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GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO OUR MONDAY, JUNE 23RD BOARD MEETING.
[1. REGULAR MEETING CALL TO ORDER - 5:30 PM]
WE ARE GOING TO START OFF WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, READ BY COREY MCENRY.[2. CULTURE]
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.OKAY. NEXT UP IS OUR LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT. I RECOGNIZE THAT THE GEOGRAPHICAL REGION OF CAMAS IS LOCATED ON THE ANCESTRAL AND TERRITORIAL LANDS OF THE CHINOOK AND COWLITZ PEOPLE, AND THAT THE CHINOOK ARE STILL FIGHTING TO BE A FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBE ON THEIR OWN LAND.
ALL RIGHT. NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 2C , WE HAVE SOME MILL TOWN PRIDE AWARDS TO GIVE AWAY SO IS COACH BUTLER HERE? IF NOT OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE THREE FOLKS WE ARE RECOGNIZING FROM TRACK AND FIELD TODAY, AND I SEE ONE OF THEM OUT HERE. AND SO WE HAVE THREE STATE CHAMPIONS THIS YEAR AT THE TRACK AND FIELD MEET.
ONE OF THEM KARINA COOPER'S HERE TODAY. AND SHE ACTUALLY NOT ONLY WAS THE STATE CHAMPION, BUT SET THE MEET RECORD WITH THE JUMP OF 13FT, 2 INCHES IN THE POLE VAULT. AND THAT'S THIS FOR A STATE MEET RECORD, WHICH IS PRETTY TREMENDOUS [APPLAUSE].
SO IT WAS A PRETTY AWESOME MEET FOR FOR CAMAS.
BUT WE CAN MAKE SURE AND GET THOSE TO THOSE CORRECT.
NEXT ON OUR LIST IS WE HAVE A STUDENT REPORT FROM THE STUDENT ATHLETE LEADERSHIP TEAM, MR. VIC.
HELLO? ALRIGHTY. HELLO, EVERYONE. THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING HERE.
MY NAME IS VICTOR TRAN, A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE FROM CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL [APPLAUSE].
SO THIS IS OUR SALT, IT STANDS FOR A STUDENT ATHLETE LEADERSHIP TEAM.
SO WHAT IS A SALT TEAM? BASICALLY, IT'S OUR STUDENT ATHLETES AT CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL.
OUR COACHES PICKED OUT A COUPLE OF OUR ATHLETES TO BASICALLY TALK ABOUT OUR OUR MOTTO.
BASICALLY, WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS CHANGE IT A LITTLE BIT, REFRESH IT.
WHY IS THIS WORK IMPORTANT? WHILE OUR ATHLETES ARE LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW WE ARE KIND OF JUST THE INSPIRATION TO THE YOUTH I WOULD LIKE TO SAY. YOU KNOW, KARINA COOPER, OUR STATE CHAMPION.
I MEAN, A LOT OF GIRLS ARE GOING TO LOOK UP TO HER.
SO THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. AND WE JUST WANT TO HAVE A VOICE IN OUR PROGRAMS AND BASICALLY JUST CREATE YOU KNOW, ROLE MODELS TO HELP OUR ATHLETES TO DO THE CAMAS WAY.
WHY IS THIS WORK IMPORTANT? WELL, WITH OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVING OUR PROFILE GRADUATE WE WANTED TO, LIKE, FIND A WAY TO CONNECT WITH THIS BECAUSE WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, OUR GOAL IS TO GRADUATE, AND YOU WANT TO BE A DIFFERENT PERSON FROM WALKING IN TO FRESHMAN TO WALKING ACROSS THE STAGE AS A SENIOR.
SO FOR THE FIRST ONE; BEING AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR WE WANT TO PROFESSIONALLY COMMUNICATE WITH OUR PEERS AND COACHES. SO BY TALKING TO A COACH LIKE COACH MATHIESON, YOU KNOW, I GOT TO COME IN A WAY WHERE,
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YOU KNOW, I'M NOT DEMANDING SOMETHING. I'M NOT FORCING SOMETHING UP ON HIM.BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO GET THE RIGHT IDEA WITH HIM AND COMMUNICATE HIM, LIKE, PROFESSIONALLY.
AND I KNOW MISS MULLIGAN, MY TEACHER, YOU KNOW, MY COMMUNICATION WITH MATHIESON HELPED ME BE A BETTER COMMUNICATOR WITH MISS MULLIGAN, WITH MY ASSIGNMENTS, SO THAT THAT HELPED. AND THEN TWO; ENGAGED COMMUNITY MEMBER.
IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE, YOU GOT TO BE, YOU KNOW, COMMITTED.
AND YOU GOT TO MAKE A CHANGE BY JOINING WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO IF MY TEAM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT ON TASK AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO WORKOUTS, I GOTTA MAKE A CHANGE.
I GOTTA BE LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE GOT WAKE UP SEVEN IN THE MORNING.
LET'S GO TO ZERO PERIOD WORK OUT AND GET BETTER.
SO THAT'S THAT'S ONE WAY. AND THEN NUMBER THREE; WELLNESS NAVIGATOR.
YOU WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR OURSELVES. SO FOR EXAMPLE, NUTRITION.
RIGHT. AND ALSO GETTING OUR SCHEDULES CORRECTLY, YOU KNOW, SCHOOL WORK, PRACTICE, SLEEP.
SELF EMPOWERED LEARNER. YOU GOT TO WORK FOR WHAT YOU WANT.
A LOT OF THE TIMES OUR COACH SAY THIS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU WORK DAY IN AND DAY OUT FOR FOOTBALL, IT'S GOING TO LOOK DIFFERENT THAN BOWLERS, RIGHT? LIKE, OUR SCHEDULES ARE DIFFERENT, BUT WE DO WHAT'S BEST FOR OURSELVES.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, TO GET WHAT YOU WANT, YOU GOT TO WORK FOR IT.
AND THEN NUMBER FIVE; CRITICAL THINKER. SPORTS ARE THE BIGGEST MIND GAMES, YOU KNOW, BEING MATHIESON AGAIN, HE'S HIS OFFENSE IS YOU KNOW, HE'S GOT A LOT OF CRITICAL THINKING LIKE A LOT OF PLANNING GOES INTO IT.
AND WITH LIKE WITH SCHOOL TOO, I KNOW FOR ANATOMY I HAD TO STUDY A LOT.
I HAD TO DO LIKE A LOT OF KAHOOTS FIND WAYS TO, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER THE STUFF.
AND WHEN THERE'S TEST TIME, YOU KNOW, FIND A WAY TO GET IT DONE.
SO WHAT DID WE DO? WE, YOU KNOW, HAD OUR MEETINGS EVERY WEDNESDAY EARLY RELEASES WE WORKED, YOU KNOW, TO REFRESH OUR MODEL. AND OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO IMPROVE IT, YOU KNOW, TO HELP ENGAGE, LIKE, MORE WITH US IN OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR SCHOOL.
AND WE JUST WANTED TO BRING IT BACK TO LIFE, I GUESS, TO OUR TEAMS AND SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
SO WE DECIDED THAT OUR OLD ONE WAS HONOR, EXCELLENCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT AND TRUST AND WE JUST NEED A LITTLE REFRESH. AND SO WITH OUR SESSIONS, WE TALKED IT OVER, WE WANTED TO MAKE A COUPLE CHANGES, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE THE CHANGE THAT WE KNEW WOULD HELP US AS STUDENTS AND AS A COMMUNITY.
SO WE HAD THE OUR THREE NEW ONES OUR HUMILITY, RESILIENCE AND TRADITION.
FOR THE FIRST ONE, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO BE HUMBLE.
YOU KNOW, WINNING GAMES WITH CLASS IS PROBABLY THE BEST THING YOU KNOW AN ATHLETE CAN DO.
AND WHAT RESILIENCE. IT'S A WAY TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO WHEN WE WHEN WE FACE THESE CHALLENGES? HOW DO WE LOOK LIKE? HOW DO WE ACT? WHAT'S OUR, YOU KNOW, MINDSET? AND TRADITION I FEEL LIKE THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE AND HONOR WITH WITH WEARING THE C ACROSS OUR CHEST AND WE WE PLAY FOR THOSE THAT PLAYED BEFORE US. WE PLAY FOR OUR FAMILIES, OUR LOVED ONES, OUR TEACHERS, OUR SCHOOL BOARD, OUR COACHES, LIKE TRADITION, HAS ALWAYS BEEN A KEY PART OF CAMAS.
AND PLANS FOR NEXT FOR WHAT'S NEXT IS WE WANT THIS CLUB TO OBVIOUSLY CONTINUE ON IN OUR COMMUNITY, IN OUR SCHOOL. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SALT TALKS IN OUR THEATER ROOM.
WHO'S THE, YOU KNOW, SALT, YOU KNOW, LEADERS I GUESS.
AND BASICALLY COACHES WILL CHOOSE OR PLAYERS WILL CHOOSE THE NEXT ONCOMING ATHLETE.
YOU KNOW, WE WANT IT TO, YOU KNOW, PASS ON TO THOSE WHO ARE SHOWING, YOU KNOW, THE HEART.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY BRINGING IT AROUND THE SCHOOL.
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WE WANT THIS TO BE A MESSAGE THAT IS HEARD, THAT IS SEEN, AND ULTIMATELY, THAT IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT IT'S DOING. I KNOW WITH THE YOUTH, LIKE, WE WANT THAT MOTTO, RIGHT, TO BE COMING IN WHEN THEY'RE COMING FRESHMAN.WE WANT THIS MODEL TO BE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT THERE FOR THEM.
THANK YOU [APPLAUSE]. OKAY. BEFORE YOU GO, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I ACTUALLY DID. SORRY. YEAH. OKAY. SO YOU SAID SO THIS YEAR WAS WAS THIS YEAR, DID YOU FEEL LIKE IT WAS WAS KIND OF KIND OF KICKING THIS OFF AGAIN OR WAS IT. IS IT SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON OVER, OVER THE LAST.
I KNOW IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE HAD A REPORT FROM THE SALT COMMITTEE.
SO IT WAS SOMETHING. WAS IT SOMETHING THAT WAS JUST KIND OF THERE THAT WE'RE DOING MORE INTENTIONALLY NOW, OR WAS IT A REFRESH? I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, YEAH, LIKE A LITTLE REFRESH.
I KNOW, LIKE WE TRIED TO GET IT OUT, YOU KNOW, BUT WITH HEART IT WAS KIND OF JUST OLD, YOU KNOW, AND WITH COVID HAPPENING, OUR MINDSETS WERE KIND OF OFF OF IT.
AND BARANOWSKI HAD THE BREAK, YOU KNOW, A GREAT IDEA LIKE, HEY, LET'S GET THIS OUT AGAIN.
SO THIS, THIS CLUB OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT LIKE, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE THE MESSAGE FOR OUR STUDENTS. GREAT. THANK YOU. JUST ANOTHER QUICK QUESTION.
SO IS THERE A REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL SPORTS IN THIS CLUB? YEAH. SO YOU GET ONE FROM OR YOU TRY TO GET SOME FROM A VARIETY OF ALL OF THIS.
SO YOU KNOW FOR OUR MEETING THAT WE HAD, WE HAD, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE FROM TRACK SWIMMING, FOOTBALL OR BASEBALL AND BASICALLY WE JUST ALL COME TOGETHER AND AGREE ON WHAT OUR MOTTO WAS WAS GOING TO BE.
SO BY HAVING, YOU KNOW, THOSE WE BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO LOOK DIFFERENT FROM FOOTBALL AND TRACK LIKE OUR OUR LIVES ARE DIFFERENT, OUR TEAMS ARE DIFFERENT, OUR SCHEDULES ARE DIFFERENT. I KNOW WHAT SWIMMING THEY WAKE UP BY 5 A.M.
TO GO TO PRACTICE AND TRACK. WE HAVE PRACTICE AFTER SCHOOL.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE DIFFERENT THINGS, THEIR PERSPECTIVES AND WHAT THEY DEAL WITH.
AND SO AND ULTIMATELY RIGHT. LIKE WE WANT THE BEST EXPERIENCE FOR OUR STUDENTS.
I'M SORRY IF I'M SORRY IF I MISSED THIS, BUT WERE YOU AN OFFICER ON THE ON THE GROUP OR WAS IT JUST KIND OF, WAS THERE REALLY A LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE TO IT OR? I WOULD I WOULD SAY IT WAS JUST KIND OF LIKE A LEADERSHIP THING, I GUESS. NO ONE WAS REALLY THE HEAD OR PRESIDENT OR SOMETHING, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAD SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE, SO.
