[0:00] District office, I see Christina, so our union leadership are, again, I think we can invite them to this conversation as a part of it, and certainly are nurses into this. And so, I know no one wants to spend. I think we're on the same page. We'll maybe have less. It's like, I think it's trying to figure out where do we want to go from this. And if we need further information to make some decisions, we can, you can elicit that feedback.

[0:28] Okay. It's not a free call. I guess it's just like,

[0:31] trying to be clear. So if people want, I did turn off comment.

[0:39] And so that is, that

[0:40] is not present in this because I felt like if we're going to have this, it should be

[0:44] done in the, our phone, our conversation should be not be done in the comment section.

[0:48] Right. So you see the comment section is not available this evening?

[0:56] You could, I'm just

[0:58] Just trying to make sure I have all the board members here.

[1:04] They're here.

[1:05] Yeah, they're all here.

[1:06] Okay.

[1:06] I need to not be here right now.

[1:09] You can be here.

[1:11] Okay.

[1:11] This is open.

[1:12] It is open.

[1:12] It's just around not having.

[1:14] It's just a lot around who's.

[1:17] Who's actively going to participate in this at this.

[1:20] And again, we'll start with our board and then we'll invite others in as appropriate.

[1:23] it. And maybe I can, if it's Julianna, again, I think I have some background just the current

[1:30] metrics I'll give you, and then we can go from there.

[1:36] All right. I'm going to go ahead and call us to order. And please let the role reflect

[1:42] that all board members are in attendance this evening. And we only have one. I don't even,

[1:51] I didn't even look to see if we had an agenda. I'll be really honest. I just realized one

[1:55] topic. Yeah so tonight we are just discussing the you know ready safe schools and and what our district

[2:07] is going to do moving forward. Did I get that right. And looking at county metrics and all

[2:17] of those things for staying open and reopening and CDL and all of that good stuff and I just wanted

[2:23] to reiterate some people I know sent emails and letters prior to the board

[2:30] meeting. We really appreciate everybody's thoughts and feedback and it's not

[2:34] that I don't want to hear them tonight. It just we have heard a lot and then it

[2:40] ends up getting pretty late and this was a sort of a last-minute meeting and so I

[2:46] also want to be mindful that not everybody will have heard about it and if we take a

[2:52] lot of public comment that feels odd to me because we haven't put that out there that

[2:58] we're looking for that kind of feedback to the community.

[3:04] So we do appreciate everyone being here and we probably will be asking for some specific

[3:10] information from schools and or administrators and other people as we go on.

[3:18] but so Kevin I'm going to go ahead and let you just kind of start and I would like to talk about

[3:23] sort of the since we met last time the governor has had a new directive which will affect us and which

[3:35] maybe is is a little more unclear than I would like it to be.

[3:43] Well let's start with and so again we did have just this meeting specifically to talk about this

[3:49] And I think for everyone to be clear, the reason we're doing that, it was to give it enough time.

[3:56] And I think in our board meetings, we have a set agenda. We have been adding COVID.

[4:02] We felt like at the time that where we created the agenda, we have gone over this

[4:08] numerous times. And we prior, we didn't feel like there was a lot more new news.

[4:14] We had been trending in a poor direction for a while.

[4:17] And so it didn't felt like, hey, as long as nothing significant changes, but then the case

[4:22] can't continue to climb.

[4:24] And so I think it's warranted this conversation tonight to really give this adequate time

[4:30] in the board meeting rather than kind of rushing through it.

[4:33] So let me start by, let's just review our current situation.

[4:40] So this is the metric.

[4:42] So this is what the we this is kind of my main place that I go up. This is the Oregon Health Authority and what they provide advisory metrics for returning to in person instruction through onsite or hybrid model.

[4:57] We are considered a large county and so the 30,000 or more I think our county is about 60,000 as a whole and so we are considered a large county and so how you read this is there's on the far side you talk about metrics and models and they have different

[5:14] different things for the different sizes for you and so when you are a large county we are looking at case rate and we are looking at

[5:24] Again, these different models for being on-site, on-site with hybrid, elementary, or distance

[5:31] learning.

[5:32] The case count is for small and medium counties, so they're looking at, they can look

[5:38] at a case count, and that's why you see that, so that really doesn't apply to us.

[5:42] Hest positivity is for medium and large, so we are looking at test positivity as also a metric

[5:47] that we're looking for.

[5:49] And then this instructional model is sort of the advice.

[5:52] I have read this part before because you're going to see where we are in just a second in this distance.

[5:59] But when trends are increasing, yes, that's true, which where we are,

[6:03] pause expansion of additional in-person learning and maintain access to in-person learning for those who have it.

[6:09] Schools are not advised to reduce in-person learning or revert to comprehensive distance learning based on metrics.

[6:15] If the school can demonstrate the limit transmission in the school environment.

[6:20] So I guess I just wanted to, that is part of what's in our ODE and OHA guidance.

[6:25] So here's the most recent, and again, I'll just kind of, kind of, before you just look

[6:29] at COOS, if you look at the recommendations, so this is, again, based on that number and

[6:34] you'll see the last calendar, this, you know, the 221 to 36 is the most recent data.

[6:41] that's till Monday. Every counting, there's COOS, which is distance learning, 238. That equates

[6:51] to a 366 per 100,000 and then our test positivity at 10%. You can see over the last three 14-day

[7:00] lookbacks, those numbers steadily increasing, all three of these, case counts of increase,

[7:11] case

[7:11] If you look at the rest of the date, you will notice we are the only county that is in this

[7:23] situation. So why are we having this conversation in Kus County and nowhere else is because there

[7:30] is nobody else that is in this metric right now of distance learning. So if you were wondering like

[7:36] Like, why is this?

[7:39] That is the reason.

[7:41] So with that being said, that's where we certainly kind of currently are with our numbers.

[7:47] I invited our nurses to be here to kind of just give you like where are we at with schools and our principals maybe can weigh in on this.

[7:54] I'll just start by saying we are currently investigating a case at the middle school middle school student.

[8:02] And the potential impact on a cohort.

[8:07] And so we are currently, we haven't announced that because one of the things in our protocol is we are trying to be sensitive to those directly impacted by these situations and they deserve to be told face to face that they were in direct contact or they were exposed and they're going to hear that from our nurses Shannon Kelly or the school personnel.

[8:28] And so we're going to make those phone calls before they have to read an email and not know and so we kind of hold on that information get all that done that all that notification will occur before the kids arrive or the kids will be stopped at the gates per say like before they get on the bus off the bus before they enter the building.

[8:51] they will be stopped and quarantined and potentially sent home if we can hold

[8:58] of them if they are in this case. So that's one that we're currently dealing

[9:02] with. So again, we're not. When we kind of go to this question of schools that

[9:08] are not to, you know, are we in this idea of transmission? I will say is again

[9:15] this was a case that was not the kid did not get this from the school. So

[9:21] So an outside source, the transmission is not occurring within the school and our school is going to take action to stop the transmission which may impact cohorts or staff that's just to be to be determined.

[9:34] So I'll ask if kind of our schools maybe it's Shannon and Kelly can start just a quick update on the are there any other students cohorts staff members are they both on here.

[9:45] I have a probably a little bit information. Kelly, I see Kelly. Are you prepared to give that update? I know I saw you walk in.

[9:56] Can you share your screen?

[9:59] I sent you a little table of the current, the questions you asked for.

[10:06] So today we have not documented any student to student transmission in our schools. Can you guys hear me?

[10:16] Okay. Including today. So as of today, at this moment, we have nine students at North

[10:27] Bay either out with COVID or quarantine for direct exposure. They know positive students.

[10:33] We have no positive students at North Bay. Hillcrest, there's four out. Same kind of deal.

[10:39] There are either any of those positive. One positive. One positive. And the rest are quarantine

[10:44] for direct contact. The middle school, I have 13. They are changed

[10:54] today. I think I have

[10:56] three positive and then 10 are direct contact. And at the high school, there's two out today

[11:03] that are quarantined. You can see the rest of this. This is not an unusual day. I mean, it's not

[11:12] unusual that we have some out more at the schools that have more kids.

[11:20] We have two staff out today

[11:23] at Hillcrest. The plus side is that now we're having more staff. For the first time, we have staff

[11:31] that are two plus two. So that means they've had two vaccinations and two weeks since their last

[11:36] vaccination and the CDC says without symptoms that that that adult doesn't have to quarantine.

[11:43] So what happens when this happens is if they were here we might send home the cohort that was

[11:48] involved but then once we can do this tracing that we then send on to the health department

[11:54] we can tell them you can safely come back to work tomorrow.

[11:58] Are our high school staff back?

[12:00] No, not yet.

[12:03] So there are two more staff on this.

[12:07] Oh, I said I added them. I don't see them on there. Yeah, it should say two under high school.

[12:12] 200 high school to a hillcress. That's where I needed to save it before I sent it.

