001Okay, it is 6 o'clock and we are beginning the uh Granite Falls School Board meeting for what is it? August 13th. Um please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [Music] I aliance 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, hand it over to Superintendent Geon for the land acknowledgement. >> Thank you. We honor the first peoples of these lands by acknowledging that the area in which we gather within the traditional territory of the still tribe of Indians. The Still Gone people have inhabited these lands and waters memorial and their descendants have remained in this territory to this day. The Stillg people have continued the practice of to practice the traditional ways of their
002ancestors of fishing, hunting and gathering. The Still Gone tribe has had these lands and cultural traditions passed on to them by their ancestors who who believe that everything has a spirit and that they are the caretakers of these lands and wonders. >> Great. Thank you. Um, do we have Director Gawker on the line? Yes. >> Yes. Okay. >> Allow him to talk. Thank you. Okay. So, in attendance tonight, we have Director Gaulner, Director Dayne, Director Cancade, myself, Director Leoo, and Superintendent Geon. Uh, I'd like to make a motion that we excuse Director Kerry tonight. Second. >> Motions made second. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Um, moving on to board comment or item 2A, board comments and reports. Dr. Dayne, >> uh, just a few. Uh, I went by the high school the last
003couple of days. I went by again today. The, um, upgrades on the outside look beautiful. So, coming along great. And then I had the um the pleasure of attending National Night Out uh with great participation from the the community, the school, lots of organizations came out and represented the our school board and um administration was represented and uh it was a very successful night. Little warm, a lot of hot dogs cooked, but very successful night. >> Beautiful. Hey, great. Thank you. >> Um, not much to say. Just everybody's getting excited, gearing up for school year to start. Um, so just wishing everybody good luck and getting classrooms ready and prepared for all those kiddos and um, yeah, >> thank you. Yeah, I mean, obviously it's, you know, we actually even added a second board meeting
004for August just because we want to make sure that we're all all geared up and ramped up and ready to go, I would say. Right. I mean, we've got twoish two and a halfish weeks until the doors officially open. So, enjoy that summer. Um, you know, while we still have it, we've personally been spending a lot of time just in the river. Um, it's it's a great time to just, you know, I get my kids up to where the rocks are and show them how to divert water and all that stuff. It's such a simple pastime, but it's a great way to cool down, especially when it's 85 out there. Um, you like it's been recently. So, um, enjoy the summer. Uh, and then we're looking forward to getting everybody back into the doors. Um,
005I think that's pretty much it from my side. Um, okay. On to three. Oh, Eric. Yeah, Eric, you're you're on the line. Sorry, you're not present, so it's hard for me to remember. Any comments from your side? >> Your device may be muted if you're okay. Well, we can see if we can get them up and running here. Um, so then we'll move on to 3A uh business report prepared by Marshall Cruz. >> I just wanted to just restate we're still on track. We got a month left um of real spending. Big thing is payroll, which is a little unknown, but um we should be we will make our 5% fund balance goal, which will be the highest fund balance we've had in as far back as I can look. So, it'll be a pretty
006cool way in the year and without really sacrificing anything other than some administrator time um having to cover for people who haven't, you know, we when we lost some employees or employees went on leave, we uh we didn't rehire or try to leave. We tried to cover from within and that helped us save some money there. Um but we are on schedule to meet our fund balance. We've added curriculum. We've made some building repairs we've needed to for a long time. Um, I just think we're we're in a good spot. I feel pretty good about our future. >> And then I did see enrollment. Um, what are we at right now? >> I actually have that in my super >> and so we can and Marshall can um chime in. We can cover it there
007as well. >> Um, any questions for Marshall? Uh, no. >> Okay. Thank you, Marshall. Uh, 3B, superintendent report presented by Dana Keys. >> All right. Um, so summer is of course, you know, a busy time to to get the buildings, you know, um, upgraded and, uh, fix some things and those kind of things. And then also some professional developments. We'll talk about both of those things tonight. U, Marshall added some, um, bullet points here. And just some we talked about this last board meeting as well, but um so today actually um added four loads of gravel over at the um at transportation and just you know to to smooth that out and there were some potholes and there was some um there were some things that needed some attention. So that's looking good. Um lots
008you alluded director Dane to the the painting and the repairs at the high school. Um that is it looks beautiful and they match the paint well. I think it looks really great. Um, and not to have that peeling and those kind of things. That's just taking care of our investment um at the high school. Um, should be done next week. Uh, water filling stations at the high school. We implemented them and then we had some plumbing issues and back and forth. So, um, Mar, we implemented a couple, but we're adding more to the high school so that all the wings have filling stations. We initially installed two or three, but we're going to have, I think, five there now. just trying to encourage that reusable instead of single use plastics. Um keep the landfills a
009little cleaner. Um and then uh restroom repairs the high school stadium. We know that that was an issue at graduation. Um so those should be done before the first day of school. Um we talked about the ovens that were purchased maybe seven or eight years ago and will now be imple or installed um this week I think at uh the high school in the culinary classroom. And then see, >> thank you, Dan. >> Um, the asphalt at Mountain Way is complete and that was covered by insurance um because we had that water issue at the end of the the school year. Uh, two more preschool classrooms. Our early learning is growing, which is great. Um, there's two classrooms that were retrofitted a number of years ago and have the smaller toilets, all of the things.
