001Yeah. Secretary. All right. Thank you. [Music] The little thing apparently [Music] Yeah, Right. Copy this. So now call to order the July 1, 2025 school board meeting of the Stanwood Paino School District Board of Directors. Board directors present are Shriber King and Murray. 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 the agenda will be called upon to make their comments at that time which is near the end of the meeting. Would you please stand for the flag salute? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible,
002with liberty and justice for all. You have the agenda before you for the July 1, 2025 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to the agenda? Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the July 1, 2025 regular school board meeting as written? So moved. Moved by Director King. Second. Seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That passes unanimously. The board has had the opportunity to review the June 17, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the June 17, 2025 regular board meeting? Moved by Director Murray. Second by Director King. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That passes unanimously. It is time for the
003superintendence report. Thank you. Uh the first item on the superintendence report is the donations which you can see on the screen in front of you. Um a healthy list of donations which I'll just uh say once again we're very appreciative of our community for continuing to support uh students and staff in the number of ways you see before you. Uh the first donation is $1,58.40 40 cents from the Stanwood Elementary PTO to cover Stanwood Elementary transportation field trip cost to the Imagined Children's Museum and Arrowhead Ranch. Second um donation is for $1,548.20 from this Twin City Elementary PTA to cover the TCE school transportation field trip cost to a number of places. North County Fire uh station, Andrews Hay Farm, C Point, Kangaroo Farm, Riverside Lanes, and Freedom Park. all different grade levels in which
004they participated in. Uh number three is $14,429 from the Twin City Elementary PTA to assist with the cost of Twin City Elementary fifth grade uh camp at CP camp Seymour. And I just want to call out our appreciation for this large donation again, which will be ever more important as uh funding um from the state for outdoor education is um no longer available. Uh four is $887.80 for the Cedar Home PTO to cover the Cedar Home elementary school field trip transportation cost to Imagine Children's Museum. Number five, $757.40 40 cents from the friends of Community Island State Parks that covered the EBE school transportation field trip to uh the Community Island State Park. And finally, number six, $1,713.25 for the Stanwood High School band booster club to cover transportation costs to the uh for the
005band field trip to the famous Apple Blossom Parade. So, thank you to all of our donors. Um we appreciate the support in what you can see is a number of different ways uh in and for the district. Next up on the superintendent report is Ruth Floyd who will present uh the 2025 2026 budget development update and summary report. Good afternoon. Our budget development update is for the 2526 budget and uh we encourage engagement in every uh aspect of our system including the budget and this is done through our monthly budget updates to you and the community as well as our um community advisory budget advisory committee meetings. Uh the budget cycle is uh before you and we are actually currently at the bottom of that uh cycle and our community and this includes um community
006feedback uh that was provided throughout the year for our budget advisory committee uh from our budget advisory committee. And um I'd also like to thank uh Bill Swernagen who is here and uh he and his and the fiscal team are integral to this process that you see here and uh we have completed the draft budget that's attached to the agenda and we will continue to refine it and uh we'll let you know of any changes during the budget hearing process. Um, moving up to the top, the board will have the opportunity to adopt the budget in August, uh, which sets the expenditure capacity or what we call appropriations, uh, for each of our five budgeted funds. Uh, this is a plan that provides uh, flexibility to make adjustments throughout the year uh, beginning with the
007fall when we know actual enrollment. But it the budget is a plan This is our um adoption process and timeline. You can see there the state laws that uh govern our budget process and uh the advertisement dates as well as the board meeting on August 19 when the budget hearing and adoption will occur. General fund I'd like to start out with enrollment because that is such a significant portion of the revenues that we receive. uh from the state. Um we uh it we're budgeting 4,87 including running start, open doors, and transition to kindergarten. Uh you might note on transition to kindergarten, there's an asterisk there at the bottom. Beginning in 2526, the state legislature has limited our enrollment that we can um submit to. It's capped at 37 FTE. So um even If we have
008additional um sections or additional enrollment, we will only receive funding for that 37 FTE. It was capped at the prior year enrollment, but the time at which they kind of looked at that uh amount that they were capping us at uh we were at 37 and they also rounded down. So that's why you see that one difference. Um as you can see the the total is about 16 FTE over uh the prior year and uh elementary enrollment is expected to decrease and then uh high school is anticipated incre to increase and as you know we're kind of having that bubble that's going through through the system. Next is revenues and all the categories of revenues are expected to increase except local non- tax. The non- tax local re uh reduction is mostly due to food
