001Just wanted to let you know Bob. Not yet, but I'll I'll check in with them. We'll text you. So, it is 5:30. All right. the board of directors meeting for Riverside School District to order on June 25th 5:30 p.m. Please join us. Sure. To the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You have any remarks for the school share envelope that was on the desk from the Riverside FFA. It was a thank you note from the chapter all signed by many of the students thanking us for supporting. I'm going to state mention and there are some pictures up here that I invite you to look at after we hear. I would like to just say how awesome graduation
002was and the senior all nighter was fabulous the moms that put that on and the dads that were there. It was a great time. All the kids had so much fun and forever for sure. That's right. But no, it was so much fun. The kids loved it. It was a great great day. Great graduation outside wasn't terribly long. 83 under 44 minutes. 44 minutes a new record. Yeah. People I think were appreciative. Yeah. Great attendance. Great. So, I love that we are able to host the whole community. We don't have to put limits on who can come. Yes. Exactly. Have tickets and all that. Saves us a lot of money, too. Yeah. Yeah. Going downtown was about a $10,000 bill. Yeah. a lot. So, and it's, you know, it's it's a lot for those graduations
003downtown because they have like three a night. So, way better to have it up here where we can take our time and standing out in the grass and enjoying family. So, great job. Uh, we had Ed Anagon was chosen as teacher of the year, so he had a great speech. Yeah. Yep. And then we also had uh um Ben Willis who was the valadictorian. Hey everybody, come on in. Good to see you. Come on in. Have a seat. These aren't quite as uh attended and active as Central Valley School District Board meetings, Ben. It's a nice change of pace. I love it. I love it. You know, I was as I was driving up, I was Yeah, exactly. We're just sharing remarks for the good of the schools. So, and we did have we did
004have eight great awesome eighth grade promotions here. So, that I mean you you know Alicia and Gary and Matt, you were there and it was awesome and it was huge. Have you seen that kind of attendance? It was packed. Standing room. Yeah. That was great. mind when that class graduates. You know, they're definitely a bigger a bigger class and it probably helped our cause. There was 90 degrees in that gym with our HVAC project. So, there were a lot of people complaining about the heat. Our community really shows up for kids. I love it. Yeah, they do. It's amazing. Grandparents, cousins. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing I wanted to mention is that, you know, if you ever get a chance, drive around the school district because people think there's not a lot going on, but
005there is. There's summer camps like today. You probably check out our Facebook. We had uh 80 campers at the the soccer camp. Uh, probably the coolest thing I thought about it going out there and visiting with people is that there were 20 high schoolers who were coaching. Oh, that's awesome. So, you had females, male soccer players. They were leading drills and and and activities. And I I love that collective leadership that we talk a lot about is getting the students to step up and and show that leadership. And and last week's basketball camp, same kind of thing. And you walk around the basketball camp and there's high schoolers leading all the drills and all the games. Coaches aren't even talking which I think is awesome. So lot lots of stuff going on. So that's awesome.
