001We got to go. Uh, time is 6 o'clock. Mr. Order the January 14th meeting of the Grant Falls School Board. Uh, please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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, thank you. And I'm going to hand it over to Violet Bryant for the land acknowledgement. We honor the first peoples of these lands by acknowledging the area in which we gather is within the traditional territory of the still Groish tribe of Indians. The still Groish people have inhabited these lands and waters since time and memorial and their descendants have remained within this territory to this day. The desend the Stilgamish people have continued to practice
002the traditional ways of their ancestors of fishing, hunting, and gathering. The still Guamish tribe has had these lands and cultural traditions passed on to them by their ancestors who believe everything has a spirit and they are caretakers of these lands and waters. Thank you very much. Okay, roll call tonight. We've got director Farley, Director, Director Beach, Director Dane, myself, Director Leoo, and Dr. Gizelin. Then we have Violet Bane and Jalin. I pronounce everything right? How do I >> Leah Rain. Leah Rain. Okay. Leah Rain. Leah Rain. Okay. I'll try my best to remember, but thank you all for jumping in. Um, okay. And now we'll go into uh board comments as well. And we'll come back to you. We'll let the board we'll have the board go and then if you have comments, we would
003love to welcome them. But I'll give you some time to put your thoughts together if there's any comments that you wanted to share. Uh, Director Farley, any comments for this week? Um, I enjoyed our meeting this morning. >> Um, you know, as I've said, I'm getting to learn >> and, uh, it was another opportunity to get some information, figure things out. Um, >> I enjoyed very much and I'm sure other people will talk about this too, but the dedication at the fire station and the uncoupling of the hoses was uh was pretty fun. um the and it's just an amazing building and I'm just so proud for Granite Falls to have to have that facility and it definitely is needed and just seeing the potential for growth there and anyway just lots of potential. Um
004the Granite Falls Community Coalition had a feeding futures um event this last Friday and our community is an amazing community and they have just stepped up 1,000% to support um our food bank and and our coalition and I just can't say enough about that. Um, and then just in case anyone would like to volunteer, we have a point in time count of homelessness that's coming up on January 27th. And if you're interested, you can contact me. Uh we what we do is we collect data um with people who are facing housing challenges um and are housing insecure and then also provide them with resources um warm food, socks, backpacks, all kinds of great supplies that we have for them. And I'm looking forward I'm been invited to go to the Martin Luther King assembly tomorrow
005at Tamonti Crystal and I'm looking forward to that. Um, let's see. I spent a little time volunteering this week um with the community just uh providing some information about the upcoming levy. And then we had a board study session right before this meeting um just about our board and how we rated ourselves from last year and how we plan to move forward. We definitely need more time. We're looking that'll be scheduled at the first meeting in Feb before the first meeting in February. So, we're kind of moving forward. That's it. >> Okay. Well, I hope that everybody had an amazing break over the holidays. Um I I I will, you know, kind of echo Carol about the amazing community we have. We had programs uh from the fire department helping out people in need, from
006the school district, from the community coalition. And it takes the entire community to come out and support these programs so we can support those people who are in distress or in need at this time. I it's it's difficult when you look at the the present state of the economy um uh to to just sometimes get by dayto-day. Uh you know the cost of eating has gone you know through the roof. People are are definitely struggling and to have community organizations working out there um it just it it fills my heart. Um, and and I'm glad to get back to work. We've got a new board uh uh pretty much even even director Leoo is is essentially new, just reelected to his position. So, u we've got a lot of lot of work ahead of us.
