001e it is 6:00 p.m. so I will call this September 24th 2024 regular meeting of the wachi school district school board to order we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance Al heard a lot of people do it in a while yeah great we will now work through the the agenda are there any proposed changes or modifications to the agenda okay then we will begin with the consent agenda the items on the consent agenda were sent to the board and posted online last week the board's had an opportunity to review the material and individually ask the superintendent any questions on any item on the agenda this week's consent agenda includes the minutes from the September 10th 2024 regular meeting the September 16 2024 special Workshop meeting minutes vouchers and payroll Personnel reports Surplus report contracts
002field trips and the July Financial reports uh do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda I move that we approve the consent agenda it's presented I second it and moved by Maria seconded by Miranda any discussion all those in favor say I I I motion carries uh we will now move on to Citizen comment if any member of the public would like to make a citizen's comment we ask that you please sign up online 15 minutes before the meeting or in person paper forms are available at the entrance to the meeting room and can be completed and given to board secretary Kim White unless translation is required each comment is limited to 3 minutes and Miss White will keep a timer to notify you when your time expires individuals that need translation services
003will be given four minutes to make a comment plus time needed to complete their uh interpretation please also be aware the board is not obligated to respond to questions or challenges made during public comment and the board silence will not signal agreement or endorsement of the speaker's remarks uh Kim do we have any anyone sign up for comments uh first Stephanie Malloy my name is Stephanie Malloy I am anono worker for wachi school district a step five custodian Nets 2800 a month now minus rent of 2,000 electricity of $50 water $80 garbage 75 sewer 50 internet 60 let's be conservative and say the phone bill is 60 car insurance 50 and a car payment of $200 that leaves 175 for food and other miscellaneous expenses be mindful that deductions are increasing because of the long-term
004deduction um and the State Office of the insurance commissioner announced that it approved a 10.7% increase in health insurance premiums as you can see we as workers are living in the red so many full-time employees have to have another job to supplement their income the workers who keep the school district Renning and students educated are struggling to feed their families I was told recently that union members are lazy workers who don't want to work I want to say that I bleed Union blue I've been given many titles mother grandmother daughter sister friend cooworker Union M leader but never has anyone said that I was lazy and unwilling to work yet I am a union member your District workers are loyal and hardworking so please consider them when the district comes back and asks you to
005approve the raises we are asking for we don't want to break the school district but also I feel that we should award our workers a fair wage jobs will come back as we have found out by those jobs that were reconfigured recently but wages will not don't send a message to The District employees that they are not important enough to take care of them don't say how much we appreciate us but show us with action and give us an increase as we are able to feed our families and take care of our basic needs alone I stand here and alone I may not make an impact but together as a union we stand strong so please consider what I've said tonight and consider the workers who are showing up every day for the district and
006their families that they need to feed can we please ask that you hold your applause for public comments thank you next is Jake quilter good evening thank you to all those who have taken the time out of their day to be here and support the M group we appreciate you and what an example of finding value in others and each other we are here again tonight to share with the board the importance of taking care of the employees who keep the district functioning we recently lost another good employee because they had they had they had not been taken care of and uh we're being taken advantage of and wanted to do something different now lost my place on my paper we are indeed in a financial crisis I don't just mean a school district I
007mean the employees who work day in day out not just 8 hours a day but often 10 to 12 hours just to cover the basic functions of emptying trash sanitizing restrooms trash and dash uh driving school buses on top of an already heavy workload to maintain them at a safe and a level of operation and keeping the buildings with Antiquated mechanical systems running less students less staff and the same acreage of grass to mow same square footage of buildings to clean how has the board become so out of touch with the way its key employees are being treated the financial crisis I'm referring to is a personal financial crisis of each Blue Collar employee and they're that they're experiencing in this District due to the suppressed wages and increased workloads after continuing Staffing reduction starting
008in 2017 I don't recall any maintenance positions or custodial positions being brought back just Administration uh we have lost about 20% of our staffing admin however has has uh played the shell game moved people around and brought numbers back in positions such as assistant principles and other things and moved into different CTE programs created different jobs I'd suggest that the board take a real look into what's going on in the district instead of just rolling with the base the biased narrative that our district often provides and we have value we do show up every day Rainer shines snower sleep we're here we're the ones that everyone calls when everything doesn't work so please consider us thank you do we have any other comments uh C Catalin venberg how' I do on that okay I have
009the high honor of working with you you in this district with special education department I want to applaud your uh promise to the kids in this District to uh with the foundation of diversity equity and inclusion we work hard to see that happen with some kids who people write off and my question to you is how can we teach that well when it's not being modeled in giving us affordable wages you Jesse asencio hi Bor I'm Jesse asencio I'm the head custodian of wachi high school I have many custodians underneath me as well we do our best to make sure that we can get that High School running as as well as possible as clean as possible and they my staff go above and beyond to do everything that they can to make that massive
010school as clean as possible and it is it is it is a very difficult task to do when we one lost one position so other positions had to take on more work when we lost our positions those the last time around this time and now I have uh guys who are just concerned about what's going on school distri what kind of workloads being put more on top of them as right now with the Athletics position uh we are having our guys actually do more work since the loss of Jim B so now my workers are being told to make sure that they are helping set up events when they typically wouldn't and tearing down events when they typically wouldn't and then they have to do their run on top of all of this stuff so
011I would very much appreciate if you guys would consider an increase for us all thank you there's no other public comments um if we could sneak in the ASB update real quick before presentations hi everyone my name is Nora um I'm this year's wachi High School ASB Treasurer I'm filling in for niiko kidus who is this year's uh ASB president who couldn't be here today she apologizes and is looking forward to attending next month's meeting um but I'm super excited to share everything that ASB has been working on um this year and what we have in store so we started the school year with a bang we hosted our uh freshman orientation welcoming about 500 new faces to our community uh next we put on our annual Panther there's in the park at Walla Wala
012hitting record-breaking attendance um there were kids playing spikeball volleyball and just hanging out on the grass it was great um next uh senior Senate put on senior Sunrise um they uh the senior class enjoyed a free Red Bull making station and pastries from Yo's Bakery kindly donated by the owner um before our first Friday Night Lights our spirit team put on a schoolwide pep assembly um to teach cheers to new students and get excited for that night's game uh we dressed as construction workers and ASB provided free snacks and Waters to students in the student section cheering on our team uh the following Friday wache high school students uh saved the city as we dressed up for a Batman theme and celebrated our team taking home our first Panther win um among other smaller events
013uh throughout the school days wache high school ASB has had a fantastic start to the year uh as for what's to come our team is diligently planning um homecoming which is set for October uh 19th and the theme is going to be Disney's Tangled uh at the U yeah and so at our next meeting Nico is gonna provide a rundown about how everything goes this month and that's all we have for now but thanks for listening go Panthers thank you moving on now to special presentations yes okay excellent thank you uh thank you everyone for being here tonight as well um and thanks for the ASB update there tonight we have an athletic department update uh last spring in the midst of our budget reduction process uh for the 2425 school year we looked closely
