2021-04-15 PPS School Board School Improvement Bond Committee Meeting
District | Portland Public Schools |
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Date | 2021-04-15 |
Time | 16:30:00 |
Venue | Virtual/Online |
Meeting Type | committee |
Directors Present | missing |
Documents / Media
Notices/Agendas
Materials
BAC BOND PROGRAMS REPORT 03 31 2021 (337905ced4a118fd).pdf BAC BOND PROGRAMS REPORT_03 31 2021
BAC Presentation 03 31 2021 (19899263f31c0194).pdf BAC Presentation_03 31 2021
BAC Status Report status definitions (9d71b32dd33860d1).pdf BAC Status Report_status definitions
BAC Status Reports Modernizations 03 31 2021 (42e5050d5fe19e56).pdf BAC Status Reports_Modernizations_03 31 2021
Bond Performance Audit Tracker Quarterly Report 03 31 2021 (e67a02b9b5eaaa41).pdf Bond Performance Audit Tracker_Quarterly Report_03 31 2021
BAC Report April 2021 (14905b5cb49c4571).pdf BAC Report April 2021
Long Term Facilities Plan PowerPoint (721d7dcde1ce1062).pdf Long Term Facilities Plan PowerPoint
BAC Charter Draft (8dd281cbdeefd664).pdf BAC Charter Draft
Minutes
Transcripts
Event 1: PPS Board of Education's School Impovement Bond Committee - 4/15/21
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michelle i'm the chair of the school
improvement bond committee and
a member of the school board and i'll
pass it to
uh how about john lyons
good afternoon everyone my name is john
lyons i'm an architect in the planning
group at pbs
i'm here to talk about long-range
facility plan i will pass it to
dan young hello everyone dan young
chief operating officer good to see
everyone
and i'll pass it to mr peterson
hi i'm tom peterson i'm on the bac the
co-chair and i'll be giving a little
update later this evening
and i'll pass it on to scott
i'm scott bailey board member not on
this committee
i've been involved with facilities for a
long time
amy
good afternoon this is amy constand my
serve on the board
nice to see you all
did you want to pass it to someone amy
oh sorry about that how about marina
thank you amy marina cresswell i'm the
senior director for the office of school
modernization
and i will pass it to deputy
superintendent parts
well i've just been introduced so i'm
glad to be here with you claire hurts
and i'm going to pass that to our new
cfo
hi good afternoon everyone alberto
delgadillo um
and i will oh geez
it's like one of those white right
towards the end uh
to uh uh karina ruiz
hello everyone i am i'm karina ruiz i am
one of the founding principals of brick
architecture
and we are honored to serve um as
the consultant doing your long-range
plan we'll be helping john
with the presentation um this afternoon
and i will pass it to
dr amanda perez hi everybody my name is
amara
perez and i'm also part of the project
team for the facilities plan and my role
has been to
be a consultant on critical race theory
in this project
and i will pass it to
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cara redshaw hi
i'm kara bradshaw i'm the executive
assistant to the board
and i'll pass it to dana white
hi i'm dana white i'm the director for
planning and real estate
i may be last uh i think director scott
is last
i mean someone has to go left yep
absolutely i'm andrew scott a board
member and a member of this committee
glad to be here thank you everybody did
we
i'm sorry is mary with us
is he married i am i am sorry i i didn't
know about the meeting so i'm on a run
with my kids but mary weiner
i'm managing the instructional resource
adoption for otl
has everyone had a chance to introduce
themselves
well i'll just chime in to say good
afternoon everybody i'm roseanne powell
i'm the board manager
who should have probably gone first um
do we have any public comment tonight
we don't unless jordan got something
that i don't know about i have not
okay so the first thing on our agenda
then is um
the update from the office of school
modernization
um yes thank you thank you director de
pass
um i'll go ahead and get started with
that uh
i'll try to go through briefly but um i
tend towards wordy so
um give me the high sign if i speak too
much
2012 program we're 98 spent
uh we have two primary projects still
sitting on the 2012 program
and that includes roosevelt phase four
and the grant upper fields improvement
um roosevelt phase four we have some
delays due to permitting but the work is
proceeding we'd hope to have the
new um extension to that wing
completed for the start of the 21-22
school year but we are now looking like
october for our completion and we are
working closely with the administration
as far as accommodating that change
to the schedule for grant upper fields
improvement we're generally on schedule
with that
um however we are in the middle of land
use permitting
and that has a tendency to be
unpredictable
so we continue to look for opportunities
to
improve the construction time we do
still have some fun
excuse me it may interrupt just to ask
um as you're
giving the update there the materials we
00h 05m 00s
have the materials in front of us
are you going from the um bac
presentation
or in our meeting materials packet are
you
are you referencing our meeting
materials all of this information is
in the materials however the materials
that you receive are the same materials
that we present to the bac
and that is typically a two hour plus
presentation
so i try to summarize um
get us through quickly with just a quick
overview
okay i appreciate that you're trying to
hit the high points and i was just
wondering um
if if it would be helpful for people to
follow along but i understand
that you're hitting the high tops not
the full in-depth
um report so thank you
um so just to note that we do still have
some funds available within the 2012
program to accommodate
any additional budget needs for the two
projects that we have sitting out there
for 2017 we're excuse me marina one
second before you move on from 2012 i
understand that the two pieces that you
just highlighted are work that's ongoing
but aside from that does that mean that
we're completely closed out
on our contracts from 2012 um
for example uh grant had been
outstanding for a while
we are not completely capable of all
contracts for 2012 projects we're
working through all of those right now
we've come to agreement with the grant
contract we are um
just finishing up the final audit for
that contract
so it is not closed out yet but it will
be soon
okay but we've come to agreement okay
thank you so much
you're welcome uh 55
spent on 2017 program
kellogg uh substantial completion has
been reached
and we are in the middle of installing
um ffme furniture fixtures and equipment
we are working with other pps
departments to transition to operations
and we are currently projecting the
project to come in one million dollars
under budget mcdaniel high school
um as i've said before mcdaniel is the
modernization from 2017 that had the
tightest
of schedules we have not had
great luck with delays related to covet
and the wildfires
that we had over the summer those did
impact our schedule it will be tight
however we have been working very
closely with the contractor
doing overtime in very selective ways
whether it's critical path items
or clearing other uh tasks that needed
to be done
in order to maintain critical path
and we are also working internally with
a transition team that's made up of
members of it feels like pretty much
every single department at pps
um since everybody is impacted by this
so we are working closely to talk
through
that the schedule coordination
for mcdaniel high school to move out
of marshall and into its new site
we are anticipating it will be completed
on budget
however that does not include covid
related costs and i think i said this
before too that
um our strategy with covid cost has been
that if our projects are
able to pay for those costs out of their
existing project budgets
they will and the amounts that they
cannot pay for out of their budgets will
be paid for out of the program
and i've already been setting aside
funding to do so
but to the extent we can keep it within
the project budgets we have
it does not look like we will be able to
pay for all of those coded costs out of
the mcdaniel budget
lincoln is still on schedule
it is also still on budget the
steel structure the roofing exterior
panels cmu walls at the gym
all those things have been uh completed
i think if you are around there you'll
see that the
the shapes of the buildings are there
most of the extra envelope looks
pretty pretty solid uh and we have
interior framing in progress as well
there are some risks ahead of us we
still anticipate staying within budget
for benson the swing site work is
progressing we've been working hard with
our teams
and with the transition team to
coordinate all of the moves of the
summer and just a good
note with the transition team that um
that includes moving benson
into kenton and marshall those two swing
sites as well as moving
daniel out of marshall and it's just a
note too on the impacts to pbs
operations as a whole
at the same time we're completing
kellogg and so
we have been working hard to transition
00h 10m 00s
catalog to operations now
so that the rest of the pps teams have
to do work within their
can get in do their work there and then
move to
swing sites and changes to
uh you know the the campuses of benson
and mcdaniel so it's a
it's a delicate dance um we're
definitely working hard with
lots of different folks to make it work
the benson team is currently negotiating
aspects of the gmt with our cngc
contractor our
initial cost estimates that the 50 cv
fees came in over budget however the
team worked hard to get back on budget
in order to be approved to move forward
with mpg they are on schedule they
recently completed their 100
sd phase the initial cost estimates for
the
uh at the 100 sd phase did come in very
high
however the team is still reviewing
all of the costs line by line
and we will of course work on value
engineering
as necessary in order to get back down
the budget
um we're certainly not complete with
that
set of cost estimates there's still
quite a bit of work to do however we've
certainly
also been sharing out that information
with our steering committees and with
our bac because we want to provide full
awareness that these are costs that
we're
we're working very hard to get back
under control
um one last quick note for benson we are
expecting to fence off the site middle
of june
2020 not a lot to
to report on the 2020 work other than we
are working hard to get all of our
structures in place for it structures
generally means
staffing for new projects so of course
we need new staff in order to take on
additional work because our existing
are already very busy on 2012 and 2017.
