2017-08-29 PPS School Board Regular Meeting

District	Portland Public Schools
Date	2017-08-29
Time	missing
Venue	missing
Meeting Type	regular
Directors Present	missing

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Event 1: Regular Meeting of the Board-August 29, 2017

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good good evening it's great to see everybody here everybody must be ready for it to get back to school the regular meeting of the Board of Education for July for August 29th 2017 is called to order welcome to everyone present and to our television viewers any item that will be voted on this evening has been posted as required by state law this meeting is being televised live and will be replayed throughout the next two weeks please check the board website for replay times this meeting is also being streamed live on our PBS TV Services website so interim superintendent Awad is absent this evening and I wanted to have reminder that we have our PBS emcee Budman Judy Martin on the corner attending all our regular board meetings Judy will be here to listen to the public comments and if appropriate provide additional support to families who need or want it Judy can be reached at 5:03 nine one six three zero four or five or at ombudsman at PBS net we also have interpreters with us this evening and I'd like to ask them to come forward at this time introduce themselves in the language they will be interpreting and inform the audience where they'll be located not aureum should someone need their assistance we're getting better at this I'm not sure your mics your mics not working I mean hombres se acaba who so interpreted espanol y voy a ser Sentara as yatras Jumanji what just use your mind stress Tweety yoga video another scam is the key pasta kimonos and Rose kiri would but I DT coming able to cite it on vestibular specimen any home wasn't Cogan 180 K don't mind finding wasn't even the gonna have an e you was young when I was a home in Miami taught you geography no quick anatomic being a bit noms inquiries are a fierce alcohol or I think I'm angry missing one of our transfer interpreters okay so thank you so before we first off tonight on our agenda is public comment period and that before we begin I'd like to review our guidelines for public comment the board thanks the community for taking the time to attend this medium provide your comments to the board we value public input as it informs our work and we look forward to hearing your thoughts reflections and concerns our responsibility as a board is to actively listen with our electronic devices turned off board members will not respond to comments or questions during public comment but our board manager Rosanna Powell will follow up on issues raised during public testimony guidelines for public input emphasize respect and consideration of others complaints about individual employees should be directed to the superintendent's office as a personnel matters if you're speaking during public comment you have a total of three minutes to share your comments please be stating your name and spelling your last name for the record during the first two minutes of your testimony a green light will appear and we want you have one minute remaining a yellow light will go on and your time's up a red light will
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go on we respectfully ask that when the red light goes on that you conclude your comments so we appreciate everybody coming this evening and for the for the input we're about ready to seve receive and with that mr. Houston do we have I know we have public comment this evening can you tell us who's up first sure we have a total of 8 speakers and our first two were students Lane Shaffer and Sophia Dexter are you Sophia hi my name is Lane Shaffer sh a FF er thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of my school access Academy so while I I am not twice exceptional I need access Academy at my neighborhood school they were not able to accommodate my needs we were I was reading Harry Potter while the rest of the class was reading like books by Beverly Cleary and such that just were not up to my reading level we went to the teacher for help and she essentially laughed and said that we would need to go to another school because they could not accommodate my needs there so I went I moved to a charter school now this school they did try to accommodate my tab needs but they're they're learning their education program was pretty much directly from the book after skipping 2nd grade there they told me that I would need to again skip a grade and so I would be a 3rd grader in a fifth grade setting that is not ideal at least for my social level so so then I moved to access now access is definitely not ideal it's not it's not the best school so well they don't have any electives they have no arts programs and they have no sports so tag kids need these too if we're talking about robust middle schools robust middle schools have tag programs as well as the electives sports and art programs so it's it's been hard for me to get the electives I need outside of school because I asked to use my own time and our own money to like do music and any sports I can't imagine a kid without my privileges trying to trying to get the accelerated learning and tag program they need in conclusion we need to we need a larger school where growth is possible so that all exceptional kids have the have the tag program they need as well as the electives they need thank you for having me a lot this fall so you're gonna be really helpful thank you go ahead my name is Sophia Dexter and I just graduated from Access Academy last fall in first grade we started with five girls and seventeen boys and this year the third grade is very similar with five girls and thirteen boys as my class evolved we ended with 13 out of around 60 kids being girls the boys far outnumbered the girls and even though this was clear and obvious we never talked about it when mr. wood was principal during middle school and during my middle school years he was doing he was trying very hard to improve the ratio of boys to girls but this never really took full effect because this year it is back to the way it was when I was in elementary school in general girls don't get identified as needing access as much but they are equally likely to test into the highly gifted range accesses reputation as a boy heavy school might be deterring girls from applying to access who are highly gifted and would have otherwise when I was in elementary school I had an we we're playing sports like soccer and things that I weren't very I wasn't very good at in PE and the boys got very competitive and they started making fun
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of me and teasing me and it was just traumatic in all and when I was in sixth grade my mom forced me to play volleyball to just get into a team sport and it changed me into a whole new person I felt so much more empowered and confident and I think the lack of availability of team sports at access makes it hard for other girls to make that same change in their mentality I now attend st. Mary's as Academy as a freshman and one of the driving factors of my decision to apply was that I had never gotten to experience a class where girls were the majority I thought the dynamic would be different and better for me than it was at access and it was or it has been I loved access and given the chance I would without hesitation apply again but I did if you feel the effects of a boy heavy population if we can even out the classes many girls will have an even better experience and sense of empowerment than I did thank you hello my name is Amelia kotemari KO ta ma RTI and I'm an eighth grader at access Academy and the reason that I'm here is because I think that the decision to block a lot of students who aren't exceptional from going into access should be changed I'm not twice exceptional but I still do need access just like many other highly gifted students you have more time I think that was it that's an error so I was going to start at access in first grade but the first grade was cut at the time so my teachers and family thought it best to have me skip a grade so I was born in June and since I was skipping a grade that's resulted in me being around one and a half years younger than all of my classmates so I know that skipping a grade works out for some kids but it really didn't for me I ended up struggling socially and I was still academically unchallenged this caused me to become more anxious and at the end of third grade I developed tics when I finally got into access I went back a year to be with the peers to be with peers the same age as me with the fast paced learning and the friends who understood me and what it was like to be highly gifted I soon became much more socially calm confident and my anxiety and tics disappeared so I think that the standard for access admissions this year is not what it should be access is a highly gifted program when that supports kids with IPs kids with 504's and kids was neither I'm afraid that the admissions process is turning down kids too many kids like me whose struggles were inside and hard to be seen accesses purpose is to challenge kids to learn up to their full potential its purpose is to help kids who have trouble learning in a normal environment and you don't need to be trust exceptional to have these problems its purpose is to meet the needs of all highly gifted students I hope that the decision is reconsidered and the doors to the kids who need access are reopened thank you thank you all for coming tonight in sharing their experiences I'm supposed to speak for a Barrett Holden she couldn't be here right now okay if she's I think the last last person signed up hi and thank you to the board members for giving me this opportunity to speak my name is Barrett Holden H o lden and I graduated from access two years ago I am here to speak to you about the importance of creating gender balance at access Academy my mom came to be today and asked me to speak about my experience at access as a girl who scored in the 99th percentile and has learning differences it is important to me to speak to you because I know girls needs are often overlooked in the classroom and as a feminist I want to do what I can to make a difference a dyslexia ADHD and anxiety in kindergarten my parents enrolled me in Winterhaven because I like science Winterhaven was a difficult place for me because we didn't know about my learning differences until fourth grade I had managed to hide my learning differences for five years and support in figuring that out and then helping me was nearly non-existent I was bullied by the other kids for not reading and writing as well as they did all the way from kindergarten through fifth grade even when the other kids knew I was dyslexic it was a toxic environment for me my parents and I decided I need to go somewhere else for middle school and we applied to access we also applied to da Vinci and I got into both it was a hard choice but when I visited access I loved the teachers and it felt really comfortable with the kids so I chose access I'm really glad I did the SPE D teacher and Marie Zak really understood my needs and gave me awesome support she is the best the teachers also understood my needs and were super supportive when I did have an issue our principal was helpful and understanding and the best part I was surrounded by kids who were like me not necessarily with learning differences but who got the way I think it wasn't perfect but it was the right place to be there are many girls out there who like me didn't get seen as gifted and who hide their learning
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different girls hide their needs more than boys and are less likely to be seen as needing support this is why access Academy has to try even harder to find and help those girls thank you thank you and ginger use our hi my name is Sean Elaine LA and E is my last name thank you for giving us the opportunity to tell you our concerns my concern is around the middle school changes that have been proposed and my primary concern is with what happened between recommendations from D Brack and the plan that's been put forth I can tell you that in conversation with many other parents that we have grave concerns about the work that D Brack did about the plans fullness that it's not looking at many of the things that that they were charged with looking at rebalancing enrollment at under enrolled schools building more robust programs and doing all of this through an equity lens so that is the first concern that I have and I hope to hear some of those explanations tonight about where this program came from because for the parent community it seemed to come a little out of left field these recommendations and it seemed to discount the work of D Brack which was a tremendous amount of work from a lot of people looking at a lot of scenarios and really trying to do the best for our kids the other issue that I want to second from the students that just spoke is that I believe wholeheartedly that access needs a school that is built to allow it to expand to meet the needs of our community all of our children so that children do not have to make a choice between full and robust middle school programming and accelerated learning I think that keeping access in a smaller school and not allowing its expansion brings us back to where we were long before my tenure as an access parent I have a lot of concerns about that and while for some odd reason that I hope we can talk about and look at more separately this year's waitlist doesn't exist after a whole new process but that's a whole other issue I think we really need to keep on the table that access needs to be a full and robust school that's expanded so that there is no longer a waitlist in the hundreds thank you again for your time Thanks my name is ginger Hughes ur hu Izar and I emailed yesterday regarding course electives for our middle schools thank you to those of you who responded acknowledging this educational negligence my concern is that we are entering your for of waiting for our middle school in the Madison cluster and nothing is changing vestal and Rose Way Heights cut art for the middle schools at Rose we Heights it has been replaced with strategies and board games where my child will play cribbage for three months or a comic book class by the way PE is an elective not meeting the O DEP requirements I will forward you our new son schedule that lists the same classes of comic book and strategy and board games as a son program for our elementary schools as well I hope you share my concern in this effort I took a peek at the seventh grade electives a neighborhood away a Beverly Cleary Cate no wonder they have so many campuses they have beginning in advance span French Spanish study halls one through four art futsal drawing drama creative writing film studies kung-fu volleyball Ultimate Frisbee Ultimate Frisbee for girls coding engineering and stage craft 15 electives one my son sets a neighborhood away in board games how is this equitable culturally responsive and such measurable expectations for growth and outcomes who gets an A and who gets a D in board games since PPS does not have a four credit course guideline for electives the Madison cluster turns out offers assistance and cribbage players our time
