2016-06-21 PPS School Board Regular Meeting
| District | Portland Public Schools |
|---|---|
| Date | 2016-06-21 |
| Time | missing |
| Venue | missing |
| Meeting Type | regular |
| Directors Present | missing |
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06-21-16 Final Packet (2660681fde0b0292).pdf Meeting Materials
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06-21-16 Meeting Overview (a6714ad449901a3f).pdf Meeting Overview
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Event 1: Board of Education - Regular Meeting - June 21, 2016
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for June 21st it's call to order I'd
like to extend a warm welcome to
everybody trying to do
children okay we're going to recess
we're going to
recess item being voted this evening has
been posted as required by state law
meeting is being televised live director
espara Brown is participating by phone
this evening uh Miss hon is there any
student testimony yes we have
two Savannah Mullen and Reika
Smith
welcome welcome um you can state your
name and uh there'll be a a green light
when it turns red it's time to wrap it
up okay appreciate you being
here hello my name is Savannah Mullen I
am a seventh grade student at King
Elementary my address is 3976 Northeast
mallerie Street and I'm here to talk
about the name change of King
Elementary to Portland Public School
Board of education superintendent Carol
Smith we as King School parents and
students have knowledge that the school
was originally named Martin Luther King
Jr Elementary but has been changed to
King Elementary we all request that the
school name be changed back to Martin
Luther King Jr as it was King can be
viewed as Rodney King Don King Etc we
would all appreciate if we can have back
the name of our school that we know and
love when contacting the state they said
there is no record of Martin Luther King
Jr in Portland Oregon only King on
Portland Maps and online it's labeled as
King in the king neighborhood for a
fiscal statement we have contacted
Portland Public School District office
but no one has responded back with the
price but to raise the money we do plan
on having fundraisers such as car washes
cookouts bake Sals
Etc hello my name is ressica Smith I am
a former student at King
School my address is 3976 Northeast
mallerie street I'm here to talk to you
about our school name being changed from
Martin Luther King junor Elementary
School to King school I have been going
to King for 10 years and when I first or
started there it was Martin Luther King
Jr
Elementary and for it to be changed back
to King for it to be changed to King and
for none of way to be notified is not
okay in our in our
minds Keda Scott is the one who gave us
the name in honor of her own husband so
please let us do do the right thing and
change our name back to Martin Lu to
King Elementary
School our name being changed to king is
not okay to us for us not to be notified
but not only that but for the world not
to know us going home telling our
families and them not even knowing it is
what's the worst
part we would like our original name
back it is on the front of the school
and it should be always the school name
when you look it up on Google cuz when
you look it up on Google it is keing it
should be its original name like it was
in the first place
thank you very much thank
you was there um superintendent Smith
was there ever an actual a decision that
reverted King back to Martin Luther King
to King or did it just become that
that's what usage was or I don't know
the answer to that question but we'll
find out so and I don't believe you have
to raise any money to have that happen
either that's just to make the request
and we'll figure out what the official
status
is thank you for your testimony okay
Miss H any other student testimony no
okay uh at this time we'll have public
testimony Miss H have anybody signed up
we do we have six and our first two
speakers are Kelly Cook and Cecil
Evans
our next two Oscar gillson and Teresa
Rayford so does that mean I get the six
minute
status that's on me all right so for the
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record my name is Teressa Rayford I I am
the Auntie of Andre Dei Payton on
September 26th of this year of last year
I requested an audit because my nephew
grew up in this school system he was
within the SEI industry or Corporation
or Academy from the time that he was 7
years old and like a lot of his other
friends he was killed by the time he was
19 years old there was a celebration
between the uh molama County Health
Department and our Portland Public
Schools at not only Grant but also at se
die uh when I was here visiting during
the time that he was tragically murdered
and then celebrated for propaganda or
Pander or whatever the hell you guys
want to call it um I was very upset when
I found out that not only had our kids
been failing within the school system
but that there was no leadership that
cared about their outcomes I remember
what my nephew used to tell me is that
there was nothing for him children like
him the ones that didn't succeed at a
the the ones that didn't have athletic
scholarships or any other type of
Academia Acumen attached to them him and
his friends dying at 19 years old not
realizing what it feels like to be 21
not getting the chance to have their own
apartment or get into a house or a job
or to raise children or even have
children that's an epidemic in our
community and you guys are making it
seem as it's a problem and you have this
thing that you call Equity well I worked
for a CPA for several years and Equity
to me is a return on invest M and with
the money that's going into the school
district and through the state through
the Oregon Department of Education to
Foster the futures of our most
vulnerable children not only the per the
children of color but those with
disabilities and IEPs that money there's
no accountability there's no oversight
when I asked about equity and culturally
competent programming that would help us
steal our children into industry related
vocational type training like what Steve
was fighting for when he ran for the
School Board nobody cared to listen to
that they even said that education
wasn't a measure for Public Safety as we
know that you guys believe that here
because Public Safety and our Children's
Health and Welfare wasn't on the top of
your agenda because you had so many
other successes to deal with um as far
as Carol Smith saying that June of 2017
would be the time that she resigns I
think that the federal government and
our president and everybody else that
says that they care about the children
in this country and I'm talking about
the Black Male Achievement and all that
and our young women our young girls that
are being slammed and pulled out of
school by police officers the ones that
are having to defend themselves because
the teachers don't think that they have
to be involved in the situation our
children that are pushed to basketball
playing for the last 10 minutes of class
instead of being responsible or being
taught accountability like others
because you think that you have to