we also have new processes and
procedures that we're putting in place
to accommodate work being done by
the office of teaching and learning otis
our technology
folks and um others who are
moving forward some of the work scope
under the 2020 bond so we've been
working very hard on that we also
are putting together implementation
plans
for several of the scopes of work for
the 2020 bond that we'll be bringing
forward
from the sibc later
the program as a whole um has been
increasing staffing to make sure that we
have support in place to manage
all three of those programs um adding
the 2020 bond was certainly adding a
significant amount of work
and so not only do we need new project
managers
we also need new support staff to help
us with invoicing
with finance with contracts
any number of operational supports that
allow them the work to move forward
efficiently
we are also as a program working very
closely with our performance
auditors on fieldwork for year three
they anticipate having a final report
in early july
they have started talking with us about
a draft work plan for year four
and we expect to take that to the bac
um for a review in
our maybe and that
concludes my portion of the report
unless you have questions
no one has questions or i should ask
does anyone have questions about what
what you just heard
and seeing that there are none we should
move on then to
the uh bond accountability committee
update and that's
uh that's that would be you tom okay
well uh thank you all for one uh keeping
me around
i went i didn't expect to be here uh but
uh i'm still here so i'm the only uh
remaining member of the original bac
so and i have
kind of volunteered to co-chair with
kenichi
to kind of make the transition with the
new
bac and i have to say um
you know i've been been around for a
long time but i'm really excited about
the new
uh the makeup of the new bac which is
part of the reason why i
volunteered to chair uh
and so uh i think we for the first time
i think we've
we've we've achieved the diverse
diversity
of perspectives and backgrounds that
we've been struggling with
have been struggling with for for many
years so i'm excited about that
00h 15m 00s
however with that there's a lot of new
people uh within the last
year there were three new members added
to the bac
in 2020 and now four more so we have a
pretty uh pretty new group of folks uh
although a very confident group of
people
um but uh and then with the
addition of the 2020 bond and
and the the challenges with trying to
cover everything um we're approaching
the the bond program a little
differently
so i think if you saw my report there's
uh we
we had an off-site in january instead of
our usual
report and in that we besides getting to
know each other we had a chance to kind
of rethink
how do we want to function um how do we
want to
meet and report how do we have more
opportunities for
discussions on topics as opposed to
predominantly our meetings where staff
uh
trying to cover all the all the details
which could be overwhelming at times
so i think the key thing uh that we're
transitioning is
and if you look at the report is this
new work plan where we're
dividing it up so when you get reports
early reports from
from the bac you're not going to get a
report that covers the entire bond
program we're going to
kind of bite it off uh in different
chunks uh so each time i report to you
it'll be focusing on maybe different
aspects of the bond
as opposed to the entire program which
we hope will
lead to more meaningful discussions as
as well
so uh this last uh
uh meeting in in uh march
we focused primarily on the
modernizations uh
marina touched on uh most of the stuff
that we covered i'm gonna just add a few
comments
to uh some of the concerns that came out
of the bac kellogg's
a great story with the exception of the
exception of the business
equity performance it led to a bit of a
discussion because the performance was
was pretty low i think it was around
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my notes say make sure you get the right
number
anyway uh less than 10
which is is pretty low which uh
can be a challenge uh on competitively
bid projects
and if you look at the history of some
of the other competitive
projects in the district those are a
little more challenging to get
aspirational goals
than the negotiated work so that was a
concern but
other than that i think everyone's
pretty well pleased with
how kellogg's coming along it came in
well under budget it looks great
i can hardly wait to get a chance to see
it at some point
mcdaniel has been a challenge as marina
alluded to the budget uh has been really
challenged and so
um hopefully there are funds within
the program to to offset uh the
anticipated overruns you're gonna see
on mcdaniel we also inquired about if
there's any opportunity for
reimbursement through the federal
uh program for proven relief to see if
there's an opportunity to offset some of
those costs
the other thing that was uh concerning
about daniel and that was it's a cmdc
and the business equity was very low as
well
uh and i recall getting a presentation
from mcdaniel on mcdaniel about their
efforts and i think they lost some key
subs and they've had a couple of things
happen to them
that are driving those numbers but it's
nonetheless it's still
uh disappointing because those types of
contracts there's
generally more opportunity and generally
we have better success
on lincoln for example 21 they're
hitting the home run there
uh so you know what is it about mcdaniel
that they're not able to hit those
numbers
like some of the other contractors are
excuse me tom yeah do you have any
speculation on that
uh well i think the intent in in one of
our upcoming
meetings is to focus on the whole
business equity issue
and to get a better get a better sense
of
you know what happened uh there what can
we do differently
are there different ways of reporting
success um
just tracking the dollar spent is you
really don't know until it's done and by
then it's too late
so there may be some other ways that we
want to look at how we approach this
whole business equity
maybe we look at what do the contractors
say and commit to
and how are they performing against what
they said and commit committed to
uh or are there other things that we can
we can look at
to um to do a little better but mcdaniel
00h 20m 00s
is
is disappointing uh given it's a cmgc
contract
usually they can perform uh much better
with those numbers so
i i think it's great that the bac is
planning to focus on that and also
our external bond performance auditor
is looking at business equity numbers
and um you know i think one of the
things that you're getting at which was
highlighted by dan's recent memo which
dan was really helpful
um regarding the benson project
is that you know i think we should be
thinking about what we can do
to support um the accomplishment of our
goals
downstream because what we've seen
happen
is we've seen aspirations um
you know stated and recorded in the
bidding process
and that things go awry not in a way
that necessarily violates our
contractual agreements
um sometimes it's understandable but
nonetheless they go awry
and our end result is not what we want
and need it to be
which as you just said we've seen for
mcdaniel and for
kellogg and so what do we as an owner
need to be doing to work with our
contractors
all along the way to make sure that
they are able to fulfill
those aspirational goals that we have
we've gotten burned here a couple times
where we just get to the end
and we say oh that's a drag you know
that's not what we want and need it to
be
and at that point it's too late so um
i really appreciate the bac looking at
that and and we know that
frankly i'll speak from my own sort of
uh investigative work in our community
we know that other public owners do a
little bit better job
of nurturing minority business
partnerships and so what do we need to
do
downstream um to to better position
ourselves to
to reach our goals yeah yeah i also want
to um just echo
um what director constance said and
appreciate
i mean um i feel like i should call you
mr peterson
i i hope you can call me tom i'm i'm
very informal thank you um
i i really appreciate you being here you
know and being this um
long-standing uh bac member and
providing that institutional knowledge
but also you have a um your area of
expertise you know at the port was
around
business equity so i think i'm hoping
that we can have
um upcoming conversations about this i
just checked your notes by the way
and the kellogg uh business contracting
was at 4
which is just it's really really low um
we need to pull it up i know that we
plan to hire the district plans to hire
uh someone in the position that will be
focused solely on business equity and i
think that's a great idea
um hopefully we can get an update about
that that that may help that might
that outreach piece but um
i echo again what um director constance
says around other
um our neighboring public entities are
doing quite a bit better and and we know
we can do better because lincoln
is at 21 so we're doing something right
on some of the projects and we're i'm
completely missing it on on others
