001Thank you for joining us for our school board meeting today. We will start with the pledge of allegiance. Thank you again for coming. Are we in need of any translation? No. Okay. Um, at this time I will accept a motion to approve the agenda. I second it. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I I I motion passes 40. Okay. I was looking for Mariah up here. I'm like, I don't think she's here, boss. Okay, we're going to turn the time over to Pete. So, for those of you who are in the crowd and and this is a unique opportunity, doesn't happen very often in in schoolboard meetings, but um Mariah Munoz is going to be a new school board member. And so, that's uh she was approved at the last board meeting. And uh
002so, we're going to swear her in. She's going to take an oath like you would if you go to the police academy, right? I'm assuming you swear some oath to the constitution and the state laws in Washington. And so, we're going to do a similar thing here. Okay. So, you'll just uh let's let's Okay. I state your name. I, Mariah Munoz, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States that I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the organic act and laws of the state of Washington and the organic act and laws of the state of Washington and that I will faithfully and impartially and that I will faithfully and impartially perform and discharge the duties of the office perform and
003discharge the duties of the office of Oll School District number 147 Abotello School District number 147 16355 Director District 2 Director District 2 according to the law according to the law to the best of my ability to the best of my ability. All right. Congratulations. Thank you. [Music] Is it okay before um we go to the next item for us to take a a new group photo like Okay. Okay. Welcome, Mariah. We're so excited to have you. Um, at this time we will turn turn it back over to uh Dr. Perez for our recognition. Yeah, I'd like to like to invite Amy Paris forward and help us introduce um our special guest this afternoon. All right. Thank you for this opportunity. Um, as many of you know, and anybody who's new, all of our CTE,
004our career and technical education programs, have a club that goes along with them, um, that are meant to take what they learn in that program in the classroom to, um, you know, outside the walls, more into a a career focus. Probably the most commonly known ones are FFA. So, that's what the the students in the agriculture classes go compete and do all their things. FBLA is another common one. So, we have these clubs in all of our areas. Well, we're lucky enough through our criminal justice program that's taught by our SRO. Um, Lopez is here. Is Fernando here? Um, our SRO's do an amazing job as long uh along with the chief and we have assistant chief here and the amazing Evelyn here. So, thank you. They run a club called the the Police Explorers
005and they're here to tell you uh you you guys met them last fall. Um but they got a pretty cool award recently that we thought was um definitely something you guys should hear about. So right now I'm going to um invite up uh Officer Lopez. Hi everybody. Thank you for having us here. So, first of all, for those who I haven't met yet, I think I've met most of you. Uh, I'm Officer Lopez. I am the SRO and I am here because we want to present something really cool to you guys. All right, but first of all, before we start, um, if you don't know too much about the program, so the Explore program. So, the Explorer program is, uh, kind of like a hands-on, the way I like to explain it, it's kind of
006like the the the police version of the Boy Scouts. So, it's a hands-on program for students 14 to about 20 where they get to learn mainly policing, but we do all kinds of other cool stuff. All right. So, I took over the program a few years ago and after COVID, you know, like everything died. So, I I got offered the opportunity to run the program. So, at the time I didn't know its true potential, but once I started learning like all the cool stuff we could do and what it's all about, you know, it we really we really kicked off with it. And um I've rebuilt it. So, as you can see, this isn't even all of them. This is, you know, we still have a few missing. They couldn't all make it. Um so,
007I started recruiting, you know, and it's a privileged program. It's not just for any kid. So all the kids that you see up here, you know, they're they're good kids in one way or another cuz it's it's actually pretty strict to get into the program. They have to have good grades, you know, good attendance, right? They just have to have good behavior and all that good stuff, you know? It's it's something that it's a skill that I start instilling in them off the get-go if they're going to go follow this path, right? And it's not just for that. It's really just uh skills for life. So, we've rebuilt it and I think we're up to about 14 now. 13 14. Like, we have so many that already lost count. So, so all these kids up
008here, they've been working their butts off really hard lately. All right. So, they've all been, most of them have been to the academy already. So, it's an academy that they they can attend that it's more direct. Uh it's like a mimic mimics an actual police academy. It's only five days long though. So they get to learn the basics there and then they come over here and then, you know, we we use those skills um you know, in the program in the community. So recently, you know, we've been attending a lot of events. So you guys might have seen us around in the community. Uh we'll do parades. Uh whenever there's like a open house, you know, we'll attend all this stuff. We'll go out there and we'll color with the kids and stuff like that.
