2013-08-07 PPS School Board Regular Meeting
| District | Portland Public Schools |
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| Date | 2013-08-07 |
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| Meeting Type | regular |
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Event 1: Board of Education - Regular Meeting - August 7, 2013
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meeting online good evening this meeting
of the Board of Education for August 7
2013 is called to order I'd like to
extend a warm welcome to everyone
present and to our television viewers
all items that will be voted on this
evening have been posted as required by
state law this meeting is being
televised live and will be replayed
throughout the next two weeks please
check the board website for replay times
it will also be archived on the board
website usually it is stream live down
the PPS website but it won't be this
evening co-chair Knowles is absent this
evening at this time we're going to
start with public comment miss fucin do
we have anyone signed up for public
comment and Tonya March okay well those
two folks are coming up I'm going to
read the instructions about public
comment our responsibility is a board
lay and actively listening and
reflecting on the thoughts and opinions
of others the board won't respond to any
comments or questions at this time but
we will follow up on various issues that
are raised guidelines for public input
emphasize respect and consideration when
referring to board members staff and
other presenters it is we ask that you
please refrain from criticizing
individual staff members by name during
public comment you have a total of three
minutes to share your comments please
begin by stating your name and spelling
your last name for the record during the
first two minutes a testimony a green
light will appear on that little box in
front of you and when you have one
minute remaining a yellow light will
appear and then when your time is done
or red light will appear and at that
time we ask that you respectfully wrap
up your comments thank you very much for
your input and coming to join us this
evening um we look forward to your
cooperation and you can start any time
my name is Tanya March ma rch like the
month and I have two children at
Metropolitan Learning Center and I have
been the vice president of the PTSA for
five years I'm going into my sixth year
of that position I think it's I love mlc
school I just want to start with that
too I think it's time to put out the
welcome mat to all at mlc school we have
a number of barriers to economic
inclusion at the school which have
increase
we concerned me one of them is a
transportation barrier we lost the 17
bus route has decreased the access to
our school we are not served by the
yellow school bus I went to many TriMet
meetings attempting to salvage that bus
line the current bus system does not
allow proper access for our students to
the school that becomes a barrier to
economic inclusion for students who do
not have parents with cars to get them
to our school I am seeing that be a
problem in our school our application
process is also a barrier to economic
inclusion I keep hearing about how it is
barriers to other types of inclusion I
agree with that as well and the
transparency in that process we've
changed from one untransformed to a
second lacking transparent system and I
assume the changes to site council will
allow me to have some transparency into
how that application process is handled
number three is the lack of breakfast in
our school I have brought this to
numerous people I have support from our
principal to have breakfast served our
breakfast is served at a snack time of
1030am and then our lunch is served at
eleven-thirty that creates a fast famine
obesity cycle for our underserved
children it also is saying don't come to
our school we are not going to feed you
breakfast when your neighborhood school
will it was because we didn't have the
numbers of children but it also is
making it so we are inviting less of
those children I know that I've been
heard and I've been told that we are
going to have carts possibly serving
breakfast I think that is going to be
disruptive to the classroom environment
I think we need to have breakfast served
before school the way we have a safe
place for children to gather before the
school day especially because we don't
have a bus system and kids are result
coming on public trans representation
with very erratic schedules to meet the
interns to our school building I saw
sleaze the Sun school that was another
budget cut we lost her swimming pool we
lost the grass at couch Park couch Park
is portland public school property
that's
dog park we have very little outdoor
places our playground has been on the
demolition requested now through the
Portland Parks arc for two years it is
considered safe and I've solely watched
that playground be taken apart in
certain elements of it removed I admire
the parents who came last month to talk
about the spirit of alternative
education I also admire miss Bakari for
calling out our racial inequities but
I'm witnessing dropping free and reduced
nut school lunch numbers I'm also
witnessing a drop in IEP population
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numbers I'm also seeing an increase in
the fifth year of high school I find
these things to all be quite alarming
thank you thank you Miss rich our next
speakers are Jeff long wheel and Martin
win
hi my name is jeff lon Jill ello ngue I
l my name is Martin wooden frog name is
mao TI ends last name h uy + H ok I just
wanted to come here to express my
support for Vietnamese language
immersion program given that the number
of families in Portland that speak
Vietnamese is so large compared
comparatively speaking I think it makes
sense to me that that would be a
language to seriously look at as to have
such a program I think having that
program would give the opportunity for
the younger members of those families to
get a better grasp of their history in
their community where they came from and
to perhaps communicate better with the
older members of that community that do
speak that language and it would give
the opportunity for people that don't
speak that language to learn about our
neighbors because it's a very large
community and a very strong part of the
Portland area so I think that's I really
have to say on that but I urge the
program thank you thank you and they
came view too
just follow his idea that's the parent
of the three kids grow up from problem
and I think with my language this is
very health for the kids keep dual
language in this community so why are we
the parents will be on we are there by
size their size so we can help them to
be continued the Vietnamese language so
if we don't do that right now so until a
10 or 30 year later so that too late for
if we you know we cannot support for
them so that's mean they will
discontinue their oh the language so
that's why I'm here thank you both
have two speakers jim jeon and lin
truong
my name is Jim ghia I'm just here to
urge you to try and implement a program
for Vietnamese language in conversion I
think it's so large community here of
Vietnamese and I know that at richland
there's a immersive program for Japanese
and they have a much smaller community
here in Portland I think it's important
cultural expert Vietnamese that are here
to be able to just stay in touch with
their own culture is probably there are
going to in the future will be economic
benefits probably for the community
because give Vietnam is it's the
emerging economy and there's a little
probably some utility and people here
being familiar with that culture so
that's what I had to say thank you hi
mrs. super antenna and all of you my
name is Michelle Tran I am 11 years old
I am happy to come here today to speak
with you to open the Vietnamese English
classes for the Vietnamese kids around
the Portland area the Vietnamese
community of Oregon suggested me to
speak with you about my ideas I want to
share my with you to be honest first I
don't like speaking Vietnamese or
learning Vietnamese who wants to learn
it anyways but when it comes to do
homework there's trouble when I need
help with my homework I do not just ask
my parents because they don't speak
English my parents don't know enough
English to help me on my homework and I
don't know how that much Vietnamese to
explain the problem to them but then I
realized that vinton reads is my native
language and saw as many other
Vietnamese kids too so I need to learn
Vietnamese as well as many others
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Vietnamese English classes will help me
to understand more of the concepts and
information taught in school
I want my little brothers and sisters to
learn the Vietnamese language very well
to communicate with the Vietnamese
people especially my parents and to my
relatives when I graduate from high
school I was doing fluently two
languages bit emmys and English it will
help me have a better future and
studying in college and then working
when I grow up I wish to go to Vietnam
to help heal and communicate with the
sick and poor people who needs help when
I'm older and not living with their
parents I wonder if this is my parents
often and of course speak to them and
