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 your mics on. Yes. Tasty, tasty, tasty. So, I need to get connected. Just 10 seconds to get All right. Um, do we have uh any agenda revisions? Anybody? Nope. Nope. All right. Are there any questions on the consent agenda? Move adoption the consent agenda. I second. All in favor? I motion carries. Next we've got um anformational presentation on the budget update. Right. Thank you. And I think what I'll do is you have a copy in your your briefing here in your notes. I think we call our presentation if you want to look at that. It's probably worth it to share it. Less I
002don't know. I don't know. If you have any questions or thoughts, I thought it'd be nice just to share it on my screen. Clearly having challenges, but share. Try one more time. So, we have Shalice here. If there's any questions regarding the budget up to date, uh, just take a moment to look at our enrollment. Like the trend. I'm liking that. Yeah, we're staying. Uh, Shalice, what is the It's exactly Oh, point five, right from February. I know it. I'll take it. Yes. So, that's good news. Yep. Feel good about that. Uh, I'll move past that one and that one. So, so for March, you see the chart. You see where our fund balance is, which is the the red line. Um, very positive. Yeah. for March. Yeah, I like it too. And then overall
003comparing March 2025 to March 2024, so we're about 7%. You're around that. So that's uh that's good news. Yeah, our fund balance updates. Um thank you Shalise for keeping this information up to date. Appreciate it. We're going to talk a little bit I'm going to share a little bit information about our transportation department uh when I have an opportunity uh later on this this afternoon uh capital project funds. So our next meeting Les will be giving you an update regarding the the projects we're working on and a few items uh later on this meeting. So, um, overall March is looking really good and so I think we, um, we we like where we're tracking for, um, April as well. Any questions? This is amazing as always. Thank you so much. Any further guidance from from
004the state regarding the changing when they're going to disperse funds? Yeah, they help with their changes basically in the March, April and May. I'll have in front of you, but March, April, May, they're going down 1% to a half% then they're making it all up in July. I believe July, August, just July. I think it was just one month. So they have their pre- 11ire schedule and it won't be on the 27th. Perfect. Yeah. So we just go to the next item for that. And so Shalice and I attended yesterday EST12. Uh it's been a series of presentations by Gavin Hman with EST12 and he really oversees and supports across the state. Um, and so he I think this is probably our fourth meeting and it's with other superintendents and other fiscal directors. And so
005we actually had an individual who spoke uh gave a little bit information far as a legislative update. Um, and you know, I thought about today this item. So we have Dan Steel's Two that you know, I shared some information with you. I nothing was really different from uh what was presented yesterday. You know, the outlook is not all that positive with what's happening with MSOC funds, special education. We're seeing potential increases, just not the amounts that we were hoping for a few months ago. So, as Shalice just said, uh April 27th is the last day. Uh what Jim what you just asked about was taking two and a half percent of a portionment which we would be seeing in you'd say March and April or February normally just out that two and a half% uh
006provided in in July right which for some districts could be significant as far as cash flow or lack of cash flow to just make uh payroll right so those are the concerns that we talked about so it's just more reason if that is going to be the case and then you know what happens after two years but how do they make up and just like talking about like how will they make that up what happens and what what is the purpose of this so I'm sure we will learn more about that um I really don't have additional information um I think I shared with you that I sent a an encouraging uh email to our legislative representatives just hoping that they will uh support the M socks currently me and so that thank you for
007doing that. Yeah, I did as I did as well. Great. Yeah, I don't know if you have any other questions. Shalice was with me. So, we you know there might be some other things that came up. I don't know if you want to mention I think you know uh isn't again that that opt we aren't that optimistic that help. Yeah. I guess is there an acknowledgement by somebody in Olympia that it's a budget gimmick? It only works once and then it's gone. I am not hearing one from Olympia. Yeah. Okay. Bringing that up. At the end of the day, you get your money, but as we saw on our comparison last March, we were at 1%. So, if we were still right there, that lower rate of aortionment that month would really affect. Yeah. So,
008this train that we participated in is is Clark County and Kat County districts. and just looking at how how do we compare it's just very helpful to see where we're at and that information is available on OSBI's website but it's just just to know where we are and then to be able to ask any questions we have about the future and you know there is again there's a lot of uh a lot of things that are up in the other we're not exactly sure how it's going to impact us and so but but we're going to know in two weeks maybe uh yeah I think it's less than two weeks so all Right. Um, next up we've got our proposals for action. Do we have any citizen comments tonight? No, we do not. All right.
