001This is wild. I'll now call to order the April 15, 2025 school board meeting of the Stanford school district board of directors. All our directors are here. Director King Foster, Murray Evans, and our two student representatives are here. So, we have total full house tonight with our board. Today, we're 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 join me in the pledge of [Music] allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation
002under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We have the agenda before you for the April 15, 2025 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to the agenda? Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the April 15, 2025 regular school board meeting as written? Moved by Director King. Second. Seconded by Director Evans. Evans. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That passes unanimous. The board has had the opportunity to review the March 18th, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the March 18, 2025 regular board meeting? Moved by Director King. Second. Seconded by Director Foster. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That passes unanimously. The board
003has also had the opportunity to review the March 18th, 2025 board study session minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the March 18, 2025 board study session? Second. Moved by Director Evans, seconded by Director King. All those in favor say I. All in those say no. That passes unanimously. It is time for our superintendent report. Okay. Thank you. Uh the first item on the agenda is donations that will presented by our student representatives to the school board, Luke and Elizabeth. Elizabeth. $92710 from the booster club to cover the transportation costs of the Utilotti Elementary School field trip to the Stamwood Cinemas in this Philwamish Tribe Community Center. $1,00 $1,695 from the Utili Booster Club to purchase mystery science curriculum. $1,277 from the Utselotti
004ladies aid to purchase flexible seating fidgets and art supplies for Uselotti Elementary School. $463.80 from the Twin City Elementary PTA to cover the transportation cost of the Twin City Elementary School field trip to the Stilig Community Center. $486.80 from the Cedar Home PTO to cover the transportation costs of the Cedar Home Elementary School field trip to the Skilwamish Community Center. $243.40 from the Stanwood Elementary PTO to cover the transportation cost of the Stanwood Elementary School field trip to the Good Storage Community Center. a $2,000 grant from the Stamwood Commo Area Foundation for Cedar Home Elementary School kindergarten teachers to purchase supplemental materials for the Amplify curriculum. A donation was awarded to the Usilia Elementary Booster Club through the Olsen Family Foundation to purchase the Pacific Science Center on Wheels valued at $3,000 $3,800. A donation
005of $1,228.80 80 cents through the Stanwood Commino Area Foundation from the Floyd and Dolores Jones Endowed Fund to aid in the repair of the kiln for the Stanwood High School art department. Thank you to both of you. That nice job on that long list of donations. I think it says a lot about our community um and supporting the the students uh and staff in the district. As an FYI, uh these donations total $12,121.90 for this month, which is which is substantial. So, thank you once again uh to the community and these donors for that specifically. Um we're happy to have another round of shining star awards this week. As a reminder, this is one of the ways that we celebrate uh and keep our students at the center of the work that we do. These
006awards recognize students who are shining examples in their schools. So, first Stanwood Middle School assistant principal Holly Christmas will present the shining star for SMS. Thanks for the pressure. It wasn't already enough. Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for the opportunity to talk about Jaden Alvieri. Would you like to stand up with me so you can be appropriately, you know, a big word? We'll talk about it tomorrow. Okay. So, James Awesome sauce, uh, we could talk about a whole list of his amazingness, and I have it right here. But I thought to myself, self, what would best describe his attributes? And that would be a poem. And so, I did not write this poem. I I possibly had electronic aid in writing this poem, but I felt that and first off adorableness. But here
007we go. Good evening to the board and all gathered here. It's time for a moment we hold very dear to honor a student who truly stands tall with heart, joy, and kindness admired by all. Jaden Alfieri is our shining star, lighting the halls near and far. With a smile that's warm and a spirit so bright, he brings out the best in day or in night. He asks how you are and waits for the reply. A rare kind of care you just can't deny. From band to drama, from class to the court. In basketball too, he gives his full support. A leader, a listener, a friend through and through. Whatever he does, he sees it all through. He reminds us of pride in each choice that he makes. A model of kindness in all that it
008takes. So Jaden, we thank you for all that you do. Stanwood Middle School shines brighter because of you. Wherever you go, keep leading the way. You've more than earned this special day. Jake was nominated by many of his teachers and voted on by the staff. He's our TA. He's in a leadership class. He was with some band. He also um participated in basketball for the first time, right? over the second time this year and just he truly cares and he's got school spirit like nobody else. I would like to say I've been doing middle school work for a long time and every single spirit day I wind up taking his picture because I've seen nothing like it. Right? You know he always asks permission ahead of time. He does crazy stuff and he goes all
009out. Salmon High School, you are in for something. I think I see him in Spartacus on the picture there. And he loves being in Sparty and he'll just randomly one day any given moment I'll be looking around. I'm like, "Oh, so Jane decided to go put on Sparty." Okay, that makes no sense. Why would we do that right now? So, he's awesome. Great job. Is there anyone you want to uh introduce tonight, Jaden, that's here with you? my mom, my brothers, Jordan and Gabe, and my dad. Then my first grade teacher, Jane, there's some awards for you over here. So, you meet us over here. All right. All right. You're fine. Now it's perfect. The start was perfect. All right, J put you right in the middle. All right, I think that on this end
010I'll sit next to the back. No, just squeeze in everybody. All right, you good? You got him? Yeah, you're good. Your turn. Hold on. Let's make sure it's working. All right. One, two, three. Perfect. Got five. [Music] Next up is uh our principal for Samwood High School, Mr. Washington, up to present the shining star for uh Stanwood High School. I don't know if you have a poem with you, but there's other things happening. Great. Come up here with me. I tell you, that's a that's a tough act to follow. just so today we have Skyler Mo here and um I'm going to read some information from a teacher then I'll let you know who the teacher is or who the teacher was who submitted it. All right. Skyler is a tenacious worker who is authentic
