001Right. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. On behalf of the board, I welcome everyone to this um this afternoon's meeting of the board. This meeting is a working session of the board to conduct the business of the district. But first, we're going to call the meeting to order. And if you're able and inclined, we invite you to join us with 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. Thank you everyone. Again, welcome to this afternoon's meeting. 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. I'd like to introduce the
002people participating in today's meeting. Secretary Peggy King, Superintendent Mr. Michael Tully, board members Sandy Hayes, Han Tran, Jacqueline McGordy, and Elizabeth Sotac. I am Amy Cast and I currently serve as president of the board. An agenda for this meeting is available online at boarddoccks.com and copies are also located on the table in the back of the boardroom. There will be an opportunity for public comment to be shared during the association and public comment section 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 board meetings and study sessions. Visit nsd.org or and under our district, click school board, then board meeting materials and videos to find the
003closed captioning. If you're here to address the board on agenda items, please sign in using that 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. Director Hayes, 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 tribal leaders expands. Thank you, Director Hayes. Next up on our agenda is the approval of
004the agenda. Are there any changes or adjustments to the agenda as published? Okay, see none. Um, can I have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. So the agenda as written has been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All right, seeing none, we'll call for the vote. And the agenda is approved. Thank you very much. Next item on the agenda is the superintendent report. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. Since the last my last report, I've continued to be busy attending, participating in numerous meetings and visits with staff in various departments. Uh some examples include uh on Wednesday, May 28th, I attended the Latino Hispanic Spanish graduation celebration. And then on Thursday, May 29th, I helped to recognize our Northshore School District retirees at the retiree celebration that was held here in the
005bo boardroom. I chaired the Washington Alliance for Better Schools board meeting on February or I'm sorry, February Friday, May 30th. I also attended the Northshore Council PTSA spring recognition event on Wednesday, June 4th, as well as the career and technical education spring recognition event on Thursday, June 5th. And I conducted an end of the year visit with our bus drivers and staff at the transportation center last week, Friday, June 6th. So, uh, this concludes my reports for the evening. Thank you very much, Superintendent Tully. Next on our agenda um is association and public comments. The Northshore School District Board of Directors has set aside a period of up to 60 minutes to receive updates and comments from district association leaders and community members. As referenced in multiple policies adopted by the board, we expect all
006parties 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 school board 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 to only those items that have been captured in a previously published agenda. What that means for us today is that any public comment regarding items that are included in that published agenda will be taken into consideration by the board when that topic is addressed during the meeting. And any topics brought up during
007public comment that are not included in the published agenda cannot by law be discussed at this meeting. and so will not be addressed or received a response during this meeting. In either case, depending on the nature of your topic or questions, a district employee or board member may follow up on any comments that relate to district business. Please note that the board silence during public comment is neutral by design. It's not a signal of agreement nor disagreement with a speaker's remarks. Also, please note that the com that comments should not make reference to any employee by 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
008your words have impact and you, not the school district, are responsible for your words. We caution all speaker speakers that it is 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 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. First up, we have association leaders. we welcome. Thank you. Uh my name my name is Holly Munchow. I'm here representing Northshore Council PTSA. Uh first of all, I want to thank the board members and Superintendent Tully and everybody else in the community who joined us for our appreciation event last week. Um, and I
009want to give special congratulations to our award winners, Jane Chiodto for honorary lifetime membership, Christine Ronhelt and Melissa Bennett who received the Golden Acorn award. Bnee Brics and Holly Munchow for outstanding advocate. Elliot Gray and Moren Deal, Mrs. Mo for outstanding educator. Robin McKenzie for outstanding service. Ethan Yen for outstanding student advocate. Um they were all amazing what they've done this year. So super appreciate um them and all the other volunteers and all the other award winners around the local PTAs. Uh and upcoming there's still time to register for national PTA's virtual conference which starts on June 25th. Go to their website if you're interested. Um, and a quick reminder to local PTAs, Tumi may please make sure that council has your latest membership join link so we can encourage community members to join your
010PTA during the back to school community events over the summer and into the fall. Thank you. Thank you, Holly. Any other association leaders? Hello. I am Laura Stanif, uh, co-president of the Northshore Special Education Community, PTSA, and I am joined by Oh, hi. I'm Jasmine Fry. I am co-vice president of the Northshore Special Education Community PTSA. And and Holly Munchow, co- secretary. Thank you. The board of the Northshore Special Education Community PTSA is pleased to award our first golden acorn to Superintendent of Northshore School District, Mr. Michael Tully. Over his years at Northshore School District, Mr. Holly has steadfastly spearheaded the drive toward developing and implementing inclusive practices across the district, resulting in gradual increases in the rate of students with individual educational plans receiving least restrictive environment placements. Furthermore, Mr. Tali has welcomed the
011involvement of parent advocacy and collaborative conversations with the council PTSA special education representatives and encouraging the formation of the Northshore special education community PTSA. We would like to thank Mr. Ty at this penultimate moment with our first Golden Acorn award. Thank you. [Applause] You get [Applause] Thank you so much. Any other association leaders? Oh, hi. There we go. Good afternoon. Um, I'm Cara Anderson Erenss from the Northshore Schools Foundation and I just wanted to um say congratulations to um wrapping up another really wonderful school year and um we so appreciate all the work that you do and we are going to miss you um Superintendent Tully in the in the coming school year. I came specifically today to um celebrate some a new event that happened over the weekend. Um that was a combination be
012uh between capital projects the district um departments of capital projects safety and security um career and technical education and support services along with the foundation and four construction partners who helped build emergency preparedness sheds the um this last Saturday at both high school. Um this has been a project that Dre Ralph the executive director for um support services has really been want itching to make happen and um with her leadership and the um coming together of all these different departments and the foundation we were able to um have a really wonderful event on Saturday. We had about 60 um people there between um 12 students, 12 core plus construction students um were split into uh three teams and got to work with industry professionals to build 10 foot by 20 foot um emergency preparedness sheds.
