2016-10-25 PPS School Board Regular Meeting
| District | Portland Public Schools |
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| Date | 2016-10-25 |
| Time | missing |
| Venue | missing |
| Meeting Type | regular |
| Directors Present | missing |
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Event 1: Board of Education - Regular Meeting - October 25, 2016
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good evening the regular meeting of the
Board of Education for October 25th 2016
is called to order welcome to everyone
present into our television viewers any
item that we 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 for
replay times this meeting is also being
streamed live on our PBS TV services
website we will start off with student
testimony miss Houston are there any
students signed up for student testimony
there is not all right at this time we
will have public comment this Houston do
we have anyone signed up for public
comment we do we have six and our first
two speakers are shali McFarland and Bob
earnest please come on up welcome
good evening good evening my name is Bob
Ernest first of all I would like to
thank Mike Rosen for assisting me in the
public comment section of the October
10th board meeting and I'd also like to
he also explained the procedure and made
it call to Tom Koehler who assisted in
getting me on the agenda on the public
comment section so thank you and I'm
sorry that Tong's not here thank you
very much I graduated for Franklin High
School as did my son I recently learned
of a move to remove the Quaker mascot
from Franklin High School after the
mascot has been in place for at least
100 years I started by reading the PTAs
a meeting minutes of 9 21 16 and then
started following the issue on facebook
I'm new to Facebook this is like three
weeks since I've actually discovered it
very very interesting I've been looking
at all the comments that are opposing
the elimination of the mascot as well as
those in favor of eliminating the mascot
Franklin High School Alumni Association
has sent out about 4,000 emails to
Franklin High graduates since october
eleventh over 2,000 responses have been
in favor of keeping the mascot while
less than 50 responses support removing
the mascot to Franklin High graduates
responded who are active members of the
friends church one writer shared that
she has not heard from other friends who
are offended by the use of the name
Franklin Quakers she lives in baker city
oregon i'd like to read a portion of a
letter from another Franklin High
graduate who is also a member of the
friends church the letter states I am
writing to you both as a Franklin alumni
and a member of the friends church it
has come to my attention that there is a
proposal to change the name from the
Franklin Quakers due to a complaint by
another member of the friends church and
I would like to share my feelings about
this proposal as well as the reaction I
from other members of the yearly meeting
regarding this issue as a Franklin
alumni I have always felt pride in the
Quaker name and as a member of the
French church rather than be offended
while the Quaker name is used in secular
society I am filled with pride that the
Quaker name is held in such high regard
to me the Quaker name stands for honesty
integrity justice and honor and I
believe that these beliefs are also held
by the Franklin community I was curious
how many other members of the church
felt so I posed this question are you
offended or bothered by the Quaker name
being used in secular society on
buildings streets schools etc the
response I got was a unanimous know and
she capitalized n 0 out of the 50 plus
responses I received not one member had
any negative feelings on the matter and
quite a fan quite a lot felt as I do
filled with pride can I continue sure
just wrap it up quickly thank you I will
I hope you will share these sentiments
etc etc and this is signed by Donna
Gunther treadaway class of nineteen
eighty-seven Franklin High School this
email received over 200 positive
responses there's a growing community
support to keep the name Franklin High
Quakers in closing I have a question for
the board has there been discussion
within the board or discussion with
legal counsel about the next steps thank
you very much I think the answer to your
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question is no I know we have heard from
lots of members of the community about
this issue okay thank you very much
thank you Miss Hughes it our next two
speakers are Richard Green stead and
grace groom
my name is Richard Greene stead
superintendent McCain members of the
board student representative thanks for
the opportunity to speak to see me I'd
like to start by just thanking the board
for voting in the aqua green middle
school on the opening of the middle
school it was the right decision then
it's still the right decision today you
know students are getting a diverse set
of electives they're getting the
instruction time they need there's been
some bumps along the way but i think you
know we have a bright future ahead as we
can work through some of these bumps i
hope we'll learn from some of these
bumps as we move toward opening Harriet
Tubman and Rose way heights middle
school what I'm seeing is a lack of
urgency in some of the leadership
positions we need proactive leadership
the urgency should not only happen from
parent advocacy I'd like to see urgency