009services uh at the elementary schools where um where there will be fewer parent paid meals uh and there is an increase in state general purpose uh because or I'm sorry in state special purpose because the uh the state will fund those additional two schools and so that's why you see a reduction in local non tax and there's another increase in state special purpose for that shift. Uh and then the here's a graph that kind of shows the percentages of all the different categories as a total of all of our revenues and revenues in total has increased about 5% as expenditures has as well. And you can see um the majority of our funding does come from the state with a significant and noteworthy over 16% coming from our local levy. And we look at expenditures
010in a couple of different ways. This is a program summary and uh the changes accommodate salary increases as well as enrollment changes. You'll know um that the budget we're comparing this to the budget for 2425, but we did have an enrollment increase in 2425. And so you're not only seeing that increase for uh cost increases, salary increases, but also the enrollment increase that occurred during the year in 2425. Uh that also applies to the state um special education as well as other other categorical and you'll note that other programs um the although the dollar amount isn't much this this percentage increase is quite high and that is uh related to um community donations uh for school supplies from the Snowish County Area Foundation. as well as insurance reimbursements. The state has said that we needed
011to move uh any insurance reimbursements to um other sources rather than a rather than um a basic education cost. So that is that difference. It's just a shift and there's a revenue offset for both of those items. and then a graphical way of looking at those different uh categories of our expenditures percent of total expenditures. And then another way to look at expenses is the object summary. You'll note certificated salaries, classified salaries and benefits. uh those have increased uh with not only the cost increases associated with salaries and benefits, but also um again that enrollment increase that we had had some offsetting expenses in 2425 school year. And so you're seeing that change as well because our expenses in the area of salaries went up during 2425. So you're seeing both that as well as
012the 2526 increases. And then supplies uh include uh additional uh tech devices because some are coming to end of life. Uh purchase services includes uh running start. We had did have a fairly significant increase in enrollment at running start and so you'll see um that increased cost. It's a flow through as well as fuel and tires in the supplies area. uh soft and then in the purchase services area software subscriptions uh some legal fees risk pool contributions and and the like. Uh and then capital out lay some capacity to purchase a car if if needed. And here again is a way to graphical way to look at those objects. And again this most significant portion of our budget is salaries. uh classified certificated and employee salaries. I didn't mention going back here I should have
013mentioned the employee benefits why that decreased that is uh because retirement rates the state reduced retirement rates. So that is a reduction on the revenue side as well as the expenditure side but you're not seeing it as significantly on the uh revenue side because it's kind of mixed in with all the other revenues that we receive. whereas here it's called out specifically in in the object summary. And then to summarize our general fund, uh we anticipate the beginning fund balance to be a pro to start the year August for September 1, 2025 at approximately 7.9 million. We have revenues and expenditures that incre both increased about 5%. uh revenues uh are under expenditures by about 1.4 million which is approximately what we had anticipated during our uh previous budget update related to the reduced educational
014plan and then uh leaving an ending fund balance on August 31 of 2026 estimated at $6.5 million. Uh after red taking out the restricted committed and assigned fund balance that leaves unassigned at 5.8 8 million which is 6.2% in revenues and that is uh well within that board minimum of 5%. And here's a look at our fund balance trend with that 6.9% of total fund balance uh anticipated at the end of the next budget year and 6.2% unassigned. These are our fund balance categories. I've spoken about these before. Um, we res we have legally have to restrict some of our some of our fund balance including unspent grants and other legally restricted items. Uh, currently we don't commit any funds. Is that something basically the math um after you reduce all of that from your
015total fund balance and again that includes our minimum fund balance reserve. We have four other funds that we budget and we never want to leave them out. Associated Student Body brings uh much joy to our students as we've heard from our our board uh student representatives. Uh we anticipate the fund bal beginning fund balance to be about 600,000 with uh re expenditures outpacing revenues um by 72,000. And we had some conversations uh Bill did with uh the associated student bodies of the schools, secondary schools that we budget ASB for and encouraged them to, you know, make sure that they spend the money on the students who are raising those funds. So that's why you see a bit of a spend down in fund balance on the in the ASB fund. Debt service fund summary u
