WSD Board Special Meeting and Work Session April 8, 2025

001Right. Yeah, it is 6:30. So, I will call to order our special meeting with start with the pledge of allegiance. I aliance. Right. First up, we have proposals for action. Erin. Yes. Okay. Thank you so much. Welcome everyone. So, we have Is that me? That's not me. Okay. Did we got We got it fixed. No, we're still on echo. Do you have your sound? Okay. So we have proposal for action and typically these uh items happen at the second board meeting of the month but we business meeting but we actually have similar to this already happened earlier this year with some contingent approvals. So there are two identified the first one is department of commerce energy grant or gauze. The second one is contingent approval of energy audit with Mckin Street which is Gau. And

002then we have approval of the high school DDC controls contract and approval of the high school walk-in cooler repair contract. So uh those four uh we are looking for in the first two contingent approval. Um unless can you just give a quick snapshot because we've done this twice now I believe on on why this is happening these contingent approvals. Right. So the um Department of Commerce grants have the work has to be completed and done by June 30th. So there's not a long window of time for us to complete them. Um they um uh this one is really late in getting the award to us. They changed the dollar amount um on the award so it didn't match the contract with the street and so we're negotiating with the street to do the um set

003of work that the grant is providing to the energy. lower. Um, and the reason it's contingent is that they could say no or the further could but we're asking for approval so we can expedite negotiating those two things done ahead of that June 30th deadline. Great. Thank you so much. So the first one is the Department of Commerce Energy Grant. All right. Do we have any questions? No. All right. Uh, do I have a motion to approve? Move to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I carries. All right. On to our next one is um the approval for the energy audit with Mick Street for GUS. Is that the same one? Next. So, this is Yeah. Working with Mistry. Yeah. Versus the the grant. Oh, it said it twice on here. That's why. Um, do

004we need to approve that one then, too? Okay. Um, does anybody have questions on that one? Um, how how likely is it that you will get them to agree to lower their price? We're very close. Um, we're within about $8,000 and so they're adjusting the scope of the project. Good. Yeah. And as we've identified if we maybe you just said that is we we can use capital fund right for that that remainder that gap but we're yeah we're hopeful that that isn't going to be necessary. I support. Thank you both. If we need to use the capital funds it's well. Sure. So I'll move to approve. Second. All in favor? I agree as well. All right. on to the approval for the Wugal High School DT DDC controls contract. Yeah. So, we have a a

005short description uh in in your uh information uh just approval for the the high school DDC controls project uh contract with the environmental control core uh which will replace the HVAC controls to high school with a new newer system. And so uh definitely something that we are excited about uh you know having to complete it. Couple questions on that. Um or maybe just comments slashrecommendations. Um I hope we're able to go with uh modern energy efficiency with regard to HVAC. There have been quite a bit of progress in that over the last since the high school was built. And in terms of controls, um I hope that we will go with a there are new startup companies in the controls industry uh that don't have the track record that that a school that'll be here

006for 30 or 40 more years need. So I hope we'll find a a good bid from a a Johnson Controls or one of the one of the major controls um companies. But um it's a it is a long-term investment. You don't want to have to and I've had building projects um where they went with the absolute lowest bid and had nothing but controlling the controls, fixing them. Yeah. You have any context you want to add to that? So the control system that we're uh that we spec for the project uh which is the one that was installed at JMS and CR using it for the successfully. Um the facilities team is excited to bring more of the buildings into the same system. Yeah. So that they're not managing multiple buildings and people different systems. Um

007and they're they've been comfortable with all the train. That's great. strongly in favor of us consolidating our goal eventually is to bring all the buildings into the city. It's just going to take us time to and just to what you've identified with your experience and we've had challenges at the high school and with that system and controlling that system so for for years. So this is we are really excited for the efficiency result that we're going to see but also this what less was describing. Yeah. Well, my my comment was also predicated a little bit on reading the some of the public responses to the survey and showing up at school when it's 50 degrees or whatever in the classroom is a challenging learning environment, right? And that's all about environmental controls, but yeah, obviously

008we need them. Y I'll move that we approve. Second. All in favor? Hi. Okay. So, then the next one is approval of the high school walk-in cooler repair contract. So, um we had a similar issue happen uh in the fall up at Cape Canyon with a refrigerator and the in the cooling system. So, uh this is something that we yeah are looking for uh your assistance on. Uh we um let's see the walk-in cooler. So it it failed on the 20th. So right before spring break um the refrigerant similar to up river is is outdated. It's something that we cannot replace. Uh we can't do it as is identified in a simpler uh repair. Um so we have uh looks like the the bid will close. I think it's closed. So the so the winning

009b is JRP and it's $16,34. I don't know if that includes sand or I think it's without tax. They usually Yeah. Is that replacing the entire refrigeration system? The compressor and some of the piping. Yeah. Somewhere in the system there's a leak. So it's in our interest to replace as much as poss. So I also spent a lot of time working in cold rooms and when they go down they need new not just repair right new compressor something great and we're looking at our other uh systems and because they around the same age and so this you know potentially um with that it it's outdated it can't be repaired right so these are um yeah we need to update these bandaids yeah this equipment do we have mechanics that can can repair refrigeration systems and

010recharge with the modern refrigerants or is that off off site? They can either conversion to a newer but I think they can recharge. Yeah. Good. And they've been doing that. It's just because the uh like for 22 the refrigerant is no longer available. They're no longer able to service. Right. Yeah. All right. Any more questions? No. Approve. Second. All in favor? All right. Do we have any citizen comment today? All right. We are on to our work session and got our student representative. Yes. Amari and Riley, how are you? Good. Okay. Well, I had shared with them. I don't know. Was it during spring break that I actually dare to do that? I think I did. Sorry. I know. Wow. Eron. So, I asked them to comment on the policy and I shared the policy

011with them that you are getting adverse reading on to get their thoughts what the policy that's relevant to their current role. Uh something I'm very excited about. We'll talk about in a little bit, but I just if they had a chance to look at it and just kind of give their thoughts and then just some uh questions about uh you know, how was their spring break? Uh let's see. Some I asked about conference week. We did this last year. like how is conference now that we've completed our spring conferences and we had five days of fall conferences. How did those go? Do they value them? Uh do you think that your uh your parent or guardian met with teachers? Is it a good use of time? Uh and then what are some things you're excited

012about? Uh what's going well and how do you know? So those are typical questions that that that are asked. So I I did get Grace and Olivia said they uh they weren't going to be able to make it. Grace did share a few thoughts that I thought I would just kind of open uh with you. So, as far as uh how was her break? She said it was good. She was in Mexico. Uh uh she likes conferences. It gives the teachers a chance to check in with students and guardians while also giving us students a small break. We heard that last year. Uh great appreciation for that that you know those uh early uh early releases. Um uh do you think it's valuable? Yes, sometimes I do when I need help or updates. Um, and

013then let's see. She also said, "I'm a pretty reliable student, so unless it's truly necessary, my parents don't uh come in." Uh, let's see. She's really looking forward to The Wizard of Oz, which we talked a little bit about that. That's the musical that's coming up. Okay. Can we start with your spring break and those other questions before we get into the policy? So, whoever wants to kick it off, go ahead. My spring break was good. I didn't do anything really. relaxed. But okay, so you and your spring and I asked Mari because Amari is a running start student. So your spring break and now you're on your third quarter. Yeah. With Clark, but your spring break was the same time. Yeah, it's a bit longer. It's about two weeks, but it's the last spring

014break. Okay. Okay. And so conferences, that's not something that is really uh relevant to you. No. Yeah. Because of your schedule at Running Start. Okay. And then what are you looking forward to? This is your last quarter at Clark. Yeah, I'm still looking forward to graduating. um because but um I'm doing tutoring at the high school and like it was um we haven't been able to jump in for the past couple of months because the person overseen has been on sick leave but um I think we're going to start back up some things. She's back good. You enjoy tutoring? Yeah. And what subjects do you you support other peers in? Um, I usually do like everything, but good. And that's at the high school. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Riley. Um, so for spring break, I actually

015went down to uh California to tour two colleges to um kind of get a feel for each of them. Uh, and I got it down to two schools now, but I'm still kind of weighing in final factors because they're both uh, very unique in their own ways, and I really want to figure out what's going to be best for me next year. But that was a really fun time with my family. Do you want to share with us? Yeah. So, um, Westmont College, which is in Santa Barbara, and then Vanguard University, which is in Costa Mesa. Both, uh, warm and beachy places. I I kind of decided like a couple like beginning of the school there year that I wanted a break from the Washington rain and wanted to try some new weather out. So

016going to go down to California for a couple years. We speak um I this year found it a lot more useful compared to other years. Uh, it could have just been the way with the certain classes I had, but both of my AP classes that I'm taking, we ended up like finishing our curriculums before spring break so that when we get got back, we could start um studying and prepping for the exam. But it was nice because it was definitely a lot of work to get to the end point, but having the shorter days, I could kind of work with my teachers a little bit more and get that extra help that I did need to kind of make sure I didn't leave anything behind. and get caught up on any missing work as well.