013And these sheds, one of them will stay at both High School. The other two that were built are going to Canyon Park Middle School, I think. Um, it's either it's it's Canyon it's Canyon Creek or it's Canyon Park and I don't remember which one. And then Lockwood Elementary School. And so there are 15 total schools in the district that need outside storage for emergency preparedness that their only storage is inside the school building. And so if there was a disaster that that prevented them from being in the school building, um, they wouldn't have access to emergency supplies. So this is a really amazing collaborative way um for the students to get really great um experience in building something to get mentored by uh our four construction partners who partnered this year. It was um Abbott
014Construction, Cornerstone Construction, uh General Contractors, um GLY and Lee Cretcher Lewis. So they were amazing that coming in bringing um tools and and um the expertise needed and working with the students. Um and so we've got three of them built this year and we are excited to do this as an annual event um over the next few years until we get 15 sheds built. So it's was an a rousing success and we even had parents there. So it felt very much like you know you go and you support your kid in an athletic event. some parents came and supported their their students at this um marathon six-hour build day um hanging out and playing um you know cornhole and some things like that that we had for them while they were waiting. But it was
015it was it just just felt really supportive. And we've gotten responses from um two of the the contractors that said they're just over the moon that that the people that the volunteers who came to work from those construction companies had an amazing time and that was part of the plan. So thank you for letting us celebrate this with you. Thank you very much, Cara. Any other association leaders? No. Okay. So, we will move on to the public comment portion of today's meeting. So, how this works is that um we we all lot three minutes per speaker and you'll see up on the screen there'll be a threeminut timer. Um and I will call by number. There um are some students who have signed up to speak and as the board prioritizes student voice, we'll actually
016go out of order in order to have the students speak first. And so the numbers will be a bit out of order, but um you'll see it. It makes a lot of sense. So um I'd like to invite speaker number three to please come up to the podium. Um turn on the microphone and introduce yourself for the record. Thank you. Hi, my name is London McAnnanders and I'm a senior at both High School. For the past four years, I have seen the school board try to remove officer wear only to benefit themselves with the excuse that having an officer on campus is too expensive. They are putting finances over the safety of innocent children. I personally do not think the two can be compared. For the past year, I've had the honor of being in
017the fight firefighting program. And there I've learned the importance of first responders and how much they do for us. I was lucky enough to get to volunteer at a multi- casualty incident drill, which is when firefighters and police work together to prepare for mass casualty shootings. Um there I saw how important it is to have a fast response time. In these kinds of situations, there's only seconds to spare and if you want to save lives and having an officer on campus makes your children much more safe. He officer wear can help protect your children rather than have them having to wait for help. Do not be cheap and risk the lives of in innocent children. Keep officer wear at both high school. and since I have some extra time. Um, it's my last day at
018BA High School. I'm a senior and I've been with Officer Wear for four years and he has made a very positive impact on my life. I would not have had the courage to pursue firefighting or any sort of first responding if it wasn't for him. He made me excited to go to school and he made me feel very safe when I was there. There's been like terrible things that have happened and he's always there, always. and he makes sure that everyone is safe. If he wasn't there, God knows what would have happened by now. Like, and I just want you guys to keep that in mind with your decision of keeping him or not. Thank you very much. Thank you. And speaker number five. Um, good afternoon. My name is Ishna Tumala and I'm a
019sophomore at both High School. Although I haven't been here as many years as London, I hope that you'll take my take a moment to consider my perspective as a student directly impacted by Officer Wear's presence. From quickly addressing safety concerns, especially important in light of recent events, to uplifting school spirit, Officer Wear has brought in many invaluable contributions to our community. No school is perfect, but having someone solely dedicated to our safety gives students a peace of mind. Officer Wear provides that sense of security every day. And not to mention, in situations where our security is compromised, he has always acted diligently and professionally. More than that, he consistently goes above and beyond his official duties. His office is widely known among students as a welcoming and safe space where um whether a student needs
020a snack, a conversation or just needs a a quiet place to breathe. Um as one student shared, I would often go to officer wear when I needed a break from school and talking to him would always help me feel a little better. That kind of emotional support makes a real difference in students lives. And beyond the emotional and physical safety he provides, Officer Wear also brings educational value to our campus. Last semester, I took intro to law and justice and officer wear visited our classroom multiple times, sometimes as a guest speaker and other times to provide in um thoughtful insights to our discussions. His real world experience and perspectives are something that no textbook can recreate. Officer Wear is more than just a security presence. He is a trusted mentor, an educator, and a vital
021part of our school culture. I strongly urge you to consider our the positive impact he has made on students like me while making the decision today. Thank you for your time. Thank you. So, that was our two students. So, now we'll go to the top of the list. Speaker number one. Excuse me. Can you Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good evening members of the board, Superintendent Tully, and the leadership of the district. My name is Camila Rouat. I am here with Magda Davis and Sarah Gregory and we are parents of soontobe second graders at Eastrich Elementary speaking on behalf of many families who are deeply concerned about projected class sizes next year for our children. While many of them couldn't attend tonight, they've signed a petition in supports of our advocacy. Eastridge Elementary
022is currently projected to have over 30 students per second grade based on first grade and uh in in second grade. However, based on first grade enrollment numbers, we know that there is a need for for an additional teacher. 30 kids, it's simply too high for ch children at this stage of learning. We've seen consequences of school overcrowding in our lives already. This year, the first grade classes started with 30 students, for our children. Although a third class was was eventually added, the delay caused disruption, stress, and instability for our children as well as the educators. We cannot repeat the same mistake. Second grade is a critical year for academic and emotional growth. Students need individualized attention and consistent support, neither of which is possible with the number of 30 plus students. The school leadership have
023been advocating for a third teacher for months. They've provided data showing that the district projections are inaccurate and we need a third teacher in our school. We understand that financial challenges exist and the planning takes time. However, flawed projections made by the district should not compromise the quality of the learning and well-being of our students and their teachers. Educational integrity must come first. At the last PTSA meeting, our principal shared options across all grades how they're going to split the students. There were many options. None of them were satisfactory. And schools shouldn't have to do staffing staffing acrobatics just to meet the basic educational needs. We refuse to let the issue become our issue and our children's issue next year. families should not have to shoulder the burden of additional tutoring that we're going to
024have to provide to our children because the district does not want to listen to our school leadership and to us as parents. Lastly, we have exceptional educators and we are asking you to provide the right environment for them and for our children. We respectfully urge you to please add additional staff to second grade at Eastridge next year. Thank you so much. Thank you. Speaker number two. Does red mean off? Red means on. Red means on. Okay. Need to practice at this. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Good afternoon, members of the board. My name is Stephanie Sullivan. I am a mom of three girls enrolled in Northshore School District and more recently have been working as a classified sub and one-on-one parah to a first grader at Franklin Elementary. I recognize all of you from
025conversations with the board this past school year and many of you from focus day when we spent the day in Olympia advocating for our state to fulfill its paramount duty and fully fund our public schools. I'd like to acknowledge all the time and effort you spend serving our district. You spent countless hours refining the budget, planning for the worst and best case scenarios during this past legislative session. That again left us grossly underfunded. I'm here today because I've recently been made aware of how the LE adjustments proposed to save $1.7 million in the upcoming budget will be affecting the students at Chemmore Middle School. Our oldest daughter will be heading into 8th grade next fall and is wishing to take Spanish. She may be one of the 29 students that will be denied the opportunity.