Vietnamese so they understand me in
conclusion I would like you to open the
Vietnamese English classes for me to
learn for my brothers and sisters and
for many other venues kids to learn
Vietnamese and English together so I can
fulfill my jeans and my wishes thank you
for listening thank you thank you moving
on to our next item of the agenda I'm
not sure that all the members for the
bond accountability committee are that
are going to present our here is that
true do we have enough of them to to see
mr. March mr. Peterson okay you can why
don't you can come on come on up so this
this evening we're going to hear a
report from the bond accountability
committee group of professionals that
are charged to support the board and
overseeing the bond program that was
passed by voters last last year and
tonight we have Steve March and Tom
Peterson with us and I don't know if
Lewis fontan on is going to join us but
he might join us a little late my joy
old chair school board members for the
record my name is Steve March member of
the bond accountability committee and
with me is Tom Peterson you have their
written report before you so I'm not
going to read it verbatim I just we'll
just hit a few of the highlights as you
no the constructions fully underway on
the summer projects those appear to be
on time on schedule and within the
budget parameters so that's good news
other the edge specs work is being done
we've broken up into sort of two member
teams to kind of focus on various parts
I've been focusing on the summer work
tom how about yeah and I'm on the
Franklin and Roosevelt team in fact I
just attended design advisory meeting
last night at pregnant my first one and
then we also have a group focused on
fabien project as well so there's kind
of was broken up into four teams of two
there was a lot of activity going on
right now it was hard for us to stay on
top of it we only meet quarterly so we
kind of decided this is a good way for
us to stay plugged in without trying to
expect every every one of the bond
committee members to be involved in all
the goings on but but so far we're off
to a good start a meeting last night was
very good I thought so also wonder
report I in a previous report we talked
about the level of financial reporting
and that's improved greatly we're seeing
where changes are made both positive
pluses and minuses added to the schedule
removed from the schedule so that's a
real good improvement it helps us better
understand the projects and the
complexities of what's happening in the
field so that's that's been very very
good I think probably the the one red
flag area or night red flag yellow flag
area would be around the equity issue we
had some very aspirational high targets
at minority in
women businesses participation that's
coming in lower than the projected that
then what you were hoping for but that's
something that as the entire roll out of
all the projects goes on you can hope to
keep working on and then so finally I
think that mostly the other issue that
was presented to us at our last meeting
was the sea mgc or construction manager
general contractor draft findings the
bond accountability committee concurred
with those findings I think all of us
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who have a familiarity with the sea mgc
process finds that to be a more
efficient and effective way of doing
projects of this type in a rapid and
efficient manner so i think it probably
the deal details for the board and for
the district is to make sure that the
contracts that you do sign in and the
parameters put forth in your request for
proposals or qualifications lay out what
your expectations are that's the key and
then going forward working closely with
whoever wins those bids so with that I
think we're open to questions Thank You
director a good night and don't mean to
put you on the spot but I know you've
been part of that design advisor group
at Roosevelt do you have any feedback or
any thoughts about how that's
you don't know if you've been how many
times I've met pretty early in the stage
we met twice and it was really the same
meeting because a lot of people couldn't
make it to the first one due to the
summer months so it's really just been a
preliminary meeting so far we have
another one coming up the two groups the
Franklin and Roosevelt teams though have
been invited to go visit some schools in
Seattle which is gonna be really great
and I know many of us have done some of
those tours already but if any board
members can participate in those it's
really well worth it yeah and I get to
see Tom join us at the Franklin design
advisory group and it also is moving
along really really well as people
starting to envision what this would
look like also being part of that that
tore up to Seattle but also beginning
really waiting for this head specs piece
to come up that's it's going to kind of
define what core programming looks and
what if main facility in PPS would look
like before we can kind of begin to put
space and time to those pieces so and
chair also as the architects are
selected and brought on board I think
the work will speed up very quickly so I
just a question just to remind us in the
public about how the inspects work or
when that's going to be rolling out now
folks could get involved in that and if
that's where you are more for staff I
think it's been going on concurrent with
the design advisory groups I don't know
the specifics but i think the schedule
has been programmed so that
the conclusions that they come to a
recommendations they come to will then
be incorporated into the design advisory
groups and they will kind of carry it
forward so so right now i think it's
striking in probably a better position
to say but my recollection state
schedule is it's it's on board coming up
to in an upcoming board meeting yeah
you're prepared from that on the other
screen i should have prefaced but my
common question which thanking you for
your service we really appreciate it i'm
having your expertise and just providing
that accountability for us and just to
confirm all the these reports and des
matières are all up on our website for
folks to see um yes yeah okay correct so
if the public wants to go and they'll to
search under the bond and then they'll
see you know both who's on the committee
and all that everything in the course
the meetings are public as well so just
really appreciate that they do public
notices of all our meetings and so
public her we've had public at some of
the music's great that's great thank you
so much um first of all thank you I
really appreciate this update I was
wondering since we aren't meeting our
equity goals is there a method we're
applying to the next few projects to try
and meet that goal well core that's a
management decision not the fund
accountabilities a decision but I it's
it's something that they're tracking
closely and I know that let's see the
one of the things TT revokes the
aspirational goal was eighteen percent
the sort of the current level is
fourteen percent but when all of the
builders contracts are included it's
probably going to lower more the larger
the affirms the less likely they are to
be minority and
woman owned from i might add from my own
experience I have to manage the
construction department for the poor
Portland so we have a lot of experience
with with small business and when when
you're trying to do aspirational goals
is tough because you don't have you
probably don't have a disparity study
and the other things that you need to
really set hard goals but i will add
that with the CMD see approach you get
much better participation because the
nature of the contract lends itself and
you can sit down and work with your
contractor so i would i would agree that
on the projects where it's just a
competitively hard viet project you're
going to have a tougher time trying to
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meet those goals but with the CNBC
you'll have a tremendous opportunity to
really make some real progress there so
so that would be my prediction and then
over time as the school district gets
more experienced and they'll be able to
set your own goals and you'll probably
see their participation over time thank
you
another question great well thank you
both for being here and really thankful
for your choice we know it's ours and
ours for some time thank you thank you
I'm glad that we could get you in on
time and out on time yeah just want to
remind folks that they're doing this for
free it's a volunteer position next
we're going to move on to an update
about the arts tax that's been in the
news for the past week super intense
myth can you introduce this item I will
and I'll ask our deputy chief financial
officer they would wind and senior
policy advisor John Isaac's to come on
up and give us an update on our
implementation of the good news thank
you triple our board members super
intern Smith I'm David wine we're
particularly happy to come to you
tonight with good news on the city of
income tax since that's a change in the
tenor of our reports to you as you
mostly all know i'm sure the tax was
passed in november there are four
primary uses for the funds under this
tax the first of which is to find
teachers in schools within the city of
portland serving students in grades K
