001All right. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for this evening's meeting of the school board. We really appreciate your time and effort coming here. I am going to call this meeting to order. Um if you're so inclined and able, please 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 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 board members.
002I would like to introduce the people participating in today's meeting. Recording secretary Peggy King, Superintendent Mr. Michael Tully, board members Sandy Hayes, Han TR, Jacqueline McGordy, and Elizabeth Sotac. I'm Amy Cast, and I currently serve as president of the board. An agenda for this meeting is available online at boarddogs.com and copies are also available on the table at the back of the boardroom. There'll be an opportunity for public comment to be shared during the association and public comment portion of the meeting. Community members who are interested in viewing this meeting with closed captions are encouraged to follow the link on our website to the district's YouTube channel. The YouTube stream includes closed captioning for both regular schoolboard meetings as well as the study session like we just had right before this meeting. Visit nsd.org and
003under our district, click school board then board meeting materials and videos. If you are here to address the board, um please on agenda items, please sign in using the sign-in sheet at the back of the room and take a number which corresponds with the line where you signed in. Our first order of business is the land acknowledgement which I will read. We take time to we take this time to acknowledge that the Northshore School District occupies the unseated coalish 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
004tribal leaders expands. The next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. Do any board meetings have or excuse me, any board members have any changes or adjustments to the agenda as posted? All right, seeing none, is there a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll call for the vote. All right. And the agenda passes. Thank you so much. Next item on the agenda is the superintendent report. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cast. Um, I would like to re take this opportunity to report that Northshore School District has had over 1,700 students graduate this spring from our high schools and programs. This includes graduates from our four comprehensive high schools, both Inglemore, North Creek, and Woodville high schools, as well as from the Innovation Lab High
005School, Northshore Learning Options Programs. That's the Northshore Networks and Northshore Online Academy and the Secondary Academy for Success. I of course attended each of these graduation ceremonies. And as you know, graduation represents a significant achievement for our students, but also graduation represents the dedicated support provided to our students by their families and all the staff in Northshore School District. Um, that concludes my remarks for this evening. Thank you, Superintendent Ty. Next item on the agenda is the Northshore Spotlights. This is uh a agenda item once a month where the school board takes a minute to just to highlight great work being done in the district. Um and during our agenda planning meeting we also too decided it was just um incredibly important that we highlight all our graduates as well. 1700 plus graduates um with
006the we all also attended all the graduations um not just of the schools themselves but the dozens of programs and the join celebration is just remarkable. Um also too we want to um take a minute to point out that the graduate these graduations actually showcase the mission of public education when we all come together to not only prepare our children for their future but our neighbors children as well. And so, not only are the folks in this room entirely proud, but the entire community should be proud of how we have car been caretakers together over the last 13 years to support these students. And um it was just something that the entire community should be proud of. So, that is Northshore spotlights for this month. Um next up is association and public comments. The Northshore
007School 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 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 relating to district operations, policies, procedures, and agenda items under consideration by the board. Washington state law requires that the board limit its business and discussion at board meetings only to those items that have been captured in the previously published agenda. So, what that means
008for us today is that any public comments regarding items that are included in the agenda will be taken into consideration by the board when that topic is addressed during today's meeting. But any topics brought up during public comment that are not included in the published agenda cannot by law be discussed at this meeting and so will not be addressed or receive a response today. 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 the board silence during public comment is neutral by design. It is neither a signal of agreement nor disagreement with this speaker's remarks. Also, please note that comment should not make reference to any employee or representative of the district
009by 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 that 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 effects of your 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, I don't think I see any association leaders. So, we will move right on to general public comment. Thank you, Carrie. So, I'll call
