001e e e inclusive communities uh we got some great ideas out of that group and are looking forward to moving that forward as part of that committee um we had uh our general membership meeting hit right when the power was going out at my house so uh unfortunately we weren't able to fully finish our business but we there was some interesting sharing that happened um so that means that we're still looking for volunteer for a nominating committee um and so uh if you are interested please reach out to us um and then we've had uh two advocacy Coalition meetings um primarily focused on school funding but also other advocacy topics like um uh feeding our community and if you're interested in joining us our next one is online on December 10th uh information on our
002website uh and uh looking forward to other things of course we want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving in Native American heritage day and then once you get back from the break on December 4th we have an online um presentation and uh uh conversation embracing diversity inclusion for the lgbtq community in schools and PTA um and uh by the end of that week December 6th your reflection entries are due to council so if you haven't submitted your reflection work to your school they probably doe um and then December 9th is our next uh Grant application deadline so if if you're if a local PTA or you know someone you want to partner with your local PTA to come in to give a presentation that's a great way to help get funding thank you thank you
003Holly Colleen Ponto board truste Cascadia College uh we would love you to join us on February 26th for our 25th anniversary uh we're throwing a big party on campus and we'll be sending you an invitation enrollment is up another 11% for winter we continue to grow you heard from Dr Murray on November 12 so you're up to date on most things related to Cascadia and finally the Windstorm obviously hit everyone hard we were in remote operations for three and a half days but the campus sustained no serious damage so thank you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving thanks so much Colleen I don't think I see any other associ leaders so we will move on to inperson public comments I will call your number typically we have a projection up here with a timer that gives
004each speaker three minutes um that is obviously not working so well a little impact thank you for um a little impact for the um from the power outage so what we're going to do is a verbal timer so Mrs King is um going to time 3 minutes on her phone when um if you're getting close to to the end she'll give a little 30 second heads up that you're getting close to the end and then let you know when the 3 minutes has expired okay so as is our practice we since we um prioritize student voice we're going to go out of order and call up our student speaker first um so speaker number three please come to the podium and introduce yourself hello my name is adanan I go to kemore middle school and
005I'm talking on the activity buses so before wrestling I didn't have a way to express my emotions without being physical I was fighting in and out of school I was getting into things to distract myself from family problems I was born around gangs there was such a big chance of me joining that where I found a place oh I'm sorry there was a place because that was a place where I found love but since I grew up around it people in my school who cared about me wanted something different they told me that's not a life I want to live I used to think differently my family history is full of trauma and abuse I felt like GS were the only people who cared about me so I didn't care about all the negativities it
006would give out I didn't have a way around it at the time when I started wrestling I had a wait to express my anger and had a thing to look forward to every day after school I started wanting to come to school every day not to miss a practice but it was difficult to stay after school since I was worried about what was happening in my household when I did go to wrestling practice my only way of getting there was or my only way of getting home was on the bus I couldn't go home otherwise because my mom didn't get out to work till 8 maybe six if she's lucky when it came down to my first meet I won every matchup I was told it was a dumb waste of time by a lot
007of the gang members and my family but I didn't care because it was something to look forward to in the future by the end of sixth grade wrestling season I only lost one time about 10 my mom even said she was proud of me so I knew I had to make this a future for myself my mom if my mom was saying she was proud of me in seventh grade I got closer to a teacher and told her about my life stories and family problems she cared about me she helped me get my grades up to wrestle since she knew it was important to me I didn't lose that year I went as a district Champion my Transportation really depends on this since I have no other way of getting home and won't be able
008to wrestle to do any after school activities for that matter wrestling really impacted to see a different future for myself it was something I'm proud of and enjoy I really want to get a scholarship and get notice to pursue this talent I have but I need the buses to do so thank you very much Adrien so then we'll go to the top of the list for the adults speaker number one please um I just want to say thank you to Adrian who's one of our students um good evening I am Holly herbison and I'm a teacher librarian at Kenmore Middle School and I'm also here tonight to ask the board to urge Northshore Administration to reconsider the position that no middle schools can have activity buses I have worked at Kenmore Middle School for 26
009of the 28 years I have been teaching in norshore over that time I have seen the demographics of KMS change significantly notably we consistently have the highest number of students who are economically disadvantaged compared to other middle schools in our district this means means that we have more students who rely on activity buses to fully participate in school in addition to after school sports we have many clubs that in the past were attended by students who took the activity buses home we have After School drama Productions and after school academic help called kitchen table that are available for students but only those who have a way to get home without activity buses the students who can participate in all of our after school activities are limited to those who have a parent who is not