yeah well i i've had my share of
challenges
uh when i was with the port uh and we
you know it's not uncommon for
the best laid plans by a contractor and
then something goes south the sub goes
out of business or whatever and then
they're scrambling
and and then sometimes you know all
those public agencies
we're all competing for these same
resources and
so there's a lot it's a it's a fairly
complex issue
and problem um but um i you know i'm
looking forward to figuring out how we
can do better job or how we can help
provide provide some guidance anyway uh
for the district and
and approach this the audit should we
should bring out some things i know i
put the audit committee in
touch with kimberly from my former
colleague at the port and
she was really great she also ran the
protege program so
i'm sure she'll have some good insight
for them
okay i'm sorry
tom i just wanted to add really quickly
to i did sort of
echoing those comments i i think it's
great that the bc is looking at i'm glad
the audit is looking at it i would also
be interested in in recommendations
of is there anything the board can do
that would assist staff in this whether
whether it's a policy whether it's
giving more flexibility in terms of how
we contract but
you know what are the things that that
um you know that our staff need in terms
of tools
uh to make sure that this this this is
happening right whether it's enforcement
tools or
incentives or or whatever it is to make
sure that we are hitting those numbers i
think it's going to be really important
as well yeah
well i'm hoping a lot of ideas will come
00h 25m 00s
out of your audit as well
along the line but like i say i think
our
july meeting business equity is one of
the is the topic
so i'm hoping we can have a good
discussion there and we can
draw from some of the various expertise
we have within our group
and some of their experiences as well
and maybe we can
come up with some unadditional ideas um
as well
tom i don't want to in on on your
presentation either but i just wanted to
bring out the point one
uh i appreciate you bringing up that the
intent and that the july meeting is to
have this discussion really have a
holistic discussion around business
equity
uh really really from top to bottom
around what the policies are
what the data says uh what
what that efforts that we put in place
that have worked which ones have not
what do other
jurisdictions do which one what are
successful what do they look like so
that's what we're intending to do both
with the bac and i just want to point
out to
this committee as well the intent is to
come to this committee and have that
same discussion and so we've got a
number of
pieces moving at the same time including
our performance orders so we want to
align those and have a robust discussion
in a couple of venues
and then when oh i'm sorry is there
anyone doing a landscape a landscape
scan
right now that you know of i know the
pdc used to do
every ten years i guess did a study a
disparity study um
i don't know i haven't heard of one
happening
for some time but is there anybody on
staff that has the capacity to do a
landscape scan
looking at the research from other
jurisdictions
to compare notes and maybe get some best
practices
in place part of
the scope of the auditors is looking at
uh how other agencies operate so that
will be a piece of it
uh and i don't mean implied that that
will be all of it but i think that will
be kind of a good
uh first look and then i think we can
expand from there
and dan when do we get that uh external
uh bond performance out is that june
i believe we are looking at a draft in
uh anticipated in june we'll see if
marina which way her head is moving
either up and down or
side to side i think we're we're not
expecting to see a final that we can
share with the board until early july
and so we weren't sure we were going to
be able to make it onto
any of the committee scheduled committee
meetings
prior to the summer recess so we're just
we're kind of waiting to see
but our concern is we might not be able
to to
formally present it until committees
return or you know how
crazy we are we might just have a summer
meeting
hey we would love that we'd love to be
able to present it to you sooner so
we'll really be looking for those
opportunities who knows maybe he'll be
in person
okay where was i uh
so uh i think the other uh
concerns that came out were were budget
uh both lincoln and mcdaniel were
experiencing
uh challenges certain to kobe related
costs
uh um but they're you know the team's
working hard um however they're working
a lot over time and those all
those costs all add up as well and
so the budgets will be a challenge going
forward but
i think you know everyone's working
working hard to try to make sure make
sure they can bring it in
within budget um benson uh
is coming together of wealth as marina
stated um budget is our big concern
there as well you know these projects
and i experienced it myself back when i
was support
they tend to grow uh during the design
and they
you're constantly having these estimates
to come back from your contractor that
are
above what you thought they were going
to be and you go through this
ve or other types of exercises but
eventually you get a point where well it
is what it is and with
construction costs escalating still and
so forth
there's a there's a possibility that
mentioned budget could be
a challenge going forward because it
still is not done with design yet
and so it's not all bit out so that
remains a concern but other than that
it's uh it's coming together well
and then as marina pointed out nothing
really on the 220 bond um
be looking forward to um getting that
kicked off and
but right now if i understand they're
they're busy trying to put their teams
together and
you gotta have the bodies first before
you get a lot done so we appreciate that
uh as i also want to acknowledge uh
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they continue to bring on some some
great staff um
so we've been um that's encouraging and
that's always that's been a challenge
from day one but uh i've seen the
osm grow quite a bit obviously
from the early days when dan was what
was your role when i first started
working here again but
uh anyway it's it's a it's grown to be a
very sophisticated and well-run
uh organization i'm really impressed
with how it's
it's come together so it's been uh fun
to be a part of
um i will say one other
comment uh about the new board um
one of the things that is that came up
when we first had our meeting
uh our planning meeting with marina and
kenichi was
kinichi asked a question about job
site culture and um you know is it safe
are people being subjected to are they
being treated
properly and so forth um and um
that's kind of a new program obviously i
don't recall
that being an issue when i was back in
the day and but obviously an important
issue
and uh so this is an example of
something that's
evolving in the industry uh and maybe
other agencies are acting on i don't
know
but it could be a could lead to a policy
issue
for the district is as to how you want
to address this and are there things
in your contracts that we need to
implement and help ensure we have a safe
work uh
work site for our police and there's a
number of other the other of these
potential policy issues
that i recall some came up
over the my time you'd have someone show
up at a
at a bac meeting advocating for solo for
example or
or energy conservation or something and
you know it wasn't really clear what the
policy was on some of those issues
so i uh so i'm anticipating with the new
with the makeup of the new board they're
going to be seeing some more of these
types of issues where they're going to
have a specific
issue or concern that they're going to
want to advocate for
and the district may or may not have a
policy on it
so we'll be maybe serving up some some
areas where you may need to give some
thought on
on how you want to address some of these
issues so i've i'm
i've kind of gathered a list of concerns
and
from the various members to kind of get
a sense of what their
focus will be and as we plan future
meetings we'll make sure we start
addressing some of these issues and make
sure we get them served up to you as
well
so with that uh i answer any questions
tom i really appreciate you bringing up
that last point
and this is something that i've had a
few discussions about with regard to our
performance
our business equity performance because
what's what's dissonant about
some of those results is that they don't
don't align with our stated values as an
organization
and pbs has come a long way in the last
few years and your
your tenure with us in terms of
articulating
what our values are as an organization
we have a vision that we refer to with
you know all of our work we're about to
deliver
a strategic plan that has grown out of
the vision
and so uh the fact that the bac is
thinking about that
and um how our investing in our
workforce
work workplace culture um connects
and is aligned with our values and our
vision as an organization
is really exciting and important and i
think that i think that's a critical
piece of the business equity work