017And then I also just was able to like catch up on missing work in general for all my classes and kind of talk to just some of my teachers and uh clarify anything I need to clarify for the rest of the school year. So that was nice. And um quite a few of my teachers were like, "Hey, I don't have a lot of conferences, so if you just want to come in and like have a study hall or just hang out, you can." Which was fun. So yeah. Okay. And so what are you looking forward to the rest of the spring? Um well obviously prom that's in less than a month and right now it's like the planning period so everything's like super duper crazy. But also when we get back from spring break at

018the school, I feel like the it just the school becomes more social and it's like relit and everybody's just like honestly having a good time right now and talking to each other and everybody's like getting excited for prom and making plans. So, it's kind of nice to see the school like a little bit more like alive compared to at least before we left. Good. And you're playing tennis? Yeah. We haven't actually gotten to have a lot of matches though because we've had a lot of rain. Yeah. Um but we're hoping that nice weather will come soon and we'll actually get to consistently play outside. Okay. Are there any indoor tennis courts in Vancouver there? Yeah, there are a couple. Um every year we'll play one or two inside, but it's just very expensive and also

019a lot of people are trying to use those courts though. It's hard to actually get open space for so many people at a time. All right. So, did you get a chance to look at the policy? Okay. So, what are your what are your thoughts? So, the first question was uh do you have any um questions about the policy? My only question was is there anything that's like really different from what we're doing now? Pretty much like the same. Yeah, I think that we the policy and what you've been uh the ask from you is be pretty much the same. I think the one you have an advisory vote for the calendar. I think uh the goal might be and we'll talk about this in in a few more minutes but I think the goal

020will be to maybe there's could be some more advisory votes and not just on the calendar but other but other policies that were presented the board and then you know what I one of the edits to it was because there this is a policy that's in the number of other districts and and there some uniqueness to them and one thing that's unique to ours that I hadn't necessarily noticed but I appreciate is you don't have to attend every meeting, but you attend the meetings to where we have you on the agenda because you're very busy and and we know that and so that helps a little bit with that that commitment. Okay. Any other things about the policy or the experience that you want to share? Do do you think it's a a policy that

021um you would support? I went on a few things. I forget what the actual questions were, but um I think there was one about like um whether we agreed with it and why, but I thought that that the part about like um students like providing insight and perspective um perspective on the snow like and one of the questions was what kind of support do you think you would need or mentoring in this role? Um, one thing just one comment I kind of had overall and I kind of feel like I came into this position in a very specific circumstance, but having students kind of read over this policy to like understand the logistics of it to just kind of know like exactly what you guys are expecting just to make sure um about those kind

022of details. But everything has been smooth sailing. So, yeah. Great. Okay. I think it's really been really valuable for the board to have you at our meetings and and putting your input in. I'm curious whether it's been valuable to you part of this political side of of school functions. Um, I've enjoyed it. It's been nice to kind of just I guess see more of the legal adult perspective rather than just being in my own world of like being a kid and like not always understanding why certain things do or don't happen. So it's been like a really I think a good experience to sort of like just reflect on our own seen at the school tell. Do you think you look at things differently at school because you have these kind of conversations and you

023know that once a month you'll have an opportunity to share kind of what you're seeing. I think I'm a little bit more aware of things that are happening outside of my own bubble and paying attention to like other people's groups and things like that. Great. Any other thoughts or questions for our student reps? No, just thank you guys for the commitment valuable to us for sure and I love the idea of giving um them more opportunities to have more input and more voting type things. Yeah. So, we will be communicating with having our principal at the high school push out information for next year and so get them to apply and part of that would be hopefully later this spring to to sit down with those individuals that are interested and go over what the

024expectation is. I think this is a big step of that to really Yeah. to to solidify it because we've been doing this but it's been uh it hasn't been a policy and procedure and I think it would be helpful. Are there things that you guys think would make it more valuable from a student perspective? I think maybe um not necessarily like announcing it to like the high school, but having students at the high school aware that there are student representatives on the board and there are people willing to speak on behalf of the students and maybe if people have specific things that they would kind of like to be mentioned like them coming to the student representatives to bring it up. Great. Yeah, that's a really good idea. I am not sure how many of

025our students understand that we have a we have five board members and you've had an opportunity when you go on a site visit to to interact with students but I don't know necessarily if if maybe it's some sort of information that we could share describing how the the school district is aligned and how it's set up and I know what I've said this I'm the superintendent and they and I asked you know what superintendent does typically there aren't many responses and so uh we have to share I have to help educate like what what is the role? They I think most students know that there's a principal and they know how the the building is organized. They don't know that they know that this host school district's organized. You guys took at some kind of

026a civics class. Is that true? Yeah. And does it come down to the local level? you're part of the civic discourse elected officials and um I mean I'm in like the like AP version so there's like very specific details um and it's focused on federal level state as well or just yeah it's a little bit I feel like it's also just a lot of like um like the way politics work between each other too okay so because it you living in a small town, your age group is has an opportunity to have input into city council meetings as well. And I think, you know, taking those opportunities to be involved in improving your community at your age will translate into positive things for for all of us. And there is a washable high school student

027who's a student rep for the city council. But it seems like it might be worthwhile to somehow weave that into the civics lesson at least one just so you everyone knows. Oh, there is this connected to this how the school district is aligned in the Y makes sense. All right. Thank you so much. You are free to go. Thank you. I'll put a plug for for Westmont school. I was waiting. All right. Um, next up we're going to have our board and superintendent updates. Um, we'll start with us, the director. Yeah, Jimmy, you want to start? Um, sure. I think, um, the Wugle Arts and Culture Alliance is doing an art supply drive for this month. And I just want to put that out there that um it's a partnership with the schools to provide

028art materials that aren't had that our school sites don't have to pay for and I think it's an opportunity for the community to contribute to that that part of our our scholarly mission. Um it's clear we're living in pretty challenging times. Before I was on the board, I didn't have any understanding what the Department of Education did, right? It's not going to exist much longer, but we depend on that for some pretty important um funding sources. um funding our low-income population, funding food for students, funding our drug-free um schools grants, and um I hope that we are able to backfill if those funds truly disappear. I'll maintain till I'm in the grave that hungry children have a hard time learning. And um you know I until I got on the school board I I would

029have said department of education or whatever. Um but the other thing it does that can't be done at a local level is really provide the research documentation of what works in teaching and learning. And that has been the sole um repository of that research effort. And I'm hopeful that the federal government doesn't just pull out of funding that I'm also equally concerned about the pulling out of of funding at research universities, the so-called elite universities. And elite in this case doesn't mean wealthy or um high society. These are the best of group. The definition of of elite in French, the best of the group, just like we want to be elite in our CTE programs. Um those are the universities that have produced the science and I know science and engineering the discoveries that have

030provided our cell phones, our watches, our cars, our jets, um all of the technological aspects of our society um are dependent on basic science and engineering discoveries that happen at those universities. Um, and I wasn't elite enough to get into one of those elite universities as an undergrad student. Um, luckily I I was able to work there for my PhD and after my PhD and for my career. And I think I just want to correct the misnomer that elite universities are somehow um socially some of the kids that go there are um that they're super wealthy or they're somehow different and not useful. Those are where the scientists win Nobel prizes that lead to breakthroughs in medicine. And much of our medical knowledge has come from those universities. Johns Hopkins is losing a billion dollars

031in research funding. Companies are not going to do that research. Um it's a dismantling of of our um knowledge base and it really bums me out and it's all I really want to say about that. Um, but thank you. I mean, hopefully we can do what we can as a community to make sure our our all of our students have food, that they have the supports they need, and that uh I'm not sure how that's all going to work out. The state is tight on funds as well, and historically the local community has not outside of property taxes that funnel through the state and the levy monies. And I think we heard there's not um it's unlikely to be a lot of support for radically increasing levy monies from me included. Um but the drug-free

032schools program that that uh Margaret has run has been I think very effective and and important and I hope we're able to find some alternative funding for that. check. March is coming on and we had our youth arts month and it was wonderful. I I look forward to March every year because I get to see the kids artwork. I get to see the kids perform. And a highlight this year was at the high school where we had Rick's cafe, I guess it was, but where we had the um jazz band, the choir, and the drama department working together to put on a performance that was really enjoyable. And it's the real enjoyment is watching kids that are so talented and what they can do given our fine arts faculty and how they bring these kids

033forward and help them to learn and perform is just amazing and really enjoyed it. And that was kind of the culmination Rick's Cafe. These are high school kids. And then this month on May 14th, we'll have a concert at Jensard Middle School of all of our beginning band students. And we can see where these kids that we saw at the high school. Go back in time where they all started. And they all started someplace. It's right here in Washington. There you go. It was a joy. Yeah. Good. Good. All right. Thank you. Have you got anything? Um, not not much. I guess I'll just say kind of um to Jim's point a little bit. Uh, so these are are tumultuous times. I guess I'm just thinking about like our community and our families and as

034the world kind of progresses, stuff they might go through. um kind of linking that to um our student achievement and and tracking that. And I guess I'm just I don't know what there is to do about it, but it's just something I think about is is how all these things kind of tie together and then kind of affect how things play out in the classroom. So, um, yeah, it's just something again that I think about, but then also our families. I know there's a lot of interest in student input and um like the classroom, but I also want to make a plug for parents and their time um and making those considerations as we're moving through the strategic planning process and considering like um when we have conferences that is a huge onus on parents.

035Um, so I just want people to consider that as well. So anyway, just my mind my head is on. Yes. Great. Thank you. Um, I got to go to JMS. I think it was last week when we did our site visit. And I have to say how impressed I was um with Mr. Foster. Um, the what was the math teacher? I forget. Uh uh Cheryl McIntyre McIntyre um you know critical thinking comes up so much when you know we're out talking to families and parents and and community members and in those classes we saw critical thinking happen so much and the kids don't even realize it and we don't realize it until you're sitting there listening to what's going on and it was just really I don't refreshing I guess just to see things that

036have been asked for, you know, for a while now, um, from parents and their kids are doing that every single day in those classrooms. And it wasn't just show for us. I mean, you can tell this is something that they start with every day and and how um, Cheryl McIntyre handled those sixth graders in math. It was phenomenal and they were learning so much. And Mr. Foster took these kids, sixth graders in on a field trip through CRG and teaching them about um thermal energy and he took them to the boiler room. It was it was so cool. So, just want to say shout out to JMS. They're they're doing awesome. Um and then thank you to everybody who came to our round table today um at Bethl Church. It was great to hear from

037different community members, um, you know, that are more grandparents, I guess, or just community members that had input and I really enjoyed listening to what they had to say. Um, other than that, um, also don't forget Stride is May 17th. If anybody wants to volunteer, please reach out. I'm the volunteer coordinator, so Oh, gotcha. All right. Um, but other than that, I think that's it. Okay. Well, I've got a few things that I want to discuss and I although I don't have a slide for this specifically, I thought the listening tour today and the attempt to try to combine it with our strategic planning activity and less, thank you for taking notes. it, you know, this was the first time we had done something like this and so it kind of worked. As far as

