001Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for this evening's meeting. I'm like I would like to call this meeting to order. If you're so inclined, please feel free to join us for the pledge. On behalf of the board, I welcome all members to the 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 board members. Um, a little note, we're having a little technical difficulties with our projection screen, so we are just being nimble and going with it a little bit. So, don't pay attention to what's going on behind me. I'd like to introduce the
002people participating in this meeting. Recording Secretary Peggy King, Superintendent Dr. Justin Irish, board members Sandy Hayes, Han Tran, Jacqueline McCordi. I am Amy Cass, and I currently serve as president of the board. Vice President Sotac is excused from this evening's meeting. An agenda for this meeting is available online at boarddoccks.com and copies are also located on the table at the back of the boardroom. There will be an opportunity for in-person public comment to 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 includes closed captioning for both regular schoolboard meetings as well as study sessions. Visit nsd.org and under our district, click school
003board, then board meeting materials and videos. If you are here to address the board on agenda items, please sign in using the sign-in sheet on the table at the back of the room and take a number which corresponds with the line where you signed in. The first order of business is a land acknowledgement which I'll be um honored to share. And 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 in 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.
004The next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. Do any board members have a change to the agenda as written? All right, seeing none, is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay, it's been moved and seconded. And seeing no more discussion, we will call for the vote. and the app and the um item is approved. So, thank you. Next item on our agenda is the superintendent's report. Dr. Irish. >> Thank you, President Cass, and good evening, board. Um, I want to give you a brief update on some of the activities that I've been engaged with over the last couple weeks since our last board meeting. Today I had the privilege of attending uh Woodmore Elementary uh to meet with students um who were celebrating um
005and preparing to celebrate for the National Hispanic and Latino celebration. And I'm wearing my wooden t-shirt today in honor of um Wooden Elementary and the great work that they're doing. Um it's a beautiful um bilingual program and it was a great opportunity to engage with our uh Hispanic and Latino community in Spanish. Um as I'm striving to continue to be a fluent Spanish speaker. Um I also uh last week engaged in the what matters most community engagement um tour. We had about 40 community members uh parents and uh three students who attended uh the event. Um Director McGordy was there as well. Um it was a wonderful um representation of our community culturally, racially, um demographically um and um and was able to get some really good feedback, constructive feedback about uh the direction and
006what matters most. Um I've also engaged with our PACE leaders, our parent leaders in understanding, they did a great job um on boarding me as their uh new superintendent and understanding the program from their lens. Uh it was a great conversation and um very excited to see the great work that they have done over the uh that they continue to do and and contribute to our school district. Um I also engaged with the city council um uh via dinner as well as their city council meeting uh at the city of both um and um got to know and engage with them a little bit more and build relationship. I also attended the Northshore PTSA council meeting um as a part of my onboarding experience and had an opportunity to meet the leaders there. Um and
007then uh last week met with uh chancellor and the dean at Udub both um to learn about our partnership and it was great to hear her say that we are one of the strongest school districts that have a partnership with Udub both and we're able to um talk about that partnership and continue um thinking through how we can continue to collaborate. So that concludes my update for this board meeting. Thank you. >> You superintendent Irish. Any questions for Superintendent? All right, we will continue. The next item on our agenda is Northshore spotlights. We the board takes an opportunity once a month to spotlight things going on in the district um that have u we have heard about that we have gotten feedback about and we just like to take a quick minute to share. We're
008in the time of year where we're starting to get back student data from last year. A couple meetings ago, we talked about um the increase in enrollment in career and technical education programs by our students. And I have another spotlight today to share um some more information about our hardworking students. We have received information back from the college board organization that administers the SAT test as well as advanced placement test as well as the international balorate and our students continue to really excel and grow in their learning. So, um, our graduating seniors that took the SAT, um, that the percentage of our seniors continues to trend up and the mean score for our students is 1239, while the national average is 1020 1,024 and that average of 1,239 as a score for the SAT um,
009bears out across demographics, including students who get waivers um, from the fee because of of socioeconomic conditions. So, all of our students are really working so hard on the SAT. Um, our total advanced placement tests continue to trend up as well. Our students, we they're amazing. We have 2,444 students who took tests, which was up almost 5% from the year before. The total tests taken was 5,178, which was up 7 and a half% from the year before. Um, and also the amount of tests that get a passing mark of 3, four, or five, um, were 4513. that was up by 18.7% from the year before. Our students are so hardworking and in our international balora program um we had 272 students complete 851 exam exams in 29 different subjects. So this is at Inglemore so
010at one school. So 32% of juniors and seniors at Inglemore take one or more of the IB exams which is amazing. Um and of those um exams um we had a 92% success rate of a score of four or more which again is incredibly stellar compared um with students across the the country. And also we have students from our AVID program for students um who need support and um come from first gen um families who don't have prior experience with the college education system. um of of that cohort that participated in the AVID program, um three members, they all got um passing scores of four and above. Again, so hard working students who are overcoming barriers um and continue no matter what their circumstance continue to work really hard to to prepare themselves for life.