too because it's not just again about
those
those end results at the end of a
contract it's about what are we doing to
nurture those partnerships all the way
along
in a way that authentically reflects our
values in an organization and i think
you could say the same thing
about sustainability and
um there'll be some language around that
in our strategic plan
so it's it's wonderful that you guys are
thinking that way and
speaking for myself as one board member
i think we would welcome
an invitation to revisit any of our
policies or
concoct new policies where we see voids
on on some of these issues so thank you
very much for bringing that up
not a problem i i faced the same
challenge
in my time at the port we would
i remember art was a challenge for us no
one wanted to acknowledge an art program
yet we would always
implement one in our in our big
expansion programs
but we never had budgeted for them and
uh
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you know it was so it's a it's been a
hot issue for me for a long time
uh so as soon as i hear these things
that if
i'll be assured it'll raise a red flag
for me and i'll make sure it gets
elevated so
anyway i also want to say that that's
another issue the job site culture
that's really
personally important and it's a place
where an extension
of what we say we want to see in our
workplace culture
the city of portland recently had an
incident on one of our job sites
with an outside contractor that where a
noose was found
and we had no before this happened
hadn't had anything codified or
written and so of course we do have now
a statement um in case something
like this happens on on a job site and
it would i think
be great if we could be prepared for
the worst which is you know someone some
bad actor
um doing something like that better to
be prepared and have a statement
prepared
and have a policy to back it up i'm also
really happy that you brought that up
i know there are members of the bac that
are also interested
i'm also interested director con stem is
interested
director scott director bailey i'm sure
i'm sure we're all interested in
um the culture or on our job sites
but i don't want to speak for them um
did anybody have any other comments
i just um point oh sorry scott
really quickly on that point um dan i
want to put you on the spot right now
but i would be interested you know
we did sign up portland public schools
as part of the um construction and
careers pathways project
with other regional um governments and
as part of that workplace culture is
um a key component of that um that there
are things that i don't remember
specifically
um as part of that program what what
comes out of that but i know it is
something that we're collaborating with
other governments to improve
culture particularly for women and
people of color on job sites so i'd be
interested in the future just hearing an
update on
on how that's going and and what that
what
what what actions we're taking as a
result
yeah not a problem we can provide
information about that program and then
some of the other programs that uh our
contractors participate in as well
so just wanted to agree with the
workplace
culture issues and also to say
we're working on a policy on
uh climate fossil fuel sustainability
um uh i just
finished a draft that we're going to be
discussing tomorrow
um so i want to make sure we double back
i know a couple of people on this
uh in this meeting have been part of
that process so i want to make sure that
we
are in alignment with our bond work from
that
uh multnomah county today came out with
a resolution
saying that any new building will be
well they said fossil fuel free but what
they
actually said was all electric
so those things
are different yeah i was thinking oh are
they going all solar
and windmills but uh so
uh i don't want us making a statement
like that unless um
you know we're truly fossil free but um
that's the direction we
need to go in sooner rather than later
i i'm going to be really curious about
that because that was another
being electrical engineer originally
energy conservation has been my
thing throughout my career and um
and we we've we tried hard at the port
you know even had a lead platinum
building uh
but but it's challenging uh and we had
we had done a study to figure out how we
could be car
reduce our carbon footprint by 20 and it
was pretty enlightening how
what that meant and um
so i'll be anxious to hear uh hear about
that because uh this kind of near gear
to my heart i've spent a lot of time on
that subject as well over my career
so that's fantastic um and so did i
and in fact i'm generating power right
now
so much so that's going out to the grid
um i'm
i'm i'm providing power for my neighbors
on either side of me
really no solar i do have solar i have a
three kilowatt system oh cool and it
works even on cloudy days here in
portland so
it's it is really cool i thought you
were pedaling as we speak
i am actually sometimes but not today
but yeah no they're doing their job
upstairs
um i'm also really interested in um the
carbon
the carbon piece and seeing us um you
know go to renewables as much as
possible
well i could talk a lot about that but i
want to i don't want to bore you tonight
another time maybe
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over a beer that sounds fantastic
um were there any other comments um on
the on that bsc
update or questions anyone had
i think tom just speaking to the
expansion of your agenda
is just a great advertisement why
diversity
and representation matters because it
just
encompasses a lot more life experiences
a lot more
viewpoints and it just improves our
collective work
so yep absolutely
so i just gave a presentation this week
to a national conference about the
business case for diversity and you want
to have diverse
uh people in the room thinkers because
it does reduce your risk
it now broadens your reach into the
communities
reduces your risk in so many ways
because you've got more eyes on the
problem
on any issue and also um just an
interesting aside
usually diverse groups make better
financial decisions
so i think for the bond accountability
committee that's that's really apt
so thank you for serving uh tom i
appreciate you being here
my pleasure um i'm glad you kept me
around
me too at least i'll be able to see
some more progress uh and i'm hoping
once
when i when you finally have to say all
right you've been here too long
did you still invite me back to see the
schools when they're done because
it's been a lot of fun we we do have a
protocol in place
for uh we we just say we'll see you in a
couple months you can take some time off
but
um we have your number still in your
email so hopefully you'll be around to
mentor
any incoming new new uh new people so
but for now we've got you so that's
great yeah
um thank you so much um we're gonna move
on to the long
term facilities uh plan and i'm not sure
who's
who's delivering that i can start us off
i'm gonna go ahead and share my screen
thank you very much it's a real pleasure
to be with you
um we're up to some very very cool work
we're about halfway through still
a lot of work to be done
which i will share with you this evening
but we will be back to present the final
product
um probably to the full board in october
so i'll just look for some head knobs
can you all see my screen
great okay
so long-range facility plan
um you can find more details on the
project at pps.net
lrfv we'll begin posting progress
documents to this site
as well
so the outline for today um i'm gonna
give you a really brief overview of the
operations document landscape and that's
just to help
with some orientation and i think give
some broader context to what this
document is
i'll give a long range facility plan
overview including a process
and timeline and then i'll pass it over
to dr
amara perez to talk about critical race
spatial lens
and then karina ruiz to talk about some
some key outcomes that we found so far
so just looking at the guiding documents
within the operations group
today we'll focus on the long-range
facility plan but we'll review some
examples on how
these documents work together to
federate a complete story about how we
translate our values into the built
environment
so we're in a unique time for our group
we are currently updating
literally all of these documents so
quite busy
so we have the opportunity to coordinate
for a shared vision for our schools
these documents all work together in
coordination with one another
they they all speak to different
audiences and foreground different
voices
for different stakeholders and just to
illustrate that
in a matrix this matrix provides a
little more detail about how the
documents differ from one another
so you can see that the long-range
facility plan is
has the widest range both in terms of
audience and stakeholders
but it's also a document required by the
ode we must complete this document every
10 years
so the previous long range facility plan
was completed in
2012. so
okay so just really quickly i'd like to
unpack an example to illustrate how
these documents differ from one another
so just looking at how our buildings can
support