007Um, and I'm excited to, you know, continue to work on raising our expectations for our students, getting student outcomes um, high. what I want to see from this school district and it's been since I, you know, put in my first letter of interest to get on this board was to create a situation where people were excited to be in the Granite Falls School District. Um, I I kind of focused on getting away from statements that I've heard in the past and I've been in this community for a long time, almost 45 years and I've heard a lot of people say this is just Granite Falls and I just that upsets me because I wanted to say that we are Granite Falls and we are better than what people think we are and I think we
008can achieve more and I think by being a part of this school board we can do that. We have a great administration. We've moved forward from where it was when I started. I look forward to seeing where we are in in a year, two years, three years because I know that we can do um better. We're doing better every year and we're going to keep doing better. So, >> sorry about longwindedness. >> No worries. No worries. Um yeah, I mean from my side, I definitely, you know, welcome everybody back. I'm sure the students are absolutely thrilled, you know, to to to jump back into school. But, um, you know, you're over you're over that first, it's not really the first half of the year, but it's it's the first hump and the the the large
009break here. Um, you know, the uh I I will say and then congratulations to the students too for winning the the basketball game against the staff. >> That's right. >> That's I actually I I don't know. I I played in it one year and I can't recall all the other years, but I don't Has the staff ever won? >> They were close. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I do play basketball with Mr. Johnson and like I know he >> we even have Brockman. >> Brockman. >> Okay. Okay. Something's fishy. Something's fishy. Um but no, I think that's that's a super fun tradition and and I love I love hearing about that. Um, and then side, this has nothing to do with the school district or anything, but it has to do with where we live.
010Um, like over the past uh over the past probably 10 months, I've just made it a mission of mine to at least once a week I'll go up the loop and I'll go find some trail to go hike. And I tell you what, we have a vitamin out here. Like nature is a vitamin to go and hike. Like even during the winter, right, the gates closed, but I'll do I'll I I won't I won't go out there, but like Lake 22, Heather Lake. Um it's it's a fantastic way to spend a Saturday morning. Just get out there and just disconnect. You have no cell phone service, which can be dangerous, but it's actually very refreshing to be in a place where you can't be contacting yourself. So, I'm just reiterating my love for Granite Falls
011in the area and being able to actually get outdoors and explore and stuff. So strange strange comment I know but I had to share the love because we live in an amazing place. Um okay Jayen >> I like the connections with Dr. meetings are pretty fun. Um and the BC we just voted for our theme which is very interesting. It's princess bride. >> Okay. >> Love it. >> As you wish. Um, I hope a lot of people join us here because it's a really good thing to connect and engage with our classmates. >> Nice. Great. Um, oh, she's like saying most of it, but um, the same with BOTC. I think it's a really great opportunity for students to connect and like having battle from the teachers and everything and the classmates and then also
012Dr. Geland with mornings because I was very hungry this morning like why I forgot food and let us introduce the topics we're talking about today. So it was very helpful. >> Thank you Violet. Anything you want to say? >> Uh yeah, there's a basketball game tonight and I'm not sure when the next basketball game is but there's like one probably going on every week. So that'll be good if people go to the games. >> Right. The funny thing, the battle of the classes when when I was going through high school, it was it was always rigged so the seniors would win. >> Still rigged. >> Um, but the the one that I was in was at my lunch period. They gave you a full-size bottle of strawberry Nesquick syrup. So, just the like sugary syrup
013that you go in the mix and they had freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. I was the junior and they had you stand up there and chug it and I actually still won that competition even though the seniors only had half in their bottle. Needless to say, my stomach was not happy the rest of the day. So, I hope we're not doing anything like that because that was not I think I probably became diabetic just from that. So, >> more like hungry hippo. >> Oh, yeah. >> No, that's good. >> Yeah, I did. Very embarrassing. Ah, >> good stuff. Well, no, really appreciate it. Um, okay. 3B superintendent report presented by Dr. Geeseburg. >> All right. Um, we have a some slides um that are a slide that we'll we'll go through, but um this last weekend,
014something that's not on there. Uh Tanya and I were both at the legislative conference down in CATC. Um they're so WASA is doing the legislative conference a little bit different. Usually, it's at the end of the month, but they've separated it a little bit more and are asking districts to kind of get their legislative priorities. were in the middle of a benium of course with the state budget. Um and the big three you know continue to be on the top of mind for all the districts in Washington state again transportation and socks and special education funding. That said there are some conversations to be had around some other some other things that may not have as many dollars tied directly to them but there are things around public records requests and some other other things