011So, thank you so much for that. That is our Northshore spotlight for this month. Go students. And we're going to move on with our agenda. So, our next item on the agenda is association and public comments. The Northshore School District Board of Directors has set aside a time of up to 60 minutes to receive updates and comments from district association leaders and community members as referenced and multiple policies adopted by the board. We expect all parties addressing the board to present 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 board and address matters related to district operations, policies, procedures,
012and agenda items under consideration by the board. Washington state law requires that the board limit its business and discussion at this board meeting to only those items that have been published in a previously published agenda. So what that means for us today, 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 agenda. Any topics brought up during public comments that are not included in the agenda cannot by law be discussed at this meeting and so will not be addressed or receive a response during the meeting. In either case, depending on the nature of your topic or questions, a district employee or a board member will follow up on any comments that relate to district business. Please note that
013the board silence during public comment is neutral by design. It is neither a signal of agreement nor disagreement with the speaker's remarks. 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 is possible that your statements could violate the rights of under of others under various laws, including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation. If you are unsure of the legal effect of your remarks, you should seek independent legal advice. In any case, we
014ask that you help us model for our students what a respectful and inclusive community looks and sounds like. So, per our practice, I first want to check if there's any association leaders here with us today. I don't think I see any today. All right. So, then we will move on to the general um public comment portion of this of this portion of the meeting. So, how this works is um we ask each um community member to li list limit their comments to three minutes. Mrs. King has u a timer. She will give you a 30 second notice when you are approaching the three minutes so we can make sure everyone has time to speak today. We ask that you identify yourself by name for the record when you come to speak. Um and um otherwise
015I will call by number. We don't have any students with us today because we prioritize students. So, first off, I will call speaker number one. >> I don't know what law you think you're Is this on? >> It is on. >> We have freedom of speech. I am here about the hatred spread by this school district and spread by Eric McDow. >> I'm sorry, sir. Could you please introduce yourself? >> No. for so sir if you don't mind if you can come up and speak and say you home >> and so we'll start the minute timer I'm speaking now okay please I I won't interrupt you >> I went through this school district I've had two children go through the school district I have a daughter who is 17 she's a senior at the school
016both my children are half Mexican and I have watched my children be treated treated and mistreated because they aren't brown enough by people that I know are 100% in this country illegally. I don't care what color their skin is. I do care about their legal status. And this school and this district promote illegal aliens and people who are not supposed to be in our country in front of our own children. And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of my daughter being called a pouta, which means by children that are not supposed to be in this country. I walk around the high school. I walk around events afterwards. And I hear the children speaking in Spanish saying the most horrible things you will ever hear. And if a child said them in English, they would be
017kicked out of the school. And I'm tired of it. I am tired of watching it. I am tired of my children being mistreated because they aren't brown enough. I don't care what color anyone's skin is, but I am tired of hatred being pushed from this school. And the land acknowledgement as well. I didn't take anything from anyone. And most of the people here did not take anything from anyone. They worked their asses off to get what they have and feed their children and have what they have. And I'm tired of them being degraded for it within a land acknowledgement at the graduation and everywhere. Do I feel sorry for Indians that were killed hundreds of years ago? Yes, I do. Do I feel sorry for anyone who was killed? Yes, I do. I feel sorry
018for Charlie Kirk being killed for his political views. But I'm tired of the hatred pushed by this school. You're brand new, so you walked into a firestorm. So I don't know. There is so much hatred being pushed by this school that I cannot stand it anymore. Am I at 2:30 yet? >> You You are, sir. >> Okay. The Northshore Foundation is a criminal act. People in this school district are being forced to donate parts of their paycheck to the Northshore Foundation. Why is that? I don't know. But I have a lawyer and we are going to find out why that is so. because that's not okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Bull. >> Stop pushing hatred, please. It hurts everyone of any color. >> Thank you for your comments. We appreciate your participation today. >> Speaker
019number two, >> superintendent and board of directors, my name is Michael Lowry and I'm a parent of a student at Morland Elementary. I come to speak today in defense of Dr. Eric McDall, the principal of North Creek High School, currently on leave due to a post he made on social media in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk. Dr. McDall's post was perhaps snarkier than I would have advised. But despite the claims of some, it neither promoted violence nor celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. It merely pointed out the hypocrisy of Charlie Kirk, his organization, and the wider MAGA movement. Dr. Madall pointed out correctly that offering only thoughts and prayers to victims of school shootings is cold comfort when a loved one is gunned down. Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, said that it was