006Y I want to add um I picked up from the football camp that they had at Witworth and that was very successful. Uh he came home and crashed. Um, and he he said at first he's like, "Oh, I wish this was all week and by the third day he was like, I'm so glad we're going home." I think they had a lot of good bonding and um a lot of good. There was over a thousand campers at Woodward. Wow. Yeah, it's a big big event. Did they say the whole time they say the night in like the dorms and stuff? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I had he wanted me to give him some money and I was at work and I was like, "Oh my god, you found him." Yeah, that's great. Thank you all
007for sharing. All right. Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All motion carries. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meetings from regular meeting May 21st and special meeting June 2nd? So second in favor say I opposed. Motion carries. Approval of consent agenda. Can I get a motion? So move. Any discussion? Those in favor? Any opposed? presentations plus here to give us a presentation. It's great to see you again. Well, it's great to see you, Matt. Members of the board, Chair Kimley and Superintendent Russell, thank you for the opportunity to um to meet with you today. We're here to award a $5,000 grant um to Riverside High School and Riverside School District for amazing work in FASA completion amongst the
008students at Riverside High School. And what um we at Launch Northwest, our whole mission is to galvanize entire communities to ensure that every child finds belonging and travels their best journey from birth to career attainment. And we say that um because we believe that journey should be defined by our students and their families and what it is that they aspire to become post high school. And so we at Launch Northwest, although we have a scholarship that we are offering to students and we've offered, I believe there are at least 13 students last year from Riverside that received the scholarship from Long West about it's a $5,000 a year scholarship last year. is $2,500 a year this year. Um, our whole our whole role is not to create people who are going to college or to
009say you have to get a college degree to be successful, but we do believe that some post high school pursuit is really important to the success of our children into the future. Excuse me. And really we see that that FASA completion is a door that opens for them um post high school because there's a lot of financial assistance that can come to students. Um and a lot of times our students think it's just for college and it's not. Registered apprentichip programs are can be funded through the FASA and through financial aid through the Washington College grant. um credential programs can be funded through that um financial aid. And so not every student who fills out the FASA FASA has to go to college right away or go into a program right away. But if they
010have it filled out and in the middle of the year they decide I want to go now they're in the they're already in the queue and that that organization can get them hooked up and can get financial aid. A lot of times students will say, "Well, my family doesn't qualify for financial aid, so I'm not going to fill it out." So, they don't fill it out. And let's say they start at Witworth and they're going to school at Witworth and something happens and there's a financial emergency. Let's say the family loses um their job and so the bread winner is no longer there. If they filled out that FAFSA, Witworth can automatically within a week get them funds to continue their education. And so we're really encouraging as the next step that students take as
011a senior in high school that their families fill out the FAFSA um because it just opens so many other doors. And one of the things that that I think is so important about this award is it has been a team effort and I I it starts with the school board setting strategic goals. It starts with Dr. Russell making sure that the counselors and that high school teachers know that this is really important for our kids and it's that next step. And so for us when we see in 2022, I'm just going to read you some figures and in September of 22 there was 31% completion of FASA amongst Riverside um high school seniors. September of 23 is 40% and September of 24 it was 64%. an increase of 33 percentage points over those students. And
012what that means is that not every one of those students have said, "Yeah, I'm going to go to college or go right into a credential program." But they have the opportunity now. Washington State has one of the the most generous Washington college grants for tuition in in the whole United States. And yet we're 47th or 48th other students who complete the FASA percentage-wise as a in a national comparison. And so we in in in Spokane and Launch Northwest are trying to work with communities and school districts to say this can really open the doors for kids. And on top of that, when you fill out the FASA, you qualify for the Launch Northwest scholarship. the Lance Northwest scholarship. Last year, as I said, Riverside High School students got $5,000 renewable for four years. That's $20,000