without advocacy pushing that urgency
I'd like to have a clear responsibility
or a clear understanding of
responsibilities within the district our
principals offered supports for
scheduling in a building who's
responsible for ensuring site councils
at every school I don't know who's
responsible for doing that which
position oversees the role of
restorative justice within a building
who ensures that it's being used
appropriately is that oversight
happening are we looking at trends in
disproportionate discipline to make sure
our students of color or not you know
being over-represented and who's calling
families when they unenrolled from a
school to ask why did you leave what
happened the district and the public
deserve to know the requirements of
these leadership positions what I'd like
to ask is that we get a job description
of different positions there's many
pieces to the puzzle to put this
together and everybody needs to know
who's responsible so they can take
ownership of those issues and nothing
not everybody's not pointing fingers
saying well that was their thing and
that was their thing right we need
leaders that find solutions to difficult
problems leaders that admit when they're
wrong
and leaders that work tirelessly for the
betterment of our district accepting
anything less is a disservice to our
students at best and it worse is causing
direct harm to our students our
graduation rate depends on this work we
can do better future middle schools
should not have to rely on parent
advocates to get things done and to get
leaders to act please take a hard look
at the leadership culture we have within
the district we have an opportunity to
change that culture as interim
superintendent you can raise
expectations and foster that that
culture of proactive leadership I
believe we have the capacity for this
ask thank you thank you for what I
wanted to come here and talk with you
tonight I've written a lot of letters in
the past four years been to a lot of
meetings and I am tired of asking for
the same thing which is educational
justice for Madison cluster that's what
I'm here to ask about tonight again just
as too long delayed delayed is justice
denied that was written in 1963 by the
Reverend dr. Martin Luther King and it's
applicable today we've been waiting for
10 years to have issues of educational
justice be addressed since the great
reconfiguration happened and we are at
being asked to wait again another year
what's going to happen when we get a new
superintendent you guys on the board are
the boss of everyone you are the ones
that decide what happens and you are the
ones who decide who gets what I'm asking
you here tonight to require that the
PPS staff take a hard look at what are
the priorities that are still on the
table for this next year if they do not
address educational equity for our most
vulnerable students are they number one
essential for running the district if
not those things need to wait not our
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students for another year at the start
of another decade I don't want to just
rant I'd like to also give some
suggestions number one engage the
community go to the schools that are
impacted by the delay find out what
their needs are for this year and for
next year to provide education justice
for those students engage the students
don't go to Panasonic and sit in the
conference room and make something up
from scratch we've been saying what we
need for 10 years come and listen and
take action for that also in terms of
boundaries really focus in on the
boundaries around madison cluster
madison has said before and we're going
to say it again that without a solid
commitment for opening roseway heights
middle school there shouldn't be another
building opened as a neighborhood school
within the madison cluster we need to
know the feeder patterns we need to know
it's going to feed two rows we heights
middle school that is going to open and
that it will feed to Madison without
that you're just listening to the same
voices again and not doing what's right
for the cluster so again just please
come and see our schools talk to the
families they're tired too they're tired
of talking but if you make a real effort
to get there and to find out what is it
that we need and really make a
commitment budget wise to make those
things happen they'll tell you what they
need we're real people with real love
for our kids and a real passion for
what's happening in our schools so
please come out and talk to us and make
it happen thank you very much
our last two speakers are Scott Bailey
and Petra Callen
good evening directors and Kane Chaisson
keep talking it okay well thanks thanks
for your service thanks for listening
tonight to us I want to talk about the
2017 bond of course there that sounds
better there are a lot of hard feelings
after the delay of the bond from
november to next Bay we need to start
now to start to heal those feelings to
work them through and to start planning
now for that 2017 bond we need to start
working now on community outreach before
we ask for money we have a really good
story to tell about the 2012 bond we
have a lot of people who are eager to go
out and tell that story to neighborhood
associations pta's business groups the
community and large we need to do that
now we need to start it now before we
have an actual ask in addition the
outcome of the election with the passage
of measure 97 will give us more options
