001Call the meeting to order. Uh like call the meeting to order. Uh we'll just do the flags with just us. >> Everybody have >> ready begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for its one. One nation under God, >> indivisible, liberty and justice. >> Nice. Nice. Nice. >> Uh, welcome to our guests. >> Any additions or deletions to the agenda? >> No. Perfect. Perfect. >> Any public comment? >> I didn't think so. >> Keep it quiet. public >> consent agenda. Uh, everybody had a chance to look at it, I hope. Um, >> make a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> New business. Uh, not sure what you guys want to talk about on it. Resolution
00214 and 15, transfer of funds from general fund to the capital projects funds and the transfer funds from general fund to transportation. Uh do we treat those separately, Brad, or >> do we do one or both? >> Can or you can do them as a block both? >> Okay. >> Whatever you prefer. So what does the >> my opinion wish my opinion is that we do the 500,000 to the capital projects and the 100,000 to the transportation. Is there any discussion or what is everybody else's thought and please come up with opinions >> but with that >> I think we've approved it already and we're saying going 500 right because that's all we're needing. >> We haven't approved it. We're just talking about it now. >> The budget. >> Yeah. Well, it was budgeted at
003a million but >> that's what I'm saying. We're saying go at half >> and that. So Brad, just one more time, I'm sorry. If we do the 500 and the 100, it puts us we we anticipate a negative for last year of what? >> About $400,000,000. >> I thought Chuck was paying attention. >> Any discussion on that? Because we don't have a motion on the table. So, >> if there's no discussion, I will make the motion that we transfer $500,000 to the uh capital projects fund and $100,000 to the transportation fund. >> I second it. >> All in favor? >> I post all sports schedule. Everybody get a chance to look at that or any Anything else to bring up on it? No issues. Have a motion for that. >> I make a post motion
004to approve the 2526 false board schedule. >> I second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. All right, Mr. Dr. Darling. >> All right. Good evening, board. It's been a little bit since I've met with you all. pass them down a packet. Um we're going to look at just the first page. So we did a admin retreat last week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And Tuesday we had all the district leadership there. So operations, maintenance, transportation, nutrition, teaching, learning, everything. And we and I walked them through this assessment um to help them identify the working geniuses. So there are six working geniuses. They are wonder, invention, discernment, galvanizing, enablement, and tenacity. And every job that's done in the world has some component of this genius there. Every person doing the job has two geniuses.
005So there's two of these things that you really love to do in your work. And you could if you if you're doing just a job that focus on just those two geniuses, you work the rest of your life. You could care if you get paid or not. Every person has two of them that are a um that are a strength basically like you can do these things. They don't necessarily you know light your fire but you you're good at them. And every person has two geniuses that are frustration where if you had to do a job that only focused on these two geniuses you would burn out. You'd hate your life and you would demand more you know. So if you kind of look at it on the left hand side the wonder and ideiation
006those are kind of the pie in the sky thinkers. So one is a person who's you give them a blank canvas like oh sweet I'm an entrepreneur I can make up something and this is going to be fantastic. Invention is a person then that takes that it's like okay here's how we here's what we can do with that idea and then you move down the scale from like the 20,000 foot view and discernment is a person who hears the idea it's like let me think let's sit and think about let me poke some holes in that that's going to work that's not going to work they have a really good gut feeling about a project an idea whether it's going to work or not they might say that's not going to work and you say
007well what do you suggest like I don't know because they don't have wonder they might not have wonder as one of their geniuses they're just good at telling you what is or what isn't going to And then galvanizing is people who are good at taking an idea say, "Okay, let's get some let's get some momentum behind it. Let's start to rally the troops, get some excitement. Let's get some stuff. Let's get the ball rolling on this one." Um, enablement and tenacity, that's actually where the boots hit the ground and you start getting stuff done. Enablement is getting other people motivated to get start working. And then tenacity is someone who's like, I just want to grind. I love my checklist. I love getting monotonous stuff done. I'm a work worker being let me get stuff
