2015-06-23 PPS School Board Regular Meeting
| District | Portland Public Schools |
|---|---|
| Date | 2015-06-23 |
| Time | missing |
| Venue | missing |
| Meeting Type | regular |
| Directors Present | missing |
Documents / Media
Notices/Agendas
Materials
06-23-15 Final Packet (e851c69b96a08fd9).pdf Meeting Materials
06-23-15 Meeting Overview (f9b91dd233f8fb05).pdf Meeting Overview
Minutes
Transcripts
Event 1: Board of Education - Regular Meeting - June 23, 2015
00h 00m 00s
good evening this formal meeting of the
Board of Education for jun 23 2015 is
call to order I'd like to send a warm
welcome to everyone present and to our
television viewers any item that will be
voted on this evening has 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 replay
times this meeting is also being
streamed live on our PBS TV services
website directors Knowles and Regan are
absent this evening so first up on our
agenda is this print in its report over
to you superintendent Smith Thank You
director Adkins so fabien alumna I had a
chance to say goodbye to their beloved
school earlier this month the school has
occupied a special place in the
neighborhood for decades and we're happy
that it will be rebuilt on the same spot
through our bond with and concordia
university fundraising and that will
continue to bear that james b fabien
name when it reopens in 2017 many alumni
who attended fabien in the 50s and 60s
stopped by to tour the school and as you
can see from the photos scribbled fun
memories on the walls and the floors of
the school some of the adults who
returned told stories about meeting
their future spouse there at fabien and
while they're sad see the old building
go there thrilled about the beautiful
new building that will replace it and so
are we and actually i'll just say on the
last day of school channel 6 did a great
interview with a young fabien student as
he was leaving in the back of his car
and he started really quietly about
being sad about the last day of school
and by the end of the interview his
little hands were going and he was all
animated about the new library in the
new roof and what it will be like when I
returned so it was just like a perfect
capturing of the excitement that the
kids have about what's happening at
their school and what it will be there
to welcome them back so constructions
also begun in the modernization of
Roosevelt and Franklin High School as
you can see from these pictures the
backhoes and equipment show dramatic
transformations taking place outside the
schools but I wanted to also show you
some of the work that's happening inside
where teachers and school staff have
been
is he packing up here's a quick video of
Roosevelt's theater department moving
decades of sets and lighting and staging
it's moving day
so we've been packing and moving pretty
much since februari just about every day
a little bit me and then sometimes when
i had the opportunity i would have the
students help me a little bit
the building is 185 years old so we look
at an 85 years worth of clutter and mess
to clean up probably a half a dozen
houses worth if you have a five-bedroom
three-bath house
you
we've cleaned out a lot of stuff that's
here again opening it up adventure so we
can start the process of taking pictures
of all of the signatures that are
backstage so we have those for clarity
but I think they happen today is we were
cleaning up a small prop storage and
getting it organized for the movers and
we pulled out a scenery piece that had a
moon and a sky on it and we flipped it
around and I just started laughing
because on the back side that says
Greece and it's a record and that's the
music when we happened to picnics for
next year had no idea that it was in
there so I think we're going to hang on
to that
I'm going to miss the character you know
coming into a historic place it just has
that sense of history so I'm going to
miss a lot of that I'm gonna miss some
of the you know stories of the Alumni
telling about the you know the time when
they were on stage and here's what took
place but you know the new space is
going to have new memories and you know
50 years from now those students will
come back and say I you know I was on
the stage and here's what happened when
I was here so you know it's like I said
kind of bittersweet in that regard
so jun 29th we were welcoming students
to the first two sessions of summer
scholars at Benson and more than 2,400
students are registered to attend these
intensive three-week sessions summer
scholar just for students who are
entering 10th 11th or 12th grade who are
behind on credits or who wish to improve
a course grade or get ahead on credits
00h 05m 00s
students take one class during a
three-week session and earn o point five
credit where necessary we prioritize
admission for students who are behind
and need it in order to be caught up so
we look forward to welcoming those
students PBS is again partnering with
work systems and summer works to provide
paid internships for 38 PPS students in
a variety of departments here at the BSC
10 students will be hosted by bond
contractors for paid summer work
internships and we anticipate 300 PPS
students being placed and paid summer
works internships throughout the city
and the county so we're excited about
that partnership we're also offering 9th
grade counts at Franklin Jefferson
Madison and Roosevelt incoming freshmen
