001Before we get to the more exciting stuff, we got a couple of business things to get through. The first one is our approval of our agenda. And this comes with a little bit of an addendum. The administration recommends the Board of Directors approve the April 21st, 2026 board meeting agenda with the following addendum, removal of item O, executive session, and renaming item P, adjournment, to item O, adjournment, to accommodate the adjustment. Do I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed? All right, that passes. Before we go any farther, I wanted to do We had some greeters out front today, besides the band, which was definitely a treat as I walked in
002the door. But if you would mind coming up front, tell us a little bit about yourselves, what school you're from, what grade, and anything you want to talk about that's going on with school. Um my name's Noah Future. I'm a senior at Sumner High School. And currently we are getting ready for our service conference on Thursday, which is quite a fun event that we're really looking forward to. Hi, I'm Savvy Florence. I'm a junior at Sumner High School, and I'm a co-activities coordinator for our leadership. And I just got the pleasure of finishing up working on benefit night. And with that, we brought in about $53,000 for our beneficiary this year. And that was just such a blessing to see our community pouring into our school and just others around us. Hi, my name is
003Ela Thompson. I am a junior at Sumner High School. And one thing that It was actually a couple months ago, but it was just such a fun experience. It was called Pack the Gym. And it was the Sumner and Bonney Lake Special Olympic basketball teams. And just so many students filled the room. And yeah, that's just something that was amazing. That's pretty cool. Lots of cool stuff going on. Service, Pack the Gym, Benefit Night. I mean, there's a lot of good that the three of you are involved in. Thank you very much. Appreciate all your effort. Good job. >> Thanks. All right, one more business item before we can get to more fun stuff. We've got our consent items. The administration recommends that the Board of Directors approve the consent agenda items for April 21st,
0042026 board meeting. Do I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. >> Second. Thank you. Any discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed? All right, motion passes. All right. Well, at this time, I think we'll go ahead and excuse Aaron Marquardt for tonight's meeting. And I'll turn it over to you for what we have going on in the room. Well, it is my pleasure to introduce Brandon Cain, who is the band director at Bonney Lake High School. So, Mr. Cain, come on up. Hey band, how are y'all feeling? Sad. So, if you walked in the main foyer entrance, you would have seen that along the staircase, we have about 20 members volunteer of our Bonney Lake Panther marching band in, for
005the first time since the school then it's original since about 2007, brand new uniforms, thanks to everyone here. Can we give yourselves a round of applause for supporting the kids? When it came to the design process, I was in Chicago for the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. It's one of the biggest of its kind in the world in terms of professional development for musicians. And the design artists that also designed Sumner's uniforms were there. So, I actually got to work one-on-one in Chicago doing these designs with artists. And it was very intentional every step of the way. Could we have both drum majors? Let's have color guard stand up. And let's have Yes. Breial and Noah. So, we'll show off Drum Majors, come up. Color Guard. So, this way. So, we're going to show
006off our uniform. Let's start with Everyone say hi, Noah. Um So, Noah, come here. So, could you guys take a seat up and we'll call you up one by one to show off the uniforms. That way every All the awesome community members can see. Hey, Noah. Sorry I put you on the spot. Are you going to hate me? Hopefully not. >> Okay, hopefully not. I'll take my chances. So, as you can see on one arm, this arm, we have Bonney Lake. And we left space for anytime we go to a parade or any big event that has a decal, we can attach it to the uniform. And or if the school logo changes, we left space for that. On the other arm, we have Panthers with our claw marks. So, can you do a spin
007so they can see what it looks like on both? Woo! Let's go. Uh we have a band logo that's in the shape of Mount Rainier. And we kind of did a play on that in the design process. When you see our actual band logo, you can see what it actually is sideways. So, this is the idea and it goes down to a hip cape. And then Noah, can you turn 180? We have Uh yes. So, when you see the front on this side, Noah, can you turn 90? Band, right face. >> [gasps] >> Uh also, if you can see, we have the gradient. So, when you look at the panther logo, we have a lot of gradient in our design. And we decided, "Hey, it would be really cool to incorporate that down the leg."
