001Calling the board of directors meeting for Riverside School District to order. Our regular meeting which is May 2, 2025, 5:30 p.m. Let's rise. And Bill, would you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? First flag. There we go. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [Music] Thanks. Okay. Remarks for the good of the school. Anybody got a remark or two? I'll tell you what I do. All right. I love when I learn something that I didn't know. And the FFA club had come to our Rotary meeting quite a while back and we ended up giving them some money. I think about 500 bucks to help u defay their cost of going to the competition that they were
002going to over in Seattle. FFA clubs gather for and um so I was reminded of that last night and Ken I don't remember because I'm wearing hearing aids and those kids talk so fast. Who's the girl who's going to be the Aubrey Gardner? Who? Aubrey Gardner. She competed for a position of of being selected to be the FFA representative at the legislature state. State but that what that means is it's such a it's such an engaged position. She won't be in school next year. She literally that will be her education next year will be to be fully involved in the the legal process. What I mean what a tremendous thing for a young person to have been selected to do and she's about three feet tall but boy she she is really on fire as
003are all of the kids in FFA. I I remember when Ken brought up FFA and we were at a crossroads as to whether we were going to really get behind and and and enlarge and develop that thing more when he first came on board here and he decided to do that. Boy, I am so glad you did because that is just You want to see kids at their very best. You want to see kids the way you wish they were. That's what you want to see. I've never seen I've seen a lot of stuff, a lot of kids organizations, but I have not seen anything that well done. and and uh it's not it's not without a nod to the parents who have really supported those kids in the development of FFA and have have
004really really impressed upon them the need to be involved accountable and responsible citizens. That's what I saw. I saw young people who are more are more engaged in a real way than a lot of adults in this in this country right now. Unbelievable. The and the the support of the parents is so evident. They're just that organization has really got something going and I'm so glad it's going right here at Riverside because we should be very very proud. Have you seen any of that? It's pretty incredible. Yeah. And I and I know some of the kids from when they were at Chattery Elementary and and just basically coming out of their early learning uh center and to see them now and the their purposeful way of of dealing with responsibility is just really something. And
005you don't get a grade for it, but boy, they ought to. They all ought to get straight A's. I I've never You know that work policy man. But I if you ever get a chance, don't say what what is this about? Just go because it's it's in a class by itself. Really is. So I learned a lot lesson. Alicia, some people may not know, but Alicia was one of the first parents really to push for for FFA and a science. Her kids are involved in it. So, I remember I don't even know when that was, but back when we first met, you know, we talked a lot about it. And so, well, you got your head on straight because you're really you're really doing your child a favor. Boy or girl? All of them. All
006of them. Yeah, just like like nothing I've ever seen. It's quite the awards vehicle. Every student had notes. There was there was nobody meeting. It was all notes the entire program for two and a half hours. Well, when you come in and they they come up and introduce themselves and tell you what year they are in school and what they do in the club. So, they engage socially with people as they're coming through the door. That's that impresses me too. So I just I was thrilled. I was really thrilled. There's there's some things that go on in our school that are beyond academics. That's Yeah. Other other thoughts, other remarks. Hey, an FFA guy. Yeah. Did you Did you participate in the uh when they were having the what what did they call it when
007they were doing the the stuff where people auction? Yeah, the auction. Did you Did you you were standing in the back and I couldn't see. I thought they somebody said Henley and I thought oh no he would he's too cheap and wait a minute his kids involved here so maybe he breaks down and and that's the other thing is the people in the audience who didn't have kids there are some of the most influential people in this community just we were talking about the whole thing last night was it incredible was awesome just so blessed to have what they've done that and I bought the most beautiful set of flowers up there to give to my daughter congratulate her for winning vice president. Well, that's a nice thing to have you and congratulations to her.