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for a change at an equal immeasurable education is now we need a middle school for the most diverse high school mpps all of PP s needs equal course offering and electives that meet grade-level expectations and district mandated guidelines you are failing us especially those of us of color who come from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds or speak other languages that are all representative of the Madison cluster thank you thank you thank you so I'm just I'm gonna ask the chair of the teaching and learning committee to just briefly say something that's sort of not a direct response to any of the specific testimony but just an overarching coming September 13th is we will begin the discussions of middle school programming and the middle school will be on the agenda every teaching and learning meeting throughout the year so that we are really that we are looking at providing equitable programming [Music] my name is Megan Robertson I have three daughters and pps2 at my neighborhood school and my eldest is in her third year at access this year and I recently read a quote from our new superintendent that struck me strongly he said I recognize that every child grows up in unique circumstances and that some of our students face barriers that can make focusing on school more challenging it is our duty to ensure they have the support they need to be successful and that really resonated with what I'm hearing about how this past year's admissions process worked out I want to share with you a few of the five goals for the access entry process that were listed by the workgroup last year the first one was to promote equitable process to reach a broad section of highly gifted kids the second was to integrate the process into the central system making the entire system more transparent and a third goal was to make access look like the overall population of highly gifted PPS students I have to say in my opinion the new process has failed to reach these goals this year's third grade classes are dramatically under enrolled geezers and staff report that there are no wait-listed students as you may recall the waitlist usually includes just as many as have been admitted if not more in Roman and transfer indicated forty openings at third grade but only about 25 students have been enrolled to fill those spaces beyond this the classes are heavily gender imbalanced with 13 to 15 boys and five to seven girls great strides and gender balancing had been made in recent years and I'm deeply concerned about the gender inequity of this year's admissions it seems that something has gone deeply wrong with the revisions to the admissions process for access the new process denied entry into the lottery for many students with demonstrated need students who had been previously wait-listed and students who have applied many years running the district's attempts to assess applicants level of need is inherently subjective and it is in my opinion that scoring based on need really has no place in this process I asked you to direct staff to do the following one to fill this year's classes using applicants generated from the pre-offer lottery list made by enrollment transfer there's already a list that ranks the students according to enrollment and transfers guidelines to moving forward simply place all 99 percentile applicants into the lottery for greater equity the three as you discuss Middle School planning and equity there isn't a choice but to direct staff to expand access middle grades to three strands per grade this would comply with a designated equity measures that are being applied to the district at large and accordingly I would also ask you to direct staff to designate accesses building and staffing levels based on current numbers plus that extra strand for middle grade that's about four hundred and fifty students and let's not forget that middle school scheduling requires more numerous classrooms than self-contained classrooms do I appreciate your consideration and I look forward to working on improvements together thank you okay I'm gonna split some of my time with a parent in our community hello chair brim edwards members of the board my name is Callie thorn Ladd la dee dee I come here today to discuss a matter of importance around equity and I'd like to first ask all of the people here who are Kairos families friends and supporters to stand I was pleased I was pleased to see the superintendent's commitment to
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the foundation of equity that has been established over the last 10 years of this school district and I know many of you have been personally champions of this it is this very vision of equity from which Kairos PDX has emerged focus effectively on closing the achievement gap Kairos exists because of systemic inequities that have been perpetuated over decades we exist to be a partner with the district on solutions we are having an impact in our location currently at the humble school building has been central to us doing so the history of the Albina community along with the history of Humboldt cannot be ignored in our story Humboldt is not just a building but was at one point in time a centerpiece of black education and scholarship in the center of the black community as a community at large seeks to reverse inequities that have been exasperated by discriminatory policies and include redlining and gentrification Humboldt is a part of this and our presence there serves as a part of righting wrongs of the past as longtime community leaders such as Tony Hobson Ron Herndon and Michael Alexander who will speak today seek to support the re-emergence of Albina as a centerpiece of the African American community as they work with some of you to reopen Tubman as a middle school with sei doing a whole school model Kairos is a part of that story Kairos has been part of those conversations seventy-five percent of our children are children of color and the largest percentage of our children are African American and when we began the lease we were told that we can only be there one year because of Dee Brack they suggested that access would be moving in we learned from access that they did not want to move in in fact letter was written to the school board in 2016 asking that they not be placed there as part of that letter it also included alternative options to explore my understanding this was because they had a wait list of about 175 children that would allow them as a tagged program to serve larger and more diverse demographics of children as we heard today so this is an equity for the equity issue for them as much as it is for us Hubbell will not allow them to grow in the way they want to this is too important of an equity issue to ignore it is not clear to me what has been explored to this point but Kairos is committed to serving children who are historically underserved in a historical black community and while we have been working hard to find the long-term home we don't have another option right now so my request to you is that you allow Kairos to remain at Humboldt and not move access in because it seems like both parties are trying to do equity work to support the community in different ways and your commitment to equity would be inconsistent with that move I'm gonna Holyfield hol IFI eld and the only thing I want to say is as a parent that lives in that community it's important for my daughter to continue to go to school where her where she is and it's important for her to go to school there because it's directly across the street from our house not only directly across the street from my house is our community it's important for her to see people when she goes to school that looks like her that encourages her my daughter has ADHD and because of that she wouldn't make it in a regular school so I I plead with you to allow us to stay in Humboldt and to partner with us because my child is a PPS child she's not a child that's just going to a charter school she's also a part of PPS school district and so I plead with you again to allow all of our children to stay there at Kairos thank you it's not about the legal thing to do we're very aware we're charge just never do it on the time so could disrupt but I said it's not about a legal thing to do it's about a moral thing to do we're we're we're charter we're asking you to do what we believe is the right thing great thank you and thank you everybody for coming this evening good evening my name is Michael Alexander AL exa nder and I'm a member of the Advisory Committee for Kairos and the past president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Portland I'm here today to offer comments regarding the stabilization of the valuable work being done by the Cairo School I offered testimony in February to this board at the occasion of their charter renewal and the board showed the wisdom in approving that application in response to the overwhelming void of confidence provided by the organization's leadership its parents and community leaders and I returned today to offer my support for the
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organization and my concern that they will lose the progress made in the past year that they've invested in transitioning to the Humboldt school I fully understand and appreciate that this board has a number of competing priorities to navigate through at any point in time the future of the access program is certainly a key priority I'm distressed however that there is consideration to a path forward that would require both of these critically important programs to whether unnecessary disruption and in the case of Kairos uncertainty to its future home I admit that this issue involves a number of critical challenges in reviewing the performance of the car program however it can't be denied that they in fact have demonstrated a growing solution to a number of pressing concerns facing this board in our city I'd like to mention three the first is that Carlos students our Portland public school students if their school is displaced from this community the district would be jeopardizing the unique opportunity that Kairos offers to over 200 future citizens this would be disappointing on many levels second Kairos was built by community to serve community it intentionally thought to serve a student population that was largely african-american Humboldt is located in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood being required the move would disrupt the school's track record of success and jeopardize its ability to deliver on its mission and finally I have to ask why the board would consider damaging a solution that works Kairos directly addresses the egregious achievement gaps in educational outcomes that is the reality of too many of our underserved students a recent report conducted by Echo Northwest and the chalkboard process verifies this since 2012 Kairos has a consistent success record of supporting the growth and development of african-american students we need all of the board to be aware of the potential for unintended consequences resulting from what may be well intentioned recommendations from Dee Brack and the staff that would displace Kairos from the Humboldt school thank you for the opportunity to speak thank you hi my name is Tiffany Penson that's P ENSO n hello I am here as a board member of Kairos I also worked in the education realm with Mayor Adams and currently mayor wheeler so I have learned that educating our kids is one of the most important things that we can do because we don't all live forever so we need to make sure they're fully equipped I also grew up in that neighborhood my grandmother lived on commercial my cousin's went to humble we ran up and down that street all the time it was a staple in our community when that school closed part of that died and then I watched the building just sit and sit and said and nothing happened to it when Kairos outgrew their building then we had the opportunity to be at Humboldt I thought what a perfect place it'll be like old times walking up and down Commercial Street and seen on the backside the kids playing and that's something that we need I work for government and I understand all of this language that's thrown around equity and and being inclusive and cultural competency that you guys also use and all I have to say is none of those words mean anything and your intentions mean nothing unless you're intentional about your intentions and being intentional about your intentions as it relates to black and brown kids it's really important you can use all those bud buzzwords you can do all those trainings but until you grab a hold of it and you say we are going to intentionally provide a space for these kids to thrive and to level the playing ground it doesn't mean anything another thing is opportunity why do we have to come before you every year to ask for opportunity to ask for the opportunity to provide opportunity to our kids there's something wrong with that picture we should not have to do that we have a proven track record the for women who