social emotional learning the long-range
facility plan will
contain statements like this all
buildings must support
a continuum of social emotional learning
both inside and outside the classroom
just an example um of course we would
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say more
than that but then
looking to the ed specification that we
would
then provide more detail on and more
specificity for our spaces so
the ad spec will detail a set of
performance requirements
um we see here a sensory path the ed
spec will describe both what a sensory
path is and how it should perform
um in this case an ad spec must or
excuse me a
sensory path must support motor
development sensory and emotional
regulation and healthy physical outlets
then we get to
the really glamorous statements in our
design standards which are
materials placed on the floors and walls
must be compatible with district
cleaning systems
and all materials on interior surfaces
must be low voc
so um definitely an indirect statement
about
social emotional learning but incredibly
important and incredibly valuable
so that's all i had to say about kind of
our document structure i'll pause for a
b
see if there are any questions about
that otherwise i'll move into
leverage yes i have a question
sorry go ahead um i was just going to
say um the low poc
materials are really good and that that
we're um being considered about the
materials but
if we're um we've got this climate
policy and we've got
um if we're using toxic chemicals to do
the cleaning
we're impacting the indoor air quality
so i'm hoping that
as these um documents are being updated
that we're considering
you know less toxic materials to clean
i know it's a hard time to talk about
using vinegar you know during a during a
pandemic
um just that it'd be nice
for us to be consistent across the board
in terms of you know what we care about
um and how how we know that toxic
chemicals impact
um climate absolutely
and health
i have a question john about um i
appreciate you
making a reference to how the long range
facilities
plan will inform some
revisions perspective revisions in our
ed specs
so can you or can someone speak a little
bit to that
process um how how we intend to
revise the ed specs once we have a
long-range facilities plan in play
and so the the ed spec and the
long-range facility plan are concurrent
processes that we're we're currently
developing so
one specific example i can point to is
the philosophical foundation for the ed
spec that's currently being revised
is universal design trauma informed
design
and now critical race theory um which is
a new concept for me
and and for for much of what we're doing
with the the built environment
um the the
i believe i'm i'm scheduled to come back
and talk in detail about the ed spec in
about a month
so i don't want to go too down too far
down this rabbit hole
um but but there will certainly be
downstream impacts
as i think the the the philosophical
approach and also the long-term vision
begin to saturate
and um kind of infuse with ideas
to their related documents
that's great so that work is underway
now those three
new overlays on our existing ed specs
absolutely so um we've done hundreds of
hours of interviews with educators for
the ed spec
um and are getting lots of input on
universal design trauma informed design
um in relation to the
the ada transition plan so for sure
that's fantastic
i'm really excited that the critical
race theory is also being applied
um the built environment i work in you
know planning and sustainability and
we're actually embarking on a spatial
justice uh
set of programs and um it's a it's a
great consideration i can't wait to hear
more about it
other thoughts or questions we're okay
cool okay i will move on uh long-range
facility plan
overview uh and just bear with me
through this i just want to give you
some orientation and then we'll get to
the cool stuff
when i turn it over to amara so the
purpose of the long range facility plan
is to forecast the district's facility
needs for the next 10 to 20 years so
reaching quite a bit into the future our
primary purpose is to
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align facilities needs with the
district's educational vision
um and then we're committed to a plan
that will advance
racial equity and social justice and
education
we're doing that through critical race
theory uh spatial theory
to prioritize capital projects and we
are using critical race spatial
dialogues to garner feedback from our
community
in addition to program discussions put
slightly another way um a long-range
facility plan
is an alignment of educational vision
enrollment and capacity
and facility conditions so we're going
to look at
the data from our fca or our recent
enrollment forecast and then we're doing
lots of conversations with our
educational leadership
so just to speak to how long-range
facility plan relates to a bond um
this this diagram outlines kind of an
ideal sequence of events of course
we just passed a bond so we're going to
be set up really well for the next
couple bonds
again this is ideal few districts ever
um
are able to choreograph their their work
in in this precise way
uh and then we missed it by just a
little bit this year
um but again we'll be in good shape for
the future bonds
just to speak to our governance
structure a little bit so
we have our core team which is some of
the folks here it's dr valentino dan
young
those folks it's across disciplinary
teams so educators
engagement uh enrollment transfer
planning
and osm are involved in that we have our
crick coalition
um which everyone here should have an
invite to our summit for next week
and then we've conducted a host of
community dialogues
this past winter that we'll get to hear
a little bit about in a minute
we are looking at all of these
initiatives that are happening right now
in the district so
it's a lot there's a lot going on it's
allowed to get our arms around but
our hope is to federate many of these
initiatives into a single vision
for the future or at least set us up for
making really good decisions in the
future
uh the document's gonna look something
like this um
this is a bit of a bluff or or a ways
off from this but
just to give you a sense of what the
thinking is and
and um how this is all gonna come
together
so
our phasing in timeline so we began this
project in november
with a couple months long listening and
learning
where we were sitting down with
different community groups students
principals teachers who whatever whoever
would hang out with us
right now we're working with our
coalition to develop the ideas garnered
from those conversations
to synthesize and analyze those findings
to reflect the voice and stories of
communities
and then later this summer we're going
to move into an action in the
accountability phase where we're really
creating the document
we're sending that back out to the folks
that we heard from and talk to getting
their feedback and we're revising
and with that i will pass it over to dr
kiras
thank you john um so part of the
strategy that our team put
forward was the use of critical race
theory to really support the alignment
of
facilities plan with the district's
commitment to racial equity and social
justice
so putting critical race theory and
conversation with spatial theory
has offered a sort of integrated
socio-spatial framework to understand
and transform
this really unique relationship between
the built environment
and equity in education so we're going
to do a
super quick review of some of the
guiding theoretical tenets that have
really grounded our work
knowing that this will you know would
really require more conversation but it
gets you an idea
of what this lens is really inviting us
to acknowledge
inviting us to examine and more
importantly inviting us to practice
so um we're going to share just a sample
of some of those tenants
um the first one is you know really a
principle we can go the next slide john
um can i move yeah okay so the first one
is the idea that um racism is embedded
and ingrained in all aspects of society
this is really important because often
we think about inequity and education
but don't necessarily look at the
planning practices
or design practices that also function
to reproduce inequity
within education so this is meant that
we're paying very close attention to our
practices
the second tenet is about dominant
narratives
um dominant narratives particularly in
planning and design and space
are narratives like objectivity or
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neutrality
or color blindness all of which we
really acknowledge
act to hide racial and social inequities
and so particularly
in the business of sort of planning and
facilities we often think this
work is sort of too technical to
objective logical universal
to be thinking about social issues
around race
and other dimensions of diversity so
paying attention to those narratives
that act
as if this work is neutral is um one of
the strategies we've been using to make
sure that we
keep connected the socio-spatial and
spatial lens
the third tenant which is everybody's
favorite is the idea that space is not