013toward their education. Um, this year, we we manage our scholarship. So, we have a scholarship that's available to our families for forever. And so, we're adding more students. We've served about 100 students. We'll we'll serve 250 students in Spokane County this year. And so we've had to adjust that scholarship down to $2,500 a year, but that's $10,000 towards um a four-year degree. Um students can take a gap year and say, "Well, I don't want to start right now, but I do want to start in a year." And then they're still eligible for our scholarship. Um so congratulations. Um we the check is in the mail. We were going to bring one of those big checks, but we couldn't find one. [Music] But um we will the $5,000 check will get to you. But I just
014am so proud of what Riverside has tackled and has done and the challenge that you're putting forward to your kids and and the work that is there. We're very fortunate too to give to award um Riverside School District a $50,000 grant for CTE programming and um partnering with community the one of the cheap not steel but steel company. I can't remember the name. Yeah, I'm forgetting the name right now as well. Northwest Steel. Yeah, Northwest. So can making sure that kids have that pathway beyond them. So, we're we're excited to support Riverside and Count Riverside is one of the school districts that have totally bought in uh to their to your kids, your students doing um something after high school to better their life and their success. So, with that, we'll present you with the
015a certificate and then um we'll have a check for you. Oh, awesome. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you. I don't have the best camera, but thank you. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. You all are amazing to work with. So much support and really appreciate great communication and they're they're the numbers are really good, but also the individual stories of kids, you would just be amazed. I mean, transformational experiences, kids coming out of cycles of poverty, kids being the first in their family to go to college. You know, one of our one of our kids uh got pregnant had and thought that her dreams were going to be taken away and because of the support and the counseling that she got, she's going to college and has the support services
016to be a mom and reach her academic and career goals without letting anything stop her. But that took a lot of coordination and support. So high expectations too. It really sets the tone. It doesn't matter if you're in the country. You know, it doesn't matter where you came from, your zip code, you can achieve greatness. And so it really sets that bar nice and big. Riverside has the highest completion rate in the county, top 25 in the state of Washington. So you're leading the way. And I I I the the thing that I want to point to the it's not just a horn. It's so much more than that. And I really hope you guys I hope the staff and community are proud of what you appreciate. Yeah, you can stick around, but you but
017then you've been through a lot of boarding. [Music] Well, I I also want to introduce Bridget Duncan. Bridget is the one who is who works with FASA completion across the entire county. Um she works with STCU to get people. We are introducing Washington Trust Bank. next year we'll be coming on site to um help families fill out the FAFSA, talk about financial education and how to pay for college and so we're trying to really bring a whole community around um our kids in this issue. So Bridget has been amazing. So yes, thank you. Thank you. That's great. Thank you both. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for making that beautiful trip up to it. It was absolutely a beautiful trip. Awesome. I just want to say hi Are you ready to adopt the dog? They're like
018tear. [Laughter] Well, so my family um we're we're we're kind of in between. actually an elk, but um between deer park and here lots of the rivalry stuff going on. Yeah, please figure out how to [Music] Nice to meet you. Thank you. Hey, travel. So, every one of those motions, I know there's so much work that goes on behind being able to have a motion like that. So, understand there's no rub I don't there's no rubber standing. No, that's right. I I understand all of the work that goes into being able to approve a consent and all those other Oh, yeah. Congratulations. Thank you guys. Thank you. There is going to be a video series uh with Riverside students and families on the FAFSA on FAFSA that's going out on in their region. So they
019actually chose Riverside, they hired a professional videographer to come into the school ad and and uh interview the kids and families about what it meant, what it's meant. It's kind of some that are going into trades, some that are going into the traditional fouryear and so it's pretty good. Well, I'll share those with once we get them to Yeah. Good way. Good thing. Okay. We have our superintend. Yeah. Um, so one of the things I wanted to share is that we were just at the AWSB WASA conference as an administrative team and so it's in Spokane. We like to go as a team. It it it helps with professional learning, leadership development, and uh I always walk away from that experience really feeling good about the things we have going on at Riverside. Obviously, we
020try to go there to learn and improve on the areas that we need to improve. It's also a good experience to be able to go and see some of the positives that we have going on. Like for example, there's a session there was a session on aligning uh goals and school improvement plans between buildings and district. We're pretty strong in that area. We could probably teach that session. And so, you know, fact that you have district goals, the buildings have goal that support the district goals and it's all around student learning. Small teams, PLC teams work on goals that support building goals and then the district goals. So like FAPSA that Ben was talking about, it's kind of an example where the counselors are a team. They operate as a professional learning community. They work