008Thank you. That's a that's a real growing experience to her. Any other remarks? I'd like to remark about I'd like to know what went on at Chattery uh Community Church last week that had all the cars parked. I'm sure I'm aware it wasn't a worship service. Every year the Aana Club has a huge sale, rumage type of sale to raise money for the kids to go to camp. Oh, nice. And that's what it was. It is an undertaking beyond anything that I can even imagine. There had to be, I would say, 50 to 70 cars. Oh, that's we weren't there, but that's but they managed to they start start Wednesday night and by Saturday night they going through gotten all of it sorted out and sold and so forth and then they cleaned the church
009up and you never know that there was anything had been there. Did you have the cookie? by Sunday. Do they have the cookies on Sunday? Did they have the cookies? Oh, we always have cookies. Would not I don't think he would have That's a secret to his ministry was the cookies. Yeah. Oh, it is too. Okay. I need a motion to adopt the agenda. Salute. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Perry. Approval of the minutes from our previous meeting. Get a motion. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Opposed. Approval of consent agenda. Need a motion. So move. Second. Discussion. All in favor say I. I. superintendent report. Ken. All right. Good to see you all. Good to see you all in the audience as well. And it's a fun time
010of year. A lot going on. One thing I wanted to check to see is if if and if you don't know yet, we can follow up. But we have our big graduation coming up on Friday, June 6th at 6 PM. I know one person know. Um, so just want to see who's going to be going so that we can get you in the program and make sure we have enough seats and figure out who's doing the diploma. So, do you know already if you're going to be attending? Of course. Yes. Go ahead. All right. Awesome. So, Kaitlin, we have everybody going there. And then uh at the middle school we have our promotion which is June 10th which is a Wednesday. That's at the middle school at 5:30. And so I don't know if you
011have your calendars but we also like to have that know if board members going to be there have seats for you. So, okay. So, June 10th, Tuesday, June 10th, which is I think that's a wind. Have you guys ever gone to a middle school? Middle school. I'm not kidding you. Such different height and weight. Wednesday. I mean, the kids, you got kids that are 6'6 and you got kids that are 3 foot six. What time? What time? 5:30. And were there others that said they know for sure they're coming? Did you say you were? Okay. So, we're five to five on each of those. I'm trying to make sure I get the retiree. Yeah. Do you want to remind them, Kaitlin, of the retiree celebration? Yeah, it is on um I'll text the group text
012because I pailed my calendar right the second and I'm pretty sure it's I think it's Thursday the the 5th at 3, but I'll double check and let you guys know. I'm pretty sure it's Thursday the 5th at 3. I responded yes, but I might not be able to out. And then uh the other the other thing I wanted to let you know is uh we we have our next facilities advisory committee on Thursday May 29th and that's at 5:30 to 7:30 and so Joan's not able to make it that night. Bob, are you able to make it that night? We're getting to a very important time period. It's Thursday, May 29th. It's next Thursday, a week from tomorrow. Okay. So, and then Matt, are you able to make it? It all depends on how we'll
013go tomorrow. Oh, okay. So, let's stay in touch on that. Um the reason that all of those meetings are important that one in particular if you really think about the options that we have uh we we they're considering still bond capital levy. They're in our last meeting they were looking at bonds from 25 million to 50 million. So, it's less than the previous bond. And then they were looking at capital levies that are somewhere between 14 and million. And a capital levy is 1 to six years, requires a 50% approval. Bond is 20 to 25 years, typically requires a 60% approval. Capital levy, you get the money periodically throughout the time. you have to collect the taxes, spend it intermittently throughout the the length of the term. A bond, you get all your money up
014front, do all the projects, and then you get payments on the loan for the length of of the term. And so, u it it wouldn't be here's just my thinking, but I'm not I totally want people to, you know, poke holes. The my thinking is if we decide to if they decide to recommend a bond and the and the board then then wants to do your due diligence of of making that final decision. In my estimation, we would need more time to be ready for the February election of 26. And then we would be able to come back in August and really really work on engagement, communication, all all those kind of things. if we if we if they if they came to you and said we'd like to run a bond in November, I