pacify us with a pat on the head or a
breakfast in the morning the money for
those type of things for that which you
call culturally competen
which means that you probably think that
our children don't have the ability to
think or learn and they just need to be
patted on the
head those things right there those are
a problem those add to the Health and
Welfare of our community those are the
additions that you guys have that are
making it a very vulnerable place for
the school to prison pipeline every time
I see something on the news here in
Oregon about children that have
disadvantages you use faces that look
like mine there's children in this
community that aren't black that have
the same type of disadvantages but
because you guys are are fond of this
segregated system where you separate
communities based on their colors or
their disabilities or their different
ableness that's what we have here is a
catastrophic issue this is an epidemic
we're not just talking about the lead
we're talking about the leadership the
leadership that says that we can
accompany a child's problem within the
social welfare reforms through Community
Police policing community policing means
that if the parents don't medicate their
children that don't have resources in
the classroom because the administration
thinks that the teachers don't need them
it means that if we don't medicate our
children then your Portland Partners
Your Community Partners your community
policing Partners they basically admit
that the childrens they tell these they
tell your Partnerships that these
children are at risk and they say that
the risk of harm is with their
family people that look like me who are
at the disadvantage that you guys call
vulnerable when we stand up for our
children our children are pulled into
the foster care
system that is the disadvantage of using
your voice that's why you don't see
black parents here that's why you see
Gatekeepers the ones you guys give
standing ovations for the ones who
educated me telling you that they had
nuces around Willie Lynch is a myth that
didn't happen that was something they
used to propagandize the black movement
back in the 70s and ' 80s I know my
daddy wore a black jacket you know what
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I'm saying I understand that that was a
myth because it was supposed to be used
to get people to move and to become
empowered they were supposed to look at
how disgusting our country's history is
and take that challenge to do something
about it guess what we don't need myths
to show that you guys don't give a damn
about our education or our children's
future we don't need myths to make that
story because we can indict you guys and
we need the Department of Justice to do
that we do have six civil lawsuits and I
don't understand well not lawsuits
investigations and so what today my call
to action is is that parents that have
children that are children of color
children with disabilities children that
are vulnerable based on what you guys
call vulnerable maybe they have an
IEP those people need to get in contact
with don't Sho Portland and our
Community Education panel because guess
what we have people that want to get
your stories so that we can go ahead and
indict this system we have six of them
on the table now and you can get in
contact with us at Don't Shoot Portland
at gmail you can call me personally if
need to at
503752 11140 because the federal
government did think that these issues
were good enough to say that we will
take these investigations and they are
and so we just need your voices to let
us know what's happened and we're
getting those voices and we appreciate
if those voices can help remove this
board and if you guys don't remove Carol
before next year then that means you
don't have the backbone to be the board
next year and we'll go ahead and
featuring you in that indictment because
complicity you know what that is right
okay okay thank you very
much next we have Ray liry and Cara
colie oh no
please
welcome my name is Ray
Larry I come before you to address a bit
of the information that was just shared
with
you it is very easy to speak about what
changes adjustments need to be made when
you are not in the arena when you are
outside of the Arena you can make calls
about things that you may understand or
may not understand and for the most part
for the most part there are a lot of
people who look like me in Portland
Oregon and they're not and they don't
all share they don't all share speak
speak they don't all share he did last
time when he went past this time they
don't all
share a similar perspective or or
methodology so I would say to you I I
would say to you in terms of going
forward if you if if you really are
afraid of what's supp being said then
you over speak it you over speak it but
if you really have courage and believe
in your convictions you let other people
share theirs as well yours is not
threatened by that so if over talk is
the only strategy you have to get your
point across then work it to the Bone
but if you have an idea if you have an
idea that merits a discussion if you
have a a argument that merits a
discussion we're happy to have that
where's the because again what we're
talking about is personal as you can
tell what we're talking about is
personal names are being referenced
names are being
referenced and it's personal So to that
end I will say this I will yield the
rest of my time ex I think we I think
we'll
recess
are are
are
okay we are going to continue this
meeting with the people that signed up
to testimony I signed up then you get
then you
then to go I just have to go okay then
then you can we'll give you your three
minutes thank
you after I tell you what we're doing
here um if uh we're going to continue to
hear the testimony and then continue our
meeting if you don't have to have me on
the record or nothing I just got this no
you're going to get on the record um if
we can't continue the meeting because of
disruptions then we will continue the
meeting in another room they'll still be
televised uh and everybody will see it
okay
so all right go ahead you got three
minutes okay I just got a question here
pleas please State your please state
your name okay my name is Thor okay and
your last name uh Presley okay so at the
same time now that you know my
name organ has a law that if
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you retrieve their
rainwater and you get caught that's a
felony you can go to
jail now that's a crime now if Oregon
controls all the
water who's responsible for the waters
that's in these schools and where's the
crime coming from and who's held
accountable for that I just got a
question I'm I'm I'm not the smartest I
never did graduate but these are things
that Flo through my little mind here
okay so at the same time with that
there's accountability and I know that
you know I I met them the other day okay
and and trust me they are doing a
fantastic job Carol Smith I really don't
know you I don't think you've been doing
your job quite well but again you know I
didn't vote for you so at the same time
at the same time my question is okay if