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have founded Kairos are beyond amazing and we respect our children the families and the work that we do what's right I always just to say why do you have to tell people to just do what's right well because sometimes they don't know so I'm here to tell you that this is right it's letting them stay there and have a home there one of the things I think our school does like no other it builds confidence in our children and I had privilege of being taught to be very confident some may say maybe too confident but when you have confidence you can do anything you can learn anything you can be anything and you say anything sorry wrap up one last so and so the last confidence is coming through so and last thing is privilege sometimes it's people's privilege that allows them to tell us what's best for us and sometimes you have to sit back and let us tell you what's best for us thank you [Applause] we have anyone else miss you some great thank you and always if people want to share written materials with the board we're happy to look through them so I'm we're gonna move from public comment into other business and we we had tentatively had a request from the Service Employees Union to have a few minutes on our agenda they are not showing up this evening however I want to call board members attention to SEIU Local 503 represents 500 custodians and nutrition service workers and they would like to invite all of us to their next meeting which is on Saturday September 9th at 11:00 a.m. at Jefferson High School I'll provide this invitation to Rosanna and have it distributed to the board Oh everybody's got it so maybe in the future they'll come to testify but in the meantime if board members want to go - that would be great next I'm gonna ask in the other business last weekend yeah preparation for the new school year we had Community Care day and I'm gonna ask director Anthony just to give a brief recap of community here today thank you this past Saturday August 26 2017 was Portland's annual project Community Care day approximately 6,000 volunteers showed up at 71 schools to prepare our schools to welcome our students back to school tomorrow most project community care activities involve landscaping such as pulling weeds painting and spreading bark dust a heartfelt thank you to our students families staff teachers and community partners for sharing the love of our schools district-wide we have a brief video that staff put together to show you the highlights of the day I'm throw it's a good idea they will be our next leader in Portland schools and with that I'd like to introduce our next leader widely big Guerrero this is actually community care day and a couple other things I'm incredibly humbled I'm deeply honored to be named superintendent of the Portland Public Schools hi nice to meet you sovereign yeah [Music] so I had a chance of Franklin to visit a steam corridor it saw some wonderful maker spaces some science labs engineering spaces arts rooms Wow move there because we want to be able to move it out we're here before school actually starts so we can make this an exciting place for kids to come well to make it homey we need to add our kids I mean in reality our family in our community is what makes it feel like
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home [Music] my queen up oh why you clean it up what for the first day of school we're doing garden work to make sure so today is our community care day here at lunch it's been about six years that Cleveland High Schools participated in community care day [Music] but I get to meet some of our new students here and build relationships well I've got the kindergartners I'm thinking I'm glad I go to this school [Music] when a student gets their new backpack they're maybe they're excited for school and maybe they're not but they're all excited to get something new and something that they know they're gonna be able to use so yeah it's awesome I think it's needed like ready [Music] so all that works so tomorrow is the opening of schools for most of our students here in Portland we're expecting about 50,000 students this year our Olmec continues to grow we'll start the new school year with a new superintendent at a new board three new schools and new funding to address our critical health and safety work and as you saw in the video over the past few months and then intensifying this August lots of staff in this building and our schools have been getting our schools ready for the new school year and some of the things that have taken place over the last couple months and this intensifying this last week is making sure that we have a principal and an administrative team in every school teacher in every classroom really focusing on transportation the buses IT needs nutrition services and all the health and safety improvements and all the work that's gone on where believe we're gonna have a great start to the school year but to help things run smoothly tomorrow we are setting up a Coordination Center here at the ESC to handle any urgent calls or messaging as needed so we know in the past sometimes the first day of school or the first week there's questions around transportation so tomorrow if there are questions about transportation or concerns there's a phone number that the community took call also principals teachers and staff can call them but the transportation number is five oh three nine one six six nine zero one in addition this coordination center will also have a hotline for principals teachers and staff to call if they have some pressing need on the first day of school and that number is 503 906 6600 and starting at 7:00 tomorrow morning that lyon will be demand so we're hoping that that room actually will be fairly quiet but we know first-day-of-school things things happen so we hope if people have issues or concerns that they do call in addition our new superintendent who's going to officially start on October 1st happens to be spending in advance of his official start spending some time in the district getting to know not only our community better our schools better he's here this week and tomorrow he'll start the day I think very early at Franklin High School which is one of the three new schools that are opening and then he'll be visiting several other schools tomorrow and just as speaking about the new schools we're going to have a report it's been a long time since PBS is either built or rebuilt a school and so we're gonna ask director comm Sam to briefly talk about some of those great things that we had a chance to D today to see it fabien and then tomorrow at Franklin dread on the calendar for several years thinking how arena open school the start of the 1718 school year with brand new Franklin essentially new
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Franklin the renovated piece of Roosevelt brand new fabien and other work that arose that we weren't even aware of and I just want to commend the office of school modernization for really delivering on all of it it's been you know a breakneck pace I mean down to this afternoon when we were at gleaming new fabien and you know apparently the sod had just been rolled out moments before the dignitaries arrived but it looks fantastic and it was an absolute privilege to be at fabien today and I think for myself it filled me with a sense that you know this is the type of yeah I want to live in a community that shows that it values its children by making investments like this so first and foremost thank you to the taxpayers for the investment in the bond work we did have our opening celebration at Fabian elementary school today brand-new Elementary School fantastic partnership with Concordia University Kaiser Pacific foods Trillium Family Services investments from the city of Portland it is the kind of partnership that we would like to see for all of our schools we'd like to leverage all of our bond investments with that type of collaboration in the community it has pre-k programming there it's it's a real gem and we hope to just repeat those kind of partnerships throughout the district as well what a privilege for our incoming superintendent to be at Franklin first thing in the morning as those students walk into that gleaming new building that keeps the incredible integrity of its historic facade and then likewise Phase two of Roosevelt after their brand-new buildings came online this time last year now we have seen the restoration of the historic building there's still another phase of Roosevelt that will complete the makerspace and some other pieces there but that's substantially complete so I think we have a little video that we want to show of these but again just we want to commend our contractors who have really hewn to a tough schedule it which included losing depending on the site about nine work days due to snow and weather this year when it was already incredibly tight commend Jerry Vincent and his team Kevin Spellman for really and our bond accountability committee of just citizen volunteers for really keeping a hawkish eye on the budget and bringing their expertise in construction and construction management into the oversight of all of this work so lastly I just want to say that we as a district are really serious about be about noting what we learned from all of this work and making sure that as we embark on our bond funded work for the next round 2017 bond we integrate all those learnings and we just get better and better at doing this [Music] our 3d PhD partnership is second to none there's no one around doing anything like this and we're really able to revolutionize the way education is done providing education for Concordia students so they become better teachers as they're graduating having that mental health support for our families and our students and our teachers in the same moment really creates a new way of doing education having Concordia college students in our classrooms drops teacher-student ratio immediately it just is a win-win-win for all three institutions we're really excited it's the sorts of things that you'd want to have happen at every school in the system if we had the money the facilities the staff and the people that were willing to walk that extra mile so they have a steam project that's in the building they have an early childhood component that is a whole wing of the building they have arts they have a health and wellness component they have a nutrition component so they have a program that is totally wrapped around everything it would take to make a family and children in that school successful sometimes you need a little bit more of this or a little bit more of that and you don't have to go far to find it it's all right there in the building fabien pre k-8 school and Concordia University has entered a very unique partnership we are in a squiz ik example of how to connect the dots to making sure that all children and families are honored throughout the educational process and Concordia University Trillium Family Services and Portland
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Public Schools are coming together to create this unique in the nation program three to PhD that will have a focus not only on health and wellness and nutrition but also science technology engineering art and math so that everyone's hopes and dreams can be realized and everyone's being asked to step up we were invited into that partnership I think because Portland Public Schools Concordia and the community really wanted to look at kids and families and community holistically and how do we best meet all of their needs and the school was really a perfect environment to bring all of us together along with other partners who have since joined questions are helping them read helping them do math helping them do science helping them with health so they are seeing that this college life can be for them and if college isn't what else are they doing what kind of passions and interests are these college students teaching me about how can they help me reach my highest dreams which is what three - ph.d is all about we're going to start with infants as young as six weeks old in the new building and our early childhood wing will have kids six weeks to four years old we'll have a hundred and seventeen spots for our little Bulldogs and then will it go k-8 after that so it'd be a really neat mix of the Early Childhood Center and the traditional k-8 model together I'm very excited I am very excited I can't wait it's I guess you can say it's like a dream come true because of the whole building and especially say the science well because we're gonna be on a level where say high school we'll have a lot of different methods in which teachers can use to teach we have multiple steam spaces science labs maker spaces art room it's just really going to be an innovative way to do k-12 education boys and girls and parents are driving and walking by the building each and every day they have posted pictures finally in Jefferson cluster we're not closing down the school we're not tearing down the school we're becoming his treasure chest hope so this is a great way for children to feel like school is where they want to be there's nothing more rewarding than being able to live in the neighborhood with one of your buildings to know the people who inhabit it to know that your neighbors are going there [Music] and to see it come alive is just an ode to what our community has done we had 26 public meetings to design this building there are parents that can literally put their finger on something on the map and say that was my idea I'm excited because I'm gonna be the first class to graduate at the new school gonna be an eighth grade and that's really exciting for me I can't wait to go what's exciting is there's gonna be a pottery in the new art class and that's real excited because I love doing pottery and I also really like doing art you know that scene that it takes a village to raise a child well that's exactly what is happening here at fabia the whole community has come together the teaching community the college community the community at large trying to make certain that if you're a part of this we're gonna do all we can to guarantee that you're gonna be successful how much we are in this together inspires me Concordia and Fabien and Trillium and all of our partnerships have this feeling like we are going to change the world together the parents and the teachers and the students and everybody is a partner in this building and even though it's big and even though it's grand we are still we are at the heart of it which is we love these children we love what we're doing and we want to try to make the best possible place for these kids it is a realization of our community's hopes and dreams all rolled together and this fabulous building when you're around people who are all seeing the dream that you see and everybody's working to it it just works I think students and community should be excited about this because they're going to enter a building that they've never seen anything like it before it's a k-8 it's an Early Childhood Center it has a grocery store as a health clinic and it has a Family Resource Room has flex spaces and it has an entire College of Education co-located within it there's nothing like this in the world that we've found so being a student in this I want to go back to school I want to be a kindergartener and inner Fabia I think we have a video of the Franklin Mint