through 5 and we get funding at the rate
of one teacher for every 500 students in
our budget we estimated that that would
be about 45 to 46 teachers and four and
a half million dollars as we were
working on the budget the city indicated
some uncertainty about their ability to
pass through those funds because of
legal challenges there's a there was a
lawsuit at the district court level and
a lawsuit in tax court we work with the
city and the other school districts to
put a guarantee in place from them and
we scaled back staffing within the
budget process to about 3 million
dollars which translated in 2.5 of a
teacher in each of our schools serving
kids in grades K through 5 well the good
news is that in both of those court
cases the lawsuits have been heard in
the
level courts though in both cases they
found for the city and the city has now
told us that they will distribute all of
the money collected and due to schools
and as effectively they are assuming any
risk of overturns on appeal so the
contingent sort of backup arrangement
that you reinforced as part of the
budget process is off the table and we
don't need to worry about that at the
same time the city is reviewing the
structure of the tax and considering a
number of different ways of doing this
going forward so that's good news for
port and public schools and for the
other school districts in the city so we
will be restoring our original plan for
the city arts tax funding and staffing
where we were allocating teachers based
on that 500 to 1 ratio rounded up or
down to the nearest point 5 FTE will be
communicating details to schools by the
end of this week some schools will
actually see an addition some of the
largest schools will see an addition of
one FTE some will see an addition of
point five FTE and some of the smaller
schools who would only have gotten point
five will see no change we have a couple
of details still to be resolved there
are small number of cases where we made
special accommodations for the hardship
caused by the reduction and as soon as
we figure that out where we will be
communicating the new staffing levels to
schools the good news is that even at
that reduced point five across the board
level we were we were on track to have
more arts teachers in those schools in
this coming year than we had last year
this will add somewhere between 15 and
18 additional teachers in that art tax
funding and once we've got all of those
staffing decisions made we will be
reporting back to you with the specific
data for what 1314 looks like and how
that compares to 2012-13 we are of
course very grateful to the mayor and to
his staff and all the City Council for
working with us and the other city
school districts and
as I said we will be getting this
information out to schools and having
them staff up as soon as we can thank
you and you may not be able to thank you
very much this is fantastic news
obviously do you know you know how
they're doing in terms of collection and
the second part of that is anything it
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is that collection dependent on or r us
hiring new teachers depended on we know
enough to know that they have collected
enough money that they will have enough
they have enough money collected to take
care of the teacher funding part of the
tax okay so rate we're in good shape so
teachers first then the other uses
excellent wait in line they have enough
they've collected if enough money to
meet their obligations as far as to
disaster that's great priority hi um I
recall in the measure that I think that
the regional arts and culture committee
was going to be able to have to staff
people who would essentially serve as
coordinators and facilitators of the
arts organizations working with schools
and do you have any sense of web what
the priority is on those two positions
compared to how else the money might be
used because I know that one of the
things that we did in our resolution
accepting this as we said we want to
have a kind of a k-12 continuum we want
to be thinking through that already
should you have any sense of that yet I
don't I don't think we do the last
information I remember us getting from
the city about their collections I'm not
sure how that translates into the other
funding uses and to be perfectly frank
with you I can't remember which one of
those other ones come in the week we
will follow up and find out some more
about that now that we've got the
information that we do and the news
about where we are so we will check up
on them
wonderful news of course no let me
understand the process of this we voted
in the budget we didn't I wasn't here
but they voted in the budget to do this
if we didn't have this and to do that I
mean they had all the options set out in
the budget vote not exactly so the
budget actually includes a forecast of
four and a half million dollars of
revenue so what we're actually going to
get and when we talked about school
staffing we said that at that point our
plan was to scale down the staffing to
the point five FTE we have capacity
within the budget and appropriated
dollars to staff up to the higher level
what we're letting you know now is that
based on the fact that we're likely to
get all of the revenue now and not less
of it we're able to go ahead and staff
schools at that originally proposed
level rather than at the scaled-back
level with that but that was all passed
during the budget hearings and the boat
and the vote on the budget in other
words we laid out those options in the
budget itself if this happened this
didn't happen and so forth those were
all laid out in the budget we talked
about what our current plan was but we
also had capacity to take it to the
higher level so the budget vote gave us
the ability to do what we're doing now
not just what we were proposing to do at
the time I was all laid out in the
future boat we left our self the
capacity to go back up to this level
what we're doing and that was all
written up and so forth that was part of
the yet part of our country okay thank
you very much it's not a question more
on the
the happy part of hiring the folks do we
have any sense from HR in terms of just
are there folks out there who are
qualified and available and what just
what the since this is an unusual
situation for us to actually be going
out and hiring some arts teachers right
so risky as it is for me to speak to HR
yeah we had a conversation earlier in
the week as we were figuring out what
this might look like we had one of the
senior staffing people from HR at the
table and she was happy at this
opportunity for kids in Portland schools
and did not at that point expressed
reservations about our ability to find
teachers so that's going out and we're
just gonna yep yeah I know it could be
that in some cases we have teachers who
are you know point five and have the
radius step up it's also true frankly
that we know that in some cases we have
teachers who under the current
arrangement are point five in one school
point five in another and those school
in those situations they'll be a variety
of things to sort of figure out but at
this point we have I think cautiously
optimistic that we'll be able to find
teachers that's fantastic and estare
co-director Egan's comment about that
since we haven't had an arts teacher on
special assignment or overall your
guidance for a number of years if
there's any way we can give that as part
of this so we can start moving toward
that that would be fantastic this is
obviously great news so thanks so much
oh I forgot this question sorry oh when
we say arts are we talking apart are we
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talking music so in the reader can we
have this comes from what are we talking
in this context right direct appeal so
in this context it's a certified teacher
art music dance or drama and just and a
decision has been made at individual
school residuals as to which which they
choose or which combination of things
they can't yes can I get on to them
which is part of the reason that I asked
the question I did about the k-12
continuum because if we at some point
want to have really really strong band
programs in our high schools we need to
have music at the same time I think
there's a lot of interest for you know
strong dance programs and so the
question is how is all that going to be
coordinated and if we don't have a
teacher on special assignment or someone
that's specifically looking at that you
know on a cluster basis maybe a high
school cluster basis I'm just kind of
curious how that's going to work I get
that for this first year we may just
have the school's decide but it seems
like we want to do it more intentional
Barroso and I think we're building
capacity over time so I know this year
as we were anticipating the arts context
numbers of the regional administrators
and principals and had those
conversations within their cluster just
looking at where their strengths already
was how do they build on it how are they
trying to start building feeder patterns
and their different strengths and
different clusters and we don't have
that we didn't add arts ptosis to our
district and part of what nor did other
districts and that was part of the idea
of a shared ptosis across the district's
to try and build some of the the feeder
patterning capacity over time but I