SO I WAS CURIOUS IF THAT WAS BECAUSE YOU HAD TO OR BECAUSE THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT REALLY, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU PUT A LOT OF WORK AND PASSION INTO THAT YOU WANTED TO COME BACK ONE MORE TIME.
SO, YOU KNOW, MATHIESON TEXTED ME, HE WAS LIKE, HEY, COME OUT.
AND I WAS LIKE 100%. I MEAN, BY BEING A CAMAS ATHLETE, YOU KNOW, IT MEANS A LOT.
YOU KNOW, REPRESENTING CAMAS DEFINITELY TAKES A LOT OF PRIDE, A LOT OF WORK AND A LOT OF COMMITMENT.
SO. YEAH. COACH, DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? YEAH. MY GUY RIGHT HERE CLAPPING FOR A MINUTE [APPLAUSE].
RIGHT. AND MR. BARANOWSKI HAS BEEN AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND JUST ME FOR, I GUESS TWO YEARS NOW. AND WHAT WE REALLY TRY TO DO, RIGHT IS WE'VE GOT 11-1,200 STUDENT ATHLETES ON OUR CAMAS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN SOMETHING, AND THEY GO IN SO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. RIGHT. AND SOME, LIKE A GYMNAST MIGHT LIKE THEY'RE ALWAYS OFF CAMAS, RIGHT? THEY'RE IN A CLUB AND STUFF AND THEN BASKETBALL PROGRAM AND A WRESTLING PROGRAM, THEY'RE LIKE ON THE CAMAS ALL THE TIME.
AND SWIMMING HAPPENS BEFORE ANY OF US EVER GET UP.
AND SO TO TO FIND A WAY TO UNIFY THE ATHLETES, RIGHT.
THE EXPERIENCE WILL BE DIFFERENT FOR SOFTBALL OR FROM A BOWLER TO A TENNIS PLAYER.
BUT WHAT IS THAT? I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT COLLEGE AND IF YOU WATCH COLLEGE SPORTS, THEY HAVE THESE MANNEQUINS WITH ALL THE COOL UNIFORMS ON AND YOU'RE LIKE, IT'S KIND OF LIKE A HOLLOW DEAL, RIGHT? LIKE, THERE'S NO SOUL IN THAT.
AND YOU GO, WHAT CAN WE DO TO UNIFY THE STUDENT ATHLETES AND TO HAVE A COMMON THEME AND A COMMON MESSAGE? SO EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE A BOWLER AND EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE A WRESTLER, LIKE, DO YOU STILL LEAVE BOWLING AND WRESTLING WITH SOME COMMON TRAITS FROM THAT STANDPOINT. AND THEN IF IF YOU'RE A MULTI-SPORT ATHLETE, WHICH WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE, LIKE VIC WAS INVOLVED IN FOOTBALL AND THEN INVOLVED IN TRACK
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AND FIELD. WILL HE GET THE SAME MESSAGE MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT WAY FROM THOSE COACHES AND PROGRAMS? BUT YET WHEN THEY LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL, AS VIC SAID, WE WANT TO BE BETTER WHEN WE LEAVE THAN WHEN WE ENTERED.AND SO CAN WE BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT THAT. AND I THINK AS, AS COACHES SPECIFICALLY FOR ME, LIKE WE ALL HAVE OUR CULTURE WITHIN OUR PROGRAM, WE DO DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT WE REALLY NEED TO BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT IT.
AND SO WHAT WE DID WAS WE REACHED OUT TO ALL OUR COACHES AND SAID, HEY SEND US ONE, TWO, THREE KIDS, ANY GRADE LEVEL THAT WOULD BE INTERESTED IN EDUCATING US ON WHAT THEIR EXPERIENCE WAS.
AND SO THIS YEAR, WITH PEOPLE LIKE VIC AND KARINA, YOU WERE INVOLVED TOO AS WELL, RIGHT? KARINA WAS INVOLVED. AND WE HAD A HEAVY DOSE OF SENIORS, BUT IT WAS REALLY MR. BARANOWSKI AND I TAKING INFORMATION FROM THEM, LIKE, JUST, DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT HEART IS? LIKE IT'S BEEN AROUND AND IT'S COOL THAT IT'S ON A WALL OR ON A T SHIRT, BUT DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IT MEANS? LIKE, I HADN'T APPLIED IT VERY WELL EVEN WITHIN MY PROGRAM.
SO IT WAS LIKE, OKAY, HOW DO WE REBRAND IT AND MAKE IT IMPORTANT FOR KIDS? BUT THEN THE KIDS CAN EDUCATE THE COACHES ON IT, AND THEN WE CAN GO BACK TO OUR PROGRAMS WITH WHAT THE KIDS ARE GETTING OUT OF IT.
RIGHT. AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THOSE WORDS AND GO, HUMILITY AND RESILIENCE, WELL, THEN I CAN TAKE IT BACK AS A COACH TO MY PROGRAM WITH MY OWN STYLE. BUT I CAN TALK TO THOSE THINGS AND I CAN EMPOWER KIDS ON THOSE THINGS.
AND SO WHAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO THEN, IS HAVE IT ROLL OVER EACH YEAR AND THEN MEET MONTHLY.
AND IT REALLY IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE KID DRIVEN AND NOT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS MR. BARANOWSKI THAT SAID, HEY, WE NEED TO DO THIS, BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE US DRIVEN.
IT SHOULD BE KID DRIVEN WITH PEOPLE LIKE VIC. AND THEY DID AN UNBELIEVABLE JOB OF SETTING THE DECK FOR NEXT YEAR'S GROUP TO THEN COME IN AND GO, OKAY, THIS IS HOW WE WANT TO UNIFY THINGS. IT SHOULDN'T JUST BE A SLOGAN, BUT SHOULD WE HAVE SOME BRANDING ON THE WALLS SO PEOPLE LIKE, HEY, WHAT'S THAT? AND YOU GO, YEAH, SHOULD WE CELEBRATE? AND GOD BLESS THE STATE CHAMPIONS. YOU ARE SO FUN TO WATCH.
RIGHT? BUT, LIKE, WE ALWAYS CELEBRATE THAT. LIKE, WHAT ABOUT HAVING HEART SHIRTS TO CELEBRATE SOMEONE WHO'S SUPER RESILIENT IN SWIMMING, LIKE, WE'VE GOT SOME SWIMMING KIDS. I DON'T KNOW WHY SWIMMING IS A TOPIC ALL OF A SUDDEN, BUT WE'VE HAD SWIMMING KIDS THAT, LIKE, HADN'T BEEN IN A POOL BEFORE, AND THEN THEY JOINED THE SWIM TEAM AND YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, MAYBE WE CAN GIVE THEM A HEART SHIRT AT SOME POINT FOR THE RESILIENCE OR HUMILITY OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE.
DOES THAT WRAP THAT QUESTION UP? CLAP IT UP FOR MY GUY AGAIN [APPLAUSE].
YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD JOB.
ALL RIGHT. NEXT ON OUR LIST IS BOARD COMMUNICATION.
AND ACTUALLY, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, I FORGOT TO EXCUSE BAMINI AND CONNIE BOTH ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT, OBVIOUSLY, AND THEY'RE EXCUSED. I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT EARLY ON. SO THERE'S ONLY THREE OF US HERE TONIGHT. BUT IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SHARE THAT YOU'VE BEEN UP TO. WELL, I FEEL LIKE I'VE SEEN ALL OF YOU A LOT LATELY. THIS IS KIND OF A BUSY TIME OF YEAR. NOT A BAD THING NOT A BAD THING. NO, I WAS REALLY I WAS REALLY GLAD MY MY MY OWN SCHEDULE WHERE I TEACH WAS ABLE TO WORK OUT THIS YEAR WHERE MY, MY SCHOOL'S GRADUATION WAS NOT THE SAME WEEK AS CAMAS.
I GOT TO SAY THAT I CARRIED THE BANNER PRETTY WELL.
BUT AND THEY, THEY GOT A THEY GOT A GOLD MEDAL RECOGNITION OUT OF THAT.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL MARCHING BAND FOR THAT.
I KNOW THEY HAD THE, YOU KNOW, THE FINAL CONCERTS OF THE YEAR THAT WE ALL WENT TO FROM YOU KNOW, AND THE A LOT OF US WERE AT MR. MANCINI'S FINAL CONCERT.
SO LOTS OF LOTS OF GREAT CELEBRATIONS AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
I ALSO GOT TO GO TO THE THE CHS AWARDS NIGHT.
WE GOT AN INVITATION FOR THAT. AND THAT WAS GREAT TO, TO BE ABLE TO, TO RECOGNIZE IT ALSO HELPED TO STREAMLINE THE GRADUATION CEREMONY, BUT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT AWARDS AND DEPARTMENT AWARDS I DON'T KNOW.
I'M GOING TO BE HONEST. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE ARE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT DO THAT, BUT I'M PUTTING THE PLUG IN THERE RIGHT NOW. SO IF HAYES OR DISCOVERY, IF YOU DO THOSE SENIOR AWARDS NIGHTS I'D LOVE TO GET AN INVITATION TO THAT AS WELL, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO JUST MAKE IT SEEM LIKE I'M JUST GOING TO ONE.
SO. SO THAT WAS FANTASTIC. I KNOW MATTHEW AND JOHN AND I GOT TO GO UP.
WE STAGGERED OUR ARRIVALS, BUT WE WERE AT SKYRIDGE.
AND THAT WAS PRETTY FUN. IT WAS GREAT TO EVEN JUST STOP AND TALK WITH THEM ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THEY THERE WAS LEARNING INVOLVED WITH IT, RIGHT? THEY THEY LABELED ALL THE DIFFERENT FORCES OF MOTION AND ALL OF THAT IN THERE.
BUT THE, THE, THE THE CREATIVITY WAS ALSO PRETTY GOOD.
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I ENJOYED THE ONE THE ROLLER COASTER THAT KNOCKED OVER THE SOME OF THEM TURNED INTO KIND OF LIKE A RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE. THEY KNOCKED OVER THE DOMINOES AND MOVED THINGS AROUND.IT WAS IT WAS PRETTY COOL. AND THEY WERE REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THEY DID. SO THAT WAS FUN. OF COURSE, THE FOUR GRADUATIONS, I THINK THE THREE OF US HIT FOR THE CYCLE. WE WE GOT TO GO TO ALL OF THE GRADUATIONS.
RIGHT. SO AND THEN WE JOHN AND MATTHEW AND I MET TO KIND OF BRAINSTORM A LITTLE BIT ABOUT AN ARTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING. WE WANT TO KIND OF KIND OF RUMINATE ON THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE OVER THE SUMMER, BUT MIGHT ADD IT TO OUR AUGUST PLANNING SESSION.
BUT JOHN AND I GOT WERE INVITED TO AN EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE WITH SENATOR CORTEZ AND ACTUALLY SENATE EDUCATION CHAIR SENATOR WELLMAN SHOWED UP TO THE MEETING, ZOOMED INTO THE MEETING AS WELL.
AND WE GOT TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE KIND OF IN PERSON ABOUT THE SESSION RECAP.
WE GOT TO ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND KIND OF TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE IMPACTING CLARK COUNTY AND, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY CAMAS. SO IT WAS A GREAT IT WAS A GREAT DIALOG TO HAVE.
AND I THINK IT WAS A GOOD A GOOD WAY TO KEEP ENGAGING.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THAT UP. SO LOTS GOING ON IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
I'M GLAD I HAD A LOT BECAUSE YOU TOOK MONEY. YEAH.
THERE WAS ALL THE END OF YEAR MUSIC. THAT WAS GREAT. IT'S PROBABLY THE SADDEST THING ABOUT THE SUMMER IS WE DON'T REALLY HAVE THE STUDENT MUSIC THING, BUT WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING QUARTER. I DID ALSO OTHER MUSIC THINGS. THE CHS CHOIR HAD THEIR KIND OF ENDING SESSION, AND THEN WE HAD A PICNIC.
THAT WAS GREAT TO SEE ALL THE STUDENTS AT FALLEN LEAF.
I DID DO ONE ROUND. YOU DID A ROUND OF THE SENIOR AWARDS AT CHS.