to give students a head start on high
school and to ease the important this
important transition as you are aware
9th grade counts is one of our original
all hands raised partnerships and a key
strategy for getting and keeping
students on track to graduate another
transition that we're working hard to
support the summer is the transition
into school starting in July will offer
the immensely popular early kindergarten
transition program at 14 schools to help
children and their parents or caregivers
get ready for kindergarten the program
is free for children who will be
attending kindergarten at those schools
and we're doing that this year in
partnership with our son partners you
also remember the second annual
children's book harvest we held in
partnership with the children's book
bank back in November our schools and
pdas collected 27,000 children's books
and just before school let out this year
nearly 4,000 students at 11 PBS schools
chose five books each to take home and
this is really working to help them
build their home libraries this
the second year we've done this through
the read together initiative and it's
exciting because it improves access to
books for all students and helps us work
toward our goal of ensuring all students
read by third grade and again we want to
thank our partners at the book bank for
helping us do this as well as our
partners of the PTAs 250 teachers
educational assistance and coalition
partners are taking part in PBS's pre-k
to three literacy institute at the
airport holiday in this week all of the
available slots for this three-day
workshop were filled within three days
and there was a waiting list of
educators wanting to learn more about
how to support reading success for our
youngest learners just one more example
of how committed our teachers are this
is how they started their summers was in
an institute together working on how to
support early literacy in our school
selves pretty exciting another effort to
help prevent the Summer Slide is
underway at Creston and James John
schools or teachers and librarians and
the PTAs have teamed up to mail books to
students at James John teachers
identified 61 students who could benefit
from extra instruction they receive a
packet of books individually crafted
toward their reading interest and
literacy skills they read the books
write a note about them and mail them
back to the school in a self-addressed
envelope then they receive another
packet of books James John teachers are
also volunteering to read to students
during the summer meals program at
Portland Parks and one of our principals
Carl new semester will be reading to
students at his multnomah county library
branch these are some great examples of
our staff keeping students connected to
school and working toward our early
literacy goal so Portland Public Schools
continues to lower its incidence of
long-term suspension and expulsion for
Austin all of our students with
disabilities but particularly for our
black students with disabilities Oregon
Department of Education recently removed
PPS from their list of school districts
with significantly disproportionate
discipline of our black students with
disabilities so this is an exciting
moment we let you know when we went on
to this list and we're really pleased to
be off of this list the success is
because of collaborative efforts across
all departments to increase awareness of
cultural responsive practices in our
schools so we are really
pleased to be off that watch list I want
to call out the fantastic Roosevelt High
School community for transforming a
student's negative encounter with police
earlier this year into an opportunity to
discuss race and social justice and
learn more about their rights and
responsibilities as well as engage in an
authentic relevant writing project the
r3 project and you guys have a copy of
the book up here the r3 project looked
at rights respect and responsibility
through the Roosevelt writing and
publishing center students put together
a group of essays into a 90 page youth
in the law booklet every incoming
freshmen will receive a copy of the book
in September it received coverage from
The Oregonian the portland tribune as
well as from several TV stations I want
to give a call out to Roosevelt
principally puristic teacher Laura
Fisher and their students as well as to
our portland police and other community
partners who work with our students on
this impactful project Kate McPherson
who is the coordinator of the Roosevelt
writer Center Kate will you just as
printing at Kate has done like amazing
00h 10m 00s
things at really building a culture of
writers at Roosevelt so I'm just going
to say thank you for that Roosevelt's
printing a revised version and we'll
make a veil make it available through
the writing and publishing centers
website by early September correct so
thank you for that that's wonderful and
thank you for giving us a copy of it we
appreciate that and really great thing
to do to turn something that was a
negative into an action and a positive
impact that students feel like they're
able to make on others so we have a
growing partnership with Univision que
un p television Univision is a national
TV network that serves the Hispanic
community in the US and que un p is a
portland-based affiliate that brings
local spanish-language programming into
the homes of tens of thousands of Oregon
viewers for several years our community