imagined like if in fact we are in
budget but build back mode over time
this is some of the capacity we would
want to build who is the more central
support pork and coordination
and I know we need to move on but just I
mean also because this was also in the
context of where the way it worked out
in the budget because this was sort of a
standalone piece but we also had cuts in
the other some school so we had some
situations for folks who are getting an
art teacher that I happy to lose their
librarian for example they've got other
electives and have art beater elective
so they're still obviously the larger
conversation about the reinvestment in
building back across the board but this
is a huge like beginning and looking at
a huge yes um I just want to clarify a
couple of quick things I believe that
you said that moving forward if for some
reason a higher court overturns a lower
court's ruling the city has assumed the
risk that is what I said and we have
confirmed that with the city thank you
cuz I yeah well go ahead well any one
thing known as exceed your policy
advisor so this for this one year and
the one thing everyone should continue
to pay attention to and track is that
the City Council is currently
considering a number of options for
changing the tax so one of the factors
that went into them assuming all of the
risk this year is that there's they
while they don't have consensus about
the change is going to be there's pretty
strong consensus that there will be
changes and so the legal actions that
were that were filed this year won't
apply to any future tax because it's
going to be different so that's that was
the key thing I went into that and
that's something we're going to need to
track as the council considers you know
making it different than
I also want to give my colleagues credit
that as we began to look at the original
MOU and intergovernmental agreement
about this we were pretty particular
about what it contained and making sure
for example to your point director
morgan morton part that arts teachers
were funded first and then the
additional arts folks and i just want to
thank you all for being aware that again
there was this tension we were trying to
move it ahead so we could move forward
but still trying to be diligent and
making sure that what we thought we were
assigning is what we were actually
agreeing to and then just one last
question is can you can somebody talk i
don't know if either you two are but how
are we communicating this with i know
we're going to be communicating with
principles but are we supporting the
principles and communicating this to
parents and what what to expect and how
this is going to roll out you have that
once we figured out what the staffing
looks like we will be working with
principals to prevent how to have that
conversation with their larger community
thanks
anything else okay thank you both very
much straight we're going to move on to
our business agenda miss usin are there
any changes to the business of gin yes
yes if you will look at resolution 478
for on page three of the business agenda
for the very first item listed in the
table the Jefferson High School track
where it says contractor to be
determined we now know the contractor is
Anderson construction and the contract
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value is 267,000 167 thank you did
everybody get that mm-hmm thank you try
hello yes I wonder before we go to the
business agenda and get into that I can
ask a question regarding chair item on
the agenda Oh regarding an item on the
agenda this is regarding an item it's
not imagine okay can we say that until
after the business agenda wonder that
after yeah okay
so do I have a motion and a second to
adopt the business agenda as amended
second director Regan moves director
Atkins moves to adapt the business
agenda miss Houston is there any public
comment for the business agenda new is
there any more discussion on the
business agenda director might have
several questions okay I guess
attracting them towards the
superintendent starting down on the new
contracts provide tutoring services and
reading a math to delasalle Catholic
High School we that is those tutoring
services have to do with that is that
the tutoring services that were from the
ayp stuff so there's something else this
is the district's acts as the local
education agency that flows federal
dollars through to our private programs
that are within our area so these are
dollars that are allocated for those
private schools to provide tutoring
services can I that is let's double
check that that that contract is in a
report it's not part of patience tender
part of our action this is a report to
the board CAG report so this isn't the
time to ask questions about the reports
are due time to ask so those will come
back on the business agenda those are
within the superintendent's authority to
do without our approval and so is unit
parts regulators reporting this but you
can't ask questions on new report not
when we're adopting the business agenda
can we do it it there towards the end of
the meeting you're welcome to start
superintendent or have a discussion with
their about that but you won't allow us
to do it publicly in the meeting um it's
again we can talk about things you want
to add on to the agenda at the end of
the
gender should this isn't the place to do
it okay any other questions about the
business agenda yes once I find it for
784 yeah okay go to the Miller Nash and
475 yeah starting with a miller national
when you give them 800 not to exceed
eight hundred thousand dollars what
percentage of our say like in 1985 what
percentage of our legal stuff was in
house and what percentage is in house
now this seems like a pretty large
amount since we have a full-time
attorney and and we're actually adding
legal services in the district we
increased or decreased attentive people
tell me we decreased in a tremendous
amount so to be clear you you're asking
for a comparison rate to the year of
1985 director Buell well i was i was
asking that 85 didn't mi mean if we
decrease your injuries leave it at that
we can do that okay there's a decreased
or increased as it our sin house as a
percentage out of Saanich our overall
budget of our general fund budget as
their legal legal budget amount of
budget that deals with our legal
services I'm not sure you know and that
may be but no I understand some question
I understand the question whether or not
we were ready but we're not prepared to
answer that and the comparison to 1985
to see me but we can get you something
like I'd like to hell without segregated
out if you would going for a division of
the division
on them so in house versus what's
contracted out right that's right I
don't know even how that's changed over
the last few years I talked to people
that says has changed immensely in the
direction that we do way less in-house
and huge amounts go out to Miller Nash
that didn't that we used to do in-house
that's what I'd like to know and we are
really looking at red though you're in
Robert's Rules order so you know the
division takes four boats okay so all
right that's the first thing so are you
making a motion right to divide that out
so I can vote no wonder oh so you're
taking a motion to remove the Miller
Nash contract vote on it separately
right to remove it from resolution for
784 and make it its own resolution and
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to bring it as its own resolution right
so that you can vote on that separately
yes do I have a second to amend the
business excuse me resolution for 784 as
director Buell has mentioned which is to
remove the Miller Nash contract into its
separate resolution cure I mean it is
just our consideration okay director
Buell motions director Regan seconds so
we will
first vote on whether or not the motion
to remove that passes so all those in
favor please indicate by saying aye aye
please all those opposed please indicate
by saying no no so I'm going to need
hands I think I have do directory this
is a division vote right mm-hmm I voted
yes on the individual count so it passes
the motion to remove the miller nash
contract into its own resolution passes
for 22 with student representative vote
yes yes so now we will consider
resolution for 784 with the miller nash
contract remove is there any other
discussion all those in favor of
approving resolution for 784 with the
miller nash contract removed please
indicate by saying aye hi all those
opposed please indicate by saying no all
those abstaining please include so
business agenda is approved by oh excuse
me know the business agenda is not
approved get resolution for 784 is
approved but as amended with miller nash
contract being removed by a vote of 620
with student representative davidson
voting yes yes i'm going to move on
before director bureau before we get to
the its own resolution to actual
resolution 4785 which was also part of
the business agenda which i probably
should have just done with the other
resolutions that was the original motion
um but resolution 4785 are there as part
of the business agenda all those in
favor please indicate by saying aye
question hope so as a question pretty
fast on the RAND Corporation this is
this is amending we have a contract with
the RAND Corporation studying the