015that are cumbersome at best for districts. So, um, we will be working, when I say we, Tonnie and I probably will be working with our legislators to maybe craft some language and, um, and put it out there like is there could we make some moves because what's happening, especially in small districts, is uh, the public records request and we want to be transparent always. Um, but the way the law reads right now is incredibly antiquated and I don't think people anticipate that there anticipated there would be as many records as as there are. A stat that was brought out um was in this is a stat from 2012 that every two days more records were being created than from like two before 2000 to the beginning of time. And it just is like that's you
016can't even wrap your head around how many records that is. But it's just because of electronic because of all the things and it's so easy to share information now. So we have lots of records in the district. We do want to be transparent. We want it to be easy for people to ask us if they want public records, but we don't want to have um the financial burden and if if something is missed, we want to make sure they get to the right person. So, some work to be done um on that. On Monday, I was in the L Center school district, which is a district of similar size to us, a little bit smaller, uh down in Southwest Washington. It's an arrangement that I had made through through uh the superintendent there. they have
017similar CTE programming and uh the next step will be having JVJ who's our CTE coordinator and probably Ryan Pike and maybe Emily um go down and see some of the things they're doing. They have um fully increased like doubled their AP offerings and then um their CT offerings are are kind of off the charts and the work that they're doing and partnering to get more space um for increasing those programs is is really something I think that we could do. We want to offer more programs and ways for our kids to access their learning. Um to the superintendent report, it'll be a couple slides. Corey, you just some quick updates on on facilities and and safety. Director Cruz will be giving you um an update on the testing of our water and the mitigation strategies
018that we will be doing um to address that and the grant that we were able to access. um grounds and maintenance. We have a very small but mighty team, but one person is out and so it makes it that half of our maintenance staff is is out of the district. So, we are are maintaining, but there's not a lot of um projects new projects that will be able to be started until we get people back um from leave. Um new lighting at Granite Falls Middle School. If you've been at Granite Falls Middle School in the early morning or the late evening, you know how dark it is. Carol, I'm sure you do know how dark it is. So, there's some new lighting going in pretty much around the whole building and um we're excited about
019that. Um we know that lights um create safe spaces and people can see as they're going out to cars as buses are dropping off in the morning. You know, buses drop off very early and it's dark out there. We have some lighting, but this will um this will increase a ton. Couple of roof patches at Gratif Falls High School. There was some leaks that were found and um that's why we have those dollars set aside in capital projects so that we can address these things as they come up. Um and so we thank our our voters uh for passing the levy so that we can set aside those funds to do that. And then um we had some boiler issues once again in this building if you were here looking at director she and I
020had a meeting we're like it's really cold in this office. Um so you know we've worked on that and that boiler's been repaired again but some of the HVAC issues across the system you know continue to to to be a concern. Um and then we do have that technology and capital levy um and then the EPO levy um on February 5th and um we are doing a road show and giving the information out to everyone that we can. Thank you to the coalition for hosting this. They were our first and then we got some feedback so we can made some changes and those kind of things and I'll share that road show with the board. But we just from the district's perspective, it's just the information and then um a committee um does any of
021the other campaigning on yes or no. But from the district's perspective, we just want our voters to know what the levy is. All right. Um next slide. So I was in a meeting yesterday with all the superintendents across the state led by le led by state superintendent Reichd Doll and some of the reports that are are done for every district on the district report card. Um, and you can see the little trajectory here on the very nice picture of um, everything from pre kindergarten learning all the way up to high school graduation. Um, and you know, some of the things that are measured and where we are as a school district. Um, for Granite Falls School District, if you could go to the next slide, Corey. Thank you. Um, it's a little bit small, so
022it's hard to see, but there is some data there that, um, we want to share out. Um, one area of CE huge celebration is in our preschool programs in kindergarten readiness. We are close to the state average. And if you go to the next slide, there's um Tony made an infographic that's a little bit easier to read, but in kindergs um we were at 51.7%, the state average is 55.3%. We want to continue to increase that, but that is access. That is our kids having access to early learning opportunities. and then um be ready for kinder and um when we were in our study session we were talking about this a little bit and director Paneagus just you know hit the nail on the head if if kids are ready for kinder they tend to
023do well long term so that was exciting the other area is 9th grade on track that is something that we want to of course increase our CTE offerings so that um we see the the data there that our students do better if they have CTE classes to being on track to graduate um all of these are thing areas of growth for us uh dual credit participation. We're well below the state average there. Graduation graduation rates in four years, we're about 10% below the state average. So, we'll continue to focus on that. We do not have a dual language uh program um right now. And that is something that if it is the will of the board and I know that there's um some information put out by OSPI encouraging districts to move in that way.