in terms of how to deal with our
pressing capital needs so I'm asking
please reach out to us now in the
community to show that the passage of
the bond in May is a priority to show
that collaboration with the community
and developing that bond and passing it
is a priority so we can turn this into a
big win for the community thanks again
thank you he'll the green light still on
wait a minute
that means I get your time yep hi hi
good evening thank you so much for
having me and Patrick Allen principal at
Madison and I appreciate y'all letting
me on the agenda I have some community
members asked me to speak tonight about
the health and welfare of the Madison
cluster which I have a great passion for
so we do a lot of bridge building at
Madison High School the Madison cluster
boundary is a sprawling upside down L on
the fringe of Portland's map its
stringent stretches from 22nd and
Lombard all the way over to the airport
and from there six miles straight down
82nd avenue all the way to southeast
holgate just visualizing it you can
start to imagine how this long ago
gerrymander cluster boundary makes it
difficult to build a neighborhood
community that feels cohesive and beyond
that the unintentional inconsistency
from having many separated k8 feeders
are a complicating factor in our
students and academic and social
connection to the high school one of the
most important ways we've learned to
build bridges in spite of these
challenges at Madison is through a
serious focus on academics academics in
the high school depend on a
well-articulated cluster strengthened by
academically consistent and equitable
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instruction at the middle school level
we need students to have access to
compacted math and lab sciences we need
students to have access to consistent
supports we need students to have
opportunities to explore interests and
hook them on their education we need
students that go through school feeling
connected to their community right now
students coming to madison high school
are scattered between 27 different
schools and the Cape model as it stands
doesn't have the resources or
infrastructure to efficiently and
equitably support a cohesive academic
program the Madison k-8 with the
exception of roseway are housed in
buildings with enrollments that don't
bring enough resources to provide
equitable programming
these issues have had and will continue
to have a large impact on Madison High
School beyond the normal hard work we do
within our school to provide the
education and supports our students
deserve we must also combat an unfair
reputation that drives some of our
families to find alternatives to Madison
there are clear unintended consequences
that play out for us every year one
example the regular facility could no
longer handle the k-8 that was shoved in
it Beaumont had room now beaumonts a
split feeder Beaumont is traditionally
and historically however a grant feeder
and the conversation in the hallways at
that school about which school is
superior is as we can imagine when
students aren't connected to Madison
they don't want to go to madison high
school redesign challenge the system to
ensure that our comprehensive high
schools reach 1,350 students many years
later we aren't even close and are still
shy of 1100 we lose many students to
options such as Benson and now that
Benson's ninth grade class will be
increased to 360 Madison will be
compromised even further one might argue
that it's incumbent upon us to create a
high school that families want to go to
we have held up our end of the bargain
we've increased our graduation rate over
20 points without the benefits that
focus options have we've added
incredible programs such as engineering
and biomedical science and our AP and
dual credit offerings are extensive our
teachers work in collaborative teams
every day to increase the quality and
effectiveness of instruction in our
building as an example of this rigorous
academic work in our next generation
science standard aligned chemistry for
all programs eighty-three percent of
sophomores from all subgroups passed in
its first year of implementation Benson
is a tremendous school it really is but
it's important to know that when
students don't do well there they
frequently come back to Madison credit
deficient and impact our graduation
rates this year's 17 students so far
have come back to us already
you can extrapolate that to 68 students
over four years students who move into
the area also can't go to our focus
options but can enroll at the
neighborhood high school like Madison no
matter what their credit situation is
two years ago I found that twelve
percent of the school students who
didn't graduate from us in 4 years came
to as credit deficient from other
schools including our focus options
that's not to say that there's a
inherent problem with that that's to say
that we need to understand what we're
talking about when we're talking about
how schools are doing we are bridge
builders at Madison we embrace all of
our students and work hard to provide
them with the education they need no
matter their history or prior
performance at any other school every
school has its strengths and its place
and we must not forget to recognize
Madison's we as a system need to be
careful that when we push Benson up we
ensure that the unintended consequence
is not that we push Madison down the
fact is that increasing Bensons freshman