011in her learning and making the most of her high school experience. She shows dedication and humility in everything she does as a student. Her involvement in the moderate school activities is quite impressive from being the lead editor of year of this year's yearbook in the state competitor to girls swimming leadership. In addition, she has created her own side business as a photographer where she has both senior photos and wedding photos reflecting a remarkable degree of initiative and healthy risk. On top of all of this, she's also employed by local YMCA. The balancing act she holds between work, school, and extra activities is a testament of her discip discipline and desire to achieve. She's willing to put herself out there and extend beyond school boundaries to represent the potential that every student can reach. I feel
012that Skylar represents the vision of what our school district aspires for each of our students to be. Skylar is a shining star in her humility, her dedication to future interest and engagement within the beyond our community. Mr. Sean Cunningham, current world problems teacher. All right. I will say we had at St. High School, I think we had about 10 11 nominees and she was unanimously chosen by the staff. So that's what they thought of you. So great job. Great job. Um I got my mom right there, my dad, my boyfriend goes to Arlington, but my one of my bosses, Aaron at the Y. Great place to work. And thank you, Mr. Washington. Miss Gungeon. I love this guy. We love you, Sky. No, I like I like like Evan, you know, I I I um
013take his pictures as inspiration a lot. Great. Well, congratulations. You have some a start to put up over here. [Music] Hi, this is my copy editor. [Music] Thank you. I love it. and a lovely flag that everybody wants to hang on the refrigerator, I'm sure. Right. Yes. Thank you. All right. Do the map of what side? On this side, I guess. Yep. All right. Hey, Mike, you want to get over here on this side? Sure. Just cuz it's getting close to that TV over there. All right. Now, squeeze in a little bit tighter. Unlike your senior photos, you probably do a really good job at. There we go. Good. [Music] Congratulations. I'd ask Mr. Washington to stay up at the podium because I'm sneaking in one more recognition uh while we're at it here tonight.
014And that is for our uh new PR new assistant principal at Stanwood High School, Khloe Abbott. Chloe, would you join Mr. Washington up at the just a quick uh some quick information about Khloe. Khloe will join our team as an assistant principal of Swood High School on July 1st this year. Uh she comes to us from Kentwood High School where she currently serves as a dean of students. She's worked as a substitute assistant principal and and formerly taught mathematics. Uh she's a passionate educator. Chloe built her career in diverse schools and has been deeply involved in leadership roles, multi-tered systems of support and inclusive educational practices. and her leadership has included coaching teachers on tier one initiatives um and strategies, coordinating academic in uh interventions, and partnering with families and community- based organizations uh to
015remove barriers and promote student success. So, we are extremely excited uh for Khloe to join us uh July 1st and have a couple gifts for you, too. But uh welcome to the team, Chloe. Appreciate it. Thank you. We are so super super excited for you to become SA High School Jordan Spartans. Um and this is on behalf of High School. Oh, thank you. So sweet. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to recommend a quick three minute recess for the families that want to go uh go home and catch dinner or do whatever else you want to do this Sunday afternoon. So, we'll take a quick 3minut break uh to take pictures and and uh excuse yourselves if you'd like. Thanks. [Music] Mr. [Music] Is that your jacket? [Music] We we'll cut it to less
016than three minutes. That's all right. We made a quick quick exit. So, um it's I look forward to the shining star recognition, our student recognitions uh all week long uh approaching the board meeting. So, thank you once again. Um, I would like to welcome Mr. Tim Dickinson, principal of Stanwood Middle School, um, and Holly Christmas back for the school data and achievement report for, uh, Stanwood Middle School. Unfortunately, no poem this time, but equally great things to share. So, um, left click, right click. It's off. Oh, there we go. Figured it out. Go. So, uh, this is an update for data. It's all about achievement, uh, and what we've been working on this school year. So, we'll kind of dive in with kind of a quick review of what our our uh, AAP goals are
017uh, for both literacy and math. Just kind of set the context for you. So, we boiled it down into just a couple of points here for literacy that we're focused on. Um it's all around our our HMH curriculum which was adopted last school year. Uh really digging in and utilizing that um utilizing the assessment specifically uh to ensure students are growing and achieving um at the highest levels. We've been working very very closely with the Port Susan Middle School staff as well as uh Dr. Ryan and Dr. guy um at the central office to uh collaborate on some of the different things that we can do between the two buildings to really leverage this curriculum for students. Uh utilize our assessments um specifically we've been doing monthly assessments for the um SBA uh and utilizing
018that data with our students as well. Um we've seen a lot of growth specifically in in students approach to assessment um as a result of that. So we're really excited about what the spring will look like. Um but we want to just highlight some specific data points with you um in regards to HMH. So three times a year our students take the HMH growth measure. So on the right side of the uh table there you can see the beginning of the year which is what BOI is and MOI is middle of the year. And in 8th grade we have seen almost 7% increase in students being on grade level. So, if you kind of can take your eyes side to side there, you can see those shifts from the red and orange and yellow band
019getting um um moved up and over and increasing our band of green um quite substantially there in terms of the number of students that that is that are now on grade level that were not to start the year. And that is a direct result of the collaborative efforts that our our teachers have uh undertaken and really looking at the student data to um inform their instruction in order to make the most of our instructional time with kids. So we're going to transition to math. Um our three kind of four areas here with math are really again same thing. We're really focused in on using data to help support student learning and mastery of skills. Um I know with the elementary teachers who have come or elementary principles who have come rather um talked a little