009All right. Next up, we've got resolution uh 202425-07, which is our modified educational program. Yes. Okay. So, you've had an opportunity to look at our modified educational program. Y and you know it's uh similar to last year we had we had two we had completed one in February and one in in uh April and so uh that you know I don't know if there's any if you don't have any questions about this decision as I had mentioned uh last board meeting we we're communicating with our labor partners so they're aware uh what our plans are I think it was it was published so there was information from that uh the proposed document ment uh in in the paper. So, it's it's certainly public out there knowledge. Yes. Okay. All right. Does anybody have questions? All
010right. Do I have a motion to approve? I'll move to approve. Second. All in favor? I. Carries. We are on to resolution 2425-09 which uh soul source resolution for purchase of the yellow error. Yeah. Boilers array boilers. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. So we've been talking about boiler boiler replacement at the high school. Yes. And so what this is, we're asking the board to approve. Um what we've done is we've identified a specific type of boiler that we are interested in that our maintenance team has identified. And uh Jessica is here uh really to to answer any questions you might have about this specific boiler and this decision. We have some information for you uh why this is appealing to us. uh why this we feel like this is an efficient move for us not
011only uh in the short term but long term with this particular boiler you want to add a little context since you're here um so my main point on guys is the boilers themselves so the boilers that currently exist at the high school are these three tables and there's three of them if one park go wrong. We use an entire boiler with these new boil. You're good. Keep going. With these new boilers, um they come in different modules. So, uh this table is now three sections. So, one section can go down. We don't need the whole boiler. We still have two other sections up and running. So, it allows us to not have to have as many forward as what we currently have. And then also by doing the purchasing ourselves and having contractor install on
012average we're going to save around 15% markup of having a contractor buy them for us and at this dollar amount we're just over $18,000 that would be just paying somebody else to buy them. So I presented it to save little money, stretch our dollars and get a few more things done. So per policy 6220 we can we can do this. We're just yeah looking for your support. Energy efficiency better. Yes. you go from like 83% to 96 or 98% right and then there is um in the right up here it has anticipated $32,500 incentives energy trust in Oregon as well after they get installed and any consideration on the the maintenance what I found in our home furnace which is really high efficient um and this relates to our CTE program it took four HVAC
013companies before I found someone who had experience in the military to solve problems that could figure out what was wrong with our home furnace and it's all because it was this high-tech super high efficiency furnace which sounded great still does get too smart sometimes. Yeah. Um yeah, when um I had previous experience I was with school district before I ordered these exact boilers um except to to get installed this summer I moved over to the washing bowl and so I reached out to my contacts at CAS they've been very happy with there that they've made it their basis of design as well installed them in building another building as well and then I sent our two maintenance techs over in December to talk to one of the maintenance guys over there physically look at them
014touch ask questions and stuff and then make sure that we have eight hours of training for RT text with this vote. Great. Awesome. All right. Anything else? Anybody want a motion to approve? I'll make that motion. I'll second it. All in favor? Next one, we have a correction to approve the Gauze halfway flooring contract. Yes. So in March we asked you to approve and then we realized there was an error in the math and so this is just correcting that error. So this is flooring in gauze and H. Okay. Questions about that? Does anybody have anything? No. I'll move to approve. Second. All in favor? I carry one. Then we're on to um our ADA and security controls contracts. Yes. So, as you see in the description, we finished the competitive bidding process. The ADA
015doors and and security upgrades at Gauze, the high school, Cape, and Canyon. And so, the lowest bidder is identified as GP Manchester. And so, we're looking for your approval um with this uh decision. Do we have any questions? I'm curious why the the bids were so desperate for the Canyon Creek. They love the Keep and Canyon together and they put them under. Okay. Got it. [Music] Okay. We had asked responded to them school. It's really difficult to have two schools under one group. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Good. All right. Anybody else? Do I have a motion to approve? Move to approve. I second. All in favor? On to our policy revisions. Um, we have a reading and approval. So, policy 1250 for students on governing boards and this will be our second reading. Right. So,