009Um, and we've been doing so good lately that we got recognized and we actually won post of the year. We got the post of the year award and this is for the whole state. So, not all agencies have explorer programs, but there is a lot of them. So, that just goes to show, you know, that we've actually been working pretty hard and making oursel known out there, right? So, I'm not going to sit here and talk for them. They're all going to come up here and they're going to tell you a little bit about their experiences, some of the cool stuff that they might have done recently, and you know, just prove that it's it's a good program for them. Okay. So, Jon, yeah, bring that up here. So, this is the one that we
010got right here. Jonathan has it. They they gave us the the post of the year, a nice little award, and then a little framed one. So, [Applause] okay. So, um good afternoon. My name is Jonathan Garcia. Um, I have been in the Explorer program for about two years now. And um, my favorite part of the program is getting to do ride alongs with um, with officers. Um, I like it because it's firsthand learning and it's like having a classroom right there in front of you. Um, you learn all kinds of things. You see everything like with first person. Um, and it's like the the closest you'll get to becoming or being uh a police officer while being an explorer. So, I think it's pretty cool. Thank you. Hi, I'm Jesse Contes. Uh, my favorite part
011of Police Explorers is the opportunities that I presents to us. So that would be community service, any police explorermies or competitions and mostly the relationships that we get to build and create with other involved members of the community, other police explorers, other officers, and just anyone around. [Applause] Hi, my name is Regina Perez. I have been part of this program for about a month now. Um, something I love about this program is that it is a very hands-on experience and it helps me pursue in my career in the future. And it's taught me a lot about teamwork and being part of the community and having discipline. [Applause] Hi, my name is Eileen O Choa. I've been in this program for about two years now. And something that I really like about this program is being
012able to participate in events and, you know, engage with like the kids and events and stuff like that or the community. And something that I really liked about was being able to go to the shooting range. That was pretty awesome. Thank you. [Applause] Hi, I'm Rosa Sandville and I've been explorer for about four years now. And something that I really enjoy about this program is the hands-on experience we get. We've learned how to handcuff. We've also learned how to search buildings. We've also done um ride alongs and traffic stops. And I really enjoy that because it's very hands-on and it's like different being there and just like from being like in a class. And I've also enjoyed like the academy music competition and yeah, thank you. Hi, I'm Zri and I've been in this program
013for about two years and what I enjoy most about it is just getting to know the community and I love being at the events because it gives you an opportunity to see what it's like to be around so many people. Thank you. [Applause] Hi, my name is Paulina. I've been in the police explor two two years and something I enjoyed was going to the competition and going to the academy experiencing like the discipline like it's it was really tough out there but I really enjoyed it. I would go again and that's pretty much shaped Hello, my name is Luis is a program super cool and I invest the program is the officer Lopez that my favorite is the event and for the help that people think [Applause] Good afternoon. My name is Lucero Lopez. The
014thing that I joined is about learning um how to can handcuffs and um learning how to shoot the guns, how we went to the range, I think. And thank you [Applause] Um hello, my name is Brarpio and I've been in this program for about five months and I really enjoy being in this uh program. Uh it has given me a lot of new opportunities uh to meet new people and to make a lot of new friends. And one thing I really enjoy about this program is being able to be part of the community since um I get to meet a lot of new people and just bring joy to some of the kids that I get to meet and I'm grateful for the fact that um I'm in this program and um I'm allowed to
015help out the program. I mean the community like this. Thank you. Hi everyone, my name is Ray Pinetta. Um, I've been in this program for almost a year. Uh, the only thing I love about this program is seeing how the officers work as a team. And I really love uh learning new stuff about what they do on a daily life, their jobs. And I really like going to the shooting range. Thank you. My name is Chief Ram with the police department. I wasn't an explorer. Um, but I got to tell you, for these young men and women to win this award, it's the first time in the history of the Oll Police Department. This is a singled out award for the for this group of of young men and women to represent the city of
016Oll, the Oll school district, the Oll Police Department. It's it's on this their work that did this. They were recognized in front of several hundred chiefs of police and sheriffs last about two weeks ago at the Washington State Chiefs and Sheriff's Association where they were presented this award. They've done amazing work and we really appreciate the the relationships that we have uh between the city, the school district um and it all we really appreciate it and I enjoy the support. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you for having us. We're going to step out. Thank you. Do you mind if we ask some questions? Oh yeah, go. Definitely. First of all, I I seen you a couple weeks ago at the city council meeting and there was one question that was asked. How many of you plan