016anticipating about 5.2 million in beginning fund balance. We have revenues that come in in the form of tax uh tax receipts and then expenditures that go out in the form of principal and and interest on two outstanding bond issues leaving an estimated $5.5 million at the end of 2526. Capital projects uh we anticipate about 3.4 4 million uh with some revenues as well as a significant amount of expenditures for the expired levy projects uh state match funded projects that we've discussed. Um and uh a portion of that is also uh some capacity in case there's an emergency need for something like a roof or a boiler that uh comes kind of out of the blue and we need to rem maintain some flexibility in order to respond to that kind of thing. And so if
017we don't need to spend that money, we will most likely carry that over and you'll see that um again budgeted for the following uh fiscal year because we need to maintain some ability to respond if we need to. Transportation vehicle fund. Uh this we h currently have an outstanding purchase order for three buses and so that money will carry over in the amount of about 800,000 based on our the depreciation money that we're going to get from the state on August 31st of this year. Uh it also uh provides some ability uh or some capacity to uh purchase additional buses next year that would then be either received near the end of the year of 2526 or into the 2627 school year. But this gives us the ability to spend the at least the ones
018that are already on order that will arrive after September 1st. And that's all I have for you on uh the budget update. We will um there may be some changes to the budget. Um I will go over those with you during the hearing process if there are any changes. And I'm open for any questions if you have any. Can you talk about um federal funding and what the trend has been in regards to how much federal funding we've been receiving over the last several years versus this coming year? Yes. So the the major decrease in federal funding actually was this current year. And so uh the amount of federal funds that we're planning for in this budget is about the same. And um but keep in mind that if something happens with the federal government
019where uh grants are reduced then we will have to respond to that and make reductions in expenditures because the revenues will be lower than what we have budgeted here. And so we have the capacity to spend the money but if the grants don't come then we would respond. revenues would go down and expenditures would need to go down or shift the expenditures to another area uh of either categorical funding or find areas to maintain the expenses uh in basic ed. So what would you say the difference in percentage of federal funding over last year versus this year? last year versus this year. I don't you know about the percentage but over the course of the pandemic area we um there was about 5 million four to5 million that we had received over the course of
020those four year four to five years and um that has we gradually been spending that gradually the revenues went away and then this year was the final year where we had no COVID related federal funding Thank you. Thank you, Ruth. We appreciate your work on this as well as your team and in and we can see um in your timeline that this is a fullear process. It never stops. So, we appreciate the work that your team has done on that. Uh next is the May financial report which Ruth will present. Okay. As we're planning for next year, we're also reviewing uh monthly our um our financial status. And uh this is the executive summary for May 2025. uh we had actual average FTE enrollment of 4,655 uh which is about 51 over budget and about
02127 I believe over uh above last year. Um, a portion of it is paid at a lower rate due uh in May due to districts receiving spring tax collections. And um and then next month uh I will talk more about it next month, but the legislature uh provided or um basically needed to decrease the amount the percentage that they're providing an aortionment in June because of the way that their budget lid basically their appropriations uh is uh needs to happen. And so June is the end of their fiscal year. So they actually needed to move some of the money that they give us for a portionment from June into July. And so you will see that next month. This is the manager's report. Um it has about 5.6% of the expenditure budget capacity remaining after
022expenditures as well as salary and benefit incumbrances. And then this is our uh fund balance uh list and uh monthly May general fund balance it was at 7.7 million. Uh it's about 8.6% of total revenues. We anticipate June to be our lowest month of the year as it has been in past years. You'll see that trend on the on the table. And then because of a portionment and the timing of of taxes as well as aortionment payments. And then this is our object report which we discussed when we went over the budget uh update uh those salaries, benefits, supplies etc. And then this is our general fund uh budget status and it is uh as as we talked about earlier 7.7 million the end of May and then capital projects uh didn't have much activity