enrollment will come at the expense of
Madison's enrollment if we are not
careful middle schools are an efficient
way to ensure this equitable systemic
balance a middle school system can
provide consistent opportunities for
students and lay the groundwork for a
stronger community before students come
to the high school a middle school or to
align middle schools are a best bet to
have a cohesive cluster that provides
opportunities that support students to
engage successfully both academically
and socially in their neighborhood high
school we can do better and our students
deserve better if we're not careful and
do not work to build articulation
support and enrollment we will continue
to disenfranchise the community Madison
High School this neighborhood school
which we have worked to build up will be
dismantled our community and its schools
are incredibly rich and worthy of
support speaking selfishly about the
school that I've dedicated the last
seven years to don't let it become an
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unintended
consequence it's a vibrant school with
an incredible and dedicated staff and a
great deal to offer our students please
make Madison a place where we can
continue to build bridges and prepare
our students to make a stronger Portland
set a timeline and prioritize the
cluster wide including high school
structural boundary and enrollment work
it's the right thing to do this cluster
deserves to be a priority and not
collateral damage thank you very much s
Houston do we have one more nope that's
it alright student representative Alima
Bradley hi um I really briefly just
wanted to give you guys an update about
super sac and what's going on so we've
had two meetings so far and they're
going great we have every school
represented except Madison actually and
so that would be great if we could get
some reps for Madison but we are working
on social media and a way for students
to understand and get the information
that we're talking about up here in
board meetings and then we also are
working on our own interpretation of the
set of recommendations that Benson and
we can put forward after on the bond
situation and we decided to have two
separate sets of recommendations one for
you guys and how to support us in
including student voice and the
processes here and then also for the
bong committee on how to include student
voice over there so that's we're working
on right now and we're very excited
about it and you guys will be seeing
those soon faster thank you thanks for
building now
okay superintendent McCain oh thank you
good evening everyone I'm trying to
clear my voice here after I first of all
want to thank the powerful and
compelling voices from Madison cluster
it was very interesting and that
definitely puts you in my mind so thank
you for sharing first thing I want to do
is just spend a few minutes talking
about our senior directors there was a
question that came up about what they do
a couple of meetings ago the senior
director position is comparable to that
of an assistant superintendent in
smaller districts senior directors of
school clusters supervised 12 schools
that's 5,000 students and over have
oversight responsibilities for all staff
and aspects of their school's academic
programs and operations they are
responsible for coaching and supervising
building principals they deal with many
very complex difficult issues involving
students parents and staff individuals
who are chosen for these positions are
highly skilled and have led their
schools to positive results they help
other principals do the same for these
reasons senior directors are very
valuable to our organization thank you
I'm going to move on here and talk a
little bit about the summer bond work
this was a busy summer as construction
crews made improvements to seven
portland public schools schools as part
of the 482 million-dollar school
improvement bond passed by voters in
2012 abernathy savez cleveland jefferson
and the metropolitan learning center of
the metropolitan learning center and
scott schools received a number of
upgrades to facilities the complete list
would take too long to share here but
some of the work includes seismic
upgrades new roofing and improvements to
science classrooms bathrooms and
drinking fountains that some schools are
also made more accessible to students
with disabilities construction continues
that fobby on as part of the 32 PhD
partnership with Concordia work also
continues at franklin and roosevelt high
schools and if you've not been by those
schools you really owe it to yourself to
go I've driven by Franklin twice now it
took some friends just incredible
they're doing and that in Roosevelt as
well final phase of the 2012 blind
construction will be complete sometime
in 2019 as we move forward with the work
of presenting another bond to our voters
it is important to highlight successes
from the previous Bond our
communications team shot a terrific
video of the opening day at Roosevelt
High School it is an example of the
impact bond dollars have on our
facilities and students let's take a
look at the video
I love bragging about rose about how
it's a new school and 92 million dollar
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school exact how do i get it that is
going to go around this way follow the
path only nine people in the entire
world ever be able to say you were the
very first students ever to have classes