017to uh make law enforcement a career in your future by shows? Look at that. You guys got one step in the door already. It's a wonderful program that's provided between the cooperation between that the school district and the fellow police department. It's a wonderful program. I really enjoy it. me. For me, I like uh I like seeing all the kids come out. I uh I didn't get to do it, but I had a friend uh named Ephan Morphin that decided to be in the uh explorer program and sure enough, he uh he was a police officer for the Akima County Sheriff's and then he went to Benton County. Then he went back to the Marines. But um wish you guys the best. Thank you for all the hard work. Um I I just want to
018say how much I appreciate your effort and how proud I am of you for all of the things the way you've represented yourselves, the way you've represented our school and our community. Congratulations. And you know, it it's more than just being good at at being a police cadet or whatever your explorer, sorry. Um, the fact that each of you came to the mic and and spoke clearly and spoke with confidence, like you guys are all going places and I'm I'm so proud of you. Um, and I always pull this plug. Hopefully you never pull me over someday, but um I just I'm really proud of you guys and thank you. Thank you for the effort that you've put in, for the time, for the commitment that you have have exerted um and taken away from
019your friends and your other schooling to to be a part of this program. Thank you for all of your hard work. Congratulations. One other thing, Officer Lopez, thank you for all the hard work. I imagine it was difficult uh to get the program going back after CO and looks like you're going to do an amazing job. So, thank you so much for all the hard work and and chief, thank you for uh allowing him to uh do this. I appreciate it. I have a question. What do you guys do in your guys' competitions? Will you just really quick? Will you come to the mic? I'm sorry. We did moxing. So we did like what uh police officers do on daily basis. We know responded to calls like domestic violence and like um trespassing and stuff.
020You guys Yeah. So basically to sum it down it the our competitions is basically be a cop for a day. Uh they give us a radio and we went to Tacoma High School and we were all in the cafeteria with all the other different agencies and um at sometime during the day you get called on your radio that there's um well there's a call of service. So you either go and you don't know what it's going to be and when you get there they have a supervisor there just watching over you and they're grading you while you solve the problem whatever it is. So, um, like, uh, they said it already, uh, it could be a DV, which it would be like solving a domestic violence or a a crash or someone breaking into a
021house, and you just go in there, uh, you solve the problem, you talk, get the victim, get their information. Uh, let them know how you're going to help them, and then you decide if you're going to make an arrest or not. Uh, at the end of the competition, they score everyone on how well they did, and they give out trophies and stuff like that. Um it was a very nice opportunity to learn how to um work as a team and also um learning I mean meeting new like other explorers and just learning from your mistakes and hopefully improving later on in the future. Is the program like a whole year thing like at all times like um um yeah the program is year round. Um it usually it usually slows down during the summer because
022uh there's less events going on but when we do have like the bigger events so parades we we will go participate in that. Um any events going down at the park if they need help at the PD we'll go do that. But we also have our own competitions andmies that we'll train for um bi-weekly. Uh you guys mentioned like a ride along. What's that? Or I think it was a ride along. It's when you we go on the the police course and we just um see what they do when they respond to calls and stuff, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Uh same thing as she said, you just uh you ride in the passenger seat with the police officer for uh however many hours you want to go. You can go on a 2 hour or
0233 hour maybe their entire shift if you really like to and you just see how they conduct uh like traffic stops or when they go off and they talk to people, they'll tell us the the different aspects of it. So uh things to look for, things to be cautious of and but also just how to treat people nicely. Um, you don't always have to be rude or you don't always have to assume the worst. That you can uh still be friendly to people and wish that they have a great day. I'll pull one from the Madam President. Can Can we get a picture? I'd love that. I'd love a picture. Yeah, let's do it. You guys Yeah. That way I know who to call when I get in trouble. Explorers, keep your music. [Music] Thank
