2018-12-11 PPS School Board Regular Meeting

District	Portland Public Schools
Date	2018-12-11
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Meeting Type	regular
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Event 1: Regular Meeting of the Board of Education - December 11, 2018

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thank you good evening this regular meeting of the Board of Education for December 11th 2018 is called to order welcome to everyone present and to our television viewers for tonight's meeting any law 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 PPS TV services website as a reminder we now have our PPS ombudsman Judy Martin Judy where there you are attending all regular board meetings specifically 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 five oh three nine one six three oh four five or Ombudsman at PBS net we also have interpreters with us this evening and I'd like them to come forward at this time introduce themselves in the language they will be interpreting and inform the audience where they will be located in the auditorium should someone need their assistance video chicks reus Cavanaugh ruse Kinsey is like a mu tapenade a little more serious yes miss Leveaux spasiba but on Orchard minami-san Rizzo interpreter certificado and espanol we estas in 20 potential simultaneous interpretation por favor bang uppercut I got home I can show money I'm gonna make your LV you were so you to inform or fanic for Mochaccino hoping my norm guy thirty compete on the passport she languages though is that more bingo Kuya Thank You Hank you've ever known you for now gone you go you okay board members are there were any items on our business agenda that you have questions on this does not include those individual action items listed on tonight's agenda so any items for discussion will take place during the business agenda portion of the meeting okay then Lupe this is normally the part where I excused staff but I would really like senior staff to listen to all of our community who's out here this evening the public that our chair Rita Moore is a way this week and so Julie Esparza brown vice-chair will be chairing the meeting tonight so miss Huston do we have anyone signed up for student or public comment Angelo Jimenez and janae Stewart okay thank you and as they make their way to the table I would like to review our guidelines for public comment the board thanks the community for taking the time to attend this meeting and provide your comments to the board we value public input as it does inform our work and we look forward to hearing your thoughts reflections and concerns our responsibility as a board is to actively listen without distraction from our electronic devices or papers our next two speakers Maya Lisette and Zoe Redell your board members and the superintendent will not respond to comments or questions during public comment if you want to follow up with the board manager please contact miss Hewson or Roseann Powell our board manager Roseann where are you behind you guidelines for public input emphasize respect and consideration of others complaints about individual employees shall be directed to the superintendent's office as a personnel matter if you have additional materials or items that you would like to provide to us or the superintendent we ask that you give them to misuse them to distribute to the board and superintendent presenters will have a total of three minutes to share your comments please begin by stating your name and spelling your last name during the first two minutes of your if your testimony at green light will appear and when you have one minute remaining a yellow light and when your time is up the red light will go on and we respectfully ask you to conclude at that time thank you hello my name is Maya dilatory Mackin and I'm a senior at
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Jefferson High School so today I would just like to address the IGA for the SRO agreement and I would like to bring up that while the SRO agreement states that students have been provided an opportunity for input that effort has not been adequate my fellow classmates and I have not even heard of this proposal to the best past Thursday many of us are very concerned and would like the opportunity to share these concerns with the board because of such short notice of this meeting tonight in particular many students were unable to attend and have their voices heard within the past day I have received 13 letters from students who were unable to attend but who wanted to provide their input I believe in order to ensure that you have full understanding of the impact of this decision you need to take more time to listen to the students directly impacted and make a greater effort to let students know what is going on I really hope tonight that you choose to respect the needs and the wants of your students and she to delay the vote thank you for your time thank you next we have Jensen Sears and Ileana matura series and I'm also a senior at Jefferson High School your last name please SE ARS before the vote you will hear student representatives Sara Steele and Isabel mace McClatchy read a statement this statement is a product of seniors at Jefferson High School coming together to ensure that our voice is heard in this conversation while this wasn't every student we did our best to make sure that everyone's opinion and voice was heard through meetings surveys and petitions this issue of SROs in our school directly affects us the students of PBS more than anyone else we would like to acknowledge that the group of students from Jefferson that are speaking tonight does not accurately represent the demographics at our school we believe that our message is representative however as it is based in many hours of conversation drafting and social media outreach we would like to thank the teachers parents and other adults that assisted us in this process and who want our voice to be heard as well these adults recognize that this issue needs student voices behind this decision while listening to our statement we hope you realize how important student voices are and why especially on this agreement which will ensure the presence of armed police officers in schools you need to include students in the conversation and ultimately in the decision we know that there is a student representative on the school board however this is only one person from one school we also recognize and appreciate the Portland Police Bureau and members of the board coming to talk to Jefferson High School last week however four days is simply not enough time to digest this properly and have our voices heard with enough consideration that our perspectives will not be pushed aside but actually engaged with and listened to right now the students of PBS are putting the ability for our voices to be heard in your hands thank you [Applause] hi my name is eliana Machuca and I teach at Jefferson High School um I've been listening to students throughout this week voiced their concerns and I definitely I support them and that that asked to the board to delay the process so that they can there can be more student voice not only in this decision but in all decisions as I've been listening one of the things that has been surfacing just for me as a teacher is the reliance on from the SRO and from school board representatives the the strength that they believe that this program brings which is restorative justice training that the sorrows will be bringing in as an asset I do however feel kind of frustrated in that because I think that teachers and staff and students are the best ones to actually do that kind of work in schools and I know that last year I tried to get a restorative justice training when the one that I was able to go was canceled and then moving into this year it seems like there was three opportunities last year and that only went to one opportunity this year for training and I believe that there are like maybe three centralized staff SRO I mean sorry we're sort of just as trained administrators however like these people actually need to be in our schools so I think a better investment for the money that is coming
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with this agreement might actually be in trying to figure out how we can better equipped our school communities to do some work and I think that in in having these further conversations and engaging student voice I think some of these things will surface because if we're trying to get to student safety I think there's a lot of ways we can get to it before we start bringing in arms thank you next we have Nathaniel Edmonds and Maura Gabriel my name is Nathaniel Evans EDM unds and I teach at Alliance high school according to the version of resolution 5160 that's on the PBS website the ED specs and master plan for Benson campus should include the 1700 student common areas at Benson campus and classrooms for 1350 and alliance professional technical high school common areas and classrooms for 500 that's that reads to me as a master plan for 2,200 students now I welcome the latest initiatives to reach out to our community and hear from our school community but I have to advocate that if you want to stand with students facing adversity and tell them that they do matter that their circumstances or their disability or their upbringing has not disqualified them from the promise of a free and appropriate public education then you you do it the other way around from the sequence of events that's described in the resolution draft in front of you you vote next week to include Alliance high school as a community of 500 students as was originally voted on in resolution 51 60 and then do the research to see if a better opportunity for us opens up a better location by March and vote accordingly if that manifests Alliance has to be accessible from anywhere in the city and from all walks of life they should have common spaces and private spaces for collaboration or retreat spaces at times to grieve to play to listen to be heard appropriate restroom access our own entrance and a garden this is doable and I know that because there are members of the Benson community that believe it's right because I was approached after making comments at the October meeting of the dag by a Benson teacher and he said I had never thought about it from your point of view your students have as much of a right to be here as anyone thank you for speaking up there are students and leaders in the dag who know these questions matter not just to their communities but to the legacy that Benson would then represent so it's time to build new schools sure but we must also build those bridges in our schools in our communities in our hearts in our homes maybe in this country Thank You superintendent Guerrero members of the board my name is Maura Gabriel less famous GA be rit ow I'm a PBS parent of two children for 11 years I'm here to share the PBS experience of an asynchronous child identified as both highly gifted and with what is termed specific learning disability he's dyslexic his speech in ot as part of the early childhood program then testing showed HD in kindergarten but reading and writing were clearly an issue we began asking if he was Tillich's dyslexic in first grade and every year after through sixth grade and learned later that PBS specifically avoids the term and note offers no services for dyslexic students so despite an IEP since second grade and a lot of advocacy he completed sixth grade years behind in reading and writing to the point and struggling in all areas including his areas of giftedness and devastating his esteem avoiding the term means his dyslexia was not addressed until after sixth grade when somebody outside of PPS made it clear that he was dyslexic and needed specific instruction and fortunately for him we are able to provide that we did have to pull him out of PPS this year though to have his needs met after many failed attempts meeting with sped and five afford teams to accommodate his needs that access at Lane but he's you know he's one kid this is not really about him because he's getting help what about the other one in
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five children which for PBS means roughly 10,000 children are dyslexic and they're not getting services and it's great that we now have screening for kindergarten and for some first-grade students but what do we have planned to do once screen and what do we have planned to do for the children who were already identified and more importantly what are we doing for the kids who can't afford the tutoring that you need to be able to move forward these are bright eyed children who become jaded these have a higher incidence of dropping out they leave school with a diploma but they are not functional readers and this is a true disservice that PPS does many of these students are also creatives are gifted gifted in lots of ways and they benefit from less traditional environment so it's especially upsetting to hear that Benson could be closing and I know we say it's not closing but it's a little disingenuous if it turns into a two-year skill program its closing so I have a few ass recognize inadequate help for dyslexia as the equity issue it is because that's what it is don't close the one high school that already actively works for kids who learn differently actively pursue opportunities working with families with teachers who know about structured literacy hire more teachers with structured literacy and if you can't find them then fight the schools that are churning out these teachers and say we need teachers with structured literacy the budgets already strained and it strains even more when you have to try to provide remediation for the fact that the universities aren't turning out teachers who know about dyslexia for 20% of the population they deserve free and appropriate education it's time to provide it thank you for your time [Applause] next we have Michael McCord and Susan Bartley hi my name is Michael McCord McCord spelled MCC Ord and I'm here to testify my opposition to the relocation of the lines at Benson high school Alliance at Benson high school is located blocks away from the Lloyd Center in about 15 minute walk from Rose Garden Moda center whatever you call it and what that means that it's a hub in the city of Portland which makes it so people from all over the city can access that building and if it is relocated many students who didn't succeed at their traditional high school or whatever they're gonna be lost and they're not gonna have anywhere to go because a lot of these people have a lot of barriers including private transportation which is how many students get to school every day so if you take away the high school located where everything is accessible many kids will not succeed and thank you very much [Applause] Susan on galata Bartley that's su si and ang la da ba RT lui I want to start by letting you know that there shall be no personal attacks this evening nor shall I venture into topics that I much prefer to be dealt with discreetly though I encourage you to act expediently so as to avoid my return to this very chair to discuss a different topic I'm here as a parent to discuss the inequities that exist between bridger and other comparable schools however I want to make it explicitly clear that I do not support moving part of the school to Marshall the majority of the bridger community does not support the move for many reasons that you will see clearly communicated and documentation that was provided to the superintendent when board member Julia broom Edwards came to bridger recently she made a statement in which she mentioned other inequities at that time she said that if community members wanted to see those addressed we should come and speak with the board well I do not understand how an elected official can see inequity with her own eyes make a public statement about it in front of the community and still not take action to solve it I'm here because our children deserve a middle school in elementary school experience revolta that of other schools while researching the inequities I stumbled upon a picture of prim Edwards and governor Kate brown on the cover of the Mount Tabor website a few questions came to mind how is the picture itself a testimony to the Nexus of power and privilege that is keeping schools with high numbers of students of color and students living in poverty in a state of devastation while schools and wealthy neighborhoods receive additional connections resources and course offerings how does the picture illustrate exactly why Nike must pay their fair share of taxes because when politicians are guided by corporate interests rather than the voices of the people they will overlook children who are suffering right in the foothills of their backyards have you either ever gathered the patience required to hold space for a young person who has