020quote unquote worth it to have some gun deaths every year just for his vision of the Second Amendment. Dr. McDall, as a principal of a school in this country, has endured the constant anxiety of a possible school shooting happening on his campus under his watch. According to his message to staff and families when he took his leave, one of his closest friends lost her brother to a school shooting. He is uh pardon me, it's my comment. He is given the awesome responsibility by parents such as myself to keep our children safe at school. But as a school principal rather than a president or member of Congress, he is not given the tools to actually combat uh gun violence uh that affect our children in schools. Though when a proponent of keeping guns on the street
021was killed in a school shooting, it was an entirely human reaction to in my own paraphrase say that the man had been hoisted upon his own petard. The bigger problem here, however, is that much of the outrage over Dr. McDall's post is not actually coming from students or parents in this district is being whipped up by far-right media in the MAGA movement. They are not upset that Dr. McDow promoted violence, a thing that he did not do. They are upset that he pointed out their hypocrisy. I understand the district is like likely catching a lot of flack for this given the coordinated effort by some in the MAGA movement to hunt down anyone. It's insufficiently mournful or differential to Charlie Kirk. I understand that it may seem easier to quietly dismiss Dr. McDall and sweep
022this under the rug, but you must understand there is no satisfying authoritarians. They will not be assuaged by Dr. McDall's dismissal. They will not be sated by abandoning our principles and uh state law in the face of Trump's overreaching executive orders on education. They will not even be content by having transphobes and insurrectionists sitting on this very board. When authoritarians demand you do something that goes against your values, you do not comply. You tell them, "Fuck you. Make me." >> Excuse me, sir. >> So, um it is I just want to make a comment. We ask for there not to be profanity in the boardroom. Um this this is a space for we ask we ask that there not be. We would ask that you comply with that as this is a space for students
023and we want to model civility for our students. So thank you. Um we'll move on to speaker number three please. >> Uh good evening. Uh my name is David Marcos. Uh I am a father of three children at Ruby Bridges Elementary. Um I wanted to bring a few things today having listened to the story se uh the um discussion earlier the study session uh and also uh some things related to the TAC as I had the privilege to be a member of the TAC uh over the uh spring summer and fall and um some of the things actually that have been recommended here I had the chance to participate in. Um, having listened to the study session, my thought on some of the funding that I thought I wanted to provide and I think you
024know some of you were already were expressing it is that as much as I hear the concerns about the school district and the needs for the funding and whatnot, I do pause in concern about where the economic situation is particularly for the region, the layoffs that are coming uh to the tech sector that have been going throughout um the summer and whatnot. There was just a recent article Seattle Times on this about some people making large salaries that now are minimum wage baristas. Um, and I just caution that as much as there's concern about what might be future growth, we might have an inversion of that, which may be a challenge for what some of the calculations look like as to what the assessed values are. So, I just thought I'd offer that um and
025take it uh for what it's worth. Um the other aspect I want to talk about was with with respect to the TAC and uh why I actually joined. I joined um particularly because of all the issues related to AI. Um and my personal experience working in the tech sector doing responsible AI governance. Um what I would like to just offer for consideration are a couple of things and hopefully they're valuable. One is that um please don't jump on the AI bandwagon too quickly. In my estimation, having dealt with this over the past three to four years and seeing how people are jumping on it, many of the things out there are not ready for prime time, especially for children. And you can go and see plenty of academic articles that are now catching up with
026the pace of technology of AI that are showing some of the severe psychiatric risk to students, parents, adults, te uh children across the board. So, I would caution to be careful about that. Now recognizing that we can't be ludites about this um in my estimation trying to build these things out what I would recommend is to focus hard on AI literacy and education and in that uh I would ask you take a good look at the additional coordinators that are under discussion for um the future levy um and consider fully funding all those people and that's just based on my own uh uh my own experience which is to have that base people that can understand technology, educate the teachers, the students alike and understand what's going on and then also by extension teaching people
027a little bit more about what is appropriate to use for AI. I think you'll get a lot more out of that than necessarily jumping on tools and technology for it because it'll better teach the uh teachers as much as the students themselves. So, thank you very >> Thank you. speaker number four. >> Or you can leave it on the podium. That works too. Thank you. >> I uh I won't need all three minutes. Um >> just don't forget to introduce yourself for the record. >> Well, I heard Judy. >> Thank you very much. >> Sons at Sky View Middle School. I think my biggest concern with the Mr. McDow issue isn't so much the Facebook post and I actually don't even really want to speak on the issue itself. We all have uh the freedom
028to be upset about the things that we're upset about. I would like to say that inconsistency and outrage is a window into bias and prejudice anytime you have selective outrage. um protesting at a school itself in front of the students to me is inac is unacceptable. Uh I don't know if it's the board's role or if it's the police's role or if it is the school's role to make sure that those things don't happen. My son is in eth grade. He will be in nth grade next year. He may go to North Creek Middle School. And I would be beside myself if I knew students, if I knew parents were at the school protesting regardless of what it is. I will also say from the standpoint of selective outrage, as I have over the last