involvement and public affairs team has
co-produced public service announcements
with Univision about PBS initiatives
from the summer reading to si se puede
student recognition event recognizing
the power of Univision to help us inform
and engage our spanish-speaking families
we took the partnership to a new level
last year we signed onto Univision's
education initiative a platform of eight
public service announcements in one year
two per quarter these 60 and 90 second
commercials played repeatedly during
primetime viewing and reached more than
20,000 individual viewers each week
Univision has a community service
mission and heavily subsidizes the cost
of PBS of the public service
announcements eight of our departments
sponsored one public service
announcement this past year about topics
ranging from the bond to college and
career readiness to special education so
we wanted to just share a couple of
these with you so you can see what what
they were and what we've been hearing
all year destino exito a ducati astray
dough at en parte por las escuelas
públicas de porta cuando los perros de
familia participa en las escuelas ellos
marseille siempre vemos una mejora en
las calificaciones en la participación
en asistencia a muchos Nino's problemas
disciplinary O's y en fin los que se
beneficence own student a's algunas
maneras de participar en la votación de
sus hijos pueden ser a pagar la radio la
televisión para que sus hijos o Nieto's
pueden concentrarse en para hacer su
tarian en Casa si le gusta el cheapo
poor Ganesa un partido amistoso con el
salón de su hijo SI trabajo de Saussure
ADIZ no le permite emma setar la escuela
habla con sus maestro's para ver cual es
la mejor manera de mantener una
comunicacion continua soup wed a ser por
correo electronico o dejando mensaje en
la escuela
oh SI prefieres Magna Carta namu chile
de su hijo este año las juntas de padres
man Astros en el distrito de Polan son
en octubre s assunta son una oportunidad
extraordinaria para que los padres loss
to Deonte los maestros tengo una
conversacion a circle florence escola de
sus hijos las cosas funciona mucho mejor
quan a trabaja mozo's juntos en la
votación de sus hijos este ano las
juntas de paz de cima Destro's en las
escuelas públicas de Polan sarin el más
de octubre confirm a con su maestro
fetch a hora destino exito a ducati
Estrella dough at en parte por las
escuelas públicas de poner el programa
de mercy own en las escuelas públicas de
portman ofreciendo la miente
multicultural donde los estudiantes
aprender el contenido de Micco en ingles
en Espana lo que sabemos an cerca de los
ninos que participa en los programas de
mercy on es que tienen la grow academico
más alto y más altas probabilidades de
poder grado are so de la preparatoria a
varios beneficios de participar para
usted en este programa especialmente
para ninos latinos a participar en el
programa no solo Lisa Judah a mantener
su lengua nativa pero les ayuda a foeman
tarlov ojo de ser Latino EB lingua lo
que los padres los savons que un periodo
de registracion para los estudiantes de
aqui el de comienzan a partir del nueva
de febrero hasta el seis de mas los
ninos de verde a ver cumplido cinco anos
el primero de septiembre y tambien david
s a ver que es un programa gratis el
éxito de estudiante estill alcanza de
sus manos en cuenta la información en
escuela más cercana destino exito a
ducati Estrella TN parte por las
escuelas públicas de portman
yeah very cool that was fun to watch
okay my final thing is I have some
slides that I wanted to show you from
last week's recognition for our outgoing
board members so we had a reception last
week to honor our outgoing board members
and thank them for their service and
tonight is there really their last
official board meeting so tonight I just
wanted to show you some pictures of that
reception and to again just say thank
you so much to our outgoing board
members this is an incredible volunteer
00h 15m 00s
position where people run a campaign in
order to volunteer for four years doing
really complex work of governance of a
large institution and it is i think
rewarding beyond belief and really
complex beyond belief so i just want to
say I've enjoyed working with all of you
and Greg Ruth and Matt who are here and
Bobby who is not with us today this is
your last official board meeting and you
will be missed thank you so much for
your service and it's been a pleasure
working with you guys
I said earlier this evening that my am
thank you so much Carol that my one of
my resolutions during my eight years of
service was never to cry during a board
meeting I cried plenty after them
believe me in between but that just not
mean to crying so thank you very much
Gregor man and if you wanted to say to
group I just wanted to say that it's
been a pleasure to serve and to to serve
in this capacity for the people of
Portland the students of Portland the
families of Portland in all of Portland
and just know that I will continue to
work on behalf of the students of
Portland Public Schools I mean students
across Multnomah County and just thank
you staff and thank you community and
Thank You superintendent Smith I you
know one of the things I couldn't say
when I joined the board and I'm really
happy to be able to say it now I am a
very proud parent of a PPS student my
son is very proud to be a PPS student
and we're excited for the next I just