classes it means that it's like your own
legacy like I started this like I was
here first it's like being able to like
the bragging rights he's being able to
say I was here for all
I think everybody's really excited this
is the first new high school building
that Portland Public Schools is open in
more than 50 years well i graduated from
Roosevelt High School back when
dinosaurs roamed the earth in 1975 and
fondly recall my years here love to see
our alumni come back and visit I think
it's powerful for our students to see
Roosevelt graduates assuming leadership
positions kids feel valued when we
invest back in them and they know that
the community cares about them first day
was great I was really excited to see
all the students I think everybody got
lost at least once including the staff
but and figured it out and at this point
we all know what we're supposed to be
Carly is overwhelmed because if we had
our school logo and we have our HS on it
and it may need to have you so I told my
staff as well as our students and alumni
that this is not the new Roosevelt this
is Roosevelt and we are staying
connected to a history or start staying
connected to our community and one of
the things that we've done in these new
buildings is to represent where we come
from so the old center court is
prominently featured in the entryway we
have the old bleachers paneling the
walls and this this new library clearly
is is connected to to the old auditorium
probably the most important thing for
people to recognize is that the
modernization work continues here at
Roosevelt some of the spaces are
complete and ready to go other spaces
are still continuing to be developed
we're done with phase one and our
beginning phase two which to work on the
original 1928 building to surprise what
happy here everyone's getting happy
because walking a new thing see new
things for new day
we are increasing efforts to ensure that
all students enroll in the appropriate
schools based upon their actual home
addresses we have set up a tip line for
anonymous reporting of questionable
address addresses see the tip line there
on on the slide the enrollment and
transfer center is providing resources
and training to school staff who check
on proofs of address their combined
efforts have resulted in some students
being routed back to their correct
neighborhood schools this year more
information about the address
verification process will be shared at
the boards next business and operations
committee meeting
each year teachers around the state are
selected at civic scholars by State
House and Senate men are members these
teachers are recognized for outstanding
abilities and commitment to civic
education representing a senate district
18 our Diana Collins a 6th grade science
teacher at Robert gray middle school and
Julie O'Neal a social science teacher at
Lincoln High School senate district 22
is represented by robin Griffiths a PPS
equity teacher on special assignment
House District 33 is represented by
Lincoln High School's de Valle a social
studies teacher representing House
District 41 our paddy kelly kelly doe
thank you called feel Calvillo thank you
a fifth grade teacher at Dunaway
elementary school I did practice that
when I just messed it up Richard straße
land eighth grade social studies teacher
at sellwood middle school house district
42 is represented by Michael Williams a
social studies teacher at Grant House
District 45 is being represented by
Jason Miller a social studies teacher at
madison high school and finally House
District 45 is represented by Lisa
Sweeney from Vestal elementary school
teachers selected will receive free
registration for the civics conference
for teachers at the State Capitol in
December as well as travel assistance
and assistance in their classrooms after
the conference classroom law project
sponsors the conference to provide high
quality professional development and
civic education for teachers around the
state I will tell you that I had Dave
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Bailey as my civics teacher so that
tells you he's been at it for a long
time next is the art educator educator
of the year winners Portland Public
Schools also has two distinguished art
educators who have won the state's
highest award for art education from the
Oregon art education association Michael
Simmons of Buckman elementary school was
named Oregon art teacher of the year
Michael is in the running for national
art education associations art educator
of the year award and Vernon
Elementary's Anna mature Machir was
awarded the or
an elementary level art teach art
education of the year our communications
team put together a video stories on
both teachers if you'd like to learn
more about them those stories are on the
district's website and congratulations
to both Michael and Anna on Wednesday
October 19th BPS was directed by the
Portland Police Bureau to evacuate
students and staff from much Paul
Learning Center due to concerns about
the gas line near the school following
an explosion nearby with help from
police and trimet we brought
approximately four hundred and twenty
students and fifty staff here to bes see
here is a video that shows how a male
eamon's discussing the efforts my name
is Molly emmons and I'm the emergency
preparedness manager for portlick
schools so today we activated our
reinfect and this was due to a closure
of mlc and there was a large explosion