008done. So this assessment is basically a product productivity assessment like where do you really live in the productivity where do you shine and so on the back of this the first one you'll see is we did this on everybody in the everybody in the district and on this page you'll see where it says team map operations lead so I can create different teams based on the different departments and you can see on the on the side which where they have geniuses and on the side where they have frustrations so if you immediately look at the operations leadership Nobody cares about new ideas. Nobody cares about making new ideas. They um Brad cares about figuring out whether things are good are going to work or not going to work. Miguel is really good about getting people
009motivated, but they are all a bunch of grinders. >> The operations team are a group and it's kind of fitting for that team to show we have the right people in the right positions on that team because they want to get stuff done. >> And and you look at Miguel, he's one of he's our he's our director. So, as a director, his job is going to be getting people going, getting people excited about work. If he if that was something that was one of his frustrations, that's not going to be a good fit for him because he's constantly trying to get people to do stuff and that's not really something he enjoys. He might have to fake it because it's part of his job, but it might not really be a lot of joy. >>
010On the back of that page, it kind of gives you an overview of each person's their genius, their competency, and their frustration. And so if you put this group in a room and they're trying to solve a problem, there's not very many people are going to say, 'Well, I wonder about this, or how about we try this? They're all just going to say, 'Okay, here's the problem. Let's attacking, you know, let's get stuff going. I'm tired of talking about it. I want to go fix something. On the next page, at the top, it says team map. This is the GHS leadership team. So, the high school team is a little bit different than the work than the operations team. You have Betty and Derek who love coming up with ideas, who love saying, "Yeah, what
011if or how about this or what if that?" But then once they throw those ideas out, there's nobody in the invention side that's going to try and figure out how to put some teeth to that idea. And Derek, I we did this with Derek. Derrick's like, "You know, that makes a lot of sense." He goes, "Because I was so excited about doing this class, the um the house program at the high school where we have everybody join a house." He's got all these great ideas and then he's like, "Nothing's happening." because he realized that his strength is getting the ideas, but what his strength isn't is getting stuff going and getting people motivated. So for him, if he has a project or or idea he wants to work on, he needs to make sure he
012has people there who have those geniuses naturally and they can help him really get the so every box is filled. Um, and so he but what he did find is he found somebody great to replace Kyle because Kyle's definitely an enablement tenacity. Kyle was kind of a Pac-M kind of guy where you give him pass, chew him up. Austin's going to be the same thing. Austin's going to grind through stuff. You bet is also like that where she's really she wants to just do stuff, get stuff done. And so he's got a lot of people who want to get ideas going, but he also has some gaps in getting from the ideation phase down to the implementation phase. And so it's a good awareness for him. And so we created those are the only two
013examples I shared with you, but we created maps with our lay team for cabinet. Um, for cabinet we have Stephanie who's really good about wondering about stuff. But for me, that's one of my frustrations. I don't want to sit and talk about new ideas and and what could we what ideas what entrepreneurial stuff can we can we do? I want to say, okay, let's let's a good idea. Let me help you poke holes in it and let's help figure out whe that's going to work. And then Jose's strengths, he's a tenacity enablement kind of. Jose's like, just get your crap done. And it was really kind of eye opening for him. He's like, "Yeah, I don't understand why people just don't do their jobs." And so, if I expect Jose to come up with a
014new ideas, and that's not one of his geniuses, I need to make that expectation. Say, "Jose, I know this isn't one of your things that you do naturally, but you and I need to make sure we have somebody in here who helps us do this because it's not one of our strengths." And so, it was a good training for us. It's also given us a lot of understanding with each other instead of thinking, man, that person is slacking. I know that's not one of their strengths. who's missing from this group right now that we're kind of get some work done because we need to make sure we fill these gaps. So, uh it's also when we get come to a meeting and we're like, you know what, Stephanie, we're done talking about ideas. We're down
