WSD Board Special Meeting and Work Session May 13, 2025

001I call the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Please stand. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, and justice of all. Okay. Little high school roofing contract. Yes. Thank you so much. So you have information shared with you. So yeah, we are getting to the point with these uh the projects. Thank you to our community for the uh levy and the capital levy approval because uh we are now getting ready to to launch many of these projects and the one that is you know the probably the most expensive one is the high school. Yeah. So, um, the ask is that you approve the contract for Carlson roofing. And Les and Jessica are here to answer any questions you

002might have about this decision and the process. So, I'm wondering if you have any questions. I looked it over and I everything I mean it doesn't I don't know about roofs, but it looks good. And yeah, I did note that the metal was out of price, so which is unfortunate. uh but I think expected so well when we had talked about that I think a few board meetings ago just about what's unknown with with the cost of materials and and supplies and and actually the labor and so I think we're seeing that as an example of had an impact on on metal uh actually the entire project and and our project so we're excited again to be moving forward with this this particular item not only because it's needed uh but because uh we are

003concerned about continued uh prices going up. So we have a we have a later on we have a presentation on the capital project. So uh a slide dedicated to the roof as well. Um so but again you have any other questions about the Thank you for the the recognition of the seeing that it's clearly what we had talked about initially was was metal and you know and then looking at different a different ratio of metal to shingles and it just it didn't make sense when we got down to it that uh having just a little bit of metal. Um there was a couple things on how they transition and then just you know intentionally the the look of it and then what are some of the challenges with having two different products on the on

004the room and Jessica and Bless could add if you want to add any context to that. Okay. And then I uh I did see they're going to try and do it in one year. Okay. With the high school window sort of sections in the school that won't disrupt the kids last few weeks and actual weeks. Oh wow. earlier than school getting out and potentially going a little September. They're very mindful about where they are not to distract the students. What's the warranty on this? I didn't see it in there. I might not have looked hard enough either. Do we know that how long the roof's supposed to last? Believe it's 20 years. Okay. Specifications. I can confirm that. So, we'll confirm that by the 28. Yeah, I could I thought that's maybe what they said

005originally. Just kidding. Okay. All right, guys. Any more questions? All right. Um, is there a motion to approve? Move to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I I carries. On to citizen comment. I don't think we have any tonight. All right, we're on to our work session. Um, student representatives. Yes. So, we have Grayson Riley here. Thank you for being here. two seniors who we are uh a week into May which means right around the corner is June and June 14th when they graduate. I'm not sure if you're aware that that's your graduation date. Okay. So you thank for being here. I asked them to share uh what what are they celebrating? What's been going really well? Uh what do they have going forward to in the next few weeks? And then what are some

006challenges? So, uh, the last time I saw Grace was a Saturday night at the High School Musical. And so, this is I'm not just making this up. This has really happened. So, afterwards, the performance, all the individuals participating go to an area where they can be greeted and loved on by their family and friends and just they did such an amazing job. And so, I come up by Grace, it was just unbelievable. So, you were so good. And she said, "Hey, do we have a meeting on Tuesday? we have and she's like and sweating she you know like it was just like it was this workout and it was just like yes Grace we do have a that's right prioritize what's important is yet lot going on yes I know that I'm a busy person

007you're a very busy person very organized but appreciate that and I will say seeing lots of uh performances in that theater under Kelly's leadership and I was so impressed with uh just the performance and and uh Marcus Bennett who was a graduate who had a lot to do with the technology and and some new innovative uh features that he that he had told me in advance. This was so cool. You're going to love this. That isn't something that's happening really anywhere that's happening. Very cool. At our high school performance. So, they will I'm sure you'll you'll give us some information about that. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay students, what's going on? Share with us. I guess I can start. But yeah, we've got the musical going on, Wizard of Oz. Um, it's definitely we have a

008lot smaller of a group of kids than we did last year because we've had more and more seniors graduating each and every year and a lot less kids getting interested early on because like so many kids nowadays, they don't want to do extracurriculars when they're like freshman and sophomores. So, they don't try till junior year and then they're like, "Oh, wait. This is actually fun. So, let me do it for my last year." But, we've got I think there's about 30 30 of usish, something like that. A good amount of kids. And we've been working pretty hard. And the first week paid off. And we have three more shows. This Friday at 7 o'clock and Saturday at 7:00 and then Saturday at 2:00. And Matt and I end up late. I could be wrong on

009the time. I just know that I'm supposed to show up. Um I just got to be there. Um but yeah. And yeah, Marcus, he's doing like there's like a GoPro for like that's attached to um this machine we have for the Wizard of Oz that like is motion capturing his facial movements and like animating it in a sense. It's really weird and confusing. I don't really know how it works, but it's it's cool. It looks like a bit emmoji head um on a giant screen. Yeah, that's the wizard. Not to give too much away, that's the wizard. Oh, wow. Yeah, but yeah, it's going pretty good. I recommend going $12 on Goofan. So, so Goatman, I Yeah, I witnessed the the beauty of Goofan, the simplicity, individuals walking in. They already have their tickets. They

010just walked right by us. Uh, and they show their tickets as they go into the theater. They have a reserved seat. That's And we can do general seating or reserve seating. uh this event is is reserved seating but we talked about maybe general seating is a little bit easier as far as uh something with goan when you're t when your your uh your evidence of your your seat goes away and you have to remember what what was my seat. Oh yeah. So we have to for individual writing writing down what seat they were in but you could if you didn't buy a ticket in advance you could buy a ticket there and just use the card. Is that like a it's a little QR code. I will say a lot of people were disappointed that

011it wasn't just cash at the door because that's been how it's been for so many years but Goof Fan was pretty easy. Yeah. Yeah. And I I there was a little bit of disappointment but they got over. Yeah. We helped them get through it. So yeah. So if you're available and you say you were just saying that maybe after the stride you mine. It's two hours long though. Yeah. It's 15 sorry 15 minute intermission. I'll be standing out in the rain for the stride. I'll be good to sit and watch for two hours. Yeah. So great. That's what's happening. Uh Riley. Yeah. So, we just had prom a week and a half ago, and that was a super fun experience. Uh, we were at a venue that we'd never been at before. But since prom,

012things have been able to calm down a little bit like at the school cuz, you know, the buildup is so crazy. Uh, and we're getting through AP testing right now. So, kind of after that, school's definitely going to slow down for like a lot of kids. But at least um from ASB, we're trying to kind of get some fun events happening during the school day and not during the school day to kind of keep kids still like engaged and kind of having a desire to be at school cuz like say you're done with your test and then you just have like easy classes like oh why do I even go to school? So we're kind of trying to do that to kind of keep the energy up because you know the last month and a

013half can be a little tough. Uh but we're trying to make the best of it have a good time. AB testing is two weeks and that's happening in the classrooms or is it happening in the it's right now it's in the wrestling room. Yeah, it's usually in like a more private room and then it's run by um Miss Andreani. Miss Andreani, assistant principal is running. So AP testing is two weeks. It's going to finish this week and then they're going to start science. So state testing. So the next couple weeks it's going to be a lot of testing and the testing is really important. So I'm sure everyone's doing the best they can. Yeah, it's great. Have you taken an AP test? Yeah, I just had AP calculus uh yesterday and then last week I

014had uh government and politics. There you go. Uh I'm feeling pretty good. Good. Yeah. Great. Okay. So, that's what's happening. How about tennis? We is it over as far as the season? Tennis um ended at least for me last um last week, but we do have one tennis member that is projected to make it to state and she's a singles player. So, yeah. Good. Okay. Grace, you want to add anything about Prohuman? Uh, it was really fun. I will say, yeah, the venue was really nice this year because there usually it's like all crammed into one space. So, the food stuff is right next to the loud booming music, so you can't really talk to people, but it was like they had a little barn for dancing and then a little tent area just for

015treats and like to chill. So, it was nice to be able to bounce back and forth and not constantly be in the big sweaty room with all the people. Yeah. Okay. So, that's something that's happening. What are you looking forward to the next couple weeks? Graduation. Yeah. Um I'm I'm looking forward to graduation, but it kind of is bittersweet just because I've become so used to especially my high school experience because I've gotten involved in so many different things. So, I'm kind of also looking forward to embracing kind of those last moments and those last kind of memories at least at school. Like I know I'll have the summer, but there's only so many more things that are going to happen again. Um, so kind of just trying to enjoy every day and make the