you guys can put a felony on somebody's
head if it starts raining right now
Oregon owns the rain that comes out the
damn Sky water is free that's nature so
you guys explain this to me who controls
it who controls what goes in the water
after it comes from the sky I want to
know we need to know see this is the
kind of stuff that mess me up I may go
and have me a beer I may have two beers
but that question is still on my mind
can y'all help me with this carol can
you I'll get your assistance too but
anyway Katie can you help me Steve Mike
Amy huh I just want to know that's an
honest
question say what now is your Prem
correct take the rain water it it is it
is a felony I grew up in t you know and
I don't you could have taken all the
water out of the place listen it's a
it's a felony in Oregon okay if you
that's called stealing the lead didn't
come from our water supply it came from
what we did in we don't know where it
came from well it came from the pipes
and the and the port yes our so uh when
was it discovered and and and when when
when was that uh when it came to I don't
know we can't figure out when it was
discovered okay would May what prompt
anybody to go ahead and investigate the
water after all these years on the 21st
on the 21st of March it came forward
that's when why was that because
somebody found out we're doing we're in
the middle of a real unbiased
investigation that's supposed to figure
all those answers out so it should be
done in is anybody in this room outside
of you guys privy to that investigation
is that open not really uh we're trying
to do it as unbiased you guys call me I
would like to just sit in I would like
to be to fly on the wall well there's a
super unbiased investigation where we're
not sitting in even wow we're trying to
do an unbiased investigation totally
okay there are a couple more things but
you know what there'll be another time
hey thanks for you guys time okay
appreciate all
right Miss
hon Cara colie and Cecil Evans
I don't know who car is are you do you
want to speak
first no because you were sitting next
to that gentleman no please go
ahead oh
goodness hi my name is Cara kly and I'm
here to speak about teacher
absences um my daughter is in third
grade at answorth and I'd first of all
like to emphasize that she's been very
fortunate to have wonderful caring
capable teachers um I was really caught
off guard though by the number of
absences that her teachers had I would
estimate in kindergarten it was about 15
days in first grade is about 15 days and
in second grade about five days um her
first grade teacher would advise us
would advise the class the day before
saying something like oh tomorrow I have
to be out for a meeting so my daughter
would come home and tell me this and so
I started to do some research looking
into contracts and what I could find and
I don't know that this is totally
accurate but this is the most I could
find so I learned that her teachers are
out for three reasons the first is
sickness or family reasons and of course
teachers should have sick days I'm not
arguing against that the second is
professional development opportunities
and I learned that the PPS contract
allows teachers to be out for four days
of professional development and I think
that's reasonable though I think
possibly only allowing two or 3 days
might be K2 and the third reason uh
teachers are called out are for PPS
mandatory meetings or trainings and I
have a problem with
this why why do I have a problem with
this because first off substitutes are
just not as effective in teaching and
nurturing our students second of all our
school year is short enough as it is and
when the teacher is pulled out of the
classroom it's like making the school
year even shorter and third of all
there's all these late start days these
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inservice days why not schedule the
trainings or meetings for those times or
for the first few days in August right
at the start of the school year so I'm
just asking I'm so thankful that she's
had wonderful teachers I'm asking that
just please let them stay in the
classroom don't call them out for
meetings or trainings thank you thank
you thank you thank
you thank you welcome go ahead and stay
your name again for the record okay my
name is Cecil
Evans and I've got two kids uh both
Portland Public Schools so the lead
issue it really really worries me uh the
way that the school board looks
terrifies me none of you represent me
and I don't understand why that is I I
it really really confuses me it do you
have any reasoning why there is nobody
that looks like me on your
board you have to run for election so it
would be great if we could have some
candidates who do you have a program
where you try and reach minorities yes
we do so why aren't they on the board I
don't know usually that would be
great we have we have actively sought
people of color to be on the board it's
very okay Julie Julie's on the phone
she's laa is he gonna be the next guy on
the board that that's kind of what I'm
thinking so so okay so my my other thing
that I absolutely and I use it my other
thing that I uh wanted to ask is how is
it that this gentleman um who has lunch
on Wednesdays gets
220,000 on a no bid contract if I'm not
mistaken and teachers are barely making
enough to make ends meet and they're
with our kids every day 5 days a week or
how is he making that much and we don't
have all the proper school books in our
schools we don't even have updated
history books in our schools so I don't
understand how that works
either Carol Smith do you have a answer
to
that no we're just we're taking comments
this is to listen to your comments you
you know I it's a it's a question though
it's not a comment you guys have been
answering other people quite you
answered a lot of things yeah yeah I
think that I don't think that the the
premise is exactly right I don't think
I've heard things on the internet about
$1,000 an hour that's that's not taking
it into account it's not taking into
account what the actual actuality of
that particular program is it's just not
standing back and looking in if you go
out there and look and see what is
actually taking place it may if i' do
that and then I'd come back and complain
after after we looked I don't know if
anybody who's here I've been out and
looked at that program and I I supported
that program even though I felt very
unsupported by Mr lirry at a school
board meeting not too long ago but I
want supported that program because I
because the mentoring that I believe
that they're doing in that program and
it's not just Mr L it's other people
that that mentoring is really uh
worthwhile and pretty good and pretty
good stuff that's why I support it I
otherwise I wouldn't support it U and
that's the that's the way that I and I
don't know if we've been out
have we been out and looked have you
guys been out and looked and fall
through and stuff not kid you know I
don't know and they're saying they're
not getting enough they're getting more
at don't shoot rallies than they're
getting with this guy for breakfast and
so that to me that doesn't make any
sense don't shoot us free and so if