024you guys again for coming. Um, the rest of our meeting, if I'm being totally honest, is pretty boring. So, if you wanted to leave, we totally understand. um if you have school to get back to or whatnot, but just thank you again for coming and for representing Oello. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Amy, for setting that up for us. That is a highlight for us. So, yes, they're so incredible. So, thank you for that. Um, we are going to move on to other amazing students and uh turn the time over to our student representatives. Um, so to for this last week of school, OHS is doing a spirit week. So that's why I'm dressed um all like this cuz today was Husky Pride Day, so I put like um paint all over my legs. And
025so tomorrow is barbecue dad versus soccer mom and Wednesday is minion takeover. Thursday is something and then Friday is Friday is Disney day and Thursday we're going to do field day that day and it's also the family feud assembly. So it's just going to be like like we're gonna go with a blast for our last week and great Any questions for our student reps? Okay. Um, we'll move on to board member discussion starting with our legislative report by um, Director Gerber. Um, I didn't have anything major for legislative report. The only thing I wanted to mention was kind of just a fun fact. Um, today the governor um, appointed announced the appointment of the new secretary of health for Washington state. His name is Dennis Worsham and he actually grew up here in Oello. His
026parents still live here. So, wow, that was fun. That's really exciting. I know who that is. Um, okay. It's not on our board member discussion. Uh, so I wanted to ask Dr. Perez if there was an opportunity for us to kind of debrief graduation. Yeah, absolutely. Are you okay with us doing that now? Yeah, I think that's that'd be great. Okay. Um, I thought graduation was lovely. the at least at least from what I saw the the bracelets were a hit. Um kind of a seamless transition unless there was a bunch of drama behind the scenes which gratefully we were not included in but um it was it was really nice. It seemed like there was adequate seating. The weather was beautiful. So just really appreciate everybody for all their hard work. Okay, now I
027have one complaint. Our sound system is is abysmal. Um, multiple complaints about people not being able to hear. Um, I I would love it if there was something that we could do to fix that so that future graduating classes didn't have to go through that. Um I it it's always heartbreaking when we have you know a validictorian or accomplished students any students giving um speeches that are only halfheard or you know you you can't hear exactly the things that they've prepared and every student deserves their name to be called loud and clear over the loudspeaker when they are walking across the stage to receive a diploma that they have worked 13 years for. Um, so seems like an easy fix that maybe we could throw some money at or I'm not sure. But does anyone
028have any other comments? Um, for AVID, we sold water bottles, like one bottle that was $2 and we raised over $1,000. Wow. For scholarships for next year for seniors. Congratulations. That's amazing. I was a good saleserson. It was very hot though. All of us were like drenched in sweat. We were like, I'm fried chicken. Like that's how we were. Somebody didn't visit Lindsay. She was She was in need of about four or five water balls. I was Where were you guys at? Everywhere. Oh, really? You were walking around. We were going down the ramps around the track in the concession stands also. Yeah. Nice. Well, good for you guys. That what a great thing to do. Love that. I guess my only add-on to that, Pete, is um if we're looking at a sound system
029for maybe the Husky Stadium, if we could also look at the one for the gym, um I think those two systems are outdated and with all the events that they have in there as well. Um if we're going to go ahead and do something, we might as well do it right the first time. Yeah, we can certainly do some uh assessment of the system itself. I know some of the limitations at Husky Field, which we talked about when we had originally discussed a possible transition to an alternate location, were just the it's really not designed for that type of event. Um, you know, it's designed for football games and soccer games. And so we I I I do want to highlight that I the district staff who set the field up, got the chairs ready,
030worked on the sound, and the concerns we had last year about moving in and out, those things were addressed. and if this is the next thing then we'll we'll move on to that one and and try and address it. So I'll touch base with Rio Zuna and Greg Folultz. They have some expertise in that area and uh we'll take a look at it and bring something back for the board to consider. And also a shout out to them because they did they absolutely got everything to a tea. Um everything from rehearsal to the actual day was amazing. So you know kudos to those guys as well. Yep. I think it was a great event for our community and for our kids and uh hopefully we can have another one like that next year. I heard
031multiple people um commending the school district about the security that we had there um about how smoothly it was for people to get through the metal detectors. Um that all seemed really seamless and I I didn't hear anyone in the at least where I was entering and exiting that was complaining. Everyone was saying, "Hey, this is kind of nice. Okay, I like this." Um it was fast. So, thank you. Our security crew who was there, I feel like they did a really good job. Yeah, they did an excellent job. Last year, certainly the there were some struggles. It was a new experience for the security staff that we hired. What was nice this year is Tim Taff and the sort of project manager for Phoenix Security. He was here last year as well, so he
