001Okay, time is 6 o'clock and that'll begin uh March 11th uh meeting of the Gretle School Board of Directors. Uh please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, >> right there too. >> Now I will hand it over to Dr. Slim for our land acknowledgement. >> Right. Thank you, director. We are the first peoples of these lands by acknowledging that the area in which we gather is within within the traditional territory of the Stilage tribe of Indians. The Stilage people have inhabited these lands and waters since time in memorial and their descendants have remained in this territory to this day.
002The Still Gamage people have continued to practice the traditional ways of their ancestors of fishing, hunting, and gathering. The Stillgish tribe has had these lands and cultural traditions passed on to them by their ancestors who believe that everything has a spirit and that they are the caretakers of these lands and waters. >> Thank you very much. Okay, roll call tonight. We've got Jada. We've got Elijah. Maybe Leah will join us at some point. Um we've got Director Farley, Director Pagus, Director Beach, Director Dane, myself, Director Leoo, and Dr. Geel. Uh and I will move to item 3A, board comments. Start off with the board. Director Farley. Any comments for this week? >> Um just enjoyed our conversation this morning. Um, it's wonderful to be getting my feet kind of wet and starting to understand it's
003taken >> appreciate your partnership in all this. It's a a fun ride. >> Well, thank you, Director Kaggus. >> Um, I just want to say I really enjoyed myself this morning. um student of the munch month m month assembly at the at the middle school and the um just the excitement, the energy, the smiles on the kids' faces sitting with the parents all with their cell phones. It was was really um really great to see and the things the teachers had to say about their students was very very heartwarming. This month's theme was kindness >> and hearing them talk about the kids was special. Um, I also want to give a shout out for the Eagle Riders who just donated about $3,400 to our Meals to Monday program which provides the backpacks that go home
004with students on on Fridays and um they're they're probably one of that programs well they are that program most consistent and biggest supporters and so I just want to give a shout out to them. A reminder that the American Legion birthday, they're having a little birthday celebration at city hall from 1 to 3 this Saturday. It's over 100 years old. And um just great to see the class fight featured for the class fight. It's I've really been enjoying. >> Thank you. Um just a couple of things. One is the high school the parents of the high school band kids um had a fundraiser. I don't have any idea how much yes the beat I have no idea how much they raised but um I know that they've been trying to raise funds for the band
005and it seems like uh it was fairly well attended. So congratulations to them and anybody that is interested in donating. There are several organizations across our school district that um support our students. So, please consider that. And also the high school concert is it I thought it was tomorrow night, but it just today changed in my phone to Friday. Is it Friday or is it tomorrow? >> Okay. I thought it was tomorrow, too. It's almost always. It's on Thursday. It's tomorrow night. We are not going to pay attention to whoever changed it in my phone to Friday. So, tomorrow night, I think um 70. >> Yeah, that's also what I thought, but that changed in my phone, too. So, I'm looking around the room from consensus to see if anyone else knows what's going on
006at the high school tomorrow. I believe at 7 o'clock is the high school concert. So, um I'll be attending that. And really, I think that's all that's all I was prepared for this time. >> Director D. I >> I I don't have anything prepared to talk about tonight, but I am really excited to see the number of people. This is the most folks I've seen in a school board meeting since I've been on the board over three years. So, thank you guys for coming. It's going to be an exciting presentation tonight. >> Yes. Thank you. Um my side, uh parent teacher conference obviously this week. Uh it's always always good to jump in. Uh that also led to the uh least exhilarating snow day in my daughter's existence. he didn't appreciate my joke either where
007I'm like you don't have school today and so um so that was fun and then also I got out to battle of the classes um very very fun to see I do think we need more microphones out for the skits um so some of them were a little a little difficult to hear but but good all around and then I am thankful that we didn't have any injuries with Dizzybat and a few other things there were some people that were struggling there at the and they powered through like champs. So, uh, but it was super fun to watch and it was very impressive yet also very sad once they gave the instructions to clean up. The the walls went from like >> The Wizard of Oz, it was just like within three minutes. No, no
008joke. All the bleachers were cleared. All the walls were sheared. >> People were being lifted up on shoulders to get tape off the walls. Like it was very impressive. So, um, okay. So, those are my comments. Uh Jada, any comments from your side? >> Well, you brought up the student like sorry BTC and I was very happy we won this year. Put a lot of work to it. So, we were very proud and then our anacordness meeting that we went to was very fun. We had a great time with TA and got ice cream. >> Got ice cream. >> The person let us in even though they were closed. >> Oh, wow. >> Yeah. He had no way for us to pay. very fun. Um, it was interesting to hear what they're doing like in
