

2830
02:09:21,295 --> 02:09:22,296
will join me.

2831
02:09:22,296 --> 02:09:24,696
>> thank you for the

2832
02:09:25,299 --> 02:09:26,433
opportunity to present to you

2833
02:09:26,433 --> 02:09:28,302
our recommendations to the 2025 bond. The

2834
02:09:28,302 --> 02:09:30,302
bond represents the

2835
02:09:30,304 --> 02:09:33,904
final phase of the three-part plan

2836
02:09:34,308 --> 02:09:37,311
and fulfills our commitment to build functioning

2837
02:09:37,311 --> 02:09:39,711
schools to enable our

2838
02:09:40,314 --> 02:09:41,381
students to graduate

2839
02:09:41,381 --> 02:09:43,317
and be career and college ready. The

2840
02:09:43,317 --> 02:09:44,418
bond set to expire this

2841
02:09:44,418 --> 02:09:46,320
year the new measure will replace them

2842
02:09:46,320 --> 02:09:48,322
and there will be

2843
02:09:48,322 --> 02:09:49,323
no tax increase. I hope that is a

2844
02:09:49,323 --> 02:09:51,323
selling

2845
02:09:51,325 --> 02:09:55,295
point and we will now walk you through the

2846
02:09:55,295 --> 02:09:57,295
four categories

2847
02:09:58,298 --> 02:10:00,298
that will complies

2848
02:10:01,301 --> 02:10:03,701
the 2025 bond proposal. We

2849
02:10:04,304 --> 02:10:06,304
start off with

2850
02:10:06,306 --> 02:10:07,307
category one that is essential work. We

2851
02:10:07,307 --> 02:10:09,307
must

2852
02:10:10,310 --> 02:10:12,310
complete priority

2853
02:10:12,312 --> 02:10:15,315
one and two repairs. The report out

2854
02:10:15,315 --> 02:10:18,318
lines itemized list of the projects. Based

2855
02:10:18,318 --> 02:10:22,322
on an update to the facilities condition

2856
02:10:22,322 --> 02:10:24,324
conducted at the beginning

2857
02:10:24,324 --> 02:10:28,295
of this process. The bond will allow

2858
02:10:28,295 --> 02:10:29,296
losd to complete the

2859
02:10:29,296 --> 02:10:31,298
needed large-scale replacements to

2860
02:10:31,298 --> 02:10:32,299
address safety hazards, accessibility

2861
02:10:32,299 --> 02:10:34,299
issues and

2862
02:10:34,301 --> 02:10:36,701
to fix failing infrastructure

2863
02:10:37,304 --> 02:10:40,307
in our schools. This includes items

2864
02:10:40,307 --> 02:10:41,308
such as finished

2865
02:10:41,308 --> 02:10:42,309
roofs, siding, floor coverings, hvac

2866
02:10:42,309 --> 02:10:43,310
systems. With these repairs in place

2867
02:10:43,310 --> 02:10:45,310
the school

2868
02:10:45,312 --> 02:10:47,314
buildings will be able to function

2869
02:10:47,314 --> 02:10:49,316
and help us educate future generations

2870
02:10:49,316 --> 02:10:51,318
for decades to come. It

2871
02:10:51,318 --> 02:10:52,319
is is also our responsibility to do

2872
02:10:52,319 --> 02:10:54,319
everything

2873
02:10:55,322 --> 02:10:58,325
that we can to keep kids safe

2874
02:10:58,325 --> 02:11:00,327
in case of emergencies. So, this

2875
02:11:00,327 --> 02:11:01,295
bond will make our schools safer by

2876
02:11:01,295 --> 02:11:03,295
updating

2877
02:11:04,298 --> 02:11:05,332
out dated fire alarms

2878
02:11:05,332 --> 02:11:08,332
at every school. Strengthening security

2879
02:11:09,303 --> 02:11:10,304
through the insulation of camera,

2880
02:11:10,304 --> 02:11:12,704
door hardware, and secure

2881
02:11:13,307 --> 02:11:15,307
glass. Then I

2882
02:11:16,310 --> 02:11:18,310
will move

2883
02:11:18,312 --> 02:11:19,313
on to category two.

2884
02:11:19,313 --> 02:11:20,314
>> category two. We

2885
02:11:20,314 --> 02:11:22,314
propose

2886
02:11:24,318 --> 02:11:27,918
this, replacing our two oldest elementary

2887
02:11:31,325 --> 02:11:33,327
schools. These new buildings

2888
02:11:33,327 --> 02:11:35,295
like our new junior high and river

2889
02:11:35,295 --> 02:11:37,297
grove will support best practices

2890
02:11:37,297 --> 02:11:39,299
and education. They will include break

2891
02:11:39,299 --> 02:11:42,302
out spaces for small group work, updated

2892
02:11:42,302 --> 02:11:43,303
gym and music spaces and invasion

2893
02:11:43,303 --> 02:11:45,303
labs. As we

2894
02:11:46,306 --> 02:11:48,308
have done with the other new

2895
02:11:48,308 --> 02:11:49,309
buildings and the updates we made

2896
02:11:49,309 --> 02:11:51,309
to

2897
02:11:52,312 --> 02:11:53,447
our current buildings

2898
02:11:53,447 --> 02:11:55,315
we will incorporate sustainable energy-efficient

2899
02:11:55,315 --> 02:11:57,715
design that will realize

2900
02:11:58,318 --> 02:12:01,318
cost saving over time with

2901
02:12:01,321 --> 02:12:04,324
lower energy bills and repair costs. We,

2902
02:12:04,324 --> 02:12:05,425
again, with our new buildings will

2903
02:12:05,425 --> 02:12:07,294
meade immediately occupancy standards

2904
02:12:07,294 --> 02:12:10,294
for seismic safety to keep

2905
02:12:10,297 --> 02:12:12,297
our students safe

2906
02:12:12,299 --> 02:12:13,300
in the event of a catastrophic seismic

2907
02:12:13,300 --> 02:12:15,300
event

2908
02:12:16,303 --> 02:12:19,306
and a place for community to

2909
02:12:19,306 --> 02:12:22,309
gather during an event or emergency. And

2910
02:12:22,309 --> 02:12:23,443
relief to

2911
02:12:23,443 --> 02:12:25,312
the surrounding neighborhoods improving

2912
02:12:25,312 --> 02:12:27,712
parking lots, and traffic

2913
02:12:28,315 --> 02:12:30,315
flow,

2914
02:12:31,318 --> 02:12:32,319
part of the plan as well.

2915
02:12:32,319 --> 02:12:34,319
>> we

2916
02:12:34,321 --> 02:12:36,721
also need to address

2917
02:12:37,324 --> 02:12:38,358
the capacity needs for

2918
02:12:38,358 --> 02:12:40,327
our current programs. There are three

2919
02:12:40,327 --> 02:12:43,297
kind of big parts that we

2920
02:12:43,297 --> 02:12:46,300
are going to look at. The

2921
02:12:46,300 --> 02:12:48,302
first is the career

2922
02:12:48,302 --> 02:12:49,303
and technical education and stem places

2923
02:12:49,303 --> 02:12:51,303
they need

2924
02:12:52,306 --> 02:12:55,309
to be expanded and repurposes to

2925
02:12:55,309 --> 02:12:57,311
provide our students with the essential experiences

2926
02:12:57,311 --> 02:12:58,312
for career and college that we have

2927
02:12:58,312 --> 02:13:00,312
heard so much

2928
02:13:01,315 --> 02:13:03,317
about throughout all of our many meetings. It

2929
02:13:03,317 --> 02:13:04,318
is essential for everybody to have

2930
02:13:04,318 --> 02:13:06,318
something

2931
02:13:07,321 --> 02:13:08,455
that they can take with

2932
02:13:08,455 --> 02:13:10,324
them. Similarly the community transition

2933
02:13:10,324 --> 02:13:13,327
program needs a permanent home that

2934
02:13:13,327 --> 02:13:14,294
is close to work opportunities and

2935
02:13:14,294 --> 02:13:16,294
public transportation so

2936
02:13:16,296 --> 02:13:18,298
they can continue to develop the

2937
02:13:18,298 --> 02:13:19,299
life skills and experience necessary for

2938
02:13:19,299 --> 02:13:21,699
their future success. And

2939
02:13:22,302 --> 02:13:24,302
then finally, we

2940
02:13:24,304 --> 02:13:25,305
will need additional classrooms at palisades

2941
02:13:25,305 --> 02:13:28,305
elementary that was built in

2942
02:13:28,308 --> 02:13:30,308
1959 to

2943
02:13:31,311 --> 02:13:33,311
meet

2944
02:13:33,313 --> 02:13:34,314
the needs of the current spanish,

2945
02:13:34,314 --> 02:13:36,314
mandrian classes

2946
02:13:37,317 --> 02:13:39,317
needed

2947
02:13:40,320 --> 02:13:43,320
to support a full functioning

2948
02:13:43,323 --> 02:13:44,324
elementary school.

2949
02:13:44,324 --> 02:13:46,324
>> now we

2950
02:13:46,326 --> 02:13:48,295
go to category

2951
02:13:48,295 --> 02:13:49,429
four, consolidating district services. Our

2952
02:13:49,429 --> 02:13:52,299
central office and facilities warehouse

2953
02:13:52,299 --> 02:13:55,302
are in poor condition and not

2954
02:13:55,302 --> 02:13:57,304
equipped to house district wide

2955
02:13:57,304 --> 02:13:58,305
services. The administration building

2956
02:13:58,305 --> 02:14:00,305
in particular was

2957
02:14:01,308 --> 02:14:02,309
bluntly assessed as a high need structure

2958
02:14:02,309 --> 02:14:04,309
in critical

2959
02:14:04,311 --> 02:14:07,311
condition. Currently we are using

2960
02:14:07,314 --> 02:14:10,314
the operating budget to rent

2961
02:14:13,320 --> 02:14:16,323
out space. To address this we propose repurposing

2962
02:14:16,323 --> 02:14:17,324
uplands to have all in one district-owned

2963
02:14:17,324 --> 02:14:19,324
property. Doing

2964
02:14:19,326 --> 02:14:20,460
so will not only

2965
02:14:20,460 --> 02:14:24,600
create greater efficiencies it will save

2966
02:14:24,298 --> 02:14:25,299
the district money in the long-term.

2967
02:14:25,299 --> 02:14:26,300
>>

2968
02:14:26,300 --> 02:14:28,300
I just want

2969
02:14:29,303 --> 02:14:30,337
to add one other point to

2970
02:14:30,337 --> 02:14:32,306
that. 10 years ago, 15 years ago,

2971
02:14:32,306 --> 02:14:34,306
I don't know,

2972
02:14:35,309 --> 02:14:37,311
wherever I first started

2973
02:14:37,311 --> 02:14:38,312
this many, many years ago. Updating

2974
02:14:38,312 --> 02:14:39,313
this

2975
02:14:39,313 --> 02:14:41,315
building and administrative services

2976
02:14:41,315 --> 02:14:44,318
has been on the radar of

2977
02:14:44,318 --> 02:14:46,718
the long-range bond committees

2978
02:14:47,321 --> 02:14:48,422
from the beginning. I think

2979
02:14:48,422 --> 02:14:50,324
we prioritized the education buildings,

2980
02:14:50,324 --> 02:14:52,326
of course we did as

2981
02:14:52,326 --> 02:14:53,327
we continue to do. These offices house

2982
02:14:53,327 --> 02:14:55,327
people

2983
02:14:56,296 --> 02:14:58,298
and infrastructure that are

2984
02:14:58,298 --> 02:14:59,299
critical to the successful functioning

2985
02:14:59,299 --> 02:15:01,299
of our

2986
02:15:01,301 --> 02:15:02,302
district. Combining all in one building will

2987
02:15:02,302 --> 02:15:04,302
enable our

2988
02:15:05,305 --> 02:15:06,373
administrators to serve our

2989
02:15:06,373 --> 02:15:08,308
students more effectively than they

2990
02:15:08,308 --> 02:15:11,308
do already. So, I just

2991
02:15:11,311 --> 02:15:13,313
want to say that. It has

2992
02:15:13,313 --> 02:15:16,316
been on the radar for awhile. And

2993
02:15:16,316 --> 02:15:17,317
needs to be done in this bond.

2994
02:15:17,317 --> 02:15:19,317
>>

2995
02:15:20,320 --> 02:15:22,322
our final slides of

2996
02:15:22,322 --> 02:15:23,323
this. In one pie chart slows the proposed

2997
02:15:23,323 --> 02:15:25,323
allocation of

2998
02:15:25,325 --> 02:15:26,326
the bond funding across all of these priorities

2999
02:15:26,326 --> 02:15:28,295
and

3000
02:15:28,295 --> 02:15:31,298
on behalf of the bond development

3001
02:15:31,298 --> 02:15:32,399
committee I respectfully ask you consider these

3002
02:15:32,399 --> 02:15:35,302
recommendations when crafting the bond

3003
02:15:35,302 --> 02:15:36,303
measure to present to the

3004
02:15:36,303 --> 02:15:38,305
lake oswego voters in november of

3005
02:15:38,305 --> 02:15:40,305
2025 and we thank

3006
02:15:41,308 --> 02:15:42,342
you for your support for

3007
02:15:42,342 --> 02:15:44,311
this process. I thank you for the

3008
02:15:44,311 --> 02:15:46,311
support for this

3009
02:15:46,313 --> 02:15:47,314
process that you provided for the

3010
02:15:47,314 --> 02:15:48,315
last 10 years and

3011
02:15:48,315 --> 02:15:49,316
we are happy to answer questions.

3012
02:15:49,316 --> 02:15:50,317
>>

3013
02:15:50,317 --> 02:15:52,319
I want to thank you

3014
02:15:52,319 --> 02:15:53,320
in particular for all of your work.

3015
02:15:53,320 --> 02:15:54,321
>>

3016
02:15:54,321 --> 02:15:55,322
thank you.

3017
02:15:55,322 --> 02:15:56,490
>> and all

3018
02:15:56,490 --> 02:15:57,324
of the bonds you have been a critical part

3019
02:15:57,324 --> 02:15:59,324
of it. All

3020
02:15:59,326 --> 02:16:02,296
of you, thank you for serving

3021
02:16:02,296 --> 02:16:03,430
and

3022
02:16:03,430 --> 02:16:05,299
providing such great recommend ations. It

3023
02:16:05,299 --> 02:16:08,302
is challenging and I think you

3024
02:16:08,302 --> 02:16:10,702
crafted a package that,

3025
02:16:11,305 --> 02:16:14,305
you know, for my perspective

3026
02:16:14,308 --> 02:16:17,311
does not increase our taxes for

3027
02:16:17,311 --> 02:16:19,313
our taxpayers, it is

3028
02:16:19,313 --> 02:16:20,314
efficient as mr. Vandenberg pointed

3029
02:16:20,314 --> 02:16:21,315
out. We

3030
02:16:21,315 --> 02:16:23,317
heard about budget issues with our

3031
02:16:23,317 --> 02:16:24,351
operating budget

3032
02:16:24,351 --> 02:16:26,320
but this is a separate issue. However,

3033
02:16:26,320 --> 02:16:28,720
if we do not

3034
02:16:29,323 --> 02:16:30,357
address the things

3035
02:16:30,357 --> 02:16:32,326
that you are talking about with the

3036
02:16:32,326 --> 02:16:34,294
bond we will have to use

3037
02:16:34,294 --> 02:16:35,295
our general fund budget to pay for

3038
02:16:35,295 --> 02:16:37,295
these things. These

3039
02:16:37,297 --> 02:16:38,298
are things that are critical to do

3040
02:16:38,298 --> 02:16:40,298
and

3041
02:16:44,304 --> 02:16:47,904
can only be done in a

3042
02:16:50,310 --> 02:16:51,311
bond. Thank you.

3043
02:16:51,311 --> 02:16:53,311
>> I wanted to

3044
02:16:53,313 --> 02:16:55,313
ask andrew

3045
02:16:56,316 --> 02:16:59,319
and erin. You have been through

3046
02:16:59,319 --> 02:17:02,322
a lot. After going through the

3047
02:17:02,322 --> 02:17:05,325
process did you get what you

3048
02:17:05,325 --> 02:17:06,326
expected?

3049
02:17:06,326 --> 02:17:08,295
>> yeah, I think that

3050
02:17:08,295 --> 02:17:11,298
it has been new, like a fully new experience

3051
02:17:11,298 --> 02:17:12,466
for myself, I was

3052
02:17:12,466 --> 02:17:14,301
on the long range facilities planning. And

3053
02:17:14,301 --> 02:17:16,301
now the bond

3054
02:17:17,304 --> 02:17:18,372
development. It has

3055
02:17:18,372 --> 02:17:20,307
been a really interesting experience

3056
02:17:20,307 --> 02:17:23,310
to go through all of the steps

3057
02:17:23,310 --> 02:17:25,312
and looking at not only what

3058
02:17:25,312 --> 02:17:26,313
we want for neighborhood schools but

3059
02:17:26,313 --> 02:17:29,316
what all of the schools need

3060
02:17:29,316 --> 02:17:32,319
and what we really need to do to kind

3061
02:17:32,319 --> 02:17:35,322
of serve the district as a

3062
02:17:35,322 --> 02:17:36,323
whole. And, I know that there has

3063
02:17:36,323 --> 02:17:37,524
a

3064
02:17:37,524 --> 02:17:38,325
lot of feelings about who, you know, should

3065
02:17:38,325 --> 02:17:40,325
be getting

3066
02:17:41,295 --> 02:17:43,695
what or what is

3067
02:17:44,298 --> 02:17:46,300
the most important piece but

3068
02:17:46,300 --> 02:17:50,304
really I am impressed with how the

3069
02:17:50,304 --> 02:17:51,505
board and other members

3070
02:17:51,505 --> 02:17:53,307
have been open to constructive dialogue. Not

3071
02:17:53,307 --> 02:17:56,310
everyone agreed all of the time but

3072
02:17:56,310 --> 02:17:58,310
we really were

3073
02:17:59,313 --> 02:18:01,315
able to come to a

3074
02:18:01,315 --> 02:18:02,316
good conclusion to get what we could,

3075
02:18:02,316 --> 02:18:04,316
you know, to

3076
02:18:04,318 --> 02:18:05,319
the best of the ability as we did have

3077
02:18:05,319 --> 02:18:07,319
a certain amount

3078
02:18:07,321 --> 02:18:11,325
of funds to really make sure that

3079
02:18:11,325 --> 02:18:13,327
every student is going to be served

3080
02:18:13,327 --> 02:18:14,294
in an efficient way and I think the district

3081
02:18:14,294 --> 02:18:16,294
will be in

3082
02:18:17,297 --> 02:18:19,697
a great place after

3083
02:18:20,300 --> 02:18:23,300
this gets passed and the

3084
02:18:23,303 --> 02:18:24,271
work continues.

3085
02:18:24,271 --> 02:18:25,506
>> I have really valued

3086
02:18:25,506 --> 02:18:26,306
this board throughout the whole process. That

3087
02:18:26,306 --> 02:18:29,309
was the first thing that brought

3088
02:18:29,309 --> 02:18:30,310
me into all of this. The meetings you

3089
02:18:30,310 --> 02:18:31,345
all

3090
02:18:31,345 --> 02:18:32,312
had. The open house that you had,

3091
02:18:32,312 --> 02:18:34,312
the information

3092
02:18:34,314 --> 02:18:35,315
that you shared it was really valuable

3093
02:18:35,315 --> 02:18:37,315
in

3094
02:18:38,318 --> 02:18:39,319
informing my thoughts about this coming

3095
02:18:39,319 --> 02:18:41,319
into

3096
02:18:41,321 --> 02:18:44,324
the bond committee. And the bond

3097
02:18:44,324 --> 02:18:47,324
committee process being as open

3098
02:18:47,327 --> 02:18:49,727
as transparent and communicative

3099
02:18:50,297 --> 02:18:52,297
as

3100
02:18:52,299 --> 02:18:53,300
well. I email a lot. Appreciate you. And,

3101
02:18:53,300 --> 02:18:55,300
it is

3102
02:18:56,303 --> 02:18:59,303
really helpful to have people

3103
02:18:59,306 --> 02:19:01,306
from across different

3104
02:19:02,309 --> 02:19:03,310
parts of our community,

3105
02:19:03,310 --> 02:19:05,312
different geographic areas, different

3106
02:19:05,312 --> 02:19:07,314
interest areas it puts a human face

3107
02:19:07,314 --> 02:19:08,315
on all of this. As we move into the

3108
02:19:08,315 --> 02:19:11,315
next phase to continue to

3109
02:19:11,318 --> 02:19:14,321
put a human face on all of the

3110
02:19:14,321 --> 02:19:16,321
interests will

3111
02:19:16,323 --> 02:19:17,324
be incredibly important as well as

3112
02:19:17,324 --> 02:19:19,324
compromise. I

3113
02:19:20,327 --> 02:19:22,727
think for me as

3114
02:19:23,297 --> 02:19:26,300
a palisades parent it was good to

3115
02:19:26,300 --> 02:19:28,300
see commitments made

3116
02:19:29,303 --> 02:19:31,303
there

3117
02:19:31,305 --> 02:19:36,105
and commitments kept. That was important. And to

3118
02:19:38,312 --> 02:19:39,313
see the stem projects, those have

3119
02:19:39,313 --> 02:19:41,313
been great. And

3120
02:19:41,315 --> 02:19:42,316
it has been good for us. I think our

3121
02:19:42,316 --> 02:19:44,316
recommendations

3122
02:19:44,318 --> 02:19:46,320
are going to be helpful for you

3123
02:19:46,320 --> 02:19:47,321
in deciding what the final project looks like. Of

3124
02:19:47,321 --> 02:19:49,321
course

3125
02:19:50,324 --> 02:19:51,325
that is still down the road. Good

3126
02:19:51,325 --> 02:19:53,325
luck to

3127
02:19:53,327 --> 02:19:56,296
you as you get us to

3128
02:19:56,296 --> 02:19:57,297
the next stage.