008And when you have black on the bottom, it actually draws the eyes away from the feet. So, hopefully we score better, too. And we have the same gradient, but also on the shako wrapping. So, if you could spin around so everyone can see the gradient up top. The idea is it starts dark just like the side of the legs, and it feeds into white, which sprouts into the white plume up top. So, everything feeds together. Uh Elliot and Luke. So, let's make it easy. Luke, if you face this, Elliot, if you did a 180, then we can see both sides. So, on the back of the uniforms, we have Panthers down the spine. And we have a shoulder cape, which has silver on the inside, teal on the out. We also have shoulder nest. We
009don't have birds in our mascot, but if any birds wanted to land on the shoulders, they would be mucho happy. Uh we have claw marks on both arms. So, the idea is if they were to parade outward, it looks like the claws scraped down the street. Or if they grab their arms and went like this, it's like claw marks going down. So, really wanted to have some pizzazz there. And we have just teal stripe going all the way down, classic collegiate style Busby shako with plume spots. So, that is the drum [clears throat] major uniform. And if you look on the gauntlets, which are the things that cover the wrists, it's the same gradient that connects with the shako wrapping and the side of the leg. And if you get to see our new banner
010that we got that the school purchased in our parades, it is the gradient as well. So, the gradient of the gauntlets connects the whole logo, the school logo, the shako wrappings, the pants. And if you check the gauntlets, it has Bonney Lake. So, when they stand there with their signal batons, it reads Bonney Lake. And then you also see the logo. So, the idea was we wanted our uniforms to be super cohesive. Color Guard, could you step up? Drum Majors, you can sit down. Uh if one of you Sunny, if you want to face this way, Emlyn this way. Like Sorry, sideways. And then if you want to turn the other way sideways. Uh one more. One more rotation. Yay! There we go. So, as you can see, the drum major or the color guard
011outfit very much mirrors the rest of the whole tie-in. We have the gradient going down the side cape. That's basically a 3/4 wrap. We have nice glitter on the inside to have pop. And we have the claw marks to unify. And the idea is we wanted to do something elegant, yet functional. Nothing that like totally got too warm, too cold. The goal with these uniforms was to look good and be comfortable. And something to last many years to come. You guys can take a seat. So, we just want to thank you again for allowing us to have just such amazing uniforms. We wanted to have something that really stood for the community, that really made it feel like this is who we are. This is us. A look that matches our sound. And we're very
012proud that the first time we wore these was when we collabed with Sumner High School for the first time ever marching together in the Daffodil parades, all four of them. The idea was to build unity throughout the community and show that collaboration is greater than division, that joy is greater than any other feeling, and that music can be the universal language that binds all of us. By working together, two are greater than one. And if anyone can show that two schools can get together and do something beautiful for the community, the idea was let's do that through band. And so, our first unveiling of these was by our next to our brethren over at Sumner High School to say we don't need to make a stance by ourself. We got new look. We are who
013we are, but let's collaborate and build something awesome together. So, thank you so much for supporting us. We hope to see you at band events. Pep and marching is only a portion of our program. I would say it's only like 20% when you include drum line, percussion, jazz, wind bands, chamber ensembles, jazz combos. We do so much throughout the year. This just happens to be the most public facing of the band program. So again, thank you. Go band and go SBLSD. Thank you so much. That was really detailed explanation of the uniforms. I think it really will help me when we see you out at the different parades like much more appreciation for what goes into the design of uniform. Usually, I'm just distracted by the great music. So, really appreciate it. So, great job
014when when the Daffodil Parade. It was amazing to see the unity coming together and I really really really enjoyed it. So, thank you for being here tonight. It definitely put a smile on my face to walk in the door and hear the great music in the foyer. So, thank you so much. Appreciate it. And if you don't want to stay and see what a board meeting looks like, you're welcome to to get back to your evening. If you want to stay and see what we do, that is cool, too. Totally up to you. All right. Awesome. Thank you so much for being here. Uh we can we can go around and get a Yeah, should we Let's get a picture first. Text her. I'm sorry. >> [laughter] >> Okay. I just wanted to tell you
