001Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Look at that. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. The regular meeting is reconvened at 6:03 p.m. We'll now move on to the agenda. Superintendent Bogen, have there been any changes or additions to the agenda since it was published? >> All those in favor of approving the agenda as presented, say I. >> All those opposed. Thank you. We will now move on to meeting minutes review. >> The minutes from the May 21st meeting have been distributed to the board. Are there any changes or corrections? All those in favor of the meeting minutes as presented say I. >> All those opposed. >> We now move on to the consent agenda. >> And on the consent agenda have been provided to the board. Are there any questions or discussion? >>
002All those in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented say I. I. All those opposed. >> The consent agenda is approved as presented. >> I'll move on to recognition and Kevin will recognize the water high school. All right. Um, I do have um some recognition tonight. So, I'm glad I think you guys are here. I think I wasn't sure. Our students and coach, thank you for being here. So, it is my honor to recognize three outstanding water high school student athletes who recently brought home the state championships at the WIA state track and field championships in Oklahoma. First, congratulations to Jackson Bud. Won the 2A state championship in the long jump. Jackson saved his best for last, breaking both the school record and the state meet record with an incredible jump of 24 feet,
003two inches on his final attempt. A remarkable performance and a fitting way to cap off our outstanding high school athletic career. So, Jackson and >> All right, Jackson, come on up. There he is. >> So, we have a little certificate for you on one of our jobs. Congratulations. I know I heard some of you guys talking to them about some of their experience and some of these are incredible. Um maybe they can give a brief chance to me talk a little bit about this after I I'll recognize all three. I'd also like to recognize on reamer um captured the 2 state championship in the high jump cleared a personal best 6 feet 5 in to earn the title. Um which is especially impressive is that he only returned to the high jump just a few
004weeks before the state meet. um making this accomplishment even more incredible. And so congratulations to you. >> Not your first jump. >> And congratulations Cody Hayes. Cody won the 2A state championship in the javelin as a freshman. So Cody threw a personal best 178 78.1 in to claim the title, becoming one of the few freshman in Washington state history to win a state championship in the event. So, please come join me in congratulating Jackson Ow, and Cody. Their outstanding achievement, their hard work, dedication, and competitive spirit represents Tumblr Water High School and our district extremely well. We're extremely proud of what you've accomplished. Um, you're also major contributors to our Tum Water team, bringing home third place overall in the state championship. So, congratulations to you, Cody. Can we have like all three of you
005kind of come up? We'll do a quick picture with our board. bigger than um >> coach. Do you want to come up a little bit with them? >> Well, as we get kind of you guys up, if you want to y'all coach, do you want to make any comments about this group? >> Uh yeah, just a couple examples of a great weekend we had up the state track meet. Um obviously with three individual state titles, that's a great accomplishment for any team to have. Um, also to note, I believe >> or not, I believe Jackson and Owen were also part of a state championship 4x4 relay team. So, they contributed to another state title as well, >> or excuse me, school record relay team. Um, making that to cap it off, which was a close
006second place finish in that race. Um, and Cody's jab on finish, I believe, was the first ever to a freshman state in the job. So, great weekend. They capped it off and the boys didn't bring home a third place trophy. Um, and two of them will be back again next year. We're looking forward to it. >> Nice work. Do a little photo op. Get you guys power over anything. You know, the first uh commercial that involved just involves a guy. >> Thank you so much for being here. yourself individual responsibility. >> Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, Coaching. >> We will uh now recess the regular meeting. at 6:09 p.m. >> to enter into a public hearing regarding the 2026 27 budget. >> Assistant Superintendent Ben Ric and financial services director will present. After the presentation,
007we will hear public comment regarding the proposed budget. We'll have three minutes to read their statement and 15 minutes to full will be reserved for these comments. >> Okay. Good evening board members. My pleasure to take you through what is effectively work schedule number three for the budget. Just quickly re recap process before we get into this. So this is the last conversation we have before staff aggregates a budget into what's called the F195. That's just the technical the budget submitted to um the educational service district for a technical review. Um we go through that process in the summer. Mr. takes the lead on that and then when you come back in the summer if the budget's gone to the technical review we propose to you and then your August meeting you adopt that budget.