026As a result of the staffing model, there's only one Spanish class slated for next year. That class will be filled to 40 students. 40 students. We spoke to our Congress people and senators about this worst case scenario. And here we are. I'm not here because of my daughter. Like all of you, I'm here because I care about all of the students in NSD. Sixth grade class sizes next year at KMS are looking to be 37 to 40 students. I want to share an experience I had this past December while supporting students in a sixth grade science class. The assignment was to make a 2025 bingo card. Instead of resolutions, it was meant to be more of a bucket list and things to look forward to in the upcoming year. One of the kiddos listed in
027my subnotes was just staring at her blank card. I sat down next to her and suggested we brainstorm together and while we were at it, I'd write it down for her. Together, we filled one of her bingo spaces with learn to read. Another with play less Minecraft and another with learn to write. We're living in unprecedented times. I know Sandy likes that. It was kind of a catchphrase during co but it's our reality now. Being in the schools this year in a different capacity than our dosent or field trip chaperon has opened my eyes wide. I've heard it from our teachers and I've experienced it firsthand. Our student population needs more from us than ever before. And our educators are expected to plan for and teach overfilled classrooms while managing behaviors and trying to meet
028the individual needs of our students. I don't know where you'll find the money to do so, but I implore you to factor this information into finalizing the budget in July. Anything you can do to keep the cuts further from the classroom will greatly benefit our students at KMS and all of Northshore. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Stephanie. [Applause] Speaker number four. Good evening to the board of directors and superintendent Tuli. Um I'm happy to be here today. My name is Sarah Dominic and I am the mother of a current first grader at Eastridge Elementary. In September of 2024, the district approved a third class at Eastridge. We were very appreciative of the additional teacher. This fall class sizes went from 31 30 to 2020 and 21. Um we know enrollment increased significantly over
029the summer last year and so we appreciate you staffing us appropriately in September. Um even though the school has projected enrollment for this next year to be at 65, the district only says it'll be 55. So they have given 2.5 teachers um to Eastridge but you can't really do much with half a teacher. Um so we are asking that you staff at the three teachers that are needed at Eastridge for next year where the school says there will be 65 students as opposed to the 55. The district says the discrepancy I can only assume is because highcap kids used to leave East Ridge to go to Sunrise and now they do not. Um I think projection goes for three years. Um so that's still taking into account some of those years where students left. Um
030so we are just asking you to staff our teachers appropriately before September ideally you know in June but it is a lot for the teachers the parents the students to transition classrooms in September and lose their friends to adjust to a new teacher. Um I volunteered at picture day this year when there were 31 kids and all the kids couldn't even barely fit inside um the stage for their pictures. So, thank you for your consideration and thank you Sarah and speaker number six. Good afternoon board. Hello again. Uh, Superintendent Tolley, hi Peggy, district uh staff, thank you. And to the both community that came out, thanks for coming in support again. We know that you're have before you the opportunity to approve the SRO interlocal agreement and we're here to just ask you to approve
031it again for another year. So, I'll try to make it brief. I can't be better than those two student speakers and and appreciate their comments as well. Uh especially at a school board meeting 4:30 graduation week. You know, I know you guys are all busy this week, too. So, thanks for turning out for that. But I'm just here to say that we need our school resource officer that we have at both. you know, we're the last high school that has one and uh we'd like to continue that. So, can you introduce yourself for Oh, I'm sorry. John Mesner of Bathl High School. Thank you. Appreciate that. And so, uh with that said, we have overwhelming support of staff, students, community at both High School for this program. We even did our survey again this year
032and as you would see in the it's in the data in the board docs, there's overwhelming support. And I know there's been consternation in the past about voices maybe not being heard, but you could see even in this survey, they went above and beyond to try to expand their parameters to allow more people the opportunity to have their voices heard. And still there's overwhelming support for our SRO program from staff, students, and the community. So I know in a budget cut year also it's important to talk about funding for this program. As a reminder, the district and the city of both, which we're thankful for, each pay half for this program. And so really, if there was no SRO, then the district would still fund uh a campus supervisor at pretty much the same cost
033as funding the SRO program at both Ohio High. So, there's still a contractual obligation to fund a safety requirement whether there's a SRO on campus or not. So, we should just continue to keep our SRO. uh there's no cost savings there as as much as you might think. So lastly, many schools are desiring the additional layer of protection with their SRO program that in the wake of 2020, many school districts cut their school resource officers. Some schools in this district also lost their SRO's during this that time as well. But nationwide and locally since that time, we have seen an increase of violence in schools. We've seen an increase to the drug problem in our schools. That's both nationally and locally. and also an increase of threats made to our schools and our students that
034are there. Denver public schools have already reinstated their SRO back on campuses. And as you might have read in Seattle Times on Friday, Seattle public schools is also considering reinstating their SRO uh through lots of tragedy that happened on their campuses in the last couple years. So hopefully, you know, of course, it's my wish and the wish of many others that we would reinstate SRO on all of our campuses like we once had. Uh, but why are more people coming back to SRO's? And it comes back to safety, right? To have a first responder on campus. It's not just someone with a gun and a badge, but he's a human being that serves our students in ways that many others can't and that is aware there in a way that many other others are not.