finished kitten guard in the next 12
years in portal pollock schools and
thank you all for the work you do and it
shows so thank you
thank you so much so with that we'll
move on with our agenda we have student
testimony next on our agenda miss
Houston do you have any students signed
up we do not okay then next would be
public comment do we have someone sign
up for public um yes we have one doreen
rose a great welcome come on down if you
have three minutes we very glad you're
here to share your thoughts if you need
to follow up with our board manager rose
and pals over there you haven't you find
out about follow-up and we're very glad
you're here for three minutes and the
green light comes on the beginning and
then when they yell at cut yellow light
comes on you have one minute left and
when the red light comes on they
respectfully ask the Arab up your
comments thanks so much for being here
of course thank you and my waiting for
the green there you go so hello i am the
planning coordinator for the benson tech
school based wellness center you've
received emails from me and you have
summary but I emails get tiresome and
there's so many of them so I did want to
come in person and talk with you tonight
this is a time of year when we celebrate
successes and as I've been listening to
the school board over the year and and
what you're trying to achieve at problem
public schools your your desire to
address success through equity and
helping to dress all the needs of
students is very meaningful and so I
want to tell you what we're cheating at
Benson right now so briefly Benson Tech
has seventy percent minority students
sixty-four percent of free and reduced
lunch thirty-eight percent are
economically disadvantaged many are
first-generation students and all the
students must compute commute to the
campus so in fact thirty percent of the
students have reported that they suffer
academically due to missing classes when
they have necessary medical or mental
health appointments so a year ago we met
over at Benson last summer principal
Wilson PPS staff members John Isaac's
and Tammy Jackson representatives from
senators Merkley and widen and the newly
formed steering committee to see how we
could bring school-based health to
Benson tech so we identified the three
greatest challenges of starting
something from scratch
one for school-based health is to find a
medical sponsor and that paralyzes a lot
of programs nationwide to was to find an
appropriate space within the school and
you probably seen Benson it's a very big
school but the district had some very
particular parameters parameters as did
principal Wilson we could not displace
any other programs we could not disrupt
future renovation plans and we could not
reduce the number of classrooms and
that's fair enough and parameters are
great for an architect because then they
can really look through what's left and
what's going to work and third was to
develop a business plan that was
self-sustaining so that we would not be
burdening PPS nor the medical sponsor in
00h 20m 00s
creating this Wellness Center so of
course there are 10,000 tasks affiliated
with each of these challenges and so
we're still very very busy but those key
pieces we have succeeded so we have a
medical sponsor we have recruited and
worked very closely with ohsu family
medicine the family medicine department
ohsu is ranked in the top ten nationally
they've been working with us to develop
a program that would be appropriate for
a very sensitive time of life in
adolescence when you're transferring
transitioning from pediatrics to adult
medicine and family medicine doctors are
specifically skilled at that they have a
4-year residency program which brings
some very highly qualified overachieving
doctors to Portland to work on all sides
sorts of prop programs we not only get
providers we get mentors for our
students and we get presenters for the
PE classes and for the help so you have
the rest of it in front of you three
minutes is so fast but I want you to
know we're making huge progress and will
be an asset for you very soon wonderful
thank you so much for congratulations on
all you've achieved all right so next up
in our budget excuse me are on our
agenda the amendment number for the
2014-15 budget so I'm going to now place
the board into recess from a regular
meeting and open a public hearing on
proposed 2014-15 budget amendment number
four so as you recall we first heard
this report at our June
15 meeting miss Susan do we have any
citizen comment on resolution 5 10 6
okay so I'm going to reconvene us back
into a regular session for the vote the
hearing does and so the board will now
consider resolution number 5 10 6
amendment number 42 the 2014-15 budget
for school district number 1 J Multnomah
County Oregon do I have a motion so
moved director Morton moves and director
curler seconds the motion to a drop
resolution 5 10 6 on board discussion no
any discussion all right all right skip
director beulah chance to return to the
Dyess okay the board will now vote on
resolution 5 10 6 all in favor please
indicate by saying yes yes yes yes any
opposed was that a yes okay all right
any abstentions all right resolution 5
10 6 is approved by the 4 20 alright so
moving right along to adoption of the
2015-16 that's y pn 50 so excuse me I
can't forgive but I can't add thank you
520 all right the board is the Budget