021together on that particular goal. Not every teacher works on that goal because there's you can have too many goals to work on. But anyways, that was an example. Uh there's there's sessions on team culture. There were sessions on board relationships. And I think one of the trends that's going on in the state of Washington is that's probably the most negative is is the board. And I'm not superintendent and principles who were at that who were at that uh conference. I think we walked away going, geez, we're so lucky to have the board that we have. You know, you all got into it because you wanted to support kids, number one. But I think you also went into it with the mentality that we actually like teachers and we actually like the people who work in
022schools. And so we're going to go in and try to help them do the best that they can rather than going in and saying you're all horrible at what you do and we're going to go in and fix you. And so and that's kind of the trend that's happening um from lay people who aren't you know trained in that area. So I really appreciate it and don't ever want you to underestimate how valued valued you are. So anyways that was a really good experience. We um in my report I just wanted to highlight that I really think a huge part of our job is to train uh support and positively hold accountable our leaders and so that we we often can have a more direct connection. So I think we have to get back in
023like in August and September, bring the principles back in, you know, really work on our collective goal setting, talk about student learning. How are kids doing? How do we know? And continue to build that relationship that we we have. One of the advantages of our team is that they're sticking around. I mean, other than Katie Link, who was here a year, and I always tell people the only reason why she went to Deer Park. It's not because she likes Deer Park better than Riverside. It's because she grew up in Riverside or Deer Park. Her kids go to school in Deer Park and her husband works in Deer Park. So, I think we can allow that. Um, you know, being a born and raised stag. Um, so, but anyways, here to break away and make the
024right move. Exactly. We try to keep I know but anyways just the leadership development and let's keep thinking of ways to build relationships between the board and principles and directors. Uh and again it's it's with it's with high expectations of doing a great job getting results but also through relationships that we that we do. So, uh, anyways, and then lastly, uh, just wanted to give you a little bit of an update. I think we're, God, it seems like Jos and I were talking about it seems like all we talk about is either bonds or capital less. And I'm sorry about that because I totally agree that it gets a little bit overwhelming and we want to talk about other good things that are happening. So, but I do want to give you a quick update
025and that is that we we took the recommendation that the facilities advisory committee made to the board and we sent a a flyer in our newsletter out to the community and then we sent it out via email to all of our parents, our staff and we got a survey and I shared some of the survey access with you. But just to give you a little bit of a of an update, it wasn't a huge sample size, but I think it was enough to give us some good information. So, we asked people to rate on a scale of one to five what they thought the priorities of the projects were. And the good news is that 83% of the respondents scored the security, safety, and technology improvements uh as a four or five. So, when you
026have 83% of the respondents, that gives you a little bit more confidence to to see that they okay, they say, "Oh, yeah, that makes sense. That should be a priority." And then 76% of the respondents gave a four or a five to HVAC. And again, that's that should give us a little bit more confidence that the at least that sample of respondents uh tells us that that that combined with some of the comments that were in the survey. Uh there were many comments like you probably read that like uh that you know focusing on the basics the musthaves versus the want to haves getting the point the price of the measure down from the previous bond trying to be respectful of taxpayer bills and the pocketbook. Um I think I think that should give you
027confidence. if we were down in the 40s on those respondents, you know, we might want to further investigate that because you got to get at least a 50% to pass the capital. So, anyways, feel pretty good about that. And then also, I've sent you quite a bit of information. It's a little heavy. Some of you have been on the board, you've been through this so many times where you have to get a resolution. You have to read all the legal jargon that goes with the resolution. And uh I actually had to make some changes to the resolution uh that you originally were emailed. So Caitlyn made new copies of that resolution. Um if you you may but but what I can do is when we get to the action item I of the resolution, I