014at every uh resignation retirement and carefully considered what was the best move for our district at the time and it was decided that we would temporarily have principal Eric Anderson assume the administrative duties and responsibilities of the athletic director along with the support of an athletic coordinator for a temporary time frame the goal here was to work uh to align the high school and its Athletics more holistically create systems and structures that support academics and Athletics um and build off our former athletic director's work uh in order to have a strong Foundation when we on board a new athletic director in the future so tonight we have a check-in with principal athletic director Eric Anderson thanks for being here Eric you got it Corey I guess I don't need to introduce myself after you you
015talked about me right there so but I will say that I it has been my pleasure serving in the role of the principal of wache high school for the last nine years and it's also been my privilege to serve as I'm going into the athletic director position here as well this year so the Dual rule um a lot of work I'm I'm going to I will say that but also a lot of Joy right now so I'm having a lot of fun fun our kids are amazing right now so I will say that our students are on fire when our ASB report came up and she is talking about how creative our student body is being around our athletic events I will just tell you that we have gotten comments from other schools like how
016are you doing that well that's our kids those are our kids that are doing that obviously um we're supporting that but they're driving that work and we just love that so I want to give him a shout out all right I'm going to give you basically my slideshow is I'm going to do a lot of talking so there's not a whole lot you're not going to miss much if you're the bullet points are really for me to kind of share uh in conversation that is I'm not given the budget update okay there we go good like so yeah we are we're off to a great start right now I mean we are excited with how things are going in the fall um we've got new coaches in our soccer program we've got new coaches in
017our football program we have a brand new coach in our swim program as well well so we're we're off and running right now with some new folks leading uh leading Helm in our fall Athletics program and things are going things are going really well so super pleased with the culture that this are that all of our coaches are bringing um to our students and that's really kind of some of the work that I'm doing is kind of the big picture work and I'll break that down a little bit in terms of what is there we go no yeah we're good okay so kind of the delineation of the word work that uh myself and Tammy are doing so Tammy Jack amazi is taken over as our athletic coordinator this year and Tammy came on board
018basically August first um and I've been working most of the summer to try and make sure that we have things ready to go for the fall I'm I'm an individual who does not like to try and do things last minute and wants to do things right and wants to make sure we're not dropping a lot of balls so we spent a lot of time this summer going through things and this is just kind of a quick breakdown but my role is really working on the culture of Athletics kind of the bigger picture pieces of things in athletics I'm working with mentoring of coaches larger budget allocation pieces eligibility of students who transfer from other students those types of things going through the hearing process and walking them through that um and then really what Tammy
019is doing is kind of the the more of the data day operation piece so she is taking on scheduling our buses she's taking on the scheduling of fields um our game officials individual game eligibility so academic eligibility in the season and then kind of n nuts and bols pieces so I mean that's really what she is doing in terms of what her role is as compared to what mine mine is so there's a lot of communication she is doing a whole lot of communication with like our transportation director I think they probably talk almost daily um because there's a whole lot of moving Parts obviously in athletics and so she's she's working really closely with Jen uh around that work I'm really working on the culture of Athletics and really that is we're just trying
020to continue to improve right like anytime like anybody else when we step into a new role my goal this summer was really to kind of sit down and even last spring to sit down and kind of get a feel of how things were going and where are some areas that we could look at continuing to improve asking questions Talking to coaches what kind of supports are needed um and also just looking at kind of where we're at in terms of the what our students are doing our student body is doing with Athletics and our coaches have really gotten on board this fall which has been fantastic one of the conversations that we've had is really trying to look at some accountability pieces around attendance and tardies leading in the school uh and that has been
021fantastic our coaches have kind of really glued on to that and we've had them attend those that can make it not all of them could make it but those that could attend have come to a staff meeting got a chance to stand in front of our staff introduce themselves so they know who is supporting our kids outside of the classroom as well and partnering wanting to partner with our teachers around supporting our students being successful and so they've really got on to that and and we have uh we have kids now that I see running to class because there's some accountability on the athletic side around making sure that they're on time making sure that they're present for class those types of things that we're really trying to drive home them leading that work so
022that we don't want to see students in uniform at our tardy kiosk it's like hey we want you leading that work we want you there early we want to showing everybody else what this can look like and our kids have stepped up they've done a fantastic job and I I think that again that type of work is you know again the partnership with our coaches and with us and what we're trying to do as a building and culture over overall I think our coaches have done a great job um all of them are really doing a fantastic job of communicating it's one thing that we've really asked for is that they send out weekly communication pieces um we really want them to kind of take the lead on their own individual sport piece and what's
023happening in their program and we don't want parents Andor athletes to be wondering right like what's happening what's going on um and so again they've done a great job of that I get a copy of of most of those and I get a chance to see those as they those go out uh and that is fantastic so I think that we're we're moving in the right direction I think that we're continuing to try and get better um we are not perfect I mean we'll share that right now um we have fumbled some things along the way we missed some communication pieces on our end and so yep we'll own that um but again we're trying to continue to get better and continue to push our programs to get better so building connections we're really working
024hard I think that one of the things that we talked about um last spring and then I shared again with Corey this summer was around trying to really connect our youth to our program so really starting to look at youth Athletics and kind of connecting that and so we've really kind of created a connection with our middle schools so our athletic teams are reaching out to our middle school programs and inviting them to be part of things so you'll notice if you were at the football games we have had both Pioneer and Orchard and uh Foothills at our football games being a part of them running onto the field being there in their Jersey those types of things volleyball has something similar set up so everyone's working in that direction to kind of build that
025that feeling and that atmosphere of like we want to be a future Panther like a future Panther athlete what does that look like and so really connecting those younger Sports also what we're trying to do is is get feedback so we also want to hear from students so one of the things that we have built into our system is a qual Trix form that goes out that goes out at the end of the season and we've struggled a little bit with that over the last couple of years of really getting some some uh uh validity in that in terms of the numbers so we weren't getting kids taking the the feedback form basically so were at the end of a sport we might have four or five students who had taken it and it's not
026really giving us enough of an end value to say hey we're getting some really good feedback here so we've we're making sure that at the end of this season we're going to have a good feedback system from every one of our athletes so they can be sharing with us which get shared with the coaches like what are they enjoying what are what are areas that they're seeing as potential def defic deficiencies areas that we can improve I mean those are the types of things that we're trying to hear so that we can continue to build and strengthen those programs and then Community meetings I got a chance to go to a community meeting on Saturday and I thought that was great we listened to the members of our community who shared thoughts and concerns and