015here in the implementation phase. So, keep your ideas to yourself. Okay, fine. And people aren't offended now because they know that's how they are. And some people always say, "Oh, that's my husband. Oh, that's my wife. Now I know why she does that." You know, >> so you have to bring that with you to every meeting you have. >> I have a map. >> Wait a minute. You're here. You're here. Yeah. So, it was it was a good training for us. And like Amy and Lupe, they flex in and out of all kinds of different teams. And so, it's good for them to be able to see when they jump into a team, what are the strengths of that team? Where are they going to come in? And some people like if you're on if
016you're a W, a D, or an E, >> scissor here at the top, you're responsive. So, you're responding to something need. If you're an I or a G or a T, you're disrupting. So if your strengths are all on this disruptive side, you know that you're going to tick people off when you come into meeting because you're always pushing the status quo. So if I know that Jose is going to come in and always be pushing the status quo, I have a better understanding like he's not trying to tick me off. That's just how he operates. That's just how his mind works. So I think Jose and I are both in equal balance. He's an E and a T, right? >> So he's a disruptor and responsive. I'm a D and a G. So I'm
017both disruptor and responsive. So we have a nice balance to that. But we have to be aware of people who want to talk about families and wonder about things like, "Okay, fine. Get that crap out of the way so we can get stuff done." So, Brad, anything to add to that? >> I think it was great exercise. And and the nice thing is we're all geniuses. >> And and what you don't see is doesn't show that this is a weakness. Some people like, well, I'm really good at doing that stuff. It is something you might be really good at it, but it doesn't bring you joy. And we know that if people aren't feeling joy or experiencing that joy from their job, that's when we burn out. Burnout doesn't happen because you're doing too much
018work. Burns out happen when you're doing the wrong work or too much of the wrong work. And so, as long as we're aware that this isn't one of my areas that I enjoy, but as long as I can keep going into things that really bring me a lot of joy in my my career, we're going to have a lot more longevity in our staff. So, >> yeah, it was good for us. >> Yeah. The only thing I'll add is I like the the team app like our teaching and learning department. It's just sparked some really good conversations and then also looking at the building maps like okay now that principal is this way this principal is that way so it helps us better support our principles as well. Yeah, we've even talked about how if
019we're hiring principles or assistant principles for a position or director of somebody, we get down to a couple finalists, we can have them take this assessment and we can see, okay, what does this team need and how do they complement this team and we can, you know, do some actually some more scientific work around if we have two that are neck and neck, this might be a contributing factor to hiring one over the other >> and they're going to be a better fit for the gaps in that team. >> Anyway, more nerdy stuff from us. And I talked about a little bit earlier when some of you um will cover >> the board should do a working team. That'd be kind of >> one of our training sessions. >> Yeah, it's pretty simple. Um we
020had like I shared we had a significant multi- agency Yakama countywide um drill at the high school. From all everything I've heard, it went really well. Well, I got to I got to visit I got to be a participant from a a um a uh like I didn't have a specific job I was doing. I just got to be a spectator, which was kind of cool because I got to see these two in action. Jose did a fantastic job taking the lead today with Lupe. We had Lupe, we had Jose, we had um police chief, fire chief, YSO, Yakama County Emergency, all in our office. There was probably 400 phones, 50 radios. We had all the cameras up. We had drone footage going on live the whole time. The high school parking lot was packed
021with emergency vehicles. We had about 400 people running part of taking the drill. And so it was a really good event for us. So >> they didn't have any calls to the school. >> Yeah. Not one single call from the district. >> Can you believe that? Not one call. >> That included an escorted bus parade all the way down to Nazarine Church back because that's our unification spot. >> But you guys had announced this. I want to say it was like a month for volunteers. >> It'll show up on the anonymous chatter. It's not bitching about it. And we had we only had a couple small hiccups and the small hiccups are usually the ones that you don't anticipate. And so we had a good learning from it. And um tons of people were there.