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suffered great trauma and also struggles with hunger have you ever heard the beating on the walls have you felt the demand I'm here to remind you that if you want a strong society you must feed the children well physically spiritually emotionally holy I'm here to ask you what it does to children when we take away art music movement and access to mental health in their formative years violence illness incarceration I'm here to let you know that we are facing child hunger we are facing a distinct need for a bilingual social worker or mental health professional we are in need of more FTE provided at a time when our awesome principal can make her own choices we are in need of books materials and opportunities comparable to other schools I'm here to ask you as a board to consider the needs of the community and add to the overall budget for both this school year and throughout the next three years while we move through their process of discovering the future of the program's no more child sacrifice no more putting profit power and privilege before people the time is now finally can you look into the high poverty schools and schools that serve black Latino and Native American students in this district and ask yourself have we done right by this community and then when you find that the answer is no I ask you to listen to the voices of the mothers and grandmothers in these communities and give them exactly what they need they will tell you counselors not cops follow me if you hear me counselors not cops counselors not cops slurs nice awesome Nike pay your fair share thank you and lastly we have Yolanda Cabrera I'm sorry yeah there were a lot of other people and now it's getting confusing as to you know who would have been first in the list so sorry thank you sorry it's not our procedure thank you I understand there there are many ways of emailing us I'm sending us thank you okay next is superintendent cadet Oh would you like to provide your report as I said there are so many people that are on the list at this point we don't know you know who was waiting so we're not adding [Applause] I'm sorry about that my name is Elizabeth Sullivan I'm a parent of two children PBS the first time I heard of SROs I received an email from PBS communications on Friday September 21st so it was a Friday at 3:03 p.m. and the subject was school security upgrades to be installed and it was this long email rattling off all the security installations which will include video intercom system override buttons voice over internet phone PA systems which I think should be a general maintenance question I mean pH every school should have a PA I don't know goes on and on new signage to direct visitors where do they go that really is basic maintenance to but this is all part of this long email that was sent on a Friday to parents and many people don't read emails on Friday at 3 o'clock and that was the last email I heard from you guys about the SRO so I would love to have contacted you sooner but I didn't know this meeting like the student just referred to I didn't know is happening and I'm somebody who's in tune with everything or I thought so that was all the things you were just kind of glossing over that you know they're gonna do this but I had a lot of questions in this email and I asked other parents and they had even read the email it said based on an overall evaluation of security capability done by a security consultant well who's that security consultant what are their criteria what where do they come from how much will you pay them do they have future rfp's do they have future work you know what where did they come up with these ideas and also it was based on you guys said not national best practice recommendations what are those recommendations just like again in my middle schooler you got a cite your references so I don't know what your how did you come up with this you know like there's nothing so then we
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go back in time and we look at okay so the bond was proposed in 2017 and if you look at the bond anybody can look this up it's the 2017 health safety and modern ashin bond on february 28th 2017 it lists how we were going to divide up a hundred and fifty million of additional health and safety projects so at least number one water quality lead-based paint asbestos radon fire alarm roofs ABA accessibility z' and last is security systems for five million dollars and it says funding up to eleven schools whereas the water quality is funding up to ninety schools so it's like its last in this priority and that's what we all voted on right so cuts you may 17th 2018 we all voted 66% to pass this bond for our kids right seven hundred and ninety million dollars the largest bond in Oregon's history then we find out oh no no then you guys did your budget right so in June 2018 and it was all about safety and well-being of our students but that essentially was okay thank you you've got your minutes thank you all right you can reach us on the look at the board website for us tonight yes thank you good evening directors and to all our viewers and all the audience that's present we really do have some truly remarkable educators here at PBS last Monday I had the opportunity to be present as one of them was recognized with a Milken educator award often referred to as sort of the Oscars of Education that person was Janet doe who teaches first grade students at Whitman elementary and the only teacher in the state of Oregon who was recognized with this prestigious award so congratulations Janet so among the the many reasons why we believe she was selected was really her ability to keep learning engaging and fun for our youngest students while covering critical topics that her students need to advance in their education I wanted to recognize Janet who represents and exemplifies all those teachers who every day go the extra mile for their students who think creatively about their lessons while making meaningful connections each day with our students you can find a short video clip of the student assembly that was held at Whitman last week on our district homepage but congratulations once again to Janet doh reimagining PBS together this past weekend almost a hundred invited stakeholders made up of students parents educators community leaders and our board of directors participated in the launch of our visioning process folks spent both Friday evening and all day Saturday beginning to talk about and imagine an aspirational future of our school system we had an opportunity to hear from a panel of futurists here in the boardroom on Friday who helped provoke us to think about how we might best prepare our students for a future world I want to thank all the members of the guiding coalition for their active participation and what will be a months-long process and to let everyone know there will be opportunities for community engagement and a more detailed schedule will be published right after the winter break and speaking of planning for the future the district senior leadership team has started early and begun initial steps to develop a proposed budget development process for school year 1920 as we continue to think about our shared priorities especially those that involve racial equity issues as outlined in themes emerging in the board and administration's shared work plan senior live leaders are giving very careful thought to forecasting what kind and level of strategic investments will be necessary to achieve our goals and impact on student achievement in equitable ways we anticipate budget planning will be informed by our visioning process and an emerging outline of a strategic plan for the school system our intention is to share a month-by-month budget development and commune engagement process with the broader public after we have an opportunity to work with the Board of Directors to define this process of course we're all monitoring the overall fiscal outlook for public school districts in the state of Oregon and we are pleased that the governor has prioritized k-12 education and her recommended budget but I know that we will all be monitoring and advocating for investments in k-12 as the legislature embarks on its process yesterday evening many of our directors were present along with other local school board members from surrounding school districts to meet with local elected officials to begin sharing shared areas and priorities as was
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expressed to Senators and Representatives from the region they appreciated hearing our thoughts on a range of important areas that will help hopefully to inform their advocacy and process in the Legislature's Oregon School Activities Association Awards in the spirit of looking through things through the experience of our students here's a shout out to some of our scholar athletes I'm happy to report that the Cleveland girls soccer team was at the top of the list of the academic All Star Awards which is presented by OnPoint credit union with a combined GPA of 3.9 they led all girls soccer teams in Oregon and it's the second year in a row that the team has won this honor congratulations Cleveland girls soccer team but they were only part of a very strong showing by PIL Wilson girls soccer was runner up Wilson and Franklin boy soccer were number one and two in their category with a three point six five GPA wilson volleyball was at the top of their category with a 3.8 4 GPA as was the Franklin boys cross country with a 3.9 4 so congratulations to all our scholar athletes for achieving high marks both on and off the field I recently attended the DaVinci arts fair and was very impressed both with the level of talent from our students and local artists as they showcased at this popular and annual showcase we have some stunning examples of visual and performing arts going on almost every day around the district you can find wonderful examples of both student and staff are regularly displayed here at the central office office which we greatly appreciate and I hope that folks are getting the opportunity to enjoy some of the numerous school performances and concerts this winter season and PBS under the leadership of Kristin brace in our program administrator for visual performing arts schools have put together dozens of shows and classes ranging from the crust and winter sing-along and multicultural night which is happening two nights from now to tomorrow evening's winter symphonic band and wind ensemble concert at Lincoln there are many more events you can find a full list on our district's Facebook page but just to give you a little flavor here's a short video from Grant tasia Grant High School's Maine winter arts event [Music] [Music] you're as cuddly as a cactus who's charlie [Music] [Applause] as a big arts advocate congratulations to all of our student artists for their performances this season and to our arts educators that concludes my report thank you the next item is the Portland Public Schools Portland Police Bureau Memorandum of Understanding so the board has held both a public works session in October and also substantial discussion at a recent board meeting on the PBS Portland Police Bureau intergovernmental agreement we've also had as you know student several student forms over the past two weeks on the topic notes were
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taken from each of the forums and these notes have been shared with all of the board members I would like to ask chief of staff Stephanie Soudan to provide any additional comments and we have also our captain Hager from PPG thank you so good evening board of directors superintendent I do have captain tasha hagar with me she's captain of the youth services division of the Portland Police Bureau and I also want to point out that we have assistant chief Reilly in the audience here supporting us today so you're correct this is the third public discussion about the proposed IgA with the Portland Police Bureau regarding the school resource officer program we had a work session on October 9th and on November 27th and then you have your final meeting today so I just want to bring us back why we were why we're asking you to approve an IgA so what many people don't realize I think is that we have been have we've had SROs school resource officers operating in our schools providing safety and security services to our school communities for more than 20 years but without a written agreement and what today's eye before you outlines is clarifying roles and responsibilities and defining who who pays who what's duties are and it basically formalizes what's been in in operation for over 20 years so through this agreement in addition the Police Bureau guarantees that nine SROs would be fully dedicated to each of the nine high school clusters so there are a lot of questions about what a school resource officer is and captain Hager can obviously tell you more eloquently than I but what's outlined in the IGA includes the following expectations that the number one priority is to provide safety and security as you heard two weeks ago sr notes are specially trained and restorative justice and trauma-informed practices your high school principals will tell you that they are relied upon to de-escalate incidences and SROs are specially trained to seek alternatives to referring students to the juvenile justice system by working closely with school based staff and providers of wraparound services what school resource officers are not responsible for is student discipline they are there to respond to criminal incidents so in the last school year more than 5,000 calls for SRO assistance were placed in schools across the city of Portland of those according to the police Bureau 13 MPPs schools 13 students were arrested ten of those which there was no discretion but a judge had ordered their arrest and no one went to jail so their goal really is to keep students out of jail so how did we arrive here we've been negotiating in good faith for many months and I just want to share from my perspective every revision and to the IGA has been accepted by the Portland Police Bureau and I'm thankful for the partnership they've demonstrated throughout this process so you've also been provided data by the euro to help inform your decisions and like I mentioned we've discussed the IgA in two previous work sessions and lastly we took some time to engage students to hear feedback address concerns and answer questions about the SRO program so there were five student-led conversations and we heard a lot of skepticism from students and learned about the fear and anxiety some students especially students of color feel when they see or in the presence of police officers we also heard support from students who expressed feeling safer with their SRO at school in every conversation we heard that students don't know their SRO is very well and there's a genuine interest to getting to know them with this IgA each our sorrow will be allowed to spend all five days in their assigned school cluster so another thing we learned is that education about s SROs is necessary an ongoing dialogue is very important some students asked us to return for continued conversations for example we're talking with Jefferson High School Principal Calvert to look at future dates set those up before the sprit of the winter break to continue the conversations about this issue and others and so finally I'll just close with next steps before you today it will also go before the Portland City Council
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we as I mentioned we have learned a lot from the student engagement sessions I may want to continue that dialogue so I would imagine that would continue on you would get full Monday through Friday SRO coverage and we will begin collecting the disaggregated data school-by-school as you requested so that we can report back to the board and then I think what we talked about is immediately in January we would begin to schedule those quarterly check-ins and include student voices in those check-ins so I want to open it to Captain Hager superintendent if there's any additional comments otherwise I think we're here to answer your questions so just briefly the last time I was here one of your requests was that we spend some time doing some outreach with the students in PBS and I want to thank you for that direction because it's not something that I've been involved in and and it was a great opportunity for me to spend time listening to some of the viewpoints of the students and there were students who expressed fear at having police in their schools there were students that that we're wondering where their SRO was because their school hasn't been assigned one since the beginning of the school year so you know there are some mixed viewpoints on on police and schools and I think that part of the value of what we bring is the ability to bridge the gap between how people feel today and how they may feel tomorrow and and that is an important thing for our SROs to do and one of the one of the things that I'm probably most excited about this particular IgA is just the time that our SROs will have to do the engagement piece that I think is so important in our community and they do spend a significant amount of time doing the work part of the job and not as much time doing the engagement piece and it was very clear to me and speaking to the students that that was an important piece that for some of them was missing I recognize that the SRO that work in the school they know many students and many of those students probably were not sitting in the room while I was speaking to them but the students that were there expressed a desire or at least some of them to know who their SRO was not just in passing so looking for I you know I look forward to the opportunity of engaging with the school and making that a reality thank you stay close and we'll call you back up if we have questions okay the board will now consider resolution number five 771 a resolution to approve an intergovernmental agreement IGA between the city of Portland through the Portland Police Bureau and Portland Public Schools in addition I want to inform the public that we have a summary page that will accompany the IGA and they're both posted on the PBS website so do I have a motion and second on resolution 5 7 7 1 okay thank you said director groves in moves and director Anthony seconds the adoption of resolution 5 771 miss Houston is there any public comment my name is Isabelle mace McClatchy M AC E - MC la TCH Thank You president of Jefferson High School that is si ra h st e ele and i would like to address that sarah and i will be sharing the three minutes each allotted to us so six and s and total for both of us two minutes okay thank you to the PPS school board we are a group of students from Jefferson High School and we are here today to ask you to delay your vote on the PPS ppb intergovernmental agreement considering the lack of student involvement in the creation of and discussion about this agreement we strongly believe that moving forward with a vote would be irresponsible at this stage the voices of PPS students were not prioritized as by the fact that neither our student council nor our student body were informed of the IGA until last week as was directed by the board on October 9th Portland Public Schools has demonstrated a distinct disregard for the perspectives of the students that these agreements affect the clean that this agreement is nearly a formalization of a currently standing relationship as false as the IGA introduces a significant amount of money that PBS will now funnel into this program this is absolutely
