2023-03-22 PPS School Board Intergovernmental Committee/Facilities and Operations Committee Meeting

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Date 2023-03-22
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Event 1: PPS Intergovernmental Committee and Facilities and Operations Committee Meeting - 3/22/23

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legislative update of what's going on in Salem and the status of the bills that we are tracking and advocating and Dr Lowry is joining us virtually and I'd like to introduce Lisa Mayer from our government Affairs team good afternoon good afternoon legislative lifelong on our government relations team um I've been going back and forth between Salem quite a bit to monitor a lot of the bills we're supporting of the capital I wanted to just cover I think key legislative dates and then some other advocacy days that we're going to be doing in the next few weeks um so our um March 17th was our first chamber work posting deadlines so that's when all um bills and most policy committees had to be um uh so yes bills had to be posted on agendas by that date in order to stay alive um except in a few committees like Revenue um so our our one of our bills hasn't been posted yet but it's still okay um based on the community medicine and then by April 4th uh the bills have to move out of their first chamber first chamber committee um move or die move or die so harsh steaks are High um and then between late March and early April we'll expect to be co-chairs of the joint Way Home Means Committee to publish their budget framework that will indicate where we think the states will only end I'm not hearing um anything's super wonderful about that I think it will likely be 9.9 billion or possibly lower immediately you uh you mean before the revenue forecast yeah you think that the only likely um squeaking to the governor's proposed budget is looking like it would be in a downward Direction yeah I have heard the same yeah yes not not two options um and then May 17th is the final Revenue forecasts of the session and after that date a lot of bills a lot of the budget bills will begin um I think if it's a really good forecast like the other one happened to push on a higher six foot welcome director Hollands we're just getting an update on what's going on in Salem the status of the bills that we're tracking and we just Lisa just finished talking about um the status of the state school fund and that it is not looking likely that it will move be pushed in an upward direction that the governor's proposed budget would be pushed in an upward direction from the legislature some likelihood that it could be ratcheted down from the legislature but all of that is also uh preceding the May revenue forecast which might change things anyway um so yeah after that May 17th revenue forecast May 19th is our second chamber of deadline so if bills aren't posted um uh and then late May early June we'll expect a lot of the vegetables um and then by June 25th it's the Constitutional end date of the session so they have it to be completed um and right now on the Senate side the Republicans are using their only tool as a minority party to slow the process down by forcing bills to be read so when there are like 400 page bills that come through it takes hours and days is that currently happening with most everything yes on the Senate side it hasn't happened on the house right at least we don't have to be there for that but um yeah they have like a robot reading though well that's great it's not a person so anyways I'm not sure what will happen on the house side but things might not continue to be slow with the ultimate thing on the floor um and then some advocacy days that have happened and will happen so far March 15th Costa held a administrators of color Lobby day um there were probably 30 administrators
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we had three um two people from PPS Stacy Marine um Dr neidro Jefferson right there um and then folks from all over the state we had lunch with governor kotec and then met with several legislators off happy for um education workers efforts to increase the difference that went really well um and then on Monday as you know the state school fund bill is up for a public hearing so we'll be organizing a lot of testimony there they're only accepting testimony in person um I'm sure it was intentionally planned but obviously break just to move that bill when um less people are available so they're still going to have to deal with me but they're gonna go okay and testify as well and I need to check in with irony I know she's working really hard on to steal your thunder but on getting students organized for the student day of action but I need to Circle back with her to see if we are have some students coming down to 27th do you have an update on that um she was going to talk to a few I prepared a new tool kit I had to get it reviewed by okay but um oh it's okay for me to send out now so I'll show that information um and just a little background on different questions no but I we okay yeah yeah foreign [Music] if you are wanting to stay all day I can also see if we can meet with legislators while we're there we have the whole day so I'll see who's available and we can make the most of it I'll do that let's do it yeah preferable preferably the Skeptics not our allies yes yeah I think generally within our uh District boundaries at least on the early literacy I think we may have all allies but you can you can tell us the score on that later right you know yeah yeah so I'll send some information I'll get you registered for both those hearings and um yeah we'll have a lot we also have a lot of ptas that are um planning to come and Pat also is organizing as well yeah there's lots of people will show um and then April 8th there's um The Joint ways and these co-chairs are hosting listening sessions all over the state and they have one Dave in Portland um at PCC on April 8th so I'll share more information once they have a link that we okay but I think typically those listening sessions feature a lot of Housing and Health Care Investments and so it's really important for us to bring Elevate education yeah be great to get some students so that's here and it usually happens in the afternoon or evening yeah or yeah so I'll share that and then April 12th of course our student day of action um which is a full day at the Capitol as many board members there who are available um currently establishing some meetings I've reached out to the governor's office our whole delegation about leadership and so we'll have a lot of meetings in the afternoon um we can't give students a tour of the capital because of construction but there's some space in the chambers that are available so we can take them to watch our floor session and then late April to early we were looking at area from all of my information about that great too um and then we have two bills that we're running through the house right at the moment um Hospital 3227 is our our custodial Civil Service bill um we haven't public hearing on February 27th and I think at the very minimum everyone was very supportive of what we were talking to um legislative in that committee actually had a lot of passion about by that statue even exist um and then there's a lot of legislators representing districts that are growing
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that don't want their districts to be sent back to the sport like Beaverton will be after the next census um I think Salem Kaiser is getting close so there is some interest and more expensive changes so than what we're after uh so I understand that we're moving forward on you know the somewhat minor but useful modifications that are we have put in that bill but um what would it take procedurally to dismantle the board um I mean I that was one of the on the record of the chair of the committee suggested that yeah so um I think there is an appetite um I could that just be emotion on the floor like from the chair of the committee to I think they they could request an amendment and get an amendment to this Bill here's the bill that's looking for these changes and by the way we just want to get rid of them so yes they can they can't do that um and I think they are looking into I think there's a lot of politics with fciu yeah I was gonna I was just gonna acknowledge the um that there will be opposition um there is current opposition uh to our uh our requests okay our our edits which we are considering are minor compared to what the other like what other legislators um have shared um and so given the opposition uh you know one of the things that uh we want to make sure is that uh while you know other legislators are maybe protecting their their communities from this they may they may keep Portland in the uh in other words they may not want to they're they're getting enough pressure from the opposition that there might be a carve out just for Portland Public uh instead uh what do you mean you mean if there's a carve out for Portland Public then it then it you know effectively dismantles the whole thing until somebody else is eligible you mean a carve out that we wouldn't be subject to it or more about that we would be the only one subject we are I mean but that's just right but but you know the the trigger right now is the senses right gives it makes it where other cities or municipalities might be impacted by it in the long run So currently yes can you help me understand I've tried before can anyone help me understand the justification for opposition um in terms of you know how it could benefit students and or how it can benefit workers overall do you want to talk about the what the sci opposition will Mark what were the remarks so they so our Bell specifically modifies