016you got a chance to look at that policy. We have had student reps for several years. We just haven't had a policy. So, I'm excited about the opportunity to have a policy that identifies uh that we are prioritizing student reps to share with you their voice. And so I think that we've made I talked about some revisions to that policy from the model policy which I think fits uh how we want it to be for our student reps that when they're on the agenda they'll be here. Any questions? Do I have any questions on that one? No. Uh do I have a motion To approve. Second. All in favor? Yes. I I Right. I'm excited about that one. Yes. Me too. Good one. Um, all right. Next up, we've got uh policy 3424, which is
017our opiate related overdose reversal second reading as well. Right. So, it's an update to this policy. And so, I don't have any questions about it. Jim, you had asked a question about have we had a recorded use of Narcan in our schools? We have not. So, the last two years we have not. Yeah. Good to hear. Yeah. And I you know I started looking as far as the state and also looking in the county and there is data. I just thought that I mean if I can share with you links to where I was going but yeah we we have not had anyway to to answer your question which is is a good thing. Uh but this this policy revision is about um you know our students in high school being able to carry all
018four of the policy. Yeah. Absolutely. Yes. Just curious. So are there any other questions? Do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? Okay, we are on to our board of directors comments today. I'll take it off. You're going to go last, right? WS. Yep. Go ahead. I I'll start this way next time. You're all good. Um I'm just a routine person. No, I think just uh it is national volunteer week and I know just over the last week and a half, two weeks, what we've got going on is know they had the book fair which was led by the boosters and volunteers there and was very successful and helpful to the school and the kids. We've got our local ECLL baseball softball league had their opening ceremony last
019Saturday. Again, an organization run entirely by volunteers and it's a really cool opportunity for kids from different elementary schools to start getting to know each other. Um, and then Read Northwest will actually be wrapping up their final week next week. Um, so I think it just says a lot to the community that we've got all these different programs running solely based off volunteers. Um, parents and non-parents, right? They're people that had kids that graduated in the school or just want to help out. Um, which I think is just really incredible. And also, if you want to volunteer for any of those organizations, they're always looking for more people. All right, Chip. Um, today is the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. I remember I was a high school kid when Earth Day came around, right after
020the Santa Barbara Royals bill. Very exciting. Ozone hole was disappearing. Um, it seemed like high school kids could have an impact and they changed all the pre-own requirements and the ozone holes sealed up and still have to wear sunscreen, which had not been invented yet. Um but it's you know it's uh I hope I hope it's part of our culture that we continue to maintain a hospitable earth environment. Um and through action in the schools and education in the schools. Um also I mean I a couple random things but um I have a family member that's been doing genealogy. I discovered that her for a repairs who moved from Canada to the US actually moved from the US to Canada because they were loyalists fighting on the side of the British. And so I've been
021learning about American history that I didn't get and I don't remember this part of history in high school or elementary school or college. Um but you know between one and three and one in five American col col colonists were fighting on the side of the of the royal crown. Um and it just it's it was in I mean I'm 70. I I like history. I just didn't know that that part of our history was uh whitewashed, whatever you want to call it, in terms of the curriculum. It was was presented to me as a as a school kid. And it it just I'm bring that up just to point out how important it is that we present historical facts, the history of our country, good and bad. Um, and and I hope we're able to
022avoid um changing our our social studies curriculum to present a modified view of of the reality of of actual history. Um, exciting. That was interesting. There's a Supreme Court case being heard today that has potential to impact all of us. I'm a little freaked about it. Um, the Mimmude v. Taylor in Montgomery County that would allow parents to opt out of essentially anything. This has to do with um the presence of LGBT LGBT Q Q plus characters depicted in schools in a school book. It it could be the depiction of Muslim or Jewish kids in a school book that parents could object to. Could be the presence of of uh African-American children in a school book. A depiction a picture of one in an elementary school book. And I'm hoping that the Supreme Court um