008The reason we do two hearings in this district or that's been my preference if you do a hearing while you're still in the development space the request is authentic because by the time you get to August it's been all the way through the process tech review and at that point it should be >> okay um just to do a recap of where we're at relative to the goals that we set Um >> we really had three fundamental interim goals for this year. Remember that the first was reduce our inter. The second was to try to to reduce the number of months that we rely on and the third was to increase our funds and we feel like we are on track to accomplish all three goals this year and be clear about the years. We're
009talking about the year that we're in and about to close. Okay. Um we have reduced our reliance on the inter fund loan. Um we think that June isn't over yet but we think we're on track to not need to rely on the loans in June. So we'll be going from four months last year to three months this year. And then finally we are projecting an increase in our year in fund balance for um for this year fiscal year. >> Okay. As it pertains to >> budget as opposed remember you're not just developing a general fund. I think you're develop developing a budget with five funds. Um >> those are the general fund, >> the ASB fund, >> the capital fund, the transportation vehicle fund, and the service fund. >> Uh we spent both of our
010time, but I'll mention a couple things about each other as well. Um, in terms of the big decisions driving the general fund, in reflecting on putting this presentation together and going back through what we've given you, we've given you so much already about staffing, like we have a lot of data at this point. We didn't re insert that here, but just so you're clear on the common themes. >> There were increases and decreases in staffing across the district, but it was really just a balance to enrollment, right? So, when we had and teaching staff. It was because either we were moving a program from one school to another, there was movement in the enrollment in that program. We voted on a small education program reduction resolution. Um remember that we are incorporating our starting next
011year the change in our what we call our step program the education programs that are returning from the neighborhood school. We are continuing one class transition from kindergarten. And right now we are in the midst of bargaining with literally every that we have on the non-salary side. Um, we've had some budgetary setbacks. I would say some of these expenses are going up more than we anticipated, particularly districts, uh, which was a real shock for almost every district of the state this spring uh, where they were estimated. Fuel and energy also continue to go up for districts as well as Okay, is going to take you through some of the actual data of funds and some of the case. What is the percentage increase for insurance? >> Um, so we were told to expect somewhere in
012the neighborhood of 15 to 20% increase for our not our legal cost but our our insurance as a district. We actually got our okay. Some districts were told to expect a 50% increase um depending on what provider they had. So we're s but I've heard some districts are start investig Okay. So, um all of our our five funds listed here, the top row is our preliminary projections for uh 25.6 where we expect to end um in each fund at the end of the year. So um >> the for general fund we are expecting to add um 2 million back into into fund balance. Um >> so we have an operating surplus of 2 million. Um we really wanted to show the difference of what our actual costs are minus what our actual fund balance is
013minus the market. So we went ahead and put the market projection out of that so you can see our actual unbalanced outsp and spending that same amount. So it hasn't gone down a tremendous amount from what I what I would have expected. Um but service is is basically the same capital. We have our um our projects that we'll actually get into what we'll be spending next year, but we've been maintaining that 14.3 million capital. And then our transportation vehicle fund, >> you know, it's pretty hefty right now. It's pretty um we have a bunch of buses on order and we'll actually share some of some of the plans in a few slides, but um still a high 1.9 million for transportation that will increase. >> So the second Second row there is >> what we've
014come up with for our um for our expenses for each fund general fund. >> You can see that we're conducting a surplus of 1.5 million um and then without our new market uh ending fund balance project. So to add to that and build that I'm just projecting a little bit of a decrease of 100,000 and again we have our projects in capital fund our capital fund and transportation that spent down at 2.5 million that's enough capacity to be able to purchase all of those buses. buses until there's no inter loan number in that budget. >> Okay. >> Yes. No, it is in it. I'm sorry. It is in 526 but not in 2627. >> Okay. >> So the the >> I was thinking you're talking about either general fund or capital. >> No, I was
015thinking of those the numbers in general. So there is a the goal is to not have an inter fun loan next year. >> So the 2627 budget number doesn't have an inter fun loan in it >> but the 2526 does. and other reasons. >> So, um we've talked about this enrollment numbers haven't really changed since I reported last time, but um this is what budget actual and um we are budgeting 2.7 from this year and then from our budget to budget from last year we had that large decrease of so as you know came in quite a bit under budget so >> that's really what makes up our members our numbers There aren't too many differences from what I've reported before special education of enrollment. >> Any questions about this slide? There's a lot of
016data on here, but there isn't a lot of new information. about the ide, you know, we show you those charts as a full disclosure chart, but this is where we start to bring up some of the issues that resonate at a board member level. These are the issues and projects that are really shorting the decision. Okay. So, we'll start with the the capital fund. Um so obviously we passed a new right. Um people get Alex calls every day like you know when's my project going to start? So the first thing we do is say remember that when we pass that levy we start collecting on that levy not until April but next year. So just by you're adopting or that you're going to adopt incorporates the first wave of projects in the spring of next
017year for the levy that was passed this year. Okay. Um a lot of what Mel and Alec have been working on is some real strategic thinking about um what to do first and how to do it and at what pace to do it. There's some really good thinking here. So, one of the things they really talked about was the playground equipment. And what they want to do is do one school, do the playground equipment at one school and use that as sort of a test case so that everything they learn in that one school, they can apply to the next wave of five schools if they do the following. So, a total of six schools will be addressed. The first school has a plan for summer 2027 and all five schools in the summer of
0182020. Um, likewise, fully multi-purpose room is sort of the on that as well for multi-purp. >> So those are the first set of projects that you can expect from the levy that pass but those aren't the only things that are happening, right? Um >> regardless of the levy, we have ongoing projects, right? So here's a sense of what's going on now regardless of that future levy. Um, we have things going on right now. I'm gonna actually start with the bottom half of the page. >> Um, we have work happening both at >> I don't know if you can imagine going into Bush Middle School and that main foyer there as you come in and there's the library on the left, right? Um, we're trying to sort of um streamline that space, make it a little
019bit more usable. used to be kind of a collection of old vandisers and it's kind of a storage space and um it space that needs to be cleaned up and reimagined um to be a best service for the kids and staff of that school. So that's what's referred to there in that square. Also at Black Hills, they're redesigning access to the attendance area to the front. And if you want to go into that later, >> Jim for Peter is showing his page and needs to be replaced and is on the e project list. Um there is a project actually happening at New Market Skill Center for a neighboring development. Um is the city is asking us to dedicate a deliver of land that technically falls within the jurisdiction of the school district um that we
