001Uh before we get started, do you want to make a recommendation, please? Yeah. So, um I'd like to make a recommendation that we amend the agenda uh the agenda to include in the consent agenda uh Mr. Zack Shaw, a science teacher at the high school for 8 FTE and Vanessa Ganon, the theater manager at the high school as well. Um that is a stipen. So, on top of her regular role. Correct. Outstanding. Uh, I would like to move that we uh add those two to the consent agenda, please. Uh, can I get a second on that, please? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Great. The amended uh consent agenda is approved. Um, and then I'd like to approve the regular. Great. Uh, I'd like to uh ask for someone to uh sorry part. It
002would have been approve the agenda as amended. Approve the agenda as amended is what I said. Everyone knows that that's what I said. Uh great. Sorry everybody. Very very long day. Um great. Um I'm going to start with a land acknowledgement. I actually uh for a long time admired the one that the Dove project uses and that's um taken I believe directly from the Vashan Heritage Museum and with that um the Vashan Island School District stands on the ancestral lands of Squabash or Swiftwater people who inhabited Bashan Mory Island for millennia. The donation land claim act encouraged large numbers of Euroamerican settlers to claim this land even before the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854 extinguished native claims to it. The were forcibly removed and relocated to nearby reservations including Puallup, Isquali, Swaxton Island, and Mushu.
003We acknowledge the people of the Pu tribe whose stewardship of and relationship with Vash Vashan Mory Island continues today. Um, public comment at this time we don't have anybody signed up. Anybody make wish to make public comment? All right, great. Uh, moving on. Um like um I would like to ask for uh a motion to approve the consent agenda as written. I would like to move to approve the consent agenda as written. Can I get a second, please? Second. Thank you, River. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Great. The consent agenda passes us. not written uh um sir. Here we are. Moving right along the superintendent report, please. Just to bring three things to the director's attention this evening. Uh an update on our student board rep uh process for next year for inviting
004a a new member to join Oscar and Hazel. uh an application went out to freshman uh and sophomores and juniors um with an invitation to apply to be the the new student board rep or upcoming student board rep. There's a preference for freshman and sophomore since most of our folks right now are juniors and maybe seniors and so but there is a kind of a a clause there that uh juniors could be considered or may be considered. questions on the application are about you kind of what they bring to the role, what kind of changes they would like to see, and we're asking them to identify specific, you know, kind of issue or concern that they would like to see that are changed or improved. Um, they're also asked to have a couple teachers or
005staff references. So, those will be screened by the current schoolboard, you know, student reps and members of the student advisory board. a few members that have been kind of a part of our focus group on this and then we'll do interviews. Uh the deadline for students to apply is next Friday and then we'll hopefully have interviews the following week and make the announcement at the June 12th uh board meeting. Yeah. Super exciting. And then um and then uh just want to bring to the board's attention I think we sent out I I saw an email from Mr. Ericson that was sent out this morning around the scholarship evening last night for all of our graduates um or most of them. Um we had 115 students who were honored last night. Um it's super exciting to
006know that if you have a upcoming you know a person who will be graduating soon that you're you know you have a lot to look forward to and you'll be very impressed with what happens here on the island. So, um, you know, this is a a larger graduating class than other graduating classes, which meant that the scholarship foundation had to go back out to their donors and say, um, you know, we have 20 extra kids this year, and so can we can we rise up, you know, and bring together some funding sources so that we can kind of kind of be consistent with what we've been providing our our seniors in in years past. And sure enough, it came through. So between 115 seniors, they raised over $300,000 and distributed that uh those scholarships last
007night. I can't tell you how many scholarships there are, but there are numerous ones. Um and uh they range every anywhere from basically $500 to $20,000. Um and uh you know all of our I'd like to just kind of give a shout out to all the donors on the island, you know, here publicly. And um a lot of businesses, you know, step up and step forward um like Thriftway, uh the Giraffe, Saw Bones, I mean, basically almost every business on the island has a has a hand in in in this. And almost all of our um also our nonprofit partners, you know, like Journeyman, UFS, they they all have a separate contributions as as well. And so um if you haven't done the evening, it's rather long. It can be a little over three hours.
008Uh you know, but each each uh senior gets their own celebration, their moment. It's about a minute to a minute and a half where they step forward. Um they create a notebook, you know, that has their basically their VA. They have pictures in there. Um it's it's not a light, you know, a process to be taken lightly and they don't and the scholarship foundation has their rules and you follow those rules. Um but in the end you can see how that all that planning comes together in an evening that is just miraculous. Absolutely miraculous. And so it's like a mini graduation. Um because when all is said and done, we're actually able to stand up and move around. But the community that you see in front of you, you know, with all the people who
009know each other, you know, the kids who've been going to school since kindergarten, you know, two kids who are going to Gonzaga who are now going to be rooming together. It's just, you know, the stories are endless. Um, and so it's a beautiful moment. Um, and what's, you know, also fantastic about it too, and I'll just kind of point this out. Um, the commuters play, you know, such an important role and those commuter parents and, you know, they're just gushing. You know, I mean, we're all gushing, but the commuter parents especially, just, you know, kind of all those ferry rides, right? You know, that those kids have been taken and that those parents have been taken as well. Um and this year there was a new scholarship that um commuter parents organized just themselves. So
010nice. And uh Jennifer Lindsay who was on the bachelor and schools foundation who's a commuter parent um graduated a senior and now has organized a group of community parents to create their own scholarship you know that is going to continue year after year for you for uh for those commuter for those commuter students. So it's an exceptional uh evening and again when your kids get to that age uh you will have a lot to look forward to. So um let's see and the hosts you know if you know Martha Enson and um who's the who's who's her partner in crime? Kevin Joyce. Yes. Yeah. They were just a hoot and um you know everyone from Jeffrey Hans Peterson who is a physician at Seymar to Tara Vansel um you know a vash a yacht club
011uh you know kind of person you know leader uh there they they came from all over the place to to read uh Lou Manion um Lisa Cyra and Jen uh you know was up there reading names and uh and Lance uh came at the end. He was like he kind of finished off the last 12. What was funny is um his name Harper. Is it Harper? I think it's Harper. Um one of our seniors who's kind of like I would in 111 Leeway call him like the Jim Carrey of our class of 2025. And Lance began to read his new kind of retrospective of Harper and Harper was pretty animated about it and Lance gave it over to him to read. That's the first time that's ever happened and it was a hoot. It was
012an absolute hoot. So, uh uh and then switching gears uh to one more celebration uh which the board has uh found a couple ways to recognize with brownies and flowers. Uh we had our exit interview. We'll do a you know kind of more comprehensive uh board report. Um it may not be on the 12th. I we may hold this until the last meeting in June because what we're hoping for and I'll share why uh there was essentially kind of three parts to this audit. There was a financial statements part of the audit, a federal programs part of the audit and then what they call an accountability um audit. And so uh kind of I will say this a little unbeknownst to us. Um we were told kind of at the 11th hour that they had
013not quite finished the accountability audit for us. Um, and so there's kind of a I would say a 25% uh left to go on on this audit. Uh, so they are hoping to finish it within the next couple weeks. Um, uh, they didn't really mention a separate exit conference, did they, Jess? I I Yeah, they said that there would be a second one. Okay. So we'll have a sep we'll have a separate exit conference and and then at that time it probably a good thing to bring then the full you know audit to a close. Um but today's uh results it was nice kind of I mean I read the report you know yesterday uh deduced from that report that we were going to have a clean audit with some very very minor exit items.
