001It's It's about time. It's about the right time. Good evening everyone. How are you? Thank you so much for joining us this evening for our meeting. I'm going to call this meeting to order here at 702. If you are so inclined, pe please feel free to join us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the entire board, I welcome all members of the audience to this evening's meeting. This meeting is a working session of the board to conduct the business of the district. The agenda for today's meeting has been published and the agenda items to be discussed and/or voted on have been studied by the
002board members. I'd like to introduce the people participating in this meeting. Recording Secretary Peggy King, Superintendent Dr. Justin Irish, board members Sandy Hayes, Han TR, Jacqueline McGordy, Elizabeth Sotac, and I am Amy Cast. I currently serve as president of the board. An agenda for this meeting is available online at boarddocs.com and copies are also located on the table at the back of the boardroom if you'd like one. There will be an opportunity for both virtual and in-person public comments. Although we didn't have anyone sign up for virtual comments today. Um that will be shared during the association and public comment portion of the meeting. Community members who are interested in viewing the meeting with closed captions are encouraged to follow the link on our website to the district's YouTube channel. The YouTube stream includes closed
003captioning for both regular schoolboard meetings as well as study sessions like the one we just held. Visit nsd.org and under our district, click school board, then board meeting materials and videos. If you're here to address the board on agenda items, please sign in using the sign-in sheet on the table at the back of the boardroom and take a number, please, that corresponds with the line where you signed in. The first order of business is the land acknowledgement. Director McGordy. Yes, thank you, President Cast. Uh, calling my screen up. Here we take this time to acknowledge that the Northshore School District occupies the unseated coast Salish lands that have been here since time immemorial. We honor the ways of knowing and ways of being of indigenous peoples and tribal nations who are still here and thriving
004in our district community. We also acknowledge that this is a working land acknowledgement that will continue to evolve as our partnership with local indigenous peoples and tribal leaders expands. Thank you, Director McGordy. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. Do any board directors have any changes to the agenda as published? All right, seeing none. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? We don't have any. So I will go ahead and call for the vote. And the agenda is approved. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is the superintendent's report. Dr. Irish. >> Thank you, President Cast. So, over the last two weeks since our last board meeting, I've had the great opportunity to visit Frank Love
005Elementary and Lockwood Elementary um just in my uh in our schoolboard visits. Um it was a pleasure to be a part of that schoolboard visit with all of you. We got to get into classrooms, hear from uh the principles, the assistant principles, um and uh understand a little bit more about what's happening at both of those sites. I've also engaged in two formal site visits uh at Inglemore High School as well as Hollywood Hill Elementary. I've also attended two school action plan visits with West Hill and Kenmore elementaryaries. I was at Kenmore Elementary today, hence why I'm wearing the Kenmore t-shirt. Go Kenmore. Um we've um attended the ribbon cutings at Woodmore Elementary and Sorenson Early Childhood. It's wonderful to be able to celebrate um the wonderful new facilities that our community has helped us
006through their uh approval of the bond um to be able to do. So it was great to be and enjoy uh the community and the students as we opened up those uh or celebrated those sites. Um I've also um facilitated we had our first student advisory board. I see one of our student advisory board members in the audience today. Thank you for being here. Um and uh and it was wonderful to engage with students to specifically we asked for their feedback on how the implementation of the cell phone or the mobile device um implementation is going. Um and it was really insightful to hear their feedback. Um and they are we're currently forming um collecting uh identifying the claims from that from that conversation as well as identifying claims from other sources as well. And
007the report will come out soon. We'll get that to you in a board briefing sometime soon. Um and then I've also uh facilitated three what matters most to her since our last board meeting. One in Zoom and two in person. One was for the general public and the other one was last Friday evening at the Hindu temple. Um, I've also had a great opportunity to serve lunch uh for National Lunch Week at Maywood Hill Elementary and got to experience uh all of their lunches and engage with the kids and engage with the staff. That was awesome to see um the the food, not only the the students, but to see the food and the menus that we're providing and the ways in which our uh food nutrition staff are working really hard to diversify the
008different offen offerings that we have in our lunchrooms. Um, I participated in a video, uh, recorded a video with students at Sky View Middle School to recognize Hindu Heritage Month. Um, and they brought with them some food for me to try. That was really great. Um, and just to hear a little bit about what makes them proud, um, in their heritage. And then, um, many of you attended alongside me uh, the PTSA presidents and principal lunchon last week as well, which was a great treat to see. we have such an outstanding PTSA. Um they're a model for what uh for the state and it's great to see the great work that they're doing to help bring um alignment in our organization and to support the work across all of our schools. So that um that
009is my update. Thank you. >> Thanks, Superintendent Irish. Any questions for Superintendent? >> No. All right, we'll continue on with the agenda. Next item on the agenda is the Northshore spotlights. This is the opportunity for the school board once a month to take a quick few minutes to highlight some um great activities going on in the district. And the theme for tonight ended up being um a note of appreciation for all the different um people and organizations who have supported the beginning of the stu school year. This is what makes our school so vibrant and welcoming and energetic. This is um not an exhaustive list, but I the list kept growing and growing. So, I'm going to go ahead and go through it just to give a little taste of how much support we have
010as and um what people bring to our schools in the beginning of the school year. Um so first of all um a note of appreciation for the Northshore Community Church, the organizers of Community Serve Day where thousands of volunteers coordinated by the church um organized a day at the end of August in order to support our campuses before they welcome schools back. Um painting, mulching, weeding, all sorts of activities um that schools also um have as a little bit of um community gathering and celebration as well. There were all another item. There were over two dozen community partners that provided resources to families at the back to school resource fair also in August. So, thank you to them. Our child care providers, as another point of appreciation, help support our students um before and after
011school and it takes a a good amount of organization for them to get up and going. So, they support our families and students. So, thank you to them. Of course, um our PTA members also provide a lot of extra help in the first few days. Um as long as well as the administrative center staff, folks from this building and schoolboard as well out in schools the first couple weeks of school to help get the wheels moving. Um much appreciation for the Northshore Schools Foundation providing backpacks and supplies to hundreds of students and also you just in so many ways large and small making sure all our students were ready to start the year. We have partners in our city governments, cities of Winnville, both and Kenmore, who also um think of safety and think about
012even though um it's not always popular, but their speed zone cameras do help keep our students safe. So, they give a lot of thought, they put a lot of energy and resources into things like crosswalks um and sidewalks around our school. So, thank you to them. Also, um lots of um formal and informal school communities sponsor back to school activities and fall festivals. We got to see them during some of the ribbon cutings where there's some back to school community gathering um that welcomes welcomes in family to make it a lovely space. And also one more thing too um recently our um PTSA leaders held a statewide legislative assembly um which actually is really critical and bringing attention to the needs of our schools and our students um and also um brings a lot of