028think it might be good for me to point out a couple of the the changes. I'd say 80 90% of the document is the same, but what's different is the description of the actual ballot that's going you that the people would open up and read before they vote yes or no. So, that's pretty much it on the superintendent report. I will share during executive session uh some of the staffing staffing updates that we've got going on as well. Any questions for me about those topics or any other any other that you that you want to ask for the good group right now that you needed any clarification on? Looks like we're good to report. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Uh so we are to number nine, right? Yeah. Okay. So, uh, Scott Freed apologizes. He
029has a fever and so he was unable to represent ISP, but he asked me to represent in hisstead. And, uh, I'm also going to be representing Christy Vizy Isaac from ISP. So, if you go back into your, uh, board packet and I believe, let me see if I go directly to it. There's a one pager about each of the programs. Yeah. Point, you're always carrying. Okay. The section called reports. There you go. We should look for that header. Okay. So for the Riverside achievement, um just a reminder what students enroll at at RACK. Some of our brightest who want a totally different learning style. Some people are tired of the drama with going to school with the same kids. They want to get away into a smaller environment. Some need a flexible schedule because they
030might have to work. they uh maybe have a baby, they might u have some struggles going on. So, it's really a mix. Whatever you do, let's not pigeon hole a uh rack kids. Let's never have in our mind like these are the less than kids. I know you don't. These are some of they're they're as uh valuable and and important as any other kid in our district. So, the we were getting good results. uh they come with sometimes with credit deficiencies. There's a lot of flexibility in the program. There's uh some who show up a couple days a week, need a lot of tutoring. There's some who are able to do it mainly online and just check in with the staff. So, um we're going to finalize our graduation rate here very soon. It doesn't
031come out until October by the state, but we're looking at high 90s again with an overall grad rate across the district, including Iraq. Um so you see 20 of the 22 graduated on time. One student graduated a year early which means that does count towards our graduation rate. And uh and then um we had only three students go to GED. Now when you go when you have three students go to GED it then goes off of your school record and goes into the GED program which is open doors which is the EST offensive program. We try not to have a lot of kids go there because a GED, I'm sorry, it just doesn't hold as much weight as a high school diploma. Unless you go right in and get an A. If you go right
032in and get an AA degree, then that GE has a lot of but we try not to go there unless it's just the last last opportunity. And then at the independent scholar program, which is on page two of the report, um 117 total students attended and actually our numbers are going slightly up in the next year. and uh and there's been a big focus on parental engagement. So, I I'm proud of Scott and his staff because they formed a parent group and they're also creating some really good strategies next year for more parental involvement where maybe the parents come in and teach some different electives or teach some different at least enrichment opportunities. Uh then there there's more community activities where it's community building and you know we had a big ISB group at Ramfest
033for example. We had our second play in a row. Uh Preston did a great job of of actually having a play where parents come in. It feels a little bit like you would at maybe some of the other schools where there's some extracurricular activities. So I think we're we're continuing. We had a steam fair for the first time. uh science, technology, engineering, art, and math. And that was a big success. So 100% graduation rate at ISP. I don't know if you remember Gary May, but a few years ago we were under the state improvement plan uh at ISP. This was probably back in 16 and was less than 67% of our students graduated. So to have, you know, we only have eight seniors, but to have eight out of eight, that's pretty pretty good. Pretty
034good read. Can't get much better. So, um, and then we have a lot more people take the SBA. Believe it or not, we have a lot of homesooled parents that don't like the SBA. Well, they Yeah, they just don't like that state testing idea. But 88% of the eligible students actually completed the SBA because one thing that you may not know is if you opt out, it's a zero against the district. So, it doesn't help our test scores. So, 88% is one of the best attendants. Now, we don't have scores yet because we're still finalizing that the state. I'll have that for you in August. But pretty good results at ISP. Um the only other thing at ISP we have when Tim Cop retired uh and he the science position opened. I don't even know
035is this official Kaitlin on the higher it's in the board. Oh it is okay. So Chelsea Lane who is a teacher at ISP was an internal candidate for the middle school. She got that job. So now we have an opening at ISB. Just wanted you to do that. Okay. Any questions about the report? Thank you, Ken. Yeah, you're welcome. I did one question. You mentioned that we have more students at ISB. Is that students coming from the rest of the district or the district? You know, it's kind of a mix. I mean, we've been trying not to have them come from the other schools because it really doesn't help our overall enrollment. Um, uh, so I'd have to break it down exactly, but the, uh, most of them are either returning kids or they're new