3129
02:19:57,297 --> 02:19:58,298
>> we heard some commentary

3130
02:19:58,298 --> 02:19:59,299
this evening I

3131
02:19:59,299 --> 02:20:01,301
know I am getting a lot more

3132
02:20:01,301 --> 02:20:02,302
feedback. Maybe it is my demographic. But

3133
02:20:02,302 --> 02:20:04,302
run

3134
02:20:05,305 --> 02:20:07,705
through a little bit

3135
02:20:08,308 --> 02:20:09,309
of the reasoning for, we heard from the

3136
02:20:09,309 --> 02:20:11,309
group

3137
02:20:11,311 --> 02:20:12,346
this evening

3138
02:20:12,346 --> 02:20:14,314
for another $45 million school. Just,

3139
02:20:14,314 --> 02:20:16,714
run through just a

3140
02:20:17,317 --> 02:20:20,320
little bit of the assessment of what the

3141
02:20:20,320 --> 02:20:22,720
group came to a

3142
02:20:23,323 --> 02:20:25,323
conclusion. On

3143
02:20:25,325 --> 02:20:26,326
why rebuilding two elementary schools?

3144
02:20:26,326 --> 02:20:27,327
>>

3145
02:20:27,327 --> 02:20:29,296
well, I

3146
02:20:29,296 --> 02:20:30,297
think, this community really values

3147
02:20:30,297 --> 02:20:32,299
its neighborhood schools and

3148
02:20:32,299 --> 02:20:35,299
we heard that loud and

3149
02:20:36,303 --> 02:20:37,304
clear from every

3150
02:20:37,304 --> 02:20:40,904
member of the community. Not just

3151
02:20:43,310 --> 02:20:46,910
one particular school. And I think

3152
02:20:50,317 --> 02:20:54,321
there is a value there to have kids

3153
02:20:54,321 --> 02:20:56,323
walk to school, to have the community, it

3154
02:20:56,323 --> 02:20:57,324
is a cohesive thing and we have to

3155
02:20:57,324 --> 02:20:59,324
rebuild

3156
02:21:00,327 --> 02:21:02,327
this building

3157
02:21:03,297 --> 02:21:05,297
that has to

3158
02:21:06,300 --> 02:21:07,301
go and where, even if we

3159
02:21:07,301 --> 02:21:09,303
moved everybody uplands we would have to

3160
02:21:09,303 --> 02:21:11,305
rebuild this building. I am

3161
02:21:11,305 --> 02:21:12,306
not sure it is apples to apples.

3162
02:21:12,306 --> 02:21:14,306
>>

3163
02:21:15,309 --> 02:21:17,311
I will add one thing. From

3164
02:21:17,311 --> 02:21:18,312
a building perspective. I don't like

3165
02:21:18,312 --> 02:21:20,312
to compare

3166
02:21:20,314 --> 02:21:23,914
the buildings necessarily but based on

3167
02:21:24,318 --> 02:21:26,320
the age of the

3168
02:21:26,320 --> 02:21:27,321
building. Lake grove needs to be demolished. It

3169
02:21:27,321 --> 02:21:29,321
will

3170
02:21:30,324 --> 02:21:32,326
not last as long

3171
02:21:32,326 --> 02:21:36,296
as a school like the uplands facility or

3172
02:21:36,296 --> 02:21:37,297
a facility like the

3173
02:21:37,297 --> 02:21:39,299
uplands facility. Regardless, lake

3174
02:21:39,299 --> 02:21:41,299
grove needs

3175
02:21:41,301 --> 02:21:42,302
to be demolished and rebuilt into something. From

3176
02:21:42,302 --> 02:21:43,303
my

3177
02:21:43,303 --> 02:21:45,305
perspective helped really wrap my

3178
02:21:45,305 --> 02:21:47,705
head around why things

3179
02:21:48,308 --> 02:21:50,310
need to happen at each

3180
02:21:50,310 --> 02:21:51,311
of the sites the way they are. I think

3181
02:21:51,311 --> 02:21:53,311
it

3182
02:21:53,313 --> 02:21:54,314
is important to keep that in mind

3183
02:21:54,314 --> 02:21:56,316
for the two oldest schools

3184
02:21:56,316 --> 02:21:57,317
that when you get down into the dirt

3185
02:21:57,317 --> 02:21:58,318
you are

3186
02:21:58,318 --> 02:22:00,320
getting kind of to the point that

3187
02:22:00,320 --> 02:22:02,320
you can not

3188
02:22:03,323 --> 02:22:04,424
take it much

3189
02:22:04,424 --> 02:22:05,325
further without a complete replacement.

3190
02:22:05,325 --> 02:22:06,326
>>

3191
02:22:06,326 --> 02:22:08,326
so, for me,

3192
02:22:09,296 --> 02:22:10,430
I know that this has been widely

3193
02:22:10,430 --> 02:22:12,299
discussed topic about lake grove should

3194
02:22:12,299 --> 02:22:14,299
stay where

3195
02:22:15,302 --> 02:22:18,305
it is or moved. And I

3196
02:22:18,305 --> 02:22:20,307
think that being --I am not only a

3197
02:22:20,307 --> 02:22:21,308
lake grove parent but I grew up in

3198
02:22:21,308 --> 02:22:23,308
lake

3199
02:22:23,310 --> 02:22:24,311
grove. My family lived in lake grove since

3200
02:22:24,311 --> 02:22:26,313
the '70s. My

3201
02:22:26,313 --> 02:22:30,317
kids will not be there anymore. That

3202
02:22:30,317 --> 02:22:32,319
is still an important part of our

3203
02:22:32,319 --> 02:22:33,320
community, having that lake grove

3204
02:22:33,320 --> 02:22:35,320
elementary school. It

3205
02:22:36,323 --> 02:22:38,325
is the, the city was built around

3206
02:22:38,325 --> 02:22:39,326
the school. Addition alley, I think

3207
02:22:39,326 --> 02:22:41,726
there is no other

3208
02:22:42,296 --> 02:22:44,296
place

3209
02:22:46,300 --> 02:22:48,302
in the lake grove neighborhood --

3210
02:22:48,302 --> 02:22:50,302
additionally,

3211
02:22:50,304 --> 02:22:51,305
I think there is no other place in the

3212
02:22:51,305 --> 02:22:53,305
lake

3213
02:22:53,307 --> 02:22:54,308
grove neighborhood to put it. It is

3214
02:22:54,308 --> 02:22:56,308
a gathering

3215
02:22:56,310 --> 02:22:57,311
sight. If that building goes there

3216
02:22:57,311 --> 02:23:00,311
is nowhere to go. My

3217
02:23:00,314 --> 02:23:01,315
hope when the school gets rebuilt

3218
02:23:01,315 --> 02:23:03,315
and

3219
02:23:03,317 --> 02:23:06,320
it is going to be, no doubt

3220
02:23:06,320 --> 02:23:07,321
as amazing as river grove, if there

3221
02:23:07,321 --> 02:23:08,355
is

3222
02:23:08,355 --> 02:23:09,323
an emergency we can work with the

3223
02:23:09,323 --> 02:23:11,323
city and have

3224
02:23:11,325 --> 02:23:12,326
it as an available space. Right now

3225
02:23:12,326 --> 02:23:13,393
there is

3226
02:23:13,393 --> 02:23:15,295
nowhere to go in lake grove. Whether

3227
02:23:15,295 --> 02:23:18,298
we had the ice storm people had

3228
02:23:18,298 --> 02:23:20,298
to figure out

3229
02:23:21,301 --> 02:23:24,301
how to get from lake

3230
02:23:24,304 --> 02:23:25,305
grove to downtown lake oswego for

3231
02:23:25,305 --> 02:23:26,607
a

3232
02:23:26,607 --> 02:23:29,309
warming center. That is not just something people

3233
02:23:29,309 --> 02:23:32,312
can do. Lake grove is a walkable area that

3234
02:23:32,312 --> 02:23:33,313
really if that is an available space

3235
02:23:33,313 --> 02:23:35,313
it is easy

3236
02:23:36,316 --> 02:23:38,318
for everyone to get to. And, you

3237
02:23:38,318 --> 02:23:41,321
know, over by lake ridge, city hall

3238
02:23:41,321 --> 02:23:42,322
has, you know, for downtown lake oswego. I

3239
02:23:42,322 --> 02:23:44,322
just think

3240
02:23:45,325 --> 02:23:47,327
that not only is it important for the

3241
02:23:47,327 --> 02:23:50,297
community as a learning institution

3242
02:23:50,297 --> 02:23:51,298
and neighborhood school that the city was

3243
02:23:51,298 --> 02:23:53,298
built

3244
02:23:54,301 --> 02:23:55,302
around I think it is a huge community

3245
02:23:55,302 --> 02:23:57,302
asset. And I

3246
02:23:57,304 --> 02:23:59,306
think that it is just really important

3247
02:23:59,306 --> 02:24:00,307
that we maintain neighborhood schools and

3248
02:24:00,307 --> 02:24:02,307
have

3249
02:24:06,313 --> 02:24:09,316
that for the community as a

3250
02:24:09,316 --> 02:24:10,317
whole.

3251
02:24:10,317 --> 02:24:11,351
>> I was on

3252
02:24:11,351 --> 02:24:12,319
the committee, too. Something that

3253
02:24:12,319 --> 02:24:14,319
was helpful

3254
02:24:15,322 --> 02:24:17,322
for us in

3255
02:24:17,324 --> 02:24:18,325
our conversations as well was the

3256
02:24:18,325 --> 02:24:21,295
community polling that we did. And

3257
02:24:21,295 --> 02:24:24,298
I think we talked about it in

3258
02:24:24,298 --> 02:24:25,332
our last meeting

3259
02:24:25,332 --> 02:24:27,301
with you. What consistently polled

3260
02:24:27,301 --> 02:24:30,304
the lowest. No offense to you

3261
02:24:30,304 --> 02:24:32,704
guys, but it is

3262
02:24:33,307 --> 02:24:34,308
the admin building. So, if you are

3263
02:24:34,308 --> 02:24:36,308
to knockdown

3264
02:24:36,310 --> 02:24:39,310
an elementary school and you

3265
02:24:39,313 --> 02:24:42,316
want to rally a community around

3266
02:24:42,316 --> 02:24:45,319
a vote, a bond, it is kind of, you know,

3267
02:24:45,319 --> 02:24:47,319
rebuild from the

3268
02:24:47,321 --> 02:24:48,322
ground up an elementary school, a community

3269
02:24:48,322 --> 02:24:50,322
center,

3270
02:24:51,325 --> 02:24:54,328
an emergency hub, all of this

3271
02:24:54,328 --> 02:24:57,297
stuff or rebuild from the ground up similar

3272
02:24:57,297 --> 02:24:59,297
who knows apples

3273
02:25:00,300 --> 02:25:02,302
to apples money. A

3274
02:25:02,302 --> 02:25:03,303
brand-new shiny admin building. I

3275
02:25:03,303 --> 02:25:05,303
don't

3276
02:25:06,306 --> 02:25:08,308
know. Having those, we have the upland building

3277
02:25:08,308 --> 02:25:09,309
for something, I agree that it seems

3278
02:25:09,309 --> 02:25:11,309
like a

3279
02:25:12,312 --> 02:25:13,313
no-brainer to put all of those things

3280
02:25:13,313 --> 02:25:15,313
in all

3281
02:25:15,315 --> 02:25:17,317
one building but that is another

3282
02:25:17,317 --> 02:25:18,318
discussion. The polling, the open

3283
02:25:18,318 --> 02:25:20,318
house information. We

3284
02:25:21,321 --> 02:25:24,324
took all of that stuff into account. We

3285
02:25:24,324 --> 02:25:25,325
had a lot of good conversations around

3286
02:25:25,325 --> 02:25:26,326
it.

3287
02:25:26,326 --> 02:25:27,327
>> yes. >>

3288
02:25:27,327 --> 02:25:29,327
one final

3289
02:25:30,297 --> 02:25:32,297
point

3290
02:25:33,300 --> 02:25:36,303
I was going to say -- [inaudible] one

3291
02:25:36,303 --> 02:25:38,303
of

3292
02:25:39,306 --> 02:25:40,307
the things we looked

3293
02:25:40,307 --> 02:25:42,309
at was geographic spread. The area

3294
02:25:42,309 --> 02:25:44,309
of

3295
02:25:45,312 --> 02:25:47,312
highest need

3296
02:25:48,315 --> 02:25:52,515
it is the lake ridge community. So,

3297
02:25:54,321 --> 02:25:55,322
removing --

3298
02:25:55,322 --> 02:25:56,323
>> I

3299
02:25:56,323 --> 02:25:57,324
should note, too, how we discussed

3300
02:25:57,324 --> 02:25:59,724
all of this. We

3301
02:26:00,327 --> 02:26:02,327
are one part

3302
02:26:03,297 --> 02:26:05,299
in a longer broader process. And,

3303
02:26:05,299 --> 02:26:06,300
as tony mentioned the schools were

3304
02:26:06,300 --> 02:26:08,300
determined to

3305
02:26:10,304 --> 02:26:12,306
be presented to the

3306
02:26:12,306 --> 02:26:15,309
committee as in need of replacement. So,

3307
02:26:15,309 --> 02:26:18,312
you can see this, when you approach

3308
02:26:18,312 --> 02:26:22,316
the matter of do we replace these

3309
02:26:22,316 --> 02:26:24,318
facilities that was taken as

3310
02:26:24,318 --> 02:26:25,319
a give in for this committee. Our

3311
02:26:25,319 --> 02:26:27,319
recommendation

3312
02:26:28,322 --> 02:26:29,323
is based on the assumption that

3313
02:26:29,323 --> 02:26:30,324
both of these will be replaced.

3314
02:26:30,324 --> 02:26:31,325
>>

3315
02:26:31,325 --> 02:26:34,325
thank you very much. And

3316
02:26:34,328 --> 02:26:37,297
I want to say that, you know,

3317
02:26:37,297 --> 02:26:38,298
it is

3318
02:26:38,298 --> 02:26:40,300
a very large piece of property. And

3319
02:26:40,300 --> 02:26:42,300
there is

3320
02:26:43,303 --> 02:26:45,305
potential use for some

3321
02:26:45,305 --> 02:26:46,306
of the other piece of property. And,

3322
02:26:46,306 --> 02:26:48,306
you know,

3323
02:26:49,309 --> 02:26:51,709
I really appreciated tony

3324
02:26:54,314 --> 02:26:55,315
how you opened the presentation with contectualizing

3325
02:26:55,315 --> 02:26:57,315
it

3326
02:26:58,318 --> 02:27:00,718
is a process and

3327
02:27:01,321 --> 02:27:03,323
the making for decades. And

3328
02:27:03,323 --> 02:27:04,324
so that was really helpful and, and

3329
02:27:04,324 --> 02:27:06,324
you know,

3330
02:27:07,327 --> 02:27:09,296
I really, really

3331
02:27:09,296 --> 02:27:12,896
appreciate all of your work. Coming

3332
02:27:13,300 --> 02:27:14,301
together, making, you know,

3333
02:27:14,301 --> 02:27:16,303
having these conversations. And, you

3334
02:27:16,303 --> 02:27:18,703
know, I am excited

3335
02:27:19,306 --> 02:27:21,706
then to look to

3336
02:27:22,309 --> 02:27:24,309
the future

3337
02:27:25,312 --> 02:27:26,313
of getting the bond passed.

3338
02:27:26,313 --> 02:27:28,313
>>

3339
02:27:28,315 --> 02:27:30,317
during the bond process or the bond

3340
02:27:30,317 --> 02:27:31,318
committee process, tony, we moved

3341
02:27:31,318 --> 02:27:33,318
from a

3342
02:27:34,321 --> 02:27:35,322
$220 million bond

3343
02:27:35,322 --> 02:27:37,324
figure to a $235 million bond figure. For

3344
02:27:37,324 --> 02:27:39,326
those that did not

3345
02:27:39,326 --> 02:27:40,327
track it weekly as we did, can you

3346
02:27:40,327 --> 02:27:42,327
talk

3347
02:27:43,297 --> 02:27:45,297
a little bit

3348
02:27:46,300 --> 02:27:49,300
about where that extra $15 million

3349
02:27:49,303 --> 02:27:51,305
it came from and what valves it

3350
02:27:51,305 --> 02:27:55,309
opened up to get programming and projects

3351
02:27:55,309 --> 02:27:56,310
into the

3352
02:27:56,310 --> 02:27:57,311
bond or into the recommendation?

3353
02:27:57,311 --> 02:27:58,345
>>

3354
02:27:58,345 --> 02:28:01,315
yes. Stewart would be able to speak to

3355
02:28:01,315 --> 02:28:04,318
it more than I could but

3356
02:28:04,318 --> 02:28:06,320
as we talked to financial analysts that

3357
02:28:06,320 --> 02:28:07,321
we work with and really honed in on

3358
02:28:07,321 --> 02:28:09,321
the amount

3359
02:28:09,323 --> 02:28:10,324
they were able to provide us with

3360
02:28:10,324 --> 02:28:12,324
a

3361
02:28:13,327 --> 02:28:15,295
more detailed dollar value that we were

3362
02:28:15,295 --> 02:28:16,296
able to achieve. As we achieve that

3363
02:28:16,296 --> 02:28:19,296
knowledge of the amount of

3364
02:28:19,299 --> 02:28:21,301
that we could get to it really

3365
02:28:21,301 --> 02:28:25,305
just kept chipping away at the highest

3366
02:28:25,305 --> 02:28:27,305
priority items

3367
02:28:28,308 --> 02:28:29,309
that we have

3368
02:28:29,309 --> 02:28:31,311
on the evergrowing, never-ending list of

3369
02:28:31,311 --> 02:28:33,311
things. Able

3370
02:28:34,314 --> 02:28:37,317
to put it together in larger projects. Think

3371
02:28:37,317 --> 02:28:40,317
about what they need to

3372
02:28:40,320 --> 02:28:42,320
be and how

3373
02:28:43,323 --> 02:28:46,323
to achieve those items on

3374
02:28:46,326 --> 02:28:48,295
the list and

3375
02:28:48,295 --> 02:28:49,296
be sustainable moving forward.

3376
02:28:49,296 --> 02:28:50,297
>> yes,

3377
02:28:50,297 --> 02:28:52,297
I

3378
02:28:52,299 --> 02:28:54,299
mean

3379
02:28:54,301 --> 02:28:55,302
having sat in the meetings on the

3380
02:28:55,302 --> 02:28:57,302
board, what

3381
02:28:58,305 --> 02:28:59,306
I saw with the extra $15 million it

3382
02:28:59,306 --> 02:29:01,308
avoided the more difficult choices,

3383
02:29:01,308 --> 02:29:03,310
I think, added some

3384
02:29:03,310 --> 02:29:04,311
of the finer points.

3385
02:29:04,311 --> 02:29:06,311
>> yes >> that

3386
02:29:06,313 --> 02:29:07,314
the community was really struggling

3387
02:29:07,314 --> 02:29:09,314
with, competing

3388
02:29:10,317 --> 02:29:13,320
value demands. So I think we

3389
02:29:13,320 --> 02:29:15,322
were fortunate to find

3390
02:29:15,322 --> 02:29:16,323
ourselves in that position. In one

3391
02:29:16,323 --> 02:29:18,323
sense

3392
02:29:19,326 --> 02:29:22,296
doing that hard mental figuring and decision-making

3393
02:29:22,296 --> 02:29:24,298
early to then realize wait

3394
02:29:24,298 --> 02:29:25,299
we can do more than that.

3395
02:29:25,299 --> 02:29:26,300
>> went

3396
02:29:26,300 --> 02:29:28,300
a

3397
02:29:28,302 --> 02:29:31,305
long way to make the recommendation

3398
02:29:31,305 --> 02:29:32,306
capture as much as it does

3399
02:29:32,306 --> 02:29:33,340
>>

3400
02:29:33,340 --> 02:29:34,308
especially around the large projects.