013focus on the statewide level which we really need. So thank you again not an exhaustive list. We could have stayed with that a lot longer um but thank you to everyone that helps our students. So, next up is association and public comment portion of the meeting. The Northshore School District Board of Directors has set aside a period of up to 60 minutes to receive updates and comments from district association leaders and community members as referenced in multiple policies adopted by the board. We expect all parties addressing the board to represent their comments in a way that is civil and respectful. This means that whether we're school directors, district staff, students, members of the community, or some other guest, we must all follow the same standard of civility during schoolboard meetings. Please speak directly to the
014board and address matters related to district operations, policies, procedures, and agenda items under consideration by the board. Washington state law requires that the board limits its business and discussion at board meetings like this o to only those items that have been published in the previously published agenda. So what that means for us today is that any public comment regarding items that are included in the published agenda will be taken into consideration by the board when that topic comes up during the course of the meeting. Any topics that are brought up during public comment that aren't included in the published agenda cannot by law be discussed at this meeting, so won't be addressed or receive a response during the meeting. In either case, depending on the nature of your topic or question, a district employee or
015board member may follow up on any comments that relate to district business. Please note that the board's silence during um public comment is neutral by design. It's not a signal of agreement nor disagreement with the speaker's remarks. And also, please note that comments should not make reference to any employee or representative of the district by name or by identifiable reference. If you're interested in making comments or complaints regarding an individual, you may use the complaint process available through the office of the superintendent. Finally, please remember that your words have impact and you, not the school district, are responsible for your words. We caution all speakers that it's possible your statements could violate the rights of others under various laws, including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation. If you're unsure of the legal effect of
016your remarks, you should seek independent legal advice. In any case, we ask that you help us model for our students what a respectful and inclusive community looks and sounds like. So, first up, it's our tradition to welcome um association leaders. Are there any association leaders here for public comment? All right, seeing none, we'll move on to general public comment. How this works, there will be a timer on the screen for 3 minutes. Um so we ask that you limit your comment to those three minutes and um it's our Thanks so much, Harry. It's um our tradition actually that we honor um student voice and we prioritize students. So we're going to go a little bit out of order. So, um, I'm going to ask speaker number two to go ahead and come up and make
017a comment at the podium. Um, and thank you so much for participating today. >> Good evening. My name is Owen Smith. I'm a student at uh Northshore Networks. It's a program within Northshore Learning Options. And I don't know if this was addressed in your previous meeting or not, but I feel that I I'd like to advocate on behalf of that program. I wasn't asked to be here, but um I'd like to tell you my story. And so three years ago, I entered high school. I'm a senior now. And I came from Leotaa Middle School where uh all of my friends and acquaintances and everybody that I knew who wasn't already um in the zone to go to Windville High School had wavered. And I was I was the only student who wasn't accepted. And that
018was partially on my behalf. I did some things that uh I'm not entirely proud of and I've since learned from, but that um that was hard for me to go to a brand new school with people I hadn't seen since elementary school. And it was harder for me to adapt to that and and uh the the normal high school experience wasn't really working out for me. um being there 40 hours a week with seven different classes, it was it was a strain on me and that caused some anxiety around school and it actually caused me not to have the will to attend school anymore. And so, uh my parents and I work with the district on different options. There's one point where a former superintendent actually allowed me to go to Windville High School in
019in hopes that um that might that might help and and it didn't. And so it got to a point of where I was I was at a crossroads. Um do I go fully online, which I also tried, that didn't work. Um do I push through and go back to the normal high school model and see if that works or or do I drop out? And quite frankly, I was about ready to drop out. And and um and one day my mom came to me and she she says, "Hey, I want you to come sit down in this meeting for a program called Nordstrom Networks." and I had my heart set on dropping out already. I was, you know, was going to get a job and I was going to be, you know, that guy. But,
020um, I decided to I reluctantly decided to go sit down with her and and I did. And I walked out of that meeting with the with the principal of that school, one of my teachers, and my counselor for that school, uh, with more hope for high school than I had in three years prior to that, since middle school. And I'm now a senior at Northshore Networks. I'm enrolled in 12 classes. I have A's, B's, and C's in all those classes. And I'm on track to graduate on time. In fact, I'm even considering going to Boise State for college. And so, I'd like all of you to consider um keeping that program around for other students like me. And to give them a chance because it is really a wonderful program and and I would love
021to see somebody else go through it and have the same experience I did. That's what I got. Thanks. >> Thank you very much, Owen. And so then we'll go back to speaker number one. Hello, my name is Holly Munchow. I'm a parent of three students in the district and I feel like we almost timed this. Um uh so my children are struggling with a lot of what the previous speaker uh talked about [laughter] school refusal or I like to call it school can't. Um and it started a little bit sooner. It started in middle school and it started in late elementary school. Um uh my kids uh are twoe or twice exceptional which means they have uh one parent described it as or educator I think it was described it as a Ferrari engine with
022no brakes. Um so they can process things real fast. They're super smart but they have like their steering and their brakes are a little funky. um which meant they did really well in early elementary school because we take all the time in the world for transitions and they could the teachers will work through those things. But that meant as we got into later elementary and middle school where you have seven classes throughout the day that was where they stopped being able to function in school and where they couldn't do the classes. And so luckily both two of my so I should say two out of three one one managed it [laughter] somehow. Amazing. Um uh so the other two are in uh two of the Northshore learning options programs. Northshore Networks was not available for
023either of my children because they were no longer taking new applicants. Um I think that probably would have worked better for both of them because one I'm now uh providing most of the curriculum at home with Northshore Family Partnership and the other one is trying to do Northshore online with very mixed results. Um, but what I really came here to talk about is attendance. Uh, which is to say thank you for your new attendance policy and some of the procedures that have come with that. But with that needs to come more supports as we continue to roll that out. And I would really like you all as a district to consider an attendance task force to provide some of those supports sooner, especially for families who don't have access to some of these alternative programs
024that are still a major lift for parents. um to to so in particular as my kids started sorry jumping around a little bit here uh started to struggle with attendance we got a lot of uh educators and administrators uh asking what's going wrong at home asking threatening us with truency corp including the official letter that comes home from the school district but very little offers of help in fact the first time I asked for an educational evaluation for both of my kids I was told they don't qualify to be evaluated, not for an IEP. Once we finally got them evaluated, they now both have IEPs. Uh so I think there's some education needed and there's some attendance task force and lack of attendance, not just academic scores should be reasoned for evaluation. Thank you, Holly.