024I believe that Superintendent Reichdoll and lawmakers have asked for districts to have a plan for that by 2030. What that means is that you implement and you start in kindergarten and you offer a dual language program in another language. Here it would probably be Spanish. Um and then kids um have their education taught in both languages. And the evidence of of the result in districts who have kids now that are in college and did um dual language programs since kindergarten is that they are they are fluent. They're scoring fives on AP tests. they are, you know, they've been so exposed because we know language access when you're little when your brain is a sponge is much easier than language access when you have your first Spanish class in high school or something like that. So,
025we have some work to do. We'll use this data to drive uh that next work and that includes board goals, superintendent goals, cabinet goals, and our SIP plans and teaching and learning updates. Speaking of how we get to those things, executive director Moore, >> good to see you. Um just a couple of updates for us. Um our assessment windows opened up this week on Monday, January 12th. So students are um completing the wellness screener that we do three time year, which is great. Gives us great information to wrap around students and support them um in the same way that we need support during the cloudy dur time of the year. Um also uh for I Ready and MAP assessment, we are collecting that winter benchmark data. uh that window closes on the 23rd of January
026and along with that uh buildings are working with that data and their progress so far and completing midyear school improvement reflection processes that are required by OSPI. So teachers are in deep conversation about school improvement at this time. So go Tigers and kids, we really want you to focus and do the very best that you can do. Um, beginning next week on Tuesday in the morning, we will be devoting some of our time for district leadership team to go into buildings and visit. Um, this is a really important um opportunity for professional learning for our district leadership team, our building admin and to collaborate around um uh problems of practice and and work around instructional um instructional leadership and instruction in the classroom. So, we will be conducting those uh school visits once a month
027starting here in January with our first visit actually at Mountain Elementary School. So, we're very excited about that. And just so that you know, those school visits are aligned to school improvement. So, in my office, all the work that we do is about school improvement, whether that's instruction, curriculum, student wellness, all those things. So, that's our focus and we're excited to do that work around school funding. uh Crossroads and Open Doors over the winter break. Uh they received their package of OSSI funds, which is really wonderful news because they have a robust uh spending plan that their leadership team has worked on and they will be working on purchasing some supplies with those funds to help continue to wrap around students um and do some more intervention work. Um, and I'm very very excited and
028proud that Crossroads High School has been working on um looking at their assessment data and uh and providing some supports for their students in in very very meticulous and methodical and intentional ways. So that funding that's a little bit to get there because the the uh requirements have become more stringent at the state level. Uh but this is really great news uh for us there. Uh this week our LEA program review is uh starting and that is um something where each district in the state is periodically selected for review and we are selected this year. So we will be um spending the next six weeks putting together um basically answering questions and putting together some evidence to show um how our program is operating in different uh pieces of programming. So it's our turn and
029we're excited for that. If you have questions, please let us know. >> That is formerly known as CPR. Yes. Consolidated program review. Um it is uh for all state and federal programs uh with the exception of special education because that has its own review cycle. It is um it's probably executive director Moore is probably downplaying it a little bit how much work it is to pull together all the data. But the really the great thing about it is if there are pieces that we aren't compliant in, it allows us to get into compliance and know if there's new things or things that boxes we aren't ticking because we want to have the best possible service and follow all of the rules. Um and so more to come on that and then there will be an
030exit. It's like an audit in a sense and there will be an exit and I would invite um a board member or two to be a part of that exit. But we did have that intake meeting um earlier this week. What does OEA stand for? >> You told me local education agency CPR, which I didn't know either. >> Consolidated program review and now they they've kind of changed their maybe because of the CPR efforts, but it is a program review and um it's everything from, you know, signage on, you know, playfields that says, you know, this, you know, drug free, vape free, smoke free, those kind of things. everything from that to handbooks to CT programs to all of it. So if there's federal or state funds programmatically, they're going to be reviewed. >> So