009their schools and I thought it'd be fun and idea to put a student board page in the yearbook to show like what we've been doing critic about it. >> Thank you. Elijah, anything from your side? >> Well, um, we have a job fair coming up. It's a a little field trip for Crossroads. I think it's on the 19th, >> two weeks from or no, a week from now. It's going to be a really interesting opportunity for uh people who want to get into trades, >> which I think is, you know, really helpful. >> Um, prom's also coming up on the 24th, I believe. I'll have to fact check me on that, but very excited. And then >> at the Graange, >> I believe so. >> Okay. >> How many uh how many employers will be
010at the job fair? Do you know? >> Um a few teachers. >> Okay. >> From Crossroads, Miss Perkins is the one running it. So, >> nice. >> Cool. Well, appreciate it. U So, that finalizes 3A. We're going to do 3B and 3C together. So 3B is superintendent report presented by Dr. Gman and then also roll into the transition program presentation by Ailen Brower. All right, I'll wait till we get our slides up here. All right, this is classified staff appreciation week and so things are happening across our system. So, thank you especially to our school leaders who are just going above and beyond um to honor our classified staff who really are just so critical in in and all the things they do to support our kids. Um if you do end up over at
011Monte Cristo, you will get an awesome piece of cake of some sort. Yesterday it was a lemon um extravaganza with let me tell you it was delicious with lemon curd in the middle. I'm in today there or yesterday maybe was today was today the hummingbird cake. Yeah. So, but at every building it's just recognizing our classified staff for all they do to support us. So, thank you to our classified staff members. >> Um, next thing I want to talk about just a little bit is our next slide, please. Thank you. >> Oh, I probably have a somewhere. >> Um, so a little communications update. We have worked um pretty diligently and a huge thank you to Tani um to continue to tell our story. there are amazing things happening across our system each and every
012day. Um so we have um increased our social media presence. I'll give you a little bit of um some statistics on that. But these are just some examples of celebrations that we have put out through Facebook, through Instagram, and then we'll talk a little bit about some um some next avenues that we'll be um diving into social media wise. Um we want to show all the wonderful things that are happening and celebrate our staff. And one of some of the ways we do that is some of the faces of Granite Falls examples and thanking our voters and um there's some amazing things happening in fine arts and you know dress up all all of the things that are happening across our system. I think there looks like some people that a picture of them in
013the bottom middle that might be also in the space today that may be here to talk to us about transition program too. So um we will continue to do this because it's just we want to again tell our story and um and show all the wonderful things that are happening each and every day in our classrooms and our schools. Next slide Dan. Oh sorry take on talking like back in co and we're like next slide please. So, kind of an overview and and you can dive into some of of these statistics, but and thank you Tonnie for putting this together, but the most important thing is continuing to to grow that reach. Um, and I think one of the most biggest takeaways is on the bottom there when it talks about our nonfollowers. So, you
014can see social media data even if you're not a follower for us. And I think that's that's fantastic because that means it's going to others. it's going to aunts and uncles and cousins and friends and all of that. Um, we want to continue uh to do that and it talks about total views. Um, when you look at those numbers, it's they're staggering and so it's really important the information that we put out there and we need to continue to do that to tag our buildings in our district posts and and vice versa. Um, and this is just in the last like 14 months if you will. >> Thank you. um community engagement is it's also are people reading it and then what are they saying? Um so you know the reactions to it are 85%
015positive. There's some comments um some sharers so going out to others because for some people if they have family that doesn't live close this is a great way to share you know that their son or daughter or whatever was highlighted or their a staff member that works here. Some of the top performing content athletics of course um faces of Gran Granite Falls. Patty is pretty popular downstairs apparently. Um and then um for community spirit that you know the work that JBJ in the middle school manufacturing and construction um they have the signs at the roundabouts that we all know and love. And um you know in that last 28 days it's that's a lot of reach with uh Facebook and Instagram. So that's and quite an increase in um that percentage. >> So yes. Okay.