neutral and in particular
space is not racially neutral and so
part of what this really invites is for
us to look at how
space is actually more of a sort of
cultural artifact
the idea that space often reflects um
dominant value and belief systems
and this allows us to really interrogate
how is space
acting to normalize or reproduce the
status quo
in ways that we can actually transform
and put in service to equity and
inclusion
the next tenant is about the idea that
advancing racial equity
in facilities planning for example
actually will help to further
the district's commitment to racial
equity and social justice
and the nice thing about this tenant is
it just shows what our role can be
to contribute to equity and inclusion
district-wide
and then finally the tenant um we really
are excited about practicing in this
project
is acknowledging the experiential lived
experiences stories
of black indigenous people of color and
these communities
and acknowledging that when we hear from
bipol communities
we actually hear the very stories that
counter
those dominant narratives which act to
conceal
institutionalized inequity so this has
meant that so much of our work has been
really amplifying the voice of bipod
communities
to really understand the sort of lived
experience of uh
educational spaces and understanding how
space
acts and also being able to really
understand the diverse ways in which
people perceive
space but more importantly the diverse
ways people can reimagine
how space can really work in service to
equity and inclusion
so these are just a real review of what
those tenants invite
next slide so we've been using that in
engagement as john spoke about we've
just finished this listening and
learning um
phase so this has been a really
important part of our work and being
able to understand
but again the socio-spatial context of
neighborhood schools
and understanding more largely the
perceptions of community members
and so one of the strategies we
developed was having community dialogues
where we invited people to share their
personal experiences ideas and
perceptions
to create a more nuanced understanding
of what some of the key pressing issues
are
impacting the school district and being
able to provide
input on those issues and emerging
themes
so these were the guiding questions for
our dialogue sessions
one was to just invite people to share
their social identities what we know
is that our identities our lived
experience and our positionality shape
the way we
perceive space and so what we wanted to
do was to acknowledge our identities
matter
by inviting that to the conversation we
followed that up with questions that
helped us to understand how do you
perceive
traditional school space to communicate
racial and other
social inequities and then finally given
your multiple identities and lived
experience
how can school space actually advance
racial equity and social justice
what are the socio-spatial ideas for
creating
a more welcoming and inclusive
experience so these were the broad
guiding questions that drove
our dialogue sessions and i will now
pass this on to karina who will talk
about what we learned through these
sessions
uh before i start i just want to provide
a moment to pause because we
we gave you a lot of information about
the approach and so
i want to pause for a moment before we
start talking about the things we heard
and how we're starting to apply those to
just
allow you to respond in any way or ask
any questions about mata about
the approach
so this is very interesting to me um
i you know years ago read
works that analyzed uh the spatial array
of say prisons
hospitals schools all very similar
command and control kind of
layouts um but never from a specific
viewpoint of race
um so i if you have some resources you
can share
i can do some more reading on it i'd
appreciate it i won't take up any
meeting time
um and again always getting into the
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specifics
and examples always helps ground me
in this as well so great thank you for
asking that scott um
we've been working with some student
interns who have spent the last couple
months building a repository of
resources
so we can make sure and share that link
with you that will provide
all kinds of really interesting readings
to um
to you know get you thinking so thanks
for asking that
i wanted to just give an appreciation
for the discussion um
as a black portlander also who grew up
in
you know in in guadalajara
really understand what you're talking
about here
and appreciate you naming um just to
name this the elements that are going
into this um
inquiry and really excited um
to see what what comes out of it thank
you
you know on the ground for for our
children i really appreciate you being
here
thank you me too
very inspiring um ahmad i was going to
ask it's wonderful to hear about your
interns i was going to ask
of you and john in these extensive
interview processes
are we talking to our students yes yes
thank you amy we've had quite a few
dialogue sessions with students
um as young as third grade we've had two
classroom sessions with third graders
who
have an incredible critical race facial
analysis even at that age
so we've had dialogue sessions with
students we have students who are
serving on the crick coalition and so
our commitment has really been
to make sure that our all of our
community engagement is
bi-pop focused and student centered and
really being able to track that
that amplified voice in everything we do
fantastic
okay anything else before we start
outlining kind of what are some of the
things that we heard and how those have
started
to now apply themselves to the work of
the crit coalition
okay so just that we should hear from
third graders much more often i mean
they're going to be inhabiting the
building for a very long time and they
are really uh they really add a lot i
think
it's wonderful to hear from them indeed
um and i will congratulate your teachers
of the classrooms that we went into
um they had already done a lot of the
social justice
priming um and so when we went in it was
really just about okay how do you apply
those lessons now
to the built environment right because
that i think is always the harder link
for even adults to make i will say um
quite frankly
the kids might have been more apt to
make those connections
um than some of the adults so it's it
they were great conversations so i
i totally agree with you um okay
john will you ask for this one yeah so
um what we identified as
we went through i can't even i can't
even count the number of hours of
um sessions were these um emerging
facility planning issues right so um we
talk about them
as socio-spatial issues but really
thinking about
kind of how they inform our facility
planning because we're talking about a
20-year horizon right
and so if you think about tributes to
white dominant narratives
things like what we heard from folks
where the iconography and the forms of
statues murals
images names of schools as you're
already dealing with that act to
perpetuate
and celebrate white dominant narratives
in school space
um next one is under representation of
bypoc communities
that the voices histories cultures and
contributions of the bipoc community are
not readily reflected
in the schools in the architecture of
the art the images flags
display cases in schools
the next one is the need to better
reflect
students and the local communities so
again
students communities local neighborhoods
were neither integrated nor
reflected in school space
fourth one is unwelcoming and
gatekeeping
school entrances so building approach
everything from the street to the school
entrance contributes to
an unwelcoming experience and the
diminished sense of belonging
for your communities experiencing
diversity or communities on the margin
this idea of a school community divide
right that schools do not act or feel
like community-owned resources
due to insufficient space for community
partners
as well as policies and building
structures that strictly limit
neighborhood access to buildings and
grounds
the next one is monolingual space so
english only signage and wayfinding
acts to include exclude sorry
communities and families from navigating
engaging in and accessing school space
sterile and rigid classrooms so the lack
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of color
uncomfortable furniture fixed facial
arrangements
and limited access to natural light
really diminish
comfort a sense of safety and discourage
risk taking and relationship building
right those are some of the connections
that we heard
individual individualistic classrooms
and so
traditional spatial arrangements
discourage cooperative
and collaborative pedagogies that really
limit student agency
and restrict the agility needed to
foster the diverse learning communities
that you're trying to build
and then binary space so presenting
gender as a socio-spatial what we call
kind of organizing strategy
can can serve to other um
space is designated for women and girls
for
your trans community your gender
non-conforming users right so really
thinking about the need
and to to not think of spaces to not