020dedicate to this developer so that they can um essentially build out the exact specification of roadway necessary to do their project. Um that's actually happening now and some LED lighting as well. Um and then in terms of like preliminary summer 2027 projects at Black Hills, um when we say the building envelope, we're really talking about the um some of the degradation in the roof and walls kind of a full diagnostic of what needs to happen on the wall high school. >> I don't know if you've been in the commons, but the noise in the commons is an issue. So there's installation of panels at Black High School. >> Um and a couple more technical replacements of transformers and um some non- capital but still related to the capital levy issues include remember the weather is
021also part. >> Um we've come to learn that the safety radios in this district are really quite old. We've mentioned this to you before. That is part of the levy on the side and that work has already started and we are initiating a pilot project next year with every bus and one school. Um we're doing a security camera refresh. We're also kind of in the final stages of adopting new transportation navigation software. And then we're also going to a little bit about football. >> We just wanted to point out each every month we give you a total of our fund balance, but wanted to give you a sense of what the balances are at each school. Do we have a fun balance each elementary school? Um and of course our um middle and high school
022um the balances that again haven't fluctuated very much um this year since we did the the adjustments from last year. Um we talked about the football possibly coming out of um speed due to the healthy balances still. So, um, >> can I can I ask? Um, yes. Thank you for bringing this. That's really good. Why does help? >> So, each elementary school uses >> uses their ASB differently. A lot of times, um, if they have any kind of fundraiser, any kind of donation given to them, it will go into for a specific Off the top of my head, I don't know what that is. Sometimes you can have a big book fair. I can actually create a bit of a fun balance in my account. The next question for the high schools, I know some
023of it is the classes, all their money. So, there's always going to be, you know, fun balance there, but I'm I'm wondering, you know, such a huge fun balance, >> and I know that we we charge, you know, we charge to participate in sports and we try to ask the students and so I'm wondering is is there a way maybe it's not budget maybe it's you know it's time to talk with the student next year to look at the fees that we are charging and maybe we don't have to charge such high fees um since we have these fun balances and it maybe it's different sports and you know there's all sorts of interposes And I just wonder if the fees that we're charging that we could increase those in some way for our students
024and spend that down and maybe be a little bit more on you know a little closer to the house than right now. So it is cyclical too like um we have uniform purchases we have to make on a four cer will have bigger purchases as well so um I don't know where that's at all staggered so some are more expensive than others and so you know I do anticipate the fund balance is going down you know as the years go on but you know And again, they did a lot of fundraising. >> Okay. >> Again, not not this not that's too late, but I don't know if if there's just fun if that's all fundraising, fine. then has this question. If we're charging fees and we don't necessarily need to charge so much then yeah
025it just >> absolutely we can put on a future agenda kind of dive into ASB and just sort of answer we'll provide some of that more background around the cycle of being forms and the money is going in where all the different counselors are back on the high school a whole list of where money assigned to them and so just so as an information we look at that for a while conversation seems to come up annually Um, and I think incorporating that into where where do they collect their money and where does that come from? I think we can add that for a fall. >> Okay. And so I mentioned earlier our our best purchases that we have on order cuts this year to a transportation fund. So we received our depreciation allocation for next
026year and it is a reduction of 100,000. So um it doesn't affect us that much with our fund balance and not ordering the bus but buses right now are about 150 that's purchased. So eventually fun We will be uh recommending a increase of um 10 cents to our lunch prices. So every year child nutrition asks us to put our um our information into this paid lunch and we have that it analyzes whether or not our federal reduced lunches are offsetting our um paid lunches. And this year it did show that um that we needed to increase that you have the the choice to increase it over two years all at once and it was a 10% increase. So we figured um going from 410 to 420 was reasonable. Um and then our we still have
027our free meals that we're offering to all of our elementary percentage this year. So they will be some of the other new things that we've been working on just try to control costing procedure and we've been leading up to this um all year just making sure that all purchases um have an approved purchase order your budget purchased um having open for approvals I've been working and departments on that and making sure that all the contacts come through my office. I find all the contracts that we receive and make sure that you know there's lots of reasons for why having it all come to us will help you know help eliminate costs and that's been a big reason I feel that we've been able to cut a lot of costs and >> and then knowing what
028all goes into it I've been able to renegotiate Um, one of them being our >> platform is the one that we do for a that's our student by 15,000 this year. >> Can you do for me? We did it. So, it was good to be able to have that conversation. Our curriculum adoptions been able to continue to adopt um you know, ELA and working on um keeping up with that that schedule um is a priority while not you know that a lot of work also went into the court. So, we got a bunch of different votes and we don't that work wasn't done by me actually that was Misty and I don't think I want to go up against Misty in a negotiation because she she got it done. She you know picked apart every
029piece of proposal and got this down and there is an increase to us. It's a flat a market this year to um restructure our contract that we had years. Um and then are about the same but um that it's just more clear. We're all on the same page as how that is structured. We've also got to go into the consortium agreement um our and our host agreement will be some agreement next year. appendix so that everybody can see it and knows what goes into being a host school partner and we just signed our our together contact there's no increase but the same amount of services >> okay I won't spend too much time on this but it is a fund that you adopt So felt like I should include something. The debt service fund is
030just simply um you know the fund that the districts have to collect taxes to pay off old debt. Usually it's because of bonds, right? And people tend to forget that bonds take 20 years or more to pay off. So I know we have to pass a bond in a while, but bonds have long legacies, right? And so you'll see the amounts in the budget for the debt service fund um gradually diminish and we are seeing that in this budget. Um and I'm just reminding you why because I don't think you've seen this slide before but you see the blue, right? So just like you have like if you own a home and you have a project when you're going to pay off that home, you like I can't wait for 2029 because I'm going to