025That concludes public comment for this evening's meeting. So, thank you everyone very much. We we appreciate you taking the time. It um uh it's it's much appreciated by the board. So, thank you. We are going to continue on with the rest of the agenda. And the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve from the board? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion? >> I just want to point out the field trip list is delightful. We have um field trips for a variety of music programs, for DECA, for science. It it just is so representative of the great work that our students are doing and I just wanted to give it a shout out. >> Thank you, Director Hayes. Any
026other questions or comments? >> All right, see none, I'm going to call for the vote. and the consent agenda passes. Thank you. Next up, we have a series of action items for the board's vote. The first one is resolution number 911, education programs and operations levy, which is the second reading of this. Um, Superintendent Irish, do you have an introduction? >> I do. Thank you, President Cast. Attached for [clears throat] your review is resolution number 911, Educational Programs and Operations Levy. The district's levy and bond planning steering committee has worked within the agreed upon parameters to develop recommendations for measures to be to be presented to the voters in February 2026. These measures were developed subsequent to the September 23rd board study session. A first reason reading was presented for your review on October 13th,
0272025. We recommend your approval of resolution number 911, education programs and operations levy. >> Thank you, Superintendent Irish. Um, before we begin discussion, per Robert's rules of order, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve. Is there a motion to approve this action item? >> So moved. >> Is there a second to kick off discussion? >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you. It's been moved and approved. so that way uh we can go forward with discussion. Any questions, comments on this action item? >> Um I'll I'll kick us off. Um I will I just want to explain why I will be supporting this um resolution. This is a renewal of an existing EPO levy uh that is used really to support basic ed in our district. Um, and so I will be supporting going out
028to the voters in our community to ask them to continue our uh, EPO levy so that we can maintain because we know the um, state is not going to be uh, addressing its funding issues anytime soon. And so this will allow us to maintain maybe even a little um, work around class sizes. Um, but it it's so necessary for us to to maintain the work that we're doing right now. >> Thank you, Director Hayes. >> I also support this Levy. A lot of thought went into this. A lot of work went into this to understand how much we're asking of the community. We know that right now is a very very difficult time for a lot of families um given job situations um that are out of control of the district and so we took
029that into consideration. At the same time we tried to balance that with the needs of our students here and the needs of our educators. So this EPNO levy is going to support as director Hayes said um a lot of the extracurriculars and basic education even um so I am definitely behind this. >> Thank you Director Tran. Well, I would say Ditto. Um, first a shout out to um staff and I don't I don't see Deputy Superintendent Bergie here, but her in particular as our CFO and her staff who have put all of these things together and at least I'm I can say it's sort of legible to me. Um there's there's so much work that's gone into this and as director Hayes and Tran have already said, this is this is a continuation of the
030levy that has been so critical to keeping us [snorts] able to provide the programs and the staffing and so forth that we have. Um, we all know that we've had to pull from our levy dollars to fund our basic education programs and that's not gotten any better over the the cuts that were made in the previous session. So, it's really critical that we are able to continue this levy to continue supporting our educational programs. >> Thank you, Director McGordy. >> It's my turn now. Um, I think one of the things that I think about when I'm I'm thinking about why this is so important for our students is thinking about just this is sort of their air, food, and water of education because we don't we unfortunately don't have enough funding to provide that with
031the funding that we receive directly from the state. So, it's an important ask that we have of our community that they help support students um for their basic needs that are required under federal and state law. So, we're really thankful and I am a proud Levy supporter for the whole time I've lived in Chemmore. Um it's my first time being on this side of it and it's a lot more anxietyinducing on this side. um all of the work and thought and time that has gone into creating um an understanding of what is needed for students and how much is needed for students. And I know that in some of these the wording it's called an enrichment levy, but um currently it's a basic education levy and we're supporting those basic things that all students need
032um to succeed at school. >> Thank you, Vice President Sotek. I appreciate that. Um and I would like to also express that I I am for this levy as well. You know, a core value of the school board and district leadership in general at Northshore is to co-design our our programs and um and and actually even the goals that we have for our students with our community, with the students themselves, with our great staff members, with families and all the community supporters. Um I just happened to list before. And so this this um ballot initiative seeks to address their dreams for their students as well as the challenges we face in helping those dreams come true because unfortunately um even with the change in state funding um back in 2017 um the fact of the
033matter is the funding from the state is not tied to student actual student need at all. It's an approximation. And not only is it an approximation, it is an approximation that is not tied to um increases in expenditures. There was a decision made in Olympia that instead of following, not to be economically geeky here, but instead of making adjustments according to the consumer price index, which is what you hear that social security follows and all these other, you know, companies usually follow that as the cost of living increase, they chose a lower number. So for the last eight years it's been it's called the inflated price def no the something implicit price deflator. See it it the words don't carry much meaning but it's an actual lower percentage of cost of living increase. And so
034our by by dis by structural complexity our expenses will always outpace our revenues. And we've just gotten to the point over the last eight years that we we've had to institute cuts as everyone is so painfully aware of and the only lever the state has given us is to go to our community and ask for their support through this levy. So um thank you to all I mean we have met in town halls with people our our staff has met you know when we were had to do the big round of budget cuts there were over 50 meetings that district leadership was out in community. we hear directly from students and so thank you for co-designing our district programs with us and so I think it's really important that we take whatever lever the one
035lever we're given um and bring it to our our voters and and ask for their support. So any it's this is I I agree with Vice President Sautak this is this is something that we've given a lot of thought to and it and it's it's a big one for us. So, I want to leave space if there's any other questions or discussions we'd like to do. >> Just one other thing occurs to me to just point out um to people is that if we can pass this levy, if this is approved for us, we stand a chance of not having to make further cuts to staff and programs in the coming year. I think just >> a a year if it doesn't pass. >> Maybe two. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I'll I'll just remind everyone
036this isn't the first time that we've had this conversation. We've been studying this pretty solidly for the last six months and debating and wrestling and um so this is is really the culmination again to President Cass's work of many many people coming together um and >> bringing this forward. >> Okay. Thank you everyone. So I'm not hearing any additional discussion. We will go ahead and we will call for the vote. And that action item passes. Thank you. So the next action item which is another second reading from our last board meeting is um our second action item is resolution number 912 general obligation bonds. Superintendent Irish. >> Thank you. President cast attached for your review is resolution number 912 general obligation bonds. The district's levy and bond planning steering committee has worked within the agreed
037upon bond parameters to develop recommendations for measures to be presented to the voters in February 2026. These measures were developed subsequent to the September 23rd board study session. A first reading was presented for your review on October 13, 2025. We recommend your approval of resolution number 912, general obligations bond. Thank you, Superintendent Irish. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> All right. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion, questions, or the like. >> Again, um I will I I want to explain why I will be supporting this resolution. Um I get it. That's a really big number. And um to vice president SOCK's point, there's a lot of anxiety that gets produced around this. Um it we have been very fiscally responsible and paid off a number of earlier bonds. So