010working at 400 p.m. and can pick them up we have been told that in the name of equity KMS cannot have activity buses even if we procure our own funding we are wondering if the district is confusing Equity with equality which has very different ramifications for our students as the graphic below shows Equity is not giving everyone the same thing but rather it is ensuring that everyone has what they need to fully participate Kenmore Middle School students need activity buses to fully participate thank you for considering thank you Holly speaker number two hello I am uh Matthew Harper I work at Kenmore Middle School I'm a math teacher there um I'm here to support my colleagues and our students I remember at the end of last year when I was at the sdlt meeting we
011found out we weren't getting money for buses at that meeting we were under the impression that we would be able to pay for it out of our school budget and what I recall is that the whole leadership team was like well that sucks but of course we have to do that that's something that we need for our students uh I find out the beginning of this year that that's no longer an option um and the rationale I here is that it's because of equity that seems entirely backwards to me um because it is inequitable to not have this it prevents some of our students from participating in activities that they think are important that uh help them learn that give them opportunities to explore themselves make friends um I don't know why we can't get
012it if it's something that we want and we perceive that it's something that our students need um yeah please help us out with that uh thank you very much thank you Matthew and speaker number four good evening uh my name is Christy Lounsbury and I am the parent of a seventh GR at Kenmore Middle and a 10th grader at inkmore and I'm also co-president of the PTSA at Kenmore um I'm here tonight to talk about the impact that the loss of activity buses is having on our community specifically at the middle school level it is my understanding that schools have been told that they may not use alternative funding to provide activity buses for students at Kenmore Middle School this means that many students no longer have access to kitchen table our twice weekly homework
013help program that is supported by a generous Grant from the city of Kenmore and run by KMS teachers last year between 50 and 70 students attended each day that this program was available and many of them took the activity bus home so far this year we've already seen a 7% year-over-year drop in attendance and anecdotally several families have shared that it is difficult for their child to participate without the activity bus because of their work schedules in addition to kitchen table the lack of activ activ it buses impacts other school activities including Sports and clubs with Middle School releasing at 2:30 many of our kiddos are regularly heading home to empty houses unsupervised for several hours until parents or older siblings can get home as 11 to 14 year- olds they are too old for
014daycare but too young for jobs or to independently get themselves to outside sports or activity or Club opportunities as a parent one of my main concerns about this is that many of these kids want a safe place to be during that afternoon time a place to interact positively with peers try in activity or participate in a sport this is evident by the number in numbers in which they turn out when we do offer them these opportunities 50 plus students showing up to after school study help each day it's available more than 60 or sorry more than 30 sixth graders joining the no cut sixth grade soccer team 80 seventh and eighth graders trying out for just 18 spots on the cut soccer team and that happens in many other sports too um after school clubs
015consistently being filled when they are offered these kids want the opportunity to engage positively with each other and their school communities and we should be doing everything possible to remove barriers and provide as many of these opportunities as possible which includes finding alternative ways to offer Transportation so that everyone who wants to participate can my hope in speaking here today day is to raise awareness around the impact that this cut has had and to encourage you to reinstate activity buses to all NSD middle schools again once it's fiscally possible and in the meantime to reconsider allowing schools to secure alternative funds to provide this service for students until NSD is once again able to fund this resource thank you thank you Christie that concludes public comment thanks so much for U coming out we really
016appreciate people taking the time to provide input to the great work of the district thanks so much we will continue with our agenda for tonight and the first item we're going to go into is the adoption of the consent agenda is there a motion to approve so moved and President casm we would just remind that that's not on the agenda so we won't the discussion item of activity buses is not on our agenda so we will not be voting on that tonight helpful remind thanks director Hayes and I did move I'm pretty sure I said that first okay okay I will second so it's been moved and seconded any questions or discussion on the consent agenda I see a question there's Focus happening down there yes did [Music] no did not write it down so
017that's on me okay thanks director Hayes any other questions or discussion okay see none I'm going to call for a vote okay it came in and it's not impacting the V it all but um number six and seven the inter District Coop Cooperative agreement um and The Treehouse were light on what we are getting particularly the Native American Consortium um I I don't I've signed this thing for 15 years but I don't know that I really understand what exactly the service that we pay for looks like we could get that in a board briefing that would be great abs absolutely we can get um updates on both of those items thank you Friday brief and the consent agenda has been approved so we are going to move on to our next action item the only
018action item technically tonight which is um um a revision to superintendent parameter 11 budget planning would you like to introduce the superintendent T yes thank you president Cass so attached to the meeting agenda is a Redline version of parameter 11 budget planning this document reflects that the suggested revisions discussed during the last school board meeting we do recommend that the school board approve the revisions to superintendent parameter 11 U budget planning as list it thank you so much is there a motion to approve so moved second so any questions or discussion on this this is we talked about this at last board meeting so here it is so we can see it together um any thoughts so I I have a question and I can't decide if I'm losing my mind or not but well