031we're excited for that turn. So here we go. We're very excited. Did I say that we're excited? Um the last two items that I have is I I'm really proud of the work that we are engaging um in with our secondary content teams. Um we're bringing together um secondary social studies, science, math, and ELA. and really um laying the groundwork for what an instructional calendar looks like. Um a good example of this um we're very interested in, you've heard me say this before, the arc of learning. The idea that you entered your grade level and you have um Emily Moore as your history teacher and you receive a certain content at a certain time of year, instance, World War II study, right? We want to be certain that our students are receiving their World War
032II study when everybody else is doing their World War II study. So that if we have to move a student because maybe they need a health credit or they need a different PE credit or they need a different teacher that they are receiving World War II study in time and then they're not missing content because we're making those decisions about students and about the important learning. So one small example but we are getting together and working on pacing calendars and it's really elevating that conversation around instruction around teacher practice and really um the next steps will be taking these calendars and having our expert teachers look at them and look for gaps and look for the map and uh find that place for students to receive the best instruction possible. And lastly, um it is
033a K12 um campaign for this work. So we're bringing together an elementary advisory team that starts this month that will also be working on that work at the elementary level. And really broadly um in that section really working with our teachers to see that the work that I do today as a senior math teacher rests on the work that came before me for all the math instruction that happened before me. Right? So, um, really working with our teachers and they're incredible and the conversations are really rich and so we're happy about that work. So, >> thank you. >> All right. U, moving on to some district and community events. Tiger cabinet is next Thursday. You are all welcome. Let Tonnie know if you're going to be there so that we can either advertise it um
034if there's more than two board members or um just welcome you. And the focus next Thursday will be um our tire cabinet members will be working with their building principles on some problems of practice and um setting up some in their own buildings. Um noteworthy that it is the end of the first semester. So it actually is halfway through um on January 23rd. We have MLK assemblies. I know director Mega is hunched that across the district. I think most of them are are on Friday. Um it looks like our schedule is kind of back to back to back. Um, so we're excited to to do that. And then winter sports are in full swing. Season three at the middle school and then as was referenced by Violet. U basketball pep band is playing at the
035basketball games and wrestling is going full swing. So there's just lots happening at um at our at our secondary schools. Really quickly, when is Battle of the Classes? Um, some started now, but like they the teachers were supposed to have a meeting Thursday and then we technically start decorating on Tuesday. >> Next week. >> Yes. >> Okay, perfect. So, if you haven't been a classes, you have to attend. It's just such a cool event. It's so fun. Looking forward to that. That's it for me. Any questions? >> Um, okay. Uh item 3C, business report presented by Marshall CRE. >> So the normal business report is in there, but it's also got a couple of slides updating the um water testing that we did. And so there's nothing really exciting about the business report part of
036it. It's we're waiting for all of the revenue true-ups to happen in January at the end of this month before we can give a good forecast for year end. Um, we expect every one of the revenue true to be in our favor this year because our enrollment is different than budget. Our special ed is different than budget. Our test case is different than budget. So the the revenue is going to be higher than what we budgeted and we know what our expenditures are. So it's just waiting for the revenue to get the good forecast for year end. And we should have that next visit of course have forecast for year end. Um, but I want to take I don't know five minutes or so to talk about the uh lead testing that we did. And
037um, just as a reminder, there are two RCWs out there that require all school districts to test all water outlets um, by June 30th, 2026. And water outlets need to be tested include anything that can produce drinking water or can produce cooking water. You don't have to do uh toilet water. You don't have to do hand washing sink water. You don't have to do hose spet water that you would use to water your ground. But if it's in a kitchen, it could be used for cooking something in. It can be used for drinking in some form or another. Even if it's not used for that, if it can be used for that, it needs to be tested. Um, every school district in Washington state and municipalities in Washington state have to test that. Um so