038uh it gave us space to ask for this without being a huge hit to our taxpayers. Um so there there is intentionality there. The the work is necessary work. There's nothing um extra in this. It is a continuation of the work that we are doing at Inglemore and Leota. And certainly if you've been on either one of those campuses, you understand how necessary that is. It is a complete replacement of Shelton View and we love Shelton View, but that is a school that need desperately needs love. Um and some work at Kokane. it has its own little uh um portable village going there and that is not a phrase that any school board likes to be using. So um we are desperately in need of that work and and some very much needed safety upgrades
039specifically seismic um and that that's the work we have to do. So it is it is a necessary [snorts] big number cuz things got way more expensive. So >> thank you Director Hayes. I echo e echo what director Hayes said and I'll add I was at Shelton View as part of um guest lunch services and that kitchen is so small and the students have to be routed through a janitorial closet to get out the other side. So the fact that it's on the list of getting updates is crucial for not just the students but the kitchen staff and the the rest of the staff that's going to be working at that school. So, I'm glad that's on the short list. I'm supporting these um the bond measure because as there was a gentleman who came
040to the student justice conference a couple times, his name is Dr. Chris Emden and I he said something that really stuck with me and that is that we show students that we care when we provide them spaces in which they can thrive. And I know he didn't always mean physical spaces, but bonds bonds are a translation of love and care from the district to the students and to the the educators who are in this building day in and day out. So I think it's important that we um that speaking on behalf of myself, not anyone else, that I support this because um it's the bare minimum. It's as director Hayes said, seismic updates. It's safety upgrades. It's inclusive classrooms and playgrounds and and much needed modernization. So, I'm happy to support this and I I
041hope the community will too. >> Thank you, Director Tran. >> Next, um yes, for Director Hayes and Tran's comments and um I agree with them. This one of the one of the most important things for me in all of this is the seismic upgrades. Um we we know that so many of our buildings are woefully behind with respect to being up to date on on that safety aspect if nothing else. Um I also want to I mean I I support this this um resolution. Um this what what we have in the resolution is not the highest number that was brought to us with respect to what the community the task force told us needs to be done. We know that it's not going to cover everything that need really needs to be done and it's
042it it's honestly heartbreaking. We've been out to some schools recently that I thought for sure this this this has to be one of the schools, but um it was, you know, if it's it's deemed um still sufficiently safe and structurally sound more so than the other schools that are in this bond, um it, you know, they have to wait another four years, but we're hoping to get there. Um but the number is a compromise. um covering as much as we could of all of the safety issues, the seismic upgrades and replacing those those components, those schools that desperately desperately need it for the safety of our students. So, um I support it. Thank you. >> Thank you, Director McCordi. >> All right. I'm also agree with everything that has been said and I also support
043this and um when I'm thinking about the bond, you know, this is what supports our schools and communities have supported our district in building and maintaining safe spaces for our students to learn and grow. Um the outcomes of past bonds are evidenced in the buildings that are keeping our students and staff safe and in places where they can learn and grow. Um it's sometimes beautiful and always necessary and it's something that is really important that we do to maintain the integrity of the buildings that currently exist and replace those that are no longer able to be maintained. Thank you, Vice President Sotac. And I'll just um also state my support for this measure. Um you know, we again we're we're lucky we have such an involved community. We've heard their priorities around our physical spaces.
044Building modernization, top of the list, reduction of portables, top of the list, safety upgrades, top of the list. um you know and being able to do that all of that within a a financially healthy way. And so as um Director Hayes mentioned u we are just about to pay off a [snorts] a round of bonds from 30 years ago. And so Shelton View um has been on the list repeatedly. Um but it's such a constrained site. It's it's more expensive than others. And so we had to wait till we had that capacity from what the community could afford, that financial capacity in order to in order to get that project on the list. And so I just want to to reiterate that not only do we deeply understand the um all of Northshore's priorities around
045physical spaces, but as well as the financial um responsibility as well. So that that is part of the system inde and we could we'd be happy to talk about it because um it's we we are benefiting from some decisions from prior boards from us who got us on this four-year bond cycle that has really um been able to provide a a means to be able to take care of these large projects. So um that would be my remarks. Are there any other thoughts or discussion? Well, and and again, not just the five of us that or six of us that came up with this list. We had um um many community members on our capital bond um capital projects task force, our ongoing enrollment demographics task force h have been instrumental in helping us understand
046what is needed and um and certainly our entire capital projects staff department as well. >> Absolutely. I would just uh add which I think we all know is abundantly clear that this is another another component of the funding for state for for education public education in the state that the state doesn't actually pay for. So it is entirely up to the communities just like our EPO levy um if we want to maintain our buildings it's it's on us. So this is this is what we've done and this is what the community has said that they want. Thank you, Director McGordy. Any other discussion? All right. See none, I will call for the vote. And that action item is approved also. Thank you. Our third action item is resolution number 913, um the ballot measure for
047a technology levy. Superintendent Irish. Thank you, President Cast. Attached for your review is resolution number 913, technology levy. The district's levy and bond planning steering committee has worked with the agreed upon parameters to develop recommendations for measures to be presented to the voters in February 2026. These measures were developed subsequent to the September 23rd board study session. A first reading was presented for your review on October 13th, 2025. We recommend your approval of resolution number 913, technology levy. >> Thank you, Superintendent Irish. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion on this action item? >> Okay, we got a pattern going here. Pattern recognition, that's key in math. Um so uh once again I just want to explain my thinking of why I
048will be supporting this measure. Um this is another renewal of a current levy that is specifically for technology in our district. Um it is um by design less specific than our bonds. Our bonds we have to be very clear what we will be spending the money on. Um there is a actually completely true story. Um we ran a bond in February of 2010 and two months later the iPad came out. So we have to make it a little on the vague side because we won't start collecting the dollars for this levy until 207 and who knows what technology will be available by 2030. So um but it's an in the intentionality of the this is so core to our work technology un uh like 30 40 years ago that it is part of everyday life
049in our classrooms in our school buildings and um not too far off of our buildings not funded by the state. So, um we are so grateful to um again a committee that brought forward the recommendations for us. Um again our technology staff that helped us grapple with this and and the support of our community because this our students need to understand this world and how to be safe and relevant and um productive in it. Thank you, Director Hayes. >> I concur [clears throat] with what Director Hayes said and also fully support this measure. Um, all three of these measures that are going out next year are crucial to basic education and m maintaining the reputation and perhaps, you know, making the reputation of Northshore even better. um and taking care of our students and our
050educators. Um today, one of my friends said they're they're purchasing a house. They're in tech. It's it's shaky right now um with the jobs lack of job security out there, but they know that this measure is coming cuz I was talking about it with them and they said they fully support it even with, you know, the the way things are going out there. um specific to the tech levy you you know someone who's working in tech I I see the changes um I you know there will be more beyond AI we know that there was the advent of the internet there was the advent of the TI89 calculator and you know this is another one of those um stepping stones towards uh technology accelerating and one of the ways that Northshore can keep up with