we want to remove the test requirement um it's been a barrier and that's we've lost candidates and then we want to modify the requirements for the board Commissioners so that they don't from the district and they don't have to upload them for five years and the reason that matters is because it's currently very difficult to actually get a hearing because they don't have a Full Slate of Commissioners they don't function exactly period it is affecting our ability is fully staff custodians so that's the bottom line but um fciu showed up and they were very protective of the test they wanted I think us keeping they don't really have a strong argument I mean how did this test I can tell but what is this text I've seen the test it's it's not helpful to the actual like it's like a written testing it's a written test there's a lot of questions around like what does the word delicate mean because they're handling delicate it's all in English and um there's we wouldn't want to offer it in multiple languages because the custodians do need to have some English language proficiency they don't need enough to actually like fill out 50 questions in English everything on the test is covered in the training in a very robust formation and we have data about you know how many people drop out before the test when they know they have to take the test and what percentage of those candidates are are people of color and what percentage of our candidates of color drop out test and it's all I yeah so we see that 30 nearly 30 percent of candidates withdraw at the testing phase so they go through the working process and then when they get to the test they just stop and it's and the only way that we do this is it's written correct it's written test there's no other form of
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helping someone who may have test anxiety or anything along those lines this is not PBS this is required by this law right right which is which was which was written in 1937 which predates World War II right and it was only to apply exclusively to Portland Public Schools I guess my question is what was the out what was the purpose of the test like what are we hoping to gain out of this test that we feel is going to help our custodians be met our facilities people do not see any advantage whatsoever they just see a disadvantage and they see that it just particularly disadvantages on what was the outcome of what was back when they implemented this what was the goal of the test I think it was one of those legislation to prevent nepotism from happening and maybe at that time it served its purpose but right now because you said we see that World War II yeah I mean I mean when I hear something like that it reminds me of like the voting tests where you have to look down the problems right you know how many bubbles was in the box or how many Marvels in this bottle so I don't know that's why I would say what was the context of this shirts safe to say one of the contexts was racism so without question but I I'm still really baffled by the extent to which anyone defends it yeah I would say yeah I would say there's a lot of um there's a lot of um lifting up I would say um Old Wounds right and so 2002 type of there was a lawsuit in 2007 right or the lawsuit from 2006 right from SEIU to PPS you know that's that gets brought up a lot how does that pertain to this um and they sided with seid because of the test law oh so they believe that that it offers some protections around contracted labor maybe so I think that's but I mean that we can address that we're about to go into contract negotiations if that's actually a explicit concern that they want to raise they should raise it in bargaining and we can adjust it there and I will that's where the legislators landed in the public hearing that they should be determined at the local level I think it's well they actually follow through with that can we get them when they get a lot of pressure um so we're I'm we're working closely with our contract lobbyists and I actually called reps and Charities office today um I think we'll we'll have a meeting with us and the chair and seid anyone talk about it and I think if we're not able to get this amended in the house maybe we can get it amended in the Senate and send it back over we are running up against the bill deadline so it's going to be tricky to get it done in this window but it doesn't mean we don't have a chance of doing it I think and I think the Senate fdiu has less of the following the Senate so there might be some work that can be done here have a question so who's winning the businesses we have to administer it so I'm just curious what happened if we don't pick us soon I mean if we're hiring SIU members I mean even whether we do the test or not what's the if we do it without doing the test what happens well I'm guessing it's a contract violation from one because I think the terms of the test are most likely in our contract language we can check on that yeah I can check on that so that's a good question I would I would probably ask legal counsel for for advice here because I don't know yeah yeah and I want to know if that landed in our contract yeah that language is not in the contract didn't have to sound like it's just a state requirement and if we don't do it and they give us our money anyway so they sue us and get their money back I don't know right yeah yeah which of the following tools is the best used to absorb water foreign sponge cloth floor mop counter brush or pressure washer stop burning here's another one look at the numbers below Circle the box that has four boxes from the left and two boxes down write the letter test the same as it's been since the 30s it's changed our team has tried to modify it to make
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it but still yeah but it's still accommodation if you have dyslexia I don't know those details yeah dang yeah so now we're not even considering people with disabilities yeah yeah I know that they used to administer it like with pencils and you know in person now it's on offered online but will we please keep us posted on any developments here because this is something that has been a thorn in our side for decades and wow it it sounds like we have a moment where we have the ear some legislators who realize how absurd it is frankly and um that we need to make some progress because it's hurting our kids I mean it's definitely a contributing factor to our vacancies absolutely and it's also a barrier to employment for people that we want to employ and people who otherwise indicate that they are interested in those jobs yeah as good as the sick area on them yes we look to the extent that you're gonna remember next week yeah for sure yeah conversation I hate it but I know it's not okay just that I didn't know we couldn't do that I'm saying we could ask that I do please yeah very good very good vacation and then Hospital 3221 is our local auction Levy lemon film that mistakenly got referred to the house education committee it's now been referred to the house Revenue committee um the deadlines the chamber deadlines don't apply to revenue so our bill is not dead but it still needs to get scheduled for public hearing I've been reaching out to the chair and then I actually just asked the parents to reach out so I think we just need to apply some pressure to get that bill moving um so that can be another one we yeah we advocate of a complete round out our to-do list yeah yeah and who and and also when you talk about advocating you can let us know who and give us the contact information yes and we can share that with other people too and say hey just to email our phone call yeah because what we need they do with their songs man and then we support that it's over 20 bills so far um that align with our legislative priorities um I won't go over all of them now I think they're all alive so which is great except for one which is the streamlining of cooperative procurements um the HB 3030 is the healthy meals for all task force and we actually just got big news from the U.S department of Agriculture that they put out a proposed rule to um expand the cep threshold to 25 percent that was part of the new um Department of Education was asking for part of their budget that they were asking for from USDA so 25 from where was it the IP the ISP number so the threshold um proceed so if they approve of that rule we can maximize State funding and get a full Statewide cep program okay can you explain that for anyone listening so Community eligibility uh guidelines which means that uh if a cert if a student population is over a certain threshold of underserved students then the whole school qualifies for uh free lunch as opposed to having to individually certify each student so you're talking about the threshold of that student population and right now it's at 40 if it lowers to 25 and we get State funding we could in theory questions which is one way one way to get at that other stage so passing legislation welcome welcome more updates to come about that I think we'll be monitoring that rule and this bill and trying to coordinate getting um State funding um these are the rest of the Bells if you have any questions on any of these let me know um I'll continue including them in our weekly legislative updates and then these are the big upcoming bills we have so hb5015 is the state school fund bill which is up for public hearing on Monday followed by the two early literacy bills