Committee held several town hall meeting
some public hearings on the proposed
2015-16 budget and on May 26 the Budget
Committee approved the 2015-16 budget
superintendent Smith anything you'd like
to add at this time just that we just
held the tscc budget hearing right prior
to this meeting and they also indicated
there that they had no objections to
approving this budget and i'll just add
with that Commission folks who serve
every year to serve in that oversight
role of taxing bodies such as ourselves
there's a very good Q&A document that's
produced as part of that so and that you
engaged in the dialogue with them to
answer their questions and it was really
helpful to hear so yes they do good
questions and good
opportune for good dialogue yes okay the
board will now consider resolution
number 5 10 7 imposed taxes and adoption
of the fiscal year 2015-16 budget for
school district number 1 J Multnomah
County Oregon do I have a motion
director Belial moves and director
Morton seconds the motion to adopt
resolution 5107 miss Houston do we have
any citizen comment we do not we do not
spin a long process so any board
discussion on the resolution uh dr.
Morton I just I just want to quickly say
the you know I think probably now in my
this is my fourth budget that I right
there done our fourth budget the I it's
it's feeling more to me like an example
of a progressive opportunity one that it
isn't definitive and then we then we
start over but this is something that's
progressive and and the hearing that was
before this medium reminded me of the
work that's happened particularly you
know during my time on the board but but
certainly starting much before that and
the progress that has been made even in
the times of really challenging and
00h 25m 00s
complicated and
fiscally anemic time so I'm excited to
approve this budget and I'm excited for
the work ahead of the district well said
I just want to let our community know
that as of right now the state
legislature has not passed the school
but year budget originally districts
across the state said 7.5 was the number
that we needed in right now without them
having released numbers we're all
guessing but it looks like it's closer
to 7 35 and I just want to remind folks
that this is 75 is not a budget that
gets close to what the state has
identified as the appropriate for an
adequate school funding budget so we're
not anywhere close to that and I know
that Senator Haas has been working as
hard as he can to work on both tax
reform and revenue reform and
expenditure reform and I just want to
put a call out to our community this is
something that all but still be
interested in even after my board work
that we the citizens both of portland
and in communities throughout the state
can change this and I ask for you all to
continue to contact your legislature for
this year because the budget has not
passed to increase that number so that
we can so that the new board can find
even more specific ways to invest in our
students but also long term that we can
fix this boom-bust cycle in Oregon
because it it puts our students at a
disadvantage year after year also well
said any other comment in discussion
comments all right the board will now
vote on resolution 5107 almond flavored
favor please indicate by saying yes yes
i'll post peas in Canada's saying no no
so any abstentions all right so
resolution 5107 is approved by vote of
421
okay thank you and thank you to the
staff for all in the citizens budget
review committee all the folks who came
to the town halls superintendent
everybody for months and months of work
that led to the moment of getting this
budget adopted so thank you so much and
of course best wishes to the board and
staff going into next year for rolling
out the implementation and following up
and as I think director millennia point
about this being literate processes are
really important one and that we're
building and hopefully building in terms
of the funds available but also in terms
of our own learning of what's effective
and what works most for kids so thank
you very much all right so next on our
agenda is unfortunately the closure of
the leadership and entrepreneurship
public charter high school so this was
we heard a report about this matter at
our June eleventh meeting and we now
have a resolution before us so will now
consider resolution number 5 10 8
acknowledging the closure of leadership
and entrepreneurship public charter
school and terminating the contract
between core educators and Portland
Public Schools do I have a motion so
moved director Morton moves and zekrom
and director curler seconds the motion
to adopt resolution 5108 miss Houston
any sibs in common no not any further
aboard discussion we talked about it
quite a bit blah I just want to point
out that it's it's too bad and it's
unfortunate that it's come to this I'm
again I want to call out our fiscal
staff or finance staff for catching this
as an unsustainable model moving forward
but I also just want to know having
known a couple of the individuals that
founded this really creative and really
engaging education option here in
Portland it's just I just wanted to say
that it's unfortunate to lose this as an
option and thank you to all the
educators and folks who worked
tirelessly to make this happen
and I'll just come again as I did last
time just really quickly that I really
appreciate the staff and everyone