language immersion we're part of a study
that the RAND Corporation is conducting
about the effectiveness of dual language
immersion programs and we're district
that has as a public school district
substantial dual language immersion
programs so they actually it's a revenue
contract for them to include our dual
language immersion schools in their
study what's a revenue contract meaning
they pay us short we are collecting
dollars in order to be a participant in
it's a three-year study so it's an
overtime kind of study thank you huh
overtime studies and that's with the
dollars pay for is every year it's that
it's a study over three years so we
meeting we don't know the dollars pay
where we what do we do is they're paying
us to actually provide them with data so
did you find out
if there's no other discussion about
resolution 4785 seeing none all those in
favor of approving resolution 475 please
indicate by saying aye aye those opposed
pleasing the Cape I said no any
abstentions resolution 4785 passes five
out of six 20 with student
representative and Davidson voting yes
yes thank you again I'm going to move on
to resolution for 786 before we add a
new resolution for direct reveals so we
will move on to again this was part of
the business agenda we're just pulling
long apart so moving on to resolution
for 786 the motion in a second to
approve so moved director actions moves
to approve resolution for 786 is there a
second second director Martin seconds
resolution for 786 adoption is there any
board discussion director drool
peter hamilton who was an ex was an X
principle in our district which kind of
creates a little bit of a problem but
not really a major one having retired
principal to deal with this probably
isn't too bad as a good spot but for
some other things that come into play
here and one I asked one question in the
last two weeks couldn't get an answer
out of it one question was all I asked
for two weeks for the administration
couldn't get it and I just asked had
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peter hamilton done contracting work for
us in the past no one no tell me
evidently to hannah i also wanted to
know is that mean he's going to do
contracting work for us maybe in the
future if that's the case there's no way
that he can be an unbiased ombudsman is
it even if he's George Washington
Abraham Lincoln rolled into one you know
he walked ten miles to get take to Apple
back to the library or something there
it's just the appearance of a bias it's
way too strong if that's the case
there's no one wants to tell me I have
to act but that's the case since other
people said that that was the case so I
don't I don't see any way I could
possibly vote for this particular
resolution as long as it's set up the
way it is I think yet that we have to go
back and start over now I don't know if
everybody else can both burn they
probably maybe you can vote Brown blast
those people other discussion so I would
like to provide an answer to that
question which is yes he has provided
contracting services in the past and
would in the future and we have numbers
of people who have provided investigate
do investigation kinds of services for
us of a number of different kinds of
investigation when requested and some of
it is like advantage for us of having
somebody who's retired from our system
is understanding what they're seeing so
from UTI would you acknowledge the other
is familiarity with what in what an
investigation entails and
professionalism around how you can
act 1 which peter is familiar with so
like it's very specific who we would go
to to ask for somebody to conduct an
investigation and once we have those
people we would continue to use them so
but he's one of a number of people that
we use for such services so he's not
serving as an ombudsman is yeah I
directly out of a word that he's doing
an investigation and it's a formal
process that's got pretty formal you
know structure about how you would
conduct it and what kind of a report we
expect as a result of it but yes we
would continue to contract which is
really the question director bill but he
is writing up the report he might have
you know I'm buds Minh is a word that I
believe came out of his report so I
don't know exactly Aracoma an arbitrator
or whatever you want to call he's
writing up the report correct and how is
he going to give theoretically like I
say he competes peter hamilton is a
voucher is a wonderful man i don't know
it's just the appearance of the bus this
has gone out through the ainsworth
neighborhood do Saeng wait this isn't
right this guy's gonna be doing
contracting work it's that contracting
work down the line going to be affected
by the fact that he is gives if he came
out totally against the district would
he then get more contracts it just it
just doesn't look right in its important
issue it needs to be needs to be above
it needs to just be really solid and
honest Thank closest add a comment I
mean I think one of the things I
appreciated about mr. Hamilton's report
was that he pointed out where the
district clearly needs to continue to
follow up and work on this issue both I
mean we're seeing this at a number of
schools or there's some really serious
concerns and controversies in the parent
community so I think I appreciate that a
great deal so I'm in support of this
resolution
I mean I I think you're you're bringing
up a character point and I'm not sure
that's an entirely fair point to be
making let me finish please the I mean
similar similarly would you if you used
an auditor in the past if you've paid
them for their auditing services would
you then not use them again because
perhaps they would get future business
from us we partner with organizations
that that do their business correctly
that are vetted appropriately that know
the district and mr. Hamilton is one of
those people the I think I I'm concerned
about sort of the you make a fair point
about appearance but I'm also not
prepared based on zero evidence to
support that appearance to kind of
assassinate his character which i think
is kind of what you're doing um it's
going to get tricky we might have to
have a discussion about how hard we want
to work on robert's rules I'll just
remind folks to be careful about
speaking directly to each other and
personalizing it this is really about
the issue and try to keep it focused
about the issues director Buell I was as
clear as I could possibly be as kind as
I could possibly be and saying that it
has nothing my point has nothing to do
with the character of the man I don't
even know the man I'm saying the point
has to do but I don't care if we put
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Abraham Lincoln in to make that decision
it still looks bad the way that it comes
out and it's not has he done similar
types of things in the past work for us
what difference would it make it still
us it's still a bad situation on the end
I've got a question for superintendent
of what are other districts do in this
week
you know I can't speak to that
specifically but I'm sure similar in
that you end up seeking the services of
people who can provide as a
disinterested party an investigation of
something that you're looking for an
investigation into what so I'll be Steve
if you follow your I mean it's a good
question to raise so I appreciate you
for doing that and I didn't really raise
it though yeah Anjali people did if you
follow it through then we would never be
able to hire the same person twice on
any investigation yeah and that doesn't
seem to be necessarily where we want to
go this is that that's not the same
conclusion pond that I come to it's not
it's the question is that though it's
not that this is an investigator this is
not his job to come in and investigate
this stuff i mean we hired him to do
that but he works in other stuff this is
an unbiased situation where this is a
complaint procedure how many we had
complaint procedures like this in the
last three years that we've hired
somebody into and has gotten all the way
to the school board
no not that many yeah yeah I mean it's
probably this very small number this
just looks bad and it's kind of become
explosive and I just I don't like
looking bad as it history okay so I
heard a call to a question so at this
point if there's no other discussion do
I have a motion to I'm sorry and we have
a motion that's why we're talking about
all those in favor of adopting
resolution for 786 please indicate by
saying aye aye those opposed please
indicate by saying no no those are that
are abstaining resolution for seven
eight six passes by a vote of five to
one with student representative Davidson
boney yes yes sure Fleming so that's it
it would be nice at some point i'm
thrilled is to find out where other
districts are doing let's address the
issue from a warrant though so the
question specifically had two other
districts conduct investigations yeah
and deal with the perceived conflict of
interest yep can follow up on that
we're not going to move to a new
resolution in the resolution i'm going
to number four 787 and the resolution is
to approve the Miller nash LLP contract
for a not to exceed mount of eight
hundred thousand dollars legal services
contract ls6 0015 has previously removed
from resolution for 784 do I have a
motion in a second to a doc so moved dr.
