June 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM - Regular Meeting
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1. Call Regular Meeting To Order
Presenter:
Board Chair
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2. Welcome
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
Guests attending the meeting will be introduced.
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3. Lane Education Service District Statement of Accountability: Land Acknowledgment
Presenter:
Board Member
Description:
Lane ESD acknowledges that the lands we call Lane County - the lands that sustain our children, our future, and our collective well-being - are the traditional ancestral home of the Kalapuya, Siuslaw, Molalla, and other indigenous people who have lived in Lane County since time immemorial. Native children, families, and communities bear witness to a legacy of displacement and forced relocation. As an educational institution we are accountable for addressing the current and former silencing, erasure and genocide of native people in Oregon and Turtle Island. We aim to join with indigenous people, honoring their resilience, courage, and self-determination in a purposeful pursuit of justice. |
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4. Public Participation
Description:
This is an opportunity for the audience to address the Board on topics either on, or not on, the agenda. There will also be opportunities for the audience to comment on specific agenda items as the Board addresses them.
Comments Regarding Staff Members - Speakers may offer objective criticism of ESD operations and programs. The Board will not hear comments regarding any individual ESD staff member. The Board chair will direct the visitor to the procedures in Board policy KL - Public Complaints for Board consideration of a complaints involving a staff member. The association contract governing the employee's rights will be followed. A commendation involving a staff member should be sent to the superintendent, who will forward it to the staff member, his/her supervisor and the Board. The Board requests that a public comment add information or a perspective that has not already been mentioned previously, and that the patron refrains from repeating a similar point. To make a comment or present a topic during public comment, if the opportunity is available on the Board agenda, please complete the Intent to Speak card and submit it to the Board secretary prior to the start of the meeting. An individual that has submitted an Intent to Speak card and has been invited to speak by the Board chair, will be allowed three minutes. Any person, who is invited by the Board chair to speak to the Board during a meeting, should state his/her name and address and, if speaking for an organization, the name of the organization. A spokesperson should be designated to represent a group with a common purpose. |
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5. Public Hearing for the 2026-27 Approved Budget
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
The Board Chair will open the public hearing, invite any public comment on the 2026-27 approved budget, and then close the hearing.
This is an opportunity for the public to address the Board on the 2026-27 budget as approved by the Lane ESD Budget Committee. To make public comment during the hearing, please complete the Intent to Speak card and submit it to the Board secretary prior to the start of the meeting. An individual that has submitted an Intent to Speak card and has been invited to speak by the Board chair, will be allowed three minutes. Any person, who is invited by the Board chair to speak during the hearing should state their name and address and, if speaking for an organization, the name of the organization. A spokesperson should be designated to represent a group with a common purpose.
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6. Agenda Review
Presenter:
Board Chair
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7. Presentation | Special Education
Presenter:
Molly Gillette, Executive Director of Special Education
Description:
The Special Education Department's presentation will highlight programs and accomplishments.
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8. Information from Administrative Staff
Presenter:
Administrative Staff
Description:
The Directors of Human Resources, School Improvement, Special Education, and Technology have submitted written reports to the Board on matters of interest concerning their area of responsibility.
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9. Board Advisor and Liaison Reports
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Advisors, Liaisons
Description:
Board Advisors and Liaisons are asked to submit their reports in writing to be attached to Boardbook. Reports can be sent to the Executive Assistant in advance of the meeting.
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10. Action Items
Presenter:
Board Chair
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10.A. Consent Agenda
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
The Lane ESD Board of Directors has agreed to implement a consent agenda. All items in the consent agenda are adopted by a single motion unless a member of the Board or the Superintendent requests that such item be removed from the consent agenda and acted upon separately.
Generally, consent agenda items are matters which members of the Board agree are routine in nature and should be acted upon in one motion to conserve time and to enable the Board to focus on the other matters on the agenda. Back-up materials for consent agenda items are included in the agenda packet as needed. Minutes of this meeting will reflect action on each item. If any board member wishes to withdraw any consent group item, it will be moved to the appropriate section of the agenda. BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of Lane ESD adopts the consent group as submitted and listed below. 1. Lane ESD Board Meeting Minutes of May, 5th, 2026
2. Personnel Actions, dated May, 29, 2026
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10.B. Accept Financial Report
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of Lane ESD accepts the Financial Report for April 2026.
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10.C. Supplemental Budget for General Fund, Special Revenue Fund, and Internal Service Fund
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
ORS 294.471 provides for a governing body to make supplemental budgets during the fiscal year for which the original budget was adopted. Proposed changes in the General Fund and Internal Service Fund are based on transferring funds from one function to another as needed in anticipation that expenditures may exceed appropriations. Proposed changes in the Special Revenue Fund are based on changes in budgeted resources and appropriations which were not included in the adopted budget because the amounts were not known with certainty at the time the budget was prepared.
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10.D. Adopt 2026-27 Budget, Make Appropriations, Impose Property Taxes, and Categorize Taxes
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
ORS 294.456 prescribes that the governing body shall enact resolutions to adopt the budget, to make the appropriations, to determine, make and declare the ad valorem property tax amount or rate to be certified to the assessor, and to itemize and categorize the ad valorem property tax amount or rate as required under ORS 310.060. The format and wording is based on recommendations from the Oregon Department of Revenue. The Board is required by law to adopt a balanced budget before July 1, 2026, the start of the new fiscal year.