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one is Stan's proposed Bill and then the other is the governors proposed Bill and they'll be merged into one early literacy bill um and then Senate Bill 1050 is um going to be an investment in preparing Oregon teachers to teach ethnic studies so a little bit more funding for professional development and training um in that bill and then HB 2895 removes the cap on special ed funding through the state school fund it does not include more funding so I think our testimony can be appreciating that that cab is removed but we still need more and then that bill is not related to the other bill that I think is still alive which would uh mandate um pay uh thresholds for special education workers yeah so they're alive those are still alive we're watching closely because because I'm sure the state is providing funding yeah and have we provided fiscal uh impact information to them on that bill uh OS osbo and um osba have fun survey at the district so yeah we've we've provided some information great yeah that's what I thought that's it that's all we got from Salem okay well yeah please let us know and um what we can do on the 27th who we can meet with whose doors we need to knock on what we need to be loud about absolutely awesome we'll get to work great thank you thank you very much Haley did you have any questions of Lisa before she goes about any of that no I just wanted to say about the you know special education pay piece like I think all of us support increased pay for folks who are on the front lines doing that job but again the more unfunded mandates we get from the legislature the harder it is for us to do our jobs um and so I just appreciate that continued conversation about yes we all see needs and how do we fund them so that we're doing the best for our kids yep I agree all right welcome thank you all for coming um we just concluded the intergovernmental uh committee meeting on its own now Gary and I wanted to join forces here for um intergovernmental committee and the facilities and operations committee which director Holland's chairs um because a we're talking about a facility in our district portfolio and B on the intergovernmental part um you are talking about a proposal that involves a lot of public entities and it's something I know that director Hollins and I are excited about and interested in looking at how the the school district can support it and then potentially how we can encourage our other our other public Partners um that you guys have in your sites to be a part of it as well foreign yes um I'm excited to hear your proposal um you know anything that we're looking at to help get our kids moving in in different directions to you know to really be an asset to you know them with their families you know and then to their communities it was always something that you know at the district we strive for um so I'm excited to to hear the vote you guys want to come to the table and introduce yourselves as well whatever your most comfortable you don't need to do you need to foreign thank you guys for uh making yourself available on relatively short notice too we want to help you get the ball rolling oh thank you so much foreign so I guess should we do for the record like Productions real quick um so thank you for having us here today my name is Nate McCoy president and CEO and National Association of minority
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contractors at Oregon Chapel good afternoon my name is Lance Randall I am the executive director of the black Business Association of Oregon good afternoon board members my name is Joe McFadden president CEO Portland OIC of Rosemary Anderson High School glad to be here y'all look good too yeah hold on we better have one of them kind of meetings what's going on you look good but okay I digress I don't disagree I have on low key but sneaks [Laughter] okay and the spirit of step it up while we're here today um I think it's been um widely recognized not just hearing organ but in the nation folks of color working in Partnership we need to control yes um efforts led by and for people of color including all folks uh in our community all three things that we see as a vision um for the respective minds of work we all do be focused on Business Development for contractors of color men's focused on every business aspect of not businesses y'all know Joe well what he does with school-based programs and many other things around gang violence so what the vision is today and this probably is got to be about 30 years in the making is for us to come today to you all to talk about a new culturally specific Workforce system Center in the heart of this community that will focus on manufacturing architecture which I happen to be an architect want to attending our state engineering construction and Entrepreneurship we recognize that our K-12 system does not always allow Folks at an early age to understand and have access to these industries and knowing that there's a big blind spot on public and private projects we want to make sure that we can have a building that is the Hub in this community that relies on partners that are experts in the industry while also having people of code indeed delay and build Bridges amongst all these various Industries I'm going to stop there because I think the vision and we'll say the statement and allow others to speak to the to the vision is for people of color to be over represented in the aec and I just use that as the acronym architecture infrastructure aec Industries and Entrepreneurship public ownership to CEO and that's the thing I'm proud about what you said Herman is that we actually all real Mr CEOs and people who see us and women as well to know that they can be us as but so that part absolutely so I'll stop there maybe let Joe jump in and then followed by Lance yeah so I would say uh this is this is something that uh Nate and I have been talking about for more than five years I need it we need a place um and over the last six years we've done some work at uh the Northwest College of construction with our free apprenticeship program and the numbers are unbelievable in terms of placement of the challenge when you say our pre-apprenticeship program poic okay so our construction so we do 90 90 completion rate of the 12-week pay training which is on their campus and then uh 83 placement rate in the trades so unfortunately it's pretty small so we we only graduate 45 graduates per year and so we want to we want to explain we believe that uh the need is there and the demand is there so and that's just one industry and I and I believe that having a hub where young people professionals uh folks in the trades middle management types of the companies that are members of Namco currently uh a place where we all can do business in this one location you know and um I believe that will lead to all kinds of opportunities
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for folk and um and then bringing in the business uh black business Alliance uh organization has also been a huge addition to this effort and you know we think that Tubman is it excellent place for this fish to take place uh I'm not quite sure what the district has in mind for that facility but we are very interested in uh that conversation and so much so that we've already begun looking at Financial models and and things to support uh of this effort we are also in conversations with the port of Portland uh they have some space uh that they're looking to develop off of 33rd and Marine Drive and we've been in conversations with them for the past six months about what that might look like so to to be clear uh whether or not um our dream of being in that location becomes a reality of this business development and Workforce Training Center will happen somewhere because uh there's a need and I believe this is a big missing piece to training folks in a way that's comprehensive and that we can build a pipeline for folks with the kind of support they need on a daily basis I'll just add that um the black Business Association focuses on black businesses and black entrepreneurs the objective is to build up the existing black businesses that already exist and create Pathways for entrepreneurs maybe black entrepreneurs to either start businesses take over businesses or to invest in Black businesses so when you look at this this Center it's an opportunity to have a place where you have new organizations that are working together and Joe mentioned the pipeline education is the beginning point training and what have you and Joe's organization has been around for a long time doing that then you talk about the job aspect getting people an opportunity to work make money to take care of themselves and the family name Max focuses on that the other part that I'm bringing in is entrepreneurship when we talk about going from the eec industries into entrepreneurship all the way to the CEO it's important to make sure that that our students our children know that not only will you have an opportunity to get a good job but you have the opportunity to be the person that runs the the facility that runs the office I think that this Center coming together these old organizations that talk about the three different levels and of opportunities for our students it's very important to have a place where we are all together interacting not only as organizations but also interacting together with the students and those who are coming through for Workforce Development opportunities for training opportunities and for entrepreneurship opportunities um the fact that this facility is located in a part of the city that has been historically a place where you can see black people interacting and having businesses is key and what better place to have a center like this that would focus on students of color to resent them with the opportunities they can actually see firsthand and actually use their hands to learn how to do certain things and gather the skills they need to be successful in the trade Industries and also to see entrepreneurs developing right before your eyes not only seeing entrepreneurs teaching them and mentoring but also seeing their fellow students cohorts and colleagues turning into entrepreneurs right before the eyes something special so we're trying to put this to this this program and find a facility that will be a gathering place for the future Generations so that they can take over the business community but take it over in such a way that will make it better for each generation following the other generation so I'm excited about the opportunity to work for these two gentlemen their organizations decide to work with the board I'm hoping we get an opportunity to have a discussion about that facility and what we can turn it into and how it's going to benefit the community so I just want to thank you for your