Reagan moves in second sourcing you said
remove it from you I removed it I'm
sorry I remove i just referred to as it
was written in Muslim 94 784 but it is
now it's a social 477 yeah second
director act in seconds was there any
board discussion about for the board
discussion no further discussion all
those in favor please indicate by saying
yes yes all those opposed please
indicate by saying no no anybody yes
abstaining vote I'm doing a lot of math
in my head over the handiest of this
resolution passes by a vote of five to
one thing goodness turn epic numbers
with student represented Davidson yes
yes thank you that moves us through our
current agenda if there are no
objections I know director Buell has a
couple of items that he would like to
move are there no objections to alter
our policy of assuming seeing no
objections direct reveal I think you had
something wait i just responded three
motions that i wanted to would like to
make and we're all short lessons
I sent them to the leadership team as
they ask I just think that it's
important that we do things in a more
transparent way than we have for
instance director bill if you have a
motion please make it this would be the
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time to do okay i move that we moved
that I have it written down why don't I
pass it down great thank you that's
actually preferred
there's a motion on changing the meaning
date whereas the superintendent wishes
to attend monday teacher meetings in the
late afternoon and whereas the student
director for the formal public school
school board has conflicting dates with
wednesday meeting evenings and whereas 5
p.m. meetings can conflict with work
schedules for many people including some
board members whereas it has been the
past practice to not hold school board
meetings which conflict with portland
sociation of teacher meetings which are
on wednesday yet they're poor resolved
the regular meetings of the school board
we held on tuesdays at 6pm unless
changed for reasons of conflict by the
chairperson of the board thank you now
technically we've suspended our rules
for these were these motions because
otherwise this motion would be out of
order so that being said director Buell
just to be clear that not only are these
submitted in advance but then they are
placed on agendas as need be not
submitted on friday the to appear the
next week without an agenda setting
meeting just so you're clear on that
process I know that we're all stall
trade exist does that mean they'll get
on the agenda it means that they'll be
considered for the agenda to the
appropriate time so that being said
director Buell has made a motion that
the regular meetings of the school board
be held on tuesdays at 6pm unless change
for reasons of conflict by the
chairperson the board is there a second
I would second it director Regan seconds
I was especially happy to have this at a
later date too well now we're on board
discussion and we'll think about it and
there was gonna be a discussion about it
but we can have it now or we can table
it or we can vote no and have a
discussion again hot mm-hmm
I believe that this is a little head of
the game I mean that the topic it is on
the table it's getting discuss with
people schedule so is that right that is
correct yeah so I move to table it and
come back with one will figure out a
date that works I do want to be clear
that it having Andrew at the tables is a
high priority from the district
absolutely yeah and I've also indicated
to leadership that wednesday nights are
a problem for me but I I'm perfectly
fine doing this in a week or two or
whenever its seventh I really want to
understand I don't want to make another
decision on this without more discussion
so right about thoughtful so we have a
motion from director curler to table the
motion from director Buell I'm changing
the regular school board meetings to
tuesday at six o'clock is there a second
for the motion to table second director
atkins tables is there any discussion
about the table of the motion to change
sure yeah so i guess i just would say i
really don't want to take time
especially having not seen this in
writing before hand at the meeting to
talk about meeting logistics and we're
going to talk about this in our retreat
so I think it's a great thing she to
raise and I have also raised didn't but
we just need to move on and then discuss
it and get it settled but offline and it
doesn't doesn't need to be taking more
time in
there are many trouble really with
tailing it I just want out I'm trying to
make a point here in that we weren't
supposed to be making decisions in open
meetings basically and those decisions
were supposed to vote in open meetings
and we're supposed to discuss
theoretically in order we're supposed to
have discussion and open meetings in
what's happened is we moved as a board
not weak as I just got here but in the
kind of things being done in the back
room they're not being done up front and
we we spend in my opinion okay they're
not being done up front there you're not
votes let's take a look at what we just
did this evening we had a discussion
decisions to be directly related to
Muslims this is directly related to the
Moto G do let's look what we did this
evening with the we agreed on a certain
process at the last meeting on how we
were going to handle citizen comments we
agreed we all SAT there and said yeah
it's okay okay we're okay we'll do it
like this we didn't vote we didn't have
a motion so there's nothing I can refer
back to its kind of lost out in the
ether someplace but we didn't do what we
agreed to and I remembered what we
agreed to because it was a big deal to
me I was the guy that was saying we need
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to ask questions of those people we need
to change the way we deal with the
public and so the point is this that yes
we can say okay well let's deal with
this some other time or in some manner
fine if we are going to deal with it are
we going to have a motion is it going to
be clear we want to clear on that I mean
we we agreed how to handle that stuff
and it wasn't handled like we agreed in
and we we we are responsible for 900
over 900 billion dollars of taxpayer
money we have 47,000 kids we've got
direct appeal house we have 6,000 and
relates whether or not we should be
tailing it they we have a
several thousand employees almost a
hundred almost a hundred properties in n
were saying okay we'll kind of do this
in some other way some way it's not
clear and it needs to be clear how we're
doing it and that's why I think we
should just go ahead and table if you
want I think it's fine to table this now
if we really come back and do it so I'm
speaking in favor of tabling it then
I'll make the next motion if you'll
allow me probably need to vote on this
and then the actual resolution and then
we can get back to that any other
discussion about the table of the
meeting can I just just clarifying
question what we're talking about now is
table in it until our next retreat will
have the discussion right sounds good
which is a public meeting yep hearing no
other discussion all those in favor of
tabling the resolution to change the
school board meetings to tuesdays at 6pm
let's change for reason of conflict by
the chairperson please indicate by
saying yes yes yes all those opposed
please think it by saying no and
extensions tabling of the resolution to
change the meeting dates to Tuesday's 6
p.m. unless change for reasons of
conflict by the chairperson the board is
passed by a vote of 620 a student
representative voting yes yes in which
case the vote on the actual resolution
and will be to make another date
director Buell have another resolution
here
thank you
I want to point out that he's were sent
not some total wording but they resolve
part was sent to the chairperson through
the leadership so appreciate you
allowing me two kidneys resolution do
the resolution to deliver the board book
regularly to the p80 president these are
all short resolutions on purpose whereas
good relations with teachers is a key
component in creating a quality school
district and whereas delivery of the
board book has been a practice of put on
public schools for decades though not
recently the school board in it and
whereas the school board and its
administration is dedicated to working
in partnership with teachers it shall
therefore be resolved that appropriate
materials in the board book shall be
regularly delivered to the p80 president
in similar manner as it is delivered to
