001Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for joining us here today. I'd like to call this meeting to order. If you're so inclined, please feel free to stand and join us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the school board, I welcome all members of the audience to this evening's meeting. This meeting is a working session of the board to conduct the business of the district. The agenda for today's meeting has been published and the agenda items to be discussed and or voted on have been studied by the board members. I'd like to introduce the people participating in this meeting. Recording secretary Peggy King, Deputy
002Superintendent Miss Jolen Bergie, board members Sandy Hayes, Han TR, Jacquellyn Regardy, and Elizabeth Sotac. I am Amy Cast, and I currently serve as president of the board. Superintendent Tully is absent this evening. An agenda for this meeting is available online at boarddoccks.com and copies are also available on the table at the back of the boardroom. There will be an opportunity for public comments to be shared during the association and public comment portion of the meeting today. 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 includes closed captioning for both regular board meetings and study sessions like the one we had just before this meeting. Visit nsd.org and under our district, click school board, then
003board meeting materials and videos. And if you are here to address the board on agenda items, please sign in using the sign-in sheet at the on the table at the back of the room. Take a number which corresponds with the line where you have signed in and bring it back to your seat with you. So our first order of business is the land acknowledgement. Director Sotac, we take this time to acknowledge that the Northshore School District occupies the unseated coalish lands that have been here since time in memorial. We honor the ways of knowing and the ways of being of indigenous peoples and tribal nations who are still here and thriving in our district community. We also acknowledge this is a working land acknowledgement acknowledgement that will continue to evolve as our partnership with local
004indigenous peoples and tribal leaders expands. Thank you, Director Sotac. Next on our agenda is the approval of the agenda. Do board members have any changes to the agenda as published? All right, seeing none, is there anyone who'd like to motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All right, seeing none, we'll call for the vote. All right. And the motion passes. Thank you very much. Next item on the agenda is the superintendent report. Um, Deputy Superintendent Bergie, as you're here in Superintendent Tully's absence, do you have anything to report? Thank you, President Cast. Superintendent Tally is away from the district today due to a death in his family. He will return this Wednesday, April um 30th. Great. Thank you, Deputy Superintendent Bergie. So, next up
005um in our agenda is programs and special presentations. Um first up is a um a program that we call Northshore Spotlights. Once a month, the school board takes an opportunity to highlight great work being done throughout the district. Um, and so we depending on the time of year, what's going on, we'll bring different things to light. This one we'd like to highlight all the great work that's happening um that um we have heard about through our career and technical education department. Just before this, we had a study session where we went through various programs and got updates on how programs are um serving our students. And at the very end, we got to talk about the career and technical education programs within our district. And in spring, if you're not aware, there t tends to
006be quite a few um competitions that our students get to take part in. And so um director Schunaman from that program has sent me a summary sheet. So I'm just going to go through them. This literally is changing by the minute. So I won't capture every competition our students participate in. I literally hand wrote in some that just came in on an email today. So this is transpiring but just to give you a snapshot of all the great work our students are doing thanks to the support um from staff and parents and community volunteers. First of all we have our DECA clubs which is distributive education clubs of America. These are a business club. Over 500 Northshore students participated in the state career development conference in February in Belleview competing with nearly 5,000 students from
007um throughout Washington. And as a result, over 125 students from North Creek High School, both Woodville, and Inglemore are going to the national competitions in Orlando. Um, and they're actually there right now. So, that's one program. There's Future Business Leaders of America. Um, where over 300 students are competing for a chance to go to nationals at the state competition. Um, that actually concluded this weekend, so we're waiting on the news to hear how that went. Um then there is the family career and community leaders of America. Um so in this we have um state and um we have from the North Creek High School program. They have been competing at the region and state level for over three years and six um students will be going to the national conference in July representing North Creek.
008Then we have the health occupations student association hosa. So both High School, Inglemore, North Creek, Winnville, um they all participated and students participated in March in Spokane. Um more than 40 students from Northshore were um awarded the opportunity to compete at the HOSA international conference in June in Nashville. Then there's the technology students association. So from both North Creek Greek and in Englemore um in early April there were students competing at the state level competitions and from that program 60 students will be competing at the national TSA conference in Nashville as well. And then first robotics we um we've been hearing from first robotics students from a while for a while um Woodenville High School as well as the new program at both high school. There was a um robotics world competition in Houston just
009um a couple weeks ago, April 14th through 20th, over 600 teams from 35 countries. And both High School got the rookie allstar award um for a well-deserved first season and second, um Winnville is in their second year at Worlds and they ranked um 17th in their division. Um so and actually there was quite a few things that happened with they ended up being 31st in the world out of 300 3,700 teams and then what came through we there was um two more that we're going to highlight. So the NASA power to explore challenge from NASA the the the NASA that's not an an acronym not a education acronym the space acronym um so we have two students from Northshore that won as finalists only nine students in the country won and we have one student
010from both high school Sanvi Shaw is representing both high school and Sarah Shar van Kumar from Sky View Middle School is going to be representing ing Northshore as well. So we have two students out of nine national competing in that program. And then there's the state science olympiad. So um on April 12th there was the state level team, the bothl high school blue team is going to nationals. They won the state title. And also we had teams from um North Creek Woodenville, Northshore Middle School, Sky View Middle School and Leota Middle School as well who who competed and represented Northshore very well. So thank you for lending. Usually we only take about 90 seconds, but um when Damon Chunman sends you such an incredible list, you don't edit it. You just you have to recognize
011all this great work and more to be done. So, thank you to our amazing inspirational students as well as to everyone who supports them doing this work and life-changing work. So, that is Northshore Spotlights. And next up on program and special presentations, we are going to be acknowledging volunteer appreciation week. And I I believe we have someone who's going to help us do that. Marco Garcia from the Family Engagement Center. Good evening, members of the board. Is everybody here? Uh my name is Marco Garcia. Sorry, this is kind of low. As Marco Garcia, I'm the community partnerships volunteer coordinator for the district. And as mentioned, I'd like to thank our volunteers on behalf of the district. Um, so last week, April 20th to April 26th was National Volunteer Week. Volunteers meet many critical needs of
012our school communities by leading their time and talents. And we'd like to take take this opportunity to show our appreciation to all our volunteers in our district. We currently have just under 11,000 volunteers who serve in our um district at many different roles and help our students. That's one volunteer per student in our district. So for an example, we have athletic volunteers, art dosent. We just had our art dosent training on Friday, this past Friday. Um our PTAs, our field trips, camp volunteers. There's a lot of camps going on right now as you know, our parent leaders. We actually have parent leaders meeting in the district today. And thousands of other volunteers. I can't I can't name them all because we have so many different volunteers. And also we have to include our community organizations.