038we did get some information from those in attendance, I know there was there 12 people that that were there. Trust me, I think I heard that number and I just so appreciated the discussion and how uh that that happened and and that we stayed in a large group that was great and the feedback that we received and the input and I've been in communication with an individual who was there and so it just I there's an opportunity every time we do this to make a connection with someone and I think there's going to be some scheduled meetings coming up of people who uh didn't we didn't quite finish or maybe they just didn't feel you feel uh comfortable to share everything they thinking about but we are open to to having those conversations continue. So

039thank you for being there. All right. So, a couple things and you actually have the the slide sheets in front of you uh black and white. And so, the first one this I get to participate in this Biztown mock interviews at Hathaway and they were so interesting. I have never done this before. I'm not sure actually if it happened before. No, it's the first time. The first time. And so, I was there with a few other staff members. We were interviewing mostly fifth graders. That's what I was thinking. They were all fifth graders in preparation for Bistown, which is something that our kids look forward to. Fifth graders look forward to Bistown. And I know this because we were at the high school and we were talking to some sophomores and we were talking about

040things that we should continue to do and they said BisTown and we didn't get to do Bistown because uh in 2020 when we shut down for COVID, we were fifth graders and we didn't get to do Bistown and these students were really frustrated to this day about that. and I want to see how we can I can work it out so they can go up to this town. I love that idea spring. So anyway, um so this was really a great experience. Uh here are the pictures. Uh there I was interviewing a student, but we actually had some fourth graders because we have a four five combo and one of my questions was what are you planning to do in the future? Like what are you doing next year? And I thought he was going

041to be going to sixth grade. He was like fifth grade I guess. you know, so it was just like this really amazing real life uh experience and they had resumes and I just thought it was such a great uh way to organize and prepare our students. And you know when we talk about this when you hear out in the community that how are the schools doing it? How are they how are they getting students ready? This is a great example of how we were getting them ready and they would come in and they would introduce themselves and they and we we we assessed them on their handshake and it was our eye contact and they say thank you at the end. So all of these things were on a rubric and we were just checking

042off and and then making a final decision on whether they were we should hire them or not. Uh where they they need additional support and they were some of them were wearing jackets. It was just phenomenal. So my kids still talking about it and I I really think that that is something that that that happens at Hathaway. I think that's something that should happen in all of our buildings. It's it's that kind of event. It's like the toolbox build. Uh we did have the we hosted the industry fair. I'm not sure if any of you um have ever attended that before. I've gone the last couple years. It's something that that we we go back and forth. We hosted the campus hosted. This year we have about 175 participants. You know, we really had a

043bad weather day. There were some tornado warnings. Uh there were some seriously dark clouds. So I think some people did stay uh home because of that. There was a concern early on, should we cancel? We said no, we're not going to cancel this. Is too big of an event. We had 35 plus vendors or local businesses there. So it's just a great opportunity for our students and our community. Again, this is not just something for students. We had adults who were there looking for work. I was talking to adults looking for work, making connections along with our students. And so the picture on the bottom right that was really that was all about healthc careers that was a breakout uh that was facilitated u by one of the aas employee who happens to also be

044my neighbor who worked at HP uh Mr. Ed Newman and he's just a phenomenal resource for this community working with students and getting them ready uh for what that next step is. So just a phenomenal event that we do uh again not just for our students but for our community. So as you said Satie Strides coming up right and what you see there in the bottom left of that first picture on the left is the new stride uh graphic which will be on the t-shirt and then the student that um that one uh we we chose uh her artwork and then you see our principles there. This is a Saturday. Uh we have building uh administrators who are there helping out. Appreciate their dedication. And on the right, what we do have for our youngest

045runners is we have high school students who are in the front and the back making sure that they complete the course. We don't want to lose anybody on the course. Yeah. So it's a phenomenal event. So if you have a chance, please participate. This is one of the I think largest fundraisers for the schools foundation. Yes. Amazing partnership. Uh, speaking of the foundation, their grants, there's an April 15th deadline for their creative classroom grants. Those are for our staff. So, it doesn't have to be a teacher, it can be uh a principal, it could be a superintendent could complete one of those. And I actually did and uh we received it. So, this is for an event that's coming up with for fourth graders. So, uh pretty excited about that. appreciate the partnership with the

046schools foundation and their desire to help us and in their creative classroom grants. So, in order for us or a recipient to receive this, it's got to be creative. It's got to be something new. This isn't something this isn't replacing or supplanting something we're currently doing. This has got to be a new innovative project. And so, we appreciate that as well. Skills USA, this happened during spring break. So, here we have Gavin. Gavin received second place in plumbing. And so Gavin's the one on the left on that uh the the pictures on the left. That's Gavin in action. And then you see him receiving his uh his reward for getting second. Uh pretty amazing opportunity for our students. Thank you Margaret Rice. Thank you uh to our our CTE teachers uh and the individuals that

047support Skills USA. Uh Brandt Manel was the teacher that that took these students uh during spring break during his spring break to compete. So here you see just some pictures in action. There's some more pictures of of our students. Um the top picture is Mr. Manel and our students who competed and then pictures of them competing. And so these these careers, these jobs, there's going to be more and more of these that are that are needed and available for our students. So connecting them to this opportunity uh early now so they can decide what direction they want to go. What a great way to highlight uh students who that you know that is that's one of their uh superpowers for me. I don't that's not one of my I am not you're not very good

048not a handyman. Any one of my family members have seen me in action. I just really appreciate and applaud the effort and and uh what's happening there. Just a little TK update. So, we were on a call today with state superintendent Reichd Doll and probably hundreds of other educators. He mentioned where TTK looks looks promising. We've been saying that the last couple times. It looks promising. It continues to look promising. Okay. For this year as well as for next year, how it's capped, how that's going to be, how many years that's going to be, we don't really know. That hasn't been worked out. Probably won't know until April 27th if they finish on time. But uh Connor wanted uh to me to share that we have screened 50 students at this point. We are very

049comfortable with three TKs and you know we have a TK in every one of our elementary schools. If we end up having three next year we won't have one in every school. We haven't made that final decision on which school won't have a TK. So that is something that we're working on. uh but excited that uh the team has has screened isn't just honor they go to Hathaway and it's it's a team effort to screen these families and so when you see these the four-year-old three-year-olds coming up I was have to be there uh during the mock trial interviews and and there was some three and four year olds coming into for the screening and just adorable uh you know getting ready to to go through that process so pretty excited about that and then

050the last thing is unless shared with you the results of our budget survey that we've done I don't know how many years in a row but this is a part of our ourh budget development for next year we survey our community and these are the results so we have these four themed areas so prioritize direct student impact so I don't know if you saw the article in the in the post record about uh that was front page post record last week and that we we have some you know uh like We did last year we had some challenges with our budget and we've got uh lower enrollment so we're about 4% so we're making some adjustments to our enrollment and and and the quote in there is that we we desire to do that as

051furthest from our students as possible but when you have a lower enrollment like there are going to be some some uh certificate positions some classified positions some administrative positions as well as some other areas we've got to we got to find um some funds there uh to adjust. So, uh, staffing concerns, you know, with these reductions, what's happening with the workload, we work, uh, with closely with our labor partners on workload. We we listen to them. We meet monthly with labor partners, our building administrators, we encourage them to work with their staff and when you hear something about a workload concern, please let us know and let's see what we can do about that. And we can make adjustments, we'll make adjustments. Uh, concerns about students well-being. uh that includes uh behavior in the classroom.

052Uh that includes uh fetal poor lighting and updating HVAC system, roof repairs. So we are currently working on that. And so you know this the survey results when we looked at this and this is just a a summary. Yeah, there's a lot of detail that you know it's not included in the summary but um these are things that we have heard. These are things that we are responding to and so we appreciate the feedback that we're receiving and the last one about financial concerns and you know including raising fees for preschool. We've done that. So again we we are hearing from individuals who just like we did today that have their uh ideas and concerns you're sharing with us. Okay, that is the superintendent's update. So I think we are ready to go to capital

053projects update. Yes. So you have that it's a one pager brought back the color copy. So I was it last board meeting or was it two board meetings ago? Two board meetings ago last presented with uh our our partners with RNC. Um, and he said, "Do we need them here for this one?" I said, "No, we don't. Uh, you've got this." So, he's he's taken the same presentation and just updated it with the most current. And you kicked me off. I didn't have to do that. That was the district's uh communications technology and operations director. Um, uh, so kind of we're going to go through all six of the projects, give you kind of an update from where we were the last time we talked about this. Um with the boilers, we're um still in

054the design process of that. Um one of the things that we worked on over the last month was um looking at the high school um facility with Windsor Engineering, which is a firm that specializes in these really large um heating and air conditioning systems. um they helped us do a cost analysis of the idea of using um heat pumps at Washington High School instead of doing boilers or doing a combination of a set of those um after costing out the um change over to a system like that and then doing a total lifetime cost assuming a 20-year um kind of estimation on the lifespan of the equipment. It doesn't look like it's cost feasible um to do that. um well, we don't have the upfront money that it would cost. It would be significantly more

055expensive. Um and it doesn't appear to pay for itself within the 20-year period that we were looking at um to do that analysis. So, we're moving forward with our original plan, which is what voters had approved. Um we're looking at replacing the three boilers with two boilers. Um they'll have an equivalent um oh, it's not BTUs, it's a different name. uh but uh rating of the generation of heat that they can do. Um and uh the bids have been advertised. Um there are um u um or I'm sorry, they're not advertised yet. We anticipate bringing the purchase contract for the boilers to the to the um board at the next meeting. Um we're purchasing those directly so we can avoid kind of a markup on those devices or whatever whatever the units. Yeah. boilers. Uh

056um so the contractor won't be providing those for us. Um they'll also let them let us get them here um in time to start the work and then we'll be advertising for the installation as its own um project. The board approved the DDC controls contract um earlier today and so we'll be working with um the vendor to get them under contract and all of our um things in process and then get that work set up so that um as soon as we can um uh turn off the heating and air conditioning at the high school, we can do that and get that work started which will be after the end of the school year. Um on projects three and four, these are the security doors um or security systems to each of the schools and

057the ADA doors, the push button operators that allow people um with different accessibility needs in and out. Um we've completed the design work for that. The bids are out um and we are gathering bids from different vendors who are interested in that. Um the bids are due on uh Thursday. We adjusted the timeline to provide just a little more time that after some feedback from some of the um country companies interested in doing that. We have six or seven that participated in the um the mandatory walkthrough that we did. Um they visited each of the school sites that are impacted by the project. Um the goal there is to make sure all of them have um access to an equivalent set of information to make um you know the best bid they can and can

058also set them up to be successful um in that process. Will you remind me which schools that'll Yes, it'll be Cube Canyon, Washugal High School, the Excelsier building at Washugal High School and Gauze and then the doors project at Hathaway. Um is a separate project. So that one by that's funding that. Um and we had done the security system at Hathway three years ago maybe. Okay. So it'll bring all the rest of the schools into the same security system. uh it which is in use at CRGMS and Hway. Okay. And then our hope is that uh next fall we'll be able to do this campus. So this building, the maintenance building and the transportation office. Okay. Thank you. Um and then uh the you know the biggest of the projects is the high school room.