014Um, and so in our financial statements and our federal audit, which the federal audit reviewed two programs, our special education program and our food services program, uh, they were all considered clean. And you know what that means to the public as they can trust our our financial statements. Um and at the same time uh you know we were you know it's kind of brought to our attention that we'll remain in a position what they call an at risk position because of last year's finding for internal internal audit controls. So we'll stay kind of one year in that kind of you know position where um you know barring you know any kind of significant change in staffing or catastrophe etc tsunami uh I would anticipate us you coming with a clean audit again next year um
015and then we would be kind of removed from that at risk category. Um and so uh to note as well uh what uh James shared uh in in the audit exit conference was that last year with any audit if there's a finding they they ask you you they give you a set of directions you know to follow to make sure that those uh controls or whatever may be you know which caused the finding are now uh resolved and that was marked as fully resolved. Uh and so um that was good news to hear too that that kind of page has been turned on that. Um and so um you know a little bit more to come in terms of that accountability audit you know kind of just giving you the surface level. Um once we
016get the accountability audit done, then we'll go ahead and and provide those that comprehensive report in the board docs and we'll let Cassie uh and perhaps Jess will be able to join us uh at that point in time um to kind of share what that experience was like and you kind of where we are and then where we're going. Anything you want to add, Chester River? uh just that they absolutely bragged on how smoothly and quickly everything happened and the whole team I'm sure is responsible for making sure all those documents got in time but they actually took a point to brag on how smoothly that went like they were very impressed that that happened. So thank you for making it happen that way. Yeah. Anything you would like to add to as well or
017Cassie? I just could echo that. I that um and I just have to say that it it struck me as well because you came on this year, Cassie, and so, you know, walking in in terms of facing those challenges and steering this ship through with such steadiness and competency and reliability and so moving us into a really good position. It I felt grateful as an individual in the community and as a board. That's my report. Thank you. Okay. Um, in the absence of our state board representative, um, we'll skip that part tonight. Uh, I do know that there is a state match tomorrow evening and there may be some extended practice or some type of extra extended responsibilities for that young man. So, I will so that they can crush Cascade Christian. Yeah, I will
018connect once and for all. It'll be a good rematch for this time. Um I mean with great sportsmanship that and also crush them. Um great. Uh let's then move on to the monthly budget report. Okay. So we are in our eighth operating month of this current fiscal year and you can see that our revenues and expenditures are almost even. Um they're just over 68% for both general fund revenues and expenditures. Um in general fund our fund balance is less in the general fund than the same month um from last year. We have slightly lower revenues and our expenditures are still significantly higher yeartoear. Um, we are still working on our transfer of credit card revenue from general fund into ASB. Um, but we're getting pretty close on that and I'm hoping that we can have
019it um, settled and on a a monthly cadence hopefully in June. Um, but we'll see how that kind of goes with the timing with the county. Um, our expenditures again are at 68.28% which is um, 2.28% 28% more than our normalized projection of 66% and it's 5.53% higher than this month last year. Um but I'll just add that um when we're looking at our AP transactions um we are seeing a downward trend in the last couple of months. So it is higher but we're definitely moving in the right direction. In capital projects um our revenues are higher than this time last year based upon tax collection. Um monthly transfer of tech expenditures and salaries are ongoing and in debt service we see the fund performing as expected. ASB um revenue is slightly lower with expenditures
020higher but again that credit card revenue is in process so it will see that reconciled when we get that on a monthly cadence and our transportation vehicle fund is performing at expected. Um um when we're looking at enrollment really um we're we're holding pretty steady. Um and then um we've got our year-to-ear um comparison budget status report as usual. And then Peter, if you can scroll down to the comprollers report and the sorry the um trial balance for the general budget. Um there's a couple of funds that have reconciliation items for next month. The first one is in general fund. Um, we have a reconciliation item of just over $9,000. And in our system, we're showing that we're short. Um, and then capital projects fund looks good. Debt services looks good. And then when you
021look and scroll down to ASB, um, you kind of see a somewhat even reconciliation item that's a similar amount. um we um are over an ASB by a $10,000 and it's related to some return AC payments um that happened and they were distributed out of ASB but they came back to us in general fund. So we have to do a little bit of work on um with the county to get everything where it's supposed to be. So I'm I think that we will see that um reconcile itself as we look at next month. Um and transportation vehicle fund looks good. So just two reconciliation items to note that we'll hopefully self-reconcile as we um move into next month. Anybody have any questions for Kelsey? Thank you very much. Of course. Hope you rest well. I
022mean all of you also. Uh great. Wow. We are we are cruising right along. All right. Um so uh next up uh the budget adoption. So resolution 822 first read. Uh Dr. Cassie and Amy, please. So Cassie and I um you know have been working on this for with Justin and and Stephen. Um, and uh, this is a a a great moment because um, you know, Cassie and I met this morning to kind of review the kind of the playbook for tonight. And so Cass is going to take this over and then I'll I'll I'll be chiming in as support and then later on Amy has some staffing reports to review with you again, but mostly Cass will be kind of walking us through the document tonight. Thank you, Cassie. Hello to everyone again. Um,
023so I'm going to be presenting our 2526 budget. Um, Peter kind of already scrolled too far, but on the page, um, we've got really nice picture here of our mural and, um, Dr. Spencer was, you know, obviously so involved with this and it just really represents our relationship with the tribe and um we really want to highlight um just the uniqueness that is Bashon and the way that we um celebrate our collaboration and so um that's kind of just really showing um what Bashon is all about. So um we're really glad the mural um is up and going and for everyone to enjoy. And then um just looking at our Vashron promise, this is what we ground all of our work in. That every student is welcome, known, and treasured and graduates confident and competent
024to thrive in the future they imagine. So as we're going through this document and thinking about all of the work that went into it, knowing that that's really the foundation of um where we're starting from. And then um like kind of mentioned, we started budget planning all the way back in December. And so a lot of the items that are in this packet we covered and they've been seen and approved by a prior board meeting. So we won't necessarily linger on every page, but please ask questions as we go along. Um and there'll also be time at the end. Um and we are going to start on page six. So um page six is showing uh the expenditure comparison for each of our five funds. So, starting with general fund, our budget's going to be
025just over $29 million for 2526. We're seeing an increase of about $2 million or 8%. Um, and that's really accounting for things that we know right now, such as IP. And looking at capital projects, we're at about 2.5, which is an increase of about a million dollars or 65%. And that's because we have our anticipated projects in the new planned levy. debt service looks like it's a pretty drastic change, but there's a very good explanation for it. Um, we're coming in at almost $21 million, which is an increase of $17 million, and that percentage looks um a little bit out there, but we know that our balloon payment is coming due in December of 2025. And so, this is just reflecting that we have that a payment that's established on our schedule of payments. In
026ASB, we're seeing just a little bit of an increase, just under um $100,000 or 20%. And then transportation vehicle fund is holding steady, and we're not seeing a change there. Um and then as we move into um page seven, you'll see this is where where your budget plan is. Um as many of you probably know, the governor just signed the budget earlier this week, so it is in process and we will have that prepped and ready for the June 12th budget hearing. Um and then the next pages are eight and it has its companion which is page nine but um Peter Peter's going to hold steady on page eight. Um we're going to look at the expenditures based on the object codes. Um the top two here are reflecting our personnel. So our um certificated
027and classified staffing. We're seeing an increase in both of those. Um so a slight increase with our certificated and a little bit higher with the classified. And then benefits, which of course go along with that, um are also going up by almost $400,000 or 7%. And really the big thing there is we're seeing a pretty large increase um every year to our health benefits. So next year we're coming in um per person just under $16,000. Um so that's where that big increase is coming from. We're also accounting for the transfers of salaries that should be paid by capital projects. So, I'm referencing those in my monthly budget updates, but we're accounting for it here, showing that we'll be transferring around $640,000. And then as we move into our MSO budget, supplies and materials are going
028down and purchase services are increasing, but this is really just a realignment of the budget from year to year. Um, last year a lot of things went into our materials object code and then they probably should have been spread out between both of these. So the purchase services is also going to count for the increases to our utilities um as well as our contracts including our special education contracts. In travel, we're seeing also an uptick there because of travel costs due to the theory. And in capital, there's just a little bit of money set aside there um for anticipating need and then also reflecting the field trip reserve of $35,000. Um, so we're seeing a total budget of 29,289,680. Um, about a 2.7 million increase for 10% year-over-year. Um, and then moving right along through.