036families. And one of the things that we'll talk about when we get into more planning goals for next year is we we want to increase the enrollment of our AL program by about 25 kids. So, we don't want to become a mill like an online mill. Okay? Because you you you would get into like a world that you probably don't want to enter. Like if you try to get 500 kids from around the state and you're a small district, there's some it sounds good on paper. That's a lot of money from an enrollment standpoint, but there's a whole lot of problems that come with that. And so, but it's not a bad idea to try to get a 25% equals in your AL population. Um, one of the simple ways we can do that is
037advertise more that we have an online program and that we have a home school partnership program. Find different alternative ways to get out into that space. We still have people like, I didn't even know you had a home school partnership program. I signed up for Deer Park on my page. So, we've got to do a better job of getting that out there and communicating. And and then also, we got to build up our high school program. Our K8 program is pretty darn good, but our high school program, we've got to find different offerings. We've got to figure out maybe how to fuse RACK and ISP a little bit more because we duplicate effort a little bit. So, we're gonna we're going to be studying that and and thinking of some some creative and and we
038also have to have a plan when Christy eventually retires and she's going to go longer than we anticipated is a word on the street, but which is good, but I think AL is is going to be something we've gota we've got to study and get creative. So because online is definitely an option that people people like I and some for the wrong reason a trend that we're hearing. I want online because it's easier and it it we're getting that in the workers. I want to work from home because you know you're hearing that in other career trends right? So I think we have to we have to absolutely have a great offering in online but we also need to challenge some kids and their families that if school is about being easier I don't think
039we're really meeting the the mission. You know school should actually be challenging and you should be growing and learning and getting outside your comfort zone. It doesn't mean we can't flex to meet your needs and to provide accommodations and do all those things, but easy is not good, right? And that yeah, welcome to your history class. This is easy. You'll love it. No, it's not usually what we do. Always raise the bar of expectations. Kids will need it. So, anyways, any other questions about AL, alternative learning education? Um, I definitely think there's, you know, we're serving roughly 170 kids right now between the two programs. I really I went to meet so we had meet alternative but end up closing. But it was such a great place for kids that didn't fit in a traditional
040high school and it was such a great program. I a lot of my friends went there. So to have that option here that kids don't have to go to Spokane, they can still be in Riverside, they can still see their friends, they can, you know, still graduate on time or early. Last year we had like four, I think, graduate a year early. Yeah. It's a really great program. And I think it's something that, you know, again, people that don't know we have. Yeah. People don't know we have a home school program. You know, we need to let people in our district know the options they have for their kids that are local. They don't have to do an online from whatever school in Oregon, you know. Exactly. They can do it here. They can stay
041with this district they love and you can meet their needs. I think that's a huge thing that we need to advertise that. Yes. We love our kids and we want to meet them where they're at and help them grow. Yeah. And if that's RAP or ISP or an online solution, yeah, you know, where they can still come play sports or whatever, you know, but the the getting the parents involved in in those programs like a co-op kind of learning situation, especially with the homeschool, you know, the parents are that's the whole point of homeschool, right? Is their parents are I know we've kind of talked about it like that's your like Scott and staff that they're your fellow staff members. Yeah. Nobody really thinks of it that way. Yeah. But like can you imagine if
042if you had a like let's say it's the middle school and you've got your staff, your teachers and you don't regularly communicate. Yeah. I think eventually that's going to be problematic. So you if you treat the teacher the parents at at ISP like they're the staff, you should have the same regular kind of cadence of communication. There should be in-person meetings to talk about curriculum and talk about instruction. There should be training on how to teach math when you're at home, things like that. So we we do a we do that, but we need to keep we need to get better. Yeah. And and involve it. They they should in my opinion should be bustling with parents. Yeah. Like you should walk in there. There should be at least some volunteers in the classroom. Why
043can't we set goals where there's a waiting list? Like I think you set a board goal. Yeah. Like I see it on Facebook almost daily. Help a board. You know like what's our goal? What's our capacity? How can we serve? Why? How can we serve our kids in our district so they don't have to go to Deer Park? You know, and that program is so big they wanted to take over a whole elementary school. I know. Well, you're on to something, Jos. I think maybe something for you to consider is setting a board goal and then asking the staff to come in and collaborate on how we do it. Yeah. Because I mean co changed a lot of things for a lot of families where you know like me I was like get my kids
