TSD Board Meeting - February 26, 2026

001Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Good. Heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. I would like to call the meeting to  order and uh order and acknowledge   that the water school district sits  on the ancestral land of Misquali.   Island people. I thank these  figures of who lived on memorial. Please rise as I leave. Superintendent, have there been any changes  or additions to the agenda since it was   published? No changes or additions  to the agenda. Can I make a request? I make a motion to add a discussion  and update with no situation. I'm going to put that all together one  time for everyone else. I'd like to   make a motion to add a discussion so we  can get an update on the SRO situation. information right now. So that we could  discuss it and then maybe question our discuss

002update questions in the discussion.  I I'll leave it mostly up to Kevin, but um I I   mean I just wanted to know what's going on. We  the board wasn't until last Friday. That's what   I found out using one of our board knows what's  going on, what the different options are, what the   potential plan will be. Obviously, it's a very  quick reaction. We can't just make a decision.   just kind of want to keep the public. And just to reiterate, we're  not expecting any action. Kevin, is that something  you feel comfortable? Yeah, there. So I'll entertain a motion  before added to the agenda.   I believe if we add this, we should put  it after the legislative update and before a municip in favor of adding a topic around  discussion. After the legislative   report number four for comments

003say I I agenda Washington. All right. Thank you. We'll now move on  to meeting minutes review. The minutes   from the January 22nd meeting have been  distributed to the board. Are there any   changes or correct? All those in favor  of approving the meeting minutes from   January 22nd as presented say I. Those  opposed. Now move to consent agenda. The items on the consent agenda have been provided   to the board. Are there any  questions or discussion? All those in favor of approving the  consent agenda say I. All those opposed. The consent agenda is approved as presented. We'll  now move on to student report. The question for   February is regarding digital well-being. Beyond  cell phones, how are students navigating social   media, screen time, and online conflict? What  guidance or support would help promote healthier   digital habits? Take a volunteer

004might Hello  members of the board. Things have been well. I   hope things have been well since the last meeting.  With this question provided on digital well-being,   the response was mixed. There are students who  frankly felt like it was none of the school's   business and students who had very articulate  answers on how they keep good interactions and   board online conflict. To start, there's  a good majority who felt it was a personal   issue and were put on to defendants. But this was  interesting from all the other topics I presented   from their responses were taken more from an  academic perspective. About 50% of them say   that they are navigating social media fairly well  and are conscious uh conscious and concerning the   risks over social media and his screen time.  They provided their solutions on how to stay   safe

005online including blocking people they don't  know or anybody they have issues with along with   having a private profile along uh their main  problem highlighted in the responses with the   struggle with not being able to stop scrolling  on social media which leaves them forgetting the   tasks they had to do. From what I've gathered,  uh, this is what they're very aware of the   risk and how social media is affecting them in a  negative way, but have found ways to manage and,   uh, deal with the negative parts and mainly use  for conversation with their friends. Uh, with the   questions of with the question of what guidance  do us students want is closer to them. Most of the   students were very confident in their abilities  to keep themselves safe online. Some students   did share how they'd appreciate positive feedback 

006for the issues they'd be sharing. One student did   present the concern for lack of guidance on how to  create healthy disagreements in online situations   promote uh online situations promote more of  the toxic fighting mindset and a grading of   someone's character to win the argument instead of  creating a space of self-development. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I'm the student board rep  for Black Hills High School and in an anonymous   survey, Black Hills students were asked about  their digital habits both in and outside of   school. From the survey, the majority of students  responded that they spent on average one to two   hours on devices for school activities and they  spent on average 3 to 5 hours on devices outside   of school. An overwhelming amount of students  responded saying that they are satisfied with the   digital use in

007their classrooms. Particularly,  I noticed that students were happy between the   balance of online to physical um school work.  Moreover, students were asked to rate how   safe they felt on social media on a scale of  1 to 10. The average score for these responses   was seven out of 10 with most responses being a  five out of 10 or high. A trend I noticed in the   data was that a significant portion of students  were suggesting that listening to music while   doing independent work should be allowed with  the logic that it made them more productive   and less likely to succumb to distractions.  Another trend I noticed was that students were   recommending that media literacy be taught in  schools, specifically on how to stay safe and   control screen time habits on social media.  All in all, many students are

008happy with the   way technology is being utilized for school.  However, students would appreciate leniency   regarding music use in school and would appreciate  media literacy being taught in class. Thank you. Good evening, Tom School Board. I'm here on behalf  of Tom High School student body this month to   share feedback about how students feel regarding  digital well-being, including social media,   screen time, and online conflicts. Based  on surveys I shared with my student body,   many are finding ways to manage their digital  lives quite efficiently. Some students set timers,   take breaks, or make plan for outdoor and offline  activities like sports, hobbies, or spending time   with family. Others naturally limit their social  media use by avoiding creating accounts altogether   or by connecting only with those that they know in  real life. Many students also share that they use   mindfulness

009strategies like putting phones away,  ignoring online drama, or carefully deciding when   and how to respond online. At the same time,  managing digital habits isn't always easy. Some   students admitted their screen time is higher  than they'd like or that they don't put much   thought into how they manage it. A few mentioned  that even when they set screen time limits, it can   be tempting to ignore the notification and keep  scrolling. Others mentioned that while they know   they should take breaks, they still struggle with  them whether they should just stay off screens.   While online conflicts are less common, when they  do happen, students said that they handle them by   blocking others, ignoring situations, calmly  addressing problems, or reporting incidents to   staff if something occurs at school. If something  were to occur at school, many students said that   they

010felt comfortable enough to go away from  the building. Students also offered ideas for   promoting healthier digital habits. Many suggested  setting limits on screen time or app use,   using parental controls, or receiving incentives  from the goals like student staff members to spend   less time online. Some even mentioned creative  ideas like small rewards, friendly competitions,   or recognition for meeting personal screen time  goals. Others emphasized offline activities   like sports, crafting, or reading as helpful  ways to balance. Several students expressed   interest in more interactive hands-on learning  at school, things such as projects, discussions,   and creative activities that can reduce screen  time use and increase real world engagement.   Quite a few students also suggested that reducing  online homework when possible could lower their   overall screen time since so much school work  is navigated online. When asked what teachers   or schools

011can do to help, student responses  showed their desire for guidance rather than   strict control. Some students said limiting  phone use during certain parts of the day can   help them stay focused while still allowing  flexibility for us. A clear theme across   responses was balance and autonomy. Students want  the availability to manage their own screen time   while still knowing tools and guidance are  available when needed. Many expressed that   forcing strict rules may lead to resistance to  having supportive adults, structured boundaries,   and engaging opportunities makes healthier  choices easier. They also highlighted the   value of cool and home environments that encourage  offline engagement and respectful online behavior.   In summary, students are thinking carefully  about how to use technology in healthy ways,   but many would benefit from support, guidance for  handling online conflict, and more opportunities   for to engage away

012from screen. Overall, students  want a balanced digital environment where we can   connect and learn safely online while maintaining  our mental and emotional wellbeing offline. Courtney, thank you students. We will now move  on to public comment. Before I begin, I would   like to remind members of the public that if you  wish to have addressed the board during public   comment portion of this meeting, you would need  to filled 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 at the next regular board meeting or email  your comments to the board andor superintendent.   Contact information is on the district website.  Second, did you receive any submission? Isn't it funny? Federal employee working with the Navy and  the Veterans Health Administration here today.   I'm

013also a parent who is concerned about  the lack of information provided to students   regarding the aggressive enforcement  of Palestinian immigration actions. Students are operating how the district attempted on schools particularly  the 15% of the student body When I got here, I saw on the agenda that there read it. I my opinion on it having read it is that it is a common sense response that is focused  on safety and wellbeing of the students in this   district. I think that it is a wise action to take  and I I hope that you will support this policy. I wanted to ask you, my name is Courtney Brown. I have one in the  district and one that will be in the district.   Um, last month, uh, a handful of Tom Water High,  um, students took part in a

014protest against ICE.   Um, a few of them were sent home because they  wrote bad words on their face. And I'm not here   to debate whether that's right or wrong. Um, it's  a very teenage thing to do and it was handled in   house. Um, my understanding was that those two  were sent home. Um, no further action was taken.   They were told not to do it again. Life went on.  What I do have a problem with is that Brandy Cruz   took to X with the unredacted. Those are my  redactions of a minor with with those words   on her face. She tweeted it out and uh also  said her location at the time which was high   school. There were nearly a quarter of a million  views on this photo. And this is in the middle   of an international

015investigation on which is AI  generator that has been used to generate AI photos   of children and minors in sexual contest. This  woman just tweeted out a picture of one of our   students and um almost a million people. Um the  school district also let her and her organization   have access to my son's pool in December. I asked  the principal and I asked the superintendent and   we had a very civil and wonderful conversation  about how it was the only option on the table   and how they consulted um with other legal bodies  to make sure that it was the right decision. Um I   opposed it because the last time she was there for  an unpermitted rally, someone went to the hospital   um I am asking again to please not give a  permit to her to use our school

016buildings. Um,   this is not somebody that has the safety of  our students in mind and I do not believe   another permit should request one would be a good  idea for the safety of our students. Thank you. Dracula during the day at night. Good evening. My name is Carrie. I'm a parent  of a TW student and I support the board seeking   action on and adopting policy 3226 which was heard  for the first time last month and 4310 which is   on for first reading today. I believe that's the  policy that another commenter spoke about. First   3226 addresses whether CPS and law enforcement  can interview students on campus for district   initiated investigations and investigations of  child abuse and serious crimes. It conforms with   state law and Washington state school directors  association policy that was first proposed more   than

01710 years ago but has not yet been adopted in  some way. It amongst the stakeholders that worked   on that uh policy were then racing police chiefs  um as well as others. Um at last month uh director   Warner referred to it as one of the more critical  policies that you were considering. Um I don't see   it that way. about how and when our district and  its staff will allow these interviews to occur,   provides clarity um about that um including to  our own district um community and is intended   to promote child safety, which is core to your  mission. Um as for policy 4310, this policy also   clarifies that the district's mission is not  aligned with civil immigration enforcement and   that um as a result, the district will not allow  civil immigration enforcement to access secure   school spaces