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10.E. Adopt 2026-27 Board of Directors Meeting Calendar
Presenter:
Superintendent Scurto
Description:
Proposed meeting dates are as follows:
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10.F. Approve Agreement with Management Team
Description:
Superintendent Scurto and representatives from the Management Team met and tentatively agreed on the following with regard to the Management Team Agreement for the 2026-27 year:
Sample motion: BE IT RESOLVED: that the Board of Directors of Lane Education Service District Approve the agreement with the Management Team. |
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10.G. Second Reading: Adopt Policy Updates and Recommendations
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
The Board shall exercise its rule-making power by adopting policies consistent with the Oregon Revised Statutes, Oregon Administrative Rules or opinions of a court of competent authority, for its own governance and for the organization and operation of Lane ESD. The Board accepts the definition of policy set forth by the National School Boards Association:
School Board policies are statements which set forth the purposes and prescribe in general terms the organization and program of a school system. They create a framework within which the superintendent and his/her staff can discharge their assigned duties with positive direction. They tell what is wanted.
Such policies may be adopted, amended or repealed at any Board meeting provided that the proposed adoption, amendment or repeal shall have been proposed at a previous Board meeting and, once proposed, shall have remained on the agenda of each succeeding meeting until approved or rejected and except that the Board may adopt, amend or repeal policies at any meeting of the Board in the event of an actual emergency, as determined at the sole discretion of the Board. Additionally, when in the best interests of the district immediate adoption of a proposed policy is necessary, the Board may adopt such policy at the first meeting in which it is presented. Policies shall be adopted, amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of four or more Board members. Policies and amendments adopted by the Board will be attached to, and made a part of, the minutes of the meeting at which they are adopted and also will be included in the ESD’s policy manual. The Board shall communicate its position on matters of public policy and shall interact with the community, other governmental bodies and agencies and the media through the spokesperson designated by the Board. |
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10.G.1. Section KL: ESD - Community Relations | Recommend Adopt
Presenter:
Chair, Superintendent Scurto
Description:
Lane ESD has engaged with OSBA to complete a desk rewrite of the Board Policy Manual. Presented for second read is Section K/L. These updates were first read at the May 5th, 2026 meeting of the Board of Directors. Policy Section K/L: ESD - Community Relations Community Relations Goals and Objectives | KAA - Propose Keep with Edits Public Records Request**| KBA - Propose Adopt with Edits Prohibited Use, Distribution or Sale of Tobacco; Products and Inhalant Delivery Systems** | KGC/GBK - Propose Adopt with Edits Authorized Use of ESD Equipment and Gifts, Grants and Donations | KH - Propose Adopt Investigations Conducted on ESD Premises | KN-AR(2) - Propose Adopt BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of Lane ESD adopt policy updates as presented.
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10.G.2. Section K/L: ESD - Community Relations | Recommend Adopt Policy Deletions
Presenter:
Superintendent Scurto
Description:
The policy deletions for Section K/L were presented at the Regular Meeting of the Board for first read on May 5th, 2026. Cooperation with Private Entities | KNA - Propose Delete Public Appeals and Complaints about Direct Appeals to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction about Alleged Violation of Standards | LGA-AR(2) - Propose Delete
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11. Resolution in Appreciation of Superintendent Scurto Upon Retirement
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The Board of Directors is asked to consider a Resolution recognizing Superintendent Scurto for his dedicated service, leadership, and contributions to Lane Education Service District upon retirement.
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12. Discussion/Reports
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12.A. Legislative Update
Presenter:
Superintendent Tony Scurto
Description:
Superintendent Scurto will provide an update in legislative activities if there are any updates.
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12.B. Superintendent Report
Presenter:
Superintendent Tony Scurto
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12.C. Assistant Superintendent Search Update
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12.D. Policy Updates | First Read
Presenter:
Superintendent Scurto
Description:
Recommendations may include to delete or rescind policy or AR, recoding, and reassigning some policy content to a new section or policy of the policy manual.
The Board has the authority to move this policy to adoption if they choose. Superintendent Scurto will introduce policy Section EFA: Employee Wellness Program
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12.D.1. Section EFA : Employee Wellness Program
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12.D.2. Policy Update | OSBA: April 2026
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13. Board Member Reports and Comments/Agenda Planning
Presenter:
Lane ESD Board
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13.A. Agenda Planning
Presenter:
Board Chair
Description:
Board members are invited to send agenda items to be considered for the next board meeting. Please call or email the Board Chair or Superintendent.
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13.B. Board Member Reports
Presenter:
Lane ESD Board
Description:
Board members are asked to submit their reports in writing to be attached to Boardbook. Reports can be sent to the Executive Assistant in advance of the meeting.
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13.B.1. Report Out | OAESD Spring Conference
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14. Announcements/Correspondence
Presenter:
Board Chair
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14.A. Announcements
Presenter:
Board Chair
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14.A.1. Lane ESD Board Member Activities and Opportunities
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15. Adjournment
• The next regular meeting will be announced once the Board Annual Calendar is approved. |