[12:15] But there's two at the high school and two at hillcress.

[12:18] Okay, that's what I just want to make sure that we what we're looking at is accurate.

[12:22] Is this include what I just talked about tonight or that's not quite been factored in yet?

[12:26] Yeah, it does.

[12:27] The one that the most current because we haven't talked since then is there still investigation ongoing to figure that out?

[12:35] We're almost done.

[12:38] I guess my question is are is there going to be a middle school cohort sent home?

[12:45] We're almost done.

[12:48] There is not.

[12:49] And I'll tell you why it's because definitively, we can say that the teaching was done with everyone in a mask, six feet apart, and it's all those things that are in place in the schools that we can definitively say we're not getting transmission.

[13:14] And the truth is, if we weren't doing it, when we had seven to eight come back, this is a week out,

[13:20] we would have had that two to five day incubation period. If we weren't being effective,

[13:24] we would be having a ton of these. So far, each of these

[13:29] positives in students have been easily documented to come from a setting outside school.

[13:38] The last thing I'll say, and then I'll pass back over to you, Juliana, is the governor's message

[13:43] that came out we met on Thursday and she had an announcement on Friday calling for all of our

[13:51] students to return in the state by on the week of April 19th and it's so a staggered corn

[14:00] of entry. The only relevant date to us is probably the April 19th for students in six to twelve.

[14:07] Obviously we have six to eight already present and we have K-5 already present so really we're

[14:12] talking about 9 through 12 and the latest date that she's put out there, April 19th. I think

[14:17] when you're in Cooce County and you get this, you would be like, why are we doing this? But

[14:21] if you just saw the data and you see every other district, you saw all the green districts,

[14:27] you saw everybody else is not in the red. You can see why there's some optimism across the state

[14:33] and really that a push from our governor and the rest of the folks saying, get kids back to school.

[14:38] and so I just that was clear. I also know on here is it says that the week of the 19th and then

[14:47] there's also the little caveat in here that was like that you can look at your own situation

[14:55] And so it was still, we know that there, I think she

[15:00] I recognize that there's still a couple counties that we're out. And so again, you can still look at your individual, where I'm just looking at where the, because there's,

[15:15] it said, Oregon, OHA and ODE must also review Oregon's advisory metrics for school and revise those metrics to make clear that hybrid or in person instruction is the primary instructional model for school districts, unless extreme rates of community transmission of COVID-19

[15:33] to make comprehensive distance learning necessary.

[15:36] So again, that's sort of the, even in this,

[15:39] there's a little bit of an out

[15:40] if there's a documented extreme transmission

[15:45] of COVID-19 happening in our community.

[15:47] And again, I maybe looked at others to make that judgment.

[15:54] All right, so that is all I would have to say kind of

[15:56] in terms of a warm up to this conversation.

[15:58] There's our current situation.

[15:59] I have one question, and I'm hoping, Eric, maybe you can answer it.

[16:06] It's our understanding that if people travel to Coos County for their medical care, and

[16:12] they end up getting COVID tested, that it reports in Coos County as if they're positive.

[16:17] Is that accurate?

[16:23] It's based on your address.

[16:25] So if you don't live in Coos County, it wouldn't be a Coos County case.

[16:29] Because that's not the information that we've gotten from the state.

[16:33] The information we got was that where the diagnosis is made, where it's reported, it reports

[16:39] in that county.

[16:41] And I'm not saying we don't have positives here, I'm just saying there are a lot of people

[16:47] that come from down the coast for their medical care that that data might be represented in

[16:54] our county data versus their county data.

[16:58] Okay.

[16:59] Well, we've had people that get tested in other states and it comes back to our attached

[17:02] our numbers. We've had them tested in other counties that come back to our numbers.

[17:07] It's based on your home resident.

[17:11] Good clarification.

[17:15] All right, Juliana, back to you.

[17:17] All right. Any other questions from board members or anything on that?

[17:27] I'd say if you looked at the numbers today, we would be somewhere over 380 per 100,000

[17:33] based on our two weeks active cases for today.

[17:37] We had 27 cases since yesterday.

[17:40] So we definitely aren't slowing down anytime soon at this point.

[17:52] So just a recap of where we are.

[17:55] We have K-5 in hybrid right now.

[17:59] And K-3 have been there pretty much since the beginning,

[18:04] other than those random cohort quarantines and middle school started, I

[18:17] apologize for not knowing this, where is the middle school on are all six

[18:21] seventh and eighth back or are we still in the middle of that? John Wade you

[18:28] want to talk about just kind of where middle school is and I know we started a

[18:31] a little bit rough with 6th grade but they are all back and this

[18:39] is our 5th week having

[18:40] 6th graders and 2nd week with 7th and 8th graders.

[19:00] Julie and I can ask a question.

[19:02] Yes, absolutely.

[19:04] I'm not sure who to even know us as to but I'm assuming or maybe I'm not assuming correctly.

[19:08] All of the teachers who wanted the vaccine have had that opportunity correct.

[19:14] That is correct.

[19:15] That is correct.

[19:15] Okay.

[19:16] I just want to make sure.

[19:16] Not just teachers.

[19:17] I mean this staff.

[19:18] I'm sorry.

[19:19] teachers and staff. Features staff, and I don't know, you might not have heard this, but even our athletic officials all were offered

[19:27] vaccinations. So anyone kind of associated with schools at this point, including our bus drivers have all been offered the ability to get a vaccination.

[19:36] We're not tracking the percentage. Someone else could venture to guess on what that might be. I've heard somewhere in the 50 to 60% of our staff have been vaccinated, but that would just be a number pulled out of the air.

[19:49] Okay, but they've had the opportunity, they've been given the opportunity.

[19:52] Correct.

[19:53] Okay.

[19:53] The only data I have regarding that's from January but 52% of the staff said they were

[19:59] going to get it, the shot immediately, 35.8% wanted to wait.

[20:03] I think some of them have been vaccinated since and it was only 12.6% who said they would

[20:10] not get it.

[20:11] Okay.

[20:12] Thank you.

[20:12] So, your staff is ready on all levels to continue working.

[20:16] I have not heard from any of my members

[20:18] that they would not be willing to report to the buildings.

[20:22] I did just have someone share with me though

[20:24] that the Student Voice Committee for the High School met today

[20:27] and that some of the students on that team

[20:30] were expressing reservations about returning

[20:32] with the county levels this time.

[20:35] Thank you.

[20:41] Eric, I'm going to put you on the spot.

[20:44] I want to tap out and go to your other board meeting.

[20:50] You have no way of knowing maybe this even above the rest of us, but I'm going to ask it

[20:55] just in case because we're looking at for the high school is at least a few weeks out

[21:02] at this point anyway, right?

[21:03] Even best case scenario because we're not planning until at least the end of March would be the

[21:08] earliest which still puts us a few weeks.

[21:14] Is there any positive signs that we could be trending down?

[21:19] And then no, okay.

[21:21] Not at this current projection.

[21:25] We've beat our record every month for the last three months.

[21:29] And we have no signs that indicate that we're going to stop that this month.

[21:36] We are for the first time in Oregon's history number one.

[21:45] We are seeing fairly large numbers daily, so I wouldn't be optimistic that we're going

[21:53] to be moving anywhere in the right direction this month, but maybe hopefully next month.

[21:58] And a lot of that has to do with vaccines as many as we can get out.

[22:01] And there's a lot of people doing a lot of stupid stuff, I mean, there's a lot of people

[22:04] going to group gatherings and not listening to preventative guidelines so and until we can find a

[22:13] way to come together to make those a priority. I don't really see our numbers going down.

[22:18] You're talking about community those whole right Eric not

[22:22] specific school transmission. No community at all. Well we haven't seen any school transmission

[22:27] right and not fairly well documented. I don't know that could change once we bring some of

[22:34] older kids in. I think that could change once we bring some of like the high school kids in,

[22:41] but for the most part it's been the parents' activities that have impacted the children more than

[22:46] anything else.

[22:51] Do we happen to have any mental health specialists or behavioral support staff

[22:56] on the call tonight?

[23:03] Kevin, I know that you mentioned that we are only wanting, I think you said we are

[23:06] only wanting our nurses to be able to speak, but I'd like to give opportunity to any of those

[23:11] staff who might have a different perspective on the tool that this has taken for

[23:16] students of emotional mental. Yeah I think Robert and Ty Lee are both on

[23:23] this call and Crystal so I would there's three people that probably have a

[23:29] little bit of insight into this. Thank you.

[23:34] I think that's your invitation to join

[23:36] us.