022YBC sent people, distribution center sent people, sponsor memorial had people there, couple other big organizations had people there because they're going to experience these type of emergencies too. So they were trying to learn from it. >> ESD. Yeah, it was good. It was a good event. >> Some school districts out of Tri Cities. >> Yep. Tri Cities at Westland. >> Yeah. carrier the the I'm not sure he used to work for us but now he's in West Richland as a transportation >> transportation director he is the director yeah he was here it was a good event so we had nothing but compliments from the people they said that was one of the the best they'd ever seen especially something that scale because they had anything like that in the county yet >> community members said
023it too >> they said there's a couple community members that stopped me and said this was really great so community members that intended >> yeah we had community members volunteered us they were students students Some of them had wheelchairs and they had crutches so we had to accommodate those type of needs and stuff and so it was good. >> Yeah. >> We only lost one class. >> Two classes. Yeah. >> That's not bad. >> You couldn't figure out to go and over here. Hold on. We might have two classes that weren't backed yet. Lost his mind. >> So the scenario was or so active shooter active shooter at the high school. That's the scenario. Post threat be neutralized. And so what what do we do now as we transport students from the high school to
024the reunification center >> and then the next exercise is going to be reunification center. >> Yeah. Because we just did the middle part if you will, the transportation. >> And so we didn't take anybody off the bus because we knew it was going to be about 100° and we want to get them on and off as quickly as possible. So they just did they went over there, did a big loop, came back and we fed them all cheese zombies and vegetables and a good debrief and >> happy. So Chris was doing double duty as transportation director and making sure everybody had food. So he was hopping today. >> Yeah. So Chris was cutting weight all day >> as a workout for him. >> It's all over the >> um tomorrow or Friday, no Thursday, we
025have a center for teaching by literacy coming up from Oxnard, California. >> Yeah. >> By Chicago. >> They're out of Chicago. >> Out of Chicago. Y >> it's a great fantastic training if you if you have a chance to stop by. Super engaging from dawn to dusk. It's go, go, go. And the teachers love it. It's a really good training. >> Yeah. It was so much cheap. It was It was cheaper for us to bring them to serve us in house then for us to send everybody there too. >> And what's the time of that? >> 8:30. >> Up center. >> No, actually we'll be upstairs in the deals the deals meeting room where we Okay. >> Yeah. So, Jose's has he's been working about a year ahead of time to get them on the
026docket for us. It's pretty soughta. Next week we're going to do a coffee with the soup Monday and Tuesday. Monday morning at 8:30, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 when I already confirmed that with Wendy, so she's good to go. Um, then on the 20th we have all staff back in the district on 8 a.m. at the high school if you want to show up there. >> It's Wednesday, right? >> Yep. 21st, like it or not, we're going to unleash the house and there will be kids and buses everywhere. >> What time on Wednesday? >> Wednesday we start at 8. >> Yeah. So you'll start probably about 8:02. >> Yeah. And then um 26 board meeting and September 1st, no school. October 7th, we're going to have our first linkage um community forum type event that we
027talked about with the so I'll be sending out a survey to kind of get some ideas from you about what are topics you want to discuss at that event when we do our roundt um activity. And that's my board report. >> And we'll have a calendar on that the calendar, the complete calendar for all our stuff so everybody can see that. >> Yeah. And and um Proster Mapton and Sunnyside are all excited to figure out how we could do a collaborative >> joint meeting with them. All three superintendents that we're in. What do you need from us? >> I'm not exactly sure what this section is, but members of the board updates. And then we have board. Oh, the board assessment. Then we have from the board. So, it's kind of a double deal, but
028the >> we can we keep forgetting to take that off. >> Yeah. >> Which one do you want to take off? >> We'll take off the that one. >> We'll just scratch >> number nine. >> Yeah, number nine. >> Number nine. >> We'll take that off. >> Okay. Board assessment. Amanda did it. >> She's almost done. >> Got great information from Dr. Darwin. We have an assigner stuff. >> I think he wants to be able to Oh, Mr. Brad, you know, it says for >> Oh, yeah. Just pass down now. Need to get them processed right away. We'll still send them out electron financially, but we missed deadlines. I don't want to miss deadlines. >> My signature looks much better electronically. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm like a doctor when I'm when I'm signing normal >>
029same. I was like if it looks like there's three words in there that's got my three names of three letters >> pretty much. >> Reminds you of the baby. I'm so tired of saying >> so while you guys are doing that we'll go over the assessment real quick. Um we're all present. Um of course Amanda you can't give us any bad ones. Come on. We can't think of one thing that was at least at least a four. >> Anyway, we have all fives again because we're all so good at this overall report. >> Just sign. Just keep signing. It's all you do. >> Oh, I've signed in other people's spots and got in trouble before. I do have a few things from the board. Does anybody else have anything from the board while I'm signing?
