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SEVEN- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 10, 2023 PUBLIC NOTICE FORM LB-1 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING A public meeting of the Boardman Park & Recreation District will be held on May 23, 2022 at 6:00 __am X pm at Boardman Park & Recreation District Main Office, Boardman, Oregon. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023 as approved by the Boardman Park & Recreation District Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inspected or obtained at the Park Office, #1 West Marine Drive, Boardman, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. This budget is for an X annual __ biennial budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is X the same as __ different than the preceding year. If different, the major changes and their effect on the budget are: Contact: Krista Price, Board Chair Telephone: 541-481-7217 TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS Email: shelby@boardmanparkandrec.com FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES Actual Amount Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital Fees, Licenses, Permits, Fines, Assessments & Other Service Charges Federal, State & all Other Grants, Gifts, Allocations & Donations Revenue from Bonds and Other Debt Interfund Transfers / Internal Service Reimbursements All Other Resources Except Current Year Property Taxes Current Year Property Taxes Estimated to be Received Total Resources Adopted Budget Approved Budget 2021-2022 3,711,252 1,072,293 665,516 2022-2023 1,253,238 1,368,500 747,980 Next Year 2023-2024 3,447,780 1,130,316 335,000 270,000 140,946 1,371,742 7,231,749 434,000 134,000 1,445,315 5,383,033 429,000 88,000 1,518,409 6,948,505 1,416,741 804,850 1,826,444 897,998 420,000 2,000 1,560,057 954,050 3,096,899 920,499 415,000 2,000 15,000 5,383,033 0 6,948,505 FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Personnel Services 936,236 Materials and Services 717,036 Capital Outlay 990,036 Debt Service 1,177,533 Interfund Transfers 270,000 Contingencies Special Payments Unappropriated Ending Balance and Reserved for Future Expenditure 3,140,908 Total Requirements 7,231,749 FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM * Name of Organizational Unit or Program FTE for that unit or program Recreation Center 1,095,157 1,378,986 FTE 17 17 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 6,136,592 2,757,771 10 13 FTE Total Requirements 7,231,749 4,136,757 Total FTE 28 31 6,948,505 33 6,948,505 33 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING * Boardman Park & Recreation District is the recipient of a general obligation bond measure that the voters passed November, 2014 in the amount of $12.390 million. The general obligation bonds were sold and on September 15, 2015 Boardman Park & Recreation District received a net of $12,700,455.60 from the proceeds of the sale. Boardman Park engaged an architect and general contractor. Construction of a 40,000+ square foot recreation center was completed and the Center was opened to the public July 2, 2017, however there were some items unfinished then, but completed before June 30, 2019. PROPERTY TAX LEVIES Rate or Amount Imposed Rate or Amount Imposed 2021-2022 Permanent Rate Levy (rate limit 0.2989 per $1,000) Local Option Levy Levy For General Obligation Bonds LONG TERM DEBT General Obligation Bonds Other Bonds Other Borrowings Total 2022-2023 0.2989 0.2989 Next Year 2023-2024 0.2989 928,700 885,061 711,155 STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS Estimated Debt Outstanding on July 1. $10,980,000 $228,762 $11,208,762 Estimated Debt Authorized, But Not Incurred on July 1 Published May 10, 2023 affid Ione schools adopt new math curriculum By Andrea Di Salvo The Ione School Board approved a new math cur- riculum at its April 25 board meeting. The curriculum, Oregon Math from pub- lisher Big Ideas Learning, is a kindergarten through twelfth-grade curriculum aligned with National Geo- graphic Learning. Schools are required to adopt curricula every sev- en years. The Ione School District did a curriculum adoption last year, but for language arts, not math. The curriculum committee this year included all of the elementary school teach- ers, and Ione Elementary Principal Tracey Johnson said Oregon Math was the unanimous decision. “The teachers really like this one. It has good re- sources, the online portion of it,” she said. “And we like the consistency K-12.” In fact, Johnson said consistency was a big draw with Oregon Math, since the school would be using the same math curriculum for every grade level, rather than having different curric- ula for elementary, middle and high school classes as the school has had to do in the past. “It is the same curric- ulum for K-12, which will make it very consistent,” Johnson told the board. “Same language, same ver- biage all the way from kindergarten through 12 th grade.” “It maintains some of what we know as math in- struction while incorporat- ing new math,” added Ione District Superintendent and Secondary Principal Kevin Dinning. “We felt like the other one was all story problems. Which might be right up some students’ alley, but we do, on the secondary side, still value that repetitive practice bit of traditional math. “So we felt like it was a good middle ground of both strategies for math,” Dinning added. “Same for us,” said Johnson, adding that the alternative seemed to move through new concepts too quickly. “It (Oregon Math) focused on those strategies rather than moving so fast.” Oregon Math was also under budget. It’s a sev- Rate or Amount Approved en-year contract, and John- son said it’s about $22,000 for K-12 including in-per- son training for the staff, which she felt was import- ant so the staff could