001I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. First up, we have agenda revisions. Are there any agenda revisions? Nope. All right. Next up, we have the consent agenda. Are there any questions on the consent agenda today? Nope. All right. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I. All right. We have celebrating school achievements with Aaron. All right. Thank you so much. So, I had a little hand out for you. It gives a little bit of context to why we're celebrating. So, the state of Washington has a program to recognize schools who have met their criteria for improvement. And so what you have
002in front of you, it says, "How are schools recognized closing gaps, growth, and achievement?" And so this year we have gorge and halfway. So say this year, this is for the 23 and 24 school year. So 242 uh we haven't competed yet. Next year this time we'll hopefully be celebrating our schools that we recognize for next year. But this year we have River Gorge closing gaps uh targeted closing gaps targeted and growth for students in one or more racial ethnic groups and growth for students in special education and halfway elementary growth for students in special education. It's awesome. Yeah. So we're really thrilled. And then the document you have has that we had in 2023 we had three schools and then in 2122 we had one school. So yeah, we're thrilled with the results and
003Wendy is here uh to accept the banner over there. We have a little ceremony we're going to do uh and get a photo. So thank you for being here. Thanks for the work, your leadership and this is a team effort. Yes. Right. Absolutely. So we we love the the recognition by the state and they shared a banner uh that will go up that we shared identify where the banners we have not decided yet. Yeah. Great. So I invited the principles to be here uh that are receiving the banner on behalf of their school. But thank you. Dy, do you want to add anything to this this recognition? So I want to provide a little bit of context when we were doing the school improvement plans and I clearly saw the graphs that have the orange
004and the blue. Yeah. Um this means number one when when Aaron speaks about growth at some schools we are given a score on whether we grow across th those those indicators and then the targeted groups are some of those subgroups that we've we've focused on we've done some additional work with we've targeted with our interventions those kinds of things. So that's what that kind of means as as far as um what it it means to be targeted and what it means to have overall some some additional growth. So uh Erin, tell me if I'm wrong. Is there 17 16 schools um in the state that were recognized and we have three of them. Nice. That is very cool. When we've had them in the past, so yeah, it's great. So, actually it's 16%. 16% of
005schools. So, it's a few more than six, but 16%. Yeah. No, I didn't say six, but I said 16. Okay. Sorry. I thought you said six schools. That was my Oh, no. I said 16 schools in the state. Speaking of coffee, [Laughter] to to Tracy's point that the the approval framework and all of the data points and then when we meet again in in August and September, the principles will look at all of their data and it's more related to this year. It's a little like Tracy was talking like targeted like we are focusing on specific data points. Yeah. Yeah. That's very cool. So, could we Thank you for being here. We'll get a picture and Tracy and Connor, can you help me doing that now? Yeah, let's do that. That way, they don't have
006to be stuck here through the whole meeting if they don't want to be. Maybe. Would you be in the picture? Yeah. Picture. Are they all the same? Yes. Are you a good one right here? This one work. You want your There you go. You're good. It's not there. So, Sier GD and Gauze will get their banners this week. Okay, thanks again for being here. Thank you. All right, next we have our budget update. Yes. Over to work. So, Shalice is I asked her if we could go over a little bit more detail within the last couple months. We've just kind of gone through it quickly. Okay. So to see if you have any questions about the information. So this is uh this one is recognizing through through April. Now clearly we're almost through May, but
007through April uh we'll highlight information and then there's a mirroring thing that's turned on that's so there a way for me to see the notes. I'm getting so stop sharing and then I go back here. You have to stop presentation and then there should be one that says presenter view. So when you do the screen sharing, you should see both. Is that right? I'm not arguing with her. Okay. Right. We ready? I think so. Okay. Okay. So, um sorry, I'm like moving two screens. I'm not very good at this. Um enrollment, I have April enrollment. Um and then I noted May, so we're up one F 1.18 FGE. Okay, before you move on. Okay. Just should we celebrate that for a minute? Here's the it is in the last six years that's pretty consistent that
008we start we see a little bit of up in October because it's just declines. Yeah. Through the end of the year and so we are not seeing that this year. So we're excited about Yeah. holding our enrollment. I can't share it and see my notes at the same time. All right. So, we're gonna adjust. Um, so maybe someone else could share and she'll just say next and they can slid up. You're gonna see is how well we get along as a team. Okay. So, in a minute You're fine. You just going to share? I tested this out. That's okay. Oh, your phone's turning like I don't know. It's on. I think it's the battery. This is why I don't like it. You hear like every tap. I can probably share my location. silence. Yeah, I
009wish the baseball kids would start like, you know, we'd have that. How many days of school left? Not sure. I love that. They're like, we know. My kids would know for sure. So yeah, today's I just know it's on the whiteboard in our break. Yeah, nice. I love that. No, it says it since Yes, I did. Well, Mr. Connor, that would be something I would do. I'm like, "Oh, I supposed to send it." Wait, I know. When I said yes and then I'm going to send like, "Please show it." Yeah. Please do that. Okay. So, if we want to just go to slide five. So, one more. Yep. So, this is our current general fund um projection as of April. Um so, April and October are main levy collection months. So, that's why you see
010the huge spike in April. That's totally normal. Um, we tend to get more money in April than in October just because of the way the percentages work out. Um, this will go back down because May and June are our low aortionment months. We tend to get around 9% in state aortionment, which is our main funding source every month. Um, and in May and June, we only get five and 6%. Okay? So, it's a lot lower than what we're used to. Um, so you'll see it go back down. And that's the same every every year. Every every year at least we can plan for that, right? Yeah. So the next slide. Um so then this just shows our comparison from 2324 to 2425 updated through April. Um so you can see that our fund balance is