016best of it. And, you know, I'm excited to graduate because, you know, it's been a crazy four years, but you know, we made it. So, a little reminder of what your plans are after graduation. Yes. Not not July and August, but after that. Yeah. Um, I'm going to be attending uh Westmont College in the fall down in Santa Barbara and I'm going to major in mathematics and then after I get my degree, I'm going to get a a teach a master's in teaching and start teaching there. Yep, exactly. Great. Awesome. Grace, um, I'm going to Brigham Young University in Provo. I was actually while we were waiting, I was looking at my registered classes. So fun. Um, uh, it's it's exciting, but definitely like bouncing back to the last things like we've got our last

017ASL show for theater. We do a thing at the very end of the year called Bony Tony's where it's pretty much we put on a fake Tony Awards and we just give awards to like all the different stuff we've done throughout the year. So definitely, it's weird. it like it's like Riley said is really bittersweet, but it's also nice how things like come to a close and like that chapter kind of ends and then you move on because I'm excited to get to Utah and make new friends and try new things and hopefully get into the acting BFA program if they like me. Um because there's a lot of rounds of auditions and things like that. So, we'll see. Good. Okay. Any challenges you want to share with the board? I think it's just finishing

018strong because it's kind of easy to just be like, "Oh, I want to check out." But I mean, it's not over and there's no point in wasting a month and a half of like a super fun time of our life just trying to get to the next step. So, I guess that and just for honestly all students cuz it's very I've noticed in the past years like you hit the end of May and kids are kind of just done with school and not really wanting to go as often and the weather's nicer and you just want to be outside. So, just finishing strong. say also definitely the senioritis is getting to me even though my mom refuses to let me skip school so I have great attendance but definitely don't want to be there sometimes

019but it yeah it's it's hard to like be in school for six hours when you know it's like nice outside and you're like I just want my vitamin D and I need a break from the classroom. Okay, any questions for our student reps? No, we're excited for graduation, too. Yeah. So the Yep. So our next board meeting will be during that graduation week and we're hoping you can attend so we can recognize your uh your role with us and appreciation. So hopefully you can be there for that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you guys. Okay. Yeah. On your way out, grab a cookie. Another cookie. Thank you. Thank we are on to our board and superintendent update. Great. Chuck, you want to start tonight? Update. We've been talking about the Wizard of Oz

020and there's another performance going to go on tomorrow evening at Jumpard Middle School of all of our band students, high school, middle school, and all three, four, five elementaryaries. Four Anyway, it's uh tomorrow night at six o'clock at Gem Guard and it's kind of fun to see these little guys who someday going to be big guys and doing such a good job. Yes. Great. Je much on my end. The stride which I love the shirt uh stride this week. So me and family are looking forward to going to that and seeing all the friends that we've seen for the past I don't know how many years. Uh but really looking forward to it and appreciative of all the volunteers that help put that on. Um, this is an event we only participated, but we're very

021grateful to the volunteer team. You got anything? Um, uh, so teacher appreciation week as a parent, uh, it was really nice to get, uh, notice to try and generate feedback from parents and families. So, that was cool. Um, and, um, there's something else, but I can't remember. Um, in my other work today, I attended an estuary conference and I heard about this restoration project that's going on in uh, Gibbons Creek. So, um, it just made me really appreciate where we are and, uh, Camping Creek, which goes into Gibbons, like the kids have to cross it, um, to go to Jumper and SGE. So, it was just really cool to hear um, about that project and it's like right in our backyard. Um, so I'm going to try and learn more about that uh in my

022work. Um, and anyway, it was just really cool and it's a partnership with the city of Washington as well. So, um, any rate, uh, that's it. Thank you. Keep us posted on that. Yeah, it was the first time I'd heard about it. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna learn more. Awesome. Um, obviously I'm promoting the stride. Um, super excited. It might be a little rainy. Bring an umbrella. Um, if you still want an amazing bright yellow shirt, you can still volunteer. Um, and my son will be participating as a sixth grader as a percussionist at that tomorrow night. So, he's pretty excited about that. Um, teacher appreciation, I got to help at JMS and they have a new staff room that that we got to use this time and the teachers were so grateful. I keep

023I went there today to work at the Husky Buck Store and multiple teachers including Mr. Cook said how grateful the teachers were for um everything that we did. And I just love seeing how many volunteers want to to help the teachers and to feed them and give them treats and gifts and all the things. It's it's really cool to see how much our parents and students appreciate the teachers in our district. So that's all I have for tonight. Great. Thank you. Okay, I've got a few things I want to share. We just Okay. So, first thing as you've mentioned, wait, sorry, that's really not exactly what I want to do. I want to try something else here. One more time. I look really bright, don't I? That was you are kind of I was like

024wow I look really bright very high. Okay. So, as you mentioned, teacher appreciation week was last week and one of the things that we did for our classified staff and for our certificate staff was a a form that we sent out that you re I think you received and were mentioning and so I think we did that last year for our teachers uh that went out to family. So, I think there was 300 almost 360 entries and and so we appreciate those that reached out and shared uh appreciation, gratitude for the work that our teachers do uh during during the the week. Um it's interesting that we choose this week that is that is identified. Um our teachers do such a good job and it's so important to uh to our students and to our

025families and to the district. So we appreciate there's this opportunity uh to just share our gratitude for for they do and a number of us district office uh shared appreciation using that form and I and I've shared this before they what I I um appreciate and I kind of forget going into it that uh when you share gratitude individuals you know uh that receive it uh typically say thank you you know thank you and reach out in an email or a person and just say we really appreciate you know, recognizing um you know, this this the good work. So, anyway, always look forward to it. And so, we have something for our our teachers that are here that are part of the WA leadership team. And so, that'll be uh after this. Okay. So, that's

026uh the next thing. So much good things to share. You have uh in front of you, you do have these uh the slides uh hopefully to to access. So, uh, every year our schools, um, are are rated basically using, uh, the improvement framework. We talked about it, uh, this fall, gave you specific information on the categories. So we had three schools that were recognized will receive recognition uh not only published which we have that was I think shared May 6th but also um in their buildings will be uh large um posters that we can we can put up so banners that that will be uh put up and so we have CL River Gorge uh the categories closing gaps uh gauze closing gaps targeted in growth for students next slide has some specific information about

027those categories and then Haway uh for growth for students and uh receiving special services. So, uh the good work that we're doing that when and this was 423 24. So, you know, we find out now for 23 24 uh but they've improved it. I think it used to be it was like a year and a half uh after the fact, but so we're getting we're getting closer to uh you know, the the the year that uh we're celebrating. We're looking forward to next year and and more improvement. So, uh, good job to those teams. Uh, the good work by our our principles in leading that and then what happens in the classroom was what really uh makes a difference. So, here's just some information you have for specific information about uh the the recognition for

028them and what categories. So, uh, recently we completed, uh, this program review that OSBI does, and every school district does not go through this every year, but they go through it about every 3 to five years. Five, seven, five to seven years. So, Tracy led this work. So, uh, it was in the summer, I think, that we found out, hey, you are up. Look at you. We are so excited. It's a full program review. And we're like, oh, wow. Is this really us? Is it really our turn? Because it's been a while. I remember Marian facilitated this process several years ago. So Tracy organized the team and included Margaret included a number of people who uh in who oversee programs specific information evidence that they're asking for it. So Tracy did a great job. Thank

029you Tracy. uh anytime you're going through an audit, right, and just people are uh the programs that you're responsible for and they're looking for specific information. And so and and it went very well. The reviews were very positive. I think that u something that was was noted was just our level of cooperation. And so Tracy from the very beginning said, "How uh how do you do?" And we want to work closely with you. and she made herself available anytime there was a question she again found the information. So thank you Tracy for that. It's it's a big deal to have a positive review and the fully implemented and exemplar determinations like that's that's what we want and again no action plan required. So you know I guess we get to look to do this in