051it or even get ahead of it is making sure that we support these tech tech loveies. Um, I mean, the same person who's purchasing a house, I looked at their house listing and on the house listing by the seller was it's located in the Northshore School District and it's it touts the Northshore, not my words, this was the seller. I don't know them. It touted the Northshore School District as one of the best districts in Washington. So, >> thank you, Director Tran. What a lead in. Thank you. I [clears throat] agree uh in both cases and and I fully support this the tech levy as well as the EPNO and the the bond uh resolution. Um as Director Tren stated, this is I mean we are Northshore and this the technology that we have, the
052support that we have for the levy, the the things that our levy epino levy provide for our students. um the the uh support for building maintenance and replacement. This this is recognized. People want to come to this district and it's because this is such a an amazing community who supports the schools. We don't have that everywhere in this state by by a long shot. I think we've all been very very lucky to have the community that we have that supports these. But just wanted to point out again the technology level the am levy the amount that's being proposed here is again a compromise. The um staff came to us with a a list of all of the things that are needed just to maintain our current technology. Um and then the things that they see
053coming down the pike that we really need to be up on and prepared for. Um, but you know, with all three of these and with the prices soaring the way they have been, costs soaring, we had to compromise on this as well. So, it's not everything that we would like to see. It's not everything that um our tech folks requested and would like to have, but it keeps us going and it provides a great deal for our students and for our teachers to be able to to teach with modern equipment uh and to keep up and to keep our students up. So again, I support this. Thank you. I also am in support of this resolution um in part because I've seen the impacts of past technology levies on my own students education in their
054schools. I've seen changes over the last couple years as we update equipment and create spaces that have more accessibility for kids. and money from this levy has gone to do that important work of making sure that all of our kids have access to learning, specifically those with disabilities and children who might come from homes that speak a different language. Um, this gives those kids a chance to receive an education in a way that's meaningful to them and helpful to them. Um, some other things that I I think about with this is that the expansion of what technology means and how we access different parts of learning through technology. This levy is now supporting a lot of different things um more so than it used to. So, it's kind of got a heavier lift than it
055used to. Um, thinking about curriculum subscriptions, training for staff to use those new things. um as well as supporting the regular replacement of the more elderly devices that may not be quite as relevant as they were when the students first got them. Um it's also going to work to keep devices up to date so that they're usable for students. Um, and one of the things, you know, that I always think about living in the great Northwest is and spending a lot of time in the outdoors is, um, something my parents taught me is just leave things better than you found them. And I think what this aims to do in all of our measures or all of the resolutions tonight aim to do is to leave things better than we found them. And we rely
056on our community to help us do that. >> Thank you, Vice President. SOTAC and I would also like to express um support for this measure as well. Again, this is a measure that we spend many hours just as a board processing and that's on top of the technology advisory committee that directly um took a look at student need and also technology trends and brought together again a list of options for us to consider. We really are um appreciative of those efforts because again the landscape is changing so quickly. Another example of a fertuitously timed technology levy is um in 2018 our computer our community stepped up and made a commitment to pay for each student in Northshore to have a device. Um, previous to that it if you had access to a computer at home
057>> [clears throat] >> um or not, it it was not something that the the district took um ownership of. And then at in 2018, we asked our community and they said, "Yes, we want to make sure every student has a device." And those those um first batch of devices were purchased for the 2019 2020 school year. And so when the pandemic hit, we had devices in everyone's hands already. And it was just it was thanks to our community um that we could be in that situation. So um again, you know, it's the devices, it's the curricula curriculum, it's the training, and it's preparing our students for the working in the 21st century almost 22nd century some of them. So I also will be voting in favor of this. So any anything else from board members?
058>> Just one more thing. I I just remembered um Vice President Sotac mentioned support for special ed and how the tech levy weaves into it. An an example is when um we had the I think it was a Frank Love Elementary visit and we had a non-verbal student sitting in the student circle and she was still able to communicate with us through using um an augmentative and alternative communication device that allowed her to pick out symbols that allowed her to express um what she was wanting to express um and answer some of the board questions even though she couldn't she couldn't speak it out loud. So she was able to be included in the conversation and I think part of the tech levy to your point vice president SOTAC is that inclusionary practice and not
059leaving any student to um not be able to express their thoughts on a topic. >> Thank you Director Tran. Um yes and I this may seem counterintuitive to our no cell phone policy and and our work but it actually is very much in alignment with it because it helps uh it provides professional development. It provides training so that we can prepare our students to be part of a digital world in a way that is safe and responsible and healthy. >> For sure. Yeah. Our our digital literacy curriculum is sponsored by this technology levy for sure. Anything else? All right. Thank you everyone. See no further discussion. I'm going to call for the vote. And that action item passes also. Thank you to the board members and to everyone who um our whole community who provided
060input into those three. So thank you. We are going to continue with two more action items. Actually we have one more which is the 20252026 school strategic action plans. Um do you have an introduction superintendent Irish? Yes. Presented for your approval this evening are the school strategic action plans for the 2526 school year. We recommend your approval. >> Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Questions or discussion? >> Lots of reading. [laughter] >> So much work being done. >> 34 schools, multiple pages. And I appreciate the depth and breadth of each SAP. I also was pleased to see cuz we just had the P9 discussion here about equity prior to this schoolboard meeting. Pleased to see how racial educational justice theme was in every single one
061of the SAPs. So um it's testament to the work that the RHJ department which is now the organization change and student advancement department. I think [laughter] I got a thumbs up out there. Sweet. Great job. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> Yeah. Um, I appreciate that uh the format seems to be standardized really nicely. It made it a lot easier and faster to read and it was easier to scan over and really see what um the important pieces for each school wanted to call out and what they want to work on and what's going well and how they're engaging the community. Um so that to me felt really really helpful. Um because there sometimes I forget how many schools there are and then I remember when I see the SAP plans. So um yes and
062all of the above. Um I I too was I mean the the best thing for me that came made me go away smiling was how the REJ um framework was embedded in in each and every one of them. Um and I do love the new format. Um for me in particular, I like seeing the data and it's very nicely arranged in, you know, not quite graphic style but you know um spelled out for you and very tidy. And I particularly like seeing the root cause analysis for uh some of the data sets that just um there's just so clear. I mean none of them are you know a whole lot of pages you know compared to what we we usually get but you know combined um but it just makes you know the the reading
063and the presentation and you know very clear thought that went into the analysis and presentation and goals for the year. So well done. Thank you, Director McGordy. I agree with all that. The standardized format so helpful. Um, I just have one question. So, after approval, where do these live? Do they go onto the school each school website? So, parents can read, families can read. >> Yep. Yep. >> Okay. All right. Thank you for that. >> Because I think Yeah, this >> Yes. It's a great resource for families actually to get context around what's what's happening in their classroom. Amazing. I do appreciate how some of them are written with some very specifically what I find to be familyfriendly language and uh the the way some of them are written it includes the community in saying
064that this is something that we you know we have found to be an issue or we are addressing it this way and this is how we want to move forward um in in ways that I think the community is going to be able to access and understand which is really important to holding our schools accountable for the work that they're doing but also giving them credit for the work that they're doing. >> Yeah, good point. All right. Anything? Again, a lot of work being done in our schools. All right. I see no further discussion, so I'm going to call for the vote. And that action item passes. Thank you. Last action item is the approval of a donation um from the basketball club of Woodenville to the Woodenville High School basketball program. Superintendent Irish. >>