023in May uh but that will definitely increase over the summer with those projects that were you all know about and then debt service fund uh reflect Flex May tax receipts in preparation for that June bond interest payment that we will make on our bond issues. ASB uh shows typical revenues and expenditures as prior years. And then transportation vehicle fund not much activity there uh and you will see that in congrance but that won't uh come through as expenses until after September 1st the next year. And this is our budget capacity report. Um not nothing unusual there. Our food service program report uh continues to show uh that the budgeted over estimated state revenues. Um and then our our um a budget average daily participation at the bottom of that as well. I believe that's all
024we have for May financials. Happy to answer any questions on this as well. I'll just I'll just say that um I appreciate being able to weather um issues I'll call them when we don't get a full portion of it from the state like we're the June July bullet. Um, so the the just how we've positioned ourselves to be able to weather things like that. Um, I'm hoping to continue to do that is um the one of the many reasons why we want to fund balance to help fund balance. Thank you. Thank you, Ruth. Appreciate it. Next up, I'd like to present a brief um summary of the strategic plan and the community serve us the community survey that happened uh this March and and a reflection on uh those two items. You'll notice the new
025slide template. It's uh year three of the strategic plan, year three of a new slide template um always reflecting our promise in the bottom lefthand corner um of empowering students learn in a safe and inclusive uh setting and preparing them for the future of their choice. You'll also notice that we're going to highlight growth and achievement uh several times today. The three stages of engagement that we've talked about the last three years throughout the strategic plan um are shown before you and are continue to be focus areas within the strategic plan. Just a reminder uh for those that weren't involved with it, our strategic plan was developed and adopted by the board in August of 2022 and had input from over 150 uh community members um that are listed in the full 44 page report
026that you can find online if you'd like. Um but just to call out that uh these three items, these three focus areas, uh none more important than the other continue to be items we'll continue to focus on throughout the the final two years of this plan as we move towards um a revision in 2027. Those are student learning, instructional effectiveness, and empowering infrastructure. So we would be remiss to not mention our uh commitments and these commitments were developed by that that committee that uh worked on the uh strategic plan. Some of you uh sitting out here today uh were part of that work and we still appreciate that. And that is um the four commitments of early learning uh engagement, achievement and uh future ready graduates. And and you can see that um in early
027learning, we talk about uh things like readiness for kindergarten and um you know academic competencies that that students need in the earliest years to be prepared uh for their future of their choice later on. And then you know um our future rate graduates that have um skills to be ready for the work ahead of them. I want to talk briefly about our community survey. This is the third year of our community survey that happens every March. Um we had nearly 500 respondents this year and wanted to highlight a few of the um results that we we found. Um these are going to show that the commitments that we have established in our strategic plan are still priority for the community and um is what we center our feedback and focus on uh for moving forward
028as well. So we we see that we have a a satisfaction is rising moving from uh 270 almost 71% of respondents satisfied with the quality of education provided up from 67% in 24 and 64% in uh 20 uh 23. Um performance perceptions have improved as well. Ratings for uh teacher quality, student safety, and neighborhood school performance have all increased to over 70% of those that responded. And this really um gives credence to support an opportunity for potentially combining or focusing in on goals two and three uh in the strategic plan that result in a more streamlined three goal approach to the strategic plan potentially. This data supports that tightening up of those of those goals in our next um next revision of the plan. So we have talked um extensively I would say about the
029commitments and what we call the bookends and um I mentioned previously the bookend of early learning and that is that we have students uh coming to school um prepared to engage from the moment they walk in the door but also before the grade three um which is a kind of benchmark year uh that they are uh prepared both not only academically but socially and emotionally as well um and have those compet competencies to move to move forward. The other end of the book end is our future ready graduates and um we had the opportunity to see uh our graduates in action this past month uh both at Stan High School and at Lincoln Hill High School and you can see a picture of of that here in front of you. One of the one of