019I am 100% but um so we added that line in I'm noticing that that same Clause is in parameter 12 did we just go ahead and for efficiency's sake put it in there or did we do that last year we've always had it in both as near as my brain can recall no I meant the oh the additional unless the board authorizes oh so that phrase is in 12 already yes so that was last revised I a year ago perhaps we updated it a year ago and it's there okay so and I was going to have a suggested amendment to this based on that line but um we can we can talk about that when we get to the later part of the agenda okay anyway okay so thank you I not losing my mind
020you're not put that in at some point El we must have okay all right okay well there we go all right there we go thank you no no problems um well if it was so good in 12 then we definitely should have something like 11 right I think so pleas okay all right any other thoughts or questions I see research sorry um can you just I couldn't find the parameter in time parameter 12 parameter 12 which is on the it's a performance review coming up here in a minute and if you open it up 2B says maintaining the minimum general fund balance of 3% of budgeted General funds expenditures and less authorized by the board which is almost identical to what we've just added to parameter 11 to the same topic and so I couldn't
021remember we could go through revision history if it'd be helpful if we're it's it's not necessary I just was I thought how did that how did we do that for 11 but not for 12 anyway never mind there it's it's all good now we're cooh here go consistent consistent I yeah because 11 and 12 are dealing with the budget or financial Administration okay great okay that that would be my only that was my only uh question from last time is if we do this here when do where's the limit of where we say where we add that line right and the rest of our parameters and our policy and all that right right I talked about it so um and we can we can have that discussion about so far it's just limited to the
022discussion of the fund balance um I mean again we have within the board role policies the abilities to suspend any policy we could do we could do that at any time so which is a bit more of an umbrella approach than having this specific line in there yeah that's I'm fine with adding the line and making an exception for fund balance because we are treacherously on yeah on the edge um but just looking at precedence and and what that means for any future parameters and policies so it's good to think about yeah just want to be aware of that helpful Point thanks director Tran any any other thoughts okay it's been moved and seconded so I'm going to call for the vote and that um change is approved thanks very much so next in the
023agenda we move into the performance review section of the agenda and the first monitoring report is on goal five ready for lifelong success after graduation would you like to introduce this superintendent tly yes thank you president Cass so this is the first the five strategic plan goal monitoring reports for this school year as mentioned earlier this evening this is also important to note that it is the third year of our refreshed District 5year strategic plan that runs from 2022 through 2027 uh board members participated in a study session earlier this evening where the go five monitoring report was presented and discussed I would like to thank Chief academic officer Dr obai Dunham and our director of research and evaluation Dr Craig Foster along with our school board liaison uh director soac for facilitating the compiling
024of the contents of this monitor report and the presentation and thank you to executive directors AMD Butler and Dr Amy Butler and Dr Melissa Riley as well as director Julie trck newberger for assisting in the presentation of the go five information and answering questions and so formally I hereby present of the monitoring report for strategic plan goal five in accordance with the monitoring schedule set forth in board policy and I certify that the information contained in the report is true as of Monday November 25th 2024 and we are happy to answer any additional questions you may have thank you superintendent Telly any questions or discussion from the board I second all the thanks that superintendent tally gave um it the reporting and the analysis on it is very helpful it's not just tables and numbers
025students are more than tables and numbers so when uh Dr Foster gave his translation of what this means to the students the impact to the students that's very helpful for um especially new board member to to understand beyond the numbers um and we went through it at length in the study session I I think just this isn't coming from just me this is more an a you know reiteration based off of some of the meetings that I went through or attended at the Washington State School director's Association um the past few days is really paying attention to what the effects on uh gender and sexuality and tracking that because that has a huge impact and it's it's going to be unfortunately a growing impact negative impact on our students mental health um and so making
026sure that we're able to track um their graduation and and they're not falling through the cracks so I just wanted to reiterate that and on the the board session outside of the study session but I I do very much appreciate all the effort that was put in to the report than thank you I would um Echo all of that uh thank you director TR and also thanks to the uh our panel if you will uh everyone who put uh all that work into the the the study the data the analysis of the data and making the report um I found it very thorough um I particularly appreciate um in these in in the um the goal monitoring reports in particular the the depth of the discussion and the very clear um work that has gone
027into it and um staff's willingness and indeed passion for relaying what's happening with our students um you know a couple of things that we discussed I don't want to just repeat things that that we've already talked about in this study session but um in particular I thought the the progress in this in this monitoring report for goal five you know we we have great um graduation rates so where do we go from there as I believe director Hayes pointed out and you're doing it um finding new avenues what you know how can we improve identify where there are um gaps in how well we're serving different populations of students and what can we do to address that moving forward um a very thorough um report and discussion so thank you um nothing else to add