if he blocks away from mlc we determined
that the best thing to do was to bring
the students here to our administration
building we activated our reunification
plan and it's a very systematic way that
we reunite parents and our Guardians
with students we have a parent check-in
we have a parent staging area and a
student is an assembly area we brought
food in for this students our nutrition
services team with a law on the fly to
bring up food and beverages for the
students so they were able to have lunch
in our lobby here at the administration
building
the staff here that we activated on the
fly did a great job they stepped in put
their other work aside to be able to
activate our plan and get students
safely back with their parents well you
know I will tell you the school district
did a fabulous job I am so impressed
they got these kiddos both communication
was great they even provided lunch I
mean couldn't ask for more thank you
Elizabeth Wilson the assistant principal
from mlc is here to talk a little bit
about how this went from the school's
perspective a really positive experience
that we had and we just wanted to thank
everybody at PPS for that in particular
we were just really impressed with not
only our staff and just how mindful they
were in evacuating kindergarteners all
the way through 12th graders in one
building using TriMet and so the things
that really stood out were just the
partnerships and great communication
with the Portland Police Department and
also try MIT and when we arrived we were
greeted really warmly with a high level
of concern and empathy shown from all
district personnel and that was really
refreshing and really reassuring a lot
of like do you need anything what can I
do to help just felt really supported
staff at the district we're really
visible so they were wearing as you saw
in the video vests and so it's really
easy to navigate through who to contact
and if we needed anything for help lunch
was provided for not only our students
but then the district ordered lunches
for our staff and they really
appreciated that those who stayed until
about three o'clock so thank you for
that and the parent reunification area
as you saw was just really organized all
the laptops were up
you know parents were very appreciative
and it was just really clear that it was
really well-organized also just logistic
wise security and Anthony checked in at
mlc right after the explosion happened
so they came to our building right away
and checked in with me and Pam and just
were like listen we're here we're going
to get a plan ready we're going to be in
full communication with you just be on
hold after the fact there was a debrief
with police transportation nutrition and
that Pam said was really positive and
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PPS safety and security was also really
helpful in that and not needed but also
student services contacted us so Nicole
caps Lavigne and Tammy Jackson followed
up with a possible counseling plan for
any of our students that may have
experienced trauma but we didn't need
that at the end again we just felt
really super supported and some things
that we want to just address as far as
kind of maybe going forward and perhaps
the there's other schools who sent out
messengers before ours went out so it
caused a little bit of confusion so
being clear that the messenger should
come from that school that's being
evacuated as opposed to their
surrounding school saying what's going
to happen because the information didn't
necessarily go out right and then a plan
for reunification over the phone so
there seemed to be a just a high need
for parents on the phone saying hey I've
got a middle school or high schooler
this is me so we were able to do a
little bit of maneuvering on that but
just maybe a more clear plan for maybe
folks specific phone lines that parents
could call and those people would be
there to do the phone reunification over
the phone and then we just forgot to put
a note on our door so that was our bad
but putting a note that we're evacuating
to the BES see um
and then I'm going to end on a positive
which is the attention to detail from
Amanda Whalen and she was able to
contact Mike Schadt early he oversees
testing because that was the day that we
happen to be PSAT testing and so what do
you know the question was what do we do
with kids who didn't finish and they
just got back to us really quickly
because I know that was a real anxiety
through those kids who SAT through most
of that test and then had to be
evacuated so we really appreciated it
and we thought it went really well and
just kudos to to the district for that
so thank you thank you and i would i
would like to specifically recognized in
addition to Molly Courtney Wilton's
Sasha parens and Amanda Whalen for the
work they did I was just actually amazed
I did my little a bit about by standing
outside and greeting kids because I just
like kids but they were they were
remarkable also like to thank police the
fire department certainly TriMet for
providing the buses and rose garden for
opening their facilities for parents to
park while they came to get their kids
we have a lot of heroes on our staff but
one was recognized recently for great
work he had it outside of his work with
PPS brian mayer a PPS painter recently
received a citizen life-saving award
from the local gladstone police
department for taking action in a crisis
Brian's next-door neighbor went into