029decade watched the histories of brown faces be dragged through the news with no regard for their families, with no protest to be had, with no principles being dismissed. And yet today we are watching a principal who by all accounts has been great for students no long be no longer allowed at his job either by his own accord or by others simply raising an issue that is paramount to all of us with children at schools. Um I don't know what the board can do. I will say that this doesn't feel right doesn't feel good and it feels inequity. >> Thank you. Speaker number five. >> Uh good evening. Um my name is Peter Ngi. Um I have two sons in the district. uh one who just began at North Creek High School. And um I'm here
030tonight just to uh clarify a little bit about the point of campus security and what is the proceedings um or where I might be able to find that information uh regarding um people who aren't meant to be at the school who do appear on campus. Uh my concern stems from my son telling me that there were protesters on the campus uh during the time I saw a few sitting out on the sidewalk. So technically they were on public property, but I was told later by him that there were uh protesters holding signs out by the bus drop off area. And um I've done a little bit of uh community um work with the junior football program for North Creek High School. And I know that that area of the school is considered school grounds. So
031I just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention that um I understand that people have feelings about uh the events that have transpired and I will uh second Maher in uh saying that I believe that the principal of North Creek High School um was unjustly asked to step down or um you know uh persuaded to do so. And um so far what I have learned about North Creek High School through the interaction with staff and other parents in the district that it is an excellent environment for kids to learn and grow and thrive. And outside of the gentleman whose daughter sounds like is getting bullied, um I I wish to all Yep. And um I wish to uh just say that I think that what's paramount for me as a parent is that our children
032go to school and they do not have to worry about the thoughts or feelings of outside influencers or adults coming onto campus and making that experience change for them. Um when it's studentled, I'm 100% for that. I think that kids uh need the environment to be able to practice their ideas and expand their horizons. and actually confront those ideas that they don't understand better. Um, but where I do have concern is when I know that people with agendas uh protest signs um come on campus. So that's just like my big concern and I wanted to share that with you all and uh I can connect with anyone afterwards to find out where I can find that information on school policy and how we make sure that there aren't people uh entering campuses when they don't
033belong there. Uh thank you for your time. Thank you. So that concludes our list of public comments. So that is um the public comment portion of today's meeting. Um the board does have business to conduct. We understand if people have other things to do this evening and and would like to step out, but we're going to go ahead with the rest of our um agenda. So the next item on the agenda is the adoption of the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> Any comments, questions, discussion? Okay. Yes. Okay. We're going to do a voice vote because our technical gremlins continue. So, I'm seeing no further um discussion. So, I'm going to if you don't mind, Director Hayes, I'm going to call for Well, we'll just do it all
034together. All right. All in favor of um approving the motion to approve the consent agenda. Say I. >> I. Any opposed? Say nay. Okay. Um and the consent agenda passes. Thank you. So we will move now on to action items. The next action, the first action item rather is resolution number 99, the verification of the Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement project that it will be completed for purposes for which state matching funds will be provided. Superintendent Irish. Thank you, President Cast. For your review and approval this evening, pursuant to WAC 392 344130 projects qualifying for state match, the state requires a resolution by the board stating that the requested state match funds will be used as indicated in the state match application process. In this case, the funds have been requested for the Inglemore
035High School phase 1 replacement project and we recommend your approval. >> Okay. Thank you so much, Superintendent Irish. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. >> Second. >> All right. It's been moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion? >> Just um a reminder of the purpose of this. Um the state by and large does not fund buildings either the construction or maintenance of and so we are incumbent upon our community and um again thank you so much to the passage of the 2022 bond. We are doing some much needed work and Inglemore. There is a tiny amount of money that we can receive from the state if you pass a bond. And so this is the paperwork essentially so that can we can receive those funds. >> Thank you Director Hayes and we make
036good use of those funds. So absolutely. Any other questions or discussion? Okay. So it sounds like board docs may be back up. So I'm going to call for a vote and we're going to try to do it electronically. Oh, and look, there it is. All right. And that action item is approved. Thank you. Our second action item is a donation from the Inglemore Boys Basketball Booster Club. Superintendent Irish >> for your for your review and approval this evening is a $20,000 donation for the Inglemore um Gridian football booster club to the Inglemore High School football program for funding up to $10,000 for additional coaches and up to $10,000 for program in general. We recommend your approval. >> Thank you. >> Did I read it wrong? I read it backwards. Sorry. So, we are on action