3401
02:29:34,308 --> 02:29:35,309
>>

3402
02:29:35,309 --> 02:29:36,310
yes. It

3403
02:29:36,310 --> 02:29:37,311
solidified that for us.

3404
02:29:37,311 --> 02:29:38,312
>> I have

3405
02:29:38,312 --> 02:29:40,312
to follow

3406
02:29:40,314 --> 02:29:43,317
up that question with a question. We

3407
02:29:43,317 --> 02:29:45,317
are looking at

3408
02:29:46,320 --> 02:29:47,487
really uncertain times and, I

3409
02:29:47,487 --> 02:29:49,323
know we always talked contingencies of 20%

3410
02:29:49,323 --> 02:29:51,323
and I

3411
02:29:54,328 --> 02:29:55,295
think we are talking higher contingencies. What

3412
02:29:55,295 --> 02:29:57,295
would drop off

3413
02:29:58,298 --> 02:29:59,299
of the list if, if it turns out that building

3414
02:29:59,299 --> 02:30:01,299
is

3415
02:30:01,301 --> 02:30:02,302
going to be a little more unpredictable?

3416
02:30:02,302 --> 02:30:03,303
>>

3417
02:30:03,303 --> 02:30:04,505
we

3418
02:30:04,505 --> 02:30:07,307
are not going to make that happen. Certainly

3419
02:30:07,307 --> 02:30:09,307
not going

3420
02:30:09,309 --> 02:30:10,310
to make that happen.

3421
02:30:10,310 --> 02:30:11,311
>> I applaud

3422
02:30:11,311 --> 02:30:13,311
you. What you

3423
02:30:16,316 --> 02:30:19,916
did with the last bond was

3424
02:30:21,321 --> 02:30:22,322
remarkable. Purchase ahead and kept

3425
02:30:22,322 --> 02:30:23,323
things in the budget.

3426
02:30:23,323 --> 02:30:25,323
>>

3427
02:30:25,325 --> 02:30:27,327
we are not shy about waiting. We canceled

3428
02:30:27,327 --> 02:30:28,295
projects and waiting for the following

3429
02:30:28,295 --> 02:30:30,295
year. During the

3430
02:30:31,298 --> 02:30:32,299
pandemic we weathered the storm. We

3431
02:30:32,299 --> 02:30:34,299
went

3432
02:30:34,301 --> 02:30:37,301
in with normal contingencies going

3433
02:30:37,304 --> 02:30:40,304
into the 2021 program as we

3434
02:30:40,307 --> 02:30:42,307
were working through

3435
02:30:43,310 --> 02:30:45,710
the 2017 bond program. And

3436
02:30:46,313 --> 02:30:48,315
as pandemic hit and

3437
02:30:48,315 --> 02:30:49,316
major volatility and materials and equipment,

3438
02:30:49,316 --> 02:30:51,716
labor scarcity, we are

3439
02:30:52,319 --> 02:30:53,320
able to kind of navigate through it

3440
02:30:53,320 --> 02:30:55,320
just

3441
02:30:55,322 --> 02:30:58,325
by feeling out the market, you know,

3442
02:30:58,325 --> 02:31:01,328
we have some of our friends here from the

3443
02:31:01,328 --> 02:31:02,296
county. All of our colleagues around us we

3444
02:31:02,296 --> 02:31:03,397
talk. I talk

3445
02:31:03,397 --> 02:31:05,299
to all of the other school districts,

3446
02:31:05,299 --> 02:31:07,299
we have

3447
02:31:07,301 --> 02:31:10,304
a great pool of contractors. We have

3448
02:31:10,304 --> 02:31:11,305
great momentum with our bond programs. In

3449
02:31:11,305 --> 02:31:13,305
2017 and

3450
02:31:14,308 --> 02:31:16,708
I mentioned this before,

3451
02:31:17,311 --> 02:31:18,445
where we would get three people

3452
02:31:18,445 --> 02:31:19,513
participating, three contractors participating on

3453
02:31:19,513 --> 02:31:22,316
a bond. We have about 18 that showed

3454
02:31:22,316 --> 02:31:23,317
up to look at our little pool conversion

3455
02:31:23,317 --> 02:31:25,317
program

3456
02:31:26,320 --> 02:31:27,321
over here. We got

3457
02:31:27,321 --> 02:31:29,323
a really good audience. Contractors

3458
02:31:29,323 --> 02:31:31,323
around here know

3459
02:31:32,326 --> 02:31:34,328
who we are and how we work. I

3460
02:31:34,328 --> 02:31:36,296
mentioned it before, we paved the

3461
02:31:36,296 --> 02:31:38,298
way for them. No pun intended. Get

3462
02:31:38,298 --> 02:31:40,298
the permits and

3463
02:31:41,301 --> 02:31:43,303
make it as easy as we can to

3464
02:31:43,303 --> 02:31:46,306
be as successful as we want ourselves to

3465
02:31:46,306 --> 02:31:47,307
be. It is all translates into competitive

3466
02:31:47,307 --> 02:31:48,342
pricing

3467
02:31:48,342 --> 02:31:50,310
and better delivery. You can see it

3468
02:31:50,310 --> 02:31:52,312
happening across the street right

3469
02:31:52,312 --> 02:31:54,314
now. In addition to that, you know, we

3470
02:31:54,314 --> 02:31:56,316
look at global trade, things that

3471
02:31:56,316 --> 02:31:58,318
are impacting if it

3472
02:31:58,318 --> 02:31:59,319
is wars or terrorists or things like that. We

3473
02:31:59,319 --> 02:32:01,319
experienced

3474
02:32:01,321 --> 02:32:02,322
all of this. It is not necessarily

3475
02:32:02,322 --> 02:32:04,322
new. We feel

3476
02:32:04,324 --> 02:32:05,325
like we built in the safety valves. And,

3477
02:32:05,325 --> 02:32:06,326
if

3478
02:32:06,326 --> 02:32:08,328
there is more that can be done we

3479
02:32:08,328 --> 02:32:10,297
have a list

3480
02:32:10,297 --> 02:32:11,298
of things to do in addition to this

3481
02:32:11,298 --> 02:32:13,298
that we will

3482
02:32:14,301 --> 02:32:17,304
come back to the school board to permission

3483
02:32:17,304 --> 02:32:20,307
on how we want to proceed on some

3484
02:32:20,307 --> 02:32:21,308
of those priorities.

3485
02:32:21,308 --> 02:32:23,308
>> I have

3486
02:32:23,310 --> 02:32:25,710
so say, I have

3487
02:32:26,313 --> 02:32:28,313
faith it will

3488
02:32:29,316 --> 02:32:30,317
be faithfully executed

3489
02:32:30,317 --> 02:32:32,317
>>

3490
02:32:32,319 --> 02:32:34,719
I appreciate that we

3491
02:32:35,322 --> 02:32:38,325
never talked about having a gym space. The

3492
02:32:38,325 --> 02:32:41,325
whole team put together extra

3493
02:32:41,328 --> 02:32:42,296
money

3494
02:32:42,296 --> 02:32:46,496
and extra resources to add things. I

3495
02:32:49,303 --> 02:32:50,304
am confident in you as well.

3496
02:32:50,304 --> 02:32:52,304
>> l

3497
02:32:53,307 --> 02:32:55,309
I do want to

3498
02:32:55,309 --> 02:32:56,310
give opportunity for more opportunities

3499
02:32:56,310 --> 02:32:58,310
for

3500
02:32:58,312 --> 02:32:59,313
other to comment. We will take this

3501
02:32:59,313 --> 02:33:01,315
as an information item

3502
02:33:01,315 --> 02:33:02,316
and have it back at our next meeting

3503
02:33:02,316 --> 02:33:04,316
and we will

3504
02:33:05,319 --> 02:33:08,322
vote on it and then the proses

3505
02:33:08,322 --> 02:33:11,325
from there is maybe, I don't

3506
02:33:11,325 --> 02:33:14,328
know, maybe you can talk about

3507
02:33:14,328 --> 02:33:16,296
the

3508
02:33:16,296 --> 02:33:17,297
next, what happens after that?

3509
02:33:17,297 --> 02:33:19,297
>> sure.

3510
02:33:22,302 --> 02:33:25,305
upon adoption of the board at which

3511
02:33:25,305 --> 02:33:26,306
would be you giving the district permission to

3512
02:33:26,306 --> 02:33:28,306
move forward and

3513
02:33:29,309 --> 02:33:31,309
putting this on

3514
02:33:32,312 --> 02:33:33,347
the november 2025 ballot

3515
02:33:33,347 --> 02:33:36,347
that would officially kickoff our

3516
02:33:38,318 --> 02:33:41,318
two campaigns. The district runs

3517
02:33:41,321 --> 02:33:43,323
the education information campaign,

3518
02:33:43,323 --> 02:33:44,324
and, our citizen committee organizes

3519
02:33:44,324 --> 02:33:46,326
the citizen campaign. And the

3520
02:33:46,326 --> 02:33:47,327
way that I describe it as the district

3521
02:33:47,327 --> 02:33:48,462
can provide

3522
02:33:48,462 --> 02:33:50,297
all of the information and tell you what

3523
02:33:50,297 --> 02:33:51,298
is on the

3524
02:33:51,298 --> 02:33:53,300
bond, the citizen campaign can ask

3525
02:33:53,300 --> 02:33:55,300
you to

3526
02:33:55,302 --> 02:33:59,306
say yes to the bond. So, very pleased

3527
02:33:59,306 --> 02:34:02,306
to say that we have

3528
02:34:02,309 --> 02:34:05,312
our campaign chair in the audience

3529
02:34:05,312 --> 02:34:07,314
there. She has volunteered to

3530
02:34:07,314 --> 02:34:08,315
lead our effort. I will say it was

3531
02:34:08,315 --> 02:34:10,317
a pleasure to ask

3532
02:34:10,317 --> 02:34:11,318
her to do this because rarely do you

3533
02:34:11,318 --> 02:34:13,320
get to go to someone

3534
02:34:13,320 --> 02:34:14,321
and ask them to be the claire and

3535
02:34:14,321 --> 02:34:16,321
say I have

3536
02:34:17,324 --> 02:34:19,324
a whole team

3537
02:34:20,327 --> 02:34:21,328
of people ready to help you. Including

3538
02:34:21,328 --> 02:34:22,362
courtney

3539
02:34:22,362 --> 02:34:23,297
and miles and erin and andrew. Everyone

3540
02:34:23,297 --> 02:34:25,299
who has been part

3541
02:34:25,299 --> 02:34:29,303
of the process before really wants to

3542
02:34:29,303 --> 02:34:30,304
see this third phase come through.

3543
02:34:30,304 --> 02:34:31,305
>>

3544
02:34:31,305 --> 02:34:32,306
citizens

3545
02:34:32,306 --> 02:34:35,306
are listening and they want

3546
02:34:35,309 --> 02:34:36,310
to get involved you will provide

3547
02:34:36,310 --> 02:34:37,311
information?

3548
02:34:37,311 --> 02:34:38,312
>> absolutely. We will

3549
02:34:38,312 --> 02:34:40,314
start the, as soon as people

3550
02:34:40,314 --> 02:34:43,317
know exactly what it is they are campaigning

3551
02:34:43,317 --> 02:34:44,318
for, they are ready to come over and

3552
02:34:44,318 --> 02:34:46,318
get with us

3553
02:34:47,321 --> 02:34:49,323
and meet and start

3554
02:34:49,323 --> 02:34:50,324
the work. Just from a timing standpoint, people

3555
02:34:50,324 --> 02:34:53,324
should think about the remainder

3556
02:34:53,327 --> 02:34:56,296
of the school year is getting

3557
02:34:56,296 --> 02:34:58,296
organized. It

3558
02:34:58,298 --> 02:34:59,333
will be meeting with neighborhood

3559
02:34:59,333 --> 02:35:01,733
associations, different groups around

3560
02:35:02,302 --> 02:35:04,304
the town to get, you know,

3561
02:35:04,304 --> 02:35:05,305
continue with the education. It is

3562
02:35:05,305 --> 02:35:07,305
lining up volunteers

3563
02:35:07,307 --> 02:35:08,308
and doing the work over the summer and

3564
02:35:08,308 --> 02:35:10,308
then

3565
02:35:11,311 --> 02:35:14,314
come the fall it is really a

3566
02:35:14,314 --> 02:35:16,314
blitz for

3567
02:35:16,316 --> 02:35:17,317
the campaign and the marketing.

3568
02:35:17,317 --> 02:35:19,317
>>

3569
02:35:20,320 --> 02:35:22,320
what

3570
02:35:22,322 --> 02:35:23,323
is the percentage you need?

3571
02:35:23,323 --> 02:35:24,324
>> 50.01%. I

3572
02:35:24,324 --> 02:35:26,324
like to shoot

3573
02:35:26,326 --> 02:35:28,326
for

3574
02:35:29,296 --> 02:35:32,299
the stars. You know, go for

3575
02:35:32,299 --> 02:35:33,300
broke.

3576
02:35:33,300 --> 02:35:35,300
>> I

3577
02:35:37,304 --> 02:35:38,305
am confident in our community.

3578
02:35:38,305 --> 02:35:39,306
>>

3579
02:35:39,306 --> 02:35:40,307
me., too.

3580
02:35:40,307 --> 02:35:42,307
>> thank you

3581
02:35:43,310 --> 02:35:44,311
for your service.

3582
02:35:44,311 --> 02:35:46,311
>> thank you. Thank

3583
02:35:50,317 --> 02:35:52,317
you.

3584
02:35:59,326 --> 02:36:01,726
>>> well, the moment that

3585
02:36:04,298 --> 02:36:08,498
we have all been waiting for. 6.4. Clackamas

3586
02:36:11,305 --> 02:36:13,705
esd local service plan

3587
02:36:14,308 --> 02:36:15,309
presentation.

3588
02:36:15,309 --> 02:36:16,376
>> thank

3589
02:36:16,376 --> 02:36:17,311
you, chair wallin and members of the

3590
02:36:17,311 --> 02:36:19,311
board. Good to

3591
02:36:20,314 --> 02:36:22,714
be here with you

3592
02:36:23,317 --> 02:36:24,318
this evening. I am the

3593
02:36:24,318 --> 02:36:26,320
superintendent for clackamas. There

3594
02:36:26,320 --> 02:36:29,323
is our annual meeting to present

3595
02:36:29,323 --> 02:36:33,327
to you our plan for providing services

3596
02:36:33,327 --> 02:36:35,329
to our local 10 school districts

3597
02:36:35,329 --> 02:36:39,299
in our region. Before I tap into that. I

3598
02:36:39,299 --> 02:36:41,301
want to introduce a

3599
02:36:41,301 --> 02:36:42,302
few people. Board chair, linda brown. I

3600
02:36:42,302 --> 02:36:44,302
think you

3601
02:36:45,305 --> 02:36:46,373
recognize her. She

3602
02:36:46,373 --> 02:36:48,308
has spent time in this building. Do

3603
02:36:48,308 --> 02:36:49,309
we

3604
02:36:49,309 --> 02:36:50,310
need a new admin building?

3605
02:36:50,310 --> 02:36:51,311
>> did

3606
02:36:51,311 --> 02:36:53,311
we need

3607
02:36:54,314 --> 02:36:55,315
it when she was here?

3608
02:36:55,315 --> 02:36:57,315
>> she

3609
02:36:57,317 --> 02:36:58,318
was listening it

3610
02:36:58,318 --> 02:36:59,319
was a necessity.

3611
02:36:59,319 --> 02:37:00,320
>> and rick larson

3612
02:37:00,320 --> 02:37:02,320
and

3613
02:37:03,323 --> 02:37:05,323
lynn mills

3614
02:37:06,326 --> 02:37:08,328
who are with me. Before I jump

3615
02:37:08,328 --> 02:37:09,296
into our local service plan that is

3616
02:37:09,296 --> 02:37:10,297
included in the

3617
02:37:10,297 --> 02:37:12,299
packet. It is this blue piece here. This

3618
02:37:12,299 --> 02:37:14,699
is the actual document

3619
02:37:15,302 --> 02:37:16,336
that you are taking

3620
02:37:16,336 --> 02:37:17,437
action on. Everything else will be

3621
02:37:17,437 --> 02:37:21,308
information. Before I jump into that I

3622
02:37:21,308 --> 02:37:24,308
want to express a few

3623
02:37:24,311 --> 02:37:26,313
thank yous beginning to your

3624
02:37:26,313 --> 02:37:29,313
superintendent who is valued member

3625
02:37:30,317 --> 02:37:32,317
of our chief

3626
02:37:32,319 --> 02:37:33,320
administrators group that meets monthly. And

3627
02:37:33,320 --> 02:37:35,320
we share

3628
02:37:35,322 --> 02:37:36,323
challenges and address them together

3629
02:37:36,323 --> 02:37:37,357
and she makes

3630
02:37:37,357 --> 02:37:39,326
valuable contributions to that group. I

3631
02:37:39,326 --> 02:37:41,726
am glad she say

3632
02:37:42,296 --> 02:37:44,696
part of it. Also

3633
02:37:48,302 --> 02:37:50,304
want to call out lakesha washington. She

3634
02:37:50,304 --> 02:37:53,904
helped us through a selection process

3635
02:37:54,308 --> 02:37:56,308
for a new

3636
02:37:57,311 --> 02:38:00,314
a.I. Specialist position funded through

3637
02:38:00,314 --> 02:38:02,316
a grant from clackamas regional network. Excited

3638
02:38:02,316 --> 02:38:05,319
about that. Excited to share with

3639
02:38:05,319 --> 02:38:06,320
you what comes with it as well. In

3640
02:38:06,320 --> 02:38:08,320
your local

3641
02:38:09,323 --> 02:38:12,326
service plan document if you look

3642
02:38:12,326 --> 02:38:15,326
at pages 10 and 11. Inside that

3643
02:38:15,329 --> 02:38:18,298
local service plan we call

3644
02:38:18,298 --> 02:38:19,333
out several other lake oswego

3645
02:38:19,333 --> 02:38:21,733
school district professionals that

3646
02:38:24,304 --> 02:38:26,306
meet with their regional

3647
02:38:26,306 --> 02:38:27,307
colleagues that are facilitated. We really

3648
02:38:27,307 --> 02:38:29,309
appreciate their compliment with

3649
02:38:29,309 --> 02:38:30,310
this work with their peers across

3650
02:38:30,310 --> 02:38:32,312
the county. Last but

3651
02:38:32,312 --> 02:38:36,316
not least I would be remiss not to

3652
02:38:36,316 --> 02:38:38,318
recognize you as a school

3653
02:38:38,318 --> 02:38:39,319
board. We missed school board appreciation

3654
02:38:39,319 --> 02:38:41,319
month last

3655
02:38:41,321 --> 02:38:42,322
month. We appreciate the work you

3656
02:38:42,322 --> 02:38:45,322
do all year long. We

3657
02:38:45,325 --> 02:38:47,327
know it requires a great deal of dedication

3658
02:38:47,327 --> 02:38:48,328
and time and we appreciate what you

3659
02:38:48,328 --> 02:38:51,298
share and the impact that you

3660
02:38:51,298 --> 02:38:54,298
have not just here in

3661
02:38:57,304 --> 02:39:00,304
lake oswego but on public

3662
02:39:00,307 --> 02:39:03,310
education as a whole. As a gesture

3663
02:39:03,310 --> 02:39:06,313
we brought a new packet of our

3664
02:39:06,313 --> 02:39:08,315
student artwork from our 2024 regional

3665
02:39:08,315 --> 02:39:09,316
art show that is featured in a set

3666
02:39:09,316 --> 02:39:11,316
of note cards

3667
02:39:15,322 --> 02:39:17,324
we left for you at your desk. I do

3668
02:39:17,324 --> 02:39:18,325
want to mention the local service

3669
02:39:18,325 --> 02:39:20,325
plan

3670
02:39:20,327 --> 02:39:21,328
is required by law. It is developed

3671
02:39:21,328 --> 02:39:23,328
annually. We

3672
02:39:24,298 --> 02:39:26,298
begin developing

3673
02:39:26,300 --> 02:39:27,301
it with our advisory groups. They

3674
02:39:27,301 --> 02:39:29,701
provide feedback on emerging

3675
02:39:30,304 --> 02:39:32,304
trends and needs

3676
02:39:32,306 --> 02:39:33,307
and we adjust the plan annually. It

3677
02:39:33,307 --> 02:39:35,307
does

3678
02:39:36,310 --> 02:39:39,313
cover or reflect all of our

3679
02:39:39,313 --> 02:39:40,581
services inside

3680
02:39:40,581 --> 02:39:42,316
there. It reflects a very productive partnership

