001All right. Thank you everyone for joining us this afternoon. We really appreciate you um coming and joining us here this a I apologize. Thank you. A busy day. So, um, if you are willing and able, please feel free to join us in the flag salute. Thank you everyone. On behalf of the board, I welcome all members of the audience to this afternoon'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. I'd like to introduce the people participating in this meeting. Recording Secretary Peggy King, Superintendent Mr. Michael Tully, board members Sandy Hayes, Han TR, Jacqueline McGordy, and Elizabeth Zotac. I am Amy
002Cast, 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 at the back of the boardroom. There will be an opportunity for both uh for public comments to be shared during the association and public comment portion of this meeting. Community members who are interested in viewing the meeting with closed captions are encouraged to follow the link on our website to the district's YouTube channel. The YouTube stream includes closed captioning for both regular school board meetings and study sessions like the one after this meeting. Visit nsd.org or and under our district, click school board, then board meeting materials and videos. If you are here to address the board on agenda items, please sign in using the sign-in sheet on
003the 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 the land acknowledgement, which Director McGordy is going to help us with. Thank you, President Cast. Am I There we go. Um, we take this time to acknowledge that the Northshore School District occupies the unseated coast Salish lands that have been here since time immemorial. We honor the ways of knowing and ways of being of indigenous peoples and tribal nations who are still here and thriving in our district community. We also acknowledge that this is a working land acknowledgement that will continue to evolve as our partnership with local indigenous peoples and tribal leaders expands. Thank you, Director McGordy. The next item on our agenda is the approval of the
004agenda. Do board members have any changes to the agenda. All right, seeing none, is there a motion to approve it? So, so moved. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Um, I'll go ahead and call for the vote. and the agenda is approved. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Mr. Tully. Thank you, Pres President Cass. Uh since the last my last report, I have continued to be busy attending and participating in numerous meetings and school visits. Some examples include um on Tuesday, April 15th, um I provided a state of our schools presentation at the University of Washington Both for the staff and professors there. And later that same day, I provided a state of our schools presentation at the Both City Council meeting. On Wednesday, April 16th, I facilitated
005a superintendent student advisory board meeting. On Wednesday, April 23rd, I attended the Pugans ESD regional superintendent meeting. And I also attended last week's racial and educational justice department's community panel discussion. Um, that was Tuesday, May 6th. Since my last report, I've continue to conduct formal school visits. I've um visited at Cottage Lake, Crystal Springs, Hollywood Hill, and Maywood Hills elementary schools, as well as Inglemore Innovation Lab and North Creek High Schools. And I've also continued to conduct school level strategic action plan reviews with school principles and several of their thought partners. I've conducted school level strategic action plan reviews at Wellington, West Hill, Kenmore, Crystal Springs, Lockwood, and Shelton View elementary schools, as well as Kmore Middle and Innovation Lab High School. This concludes my report for this evening. Thank you, Superintendent Telly. Any questions
006for Superintendent? No. All right, we will continue on to 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 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 school board meetings. Please speak directly to the board and address matters related 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 the board
007meeting to only those items that have been captured in the previously published agenda. What this means for us today is any public comment regarding items that are included in the agenda will be taken into consideration by the board when the topic is addressed. Any topics brought up during public comment that are not included in the previously 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. It's neither a signal of agreement nor disagreement with a speaker's remarks. Also, please note that comments should not
008make reference to any employee or representative of the district by name or by identifiable reference. If you're interested in making comments or complaints regarding an individual, you may use the complaint process available through the office of the superintendent. Finally, please remember that your words have impact and you, not the school district, are responsible for your words. We caution all speakers that it's possible that your statements could violate the rights of others under various laws, including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation. If you are unsure of the legal effect of your remarks, you should seek independent legal advice. In any case, we ask that you help us model for our students what a respectful and inclusive community looks and sound like. So, do we have any community or association leaders today? Afternoon, Colleen Panto, Cascadia