037item number two. I apologize for that. This is the donation for Inglemore Boys Basketball Booster Club. So, for your review and approval this evening is a $14,000 donation from the Inglemore Boys Basketball Booster Club to Inglemore High School to fund additional boys basketball coaching positions. We recommend your approval. >> Thank you, Superintendent Irish. Is there a motion to approve action item number two? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Great. Any questions or discussion? >> Okay. Again, really appreciate every community member so supportive of our students. Okay. So, no further discussion. We'll call for the vote. All right. And that action item is approved. Thank you. Next action item is the donation from Ingamore Grid Iron Football Booster Club. Superintendent Irish >> and I will repeat what I just said. So for your review and approval
038this evening is a $20,000 donation from the Inglemore Grid Iron Football Booster Club to the Inglemore High School football program for funding up to $10,000 for additional coaches and up to $10,000 for program in general and we recommend your approval. >> Thanks so much. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> Questions or discussion? It's >> a night for Englemore. >> It is a night for Englemore. Go Vikes. Oh. Okay. Again, thank you for supporting our student athletes community. All right. See no further discussion. Got call for a vote. And it passes. Thank you. And now for our last action item. Action item number four, which is the 20252027 collective bargaining agreement between Northshore School District and the Northshore cons custodians group affiliated with Teamsters Local Union number 763. Superintendent Irish. On
039August 4th, 2025, the Northshore School District and the Northshore Custodians Group affiliated with Teamsters Local Union number 763 representing custodians reached a tentative agreement on the renewal of the 2025 2027 collective bargaining agreement. Attached is the executive summary outlining the ratified agreement changes and the tentative redline version of the collective bargaining agreement effective September 1st, 2025 through August 31st, 2027. And we recommend your approval. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> Any questions or discussion? >> Um once again, thank you to all involved for um bringing this forward in alignment with our current fiscal situation. At the same time, honoring the amazing work that our custodians do. They go above and beyond for our students day after day. >> Thank you, Director Hayes. Any further questions or discussion? All
040right, seeing none, we'll call for the vote and that action item is approved. Thank you very much. Now, we're moving on to our next portion of our agenda, which is a performance review section. Um based off of our policy um we have a a annual calendar by which we evaluate how the district is doing under certain categories and we have two this evening. The first one is the monitoring report for the policy called superintendent parameter number four which is the superintendent communication to the board. Would you like to introduce it superintendent Irish? >> Yes. Thank you President Cast. Presenting for your approval this evening is the monitoring report for superintendent parameter 4 the superintendent communication to the board. I certify that the information contained in this report is true as of September 23rd, 2025. I
041also do hereby certify that with the information evidence provided within this report that I am in compliance with the requirements set forth within this parameter. >> Thank you, Superintendent Irish. So, any questions or comments from the board on this monitoring report? eventually you don't get to have the newbie excuse anymore, but um again recognizing that you're stepping in um this is reflective of a year-long work by the previous superintendent as well as Dr. Irish. Um, having worked with boards around the state, I know that we have the gold standard in terms of information and keeping us in the loop in our district from our superintendent and to the board. And we've certainly seen some recent news where maybe there wasn't a touching base with the board before actions were taken. So, I'm very grateful for
042that and definitely uh appreciate all of the information that we receive on a daily basis. Um our we get we get texts anytime anything happens at a school so that we're aware. Um our 30page budget monthly budget report um is uh much more detailed than again most boards receive. Um there's so many examples of it. My my one wondering um and I'm thinking that it might be something we might need to augment in our this parameter is that as board members change as superintendents change that we are supposed to be receiving the minutes from our different committees and task force meetings and that waxes and wes. um and um doesn't seem that important except that we definitely had some moments where we weren't uh alerted to some conversations that were being had and we were
043caught off guard and so it is so necessary that we do receive those and so I'm wondering if maybe we put it in writing in here then it's a reminder for board members and um whoever sitting in those seats and in the superintendent seat that that is an expectation that we do receive those >> duly noted and yes I I think that's a great suggestion. Thank you Director >> Hayes. To be clear you're suggesting adding it to the policy as opposed to yes the report. >> So going forward >> yes going forward. >> Any other discussion? >> Just wanted to make sure. Was that for the liaison roles or >> No. No, we haven't snow. No, it's um like our we had a representative from our TAC committee that was here. Um our EDT EDTF
044certainly in the next year or two that's going to be super important that we are hearing what they're talking about and wrestling with. Um capital projects, our CMA committee, I mean I could go on and on. Middle school task force, all of those. Um it we can protect the committees if we know what they're talking about. Otherwise, there have been moments in our history where there was a conversation, we weren't privy to it, we were caught off guard, it blew up. Um, so it's just beneficial for the system if we are informed of the conversations that are being had. >> Well, good catch, Director Hayes. Thank you for that. Um, I'll just, you know, echo her other words and also, um, thank you, uh, Superintendent Irish, um, for as you're the newbie. I mean, it's