010you by the number listed. And um as the board um prioritizes student voice, we actually go out of order, which is another reason why we have the numbering system. We ask for our students um our students be able to be prioritized and come up first. So I'll call the number. You'll see a timer on the screen for 3 minutes. We ask everyone limit their comments to 3 minutes. And there's a microphone up here. You can push the button on and please introduce yourself for the record. So would speaker number three please come join us. All right. Hi, my name is Shay Burton and I am a current student from both High School as well as a previous student from Kimmore Middle School. And I am here to discuss the proposed change to the general education
011funding, a change that disproportionately affects the Northshore School District along with Kimmore Middle School. I attended KMS all three years and this is my little sister, Kyla, who is entering the same school this coming fall as a sixth grader. I completely understand that you are all tasked with a big decision on the budget cuts, but I am here to give my take on how impactful this specific decision would affect all learning experiences, including my sisters. I've previously heard this topic on special education students being counted as possibly less from a math teacher from KMS and a drama teacher from KMS. I understand this type of decision would increase class sizes specifically at Kmore Middle School due to the number of special education students. While many make may make this decision out to be minor in
012most schools, my concerns on this will increase um on how school school students like my little sister would not be able to get the same education opportunity as I did when I was enrolled in KMS. For example, if a kid needed help in class who was raising their hand to ask a question, a teacher might be delayed to answer due to helping another kid because of the same class size. Another thing I would like to mention are how the teachers are going above and beyond and how they would be tasked with much more difficulty relative to the class sizes. A specific teacher who I would really love to mention who is from Kimmore Middle School um is a science teacher who is known as an amazing teacher and really dedicates herself to her students. She
013finds as much one-on-one time with them as possible and just really encourages them. She helps them feel safe and supported. She boosted my confidence and still is my favorite teacher to this day and definitely is one to be remembered. With the possibility of this decision, I would absolutely hate to see those teachers get burnt out for what they do. And even if they're struggling to find time and energy with those students who really need it, classrooms would also be stuffed. The problem with these with this is they could possibly become a safety hazard. Like could you imagine an extra 10 kids with in a science lab or workshop with active chemicals and tools while a teacher's trying to instruct? It's just it's not too good. Again, I totally get everyone has to make a really
014big decision here and it's not easy. However, where a district's main goal is education, this is not where the budget cut should be made. Thank you for letting my big sister speak today. I hope you consider what she is saying and I want the same education as her. Thank you all for your time and hearing student voices. Thank you. Thank you so much and thank you for your advocacy today. It's really appreciated. We'll continue with um public comment. We'll go back to number one, please. Feel like the podium's closer now. Okay. Good evening, members of the board. My name is Crystal Riddiski and I'm a proud member of the both community. I'm the mother of two boys, one at Frank Love and one who will soon be at Kenmore Middle School. I also just wrapped
015up my 16th year teaching at both High School. I am here tonight because I was not able to attend on Monday, June 9th, uh for the vote that was regarding the annual review of the interlocal agreement with the city of both for the SRO program. I watched the board meeting just a few days later at my home and I was relieved to see that the vote was approved, but I did feel discouraged that there were two nay votes. Uh, Superintendent Tully, I want to thank you for putting together this the student wellness and safety task force um a few years ago and for continuing that work for the past three school years with that group. While I have not personally been an active member of the task force, I have followed the work of that
016group pretty closely and I really hope that the work of that group can continue with our new superintendent in the 2526 school year and that the focus of that group can shift and move into the expansion of the SRO program to the other interested schools in the district. One thing I noticed when I was watching the June 9th meeting was that there were a lot of ponderings and questions from board members prior to the vote regarding the SRO program on June 9th. Um, specifically the questions uh some of the ponderings were in regards to the low number of student respondents on the survey that was given to both High School in May. I would like to remind you all of the strong support that we have given prior as a community and displayed uh for
017our SRO program for the past three years. Since around March of 2022, I began counting all of the people who have come forward to give public comments at the schoolboard meetings in favor of the SRO program. So, this is an approximation in my best attempt at counting. I believe there have been more than 65 people who have come forward. 25 have been both high school students. Some have been my own students, but many of them are students that just go to the school that I don't know. Uh this includes our ASB president in the past and executive board members. Some of the students have spoken at more than one schoolboard meeting. We've had at least 20 bothl staff members including our own principal, four of our teachers, our ASB adviser, three counselors, some of our