018unless legally required to do so.  um and approved by district leadership. Adopting   this policy and related protocols will help our  families feel safer about bringing their students   students to our schools, which again I think is  hoarding the mission. Um the chaos and fear that   ensues when armed ICE agents show up to schools  doesn't promote safety and education for anyone   and we've seen that in neighborhoods um as close  as Portland. Adopting a policy that clarifies that   um these individuals won't be allowed into our  schools absent a legal requirement to to be there.   promote student safety along with students  and families constitutional rights. If you   find these policies too political to act on, then  I question what your role is here. Um, it's not   uh uh the board's role should be to promote child  safety um and

019to promote education, which is what   both of these policies would do. This is the time  to loudly affirm our support for these families   and not to sherk this responsibility. Silence is  also a political statement. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Um, thanks for having me tonight. So, I'm  just here to talk about plays. Um, transition   there. Um, so I'm actually here to advocate  for the water school district partnering with   creative theater experience. Um, creative theater  experiences from holding the summer programs in   the Olympia area for decades. So they were well  established in the art community. Um they've   since expanded their offerings to provide after  school in school theater programs. I envision   this something we can bring to the elementary  schools. Um maybe there could be, you know,   long-term like a booster club that rotates these  plays

020from elementary school, elementary school to   the middle schools. And then those kids get to  funnel into our awesome drama programs in high   schools. Um it's no cost to the district is always  a hot topic. These are typically funded through   um participation fees offering scholarship  if you can't afford that so it's equitable   um and then ticket sales. I talked with Gen School  District and they successfully hold two of these a   year that are a huge success and really bring the  community together and gives the kids a huge boost   in confidence. Their friends come watch them,  their families come watch them, and it's just   a really awesome event that the district looks  forward to every year. Um, currently there is   no offering outside of these types of programs in  Olympia. The closest after school theater program   near

021Lakewood. So, this would really put Tom  Water on the map having this drama experience   for kids that we don't have in the community.  Um, boosting enrollments, making us unique,   and giving our kids a really awesome experience  that they're proud of. Um, I'm also advocating   for Little Rock to pilot this. We currently don't  have any after summer programs. We did have one,   but that were retired and our students miss  the community and the fun that we had with   that drama program. Um, so really the ask of the  district is for the rehearsals and the gym for the   performances. And I think I think for everybody,  the students, the district, and the parents. Thank you. of abuses pursuing the same  object. This is a design. Good evening, Tom Motor School Board members.  My name is DJ Bry

022and I am the president of   the Tomwater Education Association. Tom Water  Education Association takes the official position   that if the Tomwater School District board of  directors adopts and implements policy 5254, staff   expression, then any Tom Water School District  administrators enforcement of policy 5254, staff   expression would violate the following articles of  the Tom Education Association collective barding   agreement. Article one, sitebased decisionmaking.  Article two, agreement, administration and   partnership building. Article nine, maintenance  of standards and management rights. Article 12,   association rights. Article 13, right to  join and support association. Article 14,   personal freedom. Article 15, non-discrimination.  Article 16, academic freedom. Article 17, due   process. Article 19, association presidents and  association representatives release. Article 20,   hold harmless. And article 26, leaves. Tomar  Education Association will assertively and   decisively file agreements on behalf of all  certificated staff employees. represented by  

023the Tom Motor Education Association collective  bargaining agreement is the Tom Motor School   District board of directors policy 5254.  Staff expression is enforced by any Tom   Motor School District administrator at any  time. Tomwater Education Association stands   united with public school employees, Tomwater  Association of Parrofessionals and Tom Office   Professionals Association in strong opposition  to the proposed policy 5254 staff expression. Thank you. And I have copies  of my statement that I'll be   providing to each of the five elected  board members tonight. United States. If any person or person Hello everybody, I'm Ian McKenzie or Mr. Mack.  I'm a special education preschool teacher at   Black Lake Elementary School. Um I'm also here  to talk about policy 5254 but coming from a sort   of more a different perspective I would say  um this regards teachers freedom of speech   outside of

024school. Currently the federal  government and law already has exceptions   to freedom of speech such as harassment  threats if speech could cause harm to   children or vulnerable adults in fraud or hateful  or discriminatory speech. In Washington state law,   public schools have broad authority to regulate  educator speech when representing a school. Plus,   even when not representing the school, if an  educator's speech could adversely impact the   school's ability to function or impair them as  an educator, already under Washington state law,   we have the ability to discipline educators.  In a tumb water level, every single year we do   a training where we learn things such as privacy  for students, especially in my world of special   education. You're not going to share anything or  clearly should be justifiably disciplined. Um,   don't become friends with students on social  media with families.

025Don't speak in a way that's   explicit, discriminatory, or causes a hostile  environment. All of that is already within our   local, state, and federal procedures and policies.  So my question for the board is with all of these   restrictions and policy already in place, what  part of my constitutionally protected freedom of   speech are you looking to limit? What part  of me exercising my first amendment rights   does the board want to discipline? Because  I'm really curious. What fall under what   has already been stated in those procedures and  policies and I would like an answer. Thank you. also hears me talk about plays although  it's really cool to hear all I was asked   to come I'm a representative from the creative  theater experience I was asked by Carly to come   and talk about the organization I was recently  brought

026into the role of executive director this   past summer after a large multi-year shift in  leadership historically been led by educators   I come from a family that doesn't get into  that that's something that's very important to   And as we expand into a school, that's something  we're going to be focusing on. Not just can we put   on a play with kids and put on parents, but what's  the education? So the people who work for us,   uh the people who will be working  with the children, our educators,   one of them is a student teacher at Timberland  High School right now working towards one of our   local school districts. Another is a par educator.  And as we hire people, we look for people with   Um, it's also it also means when we put our  plans together, they're very well

027structured.   We have a plan to make sure that things go  according to plan so that they actually have   a full production uh of these processes. One of  the things that can happen with younger kids is   it's easy to drag things on and you don't get  things rehearsed because then you just throw   them out on the stage and see what happens.  And we just don't do that. We create Um,   we create very detailed steps that we follow  to make sure that we get through everything,   make sure everybody has a good time. I don't have  a lot else to say other than we would welcome the   opportunity to work with school district  in any way we could actually worked with   several theater school district in the past  and it would be a wonderful opportunity. So,   thank you

028for giving me a couple minutes to speak.  I hope that's what you're looking for. Thank you. Hi, I'm Katie Gates. I'm speaking on behalf of my  special services colleague. I couldn't come. Good   evening. Thank you for the opportunity to share  this statement on behalf of the school district   educator. I understand the responsibility  to maintain an orderly and effective work   environment and I agree that when staff speak  in their official capacity we represent the   district. My concern is that the proposed policy  5254 is overly broad and vague. In particular,   the language stating that employee expression  that negatively impacts district operations or   interferes with district functioning may result  in discipline of determination. Without clear   definitions, that language creates uncertainty  for educators trying to fulfill our district   mission. I teach students with disabilities who  have significant support needs.

029In my classroom,   I intentionally use literature to ensure students  are known by name, strength, and needs. This is   our district promises. I read books featuring  children with dyslexia, autism, blindness, and   those who use mobility aids because those students  are here. I read stories reflecting diverse racial   and cultural graphics. I read books where girls  break stereotypes and I read books that include   transgender characters because we have transgender  students at our schools who deserve to feel seen   and safe. This is not political advocacy. It is  inclusive instruction aligned with our mission of   continuous student learning in a caring, engaging  environment. Our portrait of a Potter graduate   calls for responsible empathetic community members  to demonstrate respect for diverse cultures and   experiences. apply civic values such as justice  and empathy and foster inclusive relationships   as collaborative communicators. These qualities 

030do not develop accidentally. They are taught,   modeled, and nurtured in classrooms. My  concern is that the broad language of   this policy could create a chilling effect. If  supporting marginalized students is perceived   as controversial, educators may hesitate. And  that hesitation directly conflicts with our   district's promise that every student is  known and valued. I respectfully urge the   board to clarify this policy so it protects  both professional standards and the inclusive   learning environment our strategic plan calls  for. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. making terms wall approving  policies help create clarity   is not not happening and David Clark  education protest and test scores is not okay just real quick sorry apologies And is not either David Clark. I do have a student. I'm just a little curious. We've had my biggest concern because traffic and

031whatnot. And if somebody gets hit by  a car while they're out protesting or using first   amendment rights invariably and the taxpayers  have likelihood and that really kind of sucks   because not only are we more tax money to stuff  that we shouldn't be having to worry about. Um,   we got to worry about our kids getting hit  by cars and complimenting the fact that   um I'm witnessing plenty online where students and  kids are seeming to feel like it's okay if you do   not agree with what they're protesting. They have  the audacity to get and assault people. Well,   that is not freedom of speech at this point. That  becomes like a people deserve to be addressed. I   am by no means able to. Another thing is I'm  very curious to know are are instructors who   are pushing for

032this type of behavior. Are they  giving these children both sides of the spectrum?   because I'm going to tell you straight up um I'm  not for these I'm not for the schools being raided   or anything but there are criminals and criminals  out there that need to be detained and made from   our society from harming our citizens. Um like it  or not there are plenty of criminals out there.   I mean there's plenty of people that do stuff and  I'm not saying that all these people who are here illegally are, but there are enough that our  citizens and it is frustrating to see my opinion   on these kids are not being asked to critically.  Um, if you can't look at something from both sides   and then come to a conclusion, we're kind of  forcing our students to do

033certain things.   The other thing is middle school in particular  this stuff up. I mean, our test scores on this   district, middle schools got a 58% um reading  efficiency and 40 something% math either. Maybe we can try focusing on educating  our kids whether they're for tax   dollars as opposed to having them go out and  protest when they think on time. Thank you. Thank you, Becky. I'll move on to  reports to the board. First up is Steve. Good evening, members of the board. I'm going to  have uh Mrs. Dawson Dawson hand this out to you.   Over the past two school years, our district has  been engaged in an elementary English language   arts pilot to support the selection of high  quality instruction materials and strengthen   literacy instruction across our school. As a  point of context, our current ELA