035So, to wrap up, thank you. Uh, please uh pass our interlocal agreement again to reauthorize our SRO for the next school year. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes the public comment portion of today's meeting. Thanks again for coming out. The board always appreciates hearing input and um the time and effort people put into public comment. You're welcome to spend time with us for the rest of the meeting, but we understand if you have other things to do on this busy June day. So, thank you. We will go ahead and continue with the rest of the meeting. Um, next up on the agenda is the adoption of the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? So, moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any comments or discussions on the consent agenda? Yes. I just want
036to uh clarify um what's happening. So, we have a number of updated salary schedules on the consent agenda. Um, they all include basically I'm going to call them cost of living. I know the state has to come up with a different acronym, but they're basically cost of living increases. And my understanding is the state funds them, but not really. Um, that they they're providing the funding at a percentage, but it's not all staff members and it's not a percentage based on what we pay staff. So, I'm just making sure that I understand that that's what's happening here in front of us. You are correct. I will ask our deputy superintendent, chief financial officer to come up and speak to this, but yes, uh they are funding the implicit price deflator um at 2.5% for those
037staff that are covered within the prototypical model type thing which we go beyond. Right. So, just um I'm seeing head nodding that yes, that's what happen. So things like our deans is not covered under the prototypical school model. Um the um level that we do assistant principles is probably I'm imagining not covered either. Um and then the 2 and a half% I know what our um salary is just for NSEA. Are we is that two and a half percent based on what we pay for teachers or is it two and a half percent based on a state number and we're above that? The the last Good evening Joel Lindberg deputy superintendent for the record. Uh the last so the state the gap about on average for a teacher salary and this is pretty normal for
038all salaries at this point but it we put in another $40,000 on top of what the state is funding currently. So that's the level of disconnect that's happened since mccclary was fully funded uh since 2018. So the cost of IPD for us to implement IPD on what we pay versus what the state funds is more than $3 million. And then when you add benefits and things like that, it goes up $4 million. Okay. So I just first of all, we need everybody needs to be able to pay afford to live here. So I don't it's not an issue with them being paid a cost of living, but it's just an awareness that it does cost us. It's going to cost us $4 million out of our local levy to pay what the state is supposedly
039funding. That's correct. And every district is facing that same same issue where there is a disconnect between what the state's providing for um inflationary increases in salaries versus what districts are paying. Okay. Thank you. And Deputy Superintendent Bergie, can I add ask a follow-up question? Are school districts allowed to choose a different percentage of cost of living increases than what the state chooses? They are. The law, as I understand it, requires that you pass through the amount of money that the two and a half, next year it's two and a half% generates. So, every dollar is to be allocated to salaries. That is a requirement. Okay. That's the only requirement. There's no requirement. Um, districts have agreed to all Yeah. all the spectrum of things between none and more and the whole thing, but you
040have to at some point pass all the money through in salary increases to your staff. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for deputy superintendent? Just a point of clarification that I need in the activity schedule. I'm just trying to understand as I read it, this is not salary that it's listing. Um this is stipend for people who are not full-time activity stipens or can you which item number so let me you're right so we I suspect it's probably like um coaching or are band directors getting right if they do additional duties there stipens that are associated with additional work that they perform. If they're a department head or if they're a band director or a club adviser or a coach, there's uh stipens or pay that comes with those duties. Okay. Thank you. Any other
041questions for the deputy superintendent? Thank you. Thank you. Okay. This one isn't a question, but I just want to do a shout out to the PAL PTSA for their support for um curriculum. Unfortunately, we're having to turn to our PTSAs for curriculum. Um, but I I am grateful that they are helping us out at both. Thank you, Director Hayes. I just also a bit of a a shout out um in item number 17 on the consent agenda, the request for approval of supplemental instructional materials. Uh, I just really appreciated the um the the explanatory statements that are that are in there in particular for the purposeful people purchase with the caveat of a request for terminology adjustment before they they commit to that. I just thought it really um shows the the depth and thoughtfulness
042of the the curriculum assessments that that you know that it goes through before we we bring something to our students especially since this is for SEAL. That was pretty good. Great. Thank you, Director McGordy. Along those lines on the same item, there's um supplemental materials to support students in um our middle school grades um who need support. and you you see how um the Northshore team is responding to student needs and finding solutions and we see that coming off the page here. So um I just wanted to call that out as well. Anything else on the consent agenda? Made the motion for the consent agenda. Was it Director Hayes? I seconded it. Okay. Director McGordy. Okay. Thank you, Peggy. Okay. Anything else on the consent agenda? Okay. Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. And
043the consent agenda passes. Thank you. Next up, we have a series of action items. The first action item is the approval of amendment to interlocal agreement with the city of both for school resource officer program for the school year. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So state law requires that school resource officer programs and their interlocal agreement be reviewed annually. Attached to today's school board meeting agenda for your review is the amendment to the interlocal agreement. The program review memo and the SRO program review report. The approval of the interlocal agreement with the city of both will allow for the SRO services to be provided for the 2526 school year. and we recommend to the school board that you approve the amendment to the interlocal agreement with the city of both for SRO services for
044the 2526 school year. Thank you, superintendent. And so, um, per Robert's rules of order, before we begin discussion, I'd ask for a motion for approval. So moved. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. So now, um, any questions, discussions on this action item? I I can get us I can get us going, I guess. Um, so I had a few items to sort of parse out and I know we talk about these every time, but um, in looking at the impacts of our budget and every little dollar and every way to support students and have um, people available to support students. Um I I am wondering about the amount of support that we're able to provide for students um with a campus security person versus or supervisor um versus an SRO in that an SRO
045is on campus and helping with the campus and providing services to the campus but is also has a greater commitment to the community and so is uh sometimes required to be off campus and the what that creates is a period of time where there are fewer adults on campus providing support to students um and I know it's not all the time but it does happen and I'm um wondering about the differences between that kind of support versus someone who is on campus the whole day to provide that kind of support. Um so those that's something that I've been thinking about um when looking at a campus of both size if um one of the people providing campus security and and safety is having to leave campus for whatever reason to support the community in various
046ways that are expected and good. um you know that then leaves kind of a hole for administrators to need to fill and other staff at both high school to need to fill. Um so is that a pondering or just for just for just to make sure is it a question for a superintendent? It's a pondering, but then sort of the follow-up question is um the requirements for campus security supervisors are that they are on campus all day. Yeah. Yes. Um and all of the other campuses have two of those employees. Oh, uh sorry. Comprehensive high schools. Yes. Um and technically they're not security. They're campus supervisors and they're monitoring student activities and things on campus, but they're not actually serving quote unquote security. Okay. Thank you. I thought I saw a request or at least
047a suggestion for um another campus supervisor at both High as well. So, uh there would be one SRO and two campus supervisors. There was a request um to increase of parking fees in order to be able to have um they say 4hour campus uh supervisor added uh for so that that may be possible. But if you recall the recommendations that came from the student wellness and safety task force and was a I approved and presented to the board was that if a campus has a SRO they would have one we would pay for one campus supervisor and one SRO but if there wasn't um and then any other the other situation is if there isn't an SRO then there would be two campus supervisors and that's what we currently have at our comprehensive campuses. Okay.