044out of my house. I am not a teacher. I am not I can't help them anymore. But a lot of parents love that environment and they decided they want they want to keep their kids at home and teach them. And yeah, you know, they're afraid that we're stuffing things down their brains that isn't happening. But you know, they like that control. And I think if we can partner more with those families out here, I think it'll be better for our whole area and better for our kids. Get them away from Good point. Thank you everybody. Thank you Ken. You're welcome. Hey Facil facility advisory committee recommendations five year capital led second discussion. Does anybody have any questions about the capital levy? I know we've been talking about it a long time. This would be where
045you pull the trigger. Okay. All in favor say I. Any opposed? cares public school employees PSSE contract 2025 to 2028. I get a motion. So much. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I posted C. Riverside Educators Association contract 2025 2027. Can I get a motion? Second. No further discussion. I will be abstaining from this vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? The FFA officer retreat July 1st, 2025 through July 2nd, 2025. I get a motion. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? E Turner and Towns and hearing facilities planning modification. I have a motion. So second discussion one one thing I you probably it may not have been totally intuitive on reading the the document but basically what happened was uh David Baldin was the gentleman who
046attended the facilities advisory committee. He's the one that did the updated cost analysis of the bond. Rob Gross was the other member that on the original contract there were some hours for David. There were some hours for Rob. Rob took a different job. He's now at OAC and not with Turner Townsen. And then also because we moved away from a bond into a capital levy recommendation, the number of hours that David needed to be with us diminished. So I asked him to redo the contract and it's 6,000 almost $7,000 less than what the original contract was. So Lisa's happy. I am. And so that's what that that's what that was about. Yes. So the revised hours for Rob, that's what he put in already. Yes. He had put those in already. Okay. Thank you. We
047have the vote for this one. All those in favor say I. I any opposed carries at 2025 for calendar motion second discussion what change the August board meeting moved from 2017 to 20th because it was on first day of school because our uh school calendar wasn't out yet when I made that one so okay just moved it a week before start offic [Music] Say I G first reading 3205 sex discrimination and sex based harassment of students. Okay. Yeah, you betcha. So um one of the things just a reminder on how policies work. So the legislative session happens, laws are created, those laws are then turned into rule making by the office of the superintendent of public instruction at the state level. Those rules then get sent down to uh WASDA, your association. WASDA has a
048legal team that writes up sample policies that align with the law because most districts don't have a lawyer on retainer, especially small districts. And so they do that work. They submit model policies to the districts. The bottle policies are typically in Riverside what we bring forward unless there's something that doesn't match with what the board wants. Um on this one in particular, the uh Title N and everything around sexual harassment uh has really you've probably read it in the news, but there's been a lot of discussion about federal and state tension around Title N. Um the at this time because that tension is in is in court we have to rely on state law and thus policies. And what's so interesting and I'm I'm not trying to talk too much but I do want to
049give you some understanding in case you have constituents that talk to you. The tension that's challenging for districts, especially in conservative rural areas, is that, you know, we're trying to honor the community, be honest about what's going on at, and at the same time, you've got a legislative session that comes up a lot, right? And so, um, they, uh, we are audited by the state and by the federal government on policy. So anything related to civil rights for example and and I don't really think you correct me if I'm wrong but we have other than the mass mandate we haven't had a lot of people I think we had a group come in around transgender policy and uh but we haven't had a ton like some districts have had and so the tension though is
050that if you what they may not understand is if you don't follow it you get audited and if you don't if you don't meet your audit around civil rights you'll get in trouble. I'm sorry. You will get fined. You will lo, you know, you will you will be written up by OSBI. So, we're not at that point. But this this is just a stand. We're not doing this because we did anything. This is a standard policy that we're to the deadline on. And so, it's basically follow Title N. And so, the legal case that we have worked on November this year The Title N wasn't a lawsuit, but it was a tort claim. That's all about Title N. So, it's an example of why you want to have your policy updated because if that happened