032remembered those things and they've had some lessons learned and it was much more efficient and what you would expect at any large scale event. So, yeah, they did a good job. Yeah. Well, thank you for that. It was a beautiful graduation. Um, I just wanted to say thank you. Sorry, first day. um thank you for letting me participate. Um I wasn't sworn in yet and it was really nice to be a part of that and uh next time I'll read the instructions so I bring a clear bag because I didn't do that. So um so yeah, just thank you guys and thank you to Isaro for pushing me to go out there and all that stuff. So yeah, thank you and hopefully I get to do it again next year. So yeah. No, we're uh
033we're excited to have you on and like I said, there's uh there's a lot of these things that they'll blow your mind when you have kids and it's a it's it's truly an experience when when you get to experience that with the kids. And so just like today having these cadets here um doing things like graduation and eighth grade promotion and uh our site visits when we get to be in classes with kids. It really reminds you like why we're here, why we take time away from our jobs and our families and and our own children uh and our activities to to dedicate our time to be on this board because we have a district that is full of so many good kids that are doing such good things. And we have so many amazing
034adults who are facilitating that for the kids in this district. To pick off piggy back off of Lindsay, like we had, you know, the amazing shake, they came from here. the kid that wanted uh we had our uh a team that went I think traveled all the way to was it Atlanta to do uh just it shows you what a little town can do and and to to have them go out and and get that award through all the other schools in the state is amazing. So yeah, as far as graduation, I did just want to um agree what Dr. Perez said that I think the district did a good job of getting the feedback from last year and making improvements this year. I thought they did a great job with that. There were fewer
035back flips this year. I thought not not no back flips, but fewer than last year. So, well, we'll shoot zero tolerance next year. We don't say that in Washington anymore, but I'll make sure to communicate that. No, back flips are good. What we really want is a backflip from Dr. Press. That That's what we're holding on to. Uh, you're gonna be holding on a long while. Okay. Um, anyone have anything else? I also have something to add for graduation. And this came mostly from students. Um they asked me like they saw the live stream during graduation. They said, "Oh, why can't we do it one at a time? I want to have my own moment." But I I what I told them was like, "Oh, it's to like speed up the process." And it's also
036like very hot outside. I don't think anybody would want to be there for over two hours. Is there anything we can do about that? I was informed by Miss Garza that like, "Oh, it's something I should talk to principal about." But it's just something to let you guys know about what students are saying. And for some parents, they're talking about parking, how parking is very like difficult to find or like it's like I guess it's kind of like crowdy or like there's no really where to put your car in besides like in a random neighborhood. Yeah, I think that's part of that's just the logistics of living in a small community. Um, I know I had to park at the Chinese restaurant and then walk to the field, but I was expecting that because I
037knew they had closed off in front of, you know, the main entrance area. Um, I think the district addressed parking for the seniors. They they park at Wahitas and then their bust over to to open up the parking lot for parents. I'm not sure where there's more parking really. I think the comment about pacing is is one that I'll note and talk with principal Aes about. Some of that is just a matter of letting people know how long we think the ceremony is going to be. I think we were done in an hour and 15 minutes with almost 350 students. So, um you know, if people are willing, even if it's an hour and a half, that doesn't seem like perhaps we could space those out a little bit better. So, something I'll bring up
038that if it's from the student perspective, I think it's important that we address that. Agreed. Um, clarity in the microphones will help with that moment a lot as well. If they're if there's clarity when they can like really hear their name and and have their, you know, it might not be a minute, but it'll be a few seconds of their moment and having a good microphone will really help that feel special. Um, okay. At this time, we're going to move on and I will accept a motion to approve required approvals. I'll make a motion to approve required approvals. I will second that. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? I. Uh motion passes 41. Moving on to item C2, required approvals for early accounts payable warrants. Warrants two. At this time,
039I'll accept a motion to approve warrants too. I will make that motion. I'll second it. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I I I. And I will abstain. Motion passes 40. Um, at this time, we'll turn the time over to Dr. Perez for superintendentformational items. Yeah. Uh, one quick item that's board retreat possible dates. I did a little bit of research on uh, board calendars and so the first option I want to throw out there and then we can see where it lands today June 17th or 18th and we were thinking about an 8 to one activity which would include a lunch where we could uh, review superintendent performance, think about goals for this next year, board goals as well and help onboard director Munoz. Um, that's sort of the the skeleton agenda, but