027that was fantastic I mean I think that again we're always trying to hear specifics around how we can improve because we don't want we don't want people feeling like hey we are we're heading in a certain direction or we're not going the direction they want us to go we want to move in the right direction we want to have positive athletic programs we want a positive feeling around our programs we want great coaches we want great mentors so all of that feedback is Fant fantastic and Saturday was was no different that was a great way of of receiving some information back and and some tangible ways of how we can improve and get better going forward so we'll continue that as we as we move on here um next so some things that we're just
028trying to look at in terms of updates so one of the things what I did not realize when I got into this was how big facilities use was on our end so and what I mean by that is we have people who want to use our facilities all the time and and I didn't realize how much time frankly that was going to take uh and this summer I learned that in a hurry so it was like oh my goodness we have got a lot of people I had people who had my sale number all of a sudden you know three days into July texting me about using the Apple bowl and about this and about that and I'm going oh my goodness so we've got to come up with maybe a little better system about
029how we have access to our facilities and then the use of that that so we've really spent some time with Shan um breaking down and looking at our facilities use agreements and what that looks like and kind of streamlining a process to make that electronic worked with Eastmont to look at what they were doing as well so that our time frames kind of matched up we didn't want to say that our fall season was here to here and East months was way over here we wanted to kind of align that work as well so there was some some unity in the valley so we've had a chance to do that um trying to create some public facing calendars so really again trying to make sure that information is out there and accessible um I will
030just share right now that one of the struggles that we have had is our our own athletic website has a calendar on it that is constantly wrong sorry I it it has been and so it's like we are trying to fix that it basically there's some technology pieces that I won't go into but the bottom line is it's continuing to show inaccurate information so we're trying to clean that up because one of the things that drives me nuts is saying yes we have a game on Tuesday and our website says it's on Wednesday or whatever like we've got to have that really nice and tight so we're working on that um and using some additional resources to make that happen and then some safety prog calls we have uh Dr Roberts has done a fantastic
031job as our athletic trainer and and her team they approached us and had a conversation earlier the summer about how do we partner with some um with Lifeline was specific at that point in time around they're interested in doing this about updating our emergency action plan specifically around football and then branching into some other areas well that was eye opening we went through a drill with them uh just a couple weeks ago and really sat down and kind of looked at some of our own practices about how to improve some safety measures around that when it comes to student injuries those types of things how do we move quickly in terms of getting them medical attention communication those types of things so that has been great uh and again just kind of a review of
032how do we update those things to make sure that we're we're doing the best that we can and then prioritizing communication we talked about this a little bit but we're trying to get make sure that our weekly update that goes out is clear is correct it's concise um highlighting some things but not overwhelming people sometimes with too much much information so trying to give enough information with some links to dive in a little bit deeper and then our social media presence it's something that that we have talked about like I don't think we have enough of that right now around our athletic programs so we're using some resources in our own high school Communications person to try to expand that um so that again we're highlighting what's coming up we're highlighting what has happened in
033athletics and really getting a chance to celebrate that so those are things that we are continuing uh to work on going forward and then last we're really kind of trying to leverage our Partnerships so again we have our local youth agencies and that was something that um we held our wachi High School uh Youth Sports spectacular and really the design of that or the purpose of that was twofold a to develop relationships with our youth organizations in town and be try to connect our elementary middle school age students to the youth athletic programs that we had we know it's good for them to be involved we want them involved in things we also know that the more students that we have involved in those activities as a youth the more more students will have involved
034at the high school as well and so again it kind of creates that system of you know we want future Panther athletes and so how do you do that you get kids interested in athletics and activities at a young age and continuing to move our Direction and then head and assistant coaches this is really just building relationships with our coaches to find out what they need make sure that we're supporting them in the ways that are best fit for them mentoring them and we talk about culture kind of building those strong relationships and last thing is our booster club which is on fire by the way I will just tell you right now that group of individuals is on fire they are doing a fantastic job um we've had a chance to sit down and
035spend a lot of time over the summer and get their feedback around like Hey we're are you seeing some things that we can improve at and we've really taken that to heart to try and move in those directions and try and solve some of those problems and really partner with them around the things that they're doing to support our athletic programs in our system so that has been great we've uh so quick updates we' just announced we've hired our girls basketball coach our boys and girls wrestling coaches so we have all of our winter coaches coaching positions now filled and ready to go and we'll be posting a couple spring coaching positions here coming up and we'll get those rolling here in the next month or two so that's where we're at currently and I
036am happy with how things are going I mean in all reality I think that there's a good feeling this fall in terms of the culture of our Athletics and what's happening and the and what what our coaches are doing to promote that and so yeah I am I'm busy I am tired but I am feeling good about it all so I will just say that okay questions for me I have one go so I think because I speak from like experience as being a part of the school district involving in the High School athletics some I think a deterrent for some youth is financial components of it because it it is expensive for some like cheers as an example parents and sometimes the student having to put forth in that money and effort to pay
037for those whether it's the jackets the whatever the needs may be for to participate in the sport so if you have youth that are devoted and very committed wanting to participate but there are some Financial constraints along the way like hey we do need to put money from the student involvement how is that going to work with this do you work with the students and the families or how's that looking like yeah we really try to work with each individual student around that I mean we don't want there to be any Financial barrier to our student being involved in any of our athletic and activity programs and so it's not always possible to clear I mean I mean to cover and assist in every dollar of cost but I will say that we do our
038best with every family to make sure that we minimize those when there becomes a barrier that's in their way and do the student and or the parents are both come to you for that or where do they go to the coach first or typically it'll go through the coach I mean in all reality the coach is the direct contact with them and they're coming to us and saying how do we support this student in this work and our booster club does a great job of that as well the booster club has a um oh man I just Dre a blank on the exactly what they're calling basically students who are struggling like with when we go on a trip and they want to purchase um you know we're going to miners on the way back
039from Yakama and it's like we want to make sure they have an opportunity to do that as well and so they've got some funds set aside to make sure that we've got that again Finance is not an issue to be a part of of what's happening in our Athletics program I believe there's also the that H I should I reference this hell Bill all the time but I don't remember what number it is um and I did I we saw I was posted both in Spanish and English in our uh welcome back uh guide um so I do appreciate that because uh you know that's something that we are required to provide to answer a little bit of your question and seeing it out there maybe it's something that I don't something that the coaches