ALSO THE DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL PROJECTS THAT WAS GREAT TO SEE.
IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO RECOGNIZE ALL THE STUDENTS, THE MENTORS, THE STAFF THAT DID ALL THE ADVISING, THE VOLUNTEERS THAT CAME IN TO DO ALL THE JUDGING.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW. IT MIGHT BE GOOD SOME POINT TO GET THE NUMBERS.
WE DID SENIOR EXIT INTERVIEWS. I THINK THAT WAS SINCE THE LAST MEETING, I THINK SO THAT WAS FUN.
AND I THINK DOREEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE DATA FOR US ON THE SURVEY AT SOME POINT, SOME FUTURE MEETING.
SO THAT WAS REALLY FUN TO SEE SOME OF THE SENIORS ENGAGE WITH US THERE.
I GOT TO BE AT THE CHS SENIOR BARBECUE. YOU WERE THERE YOU WERE THERE AS A PARENT.
I COOKED HOTDOGS WITH DOUG THE ENTIRE TIME. [INAUDIBLE] YEAH.
I GOT A CARD FROM THE ASB STUDENTS SOMEWHERE IN HERE.
THAT WAS REALLY NICE. I WAS LIKE, WOW, OKAY IT WAS WORTH SMELLING LIKE HOT DOGS FOR A FEW DAYS.
WHAT ELSE? ELEMENTARY WALKTHROUGH. THE SENIOR WALKTHROUGH.
SO IF YOU'VE NEVER GOTTEN TO SEE IT, OR IF YOU HAD, YOU HAD A SENIOR.
SORK, MR. HUNLEY, DO THE DOROTHY FOX FIGHT SONG OR SCHOOL SONG ON HIS UKULELE.
ALL THE STUDENTS STILL REMEMBER THAT SONG. THEY HAD MEMORIES THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT AS A PARENT, SO IT WAS REALLY TERRIBLY FUN TO SEE THAT A LITTLE.
EVERYONE SAID YOU'D TEAR UP. I DID NOT TEAR UP.
IT MAKES YOU FEEL OLD. GRADUATIONS WAS GREAT.
I'M GLAD THAT WE GOT TO GO TO ALL OF THEM. AND ALL OF US WERE THERE.
YOU HAD AN EXCUSE YOU HAD A PARTY YOU HAD TO ATTEND.
YOU EVEN MISSED PART OF YOUR PARTY TO ATTEND THE HAYES ONE.
AND THEN, AS COREY SAID, THE ARTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE WE ARE WORKING ON I THINK WE'LL HAVE SOME STUFF OVER THE SUMMER, AND DEFINITELY BECAUSE WE WANT TO JUMP ON THAT FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. AND THEN YESTERDAY, RECOGNIZING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN THE PRIDE BLOCK PARTY DOWNTOWN CAMAS, IT WAS A GREAT EVENT. WELL, I MEAN, IT WAS SO PACKED.
THERE WERE SO MANY STUDENTS, FAMILIES, EDUCATORS THERE.
SO SHE DID A FANTASTIC JOB THERE SO I COULD GO ON AND ON.
BUT IT'S THERE WAS A LOT AND IT WAS A GREAT, GREAT MONTH.
OKAY. DITTO TO EVERYTHING YOU GUYS SAID. AND I HAD A SENIOR, SO I WAS AT A BUNCH OF ALL THOSE EVENTS ANYWAY, SO I WON'T HIT ON ALL OF THOSE. BUT I DID DO THERE'S A PUSH TO GET FOR CTE AND CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS. AND SO WE'VE BEEN PUTTING WE BUILT TOOLBOXES WITH FOURTH GRADERS THIS YEAR.
AND SO MY COMPANY AND SOME OTHER CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS AND DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WE BUILT TOOL BOXES WITH ALL THE FOURTH GRADERS AT LACAMAS HEIGHTS AND WOODBURN, I THINK ARE THE TWO SCHOOLS THAT WE DID.
SO JUST TRYING TO GET KIDS INTERESTED IN THOSE FIELDS AT A YOUNG AGE.
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SO I DID THAT AND THEN JUST WANT TO HIT ON THAT, LET'S SEE THE CAPITAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE THAT'S KICKING OFF, WHICH IS GREAT. I MEAN, WE'RE I THINK WE'RE KIND OF ASSESSING ALL OF OUR ENTIRE INVENTORY, OUR ASSETS, OUR NEEDS, THE VALUE AND THE UTILIZATION OF ALL OF OUR WE HAVE A LOT OF PROPERTY AND A LOT OF BUILDINGS AND JUST KIND OF MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE UTILIZING THEM TO THE BEST THAT THEY COULD BE AND KEEPING THEM UP, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THEIR ALL THE MAINTENANCE IS DONE ON ALL THOSE.AND THEN JUST ONE OTHER QUICK PLUG IS THAT THE CAMAS DAYS PARADE IS JULY 26TH.
IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED IN WALKING IN THE PARADE, WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING FUN FOR YOU TO DO. SO WE'RE ALSO REALLY EXCITED THAT MR. MANCINI IS GOING TO BE THE GRAND MARSHAL. YES HE IS.
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REPORT. THANKS, TRACEY. THANKS, EVERYONE, AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PARTICIPATION.I KNOW IT IS A LOT, BUT WE HAD A GREAT TIME TOGETHER.
ALSO, JUST ANOTHER SHOUT OUT TO TO ADAM AND STEPHEN.
I KNOW HEARTS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME, BUT THE RESURRECTION OF THAT AND THE REBRANDING REALLY WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF OF THE IMPACT WE HAD WITH SOME INCIDENTS OVER THE LAST 3 TO 4 YEARS. AND, AND I DIDN'T ASK THIS EARLIER, BUT I, MY, MY, I WOULD VENTURE TO GUESS AND SEE THAT THERE HAS BEEN AN IMPACT, A POSITIVE IMPACT WITH OUR STUDENTS, OUR STUDENT ATHLETES, AND SO MUCH OF IT IS BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AT CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. AND, COACH, YOU'VE BEEN AN INCREDIBLE ADDITION, NOT JUST ON THE X'S AND O'S, BUT WHAT YOU BRING ATTITUDE WISE TO, TO OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I THINK TO THE BOARD THAT WE'RE SEEING THOSE RESULTS KNOCK ON WOOD, IT KEEPS GOING.
BUT WHAT YOU SAW HERE TONIGHT, I THINK IS RESONATING WITH WITHIN THE STUDENT ATHLETES AND ALSO THE REST OF THE STUDENTS THAT SEE AND HEAR THAT, BECAUSE THOSE STUDENTS ARE THE ROLE MODELS, ARE ONE OF THE SETS OF ROLE MODELS AT OUR SCHOOL.
SO SO THANK YOU BOTH. I ALWAYS LIKE TO START OFF, IF I CAN, WITH ENROLLMENT.
LET'S SEE IF OUR NEW HANDY DANDY REMOTE WILL WORK HERE.
OH, THERE WE GO. SO THESE NUMBERS ARE FOR JUNE UP UNTIL JUNE 15TH.
SO THIS THIS WILL BE IT FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR OF COURSE.
REMEMBER THE THE NUMBERS IN BLACK PARENTHESES THAT IS GROWTH FROM MAY TO JUNE.
SO JUST THE ONE MONTH MOVEMENT AND THEN THE RED IN PARENTHESES THAT'S FROM OCTOBER TO JUNE AND I START IN OCTOBER, OF COURSE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN THE OFFICIAL STATE COUNT COMES IN.
BUT OVERALL, THE GOOD NEWS IS WE DID GAIN 48 STUDENTS.
KEEP IN MIND, THOUGH, WE STARTED WITH A 71 STUDENT LESS THAN WHAT WE WERE PROJECTED TO BE AT.
SO IT WASN'T A NET GAIN FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
BUT AGAIN, WE'D LIKE TO SEE THAT NUMBER WITH THAT PLUS SIGN IN FRONT OF IT.
AS FAR AS HIGH SCHOOL GOES YOU SEE THE THAT CCA GAINED 43, BUT ZERO OVER THE LAST MONTH.
THE TEACHERS AND THE STAFF AT CCA GET THOSE STUDENTS ON TRACK AND GET THEM READY FOR GRADUATION.
MOST OF THOSE STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, OF COURSE, CAME FROM OUR LARGEST HIGH SCHOOL CHS.
SAME THING WITH DISCOVERY, PRETTY PRETTY STANDARD.
HAYES FREEDOM LOST ONE STUDENT IN THE LAST MONTH.
BUT AGAIN, NOT NOTHING TO REALLY WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT.
WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL AGAIN, PRETTY PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
NO NO GAINS EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE STUDENT LOSS AT LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
BUT PRETTY STABLE FROM MAY TO JUNE. ELEMENTARY YOU SEE, AGAIN, PRETTY STABLE THROUGHOUT.
EITHER A PLUS ONE OR A MINUS ONE ACROSS EACH OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, INCLUDING CCA THEN OUR PRESCHOOLS, NO CHANGE THERE. WHERE WE OBVIOUSLY ARE SEEING REGISTRATIONS COMING IN FOR PRESCHOOL NOT AT THE RATE THAT WE USED TO SEE.
OF COURSE, NATIONAL BIRTH RATES ARE STILL TRENDING DOWN.
WE'RE NOT SEEING REALLY A CHANGE NATIONALLY OR LOCALLY PROBABLY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
BUT WE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES. ANY QUESTIONS ON ENROLLMENT? ALL RIGHT. LET'S SEE HERE. THIS THING IS FINICKY.
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I WANTED TO CELEBRATE JUST AS YOU MENTIONED, WITH GRADUATION, CELEBRATE OUR GRADUATES AND KIND OF GO THROUGH WHERE OUR GRADUATES ARE HEADING. WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SOME OF THE SMALLER GRADUATION CEREMONIES IS WE GET TO HEAR THAT RIGHT FROM THE KIDS, BUT WE KIND OF PUT THAT INTO SOME SLIDES FOR YOU.SO STARTING WITH CAMAS CONNECT ACADEMY, WE HAD 35 GRADUATING SENIORS, AND 45% OF THOSE STUDENTS STATED THAT THEY ARE COLLEGE BOUND, 2 ATTENDING A FOUR YEAR COLLEGE, 12 ATTENDING A TWO YEAR.
BUT REALLY, REALLY EXCITING IS 14 OF THOSE HAVE COMMITTED TO EITHER AN APPRENTICESHIP OR A TRADE SCHOOL, AND ONE STUDENT GOING TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY IN THE MILITARY.
AND YOU SEE THERE, THOSE WERE THE TOP REALLY FIVE MOST POPULAR SCHOOLS AMONG OUR AMONGST OUR CCA GRADS, CLARK COLLEGE BEING NUMBER ONE. WE DO HAVE A COUPLE STUDENTS GOING OVER TO BYU, IDAHO, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, UNLV. THAT WASN'T ANY PRESSURE OF MINE OR TRYING TO KEEP THEM UP HERE.
AND THEN WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. SO EXCITING.
AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED LISTENING TO SOME OF THOSE STUDENTS.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WAS THE AMOUNT OF STUDENTS GOING INTO NURSING.
WE NEED WE NEED LOTS OF THEM. CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL.
THERE WAS A TOTAL OF 1930 STUDENTS THERE. I WANT TO SAY IT WAS RIGHT AT 500 GRADUATES.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT NUMBER, 43.
ALL RIGHT. SELLING YOU A LITTLE SHORT. STUDENTS AT CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL, NOT [INAUDIBLE].
YES. 91% OF THE STUDENTS AT CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL REPORT THAT THEY'RE COLLEGE BOUND.
YOU SEE 193 TO A TWO YEAR. AND I'M NOT SURE GAIL 1467 TO A FOUR YEAR, IS THAT IS THAT FROM THE FULL SURVEY THEN? OKAY. OKAY. SO I'LL TRY TO BREAK THAT DOWN FOR YOU.
SORRY THAT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE HAD THAT NUMBER FOR YOU MY FAULT.
HOW MANY GRADUATES DID YOU SAY THERE WERE STEPHEN? 4 83 OKAY. I'LL GET THAT FOR YOUR COLLEGE NUMBER FOR YOU.
BUT SOME OF THE COLLEGES WERE MANY OF THE COLLEGES WERE REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
UW OF COURSE, COMING IN NUMBER ONE WITH WASHINGTON STATE NUMBER TWO.