029Um, page 10 is just a representation and a chart of what it looks like between our personnel costs and our MSOC costs. So staffing costs are coming in at 74.7% and MSOC's at 25.3%. When we're looking at the difference year to year, last year was about 20 I'm sorry, 80 to 20. And really the difference again is because of the contracts that we're now reflecting on the in stock side instead of in the salary side. Here on page 11, we're just showing um our sources of revenue, and we'll go into a little bit detail a few pages um down the line, but we've got local, state, and um some federal revenues that we'll review here coming up. Um, and then as we kind of keep going through pages 16, 17, 18, and 19, um, we've
030all seen in a previous board meeting, and those are items that we've approved, but, um, just for reference, it's our calendar, the fee schedule, um, and some levy information. And so um then we can go on to our budget assumptions and priorities which is on page 21. And I'm going to highlight um bullet one and bullet three. Um the first one being particularly important because it reflects our new board policy um which says that we'll maintain a fund balance of 27 and a half days of cash on hand. And then just a reminder that we budgeted enrollment at 90% of the current cohort um which is 1358 FTE for next year. Sorry 98 yeah 98% um and then um that brings us to our summary and resolution. So, when we're looking here, um, we are
031seeing that we have a beginning fund balance for 2526 of about $2.3 million. Um, 29.8 in revenue, 27.6 in expenditures, including our operating transfers, um, and a projected ending fund balance there in the final column. Same thing with capital. Um, we're budgeting 1.1. Um, we're anticipating $1.6 $6 million in revenues, expenditures of 995,000, accounting for the operating transfer between the two funds, and then having a lower time balance of $107,000. Um, meaning that we're anticipating and completing all of our projects that are planned. In debt service, we have $18 million. Revenue will be coming in around 4.7. And again, we're going to pay off that QCAP bond in December of 25. So, we'll be um getting that off of our books. That would be $20.9 million. We should have about 1.8 in our fund balance.
032In ASB, we're starting out with 281,000. Um, seeing revenues of 528,000, expenditures of 515,000, and then they should have an opening fund balance just under 300,000. and transportation vehicle fund again is holding steady $116,000 beginning balance 28,000 in revenues 20,000 in expenditures and we'll end with $124,000 in our fund balance um and just a reminder that because the governor did just sign the budget we are waiting for our revenue tool so these are still somewhat um of projections um but we're feeling really confident with the information that came through that we um prepared using all the right information. Looking at our resolution, um I just want to call out that our capital projects fund levy um cap tech check is in there showing the collection of $1.95 million over the next four years. And then
033we'll see our appropriation levels called out here um down a little bit. Peter wants me to read the general fund um appro appropriation there again 29 million are committed um field trip turf reserve at 35,000 transportation vehicle fund at 30,000 temple projects at 2.5 debt service at just under 21 million and our ASV account at just over half a million dollars and now I'm going to tag Amy in to talk about staffing okay this is look very familiar. We just visited this last meeting. Um and first page um is our certified FTE from year to year. And as we talked about last week, you will notice that there is a little increase in the certified staffing year-over-year. This reflects adjustments that we made over the course of the year following the adoption of last year's
034budget to address some student overages in some of our core classes at McMurray. Um and also some of what Cassie was talking about movement between contracted employees and direct hire employees and that is a very fluid um fluid space if you will going to classified again if you look year to year we are almost dead even within 2 yes 02 FTE um so overall very little change Okay. And then um the next page down um this is where I said we're going to look at this in a detail a little bit later. Um so this is where our revenues are coming from. So um local taxes are just over $5 million and then other local support um is at 2 and a.5 million. State general purpose is our budgeted um aortionment and then it's just
035called out there the amount of aortionment that is um specifically for special education. And then federal and other revenue is 1.8. So total revenue is coming in at about um 29.8 million. Um a little bit more than last year um which was anticipated. And so we're looking at about an 8% increase. Um and um the last two pages are enrollment which um have been presented um in a previous board meeting. And so um this kind of brings us full circle for this presentation. Again, um our formal hearing will be on the 12th, which Peter is going to notice for us in a peach com, which I think I forgot to mention earlier. So, thank you, Peter, for making that arrangement. Um, and I'm happy to answer any questions. I would just like to crack page
03612. I've only been here since 2024. I know it feels like we've known each other forever, but but we have honor each other as long as we take. We'll make sure that gets corrected before we publish. Thank you. If I'm Go ahead. No, go ahead. Mine's not my about this document. So, Oh. Um, well, thank you. And you actually answered a number of my questions, which I really appreciate. Um I um I know this is very blurry and I'm not expecting specifics, but the enrollment projection is down to 41 FTE from kind of where we're averaging right now. Um I'm guessing that in part has to do with the size of the class graduating. Um as I didn't track the enrollments kind of yearbyear, there's not a great deal of fluctuation. there is a drop
037of 10 coming into kindergarten and I just I'm wondering if that is um how solid projections are at this point for the kindergarten I know there's a lot of fluctuation or is there anything other than um demographics impacting that? I don't guess I think we've shared this before but um Jillian actually is a master of kind of weasling out all the information that's out there and reaching out to preschools and um different daycare centers and all these kinds of things to get a sense of what's coming up. Um we are just seeing smaller numbers of kids on the island in those age groups at this point. I was kind of curious are there fewer kids out there or are we or is it a smaller percentage of the kids who are out there coming and
038yeah it's what we understand I mean we don't have absolutes um but from everything that she's been able to to find it is that we are just and then my the other had to do with actually Annie where you were talking kind of the implications of the budget which has to do with the FTE certified etc. And I am I mean I'm delighted to look at it. An increase in three FTE for ethnic certified an increase in nursing um almost an FTE in parah counseling um and then the other pieces seem like reallocations. I'm just wondering are there any anticipated cuts or are we feeling pretty steady and solid? We we are feeling steady and solid. We do have um one position at the elementary level that we're holding off on doing the hiring for
039until we see what happens closer to the start of school, kindergarten. And and so if there's shifts in FTE for the elementary, will it be shifting class sizes or will that ratio be staying steady or do you know at this point? Really don't know at this point. Okay. Can I jump in with a question? Absolutely. Okay. on page 25 and I can't tell if this is like a typo or if I'm confused by the the nature of this statement uh the penultimate section be it further resolved by the word of uh general fund budget include a commitment of at least 27.5 days cash on hand in the amount of to meet the minimum fund balance additional reserves will be committed is should it be minimum fund balance period additional reserves will be committed I can't
040really tell what's going on there. Yeah. Okay. When read together, it's a nonsensical sentence and I wondered if I just didn't understand what was actually being Okay, great. Okay, thank you. Um, oh, I just have a general question. I think I know the answer to this, but I was sort of curious when you talk about the difference as it sort of shifts yeartoear between MSOC contract staffing and true FTEES or employees, does it sort of come out in the wash? Because if you pay um a um one of these contracting agencies to do to bring you X specialist, we then don't have to pay that person for their benefits. Correct. So whatever fees we're paying for the um agency sort of balance out what we might have roughly so much depends on you know the
041experience of the individual you know but that's where it generally comes out in the wash in in general. Yes. It comes out in the wash and we try to anticipate you know where the funds belong on which side we can always transfer. Yeah. Thanks. And it would Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Don't go. It's unrelated to that. So, let's have it. I just really want to call out the fact that if you flip to your very front page, the cover Peter took that picture. A That's great. Thank you. Photo. Did you have another one or two small the um This is I mean, one, it's really wonderful to see um to see this budget. One place when I was on page uh 28 um one place that looked like a cut in central admin and maybe