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[Music] [Music] pretty exciting go back to kindergarten but I'd certainly want to go back to that high school so later on this week Franklin's gonna have a couple of events to mark their school on Friday night they're having their first football game in their new stadium where they're gonna dedicate the field and you can't have a field dedication without a t-shirt and so I'm gonna I've got shirts for each of the board members but I also want to give one to Jerry Vincent although I only seen him in a tie so I don't know if I wear t-shirts but you've got to have a Franklin in the house shirt for the event on the back it's the date of the field dedication and their new logo so Jerry thanks for all your work so Moses will make you an honorary Franklin student so I'm gonna pass these down for the wrong size there's plenty of other ones that we can trade after the meeting so it's gonna be exciting day tomorrow and I just want to close out the start of school in our new building section of the meeting with just a thank you to sasha parens and roseanne powell for stepping in over the last week to really make sure that all the little details with the logistics recovered and pulling to get the senior team to make sure that tomorrow our kids head off to school and have a successful start to the school year so thank you for the help next we're going to return to an item that's gonna be on our agenda often this fall not only at the board but as director as far as a brown said also in the teaching-learning committee and that's the topic of middle school planning and facilities planning in the district and I'm gonna ask director Bailey the chair the chair of the enrollment forecasting committee and then also with director Esparza Brown to talk a little bit about give an update from the last board meeting and some of the plans ahead so I'm gonna attempt to segue first five years ago we were just starting a campaign for the 2012 bond and I can look around the room and see a bunch of people who put in a lot of hard work on that campaign that seek Kevin Roger Ted Otto who else am I missing our teacher partners with PA T thank you thank you thank you for now board members but then civilians were part of our Portland our schools that partner with the district to make it happen and now five years later a lot of incredible work by Jerry and his staff and before him CJ it's pretty exciting that when when we get it together and partner up we can do some pretty amazing things when it comes to our middle schools right now we've got some work to do but if we partner up we can do some pretty as ginger made clear earlier we still have some work to do if we partner up and work together we can do some amazing things so tonight Laura's Parker is going to give a quick update of where we are process wise and go into some more detail about budgets needed for opening to middle schools next September where the money how much money we will need and where it's going to come from do you have anything to add to that Julie or is that I think that's what we're doing tonight talk a little bit more about it well the committee is going to be covering great thank you thank you good evening and I just want to echo it was wonderful to see the opening of lobbying today and I've appreciated all of the excitement and
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certainly will carry forth that kind of excitement in our work every day and tomorrow's a big day and we're all excited about it so as you recall two weeks ago I gave you an update to the project plan for opening Harriet Tubman and Rose Bay Heights middle schools and that overview of the project plan highlighted the major work streams around identifying the feeder schools and designing the middle school framework and localizing it to those schools going through the staffing process significant facilities and infrastructure upgrades for the two schools and related projects and also as you recall in that presentation we identified three critical decisions that were somewhat time-sensitive that are needed to ensure success and delivery on the project tonight I'm going to give a process update on the steps that have been taken to support those three critical matters those three decisions are board approval of naming the middle school feeder schools secondly board approval of the feeder pattern implementation plan third board approval of the financial resources needed to execute and so I'm going to start with number three and I brought interim CFO Ryan Dutcher for any additional questions around the dollars but as we indicated in the presentation two weeks ago the financial resources needed to execute on the total project plan is approximately ten and a half million dollars what we've done to ensure understanding of that investment is to make sure that we've analyzed and the budget team analyzed all of the work streams and determined what would be part of our fiscal year eighteen budget what would be built into our fiscal year 1900 fund budget what was bond compensable and what was currently allocated in fiscal year 18 versus what would be a new request that would probably require a budget amendment so in doing that work the breakdown is as follows in general terms about 2.2 million of the project would be bond compensable projects related mostly to those facility upgrades for Harriet Tubman and I think that's been broadly known for a while now about 4.6 million would be anticipated in the allocation for fiscal year 19 so if you can think about that opening of school all the work that happens in the summer time between moves infrastructure upgrades professional development ordering of materials and resources all those things could be built into the fiscal year 19 budget and we would anticipate the process that leaves about 3.9 million dollars needed for fiscal year 1718 which 1 million is currently allocated so as we've been working through this we anticipate that we'll be coming back for the process of gaining approval for approximately 2.9 million in additional monies for fiscal year 18 1718 so that's not a small amount but it's not 10.5 of new million of new monies and we wasted Direction that headache we wanted to make sure that there was a general understanding of that that it's a large investment but we did have you know funding and resources and planning already occurring for this project so just for the folks keeping score when you say fiscal year 18 do you mean the 2017 18 school year budget yes correct and in the fiscal year 19 you're the age 18 2018 thank you thank you yes so I'm gonna let Ryan talk through that process for budget amendment as Laura mentioned we had already had a million dollars in the budget this year you know for a public budget we don't like to put large line items for things that where we haven't we don't have a lot of specificity and around how we're gonna spend it so that's you know if you're asked if you if it's a question you want to ask is why did we not anticipate this would occur in your budget that's that's why we don't we don't want a budget for things we don't have a lot of specificity so we have the million dollars in the budget today because we
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knew we'd be doing some work that leaves us a shortfall of about 2.9 million and that the the process that we would use to add this into the current budget would be to amend the budget and we amend the budget once or twice every year amendment 1 is already on the board agenda for the 26th of September then the plan is that will bring to all of you because there's a fair amount in amendment one will bring to all of you around the 12th a good summary assessment of all the different changes in the budget and if we if at that point we have enough clarity into these different pieces we would include that in amendment 1 which you had done vote at the end of September just go in our way an amendment one man is there anything going our way very fortunately very few going our way I keep looking there's a couple of them enough that me if you know if we don't we usually amend the budget a couple times a year last year we did amendment two in March so I my preference would be I like to have a lot of clarity before I put things in the budget because really when we put things in the budget we're starting we're gonna allocate dollars to departments for them to spend so if we if you don't feel like we have enough specificity and clarity by mmmm one you know I'd argue we push that to amendment two so those are the those are kind of our options in terms of how we manages from a financial point of view in the current year in the press around identifying the funding you knows of course who know or what our scope is what we're able to do but primarily for those facilities upgrades you know that two months to get started as you've seen examples of the exemplar work that they do they want to get started and so making sure that we identified what was bond compensable to allow them to get started on some work that they've actually started on at Tubman but continue the larger project scoping and assigning of project teams to that assigning of deadlines and expected opening for fall of 2018 that was necessary and in large part one of the urgency is around identifying the phone so early as we get later you start to impact what the other project teams are able to do so I certainly hope that we're able to come through the process of amending the budget in late September as Ryan mentioned so that the infrastructure teams the professional development teams for later in the year they're all aware of what their scope is what their resources are so that's the general update on the budget piece that two other updates regarding work with the committee's but do you have any other questions on the budget content can I assume that at some point we're going to get a real breakdown of what the ten and a half million in expenses is it absolutely well we have that at least for the capital expenses well we have that do you think in the next couple weeks absolutely um and I understand that there's an FAO committee yes okay would you like for us to present it on that date on the 12th that would be great excellent and and to be clear so in order for it to be an amendment will be will need to be really specific around the light items what's happening which departments doing it I can imagine some of the like some of the 4.6 million you might be a while before you think those are more internet'll silver but I do have a general question about what types of expenditures are not considered bond compensable so there there are some infrastructure upgrades that are and some that are not there are there's an investment around physical security in the buildings that would hit also the second round the fiscal year nineteen so we just want to make decisions on here's what the standard is here's what we like for the investment to be to bring up to standard and make those choices there's certainly all the relocation work there's about two million of facilities work overall there is the okk development of the middle school science labs is an expensive investment to make sure that we have the world-class facilities for middle school science programming that's expected that is a large number there's no more pocket change from 2012 on that because I was specifically called out in 2012 but those are the kinds of line items that you know we would expect again assumed to present and send forward to a fail if I'm understanding exactly great