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unacceptable this issue has been discussed by the board since at least September 12 2018 but Jefferson's students were not informed this agreement was discussed again on October 9th but again we were not informed in fact the first time Jefferson's student council members were informed of this agreement was last week when students were invited to a 3 p.m. meeting at PBS district offices even at this time we were not informed that this issue would be going to a vote today Jefferson is the closest High School's to the office but is still a 30-minute TriMet ride away further high schools more than an hour away this meeting began before school ended only 4 students ended up going to that meeting why was a student engagement meeting set up in such a way that prevented students from attending to address this issue our principal Margaret Calvert facilitated a meeting that would not conflict with our school hours this meeting occurred on Thursday December 6 2018 this was our first opportunity to speak with the district representatives and we were given only two days to prepare it was at this meeting that students were first informed that this issue would be going to a vote though only in passing and without any further explanation at this meeting though our questions were acknowledged we felt as though our perspectives were ignored and brushed away we were listened to but we were not heard nor understood it became apparent that PPS and ppb were there to convince us to accept what had already been decided when students raised concerns about SROs being armed these concerns were brushed aside without any willingness to further discuss the issue the same thing happened when people raised concerned about racialized police violence language barriers and other issues we are unable to move forward or support this agreement without addressing such fundamental issues the language in this agreement seems to prioritize communities of color and restorative justice practices yet PPS has failed to engage these communities marking a fundamental flaw in the way that this conversation has progressed at our meeting on Thursday PPS representatives seem to be under the impression that having only one student on the board means that all PPS students are represented that you consider all students of the different PPS high schools the same is not only incorrect but offensive that you deny our differences to believe that all 70,000 of us across this district could be accurately represented by one student no matter how great that one student may be means that you deny us our agency our choice and our voices in the conversation that define our educational experiences has marked the end of a conversation for you while it marks only the beginning of a conversation for us considering this we are here to ask at the vote on this IgA be delayed until a true effort has been made to include our voices in this conversation to move forward without doing so sends the message that you don't believe that our perspectives opinions and lived experiences are important and means that you ignore a significant portion of your high school population and the significant concerns that this population has not only do students have strong opinion of opinions on this issue but also a strong desire to make those opinions heard however nowhere in this process where students given a platform by PBS in which to express these views during the past 20 hours we've been conducting an informal survey of portland public school students determine if how and when students were informed of this agreement and the impending vote out of 309 responses out of as of 6:00 p.m. this evening seventy five percent stated that they did not know about nor hear about this IgA of the remaining 25 percent an overwhelming majority only learned about this agreement within the last few days and many of those students stated that they learned about this agreement for from friends or social media not PBS this shows that students have not only been informed of this agree not been informed of this agreement but have not been given enough time to fully consider their own thoughts and opinions about this issue additionally an overwhelming majority of the responding students expressed opposition or hesitation about the SRO program we're also aware of a petition to delay this vote that was created by a parent at Grant High School as of 6 o'clock p.m. this petition has 717 signatures in less than 24 hours student organizers and parents have been able to include more voices in this conversation than PPS did during the entire last two months it is care deeply about this issue but have been given little to no opportunity to engage in conversation this is unacceptable again thank you we ask you to delay the vote before we finish we'd like to acknowledge all of the adults who assisted us in crafting this statement as well as many many
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students who assisted us with our survey and the petition thank you thank you [Applause] all right [Applause] okay all right thank you lastly we have Leland Baxter Neil good evening superintendent Guerrero chair members of the board my name is Leland Baxter Neill and I'm a staff attorney with American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon and I am here as the students to urge you to delay this vote for to take time to have meaningful student input there's little I can say to follow that very moving and powerful testimony from the students and I heed the board to take their words very seriously the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned with both the substance in the process we are deep concerns with an effort to increase and further institutionalize the presence of armed law enforcement officers in Portland's public schools and we urge ppas to allow more time for students parents faculty staff and at large public engagement over the last week ACLU has been contacted by members of the PBS community students teachers parents who complained that the board was moving an IgA between PPS and ppb forward without adequate opportunity for public comment indeed the board's own staff analysis and a report to the board suggests that community input was sought very late in the process and was limited to just a few discussions with high school student council representatives it is our understanding that several schools including majority minority schools were completely excluded until very late in the process students of color are more likely to be punished they will be punished more likely to be punished harshly and more likely to be funneled into a criminal justice system that has massive racial disparities and can have lifelong consequences we further understand that the limited listening sessions were conducted with significant law enforcement officer presence this type of environment may not allow for a really robust discussion of students concerns about the impacts of armed law enforcement 'lord law enforcement officers and public schools in fact this complaint exactly was lodged with ACLU this week if the board's goal is to increase school safety we urge the board to reconsider their allocation of limited funding to initiatives that directly impact students without the use of punitive measures such as restorative justice approaches and effective counseling spending money on law enforcement officers does not provide a meaningful reduction in risk while costing much more than these other initiatives the ACLU recently did a study of over 96,000 public schools nationwide addressing the imbalance of student support services counseling psychologists and nurses and school resource officers a link to this study has been provided in the materials that I that we sent you the report is set to be released later this month moreover studies have already shown that an increased presence of school resource officers does not necessarily increase safety in schools a seven-year-long study in north carolina found that the presence of law enforcement officers did not reduce homicides assaults bomb threats substance possession or many other concerns we respectfully request that you postpone this vote and listen to these students there is there any board discussion on the resolution madam chair I have an amendment I want to offer so this has been it's posted on the PBS net website and the the overall rationale for the amendment is that there's been a link lead discussion with the city to co-create this IgA and while we have had board meeting discussions and work session discussions and the forums last week that it's probably important for those discussions to
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continue and I think there when you read the IgA it indicates it's a five-year agreement but actually every year there's the opportunity for us to modify it or if it's not working for PBS to terminate it so the amendment that I'm gonna offer tonight which I think will give the community an opportunity to continue the discussion and also for us to identify what's working well what things need to be improved that in the amendment I'm going to add language in the recitals that says recognizing that this formalization of the relationship between PBS and the PBE is a significant change in the structure of the relationship and there are significant cost implications for the district a formal one-year review should be undertaken on December 2019 so that the Board of Education can assess whether any modifications need to be made in the IGA the IGA contains the January 1 notification date for any intent to terminate at the end of the year and then in the resolved session section add a section that says at the first board meeting in December 2019 the superintendent will present to the Board of Education a comprehensive review of the first year of the agreement including but not limited to disaggregated data about Portland Police Bureau's school resource officers interactions with students as successive as specified in the IGA the number in nature the custodial interviews the formal and informal engagement and outreach that has occurred between PBS students and Families and an individual school resource officers whether other City at Portland school districts are also in cost-sharing agreements with the city and a survey of the high school principals on the change in the school resource officers service level to schools and the implications for their school communities okay director Anthony moves and director constant seconds the amendment to resolution 551 any discussion hello everyone thank you for coming out tonight especially for the students out there my name is Nick Paisley and I go to Cleveland high school I am a senior I'd like to take this chance to address the board students the public and Portland Police tonight on this intergovernmental agreement between PBS and school resource officers tonight I am voting no on behalf of the students of PBS I am recognizing the work that has been done in the past few weeks as well as recognizing the need to meet to recognizing the meet the need to meet to continue discussion and Monica modifications moving forward on this agreement I was given this item to get student input within with one week notice to the original vote and with the overwhelming voice I heard back PBS students and I were able to put the vote on hold for further review within a week students gave comment at a Leadership Summit at lunch at multiple schools and at a meeting here the PBS district office but that it's but it does not end here I encourage further work and discussion on this matter based on what students have said and more communication with students an important public school on Portland Portland Public Police on an ongoing basis we need more time together and more students involved to capture everyone's voice thank you so I just want to provide just some additional conduct context in the IGA we have added quarterly reviews and reporting of data that's very specific of what we're interested in having shared with the board and the broader community and so that'll happen a quarterly basis but this would allow for a very formal review of what's happened that first year so it's supplemental to the check-ins that have already been built into the IGA that there will be a student designee as part of that district panel for those check-ins as chief of staff so Dan mentioned before and on on the amendment I would just say I think it's a very good idea I certainly support it I think we should acknowledge it did come in at the last minute and didn't go through a workgroup or appeared to the board a week before which I know is important to some people but I think it's a great
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idea the meeting materials if you got a PPS net the meeting materials I found it before the meeting it was posted this afternoon and there's no further discussion the amendment not on the resolution board will no vote yes the amendment to resolution five seven seven one all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no okay are there any abstentions student representative no thank you okay so the amendment of resolution 5 771 is approved by a vote of 6 to 0 with student representative pays ler voting no right ok now or is there any discussion on the resolution and we might invite chief of staff Stephanie Soudan and pay her back to the what are the ramifications of delaying the adoption of the resolution for a period of time where we have some good student in community engagement part of the need to have some formalized agreement really is about the can the bureau being able to continue providing the service to the Portland Public School System you know we like all entities are having challenges around budget and challenges around staffing and either one of those in and out in and of themselves would cause us some some issues but combined together is is is going to be a challenge for the Police Bureau and we were we are having to look at where we can make up some funding and so the decision was to be you know actually the decision to formalize the agreement actually has been something we've wanted to do for a long time and part of the formalization of this agreement is the agreement to share the cost of the SROs which will in from my perspective save the program without it I believe that the program is one thing that the bureau could cut in order to save cost which which which would mean which would mean you would still have police service you know 9-1-1 it's a police officer but as I've explained to you before it the kind of police officer you want coming into your school and the service you want is best provided by an SRO and not a patrol officer and I hear some of the fears that have been expressed today by people and and I'm telling you to what I believe would be an absolute degree of certainty some of those fears will be realized if we remove SRS from schools and we go back to doing just having our regular Patrol come take radio calls so where are you in your fiscal year and and budget are you seeing next week are you saying at the end of your fiscal year tell me what what so so I I am NOT a part of the budget cycle nor do I participate in the budget cycle but we run a fiscal year just like everyone else from July through June and they start planning for fiscal the fiscal costs they've already been meeting they've had all they're doing right now is talking about budget stuff so my guess is probably by the end of this month the bureau will have to submit its budget package to the mayor and and if not this month maybe next month that's a little bit of a guess on my part because it's not my area of expertise and the one thing I want to point out is that is that a delay on the vote is just having this agreement signed doesn't mean that the conversations end so so I realize that for some people that have spoken tonight they feel like the delay in the vote is going to they want it so that they can have a voice in in what it in what it says the reality is is I've
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recognized that I think PBS has recognized that and the voice is we're going to listen to those voices and we can make adjustments to that IgA as it moves along I think one of the difficult nuances of this conversation is that it can be reduced in the public discussion to a question of cops in our schools or no cops in our schools and I think we have to recognize that we have a lot of incidents in our schools not all of them involve students a lot of them involve adults some of them involve you know trespassers and on our property who present threats to our students I mean whatever they are we had as you said more than 5,400 calls last year from all of our buildings so there will be police in our schools there will be police response in our schools because stuff happens so this process is really about trying to be thoughtful about how to have students best interests at heart and I want to say before anybody feels inclined to heckle that I absolutely agree that we student voice should have been where this conversation started student engagement should have been where this conversation started talking about what is the ideal relationship so anyway I just wanted to make that point that if we don't choose to engage in what is regarded as a national best practice in terms of having trained compassionate officers in our schools we're still gonna have we're still gonna have a lot of police presence it's not an either/or and it's also not about cops or counselors because I think there's a pretty clear distinction between what are the roles of our counselors in addressing the needs of students and then what are the incidents that get get sent to the police so I mean a lot of of complexity and a lot of challenges but I did I do feel like it's important to make those points thank you okay any more discussion so I want to thank everybody tonight who shared their opinion but also over the last several weeks we've had lots of either emails or act basically messages on social medias so the feedback has been useful and I think it's been heard I want to thank the officers and captain Hager because over the last month since we had our work session and then subsequently the forums I think it was a useful opportunity for us to understand the difference between a school resource officer and a street officer and having been a parent and PPS one of the things that I think about is you know so how would I feel as a parent if my student were in a situation where they had either been a perpetrator or a victim of criminal activity and who would I want to be talking to them again what whether what shepper side my child was on and my strong whatever whatever child you want if I would much prefer to have a school resource officer as part of that equation that has had special training and that has a commitment to trauma-informed practices and restorative justice versus to have a call just go out to 9-1-1 and have a officer enter at the school that has no history your background with the principal with the students with the teachers or the counselors and as director Khan Sam said we do have incidences and it's a question of who it is that is going to arrive and who's best prepared to do that I want to address one issue that's been raised and it's about the cost and I completely agree I'd much rather be spending the 1 million dollars on a whole host of school support services for our students