015just think I don't think it's going to work because you just don't have the time too too tight. And I think they recognize that. So I don't even think they would put that as a recommendation. The interesting thing here though is if they decide to recommend the capital letter then my my recommendation at the as the soup is to do it in November be for a couple reasons. One is that uh Deer Park is running a capital letter in November and there could be a possibility of of you know increasing uh engagement, knowledge of what's going on, messaging up on the north side, maybe some synergy between the two communities. um the revenue source that we got from the previous capital levy that paid for security and technology for example is we no longer have
016that. So it would allow us to get that revenue source a little earlier. Um so that's one consideration. It doesn't mean we couldn't wait until February to do a capital le, but it's just something we really have to think. If we run an election in February, you have to have it to the county by the second week of December. So, we would have quite a bit of time to get things in order. Capital, if it was November, you have to get your resolution to the counties, both and Spokane by August 5th. And I just find I just think we haven't done it before. It's new. Uh, but the school year cycle is so interesting just because if you've ever worked in a school, you're knowledgeable about school. The summer is a very difficult time to
017engage. It's in it's difficult to engage students, staff, families, Riverside in particular. Um, so what do you want to do? Well, I I don't I to be honest with you, Bob, I I know we've been talking, but I I've thought more about it and talked to staffs more about it and I think I one of the things I struggle with is patience. I'm sorry. I know I've stepped in. So, I think I need to do a better job being patient. And I I think we really need to have a huge meeting on Thursday. It's a very significant So, I I'm sorry I don't have clarity around that, but I don't think we ruled out either option at this point. Um, the only other the only other thing I would say in response to your question,
018Bob, is I believe the committee is ready to make a recommendation. And then if they did that on May 29th, you would my recommendation to you would be to then take that recommendation and do one last community engagement strategies around that idea. I see your face, Bob. I see your face. I just I just don't want to beat it to you guys. You know, I think that if we make a decision and we're ready to go, let's go. The the whole thing of the capital levy is obvious. It's called 10%. The fact that we need 50% affirmative voters to be able to pass it. I don't think there's a whole lot to talk about. And if you know if you're just gonna have educational sessions like we did on the bond, you're going to just
019beat them to death with information that they're not going to face they're going on anyway. I don't care. So when do you think they're going to present to us? Well, I think they're going to try to make a decision next Thursday. I do think they're ready. I think I think so. That means they got to be ready, too. Yeah. And you know, we have a special board meeting on June 2nd. Um, we already are sending out an inside Riverside newsletter out like the first week of June. So, I I respect where you're coming from, Bob. Um, you can do whatever you want as a board. So, will they present to us a special meeting then or Well, that's probably given a timeline. I think for sure if they're recommending a capital plan then I think
020we need to hear it out as quickly as possible because of the timeline with getting in the resolution to the county by August 4th. Yeah. So then you would have your June regular board meeting and then you'd have the July board meeting. There's only one board meeting in July and then that would put us at time to get it into the get it into the counties by then. So, yeah, June 2nd would be a good opportunity to do that. So, okay. Any other I mean, I'm open to whatever questions you have. I mean, I I'm going into that meeting with just here's here's what we're going to present. They've asked again, here are the different capital levy options. It's pretty much 14 to 20 million. It's like a they're fiveyear term a fiveyear capital levy
021and they're going to look at a sixy year as well. That's the max you can run. And uh and then they're looking at a $150 per thousand, a $145 per thousand, $140 per thousand. And that generates, you know, that puts at a tax rate of about three bucks or 297, which is comparatively other districts is takes us from the absolute bottom to just low middle. Ken, with what was in the paper today, do you have any clarity about that in terms of what that means? It gets my attention when the governor is looking at a billion dollars for education in the upcoming budget. You have any idea what what that would be used for? Well, I'm still digging into that. I mean because there's different correspondence that's come out about property taxes and sales taxes.