034materials were   last adopted in 2014, making this an important  opportunity to review and update our resources to   better meet the needs of our students. During the  2024 and 2025 school year, we launched the pilot   with 36 teachers representing multiple schools  and grade levels. In the current year 2025 2026,   we expanded our pilot to include 42 teachers,  ensuring representation across all grades,   kindergarten through fifth grade. This expansion  allowed us to gather broader feedback and better   understand how the materials performed across  diverse classroom settings. who chose to continue   the pilot into a second year as the publisher  worked to refine and enhance the program in   preparation for a full release in the fall of  2026, so next fall. This extended pilot has given   our teachers the opportunity to provide meaningful  feedback and experience the improvements made in  

035the materials. I will say one of the things I've  appreciated about this is that we've worked in   partnership with Magnetic Literacy, which is the  materials that you're looking at that we're using,   and we've given them feedback over the last two  years, last year and this year, and they've taken   that feedback and used it as they're updating  the materials. So, we tell them, "This isn't   great. We don't like this." They literally take  that feedback and then they make improvements to   their materials. So they are using the feedback  from the teachers down to minutia of hey you know   what the pages in these student materials need  to be perforated. We don't like pages that aren't   perforated and they're like oh yeah we need  to fix that. So they perforate the materials.   It's literally that that minute. In

036addition  the program provides explicit and systematic   instruction in foundational skills in the primary  grades K through two. This aligns closely with the   IMS training that all of our kindergarten through  second grade teachers have completed which does   support a cohesive researchbased approach  to early literacy instruction. The updated   program that you're seeing includes several key  features. It integrates science and social studies   in that content which does allow for stronger  crosscurricular connections and more efficient   use of the instructional time. The materials do  include high interest text and engaging lessons   which do contribute to more increased student  engagement in their early literacy. We have   gotten family and community input which has been  an important part of this process. We hosted two   parent review opportunities, one last year and  one this year. Last week was our most recent   parent opportunity

037to gather feedback and ensure  transparency while we were moving through this   work. the packet that you received, which looks  like this. It's in your board packet. That packet   you received outlines the instructional materials  adoption process that we've been moving through   over the last two years. That process is aligned  with our board policy and procedure 2020, course   design, selection, and adoption of instructional  materials that does ensure that our review has   been thorough, transparent, and compiled. The  feedback we've gathered from our teachers,   our families will help inform our next steps and  our eventual recommendation regarding elementary   ELA instructional materials. This evening,  I'm joined by three of our teachers who   have participated in the pilot just to have them  share with you briefly their experience with the   materials and the impact that they have seen  in their classrooms.

038So, I'd like to welcome   Erin Gerky, TJ Thornon, and Lauren Roberts to  speak to you briefly about their experience   with magnetic literacy ea materials that we are  piloting for English language arts. We recently Hi, my name is Toron. I teach fifth grade  at Peter G. Um, I can't tell you just how   engaging this curriculum is. Um, I have students  who are incredibly reluctant leaders and they're   sitting there the first day I give them the  books and just looking through it and getting   up to tell their person across the room,  "Oh my gosh, look at this." Wow. Okay. So,   the fifth grade curriculum, we started this  time with um ecosystems and decaying matter   um mushrooms, fungi, and all that, which they  are super excited about. Um, some of them are   thrilled about the next curriculum. I

039have  them all stacked up, um, not curriculum, unit,   all stacked up in our room and they'll sit there  and they'll grab the other one and be like, "Um,   when are we going to read this book?" Okay, we  have to do this. Can we do this one instead? No,   we're doing this, but then they're excited. Like,  never before. I've been teaching for about 14 15   years. Never before have I had sixth graders  who are that excited about reading time. Um,   it's super engaging. everything is in one. Um,  which again, normally we have like three different   books and four different teacher manuals and some  other things and it's all in one, which hey, if   you're not an educator that you're great, but like  it's you just have it all in one thing. So, yeah, I am Lauren

040Roberts, which is fourth grade this  year at Peter G. Um, I had a unique experience   with this curriculum curriculum. Last year  I taught a split class with second and third   graders and piloted both of the kids from last  year curriculum last year. Uh, and then this   year I moved up to fourth grade. And so now having  seen three different years of this has been really   a unique experience even though it did change.  We started this version of it in January. Um,   and while it's going a little slower than maybe  it is planned, my kids are so deep into this. And   the highlights that you won't see with what you  have there is that unlike the Wonders curriculum,   the kids get to actually interact with the text  and they're writing on the book and they're   they're

041finding their evidence and they're citing  their evidence and they're writing about it and   writing about it and writing about it. And what I  could see from the that I looked up with from the   third grade split to the fourth grade, about half  of my class, is that their stamina for writing and   their ability to really analyze a text and really  get into it is light years ahead of the kids who   were not in my class last year and didn't have  this curriculum. And after just one year of this,   it's it's crazy. I can't even explain how  amazing it is. Um, and so having this year   after year after year, I can just imagine  what this is going to do for the reading   of our kids and the vocabulary like everything  about it is so intentionally

042built together. Um,   and each unit I don't know if you said that  each unit ends in a writing project and it's   all rooted within that particular unit. And  so everything is more um just intentional   about this curriculum than wonders ever  was. And so that's what I have to say. I'm Erin Gerky. I'm at Michael T. Simmons. I teach  fifth grade. Um, I've taught high. I also have a   high cap cluster in my room. And I'm pretty  demanding as a teacher as far as the skills,   right? That's the job of a teacher is I need my  students to walk away. And my goal is to have   them going to the next grade level where a teacher  says, "Oh my gosh, you're already so brilliant.   who was your teacher last year. So, that's what I  want to

043I want to be able to use a curriculum. Um,   what I love about it is that social studies  and both writing project are in they're both   integrated. They're in that same unit and um so  you can connect across the board. It's connected   to science. It's connected to social studies. It's  accumulation of a beautiful writing project which   is important at the end of the year. They  are going to need to be able to write. So,   I'm teaching um the hero's journey right now  and who doesn't want to be a hero? And what I   love about it is the kids not only have to,  you know, grapple with the ideas of what it   is to be brave and courageous, but how um being  smart is a part of that and they are, you know,   what what is

044the theme here and how do you  apply it to your real life and how do we   write about that and how do we include details  that support our beautiful thinking and I think   this does that. Nothing is without it. Um, and  in all kindness and honesty, there's no single   best program across any subject that doesn't have  some type of of gap. But if you're a good teacher,   you fill it. But I can promise you, it is  leaps and bounds above wonders and it's   great and I'm having fun. My kids are having  fun. They can't wait to read the stories and   student engagement is the most important  thing because if you don't get them there,   um, you're not getting them anywhere.  So, um, I love it. That's my That's my So, I just want to say

045we're we're really excited  about it. I think it's been really fun. We've had   the last two years working with all the teachers  kindergarten through fifth grade. They've taken   a lot of time and energy to really dive into these  materials, really look thoughtfully at everything,   really kind of dig into the holes, like Erin  talked about. What are the holes? What do we   need to fix? What do we love about it? What do  we not love about it? and uh they've been really   thoughtful and working with their teams with the  grade level teams across the whole district to   really kind of figure out what are we going to  assure that when we walk into a fourth grade   classroom what are we going to see in every fourth  grade classroom in the district and then also have   some

046autonomy. So, where are the things where the  teachers have a little bit of that uh the craft,   right? Where do you see where the teacher can  have some flexibility to do some things and   really use their craft and they're all excited  about it. So, that's that's good news. When you   see people get really excited about something,  that's really great news. I do think it's also   really important to share that there's been a  lot of work and negotiation with the vendor when   you look at cost because that always comes up and  it's important to recognize that the cost of these   materials is not any different than the cost that  we would be spending for the current materials of   lenders. So just be aware that what we would spend  for the old materials is what we would

047spend for   the new materials. So that's really important  that you recognize that too. any other questions   that you might have for us? Well, for me, I guess  I'll just say it's really exciting to hear your   excitement and teachers excitement. Um, just to  just speak to you and to hear the kids excitement   about Yeah. And so at our next board meeting in uh  March or our next regular board meeting in March,   we will be uh you will be looking for approval.  Correct. Yeah. Adoption from the board. Yes. We'll   ask for action at the next board meeting.  Yes. Any other questions from anybody? I wish I could show you the primary grade  materials. They're really exciting to look at,   too. The the little kids stuff is pretty  great, too. So, it's fun. And I have a   reading

048background, so I feel really passionately  about this kind of stuff. It's really good stuff. Any other questions? I just wanted like I opened the book and it said,  Aloha. And I just want to say that um recogn this this I did not have this when I was going  here. So it's just nice to see and I imagine   that the other the other materials have other  ways to they do our students. They do and I   think the representation is that way. all the  great dollars. So, it's it's really nice to   see that. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you.  All right. Thank you. Next up is Mil Murray,   director of facilities, and he will  present a facility plan update. That's the twist. We're gonna make report on the  financial. That That's what we're going to do. Ready?