010And so, it kind of was intended to be that at some point. So now we're taking advantage of that. Um we just don't have enough classrooms over here and we knew that was coming. That's why we moved it from Monty Christrista because we knew it was going to grow and as we grow as a system and have young families moving in I anticipate early learning to continue to grow. We've also uh for this year we'll have some typically developing peers. So it's a it's a blended model which all classrooms should be and so we're excited about that. But two more classrooms that are actually a little bit more on the crossroads side. um our gyms, you know, bleachers repaired, the backboards repaired, all the things. Um and then again, the deep cleaning and it looks,
011you know, beautiful out here. So, thank you again to our custodial and maintenance crews. Um the cleaning, the waxing, all of the things just getting all the schools ready for for our students. Uh enrollment update. So, um this chart reads in in several ways. And so um our budgeted um is the the highlighted yellow um what we are you know our best guess as of today um we always take a special look at kindergarten right because we just don't know how many kinders are going to walk through those doors but as of today we have 137 and thank you to Marshall and Paris both who have done significant outreach um trying to encourage people to enroll their kindergarters. We're also running a bus next week. I'll talk about that in a minute. Um, we're all
012of our new certificated staff and all of our administrators are taking a bus ride around the district to see our district and those kind of things, but it also helps remind people when you see a bus going that, hey, school's starting pretty soon. So, we're looking really good. Um, if you look at the top how it reads all the way across, um, that's those years on those dates. So we are we have more kids more kinders than we did even in 23 24 and then last year was a little bit lighter at 125. So um any questions on the enrollment information? >> Where's the uh I mean I appreciate that it's it looks like we're higher than we have more than what we had in there for budget but 12th grade budget we have 115
013but we have 162 enrolled. The weird thing about so it doesn't running start isn't broken out yet. >> Okay. >> So what happens is a lot of those 12th graders they end up splitting their time with running taking a lot of running start classes so they get that kind of stuff. >> Okay. >> And that that that so >> juniors too >> there's a there's a line item in the budget of running start. >> Okay. >> RS there of I think it's I can't 35 maybe 36. >> Yeah >> 46. So all most of the probably 36 40 of those seniors will drop down to that running start category. >> Okay. >> And last year was a particularly high number of running start. We anticipated to be we've worked with the high school counselors and
014it's a again it's a budget right guess. So um we anticipate about 35 kiddos. >> Okay. But we're still tracking to higher than the 1989 probably. >> Yeah. Okay. And I mean I I will be very we'll have to do a deep dive into if we're not at 160 165 kindergarteners by the time we start then there's probably something wrong with um our census data or we're having an abnormally large number of kids either delaying kindergarten choosing to attend kindergarten in other ways other than Granite Falls public schools because we had we had 210 births that should translate based on our usual rate of of >> capture. Yeah. Of capture that should translate to 170 175 maybe 180. >> All right. So you're expecting like another 25 or 30. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Right.