023it looks like they're going to rule in favor of the parents ability to opt out um based on the moral arguments today. And I'm hoping that their decision is very very narrow or it will be a nightmare for every elementary school in the country including our own. Um and I just don't know how how any district will be able to manage that. Um, and then I'll just toss this out in the ring. I I love the idea of having our student voice, our advisory votes, and I would like to throw out the possibility, I've talked briefly about it, of including our labor partners on advisory vote votes on important issues. Um, representative of of the classified union, representative of the of the certificated union. I think the board would benefit by having their voice heard
024on important issues. And I know they can't serve legally because they're employees, but um I'm just tossing that out for a future discussion. But I I think um in in with the goal of working as as real partners with the board and all of our community of employees, that might be a uh a step in the right direction to being cooperative and not uh not the traditional management worker um clash. And I think, you know, I applaud our partners and and our administration the last couple of years at least of working collaboratively, but there may be more steps we get could take to make sure that that their voices are heard by the board. Gotcha. Thank you. Um I don't know. So, being a federal employee and seeing all the uncertainty and just craziness that
025I witness every day, I think one um flexibility is a key word and just thinking about just the state budget and I mean there's uncertainty every year, but I feel like just the world we live in, there's lots. So, um I think I appreciate um the work that um you know our district staff has been doing to try try and retain flexibility um so that we can be agile and and kind of adapt to all these uncertainty. Um so I just really appreciate that. Um and as well as just like the fact that at the local level we're able to make some rational decisions. Um at the federal level we don't have unions anymore. So just a lot of craziness going on. So yeah, just really appreciate kind of how things are working at our
026local district. Thank you. All right. Um, I will go next tonight. Um, I actually, um, I was going to kind of say what Jane said about volunteers. Um, I want to thank Jake and Brian for their presentation last meeting. Um, I think it was great for them to come in and kind of um, show us where all of our students are at and and kind of a reminder that we have some amazing coaches. And I think sometimes we forget that, you know, they're they're volunteers and most of them are volunteers. They have, you know, families and other things. And yeah, a lot of them probably coach because their kids are on the team or have been on the teams or whatnot. But we have to remember, we have to appreciate our volunteers because if it
027wasn't for these amazing volunteers, boosters, everything, we would not be as successful as we are. volunteers really really are amazing in our community. Um so thank you for anybody and everybody that volunteer especially our coaches. I feel like they always have a hard job. Um and teacher appreciation week is coming up. Um so I know there will be some signup geniuses um going out. So make sure that you guys look for those. Sign up to help either volunteer or bring food or you know anything. Watch for that because we need to remember to appreciate our amazing teachers. Um, and last of course I have to plug for Stride May 17th. Please sign up. Please volunteer. We need more volunteers this year. So if you can, love to see you there. And with that, I'm going
028to send it over to Mr. Chuck. Yeah. Um, I've had the opportunity recently to give a lot of thought to where I've been or where I'm going. Birthdays do that to a person. They do. And uh I started teaching in 1965 and I've been involved in schools in one way or another for the last 60 years and it's culminated in being able to serve on this school board which is a tremendous honor. But and looking ahead, um my term ends in December and if I were to be reelected in November for four years, at the end of my term, I would be 87 years old. And I'm less than confident that I would be an effective school board member at that time. So for that reason, I've decided I will not run for reelection in
029November. Now, it is challenging to be a schoolboard member, especially starting in the middle of a school year. Consequently, I choose leave at the end of this academic year so that the board will have the opportunity to identify our placement in time so that that person can start at the beginning of the school year, go on the board retreat, get thoroughly up to speed on what the board does before the school starts. As I look back, being a daily volunteer in our schools and having the opportunity to visit each of our schools every year, thank you, Tracy, has given me insight into the lives of students that has been invaluable to me as a schoolboard member. More than that, I have a renewed respect for the good work that is being done by students and
030staff every day. I've been particularly impressed by the respect and courtesy shown by our students toward visitors and each other. We have wonderful kids and wonderful schools. We must not lose sight of that. I have a great deal of confidence in the wisdom of this board and superintendent and in the overall management of our schools and school district. Been proud to play a part, a small part, but now I request acceptance of my resignation effective June 30th, 2025. Thank you, Chuck. So, we um in our next meeting, we'll approve the minutes and will be in the minutes. Okay. And then we just approve that. Yeah. So, that's Yeah. Um does the board need to take action to accept? No. Oh, there's no Yeah. No action that's that's needed. Okay. I'll I'll take action. Thank you