049I am Mel Marie. I'm a I used to be  the capital project supervisor facilities   director. Been here since 2005. For a few  more months, this will probably be my last. So, I'm going to start with all the boring  stuff. I'm in charge of capital funding,   which is different than the general fund. Capital  funding is kind of like our savings account.   We don't spend them on general fund. We  don't spend them on operations. We spend   them on things you can cut or things  that last a long time. So we don't buy we have in the last two  years last year and this year is required to be paid back. We generate revenue from a lot of different  sources. Bonds are one of the main ones. Uh   we last had a bond in the election in 2014, 

050$136 million. They are a financial instrument   investment that are sold to investors and  we pay interest to those investors. So we   give a lot of money up front over time with  capital levies are more just a yearby-year   levy of a set amount either two years,  four years recently six years now the   resolution. It does not change. It can go down  but not up. School impact fees are through the   growth management act where we do our capital  facilities plan. We calculate how much each new   house in the district. How many kids are going  to be generated by fee on that charge to someone either an apartment building or a single family  home. They have stringent requirements of how they   They have to add capacity to our system, our  school district system. So we can use them

051to buy   land or new school to buy portables and install  them for temporary capacity new classroom space   for capacity. So we have used them for all three  of those buying land buying portables and then   when we added on to middle schools both bush  and water middle school that part of the new   staff or school construction assistance program formula for either new buildings for  unhoused students and horrible state and we also in order to pass a bond if  you don't pass a bond you don't have moving a foot to change that so that districts  that cannot pass lower levels of state also for   new buildings for um existing buildings  every 30 years you're eligible for more   funding they're for renovation the  state term for renovation is moderniz modernization to save money and we also used a

052lot   of that money in the last bond. So  we had $136 million bond $24 million other small amount we get% off on all of  our accounts and correspond to capital   forest. We a portion of that because  forest land does not pay property tax. Then we get miscellaneous outside of  the state. This might be a department   of commerce or the black hill. We get  a lot of energy to do an energy up   and look at the difference of how much  energy we're boilers. forward for gen does not use any of our capital funds.  They generate their own funds. They have   two capital funds. One is every member district  amount to a set amount of years about $60,000 by the overall market,000. And then every state capital through that new market six what they  call minor works

053project $1 million.   Two of them are techn three of them are  technology projects have been completed.   We just awarded the contract  for three more consent agend large projects with levies smaller amounts  over several trying to figure out, you know,   asset preservation, keep things from falling  down, keep paint on the walls, keep hacking,   plumbing systems running, fixing leaks, just a  lot of major repair kind of things, safety and   security. We've used we've used the last capital,  public high school. We have most of the physical   security up and running. We're kind of taxing  as we as they come to life, but our system like   line, the access control system, the cards,  our software every so many years. So,   we just went through a major replacement of  half of our tools. It also turns up some bad a

054yearong process nearly complete.  We still have one or two there should be site improvements.  This is like Philadelphia. So, we're going to replace that learning  environment. A lot of it is career techd has a lot of requirements and then just maybe furniture and then there's also a large chunk of every   dedicated to the technology  and our technology director. So I want to go through a lot of just  words here just this is this is what a   levy looks like. It's a lot of small a bond  project. You might, you know, Peter D. Smith   was $19 million build. We have a huge team of  people, architects, engineers, surveillance. And then with the reduction act,000 just converted the dark  room to a video editing dark in the front entry there's office across so  they can actually walk

055students come to the door building and for both high schools. We're getting  ready to put together a grant application for LED% I don't know how we get to 100% water high school a lot of  things they're replacing feeding   boilers. The boilers were um installed in  space was replaced. We also put in pumps.   The new pumps are much better in that pumps. The  old style they need to turn on. They turn on. Now they have very low frequency drives. replacing pipe fittings in the heating freezer with the larger oneups on the  kitchen serving replacing the library carpet roof. We didn't get a point. You can't see it. high school the solar panels of the system middle school life skills carpet middle school we replace 16 classrooms  with their carpet because facilities. island school district. We find

056that cleans makes the air cleaner  also makes the system more efficient. coils. It's not very blow So the new portables out there system pressure system we also clean the inside of So they do very elaborate processing before One major project there is  when we rebuilt the school very power. So last summer, the summer of that was paid by insurance  companies. We had to points out stadium elevator elevator control and the flooring in the elevator. In my mind,   an elevator is a very small  room. The flooring costsensive power and they have to for every well no more building I learned jumpy which was the last ley was  a fouryear the new levy thankfully passed And so this is how we're 49 million. So we have so what I'm working on  right now is trying to schedule

057and all six elementary schools who want to replace   this playground and cover a cover  over it. We want that to happen. Our first 10 years old again. Hill. Both of them including  parent drop off put in place and then do some serious National  security high school both high   schools just loading you see buses parked outside repairful 2027. So probably by year six probably about high school. We have some  really old portable existing gravel trying to the rest of the city. It's a new building. I just put money in there both sidewalk as well. It's wearing faster and we have to replace engaged in district. One of those things It's a huge military pressure. This shows you how levies are  slightly different. So the top here we are in 2026 But we have to budget school

058year. So22 of the first year last. So while we don't get that's part of the are the same spread And just for illustration, 2013 144 May of 2014. $136 million. Most of those or all of  them will be paid off early balance what it is as of the end of January was  $10.9 million. That includes the half million. These are funding sources. They start on the  farm. It's the local fund. That's where we put sales impact. state one more bill out regular a lot of numbers. So I always measion this is the big picture. This is kind of trying to  schedule the levy projects. So we just at the top bonds the next level downies. green eligibility. So you see at the bottom that Bush Middle School  would be eligible for modernization in 2024. Next

059would be Black Hills High  School. They see those four projects $150 million that's construction projection. architects capability for surveyors and  building inspectors soils biologist. So anyway, so if you look at it, if you  want to capture those more progress,   you might be looking at the bond also put a building on top of that.  It doesn't make much sense. What is this about? much longer. So then I want to  give you a property update. So I think we'll start in the  lowertheast corner. So that's 12 acres at the corner. They were building out there too. We got pushed  out. We got pushed out of the preserve. Ohio for elementary school there. But we got it for a really good price because we made a good price at the same time. little acres. So this is 93rd

060and you can see outside of city water tower pressure. toilet paper. This is the property by New Market. 375 apartments. The reason is that you look at  New Market Street Market,000 property builds. New York area between the north and south. We're going  to be building north on the far east side. Whoever will be an extension can either be New York City. This is the parcel in front of Peter. And the  main thing happening here is the roundabout. So you can see the new roundabout city. The dash green area is an underground  storm brick gallery. They would like to   purchase it for purchasing the property.  You can see off the right hand side. They haven't come back. They were finally up in Sherman Valley Road in Capital 5 acres.  for the school is still on the

061property and found out they don't have the title.  They thought they they thought that   when Northstar consolidated  the property back they've been just before that they discovered that they didn't  have title. So the question What do we do with it? We do have some children that live in what do we do with it? the state would like to buy  from us but not at market price but it's just a questionaping where and how fast I think the overall right now and that is going to be 15 years to school. So commercial development whatever  is going around our school. So first   of all the city and the county do  a great job notifying every time it we have neighboring developers  that want request for our property.   Generally to get to a city own water by  the

062city but then to get it developed. We get a lot of youth requests  not only for our field schools   but some that come in just for our  vacant property. just telling people we don't have homeless looking walking. We have generally it's been an interesting I really appreciate it. I want to give Julie  and Rob the chance to ask more questions,   but then realize that it is worth  30 minutes to 60 minutes to meet   with offline. He will flood your mind  hopefully remember. I will also optim about the facility. Um just to see with all the  different schools districts So ask everything. It's not a surprise. You  do have surprises like all of a sudden just we have to in the middle. I have a question now. How soon  do you think the three multi-urps on

063that? I have details that I was working on this week knowing how much   you know cost. So my priority was  to make sure the playground gets started 2027. first group probably a couple more years and then again we might any other questions for me just thank So I asked  for this. I just wanted you to download your brain   so I could Yeah, you're welcome. Um but I just  it just demonstrated your brilliance. I'm glad   so many people were here to see this because  you've been such an asset. Um wish you uh asset   to the district and it's we have an amazing  capital program because of the use of things. Next up is Chris. He will be doing first  readings of several policies. Chris,   we're running a little bit of trying to start  managing time here.

064Let's try to keep it to 10   minutes if we can. All right. I'll be super quick.  I I do want to take a second. I didn't realize   that I followed Mel and I want to thank him for  all you've done, although he's running away. He's such an inclusive heart for a capital  guy and I truly appreciate that. So yes,   we we have a whole host of health and wellness  policies. Do you want me to go through them one by   one? Kind of summarize what they are. Um this all  came about because we are working with the ESD.   The president of the school nursing association  is the head of nursing services at our ESD.   She is the national president of the association  and we have had them come in and do a study with   us of

065of aligning our nursing needs and services  across the district. What we have done is we   are missing a whole host of health and wellness  policies in our policies process. So I will just   quickly kind of tell you what each one of these  are. These are ones that probably we should have   in all honesty done several years ago, but here  we are. We're catching up. Uh 3410 is the first   one and it is student health. It is probably the  shortest of the ones that you will find in your   packet. It really just designates that we are  providing health healthy opportunities for our   students. We have nursing services in all of our  buildings. We have health rooms. It is it is the   foundational piece of our student health process  at least. Um are there any questions on

066that one?   is pretty pretty much the most straightforward  one of them all. We'll keep health records.   We'll do all those things that we do. Um  the next one 3411 is about seizures or   epilepsy. This one is critical for our care  of plans with our students for seizures. Um,   some of our students have very specific needs  as dictated by their health orders. Our nurses   are involved in creating care plans for all of  those students and those students have access   to our educational system just as any student  would. So, 3411 is really about ensuring that we   have policy around those students to seizures.  Are there any questions on seizure disorder?   I know. Hi. Just a barrel of glass. I'm assuming  that we were doing all of these things. We just   didn't have We've been doing them and

067our nurses  have wonderful binders full of doing these things   and we just haven't had the policies in place for  doing these things. So, I'm super happy that we're   getting these policies in place. Uh 3422 is about  forks. This one is an update to the concussion   previous um policy which we had. Now the new  policy includes the language around concussions   and head injuries, but it also includes um  information on sudden cardiac arrest for youth   involved with sports. Um you will find the handout  from WIA about um sudden cardiac arrest in your   packet as well which is what we would post on our  website once we have this policy in place but it   is it is a secondary as important as head injuries  component to our functioning in student sports and   our previous policy only address the

068concussion  portion of the show. Any questions on that one?   That one is relatively new this year. That's not  one we've been using for a while. It it does,   just so you guys know, it also applies to any  um additional sports that are on our field. So,   any any sport groups that come in also have to  acknowledge that they will inform their coaching   staff and their individuals on concussions and  cardiac arrest. Okay. 3423 is one that we missed   about three years ago when the law changed. Um  this is about parental administration of marijuana   for medical purposes. Um about three years ago a  contingent of parents were um local and had law   passed that medically prescribed marijuana could  be administered to their underage students. The   way this policy is in place though is it is not  it