015>> Yeah. >> Our did you know campaign um Paris has been working on that and just getting some of that information. We talked about this at our last board meeting. Um these are just three of the posts that went out. um just celebrating, you know, the hard work and all the things that we do to serve kids and families. And then I'll spend a little bit of time on this. Um the last two days our district leadership team has been at the safety and wellness symposium up in Anacortis. Um and just kind of like synthesizing um what the last two days have been. Um the focus areas of course have been you know trauma-informed practices and you know proactive. Um we had a couple of speakers um that were very powerful. one is a mom
016of a child who was murdered by um an active shooter in Sandy Hook. And um the work that she does um you know, she spends far less time, if hardly any at all, talking about um her experience as a parent and more about proactive and preventative strategies. My my hat is absolutely off to her. She's brilliant and um well spoken and so it was really really great to hear from her. um and the foundation that she has. Um her name is Michelle Gay and then she's with Safe and Sound School. So, lots of good information there for all of our leaders. And then, uh Christina Anderson Fring is um was a student at um Virginia Tech um when there was an active shooter and she was in the classroom. Um she was shot, I think,
017three times and she was a survivor from that classroom. but um just what was learned from um from that um incident and how we can be better and how the school has responded and those kind of things. And those are of course, you know, extreme examples, but but they do bring up um the need for us to really look at all of our protocols and safety and and all of the things and the reason why we ask people to close doors and not prompt them and all of the components. This is the why, right? you're looking at people who, you know, have firsthand experience with that and uh really powerful uh stories um some of the training initiatives that were presented um and then some things on hate speech and some policies that are have
018been created out there. I've been doing some work the last couple days um to to get some model policies to talk with you all about. Um you want to put those policies and procedures into place before you're in the middle of dealing with the situation. It's then you have that to rest on. Um, one thing that came up yesterday, um, um, there was please, fire and some others. Um, the handle with care program. It's a local partnerships. Um, and it's with your local EMS. And in essence, you know, at its at its core is that EMS gives us a heads up like here's the kiddo, here's the date of birth, and it's a just a handle with care. not details around the incident that might have happened over the weekend or happened one night, but
019it's police or fire letting us know that this kid might have a tough day for whatever reason and then staff who work with that kid know that and we don't know need to know the details. We just need to know that they need a little bit of extra love and support. Um and so that that is active um across the United States. Um and so we will be implementing that and working on that. The ESD is involved as well. So, um, excited to talk to fire and to, uh, police here. We have such a beautiful relationship with our EMS. Anyway, this is kind of a seamless way to go. Okay, we're gonna just do this in a more systematic way. um the core strategies that just kept coming up and Dan and Marshall were both
020there also so I invite them to to contribute here but it's just that those partnerships with law enforcement with fire with you know the community and then that data driven prevention um something that did come up today I know many communities have had some you know adverse reactions to drills and those kind of things and I thought a point that was driven home pretty well today was the example of when you get on a plane. This was from Michelle Gay. She said, "When you get on a plane, they tell you where the exits are. They tell you how to put on your mask. They don't need to crash the plane to show you how to be prepared emergency wise. We don't need to run kids through full drills or anything like that with, you know,
021all of the things we but we do need to train them. And you're you're only as good as you are prepared for, right? So, um we have some work to do in that in the actual steps that we'll take. And then one big piece is the reunification piece because it may not be um you know an unsafe person in our schools. It could be you know an earthquake or something like that. So we need to we'll need to shore up those things. So that's some some big work for this year that we'll be focusing on um aligning our protocols and that kind of thing and expanding our our trauma informed training. Um we all know about ACES adverse childhood experiences and how impactful they are um on how our kids show up and how they're
022able to access their education. Um, so we um will be working as a district leadership team to do that and to get consistent across our buildings. Um, but I just appreciated everyone's attention um over the last couple days. Then tomorrow is our day three and we're here in district office um and just doing a lot of housekeeping things and all of this little bit of sit and get I'll try to make it exciting but it'll be a little bit of sit and get but um if you anybody wants to stop by we'll be here tomorrow and then upcoming district and community events um that DT work that I talked to you about the fall sports are um starting up here soon. We have our back to school fair um on the 19th which is next