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and probably the biggest the biggest bond compensable item is that is the route the Tubman roof which is two point is 2.2 million dollars so I just have a general question about the expenditure so does the expenditures that you're recommending create a middle school in which we could offer a rich and rigorous curriculum yes and that's what we're trying to stick to right so not only the facilities and upgrades that I mentioned around you know engaging science experience that prepares students for high school and for college and career but also within instructional technology and investment in classroom technology and student devices that would lend opportunities for blended learning as another example certainly an investment in curricular resources and professional development of course and some of those pieces I think you know can be called out in the work with the teaching and learning committee coming up mm-hmm do you have anything you want to add related into the planning coming up no just as I said earlier our first meeting will be September 13th and middle school will be on the agenda and it will continue to be on the agenda for all of the meetings as we really work to figure out that instructional framework that will be equitable across all programs so that we can offer electives and and the offerings that will prepare children for high school and post high school experiences so we will ensure that throughout a figure of work and we offer input we welcome input and I do have one other update regarding the committee structure with the other two critical decisions and in naming of the feeder schools and the identification of an implementation plan we'll be presenting and discussing those options with the enrollment forecasting committee on September 7th for both the Tubman area and the Rose Bay Heights area we'd anticipate probably a second meeting on September 18th but in addition to these two meetings there's a plan for community engagement with respect to the feeder patterns that would accompany the board sessions both here and in committee work and CIPA has articulated that plan and is adding to it literally every day to make sure that that is well-rounded and you could expect an update on that exact communication Community Engagement plan within a week some other pieces there is we will be having discussions as we move along on the focus options in the relation to middle schools and dual language in middle school so small in the teaching and learning in teaching and learning and I just want to acknowledge the uneven implementation of the new middle school program that we're focusing on to schools opening up next year well there are still significant issues with a number of our middle grades programs in terms of programming yeah and so I think that that's the work so while we're looking at these two middle schools yet specifically we're looking also more broadly at what a middle school program looks like in teaching and learning I mean that's the goal and at our gates that are continuing the underfunding of middle grades and that is called out specifically in the middle school implementation plan how do we adapt some of these best practices to our middle grade programs in our case it's also just pure funding an FTE well I think we're gonna have a full discussion of that this year in the budget maybe now hasn't happened in the past years but I expect that that will be a major major focus this budget cycle and can I just so stay tuned because in the finance audit and operations committee we're going to be hearing from the budget folks about a couple of proposals for a new staffing mechanism that that is specifically trying to address the under resourcing of schools especially under enrolled schools especially in the middle grades it's it's very exciting for those you know for budget geeks this
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is plan vibrating this associating so I'm hoping there will start to make some real progress of it so I want to float the idea of a board work session on middle middle schools sooner rather than later because we've got budget pieces we've got teaching and learning we got enrollment stuff yeah and it's good that we focus on that and individual committees but it's also good that we bring it back for a coherent coherent that's not the right word but simply incoherent online thank you we are good - yeah so we're tend to be planning and I'm looking at Roseann just make sure I have this right potentially on September September 12th board meeting at Madison potentially at Madison so that might be an opportunity to have a shorter sort of regular board meeting and maybe a work session or also an opportunity for a sort of community feedback so which which date it's set September 12 the actual board meeting okay so that would be I think an opportunity so maybe all of you can think about how the best way for us to both have a work session perhaps get some a deeper community conversation maybe a dinner beforehand with the community or something twelve so so the next item is around the on account the bond accountability committee and a quarterly update and I'm gonna ask director Anthony to introduce and manage this agenda these agenda items thank you in November 2012 voters approved a four hundred eighty two million capital improvement bond for Portland Public Schools bps board appointed a citizen bond accountability committee to monitor the planning and progress of the bond program relative to voter approved work scope schedule and budget objectives in May 2017 voters approved a further seven hundred ninety million dollar capital improvement bond measure that also provided for oversight by the BAC mr. Spellman Edwards members of the board my name is Kevin Spellman and chair of your bond accountability committee I'm gonna be very brief today to be respectful of your time leave some time for questions if you have them and also not to take away from the celebration of today and later in the week it's really an important week for PPS and I'd like to add my support for director Constance comments about the designers and the contractors and tradespeople and OSM who worked on those schools and actually that video was kind of a nice tribute to the men and women who worked on those they take a lot of pride in their work and I think that's reflected in the finished products we held our regular quarterly meeting July 27 and just received regular updates from osm who continue to provide us information on a transparent basis it's it's sometimes when we open schools like we are this week fools kind of forget that that's actually not the end of the work and all of these people are continuing to work on your behalf to close out phase two at Roosevelt and start that they've already started of course on Phase three closeout Franklin closed far beyond Bissell takes time and effort and at the same time we're closing those starting work at Grant High School with the subcontractor buyout physical work on-site development of the guaranteed max plus of course some preliminary work from the 17 bond the 2012 bond now has reached five hundred and sixty two million dollars of which as of July 1
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sixty-five percent had been spent the continued challenge for staff is the balancing of the remaining funds in the bond although there's a considerable amount of money to be spent and most of it is committed obviously and as we've been reporting for some time now the remaining contingencies reserves etc are pretty skinny and there is still exposure in the closeout of these current schools plus of course we've still got a hundred million dollars plus to spend on a new modernized high school so this considerable risk still and not a great deal of reserves and I know osm is well aware of this but we're watching that as closely as we can the big success currently of course is the project schedules and somebody told me today that Roosevelt actually got that temporary certificate of occupancy on the very day specified in the baseline scheduled several years ago Wow which is pretty pretty amazing but that's true also not to the day but that's true of Fabia and Franklin as well those schedules were set initially five years ago and to be able to celebrate an opening today as a tribute again to all of those people they've done that with a really impressive accident record staff reported once more at a quarterly meeting that there were no accidents on any of the sites during that quarter and that's obviously really important we will be meeting again in October and we're struggling a little bit in coming up with a new or a revised organization so we can continue to monitor the 2012 bond but also start focusing on the 17 bond so we're going to start at least with longer meetings those don't always productivity doesn't always go up with length of meetings as you probably all know but we're gonna start with that and we're going to work harder probably at a subcommittee system on specific issues to ease the burden on everybody with that I'd be happy to answer any questions can you talk a little bit about the schedule concerns with grant right now the design got some some red in the design phase right planning for grant right that's Thank You director constant that's a little bit of a quirk in this balanced scorecard because once a square appears red for a number of these items he's red forever so the design was late later than planned so it's red and we can't argue about that what's happened though is that the construction actually started when it was supposed to so you could argue that the fact the design was late really has no effect so and we have full documents we have almost full documents but enough to didn't start the demolition and construction concurrent with completion you know no no and that's not uncommon that's not uncommon at all you know if you look at if you look at schedule for Roosevelt and Franklin their designs were late too now there's a penalty sometimes for that and i think i think i would argue on those schools in particular there was a budget penalty for that we hope we learn the lessons and there won't be a grant but we don't know so I question I'm going to go back a little bit about the governance of the committee so thank you for all hanging in there and really providing a very important oversight function on behalf of the district and the community we know that having external oversight provides the community with sort of an independent third party sort of review
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the question I have is so you've been at it for quite a number of years and would is there a need perhaps to add some additional people or some new people I don't know if you've had any attrition but I can imagine I'm not sure everybody knew that they were signing up for the 2012 on the 2017 right so I just you know you can just share an opinion but I'd like to you to think about that because that might be something that there may be some new people who want to get engaged maybe some people are like they're ready to celebrate and cycle off I thought it was a lifetime so we have done that we have we have two new board committee members who started this year so two cycled off after four years and one came on I want to say after a year or two years so she's only been on she's been on my committee two or three years you know this is this is your committee so we're certainly open to additional expertise at any time you know what so some board members might have a point of view but also if you've been sitting there and thinking boy it'd be great if we had you know X expertise on this committee you don't have it let us know because I'm sure we could find somebody in the community too to serve so and this is going back to 2012 director Rosen at the time lobbied for having some oversights on public process to make sure we were running good public processes around the planning design component and but your committee has pretty much focused to the building side of it correct no I don't think that's fair we we have what I would call a development expertise which includes the planning and the design and the construction we also have a performance auditor who we rely on greatly so everything in that arena I'm trying to get a sense of of exactly what kind of aspect you're talking about so we ended up addressing some of the bumps and jumps in in the around the DAGs the design advisory groups outside of the VA srei but there's a question of whether we should integrate those two functions and and I don't know if that's a good idea or not but that's right now I don't know that we have a formal oversight second host process certainly they I think everybody agrees they've gotten better but we want to make sure that they continue to I recycle and I would suggest that maybe this is the board's role rather than that subcontracting it to us because we may be totally satisfied with the public outreach and you may not and it's your opinion that matters okay that's fair has has the BAC considered doing the kind of lessons learned report you're now like five years in right yeah for now you know you've got but who's counting like you know you you've had quite a lot of experience and I'm guessing you have thoughts on things that might have gone better and that would inform you know we've got another bond so have you thought at all about kind of memorializing on paper your experiences over the last four and a half years I I think it I hope what we've done is tried to integrate lessons learned as we've learned them rather than kind of accumulate them we'd be I'm sure we be well I'm just thinking that at some point you are gonna have turnover in the committee certainly so I think for future reference it might be might be helpful to codify those things but and I do think you have memorialized them in