013Uh they invest in our students and our schools through many events and programs as you know back to school resource fair, community serve day. We are so thankful thankful for all these outstanding individuals and their dedication to our community, our students, our schools and the district. On behalf of the Northshore School District, students, staff, and school board, thank you all. Um, thanks to all our district and community volunteers. Your community support is very much appreciated, and together we are ensuring that each and every student has the opportunity to achieve their hopes and dreams now into the future. I'd like to leave you with the quote from doc Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Life's most persist life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others? Thank you. Thank you, Marco. And thank
014you to all our volunteers, too. They really make a huge difference in our district, in our schools. Thank you. Okay, so continuing through the agenda, um we now are at 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 are school directors, district staff, students, members of the community, or some other guest, we must all follow the same standard of civility during schoolboard meetings. Please speak directly to the board and address matters related to district operations, policies, procedures, and agenda
015items under consideration by the board. Washington state law requires that the board limit its business and discussion at the board meeting to only those items that have been captured in the 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 public comment that are not included in the agenda cannot by law be discussed at this meeting and so will not be addressed or receive a response during the meeting. In either case, depending on the nature of your topic or questions, a district employee or an association member or board member, excuse me, will follow up on any comments that relate to
016district business. Please note that the silence during um public comment is neutral by design. It's neither meant to be a signal of agreement or disagreement with a speaker's remarks. And please also note that comments should not make reference to any employee or representative of the district by name or by identifiable reference. If you're interested in making comments or complaints regarding an individual, there is a complaint process available through the office of the superintendent. And finally, we just ask that you remember that your words have impact and you, not the school district, are responsible for your words. We caution all speakers that it's possible that your statements could violate the rights of others under various laws, including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation. If you're unsure of the legal effects of your remarks, you should
017seek independent legal advice. In any case, we ask and thank you for helping us to model for our students what a respectful and inclusive community looks and sounds like. And so, we start with association comments. Are there any association leaders who would like to make comments? There we go. Good evening. Good evening, school board directors and um Assistant Superintendent Bergie. Uh my name is Robbie Reid. I'm the president of the Northshore Education Association and um I come to you tonight um as we reach the end of the legislative session which also coincided with our um Washington Education Association's state assembly. Um I come before you um to let you know that educators from around the state shared a lot of the concerns that we have been hearing um as people come to you. things around
018the protection of our staff and students who um gender expression and gender identity. Will kids get access to sport regardless of their gender identity and or gender expression? Um we talked around a a very wide variety of topics. We debated and had robust conversation um around the fear and concerns around the attack on public education and labor um coming from the other Washington. And so um we have a lot that we uh covered and we have uh we just ended on Sunday morning at 2:16. So we don't have a um a digest of everything that occurred. Uh, and much like the things coming out of the end of the legislative session, we're still reading and learning and figuring out everything that is going to be impacting us. We're glad that there was some good news
019um around the elimination of the special education cap, some modest increases in the MSOC and sped funding. We are pleased that uh we retain the national board teacher certification stipen funding um and that there is a little bit of a cola but that's not even keeping up not even close to keeping up with inflation. So um tonight while you are reviewing the reduction in force resolution I want you to keep in mind that um there has been a ask uh of um a shared sacrifice. So we believe that the Northshore Education Association has done and continues to um come to you and collaborate um around where we can participate in that shared sacrifice. Again, we have cut um compensation and other supports for our staff in order to meet the um budgetary crisis that we
020currently are in. And I want to draw your attention to the compensation bulletin for non-representative staff of the executive level. Keeping in mind that paragraph B does state that salary schedules may be modified by the board. Again, this is in the the spirit of shared sacrifice. This isn't about um the amount of time and energy that we are all putting into our jobs. We know that we are working very hard um sometimes with very little appreciation. Um this is about how we can find places in our budget so that we can keep and retain the staff that have the most direct impact on our students. Thank you. Thank you, President Reid. Any other association leaders, President Cass, school board members, my name is Jim Sisle. I'm the president of Snow King School Retirees. SKSR with
0211350 plus members represents retired and active school employees in Northshore, Edmunds, and Shoreline school districts. 300 of our members are currently working with students. We do three things to benefit educators and students in the three districts. First, we give grants valued up to $400 to our active members. We gave out almost $15,000 this past fall to the three districts. Second, we make a $300 donation to an organization in each district that works with children in need. That would be the Northshore Schools Foundation. Third is the reason I'm here tonight is that we award four $2,500 initial scholarships renewable at $1,000 for three additional years to high school seniors who want to become teachers. This year, two scholarships were awarded to Edmonton seniors and two to Northshore seniors who I'd like to introduce to you and
022pre present a certificate. First is Kennedy Craig Woodenville High School who plans on attending Washington State University to become an elementary school educator. She took a career in education class and interned in a first and second grade classroom as well as worked in a monastery school where she demonstrated her natural ability to connect with young students. Yeah, Kennedy's on this side item. Okay. Kennedy's enthusiasm and drive are sure to inspire and positively impact the lives of her future students. Second is Jimea Deios Inglemore High School who plans on attending University of Washington in both to become an English or film teacher. Himea as a child would often play the role of teacher guiding her younger sister who's sitting back here through lessons. At Englemore, she took the career in education class and interned in a
023fourth grade classroom. Jamea has shown focus, professionalism, and dedication in her efforts to help students learning English, providing them with the tools and encouragement that they need to find success. So, I'd like to give you both your certificate from us, Kennedy and my congratulations to both of these outstanding young women. And I really truly believe this and hope that in four years they'll be hired by this district. Okay. I would like to acknowledge their parents back here who have nurtured and supported them as they progressed along their educational journey. Mr. and Mrs. Craig and Mr. and Mrs. Dios. Thank you for giving me the time to make these presentations and make you aware of two very outstanding young women. [Applause] on behalf of the board. Thank you so much for sharing that with us today.
024It was inspiring. Kennedy and Jimea, we do hope you come back and work with us again. Nothing is better than having Northshore graduates come back to our schools. It's amazing. Thank you. So now we're going to move on to um public comments. Thank you very much Dunham. So how this works is that um we please ask that you limit your comments to three minutes so that we can offer the opportunity to other people to speak. Um we are having a couple technical difficulties. So um Peggy King will be monitoring the 3 minutes on her phone and she'll give you a little reminder before the 3 minutes is about to expire and then let you know when the 3 minutes is up. um I will be asking you up by your number and so we just
025ask that you come and identify yourself for the record and thank you so much for participating us in with us in our meeting today. So speaker number one thank you. Hello I am Matthew Harper. I'm the head of the math department at Kenmore Middle School and I'm here to talk to you about the uh budget savings you guys are looking to have from the change in general education FTE based off of lease restrictive setting. We got our U numbers for staffing like a month ago. We were expecting to lose four classes, but with the numbers that we got, we were losing nine. We were confused by this because that's drastically different than what we expected. It took a moment for us to figure out what was going on and it's this change here. So, this
026has been characterized as a slight adjustment to how general education staffing is being allocated. Um, a slight adjustment which generates $1.7 million in savings. Um, so the net effect is not slight. Um and it is not a slight adjustment but a fundamental change into how we are doing our most uh like moneywise our biggest formula for pushing out resources general education uh FTE allocation. Um so what we figured out was happening is we were uh losing um about 27 students worth in the calculation of how many people were attending. We expected to have so many we were getting 27 fewer when that calculation was made. And why were they taken out of that formula? Well, they have um uh their special education students. So, special education students are now being counted as less when we're
027doing this calculation that is like most of the money. Um I understand that this has been presented again as a slight change. It's looking to find efficiency. Uh but there is no waste here. This is not a efficiency find. This is not uh reducing waste. This is just cutting services and it's going to cut services to us proportionally based off of the level of uh special ed that that our school is serving. Kenmore is going to be affected more than other schools because of how diverse our student population is. Um you haven't probably heard of it from everybody because everybody's getting cut differently. This is not an even change. It's going to be disproportionate and from what we've seen, we've been hardressed to even put together a schedule. Now, I understand it's looking for efficiency.
028It's trying not to have extra seats, but as it stands right now, we don't think we'll have enough seats to place all of the children in the least restrictive setting. Um, if we believe every student is a general education student first, then count them as a whole student. Oh, is that not the number? Oh my gosh, I had maybe like 20. I'm definitely over now. Um, I have 11 seconds that I did a bit. I care about this a lot and you guys really need to look at this. This is terribly important and I don't believe it's tenable to find this money here. I I know we need savings, but this does so much harm and you can find money somewhere else. Please take another look at this. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Speaker number
029two. Hi, Genie Fle of Kenmore Middle School. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm here to speak also in the change of the general education fund for the 25 20 25 26 school year. Um, anyone you talk to at Northshore uh that comes down to our our buildings talks about uh that all students are general education students first and then they receive some special education funding. Um according to OSBI special special education funding is in addition or in excess to basic education allocation be BEA available for any student that results in two primary sources of education coming in. So if the proposed change to the general education staffing is implemented special education students will not be counted in excess but as fractions a fraction of the general education fund and a
030fraction of the special ed fund. In two previous board meetings, this change was pitched as a slight change to funding as Matt just talked to for that 1.7 million. That seems like a no-brainer, but the actual intended consequences are immense and complex. Counting special education students as a whole person with a full BAE plus special education creates flexibility in a master schedule to increate exclusionary practices and remove barriers for special education students in co-taught classes. As you just heard in your work session, that's not going to happen with this. Those classes are going to be 35 and then co-e doesn't really happen. Those classes are often disproportionately also full of 504s and ML students, those two teachers serving that special population. So, this staffing change would bring them up to a normal class size. This
031would be hurtful for every co-e classroom in the district. Our most vulnerable students are impacted disproportionately by this decision. cut should impact everyone equally, not this special population. In conclusion, counting special education students as less than a whole student is a step backwards in equity, injustice, and in least restrictive environment. On the behalf of KMS and all Northshore Middle School teachers who may not even be aware of this change at this time, we call on the board to return to the previous general election funding model, which is aligned with OSPI, and look for needed savings elsewhere in a way that does not disproportionately affect special ed students and the schools that serve them with inclusionary best practices. If Northshore believes that all students are general education students first and that some receive special education services,