031pay off my home and I won't have that payment anymore. School districts do the same. have all these bonds going. They're all on different schedules. Um, and water is sort of set in such a way that in 2029 we're going to pay off a decent chunk of which is why we've had conversations with the board like maybe that's the time to go. So you kind of see as we give you a budget, you look at that service fund, you'll remember, oh right, that fund is to pay off the debt that's gradually decreasing in 2020. Really the amount that's in that budget is only it's not sort of a treasury amount. It's the amount necessary to pay off the debts that are going. >> Um so another thing that's you know kind of topical current this
032budget is it's unusual I think it's unusual for me in my career um to be negotiating with literally every group um and so compensation and staffing the largest budget we are literally negotiating the largest um we have communicated our financial parameters and um the goals that the board has um and I would say I'm happy to say that part has been very collaborative um interest based discussion so far and um for many of my labor partners here with me just wanted to say publicly that we sort of appreciate that approach so far um we've made incremental success in trying to meet each other's um couple things I did want to highlight here is that the principal group in the classic sense of that but we'll be talking every year about this contract and also So
033I guess a bit of an announcement here in that last year you will call that among um leadership and non-representative groups not only did they forgo a cola last year but we also asked them to take payment most days um This >> this budget um includes the assumption that IPD will be provided to those groups that took that hit last year. Um the thinking and discussion around that is the follow. You know, we're on the road to recovery, but we haven't arrived there yet. >> But given that we are on that road, >> um it's just too steep of an ask to ask took two years uh of pay um and so that's ultimately where we landed and I wanted to be clear that that there are no scheduled fur >> is the plan to
034stagger this so we don't do this every bargaining season >> um >> that would be the So the the issue that comes up here is that when districts are in some sort of financial distress as we have been a lot of times bargaining partners are really only interested in one year agreement because they're going to wait to see you recover. So, um, we could be >> it's not necessarily something that I can just go, okay, we're getting, right? That's part of the consequence of being financial. Um, it's an enormous amount of work, but also it's a way of evaluating our partners. You know, it's an opportunity for them to all have their say about their needs. Um, and >> yeah, I don't really know what else to say about it. other than this is not
035by design. >> Most likely we'll be having the same conversation. I >> mean, that was a great answer. the rest of that conversation probably for a great I said what I can tell you >> um just looking back last year about this time we had represented the board that we're working on the food beverage and travel procedures and we are and will be you'll probably see possibly in August but the next wave of like policy revised procedure on also there's been a fair amount discussion about facility use in the district. Um and just for this year, we have taken a fresh look at both the policy on facility use and we have identified a couple of requirements that are necessary in the policy. We have also looked at the application and are making changes to
036the application. And really what this is about is some I feel like clarification in our community about what internal facilities really mean. Um there are some organizations that we work sort of arm in-armm with um that we have a close relationship with but are nevertheless separate legal entities. And so when they use our facility they do so as friends but they do so as technically outside organizations. And so there are certain procedures that we need to make sure that we're following when we're working with our valued still valued clear very valued uh booster clubs and and other organizations educational foundations very together you know very close nonprofits that are nevertheless not part of our liability profile. >> I would say the right now is that we're going to go through like the budget finance team
037will be going through kind of their waiver of policy stuff. You start to see a lot of stuff in August. So, this will be one of those, but we've already moved forward with the application change. >> And so, kind of where we're at in summary is that I do feel like >> we We are on track to meet our interim goals that we set for the year that we are in6. >> Um I wanted to clarify a comment that was made earlier about the inter loan. It's just important to get clear on the record. Um >> it's not a forgone conclusion that we will not move to fund loan next year but it's not a conclusion. That is our goal and we think we can operate but it is uh more than likely that we
038will ask you to figure a resolution in the fall for a much lower amount just so that we're not you know we don't know what's going to happen with enrollment seems like every year we get a surprise with enrollment. So is the goal, but when you say there will be no loan, there very well could be a loan that >> um and just to statewise stated earlier about and then finally we're sort of in this period where um we asked this community like this was the pedal to the metal year for budget reductions. We shut down pretty much all over time. People were not allowed to travel for the most part. Um, you know, it was it was Nemo's last year and we we're aware of the fact that that's not our new normal. You
039know, that's not going to become water for the next 20 years. So, as we get closer to our financial goals, there will be some cost savings reduction strategies to stay and some we off. We can't ask our employees to professional development, you know, and we did ask that for a year. >> So now there will be certain employees who um you know, some of whom went through a conference of their own expense, for example, you know, we're not going to we're going to return to a situation, you know, people need to be professionally developed. Now there will be proper parameters around that, of course, but you can't really do that for more than about a year. Um expect want to be somewhere. So those sorts of things will start to change but frankly some of
040the limitations that we put on over time there were things that just kind of needed to be cleaned up and would be permanently. So it's a mix of the two and that concludes the presentation. So the next you would hear from us essentially is that once we create an F195 budget we're required by a lot of post that the website send it to the USD it will be available both the board and the broader community we will back in with questions >> questions. Okay, thank you very much for your time. How long are we going to work at the end? >> Just ask, >> is there any public comment on the public hearing portion of this meeting around the budget presenting today? Anyone? Okay, the regular meeting will be convened at 6:45 p.m. >> We
041will now move on to our regular uh public comments. Before we begin, I would like to remind the members of the public that if you wish to have addressed the board during the public comment portion of this meeting, you wouldn't need to fill out the public comment form available on the district website by 9:00 a.m. today. If you missed this opportunity, you are welcome to sign up regular board meeting. Email your comments to the board information on the district website. I've never met a microphone. I don't know. >> Good evening, school district member, board members. Uh my name is Thomas Cena Cooper. I am the thirst county fair manager. Joining me this evening is our longtime serving airboard volunteer Don Watson. He is our invitation deliverer this evening for you. So I am here to
042thank you this evening for your support of the thirsting county fair and specifically because this summer you are running messaging on the leaderboards encouraging people to attend fair. It's a wonderful gift and I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. makes a big difference. We love free advertising. And I wanted to remind you of all of the youth that participate in fair, many of whom are water school district students. Fair is important in our community. It teaches skills lifetime skills, responsibility, and leadership and builds builds relationships between kids throughout the community, which is a really really important thing. So I just wanted to take a moment and say, hey, we have a lot of shared territory here. We care about the definely about the kids, too. And thank you. Together, we're working