048So there w just so I understand correctly there was a request to increase the parking fees in order to cover the need for an additional campus supervisor which would mean both high wanted two campus supervisors plus an SRO. That's that's what they were seeking. Okay. Thank you. But that would not be compliant with the task force outcomes. It it the recommendation was based on our funding model. Uh what they were trying to do is to um come up with a way that the school would generate the resources to be able to add an additional personnel to the campus and that hasn't been decided yet and that's still under consideration. Okay. I have some obser I want to leave room as chair. I usually go last as courtesy. So, but I'm happy to dive into with
049with some um observations. Okay. Um well, I'll do a little history. So, um in 2020, there was a lot um and in the following legis state legislative session in 21, there were changes to state law around SRO's and what um standards and requirements they had to meet in order to be on school campuses. And so I just want to make sure there's an understanding of one why this changed and why because there were some um municipalities that were not either interested or able to meet state law in order to have SRO's on some of our school campuses. So that it was not a decision by a board but by the municipalities why some schools do not have SRO's that um so I just wanted to make sure that that we had that understanding. Um, also
050the board made um a change in response to what we were seeing and concerns to our student learning environment parameter and we added um the avoidance of any actions that might contribute to what is known as the schoolto prison pipeline. we we were we were hearing that concern that that was um an issue with SRO's and so we wanted to make sure that's also why we get the monthly updates of what is happening um at BAL High uh to so that we can monitor that we have seen over the last year not only not contributing but we've actually had several instances where we've been able to see some um moment moments of prevention of off off-campus arrests uh for students engaging in classic teenage stupid decision-m behaviors that prevented kids from ending up in the
051school not even schoolto prison pipeline but just in the prison pipeline. Um so I just wanted to share that observation. Thank you Director Hayes. That also as a point of clarification is the state law that you referenced in 2021 is why the board um reviews the amendment to the SRO contract every year. That is a state requirement that that it be adopted by the board um every year. So that is a change since 2021 based off of that state law. And um the student wellness and safety task force again kind of brings us all onto the same page. Um concluded its study in 23 I believe 2023. Um and part of that study was around the reporting and um in the um con the configuration of of the program um which results in um Dr.
052Fosters study in terms of um not only did state law now require um community input during the annual review, but also the Northshore student um safety and wellness task force created um parameters with a lowercase P, not our policy parameters, but lowercase P parameters under which Dr. Foster could base his annual assessment off of. So again, bring this all onto the same page. Well, I have musings as you can all imagine. Um, first a a question. Um, by my calculations, the response to the survey um that is the basis of Dr. Foster's report was about 12% 10 to 12% of the student body just the students. Is that right? I 212 students 212 students and both has about 1,400 students more than that they 17 18 more yeah they're larger and I guess some of
053the Oh yes sorry sorry for the interrupt um so I guess the the question and I don't see Dr. foster here, but is 12% significant um when we're statistically significant statistically significant when we're talking about trying to get the perspective of the student body as a whole. I mean, that's just who I am. That's the first thing that kind of jumps out at me. You know, what what is this data telling us with respect to the numbers? Um and I, you know, clearly we don't have our our statistician here to to respond to that. Um but for me that there are there are two bottom lines. Um one is that we need to make sure that irrespective of the percentage the number you know the the percent of this small number of students who responded
054irrespective of how small the percentage might be. um if we have x number of students being negatively impacted by this program, that's something we have to take into consideration. And the other bottom line is, do we have any evidence that we're causing harm to any student um by by continuing the program? Um so it's it I looked at those numbers so many times. Um, I know there are issues with surveys and trying just trying to get people to respond and we cannot act on data that we don't have. Um, so we do with what we have. Um, I also want to just say that I think we all know that Chief Sublick and and uh Officer Wear and the entire Both PD has the best intentions and they're committed to student safety and you know
055safe student learning environment. Um, we have absolutely no qualms with respect to that and it seems clear from the report that we have no evidence and like was stated before we have no evidence that there has been any complaint any issues you know with with the SRO being on campus. Um, the other the other really compelling thing for me with respect to the report is the comparison of the comprehensive high schools. And I know that wasn't the the survey specific to the SRO, but the panorama survey and how the how the students feel with respect to safety and being able to look at them all side by side. Um it seemed very very very slight um higher negative response from both high school students, but they were very very very close across the board. um
056which to me says that the the program isn't necessarily having a great impact making students feel very safe or safer, but it's also not having a a negative impact u compared to those comprehensive high schools that do not have an SRO. Um and I'm I apologize. I'm just putting the thoughts out there and see if see if we you know need discussion or if anybody else has questions around them. But um the other thing that that um I think we need to consider is given that it we the students at least seem to have the same perspective on their safety whether there's the SRO versus the is it CSO um that we have campus supervisor. Yeah, campus supervisor. Yeah. Um the other thing to consider is that if we have a majority of students who
057um feel that the SRO presence is a positive contributor to their safety, taking that away could make them feel less safe. So, just throwing these things out with respect to how what what I was analyzing for myself with respect to how to view the program and and how to vote tonight. Thank you, Director McCordi. I have a couple other thoughts you just kind of made me think of this. Um so there's a there's a definitely a difference although very much related um between the feeling of safety and and actual safety and with a with considering you know the the actual safety of students. I'm thinking back to our study sessions that we've had in the past. One that comes to mind is the one with the student um counselors and how much they put into
058preparing to become student counselors. One of the aspects of uh SRO is that they are a safe place and they provide student counseling. And I'm I'm wondering um you know how with the comparison of how many hours a student counselor has in training to have these sessions um compared to an an SRO program, right? um they're they they go get their master's degree, for example, the the student counselors and um they're trained specifically in dealing with behavioral mental health challenges of students. So, it's a wondering I have, you know, so then that that might be a follow-up question, Director TR. So, Superintendent Telly, across our comprehensive high schools, um, does the existence of the SRO program at both impact their staffing ratios for counselors? Is it or is it the equation the same across? It
059is the same across all the the staffing ratios are the same for Okay. So, the it would be um Okay. So it would be consistent and the SRO is is looped grouped together with the campus supervisor staffing instead, not with the counseling staffing. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, the the ratio makes sense and I'm glad to hear that. I'm uh pondering the the training behind the session. Right. Thank you, Director Jan. So any other questions or or comments? We um important discussion and again it's so important the state mandates we have it every year. So very important discussion and I don't want to rush it but trying to do my facilitation duties also. Do we know if the percentages of people who re students in particular who um replied to the survey? Does that
060um does the demographic information mirror that of the student population? Yes, for the the respondents it's close. And it's close. Okay, that's right. That's a good question. Thank you. Because I am seeing some um strong feelings from particularly the black and African-American students um uh around their feelings, you know, of student safety. And then when you look in the um the by ethnicity um data there's there's some groups of people who are who seem to have very strong opinions um about the program and uh it what stood out to me was and I know it's a very small sample size and so that's part of the problem that we run into is when we have a really small sample size, things kind of pop out that may not otherwise pop out. But something you said,