3681
02:39:42,316 --> 02:39:44,316
and all 10 of

3682
02:39:44,318 --> 02:39:45,352
the school districts that we serve. It

3683
02:39:45,352 --> 02:39:47,752
including resolution services that

3684
02:39:48,322 --> 02:39:49,389
are those things that are paid

3685
02:39:49,389 --> 02:39:51,325
for and offered by all districts. And

3686
02:39:51,325 --> 02:39:53,325
then,

3687
02:39:54,328 --> 02:39:56,296
those are in the

3688
02:39:56,296 --> 02:39:57,297
areas of special education, technology,

3689
02:39:57,297 --> 02:39:59,297
data, teaching, learning,

3690
02:40:00,300 --> 02:40:03,300
as well as direct revenue

3691
02:40:03,303 --> 02:40:05,305
that can then be back or applied

3692
02:40:05,305 --> 02:40:06,306
to esd services of your choice. It

3693
02:40:06,306 --> 02:40:08,306
covers

3694
02:40:09,309 --> 02:40:10,310
contract and grant services. It is

3695
02:40:10,310 --> 02:40:12,310
a

3696
02:40:12,312 --> 02:40:15,315
broader category. Those are paid for

3697
02:40:15,315 --> 02:40:18,318
by multiple state and federal sources. Or

3698
02:40:18,318 --> 02:40:20,320
districts that request them. Those

3699
02:40:20,320 --> 02:40:21,321
include areas like early learning,

3700
02:40:21,321 --> 02:40:23,321
student

3701
02:40:24,324 --> 02:40:25,459
support services, a lot

3702
02:40:25,459 --> 02:40:27,327
of special programming, technology, teaching

3703
02:40:27,327 --> 02:40:29,727
and learning services. This

3704
02:40:30,297 --> 02:40:32,297
has been a

3705
02:40:32,299 --> 02:40:33,300
review and approved by the clackamas

3706
02:40:33,300 --> 02:40:35,700
chiefs group. Where it

3707
02:40:36,303 --> 02:40:38,303
goes first and

3708
02:40:39,306 --> 02:40:42,309
then it is approved by the

3709
02:40:42,309 --> 02:40:43,310
clackamas board of directors and

3710
02:40:43,310 --> 02:40:45,312
brought to here for your review. We

3711
02:40:45,312 --> 02:40:47,712
hope you will take

3712
02:40:48,315 --> 02:40:50,317
action to approve it. I brought

3713
02:40:50,317 --> 02:40:51,318
other items as well that I want to

3714
02:40:51,318 --> 02:40:53,318
make

3715
02:40:54,321 --> 02:40:55,389
sure I share with you. Fiscal or annual

3716
02:40:55,389 --> 02:40:57,324
fiscal report in your packet. There

3717
02:40:57,324 --> 02:40:59,324
are copies

3718
02:40:59,326 --> 02:41:00,327
of all school districts annual report. But

3719
02:41:00,327 --> 02:41:02,327
I do

3720
02:41:03,297 --> 02:41:06,300
want to address a few highlights

3721
02:41:06,300 --> 02:41:08,700
from lake oswego. It

3722
02:41:09,303 --> 02:41:11,305
does represent more than

3723
02:41:11,305 --> 02:41:12,306
$5.9 million worth of total services. More

3724
02:41:12,306 --> 02:41:14,306
than

3725
02:41:14,308 --> 02:41:15,309
$900,000 increase over the previous

3726
02:41:15,309 --> 02:41:17,309
year. It

3727
02:41:18,312 --> 02:41:21,312
also reflects more than $2.2 million

3728
02:41:21,315 --> 02:41:24,318
in revenue funneled directly to you. That

3729
02:41:24,318 --> 02:41:26,318
is about 100,000

3730
02:41:27,321 --> 02:41:28,322
increase from the previous year. It

3731
02:41:28,322 --> 02:41:30,322
reflects

3732
02:41:30,324 --> 02:41:32,324
vibrant part tiership

3733
02:41:33,327 --> 02:41:35,727
and supporting nurses and

3734
02:41:36,296 --> 02:41:38,296
coups lers. Addressing

3735
02:41:38,298 --> 02:41:39,299
mental health needs, providing early

3736
02:41:39,299 --> 02:41:41,299
mental services and

3737
02:41:41,301 --> 02:41:42,302
helping students with very complex

3738
02:41:42,302 --> 02:41:44,702
needs. Providing a range

3739
02:41:45,305 --> 02:41:47,305
of data

3740
02:41:48,308 --> 02:41:51,308
and technology support and improvements

3741
02:41:51,311 --> 02:41:53,711
in enhancement of instruction

3742
02:41:54,314 --> 02:41:55,315
especially literacy, math, stem and cte. We

3743
02:41:55,315 --> 02:41:57,315
hope

3744
02:41:57,317 --> 02:42:00,320
the format of that is helpful

3745
02:42:00,320 --> 02:42:03,320
to you. And really, it

3746
02:42:04,324 --> 02:42:06,324
gives

3747
02:42:07,327 --> 02:42:08,362
you better context how they

3748
02:42:08,362 --> 02:42:10,297
collaborate with you. We would welcome

3749
02:42:10,297 --> 02:42:12,299
your feedback if there is

3750
02:42:12,299 --> 02:42:13,300
a way to make the report more useful

3751
02:42:13,300 --> 02:42:14,301
for you

3752
02:42:14,301 --> 02:42:16,303
in the future. The other document

3753
02:42:16,303 --> 02:42:17,304
is the

3754
02:42:17,304 --> 02:42:19,306
annual report. Looks like there. All

3755
02:42:19,306 --> 02:42:21,306
in. And there

3756
02:42:22,309 --> 02:42:24,311
is just information piece for you. It

3757
02:42:24,311 --> 02:42:25,312
does cover a roughly one-year period

3758
02:42:25,312 --> 02:42:27,312
from

3759
02:42:27,314 --> 02:42:28,315
fall of '23 through fall of '24 and

3760
02:42:28,315 --> 02:42:30,315
uses data

3761
02:42:31,318 --> 02:42:33,320
and story telling to

3762
02:42:33,320 --> 02:42:35,322
provide more information about what

3763
02:42:35,322 --> 02:42:37,324
exactly clackamas usd does and we hope

3764
02:42:37,324 --> 02:42:39,324
also that it

3765
02:42:39,326 --> 02:42:42,329
is helpful to you. And if you would

3766
02:42:42,329 --> 02:42:45,299
like to see certain issues or information included

3767
02:42:45,299 --> 02:42:46,300
in future reports we would love to

3768
02:42:46,300 --> 02:42:48,300
hear about

3769
02:42:49,303 --> 02:42:52,306
that from you as well. Last

3770
02:42:52,306 --> 02:42:53,507
but not least I

3771
02:42:53,507 --> 02:42:55,309
snuck in another document. It is this. Seems

3772
02:42:55,309 --> 02:42:57,309
like

3773
02:42:57,311 --> 02:42:58,312
a timely thing to do. If you attended

3774
02:42:58,312 --> 02:43:00,312
our

3775
02:43:01,315 --> 02:43:03,715
december breakfast this was

3776
02:43:04,318 --> 02:43:06,320
prepared for that event. And on

3777
02:43:06,320 --> 02:43:07,321
the backside it includes our 2025

3778
02:43:07,321 --> 02:43:09,321
legislative

3779
02:43:10,324 --> 02:43:11,458
priorities agreed to by our

3780
02:43:11,458 --> 02:43:13,327
school superintendents in this area. And

3781
02:43:13,327 --> 02:43:15,327
knowing that you

3782
02:43:15,329 --> 02:43:16,296
are all doing your own advocacy work

3783
02:43:16,296 --> 02:43:18,298
in the state house these days,

3784
02:43:18,298 --> 02:43:19,299
I wanted to make sure you had that available

3785
02:43:19,299 --> 02:43:21,299
and

3786
02:43:22,302 --> 02:43:25,305
let me know if you want additional

3787
02:43:25,305 --> 02:43:27,305
copies of

3788
02:43:27,307 --> 02:43:28,308
this, they are available. You can let

3789
02:43:28,308 --> 02:43:31,311
dr. Schiele know. With that I

3790
02:43:31,311 --> 02:43:34,314
will pause to see if you have

3791
02:43:34,314 --> 02:43:35,315
questions.

3792
02:43:35,315 --> 02:43:37,315
>> and

3793
02:43:40,320 --> 02:43:41,321
questions?

3794
02:43:41,321 --> 02:43:43,321
>>

3795
02:43:46,326 --> 02:43:48,726
I should note --

3796
02:43:49,296 --> 02:43:51,296
>> the packages get

3797
02:43:51,298 --> 02:43:52,299
better every year. I love the comparisons by

3798
02:43:52,299 --> 02:43:55,299
each district. There is really

3799
02:43:55,302 --> 02:43:56,303
one of my favorite ones to go through. I

3800
02:43:56,303 --> 02:43:58,303
read

3801
02:43:58,305 --> 02:44:00,307
them for a few years. Thank

3802
02:44:00,307 --> 02:44:01,308
you. Appreciate it. It is nice to

3803
02:44:01,308 --> 02:44:03,308
see your

3804
02:44:04,311 --> 02:44:05,379
board. This is the most that you

3805
02:44:05,379 --> 02:44:07,314
ever brought in. Three of them. That

3806
02:44:07,314 --> 02:44:09,314
is

3807
02:44:10,317 --> 02:44:11,318
half of the

3808
02:44:11,318 --> 02:44:12,319
group, isn't it?

3809
02:44:12,319 --> 02:44:13,320
>> yep. >> do you

3810
02:44:13,320 --> 02:44:15,322
have, is there anything you

3811
02:44:15,322 --> 02:44:16,323
can share with the priorities and

3812
02:44:16,323 --> 02:44:18,323
the

3813
02:44:19,326 --> 02:44:20,327
status? We received emails now and then but

3814
02:44:20,327 --> 02:44:21,328
if

3815
02:44:21,328 --> 02:44:22,329
you have anything to say about the

3816
02:44:22,329 --> 02:44:24,298
completion

3817
02:44:24,298 --> 02:44:25,299
and how things are going?

3818
02:44:25,299 --> 02:44:27,299
>> well,

3819
02:44:28,302 --> 02:44:31,305
I think it was mentioned earlier

3820
02:44:31,305 --> 02:44:33,305
tonight with specifically

3821
02:44:33,307 --> 02:44:34,308
with relation to special education

3822
02:44:34,308 --> 02:44:36,308
funding. That

3823
02:44:37,311 --> 02:44:39,711
bill is moving along.

3824
02:44:40,314 --> 02:44:42,314
to raise the

3825
02:44:43,317 --> 02:44:44,318
cap of .

3826
02:44:44,318 --> 02:44:46,318
>>

3827
02:44:46,320 --> 02:44:47,487
moving?

3828
02:44:47,487 --> 02:44:48,322
>> removing. >> raising, sorry. Not

3829
02:44:48,322 --> 02:44:49,323
removing. Raising. Thank

3830
02:44:49,323 --> 02:44:50,324
you.

3831
02:44:50,324 --> 02:44:52,324
>>

3832
02:44:52,326 --> 02:44:53,327
I heard removing, also.

3833
02:44:53,327 --> 02:44:54,328
>> yes. Raising. Raising. So

3834
02:44:54,328 --> 02:44:55,329
that is moving forward. Through the

3835
02:44:55,329 --> 02:44:57,329
process. I

3836
02:44:58,298 --> 02:45:01,298
would say some of our

3837
02:45:01,301 --> 02:45:02,336
other issues are still

3838
02:45:02,336 --> 02:45:04,304
in the sausage-making process. And

3839
02:45:04,304 --> 02:45:06,304
very

3840
02:45:06,306 --> 02:45:07,307
much embedded in the overall budget. Which

3841
02:45:07,307 --> 02:45:09,307
is what we

3842
02:45:10,310 --> 02:45:12,312
are expecting to hear from the

3843
02:45:12,312 --> 02:45:13,313
co-chairs the first week of march.

3844
02:45:13,313 --> 02:45:14,314
>>

3845
02:45:14,314 --> 02:45:15,315
the

3846
02:45:15,315 --> 02:45:16,316
revenue update comes this week?

3847
02:45:16,316 --> 02:45:17,317
>>

3848
02:45:17,317 --> 02:45:19,319
yeah. Yeah. I think the

3849
02:45:19,319 --> 02:45:21,321
thing that is looming

3850
02:45:21,321 --> 02:45:22,322
over all of that conversation and

3851
02:45:22,322 --> 02:45:24,322
certainly in our

3852
02:45:24,324 --> 02:45:25,325
weighs and means committee is trying

3853
02:45:25,325 --> 02:45:28,328
to anticipate what is happening at

3854
02:45:28,328 --> 02:45:29,396
the federal level and how it

3855
02:45:29,396 --> 02:45:31,298
will effect the overall-state budget

3856
02:45:31,298 --> 02:45:33,698
that trickles down into

3857
02:45:34,301 --> 02:45:36,303
our school budgets and our

3858
02:45:36,303 --> 02:45:37,304
district budgets.

3859
02:45:37,304 --> 02:45:38,305
>> so, do you have

3860
02:45:38,305 --> 02:45:40,307
any sense on --

3861
02:45:40,307 --> 02:45:41,308
there is a lot of passive revenue

3862
02:45:41,308 --> 02:45:43,308
that

3863
02:45:43,310 --> 02:45:45,312
we get. Is that

3864
02:45:45,312 --> 02:45:46,313
from the state budget throwing to

3865
02:45:46,313 --> 02:45:48,313
the school

3866
02:45:49,316 --> 02:45:50,317
district to you?

3867
02:45:50,317 --> 02:45:52,317
>> this, this

3868
02:45:52,319 --> 02:45:53,320
is covering just the state oregon

3869
02:45:53,320 --> 02:45:55,322
state school fund. There report. We

3870
02:45:55,322 --> 02:45:57,722
have other funds that

3871
02:45:58,325 --> 02:46:01,325
we receive some of which

3872
02:46:01,328 --> 02:46:04,298
are federal. But, but I would make

3873
02:46:04,298 --> 02:46:05,299
clear, though, is that oregon state school

3874
02:46:05,299 --> 02:46:07,299
fund,

3875
02:46:07,301 --> 02:46:11,501
the state's general fund has a large

3876
02:46:13,307 --> 02:46:16,310
amount of federal funds embedded in there. Is

3877
02:46:16,310 --> 02:46:17,311
is relying on federal funds. Some

3878
02:46:17,311 --> 02:46:18,312
federal

3879
02:46:18,312 --> 02:46:19,379
funds.

3880
02:46:19,379 --> 02:46:20,314
>> so, if you were projecting which

3881
02:46:20,314 --> 02:46:22,314
you

3882
02:46:22,316 --> 02:46:24,316
may not

3883
02:46:25,319 --> 02:46:26,320
want to project .

3884
02:46:26,320 --> 02:46:27,321
>> I don't. >> --

3885
02:46:27,321 --> 02:46:28,322
if

3886
02:46:28,322 --> 02:46:29,323
you went to washington, d.c. To come

3887
02:46:29,323 --> 02:46:30,457
in and talk to the

3888
02:46:30,457 --> 02:46:31,325
feds about special education funding and

3889
02:46:31,325 --> 02:46:33,327
the mandates that were put

3890
02:46:33,327 --> 02:46:34,328
through in the '70s and this does

3891
02:46:34,328 --> 02:46:37,297
not sound like this is

3892
02:46:37,297 --> 02:46:38,298
going to be a year that, I mean there

3893
02:46:38,298 --> 02:46:40,300
has been little hope

3894
02:46:40,300 --> 02:46:41,301
but I would say there is a no hope

3895
02:46:41,301 --> 02:46:43,301
year

3896
02:46:43,303 --> 02:46:44,304
for it.

3897
02:46:44,304 --> 02:46:46,304
>> I am

3898
02:46:46,306 --> 02:46:48,306
not willing

3899
02:46:49,309 --> 02:46:50,310
to say no hope.

3900
02:46:50,310 --> 02:46:52,310
>>

3901
02:46:52,312 --> 02:46:53,313
okay. Sunday night, I chair

3902
02:46:53,313 --> 02:46:55,315
brown was there with me. I don't know

3903
02:46:55,315 --> 02:46:58,318
if any of you were there. There

3904
02:46:58,318 --> 02:47:00,320
was a town hall

3905
02:47:00,320 --> 02:47:01,321
and nearly 2,000 people showed up. There

3906
02:47:01,321 --> 02:47:03,321
were

3907
02:47:04,324 --> 02:47:06,324
a lot of

3908
02:47:06,326 --> 02:47:08,328
stories and questions and angst. The

3909
02:47:08,328 --> 02:47:10,297
hope there

3910
02:47:10,297 --> 02:47:11,298
is there are rules of law and there

3911
02:47:11,298 --> 02:47:13,698
are court challenges to

3912
02:47:14,301 --> 02:47:17,304
come of the things and it takes

3913
02:47:17,304 --> 02:47:19,304
time

3914
02:47:20,307 --> 02:47:22,309
for those things to

3915
02:47:22,309 --> 02:47:23,310
actually happen. And, he was encouraging

3916
02:47:23,310 --> 02:47:24,344
citizen involvement

3917
02:47:24,344 --> 02:47:25,312
and paying attention. But no answers.

3918
02:47:25,312 --> 02:47:26,313
>>

3919
02:47:26,313 --> 02:47:28,313
I have

3920
02:47:32,319 --> 02:47:34,319
no answers. [ laughter ]

3921
02:47:34,788 --> 02:47:36,857
>> no answers. This is an action item. >> I will make a motion to approve the clackamas esd local

3922
02:47:36,857 --> 02:47:39,560
service plan as presented. >> I will second.

3923
02:47:39,560 --> 02:47:42,560
>> thank you for your services.

3924
02:47:47,100 --> 02:47:50,100
>> yes. Absolutely. All in favor

3925
02:47:51,405 --> 02:47:57,405
of the motion. The motion passes. >> thank you very much.

3926
02:48:04,418 --> 02:48:07,621
>> thank you. We will move on item 6.5, educational data dr. Luzaich

3927
02:48:07,621 --> 02:48:08,622
and mr. Bailey.

3928
02:48:08,622 --> 02:48:10,622
>>

3929
02:48:10,624 --> 02:48:12,624
I am

3930
02:48:13,627 --> 02:48:15,627
going

3931
02:48:16,630 --> 02:48:18,630
to

3932
02:48:20,601 --> 02:48:21,602
speak for mr. Bailey today.

3933
02:48:21,602 --> 02:48:23,602
>> okay. >>

3934
02:48:25,606 --> 02:48:26,607
okay.

3935
02:48:26,607 --> 02:48:28,609
>> members of the board

3936
02:48:28,609 --> 02:48:29,643
I will go through the

3937
02:48:29,643 --> 02:48:33,243
high school graduation data. It is

3938
02:48:34,615 --> 02:48:36,615
a little

3939
02:48:36,617 --> 02:48:37,618
confusing because of the 2021cohort. It starts

3940
02:48:37,618 --> 02:48:39,618
with

3941
02:48:39,620 --> 02:48:45,200
freshman. That is why that is there. [low audio ]

3942
02:48:49,630 --> 02:48:51,598
>> here are a few

3943
02:48:51,598 --> 02:48:52,599
rules. When they come into the school that

3944
02:48:52,599 --> 02:48:53,634
is

3945
02:48:53,634 --> 02:48:55,602
their school. Unless they transfer

3946
02:48:55,602 --> 02:48:58,200
to another public school

3947
02:48:58,605 --> 02:49:01,605
or outside of the state

3948
02:49:01,608 --> 02:49:03,608
or public school

3949
02:49:03,610 --> 02:49:04,611
they are our student. When you look

3950
02:49:04,611 --> 02:49:06,611
at drop out

3951
02:49:06,613 --> 02:49:07,614
rate that is where it comes from. They

3952
02:49:07,614 --> 02:49:09,614
may

3953
02:49:09,616 --> 02:49:13,620
go to a different school and we don't

3954
02:49:13,620 --> 02:49:14,621
know where they went and

3955
02:49:14,621 --> 02:49:16,623
they are still on our books. That

3956
02:49:16,623 --> 02:49:19,230
is why it is

3957
02:49:19,626 --> 02:49:21,628
important to track them and where

3958
02:49:21,628 --> 02:49:22,629
they are going. For obvious reasons.