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time and then to speak and hoping that you can answer any questions that you have about our proposal yeah I would add before right before you get into that and said in our plans PPS students would have access to the facility so in our minds we have targeted folks that we want to to really help disenfranchise those Left Behind Etc but in the model and in the design PPS students would be able to access the facility the trainee and the network with business owners and entrepreneurs and I think and learn about the various traits and I don't know if that is going on currently in any sort of systemic way but I think that would be a huge benefit for PPS students not only that they would also have access right after graduation you just push them push them right in and in my mind they would have to direct entry into programs so they would you know all PPS graduates would have to lose their seat and train they wouldn't have to necessarily uh compete for a CD is to be a space where they could actually get into see how they see where they fit in prior to even leaving high school because the objective would be not to wait for them to get out of school but to actually give them touches and and bite-sized pieces while they were in school so that they can learn like by the time I get out of school I already know that I want to do this this or this so now I've already begun the the process of figuring out do I want to get the check and write the check because that's what we're offering we're offering the opportunity for black people and people of color we're the only people that whenever we start talking about anything we have to say black and you know it's we have to say that it is but it's a knowing at times but to be very specific that this is a space where that we are building and designing for the the black community where they can see themselves not just as the one working but the one hiring as the one who writes the check signs the back of the check as the one who is building and designing as the one they get to see themselves in all of these different lights and there's no light like that in Portland right now so what you're creating what's your what you've begun is is something that's that's not being done so the question that you're positioning to the board and to the district is really do you want to do you want to be what side of History do you want to be listed on you know I'm saying do you want to be a part of you know what I'm saying this said I was there and helped it start or I came along to get a loan so I level with what I'm hearing you know I I got a Black Agenda make no mistake about it I I love us and I love seeing y'all and I love what y'all are doing thank y'all for sharing I don't know that's best me nothing came to today so I don't know I'm ready to hear whatever else we talking about I do I'll probably come up with some questions in a minute I got some questions about how it's going to operate um what the you know if we're looking at the facility um cost what what does that so I got questions about that but because it's you know can be free but it shouldn't break you you know I'm saying so how do we do how do we how do we build you're in a developmental developmental time and how do we how do we work with so that we're truly a partnership because in order for us to be truly in Partnership there has to be some give and take on on both sides so but my questions will come up in a minute I'm just I'm just proud to be here with you absolutely I wanted to go back to what you were saying about our students um you know there's so many we we've expanded our Career Technical education programs in every single one of our high schools and the Jefferson modernization right now there is part of their design process they're identifying new CTE strands that are going to be included in Jefferson so whole new areas we do have construction programs and um design in a couple of our schools I know Lincoln High School just started a construction strand we also have with all of our modernizations we have a requirement that the contractors The Architects and the construction contractors do work with students and offer a class an embedded class in the school day that is um you know say in construction
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management and so they're working every day in real time time on the designs of the project at hand and all that so we've had I've talked to Nate about this before we've had varying experience with that some of our contractors have been fantastic and they've gone you know way above expectations in terms of how they engage students and the number of students they engage and the things they do for them to actually help them on their next steps into the professions and some you know are just kind of Meet the expectations but so these are all things that would be great to think about especially with Jefferson since it's so close by and and I wanted to ask you to remind us when what is the ODOT timeline for when Tubman is decommissioned uh as a middle school top of my head but I will try to get that do you remember something um I want to say 25. that's what I want to say too but I'm not positive I think David I think it's 25 I think that's going to start groundwork stuff I think the main thing like 25. but nothing we're going to ask Dan to get that question but that's good for you guys to know yeah I would say to that Amy one of the things that this would do is it I'm glad to hear that um because you know there's it's it's awesome to get that exposure while you're in high school it's we need more of it uh but then there's that next step so now it's time to get serious about where we're going and what we're doing After High School and uh the thing that is needed so badly especially for apprentices is a support in the mentorship the retention rates are horrific yeah they're horrific in the trades especially for people who look like me because often they go into situations where there are a bunch of people that don't look like them in the culture doesn't support them and especially it's probably I don't know this but I think even for women it's worse and so again having the business owners having the entrepreneurs the small businesses and having the trainees all in one space puts us in a better position to support folks who have graduated from Lincoln or Benson or Jefferson who actually decide to go into trades to have that kind of support and a place to come if they find themselves uh in situations that that are difficult to manage especially on the job site yeah and that's and that's hugely important and I mean if I could share just a very quick story of how I even got started in architecture being a people that student at Buckland injury way back because I was shipped off to the talents of the gifted program of PPS to some of the more privileged schools and I realized at that time that I had no clue what Architects were I could draw pretty pictures all day long they took me being plugged out of the school to be actually having a real aspiration for a career tracking this through talented and gifted program that then elevated me to Joe's point to really take this opportunity serious and I think CTE is planning that seed but this building is a place where you come and you're getting a little serious about signing on the front or the back of these checks long term and why that's such a beautiful storm right now is that for instance name act has 140 members our contractors lead projects they don't just sub on projects and they equate to over 250 million a year in construction and we're talking about ODOT one of our members and a whole bunch of others to be on a project that has over 100 1.5 million Workforce hours so we can literally take PBS students put them on one project and have them Journey out on the same project which does not happen in our state because you don't get six-year-line projects usually they're about two years maybe a year and a half but six year project not even including what's going to happen with the bridge going across the Vancouver and then all the albino Vision Trust work happen to be a commissioner for the Portland Housing bureau so housing is an all-time need in our community so you're just talking about the mail team pot right here in a one two mile radius where we could literally have our kids really remembering who they were and being the original Builders of America yes by being there today and having a space that we control to me is like to your point about Legacy building like it gets no better because this is not happening in the nation in a