059Um we're continuing through the um process there. Those are um a bid that's posted on the district website. um bids are due on the 24th. Again, we anticipate that construction um might span more than one year. That kind of depends on the vendor and whether they're able to uh have a crew large enough to accomplish that work. Um we are increasingly worried about cost escalation. Um u u the recent news about uh the increase in tariffs is definitely um even more likely to impact the scope of the project. Um, our hope is to do as much of the roof and metal as we can. Um, but I am not optimistic that that's going to be a feasible target. Um, the good thing is we built into that um, uh, big package different kind of tiers

060for people to for the different companies to bid on it and so we'll have some flexibility on uh, choosing a package that fits within the district's budget. And then uh finally the flooring uh replacement projects atomway. Um so that uh we're working through the KCDA approval that the board gave us at the March 25th meeting. Um we're working on purchase orders for the carpet. We'll still be gathering some feedback from I think we've narrowed it down to the type of carpet that we're interested in for the walk up mats. That's where um the first like 15 or 20 ft that are carpeted into a hallway um that take the dirt off of your shoes and preserve the lighting of the rest of it. Um we'll be looking at some of the colors for the main

061wholly carpeted low cost and I have been gathering some additional feedback um for people so that um they like it and enjoy looking at it and it's probably in 20 years and our goal is to have substantial completion of this by September just about being able to any questions. Can we just take one minute to give a little snapshot on what we're custodial team and the uh this idea that Les and Jessica um came up with and it aligned really well with a a way to organize our our custodial team that that clean our buildings and then they'll uh historically they've done that based on their site. And so what we're proposing is uh two teams that are going to uh do the same process but each team will work on a number of buildings

062and we'll be looking at the the projects that are happening and and working with when a building is, you know, maybe they're working on the security system. We're not cleaning that building or another building. Uh and one of the ways that we think we can reduce some of our utility costs is not having all of our buildings be cooled the entire summer. And so with this plan, we're going to also be working on our HVAC systems to so if we're not in a building, then the uh the AC's not on. And so we believe at the high school, for example, it's about a $200 a day savings. And now that that is an example, the high school now, the high school may not be able to do that necessarily because there's a lot of things

063happening at the high school and we're going to need to for for the the contract. there won't be because we're replacing the building and we're going to ask people around as far as like if we're doing it. Yeah. So there's uh we may from the subcontractors like we have to consider that but the idea being uh all of our buildings using a similar process. So bringing down our utility costs throughout the summer we think is is going to be uh like a cost savings that can help us with for example uh being able to reservice all our our floors. uh each one of our gym floors are desperately need because we we haven't been doing that every year as a cost-saving measure, but it shows in our in our gym floors. So, we want to

064make sure that we have a team. We're going to have a team that's our floor team. So, we're going to have three teams. Uh and so they're going to be our custodians plus we're going to need to hire some casual high staff hopefully our current staff. They're going to want during the work during the summer to help with the floor team. So, um, and we've had typically have outsourced for our floors, but we're not going to do that this year. We're going to have them trained, have all of our custodians trained to do two floors. Yeah. So, a couple of them visited, I think, uh, Prairie High School meeting um, last winter during winter break, they went through a training process on the product that they've been using, which lets them do the gym for

065like a two to three day um, window. So, it's a much shorter kind of cure time uh, for the product. um and they were comfortable with it. Um there's a set of equipment that we have to rent for the you know period of time that they're working on it. Um but it's something that's very doable with current staff and they're excited about the opportunity to um uh get more of those done on a regular basis and be able to do that ourselves other people. So that can happen during winter break or spring break uh especially with our own team and we're not relying on a third party and sometimes you don't get the quality that you're looking for. The idea of training our staff to do this and and their uh pride in their work

066we think is going to be beneficial to us. Are the HVAC systems zoned or is it kind of high school on high school off? No no no they are they are zoned. So yeah and we and we worked on we would work on that during the summer. There was a few years ago where we didn't we actually we turned uh the heat. Yeah. Yeah. Basically the AC and so um and we heard from our labor partners about that. So we we quickly adjusted so they are zone but that's really it's really challenging and just as we talked about having the system like the systems on different programs and and they aren't necessarily always reliable um and just when the swings and temperature also you know like when it gets really hot it's just it's really

067hard it's just very challenging to cool our buildings. Yeah there there is a minimum utility cost associated with having the systems turned on. So, just like with your house, even if you're trying to just cool or heat one room, um you have this really massive system and it might have phases. So, it's not running at like 100% of its capacity, but it is still using way more energy than it takes for like a single room. And so the like the example of the custodians where there might be like one or two people in a building and they're really only in one or two spaces a day. You're cooling an entire wing of a school or one person in one or maybe two rooms over the course of that day. So it's really really inefficient. Um

068by bringing you know them into groups of like four or five people. They can all be working in a space where it's cool and the air conditioning is doing what it needs to do, but have the that system turned off in the other two or three schools, right? And then hopefully achieving that that savings of a couple hundred dollars a day. Yeah. For we also see that like they because they don't visit each other's sites. So, this will be an opportunity to see other buildings uh working together learning from each other. Uh we had a person who was responsible for supporting our custodians. That position went away this year. So this this is kind of an answer to we have two lead custodians that support the custodians, but this is an opportunity for the 260s

069who are year- round custodians to work together, be in each other's buildings. Uh I think it's a brilliant idea probably because you had it. I came up with it. So I rarely have these these moments. So um but we are excited about it. We present it to them uh right before break. They they seem to be interested in learning more about it, understanding the why behind it. We worked really hard on the why. Why is this beneficial to the district? Why is this beneficial to you as as a team and we're now working on the details of scheduling it? And then trying to figure out where are these uh contractors going to be and and how are we going to just organize that? Yeah, there's going to be a bunch of logistical phasing work that'll

070be happening this summer with the different projects. So like the flooring, we don't want people trying to clean a building while somebody's in the process of ripping up all the hallway carpet. Yeah. you know, that isn't going to be a fun experience for them and don't feel like they just clean something and it gets thrown into the shift. And we will be communicating with our staff this summer that we really want them to be uh to to be at home, not be here, not be here because of all the projects that are happening and because the air conditioning is not going to be on in every building. Just stay home. Take your laptop and if you're going to do some work, do it from home. kind of an ancillary to that. Have we realized any

071income or savings from the solar project that we invested in at the port? You know, we can look into that and see. Yeah. The investor made last year. Yes. Yep. Yep. And we'll get back to you on that. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Les. Thank you, Les. All right. Next up, we've got our athletics and update. Yes. So Brian Wild and Jake Healey are going to be sharing with you some information and Satie you had asked I think you and Brian had a conversation and you said could we have a a presentation to the board an athletic update so that's what they're here to do. So I appreciate them uh putting together a presentation. There's uh Jake's gonna uh start us off and then he has a few slides and Brian's a few other slides.

072And so if you have questions throughout, just feel free to ask those questions. Thank you. Good evening everyone. We'll share the show. Yeah. Well, yeah. Thanks for taking the time for us to share some of the great things happening with athletics. Um, so we kind of split those duties and I help out with the middle school, Brian does the high school. Um, and I think, you know, it's been a bit since I've come in, there's been some changes since we've talked, I know one of the exciting things I'll end up with an addition of sixth graders. That was something maybe two years ago started talking about. It's it's been an overwhelming since. Um, so just to run through kind of what what we do in middle school, we are part of the South West Washington

073Middle School lead. Uh, and there's there's no short way to say that. A lot of letters there. Um that league runs actually from basically us at the southern and eastern end all the way up to Castle Rock. Uh it's a growing league. So we've added Colama recently and there's a number of small private schools that also pitch in at certain seasons, basketball especially. Um and so it's actually been a really big league. It's been a lot of fun. Um we sometimes split the north and south teams when we can. Um there's quite a bit of travel at times, but it creates a lot of variety play. Um we also we have two middle schools right uh but sometimes we have one team combined. So where you see up there it says Wugle that's where we

074combine temp guard and middle room. Um so for cross country we do that. Uh we have boys and girls cross country and that includes sixth graders uh which has been wonderful. Uh and they meet at kindergarten. Um and so that was so we had a new coach this year which was it was awesome. She's doing a great job because our coach has moved on to a high school uh doing wonderful things there. Uh we have boys football uh which is also combined uh happens at Gyard as well. Uh that's just seventh and eighth. We have a wonderful group of coaches for that. Um just really awesome and they've donated their time, their money, their energy. They're committed to that program. uh they are working with the A5 school too by connecting with them trying to

075build up really a seven through 12 kind of vision for that. Um we have split girls volleyball so all this happens in the fall. It's our first season. Um we've numbers are growing in girls volleyball. It's been very popular. Uh which has been exciting. Uh that season ends and then we go into our first winter season or second fall season, whatever you want to call it. Uh but it's November, December and uh that is wrestling. Uh we tend to think of this co-ed because they kind of mix up that actually happens at Canyon. So we flip going in gym and we go up to Canyon. Um numbers have been pretty good on that as well. Um we do identify them as girls wrestling and boys wrestling times where we're wrestling each other. Uh and the