school board members is there a second
for the resolution I'll second director
Eleanor seconds the resolution that
appropriates materials and the
appropriate materials of the board book
she'll regularly they'll never be
delivered the p80 president a similar
manner is delivered to school board
members any more discussion can my
motion director view oh
when I was running for the school board
I talked to tons of teachers and worse
worth suffering as a school board with
those people we're kind of are we don't
have a very good reputation we don't
know we've done things that have really
irritated and upset and I believe we
need to begin to move in the direction
of saying okay look we are partners to a
huge degree with the teachers in this
district and with the teachers union in
this district they're extremely
important they represent all of our
teachers in the whole school system and
so this Barry look this is this kind of
symbolic Chester we're saying hey yeah
i'm sending the board book you bet why
would we not know it's not the same as
sending it on and we send it to them I
on the computer but it's not the same
they don't send it to me on the computer
this is a symbolic gesture we're saying
is a school board we we care about the
teachers we respect you we care about
you we think they're important we want
to include you in decision-making in a
school system therefore we're going to
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include you with this just like we have
for decades for years and years even in
the 1950s I think they sent this though
I can't really speak to anything before
the 70s okay discussion I asked the
point of clarification so the p80 does
receive our agenda and the board book
electronically correct and then I just
contribute a suggestion to that I think
if we if you do go forward doing a
resolution of this nature that we
include all of our employee groups would
think of getting similar treatment as
opposed to singling out anyways think
one employee group so so but yes
everybody gets it electronically I will
note that that director Buell brought
this up as a concern about contract
compliance and so we were glad he
brought it to our attention and
contacted of course with the president
PT quinn sullivan immediately after that
saying we'd be happy to provide her with
all the materials prior correct she
actually responded back saying it's
actually they can find the link on there
they thought they were under the
impression that we had additional
materials that we had on that they
didn't have access to and so we're in
the process of maybe do we send that
immediately after a board as we all know
sometimes there's information sitting
here when we arrived that we didn't have
access to before so or like the
PowerPoint presentations that community
president seems okay with getting an
electronic link to the materials and I'd
also like to note that we've been trying
to work over the past six months to
actually figure out how we do send it to
board members electronically and what
are the mechanisms so that we can
actually save the money and the paper
that is the resulting that i just added
really quick them i'm opposed to this
because both because it needs to include
all the employee groups and because we
have many valuable partners I mean it's
to me if we're doing any kind of courier
delivery it should just be to the board
members and electronically but I agree
if we can move to it being all
electronically that would be even better
save time money energy and all the rest
so I'd be an opposition to this
resolution I'd like to call the question
now that I've had my say what the call
to the question I need a second I'm
sorry I call it the question stops
debate on this or discussion about this
resolution and calls it to a vote
there's a second by director Morton all
those in favor please indicate by saying
yes yes yes sir yeah that's right okay
i'm sorry i forgot confused okay how we
sound on calling the question sorry
I'm sorry so for the call to question
the second and stops discussion about
the resolution and then it is a call to
vote on the resolution as is so all
those in favor I'm sorry I wasn't clear
all those in favor that the resolution
that appropriate materials in the board
book shall be regularly delivered of PT
president and similar manners as is
delivered to lift school board members
please indicate by saying yes all those
opposed please indicate by saying no no
no no any rips attentions the resolution
voted i voted would you do that again I
thought she called the question that
you're taking this road I'm taking the
vote on the resolution whether or not
the board and I'm voting for though
we're aiming for okay thank you so the
resolution is not passed by a vote of
five to one with student represented
leave its and voting no no so I think it
I think the point is and to the roots
point yeah absolutely we should be
making available the information I think
electronically is perfectly appropriate
in fact please make it available to me
electronically Thank You director be old
you have one more yeah well I had one
more point on that and that stuff that I
don't agree at all with your gear what
you said about what portaloo association
of teachers president thinks about this
okay i know you think the discussion
about that resolution is over there you
can move on to your next motion all
right match
hey
I tried to make all these short
this is a this is a resolution to cut
the grass whereas Portland Public
Schools should maintain its properties
at least to the standards of a decent
neighbor so as to enhance its
neighborhood instead of being an eyesore
and whereas portland public school
should be a model of responsibility for
the children we teach and whereas
Portland Public Schools acts as a trust
for nearly 100 properties therefore be
it resolved that the Portland school
board instructs the superintendent to
hire two people whose responsibility of
shall be to cut the lawns on portland
public school property not including
sports fields and be it further resolved
at the board that the school board
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instruction superintendent to procure
the necessary equipment to accomplish
these tasks i procure i don't mean
necessarily buying you look and see what
you got first so there's a motion that
this portland school board and starts
superintendent to hire two people whose
responsibilities at shall be to cut the
lawns on PPS property not including
sports field and resolved with the
portland school board instructs the
superintendent procure the necessary
equipment to accomplish these tasks do I
have a second second I'm Director excuse
me rut student representative Davidson
you're not allowed to second emotion
point of order yes this could be a
clearly states in our policy that the
student representative has all the
responsibilities of regular board member
except for two and those two one is he
may not vote and the second one is he
may not enter executive sessions without
a majority of the board okaying that
that's it he can second emotion because
he can act in any other way the same as
the school my and my understanding of
our policy is that student
representatives actions may not
interrupt with the duly elected members
of the seven-member school board making
a motion or the second emotion is doing
such just not shaded in the policy I've
read the policy carefully I'll second it
and it's a worthy discussion to have
because we should be clear on the rights
of our student represent I I had asked
general counsel for the school district
prior to this to make sure that we were
amply supporting our student and that is
their decision but now having a motion
and a second the motion that will
discuss is resolve that the school board
Portland school board instructs the
superintendent to hire two people whose
responsibility is Shelby to cut the
lawns mpps property not to include
sports fields and be it further resolved
that school board instructs
superintendent procure the necessary
equipment to accomplish the task
director Buell would you like to
introduce it or talk about it this is I
picked these from the front lawn and
burnin on the way over here this is what
their lawn looks like it's a little more
spread out than as I kind of bunch them
together but how'd you like to live next
door to that on a regular basis all year
I just think this is something we need
to investigate yeah maybe someplace back
and I don't know when we decided to quit
cutting the grass but it seems to me