040I wanted to see first if those dates would work. 17th or 18th. I can do either day. Yeah, I'm good for either date. Awesome. I could make either work, but 17th would be better for me. Can I get can I get back to you? Yes. Just because I don't know with my work schedule if I'll be able to accommodate that because I'm taking that the rest of the week the 19th through the 24th off for vacation. So I'm not sure if I'll understood. Yeah. It'll work for me. Okay. Um so how about this? We'll we'll uh communicate with Director Munoz over the next couple of days and then we'll send out an announcement to the board if that happens and certainly a community notice about a quorum or a public meeting. And if not, we
041can uh regroup perhaps the following week uh President Prow and come up with another date. Okay. Okay, that works. Can I can I make a suggestion for a date? Sure. What about uh Tuesday the 24th of June? I will be home and I I have the day off as well. I will unfortunately be out of town the week of the 24th. Okay. Sorry. No, it's okay. I just thought wanted to throw it out there, but I I'll ask about the 17th for sure. Is the Is there any way for us to help with timing of the meeting that might facilitate a better chance? Preferably in the afternoon. Okay. Like 4:30 to 5:30. That's something that I could do. Would the board be open to a late afternoon, early evening, and end with a dinner rather
042than a lunch? If we do, I'll need to do that on the 17th, not the 18th. If we if we did the 17th in the evening, I could do that. I just can't do the 18th in the evening. So, the 17th like a 4 to 8, which would include a dinner option in there. Pete, would that be local or? Yeah, we'll do it. We'll do it here. Is it here? Okay. Yep. Yeah, that works for me. Okay. Okay. Okay, we'll pencil that in and and get some more details together and get that your way. Thank you for that and thank you for the suggestion, Director Munoz. All right, now we're going to move on to uh I think a broader topic around school site visits and had a couple conversations with uh Director Prow about
043some adjustments to the um experience that we're trying to create, not only for the board, but also for the principles and for the teachers and staff at each of our schools. So for director Munoz, you should know that annually we visit each school. Uh the board does representatives from the district office and it's just a chance to engage with the site about how things are going and and what they're working on. But here's the the current reality. Um it feels a little bit stale is the word that we've been talking about. It's we say, "Hey, any questions?" Folks sit in silence for a few seconds, someone tells a joke, and then we we kind of go back and forth. It's really how it happens. Um, but really there's a need for more focused conversations about
044the work that's happening and perhaps there's a different way to do that. And then also I want to make sure that we take advantage of what could be another opportunity for the board for the board to engage more people in the work of the school district. And I think you saw that today with Chief Ram and Assistant Chief Garza here and and folks from the city. Those are people that we have partnerships and relationships with, but are they ever in our schools seeing the things that we're working on? and could we leverage this experience? So, these are just concepts right now, but we'd keep the total time about the same at two and a half to three hours. Start with the principal, talk about some of the things going on at the school, some celebrations
045and challenges and and think about the work led by the the principal at the site. And then this would be uh probably the biggest change in the in the one of two big changes. Uh focused dialogue. So imagine that you and I'll describe the groups that would come in, but you'd spend 20 or 30 minutes with a smaller group of people. One of the uh concepts we've talked about in adult learning is there's no glory in large groups. Now, it's one thing to be in front of 60 people and only three get to talk. But if you're in front of 10 people and eight get to talk and you do that three times, a greater chance that you're going to have a better outcome. We still have the classroom visits which director Prow talked about
046a little bit bit ago. We want to see what's happening in classrooms and be around our kids a little bit. And then a chance to debrief and reflect as a board and uh with others who might be in the room. Now, here's what those dialogue circles might look like. It could be um a leadership team at the school, your school improvement team, you know, maybe 8 to 12 people depending on the school site. Could be the grade chairs at the at the elementary schools or the department heads at the secondary schools. So you'll be meeting with the teacher leaders in in the U schools rather than the entire staff. Think about Oll High School when we walk in there and there are 60 teachers trying to get airtime with the board over 20 minutes. Well,