042or or wait actually no never mind never mind. Um resolve that question based on something that was said earlier. Uh oh, okay. 17 is my last question. Sorry. Um here I was just I um I know that the fees are painstakingly calculated and I know that there's a huge priority of not putting a burden on any family and I also know and I really respect that if there is a family where this creates a stress point that there are resources for those families um to reach out so that that's not a barrier to participation in anything. I just I kind of was just curious if I look back in 2021 2022 that's coming out of the pandemic. So I imagine the pandemic having shaped some of those numbers, but there were so many with no
043fee and then I'm seeing kind of these small increases year by year what are seemingly small and I'm just wondering is is that a creep we should pay attention to and in part I asked because I'm wondering if pre- pandemic there were also note fees or is that initial column kind of reflecting the pandemic and previously there were fees that were comparable to now. Um, or are we are we seeing something kind of new in terms of that increase yeartoear in the fee schedule? Have to go back and look prior to 2021. Um, it could very well be your assumptions are correct around the pandemic year and having no fees. Um, that was that would be my assumption. Um, I think the slow creep afterwards kind of reflects the the reality of the inflationary rates.
044kind of what we saw, you know, the last three years kind of where we even see kind of interest rates this year compared to, you know, back then as well when all of us were racing to refinance our houses, you know, for 2.5 3%. Um, so I think it it is a general reflection of kind of the current national state of, you know, the economy. Um, we would like to see that stabilize. Um, and I and I think we are in a place of stabilization, you know, quite frankly. um you know uh the the smaller amount of increases that we that we've seen over the last this year and last year I think are going to um kind of start to phase out. We're going to start to see that you know stabilize once again
045you know um I think every year they're going to review it and and see kind of how best to you know figure out how to m provide the maintenance for that for that particular program. Um, and if we're in a position and the board would like to see, you know, like if we're in a position where we are seeing those MLL resources at the high school, you know, those tier to resources at the here at this building and we have capacity, then we can we can always make adjustments to the PE schedule as well. So, it's not um it typically has been a once a year approval, but if we have capacity and the board sees this as a priority, we can start to, you know, move those backwards. Uh my comment uh quickly is
046just that um if we are exiting the QCAB uh that bond um and we know that you know kind of two years ago uh you we were basically embarking on a phase two of the of the last bond that we that we had. We were going to look at kind of the second part of the new facilities building. We were going to be looking at that McMurray software. we were, you know, we had some um, you know, significant capital projects that we were going to run for a bond and then kind of with the kind of changes in the business office and um, you changes with our owners rep, you know, we decided at that point in time it would not be a, you know, a good moment for us to to go out to
047the public. I think there were some things happening in some other buildings as well. Um, so I think the the temperature was pretty, you know, pretty high on some items and that was not going to be our priority. So, but with the sun setting of of this bond, uh, we do know that 26 is going to be our APO levy. And so, um, you know, I received kind of a a message today from King County wanting to update our kind of contact information. And so, I let them know that there's going to be an interim in place, but Peter will remain a King County contact person. And since is in place, then we'll share that contact for King County. uh because probably in September they'll be mailing out information about you if you're going to
048run an election uh in February 2026. That's kind of when it starts. Um and so that's important to note. Uh however, you know, we will be, you know, moving forward with planning. Um probably towards the middle towards the end of this year um Stephanie Asavda will be um you probably will be bringing in an owner's rep uh essentially a contractor for the district who will then start to um develop and design the program for replacing the fire system here at Shiakwa. And then following that is the the next project after that is the playground here at Shiakwa. Uh and then following that are some, you know, restrooms at McMurray and some other kind of smaller, uh projects. Um those are paid for with our cap tech levy that went from a $ 1.5 to a
049$ 1.95 million, you know, annual uh collection. Uh with the sun setting out of QCAP, you know, the board next year towards the end of this year is start going to start to be thinking about, okay, when are we going to be planning that next bond? What's that bond going to look like? you're you're going to want to get together a basically a capital projects committee um that's going to you know we worked the the bond that was proposed three years ago was really using information from the prior bond the plan was brand here you know and that's all of us here as well and so that's that's pretty far in the rearview mirror now and so you're going to we're going to be wanting to start fresh um uh almost from ground really not
050almost from ground zero um and So, uh, but it's good news because, you know, I think the rates, you know, property tax rates, there will be some capacity there. Um, and so it'll probably be 20 27 is when that bond will will will go out. Um, and, uh, it's just something to kind of I keep, you know, kind of keep in the back of the mind. Um, and as we're as we're planning out budgets, you know, kind of, you know, exponentially forward, you know, one year, two year, three year, four year. Um, that's that's that was just a thought of mine as I was kind of hearing that. I thought it'd be important for the community to know for for you all to know um as we as we move forward. Can I actually have
051a question slash piggyback on something you just said? You said something about um Stephanie would bring effectively a contract lead. Is that something that gets publicly bid that position because I was actually I was looking at the beach comr as I do and I saw this thing about the Epson bright link digital projector or something in the at the very back of the beach comr so I wasn't sure if it's standard I'd noticed something like that before so I wasn't sure what the is it a financial threshold is it are there certain things that have to be publicly RFP like what is the how How did those various decisions get made that have to be made very publicly? I can't remember the policy off the top of my head. 60 30 I can't remember. I'm
052not going to try. I mean that. Yeah. Um, however, there's there's kind of like two branches. Uh, if it's paid for by federal funding or not by federal funding, if the thresholds are fair, you go up for an RFP with wherever you want. Um, but what's required um, and there's certain exceptions if there's only one person that provides it that particular service, you don't have to RFP it. um you know in terms of the owner's rep um you know it's a pos it's a position that you're hiring with that capital project money and so that's not an I would not believe that that's an RFP unless you're going out for a like if there's companies that provide an owner's rep um you know but Brandy Fox is her own company so would we would she
053provide us with I mean we could I guess RFP But apparently, you know, that's a good question. I don't understand. I I would see it as just a a personnel services contract that we would be hiring someone with and we would go through an interview process and probably include some board, you know, on that because that that person's going to be with us for a while with the, you know, with the two projects here and the project get Murray and probably other smaller projects. So, but in terms of the projects being done like you know the contractors are going to provide that then the owner's rep would then be doing the RFP process like then they would be you know they would be managing the you know all the procurement you know all the hiring
054of the contractors getting the bids in is what you're saying right so you know I mean if if if the projects were smaller than kind Stephanie Asabo would be doing that, you know, as the director, but with kind of the the larger projects, you know, it's it's really not in the capacity and and that, you know, those bond that that capital projects would be um you know, kind of we would be trying to build a capacity there for and some my understanding where I read this the other day that in some districts the superintendent serves in that role, which to me would seem a little Yeah, most people wouldn't come in with that skill set and the capacity to manage that load in addition to the dayto-day. Okay. Well, in my former district, the superintendent
055did that and then hired me out of the middle school principal position into the assistant position where then I kind of ran where I was in managing the teaching and learning and the business and finance and she was mostly managing the building of the new middle school and the building of the turf field and the stadium and the music building, you know. So, you're right, it can happen in different ways. Thanks for walking all that through. Um, I think I might have interrupted you. Did you have something else to on this front? Does anybody have any other questions? I just want to say get ready for a bond. Yes. I killed the lead kind of. Um, all right. Um, is that is that I think so. 650. If you have a vote, you could catch.