[23:39] Sure, I'll turn my hi everybody. My name is Tyler in case my eight letters on the bottom seem

[23:48] really weird. Most letters are silent. So, earlier, Christina had said that someone from the student

[23:57] voice team meeting had stated that there were some reservations. I run that, so I run our student

[24:03] the high school and I have been sitting with them for several weeks now once a week on Tuesdays

[24:13] and it has changed over the last couple of months in the beginning. They were really excited

[24:19] about coming back because they thought it was going to be normal and they could sit in the squad and

[24:23] hang out with their friends and then as they realized what it was going to look like when they came

[24:29] back. Their thought process is kind of changed and we have talked a lot about the mental health and

[24:34] where they're at. A lot of our students are just really frustrated because they just want an

[24:41] answer. Either we stay home or we go to school because the back and forth has been what they have

[24:47] stated has been the hardest on their mental health of the not knowing. And right now they're

[24:56] incredibly frustrated with the numbers as I think the rest of us are. I think it's

[25:01] really important to have kids in school. I think there are a lot of students who

[25:06] really need that. And how they want student in particular had stated, I don't

[25:10] even really need to talk to anybody. I just want to be around somebody.

[25:17] The

[25:17] bulk of the other students are stating that they will not be returning to

[25:23] high school if we reopen. They will be staying home. They think that they're doing okay and they

[25:29] rather see our numbers go down before they come back because the thought process of coming back

[25:34] with how higher numbers are scares them more than if they were lower. So I think it's a hit or miss

[25:46] with our students right now. We're not, I think some of our students really need to be back and I

[25:51] that a lot of those students are able to be in our building for the limited

[25:55] person, and that has helped tremendously for them. But I think for mental

[26:04] health purposes, a lot of the kids I've talked to go both ways. It's hard to

[26:11] state, I guess, is what I'm saying, is that most of the students I've talked to are

[26:17] content with being online until the numbers are down. But that's not everybody.

[26:23] That's just the majority I've spoken to. So close with my two cents I guess.

[26:29] Charlie, can I ask you a clarifying question? Just to make sure I understand these are all high school students that you're talking to.

[26:36] Yes, I'm sorry. I'm one of the high school counselors. Yeah, okay. And are these are these are these kids who are also doing

[26:46] are they all just, do you talk to them just online individually or how do you communicate with these kids?

[26:53] So part of it is with student voice, and that's grades 9 through 12. It's a very eclectic group.

[26:59] I mean, these are kids that I wouldn't see together at the watch table necessarily.

[27:04] And they come from all different backgrounds. Some of them have 504's IEPs, some of them are athletes.

[27:10] I also do more one-on-one basis, like either with phone or through Zoom and have those conversations with these kids.

[27:17] It's also conversations with parents about how their kids are doing.

[27:22] And a lot of time it's after talking with parents, we get them into the limited in person.

[27:27] And I see a big change from that.

[27:30] Or if that is not working, where there's a conversation with our Bridges program that has been really monumental for a lot of our students.

[27:37] and that has tremendously helped them as well.

[27:42] So, I mean, I guess I talked to them in different ways,

[27:46] but they are students from all grade levels,

[27:47] nine to 12, and different walks of life, so.

[27:50] Okay, so they're all different academic levels as well.

[27:53] Some are doing fine academically,

[27:55] some are struggling, it's just all right.

[27:57] Okay.

[27:59] Rob, I know our other two high school counselors are,

[28:02] I think are on here, Rob, Crystal,

[28:03] So are you available to pop in and give us a little perspective?

[28:10] Yeah, I can jump in.

[28:11] Sorry, I mean, I've been hearing a lot from parents,

[28:21] just to get that kind of perspective out there,

[28:25] is they've seen a lot of noticeable behavior changes

[28:28] with their students on with draw well,

[28:30] So just not engaging like they normally would,

[28:36] tough to get out of bed in the morning and so on.

[28:39] So that's a lot of what I've been coming from parents.

[28:43] And I think those students that kind of do come back

[28:48] on a hybrid in person,

[28:49] I think the priority is just that connectedness again

[28:54] of just seeing people.

[28:56] I know it's a very artificial environment

[28:59] that they'd be coming back into, but I think that that that connection of just being in the classroom

[29:06] just seeing life people around them. I think that's a big deal. That's that's just kind of what I'm

[29:14] hearing just to give you a kind of a parent perspective out there. And Crystal is our counselor

[29:20] or bridges.

[29:24] Yeah, so my experience is kind of the opposite

[29:28] of what Kylie was saying.

[29:30] I'm over at Bridges, so we're the all set program.

[29:32] We have 39 students right now who are doing in person

[29:35] Monday through Thursday, for three hours.

[29:38] Both of those are two different cohorts.

[29:41] We have a 19 person cohort and a 20 person cohort.

[29:45] And those students are flourishing.

[29:46] They're really the only ones that we're seeing

[29:48] a lot of positive transport.

[29:51] So we've seen a lot of success with the in-person and not very much success with the virtual for our group of students. But again, that's the all.

[30:00] That environment. So most of our students struggled in a standard learning environment. So when you throw them into that alternative education and you give them the opportunity to be in person versus online, they're going to be better. I would say I agree with what Rob said also with a lot of the parents making statements about student struggling to get out of bed. We definitely have a lot of parents that are struggling with that for the remainder of our students who are not in person. We have about.

[30:28] 25 other students that are not in person and those students we don't see as much success

[30:34] in terms of getting credits completed and and passing their classes, but we do have

[30:39] a few students who have made it manageable in that environment, but the flexibility

[30:44] that we offer in our program is also another piece that helps with some of this success.

[30:48] So I would say for our student body being in person is super important, but I also understand

[30:55] and highly prospective with the student voice,

[30:57] there are a number of students who find success

[31:00] in the virtual and understand their concerns

[31:02] with coming back to you.

[31:06] So before you go, I have a quick question.

[31:10] The 25 students you have who are not in person at all.

[31:18] See, is there an opportunity,

[31:20] if let's say the high school went back to a hybrid model,

[31:24] is would they come back?

[31:26] I'm just wondering why they're not in person now and that they all come back and

[31:34] Is there a room and how would that work?

[31:38] So we do not anticipate those students coming back

[31:41] They actually are out for a variety of reasons many of them are providing you know child care for siblings or

[31:48] Perhaps they are working and their work schedule does not align with the schedule at the high school

[31:53] so they're doing classes through us because we're a little bit more flexible with meetings.

[31:58] And then we also have a couple of students who don't live where we can give them transportation.

[32:02] They live out of the area and their parents no longer have the ability to give them transportation

[32:07] so they can't get to the school. So those are the hurdles that we've seen. But for most part,

[32:13] those students are pretty successful. A handful of them would benefit by us going back hybrid but not necessarily

[32:24] So there have been conversations I'm sure there have but I'm just wondering if we have any kind of plans.

[32:31] So they can't come back for whatever you know various reasons that they have or that it would be very difficult for them.

[32:39] But it sounds like they're also maybe not being successful in the traditional CDL that we have.

[32:48] What's our plan for them, like is there, is there more things that we could do for those

[32:52] students I'm wondering that would be alternative, alternatives, just not that we have to focus

[33:02] on that tonight because that's not where we're going, but I just want to make sure we're

[33:06] talking about the hybrid model and the CDL model and trying to capture as many kids as we

[33:12] can and do what's right for them. But there are going to be students who are going to

[33:18] fall outside of that, both of them. So it would be great if we could sort of focus on that.

[33:25] As much as we can, I know we are limited and we can't do everything, but long term, long term,

[33:32] yes. I mean, I'm having, I have a meeting scheduled with an alternative U.S. A.Y.A.

[33:40] He's offering some GD, we're not a GD site, he's offering some GD classes and GD pathways for kids.

[33:47] It's trying to do some other alternative ed things that we might partner with.

[33:51] So I mean, I think we're open to lots of different options to support kids who.

[33:55] It's going to take us a while to get back.

[33:58] Just kind of pull some kids back on track.

[34:01] Bridges is going to be a key because it is that is a program that we are trying to design around the needs of kids and flexibility.

[34:08] and serving the kid versus the kid fitting into the system, right?

[34:13] It's like the kind of system mold and figure out a way to serve you as an individual.

[34:19] That doesn't necessarily mean it's like the kid that wants to work a 40 hour work schedule

[34:22] and then come to night school.

[34:24] I'm not sure we're going to be able to pull that one off, but so there's a little give

[34:28] and take that we'll be working with some kids.

[34:29] But right now they're kind of looking at making money for their family as

[34:33] while they can and doing some of this is more important than some of their schooling right now.

[34:37] I, can I speak a little bit to that would that be okay? This is Darrell.

[34:43] Thanks.

[34:44] Yeah, we actually, we do have a third tier of intervention. So bridges is really like

[34:49] a second tier intervention for the kids that where the regular high school hasn't been

[34:54] a place where they could have an adequate degree of success. And then we've got a third

[34:58] tier of kids who bridges in and of itself as a structure that doesn't work for them. And

[35:04] And we've got a handful of them that we're working with on individual learning plans.

[35:08] And some of these kids have 504, some of IEPs, but more are just kids who like Kivens

[35:15] noted.