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magazine 24 States and everybody's asking us how are y'all doing this what can we do to be supportive and how can we actually implement this in our cities too so I just think again the momentum is a great time millions of dollars out here for Workforce Development you want to see the scalability that Joe was talking about so that we can actually capture more has 20 000 jobs are needed today between 2020 and 2030. we need 20 000 jobs living just in a couple of Industries probably more than that you know universally but in construction people can have a criminal record you can have never went to college and you know again these are things that a lot more people can attain have given that opportunity to be in a space that we needed 20 000 before we passed 200 million dollars for housing yesterday I agree I completely agree but again nobody's responding to the real need right now and you can't depend on honestly just CTE programs being that pipeline that's your introductory but we're trying to really make sure that people actually succeed and so I'm not lying you know when you talk about the job that's needed so how would this thing and help increase capacity for a contractor or owners to be able to hire or create pipeline for job advertising so you talk about those twenty thousand jobs well our contractors don't have twenty thousand dollars to give right and unfortunately so how do we build them how would this thing help build that capacity for our contractors and owners to be able to do that yeah I think it would be us working with our agency partners and we've got toward a Portland Multnomah County uh city of Portland what else do we have an important business Alliance Community downtown that has a lot of rehab the buildings that they own I think we have a lot of projects I mean AMAC is an owner's record many public private projects so like a big pipeline of contract work is not a problem it's just that Workforce that is needed to help these companies get to the next level um and I guess one of those efforts back to the I-5 Rose Quarter project which we supported PPS and trying to help get these tubby kids out of that space that's just one of many projects coming it's just nobody is really focused on this Workforce culturally specific demand for us to be right now is we can figure out how to get those jobs but we need to have people in them another question um it's of course you know houses will be paid for I know there's a funding strategy for this and for the center I don't want to do all the time but I guess you want to talk about the port of Portland exciting time well I mean I I would say specifically on this particular project um we are looking at a Federal Grant currency that has a five-year window multi-million dollar I forget the name of it but it there's a multi-million dollar opportunity there which the application is due next month I believe for Workforce Center so so that that's that's one and then the other is we have pitched this concept to the state legislature so we've got an ask in there to support this effort in this session for like planning and it's on it's it's in Luke now so it's it let's see is that through that Future Ready Workforce money or where no I believe I'm not sure exactly where it's Landing I I do have it at my I could pull it up but it is um a part of the capital projects so it's being put in on the capital projects okay okay but speaking about future ready organ there is money on the table on grounds of money to come out uh I don't know about 89 million I think it is so it's been more dedicated to its pre-apprenticeship programs but we sat down with some of the folks involved in the future ready organ money and kind of the same kind of presentation it didn't sound like there was some reception to the casino something like this get funded I would also say important to
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fund was an area you've been knocking on games to make sure that you know we're talking about the Energy Efficiency across the board of all various trades you know nbao is kind of an anchor in this discussion too we've been working with Murphy's office and Writer's office in fact flying NBC what was the acronym you said before that uh BBA I'm sorry black okay I'm sorry my bad excuse me yesterday black Business Association Oregon when we name act with PBA Portland business Alliance helped see the organization we got commitments from Markley's office to appropriate funds he just announced any of those funds for the efforts that we have underway and the ultimate goal is for them to invest big time so we're not kind of just coming to you all with just you know handout or asking for you to start something from scratch we've got a lot of commitments chair a Prosper Portland it's funded bbao and has funded a lot of us in the past and they're all wanting to see if we can get some commitment to having control or working under some type of lease Arrangement so that they can just know we have a space in which we can do a Capital One and I let someone sort to ask questions so what makes this with some of you more and it's more advantages than the port option that you mentioned well I would just saying what I said earlier the fact that it's located its location in this community is one of the things that I feel makes it better uh justification is a real thing and it not only happens to people's homes but it happens to businesses they have to facilities they could be retained and used for the communities you know to keep people so I think that the location being where it is good because um it would be the Legacy we're starting to lay some even Legacy of a place where our children can go to and it has to be sustainable sustainable place they can go to to continue this work of trying to go from being educated to working to write a checks so the physical location yourself where it's located it's a lot of history um the other thing is that the port facilities is not in this heart of the community and it's going to be kind of way out and um that could be a challenge for some people trying to get there so we want to make it as convenient as possible you want to have some meeting behind the building location and accessibility not only for their students but also for the people who want to support them that's still in the community but they don't be able to come through and take a look and see what's going on but to know that we're trying to make sure that our children are being put in a better position to have a better future so that's amazing Center facility now Joe may have some ornate Maps or just some things to talk about no absolutely just to add on to that as Portland natives like heated gentrification and if I go to another public housing meeting or with this right to return policy that we all talked about and every single time I've heard somebody in Black speak it's like return to what yeah to having no job in the community and not having enough income to buy a house in the community or being a friend in the community so literally we would be responding to a right to return to get a job a high paying job to where you can live in any part of the city now to me that's the ultimate ticket of restorative justice and around your time or getting a high paying job gotcha all right state director Larry have a hand up I raised my virtual hand a while ago and then my real hand um I was off camera for a while I went I went to get water to turn my camera off and then I never turned it back on when I came back so I was here the whole time um sorry about that um Gary this question really is more for you as chair of facilities and operation so I'm thinking about our long term first of all I want to say this is an amazing idea I think Carmen you're exactly right like this is what our community needs and this is the right side of History my question for Gary is how do you see this proposed use of the Tubman site fitting in with our long-term long-range facilities planning and our long-term goals when it comes to facilities I don't have that book memorized that I'm not sure you do as chair of facility um just and that may be a question for staff but what what would the implications be as we look at what we have a we have a board had said is our priorities when it comes to our facilities I think this fits but again I don't have the book memorized yeah and
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thanks for the question so in our hometown facilities plan there is not a plan for once the building is vacated um and so you know I think it's it's up for um discussion of what could be you know in that plan since it is not um uh planned for it once it's vacating has some like General priority areas for us to look at as we're looking at our sort of surplus land if you can call it that but I again I'm not sure what that says yeah I think you know maybe one of our next steps Jonathan would be to you know ask staff to respond to the prospects of a lease at this facility we really haven't had the long-term facility plan does not address Ted tepin because it was done before uh that that buyout was complete obviously we're a school district we're not going to put kids back in there at least not on an all-day everyday basis and certainly not in little kids which is not what you guys are talking about so that that limits the use that limits its um its value to us just to be frank but I think one of the next steps would be to ask staff to address exactly director Lowry's question you know how would a long-term lease for this purpose that's being proposed um you know sync up with being being opposition to anything any of our stated values and our long-term facilities usage we could we do that yeah I mean I'm hearing directions from the board collectively to have a response to what well that so this go ahead I think a bit more just because there haven't been addressed and from and the way that the long-term facilities plan has been articulated and communicated it's more of an outline of what we would like to do you know given if we had all the money to do stuff with so I guess maybe you just asking staff you know about this proposal as far as having a Workforce Development Center there I guess