we're able to educate our kids like that
I'm clarifying here I think I I I like
to don't shoot stuff I think you get a
lot at the don't shoot rallies I don't
don't think that's not the case but at
the same time I think if you go look
that I think you'll see that there's a
lot of good stuff going on in that
program and and I think it just it kind
of got singled out in a way because
we're trying we're trying to work with
the contracts and make them
and and uh we're trying to work with
those contracts and make them better and
that kind of got single out there's a
lot of other contracts that we've been
working oh absolutely and the thing is
the thing is is that I think I think
your red your red light is up okay I
just have one more thing and I
so that's a piece as far as the
accountability you guys all need to be
held accountable not just this man he
did get singled out and I noticed that
and you know it happens just because
there wasn't enough time he gave a
really long speech Mike Rosen he had to
say what he had to say and you guys were
mad and then you gave that standy
Ovation over what was clearly a bunch of
BS but I have a feeling that if you guys
were all held accountable for your jobs
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you wouldn't be here either you see that
you have a community that is furious
this anger isn't fake you know we're
we're upset thank you so we need change
thank we need it now we need change we
need it now say not stand
okay Miss anybody else
okay all right so
um
uh we will now consider uh resolution
5289 amendment number two to the 2156
budget for School District number one J
maloma County
Oregon um Yousef do you want
to and
David directors uh good evening Theus
Chief Financial Officer and I have David
we will present the amendment number two
for the budget
um and I'll just turn it to David thank
you thank you Yousef so board members as
you can see from the staff report um
this is looking at the budget for the
fiscal year that's about to finish every
year we do two things at this time of
year we check appropriation levels
against the expenditures and every fund
to make sure that we're going to be in
compliance with budget law and have
adequate money appropriated and we also
check with staff on potential carryover
where there are projects or programs
that were budgeted for in the current
year whereas happen stance has it the
timing of that work has spilled over
into the next year and we carry we move
money from the current year budget to
next year budget so that we still have
funds available for it um those there's
modest things in the budget amendment to
cover those two things and then the
third thing which is exceptional for
this year is there's an increase of in
appropriation in the general fund of
$400,000 to cover the cost of providing
water to schools at the end of the
school year and some contract costs that
will be incurred before the end of the
fiscal year and that $400,000 is funded
by reducing contingency and that's
essentially what's happening with this
budget
amendment
okay um I think
uh Miss h is there any public comment on
the budget no okay the board will now
consider resolution number 5289
amendment to number two excuse me chair
kler we need a motion and second
um we do excuse me thank you um is is
there a uh a motion to approve and this
move approved by director
Anthony is there a second a second
second by director con Stam
um uh uh is there any discussion on the
resolution all those
oh Paul I'd just like to make a very
brief comment since I'm often fairly
critical about financial
issues this was a wonderfully clear and
straightforward explanation and I really
appreciate it I want you to know that
thank you thank
you could
understand all right the board will now
vote on resolution 5289 all in favor
please indicate by saying yes yes yes
yes all opposed indicate by saying no
any extensions Julie I think I heard a
yes from the phone you got a yes okay um
resolution 5289 is approved by a vote of
7even to zero with student
representative davidon voting yes voting
yes okay great
uh the board before we go on could could
I ask a question sure do we have
somebody tell do we have a person here
who's do we have a is Jolly here some
Jolly is not here is there somebody
because I look through one of the one of
the things that I remember and I don't
know if I'm correct I don't think so uh
is that you can't in in our policy we
have something that says you can't vote
on the phone but you can be in the
meeting but I don't know that's right
because I didn't I looked and looked but
I couldn't find it so my assumption is
that it's fine to have uh Julie voting
on the phone I and then I thought well
maybe it's it's in the state open
meetings law and I looked through the
all the state open meetings law today at
some length and it said you could vote
on the phone so I'm ass I'm assuming
that's the case and we're working under
that I was just if we had somebody who
had time to kind of look at that okay it
would be great but that I'm not worried
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about all right thank you for that
clarification um the board acting as the
budget committee held three public
hearings on the proposed 21617 budget on
May 24th the budget committee approved
the 21617 budget um which we are now
considering a superintensive there's
anything you'd like to add to to this no
just that the tscc considered this
earlier this evening and gave it its
blessing okay um the board will now
consider resolution
5290 uh impose taxes and Adoption of the
fiscal year 2617 budget for School
District number one J Malone County of
Oregon do I have a
motion so
moved second uh it's been moved and
seconded to adopt resolution
5290 um Ms has any citizen comment yes
we have one Susan Stone
all right
um uh is there any discussion on the
board seeing that we don't have
SE Steve did I'm just asking the
superintendent did we had any money
since last time when I said I wasn't
voting for it unless we added more money
for maintenance particularly emergency
maintenance we didn't add any more we've
made made no changes since last budget I
can't I really believe we need some
money a couple million dollars for
emergency maintenance in this budget I
voted for this budget because I thought
it was the best I could do I don't think
it's a very good budget I've said that
all along everybody knows that but the
uh and it's got a lot of things that
we're we're spending money here when we
should be spending it there and I can't
I'm not going to go into that I've
already gone into that but I can't vote
for it because I just think we need to
have an
emergency maintenance budget
specifically where we go out and take
care of the emergency maintenance the
best that we can that's the first thing
and the second reason is I I think this
summer we should be taking care of the
lead paint problem the best that we can
and I don't think there's any money in
here to do that that I can see
so even though there's lead paint that
we know about out there we're not really
going out to fix it because we don't
have the money to fix it I don't believe