069it is not on our school personnel to administer   medically prescribed marijuana. This policy  requires parents to come administer the dosage and   take the remaining with them. Um so it is not on  any of our campuses. It is not to be administered   by our school nurses and it prevents our  involvement in is currently parent administered.   Um, one of the caveats of this one from our school  nurse contingency that I have learned is in three   years this has actually never been a policy that's  been used in a new district. So though there   was lots of law around it, it's actually never  been utilized in any way. Any questions on 3423 to prevent the liability for our staff in  all reality? All right. And then 3424 is an   update as well. We have had 3424 in place. It

070is  relating to o opioid overdose reversal. We have   um Narcan available in our buildings. We have  staff trained in all of our buildings and we   also have our health individuals who have it. And  this is in order to be able to administer such   medications. As you may or may not know, Narcan  is not it is not a negative impact on someone.   So if we are suspecting it is an opioid  overdose and we when administered our canon   is not an opioid overdose it does not negatively  impact that individual. Any questions on 3424 I know these are very important policies not for our nurses. safe. No schools have safe spaces, right? Nobody's  used this. No, nobody's used this. And what it   really references is that like a parent can  come to the school like utilize a whole

071room   bathroom to administer their own child's dosage  and then leave. It also does reference that   they can on buses like field trips administer  their dosage without involvement of our staff. Any questions on any of those? Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Next up, and she will  present a first reading on 4310. Let's try to keep   it to 10 minutes. Okay. Thank you everybody.  Um so this is policy 4310 which falls under   community relations is the whole 4000 series and  this um governs the district's relationships with   government agencies. Um it was highlighted  in the December 2018 edition of the WASDA   newsletter policy and legal news. Um it clearly  outlined how our schools should collaborate with   partner agencies. Um, so I'm not going to read  the whole memo, but it talks about how we should   interact with law

072enforcement, child protective  services, and public health authorities. Um,   it's really essential because, as you can imagine,  if you're a principal or you work in the front   office, you have multiple agencies coming  in um, interacting. Um it talks about how we   share responsibilities with these three agencies  related to student safety reporting requirements   and emergency response. Um there had been some  unclear boundaries and overlapping authority   which had caused confusion for staff. Um there was  a case um in Washington state that occurred at a   school where law enforcement interviewed a student  um and didn't follow uh required state procedural   safeguards. Um so in response um the legislature  directed WASDA to develop a clear policy   um and a procedure the procedure is not with  this one procedure is with this standard one   um that distinguishes community relations  responsibilities. Um

073and so this policy talks   about how there's different agencies um they  interact with our schools and while districts   maintain strong cooperative relationships with  um law enforcement, child protective services,   and public health authorities. Um the work of  immigration enforcement does not overlap with the   district's educational mission. So the state law  um it's RCW4310310 requires that school districts   uh limit immigration enforcement at schools to the  greatest extent possible and courts have held that   practices that create fear of immigration  enforcement can interfere with a student's   constitutional right to access education. Um so  this policy ensures that staff in our schools   clear clearly understand the different  government agencies that we work with and   um their duty to maintain a safe learning  environment and their obligation to protect   student rights, including privacy and access to  schools regardless of immigration status.

074Um,   the RCW also is not just for schools, it's  also for health facilities and courouses. So,   um, if you work for any of those agencies,  um, then you would this policy would probably   in place be in place at those locations. Um so to  summarize 4310 strengthens our district framework   by working effectively and legally with outside  agencies and it clarifies roles and expectations   um so that our staff are prepared when any of  these government agencies come to the table. I'm happy to answer any question. I have a question how how does this work with  policy 3226? Um so um I introduced 3226 at the   last meeting. Um, and luckily a board member  pointed out that we didn't have 4310 which   is referenced in 3226. Um, and that was just  an oversight. Like I didn't see it

075referenced   in the policy, but um, it should have been not  only in our policies well before 2018, but it   should have been updated in 2018. Um, and then so  3226 comes at it more from a student perspective   of like what's the student's right? And then  there's a procedure attached to the 3226 policy   that's very detailed about what are the questions  that you ask when a law enforcement agency comes.   What's what are the students right? When a DCI  worker comes, what does the front office do? Um,   who can they interview? Where can they interview?  When uh a federal immigration officer comes,   what does front office staff say what did they  ask for? So I just kind of the procedure goes   through all of those details. So would would  you recommend at the next meeting because I

076we   had first reviewing at the last meeting for 326.  Would you recommend that both of these policies   be passed at the same time? Yeah, the RCW um  references both the the community relations   policy and the student um policy um just like  they would for courouses and health systems. Um I have a question just to kind of clarify some  of the history here. So um in 2019 the legislature   passed the Keep Washington Working Act. That's the  RCW being referred to here. My read of the RCW is   that by May 21st of 2019, um the attorney general  would uh attorney general's office would develop a   model policy and that all schools um would have to  adopt um policies aligned with the model policy.   Um, we apparently did not adopt the a policy  aligned with the ATO model.

077Is that correct?   That's correct. So there there is a state law  requirement for the for the uh school district   to have a policy aligned with the AGO model  policy. It's in reference policy for Yes, it is. Is this is I would love to assume that  the model policy is aligned with the   ATO policy. Yes. 4310 and 3226 are the  two policies that was put forth after   the RCW was put in place and then the  attorney general developed the policies   for the three types of agencies,  courouses and health facilities. Any other questions? Thank you. Next up is Kevin. First reading for policy 5254.  Thank you. So members of the board requested that   this policy 5254 staff expression be submitted for  your consideration. And so we don't currently have   these policies. So this is these are this

078would  be new to the district. Um it is model policy   um created by WASDA. Um so those policies do go  through their legal process and legal guidance   and oversight. So they did provide background  information in your handout in the in the board   packet. That guidance came directly from the  Washington State School Directors Association   policy and legal news in April of 2023. So that  and they introduced the model policy. There is   also a procedure um that is not included in  this. Um and so the language that was this   background and provided there is a little bit  more details. Um they do start to reference   some other legal cases if you wanted to look a  little bit deeper. I think I referenced that.   um to dig a little bit deeper into this  and I certainly could send

079you that. It   is also available I believe online. Um  it is quite detailed sort of background   around the development of this from a state  perspective or losses um perspective. So I have a question. Um I recall from our last  board meeting that WASDA policies have different   is it critical is it discretionary different  rankings. Can you tell me how this one Yeah,   this policy would be considered discretionary  and I I think that usually staff doesn't bring   a discretionary policy. We try to stick to the  higher rankings. That was kind of a discussion   we had at the last meeting. Yeah, typically we you  we focus primarily on critical updates and Z will   get those um in alignment with state law. So yeah,  discretionary art policies that we typically will   review if they in you know we're not

080going back  to 22 or 23 um and I are working on these as we   get these they come out quarterly. So, we're  looking through all of those kind of current   recommendations and then we're kind of finding  out policies and I think um Chris just gave you a   perfect example of a continual work back and every  each of our cabinet members are each responsible   for a section. So, they're constantly looking  back at some of the model policies as well as   um what we currently have and deciding and and  reviewing those both the critical updates and   discretionary. I think you know again it's we  do have some discretionary policies that are   embedded in this. I can't give you a list of  which ones those are. Um, but we do have some.   I'm not sure again the context

081in which those  come forward. In the last number of years,   the district isn't necessarily bringing  discretionary policies forward for consideration. I do have another question. I was just um  so this was brought forward uh by members of   the board and I was just wondering if anyone  who kind of brought the policy forward would   like to speak to why this policy at this time  discussion about the policy brought forward. I just have some questions. Obviously  we had TVA president speaking out this I I I say about void. Um I don't know if that's  kind of how they reference. I think it it was   basically saying it's there's the potential  that actions taken in this would potentially   um provide violations of the CDA and they  would pursue countless procedures in that   event. I mean so I think

082I I don't know.  I think we're talking about some it would   almost be a series of hypothetical what might  what might we do and then what might they do.   So I don't I'm not sure without really  having examples to consider. Um and then   I'm not sure how to answer your question  and and again I can reach out to Waza if   um since they developed this if there was some  consideration um on that. I don't know. May you   have kind of a pretty substantial write up  of how this is developed. I have a following district. How do they do you know how they deal with that  or they have issues with this policy? Seems to be Is that something? We can accept it. this policy would be implemented with  regard to I it's unclear to me

083what   an expression on social media would be that  would interfere with district operations or   prevent the district from functioning. How is I'm  wondering if you can speak to how that would be   I I have not I mean I've read through  you know the you know the was the WASA   provided materials and so I don't really  have examples of what that would be and so   I don't I don't have that information there  and I don't um again I think maybe kind of   through um director Ke's um request to reach  out maybe our neighboring districts might be   able to provide guidance on that so I can  come back and second read align with that So the process is for people to provide comment.  The process um that we are in right now is first   reading and then

084people provide comment and  proposed changes or suggestions to this and   then you would bring that back to us to consider  uh for second reading. What do you mean? Well,   the whole point say people uh uh any I mean  anyone, right? I mean, isn't that the point   of first reading? First read is for them to to for  people to hear that comment and feedback would go   to the board. We would not make changes um based  on feedback from the community. So changes that   are made to policy are done by the five of  you. Um so changes that you would make today,   we would we would that if you want to make  substantial changes to this, we reach out   where your shots were occurring, they would  review this in terms of kind of legality and   we would

085bring that back that information  back at a second read. um any information   that you get from this day forward and you want  to consider you also at second read them can make   adjustments to this in that the likelihood of that  my recommendation probably if you make changes to   this that I would recommend that you don't pass  it at that time um and you let Waza and you let   review it prior to your passage but um again  the kind of the board has a lot of authority   in in how you want to handle this moving forward  in terms of any any changes again you're making   if we don't make any changes to this today it  will come back exactly like this for second   So, so if people want to provide feedback, they  should provide to school