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and and there so I'm gonna go back to that we've had school resources officers for 20 years and PPS in the early 2000s and the recession we paid we paid for those officers in the early 2000s during the recession when I was on the board before the decision was made that PPS it was really a city responsibility and that those the responsibility to provide safety and security to our students and to provide law enforcement services generally to our city was a city responsibility so the fact that we're sitting here and the city is now sending the cost back to us I find very disappointed in the city leadership because this is we are our job is to educate students and the fact that the city is not providing the resources to support the safety and security of our students I think is you know a failure of political leadership at the city level so given the given that position we're in one of the reasons that I added into the resolution that at the end of the year if other school districts aren't picking up the cost is I I believe this is a conversation to have back with the city that this is something that they should be supporting as part of their responsibilities as the civic institution of the city and it's not the school districts responsibility to use our funds to ensure our students safety any other discussion director Ian I just like to add that we're a lot of us up here talking about personal experiences and personal stories but we need to keep paying attention to what the students are staying right saying right in front of us about this so and I think we need to be more equitable decisions we're making thank you I really appreciate director konstanz comments and director Bram Edwards so I do agree with them and there's a little more that I wanted to say about exactly those as adults in Portland talk about the children in our schools it appears to me that in spite of all of our obvious problems racism sexism gentrification drug addiction poverty homelessness hunger and our grotesque inequities in our schools Portland's adults are determined to think of our children characters in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel where they just need to find the key to the secret garden or talk to the right kindly old man or follow the right Robin and everything that's wrong with their world will magically turn out right our children are people they have the same problems adults have and some pretty spectacular problems of their own and one of the things that they need in order to be able to make their way in the world is benefit of law enforcement it's one of the benefits and the burdens of living in a civilized society just what do you think our counselors and yes we absolutely need more counselors are going to be able to do for a little girl who's being pimped for meth we have dozens of children in our public schools who are being trafficked I have met many of them what do you think restorative justice and yes we need more restorative justice is going to offer a little boy who's being molested statistically we currently have many hundreds of children who are I have met a lot of them yes we need more school staff what do you think a school staff member is going to be able to do for a little child who's being beaten we have thousands of children who are being physically abused we've been respectful to those that have had come to testify please be respectful thank you what do we think principal is going to be able to accomplish if one of their students is injured in a hit-and-run or a victim of a theft or is assaulted on the way to school and the simple fact of the matter is that every aspect of city county and state government that impacts our children is falling to pieces it's failing repeatedly habitually in every one of those circumstances and in literally thousands of others just like them the Department of Human Services the Portland Police Bureau and state authorities do not respond our staff
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calls our principals call and no one responds the only way that our school staff our school counselors our principals can get any leverage any result out of responsible authority is to go through our school resource officers then we've got a uniform talking to a uniform and that seems to be the only thing that people in our bureaucracies are willing to listen to when the average beat officer looks at a school building what I hear is that they don't see children who often need help and protection they see a racially mixed group of potential problems who need to be controlled you don't want the regular beat officers trying to control 500 children at a time that's not going to end well we have to have SROs who can get between our children and the beat officers when the average beat officer interacts with school staff more often than not they're talking to a woman and what I hear over and over again from our staff is that the officer automatically discounts everything she says lectures are on how she isn't supposed to waste their time and leaves we have to have SROs who can fit between our staff and the beat officers PPS has had its current arrangement with the city for about 20 years before that the SROs were direct PPS employees like director bream Edward Said there was a very short span of time between the two when we had no Aceros whatsoever and the very first thing that happened was that the Portland Police Bureau sent regular beat officers to ride security for a boys basketball game at Jefferson and they said dozen squad cars and two dozen cops in riot gear cuz you know black hits and shotguns are a real good mix it's like that line in bill when we had a sorrows it was the one officer who just knew everybody it's like that line of Bill Murray's and Groundhog Day you know maybe God isn't omnipotent and maybe he's just been around so long that he knows everything the beat officers response they're ingrained habitual response is to escalate you don't want people who are going to control situations by escalating go into are going into our schools know as we we have no school resource officers in this district on Monday PBS students are four times as likely to be arrested on a Monday you've got to have someone who can self-regulate you have got to have SROs who are trained how to keep themselves calm and who can calm situations without first blowing them up we've got to have SROs who can keep our children safe because every other tool we have isn't up to the job and frankly we have got to have SROs in this district because I am sick to the eyeteeth of having our teachers our counselors and our principals call me in tears hoping to God that I can get somebody off their ass hey thank you any further discussion director Rosen director Rosen I just had a few comments I want to thank everyone who came out tonight and expressed their opinions obviously this is a an important issue looking back over the last week I want to thank the district student council and the administration for coming forward with additional meetings for students I really do appreciate the students who were able to show up and the students tonight he testified I also want to thank the Portland Police Bureau for being at those meetings I think you did a good job of listening and responding constructively I think this is an important issue obviously we've had SROs in our schools for almost two decades now and I think the IGA is a good opportunity to clarify roles and responsibilities and I do appreciate that we've made some number of important changes to the IGA and a lot of that has been due to board interaction with the police Bureau and staff when I thought about this and the value of SRO as I keep going back to the statistic that we've had something like 5,000 calls and we've only had 13 arrests and I agree that without SROs the least valuable option would be to have call 9-1-1 and get a beat cop to come to the school and in terms of some of the changes or things that the police are emphasizing I just want to say that I appreciate that we'll have students involved in the hiring of SROs that we're gonna take these quarterly meetings seriously and evaluating the IGA and that will have students involved
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in that we talked a lot about flexibility in appearance of police cars and SR you know our uniforms and I appreciate that and I did hear loudly that students don't know who their sorrows are but I believe that with the increased presence there'll be more opportunities for us ours to get out into the student community and I appreciate you making that a priority and I just want to say finally that I truly believe the asuras are useful and purposeful and carrying out their duties and will continue to be an asset to our schools so thank you thank you for third discussion did you say director okay I just want to reiterate a lot of what Mike said director Rosen said I think the IGA is a very good draft agreement and want to thank staff for their work on that and that partners in the police department Police Bureau for their work on that and we have identified in this district a weak spot has been communication and engagement before decision-making so I am going to propose that we table this until mid-february to give us time to do [Applause] at that point I would be you know if if we came back round had good public process and brought this exact iga back I'd be absolutely would vote YES on it because of what's in here if there's improvements that come out of that process great we can look at that - I'm gonna second what Scott said and the fact that again directors we have students right in front of us who are talking about that they want to extend the time to have to get more voice on this I tried for a week but we're gonna need a lot more time because look at all this as well as going back to the you know some personal say statements made up here you know parents I think parents play a part in this - I'm a student but we didn't even have a chance to reach out to parents I like I don't think like many like there's many groups I just have not had the chance to talk and go over this so I don't know I'm just gonna just keep reinstating that so I think it would be useful for all of us to hear what school counselors and principals say as well and and it may not be what you think it is so I make that as a motion to table is there a second second okay the motion has been made and seconded to delay the vote until February mid-february okay no we just hold both discussion any discussion I appreciate your motion director Bailey I really believe this is the smart and compassionate way to I mean having SROs and our schools I think is a more as a smarter and more compassionate approach then having the cop on the beat responding to our kids needs I think that's been proven all over the country but I also believe that will only be better by hearing more from our school communities about how to do it right and I want to really express that I support this very much and I also want to really express that you know in the language of the amendment that was brought forward tonight there's a lot of specific requests one of which is disaggregated data about the interactions of SROs and students and what that really is is a recognition that racial profiling is real and our students feel it and experience it and express it to us every day loud and clear and that's no criticism to the officers that also recognize that and are also very self-critical about their own biases and all the good training that's going on in the Police Bureau I believe that that's real - and that there's a lot of work on that front but I do think that we can benefit from a short amount of time and we want to send a signal to the city to say we're coming back and I support
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the investment that this represents to the monetary investment because we need to keep our kids safe but we need to make sure that this we have the right agreement and that we are in conversation with our school communities and I appreciate pot Scott's point about hearing from some of the adults in the buildings who rely on our school resource officers because they haven't really been part of this conversation either I would say if there's a delay I think we definitely should go back to the city and talk about their responsibilities and the appropriate use of our resources and their resources okay if not we'll vote on director Bailey's amendment to post authority the resolution to postpone the vote the motion to motion to postpone the vote all those in favor please indicate by saying yes yes all those opposed to Deline the vote indicate by saying no no and any abstentions with student representative paisley voting yes yes and the motion yeah I think we need a voice dr. Anthony no director Rosen no did you call them okay no no director Rosen no director pre-meds no director constan yes yes No now we're gonna vote on amendment resolution five seven seven one all in favor sorry okay all in favor on a resolution five seven seven one please indicate by saying yes and he opposed indicate by saying no no any abstentions with student paisley voting voting on the resolution so the motion passes by a vote of five to one with student representative pacer voting no abstain on the underlying resolution so we're voting on the original resolution I mean do we need to take okay so let's take a vote miss Hewson director Anthony yes yes I'm sorry director Edwards yes director constan abstain abstain No I'm sorry need for votes I would ask if there's anybody who wants to reconsider their attention I'd like to ask if any board members want to reconsider their abstention well I could you explain your vote when you willing to explain your phone yeah explain my vote yeah no and I really appreciate all the work that went into this and and how carefully the PP listened to us but as a person of color and you know my my group that I've worked for years for an education are kids of color and kids with disabilities and unfortunately those are the groups that are disproportionately targeted and have been in the juvenile justice system and and I know from personal experience myself as a young woman of color that I was targeted when you know for no reason so for many of us there's fear when we see uniformed police rather than fifty feeling of safety and comfort and I just want to acknowledge that and and I think that I've also been a vocal advocate of
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at Portland State in my role there against armed police force at our university as well so that might just have to kind of live my valium ethics on that so that is why I'm bode No so we are in a predicament here because we do not have consensus on approval of the IGA but we have also rejected the motion to bring the iga back in February after a public engagement so I I'm not comfortable leaving this hanging I believe that we should have more engagement with our students and our staff but right now the majority of the board has rejected that pathway and then we're in a position of rejecting the IgA so that's that's indefensible to me and I'm not sure really where to go so if the motion failed so I'll make a new motion I'm going to move that we the board reconsider resolution 5 7 7 5 7 1 is there a second to director Broome Edwards can we have a reconsideration of the vote I think I called for the reconsideration before it was closed I think you can go forward with them a renewed motion yes with a renewed motion a renewed motion to vote on resolution 5 7 7 1 so that's been that's been moved this is the same underlying motion to approve the IGA with no modification as amended by the amendment original amendment that was approved yes yes vote on re vote on resolution 5 771 as amended as moved by director rim Edwards and seconded by director Rosen who seconded yeah director Anthony all in favor vote indicate by a vote saying yes yes any opposition those opposed indicate by saying no and the motion one and one abstention and one abstention so the motion is five votes of yes one abstention with student representative Pazar voting No okay now we have the motion on the table again of resolution 5 7 7 1 as amended and I think again miss Houston can we call the vote director Anthony yes director Rosen yes director bream Edwards yes director constan abstain director Bailey yes and chairs bars of brown no motion passes okay the motion resolution 5 5 5 7 7 1 passes with the vote of 4 to 1 with one abstention and one no vote and student representative paisa voting No okay so the next item on the agenda thank you everyone the next item on the agenda is the second reading the district performance auditor board policy there have been a number of policies that have been recommended to the board by the policy and governance committee and they have had both a first reading and a public comment period so I would like to have committee chair director Bryn Edwards introduce the first policy for the board's final consideration Thank You chair as far as a brown so what we have before us is the district performance auditor policy 1.6 0.40 it's here for a second reading which will be a final approval earlier the board had a first reading on this policy we've had a 21-day public comment period and we have not had any public comment I