and so we got the lead paint but we're
not doing anything about it this summer
now we're going to go into a a hire an
engineering firm to go and look at all
these things and do it which I'm for I
think it's a great idea but we got lead
paint that we know about and we should
go out be going out there and fixing it
and we should find enough money to at
least make a dent in that of some sort
but it's not in there if it was in there
it would have been in we'd have been
doing it because if it was in the budget
it would have been in the last budget
and we'd have done it we wouldn't have
had things like the mess out at George
middle school for instance and so I
can't vote for it uh I wish I could all
right thank thank you Steve any other
comments Paul very briefly I just say
that I support Steve's position I think
that given the circumstances we find
ourselves
in we really need to be more responsive
to the maintenance issues and
specifically to the lead paint problems
that we know we have
any other
comments um just a couple of things I
would add one is that you know we've
known that we have underfunded our
Maintenance and Facilities needs for a
long time in this in this district and
we had virtually no discussion during
all of our budget deliberations about
our maintenance and operations needs we
couldn't even I couldn't even get
$140,000 of support for for Relief
custodians to address I vot that okay
right on Steve to um address those needs
so I just would like to see us
be take responsibility for looking ahead
and proactively at really how we want to
approach our whole budget next time
around given all the needs in this
district and also so just want to
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reference the conversation we had in
today's um Bond committee meeting where
we are giving um serious thought and
Analysis right now to devoting a
significant part of the proposed 2016
bond to um uh Capital Investments that
address health and safety issues in our
school
facilities Steve the
uh it's serious business to vot against
this Bond because we can't budget we
can't pay our employees without a budget
yeah and as one of the reasons that I
voted for the budget I would assume last
time because we need to have a budget
but I think this is serious enough to to
not pay people uh secondly uh well and
Amy brought up a really good point and
hopefully we're going to take a really
good solid look at the next Bond and
work around and make sure that we're
taking care of some of these facility
problems but
on our next budget we need to do it
entirely differently I know we were a
second it was the second uh part of the
budget this time we just kind of
repeated but on the next budget we need
to start with the classroom and the
school figure out what we need in those
classrooms and schools and then we need
to build out from there we don't the way
that we're building the budget is the
reverse we're not we're not seeing what
we're not putting the schools together
and then putting a budget that supports
the schools an Administration that
supports the schools if we did we
wouldn't have a lot of the messes we had
because you'd have the schools in pretty
good shape and then we do the we've been
doing it the reverse for years which is
to have the schools support the
administration which has their things
that they want to get done the testing
and that stuff and so we build the
schools around the administration
instead of the reverse and in this next
budget I hope that we can see ourselves
clear to start with the school what do
we want out there in that K5 school do
we need reading teachers out there to
help kids read what is it that we really
need out there and we start there and we
go out what do we need in the middle
schools our high schools are really in
pretty good shape comparatively they
really are they're not can you compare
our high schools to high schools around
the state of Oregon they're pretty darn
good in some cases terrific but our
middle schools and Middle grades and our
elementary schools we've got lots of
work and the only way I can see to get
at it is to start with the school and
build out on our next budget and I hope
we have the courage and the wherewithal
and the intelligence to do that on our
next budget and so we will then get
schools that we kind of would like and
then we will get administration which
supports what's taking place there
that's how it's supposed to work in my
opinion at least thank you okay
all right thank you
Steve um any other comments Julie would
you like to say anything before we
vote well my major concern well I I mean
I concur with what's being said that we
need more money in maintenance um and I
think that that will be how we will be
refocusing the bond um to consider some
of those needs um I would also remain
concerned about the contingency the low
contingency that we have and not sure
how to strike the balance you know of
really working towards
um increasing our contingency um we see
what happens you know when when there's
a need um with nothing to fill the plug
the holes with so that's my major
concern I think that it is important
though that we pass this budget now um
given everything um just to ensure I me
we need to keep instruction occurring
for our kids summer school's coming up
so I will vote for it okay thank you
um so my um I have three concerns
regarding the budget the first one is
one that I've have mentioned I think at
every budget hearing we've had and that
has to do um with our reserves we have a
572 million budget our board policy is
that we put 3% of that into Reserve
reses and we are aspirational at
5% 3% would be
$17.15 million and we currently are at
13.73 million so that means we're $3.4
million short in even reaching our board
policy so I can't understand why we are
passing a budget that doesn't comply
with board policy if we took it up to 5%
it would be
28.6 million of 14.9% difference now I
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realize that that's a lot of money to
try and take out of the current budget
to make it 5% or aspirational but we
should as a board have a reach our 3%
threshold now and then we should be
talking about increases every single
year I can't imagine in my own personal
life not having a savings account not
having money set aside for my home but
we do that with our district and are
over 90 90 buildings that we have here
and we're not taking care of them and
putting money into a bond to help with
health and safety is a great idea but it
is not
maintenance maintenance thank you
maintenance is separate from building
new buildings maintenance is something
that we need to be very concerned about
and we haven't for over 30
years since a passage of measure five
we're not when we uh our funds for
school started to be depleted this
District along with a lot of other
districts has put most of their money
into the classroom to make sure that we
have teachers there we have smaller
class sizes that we extend we have a our
school year especially in this District
we've been very focused on teachers in
the classroom small classes in a full
school year we haven't set aside the