030>> Uh, I got July 22nd through the 24th, I helped Gino Amy with the extra mile students down at the golf course for a little golf clinic. >> Nice. and we worked with them on the range just kind of getting them into it, see if they like it and uh got them to be able to hit the ball away all the way from irons a driver and did a little putting competition. And then Thursday we took them all out and it was me, Gina Walami and uh Dave Gro >> took them out and we were the captains of the team and we took four kids a piece and played a little scramble for two holes and Grow's team came up on top with uh a two-hole score of one under. >> Oh wow. >> Which
031was very impressive. >> Fall to get the ball every time. >> Yeah, we we actually limited to where we could only take one shot from the captain hole. So, it was pretty good. They all enjoyed it. >> Anybody else? >> What I wanted to talk about, I think you're going to talk about, so I >> Well, I have a few things. Um, uh, the national night out went good for uh, uh, whoever you were able to make it. Uh, there was quite a few people down there. Seemed to be a nice little turnout. Um, went around and met with some people and, uh, all the schools were representative. I think the school district had a some great numbers down there answering questions, doing different stuff. >> One little funny little story about it I got
032to say about Rob was he went over to the uh which booth did you go to? >> One of the church booths. >> The church booths and they asked him something and he said something about his religion and they started preaching to him trying to change him. how wrong I was trying to change it and Rob came over and said I finally just said, "Hey, I got to go." >> Let's have this conversation lay into a crowd around. >> It was pretty funny. U lot of the kids uh at the police department. Uh they had a big armored vehicle thing there. They were doing some stuff, but the kids were very uh active with the the policemen that were there. It's quite a few of them there. Thought that was really cool. Of course, they
033like the fire department, but I want them to have trust in those people, which I'm really glad. And they, you know, had things going on with that. So, that was really pretty cool. Um, I went to a new hire orientation yesterday uh for a little bit. I sat upstairs and uh introduced myself and kind of, you know, welcomed them. There's only six. We have new people. Um, I did sit in on a little bit of the training for a little bit and got to hear uh Brad talk about a few things and then we got into paychecks and I said, "Why am I still here?" So then I said, "I need to leave." So then I left. But uh um that was pretty cool. Um surveys. I've noticed in the last couple times we've had
034some surveys. We're not getting all the surveys. Please make sure you look to see if you guys are getting those or when you submit them, maybe even check uh to see if they're going through. I don't know what the issue is, but we're having some issues of getting all of them. So, >> mine seems to send the survey monkey to the trash instead of to my primary deal for some reason. It sends it straight to span. Well, if you have time, any time that you have available, either get a hold of uh uh Sabrina or talk to them and see if you can set up a time just to check it out and see if there maybe there's something there or whatever. >> Now, you let us know. Sabrina can contact um Jesse tomorrow and
035have them look into that. So, that's why I left it. >> And on the last one, I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting one in July cuz I had looked for the packet and then it I was off a week. So, anyways, I was not expecting one on the last one, but I did get it in. it just didn't make it into the basket. >> So anyway, that um do we need to have a special meeting on the budget or not? >> If we do, we need to schedule it. >> I don't think I need a I would need a meeting, but I don't know others think. >> Okay. The only other thing I have on here is um me personally I would like to talk about Wazda and possibly not going and doing something down
036here and inviting the Proser Mapton Sunnyside to get involved with us. I think they're probably all in the same boat we're in. Uh we can do some new hiring orientations there. What were you talking about, Chuck? There's some stuff. >> So we that was also my thought. we have to take the open government training. So maybe on maybe we scheduled to do this on the Friday that we would have been at was anyway. I think we don't go and save the money and lead by example here that maybe there's things that we don't have to go be a part of. >> Um and I think that open government training is online anyway. maybe look at seeing if we could do that >> and have somebody come possibly do something especially it would be not I
037know we're scheduled to do a new hire training but maybe we can somewhat put that into it also. >> Yeah, I just we're all planning if we were all planning on going to WASA we weren't going to be working that Friday anyway so that would be a good time to do this I think. Now for us, do we still need to do the new the orientation >> the onboarding deal? >> You will need >> So how would we do that? Would we still need to go? >> Well, we still have the onboarding with with us still scheduled. And remember, we already had days for that. Okay, >> that's not part of this. We would do a little more collaboration with the the towns around us. Maybe see if we could bring somebody in to do