061Dr. Director McGordy, uh is that, you know, uh there's the the there's the feelings of students are important and impacts to students are important whether positive or negative. And so, and director Tran, you said perception of safety, but there's also the perception of feeling unsafe, too. So, there's I think there's two sides to this. And, you know, none of this is um straightforward and there's all lots of layers. Like, I feel like I'm peeling back an onion right now. Um, I also want to recognize that we had a support staff member who is a campus supervisor that recently won that award. Um, Raquelhoon from Inglemore High, right? And I think that is a good example of one of the ways there are many ways. It's not just one or the other. one of the ways
062that we can um have this perception of safety or the anti- unsafe perception um to your point Vice President Zotac and also make sure that students feel cared for, feel like they're in an environment that they uh where they feel safe and they matter, right? Thank you, Director Tran. Okay. So, anything else? Okay. In the interest of the rest of our agenda, then I might I'm going to move us along. Is that all right? Okay. I'm going to go ahead then. Thank you for the again important discussion. Thank you for the support, Superintendent Tully. I'm going to call for the vote. And the action item passes. Thank you, board. Next action item on our agenda is action item number two, Falcon Grid Iron Booster Club donation to Woodenville High School. Do you have an introduction,
063Superintendent Tully? Yes. Thank you, President Cass. So, this is this is a donation totaling $21,000 to Woodenville High School from the Falcon Grid Iron Booster Club. The booster club wishes to donate funds to help fund the purchase of various football equipment, helmets, and replacement jerseys for the 2526 school year. We recommend that the school board approve the donation of $21,000 from the Falcon Grid Iron Booster Club to Woodenville High School. Thank you, Superintendent Telly. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any questions or discussion? Okay. Seeing none, I'm going to call for the vote. Thank you, community. There it is. And that item passes. Thank you. Action item number three, Woodenville High School Music Booster Club donation um to Woodenville High School. Superintendent Tully. Yes. So, this is a donation of $15,000 to
064the Woodenville High School from the Woodenville High School Music Booster Club. The booster club wishes to donate funds to help offset the cost of the music department's field trip to Silverwood where the choir, orchestra, and band performed and competed. We recommend that the school board approve this donation of $15,000 to Woodenville High School from the music booster club. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any questions or discussion? I just love that in our community, music gets just as much importance as football. It's fabulous. Absolutely. All right. Anything else? Okay. See none. I'm gonna call for the vote. And that item passes. Thank you. Um, next action item number four, acceptance of value engineering report for Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement project. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass.
065So, for projects subject to state funding assistance, state law requires the preparation of a value engineering study at the appropriate time in the design process for projects greater than 50,000 square ft. Value engineering log is attached in its entirety and shows ideas that were considered and whether they were accepted fully or partly rejected or still under consideration. State law requires evidence of the acceptance of the report and responses at uh to his proposals by the school board. So we are recommending to the school board that you accept the value engineering report for Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement project and the responses to its proposals in accordance with state law. Thank you. Superintendent Telly. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All right. Been moved and seconded. Any discussion? I just wanted to
066shout out to our our facilities and capital projects and and the teams working on all of this. I mean it was just this is a really cool list. I mean if you look at the things that they were considering in minute detail um things that you know and the consideration was whether it benefits the students, whether it might do something that would you know deter the environment for the students. Um and also considering our our green building commitment as well. So and we get we get some savings out of it too. So well done. Thank you, Director McGordy. Any other discussion? All right, seeing none, we will call for the vote. and that item passes. Thank you. Action item number five of sec acceptance of constructibility review report for Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement
067project. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So for projects again subject to state funding assistance, state law requires the preparation of a constructibility report at an appropriate time in the design process. State law also requires certification by the school board that the report was completed. A constructibility review is defined as a cost control technique which is based on a review of project documents by mechanical, electrical, structural, construction, and design professionals prior to a request for bids. We recommend that the school board accept the constructability review report for Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement project and the responses to its proposals in accordance with state laws. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All right, it's moved and seconded. Any discussion? All right, just a ditto perhaps. A ditto. Okay.
068See no further discussion. We'll call for the vote and the item passes. Thank you. And our last action item, the authorization of guaranteed price amendment number three for the Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement project. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. To ensure successful completion of the Inglemore High School replacement project phase one on time, the district capital projects department in collaboration with our GCCM partner BM Builders is proactively securing essential materials for this summer construction phase. a and working to contract with a variety of subcontractors including those completing demolition, abatement, geothermal, fire protection, and electrical. To facilitate this initiative, the school board's approval is required for amendment number three. This will allow for the procurement of essential equipment and the schedule the work activities of that would be included with these subcontractors. So, we
069are recommending uh the authorization for the guaranteed maximum price amendment number three to the general contractor's construction manager contract for Inglemore High School phase one replacement project. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All right. Moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion? This is always one of my favorites. It's us thinking ahead and being proactive to try to keep costs down. Um, and I just I love it when to see this and it's um important to for the community to see the board seeing this, the work that's being done, the thoughtfulness that goes behind each of our construction projects and how hard they work to keep them on time and on budget. and of high quality, not not compromising quality for cause. Absolutely. I um so I have a
070question and uh it it may be in these documents and I just don't speak the language well enough and and it may be that I've asked before, but this is for a maximum price guarantee, but what I saw was an interim maximum price guarantee. You could. Yes. I will need to ask our executive director D. Ralph to come forward to speak to that. Explain the difference in how it becomes an actual maximum guarantee. We like to refer to these as minaxs. Um, it's a way for us to keep uh the process moving before we come to the final contract amount with the contractor where we uh really shift the cost burden entirely to their um side of the table, but it keeps us moving through the design, moving through preparedness. Um, and we do anticipate
071this being the last Mac mini. Yes. So we we expect you to see the final MAC in August. So we have William Trivl who's here who's leading this project and uh all of our capital projects. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. See none, we'll call for the vote. And that action item passes as well. Thank you. So now in our agenda, we have a list of information items. The first is the district budget status report for April of 2025. Superintendent Tully. Yes. Thank you, President Cass. So of course, a copy of the April 2025 budget status report is provided for the board's review. And if as you know these reports include information on enrollment, budget status information, general fund, capital projects fund, debt service, uh ASB and transportation vehicle fund. Thank you, Superintendent Ty.