016So, some next steps that Tonnie really is looking into. Um, and you know, I I have to just continue to say like it is so nice to have someone who can who can do this. Like she knows that I have a a grand idea and I'm like, you know what? We were at Mountain Way last Thursday for the principal um interviews and I went to a kindergarten classroom and they had these awesome snowmen and then these writing journals that I was like, "This is fantastic." So, me and my big ideas, I'm like, "Hey, Ton, could you go take a bunch of pictures of these snowmen? We'll use them for something. I think they're fantastic. And then look at this writing. This is incredible. Our kids are making they're just making such growth in their kinders
017and they're telling their story. And so pulled out a ton of writing samples and took pictures of that because it's the fun stuff. But as academics, too, and we want readers and writers. So all of those things. And then you of course she puts together, you know, um a post about our snow day with the Kinder Snowmen. And um and it's just that's what it's about, right? showing other kids are doing, you know, fun and creative and amazing things. But we do want to explore some other ways to to get the word out um through LinkedIn. Um platforms like Tik Toks, Tik Tok, >> we know we know that millennials and and and Gen Z and others um are we reach them in a different way. We also know the attention span for many is
018not super long. So, we want to make sure we're able to tell our tell our quick story in many ways, many avenues. And then you know additionally we want to make sure that we are showing showing academic things. It's not just sports and creating snowmen. It's it's also like I said that writing piece or it could be an adoption of of a curriculum and it its use. All of those things are important. So still work to do. um would love any feedback or or ideas and those kind of things, but how would somebody know that we have that a transition their trans transition program is making dog biscuits that are for sale for $5 each? Oh, my dog. Right? We wouldn't know that unless we put it out there and let people know this is
019the great things that our kids are doing and come be a part of it and and get in our schools and and and see the great things that are happening. So, um we do have a three-month goal and Director Dane, you can feel free to pass this along. We are looking to to surpass the Granite Falls Fire Department following. I I I told Ton that's we're throwing the golet down. We're going to be we're going to have more followers than the fire department. >> That's probably not going to happen, but we can have that goal. It's okay, right? We're getting there. So, we're going to have So, they're going to have to step up the game. >> Step up our game. >> Well, I will say though, too, you also short changed yourself on the
020math before. So, January through October, you averaged about 40,000 views or 40,000 impressions per month. And then from October through now, you've averaged 100,000. So that's 150% growth. >> Yeah. >> So it's a lot a lot more getting out there. >> Yeah. It's good stuff. >> And who wants to see Mr. Cruz do a a Tik Tok on the financial status of >> that? Sounds riveting. Doesn't that sound exciting? So next. Yeah. Thank you. And now um I would like to introduce um some friends that we have in the room. So Ailen Brower is um a teacher at Granite Falls High School and she leads our transition program and we have some of our students here today who do amazing things all over town. You guys are famous. So they're going to talk to us
021a little bit and I'm going to turn it over to Ailen and we'll go through those slides and then >> Perfect. >> Yeah. Take it away. >> All right. Is it okay just to sit or >> Yeah, you can see it right there. That'd be great. You can tell me when you're next. I got the >> Okay. So, um first off, just want to welcome um some of my students. I have Chris and Carter and Jacob and their families and some amazing staff as well. Um I honestly couldn't do this without my amazing staff that I have. So, thank you guys for coming. >> Classified staff members. >> I know. Next. All right. So, the the transition program, it's for students 18 to 22 um with disabilities. And the program itself, um uh this our
022second year here at Granite Falls. Uh previously, we were going out to uh Lake Stevens and in other districts. So, this is a newer program to Granite Falls. And um I will say I was a little nervous with uh working and partnering with the community uh because I'm new to Granite. Um, I live in Mary'sville, but I'm new to in the school district here. It's about my I think I'm going on my third fourth year, fourth year. Um, and uh, I was blown away with our community. Um, so not only did they welcome us and open up their businesses to us. We are working in uh, Alfie's Pizza, IG, the food bank, the community coalition. Um, we are working in the Granite Falls hardware store. We're working in the preschool downstairs. We're working in Crossroads.