011doing a lot better than it was last year. Um and you can also see how the trend line is pretty much the same from year to year. It's just higher this time, but the same type of trend of when we get our money and when we spend it. And so questions have come up when we look at, you know, why are if our fund balance if we're doing well or better the last year, why are we still reducing? And it's because the 25 26 enrollment is is less. So we are adjusting to enrollment projections. Yeah. Great. Next slide. I love those graphs, by the way. Those are really helpful. Oh, thank you. And then you see these every month. This these are other funds. So in total there are five funds. We focus on the
012general fund, but there are um four other smaller ones. So this one is the ASB, our debt service, which you can see in our debt service, our bond refund went through. So there's revenue and then corresponding transfer out of our refund. Um, so that's good because that's fully done and over with. Um, and then our transportation vehicle fund is there. We paid for a bus and we just got our last bus that we were planning to receive this year in and that should probably hit next month. Yeah. Um, main capital projects. Um, we're slowly going and as the projects get going, you'll see more expenditures coming through. Um, and then budget planning. So, right now our budget planning calendar is to have the preliminary budget presentation in June. So, that would be June 10th. OSPI
013sent out an email a couple hours ago that they don't think they're going to have the system up until June 6th. Um, and so we're going to see how that works out. So, I'm just letting you know that we might still have it on the 10th, but if the system really doesn't come out till the 6th, um ESD has to look at our budget and approve before we can preliminary present it. Okay. If there's any issues with it, so just sent that email. Any thoughts about if we don't have it? Yes. So, we'll probably um normally the preliminary budget then you guys don't approve the budget until August. Yeah. Um and so we could either do a special meeting within July and present it later with the approval still happening in August as normal. Um
014the 4-day turnaround to get it in the system and get the ESD to look at it and approve it most likely is not happening. Um they their email said they're hoping to get it in by next week but at the latest the 6th. So if they get it in earlier then the 10th might end up being fine. Okay. Um yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So then the next slide is the legislative priorities. Um and the next one is the update which is the one I have information on. Okay. So um the legislative session ended April 27th. Um the governor has signed the budget. Um so these are the highlights of what came out of the budget that affect um the district. So the one really positive is that there is no aortionment shift. So I
015know we talked last month about them looking at shifting our aortionment revenue which is not great. They took that totally out. So aortionment will stay the same. We won't have to worry about some really low months. Um the next one is House Bill 2049. So this increased our levy cap and increased it for 2026 by 500 per student. Plus they changed the annual increase to be the consumer price index which is the CPI which is actually a higher percentage than the IPD which is what they currently use. So, we're going to get an extra 500 per student as a cap plus a higher increase. Um, and they're also including an additional 3.33% cap increase through years 2020 2027 through 2030 in addition to the CPI. So that increases um currently the district is capped per
016student and we're capped at 3,247 per student and this will increase um the cap that I wrote down to 3,851 per student. Um which means that what the voters approve once we hit our cap we get rolled back. So we don't actually collect what the voters approve. Mhm. So, this is going to increase what we can collect, but we're still going to be rolled back. It's not enough to actually get up to what our levy is approved for. Okay. But it will reduce our roll back, which is very positive for us. Yeah. Any questions about that? And then just one thing to note um our levy collection is also based on our assessed valuations and those will come out around October or November. So at that point we'll know truly what we'll be able to
017collect because we'll be able to see our assessed valuations compared to our max. So then I'm going to skip the special ed because Connor will go over that. The next one is the Senate Bill 5169 for MSOX. So just like last year when we got a slight increase, this is an increase of $3527 per FTE K through 12 and then an additional $4.69 for 9 through 12, which is an their enhancement. So the total estimated for our district would be 90,998. Um, so as we know because we approved it during the budget last year, we have to show the state that we're using all of our MSOC money, right? Which we are. Um, and we'll just have to show again that this 90,000 just went to our MSOC money. Okay. Um, and then the last
018one, Senate Bill 5769, is transitional kindergarten. Um, so we know that they are fully funding this year and then they're capping next year at our current enrollment and they released their spreadsheet and we're capped at 79 FTE. Yeah. And then Senate Bill 5263. Senate Bill 5263 does a couple helpful things in the area of special education. It eliminates the current enrollment cap that's 16%. Um, so that will fund uh us up to our current uh percentage that's around 18%. So we'll kind of realize some of those unfunded students that are receiving services. Um, and then the other uh piece is that it lowers the safety net threshold. So currently the safety net threshold is at about $41,000. the district um is uh footing the bill up to $41,000 for any students that need that much
019uh support and then the state starts reimbursing us after that threshold. Um so that threshold will will uh be decreased for next year. Um and then they will start to distribute safety net uh awards quarterly instead of uh annually. And this is helpful for um districts who have large uh bills related to students um that they have to kind of pay upfront and then don't realize the reimbursement until um this summer. Yeah. Oh wow. Okay. And they're doing it quarterly now. They will be on a quarterly basis moving forward. Yeah. anything you want to add about TDK as far as projected? No, we're in a really good spot. The the uh cap that we um currently um have is 80 students basically. Um and we are uh currently enrolling students for TK for next year.