030five to seven more years. Um so it's uh but it is it's a team effort and that includes OSBI. So they they were actually very easy to work with and So we want to celebrate Will Bower who's one of our science teachers at the high school. So I think you had seen this uh probably earlier that uh Will was recognized as one of five in the state for the presidential award for excellence in mathematics and science. So yeah, we're very excited for Will and for us to get this recognition. And so Will does a really good job with uh with the as a science teacher specifically. I think he's he he goes out and and in his kind of summary uh on him talks about some of the projects that he does and he connects

031our kids to real world issues. And so, you know, we talked about through the strategic plans like hands-on activities and it isn't always just like hands-on. It's the idea of engaging in the learning that's that's a real world uh solution focused and and so Will brings in guest speakers and he he connects with individuals who can share uh important information with our students like that are in the field doing this work. So really appreciate the will this recognition and looking forward to see how he does. Now it's going to be a while till we find out. So when do we get to find out? Yeah. But I think it's it's actually I think it's uh several weeks and so yeah once I know or more I'll I'll let you know but just proud of proud

032of Will and the science team and the high school staff and just appreciate him being a part of our team. So this is this is going to be an article I think in the near future less is putting together. So uh second grade class at CRG Mrs. Wilsen's class she wrote a grant. It was for a a $400 grant um through the the Washington State School Retirees Association. So, there were a number of our staff who completed the application and received uh scholarships or awards through this. I know I filled it out and they said, you know, we don't give them superintendent. So, I really I got over it, but it took me a couple weeks to when I when he told me that. but he's an individual who that I spoke to was an

033assistant superintendent uh several years ago for OSBI and now is is doing this work and so uh really uh proud of uh Mrs. Wilsden and I happened to read I had a chance to read to this this class. So these these faces these happy faces holding up their tiny magazine um I got to read to and so just a wonderful class and looking forward to that article that's going to be hopefully in the paper. So you know there's really good things happening in the washroom school district and this is one and we're highlighting reading the importance of reading today. We had a volunteer recognition uh event and we had a number of volunteers a part of the Read Northwest program. So that that are reading mentors or buddies for uh first and second graders. So

034we are uh stressing and prioritizing reading and you're one of them, aren't you, Jane? I am. You are a reading buddy for two students. Yeah, two kiddos this year. Yeah. Nice. I can recommend. Yes. Totally self- serving. It's thing ever. I agree. Yes. Okay. So we have Mrs. Yang who's uh an art teacher at Cape Horn Sky and Candy Creek Middle School. So this was a project that she facilitated. Unless did you take this picture or did someone else take it? You did. Nice work. So I think this hopefully this will be another article that's in the paper. This this is a you know in a in a K8 building which again we have two schools but it's uh one roof over these two schools and there's a lot of collaboration that happens between uh

035the two principles. I think between uh teachers and uh we team a elementary student with middle school students. So here we have elementary student who's is it kindergarten is a TK kindergarten. Kindergarten. And so he drew this picture and then the middle school student Haley she so designed it. Right. So here it is. It's Stephanie. And so the the this the kindergarten student gets to see this this this idea that he had right in real life in a 3D model. That is so cool. Really cool. So uh thank you Alice Yang. Uh put she's amazing. Yeah. So the more we can we have that collaboration I think for an elementary student or a middle school student or middle school student or the high school student that's a big deal. And so we want to provide

036as many opportunities as we can. Okay. So, we had uh Riley was here and uh next year's uh president of ASB, the leadership class is McKenzie. And so, I just want to share with you that both McKenzie and Riley are going to be uh presenting at the Renaissance conference that's that's going to be I think it's in San Diego. And so, this uh we the high school has worked with the Renaissance for a number of of years and it's around it's around culture. It's just this is their uh program that helps uh high schools specifically develop a welcoming uh energizing, engaging culture where teachers love where they work and students love to come to school. And so uh really looking forward to hearing how this uh the presentation goes. So McKenzie again who's going to

037be the president for ASB, she is like one of the keynotes. She's the student keynote. That's great. So, she is working closely with uh the Justins Renaissance Global Conference individuals uh folks that are like working with her presentation and so uh it's going to be I'm sure there'll be a video that we can share in August to just sh you like how it went. So really appreciate uh her interest in this Kyla's leadership because it's because of Kyla that our students are getting exposure to this program and then Mark's participation as well as the principal. So uh yeah and this and this is a link this little video but I'm not going to play the video but I can share with you so you can you can check it out. So this is a pretty

038cool event that uh that's that's really ongoing. Uh it's a it's coordination with David Dwarte who's our music teacher at the high school and song craft foundation. So this individual um is Chris Christopher Corbel is a Wugal resident. So they go in and they work closely with our students and so our students in choir and in band I think mainly choir are getting this exposure to uh professional artists. And so this um this is a partnership that exists because of community members reaching out to us and saying, "Hey, we wanna we wanna we want to get into your school. We want we need can you help us get into the school?" So this particular situation was was pretty easy just to connect with uh the principal and getting uh the principal uh to have a

039meeting with Kelly Gregerson and David Dwarte. And so now uh I don't know how often this this happens. Um hopefully this will continue. Soncraft has there's a lot of resources here that they they looked at our auditorium and how can we make some improvements with auditorium. So I think more uh really cool opportunities for our students to come. Uh so thanks for that partnership. And then the last item is our strategic plan update. So this was actually it's not the last one. I got several more. So like wait. So this was at gauze. We were gauze. This was last week. This was our second meeting. We we added a few folks to the team and so this was you see less facilitating. Less is an excellent facilitator. He's been through this a number of times.

040He's very reflective. So after the fact we debrief, how did it go? What are some things we work on? So the next time uh if we made a mistake, we won't make that mistake again. We want to add something that we typically do. So we have groups very collaborative. Appreciate the discussion. Uh thank you Satie and Chuck for being there. And so the next meeting will be back at Excelsier. But we we are excited about the progress. Yeah. And so even though it's it's actually messy and there's some some sometimes some challenging different kind of discussions trying to figure out what's the best direction to go, people have different perspectives. So uh it's all very civil, very respectful. Appreciate that we don't all think alike. And so we we have a we have a group

041of individuals that I think represent the the community, but again, we don't all think alike. we're working through. We really want to narrow narrow our focus because if you have too many things you're you're trying to do, you're really not going to do any of them very well. So, we're going to try to narrow our focus and so we all agree. We agree did agree to that which was great. So, looking forward to the next meeting. I think Les has missed his calling as a teacher. Oh, I think he Yeah, he knows. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously, he does teaching. He actually Yeah, he he teaches us all the time. uh different times in the 20 plus years 25 plus years he's been here uh led yeah professional development just saying yes so we have this really

042amazing partnership with uh the Washington Arts and Cultural Alliance and so this most recent example was this u push for art supplies there are some challenges with you know our financial challenges and so maybe the budgets aren't uh as big as they we'd like them to be so uh the ask from the alliance was uh what are some things the art teachers need and this process was followed and this uh last week the items were delivered. I happened to be at Acorn Sky that one of the days that they were delivered and said Alice can I get a picture of you with the supplies? She said of course. So here we have the art supplies that she received. So thank you uh to the alliance for this great idea. And so now our teachers have

043various supplies that they can use for our students. And when I was there, there were probably 20 plus students and there were probably eight or nine different things that were happening. So there was a lot of choice for our students and what they were making, what they were creating. So the same day I was up there on the right is that is uh Sheriff Shy. So Summer Shire who is the Scammania County Sheriff. So, I saw her an event earlier in the fall. I said, "Hey, this is who I am. I would really like to meet with you, but I'd like to meet with you at Caping Canyon, and I'd like to connect you to our principles." So, we scheduled the meeting. Unfortunately, uh, Mr. Healey couldn't be there, but Brooke Healey could. And I'm

044I took this picture outside because I was late because the River Road there was an accident. I had to go up and around. I was like 15 minutes late. And she's walking out. I was walking in. So, we had this brief interaction. they are going to plan visits to Cape Canyon. So instead of it being just drop by when you want to, she said that's not going to work. We need to organize it because it needs to be on our calendar because it's important. So she's really excited about this. The bottom left picture, that's Elliot Warz. And Elliott was a graduate from Washable High School who now works for the Clark County Sheriff's Office. So uh his mom happened to be up there uh as a sub. She was a longtime Wugle employee and she