028um thank you it was um this clearly is the culmination of 13 years of work for each one of these students and it and it shows um how well we do and and we've always said that we do high school really really well in Northshore and this is reflective of that so thank you for all that work and and the data and I just Echo the statement of we we really seriously looked at what's next we didn't rest on our Laurels of we have very high graduation rates but then we said okay then what else do we need to be working on so I really appreciate that and I look forward to hearing ideas of how we get all of our College Bound kids to fill out the fasta form thanks director Hayes and I'll
029I'll just wrap up um with again another expression of gratitude um this is uh obviously a very important manager they're all important but this one is really important you know and I I just couldn't help but reflect on how our district has done um a really great job evolving and trying to mirror you know we talked during the stud session somewhat briefly but still talked and it was on our mind at conference last week about the evolution of needs of students based off of economic changes societal changes and there's so much great work going on keeping our system up um the the report didn't talked about the increased number of certification for our students in Career and Technical education courses 1154 last year alone that's a significant Evolution since I started on the school board
030and I just that's not a small amount of work I had to call it out um you know there is uh a um a maybe a concern preconceived notion from some parents I've talked to that are um are public schools in Northshore are still very much trying to make one box and make every kid fit into them um there's so much evidence that's not true and um I have to say superintendent Tully over the last two years this report didn't contain the list of what those programs were specifically that those 1154 certifications came from but you under your leadership more programs have come into the district that directly tie students to living wage or more than living wage work after after school at the same time not diminishing um the Mastery of the subject areas
031for students to prepare them for Advanced degrees if that's what they choose so that's that's pretty multi-dimensional work so I um just wanted to call that out and say thank you for that it's um it's kind of fun too to be along the ride for this so um I just want to acknowledge the work and and say thank you for a detailed report so any other comments or thoughts no okay so um per our policies um the board has um an option in order to respond to this monitoring report our policy stipulates the board um can make a motion and or vote on um first of all that the board finds the superintendent has reasonably interpret the provision of the goal the relevant goals policy and finds that the district is making reasonable progress towards
032achieving the desired results um another option is the board can find that the superintendent has failed to provide evidence of reasonable organizational progress toward achieving the desired results and the third op option is the board the information provided by the superintendent is insufficient for the board to decide whether reasonable progress has been made so um of those three options would anyone like to make a motion it's too long for you to read based uh uh I move uh that we um now I don't even have words um that we uh recommend that the superintendent has reasonably interpreted the provisions of goal five is there a second a second okay it's been moved and seconded to find that the superintendent has reasonably interpreted the goal policy and is the district is making reasonable progress any further
033discussion all right see none I'm going to call for the vote and that motion passes so per our policy we're going to take a minute and write down some comments on our U monitoring response documents e e for okay looks like we're complete we have one more monitoring report before I pass along a folder so we're going to continue with the second performance review this is a performance review um of superintendent parameter 12 Financial Administration superintendent Tully thank you president Cass so this monitoring report contains information regarding regarding how we execute our financial accounting systems Implement control activities that mitigate risk create a and create and publish Financial reports to keep the school board and the public informed of our financial condition um Implement systems of internal controls among other requirements set forth in the
034parameter so I would like to thank our Deputy superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Jolan Bergie for working with her te to compile the information contained in this report and so formally I hereby present the monitoring report for superintendent parameter 12 Financial Administration in accordance with the monitoring SK schedule set forth in board policy and I certify that the information contained in the report is true as of today Monday November 25th 2024 so I know that each of you have had an opportunity to review and study the report we are happy to answer any questions you may have thank you superintendent Telly any questions comments discussion well having just recently spent uh last week with a thousand of our peers um I just want to commend um particularly the work done in in 3A keeping the
035board up to date um I I forget and um was reminded of the the amazing information that we received isn't always pretty but there's no hiding of that information it we are kept informed our 25 page um monthly financial report I know is a lot of work for staff but um I believe when we talk to other board members and they have so little information and then are surprised um with a problem and they're scrambling to deal with it that that I think that's why we're as healthy as we are and we're able to work together because we are stayed um informed and so just thank you so much for that it is it is making the difference for us in norshore and I I get that it's a pain but totally worth it um