030the items I want to highlight as far as data is with regard to data is the data we collected from over 170 graduates um leaving the system and that is their their their contact information. So we can really determine by um contacting them at 6 months, one year, a year and a half and two years out if they were future ready graduates if they've engaged in what um their um high school and beyond plan said they would. and um what those markers look like for them. So this is a a new a new um lane for data gathering for our graduates. We do gather data in CTE in some special programs and um with College Board as well, but this will be a more local approach to that book end. Um you may have seen
031the um last of the four-part series of what we have done along the way to bring data into and measure data around our strategic plan. And so we're going to play this video for you um right now and just in case you missed it or for another look at it uh how that happens in the schools each day as we head into the final stretch of the school year. It's time teachers and students pull everything together and finish strong. We've learned a ton to share. Math, science, writing, problem solving. We've grown in ways that go beyond just the grades. Teachers have been using what we've done in class and on tests to figure out what's working and how to help us finish strong. This last quarter, it's our chance to build on everything we've done
032so far. Teachers routinely get together to look at data, make adjustments, offer extra support, and help us focus on what matters. Whether we're ahead or still catching up, they help us take that next step. For high schoolers like us, we know that there's more than just one way to graduate. We all have to earn credits and complete a high school and beyond plan. But when it comes to showing we're ready for life after high school, we've got options. Some students pass state tests, others take college level classes like running start or college in the high school. Some go to the SAT or ACT routes. There are other hands-on paths, too, like CTE courses, real world projects, or even the ASPAD for military prep. No matter which path you're on, make sure you're checking in with
033your counselor and keeping your grades in mind. Graduation isn't onesizefits all. This last stretch isn't just about tests and projects. It's about how everything's come together. Our teachers and staff have been planning, adjusting, and building in time for review and support to make sure we're ready. We're almost there. We're going to keep going, keep growing, and finish the year proud of what we've accomplished together. Thank you. Thanks for uh putting those videos together, uh Evan Caldwell, and highlighting what's happening inside the classroom. Um and also highlighting the the different paths that that uh our future graduates have to demonstrating their readiness for graduation. The last slide I want to um look at twists back to uh some feedback that we've received um and the insights that our community have uh left us with that uh
034is called out in the in the middle of this page around um the desire for more arts and enrichment opportunities. um making sure that there's inclusive practices that calls for smaller class sizes and stronger support within those uh classes and and also desire for uh education that honors uh diverse passions uh and not just readiness uh through test scores. So, how do we um take that feedback from our community and make an adjustment potentially to the uh strategic plan which is a living document um and move forward into our final three final two years and you can see some of those on the screen in front of you as well. I think it provides an opportunity to tighten up goals two and three um into uh the engagement and achievement. That could look like measuring
035distinctly participation in the arts and extracurriculars uh growth across different academic indicators and also some student perception data which we intend to gather from not only our graduates but uh our students who are still on on site. So, uh, this is a brief update since we're now, uh, one month away from being three years into our strategic plan and making sure that we're using our community feedback, um, around our commitments to, uh, both students, staff, and community and seeing if there's a a way to enhance and um, highlight uh, the goals in that last phase. Any questions? Okay. Um, it's become tradition that I have one item that I didn't put on the agenda in the superintendent's report. So, I'd like to take the the liberty liberty to do that uh right now. And that
036is to uh acknowledge that Dr. Fria Smith is uh on the um day one here in the district uh back after a couple decades of being in the district. I just want to read a brief bio of of Dr. Smith before I before I move on. Throughout her career, Dr. Smith has led statewide initiatives in special education, MTSS, and inclusionary practices. Dr. Smith will be our new um executive director of special services. um not to say replacing Robert Haskell, but filling that uh that seat. Uh she has worked closely with OSPI uh with the Washington State Legislature uh and other agencies to shape educational policy, improve access and build more responsive systems for students furthest from educational justice. Her leadership is grounded in strength-based approach, collaborative approach, and belief in moral imperative to create equitable