get to know the curriculum and ask questions before having to use it. In-person training added around $3,000 to the base price. Johnson said they want- ed to get the order in soon, so the curriculum didn’t come in piece by piece as happened with the English Language Arts curriculum last year. “Our goal is to get it all here, and to get it here be- fore school starts,” she said. Dinning also asked the board to start considering a secondary online curricu- lum suite. Dinning said he and Johnson had discussed it as an option for the school to expand course offerings at the high school level. He said there was an option that offers AP content, which Arlington currently uses. “It has a pretty broad offering of things that we would not be able to offer in-house to our students,” said Dinning. “We think it’s an opportunity to solve some problems we have with our master schedule. I think it also settles some upper-level math and sci- ence issues if we are not able to find a staff member who’s highly qualified to teach them.” The superintendent said it would give the school the opportunity to offer everything from psy- chology to health services so they can tailor a student’s education to their interests. “There’s no online pro- gram that I think we’re all going to agree on is great,” said Dinning, “but this does provide us with some flexi- ble options.” Several Ione residents also were at the meeting to see what was happening at the school. “We’d like to see more word out in the community, which we don’t seem to be getting,” said Betty Gray. “So we decided to come to the meeting and see what you guys do.” Council members thanked them for their in- terest and updated them on current board projects, such as the bond, math adoption and the need for school spirit efforts again. “It’s easy to get inter- nally focused,” said school board president Rob Crum. “Obviously, commu- nication is an issue with us with public information, so we’ll continue to work on that,” added Dinning. “To make sure we don’t feel like everybody knows what’s going on because we know what’s going on.” Crum also addressed the issue of needing more staffing so classes didn’t have to be combined, and Dinning added that the school was making a con- certed effort to make sure that even combined classes had appropriate on-level core instruction. “We just ask you to keep being engaged with us so we can hear from you,” said Dinning. “Some of the more hot button topics that I’ve been hearing from com- munity members have been concerns over student and staff retention and school climate, and there’s a lot of folks that have a lot of questions to ask and things they’d like to say,” said community member Jeff Clabaugh, “and work to- gether with the school dis- trict so the school receives more support from the com- munity.” “You’re here because you like the town,” said Crum, “and we know that, so don’t be afraid to speak up.” In other business, Din- ning reported that second- ary school teachers recog- nized 40 students in the Cardinal of the Quarter awards. He said the school had three middle school students who did not miss a day or get marked tardy during the third quarter. “That was kind of a cool thing for us to see,” he said. He added the having awards quarterly seemed better than monthly, be- cause it seemed like a lot to execute in a student assem- bly each month. Dinning also reported that 23 staff members qual- ified for an innovative in- centive bonus. The district -Continued to PAGE TWELVE NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING A public meeting of the Budget Committee of the Boardman Fire Rescue District, Morrow County, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 will be held at the Boardman Fire Station 81, 300 SW Wilson Lane, Boardman, Oregon. The meeting will take place on the 24th day of May 2023 at 6:00 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to receive the budget message and to receive comment from the public on the budget. A copy of the budget doc- ument may be inspected or obtained on or after the 17th day of May, 2023 at 300 SW Wilson Lane. Please call (541) 481- 3473 between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm for arrangements. This is a public meeting where deliberation of the Budget Committee will take place. Any person may appear at the meeting and discuss the proposed programs with the Budget Committee. Published May 10 ,17 2023 affid FOR SALE Free range chicken Eggs for Sale $4.00, a dozen Phone 541-676-5805. 5-10 1pd FENCING Fencing Lancaster Fencing LLC is looking to gain some local clientele. With over 10+ years experience, I am confi- dent I can deliver 100% cus- tomer satisfaction. Check out my website to see pic- tures of completed projects I've done and customer reviews. Contact Nathan @ 360-953-1318 Lancasterfencingllc.com Licensed & Bonded 9-7-TFN YOUR AD COULD BE HERE! 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Los comentarios escritos deben recibirse antes del miércoles, 10 de mayo del 2023 y pueden enviarse los por correo electrónico a rvanderwall@co.morrow.or.us o por correo postal a Morrow County, P.O. Box 788, Hep- pner, OR 97836. La Junta considerará los comentarios reci- bidos para redactar y adoptar un nuevo Plan del Área de Servicio de Ambulancia y la des- ignación de los límites de cualquier área de servicio de ambulancia en una reunión futura. El condado actualmente opera bajo el Plan de Área de Servicio de Ambulancia de 1998 y la Ordenanza MC-C-4-98. Los detalles de la audiencia pública son los siguientes: 1. 3:00 p.m., miércoles, 3 de mayo - Sala de conferencias superior del edificio Bar- tholomew, 110 N. Court St., Heppner 2. 6:00 p.m., miércoles, 3 de mayo - Sala de conferencias superior del edificio Bar- tholomew, 110 N. 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