056You can make it. Well, no, you can't. I can't. And I also would love to stay for Dr. Spencer's presentation. A teamwork makes the dream work. It really does. Um all right. Um great. I think then yeah, let's move on please. Uh Dr. Spencer for uh first yeah first read of instructional materials committee. Okay. Good day. Um, so, so in your packet we prepared, it was funny because Peter and I were like, "What do we put in the packet? What do we not put in the packet?" We tried to give you at least a good overview of of what we're looking at for our materials. But importantly, um, there I brought in all the two notebooks that I prepared plus some sample materials. So, if you have some time tonight, just know those have been
057sitting in the district office. So, if you have some time, it's pretty dense, so you know, you just need some time if you want to want to look at those materials. But, um, I'd like to give a shout out to our staff. Anytime we embark on um looking at instructional materials, it's like an added amount of work and stress and some people um don't always realize the need for change or some are reluctant to change. Um, but we work through the process and try to get to a good spot best we can. Um, so I want to call out some names and thank them for their work. Chris Stone, Karen Der, Dwire, Amy Holmes, Charlie Rston, Aaron Blazer. Those are all of our science teachers high school who've been involved in this process of looking
058at science materials. I want to um give a shout out to Carrie Brenno and Dr. Heidi Peterson who looked at the health materials for us and of course uh Dr. Greg Ellison. And then this is kind of an unusual adoption with the science because we had a lot of support from a lot of agencies around the area. Um, a lot of content experts who helped us kind of make some moves and and get things going forward for our team. So, it's kind of an exciting time particularly for science in our district. Um, I would also say with each adoption process that we go through, we really are striving towards that K12 alignment best we can because it's so critical for our students to set them up well and um, help them be prepared as they
059move through our system and really anchor those skills. So, um, in your packet, I gave you a write up. Um, let's talk about health first. Health is probably the easier one of the two. It's pretty straightforward. What what we're requesting is an extension of the get real program, which is the sexual health curriculum we've been using at McMurray for about 10 years now. There's a high school version. It was developed by Planned Parenthood out of Massachusetts area, Boston area, Massachusetts. Um, and is published by ATR. Um, it's also one of the state approved sexual health curriculums in terms of aligning to our state standards. And one of the pieces that we've really appreciated at the middle school is it puts a really heavy focus on engaging families or trusted adults in conversations around choices and
060decision- making. So, um it's particular with that um content area. Obviously, it's super critical that families be engaged in that conversation. So, um has really nice strong um activities that can be sent home um for families to choose to engage with or not. So that would be basically an extension of what we've already been using and have had good success at middle school. Greg, do you want to add anything to that? Uh, no. I I concur with what you're saying. We've been using uh partners at Dove who train our high school students um the teen council to come in and that really um pays off really well with our students. It's relevant for them. One question. Did you would you because you were talking about the KOF is this connected to the curriculum that's um
061integrated at Chicago the rights responsibilities one the puberty curriculum. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the same um program but very similar alignment in terms of like parent engagement and um we vetted that program a couple years ago now and there's a fourth grade component and a fifth grade component to it. But yeah, same idea. like sexual health curriculum appropriate um terminology and appropriately for the developmental age and a lot of emphasis on engaging with families. Yeah. So similar in that regard. Um the other piece technically would be a supplemental material. So we wouldn't normally bring it to the board, but because we're actually replacing um some lessons that of the current approved adoption at the high school, I just thought it was important just so you would be aware that we were doing that. Um, it's
062a a it's basically just a lesson on nutrition and it's grounded in the current research and science round. So, no more journaling and counting calories and all of that, but helping people understand the relationship they have with food and why we might eat. And it's super cool program developed by um um a place called Be Rio USA. Um, and it's called Let's Eat. It's free to any teacher. Um, so you can go on, you can't have access to it until you go through a little mini training on their site and you have to pass a a quiz and then you can have access and it's free and downloadable. It's basically designed to be kind of a two-day lesson. Um, and you could expand it. But, uh, Dr. Hans Peterson wanted to replace the information in
063the current program and I just wanted to just bring it to you so you'd be aware of that because we're replacing a part of the approved program with that. And then um it's actually a 612 lesson. So um I wrote that up as a 612 lesson here even middle it's the high school focus so that if Carrie um Breno decides that she wants to implement that um in the middle school she could do that as well. So that's what those two pieces of health um curriculum are that we are bringing to you tonight. Any questions on the health any other things? I'm sorry I'm a little confused and I meant to actually Sure. I asked this question earlier. So within the document, I think I'm on just on just the second page where it's it
064says things like this lesson introduces the USDA my plate system. This is the the one that's outgoing or this is what's incoming. Okay. With the current um person at the head of USDA, like I wasn't sure how some of this would Yeah, it Right. So I I I'm not asking to solve no that but it's it's the most current that's scientifically based. Let's go there. Scientifically based we're almost done with science so don't worry about it. Yeah. So um and in terms of like social emotional and all that it's good it's good stuff. Um, and you know, you could go on to you can pretend you're a teacher or whatever and do your little it's it's quite nice. But I did provide copies of the teacher guide and the um student slides that they use.