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the your commentary on the audits so we have this comprehensive external annual audits and each time we've gone through that process we've not only gotten the information direct from the auditors but the that has been presented to the BAC the BAC has had the opportunity for back-and-forth with the auditor and then you have presented to the board about you know the ba C's take on the auditors assessment so I think that that's been a good and to my mind largely sufficient process to have that external review which invites your committee to give your kind of comprehensive sense of lessons learned at the same time yeah I'm doing thanks for bringing that up we are actually when one of our early efforts at subcommittee is going to be looking at the most recent performance audit plus any open items from prior years so I think I think probably that that satisfies what you're asking for direct them all very small requests but as somebody who's new it would be great if on the materials that we receive that we get to have just a little bit current list of who's on the committee so we just have that as a reference point though Thanks thank you thank you just thank you thank you and all the committee members for incredible work and thank you very much mr. Spellman and now after mr. Spellman has told us where we've been I think that mr. Vincent is going to come and tell us where we are going well well your brain is coming up I would just like to mention again that we have the Franklin field opening this Friday beginning at 5:30 Franklin's grand opening this Saturday right at 10:45 and then on Friday September 29th we're going to have Roosevelt's grand opening after which I expect that you'll in the office of school modernization will collapse in a heap oh yeah we sure like to do that so the reason you didn't see Roosevelt video up here today is we are doing the grand opening for Franklin and Fabien because they're done Roosevelt requested to have open house tied to their first football game on September 29 and we're gonna do this big thing next spring when phase three is done and we'll have their presentation on here so just as a recap all the buildings are done new and rehna and current and existing renovated for Roosevelt phase three is all the field work MLB done in the early spring and then we will dedicate and then there's a phase four that's in design which is the additional makerspace and that's the fourth phase to Roosevelt but we're going to dedicate it after the third phase next spring so that's why if someone says how come we're not seeing Roosevelt here that's why and that was a request of the site staff and we said no problem so we'll just do an open house for you good evening my name is Jerry Vincent CEO of the school district with me danyoung who is our senior director of OSM we're going to talk about the quarterly update and I'm just going to turn it loose tenon and the BAC we always appreciate their input helpful to the program and osm throughout the years so wanna say thank you for that and also wanna say thank you for bringing up the safety record that's something that we focus a lot on we don't talk about a lot usually in these forums so we're very proud of our safety record to date and that's a lot of credit goes to our contractors for that focus so we have about 15 minutes and quite a bit to cover so I'm gonna go pretty quickly kind of hit the highlights I feel free to stop and ask any questions you there about what I talk about or anything that's in your packets something to note about the packets that's information that went to the board back in July so we do have some updated information that's that's largely pretty well up-to-date some new information since we met with the board as Kevin noted that the total program budget for the 2012 scope of work was 562 million dollars but that does not include the bond premium that we just received when we sold our last issuance of bonds principal earlier this month for the 2012 and the first issuance for 2017 and so that netted about nine million dollars at bond premium for the 2012 bond programs or over five hundred seventy million for 2012 the total program is now a bit shy of about 1.4 billion for the capital program we've approved invoices about 385 million so
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until the we'll spend roughly a billion dollars over the next eight years or so so that is a big number that's that considering today is the night before school starts I think the bigger number is we have four schools that are ready for opening and ready for students tomorrow morning so I'm very proud about that the first one we'll talk about is Franklin Franklin is substantially complete all major construction activities are complete and all sign offs are necessary for staff and students who occupy still working on finishing touches inside the building we'll be doing that for weeks to come also on the outside of the building as well we do have one piece that there's a little bit of a larger area that we're working on that's the covered walkway between the existing building and the gym area there's going to be a covered walkway it's gonna have solar panels on that that's going to be happening for a number a number of weeks going on forward so that's the only significant work I'd say that we still have to do students have been using the field and gym for about a month now we anticipate the project being fully complete by the next time we're up here giving this presentation all training has been done for teaching staff administrators and maintenance staff and all in all things are going very well which is a big credit to the team that's out there Skanska is our contractor dawa is our architect out there and our owner team is led by Johnny Metoyer who was the project manager Rolando Achillas owns our project coordinator out there and Kevin Warren's our construction manager so very proud of all them their projects going rather well here are a few photos of some finished areas although I think this is kind of moot considering the video would you sell any questions on Franklin before I move along any thoughts Jerry no all right I'll keep going it's a beautiful building people have not been out there recently I very highly very very proud of that you can't leave without a shirt tonight Roosevelt Phase two is substantially complete which is largely the 1921 historic building all matrix all major construction activities are complete and all sign outs have been received we are of course still doing touch-up in there and phase three which is larger the site work is underway and that will proceed roughly until the end of this calendar year the majority the demolition in Phase three will be completed soon with the exception of the old auto shop that's going to stay closer to the bitter end we're gonna keep that occupied music as the office and then finally take that piece down work is progressing very nicely on the ball fields if you've been out there you'll see that you also see that sidewalks have been poured and the additional work has been done since the aerial photos been taking place and the temporary fencing has been put up as well so that is moving along as we prepare and are prepared for students tomorrow all furniture has been put in place training for staff has been completed the Roosevelt staff really is the pros they've already moved a couple of times so they they're ready for this then we feel very confident about that all in all the 1921 building is in great shape especially considering we just started demolition on that thing just over a year ago so as Kevin noted we hit the temporary certificate occupancy right on time because that was the date we needed to do and we had about 13 months to do it and the team did that so very impressed very happy with that want to do a special shout out as the project manager Patrick LaBeouf told me today that the custodians really went above and beyond making sure that place was clean because there was a lot of construction activity in that old building this summer and the custodians really stepped up and helped out a lot and so that was great do they have enough custodians they'll never have enough custodians but they did they did a great job you know so we had four that I'm aware of and I think they did a couple come in part-time and help out yeah Community Care day went very well also also this weekend and Patrick even told me that some of the some of the volunteers actually we did an area that the contractor was supposed to do I've been to them so the contractor is actually gonna give us a credit some and get some money back for them isn't they apparently went above and beyond so that was great so again that team is very proud with Patrick labeouf out there we have Bruce affiliates our construction manager and then at least Crutcher Lewis is our contractor and Bizet is our architect so very happy with everyone out there some photos of completed work and work in progress classroom you'll see in the top left hallway and the bottom right flexible learning space in the bottom left and then you'll see as munching on that old cafeteria building in that photo right there that one is completely down we're working on the library right now at that upper right photo there when you get the old food service building down and you take the ten Plex of portables down and we're leveling the library you can kind of see the Franklin majestic reappear there are some trees there that were not part of the new plan
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and you can kind of see what's hiding back there and now it's coming to the forefront and it looks just as beautiful as Franklin Grant in high school here is a recent aerial photo though that doesn't look substantially different than what it has for years staff has been successfully moved over to Marshall campus so Marshall is ready to receive students tomorrow transportation plans are in place and have been communicated trimet has been a great partner on that process as well as the dag Transportation Committee they are very helpful in getting that plan to gathering in place so we feel confident that that has been well messaged we have a really awesome interactive map on the website too if people haven't seen that contractor has mobilize out on site and has started selectively demo and as Kevin noted we're in the process of negotiating the guaranteed maximum price and buying out that work and that has been a challenge but we're continue to do that and we'll have known that here very soon as we finalize that contract here's some old photos of grant these will be archived here as soon as these will be going undergoing demolition the library has been cleared out the cafeterias been cleared out and there's a picture of the old auditorium I believe all the seats already out of there as well and then the old gym which will be converted into learning spaces classrooms fabien had the grand opening event today I think most people were able to attend that and that was a very nice event and very well attended I actually was not expecting that many people out there it is of course substantially completely of course I'll have all have all of our signups there's still small stuff that needs to happen in the building both inside and out largely landscaping and some public right-of-way work again more landscaping in the public right-of-way the field is going to be roped off for another few weeks while we let that grass mature because that was seeded that didn't go in as the sod and so one of them let that mature before we turn all the kids loose on it so that's going to be there for couple weeks and the school knows about that and that hasn't happened an issue all building systems training has been held with staff administrators and maintenance all our stakeholders have moved in and all systems are go for tomorrow the team out there was led by architect was Borah our contractor was todd ever including is our project manager eye on a horns our project coordinator and darren leaves the construction manager and i think there are only team that i've been together throughout the life of the project and they were great together and very very happy to have them they've done a great work here's some photos of the interior but I think everyone more or less saw this either on the video or in person today but as a beautiful new building one project I wanna note before I jump into this that I don't have a side floor it's easy Cesar Chavez we started the elevator last summer a new elevator then we put it on hold for a year for that was phase one was last summer we started phase two this summer and we're continuing phase two and that will complete by the end of this calendar year so that's been a project that's going on being managed by USM also before the health and safety there's you know we certainly appreciate the attention that osm gets but there are three departments that when we finally turn this thing over after all the snow days and whatever you know and and get that in there's other departments and they're under the gun to do their job the IT department is on these sites weekends nights everything trying to get computers set up there was delays and equipment being shipped they are trying to hook everyone up as fast as possible printers phones what-have-you obviously the custodians always much bigger sites than there were before and the other one that you might not know is these are all brand new kitchens for nutrition services they have to come in and learn absolutely every piece of equipment and they have to burn it all in and use it whether it's a piece of equipment that might be for a future rainy day or not because the warranty starts on that equipment if they don't figure it out and make sure that it that's working correctly so it's a complete shift for them to take food out reset everything we have to reset the dial on everything that they do so they've been amazing to during this this time so you know I we certainly when we're talking to us and we're really talking about a lot of the departments that are working hand in hand with this and I just wanted to make sure they got a shot out before we kind of started to talk a little bit about health and safety yeah good point agreed and we really should have like an official thank you list in the building staff as well they really start to take control and positive control these things when it comes down close and do a great job all the principles of a wonderful security is another department that we work with closely and they are a huge help and getting these buildings up and running so and certainly many others I'm forgetting at the moment on to health and safety specific the 2017 bond scope of work we have kind of a three-step process to implementing the hundred and fifty eight million dollars of health and safety improvements we have immediate work this