072Any questions from the board? All right, we'll keep going then. Information item number two, capital projects fund allocation report for April 2025. Superintendent Telly. Thank you, President Cass. So, these attached reports provide additional information to the monthly budget status report, the previous item. U the fund balance allocation report shows individual capital projects by major funding source within the capital projects fund itself. This includes of course the 2018 capital bond, the 2022 capital bond, technology levy, impact fees, state match, and unreserved funds. Any questions for Superintendent Telly? No. Business keeps rolling along. Okay, next up, third information item, the capital project status report. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So, of course, this is one of our favorite reports. It's attached for your review reflecting the current status for the 8 2022 uh capital project bond
073growth projects. Any questions from the board? All right. Again, so helpful. I mean, we we're going through this and a professional like manner, but doesn't mean we haven't pre-eread them. Yes. And appreciate the information. Um, so just want to comment on that, but it is really helpful to see um the progress specifically. We get a lot of questions on these campus projects, so this is incredibly helpful and very transparent for the community. So, next up, our next information item is the signed construction agreements for the I405 expansion project. Superintendent Tully. Yes, thank you, President Cass. An easement was um signed in um this reporting period with Ziply Fiber in associate association with Wash DOT's I405 expansion project actually right out there um near the administrative center. authorization to sign uh to sign these e easements
074uh for this project was granted at the January 24th, 2022 board meeting. So attached are the signed easement documents including the line drawing of the area. Thank you, Superintendent Tony. Any questions or discussion? Because I always love me a good easement. But just to clarify for anybody that's watching, this is uh one, we are not doing the expanding of the 405. that is someone else's job that it is an easement onto our property outside of the admin building to lay some fiber. Okay. Thank you, Director Hayes. Important distinction. Yes, we are not in the transportation business. Do not want to be in the transportation business. Yes. No. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? All right. Last information item, a project acceptance under a million dollars. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So, there was one project
075under $1 million completed in this reporting period. This involved the movement of portables from Kenmore Elementary School to Inglemore High School. Thank you, Superintendent Telly. Any questions? No questions about this particular um point of information, but the the funding source reminded me about all the bonds that we have to do. Are we going to have another report saying how much we've used of each year's bond soon to like know we're going to get down to zero for some of them? So yeah, we we'll have a facilities well a bond conversation in just a couple months in general, but for the meantime, the fund allocation report I think kind of plugs that hole until we have the opportunity for a study session. Um but if there's any other um topics that you know that relate to
076that that we want to make sure we bring into that study session where we're going to talk about you know the specific next to ask of the community then let's absolutely do that if there's anything that pops up. Okay. Any other questions since since it was was brought back. Um it occur just looking through the the allocation here looks to me like the uh projects we've only got about 5% of the spend left on that which is pretty great which is great. Yeah. And for where did it go? Um for 22 looks like we're getting close to half of of the span which is that's a lot of progress in that amount of time. A lot of work. Yeah. Okay. Great. All right. So, we're going to keep going. So, now we're in board reports
077and communications. The first item is new business items. Do any board members have a new business item? I do. So, an email was sent by a student. You know, we have the general school board email address, [email protected]. Um, it was sent um by a student by the name of Jack Sabos um who asked um specifically that this email could be read at the next meeting. So, I'm going to I'm going to read this. Um, hello, I am a student at Canyon Park Middle School. This June 6th, the winners of the 2526 ASB elections will be announced. I'm running for vice presidents. We didn't get an update, but I hope to win, but that's not what this email is about. This email is about thanking the superintendent. Hello. So, this is what the student asked us
078to read. Hello, Superintendent Michael Tully. I want to thank you for being our superintendent. Thank you so much for your dedication to all the communities. You have inspired me many times. You are an incredible leader. Everyone at Northshore will miss you. In a few words, you have been an incredible leader, a kind, honest, caring, and respectful leader. Thank you for being our superintendent. Thank you very much. With thanks, Jack. That's very nice. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. And thank you to Jack. Any other new business items? I know it's a tough act to follow. So, um I we really love our students. Okay, so um next up is um second to last item on the agenda, board member reports. Um and we'll start with um Director McCordi. Thank you, President Cast. Um like
079Superintendent Tully, on Wednesday the 28th, I attended the Latino graduation ceremony at our Northshore Performing Arts Center. Uh which fabulous celebration and collaboration between parents and community and um the Northshore Schools Foundation. I guess they left. Um then Thursday on May 29th, I attended the uh Northshore retirement party, which is always kind of bittersweet, but also a really great celebration of these amazing people and recognizing everything that they've contributed to making Northshore what it is today. So that always always a favorite. Uh Monday, June 3rd, I had an opportunity to meet with a group of North Creek High School seniors uh to get their input on um about their class and their experience over the last four years as they are about to leave us. Then also June 3rd, I had my first one by
080one meeting with Dr. Irish, which uh left me with great expectations for a great Northshore future. Then Thursday, June 5th, I attended the CTE spring recognition uh ceremony. always aspiring, inspiring, excuse me, I'm inspiring um inspiring and exciting to see one our culinary arts uh students um in their in their element. Um but also learning about uh some of the amazing pro programs and partnerships that Director Shinnaman has has put together and keeps going um always leaves me jealous and wanting to go back to school myself, but I just had to throw it out there as a scientist. I I have to take a moment to drool over the um digital dissection table that they now have in the biomed program. What they did there was a grant from Wanik. Director Hayes, we saw one
081of these at the WASA conference. We're like we could never get one of these and Wanik got one for us. Played with it for quite a while. We did. Yes. That's me. Thank you, Director McGordis. Sorry for the interruption, but it is exciting. Director Tran. Oh man, I'm missing out here. I want to geek out along with you guys. All right, so very similar. Um, on uh May 28th, I attended a very inspirational Latino Spanish graduation celebration. On May 29th, I missed the retiree celebration due to a middle school soccer match. Um on June 4th, I um missed out on that PTSA spring recognition event. There was a middle school band concert. It was the last of their year. Couldn't miss that. Um and then June 5th, um I cannot read my handwriting. Ah, here