BUT YOU SEE A SCHOOL LIKE OREGON STATE, WESTERN WASHINGTON, BOISE STATE, UTAH, BYU, CAL POLY, EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE. AND GRAND CANYON, OF COURSE.
SO REALLY, REALLY GREAT KIND OF COMBINATION OF ASPIRATIONS FROM OUR STUDENTS AT CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL.
DISCOVERY 37 SENIORS 92% REPORTED BEING COLLEGE BOUND.
I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO SHOW, BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITY, THEY THEY SOMETIMES DON'T REALIZE THAT SO MANY STUDENTS THAT GRADUATE FROM DISCOVERY ARE ALSO COLLEGE BOUND AND MANY VERY PRESTIGIOUS AND ELITE COLLEGES.
20 REPORTED WANTING TO GO TO A FOUR YEAR COLLEGE, 14 TO A TWO YEAR, AND THEN OF COURSE, THREE HAVE ALREADY A LINE TO AN APPRENTICESHIP OR A TRADE SCHOOL. YOU SEE ANOTHER A VERY, REALLY VAST ARRAY OF COLLEGES THAT WERE MENTIONED.
SORRY, GUYS. WELL, IT'S SO SHINY, BUT IT'S IT'S NOT PROVEN ITSELF.
HAYES FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND BEYOND GRADUATION 49 SENIORS THERE.
9 REPORTED GOING TO A FOUR YEAR, 15 TO A TWO YEAR.
AND YOU SEE THE, THE, THE COLLEGES THAT WERE THE TOP FOUR THERE, INCLUDING WSU VANCOUVER CAMAS.
SO QUESTIONS COMMENTS ON IT WAS, CONNIE RECOMMENDED THIS SO I CAN ALSO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FROM HER, BUT MATTHEW. I HAD I'D FORGOTTEN WHEN I SEEN YOUR PRESENTATION THAT I CORRECTED ONE SPELLING ERROR, THAT WAS MY FAULT. I MEANT TO SEND YOU LIKE CASCADIA, HOW MANY OF THE STUDENTS WENT THROUGH THE CASCADIA OR RUNNING START FOR THIS? I'LL GET THAT. FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS I HAD FORGOT TO ASK JOHN, SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT BECAUSE I KNOW SINCE WE ATTENDED ALL THE GRADUATIONS, SO MANY OF THEM HEARING THEIR STORIES, LIKE HOW MANY OF THEM ARE GOING TO NURSING OR HOW MANY OF THEM ARE GOING TO WESTERN WASHINGTON OR CENTRAL AND WANT TO BECOME EDUCATORS. IT WAS JUST, YEAH, SOME OF THEM WERE LEAVING THE NEXT DAY AFTER GRADUATION TO START A JOB.
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DEGREE BEFORE THEY EVEN RECEIVED A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA WELL, BY THREE DAYS, BUT STILL PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.I CAN GET THAT FOR YOU, MATTHEW. ALL RIGHT. GOOD.
JUST ALWAYS LIKE TO PUT THIS SLIDE UP JUST A REMINDER TO THE BOARD IN OUR COMMUNITY OF YOU KNOW WHAT WHAT WAS THE PRECIPICE OF OF GOING INTO THESE RATHER LARGE BUDGET CUTS? OF COURSE, DECLINING ENROLLMENT, WHICH I'LL SHOW A SLIDE.
I'M ASSUMING MATT AND OR CLINT WILL HAVE SOMETHING ON THAT IN A BIT AS WELL.
INFLATION, WE'RE CONTINUING TO SEE A RISE. THE LABOR MARKET PRESSURES.
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT WE ARE COMPETING WITH THE LABOR MARKET, WHETHER IT'S CONSTRUCTION, WHETHER IT'S MAINTENANCE, WHETHER IT'S CUSTODIAL, EVEN, EVEN THE TEACHER MARKET.
AS YOU'LL SEE IN ANOTHER SLIDE PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE REALLY, REALLY COMPETING WITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SPECIFICALLY IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON RIGHT NOW.
AND OF COURSE, A LOT OF THAT RESULTS IN A, IN A DEFICIT IN A SHORTFALL OF ABOUT 10 TO 12%.
NOT TO MENTION OUR OPEN CONTRACTS, AND I'LL GET INTO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE AS WELL.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE VARIABLES THAT GOT US TO THIS POINT.
BUT I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING FOR THE BOARD TO REALLY HONE IN ON THAT OUR DEMOGRAPHER IS NOT SHOWING AN INCREASE, AT LEAST IN THE NEXT FORESEEABLE FUTURE. YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR DISTRICT WILL CONTINUE TO DECLINE IN ENROLLMENT THROUGH AT LEAST THE 28-29 SCHOOL YEAR.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES WITH THOSE VARIABLES I MENTIONED PRIMARILY THE HOUSING MARKET WHETHER IT'S THE INTEREST RATES, WHETHER IT'S THE ACTUAL THE WHAT PEOPLE ARE PUTTING THEIR HOUSES UP FOR OR BOTH, WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF CONTINUE TO SEE THIS.
THE WAY I WANT TO LOOK AT IT, THOUGH, IS TRYING TO LOOK AT IT FROM A POSITIVE ANGLE, THAT THAT MAY NOT BE A BAD THING AS LONG AS OUR STAFFING IS, IS ALIGNING TO THAT ENROLLMENT I DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARILY A BAD THING.
WE'RE FINDING THAT WE COULD REALLY, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ONE ON ONE ATTENTION TO OUR KIDS.
WE GET TO KNOW OUR STUDENTS. AND I THINK OUR, OUR FOCUS IN TRYING TO MAINTAIN OUR PROGRAMS AND OUR CHOICE OPTIONS WAS REALLY CRITICAL IN THAT, BECAUSE THOSE CHOICE OPTIONS ALSO PROVIDE THAT MORE SMALL GROUPS AND ONE ON ONES, AND YOU GET TO KNOW THOSE STUDENTS SO MUCH BETTER.
SO AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, BRING YOU INTO THE FUTURE A LITTLE BIT.
IT'S NOT PERFECT SCIENCE, BUT IT IS A SCIENCE.
AND SO JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.
SOME CONCERNING NUMBERS THAT THAT I'VE BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH ON PUBLIC ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON CONTINUES TO BE DOWN ABOUT 4% STATEWIDE. PRIVATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IS HAS INCREASED 25%.
AND IT REALLY HASN'T CHANGED AS QUICKLY AS WE HOPED.
HOME SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IS UP 42%.
I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT IT IS NATIONALLY, BUT MY GUESS IS THAT IT'S RATHER ON PAR.
OUR ENROLLMENT IN CAMAS WAS 1% DOWN. SO LIKE I SAID EARLIER, 71 STUDENTS.
AND IT'S ESTIMATED TO DECREASE ANOTHER 2% FOR NEXT YEAR, AND THAT COULD FLUCTUATE A LITTLE BIT, WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT LANDS. AND OF COURSE, THAT MAY NOT SOUND LIKE A BIG PERCENTAGE, BUT THAT'S A $1.3 MILLION LOSS IN REVENUE.
ANY ANY TIME YOU HAVE 71 STUDENTS OUT OF ABOUT 2,000, I'M SORRY, 7,000 THERE YOU GO.
MEDIAN HOME PRICES IN MAY WENT UP AGAIN 5.2% FROM LAST MAY THIS TIME LAST YEAR.
SO PRICES ARE STAGGERINGLY HIGH RIGHT NOW. SO IF YOU'RE A HOMEOWNER, IT'S NOT A BAD THING.
IF YOU'RE TRYING TO BUY IT'S IT'S NOT QUITE A BUYER'S MARKET RIGHT NOW.
MEDIAN SALE PRICE IN CAMAS IS NOW UP TO $852,000.
EVEN LAST MONTH WHEN I REPORTED TO YOU, I WANT TO SAY THE NUMBER WAS LIKE $846.
AND THE INTEREST AVERAGE INTEREST RATE IN AND AROUND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON IS STEADY AROUND 6.8%.
AND TO BE HONEST, THAT'S A BIT OF A SCARY NUMBER TO BUYERS, ESPECIALLY WHEN SEVERAL OF US WERE USED TO THAT 2, 3 , 4% INTEREST RATE. YOU'RE LOOKING AT ALMOST DOUBLE WHAT MANY HOMEOWNERS IN CAMAS PAID, MAYBE EVEN FIVE YEARS AGO.
SO IT'S A LITTLE OVER A YEAR. I WOULD PROBABLY SAY THAT'S GOOD NEWS, THAT MORE HOMES ARE BEING SOLD, BUT THERE'S JUST NOT AS MUCH INVENTORY OUT THERE.
SO QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS. I KNOW I SOUND MORE LIKE A REAL ESTATE AGENT RIGHT NOW, BUT I THINK THERE'S SUCH A DIRECT CORRELATION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR DISTRICT, IN OUR REGION, COREY? IT'S SO IMPORTANT JUST TO POINT OUT, TOO, BECAUSE WHERE WE'RE SEEING THE BIGGEST DROP IN ENROLLMENT ARE THE THE EARLY,
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THE EARLY GRADES. AND WHEN THE AVERAGE, YOU KNOW, OR MEDIAN HOME SALE PRICE IS $852,000 THERE'S JUST NOT A LOT THAT A YOUNG FAMILY, YOU KNOW, JUST EXITING COLLEGE OR WHATEVER IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD.SO WHILE THE WHILE IT'S GREAT TO SEE THAT OUR HOMES, THE NUMBER OF HOMES SOLD IN MAY IS UP I KIND OF WONDER WHAT TYPES OF HOMES THOSE ARE BEING SOLD. SURE. AND HOW MANY ARE SECOND HOMES FOR RETIREES? THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO THAT. WE'RE JUST NOT SEEING THE YOUNG KIDS, TO YOUR POINT.
YOU KNOW, AND I DO GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS AROUND.
WELL, JOHN, IF IF THE IF THE LACK OF ENROLLMENT IS AT THE YOUNGER GRADES, WHY ARE WE CUTTING ACROSS THE BOARD? AND THERE'S A LOT OF REASONS FOR THAT BUT NUMBER ONE IS YOU CAN ONLY CUT SO DEEP AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
WE HAVE CLASS SIZE, YOU KNOW, IN PLACE. THEY'RE SMALLER SCHOOLS.
AND SO WE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO REACH OUR TARGET IF WE JUST HONED IN ON ONE AREA.
AND ALL THAT WOULD DO WAS KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD ANYWAY, BECAUSE THOSE STUDENTS WILL EVENTUALLY NOT MOVE FORWARD IN AS AS LARGE A GROUPS AS THEY AS THEY WERE. AS STEPHEN SAID JUST UNDER 500 GRADUATES OF CAMAS HIGH SCHOOL, POTENTIALLY AROUND 600 OR SO GRADUATES THROUGHOUT OUR DISTRICT. WE'RE ONLY RIGHT NOW SCHEDULED TO BRING IN ABOUT 300 OR SO KINDERGARTNERS.
SO THAT'S WHERE THE SCALES KIND OF GET OFF BALANCE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
CAMAS WAS GRADUATING ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT AS STUDENTS AS THEY WERE BRINGING IN.
AND TO YOUR POINT, COREY, THAT'S JUST NOT THE CASE.
SO MATTHEW, TRACEY ANYTHING ON THAT ONE? OKAY.
I JUST WANT TO MENTION THIS VERY BRIEFLY, ESPECIALLY THAT BOTTOM PARAGRAPH WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LEVY DOLLARS, BECAUSE WE TALKED TO A LOT OF CITIZENS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTING THE LEVY AND WE ARE, YOU KNOW, SURPRISED WHEN WE WHEN WE HAVE TO DO BUDGET CUTS.
AND ONE OF THE KEYS THERE IS THAT WHAT THE STATE PROVIDES.
AND I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD, BUT WE'RE STILL BANGING THAT DRUM WITH THE STATE THAT WE ARE WE WHEN WE MENTION THE THE AVERAGE SALARIES, THAT'S NOT TO DEMEAN OR DEVALUE ANYONE. THAT'S TO SAY, HEY, LISTEN, WE VALUE OUR EMPLOYEES HOWEVER, THE STATE NEEDS TO MATCH THAT IN ORDER FOR US TO SUSTAIN THOSE SALARIES OVER TIME.