040are better informed of um well some of those things I mean like um we wave like ASB fees for every student who qualifies for that so I mean we we try and wave as much as we can under is it 1662 thank you it is it okay whatever you just said so yes I mean ultimately we are doing our best around that and then we're just being creative in terms of trying to make sure that we're finding outside resources to support students and families around that so on that you mentioned the booster club um does that carry down into to middle school or is that just a high school uh our booster club is just High School it is now I think that there might be a way to to create a separate booster club
041for middle schools but right now the charter of the wachi high school booster club is high school this up I don't have a question so I just want to say I just want to say Kudos um you know having a student in the school district who plays Sports and even if I he didn't play sports um I've seen a lot more this year in the what month month and a half in I don't know when school started less than a month um you know sport spectacular the athletic newsletter I don't know if all board members get that b as a parent that comes into our email um a board presentation imagine that um and I appreciate the the change in culture um engaging with the community uh where the needs are and you know this
042is something that um appreciate the the funnel into the middle schools and the part and the engagement in that because I think um most of us know that the research shows that if we can get students involved um in extracurricular activities whether it's Club Athletics whatnot there are less AP to be out um joining gangs creating trouble Etc um so I do kudos to um you know that change in culture funnel and down to the to elementary schools I would like to see a little bit more of that booster set up for the Middle School um because that's I think that's where kids are so eager to try different sports um because everybody makes the team right nobody's getting eliminated because they didn't make Varsity JV um so kids are eager but sometimes those resources
043are are limited um and the ride the bus rides back to uh to the school you know stopping at McDonald's Etc so um but yeah no Kudos I I appreciate um the work and um your your tiredness is not going unseen so I just have a quick question um one of the when we were talking about fees one of the concerns I had just recently heard was there and I don't know if they've been raised to you but there's concerns about the the cost structure now for using some of our facilities that are going to price out some of our clubs and programs that previously used them have you heard any yet or no I haven't I mean we've looked at the structure and Sean can probably talk about this a little bit more as
044well but I mean I I believe we are priced less than Eastmont if I remember correctly on the I can't remember right now I I know that we had looked at Eastmont as kind of a like let's make sure that we're in line with our our you know local communities around that and I I want to say that our I mean I think it's it's five or10 dollar an hour for use of some of our facilities so I would hope that wouldn't price out um some of our club Athletics and I think one of the concerns was raised was the the there was a base fee for the rental but then if you needed lights or other things then it was starting to add on and and once you started adding those things on it
045became incrementally more expensive and and we probably as the board approve the price schedule but not maybe now realizing some of the impacts and things so I don't know if that's something you had concern but I it may be something we need to look at again because yeah maybe it makes sense on a oneoff scale but when you start adding those extra pieces i' I now have started to hear a little bit of concern about hey we're not going to be able to use that facility this summer so yeah we uh just to fill in Sean Eric and I worked on a couple of different drafts and the board actually approved two different versions one went out first and then we met with some of our user groups and uh they they shared some of
046their concerns and we came back with another one so we have addressed those um and uh and we yeah we did hear some initial concerns so we went back and took a look at those and I feel like we have a we have a very fair uh price structure right now one of the things that we noticed is we hadn't raised our prices with our facilities in like 10 years um so we did raise them and we raise them incrementally over the next few years so it doesn't price people out that's the goal just to comment off of that I think we need to be um not that we want to price anybody out but we are a state funded institution and you know I'm not sure we're charging for liting but we are we
047do have to look at the custodial impact that it's going to have by having open gym um so there's so many factors and we're we're actually dealing with this at work uh where I work um we hadn't increased our prices and you know to rent the student rec center $50 an hour which is a massive facility seems very comparable to you know other facilities um so I I just want to caution us that um we are a state institution and you know we we can can't just be giv away resources um and I mean I don't I yeah that that's where I'll leave it but again it's about being physically responsible and um while meeting the needs of the community yeah and I think as we go through this year I mean Julie to your
048point if we look at it and we're going hey we're getting a lot of concern around this and or we have groups that are really pulling back then I think the conversation can be re Revisited to say okay what does that look like and are we creating a barrier appreciate that um I think you answered a lot of my questions about what you're doing to grow the programs uh growing through the middle schools and reaching out to clubs I know my son is at Foothills and he was there at the football game last week so I think that was pretty cool to get the the youth involved um I'd like to see if you have maybe your PE teachers getting on board about encouraging kids in their classes to maybe try programs um I think
049we talked at the community meeting that you know the the likely uh sources of encourage are going to be other athletes and so making sure the culture is good and we're having that good experience but it wouldn't you know if we can get every resource because not only is it such a valuable tool in their education keeps them entertained healthy engaged um you know a lot of positive benefits for athletics but it also if we can build a real good program I've been advocating it helps with our enrollment which helps us avoid budget issues so we can help sustain other programs so the the the more we can build this program I think it it benefits not only our athletes but also um everyone you know the other programs that rely on funding that we
050we bring in from enrollment so um I just want to thank you very much for um showing up to the what was called the student athlete advocacy committee meeting um some a a random uh community meeting put together uh on about two days notice that I was invited to um by parents and boosters primarily didn't know who would be there but um Mr Anderson and I had talked previously and he said oh yeah I'd welcome welcome um Community feedback and talking to the community I said hey well here's this opportunity so I don't think either of us had any idea of what to expect but I think it turned out to be a very good opportunity um I appreciate you being really open and receptive to that um hearing feedback directly um you know some
051of it more helpful than others but um I know it was very much appreciated by the parents there it was great to see some coaches as well um I think it was really great to see that you were truly invested in engaging in that conversation so absolutely and I I heard from that that they want to do some more so we'll see if that happens I'll let you know but um I appreciate you engaging with our community absolutely um I don't have anything else Eric thank you very much I know that there's a softball game that may have already finished up and then we have soccer gam so we appreciate you sliding a board meeting presentation in between your supervision duties so we appreciate it thanks for being here thanks everybody okay thank you we
052will move on to our next uh special presentation which is our board uh budget update and I want to thank the the board for this time tonight uh we want to keep uh both the board and our community updated on um the budget reduction process so we'll be routinely providing updates and Milestones uh along the way this fall and we also are including in this uh in this budget update a special uh HVAC uh update as well so I'm excited to share with you some of the things that have been going on or not going on in our in our in our buildings throughout and I had had a great conversation with uh Lance Coleman uh or HVAC technician um about some of the items that I'm going to share tonight so that was a