020bit about Delta math and that was something that was new for us this year in the middle school. So we utilize the Delta math um readiness assessments to really collect information on where our students are at, where those gaps are in learning and then the teachers set some goals around how to incorporate those into their warm-ups into activities with students. Um, in some of our classrooms, you'll even see some teachers pulling some students aside almost in a small group like you might see in an ele elementary classroom, which is not typical um, in order to help get those students the skills that they need in order to be successful and show growth. And so the data for this looks um, a little bit different. So our readiness assessments are broken down anywhere between six and
021eight different standards that are specifically assessed. These are standards that have been determined to be the most important in terms of vertical success from year to year. And so if we look just at two specific ones that um we've put a lot of effort into, they're they're related to fractions. So I put down below so you can see what they actually are because it's always a weird acronym kind of thing. Uh so it's computation with multiplication and division of fractions and then dividing by unit fractions were the two areas that we really really hit a lot of achievement with. uh we saw over a 10% increase um in the first one and 9% in the second. So really by being intentional utilizing assessments and collaborating as teams um we've seen a lot of improvement with
022our students and this is just one highlight of it because as you can imagine trying to show you this for every single grade level gets a little bit um repetitive and uh kind of complicated in terms of all the different standards that we're assessing and tracking and monitoring with our students. So, similar to the ELA department, they're having regular meetings with each other um and and really looking at student data and then taking action in their classrooms to be intentional about what they're teaching and reteing those skills that that are missing. So, uh very very proud of the work that they've done there. Can I make sure I understand that slide just specifically? Yes. This is a a check for understanding. Lower green bar is good. Bars that get smaller is great. Okay. the way
023I wanted to make sure that I was reading that correctly. The way that it uh presents the information through the assessment is is a little different because it's focused on creating instructional groups, uh identifying students that aren't quite there yet. And so having less less a smaller percentage of students that don't know, right? It's backwards. It's the opposing like those are lower. So we we spent quite a bit of time at the beginning of the year breaking that down in staff. So they knew how to utilize it. Got it. So, so I tried to highlight that. That's why I said if we broke it out by all the different things, it would be a lot to get your head. Just want to make sure I was reading it right. Yeah. So, thank you. So, they
024did very well to see a 10 percentage increase just from beginning to middle of the year was like fantastic. So, very happy about that. This relationship between this and the SBA math and also just to mention the alignment to the standards is the same, right? So, we're assessing the same standards um that are on the SBA. Uh the the way that they're presented is completely different though, however, right? So, in these assessments, they're working everything out by hand, showing all of their work and coming up with an answer, whereas the SBA, it's more of a multiple choice. There are some short answer questions. Um so, in in my opinion, this is a little bit more rigorous in terms of they actually have to demonstrate and show all of their thinking and explanation with their answers.
025So what we kind of expect to see is because we've had a lot of collaboration, we've had a lot of um very intentional work with our data that we're just going to continue to see uh more and more improvements. And you know, this being something brand new uh at at this level that we're we're utilizing, especially with math. Um, we're hoping that we're going to see a big bump this year and then uh even bigger one next year as we continue to to refine the work uh and and really understand the assessments and how to leverage them um even better. Thank you. So you you do intend to continue using Delta Math? Yes. Yeah. It's very very minimal cost. Um very easy to uh swing that and and prioritize within the budgeting process. Okay. and
026and the data is helpful. Extremely helpful. Especially for progress monitoring um and identifying um where we should spend our time. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. On the HM uh H HMH. Yes. I was looking um at your at the red bars and noticing there wasn't much movement there. And I'm just wondering, are those the same students or are they different students or I I see movement in the middle, but I'm not seeing it. Our team had a lot of our team had a lot of conversations between both schools because they think they saw similar um similar trends at Port Susan. Um the red bars don't always indicate actual students ability. Um, sometimes we have students that maybe spend five to seven minutes taking an assessment that's intended to take about 30 minutes. So, they're not capturing
027um the full scope of those students ability. And so, what's we use more than just one measure to really get where they're at. And this is not, you know, connected to their grade in the class. This is a tool that we have tried to um explain the relevance of to them and get them to take it seriously. But, you know, we still have some students that, you know, if it doesn't count for anything, sometimes those red bars indicate a different underlying issue, which again, two schools have tried. How are you guys addressing that in regards to um are they not taking it seriously versus they actually are need versus they actually need it. Um we've we've made a little bit of progress because as we've communicated more with families about the assessment, about its purpose,
028about what we need. Um we've gotten some kids to retake the assessment that we've identified that, you know, rushed through it. Um and by collaborating with families, that's helped with a few of those. Um some of the other areas are just things that we're continuing to kind of search and see what are those missing gaps. Um, is there something we need to do structurally within the course offerings to address the gaps and levels of where kids are at? Are there partnerships we can do with special education to try to um embed more accommodations and modifications for students? So, we don't have any co-taught ELA classes this year, which um we're looking at opportunities next year because that might be a way to um increase students access points um specifically within ELA. So we're trying to