023Tuesday at Mountain Way. Um our new certificate of staff orientation. There's four days of it. If you would like to ride the bus with us, we would love to have you. It's on the 20th uh 12:30 to 2. Kind of an odd time, but it's when we could fit it in. And I've asked Suz to be our tour guide since she is Granite um Granite Strong. She has been in Granite Falls for a really long time. And so she is going to grab the the microphone and let our new teachers and our administrators know all about the community um and red bus. And then we have our school of rock kickoff for all staff. Um the 27th staff are actually back. The 28th is our our staff kickoff at 8 a.m. and you're welcome to
024come to that as well. And then we have our first day of school on September 3rd. We have another day of bargaining on Friday. Um we are hoping to we're getting very close and we really appreciate our partnership with GFA and the work that we've done um to get that CBA solidified. So more to come on that as we progress. >> That's it. >> Any questions? >> What was the time start on the School of Rock? >> The singing or No, just kidding. >> I want to see the um 8 o'clock. 8 am we'll have the cheerleaders and the band there again and welcome our staff back and I will be opening and then uh we have Casey Kudson from the uh ESD89 he is absolutely fantastic um around you know um multi-tered systems of
025support but basically like he said last night when he was talking to us he's like it's about getting kids what they need and so we'll work closely with him this year um in in getting the right systems in place so our staff can do what they need do our kids anything else? >> No. >> Okay. Uh Paris, do we have any items from the floor? >> Nope. >> Okay. So 4 A, we're moving on from there. Uh five, unfinished business. Uh 5A, second reading to amend 2230 transition to kindergarten. discussion >> like to make a motion that we accept a second reading to amend 2230 transition to kindergarten. >> A second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> Hey, we got you, Eric. >> Yay. >> Okay. Uh 5B second
026reading to amend 5011 sexual harassment of district staff prohibited. Any discussion? >> No. >> I motion that we accept the second reading to amend 5011 sexual harassment of district staff prohibited. >> Motion's made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Uh 5C second reading to amend 6801 capital assets theft sensitive assets. Any discussion? Uh I'd like to make a motion that we accept a second reading to amend 6801 capital assets theft sensitive assets. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? I >> I >> um 5D second reading to adopt 5012 parental family or marital status and pregnancy or related conditions of staff discussion. >> I make a motion that we uh approve the second reading to adopt 5012 parental family or marital status. Is that the one wrong? >>
027Yes. Okay. marital status uh and pregnancy or related conditions of staff. >> Second. Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> And then 5e second reading to adopt 3206 pregnant and parenting students. Any discussion? I'd like to make a motion that we accept the second reading to adopt 3206 pregnant and parenting students. >> Second. Motions have been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Uh, new business 6A resolution number 242509, general fund budget extension. >> Yeah. Um, just to talk to that real quick. We're a month away from the end of the year and I just realized that we might go over our allocated budget by about $100,000, maybe $200,000 based on however this payroll comes in. We have to if we're going to go over by even a dollar, we
028have to ask the board for approval prior to going over by a dollar. >> Yeah. >> So, we could not go over, but just to make sure, it's a good idea to do this rather than have to apologize to OPI for going over. So, this is just um just added a million dollars of expense, a million dollars of revenue to the budget just to make sure that if we do go over by $50,000 or $100,000 because we don't really know where payroll is going to end up yet, we get all the extra hours put in like that. So, um it'll be very close to budget, but this is just giving us a buffer just in case. >> Okay. Any discussion? No. Okay. Uh, I'll make a motion that we, uh, accept resolution number 242509, general
029fund budget extension. >> Second. >> Motion's made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> Eric, did we get an I from you? >> Yes. >> Okay, there you go. I just didn't hear it. Okay. Uh 6B, first reading to amend 3143, notification and dissemination of information about student offenses and notification of threats of violence or harm. >> There's a small um part here. These are all all of these that are that we're looking at tonight are all WASA um updates. So either legal updates or or some language updates and those kind of things. This one is down on D, a notification of criminal action. Um, criminal action has occurred informed parent. >> So, this was one thing that I was curious. Um, criminal action is alleged to have been committed against a student on
030school property. Um, including if there's been a shooting on school property. What defines against a student? Because I'm assuming if an event that large happened at the school like the requirement is to notify all students are affected >> by that. Correct. So I and I don't know if this is uh I mean if this is how WA is presenting it precise precise enough then um and that's and maybe that's laid out in the procedure. >> I believe the heart of this is the detaining. I think there were some issues that came up around kids being detained and questioned and so if that's going to happen then we need to let parents know. I think that was where the crux of this. >> Okay. >> Um but the bottom line is it's letting parents know there's