it would just be what their thoughts is on that um as far as from a facilities standpoint I think the simplest question based on what Ailey responded or what she was asking was where does the existing Tubman sit in our long-range plan after the kids get out it does I mean but I think that's our question that's why I'm saying we take it back to so even ask them what their thoughts about this proposal because they're it hasn't been addressed as far as what we're going to do with telling right and I guess my only concern is that is that I don't know I now we're going to start creating stuff because I don't want them to play on I don't want them to play with my ball type of situation I'm again I'm a petty individual at times I can be Petty and so I have to think about what would the petty me do if I didn't have somebody else to to you know say Reign me back you know I'm saying I just got to think about it I'm not saying that that's anybody's intention but what does that what does Betty look like and so does it look like no we did have a plan for that we just hadn't told nobody type of situation I'll be clear we do not have plans so now it's in the public record there are no plans right there there is I just want to make sure the board is uh aware that you do have a real estate policy um that dictates how you would go about um um you know I think ultimately real estate transactions uh are uh abort directive and so um what I'm hearing is that you want us to so so it seems like the board wants us to move it I guess I'm just trying to get clear Direction here what I'm hearing is this the pro because we can review endless possibilities right yeah when I um and that you know be very beneficial for you to have some type of formal indication from the school district about its availability and about what potential terms might be as you are going out seeking funding from these many sources that are frankly
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um very likely to to subscribe to this idea um but you you know it's it's a it's an opportunity for us to potentially sign on as a concrete partner as you go out and seek other funding sources but we need to answer the question of whether or not we um we would be willing to consider a long-term lease proposal so I think that's yes so we will I guess do an analysis of this document But ultimately that decision Falls forward solely on you yeah so regardless uh you know again we don't have a plan for the site so it is ultimately the board's prerogative what you want to do so and that's what I'm saying I think we should just talk with the facilities and operations folks about what what potentially how does it how could this fit in to the facilities operations long-term if they said this could fit in it great because it'll always be great to make sure we have our staff supporting that idea um then the board just saying hey we're going to do this and then that's it so that's why I'll say I think it would be great to run this fire facilities operations team to ask them their ideas and how they feel that this will benefit from a facilities operations standpoint and then we can get into the long-term lease uh conversation and that as well I just want to make sure I'm clear in terms of so uh this is an operational or facilities question not necessarily a programmatic question because that itself is a total Dynamic right we have like you mentioned CTE you mentioned right you know our partnership with PCC they have a Workforce you know so I know that so I just don't want to get into the programmatic right I think the first piece is do is there potential for them to have access to this building to this real estate asset I guess I would say yes oh yeah right yeah yeah that's what I was saying you think if we have the facilities of operations folks look at it and say you know what this would be a great a great idea for this space from a facility standpoint and they have some other plans which we know they don't um I just want everyone to be on board when we were talking about this because I want everybody to be moving in the same direction you know and then if you know if they're not then it's up to the board to choose what direction they move to next and then as things start to get a little more concrete we can explore all the other type of opportunities for Partnerships in terms of how we want to be involved because of all the ways we see this benefiting our kids process communication question given you know this is a public meeting and uh folks in the Top End Community to answer your earlier question students are scheduled to be out out of their summer of 26. that's odot's that's under odot's current schedule obviously that's always uh scheduled to change is that the whole schedule that's the news schedule okay yeah so summer of 26 is when we would have that always has to Fresh Off The Press confirmation so the summer of 26. so I just want to acknowledge there are no immediate plans for them to move so right I just want to make sure that it's clear for the broader Community Bailey always thinking John um I have a question for uh Joe and the other gentleman um would this proposal use all of Tubman or would this be using part of that facility what would your idea be there just curious so my first thought would be all of it um but certainly we would you know to go deeper we would that could be potentially an option but my first thought is all of it audience and I would Echo that you know the other thing I would say too is that I would like the board to also take a look at the uh Naya building relationship as it relates to how this might all follow up so you guys want to buy the building but that's what the devil did yeah I mean I I don't want I mean I I want to see that's an option in the funding stream that that is the economic development Administration application that we're applying for and uh on the on the federal level and then on the state level it looks like uh this involves representative Bynum in the semiconductor uh part of the training so semiconductor training would be a part of the training side of the uh operation
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so I'd like to look and I'm not so let me be very clear about this I'm riding with name Mac is the lead here so poic is a partner I'm I'm following Nate's lead but I'm I'm and I think Nate I don't want to speak for you names but I think Nate feels most comfortable with the lease but what I'm saying to Nate as a colleague and a you know partner in crime is let's take a look at both let's not just let's not go in just totally looking at a lease option let's look at a a purchase option because the um there are resources out there for that I would totally I even think Lance would be open to that it's just we don't know what's going to be the easier right let's put it all on the table there's nothing out there let's see let's see what happens with it exactly but closed mouth don't get fixed man come on Joe what was the name of that Federal grant again please it is the it's from the economic development Administration and it is title in public works and economic adjustment assistance I tried to open up the app to see the date that's what you were doing on your phone yeah I was trying to pull it up I told you I had it in my fingertips and then Future Ready working as you mentioned you mentioned possibility yeah and and that money their their uh trying to get that money to flow quickly so I'm just moving forward I guess we probably could put this on the facility operations permitting for April right and just to kind of get an update um you can carry this with them just so they can kind of give us their thoughts on it you know so we can kind of move forward with that so that can be for like our April meet at the end of April 12th or so and another uh parallel real estate example for the district is uh we have a resolution with albino Vision Trust for right of first reviews on this building so that would be enough for you guys to take to the bank in terms of um you know seeking grants and such that could be a structure that works as we're still pulling things together yeah the only thing is with the the real estate policy when you sell remember has to go to how to be out to other state agencies first then if they don't want it then you can sell I think that's what my understanding never of the real estate policy as far as a purchase here in terms of the next steps from our end so the the ask is I'm looking at the document that he's presented in front of us the the look to look at page three the details here meaning this 50 000 square feet blah blah blah this this detail I mean want us to do essentially a comparison does it fit I mean the building is 87 000 square feet so right so I can 32 rooms right so I mean so we can do that type of analysis um and then bring forward also the the reminder around what is the the real estate policy because there are very clear steps is a lot easier correct I mean they're both but they're processing around both that we would have to figure out so we can present that and then again a general overview of that yeah you know um but I do want to get it operations team as how they will feel how this would fit in with the long-term plan so there's no term plan that we have got half of this video okay uh assuming that it would I guess I get to look at it from if we were to sell it or no I mean where the seller lease piece is irrelevant at this point at this I just want to see how they feel it fixed in with the long-term office got it and I think with that I think I would like to maybe um consider putting a one-page or two-page document after reviewing the plan and making because what we get we what we've given you is just something easy to digest but I think for another group we would go in detail well so if you guys want to get that together soon then we can disseminate that to the rest of the