065So it's in the binder there so you can look through um it it's pretty it's pretty cool. Does some of this um some of this curriculum get folded? I should maybe know this because most of my kids have gone through foods 101 at the middle school and 102. Does any of this kind of find its way? Is there some collaboration between I don't know for sure if that I don't know. It's a good question. Um, you know, Carrie Brreno is on the same PLC team as Brit who is teaching. So I do think that there's a fair amount of collaboration and consistency around that. I think, you know, if Carrie were to incorporate that, I think it could easily find its way to the food classrooms, too. Okay. Anything else I know? Okay. So, let's
066talk about science. I tried to on the science write up um provide basically um the whole philosophy of the program. If you go to page two, um it talks a lot about what the issues were that came up in the bias review checklist. And then also on page three, some of the um concerns that have been um raised as we've been going through the process of the adoption. Um and so if you haven't had a chance to read those, I would highly recommend spending some time on pages two and three so you kind of understand where some of the um concern or um just wonderings are with program. And then if you turn to page four, that's what kind of all the strengths are. What I see as the greatest strengths of this program is
067everybody in our state who's scienceminded is on board with this program. So there is just tons of professional development. Um, everybody's moving this way. It aligns us. We're going to be working on bringing into the elementary school. Um, the high school team is super excited about it. There's some really cool work samples from the high school pilot in the notebook that you can take a look at. Um, but it really aligns well with everything we've been working towards as a district in terms of universal design and equity and having all students participate as scientists and and having the students generate the questions and then have to come to consensus together about what they're going to pursue. So um if you read like page two because when the concern came up after the bias reviews I
068thought well let me contact the open sed people and see if they done some more substantive things because I will admit when you look at the program depending on which lesson you look at or depending on what part of it you look at it can look not very diverse at all and then others are super diverse and so like in the entirety of the program when you look at the whole program kids are getting exposed to a lot of different ideas, exposed to a lot of different scientists, exposed to folks from all over the globe. But if you drop into certain things, sometimes you're like, well, this doesn't seem very diverse for a program that is really um based on equitable practices and has an a very diverse team of people. The program itself was
069in middle school, there were 900 teachers in across 10 states who helped develop the curriculum. Um, but what I found so far is everybody I've engaged with around this has been super responsive and um, super helpful and super curious about if we have questions. They're interested in addressing those questions. So um I can go into a lot more detail about that later but um basically so those pages two three and four will give you kind of I think a good kind of overview what are the concerns um and what are the strengths and why we're interested in this program. Um, well, I I don't really have a question, but I I'm really asking mostly for the public because first, I really appreciate the way that you wrote this up because I could understand it pretty
070easily. Um, actually, I have two two things to ask, but I would like it if you could just simply sort of quickly summarize the difference between sort of old-fashioned science curriculum and the new integrated curriculum because this is different than um you know what what someone out there had in their own high school. It's so could you kind of explain um over the last many years there's been a shift from more teacher centered lecture demonstration to having it more handson and student engagement. This this program really flips it entirely so that the students they'll watch something happen and then they come up with all the questions about why that thing might be happening and then they they work through and they it's a it's called a storyline approach. So they'll go through a series of
071things and they'll make some assumptions and they'll do some more work and then they'll make more questions and assumptions and then do some more work and eventually get to the end of this. if they do like a weedy thing, it's probably in that notebook, um, if you look at it. But this idea that it's um, uh, students are bringing their own um, observations and wonderings and having a conversation together based on their own experiences from things that they've experienced in life and the teacher is more there to help guide that conversation. Um, McMurray switched to an integrated science approach. Gosh, the last time we did this, so about seven or eight years ago now, they switched to um what was the best integrated model at that time. Um and so this actually would be a
072nice out cropping or growth from that program where it's really turning it more towards a student centered discussion. I think Greg, you probably speak to it because you saw it in action a little bit when you're doing some observations. Yeah, I mean I I had the opportunity to observe I don't know four or five different, you know, class periods in the three levels and what stands out to me are the the content or the units. They each have kind of a a main phenomenon like for example weather um the human body and kind of what's going on in your gut or something like that. And um and then sound, right? We we hear sound a lot. And so those were the three main topic areas. And so kids were really connected to that. That was
073really relevant for them. They were able to generate a ton of questions and had a lot of important access points to that. I think from whether you were a really strong student or a struggling student, you can access that content really well. Um and so the other piece of that um I think was interesting as a teacher you really facilitate guided discussion and you don't necessarily kids will have a lot of questions and the teachers say well um I can't I'm not going to give you the answer to that but I'm going to help you find a way to create more um inquiry about that. And so kids sort of move um fluidly between working in table groups um to creating class conversations about that to be able to answer those questions alongside a unit.
074And so that's I think what's the biggest pedagogical difference I suppose between kind of old school science and um there's still lots of labs, there's still lots of hands-on things as Stephanie um mentioned. Um, and then the other side of it that I saw was really interesting data analysis. Like they would look at at data sets and be able to make inferences and draw conclusions um both individually and in table groups and the whole class. And so I found that part to be really engaging for students and um provide them opportunities to really do some problem solving and good scientific inquiry. So thank you. Yeah. So yeah, so that's basically, you know, what we're what we're doing is making this shift. Um, and I think some people are further along in that excitement for that
075shift than others. But we have some great support. We have um, uh, Don Puit, who has connections to the island. He's from the Washington Science Teachers Association. He's done two days of training with Nicole Bettis um, with our middle school staff. We had Pasdin with middle school staff. We already have two lined up. They chose to have them come in September and October. That was their choice. We were we were saying maybe you want to do it in August and you know October, but um so we've got those days set up for them. But what's what what's nice is they have on demand training. They have um often got uh PLC teams that form around specific units. They have a Facebook present if presence if you do Facebook that's a way you can connect with
076other teachers. So, it's just a lot of support and a lot of resources available um to help us make this shift. And um we're just excited about the potential alignment and and and helping our students, all of our students have access to science and be contributing to that regardless of like Greg mentioned their different skill levels. I was really encouraged to see, you know, build in here the support because, you know, from personal experience, I know how how much time it takes in addition to the teacher's day to adopt and feel really comfortable with a new set. So I assume when they with the professional development days that kind of training on this new curriculum will it continue? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All of our adoptions all of our most recent adoptions we've continued our professional
077development for multiple years. Like we still have we do I Ready training every year. It's not as much as in the beginning, but we still do that. Um, I imagine this will be a lengthy engagement process, but what I like is the fact there's so many different ways for staff to engage um with the program. In fact, we have a elementary teacher who's going to go get trained up um as a as a trainer um primary teacher um right at the end of the school year and going to go participate in that training. So, it's kind of exciting. So, we have people develop kind of expertise in the district. But the other thing that's exciting about the program is once we get the flow and the feel for it, we can customize it more locally
078so we can bring in local phenomena. We can work with Nature Center and figure out how to integrate those cohort experiences. We're not going to stop working with Nature Center. We'll still figure out how to honor those, but hopefully over time we are able to blend it in a much more natural way. But um we have kind of an ambitious goal to try and implement five of the six units in middle school next year. We know we may not make that, but there's recommendations for how to take certain parts out of it. Um and we'll work with our trainers who have a lot of experience to do that. But we're going we're going to try and support everybody best we can in the ways that they need that support. Um, and I I I think
079it's very exciting, but as Mark said, it's a lot of work. As a teacher, anytime you have a new program or new materials, it's a good couple years before you start to really feel like you're getting it where you're like, "Oh, yeah. This is what I need to emphasize, or this is how I can help steer this differently." So, um I think we're well aware that it's going to be a lot of investment and time, but it's going to be um an investment that's well worth it, I believe, for our students. Yeah. I mean, other thing I would add, I think it's really exciting. I think many my years in dealing with science over over the last 20 years or so is that we've typically had an elementary school, a middle school, and high school.