money that we should for maintenance and
the bond isn't going to change
that
finally in addition to reserves and
maintenance I'm concerned about the
salaries of our
staff since
September we we which is nine months now
we've had a freeze on salaries and
because of this we have not been able to
compete for new people and we've been
consistently losing our best and
brightest out of this District the
people that we grew up from being
teachers principals and now directors
we're losing these people they're
getting better packages in other
districts across the across the the um
region for example Charlene
Williams did a wonderful job at
Roosevelt a fantastic job at Roosevelt
well she's not going to be here next
year she's going to be in
Camas Shay James a fantastic job turning
Franklin around and now building our CTE
program this District she's not going to
be here she's going to North
clamus Jorge
meesza an assistant assistant principal
who was going to move to be a
principal said no he's going to
Centennial and with all of these people
we could not meet the amount that they
were receiving in these other
districts Ross Hume is going to Metro
Andrea hubs to Centennial Mary Anderson
to the Oregon Department of Education
Larry Bingham the Oregon Health
Authority Natasha Butler Reynolds the
list goes on and on and on of very
excellent people that we have grown up
in this district and have not been able
to retain because of this salary freeze
so
my wish is that we could or my ask is
that we do away with this salary
freeze and we see what happens with the
audit committee and if there is
something that we need to do after we
have an audit then that's fine but it's
been nine months that we have had our
hands tied and and with an inability to
keep our best and brightest people or to
hire anybody else so those are the three
things that I most concerned
about the reserves the maintenance and
the salary freeze that's keeping us from
keeping our best and brightest people
here Tam I raised this this issue on the
audit committee several months ago um
knowing that we would be in this very
position and I am you know really um
upset to hear that we are losing so many
people that we need in our district um
so I agree that it's critically
important at our next audit committee to
review this and lift that
freeze okay thank you any other comments
on the
budget all right uh the board will now
vote on resolution 529 all all in favor
please I please indicate by say let's do
a roll
call okay let's do a roll call you want
to call the rooll sure uh director
Anthony
no director noes do you want Julie oh
director aspara Brown yes director
nolles
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I'm gonna pass for right now pass
director
constan
yes director
Rosen no director bu
no chair cly
yes we have a tie three yes three no and
one
abstain
sh
million I know how important it is for
our staff to be paid July
1 so I'm not going to stand in the way
of the budget so I will be
yes
reluctantly okay the budget uh is passed
by a vote of four to three with student
representative voting
yes
okay um I don't believe walk on amend
resolutions uh before we vote on the
remainder of our business agenda I'd
like to point out
that we have a revised resolution 5288
before us that contains two additional
contracts which are highlighted in the
yellow um Miss H any other changes to
the um business agenda there is not all
right
um it is are
there uh any ask question sure on the
business agenda well we didn't have the
the in crustable people back what
happened to
them so it's still do we know it are we
still messing around we
are nutrition services is still working
on that and and then I have another
question go ahead Steve um the health
screening provide employee blood
screening during this summer
okay hey just um if you have questions
what you want me to pull them off yeah
pull off the blood screen so we can talk
about it okay so thank you thank you
yeah um and uh I'm trying to locate that
one it's it's one of the ones in yellow
there second one in
yellow
okay that is pulled
out
um any
other any other plls Tom I'm sorry
someone may have pulled it already and I
would I was busy trying to find it U Can
we pull the ch2m hill contract also
please yes thank
you
okay um so we will now um vote on the
business resolution 5288 minus those two
contracts all those in favor
say I I I I I all
oppos the any
extensions I meant to say I sorry the
business agenda is uh passed by a vote
of 7 to zero with student representative
I voting I okay um we will now consider
uh resolution
5289 which is this uh ch2m Hill contract
okay which one the ch2m hill
contract um may I
uh you know I think we need to have a
motion and motion yeah Motion in a
second so uh is there a motion and a
second to consider
5289 so
moved second it's been moved and
seconded um is there any discussion now
this is where
yeah
um The District's in discussions with
ch2m Hill regarding a contract to assess
operations in the facilities and
maintenance department of the district
and proposed improvements my husband
David nolles is a vice president area
manager of C TM Hill the fact this fact
creates an actual Conflict for me and as
a result I will not be participating in
any deliberate deliberation or decision
on the contract uh and I will announce
00h 50m 00s
this uh conflict on my recusal at this
board meeting and I will leave while
you're discussing okay thank you um
discussion
Paul uh yes uh Yousef are you the point
person for this contract yes
okay now I I was part of the initial
discussions and at that point I had some
concerns about the actual assessment
that ch2m hill was going to be doing on
our buildings uh in
particular the people they were
assigning to it did not seem to have the
capacity to get through our
buildings uh in the certainly not in the
timeline they were proposing and not
even this summer now in what we have
seen with the revised proposal I still
have some questions about that because
initially each assessment for each
building they said was going to take 40
man
hours and it looks from the numbers like
that's been cut back to
15 and is that going to be adequate for
the need so we RIS the scope um we
scaled it back significantly MH uh due
to the cost and and other factors and to
give us time to do full assessment so
you can look at this as the first phase
in the assessment we're trying to focus
on the cafeteria and the food
preparation facilities and that's where
we're trying to address at this point
largely and that's why they're scaling
back in number of hours you see in the
uh in the scope okay so the scope is not
for building wide it's for areas of
critical need correct okay
um it
looks yeah I'll get to you but first um
it looks from the number of people
number of hours that they're going to be
working on this for the next seven weeks
at least yep so I wanted it explicit and
very public they are not going to be
through with even the first phase of
this assessment until right before kids
come back to
school I don't know if I have guarantees
that's going to happen um we will try
our best that's that's where we are at
at best I I should have said okay uh no