036I will just say for me um the 4D the preventing from having the same audit finding two years in two consecutive years um my understanding of the intent of that was not to make the same mistake two years in a row it was not even a mistake we we won't go down that rabbit hole but the event that produced the audit finding two years in a row was one event and so I am totally fine in that not being something that didn't go right or being a problem that needs addressing yeah I appreciate that yes I think just to follow up on that I um just appreciate the fact that it's in there I mean there's again there's no hiding there's full disclosure of everything that's going on this is something that we all knew
037about with respect to the the audit finding and I think we're all on the same page with respect to whether it should be there um but it's in the report um so just another you know piece of evidence of how thorough and detailed our or the communication of our budget status and um progress is from from staff and and from you um so I don't think I can add anything else um it's all very straightforward and appreciate all the details that goes into it this goes beyond the p12 but the fact that we have a Cadence communication with the community is very helpful with conversations with the board um with help from um staff here especially Deputy uh superintendent jolen Bergie um who's also our CFO our Chief Financial Officer um I this is so
038agree with everything that's been said um I would I would add to that we can do even more to bring more communities along with a simplification of how we're presenting things to folks so they have a better understanding of it um a San key diagram I don't want to get to In The Weeds here but just sany diagrams are very useful to see the flow of budget and and so that it's very useful to bring the community long and continue that transparency uh and that work right so um yeah so and yes after that meeting a bunch of school board directors across the state um really put into perspective how transparent we already are with our finances with the with the community and with the board so grateful for that if I could just just
039tag that you you reminded me um the transparency to the community I think is a really big thing and really um hit home for me as well talking to other um board directors from around the state um and the fact that we have so many community members on our finance advisory committee um we go out and reach out to the community and incorp involve them in development of our our finances here so that's that is not typical around the state and I think um we should all I'll be well proud of it um y all took my points um but also too I want to make the point too that um it was very clear this year that a lot of um sometimes maybe back backbreaking work was going into Shoring up our financial Administration
040throughout the year which really was necessary I think May and that's why all the communication and the financial adice committee you know because um all that work was getting done and the level of specificity of our financial Administration was increasing so much there was a a lot of helpful information to communicate perhaps maybe a lot and very complicated but the the foundation of that all was the work and and Shing up and shuring up how our financial um processes through our business office was being run um along that line I have a question about a bullet point so under 4A um there's a um a point you know along this is the section that talks about internal control this is on page five so it says um that the district is in the middle of
041a comprehensive process review of its business and related processes using an outside outside SL objective firm with demonstrated experience in school business school district of business pro processes I'm just curious about that good evening for directors jolen Bergie Deputy superintendent so that's referring to norshore has been working through a reimplementation of the business plus product which is our enterprise system for business finance and HR we've were working on that for a couple of years um it's going slower than expected when you have fewer people you have less resources to move something like that forward so we've trying to Pivot to balance the resources that we have and moving our system forward so we've had been engaged with plant Moran who's done reimplementation and implementation of new Erp Enterprise Risk Management Systems um Across the Nation
042we've been engaged with them for a while but we're also using business plus to help us do that they've been bringing in some of their experts to help us identify when this system was implemented 20 years ago we didn't do everything the way maybe we should have implemented it at the time and then as we've gone along there is a tendency in finance and NH HR you just run lean and some of the new updates or the changes to the product haven't been updated for us so we're trying to work through that process of how do we more fully use the system that we currently have and Implement and just make our work more efficient so just different screens and different data polls and things like that to help especially with new laws as new
043laws were implemented this is really boring but relevant Paid Family medically for example was very difficult Seb was very difficult for districts to administer So Paid Family Medical leave meant you had to implement a leave process that had to stack with FMLA or um family medical leave at the federal level and so how we've implemented that how you track leave we basically had to create that in the system and the way that we did it in the Heat of the Moment isn't how we need to do it going forward so those are some of the things that we've been discussing and that will continue throughout this year and potentially into next year a super helpful thank you I just had a thought um well she was speaking um the board there's more question to the
044board uh do we find some would we find some benefit out of circling back with community members who have been along on the ride this whole time of this budget and financial discussion to ask them about the information that has been provided so far what they need to see to feel like they're being brought along on the journey um just as a pulse check to make sure that they also feel the same way we do you know we um that might be a great topic at a conversations with the board in terms of you know because like School Finance is so complicated you know how what kind of information in what form is maybe always a good check-in to do yeah because I suggest it's but that doesn't necessarily mean everybody brain works that way