[35:16] These are kids that are working 40 hours a week, a lot of them are older, some of them are

[35:22] the single bread earner for their families.

[35:25] And so we're being creative, I've got teachers that are being creative hats off to our

[35:33] Our special ed director for helping us come up with some ideas with the Pacific House that we could

[35:41] Help those students earn some some more credits

[35:43] So we've got kids tonight at the Pacific House making house plans for math credits

[35:49] So we've got a third tier for those kids who who can't meet the bridges

[35:53] Expectations or the general high school expectations

[35:59] One of the things that I think we're talking about this. I think I see our conversation more towards

[36:04] just so everyone, I don't see this group making a decision about elementary

[36:09] middle school. I think if you were to saw, you saw some letters forth and

[36:14] fifth graders so excited to be there. We know some kids in both elementary

[36:18] middle school do not want to be on campus. They have provided an online option.

[36:22] That still exists. They are still, we're not forcing kids into a hybrid. The same

[36:27] thing exists for the high school. But I think our conversation at this particular

[36:31] at a moment is about expanding to high school on March 29th.

[36:37] And is there, or is there some other, obviously,

[36:39] we have the governor's directive with the caveat,

[36:43] began April 19th as a date that's out there.

[36:45] So I mean, in the end, I don't think we necessarily need

[36:47] to talk about elementary middle school

[36:49] about returning to CDL.

[36:51] I don't hear an interest in that.

[36:53] You haven't really gotten much feedback that was support that.

[36:57] you might have, I think, Dr. Gleason may be supportive of that, partly from my health perspective,

[37:05] and I understand, and I fully understand that, and again, I want this to stop spreading

[37:09] in our community, and that by just sending everyone back to CDL would certainly send a strong message,

[37:15] but that would come at a cost to a lot of kids and families.

[37:19] Let me, let me be clear, I have a kindergarten and a fourth grader. I don't want them in my house.

[37:27] if they can be if they can be at their school, that's what I would want them to do. I think kind of echoing what you said, Kevin, the we've got to stop over at like, this is kind of I think we're good.

[37:41] Let's maintain what we've got now, but any progression forward makes no sense in these numbers.

[37:46] numbers.

[37:47] These numbers start moving down, we start moving back out of extreme, then it's a conversation

[37:52] where you're like, okay, we can get to that point where the governor wants us to be.

[37:57] Is it going to be by April 19th?

[37:58] I honestly, I would hope against hope that that is the case, because I'm really tired of answering

[38:03] all of these questions.

[38:05] But I think at this point, it would be prudent to say the pause needs to be set, and

[38:10] then we watch the numbers before we start moving anywhere else.

[38:15] But my kids are still going to school.

[38:19] So then I think that kind of reiterates.

[38:20] And even from your perspective, we're talking about high school.

[38:24] And do we bring high school kids back?

[38:27] So I guess we can just start with that conversation about what?

[38:31] Again, we have the date scheduled right now is March 29th.

[38:34] We're always doing a 14 day look back.

[38:37] You know, are we looking at the data from the Monday before that?

[38:41] So the March 22nd is that the next date?

[38:44] Are we going to give people a week's notice or is it we just don't see it happening and we're going to kick that now

[38:50] So I guess that's a conversation first

[38:53] And then there's probably one other thing to talk about

[39:00] Could I get either mr. Johnson or somebody to talk about the dates of the micro terms so that we're all kind of

[39:08] Because I know that's the March 29th date, right is the yeah

[39:12] So March 29th is the start of our fifth micro term these are six week terms and the next micro term

[39:20] May 7th. Tiffany did you had something to add to this as well?

[39:27] Well, I'm curious. One of the pieces that I learned from our regional curriculum meeting is that

[39:33] Marshall and North Bend are the only two high schools in our county, not back, in some form out with

[39:39] kids in person. And so I was curious if Eric has heard or maybe Kelly has heard, have our other

[39:46] local high schools like band and co-kill murder point have they seen an uptick with student

[39:53] cases with them being back over these last three to six weeks. And then I guess the other

[40:00] piece from that is I do worry if we get to a we're going to get to a point where it's not going to

[40:06] make sense to bring kids back. And then we're going to be in the fall struggling with these same pieces

[40:12] of, are we half time? Are we full time? How do we bring these kids back? And I think at some point, we have to go through the hard struggle in order to make it work for students and staff so that we can better plan for the fall. And so that that is a worry I have, but I am curious about the other high schools if we've seen anything.

[40:30] Stem from them coming back.

[40:35] I haven't been made aware of any from my side of the house.

[40:40] Is the reason they're back is just because of the size of those schools.

[40:43] I mean, they're back because they were just, they're small.

[40:48] I know powers has been all along because they're so tiny.

[40:52] But they, I think they are coming back in a hybrid model as well as my understanding.

[40:57] And I know co-kill high school is not catering to the online pieces, really.

[41:01] So I think that's a huge benefit that our staff's willing to help support.

[41:05] both in-person and online. I have heard from two staff members who are also

[41:10] parents that are very good. Their kids are both doing academically very well,

[41:15] but they feel very strongly similar to what Robin Crystal said.

[41:23] Children

[41:23] having choices to come back, the two options is better than right now they have no

[41:28] choice. Online is their only choice. That was another factor they had shared.

[41:40] I see Kelly has her hand up. Are you good, Juliana with Kelly?

[41:45] Yeah.

[41:46] Yeah.

[41:47] I talked to the nurse from Coquillo last week, and I agree with Kevin as the small members.

[41:52] Her administration described their return as a raging success, and she was very busy with

[41:59] cohort screening.

[42:00] But I don't, she wasn't at the table, like she said she wasn't involved in any of the decisions

[42:05] of who they're going to bring back or what or when or who testing and she has is required

[42:11] to do testing. So I think small numbers. I heard last weekend from the principal at

[42:16] bandin, really positive stuff, but I didn't ask a number of positives. They don't have nursing

[42:23] services in bandin. They contract with ESD and they do specific kids support for kids with

[42:30] diabetes, do you do that kind of thing?

[42:32] So I don't have solid data for you from Benden.

[42:37] Yeah, I think with the size of North Bend and Marshall,

[42:39] that's a completely different piece to be.

[42:43] And I mean, powers had to open up their high school

[42:45] because of K through five.

[42:48] I don't even know that they really

[42:50] have much of an option.

[42:51] There's only like the two schools out there, right?

[42:53] So I think for North Bend and Kusbe,

[42:57] I mean, you look at the sheer number of students

[42:58] that we have.

[43:02] Just statistically speaking, it's going to be probably harder on us than most other places.

[43:06] And I don't really feel like Bandin had much of an option.

[43:08] They felt like the city kind of said, this is what's going to happen whether they like

[43:12] it or not.

[43:15] Brookings Harbor reopened in, he was mid-November, and they had a pretty significant outbreak

[43:20] there where they had, I don't know if there was a community spread, but I know that they had

[43:25] enough people that had to quarantine that they had to shut down.

[43:27] I don't think that would necessarily apply to us, though, because we're getting, as

[43:32] Nurse Kelly said, the two plus two folk, the people who are vaccinated and won't need

[43:36] to quarantine.

[43:47] Tyler Lee, I'll go ahead.

[43:49] So right now, just for my understanding, right now, we're able to support this hybrid model

[43:55] within the middle school and everything where we can have those kids come back who want

[44:00] to come back and then the kids who don't want to come back, but the parents don't want

[44:04] and to come back, we are still providing that online option.

[44:08] So that way, if they choose to do that, then that's OK.

[44:11] And so from my understanding, we will

[44:14] be able to support that at the high school.

[44:16] Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

[44:19] If we come back on that March 29, we

[44:23] can support the in-person hybrid side of things

[44:26] and then also the online.

[44:27] Is that right, Mr. Johnson?

[44:28] Yes, we're teaching dual class, dual modalities

[44:31] in almost every class.

[44:33] OK.

[44:36] Tell me, do you want to add to that?

[44:40] Yeah, if that's okay.

[44:42] I think part of what I've heard from the students who are going to be saying online,

[44:47] if we come back or not during a stay CDL, is their concern is figuring out when they can communicate with their teachers.

[44:56] And I think that that would have to be part of our planning.

[45:00] Is figuring out what that's going to look like because with our teachers teaching in the AM and the PM, there's no longer that afternoon where students can have that communication with their teachers because they're going to be in the classroom. So they're going to have the middle of the day to talk, but that is a big concern from many, many students that have communicated with me about coming back and saying online. And so I would be that's one of my concerns as well as making sure that our students are able to communicate with our teachers in a timely manner, just because

[45:29] they are going to be teaching both in the AM and the PM and there isn't going to be that afternoon where they can have that phone call soon.

[45:36] One on one with their teachers, so.

[45:40] Since the middle school has gone through that, do we have a solution for that at the middle school right now?

[45:45] Maybe.