053good uh good presentation or a good time well spent so so the first part of the presentation though are some of the uh slides and information that you've seen before that we want to make sure that we're sharing with our community and uh and the board so we'll jump into this excellent excellent so we have here some budget presentations to reference uh throughout the year um some of these are budget updates that Shawn has given some of them are ones that I've given um but they are referen there for our community that may just be tuning into this conversation and uh we referenc those because they're far more comprehensive than the update that I'm giving here tonight um but just a few of those are um go we go back as far as April 23rd
054we had a June uh June 4 uh presentation where Sean presented the preliminary budget presentation the other funds so everything except for the general fund and then he came back on June 25th and then gave preliminary budget presentation on the general fund uh there specifically and then on August uh came back and gave us a more comprehensive view of the entire budget and then on the 27th then um I gave a budget update as well so those are um easy to access and reference uh from the uh the website there um and the school board meetings so you can check those out and so back to our enrollment page um see here we'll get to the enrollment slide so this is a slide that we have been adding on to for the last few years
055as we experien enrollment decline here and you can see as the numbers slide down we have where we ended for the 2324 school year with uh 6,740 students um our 2425 uh budget project projections have us decreasing by about 225 students to have us at 6,498 um we know already from the September count that uh it's it's not going to be that dramatic which is good um we're excited about that and we also know that our September count is our lowest count of the school year and our October count is the highest so um we do we will be waiting for that October count as the next milestone for enrollment um and Sean will uh come back with an updated enrollment uh in the consent agenda for October and then the next slide shows it
056it's a different graphic representation of similar numbers and so you see the actuals there for the 2023 School Year and that top bold uh row is where the uh 6,740 students are and then with our projected budget numbers of 6,498 there um you can also see some of the forecasting uh that Sean has done for the next few subsequent years with some of the demographic data that we've gotten as well as his uh intricate and uh highly um highly well utilized uh projection formula that he's created so um we've got those numbers there and then when we talk about budgets um and we talk about the long-term impacts um we know that enrollment and inflationary factors are annual issues that the district must contend with um beyond the current school year so we have to
057think about those in uh in terms of projections and student enrollment uh moving forward the budget is a living breathing uh entity so this is part of what makes the budget concerns evolve and continue to grow so inflation happens every year um and with student uh decline does as well we have to adjust um we also know that uh delaying reductions only increases that gap between enrollment Decline and inflationary cost and so this is why we work to address uh address those as much as we could for this school year we had a very large budget reduction for the 2425 school year as you all know um uh and larger reductions in the 24 school year will lessen those reductions in future years and uh the Bold there at the end is reductions will uh
058be needed until enrollment uh stabilizes okay and then here is a slide that uh that you have all seen many times so the slide was from our April 23rd School Board uh budget update which shows our uh reduction slated for 2425 um but you also see the fund balance loss um of add that in the next little bit here um the fund balance uh loss of a potential of$ three to4 million that will need to be uh potentially reduced in the 25 26 school year if our current projections for enrollment decline hold and we know that there we did a little bit better this year and we're EXC uh excited about October 1 being even better so we have uh to keep this chart in front of uh the board and our community this is
059a chart of transparency and Trust building um we have shared these statistics with our community and stakeholders since last spring um as well as the addendum to our written analysis for the possible closure of Columbia way back in uh in February so we want to keep these numbers in front of folks okay and so when we talk about uh the preliminary budget reduction um we do not yet know um the exact number of but it's it's up to $4 million I think is is the term that we're using um we have slated $3 to4 million um but there's a lot of factors that go into that and we'll see these these factors are on this slide deck here but you'll also see uh the Milestones um before we get to the HVAC presentation so the
0602425 preliminary reduction amount of three to three to four million do um is predicated on a lot of things and uh and the great thing about these is is we can always do better we just don't know um so we have to plan for uh you know for the realities um and so we have an enrollment as I mentioned earlier we're projecting a decrease of 225 student FTE in the in the 2425 school year um we know that we're we've done a little bit better than that so far and that's exciting that's good um we also know that we have some inflationary uh factors as well we have the ipd or that imp implicit price deflator and that's the price index that measures the changes in the prices of goods and services produced in the
061US um also uh number that comes from our state legislature when it comes to what we think of as cost of living increases we also know um that uh insurance has increased exponentially um and that is insurance for the entire District uh has increased 30% last year and we are budgeted for 30 this year and it is uh slated to increase at least 20% uh as well so those are going up we also know that this is uh an interesting year for us to uh to work toward because we have a replacement Levy that we have coming up in February so February 11th we'll uh go to uh the voters on a replacement Levy uh so we'll uh we hope to pass our replacement education program and operational Levy uh in February as well so
062that also plays huge uh implications into our budget uh and we'll have uh some more presentations on that we have a presentation coming up to the board on October 8th and then a board workshop on October 14th that revolves solely around the levy so we'll have more information there uh let's see our fund balance reserves we know that we are always hoping to to close the year we adding to our fund balance reserves we know that we have to have a 5% fund balance uh at all times and that is like our savings account so we want to make make sure we pay close attention to that we also always watch our state legislative session this year happens to be a long session so we'll be watching it even longer than we usually do um
063and we'll also be working for uh building that budget for 100% Staffing as we strive uh to get to that point and then there's K3 class-size compliance pieces that we also uh receive funding from the state so all of those pieces roll together um to help us understand better what exactly that uh enrollment or not enrollment but what the reduction uh amount looks like for the 25 26 school year and then of course at the at the bottom there the bottom line is we're still very early in the budgeting process um and our forecast will be adjusted throughout the school year as we reach those Milestones that I'll show you in just a sec um and this is a starting point this is our best forecast oh I'm gonna click through all these I'll get
064them up there um yep went too far okay um so these uh these are the factors and considerations for Budget reduction as we look um throughout the year and these are these are things that we look at annually um alignment of staff to declining enrollment uh what are our numbers and how are we basing that on our enrollment decline um we know that there are going to be some uh some restructuring opportunities at the district office um and at the cabinet level uh we have some unique opportunities um we also always look at our retirements and resignation um with scrutiny so there's always areas to leverage um that can help in those reductions as well again looking at outside contracts for goods and services um that we uh utilize in the district there are always
065things that we can um look at that can have a big impact on our budget um we had a not recommended list uh last year when we were talking about budget reductions for 25 and 26 um we we know we'll need to take a look at this list this was a list that we were not recommending as part of last year's budget reduction process um but we know that we'll need to be taking a look at that this year we also know that um out of our budget last year we had $2.5 million that were um taken out of material supplies and operating costs so we'll be looking at that again to see if there's any room or ability to claw back any of that um again I've mentioned the fund balance making sure that
066we maintain that 5% minimum here um salaries and bargaining will play a role um as I mentioned that implicit price deflator um or that cost of living indicator and then of course meeting the mile stones and so I want to show you the Milestones oh oh yeah okay um the Milestones that we have for the year were past the August um but that's where our budget reduction dollar amounts are are set for the year and we look at our student uh enrollment but October is kind of where we are right now so we are looking forward to the first uh milestone for October which is our enrollment projections u based on our count um we'll also be looking toward the close of the 23 24 school year can see what uh what impacts will be