3959
02:49:22,629 --> 02:49:23,630
>>

3960
02:49:23,630 --> 02:49:25,599
it

3961
02:49:25,599 --> 02:49:27,599
talks about class 2020

3962
02:49:28,602 --> 02:49:30,602
our grad

3963
02:49:31,605 --> 02:49:34,608
rates over the last few years

3964
02:49:34,608 --> 02:49:36,608
--

3965
02:49:37,611 --> 02:49:41,211
this last year we had parent

3966
02:49:43,617 --> 02:49:46,617
creek. It is a residential

3967
02:49:46,620 --> 02:49:48,620
home, they are

3968
02:49:49,623 --> 02:49:52,623
rebuilding their site. So they

3969
02:49:52,626 --> 02:49:54,626
are using

3970
02:49:55,629 --> 02:49:57,629
that space right

3971
02:49:57,631 --> 02:49:58,599
now for incarcerated youth they become ours. That

3972
02:49:58,599 --> 02:50:00,599
is the

3973
02:50:01,602 --> 02:50:04,605
data that you will see here. The next

3974
02:50:04,605 --> 02:50:06,605
one. So, we

3975
02:50:07,608 --> 02:50:10,800
did have in this

3976
02:50:10,611 --> 02:50:13,614
cohort. 26 non-graduates in losd out of the

3977
02:50:13,614 --> 02:50:15,614
655 total

3978
02:50:16,617 --> 02:50:18,617
student

3979
02:50:19,620 --> 02:50:21,620
that is what

3980
02:50:22,623 --> 02:50:26,223
we had from the other schools.

3981
02:50:28,629 --> 02:50:30,629
33 non-graduates. Out of

3982
02:50:31,598 --> 02:50:32,599
64. Hard to compare. We put a different

3983
02:50:32,599 --> 02:50:33,634
section

3984
02:50:33,634 --> 02:50:36,603
of students there. What is interesting

3985
02:50:36,603 --> 02:50:37,604
after this next year, actually, harmony will

3986
02:50:37,604 --> 02:50:39,604
come out

3987
02:50:40,607 --> 02:50:43,610
of the graduation rate they will be

3988
02:50:43,610 --> 02:50:45,610
identified as their

3989
02:50:46,613 --> 02:50:48,613
own

3990
02:50:48,615 --> 02:50:52,215
district and parrott creek will move

3991
02:50:52,619 --> 02:50:54,619
back. So, our

3992
02:50:55,622 --> 02:50:57,622
three year

3993
02:50:58,625 --> 02:51:00,627
trend data and total

3994
02:51:00,627 --> 02:51:01,628
population shows 95% rate. That is

3995
02:51:01,628 --> 02:51:03,628
our

3996
02:51:04,631 --> 02:51:06,631
grad

3997
02:51:07,601 --> 02:51:10,100
rate. If you look

3998
02:51:10,604 --> 02:51:12,604
at

3999
02:51:13,607 --> 02:51:16,607
lake ridge high school it

4000
02:51:16,610 --> 02:51:19,100
is at 95%. So, our

4001
02:51:22,616 --> 02:51:28,160
population is increasing and continues to increase. [low audio ]

4002
02:51:31,625 --> 02:51:33,625
we

4003
02:51:37,631 --> 02:51:40,310
polled asian, black, hispanic,

4004
02:51:46,607 --> 02:51:49,700
multi-race. And then the

4005
02:51:52,613 --> 02:51:55,616
next group is students, special education

4006
02:51:55,616 --> 02:51:58,616
and english learners, of the

4007
02:51:58,619 --> 02:52:00,621
13 students 100% of our english learners

4008
02:52:00,621 --> 02:52:01,622
graduating. That is fantastic and

4009
02:52:01,622 --> 02:52:04,220
our special education rate

4010
02:52:04,625 --> 02:52:07,628
continues to go up. I will also say

4011
02:52:07,628 --> 02:52:10,628
that we have all of

4012
02:52:10,631 --> 02:52:11,598
this data with harmony

4013
02:52:11,598 --> 02:52:12,599
and parrott creek.

4014
02:52:12,599 --> 02:52:13,600
>> still going

4015
02:52:13,600 --> 02:52:14,601
up?

4016
02:52:14,601 --> 02:52:15,702
>> still going up. >>

4017
02:52:15,702 --> 02:52:16,603
yes. Still going up. I think we talked

4018
02:52:16,603 --> 02:52:18,603
a lot

4019
02:52:18,605 --> 02:52:20,607
about that over the years. It supports

4020
02:52:20,607 --> 02:52:21,608
that we have put

4021
02:52:21,608 --> 02:52:25,612
in place for high school and support

4022
02:52:25,612 --> 02:52:29,212
centers and not only for students

4023
02:52:29,616 --> 02:52:32,616
--all students made a huge

4024
02:52:32,619 --> 02:52:33,620
increase in our graduation rates

4025
02:52:33,620 --> 02:52:35,622
over the last four years. We have

4026
02:52:35,622 --> 02:52:38,622
a lot to be proud

4027
02:52:38,625 --> 02:52:40,625
of. There

4028
02:52:41,628 --> 02:52:44,280
is obviously still work

4029
02:52:44,631 --> 02:52:45,599
to be done.

4030
02:52:45,599 --> 02:52:46,633
>>

4031
02:52:46,633 --> 02:52:49,603
shifting to elementary as you know. The

4032
02:52:49,603 --> 02:52:50,604
diagnostic assessment is something

4033
02:52:50,604 --> 02:52:52,604
that

4034
02:52:53,607 --> 02:52:55,609
we use. Standards based. It is formative,

4035
02:52:55,609 --> 02:52:56,610
gives us an indicator where students

4036
02:52:56,610 --> 02:52:58,610
are in their

4037
02:52:58,612 --> 02:53:02,616
process. The data that we slowed tonight it

4038
02:53:02,616 --> 02:53:06,816
is data we see annually. It does

4039
02:53:08,622 --> 02:53:11,622
reflect end of the year

4040
02:53:11,625 --> 02:53:13,625
standards.

4041
02:53:14,628 --> 02:53:15,629
and

4042
02:53:15,629 --> 02:53:17,631
tracking the performance for third

4043
02:53:17,631 --> 02:53:19,631
and fourth

4044
02:53:20,601 --> 02:53:23,100
grade and work with

4045
02:53:23,604 --> 02:53:25,604
the state assessments

4046
02:53:26,607 --> 02:53:29,610
for the test. So, the bold is

4047
02:53:29,610 --> 02:53:32,613
what we are focusing on and let

4048
02:53:32,613 --> 02:53:34,615
you see where they are

4049
02:53:34,615 --> 02:53:35,616
in the fall. Talk about the diagnostic to where

4050
02:53:35,616 --> 02:53:37,616
the skills are

4051
02:53:38,619 --> 02:53:41,622
for the end of the year. Seeing

4052
02:53:41,622 --> 02:53:43,624
where they moved them up and so there

4053
02:53:43,624 --> 02:53:44,625
is where we are at for the middle

4054
02:53:44,625 --> 02:53:46,625
of

4055
02:53:46,627 --> 02:53:47,628
the school year, our assessment window closed

4056
02:53:47,628 --> 02:53:48,629
on the

4057
02:53:48,629 --> 02:53:50,631
31st of january. Whether you start

4058
02:53:50,631 --> 02:53:53,310
to look at 75% of

4059
02:53:53,600 --> 02:53:56,000
our students who are

4060
02:53:56,603 --> 02:53:58,605
already on track to pass end

4061
02:53:58,605 --> 02:53:59,606
of the year standards and demonstrate proficiency. We

4062
02:53:59,606 --> 02:54:01,606
have a

4063
02:54:01,608 --> 02:54:02,609
half year left and based on the momentum

4064
02:54:02,609 --> 02:54:04,609
we

4065
02:54:04,611 --> 02:54:05,612
would like to see that momentum continue

4066
02:54:05,612 --> 02:54:07,612
as we

4067
02:54:07,614 --> 02:54:11,618
are going in towards the springtime. So,

4068
02:54:11,618 --> 02:54:13,620
we had a 6-7

4069
02:54:13,620 --> 02:54:14,621
year investment in literacy. As you

4070
02:54:14,621 --> 02:54:16,621
are all

4071
02:54:17,624 --> 02:54:18,692
aware

4072
02:54:18,692 --> 02:54:20,627
of. We got new curriculum, structured

4073
02:54:20,627 --> 02:54:22,627
literacy. A lot

4074
02:54:23,630 --> 02:54:25,599
of

4075
02:54:25,599 --> 02:54:26,600
professional development and seeing

4076
02:54:26,600 --> 02:54:29,000
that momentum continue and

4077
02:54:29,603 --> 02:54:31,605
we have a really dedicated group

4078
02:54:31,605 --> 02:54:32,606
of teachers and specialists and principals working

4079
02:54:32,606 --> 02:54:34,606
together

4080
02:54:35,609 --> 02:54:37,611
to help move our

4081
02:54:37,611 --> 02:54:38,612
kids through. Then we had a pandemic. So

4082
02:54:38,612 --> 02:54:40,612
here

4083
02:54:41,615 --> 02:54:44,618
you can see by grade level again

4084
02:54:44,618 --> 02:54:45,619
we kind of want to bold those data

4085
02:54:45,619 --> 02:54:47,619
points

4086
02:54:47,621 --> 02:54:50,624
for this year. You can see also

4087
02:54:50,624 --> 02:54:52,626
where we were in the past two

4088
02:54:52,626 --> 02:54:53,627
years. Grade level by grade level. As

4089
02:54:53,627 --> 02:54:55,627
you know

4090
02:54:55,629 --> 02:54:58,629
research indicates the third great

4091
02:55:01,602 --> 02:55:02,603
performance is an indicator. I will

4092
02:55:02,603 --> 02:55:04,603
look at

4093
02:55:04,605 --> 02:55:05,606
that again in math I want you to look

4094
02:55:05,606 --> 02:55:07,606
at

4095
02:55:07,608 --> 02:55:08,609
the third great group doing well. Yellow

4096
02:55:08,609 --> 02:55:10,609
decrease and

4097
02:55:10,611 --> 02:55:11,612
the reds decrease more. What we are

4098
02:55:11,612 --> 02:55:14,612
seeing is hopefully we are

4099
02:55:14,615 --> 02:55:16,615
seeing the

4100
02:55:16,617 --> 02:55:17,618
reds turn to yellows and yellows to

4101
02:55:17,618 --> 02:55:19,618
turn to green

4102
02:55:19,620 --> 02:55:20,621
as we are moving through. Seeing a

4103
02:55:20,621 --> 02:55:22,621
nice

4104
02:55:22,623 --> 02:55:23,624
jump in kindergarten. Some of the

4105
02:55:23,624 --> 02:55:25,624
practices, observations

4106
02:55:26,627 --> 02:55:28,627
and

4107
02:55:29,630 --> 02:55:31,598
getting feedback it is

4108
02:55:31,598 --> 02:55:32,599
incredible in kindergarten. With dr.

4109
02:55:32,599 --> 02:55:34,599
schiele and

4110
02:55:35,602 --> 02:55:36,603
graduation rates it all

4111
02:55:36,603 --> 02:55:38,605
starts in kindergarten. August, 11th

4112
02:55:38,605 --> 02:55:39,640
through the 14th. Welcome them in

4113
02:55:39,640 --> 02:55:41,608
for that little eight hour program. We

4114
02:55:41,608 --> 02:55:43,608
do see

4115
02:55:44,611 --> 02:55:45,612
data that we want to improve. So,

4116
02:55:45,612 --> 02:55:47,612
if

4117
02:55:47,614 --> 02:55:49,616
we look at our student groups

4118
02:55:49,616 --> 02:55:50,617
this is our this year's data from

4119
02:55:50,617 --> 02:55:52,617
fall to winter

4120
02:55:52,619 --> 02:55:53,620
and breaking it down by different student

4121
02:55:53,620 --> 02:55:56,200
groups. You can see

4122
02:55:56,623 --> 02:55:59,626
that once we have them, they move. Whether

4123
02:55:59,626 --> 02:56:01,628
they are ours, and we get them in

4124
02:56:01,628 --> 02:56:04,631
the classrooms we are providing the

4125
02:56:04,631 --> 02:56:05,599
structure. You will see it trend. Does

4126
02:56:05,599 --> 02:56:07,601
not matter, they get

4127
02:56:07,601 --> 02:56:08,602
what they need. Does not matter if

4128
02:56:08,602 --> 02:56:10,602
they are

4129
02:56:10,604 --> 02:56:11,605
a language learner or a student experiencing

4130
02:56:11,605 --> 02:56:14,605
a disability or students that

4131
02:56:14,608 --> 02:56:15,609
need more. We will find a way to get

4132
02:56:15,609 --> 02:56:16,643
it to them

4133
02:56:16,643 --> 02:56:17,611
and see that needle move. There is

4134
02:56:17,611 --> 02:56:19,611
where you can

4135
02:56:20,614 --> 02:56:21,615
really see how the buckets are changing from

4136
02:56:21,615 --> 02:56:22,649
red

4137
02:56:22,649 --> 02:56:23,617
to yellow and yellow to green. So,

4138
02:56:23,617 --> 02:56:25,617
you might even

4139
02:56:26,620 --> 02:56:27,621
see in the yellow some of the neighbors look

4140
02:56:27,621 --> 02:56:29,621
the

4141
02:56:29,623 --> 02:56:30,624
same. When you look at where they

4142
02:56:30,624 --> 02:56:32,624
came from

4143
02:56:32,626 --> 02:56:35,260
that is where yellows

4144
02:56:35,629 --> 02:56:36,630
are former reds and moved into the

4145
02:56:36,630 --> 02:56:38,599
green zone. In

4146
02:56:38,599 --> 02:56:40,601
math, here are the

4147
02:56:40,601 --> 02:56:41,602
scores that you will see. Again, growth

4148
02:56:41,602 --> 02:56:43,602
going from

4149
02:56:44,605 --> 02:56:45,606
fall to winter. And, notice overall

4150
02:56:45,606 --> 02:56:46,607
it

4151
02:56:46,607 --> 02:56:47,608
just feels lighter than our scores

4152
02:56:47,608 --> 02:56:50,608
in reading. Some of that

4153
02:56:50,611 --> 02:56:53,611
comes from the need for

4154
02:56:53,614 --> 02:56:55,614
discreet math concepts

4155
02:56:55,616 --> 02:56:56,617
that have not been taught yet. Not

4156
02:56:56,617 --> 02:56:58,617
exposed to some

4157
02:56:59,620 --> 02:57:01,622
of the end of the year content idea. This

4158
02:57:01,622 --> 02:57:02,623
is midyear. Should see acceleration

4159
02:57:02,623 --> 02:57:03,624
of that.

4160
02:57:03,624 --> 02:57:04,625
>> sorry to interrupt. I

4161
02:57:04,625 --> 02:57:05,626
want to

4162
02:57:05,626 --> 02:57:08,260
make sure it is

4163
02:57:08,629 --> 02:57:11,632
clear for common who might be watching. These

4164
02:57:11,632 --> 02:57:14,601
numbers when you say are on track

4165
02:57:14,601 --> 02:57:16,601
it

4166
02:57:17,604 --> 02:57:20,607
is not that they are on track

4167
02:57:20,607 --> 02:57:23,610
--let me ask a question. Are they

4168
02:57:23,610 --> 02:57:24,611
assessed at end of year standards

4169
02:57:24,611 --> 02:57:26,611
at this

4170
02:57:26,613 --> 02:57:29,616
point in time? Or is this a

4171
02:57:29,616 --> 02:57:31,618
reflection of you are progressing

4172
02:57:31,618 --> 02:57:32,619
at the rate we want toy progress?

4173
02:57:32,619 --> 02:57:33,620
>>

4174
02:57:33,620 --> 02:57:35,620
this is the

4175
02:57:36,623 --> 02:57:38,623
end

4176
02:57:38,625 --> 02:57:42,825
of the year standards. When you see

4177
02:57:45,599 --> 02:57:47,599
63.

4178
02:57:48,602 --> 02:57:50,602
how to

4179
02:57:54,608 --> 02:57:57,611
work the number sense. That is

4180
02:57:57,611 --> 02:58:00,611
coming. And if you come

4181
02:58:00,614 --> 02:58:04,214
up short it is not fair

4182
02:58:06,620 --> 02:58:10,220
to the study neent thank you.

4183
02:58:12,626 --> 02:58:14,626
student. And

4184
02:58:14,628 --> 02:58:18,599
63% or on their way to the level at

4185
02:58:18,599 --> 02:58:19,700
the end of the year. 63%

4186
02:58:19,700 --> 02:58:21,602
are at the academic level grade level

4187
02:58:21,602 --> 02:58:24,200
based on end of

4188
02:58:24,605 --> 02:58:25,606
the year assessment as of the

4189
02:58:25,606 --> 02:58:26,607
day of the assessment?

4190
02:58:26,607 --> 02:58:27,608
>> correct. >>

4191
02:58:27,608 --> 02:58:28,609
is there a spring

4192
02:58:28,609 --> 02:58:29,610
assessment as well?

4193
02:58:29,610 --> 02:58:30,611
>> yes, there

4194
02:58:30,611 --> 02:58:31,612
is.

4195
02:58:31,612 --> 02:58:33,612
>> could

4196
02:58:33,614 --> 02:58:34,615
you describe what

4197
02:58:34,615 --> 02:58:36,617
is the assessment entail? What is

4198
02:58:36,617 --> 02:58:39,170
kind of the --

4199
02:58:39,620 --> 02:58:40,621
what does it involve for a

4200
02:58:40,621 --> 02:58:41,622
student?

4201
02:58:41,622 --> 02:58:42,623
>> online assessment. We

4202
02:58:42,623 --> 02:58:43,624
start with

4203
02:58:43,624 --> 02:58:45,626
iready back during the pandemic. We

4204
02:58:45,626 --> 02:58:46,760
wanted something that

4205
02:58:46,760 --> 02:58:48,629
we could measure how students were doing

4206
02:58:48,629 --> 02:58:51,290
at home. They were

4207
02:58:51,632 --> 02:58:53,600
assessed at home by their parents. The

4208
02:58:53,600 --> 02:58:54,601
data is reliable. So, once we got

4209
02:58:54,601 --> 02:58:56,601
them,

4210
02:58:57,604 --> 02:59:00,604
we set up the schedule

4211
02:59:00,607 --> 02:59:02,609
with iready and then local

4212
02:59:02,609 --> 02:59:03,610
schools, student specialists and works

4213
02:59:03,610 --> 02:59:06,100
in each classroom what

4214
02:59:06,613 --> 02:59:08,615
support is needed and put it in

4215
02:59:08,615 --> 02:59:09,616
place. There is a protocol for that.

4216
02:59:09,616 --> 02:59:10,617
>>

4217
02:59:10,617 --> 02:59:12,617
is that

4218
02:59:12,619 --> 02:59:13,620
an hour or a day?

4219
02:59:13,620 --> 02:59:15,620
>> it

4220
02:59:15,622 --> 02:59:16,690
can be somewhere in

4221
02:59:16,690 --> 02:59:18,625
45 minute, one period, some students

4222
02:59:18,625 --> 02:59:20,625
they may

4223
02:59:20,627 --> 02:59:21,628
need more than one. We want to make

4224
02:59:21,628 --> 02:59:23,628
sure

4225
02:59:24,631 --> 02:59:26,631
we

4226
02:59:27,601 --> 02:59:29,601
are trying to

4227
02:59:30,604 --> 02:59:31,605
grab it accurate. Iready showing parents

4228
02:59:31,605 --> 02:59:32,706
assessing at

4229
02:59:32,706 --> 02:59:33,607
home. We want it to be a pie chart. We

4230
02:59:33,607 --> 02:59:35,607
want to

4231
02:59:35,609 --> 02:59:36,610
know what you can see and then we

4232
02:59:36,610 --> 02:59:38,610
can know

4233
02:59:39,613 --> 02:59:41,615
what to do from there. In the

4234
02:59:41,615 --> 02:59:42,616
end we want everyone 20/20.