045said, "Hey, I'm so proud of Elliot. Did you know?" I said, "No, I didn't know." Uh, and so then I looked it up and saw this picture. So, I want to share as a former Yeah. So, as an educator, a long time educator, I knew Elliott, worked with him, and they were really proud of Elliot, and what he's what he's doing. Final thing is this Saturday, the big event, the stride. So, if you haven't signed up, you still can sign up. You probably won't get a shirt, right? Is that right? She volunteered. Yeah. Okay. We're doing okay. Yeah. Oh, you can. So, my my daughter signed up late, so she get a shirt. Okay. That's really what she wants to show. I mean, they're pretty cool. They're really cool. Yeah. So, she saw mine. She's

046like, "Oh my gosh, now is super cool." But this is what the runners get. Yeah. The black ones are Okay. So, glad to know that that is if you want to volunteer yellow if you don't want to volunteer and you run. So, yes. So, Mavis will be there. An amazing opportunity. Hope to see you there. Yeah. Yes. Aaron will be there with his cowbell. I will the cowbell you gave me. Yes. Making lots of noise. Okay. So, we're ready to go to the next item. Yes. All right. Now, we are on to our certified appreciation. Yes. So, we have uh a number of of our WAE leadership team are here. So, Rebecca, Shallow, and Jay, can you can you come over here and join me? So, yes, it was last week that we didn't have

047a board meeting last week. So, uh, thank you for being here. We appreciate your efforts. So, they're a part of the WA leadership team and so, uh, I know that monthly Jay and Lesie, I'm not sure if Rebecca and Shel Joy knows me. They, but they meet with Connor here and and the team and and Tracy and some of our principles, they meet monthly. Uh, Jay, every time I call, he answers or if he doesn't answer, he calls me tonight and he'll call me back. So we have this really good relationship and their efforts are are super important for for our children. Clearly they work very hard. Um I I believe you support them well and we appreciate your support for our teachers but they are responsible for for all the learning that happens and

048so we appreciate your work. So we have just some little gifts for you. So I have names on show. yours. And so that's Lesley's. Okay. Yeah. So, thanks for being here tonight again. Um, yeah. Last week, it sounds like at some of the buildings you you were somewhat spoiled. They made sure well, yes, food is the way to spoil, right? boosters asked us what we wanted and uh we have a staff room also much like what you did at Jump Art where it still looked like a classroom. Yeah. They did a tremendous job of turning it to less like a classroom and more like a space to relax. All of our spaces have really upgraded. So it's been much appreciated. Yeah. So Margaret's uh yeah work with the wellness team and especially the objective guard

049this year uh was like one of the last ones was last year. Yeah. But it is a the point is it's it's a space and also I think there's some things that are in there that are this is the last one. Oh the [Laughter] last you guys need something too. So thank you for your your work your leadership and just doing what you do every single day and supporting our students. Thank you. Yeah. And I just want to say I really love the shout outs from the parents that those were really lovely. And unless they publish some of those on our on our website, all the comments are appreciated, but the the ones from the community, the parents, I saw a lot of teachers posting their comments like on Facebook and stuff like, "Oh, look

050at these what you know my parents are saying." And I think that that's cool. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you guys. And we are on to capital projects update. Yes. So Les and Jessica are going to come up and you have the presentation. You have slides of the presentation. Uh less will be publishing so we can see it up online. We are very excited. We are see you had mentioned it like we're starting to get the point where uh these these projects are actually going to be started. Yeah. And then just around the corner they'll be completed. Yeah, we have updates on all the projects that we've been discussing. I'm Les Brown. I'm the communications technology. Sorry, communication technology and operations director. I keep adding words to it and I forgot. I hear Aaron say

051it like 15 different ways. that right with my ability to say my own title show. I'm Jessica Beer. I've short mine with the facility supervisor, but there's a lot behind it, too. Um, so we're going to uh go through this the same way we have with the board the last couple times. So, we grouped the projects um according to the type of work that they are. Um, and we'll take uh turns kind of talking about each of them. Um so the first one I believe well last meeting two two weeks ago I think uh the board approved the purchase of the boiler. So we have um successfully placed that order have confirmation. It'll be showing up the week in July that we want it to um without uh pushing it another week or two. We

052were going to start running into uh delays in delivery or price increases. So we were very thankful to get that um approved and moving forward. Um we received bids today that we're uh working on reviewing for the companies that will install um those bids. We had a good turnout at the job walk. Uh we did have three bids come in this afternoon, so it was nice to have some options there. Um and then the HVAC control or the DDC project. Um there's behind the scene work that is kind of happening now getting material ordered and ready to go uh for that project. But that team should be ready to start basically June 18th. So So projects three and four are the security door systems uh and the ADA door operators and that's at Wugville High

053School, Keeping Canyon and Gau. Um so we're under a contract with GB Manchester which is the company that installed um security systems and the ADA doors at JMS CRG years ago. So we're very familiar with them as a vendor. Um we're excited to get this work going. This will replace the sonet control system. Um those little red stop sign symbols that are on each actually the ones here is covered up by the um thing on the door. But uh um on the outside of all of our buildings to have those things we're switching uh vendors to another product um we're excited about some of the things that the project will bring which is the ability for us to have one set of badges and um u systems for people to access our building. So, um,

054over the course of the next couple months as we finish, uh, this set of projects, all of the schools will be on the same system and then this fall, we'll do one, um, for this campus to bring the last of these three buildings. So, uh, this building, the maintenance building, and the transportation building, um, into that same system. So, the ultimate goal is for people to have one badge, it works at any of the schools that they're supposed to have access to. Um, and that the staff maintaining it just have one Yes. Uh we yeah currently you have two and then one of them you have to keep them separate. You can't have them on the same lanyard because they interfere with each other. And you have to explain this to contractors who are coming

055in to do districtwide testing like hey separate these when you go to this building use this one and if it doesn't work try the other one but keep them apart. So yeah. So we met with the vendor today kind of going through the um kind of the behind the scenes things. Um they're going to take advantage of the non- studentent day that's happening next Friday. Just as a reminder, that's uh one of the snow makeup days, which I think I think somebody was commenting, it feels like it's been 10 years since we've had a snow makeup day that we didn't know today. Like we have one like that actually does every once in so while. Um so, uh the vendor is going to take advantage of the 23rd being a non- studentent day and they're

056going to start doing some of the wiring that's, you know, not something that's easy to do when students are in the building. Um and then because we're trying to um accomplish a lot this summer, they are also going to be working um swing shifts. So, they'll start work after school each day um at various sites and they'll be working um kind of uh up to the end of school to try to get some of the pre-work done that they can accomplish and then once the schools are closed they'll work on some of the things that are a little more disruptive. Um but we're very excited um to get that project going. Um so just a few minutes ago kind of hot off across the the board approved the contract with the roof. Um, this is

057the roofing material that we're uh planning on using. This is my van. Um, you as it gets closer, you know, so you know, very few people will be this close to the roof. So, it's way up on the It does have a little bit of like plex. And yeah, we're going to say, you know, like kind of a brick color or maybe an orange color, like a Wugle um shade. We think that'll go really well with the paint on the exterior of the building. So, as a reminder, Washug High School has um you know, kind of a reddish brick trim as well as red siding on parts of the building. We think this will kind of match really nicely with that. Um uh we did look at a variety of colors. We decided against one

058that was kind of an all black one. Um although the current high school roof does not look black. It started out that way. So, somebody who's here 25 years ago, it was black. And unfortunately, one of the big problems with having something, it it is a very sharp looking thing when you first install it. Um it fades over time and then every time you do a repair you can see exactly where you did repairs. Oh yeah. Um because the new ones are the actual color that they're used to. So you know anybody you drive well by Washington High School um can help identify those problem areas up on the roof because you can see exactly where we attached um various places along way. Um and as we shared with the board uh kind of through