045yeah I'll I'll make a note thank you okay any other thoughts okay so this is a parameter report we would just had a goal report so the options for a parameter report are a little different a little shorter so um the board can make a motion to find the superintendent either in compliance with p12 financial Administration making adequate progress towards compliance or not in compliance I move that we find superintendent tally in compliance with uh parameter p12 Financial Administration is there a second second thanks it's been moved and seconded any further discussion we will call for the vote for director TR can you vote no it's all good thank you and that motion passes thank you okay I'm going to go ahead and move us along if that's okay d mcard okay so um next
046it's our practice to do a policy review of the monitoring reports we just did so we have on here a review of the Strategic plan goals because we just went over goal five we typically don't edit those but it's a chance to talk about it so um any discussion desired by the board about goal five well and I I think a reminder of why we don't at it is that these were goals written by our community and they are core part of our strategic plan and so if we the board start opening them up it creates a lot of havoc in the system shall we say agreed okay so we're going to move along so we'll then do a review of superintendent parameter 12 Financial Administration um and I do have this suggestion on this
047one but does anyone want to go first usually as chair I I don't go first so I notice we just talked about P1 and the language there and how the fun balance language mirrors here in p12 however there's a word missing here in p12 so if you look under 2B that talks about the general fund balance it doesn't have the word unassigned it just talks about minimum general fund balance of 3% I'd like to add the word unassigned unassign because we we have learned so much about what is inside of fund balance and we have learned it's really that unassigned fund balance line item okay all right so maybe we can have that as an action item next time okay thank you any other thoughts on this policy no okay keep going so next up
048information item District budget status reports for August and September any introduction superintendent toy yes uh thank you president Cass so a copy of the August and September 2024 budget status reports are provided for the boards review and of course as you know these reports include information on enrollment budget status information general fund capital projects funds Debt Service funds ASB fund and transportation vehicle fund any questions or comments by the board um I'm pretty sure I know the answer but just to clarify that the um September monthly financial status report has our budget enrollment under by 256 and I believe that since then it has come close to almost exactly what we budgeted yes yeah okay thank you the only question I had was um related to that and did we see a similar kind of
049initial negative last September that kind kind of corrected well we do see enrollment increase um in the first part of the year um but last year we actually went be beyond our projected budget um enrollment um we didn't see that this year we just we we I mean we're basically On Target as to what we projected last year we did see an we kept going and we were actually beyond what we budgeted for any other questions all right next information item capital projects fund allocation report for August and September superintendent T me thank you president Cass these uh these reports provide additional information to the monthly budget status reports the previous item on the agenda and as you know the fund balance allocation report shows individual capital projects by Major fund Source um within the
050capital project fund these of course include the 2018 Capital Bond the 2022 Capital Bond technology Levy impact fees and unreserved funds any questions so when we um have figured out what the issue is at Frank Love does that come out of the unreserved the solution it it may be a little bit more complicated than that so um okay we've had some brief conversations about um what we do here but good evening again right now it's coming out of the general fund maintenance budget as we continue to delve into the problem if there was a bigger solution that would qualify for a capital projects project fix at that point we would use um undesignated dollars out of the capital project fund or potentially Insurance May cover it depending on when or if we find an issue
051so we have all of those Avenues available and we continue down the road thank you thank you any other questions no all right next information item project acceptance under 1 million superintendent tly thank you president Cass so there were two projects under a million dollar completed this reporting period these included the districtwide annual fire alarm system testing and then also phase three improvements at Innovation lab High School involving the installation of resilient flooring in s of the rooms any questions all right then we will go on to the last information item around signed construction agreements for the 2022 Bond project superintendent thank you president Cass so this is construction document attached to the school board meeting agenda was signed during this reporting period This is a statutory um uh deed warrant deed uh was signed
052by uh with s homish County during the reporting period for the Expansion Project at Fernwood Elementary School deeding um to the county a small portion of property along the 39th Avenue and duel Road U there's a picture attached in the document that points to that piece of property any questions I have one so and forgive me so we're ading them land I was looking to see if we got any compensation for a such deed but maybe that's not part of this process I'm not aware of any compensation figured I'd ask it is 248 square feet so it's all relative but any other questions okay all right we'll keep going so next up board reports and communication any new business items from board directors there's a face I have four you have four let me get