020We've offered um 60 students spots and we are actively uh registering about 51 of them. So, we're doing a good job registering the families that have been offered spots. And then our uh process for screening students and identifying if they would benefit from TK is still open. And so, students are still um families are still expressing interest in being screened and being put on a wait list right now. And and they have the potential to um access a a fourth classroom if we get enough students. Wow. Awesome. That's great. Thank you, Connor. Are there any questions? There's my last slide. Okay, thank you. Thank you. This was great. Thanks for the update. All right, we are on to the ELLL program update. Yes, I'm going to join me up front. So Tracy oversees numerous programs
021and our ELLL multilingual program uh is is one of those and she has brought Haley who's big part of the the team and Sandy you're you're here in support. Yes. You can come up to the table as well. Everybody's coming. Actually, Dana Wilson just left because she had to go see her son play a solo. Oh, yeah. I heard that. Okay, great. So, yeah. So, this is a a remarkable team and we're thrilled and thank you for being here and sharing uh the program. So, Tracy is going to be setting up the the presentation that you have in front of you. Maybe while we're okay that's what I was just going to ask introduction. So Tracy take it away. So this is Sandy Rener. She's one of our she's our Spanish speaking liaison and also
022uh works with our multilingual learners. And this is Haley Alvarado. Haley is new to the position this year. Um so as as some of you knew um we we made a change where uh we changed the model uh this year. So Haley is a a 6 certified staff member with an ELLL endorsement, multilingual endorsement. And then what we were able to do with some of those funds um is that we were able to add an additional paraprofessional to help support students. Um and that's when we brought Dana Wilson on um as well. And Dana has been a great addition to the team. Um as Haley is as as well. And then Fernanda Lei is also somebody that uh a par profofessional that's been with us for a number of years. um she supports students. They
023all they actually they all support students. So even Haley in in her role um of overseeing the whole program uh she sees small groups of students as well. So today I'm just here um to just kind of bring you guys up to date. I did that last I actually did it two years ago. um just kind of giving you information on how we identify students that are are in need of some support for English language services. Um I think during our board visit and I'm not sure um Satie, were you at the JMS board visit? Yes. Um we were able to see u a pushin model there um where we were in Mr. Rainey's class and um students, multilingual students uh that were actually a couple of them were newcomers. Yeah. Uh were sitting right
024up front. Uh it was translated materials and also uh uh translated video that was on. So we we saw that in action. Um when students come to Wugul uh part of the registration uh process is that they fill out a home language survey and what they indicate on that home language survey is how we then screen them. So it's Haley's responsibility and her team to screen in that month of September. It's it's a very small window of time um so that we can provide support for students you know ASAP and then we get students all throughout the year. You'll see in one of the last slides how many students we kind of start the year with and then what we end up with. So and please ask questions along the way of myself, Haley, Sandy.
025I know I didn't tell you guys that. No, that's okay. That's totally fine. Also, every February uh and into March, uh Haley and her team administer what's called the WEDA test, and it's a English profic proficiency exam. And that's what um I shared with you guys a couple years ago how they were going to then align students with the WEDA scores and with how they how they um tested with the ESBACK because what was happening was there was a a real discrepancy sometimes in students um seeming like they maybe didn't need as much language support yet they were not testing well um and we want to kind of bring that more into balance. Last year they did some adjustments and we had a lot more students who were successful um and actually I think there
026were six overall that actually were able to exit their services um for ELLL support um and then you know continue on that mean that just means that their language level was high enough where they didn't need as high level of support. Now when a student qualifies to not receive that support they become like on a consult basis because we want to make sure looking at classroom teachers how do classroom teachers feel about it um what do we witness with students um in their development of of English you know whether it's speaking listening um writing reading all of those components and depending on uh the level of students so for example you we saw say was there we saw the a push into the classroom we would do that similarly in like a kindergarten classroom um
027I think starting in first grade we it's mostly a a pull out kind of program um but we really try to individualize it to see what the student needs are and newcomers since they come throughout the year a lot of times we'll switch groups around so we could do pushin with that student and at the high school. I usually push in with the student if they want to at the high school. But yes, yeah, we kind of move things around depending on who's coming throughout the year and really seeing what that for the younger kids, what kind of level of support is the family looking for? What kind of support does it look like the GenEd teacher needs so that we can help bridge some of that? Um, this just talks to you uh about
028your board policy 2110 about how you have agreed uh as a board and us as a school district to we are committed to making sure that students that enter the district get the support they need um through uh we have have funds that's title three and that's TBIP. That was one of the um uh one of the things that was part of the program review uh that we just we were just successful at. We brought you that information a couple weeks ago. Um that there's a lot of u boundaries and and specifics about that grant money and what we can spend it on and we utilize it as much as we can uh in the way that it was intended. also through supporting um multilingual learners is uh this is now our fourth year with
029a awarding students at the high school the seal of biiteracy and what that means is that student is bilingual, you know, and they get a certificate, they get a medal. Betty orders the medal, make sure everybody gets theirs. Um Haley right now is finishing that testing for students. I don't have an updated number. The last time I reported to the board, it was actually after school ended and we had those we had those numbers. So, you know, in a future meeting, we'll make sure that we let you know about um students and also we'll be at graduation and those students were identified and got to stand up if you remember last year um with who was awarded that special recognition. So, you're currently proctoring those exams? Yeah, we're finishing up. We're starting to get some