059the board contract pro process um the metal options for the roof and we had talked about that a couple two weeks ago as well as two weeks before that and a couple weeks before that. Um it became clear throughout this process that the costs were escalating really rapidly this spring um and that metal roofing became unaffordable. We were very fortunate with Erin's leadership that we added an option to the bid process um to do an all composition shingle roof. Um, as it turns out, that's really the only option that's truly within the project budget, and every other one of the options is well beyond it. The bids ranged from uh the 2.1 million, which is what you approved today, up to about 4.3 million. Um, you'll remember that the 4.3 million was doing roughly half

060of the roof. Um, and so our ballpark numbers that it probably would have been north of $6 million to do the entire roof in metal. um which was more than all of the projects, you know, or almost more than all of the projects put together. So, it was well beyond um the capacity that the community gave us when they voted on this back in 2023. So, we are excited to have a new roof. It'll last for a significant chunk of time. Uh and hopefully I'll retire before we have I am done talking about the group. And maybe just on that, um, I pulled up the bid specs and material warranty period is 20 years from the date of substantial completion, nonprof. Yeah, I hope none of us are here. It's like I might be able

061to retire by. Um, okay. And then, uh, the last slide we have is project six, a flooring replacement at Rosen Hathaway. So, that flooring, um, has been ordered. We are now working with the manufacturer/installer just trying to get the appropriate um schedule set up. The carpet will be mainly in the at this point mainly in the um hallways and the entryways. So we are extending some of the walk-off carpeting which costs a little bit more money but if we get all of the gunk off of everybody's shoes it'll make the rest of the carpet last significantly longer. So, we worked with building leadership less and I found magic hallways that don't exist in Hathaway. We we were able to make some adjustments, get those maps dialed in right before the order got placed. So, now

062we're just working with the um installer on trying to decide what that best schedule is so that we can with all of the projects we have going. Custodials need the custodial team needs to get through and clean the building. So, just what order that mall works in. But hopefully the next week or two, we'll have that pinned down and be ready to go. So, how does that work? Like if you guys are just doing the hallways, is it did you guys do it to match the carpet in the well enough to where it's not like wow, brand new carpet? It's not going to be Yeah, it's not going to be jarring. So like so like in here, this carpet is different than the hallway carpet. Okay. If you go look at the doorway, you can

063see that this carpet is kind of a like greenish gray and the one in the hallway is a more bluish purplish, you know, shade. Right. But they'll do stuff like that to make them kind of, you know, look harmonious. Yeah. Um and uh kind of depending on how the budget goes with the rest of the set of projects, um we will go back um as we have funds available on do some of the smaller areas in um each of these buildings working with both the custodial teams as well as the principles to identify the kind of the worst of the um spaces like libraries, um classrooms, etc. um that need attention. And the librarians, I think, or not the librarians, the custodians already have a priority list of places that like they know where all

064the big stands are, right? Right. And so they're they have that mental list. Um, and we have as part of as part of the Baris Ford, I can't say Barisford uh contract, we do have a cookie cutter number for what it would cost to do in a classroom. And so we can kind of scale that to match whatever funds are left at the end of the rest of the projects um to accomplish some of those. Okay, cool. Okay. So excited. Any other questions? No. And we'll be back in two weeks for that uh approval for um the boiler installation contract. So after we go through all that and work with the vendors to kind of make sure everything is where it needs to be. You'll see that in your next board packet. I think that's

065our last. I think that's the last Well, except for this site. Yes. So we will have one more contract for doing uh the security systems at this site, maintenance and transportation. Thank you. Great presentation. Thank you. All right. Annual CTE update. Yes. So, as Margaret is getting set up, so yes. So, the annual presentation on CTE. So, I she um you should have hard copies of the presentation or shared with you. Couple minor adjustments to it. Okay. Um maybe we don't have That's okay. It's okay to get it in our Okay, great. So, CTE director also overseeing food service uh our wellness team. So, Margaret is an amazing part of our executive team. I've been with the district for a long time. She had a very engaging presentation. You know, um a lot of the

066highlights that we have shared over the course of this year, uh experiences you've had, maybe it was part of the toolbox build. So far, leadership. This this little birdhouse here that you can participate in. I will be one of those. Uh Margaret is and her team are assisting with this a wonderful birdhouse that our fourth graders will. But together a number of things she's going to talk about that are celebrations. And every one of these celebrations is really about a student or students having an experience that's going to connect them to their future. So Margaret, take it away. Thank you. Um yeah, so no need to introduce myself. Um I because we have Jane is still still new little new. I'm just going to um talk a little bit about what makes CTE a little

067bit um unique um to other um educational programs. So, uh, academic standards, district um, building initiatives, the TEP with their teacher evaluation, um, social emotional learning, all those things are the same. Where we kind of uh, get different um, is that, uh, CTE or current technical education programs are aligned to state standards. Um we align our classes to um technical skills and industry standards as well as safety standards. Um we also offer work-based learning um and career exploration in our classes um leadership skill oper um opportunities and uh 21st century or or what a lot of people call employability skills. So those all um are just like added to classes that are um career and technical education classes. Um the other thing is we offer outside of class opportunities. So extended learning opportunities through our

068um CTSOs or our career and technical student um leadership organizations leadership clubs. Um our courses are aligned, our programs are aligned to economic growth and development. We have advisory committees with business professionals that help us in um determining changes in the industry. I mean, think about like even the education industry has changed so much over, you know, so if we don't have those advisors kind of letting us know what is changing um in the field, we're not properly educating our students and we're not getting them ready like we should. Um we also have um annual program evaluations. So every year our programs are evaluated against those state standards, those um CTE state standards. Um and every course that we offer is approved um by OSPI. So we don't get to just say, "Oh, this sounds

069great. Let's offer that." We there's an entire process to go through um to approve those um classes. Uh we also are data driven. So, um, C, uh, CTE is one of the graduation pathway opportunities for students. Um, again, work-based learning, we actually, um, we're actually collecting data on that. We just started doing that the last few years. Um, we offer students, uh, industry recognized certifications or credentials, and we collect that on that. And then we also offer dual credit. So students that are in some of our CT classes can earn both high school and college credit. So these are the grad pathways students have available to them and you can see the one highlighted there is the um uh CTE course sequ sequence. Um the the latest data point we were kind of laughing about

070this earlier um is 2023. Thank you OSPI. We're a little behind, but um in 2023 almost 67% of WashU High School students um in the grad that grad cohort u met the requirements for CTE grad pathway. Um when students do that, they have to comp um complete 360 hours or two um two credits of a CTE class in a um in a in a concentrated CTE area and they build, right? So when they take one, they take another one, they take another one. So it's depth of learning and rigor. And those classes have to offer an industry recognized credential and or um college credit. So just so your student your students your students will something they'll be required to do. Yeah. Is choose this pathway. We just well choose this is one of the choices,

071right? Yeah. So and part of their graduation requirements they need to take one CTE year of CTE. So if they liked what they were doing and they wanted to keep going, they could do that in a course sequence that would have lead to. Um, and that's on top of like the work-based learning opportunities and those things. So I wanted to share some data for you. Um, and this is where I booooed on. So I had changed the dates. I have the dates wrong. But anyway, this is uh the 23 grad cohort versus the um 24 grad um cohort. We don't have 25 yet. Yeah, my bad. Um but I just wanted you to see um kind of comparison. Um you'll also see that the numbers and those are the numbers of students that chose CTE

072grad pathway, right? These are our completers. What we used to call completers, they're now our CTE grad graduates, right? Graduate pathway students. Um we're trying we're working really hard on nontrad. Nontrad is non-traditional um is a distinction that OSPI gives based on the industry pathway. Where they come up with it, I have no idea. Um but some that are kind of like no-brainers. Um males in um medical um believe it or not, females in culinary um females in welding and construction. So, um, so those kinds of things. Um, so I'm going to talk about some of the things that we're trying to do to increase that number, but it's constantly on our minds to like try and figure out ways to introduce um all students um viable um viable pathways no matter what gender they

073are. And one of the things that we've worked really hard is the high school and beyond plan um and offering uh some of the assessments being aptitude assessments. When we really look at the apt abs aptitudes versus the interests, it's amazing what you see in terms of where students interests are usually or what they're exposed to and what they know. And then you see some what you would consider like, "Yeah, that seems normal. That's what they would do, right?" Versus what their actual skills are, right? Um so it is pretty interesting. So um so anyway, and and we're excited that we hit 100% in our work site learning as well. So that's or work-based learning as well. So let's talk a little bit about work-based learning. Um the five that you see with the colors