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is largely kind of quicker fast action work that was some of it was already in place before the bond even passed so we're working on that right now intermediate work which is work that we plan on completing roughly in the next twelve months and then the long-term plan and that is the plan that we will follow to execute the full one hundred and fifty million dollars of work the immediate work is underway right now at over fifty schools it includes scopes of work that include asbestos abatement fire alarms that paint removal radon roofing improvement security improvements and let water fixture replacement some of those actually have contractors from people working in schools others are in the planning of the design phase but all that work is proceeding right now our intermediate work we have started to identify the scopes and the projects that we want to complete during the school year and next summer so we're scoping those workers that work right now we're going to get design teams on board for that it's similar types of work that we see with the media the raid on the asbestos the roofing that's going on now a lot of it will be larger scale so stuff that we can do it in a school year we will do in the next summer will be very busy with larger four placements large abatement projects probably see some new elevators going next year also is a large ad or things like that that is our intermediate work and we're working on that as we speak your immediate work is an overlap when we speak about Tubman earlier we're osm and our facilities department were overlapped together to get that work done Louis I'm doing the park that's bond compensable facilities doing the part that isn't oops and then the long term plan so there are efforts underway to prioritize for 158 million dollars of health and safety improvement that's roughly 10 percent of what's been identified by fam what exactly are those projects and how are they going to be prioritized there's never underway to identify what all those are and then we'll have an execution plan of how we will complete those over the preceding years so that's what the three step is to health and safety improvements and a lot of this comes in alignment with the health safety and a DEA subcommittee at director Rosen oversee so I like to get the other soon mic and talk about how this rolls out how we engage the community involvement process and what this looks like to gather their input so if this is where the bulk of the money is and that's why we want to make sure we need to land these projects this month and start school successfully and September is all about starting to engage that group in quickly on the modernizations and the replacement work that's in the - 2017 bond we are starting designed just starting the design process on Kellogg we have the design team under contract they are reviewing all the work that's been done to date and what they're doing is validating the work that's been done a day versus what the budget is and then we'll be coming before you with a master plan hopefully here pretty soon that they're starting underway they're working with our project manager Steve F Rose Madison we have we were right now negotiating with that design team we've done the procurement process we've identified the highest ranked firm and we're in contract negotiations with them right now so you'll be seeing their accomplished contract come before you probably to your next meeting but sometime very soon and we'll kick off that design process as well we're going to begin the dag process with both of those groups pretty soon we want to get recruitment underway pretty quickly and give people a good amount of time to decide if they want to participate so that's going to be happening at the same time that we start the recruitment process we're also going to have communications with Lincoln and Benson as well the master planning committees to give them updates of what's going on better ideas about schedules and activities that are happening basically between now and when their data process begins yes we have a shot at Kellogg in three years well that's gonna depend on how can city and permitting and how concurrent we can get on doing the abatement demolition of existing while we're designing and submitting the the permanent design the final design and getting those in so it's all going to be about land-use and permitting and we will be engaging the city next month as to what our plan is and have some robust conversations with them some of their process is and and Dan probably have some more detail about some of the processes sequential versus there was a time when it was concurrent so we'll be asking for some concurrency in this process we can speed the project
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up and we're looking at the schedule in detail with the design team so we'll have more we already have we can bring more detailed information so if somebody wanted to participate in the Dagda process but how do they do that yeah question so we're going to one we're going to contact the the master planning committee members and make them aware of and of course as well but we're also going to advertise it and we're still having discussions about what's the best way they advertise it we want to make sure that we have a good representation across our communities so we're still having some discussions on that I don't have the exact answer to that yet when you get to the process well I was to say when you get to the process where you're ready to start with applications I think there's lots of people on the board who have community relationships that could be helpful and or suggestions of maybe organizations that you could tap so and we'll be ready next McGann we needed to land to summer work and start school so I was actually at Lincoln last night for one of their meetings and we are all these sites are like Dan said who from the existing master plan committee pre-designed diligence committee would like to continue on and those are identified then we will then open it up to others so right now is when we want that input this is a September exercise with refinement in October are we still underrepresented in certain areas everybody know I remember every want to start some of these days up so it's you know give us a week and we're ready to hear from you I just like to say I mean there's just no way I could even attempt to do all this stuff without Dan I mean he's been amazing and he has all the knowledge and and and here you know ken Fischer a program manager a theory here is our construction manager and program manager and I'm just saying that you know we have like 13 of our own employees and you just sort of like how many billion 1.5 billion so this is rough you know and it is just it's been it's been a journey and when we can pull our teams back from these sites that have been site based we haven't seen our site team some maybe 30 percent in the construction I joke when they come in the office I introduce myself to them and when we can get them back we are we were going to we're going to take a day and we're just going to thank them and we'll probably do a professional development day and we just need it downtime because it's been crazy and it's been super long hours and it's been real stressful and we have come out a lot of great lessons learned I just wanted to I just want to thank Dan publicly in Canon all of his teams because they're the reason I'm only awake half the night yeah I didn't have them maybe awake on me do you have largely landed all of this work on budget in a climate of probably unprecedented I'm sure construction escalation costs is really remarkable and you've been adapting and adapting and adapting and it's it is really remarkable we've got a little bit lucky with our our bond premiums but that's not the whole story so really truly incredible work and I won't name names but we know that there are others involved in these same endeavors in our community that are delivering results that are you know massively over over-budget and so this is really a feat for Portland Public Schools thank you [Applause] okay we're running a little bit behind oh yeah I'm I'm sorry yes could you come on down and you get it - sure - you know well while we're reorganizing a little um I just sort of feel compelled to say you know there's a lot at PPS that a number of us have been critical about over the years and this construction work has been just stunningly well done I mean I can't say enough it's that the buildings are beautiful and and I know everybody has been working twenty eight hours a day for years so thank you you're here gotta
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celebrate the wins so our next item on our agenda is the draft public records policy and the board policy and governance task force met last week to work on both a draft complaint policy and a draft public records policy and associated an administrative directives we made significant progress on the board public records policy and I would say that we have still have significant to work to be done on the complaint policy plus it needs to be integrated and aligned with the work that director Constance community will be working on but in general I'd say we're pretty close to having a public records policy ready for a first reading so we thought tonight we'd preview the new draft policy and have a brief discussion and an opportunity for board members to raise questions and you all should have I think probably that you've got a packet and the very top document is proposed revisions as of 824 2017 I'm going to ask you to actually turn the page over to the next draft because the next page really reflects the work that was done in the committee the task force the other day and I'm just going to run briefly through it and I see we've got all our experts now lined up in the front row just in case we need them of Dave's claiming not to be one of the experts so just generally I would say the thrust of the the changes and the revisions of the policy is to really change the the bias of the the policy that our bias is going to be we're a public institution we're public officials we're public employees and therefore the work we do should be public and that instead of looking for ways or reasons not to make our work public we're gonna assume that our work is public unless there is a very clear and compelling reason why it shouldn't be so if you look through the revisions that we've made we be quite a lot of discussion about in the first section because there there are two areas where we have indicated that we potentially could make decisions not to release public documents and they those instances would be if we're pretty by law which seems like a pretty valid reason not to and then also for six significant and likely legal physical or business harm to the district student staffer facilities and we had quite a discussion about whether that was overly permissive or may lead to more cases than we wanted of documents being withheld and I think we we added some qualifiers and then also one of the things is if it turns out it's we've opened the aperture too broad we can always tighten it so we had quite a bit of discussion about that and then if you look at section one we added some language about the method in which public records would be processed sometimes I think and this isn't because of bad intentions or purposeful purposely doing it this way but I think because it's not clearly stated sometimes these will think that some things get processed quicker than others for reasons other than they arrive first so we wanted to be transparent in the process by which we do it that they're being be done in the order of receipt without regard to the nature of the records or identity of the requester and number two we added some language that the the records you know generally will be at no or minimal cost whenever possible frankly and Ryan has lots of data and all the requests and how many of them actually require a lot of work and most of them you can correct me shake your head if I'm wrong but most of them we can comply with the records request at no cost or minimal cost to the requester and then we also had a discussion if you go down to number five that sort of setting up an internal