029trying to navigate some of this data and figure out what next steps would be in the data. Are besides what's here are you seeing in this particular subgroup are they having are you seeing other trends in other parts of their academic picture so to speak that might lead you to determine whether or not they are struggling versus not taking versus engagement. Yeah. Um we we we do we get weekly weekly grade reports and um look at patterns and things like that. And I would say a significant portion of those red uh students that are in the red column also are are having those same kind of um outcomes in other classes as well. Okay. Yeah. Can you define for me what a co-taught ELA class? Uh co-taught ELA class would be a class with a
030gened uh teacher endorsed in ELA and a special education teacher and they collaboratively work uh in a you know class period together uh to support students. the uh special education teacher uh takes a look at what the lesson plan is and makes uh suggestions for modifications or uh adaptations that they can do in the lesson to help make it accessible for all students um and kind of bridge some of those barriers that are potentially there. I was going to add um this is more anecdotal without hard data numbers to back it up that our eighth grade team that this is the increase that we see from last year. They've done a really good job when you look at that green number increasing and that 6.8% increase. Overall, their their growth as a cohort from seventh
031grade to 8th grade is also I would if I were to guess at least another 6 to 10% increase based on the seriousness with which they took the test last year compared to this year. Our team has done a really good job of getting students to buy in and and help them track their own numbers and try to um increase their scores and see the relevance of why it's important. And additionally, one of the things that we know from the work that they've been doing with Fort Susan is that the middle of the year birth measure is significantly more difficult than the cabal birth measure. And so it is a much more challenging um test if you will than that. And then the only other thing to add is how our social studies teams are
032helping our ELA kids or ELA teams, excuse me, get our students prepared for the SBA by reinforcing a lot of the expectations that students have on the SBA. So the ELA goals are not just being served within the ELA classes. So will I'm sorry. Did you I think I heard you say that this is this assessment is done three times. So they'll do it at the end to the SDA. So we'll see we'll see that data while the board will see SDA numbers. And with um only one data point they took it last year. We it's it's too early to tell what the correlation is between performance on this and performance on the SPA, but hopefully after two years of data, we'll have a better idea of what that looks like. Yeah, I think I
033heard that on the SPA there was a certain portion of the students that didn't take it for one reason or another that that skewed the scores because those were recorded as like zeros. Yeah. And how about in these? What percentage don't take them? Do you know why? And and then how's that scores? We don't have any students that opt out of this assessment. It's just um students that are absent that we're playing, you know, catch up to try to get the makeup uh assessment for it. So So about how many do you wind up getting eventually? Um we end up getting almost all of them. So again, you know, like 95% of our kids end up getting it completed. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate um the quick moves you and your staff have made
034to inter intervene quickly um to um shape this instruction. So think thank you to you both and your [Music] team. The next item on the superintendent report is the February financial report followed by the reduced education plan presentation presented by Ruth Floyd. Good evening. Uh this is our uh February financial report. Um it's similar to January and so I'll focus uh just of on just a few pages. Uh financials are as expected at the halfway point in the year. Annual average FT enrollment was 4,667. Uh that's about 62 over budget and about 26 above last year. Um we have we go uh managers report is as expected very similar to January our fund balance is at 6.2 2 million uh which is 7% of total revenues. And uh we're still tracking closely with the prior
035year as you can see. And uh with this is helping us to not dip into fund balance too much which is uh great uh when we're um because it's providing flexibility for next year and we'll talk more about that in the next presentation. Our object summary is another way to look at those expenditures very similar to the other report. Uh general fund again $6.2 million in fund balance and capital projects fund balance is 5.6 million uh and is similar to last month. debt service fund is reflects some taxes there, local tax receipts. ASB fund uh is uh shows typical revenues and expenditures for this time of year. As we get toward the end of the year, they start spending some of that great fundraising that they they do. And then transportation vehicle fund uh decreased
036due to the payment of two buses um that were recently delivered. We'll go to the fund food services report. Uh this one is as expected for this time of year as well with revenues running slightly behind budget uh due to the lower estimated uh breakfast participation um that you can see at the bottom of the report. That went pretty quick, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Yes. Yeah. with the FTB being up 63 over budget. Is that a good thing because we get more revenue or a bad thing because we don't we have more expensive number? Oh, um you're talking about the enrollment paid on the basic fee, right? We did add staff as well. So quite most of that if not all were covered with additional staff that we hired at the beginning
037of the year. And uh but yes in general it is a very good thing and uh it also helps to support um maintenance or material supplies and operating costs as well. That also helps to cover some additional expenditures that we have um and increase that fund balance somewhat as well. Uh just you might not have this information handy. So just if you have it at a later date, do we know is our participation um in like breakfast and lunch higher at our schools that are fully free uh schools for lunch and stuff like that? Yes, they are. You know, for breakfast and lunch, we estimated at budget approximately 60% participation in both breakfast and lunch, but we are running under that at breakfast, which is why you see those participation numbers lagging. But in general,
038yes, there uh the free uh free-for-all schools do have higher participation than the other schools. And on the uh breakfast, how's that relate in terms of timing of the buses? And is it the bus coming to breakfast? Sounds like they're not getting that early, but they're they should be let in at least 15, hopefully 20 minutes prior to school to uh school starting so that they have time to eat breakfast. Thank you. Shall we move on to reduced educational program presentation? Thank you for just Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Sorry, I was making the computer confused there. Uh as discussed at the March study session, uh the district needs to make reductions going into the uh fiscal year to m maintain an adequate fund balance. Uh our overarching goal is to put student