037opportunities for all learners. In addition to her extensive experience at the district and regional level, uh Dr. Smith previously served as superintendent of the Monroe School District, chief academic officer in Pialup and executive director in Muckleino and Mr. and most recently at our educational service district as a assistant superintendent. Um and we're happy that she's returning to the Stan Community School District uh where she began her career as a special education teacher. So Dika do Dr. Smith, thank you and welcome. We have uh some flowers for you and we just welcome you. That's the end of the superintendent report. Thank you, Superintendent Noel. We'll now move on to the consent agenda. Anyone in attendance may speak to the items contained in the consent agenda and only those items contained in the consent agenda at this
038time. This is not the portion of the meeting for open open public comment on items outside of the consent agenda. Open public comment is coming up soon. Are there any board directors who wish to pull any item from the consent agenda for discussion? I would like to pull number four, please. Number four. Any other items? Okay. Are there any people in attendance who wish to speak to any of these consent agenda items? If so, raise your hand so we can invite you to the podium. Is there anyone online? No. Okay. Okay. Seeing no, raise hands. Is there a motion to approve agenda items 1 through 3 and 5 through 41 15? Is there a second? Okay. Moved by Director King, seconded by Director Murray. All in favor of approving consent agendas items one through three
039and 5 through 15 say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Uh is there discussion on item number four? So I pulled the YMCA uh contract for the swimming pool for this next fiscal year. And I would like to probably We have um our superintendent looked into the agreed fee increases. Um, as United Way is a community partner, um, I'm wondering, you know, as we are in a budget crunch, why it was necessary for a increase in the rental fees of the back lanes and whether or not we can um adjust that, I'm happy to look into that and uh, report back at the next meeting. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve consent agenda item number four? I don't think we are approving it at this point because we need additional information from
040report back. We could table it until Yeah, I would like to table until we get further information. Okay, there's a motion to table. Is there a second to that? just had a question comment. It looks like the increase was about 5%. Is that correct? Okay. Which is similar to the rate of inflation. [Music] Is there a second to that motion to table? Is a second required to the motion to table? Second's required motion to to table motion. Yes. Okay. Is there a second to that motion? Okay. Second. That motion fails. Yeah. Now, now we see if there's a motion to vote. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve consent agenda item number four. So moved by Director King. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second that. All in favor of approving incentives on
041item number four say I. I. Any oppose say no. I oppose. Okay. Motion carries. Okay. There is no old business to discuss. Public comment. Citizens wishing to address the board are asked to submit online requests using the public comment link on our website or by email 2 hours prior to the board meeting start times. For those attending the meeting in person request forms are available in the boardroom for submission prior to meeting start time. Citizens who wish to provide documents. The board directors will hand them to the recording secretary for distribution. After the meeting, the board president will call upon individuals that requested to speak during the public comment section of the agenda. Do we have anyone? We have no one. Okay. New business to discuss. We have the one item, the board vacancy here.
042And I think you were given a proposed timeline and a similar form to what we used last time for the application. I don't think they received anything. Oh, okay. Um, the application to fill the board director vacancy for district 4 is basically the same one we used last time. Is there any discussion on that? I can't discuss something that I haven't received. Well, this is just open discussion. If you think we should add things to it or I don't even have a copy of it anymore. Okay. Thank you. Um, and we have a proposed uh timeline beginning. Uh, we have already confirmed the vacancy and publicized the vacancy. Uh, we're announced a vacancy effective August 1. Um we will then move into an application period, screen the applicants, conduct interviews and public hear and then
043in executive session we will deliberate on the candidates select an appointee notify the candidate candidates and then do a oath of office and orientation probably in September. So is there any further discussion on this or so we continue the discuss and um our next meeting will be the first meeting of August. I think this needs to be brought back forward at our next meeting the 1 of August when director Evans is also here to have input because I don't as far as the agenda item there was no link there was no information. All it said was board vacancy. It didn't it didn't tell us what we were going to be discussing today. And the fact that director Evans is out of town at the moment, it feels very uh strategic in your moving trying to
044move this forward without proper input from all board members. Well, we're not moving it forward. We're opening it opening it for discussion at this time. There will be more discussion on it and then we can make a motion in August on whatever timeline we want to agree on. Okay. Well, I would like to make sure that you send us whatever information that you have currently that you're talked about today so that I can actually read it. Okay. Um, so we will continue the board vacancy at our next discussion board director's report on business conducted. I'll start with Can I ask Sorry to interrupt. Apologize. I just want to add for clarity. Um because the director's director Foster's resignation is effective August 1st is is just so the staff here is clear on timelines that we