045valid, but you've also, I think, stepped up and jumped in to carry on the um, traditions, if you will, of making sure that the board has everything we need and communicating directly with us and going out of the way to to make sure we understand. uh you know the events and issues that are are going on around the district. So we really appreciate that. Any other thoughts? I'll just tack on a yes and um and I just want to acknowledge how quickly you stepped in, Superintendent Irish. Again, this is looking back a year, so a lot of this work was not during your tenure. Uh but you're certainly, you know, jumped onto the treadmill really, really quickly. And I I wanted to express appreciation for that because it really does help when when we have
046the information and we're out in community and can um have context to answer questions, concerns, and be that bridge to the community. So, thank you. Okay. All right. So, per our policy, how this works is the board at this time takes the opportunity to present um feedback to the superintendent based on the monitoring report. Um, a board member can make a motion to find the superintendent in compliance with policy P4, uh, making an adequate progress towards compliance or not in compliance. So, at this time, we'll entertain a motion. >> I'd like to motion that we find the superintendent in compliance with the provisions of policy P4, superintendent communication to the board. >> Second. Okay. >> Moved and seconded. Any other discussion? All right. Okay, I'll call for the vote. Okay, I don't know if all
047board members have voted. If we can check our screens. Okay. So, and then we take a moment to um write down our reflections and notes from this conversation because we pull them together at the end of the year when we do an evaluation of the superintendent per his contract. So, we take a moment so we don't forget what we talked about. So, pardon us for a sec as we do that. And the um motion has passed. Thank you. We're going to continue on. We have one more performance review to do. The second one is a monitoring report for the next policy, superintendent parameter number five on public reports. Superintendent Irish. So presenting for your approval this evening is the monitoring report for superintendent parameter 5 public reports. I certify that the information contained in the
048report is true as of September 23rd 2025. I also here hereby certify that with the information evidence provided within this report that I am in compliance with the requirements set forth within this parameter. >> Thank you. Superintendent Irish. Comments discussion from the board. I um I I guess echo my our our thoughts from the last uh parameter. I think you've done a really fabulous job into um the work with respect to going out and interacting with the community, providing reports to them, videos even, which is terrific. Um I also just wanted to point out that this this parameter in particular and the previous one are relatively this one's relatively short. seem very straightforward but um the amount of work that goes into implementing um these things I mean communications can be very tricky and complicated
049and take a great deal of time and effort um so I thanks to the communications folks and uh everybody who's putting in that effort um the effort is just is just staggering but it provides connection understanding and opportunities for discussion and growth, which is why we're all here. Thank you. >> I concur with those comments. I think a lot of the what was included in the report was honest. I love the fact that we're calling ourselves out and making sure that we're being held accountable. And this is before your time. So, it's superintendent, former superintendent's listen and learn sessions. And I look forward to the what matters most sessions and how we can make sure that the communities that felt left out the last time around are included. >> Thank you, Director Tran. >> Um
050Yes. And and each superintendent um creates this in a way that's meaningful for them. um all ways with a lens of not being one-way communication but a dialogue, a two-way communication. And so um continuing that great work. Thank you so much. Um I just want to do just a shout out for um bullet point three, providing the public with regularly scheduled reports on revenues and expenditures and a comprehensive overview of the district's financial condition. Um the last two years that has been a human's uh effort to keep them informed and the wise and wherefors of our financial condition and really really appreciate the the steady um calm providing of information in a way that is digestible for everyone so that people understand exactly where we're at and why we're there and and how we can
051move forward. I have one more clarifying. It's a yes and a claring clarifying comment that I made. It wasn't to call out to Superintendent Tully. He did an amazing job. It's just more we have room to grow. >> And I'll do my yesand in that. I appreciate the humility, right? It it's this is complex work. We are a big district with tens of thousands of people and we have to be honest when we need to make adjustments which um is the sign of a healthy system when we can be honest about that. So um I I also I I just have all the yesands. So again this is um complex work. We're going to continue to have to continually fine-tune and I um as the the work of public education will becoming continually complex it
052looks like in the next couple years. So, thank you to everyone for the two-way um partnership with our community and again, Superintendent Irish for how quickly you jumped in. I just um want to reiterate that again. So, again, same structure, same policy, unless there's any further discussion. All right. So, um we will entertain a motion to find um the superintendent either in compliance with policy P5 public reports making adequate progress towards compliance or not in compliance. >> I move that we find Superintendent Irish in compliance with uh parameter P5 public reports. >> I second that. >> Okay, it's been moved and second. Any further discussion? All right, seeing none, we'll call for the votes and take our time to write our notes. and we if someone wants to look up to their monitor. Thank you.