030of the results in from the middle school though cuz we finished at Kh sorry at Canyon and at Gym Chagard and we're starting to get some of those scores. So I just saw one come in today and one of our middle schoolers already got a four or one of our eighth graders at Gym Jagard. So that means he doesn't have to take it again. He's has a seal of beritacy now. That is so cool. So graduate with it. Yeah, that's so cool. And they can retake it every year. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. And so what that comes with is four four high school credits. So I mean it's Right. That's huge, right? Exactly. It's a big deal. So when will you be done with that? I should be finishing this week. Okay. Yeah. And it
031says it takes 5 to 10 business days to get everything back, but it's been a little longer. Yeah. AP testing, balance testing, seal by literacy testing. Yeah. Testing going on. And some of them are doing both at the same time. So yeah, um we're going next year we're going to do it in the fall instead of the spring and so um we can try to get more people in the fall and then not have a lot of testing happening and then just catch anyone who missed anyone who missed and if anyone enrolls later they can just do it later. They have the whole year but once they start the test they have 90 days to complete. I think I was wondering what you were saying they can take it multiple times. Just one time a
032year though, right? For one time a year and there's a maximum number of credits that can be earned, right? Four is the max. Yep. Great. That's so cool. Um, and then we also obviously, you know, we offer dual language. So, our commitment to that, we know we had a pause this year. So, we currently don't have a kindergarten group of dual language, but we will we have 19 students that are registered right now for kindergarten for next year for dual language. So, next year we will have so we increased to third grade this year. So, we had we had first, second, and third. Next year we'll have kindergarten and then we'll have second third and fourth. Thank you Wendy Moral. So we and we won't have a first grade because there's no kindergart. There's no
033first. You're right. And but there has been so you know and we have discussed at different times. What if there's a large number of first graders but we don't like I think we we've asked to maybe collect names anyone who reaches out to us. Yeah. And just right now I don't think it's a I got 19. So So if that is if that is the number then what we need to do is look at those those individuals and see you know what the level of interest is for first grade. Yeah. Yeah. 19 already. Um no. Yeah. For first grade. Yes. The kindergartens from this year that are going up to first grade. Yes. I got 19 so we'll need to look at Right. And and yeah determine like get the get those names. I've been
034going to home visits and having them do the survey thing. So, you know, I've been trying to get to them all to get them to do it. Yeah. And then the other support that's been offered this year, and I'm not sure if it's been offered in the past. It might have been, but maybe not. Last year, too, for the tutoring. Oh, yes. Okay. Um I know that Haley and her team opened up the building um on a Saturday. Actually, it was the Saturday before Mother's Day. um just because in preparation of students maybe being a little anxious about the test and not being in class and getting homework done, they had 15 students come on Saturday. So, um kids 17 Oh, 17. Okay. So, 17. Yeah. I was going to say some came at different
035times and that was a big song is because it was Mexican Mother's Day and most of those kids were little were little Latinos and it's really hard for them to be away from their moms and Mexican Mother's Day but they did it. They came they were there the whole day and they got a lot done a lot. Very cool. All right. Um we as a district provide other kinds of services and uh you know our multi multilingual uh nights throughout the year uh supporting students uh sports physicals and you know whatever families really uh indicate a need for we've tried to be responsive to making sure that um we can provide some assistance in those areas. We also have in the last two years um taken some of that grant money um and uh paid
036for uh SCOP instruction uh training. We sent actually more than 12 people in these last two years have gone to this 3-day intensive training at ESD. Um and we're we're thankful for that. Some of those um individuals were classroom teachers that were interested in the training. all of our lap staff has participated. So, thinking about how we can help support students and reading. We also had some um lap additional funds. They're called high poverty funds that we got this year. It was a one-year um uh set of pocket of money. And Wendy was able to hire an additional PAR at Hathaway. The funding had to stay at Hathaway. Um, but we were able to get a bilingual para in partially in that lap room and and that dual language room and uh we're hopeful that
037we can do something like that in the future as well. We we have been notified that we will not be able to get the high poverty funds though for next year. We did not qualify for that. And then the other things that we support, imagine learning, universal design for learning, all those kinds of things that are part of what we do for all learners. Um, I showed all of you uh a couple of years ago, we started the year this year with 106 students in our multilingual program and we're ending right now with 133. Um, and we have 14 different languages that are represented. So, um, you know, we've got students from all over the world. Crazy as well. So, very cool. It is. All right. Any any questions? I don't have any question. Thank
038you guys. This is great. I think it's amazing. I'm just curious like what challenges you've seen over the last year or two years or that you project moving forward. I think one of the biggest challenges is having newcomers come to Washable because we don't have an a newcomer program like some of the other bigger districts might have. Um and they just have more staffing, more people available for newcomers. um they kind of do like the newcomer would start in a classroom and then slowly branch out into their main core classes. Um here we're more like pushing in and supporting them in their main classes. Um so I just see that continuing to be a challenge and I think it just depends where students are coming from, what grade they're coming into, what education they're coming
039with and so that's just been a major challenge and I think everyone has that challenge. It's interesting that you bring that up. Also, Haley and her team have made quite um a connection with ESD12 and actually Haley was invited to present at what's called the World Cafe this year and it was a great honor. We we did some uh uh advertising and some publicity around it, but also it kind of people at ESD um because we've sent so many people to SCOP training really has put a mark that Haley can call who the person that's in charge at ESD12 and pretty much FE is at her at her call. So really Yes. Yes. and and they have great people that have also presented there. Like when I presented also um I got to sit in