043as a village to help create a good community for us to grow up in. So, as I mentioned a moment ago, Dawn is handing out our invitations right now. Every year at the fair, which runs July 30th through August 2nd this year, on the very first day of fair, July 30th, we have a welcoming ceremony. This is a great opportunity because we get to do some fun things like volunteer recognition and awards and that kind of thing. But we also do an elected officials game. Now, we do not tell you ahead of time what that game is, but it's called competition. And my observation in the past couple of years that I've been in this position is that we do not have any schoolboard members here. I'm going to give you all a hint I
044haven't given anybody else. School board members are probably well suited for this year's event. I will let that be. Uh, I will tell you that Sheriff Sanders has won the past few years, but we're looking for other folks to take that title as serious. >> He's a water graduate. >> Here's your opportunity. >> You're welcome. >> So, we want to we want to encourage you to join us. It's a great opportunity to take a moment, enjoy our community, enjoy our fair, celebrate with one another, have a good time, and like I said, would love to see a school board member up there on that winner's podium come that officed officials. So, that is all we're here to say tonight mostly. Thank you. Appreciate all of your hard work. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we'll now
045move on to reports to the board. First up is Chris is going to be going over a first reading. Yes, the first reading for policy 2030 service animals in school. Go ahead. >> Hello board. Uh so we have policy 2030 coming up which is about service animals which are the animals that are trained to do a task for an individual. And so individuals with disabilities may have a service animal accompany them to school or on a bus. And we are just making sure we're picking up the language for some federal compliance. >> Any questions in regards to this one? >> So this says it can only be a dog. >> It can be a dog or a >> train horse. I double check. Okay, >> I'll double check the strike. >> Yeah, I I also
046find it interesting. It's just a dog with a horse, but I >> have one. I've only met one ever. >> And apparently you're not supposed to have it. >> Are you serious? I I will double check >> in in full transparency. You may remember about four years ago when I first came here, this was one of the policies that I actually brought forward at that time because I had noticed it. that um we've we've had some office of civil rights work that apparently had been pending long long before that that this has come through from our legal team. So I will double check because I do believe that our current policy does have the miniature horse and I thought the miniature horse was part of the war policy has guessing that'll be corrected in the
047final version. >> No worse. >> No peacock or trained parrot. No. >> All right. Thank you. meeting. >> Good evening, school board. Um, so yes, I have a report from the city of Tom Police Department. Um, I met with Ken Driver on Tuesday. he is the acting deputy chief >> and he kind of explained the situation and I'm and then he sent me an email so I'm going to summarize it. >> Um so the Tom Water Police Department remains committed to restoring the second SRO position to Tom Water School District as soon as staffing levels allow. They have some staffing challenges that they're working through. um they need to first address their patrol vacancies um so that they can meet their community service obligations and they currently have three patrol positions to fill. One patrol
048position um they're hoping to fill early September 2026. Uh they have a current officer who completes the field training program and will become fully deployable. In addition, they've hired three new officers who are preparing to attend the police academy. And this is great news. Um, but they won't be available to patrol until they finish their academy and field training, which is anticipated to occur during the first quarter of 2027. They've also um they're evaluating two lateral officer candidates. I didn't know what lateral meant, but it's current place officers. they're just in a different jurisdiction. Um, so if those hiring processes are successful, then those officers could um contribute to patrol during the fall of 2026, which would then improve our ability to reassign personnel more quickly. Um, so there's just some v variables that they're
049going through. They can't provide a definitive timeline. um but they wanted to assure us that filling the vacant SRO position in the Tom Water School District remains a priority for the department and they're going to do it as soon as it's operationally feasible. And in the meantime, um they are confident and I would echo that we are confident that officer Stocker is doing a great job. He has the support of our investigations division and patrol and uh he's providing exceptional service to the district um and meeting the needs of the student staff and school community. >> Uh their last statement is that they remain committed to a strong partnership with the school district. Right. We'll now move on to action items. Can we get him one more time, folks? He's still here. Still here. >>
050Mel's going to talk us about right away, which I think we talked about maybe a couple years ago. We're always talking right away. It's a condition of construction. And so you can see from the the diagram there is a developer building, three apartment buildings. There's a total of 400 apartments due east of New Market Center. And the city has a plan of streets in that part of town. And you see that the name of the developer is Grand Views New Market LLC. They are required to dedicate and build half a street of lanes on all four sides. They're dedicating the rightway on the north and the south side and the west side of their property side of New Market New South W. >> If it was a private entity, they would have probably the land
051from them and then build the dedicated to the city. Public entity easier and clearly the appraised value of the property is over $32,000. We will dedicate the property does not change will have to build half street of the street sidewalk streets there on all four sides But this gets the process started. New build. They will be required to build this build out. We do have a minor works project included capital dedication to the city of water in exchange for grant. capital. There is a talking to our attorney. She suggested that the RCW 45 days Improve the transportation flow all the way through there. >> Great. Yes, they will do. >> I remember talking to a previous director who said that they would call 911. They could hear the fire station in the district. Any other
052questions from Mel? >> Okay, Mel. It's been a pleasure. Thank you, sir. >> Cheers. >> Right. Next up, >> I move that Approve resolution as presented. Oh. Uh, conveyance of right away market. I second in favor of approving >> resolution 25 1226 say I. I. Those opposed. resolution 256. Go ahead, Kevin. >> Um, yeah. So, so director Taylor and Russ asked me to put together a resolution regarding flag football. So, I think there's been interest. I think one of the things they were I think we started with a question of are girls playing fight football this year and I end up like thought so and kind of to discover that no they did not play this year um WA did create that as an official sport district four is that we're in district four um
053had no other schools very few schools I guess no schools can create a league or create partners to play and because it's an official sport um the schools can't do other things like basically create kind of an ad hoc sort of group and play each other. I think that's not allowed once it becomes an official WA sport. >> Um there was some opportunity they could have left and did different gone to a different league. I think there was just sort of I think some timing of this year. Um I think there's also costs associated with this and so as as we kind of presented um they could have participated this year in just about any format that we wanted. I don't think we gave any restriction of like you can only play in district 4.