009board trustee. Thank you for supporting Cascadia with a letter to the legislature in favor of allocating funds for our new building, the Gateway Student Services Building. Unfortunately, despite all our efforts, we didn't make the list for funding this bienium. This means however that we are guaranteed funding for the 2729 bianium. Your support means a lot to us. Like you, we are attempting to manage new weekly directions from the federal and state governments. In particular, we are watching how new perspectives may affect our international students and inclusion programs. Cascadia graduation is June 13th at 4 pm. We would be happy to save you a seat if you'd like to come watch some of your students, current and current current and former cross our stage. It just brings tears even thinking about it. Finally, the social justice
010conference again went well. We appreciate the continued collaboration on this event and enjoy having Northshore School District students on our campus for this. Thank you. Thank you, Colleen. Any other public comment today? No. All right. Well, thank you. That concludes the public comment portion of today's meeting. So, we will proceed with the agenda when the next step is the adoption of the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments? No. All right. Seeing none, then we will call for a vote to approve the agenda. And the consent agenda is approved. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is our one action item which is a project acceptance of over 1 million. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cast. Uh, one project over a
011million dollars was completed during this reporting period. This project involved the upgrade to existing public address and intercom systems at multiple sites across the district. This was a 2018 bondf funded project and was the second phase of the systems upgrade. We recommend that the school board approve the project as complete. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve the action item? So moved. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion? Just again thanking our community for um our 2018 bond and the folks on our safety committee that was formed after we passed this and this was one of their key recommendations. So, we so appreciate both the support in terms of funding and also direction of how to spend that money. Thank you, Director Hayes. Any other questions or
012discussion? Nope. All right. See none, we'll call for a vote. and the project acceptance passes. Thank you. Um the next item on the agenda is a performance review a monitoring report for superintendent parameter 13 asset protection. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So this report contains information as to how we maintain adequate insurance coverage against theft and casualty losses and liability losses to the schoolboard members, staff and our organiz organization itself. Um how we do not allow unfunded person I'm sorry unbonded personnel access to material amounts of funds. How we do not unnecessarily expose the organization, the school board or staff to claims of liability. How we protect all district assets. How we properly preserve and dispose of all records. And how we provide a report to the school board to include but not limited
013to the status and condition of capital and technological assets. I would like to thank all the staff members involved in assisting in compiling the information contained in this report particularly our deputy superintendent and chief financial officer Jolen Bergie. I hereby present the monitoring report for parameter 13 in accordance with the monitoring schedule set forth in board policy and I certify that the information contained in the report is true as of today Monday May 12th 2025. I know that each of you have had an opportunity to review and study the report. We are happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Any questions or discussion from the board? You know, it's it's one of those where it's really necessary to have this policy, but it's not. It's pretty it's pretty clear-cut sometimes.
014I'm sorry. Sorry, I was struggling with my screen is doing odd things again to me. But I just wanted to call out the very last component of this of this parameter that I I really appreciate the descriptions that are included in the report with respect to our um ecologically sound practices and promoting renewability. It's it's greatly appreciated. Thank you, Director McGordy. Also note that when I've been uh sending and receiving emails lately, Outlook's been telling me how long it's going to be retained for. So that's that's been helpful in thinking about those seven years. Um my pros are not frightening. Um yeah, I again appreciate all the work and the um it's a it's a long list of things and um it's a lot of work to think about all the things that we need
015to take care of in the district in different ways. Um and yes, quite thorough. Thank you everyone for all the info. Thank you vice president SOCK. Any other comments? Um, yeah, I will, um, echo director McGertie statements about, um, uh, bullet point 7. Um, and look forward to maybe enhancing that in the future of some of the forward thinking actions that we are taking. Um, I feel like there's more than just what's here on the page that we are doing. And so hopefully we'll recognize that work. Um I just do want to do a shout out um all of the work around technology. It it's been five and a half years since our um cyber attack and that can be feel like a long time but we are not taking our eye off the that