031for your service. I think uh a wise and experienced voice that's been exceptionally valuable. Thank you. I second that motion. We're all in favor. I'll abstain. All right. Um okay, that means we're up for our superintendent update. Okay. So uh you I don't know if I gave you my I made some copies. So I have copies of this presentation but you can see it there. Yeah. So I I will give you sorry drink. So the first thing though wouldn't have been a slide on uh what Chuck just said. So, just want to uh say thank you, Chuck, for your service to the school district in this role that you're currently in and as you mentioned, being in buildings frequently as a board director, but then also as a volunteer and said you've been an an
032educator for 60 years and then you were in education as a student uh for for uh several years. So just yeah your involvement as as uh in education in its entirety your commitment to this school district and the impact you've had um I can see I see uh when I and I and when I hear our fifth grade students uh playing in band and that the support you've provided I have uh distinct memories of of seeing you early morning waiting for a student that you were tutoring at Hathaway. So that level of commitment for those that individual for those students you've changed their lives for the better forever and the impact you've had with those individual students. The support you've provided our performing arts teachers and the respect they have and your advoc advocacy for
033them and prioritizing performing arts has been much appreciated. you um you know if we were to list unless and I had talked a little bit about all the different clubs and organizations you've been a part of and I've seen you and your wife uh helping out with at Hathaway with Festival of Trees in different roles. I don't know what capacity you were in you have so many whether it's Lions or Rotary or whatever all the different organizations you've been a part of WAKA we're sure currently. So all of that, your commitment to this district and this community, we appreciate. I've shared before, but I'm going to share again. Your your leadership with me and your impact on me um is invaluable. Uh you you gave me an opportunity years ago and I'll never forget the
034conversation where you said, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" And and you and you gave me an opportunity to be an assistant principal. And so it was because of you and and I know others but your belief in me and what you saw in me that maybe I didn't see at the time. So thank you. And as Jim as you said your your wisdom, your humility, your contributions and just in the way you've done it. Uh just yeah you you've had a huge impact. So we we will miss you. We appreciate you very much and know that you will still be supporting the those those community this community those organizations that you have such a love for. So thank you and you can always come to meetings. Yeah anytime. There's usually
035a seat available. So thank you. Thank you. Okay. So Jim, at the last meeting we there were a couple questions and we didn't I didn't answer those questions. So again I um and actually I don't have the slide turned off because I just updated this one but you had asked about the uni solar project. So what we were able to find out is that we have u we've received a credit last year for $135. The overall commitment was it's in here 8,500 8,500. And so we will receive from the the PUB over the ne each year I think twice um credits you know is it once a year once a year credits. So um yes this is an investment not only for us will it pay off it'll just be you know several years. Yeah
036but also um you know the purpose of the solar panels. So um so that was a question you had asked. So yeah specifically. Yeah. So we are we are seeing that that investment return. Yeah. The return. Yep. And then the locks and I had already answered regarding we'd had zero um recorded in two years. And then you'd asked about athletics. So Shalice had put together she's so efficient and I think I think it could have been that night or the next day she she answered the question. I just didn't push it out to you. But in 2223, we see that it was overall for athletics was about a million dollars. And you see the categories and when we were talking to Jake and Brian, you know, I think we were probably thinking about cost. And
037when they we asked them and they gave us some information, it was more on uniforms and equipment and what it was at the middle school, what which you know up to this point for this year. And so um that's you know they did their best to give us kind of an idea but then you know what we hadn't talked about is transportation and but Brian actually had talked about some of the challenges of transportation right and then just the the compensation connected to uh extracurricular supplies and and whatnot. So you see that right now where we're at is about 530,000. Yeah. And I think the reason this came up was because we'd identified on our mod modified educational program athletics and extracurricular extracurricular activities and the potential and what I shared at the time when