067on our fund balance um we can at that point we'll be updating preliminary budget reduction amounts and also obtaining some feedback and then as we move into November and December we'll have our additional stakeholder feedback opportunities we'll be developing a preliminary budget reduction plan and how we're going to actually come up with that uh dollar amount and then as January begins we'll be looking at the State Legislative budget session um in February we'll be looking at that replacement epno levy on the ballot April is our state legislative budget session ending and may budget reductions become finalized in June um we start uh 25 26 preliminary budget we we begin the cycle all over again so those are the Milestones that uh that we'll be looking forward to this year see where I am here any
068questions on that stuff before I move into the HVAC maintenance information okay okay we keep moving this is review for you all so I appreciate that um as I mentioned um you know since we're talking about budgets um and the heat seems to be sticking around this year um it it was recommended that I share some of the costs associated with our aging and old HVAC equipment um since this summer has been the summer of big repairs uh so I've got a variety of things to share with you and each of them revolves around a specific school that experienced an HVAC shut down or uh uh you know just time without their cooling systems and one of the things that is challenging with most of our systems is because they are old and aging parts
069are challenging to obtain um Lance when I was talking to him referred to uh the graveyard many times and this is a place where um they have old equipment that they can go and grab things from um and uh fabricate things and weld fan blades and do all sorts of fun stuff but uh he really described that the process of fixing the old and aged equipment really begins with um ordering parts when you can um if not you go to the graveyard if not you go to eBay or you find used parts and if all else fails you begin fabricating um as I mentioned I met with Lance uh Coleman one of our two HVAC technicians to to talk about this work um and these these men and their expertise uh you know help save
070us thousands of dollars um every single year multiple thousands of dollars to uh to keep our systems running so I'm share a little bit about some of this work and uh feel free to to stop me or ask any questions along the way uh we have two HVAC specialists in the district uh Lance and Patrick uh they keep things running smoothly and keep uh keep people happy and able when they can um and most of the time what normally will happen is they have things fixed and adjusted um and the problem resolved before most people even know that there is a problem um and that's how they like to work and how they like to operate they also uh serve as our large uh commercial appliance repair technicians so ovens and dishwashers and steam Wells
071um and they really talked about Lance really talked about a collaborative approach um to repair that included um not only our director of Maintenance and oper ations but our contract Specialists outside uh technicians and product support teams like everyone is needed um as part of this work to make things happen each repair that I'll describe here uh involves um our HVAC te technicians uh and potentially outside Partners Parts suppliers um and then uh uh some District support as well along the way okay so the first one first two we've got the first first two Mission view um so what to really quantify the cost Associated I wanted you to see the number of hours that our technicians put into the work uh some of the parts that are involved or what the problems were any
072outside support that's necessary because these guys are collaborating with people all the time um and then the time that uh that the thing uh our systems were down so Mission view in quick summary for the two technicians about 16 hours roughly 8 hours for each of the technicians they were working together on this one uh the motor had to be rebuilt there we have an approximate cost of the motor um being rebuilt um and the cooling tower needed to be repaired as well so our outside support there was motor marked and the time down at Mission view was about two weeks um that was during the time when we did have some sumers school programming so we moved students over uh to Lincoln for a little while uh and then Newberry and interesting enough interestingly
073enough Newberry was down today um and uh it was actually it was down yesterday it was fixed and then this morning when um uh the building principal got there it was it was down again so but it was as of four o'clock today it was back up and running and so that was great but during the summertime um we we did not we did not lose any summer programming at Newberry because they were they were able to to to make it work so six and a half hours there um the problem was that the loop was low on water there was multiple non-functioning classrooms and there had to be a lot of cleaning out of some of the um the equipment so the time down was less than a day there and uh and that
074became it was much more than routine maintenance but uh they were able to get that uh working and fixed nope went backwards sorry okay uh the next one Valley Academy um so technicians uh Valley Academy was down four different times this summer so 25 hours collectively was the the time that they put into it a quick summary on what was happening there it was was quite a few things uh so two units were problematic uh there was a high head pressure switch there which was you know very nominal in its cost but um a lot of time and hours for uh these two gentlemen there was a leak repair flashing code incorrect a lot of this I was like okay Lance thank you uh there's a lot of technical terms and I learned a lot
075about hvx but um his expertise really um was shining through so new pre uh pressure switch went bad again they tested all the equipment they metered there's the metering device was plugged and blocked both cooling and heating um so the outside support that they used is uh tech support from the actual uh Factory technicians and the downtime there was off and on for uh multiple days it took uh multiple uh tries to get this working uh consistently so that they could have um some consistent cooling there cor is that include what happened at the start of the school year as well or was that just a summer you know that does include what happened uh right after Labor Day on that Tuesday it was hot there as well so that was part of these uh
076ongoing problems and so since then they feel like uh it's been it's been consistently moving in the right direction right exactly um thank you yeah so and then and then some what we think of is what we think of is as the the big building like holy cow um the high school has um lots of stuff here and there was just too many hours for Lance to even quantify on how much time they spent up there um and we spent the most time probably talking about wian high school and Orchard just because of the consistent ongoing uh concerns there so Parts um we have the parts where the three compressors have been ordered uh and uh they're they run about $113,000 a piece we know that these they don't make new ones so these are
077reconditioned ones um so there are 15 of these on top of the high school I did not realize that there were that many of those each has two fans and each vibrates constantly and creates uh leaks in what Lance referred to as micro leaks and even a micro leak can drain all of your coolant out um over time which is very expensive to lose uh that and so he said it's a constant struggle he likened it to um to a car he was telling me that the the seat the compressor over the CTE Wing has is is like a four-cylinder engine uh the world languages is like a six-cylinder engine and he he liken to like these things are running constantly year round uh the building's 50 years old you know cars when they get
078to 300,000 miles they've usually um they live their life and so he was trying to impress upon me um what we all know is that these are Beyond useful life um the outside work here uh working with multiple companies to obtain Parts some of the folks that we've worked with in the past have been able to obtain parts and help us with some of the installation um and some of those uh sources are drying up a little bit so we're just able to obtain parts from some folks and then we have to Outsource uh the help and support that are necessary uh Lance shared that uh some of the other things that are involved in the cost will be the lift and disposal of the old equipment um and uh and then of course the
079crane to lift the new equipment which we remember from 20122 as we were lifting three new units on top of wian high school as well so um so that's a little bit on whs okay so Orchard um again another situation where there was too many hours to quantify um we were running on one of two circuits uh the motor starter went bad there were four leaks in circuit one circuit two was running with two small leaks controller issues um and then the technical part of things is when they're not sending out proper signals to the chiller um Parts availability are scarce that's the same the same old story here is it's really challenging to find parts for these aging equipments um but here are some numbers so $5,000 for the drive $28,000 for the chiller