SO WE'RE WE'RE WORKING ON THAT I MEAN, WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE TOGETHER.
WE'RE WE HAVE A TASK FORCE BEING CREATED. I'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
AND COREY YOU MENTIONED THE TOWN HALL OR THE ROUNDTABLE WE WENT TO.
AND BOTH OF THOSE TOPICS WERE BROUGHT UP BY BOTH SENATOR WELLMAN AND SENATOR CORTEZ, THAT THE PROTOTYPICAL MODEL HAS TO BE FLIPPED ON ITS EAR BECAUSE WE'RE WORKING IN AN ARCHAIC SYSTEM ACROSS THE STATE, AND REGIONALIZATION HAS TREMENDOUSLY IMPACTED CAMAS.
AND SO THOSE ARE THE TWO WORDS AND PHRASES THAT I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP HONING IN ON.
LOOKING AHEAD AT THAT, AT WHAT'S THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THIS? WELL, WE KNOW THAT THESE BUDGET REDUCTIONS HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY PAINFUL.
I MET WITH OUR PRINCIPALS TODAY AND REITERATED THAT TO THEM THAT THEIR WORK, OUR OUR STAFF, ALL OF YOU, IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLY PAINSTAKING WORK TO GET TO.
HOWEVER, I THINK THAT THAT WORK WILL SHOW ITSELF WHEN WE BALANCE THE BUDGET.
AND I AND I BELIEVE WE'RE VERY, VERY CLOSE. AND AGAIN, YOU'LL HEAR FROM MATT AND CLINT TONIGHT TO SHOW THAT THIS WORK AND THIS PAIN IS NOT GOING TO BE BE LEFT TO THE WAYSIDE. AND MY ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET YOU A BALANCED BUDGET IN AUGUST AND SHOW THAT WE ARE NOT OVERSPENDING.
WE ARE NOT OUR EXPENDITURES ARE NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO OUTWEIGH WHAT WE'RE BRINGING IN.
AND IT'S NOT EASY WHEN YOU SEE THOSE NUMBERS.
WE HAVE A SESSION TOMORROW, AN ALL DAY SESSION.
AND WE'RE VERY HOPEFUL ON ON HOW THAT WILL GO.
SO THAT'S THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE REALLY HELD ON ON ADD BACKS.
RIGHT. BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T WANT TO OVERCOMMIT TO ANYTHING BEFORE BEFORE OUR CONTRACTS ARE SETTLED.
AGAIN, OUR GOAL IS TO SUBMIT A BALANCED BUDGET TO YOU IN JUST ANOTHER MONTH AND A HALF OR SO, AND COST CONTAINMENT. I'VE TALKED TO MATT EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THIS, AND MATT HAS SAID HE HAS SEEN IT IN THE BUDGET,
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THAT SOME OF THE CUTBACKS AND SOME OF THE THE SAVINGS ARE REALLY STARTING TO SHOW THEMSELVES IN THE BUDGET.AND WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THAT AGAIN NOT EASY, NOT FUN.
IT'S IT'S A TOUGH THING TO DO. BUT WE'RE SEEING WE'RE SEEING THAT THAT THAT CHANGE TAKE PLACE.
LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY, WE HAVE TO KEEP KEEP POUNDING THAT DRUM AND WE ARE.
WE'RE GOING TO RAMP IT UP AS WE GET INTO 25- 26, I KNOW IT'S A SHORT SESSION.
I KNOW THERE'S NOT A LOT OF BUDGET DECISIONS MADE, BUT THOSE SENATORS, THOSE REPRESENTATIVES ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HEAR FROM CAMAS LOUD AND CLEAR, BECAUSE WE CONTINUALLY HEAR THAT THOSE OFF CYCLES IS REALLY WHEN THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD.
AND SO I DON'T WANT OUR COMMUNITY OR YOU TO THINK THAT WE'RE SITTING IDLE AND WAITING FOR A PIE IN THE SKY, THAT'S JUST NOT A GOOD STRATEGY. CONTINUING TO SHARE OUR CELEBRATIONS WITH OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, OUR ENTIRE STATE WHEN SOMETHING GOES WELL, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SHARE EVERY MONTH.
BECAUSE IT'S RECORDED AND PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT.
AND SO THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING. I THINK OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE IS IMPORTANT.
AND JUST SHOUTING FROM THE ROOFTOPS OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING WELL HERE.
AND I'LL TELL YOU, OUR LEGISLATORS CONSTANTLY SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SEE THE ROI IN CANVAS.
WE SEE THE TEST SCORES. WE SEE THE CELEBRATIONS.
YOU'RE WINNING IN ARTS. YOU'RE WINNING ON THE ON THE FIELDS.
LET'S NOT OVERCORRECT. LIKE I SAID, LET'S STAY THE COURSE.
WE'LL WE'LL JUST BE PATIENT. I KNOW AUGUST COMES QUICKLY.
BUT WE STILL HAVE SOME WORK TO DO BETWEEN NOW AND THE START OF SCHOOL, AND, AND AND BEFORE WE START ADDING BACK AND AND OVERCORRECTING, SO TO SPEAK. AND THEN LASTLY, OF COURSE, IT'S I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO EMBRACE OUR NEW NORMAL OF NOT NECESSARILY BEING A 7,000 STUDENT DISTRICT.
IT'S OKAY TO BE 65, 66, 6,700 STUDENTS AS LONG AS WE'RE ALIGNED STAFFING WISE.
AND I KNOW THAT'S SOMETIMES THE TIPPING POINT, BUT IT'S OKAY TO BE A BIT SMALLER.
WE JUST WE JUST HAVE TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE ARE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER.
SO, COREY, MATT, TRACEY? NO, I WAS JUST GOING TO SHARE WHEN YOU WERE MENTIONING ABOUT CELEBRATING SUCCESSES, THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED AT OUR ROUNDTABLE IS THAT SENATOR WELLMAN CALLED OUT CAMAS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT TALKING ABOUT, LIKE, INNOVATIVE THINGS THAT ARE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THAT EDUCATION DOESN'T LOOK THE SAME WHEN ALL OF US WENT THROUGH AND SHE SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT HOW SHE HEARD THAT CAMAS HAD PURCHASED AN OFFICE BUILDING AND HAD TURNED THAT INTO A PROJECT BASED MIDDLE SCHOOL AND WAS REALLY KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, AS A POSITIVE THING. BUT WE HAD TO REMIND HER THAT YEAH, THAT IS A GREAT THING WE CAN'T AFFORD TO DO THAT.
SO IT KIND OF I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE THE RECEPTION TO THAT, BUT WE DID HAVE TO PUSH BACK THAT WE CAN'T DO A LOT OF THESE THINGS, THAT THESE INNOVATIVE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO DO WITHOUT THE WITHOUT THE STATE SUPPORT ON THAT.
AND THEN TOMORROW, ALL DAY FROM 9 TO 4 IF NOT BEYOND THAT OUR TEAM WILL BE MEETING WITH CEA REPRESENTATIVES AND THE MOOD AND THE TONE AND THE DISPOSITION CONTINUES TO BE VERY POSITIVE. ALTHOUGH ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAS SOME, SOME GIVE AND TAKE.
RIGHT. I'M REALLY EXCITED TO HEAR THAT THINGS ARE PROGRESSING.
SO HOPING TO GET YOU SOMETHING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO. ALL RIGHT. AGAIN HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THIS? I ALREADY HIT ON SOME OF THESE. BUT GETTING INVOLVED IN A LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS.
ENGAGING IN COMMITTEES. SO WE HAVE CITIZEN ADVISORY, WHICH HAS BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME.
A PARENT PARENTS CAN APPLY FOR THAT BY SEPTEMBER 15TH.
SO WE'LL HAVE A NEW CROP OF FAMILY OR PARENTS THAT JOIN THAT.
I CAN'T SAY IT ENOUGH CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE SUCCESSES.
YELL FROM THE ROOFTOPS ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOLS. SPEAK POSITIVELY ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS WHETHER IT'S AT THE SUPERMARKET, THE POST OFFICE, WHEREVER YOU ARE. THINK ABOUT THE GOOD THINGS, BECAUSE IT'S EASY TO FOCUS IN ON THE BUDGET CUTS AND SOME OF THE NEGATIVE THINGS.
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BUT SOMETIMES SHARING WITH SOMEBODY YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT THAT PERSON HAS A NIECE THAT IS LOOKING FOR A PLACEMENT FOR THEIR THEIR STUDENT OR WHATNOT.THE WORD SPREADS QUICKLY AND THEN AGAIN, CONTACT ME DIRECTLY.
NEVER, YOU KNOW, EVER FEEL LIKE YOU'RE IMPOSING, EMAIL OR TEXT.
AND RATHER THAN THE RUMOR MILL STARTING RIGHT.
REALLY THIS HAS BEEN AN AMAZING MONTH OVERALL, STARTING OFF, WE WERE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE, NATALIE VOLK FROM HAYES FREEDOM WITH THE ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP $500.
AND YOU SEE THE STUDENT FROM WASHOUGAL THERE AS WELL.
THAT WAS SOPHOMORE OF THE YEAR. THAT'S NOT SOPHOMORE OF THE MONTH.
AND THEN AS, AS COREY MENTIONED, THE SENIOR AWARDS NIGHT, THERE'S A SHOT FROM THAT EVENT JUST CELEBRATING ALL THOSE KIDS, PROBABLY IN THE BACK THERE ON THAT SLIDE MATTHEW, IS YOUR ANSWER TO THE CASCADIA TECH.
IT MIGHT BE THERE. OH, THAT'S THE ASSOCIATES.
OKAY. ANOTHER SLIDE. THEN WE GET TO CELEBRATE OUR EARLIEST LEARNERS, OUR YOUNGEST ONES OVER AT HLC AND PAPER MAKER. THERE ARE SOME SHOTS FROM THAT DAY.
AND THEN I WAS GOOD. BUT THERE'S SOME SHOTS OF THAT.
I WAS ABLE TO GO THERE. DOREEN JOINED ME. ACTUALLY, OFFICER HERMANN WAS THERE KIND OF IN DOUBLE DUTY SRO AND DAD, I BELIEVE, RIGHT. SO THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN. AND THEN ALSO, THANK YOU TO DEREK FOR HIS WORK AT PAPER MAKER TO HELP ORGANIZE AND AND GET THAT CEREMONY OFF THE GROUND. WE ALSO HAD EIGHTH GRADE EIGHTH GRADE PROMOTION CEREMONIES.
I LEARNED WELL FROM MR. WILLIAMS THAT IT'S A PROMOTION CEREMONY, NOT A GRADUATION.
EVEN THOUGH MY DAUGHTER, WHO'S IN THE MIDDLE THERE, WANTS TO SAY SHE GRADUATED. I WON'T LET HER.
BUT I WASN'T ABLE TO GET PICS FROM LIBERTY AND ODYSSEY, BUT ALL THREE OF THOSE MORE COMPREHENSIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS HAD A CHANCE TO HONOR THEIR EIGHTH GRADERS. A GREAT JOB, GREAT EMCEEING BY MR. WILLIAMS THAT DAY. AND THEN, OF COURSE, OUR FOUR GRADUATION CEREMONIES, YOU SEE DISCOVERY ON THE LEFT.
I'M LIKE, WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS? AND THEN OF COURSE, HAYES ON THE LEFT AND CCA ON THE RIGHT.
I ALSO WANT TO SHOUT OUT OUR CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP WITH POLAND, MR. BARANOWSKI, ONE OF THE ONE OF THE SPEARHEADS OF THAT.
LONG TIME PARTNERSHIP, PROBABLY 20 YEARS NOW OR.
YEAH. AND SO AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S YEARS WHERE OUR STUDENTS GO TO POLAND AND EXPERIENCE THE CULTURE AND ALL OF THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS ABOUT EASTERN EUROPE. AND THEN IN TURN, WE TAKE IN SOME STUDENTS.
AND SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER THERE'S A PARTY THAT BROKE OUT ON SATURDAY.
SO ALL THE KIDS SHOWED UP AND HAD A GREAT TIME.
AND I'M WONDERING IF MY DAUGHTER HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT, I DON'T KNOW. AND SO SPENDING SOME TIME WITH THESE STUDENTS AND LEARNING ABOUT THEIR CULTURE AND THEM LEARNING ABOUT US. ONE ONE ONE OF THE GIRLS SAID, YEAH, MY MY TUMMY HURTS A LOT WHEN I COME TO AMERICA.