082it is. Northshore uh racial educational justice uh pride panel which I sat and I just absorbed and listened to the pan the wonderful panel which consisted of students um community members and staff members. Um so thank you to the racial educational justice department for hosting that that evening. And I also had my one-on-one with Dr. Irish. Oh that was on June 4th. So, um, hopefully we'll hit the ground running when he comes in. Thank you, Director Tran and Vice P. Oh, I'm sorry, Director Hayes. I can read in order. Thank you. Um, I also attended the Latino Hispanic graduation celebration and um, big shout out to our communication staff and our family liaison folks that worked so hard to put that together and it was very well attended. We outgrew in year two, we outgrew
083the facility. So, um, look forward to next year's. Um, also attended the NSD retiree celebration. I think it was 600 years plus of um, work in Northshore that was uh, recognized and celebrated. So, thanks to all of the you maybe minus one, but almost all of you that are retiring and um, best wishes. Um, I was part of a group of people that at the uh Northshore Schools Foundation uh event, a fundraising event won a opportunity to go to the planetarium at Inglemore High School before they tear it down despite a gazillion years of kids being there. I'd never been in it before. So, um, we got to go in it. The astronomy teacher was very kind and was there and showed us around. It is a little long in the tooth. It is 60
084uh years old. So it is um probably time um I I will just share it's not just used by Inglemore students. The elementary students classes come and use it as well. I think um more more up-to-date um technology and there is talk that maybe in phase three I'm just planting the seed that it would instead be a separate building it would be part of a classroom um so using space wisely and I am all in on that because I think there's still great learning that can happen with it but um thank you to our staff for allowing us one last visit into the planetarium before it goes away um I'm continuing my meetings with board members around the state and the country. Um the recent meeting with board members from around the state, we were
085informed that I know this will shock all of you, but it turns out when we fired all of the people at the Department of Ed that collect data around how students are doing that we didn't really mean that. And so now they're working to try to rehire the people that I know. Anyway, so more to come. Um and along with President Cass met with some uh uh members of or representatives of our state auditor's office to discuss um maybe some steps they could take to repair the harm done by the improper audit that we received. Um I don't know that we got very far but they were very kind and listened to us about our concerns that um when you do give an audit finding and it is not upheld that you then need to
086be just as prompt with your explanation of why it was not upheld as you were in defending it to begin with. Um again not super hopeful but we'll see. we we help them understand. Um, also thanks to the PTA, lovely spring recognition ceremony as always. Um, Cara did a great job of explaining the core plus construction project. Um, but I just want to express gratitude. We have been a district that for many years was very siloed and to see all the different groups coming together to make this happen and that um relevance work that is so important for our students to it. It it was fabulous and um I've also been continuing or part of the onboarding process with Dr. Irish. Thank you Director Hayes. Vice President Sotac going to go rogue because it deleted
087my thing so I forgot to save. Always always save your work people. It's a learning opportunity for me. Um May 28th I also attended the Latino Spanish Hispanic uh graduation ceremony celebration and it was fabulous and very crowded. Definitely need a bigger venue next year. so that everyone can have a seat cuz it was standing room only. And it was so exciting and exuberant and um was a a really great testament to um how Northshore supports kids um from different places and different backgrounds and values um people's cultures and it was a really nice um representation of that. and I worked on my Spanish listening skills which are getting better every day. Um then I also attended the um NSD retiree graduation event um on May 29th and all of the graduates had about 640ome
088years of service which was very impressive. Um, and then it's the meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Irish, and getting to know him a bit. And then the CTE on June 5th, the CTE spring recognition event, which also they mentioned the um building of the emergency sheds, which was really neat. um and also honored the retirees from that pro from those programs. Um and then the graduations begin ne next come to all the graduations. You almost gave me a segue. That's almost a perfect segue. But so but my my quick report is I also was at the Latino Hispanic graduation ceremony on May 28th. Um also met with the state auditor's office and Dr. Irish on June 3rd, June 4th um our spring PTSA recognition um reception by our great community partners. Always an inspiring
089event and field of energy. Um and then June 5th, our career and technical education spring recognition event as well of great work and um great community partnerships. And so we have one last item on our agenda. Um, Superintendent Tully, um, do you mind introducing this one? So, we have an opportunity to recognize a student who graduated. Um, and we're going to have our, um, our principal of Secondary Academy for Success come forward and he's going to do introductions to this and take us through this recognition. Brian Stutz. Good evening. uh school board directors, Superintendent Tully, uh district leadership, and uh most importantly, the parents and guests of Matt. Um we are here this evening to celebrate the accomplishment of Matt Calio, uh meeting the graduation requirements of the Northshore School District. As we know, high
090school graduation is a milestone that helps set us up uh pardon me, set many young people up on the path for success to adulthood. It m marks the culmination of years of hard work, learning, personal growth, and significant readiness uh to take on new responsibilities and challenges. For many, it's the first major accomplishment that validates their perseverance and open doors to new opportunities. Whether that's higher education, vocational training, the military, entering the workforce, graduation also represents a shift from adolescence to adulthood. Uh where individuals begin to make more independent decisions about their futures beyond the academic accomplishment. It symbolizes the support of families, educational support people, and communities that helps makes this journey possible. Ultimately, it serves as both a celebration of what has been achieved and a launch point to the possibilities ahead. It
091is with great pleasure that I recommend to the Northshore School District uh school board of directors and Superintendent Tully uh to certify this diploma. I can confirm that Matt has met all state and Northshore School District graduation requirements. Congratulations, Matt, on your accomplishment of earning your high school diploma. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you, Principal Studs. Thank you. Congratulations, Matt. Thank you for sharing this day with us. It really means so much to us that we get to be part of this journey with you um and get to see you at the culmination of it. And thank you to your lovely family as well. Appreciate it. Any um any other thoughts from the school board. It just makes our day. Again, this is this is um we call this celebration season and so
092this is just heartwarming. So, thank you very much. So, being as that's our last agenda item, I'm going to go ahead and call our