047if we met with the grade chairs and that we met with a group of students and we we just a greater chance that we could hear from more folks and you might meet with a we've never done this, right? Where we sat down with the nurses and the counselors and talk about just stuff 20 minutes to an engage in a conversation like that. Maybe we bring in our food service folks and then student voice which the board has demonstrated a commitment to here by including student reps on our board. There's certainly an opportunity to have students participate in this dialogue as well. So that would be a change, smaller groups, more focused and more of them. Then this is another major change that we're asking you to consider. Would each board member be willing to
048invite one of your constituents to each site visit? So for each of you, that would be seven or eight people throughout the year who would spend a few hours in our schools, around our kids, and around our staff getting a firsthand understanding of what's really happening. Um, it's consistent with what we have espoused in our core values around community. We want to hear all voices and we want people to provide support to the work we're doing. So it'd be a site visit for the board, also an opportunity for you to connect with your constituents and to bring them into the site to celebrate the work across the district. And here's some of the reason rationale behind that, right? Um when we go out for a levy or bond, it's helpful if people have an accurate
049story of what's happening in our schools. And you can see that firsthand. Um, when we hear these narratives about public ed in America and people want to attach those narratives to our school and our district, it might not be accurate, but if you can see it firsthand, you can help change that narrative. Might engage other folks in our community to come participate who are sort of sitting on the side not knowing that they have a responsibility as a as a citizen or an opportunity to engage in it and to help dispel some of the myths that exist around around schools. So, those are the broad ideas. Um, so here are some next steps that we consider the shift and perhaps we're going to dialogue about that. Now, we could prepare a couple sample agendas for
050you and and maybe help you generate a list or you have a list of people who you would say, "Yeah, that's someone I' I'd want to bring into our high school." And then we could discuss and red the redesign at the 23rd meeting. We wouldn't have to finalize it by that date. we have the summer to get through it. But that's what I wanted you to consider and see if there were other other uh adjustments or ideas you had about the redesign. Um I really I really like that. I like the idea of us, you know, each reaching out to somebody to to bring them in to to get buy in to help us with our next bond. Um I think that's really great. So, they would participate also in the circle discussions. They'd be
051in all of it. Yeah, I think we would see them in all of it if the board was open to that. Okay. Um, what if people are complaining? The constituents or the staff? Like what what if the staff is sometimes the staff complains to Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the uh I think that's will be the responsibility for me certainly and the building principal to um and I would hope our leadership teams um would understand that um when people want to complain to the board they can find you. Yeah. Right. You're not you're not hard to find. I know that you get phone calls. I know that you get emails. So that's just part of the the experience. Um, I think anyone who behaves inappropriately or maybe crosses a line as an employee or thinks
052that they have an audience with community members in it, I think the community should know that that's how schools work, right? We're not trying to hide it. I hope they would also look for how we address it, right? We don't talk to each other that way here. We don't we don't take opportunities to do that. And uh, so I want to um, like I think Jesse said it, assume positive intent, right? Assume that they're coming with a with an open mind and an open heart. But if they don't, then we shut it down. I I actually like the idea because we're not selling something that's completely perfect. I mean, there's going to be discussions and there's going to be things that don't go right and but they'll they'll see how the school board works to
053fix a problem instead of just always getting blamed for not doing something. So, I warrant that. The only thing pet that I would like to add is on the I think it's on the next slide where you had the small groups where it was like nurses and counselors and custodians. Um and and I think you said gray chairs. Uh, I also would like to add in um like special classes like like that detectives class or just highlight some of those programs that they got going, some of the ST programs so that we we know what what's coming uh how the driver's ed one or the um semi-truck one is going. So, if we could add some of those also in there so that we could ask them um questions. If we could just add to
054that group, make that group a little larger, I guess. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. These are just these were just three examples, but I think as we develop these agendas, some of that would be driven by the board where you might say, "Hey, um, we want to we remember when we had that presentation by the explorers, make sure that we get a small focus group with them or that in the site in the classroom visits, we get to go in that room or that we're going to include um, hey, let's highlight our CDL program because we're bringing in three of our constituents are local um, logistics companies and truck owners and so we want to highlight that." So absolutely the the board would help define which circles we're going to meet with. Okay.