4235
02:59:42,616 --> 02:59:43,617
>> just

4236
02:59:43,617 --> 02:59:45,619
before you move on. The

4237
02:59:45,619 --> 02:59:48,622
other thing that comes from this

4238
02:59:48,622 --> 02:59:49,656
on one hand these

4239
02:59:49,656 --> 02:59:51,625
are impressive numbers, we don't break

4240
02:59:51,625 --> 02:59:53,625
out that

4241
02:59:54,628 --> 02:59:56,628
green to

4242
02:59:56,630 --> 02:59:57,631
the shade or two above. If we have

4243
02:59:57,631 --> 02:59:59,600
63% of

4244
02:59:59,600 --> 03:00:00,601
students on or above grade level for

4245
03:00:00,601 --> 03:00:03,100
the purpose of our

4246
03:00:06,607 --> 03:00:08,607
conversation today let's

4247
03:00:12,613 --> 03:00:17,413
say a third of those -- [no audio]

4248
03:02:23,677 --> 03:02:24,978
>> it folds in

4249
03:02:24,978 --> 03:02:25,679
the high-levels of learning and the understanding

4250
03:02:25,679 --> 03:02:27,679
and being

4251
03:02:27,681 --> 03:02:28,682
able to communicate that and have multiple

4252
03:02:28,682 --> 03:02:30,682
representations. Some

4253
03:02:30,684 --> 03:02:31,685
of that is a delivery model that is

4254
03:02:31,685 --> 03:02:32,686
a little

4255
03:02:32,686 --> 03:02:34,688
different for us. There is growing

4256
03:02:34,688 --> 03:02:37,688
pains in that and our

4257
03:02:37,691 --> 03:02:39,693
teachers are doing well in moving

4258
03:02:39,693 --> 03:02:40,694
that forward. Next up is the break

4259
03:02:40,694 --> 03:02:42,663
down

4260
03:02:42,663 --> 03:02:43,664
by our grade levels. Just want to

4261
03:02:43,664 --> 03:02:45,664
highlight

4262
03:02:46,667 --> 03:02:49,670
our third grade. These are the same

4263
03:02:49,670 --> 03:02:51,672
students who performed at 75% winter

4264
03:02:51,672 --> 03:02:52,673
for their reading. You can see that

4265
03:02:52,673 --> 03:02:55,730
because some of this

4266
03:02:55,676 --> 03:02:58,760
is new material, some

4267
03:02:58,679 --> 03:02:59,780
of this is new terminology or

4268
03:02:59,780 --> 03:03:01,682
even some standards-based content they

4269
03:03:01,682 --> 03:03:03,682
have not been

4270
03:03:03,684 --> 03:03:04,685
exposed to yet. We anticipate that

4271
03:03:04,685 --> 03:03:06,685
when

4272
03:03:07,688 --> 03:03:08,689
they receive that between now and

4273
03:03:08,689 --> 03:03:09,823
our spring

4274
03:03:09,823 --> 03:03:10,691
assessment the scores will go up. Notice

4275
03:03:10,691 --> 03:03:12,691
the

4276
03:03:13,694 --> 03:03:16,940
buckets moving from pink

4277
03:03:16,663 --> 03:03:18,663
to yellow and

4278
03:03:19,666 --> 03:03:21,668
then to green. And, next up is

4279
03:03:21,668 --> 03:03:22,669
our break down by student groups. Notice

4280
03:03:22,669 --> 03:03:24,669
where

4281
03:03:25,672 --> 03:03:27,674
we start and then where we can

4282
03:03:27,674 --> 03:03:28,675
do. All groups are moving forward

4283
03:03:28,675 --> 03:03:31,675
at a rate that makes

4284
03:03:31,678 --> 03:03:34,681
us feel like what we are

4285
03:03:34,681 --> 03:03:37,684
doing is effective. So, just so you

4286
03:03:37,684 --> 03:03:40,687
know, also, I meet with each principal. We set

4287
03:03:40,687 --> 03:03:43,870
goals together. Those goals

4288
03:03:43,690 --> 03:03:46,693
are based on metrics tied to the

4289
03:03:46,693 --> 03:03:49,663
state assessment in ela and

4290
03:03:49,663 --> 03:03:50,664
math. And then we are using these

4291
03:03:50,664 --> 03:03:51,698
as some

4292
03:03:51,698 --> 03:03:52,666
of our formative indicators on how

4293
03:03:52,666 --> 03:03:55,660
they are doing. So,

4294
03:03:55,669 --> 03:03:58,672
they set goals for third, fourth and

4295
03:03:58,672 --> 03:04:00,672
fifth grade performance

4296
03:04:00,674 --> 03:04:02,676
based on their historical performance

4297
03:04:02,676 --> 03:04:04,678
and cohort analysis. What can that

4298
03:04:04,678 --> 03:04:07,678
group do and we are

4299
03:04:07,681 --> 03:04:09,683
doing stretchables. We want goals

4300
03:04:09,683 --> 03:04:10,684
to reflect the growth, the academic

4301
03:04:10,684 --> 03:04:13,840
achievement we expect from

4302
03:04:13,687 --> 03:04:15,689
our district and from the

4303
03:04:15,689 --> 03:04:16,690
community and from themselves. So,

4304
03:04:16,690 --> 03:04:18,690
they are obtainable

4305
03:04:19,693 --> 03:04:22,663
but require a lot of strategy. So,

4306
03:04:22,663 --> 03:04:25,666
that is what we meet about regularly. The

4307
03:04:25,666 --> 03:04:27,668
last week I did a one-on-one cycle

4308
03:04:27,668 --> 03:04:28,669
with each principal. We looked at

4309
03:04:28,669 --> 03:04:30,669
the data and

4310
03:04:30,671 --> 03:04:31,672
looked back to review their stair

4311
03:04:31,672 --> 03:04:34,720
case of the leadership

4312
03:04:34,675 --> 03:04:36,677
moves they were going to make in ela

4313
03:04:36,677 --> 03:04:37,678
and math. And then, are you actually

4314
03:04:37,678 --> 03:04:39,680
doing those and if you are doing

4315
03:04:39,680 --> 03:04:40,681
those do you think they are paying

4316
03:04:40,681 --> 03:04:42,681
off and do

4317
03:04:43,684 --> 03:04:46,840
you see evidence in

4318
03:04:46,687 --> 03:04:47,688
this data that reflects that your leadership

4319
03:04:47,688 --> 03:04:48,689
actionable steps

4320
03:04:48,689 --> 03:04:49,690
are paying off. If not, let's talk

4321
03:04:49,690 --> 03:04:52,690
through that. If they are,

4322
03:04:52,693 --> 03:04:53,694
what do you do next? The year ain't

4323
03:04:53,694 --> 03:04:54,862
over,

4324
03:04:54,862 --> 03:04:55,662
right? Let's see what our other colleagues

4325
03:04:55,662 --> 03:04:56,697
are

4326
03:04:56,697 --> 03:05:00,897
saying and do some reflection on that.

4327
03:05:05,672 --> 03:05:06,673
questions?

4328
03:05:06,673 --> 03:05:08,673
>> I

4329
03:05:08,675 --> 03:05:09,676
have a question. Actually a

4330
03:05:09,676 --> 03:05:10,677
couple. For iready, can people, can

4331
03:05:10,677 --> 03:05:13,680
students opt out of it the same way

4332
03:05:13,680 --> 03:05:14,681
they can for state testing?

4333
03:05:14,681 --> 03:05:15,682
>> we

4334
03:05:15,682 --> 03:05:17,682
do

4335
03:05:17,684 --> 03:05:18,819
have a few that opt out,

4336
03:05:18,819 --> 03:05:22,419
their parents opted them out. Typically

4337
03:05:22,689 --> 03:05:23,690
it is not as stressful for elementary

4338
03:05:23,690 --> 03:05:26,690
students. It becomes part of

4339
03:05:26,693 --> 03:05:29,663
the routine of what they are doing. There

4340
03:05:29,663 --> 03:05:30,664
is a component of iready, my

4341
03:05:30,664 --> 03:05:32,666
path, a personalized instruction. So,

4342
03:05:32,666 --> 03:05:34,666
if you used

4343
03:05:35,669 --> 03:05:36,770
the apps before there is an

4344
03:05:36,770 --> 03:05:38,672
online component to iready that allows

4345
03:05:38,672 --> 03:05:40,672
them to

4346
03:05:41,675 --> 03:05:44,750
pick up where they

4347
03:05:44,678 --> 03:05:46,678
left off the

4348
03:05:46,680 --> 03:05:47,681
last master standard. Then, tailors

4349
03:05:47,681 --> 03:05:50,810
kind of computer-adaptive way

4350
03:05:50,684 --> 03:05:53,840
what instruction they need

4351
03:05:53,687 --> 03:05:55,687
next that for

4352
03:05:55,689 --> 03:05:59,693
them, they are used to being on their

4353
03:05:59,693 --> 03:06:00,794
device a few times a

4354
03:06:00,794 --> 03:06:02,663
week. Iready wants 30-45 minutes additional

4355
03:06:02,663 --> 03:06:04,663
work that helps

4356
03:06:05,666 --> 03:06:06,733
them in math. Then we get

4357
03:06:06,733 --> 03:06:07,668
to the diagnostics not as stressful.

4358
03:06:07,668 --> 03:06:08,669
>>

4359
03:06:08,669 --> 03:06:10,671
another question that I have is

4360
03:06:10,671 --> 03:06:13,674
if students are, like, a grade ahead

4361
03:06:13,674 --> 03:06:14,675
in math or something like that, do

4362
03:06:14,675 --> 03:06:16,675
they take the

4363
03:06:16,677 --> 03:06:17,678
test for the level of math they are in

4364
03:06:17,678 --> 03:06:19,678
or their

4365
03:06:20,681 --> 03:06:21,682
grade of math?

4366
03:06:21,682 --> 03:06:22,683
>> it is

4367
03:06:22,683 --> 03:06:23,684
also computer adaptive. So it will

4368
03:06:23,684 --> 03:06:25,684
give them

4369
03:06:25,686 --> 03:06:26,687
more items that they can be successful

4370
03:06:26,687 --> 03:06:28,687
at once

4371
03:06:29,690 --> 03:06:32,690
they mastered those they will

4372
03:06:32,693 --> 03:06:34,940
get more complex. The personalized

4373
03:06:34,940 --> 03:06:35,662
instruction that online instructional component, the

4374
03:06:35,662 --> 03:06:36,697
mypath will continue to rise up and

4375
03:06:36,697 --> 03:06:38,665
it caps out at eighth grade. What

4376
03:06:38,665 --> 03:06:39,666
we find

4377
03:06:39,666 --> 03:06:43,266
is some of our brightest students

4378
03:06:44,671 --> 03:06:46,671
in fifth grade

4379
03:06:47,674 --> 03:06:48,675
they hit a ceiling.

4380
03:06:48,675 --> 03:06:49,676
>>

4381
03:06:49,676 --> 03:06:50,677
okay. Thank you.

4382
03:06:50,677 --> 03:06:51,678
>> iready for six

4383
03:06:51,678 --> 03:06:53,678
or

4384
03:06:53,680 --> 03:06:54,681
seven years.

4385
03:06:54,681 --> 03:06:55,682
>> it started in

4386
03:06:55,682 --> 03:06:56,683
the pandemic. So '21 would be our

4387
03:06:56,683 --> 03:06:57,684
first one.

4388
03:06:57,684 --> 03:06:58,685
>>

4389
03:06:58,685 --> 03:06:59,686
four or five years then.

4390
03:06:59,686 --> 03:07:00,687
>> so prior

4391
03:07:00,687 --> 03:07:02,687
to that

4392
03:07:02,689 --> 03:07:05,692
how did we get this data and

4393
03:07:05,692 --> 03:07:07,694
how quickly could we use

4394
03:07:07,694 --> 03:07:08,695
it and know what the fall, winter,

4395
03:07:08,695 --> 03:07:09,663
bring folks were doing?

4396
03:07:09,663 --> 03:07:11,663
>>

4397
03:07:11,665 --> 03:07:13,665
it was much

4398
03:07:14,668 --> 03:07:17,671
easier in reading because we had

4399
03:07:17,671 --> 03:07:20,674
dibbles. We still have it. That

4400
03:07:20,674 --> 03:07:21,875
and iready are on

4401
03:07:21,875 --> 03:07:23,677
the approved list for dyslexia screener. We

4402
03:07:23,677 --> 03:07:26,677
just now, the data you

4403
03:07:26,680 --> 03:07:29,680
are seeing is the iready

4404
03:07:29,683 --> 03:07:32,686
data. Math it was much more difficult. It

4405
03:07:32,686 --> 03:07:35,686
would be based on the

4406
03:07:35,689 --> 03:07:37,689
unit so then

4407
03:07:38,692 --> 03:07:40,692
if

4408
03:07:40,694 --> 03:07:41,695
the unit assessments yielded students

4409
03:07:41,695 --> 03:07:43,664
that didn't, proficiency model

4410
03:07:43,664 --> 03:07:44,665
would say we took those kids. Felt

4411
03:07:44,665 --> 03:07:47,650
like it was more

4412
03:07:47,668 --> 03:07:48,669
at the end of the unit. Here we are

4413
03:07:48,669 --> 03:07:49,837
getting

4414
03:07:49,837 --> 03:07:50,671
more realtime data how students are performing

4415
03:07:50,671 --> 03:07:52,671
within

4416
03:07:53,674 --> 03:07:54,808
the unit.

4417
03:07:54,808 --> 03:07:56,677
>> so realtime versus delayed are

4418
03:07:56,677 --> 03:07:57,678
we talking a month

4419
03:07:57,678 --> 03:07:58,679
delayed?

4420
03:07:58,679 --> 03:07:59,680
>> yes. It was . >> how much

4421
03:07:59,680 --> 03:08:02,680
can you progress in a

4422
03:08:02,683 --> 03:08:03,684
month or two or three.

4423
03:08:03,684 --> 03:08:05,684
>> it felt

4424
03:08:05,686 --> 03:08:07,686
like more to

4425
03:08:08,689 --> 03:08:10,689
use kind of

4426
03:08:11,692 --> 03:08:13,694
--one that assessment it

4427
03:08:13,694 --> 03:08:14,695
was an autopsy than informative.

4428
03:08:14,695 --> 03:08:15,696
>>

4429
03:08:15,696 --> 03:08:16,663
yes. Checking with

4430
03:08:16,663 --> 03:08:17,664
students here that were not getting

4431
03:08:17,664 --> 03:08:19,664
those assessments as

4432
03:08:19,666 --> 03:08:20,667
quickly for what they were doing. So

4433
03:08:20,667 --> 03:08:22,667
we should

4434
03:08:23,670 --> 03:08:25,670
be seeing, which

4435
03:08:25,672 --> 03:08:29,676
we are seeing, this is pretty phenomenal

4436
03:08:29,676 --> 03:08:31,676
data from

4437
03:08:31,678 --> 03:08:32,679
just fall to winter. I think. It is

4438
03:08:32,679 --> 03:08:33,680
exceptional.

4439
03:08:33,680 --> 03:08:34,815
>> I

4440
03:08:34,815 --> 03:08:35,682
think the real power is with the individual

4441
03:08:35,682 --> 03:08:37,682
student and the

4442
03:08:37,684 --> 03:08:38,685
teacher who is looking at the data,

4443
03:08:38,685 --> 03:08:40,685
right? The

4444
03:08:40,687 --> 03:08:41,688
grade level team that are building

4445
03:08:41,688 --> 03:08:43,688
plans

4446
03:08:43,690 --> 03:08:44,691
around what the data is suggesting. I like

4447
03:08:44,691 --> 03:08:46,691
the secondary

4448
03:08:47,694 --> 03:08:49,663
lens. The health of the district. Not

4449
03:08:49,663 --> 03:08:50,664
the primary purpose of iready. Iready

4450
03:08:50,664 --> 03:08:52,664
is to inform

4451
03:08:53,667 --> 03:08:56,670
the teacher what to do next. Layers

4452
03:08:56,670 --> 03:08:59,673
and layers of dimension in the platform

4453
03:08:59,673 --> 03:09:01,675
that allows a teachtory know

4454
03:09:01,675 --> 03:09:02,676
how to group students --teacher to

4455
03:09:02,676 --> 03:09:04,676
group students to

4456
03:09:06,680 --> 03:09:08,682
tell them what to teach next. It takes

4457
03:09:08,682 --> 03:09:10,684
a lot of time to

4458
03:09:10,684 --> 03:09:11,685
get to that level. We have teachers

4459
03:09:11,685 --> 03:09:13,685
doing

4460
03:09:14,688 --> 03:09:15,689
it.

4461
03:09:15,689 --> 03:09:16,723
>> does every

4462
03:09:16,723 --> 03:09:17,691
district in clackamas county do this?

4463
03:09:17,691 --> 03:09:18,692
>>

4464
03:09:18,692 --> 03:09:20,692
I

4465
03:09:20,694 --> 03:09:21,695
don't think so.

4466
03:09:21,695 --> 03:09:23,664
>>

4467
03:09:23,664 --> 03:09:26,640
and as our district

4468
03:09:26,667 --> 03:09:29,667
embraces a.I. In the

4469
03:09:29,670 --> 03:09:30,671
education system the ability to deal

4470
03:09:30,671 --> 03:09:32,671
with

4471
03:09:32,673 --> 03:09:34,673
that

4472
03:09:35,676 --> 03:09:36,810
and those students and the

4473
03:09:36,810 --> 03:09:38,679
groups accelerates significantly both in

4474
03:09:38,679 --> 03:09:39,680
impact and in reach.

4475
03:09:39,680 --> 03:09:40,681
>> and there

4476
03:09:40,681 --> 03:09:41,682
are

4477
03:09:41,682 --> 03:09:43,682
a lot

4478
03:09:43,684 --> 03:09:44,685
of publishers claiming they can do this. Iready

4479
03:09:44,685 --> 03:09:46,685
was out early

4480
03:09:46,687 --> 03:09:47,688
in a lot of these areas. So when we

4481
03:09:47,688 --> 03:09:49,688
adopted them

4482
03:09:50,691 --> 03:09:51,792
for math that was an advantage for

4483
03:09:51,792 --> 03:09:53,694
us. There are other publishers saying

4484
03:09:53,694 --> 03:09:55,694
we can

4485
03:09:56,663 --> 03:09:57,664
do it too but does not execute the

4486
03:09:57,664 --> 03:09:59,664
same

4487
03:09:59,666 --> 03:10:02,666
way. They are in that

4488
03:10:02,669 --> 03:10:03,670
same pre-a.I. Space. Things are adapting

4489
03:10:03,670 --> 03:10:05,670
to individual

4490
03:10:05,672 --> 03:10:07,672
students. Individualization is

4491
03:10:08,675 --> 03:10:09,676
where we need to go.

4492
03:10:09,676 --> 03:10:11,676
>> do we

4493
03:10:11,678 --> 03:10:14,681
still use --does every student have

4494
03:10:14,681 --> 03:10:16,681
access to --at

4495
03:10:16,683 --> 03:10:17,684
any grade level?

4496
03:10:17,684 --> 03:10:19,686
>> not at the elementary

4497
03:10:19,686 --> 03:10:23,690
level. We don't want teachers or students

4498
03:10:23,690 --> 03:10:26,690
running home to something familiar

4499
03:10:26,693 --> 03:10:29,663
whether iready is with the

4500
03:10:29,663 --> 03:10:30,664
curriculum that we have for k-5. It

4501
03:10:30,664 --> 03:10:31,665
is

4502
03:10:31,665 --> 03:10:32,666
a forcing function. [ laughter ]

4503
03:10:32,666 --> 03:10:34,666
>>

4504
03:10:35,669 --> 03:10:36,670
it seems to be working.

4505
03:10:36,670 --> 03:10:38,670
>>

4506
03:10:41,675 --> 03:10:42,676
yes. Proud of our teachers and staff.

4507
03:10:42,676 --> 03:10:43,677
>>

4508
03:10:43,677 --> 03:10:44,678
thank

4509
03:10:44,678 --> 03:10:45,679
you.

4510
03:10:45,679 --> 03:10:47,679
>> thank

4511
03:10:47,681 --> 03:10:48,682
you.

4512
03:10:48,682 --> 03:10:51,820
>> it was a great

4513
03:10:52,686 --> 03:10:55,686
update. 6.6, amendment to bond sale

4514
03:11:00,694 --> 03:11:01,695
resolution, mr. Ketzler.

4515
03:11:01,695 --> 03:11:03,664
>>

4516
03:11:03,664 --> 03:11:04,665
members of the board. Not

4517
03:11:04,665 --> 03:11:06,667
as exciting as your previous agenda

4518
03:11:06,667 --> 03:11:07,668
item.

4519
03:11:07,668 --> 03:11:09,668
>>

4520
03:11:09,670 --> 03:11:10,671
you can do it. [ laughter ]

4521
03:11:10,671 --> 03:11:12,671
>>

4522
03:11:12,673 --> 03:11:14,673
but it

4523
03:11:15,676 --> 03:11:18,679
is an important step in our bond

4524
03:11:18,679 --> 03:11:21,790
sale that we will

4525
03:11:21,682 --> 03:11:24,820
be having later there

4526
03:11:24,685 --> 03:11:26,685
spring for the

4527
03:11:26,687 --> 03:11:30,287
remaining of our 2021 bond authorization. We

4528
03:11:30,691 --> 03:11:33,910
have an amendment to

4529
03:11:33,694 --> 03:11:35,694
the original bond

4530
03:11:36,663 --> 03:11:39,663
sale resolution that was passed

4531
03:11:39,666 --> 03:11:42,660
in 2022. Under which we

4532
03:11:42,669 --> 03:11:45,690
sold the first, $153 million

4533
03:11:45,672 --> 03:11:49,272
worth of bonds. And since that

4534
03:11:51,678 --> 03:11:53,678
time our

4535
03:11:54,681 --> 03:11:56,681
lead bond council

4536
03:11:57,684 --> 03:12:00,687
has moved to another firm. This

4537
03:12:00,687 --> 03:12:03,870
amendment appoints foster garvey

4538
03:12:03,690 --> 03:12:04,892
as our bond council

4539
03:12:04,892 --> 03:12:06,693
and specifically calls out the authorization

4540
03:12:06,693 --> 03:12:09,930
to participate in the

4541
03:12:09,663 --> 03:12:10,797
state

4542
03:12:10,797 --> 03:12:12,666
of oregon school bond guarantee program.