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believe Miss Powell no public comment on the auditors policy thank you so just as background this is an existing policy that we're modifying and essentially we're clarifying that district auditors that our district employees report to the audit committee but have an administrative reporting relationship with the deputy superintendent of business and operations for administrative employment related issues for example paid time off payroll processing etc the proposed amendments also clarify that the board retains the ultimate authority to hire evaluate and terminate the employment of the auditor this is best practice the proposed amendments also streamlined the policy language to not restate auditing standards and those auditing standards are the generally accepted government auditing standards so in our policy we had a number of those just restatements of the actual standards and we're just taking that out because it's not necessary so this came out of the committee originally with a unanimous recommendation it's was the modifications were made with the staff I should note that there's no direct fiscal impact for the policy amendments the board did include in this year's budget funding for two performance auditor positions in the budget which the audit committee which is meeting next week will be involved in the hiring so madam chair that is the second reading of the district auditor policy words if you already mentioned but did we receive public comment we do not on this okay thanks Borbon they'll consider resolution five seven seven to amendment of district performance audit or policy 1.6 0.04 Oh - P do I have a motion so moved second director constand moves and director Anthony seconds the motion to adopt resolution 5 7 7 - miss Houston is there any public comment on the resolution no there was not is there any board discussion okay then the board will now vote on resolution 5 7 7 - all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no are there any abstentions resolution 5 7 7 - is a probe approved by a vote of six to 0 with student representative pays levo Dean yes thank you okay I'd also yes good we have a five-minute recess III need to go clear my head yes okay this board will take a five minute recess to recess hmm actually
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okay we're ready to restart the meeting there comes director Bailey where am i okay all right
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all right thank you did write thank you well resume now with an announcement about the creation of board audit committee along with the board members will be serving on the committee we want to thank directors rim Edwards Anthony and Rosen for serving on our newly recreated board Audit Committee and director brim Edwards is going to tell us a little more about the public positions on the committee so this is just an announcement it's also on PPS nets and we're sort of it's a announcement out to the auditing community we're looking to fill the community members slot of the district audit committee the committee's pointed by the Board of Education is made up of three school board members and two community members committee members served two-year terms the time commitment is three to eight hours a month currently one community position is vacant if you have auditing experience and would like to applies submit a letter of interest and resume to M Salvador at PPS net and again there this is also on the PBS website if people want more information or want to look at the actual description of the position the Audit Committee is having its first organizing meeting on December 17th from 4:30 to 5:30 great thank you for the information okay now we're going to have second readings on policy recisions so we've had several other policy recommendations that are ready for final consideration tonight and once again committee chair broom Edwards please share the background of the next action items thank you madam chair so the next set of second readings we have which is our final approval votes there on a series of policy recisions so generally these are policies that are either outdated duplicated or have not been modified for a long time and are not part of the current practice and instead of describing each one why we're going to rescind I'm just going to read the policies that we're actually going to be voting getting ready to vote on right now to rescind we're gonna vote B roading on the reporting statement of economic interests the method of board operations the job description employee suggestion award program the tax deferred annuities compensation related benefits orientation of teachers alternative to military leave employment and institution of higher learning restoration of health administrative in service requirements retirement permanently disabled administrative clerical personnel salary schedule and the educators counsel professional compensation professional improvements and professional growth incentives and I'll just say in those last five there is nothing actually in the in the policy itself it's just blank so while the title sound like we should have a professional compensation policy there's nothing actually in it so again this is some cleanup of our policies before we have a comprehensive review next year these have all had a first reading Miss Powell I'm miss Houston no public comment correct this has been no public comment and they were referred out of the committee on a four to zero vote initially and I think we're ready for final consideration resolution five seven seven three resolution to rescind board policies do I have a motion okay
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director Anthony moves in director constantan seconds the motion to adopt resolution five seven seven three we have heard that there was no public comment is there any board discussion on this resolution okay the board will now vote on resolution five seven seven three all in favor please indicate by saying yes I'll oppose please indicate by saying no are there any abstentions resolution 5 773 is opposed by a vote of 6 to 0 with student representative Paisley boudin yes thank you okay now we have first readings on four policies this evening and I'd like to ask director bream from Edwards as chair of the policy and governments committee to introduce each of the first readings thank you madam chair so we have four policies before us there are some of the for some that are complete rewrites others are small changes so I'm just going to walk through them one by one and then the first reading wears so the first policy that we have before us is it's currently called ask off campus activities it's been renamed to field trips foreign travel and other off-campus activities and it's an extensive rewrite and just spend a little bit of time of what actually the rewrite of this policy was and I want to thank the risk management and the General Counsel's office for the assistance on this in the Mitch Whitehurst report that we received regarding staff misconduct we had a whole host of recommendations there were two policy recommendations included in the Mitch Whitehurst report this is one of the two the other one is the currently still in committee so this this is a policy that was a recommendation really to improve student safety and to clarify and directly address professional boundaries the policy does several things it requires board approval for out-of-state travel and also any foreign travel the circumference for where the board needs to approve is anything over a hundred hundred miles and that's designed to allow students to go to Fort Vancouver previously that was out-of-state and required board approval but now anything within a hundred miles will be within the superintendent's purview to approve and anything outside of that which is a sort of prudent course of practice for the board to approve out-of-state travel more than 100 miles and also foreign travel in addition just point out some specific pieces so basically it reorganizes the policies to divide our travel and activities that are not at our schools into three categories first there's school sponsored travel then there's non school sponsored activities and then third there's travel safety programs and I'm just gonna highlight a couple things in each of the sections that are probably important the committee had a lot of discussion about this that for school sponsored activities that we specify again who approves we've added language that really goes to the heart of equity that no field trip shall be authorized if any student would be excluded from participating because of lack of sufficient funds and I must thank the superintendent for adding that language in addition it also for cases in which large groups of students are leaving a school it specifies that the off-campus activities shall shall not compromise the integrity and purpose of the district's educational programs and that for the students who are not going on the out of the travel that there be continuity of curriculum for those students who are still in school so really kind of keeping it keeping an eye on our core mission in the section of off-campus activities that are non school sponsored there it has been historically some sort of gray area where trips that might have been led by staff members had the left the impression maybe that they were school district sponsored and this new language just makes it very clear that either a trip is school sponsored or it's not and if it's not district resources whether it's email you know art rooms any way of communicating with our students or
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putting a label on it that somehow it's connected to a school club or a school activity that that's prohibited so really making clear what's within what's an educational school related activity that's been approved by PBS and gone through a pretty extensive vetting process so as parents I think that would be what we would expect and for those that aren't making very clear that these are private trips and public resources are not to be used in addition there was some language related to senior trips which we've deleted because those would fall under the same rules of anything we already have me neither and then there was also a whole section on Ski programs which has been deleted as well the third category is travel study programs and again it has some pretty specific disclaimer requirements and how information can be distributed for those trips so that the really the thrust behind and and one last very important item is the expectation that any staff participating as a chaperone or attending with students that our code of conduct for staff apply so again really being clear about what the what the rules and our expectations of staff conduct with students when they're traveling with them is so again this came out of the committee it had a fair amount of work over several I think three three meetings and again we appreciate the from the General Counsel's office and risk management there potentially could be so after we have a first reading tonight but potentially there could be another amendment that could be offered but that likely would be a substantive amendment and have a 21 day comment period as well and that was an amendment that director Moore was thinking about but we don't it wasn't developed by the time it left committee so probably not a policy question but related to field trips sometimes they're you know educational purpose and occasionally there's the end-of-the-year kind of fun trip and so a student could get discipline and said you don't get to go on it because you broke rules whether that belongs something a statement about that belongs in policy or not I just think it ought to be discussed at some level to say is that an appropriate disciplinary action I have talked with some teachers who are gonna be submitting comment on this first read reading on exactly that point and also nuances around how field trips are approved within a building because often it's at the initiative of the teacher and so you might have a teacher who's really excited about these out-of-school activities and plans a lot of them that are really enriching and other teachers that don't do it at all and it ends up really and equitable and we have parents who have concerns about that - I'm sorry superintendent important points here is if we truly believe that field trips are truly part of the educational experience then who has access to them and not it also has some implications for student discipline this is this is a big area of work that we want to dive deeper into regarding a behavior matrix and what I mean by that is expectations and what are appropriate levels of consequence and how do we not deny all students to these same educational experiences so I think this is a first step I think the next layer is to make sure we clarify guidance to all of our schools for all those school level sort of local field trips and sort of who gets to participate and how is that tight or not tied to student discipline so I think that's just the next layer of work for us yes I'm dr. Bailey I think that would be in the disability policy I will say there was pretty significant discussion within the committee about the issue of equity and if you there's a spreadsheet that has all the approved field trips and you know many of them have costs and some of them have some pretty significant cost especially the ones out of state and the question about that those are considered
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a lot of times that check the box is checked is optional which I think really goes to the heart of whether it's really optional the field trip is optional or the payment is optional it's the box is whether the field trip is auction optional are required and almost all the ones that least we've come through over the last I don't know five months have all all been checked marked optional right well if it's required then they don't have to pay so I think there are some questions maybe we'll get to that both the equity issue or the equity policy that that will be something that will come and play plus also our Foundation and fundraising what I appreciated about the discussion and the Policy Committee is it's not just issues of student participation but staff participation because they're on the payroll and it's a school day and if it's an educational experience there should be equitable access great so that any other questions so again if people when they read the the new draft if there's something that's a question about or we haven't quite got the language right or you'd like to suggest some other language if you're not if you're on the committee bring up the committee if you're not on the committee raise it with us because we have an opportunity over the next 21 days to amend it again though this is this is the second policy that was recommended in the Mitch Whitehurst report the next policy is much more straightforward it's the we're amending the cash management policy 8.2 0.010 the current policy requires the policy be adopted every year and we have a recommendation from staff that instead of amending it instead of approving and adopting it every year that we amend the policy that we if we if we want to amend it that that's when we would be voting on it it's kind of unique among all our policies that requires us to vote on it which is going above it not a normal practice so instead staff will provide a quarterly update on the district's investment portfolio so what we have before us is a 13-page policy we have essentially just two small changes we're deleting the words at least annually in accordance with ORS to 94.1 55 and more frequently as the board requests so we're striking that we're adding the word quarterly so we ate those reports quarterly and then on page 13 were striking the entire section 12 it's just not needed because we can amend policy anytime we want to we don't need to have a policy that tells us that we can do that so this is a really relatively straightforward it was recommended out of committee on a 4-0 vote any committee members have anything to say about this questions what's a banker's acceptance Clara deputy Hertz are you in the house [Laughter] so we're on the cash management policy and there was a question by director Bailey on what are the bankers acceptance okay so what page are you on I'm sorry page 7 and it lists what we can invest in which is I know most of those as being reasonably safe secure what's the bankers acceptance it is another form of investment but there these are all approved by the state statute so we would we only recommend what we're allowed to put forward in based on the state legislature so you don't know what it is it is definitely an investment that we only do purchase from time to time but it's not one of the most frequent fliers so you're this doesn't let you get into day trading no ok so director Bailey we can get an answer to you if you need more definition yeah
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any other questions so this like the first one will be on the district website the last day for public comment is January 2nd and the final votes will be at the in the second reading at the next board meeting after that the third thing about our cash management policy that doesn't have to do with the proposed changes but we did have significant discussion and review of this policy last year and found that we were not always in compliance with our timelines and some of our obligations and went through a pretty rigorous process there and just for the public I am sufficiently convinced that we are now back in line with regard to wise cash management policies so it was good that we did a bit of a deep dive last year great so the third policy that came out of the policy and Governance Committee and that was on a four to zero vote was a recommendation to have a first reading on amendment of reimbursement expenses for the board of directors the current policy allows the district to provide board members reimbursement of actual expenses or a stipend the proposed amendment can form the policies to state law limiting the reimbursement options to only reimbursement of actual expenses so pretty straightforward just make some just strike some language in this to have actual reimbursements be the standard by which expenses are reimbursed and again pretty straightforward it is going to be posted on the district website that's the only thing this change in the policy does any questions or comments what is the can you paraphrase paraphrase the statute language that prohibits a annual stipend it actually says the reimbursement for actual expenses so a stipend does not is stipend not a reimbursement for actual expenses they are reimbursement for I'm sure theoretical expenses that are way more than the stipend but they are not the reimbursement of actual expenses which is what the statute says any other questions okay that'll be out for public comment till January 2nd the last policy that came out of committee and I think we're gonna we'll see this one again at a later date but this is a first again this is to conform to statute this is the amendment to Student Representative duties 1.2 0.012 and also to the Board of Education 1.2 zero point one zero one and the curtain current policies described the rights responsibility to do the student representative the board the proposed amendments put all the content related to student representative duties in the student representative policy so take some out of remove some of you'll see them stricken from the second policy this board of education policy and puts them into the student representative policy and also make clear the student representative is it has an important role on the school board but it's not technically a member of the board bylaw so I want to note so this is really again consolidating and making sure that our policy actually complies with the law and I should note that in spring of this year the student representative at the time Moses Tran had a number of revisions that he wanted to make to the student representative policy including the creation of the district student council he was working with director more he went off to PSU before we got them completed so we're now in a position while we'll make these these changes are before us and there are technical legal changes that also I know that in addition to the changes that a student representative Tran had that our current student representative is actively in discussions with director comm Sam and others about how to really enrich the student voice and I think maybe tonight we've some lessons learned that we can incorporate so that that will be coming back to us but this is