080And I think we're in the makings of really a K12 alliance system. and definitely right now 6121 system and so I think that's super uh promising and just a really ideal part of it's been huge in math we can just say that I mean and just so we're all clear no program is perfect we all know that right all there's some things that work really well but having had um our I Ready math program in K8 for the last years has just helped tremendously with getting kids placed properly in the middle school we have our largest group of eighth graders next year who will be going to the high school to take geometry since like the 18 or something like that. So something about that program is working even though not everyone enjoys every part
081of that program, right? But we have this alignment. We're able to track progress for students and um there's resources and that the other thing that's different about curriculums now more so than like when Martha and I were teaching is that they are constantly um changing and evolving. And because you have this digital component to them and you're not investing so much in the print materials all the time, um you're actually getting up-to-date enhancements. I already is adding a whole bunch of new features next year like the Spanish reading tool is going to become dynamic. Um so same thing with open sed um it's dynamic in that sense. So we're not locked into um something that is isn't going to change, right? Like it's going to change. Um, and they're very, the other thing that's very
082true about everyone that we work with currently in the programs that we have is they're very responsive to DJ, um, to training needs to re, you know, it's it's just a different environment and it's it's pretty cool. That's what I would say about that. Um, I did include just so you could see the new OSPI um, bias tool. It's finally they got this updated. Um, we had taken their very original one which had been done quite a while ago and tried to update it. But this what I like about this and then we had to create an own our own little training program to help people. But what I like is this packet. It has everything in there all together. So when you're working with parents or students or who are doing these things for
083you, they've got a a resource that they can look at for examples. And that's another I forgot to shout out to the the students and the and the parents and community members who helped us go through the bias review for them for that. But I wanted you to see what that tool looks like. Um so you can see it's not always a great fit honestly for math and science programs or for certain programs. it's not really a great tool to necessarily use because um you know it probably is a better tool when you're looking at history texts and um social studies texts and maybe English, right? But um and the reason is that there's not always a lot of visuals like this science program has some visuals, but it's really around data and and so
084you're not not seeing a lot of visuals in the same way that you would see in some other curriculums. But I want you to be able to see what that tool looks like. And as I said, you can look through there's quite a few science uh forms uh that were filled out by different folks. You can read through there and see them. Not so many on the health things because those were more established programs. Um but anyway, anything everything's in there. And then the only other piece I gave you, I like to put this this in front of you a couple times. I'm sorry for the teeny tiny print on it, but it's just the sort of the planning document that we keep so that we can kind of plan out expenses and keep things
085moving in in sort of this seven to eight year cycle um so that we can make sure that we afford materials. Um and uh you know that can't say that sometimes there are adjustments made you know something comes up and we need to take a look at things but it's just our planning document to help us keep on track and keep everything sort of balanced um so that we can afford what we're what we're trying to do in terms of instructional materials. Can I ask a money question since this is up and I feel like when you said you're sorry it's small you were looking at me because I can't I cannot read that. I can't beat it right now at all. But in the of course when I first read about open sed I
086was like free I love free like oh my god it's free. Um it's obviously the accompanying sort of consumables and and equipment has a cost to it but I'm as I'm looking down into the high school cost. Can you say is it because we're operating then at an AP level like jumps from well it's those are just at the time when we go through that's what it was at that time and that's like taking into account all of the textbooks for all those different things all at once. Typically what we do with science and math um at the high school level in particular is we'll spread that out over a couple years. Those costs should come down though as we move to open sed. We are that that's something I should mention. I don't know
087if I addressed it in this packet or not. There are multiple ways you can engage with open science and there's um uh specific developers that have been approved by them. So if you're going to package their materials basically so we're recommending um using Carolina Science because the materials are a little bit more userfriendly. they have some extra tools but it's quite affordable because they're not spending their money on developing curriculum. So if the high school in fact is moving towards open sed and all those and we're moving away from on the old textbook model we won't be able to do it for everything but that's where your biggest cost is is the textbooks and we've also moved away from a model of every textbook for every student to having classroom sets of textbook because of
088the digital tools that are available now. So you have some that you can check out if students need it, but by and large you're just we're buying a classroom set instead of 150 books at a time. Whereas we're we're still kind of coming off that model where there was a textbook for everybody. Now it's kind of a textbook in the classroom. So that's that's probably over. Um but there are expensive adoptions. Um, you know, ELA at the elementary, our last adoption, probably by the time it was all said and done, we did over a couple of years, was like $250,000. Um, when you're having to trade out everything and start over, and it is a book heavy program, which you would expect at a elementary because you're buying all of the classroom libraries and so
089forth, it shouldn't be that much this next time around because we have so many classroom libraries now and right, but you'll still need some basic core materials. So these are what they are kind of at the time it happens. So once we get through this cycle, I'll update the most current information. But yeah, it's just to keep that in our minds with this. It's just kind of to help with the budgeting pieces of that. Thank you. Yeah. And a difference too like M McMurray Science last time that was just for textbook costs. It didn't have any of the uh supplies and materials. So this time we're trying to build in the anticipated costs over seven years. um and and setting that money aside for because that didn't happen last time. It was just textbooks. We
090didn't do anything about supplies. Okay. But there's also cool opportunities. I did talk to PTO. There's a lot of materials that our science science teachers use that are just like household things like 2 liter soda bottles, you know, those kinds of things. So you if we coordinate with PTO, maybe we could do a couple science drives for those kinds of things that we can recycle rather than people to the recycle. from here we'll use them in the science classroom. So, some teachers already do that. Um, but we could probably come up with a much more systematic way using our partners to help us with that. Yeah. Anything else that I can answer for you? It's a lot. It's very dense and I just apologize for that. That's why it's kind of hard um to try
091and give you enough of what you need to be able to see everything and um have the information. So, um, last meeting, one of the last 5,000 meetings at some point, yeah, we talked about needing to incorporate a parent into or community member into some of this decision making. Have you made any progress on that? What does that look like? Are you going to do that moving forward? Because science and health seem to be the two most touchy things in the entire world. Yeah, so I mean, parents have always been involved in our in our process of reviewing bias materials. I just finished today going through um the update the recommended updated procedure. So now our procedure does read that we will have a parent rep. Um it's really interesting because I think they're trying
092to build in um some protection. So the parent has to be a parent a parent or guardian of somebody enrolled in our schools. Um and also there were some pieces there was a piece about having inclusive materials. Um, so there's something to protect that that you can't you as a board can't reject a a program because it's written by someone in one of these traditionally marginalized groups. So it's kind of interesting. It's like our state is building in protections um for our what we think. Yeah. But yes, so I made that change. So that that should be in effect. So next year um we'll take a look at what we're working on. and we'll we'll work to find parents. You can have more than one. They just can't be more than half of your committee,