016ball and really continuing to do that intense work of protecting um our systems. So, I really just want to do a shout out to our technology folks for continuing those energy and efforts. Um I just a a thought I don't know whether it needs to be added to this but there's um nothing in here about the and I know again that's work that's being done around AI and that potential harm that can be done particularly um I know like uh Watt is telling uh state agencies that they have to have an AI usage particularly around public records the reminding board members and staff that any AI um activities can be part of a public records request. So, some of that kind of thinking um about the potential harms that AI can do and actions that
017we're taking to protect our system. Thank you, Director Hayes. All right. Yeah, again I'll just echo um thanks for the report. This again, this is something that we haven't always had a report on and um we appreciate it because the fiduciary duty that we all have protecting the community's assets is super important. So, thank you. All right, so we will um go ahead and present options under our policies. Um the board is required to present a response to this report. we can vote to or someone can make a motion to find the superintendent in compliance with P13 asset protection or making adequate progress towards compliance or not in compliance. So would anyone like to make a motion? I move that we find the superintendent um in compliance with P13. Is there a second? Second. All
018right, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Um, this is not really discussion, but this is such an excellent reminder of why we do policy governance and calendar calendaring because this is not a topic we would ever think to talk about, but obviously so important to the health until something went wrong, right? Yes. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Good point. Thank you, Director Hayes. Okay. So, see no further discussion, we will call for the vote. And that motion passes. We're going to take a minute, write down our reflection. So, give us one second. Um, while we're writing, I'll just let anybody viewing that doesn't understand what role this plays. This would, if our superintendent hadn't made the decision and was sticking around, all of these uh monitoring reports would have been part of his
019evaluation. And so next year we will be gathering all of these thoughts that we write down and share um as part of the next superintendent's evaluation. All right. So, we will keep going. Next on the agenda is a review of this policy we just monitored. Um, parameter 13, asset protection. So, Director Hayes, would you would you like to think about formally amending the policy or is just this just something to keep in our What? So what I'd like to propose is that um number five I think is where it would fall. Fail to properly preserve and dispose of all records related to affairs or business of district. I I would like to propose asking our technology department if it would be beneficial to have a comma including those produced by AI or if that would
020muddy that. That's a good question. Like would it be helpful to spell things out a little bit more or is that just getting nitpicky and then setting oursel up for too much? Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Yep. So yeah, superintendent tell we will track that. Great. If All right. Anything else? Throw one other complication into it. uh with respect to AI under um number four it's talking about protecting all district assets including but not limited to intellectual property and do we need to somehow reference AI in that as well? Yeah. So maybe just a broad view of all the points in the policy. Yeah. Good point. Great. All right. Anything else? No. All right. Let's keep going. So, the next item on the agenda is the first of our information items, which is our district budget status
021report for the month of March 2025. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. So, a copy of the March 2025 budget status report is provided for the board's review. As you know, this report includes information on enrollment, budget status information, general fund, capital projects fund, debt service fund, ASB fund, and transportation vehicle fund. Thank you, Superintendent Ty. Any questions? Um, so I had one um, page six with the um, FTE enrollment comparison reports and and I recognize that our enrollment trend um, downward matches to the extent that we have consistency, but it appears to be matching um, the last several years of a small tiny decline in enrollment. Um, but I I have a wondering if we have a sense of what that is. Is it running the running start? Is it families leaving due to
022safety concerns because of actions at the federal level? um do we have a way of wrapping our heads around what's happening um and maybe taking control of the narrative before it takes control of us? I I don't have an answer um outright, but of course it's it's going to be a combination of all those those things. We did see um increase in students participation in running starts. So that was somewhat of a surprise for us this year. But um the number of students taking advantage of that opportunity. So we saw the decline at the high school level, but as you are well aware, we've also seen particularly at the elementary level incoming numbers of students in kindergarten is going down year after year. Um and of course that decrease impacts our enrollment over time. Um