038I think was published in the paper was just this idea that every year with athletics we do the same process. If we don't have enough students student athletes we won't have an additional team which has additional costs. Now, it doesn't necessarily increase transportation costs, but it will certainly increase in our um official costs and our coaching statements. At this point, we're not looking to eliminate any uh sports, right? It's just that's in there for flexibility. And I know you t just recently talked about flexibility. It's really important for us to have flexibility, especially when there's a lot of unknowns. So, um, again, we we see the value in extracurricular activities and this community supports sports and other activities that happen outside the school day and we're going to keep um offering those. Um, and WIA
039just recently um approved adding girls flag football. Yes, sure did. So, that's another potentially could be coming our way. And so, um, yeah, pretty exciting, is right? I think it was didn't Yeah, it wasn't approved the first time. It was presented last year. Yeah. So, these the first two slides are just answering your questions from two weeks ago. So, transportation. So, these pictures, the top left one, that's those are uh booster seats that are built into this is a brand new bus. This is a 2025. We paid for it last year. They the second one was just recently delivered. We saw the titles this morning and so uh what so I just happened to be over there visiting transportation and saw this brand new bus just rolled up. So I just David I get some
040pictures. So I'm excited about the built-in boosters. We have eight of those. So the first two rows then this the top right is lifting that seat up. So that's an additional seat that our other buses don't have to the exit row. So, it allows us to have six more students or, you know, four larger students where we can um sit there because those seats aren't typically there, but they just lift up when we're evacuating. That one where David's on the outside, that's additional storage underneath. So, we like those on on longer trips. So if we have band or football or any sport that has equipment, then we can we can store that uh those supplies and equipment underneath. And then David, the bottom left, I don't know why I took them, but anyway, I think
041it was maybe just showing that there's the boosters again. And then the bottom right is a back there's a backup camera there. You can't see it, but now these two buses, we have backup cameras. Now the bus driver has a little screen. It's not like some uh current vehicles where it's a really large No, I'm gonna say that. But yeah. Yeah. So, it's a smaller screen that's built in, but it's nice to have a backup camera. And then the the next things we're going to add is on the the stop pedal paddle, we're going to have cameras. So, on these two, we're going to have stop paddle cameras that our drivers are going to be really excited about. That's one of the things that's one of the first things they say when they ask us.
042We ask them like, "What can we do?" They kids stop paddle cameras. Yeah. because we have people blow and stop. Yeah. And and it it's really dangerous and it's frustrating and it's really clear what you're supposed to do when the stop paddle is out. Yes. It's a big yes. It's a no no. It's very clear. So anyway, uh really excited about those buses. And then the only thing else I added is current bill, Senate Bill 5009. If it passes, we're going to be able to use transportation dollars to buy vans that we can then uh transport students in that we don't they aren't going to be paying out of a general fund. So, those are going to be used for to and from, right, which is that will be really helpful. Again, another flexible move
043that uh our legislative representatives could help us with is using our transportation funds, which we we manage very well. And we probably will purchase some vans that we can use for extracurricular and to and from. Yeah. Anything else you want to add to that? No, we're just excited about it. So, who's going to sit in those booster seats? Because I could I know right now that, you know, my kids would be like, I'm not sitting in that. So, is there like Yeah. So, four-year-olds, DK. Okay. So, that's what it's for. Okay. Yes. Because I was foury olds. Okay. And probably some 5-year-olds. Okay. Yes. Do you know what I mean, though? Like, of course. Yeah. But we do have we have booster seats now that we we put in there, but these are just for
044the little guy. Okay. Yep. And you can hardly notice if I sat down, you hardly notice that's what it is. You use one. I won't be. Yeah. Okay. Just uh highlight this. just another amazing example of of our students, Margaret Rice, partnering with of one of our community members or community organization. So, the the Camas uh Wugal uh the port uh celebrating Earth Day today as Jim mentioned and these are little um like these for mason bees. What they do is they they they make they nest, they burrow in, lay their eggs and then they are just it's so amazing. And so these are going to be available at the port. Uh must be I think this is probably today that these are going to be given out but they were made by our students.