053my not um all right so I'm going to go in order of I am clear on what my ask is um and the good news is it's it's not grading a whole lot of work um I Heard um as director TR was talking about the monthly BD budget status report I was reflecting that it has grown over the last 15 years as board members come on and have had ass about information that they need um to understand the status of our budget um I'm wondering if maybe at an upcoming board retreat rather than continuing to add to it that we go through it and perhaps say what information do we as the current board need and what would be um a better another way to reflect it I second that duly noted okay number that
054was number one that was number one okay the second one is that um recently um the Department of Agriculture came to an agreement with the credit card companies because it turns out they were charging $3 or $4 processing fees for our reduced school lunches so families would pay 30 or 40 cents for their school lunch and then have a three or4 processing fee yeah I know um anyway Department of Agriculture came to an agreement with the credit card companies that they were going to stop doing that in 2027 I'm a little concerned that the new Administration may not continue to enforce that agreement and I'm meeting with the Department of Agriculture uh in February and I'm just wondering if we have access to that information of how much our families are spending and processing fees
055or families that are on free and reduced lunch well obviously not the free lunch but the reduced lunch um and I don't know if we can get that information but it would be great to be able to go into the Department of Agriculture and say this is what I it's costing our families that do not have this money to pay for their kids lunch well okay just just one catastrophe at a time here and and so and I heard that you don't need this until February is correct okay with the holidays that correct helpful yes no this is not yeah I'm way in advance of that one great okay the um the third one is that and again just keep your blood pressure at a minimum here um the Supreme Court has just agreed to
056hear um a case that was appealed to them out of the fifth Circuit Court where the fifth Circuit Court ruled and the short version of it is that eate is unconstitutional so our discounted access for schools and libraries to the internet um is ruled unconstitutional I am not super optimistic that the Supreme Court won't upold that ruling so um my I have a couple questions one is there a way I could get the cost to norshore if we have to pay market rate for internet so that we can have that and Ellen's already like yep I'm on it I've got it here we go um and then my second is are you all okay if I go Rogue on this and start um I know um figuring out what are some plan BS for us
057like can we bring a bill into Washington state that effectively creates the same for within the state or can we create a an agreement amongst all the entities in King County that benefit from this and then we demanded discounted rate I don't I don't know what all the options are that are legal and available but can I start having conversations with folks to figure out what our backup plan could be in the event this gets approved because it's going to happen in March or they're hearing it in March and we'll get a rolling in June yes with I would I would think according to our board protocols just with appropriate coordination with our legislative representative and wonderful cabinet yes yes awesome okay and then my final one and I don't know what to do with
058this but I I really don't know what I'm asking for so feel free to just but um we um when we adopt curriculum it's from texbook manufacturers that create the curriculum for the Texas and California markets meaning that the translations that they provide is basically Spanish and that is not meeting our needs our curriculum for the most part is only available translated into Spanish and I don't know what to do with that I don't know because it's not a matter of not having enough money they're just not available much of our curriculum so I don't know whether that's a question we need to have in the CAC process and be raising awaren I don't know but it seems like a problem that we need to be looking at so again do I hear a request
059for information about how that impacts our curriculum adoption process and then we'll go from there yes thank you that's a great way to start that thank you and with that I'm shutting up that should give me enough to keep me occupied I'm no longer was to president you're all in trouble we can find a to-do list for you director Hayes no problem no problem all right any other new business items all right so let's go on to board member reports and I'm first okay and you are first director Hayes okay so um as I wrote this down I now realize why I'm so exhausted um so I um have been continuing to attend PTA meetings um I there I just point this out um norshore middle and engelmore had a joint one and the Architects
060for the remodel at engelmore were brought in they did a nice job of sharing with um parents the the plans so um great work some questions some additions that parents had that they wish for um so just FYI that's coming um I attended the NorthShore schools Foundation board retreat um they're kind of looking at what they do and how they do it and so um that was a lovely morning um and then I attended the dwali celebration that was held at the npac um 350 students performed there was a whole Dance Competition we've received a plaque that Peggy will be uh putting up in the hallway out there of Thanking us for our um for the use of the facility and our attendance I would strongly encourage since it was a huge deal that I
061was there that more of us plan on attending next year yeah um we got we got an invite but anyway so yes just was lovely there was having to be on stage but otherwise um it was a lovely event attended the conversations with the board um as always great conversations and good to hear from our community um thank you to Tiffany Rodriguez and Kimber Kirby Morgan at Innovation lab for a great visit um students as always were the stars of the show and and their insight and um I just loved seeing the the work that's being done it feels like that school is really coming into its own and um being becoming what we had hoped for it years ago so thank you to them then I got roped into um a meeting with the
062Washington State Department of Health it's our friend Patty Hayes um they have a technical advisory committee because the legislature has charged them with school health and safety environmental rul making also not funded so they um were asking for input from school board members on on this and um I reiterated the please don't put a bunch of rules on us that are going to cost money that you don't fund um Talk about some of the great work we've already done in Northshore and then did a plea for if it would be awesome if you created rules that were in alignment with all the other environmental health rules that were out there and so that anyway that was news to them but maybe maybe they'll do that and then finally attended um the wasda annual conference lots