think of programs as binary
marginalized and hidden space so school
space dedicated students is
is missing it's often difficult to
access difficult to find
out of the way um and and really
um yeah
um and then um finally
your unequal and inaccessible spaces so
um both the idea that um that we heard
that there was
unequal access to or a perceived
um difference in quality depending on
both
whether or not you were part of a bipod
community and also socioeconomic
class and then also having
accessible features like accessible
playgrounds
was was strongly held by the group as
well
so before i get into how we then apply
these i just wanted to pause for a
moment
um to talk about um
have you talk about any of those
anything that you want to ask questions
about
so we're real quickly i toured some
schools in finland a couple of years ago
and the the furniture there for kids is
really kid-friendly and the spaces there
that they have set up it's completely
well it's very different from here
and and the other contradiction we faced
they designed their schools to be
physically open and welcoming to the
community
we have to design our schools to be
fortresses
and that's that's out of
concern for student safety but that's
also
racialized given given who goes to
prison in this country
and what those feel like so
design wise we have a huge contradiction
because we want our spaces to be
community spaces and open
um and they have to be secure
yes um director betty that's exactly
right and so what we're
what we're working part of what we're
doing as you'll hear here in a minute is
working with the
coalition to sort of unpack these and
then also
figure out where where things are in
tension and where
um you it's not an either or you know we
believe strongly that you can have safe
and secure spaces that are
welcoming and create a sense of
belonging um but there are
it requires what i like to think of
these are
as pause points right so the that
anybody moving forward with projects
after this long-range plan facilities
plan is developed
will be able to look at these and say
okay as we're coming up
upon this issue if we are required to
pause
and ask those most closely impacted by
the problem
to help us develop a solution right
any other questions it
um comment in the question this is
absolutely
fascinating and kind of riveting so i
just thank you so much for this it's
really
it's really great i'm going to pick up
on on scott's point i mean i
um all of these actually are are
things we need to be taking into
consideration i mean i i will just say i
absolutely hate chain link fences and um
i don't think i've ever shared this with
uh
school district staff i was sort of
holding my back pocket but i would love
a policy that said this district will
never put up another chain link fence
anywhere on any district
grounds or actually any fence for that
matter because i think it again
gets it to those um school community
divide and i think it's an interesting
thought of
you know even if our schools need to be
secure the buildings you know
you know less so grounds and i think
there are ways to to
to meet that but that's just one of the
whole thing and i think i think it's
really fascinating
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my question is how
um how easy is it to find
this um integration of critical race
theory into
say architecture firms construction
firms you know general contractors and
i'm thinking a little bit i'm a public
finance person and when i was in grad
school 25 years ago no one was talking
about applying an equity lens
you know when it comes to like public
finance decisions or budget but starting
about 15 years ago
10 to 15 years ago that began to change
it's been a very slow changing process
but
most um you know it is now very common
at
conferences you know at seminars at
different places like that's that's all
people are talking about how do we apply
you know um racial equity lenses to to
budget decisions finance decisions
spending decisions etc
has that and so my since i don't know
much about
the building you know and and i'm
hearing about a lot of this
sort of application for the first time
is this a relatively new
area that will be challenging to partner
with people in the private sector or or
have they also
been making this journey and and we will
be able to find
again design firms construction firms
etc that understand this and
can partner with us on this work um yes
so
um i we brick architecture is an
architecture firm
this is i answer your first question
yes it is nathan i will say um and not
just because
um she's on the call and we have her on
our team
but the work that dr armada perez has
created in linking
traditional critical race theory
with spatial theory to create what we're
calling the critical race facial lens
um is like you can't find books on it
other than her dissertation
right you find pieces you find articles
um
and so it is rather nascent i will say
that over the last probably three years
there's been
um an awakening and it was accelerated
obviously in 2020
about the fact that we as an
architecture industry
were complicit in designing ourselves
into this situation
and we have a duty and responsibility to
design ourselves
out of this situation and what that
means is not just designing different
outcomes but designing different
processes and so that is why
when we um approach this work we decided
to approach it through that lens
does that make sense yeah no and thank
you thank you for doing this work it's
really great
yeah thank you so much i i also i mean
we talk a lot about racial equity and
applying a lens
um and and we're really got we've gotten
comfortable about talking about it it's
actually what do you do differently than
what you've always done before
and i really love that you're addressing
um
literally the foundation of the thinking
that goes into
you know deciding a master plan and
pre-planning
phases and who's impacted and who's
included
is is all really amazing um i worked for
the parks bureau
about 25 years ago and at that point we
at that time we just passed a bond
and we actually hired a dutch firm to
come in and they had taken
thousands of photographs of kids uh
middle school kids and
um in in outdoor spaces and they never
sit in a chair
you know so they ended up designing
furniture that was meant to be kind of
lounged in
draped over because that's how they
noticed that kids were
you know using using the built
environment so sure
i just i really um look forward to
seeing what you
um what you come up with with um
particularly like in classrooms and in
school school school entrances
um thank you yeah thank you
um so i know that you have other things
on your agenda so i'll try to move
through these a little bit quicker here
but
um now in terms of giving you some
examples so we'll just take a couple of
these tributes to white dominant
narratives
with each of these we have really
compelling quotes like the one that you
see here
from students from parents from
community partners
that then john allow us to dig deeper
next
into um kind of what how we apply this
to
um you know this is where that
intersection between the various
documents that john was talking about
because some of these things belong in
an ed spec
and some of them belong in a long-range
plan right so
an example of how some of these can
apply to planning principles
is really thinking about the role of
history in place right
thinking about franklin and the
renovation of franklin the modernization
of franklin
and the fact that um what we heard from
folks
is the at was great there are spaces
that are that are great
but it still is um i still don't see
myself as a bypoc member reflected in
this and we continue
to um to promote
the inequities that have existed before
us rather than using this design process
as an
opportunity to disrupt right and so now
01h 15m 00s
we find ourselves next
you know really kind of struggling with
the tie to um to
spaces that don't feel comfortable that
quite frankly are antithetical
to um the the bypoc lived experience and
so
partly um a way that this really kind of
um manifests itself in the plan is
next is in thinking about you know
analyzing what are the challenges right
so obviously you have a number of
buildings that are on the national or
state historic registry
um and oftentimes those same buildings
have large bypass student populations
and so are there opportunities now
moving forward
to think about allowing some of your
existing historical agreements like you
have with ship of the state historic
preservation office
to expire or to significantly modify
them such that
they don't become impediments to
starting to really disrupt
the the building systems of oppression
next
i just would like to pause for a second
on that third
bullet point yet with there with regard
to historic preservation
that is really a whole new lens
and really important and it's just a
great example of how
it's not just reframing the way we look
at things but dismantling the
other structures that we're a part of
that perpetuate just doing things the
way they've always been done
for sure yeah i mean i think that's what
a lot of this work has been