022Yeah. So it's not super clear and I'm sorry but I'll I'll have an update soon but that all impacts kind of what our decision is. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yep. For sure. Yes. a capital levy be concurrently on the bond paying for both of those things at the same time at some point. The the committee talked about if they went with a capital levy, they would run it and then chip away at some of the projects and then potentially look at running a bond after that. Yeah. Sounds good. Um, now you have a bunch of options like you could run a five or six year capital levy and then engage your community and if you felt they were ready for something bigger then you could drop your capital levy and replace it with
023a bond if they pass it. So you could you don't have to wait yeah you could I mean it's not common to add a bond onto the capital levy but you could say that we're going to end the capital levy early and we're going to extend that out to a bond but it has to pass. It talked about all of that kind of kind of stuff. Yep. For sure. Um they talked about like what we did at Riverside take out the low interest looney up front to do they did talk about that as well. Uh the interest rates are four to 5% right now. Okay. So part of it would be dependent upon the interest rates because it was really well. Yeah. So that would be the one thing to think about. Yeah. Um and
024so the uh if with the bond, you know, they definitely would would consider a smaller bond if they run that and then they're looking at the 30, 40 or $50 million options and then just kind of finalizing what their priority projects. I can tell you kind of where they landed on the capital levy. if they decide to run a capital levy that's fiveyear and the reason they they are leaning if they did it instead of sixyear five years you line up your your election with your EPN levy because we were on our next EPO levy on 27 the next one after that would be two 2030 and you're going to be worried about election fatigue where it's like oh Riverside's asking again didn't they just ask last year they're asking again so a fiveyear would
025put us at the next the next cycle of the EPML. Um the uh one thing to educate you on that some people don't think about because it's more futuristic is that you want to when you run a capital levy or bond, you want to really think about your general budget because of the regular levy. So what one of the trends that's happened in some schools is they ran a bond, they passed the bond, but then when they ran their next EPO levy, they failed it. And it's because the overall tax taxes. So we that's why we we've been I've been going around doing state of the state of the school district addresses with our staff that when you if you have any budgetary problems at all like let's say with the state less money goes
026to K12 than it did back in 2019. If you have if you if labor makes up 80% of your budget and if you don't tighten your belt on labor costs, whether you're having less enrollment or whatever, that adds up over time. And so it would be no different than your family revenue going down by 10% and your cost and you keep spending the spending money the same way. So, um, I bring that up because if with the districts that didn't do the labor reductions, they had to run a higher level to pay and that combined with the bond is really what caused a little trouble. So, futuristic thinking, you know, going forward. But, but with the capital levy, it uh the feedback we're getting from the community on our thought exchange and is is taking
027care of the basics. And so the committee was leaning towards security and technology in each building because we have to have a replenishment of our plan. That's about $250,000 a year. So if you did a fiveyear, that's about 1.25 million. Then Hback at the high school because out of the four HVAC systems the high school the worst that is estimated at 9 million. And then the next HVAC is either RMS or RES. They're kind of tied as the next worst and those are both 8.5 million. So you add up the nine and the 8.5 that's 17.5 plus the 1, you know, 25 for tech and security. That's your 20 mil right there in the capital 11. So it's not it's not uh glamorous. You know, that's one downside of the capital 11. It's easier. It's,
028you know, 50%. But you but that's what you would that's what they're kind of prioritizing right now. Yeah. So what is there any advice you would give them on just get a little preview of uh of what like does that make sense to you? Does that you know do you disagree with that? Like one of one of the things they've been debating is pavement. So they also think the high school and the elementary pavement needs to be done but together it's about a six mill. And so you had the six mill in. Now you're at 25, you know, somewhere around 25 26. Some people say, "No, don't do the pavement." Others like, "I got to the pavement." So it's uh it's really getting down to that kind of level of detail. So well, I went
029Yeah, I did go for something like an hour. I went through the whole exchange and it was very interesting. Yeah. What stood out to you? Well, that that people were like, "Fix the things that need to be fixed. We don't care about the schools. We we want heat and air conditioning and comfort in the school in the buildings." And where before when we were doing this with the even with the capital levy for the middle school was people aren't going to pay for things they can't see. But just through the thought exchange, a lot of people were, you know, talking about more fixing the needs versus wants. And at this point, I mean, we have to fix our H systems 901. You know, the presentation we have last month, you know, running a whole entire