023we are hopeful and anticipating some uh change in that within the next 5 years as you know community possibly increases enrollment in the north end of the district u for a number of reasons but um but until that happens we may continue to see that um decline in um periodic decline enrollment. Yeah. And I I wasn't look um questioning so much the overall picture, but um it's during within a during the school year. It's Yeah. that there's this seems to be a trend and I'm just making sure that ours is the normal trend and it it's not being driven by something unusual this year this year. Yeah. I Yes. That I don't have an answer to, but yeah, there's so we some research it sounds like. Yes. some further discussion. Anything else on the budget
024status report? Okay. All right. So, the next information item is the capital projects fund allocation report for March of 2025. Superintendent Telly. Thank you, President Cass. So, these attached reports provide additional information to the monthly budget status report, the previous item on the agenda. Uh the fund balance allocation report shows individual capital projects by major funds source within the capital projects funds. And of course as you know this includes the 2018 capital bond, 2022 capital bond technology levy impact fees state match and unreserved funds. Great. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Any questions? All right. Good. Sorry. Oh, this is more of a probably a learning question for myself, but the undesated funds is more than half of the total unrestricted and I'm just wondering if that maybe I've missed it in past budget reports, but is
025that normal? And then how do we know what's going under the undesated funds? So, I'm going to ask that our chief, well, deputy superintendent and chief financial officer, uh, Julian Bergie, come up and speak to that. Good evening. For the record, Deputy Superintendent Joel Len Bergie, uh, Director Tran, can you repeat your question? I couldn't quite hear what what fund you were talking about. Yeah, no worries. um undesated funds is more than half of the total unrestricted funds that are listed on the budget and I'm just wondering if if we have a you know fiscal responsibility maybe we should know what that greater half of under the capital projects fund the capital projects sorry yes capital projects oh right that's I can't answer the the enrollment question uh the enrollment question is that is normal
026behavior for a district not just our district but every district. When you start seeing that second semester trend, you start seeing, especially now we have 28 opportunities for 24 credits, you see kids taking as many credits as they might need to graduate, but not necessarily a full load. We also have dropout happening, which is normal behavior, unfortunately, in high school. And that is just a general trend line for us as well. Um, and we're closely watching our EL population because we did see an unusual drop or stagnation there that we weren't expecting for the first time. So, we're starting to look at that really carefully uh as we go along. But, I I do believe the undesated component is what we should expect to see. So, I I will turn the rest over to D.
027Thanks. Uh, I was looking over at Jolyn to see if it was going to be if she was going to stand up or if I was going to stand up. Uh, so our undesated fund, we get those funds via sale of real estate generally. Um, we use them for other things that can be quantified as capital expenditures but can't be used from other sources. Um, all of our other sources have limitations on them. So, the projects that we put in there are not um viable for other things. We do have a $10 million uh policy that says that we don't go below $10 million in that fund. Um so, we have that there. It's what we use to buy real estate when we have something come up. Uh it's what we use to do some
028of the planning for some of the capital work that gets done that can't be done out of bond funds. So that's typical what we see. Did that answer your question, Director Tran? Yes. Thank you. Can Sorry to add add on to that. Um, so I'm wondering some of the some of the projects that we've gone through have come in under budget. Some of them relatively significantly under budget. Do those funds go into this or do they necessarily they stay in the fund that they originated in? So, if we had a capital project, a 2022 bond project that came in under, that money would remain in the 2022 bond. Uh, it offsets some overspend generally in other projects. Uh, you all have helped us reallocate some of those funds um from to to handle some increases
029in other bond projects, but they stay within their fund. Thank you, Trey. Great. All right. Just double checking. Any other questions? All right. All right. Under the third information item, we have our capital project status report. Superintendent Telly. Thank you, President Cass. So, a report is attached for your review reflecting the current status of our A 2022 capital project bond growth projects. Thank you. Any questions? I have a comment. I I'm happy to see dirt being put into the back of a truck in the picture at Leota. Um that's a fantastic thing to see some action there. And um I will also note that the beloved construction workers at my child's elementary school that is currently being worked on um have gotten nicknames from my Yes, we have sticker helmet, long hair, and Hawaiian shirt.