086board members and then we   would provide it to you and then you would have a  lawyer who look at that. No, we need to ask you're   asking about the process. You know very well how  it works. We will provide the feedback. Kevin is   the one leading it. Yeah. I would not necessarily  have if if it if someone gives a a recommendation   to change this, we wouldn't necessarily have that  go through our attorney. It would done kind of   once the board takes action on them, we would do  that. So any feedback whether it goes to the board   or comes to me, I will pass it on to you. That  will be all information for you to consider as   you look at a second read and then the adjustments  that you would want to make at that

087time. And then   again, my recommendation is then you if you do  make changes that we wouldn't just make changes   and and pass it right away. would allow that  propaganda for Meaza and our attorney to review. So I I'm sorry. I was I was just clarifying  because you said when I said public,   you said you wouldn't make any changes unless  it came to us. So public had changes probably   makes sense for it to come to board members.  Yeah. If there's any feedback on this policy,   it would get it would get  shared with the Thank you. some more clarity on are we already doing something? Are we already doing this? Um, again, I don't really know how to answer  that question. I think this is discretionary.   And I I think part of that for me when when 

088a policy is discretionary, it it ultimately   means that you either have other policies that  potentially cover this. Um so I don't think by   not having this this leaves any gaping holes. I  mean again there's rationale to include this that   I provided. Um I can't like on his face kind of  see exactly. I think some of the testimony that   you heard tonight I think gave some examples. Um  I think Mr. Mack probably said it the clearest,   right? There is already established laws around  certain types of language that would result in   I say an investigation by the district in  terms of its impact. Um the start there is   some vaguess in this but again I would say  a process in this is I I couldn't really   answer the question. Any complaint that  would come on a policy

089like this we would   be working with legal to explore it and in all  likelihood a violation of this policy would be a   violation of other policies or laws. my that  would be my gut feeling to this. This stand   alone wouldn't be the reason that you would  pursue discipline. It would be other things. They don't cross reference that  and I think it's so I Again,   I don't they they cross reference religious  related activities and practices and staff   participation in political activities.  So those are the two and then there's a   number of other legal references that  they cross reference to you today. was embedded by them and it's been endorsed by  OBI and by several legal channels. Um multiple   school districts have no reports of any  abuse widespread usage of this policy. So it also seems to

090align with the suite of  policies 5251 523 we've all kind of group   and together it makes sense yes policies  overlap yes there might be a violation but   the package together along with the civil package  to protect the district at most risk potentially   Um I do remember when the civility  policy came up as well too. There   was some push back on that and I had some  initial hesitations on that civil policy   as well too but I believe it's done a very  good job of improving civility that it was   uh intended to stop. So I think it just enhance  it seems to enhance our policy better policies   overall. There's reaffirmed first amendment  rights there laws tied to it just provides   if somebody was going to do public comment on  policies provides clarity I think very clearities Kevin,

091if you could, if you're reaching out to  other districts as well too, can we check with our   our legal please and find out if there's any cases  of abuse or it's being utilized in a manner that I'd also like to know if we ever had a expression  on social media that we have felt has disrupted   the district from functioning effectively or  efficiently. But I'm still caught up I guess   a little bit trying to understand what that  means and if it's something that has happened   or occurred that this is going to remedy or  provide clarity to. It'll be helpful to them   to understand if there's an example that having  occurred that required a disciplinary action. but no other school district. There's lots of policies that are required does a really good job of letting you  know

092your policy is not compliant. I would be interested in the president. Um what's what's your I guess is this something that needs to get rid of or my  I came here as a school board member is I wish   we could spend more time on like gentlemen  test scores and student learning discretion because I think the policies  that we have in place protect us because I am interested in policy we're kind of always  trying to figure out what That's what I wanted and diseases initiate if you can shoot for 15 minutes. Don't let Ben  talk. We shoot for 15 and then uh questions.   I want to make sure it's wide open that board  members. We're not locked into that 15 minutes. So, good evening. Um got a financial update and  an enrollment update and I have

093on this slide.   I actually have two months worth because I'm I'm  getting us caught up after the last few months,   but I'm just going to skip to January um January  2026. So, here is our um our general fund.   And as we talked about in our in our um  our board work session the um in January   we did go ahead and do our um our transfer  our capital fund transfer the 2.5 million   um in cash flow and one thing to recognize  is that when with our budget status reports   um it's not a cash it's not looking  at cash it's looking at fund balance.   So um when we and this is like this last year as  well when we are presenting um it's going to show   that negative fund balance um here in January  at 7:31 951

094um so that will continue the next   few months we see that negative and probably um  make that shift and start positive on that. So   wanted to be aware of that um that and that  is part of the ES help us the rest. So that   one last year and our new board members that's  what we will see in the next few months but okay   so that's our general fund and then our capital  funding of 13.4 million that also is reduced. So our debt services we did have in December  we made our bond payments and so you'll see a   significant decrease um that 10.8 million that was  paid in December brings us down to 2.5 service a   million in ASB that is in our February um we're  starting to finish up our February revenues and   expenditures and

095we are down below a million  now in ASB so that down like I mentioned we   were going to see some similar as we come and  then in our um transportation vehicle fund. We   still have that 1.4 million, but we do have  two left on order and let also just another handles. Is there any questions coming? You did it so well. No one has any questions. Any questions? All right. Here  you get an old star. Thank you. Enment. This is actually the same slide  that we looked at in our um our work study   session last or two weeks ago. So this is  our February 206 enrollment. that little increase in K12 and again the the  graph that you see above is all and then our school center and um actually a  is in And we did

096kind of jump from 2 to 6 to   20 in our program. Sorry. Can you help me with  that again? Yes. A went up. K12 didn't include   K12. Tell me again what a is. Sir K12 did go  up. So we did see our K12 numbers go up. Well,   K12 says 5542 down to 5540. You're saying  you're saying up there K12 includes A,   right? Yes. But down here AL goes up is going  up. K12 is not going up. My question is what what   what is AL? AL is our alternative learning  experience or environment. And so that is   um at Crestia um or uh online programs with  a couple different programs in the district.   And so from what I was told, majority of the  AOE, it was a shift from from the brick and   mortar classes going into

097program. Okay. So  the funding is the same, right? The funding   is the same. Yeah, we do receive a little  bit less for in but not much like $400. Great. So the news is is that we're trending  up our right now. Why do you think that is? Um,   honestly, I don't know. What's the crystal ball?   Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm sorry. I I'm  not sure if that's I wish I had my question. No, you can't answer that one. I  know. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'll work for next time. Okay, next up is Wendy and she's got  some second readings for a whole bunch   of policies. Go ahead. Yes, thank you. Um,  good evening. And uh these are policies that   um we've had that are just as part  of that updated as I mentioned the   last time as

098I look every year to make sure  that we're updating all of our 5000 series.   These are all policies currently the fact that we  are just updating um and so I know for time you   want me to go through each one of them if you  want to look at it as a package I I just know   we're since we did go through a first reading  on these last time we answered these pretty   quick there was not much feedback so I'm going  to still leave it open anybody at all for like have any of these changed since Uh that you mean are you talking about are  they all discretionary? Um you know that's   a great question. I did not look at them as  updating whether they were discretionary or   non-discretionary. We have them and  we needed to

099update what we have. So   um we haven't discussed uh you know yet how  we remove policies. So, I wasn't um you know,   I I didn't go into are they distressed or  not because they're ones we currently have. County will entertain a motion for  action on the five policies long. I second. I'll take it on. I move we  approve. I thought you said I will uh I will   entertain it. I am not making a motion. I will  entertain. Okay. So, sounds like Rob's got it. Okay. So, I move we approve.  Do I need to list each one?   Okay. 5,000 5,0001 511 5201 5222 and 5271 second timers all those in favor of approving  policy 51 51 5210 522 5271 say I don't know if it matters. I am reiter 5,0001 5201 627 Next up is Megan

100for us as well.  Go ahead. Thanks everybody. Um,   so last month I brought forth policy 2100 which is  educational opportunities for military children. I think that was the old title and students with  a parent in the military. Much better title. Um so 2100 is educational opportunities for  students with a parent in the military. Um   that is the one that gives a little bit  more grace of when we can register kids   early before the kids before the parents move  here. Um and then 2420 is grading and partners   reports. Um and that's just updates on um how we  communicate with parents not only about grading   and progress report but about what is being  graded in class along with regular updates. Any questions for me? Do you know if these are critical important or  discretionary? Um they're both

101important. Um, and   we had them both and we um are just updating them  and we're using the WSON model policy language. Any other questions? Motion for action. I move that we adopt uh policy  2100 mi 420. I second that. Any discussion? All those in favor of passing  policy 2100 and policy 2420   say I those opposed. Thank you. Policies  2100 and 2420 are approved as presented and go. Okay. Um so this is asking the board  of directors and the superintendent to agree   to this resolution which indicates  that the school board has approved   um our membership with the Washington  intercolastic activities association   also known as the WIAA. Um and as members we  will follow the WIAA rules and regulations. We do this every year same month. You probably  All right, we moved it up. Yeah, we moved

102it up. Any questions for me on this resolution? Okay, I'll entertain a motion for action. Is there any discussion? All those in favor of approving resolutions  early 2526 as presented say I. All right. We will now move on to the superintendent report. All right. I'll try to be pretty brief tonight.  Um before I start though, I do want um one thing   I didn't include in my update today was um High  School did a performance um their drama their   drama team of Roger, Hammerson, Cinderella. didn't  have a chance to do that. Um amazing musical done   by um our high school students. I not only was it  amazing, one of the things that they did just this   last week. Um it was a way to go. Um they they  did a daytime performance. So um East Olympia,  

103their third, fourth, and fifth sixth grade big  school get in for the junior program which is   um at the Washington Center where they kind of  each elementary school has some opportunities.   So they coordinated with the high school to have  them come. We were kind of in a bridged version   of Cinderella with our high schoolers and then  the third, fourth, and fifth grade students. And   then kind of after that did a Q&A with the actors.  And so I just wanted to point that out. I thought,   you know, we got a great um message from  teacher at East. Really appreciative to   that. And so I just wanted to point that out.  And if you haven't had a chance to go to some   of our drama performances this weekend, um Black  Hills kicks off The Great Gatsby. So,