030building on a a program that we have in middle school is a little ridiculous. So I I agree. I I want the shiny new penny, but without a prince that we have, we can't get that. Any other thoughts on the board? Matt, you were there. What can What insights can you give? just uh thinking back to a couple [Music] years and we wrestled with a lot of the same the thing that stuck out to me the most was and it kind of echos but it was whatever whatever we do we do something and we need to make sure that what we do and I was a proponent of don't go small think big but if we're thinking big and that doesn't get us to build traction then not so actually Yeah, track is is the
031thing I hear the most from teachers. Oh, so uh just to kind of vision out. So let's say hypothetically they make a recommendation to a capital levy then the meeting on June sec or Janu June 2nd would be good and then the regular meeting and then u getting that in. But one thing we we are working on regardless of whatever we do is that collective leadership that we we got trained on that we talked about. And so I'm excited about it. feel like we're gonna we're gonna in August we're gonna we're already having some really good ideas on an energy around people communicating about it, people talking about it, people people being involved in the information campaign, people being involved in the advocacy epic, you know, all of those things that it takes to be
032successful on a measure. So that's all part well I think November is a good time because it's still you're not in burnout like you are in June of school. You know you're still it's still fresh. It's still early in the school year. You know we have open house Riverside. with all the positive things going on in the very beginning of the first few months of school before you get to February is a rough time for most people mentally. So dark and cold and gloomy. So I think February is or November is probably if they recommen Here's a here's another question. Tell me your first impression. So if we run a capital levy in November, Deer Park's going to be running one and it's a $14.6 million capital levy over four years. So the tax rate
033is a$145 per thousand. So my my wondering is if we run that, do we take into consideration what your park's running? Does it matter? Does it not matter? Do people compare them? Does it, you know, I'm like, should we go a penny under? I mean I mean I'm just I'm just wondering what do you what do you think about that? I think the time the length of the levy I like the five years because it lines up with the but yes I think they should try to be under the dollar. So you think it matters? Yes. So, I mean, if we're going, you know, above 60 and they're doing above 49, that's going to make a big difference. Okay. So, that's good to know. Anybody else? What do you think? Yeah. What about you? Are
034you sure what you think? I I agree with that one. Yeah, we can match it. We can be the same rate, but we can't I don't think we could we can't be over again. when you first said$145$144. Yeah. So if if that is if that does drive some of the decision theirs is a buck 45. So let's say ours was a buck 45 or a buck 44 the then that that is going to in a fiveyear that's going to generate about probably 14 Maybe maybe maybe 15 between 14 and 16 because we would be going one more year because they're going for a year and then their tax base, believe it or not, their tax base is not significantly bigger. I get I'll actually bring you some numbers, but it is bigger. So four years
035they're generating 14.6 six. If we did five years at that same rate, we would be like somewhere in that little less tax. So, that's see that's why I asked if we do. But if we do, you know, you mentioned a little bit ago about bring So you're you're saying you mentioned running a bond before the capital expires. Yeah. And if we move on, then we stop. Y and for six years. Oh, I see. in line with the that's that's another good way to look at it because one thing about the sixyear is with that same rate you're going to generate more dollars that now projects are going to get more expensive. Hopefully the interest rate would go down because if we could loan against it if you get that up front when construction is going
036to cost you more later. So yeah, I mean those are all the and I don't I think what we do is we let them make their recommendation and then we work through you work through those fine to Yeah. details. That's almost too much in the weeds for them. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. But I think it's a it's a good question. Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean that's pretty much it. And then Ramfest tomorrow gonna be really fun. So, we thank you, Caitlyn, for all your hard work and planning. It's been amazing. Um, any highlights you want to mention, Caitlyn, about this year's Ramfest? Um, our first ever car show. Um, we have almost 60 vendors coming. So, it's like the biggest Ramfest we've had. I think we said that last year, too. Um, in the beginning we
