001but I appreciate you all taking the time and going to the classrooms hopefully that gave you a little bit better Insight or at least the learning opportunity of what's happening in our classroom um on your on your in front of you there is red uh paper this is all the different um activities that you guys got to experience obviously you only saw one of them but if you ever want to look through there and ask another fellow board member of hey what what did you learn it's just a kind of a fun activity that way so thank you again for doing that I know that's a little bit out of the ordinary but again if we're here to talk about kids I want you guys to know that you're always welcome here to come in
002I know Mr MC you he he truly is a teacher he came in and and taught our kindergarten class is a fantastic job so and I I hope you can speak to the culture here at chaty we just have a fantastic time here um and sometimes we're just we're just lucky to have a job being paid doing the work that we do even though it's hard it's it's definitely rewarding so thank you all than okay moving along we need to have a motion to adopt the agenda discussion all in favor say I approval of minutes from previous meetings we're talking about January 22nd 2025 a regular meeting February 3rd 2025 special meeting I need a a motion second discussion all in favor say I we need a motion to approve the consent agenda discussion [Music]
003ipating special education F material operating fing transation funding are you interested in not to increase for our budget or I think I'm I'm not super optimistic about large increases this year because of the state revenue um shortfall that they keep talking about but I am really optimistic that this is the first year that I've seen that a lot of the organizations that um teachers are members of the business people are members of the superintendents are me members of gotten together and talked about the big three which is MX transportation and special education comping so I think um they're getting a lot they're getting a lot of um seeing a lot in the legislator a lot of activity which is always a good sign for getting something approved U but I don't I don't anticipate any
004huge increases but I think it's always good when we come together and collaborate and voice our opinions um POS and cons whatever they are so um I think there will be I don't just because I know there re Yeah question I answer that they uh maintenance comes and picks them up and they go into the boond dos and then once there's enough stuff in the boond Dos to Surplus we put an out in the paper and anybody can come in and bid on those items in the Surplus and then they bid and whoever's the highest on those items get those items and then if um if there's things left over we just donated or the bar yeah so what was the last time that we did that last like years ago you we did it
005the first year I was here so about two years ago it might have been like right after you were in there but we did it like October um of 23 serious yeah yeah one of the things I wanted to point out on the consent agenda is the ecap contract Travis and did a really good job I think a long basic point about not only trying to set aside ear Mark money to fund facilities I think we have to continue to look at ways of being leaner as an organization the ways of figuring out how to you know are we duplicating the efforts are we wasting are we doing that maybe aren't as efficient as we possibly could that could reduce the cost so with EAP for example we were able to regain $60,000 by doing
006that and that I me those those things matter so thank you for that and we're going to be able to put Travis is going to need some of it for the ecap program but I think we're going to be able to save about 30,000 out of that and put it into planning for next year and that's another example where we can because of the challenges around Revenue around taxpayers perceptions cost things like that we got to look at you we don't want to like we don't want to rip right I mean Riverside had a history of ripping for you know over and it really distri some of you may have experienced that and I take pride that we haven't had to do a rift because we managed our money well but you have to you
007know it's just a reminder that you have to be hiking the belt just like everybody else is so you try to handle it through attrition even on Staffing like if you have a retirement or if you have a resignation you know is there any way to make it leaner without you know if you overspend on that it's hard because the staff feels the students and they feel like you know if we're not filling a pair of position we're not filling a we're combining or something like that um it's hard but at the same time I just know that for the future the schools are getting into emergency situations and they're having to make huge huge reductions in for because 80% of your budget goes and so anyway just wanted to highlight that I thought it
008was all in favor approving the consent agenda say I I superintendent report really don't need to talk much other than when it comes to student learning and academic development in the area of literacy arguably literacy is the number one foundation for all development throughout education of our kids and so David you met earlier he and I did started listening sessions with teachers and so we're meeting with them for about 20 minutes one onone and we're trying to get a sense of three things one is what what do you see as your method or philosophy around fut literacy what do you see as your strengths maybe areas you want to improve because that can guide professional development and then also what how are we doing with our instructional materials like our curricular resources are we feeling
009like they support you to do the job to the best of your ability we have weak spots in our instructional materials and then the thir is their thoughts around student learning where are the holes what are the positives what are the areas that you focus on what advice you have for administrators so Bill Sean and I are doing at Rees the next two days so again it keeps us centered on the right need focused on the right work which is about students and they learning and it does help with what you were talking about where we can begin to figure out where can we improve what are we doing well what systems are in place so I just wanted to let you know that's a big emphasis this week in the teachers if you talk
010to the teachers you learn a lot about what's really I even get separated from it because I'm removed from the kid but it's really been helpful to listen to this just know that I know you were familiar with us doing that we'll have dat to share after we fin our listen that's all I have moving on to number eight our business area a 2025 26 26 27 student count okay the well Consulting proposal need a motion Mon and a half you made the motion thank you yeah okay okay C launch Northwest contract that is an example of trying to get alternate Revenue sources we got from lawest weling and that come out Northern hardwood company FFA field trip MOS Lake Washington March 7 2025 March 8 2025 that is we did remove the M you
011it wased all in favor say I F FFA field trip to lamb Washington March 14 2025 March motion discuss in favor say first reading 54 Personnel lead discussion language all in favor say all right all first reading 3520 student Keys charges all fav say we are ready to move into executive session I I would just like to thank uh The Faculty here for the hospitality tonight cookies Trav do a great job really appreciate chocolate chips are one of my favorite so thank you absolutely with the new ovens hopefully that Middle School do the same for [Laughter] you 30 minutes for the the ex so you're on