040on a a newcomer session for two staff that were newcomers themselves when they were in elementary and middle school. And so it just kind of every time I go there, I'm learning something new and bringing it back. So it's awesome that I'm connected there too now. Yeah. It's awesome. and to be able to, you know, to be able to hear from the students perspective what did they need, not what we need. Yeah. What did they indeed need and what kinds of things worked and what kinds of, you know, it's the feedback that we that we want to hear. Oh, yeah. You know, I like I would like to say something. I mean, it's been amazing having Haley made a huge difference. And um the kids the kids talk about it all the time because they
041feel um like they're heard more and understood more. And I mean they actually you could stop in anytime in our room. You'll see our room trying to be full with kids all the time. They don't want to leave our classroom. Um and they're always asking, you know, can we stay after school? Can you help us? Can you do this? Can you do you know I've been saying of course almost every day after school and helping I get teachers that will help and some students that have been amazing super engaged right now helping so they really really I it's sad to me that they waited till the last minute to try to get their grades up of course but they're doing it you know and the biggest thing is my biggest challenge is the teachers working
042with some of the teachers that just don't want to budge and we're trying to break them in and they've been they've been breaking in. So, they've been but working with us lately. But, it has made a huge difference having the classroom we have compared to when I was working with um Miss Seavoy and with Miss Lelay the years before and because they only had a tiny little room and they would like Yeah. They would only pull two kids at a time. Now, we're helping anywhere from two to three to 14 kids at a time. Yeah. Depending on what we're doing. depending on what we're doing, you know. So it and then themselves say, you know, we couldn't have done it. We couldn't have done it without being in this classroom. So it's made a huge
043huge difference having Tracy's backup supporting it. Yeah. Thank you for your support. Yes. All right. Any other questions? So I have a couple thoughts. Yeah. So yeah, just and you just hit on it like so because Tracy and I our offices are very close together and I get to see who's visiting. I get to hear conversations and so the level of support that you've provided with with SCOP training and with the grants like just the and between you and Betty supporting the team like you think about like what do people do? Yeah. So Tracy's support and Betty working with the two of you in providing resources and information and training to them is been phenomenal. Yeah. Oh yes. And to think about a year ago when we made a decision and we weren't sure and
044we know we needed a certificate staff member who who's had the the correct uh licensing and Haley did and Haley was in a position that was eliminated. And so to have this conversation with her, it was probably a little bit uh more than a year ago, but yeah. Well, yeah, it was last year last summer. Yeah. To to be here now. And when we make a decision like that, we don't know necessarily what the outcome's going to be, right? So, part of it is we had an idea and you've been phenomenal. Thank you. And she's also like this very upbeat, energetic, positive, uh, qualified certific, you know, yeah, certified, which is really helpful for this role. And then just your energy and your interest and just like you said, like every time you go to
045student, you learn something and probably working with uh, principles, you're you're you're getting a better understanding what what they're looking for. Working with family, circling with Sandy. So she's very open to um like feedback and input. It's very helpful. She's also FYI graduate he was my principal part start a lot on connections and the impact of that and so she has a lot of connections in this community and this year I've made a lot more. This is like breaking out of my second grade classroom and I've learned so much this year. Yeah. So much. And you've done such a great job. Thank you. So, thank you. and Sandy and all the connections Sandy has and yes and her 100% your willingness to to you know challenge students and I think families and connect with them
046and say this is what we have and actually and challenge us with things that you notice just as you shared like what are the challenges well sometimes it's with working with uh the educators and like trying to get them to to uh find different ways that they can for our students whose primary language isn't English, right? And so all the things that you presented uh were Yeah. I'm looking forward to the results. I love the seal by literacy and hearing the data, you know, and because that's a huge impact for a student. Yeah. When they when they get these credits that they'll help towards different areas of their graduation requirements. Absolutely. Every year we have more and more first generation graduates. And that's amazing. You can see somebody in middle school already have that. That's
047that is really impressive to me. Yeah, I just saw one today so I'm hoping for more. So what you witnessed at jump to guard that that one observation all that that went into that right that took time right that was that was a team effort with the classroom teacher Dana and so we that's you know we just saw the results of the work that went into the planning that went into that. So that was that was amazing. Yeah. And you see how many people it takes for one child, right? Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. All right. Next up, we've got our capital facilities plan first reading. Yep. So, here is a draft of the the current plan. And so it's 2025 to 2030. It's a lot of document. It's Yeah,
048it's fairly thick. And so I will share this electronically with you. So I we took last our our current plan. Yeah. Which uh does expire in 2027, but but we for a variety of reasons, we wanted to update the plan for uh the next six years. And I think I've shared this at a different time. Uh there's also a 20-year look or outlook which didn't exist. So knowing that the county and the city are doing their 20-year plan and that had been something that had come up in our meetings. So we've added uh a part that wasn't um in place. So I know there's there's a lot of reading. Uh I can I can tell you that it's um it has all the components that are required for capital facility plan. And for those of
049you who don't have this in front of you, this is something that we do every every six years. And so identifies what capital projects we are thinking for the future. It doesn't mean that we're necessarily going to do those, right? But it's a plan that identifies what the project is and what the the revenue sources for the for the project, right? So um I've updated the projected enrollment. I've updated what the city has shared with us. Shalice, Les have been very helpful. Cory has been very helpful with updating the information. So, this isn't a before and after. If you don't see the edits, right, from the previous, if that's something you're looking for, just let me know. Um I think the um if you look, for example, page four, the accordingly, the district's facilities planning