037were not quite sure we were going to get a lot of vendors and cars, but we ended up with almost 30 cars and yeah, close to 60 vendors. So, it's going to be big. Going to be good. Hopefully. Yeah, 60s. Hopefully at least we're layers. So, that'll be fun. Building community. That is all folks. Thank you. Thanks, Carla. Always good to have you here. Oh, it's nice to be here. It seems like I was just here. I think everybody knows me, but just in case, I'm Carla Chaper. I'm a food service director for Riverside. I work hand in hand to provide meals for the schools. Um, tonight I didn't do anything any kind of presentation. I just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about the things that we do in the kitchen
038besides um providing meals and um first and foremost um good customer service. Great customer service actually. The staff's amazing. They get great customer service and a lot of times um that's a big deal to the kids and um it's awesome. I I'm in the high school a lot with, you know, helping out and the kids are just so polite and great and it makes the staff always they always wish a great day and kids wish it. It's just awesome. Great. I really appreciate that. Um, a few other services. I don't know if you've all looked on the website at our new um Neutri Slice menu that's out web base. Um there's a lot of information on that. You can get calorie and carb count and it's everything a nurse needs to go in and find
039out without us having to print out a mile and anything a parent see from our menu. So that's kind of nice. It's a, you know, a one-stop shop for finding out what's going on. and it uploads directly from our menu program. So it's nice we can go in if we have a menu change we go in we change it and then it uploads immediately back to so you can see it on too it's not just something on well um they really want to move away from everybody's technology now they want to very um people don't want to so We're we're we're milking it out as long as we can. We now provide the elementary skill. It's it's just something we're used to doing. It's something that always been on the fridge, you know, something. Um
040you speak just a little I'm sorry. Um Sedexo's commitment to great nutrition. Um hot caught off the press with that. Um we're aligned with the values of the good food purchasing program. Um we have very few re revisions needed to align with that. Uh over 907% of purchased ingredients are free from high fructose corn syrup and 96% of purchased ingredients are free from artificial food colorings. I've had a lot of questions from parents about food dyes and things like that and had phone conversations with people about what we're doing to reduce that and um we are moving to like I said 97% free. So that that's a good thing. Um hopefully someday we won't see it at all but I don't know if we'll ever get to there. The remaining percentage of food items that
041contain a type of food dye are mostly allocart options which um right now with our school being mostly c we don't do a lot of um allocart anymore anyway. So those are things we don't have to worry too much about. Uh final rule. Go ahead. Uh community eligibility program. That's where we all receive a free. It's where we we're eligible for K through 12 premiums. What is the what's the latest? You want to share with them kind of the latest talk about how long that or what the status of that is? We're supposed to be on a four-year cycle for for C. Um, we've been hearing a little bit of murmuring about they want to send it back to I don't and we're at now if your district's at 40% of um the free and
042reduce you all eligibility book which is the thinking about sending it up to 70% which we wouldn't qualify anymore. So, that's all working up in the state and that's a couple of years old. We're hoping um I hope I can't imagine that they would give us give kids free lunch and then so but we'll keep everybody that was a scary thing. Well, they they might I mean they might go back because we curious why we did we used to have just the kids who qualified for free and reduced and then the rest had to pay for lunches. That was only what three, four years ago. Yes. So there is talk about going back to that law. The unfortunate piece of that is it's really bad for for district because when kids when a kid comes
043through the lunch line, we are not allowed to tell them they cannot have that money. Even if they're a paid student, um we just have to give them that meal. And we're that debt and um I know in the main school district kids still struggle with that, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt because you can't tell them no. And so it's just I personally hope it's unfortunate. Um the final rule came down about um sugar, added sugar in our milk and our yogurt and things like that. We were having milk drama. Chocolate milk drama. We had to take chocolate milk away for breakfast only. We are offering white milk for breakfast and we have chocolate milk still for lunch. And we were on kind of needles to see what was going to
044happen next year. But um our vendor um Dargo has revised their nutritional standard and they made it so that we can have chocolate milk. There's no there's only 10 grams of added sugar and that was right at school. Yeah, because that was that was going to be um explain. Um another thing that does in the schools is we do extensive safety training for the staff. Um we do um safety walkthroughs. I do a safety walk through once a week in every school. Um, we have a virtual safety walk that our corporate does and we do once a year and we go through one of the schools and I just carry my phone and we show all the different things in the school that I just recently did chat and they were they were surprised at
