001Another thing I've never seen in the market. She didn't know she left [Music] So now [Music] St. I'm now called to order the August 5th, 2025 school board meeting of the Stanford Commando School District Board of Directors. All four of our current board directors are present. Director Murray, Evans, King, and Shriber. Uh, director Foster has resigned. Um, would you please join me for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Today we are offering two opportunities for the public to speak. Comments specific to the consent agenda will be allowed prior to the vote on those items. Citizens who have submitted a request to speak during the public comment section of
002the agenda will be called upon to make their comments at that time which is near the end of the meeting. You have the agenda before you for the August 5th, 2025 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to the agenda? Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the August 5, 2025 regular school board meeting as written? >> Second. >> Moved by Director >> Murray. Murray and seconded by Director King. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Okay. [Music] The board has had the opportunity to review the July 1, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the July 1, 2025 regular board meetings? >> So moved by Director King, second >> seconded by Director Murray.
003All those in favor say I. >> I. All say no. That passes unanimously. >> No, I abstained from that vote because I wasn't Okay, thank you. So noted. All right, it is time for the superintendent report. >> Thank you, Director Shriber. Uh the first item on the superintendent report today is the donations. Um so I'd like to read those. The first donation was for $698.90 from the Stanwood Middle School PTO to cover ST middle school transportation field trip to Scadget Skate. Next $875.40 40 cents for the LGB Elementary PTA from the Elgate Elementary PTA to cover the EBE school field trip to Arrowhead Ranch and the Imagine Children's Museum. The third item is a donation from Ted and Rhonda Quillin of vintage Spartan memorabilia, athletic gear, and equipment valued at $600. Fourth item is $2,33.20
00420 cents from the Stanwood Booster Club to cover transportation costs for the Stanwood High School booster club to cover transportation costs uh from the for the football team to football camp. Fifth item is for $1,41610 for the Utseladi Elementary Booster Club to cover the EBE youth, sorry, the Utiladi Elementary uh school field trip transportation cost to the Commamino State Park uh which I saw pictures for and quite fun and uh the Matchin Children's Museum. next $1625.70 from the Kamo Schoolhouse Foundation to cover the transportation costs uh of the elementary school field trips to Kamo City Schoolhouse. And lastly, $37510 from the Twin City Elementary School PTA to cover the Twin City Elementary School transportation field costs to the North County Fire Station. So, thank you to uh the donors once again um across the district.
005It looks like uh we're represented. We really appreciate those donations. Next up on the superintendent's report is Ruth Floyd with the June financial report. >> Good afternoon. Uh today I will review the June financial report. Uh there were just a couple of things to highlight this month. Uh annual average FGE enrollment was 4,000 4,650 in June. Uh 46 uh over budget and about 28 above this time last year. Uh there will continue to be revisions to the final annual average and we'll post a final enrollment report uh to the website district website when that's complete. Uh as mentioned in a prior meeting, general aortionment uh was paid at.7% lower this month than normally occurs in June uh due to legislative uh shifting of cash from one uh fiscal year to from their fiscal year current
006fiscal year to the next and uh it's also to the start of the legislative bienium. I mentioned that last month and this is the month in which that happened. uh we will receive the that aortionment that was held back next month in July. Okay. And uh the manager's report expenses through June are as expected. And our fund balance down is um fund balance through June is 4.8 million. Uh that's about 5.4% of estimated revenues. Uh June is normally our lowest cash flow month. uh due to fewer tax collections. Uh and then as mentioned uh it's actually lower than it normally would be due to that pull back of the aortionment. And then our um object summary here uh object summary reflects a larger decrease than normal in in encumbrances um which uh will write itself
007next month when contracts that uh start on July 1 are encumbered. And then this is our fund balance uh status report. Uh you you'll notice that on the second page of the uh general fund balance status report that the unassigned fund balance uh near the bottom there is uh negative by approximately $300,000. Uh this is a transitory situation that will uh write itself in in July uh due to June being the the lowest cash flow month for for the district and all pretty much all districts in the state. And so uh once we receive that increased uh portionment in July and August uh you'll see that that will turn positive before the end of the fiscal year. Capital projects incumbrances have increased significantly um in preparation for payment on our summer projects that I'm sure
008you're all seeing work being worked on throughout the district. It's fun to see all that happening. And debt service fund uh has those June bond interest payments uh shown shown there um for June that um will be basically the last payment for the fiscal year. We'll receive some additional taxes throughout the summer, but uh debt service as far as expenditures is pretty much done. And then uh ASB fund ESB fund shows typical revenues and expenditures. Did I do that right? Yes. Hard to see. Um for um shows typical revenues and expenditures for this time of year and then transportation vehicle fund, our last budgeted fund um has very little little activity uh for the for the remainder of the year actually until those buses that you see encumbered there are received in the fall. Do