018coaching staff, the Aspire program teacher, a PAR educator, our attendance and athletic secretary and our campus supervisor have all come and spoken and some of them have spoken more than once. Uh we've had multiple parents, about 14 parents by my count, including one of our PTSA presidents, eight community members who had former students in our schools who have since graduated. And tonight, this will be my fourth time speaking to you as a group about this program. Uh not to mention the times where we filled this boardroom with over a hundred community members who came out showing their support wearing blue to support the speakers for the program. So in addition to schoolboard speakers, we have also sent countless emails. We have held a student focus group in May of 2023. These were student led groups
019and included about approximately 180 BOA both student voices. In May of 2024, we also hosted a town hall meeting uh where several student, staff, both alumni and community members spoke in support of the program. And I mention all of this because of the discussion of the lack of responses to the survey. I believe it was stated that there were about 212 responses. So Crystal, your time's elapsed. Do you have a summation by any chance? Uh yes. Okay. So basically I just want to point out that the year prior there were 595 responses and even even after all of this very evident overwhelming support um there were two nay votes on June 9th and the community that you serve and represent would like to know why. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. And speaker number
020two. Hello. I am Laura Stannif and I'm here today with a different hat. Um, I'm here because I am the presidentele of the board of the Inglemore High School Theater Boosters. And, uh, in that capacity, I sent you an email this morning or I copied you on an email regarding um, our boosters opinion about things that are possibly going to affect our program next year. And um my intention tonight had been to read part of the letter. However, I have received uh what I think is a very reasonable and encouraging response from the principal. And so I decided that I would switch gears, speak off the cuff, just try to talk about how amazing our program is and how valuable I think it is. Um and specifically I'm going to call out the um the
021fact that our troop has for many many years been a member of the um international thespians honor society. Um it has been very successful especially under the um um direction of our current um theater director who by the way is going on leave of absence next year and that is causing quite a bit of consternation amongst our students and parent community and concern over what will happen next year. Um, the Inglmore Theater Company is one of only two schools in the state that have consistently rated as a gold troop in the um, Thespian Society for seven years in a row. And at the moment, as we speak, we have a group of students at the International Thespians Festival in Indiana, and they are having a great time, and we're this is the first time we've
022ever sent a a group there, and we're thrilled. Um, so more generally, I just want to speak to the value of this type of engaging activity that keeps kids in school. It keeps them learning. And even though it may seem that it's just an extracurricular, it is also part of the curriculum, both technical and um acting. and they really do learn a great deal of varied things in these classes and just through the experience and the community and the teamwork. It really is teamwork. And so I know that we continue in budget crisis, but um I think that we need to remember to look to the kids and what engages them and we need to continue to value the things that they engage with. So thank you all for your attention and support. Thank you
023for coming today, Laura. That concludes public comment for today. Again, thank you so much for um coming and being part of our meeting. Um we enjoy company in the boardroom, but if you have other things to do this evening, please feel free um because we're going to go ahead and continue with our agenda. So, next up is the public hearing for the 2025 2026 budget adoption. Do you have an introduction, Superintendent Tully? Actually, uh, board president Cass, I think we're going to be inviting our director of budget, um, finance to come up and hold this hearing. So, I think it's in the, um, uh, script for that piece. Oh, let's see here. We do have a script. See that? Thank you so much. It turns out it's on the next page. We had a public
024testimony section earlier in tonight's agenda during our study session. Um so this portion tonight will be for testimony related to the 20252026 recommended budget. So this is a separate public um comment portion. Um as we discuss the budget u we do have um the ability to have speakers come and speak at this point. Speakers just like other public comment will have a maximum of 3 minutes of speaking time. As a reminder, also written testimony is accepted um as stated on the agenda. So if you're not able to finish comments, we take any um the of those in writing. Once your name is read, please come forward to the podium, state your name for the record, and bring begin your um comment. Is there anyone here who'd like to provide comment on the budget? just not
025to minutia, but it does say that um director of business operations Chris Brenan is opening the public hearing for comment. Well, and so I know I'm just reading what's here on our screen. Okay. So, so then I was queuing up public comments in case it was there and then going on with my script and saying at this time, Yep. which is uh 7:21. We pause the regular board meeting and Chris Brenan, director of operations, will open the public hearing. So, it was it was coming. It was coming. Director Hayes. Yeah. Yep. Oh, and now there you go. Okay. Uh it's open for public. I guess I do. Do we have to say it three times? I don't think so. Um, all right. See that? Three times. All right. Let's go. Two more, please. All right.