I THINK THE RICH FOOD BOTHERS THEM A LOT. AND I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WELL, THANKS FOR SHARING.
AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WANT TO JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU A LITTLE PREVIEW INTO NEXT YEAR, MORE FROM THE INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS AND SAFETY FOCUS.
WE MET WITH OUR BUILDING LEADERS TODAY FOR A FULL DAY, IT WAS A GREAT SENDOFF TO REALLY NOT JUST CELEBRATE THIS YEAR TO COMMISERATE A LITTLE BIT AROUND A VERY TOUGH YEAR. AND THANK YOU I KNOW LISA IS HERE AND KATIE AND SHERRY AND DEREK AND DOUG AND THE WHOLE TEAM FOR HELPING PUT THAT TOGETHER.
BUT WE FOCUSED ON NEXT YEAR A LOT AND TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THE GOALS IS TO NOT ADD MORE TO PLATES, WHETHER IT'S OUR PARENTS, OUR TEACHERS, OUR BUILDING LEADERS WITH US LEANING UP SO MUCH WITH A LOT THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS YEAR, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO JUST CONTINUE FOCUSING ON THE CURRENT INITIATIVES AND NOT ADD MORE.
PEOPLE JUST DON'T HAVE THAT CAPACITY. AND SO MTSS WILL STILL REMAIN AT THE CENTER OF OUR FOCUS AROUND EQUITY AND BELONGING, OF COURSE. BUT ALSO EMPOWERING OUR LEADERS OF THE ADULT LEARNING.
AND AND THE MORE WE KNOW, THE MORE WE CAN IMPART ON OUR KIDS.
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THE PROFILE OF A GRADUATE, AS YOU KNOW AND AS YOU'VE DIRECTED WILL BE A BIG CENTER FOCUS OF WHAT WE DO.AND I LOVE HOW VIC SHARED THAT, THAT WAS AMAZING, THAT CONNECTION.
AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HEAR A LOT OF THAT IN THE NEXT YEAR AND BEYOND OF REALLY HONING IN ON THESE FIVE CHARACTERISTICS AND TRAITS THAT OUR COMMUNITY, OUR BUSINESS LEADERS, OUR COLLEGES, OUR FAMILIES WANT TO SEE OUT OF OUR GRADUATES.
AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IS HOW DO WE GET OUR PARENTS ENGAGED, BUT ALSO REPORTING THESE CHARACTERISTICS OUT TO OUR FAMILIES AND OUR COMMUNITY IS THIS IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN SEPTEMBER.
SAFETY, I REALLY WANT OUR DISTRICT TO CONTINUE TO BE A LEADER IN THIS AREA.
THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE WITH ZERO EYES AND OUR GUN DETECTION SOFTWARE, UPGRADING OUR SOME OF OUR CAMERA SYSTEMS AND REALLY FOCUSING IN ON ON SAFETY, NOT JUST PHYSICAL SAFETY, BUT THAT SEL COMPONENT.
WE ARE HOSTING THE SAFETY SUMMIT THIS SUMMER, IN AUGUST I'M REALLY PROUD OF THAT.
THANK YOU TO THE ADMIN OVER AT CHS. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT EVENT.
AND SO AGAIN, REALLY PUTTING CAMAS IN THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING SAFETY WISE.
AGAIN, CONTINUED, BUT NOT NEW INITIATIVES. AND THEN DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS AND DASHBOARD SUPPORT.
THANK YOU FOR LAST MONTH FOR APPROVING THE CONTRACT WITH HOME HOMEROOM.
AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME DATA SCIENTISTS NOW WHO WILL HELP US PUT TOGETHER DASHBOARDS FOR OUR OUR DIRECTORS AND OUR OUR BUILDING PRINCIPALS AND ULTIMATELY, AT ONE POINT, OUR TEACHERS, SO WE CAN HAVE VERY QUICK SNAPSHOTS OF VERY CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT DATA OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR DISTRICT.
SO WITH THAT THERE'S MY LITTLE GUY. THUMBS UP.
GOING TO BE OKAY. SO ANYTHING FOR YOU? THANKS.
OKAY. THANK YOU JOHN. NEXT WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM 3B OUR MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT.
AND, MR. WILLIAMS, I BELIEVE YOU'RE UP FOR THAT.
I WANT TO EMPHASIZE PRELIMINARY STILL WORKING ON THAT PIECE, SO FIRST GLANCE AT IT.
SO FOR MAY THE GOOD NEWS IS WE ARE NOT COMING TO YOU WITH A BORROWING RESOLUTION REQUEST.
SO I KNOW WHEN I WAS HERE IN APRIL, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE WERE TALKING, I GUESS I WAS HERE IN MAY, BUT FOR THE APRIL ONE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT BEING A POSSIBILITY.
BUT BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING, WE DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO DO THAT. SO AGAIN, KEEP THAT IN YOUR POCKET A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE AS WE ROLL INTO NEXT YEAR, THAT MAY BE SOMETHING WE'RE COMING BACK FOR, BUT WE DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO NEED IT FOR THIS YEAR. WE DID FIND OUT THAT OSPI HAS DEFERRED APPROXIMATELY $450,000, AND WE DID GET KIND OF AN UPDATED REPORT THAT'S GOING TO BE CLOSER TO ABOUT $500,000 OF OUR JUNE APPORTIONMENT TO JULY. WE STILL THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY, ESPECIALLY WITH THE ONE TIME FUNDING OF $350 THAT CAME IN.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONLY ABOUT $150,000 DIFFERENCE.
I THINK WE'LL BE OKAY WITH THAT PIECE OF IT. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU ALWAYS SAY, WELL, THE STATE WILL NEVER CHANGE THEIR APPORTIONMENT, AND THEY DID.
SO IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS JUST TO BE AWARE OF.
WE DO HAVE AN OVERALL REDUCTION IN OUR DEFICIT PROJECTION.
SO AGAIN KIND OF GOOD NEWS. WE'RE LOOKING AT IT BEING A DEFICIT OF $6.4, WHICH MEANS OUR FUND BALANCE COMING UP TO ABOUT $5.0 MILLION. SO THAT'S A LITTLE HIGHER THAN WE WERE ANTICIPATING, WHICH IS A GOOD THING.
OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND NORMAL ACTIVITY, OUR TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE FUND.
WE ARE PURCHASING A $150,000 REPLACEMENT BUS FOR THE ONE THAT GOT HIT BY THE CAR.
SO WE WERE ABLE I THINK YOU VOTED ON THAT LAST TIME WE WERE ABLE TO FIND ONE, WHICH SHE HAS TWO WHEELCHAIR LIFTS IN IT, WHICH IS GOOD. AND THEN OUR OTHER FUNDS HAVE NORMAL ACTIVITY.
SO AGAIN, I MEAN, WE, WE SHOW THIS SLIDE EVERY TIME.
THAT'S WHAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT GIVING US $3.8.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PROJECTED TO BE IN AUGUST.
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SO WE'RE COMING BACK DOWN AFTER THAT LEVY IN APRIL.AND NOTICE THAT JUNE ONE $2.7. BUT ALSO NOTICE WE'RE COMING BACK UP.
SO IN JULY AND AUGUST WE ACTUALLY GET LARGER APPORTIONMENT, WHICH IS WHY THAT'S COMING UP.
AND IF YOU LOOK AGAIN THERE'S OUR IT WAS BUDGETED AT $4.6 AND WE'RE COMING IN AT $5.0.
SO A LITTLE HIGHER THAN WHAT WE BUDGETED. SO I'M BRINGING ALL KINDS OF GOOD NEWS TO YOU TODAY.
SO THE THE TEAM WAS WAS VERY, VERY ACCURATE ON THEIR THEIR BUDGET FORECAST.
SO $0.2 MILLION THAT'S THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. SAME THING WITH EXPENDITURES $0.6 MILLION FOR A 0.48% VARIANCE. SO PRETTY GOOD JOB BY OUR TEAM OF KIND OF CREATING THEIR BUDGET.
SO ANY QUESTIONS ON THE MAY. NO QUESTIONS. OKAY.
SO THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET. IS THAT STILL YOU OR MATT.
SO IF THERE'S A QUESTION THAT THAT I'M LIKE, OH, I HAVE NO IDEA, THEN MATT'S HERE TO HELP US WITH THAT. OKAY. SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM C, THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET.
ALL RIGHT. SO OUR PRELIMINARY BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR, AGAIN PRELIMINARY.
SO WE'RE STILL KIND OF WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THIS STUFF. IT DOES WHAT'S POSTED IN BOARD DOCS DOES, DOES CONTAIN OUR F195S. AND WE WILL HAVE IT POSTED BY JULY 10TH IN ORDER TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WAC.
AGAIN WORKING DOCUMENT SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS WE GET CLOSER TO AUGUST.
SO OUR AGENDA TONIGHT KIND OF WALK THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS, TALK ABOUT SOME BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS, ENROLLMENT TRENDS AND FORECASTS, WHICH JOHN HAS ALREADY TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT. STOLE A LITTLE BIT OF MY THUNDER, BUT THAT'S OKAY. GENERAL FUND, AND THEN WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE OTHER FUNDS AS WELL.
SO HOW DID WE GET HERE? WE STARTED WITH OUR SUPERINTENDENT BUDGET COMMITTEE IN THE FALL.
THOSE KIND OF THAT COMMITTEE PUSHED FORWARD SOME, SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN APRIL.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION OBVIOUSLY ENDED IN APRIL AS WELL.
OUR OSPI BUDGET TOOLS WERE RELEASED MAY 31ST, SO IT WAS A LITTLE LATER THAN WE'RE USED TO, PART OF THAT WAS THE EXTENDED SESSION. AND ALSO NEW GOVERNOR KIND OF TOOK HIS TIME WITH MAKING SURE THAT THE BUDGET WAS APPROVED.
I THINK HE TOOK EVERY DAY THAT HE HAD COMING TO HIM.
SO THAT WAS GOOD. AND THEN WE'RE HERE JUNE 23RD FOR OUR PRELIMINARY BUDGET PRESENTATION.
AND THEN AUGUST 25TH WILL BE THE HEARING FOR THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR.
YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE UPTICK AND THEN THE DROP, AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO KIND OF LOSE MONEY THERE.
SO AGAIN, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS TREND, THIS IS WHERE WE RUN OUT OF MONEY.
SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR OUR BUDGET.
A SURPLUS OF $1.4 MILLION. SO OUR OBVIOUSLY OUR EXPENDITURES WILL BE A LITTLE LOWER THAN OUR REVENUES, SO $1.4 MILLION. IF YOU LOOK AT THE OTHER FUNDS THAT ARE UP THERE, A LOT OF THAT IS THINGS THAT ARE BUILT IN AS CONTINGENCIES.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE CAPITAL FUND, THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND THOSE ARE SOME THINGS TO THAT ARE BUILT IN THERE IF WE WANT TO BUY PROPERTY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IF YOU DON'T BUDGET FOR IT, YOU CAN'T SPEND IT SO IT'S BUDGETED IN THERE.
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE GOING TO SPEND IT. IT'S JUST WHAT'S IN THE BUDGET FOR THAT.
CAN I JUST MAKE A QUICK COMMENT ON THE SURPLUS? JUST LIKE THAT THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF OUR PLAN, RIGHT? WE'VE BEEN SPENDING DOWN OUR FUND BALANCE, AND IT GETS SO LOW THAT THAT WE CAN'T SUSTAIN IT AT THAT LEVEL. AND SO THAT'S WHY THE BUDGET COMMITTEE DOES ALL OF THAT WORK TO SAY WHAT WHAT PERCENTAGE OF OUR OF OUR FUND BALANCE DO WE NEED.
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AND SO WHEN WE GET THESE REALLY TIGHT MONTHS WHERE WE THINK WE HAVE TO BORROW, WE DON'T WANT THOSE. AND SO, SO IT SHOWS A SURPLUS. BUT THAT'S, THAT IS ALL PART OF OUR PLAN TO GET IT BACK SOME MONEY BACK INTO THE FUND BALANCE.SO THE $1.4 OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT GET US TO THE 8% IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, IT GETS US TO 5.
SO WE'VE STILL GOT SOME WORK TO DO TO GET TO THAT 8%.