074um those are are so these are all um the reportable workbased learning opportunities. There's lots and lots but the state has identified certain ones that we actually report on. These are the reportable ones. The five that you see two three four five yeah those are the ones we focus on that that align to our programs. Um, we don't have any apprenticeship programs. We don't have true entrepreneurship. We do have um school-based enterprises. I'll talk about that in a little bit. And we don't have have healthcare clinicals um available. It just we're just Yeah. too small to do that. Yeah. So, um so let's talk about our schoolbased enterprises. Some of these you might recognize. Um these offer we talk about hands-on it's really an environment where um students have the opportunity to actually put their

075skills to work. Um they do provide like entrepreneurialship uh operations. Um uh these businesses like they they identify, create and sell products or services um that meet the needs of our students. Um and um they do get to figure like figure out what it takes to like operate a small business. So they do things like um they participate in market analysis, um business planning, product and um service marketing, inventory um and and so much more. Um, and these are skills that they can use like at home as well as in business and at school and um and in our community so they prepare them for their futures. So um what you're seeing is Wugle Co. is our student store. Um it's open during lunch. Students have the opportunity to buy um panther gear, spirit gear.

076And then on the other side is um the shoosh shack which is our food truck um uh second semester we run food truck Fridays um once a month and it's part of our um national school lunch program. So the students actually um learn from um our executive chef and office manager about the nutrition program so that they're uh what they're serving is compliant with the uh with the feds and they develop the recipes and all of that. Um just like Walsh Co. those are studentdesigned um they they create the designs they work with a um a screen printer to actually get them created. some other things that we do and another uh work-based learning uh data point is our community service learning projects and so these happen inside and out of the class. Um so

077Mr. Hansen talked about um the uh bat boxes and um our mason bee uh houses that were part a partnership with the port of Camwashold for their Earth Day um celebration. Um the toolbox build in partnership with um uh part or careers in construction. The great picture of Chuck there helping a little bit. Yeah, the thumb is right in the way. I could see the thought was not very close. No, but he built that box. There is a little device that you use that will hold a nail. I'm going to buy some of them for the next next one. Little pinchers. It's little pinchers. Yeah. Not very industry mitigate risk. Standard. Oh yeah. I guess I won't do that. Um the the two that you see at the top um was uh everybody goes to

078Rick's. So every other year our um Skills USA uh culinary which is the after school club works with uh drama and our music production sound engineering. They put on this fabulous dinner theater. Um this year it was a kind of a 50s fame. Um and and they had a great time. It's a sellout every time. Um you've got stuff the bus and a rock paper scissor scissors um which are you know extend to community but also school community. It's part of our um ASB leadership uh class led by um uh Kyla Richie. And then um you see a bench there. Those are um created by our Woods uh Woods Tech students and they're um given to schools all around. We see a lot of those at the high school. our ASL um showcase shows. Um

079there's one coming up here. This this will be uh featuring our seniors. Um below you see Mr. Manel with a few of his Skills USA students who um this is the second year that they've built um sheds with for the uh Cameas Washugal fire department for their uh fire and safety fair. They build them and they burn them down. Can you believe that? But they do it um because they are really demonstrating the effectiveness of um residential sprinkler systems. So they show like what happens with a sprinkler system and what happens without. So um it's really a a great educational experience for our community, but also a great way for our students to help give back. Um our students put on uh our HOSA students help put on the um blood drive this year. Um,

080HOSA is the health occupations uh student leadership organization. Uh, we've got the birdhouse coming up. We've got the stride coming up. Our um, future business leaders of America are are volunteering. And then that um, hexagon uh, bench is going to be installed up at Cape on their um, on their playground. So, we talked I I mentioned Skills USA and FBLA, our Future Business Leaders of America. So, um FBLA just got back from from Belleview. Um they had 12 students go to state, four placed, um actually five placed. I take that back. Five placed. Um which is really exciting. And then we had our um biggest group since I've been uh here in Wuville for skills um that uh went up to um where were they? Tacoma and every single student that Mr. Manel took placed

081at state. So, um he is so dedicated to this to building this that he's traveling to nationals this year um to take a look at what that looks like and bring it back so that he can motivate kids to um get involved and do a little bit more. So, we're really excited about that. And we're also looking forward to um skills baking and pastry um potentially competing next year, too. Um when Brenda left um that kind of we had to take a break and figure it back out again because we had two brand new teachers. So we're getting there. Uh they have a very robust club. They just haven't competed yet. If they need sample tasters. Yeah. I'll definitely let you know. Thank you for that. Yeah. Um at the Stride. The the um Shoe

082Shack will be at the Stride. Yeah. With creations from from our students. So stop by the shoe shack. The only reason I got Cooper to to participate in volunteering is because he knew the Shook Shack would Okay, there you go. Whatever motivates. So we all So I talked about recognized um industry recognized certifications or credentials. We offer uh 30 different industry recognized credentials and working on another one. I'm going to tell you about that in a minute. Um but these are utilized by businesses in in all kinds of industries. Uh, and it what it does is it really gives our students a leg up when they're um applying for jobs. It it gives gives them um some kind of street cred on their resumes right out of the shoot because they um have something to

083offer. And those uh businesses recognize that they like they have to have a certain level of knowledge if they've gotten those certifications. So um and then dual credit. So, um I mentioned earlier that uh we offer um in in a lot of our classes we offer uh dual credit and we have partnerships um with uh um Spokane Falls Community College for ASL. Uh Lower Lower Colombia Community College for a number of um a number of classes. Clark College obviously for a number of of classes and u Mount Hood also for ASL. So, we have ASL at different levels being able to um uh gain access to those college credits. Um I added it up and it's over a hundred credits, college credits available to our CTE students, which is um pretty great I think. Um

084so, future ready, let's talk about some exciting new things. Um let's start with 13th year event that just happened. So this is the second annual. Uh this is also something that uh careers in construction has kind of brought forward um under the leadership of John Gerard who owns um quil quail homes. Um, and what this is is it's kind of an extension of the um the Skills USA students, but it's um inviting kind of the best of the best from high schools around Southwest Washington to do what I would kind of equate it to is like a speed networking event uh where they are meeting a lot of uh employers. So at this particular event there were 75 students but there were 52 employers um and they are going around and they are meeting these

085um employers. There were um the the stats are 466 one-on-one um interviews scheduled. Um so obviously some of those students are getting multiple opportunities to um talk to different employers. Um there were 50 educators on site for the event. Um and so we had um four students go um right now I know Cyrus has a follow-up interview at after school ends. Um and the rest are in works in progress. So um so we're hoping that some of our students get actually hired from this event. The other thing is I wrote um I wrote a couple grants this year. Um again going back to the non-traditional student um and then also looking at our certifications and our need in the community of um you know of of employee skill set. And um I was able to

086purchase a uh a forklift simulator which is pretty cool. It's being installed on Thursday at the high school. So, if you're at the high school sometime after Thursday, you want to come down and see how it works, just for sure. Let us know and um we'll let you drive. I'm not going to lie, that looks really cool. It is really cool. I've done it. I Yeah, I did it. It's pretty fun. Um like moving stuff around. You have to follow the lines. um it is complicated and so it's a great way for students to kind of get their heads wrapped around the controllers and and what they're looking for and how to move and um dump right even um and as part of this we're going to do this um it took us a long

087time to get this simulator. I had um I had hoped that we would get this thing in January. This is how long it's taken. And we're seeing this with our um you know just like even with um the things that we're trying to do for capital projects, how long things are taking. Um my intent was to get this installed, have students actually working on the simulator, get some practice time, and then we set up our certification event. But we're going to go for it. So, they may not have any simulator time, but I'm in the process of hiring an outside contractor to come in and certify a group of students. And thanks to Jessica and the maintenance team. They're going to they got our um forklift ready. Um it's going to go to the high