076coaches all coordinate and work at one team of coaches. Uh so we don't have a boys coach or girls coach. That's is our our head coach there. Um that with the lead family. They're they're pretty well known for their last. Um so uh then we do boys basketball at that time. Now that's been flip-flopping. Um so last year boys basketball actually came later in the winter and girls basketball first. Some of that is to give people opportunities every year for boys and girls. Um and then uh numbers were a little down in basketball for boys this year in part because it coincided with wrestling. At Canyon we saw a big dip because we had a lot of people who loved wrestling. Um and so Canyon had actually a big turnout of wrestlers and a small

077turnout and basketball and gymnard had the opposite. They had a big basketball group and a smaller wrestling group. And so it just kind of happened that way. Uh and then after winter break we come back we do knowledge bowl which is co-ed. This year we actually combined. We split typically, but we had low numbers that came in, a new coach, and some new kids involved, so we decided to just combine. Uh, that was awesome. And numbers were way up at Jim Gardenard. It's not a sport, but it is run through our league, so we consider doing a good league. Um, and we anticipate next year's split because one of the highlights that we have coming is we're going to add sixth grade to that next year. We anticipate that we will expand. Um, it's a

078lot of fun. around. I strongly recommend you go be be a reader or be involved. They're on looking for people. It's it's a ton of fun. Um and then we have girls basketball at that same time. Uh good news for the high school is their numbers were way up for girls basketball this year. Uh and one of the highlights it's on a later slide is JMS actually went undefeated for 8th grade. So a lot of success there. Um some really passionate emotions. It really gets excited to battle girls basketball. Um we are about to kick off the track and field seasoning. We split again. So CCMS and JMS run separate teams although we do tend to run our meets all happen at JMS just due to facilities better there. Uh we have pretty good numbers

079on that. Um they look to be about even from last year. Uh and that's we're still we never know, right? get a bunch of kids who turn up on Monday and go, "Yeah, I want to do this." So, those numbers are preliminary numbers. Uh, and that's an exciting one, too. And I I recommend going to those track meetings if you can. There's other community. Do you have an explanation of why the JMS track program is so much smaller than Canyon Creek or maybe we fixed it on there? Me typing too fast. Okay, fair enough. That's that's an easy explanation. You got to print out before it was fixed. Yeah, it was like No. Yeah, that would be pretty much every seventh and eighth grade. So, I looked at that ago mixed up. So, um we're

080just checking to see if you were looking over, right? No, no, no problem. Um so uh anyway some of the highlights I mentioned a couple already right knowledge bowl is going to expand we have fairly tight participation rates so through the course of the year more than multiple students participate at least once in middle school and a lot of those are multiple athletes so can you explain what is knowledgeable exactly I'm like I you were you were so on the invitations okay because I'm like I didn't have knowledge when I was So again, not technically a sport, but because we run it as a inter school kind of competition. Um, and the high school actually comes and helps like their their kids in knowledge will come down and help. But think of it almost like

081a Jeopardy. You don't have to do the like answer with a question thing, but it's a trivia contest. Oh, okay. Yeah. So the teams like they have timer like little buzzer things. They have to tap uh there's a question. Um the math ones are all super popular. Um, and they have to like come up with the answer and they have a team that can kind of somebody there's a reader who reads them the question and soon as they tap in, they understand be able to give the answer. Wow. They compete then they they do a written one and then they compete verbally and they mix them up based on how they work around that. Oh, that sounds fun. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. So, uh, what's the community support I think is a is

082a real high point at middle school. We do get a lot of partnerships with our community donations. Our boosters are integral to the success of what's going on there. They run our concessions and actually they make a good bit of money based on those concessions and they then reinvest in our our programs at school. Um and it's a lot of fun to see them. They're enjoying that. Um our coaches have been very positive. Um it's been really cool to to have those coaches sometimes connecting with the high school. So one of the highlights is we've been trying to really build bridges between the the high school and middle school programs. Um, we have a growing number of volunteers actually. So, people were like, "Hey, I want to come participate. I don't necessarily want to coach

083or I know you've got enough coaches, but we want we want to just come volunteer a bit." So, that's been really really exciting for us as well and that can be a pipeline sometimes to future coaches. Um, I mentioned the girls basketball had a lot of success. Uh and then the high school, one of the neat things, it's on the next slide, so if you want to kick to it, even though it's not a challenge at all, uh is working with the the high school. We have been doing like a crossover game where JMS came in sometimes play at the high school board. So like volleyball, basketball, so they get that little bit of taste, especially those eighth graders of what's what's to come. And that's what that picture is there. Um and that's been

084a lot of fun. And I appreciate Brian, the high school team, the coaches and everything rolling out the red carpet making that happen. Um, in terms of other challenges, I mentioned we travel far and that's that's an expense. Um, we have, you know, a lot of costs when it comes to that. We have equipment that's starting to just things that we need funds just like any program. Um, and so and I think earlier Wes had mentioned we don't know what tariffs is going to bring and all that. So, um, costs seem to be growing. Everybody felt inflation the past few years and sports is no different. Um our declining enrollment has had a bit of an impact trying to we've seen that. We kind of believe we're leveling off but it's definitely different from you

085know a few years ago when you look at the numbers. Same with the GMS. Um our our league is looking and I don't know what the impacts will be but it's sort of a unknown future. Uh we currently do seventh and eighth grade sports. They're looking at shifting more to a sort of varsity JB about that. Yeah. Um there's pros and cons to it. We're weighing in on that at our next AD meeting which is Tuesday. Um and so that that's something on the table. I don't know what will happen with it, but could present some interesting challenges in the future if that is the model to could be a decision at that county level or whatever. Yeah. asking coaches their thoughts and trying to get some feedback to the group as the other discussion

086at the last meeting. We meet four times a year and we go through that. So would that go ahead. Would that include sixth grade then? Uh it would when there's a sixth grade involved in the sport. Okay. So cross country cross country is already kind of individual in that sense. Wrestling again already weight class and kind of that. Um, so it wouldn't in the same sense that our team sports don't include. Okay. Right. Okay. Um, and then, you know, one of the challenges we have at the middle school is is recruiting and retaining coaches. Um, we tend to have a lot of employees, uh, employees, spouses, um, and parents as coaches. Uh, and so that's a challenge because you're in middle school for three years, unless you have siblings. Sometimes your parent just wants to

087coach you and then they move on. Um, sometimes they love coaches so much they move on to the high school. Um, so we have some really committed coaches and and families, but feels like we're often having a turnover that's happening just because of that. Um, so it's not a negative on the coaches at all, but it is something where we're all we're always hiring. We're still hiring. That's true with all districts basically. I think it's a middle school. It's the nature of school. Yeah. It's um middle school coaching is just a different ant. And for some of our coaches there, you know, it's a stepping stone to that glam of the high school. Um yeah, when I would say that it's probably the largest part, but there are factors where the middle school divisions, you

088know, things are separated differently. So Vancouver, you know, will generally operate within itself. Um and some of those programs run those seasons opposite the high school level. Uh so same individual could coach two teams. Yeah. And that doesn't happen with our league. Yeah. Okay. Like our football is happening at the same time with the high school. We got like I said amazing group of coaches uh and volunteers actually. It's just a huge group of really committed people. But I know a couple of them probably want to move to the high school their kids move on or just that's their goal and they'll be wonderful if they get that opportunity. Yeah. Terms of transportation, do we are we required to use the big 80 person buses for team transportation? Do we have any more efficient? Okay,

089good. Yeah. So, we try to size that. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Oh, good there. Um, and I know as uh Mr. Hansen has shared with you all previously. Um while middle school sports for the spring are starting up next week, high school is in full swing unless you're Riley and tennis where you know this the picture up on the screen is probably the one nice day that we've had over the last month. Um and so we're very hopeful that tennis will get to you know start getting their matches in both home and away. And um as is the nature of spring sports uh with all the weather and cancellations and reschedules, you start backing up three, four, five matches in a week. Um so it gets very interesting, but we're excited for the girls and they're

090excited for their season. Um so spring sports is in full board. We've got baseball, softball, track, uh unified soccer upcoming, girls golf is going, girls tennis, and boys soccer, um all out there at the same time right now. Um, as we look across the entire year of sports for Wugville High School, um, you know, I want to make sure not to, you know, over give information that that you all know, but I don't want to assume that everybody comes to athletics from the same place. Um, and so, uh, at the high school level, we're divided up into three seasons as opposed to the four in middle school. Um what the numbers you have there for you reflect what our uh final turnout was for each sport this year, including cuts, no shows, uh quitting due

091to injury, um things that took people away. The number that is not bolded and in parentheses with the Barry Bonds asterisk is last year's numbers to the best of our ability. We adopted along with the middle schools this year a new management system for athletic registration and monitoring and uh making sure that they're you know eligible and in compliance. Um it's been wonderful and it's provided us um and our community um easier access to real- time data about their athlete, about our students. Um however, um in prior years we were using different systems and so the numbers are less reliable. Okay, so I just made that note on there. Um, however, you can see there at the bottom that this year, uh, you know, so far we've had, um, more than 200 students out, uh,

092in most of our seasons with winter being the the small season where we don't have some of the larger sports to to have turnouts. Uh as we look at that in aggregate over 400 kids at Westville High School participated in our school sponsored athletes athletics this year like that that nearly half of our students who participated maybe are schoolbased sports. Uh it doesn't include you know kids who are involved in club or out of school sports or ones that are not affiliated with the school district. it doesn't um as I also noted on there you know it doesn't uh reflect our students who are in drama or the fall play the spring musical and um Jim I think you had mentioned the dinner theater um that was in last week maybe I knew it was

093on this side of the board um you know that we have so many other amazing activities that go on at High School um in addition to our schoolbased athletics and that they're all equally important, but at the state level, at the you know, the management system level, um they don't look for that data in the same way. And so often um those experiences uh don't get reflected to the same degree that we think they should. band to pep band to jazz band uh to choir through select ensemble um you know so many kids involved in so many things and uh with the various clubs and activities at Wugle High School there are also over 150 kids who are participating in Skills USA FCCLA Spanish club gaming club um all sorts of opportunities for Uh I

094wanted to also share within those numbers um of totality that we have 400 kids participate in sports. uh we tend to lose about 53 athletes uh per season and that's either due to cuts or to quitting or signing up for a sport and never showing up which is why those end of season numbers are more reflective than I think we've been last years with athlete participation. Uh of the 408 who played sports nearly 200 are multiport athletes. Wow. Doing two or more sports. In fact, we have 32 students this year um who are um participating in all three seasons of athletics. Amazing. There's a board made by a student a number of years ago high school uh for us to post three sport athletes. We don't have enough spots on how well we're gonna have

095to you increase the size if we go back to that. That's really cool. Um, quick question in terms of the seasons. Do we compete with with the club seasons as far as time of the year or typically not a good typically clubs are going to run their seasons again like offset it with school seasons? Um, which is great for that participation. Where it hurts us is when athletes um choose to specialize. Yeah. Right. I play volleyball high school ball. Um but I don't play basketball in the winter. I don't wrestle in the winter. I don't do track in the spring because I'm committed. I'm a I'm very serious about volleyball, but I'm gonna play volleyball the rest of the year. Uh we as a as a high school participate in the Greater St. Helens League.