032there is no choice but to reverse this decision and count all special education students as general education students first and fully fund them as such. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. and speaker number three. Hello. Um, my name is Heather Wormstead. I'm a school counselor at Kenmore Middle School. I'm also here to express deep concerns about one of the potential solutions to reduce the budget. Uh, specifically on slide 21 of the budget study session presented in November, there is a line item regarding general ed staffing and secondary for special education time to save the 1.7 million. I believe you were presented this information in a way that led you to believe that the impacts would be minimal. For the staff at KMS, the impacts are shocking and will be devastating. My understanding
033that this has been explained to you as not less services, but rather a refining to not double count seats. You were assured that we have a seat for students wherever a school decides. You were told that the cuts were based on each school's direct reports. They says it was a little bit of a staffing adjustment. They give reassurance that it's still providing student services in the least restrictive environment. We have been blindsided by this change. We're losing 1.8 FTE next year even though we've only lost 20 students from this year. For KMS, a small middle school with a highly inclusive environment and a large number of students with IEPs. The impacts will be felt by all of our students and staff. Every general education class will be filled or overloaded. The combination of this item
034along with increasing class sizes to 33 will be overwhelming for everyone. This will have a negative impact on our basic purpose of teaching and learning because it will limit the amount of time staff are able to give valuable feedback, an essential component to student learning. These added barriers will no doubt impact our test scores. Our momentum towards inclusivity will be put on pause because the general education classes may no longer be a desirable alternative to the more restrictive sped settings that will be smaller by design. IEP teams will be faced with legal and ethical dilemmas about which environment is best, the overcrowded general ed class or the smaller restrictive class. The cuts to electives will impact all of our students. We'll be losing beloved and highly competent staff. Our cuts are too big to be
035covered by attrition. The business department did not consult with schools as previously as previously stated. It appears they read reports, made assumptions, and made mistakes. For example, we have over 50 students that are 100% of the time in general education classes, but are only getting they're only giving us 90% of staffing. A mistake we're still hoping to get fixed. The law states that all students are general education students. First, we have received funding to save their seats in general education classrooms. I don't understand how we can suddenly give up their reserve seat and overload classes. If the classes are then full, how do the students get back in when they're ready? I'm asking that you not approve this line item until the district can consult with schools to answer important questions such as, "How does
036this impact student learning? Is this the right thing to do? Will this be temporary or will this become the common practice?" Thank you for considering this so we can do what is best for our students and their learning. Thank you. Speaker number four. All right. So, I timed this at just three minutes, so it should be right there. And if it is like a couple seconds over, apologies. Um, I'm the dean of students from Sky View Middle School. Been here before. Um, I lose my job again for the second year in a row. Um, I'm sorry. Can you just state your name for the record? Yes, Navar. I'm the dean of students at Sky View. Um, Navar, uh, I found that people usually have the strongest emotions about matters they don't fully understand. First and
037foremost, I'm not envious of the difficult decisions you are faced with daily, especially regarding a budget deficit for the third straight year. Furthermore, I'm the first person to correct people who wrongly assert claims such as money going to new sports fields, computers, etc. instead of classrooms, and I clarify for them the difference in capital project funds, levy dollars, things like that. However, I've come to a point where I can't find rationale for the choice to cut and not restore the Sky View Dean position, even with increased state funding. Many others have spoken at schoolboard meetings, emailed the school board, started online petitions with over 400 signatures to keep the Sky View dean, and all are feeling ignored and defeated. I want to highlight some quantitative data from my just my first year as a dean
038at Sky View. We use an iPad check-in system where students sign in to meet with office staff. I've already had over 1,800 one-on-one student meetings about matters such as discipline, tardies, absences, student saving reports, etc. In March alone, I had 325 student meetings, which averages 17 one-on-one student meetings per day. This number does not include the times I am radioed for immediate support elsewhere on campus or support students in the moment at lunch in the halls or before and after school. On the topic of attendance, I do check-ins with students who have three or more tardies across all classes every four weeks. We down to less than 3% out of,200 students being tardy more than three times whereas we are at 12% at the start of the year. Think of how many cumulative minutes of
039educational instruction are saved from a teacher not having to retach instruction to students who are late. Also, regarding attendance, I personally contact every single family who receives attendance letters for exc unexcused or excessive absences and provide detailed updates to relevant staff and connect families and students with support. Sky View was slated to have more full-time students next year than Inglemore High School, which with the restoration plan would have three APs, two full-time campus supervisors, and more counselor support. Whereas Sky View would only have two deans and a student to counselor ratio of 360 students per one counselor, which is the highest in the district, meaning that mental health and social emotional well-being are not to be adequately addressed. However, what I find to be the most painful in all of this is that I keep
040seeing district messaging highlighting the strategic action plan and budget guiding principles while conversely experiencing decisions that are antithetical to these aims. On the front page of the strategic plan, it states, "We are committed to equity, to safety, and supports for students and adults. Yet, deans support all of these on a campus and are being lost." One of the four building blocks in the strategic plan is data informed needs-based resource allocation, which states that the district will ensure that resources, people, time, and money are allocated equitably in line with the needs of our students and schools and priorities established by our community. However, staff and community voices are ignored and decisions for which schools get deans restored are odds with the data and needs of those at the school level. In five, the five areas of
041strategic plan. The second area goal is for responsible, resilient, empathetic learners. Three of the measures are increased percentage of students who have continued access through advocates, mentors, or counselors. Increased percentage of students with 95% average school attendance and increased percentage of students reporting a perception of safety, fairness, and inclusiveness, supports for emotional behavior and physical health. A dean either supports or or serves as all of these measures. As for the budget principles, it's the last paragraph. Um the first guiding principle in the process for budget development is to honor the district strategic plan which itself relies heavily on deans to be actualized and there are principles to minimize the impact on students and their educational experience and preserve consistent and predictable operations and services to the extent possible while working to avoid additional burdens to
042work within the classroom. Students and teachers will be forced to navigate these issues without dean support and overcrowded classes which is detrimental to everyone. I'm in full agreement of the strategic plan and budget principles. I would actually like to see them upheld so we can have something to feel hopeful for. Thank you. So, um, speaker number five was actually Mr. Sizzle. So, we're going to go to speaker number six. Uh, Ryan Adams, Leotaa Middle School. Um, I want you to think back to when you were 12. And if you were like me, you were entering uh junior high, a 789, starting your first year of seventh grade. If you went to a 678, you're still starting your seventh grade year, but you'd been there a year. Uh imagine walking into that math class and hearing,
043"This is your last school year before your high school math class starts. You're 12 years old and you're being asked to prepare yourself for high school." Now, um that's what we're going to be doing to our seventh graders next year without having the choice of math 8 the following year. They're going to be asked to prepare themselves for high school math as as a 12-year-old turning 13 and uh teaching math 8 right now. Since I last spoke to you, which is about a month ago, I have sat down with eight crying eighth graders that are fearful that they're not ready for their high school math class. And I try to convince them like, you have we have we have worked so hard over the last six, seven months. You are ready. You are there. But
044they still don't feel it. They've had this extra year compared to next year's kids, but they still don't have that math confidence yet. I have one more quarter to get to them to convince them that they're ready. But I have another group of kids that they don't cry about it. They're not ready, but I still have a quarter to try and convince them to get ready. But that's what we have with Math 8. they have this extra year to take that extra time to build that math confidence to make sure that they have the foundation for algebra. We've heard so many times that algebra is the foundation for every other math class, but we can't forget the foundation you need for algebra. I over the course of this school year, I've actually sat with more
045kids in my al my two sections of alge one who have been in tears because they have struggled on the assessments because they weren't ready because they hadn't solved multi-step equations before entering alge because they had never seen a square root before entering alge. They have never they didn't know what absolute value was before being put in algeb. And that is absurd that we're we're pushing kids so far so fast that they don't have the foundation they need to feel successful. And I hope you reconsider. This is actually the first time I heard about the the budget thing. And it makes sense that our math department is going to lose point4 next year, which is going to make this problem even worse with overcrowded math classrooms and students that have not had the time to
046build their confidence. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Speaker seven, I lost my voice at RA. I'm sorry. Hello, school board. My name is Talia Rich and I'm a proud Hispanic NSD parent, community member, NSD teacher, and NSEA executive board member. I read in today's connections message where we were thanking schoolboard directors, students, Northshore Council, PTSA, labor partners, and staff for their many months of advocacy about what increased basic education funding would mean for our students. Educators around the state have been advocating on how we need alternative funding resources and how legislators need to fulfill their paramount duty to amply fund education. We have all been shouting from the rooftops that education is not where state budget cuts should come from. how our students deserve more and how we need to keep what we
047have and get more. Yet, here in our community, later tonight, you will be voting on the elimination of all the dean of students positions across the entire district, among other positions, jobs that are closest to our students, especially those furthest from racial and educational justice. I urge the board the board to consider pausing IPD pay increases to our highest paid central office administrators instead of yet again cutting student facing staff. Approving the proposed cuts will have direct impact on students. I beg the board to push back on this recommendation to cut deans and instead use their power to direct those making these budget cutting suggestions to really ask themselves, have they fully explored options that stay away from the classroom like the suggested IPD pause for the highest paid central administrators. Student-f facing staff are
048not the way to balance the budget, keep cuts away from the classroom. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker number eight and deserving as any of their peers able and deserving as any of their peers. I work to dismantle the insecurities they carry, the belief that difficulty in school equates to being less intelligent or less worthy. I strive to help them recognize and celebrate the strengths that traditional measures too often overlook. But this new staffing model risks sending them a very different message that they are in fact worth less. Under this model, any student with an IEP, even if they are in 100% general education classes, is counted as 9/10en of a general education student. Students who need more support are counted as just over half of a student in general education. And again, regardless of their
049actual participation in GED. and students with the most significant disabilities, they're barely counted at all. Our student our district frequently upholds our most inclusive schools as models to emulate. Yet, the staffing model discourages inclusion by devaluing the very students we should be working hardest to support. Every student is a general education student first. If we truly pride ourselves on being an inclusive district, we must not send the message intentionally or unintentionally that some students are worth more than others. I urge the board to reconsider the staffing model and adopt one that values all of our students fully and equally. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker number nine. [Applause] Oh, hello. My name is Aurora TR and I am a a sixth grade Sky View Middle School student. I'm I want to talk about the dean of
050students right now. Uh my dean of students, which we have lovingly nicknamed uh Mr. Sigma, uh because he is so Sigma, um is one of my favorite staff at Sky View and he really matters to me. And when I learned on I'm pretty sure it was Friday that he was going to be cut next year due to budget due to budget cuts, I was very heartbroken about that. Um, and the whole purpose of a D of students is to support the students around them and make them feel like a community. So cutting them would feel like losing a part of the community. Personally, Mr. Sigma goes around each lunch table telling us sad jokes, which really makes all of us laugh. even though I pretend I don't find them funny. Most of the time they
