001Hello everyone. So many people in here. This is awesome. Uh, welcome to the August 26 regular board meeting. We are going to start with the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag. to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with all espanol indicad. Uh we will now work through the agenda board. Are there any proposed changes or modifications to the agenda? All right. Hearing none, I will now move on to the consent agenda. Uh items on the consent agenda were sent to the board and posted online last week. The board has had the opportunity to review the materials and ask the superintendent any questions they have about any of the items on the consent agenda. The consent agenda for this meeting includes minutes for the 81225 regular meeting, vouchers and
002payroll, personnel report, surplus report, contracts, facilities use schedule. Is there another one? Did we add one? No. Uh, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Move to approve the consent agenda as well. >> All right. Second. >> Second. turn back on green after the second, please. >> Okay, it has been moved by Julie and seconded by Martin from the same mic. Uh, any discussion? All right, all in favor of adopting the consent agenda as presented, say I. >> I. >> No opposed. Motion carries. Um, citizen comment. Kim, we have any no citizen comments? >> We're We're sharing. Um, all right. So, Corey, special presentations. >> Excellent. We are thrilled. It is the day before the first day of school for most of our system and 9th graders at Wanche High School
003tomorrow. But, we have we've filled the room with students uh for the board tonight um in anticipation of uh school starting. So, this is exciting. Um we have our um ASB team uh here today or part of our team. You had an amazing summer and you went to um summer leadership camp. Is that correct? Okay. and they're going to they're going to tell us all about it. So, if you ladies wouldn't mind, we've got a microphone here at the podium. Um, you're welcome to jump on up there. Maybe you can do go one at a time or you can all go in solidarity, whatever you whatever you decide. There it is. You've got each other. I love it. Thank you so much for being here, ladies. Did Did you ladies have a presentation? Oh, she's
004got it. Okay. Just want to make sure. Okay. Yeah, I see it. All right. I didn't know there was one. Great. Love it. summer leadership camps. This summer, I had the opportunity to attend Mount Adams Leadership Camp at the Sispus Learning Center. Throughout a week filled with challenging activities, meaningful reflections, and lasting friendships, one message stood out above all. Leadership is influence. Nothing more, nothing less. What does this mean to me? It is a reminder that leadership is not determined by titles or positions, but by the impact we make on others through our influence. At Mount Adams, we learned that good leaders don't just create more followers. They inspire and empowers others to become leaders themselves. This is a lesson I believe we must carry into our school. Good leaders make better leaders. For many
005of us, this will be our first year serving in ASB. Having the opportunity to build stronger bonds before the school year even began has given our team a unique advantage. We were motivated to apply what we learned at Mount Mount Adams to improve our school and strengthen our community by learning to understand each other's perspect perspectives and leadership styles. We've discovered how to delegate tasks effectively and more importantly how to support one another as a team. Not only did we grow grow closer as a WACI high school group, but we also connected with students from many high schools across Washington state. We exchanged ideas, gave and received feedback, and came back with fresh perspectives that we are excited to put into action here at WHS. In closing, leadership is not just about one person. It's
006about creating an environment where everyone can grow, contribute, and shine. Our ASB team is ready to serve, ready to listen, and ready to lead with influence. Together, we will make this great this year a great year for Wanachi High School. Um, hello, my name is Melanie Tovar. Good evening, and I have the honor to serve as vice president at Wanachi High School. Uh, to add on to what Lisa said, Sispus Learning Center proved to be a transformative experience. Spending a week with 250 students created an environment where deep connections of vulnerabil vulnerability flourished. The program underscored the importance of the eight essentials, revealing how new opportunities can unexpectly unexpectedly open doors we never knew existed. Reflecting on my initial doubts about attending, I now realize how unfounded they were. What started as a hesitant decision
007turned into an unforgettable journey, and I regret not participating in previous years. It's ironic that my past reluctance almost prevented me from discovering such a valuable opportunity. Now, I also regret not striving for a larger role sooner, which would have allowed me to experience sisp and its enriching possibilities earlier. My biggest takeaway was realizing the profound impact a small dedicated group of thoughtful committed citizens can have of the world on the world. Indeed, it's often the spark that can make a significant change. Hello everyone. My name is Annis Velasquez. I'm an upcoming junior and I'm run and I'm the next ASB secretary at Wanachi High School. I had the privilege to attending Mount Adams Leadership Camp this summer as a delegate. And I can honestly say that it was a truly eye-opening experience. I walked
008in, I was it was outside my comfort zone. I was nervous. I was overwhelmed. And I didn't quite know what to expect. basically all the motions you can think of. Quickly, I realized the power of being in a space filled with passionate and driven individuals. I met so many incredible people and made so many connections that I will cherish forever and I would have never gotten the chance to do that otherwise. More importantly, I've gained new perspectives, new ideas, and new practices that I'm excited to bring back and apply to our school. I didn't just feel like a participant. I felt like I truly belonged in a community. Every conversation, every lesson made me more excited, not just about what I was learning, but about what I could bring back and do with it. My
009goal moving on from this experience is to help shape our school's environment to reflect the same positive atmosphere I experienced at Mount Adams, a place where people feel inspired, connected, and proud to be part of a community. I ca I came out of camp with the new perspective of what a community is. I want to be part of creating a community that is inclusive and welcoming to all students. We as ASB want a space to this space to be a place where people truly love coming to every day. I want students to feel the same sense of belonging, excitement, and inspiration that I experience at Mount Adams. Thank you. Hello, my name is Ten Collier and I will be serving as senior class president at Wanachi this year. I had the honor of attending Mission
010Peak Leadership Camp and this was actually my third summer now attending an AWSL leadership camp. But the theme for Mission Peak this year was believing. And I believe it truly was a camp that taught you how to do that in yourself, in everyone around you, and just in your environment. I learned about all the ways that I can change my mindset to accept my surroundings and make the most of all the opportunities which I am given. And I also learned about how to be the most productive leader in different types of leadership settings. I got to connect with leaders from schools all around the state to exchange ideas and help each other build platforms on those ideas to bring into each other's school years. So I now get the opportunity to expand on those and