054Um we did say given our budget situation that this needed to be funded out of ASV. Um and then um and I'm sure there's sort of some mix of that but predominantly funded out of that and we again it didn't really take off. So I think this is a resolution that takes and and kind of highlights some of um this becoming uh an official sport and support. um if you approve this really is sending a very strong message that this board supports and encourages and and really this is you know basically saying is hey take all necessary step to put this into place next year obviously students still need to be interested in playing um I think there are some opportunities in a local or regional district and I there's a couple different options being
055floed about some that some were in one district going up north the other one maybe a little bit district to the coast um so some opportunities I think that exist both ways to play. And so this resolution sort of captures a bit of that current situation and encouraging them to to add that next year. Um, I think one of the reasons why uh I was bringing this for this Kevin was because I want uh our school district to be a leadership where we're not waiting for potentially someone else from our district to started up to join them, but we're giving at our schools opportunities right from the getgo. and we're taking a leadership position so that in the hope that you know a year or two down the road maybe more local schools. So um
056I think there's plenty of schools locally that do play that aren't in district 4. Um so providing those opportunities for for girls to children that support really important water. >> Yeah, I'll add Kevin highlighted it right there. to take all reasonable necessary steps to implement those football programs. This is a sport now both schools supportive opportunities I think we've cleared the way here that this is going to be funed. You can be creative in the way that it's funed. You can be creative in the way you approach it. partner with you to reach out. But what is important for other comments? >> I guess my question is um so do we need to pass this resolution in order to establish the teams? I'm just curious. No, technically we would not have to pass this before
057because they had the opportunity to to add this this year. We didn't we didn't necessarily put any roadblocks in that. I think it was funding and again I think I think there was a definitely an an assumption as we entered into the fall that district 4 would have to play and then you know that takes some time as they do outreach and ask students if they're interested that sort of fell apart even as they got close to them and then I think it sort of limited them doing So I think is that captured? I don't know. So I think they could have started this last year. I don't think it's necessary, but they may have. I I think >> in some ways they're left with the same obstacles that they're currently in. And so this
058certainly pushes them to solve this find a path. >> Does it is it necessary? Does it >> how does it obligate? >> Uh I mean I think this is where you know you your your methodology kind of as a board it really because it's listed in here is directing the superintendent which is on the operation side to pursue this um that the board has interest in in seeing this come to fruition. And so you're directing me to make sure that there's a plan of implementation. And so again, it just pushes this as a a priority from the board to make it happen. So I can assure you by passing this resolution, we will make every effort to have I mean obviously I can't make students play, but we will make every effort to have them
059participate in sport. Um this does say at the bottom that um we would come back in October with an update on where they're going to play, who they're going to play, what the schedule looks like, probably some anticipated costs and some of those contributors. >> This is fresh. You may know my Johnson resolution 2526 girls playing football. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed resolution 2526 passes as presented. >> Next up is a second reading on policy >> student discipline meeting. >> Thank you. Um so this is the second reading of the updated student discipline policy that I brought last month. Uh it's just as a review it aligns with state requirements. Um and moving forward um it will it will align our uh discipline matrices and we'll be providing um training
060in August um to all principles um to ensure consistent implementation. Um, this package, it's part of the critical package. It's a former policy that we already had. Um, WASA updated it in May 2025 and it's we're using their model policy. >> So, I recommend that the board adopts policy 3241. some of the red language building. >> Thank you, Rob. >> You're welcome. I'll check it. I move adoption of policy. Second favored. >> Thank you. >> We'll now move on to the superintendent report. >> Go ahead. >> Thank you. Um before I get kind of started with my official remarks, I I do want Today is the last day of school. We're the 25 26 school year and so um you know lots of happy kids and us waving and we see that joy and some
061sadness. Um, I think I was over at East Ori and they were saying some kids will come for 30 minutes and it's a it's just a reminder there's joy in this and kids off to summer and going to have they probably have camp and all kinds of things and we have kids going where there's food insecurity and there is um uncertainty about who's going to be watching what they're going to do access to anything. Um, and so I think kids like this is their safe place. this is where you know they're going to get meals when they come breakfast and lunch. Um and so I think that it's just a reminder of both joy and and kind of angst that occurs even with something that we kind of see last day of school and this
062kind of feels like a celebratory day and kind of like oh it's the system where system of of education where we have these breaks in the summer aren't always best for all kids. And so just a reminder that we have, you know, work to do as we continue to support kids um at all times in the year. But it is a it is a always a good thing I think I've loved about public education is to kind of come through and we get to reassess things, make some changes, refresh ourselves and become a new. And I think that's really important as um this job for educators and all the support staff, they they're tired. They're tired by the time we get to June. And so they need a little break and they'll be ready to
063go. back September. So, I just wanted to start off by that because I we don't often have a board meeting on the last year. So, felt a little we needed to start there. Um we have been doing strategic spotlights throughout the year and I hope you've appreciated that little insights as we try to tie and look for ways the work that's happening and experiences that are happening in the district as they tie to our strategic plan. This is looks like the director of the band. So this is at Black Hills High School band concert and this is Adeline Rice and she took to the podium to conduct the band and she was one of our students. Um they this is one of again one of our portraits of a of a graduate come into action.