051are. Uh, sorry about that. Um, but it would feel like losing a part of the community and making us feel like a true family in Sky View instead of all the uh, grades being segregated into different tables at school. It tends to seem like all the eighth graders only hang out with eighth graders, all the sixth graders only hang out with sixth graders, all the seventh graders only hang out with seventh graders. It feels like groups, how you can't mix and mingle with others. And in elementary school, uh, you found your group of friends and then you just stay with them. You might add a few more, but you just stay in that group. The dean of students can help mix them and make people uh, meet other people and make the whole community more
052of a family and feel more like a group. How do I end it? Uh, thank you. Thank you, Aurora. Well done, Aurora. That that concludes public comments. Thank you so much for taking the time um to speak at this meeting. We really do appreciate it um all your time and and input. We are going to continue with the rest of the meeting. Just to let you know, we do have several topics coming up. So, if you need to step out, totally understand. But we we appreciate the company as well. So either way, um, but next up on the agenda is the adoption of the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any um thoughts or questions or comments on the consent agenda? Well, our personnel report is rich with people that
053are moving on and we are sorry to see them go. I'm not so sure about this one who is currently in uh our cabinet. Uh I don't know. Can we can we line item? Can we do a line? We have a line item veto option. Yeah, I'm sure that's in Robert's rules somewhere. I'm sure it is. Our executive director of technology has announced his retirement, Alan Meda. Um and I just personally want to thank him for all his service. I've had the great pleasure of working with him for 16 years and um he is always one step ahead of me when I ask questions about our education process and how it intertwines with technology and he's already well down the road of thinking about it and um working on how to serve our students best
054in that world. So I we're just going to miss you dreadfully and wish you the best in whatever comes next in your life. Here. Here. Do we get to make him come up here and embarrass him a little bit? Come on. Oh, we didn't we didn't get a motion actually. Right. Wait. So, oh, who made the motion? A question. Okay. Thank you. Please come up. executive director of Mima. We're just sorting out some our technical gremlins that continue. So, you can't leave, but yeah. No, thank you. We just we just wanted to when seeing your name come across, we're really appreciative of your service and really how you've helped keep the district on top of so many changing trends and technologies and um just wanted to to appreciate you just a little just starting to
055just starting to. You're welcome. I'm happy to have done it. I think if if nothing else, a huge shout of thanks and just amazement of uh getting us through co when we all suddenly were online. Yeah, that was something. That was something. Yes. Yes. And you you helped us sail through it. So, thank you so much. It was it was not me. It was my team. It was Yes. everybody, Shelby and John and Jeff and a whole bunch of people that you probably don't know, but I'm going to say their name anyways. They did amazing things and I just um opened the door for them. But you're welcome. I'm glad to have done it. Actually have a great story. So, we passed a technology levy in 201 iPad came out and so we were scrambling
056to catch up, but we we we made it work and Apple had this wonderful plan for us and flew us down cuz we were going to go all e textbooks and I think it was like a two-day event. and they whined and dined and anyway and like two hours in they were like yeah so the textbook rolls up with the student so you could have your US 8th grade US history textbook forever and we and Ellen said so wait that means we have to buy a whole set of new textbooks every single year for every single student I think that was the plan yeah and they were like yes isn't that wonderful um and then yeah Alan was no always get their nickel Well, well, thank you. It's been nice to be here. And um
057I've been here 33 years. I started off at uh Woodenville High School. Well, actually, I started at both student teacher with Bob Morris uh back in the day and then um went to Woodenville, taught there for nine years. Debbie Brandstead tricked me into coming down here as a teacher on special assignment for a couple of years and been here ever since. But that's been a long time. Yeah, I'm going to go do something else. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, I had something to add, but um I also just wanted to pile on the thanks for everything you've done uh as someone who came in as a new director. You really uh kind of, you know, made the landing soft when it came to tech and AI. And I appreciate you
058jumping in on um some of the AI field trips that we did. Uh it's good memories and I'm sure you trained your team up team up well. So um you're leaving us in good hands. Yeah. Well, the people who know AI, I'm leaving them here. So yeah, thank you. Enjoy the retirement. All right. Any other comments or discussion on the consent agenda? All right. So we're all set. So see no more discussion. We will call for the vote. And now it's now it's working its way back to you. All right. And the consent agenda passes. Thank you. So now we move into our action items. Um the first action item is resolution number 898 reduced educational program for the 2025 2026 school year. Deputy Superintendent Bergie, do you have any introduction to this action item?
059Thank you, President Cast. We have determined that there is a financial necessity to adopt a reduced educational program for the 2526 school year requiring a reduction in staffing. Attached to the board agenda is resolution number 898 that states the staffing for the current educational programs to be modified as listed in the appendix. This includes the central uh office reductions which eliminates three and a half positions. It includes principal and assistant principal program reductions of three assistant principal positions, the 11 dean positions, and a point to secondary FTE and world language. We do recommend that the school board approve resolution 898 reduced educational program for 2526 school year. Thank you, Deputy Superintendent Bergie. Any questions or discussion from the board? I don't know that this is a question, but this sucks. Um uh so yes, I
060have several questions. So this resolution um it doesn't does it actually lay these people off or just create the option the ladder it creates the ability to do so by staff if necessary. If necessary. So then that's my follow-up question because I know we've had a whole what 36 hours to figure out what the heck happened and there's still the governor's opportunity to weigh in and muck things up. But given what we know right now, do we think we're going to do all of this? No, we would not. The three AP positions would be restored and six of the 11 dean positions would be restored based on what we know right now today. number still being ran, governor still outstanding. Okay. So, the central management's still going to we're going to eliminate those. Um, and
061forgive me, I can't remember what we decided of how we would determine what the six six of the 11 deans which ones. So, there's two different pieces to that. There is a needs-based assessment that is aligned to the AP of the assistant principal needs-based assessment that is based on various factors, poverty, students serve, special education program, students, things of that nature. Okay. So that determines which schools have the restoration happen and then the actual restoration of the deans is outlined in their collective bargaining agreement. Okay. Um and then this how much of this is connected to right sizing and enrollment staffing deans would not be attributed to right sizing the enrollment staffing other pieces of the reduction which we were able to really handle through other attrition that's why the certificated staffing is so low
062even though we have uh 600 student decrease in enrollment scheduled for next year. Um we have worked through that where there's just a 0.2 in a world language remaining. Okay. And then my final question um we're not voting on the budget tonight. So some of the things that were brought up correct where some of the things that were brought up have to do with our plan for budget. The only thing we're voting on is this, if needed, reduction in just the things listed on the appendix. That is correct. Correct. Can you remind us um what else was on the list of cuts and what else we looked at and how we landed on this? I don't have the full list with me, but back when we started this conversation at the beginning of 2425, we
063had what was called the really bad list. And we had 50 items on that list. Many of which we did as part of the 2425 school year. Some of which we did in the 2324 cuts. Vast majority we did for 2425. And there were a handful that were remaining that we um are implementing for 2526. Um restoration plan notwithstanding. Yeah, I just wanted to point out that that full list of everything that was cut I believe was in the Friday brief. We had a a list of the down to the wire. Yes. Wait, just because that got thrown out. We are not closing any schools, right? Okay. Closing any schools? No, that was on the list of horrible ideas. Betoed quickly. Um, okay. I have another question. So, we have received an update that 500
064of our students are currently running start students, full-time running start students, which means we basically received no funding. my back of the napkin math. If half of those uh stayed as full-time students next year, we wouldn't be having the conversation around deans at all. Um what are we doing to encourage that our students stay with us next year? I think that we um would invite Dr. Dunham up to the podium to talk about that. Can we repeat the question, Director Hayes? Yes. So, um, we were, um, informed that 500 of our students this year are enrolled in Running Start, which means we received basically no funding for them. And my just like I said, back of the napkin math is if half of those students stayed with us next year, we would not even be
065discussing the elimination of the dean's position. So what are we doing to encourage that students stay in our system as full-time high school students? So, just just want to make first first clear that um school districts and schools are not allowed to put any policies in place that prohibit students from taking Running Start. So, they have to have full access to Running Start. That's um state law. Um that being said, our counselors work directly with the high school counselors work directly with each student, review their schedules, try to find ways that they match courses to courses that they courses of interest for them in the schools. As you heard from director Shunaman tonight, we have um a very wide variety of options for students through CTE programming. Um and then it's really through those direct
066counseling supports, but in the end, if a student um feels like running starts the right spot for them to continue their education, then we can't put anything in place in front of them. Yeah, I wasn't um suggesting that we tell a student no, but this is the largest number I've ever seen in my time here of students um opting into running a start. We do high school really well in Northshore. And so it surprises me that that many students. And so I was wondering if maybe there was more diving into the reasons of why students are making that choice and um looking at what do we need to do to provide what do we need to be providing for students to encourage them? Encourage them. Um I know that through the through the registration process
067this year and I've heard differently from some high schools on what they did last year. Um really thinking about how they're counseling kids around what courses to take and what options to take trying to understand to to your point trying to understand students that were choosing Running Start, why Running Start. We have um to your point seen running start numbers climb um over the last couple years and really last year was is appears to be a high point for some of our high schools. Um, and so thinking about how we're presenting other course offerings and making sure students know that they can get college in the high school courses for free. Um, and then the ways to get college credit with AP and IB as well. I just want to make one other point of
068clarification. I don't know without running the numbers more specifically that making that saying that if we had half the running start kids coming back that that would actually help our budget situation in that way. I don't I mean when we have kids in school we push that support out in staffing and so there would be an increase in staffing that would come with that and so that offset I I just could not say that at this point but it does lead to a broader discussion of how like what are kids looking for that they're seeking or wanting to get out of being in those Running Start classes and like how do they perceive that benefit as being greater than the opportunities for credit in the CTE or AP or IB or whatever classes that are
069available like at their home school or in our district. Um, it might be worth investigating that with some of them or counselors or further like kind of figuring that out because we definitely have offerings that should be um should appeal to those kids and and what is it about the situation of running start that is so attractive, right? I do wonder about asking the superintendent student advisory board that question and see what thoughts or feelings that they might have about it. Also maybe making more inquiry with our principles specifically with their groups of students about what that might look like for each of them and are they the same? Are they different? Where is that coming from? And and I think it would be helpful to hear from the students. There could be many reasons
070outside of our district. for example, the cost of going to college and student debt, right? And I've talked to students that have had older siblings have seen what their older siblings did to get the loans and then that informed their decision. So, there could be many root causes to that number outside of of what's happening within our buildings. But I think Are we done with questions for Dr. Dunham? Thank you. Okay. Sorry. I just to go back to the resolution at hand. Um the I I just want to make sure I understand it completely. The the resolution that we're voting on uh tonight basically is a means by which we give the option of having a reduction in force if it's needed. once we know what the final state budget is going to provide us.