093which it I don't know why they exactly decide that, but it it is what it is. Um so that's it just it went from I think it changed the wording from May to we will have one at least one um and not more than half of the committee. So that is that's done now. So moving forward that will be procedure. Yeah. Yeah. we'll we'll definitely uh reach out and um and try to get someone. And like I said, we usually usually try to find someone that has some um knowledge of the area that you're doing because it's really hard. Um it's hard if you're trying to do science adoption and that's you haven't had science since you were in school. It's hard to look at that material sometimes. Um same with math, sometimes a hard
094time with math. Um, so it just and his Yeah, it just depends. So like if you can find someone who that's their passion or they do that as a career, it's really great. Um, like I I went to Roxet Lines and asked her to do a bias review for me because she has that science background as community member. She was great. She for me. So yeah. Thank you. Anything else? I have I mean I just have to say I deep believe is deep. I also you just mentioned the protections that statewide they're looking to weave those in and I I feel grateful for living and that the state in terms of statewide what they're doing in terms of supporting our education systems. I'm I'm just gratified to see that in proactive sharp ways. I was
095happy to see them define the parent because they also added a process for appeal for supplemental materials. It's a little different um than core materials, but that they made it very clear that you should be you should have someone in the system because there's been places where folks who don't have anybody in the system come and and create difficulty. So, I was appreciative of that language, but also appreciative that they are trying to honor the parents, right? and get parents more engaged and put that protection in for parents as well. So um yeah, so good good good news moves and overall um strengthen the procedures as well as the policy that we be working on tonight. So thank you and I guess if anything comes up um just email me but I do encourage you
096to you know look at that if you have any questions I can point out some things um for you at the end of the meeting or whatever. Okay. Yeah. Thanks everybody. Thank you. Um and again if anybody wants to leave um I'm glad to have you but to go. Uh Dr. Mashi tell us about the national policy landscape. Yeah. So I I I think because the national focus has been more kind of on economics and you know the the kind of politics amongst the different you know trade partners we haven't seen too many more kind of impacts from the kind of executive uh decisions you know kind of filtering down. So the latest tracker I did look through it I didn't see any anything updates. I wasn't able to go through the last um you
097know kind of it wasn't this week it was the week before I was in here um but if there's anything you'd like to share uh river from that that would be you mean yeah you uh let's see let me I wasn't totally prepared to address that let me see that the next one is two days before our next meeting so um it didn't feel as as always it's really is drinking from the proverbial fire hose of information. I don't think there was anything probably mostly focused on the budget at that time. Yeah. Um you know some stuff actually good stuff for schoolboard members, some trainings coming up uh especially for folks that are on the ballot. Um I didn't really have any other like major takeaways from that that felt like they were that remarkable.
098I saved it in the shared board file around OPI updates but Um yeah. Uh and with that um moving on to the decision uh policy updates. So when we reviewed these policies the last time we um I didn't have too many questions but we did note uh some uh genders that we still saw the president some of the kind of leftovers in these and some of these policies. So, uh, Peter did do an audit of them and those have been corrected. And so, if there's aren't any other further questions, I would recommend that we, uh, take action on 31,41, 501, and 2020 and adopt them. And can we do it in one one go? Great. Um, would anyone like to make a motion to adopt these three uh, policies, 2020, 3141, and 5011? I would
099like to move to adopt uh the policies 3141 5011 and 2020. Can I get a second please? Second. All those in favor. Any opposed? Excellent. Um the three policies 3141 501 2020 are approved. Thank you. Uh and now a second read on uh declaration of surplus uh resolution 821. Yeah. So before the board for a second read is that uh resolution 821. It's focused uh mostly on kind of the end of lifespan and some of the miscellaneous uh supplies that our technology department has seen its outlook its use here. And so um without any further questions I would recommend that the board take action and and adopt 821. Okay. Would anyone like to make a motion to adopt resolution 821? I make a motion to adopt resolution. Somebody else can do it. Thank you, Lucia.
100Thank you. Uh, all those in favor? Any opposed? Lovely. Resolution 821 passes unanimously. Thank you. Um, right, moving right along. Amazing. This is killing it here. Uh, second public comment. This is a second opportunity for members of the public. Uh, you like to make public comment at this time? Okay, thank you very much. Um, and our uh closing items for the night. Does um Yeah, that's in the closing items section. Okay, great. Uh, anyone on the board like to make uh any remarks tonight? Sure. I just I will one I'm I gratitude for all of the reports tonight and Stephanie I really I appreciate putting that look and it both of the process and the materials. Um and I guess just again to echo hopefully Cassie has an end in sight the herculean effort to
101get us to this place and I'm grateful. Anyone else did I just want to thank you all for all the progress you guys have made in the last year. I don't know if you realize it or not, but one of you has dug us out of a dumpster fire and the other is progressing the sport into where we actually should be. So, I really do appreciate all that hard work that you guys have obviously put in this year. And I hope that you have something fun planned for the summer because we are almost there. You've almost made it. So, thank you. I do want to say one thing briefly. Um uh there's sort of there there's so many um es and flows around our um superintendent search. There's sometimes it's like a flurry of activity
102and then it's kind of quiet. And I just wanted to mention that it isn't that there aren't things going on. Sometimes there are things running in the background that either it's not appropriate to talk about or we don't actually have sort of a a headline to share at any given moment. We are going to meet this summer in August 28th. 8th is our next our first official meeting with um search firm that we're working with and we will start the process of developing what they call a leadership profile. Um and then we will sort of lay out a um timeline and they really were so one of the things that was so impressive about them is that they really already had a sort of a timeline template for the ways that they will engage community.
103They had looked at our board meeting schedule and the cadence to sort of understand when it would be appropriate to meet with us and when they'll meet with various constituent constituency groups throughout the community. And so um that is kind of in a in a quiet place right now. Um totally appropriate for us to not be diving into that at this time. Um we continue to um work steadily behind the scenes to um identify um an interim superintendent and we that continues a pace. But again, we're not uh ready at this time to make any sort of announcement. And again, for those of you who want to know um when things start moving appropriately, they will be updated on the web page um with the school, you know, the homepage um for school district under
1042025 superintendent search. That's sort of the grab bag of everything. So I wondered if we could tuck a link in that document to Haya's presentation so if anybody was curious about sort of the timeline and some of the milestones that they propose someone could see that in one spot because I do think having some idea of kind of what that what the shape of a typical process looks like since they outlined it. Why not pop that in? I kind of outlined it originally in the update and I thought when they present it um in the work session we could just because that won't be until August. So if we could have a link to their PowerPoint presentation that doc for anybody no one that may not be of interest anybody was wondering. Okay good idea
105and I think anybody else any other comments tonight? Um our families thank you to our families waiting at home. Thank you for the long days that you spend today. Hopefully that tomorrow I don't know they start for you but maybe it gives you some room to be in the building in the quiet building a few hours. So thank you so much Peter. Thank you for everything Dr. Mi always thank you for the work. Thank you everybody. Yeah. All right. I think uh if that's there were no commitments made tonight except for the let's add that high link to the um the timeline. And with that uh 7:30 meeting. Thank you everybody. And if anybody wants some brownies or not