009we know when that should be done? Uh we don't have an exact date yet, but um hopefully in September, but definitely during in the fall. And then our budget capacity report um is as expected. Uh most of the June capacity changes have uh had revenues to offset those costs. And then our food services report continues to show expected revenues and expenditures for this time of year. That is the last page. So, but I can answer any questions that you might have. >> The 7% do off the top. You have a ballpark idea of what that is. Dollars. Well, what happened was we received some additional uh funding that occurred uh with the legislative session. They gave us $50 per FTE uh and they actually gave that to us in June. And then um so a
010lot of the amount that they uh held back was brought back by this additional $50 per pupil. So all in all we were reduced about net 125 to 150,000. >> Okay. >> And this um participation for the food service that's like summer school and our summer feeding program. >> The June is mostly the um just the end of the school year. Okay. And then uh usually during the summer we'll have a little note at the bottom that discusses the uh the summer >> and we'll get that next month. >> Yeah. Of July and August parts we have those numbers. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you Ruth. >> That's the end of the superintendent report today. >> Thank you superintendent of an hour to now move on to the consent agenda. Anyone in attendance
011will speak to the items contained in the consent agenda and only those items contained in the consent agenda at this time. This is not the portion of the meeting for open public comment on items outside of the consent agenda. That will be coming up soon. Are there any board directors who wish to pull any items from the consent agenda for discussion? Are there anyone in attendance that would like to speak to any of the items? the consent agenda online. >> Okay. Seeing no hands, then is there a motion to approve consent agenda item 1 through >> by Director Evans and second by Director King? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose say no. >> That passes unanimously. Okay, that then brings us to public comments and we only have one. >> I don't
012see uh this gentleman in attendance. >> Okay, thank you. >> Okay, items uh topics scheduled for board discussion. Uh we have four items. First one is the approval. The first reading of board policy 34210 discrimination. Any discussion on that >> 3210, right? 3210. >> Correct. >> Okay. Then we have consensus to move that on to a second reading. Item number two, the approval of the first reading on board policy 5010. Make this bigger to get non-discrimination and affirmative action. Any discussion on that consensus to move that to the second reading? Item number three, approve the first reading board policy 5260, personnel records. Any discussion on that policy? Consensus to move that to a second reading. Okay. Item number four is our board vacancy. Um we need to replace director Foster who resigned effective the 1st
013of August. and you have before you um some draft material, the invitation to apply for the school board director for district 4. um the vacancy on the standard Nino school board that would be going out there and the application to fill the board of director vacancy district 4 that we have used in the past for um when director Christopherson resigned and when director Myers resigned and it's the same we've been using all along and then there's a proposed timeline at the end there And I think we need to decide how long of a period we want to keep that open for people to apply. Um either two weeks or 3 weeks uh typically. So discussion on filling the board vacancy. >> Uh I think with it being summer and prime vacation time for everybody to
014be out, I think the longer the window the better. So my uh suggestion would be 3 weeks um just again to give people the opportunity if they're out of town or anything like that. Um that would be my two cents. >> Okay. Thank you, director. Director Murray, >> I agree. >> Director King, >> I'm okay with three >> and I am also agreeing to three weeks there. So um and we're okay using the previous form that we've used before. Yeah, I'm I'm happy to use this form. I've also asked um for a little bit of a language change. There was an or in one of the statements and so we're going to fix that because um it should be under the certificate cert uh certifying language. >> Okay. at the bottom. >> So, some of
015the United States and the state of Washington and the registered voter either in the school district or >> and the Yes, it needs to be someone residing in district 4. >> Correct. >> We're all in agreement on making that change. >> Um, I had a question. So on question number two, it says, "What do you perceive are the most critical issues facing the board of directors?" Um, while I agree that that's probably a great question, um, could we also add something about maybe like what do we think are the critical issues facing the district? Um, I don't see anything like I see how could you effectively, but I guess I'd kind of like to get at where they >> Yeah. where they see >> what would be some issues or some opportunities or you know