039learning at the center and um of our decision-m process and in support of our promise. Uh please keep in mind this is a plan still and uh things could change based on new information and updated projections. First I wanted to briefly speak about uh legislative discussions that are going on. Uh the legislative session is not over. Uh they are still working. The it ends uh April 27th. uh the late the House and Senate budgets uh did come out uh from uh the last time we spoke and uh the House budget was the lower of the two and from what I'm hearing uh it's probably going to be um the investments into K12 education most likely will be uh fairly minimal. Um and so I just to give an idea of the kind of investments that
040the house was looking at at that time. Uh the it was it's included some levy inflationary enhancement. Currently we cannot collect all of our levy uh due to the state requirement that we uh the calculation that the state requires that we do uh that is actually below the lid that we can collect is below what the voters approved. And so uh this inflationary enhancement would allow us to collect that those additional funds but still not be on the amount that the voters collected or approved. Uh and then uh as you've heard the uh you may have heard about the big three um allocations uh that the um that we are or that the um state was hoping for OSPI and other uh regional um um organizations are doing uh special education, materials, supplies and operating
041costs as well as transportation. And you can see there in the house budget that there was some uh additional uh funding for um special education increasing those multipliers. Uh nothing for material supplies and operating costs or also known as MSOC. Uh nothing for the prototypical school model, salaries and benefits and nothing for transportation. Uh we also want are hoping that they will continue to fund the safety net. Uh but I didn't have uh see any uh anything that would say that they were going to. So it's possible we could get a reduction in the transportation safety net grant that we apply for. Hopefully that will be included um when the house and senate come together and come up with a a budget uh that is finalized before April 27th. Now there is a possibility that
042the legislature won't will not finish at the end of the session. My hope I think that everyone is thinking it will. However, uh if there is a special session then and then that will delay things. Also included in the budgets generally are what we call maintenance level items and uh the both the house and the senate budgets had cost of living adjustments of 2.5%. Sometimes we refer to that as IPD for salaries. Um, and keep in mind those are unfunded salaries, which means that if we uh hire more uh employees than what the state funds or if we pay additional salaries than what the state funds, then the district makes up that percentage increase on those sal on those additional salaries. Uh it also would include a 3% um MSOC cost of living adjustment. Transportation
043kindergarten uh those conversations um both of the House and the Senate I believe had transportation kindergarten being funded. However, it would cap enrollment at either current or prior year levels. And so we'll wait to see uh if how that might affect us. If it's uh for according to enrollment for this year, then uh we would be able to maintain our programs and uh that would uh we just wouldn't be able to expand the program and be funded by by the state. Uh there it was a one-time shift to school aortionment payments from September from the spring actually into July and August. Um this is really merely a um an attempt to balance the state's budget in the first year uh by shifting expenditures to year two. However, it exacerbates the cash flow issues that school
044districts have um by uh because spring is our lowest cash flow month and fund balance month. And uh this then and part of the reason for that is number one the end of funding, but also because they did a shift like this several years ago where they move funds from September through June into July and August so that they could do a one-time fix to their budget. So our projected uh budget for 2526 does have a gap or what we call a deficit of about 4%. That means that revenues are projected to be less than expenditures. Uh we expect that this gap will be bridged by a combination of general fund fund balance and spending reductions. And uh those spending reductions are in summary form um $2.7 million. And then these are the categories in
045which the spending reductions would occur. And the percentage that you see is the percent of that uh group's total uh costs. So you can see that administrator uh the administrator category would take um a 9% uh need a 9% reduction. Certificated 2.2 classified 2.2 and the non salary cost 3% to make up that $2.7 million. In the area of district office administration, there would be an elimination of 1.5 district office administrator positions. Um a reduction of some department budgets. Uh reduction of other days and hours of some district office classified staff and uh for a total impact of 657,000 in district office administration. school building administration uh reduction of two FTE school administrators. Uh this does include um non-cont continuing positions of uh the dean positions that we um knew were going to be non-ontinuing
046and they were only in uh part of the year and so that's why the dollar amount is a little less than you would expect for 200. And then uh school supplies reduction. We are hoping that we can obtain donations or a grant to maintain that. But as of now, that's a reduction of 50,000. Uh the reduction also reduction of days and hours of um classified staff for a total of 351,000 in this category. In teaching and learning, we have some categorical and grant um reductions of [Music] $76,000. Uh reduction of up to eight FTE certificated staff positions as well as some other salary reductions in the area of extracurricular uh for about 1.1 million. And then classified staff, a for reduction of classified uh positions, days, uh some hours, and other salary reductions uh for
047a total of 528,000. Uh keep in mind that regardless of the area, the impacts um um this impacts the level of service to to students, to parents, and to staff. And I just want to remind you again the the summary version of the 2.7 million reduction amount and those in the areas in which we're we're reducing. So just to put some things in context uh we wanted you to see a list of the of some school districts in the state that have announced their reduction amounts. Uh some districts have not reduced um announced their reduction. Some districts are not reducing. This is the list that we were able to obtain at the time we submitted the presentation. And Stanley committee you can see there is at 2.7 million. And then for context, we also included