045we wouldn't do anything with it until there's more discussion in August. Right. We cannot fill the vacancy until after I heard the effective date of her resignation. Right. We won't then because the next meeting is until August 5th. We wouldn't then post her application on the first when her seat begins vacant. Is that we would have to determine the timeline and the application process at our meeting on August 5th. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for clarifying that. Director Murray. Um yes. Um, so I wanted to just touch base on the reason why I pulled YMCA. Um, you know, I in the community we we see a lot of nonprofits really kind of stepping up to help support school districts at this time. And so I question the YMCA in wanting to increase rates when school
046districts are hurting. Um, and you're seeing the YMCA spending a lot of money in Snowish County in general, investing in, you know, new camps, new buildings, and the like. Um, so I I'm just wanting to know if we are true partners and we're giving access to the YMCA and not charging them fees for building usage. Why that can't be reciprocated and we keep a flat rate. I believe we should be paying for our lanes and we're using the YMCA and the resources for uh lifeguards and the like, but at the same time we are partners in this work and um it feels like to some degree it's taking being taken advantage of. So I just want to have that question answered um and see if maybe it can be revisited. Uh other things I I
047got to host a uh workforce lunch and learn. Um and actually I wanted to thank all of our CTE teachers and counselors and staff that um attended because it was all about apprenticeship programs for our youth and our pathways. And so I really appreciated seeing all of them on the webinar. So thank you. Thank you for your comments there. We can see if the why could renegotiate that or make some accommodations there, but I didn't want to delay um our agreements going into our new fiscal year here. Director King, comments on business conducted? Nothing. And as always, we'll give Superintendent Openell the last word. I have I have a couple um I'll just say highlights that um I want to make sure go out there today. We have a Stanwood High School student who is
048representing the uh technology student association for St High School uh in Nashville right now at the national TSA contest. It means Poppy Hansen and Poppy um was placed third place in the nation uh on a event called transportation modeling. So congrats to her. That's not an easy feat um by any stretch of the imagination. So, uh well deserved recognition for her recognition for her her work and um you know it it's it may be a genetic thing because her dad is the TSA teacher at the high school. So, it's just a a a great uh representation of Stanwood High School in the community. Uh, the other thing I'd like to point out is I just received um before this meeting an email from Superintendent Superintendent Rake Doll and this um this letter is addressed to
049to me and the district and it celebrates the Washington State Patrol's uh annual bus inspection. Um and for the past 2 years, we've met the strict criteria to receive this letter of achievement, which means that we passed at a rate of 100% of our buses. And that um that work goes to, you know, that that celebration goes to the whole team at transportation, but namely our our transportation supervisor and our our mechanics who are in the shop. Um if you're ever down there during inspection, you know, it is taken very seriously. And the amount of times that you hear safety is our number one priority with regard to uh our buses and our fleet um is not just something that's said. So congratulations to that team uh for making sure that our our fleet and
050our buses are are safe. And it's um it's nice to be recognized by OSPI and the state patrol as well. Lastly, I just want to um call out if you're driving around the district, you're going to see lots of um commercial vehicles in the in the lots at our schools. You might have noticed our whole fleet of buses minus the ones that are parked uh out on command island in the scan middle school parking lot. That is because um the part of the SEAX decision to prioritize repaving the transportation parking lot after 20 plus years um is happening this summer. That project will start on the 7th of July. Um and uh we figured those buses right there, a lot of people have eyes on them. So uh that's happening. our uh Atlatti Elementary climatization
051project where we're reooking at the insulation and balancing of that HVAC system is is currently happening to try and mitigate any future freezes there. Uh we'll have the Cedar Home Elementary roof project starting in mid July uh as well. And so I just want to thank the the capital projects team Jeff Jorgensson maintenance department Kevin Cruz and and Ruth Floyd for um overseeing that that work. There's a lot happening uh in in the district right now. So, thanks to that team uh for seeing that through. Thank you. And the county has promised that they will completely work on Marine Drive before our lessons need to travel that end. All right. There being no further business, the July 1, 2025 regular board meeting is hereby.