026So, uh, uh, yeah. So, it's open for public comment. Um, next, uh, you know, this is for the budget adoption that will happen on June uh, July 14th. Um, so if there's any public comment that uh we'd like to hear, now is the time. Okay, hearing none. All right, hearing none. So, we will now close the public hearing at 7:22 p.m. and resume our regular board meeting. Thank you very much as we worked our way through that process that is mandated by RCW in case you couldn't tell. All right, moving on. Thank you everyone. We will have uh the vote on the budget at the next board meeting. So next on the agenda is the adoption of the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any questions or
027discussion? Just a congratulation to our Woodville High robotics team for making it to the world uh first robotics competition in September. Thank you, Director Hayes. Any other discussion? All right, seeing none, it's been moved and seconded. We'll call for the vote. And the agenda passes. The consent agenda passes. Thank you very much. Next up, we'll move on to the action items. The first action item is the 2025 to 2028 superintendent contract. At the conclusion of our superintendent search process, the board began discussions with Dr. Justin Irish on um the contract to begin his service starting July 1st and that agenda item is attached here as my little introduction. So is there a motion to approve the agenda item? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Any comments or discussion? All right. All right. Well, um,
028we would like to welcome Dr. Dr. Irish to the district. I was going to make some nonsense about changing. Anyway, um, but we are so excited. Um, the community is excited and and we are thrilled that you have been willing to take us on, says Michael as he chuckles his way out of the room. No, we are we are generally excited about serving with you, Dr. Irish. So, thank you very much for joining the Northshore team. All right, hearing no further discussion, I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote. Oh, it was unanimous. Thank you very much and welcome Dr. Irish. Our next agenda or action item, excuse me, it is an agenda item as well. Um, the second action item is to award the contract for RFP number 2025-05-15 for vending services.
029Superintendent Telly. Thank you, President Cass. Schools and administrative departments within the district have been allowed to host vending machines in locations conveniently accessible for students and/or staff and community. Any vending machine accessible to students, however, must adhere to USDA smart snack compliance standards, which provide healthier choices for students. The district has found that it is in the best interest for our schools and departments to find a provider for vending services districtwide. Uh, this request for a proposal for vending services was competitively solicited. um and two biders submitted electronic proposals. Both proposals were considered responsive and re uh responsible and the responses were reviewed by an evaluation team which actually included students as well. The evaluation team was able to determine that Vista Vending is the best candidate for to be recommended for this contract to
030be awarded. Uh so we are recommending to the school board that the contract to Vista Vending is a responsible uh responsive bidder meeting Northshore School District's needs and the criteria of the um RFP for vending services. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any questions or discussion? Just a clarification. First of all, I love the no out-ofpocket expenses to NSD line that I think we needed to highlight. But we've had vending machines, but it's kind of everyone does their own thing. And what we're doing right now is just bringing everybody under the same vending contract. That is correct. And as mentioned, we must ensure that we adhere to USDA requirements. And this allows for us to have a little bit more control over that. Thank you. Any other questions
031or discussion? All right. See none, we're going to call for the vote. Get the on screen confirmation or the Peggy confirmation. Yes. And the item passes. Thank you so much. Third action item is our capital facilities plan. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So, submitted for adoption by the school board is the 2025 capital facilities plan. The capital facilities plan was prepared in accordance with requirements of state regulations as well as board policy. Capital facilities plan is the primary vehicle by which the district shares capacity, enrollment, and capital project plans for various jurisdictions. We recommend that the school board adopt the 2025 Northshore School District Capital Facilities Plan. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Questions or discussion? It's really long. It's a lot of buildings. It's a lot
032of buildings. It's thorough. It's long. Um, yeah, I I learn so much every time we get things like this. Um, anyway, that's that's it. Thank you, Vice President Zotek. Well, I I have to agree it is very long, but full of full of useful information and uh as much fun as I have um pondering impact fees and how the heck they come up with them, this is this has been really really useful um to review and uh clearly so much work went into it. So, thank you for pull pulling it all together. Okay, it's actually shorter than it used to be. It's about half the size. Um, but this is a a thing required by law that we do every year and it's part of how we are able to collect impact fees. Correct. Yeah.
033Okay. And to tag on to that, I I appreciate seeing the um impact fees for um multiuse buildings. You know, speaking with our peers in Lake Washington, they're seeing a lot of student generation now out of some of the apartment buildings. Um, which I I wasn't expecting. And so I would imagine that would make its way north. So thank you for that. And I think short plats are going going to be the hot thing here. I'm going to throw a wrench in our positive discussion here and add a question. Um I was expecting to see North Creek High Portable on here. Um or at least I'm not sure what the status is. Oh, the modular buildings. Yeah, the modulared. Sorry, not portable. Sorry. Modular. No, but good question. Which which column does it go in?