4543
03:12:12,666 --> 03:12:14,666
we anticipate

4544
03:12:14,668 --> 03:12:15,669
we will have to do that. We have a

4545
03:12:15,669 --> 03:12:17,669
kickoff

4546
03:12:18,672 --> 03:12:19,673
for the bond sale with the

4547
03:12:19,673 --> 03:12:21,675
larger team this morning. There is

4548
03:12:21,675 --> 03:12:23,675
a possibility we

4549
03:12:24,678 --> 03:12:25,679
would not have to

4550
03:12:25,679 --> 03:12:27,681
utilize this credit. But in other

4551
03:12:27,681 --> 03:12:29,681
other particularly, a

4552
03:12:30,684 --> 03:12:33,840
lot of school districts

4553
03:12:33,687 --> 03:12:35,689
are seeing downgrades to

4554
03:12:35,689 --> 03:12:36,690
their bond ratings. So we believe

4555
03:12:36,690 --> 03:12:37,724
we

4556
03:12:37,724 --> 03:12:39,693
are immune from those forces. We will

4557
03:12:39,693 --> 03:12:42,930
not know for sure

4558
03:12:42,696 --> 03:12:44,665
until we

4559
03:12:44,665 --> 03:12:48,265
go through the rating process withstandard

4560
03:12:48,669 --> 03:12:51,672
later this spring which is one of

4561
03:12:51,672 --> 03:12:54,720
the steps in bond

4562
03:12:54,675 --> 03:12:57,750
sale process. This is

4563
03:12:57,678 --> 03:13:00,678
an action item and we

4564
03:13:00,681 --> 03:13:02,681
are looking

4565
03:13:06,687 --> 03:13:08,687
for, requesting your

4566
03:13:09,690 --> 03:13:10,691
approval for this resolution.

4567
03:13:10,691 --> 03:13:11,692
>> you

4568
03:13:11,692 --> 03:13:12,693
point out here --it is transparent.

4569
03:13:12,693 --> 03:13:13,694
>>

4570
03:13:13,694 --> 03:13:15,694
we

4571
03:13:15,696 --> 03:13:17,696
do need it

4572
03:13:18,665 --> 03:13:21,650
as it relates to

4573
03:13:21,668 --> 03:13:24,668
foster garvey. Calling out the

4574
03:13:24,671 --> 03:13:27,710
osbg, it, the authority

4575
03:13:27,674 --> 03:13:28,742
was implicit in the original

4576
03:13:28,742 --> 03:13:30,677
resolution but our financial advisory

4577
03:13:30,677 --> 03:13:32,677
and

4578
03:13:32,679 --> 03:13:36,683
bond council wanted to be more explicit

4579
03:13:36,683 --> 03:13:38,685
in case a question comes up for

4580
03:13:38,685 --> 03:13:39,686
the operators or one of the buyers

4581
03:13:39,686 --> 03:13:41,686
of one of

4582
03:13:42,689 --> 03:13:44,689
our bonds

4583
03:13:45,692 --> 03:13:47,694
in I had that

4584
03:13:47,694 --> 03:13:48,695
authority to do it.

4585
03:13:48,695 --> 03:13:50,695
>> this is the

4586
03:13:51,665 --> 03:13:53,665
same person

4587
03:13:54,668 --> 03:13:57,680
or group that we

4588
03:13:57,671 --> 03:14:00,710
have? When did merser

4589
03:14:00,674 --> 03:14:01,675
close?

4590
03:14:01,675 --> 03:14:03,675
>> they dissolved

4591
03:14:03,677 --> 03:14:05,677
in early 2024. The

4592
03:14:06,680 --> 03:14:08,680
son of the

4593
03:14:09,683 --> 03:14:11,683
original

4594
03:14:12,686 --> 03:14:15,860
founder he retired early

4595
03:14:15,689 --> 03:14:17,689
in

4596
03:14:18,692 --> 03:14:19,693
2024. Courtney evaluated going and continuing

4597
03:14:19,693 --> 03:14:20,694
the

4598
03:14:20,694 --> 03:14:21,695
family business and just decided it

4599
03:14:21,695 --> 03:14:23,695
was for

4600
03:14:24,665 --> 03:14:27,650
her and to clients

4601
03:14:27,668 --> 03:14:29,668
she served

4602
03:14:30,671 --> 03:14:32,671
to attach

4603
03:14:33,674 --> 03:14:35,676
foster garvey. The bigger

4604
03:14:35,676 --> 03:14:36,677
bond counsel firm. They are a bigger

4605
03:14:36,677 --> 03:14:39,677
firm in seattle and a

4606
03:14:39,680 --> 03:14:42,800
good presence here in

4607
03:14:42,683 --> 03:14:43,684
portland as well.

4608
03:14:43,684 --> 03:14:44,685
>> so can you just walk

4609
03:14:44,685 --> 03:14:45,819
through the

4610
03:14:45,819 --> 03:14:46,687
process leading up to the bond sale? The

4611
03:14:46,687 --> 03:14:48,687
steps

4612
03:14:48,689 --> 03:14:49,690
we are going to go through?

4613
03:14:49,690 --> 03:14:51,690
>> yes. I

4614
03:14:51,692 --> 03:14:54,695
would be happy to. So, the first

4615
03:14:54,695 --> 03:14:56,663
thing that we did was we

4616
03:14:56,663 --> 03:15:00,263
issued a request for proposals for

4617
03:15:00,667 --> 03:15:02,669
underwriters. That was done in january. And,

4618
03:15:02,669 --> 03:15:03,670
then, underwriter is the firm that

4619
03:15:03,670 --> 03:15:04,671
gets

4620
03:15:04,671 --> 03:15:06,673
appointed to market our bonds. And,

4621
03:15:06,673 --> 03:15:08,673
and they have

4622
03:15:09,676 --> 03:15:10,677
to do a good job marketing. One of

4623
03:15:10,677 --> 03:15:12,677
the requirements

4624
03:15:12,679 --> 03:15:15,682
is if you don't sell the bonds

4625
03:15:15,682 --> 03:15:17,684
then you have to

4626
03:15:17,684 --> 03:15:18,685
buy them. So, selection of an under

4627
03:15:18,685 --> 03:15:21,850
writer is an important

4628
03:15:21,688 --> 03:15:24,691
initial step. You want to get a

4629
03:15:24,691 --> 03:15:26,691
team that

4630
03:15:27,694 --> 03:15:29,663
is really good at marketing. The exposure

4631
03:15:29,663 --> 03:15:30,664
enhancing, you know, the investment

4632
03:15:30,664 --> 03:15:32,664
market interest

4633
03:15:33,667 --> 03:15:36,670
that drives down our interest rate

4634
03:15:36,670 --> 03:15:37,671
costs. We have an interest

4635
03:15:37,671 --> 03:15:39,673
in doing to save taxpayer's money

4636
03:15:39,673 --> 03:15:41,673
as well

4637
03:15:42,676 --> 03:15:44,676
as it can

4638
03:15:44,678 --> 03:15:45,712
increase opportunities for premiums

4639
03:15:45,712 --> 03:15:48,682
or reduce discounts that might be

4640
03:15:48,682 --> 03:15:51,820
in the sale at

4641
03:15:51,685 --> 03:15:54,685
any given time. So, we

4642
03:15:54,688 --> 03:15:56,688
have that

4643
03:15:56,690 --> 03:15:57,691
rfp. We selected piper samuel. The

4644
03:15:57,691 --> 03:15:59,691
800 pound gorilla

4645
03:16:00,694 --> 03:16:02,696
if it will as it relates to

4646
03:16:02,696 --> 03:16:03,664
bond sales for school districts and

4647
03:16:03,664 --> 03:16:05,664
not just

4648
03:16:06,667 --> 03:16:08,669
in oregon but in the

4649
03:16:08,669 --> 03:16:09,670
pacific northwest. And they, they,

4650
03:16:09,670 --> 03:16:12,700
I worked with them

4651
03:16:12,673 --> 03:16:14,673
at least half

4652
03:16:15,676 --> 03:16:17,676
a dozen different

4653
03:16:18,679 --> 03:16:21,790
times of debt offerings

4654
03:16:21,682 --> 03:16:24,682
that I have been with

4655
03:16:27,688 --> 03:16:29,688
them.

4656
03:16:36,663 --> 03:16:38,663
and and,

4657
03:16:40,667 --> 03:16:42,669
and the time line and, and,

4658
03:16:42,669 --> 03:16:45,672
you know who is responsible for what

4659
03:16:45,672 --> 03:16:48,675
part or parts of all of the different

4660
03:16:48,675 --> 03:16:52,275
steps that are involved with selling

4661
03:16:52,679 --> 03:16:53,680
a bond and we went over some of

4662
03:16:53,680 --> 03:16:55,682
those details. Confirmed some of the

4663
03:16:55,682 --> 03:16:57,682
dates on the

4664
03:16:57,684 --> 03:17:01,688
calendar and we are looking to market

4665
03:17:01,688 --> 03:17:03,688
this bond for

4666
03:17:03,690 --> 03:17:06,693
a sale in early to mid-may? And, one thing

4667
03:17:06,693 --> 03:17:07,694
that they are able to bring to the

4668
03:17:07,694 --> 03:17:09,694
table they see

4669
03:17:10,664 --> 03:17:12,666
who else is out

4670
03:17:12,666 --> 03:17:13,667
in the market and anticipate to sell bonds

4671
03:17:13,667 --> 03:17:15,667
of

4672
03:17:15,669 --> 03:17:16,670
the same time frame and they try to

4673
03:17:16,670 --> 03:17:18,670
structure

4674
03:17:19,673 --> 03:17:20,674
our timing so we are not

4675
03:17:20,674 --> 03:17:22,676
disadvantaged to other sales that

4676
03:17:22,676 --> 03:17:24,676
might

4677
03:17:24,678 --> 03:17:25,679
be taking place at any particular

4678
03:17:25,679 --> 03:17:27,679
time. That

4679
03:17:28,682 --> 03:17:29,816
can help

4680
03:17:29,816 --> 03:17:34,160
maximize the interest in the bonds. And,

4681
03:17:34,688 --> 03:17:36,688
they, they a

4682
03:17:37,691 --> 03:17:40,691
long with financial advisory and

4683
03:17:40,694 --> 03:17:41,695
financial advisory llc, I think,

4684
03:17:41,695 --> 03:17:43,664
they, they kind of cross-checking

4685
03:17:43,664 --> 03:17:45,664
each other's work

4686
03:17:46,667 --> 03:17:48,667
to make sure

4687
03:17:49,670 --> 03:17:52,700
that the district's interests

4688
03:17:52,673 --> 03:17:54,673
are held up

4689
03:17:55,676 --> 03:17:58,676
pfm works in a fid

4690
03:18:04,685 --> 03:18:06,685
fiduciary access

4691
03:18:07,688 --> 03:18:09,690
for us. And the sale and they

4692
03:18:09,690 --> 03:18:10,691
help assess, you know, if the district

4693
03:18:10,691 --> 03:18:12,691
has received fair

4694
03:18:12,693 --> 03:18:13,694
value and that we are okay to move forward

4695
03:18:13,694 --> 03:18:14,761
with

4696
03:18:14,761 --> 03:18:16,663
the closing that would be anticipated

4697
03:18:16,663 --> 03:18:19,663
generally within a week to

4698
03:18:19,666 --> 03:18:21,666
10 days after the

4699
03:18:22,669 --> 03:18:24,669
date of the

4700
03:18:25,672 --> 03:18:27,674
sale. Under our current

4701
03:18:27,674 --> 03:18:28,675
schedule, we anticipate having this remaining,

4702
03:18:28,675 --> 03:18:30,675
the

4703
03:18:33,680 --> 03:18:37,280
funds from this remaining in late

4704
03:18:39,686 --> 03:18:40,687
may.

4705
03:18:40,687 --> 03:18:41,688
>> any questions? This is an

4706
03:18:41,688 --> 03:18:43,688
action

4707
03:18:43,690 --> 03:18:44,691
item.

4708
03:18:44,691 --> 03:18:45,792
>> I will move to approve

4709
03:18:45,792 --> 03:18:46,693
the amendment to the bond sale resolution.

4710
03:18:46,693 --> 03:18:48,693
>>

4711
03:18:52,666 --> 03:18:55,660
I will second that

4712
03:18:55,669 --> 03:18:56,670
motion.

4713
03:18:56,670 --> 03:18:58,500
>> okay. All in favor

4714
03:18:58,500 --> 03:19:01,675
in the motion. And the motion is approved. Thank you

4715
03:19:01,675 --> 03:19:02,676
very much.

4716
03:19:02,676 --> 03:19:03,710
>>

4717
03:19:03,710 --> 03:19:04,678
all right, thank you. All right. Other

4718
03:19:04,678 --> 03:19:05,679
business.

4719
03:19:05,679 --> 03:19:07,679
>>

4720
03:19:07,681 --> 03:19:10,810
I have a question

4721
03:19:13,687 --> 03:19:15,689
because we had all of the music testimony commentary

4722
03:19:15,689 --> 03:19:16,690
this evening and we are not hearing

4723
03:19:16,690 --> 03:19:18,690
from

4724
03:19:19,693 --> 03:19:21,693
anyone else,

4725
03:19:22,696 --> 03:19:25,666
what does that indicate to us? Is

4726
03:19:25,666 --> 03:19:27,666
there, what was

4727
03:19:30,671 --> 03:19:33,671
the message that suddenly brought

4728
03:19:34,675 --> 03:19:35,676
the musicians here?

4729
03:19:35,676 --> 03:19:37,676
>>

4730
03:19:37,678 --> 03:19:38,679
it would be rumors.

4731
03:19:38,679 --> 03:19:40,679
>>

4732
03:19:40,681 --> 03:19:42,683
it is an organized group. Who,

4733
03:19:42,683 --> 03:19:43,684
where did that rumor come from? How

4734
03:19:43,684 --> 03:19:45,684
do

4735
03:19:46,687 --> 03:19:48,687
we take

4736
03:19:49,690 --> 03:19:52,693
the anxiety level down? Or are

4737
03:19:52,693 --> 03:19:53,694
they duly anxious?

4738
03:19:53,694 --> 03:19:55,694
>> well, I can

4739
03:19:55,696 --> 03:19:57,664
say like I don't think I heard very straightforward

4740
03:19:57,664 --> 03:19:58,665
like what is going to happen. My principal

4741
03:19:58,665 --> 03:20:00,665
said something different

4742
03:20:01,668 --> 03:20:02,669
than two of my science teachers

4743
03:20:02,669 --> 03:20:03,670
for like certain classes and .

4744
03:20:03,670 --> 03:20:04,671
>>

4745
03:20:04,671 --> 03:20:06,671
no one

4746
03:20:07,674 --> 03:20:08,675
knows right now.

4747
03:20:08,675 --> 03:20:10,677
>> yeah. So I really,

4748
03:20:10,677 --> 03:20:12,679
I have been hearing things from students,

4749
03:20:12,679 --> 03:20:13,680
hearing things from teachers, my principal

4750
03:20:13,680 --> 03:20:14,815
and everyone is

4751
03:20:14,815 --> 03:20:16,683
saying different things about which teachers

4752
03:20:16,683 --> 03:20:18,685
are going to not be here and

4753
03:20:18,685 --> 03:20:19,686
which classes we are not going to

4754
03:20:19,686 --> 03:20:21,686
have. Like I

4755
03:20:21,688 --> 03:20:22,689
was saying during my comments. It

4756
03:20:22,689 --> 03:20:24,689
is

4757
03:20:24,691 --> 03:20:25,692
really confusing.

4758
03:20:25,692 --> 03:20:26,693
>> I think that

4759
03:20:26,693 --> 03:20:28,695
when someone is talking about

4760
03:20:28,695 --> 03:20:29,696
what classes are not going to be here. That

4761
03:20:29,696 --> 03:20:31,665
is

4762
03:20:31,665 --> 03:20:34,668
impossible to do before we forecast

4763
03:20:34,668 --> 03:20:37,680
it. That may be

4764
03:20:37,671 --> 03:20:38,672
something that boiled up in

4765
03:20:38,672 --> 03:20:40,674
choir. Okay, people, everybody needs

4766
03:20:40,674 --> 03:20:41,675
to .

4767
03:20:41,675 --> 03:20:43,677
>> and I think what I heard

4768
03:20:43,677 --> 03:20:44,678
is --there is some of the classes are

4769
03:20:44,678 --> 03:20:46,678
small. So

4770
03:20:46,680 --> 03:20:49,683
I think people are putting two and

4771
03:20:49,683 --> 03:20:50,684
two together. It is a small class,

4772
03:20:50,684 --> 03:20:52,684
they are going

4773
03:20:52,686 --> 03:20:54,688
to cut. We have a bunch of

4774
03:20:54,688 --> 03:20:55,689
small classes so .

4775
03:20:55,689 --> 03:20:56,690
>> I do think that is

4776
03:20:56,690 --> 03:20:58,690
something that

4777
03:20:58,692 --> 03:20:59,693
people are saying

4778
03:20:59,693 --> 03:21:01,693
>> and

4779
03:21:04,665 --> 03:21:07,665
we do have some small

4780
03:21:10,671 --> 03:21:11,672
classes -- [low audio]

4781
03:21:11,672 --> 03:21:13,672
>>

4782
03:21:13,674 --> 03:21:15,674
I think that

4783
03:21:16,677 --> 03:21:17,678
is worth communication at this point. That

4784
03:21:17,678 --> 03:21:19,678
seems

4785
03:21:19,680 --> 03:21:22,683
to be a lot of anxiety to

4786
03:21:22,683 --> 03:21:23,684
me for something that is not a definite

4787
03:21:23,684 --> 03:21:25,684
that

4788
03:21:25,686 --> 03:21:26,687
is going to be happening

4789
03:21:26,687 --> 03:21:27,688
>> some kids

4790
03:21:27,688 --> 03:21:28,689
don't

4791
03:21:28,689 --> 03:21:31,890
know that, like smaller

4792
03:21:31,692 --> 03:21:34,695
classes and I know especially upperclassman they

4793
03:21:34,695 --> 03:21:36,695
want to forecast

4794
03:21:38,665 --> 03:21:42,265
for late arrival, early release, free

4795
03:21:43,670 --> 03:21:45,672
periods. At least one

4796
03:21:45,672 --> 03:21:46,673
of my teachers said try to forecast

4797
03:21:46,673 --> 03:21:49,730
for all eight classes

4798
03:21:49,676 --> 03:21:50,677
so the classes exist and then it is easier

4799
03:21:50,677 --> 03:21:52,679
to drop a class

4800
03:21:52,679 --> 03:21:54,681
than it is to add a class, kind

4801
03:21:54,681 --> 03:21:56,683
of. So they are telling people, like,

4802
03:21:56,683 --> 03:21:59,683
that one teacher is telling

4803
03:21:59,686 --> 03:22:00,787
people to forecast

4804
03:22:00,787 --> 03:22:01,688
but I don't think everyone knows that.

4805
03:22:01,688 --> 03:22:02,689
>>

4806
03:22:02,689 --> 03:22:04,691
we don't want people

4807
03:22:04,691 --> 03:22:05,692
to forecast the classes they are not going

4808
03:22:05,692 --> 03:22:06,693
to take. So, I

4809
03:22:06,693 --> 03:22:08,695
think that is a message that needs

4810
03:22:08,695 --> 03:22:09,696
to

4811
03:22:09,696 --> 03:22:10,664
get out there as well.

4812
03:22:10,664 --> 03:22:12,664
>> yes. We

4813
03:22:12,666 --> 03:22:14,668
can continue to say that. It does

4814
03:22:14,668 --> 03:22:16,668
not help that

4815
03:22:16,670 --> 03:22:17,671
30 kids forecast for class a and some are

4816
03:22:17,671 --> 03:22:19,671
like

4817
03:22:19,673 --> 03:22:20,674
okay, class a, and we put a teacher

4818
03:22:20,674 --> 03:22:22,674
there, spend

4819
03:22:22,676 --> 03:22:23,677
money on it and 15 kids drop out of the

4820
03:22:23,677 --> 03:22:26,677
class. Then I got over

4821
03:22:26,680 --> 03:22:28,682
here I have a class that has 40

4822
03:22:28,682 --> 03:22:30,684
kids in it, I could of used it here

4823
03:22:30,684 --> 03:22:32,686
to make that class more reasonable. Now

4824
03:22:32,686 --> 03:22:33,687
I can't because I

4825
03:22:33,687 --> 03:22:35,689
put it over here. Even though kids

4826
03:22:35,689 --> 03:22:38,692
were not going to take the class

4827
03:22:38,692 --> 03:22:39,693
and drop it

4828
03:22:39,693 --> 03:22:41,693
>> can

4829
03:22:41,695 --> 03:22:43,695
you say class

4830
03:22:44,665 --> 03:22:46,667
size alone is not an

4831
03:22:46,667 --> 03:22:47,668
indicator for a class to be dropped.