038kind of a couple things that they're doing at WASA. Maybe we pick a couple things to see what we can do. I don't know. >> I think it's the boot camp that that he's talking about member boot camp he still needs to do and so does Amanda. And >> yeah, we were all going to be involved in it because we would help the new members if we have a new member. It kind of helps with them to have us all there. >> But in answer to your question, you do have to still do it >> conference that's led by them, >> right? >> Yes, that's >> but they do offer an online. So yes, you still have to do it, but we'll have to figure out. >> And if we wanted to bring somebody in,
039we would probably need to do it a different weekend because they're all going to be at WASDA if we want to bring somebody from WASDA to have booting training. >> Yeah, but if we could do if they do the boot camp version online, I mean, there's no reason we couldn't all do it because it it's only a couple three hours, isn't it? >> Yeah, I haven't done it, but I don't think it's too long. >> We could build it into that day. Then yeah, if our neighbors neighboring school districts wanted to do the same thing, I mean, we could host that and give them the opportunity. I realize it's not a great big bunch of money, but was in our budget, $13,000 for us to go there, but I think it's the example that we
040can set. >> Something I think we think about because one of the reasons we went to Wazda is to get innovative ideas or ideas of what we can bring back. So, if we do something with our districts around here, are we is there something that we would like to replicate or learn more about? I guess that's would be my question because it's great if we're all here, but what is it that we're trying to receive, you know, from our professional development together? So, that would be the thing that I would be wondering. And to the point of like what Dr. Darling mentioned is if it's not WASDA, then who provides that PD? Because again, they probably will be busy that week or do we need to change it? >> We can always look at the
041catalog of what's there. >> And if there's something that strike, excuse me, something that strikes our fancy, we can reach out to the people. Yeah, it's not going to happen during WASDA, but at some point it could. Yeah, I think that's something maybe to start with because we may even be zooming with another district, right, or something or maybe they come down or we pay them a consultant fee to come down. I don't know. But anyway, things to think about. >> Are any of those WASA things that they put on any of those on Zoom >> for that week for that those three days in person? I haven't seen any Zoom sessions where you're watch Zoom >> keynote speaker on it's usually very not very afternoon >> not during the WASDA conference itself but I
042do remember during uh or when I had to do the DEI training that was a Zoom session and so >> and this is just me bringing this up there's nothing set that we're not going to WASDA that was just my opinion as to not go to Wazda if the group decides to go to Wazda that's the group's decision I just that's just something I brought up. >> I think it's just more conversation maybe to >> Well, the problem is we if we're going to do it, we're going to have to decide. It's not that far away that she's going to have to make some commitment to go to I mean, we're going to have to do something. So, >> cuz I thought we were already all booked, right? We had already sent emails and everything
043and you had asked for us. >> Yeah, but I haven't booked anything. Now, with this, >> I won't even know. >> When's the registration deadline? Do we know? >> Off the top of my head, I don't. Let me see if I can look it up because that'll be a driving force on whe when we decide. >> Let's see. I seen something in August or something. >> That was the uh only things I had. >> And you need to quit talking so much. >> This is getting This is getting out of control. I don't like people sitting next to me to talk so much. You guys missed it last month. We we had to >> you you you uh you say >> she's analytical. We >> need to make a motion. Make a motion. >> Oh,
044that was hard. >> Yeah. And I'd lean over. You can make this motion. >> What? Heather was on on the screen. >> She wasn't even here. I think we did overlap a couple times though, didn't we? >> A little bit. I think you were you might have been a little delayed through the >> I think it was because I would hear and then it would like kind of I'd hear response later. I was like a >> uh anything on the enrollment cash flow or budget status? >> You can you can vote for September 27th. >> You get charged like a $20 fee to go after 26. >> Okay. So other was to raise rates. >> So think about it and at the next meeting we can uh figure out what we want to do and
045maybe we'll look to see if there's something out there uh we could possibly give during that time. I don't know. You never know. $20 savings. >> Um anything else? >> Yeah, that we had to stretch it out to at least 30 minutes. So, okay. Meeting insurance.