050is focused on three critical areas. So, the first one is land acquisition. So we spent a good part of the fall discussing the property that we were interested in. So we are still looking for property and the reason is is because uh there's not a lot of property available and when you purchase property for the future right that the price that we settle on uh now it's going to be much different than the price 20 years or 10 years or 15 years. So that's the the first one. Uh two is modernizing our infrastructure. So, this is very important as we have aging buildings to continue to to modernize those buildings. Um, there's there's legislation stat requiring us to be 100% more um efficient. So, so we that's something that we're working on. And uh the
051last the third one is um in enhanced safety and outdoor learning environments. So, that's uh that's a big that's a big area. everything that's outside and then and what are our facilities or our outside facilities looking like what are our playgrounds looking like? What are our softball, baseball, all of our athletic fields and and so whether it's up river where we know that we have u some spaces up there we have a fair amount of property. Yeah. But not all a lot of it's usable and that that is that's usable like we have some you know for for several months there's a lot of water that we uh so we can mitigate that that would be helpful and then at the high school uh we we didn't play a baseball game on our baseball field
052and so we've got some work to do with that field and so when you get into the the actual projects some of the projects are identified are our outside spaces Okay. I think since this is the first reading and this is the first time you've looked at this, I think the idea would be you could please y spend some time reviewing it. Um, if we want to go to I think just one more example, if you go to page 12, table seven, capital facilities needs. Okay, that's where that table from our previous or our current plan. Yeah, there's more items on on this. Okay. So, the idea being looking into the future and what are our needs as far as our facilities. This um we've done I think a pretty good job of identifying and
053if you're looking at the table I'm looking at security system upgrades is one of those items. So, we currently don't have funding for those security system upgrades that we're thinking about, but we've written a grant and we haven't heard back on the grant for part of that. And so um we will seek out potential revenue sources for these projects and then it could be grants, they could be a part of levy, they could be a part of uh maybe someone wants to donate funds for a project that's happened but we have properties that we've worked with partners. So okay, any questions? Not yet. Not yet. Okay. Yeah. All right. Right. We are on to our proposals for action. Do we have any citizen comment tonight? We do not. All right. Let's look at our board
054meeting calendar for 2526. Yes. So, we discussed this at our last meeting. I don't know if there were any uh updates or thoughts regarding the calendar. It's very similar. Yeah, we'll talk about the SIP plans are similar format. They're early. We've identified those. Yeah, there's no additional questions. Does anybody have anything else on that? Do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I. Next up, we have resolution uh 20242508, which is our turf transfer. Discussion of turf transfer. All second in favor. All right. We have uh resolution 202425010 which is our WIAA enrollment. I did not have anything on that one. All to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I to resolution 20242511 which is our declaration of surplus. Did not have anything on that. Anybody else? Motion to
055approve. All in favor? I I We looked all those over. I had it. So, yeah, just really fast, guys. We I promise we looked all those over way ahead of time. And pretty straightforward stuff. All right. Next up, we have our boiler installation for um the high school. This is the one we saw the presentation on or that they spoke about the last time. Yeah. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I for the boiler. Yes. That's great. Another great thing. All right. Next up, we have policy revision. This is our second reading and approval. We've got policy series 6000, which is our second reading and approval. Do we have any questions on that one, guys? Do I have a motion to approve it? I'll second. All in favor? I All right. Ton of comments
056for our board directors. Jane Ver. Okay. Um, no, just kind of echoing what she was mentioning earlier. Lots of testing in the school. So, when I've been in the last couple weeks, it's definitely been the students were studious and I think they're very uh very glad that these testing weeks are over. Um, but I know it takes a lot out of like the teachers and everyone else just to get all that testing done and make sure that the kids not only are prepared to take it, but also that they don't have the levels of anxiety. I know my uh third grader came home a little bit panicked for a while and his teacher did an amazing job of calming him down and letting him know that he knew the material and everything would be fine.
057So, just really grateful that the whole school came together for that. We're in the home stretch. Yes, thank you. Yeah. Um I guess I'm just thinking about the summer, right? Like talking about things winding down. Um but there's also a lot of work that's going to continue in our school. So again, thank you to our levy supporters for allowing us to do all of these upgrades and repairs. Um it's going to be it's going to be a busy summer. So kind of excited to see the work get done. Absolutely. Um, of course I have to thank everybody for Stride. What a great turnout. Um, it rained, but it was amazing. It was so fun. I love seeing our principles there. We've got Aaron with his cowbell. We've got just so many great participants and I
058love it and it's just it's fun every year. I will volunteer for that for forever. Um, we got to visit Gauze. Um, Erin, Tracy and I got to visit Gauze. Um and again great great work being done in our schools. Very impressed with our was it TK that the little guy they were just they were so take like so smart just like answering all these questions talking to each other the things that were going on in just a TK classroom. So impressed. Um and then our budget. Super excited about our fund budget fund balance. That's amazing guys. We've we've come a long ways this year. I'm very proud of this. Yeah, it's all I got. Great. Thank you. All right. So, I got a couple slides. I don't have so the site visit and I
059don't have a slide with the site visit but so TK so Jane and Ida TK so four year olds singing about so I think they were singing the the days of the week and then the and then there was a months of the year the days of the week I think was a student came up and and helped facilitate that song. Yeah. And then they did a turn and talk and they answered the question, what are you good at? And I think the week before they or day before they end, what are you what what's your favorite thing to do? This is what are you good at? So they they discussed it, they asked each other, and then they did a they shared out what did your partner say that they were good at which