104hope you   had a chance to see um both schools do a really  fantastic job. Um we do, as you kind of recall,   um little strategic spotlights as we continue  to focus on on kind of ways our strategic   plan is coming to life. And this most recent  example, this was shared to me by our director   of communications, Lori Whitmer. Um where she  observed that Michael T. and she was walking   down the hallway um drawn towards the sound of  recorders kind of coming from the music room where   she saw these assessments were underway in McKen's  class and so students were playing individually   with her um and demonstrating their learning  working towards personal performance goals   and then Tiffany was providing this encouraging  specific feedback to help every student learn. Um,   so Lori just wanted to note that his

105experience  reflected our portrait of a graduate development   of resilient risk takers, performing independently  requires courage and patience and persistence and   willingness to try some challenging things in  front of others. So again, we kind of want to   continue to highlight these little moments that  occur that are really developing some of those   portraits of a graduate. One other thing I want to  point out kind of our strategic spotlight. So in   recognition of Black History Month, students  in our links program, they created a freedom   quilt. It's now on display. If you just go out  the hallway here down to your left, you will   see it hanging here in the district office. So,  each cool square highlights an influential figure   in black history. So, it includes people like  Martin Luther King, Rosa Park, Ser Tubman. Um,   they were selected

106by the students of who they  wanted to learn more about and honor. And so,   as part of this project, students researched  the lives, contributions of these individuals,   designed personalized school panels um  representing what they learned. They finished   the quilt in a meaningful example of a student  engaged in learning that builds understanding,   empathy, and appreciation for experience and  contributions of other. So, thank you to them for   sharing that. Um, I wanted to have it uploaded  here today, but it was a little tricky. So,   hope you had a chance to go see that. Um, you  heard a little bit today. This is our first   meeting since the passing of our capital levy, and  I do just want to acknowledge and thank everyone   who participated in that. the pass at a rate um or  pass at 59.39%. And

107so, you know, that is no small   order and I just appreciate everyone who worked  really really hard to provide information to wave   signs to do all kinds of things to help pass this.  This renewal ensures that we can maintain safe,   secure, welcome learning environments for  our students. You heard um Mel really sharp   to share how we've used these funds in the past  and how we will continue to use them. So again,   those are great examples. I think I have one like  this is one of those things Mel didn't mention   this. It's part of our capital levy funds. This  is a picture of the canopy out at Black Hills High   School. Um I know parents and students fans, they  have been asking for a covered space out there   um during our rain, which is seems like

108it's most  of the time. Um, and so this project isn't quite   done. It is expected to be complete and ready  use for here, um, I think early March. Um,   so soccer season's coming here soon. And so, um,  in the spring rainy season, our folks will have   a chance to sit undercover. And so, um, we'll get  an updated picture when it's finally complete. So,   um, exciting project that's happening out there.  You mentioned, um, so unified basketball is one   of those things that is, um, a really special  event for our district on January 27th. Motor   High School hosted pack the gym. A really popular  event um probably um one of the most full our gyms   get at any time during the year. And I would say  one of the things that stands out to me it is

109the   only time where it is just positive positive  cheering positive um celebration of kids and   athletes. Um there's no booing athletes, there's  no jering officials. There's just like it is just   uh kind of playing together and everyone has a  chance to to perform. Um there's an announcer and   I don't remember his name, but he gives nicknames  to to all of our students and they are pretty   funny and our students are sort of rise to that  challenge and rise to the opportunity and do an   amazing job. And so if you haven't had a chance,  we are looking to expand those opportunities,   but certainly we'll give you playing with us. Get  unified basketball next year. It is an event that   you will not regret going to. Um we did finish  our battle for Billy on Friday, January

11030th.   Um both this is our Tumblr water high school and  Black Hills High School. They come together for   the annual battle for Billy. It's a double header  and this year really outstanding basketball. Black   Hills Black Hills girls won the opening contest  followed by the Tumb Boys. They had victory in   game two. They were both very competitive. the  game, the gym was packed. Um, students, family,   community members, battle pability is ultimately a  sportsmanship trophy and sportsmanship recognition   even though there is also a goat there. Um,  and that is, I think, a picture of the actual   goat. Positive school engagement. Both schools  really did an outstanding job this year. Um,   the Black Hills High School band was energizing  the crowd. High School had their own little um   they had it said CTE ESPN desk. So, a little

111mock  uh desk where some students were there and they   were showcasing school pride, student leadership.  It really is something that's um a special moment   I think is as this has gotten a little bit  more traction in the district. While um they   both really worked hard, Blackfield did take this  home for the fourth straight year. And so um both   groups did a really great job. I want to do thank  Dave Myers and everyone who helped coordinate the   event and this goes back and forth between our  two schools. So and I want to thank you to all   of our judges, some of them present today, so  thank you for your help. Um not an easy decision   and that's the way this should be. This should  not be easy. It's so great sportsmanship that we   should have a

112really hard time picking one. So,  good job. We are continuing with our awards for   um Oh, this is actually not this is not our start  staff awards. This is our music educator awards.   I just wanted to point these out and Lori does a  great job of sharing this stuff out on Facebook   and out on some of our um other channels and  I do I kind of take some of those and want to   share it here because I think it's they they're  worthy of spotlights and one so this is um this   is over President's Day weekend. They these two  educators were recognized at the Washington State   Music Educators Conference in Yakama for their  contributions to music education. The first woman,   Peter Clinsman, band director at Tumblr High  School, received the Shinook region music educator   of the

113year award. And then Keith Mitchell, a  par profofessional in the music program. He was   honored as the Shinook region friend of music.  These recognitions reflect the respect that they   have earned from colleagues across the region.  They speak to the lasting impact that both the   of them have had on students and programs  in Twater. Through decades of dedication,   they have helped create meaningful opportunities  for students to grow as musicians and performers   while strengthening the arts in the school and  the community. So, we appreciate their leadership   and commitment as they continue to bring that to  our district. I will just note um with Mitchell,   it's I think it's March 5th at the Washington  Center. We'll make sure you get that information.   Is a percussion celebration night. So, we have  students from elementary like Tom Hill, their MIMA  

114group is coming and then Blackfields High School  and High School percussion is coming. So, it is a   percussion night at Washington Center for the Arts  in cooperation with um the parks department with   the city of Tumbwater. Um they give that um space  to us a couple days a year. The day prior is a big   choir event. It happens to be during the school  day and so all of our choirs kind of across the   district are coming together to perform for one  another. So, it is a midday choir festival. Um so,   looking forward to participating and checking  those out. And if you want to attend that,   we'll make sure we get the dates. I think it's  next week. Um, we were visited uh by Congresswoman   Marilyn Strickland at Tony Water High School. Um,  just since we

115last met, she attended Miss Stler's   classroom uh to engage um in a project called  Valentine's for veterans and first responders. So,   it's kind of helped coordinated through  her office. This project started back in   2013 under then representative and now Lieutenant  Governor Denny Hec as a way encourage connection   and appreciation between our community and our  military members. In 2018, the program expanded   in recognition for first responders. And today,  under Congresswoman Strickland's leadership,   thousands of compassionate student created  cars are created. They're shared with veterans   um and first responders across our region. So,  we are grateful for Congresswoman Strickland   for her taking the time to visit with our  students and supporting opportunities to   connect civic engagement, service, and community  appreciation. So experiences like this really help   our students see firsthand how their voices  and actions can positively impact

116others. Any questions for next next up is uh for me reports and a  legislative update. I can provide that   here today. Um, as most people know,  it's not looking good overall. Um,   Kevin and I did have an opportunity to meet with a  few legislators this week. Um, not necessarily to   change their mind or give us money. Um, but more  about pointing out, you know, some of the constant   challenges that our district in some of the  around the insurance and transportation special seeing our priorities. They talked to the  lobbyists that we felt great that they heard us   great to connect with the legislators. Um and some  of them really did seem to listen. So that was um   some of the bills that are still active. There's  several bills that have a financial impact. Um   it's a

117little unclear unfortunately. Most are  around its sounds like we're going to take a   pretty hard on day and I kind of read and writing  on the wall on that and that's going to hold this   week as well too. So hopeful but that could be  uh running start dual credit also taking some Um there are some other bills out there  around modifying the tax for sales tax get some help. Um then there's some other  um we'll just call them unfunded mandates   essentially that come with financial  implications that we more than likely   almost certainly not funed for. We'd have to  consider those. Uh there are a few non-financial   bills that are still alive this session.  Um not of any huge concern necessarily,   but there's a restraint and isolation  bill that's still hanging out there.   And then another

118bill around mobile  devices and public schools as well too as well. I'm giving this about a day or two time  on this. So I'm sure some of this is already   daily and rapidly. Um what is policy? Well, they  are locked in their focus on on casting an income   tax. Highly unpopular. Plenty of people have said  that. Um but I admire being in that position to   being able to do this right. Several people saying  that you don't know what you're talking about. Um   we know better. So, it's a tough position  and I admire them for having to, you know,   make an unpopular decision if they have to. Um,  I can understand both sides of this. However,   the good news is if this does pass fully and  don't get challenged in the courts or or fall   victim

119to the initiative potentially, um, this  money could start showing up potentially in the   end of 28 or 2020. Um, and that would be good.  So, we are able to get money from this income tax   here. It's going to definitely take several  years before it would actually show up. Um,   but we're not going to we're not going to complain  where the money comes from district. Um, just   kind of to wrap it up, Kevin and I also talked  about, you know, we understood for the income   tax that's that's lived. Um, but we were able to  share some of the things that we envisioned what   that money would help us do as a district. And  one of those things that we did talk about was   fight sports too if we can get more money to  several things. One

120of them would be an extra. All right, great. Thank you. I appreciate it.  Not sure I've been able to answer them fully. Um,   moving on to the next agenda item, which was the  item that we added at the beginning of the meeting   yesterday. So, tonight SRO discussion. Um, Kevin,  we just kind of wing this, but I think if you go   down, give a status update, uh, maybe a timeline  of events. Um, we can maybe ask a couple questions   and then have a little bit of a discussion. Let's  try to to 10 minutes full if we can. I'll be I'll   try to be brief. You know, this this has come  really fast and without really much warning   and so I think we sit here today with maybe that  and our community may be a little surprised