016what I mean? Like does that I don't know how to express exactly what it is, but like what do you what do they think are the problems with the district? I think we all have an idea of what we think is the biggest problem, but >> so growth opportunities for the district as a whole of course as opposed to just the board >> both. >> Okay. >> Could could we add like a like a part two like a subset >> an and? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Like we can make that adjustment. >> Yeah. >> Superintendent's in agreement to that. Do we have consensus to make that change as well? >> Yes. >> Okay. We have consensus there. Thank you, Director Evans. Okay. Any other discussion on the board vacancy? We have the timeline there that
017was recommended and we use the 3 week. So the application period will be open from August 6th through August 26th. Can we um agree that after the three So if we agree to the three weeks now, so once we have the applicants in, can we agree that we will solicit like send out an email soliciting multiple time slots for these other steps along the way so that the directors can check their schedules and make sure that the time selected are conducive for everybody? Okay. Um, >> so like instead of saying like it's on the 26th, so once we have those, we say here are once we have our applicants, it's like we need here's three times to select from. Vote for the ones that's the most convenient for you. So that way we have a
018consensus um of availability because we have a history of unilaterally designing days and times. And so I I would just like to make sure that there's some input put in or at least some understanding that some of us work and have to have a little bit of flexibility. >> I think we'll leave that up to staff who normally send out a request for the invitation to find the best time for that. You can do that. >> Yeah. Knowing that the nominations will close on the 26, we can send out um recommendations for uh a survey for when dates for the following um points along the along the process would be >> I appreciate that very much. >> Thank you, Director Evans. Other comments on the board vacancy? Okay, hearing none, we'll move on to board
019director's report on business Kentucky. Starting with director Evans. >> Uh goodness, it's been kind of a whirlwind of summer slash crazy, so I don't know that I have a whole lot to report on. I will say it is primary day, so make sure you get your ballots turned in, vote. Uh we as a district may not have anything on the ballot, but there are a lot of uh government entities in our area that do. So, make sure your voice is heard in the primary, not just the uh general election. So, get those turned in by 8:00 p.m. today. Thank you, >> Director Murray. >> Um, I agree with Director Evans that summer is kind of coming and gone and I'm kind of not quite sure where it went. Um, but I do I do really
020love going and to the parade and the fair and seeing everyone come back together. It's it's like the start of it's not the first day of school, but it's definitely that uh first step towards preparing for coming back to school, everyone reconnecting after being gone for summer. And um I just love seeing all that and congratulations to our our high school students that won one of the trophies during the parade. Um so yeah, I mean this weekend was great seeing seeing lots of people at the fair and community and that. So um that's all I have. >> Thank you very much, Director King. Yeah. Well, I've been reviewing payables for the last seven months, learning a lot, and I'm impressed with how our system works. >> Thank you. And just a reminder, uh, the caring
021place is this month has opportunities for people that need school supplies and that. Uh, so I would just point that out. And tonight is National Night Out um, here in Standwood from 6:00 to 8:00. uh over behind the police station by the train station there and I believe the school district will have representation there. So, I'll let you comment on that. >> Great. Yes, we'll have uh representation with the school bus uh at National Night Out tonight um downtown and also out at uh Tererry's Corner where Kamina will be represented as well. So, we'll have representation at both those sites. We like to like to see everyone out there to celebrate uh where neighborhoods come together uh for public safety. Um, we have another celebration from the San Area Foundation. They just awarded the district
022a $29,000 $500 grant uh dollar grant. Um, and this is in support of kindergarten ready on the kindergarten readiness initiative and it'll be used for um purchasing library books for our prek uh students with so um very thankful to staff always but especially around this uh initiative. Um, we actually felt like it was the first day of school around here in this office yesterday. So, I definitely understand what you're saying with with regard to the fair and the parade and kind of the turning of the page uh in in summer. So, um busy time uh with the fair and the parade, but also as you know around construction uh in the district. Uh thank you to um our capital projects team uh Ruth Floyd and Jeff Silverman uh for keeping those moving along. you might
023see if you live in the Cedar Home neighborhood, you see the roof already going on, which is a good thing to see. Um, and paving happening at our transportation headquarters. Uh, so that's ahead of schedule and uh, we appreciate that. So, thanks for those teams. Um, and we're looking forward to um, starting to see students uh, around the building. We got summer school running right now. About 150 high school students uh engaged in summer school at the high school and 38 plus um third graders at Tuny Elementary uh getting right up to speed before the start of school. So we're we're thankful for that. So thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. All right. There being no further business, the August 5th, 2025 regular board meeting is hereby adjourned.