045Oh cool. Yeah. So Margaret again working with the port and so these are down at the the port office and I happened to be there last week for a meeting with the I'm a part of the campus community chest and that's where we meet. So these were there. So I took a couple pictures on those are just houses. Yes. phenomenal uh teamwork by our students and then uh partnering with WAKA and WAKA is uh looking to do an art supply um drive and so you see there's a QR code there uh so we really appreciate that WAKO wants to support our our art teachers with um getting more art supplies in our in our schools and so we generate a list and then that QR code will think of them, anyone who wants to donate
046to the Amazon list. So that'll just be phenomenal. Our supplies, you know, they're kind of expensive. They're consumables. So really appreciate Waka's interest in supporting us. Update on that. Yeah, go ahead. Um the woman who's leading that in Wacka is overwhelmed with the volume of supplies. So So cool. It's a big turnout, big support from the community, let's say, for for helping arts. Yeah. And so you click on it and it you can donate actual supplies versus money. Yes. Yeah. Teachers um I work with Kathy to put the list together. Yeah. Um but she wants she really is very dedicated to to getting this accomplished that they've done it in some in in Canvas as well. and she wants to be able to have the supplies delivered to teachers on the week of the teacher.
047So there's some um not urgency, I don't want to say teacher appreciation. Oh, cool. Very hopeful that we can get it out. Uh and so that's great news, Jim. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent. Yeah. Will you send that to all of us so that I could post it? Yes, for sure. Great. Yeah. Okay. So the next one, as I mentioned, at the next board meeting, Les will give an update on the capital uh projects and how we're moving along. This is just so you are aware and we've communicated to our staff, but this is information that we need to uh remind staff frequently and in our community that because of the projects that we're doing, the buildings won't necessarily be available like they have been in the past during the summer. So, we're moving uh as we
048plan for say athletic camps, we're moving where those will probably be because we're going to have contractors and subcontractors in our buildings. Our custodians are going to be doing cleaning throughout our buildings. And so, I think I'd mentioned we're doing a a custodial team cleaning uh initiative and uh when you know like our custodians really appreciate if people just stay off the floors when they clean them and that's really one of their big pet peeves. So, so we're really going to be encouraging staff this summer just, you know, take your devices home with you and work from home and avoid coming back to school until the work is done. Just so you're aware, if you were to get up, you know, maybe someone reach out to you and ask why, it's because there's so much
049work that's happening in our buildings and it just it's there's distractions, there's safety concerns for a variety of reasons. We're just going to be uh mitigating the potential risk by just saying stay at light. So will that affect though um because I know at the beginning of summer um the high school puts on those camps for the kids for like sports and stuff. Yeah. So so we will we're going to be working with the team and determining like it might be possible. Okay. Early or we'll just move them to CRGMS. Okay. So if they need access to a gym, it'll probably be the GMS gym, the CRG gym. Okay. And so we are also like we've been talking a lot about our HVAC systems and the controls like this like those systems are going to
050be down, right? So we won't have we won't have climate control options when we're working on those systems. Okay. So that Yeah. So we will if we need to move them, we'll move them. And we'll communicate that. We'll work closer with our coaches. Okay. I just know those are popular right now. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And you know it's just and and you know this is um we're thrilled with the support by our community. This is the best time to do it and really the only time to do it. Otherwise, we're gonna be impacting the learning, right? We don't want to do that. All right. So, the city of Wugul, the city council is looking for a new student rep. Emily Bishop is graduating. That's a picture of her on the left, bottom left. So, she's
051been the rep. We've had student reps for multiple years. So, we're going to be seeking a junior or senior uh excuse me, a 10th grader or 11th grader to fill the role. So, if you know of someone, we're going to be advertising this. Our high school administrative team is aware. We're looking for a student rep from the city council. Okay. So, Satie, you had asked about Math Nation a few weeks ago, and so this is a little bit of information about NA Math Nation, which is a free resource provided by OSBI. We found out about it this fall. It took us a little while to work through the agreement, the data sharing agreement, and then to get our staff uh caught up to speed. Tracy, thank you for your work. Less, thank you. It's a