051and they came to us and said, "You didn't follow the steps and we looked to the board and the board's like didn't update a policy from the last time." That's where we could be legally liable. So, that's why we're hoping you would approve this first reading of that. And the other thing is it matches what we do. So this isn't any language. It doesn't happen. So okay motion. Okay. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. H first reading 6220 bid or request proposal requirements. Yeah, just new, you know, because we're pass, you know, doing a capital levy. If we get we win it, when we win it, we'll have to bid. And so bid law sometimes changes. So that's the new bid law. Motion second. Any discussion? All those in
052favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. First reading 3210. discrimination very similar to the the the 3205 same kind of idea different policy motion second discussion all in favor say I opposed carries first reading 3207 prohibition of harassment intimidation and bullying of students same series 3200 A motion. Any discussion? Say I motion carries. Okay. Second and final reading 6801. Capital assets assets debt sensitive assets. We have a motion. Any discussion on this one? Just on these next four, they've all been through the board one time and there hasn't been any questions that have come my way. So you could go through them unless there's questions. The biggest change on the capital assets was just that we're changing it from 5,000 to 10,000 and that's for the federal requirement. So now we're capitalizing
053things for $10,000 instead of 5,000. So that was just our own. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do I need a motion? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Opposed cars. Second. Final reading. 3424 opioid related overdose reversal move. A motion move. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries and second and final reading 3420's prevention and response. I got a motion. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carries and second and final reading 6700 nutrition. Motion. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. Oh, second and final reading. 6701 recess and physical activity. New I get a motion. So move. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. P. Second and final reading. 6702 Wellness. Second. Any discussion?
054All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. On the number 11, resolutions capital resolution. So should we do the motion? a second and then during discussion bring up. Oh yeah. Yeah. Then eventually we have to do a roll call. I appreciate Okay. Can I get a motion? Discussion. Okay. So the main change uh based on the survey data based on meeting with David Gordine from Turner Townsen and his experience with running measures uh similar to ours based on reading Deer Park School District's uh resolution that was approved last night at their board meeting and based on meeting with our attorney one last time about the legal requirements. I made some minor revisions for your consideration. The the first is if you turn to page four of your new packet, you'll notice
055section six, which is called form of ballot title. This is the actual language that goes into the voter um pamphlet that you open up your envelope, you pull it open, and here it is. There's exact word limits on how much you can put on a ballot measure. So, the title, let's look at the title first. capital projects levy for safety, security, technology, and infrastructure improvements. One of the things you'll notice is that the HVAT is included in the paragraph below to explain infrastructure. One of the the bits of thinking behind that is that the experts recommend infrastructure. The other reason is it allows you to do other in infrastructure like electrical, you could do roofs, you could do some other things if they come up. So, u I know my worry was it's not clear
056about HVAC in the title. However, they will read the next paragraph which goes into really some legal language that's required, but the heart of it is to address aging facilities by improving districtwide safety, security, technology, and infrastructure, including heating, ventilation, and cooling systems, HVAC in parentheses, at all schools. So, it just seems to be more like Riverside language. It seems to be a little bit more. It doesn't assume that everybody knows what the acronym HVAC means. I'd say the majority of our people do. What do you think? But there may be some that don't. Hback. I've heard of that. I didn't know what an FDA doctor did for that, but I So, we clearly stated that within the words. Okay. So I guess my that's the main thing and everything else is pretty much legal.
057Yeah. And you would you would almost read the exact same thing on Deer Park's resolution. So are you comfortable with that? Yes. Seeing what's on the voter, you know, they're making their decision on it. That's that's ultimately what you're voting. Okay. And then if you unless you have other questions, you have to do a roll call vote when we say you I So motion carries. with unanimous I vote by call. Okay, at this time we'll be moving into executive session. Thank you for joining us. Ken sounds like quite a bit of time for those sessions. Well, in this one we we need to update you on some personnel like staffing. We also do evaluation um in this last meeting and uh and so because of that I mean I would say I'd say maybe 30
058minutes possible. You take five minutes. Yes. Yes. So we'll be in a five minute recess and we'll start session. Okay. Thank you. Congratulations.