that we should have one of the things
that we want to do is a school district
is to lay a foundation for good
education and to lay a foundation for in
this case at least that our buildings
look presentable to the point where if
you live next door to one you're not
swearing at of every time you walk out
the door to go to work in the morning in
a yeah it's going to cost a couple
dollars to do it if you are to people
that's two people but it's the
foundation all over town we look back
all over town all over town people
complain you know this is ugly school
and
how do we expect to have our kids that
pride in the school of every day they
walk in and it's ugly it's ugly from the
beginning to end we go out and cut it
over a certain period of time but we
know it's not cut to the point where it
looks even halfway decent you all know
that you guys in school you drive around
I had that stuff on my own I went to 10
in the spring I went to 10 schools in
north portland they all looked bad our
the one wasn't too bad but they look
horrible and I just kind of got tired of
thinking that is this the best we can do
I don't think it's the best we can do I
think we can do better with this by the
way at the end if you'd like to bid on
this beautiful bouquet Oh Katie dollars
if the basic send will send the money to
the Vernon clothes closet if they have
one if they don't we'll send it to
Christmas ponder but if you'd like to
come up and bid on it I'd love to have
somebody do that any other discussion so
I think that we all know that we're not
taking care of our the outside of our
buildings the way we would like to but
to me this is a discussion it takes
place during the budget cycle right for
us suddenly poll salary and procurement
equipment at this point in time doesn't
seem like prudent management of our
budget and in fact it would come out of
our reserves and when I think about all
the different things that we might use
our reserve for I'm hesitant to just
make a decision on the spot like this so
I'm in complete agreement and I think
everybody is in agreement that we aren't
doing as well as we could in terms of
maintaining our property and we're so
grateful to so many community partners
who help us and who step up all the time
to help us with this but to me this is a
discussion that should be taking place
during the next budget cycle so I
appreciate it being brought up but it's
not the right time yeah I would agree
with that completely this needs to go
through the superintendent's the
staffing and budget issue needs to go
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through the superintendent and the
budget process having said that again
appreciate you raising is we do have
community care day coming up which is
one opportunity where folks can come and
help make sure that the outside the
look great and so that's saturday I
believe when I was climbing ford focus
right boy and I think there's gonna be
lots of information coming out about
that so I appreciate you raising because
we don't want the outside of our
buildings having tall weeds like that
some hoping folks can come and help us
pitch in it's a huge effort but I'm in
opposition to the pizza Lucien projector
buell yeah I'm regular respect for a
director Reagan and what she's done on
the school board and her knowledge of
things but this wouldn't have to come
out in the reserves there is other money
around I've been back dr. financial
people in our district that said yeah we
can find that money so there you go any
other discussion okay I have a question
which is um in just curious is a new guy
and block what what what's the
responsibility from it from okay in
terms of a job description and in terms
of thinking of the principals who are in
charge of that building and it seems
like hey we ought to going to make sure
the grass gets cut one way or the other
I'm that shifted down on them or is that
just taking away more on a centralized
know we have we have centralized grounds
maintenance people but they've been
significantly reduced when you need to
get the context of the decades of budget
reductions we've been in really
prioritizing teachers in the classroom
as being the thing we're trying to
protect and we in fact have two grounds
maintenance books for the entire
district so as we've said and everybody
agrees I mean it's really tough looking
at the at the shape of some of the
grounds however what I will say is we
have had a tremendous set of partners
and community care day has grown
significantly from like like this
started probably 12-13 years ago with
communities of faith that have grown to
like on our community care day we have
seven thousand volunteers who come out
to get to get the grounds and buildings
ready for our kids but numbers of those
have grown into ongoing partnerships
that go on your router so like some of
what does happen is you've got volunteer
volunteers who
become part of how do we care for and
have the grounds on our buildings look
welcoming for kids all year round not
that we want to be relying on that is
the way we get it done we want to be
building this capacity back but as with
many things we've been rolling we're
only on partnerships for numbers of
things we used to have large teams of
people that we paid to do those things
the other part I guess I want to say
about that and I think director Buell
you've mentioned this is some pez an
idea but we do also have a number of
intergovernmental agreements with
Portland heart foundation to to maintain
many of our lawns and facilities and and
sports field sports feelings right so
yeah there's good yeah tried the chrome
oh I mean I just I understand budget
cuts and so now work I mean we're in you
know how do you deal with this is a
symbolic really and but it's important
so and if i were a principle of the
building i want to make sure that that
got done and i would use volunteers got
used kids I work with the PTA yep I just
want to make sure it got done
Oh mr. Treasury bond yeah right and I
know we worked hard over the years to
focus on the classroom and I know that
these are this particular thing as a
budget discussion but I'm not going to
allow I'm not going to agree with those
as default positions I don't think you
get to default anything that's anything
else that I mean if I can sit down and
go through our budget and find tons of
things tons of things that we're not
prioritizing in the classroom that I
think would be better off as a library
in elementary school or a librarian in
the middle school well after school
sports or or any type of music I can
find you all sorts of money that I think
we prioritize wrong so I'm just saying I
don't buy a default though we can't cut
the grass because we've in a 466 million
dollar budget because we have to go to
the reserves to do it or we have to go
to or it's not in the classroom I just
and it's not a default position all
right it's I opinions so we don't need
to wrap this up thanks thank them but i
just did back get back to the initial
point maybe director Reagan that we I'm
not gonna agree to making one off budget
and staffing decisions in this manner
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if there's no other discussion and will
now vote on the resolution at the
Portland school board instructs the
superintendent to hire two people whose
responsibility it shall be to cut the
lawns on PBS property not including
sports field and further resolved that
the school board instructs the
superintendent particular to procure the
necessary equipment to accomplish these
tasks tasks all those in favor please
indicate by saying aye yes all right all
those opposed please indicate by saying
no no no the resolution the proton
school board instruct superintendent to
hire these two responsibilities shall be
to cut the lawns PPS property and not
quitting sports field and via further
result of school board instructs to
pretend to procure the necessary
equipment to accomplish these tasks does
not pass by a vote of five to one with
student representative Davidson voting
no no thank you director blah blah blah
across motions yes the next meeting of
the board will be held on monday August
nineteenth at 2000 August 19 2013 at 5pm
the regular meeting of the board has now
Sources
- PPS Board of Education, Archive 2013-2014, https://www.pps.net/Page/2224 (accessed: 2022-03-24T00:57:54.073648Z)
- PPS Communications, "Board of Education" (YouTube playlist), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CC942A46270A16E (accessed: 2023-10-10T04:10:04.879786Z)