064Um the courage and confidence to stand in front of a bunch of counts of musicians and lead them through a pretty intricate performance um in front of a live audience is one of those things embracing some risk takingaking and resilience. So moments like this remind us of learning that happens in many different ways. It is not the test that we get to see. Um whether it's solving a difficult problem or performing on stage or leading others this growth comes when students are willing to step outside their comfort zone and try something new. Um and I think uh Hamilton is on our way to maturing some music career. So, >> I just wanted to note that Adeline also directed the choir at their end of year concert. So, this was not her only time at the
065podium directing this year. >> So, yeah, not a kind of an unusual I don't see a lot of high school students doing this. So, it was kind of a something that really stuck out to me. I think it stuck out to to Lori who helps put these things together as well. Um on May 19th we have the opportunity to celebrate and recognize our extraordinary group of retirees. Um so they are beginning their new chapter of of retirement and not having to to get up on a regular basis to to check in and do all those things. So we celebrated that at New Orphan School. Um they represented more than 900 years of service to our students in our schools and families and community. Um throughout their careers they have served as educators, mentors, leaders, trusted
066colleagues. Uh they've helped shape the experience of countless students and have contributed greatly to the success of this district. Their impact extends far beyond classrooms and offices. It can be seen in the lives they've influenced, the relationships they build, the lasting legacy they leave behind. While we will miss their expertise, dedication and daily presence, we are deeply grateful for the years that they have devoted to our district and excited for the opportunities that await them in retirement. So on behalf of the district, I know we said this at the retirement, but certainly on the record once again like to extend our sincere appreciation and congratulations to our 256 retirees for their remarkable service and contributions and we wish them all the the best in the next chapter. We've had graduation and I know um you
067were part of a lot of those celebrations over the last week and so congratulations to all of our seniors. I don't know if you were keeping track. We had to water High School graduate 265 seniors. Black Hills High School 169. Cascadia High School, one of their largest graduating classes, 68 students. And New Market High School had 44 graduates this year. So, um one of the highest graduation counts I'm hearing from the state. This is sort of a peak in the state of Washington of all these graduates and then we're sort of anticipating because of birth rates and all this like all of a sudden like for the next two decades a declining like graduations statewide and we will probably be facing some of the similar things. >> We didn't we you've got to see some
068of our track um athletes and we usually invite our state champions to come and be celebrated and and maybe sometimes we have goodies for you know cookies and some goodies for some of our larger groups. But I also wanted to just, you know, we've taken some opportunities to congratulate these teams as they get um to states. And so I do want to continue that today. So congratulations to the Tumblr High School varsity baseball team. Um they went 23 and five this year, were league champs, district champs, and took second place in the state. They were so close to their third state title. Um they took extra innings from the defending champs, Banebridge High School, um to lose one to zero. Um so what an amazing season. Congratulations to you. I've also started, you know, kind
069of making sure that we're highlighting some of these athletes. Um, WA does their athlete of the week and we have lots of schools. Um, there's there's 297 school districts and they don't and they they do recognize quite a few athletes, but not that many. And we have a couple per year and I want to make sure that we're acknowledging them. This is Alexander Brew, a junior at Twater High School, was named the WIA athlete of the week um in May >> and she delivered outstanding performance at the District 4 championships, capturing district titles in both the 400 meter and 800 meter races, also contributing to championship winning relay teams in the 4x2 4x4. She scored 40 of Tom Waters 135 team points, helping the Thunderbirds to the district championship. So congratulations to Alexander for welldeserved
070recognition and exceptional accomplishment both individually and as a team. >> A few different updates that you may have seen or will see as you um enter on tour grounds in the coming fall. This is a scoreboard at Tom Middle School. And so if you've been to events in the past um they have had a little little clock on a table in the corner that they wheel out a extension cord and you can you can't really see the time or hear the horn or anything of it or see the score. And so, um, our other middle school has a a scoreboard. So, we now have come water has a new scoreboard that they'll be using in the fall for both football and soccer and other things. So, that's a nice addition and I'm sure they will
071appreciate that greatly. Here is the final pictures of the Black Hills um covered stance. And so I know we've been kind of giving updates on this, but this uh finally this chapter has been completed. It enhances that spectator experience for our students, families, and community members. Both um protections from the elements during athletic events and not other outdoor activities. The completed structure is now a really visible improvement to the stadium and reflects the district's ongoing commitment to maintaining and improving facilities that support the students, our student programs, and community engagement. person to person. We really connect >> Day of Champions. Um if you've had a chance uh to come to that, I know you were all invited. May 21st is one of those mornings. It was a kind of a gray day, but perfect for
072Day of Champions. Wasn't too cold, wasn't too hot. Um students from across the district came together for this really special day of fun, friendship, athletic achievement at Tom High School for Day of Champions. From races to relays, cheers, and laughter through the air as our incredible student athletes gave their all and had so much fun doing so. is organized by organized by our special services team and they did an amazing job of putting together a series of field day events for students with special needs. The event had student volunteers from um all of our like secondary schools um Tomwater High School, Black Hills High School, Bush Middle School, Tom Water Middle School along with a large group of staff members. Everyone had a great time. We even had a student group um from Peter G