[45:47] Does anyone know Mr. Lester, you know, if we have a solution for that at the middle school right now on being able to contact teachers if they're if you're at home with their teaching.

[45:58] We have lessons that are recorded, so for example, kids that are in person that have been quarantined, they can still engage from home with their recorded lessons once every 24 hours.

[46:11] We're in the process of setting up open tutor sessions, actually with the help of the high school, national honor society students.

[46:20] But yeah, that's not enough time to go around.

[46:25] Our CDL portion is working as smoothly as it has.

[46:29] This entire time that kids are absent, that are in person.

[46:33] I have to stay home for two full weeks.

[46:35] It's been a challenge, but we've been able to fill that out.

[46:38] I mean, I think one of the questions that you're asking here is,

[46:41] is our CDL program diminished by the returning middle school kids into it?

[46:46] So the kid was, we've heard the benefit of kids return you, but is our CDL taking a hit by this?

[46:54] Yes. Yep. Yep. That's the question. You're right.

[46:59] At the high school, it will take a hit when we come back in person. Right now, we're able to do

[47:04] teacher-facilitated through the morning with applied learning and teacher contacts in the afternoon.

[47:10] That will go away once we come back in person as the teachers will be teaching in person classes

[47:15] is both in the morning and the afternoon.

[47:24] What's really challenging here is we're bringing him back

[47:27] because we need the social emotional.

[47:30] That's the missing component of a brick

[47:33] and mortar high school, middle school elementary, right?

[47:35] It's the relationships, it's the connection,

[47:37] it's the doing stuff in school.

[47:40] And so for kids not doing that,

[47:44] our teachers end up

[47:45] starting to focus more on social emotional during that time

[47:48] here when they got kids present.

[47:49] but yeah, it's a challenge then for them to be sort of split into, you know, multiple pieces

[47:55] here. So it's, there's no easy, this is no easy route. I can tell you that our staff are going

[48:00] to struggle.

[48:04] Okay, Kevin, can I speak to what Spencer was asking to for the middle school as far as

[48:09] the CDL kids being able to contact their teachers? Because the way the schedule is set up where the PM

[48:17] kids come Monday afternoon. The teachers have Monday mornings also. They're doing their prep,

[48:23] they're doing their staff meetings, and that can be a time that those CDL kids can contact

[48:27] with their teachers. And then the AM folks, those students are coming Tuesday mornings through Friday,

[48:34] so there's also a little bit of time on Friday afternoons for that. And also we have,

[48:39] you know, we have a built-in prep and lunch and cleaning period in the middle of the day from like

[48:45] 1120 to 105. So, you know, they may be able to answer a few emails to those CDL students, too.

[48:53] So they're figuring out a way to connect with those kids.

[48:57] Okay. Good. Before we brought the medical school back, we called a bunch of parents

[49:03] naming else and we figured out what maybe that percentage would be of who's all who was planning

[49:08] on coming back, who was planning on staying on CDL. Have we run any scenarios like that as

[49:14] If we were to open up on March 29th, which right now is what we're, you know, the next current date that we're looking at, if we were to do that, do we have a percentage on how many high school would actually come back?

[49:28] We have not done any surveys to see if there's been any changes since we had 38% said they would remain online.

[49:36] Okay, and when was that? I'm trying to remember when that was done.

[49:40] Yeah, that was that was in January. That was about a third week of January. Okay. Okay. Okay. Has there been any

[49:47] study event group of people who wanted to stay at home to determine whether or not they are like mostly seniors, mostly

[49:55] freshman, if it's mixed of every grade, just wondering if seniors thinking in terms of, you know, I've got senioritis,

[50:01] why go back for two months at this point? You know, I don't want to say it senioritis.

[50:07] But definitely the seniors are a heavier percentage of those that have moved on.

[50:11] In fact, I'd say it's the opposite of senioritis.

[50:14] What's happened is so many more of those kids and hats off to Kevin for

[50:19] giving him a little grace on expanded options.

[50:22] You know, we've got more kids and expanded options.

[50:24] We've got more kids working.

[50:27] I mean, there, these are, this is a busy generation.

[50:31] This is an amazing group of kids.

[50:32] And, you know, some of the younger grades, I know there's more of a problem getting

[50:36] a motivated because they don't have some of those other opportunities.

[50:40] Our seniors are absolutely on the move working, going to school, and the reason they're

[50:45] coming back is that they are the reason that so many of them aren't coming back for the seniors

[50:50] is because they have so many other things going on in their lives right now.

[50:55] That's not necessarily the same for the other grades.

[50:57] and the percentage of kids staying online does shrink as we go down to the

[51:02] freshmen. So we're going from like 40, I think it was 48% of the seniors down to

[51:07] 28% of the freshmen.

[51:17] And so March 29th is this next date for the micro term

[51:21] and then when was the next following one? May 7th.

[51:26] May 7th.

[51:32] Just to be clear, May 7th is the last day of the fifth micro term. So that's

[51:38] the end. The beginning would be what the tent. Okay.

[51:58] So Kevin, if I were to put you on the spot.

[52:04] And ask your recommendation.

[52:09] I want

[52:12] to hold on to our March 29th date. We're 20 days away from

[52:15] that. This is a 14 day rolling average. And so if you look back at some of these metrics over the course

[52:22] of two kind of periods. They have changed this metric. I know I know it's not looking

[52:29] at that promising. I mean usually look at today it's not looking great so I don't know I like

[52:33] to hold on to that date. I know that's also frustrating because I don't will people be really

[52:37] frustrated if I just say on you know on March 22nd they get a message that says you thought you're

[52:42] coming back on Monday. Oh no so sorry now it's going to be whatever April whatever.

[52:51] So again, I want to hang on to that date and I'm also, I'm so tired of kind of pulling the rug out from our kids. It's just, it's, I don't know what to do with this.

[53:01] So I don't know. I mean, I'm not really answering your question. I would say leave K8 alone.

[53:06] Let's we're doing okay. We'll deal with them on a school by school basis in cooperation with the health department if we can't run school based on staffing too many kids out we're spreading it in the school trust me I will be the first one to recommend we we send kids to CDL and we will do that overnight.

[53:24] High school, I don't know what the right thing to do is there's a group of kids that need to be in school.

[53:31] and

[53:34] we're not serving them will by opening do we serve them I don't I don't I don't know there's no

[53:40] grid there's no perfect answer in this one I'm pretty sure of that. I agree and it's really

[53:47] difficult and I didn't didn't expect you to have the perfect answer it's just um other board members

[53:54] thoughts um I also do want to continue with sports as we're doing them I know mics on this call

[54:02] We've had success since season one.

[54:05] The stuff that we're doing right now is all outdoors.

[54:09] Where volleyball is pretty much cancelled in our county at this point.

[54:13] So unfortunately.

[54:16] Can I throw something in there?

[54:20] And I don't know whether this makes a difference or not.

[54:22] But during season one and so far this start of season two.

[54:28] I mean, our students are involved in athletics

[54:32] have had literally thousands of student contacts

[54:36] with other students.

[54:38] I mean, they just, they have.

[54:39] I don't know of a single case at the high school.

[54:46] And I don't know of any at the middle school.

[54:48] I'm not as aware there.

[54:49] But I don't know of a single case of student transmission

[54:52] among our athletes at the high school, which gives me faith.

[54:57] And I think our coaches are diligent about washing hands about, you know, trying to social distance, about wear and mask.

[55:07] It gets me faith that if we do things right, that we're not just going to blow up into, you know, 50 kids getting coated here.

[55:19] So I know that's a different perspective. A lot of stuff is outside. We do have, I mean, right now we have I'm looking out out in the gym. We have six kids in the gym right now with coach.

[55:31] We're going to play actually. We're going to play volleyball outside starting next week.

[55:38] as long as the weather holds out,

[55:40] but we've been able to do it.

[55:43] And I think it's partly because our coaches have been

[55:46] not perfect, but we're trying to be perfect.

[55:50] And so I'd like to have faith that our folks

[55:54] are, if we do things right, that we can avoid something bad.

[56:08] So I'll do the first board perspective

[56:12] and then everybody can either chastise me or agree.

[56:20] Well, nothing but two.

[56:23] So my thoughts and my feelings are in the same with Kevin on the K-8

[56:28] that we don't touch that.

[56:30] I think that we have great protocols in place.

[56:33] Things are moving forward in the right direction.

[56:38] And unlike Eric, I actually have four kids

[56:40] that I want to make sure I keep out of my house.

[56:46] And I've been able to see them grow and develop

[56:49] with that hybrid model. And from that perspective, I've been able to see them change for the positive,

[56:56] mental attitude side of things. And I think because of the districts and all the staff

[57:03] being very diligent in every way that they can to make sure we're wearing masks, we are socially

[57:08] this then seeing we're doing all this things. I actually personally feel that the March 29th date

[57:15] that we should stick with that date and we should get kids back and hybrid on March 29th. That's my

[57:22] that is my perspective um and that's that's how that's how I feel so I

[57:32] sure that bring the kids back

[57:36] I agree with that.