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percentage of operations team so that way when we come back in April for this they already have that information yes and where do we find the plan yeah if it's a long-term facilities plan yeah on the website we can send it to you it's online but well that would be outstanding could you yeah is for us to get to has built drawings for this building because we do have a big time developers helping us right that's why not I should love to just know that again so basically just there was an architect who when we renovated with both of those as built drawings and I'm sorry for them [Music] where you been the last thing the last thing I would I would suggest is on here that you know we add Trucking on here I mean just saying yeah Trucking on here I mean I feel kind of slighted as you know having a truck and Training Facility there you know we're not even here on here I've been looking through here I'm just looking for anything yeah I know the audience but he was typing so fast that he overlooked it that's what it is okay um yeah I mean if you have more controls than the two sentences on uh comparison I think that would be helpful just um a little later especially assuming you know uh April means just around the corner so yeah so we once we get the policy we're going to get the plan uh right now okay continue and if we should have access to there's a policy about facilities no if there's a real estate policy that's the way that we're going to sell or lease but if you want to take it you can work at our policy thank you the long-range facility plan and the link to the real estate policy perfect and the draw and as is the build drawing you don't need to get with me the only the only people in here to know about it is see that's why the kids need to know you know all right so you're going to teach you got to get directions I mean one of the things but one of the things that our real estate policy does reference is in terms of uh how we look at different potential lessons is how who they're serving and whether they're serving our students and so that's getting a little bit ahead of where you guys are here um but if you can you know when we get to that point it would be good to talk about what might this include for kids who are still in school you know is it like do you have some uh relationships with the trades that can we can link to our existing CTE programs or whatever but that piece about kids who are still in school that can move seamlessly then into can either speak to that real quickly go ahead so in 2020 maymac and AGC the largest General Contracting agency state in the nation came together with PPS and started first time ever construction career right in October and I was asked to be on The Advisory board over the CTE program and that's not even including all the stuff Joe's been doing the business but to me it's already gouverized around what this means for the kids including some of our members who had higher work PDX right now as part of extracurricular activities to show kids what infrastructure looks like building you know highways roads Raymore to be specific and so again my son going to school there these kids have already turned the light bulb on meeting contractors in literally one place yeah we want to scale this year it shouldn't
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just be cairo's kids it should be all PPS Kids and with Joe's piece um I know it's over at his space but with the Northwest construction and things he's got they actually earn while they learn yeah so that should be able to have to be able to have access to that level of caveat to and now let's think about it from a holistic perspective of what we're trying to do with our kids our communities and with the violence reduction that we're seeing um in different places if I could show you how to make a thousand dollars without and on the Block and not having to worry about someone you know saying busting your lid for that thousand dollars out of your pocket so now I can put you on the road I can show you how you know I'm saying you 18 or whatever you can drive from here to Interstate or here to Seattle and back and make 500 in in one load I can show you how to use the forklift and you you're gonna make good money and you not go be you know and nobody's coming after you the police ain't trying to take it from you and it's easier actually to make because you don't have to be doing it as long to make the same you don't start making money in the dope game until you move away and most of the kids just get knocked off ain't moving no way so y'all that's who y'all are going after y'all are going after the ones that are trying to figure it out trying to figure out what to do and how to do which is another reason why this is so so necessary and so needed because we're losing the black men in our community because they're never becoming men so you know I would say this too is that this will also support the parents for PPS so you know um well supported homes produce well-supported students and so this this this thing will come full circle absolutely 100 but these are all points that I I believe that it would be I'm imperative to make sure are listed in the pros these are some of the benefits um to PPS that actually fall in line with what we as a district want for our for our students so that when they walk away from our school they walk away with a holistic learning and a diploma that carries weight versus just another piece of paper that now they're trying to figure out you know saying do what I do with this so awesome awesome yeah any other questions director Larry got any other questions awesome awesome did you read all them books back there a lot of them yeah there are a lot of them are my Seminary books and uh they're the ones that I thought were the most important I'm sitting here looking at all them books and realizing I'm not as smart as I thought I was because [Laughter] everybody put you on the spot shelf of Methodist history Herman you know there's like a whole shelf of Bibles and Bible commentaries it's all great this is congratulations so congrats thank you thank you all right thank you very much that was really thank you for taking the time thank you for organizing so quickly and this this helps us move things forward in our complex organizations so just let us know next step all right yeah okay uh staff is coming at 2 30. so thank you guys thank you thank you thank you try to get up and enjoy this time for the facilities just uh yeah just an update on the transportation do we have a facilities mean too congratulations [Music] Jonathan is no longer available for those of you let it be known for the record tonight [Music]
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[Laughter] I know I switched sides foreign [Music] [Music] um [Laughter] I don't have to actually oh yeah oh my God it's an operation she's not for me okay yes okay all right well just as you guys have thank you for allowing us to present again uh I'm Terry Brookie I'm the director of student transportation I'm here with my router manager Lisa Wheeler um we've come to you before to kind of give you an update of our criteria that we were applying to uh determine whether an area is hazardous or not what we're bringing to you today is the full plan with maps um of How It's applied we're going to cover a couple of different schools to show you how it's applied if you have questions on any particular schools that we don't cover your welcome to ask questions but I am going to turn it over to Lisa to representation and can you just uh can you just tell us what it is that's coming to the board is it a particular question or change or it is just the adoption of the supplemental it will be an adoption okay once it is passed by the local education board so our PBS School Board it will then go to the State Board okay so they need to have it adopted first and I'll just go so I can
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just have everyone introduce themselves for our probably the story right now so let's start with um Frank with the communications Frank the doula Terry Brady director of student transportation Lisa Wheeler Transportation routing manager Natasha Garcia okay thank you perfect [Laughter] hello I'm Herman green board member Community representative all right Gary Collins board member and chair of some cities and operations committee Amy Khan Stanford member Jonathan Garcia [Music] thank you okay go ahead [Music] so because we're only showing a few schools today and the presentation actually has all of the schools so you do have the opportunity to look through it and actually live and hate them um how many times we're looking at today we're going to look at four sites um that Clark Creston Harrison Park and um Marysville are the sites that we're going to look at those so this is Clark we're seeing here and um just because it's kind of difficult to see the legend there the um black outline is the attendance area the yellow area is the walk boundary and the blue area is the supplemental Hazard area and something to just take note of here is that when the system uh calculates walk distance it excludes any areas that don't have any residences so so you can see that there's a little bit of uh east of 205 that's in the yellow in the walk area but there's no houses there everywhere east of 205 is going to get Transportation or be eligible for transportation um so for Clark uh what we're recommending is there's no Crossing on I-205 and very limited Crossing on division um buses will have to be added due to it opening up as a new site but we won't have to add anything additional to that for uh the supplemental