034We have our executive director D. Ralph approaching the microphone to answer those questions. This is kind of a trick question because you may require or recall um that the approval for that um put it on a permanent foundation. So then we get into the question is it modular? Is it permanent? We wrapped it in. Um but uh this is a great question and one that I need to remember how we did it so we do it the same next year. Uh but yes, thank you. Great question. That was it. Yeah. Any other questions for executive director Ralph? That wasn't meant as a gotcha. I just I just hear from the staff that they have to like have lunch. Like they don't have their own area for lunch. So that's why it's important to the community
035to get that built. Yeah, it is. It's built. It's done. Yay. Right. Yeah. because the the staff lounge space was being used for classrooms. Yeah, absolutely. All right, I'm not hearing any more discussion. So, we're going to go ahead and call for the vote on the capital facilities plan. Okay, let's go ahead and do a voice vote then. Can we start with you, Director Hayes? Sure. I I I I. So, that um item passes. Thank you. We have one last action item, which is the request for approval of core instructional materials for students in algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, and algebra 2 trigonometry. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So, the Envision algebra 1 geometry algebra 2 curriculum is a comprehensive math program. Uh, with your approval of this action item, Northshore would be able
036to implement algebra 1 component of the curriculum in all of the middle and high school classrooms beginning in fall of 2025. This initial phase includes classroom sets of textbooks, individual student uh digital licenses valid for seven years. The total cost of the algebra 1 implementation will be funded through carryover savings from the 2425 curriculum and instruction assessment department budget. I would like to ask Dr. AMD Butler, um, executive director of teaching and learning to provide an overview of the selection process, information about these materials, and of course, answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. So thank you for the introduction. Um we are here to ask for your approval for the adoption of envision uh not just algebra but algebra geometry algebra and algebra 2 and algebra 2 trigonometry uh by savas.
037Uh so these are comprehensive curriculums for all of these. It marks culmination of a 2-year uh adoption process that we began with a district-wide call for those materials um and culminating with uh a year-long pilot of two different programs. Uh following feedback from teachers uh students and the community, Envision Algebra was identified as the strongest choice between those two and we are recommending that for board approval. Uh the curriculum aligns with Northshore's commitment to equity and academic rigor. It's rated highly by ed reports. Uh it meets the expectation for content alignment uh and usability. It also offers a clear instructional progression and deep conceptual learning. It supports students through real world applications and visual models. It strengthens understanding and retention. And one of the key strengths for this is its intentional support for students with
038both disabilities and our English learners. Uh something that we currently are lacking. Uh the curriculum includes built-in scaffolds such as interactive visuals, text to speech, sentence frames, and multilingual glosseries. Uh it supports a line with our MTSS frameworks uh to ensure success for and access for all of our learners. So, we respectfully uh request your approval to implement the curriculum for algebra beginning in the fall of 2025. Thank you, Dr. Butler. While Dr. Butler's here, any questions? Um, so one is more directed for Superintendent Tully, but just to clarify, this went through our CMAC process, which is a committee made up of staff and community members, parents, and are there I know that that's part of the contract, the CMAC committee. So, are there students on that or is that there are not students on
039that's defined on that. Okay. Um and and it's a mult it's been a multi-year approach. And then what we are what we are approving allowing the district to purchase all four levels of math. The intent is to just purchase algebra. Correct. You are approving the adoption of these instructional materials as core instructional math materials for Northshore School District. It is actually a separate process. We were just making you aware if you approve this, we will be moving forward with the purchase of algebra 1 in the fall. Got it. So, we're not even voting on the purchase of it tonight. We're just the approval. Okay. And then minor question in the multilingual is Portuguese one of the languages they SAVIS has the ability to do multiple languages. Yes. Okay. Director McGordy, it's just a quickie. the
040um the source of the funding for for this described as a carryover savings. Can you I can explain that. Explain. We saved all year long in the CIA department hoping to be able to purchase for our math core curriculum. And so just taking savings, trying not to spend money. So we really just we wanted we really wanted to be able to buy core math materials. And so we made sure we were very cautious with everything we had budgeted budgeted so that we could make our contribution if we got to this point. But we knew there were a lot of different factors that had to come together at the end. And so we had enough money and we my assistant director Nikki Smith and I are pretty good on the uh Zoom with the salespeople to