065Yes. This generous donation from the Woodenville Basketball Club totaling $10,200 will be used for the basketball coaching stipens at Woodenville High School. And we recommend your approval. >> Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Questions or discussion? >> Again, appreciative of our community. They're they are amazing. All right. See no discussion. Give it a sec. Okay, I'm gonna call for the vote. There it is. Okay. And that action item is approved also. Thank you. That concludes our action items for tonight. Um, next up on the agenda is a performance review for superintendent parameter 9, racial and educational justice. Superintendent Irish, >> presenting for your approval this evening is the monitoring report for superintendent parameter 9, racial and educational justice. I certify that the information contained in
066the report is true as of October 27th, 2025. I also here hereby certify that with the information evidence provided within this report that I comply with the requirements set forth within this parameter. >> Thank you superintendent Irish. Um for performance reviews for monitoring reports we don't start with the motion we start with the discussion. So do any board members have any um questions or discussion on this report? Whoever wants to go, >> I'll [laughter] start. Um, I don't really have any questions. Most of them were already answered in the study session that we had before that covered all this material. Um, just again, thank you to the RJ team for such a um, just it's as always such a huge body of really amazing work. Um I very much appreciated the focus on restorative and
067justicedriven um approach to really every aspect of of education and discipline uh and policy and all just continues to to inspire and not just the approach but the work that's being done and um as I think somebody commented earlier uh in the study session it's the kind of thing where you'd like to think you know eventually we'll get to the point where we we're done [laughter] you know But um or at least we don't need it quite as need to focus on it quite as much. Um but it's so large and overwhelming and it's so dynamic all you know constantly changing. Um but I think we are clearly making progress and I think from what I heard tonight we can expect more progress uh to the the ultimate goal. Um, I also really appreciated how
068we were provided with and you know how we're providing and now expanding on uh for the ethnic studies program uh the teacher um training the the PLC's for both new and returning teachers. I also um was um I don't know the correct adjective for it, but the the the work done around microaggressions was um I thought just um timely and I thought um very very well portioned is is not quite the right word, but um I think it's being done in a very respectful and all-encompassing manner to to try to capture you know, everyone uh in the district. So, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Irish. >> Thank you, Director McCordney. >> I can go. Um, some things that stood out to me about this report are one that it's clear that the intent and the
069evidence of this is woven through all parts of our district. um in many different ways. Some of the ways that I particularly um can appreciate and noticed are the work that is being done around discipline um and who is receiving discipline and what that looks like and and sort of the conversation around that for people. Um, also sort of thinking about uh MTSS and including people with disabilities in the work that it's being done um and thoughts around how um people with disabilities are a part of that work and how they can be a part of the community in a a more uh thoughtful way because that keeps happening every day which I love. Um, and the food and nutrition services, I'm gonna call them out for this year because I have seen more different
070things on the menus that have been exciting and interesting to kids and I have heard so many rave reviews. One of my kids had a sample during school lunch week and she was super pumped about it, which is not food she would eat at home. So, it's very exciting that she's willing to try it at school. Um, but the fact that she's getting access to things like that, um, rather than just the I mean, we used to call the pizza when I went to school, uh, roadkill pizza. Um, and to see the evolution of school lunches from that um, because we were just making guesses as to what the meat was. um to knowing what it is, having a picture menu, it's accessible. There are foods that represent different cultures or different um different pallets,
071different uh [clears throat] dietary needs. Um so that's that's something that I see in here and I appreciate um all of the work being done there. >> Thank you. You can go. Oh, okay. Um, I'm not gonna pretend that I knew what every single uh organization and program and acronym meant in there, even though you clearly stated it out in this 20page document, but I I do appreciate and can appreciate the amount of work that has gone into this because this is building on the shoulders of giants before us. And I know that you would you would agree with this, doc, Dr. Thomas and and uh Miss Harb I I have been involved only recently. I know this work has gone on way before me and as mentioned in the P9 study session prior to
072this board meeting. Incorporating this policy into the DNA of the school and the school district is going to lead to student outcomes that they will carry with themselves as we heard from the two students that you brought. I won't name them or call them out because I didn't get permission. Um your the impact is also going to be on the adults. It it's had a profound impact on my path on my journey. Um starting with being a parent volunteer on the ethnic studies framework and curriculum program. Um it's had an impact on the decisions that I make on behalf of the community here uh as a school board. So going forward know that um a lot of what is done here as it gets embedded into the system level of things is really giving Northshore
073that leader we're showing that we're leaders in this in this um I'm just going to call it REJ because I still can't remember the new department name. So congratulations >> Orca just [laughter] we just got to add an R somewhere in there. work. Thank you, director Tran. >> Um I think what is one of the most impressive components of this polic this parameter is the breadth in addition to the depth. Um it includes um access to the highly capable program. It includes lunches as was already mentioned. It's discipline. It's the family engagement resource center. It's the summer meal program. It's language access. It's AVID. uh students with disabilities and to do all of that work [laughter] in 180 days is amazing that there is intentionality for all students and all of their needs is phenomenal.
074Um so I won't reiterate what has already been said but I do want to um give a shout out to a giant that has not been mentioned in this work and that's Dr. Melissa Riley. She was instrumental in the creation of the ethnic studies and the ethnic studies framework and I mean so much so that it is now copyrighted. Um so um we wouldn't be where we are at today without her. >> Can we copyright any of any of the physical stuff that the the RJ department's making? The little sentence stem badges. Just a thought >> possibly. [laughter] >> Yeah. I I I think that is evidence of much pride [laughter] >> around the work and the tools. I think um and so I'll just add on you know for um for me the you
075know a lot of my points have been covered but also what I liked in it is the um the willingness as evidenced in the report to study practices to not assume everything works perfectly. You know there was um an example of of it's called math genius right? you know, like a program in the district. Let's make sure it's having the outcomes we want it to be having. You know, it's the um it's it's frankly intellectual humility to keep making sure we are doing this work in the way um and again to see it woven throughout the organization um is lovely and it's complex work. It's you know I don't again we probably won't get to a finish line but that's okay. We like the work. We find we find it inspirational so we'll keep doing
076it. It's good. Um because really to me um what this is about like when I try to explain this because how do you explain 20 pages and you know in the quick you know you bump into the neighbor at the corner conversation but it's about you know to me what I explain is making sure there's nothing in the way of every student getting a rich exciting education that really is is in a welcoming environment so they get the future they deserve. every student deserves the future that we hold in our hearts for them. So, and that's that's what you try to sum you can't even summarize it in 20 pages. Everything that goes into getting that done. So, I just want to say thank you to everyone in um in Northshore and the leaders um
077who help shepherd everyone along the way because it's it's again inspirational to be a part of it. So, anything else? So what we have how this works in our policy I'm seeing no discussion so I'm I'm moving us along. Um how this works in our policy is that a report is presented to the board and the board has an option to make the board members have an option to make um one of three motions in response to the the monitor and report to one find the superintendent and therefore the system in compliance with the policy P9 racial educational justice or to find that the superintendent is making adequate progress towards compliance or to find the superintendent not in compliance. So at this point we will entertain a motion from any board member. >> All right.