071Is that correct? That's correct. Working with the board's guidelines to us and the direction that we were given as far as the restoration plan and that priority order, that would be what would be followed. Okay. Um and so obviously we don't quite yet know what the state budget is going to provide for districts. We have a little bit of an idea. Um, but the other issue, if I recall correctly, is timing because also by state law, if someone is going to be rifted, they have to be notified by a certain time and we likely will not know what the budget's going to be before then in order to make that decision ahead of time. Is that is that fair? That's fair. when you have to run your riff resolution and the timing of our board
072meetings has to do with it and then the timeline in state law. So all of those things factored together really come with us needing to do it at the last um board meeting in April. The timeline when the legislature done is done. It all kind of runs together. Right. So we're voting on the option to have a reduction in force but that not on actually having one. the option of the reduction in force. Um it doesn't mean that every single person on the list necessarily receives their riff letter at the end of the day. And just another point of clarification that I agree on following the state law. It's also common courtesy um for folks to know uh ahead of time so they can search for a soft landing as well. Um, I would I
073just want to and this you know most numbers off the top of your head, but I'm not expecting you to know every single number off the top of your head, but it's been my you know, based on conversations with the board last week and um, you know, something that I've I've been noticing over the last couple years is as um, as the system keeps getting constrained, it's putting pressure on our levy funds that have been able to take care of a lot of um parts of what I think director Hayes has rightly called what we consider what basic education should be. Doesn't mean that's what the state funds. That's what we think basic education should be. And now we're at this horrible crossroads where we are seeing what the state funds layer by like the
074onion is coming off and we're getting and it's it's not fun or pretty. But in terms of the prototypical school model just trying to understand one of the gaps our levy had filled before, you know, around funding for deans and assistant principles. Um just getting an understanding and again we can we have months to go still with the the budget process, but how how does that interplay between what the state considers the prototypical funding especially at middle school seems really murky to me as and then what the levy has filled in over before but now that money is having to fill so many other cracks in the dam elsewhere. So there's no allocation in the prototypical model for deans of students that has wasn't ever contemplated and has not been added. There's no specific line
075item either for assistant principles. I think we use part of the allocation out of the principal line item to fund our assistant principles. It's not a one for one. Obviously there's also a disconnect in salary allocations which drives need for levy to come in and backfill and then the additional positions that we fund that the prototypical model does not. And one more question thinking around student supports mental health supports that we have staffing that we pay for um within Northshore that's we get some money I'm pretty sure they added a a couple pennies a couple years ago around mental health supports or was it counseling overall and so that's other that's an example of other positions we are using local levy funds to to fill that would be correct. It was counselors. It was school
076counselors and school psychologists that were really funded differently in the prototypical model along with along with um psych school psychology. Okay. All right. Thank you. Just it's it's just again, you know, what we consider every student should have versus what the reality we're we're having to deal with over time. It's just it's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. So, we can have more discussion. We can entertain motions. Well, can I ask one more question? Of course. Um, I don't want to put folks on the spot, but um just curious what happens if we pause um some of the the increases for the highest paid central staff for a year and would we need to catch them up later? And um do you find do you fund staff based on a year? So in terms of the IPD, is
077that the question? If if the board was to elect to pause the IPD for certain staff members, right, certain classes of staff members? Um yeah. How is there in terms of funding from the state, how does how does that work? W superintendent. There's language in law that basically says we have to pass through every dollar that we receive for IPD specifically to those classifications. Classified staffing, administrative staffing or certificate administrative staffing and then um just certificated staffing. So there's some language in law that talks about that. Uh, I would say it's it's a one-time pause or a pause. If those positions were ongoing, does that delay it? What happens at that point? So, trying to find ongoing savings to fund positions still would need to be considered. So, if I recall correctly, there were some
078one-time pauses in some other employee compensation areas that have since come back, and that's part of the math that we're dealing with now. That That's right. There is a list of items that were a one-time pause that do return in 2526. We're looking for the answer. We haven't found the answer. I I don't have an answer. Um and I probably shouldn't comment on this because I'm just going to be salty. Uh because I I um am very dissatisfied with the amount of money that the dis the state thinks that we can um educate children at well any child all children. Uh I continue to be offended. So um I'll just leave it at that. I I I don't like that we have to do this, that we have to do things that take away people's
079jobs, that take away positions that are helpful and supportive to students. Um that make already stressed systems feel more stressed. Um because it's hard to be creative when you're under a lot of stress and it's hard to feel good about taking more on when you already feel like you have a lot being taken away from you. um as far as support. Um but also we don't want the control of the yucky decisions we have to be making taken away from us because I shudder to think what this district would look like if we were not financially viable and the state took over and got to make all the choices about cutting funds and class size and seven period days and all of that. um away from us. So that's how I feel about this. I
080don't like it. I also don't like what would happen if we don't give permission for it to happen if it needs to. I to tag on to that direct vice president soc I appreciate that because I it's hard for me not to be we've we've during the study session we talked a bit about the uncertainty out of the other Washington and that's still something from a financial standpoint that's a risk for the district unfortunately we receive around 13 millionish per year from the federal government right around the boat. That's correct. So, this has an amount of savings, this res resolution. Um, and if we were somehow to not receive our federal education funding that we received, then that would be a lot more money that also would be unavailable to us. So that's for that's
081for future Elizabeth and that's what 2% of our total budget which sounds like very little but 13 million is a lot. It's 3%. 3%. Okay. Thanks. Are you considering motions at this point? At any point whenever the board's ready. Okay. Um, I move that we uh approve the resolution um 898. I second. It's been moved and seconded. Any other discussion or questions? I agree with everything that Vice President Zotac has said. It's in it's a horrible place to be and even looking at our rainy day fund um that's put us on a watch list for financial viability and that has me concerned because that rainy day fund helps us meet payroll during the gaps of state funding throughout the year. So, all of this sucks and I'd rather get I want us to get off
082that list and I want us to be able to be viable so that we can meet student needs. We are I understand the sacrifices that have been made. Um, and as a school board, I I mean, not speaking well, I bet you I'll speak for all of us. We're going to continue to push um an Olympia because this is just unacceptable. Thank you, Director Tran. Any more discussion or shall we call for the vote? Okay, we're going to call for the vote. and the action item does pass. So, um, and let me just ask really quickly, Deputy Superintendent Bergie, I can look up a schedule here, but if I remember in May, we'll be having another conversation around budget. It'll it'll be pretty soon. We'll be able to get some updates around numbers and see
083we there was some funding that came through this legislative session and so to get an update it's coming in four weeks, six weeks. Yeah, I think May 12th. May 12th. Okay. May May 12th and in two weeks in two weeks. May May 12th. Yeah. And it was just a very small amount of funding. We were doing better at one point significantly and then there were changes made at the very end. Thank you. Okay. Okay. All right. So, that action item um is complete. I'm going to move on to our next action item which is the schoolboard meeting schedule for 2025 2026 school year. Um this is in followup. This was brought a couple maybe it was just one board meeting ago because we skipped one because of spring break. And so um this has a
084change to accommodate a holiday in a religious observance in September. Is there um just to begin discussion Robert's rules, we're supposed to start with a motion. Does anyone have a motion? Uh, a move to approve the meeting schedule. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. So now, any discussion around this updated meeting schedule? Nope. Thank you for that adjustment. It's tricky when holiday, religious holidays start the evening before to catch. Absolutely. Thank you, Director Hayes. All right, seeing no discussion, I'm going to call for the vote. Here it is. Dr. Mcgury. Oh, some she's having her board docs stopped. You might be doing voice voting. Here we go. Thank you everyone for waiting. We have the gremlins are back, but we're wrangling them. We'll see. We may have to do a voice vote for this
085one if it got lost in the abyss. Oh, it Oh, there it is. All right. All right. See if it made it to you. And it made it. Okay. That schedule is approved. Thank you. We're going to move on to the third action item, which is a purchase order approval over a million dollars. Do you have an introduction to this, Deputy Superintendent? do. Thank you, President Cass. Upon approval, Northshore School District would utilize KCDA Group purchasing procurement to contract with Northwest Playground Equipment Incorporated to complete the construction of a new inclusive playground at Cottage Lake Elementary School. This project is slated to be completed during the fall of 2025. We recommend that the school board approve the quote from KCDA to contract with Northwest Playground Equipment Incorporated for playground equipment and structures for the Cottage