048the enrollment so that you can see some of the smaller size districts are actually reducing more than we are and vice versa. And that's all I have for prepared remarks, but um sure I would like to answer any questions you have. I appreciate you keeping the reductions as far away from the kids as possible. Thank you. Question, but it's kind of depressing. It makes me sad. It makes me sad, too, because Yes. But I would like to, you know, give kudos out to really the entire district, the board, the the cabinet, everyone in the district has really pulled together and uh found ways to save, you know, just naturally in in the the process of doing business. And you know, I get calls and I say, you know what, we could do this and and
049how much would that save? And it just is a testament to, you know, what a great school district we are. Thank you, Ruth, and thank you for the all that you've done tireless hours around this work with you and your team. And I really think this presentation reflects the challenges of the current um financial landscape of public education and that like you mentioned earlier that our attempt is to you know through our equity lens to keep the reductions and the and the actions that come thereafter as far away from the classroom like was mentioned earlier as possible. So I appreciate that. Thank you. Finally, on the screen is the April uh April 2025 enrollment report. April enrollment decrease by 9 FTA FTE compared to last month. Um which is a more favorable change compared to
050last year which it was a decrease of 15 uh students. um annual average enrollment excluding TK remains above budget by 56 uh FTE and above last year's average annual enrollment by 28 FTE. We have we haven't we don't put in April's and you'll see this on the on the sheet. We don't put in April's running start open doors enrollment uh from the college yet and that'll be reflected next month. Just out of curiosity, the if somebody were to graduate early, does that go into that negative number? Yes. Once they are graduated, they're no longer enrolled and they would not be um counted on our FTE total. Okay. So, potentially, and you probably don't know the data, and that's okay. Potentially, it could just it could not be all people like dropping out or leaving or
051moving to a different school. Some of them could potentially be graduating early or whatever. I I actually have the data for April. Um and the nine students were we had one student from Stan High School. They're an unconfirmed transfer, so they wouldn't have graduated. They transferred somewhere else um and had not enrolled yet. Um the um the remainder are spread across the district fairly evenly. Uh except we had um several uh nine that were from Saratoga. And remember, not all students that are um are at Saratoga are a full FTE. So um so we had about nine students that came out of uh Saratoga. Excellent. Can we get a report on um graduation rates and where they went and all of that? We haven't had that yet this year, right? Not yet. Okay. So that's
052coming soon though. As far as where students Yeah. like our our graduated and fouryear rate get that report. We'll get that report, right? Okay. Yep. Thank you. That means the superintendent report. Thank you, Mr. Ruben. 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 time. This is not the portion of the meeting for open public comment on items outside of the consent agenda. Open public comments is coming up soon. Are there any board directors who wish to pull any items from the consent agenda for [Music] discussion? Are there any people in attendance who wish to speak to any of these items in the consent agenda? If so, raise your after. Let us
053know. hands on the line. Okay. All right. Seeing no raised hands, is there a motion to approve consent agendas items 1 through 8? So moved. Moved by Director King. Is there a second? Second. Second by Director Evans. All those in favor say I. I. I any oppose say no. That passes unanimously. We have no old business to discuss. We do have one public comment today. Um citizens wishing to address the board asked to submit online request using the public comment link on our website or by email two hours prior to the board meeting start time. For those attending the meeting and person request forms were available in the boardroom for submission prior to the meeting start time. citizens who wish to provide documents to the board of directors will hand them to the recording secretary
054for distribution after the meeting and I will call upon those individuals who have requested to speak during this section here. We have one [Music] request. Sorry, I'm a little slow. Um, I did send a email to all of you. Miss Buster was the only one that replied. Uh, my issue is I'm against men in women's sports. I'm very against it. I am putting out a flyer which will um encompass all of you who are for men in women's sports. Um and the fly will go to senior centers uh disabled because the purpose of it is that the property tax exemption for seniors and disabled is skewed uh towards where the rich get the exemption and the poor don't. Um and I will include all of you in this mailing. So um my position is I'm
055almost 80 and I have seen every type of discrimination and I was kind of becoming hopeful women's sports they being recognized people women were getting higher positions and then came this issue they are shaming little girls and I don't know if you watch Fox or the recent thing with one of the other districts where the girl, young girl, I don't know which grade level, she would not participate with the basketball team who had a transgender male. She just sat there and they actually went after her and shamed her. They called her a bully and I don't want this happening here. I will not watch any child or any woman be shamed. So anyway, I would like a response from any of you. Um, and I will resend the email and you I would appreciate a
056reply, but if you don't, I will just assume that you do want men in women's sports. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you for flying. I appreciate that. My pleasure. Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts with us today. Um, as a matter of order, because this is the board's business meeting. The board is providing an opportunity for the public to comment. However, the board does not create discussion on those comments within the meeting as they are not part of the agenda. that comments will be followed up on after the meeting and as of we'll now move on to topics scheduled for school board discussion. We have three items. Number one, the board policy 3206, sexual harassment of students as prohibited. Any discussion on [Music] that? And do we have