045the amount of um work they do in the small space that they have and and what a great job. Um we have monthly health and safety audits in each kitchen. Each staff has to staff member has to complete those and once a year we have a third party safety that comes in that shaking your boots. You have to um pass with 95%. And so there's a lot of preparation, you know, and basically we stay safe all year, so it's not too bad, but um they have a health safety and they have um the food safety and we pass through. So yeah, they do a great job. We we keep temp logs on freezers and refrigerators which helps with maintenance because you can watch those temp blocks and know that you know the freezer's going down
046the temperature going down and that helps our maintenance program as well. Um passive logs for all um food cooking forming and cooling. So if we ever had an issue with any kind of um you know a food a food um outbreak or something, we have everything to back this up in case we need that. Um and with the district being selfinsured um we've had no more than a I'm I don't want to jinx myself, but we've had no more than a a injury that needs a bandaid in the last like three years. It's been amazing. girls they stay safe and we they have to wear cut gloves when they doing um when they're cutting and we have just a big training on the whole thing. Nobody really likes it a [Music] lot. Um and one
047of the mantras that Sedexo does have is it's called a zero harm mindset and we did a training on it. Um, and what they did, the the way they started it out was they asked the gentleman, "Of all these people in here, um, how many would you want to let go?" And the room was full. And he said, "Wow," and then so they brought these people in and out of the company came all of his family. And so then you kind of stop think wow do I want to lose anybody to an accident. So that's something we learning in training that early that really powerful to me. Um but they uh we want them to go home in as good or better condition. Uh recent wins we we received a grant for six brand new
048weapons at which was very exciting. much needed. Um Lisa, Jo, and SJ worked on that. It was just awesome to um Thanksgiving dinner so much eas I made 700 servings of food. Yes. Yes. That was a lot of potato. But boy, gosh, it was fun. You need casual. That's right. Yeah. Um the numbers still meal numbers um enrollment is down a little. So our meal numbers are down a little. We're down about 750 lunches with 127,027 lunches and breakfast is at 63,366. We're down about 18 breakfast. But if you think about the volume that comes out of our facility, that's huge. Good job. Um, summer program. We just talked a little about that today. It's going to be a grab and go again where there there's a line, a drive up line. We give multiack
049female packs for each day and we distribute twice a week. Last year we were giving out over 700 meals a week. And so that was it was it was just a really it was a busy time. It was a lot of work, but boy had it was so nice to have those people come up and just be so appreciative to receive if they um our future chef. I always like to touch on that. We had a great future chef again this year. It was down in Chattery Elementary. Um that was kind of new to us. Little it's kind of cozy, but gosh, it was awesome. We had a great a great deal and they did kebabs and they actually had a grow up in outside of the kitchen and did the kebabs a little. So
050that was a lot of fun. Um in fact there's a recipe book over here if you'd like to grab one. It has all the recipes from chef. And I guess that's it. just always an invitation for any of you to come have a meal with us, breakfast, lunch, come see what we're doing. We we put new cases on all of our um kitchens, you know, the marketing and things like that. So, we'd love to have you. I just a couple quick questions. Uh not to put you on the spot, but facility wise, facilitywise. So you kind of heard the different possibilities and so one one question I have is regarding the middle school. So we we did the construction project. We knew that we couldn't afford the kitchen and so if we go down the
051capital levy option that's likely not going to be on that. How's it going? Can we do it with can we operate continue to operate without the kitchen if we had to. What are your thoughts about that? We can. You know, Barb, she's saying, "Oh, I know. She wants it, but tell her neighbor. We can't operate without it. We're operating really well right now. Um, it's a little it's a little involved. We have to truck all the food up that breezeway to to the kitchen and truck it back all the stuff back down, the dishes and things like that. But they're making it work. We got all new equipment to put the food in up there and um it's just our own little space. Um it's not the big beautiful kitchen that everybody wanted, but it
052we're making it work and it's great. What the best part about it is is the middle school kids in their own area. It is just so chaotic and so elementary at elementary. you need the middle school kids to have their And then the other question I had is we uh we are recommending studying fifth grade and chapter so we did that last year going into the bond and we want to get back into that study and the staff's know and they're on board with sitting around the table and doing it. The original vision was build an addition, expand the kitchen and cafeteria to accommodate that was in the bond. We had a lot of good feedback from people about that, but the bond didn't pass. So, um, the question, well, you don't have to answer