086Lake Elementary School inclusive playground project. Thank you, Deputy Superintendent. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Sorry. Okay, so it's been moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion? Just a quick comment which I think we repeat every meeting so apologies if we sound like a broken record. Um these funds are coming out of the bonds that were approved by the community. So I want to thank the community first for approving the bond and also that these bond um funds are only to be used for construction and operation of m or excuse me construction and maintenance um projects. Thank you Director Tran. important point. And then my point is uh that it is very exciting to see ways in which we are including kids in play and making every student a full um member
087of their school community by giving them a chance to play with their friends at recess. Thank you, Vice President Sotac. Agreed. All right. Any more discussion? All right, seeing none, I'm going to call for the vote. And it's approved. Thank you. Next action item and last action item is a project acceptance of over a million dollars. Um s Deputy Superintendent Bergie. Thank you, President Cast. One project over $1 million was completed during this reporting period. The project involved energy system improvements at Sunrise Elementary School. We recommend that the school board approve this project as complete. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Again, another capital project. Thanks to the generosity of our um voters doing important work keeping our buildings warm. Our students and staff
088appreciate that. All right. See no discussion. We'll call for the vote. And that was from the 2018. We're almost done closing out the 2018, right? And that's approved. Thank you. So now we move on to performance reviews. Um per our policy governance um policy structure. We do periodic reviews of um work within the district and this one is the monitoring report for the superintendent parameter policy number 14 which has to do with facilities. Do you have an introduction deputy superintendent? Thank you President Cast. This is of course the monitoring report for superintendent parameter 14 facilities. This report contains information as to how we establish priorities for construction, renovation, and maintenance projects. How we secure board authorization before building or undertaking major renovation of buildings. How we factor in growth patterns, comparative costs, and construction, transportation,
089and environmental impacts when considering land acquisition. How we acquire, encumber, or dispose of real property. How we do not cause or allow action during building and renovation projects that violate or materially deviate from voter approved bond measures, state law, and/or state regulations, procurement code, or building codes. and how we permit the public's use of facilities as long as public safety, student functions, and academic programs are not compromised. Behalf of Superintendent Tally, we would like to thank staff who were uh instrumental in compiling the information contained in the report, particularly our executive director of support services, Dre Ralph. and I hereby present the monitoring report for parameter 14. On behalf of Superintendent Tali in accordance with the monitoring schedule set forth in board policy and on behalf of Superintendent Tali, I certify that the information contained
090in the report is true as of today, Monday, April 28th, 2025. I know that each of you have had an opportunity to review and study the report and we're happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Any questions or discussion? I apologize if I miss it in the report. It's it's very thorough. Um, out of our 2018, I guess that would be our oldest capital project bot. What do we have left? That might be in a report coming up. Okay. But also, executive director Ralph probably knows. And then the sec the second question to that is how much control do does superintendent actually have right where is it it probably depends on getting scheduling. Yeah. Greetings in uh attached to the P14, which by the way before I say this, I just
091want to recognize that we have our director of capital projects, William Trible, here as well as Bruce Scra, our director of support services, and Mark Leland, who manages all of our grounds crew. And they were all very instrumental in providing the information for this um report as well. It's our big one every year that we like to kind of show you what we're doing. Um, attached to the document you see a list of summer projects. These are the upcoming bond projects that we have. Some of those are funded from the 2018 projects, although most are from the 2022. Um, every month you get our monthly uh fund balance that goes through all of the remaining projects for each um each bond cycle or each different bond. So, every month you'll see those in that um
092report, the remaining projects. Yes. But we're getting close. And then the second part of the question of how much control does the superintendent and our department actually have as opposed to waiting on other people's schedules. Um we really rely on our school calendar to help schedule things. So for instance, spring break and the summer months are when we schedule a lot of our work that we're doing in uh our schools. So we have some control but we try and do things so it has the least impact to our students which kind of necessitates a lot of focused work uh for our various teams. And then we do rely on the schedules of bidding processes when we can get general contractors and other people to uh take care of those. And then on the maintenance and
093ground side, it's when we can go in and deep clean buildings, when we can do some of the major repairs or when students aren't in the buildings. So, thank you. Any other questions for the executive director while she's here? trying to figure out how to form this. Um well, first of all, um E and F are my two favorite one E and F are my favorite parts of the facilities plan. The work towards sustainability and environmentally friendly. Um and I do very much love seeing the work. Nothing makes me happier that we are not we are phasing out gas powered leaf blowers um among other seriously chainsaws and I don't know what a string trimmer is but I'm sure it's loud and noisy. So, um I do appreciate the work of the department in um
094being fiscally responsible, but at the same time recognizing uh that this is the move we need to be modeling for our students and um for their health and safety that we move towards more sustainable, environmentally friendly. Um I was sorry to see the composting end. I know our students are very unhappy with that. I recognize that was a cost-saving measure. plus rats. Um thoughts on how we can maybe in the future bring that back. Uh I think that deputy superintendent slash CFO um Jolan Bergie uh will be very clear about how our department is regularly facing up to and exceeding our budgets. Um there's significant escalation in utility costs and other items that make adding things to um what we do difficult at this point. But if we have room in the budget, we are
095certainly not opposed to composting. We think it is a good thing in general as well. Yes. And I have a few things, but but to to add on, I know there was some interest with some of our legislators in the fact that we had to cut composting and, you know, trying to get them information on what it would cost and what it would cost the state to be able to implement that on, you know, however many state facilities we have. Um, I just wanted to shout out the um, seismic assessment that's due to go into the 2026 bond um, initiative, which I think is great and absolutely key for certainly some of our schools. Um, and then the question about the movement of the UG around Ruby Bridges. Yes. Uh, which is in a self-contained
096um, system, not linked to sewer, but it could be now that it's within the UG. Um, would linking it to sewer decrease our costs as opposed to the the on-site fully contained system that we have? We would really need to do an analysis of that. Um, we won't be able to do that until they actually uh put the sewer in the street that's close enough for us to attach. Um, I don't know how soon if that will happen at that location. Um, but at that time, I think we will definitely be running a lot of analysis. There's significant costs for upkeeping that loss system. Uh there's significant costs for hooking um into a sewer system. So, um we have not done that analysis and we will. Okay. Oh god, don't say that out loud. They'll
097figure out some way to make us pay for the sewer line installment. Well, that's kind of a given. Um so, just a couple of comments. It's a it's a terrific report. Very thorough. Thank you guys for for bringing all of this to us. Um the numbers of maintenance items that are completed is just staggering. So kudos to everybody for getting all of that accomplished. Um I'm particularly proud of our carbon footprint um efforts and the the uh energy savings. Um but there was also that chart and I think Dr. Tran has it open right there of the energy consumption of the the different schools. Um which is stunning. I mean the the everybody we all we all have the same chart open executive director just so you know. I'm not going to touch mine because
098it'll blow up my screen. Just so you know what's coming. I told Bruce that we would have this question. So yes. So North Creek we can understand right. Um the energy efficiency there. Um next two high schools are significantly more which is okay. And then there's Woodenville. Yes. What um what's going on with You'll notice that Woodenville has very little natural gas um usage. It has the only natural gas that we have at that location is in our science classrooms, which means it is run off of electric, which um is significantly different. Yeah. Okay. is out of curiosity because wouldn't Win Woodenville High is unique too with the third floor which gets really hot. I mean just so we have an understanding as it gets through its life cycle and it's time to look at
099the HVAC right as we do with our buildings is it even is it within the scale of doing something about this eventually because it would be lovely to get that utility cost off the this side of the ledger on and use some capital maybe. Yeah, we uh have to redo HVAC at all of our schools over time. Um I'm not sure exactly where it falls on the list, probably a little while. Yeah. Um but we will definitely look at alternatives when we get there. Okay. My last quick question I hope is is just my ignorance. There was reference to a multi-sight project. So, uh, Ruby Bridges is, uh, was initially called MaltB phase one. Okay. Uh, there was always planned to be a Maltby B phase 2, which would have been a middle school, um,