073who walked up um to the high school and were in the stands cheering. And so I think year as we have more of our programs across all of our elementaryaries. I heard a lot of interest around buses and immediate and they would like to bring students from all of our schools to come and um that stadium will be rock and mild if that happens. So um we'll we'll be looking to kind of just extend that opportunity and and just celebrating and there's so many big smiles. It's a lot of fun. Oh yeah, the the event concludes with a dance party. Um I don't know if Ben was available this year at that. I think he was out of town and so they were really all disappointed that that you didn't make a reoccurring occurrence because
074he had let you have got awarded like a dance dancer of the year and so next year we expect you to make sure that's on your calendar so that you can recapture your title. I have video apparently of me dancing and that really is probably not something that should be seen. I won't be showing you that video. So, and finally um we have so many great events and somewhere Hill continued continued to you know roomless and led by Heather Stoker and she is just director and a bunch of these kids. She does this during lunch and after school and so this was I think that picture is actually from last year but it was this last Sunday and the crowd was larger even than that. Um they had vendor booths there to provide um every
075classroom group performed. They play all these pop tunes and so everyone kind of knows the song or kind of with my son, my wife kind of like gets like guess this song like do you know because it's always something I recognize that and I think Heather writes a lot of that herself and gets arrangements and so the kids have a great time. Um this is the second year in a row that they've done this and they again a big turnout and I think it's always kind of a risky on whether they're going to get the weather to to do on their campus but a lot of fun. >> That is all I have for today for the last report for the school year. Thank you, Kevin. Appreciate it. >> We'll now move on to board
076comments. Please keep in mind that each person. >> All right, I'll go first. Um uh first let me call out Mel uh for retiring and leaving us but uh thank you for everything you've done and all the important updates that I get fascinated with as someone was formerly in engineering and in school and wanted to be down that kind of pathway at one point it all really interesting and you did a fantastic job so I miss you looking forward to working more with and the future We'll go from there. Um secondly, uh on a personal level, I think it's important to know just about the potential. Um I was absent from all the graduations this last week, which is not something I wanted or intended to do. Um we had a personal surgery in the
077hospital um in and out for several days over the course of the last uh week. So, um I wasn't able to come to those, but um she's feeling much better now. I think she's on the road to recovery. Um but, uh kind of just goes to show you that we're all dreams up here on on the school board and sometimes uh life happens and and uh we're people, too. So, um I knew to prioritize my family in that time and uh I do look forward to next year's graduation with the hopes of making it to all four of them. So, Thank you. >> Um well uh I'll just say uh Ty you were missed but you were exactly where you needed to be and um we miss you but um I hope your uh wife
078is on the road to recovery. So um I also uh just had a great time at the graduations um was really just struck by how um uh how much energy there is like how much work goes into uh into those events. Um so deep appreciation for all the faculty and staff who put in the long hours to to pull off those events and just you know congratulations to all our graduates. It was just amazing to hear from all of them and um to shake their hand and see them off into this next phase in your >> life. And sometimes they're unexpected. Sometimes they are strangers. >> Also, goodbye to Mel. Great to have you. Glad we got to hear from you one more time. I thought last time was the last time. So until we
079hear something in July, I guess I was able to go go to the graduations and what a great experience it was and I was thinking that you know we have alternative high schools I think that's what we call them and there's two of them but 20% of our graduates were from those two schools and I thought those all the graduations were fantastic I thought the student speakers were great I thought the administrators were great I thought that it was a great testimony to the administrators and teachers you know how many good things that the kids had to say about them and it was a great experience to get those graduations Yeah, lots of lots of activities uh last last week and this week uh the graduation breakfast at Black Hills Water all the graduates while
080they were a little sleepy. Um we're all very appreciative everyone's thank you for that is good representation. uh Cascadia had had a barbecue season. Um all the graduations um Rob and I were talking about they're all so different and like perfect for the schools and um just love that they make it each. Um today I went to the transportation barbecue. If there was an if there was an award to give out for dancing, Ben would have won won an award today. Um You can put that in your presentation for the future. Um, but what was what was uh what was really special is I just happened to sit down at a table next to this bus driver who was there when my dad was a bus driver. And she just had really great stories um
081to share about um what a nice guy my dad was. And so that was really nice. Uhhuh. So people know about um when my dad was writing MFA and I remember him fondly and it's one of the reasons I just appreciate and uh so the graduates and and our staff lots of smiling faces out of that barbecue. Um and it just transportation had a good year and I really appreciated what they've been doing and all of our staff have done a good job. No, we stopped doing updates around no way around again second consecutive year 360ce. >> Yeah, I almost did. Congratulations to our graduates. No, for sure. want to thank our folks retiring. There's always a few names on that list you said to see go. I don't know if there's any more that
082are there around when I was there. for sure. Um but just want to thank you. >> Thank you everybody. I appreciate it. >> Okay. So with no further business coming before the board, the regular meeting at 26 p.m.