BECAUSE 8% IS WHAT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AND THE BOARD HAS SAID IS WHAT WE THINK IT NEEDS TO BE AT OR WANT IT TO BE AT, RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. SO ALL OF THIS IS KIND OF BASED BASED ON SOME ASSUMPTIONS.
FIRST OF ALL, THE BUDGET THAT WE'RE THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET IS BASED ON A ZERO SALARY MATRIX GROWTH.
SO THAT'S ALL OF THIS IS BASED ON BASICALLY NO INCREASE IN SALARIES AS WE MOVE INTO NEXT YEAR.
OBVIOUSLY OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES AND NEGOTIATIONS CAN CHANGE THAT.
IT DOES INCLUDE A 10% TARGET IN OUR CUTS SO THAT WAS IN THERE.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT TOO WHEN IT COMES TO THE THE THE DEMOGRAPHERS REPORT THAT JOHN WAS TALKING ABOUT WHERE WE'VE SHIFTED TO KIND OF THE LOW ESTIMATE. SO WE WERE ALWAYS KIND OF IN THE MEDIUM RANGE.
AND THEN FEDERAL GRANT, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE FEDS.
SO IT MINIMIZES THAT AS BEST WE CAN. AGAIN, NEGOTIATIONS ARE ONGOING.
WE'RE STILL WE'RE STILL EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF OUR CUTS IN STAFFING AND MSOC.
WE HAVE A TURNOVER IN THE CFO POSITION, WHICH IS WHY I'M STANDING HERE RIGHT NOW.
AND THEN A LOSS OF 40% OF THE BUSINESS STAFF.
SO WE'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORK IN CUMULATIVE.
AND IN THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, ONE OF THE MEMBERS WAS LIKE, WELL, IF WE'RE NOT HITTING THAT, WHY ARE WE CONTINUING TO USE THE MIDDLE SCENARIO? SO WE THOUGHT THAT WAS KIND OF A GOOD VICE. SO WE'VE SHIFTED TO THE LOW SCENARIO FOR 25-26.
BUT AGAIN, WE'RE GRADUATING ALMOST 600 KIDS. OUR KINDERGARTEN IS BRINGING IN 300 TO 400 KIDS.
SO THAT RIGHT THERE IS A DROP. AND WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THAT EVEN AT SKYRIDGE, LIKE NEXT YEAR, OUR SIXTH GRADE CLASS, IT'S STARTING TO MOVE INTO THE SECONDARY LEVEL.
SO WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THAT MOVE UP OUT OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
ENROLLMENT TAKEAWAYS, WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN A DESTINATION DISTRICT, AND I THINK WE STILL ARE.
LOW BIRTH RATES, HIGHER HOME VALUES. AGAIN, I JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS, THEY'RE GRADUATING CLASSES.
THE ONE AT THE BOTTOM IS KIND OF A BIG ONE, BASED ON THE ENROLLMENT TREND THAT WE'RE SEEING THE ONLY REVENUE GROWTH THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE IS FROM THE LEGISLATURE, WHICH IS WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO KIND OF KEEP WITH OUR LEGISLATIVE ACTION COMMITTEE AND KEEP, AS JOHN SAYS, POUNDING THE DRUM. SO OUR GENERAL FUND.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, IF YOU LOOK BELOW ON THAT ONE REVENUES $126.6 MILLION, 1.8% HIGHER THAN 24-25.
SO THAT'S GOOD NEWS. EXPENDITURES, BECAUSE OF THE CUTS THAT WE'VE MADE, ARE GOING TO BE 4.8% LOWER.
SO YOU'RE STARTING THAT'S WHERE THAT $1.4 MILLION IS COMING IN.
YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE, AS JOHN SAID, THE JOHN SAID THE BALANCED BUDGET.
WE'RE STARTING TO EQUAL THOSE OUT A LITTLE BIT.
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NUMBER AGAIN. SPECIAL ED ENROLLMENT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT 953.AND THEN AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT REGIONALIZATION STAYING THE SAME, UNFORTUNATELY.
AND IPD I'LL GO BACK TO THAT FOR A MINUTE. FORGOT THAT PART IPD.
EVERYBODY KIND OF KNOWS IT'S GOING TO BE SITTING AT ABOUT 2.5%.
SO AGAIN WE'RE KIND OF THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE SORTING OUT AS WE WORK THROUGH OUR BUDGET.
BUT IT'S ALSO WE ALSO HAVE THE EXPENDITURES GOING UP FROM INSURANCE OR MILK OR FUEL OR WHATEVER THAT IS, SO THAT ONE CAN BE A TOUGH ONE TO BALANCE. AND IT'S A PRETTY SMALL PORTION OF OUR BUDGET.
ALL RIGHT. SO THIS NEXT SLIDE JUST KIND OF LOOKS AT IT PER STUDENT.
AND IF YOU COMPARE THAT TO OUR EXPENDITURES FOR STUDENTS, THE REVENUES ARE HIGHER, IMAGINE THAT.
THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS ONE IS MOST OF OUR EXPENDITURES IS STILL AROUND OUR TEACHING.
SO WHICH IS WHERE IT SHOULD BE. ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING TO STOP THERE AND ASK, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT PART OF IT BEFORE WE GET INTO THE OTHER FUNDS THAT ARE UP THERE? I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, JUST COMMENTS THAT I LIKE THAT WE'RE GOING WITH.
I DON'T LIKE IT, BUT WE'RE GOING WITH THE LOW OF THE DEMOGRAPHERS REPORT. WE'VE ALWAYS KIND OF STUCK WITH THE MIDDLE AND WE'RE NOT HITTING THE MIDDLE. AND SO I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF WORK. BUT I THINK THAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS TO GO WITH THE MIDDLE NUMBER.
AND JUST THE FACT THAT OUR BUDGET COMMITTEE SPENDS A LOT OF TIME ON THIS ALSO, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, GIVES US GREAT FEEDBACK AND INFORMATION AND I APPRECIATE ALL THAT THEY DO TO HELP, HELP GET ALL THIS TOGETHER.
SO I THINK THAT'S THE RIGHT MOVE. AND I'M SURE OTHER DISTRICTS ARE IN THE SAME BOAT AS WE ARE.
AS FAR AS ENROLLMENT, IT'S NOT LIKE CAMAS IS IN A IN A DIFFERENT PLACE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN OUR AREA.
SO IT'S ALL SIMILAR, I'M SURE. RIGHT. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS, IF WE DO COME IN OVER THAT NUMBER, THEN THE STATE MAKES UP FOR IT, RIGHT? SO WE END UP COLLECTING THAT MONEY.
IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T JUST SAY THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE, AND THAT'S THE MONEY WE COLLECT.
IF WE COME IN OVER THAT, THEN WE GET MORE MONEY.
SO I'M NOT GOING TO SPEND A TON OF TIME ON THESE BECAUSE THE ACTIVITY IN THESE IS PRETTY NORMAL.
BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MATT AND I ARE HAPPY TO TRY TO ANSWER THOSE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
WE DO. I WON'T I WILL SAY THAT WE KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE LOOKING AT IS THE IMPACT FEES, BECAUSE WE KNOW THOSE ARE THERE, THEY HAVE TO BE SPENT ON GROWTH.
WE ARE NOT A GROWING DISTRICT, IT'S ONE OF THOSE WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, OKAY, WHAT CAN WE SPEND THOSE ON? SO THAT IS ONE THING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS. YEAH, I WOULDN'T SAY THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE AT THE MEETING.
I WAS NOT I THOUGHT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS THOSE FOR SURE.
YEAH. DO WE HAVE FUNDS THAT ARE EXPIRING? I KNOW WE HAVE FUNDS THAT ARE EXPIRING SOON. HOW SOON IS SOON? I THINK IT'S A COUPLE OF YEARS AND IT'S NOT THEY ROLL OFF LITTLE BITS AT A TIME. AND SO WE HAVE WE HAVE ENOUGH RUNWAY. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT IMPORTANT TO START TALKING ABOUT THOUGH IN THAT COMMITTEE IS WHAT DO WE SPEND THOSE ON AND WHAT CAN WE WE CAN PURCHASE LAND AND BUILDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE USING THEM BEFORE THEY EXPIRE.
I APPRECIATE THAT AND I APPRECIATE POINTING IT OUT BECAUSE THAT IT'S AGAIN, IT'S THESE BUCKETS OF MONEY THAT IT SOUNDS IT SOUNDS STRANGE THAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH A ROUND OF REDUCTIONS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WE HAVE THIS MONEY THAT WE HAVE TO SPEND AND IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
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YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT POINT. AND CLINT, TO QUINN'S POINT, I WANT TO SAY IT'S 2028 WHERE OUR FIRST AMOUNT.IT'S AROUND $600,000. TO TRACEY'S POINT ABOUT LAND ACQUISITION.
AND IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO BE AHEAD OF THE GAME.
SO WE'LL BE REALLY STRATEGIC IF WE DO PURCHASE LAND, BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE SOON IN THE MARKET OF OFFSETTING AND OFFLOADING SOME LAND AS WELL. SO WHEN YOU SELL THE LAND THAT ACTUALLY HELPS THE LIQUID PART OF THE CAPITAL MONEY, THE IMPACT FEES, YOU ALMOST WANT TO LOOK AT IT AS RESTRICTED FEES, RIGHT? SO WE CAN ACTUALLY BUMP UP OUR LIQUID BY SELLING LAND AND WE DON'T HAVE THAT'S NOT AS RESTRICTED.
YEAH, IT'S IT'S REALLY BEEN GREAT BECAUSE WE NEED SOME CAPITAL FUNDS SOMETIMES.
RIGHT. AND SO WE CAN SELL AND WE HAVE SOME PROPERTIES THAT WE DON'T THINK WE NEED NECESSARILY MORE OR LAND THAT WE DON'T, DEVELOPMENT HAS HAPPENED IN OTHER AREAS, AND THAT'S NOT AS IDEAL ANYMORE.
WE'D RATHER HAVE LAND IN THIS SIDE OF TOWN. SO SO THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE'RE WE'RE STUDYING AS A GROUP TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN OFFLOAD SOME OF THAT, USE THOSE MONIES FOR SOMETHING ELSE, AND THEN USE THE LEVY THE IMPACT FEES TO PURCHASE LAND SOMEWHERE ELSE THAT'S GOING TO MORE SUIT OUR NEEDS IN THE FUTURE.
OKAY. SO OUR DEBT SERVICE FUND THIS ONE, OUR ESD, IS KIND OF ADVISED US TO MAYBE PUT IN SOME, SOME WIGGLE ROOM WHEN IT COMES TO MAYBE RESTRUCTURING OUR DEBT.
DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE GOING TO, IT JUST GIVES US THE CAPACITY.
THEN OUR STUDENT BODY. I KNOW AS A DISTRICT, WE'VE WORKED VERY HARD ON OUR ASB FUNDS, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY THAT THE KIDS RAISED IS SPENT ON THEM, THE KIDS THAT ARE IN THE SCHOOL.
SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THAT. YOU'LL SEE THAT IT'S A LITTLE BIT OUR EXPENDITURES ARE A LITTLE LOWER THAN OUR REVENUES STILL, BUT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE.
SO THAT'S WHY THAT'S KIND OF MOVING INTO NEXT YEAR.
NEXT YEAR, WE ARE SET TO ORDER FIVE FULL SIZE BUSSES AND ONE MINI BUS.
AND I THINK THAT'S IT. ANY QUESTIONS FOR MATT OR MYSELF? YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT TO BUSINESS SERVICES. BOTH, BOTH OF YOU AND ALL THE OTHER STAFF THERE. I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD ONE YEAR NOW, SPENT A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT OTHER DISTRICTS AROUND THE STATE THAT HAVE CHALLENGES.
YOU KNOW, ALL THE INFORMATION IS OUT ON A WEBSITE. IF I KNOW, JOHN, YOU ALWAYS PUT UP THE STRATEGIC PLAN PROFILE, BUT THERE'S A DEDICATED SITE WHERE EVERYTHING IS LINKED.
IT'S IT'S BEEN VERY HELPFUL THIS YEAR FOR ME TO EXPLAIN TO MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC WHEN I TALK TO THEM, BUT ALSO WHEN I SEE THE CHALLENGES OF OTHER DISTRICTS IS ONE AREA THAT WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT SHY IN, IS PRESENTING ALL THIS DATA EVERY MONTH AND THROUGHOUT THE MONTH.