100built there. So, uh, it's hard to know if we should continue to call it Maltby phase 2. That's what it is in all the RFPs, or if it's going to be Ruby Bridges Middle School. I don't know. So, that is what it's referring to. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. I I think there was a Maltby elementary school in the Snomish school district and they got very annoyed with us because we kept calling it the Maltby elementary school. I do believe that is we we did get cornered at a conference. Yeah. No, someone was really not happy. Yes. Yeah. Any more questions for the executive director? Yes. Vice President. Um from the bottom of my heart, thank you for the beautiful graphics. It warms my heart every time. Um, and I really appreciate uh the to everybody
101who worked on this. Um, the clarity with which information is given here because it really helps me to understand what exactly is going on as far as utilities like that graph. Um, again, kudos to Bruce Scra and one other person who I haven't mentioned who is Sandra Kalissonorf. She is our executive um, assistant for support services and helps us all sound a lot better. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, that it's fantastic and it I think it really um makes things very clear about how we're using different parts of the things we have available to the community and to the district. You know, looking at like the field use hours and um what goes into determining when things need to be replaced and how uh frequently things are used and how they're going to wear
102and tear. So, kudos for this very comprehensive and beautiful report. I'll add on to the thanks for that. And just one last thing, I know we talked about it before in hallway chats. Um, just considerations for lead certification and what that might look like in the future if we're considering that at all. Again, we generally use the Washington state um protocols which are equivalent to the lead uh process. All of our new construction projects go through that process. So, it's very similar. It's just OSPI's um version for us. We use it uh it's required as part of the SCAP process. Uh but we look at all of the same categories that are looked at through the um more generally used in uh private industry lead certifications. And is that equivalent to the platinum level or
103just another level of lead? Just like the lead, you get various amounts of points um for different uh levels and we try to accumulate as many as possible, but kind of the ground floor is silver. that we're expected to achieve. And the points equals funding or like kickbacks or or reimbursements. You qualify. Sorry, not kickbacks. Reimbursements. I meant reimbursements. Oh my god. It helps you qualify for scap funding. If you don't meet it, then you don't qualify for scap funding. Awesome. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Not kickback. Sorry. We don't have any of those. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Any other questions for the executive director? No. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. All right. Any other questions or comments on the uh on the report? It was incredibly thorough. Thank you
104so much. It's amazing um the complexity of the work, especially with all the projects going on. So, thank you so much. Okay. Well then, um, seeing no further discussion, um, per our policy, there are three options for a motion from the board in response to this report. Um, we can make a motion to find the superintendent in compliance with this policy um, or making adequate progress progress towards compliance or not in compliance. So, would anyone like to make a motion? It's moved that we find Superintendent Tali in compliance with P14 facilities. Second. All right. It's been moved and seconded. Any other questions or discussion? No. Okay. Call for a vote. So, and per our policy, we're going to take a moment to make notes because we review these notes later. And it has passed. Thank
105you. All right, it looks like everyone's done writing their notes, so I'm going to go ahead. Next item on the agenda is a review of that policy. Superintendent parameter 14 for facilities. Do any board members have any suggestions or areas of study on that policy since we just dove into it? All right, seeing none, we're going to go into information items. First up is the district budget status report for February 2025. Do you have an introduction, Deputy Superintendent? Do. Thank you, President Cast. A copy of the February 2025 budget status report um are available for the board's review. These reports include information on enrollment, budget status information, general fund, capital projects fund, debt service fund, ASB fund, and the transportation vehicle fund. That concludes my remarks. Thank you. Any questions on the report? Yes. So
106on page four, my favorite topic is the aortionment issue that the state has exacerbated. Thank you. Um it looks like given the trend line that we may be in the negative in March. Are we anticipating having to borrow money to get through the month? Did we have to borrow money to get through March? No, we didn't. I'm realizing it's now April. Sorry, I forgot what month it was. However, we're still monitoring it day by day. Mhm. We're really close. And and so it may be this week that we need to borrow some part of it for a few days. Uh we're just waiting for more tax collections to come in to improve the cash flow. Okay. All right. And definitely we'll be using it in June. In June. Okay. Quick followup to that. Did I
107hear that maybe the new alignments of the of how wonky they give our aortionment did not actually go through in the end? That's correct. They had restructured the aortionment payments to push more money into July and August. That did not actually pass the board. As well as safety net awards are supposed to be awarded or paid on a quarterly basis if certain conditions are met. I feel like we will meet some of those conditions to get some additional money uh more quickly during the year. All to say, we're not out of the woods yet for next year. I can't say that to you at this point, but we're making progress. And um just so people understand why we're so excited about this, when we borrow money, like what we'll most likely have to do for
108June to make payroll in June, what does that cost the district in terms of interest? We have to pay the King County investment rate and last year it cost us about $50,000 each time we borrowed. We borrowed twice. So $100,000 is a staff member. Yeah, I could be incorrect about that. It could have been $50,000 in total. I think it's $50,000 in total, which is still a significant amount because we try to take it out and put it back as soon as we can to lower the amount of interest that we're having to repay. Right. But if the legislature had passed their whackadoodle plan, we would have been borrowing multiple times to get through the year. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. So, I'm glad they didn't pass it. So, thanks for the partners in Olympia.
109Any other questions on the budget status report? All right, seeing none, let's go on to the next information items, which is the item which is the capital projects fund allocation report. Deputy Superintendent. Thank you, President Cast. A report is attached for your review reflecting the current status of the eight 2022 capital projects bond growth projects. Any questions on this one? I'm looking for that 2018. Yeah, the 2018 still has one page. Not too We're getting there. 5% left it looks like. Back a napkin. All right. Any questions? All right, we're going to keep going. Next item, capital project status report. Deputy Superintendent. Thank you, President Cass. There were seven projects under $1 million completed in this reporting period. The projects include security access control at Frank Love and Kenmore elementary schools, school network modernization at
110Fernwood and Wellington elementary schools, as well as the support services center, removal of portables at Leota Middle School as part of the school's phase one replacement, storm drain improvements at Bear Creek Campus, installation of new security cameras at Woodenville High School, 5-year safety testing of elevators at five schools in the district. So we we might be off an an information item, but that's all right. You're helping us get the wrong one. So this So we'll it's all good. So the the project status report, the infographics. Any questions on the projects underway? Our favorite. Everybody knows what I'm going to say. They're so pretty. And I love the progress pictures. I see some Hback. I see some walls. I see scaffolding. It's very exciting. Yeah, the both city council folks um or at least one of
111the council members is interested in seeing this document. So, this is a good reminder. I need to forward it to them. The capital project spend allocation report. Sorry, President. Yeah. Yeah. No, the that was the project status report. It's the one we're up on. Yeah. Clearly, um I am not a professional at this. It's all it's been a long Monday. It's all good. It's all good. But I would say that there were several projects including the 2018 capital bond, the 2022 capital bond, technology levy, impact fees, state management, and reserve funds. Thank you, deputy superintendent. All right. Any questions on the projects that we have underway? Not a question. I just wanted to shout out because it that it looks like one or two of these might actually be completed, if not nearing completion, by
112the end of this year, which means we get to see it. Maybe our good friend will come up and tell us about it. We're very lucky to have our good friend. We actually expect all the elementary schools with the exception of Fernwood to be completed by uh hopefully the start of school. Summer will be very busy for us. Uh and hopefully by the end of the year we'll be very close to having Fernwood and William would have to tell me when Leota is expected. Uh and then Inglemore after that. Thank you. Oh, I have one more question. uh specifically was asked a question by a Kimmore Elementary student uh not one of my own, different one uh about do we think the playground will be done in time for school next year that because that
113was the really hot topic and they wanted a greenhouse and well yeah but that's not the the playground. It is our goal to have that project complete including the playground. They are very excited to be done with the dirt field. All right, we're all right, we're good on project status and we have already had the introduction to the project acceptance which is the information item. So any questions on the seven projects under a million dollars that were completed during the last reporting period. Lots of work going on. They sound great. I know. We are so lucky to have a a community that supports our bonds. This is just amazing work. Okay, then our last our last fifth and final information item is the signed construction agreements for the Inglemore High School phase one replacement project.