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process of who makes the decision and this is again a philosophical discussion of the board and how do we how do we want to process it when it's not so clear so I think our expectation that sounds like most of the things that come in are pretty straightforward our public records officer will process them and do it in a timely and Kurtis prettiest manner but in cases where there may be a legal exemption we're going to have that the public records office working coordination with the general counsel the superintendent will make the final decision and so we thought that was setting up a clear process so the public could see doesn't just go in to be ESD and then like who's making it's not clear who's making the decision so really being clear on how the decision-making happens and then the last item was number eight so originally how this was drafted the we had it that if you disagreed that you felt the district was inappropriately withholding records you'd go straight to the DA and well that is a mechanism that we've retained we also felt that you know for example going to the DA there may be people who don't who either feel like it's a complicated process or for some reason don't want to have an interaction with a district attorney and that may be actually an impediment for people just saying you know never mind I'm not going to do it if I have to go you know request the DA Joe withhold it so we put in this sort of snapback provision that somebody can appeal that final staff decision to the board and that the board could could be an alternative to going to the DA although people could still go straight to the DA if they want to just skip the board that's fine and then a question was raised about the board practice perhaps in the past of just sitting on recommendations and therefore public records aren't being released so we have this provision that if the if the board doesn't act within seven days and this is Jeff okay I think I might be venturing into it if we if we don't act within seven days it just goes straight to the DA is that the appeal that to have a right okay so we try we tried to build in the process by which the average citizen could easily access public records of a public institution and but build in and be really transparent about the process by which we are doing the work and make it and reduce as many barriers as possible whether they be legal or sort of sort of part of the bureaucracy or their pate nests or cost so that people have access to the people's business I'm gonna ask director Rosen or director more if you have any any other flavor you want to add to the policy discussion before we just I don't have much to say except that I do think we're going in a different direction where we're assuming that these significant that we're assuming that these that our documents are available and accessible to the public under most circumstances and I really appreciate that just thinking back to being on the other side of the fence and they think it's gonna do great service to the community and I want to thank the staff for turning this around very quickly so and and being very very receptive to questions and and making changes so it was great and like yeah I think this is a it's a good step in the right direction I want to add to what Rita said too that this is something that SIPP has been working on for a long time you know six to nine months in terms of how to reform the process starting with the hiring of a public records officer which has made tremendous improvements so now to see it all come together and with the engagement of the board on the revisions to the policy it's great but that's been really good work do any of
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you want to do you want to add anything else to the discussion or should we see is there any misstatements of the facts so any of the board members who aren't committee or own task force have any questions or concerns or no just thing thanks to staff and my fellow board members good work I would say the same and just echo Mike's comment so I think it's very positive direction director consume no I think it's great Moses okay hey that's that's pretty good so next steps for the policy we have a meeting on Friday and I think we'll probably take one one last pass of the policy maybe we'll go a little bit deeper on the administrative directive and look at some of the other accompanying materials potentially some of the implementation plan I do think one of the things that really needs to accompany this and this will be a very important part of the I think the roll out is just raising awareness with among both school staff and district office staff that anything we put on paper any materials we create are the people's work and public documents and so if we're if we're thoughtful in what we write I think it's very easy to have a very liberal public records policy so thank you for all the work so just a point of clarification so my understanding is that we're also going to be having some public input opportunities because quite a few people have used the public records request system and so we're we're going to build in I think opportunities for people to comment on this new draft yeah great great point so we'll have the taskforce meeting on Friday that following Borden meeting on the 12th we'll have the first reading and I think at that point we've already got some great feedback at that point we'll ask for feedback both from the community but also the media who are sort of the other big users of the public records process great thank you very much and nice job so the next item on our agenda is just the board committee and Conference reports and I don't think there's any committee reports although some of the committee chairs want to provide updates if they haven't already and I'm gonna actually though start unless he tells me otherwise with the student representative Moses who this afternoon had a roundtable with the incoming superintendent and some other students so I want to share with us today and a few of the people who'll be sitting on the soup Student Advisory Council and some ASB presidents from across the district and we talked about some really good things about super shock movie moving forward so redefining super sac and so hopefully that I'll be able to provide a recommendation to the board and then we can get some board feedback and then the superintendent about what we want to look what we want that student voice Avenue to look like so maybe becoming more independent and not nest a student Advisory Council or we want to shift to the Student Union we're not sure exactly what we want that to look like but we're hoping with everyone in collaboration we can figure out and really nail that student voice Avenue up and you know get that up and going again and then moving forward with the superintendent we just he offered what he could do on his half in so finding an advisor in central office and addressing some issues in connecting us with the appropriate staff people in central office in order to address those issues that we deem a priority for supersite that's first super sec and then our first meeting for super sac will hopefully be around mid-september and we can get those priorities addressed and better build the foundation for Super
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sac or whatever we decide that Avenue is and move forward there any committee chairs want to announce meetings coming up or any things related to their their work director Anthony very briefly and this is mostly an appeal to the staff although it's good information for the rest of the board to have this last session the Legislature passed Senate bill 111 this is not something that had gone through with much discussion or much comment at all I watch what the legislature does pretty obsessively and I had seen no mention of this whatsoever but what 1:11 does is enable school districts to potentially bill Medicaid for some sped services for some school nurse services and for some services provided in school-based health clinics for Portland Public depending on how this is administered and rolled out this could result in multiple millions of dollars in new revenue for us these are areas where we spend a great deal of money currently it's a brave new world nothing has been done on it up to this point all we know is that next week the Oregon Department of Education is going to be meeting to discuss what their rules around it may be and and it seems to like me but they're going to come up with a timeline for how they're going to roll this out they're only going to allow 9 school districts in the state to do this as a pilot and Portland public should want to be there certainly in terms of sheer numbers in terms of percentages we have the biggest need and I understand that now through the Oregon School Boards Association that message has been delivered very forcibly to the Department of Ed this Thursday 9 o'clock use of a WOD doesn't know this yet but he's going to be meeting with a cast of thousands I'd had a pre-existing meeting with him but half the people in the room Jerry Vincent Laura Parker Brian Dutcher Antonio Lopez but also Corinna Wolfe Mary Pearson Courtney Wessling and the point of this is if there's anybody else out there who thinks they've they want to put their oar in you know we're going to have Medicaid billing and HIPAA compliance and revenue and it's gonna be a hell of a party people yeah 9 o'clock Thursday morning there we are thank you oh and I should say a very deep thank you to our benefits person Terry Burton Terry is the one who opened up the opportunity that enabled me to know about this I'm very grateful to her great thanks director Anthony Paul do you know anything about movement at the federal level that would prohibit school districts from billing Medicaid because that is something that that there's a lot of lobbying going on I know that there is no I haven't heard anything definitive yet it's possible that Oregon because there are a lot of school districts who already have that and already do bill Medicaid for a lot of those services and now there's movement in Washington to limit the ability to do that so might be a great party but we might be getting there a little late if we're talking about processes because I know that been somewhat involved in that and I know it's been really time consuming and almost not worth you know a professionals time so tell us so if we have the ability to really direct or comment on the process well yes you know if if we had to build on a per site
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basis the HIPAA rules for putting in that IT are very very expensive it would be absolutely cost prohibitive for us mr. Vinson has many opinions on this because we looked at doing this same thing for transportation for spent students last year and he still hasn't quite recovered director constant term or anything from your committees yeah I just want to announce that the next finance audit and operations committee meeting is September 12th at 3 o'clock it's the same day as the next board meeting and that's where I was going the next meeting of the enrollment and forecasting committee we have two scheduled one September 7th at 6 o'clock and the next on the 18th again at 6 o'clock be there you square I've been trying to schedule those at a time where people have a daytime job can Graham of IT and show up shakerino staff director Rosa I'm this close to having a report at the next meeting I promise I won't okay perfect great so next we're gonna go to the business agenda the board has a revised business agenda before them which now includes resolution 5 505 equipment to the custodian civil service board that resolution has been posted online as available in the back of the auditorium board members are there any items you'd like to pull for a separate discussion and vote yes and so since interim superintendent Awad is not here my guess is we're gonna ask Vaughn trunk let's come up and answer the questions while she is coming could I make a comment on resolution 5 5 0 3 please yes you may resolution 5 5 0 3 names the new members of the community budget review committee and this is an enormous public service the CBR C delves very deeply not just into the districts annual budget but into the inner workings of everything that touches the lives of our children it is a massive time commitment and I think it deserves just a brief moment of recognition this resolution will put Justin alar doe Sarah Kerr Rodger Kirchner Judah McCauley arena Philips harmony Cara's and Betsy Salter onto the CB RC and the board the district and all of our children both on a deep debt of gratitude Rodger Kirchner has been here sitting through our meeting thank you very much Roger Betsey Salter was here and just gave up but thank you and the rest of the members very very much it's awfully important work nice call out thanks Roger thank you so my questions are around the items for greenwood publishing and books source because i thought last week that we had approved about four million dollars that was for the literacy adoption and i couldn't recall so this would add an additional three and a half million is is this still for the same cape i adoption or where these materials for um I have review these with my staff and I think that's why they win the reason why I have them here because this is part of the adoption from last year and now so I wanna make sure that they have they have the full pictures and so I will give it in terms of our budget discussions I thought the adoption for this year that we had budgeted some more around four million dollars when this takes it closer it is seven point five I'm sorry I think you may be looking at
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our last meetings yes we don't have anything like that for this agenda that I didn't notice that either so thank you anything else you want to add from being at the ready yeah we have a couple other contracts on this or just when they be ready to respond to your questions I didn't have any questions on other contracts oh okay thank you Stu so I do want to thank all the staff especially who have people who have items on the business agenda for staying to the bitter end on a school night anybody else have any items on the business agenda this week or last week's [Laughter] four years ago misusing are there any additional changes to the business agenda great do I have a motion a second to adoptive is business agenda so moved oh dear director Esparza Brown moves and director Anthony seconds the adoption of the business agenda miss Susan is there any public comment on the business agenda there is not any public comment in the business agenda is there any board discussion on the business agenda 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 are there any abstentions the business agenda is approved by a vote of 7 to 0 with the student representative Tran Bao ting yes yes and with that were the next regular meeting of the board will be held on September 12th and will take place at Madison High School and with that the

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