goad keep
going no that's good for now Steve
please so this is an assessment of risk
assessment for each of our schools what
is it specifically they're assessing
here so we're focusing on the food
preparation facilities and cafeterias at
this point because they that's where the
priority we want to make sure we can
prepare the food with um fresh water
that we make sure it's it's it's good
water to to use it for that purpose so
that's that's the scope of work we're
focusing on the cafeterias and just
making the assessment in addition to
that is providing us Gap analysis in
term of where we are um the beg your
pardon would you repeat please gab
analysis so they look at the facility
they look they get the water reading
which is we're doing as we speak um
they'll analyze that they'll look at the
cafeteria and the food preparation
facility and tell us what the problem is
that's the extent of the assessment that
lead paint no as this is not
environmental assessment on this one no
blood pain this is
focused just
water okay okay um as long as I know
where we're going yeah what we're doing
okay
Paul thank you for asking those
questions and and your response because
now that raises another
question
uh by Gap
analysis this means that ch2mhill will
tell us what we need to do with the
water
sources in those critical areas in order
to make them
safe no
I they will tell us what's wrong with
our facilities that's what they're going
to tell us there is no recommendation in
term of what's our action plan that's
that's a a different phase a different
engagement but which you need you need
to have the assessment before you make
that case correct correct that will give
us the foundation to establish that
y Steve so it tells us like is it uh
lead in the pipe sort of the lid in the
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faucet correct things like that
yes
okay that
okay I have my questions are on the next
thing okay um Paul any
other no thank you I think we've got
that clear now so okay I mean it's it is
it is a scaled back version of phase one
that we need to do in my in my view okay
um all those uh in favor of resolution
5289 please indicate by saying yes yes
yes yes all those
opposed um with abstention from director
NES and she said yes and Julie said yes
so uh the resolution passes 6 to Zer is
student representative yes voting yes
okay um we now will consider 5290 is
there a motion to consider
it so moved been moved is there a second
a second moved by director Anthony
second by director constam um 5290
discussion
Steve I'm going to use this to ask some
questions about where we
are so we we don't have a plan to look
at the lead pain in our schools this
summer I mean I haven't heard one this
isn't one no we're going to test for
test people for lad which not beyond the
scope of what would be um normally
included in our right well we have done
some and I will say the last time we did
a um a one-time investment um you part
of what we put money in for was lead
abatement lead paint abatement in I
think we had four School sites yeah we
did four we did an abatement in four
schools in fact I talked to the guy yeah
uh I think it was a woman actually do we
need more money to do that yes very
limited so we could have and we know we
have some lead paint in some other areas
are we working to get that hang on I'm
going to have David hubs come up how are
we going to find out where that lead
paint is and what we need to do to take
care of it let me ask David hop speak to
this specifically or the or s bestus
which is hanging around out there do we
have I mean I don't know what we got or
not got I'm not sure anybody does and I
definitely think we should know and we
should be working towards taking care of
it good evening again David HS senior
director of facilities and asset
management um so to answer your question
uh we this year out of our capital
budget allocation in 438 fund 438 uh
have allocated 12 $25,000 for lead paint
abatement there's an annual carve out in
our capital budget for that in addition
we have our annual allocation of $50,000
that we're getting a grant from the city
of Portland Water Bureau uh that's an
annual Grant we've had for eight or nine
years that will go towards um lead paint
remediation I think as superintendent
Smith indicated we could certainly use
more um but that is what we have carved
out for this particular year associated
with lead paint
specifically your other question related
to Asbestos and other items we also have
an annual carveout of our same Capital
fund uh associated with hazardous
materials covers a whole variety of
things from indoor air quality testing
to asbest abatement uh the the gamut of
health and safety and I do not have that
specific number in our carve out for
this year but there is a an allocation
that that we made in our capital budget
for addressing those types of issues and
that tends to be the broken floor tile
uh that we need to go in in De baate and
things like that on smaller scale uh as
best as a
baate so so we've got a lot of lead
paint out there that we know about that
we're not abating if you want to use as
abating a word I think it is
prob is that the answer we got a lot of
lead paint out in our schools that we're
not taking care of our school a the age
of our school building me we have lead
in a variety of our systems including in
our pipes that's correct well I don't
mean in the pipes the pipes one paint
today still continues to have aspects of
lead in it on a modern day paint today
but yes from the age of our buildings we
do have um lead paint in our
buildings so how many buildings you
think we got lead paint
in I I I I couldn't answer that
specifically do we know
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where I know but I will say that because
I was in the bond committee today and
there're good you know that they are
doing that assessment as we speak is my
understanding we're assessing yeah so we
paint what what we presented this
morning at the bond committee we
indicated
um I don't want to get my numbers wrong
so I won't I won't speak that number but
uh we indicated roughly 2 sites that we
had indicated as consideration for um
funding and we had brought that forward
we indicated we needed a much broader
assessment um and prioritization of lead
paint for Thank you Pam wasn't expecting
these questions this evening no I came I
kind we identified $870,000 as an
estimate for 20 sites um and and that
additional sites would be continued to
work through our recommendation was
through an environmental consultant to
help us to prioritize those but most of
our buildings in the district have lead
paint somewhere in them that's on the
age of the buildings the 20 sites we
came up with
are are those the most serious sites
would you say or there is just that we
grabbed 20 and they happen to come about
kind of like we did the lead paint with
the Creston and the Rose City Park we
just kind of grabbed out it and COL two
came up and I mean is that the way we
did the 20 or did there we had and
looked and we said okay these are the
most serious SES right so for the lead
paint that came forward um this year in