cardiac arrest Brian performed CPR until
medical help arrived helping to save the
neighbors life a local TV station
featured Brian throwing efforts let's
take a look at that story only on 12 a
Gladstone man is being called a hero
after saving his neighbor's life and as
Fox told kelsey watch shows us it all
played out in frantic moments captured
on a 911 to hear my age okay we're gonna
hold on i have a one what's the address
of the emergency case not breathing ok
who's not breathing my husband Terry
Barton will never forget the day she
made that 911 it was horrifying I can
I I really can't put into words how it
felt her husband Steve of 42 years had
slumped over on the couch at their
Gladstone apartment his heart wasn't
beating he was in cardiac arrest is
there anybody else there with you right
now oh okay you're not able to take him
out of the bed right you can pull him to
the floor no big big burden as the call
plays out you can hear Terry going for
help knocking on her next door
neighbor's front door Carrie what's your
life back teri marzi and once you're
back brian byers has no medical
background he works as a union painter
and was trained in CPR she says we need
to pull him down onto the ground as soon
as he hit the ground for some reason the
training that I got hit me oh he's on
the ground now I know what to do
compressions guy who's doing CPR over
here all right can we keep yard passes
his memory goes it's been a while you're
doing it twice per second at least two
inches deep right yes sir you just don't
get all right that's right we're not
giving up and he never did he didn't
count it out for me one two three four
you three four he gave Steve more than
100 chest compressions before medics got
there I was want to hear it where's my
yard Steve went minutes without a
heartbeat and medics shocked him three
00h 40m 00s
times but it's thanks to Brian he's
alive and well he doesn't remember a
thing yeah she told me what happened at
that Wow awesome I mean I just couldn't
believe it I couldn't remember in it we
replayed the 911 for them it's the first
time they've heard it either driving to
you right now oh but now I know here I
was in the right spot the right time I
hope anybody who was in that situation
would do the same thing they were later
reunited with all the first responders
and Brian was given a citizen
life-saving award from Gladstone fire
i'm going to take cpr I don't ever want
to be in a position where somebody needs
help and I can't do anything I don't
ever want to be in that position and
they're not neighbors anymore they're
family there's nothing we can ever say
or do that
and came enough and there he'll always
have a really special place in our
hearts obviously in gladstone kelsey
wats Fox 12 Oregon lastly I'd like to
say a few words about public records
requests as Carol outlined in our exit
memo to you this summer the events
around the environmental health and
safety issue revealed that need to
reform how PPS processes and manages
public records requests as you know the
volume of requests over the last several
months in particular has been
extraordinarily extraordinary even if
staff were operating at full capacity as
a district attorney actor accurately
noted PPS is understaffed in this area
and I agree we also need to have clarity
in our process for the public media and
internal staff we must improve the way
we facilitate and respond a records
request so that they are timely relevant
and uphold our commitment to
transparency so as to contribute to
public discourse about PPS we need to
balance our commitment to transparency
with policies that comply with all
federal and state laws so student
student identity and privacy is
protected as needed to these ends we
have developed a new position which was
posted today today a public records
officer we also need to continue to
advance our records digitization and we
need to continue to rebuild the other
court administrative functions by hiring
staff and key positions that remain
vacant none of this work is in isolation
we must rebuild strategically and across
the district and that is where my focus
remains and I hope I continue to have
your support to do this as quickly as
possible but with time with the time to
also make sure we have the right people
to fill these important jobs that's my
report for this evening Thank You
superintendent thank you
alright the board will now consider the
business agenda board members are there
any items you'd like to pull for a
separate discussion and vote all right
seeing none miss Houston are there any
changes to the business agenda no do I
have a motion and second to adopt the
business agenda second move by director
Knowles seconded by director Anthony
miss Houston is there any public comment
on their business agenda any board
discussion seeing none the board will
now vote on the business agenda all in
favor please indicate by saying yes yes
yes all opposed please indicate by
saying no any abstentions the business
agenda is approved by a vote of 620 with
student representative Bradley voting
YES all right with that we will send you
all home to watch the blazers or the
Sources
- PPS Board of Education, Archive 2016-2017, https://www.pps.net/Page/10970 (accessed: 2022-03-24T00:57:51.375732Z)
- PPS Communications, "Board of Education" (YouTube playlist), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CC942A46270A16E (accessed: 2023-10-10T04:10:04.879786Z)