088school. We'll set up a um a course and um so they'll take u there's a practicum test. There's learning obviously. They're not just going to throw them in a test, but there's instruction and then they'll um take a written assessment and then they'll head out into the parking lot and um they will start the practical um part. And my hope is when we're done, I'll I've surveyed uh companies at the port. Yeah. who are looking for um forklift operators and um my hope is to connect some of our uh newly certified uh students with employers that are looking for uh employees with that skill set. That's so cool. Love that. So, um this is the best part is when I get to talk about um some of the students that are CTE completers. You heard

089from Riley already. She kind of stole my thunder, but it's okay. She's amazing. She deserved it, right? So, um, fantastic, uh, representation of somebody who is like taking all their leadership and all the things that they've been doing, right, and they're going to apply it back and yay, circling back around and going to be one of us. Yeah. Got Maline Bryant who um has a desire to be a photo photojournalist. She's heading to um Oregon State University to get her BA bachelor's in um digital art, digital arts and communications. I have simil notes too, but um she actually um took digital photo one and two and she's been um she's been on the yearbook for four years. She's an editor. Um so um she's she's got lots of uh experience in knowing what she wants

090to do. Um, we've got Celisa, um, Peterson Clark, who wants to own a custom bakery, uh, which I think is fabulous, and we there's some around here, and they're great. Um, she plans on using her, um, college earned credits through her baking, pastry, and, um, uh, intro to culinary class to get a leg up through at the, um, program there at Clark. um and then get it basically leads to an associates of arts and technology. So an AAT in professional baking um and pastry arts management because she does want to be that a business owner as well. And then um Gracie Gracie um wants to be an orthodontist. She fully recognized she has a lot of schooling ahead of her. Um she is going to go to Clark and utilize her Clark College credits as

091well to get her prerexs, some of her prerexs done. Um and then transfer to um WSU to finish her BS degree. Um and then she plans to go to dental school, which is a four-year program after that. Um and then she'll move into the doctorate program of orthodont like a special specialized school. Um, a cool cool um thing about Gracie is that she she went through um our uh health what is it? Intro to health careers and terminology with Miss Horton. You guys might remember her, maybe not. um and then moved into the Cascadia um technical academy dental program and is a two-year um student in that program and got placed in an internship at an orthodontics clinic and her second day they hired her. So she's already working um as an intern like a

092hired intern in the profession. So she's getting that um yeah that experience right away. So that's is a wrap. Um do you all have any you have any questions? It's pretty thorough. Yeah, that's a big program. Yeah, you do a lot. Well, I I have an amazing set of of teachers and um just and my assistant too. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Um it is a group effort and it's a labor of love. Um, we are all super duper passionate. Yeah. About the work that we do and um and I can't say enough about the teachers that work in this department. Um, they're so dedicated. I mean, it's like, "Hey, Brent, can we do one more project?" Yep. Let's do one more project. Pull out the kids design. I mean, he's It's just Yeah, absolutely. So,

093thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I'm sure it varies, but like for some of the students that you shown since they participated, how much less time are they going to have to spend after high school in college? Like it's not cheap every college course, right? So like I look at Gracie and she's what, like 10 years of schooling? I know it's a lot. Yeah, it really depends, right? So um and that's what's kind of crazy. Every student's path is is a different path. So if they, you know, if they earned, let's say they earned 10 college credits while they were in high school and they use that right away and go right into the same school, I mean that's however many credits and the cost of those credits that they get to kind of erase, right,

094and rewrite the new total. Um there's a I mean we didn't talk about scholarships and all the other things that our students earned um and continue to earn. Um but it it varies her per her student and what their what their path is, right? So I mean Gracie's got plans. She may change her mind. You know, she may get down to, you know, got done with the dental part. It's like, okay, maybe not an orthodontist. I'll just I'll just be, you know, I'll just be Dennis, right? So, you never know. But yeah, thank you so much. Appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you. Great. Okay. Next up, we've got resolution 2024 2550, which is our turf transfer. This will be our first reading. Yes. So, I'm wondering if you have any questions about the turf transfer. So,

095this is something that we had been doing every year up until last year. We did not transfer the turf 50,000 from the general fund to the capital project fund, but we we'd like to again do it this year. Again, this is we have turf at the high school and that turf has a specific number of years uh that that it's we're able to play on it. Uh we are approaching uh the the end of the life of that turf, but the purpose of this money is to uh be ready uh when it's time to replace it. And so we have been doing this for a number of years. And so um it's just something we didn't do last year based on our basically the concerns regarding cash flow and the general fund. We're in a

096better position now. So we'd like to continue. I move adoption of resolution number 2024-25-08. So this is Yeah, we got to wait the first reading. Oh, it's first reading. I mean I it looks great. Yeah. the interest in yeah the approval we're gonna Yes. So our next meeting next meeting for approval. Got it. All right. Next up we've got Yes. Does anybody have questions on that first, I guess? No. Okay. Proposed uh 202526 board meeting schedule. This was also our first reading on our meeting schedule. Right. So we're looking at the board meetings for next year and hopefully you have those in front of you. Uh the first one September 9th is a work session. Then September 23rd is a regular business meeting and then as we go through um I want you to to

097look at please October 28th. So we did something a little different with our school presentations where we had all of our elementary y principles together and then the next board meeting we had our secondary principal together. So if that's favorable for you, I'd like to try that again. Yeah. Yeah, uh we're going to there's some some adjustments we'll make, but I thought that that uh like one of the goals was that you would see the presentations. Um the same time I want our principles to see the presentations uh to see each other. Uh so it's somewhat of a a professional learning community. Yep. And so I think there was some learning that happened as a result of that and then the midyear uh it was very similar. So we'd like to do that again. And

098so then we get those uh in front of you and then when we do the site visits hopefully we'll see uh in action what you heard uh in the presentations. So then as we move through uh the rest of the year um what's highlighted is July because uh we don't we haven't established a date if we wanted to meet uh in July um sort of have a board retreat and so we're not going to do that this July. We're going to go ahead and in August, our first meeting in August, we have time before that which could be our retreat. We may extend that time a little bit, but for the following year, if we could uh put it in. Yeah, I think that's a great July. I I'm I'm interested in that. Y So

099that is the the meeting calendar. So hopefully that looks okay for you. If we go to the next page, we want to include the board listening tour events. So, what you'll notice is we have two. So, idea being the fall and then the spring. And if you're open to that, then we'll go with those dates. We have not determined the location yet, but that's something we'll be do is figure out where we want to have those meetings. Uh we've reduced it and that is mainly because, you know, we don't get a a lot of people attending these, but but we typically have a few people. The last one we had, I think close to 10 were at Bethl. And so that was that would be my only thing would be I feel like we might

100need to have one early one because I feel like that was our big turnout was that earlier one that we had at Beth earlier in the day. Yeah. Great. Okay. So maybe just I don't know if we can talk about that or adjust that even if we can't all be there. Um to have that option for people that can't come to the later one maybe. I don't know. Okay. And that location maybe reserve that location again. Yeah. And now maybe that's still in the spring. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Check thoughts. Do we have an election next year? I don't know what the calendar is for Levy's. Yeah, we do. We might want to um Oh, yeah. do some intensive listening. Yes. Prior to an election. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll uh definitely uh talk about that. Yeah.