057consensus to move that to a second meeting? We have consensus to move that on. Number two, board policy 5011, sexual harassment of district staff prohibited. Any discussion on [Music] that? Then we have consensus to move that on to a second reading. Item number three, the first reading on a new board policy 6815 advertising on district property. Discussion on that one. Want to explain that a little bit? um where came from. I'll call um director of communications Evan Cwell up to the podium to give an overview, please. Thank you. Yeah, sure. Um this is a new policy that's uh some districts across the state are starting to adopt. Uh it's response in to a way that you can like proactively get community engagement and advertising in uh on some school sports facilities. Currently, we don't have
058a policy. And so, it's one of the most common questions we get is, you know, a sports team has a banner or somebody from the sponsor, can you hang it up? The answer kind of is no, but the state does allow for it. You just kind of need a policy to to funnel that request in the right um uh place. So, we've crafted a uh new state uh policy and procedure that will help businesses and the community put uh advertisement in specific places that kind of we have control over rather than just be kind of the wild west out there. Um so the idea being that right now it would be uh uh combined to the stadium and the baseball field and the softball field. Yeah. Thank you. There's a question. Would it be like
059banners on the fences or what? It would be uh metal signage on the chain fences. uh uh 3 ft by 2 feet and that's the one and only size that's allowed. Um and it would be on a a three-year contract uh that they can renew every year. Um and then that money would go to the ASB and that can be um given out to the sports teams and clubs. So what standards in terms of appearance, who can do it and the content? Yeah. So all of that is allowed in the in the policy and the procedure. They can they it's you we crafted it very narrow. So uh there's no um elicit materials, no political advertising, no offensive uh uh advertising. Then it has to get approved through the district office and then advertiser prints
060it and is sent to our maintenance staff and our maintenance staff installs the sign when they have some time in the summer. might be just businesses or others like nonprofits or what if they're willing to, you know, buy the sign and follow the procedure and the policy, then yeah, it can be them. How much revenue per year per sign? Uh right now, based on what the other uh districts are doing, it's about $1,000 a year and then $500 a year for year two and year three and then the process starts over again. And we have about 75 open slots between the three facilities. And do we have any interest in doing this from the from the system going? Yeah, it it is one of the most common requests that uh I get and the high
061school athletic uh staffs get is how can we kind of support our teams and get uh our advertising out there? Win one. So yeah. Yeah. So it it's better, I think, than than having kind of no policies and some people trying to find some backdoor way of getting something up there that doesn't quite look quite right. And so this way we kind of control the material and the size and the location. Is there some particular place where the size will be made? Uh it'll they'll have to be metal and and uh to the right size and have the drill holes in the right spot. And so a lot of these online shops uh can order it. So, it'll be up to the advertiser to kind of pick where they want that. We have some recommendations
062based off of our maintenance staff that will create a website that uh potential interested people can follow the steps to go through there. And so, we'll give some examples of what they can do. Just to clarify, we're not buying them. If you want to advertise, it's the advertising budget and you have to buy the material for us to put us. Correct. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So, we're not finding them. They're finding them. Yep. We're just creating an avenue for them to do it according to our policy. 75 total around the districts between the the stadium, the baseball field, and the softball fields. 75 slots that it could potentially be. Thank you for explaining that to us. It's a new policy. Is there consensus to move that on to a second reading? I think we have consensus
063to move that on. All right. It is time for our student representative reports. Who's going to go first? Okay. Okay. Here's my report on Stanwood High School. Stay high school is three4s of the way done with the school year. And although we only have one quarter left, this quarter is perhaps the most important. It's packed with final projects, exams, events, and opportunities to finish strong. Whether you're a senior counting down the days to graduation, a junior nervous to take the SAT, a sophomore stressing about the SBA, or a freshman who can't even begin to imagine what the next three years will hold. This last quarter of the year is all about focus, growth, and making these last moments count where it matters most. As third quarter ends and teachers begin to finalize their grades, students
064are pushing onward into the next quarter, bringing them with renewed vigor after spring break. AP courses have begun to wrap up their final units in preparation for review before the AP exams in this May. These exams not only mark the climax of a year's worth of hard work, but also offer students the chance to earn college credit, making their efforts now more impactful than ever. Meanwhile, our science department has been performing many labs this time of year. Our forensic science classes have done their blood splatter lab. A AP physics has done their fluid buoyancy lab. Chemistry has done their chemical reactions lab. By engaging in labs like this, students are able to connect classroom instruction with real world applications which will enhance their comprehension and retention of the material. Meanwhile, our ASB class has been
065hard at work. We just wrapped up our executive board elections where students selected Ryan Corey to be president, Thomas Menddees to be vice president, Trip Deont to be secretary, Joel Dickinson to be treasurer, and Alexa Lei to be ASB public relations officer and serve as the student representative to the school board. Coming up next, we have class elections where each class will select their very own president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. And after that, we're going to wrap up the year with our annual tool dance, our talent show, and our end of year assembly. And while all all while this is going on, spring sports are in full action. Our golf teams have found success with many athletes competing in regional invitational tournaments. Our track team sent some athletes to the famous Oregon relays a
066couple weekends ago where to Tory Nichols and Bareric Danielson crushed it in their 300 meter hurls and won their heats against some of the top teams in the country. Meanwhile, our boys baseball team is off to a strong start with a strong 11 to4 win against Anacortis and a powerful 13-6 win against Arlington. And the upcoming weeks are set to be filled with fun and excitement for our students and for our ASB. As our year wraps up, it is very, very clear this has been a very successful year so far. And thank you to everyone in this community for their continued support of our students. It is very appreciated and does not go unnoticed at all. Thank you. Yesterday, our ASB group held our student rep council meeting in which we discussed upcoming events planned