[57:38] I'm with I'm with Spencer.

[57:40] I agree that we still forge with the 29th,

[57:45] but I hate to say it.

[57:46] I mean, with our numbers increasing and all that stuff,

[57:49] it is scary to say what it's going to be like in by the 22nd.

[57:53] So, I mean, we're going to have to just play by your,

[57:56] I guess, to that point.

[58:04] I don't have a problem with keeping that date.

[58:06] I guess, and I'm very pleased that there haven't that are staff

[58:11] and teachers and everybody has done so well in the schools.

[58:15] I think it's the community, and this may get me in trouble,

[58:18] but I think the community needs to step up

[58:20] if they want their kids in school.

[58:22] They need to start acting like it.

[58:25] And take, you know, don't keep doing this stuff.

[58:31] So I think we can hold on to that date.

[58:35] I don't know what the magic number that will scare us to death

[58:38] and shut it down.

[58:39] I don't know what that is.

[58:40] I mean, in these ones we have an hour kind of scary that I'm willing to hang on to that

[58:46] date at least at this point.

[58:47] I

[58:53] think the high school staff will be really happy to hear that we've had a lot of trouble

[58:57] with staff morale this year and part of it's because we can't plan stuff long-term.

[59:02] And it, you know, it's hard.

[59:04] I already purchased some supplies for a lab.

[59:07] I was planning to do the first week back and it's good that I get to use those.

[59:15] I think the only thing that would really change my mind on that is if we started seeing significant amounts of student to student transmission.

[59:23] That's what I was just going to add my PS2, exactly that. If it does hit the school hard, I mean obviously we have no choice. We have to close it down.

[59:30] But, all right. We'll be watching staff too. I mean, obviously, we, you know, the high school. We don't have a lot of substitute these days. And so we're not going to be able to run very easily without.

[59:45] I know Darrell's working on a plan around, you know, if anyone's sick, if that's what, how is he going to run?

[59:51] And what's their plans around that? Again, we'll probably do some things where kids are not.

[59:54] I don't know he'll have to tell me his plan because that's a huge factor he's got

[1:00:00] Mayday is to figure it out, so, but that's a factor and a spread of illness between our staff will have an impact on us being able to open.

[1:00:11] I think it does, it does help the new directive that if someone has been fully vaccinated, they do not have to quarantine that that will help those staffing levels at least on that end. In terms of losing people to that, because I know that I've known that's impacted schools.

[1:00:32] not necessarily just here, but just from teachers I know around to, they've had

[1:00:37] to quarantine because something happens, right? And then everything is messed up.

[1:00:44] Sorry, Kevin. Would it be okay for me to ask a question?

[1:00:48] Sure. So go ahead.

[1:00:51] Okay, thank you. I'm curious. I imagine I know the middle school students are

[1:00:57] writing with elementary kids. I imagine the high school students will also

[1:01:01] We'll also be writing in those same buses.

[1:01:05] I'm just concerned that if we start having co-hurt shutting down that that'll impact the

[1:01:14] lower level schools going into quarantine if they're writing the same buses, et cetera,

[1:01:19] because those buses are getting a little full.

[1:01:22] That's my only concern.

[1:01:24] I told you kids back as soon as possible, I just worry that it will have a negative impact

[1:01:29] if we see more cases and more shutdowns on our other great levels.

[1:01:34] That's a really good question. Thank you for asking.

[1:01:38] I wonder if it's like, can we, again, encouraging those just only ride the bus if you need to?

[1:01:44] Can you find other alternatives during this time period so that we have the less spread potentially?

[1:01:49] I know there are some kids. You're even living lakeside and you don't have a way in.

[1:01:52] Like, you need to get on the bus, but it might be easier for us to send a couple buses

[1:01:55] if we had available out there, spread kids out and not some of our other internal. I don't know.

[1:02:02] It's something for Darryl messaging out. I don't know. If we could try to, you know,

[1:02:08] that's a place where there's definitely a high risk of spread.

[1:02:12] They're running with the windows down sort of a little bit, but I'm not sure that that.

[1:02:18] They're three feet next to each other. So, Kevin, do you know, are there more buses available?

[1:02:27] I don't think we have drivers. I think everyone who is available to drive is driving,

[1:02:32] including last week, because of some, again, different, I think we had a couple of

[1:02:36] quarantine or out, our managers are also driving and our dispatcher, like they're all

[1:02:43] driving. So I think they're doing the best they can, but again, we might be able to send

[1:02:48] some message. I don't know if parents are really even thinking about it. If they have options,

[1:02:51] maybe it's just like it's easier to get on the bus, but they could maybe make arrangements,

[1:02:54] especially we're talking high school. There might be some arrangements that can be made a little

[1:02:58] bit easier with with other kids and I get I don't know if we want kids riding with kids. I don't know

[1:03:03] what to encourage at this point. Well, and I think we need to be mindful that this vaccine

[1:03:10] even if it's the the second vaccine and second in two weeks out. This doesn't necessarily mean

[1:03:18] that you won't get COVID, right? So you could not quarantine if you're non-

[1:03:25] symptomatic. If you've had your vaccine and you become symptomatic, you have to

[1:03:28] go back to quarantine. It's 95% effective that you might not die or get

[1:03:34] severe COVID, not that you won't get COVID. So there are there are these

[1:03:39] caveats. We've had and we've had breakthrough cases in Oregon already. I mean

[1:03:43] it's a possibility. We need to be mindful of that, right? It's it's actually

[1:03:47] less effective than a condom and not all of our high schoolers have done a real good job with

[1:03:51] those in the past. So we have to be mindful that these things are not 100%. So while I think that we

[1:04:00] should, I can come to terms with the 29th. I'm not going to say that I'm excited about it, but only

[1:04:09] because I'm probably the downer in this crew based on everything that I've been watching. We're only

[1:04:14] handful of numbers away from 400 per 100,000.

[1:04:18] And to say I mean to your question,

[1:04:20] I don't think there's a number that scares our community enough.

[1:04:23] There just isn't.

[1:04:25] When the metric came out for the schools and it said 350,

[1:04:30] I remember sitting in the meeting going, wow,

[1:04:33] could you imagine getting 350 per 100,000?

[1:04:37] I remember talking to our team at Cousel the Wellness.

[1:04:39] And we were all just like, that's never going to happen.

[1:04:43] and we're here and we've been here for a while.

[1:04:47] So yes, I think we should be monitoring this

[1:04:49] and we can be looking into this

[1:04:52] to pull the cord if these trends aren't working

[1:04:56] in the right direction.

[1:04:58] I want the kids to go back to school.

[1:05:00] I want the high schoolers to have that opportunity,

[1:05:02] like the fact that we had to do what we had to do

[1:05:05] last year for graduation was so odd to us.

[1:05:08] and then throw

[1:05:16] him out he froze I think he was going to say something about the barbeque

[1:05:21] the hot noise before he was he was going there oh you there sir you froze Eric

[1:05:30] I quit

[1:05:32] I think he hold I think he holds smash the zoom we heard we heard it at that time

[1:05:37] no you're back Eric you want to continue on just let you know Eric I'm not excited about the date

[1:05:44] either but I think it's almost to the point where the mental well-being of our students

[1:05:51] is tipping us. I get it. I get it. We just I wouldn't be fine with the 29. I don't.

[1:06:00] Leave that back. I understand. There you go. That's the last word.

[1:06:05] Actually, this is great. It's great that Eric can be silenced once in a while, you know.

[1:06:10] All right, who's working on the back end on that?

[1:06:23] I agree with Eric, to be honest, I'm reticent but I also hear what everyone else is saying

[1:06:32] and I want to honor that as well and there's that whole balance between mental health

[1:06:38] And in future health, right, because we're talking about kids who in high school, I mean,

[1:06:49] if second graders are struggling, I'm not saying that's not important because it is,

[1:06:53] we know at all levels it is.

[1:06:55] But if you have an eight-year-old, we can do more to sort of help them recover.

[1:07:03] or a 15-year-old or a 16-year-old that is so far disengaged, we don't have much to

[1:07:12] pull them back with, right?

[1:07:14] Like, we're limited, and I know, you know, my daughter's one of the seniors, so she

[1:07:23] in some ways, that's hard, but it's a little bit lucky because she was close enough that

[1:07:30] that it's, you know, she can see the end-in-site,

[1:07:34] but yeah, for those sort of middle-high schoolers.

[1:07:38] And I'm glad that they have a CDL option.

[1:07:40] I think that's really important.

[1:07:42] We heard from some of those high schoolers,

[1:07:44] and then we heard from Tiley again, you know,

[1:07:47] that they have a lot of reservations,

[1:07:50] and I don't want anyone to have to come back to school

[1:07:54] and feel unsafe either.