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just a let's get the our policies in clients with law and you to back up on the student student rep piece I would also add that the superintendent has put that forward as a piece of his work plan for the coming year which includes hiring a position does that position report to you will that position report to you I'm not sure chief in our office of student support service offices Student Support Services that would be the student liaison which is a important role that used to exist in the district and hasn't for a little while and I think will be really helpful in terms of figuring out how students can navigate bringing their concerns to the right places in a timely way so thank you for prioritizing that and we're excited about collaborating with our student leaders and identifying that person and really bringing a coherent approach to supporting all our student leadership efforts across the portfolio thank you on this note the student the DC's plan after the first of the year is to continue what was continue the work that was started that was started last year to revamp the student representative policy as well as revamp the district student council I mean you know all in one and to include that district we are that district liaison as well so we look forward to working with ELT and board on that hopefully it cleaned up compliant policy for you to build off of we look forward to that any wait just a second we'll finish this one is there any other questions about we'll get back to it on the student representative for the first reading okay so just like the other policies it will be posted on PBS net and the last day for comment will be January seconds the committee then will consider any comment and it'll come back to the board for a second reading that's it madam chair all right thank you just to reiterate the four proposed policies will be posted on the board website a couple of comment period is 21 days with the last day to comment Jen very second 2019 we will hold a second reading of the policies our January 8th meeting okay next we sorry let's see what you found to make a payment in a future date and it is used extensively first of all they say it's a very safe investment okay and that it's used for a company that especially in foreign trade where they will make a deposit in the bank will accept it and make a promise for a future payment so it's a higher interest rate and the key thing is it's guaranteed by the bank yes as opposed to commercial paper which is a short-term loan to a corporation which is not guaranteed correct and mostly it works but sometimes as we look in the past of our great financial system we have banks blow up because they got caught sideways with commercial paper thank you thank you let's read listen okay right next Benson master plan draft resolution and bail bond accountability committee input the board has had several discussions on the Benson master plan and we'll continue that discussion tonight on the draft resolution but first we will receive input from the bond accountability committee and I'd like to ask Kevin Spelman to provide their comments thank you madam chair directors student representative superintendent I'm Kevin Spellman representing the bond accountability committee and with me as Tom Peterson who as usual will help me out when I get myself into trouble him thanks for the opportunity to provide input on the Benson master plan due to the short time frame we were not able to arrange our schedules to have a committee meeting but each of our committee members have reviewed the last work session that you had a couple of
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weeks ago and read all the materials and we posed additional questions to staff and as usual they were very forthcoming and providing comprehensive answers and before I get into any of the detail I want to be clear that the committee is united in supporting the full modernization of Benson high school so I don't want any doubt about that but before we talk about Benson we need to put it in context because we've kind of got ourselves into a situation in this 2017 bond program by looking at projects individually and not necessarily considering the full impact as you know Benson's the last piece of the budget designation and so whatever we do with Benson there are insufficient funds in the 2017 bond to provider so that's the context the draft resolution I think appropriately refers to the long-range facilities plan and a director Bailey he served on that committee and the guiding principles and one of those guiding principles is only for demonstrate fiscal responsibility as you know we've really focused on that as a committee we're all aware of the lingering questions regarding how the project estimates were arrived at for the the bond referral and we're not going to delve into that your performance auditors are looking at that they're here tonight by the way and and they anticipate having report to you as in the timeframe you asked for but it's hard to leaving that aside it's hard to conclude that the bond program has exhibited real cost discipline or that it's been effective and it's really not the magnitude as so much as the rate of change that concerns us in April of this year the then CFO reported to the board that the program shortfall would be 89 million dollars in August staff reported that after taking into account estimated bond premium and interest income the shortfall would be a hundred and thirty-two million dollars now four months later if the current master plan budget were to be approved and again considering bond premium and interest income that shortfall would be a hundred and eighty two million dollars we also note that the current budget documents don't show any explicit allocation for planning at Cleveland Jefferson and Wilson which were included as you know in the bond program I've been told that that will come out of the program contingency which I guess is fine the program contingency so you know is 19 million dollars two percent so let's in that context let's consider Benson high school and we have some concerns over the budget because the budget progression for Benson has been similar to the program as a whole the middle-of-the-road estimate that was developed in 2017 showed a project total at 256 million and as we know the bond referral only included two hundred and two million but that's a puzzle to be sorted out but from that 256 by May of this year the estimate had climbed to 269 million and it's now at three hundred and thirteen million dollars now staff as you know has offered unidentified value engineering and what we think is an unwise reduction in design construction contingency which gets it to the recommended two hundred and ninety-six million dollars and no explanation has been as far as we know for that budget crew creep has been offered again it's the rate of change here that really troubles us and as we look at the big picture of the current estimate and we haven't looked at the detail I hope we get that opportunity at our meeting in January we're concerned about a lack of consistency with other projects in in some of the line items and we believe that further work needs
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to be done so before we can have confidence in these numbers the 296 million translates to eight hundred and twelve dollars per square foot and we've maybe beaten this to death but we would still like to see some comparable benchmarking from other districts before accepting this number is reasonable when we look at the scope of the project we share the concern of some of the board members about proceeding with the Benson design before the district-wide CTE plan is completed and adopted obviously the plan itself is well outside purview and our capability but it does seem like Benson high school is central to the district CTE objectives and plans and therefore there's a strong possibility it seems that adjustments would need to be made to the benson design at some point with cost and schedule implications now there are competing narratives frankly about the status of the CTE plan we've been told that it won't be complete till fall of 19 but we've also been told that the key elements have already been decided and have no effect on benson and we're not capable of making a judgment of that that's frankly for you to judge the future of the various multiple pathways to graduation programs also causes concern and you've heard some testimony tonight about that subject staff has indicated that direction at least can be determined by March and that would not affect the timeline for the project it may be correct I don't know but it seems like it's a bigger question than that it's more than saying these programs currently use 22,000 square feet we've got 15,000 available how do we squeeze them in should they have 22,000 should they have 50 should they be elsewhere that seems like it needs to be settled one of the other guiding principles from the long-range facilities plan that's been actually Tenace sorely absent is develop partnerships and it seems to us that benson high school has more opportunities to pursue partnerships than frankly almost anywhere else and so therefore any delay at this point certainly could be used to pursue partnerships that would improve the final product then of course we have to consider additional funding because there is not enough under any circumstances in the 2017 bond the staff recommendation as you know contemplates that any funding shortfall on this project and therefore the program will be included in a 2020 bond referral which if passed would allow the full project to proceed on schedule we recognize them again and support the commitment to complete the full benson modernization what that means is there can be no failure at the ballot box in 2020 so we have to be very clear about what we're asking for why we're asking for it before we should expect voters to approve it passage should not be taken for granted so we think that this should be considered as the project is design is being developed we don't want to be in a situation where a bond referral fails and then we have to scramble to see how what are we gonna do with their existing funds how does that work with a design and phasing program plan at Benson this is the time to be doing that most of all we certainly need to learn the lessons from the planning of the 2017 bond and it's not too soon to be working on a plan for a 2020 bond it seems likely that they're already too many candidates to fit into a 2020 bond we've got a complete benson which should take priority in our judgment this talk of potentially multiple pathways being included in 2020 we of course have
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additional health and welfare health and safety needs and that should be consideration of Wilson Cleveland and Jefferson and maybe others that's probably too much absolutely so we need the best scope definition we can get we need to have the best explanation of the purpose of the Benson program we need a CTE plan and we need a budget that is acceptable to the voter so in summary it's unfortunate but we are where we are we think that the master plan resolution should be delayed while these issues are addressed what effect will the CTV district Wyatt CTE plan have on Benson high school it seems to us that it doesn't necessarily need to be complete but it needs to be far enough along so we know the implications of it the future of the MGP programs needs to be determined before we proceed and make a decision by default on those programs we need more confidence in the project estimate so that we can in good faith go back to the voters if that's what we're going to us for more money and as I said we can use that time to work on potential partnerships that should improve the project and who knows maybe even get some money we recognize that any delay creates risk in itself there's certainly a risk of additional escalation although I would resist the implication that the current extraordinary escalation will still be in place say four years from now maybe it'll be worse I don't know it could be better so we don't really know what that risk how to quantify that risk but it's a risk suddenly a bigger risk to us is the risk of future changes in the design and construction because of CTE program or multiple pathways etc and if we don't do our best to to frankly restore the district credibility at this point we have a serious risk of not getting additional funding that's how I would be happy to take questions thank you board members is there any further discussion questions director rip networks so first of all he's a delay or are you talking about two weeks or a year I mean it was really profound difference to the question the delay in one year at a simple 6% cost escalation would be 15 to 20 million dollars keep on the current schedule at some point you're going to have to enter into a contract with the general contractor and so what is that contract going to look like you don't have funding to fund the entire contract so if something you're probably going to have to come up with some sort of a phasing plan or some kind of a means to make sure that you don't put yourself in a position we have a contract that you can't meet their obligations so the likelihood is it's going to get delayed anyway just because of the challenges that come with trying to cut to build this thing without having a quick adequate funding so we already had a presentation by our external financial advisor and the bridge financing would be using the Full Faith and Credit if that there wasn't a bond or it got delayed but there there are alternative financial mechanisms that can be used so I don't think and we had a pretty extensive discussion earlier when we approved the other projects and Benson was the last and the sequence that just because they were last in the sequence meant that they were again to last and I think we had a pretty extensive board discussions about what that backstop bridge financing would be if there wasn't a bond but because the school's not going to actually be starting to build until the time that we put a bond on the ballot that we would actually know with some certainty but we do know that there is an alternative mechanism and finish the
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project because I don't think we would have approved the other two product the other three projects without that assurance once you have another stab at answering your question I we don't know the answer we don't know when the CTE plan will be sufficiently along to be certain that the implications for Benson can be embedded in the current design we don't know how long it will take to determine what the district should be doing with the multiple pathways programs and multiple programs as you know it's a complex issue way beyond our capability so we don't know how long that would take we don't know how long it's probably the easiest one to solve is the certainty in the estimating but so I don't know what that could be but it could be relatively short period yes if I were going to take the individual pieces of the questions that you asked so we have a internal performance auditor that we've contracted with that we're going to get a report back on the 31st so that will answer I think some of the questions I would suggest if there's individual line items as you suggested that you have questions about we should get those into the process but um that's an individual issue I think the issue of sort of the overall cost estimate hopefully and March 31st when we get the sort of performance audit review that they'll be able to identify what led to some of these the cost escalations I want to just ask superintendent Guerrero about the CTE plan because when we had it presented to the board it was like what two months ago there was a pretty detailed framework that showed pathways at all of our high schools that and sort of the progression of how this was going to roll out and we were going to be building capacity and Benson was a piece of that overall plan and so I'm curious super degree or whether you can answer that question yeah move ahead I'd be happy to start the response and I will invite Aurora Terry up to complete the answer we're not lost at sea here we are we do engage in CTE programming across all of our high schools all of our students regardless of comprehensive high school have access to multiple pathways you saw the extensive matrix of those programs and they're intended to be fluid over time they may evolve I think that's the intention of the plan that as the industry shifts as our students interest shift that we may make decisions at different high schools to sort of adjust those those plans we already have pathways that we host at at Benson and certainly those will be refreshed but there's an opportunity to enhance that programming that's been the goal all along as we talk about Benson and that's going to be a close conversation with the school community around what makes sense and when's the appropriate time with that for that and how will that be aligned with any enrollment adjustments that get made along the way but perhaps rora can talk a little further about sort of where we are in the process but I think what she's going to share is that'll be dynamic and the master plan and the facility itself sort of leaves open to sort of addition and evolution of CTE programming at that particular campus absolutely I would say that looking at the 2012 CTE plan that was put in place it was to expand programming across the district which we've done and so our focus now is to focus on the quality of the pathways and improve dual credit opportunities improve partnership opportunities improve the quality of the experience and the amount of students who have opportunities to engage in those programs and so that's what we're looking at today and the teacher quality and training opportunities and so in a lot of ways this CT master plan we can compare to almost the visioning process in that we're in this age of planning the phases of the master planning and so when we talked a few months ago as we start the process we'll start with a needs assessment looking at the different programs the potential partners and then asset mapping where is it working well and what does that look like and so the idea in our process is to have that done by March so we'd have that initial analysis of what are the needs of different programs and where are the strengths of different programs and then we would use that information to inform moving forward what does implementation look like what