053All right. And um that motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Uh, is it a good time to move on? Great. Okay, we're going to continue. So, now after we've monitored against those two policies, we're going to bring them up as Director Hayes just modeled as a good time to say, "Hey, maybe we need to tweak a policy." So the first one we'll do the first policy review is that is P4 which is the superintendent communication to the board. Um so director Hayes I have taken a note that getting minutes from committees and task forces to the board would be a strong addition to P4. Did I capture that correctly? >> Excellent job. Thank you. >> Okay. So if if anyone wants to suggest language that would be at some point doesn't have to be right unless
054we want to write from the DAS we can do that too. >> Okay. But we certainly don't need that. Nothing is worse than watching people word smith. Um I was just thinking a comma where the period is in bullet point three. Um inform the board of relevant trans facts and information relevant to the board's work and implementation of board policies including receiving minutes from task force committees. whatever we got going. >> Just spitballing >> from act from active task forces maybe. >> Yeah. Or we can create a new bullet point. >> That sounds good to me. >> Two. I think it'll fit well in in bullet three. >> Okay. Okay. All right. We will work up a draft. Anything else anyone would like to suggest for this policy? Okay. Let's look at P5. That's the
055second policy review at this portion of the agenda under public reports. It is amazing how much work can happen with three bullet points. Any suggestions? Okay. Of course, at any point we can always bring these up, but I'm going to go ahead and keep us moving. So, next up, we have two information items. The first one is the first reading of a purchase and sale agreement for the Shulty property at Morland's Elementary. Superintendent Irish, attached for your review are documents related to the purchase of the Shely property at 15207 84th Avenue Northeast adjacent to Morland Elementary School. >> Thank you, Superintendent Irish. Any questions from the board on this purchase? I just wanted to confirm that was the portion of the property that's in unincorporated bothl or unincorporated >> municipality. Kenmore. >> It's in the
056city of Kenmore. >> Okay. Sorry. Kenmore. >> Um is that okay? Um I just want to point out that this is the the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of the property around Morland. New Orleans is in a very constrained uh lot and um desperately needs some updating and work, but we have not had the capacity within the lot to be able to do that. So, it's very exciting because we've got all the pieces except for this one and so that finalizes it. So so um grateful to the work done again by our capital team bringing this to this and staying on it and thinking all the things to get um this work done so we can provide a equity for our students at Morlands. And I'd like to point out that this is the
057result of long-term conversations with the families. So years over years. So letting them know about the need for the school and yet working with them on a timeline that works for them. Okay. Any other discussion? All right. Last information item is the project acceptance category for under $1 million. Superintendent Irish. >> Thank you. Attached for your review are two projects under 1 million that were completed during the reporting period. They consist of security security radio system at Frank Love Elementary, Timbercrust Middle School, Northshore learning options in Norway Hills site. Um and then um the second is the WHS um field improvements at the Woodville High School. >> All right. Any questions from the board? >> Not a question. I just wanted to comment. It's um I know one of these in the the change orders
058that that went through, one one went up, one went down, but it was nice to see a a uh a global decrease in the in the cost to the to the district. >> Thank you. Yeah, good work. >> I can't believe I'm asking. Where is the Norway Hill site? Um, as the newbie, I'm going to refer to our wonderful capital projects lead. >> It can be in a memo. >> Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. >> So, I I think of a Norway Hills as being over by Kenmore. >> Yeah, that's where I thought Norway Hill was, too. >> Glad I'm not the only one. >> Yeah. So, so, okay, we we'll we'll ask for followup. Okay. >> Okay. >> There we go. and maybe it's some fiber infrastructure or something. >> Okay, any other questions?
059All right, so we're going to keep going. Now we're under board reports and communications. First item is new business. Do board members have any new business items? All right. Lastly, we have board member reports and we're going to start with Director Tran. >> Cool. I missed the last board meeting, so it's going to be a couple weeks of stuff, but I'll try and make it as quick as possible. Thursday, August 28th, I attended the board retreat with all of the board members and Superintendent Irish. Tuesday, September 2nd, attended the coordination meeting with President Cass and Superintendent Irish. Wednesday, September 3rd. Um I had the privilege and honor of greeting students on their first day over at Maywood Hills Elementary. Thursday, September 4th, attended the Washington State School Directors Association or WASDA General Assembly Prep meeting.
060Um Monday, September 8th, also related to WADA, I attended the BIPOC caucus led by board vice president of Breton, Karen Bolton. Um, I was not able to attend the WASDA equity and access and large school caucus as planned. Unfortunately, I had conflicting meetings. Monday, September 15th, I attended the Northshore Council PTSA as a le board liaison for their first general meeting this year. Superintendent Irish did a wonderful job of presenting there and getting to know the community members who do just wonderful work for the community of Northshore. Um, so I want to thank those volunteers and especially uh the folks who spend time in the leadership roles like uh President Grace Dorado. Uh Thursday, September 18th, I attended the 2 by 2 with vice president SOTAC and superintendent Irish and then the same evening I
061attended the Citizens for Northshore Schools as a liaison there. And then Saturday, September 20th, I attended the Wazda General Assembly. Thank you, Director Hayes, for being the returning WASDA president and doing a great job ushering us through the session of the general assembly. And thank you, Director McGordy, for being the voting delegate for our board. Um, Tuesday, September 23rd, we uh that's today, um had our third study session out of three on the bond and levies. So, thank you so much for the people who put so much time and effort into creating charts, getting the data so that we can make an informed decision for the community. Um, and then of course looking forward to to the what matters most tour. I didn't get to attend this time because of the citizens meeting. >> Thank