114Another exciting project. Deputy Superintendent. Thank you, President Cast. Three routine construction agreements were signed during the last reporting period for the Inglemore High School phase 1 replacement project. These documents are related to water and sewer extension under the guidelines of the administrative procedure notice of construction easements and agreements uh were project they were submitted to the board on August 28th 2023. Thank you deputy superintendent. Any questions? Not a question but I just looked up when more high was built. It was 1965 and I don't think we've had any updates since then. Right. been some there have been extensions. Oh, retrof. Okay. Well, anyway, when I was going there, it could have used some updates and that was a long time ago. So, I'm glad to see this project go. Agreed. All right. Any other questions
115or discussion? All right. Here we go. So, discussion topic, superintendent search. Um, it's been a month since we had a board meeting, so we have updates. um recommend to everyone to go to the website if you need updates um since our last board meeting. The um data has come in from the um community input regarding the superintendent profile which the board was able to process on April 14th. And on the website, you'll see the 12 um the 12 aspects that rose to the top thanks to over 2,000 survey responses and dozens of people providing direct input as well. The position um posting has been closed as of April 20th. We've received 32 completed applications. Um the board is getting ready to meet on Wednesday to start sifting through the information and um plan for first
116round interviews which will be May 7th and 8th with um after that first round interviews we're anticipating finalists maybe we're aiming planning for three. We've set up um two full days of public. The names of the finalists will be publicized and um they'll be invited to the communities with their significant others if they choose on May 12th and 13th um where they will meet with several stakeholders and um tour schools and also have a public town hall um at the Inglemore Concert Hall the evening of the 13th. So um just letting everyone know. I don't know if there's anything else the board wants to add to that. But we are kind of in the thick of it right now. All right, great. Next up, new business. Um, I had one item which is it's speech
117planning time. So, this the clipboard is being passed. Um, that's my only new business item. Anything else from board members from new business? Um, I didn't see the retirement event. Usually a board member speaks at the retirement. Okay, we'll check on that. Yeah, sometime. Yeah. But in terms of having a speaking slot for a board member, we'll we'll research that. We'll research that. Thanks, Director Hayes. No, it rotates. It rotates. Anything else for new business? Um, I know we've talked about it before and I just wanted to check in um because I can't remember uh about our land acknowledgement. Is that on our list? It is on our list. I have spoken with Superintendent Tully about updating our land acknowledgement. Thank you for that. Yeah, we will continue to work on that. I don't think
118this is new business, but maybe a reminder for us and from me especially. Do we have that DA2 meeting coming up tomorrow? Yeah. Okay, cool. People want to carpool, we should chat. Yep. Okay, we'll do that after the meeting maybe or tomorrow so can get home. And then um any other new business items? How is everyone going to the DA2 meeting? Oh, great. Okay. Yeah. So, we can do a two car I mean down to Belleview. It won't be that bad. Maybe we'll do two cars. We'll see. Unless we want to get really cozy. All right. I got to move us along. Board member reports. It's been a month. Are we ready, Director Trin? I This is This Yeah, I'll speak fast and I've abbreviated stuff hopefully. Uh Tuesday, April 25th, um we I think
119most of us, all of us went down to not down, but went over to Kenmore Middle School. Um and I just wanted to thank Principal Joseph Robertson and assistant principal um Hernandez for um being so frank. That was very refreshing because usually when we do some of these school tours um uh it can feel a little bit like we're being presented certain information but the fact that um Principal Robertson started off with you know this is this is where we're at and this is where what we're working on was um appreciated. Um also attended uh the student um the Northshore student justice conference and I want to thank uh Dr. Thomas and um Miss Harb and the student justice collective who organized it. They ran workshops themselves. Um these are students that ran workshops. So
120um just kudos to them for setting setting up such wonderful conversations and critical crucial conversations. Um turning the page. Uh Monday, April 14th, we were the board um was in a virtual meeting for the superintendent search. Tuesday, April 15th, um President Cast and Superintendent Tally and myself attended both city council for state of our schools. Um Wednesday, April 16th, uh had NSEA meeting. Also, um had a special event. the cricket teams started their season and um no one told me that if you show up to a cricket game you get invited to first bat. I know nothing about cricket. I still know nothing about cricket but I really really enjoyed the the energy there and the fact that Seattle Orcers um was there supporting it there. Our um local cricket uh professional team. Uh Thursday,
121April 17th, uh first soccer game um of the season. Congratulations to Canyon Park Middle School for their first game and for their first win. Um thank you, Coach Silva and Madison and Maddie for their leadership there. Um Monday, April 21st, uh conversations with the board, wonderful discussions, candid discussions, painful discussions, but all good to see community member continue to be a partner in all of this. Um Tuesday, April 22nd, um we visited Kenmore Elementary uh school, the school board visit. Um I want to thank uh Principal Gita uh George Shapiro and um assistant principal Leticia Joseph for a wonderful presentation and for um principal uh Shapi Shapiro's husband for um supplying delicious snacks. Um, and then I I think that wraps it up or at least I forgot the rest of it, so we're good.
122Thanks, Director Trand. Um, Director Hayes. Yeah, I won't uh list everything, but just some highlights. Um, attended the Kenmore Middle and Kenmore Elementary School visits. And so thank you to Principal Robertson and Assistant Principal Hernandez at Kenmore Middle and Principal George Shapiro and assistant principal Joseph at Kenmore Elementary. It was fantastic to see um the data moving um such a great um improvement in student assessment and how students are performing at Kenmore Elementary. So, just a big shout out to all of the staff there. Um, continuing my meetings with schoolboard members around the state. Um, they're just as happy as we are with the recent legislative session. We are not alone in our grumpiness. um attended the student advisory meeting where they received an update from assistant director um or assistant superintendent Riley on the
123middle school thoughts and plans and got their input and um so of course as always they were honest and sharing what they thought needed to be done. um attended the Council of School Attorneys where we received an update on um their understanding of the impacts of decisions being made at the federal level and I will just paraphrase but it was a general we don't know so not super reassuring attended the conversations with the board and then I have been um attending our family engagement center is putting together a spoken English uh class that's held weekly and somehow I've been sucked in to be one of the teachers at it. Here we go. Thank you. Um Vice President Sotac, put my candy away. Um all right. I also attended Kenmore Middle and Kenmore Elementary board visits
124and I agree that it's really refreshing to get an acknowledgement of challenges off the bat. um because we all know that they exist and um you know looking at what schools are doing to address the things that are challenging for them in their communities and they're you know helping kids access learning and um you know I know that particularly at Kimmore Elementary there has been a ton of transition over the last few years there um and they're under construction um so there's just a ton going on and they're still making gains academically which is speaks highly to all the work that the teachers and the admin are doing to help students. Um on March 29th I attended the Northshore Schools Foundation gala and um did not win anything at the silent auction unfortunately. So no
125gymnastics for the kids. Um, and then I attended on my goodness. Um, I attended the art reception for you art youth art month at the admin center and got to enjoy with um, one of my own little artists all of the neat things that the older kids are doing. Um, shout out to whoever made the really cute like anime style drawing that was up towards the front because that won the day for her. Um, attended a meetings for the superintendent search conversations with the board. Uh, went to part of the family symposium at North Creek, which is always good to see the ways that we're providing access to families about educating them about the district and the programs that are available in the community. And that is it. Thank you. And director McCordi. Yes, thank
126you. Um, so I also attended the Kenmore Middle School uh visit on the 25th. I attended multiple WASDA in session live meetings uh while session was still in. Um, as well as regularly corresponding with our legislators. Um, won't make comment on the efficacy of said correspondence. Um, as well as working for on a letter of support for Cascadia and their capital funding which was also being cut. Uh, we all had a an executive session we attended on the 4th of April. On April 6th, I attended a WATS celebration at the ENPAC with directors Trann and Cast treated to an amazing traditional Indian meal. On the 8th, um, I attended virtually both city council um, meetings. Oh, 8th and the 15th. Um on the 14th of April attended a meeting to finalize the superintendent profile all
127the meetings associated with that. Um attended the state of our schools at um University of Washington both bothel with superintendent Tali. Um had terrific conversations and a very engaged um audience there. Um on the 16th I attended the student advisory committee meeting um and also so very impressed with our the future that I see coming out of this this district. Um let's see. Uh then I left town for a week. Um but just uh very quick with respect to um um ledge rep issues. Um sin die has has passed. So the session is over. The budget is into um the governor. We're not sure what what will happen from there. But um with respect to what happened over the course of the session, uh the potential increases in MSOC um that were proposed u were
128cut in half at least. The potential increase to special education funding um was decreased about tenfold. I think um but it wasn't all bad news. Um they did away with tears for for sped. They did provide some increase in MS MOC funding. um special education safety net threshold for us stays the same, but other districts around the state will benefit from lowering that. Um on Friday the 2nd, I expect to receive an update or summary from uh WADA on the outcome of all of it. They want to digest things over the this coming week. Um so I'll get that out um and we'll see what the governor does to it. Then I plan to communicate with our delegations at least once more to make it very clear to them what the consequences of said budget
129will be for Northshore specifically. So if you have any contributions you'd like to throw out there, I'm happy to make them. That's it. Thank you, Director McGordy. And as my list is a subset of all this, I'll just email it to you, Peggy, and then for the record. And otherwise, I think we're all set. So thank you everyone. Um, it's been a productive