038during the twoe period in the middle of October, we partnered with the department of health um to test our schools. Um the person from the department of health that came out to test our schools, she had tested over 300 schools already. So most school districts have partnered with Department of Health. We could do a private contractor to test it. Department of Health obviously offered the service for free. So, we got our place in line about six months ago, a year ago for the Department of Health to come test us. Um, and it is what most school districts do. Like, this one person had tested over 300 schools by the time she got to us. Um, so we tested middle of October. Um, they inspected every outlet in our school district. Results came back over a
039two-eek period in mid November. Districtwide, they tested 289 outlets. Um, it took them, we did the high school on a Saturday because there's there's some rules around how long the fountain or the water spot has to have not been used and some rules around when it should have been used prior to testing also. So there's this window of it had to have not been used for 18 hours, but it should have been used at some point in that 18 to 24 hour period or else the the test data is going to be kind of wacky. But but we're not supposed to run the water if that's not our normal practice. If our normal practice isn't to test a faucet every day, then we should not have tested. So we did everything correctly. Um, so we
040had 75 come back with levels beyond farart five parts per billion of lead. Five parts per billion is kind of considered the gold standard of water quality in the state of Washington. It's a um it's a metric set by the EPA. It's the requirement for bottled water. It's the required requirement for municipal water systems. Um getting below five parts per billion would be very difficult because the water coming into your system does not have to be below has to be at can be at five parts per billion. Lots of reasons why there is lead in water. Um this isn't on my slides, but um old pipes, pipes that were built before 1986 have a lot of lead in them. Pipes that use um solder for their for their coupling system can have lead. Pipes that
041have a lot of brass, whatever reason, I didn't know this, but brass causes lead. Um so, and there's lead in the groundwater because of things that go on around our in our world, which is lead and groundwater. Um so, our target is to be below five parts per billion. Our action level is 15 parts per billion. So there's a little bit of a gray area of five to 15 parts per billion where they would like to see you address it, but come up with a plan, figure out how you can solve it, make it financially suitable, all these things. Um so we had um 75 that came back with above five parts per billion. The main ones were things that we have not used in 10 years. So when you have water sitting in pipes
042for 10 years, it's going to accumulate lead. And so what we should have done is turned off those systems that we haven't used in 10 years. So what we did for those, we immediately turned them off. We had two more that came in above 15 parts per billion that were used only for cleaning paint brushes and stuff like that. So we had the choice to either turn them off or to put them down as for cleaning only. we just turned them off because they are very rarely used. Then we had um about 63 65 that came in really between five and 10 parts per billion and and those are the ones we need to address. So um we we contacted neighboring school districts, we contacted some pipe vendors that neighboring school districts have used. The
043optimum way to solve the problem is to replace the fixtures from the wall to the where it dispenses the water. So the the faucet, the spigot, the piping to the wall, that's that tends to solve the problem. Um so what we did is we immediately applied for a grant. There's a grant the state offers a grant because every school district needs to do this. No school district can afford to do it. So we determined it was going to cost $70,000. We applied for a grant almost the next day. They approved the grant and said you could have the $70,000. They approved our plan. They approved our our all of our things. So we are at the point now where we're going to order all the fixtures that we need. All the all the it's every
044school's a little different. Every fixture is a little different. So, there's going to be a wide variety of fixtures that we have to order for replacement. We're going to try and make them common if we can so that they're easy to fix and replace down the road. But, um there's a little uniqueness to each school. But, our next step is to order those parts and um we're able to actually hire a plumbing company to come out and do it. The state would fund that. So, our guys don't have to spend a week of their time trying to find time to do that. They can come in. Hopefully we can target it over a winter break or a spring break or so they can be here for the whole week and not disrupt schools. Um but
045very helpful to see as a grant for this and I think I think it's kind of a rubber stamp grant. I think they just had this money set aside for any school needs it. Um so once our repairs are complete we have to have them come back and reinspect it to ensure that it is um around that five points per bill five parts per billion or lower. And then we have to um do a there's a formal template report that we would have to give to the board, have the board approve that we that what we did. The report has to show that the problem was solved and then we have to send it back off to the health department and OSPI to show that we solved the problem. Um and then we're required to