080another $20,000 for parts and uh this particular uh Chiller runs on Old refrigerant U which evidently costs a fortune um but if we were to replace the entire uh system it would be $400,000 um outside support here cooling equipment um was brought into Orchard middle school as you all know from Renton um we've had lots of time with uh technicians and controlling companies um and also controller companies sorry and then um there'll need to be some upgrading of the software when our parts eventually do come in the were shipped on September 9th and we are anxiously uh awaiting their arrival so um we can get the systems up and run quick question does the 28,000 then cover that cost of bringing the cooling equipment from Renton or projected in here do we know what that
081was uh it was let's see so we we reach a month on Tuesday it's how of how long they've been here sorry of how long they've been here because it's still there still oh yeah it was it's smoking hot in there I went just did a walk through today as well um classrooms in the in the mid to high 80s um as well and areas that they're they are cooling um but in order they're just not able to to keep up and so they are it is um it is definitely supporting the students in the classrooms but there are some areas we've had to move some of the systems around from the gym and the cafeteria to cool some of the other areas so for the most part if you're in a classroom and you've
082got one of the in units you're going to be okay but if you go to the library you might be a little warm cafeteria is a little bit warm the hallways don't have units in them so um but yeah we reach a month uh on Tuesday and I think that we're probably going to need to go a couple more weeks um and so that is yeah that number is going to be it'll be expensive it'll be um probably 29,000 for that they have 40 I think they have 42 units yep uh um okay wrong way the takeaways here our technicians are highly qualified and keep our systems running the best they can the impact is not always the cost of the parts but the impact of time on the technician's day um and then I
083just kind of wrote and I wrote this out there how comfortable or how do we quantify the cost of learning for uncomfortable students and staff um and then uh typo there but this clearly describes the importance of our long range facilities planning committee which we'll meet again on October 9th um as we continue the work on what does the long range facilities plan look like for the wi school district for the next five and 10 years and that was that is the presentation on the HVAC uh uh situation so I wanted to give you all an update there and uh let you know where we were with some of our equipment so um to chair so uh any questions or clarifications uh there each one of those slides is a concern so I know that
084but anything else I can um share with you that was a that was a good ask I know I want to apologize I do have a comment thank you um I think you mentioned the long-term uh facilities committee but I think it would be a good idea to have a dimensioned analysis of what we've got from an engineering point of view and this is not necessarily correct but the sort of thing that I would think might work was one scenario is uh we are going to fix things as they break what's likely to happen what are we going to have to do basically the way it's working right now the next one would be that we are not going to do major rebuilding for say five plus years and therefore it might be worthwhile making
085something like the $400,000 item at Orchard that you mentioned kind of uh is there a Middle Road where where a certain amount of capital investment is done from the capital fund uh can we find money for that and it would be a bridge hopefully something that could be used or resold or taken even on a rental basis I'm just imagining all of those scenarios but do an engineering analysis this is not a plan right this is what these animals look like and then the third one would be we know that the state has their energy efficient system with penalties and money and subsidies and that would be part and parcel of major um Renovations of all the school district buildings and under those scenario would any of the existing systems still function how would they
086function would you start from scratch if you started from like a green field site doing that way what would it look like and you might want to compare the operating cost versus the capital cost right all of this is called Blue Sky numbering but I think it would be very helpful to um do to the extent that we can and it's not easy but it'll be you know uh approximate get an idea maybe those aren't the right three scenarios but something like that so that we can see different Pathways and and begin to think about what the facilities committee could do what the district could do what the money can do and what the students can suffer I appreciate that and I think a a good spot for us to begin is those uh the
087preliminary scoping assessments that were done from McDonald Miller because they're they are not the investment grade audits but they have a ton of information and uh really reasonable um not reasonable they're very expensive but um they have great approximations of the cost that are for each one of our buildings in the district so that'd be a good place to start with that because we have data on that so thanks Martin all right well thank you for your time I appreciate it so I don't think there's any action or discussion tonight so moving on to the superintendent report all right all right let's do this so I wanted to give you all an update on um our students from Colombia who have transitions to to new schools respectively and so um I met with each of
088the the principles of of the schools here so at Washington um the enrollment in Washington for September uh is four uh 547 students um we have four classrooms at all grade levels except kindergarten which only has three classrooms um with that additional space Washington has a new transition to kindergarten classroom uh which is going well um all but two of the classrooms um are at or below contracted class sizes based on the information that Kelly gave us earlier in the month um according to Jessica a morning drop off is running smoothly afternoon pickup is running smoothly and you probably remember that Castle Rock Early Learning Center adjusted their start and end times of their day just so that uh parking lot wouldn't be as congested as um it could be and it was with both
089schools operating on the exact same schedule so that's been uh helping um Washington is working on lots of uh intentional belonging strategies and activities for both staff and students because they have new staff that they're welcoming in as well um the goal is for everyone to be safe and feel connected um the uh Jessica said the main office has been busy here um and but she feels that having familiar faces in the main office such as the family Advocate from Columbia Nancy has been helping to support families and students uh their PTA has uh a great deal of family oriented activities planned for the fall and to help uh folks feel connected um there principal R Bryant did say that there there are some struggles with some student Behavior at Washington um and mostly because
090Washington has that larger con rtion of students with disabilities um that they are working with um in their elementary school so they're they're experiencing a little bit of a a spike there but uh Heidi and uh Kelly and I were there to observe today and uh and I think we have some uh some some some help and support for them so uh and then at Lincoln I met with principal stuber was able to actually um watch and uh and hang out with principal stuber as he was greeting students in about a week ago on Monday the enrollment there is about 600 uh there are four classes per grade level and we know we have a large fifth grade class that has five class rooms um the numbers there uh will be more balanced in following
091years as we graduate that large fifth grade class and we unfortunately we Pro uh project to see some smaller kindergarten classes um all but one of their classrooms are at or below contracted class sizes based on the information that we got earlier um morning drop off appears to be running smoothly um as I mentioned I was there we were able to greet students as they were coming in the front and going right into the cafeteria to get breakfast before the Bell um but they have a couple of different entrances so the busing um the busing students they have seven buses so the buses come in behind the school so I'll need to next time I'm there I'll check that out because I was only on one side of the building um what principal stuber did
092share though is is there's a lot of new right now at Lincoln and he's talking about his you know him him as a leader uh the size of the building the number of students um the combination of our students who are getting to know each other and becoming um One new student body uh the staff and their systems and processes there's so there's a lot of new but he said the overall Vibe is headed in the right direction and folks are optimistic according to him so that was good um and then the last there we do have some new students at Mission view as well so Mission view received um 25 or so students from a Columbia um their enrollment is is up at 483 which is about 40 students over our budgeted projections so