the recommendation there of the 20 sites
we have rankings from one to four on the
condition of the lead paint we have a
variety of those um in each of those
categories that actually um were were in
this list of 20 that we had identified
um some were some of the worst that we
have others were in areas that are are
around our smallest and youngest
children who are most at risk so it's
kind kind of prioriti them correct so we
have 20 prioritized sites that would
cost us $875,000 to take care of the
lead paint that's that's an estimate let
me make sure that I'm clear on that
that's an estimate that we we might want
to we might want to give
900,000 to make sure you might want to
put a buffer on that number that's crazy
this is really and and it's not I'm not
preaching to you I'm preaching to us
this is really troubling it's troubling
to me that we have 20 sites that we know
where we have lead paint that we just
had an entire
National hubub over lead in our water
which is almost every place I read they
say the lead paint is more dangerous
than the lead in the water I don't know
if that's true cuz I'm not an expert but
I read quite a bit lately on it and it
keeps saying that and we're talking
under a million dollars to fix these 20
major sites basically kind of close to
that to fix at least portions of the
site they may not the worst part of them
the worst the most serious things we're
talking under a million dollars and we
can't find that
money I don't get it I don't get I can
find the money I'm sorry I found the
money I'll tell you exactly where to get
million dollar if you want ask me I'll
tell you there's a million dollars and I
think we need to take care of this I
maybe we need to go borrow a million
dollars to take care of these sites this
summer maybe we borrow a million dollars
uh and we pay it back over a period of
five years but we should be taking care
of these particular sites they're just
too important to not do and I don't
understand how we can sit here and not
do that you know uh I don't know okay I
I I can't make a motions because there's
a motion before the floor but I think we
need
to not do our typical brush off where we
say we're going to look at this and then
we don't look at it I think we need to
not I mean the districtwide not the
school board I have a lot of faith in
this school board as a matter of fact
we've done a lot of stuff that people
aren't seeing and we're not getting
credit for and I think it's really sad
in a way but I think we need to really
look and come forward with a plan to
take care of this n it's $900,000 let's
find it let's borrow the money let's do
what we do let's clean up these worst
sites and then move forward with the
other sites all right I agree with you I
I got okay I've got other questions that
are about the other that are actually
about the thing that we're talking about
go for it okay I have a question I
question for Steve Steve go ahead do you
know what year
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it was discovered that lead paint was so
bad you mean total year yeah do you know
61 or something when 1961 I think so
this has been a problem for a long time
including the time when you were in the
school board before M I never heard
about when I was in the school board
before we were kind of dealing with race
issues well and a lot of other issues
too no I mean I did this is not a new
issue I fixed all the pl no it's not a
new issue it's not a new issue it never
came up though then it's too bad that it
didn't I'd have sure been for fixing the
paint then maybe we wouldn't have the
problem now what what's your question on
the real issue uh the other issue is we
got money in here for this looks to me
like it's money for
uh it's money for
teers provide employees blood screenings
for
lead okay which is fine it's
$250,000
we can we're going to get a lot more
lead in the next three or four next
three weeks for children in
lead do we have a plan for that are are
we in touch with the county and is the
county going to do the the the screening
for all 40 schools that we find let in
now coming up I mean it's going to be
pretty close to 40 maybe more than that
maybe 50 we don't know though because
we're still trying to get the stuff out
of them they're they're moving so the
has said they'll um schedule their next
round of clinics with us when we get
back our first round when we start
getting back the water Tes so they're
going to base it based on yeah we have
them saying that they will do that
they're just waiting till we get results
on the water testing before they is how
come we didn't just covered uh uh for
these employees instead of having our
own screening at 250,000 why didn't we
just pay for their
uh their
co-pay you want to get to you know Steve
after last meeting we had a meeting with
the stakeholders and this solution was
proposed in the stakeholders and that's
what the stakeholders agreed to in term
of all the association represent who
proposed this solution um we proposed it
and it was a preferred method rather
than pay for the coopay um that's that's
what everybody agreed to so this is in
lie of employees going to their own
providers corre that they're covered
by
all right any other questions that was
right
can that was correct we're correct here
on this I'm not saying you're not
correct but I'm I'm just wondering why
we chose one of the other one 250,000 if
we did co-pays for people in those
schools would it be anywhere near
250,000 what your co-a one one of the
things that was brought up at the
meeting have a lot of employees who
don't Insurance the
distri oh really okay all right
you going to put everybody under the one
thing okay might have been cheaper to do
the employees that didn't have insurance
one way and the to the other but what
the heck I'm
here okay all right all those I'm sorry
two questions very quickly uh
Yousef how many of the employees is this
for is this for everyone this is for all
the employees yes thank you and what
kind of outreach are we going to do to
let them no and is there a time
deadline I don't have that info our
benefit office will be doing that
they'll be send in one of the Outreach
we will do is put um brochures for them
in the envelope for the payroll so we
make sure we reach them at home and
there will be other mechanism we're
going to go through the association send
email and um I believe the letter is
being drafted and distribute it to our
partners in the associations to look at
it and and give us their feedback but
they'll be there'll be massive Outreach
I mean we we'll do everything we can to
to each other excellent thank you Amy so
what is the um the projected cost per
employee who seeks blood testing from
this provider it's about
$45
okay all right
um all those favor of resolution
5290 please indicate by saying I I I I I
I all those
opposed any abstentions I'll
abstain the resolution passes with a uh
six to zero with one abstention with
student representative Davidson voting I
voting I
okay um the next meeting of of the board
will be held on June 28 2016 and this
01h 10m 00s
meeting is
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