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may using input from industry and community what may new programs look like if we want to open and I would say that in the current master design we really looked at that flexibility in the Benson plan for instructional changes to programs and also one of the big focuses that we want to do moving forward is to align core coursework with CTE coursework and so integrating the relevancy of CTE programming into core and working to have interdisciplinary connections between CTE and core and so almost thinking how freshmen success teams look now so teams of teachers think of it as teams of teachers across high schools but infusing CTE teachers into those groups so there's lots of opportunities for real-world application of the core skills and so that's also the instructional framework that were looking at and that's really I think highlighted in the current Benson master plan in the proximity of core classes with CTE programs so lots of opportunities for that interaction if the district plan if the district recommendation was that we have a skill center the answer would be probably different that we would need a full district CTE plan but the fact that the that the recommendation is a comprehensive high school means that the Benson CTE planning is happening concurrently with the rest of the high school CTE planning versus if we had a skill center model if that were the recommendation which is not correct correct it has not been in staff sort of thinking that that we were constructing a regional skill center is a comprehensive focus option with enhanced CTE programming and what's which you know what's marvelous about the plan is that the spaces are adaptable and so what's exciting is to work with our our faculty and instructors there to think about how can you take your work that you're currently doing to the next level with you know custom space so and that's how the CTE programming and portfolio should look across the district we should evolve with the changing times and industry and what those partnerships that certainly there's a great opportunity you know to model something fantastic there at Benson and build on our overall CTE programming so hopefully that answers your question that the space is adaptable and it'll evolve along with our CTE plan that emerges it doesn't it doesn't answer my question which is how are we determining what programs go into Benson are we continuing what's there are we going to look at new programs is that the Benson community that's going to look at that or is that district why that's going to look at that who's making the flexibility is great but we have to make a decision by end of March if we're going forward with the Benson plan specifically which programs are we building in and we should have a clear rationale as to what those programs are why this program why not that program who are you know likely suspects for industry partners in getting capital expenditures subsidized etc so are there any like what you say about yeah we need to look at the quality of all the programs that's going on and how that aligns with industry standards what can we do for professional development to help our you know all those things are crucially important that's great but the content the actual program decisions specific for Benson were looking at a really short timeline I mean three months is not that long so I'm I'm concerned about specifically who makes that decision how it gets made who are the stakeholders in that I know we're midstream in developing the overall plan but are there any early indications that we would halt any of the current CTE pathways that currently reside at Benson has not been our approach at this point the approach that we've been taking is how can we strengthen the current programs so looking forward with stakeholder input and with additional I think industry input and research once we have those metrics in place but we're still working through what those metrics look like to systematically determine what we would decide as a strong program or something that we would want to continue supporting and or not so we
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have not done a deep dive into assessing the programs that Benson besides looking at ways to strengthen what it is currently they're at this point and so we do that deep dive we do not have a CTE plan we have a tweak of what we have now a CTE plan looks at the big picture and and looks at what or whatever what our opportunity costs I mean it went events and strongest advocates has said why don't we you know we've got all these what's went industry are you working in Julia that that yeah that sports were thing where were the sports square capital of North America you know I mean there's what are the other opportunities out there looking ahead and some of that is already at Benson some of them may not be at Benson but a plan would go through that and look at that and have some rationale for what's there and what isn't and all of our high schools right how does that evolve over time appreciate the what I think is an artificial sense of crisis around this but the timeline hasn't been short the timelines been terribly terribly long staff was kind enough to run off literally ten years worth of district committee and community committee reports on where the district should be going and where Benson should be going with Career and Technical ed and it's exactly what at the beginning of it at the end it's a it's exactly what the staff is calling for in its recommendation a comprehensive high school with Career and Technical ed focus the majors that we have now and yes we do need to be looking at what we can add and what product design we could put in Lord knows also looking at what urban design we could be adding Portland State looking at all kinds of things I've got a list but we can do all of that we can add anything that we would want to with the design that we're getting further questions so this is a question just related to the multiple pathways I think there's been a fair amount of just a board discussion and staff discussion about multiple pathways and when I look at we absolutely this is something that should have been addressed a year ago but I absolutely think that if you look at the timeline and the work that we're going to be able to address the multiple pathways programming by them by the March timeline and actually then we have quite a quite a bit of time just before even construction starts and I don't know if superintendent Guerrero or deputy superintendent Hertz want to address the issue of whether sure whether that you think we can hit that timeline or whether that's squeezing it tight because so I what I've heard from board members is an absolute commitment to address the students in the multiple pathway programs correct and just to be publicly explicit about that we want to make sure our students have a home for their program and we've laid out there are three routes we could take in the resolution one is a dedicated building for multiple pathways but of course that has a whole lot of other implications about is that a new campus is that an existing property and another option continuing colocation we know that the campus will be able to hold up to 1,700 it won't be 1700 students the day it opens so there'll be some some timeline there when they could continue to be accommodated and we could study that further I think by March we do need to be realistic about you know will we be clear about a recommendation moving forward we need to do we need to continue doing a lot of listening to the community and understanding their needs so that the setting is well-suited to supporting them I don't know Debbie hurts if you want to add anything else to the task that we would need to accomplish by March to come back to the board around our suggested path forward especially if
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it has implications for the design of the setting so as the board has seen in the past we do look at balancing our enrollment on an annual basis at our high school levels so the superintendent Guerrero did mention the we won't open at 1700 students so we believe there will be multiple years of space available in Benson and before it reaches its full capacity and so that does give us time in options to consider we have some undesignated spaces in the Benson project right now that are not specifically designated for a program and by March we need to decide what we're doing with those programs so that that was the three areas that could be [Music] arts and music it could be multiple pathways it could be CTE programs for future enrollment growth so there is a time to make that decision biomart we just need to make it by March in case the current understanding is that in the construction phase starting in 2021 should we have a bond that is the understanding that the multiple pathways program would not be at the building hasn't been determined that's part of the process that we're going through and with listening that I mean that had been the baseline assumption what we're doing is gathering additional feedback and understand its yeah back in play but yes I think we heard very clearly from our students and community that that central location is very important and so actually we're just meeting with our project manager today around it'll be tight corridors but it's gonna be really important that during the construction phase that they not get relocated unless it's directly in the vicinity add to that I met with Alliance today and they said exactly that that Benson is the best location for them so I went on a great tour Venson with two great kids kids excuse me students who you know were very enthusiastic about their education there you gave me a lot of insights into what was going on there and they said there had been some talk about Benson students meeting with Alliance students for a listening session and I urged them to make it happen so I I hope hope that happens soon with their side council yesterday and we were kind of talking around that issue but there doesn't appear to be any follow up that they were aware of there's no representation of Alliance or multiple pathways on their site Council not on their site Council so it's a it's a school just like Alliance wouldn't have been sance tudents or staff on their site Council but I think well it's a school site Council which is an entity I think the the place where their engagement is needed is in the dag which is the campus really facility but on a school space council it's you're basically the entity that recognizes by the state is my understanding they need to create a forum to for extensive listening starting in January it's yeah I think what we're all getting at it it's it's going to be clearly important for all the school communities to be in conversation and certainly I know many of us have been visiting there talking I know this afternoon deputy Hertz and I met with representatives from the dag and from the school site Council as well certainly encouraged the dag to incorporate multiple pathways representation and I know we're going to continue talking with the alternative programs there as well okay thank you for the comment you you're concerned about the cost per square foot and like why is why does they keep going up by leaps and bounds you've expressed that before about other schools as well the response we've gotten from our folks has been it's getting more
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expensive hard to find you know apples to apples comparisons okay less than satisfying from your end not very satisfying from our end in terms of getting and getting a clearer explanation what would you advise us to do in order to get a handle on that to feel confident of that's where we are in this market or we should be at a different place chime in first of all it would have been nice to the circumstance of it allowed for us to have had a briefing of how they arrived at the cost modeling that they used to establish the pricing that they did not having that opportunity we really didn't have enough a way to kind of validate or challenge whether those were couldn´t numbers or not so I would hope as a minimum and our next meeting in January that we would get a thorough briefing on how they established the model what's behind that so we can then be satisfied whether that's a good number or not we didn't have that opportunity given the timeframe we've had so that would be my thoughts your vetting of that so if staff could provide that for you so that we can hear back from you as to how it shakes out yeah and I and I appreciate their difficulty in getting comparative information but I I still think it's important that we try to pursue it somehow because if there's a minimum we owe it to the voters as to why our costs are so high perhaps the schools we delivered on the 2012 bond more than double the cost per square foot yeah done in the next two months at the dialogue with the bond accountability committee yes well we do work with them and every the meeting and we'll make sure that he excuse me every quarterly meeting and we will make sure that we have the materials are requesting than the January of meeting I'd like to or if I may have like to offer some other observations that I like to point out I think it would be useful and at least where I came from is my expectations of my team's was to be able to identify the risks what their mitigation strategies are and how that's affecting the level of contingency or how it's affecting the schedule where that we haven't had that conversation with with the team either and I think that would be useful not only for us but also for you so that you understand what exactly their rationale is what are the risks were getting into and and what are their plan to mitigate these risks so you're you feel like there's some fiscal control of managing that budget or they've thought about the risk and they have a plan for how to manage that I think that's imperative going forward on all of your projects that you look for that kind of information going forward given what's going on in the in the market right now so that would be one recommendation we have you've got a recommendation that would have would be its it would be useful to understand how is this going to work how is the phasing how is this bridge if you have the ability to bridge this in the event the measure doesn't pass that all needs to be laid out before you proceed but beyond design is going next that's that's a given because otherwise you're just kind of heading down a path and no with no real plan in place so that would be my those would be my recommendations for you and and for the for the OSM going forward I mean so director grandma adores you suggested that if the 2020 bond didn't pass we could essentially borrow money to bridge that's a huge monthly payment we're talking about coming out of her general budget correct so there's two things one you know although we can't commit for a future board generally the assumption is we'd go out for a bond the resolution talks about the Full Faith and Credit and in fact I think when we voted on Madison and Lincoln when the question was raised how can we vote on this because this is gonna leave Benson short we specifically set this board that's my understanding said that we were going that was what we were going to do it wasn't that we were just gonna leave them short I believe we had miss Samuels Carol Samuels come and share the different options that we had and it seemed like the the board at the time