078I move that we find the superintendent in compliance with P9 racial and educational justice. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. So it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All right. Seeing none, we'll call for the vote. and the motion passes. Thank you. So, at this point, we're now going to write down our reflections for the record. So, if you give us a moment, um we're going to take a sec. There we go. All right. So, we are going to move on with our agenda since we are completed with the performance review. Next up, we after every monitoring report, we bring up the the policy um that we just reviewed in case there's any edits anyone or considerations anyone would like to think of for that policy. So, we'll open it
079up any um any review anyone would like to consider. >> You know, unlike the other parameters, this was not a parameter written by the board. It was actually written by our community. And um I think we have some great ideas coming forward to us. So we will wait and see what is proposed. >> Thank you, Director Hayes. That sound good to everyone? All right. Awesome. All right, we'll keep going. Thank you. Uh next up, we will have board reports and communications. So, first up is new business. Does anyone have any new business items? >> Do you want to go? Okay, I'll try and make mine quick. Um, there we I think we're all on this email. Uh, there is a regional town hall in 2026 that I think is primarily organized by the Belleview School
080District or PTSA. Okay. Yeah. >> Um, just wanting to put that out there to see if we want to have someone liaison or if we even want to be involved at all. >> Good question. >> Yeah. If nothing else, so they stopped taking credit for the idea. [snorts] It was really Northshore Edmunds and Shoreline that came up with this town hall component first, but they keep taking credit for it. So yeah, I think it's a great idea to have someone >> we may find our delegate. [laughter] >> Director Hayes, right? >> Um so if anyone would like to be or we can have two people be leaison. Um perhaps let Peggy know if you're interested or me. Okay. >> Yeah, >> I will do that right now. >> Yeah, there's a couple preparatory meetings before
081it happens, which we should probably be involved some ways about. >> They keep being in the middle of the day. >> Are they? I didn't look at the days and times. Oh, no. >> But it Yeah, [clears throat] >> I tried to forward it anyways. Oh, here it is. Okay. Thank you, Director Tran. >> Yeah, just thought I'd also point out that the um you can also go as a concerned citizen, you know, a member of the community, which given that it's happening in January, I believe some of us will be doing that. Um also wanted to point out also in January 9 to 10 is I believe this is the Wasa Wazda Wasbo Legislative Conference. Those are real beasts, honestly. Um, so that's that's coming up at the Seattle Hilton again. Okay. This year
082for some people. >> Seattle Hilton. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. And it's a single day again this year. Probably two day. Is that two days this year? Okay. >> But given that it's driving distance, I don't imagine that we would need to pay for a hotel. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other new business items? I have a few. >> They're easy. So, first, uh, magic clipboard was left behind here. >> No, it's easy. So, this is if anyone any board members would like to be represented. That grown was interesting. Um, would like to um attend and observe a student advisory council meeting. That's OC. It's a good clipboard. That's a good clipboard. And then um second of all, I just wanted to confirm I made an assumption that the board would still be interested in
083continuing the tradition of doing a board's night out during annual conference on that Friday evening. So as the WASDA annual conference is at a different location this year, we'll have to do research, but um it is it is a nice social tradition. Um okay, but it looks lots of head nods. Okay, so more to come. More to come. We'll find a location nearby and do that. Okay, that was my two new business items. I'm seeing nothing else. All right, so we'll keep going. Board member reports. >> Cool. >> You're up, Director Tran. >> I am up. All right, Friday, October 2. Oh, well, uh, study session today. Um, I think we have belabored how awesome the equity team is, REJ team is, so I'm not going to repeat that. Friday, August 26th, I attended the
084Maywood Hills Elementary ribbon cutting which coincided with PTA night. So that had wonderful attendance. Um am I starting backwards? I might be starting backwards here. Uh I'm just going to go backwards. uh Saturday, October 25th, um there was a Dvali um performance and gathering uh with the community at the Northshore Performing Arts Center hosted by the Washington Telugu Summit um organization. I want to thank the community for sharing their culture and traditions as well as um President Reesh Gudov Voli and the Watts leadership as well as NSD's assistant director Dr. Dr. Kdum. Um I was there for about an hour um and saw director Hayes. So was there with her and her partner. Uh also same day I had to leave the Dvali um performance and gathering early. Uh there was a pow-wow at Wanita
085High that was hosted by um the East Side Native American Education Program or ENAP which is led by Lauren Nab of the Pyute Shashony Nabo Navajo Navajo and Mono Tribes. um the program coordinator is um her role and she serves Belleview, Lake Washington and Northshore school district. So we had a multiple Northshore school district or students, excuse me, participating um [clears throat] had food from off the res food truck that was there and I needed to leave early before I bought more rugs and ponchos from the vendors. At Thursday, October 23rd, I attended um Superintendent Dr. Irish's what matters most tour in person here. It was great to witness the community engagement. I like the format that's being used. It's it's structured and it helps generate and facilitate conversations [snorts] and um really appreciated the
086translations. Um that was the first time that I had the opportunity to attend a what's matter what matters most event and h seeing the effort made for communications live translations and also the um app for translating into multiple multiple languages was wonderful and I hope that will um [clears throat] keep going and it makes the meeting more accessible. Tuesday October 21st there was a school visit. Oh yeah, prior to that same day, Thursday, October 23rd, 2 by two with Dr. McGordy and um Superintendent Irish, Tuesday, October 21st, we had our school visit at Lockwood Elementary. I think most of the board or all the board was there with the superintendent Irish. Um there's a great feedback from students, lack of modernization for the school. So really looking forward to seeing that school also be on
087the the short list of improvements. Um and thank thank you to our community for um approving the bond um at I think it's is it 22 >> is a 22 bond. Yeah. Um Tuesday, October 14th, we had a visit at Frank Love Elementary. Um this was the one where we got to sit down with the students. um different than um the Lockwood Elementary uh student panel. Um and I love the intimacy of being able to listen to students and um that's when one of our um students [snorts] who is nonverbal was able to use some of the the tech to communicate with us. So, um thank you again to the community for approving the tech levy a couple years ago. Monday, October 13th, I was a guest lunch server at Shelton View Elementary. Um, want
088to thank the director of food and nutrition services, Juliana Fischer. Um, great grateful to experience and see [laughter] the students walk through that tiny space. So, also grateful that um that is on the short list is for for um updates. Uh, of course, the na the lunch menu is great. um they're pulling themes, international themes, and noted that um that was the first time I had ever seen Vietnamese benme on the lunch menu. So that was pretty cool to witness. Uh [snorts] Tuesday, October 7th, or sorry, Thursday, October 9th, 2 by 2 with Director Hayes and Superintendent Irish. Tuesday, October 7th, I attended the Harvest Moon Festival at Maywood Hills Elementary that was held in the library and hosted by a couple students from Inglemore High and staff. Um, Friday, October 3rd, had Inglemore class
089reunion. [laughter] Um, Thursday, October 2nd. That was very interesting. Um, Thursday, October 2nd, attended the CTE kickoff event. um led by our CTE director Damon Schumman. Um thank you to him and his his staff and his leadership. It was wonderful to connect again with fellow engineers and your your partner. I sat at the engineering table. >> Great. Thank you, Director Tran. >> Sorry that was long. >> It's [laughter] been it's busy. We got a lot going on. Um [clears throat] yes, I also attended the school visits to Frank Love and Lockwood elementaryaries. Shout out and thank you to principles Katie French and principal Sam Ramirez for um hosting a great event. I love them putting their own fingerprints on this and making them work for their school. Um I also participated in National School Lunch