is really it requires a critical
hence the word examination of
all everything that we've thought about
from a built environment standpoint
next john yeah so another one that we'll
take is unequal and accessible space as
an example
and if you move forward so thinking
about
um you know the quote here is one that
really talks about inaccessible
playgrounds
and so how that can manifest itself in a
planning document
in alignment also then i will say with
the ada transition plan
and that john is also working on the way
that we think about it from a planning
perspective
is um next to really think about
um developing guidelines around
inclusive play in collaboration with the
community right the long-range plan
will then outline an implementation
strategy that takes into account
your existing playground conditions
community and educational vision
the financial constraints and kind of
creates a plan for you to be able to
move forward in that way
so um next we want to talk a little bit
about what we're
now what we're doing with this
information and how we hope you can get
involved
so um we have as john mentioned earlier
we have
a coalition summit coming
up here um well i should start saying
that the dialogue sessions that we held
over the winter
were both listening and learning but
they were also recruitment
because oftentimes we go directly from a
steering committee or our core team
directly into a guiding coalition of
hand-selected folks
who sometimes again aren't those ones
that are most closely impacted
by the problems we're trying to solve
and so we decided
to use the cr the dialogue sessions that
were bipark focused
and student-centered often held in
affinity
group settings to use those as
recruitment tools to identify members
for a quick coalition
and so now the work that we're doing
with our crit coalition
next john is um to really start to say
okay
we've recognized that if we think about
trying to align your facilities with
your educational vision
which is as you recall john saying is
kind of one of the main purposes of this
document
the pps reimagine has so beautifully
talked about
the graduate portrait and educator
essentials and what are the educational
system shifts needed
to accomplish and support the inner
rings but a missing element is the
fourth what we're calling the fourth
ring
and the purpose of the crit coalition
is to develop the fourth ring that are
really facility planning
characteristics that then support
educational shifts
that support educator essentials that
then support
the graduate portrait and so that's the
work that we have moving forward
any questions we and we invite you i
think john has extended an invitation
to you all to attend that meeting and
really
specifically in that meeting what we'll
be doing is we have already
laid out to them the themes we'll be
bringing those back
um and then asking them we'll share with
them some of the ideas that we heard in
the listening and learning sessions
translated into planning language and
then
asking them to help us brainstorm other
01h 20m 00s
ones that can then serve to start to
create those facility planning
characteristics
and that meeting for anyone that's
interested is um scheduled
on the 22nd thursday a week from today
from four to seven and there should be
uh there would be a
an invitation in your in your inbox
i wouldn't miss it thank you thank you
so much for having
me really appreciate that you're
centering the voices of
those who usually are you have to have
work harder to get to
um and solving for for the issues at
those
at that level and watching the benefits
trickle up
it's really exciting work thank you for
thank you for uh being here
yeah thank you for having us and we look
forward to seeing you next thursday
did anybody have any other last
finishing final comments before we move
on to the
um the bac charter
this is slightly different from the 20
2012
of the 2012 uh
long-range facilities planning process
that was sorry that was a little snarky
this this is incredible well i think it
reflects the fact that
um you know in 2012 was 2012 and we've
had new information coming in
um particularly sparked by you know the
racial uprising that happened
in 2020 that that forces us to
to actually address what we're hearing
address this new information and
i'm really glad to see that we that
we're doing it because of because it's
the right thing to do but also because
we
we have new information now um since
2012.
it's partly that but it's also really
the depth of the effort
with uh you know just the list of
documents that was laid out
earlier this is uh it's just way
way different so all credit to our
staff and assisting
consultants on this and we have um
leadership that that cares about these
things and that's also reflected in
who's um who we've hired to do this work
and our
focus on it um it's it's fantastic thank
you
thank you and yes i'd love to see your
dissertation
it's one of the resources it's in the
repository
thank you goodnight everyone
thank you our last um and final
item and we might we might we probably
won't get on time
out on time tonight it's about six
minutes till
but dan is this is this um your topic
the um edited
bond accountability as a charter it is
i'll i'll tee it up and i'll i'll be
quick and then we can just
we can move to questions i've i've got a
a presentation
it's just a few slides but i'll just
talk through it and if we get into some
more discussion i can throw
i can throw some throw them throw it
back up for the discussion piece
uh in your packets is a redline version
of the bac
charter and that's there for a couple of
reasons
one we're amending the bac charter
because we passed a bond in november of
2020 so we're adding that scope of work
into the charter
uh it was also an opportunity to
align the charter language with the bac
deliverables we were looking
to better solidify
the correlation between the bac charter
the bac's deliverables
and the bac materials those are kind of
three different components that all work
together and when they align really well
it's a really efficient process and so
the charter as well as the materials
updates
uh and looking at how the bac delivers
uh their reports and their progress and
their status updates those are all
all things that we've been working on
since roughly last fall
we've been looking at the materials
since i think last october
we approved a bond of course in november
so that adds to the scope of the
responsibility
of the bond accountability committee
we've added new members
uh and because of because of these
moving parts that's why as tom
noted earlier we had a bond
accountability committee retreat in
january to go over all these pieces
make sure we're on the same page and
make sure that expectations and
responsibilities are understood very
clearly between
the board staff and the bac
uh so i'll i'll pause there
and just see if if the committee members
have had an opportunity to look through
the red line changes when i looked
through it again right before this
meeting you know my eye kind of caught
it looks like there's a lot of changes
really they're they're pretty simple
they're just trying to clarify
and reinforce what the primary
01h 25m 00s
deliverables are
and cleaning up some some language about
what the
what the reporting process is so with
that i'll
pause and ask if there's any questions
i don't hear any questions
i i also don't have any i don't have any
comments
i just reviewed it again before our
meeting today this afternoon
and see the changes but
i don't have any a single comment
i also don't hear any questions and i
think it goes without saying that if
this isn't an overhaul it's really just
uh some clarification so i'm not totally
surprised that there are any questions
next steps will be
uh we will take this the updated version
to the full board where the full board
will vote and approve on the changes
uh and then that scope will be complete
do we need to formally approve this to
send to the board or can we just send it
to the board
in in past practice there hasn't been a
a formal vote that's more than
what's is there consensus of the group
i think you probably should decide to if
you're going to just refer it
to the full board um for a full vote
so we can state that roseanne has spoken
go ahead go ahead andrew no so roseanne
you mean you mean
you think we should take a vote to refer
yeah evo or agree to refer to the full
board
okay i agree to refer it to the full
board i think it looks great
it's very formal but i i'm okay with
that as well
so we'll make sure that that's on an
upcoming agenda in the next
few weeks maybe without the red lines
or we can provide maybe both both
redlined version and a
in a final version happy to provide both
and a staff report and a resolution
um thank you for your work on this dan
um and it looks like we have
no other comments is there anything else
tonight for the good of the order
seeing as there's none we want you to
keep your reputation intact michelle
it's 5 59. i'm going to say good night
everyone and we'll see you guys
i've got two minutes of nonsense
why don't we do that over a cup of
coffee that sounds good
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