121that   we're here. Um the the police department has  shared sort of the community messaging. We're   working on that. Um Lori has probably sent  some of that out. We're trying to communicate   a bit of this. Um and I'm just going to share a  little bit of what the city shared. They present   30% of their scan officers are unavailable due  to vacancies, offers awaiting academy placement,   um personnel in training or members assigned  to limited duty status because of medical   conditions. So this is sort of the reality that  they have that has brought us to this place um to   main to maintain minimum control staffing levels  necessary to provide timely emergency response.   They made this decision to temporarily reassign  one of our school resource officers. Um this   decision followed the reassignment of all other  specialty positions within the

122department and only   after careful consideration of all available  alternatives did they land at this um last   available option to again I'm reading there to the  essential patrol staffing. There's a little bit   more information here. I just want to just sort of  end with the message out of this is the presence.   This is what it says. The presence of the school  resource officer remains a priority for the   Twater Police Department as they hire, train, and  deploy additional offers to hold the dual status.   Restoring the second school resource officer  position will be the first specialty assignment   that they reestablish. So again, this has come  kind of quickly. We're making plans to um with   Officer Stford to kind of what that assignment  looks like. We won't necessarily share that   communitywide, but know that he will have presence  on

123all of our schools throughout the rest of the   year. We are also working with city administrator  and MU regarding the contract status. Obviously,   not having an SRO would impact our current  contract. So, we are working and I believe   that might be finalized. I think I have it since  we've been in this meeting in my email. So, um   that part of this process is just about complete.  I'll take any questions. question for Kevin. So just to clarify, we're moving forward. That is the plan. I mean they there's  I think a a possibility in their hiring   process that they hired and I don't I don't  know the right terminology. Um that would be   fully trained officers. I say credential I  don't know commissioned fully commissioned   officers that would be ready to kind of  jump right in. They

124haven't shared with me   that they have not historically had success  hiring officers with that background. Um,   so typically they're hiring new folks in the  academy and that is a minimal 12 month process.   So that's where it's like it is they have some  people in there and so barring any changes and   again I don't you know I don't not know what  the details of this but they have indicated the   rest of this year and that we would I think the  goal is to be restored to the end of next year. Yeah, I don't know how many people have in the  pipeline and obviously things can happen between   now and the beginning of the school year. So,  and I don't know if someone has more information   than that. I I said that is what we've been told 

125at this point. I'm sorry there. Are you saying   you're referring to your 12 months to hire an SRO  or just a police officer? Just a police officer.   They you know they resource officers typically  it's not their first assignment so they usually   work within their department for a number of  years um detective or whatever and then they   will transition eventually into a role doesn't  hire lateral officers I don't even know if that   question well that means we're not hiring  somebody new we have to change the 12 month but that's what she meant by don't But I think they would take them. Yeah. No, I success is up to them. I've already We're not making any decisions,   right? It's just a discussion for the  figure out there alternative options if we see further delays or in a

126couple months  they look like 2027 or something. I I don't   We're just talking here, but I'm trying to  get some different options. I know number   number one and there's a mentorship  with also value having the buildings. So has clarity if you were asked just to explore  options like just on the commission officer or   just kind of what might be some ideas of  advancing safety concerns from the school.   Yeah. Um maybe there's I don't know either  security I don't know I think I saw that. Yeah, the board is interested in us coming back  with some information. Here's what I would say.   Here's maybe a better way to say that is Kevin,  tell us how or what plans you may have to address   our safety policy as well. There's more than  just one how you plan to

127address that since we   are now. I'm not going to say necessarily  violation, but we we we are definitely   off from the community's expectations.  Parents, staff, students expect this. He asked for levy dollars to pay for this.   this community. My concern is that if we  are dealing with an organization that can't   provide that, then yes, I think we probably  need to look to how are we going to policy. I'd like to know what policies officers I'm just curious. what policies they are the questions I think I'm not  sure I captured your question but this be a work item yes you can we can do work session out. Um I have some concerns around this as well too  that we might be able to do expected session. The   reason being is I believe it's a safety concern. 

128It was posted on social media unbeknownst to any   board member that I know that we were losing an  SRL that day. So you just announced the entire   world that we're down. We don't have a  plan or convictions in your background that was not part of the plan. Um, but we also  have I think this does return us to a sort of   a staffing level that I think was present in  2017 or 2018 and prior to that. So I don't and   so this isn't this is while it's we've had two for  a long period of time we this is returning we have   functioned without two at one point. So again,  prior to my time, this isn't completely unheard   of. SRO's are they in the school all day and all  the schools fighting? Yeah, I mean we

129currently   have we currently are two SRO spent their time um  they're predominantly black Hills and our middle   school, some high school and Bush Middle School  and some presence in our elementary schools.   So they're they're but they're splitting their  time. They're splitting their time and they're   predominantly I'd say you know the predominant  time is in middle school and high school. So   obviously dropping into one one of the things that  again this is probably we meet um district meets   with the police department on a monthly basis  and they'll be reviewing where where is our SRO   needs and where are some other safety and I think  of your just other comments that are occurring   tonight and I think that also will spark you know  again what are the needs what are some immediate   needs and I think already

130heard a few of these  things. Even just the presence, the presence in   um in the lunchroom, the presence during out at  recess and then talking more like middle school   presence in the parking lot for our high schools  in the building. Those are some aspects that I've   already heard just in a pretty short period of  time where they weren't necessarily on duty and   doing they aren't signed to those spaces. They  just happen to be there and they frequently,   you know, during lunchtime that is where they  connect and interject and and connect with kids.   So that's a place where I've already heard  from our administrators where that while   again they don't necessarily have them there  every day and they don't count on them to be   in any of those spaces they do make an impact  there and

131feeling safety and that connection   with our police department. Those are things  that we'll look at. I think in the question   you're asking around what how do we respond to  this is sort of under that lens of where might   they be needed? What what can we what would be  you know present that to as a recommendation?   I do have one last question. Do we know  why they remove the officer that has the   most experience in that role and left  the officer that started in September? I think that they would mind. I guess they just kind of going over his  background. I do know that officer Scoffer   is new to our is a new SRO this year and I think  there was some concern about kind of breaking up   his kind of training and breaking up his

132sort of  you know he's doing this now to pull him away for   a period of time would you know kind of interrupt  his ongoing training and part of that is just   being present and doing that and so I think there  was some concern of him being noticed um it would   be more detrimental to remove him and kind of be  turned to the court for a chunk of timerounding question. I'm glad we're having this conversation. So, if we can beer or maybe talk of the county legislators. Our schools are in the county department about this thing. Him and I when  we have our weekly meeting, I'll   also talk about options that he's thinking  about and how we can get that information. move on to board comments. My person speak you want to start us off. I'll

133keep it   quick. But I appreciate the  people that came tonight. Um I really want to point out  people came and talked about I think that's exciting my daughter. I think that that's another awesome opportunity  to community again. I'll speak to it whether it's   arts or sports or clubs, band, choir, whatever it  might be. When kids are involved, they're always more opportun. Sure. So, um, first I want  to, um, thank our student reps   uh for being here. I um I I have a particular  interest in trying to understand what students   feel they can need in terms of support in you know  managing social media and you know feeling safe on   social media and at the same time managing their  own kind of schooling and and it was just really   insightful for me to hear from you

134um about  that. So thank you for for sharing. I always   learn something when you guys are here. Um, I also  want to thank uh folks who came for public comment   today um our educators and our community  members and sharing their concerns and so   um we're very much listening um to to what you  have to say um on um on these topics that have   been before the board um this evening. And  I'm also very excited for The Great Gatsby   this weekend um at Black Hills High School.  I will be bringing my mations for the cast. Let's do it. Next, uh I just want to thank  Mel. I really appreciate his insightfulness,   his intelligence, being able to explain things  that are really complex. Um he does a great job   of that and does a great job and

135I know I'm  sure everybody has said up and down. Um if   we don't see Mel Mel back in the meeting  again, I want to wish him the best. I'm   gonna go make sure I connect with him at least  myself. I'd encourage everyone else. So, just   a huge thank you to Mel and I really hope we see  him one more time, but again, I'm going to miss Thanks, all the staff actually appreciate  presentations. This is my first meeting with   public comment, so I enjoyed that. Um, I just  want you to know that I I have an open mind   on all the things. I haven't decided how I'm  going to vote on some of the things yet. So,   the things are going to be said I didn't say. here  and it'll definitely weigh on decide things moving  

136forward. So, I appreciate the opportunity  that you have to express to us. Thank you. Uh yeah, I'd like to thank our um public  commenters. So, Jade, Courtney, Carrie,   Carly, DJ, Mr. Mac, uh Kyle, Heather, Katie, and  David. Um, thanks. Uh, I went to Cinderella last   weekend and the the student who plays the fairy  godmother is amazing. I I they're all great,   but when she belts out the song, I um I was I was  amazed. Um, excited about Great Gatsby being off   when I can do that. Um, so since I've last been  here, I've been busy helping with the levy and   uh the people who were helping with the levy,  the volunteers that were helping with the levy   did a lot of great work obviously 59.36 39.  Um, I also had the pleasure of going to

137the   city council listening to their two and a half  hour public comment. um and and the the city   council passed a resolution supporting the levy.  Um so it was great to be to do public comment for   um in front of them. Uh been to a couple of Tamar  Hill concerts and I already have tickets for the   percussion night at two. Hoping um hoping  my partner goes with me, but if he doesn't,   I'll have an extra one. Um and uh no pressure.  Uh and uh I have been invited into classrooms and   um into schools and it really brings me a lot  of joy. This this job is a tough one and that   is the joyful part of it. So anyone um  who um wants me I fill out a volunteer   form so I can volunteer legally

138and um so I  I welcome any invitation to the classroom. It looks like they mostly assist. Uh again,  thank you everyone that presented today and   keeping the time management. We have  a super long agenda and I just want   to acknowledge that. So, thank you  everyone for contributing to that.   With no further business coming before the  board, the regular meeting is at 8:45 p.m. Heat.