011bring new events to my class this year. I think the most important aspect of camp is simply the energy there and the environment created where everyone is invited to be their fullest selves. And that is something which year after year has left me with such a strong motivation to bring that environment and create that energy at Wachi High School. This year I want to really focus on making positive memories especially for my class and bring that inclusivity and thinking outside the box from camp back into the events and the way we run things for our students at Wanachi. and I am just truly thankful for leadership camp and the more open and more positive person that it has made me. Thank you. >> Hi guys, my name is Melanie. Um I'm going to be the
012upcoming junior president and I also went to Mission Peak. Um so what I learned is how to believe in yourself, believe in your community and believe in others. So I learned at the base to believe in your community and your others. You have to believe in yourself first. Um, my freshman and my sophomore year, I was quite the opposite. And I did have some events my freshman year that kind of influenced the rest of the year. And my sophomore year, I kind of just clinged on to those and just made some grudges, which really wasn't the best. So, um, I want to use my new knowledge that I learned from Mission Peak by having faith that we can do anything. And what I mean by that is I know that there's so many students in
013our freshman year that are not let's just say that they don't believe they don't believe in themselves and their spirit. So um oh sorry I just blanked. Um um oh sorry but not only the students but also the leaders. the leaders. Um, well, this is my first year doing something like this and I'm already like exhausted. So, I just want to appreciate all the people here that have been doing it for years. Um, I know it's something hard and it's not it's definitely not easy. Um, so my goal is to bring everyone together. So, what I mean by that is, um, I have noticed in our school that there's like two separate groups. So, one of them is like ASB, like leaders, senates, whatever. um they're all like high-spirited for our group for our Wachi
014High School. And then there's another group where the students are just like super sad, super depressed, they're not um not excited for school, let's say. So, I think something that really helped me from camp is people inviting me, doing personal invites. And I know it's hard to personally invite every single person from our school, but I think with just inviting one person, it makes them feel welcomed, a lot more welcomed. and wanted to be there. So, I think that with that they'll invite a lot more people. So, yeah. Thank you. Hello, my name is Laura Diaz. I'm going to be sophomore senate president this year and I also went to Mission Peak. I don't have as many pictures, but um they're in the corner. Um for me, Mission Peak was such an incredible experience. There
015was such a diverse group of people. You got to meet so many new people and I learned a lot about how other schools around Washington lead with ASB to bring their school together and their community together. At Mission Peak, I talked to a lot of delegates and I came up with this idea like collaborating with others about Panther Palooa, which is a music festival kind of that I'm planning on getting in the works for spring where it's like our personal music department that has a lot of talented people, very diverse musics, um, comes together and we bring the community together and everybody just connects as one to support our school and support our music department and also support our community. So, I think Mission Peak really helped me get that going and learning about that.
016Um, this year, um, Mission Peak also told me taught me a lot about inclusivity. I think we had such a diverse group of kids that it was so cool seeing everybody collaborate with everybody no matter what. So, this year, I want to bring focus on inclusivity a lot more. I want to ensure that everyone has an event that is specifically catered to them because I know a lot of times in ASB we can get caught up on the social aspect and we forget to think about those students that maybe aren't as into that. So this year I really want to focus on that about having everybody have an event that they can go to. And it's so important to me that my class connects because it's going to benefit our education and our future. And
017surrounding ourselves with a diverse environment and group of people will help us create different points of views, learn more, and have so much more fun. Yeah. Um, do you guys have any questions? I go with a thank you. You there are bunch of firsts here. I don't think we've ever had six people come and report to the board. I don't think we've ever had three classes cooperating amongst themselves and creating longevity and continuity. Those are really we're grateful for your power and your dedication to show that. Uh uh I just wanted to continue by wishing you really really all of you and everybody you serve a great year. But thank you for coming six strong, three classes deep with lots of positivity. >> Thank you. All right. I I said I wasn't gonna speak. Yes.
018I have Can I borrow? I just want to say uh congratulations. I'm very proud to see you guys up there. Um I some of you guys I've known for the last several years. Uh Tegan, I mean, we got to volunteer together with baseball. Um, but I'm just I'm like Martin said, you know, thank you guys for being here, for starting your uh academic year before everybody else, putting in the time, the work. Um, and I could already tell it's going to be a great year for uh for Wachi High School in our school district. So, I look forward to uh our monthly updates. Um hopefully we'll see not just from the ASB side, but also from um the high school uh the Senate side. And I'll add like I really appreciate you guys bringing things
019that this is what we're excited about. This is what we're bringing to this year because it a lot of times it it is here's the the timeline of what things happened this month and that was that. And so you guys being this is what we're going to try and do. This is how we're trying to be inclusive is is great. So thank you for bringing that energy to the new year. >> I'll just add a huge thank you and just a quick question. So we had folks that went to Mount Adams, right? And then Mission Peak. Uh, did any of you get to interact or hang out with my friend James Layman? Did everybody? Okay. Almost. Okay. Great. He is amazing. So, he's been here to the school district in a variety of ways. So,
020but I just appreciate what what I'm hearing from everyone about belonging and inclusivity and um just and the comfort zone conversation, right? We know that comfort zones are safe and warm and great, but sometimes maybe not a lot grows in our com when you're when you stay in your comfort zone. So, thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone tonight for us. Um, and I just wish you um, you know, a great uh, school year and a great start and we're excited about those uh, monthly updates as well. So, thank you ladies very much. >> Thank you for having us. >> All right, next up we have a dream team of sorts in the back here. They've taken up the last two rows and with authority and uh and we love that. We want