060was phenomenal. So turn and talk working collaboratively TK and remembering the not only the name of I wanted to capture that and say to our high school folks look this is a strategy that is utilized and do a turn and talk with norms and they would then when and the ask was say the entire sentence and use this your your partner's name and for the most part they they were nailing it. It was very impressive. Uh loved it. And then the fifth grade teachers and our our amazing music teacher Yandra did such a good job preparing students for the the Memorial Day remembrance assembly. Very cool. Absolutely. The band played. Yeah, the band they ukuleles there were songs there were speeches. It was wonderful. Okay, so here we go. So I want to start with
061Ida. You had asked a question and you're let this is the first one. you had asked a question about uh who is going to be doing the work that an example Tracy who's retiring who's going to be doing that work right and so uh we do have a so I thought you know and I didn't do a great job answering the question we do have an organ organizational chart and and so that's on our website so we're going to go look at that but what we did was we really started there what is everybody currently doing and then what does Tracy do and then we met with our building principles but there were questions that have happened uh here leading up to the we set out our building principles and said here are the things
062that and it wasn't just that Tracy does but we identified those along with other tasks uh responsibilities with programs various things that we do and said who is interested and so we had a chart so they got to they got to fill their own name in one of the rules was you couldn't put someone else's name down for something so we went through this process us and then we've taken that and we're going to share that with PA which is our principal group and so we want them by themselves to to work through them not influenced by us us being district office executive team so they're going to then they're going to we're going to have a conversation about that but I thought it'd be good just to to visit the org chart so this
063is the current uh chart and then there's a document they want to hold on a PDF because this comes up at different times really earlier in the year. Julie will get these kind of questions. Well, here's a situation. Who do I talk to? Who can help me with that? And so, so Julie has most of this memorized, I think, on who does what? And sometimes we need to ask her like who does what and so she will tell us who's doing what. And so this is just how it's organized. And so for 25 26 it'll be reorganized. Right. Gotcha. And so not only does this include Tracy's role with teaching and learning, but also with Margaret's role as a CT director who had also other duties as assigned. So we're currently working through this and
064it's it's kind of challenging like what's the best way to to represent sometimes it's it's it's organized vertically, sometimes it's you know it's horizontally. Um, typically it's it spreads out too far and it's hard to, you know, represent it in a chart or it's a tiny font, you can't read it. So, um, this is on our website. This is information for really anybody who wants to know how we are organized. And so, we we are going to get we're getting a little bit leaner. We're identifying the roles and typically we're going to have uh it's it's a team effort, but ultimately there's going to be directors that oversee multiple programs, right? And supervisors who work with those directors and then principles who um have some responsibility that maybe they didn't have this year, next year,
065but it's still going to be a team effort in how decisions are made and how the work gets done. So, um, back to like really your question, Ida, is like, um, we are working on it. We're including multiple individuals, uh, you know, in multiple, uh, we're doing this a couple different times as we approach the next year. And in some cases, you know, I I think we we for the most part, we know um all the responsibilities, but similar to like attendance, we started this year with attendance. We did them personal dream attendance. We had to make some adjustments in in August, September, and then October. And we're in that person, it takes time to learn the position. So, as much as we want building administrators to to do the work they really are maybe
066passionate about that they have experience with, that's why we want them to have choice in it and say, but eventually we will have a a organizational chart similar to that one. Okay. Okay. What did I just do here? This is the wrong one. Sorry. We're having a tough presentation situation. Le I think you need to give lessons. He's like I'm getting super. Hold on. I'm getting error here. I know this isn't No less. I'm good. It just there we go. Let's see if that works. That's the It was an interesting error message I was not never seen before. So it's not a good shame it There we go. Okay, I know you had another question. Oh boy, you are popular. So, Shalice and I discussed this. So, this was the question about policy 6020, which
067was one of the policies that we've just you just approved the revision and it talked about, you know, uh the county treasurer maintaining ASB funds. And so Shalise responded. I don't know if that was that night I emailed you or was from the next day, but um as you can see, yes, that insurance actually all of our you want to provide a little context. Yeah. So how school districts operate is we have a local bank account. Our deposits go in it. Um every day they're supposed to have within 24 hours and then every week we're supposed to trans transmit. So at a th those funds from our local bank account to the county treasur and then the county treasur pulls all the money. So every time we draw a check it's actually sent through the
068county treasur's bank and not through our local bank. Pretty much every week we clear out our local bank to the treasur. Why? Um it's the whack. All the school districts the county treasures all the funding. Do they any interest on those those monies too? We do not. We invest our funds for us and keep track of it. Um I think it's the same for you know good question. It was I knew it was a city thing. And then Chuck talked about uh workers comp and you know he had two scenarios where a volunteer gets on a ladder and and falls and then a referee who um had an experience in a district where referee was injured and actually uh killed uh during an incident. Wow. Okay. So I reached out to our property casualty claim
069administrator with ESD12 who shared that we are a part of this consortium and so we um the ask or the the wonder is something that's that's not really available to us which is additional uh support. Okay. Um, but we are we are covered within the the program that we're in with the SD12. And so, you know, there's certainly things that we can do to mitigate risk and we we try to do that with as much as possible with volunteers, but like the example of officials, they're also a part of an organization. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And so, which is they covered by that, not us. Yeah, that makes sense. And so I'll make sure that he he sees that response. Couple things we want to talk about. So our equestrian team completed their state recently and