working so hard for the benefit of the
students and making sure they have a
successful transition to their next
school that's obviously what's most
important here so appreciate that and
wishing everybody the best all right so
the board will now no further comments
okay the board will now vote on
resolution 5108 all in favor please
indicate by saying yes yes any opposed
and no abstentions all right resolution
5108 is approved by vote of five to zero
okay so next on our agenda naming rights
for Fabien Concordia projects you can
headed Smith would you like to introduce
this item I would and I'll introduce CJ
Sylvester who's our chief of school
modernization to walk you through this
item thank you as Carol said I'm CJ
Sylvester the chief of school
modernization we're running so far in
advance of the posted agenda that Fabien
project director Eric girding who had
00h 30m 00s
intended to be here and make this
presentation is not yet here this
evening so I will stand in his stead all
of you are very familiar with the
Concordia University of Portland Public
Schools deep partnership around the
rebuilding of fabien pre-k 8 in
conjunction with the Concordia
University College of Education we have
been through a series of processes and
agreements with them both in terms of
the design and in terms of a disposition
and development agreement as we cart
regards real property in their
commitment to contribute 15.5 1 million
to this project what the staff is asking
for this evening is the ability to
streamline a process whereby significant
donors have naming rights to portions of
the building that are funded by
Concordia University and so I wanted to
be able to walk you through a little bit
here this evening about how much of this
building is in fact being funded by the
proportion of funds that are being
raised by Concordia Concordia would be
here this evening except for they are at
a fundraising dinner so it has been no
small Enterprise for them to continue to
work through their commitment to bring
15.5 1 million to the table so the laser
pointer this is the first floor and just
to aurea indika is up here north rosa
parks way is down here to the south this
is actually going to be a plaza area
between the george white library at the
concordia university campus and the
south entrance to the building the main
entrance to Fabien pre-k will be here on
the north side where all the parking the
play apparatus and a lot of those things
are the main entrance for college of
education students will be down here on
the south side but what you're looking
at here on the first floor is the entire
suite of wraparound services that are
being funded by Concordia University so
the health and wellness center the food
club the Family Resource Center any
number of the wraparound service
providers and services that we've talked
about during the course of this entire
program and project as part of the 3d
PhD initiative are in fact those capital
spaces are being funded by concordia
university as is the entire early
learning center so these are spaces that
are direct benefit to PPS students PPS
families and are being funded by
concordia
on the second floor in addition to the
Concordia suite of offices you've got a
steam lab here that is being funded by
Concordia as well as a welcome hall
second floor and then on the third floor
you have two more steam stem labs that
are also being funded by Concordia in
support of the fabien pre-k program so
their partnership with us is extensive
in terms of their contribution to the
fabien pre-k eight portion of the
building and we wanted to make sure that
you are fully aware of how deep that
partnership is in terms of the capital
construction and it's not just a matter
of concordia university funding the
college of education which is part and
parcel of what's going to be happening
in this building but also funding
services and programs that directly
impact our students and their families
so that is our request here this evening
is that you authorize the resolution to
form a superintendents committee to
review and approve naming portions of
the fabien pre k-8 school facility areas
that are funded by Concordia University
all right so let's get this on the table
and then we can have a discussion the
board will now consider resolution
number 5 10 9 authorizing a
superintendents committee to review an
improved naming of the fabien pre-k 8
school facility areas funded by
Concordia University do I have a motion
so moved director Belisle moves and
director Martin seconds the motion to
adopt resolution 5109 any Susan comment
miss you soon no all right for
discussion
with your blog this is really exciting
so it's fun to see this come forward and
as we look for new ways that we're going
to be challenged my partnership and
trying to come up with a solution and
what I appreciate it was some of the
background material where you laid out
our current policy and the
superintendent's administrative
directive and I just I'm happy to
support a committee to look at this and
delving deeper but I just want to
highlight the fact that because some of
our families and some of our students
00h 35m 00s
might be using part of these facilities
that we use a similar lens this brought
up for me a lot of questions about
current names of a lot of our current
buildings which may not feel very
comfortable to large portions of our