063of happening I got to um be a poor replacement for Holly munchow at one but um yeah was a good good event thank you director Hayes director Tran uh very similar schedule um so let's see here conversations with the board we talked about the budget um I hope the community felt like they got the information that they needed um and if not maybe we'll be discussing you know circling back and seeing how how they want to see the financial and budget information um as we continue this journey uh that was Monday November 18th um Wednesday November 13th director mcor mcti and I attended the superintendent student board meeting where there was an interactive activity um to discuss what is most important to the students that were representing their schools that were attending that meeting meeting
064um I love the interactiveness of it so appreciate that the next thing I did Tuesday um November 19th also at Innovation lab thank you um Tiffany Rodriguez and Kirby Morgan um something that really caught my eye was the design thinking slide that the um Tiffany put up it reiterated that design thinking is empathy defining the problem ideating prototyping testing and iterating which which is a skill that is sorely needed out in the industry and out in the real world um so I appreciate seeing that being taught and and um internalized by students there and then of course uh wasda the the Washington State School Directors Association we were there from roughly Wednesday um November 20th to Saturday November 23rd long days especially for uh fellow board members who were um on stage a lot and
065uh running programs um really appreciate that and also appreciate um the the two of you staying a little later uh kind of made um director mccordi who is giving us a ride stay a little bit later so I can catch the afternoon um program about promoting a a district culture of belonging for transgender or and gender expansive people I thought that was a very important topic to attend so I appreciate you staying a bit longer and director MCC thank you uh you're quite welcome director Tran but you wanting to stay for that afternoon session also gave me the chance to attend an afternoon session that I didn't think I'd be able to attend okay um a lot of the same things uh Wednesday November 13th um uh superintendent T president Cass and I met with
066representative Del Benny's uh Legislative Assistant via Zoom uh to discuss um District related things potential future happenings or non- happenings as well as um potential uh Community grants that might be available that perhaps we might want to act on sooner rather than later also that Wednesday had the chance to attend the student advisory uh meeting and as always just so impressed with our our students and their passion and participation and the creative ideas they come up with uh in collaboration with our our Administration um Monday the 18th uh attended conversations with the board which I thought we had a great turnout really vibrant discussion you know mostly about budget um then the fabulous visit to U Innovation lab High School uh and I always particularly this High School I always come away with ideas and
067come up you know just think of think thinking of how we could potentially utilize things coming out of there the the creativity and Innovation across the district um but nothing specific um oh and I got to see a Biology experiment which was which was a lot of fun for me um let's see this morning I sat in on the budget discussion and vote in snom County Council uh via Zoom just listened in uh which started at 900 a.m. and executive director Ralph I think might have been listening in also um started at 9:00 a.m. and was still going when I had to drop off at 12:30 um but this is where they're discussing their um ongoing budget um the item of biggest interest to us came of course at noon um but they did pass
068ordinance 24- 082 regarding the school district capital capital facilities plans which incorporates the recommended impact fees schedule so that was passed um let's see also of interest um and these will be incorporated by reference into the uh growth management act comprehensive plan um which is uh going to be up on public hearing on December 4th in case you would like a nice riveting uh discussion to listen to um and they anticipate adopting that comprehensive plan by the end of the year so things to keep keep an eye on um and then there was the annual conference um a great much discussion with other director dors uh from other districts regarding their budget and requests for assistance by sharing some of our information and the way that our district is doing I was really quite proud
069of our our district and um just listening to the different stories from directors from other districts and the struggles they're going through and the things that they weren't made aware of um and just it reinforces that we're kind of all in the same boat large districts small districts and so forth um also just wanted to um well I'll be I'll just try to be quick we we had uh Senator Wellman zooming in for um the large school district caucus committee meeting um and there are a few things that we need to work with on her or with her let's say um just regarding special education funding and um budget shortfalls um and I think I'll just leave it at that but it will be interesting conversations going forward that's me thank you director mccordi and
070um I'll just reiterate my everything has already been discussed so November 13th I was also in the meeting with um the legislative aid for a congresswoman D Benny always appreciate the partnership and the support there um November 18th also at conversations with the board and really appreciate that what there was I mean we brought an agenda of of talking about um finances but other people brought other topics to which was great so really appreciated that um great attendance um November 19th also appreciated the tour of innovation lab High School um loved the students um and just a wonderful place to be able to spend a morning ads and the great work being done by all the educ is there and then also um was at the annual conference from the 20th through the 23rd so
071that is my report and I think we