096um a much easier acronym that Mr. Haley has to deal with. Um and I wanted you all to know who that represents for us because there's a lot of high schools in Washington. Um so our league is an 18 league down one team this year with um the reorganization in WIAA with uh the new four-year cycle. Uh we're still competing with Barry Long, Hawinson, Mark Morris, Woodland, Columbia River, Richfield, and Bay. Uh when we look towards state qualifying, we are part of district 4. And District 4 is a combination of our Greater St. Helens League and the Evergreen Conference north of us um which covers the uh Centriia to Olympia area and then goes out west a little bit. Uh with the reorganization of teams, uh the Evergreen Conference is down to five, we're down

097to eight. That puts us in an interesting um number configuration when it comes to state allocations. And so whereas previously over the last four years, we've had four um seeds or four uh qualifiers that would come out of district play or um state tournaments. That's now going to be uh four and three. So in offsetting years, one year we'll have four bids, the next year we'll have three bids uh to go to state, which you know impacts how we can get there. Um the different configurations of district 4 also mean now that for most of our tournaments, not only will be we be pigtailing uh where our fifth place team will fight against Everrange's fourth place team or that spot, but we're now also doing that with our sixth place team and Evergreen Conference's third

098place team. So it gives Greater St. Hinsley, a great opportunity to have more representation. Um, it's giving kids more access to uh potential postseason experiences and opportunities. Um, and you know, allows us to continue. Just kind of a naive question, but a regular season we would play same volleyball seven games against or seven matches against each of these other seven schools within our league. And that's extent of the season or do we also have games against? Yeah, great question. So, we will um so it's it depends by sport. Um there are different caps for how many games are played for each sport. Um using you know volleyball as an example. So it's an 18 league. We've got seven competitors. We're going to play each of those teams twice. So that actually is going to give

099us 14 of those games. I believe off the top of my head, volleyball is either 18 or 20 game season limit, which then means um as teams and as athletic departments, we're looking for non-week matchups or ones that don't count towards that postseason play uh but help give us more experience, competition, and variety. And are you successful in getting those out of the league competitions? I mean, actively participate in that kind of stuff. We are. Are we successful in getting ones that aren't far away? Sometimes it's a little bit harder. Just cur um with the with the reorganization, I will say, you know, this this last year um the 3A teams have been very motivated and very interested in competing with us. And so last year we um for football, we started off our season

100against uh Mountain View and Prairie respectively. Um, and those were easier things to get so that we weren't having to travel up to Lacy to, you know, farther parts of the state. Um, for that competition, some notable results uh that I wanted to be able to share with you all tonight. um got up there things that I'm going to highlight uh from the fall season which is the lefth hand column uh in golf uh our our boy golf golfers um took not only second in league but second in district 4 and we had the individual district 4 champion in Mason Aker which meant he had the lowest combined two round score of all 80 golfers who participated in according to District 4 in the tournament and he's going to lead uh our Wugal contingent of

101three golfers to state this spring uh where they are going to look to defend that second place state finish that they had last year. So we're very very excited for the golfers. Uh we had postseason play for football uh who qualified for the the new um state round of 32 redistribution. Volleyball. Um entered into the district tournament uh as the fourth seed. Uh had some great matches. Didn't make it out of the district tournament, but we're really really proud of the girls. Um, and we sent two boys and a girl to the state uh cross country meet. We also are going to be sending a doubles team. Uh, Austin Matter and Evale. Uh, I think both seniors now, I apologize. Uh, uh, one of them is junior. Um, but, uh, they'll be headed to University

102of Washington again uh, this year as, uh, uh, state doubles. In the winter season, uh, boys and girls basketball both made the, uh, district tournament. Uh, our boys had their best finish in a number of years with a fifth place finishing league. Um, that put them into the pigtail against Aberdine. Um, we had a great double header of boys and girls, pigtails against Aberdine. Both both of their squads came up to High School. Was a great night. We won both of those um games and we were into to district play. So great great experience for our basketballers. In wrestling we sent a total of what 14 athletes, five girls, nine boys to the state tournament, Matt Classic they call it. And we walked away with two state champions. uh in 120 Victoria Nasio uh and

103Aaliyah Vargas at 145 state champs from Wukal. Very very proud of them. Very excited for that. Our unified basketball team uh finished first in the uh division two um which is teams from the Greater St. Helens League as large as Battleground Prairie finished first, went to the state tournament and finished third. um division 2. If you have not had a chance to make it out to a unified competition before, so highly encourage it. It's an amazing um just amalgam of joy and athleticism and camaraderie uh between athletes and partners. And we will be hosting the district soccer tournament this May um 24th maybe. I can get back to you on that one though. Uh so all told uh for fall and winter we had 27 first and second team all leaders. Uh we had 26

104individual state participants and two team state participants. Uh and we're excited to to have more of that with uh this the spring's turnout celebrations and challenges. Uh celebrations first. Let's let's start with dessert. Um, you know, always, you know, first and foremost, thank amazing thanks to the parent volunteers and the staff volunteers. And you talked about the staff and the parents and the, you know, the the wives of male, you know, coaches or staff members and vice versa. uh who come out and support uh our athletic programs through concessions, through ticket sale, supervising, um organizing senior nights, volunteering, helping out, fundraising, um transporting, um not in the general, but you know, transporting sometimes their athlete back home or taking them to other special events. um who are there to cheer on our kids and to

105support them and be positive spectators um and who come out and coach. Just an amazing thank you to to all of them because we we truly um can't run successful programs without uh without the support of everybody. So big thank you to them. um other um celebrations. Our community, our community who comes out and cheers our teams on. Our community of neighbors who put up with us on a Friday night. The lights are, you know, bright and and blaring and there's music and and cheering and um you know, all that celebration. uh to alumni who come out or who help run um foundations and booster groups, grandparents uh who come out and sit at the the far end of the softball field and watch their granddaughter from distance. um businesses um who have supported us

106both financially or in with inind contributions or who even just reach out and want to have a a piece of Wugula High School within the business or want to have their business, you know, um show up at a piece of Wuga High School. Just, you know, so many wonderful things going on community that started. um our amazing student athlete leaders. We we truly have some amazing kids who lead by example who are mentoring and instilling incitement and joy in the younger ones who you know who we call future Panthers, right? We have summer youth camps that uh our kids lead. Um, our girls basketball team came up to uh an event at Canyon Mitt um in support of middle school girls basketball. Uh, you know, they as I note on here, and I hate reading

107off those slides, but they they represent um they represent Wugle High School, they represent the Wuga School District, and they represent the city in Wugal in amazing ways. and we're we're so so proud of that. Um the amazing athletic experiences and accomplishments that I highlighted throughout this already and of course, you know, anytime you you you have such a big system, there are challenges. Um and some of our biggest challenges are logistics, right? Do we have enough buses um to run drivers? Do we have enough game workers? Do we have volunteers to cover the various things that are needed? Do we officials? Do we have a shortage of officials in our our area? It's been a a big push over the last several years, right? Officials are leaving uh because sometimes of how they're treated.

108They're leaving because people are busy. They're leaving for other ventures. Um it we need we need more officials. Um and so WIA has made a strong push. There's some great training uh systems for that. Um but we um we are successful off of this and it is it's hard to get all of these things sometimes our fields and facility space has done a great job of of maintaining um and and taking care of their things. Um but our our facilities are aging. Um our track and our football fields and our you know gym floors, those are um all things that um will get old and and will continue to break down and are um expensive to to uh replace. Uh program growth and and limitations. So, we talk about, you know, the age of facilities,

109but also the number of facilities. Right now, we're running a our student interest, our athlete interest because we want more kids to be involved. And so, we're getting feedback from kids at the high school and middle school levels of are you participating? What are you participating? If you don't participate, why don't you participate? What might cause you to participate? What what sports would you want to see? Um and as we get that we get you know very good feedback u from our kids and from our families but as we look to the feasibility and trying to add those things uh we have space constraints right one thing that has been very popular in the survey so far has been lacrosse wondering about what came up in that survey. Great. You know, lacrosse uh well, we

110at at Washable High School, we have one field that services unified soccer, uh boys soccer, girls soccer, football, track and field. Um you know, trying to navigate or splice time for lacrosse or flag football, um you know, other sports uh is difficult with the number of of fields that we have. You know, the same would go indoors in the the fall. We could be running volleyball. Um we as Wua High School might have open gyms for other activities like basketball and how do you um you know create all those spaces to fill those needs that we know trying to fill in athletics. Um and then partner facilities. Uh Orchard Hills Golf Club has been an amazing partner to Wash High School and Wula School District for years and years and years and we are so