070now they have regionals. So this is Oregon and Washington and possibly Idaho are going to be in Redmond, Oregon. So this is the next level for them. So this is a this is a co-op between us and Stephvenson. Yeah. So, a number of these are our athletes and student athletes. And and the thing is with the equestrian team is it's not one of our sports teams, but it is it's in essence a club team. And so, um they you know, these are our students and Stevenson students. And just it's it's a they had a great season and I think this was one of the best uh state competitions they've had. So, very successful. I think everyone qualified uh for for the next the region. So that's just great. So very cool. And it just you
071know and they they these events they they they have trailers they're together. They have their clear they have their horses and it's just and my understanding is it's it's a really like you have uh parents, families, grandparents. We had a grandparent who came in the next day and wanted to make sure that I was aware how successful they were. Oh. So that was it was a great update. And so less they push this information out on Facebook and ice publish it. So yeah, we're excited for uh their next competition. Awesome. Recently we recognized Dana and uh Melanie and so Melanie is one of our volunteers. So we identified her as is like a volunteer of the year through Ekka. So, she does a lot of things through EKA and one of those things is a
072mentoring program that's at the high school. And if you were to stop by the high school and go to the library, uh really about any time during the day, you're going to see uh Melanie and her her team working individually with students. And so, Barb Seaman, Mary Andriotti have had a lot to do with that, but it's it's a it's a great program for our students. And so Melanie just appreciate her interest in in volunteering and supporting our students. Adana Wilson who does a lot of different things for the district at different times, but she is uh she is phenomenal and so just really appreciate all that she does and the way she does it. So focused. Yeah. She is so focused on on supporting our students and working collaboratively. She is really um allin
073with Wugal the community and the school district. So we really they were there that Saturday too. What's that? They were there that Saturday, right? They volunteered. Yes. And had mentoring students. So that that picture on the left was the event that a number I think Wendy Wendy was there. Haley was there, David Cook was there. And so it was a a fun event recognizing part two. Yeah. So you just mentioned Satie. So the stride. So the the bottom two pictures. So say that's you on the right working the the booth there. Uh great job. It was I don't know what time you got there. Probably 5:30. It's real early. It's a great it's a great event. And it's a great event because of of what it does. Not only does it raise funds for for
074our students and our our staff to apply for grants, but it's also um it's about fitness and right and making healthy choices and it's a it's a big community event. So there's a lot of uh you know partners that are there and so I just I really appreciate this event. There's a lot of work that goes in. So thank you all the volunteers that dedicate so much time. The picture on the left that is me. I don't have my bell. the bell was up at the at the start line and that's my daughter. Oh, did she run? Excuse me, Emmy. Who who ran it? Yeah. So, she was excited about about running and so she this year she actually uh completed the registration early enough to get a t-shirt. Nice. So, yeah. Yes, of course.
075Yeah, usually it's it's after. Yeah, but it was Yeah. So, really proud of her and she um then kind of hung around and helped a little bit. And then the right is we have our doctors. We had the, you know, our food truck was there. Shoot Shack was there. Uh, burritos and scones. Uh, the I love the finish line. I'm hoping that there'll be a start line that looks kind of like that. We talked about that. The finish line is the best place to Oh, yeah. It is. Well, and I love that the some of the principles hand out the medals because I know like my kiddos, they get all excited that they got their medal from their principal. I love that. Right. They they will not forget this this time. Yeah. And then our
076band was there. So So our band was there. Sounded great. Yeah. And so Jen, Dr. Hodap and David Dorte had the play on Friday night which goes by 10:30 or 11. Then they were there for band for the stride and then they had a matinea and then they had another night evening. We're the last wizard on show. Yeah. They were die hard. So when people challenge like the work of educators and the commitment, I mean that is just amazing. I just was so impressed that Dr. OD knowing they had a late night and then showing up and the same day we had uh music teachers took students to the Vancouver Symphony. There was a field trip where students who wanted to go there were um you know said they want to go. We had three
077band music teachers, elementary teachers that took a group of students about a three-hour experience with the SI. Very cool. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing stuff. So, really appreciate it. Uh, so Mark Castle and I recently were invited to attend a presentation by McKenzie and Paige. So, next year's president and vice president of ASB. So, that's Mackenzie on the left and Paige on the right. So there was this presentation and it was really about their culture uh climate culture and the work that they're intentionally doing from a student's perspective what they can do. They were recently recognized the 202025 platinum school of distinction through Renaissance which is a part of just so this is ongoing partnership with just and just they continue to be uh receive this the recognition because they're they're building they're they identify a need
078they put a plan together they have action steps they fulfill those action steps and and they see results so they uh did a really good job presenting to Mark and I And then the last two slides were about their ask. And so it was interesting. Mackenzie kind of said, you know, I'm just over here. We're just looking for a yes. And I was like, okay. So the next slide and I guessed what it was. And so this is they they are interested in having uh senior parking. Wow. Panther which has been a tradition uh since the early early days. uh you know probably before we had paved it was a gravel and they probably before that it was dirt parking lot and on the way they still had so just really appreciated their their energy
079and their optimism and their the way that they are going about this and so it's it was a phenomenal presentation both former pathway students there we go are we are we doing senior parking I mean did you say yes you know what so Mr. the next district council was leaning into it. I was not going to make that decision. So, but as a as a former principal there, that was a definitely something we would discuss off and on. Uh so, it's I think he's leaning into the idea. So, I think it's very Okay, that is all I have. Okay, thank you. Um do we have any future agenda items to think of? Okay. Um, our board evaluation is available online. Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I. All
080right. We are adjourning at 7:45. Thank you.