067for next week. Starting Monday, starting on Monday the 21st, we'll be having a spirit week running through Friday the 25th. As well as the final day of the spirit week, teachers will be holding activities in their classroom during advisory, which students are encouraged to partake in and enjoy for community day. Additionally, the night of the 25th, students are invited to attend the Lincoln Hill spring social and treat themselves to food, dancing, and other activities like games and prize raffles. Starting off the month of May, our first advisory period of the month will be dedicated to student reflection and feedback regarding next year's principal and other school policies, which students will be sent a form for on their [Music] input. the end the end of the seventh and second to last session will be May 13th
068with SBA testing the day before students are hard at work as we saw our seventh session getting their best work in and making strides that their high school will be on plan and that should be all right thank you uh board directors report on business conducted director Evans uh had the opportunity to attend some of our uh state of the schools uh meetings uh which I I think is really important. Uh we have a tendency, you know, when we need something to go out to our community. So, it's really great to go out just as like a hey, here's some information and here's how we're doing. Uh so, I I think that those are great and the one that I participated in was wellreceived. Um had some great participation from the audience. So, I I
069thought that was really great. Um I would remind people that the plant sale at the high school is coming up very soon. So, please uh make sure if you're getting flowers or starts or whatever it is, you check out what our awesome horicultural students are are working on up there. Um they I I bought uh this is not anything, but I bought a plant that was supposed to die uh at the end of the year. Uh and I actually stopped watering it in like November, and it is still alive and kicking on my front porch, and I have no idea how. So, they're great plants. Feel free to purchase as many as you can. Um, don't forget this week we have an academic advisory meeting uh tomorrow. If the assigned uh directors uh going to
070that don't intend to go and there is an open space, I'd love to attend one of those. Um, so if you don't intend to go, please let me know. Um, and then we do have another study session uh for the board on Thursday as well and we would love to see as many people there. Thank you. Thank you. And I think we still have a few more of those state of the schools coming up here. So, thank you for doing that, Superintendent. Director Murray. Well, I also got to attend um one of the state of the schools and it was very wellreceived and I want to also thank everybody who has had a chance to fill out um the board's survey that went out. um we had quite the response and so we're looking forward
071to going through that data and helping it make um using it to help make some decisions um in the near future. Um I also um got to go to which is social emotional learning training that our staff went to um just before spring break and it was very wellreceived and it was very um I very much appreciated several of the breakout sessions and got to learn lots about um different aspects of social emotional learning. So, um, and then lastly, I, um, I have bought plants at the plant sale, too. I have this beautiful golden fuchsia that has lasted like 3 years going now. So, and it's getting ready to buy and everything. So, um, that was I I told my husband he couldn't buy any plants last weekend cuz you have to buy them. Um,
072and then lastly, um, just something I did outside of the school district, um, I went to the comm, uh, Snowish School District has a community, uh, foundation, um, that they have specifically for their school district. And so I got to go to their breakfast and learn a little bit about what they're doing in their community to help support our students um, from a fundraising standpoint. And so I'm looking forward to possibly bringing some of that information to our district so that maybe we can find ways to creatively support our students especially with um budget shortfalls. And that is all I have. Thank you, director. Director Foster, thank you and thank everybody for coming. I do intend on, God willing, being at that academic committee. I'd like to see what's going on, see if we can
073work in conjunction together on that and uh have some ideas. I look forward to learning more and working with the community on that. So, thank you very much for putting that on the schedule. Thank you, Director. Director King. Yeah, I attended one of the community presentations by Superintendent Ryan who was at a realy agency with a whole bunch of realtors there basically who was there and they were very very interested and engaged because I guess quality of the schools is a real big deal for marketing houses. Thank you, Director King. And I guess it makes it unanimous. We've all been to the state of the school presentations you've done. They were well received. I'm just so grateful for all those donations there. I think that's I don't know what the record is, but that's that's
074outstanding. Uh congratulations to our shining star students today. Um and welcome to our new assistant principal starting at the high school this summer. Um I want to thank all the staff for the work that's gone into our state audit here which is wrapping up this week. We appreciate that that's gone well. and the two surveys that we've had out, the annual one uh concluded, but we also did the separate one on the superintendent and I haven't seen uh high marks like that uh for a long time. So, um we'll be hearing more about that and I'll give you the last word, superintendent. Well, I was going to say it's it's hard to be at the end because as you all talked, I ticked off things on my list that I wanted to just highlight as
075as the as the night went on. But um I I do want to say thank you to the community for continuing to be involved not only here but also in in the schools and and there's as uh Luke and Elizabeth talked about there's lots of activities that happen uh all the way at K12 uh in our schools that um can use support from the community and we just appreciate that that's something that we we do here. So uh thank you for that. And then as as Ruth talked through the reduced education plan, this is not something that is an easy thing for staff or the community. and um just appreciate that work that's that's gone into that in trying to keep the reductions as far away from the classroom as possible. Thank you. Thank you,
076Mr. Superintendent. And next meeting, we'll give you the first shot. Okay. After the students. All right. We'll work our way down there. Sounds good. Thank you. All right. There being no further business, the April 15, 2025 regular board meeting is adjourned.