023Um we are working um in the tech department. Thank you. Thank you. Um and so the the my biggest goal is to make sure that my students are getting vocational skills and things that they can apply to their resume and real real work experience. So then when they do go um and they will get all paid employment um that is our goal by the end of their program. Um but the biggest part for them is to be able to um have that experience and build those partnerships in the community. Um and adding to their resumes, finding things they like or they didn't like. I have had several students who were like, "Oh, I don't ever want to work with kids." And then now we've had to be like, "Okay, guys, we have to like spread
024it out because we have too many people who wanted to work with the kids and people who didn't think they wanted to. We had people who didn't think they want to ever volunteer at the food bank and it became a thing where we took over during summer and they were coming over um you know, school's over. You know, they're allowed to have their summer break and I had students that just wanted to keep going, keep um being with the people that they've built relationships with. So, this community has blown me away with how amazing they are and how welcoming they are. Um, and so, uh, Mondays is a really cool opportunity is we have uh guest speakers and so I like to get people from all walks of life. Um, and from all over, not
025just here in Granite. Um, but I do love getting Granite as well. So, we've had like the sheriff, we've had um, we've had the Oh my gosh, the trash um, Greg Mackey. He's fabulous. Um, we've had uh speech and language pathologists come. We've had a cookie business that is completely run by uh people with disabilities from Anacortis. We've had uh other people with a veterinarian come in. And so it gives our students all different kinds of um opportunities to learn about what's out there because the I think the worst thing in the world is to say a student can only do X Y or Z. Um, I believe that every student can do anything they want to do. Any human being can do anything they want to do as long as you're willing to try.
026Um, and so my students, I push them and I always I'm like, "Okay, let's try this. We're going to try something new." And so I'm so proud of them. Uh, and so Mondays, I absolutely love it. We get to work on budgeting. We get to work on uh meal planning. We get to work on building our resumes. Uh, Tuesdays and Thursdays, we're out here in the community um, working and getting to add to those resumes. And I tell them that also the opportunity is their building references. They're able to make that connection in the community. And I think one of the coolest things was a parent let me know that um I think it was during maybe like the train days um that they had said that they were just walking around and then somebody
027was like, "Oh, hey." And said the student's name and recognized him. And that had built that relationship that went outside of just the school day. Um, and I don't know if you've ever just wanted to feel welcomed. Um, and that's what our community has done to my students. They've allowed them to feel welcomed um, not just on a job day, but outside of it, which has been just such a beautiful opportunity. Um, and then our, uh, next. Yes. Sorry. Nope. You're good. >> Like trying to read what it Dan, you might need to go there. >> Okay. Um, and so, uh, one of the things is sometimes things cost money, right? Um, and so, uh, we have a lot of things that we like to do. Our Friday engagement activities, it's allows our students to
028go out into the community. Like we do tours like we toured the post office. We're going to be touring, um, city hall and we get to meet the mayor um, on the 27th. We get to um, like we toured uh, Funko, we went roller skating, we went bowling. we got to do a lot of opportunities, but it does cost money. Um, and so, um, I've had awesome families that have been able to support their students, but, um, one of the things is to teach them how to be independent, right? So, we created a business. Um and yes, so uh they have made and they're all so it's made with a pumpkin puree, whole wheat flour, peanut butter, uh zattofree, a little bit of cinnamon and egg. Um and so what I think is even cooler
029than just that my students are baking and making these dog treats and packaging them up. The coolest thing is they voted and came up with their own name. And so we had this whole process where we had to like write and vote. Um and so it is called Oh My Dog. Um which I absolutely love. Um and then the artwork as well. Um I know it's little, but the artwork on here, one of our students drew it and he is an amazing artist. And so um getting to be able to use my students skills and be able to show them and showcase it. So, like not only buying dog treats that go to support our program so our students can do different activities is you get to buy a piece of art um which I
030think is pretty cool. Um and he's so talented and I can't wait to see what else he's going to do. He's amazing. Um so our oh my dog business is is been flying. It's been really great. Uh we've been baking on Wednesdays and then going to uh school events. Carter has been my awesome partner in crime with this. Um he has given up many hours to sit and sell and >> time >> and he's been so great with it because um he is just quite the the salesman. He uh people will come in and he will be like, "Don't you want to just buy a dog treat?" And like, "Well, I'm not hungry." And he's like, "Well, just buy it anyway." And >> I tell her one of them denied my request. How rude. >>
031But like I don't have a dog. And you're like you know somebody who has a dog. >> Right. Right. And then we let them know it's you know it's it's people friendly food. But no this is for dogs. It's for dogs. Um but uh I'm really proud of them because they have really been able to like just run with this uh business. And so it just shows that uh they really can do anything. They're they are unstoppable and I'm so proud of them. Um, and so our community engagement activities is definitely something that I love because it gets to build those social skills. They're able to apply like when we're uh learning how with our money sense and our budgeting. Um, they're able to apply those in real life settings. And so it's not just
032like sitting here on a paper and then trying to be like, okay, someday I I will learn how to uh make an exchange and and make a purchase. and like getting to see students who hadn't worked with going up to a random stranger and be like, I'd like to buy this and then how much money and handing that over. That might seem like a little little thing. Um, but it's a lot when it's your first time and then um so I'm again I'm really proud. >> Carter, could you tell every there might be some people watching online and then there's people in the room. How would someone who doesn't work at the high school, how would they go about getting a hold of the transition program so that they could purchase Oh my dog biscuits?