041um bring the price down. Superintendent Tully gave us a price and we worked with them. They're not super happy with us, but that's all right. We needed to get to a certain price. Right. Well, and and am I correct in understanding the that carryover funds um because it was allotted for curriculum is it's not something that could go to ongoing staffing. It was it's some of those onetime dollars. Okay. Okay. Nicely done. Yeah. Appreciative of the work to find a way. Any other questions for Dr. Butler? Thank you. That was very helpful. Thank you. So, so with that, we recommend that the school board approve these materials for district core instructional curriculum as presented. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Um, we'll do the parliamentary procedure bid. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All
042right. Any further discussion or questions? I'm just so appreciative that this is this is curriculum that we really really need and it sounds like this is going to meet the gaps that we've been seeing with our algebra and so I really really appreciate this work. So seeing no further discussion, I'm going to call for the vote. Okay. And the item passes. Thank you everyone. So now we'll move on to information items. Um first up is the district fee schedule for the 2025 2026 school year. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cash. So annually the district provides a list of standardized fees noting any changes for the upcoming school year. The attached uh school attached to the agenda is school and district fee schedule shows the comparison between the 2024 25 and the upcoming 2526 fees. Also
043included is a memo explaining the meal price increases um and the fee schedules for uh facilities, field, and theater use. Thank you, Superintendent Telly. Any questions from the board? So just to plant a seed, the um fifth grade camp has a huge increase in price and this is what caused the hysteria 16 years ago um was that it had become too pricey for families to be able to participate. So, I'm curious what is the explanation of why that's going up so much in one year and what we're doing to mitigate for families that cannot afford $200 for a three two night thing. I Well, well, we've had a grant that has supported this to a certain degree, but the increased cost is just the escalation of everything is going up in cost. Um and as
044you can s uh see in the details there there's some um um estimation as what that will look like going into the uh years going forward. But that's the primary reason. Uh as as you know schools do work with um and we pay attention to students who are covered under free reduce and lunch pricing and we provide those supports. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. All right. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. The next information item is the first reading of resolution number 93, um, UTGO and refunding bonds for the 2025. Um, do you have an introduction, Superintendent Tully? Yes. Thank you, President Cass. So resolution 903 allows the district to sell bonds as authorized by resolution 840 A40 and approval an approved special election that was held back in February of 2022. Resolution 903 is comprised of
045three main actions. We actually had a little bit of discussion of the of this during the study session earlier. First, um it authorizes the sales of the bonds in the amount not to exceed $75 million. Second, it authorizes the refunding of the 2015 bonds not to exceed 58,350,000. And third, as also mentioned earlier, um it delegates authority to the superintendent, deputy superintendent to approve the sale within established parameters. Thank you, Superintendent Telly. Any questions from the board? Right. Yeah. And we have a great discussion. Appreciate the savings for our taxpayers, which is wonderful. And more to come. Okay. And our last information item is the first reading of resolution number 94 for the 202526 budget adoption. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So, as as stated, this is the first reading of resolution 904, the
0462526 budget adoption. As this is the first reading, it serves actually as a draft. So, if board members have questions, please provide them to me so that I may have the budget team prepare responses in at for the second reading. And of course, resolution 904 will be presented for second reading and adoption at the July 14th board meeting. Thank you, Superintendent Telly. Any questions? I think so. Actually, through June 30th. Any other questions? All right, great. Thank you so much again. We'll see that back next board meeting. Okay, next up is board reports and communications. First up is new business. I have one to start with. Um, we have a little bit of a logistical question for the board. So, um, it's time to set the calendar for coordination meetings and 2 by twos for
047next year. It's a good time to think about what works logistically well. We have July schedule sets, but nothing else for the rest of the year. So, if any board members have any requests for how the schedule might shift, please get them to Peggy because she would prefer to have the magic clipboard pass around at the next board meeting so we can start um picking dates that work for us. We'll do it through the end of um December because of the election. We'll just do it through the end of December. But um if there's anything that you'd like to request in shifting, please let her know and we'll start getting that going. So, that's a new business item. Any other new business items from the board? I have two actually. Um the first just was
048an aha moment that precoid we used to get invites from the schools particularly the high schools for theater performances and concerts and that obviously stopped during co and then didn't get picked back up again and it just just an aha moment. I was reminded that as a board we used to get invited to those events, you know, just to add that to the calendar. I'm looking at it on going, "Are you kidding?" Um, okay. Um, yeah. And then I do have another um new business item. So, um, in the the spring of 2022, we had a previous superintendent that made a decision, um, that forced us to have to look for a new superintendent at the time. And, um, there had been a lot going on up until then. Um, I think we were still