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indicated that they felt comfortable moving ahead with Kellogg Madison and Lincoln even though knowing that Benson was last in the line and would not have you know therefore had to last drawn the funds that that was the sort of implicit promise from the board and and yes it's it's not it's not preferred but it's also you can't build a school with 80 million dollars approved the ad specs level for each of the projects and once that Ed spec level is set then we are designing the schools to that Ed spec level and that's where the pricing is coming in for that level of EDS back which is not I mean yes and there are a lot of factors that contribute to that so it's not predetermined that that is the only number but yes how much has the budget been affected by the fact that we didn't know what the edge specs were at the time on the bond how much does the budget been affected by the the current mark are we and if you had answered those questions and at least you have a way to explain to us and ourselves and the voters what's driving these cost increases we're not getting that right now and we do know we can put a number on the rate of escalation that we're experiencing for this type of work in this market at this moment and so does that make up the whole difference in the escalation even over the last six months or is it more than that it's clearly more than that if the cost per square foot has doubled it is more than one reason there's multiple reasons we haven't broken down the cost by reason but we can look at that and see if we can make some estimations for you okay further questions so I just want to sort of keep drilling down on this sort of potential delay because I'd be really concerned about delay especially if it moved us into another year again that would be a 15 to 20 million dollar just potential escalation in the process so if I understand your the concerns raised it's like okay how do we address those concerns so that we can keep on track and not have students in a basically a pretty unsafe building it's one of the worst in the districts and then also we don't have a financial penalty for that delay so if I understand your issues one is around the financing and some of the line items and understanding it better so that we can both the bond accountability committee and the community understands that so that's one thing and that is and the deputy super nerds is gonna engage with you then there's the issue about the sort of the general cost overruns and we've got the performance audit so we can't speed we can't speed that up but it's in in process the CTE plan I think there's been Mis director Anthony said a number of years of work on that and that it can move it's ready to move ahead the multiple pathways I mean on that piece it sounds like there is a sort of verbal commitment that we're going to make solve for that that it's we're not going to just kick the can down the road and then so if those issues are addressed and I think then your last point it was the starting the planning for the 2020 bond and I think you'd have seven board members and lots of staff who would agree with you on that measure but if all those other things are addressed pardon eight board members excuse me would you feel comfortable moving ahead or but what what else isn't isn't need is not in place so if we address those are addressed though those those those were the issues that we laid out obviously if they're addressed we're fine I think we're a little sceptical that all those can be addressed imminently but if they can
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that's that would be great I would like to point out in response to mr. Peterson's question that I think that Carol Samuels and MS Hertz have done a very good job of explaining to the board how bridge financing would work I'm very comfortable with their explanation I want to a emphatically agree with director Bram Edwards that I think delay would be a huge mistake we know that escalation on Benson is going up at more than 10 million a year and for what it's worth one prominent local economist recently spent a very long evening explaining that there to me that there was no underlying weakness in the local economy and that there's no sign of softening in the escalation that we're seeing in construction prices and also just as a comment you're proposing fiscal discipline on the second most diverse high school in the state after Lincoln and Madison went over budget by an average of over 80 million apiece and Kellogg went over by approximately 15 million all without calls for delay because the same factors that apply to Benson also applied to those director Anthony we recommend it does not be approved thank you I appreciate that the board went ahead with those citing student need and the need for equity and I think that that's certainly every bit as much true for Benson as it is for the others thank you further questions last chance the bond accountability committee but it's now the time that we'd say if we have some things with the resolution that we should flag them because the goal is to for the board to vote on the master plan resolution on our December 18th meeting so thank you both very much mr. Spellman and mr. Peterson for all over your work on our behalf and behalf of the students okay director Birdman words so just in terms of the resolution well I know it's been written narrowly to primarily address the master plan the issue of Benson's enrollment and just the interplay with other schools has been so an ongoing issue with the community and I know there's some general language in here and I might come back with something that's a little bit tighter that acknowledges that Benson is just different from other schools because it's a it's district-wide school versus having an eighth neighborhood catchment area so that might be something that I may come back with I would like this is something I'm not gonna suggest to be put in the resolution but before I vote on the resolution I'd like to see is in writing what our actual process is this currently for making decisions about Benson's enrollment and also just flagging for the for the board that and the superintendent when we get to the budget that if we do have schools that are impacted because of losing because they they don't have they have students who are transferring into Benson and therefore they have fewer teachers because there are fewer students the impact that that has in their program and again I'm fully in supportive of the Benson rebuild I just want to make sure that we also look at this holistic at least so I'd like to see what the what our current policy is because I think has been rather opaque for quite some time and then in in the budget process look at how we make sure that we're providing equity and the staffing for schools that might have a fair number of their students decide to attend Benson that those students who are still at that school still get an equitable program and I think that's fair to be fair to Benson and fair to the schools that have a higher number of
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students drawn from them thank you I really appreciate that and would certainly support it I should just mention that whatever our policies are on Benson admission every year we seem to have people who are excluded for reasons that are never explained I think I can say categorically every year I'm on the board I've heard from at least one parent in the Lincoln cluster whose student was denied admission to Benson and I don't understand that at all and any increased clarity would be very very helpful to us thank you sorry this is my chance so in addition to those enrollment issues I want to base on tonight's discussion want to relook at the language on the multiple pathways because I think we have to be crystal clear because maybe we're not being because I think there's still questions being raised about sort of the timing when I look at this it says that the they'll be in and out so the superintendent has expanded the scope of the analysis Thank You superintendent to further include other multiple pathways to graduation programs and will present that analysis to the Board of Education of that later than March 31st 2019 I thought that's when we're going to be asked to take the next step so it seems like there's a timing issue there that we need the analysis in advance so that there's a alignment or so and sequencing versus a collision so I might want to get a little bit crisper on that because I think that there for both the Benson community and them the students in the multiple pathway programs deserve to have a sense of like what what does this mean for all that all the students and that we will have the opportunity to actually do a thorough analysis and be able to address it by March okay thank you yeah okay thank you for the discussion I think at this point we're gonna take a five-minute recess it's been a long meeting
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okay like to reconvene please
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okay and just check this okay the next item is the Oregon School Boards Association election we are waiting for director Bailey again okay and director constan is going to abstain from the vote so the board will now provide a voice vote on oh s PA officers and resolutions so board members there is an official OSP a ballot in your packet along with candidate materials and resolution proposals so we will vote on each position and resolution in order as presented on that ballot okay miss Hewson will submit our votes to OSP a immediately following this meeting okay so for position yes voice vote okay so for position 17 on the OSB a board of directors do I have a motion to vote for Michelle vu from Corbett or Mary botkin from Multnomah ESD I move okay all those in favor of our motion has received from them from director Anthony and second from director for him Edwards on a vote for Michelle vu although folks can I withdraw my second
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okay I didn't understand it was one of the other so I'll give the second okay so let's say that again director Anthony moved to vote for Michelle whoa Corbett with a second from director Rosen okay all in favor of Michelle whoa please indicate by saying yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no so the motion the vote passes five to one for Michelle vote as for position 17 Knott County I can't do math tonight four to one thank you moving on to position 19 on the OSB a board of directors do I have a motion to vote for our own director Anthony so Lou can't we do a ride okay so it's been moved by a director Rosen seconded by a director Bailey for director Anthony so all in favor of approving director Anthony for position 90 min please indicate by saying yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no and student rep doesn't vote on this okay so we have passed the motion to approve director Anthony and a vote of five to zero for position 19th - oh s ba Board of Directors congratulations okay and on the next resolutions I'm going to ask director Anthony to provide information on that the OSB resolutions in front of us please thank you this comes with some surprise and I'm on the custom to public speaking but I the the OSB A's legislative priorities and policies very closely mirror Portland public's I think they're self explanatory clearly public education in Oregon needs more funding we need more onion cumbered funding we need to be able to provide the services to our children that we know they need and the OSB a and Portland public are pushing for all of that Burt pleased indicate by saying yes yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no I'm sorry and any abstentions okay so we have one abstention one no vote and four yes votes oh these are voice votes okay and then our last vote is for OSP a resolution to which amends OSP a bylaws related to composition of the Board of Directors by adding a voting seat for a representative of the Oregon school board members of the color caucus thank you I will try and speak to this without tearing up school board members of color for from across the state have been working on this issue for years they very much feel the need the obvious need for a voting voice on the OSB a board they have been underrepresented all of the institutional barriers that keep people of color out of positions of power and authority and policy in the state and across the country are certainly also true for the OSB a they have put an enormous amount of thought into this the school board members of color caucus bylaws are a model for how they should work I am very happy that we're going to be voting on this and it unfortunately it does come through in the face of some opposition and I think it's really important that Portland Public make its voice heard okay chance so all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes did I not move in okay
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okay move my director Bailey seconded by director Berman Edwards so now to a vote all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no any abstentions okay passes to zero so I'm gonna stain well I obviously don't have a vote on the matter but I think folks heard me recently at OS BA around seems like a minimal action considering when you look at the Board of Directors clearly there's an under-representation so if this is one way to bring voice to those communities that's appreciated but hopefully over time the diversity is more reflective of the student demographic and Oregon but thank you PBS Board for for your vote on this one County colleagues last night I can say that we're seeing considerable progress on that front in our other Multnomah County districts but not our own absolutely and we need to stay laser focused on on having diverse voices here so thank you also from myself for voting for that all right now we're moving to the business agenda the board will now vote on the remaining items in its business agenda already have been voted on resolutions 5 7 7 1 through five 773 miss Houston are there any changes to the business agenda no okay do I have a motion and a second to adopt the business agenda second okay director Bailey moves in director Constance seconds the adoption of the business at miss Houston is there any public comment for the business each other no okay is there any board discussion on the business agenda thank you I'd like to make one very brief comment since the subject of field trip requests came up earlier in the meeting I agree with all of the comments the rest of the board made on that but I do want to say an awful lot of our students work extraordinarily hard all year multiple years on athletics on music on dance and meeting after meeting we see long lists of students heading out for wonderful opportunities and I would just like to say I'm very very proud of all of them thank you okay the board will now vote I'm the business agenda all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes yes all opposed please indicate by saying no any abstentions okay the business agenda is approved by a vote of six to zero with student representative paler voting yes okay are there any committee reports audit committee as I mentioned earlier we'll meet on the 17th and primarily an organizing committee to prepare the agenda for the year in addition the policy and Governance Committee will meet on the 20th and continue work on some of the policies that are currently sitting in the committee thank you student rep report well you've been very busy with I want to tee what by thanking you for all of your efforts in the last two weeks convenience students on the issue of the SROs you really listened and hustled thank you um I guess I just have to state for the matter my night ended when I was sitting here watching a group of students on the top floor they're held together breaking down on a vote I hope I never have to see that again sitting here and I'm I'm saddened by that that got to that point that was got to that point tonight so I know that the work doesn't end here I'm gonna diligently work with students from across the district and the time coming to meet to discuss issues on specific matter so yeah thank you I would just like to make one quick comment about last night's meeting of school board representatives and our area legislators I would like to say publicly that superintendent Guerrero
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did a tremendous job advocating for our district and our teachers our students and really k-12 education in Oregon and I was extremely proud to be part of the district that he represents thank you Thank You director Anthony really not necessary and actually I want to appreciate the board showing up strong and PBS representing last night because I think everybody's contribution helped the dialogue and the education of our local legislators and advocating for the needs of Multnomah Schools thank you okay thank you any other business thank you madam chair so this is just a point of personal privilege so earlier tonight in the public comment there was an allegation that I supported inequitable ke8 and the students in 6th through the 8th 6 to the 8th grade not having an equitable experience and that couldn't be farther than truth and it wasn't what I said that day it at Bridger and I in my zone we probably have more k-8 where students are in in inequitable situation and it's one of my highest priorities and I will continue to advocate to put that on the board meetings agenda but the assertion that I maintained that that was ok because actually my statement was to the contrary so thank you madam chair thank you ok and we do have one last item here there so apparently there has been an issue of parliamentary procedure raised by members of the public regarding the propriety propriety of the motion to reconsider the ppb matter no objection was raised as to the propriety of the motion by a board member so under PPS policies 1.7 0.011 - p9 that motion to reconsider was properly passed and reconsideration of the ppb motion and the subsequent vote was proper nevertheless in an abundance of caution I'm going to proceed to make the motion to reconsider now we will need a second and then we will vote on the motion to reconsider if the motion to reconsider passes we will then proceed to a new motion second and vote on the ppb motion so I move to reconsider the vote are there any seconds second so the motion I move to reconsider the vote and director rosen second that to reconsider the motion now we will vote on that all of those in favor of reconsidering the motion please vote by saying yes yes all those opposed please vote I say no any abstentions and student representative vote on this student representative no okay okay so the motion to reconsider passes by a vote of six to zero with student representative Paisley voting no now we will proceed with the new motion to vote on the ppb motion as was amended earlier correct okay do I have a motion a second second okay so the motion to vote it was made by director of er Meili brim Edwards seconded by director Anthony so we will now take a vote all of those in favor please vote by saying yes yes all opposed no no any abstentions one abstention and with representative Peyser no Dean no the motion carries with a vote of five to one with one abstention four to one I can't count tonight it's late it's been a long night yeah okay 41 with one no vote and one abstentions and representative phase they're voting now all right so that's it for the night the next regular meeting of the board will be held on December 18 so this meeting is adjourned you

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Event 1: Regular Meeting of the Board of Education - December 11, 2018

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