033>> Well, they could either pay card. We also take card, not just cash. Mrs. Brower got >> not just cash but card. Um, >> who would they contact or where could they find the information? and the website. >> Okay. So, at the high school's website and there's a spot that has >> We don't have our own yet. We're working on that. Um very Yep. We're working on that. Uh but um Miss Tanya has uh been able to uh put that in newsletters, so you can find it on the newsletters. Um and then also I have my email on there. Um but if you just come where where can they come to like the front office? from the front office >> and Miss who? Remember that was Miss Jamie? >> Miss Jamie. Yep. And they just
034go to Miss Jamie and she knows where our bones are >> and then uh so Miss Jamie's been making the purchase or making the sales for us while we're gone. >> Yeah. All right. Good to know. Thank you. >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. >> Um, so, oh, the other thing that I I like about the program, and I again, I could not do this without my amazing six um I have six amazing pairs, and I I don't even I can't even call them pairs. They are they're they're amazing human beings. Um, so they give up their time and um their skills and their just creativeness. They're just awesome. Um, but so they come and they have helped me do um game nights and we do it once a month. And this allows our students to be
035able to build those friendships, to build connections, to be able to have fun and silly and play games in a safe space. And we do it at the school once a month. Um, and uh, there's been times that I haven't been able to make it, and my amazing staff have been able to take over for me. So, I'm really grateful. Um, but again, uh, the Granite Falls Transition Program, it really is more than um, just learning. Like, it is being able to apply those skills. is being able to uh find a place where they find purpose and uh I can't wait. I'm excited for them. Thank you. >> Item 3D, business report prepared by Marshall Cruz. >> Um so we're kind of trying something different this month in that we're embedding it. We're embedding an
036executive summary in superintendent report. So my the full business report will always be available on the board packet. There's some legal requirements in the full business report that for audit and legal requirements has to have all these comparisons and things, but it ends up being 40 pages long. So um we decided to try this month to try and put a little embedded kind of executive summary in the superintendent report and see how you guys like this. Um, so the content is everything that's in the business report, but it's just kind of um whittleled down into four slides. So, uh, first a quick summary. You know, our enrollment is right on budget. Um, crossroads enrollment is down, which we expected because of the Lake Stevens agreement sunsetting. Um, K12 is up, uh, both compared to budget
037and compared to last year. Uh, spend enrollment is steady, but I mean it's it's been kind of flat all year, but it's higher than it has been last year, and it's higher than budget. Uh, general fund balance is $1 million better than it was last year at this time, but is still trending a little bit behind budget. Um, basically due to the big three that we always talk about, the sped not being fully funded, the cost of utilities, um, and insurance, and then the transportation costs. Um the co-op sun setting is also putting pressure on our ability to grow fund balance this year because um we weren't sure going into this year how much the enrollment would decline at crossroads. Um so we're forecasting a 6% fund balance and uh the full business report as
038I mentioned is included in the board packet. Next one here then just some I handpicked a few pieces of information I thought were important. Um enrollment kind of shows you the trend. uh we are right at budget. The thing that's not in there yet is work site. We add work site at the end of the year once we know how much work site uh credit we get. So that's usually about 20 to 30 FTE that will be added. So we'll end up a little over budget, better than budget for enrollment. And we'll get a little bit of a boost in funding the last month of the year when we report all of our work site learning um enrollment. Uh sped is a little bit higher than budget. um fully funded. We're we're operating in a
039deficit instead. We're looking at a pretty sizable record high um safety net. Even with the additional funding for special ed, we are still going to get the most safety net funding we've ever gotten here this year. So, and and it still won't be enough to cover everything. Um >> but I want to I think that it's important to note and Rachel feel free to jump in here as well. I think it's important to note though that of course the state came in with more funding. So every student who qualify for qualifies for special education services we're getting funding for and then we were still able to access and Rachel and team have worked really hard over the last two months on everything safety net. It is quite cumbersome if you've ever plowed through that process.