049doing batch testing and um quarantining and isolating and school closures and and I think the state had passed like 150 new workplace related rules and laws in that two years and every time they did that we had to re a new memorandum of understanding and and everybody was exhausted. So, um, we we brought someone in and said, "Don't don't touch anything. Just keep just it is everybody's exhausted. Just keep the boat moving forward." And uh um and and he did that magnificently and just quietly, strategically did bring some um brought forward work that was still focusing on students furthest from racial and educational justice and and moved us forward in addition to just kind of keeping the boat from rocking too much. Um, and so, Superintendent Tully, you were the right person at the right
050time for this job. And, um, your positive impact over the last three years on our students is going to impact our students and our district for decades. So, thank you for all that you have done. Thank you for those comments. Thank you. Appreciate it. Any other new business items from the board? I second everything Director Hay said. Couldn't have put it any better. Go ahead. No, it's his swan song. Mine's not yet. Um, don't really know where to where to start with this. Um, it has been such an honor to work with a person of such integrity and ability. It's been an inspiration. I'm I'm going to read this because otherwise I'll break down. Um, it's been an inspiration to see the progress of the good work that you brought to this district over the
051last three years. Um, it was clearly a labor of love done with unapologetic commitment to our students. I had the uh the pleasure about two and a half years ago in 2022 of uh seeing a transformation in then interim superintendent Ty um in terms of his attitude toward applying for the permanent superintendent position. Uh he and I took a road trip. I don't know how many people are aware of this. A very long road trip driving together to Spokane for the 2022 annual WASDA conference. Um, imagine if you will five hours shut up in a car alone with me both ways. I did not envy him. Um, and I learned so much about Susan and their amazing relationship long before I'd ever even met her, but that's that's a story for another time. Um, we
052we did have a lot of fun. Um, so many people were anxious to know whether Michael had decided to apply to the permanent superintendent position. Uh, and you know, some people maybe been giving him a little bit of grief. Um, then not long into the drive, he actually brought up the topic himself and he told me that he was sorry to to disappoint me, but he had decided to not apply to the position. Um, now we all knew he had very generously delayed a well-deserved retirement at that point to do this for us and get us through to the the next superintendent. Um, so I wasn't terribly surprised but very disappointed. Uh, and I told him as much. Um, I don't have to tell anyone here. I think that the um the respect and commitment
053and energy that you inspired in this entire community really um it was just remarkable and rare. Um there's um this will go on too long. Um, I think if you've not attended a a WASDA annual conference, I always come away so inspired and energized. You get to see all of this great work that's being done in districts across the state and the possibilities for what could be done and figuring out what needs to change. Um, so I'm going to put it down to that. But I think by the time we got home after that three days, he had changed his mind. and we are so we are also very grateful that you did. Um this has been a true partnership and collaboration between the board and the superintendent in service of our students which I
054think is also rare. Um so I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to get to know you and to work with you. Um not too keen on on letting you actually leave the building, but I'll get over it. Thank you. Thank you. And I did enjoy that trip and yes uh it took 10 hours but yeah you we did my mind did change. Yes. Is it my turn? Any other new business items? Yeah this is a new business item. Um, so one of the goals that I set for myself as a new board member upon hearing that Superintendent Tully does not wear jeans, um, was to witness him wearing jeans. Um, and I achieved that goal rather quickly, right? Um during our campus cleanup day that towards the end of the summer, um Superintendent
055Toy joined me at Sorenson to do some Blackberry work. Um wearing jeans and so we have photo evidence that it indeed did occur. Um has not occurred since, but it's it was a real thing. Um I was told he was going to wear khakis, so the jeans were a surprise. Um, you know, one of the things that I really appreciate about you, Superintendent Tully, is the, you know, gentle care that you give everyone. Um, regardless of their views on things and regardless of how they approach a problem or, you know, where they're coming from or how they tell you about things. Um, and you know, I just really appreciate all of the benefits of that coming to my family and my children who have, you know, benefited from your leadership as it trickles down to
056um, school level. Um, so yes, thank you so much. Thank you. Yes. And actually, I wear jeans more often than you may. Congratulations on that on that graduation to jeans because I only wear jeans. And I just have one last new business item. Um it's hard to beat all that. But I just I just want to talk to add on to all of all the what's um that you've accomplished. I just want to talk about one aspect about the how you've done this work and your leadership. Um and it's around your listening and active listening. you've talked a lot about but it was my observation that you did listening without precondition where often times a per and it's human nature you know our brains are wired to come into a conversation you know with the