101At our next executive issue meeting. Yeah. Thank you. Uh board site visits. So I like October 23rd combining Cape and Canyon then the high school and the the time is certainly uh can be adjusted. Maybe the afternoon's not the best right to see the PLC meeting. So maybe there's a different time that works better. Then February, we're gonna combine Gauze and Hathaway because they're very close together and I like the idea of combing those up. Me too. And then GMS and CRG. That worked out really well, I thought. I agree. Yeah. Okay. So, questions about this the board site visits acceptable and then the the board listening to her. Chuck, definitely hear what you're saying about uh next fall and uh the opportunities for our community to to give us input and feedback. Yep. Leading

102up to the levy. And then the the board director's meeting calendar that if that looks okay to you. Really the big items are the when we do our sit presentations and then the retreat. Yeah. Okay. Great. All right. on to our next okay listing tour. We just did that um executive responsibility 13 structural program. Yes. So this is one that Tracy u uh worked on, updated and shared with you. So wonder if you have any questions regarding uh the uh ER13 specifically to instructional programs. Any any questions that you have any wonders? on this one. Nope, I don't. Okay, looks good. All right, on to executive responsibility 14, instructional material selection. Selection. Okay, so this one is also Tracy and so, uh, she updated this document. Um, wonder if you have any questions regarding instructional

103material selection. When is the next time we're going to do that? Because there's that update, right? Yes, we actually heard about it today on an OSBI call. Michaela Miller talked about math and and reading will be uh updated. So, we will so next year really is uh we get exposure to the standards. Uh they aren't officially going to be implemented until the following year. So, the 26th 27th school year. So, really good question. One of the things that we're going to be looking at is this this curriculum adoption cycle when we have standards that are updated. Uh once we uh look at those standards and it does take time for publishers to adjust to these standards. We did hear some information about the assessment system and whether that will be updated or not. And so

104yeah, so really for the first time uh we we keep aware that when they'll be available to us and we the plan would be to u expose our teams our PLC teams specifically in our buildings to the standards and we we need to work on developing the the ouration plan. So back to guess a so when will we be adopting and what we're noticing with OSBI is they are providing resources to us that we uh that are there in some cases they're free right uh yeah open source uh curriculum. So we appreciate that especially when it's aligned to the standards that we are responsible for our students are learning. So and it should be that this coming year so 25 26 we'll really focus on the training for teachers. So once we get our hands

105on the document, we'll be able to if we can get that before our August PD days, we'll be able to look at what the difference is between Comore and then what some of the new updated they don't expect them to change tremendously. But um we also found out today the assessment so our state standardized test will not change this coming year. So initially Yes. Yeah. We're not Yeah. So the curriculum is going to change but the test So the standard So the standards Yeah. So So the standards, the curriculum and then the assessment. So instructional materials that we use to present the standards. Okay. Those will be in two years. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I know that took a minute. I was like, wait a second. Yeah. But the system that we use for the assessments,

106I don't know. right now we are privy to what's the like the long-term plan with the assessment system. So I guess my other question is with Tracy leaving who will be responsible? That is a really good question. Yes. So she's not leaving. There's new stuff coming. Needed another word. Yeah. Thanks for asking that question. So, we've actually been working on we've met with our our building administrators uh within an executive team. We've met and we've talked about responsibilities that that Tracy has had and looking what uh everyone has. When we met with our building principles, we said, "Here are uh here's a table with specific areas that Tracy was really responsible for and are you interested in uh any of these?" So they actually we gave them editing rights and so we this opportunity for

107them to populate the table and it has multiple columns. So it has columns for uh like uh district office leadership and then building leadership and so we're working on it right now and so u a number of us have uh curriculum background. So, so we u it isn't as if this isn't information that we've u have been strangers to that this is something that both Wes and I have curriculum u degrees or or masters and so that is something that we uh we feel comfortable with but it's going to be a team effort. We are really excited about principles being involved and then down the road uh teacher leaders assisting with us. And so as we look at professional development in August and working with we just recently asked our building leaders to work with

108their staff and determining what level uh professional development are you looking for. Yeah. And so we did receive some feedback through the strategic planning process where there's some maybe some concerns some challenges with the way we've been um presenting uh professional development. So we we are leaning into that. We're trying to figure out like what is it that they're looking for? And so we are in our in the the planning stages for for next year. And so we have is we have four dates in four days in August that are really important days where our teachers are coming back are coming back. And then throughout the year we have a variety of meetings that we have we have access to each week. And so we have limited time with our teachers. It's professional development. We

109also look at the PLC time that's 40 minutes early release every Wednesday is also a collaborative time. That's very important and time that way we can look at standards, analyze standards, get to know those standards, see the difference what they they describe like what we currently have up against what um the new the changes, right? And so um we're hoping they aren't drastically different um because we really didn't work uh we've been focusing on scope and sequence for every course um recently. So we're excited about that work. So, back to your question, it's going to be a team effort and we're working through it right now, but it will include our building administrators and then the teachers. Yeah. And the idea incorporating Yeah. And working I have heard that teacher just personally I've heard a

110few teachers say that they would like to be more part of you know the curriculum. Yep. So, we started with asking and we I think we also pushed out the form. We've done a form for determining what level right PD they they looking for, what type of PD, what what focus on we'd have items they could choose. This time we said principles, you we facilitate this and actually I think David Cook had one of his teachers facilitate the gathering of what what do we want our PD to look like? Yeah. All right. Does that answer your question? Yeah. We are on to policy 6000 series review. Yes. Okay. So, I think you probably noticed when you looked at this. This is five new policies, 16 updated policies. Yeah. So, Shalice had a lot to do

111with this. Chalice said, "Listen, uh, I'm interested in us looking at the 6000 series," which is where she spends a lot of time in the 6000 series. And she said, "Can we take on the 6000 series? There's a number of policies that I think we should add." And, uh, definitely some revisions. So, that's what we have here. And so, this is the management support series uh, operational and financial management guidance for budgeting, purchasing, transportation management, nutrition. So, a variety of uh very important policies and procedures. So, there's a lot of information here and we would not be presenting this information to you if we didn't think it was necessary. The idea of updating these policies uh on a on a on a schedule is really uh what we're we're hoping to do. I don't think

112anyone here has been a part of where we've adopted a a series before, but this is something that the district has done before. And so again, we really we rely on WASDA model policies. We don't make res revisions to these policies unless we have vetted it with our attorney typically. And I know Chuck, you had a question, some specific language about one of them. So I'll I'll follow up with Shalis on that. I didn't have a chance today to follow up with her, but we'll talk about kind of what your question is. So, uh, I'm I'm I'm looking forward uh you have an opportunity to look at this. I think it's it's really helpful for us to have our policies and procedures updated. It's a it's a lengthy process. Uh, Corey has done a lot

113of work with taking what WASDA provides us and then putting it into, you know, our our format and then Shalis has gone through I've gone through and reviewed these changes. So again, we wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think it was it would it's helpful. Okay. Any questions so far? I was just like I know so I was reading like I didn't know the ASB fund was is it really maintained by the county treasurer? I guess when Shalis is here. Yes. Yeah. So we can Yeah. So she will be at our next meeting and can give you Yeah. You have some specific questions about Okay. I can appreciate that she went through this and has not that we need these updates too. A lot of good work. Yeah. I would like to offer a

114suggestion for you to that is on the workers comp policy. Workers comp protects employees who are injured on the job and it also protects the district. An employee is injured, their only recourse is through as opposed to them. And there are two policy covers employees. I would like to have to consider the people that are referees and umpires at our sporting events who are not employees but can sustain injuries on the job and sometimes those people are employed by the leave and sometimes they are not comp. Thank you. Yeah, a level liability. So, yeah. So, we will Yeah, I'll work with with Brian. I'll start with Brian to see of all of our officials and maybe basketball. Maybe it's it could be uh just a a Clark County organization. U we want to make sure

115that those folks are covered. Yeah. The other classification of people is volunteers. Volunteers can get injured by our schools. Yeah. And they're covered by workers comp and there's provision for them to take care of their injuries and costs there. It also means that the in the district so have a dad who's on a ladder to work on a playground structure and falls and two weeks and we worked as it broke away. Yeah. And covers that. So I'd like to take a look at volunt the premium amount of volunteers very very well. But thank you for them and for us. Yep. We will look at that. And that scenario you just came up with was just victious. The volunteer on the ladder, right? That would never That was just a never happened. Oh, okay. Yeah. Not

116but not in this district. You got another district. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that. And we definitely will. So those two items I'll follow up with. So it wasn't fictitious. It was actually something that just not in our Yes. Yeah. Got it. Thank you. Appreciate that. Interesting. The uh Yeah. Injuries on ladders or people standing on things they shouldn't stand on. I have some metal from a ladder. Yeah. Not in this district. also had a an umpire who was hit by a ball and died. Yeah. Yeah. These things do happen. No, absolutely. So, that one Yeah. So, we'll definitely will follow up on the Yeah. What is the How are officials protected? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Great. And then the other one regarding the uh the should. We'll we'll follow up with

117you on that one. The other one uh language about Yeah. should or Yeah. Okay. Okay. That it guys. You heard the applause in the chair. Right there. Um is there a motion to adjourn? Motion to second. All in favor? Hi, we are jouring at 8:06. Thank you.