030Uh I some point she might learn their names, but for right now she just likes watching them eat lunch. so becomes part of the community, huh? They really do. Um, and they Yeah. So, it's it's been lovely having them and we're very excited for them to finish their their work. Um, but it's it's very exciting to see all of these pictures of the insides of buildings happening and not just, you know, dirt piles, which are also very exciting. Um, but yeah, I'm thrilled, pleased as punched that things are moving right along and that we get to see pretty pictures in our pretty updates because I love these updates. I'll just talk about that again every time. Thanks, Vice President. So, I will I will echo that. It's it's so exciting to see the progress that's
031being made and to look at the timelines and see how everything's moving along. But I have to ask at purely selfish reasons. Is there any chance of a ribbon cutting before the end of the year? I think there are for Inglemore and Leona. Well, not a ribbon cutting ground, but no ribbon cutings before the end of the school year. Ah, so end of the calendar year. No, I meant the calendar year. Yeah. I don't know if we would have a ribbon cutting option as in something completed by the end of the year. I don't think we will have it completion but we will of course in September we were anticipating occupancy and I think that's when we would do um ribbon cutings. Executive Director Ralph is confirming. I was just looking over our meeting schedule
032for the board. Um, do we have some of the groundbreaking that do we plan on adding that to the schedule? It's being researched, correct? Okay, awesome. We looked at what was left before the end of June that does isn't filled with celebrations or other activity and so there were a couple little windows that are getting investigated to see if that would work there. Depends how you how you how large you scope the windows. [Laughter] Yes. Anything else on these reports? Right. I I again, thank you everyone. It's helpful too because it's helpful to be able to it saves a lot of questions. Let's just say because it's hard not to hear about supply chain and worry about impact and so we can just keep an eye on the bar graphs and and know. So, thank
033you. Okay, last information item which is a project acceptance under $1 million. Um, Superintendent Telly. Thank you, President Cass. So, there's one project under a million dollars completed in this reporting period. Um, this involved the demolition and removal and disposal of the Trinity North rental property. um along with the shed removal um existing well decommissioning existing fuel tank decommissioning back fill erosion control and removal or uh close off of existing utilities. Thank you, Superintendent Ty. Any questions? Just minor detail. Um this was two years ago. Yes. Well, there Yeah, but it there was a couple little surprises in the process there. Um, but we were they were able to address them. Do do we want to understand? Do we want to understand? Okay. Just noting. Right. Anything else? Okay, we're gonna Excuse me. Keep going
034on the agenda. So, next up is the superintendent search update. It is May 12th. We have three finalist candidates in the region. They um each took turns meeting with various staff and parent groups today. And tomorrow we'll have the opportunity to tour a school, have an interview with us, the board, and then do a town hall beginning 6:30 at the concert hall at Ingammore High School. That will be live streamed as well. And anyone watching is um asked to complete a feedback form and repeated repeat the feedback form for each of the three finalists, but it's kind of today it's kind of a short update. Anything else the board like to add? All right, there you update for a lot of activity. So next up under board reports and communication new business items. Anyone have
035a new business item? Okay, great. Y'all are I Well, no, not quite. And we've Yeah, the the that was the P Yeah. Powerfree board meeting was 17 minutes. So, board retreat planning. I asked this get put on the agenda because next Monday we have on the calendar a board retreat. We have a lot of things on the calendar right now and so thinking of what to discuss that also would fit in well with the timing with a new superintendent starting July 1st. What would be um a helpful use of our time? Um one idea I'm we would discuss briefly whether or not we would have enough information for an update for levy and levy and bond proposals. Superintendent Tully, I don't know if by Monday if we would have enough updates from the task forces
036to really convene that. I I do not believe. We were anticipating having some information in June, so Monday the 19th would quite work. That's not going to work. So, but we have it on the calendar. We can absolutely still do it, but I would request assistance with the agenda perhaps. Did we have that running list of topics? We have a running list of topics. So the running list of topics happened to be a discussion from parameter 7 about um how the board gets updated around safety and community can be updated around student safety within the school building which again might be something to involve the next superintendent in that conversation. Um and then also talking about how data from um monitoring reports can be optimized across monitoring reports. That is a good one too. But