021to um welcome our AEM uh students that have been going full speed this summer. So tonight we have representatives from um our first uh uh boot camp from last year and then we have our new boot camp graduates as well. So everybody's kind of here and then also our Wanch Valley College student representatives are in house as well. So, I want to welcome them up to the podium and we can get your presentation started. And gosh, thanks everybody for being here. This is a a a strong group of students tonight and we just appreciate your time. So, this is great. We also have Ron Brown here who is uh is with them as uh their advisor and uh support. So, we're just excited to hear about uh what's been happening this summer and all the
022cool opportunities that you all have had. They're Look at this. They're ready. Okay, take it. >> Hello everyone. My name is Abby Perez and first and foremost, I would like to thank you all for um giving my team and I the opportunity to be here presenting and sharing more about the AEM um movement. I will now pass it down to my teammates and allow them to introduce themselves. >> Thank you, Abby. My name is Stephanie Salgado. I'm going to be a junior at Wachi High School tomorrow and I've been an AAM for a year now and AM brings me joy. Hi everyone, my name is Isabella Garcia. I'm also a junior at Wanachi High School and I've been with AM for a little bit over a year now. Um, and my favorite thing about AM
023is the fact that I've gained a lot of confidence in um, the work that I'm doing. >> Hi, my name is Simea. Um, I'm a junior at the Wanachi High School and I'm part of the operations and maintenance program with Advanced Energy Movement. And one thing that has recently brought more and more is a big smile on my face and just happiness overall. Um, hello, my name is Meill Sonava. I'm also an upcoming junior at Wachi High School and I've been an AM intern for about a year now and I would say AM brings me a sense of fulfillment. Hi, my name is Sloan Picttal. I'm a junior at Wachi High School and I've been with AM for about a year and uh AM gives me a really good sense of teamwork. >> Hey, my
024name is Oscar Pineia. I'm a WBC graduate and I'm for around six months and this internship been teaching me a lot of real life experience. Hello, my name is Ariel Torres. I am an upcoming second year HVAC student and I have been with AM for 5 months and it has helped me improve my soft skills. Hello, my name is Ayango. I am a senior at Waji High School and I'm a new AM intern has taught me to become better in my communication skills. Hello, my name is Naveen Nyak. I'm a senior at Wachi High School and I'm also a new AM intern and AM has made me a better person. >> My name is Annie East as you guys know. Um I'm an upcoming junior at Wachi High School and AM has given me the
025opportunity to share my ideas and thoughts. Hi, my name is Rosario Navaro Vega. I'm an upcoming junior and I am an brand new AM intern. And something that AM has taught me is to turn my anxiety into excitement. >> Hello, I'm Jacob Cusk. I'm also a junior at Wachi High School. I'm also a new intern and AM has taught me to not judge things for what they look like, but to really delve in and understand what they are. >> Hello, my name is Yuriel Navos Aado. I'm an upcoming sophomore and AM has taught me to be more responsible. >> Hi again, my name is Abby Perez. I am a upcoming junior at Wanachi High School and something that AEM has um helped me with is give me a place to um apply my leadership skills.
026I will now pass it down to Sloan. Okay. Hello again everybody. Now, after all those introductions, you're probably wondering what AM is. Um, and it's a cutting edge technology solution that, uh, lets operators of buildings see their energy use and, um, lets them optimize their performance and eliminate energy waste so that they can cut costs by up to 40% without any capital investment. And we as students work inside the real buildings with professionals and solve the problems, deliver a solution that meets the clean buildings performance standard compliance requirements. We do this because it gives us a job while we're still in high school, which prepares us for a future in the workforce. And um for me personally, it helps me earn money so that I can send myself to college to fulfill my future goal
027of becoming a pediatrician. It also lets us help people and see their reactions to what we've been doing. For our commercial building clients, it's the energy cost savings and compliance with the clean buildings performance standard, as well as an improved building working environment for the occupants so that they can work better and feel better while they're doing so. For our PUB, we help them help more customers because by saving their customers energy, they can free up capacity, which they sell to places like California for a much higher price, which helps us keep our energy rates low. And they also want to support the workforce development of teenagers who might work for them in the future. for the district and college. Yes, it's also the workforce development as well as the cost savings we've had while
028working with them and um the community leadership that they've shown with um taking uh one foot forward with this program. I'm going to pass it off to Isabella now. Thank you, Sloan. So as you may know um AM interns are helping Wachi High School face their real world issue which is to achieve the six compliance regulations of the clean buildings performance standard. So out of these six regulations, we've successfully helped Wanachi High School achieve five. Um those being um implementing an energy management plan, energy tracking and monitoring, benchmarking and energy star portfolio manager, creating and implementing an energy management plan, as well as doing the same for our operations and maintenance program. The only thing that we're left with helping Wanachi High School achieve is meeting their state energy use intensity of 49. So I'm
029a part of the AM energy management team and with that you might be wondering three questions. What is energy management? Who does the work? And can AEM interns achieve compliance? So to answer these three questions, I'd love to address the three fundamental steps of energy management. It all really starts with data because you can't manage what you don't measure. So, our AM team is capable of measuring monthly energy and utility bill data as well as creating 15inute interval data reports for energy use and cost. Another thing that our AM intern team is also capable of doing is helping directly with conservation. So, our team focuses on turning off things when they're not needed. This helps us align energy use with building activity while integrating energy into maintenance. It also helps us grow an energy conservation
030culture. The only thing that our AM intern team cannot do is help with efficiency directly. So we can't directly retrofit and replace equipment. And we also can't energy audit or help with efficiency measure measures in that way. We also can't produce capital investments. Um and now I can pass it on to Rosario Naveen. >> Let's think of our schools like a giant classroom project. To do well, we have three main jobs. Lizario, you care to explain our three jobs? >> First, we need an energy plan, like a homework plan, so we use energy wisely, turning off lights and not wasting heat. Second, we need an we need an operation and maintenance program, like taking care of your car. If you don't fix things, they break, and in your case, they would waste energy. Third, we