093they Al also added a TK classroom uh so they have two full classrooms this year um they're experiencing some increased Behavior as well at the moment but as uh principal uh Jagger says that um everyone just needs to be Mission View ised and I was like okay that will happen over a course of time then um and so yeah so he said there's some unexpected and increased uh behavior and some unexpected potty potty training situations as well so I'm like oh okay um but he said the flow of the building and the and the pickup and drop off are going uh according to plan so just some some real stuff right there um to add on I was just going to share um some of the things that uh we're it was great to have
094Eric here earlier but share some of the stats from the athletic communication that is coming out on Sundays um just uh cross country um and the win AE invite it sounds like our girls took first place which is fantastic boys came in third there was 1300 Runners that's incredible uh slow pitch is 4-2 overall and 2-2 in League Play and they hosted Eisenhower tonight um and traveled to Moses Lake on Thursday and I just want to add I I don't know if Eric said it October 8th I'm saying it October 8th we're playing at the new softball complex that's going to happen I walked uh walked it again last night tonight with uh our project manager and uh even though it's a little bit behind it uh it sure looks good and it'll sure be
095fantastic they were laying cement as we were walking through last night about 5:30 so um our girls swim and swim and dive had their first League meet in Moses Lake um their next meet is October 3D at Davis girls soccer you want to you want to tell the stats but they are doing really well right they are five- one 2-0 in League Play and they have a game tonight against Moses lake at the Apple running over there right after this we're going to get you there uh football grabbed their first Victory as many of you know last week uh 4221 over Eisenhower uh volleyball remains undefeated um bringing their record of 4-0 with wins over Lyon and West Valley and they'll take on Moses Lake Eisenhower and travel to Spokane for a tournament so that's
096good stuff there um yeah I think that's it for the superintendent report Thank you new board communication started this well it's the start of a new year so we've had the first meeting of the superintendent advisory Council that I like to sit in and they're going to spend uh half new students a lot of time thinking deeply about how they can help shape what we do with student voice in the future so that's one committee meeting uh the parent advisory committee for my migrant and bilingual education had their first board meeting last week and they're having another one this week I think getting ready for the first um event and uh that's a start for the year budget committee met for the first time and the only thing I want to say about that is
097you've seen the scenario there's 11 months till August next year but I think it's really important the budget committee is looking and ready to react promptly to measure promptly and to think clearly have a four-year plan what call a fouryear projection that was part of August 20 um this year's August uh budget what's that going to compare to and how is it going to work early start is really really important uh and I guess last meeting I spent a lot of time talking about Partnerships and there's all sorts of Partnerships happening around the community right now uh students involved with the community the school district using facilities and joining in with the community um I not going to talk about any of them but was at Fourth events this last week and it's nice to
098get home sometimes I got to go with the third graders to Rocky reach Dam and uh tour that facility and it was uh I did it with my now sixth grader three years ago and it is a much bigger production now it was it was really fun really cool to see um all the different booze that are out and all the kids seem to have a really good time I chased them around for a couple hours hours um so that was great so this last weekend was the wasda General Assembly that we sat on on the board Workshop that was actually a Friday and a Saturday event it was we the last round we had out of the two over a little over 200 school districts we had 148 participate as a voting delegate which
099was really really great um so I for those that don't know I not just the legislative rep I am part of our district area which is covering Chalan Douglas Grant and Okanagan County and all of the school districts in that region and 11 of our schools in the our particular region got the opportunity and participate so it's great to see everyone virtually and in person so what we had done is that o we went over 50 different wasda policies from the governance capital projects um funding governance and wasda bylaws got we knocked it all out did a collaborative effort and voted on what will'll pass on to for us to prioritize to bring into the long session come January and we will all the legislative um reps and da reps will get together in two
100weeks prioritizing what will be presented to Olympia in January and so I encourage it's the the list of what was discussed is um should be posted between today and next week on the wda website so if the board can review that and express what would be a prioritize or like a priority for our district specifically to be addressed I can relay that to um our committee in two weeks so that would be appreciative but yeah now everything is going really smoothly and also relaying the message um the voting um so each of our district areas election the C the filing window had closed last week last Monday and voting starts October so it's encourag for all of our school members and our entire state to vote on our new legislative resolutions committee and nominating committees
101to for to represent pazda so that is that report don't forget to vote for Miranda had to be our district 7 legislative um person because she put her name in the Hat again um H I don't have much other than um you know big shout out to K Manas although they didn't happen on Wan School District uh property they have the the partnership continues uh Corey was there and uh did his speech Alonso was there uh Mr LZ myself and a couple other school district Representatives um that was a busy weekend for us and then the following day we were also supporting the local Community Partnership with our soccer league also with Mr Lopez um celebrating hasp a Heritage Month uh I think that's all I have oh and I did see you walking around
102with Rob I was hoping Rob would uh be at this meeting um and I was a little disappointed he's not here but um we'll trust the October 8 State all right I just have a few things um I also participated in the budget committee meeting this this last week to get an early start on the budget so I appreciate your presentation reflected what we talked at that meeting um I also attended the Chan County leadership meeting with Corey last Friday um where the we had taken a couple months break but now we're getting back together where we meet with um the local officials Mayors and electeds and whatnot from from various entities in Chan County about their projects they get to brag about all the money they have we um but they did um make
103some some good suggestions of of who we can get in front of for support who's coming into the valley and whatnot um so some good ideas some good Partnerships to look into forming both for the district as a whole but to get our students engaged with some projects um to work with them and then I also Eric mentioned it kind of this strange ad hoc little parent committee put together um some of the parents boosters um put together a little athletic advocacy meeting on Saturday um at Rotary Park they invited me to participate um I extended the invitation with Corey's blessing to um Eric to go out there and hear firsthand some of the thoughts um since we're in this year of of you know new regime and rebuilding Athletics um kind of a lot
104of concern of what does that look like when you're an athletic director splitting time with a a school and and how does that prioritize and and this being Levy year and whatnot um just getting out ahead of what some of the concerns are um very good feedback at that meeting I could see Eric took it very uh seriously we had one of the big concerns that was raised was coaching hiring And Timely doing that and it was fantastic to see that those comments obviously triggered some some additional action and so we got um got some new coaches hired this week which was I think great um not saying it was necessarily because of that meeting but I think you know he was saying two weeks and then I think it encouraged him to up that
105timeline so I appreciate the the that he even showed up but um that there was some positive things taken out of that and I think the community felt heard by that really um so they express an interest in doing it again and I may invite one of you if I get assuming I'll get invited again I may invite um someone else who might be uh interested in athletics and But Eric mentioned that he'd be happy to do that and we'd kind of streamline a little bit to uh if it gets bigger you know try to find a way to make it so as many voices get heard and so as productive as possible but um it was great to see just kind of an ad hoc Community effort and um ways to strategize and work
106together and so that's all I've got there is nothing else then I will adjourn and run to a soccer game get you s all righted for