Transportation plan and you can see that there are just a couple zones here um One near division where just because there's really only one Crossing there that is considered suitable and it's if you've been over in that area there's like an overpass Crossing so so when you say opening up is a new site that's because creative science did not have any transport exactly yes yes okay um so that's pretty Clark's pretty straightforward if you can skip to Creston now so creston's one of our schools that has a larger impact due to these changes because it's right there on Powell in the past we've only had one bus that transported to Preston and it just transported a small number of students due to the restrictions on crossing Powell the entire area north of Powell would be eligible for transportation and we're estimating that that's about 74 students we would need to put an additional route into that school even though it's only like three blocks even though it's only like three blocks yep yep that's good um so next we'll take a look at Harrison Park thank you um Harrison Park obviously is turning into a middle school the boundary is changing quite a bit um this you can see that we have Hazard areas east of 205 so um and then west of 82nd and south of Powell so we're recommending no crossing Powell 82nd or I-205 in this area and then there are limited Crossings in the Stark Washington area and so you can see that that's what contributes to that kind of Northern Hazard Zone 92nd on this for his 92nd 92nd is only considered hazardous in this small strip okay right here right towards the uh there's portions that are considered a high crash Corridor and so that's what I
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yeah was just asking yeah and that's where that designation ends it's right there on Division um and then if we can skip down to Marysville so Marysville currently doesn't have any uh we don't provide any General Ed transportation to Marysville we are planning already on starting to do that next year just with the program balancing changes that are happening because their catchment gets bigger their catchment gets bigger um and with our recommendations here it would um we would restrict Crossing on 82nd altogether in that area so every student that lives east of 82nd would be eligible for transportation that includes everybody in the lent boundary and um a portion of the Marysville boundary that is east of 82nd there there's also a small area right there around Powell where there's just um there's navigation where you have to get to a good Crossing on Colgate so um that that additional time added um also puts a hazard Zone up there um we do have a a lot of students in that area that have requested transportation for various reasons this year so I'm happy to see that on the map um we will need to add an additional route on top of whatever we are planning for I think it's two um so we're planning on adding two because of uh the enrollment balancing and we'll need to add one additional to that to accommodate uh the uh 98 I think is what I'm saying yeah 98 students that are gaining eligibility here um it's a pretty big number but um this especially reflects a lot of what we've heard from the community uh Terry and I have attended uh community events at um Harrison Park Bridger Marysville Lent um we weren't I think Lane ended up being in that snow day period so we're going to be attending Lane in the coming weeks um what we've heard a lot from folks is um the high court or crashing crash Network Crossings are always have been a huge concern that's why we kind of took it in to account when we were defining the criteria um we I did hear from a handful of families at Marysville that you know their preference would be for there to be infrastructural changes so they could walk safely to school but even with the changes that are going to happen on 82nd we're talking 2027 before that um is able to take place so we really want to be able to provide transportation for the folks who aren't comfortable walking of course families still want to walk their students across 82nd that's their prerogative but um we want folks to be eligible who live over there and then lastly just discussing costs I think it's the second to last slide um we will be adding a handful of runs into different sites one actual school bus route can contain multiple runs so basically multiple schools can be serviced by one bus um we also have the ability to kind of Shuffle things around and um and just kind of utilize some of the uh assets that we already have in place but we do believe that we will need to add one full bus route for the stpu changes and that cost is uh about a hundred and ten thousand dollars you're trying to be clear about separating what's going to happen with the balancing versus what's going to be happening with the supplemental Transportation Plan update so you may have heard numbers different from that when we've been talking about the boundary updates but this is just because of these new criteria we've put in place that will be one extra bus but Dan would some of would you guys get some money from what we set aside for the um a Southeast guiding Coalition implementation changes I don't believe there's any for transportation because these are ongoing costs these are on purpose we are getting some for physical
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improvements for groups but this we would get reimbursed at the 75 percent yeah 70 70. as long as it's adopted by the board and then by uh the state line the State Board yeah you have to identify 30 000 or the 30 of the budget for the first year it certainly would be eligible for some of that are set aside from Southeast guiding coalition how are you I'd grab it yeah um any other questions any other schools that you're interested in looking at I just um should have access to all of the schools if you want to peruse yeah their Maps and we've been providing the maps when we go out to the community events once it's all adopted we will you know start a page on our website so that folks can come in and look at themselves too the the communities that we've heard from most recently are some of those pockets of Ida B Wells that don't have um that don't have reasonable trimester service they may have TriMet service by some calculation but it actually involves like ridiculous transfers and you know two-hour commutes and all that so that's who I have been hearing from the most Dan and I are going to be replying to one of those parents here in the next day or two I have been in conversation with TriMet they've created a new route that that parent will be able to or that student will now be able to get pick up and drop off directly from their neighborhood to Ida B Wells I think there's a couple pockets in there yeah I I come from a neighborhood that does not have you know we had to fight for getting trauma to change the times of the buses because they were only like twice an hour and they didn't sync up with bell times and yet there was no uh no yellow bus transportation for students you guys got trying to change the bus hours well PPS advocated awesome it was only twice a um well different types most of the places that don't have yellow bus service have TriMet service that works for them was my point I got you I'm just missing that gets kids to school when they need to get to school but some places don't and so okay [Music] I have a question oh yeah so what's the total number of students that are going to um that's going to gain eligibility total I can get that number thank you mean for phase one yeah from this it's like 78 plus oh yeah I think it's almost 98. yeah I didn't know if you had like that have a list by school it's not totaled up okay no worries no worries and another question is is one extra bus going to be efficient to be able to so there's all these additional kids it's a good question so there are a few routes that service um a few sites that currently have a really low ridership um or a low number of students that are eligible so there are sites where we would be filling those buses to capacity in order to accommodate the supplemental plan changes so one extra best to be fine yeah yeah no we should have had two we had two buses and our kid and we I mean it's those issues as those come up because honestly we're basing off of this year's numbers we don't really know what the numbers are going to be next year um we'll take those on a case-by-case basis explore our options we're usually able to kind of move things around in order to add an additional run into a site if we need to and as I stated earlier this is simply the supplemental Transportation Plan update changes we have other buses planned to be added for the southeast cutting coalition is it fair for me to say that the supplemental Transportation plan is for students who live in within walking distance but face some sort of hazardous
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condition as defined by the value absolutely yep that was the exact definitions okay awesome any other questions comments I just know this is a ton of work and getting getting down there with your mat so thank you thank you all right I have another questions or comments in the Germans one thing we'll ask is this is going to go to the board next yeah if you guys want to do the informal do you recommend the board of course will be at the board but oh so you're getting us to do our formal informal things so that it can be pushed up so do I need to make a recommendation or does Gary yeah somebody should make a recommendation you can make a recommendation to move it to the full board there we go okay I think that's a good idea everybody in favor thumbs up thumbs up [Laughter] all right


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