062you. And director McCordi. >> Yes. Thank you, President Cast. Uh, let's see. On Thursday, September 11th, I attended the virtual large district caucus to discuss the upcoming general assembly uh for WASDA. And on Tuesday the 16th, I met with Representative Cloba along with Dr. Irish and President Cast um where I thought we had a very productive conversation um if short on how we might work together to address education issues in the in the coming session um and going forward. Um, Thursday the 18th, I attended Dr. Irish's first What Matters Most tour. Um, and was really excited to see the very large and very diverse turnout that we had tonight. People were really engaged and thoughtful and had a a whole lot of great ideas as as you said. Um, September 20th and Saturday, I attended
063the general assembly as the voting delegate with directors Tran um, excuse me, Tran and Hayes. Um and so correct me if I misspeake uh here. I think we had like 124 delegates um present or something like that which is which is terrific compared to what what we used to get on in-person meetings. This was virtual so it was much more inclusive. Um >> let's see and it was record time. It was over by midday maybe 12:30 which was fabulous. Um now there there was a lot about it that was very straightforward house cleaning keeping with respect to the um the um catalog um but a few proposals sparked some debate and but most was you know for the most part were very civil and productive uh even in light of some pretty disperate views uh
064in the crowd. I have to say I was disappointed that a proposal went down to integrate um climate science into our curriculum um largely due however to budget concerns. Um and I think this was um well what we're voting on with these proposals is what WASDA will advocate for with the the the legislature. Um but there seemed to be a general feeling that trying to advocate for anything that would require state funding um was not tenable in light of the fact that we've not been able to convince the legislature to fully fund basic education. Um and of course there was a worry that if the legislature agreed with our proposal and wanted to implement the uh ideas, they would probably not attach the funding that was necessary. And there we go again with an unfunded
065mandate. Um the as a reminder, the form will be out this Thursday for us to pick our top 10 WASDA legislative priorities. Uh which as you know is before our next meeting. So if everyone can get me the input for that and we put together the the top 10 list. Um and then uh I will also have our draft legislative priorities for this board to you shortly. It is being reviewed. Um then yesterday afternoon I attended a forum uh with Representative Delben at the Lake Washington School District offices which I thought was very well attended and I thought um very informative. Um the district reps in attendance had some really good questions and discussions about what's happening in DC um and how it impact has been impacting us here on the local level. And while
066Representative Delbenny didn't exactly have terribly uh encouraging things to to discuss with us or you know positive responses, she did she made some really great points and um you know fielded some very difficult comments and questions about what's going on. Um there were suggestions really good suggestions traded on both sides about how we can work together to support public education uh going forward. Um, and one thing in particular I thought was was just a a great comment from her was I guess a plea for us to not um become so frustrated that we give up, that we stop looking at the news, that we stop trying. Um, we we need to bring our students and our staff through this and we need to keep up the good work and keep standing up for public education
067in any way we can. So, I thought that was a really great message to take home. And that's me. >> Thank you, Director McCordi. Director Hayes. >> Thank you. A lot of similarities. Um, but I did start my u last two weeks. Um, I met with a representative Liz Barry. She is a um Seattle state rep state representative. Um, met asked to meet with me. There is a bipartisan group um wanting to bring forward a no cell phone in schools um ban for the state and so um just was looking for some input on how we did it and and so forth. So u mostly just going to kind of stay in touch with her to make sure that they don't pass something that then undoes the work that we have just completed. So um
068it was a good conversation. She asked great questions. Um, I had a former superintendent Michael Tally sighting. Um, and he did confess that he did virtually watch our last board meeting. So, he's having a hard time separating. Um, so hi if you're watching again. Um, attended as a liaison to the Northshore Schools Foundation meeting. They are working um with the Evergreen Hospital to try to come up with funds to fund the nurses at our fifth grade camp program. So that would be super helpful. I know PTSA is also looking at helping to um find a way to to lower those costs because it it has gone up in the last year. So um grateful for that. Um I did manage to attend the large school district caucus. um ended up mostly being new board members
069sharing um their experiences and some ideas of what would have what can be helpful. >> So that was that was great to hear. Um as was mentioned I did attend general assembly. I was in person. Um and I just want to do a shout out. The parliamentarian is a retired Northshore teacher. Um was actually there when my kid was at Inglemore. Um so I thank him for his efforts. kept things moving forward. And then I also attended the education forum with Congresswoman Del Benny yesterday. Um again just um very uh appreciative of the willingness to listen and ask questions and um what she can do to support us. Um, I did hear that there is still no budget and no plan to bring the house back until after uh September 30th, which is the end
070of the fiscal year. So, um I think just being mindful of our families that receive funds from the federal government that um it's going to could be a tough couple weeks for them. So, >> thank you, Director Hayes. Um, and I just have two quick things. One of which on September 11th, the North Urban Human Services Alliance, which supports human services organizations in North King County, um, because proportionately North King County does not get the same proportionate amount of funds for human services as the rest of the county. So, they've created an alliance to help do something about that. but they sponsored an open house with King County officials because of the best start for kids levy um to bring together providers as well as county people and folks in the area. It was a
071great it was um just formatted enough to have just enough structure, but basically people could meet each other. And for example, I learned that the best start for kids levy supports a um high school dropout re-engagement program. Didn't didn't know about that. So yeah, so it's um it was very helpful and again great work um that Nusa is a is a um spunky and mighty organization that's making real real difference in our community. I'm grateful for them. Also like director McGordy said, I also met with Representative Shelley Cloba um and have been having um multiple parent and community conversations these couple weeks which has been great. Really appreciate our community. So um that is the last board member report. I think that is it for our agenda. I'm going to go ahead and adjourn this
072meeting.