031need an energy goal, like beating your best score in PE. The school has to keep its energy use under a certain target. That's what we call an energy use intensity. Naveen, tell them the good news. >> Now, here's the good news. If we do these three things, it cost us nothing and it cost you nothing. But if we don't, the schools have to pay fines that could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. For example, our very own Wachi High School. This is estimated projection to my right. If we don't hit our energy goals, it could cost up to over $400,000. Now, when we save energy, the money can go into things that teachers and students really need, whether that's books, technology, or extra sports equipment. Now, if we take care of our buildings,
032everybody benefits. With that, I'd like to pass it off to Stephanie. Here are here are more good news about our high school. So, up here is an electricity comparison graph. And as you can see, in March, AM started working with high school. And within that month, there was a 9% energy reduction. And as of July, there has been a 69% energy reduction, which is averaging over $10,000 monthly cost of savings. So, more good news is that there's this graph and with school restarting, AM's energy reduction has maintained over the last 20 days of August. And using last year's daily average electricity usage, which was 16,368 kwatt hours as our budget, this graph compares actual August KW to the budget, which is about 56% of reduction. And here we have a graph that is the energy
033use intensity, also known as the EUI. For the Wachi High School to meet compliance, we have to hit the target of 49. And this the Wachi High School has been at 100 up until March when we started working with them. And since March up till July, there has been a 14% reduction which puts us at 86. And we are averaging a drop of three and a half units each month. And if we maintain this average, then we will hit target by May 2026, which means we're in compliance. Passing it on to Anna East. Thank you, Stephanie. Now, I'm going to be talking about energy tracking monitoring for the Wachi School District Schools. Energy us is being tracked through AM AM Consil's utility bill management system. This system tracks electricity usage, gas usage, and cost. This
034database is then synced with energy source portfolio manager, a tool, a tool used to measure and compare building energy performance. This helps the district meet their clean buildings performance standard which requires schools to measure their energy use. And now I'll be passing it to Marisol. Uh when sticking with energy star you get a graph that shows the combined monthly energy use and how it changes over time. Uh this bar chart is broken down by electricity which is the red uh natural gas the blue and then other energy types. It is measured by KVTU which is a thousand British thermal units and that is basically how much total energy from gas and electricity each school is using. Uh the average rolling trend uh is the black line and it basically is the current month plus the
035previous 11 months divided by 12. And one biggest the biggest takeaway from this graph is that you see that the tren the trending average is going downwards which means each school is saving energy overall. Uh now to benchmarking in Energy Star portfolio manager. Uh this graph compares each school in the Wanachi school district uh and how it's performing in terms of energy efficiency. Energy Star scores range from 0 to 100. Anything above a 75 qualifies a building for energy star certification. Uh meaning it uses less energy, costs less to operate and produces fewer emissions. Uh schools like Ballet Academy, Lewis and Clark and Mission View are actually performing very well. And this certification symbols highlights that Energy Star certified buildings typically use 35% less energy and cost 35% less to operate. As of currently, seven
036of the schools are in the process of getting Energy Star certified and getting an Energy Star certification plaque. And now I'll be passing on to Stephanie. So here we have an Energy Star treasure hunt. What a treasure hunt is where we go around the facility looking for treasure. And the treasure is energy being wasted during the unoccupied hours. So we conducted a treasure hunt all across the Wachi school district and we managed to shut down 29 out of the 32 portables with the help of the operations and maintenance team. And that means there was a 90% energy shutdown for portables. So here we have a graph. This is John Newberry Elementary School and the black line is the first week of July 2024 and the red line is the first week of July 2025. And
037as you can see, there has been a 62% energy reduction, which is about $110 worth of savings. Here we have another graph for the Wachi High School. This graph shows the black line shows two weeks prior to the 4th of July weekend and the red line is the 4th of July weekend. And there has been a 41% energy reduction, which is aboutund $160 worth of savings within just that weekend. And we'd also like to point out that the Wachi High School achieved and beat the target base load, which the target base load is the amount of electricity the building needs during unoccupied hours. Passing it on to Isabella. Thank you, Stephanie. So, another part of our energy management plan is occupant engagement. Um, and so as you can see, this is um a screenshot of
038our occupant classroom environment survey, which I got to make and I got to help um send out to all of our Wachi High School staff um this past June. And so the purpose of this survey is to better understand and hear directly from staff ways that they're using energy within the building. So now I'll pass it on to Anna East to tell you about another element of our occupant engagement. Thank you, Isabella. Um, another way we are working to increase occupant engagement is through our marking materials. Here on the left, we have some post-it notes that occupants can use at their desk with the slogan, save at work, pocket at home. In the middle, we have some door hangers that would be hung up on doors where there's a lot of foot traffic. On the
039on the door hanger, it shows a list of things that occupants can do to reduce energy waste. And lastly on the right we have posters that would be in break rooms and copy rooms. This poster shows not only that you benefit from saving energy but your building and your whole community benefits from reducing energy. As you can see the Chalane County saves over $1,000 in savings compared to the Washington state and even more than the national average of electricity. So if occupants So if occupants do their do their job with reducing energy, they can keep Chalan the Chalan County PUD to have affordable power. And now I'm passing it on to Jacob and Yurio to continue talking about occupant engagement. Thank you, Na. Um my partner Jacob and I have been working with the Gresian
040Barlo School District on weekly performance reports and we that is coming out the 29th of August. And another thing that's coming up is the Labor Day weekend shutdown where every where all the buildings in the district get shut off until after Labor Day. Jacob, can you explain what a weekly performance report goes over? As you can see the graph that's represented here will be a example of what we will be doing with the Wachi school district. This is filled with the Gresian Barlo School District schools. It has all the schools in the district. It shows their previous year's kilowatt hour use as well as their current year's kilowatt hour use. Next to it we have a column that is represented in black which is their savings compared to in the red which is their loss.
