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and we will see all of our commu-
nity students returning to in person
learning.”
Mapleton’s budget plans to keep
the district’s staffing levels the
same, with contractual cost of liv-
ing adjustments, step increases for
salaries, increase in insurance costs
and utility increases included in the
budget.
“This proposed budget expresses
our efforts to provide students with
a comprehensive and challenging
educational program, meet man-
dated graduation standards, main-
tain appropriate class sizes, provide
continued opportunities for co-
and extra-curricular activities and
provide adequate supplies and in-
structional materials,” O’Mara said.
Following a discussion on the
funds included in the budget,
Walton asked for a motion to ap-
prove the budget. This was made
by School Board Chair Mary Ellen
Mansfield and seconded by Budget
Committee member Tim Moffett.
In a roll call vote, a quorum of the
Budget Committee approved the
proposed budget.
Since the proposed budget has
been approved, other dates set aside
for the Budget Committee to meet
will not be necessary. People can
weigh in on the Proposed Budget at
the June 16 meeting of the Maple-
ton School Board and submit com-
ment ahead of time.
The full budget presentation, as
well as the rest of the meeting, is
available to view on the school dis-
trict’s YouTube channel, which can
be accessed at mapleton.k12.or.us.
“Well, I want to thank the Budget
Committee,” O’Mara said. “Thank
you for going through the budget,
thank you for reading it, thank you
for asking the questions. If you
come up with any other questions
that you might have regarding it,
please don’t hesitate to let us know
or ask us, because we’re more than
willing to talk about the budget.”
Immediately afterward, the Ma-
pleton School Board continued the
meeting with a report from Student
Liaison Orion Ricks.
Ricks updated the school board
on the Mapleton High School Con-
stitution and recent changes ap-
proved by student vote to increase
participation in leadership roles in
the student council.
He also talked about the Student
Council Carwash fundraiser on
Thursday, May 27, from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. Students will wash people’s
cars for a donation to the council’s
fund for future activities, such as
the Oregon Association of Student
Councils conference.
“We didn’t go to that this year,
because it got canceled due to
COVID, so we have a little bit of
extra money,” Ricks said. “We fig-
ured while we’re at it, we may as
well try to fundraise a little bit more
to make it a little easier for the peo-
ple next year, so they don’t have to
make up as much slack.”
Next, O’Mara gave an update on
plans for the Mapleton High School
graduation, planned for an outdoor,
in-person ceremony on Saturday,
June 12. Mapleton is able to plan an
in-person graduation due to infor-
mation released from the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) and the
Oregon Health Authority (OHA).
“Based on the size of our grand-
stands, we’ll still have to limit the
number of people that can come
with each for each graduate that
will be in the grandstands,” O’Mara
said. “But we kind of have a plan
laid out.”
She explained that Mapleton
High School Principal Brenda
Moyer has been working with the
senior students and teachers on fur-
ther details, which will be released
once they are ready.
In addition, O’Mara and the dis-
trict are taking into account OHA
and CDC guidance for the remain-
der of the school year.
“We’ll be sending out any chang-
es that might affect the schools,
whether it’s mask wearing or phys-
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we have to figure out what those
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As the meeting progressed, the
board voted to approve the consent
agenda and the 2021-22 School
Calendar.
Next, Director Michelle Holman
gave an update on the Equity Com-
mittee and how it hopes to offer
insight to the Mapleton School Dis-
trict. She invited Moyer and other
school staff to join the committee.
“There’s a lot of desire by this
team to do something good for our
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The school board decided to
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progress, as well as updates on stu-
dent standardized testing.
Succeeding this, Mansfield pre-
sented Item 8.4, which she had
added to the agenda. This was an
evaluation of O’Mara as the super-
intendent.
“Since the last board meeting, we
did meet an executive session and
discuss Jodi’s evaluation. I took our
comments and things that we talk-
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was very positive. In summary, we
felt that she’s provided outstanding
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Jodi for another year of service.”
She also presented a new metric
for the superintendent evaluation
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which the board will review before
August.
Mansfield suggested “focusing
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goals for next year’s evaluation,”
using guidance from the Oregon
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The school board also met in ex-
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