090Week at Woodenville High. Served jerk chicken. Thank you to the staff in the lunch staff at Woodenville. they were very tolerant as I got up to speed of keeping up with the work. Um I do um two things that I learned. One uh is that um the reimbursement rate from the federal government on school lunches went up by two cents per meal. [laughter] There you go. Say no more. So um we will be watching our bottom line with that. Up until now, it's been pretty good at being um revenue neutral, but I think it's going to not be so much. Um also, and perhaps more importantly, every single student said please and thank you as they came through the line. It was fantastic. Yeah. >> Um I attended the monthly Northshore Schools Foundation meeting. um
091they're continuing to do work and um come up with new ideas to support our students. Um also attended our citizens committee. They are ready to go now that we have voted on our three measures and uh there will be a kickoff in uh a month that we'll be looking forward to having two board members at. >> We're good. >> Okay. Um along with director McGerty met with and superintendent Irish met with representative Roger Goodman. Um robust conversation as always um about all things and ways that he can support continue supporting our schools. Attended the ribbon cutings at Wooden and Sorenson. A big um once again shout out to our community for that support. both schools the um flow the the way the architects created those buildings it's almost impossible to tell where the new one
092is and the old building particularly Sorenson you had to really have it pointed out of wait where where it's beautiful work and um to the discussion we had earlier it really will allow these students to thrive the spaces are beautiful um spent a weekend with the PTA at legislative assembly and um we were well Northshore was well um attended and the group great again really good conversations about the work advocacy work coming forward so enjoyed that um I've continued my meetings with schoolboard members around the state um also more PTA support attended the principal and president's lunchon that was held last week really um innovative programming and some very good conversations at my table. Um and then I was able to attend the Mo Matters most tour on October 23rd and as mentioned I attended
093the Dewali celebration um on Saturday night. I definitely want to make sure that ends up in our board planning calendar. it is um >> good point >> so valued by our community that we are in attendance um and so it's important to make sure we always send a board member to that in the future um that's it director okay um I also attended the frame club and Lockwood wood school tours and I especially enjoyed my time at Lockwood with the student panel and getting them to tell me all those fantastical things they would like in a playground. Um, we we got we went we went out into left field and stayed there and it was so fun. Um, and uh, on uh, October 15th, I got to serve lunch at Arrowhead and it was chicken
094burger day. And there are other meals as well, but it's like chicken burgers all day every day. Um, I served more of those than I have seen in one place in a very, very long time. Um, reminds me of my days of food service work. Um, which I really appreciate the good humor and uh just positive atmosphere that was in that lunchroom. Um, popping those kids through so fast. Um, they were in and out the whole school in like an hour, less than an hour. >> It was very impressive. Um, >> and kindergarteners included. And it was yes, it was just very very impressive. And everybody had a little present right for um that week. And so that was also made lunch more popular I think because they knew there was going to be a
095special thing. Um and or no that was well whatever. I don't even know the days I'm doing anything but here we are. Um, I also that week attended a lunch with the superintendent and some of our labor partners from NSA. Um, and got to have an enjoyable time together talking about how great our schools are. Um, and then I also attended the PTSA president's um, lunch. And one of the things that is really near and dear to my heart is thinking about accessibility because it's what I do all day every day. And so to be in a space where the community is coming around accessibility and how to how do we support our school communities in helping kids access what they need and the different ways that they need it. Um warms my little teacher
096heart. Um and then obviously I was at the study session earlier today and I think looking at my list. I think that's everything. >> Thanks, Vice President Sautchek. Dr. McGordy, my turn. Okay. I managed to miss National School Lunch Week. I was I was so disappointed. It was such fun last year and just seeing the the coordination that's necessary to get all of those kids through and all of those things in and out of the ovens and, you know, in front of the kids and then cleaning up. It's it was it's just impressive. If you have a chance to do it, I highly recommend it. Um, okay. On October October 13th, uh, we had a semi-judicial hearing uh, with the board. Uh October 14th g I my I there we go. Okay. Uh October 14th
097I had the school visit at Frank Love. It's always inspiring to see our students and and teachers um at work particularly the wind classes uh which I had an opportunity to go to. Um also on the 14th we had the WASDA ledger rep network um which I'll I'll spew about here since I'm on the topic. Um we had some interesting discussions in that uh in the breakouts about how to onboard new ledge reps since that will need to happen soon. Um but also comparing approaches with legislative advocacy and suggestions for the upcoming term. Um the Edmond School Board I thought had a was an interesting idea. Um you know to have um meet your legislators all together as a group if you know you can ever manage to get them all together in in one
098day and time. Um they also there was a study potential study session devoted to the legislation and legislative session which I thought was kind of a you know again if if there's ever you know room for in our our study session calendar for that. Um we had several uh suggestions uh that was meeting of the group um but also u you know bringing to the legislators stories but you know brainstorming with them which I think we've been doing um just you know how we can how how we can help them help us um I think part of the idea of meeting them as a group is you know strengthen numbers of witnesses with respect to each other and how they're responding and uh interacting um the use of J chat GPT te keeps coming up.
099Uh and in this case it was with respect to writing letters to our legislators uh generating ideas about how to focus on a specific uh area of concern or audience as the case may be. So that was just another thing that's thrown out. Um and just you know reminder we'll continue meeting with legislators um for the next month or two. Um, specifically Senator Stanford we have tomorrow and then Senator Dingra I believe is next week. Um, okay. October 15th, uh, I had lunch with Superintendent Irish, Director Sotek, and Lauren and Rick from the NSEA. Always a pleasure to to reconnect with them and, you know, keep our keep ourselves in tune. Uh, I also attended Dr. Irish's first student advisory committee that that night on the 15th. Um, and as always, our students just blew
100me away as they did tonight where we had members of the advisory committee there and and here. Um, just the way that they're they're engaged and open to discussion on on anything we throw at them. Um, it also, you know, just re reinforces the benefit of having our students come with us when we're or come with the board when they're advocating in in Olympia. Um, on October 16th, I attended the Zoom version of What Matters Most. Um, October 17th, I met with Representative Goodman, uh, with Director Hayes and Superintendent Irish. Again, really useful open, uh, discussion about the state of affairs and, you know, how we can, um, work together going forward without me. On October 21st, um I attended the Lockwood school visit uh where we had this lively panel discussion with the students.
101Uh and I also had a chance to see another wind class which is was lovely. October 22nd, I attended the Sorenson ribbon cutting uh which is just joyful. It's just the word that keeps popping in my head. And if if you haven't had a chance to see Superintendent Irish rolling down the new hill in the playground, I would highly recommend it. We we >> speaking of joys. >> Yes. >> Um in October 23rd, I attended the uh NSD Council PTSA presidents and principles lunchon. Um it's always great to see our admin and our community members working so closely together. Um and just the creativity that went into and and their examples of how they are meeting the sensory needs of students across the district was just so impressive. And shout out to our both High
102School culinary program who provided lunch for us which was very delicious. And then 2 by two meeting on the 23rd and here I am today. Great. Thanks Director McGordy. And of course the list is very similar. Um also October 14th I was also able to attend the Franklin Elementary visit. Um on October 17th the wooden elementary ribbon cutting. Um October 21st also was at the Lockwood Elementary visit. October 22nd the Sorenson um early childhood center um ribbon cutting as well. And October 23rd also was able to attend the what matters most tour and um meeting in this room which was lovely. So thank you everyone for your reports. Um