community which i'd be curious again if
there are people interested in working
to change that some of our buildings are
named after people with histories that
again are not so pleasant too many of
our our families but with that being
said I just want to make sure that we
use a similar lens or recommend that the
committee use a similar lens that if a
if a non-christian or a I don't know
somebody walks into a space that's a
health clinic for example I want I want
to make sure that people feel
comfortable our students and families
feel comfortable and don't feel off but
just because of a name appreciate the
generosity of concordia in this
partnership and at 68 it's exciting imma
just want to make sure that they're in
transport I appreciate that director
Belial and i do want to point out that
the the final piece of the resolution
statement as regards the entire building
is that any recommendation to rename the
entire building we would not be renaming
the school itself would come before the
board of education for approval so that
is that would be a separate process from
just naming portions of the building
such as the early learners Center the
Wellness Center and those kinds of
things so coach that's a question a
clarifying question in terms of the
committee so in the resolution it states
resolved number three that the
superintendent convene the review
committee in accordance with the
administrative directive section three
paragraphs 1 through 3 to consider the
proposed names of portions of the new
facility that are being funded by
Concordia under their donors and they
have the final the committee has the
final approval for those portions only
and then just looking at the
administrative directive the third
paragraph of the naming as a result of
gifts section says the proposed name
will be reviewed by a committee
including but not limited to the
superintendent or designee general
counsel board leadership and the
principal parenthesis if the name
affects an existing school facility so
can you explain what the parenthesis
applies to is that just the principal
part of that or the way that
administrative directive is word is a
little confusing because it just says
maybe the and the principal part I'm
just not clear on the wording and what
that means in terms of we'll have to go
back and review that okay make sure that
we're clear before the committee gets
established okay that's sounding like I
mean it makes sense to me that they're
invincible to be part of this committee
I think it's safe to say cheer adkins
that principal LaShawn Lee has been a
part of everything that has happened
with the Cordia fabien relationship and
has been one of our our best
and most fervent absolutely so I just I
just just called that out just as a
question that came up of just the
wording it was a little and then the
second part of that paragraph I think
also maybe gets to some a director of
Lyle's comments cuz it says
consideration will be given to the
historical background of the name to
ensure that is not associated with
activities that are in conflict with the
district's mission goals and policy of
non-discrimination so I appreciate that
that's a new ministry of directive and I
assume that would be part of the charge
the committee would receive so they
would have that information and of
course having board leadership report
representation will be really key as
well so that they can keep the rest of
the board and formed going forward so
exciting of course the soup which
Concordia very well in their fundraising
campaign at a constructor view yeah I
just like to let you feel comfortable
about naming the library after me or
maybe mr. Morton maybe the buell Morton
library I'm Murnaghan have a bench
they're just going so I assume you
brought your checkbook tonight yeah the
batch I can take a library I'd be
present give you a more important it's
all about the size of the church
gentlemen any other comments all right
hearing then the board will now vote on
resolution 510 and I all in favor please
indicate by saying yes yes any opposed
four abstentions all right resolution
5109 is a food by vote of 50 thank you
so much exciting to see this building
come together okay and we are moving
very rapidly through our agenda we all
are I guess thinking about that
beautiful evening outside or just so
happy that we have an awesome budget
that we voted through all right so
finally we have our business agenda
board will now consider the remainder of
its business agenda having our
be voted on resolutions 5 10 6 through 5
10 9 miss Houston do we have any changes
changes do I have a motion and a second
to adopt the business agenda so move
00h 40m 00s
director of Belial moves second and
Thank You director curler seconds the
adoption of the business agenda any
public comment none and how about for
discussion direct appeal did did we had
a long discussion around the NIA
material and we have new revenue
contracts in this dosent how did that
come out compared to the discussion
where the number is the same amber the
same as when we had a like to
architectural thing we're trying to move
it to 5050 I see tony maglio how'd it
work out because I did I can't tell him
a score Tony Magliano chief operating
officer yes sir the agreement was a
50-50 split you'll notice that you take
fifty percent of the seven hundred fifty
nine thousand naas contributions
slightly less than that that's because