041Next to that is the percentage of kilowatt hour savings compared to the last year as well as the cost savings and the pounds of CO2 avoided. At the very bottom we have a total of the whole entire school district. And now I'll be passing it on to Himea. So, I'm part of the operations and maintenance program, which means we transitioned from a reactive to a preventative maintenance. And this requires a lot of commitment and a lot of work. And it's very heavy lift because it required us to maintain our focus and dedication throughout the summer because there's three steps to it. The first one is gathering all the inventory from all the buildings in the Wachi school district that use energy. And step two would be developing a preventative maintenance schedule for all the assets
042using the manufacturer suggestions. Step three is implementing regular PM checklist using the suggestion frequencies which is monthly, quarterly and annually. Once all of this is completed and operational, we increase the reliability. We reduce unexpected failures, extend the life of equipment, and we optimize energy performance that results lower energy cost. So I'm now I'm going to be passing on to Oscar. >> As my teammate Himea mentioned, uh the first step of the process is gathering and catalyzing all the inventory equipment data. The equipment that we collect is divided by different categories like as Hback, electrical, plumbing, um pneumatics, controls and some others. As the table shows um the specific information that we obtained for each equipment like is asset name, category, location, manufacturer, model number, serial number, condition and operational status. The graph that you guys
043can see um that's example of uh the Wachi High School. It's a small example of it. We actually have more than 500 items. Um all this um sorry all this information needed wasn't obtained easy. We face multiple challenges like working awkward spaces like roofs, attics or or above ceilings also being exposed to different hazards. All this process was accomplished under safety protocols and standards. This process wouldn't be possible without the support of the Wachi High School District, especially for Brian Broki, Lance, and Patrick team. I will I will pass it to AI. So, this is the project status of the 12 schools in the Wanche School District. My team and I have gathered. We've gathered over 1,297 pieces of equipment. This is a big part of our inventory um process. Once we've completed all of
044our inventory, we're now able to create a preventative maintenance checklist. A preventative maintenance checklist is maintenance suggestions given to us by the manufacturer, the unit manufacturer. We do filter change, belt change. We lubricate the unit to prevent equipment failure. Now that we have completed transitioning from a reactive program to a preventative maintenance program, we are able to transfer our data to our new maintenance software called operations hero. Ariel has became our operations hero expert and he will be giving you guys a deeper explanation of what that software is. As as mentioned by my teammate Auggie, Operations Hero is a new software that Weti school district will be using to meet preventive maintenance requirements. Through operations hero, we are able to organize all the assets and all the information for each school and make it accessible
045while also being able to add PMS for each asset and easily be able to communicate using work orders. Having an O andM system like like operations heroes allows us to use to allows us the opportunity to turn energy wasting events into maintenance resolutions saving costly energy utility spent. Now we'll be passing it over to Himea. I just want to give you guys a huge thank you for allowing us to give us this opportunity cuz it's really we're really grateful for that and especially for Brian and Lance and Patrick as well because it's great experience to see how stuff actually worked behind those doors. So, thank you guys. So, now I'll be talking a little bit more about AM's status on meeting clean buildings performance standard compliance uh for WACI school district. So this is an
046overview of kind of all of the tasks that we've been working on. So it's divided into data, people, equipment, and investment. Uh for data, all of our schools have been bench benchmarked in portfolio manager. Um and under people, uh we've been working all summer to build an energy conservation culture. So, we hope to um further this um by launching our occupant engagement campaign um early this September. Um for equipment um as our on& and M um present presentators have said already, they've documented a lot of equipment and have been really hard at work this summer. Um and then under investment, there's still some things that our non-inter team has to get done. Um but overall um most requirements are either fully complete or actively in progress by our team which keeps Wachi School District on
047track for both compliance um and long-term savings. Um but moving on, I'd like to talk about our former governor Jay Ensley. He shared at the Pacific Northwest Climate Week that environmental stewardship is a unifying goal throughout Washington. but also in that panel, I'm really excited to say that AM interns um earned recognition for delivering energy and cost savings throughout our community. So, when we think about all of our commitments um within the work that we are doing, we are full steam ahead, fully committed to um helping our school district and our community with compliance, but also expanding our impact across Washington. Um so now I'm going to be moving on to talking about benchmarking um within Energy Star portfolio manager. So this is the North Central Education Service District's um energy use intensity. And we
048first our program first launched um within this building in March and we saw that their energy use was at a 92. Um but now we jump forward a couple months to July and we see that we've made a a 17% eny reduction. Um, and we've been able to do this within the span of five months, which is a really big accomplishment for us. So, we still have a 13 unit reduction remaining to achieve their target base load EUI of 66. Um, but that has still been such a great accomplishment for our team. Um, and we would we wouldn't have been able to be doing all of this work without Pete Phillips, who is the facility director for the NCSD building. And so, he's not here in the audience today, but I'd love to thank him
049uh for our partnership. So now I'll be passing on to SL. >> Thank you Isabella. Um this here is an example of energy tracking and monitoring with NCW libraries where there's been an 18% reduction in energy usage since AM launched in March. And I would say that a huge part of that is due to Amanda Lawson, the facilities director for NCW libraries, who's just been so helpful and amazing to work with. She's gotten us everything we need to um work with in the libraries and save them energy. That moves us right on to our next point where Wanachi's AU movement is really about the community as a whole and working with businesses inside of the Wachi Valley and improving the overall community here. Um especially with the school district where we as students have a
050really personal connection and want to save as much energy as possible. And now if you guys have any questions, feel free to ask them. Um, thank you all for being here today and um, watching our presentation. Well, thank you guys. That was an incredible, outstanding presentation. Um, I learned actually quite a bit and I always get excited seeing my old hometown schools on your work because I'm from the Gresian Barlo area and I saw my little Deep Creek elementary school and was like, "Yes, go Deep Creek." Um but uh and and you're right uh Amanda and Barbara at the library are fantastic. Um I had a question about and I could ask questions all day because it's so fascinating but just kind of maybe give us a brief insight of the tools you use when