040So I want to a huge shout out to our our our student services team. And then secondly, you know, it takes a long time when we're trying to look at sped numbers and the percentages and to correct that and get tier one where it needs to be so we don't have quite so many referrals and those kind of things, but it is it is a it's a marathon, not a sprint. Um, but I'm really proud of our team and I I am proud that we're continue to grow that fund balance just a little bit. It's going to be a little slower going, so we're going to have to have a conversation at some point about that board policy around fund balance and what that looks like for us over the next several years. um with
041some reasonable expectations. >> And I will say I had a business meeting up in Anacortis week ago and statewide we're seeing uptick in the only uptick in enrollment that's happening is in student school services. So more students are being qualified for services while enrollment overall is declining statewide. Um just seems to be a trend whether it's COVID or or what have you. Um next slide. Um just a quick summary of where all of our funds stood in January. Um general fund was negative $66,000. Everything else is positive for that's the second column there of numbers. So the um and then comparing it to prior year. Um I we're doing we're not meeting we're going to I think our goal was to have 7% fund balance this year. We're on track for about 6%. Um conservatively
0426%. I try to be conservative. Um, but we are almost we're a million dollars, $970,000 better than we were this time last year, which is fantastic. Um, all of our other funds are strong. We did get a new bus this just a couple of days ago. So, we have another bus new bus coming next week. So, our transportation vehicle fund will be lower, but um takes a couple years to get buses. So, we'll be continuing to order buses. Um, next slide. And finally, just kind of a forecast of how we're going to end the year. Our beginning for fund balance was 2.37 million, but we're going to have about 46.5 million in revenue. We're going to have about $46 million in expenditures. We're going to grow our fund balance a little bit. And that's right
043around 6% a little like 5 85. Um, one of the things that um, this the Skyward calculates incumbrances for us based on outstanding POS and outstanding um, contracts for employees. Um, one of the things it doesn't do a good job of is if we have to we build a new PO for a new vendor for a service, we tend to not cancel the old PO. So there's there's probably some fat in the um in the outside services and supplies categories because of POS that are still sitting out there that won't be fully used. So this is the the total value of the POS is what's encumbered and that's just the way the system calculates it. >> What is not in there though is if someone goes on leave and has a leave balance and then
044you're hiring a sub and you're still paying a full salary and that tends to impact us greatly. >> Yeah. It's only stuff that we can we can know. And the the the category for non-encumbered is um we have employees that will have contracts that end in at the end of June, but they'll be still they'll get a new contract in July and those that July and August contracted wages and benefits don't show up in incumbrances because they the system doesn't really exist yet. So the non-incumbrance is an estimate of what those summer costs will be. And that is it. And this is a work in progress. So if there's other pieces that you'd like to see in this or if you think that the reviewing the full 3540 page report is a better version, let
045me know. But it's going to be in the packet all the time because it is a legal requirement that we have comparisons to actual comparisons to projected all all those comparison charts that it is a legal requirement but it doesn't have to be presented to the public every time >> and that would be my comment Marshall is I think it adds to the transparency of exactly what it is you're doing in the business report and I appreciate that. >> Yeah. Any questions? I just I have a simple question. I don't know if I'm connecting A and B. So, next 30 days, it says we're finalizing the last of the plumbing fixture replacements. Is that the water quality plumbing fixture? >> Yeah. >> We did. Yes. >> Yes. We should put that% grant funded. So, $70,000
046grant paying for it all. >> Nice. Yes. Let's mention that and put that in the board notes, the meeting notes. $70,000. >> Yeah. Any other comments or I was just going to say too just for clarity I always feel like I like to treat every board meeting as if it's the first time that people are learning about things as well too. Bus specifically comes out of transportation budget. Yeah. >> So like when we're talking about general fund and and otherwise Marshall had a slide earlier that showed I think right now we've got $535,000 in transportation. It's like if you had a bank account where you could only use to go buy cars. So like that's >> that would be a nice >> it would be a great bank account to have. But um but yeah.