Nia funded a portion of the pre design
that was necessary to get us to the
point that we're at now but it's based
off the 50-50 cost-sharing so pretty
much I came out what we discuss sir okay
thank you appreciate dokie that's the
same in the other cuz there's the so
there's the cost share it's got an 80
murder you'd family's in or contractor
there give us the mini right I've
semaphore great thank you yeah okay
great thanks for that clarification of
another question oh sure go ahead back
here on this schedule board meetings
and in 45 1 11 11 my guess is that we're
going to just we're going to move back
to to board meetings a month mm-hmm
that's just a guess I think it's pretty
good guess yeah and we've got that in
July to board meetings and to board
meetings and artists but then we start
September first eight twenty second what
I'd suggest is that we don't that we
table this until we make that decision
and then put out the list of board
meetings because though if if you're
doing something out tobert these aren't
going to be accurate I don't think about
me that's just my guess yeah my
understanding was the we table it till
thou to all of us six though july could
i make an amendment table it yeah and I
think our assumption was that this is
totally as it says tentative and up for
better have changing by the new board
but maybe Amanda Mellon could come up an
address why we're putting in a tentative
at this point but yeah absolutely the
new board so I'm gonna be turning to
Karen to confirm but I think we need the
approval of at least the july six
meeting right in order to be able to
hold it until six so um so I mean which
is why we put tentative so what we've
done every year is at the end of June
put together a tentative schedule and
then what the board has done during the
course of the summer and that their
retreat is really determined how they
want to do the schedule and like every
year we've been made changes to the
schedule based on that so our
recommendation was that you approved
this tentative schedule and then after
you have the new board has met and
determined how often they would like to
me we can revise that schedule and bring
it back to you for approval in August
right i mean as long as everyone you
know when watching this starts like
blocking out their calendar for their
viewing of the board meetings through
the year just just because we know
that's the most entertaining show out
there right I you know I'm fine either
way because I assume this would be
changed by the new board so okay
whatever dad sometimes language work
clear everybody clear oh yeah yeah of
course okay that's why says tentative
and the calendar would be reviewed with
a new board after directors so another
question we had some material
surrounding administrative salaries in
important material but who's not shown
up here today get buried in budget the
budget approval which material are you
looking for so we had some that talked
about that was the administrative
salaries which listed like the top six
people had a charm right out that was in
response yeah here it is yeah I was
report to us well just a report I mean
what was what happened right here yeah I
don't think it was something we were
going to be speaking about tonight or on
the agenda but yeah my fighters about oh
yeah this is yeah and it was just
background on the stuff gasps yeah those
part of the budget times in the budget
though huh yes I'm most part of the
budget okay yep just wanted to know what
happened to it all right any other
discussion on the board agenda employs
all right word will now vote on the
business agenda all in favor please
indicate by saying yes yes any opposed
and any abstentions satchel all right so
this is I was a I was you need my yes
here at best this because he abstained
so I just wanted to make sure I didn't
miss something this doesn't include we
voted on though budget separately so yes
00h 45m 00s
it's bad right we did already vote on
the bed okay okay so that was a yes so
business agenda is approved by a vote of
420 with director Martin abstaining all
right
well that was a very quick final meeting
thank you so much everybody root that
took you to last me to get so efficient
huh hey it's all about what how much
folks have to say right and staff is
just being cautious to make sure we had
enough time allowed it should we need to
have other things to say all right well
it's been it's been an honor and a
pleasure and I certainly wish the future
board every success and superintendent
our staff can't thank you enough for all
your incredibly hard work on behalf of
our children and it's helping the best
for Portland Public going forward so
I'll thank the entire board and then
specifically the preview that are
leaving it has it's been an honor to
work with you so thank you for your
service thank you so I I'd also like to
say thank you to peaches I only know
half of what you've been through and so
thank you and all your voices each of
you had different voices and they're
certainly in my year going forward
appreciate that so the next meeting of
the board will be held on monday July 6
Sources
- PPS Board of Education, Archive 2014-2015, https://www.pps.net/Page/1893 (accessed: 2022-03-24T00:57:53.371200Z)
- PPS Communications, "Board of Education" (YouTube playlist), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CC942A46270A16E (accessed: 2023-10-10T04:10:04.879786Z)