053tonight, but what we have to think about is can we have fifth grade without building onto the cafeteria and kitchen if we can't get so I've given question I've given this thought and initially When it was proposed to me, it was just a big huge gasp of air because we literally are in a kitchen. I don't you guys have seen shadow lights and we have two ovens and we're feeding you know 250 kids and we're just barely and if we add more it' be 50 more it would be just from a space space for and equipment you know we would need a couple more ovens and two more ovens and we need So we need because it's basically without we always adapt and manage because you'd have to have fifth grade going in during their
054own lunch break. Correct. And it's just what about the what about the cafeteria itself? We we removed a lot of the equipment from the cafeteria because we we got that walking and freezer that's back door. So there is a lot more space. Um it's just the cooking and holding of food. Right now, we're right up to the line on our food bowl because when we cook in only two ovens, we have a 2hour window and we barely make it because we have all this food and getting in warmers before the kids. So, if you add 50 more servings, that's, you know, five more people that's you know, thinking of it in the food service. Looks like we better put another grant out there. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. More ovens. Hey, and Riverside's doing it doing diligence
055getting those grants. That's awesome. Yeah, we are doing great. Okay, other questions for Carl. Thanks, Carl. Okay, moving on to our business. A first reading 6801 capital assets theft sensitive assets need a motion discussion. So that is the it's a real simple it's the lease number on that change from 10 to 15,000. So if we have leased equipment that's that's the only change. All in favor say I. I. Opposed car. B. First reading 3424 opioid opioid um related overdose reversal is new. Need a motion. Second discussion. So this is new and you think about it like fentanyl opioids we you already approved having Narcan in the schools that was ahead of the game in case we had an overdose. It's now in policy for schools to have that but we already have it. So it's
056not anything new for us that good. All in favor say I. I hear third. See first reading 3420 an what is it? Anapilis anaphilaxis prevention and response. Need a motion. So second discussion. So with the with this one, it's a it's a current policy and you were given this significantly ahead of time. You look over with the blue changes and it's really just kind of u verbage changes. The content the ideas are the same but but they're like instead of a licensed health care professional practitioner, it's an allergist, immunologist. Um, you know, they add dairy onto the allergies wasn't on there before. Um, they added parents instead of parent the So, you could just see it's a lot of it's a lot of verbiage changes that give up to nothing controversial. All in favor say
057I. I [Music] third first reading on D is 6700 nutrition needed a motion second discussion. So these next three are all interrelated and so the good news about these changes is that it keeps it way leaner. So instead of these huge policies that we have to keep track of and understand, it it takes away a lot of duplicative language and puts it into easy to understand. Uh basically what we like like you'll notice on the on the nutrition one that most of the blue has been crossed out because it's already covered somewhere else. So that's that's good. Um the other thing I'm just going to talk about all three of them. So with with uh the recess and physical activity that is new. So there was a big push at the legislative session to apparently
058there are schools in the state of Washington that don't have recess and or they don't have enough recess. And the argument from the legislators were we need kids to be moving. We need kids to be getting up and and out and not sitting in desks. And I I totally agree with them. So it fits pretty well because the requirement of a minimum of 30 minutes per day of unstructured physical activity as recess is something that we've already we already do and it's something that's already been in our practice. So it's not anything we have to change our schedules around or bring teachers on board. So it's pretty cut and dry for us. And then on the wellness part, really much more simplified. So Carla, myself, uh Gail, we usually have a principal, a couple teachers,
059we have a wellness committee. And what is nice about that is it it asks you to have a quality physical education program. It asks you to have, you know, physical activity during the school day, which includes recess. Uh it asks you to commit to physical activity before and after school. So that's why we have like sports and activities and clubs involving family and community. And u if you can have staff wellness and health promotion, that's a good thing. So anyways, it's it's a pretty cut and dry, non-controversial basic thing. Okay, all in favor say I. Five opposed. Let's take the E. We need a motion. Second discussion. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. If I need a motion. Second. Discussion. All in favor say I. Carry. Resolutions number 10 will be WIAA delegating authority.
060Every every May we bring forth the same WIA delegating authority. Gary's our WA you know rep. And so that we typically join that association in the state which oversees athletics and activities. I need a motion. So move. All in favor say I. There. Okay. We are moving into executive session. 30 minutes probably 30 minutes for your executive session and let's take a 5m minute break. Okay.