4832
03:22:47,668 --> 03:22:49,668
>>

4833
03:22:49,670 --> 03:22:53,674
it sounded to me we can not afford

4834
03:22:53,674 --> 03:22:54,675
a class with 10 students

4835
03:22:54,675 --> 03:22:56,675
>> correct. It looks

4836
03:22:56,677 --> 03:22:59,680
like, choir, there is a class

4837
03:22:59,680 --> 03:23:01,682
of 60. You know what I

4838
03:23:01,682 --> 03:23:02,683
mean? If you have a class that are

4839
03:23:02,683 --> 03:23:04,683
60 but

4840
03:23:04,685 --> 03:23:05,686
say it is 15 and 60 that actually

4841
03:23:05,686 --> 03:23:07,686
is

4842
03:23:08,689 --> 03:23:11,692
okay. I am looking at that more

4843
03:23:11,692 --> 03:23:14,695
of like the caseload of that teacher. And

4844
03:23:14,695 --> 03:23:16,663
if, if people could be, okay,

4845
03:23:16,663 --> 03:23:19,666
put you in this class. There are all

4846
03:23:19,666 --> 03:23:20,667
of these interesting things to make classes

4847
03:23:20,667 --> 03:23:21,668
bigger than they are.

4848
03:23:21,668 --> 03:23:22,736
>> same for

4849
03:23:22,736 --> 03:23:23,670
math if you have a large math section

4850
03:23:23,670 --> 03:23:25,670
and

4851
03:23:26,673 --> 03:23:28,675
you have, you still

4852
03:23:28,675 --> 03:23:29,676
want to have the advanced math.

4853
03:23:29,676 --> 03:23:30,677
>>

4854
03:23:30,677 --> 03:23:31,678
right.

4855
03:23:31,678 --> 03:23:32,679
>>

4856
03:23:32,679 --> 03:23:33,747
we hope to, we can not have all of

4857
03:23:33,747 --> 03:23:35,682
the levels of math but, whatever. But

4858
03:23:35,682 --> 03:23:37,682
--we

4859
03:23:38,685 --> 03:23:41,688
do want to keep as many

4860
03:23:41,688 --> 03:23:44,880
advanced math classes. Some

4861
03:23:44,691 --> 03:23:46,693
of the classes might

4862
03:23:46,693 --> 03:23:47,694
be smaller.

4863
03:23:47,694 --> 03:23:48,695
>> I don't . >> I don't

4864
03:23:48,695 --> 03:23:49,696
want to drop

4865
03:23:49,696 --> 03:23:50,664
any classes.

4866
03:23:50,664 --> 03:23:53,640
>> if you are looking

4867
03:23:53,667 --> 03:23:54,668
at it. 14 people and you are

4868
03:23:54,668 --> 03:23:55,736
quit.

4869
03:23:55,736 --> 03:23:56,670
>> there are other groups that will

4870
03:23:56,670 --> 03:23:59,700
come in if we

4871
03:23:59,673 --> 03:24:01,673
can even

4872
03:24:02,676 --> 03:24:04,678
out the anxiety and help

4873
03:24:04,678 --> 03:24:05,679
people understand.

4874
03:24:05,679 --> 03:24:06,680
>> with the advanced

4875
03:24:06,680 --> 03:24:07,714
math classes and

4876
03:24:07,714 --> 03:24:08,682
advanced science classes and everything

4877
03:24:08,682 --> 03:24:10,682
else

4878
03:24:11,685 --> 03:24:14,685
you spoke of, don't you

4879
03:24:14,688 --> 03:24:16,688
have connections to

4880
03:24:17,691 --> 03:24:20,910
things like portland community

4881
03:24:23,664 --> 03:24:24,665
college where students and I

4882
03:24:24,665 --> 03:24:26,667
think clackamas college, regular high

4883
03:24:26,667 --> 03:24:28,667
school classes

4884
03:24:29,670 --> 03:24:30,671
to still be pushing their advancement?

4885
03:24:30,671 --> 03:24:32,671
>>

4886
03:24:32,673 --> 03:24:33,674
yes.

4887
03:24:33,674 --> 03:24:35,674
>> okay. >> they do

4888
03:24:35,676 --> 03:24:37,676
but

4889
03:24:38,679 --> 03:24:41,679
technically it goes more to

4890
03:24:41,682 --> 03:24:42,716
advancements. It is not going to

4891
03:24:42,716 --> 03:24:44,685
clackamas community college. Might

4892
03:24:44,685 --> 03:24:47,688
be the case for one or two kids we

4893
03:24:47,688 --> 03:24:49,688
would not have

4894
03:24:50,691 --> 03:24:52,693
a class for one or

4895
03:24:52,693 --> 03:24:53,694
two students. Whether you talk about

4896
03:24:53,694 --> 03:24:55,694
calc 2

4897
03:24:56,697 --> 03:24:57,664
and 1. We do have 90. There are a

4898
03:24:57,664 --> 03:24:59,664
lot

4899
03:24:59,666 --> 03:25:02,669
of those. Those are not the ones

4900
03:25:02,669 --> 03:25:05,669
that you have to worry

4901
03:25:05,672 --> 03:25:06,673
about.

4902
03:25:06,673 --> 03:25:07,741
>> is it

4903
03:25:07,741 --> 03:25:08,675
fair to say today, in late february,

4904
03:25:08,675 --> 03:25:10,675
no decisions

4905
03:25:10,677 --> 03:25:14,681
have been made on which classes will make

4906
03:25:14,681 --> 03:25:17,810
up the curriculum for

4907
03:25:17,684 --> 03:25:20,684
next year? And that will

4908
03:25:20,687 --> 03:25:23,870
not happen until after

4909
03:25:23,690 --> 03:25:25,690
the may

4910
03:25:25,692 --> 03:25:26,693
forecasting shake out is completed?

4911
03:25:26,693 --> 03:25:28,693
>>

4912
03:25:29,696 --> 03:25:31,696
that is true

4913
03:25:32,666 --> 03:25:35,666
for electives. So, yes. But

4914
03:25:35,669 --> 03:25:37,669
we

4915
03:25:38,672 --> 03:25:39,673
have already said, you know, 60

4916
03:25:39,673 --> 03:25:41,675
sections of english for example. We

4917
03:25:41,675 --> 03:25:43,675
already

4918
03:25:43,677 --> 03:25:47,681
said that our class ratios are going

4919
03:25:47,681 --> 03:25:48,682
to be 30. So that means we neat six sections

4920
03:25:48,682 --> 03:25:49,683
here.

4921
03:25:49,683 --> 03:25:50,684
>>

4922
03:25:50,684 --> 03:25:51,685
that is because you know every

4923
03:25:51,685 --> 03:25:52,686
10th grader is taking english.

4924
03:25:52,686 --> 03:25:53,687
>>

4925
03:25:53,687 --> 03:25:54,688
yes.

4926
03:25:54,688 --> 03:25:55,689
>> right, right, right. >> what

4927
03:25:55,689 --> 03:25:56,790
could happen

4928
03:25:56,790 --> 03:25:59,693
with that is whether you start looking

4929
03:25:59,693 --> 03:26:02,696
at the english teachers who also teach

4930
03:26:02,696 --> 03:26:04,665
english electives, that might be

4931
03:26:04,665 --> 03:26:05,666
where things get fluctuated. We don't

4932
03:26:05,666 --> 03:26:07,666
have

4933
03:26:07,668 --> 03:26:08,669
anybody who wants to take yearbook. Let's

4934
03:26:08,669 --> 03:26:10,669
just

4935
03:26:11,672 --> 03:26:12,673
say there are five kids

4936
03:26:12,673 --> 03:26:14,673
>> just hypothetical. >>

4937
03:26:14,675 --> 03:26:17,678
just a hypothetical. That is usually

4938
03:26:17,678 --> 03:26:20,681
an english teacher that teaches that. Now,

4939
03:26:20,681 --> 03:26:21,682
they will not run yearbook. We would

4940
03:26:21,682 --> 03:26:23,682
not run

4941
03:26:23,684 --> 03:26:26,687
yearbook with five kids, we need to

4942
03:26:26,687 --> 03:26:27,688
see if that english teacher teaches another

4943
03:26:27,688 --> 03:26:28,889
english

4944
03:26:28,889 --> 03:26:29,690
section or a different english elective. This

4945
03:26:29,690 --> 03:26:31,690
year

4946
03:26:32,693 --> 03:26:33,694
we have a ton of advanced readers,

4947
03:26:33,694 --> 03:26:34,728
that

4948
03:26:34,728 --> 03:26:35,696
want to take a reading class. That

4949
03:26:35,696 --> 03:26:37,696
is where

4950
03:26:38,665 --> 03:26:39,666
they have to go. The electives it

4951
03:26:39,666 --> 03:26:40,701
depends

4952
03:26:40,701 --> 03:26:41,668
what the kids forecast for. For the

4953
03:26:41,668 --> 03:26:43,668
most part,

4954
03:26:44,671 --> 03:26:47,674
all of our kids take an english,

4955
03:26:47,674 --> 03:26:50,674
a math, a science. Sometimes

4956
03:26:50,677 --> 03:26:52,677
we have kids

4957
03:26:53,680 --> 03:26:54,681
that take two sciences. So it really

4958
03:26:54,681 --> 03:26:56,681
depends. Only

4959
03:26:56,683 --> 03:26:59,683
thing we have been able

4960
03:26:59,686 --> 03:27:00,687
to determine at this point is core. Elementary

4961
03:27:00,687 --> 03:27:02,687
that

4962
03:27:02,689 --> 03:27:03,690
is all core.

4963
03:27:03,690 --> 03:27:04,691
>>

4964
03:27:04,691 --> 03:27:05,792
just to clarify

4965
03:27:05,792 --> 03:27:06,693
>> forecasting is super important. That

4966
03:27:06,693 --> 03:27:07,728
is how

4967
03:27:07,728 --> 03:27:08,695
we make our decisions every year.

4968
03:27:08,695 --> 03:27:09,696
>>

4969
03:27:09,696 --> 03:27:10,664
just to clarify

4970
03:27:10,664 --> 03:27:11,665
is that at there moment a promise

4971
03:27:11,665 --> 03:27:14,665
I can make to all

4972
03:27:14,668 --> 03:27:17,671
of my student that I know came up

4973
03:27:17,671 --> 03:27:18,939
here.

4974
03:27:18,939 --> 03:27:19,673
>> no promises >> is that something

4975
03:27:19,673 --> 03:27:20,674
that

4976
03:27:20,674 --> 03:27:22,676
I can tell them, we

4977
03:27:22,676 --> 03:27:23,677
don't know electives until forecasting

4978
03:27:23,677 --> 03:27:24,678
is concluded?

4979
03:27:24,678 --> 03:27:26,678
>> yes. >> and I

4980
03:27:28,682 --> 03:27:32,686
just want to echo. For students in

4981
03:27:32,686 --> 03:27:34,688
the forecasting period right

4982
03:27:34,688 --> 03:27:35,689
now. It is important that as a student

4983
03:27:35,689 --> 03:27:37,689
and

4984
03:27:37,691 --> 03:27:38,692
parents of a student that student

4985
03:27:38,692 --> 03:27:41,692
forecasting you try to take

4986
03:27:41,695 --> 03:27:43,664
it as seriously as you possibly can. There

4987
03:27:43,664 --> 03:27:44,665
are sometimes a sentiment that oh,

4988
03:27:44,665 --> 03:27:47,668
I can not be bothered right

4989
03:27:47,668 --> 03:27:48,669
now or I have not looked at the course

4990
03:27:48,669 --> 03:27:49,670
catalog

4991
03:27:49,670 --> 03:27:50,671
or I had a super official meeting

4992
03:27:50,671 --> 03:27:52,671
with my counselor

4993
03:27:52,673 --> 03:27:53,674
because I was not prepared to talk

4994
03:27:53,674 --> 03:27:56,677
about what I wanted to do

4995
03:27:56,677 --> 03:27:57,678
and I will figure it out in the spring

4996
03:27:57,678 --> 03:27:58,679
or

4997
03:27:58,679 --> 03:28:00,681
over the summer and make adjustments

4998
03:28:00,681 --> 03:28:02,683
in the fall. I think

4999
03:28:02,683 --> 03:28:03,684
one of the practical realities is

5000
03:28:03,684 --> 03:28:05,684
that as we

5001
03:28:05,686 --> 03:28:06,687
have pressure to the number of classes

5002
03:28:06,687 --> 03:28:08,687
that

5003
03:28:09,690 --> 03:28:11,690
we can offer

5004
03:28:11,692 --> 03:28:14,695
to the learning community there will necessarily

5005
03:28:14,695 --> 03:28:15,696
also be pressure on the flexibility

5006
03:28:15,696 --> 03:28:16,797
to

5007
03:28:16,797 --> 03:28:18,665
move out of classes, into classes. All

5008
03:28:18,665 --> 03:28:19,666
because three of my

5009
03:28:19,666 --> 03:28:21,668
best friends are taking there and

5010
03:28:21,668 --> 03:28:23,670
now I want to take

5011
03:28:23,670 --> 03:28:27,674
this class. That will be harder to

5012
03:28:27,674 --> 03:28:28,675
do next year. I

5013
03:28:28,675 --> 03:28:30,677
just encourage all students, middle

5014
03:28:30,677 --> 03:28:32,677
school and high

5015
03:28:32,679 --> 03:28:33,680
school to look at your course catalogs, talk

5016
03:28:33,680 --> 03:28:35,680
to

5017
03:28:35,682 --> 03:28:36,683
your counselors, talk to your parents,

5018
03:28:36,683 --> 03:28:38,685
talk to your older siblings,

5019
03:28:38,685 --> 03:28:41,688
get a sense of what the classes are

5020
03:28:41,688 --> 03:28:42,689
like and try to go into forecasting

5021
03:28:42,689 --> 03:28:44,691
if this is what I get

5022
03:28:44,691 --> 03:28:45,692
I will be happy.

5023
03:28:45,692 --> 03:28:46,693
>> that is good to

5024
03:28:46,693 --> 03:28:47,728
hear. I

5025
03:28:47,728 --> 03:28:48,695
think the perspective of quite a few,

5026
03:28:48,695 --> 03:28:50,664
especially

5027
03:28:50,664 --> 03:28:51,665
the choir kids is not that, oh, well,

5028
03:28:51,665 --> 03:28:52,666
there is just not

5029
03:28:52,666 --> 03:28:54,668
enough demand for a class it will

5030
03:28:54,668 --> 03:28:57,668
not happen. It will be

5031
03:28:57,671 --> 03:28:58,705
my third year in a row trying to

5032
03:28:58,705 --> 03:29:00,674
take history but never enough kids

5033
03:29:00,674 --> 03:29:03,674
that sign up. The perspective

5034
03:29:03,677 --> 03:29:05,679
from them is that they see a word

5035
03:29:05,679 --> 03:29:06,680
in the lake oswego newspaper like

5036
03:29:06,680 --> 03:29:08,680
budget cuts

5037
03:29:08,682 --> 03:29:10,684
and think it does not matter if 100

5038
03:29:10,684 --> 03:29:12,686
kids forecast for the class budget

5039
03:29:12,686 --> 03:29:14,688
cuts means it is gone. That

5040
03:29:14,688 --> 03:29:15,689
is what they were more concerned about

5041
03:29:15,689 --> 03:29:17,689
today

5042
03:29:17,691 --> 03:29:18,692
more than a lack of demand.

5043
03:29:18,692 --> 03:29:19,693
>> there

5044
03:29:19,693 --> 03:29:20,694
is

5045
03:29:20,694 --> 03:29:21,695
clearly passionate interest in our

5046
03:29:21,695 --> 03:29:23,695
choir

5047
03:29:23,697 --> 03:29:24,665
programs.

5048
03:29:24,665 --> 03:29:25,666
>> all of our performing

5049
03:29:25,666 --> 03:29:26,667
arts.

5050
03:29:26,667 --> 03:29:27,901
>> yes. >> all

5051
03:29:27,901 --> 03:29:28,669
of them. It is part of what our district needs

5052
03:29:28,669 --> 03:29:29,670
>>

5053
03:29:29,670 --> 03:29:30,671
and

5054
03:29:30,671 --> 03:29:31,672
the reality of it is,

5055
03:29:31,672 --> 03:29:33,674
we are cutting $10 million. Those

5056
03:29:33,674 --> 03:29:35,674
two

5057
03:29:36,677 --> 03:29:37,711
things are going to be competing realities. We

5058
03:29:37,711 --> 03:29:39,680
are not cutting any one thing. It

5059
03:29:39,680 --> 03:29:41,680
just means

5060
03:29:41,682 --> 03:29:42,683
it will be tighter. You will not have

5061
03:29:42,683 --> 03:29:44,683
flexibility to say

5062
03:29:44,685 --> 03:29:47,688
I don't want this now I do, we had

5063
03:29:47,688 --> 03:29:48,689
the luxury for many years of doing. We

5064
03:29:48,689 --> 03:29:50,689
are just

5065
03:29:50,691 --> 03:29:51,692
not going to have it now. Take the

5066
03:29:51,692 --> 03:29:53,692
forecasting

5067
03:29:53,694 --> 03:29:54,695
seriously. We will have classes for

5068
03:29:54,695 --> 03:29:55,696
all kids to take that

5069
03:29:55,696 --> 03:29:57,664
they want to take and that is what

5070
03:29:57,664 --> 03:29:59,664
we are going

5071
03:30:00,667 --> 03:30:01,668
to build our staffing around.

5072
03:30:01,668 --> 03:30:03,668
>> all

5073
03:30:03,670 --> 03:30:05,670
right. It

5074
03:30:06,673 --> 03:30:08,673
is an

5075
03:30:08,675 --> 03:30:09,676
indicator that everything will be

5076
03:30:09,676 --> 03:30:10,677
all right until it

5077
03:30:10,677 --> 03:30:12,677
>>

5078
03:30:12,679 --> 03:30:15,682
do you send confirming emails after

5079
03:30:15,682 --> 03:30:17,684
all of your email? That is a confirming

5080
03:30:17,684 --> 03:30:18,685
email dialogue.

5081
03:30:18,685 --> 03:30:19,686
>> I will tell them

5082
03:30:19,686 --> 03:30:20,687
in whatever level of

5083
03:30:20,687 --> 03:30:21,688
confidence you think I should.

5084
03:30:21,688 --> 03:30:22,689
>>

5085
03:30:22,689 --> 03:30:24,689
I was

5086
03:30:24,691 --> 03:30:25,692
just giving you a hard time.

5087
03:30:25,692 --> 03:30:26,693
>> forecasting

5088
03:30:26,693 --> 03:30:27,694
is really important. I think just

5089
03:30:27,694 --> 03:30:29,694
saying that, if

5090
03:30:30,664 --> 03:30:31,665
you all want choir, just make sure you

5091
03:30:31,665 --> 03:30:32,733
forecast

5092
03:30:32,733 --> 03:30:33,667
for it so when we are doing staffing

5093
03:30:33,667 --> 03:30:35,669
we can say where it

5094
03:30:35,669 --> 03:30:36,670
is going to.

5095
03:30:36,670 --> 03:30:37,671
>> all right. >> and

5096
03:30:37,671 --> 03:30:38,672
it is important for students

5097
03:30:38,672 --> 03:30:39,673
to know there will be other classes

5098
03:30:39,673 --> 03:30:41,673
or other

5099
03:30:42,676 --> 03:30:43,677
resources available if a class they

5100
03:30:43,677 --> 03:30:45,677
really wanted

5101
03:30:45,679 --> 03:30:48,682
does not exist. Especially like the

5102
03:30:48,682 --> 03:30:51,685
ones we were talking about calc3

5103
03:30:51,685 --> 03:30:54,850
or the spanish or

5104
03:30:54,688 --> 03:30:56,690
organic chemistry. There will

5105
03:30:56,690 --> 03:30:57,691
be other options.

5106
03:30:57,691 --> 03:30:58,692
>> all right. >>

5107
03:30:58,692 --> 03:30:59,693
I

5108
03:30:59,693 --> 03:31:00,694
don't foresee us getting rid of any

5109
03:31:00,694 --> 03:31:02,694
one thing like

5110
03:31:03,697 --> 03:31:04,665
that. It will be how many kids in

5111
03:31:04,665 --> 03:31:05,666
the class.

5112
03:31:05,666 --> 03:31:06,667
>>

5113
03:31:06,667 --> 03:31:07,668
thank you

5114
03:31:07,668 --> 03:31:08,669
for asking the question.

5115
03:31:08,669 --> 03:31:09,670
>> yep. >>

5116
03:31:09,670 --> 03:31:11,670
any

5117
03:31:13,674 --> 03:31:14,675
other other business?

5118
03:31:14,675 --> 03:31:16,675
>> all right. If