031something their kids whether it's whole or whether it's just a few is it's letting this is what we do and we whatever the actions that have been taken. >> Any other discussion? No, >> no. It's one of those common sense things. >> Yeah. Okay. Um I'll move that we approve the first reading to amend 3143 notification and dissemination of information about student offenses, >> notification of threats or violence or harm. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> There we go. Okay. Uh 6 C first reading to amend 3210 non-discrimination was recommendations. >> Yeah. Was recommendation. >> Any discussion? >> No. >> Okay. Um I'll make a motion that we uh accept the first reading to amend 3210 non-discrimination. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All
032in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> Uh 6D first reading to amend 4260 use of school facilities. And this is just cleaning up from >> looked at also want a number change. >> Yes. >> For the policy. >> Oh, we have a number change for >> it's just in a different category than >> Okay. >> The model policy. >> Gotcha. Uh any discussion for this one? >> No. I'll make a motion that we uh accept the first reading to amend 4260 use of school facilities. >> Second. Uh motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I I >> uh 6E first reading to amend 1310 policy adoption manuals and administrative procedures. >> Discussion. >> Okay. No, >> no discussion there. Like to make a motion we accept the first reading to amend 1310 policy adoption,
033manuals and administrative procedures. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> uh 6F first reading to amend policy 2420 grading and progress reports. This one seemed Did we not have something on the books in the past that said >> no we have something I think the um the meat of this is going to lie in procedure and if we need to change something or if we ever go to standardsbased or it's a basically another informing um okay parents I don't have the marked up one here >> any discussion from this >> the beginning of each term the bottom um specified writing if there's um there was a piece about the participation So, we need to let parent like if if you're in a music class and part of the
034the grade is participating in a concert or whatever, kids need to know in writing and families need to know which makes perfect sense that that's part of their grade. >> Yep. Okay. Any discussion? >> No. >> Like to make a motion that we accept the first reading to amend policy 2420 grading and progress reports. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> uh 6G, first reading to amend policy 3226, interviews and interrogations of students on school premises. >> Okay. Um on this one um there's a piece on um on immigration and um and our role as a school and that it's discouraged to um have immigration officials come into schools um but what we do um legally and what we have to comply with legally if they was um
035recommendation based on their attorneys Any discussion? >> No. Make a motion that we accept the first reading to amend uh which one are we on? >> G 32 G. Okay. Yeah. Uh first reading to amend policy 3226 interviews and interrogations of students on school premises. >> Second. >> Motion's made and seconded. All in favor? I >> I >> uh 6H first reading to amend policy 5010 non-discrimination and affirmative action. >> Another WA was update. >> Yes. >> Any discussion? >> Like to make a motion that we accept the first reading to amend policy 5010 non-discrimination and affirmative action. >> Second. >> Motion's remaining and seconded. All in favor? I >> I >> uh 6 I first reading to amend policy 5260 personnel records. >> Um this was the this a small change. It was to
036include the um House Bill 1308. Um and that's when you request to see your personal record that you have. There's the long leg has to get it for you and what's being kept in your personal record. >> And there might be things in it um as listed below. There might be things in the CBA around this as well that guide um what they can look at and how long it takes to get to those kind of things. >> Specifically in our GFA CBA that is current it um it talks about there's some language about not having a second file or something like that. So we of course adhere to not only board policy but whatever language is in the C. >> Any other discussion? Okay, make a motion that we adopt the first or we
037accept the first reading to amend policy 5260, personnel records. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> Uh 6J, first reading to amend policy 1111, oath of office. >> Was there a change? Oh, it's in line with new a new RCW. Some language was removed as it's not in the statute. So, >> okay. Super simple. >> Any discussion? >> No. Okay. Make a motion that we accept the first reading to amend policy 1111, oath of office. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Uh, moving on to item seven, consent agenda. Um, any additions that aren't It should be all on there. >> Okay. All on there. Any discussion? >> We discussed the I Ready I mean I'm sorry we discussed the
038TBIP and the bilingual report. Um we just had to formally put them on here because we give OSPI this um board agenda that says that it was approved. The Ready is a renewal. We will continue to look at that and its efficacy and what we want to do. Y >> um but for next we don't have something else in place right now. So for next year we will continue. >> So 2025 26. Yeah. Okay. Um, okay. Uh, no further discussion. So, the consent agenda passes with unanimous consent. With that, the time is 6:32 and that officially ends the board meeting for 8:13. Thank you.