051you're doing your analysis and measurement because you know it's do you use a lot of computers? Do you use a lot of programs? um because it's, you know, to it's clearly more sophisticated than walking in a room and turning off lights and saying, "Okay, we're we're doing our part." So, um just just kind of like a few examples. >> I'll go >> in ter in terms of going into each building. We used to uh we tend to go to the control room and most of the stuff that that's like pretty like big like HVAC tends to be able to like have a schedule if you put it on the actual system whether it be like automatic logics or ATS. Those are just some examples of systems that they use. That's probably like the main way
052that we go around and looking at buildings and the layout and how to operate around a system. Yeah. >> Oh, I was going to follow that. So, so you guys are spending a significant amount of time in the buildings interacting with the custodians or the people who are actually occupying. It's not just I have a program and I, you know, I'll go and to the mechanical room and change some programs. I'm assuming you guys have to get buy in from the adults who are actually in the buildings. >> So, so there's two teams in this whole thing. It's me, myself, and the three boys there. And we have we are more mostly in the buildings every day and they are more like online basis or trying to get the communication skills but we usually try
053to communicate with the custodians on that and they give us access to most of the things. I just want to give you guys kudos. You guys have set the bar really high for all the other student presentations that come um for the rest of the academic year. Um I myself learned a lot and you guys presented a lot of information and a lot of data in a very easy to follow and understand way um which is which it it's it's wonderful to see coming from students. Um you guys are fully immersed in the project and um and it it shows um I you guys dressed up to present. Um I love it. Um I think um it says a lot about you know your your adviser over there who's he's like a like a proud
054dad over there. Um but I don't I mean I don't have any questions other than that. I'm just um I was smiling the whole time just because it's it's really fascinating and fun. Um and the the real world experiences that you guys are getting through this project. Um what a great opportunity that um the district is providing. So keep keep up the good work. >> I do have a question. Since March, your client list has expanded pretty dramatically. Uh, how do people find you? How do they beg to get you to work with them? Who do you how do you choose who to work for? >> Well, sometimes you present to a lot of people and then they're just like, "Oh, we want to work with you." And we give out information. But most of
055the time, sorry, this is most of the time we go attend conferences and that's where we connect and network with other businesses. And if they're interested, we obviously connect them to our bosses and then they get ahead and like work with them. And then after that, we split up in teams and it's like there's some people working here with this client and then there's other people working here with this other client. So they have the same amount of focus we give them. And if it's going well, obviously all the time is going well, they refer us to other clients, well other potential clients as well. >> Well, thank you. That's great. I mean, you really are in demand and congratulations on that. Uh, I just want to say formidable just everything you do, the the
056breadth of science and organization that goes into it. Um, and I guess I wanted to say two things. You teach us and the outside world how to solve problems and we can learn from you. And if I remember rightly when you uh your the earliest joiners in your group talked about how you didn't just do data and energy, you learned to work in a team. And I've always been really impressed at the way you rotate. Different person takes the mic, you organize the jobs between you. Your team skills look to me like they're a lesson all of us could learn from. >> Thank you. I don't know if Okay, there's anything else. I just want to Oh, did you want to say Go ahead, Mark. >> Mark, you have the floor. >> I just want
057to say thank you. Uh, energy savings is always a passion of mine. I work for the Peud and so I just would like to know, have you guys changed any of your personal habits after seeing the huge impact you've made at a commercial level? Yeah, I would say we definitely have. Um, when I'm at home, I'll snap at my siblings and be like, "Turn off the lights when we're leaving." Or I accidentally turned the lights off in the living room when my little sister was reading cuz I didn't see her there and I thought they were just on. And then also when I'm like driving past the schools or the J C Penney buildings or the libraries and I see the lights on, I'm like, are they wasting energy or are there custodians in there
058um doing stuff with them? It's definitely made me a lot more aware of energy usage and how it affects people and like even our utility bill at home. >> Well, fantastic. I I want to thank you all for being here. Um and uh and I don't know if Charlie's watching somewhere, but he will see this at some point. Um and I know he'll be very excited. Is you're all waving to um and I think I really want to go back to what you mentioned in your slides that uh former Governor Jamesley said, youth driving real solutions because that is what we're seeing here. And um I've had lots of conversations about the adults in the school district that you work with and they are loving the experience of working with you um the partnership, the
059collaboration and what they're learning as well and uh that kind of that reciprocal um uh process that's happening. So I want to thank you for that. Um also this was not slated as uh a strategic plan uh aligned presentation but in your uh in your presentation we talked about partnerships. We've talked about opportunities for students. We've talked about uh real and relevant learning, which is big six, number six. And I believe I saw a little bit of science and a little bit of math. I'm just kidding. A lot of science and a lot of math embedded into this uh presentation. So, I just want to let you know that we're super proud of you. uh it feels like the world is watching and uh this is something very special that you're part of and an
060experience that uh the Wanchi school district is very proud to have partnered with and to have given this opportunity to all of you as well. So thank you for what you give to us and uh we'll have you back. >> Thanks everyone. Absolutely run. All right. >> Top that. >> All right. Let's talk about the budget committee. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Thanks everyone. Have a great night. >> Okay. So discussion. budget committee >> budget committee discussion. Um we uh we we've had conversation and uh Martin made a a comment in past board meeting to after the summer to bring back up the budget committee um and talk about how that's going to move forward since Martin will be leaving the board. And so I wanted to just have a discussion and make a note
061of um the potential transfer of budget committee responsibilities from Martin to Tucker is what we had talked about. Yeah. figured it out. >> We Yeah, we did. It was just It was noted It was noted to bring it back in a in a meeting after summer. So, >> anyone have a problem with that? >> I'm just bringing that back. >> I got rid of one problem, which is that I'm going to go happily. And just to say, I was going to wanted to step down as soon as the 2526 budget was formally adopted, which should happen in a few minutes time. And uh then I I want to say a little bit about it because we haven't had a budget committee always. Uh why is it valuable? Uh and I think it's normally best practice