[1:07:55] So I think that the fact that we have created those options for our students is really important,

[1:08:03] but we need to give the ones who need to come back the option as well.

[1:08:09] We started this, our students have the option if they decide initially that they want to stay at home

[1:08:17] to six weeks later go, well, it's all looking pretty good. Maybe I'd rather go back to school

[1:08:22] announced to stay at home. Will they have that option or will they make their decision at this

[1:08:27] point and then they have to stay with that to the end of the year? They made that decision already.

[1:08:34] Can they come back if they want to though? No, not until May 10. So they're not going to swap out

[1:08:44] in the middle of the microterm. So we're going to open up another opportunity for kids to potentially

[1:08:50] return at the beginning of April, but it's going to close very quickly. We cannot run

[1:08:57] a master schedule with kids coming in and out of AM and PM cohorts. We are really pushing

[1:09:04] our boundaries as far as how many kids we can get into an AM cohort already. And that's

[1:09:10] where everybody wants to be. So those that are out will most likely need to remain out.

[1:09:15] There is a wait list, but that's what we're working with.

[1:09:20] So Darrell, they can, so you said everybody,

[1:09:24] is leaning towards the morning cohort?

[1:09:26] Is that my understanding of what you just said?

[1:09:29] Yes, so with transportation, we divided the school between AM and PM,

[1:09:34] and then we had, you know, 38% request online.

[1:09:37] Every, almost every cohort change request that came in,

[1:09:42] and we did address several dozen of them,

[1:09:44] We're afternoon students wanting to come into the morning and I mean we really have a hard time getting kids into any more morning classes.

[1:09:54] We had to close the option for students to shift their cohorts.

[1:09:58] We just take any more kids in the morning.

[1:10:01] Oh, I'm actually kind of surprised that the kids would want to get up.

[1:10:05] But I guess it kind of makes sense with transportation, maybe too.

[1:10:10] That's interesting.

[1:10:11] Okay. Okay. I think they just want to get it over with.

[1:10:16] So is there, if people know this now, can they change their children, or do we just want

[1:10:21] to leave it as is and not muck with the system anymore?

[1:10:25] Are you asking me for my vote, because I've already told them we're not muck in with the system?

[1:10:29] Okay. And that's fine. I just want to make sure that that's known because I'm shocked

[1:10:34] by that news, actually, that people want to. Yeah. No, and that's fine. I totally get

[1:10:38] that.

[1:10:38] So 20 days out, you've made your decision, and then you'll get a chance to come back

[1:10:44] that May 6th if you really want to last six week term.

[1:10:48] So it's possible.

[1:10:51] On the space of it, let's go ahead, Joe.

[1:10:55] I'm sorry, there's a little bit here, if that's on a space available basis.

[1:11:02] Julie, on it, have you heard what you need to hear?

[1:11:04] Do you guys need to talk about this further?

[1:11:08] I think we're good and not somebody has anything else.

[1:11:12] Okay, I have to ask one more question now.

[1:11:13] Just because this is all some new information for me.

[1:11:18] One more question for Darryl.

[1:11:20] So I guess I'm a little bit confused of what point did that decision get made

[1:11:24] of who's coming back and who isn't.

[1:11:27] I know you've sent out several surveys.

[1:11:28] I guess that's why I'm confused.

[1:11:30] Which one was the determining factor?

[1:11:31] So there at the end of January there was one set out that we notified families so if you go

[1:11:40] back to your parent email you'll see there was one where you said this is where you need to make

[1:11:44] a determination and we made a deadline. We notified through parent communication that any changes in

[1:11:53] cohorts would be wait listed. Okay okay I guess I just want to make sure people are aware of if

[1:12:01] kids are going back, you know, or signed up to go back or what the deal is. Okay.

[1:12:07] Thank you.

[1:12:11] Any other questions, concerns, comments from the board?

[1:12:16] I just want to make sure that I'm on the same page with everybody and if I'm understanding

[1:12:19] everything accurately that we're, we are planning on having the kids go back March 29 or the high

[1:12:25] schoolers, excuse me, go back on March 29 and that's what we're, am I on the same page? That's

[1:12:33] So we're sticking with it, and that's what we're doing, is that?

[1:12:36] I think unless the middle school and or elementary schools,

[1:12:43] if we start seeing that sort of school spread, then we'll have to make

[1:12:50] a different determination or maybe have to just be done.

[1:12:55] I would also say that we're also going to be monitoring high school staff and students,

[1:12:59] because we'll do that.

[1:13:00] We have high school sports, they're continuing.

[1:13:02] I think they're they have a pretty busy spring break. So we'll be monitoring all of that. So that's probably a bigger deciding factor than than the elementary middle school impacting high school.

[1:13:11] So we'll be watching high school. That's kind of how I leave this is specifically the impact on high school to determine whether they come back elementary middle school that'll have their own impact.

[1:13:20] And we'll be shutting those down if as needed on a case by case cohort by cohort or school by school basis.

[1:13:27] this. Same thing with athletics, if we need to shut down a sport, it'll be shut down

[1:13:31] based on kind of the impact that's going on within that group. But again, if we have

[1:13:37] a spread within the football team, that may impact us returning everybody else as well.

[1:13:44] And they all know that. So they're caution to like follow these rules, wear your mask, quit

[1:13:51] doing whatever because we want you to one continue to play and then come back to school.

[1:13:57] and both those things are on jeopardy if they get COVID.

[1:14:02] Okay.

[1:14:04] Do we need to take a vote on that or something or are we?

[1:14:07] No vote.

[1:14:09] I think we got we did kind of a straw vote on this.

[1:14:12] I mean, it kind of was like, and I heard kind of generally in support of this direction.

[1:14:16] I didn't really hear anyone say no.

[1:14:19] So I think you say if our community can't step it up and control this thing,

[1:14:25] at least the school can do it to that level and show that if we keep this in our control

[1:14:30] then hopefully, I don't know, some, I'm with Eric, we're here at Cus Health Wellness.

[1:14:37] We see a lot of our co-workers who are dealing with this front line.

[1:14:42] It's, we're struggling trying to keep track of this thing and, you know, it's just not

[1:14:49] good in our community, what's going on.

[1:14:52] So, if we all teachers, everybody could spread in the word saying, hey, listen at the same

[1:14:58] look in the butt.

[1:15:00] The student we do this, the student we get out of the situation. All the other counties are down trending except for us. I think it would be great to encourage community leaders to have that message out too. You know, we as community leaders as board members can do that. And if you know people, you know, some people are maybe on the city council and no other city council members or have family members that are mayors.

[1:15:32] You want to draft something for the board and we can get it out to our channels like

[1:15:36] will press release on behalf of the board?

[1:15:38] Yeah, I think that would be great and I think that's encouraged.

[1:15:42] I mean, I don't know how much it will help but it can't hurt and I think it would be great

[1:15:47] for people to hear from our community leaders.

[1:15:51] This is important and we want businesses to be open, we want schools to reopen, we want

[1:15:59] our kids to stay safe and let's do the things we know we need to do so that we can make that happen.

[1:16:07] Yeah, I think that the adults need to act like adults so these kids can get back.

[1:16:12] I would like to be number one for something else. So let's make that the goal of truth county.

[1:16:18] Well, that's a good idea.

[1:16:19] Use this as a leverage around building community, right? Reopen North Bend, Reopen Kusk County,

[1:16:25] reopen, I mean whatever the case may be it's like let's buy in together and get

[1:16:31] some messaging out collectively as a group so I don't know whether we can

[1:16:35] leverage some of those resources that we have.

[1:16:40] Do it. All right I will work on

[1:16:42] that tomorrow. Awesome. Right now I'm gonna order pizza from Domino's because if

[1:16:47] you order until 8 o'clock the senior class gets 10% of the proceeds I'm just saying

[1:16:51] anyone's looking for a dinner idea. Mine's sitting over there and it smells really

[1:16:56] good, so I better get on it then. If you need any support from the teachers of the union

[1:17:04] on that message in Giuliana, please let me know. Oh, that would be awesome. Thank you.

[1:17:11] I would just like to thank everybody again. I'm just so impressed with our schools and how

[1:17:15] they are stepping up and being responsible and I'm just proud of them. I agree. Thank you.

[1:17:24] All right. Hearing nothing else. I would look for can I can I throw one thing out? Sure.

[1:17:34] Sorry. So I wanted to run something by the board. This is hopefully a positive here.

[1:17:45] Our football team is playing oh they're playing Baker this week over in in Primeville

[1:17:53] And that prime bill is a lower risk county where we can have, where 300 people can be at a football event.

[1:18:06] We hear we're allowed 120. So for the last couple of weeks I've arranged for 120 to football game 50 at a soccer game.

[1:18:14] So, I've been arranging for parents to be able to come in and watch our children play.

[1:18:19] We've had a bunch of people, all the seniors, parents are going to work at a game, like

[1:18:23] on the chain crew, I have people live streaming game, the games, just different things that are

[1:18:30] all legitimate ways for those people to work.