111blessed and and so grateful for the um the access that our golfers have had. Um and um because we've been so blessed with those facilities, our programs have flourished in gold and are now kind of hitting the point where it's creating some size pressure back on the club, right? To they can't necessarily help us with their developers or you know the to give up that much time and space. And so we just need to be um always mindful and considerate and be taking into account um those partner relationships and how to continue to um steward them and honor them. Um swim is another example. Uh there is a dirt qualified swim facilities in the area and it doesn't get uh any easier each year. Uh but so how we um how we're able to access

112those things uh is a is a challenge for us. Um lastly, you know, you think about all of this and how do I try and scale this into a single piece, I wanted to share with you and talk with you very briefly about goals and purpose. Um, and Tony Dun uh, who for whatever reason always want to refer to him as the late great Tonyy's energy, but he's still very much alive. He's just retired. U, he he said once um, the goals have a beginning and an end, but purpose doesn't. Purpose is what we live. And in school-based, educationbased athletics, uh, we I want us to do a better job of identifying our goals and our purpose. But our goal is that we're gonna, you know, we're going to plan and prepare and we're going

113to play to win in everything that we do, in every challenge that we face as individuals and as teams and as groups. But winning isn't our purpose. It's not why we do this, but why we do this is because we want to make help, you know, develop great adults. We want to develop character skills. We want to for students to have a sense and to create a sense of belonging in them and we want them to make memories and lifelong relationships. And I played sports all through high school, not because I was going to become a professional athlete. And I did not become a professional athlete. Uh but I remember certain coaches. I remember certain teammates and I still connect with some of those individuals. U and and that's what I want for each one

114of our kids when they leave here. It is it is such an important piece of why we do this uh that we're not going to measure our success on wins and losses. We're going to measure our success as teams, as a program, as an athletic department, and how well we are achieving these um purpose outcomes. Thank you all. I really overshot my time. Just don't. Thank you for Thanks. Yeah. And certainly want to give you all time to ask questions if there's any left. You have been very thorough. Thank you. And and you Yeah, you asked questions throughout. I appreciate the ask for the presentation. Thank you for putting together the data. uh and and to finish Brian with the purpose and so I think you know there there's something that uh our students look

115forward to every day and for some of them it's it's athletics others you you've identified some other activities that really that's what they are looking for every day is that is that experience and those connections and all of the events and the activities you've described are funded through our our community's support the levies all of it there. The the state does not provide funding for these types of activities that are so important. And Brian did a really good job of identifying a purpose uh for the work that we do. Uh championships are great, but yeah, they're they're seldom uh do they happen. It's those experiences and those those those friendships that are made and the skills that are developed. So, great presentation. Thank you. appreciate all the information that we're tracking that information and we're

116seeing in some cases participation going up in some cases participation not going up and we are looking at you know why that is and encouraging uh as much as possible to to figure out solutions to those some of those those issues. So, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Thanks so much. All right. I don't know if you want to stand up, uh, move around a little bit. Uh, you just keep going where we've been sitting for it. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Yeah. So, the so the next item is a discussion about the board retreat which would be in July. Yeah. So I am interested in getting your thoughts and probably will share with you kind of what I have developed as kind of some some planning uh points on what do we

117want that that time together to be about like what what is the purpose identifying the purpose and how much time do we want to we can get into the details of like how much time uh the location find the date that that works for for all of us and then figure out like what do we want to spend our time together during and focusing on. And so I have some ideas like it it could be our strategic plan for the next six years which by July we will have identified uh certainly the the themes and really probably identified the direction we want to go whether we want it to look like our current or is it something completely different. So it could be a strategic plan. We could organize training or a PD opportunity for

118the board. So we could have a gas tube come in. I think the board has had that previously working with WASDA. Someone who could support a specific area that maybe you would be interested in. And again, I could I could send something out to you to get just your ideas around you think would be the the not only the purpose I could help frame that, but then what specific areas would you want to focus on and probably provide some of the ideas that I have? Uh because it could be, you know, be spend time looking at data. we could spend time again having Wazda help us with some of the the structures of our meetings. So, um I didn't think we would do a long discussion today, but just I I thought I could send

119something out to you to get your feedback. Uh, and that would also be around the dates in July. That would probably work best for I think now's the time to try to find date. Okay. Vacations are being planned and right, you know, we may not even be able to find a date when all of us can attend. Yeah. This point. So, it's a good time to start on that. Okay. Well, then and a questionnaire. I'd like some time to think about what Great. Yeah. I have some ideas about so I'll I'll send that out this week some sort of a questionnaire survey to get your ideas and then the idea of uh doing something here uh in district and spending you know I think a couple hours together um I I have not been a

120part of a board retreat so I don't know if it's you know we spend the whole day together uh we could certainly do that um if that that worked for do um to your point, Jim, like making plans for that. Yeah. And for a day like that, the commitments that that requires, right, especially when uh maybe you have something already planned. So, uh, as I'm looking at July, and it's it's it's really, uh, probably good to stick stay away from the first week of July as July 4th is is on a Friday, and so people have a tendency to do, you know, have some plans unless you wanted to do something like like very early like the first or second. Are you ruling out August? Uh no, other than we have not ruling on August,

121just other than uh we have two board meetings start meeting again. Yeah. Scheduled in August and so that would be a third it could it would be a third event or or meeting or uh we you know where we use one of the August dates for the retreat. There is um the board PB already planned for the first meeting of August. Okay. Yeah. And that is 12. So right now we have a 4 to 6 PD on the 12th of August and then our regular uh than a board session. Would that work for you though? Would that work for you? as long as it's already that be your preference. I don't have a preference. Yeah. I don't Okay. Okay. And I think too it kind of depends on how much we have, you know, once

122we kind of all say what we're looking for. It could be, like you said, it could be a two-hour thing. It could be a half a day, right? Depending on what it is. I think refining the objectives. Okay. and and reaching consensus somehow on on what what we all think we'd like to get out of it would be really valable change input to so maybe we might have to hold out on the date until we kind of figure that out but I I can say I'm going to be gone from July uh 20th till well yeah from the 20th until the end of July right okay um so already things and people so some before the 20th for for me. Yeah. Or August. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm free the beginning of July like until about

123when Jim is too. Okay. All right. So, I'll put together a questionnaire and then I might propose some dates. Yeah. And then I'll maybe propose some lengths of time. Okay. And then Yeah. At the next meeting we'll discuss like kind of an update on Yeah. Yeah. And I mean I'd like to think about I mean there are things that have come up over the years I've been on the board where it would have been great to have a retreat to talk about. Right. But I don't have on the top of my mind right now. Absolutely. Okay. All right. That's that's good enough for me for a start. On to our uh resolution 2024 257 which is the modified educational program. Um it's the draft or screening. Yes. Okay. So this format looks very similar to

124last year where we had two of these modified educational program documents. So uh there's some similarities. There's there's a few differences. So um you know um you've had a chance to look at it. Yep. I think um if you go to the uh fourth whereas paragraph uh one thing I want to point out is uh at least 6%. So our board policy minimum of 6% um I included at least 6% based on conversations we've had as far as the the ending fund balance. Then going through if you get down to the the now therefore and we start to get into by personnel groups we've we've got ranges and that's because we are in the process of determining based on groups um you know uh individual positions. So we are we've been working with communicating with

125individuals. uh we are going to continue to do that if they're impacted as I had shared earlier we believe that through attrition we're going to realize many of these positions and and the savings individuals will be moving around and uh as a goal that that's been identified to to avoid impacting the classroom as much as possible um we we need to make reductions in our search staff our classified staff and so individuals again may not be in the same positions but they will be uh with us and so we've just recently posted positions and that's a part of it based on retirey retirements and regulations. So, we posted positions. So, the process has started and so we will see and we will update you along the way um as much as we can regarding uh

126the how it's going with with our labor partners and how uh the the you know the plan that we are going we're processing through right now uh how we think it's going to end up. So feeling pretty good right now about the communication working with labor partners uh that this document uh which is is necessary. Um and so it also something that we've been asked to be transparent and so u I think this this does that and allows uh this is about you know that the goal is about a 1.5 million uh worth of reductions that we're looking for. Uh we're still waiting for our legislative uh legislators to uh finish the process on April 27th to see um you know what the end results going to be from decisions they're going to make. Yeah,

127I I see consideration of athletics and extracurriculars on this and I just out of another ignorant perspective I just don't know. Do we currently charge any? We do. Yes. So, we do we charge a we charge a fee and there's if Brian mentioned multip uh athletes who participate in multiple sports usually uh and I off top of my head you know it's it's on our website maybe you can help with that is it each sport 75 75 per se okay thank you and do we buy uniforms and stuff or do the individual students and their families buy uniforms they don't buy uniforms so uniforms would be purchased through the school by either through Okay. Fundraising efforts by the team but all as part of the school. Okay. Yeah. So, so through those participation fees and

128then gate, right? So, for example, middle school, we aren't currently charging a gate, but if we started to do that, which teams in our league could do that, there would be a benefit to that help mitigate the cost of referees uh and other expenses. So that is something we are we'll be presenting to you this spring that we'd like to do that. Now it's it is challenging with some sports because of our venues and how do you do that uh to get them to come through the gate. So we are we're in the process of uh like discussing that. We'd like that. I will be presenting that to you later this spring, but we do have a participation fee. And it might be valuable if you're going to propose cutting sports to see a spreadsheet

129or a balance sheet of how much a given sport costs, how much it brings in. Yeah. How much we save by cutting sport A versus B if we have to cut sport. And we don't start Yeah. Thank you. And yeah, we typically the progression we and we did we did we reduced assistant varsity coaches for this year. We had varsity coaches and then a varsity assistant coach. So for a number of sports we eliminated that position. So we don't start with eliminating a sport. We start with reducing can we reduce some of the staffing. Yeah. And then you think about maybe through transportation as Jacob and Brian talked about the cost of of fuel and the cost of uh transporting our student athletes. Uh other districts have made the decisions to do like you know

130drop they go to the to the activity and then families pick up. So we will be looking at and that's that's I wanted to have in here more to say that we yeah we we are considering all of our expenses including athletics and activities. I guess as the financial situation solidifies will we be able to kind of see sort of Yes. the numbers. Yes. Yeah. And is there a deadline to to approve this? Well, we uh the ask is Yeah. At our next at our next board meeting is the deadline. Yeah. That you would approve this this particular model basically. Yes. Y and there is a Yeah, there is a a May 15th deadline for us uh with our with our CDA and statute uh if we were uh ripping or laying off certificated staff.