055As I said, the obviously the FFA has been a big deal and it's grown and so I know that I I'd like to, you know, flaunt that out to the public. There is one group that we seem to miss every year and that's uh PSSE employees through the bus drivers, district maintenance and stuff and it would be nice to meet with them at least once a year also too. Yeah, and I think that could happen outside the site visits, but I think you're absolutely right there an operational uh meeting. We'll think about that for the board calendar that we're going to bring to you. So, we'll make a note of that, Ken. Thanks. Well, if it's I guess the way the conversation's going so far and the and the sort of head nods I've seen,
056uh, what if we work on preparing like a middle school, a high school, and an elementary mock agenda? We'll bring that in for you, three samples for you to look at. We'll talk about it at the next board meeting, and then if we get the green light this summer, we'll begin to prepare our principles for what would be a little bit different experience, but I think richer for them and and better for you as well. So, appreciate the the call from the board that um you know, it's one thing to suffer through these things and say we just show up because we have to. It's another thing to say, hey, these could be meaningful, but maybe we could do it a little better. So, I think this is a good example of that. Okay, great.
057Okay. Um, thank you so much for that. Do we have any public comment? No. All right. we will move on to upcoming events. On June 10th, we have the Ludaka dual language night at OS at 6 PM. Um June 13th is MMS promotion and I believe we have Director Pernetta and Director Gerber going to that. And then June 13th is the last day of school. Woo woo. And June 23rd is our next board meeting. Anybody have anything to add to that? The students mentioned the family feud thing. I know Miles invited us to that a couple weeks ago. What's What's happening on with us? The family feud on the field day. When's family feud? Yeah, it's this Thursday. If you invited us, we might come. Yeah, you guys are all invited. Miles mentioned it a
058couple weeks ago, too. So, if you'll get us the details, we'll invite ourselves. Can we come? Yeah. And there's going to be water balloons also. Fun. Okay. What time? Um, it's kind of all day, but the family food is like first and then it's like field day like just different activities or rotations. Okay. I won't be able to attend, but if somebody gets sends you with a water, I'd love to see that. Can you get us the schedule for that day and everything? Thank you. Okay. Uh, we will move on to the board self assessment of the meeting. Welcome, Director Munoz. Happy to have you. Yes. Very excited to have a full board again. Student recognition. Yeah, the cadetses. I keep saying cadets, but what's a cadet? That's milter. Is that like someone who's going
059to be a police officer? Anyways, explorers. Yeah, really well planned agenda. These midday ones are actually Yeah. Thank you for being accommodating and being able to come during the day, guys. And uh thank you Pete for putting together thoughtfully a new option for our site visits and and for being really intentional with that. Thank you. Yeah, I just want to reiterate what Lindsay said. I haven't been here that long, so I don't know what the site visit fully entails, but I think it's awesome that we bring in community members because a lot of the time it's the perception of I have no idea what's going on in the school or all that. So, I think it'd be very important to get different perspectives and different people who don't sometimes it might be the controversial person
060or something like that to to actually understand what the school does and what the leadership team does and stuff like that. So, I think that's going to be something that that's really good. An absolute shout out to all OSD employees for having a great graduation and seeing these kids off to their next adventure. Any other comments? Okay. At this time, the board will recess into executive session for 15 minutes to discuss the performance of a public employee.