AND I KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE ASKED WHEN THEY SEE THE SEE US UP HERE.
WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING ALL OF THIS INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, AND WE'RE SEEING IT. WE SIT DOWN ON ONE ON ONES WITH BUSINESS SERVICES. SO I APPRECIATE THAT. IT'S MADE THIS FIRST YEAR OF A VERY CHALLENGING AND TOUGH TIME WITH EVERYONE.
YOU KNOW, AT LEAST I FEEL LIKE WE'RE SETTING OURSELVES SAFE SO THAT OUR DISTRICT IS STILL IN OUR CONTROL AND NO ONE FROM THE STATE IS GOING TO COME AND SAY, YOU KNOW, HERE'S HOW YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO RUN IT. SO APPRECIATE IT, MATT AND EVERYONE IN BUSINESS SERVICES.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
REAL QUICK ITEM 3 D. DID YOU SEE THE ITEMS ADDED TO THE AGENDA WAS JUST A PUBLIC COMMENT.
OKAY. SO NEXT WE WILL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
[4. CULTURE - Public Comments]
THE BOARD VALUES PUBLIC INPUT. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BOARD IS TO LISTEN AND REFLECT ON PUBLIC COMMENT ACTIVELY.THE BOARD MAY ONLY DISCUSS AND ACT UPON ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE WRITTEN AGENDA.
FOR THAT REASON, BOARD MEMBERS CANNOT RESPOND TO ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT CAN ASK THE SUPERINTENDENT TO FOLLOW UP ON ISSUES RAISED DURING PUBLIC TESTIMONY.
GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC INPUT EMPHASIZE THE RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION OF OTHERS.
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THE BOARD REQUESTS THAT ANYONE WHO HAS SUBMITTED WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT REFRAIN FROM READING THEM DURING THIS PORTION OF OUR MEETING TO ALLOW OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS TIME TO SHARE THEIR COMMENTS. EACH PERSON PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF THREE MINUTES.ONCE CALLED UPON, YOU CAN STEP TO THE MICROPHONE.
FACE THE BOARD. STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
THE BELL WILL RING TO LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR THREE MINUTE TIME IS UP.
WITH THAT, WE DID RECEIVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT AND I DON'T BELIEVE SHE'S HERE TONIGHT, BUT I HAVE ASKED JOHN TO FOLLOW UP ON HER COMMENTS, SO JOHN WILL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH HER ON THAT AFTER WE GET SOME MORE INFORMATION AND I WILL JUST GO DOWN THE LIST, LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE AND THE FIRST ONE IS CAL.
I BROUGHT SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THE SAME THING.
I AM, NOT HAVING CROSS COUNTRY. ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS OF MOVING TO MIDDLE SCHOOL WAS COMPETING IN CROSS COUNTRY, AND RECENTLY THAT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM ME BY THIS BOARD.
I WANTED TO SPEAK TODAY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE TAKING AWAY FROM US.
I HAD A MILE TIME OF 551 AND SET MULTIPLE RECORDS THIS SEASON.
I EVEN BROKE THE SCHOOL RECORD AT SKYRIDGE EVEN THOUGH I RUN FOR LIBERTY.
I ALSO HOLD THE RECORD FOR THE FASTEST TIME AS THE LIBERTY SIXTH GRADER IN THE 1.5 MILE RACE.
THIS PAST SEASON HELPED ME SEE A FUTURE IN THIS SPORT, IN HIGH SCHOOL AND IN COLLEGE.
WITHOUT HAVING REGULAR COMPETITION I FEAR I MAY BE BEHIND OTHER RUNNERS WHEN I GET TO HIGH SCHOOL.
I HAD EIGHTH GRADERS TO LOOK UP TO AND THEY PUSHED ME TO BE IN MY BEST IN EVERY WAY.
CROSS COUNTRY IS ONE OF THE FEW NO CUT SPORTS AT THIS SCHOOL.
IT OFFERS A CHANCE FOR EVERYONE TO GET INVOLVED, WHETHER IT'S FOR FUN OR FOR SERIOUS COMPETITION.
MY FRIEND CALVIN, WHO HAS ASTHMA, JOINED THE TEAM LAST YEAR JUST BECAUSE I ASKED HIM TO.
HIS FIRST RACE, HE THREW UP AND BY THE END OF THE SEASON HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST RUNNERS ON THE TEAM.
HE IMPROVED EACH RACE, WORKED HARD AND OVERCAME OBSTACLES.
I WAS AMAZED AT HOW MUCH MY FRIEND ACCOMPLISHED.
THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW CROSS COUNTRY CAN PUSH YOU AND BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE.
I ABSOLUTELY SEE FUTURE SEE A FUTURE FOR ME RUNNING IN COLLEGE.
I WAS HEARTBROKEN WHEN I HEARD THAT BOYS CROSS COUNTRY WAS CUT.
SOME OF THE LESSONS THAT I LEARNED FROM MY CROSS-COUNTRY SEASON WERE THAT NOT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE EASY, THAT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. AND I WANT TO SHOW THAT I'M FIGHTING FOR CROSS-COUNTRY TO COME BACK. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME [APPLAUSE].
THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO ASK THAT DR. ANZALONE AND POSSIBLY MR. BARANOWSKI, FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ON SOME OF THE THINGS YOU SPOKE ABOUT TODAY SO THANK YOU.
NEXT WE HAVE FAUNA. THANK YOU. YES. I'LL PUT THIS UP NOW. HI. IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU ALL. MY NAME IS FAUNA WOOLFE.
I AM VERY HAPPILY SERVING AS THE WOODBURN ELEMENTARY MUSIC TEACHER.
I HAVE REALLY TREMENDOUSLY TALENTED, WONDERFUL STUDENTS WHO HAVE MADE AMAZING GROWTH THIS LAST, THESE LAST TWO YEARS, TWO YEARS. I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEND THEM ON TO A WONDERFUL CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL PROGRAM AT LIBERTY.
MY STUDENTS WERE DEVASTATED AT THE LOSS OF THEIR LIBERTY CHOIR TEACHER.
MANY STUDENTS WHO HAVE SAID THEY WERE SIGNING UP FOR CHOIR IN APRIL HAVE CHANGED THEIR MIND BY JUNE.
SOME OF MY MOST AMAZING SINGERS ARE NOT SIGNING UP FOR CHOIR.
A FEW DECIDED TO TAKE BAND INSTEAD, WHICH IS GREAT, BUT DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE TO THE LIBERTY MUSIC PROGRAM, ESPECIALLY THE CHOIR PROGRAM. IT TAKES TIME TO BUILD A MUSIC PROGRAM.
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TO REALLY INSPIRE THEM TO TAKE THOSE RISKS WITH THEIR VERY PERSONAL VOICE.CHOIR TEACHES STUDENTS TO BE PART TO BE PROUD OF THEIR VOICE.
SINGING AND MAKING A SOUND THEY ARE PROUD OF.
GIVES THEM THE CONFIDENCE TO SHOW UP AS THEY ARE IN OTHER LEARNING SPACES AND IN LIFE.
IN DRAMA, WHO WILL TEACH THE MUSICAL FOR LIBERTY? THIS WOULD BE A GREAT QUESTION FOR OUR ADMINISTRATIVE POINT PERSON.
VERTICAL SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUPPORTING THIS KIND OF ARTICULATION THROUGHOUT OUR ARTS PROGRAMS. I ALSO WORK HARD TO PREPARE MY STUDENTS WITH A FOUNDATION IN JAZZ.
THE JAZZ GROUPS ARE MUSIC'S A TEAM, NOT B TEAM NOT C TEAM, A TEAM.
THEY ARE THE GROUPS THAT GET KIDS MOST EXCITED AND MOTIVATED TO PRACTICE AND WORK HARD TO IMPROVE.
JAZZ GROUPS PROVIDE A GOAL TO WORK FOR AND ARE WHERE OUR MUSICAL LEADERS ARE BORN AND DEVELOPED.
I COORDINATED THE MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOL'S MONTH CELEBRATION CONCERT THAT WAS BY KIDS FOR KIDS THIS LAST MARCH, IT WAS THE JAZZ BAND THAT GOT THE KIDS REALLY MOVING IN THEIR SEATS.
AFTER THE DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN DONE THIS YEAR, WITH CUTS BEING EXACTED IN THE WAY THEY WERE, SOME REPAIR NEEDS TO HAPPEN THROUGH MORE CARE OF OUR ARTS DEPARTMENT.
WE NEED TO HAVE A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR ARTS PROGRAMS AND ADMINISTRATIVE AND ADMINISTRATION DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING OUR PROGRAMS TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AT DOING MORE WITH LESS. I AM CONCERNED THAT MORE CUTS WILL HAPPEN WHILE WE ARE TRYING TO REBUILD, BECAUSE OF LOW NUMBERS CAUSED BY MOVEMENTS RESULTING FROM THE CUTS.
IT IS VITAL THAT WE SUPPORT AND NURTURE THE PROGRAMS WE HAVE THROUGH THIS TIME.
A 20% CUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC IS UNACCEPTABLE AND A CORRECTION NEEDS TO BE MADE.
THIS SHOULD INCLUDE A BRINGING BACK OF THE JAZZ PROGRAM.
I HOPE TO SEE MORE CARE AND STEWARDSHIP OF OUR ARTS PROGRAM IN THE FUTURE.
OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR FULL 60 MINUTES OF MUSIC PER WEEK.
THANK YOU. AND FOR THE EXTRA TIME [APPLAUSE].
ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE ONE MORE PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT, AND IT'S CAITLIN.
THIS INCLUDES JAZZ BAND AND SKY SINGERS AT SKYRIDGE .
JAZZ THE STUDENTS IN JAZZ PROGRAMS STATED THAT THEY FOUND COMMUNITY THROUGH HAVING MUSIC.
ONE RESPONSE I GOT FROM A HIGH SCHOOLER WHO WENT TO WHO WAS IN SKY SINGERS DURING MIDDLE SCHOOL, SAID THAT SHE STRUGGLED WITH HER MENTAL HEALTH BEFORE COMING TO SKYRIDGE , AND SKY SINGERS HELPED HER CRAWL OUT OF THAT HOLE AND OVERCOME HER MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF US ARE MOURNING PEOPLE I DON'T THINK MANY OF US ARE.
BUT MANY STUDENTS IN THE JAZZ PROGRAMS LOOKED FORWARD TO THEIR ZERO PERIOD REHEARSALS.
THE RESPONDERS, WHO WERE NOT IN JAZZ PROGRAMS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT JAZZ PROGRAMS ARE HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THAT, AND THEY THEY ALSO ENJOY THEIR PERFORMANCES. ONE RESPONDER SAID IN ONE RESPONDER SAID THAT WITHOUT THE JAZZ PROGRAMS, THERE WOULD BE A HOLE IN THE CONCERTS WHERE THEY ONCE WERE.
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A LOT OF THE RESPONDERS HAD FRIENDS OR FAMILY WHO WERE IN THESE JAZZ PROGRAMS, AND THEY WOULD BE DEVASTATED TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY SO DEVASTATED TO LOSE THEIR MUSIC. I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW IMPORTANT MUSIC IS FOR THE CAMAS COMMUNITY.BUT IF JAZZ BAND AND SKY SINGERS ARE TAKEN AWAY, ALL THE PEOPLE WHO FOUND COMMUNITY THROUGH JAZZ, THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO LEARN NEW THINGS, EVERYONE FIGHTING FOR SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE IT WOULD BE FOR NOTHING.
THE DAMAGE WOULD BE IMMEASURABLE. BEFORE YOU CUT THESE PROGRAMS, THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY TO MANAGE THE BUDGET AND REVIVE SOMETHING THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO SO MANY OF US.
THANK YOU [APPLAUSE]. THANK YOU. I WILL MAKE SURE DR.
ANZALONE FOLLOWS UP AS APPROPRIATE. THANK YOU.
OKAY. WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO I HAVE TO FIND WORK.
[5. SYSTEMS/PATHWAYS: CONSENT AGENDA]
OH, OUR CONSENT AGENDA. HAVE YOU GUYS ALL SEEN THE ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? AND I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.SECOND IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. THANK YOU. THIS ADJOURNS OUR REGULAR MEETING.
WE ARE NOW GOING TO GO INTO A CLOSED MEETING FOR A QUASI JUDICIAL MATTER.
THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.