062for the current president to be a member of the budget committee. So I personally think that uh that would be a good choice but the president decides who's on the committee. Uh and then I wanted to add um couple of comm I said that we didn't always have one. I was really really pleased when the budget committee was established uh during Bill Eagle's superintendency. What difference does it make? It puts two board members in contact with the finance group in the district early so that they can start thinking about budget matters and they have questions and advice going both ways. So you're aware of a lot more uh between the district and board representatives. It's an early reaction step and that's really really critical in any management. If you can react and identify issues early,
063you are going to be able to be more likely to be success. It flushes out good ideas and opportunities and it also is a safety factor. It reduces misunderstandings and the possibility of false steps. The other characteristic that I think the budget committee as it's developed over the last three years intentionally takes a long-term vision culture. It's not just looking at what we're doing now, how we do the next budget. It's looking beyond the current year at the trends and developments and it doesn't take any decisions. The board still is the person approving authority approving the budget but um the that flushes out implications and awareness for the future. So it really does make the whole system much more powerful and the first two years on the board when we didn't have a budget committee
064uh I was felt kind of deprived. I think it's really important to have it and I'm glad we do and I'm glad I was be able and all yours. >> Yeah. I mean and I will say like this will really give us Corey and I something to talk about in our monthly meeting. Finally finally something to talk about. No, I'm I'm really excited. I Martin, we will miss you on the budget committee. I really appreciate your expertise, but uh I'm excited to have some more insight into the decision-m process because I know that we hear a lot from Sean, the main event, what's going on, and I think that there's a lot of work that goes into that um that those presentations and those those numbers and calculations. So, I'm excited to be asking more
065questions than probably you want to hear. Okay. So we're just discuss we don't we're not we don't need to make take action on that right now. Okay. >> So then we'll move on to our other actions. Uh first action is resolution 325 declaring certain school district property as surplus and authorizing its disposition through sale or lease. Do a motion to approve uh resolution 325. Move to approve resolution 325 declaring certain district sur surplus district property surplus and authorizing its disposition. >> Second. >> All right. As moved by Julie and seconded by Mark. Any discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor of approving the resolution say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? None. Okay. Motion carries. Second action is resolution 425 the 2526 budget adoption. Uh, do I have a motion to approve the budget for
0662526? >> I'm going to use my swan song to look at and and and and make the motion to approve resolution number 0325, a resolution of the board of directors of the Wanche School District number 246 declaring Oh, I'm reading the wrong one. Got to get the right one. Sorry. Turn it over. It's number uh 425, the adoption of the 2526 budget. Second. >> All right. It has been uh moved by Martin and seconded by Julie. Any discussion. All right. Hearing none. All in favor of adopting the the uh budget say I. >> I. >> None oppose. Motion carries. We're cruising through. All right. Third action regards the purchase of two school buses during the 2627 school year. Do I have a motion to approve this purchase? Move to approve the purchase of two school
067buses as presented. >> Right. Second. All right. It has been moved by Julie and seconded by Mark. Any discussion? >> No. All right. Uh all in favor of uh buying some school buses in 2627 say I. I. >> None opposed. Motion carries. So Corey, short and sweet off to you. >> Swift work of that board. Wonderful. Okay. Um, just just really excited about the energy of the last week, actually the last couple weeks since we were together. Uh, we had our opening day in the district and it was extremely uh, exciting. It was a pep assembly for adults and uh, it was super fun. We had uh, we had 52 spaces for vendors at our vendor fair and we had 52 vendors in the in the vendor fair. So, it was great. Um, Sage Hills
068Church provided a wonderful breakfast with three uh three different trucks out front. We had a coffee truck, an asai bowl truck, and I think ice cream. Ice cream's okay at 7:30 in the morning. It's all right. Um, and so we had uh so that was a great celebration and a validation um for our entire staff. And then the drum line came in and marched us all down to the auditorium uh where we had a presentation from the color guard. Uh we also had the junior ROC present the colors and the high tones sang the national anthem. It was wonderful. Uh we were able to um celebrate uh some community partnership awards. And so we gave out a community partnership award to Sage Hills Church for um not only what they uh what they've done at
069our back to school opening day um but also for the last 10 years of support that they've given to Westside High School which goes fairly unrecognized most the time. They provide a back- toschool bash every year, which if you're interested, it's Friday from 1 to 3. So, stop by Westside High School and see how Sage Hills Church uh honors the students and staff there. They also do a high rollers lunchon uh where they provide lunch for all of the highest performing uh students academically um every quarter and then they do a summer shindig at the end of the year to kind of capstone uh the experience. So, we honored them. We also recognized our uh Chalan County PUB uh at the event and gave them a community partnership award for their support of our AEM
070students and also for the immense lighting projects that they have funded uh u 100% in Lewis and Clark, Newberry and Foothills are completely done and uh the plan is to tackle more schools this year. So it's very exciting. Um and then we spent time celebrating our staff. I uh we we personally called out every single school building and department in the district and every group was ready to respond and so it was a great uh great morning and then we gave out some GEM awards which if you're not familiar with gem awards those are going the extra mile awards so we had about 10 staff that we honored with the gem awards. So it was a great celebration um of our staff. It was super fun. Um and Eric and I uh have been going
071around to the back to school nights. uh one night there were a lot in a short period of time so we had to divide and conquer. Um but we uh we went we've we've made it everywhere between it's either both of us or individually we've made it to all the buildings. Yesterday was Wanche High School. Um we got to see some of the yonder pouches being checked out from the students. Um and that process I really wanted to see how that worked and kind of what the vibe was and so it was it was it seemed smooth and interesting. Um and uh today was Foothills. So, right before the board meeting, we uh were over at Foothills Middle School. Actually, right when the doors open, people were lined up um around the around the corner.