131Okay. Again, I don't that isn't that isn't the plan right now. Yeah. And it's another reason to have ranges is because there are things that are out of our control, right? And and we, you know, again, there's things happening right now where we don't know what the impact's going to be on the cost of um items that that we need and we're bargaining with our all of our labor partners this spring. So, those are those are other uh things that are happening that we need need to consider. Okay. Okay. Um, anything else on that one? Anybody? Okay. Um, we're on to um our executive responsibility 8, the financial administration. Yes. So, as we have done with other ERS, u really, uh, Shaliss is here if you have any questions based on executive responsibility 8 financial

132administration. And so, she's she's here to ask question or answer questions. feel like I need to ask you a question because you've been here this entire time for the whole week. I don't have any questions. Oh, I I don't have any questions, but I have a Thank you for doing a great job. Happy to have you. Okay, let you go. That was worth it. Yeah, I used two fingers. I have a question. Number two, maintain and protect the minimum maintenance of funds balance in an amount. Does that mean during the year that we always have at least 6% or does that mean we end up the year with 6%. Um the fundamental policy I believe is ending the year at that. Okay. But you are trying to maintain it throughout the year so that you

133can end the year at that. Sure. But I but there's times during the year when you cannot maintain it. Yes. But that that's reflected in that days of cash on hand or whatever financial score. Yeah. And and we heard today on a call with state superintendent Reichd Doll about uh aortionment and and when that uh can you give a little bit of detail on the state aortionment they come out with their pretty much trend of how we're getting the money. So we get 12% one month 6% another one month and so on. It fluctuates every year. part of their idea to eliminate their deficit is to change the percentage of when we get our money because then they're moving that expense into a different year for the state. Um, the current plan is to get

134more of our funding at the end of the year instead of at the beginning of the year, which helps the state's budget, but as we see our DIP is in the middle of the year. Oh, so it's not beneficial for the districts because you mainly need the money during the school year, not at the end of the year, right? When the students are gone. So we will be tracking that and as in the next board meeting, Shalice will give you an update on March and the the graphics that she shows. So yeah, you you know, so that is something that is uh concerning and we will be and Shalis was aware of it. uh that this was the first time I had heard that's a possibility and so we will uh be tracking that making

135sure we have that fund for the dip possibly be a larger because of when we get our money the state acknowledges that that is a one-year solution or can't do that year after year but for the state it's solution for this their budget because their pension here is different than ours Although it moves the money for them to a different I would hope they would when they're digging stu like schools for you know all those metrics that they take that into consideration you would think but yeah that's worth a lobbying effort because yeah I mean that will require for every district they're going to have a deeper yes and I I still Hope we're able to not have to borrow eager to pay falling all of our steps. Um, and this is something that could

136happen every year. Yeah, it's in their current budget and then the year down the line they could decide to switch up the percentages again. And do they give notice? We normally know by the time they're done with their legislative session, okay, how we're getting our state aortionment. Okay. by the president. This is the first time. It's normally a little bit different every year, but this is the first time it is within their plan to move a lot of the money forward and it's a two-year budget when they approve it. I believe it's just a year. Okay. Two year. Yeah. The legislature doesn't. Yeah. Okay. And we'll know more. We have another meeting with the state superintendent a webinar soon in a month. So we you know as we get uh clearly we'll know at the

137next one what uh what's going to happen. Can I ask whether the the state superintendent's office is feeling optimistic about money next for the next year or two? I don't know if I'd say optimistic. I think the the the amount of the budget that's for education, it looks like it's going to be a similar like percentage of the budget, the state's budget. And as we talked about like TK that's a that's helpful, right? Special education looks promising, right? I think it's in the other categories and we're not we're not sure and because there Yeah, there's right now there's, you know, two different budgets and and so I'm not exactly sure that that that is Yeah. the next three weeks we will we will learn a lot more. Yeah. And so then I think in some

138cases optimistic but others not so much. And again what was mentioned today was like what's going to be the impact as we talked this morning what's going to be the impact of the current decisions that are happening um on a global level, right? And how's that going to impact us and and um our our purchases and items reported to us? Yeah. Okay. So, we are on to the next executive responsibility number nine. And so, Les is gonna remain over there in that spot. And so, I just similarly uh if you have any questions about uh executive responsibility number nine, uh please uh this is your chance. I did I did have a question on the facility plan. I know I keep bringing that up, but are we planning to update that? We are. That's a

139Yes, we are. We were just discussing it. And so I'm in the process of taking our current one, updating our current enrollment. Um, what it's not going to have is it's not going to have because the last time we did this, we worked with a demographer and it's it's not going to we're not going to use that data. I'm I'm in the process of determining what data would we use to help with our forecasting our enrollment. uh the next six years. Um Les and I were just discussing quarter discussing uh and one of the things that has come up is uh our classroom. So defining what's a what's a a teaching space, what's a classroom. So we want to make sure that we add to this document that definition and then um how are we

140determining that information so it's more I guess consistent throughout building. So that's that's where we're at. So we're in the editing phase right now and then once we have uh it up to date then we'll discuss I think u the next part of it would be that the important information on improvements that we're looking for. Yeah. And where the the funding is going to come for those projected improvements. Okay. So we're working on it. Anybody have questions? Okay. All right. We are on to policy 1250. Um it's our students on governing boards first. I'm excited about So you and I have talked about this for a while and I I'm excited. Corey has been so helpful with putting together uh all of our policies, new policies, revisions from so we get it from Lana and

141you look at this specifically and uh the the edit that I was was discussing uh earlier was so this the at least two students so that number and again this is that that this is um up to the clearly up to the school district and it's it varies from district to district going to different policies examples and then the the in The second paragraph, when student representatives are on the agenda, I have consistently struggled with the idea that they would be here at every board meeting knowing all that our students do. And many of our students, if they're not doing a sport, and sometimes when they're doing a sport, they're also working. They they work, they're very busy. And so, we do want their input. we want them to to share with us but we

142also I don't I want to be um you know just considerate of of their time. So uh this is the first reading. I don't know if you have any questions uh other than what uh is highlighted in green. It is the model policy from WASDA. I think Go ahead. I appreciate the not just taking what WASDA sends out but going through it and making sure that it fits us. Yes. That's not been always the practice. Yes. Yeah. Thank you for doing that. I will tell you that that is something we will always uh look at the policy and to make that determination and sometimes there's there's quite a bit of discussion that happens uh in making that decision. Uh you know um there there is a procedure with this one. You just don't you don't

143have the procedure. So that will be something we will um we'll work on for the uh the near future. Uh having the procedure seem like the procedure and and working through that. Um, it it's just good to have both to look to look at both. In terms of once a month, I like the way it's worded. It might be once every two months. I mean, you know, actually, it could be Yeah, it could be it could be in August. It could be both dates in August and because they're more available, but Yeah. And we can prep them in in in those opportunities. having their input. I mean, their attendance is a cost and getting the most out of that cost. Yeah. As opposed to charging them every month. Yeah. For example, whatever. Yeah. All right.

144So, then we go to the next policy 3424 opioid related overdose reversal. So, uh, this is an update. Um, you see on the first page, um, just the the, uh, revisions, striking out some language, uh, adding some some text. If you have any questions about those additions, uh, significant adjustments on the second page. So, um, again, you've had a chance to look at it. Uh what's highlighted just pointing out that if a student has nlloxxone, we are not going to confiscate the nlloxxone, right? And we are supportive of our students having nlloxxone um for the for the reasons that they're going to use it, right? And this is uh something that uh is impacting us on a on a national scale uh here uh in in in our in you know locally uh it's it's

145an impact in Clark County. So I I I am very much supportive of this uh these revisions and you know that some of the challenges with getting every student uh really even staff member to have enough nlloxxone like we have nlloxxone there's a cost to it right? So, we are, you know, um, and it's something that does expire. So, we're in the process now of of updating the lock zone that we have for, uh, for for next year and then, uh, getting our students trained, our high school students. Oh, okay. Providing opportunities for them. So, we're working with Unite. You mentioned Unite. So, we are working with Unite in trying to how how can we do that? What's the best way to support that happening? Can I ask a a challenging question? How often do

146our school sites have the need to use no lock? That's a really good question and off top of my head and I would say very uh seldom. Uh I don't know that that we've actually uh in like this year that that that's something we dealt with or last year that we've done that we've done that uh had to had to uh have someone use nlloxxone on someone who was overdosing. Yeah. I think the when I when I what I mentioned was like the statistics in Clark County. Yes. No. And and and and when we've had we brought in a guest speaker a couple years ago at the high school uh we did a presentation to the board a few years ago. Uh just the the statistics the increase uh locally. Yes. Uh but really great

147question and and I can you know I can verify that but I don't think that that has been something that we have in the school district. But but I know Yeah. And I could also ask what the Washington Police Department and and get their perspective and within the city. I mean, I just don't know. My experience I I shared at the ER was having over that little period of time and waited two hours four different um drug overdose issues. Yes. And I I think I've shared with the board before. I had a a cousin who who died of a an overdose and had had uh he had it multiple times that it happened and the first time uh nlloxxone saved his life and then uh it didn't the second time and it's it's multiple doses

148that that are necessary. I carry it too. I mean I carry it in my purse just to be I had the training and I feel like if I saw somebody like save someone's life. Yes. Yeah. But I will verify that and and get back. I just Yeah. I don't need a hard number. I just It's not a frequent occurrence. No. So, no. Okay. Does anybody else have questions on that one? No. All right. All right. I think that's it. Do I have a motion to adjourn? I move that we adjourn. I'll second. All in favor? I. Okay. Right. 36 here.