[1:18:34] But this week we have a chance to have 300 people total in at County High School.

[1:18:44] and what I would like to do is invite our families of our 35 players that are going to have two people in each family

[1:18:53] go to the game and watch the game live instead of online and we have offered things online.

[1:19:03] I don't know that that one's going to be online because it's not on our facility, but I think it'd be a great opportunity for all of our kids

[1:19:11] is to be able to have a parent there at least one time

[1:19:16] watching a game.

[1:19:17] I will be there making sure that there's

[1:19:20] social distancing and people have masks on.

[1:19:26] The County School District's superintendent

[1:19:29] is in support of having a group of up to 300 there

[1:19:36] realistically even if both schools had every family

[1:19:39] with two people there.

[1:19:41] We're probably still looking at about 90 to 100 extra spots for people, so we're probably looking at a crowd of 200 to 220.

[1:19:50] But I felt like it was important to get your guys as sure.

[1:19:55] Thanks Mike. I forgot that we talked about it. He had asked me and I'm like, oh, we need to get the board to weigh in on this and I don't want to just say yes.

[1:20:02] and then they're like you said what you said the cook county like so I

[1:20:06] definitely want you guys to weigh in on that we're we're not talking about like

[1:20:11] providing a bus right no we're not for our so our kids will go on two buses

[1:20:16] we have one kid per seat but no we're not

[1:20:21] parents would take parents would ride themselves yeah okay okay

[1:20:26] and there would be a letter that would go out to

[1:20:32] each to both Baker parents and North Bend High School parents about

[1:20:37] expectations of the game and I would have zero issues if we had parents that

[1:20:42] couldn't keep themselves socially distanced or weren't gonna do what they

[1:20:46] were supposed to do. I would have zero issue walking out on the field stop in the

[1:20:51] game until people are where they need to be. So we're not gonna throw people in

[1:20:58] Jail, we're going to stop kids from playing, which peer pressure from other adults is pretty.

[1:21:05] That's all they want.

[1:21:05] They want to see their kids play, so.

[1:21:08] We have, you know, actually, and the other thing I'll tell you is today, we started doing,

[1:21:12] so we're health screening all of our kids, everybody that comes on campus.

[1:21:18] And so today, with our athletes, we actually started doing a little QR code, we'll use this

[1:21:23] on Saturday, every parent that walks through the gate will have to fill out a form.

[1:21:33] This just takes them to a Google form.

[1:21:36] They fill it out.

[1:21:38] I watched them hit the Submit button and then if there were having forbids, some kind

[1:21:45] of an issue, we would have the name of every one of our parents over there.

[1:21:54] Any reservations, I guess maybe, is where we go with this?

[1:21:59] Mine is simply about trying to think of how to word this.

[1:22:05] So, of our players, do we anticipate that because this may be the only opportunity for

[1:22:12] parents to get to watch the game, right?

[1:22:14] And it's kind of far away, and you have...

[1:22:17] You have a paper non-senior.

[1:22:21] So I love the idea. I just want to make sure do we have any kind of idea if there is families that we think that might be a hardship for getting there or and is there any way we can mitigate that in a way that's

[1:22:41] Well, I do know that, you know, I mean we can always find with rides the issue there is that, you know, people are supposed to wear masks if they're not riding, if they're in a car, not riding with their own family members.

[1:22:57] I have had one mother call me who's due to have a baby on Saturday and she's, you know, she's helping her doctor will let her go.

[1:23:08] to the game because she's taking her kids after

[1:23:10] and not to the game necessarily, but over to pick her kid up

[1:23:12] and take them to a bowling event.

[1:23:17] But I think that if we put the word out

[1:23:19] that somebody need, you know, a ride,

[1:23:23] that's probably all we could do.

[1:23:30] We could pony up and get them other bus for parents

[1:23:33] but I don't think I'd be able to do that.

[1:23:34] Well, I'm not comfortable with the bus idea.

[1:23:37] I just want to make sure that

[1:23:39] But if there's some way to sort of work to parents, if they need help on any level, maybe

[1:23:47] even it's just gas money, I don't know, I would hate to see somebody miss that opportunity.

[1:23:53] Well, one of the nice things is the game is at two o'clock, so our kids aren't staying

[1:23:58] the night, the game will be over five people can get back, so there's not my pressure on

[1:24:05] people to stay tonight because you know it's too late to get back.

[1:24:12] I don't have any reservations

[1:24:14] about it. I think like everything you outline, like telling parents, you know,

[1:24:17] giving them a letter and outlining everything and stopping the game if you have to. I think

[1:24:24] to me, I don't have a reservation to have that. I think the ride thing's the most sketchy piece of it

[1:24:29] for me. Yeah. No, so the ride piece of it like mask or not six feet within 15 minutes

[1:24:39] within six feet of someone is still considered a close contact if someone else would end up sick.

[1:24:44] So that's the only part that makes me a little iffy. But I think it's a great idea. It's all in

[1:24:54] execution honestly. I agree. I was about people making good decisions right so if you're not

[1:25:00] feeling well that you're not getting in the car or you're not going. You're not going.

[1:25:03] I keep going to these. I know you want to go see your kid. Please do not go sick.

[1:25:10] Well if there's one thing whose county's done so far is make good decisions.

[1:25:15] Seriously. I will say the one thing I would say is you know we had we had a whole bunch of things

[1:25:21] here last week. And I put a post out on Facebook and got a little heat from some people that

[1:25:28] weren't thrilled about it. But we told people they couldn't come on the school district property

[1:25:32] and watch a game. I think Friday night, you know, Darryl and Wade were at one end of the field,

[1:25:38] Jake and I were at the other. I think we probably had to talk to maybe 20 people, 15 people on Friday

[1:25:45] night and then I was down here on Saturday and I had to talk to like three or four but people are

[1:25:52] our parents. I feel like I've really done a good job. I feel like they should get an A-plus for

[1:26:02] for being good role models in this situation, maybe not in all situations. So far so good. I think they

[1:26:08] done a really good job with it and it's tough I get it but our parents have

[1:26:15] cooperated really well. So far so good and again we'll try to get them if if we

[1:26:20] can expand some some fans at some point we're trying to make some decisions as

[1:26:25] a county and as soon as we get out of extreme allowing at least some of our

[1:26:30] parents to come and watch especially senior parents and I appreciate what

[1:26:33] my senior parents a chance to see their kid in one way or another so

[1:26:37] two of those Mike for that real

[1:26:43] quick Mike have you guys looked at doing any kind

[1:26:46] of like YouTube live streaming of any of the games or so yeah so right now we

[1:26:51] have two different options we have a we have somebody Facebook streaming on

[1:26:56] our North Bend if you go to North Bend athletics it's a free serve I mean it's just

[1:27:01] free we have I have a parent of like a football player or a soccer parent even our

[1:27:06] middle school games. We've live streamed every home event on Facebook and and and free is a good price.

[1:27:15] We also have a pixel lock camera in the bleacher in the West Grandstands. This people can go on

[1:27:23] nfhs.com. It's live stream the football game last Friday night Rick Stevens did the play by play

[1:27:31] over the radio. It's patched in. There is a fee with it. And I'll be honest with you. We don't,

[1:27:36] we get like a dime for every subscription. We didn't do it to make money when we bought that camera.

[1:27:43] But it's a fee of I think $11 a month. But to be honest, if I were going to watch the game and I

[1:27:51] just wanted to watch the game, I'd probably watch it on Facebook, not just because it's free, but

[1:27:54] but I think the camera quality is better on the...

[1:27:58] Well, and one thing on the NAPHS, if you subscribe to that,

[1:28:02] one is you can go watch all the games are recorded.

[1:28:05] And so, if you weren't able to watch it live,

[1:28:07] that's where you're gonna go get a recording

[1:28:09] and you can go watch, so I watched part of games later.

[1:28:14] And you can watch it over and over again.

[1:28:16] You can go back and watch games from 10 years ago.

[1:28:18] Our girl's soccer team is on it right now,

[1:28:22] playing Johnson City.

[1:28:23] So, I mean, it's cool, it's a great tool that we have issues, we've had issues with the camera up there.

[1:28:31] I'm just thinking of like other options for parents, you know, just can't make it or whatnot.

[1:28:37] Yeah, or they're not sure if they really want to travel or go, you know.

[1:28:42] Yeah, and our plan would be to have a parent.

[1:28:46] I haven't identified who that parent is yet for this game.

[1:28:49] trust me there'll be no issue getting a parent to live stream the game on

[1:28:55] Saturday. Cool.

[1:29:06] Sorry I was placing my pizza order. All right so I would look

[1:29:12] for thank you Mike all right and hearing no opposition we're gonna adjourn. Thank

[1:29:21] Thank you, everyone.

[1:29:22] Thank you for coming, everybody.

[1:29:24] Thanks, everyone.

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