057sometimes a filter of confirmation bias and I just witnessed time and time again how you would be listening without preconceptions of what the the end result should be um and then that's when magic would happen right and it's it's the um It's hard to to capture that and explain it. I'm so sure some psychologists could do it, but um without confirmation bias or even selection bias, you know, to to vice president's point, like the willingness to engage with everyone kind of eliminated that selection bias, which is again is really critical to to serve an entire community. So, um I just want to thank you for that and the ability to to serve alongside you. It's it's been a great honor. Thank you. Same. I I feel the same way. This is um I've said it
058many times. Working with a board of this caliber. You you as individuals and as a team has been a true honor. Um to serve this whole community has been uh a pleasure and um I I really appreciated the opportunity. So, thank you. Thank you. [Applause] I mean, you could [Applause] and and so we wanted to sneak that in on him, which means we still have one agenda item, which feels really antilimatic, but we do have board member reports. So, we'll go ahead and start with board member reports. Director Tran, do you have anything to report? Uh yeah. All right. So, Tuesday, June 10th, I attended the Secondary Academy for Success graduation. Um and missed the Citizens of NSD uh meeting on bonds and levies. Um Wednesday, June 11th, attended Inglemore and both High graduations. Um
059all of these graduations were attended by uh fellow board members and Superintendent Holly. Uh Thursday, June 12th, uh North Creek High and Woodenville High graduations. Friday, unfortunately, I missed the NLO graduation due to personal conflict. And then, um Monday, the Innovation Lab High School graduation. Tuesday, June 17th, groundbreaking at Inglemore and Leota. Wednesday of the first hour of uh M or Superintendent Tully's retirement party. um just so we didn't break quorum rules. And then Thursday, June 19th, um attended Junth at North Creek High. Um and then last thing is June 23rd, Monday, the study session today on bonds, levies, and budget. Thank you, Director Tran. Director Hayes. Yes. Um, I also attended the SAS, Englemore, both Woodenville, North Creek, Northshore Learning Options, and Innovation Lab graduation ceremony. So, we'll just wrap it all up. Um,
060I attended the Northshore Schools Foundation board meeting. They've welcomed uh I think four new board members to that. So, we welcome them to supporting our students and look forward to the work they're going to do. um attended the Inglemore and Leotaa um reconstruction groundbreaking ceremonies and thanks to our capital projects staff for the work of and communications for organizing that and as always to our community for making those possible. Um attended the superintendent retirement party, the Junth celebration at North Creek High School. Big shout out to the students and and all the staff that were involved in making that. It was I think bigger than ever. Um, so quite fun. Um, and then today, uh, I was invited to a Washington Student Achievement Council enrollment convening, um, webinar or it was more of a conversation.
061Um, they're looking at um, how to boost enrollment of students into college. And so it was a conversation about some work that can be done. Um the big takeaway and as soon as I get the slides I'm going to share it to board briefing. They started with the declining birth rate around the country. Um and that the anticipation is that across the United States K12 is going to see a 10% decline in enrollment. Um Washington they're anticipating it's going to be about 8%. So ours is actually going to be less than across the country, but it's going to be um big. And so looking at that um and the um other big takeaway is the two demographic groups are Hispanic and um Pacific Islander. some of the ones that struggle the most, their percentage is
062going to of our students demographics across the country and in Washington is going to grow immeasurably. Um, and so just get planting that seed of thinking about that work of how do we get students to be thinking about higher ed, not necessarily fouryear, but all of that work. And so more to come and like I said, when I get the slides, I will share them for the board briefing because it was a fascinating conversation. Thank you, Director Hayes. Vice President Sotac. I also attended all of the graduations and oops, I forgot to click on my box. Um, I only attended the Leota groundbreaking cuz I had school bus duty. Um, I also attended my children getting off the bus on the 20th with their last day of school successfully completed by everyone. Good job everyone.
063Um, and then also the study session tonight. Thank you. And director McCordi. Yes. So, seven commencements, two groundbreings, my nonquorum 1 hour assigned time at Superintendent Tolly's party. Um, and then I also attended the uh Junth uh celebration on the 19th at North Creek and really a very successful event. It was it was a whole lot of fun. U kudos to uh um the BSU and Mr. Knox and all the other staff and everyone who put it together and the food was amazing. Um we also had a chance to tour the gardening club gardens at North Creek with Mr. Harrison while we were there. They are fabulous. I went home with inspiration. I'm going to drag my husband back there and and uh give him a few ideas. Um and I think that's that's me
064and my report is a one big ditto. So the graduations um both groundbreings as well as Junth and the very cleverly organized nonquorum retirement celebration. So that is um our meeting. I'm going to call this meeting adjourned. Thank you superintendent.