037again, something perhaps after July 1st for the person taking over the monitoring reports. That doesn't mean we still don't have things to talk about, but that's what I had on my list. It's just it's those two things that were on the list. Yeah. I mean we have plenty of meetings as well um in the month of June um and everything. So I am okay if we don't want to have the retreat in June and we want to wait for the new superintendent to come on before we have these important discussions. We will no doubt be doing a solid retreat in August if not sooner with a new superintendent as a as a board superintendent team. Um I totally fine obviously. Um the only thought I had was do we want to talk as a board
038about an onboarding plan for the new superintendent? How we as a board how have you done that in the past? Yes. Also the Well, it's been a while. Oh, then yeah, because he came from within the district, so he didn't feel like So, would have been Yeah. Nine years ago. Made eye contact. I think Yeah, a labor and land acknowledgement. Yes. Wonderful. Take take a look at Yeah. Yeah. And that I don't feel like Lee needs to have the superintendent, I guess. Or we can inform them of what we decide. You could I mean would Monday be an a week from today be an okay time frame to discuss super an updated land acknowledgement for board meetings? We can get further information. Yes. Okay. So that Okay. Well, well, let's do that then. So, superintendent
039onboarding and then the land acknowledgement and we can always shorten it from three hours as well or start. Yes, we can shorten it from three hours. Okay, that that is helpful. Thank you all. We could do a picnic. Maybe as long as we had a way to live stream it would it would be legal and great. But all right. Okay. Well, great. Thank you so much. That is really helpful. And then um any last thoughts on retreat planning? All right. Let's do board member reports then. And there we go. Looks like you're first, Director Hayes. Um so, um attended the school visit at Hollywood Hill. And I just would like to thank Principal Ikert for an amazing visit and just um reiterate what an amazing leader she is and how fortunate we are to have
040her in our district and maybe figure out how she's a quiet leader and so raising that um just amazingness would figure out how to do that. Um I have attended uh multiple meetings with schoolboard members from around the state and the country including the director 2 regional meeting that was held in Belleview and just again um hearing that our struggles uh we are not the only ones facing them. Belleview uh may be in binding conditions next year and that's speaks volumes if Belleview is facing that. So, um, just good to connect and know that we're not alone in the work that we have coming ahead of us. Um, attended the RJ community panel last week. Always um, love Ethan and Oliver in their facilitating a great conversation. Oliver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Owen was
041not there. It was just Ethan and Oliver. Yeah. Okay. I thought I'd I worked very hard on making sure I had the right names. Don't mess with me. My brain is fragile. Okay. Um the panel um lovely, really good information from our students and families about um what they're seeing in our schools and ways we can improve and things that we're doing well. continue to attend PTA meetings and uh um been roped into being a teacher at the spoken English class. Oh, great. Yeah. Anyway, that's amusing. Um but very well attended and and so appreciated the program um for our families. So that that is great. Um, and then just take a a personal moment to thank everyone for their support and the flowers and the cards and it has meant a lot for the
042time. Thank you. Thank you, Director Hayes. Vice President Sotak, I also attended the Hollywood Hill visit and um would echo what Director Hayes said and would also like to thank the students for being so welcoming. I don't know that I've ever had a elementary age student come up to me and um introduce themselves and shake my hand quite in such a strong way. So it was very exciting from all of them. Um and uh it was really wonderful to hear how um both the students we were talking to in my group uh had the same feelings of belonging about their time at school and had incredibly um opposite experiences and time being at the school. So that speaks highly of the school and their administration um for helping both kids feel welcomed who have very
043different experiences in their life and it was fantastic. Um and also attended the uh Wazda regional meeting and have been doing all the things superintendent all the things. Um, so I got my eye on you, buddy. Um, and I missed the REJ panel last week to do kindergarten math night. I learned some new math games and I got to experience the fantastic speaker system uh, in the updated Kenmore Elementary uh, classrooms. when you play something on the very nice screen, um there's speakers in the ceiling and it just the sound is amazing. It is a very different experience than I've had in classrooms in the past. I was like, who's got the FM system? Like, what's going on? And it was just really good speakers. So, uh, our students are benefiting a lot from that