052free resource. It has just taken us a while to get it up and running. We provided training. There like 13 individuals, administrators, and teachers at the secondary level who participated. So, this is available to our students. So we appreciate OSBI in finding this this free resource. Uh 8th grade algebra geometry algebra 2 uh support that's provided in a variety of different uh opportunities and teachers I think can assign levels of support with students having an account and then students have access to it uh 247. Those that really love math can do it all. response from OSBI to declining math scores and then also looking at kids and seeing the gaps the academic gaps in mathematics and we're hopeful that OSPI is in negotiation right now with Math Nation that it'll be available next year as
053well. So we're keeping our So now that we're up and running, yeah, we're hoping it'll be available next year. And then um elementary focus uh with Tracy's leadership and working with our principles, we've provided training for elementary teachers. The first three sessions were u by um actually all the sessions were by Cheryl. Yes. Right. Provided Cheryl McIntyre delivered the the PD focused on illustrative math. uh the last two which were additional trainings which is the last two were around supporting highly capable students and then different uh enrichment opportunities with our K5 K5 curriculum. So when those ready was excelsier the trainings. Yeah. So we have one more one more that we're going to be providing if you're interested. Tracy can let you know when it is just to see the Cheryl in action. Uh Cheryl
054who is a phenomenal teacher for us at Jumpagard who's been a math coach. So just relying on her uh providing this PD. We appreciate that and Tracy organizing the the training. And then as Satie mentioned, Stride is coming out. I think it's like the It's gonna be like 19 18th to 19th. 17. Oh. Oh. How many? Oh, no. Because wasn't last year the 20th. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So, it's the 21st. Yeah. 21st stride. And so, we need volunteers. So, if you are interested, I don't know how many people are on Zoom, but we if you are interested and you want to participate, it is really a fun morning. It's not even all day. It's just like really uh yeah, early AM to uh you know 11ish or so if you stick out the whole
055time. And if you have kids then and if you want to volunteer and you have kids um volunteer at the ninja Yeah. in the middle of the field a ninja obstacle course. The obstacle course is phenomenal. It's easy to volunteer there because your kids can kind of run around. Yeah. So, so TK Well, actually, how early can they can they the the youngest race might just be um I maybe there's somebody even crawl in one lap. Yes. Yeah. So, it is phenomenal and I actually have a p I have a picture of myself. I was a part of the first one. Yeah. I'm carrying my son around. Oh, because he was there and he was little and so yeah, it's just really an amazing event that happens through the schools foundation. So, we just love
056it and it's it's healthy and it raises funds for our kids. And you have a cowbell? No, I have a wonderful cowbell just Yeah, I only use it. I used to use it here at this. Sorry, guys. Who made that for him? I got some feedback. Something you use outside. So, that I think Let's see. The only thing I know on the slide for this one, but Thursday from 5 to 7 is our first strategic planning meeting. So we have about 20 total individuals participating. We have a lot of uh input that we've gathered who shared that information. We're looking forward to our first session. And then these are our norms. I just want to share with you our norms for our meetings. When you establish norms, you can do it collectively and it's it
057can be similar process. So just kind of get into the action lesson I worked on the norm. So we have listen to understand, speak to be understood, assume positive intent and stay student centered and then honor all voices and encourage participation. So those are our norms working collaboratively as a team. Really excited about this. So I think we have Chuck and Satie are hopefully going to be there. I will be there Thursday with uh 18 other people. We're gonna feed you. It's going to be excels here and so looking forward to that. Me too. I think that is all. All right. Citizen comments will be next. No citizen comments. All right. Um do we have any future agenda items that we want to put out there? Anybody? No. All right. And as always, our board
058evaluation forms are available online. Is there a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. All right, we've adjourned at 7:20. I got to start using this more.