047So and then my question within there is the assumption that we're going down or buses are they're about 200 a piece. >> A fulls size big bus is 185 now. Okay. >> And oddly a small bus um is like 145. >> Okay. >> So >> and we just got one. >> Yeah. We got we just got a big bus and we have a small bus that is I think has arrived but is getting inspected. >> Okay, good. >> One more thing about transportation. Um there's a terrible bill that is likely going to pass in um this year's budget that is changing the transportation um depreciation cycle. >> It used to depreciate buses for um I think 10 years and smaller buses for eight years. It's moving all of them to a 15-year depreciation schedule, which
048will mean >> More maintenance, but less money to buy buses. And they think it's going to save the state like 25 or $30 million, but it's going to make us hold on to buses five years longer and small buses even longer. Um, and it's it's likely going to pass. So, it's just going to kind of make another >> It sounds like we need to buy big buses as a priority in order to >> regardless we have the money for them now. >> Yeah. >> Like it's just going to affect funding here in the future. But whatever we buy is going to fall in. I'm assuming, right? Because if we buy them now and then they move the lot, they're still we're just going to be expected to move our books into a 15-year >> definition.
049They'll still be in a depre 15 year depreciation. Even the buses already own still being a 15 year appreciation schedule. >> Yeah. >> And that's the way they they they they basically say they appreciate it down to zero and each year's depreciation becomes a revenue for us to buy a new bus. And um now I mean it's it's hard enough already, but now it's a 15 year depreciation cycle. And that's a pretty long time for a bus. >> It's a really long time. >> Really long time. the people though that you may not have ridden on a school bus recently. >> Okay. Uh, cool. Yeah, I appreciate it. Nothing else. >> Great. All right. Thanks, Marshall. >> Yeah. Uh, item four from the floor. Anything? No. Okay. Uh, five, unfinished business. We have none. Uh,
0506A, new business resolution 2526-11, uh, reduced educational support resolution. any comments, discussion? >> No, I it's pretty clear this is an action that we have to take because of our uh sunset agreement with Lake Stevens and the smaller um enrollment in Crossroads and I you know it's a proactive approach to what we have to do in the future for crossroads. Any other discussion? And I'd like to make a motion that we adopt resolution 2526-11, reduced educational support resolution. >> A second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> And then moving on to the consent agenda. Uh there was one addition >> the personnel report. >> Um Oh, yeah. there report. So take a look at that. But any discussion on sense agenda? I'll give you seconds to just double check
051to make sure that including the Snowomish County Detention Center. Am I on the wrong one? >> That was already on the consent agenda. I had I had a question. >> Oh, perfect. >> Yeah, >> I I just needed a little clarification. Is that it's not like it says ESD, but it's not their NRLC, their reasonable learning center. Correct. This is through Denny. >> Yeah. So, it's um the ESD takes care of if we have students placed at the detention center, it takes care of their educational. >> Yes. Yes. But I I just wanted I wanted to clarify that that's what Okay. Any other comments, questions? >> Just looking at the uh boilers at uh my Cristo >> and just because we just I guess for public information because we've been talking about HVAC and the
052levy and using that money and the cost of all this uh >> the 30% poor condition rating of the heating systems. >> I just Yeah. Well, it's it's very concerning. The facility HVAC distribution is also rated as poor and the ventilation as fair, which is exactly why just one more thank you to the community for voting yes on the levy so that we can replace some of these really aging >> inefficient completely. >> Yeah, inefficient. So I, you know, again with the transparency, sometimes these kind of reports look, uh, might be boring and why does it cost $80,000, but then you look at the professionals have looked at it and it's pretty bad. So, thank you for funding the ley and thereby funding some of these uh, repairs. Just wanted to call that out. Any
053other discussion? Without any other further discussion or objection, uh or the consent agenda will pass with unanimous consent. And that leads us to 642 which adjourns