044and having, um, really good access to being able to hear and see different kinds of media in the classroom. So, that's my report. Thank you, Vice President Sotek, Director McGordy. Yes, thank you. Um, I will echo echo um, directors uh, Hayes and Vice President Sotek. Um, our Hollywood Hills visit. Uh kudos to our amazing uh administrative staff there. Uh they're doing just a wonderful job. Um also attended the DA2 meeting at Belleview and spent most of the time drooling over their facilities there. No no offense intended to any of ours here, but they it's practically a brand new building. It was wonderful in spite of potentially binding conditions there. Um, and of course, uh, attending all of the superintendent search activities, a little less of our legislative representative type of activities, although that's continuing. Um,
045I also attended the uh REJ panel on the 6th and aside from not being able to recall the correct names, um, I'm just always so impressed with the um, the collaboration and participation and willingness to be vulnerable of our students and staff and community members who participate. It was it was a wonderful experience. Um then on Saturday, May 10th, I attended the unified soccer tournament at Papini and it was just wonderful. It was just so much fun. And if nothing else, seeing the joy on on the field um as well as the commitment to inclusion, you know, clearly by everyone else who was on the field and facilitating. Um it was it was just a terrific way to spend the day. That's me. Thank you. and director Tran. Um I too attended the Hollywood Hill
046Elementary school visit and agree that Principal Eker is um doing quite a bangup job. Very thorough report, very thorough presentation. I was impressed. I also want to comment and I won't mention student names, but the students in our group also had varying degrees of experience of belonging. some feeling like they definitely belonged, others not so much. And um it had to do the one that didn't feel like they belonged much um really appreciated the fact that we're able to pronounce his name, right? Something as simple as that can help a student feel like they belong. Um so that that was very a very touching moment. Um, and uh, I'm also framing that picture that was drawn for me that I got from there. Uh, also attended the WASDA district 2 meeting. I want to thank
047um, the Belleview School District. I know they're going through some very difficult times right now and for them to host it, um, really appreciate that. I miss the REJ panel. My third grader had a track meet that night and he personally invited me. So, you can't really turn down a personal invite from a third grader to the track meet. Um, next, uh, Wednesday, May 7th, uh, superintendent search interviews. I just wanted to make a note there that it's a very difficult process. I want to thank everyone who applied, everyone who put their hat in the ring, and everyone who's involved in the process from our administration. um coordinating all the meetings. Uh Pegg Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Pe Peggy, shout out
048to Peggy with coordinating a lot of the stuff. Um it it's I tell you, I'm so glad that the three very experienced I'm glad director Vice President Sotak is here too, but like especially the three very experienced folks taking us through this process has been very helpful. Um May 10th, Saturday, also attended alongside director McGory the unified soccer games and I I concur with her. It's very heartwarming to see students out there enjoying themselves and being included. Thank you so much, Director Tran. And so um mostly a similar report. Also really appreciative of the Hollywood Hill visit on April 29th and the continued work there creating an inclusive community. um also appreciated the trip. We um going to the WASDA meeting that evening, April 29th, they had to break us apart. Go figure. We were
049told to sit at different tables. That's okay. We don't take it personally. Um and then also May 6th, the um racial and educational justice panel was wonderful. I just want to mention I um was uh honored to receive an invitation to an event at Highline Community College on May 3rd, which it was an NAACP Black Academic Excellence Summit. So, um, representatives from preK all the way through graduation of high school talking about how we can work together to support, um, wonderful outcomes and fulfilling dreams for our black students in the region. So, that was it was a great and there were a lot of school board members there. It was super fun to do that, too. They did not have to break us up, though. That was handy. And then also, I just wanted to
050mention really quick, there was an audit exit conference today that director Hayes was with me. We got a beautiful clean audit. Not only did we get a beautiful clean audit, we got a bonus gold star in that the auditors took back um the audit finding from last year about the technology during the pandemic. And then director Hayes pointed out that perhaps publicly they need to correct that error from last year. Yes. But we have it in writing that they have it has been rescended. show that there it took a ton of work um from our finance department, our IT department. Director Hayes really advocated on a state level to help everyone do that. And so um I just wanted to shout that out. And so we'll see if there is an editorial in the Seattle
051Times, you know, claiming claiming responsibility from the error by the auditor's office. But that was um that was director Haye's suggestion that perhaps the auditors would write one to correct it in the public before everyone goes out for a bond. So and levy. So I just wanted to thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um but besides that that is my report and so thank you everyone. We will adjourn this meeting