046um to retest every five years to make sure that nothing new popped up or that our existing fix works. Um in the meantime, our next step is we also they have a template for us to message families. So we need to message families. There's a template letter that all municipalities are required to use to message families that use our water explaining to them our test results, what we're going to do to mitigate the problem and our kind of our timeline for doing it. And um I personally with the age of both our elementary schools was pleasantly surprised that there weren't a number of there weren't a huge number of faucets that were in the 100 parts per billion or something because you hear about that from old old um government buildings all the time because
047of just when they were built and what pipes were used and you never know what pipes are used in the ground for the city because that infrastructure was built long before even the schools. So, the results were actually to me pleasantly surprising. Um, questions. And I I put a lot of words on this because I wanted it to kind of stand alone so that you can just kind of read the story. Anybody can read the story and not have to watch me present. >> So, can you just the $70,000? Are we fixing 65 faucets, 63 faucets, or all 75 faucets? >> We're fixing 65. the 10 that um we don't use. We actually don't use they were they were pot fillers that is antiquated. So there's these ridiculous apparatus in the kitchens that are pot
048fillers and they're these spiderweb of >> faucets that are used to fill these big old cauldrons cauldron that we no longer use that system for cooking food anymore and it's just in there. I mean, ideally, sure be nice to take them out because they're they're take up a lot of space. Nice to take them out and get them give them more more room for the kitchens, but in the meantime, they're just decommissioning. And that was I think eight out of the 10 were pot fillers in all the schools. I mean, every one of the pot fillers because we haven't used them in 10 years, right? Was >> should have just been turned off and then they would never have tested them, >> right? Okay. So, we're gonna we're going to fix all 65 of them
049and our communication >> five points per bill parts per billion we're going to fix. >> So, PUB when they send something to me when they do the water testing in my front yard once a month about 20 samples anyway. Um, they send just a postcard. So, we do we send a postcard? Can we send an email? Do >> we do just checking? >> That's all. All right. >> There's different requirements for wet water, too. I I learned a lot about >> there is there is a thought I would know. >> So, fun fact from Granite from the city of Granite Falls or Snowish County PUB, I guess, for the wellwater. They take over 200 samples a month. They were out front of my house forever feed feeding my dogs biscuits. But yeah, they take a
050lot. They were very serious about that. They also train my dogs to bark at them because if my dogs bark then they throw more biscuits. Anyway, side side fact. >> That's all. But yes, we're glad we don't use a well. >> Yeah. Any other questions, comments? >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh item 4 a items from the floor. Do we have anything? >> No. Okay. Quickly. Uh five, unfinished business. We have none. Six, new business. We have none. And seven, consent agenda. Any discussion within the consent agenda? >> Is there any additions to it? >> Yeah. Are there any additions consent that aren't? >> Yes, that is the personnel report that's attached up there. >> There's the personnel and then the additions where why is it not? >> Yeah, there was another Yeah.
051>> Yeah. additions to consent agenda, but outside of that, and is there anything that also hasn't been okay? >> So, those those were on there earlier today and everything. So, >> I just have a comment. >> Okay. >> I was um I wasn't surprised to see it because I did know, but I just wanted to mention um I'm happy for him making the move. >> He's excited about it. But, um anyway, was I was a little little sad to see Cory's resignation on there and I just wanted to make comment of that. because I've appreciated >> but I've I've appreciated being neighbors with him for for several years and and all the support that and help that he gives us. >> You will be very very we will miss him very very much. >> I
052would like to second Carol's uh comments. I think Corey's been I don't know. It took me a while to realize that he was the same kid that used to sell me milk at rightund. So, it's been a minute that we've been we've been around and around working together. So, I appreciate having you here and I wish you well in your next step on the path. >> Yeah. >> Thank you so much. Means a lot. >> Absolutely. We see you back there. >> Yeah. Really, really appreciate it. I hear it's Texas, right? >> Texas is the plan. >> Everything's bigger. >> Yeah, exactly. But they're warmer. >> But but also not more expensive. I think up here >> up here any all the coastal areas seem to be the the most expensive places to live now.
053So >> um well no really really appreciate you and everything that you've done too. So okay. So any other discussion for consent agenda? No. Okay. So with that, the consent agenda passes with unanimous consent and the time is 6:41 and that will adjourn this meeting of the ground school board.