072So, it was just it's just been great energy um and great to see um just our community out there um with their students ready for school. Um, other other news, I just want to um take a moment to let folks know that um uh last uh last Monday on the August 18th, we had um a report to the board, a board workshop on our long range facilities uh report. So, people can check that out. Um and also, we talked about uh the bond for a new uh new high school update and HVAC systems in seven of our aging buildings. And speaking of HVAC, I wanted to just share with the board um that we have replaced uh three compressors at Wanche High School. We've been talking about that. Um they are going to go live
073tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. So that's fantastic. Um the unfortunate news is that we have a fourth compressor that is down and that's the compressor that um covers the CTE wing. And so our uh our workaround there is that we have already done the paperwork and gotten the quotes to replace that as well. And in the meantime, it's going to be hot the next couple weeks. I don't know if you've looked at the 10-day forecast, but it's going to be hot, but we'll be bringing in some external cooling units for those 14 classrooms for the next two weeks while we're waiting for that compressor. So, just a little update, some really positive stuff, and then a few things that just we need to continue working on with our aging facilities. But that is the superintendent's uh
074update, and thank you very much. >> Thank you, Corey. All right. Uh we're going to do all of our uh board communications. So, let's start with Mark. >> Uh just been busy getting ready for school with kids, checking out their yonder pouch. And I just wanted to give a thank you to all the staff across the district. Uh everyone that's gotten our schools ready for this year and our staff that has been preparing and uh wishing all the students and staff a great start to the year. >> Great. Um, first and foremost, I also would like to wish our uh staff and um our our district staff and our students the best of year uh as for the 25 25 26 academic year. Um just um briefly, I have registered to attend the general assembly
075on September 20th. That is a virtual event only. I know we have one vote. I don't know what that means. Uh, but I'll connect with Kim um to learn more. Um, and then also there's a there's a caucus week um that uh went out with the email about the general assembly. So I don't know if who all got it um because I didn't get the first email um but there's uh I think four different caucuses. I have registered to attend the one uh and they're an hour long caucuses uh September 8th which is the directors of color caucus and there's uh like I said three others if anybody's interested anybody can register for those. >> Thanks Julie. You want to go? >> Um I was laughing at the yonder pouch thing because my kids brought
076home their yonder pouches and promptly locked them. So now they have to first day of school go unlock their pouch. So, oops. Um, so that made me laugh. >> There was phone in >> there. No, that would have been amazing. Oh, shoot. Missed opportunity. Um, so that brought me some humor. And I just want to say thank you to our staff both who are getting this the schools ready to welcome students next week. I've been or tomorrow, not next week. Sorry. Um, I know I know there's a lot of energy and it's pretty exciting. although I dread getting up early again and managing getting kids out the door. But um no, I I appreciate all the the excitement and the work that's gone into that. And you know, we we laugh about how quick the
077board meeting goes, but I just want to thank Sean for all the the work that went into the budget because you did make it a really easy process by the time we get to this point because we've had so much information over so so much time that it's it's easy to just move through it and be done. So So thank you for all your hard work on that. um for what's gone into it and and for helping us understand how school bus purchases work so we don't have to visit that every this budget. Yeah. So, I appreciate I appreciate that. And um just as we start school tomorrow, everyone watch for school zones. I saw the district put out their kind of a blurb about um with the with the Wachi police about being safe
078in the school zones and it's good reminders. We've been flying through them all summer. So, um they will be active tomorrow. I was able to join in on opening day at the high school and it was a very strong display of enthusiasm and dedication to schools. Very impressive. And for me personally, it was a great opportunity to welcome and thank a lot of people individually. And then I want to follow that up on the mic also as a member of the board. We all appreciate you, what you do, your dedication, how you set it up, and your humanity that you put into the school district. So, thank you. Uh, the other thing I got to talk on really in a way has nothing to do with the school district. I happened to be in the
079audience when the state treasurer came to Wanachi last week and talked about how he manages uh, the finances. What struck me was how similar it was to Wanachi school district. And I just think it's worth hitting on some of the points he would made. They replaced existing refinanced existing debt to get a lower rate of interest and save the state money. Wachi school district did exactly the same thing. Uh the treasurer even though he doesn't participate in setting the budget uh has a disciplined focus on maintaining the reserves even though they have challenging operating budget decisions. That's kind of what we have here. and you talked about how people make compromises um and kind of I often think when you can't agree that mediate we should use mediation more um and then he stressed the
080importance of maintaining a high Moody's credit rating which has also been very much part of the Wachi school district does and that has a direct impact it reduces the interest rate you pay on bonds in the future and this was the uh chocolate cake at the end that I loved his fourth priority was financial literacy for students and he was wishing that the state actually had it as a graduation uh requirement. So Wachi High School I mean Wachi school district has had that I think for about three years in operation and about five years in planning and that is a survival skill for students going out into the world to protect themselves and know what they're doing. But it was interesting that that was he had he had three points all about billions of dollars
081and one about financial literacy. All right, thanks everyone. Um, Corey, I feel like you missed an opportunity by telling by not telling everyone what the back to school event for the uh staff was called. >> It was called the Crescendo of Awesomeness just so thank you Tucker for that. It was a missed opportunity. I want to apologize. >> I think that's a great name and the people I talked to said it was it was wellreceived. So nice work. Um, I got to go to a couple back to school nights for my kids. And I would say that the level of energy and the kind of the positivity that the that schools were bringing was really great. And it's really nice to see my kids were like, I don't want to go to school and then
082they didn't want to leave back to school night. So, um, not sure. Uh, but yeah, everyone, welcome back. We're we're starting tomorrow, so I think that's it. All right. Have a great night.