015that we're going to be adding another plaque to the wall over there. And you might have noticed our new banner um for educational excellence for achievement. We were given this award, I don't know, several weeks ago. So, it just uh we have the plaque now to accompany the banner and um it will soon live in its new home right next to the other awards. So, congratulations us. >> [laughter] >> Nice. Um I think at this time, let's go ahead and take a 10-minute break. All right. Let's go ahead and we'll bring it back a few minutes early since everybody's ready. Um any other superintendent comments? All right. Let's jump right to board member comments. Who wants to go first tonight? Bill? All right. You want to do it, Tom? Well, there was so much going
016on this last month. I have two things that stand out for me. >> Okay. I went to the maintenance department operations. Saw all the people there, meet all the crew that takes care of our schools, our buses. It was amazing. And of course, I took them treats so they liked that quite a bit. So, it was really neat to do that. And I also went to Holly Heights Elementary. I got a tour of that school, my first time being there. They do so much for the students. >> What do you think of the the way that you can see the pipes through the walls? It was pretty cool, huh? And the kids are all taking the food each other for going lunch and have a cart going out there. Yeah, watching stuff and to clean
017the tables and just It's really unique set up there and they did a great job and really enjoyed it. Yeah, it's a neat building. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we can we well, we can circle back if there's any we miss. Will you will you come back and take care of them for us? All right. JB, you got anything? Um yeah, I just uh I'm going to one of the highlights of this uh the last couple of weeks was the opportunity to go to Victor Falls Elementary and sit in uh for an hour or so on what's called the IDEA project, which stands for the Interactive Education Awareness. Um and this I think it's great from a so many perspectives. One was that it was funded by the PTO there that made that um opportunity available. And
018um and what they do is um really that the goal is to educate people about um disabilities and what some of their classmates might be going through in learning in a different way or functioning a little bit differently. And Oh, sorry. For those online listening. Yeah, sorry. Um so, the So, what was it was pretty amazing. I guess it's a whole, you know, a whole week. Um it gets kicked off with an assembly, whole school assembly, and then the students come through um on in kind of age-appropriate groups, and they have interactive stations that they get to participate in. And they actually have the opportunity to experience what it might be like to have certain disabilities. So, it can be anything from a sensory uh processing um to a funco-motor functional. So, you know, we
019I tried several of the activities right along them. And, you know, from putting on ski gloves and trying to do small tasks to um looking in a mirror and trying to write the alphabet um or trying to read and having the words blur across or letters flip while you're doing it. Uh it was I think it was just I mean, for me it was it was a real aha moment, too. I had um a daughter that struggled with some reading. And I just think the empathy I could have had for her like when she was struggling and and just the ability to realize that she wasn't seeing what I was seeing, that she wasn't lazy, she wasn't, you know, not paying attention, she wasn't distracted, she was working harder than I ever worked. And, you
020know, if I had been able to experience this, I know I would have had more patience and more understanding and um a lot more empathy for what she went through. So, um it was really really um I thought impactful and I hope I'm sure the kids, just based on some of the questions that we saw in the short period we were there, were experiencing similar things. They were thinking about people in their classes that they worked with and how they might um be able, you know, understand. And that was really cool. So, um it uh you know, it was great for kids. I can only imagine that for parents or for uh teachers also, what a what a really good experience. So, I was I was really blown away by that and was so glad
021to be a part of that opportunity and that it would came to our schools. Cool. Nice. Billy, you uh have anything you want to talk about? >> I do. Um I was able to go to Donald Eismann and see the production of Shrek the musical. Closer right now. Yeah. Uh the gym was completely packed and the kids did such a wonderful job. But, the um you know, it's club and uh later on I'm going to mention, you know, the involvement of our kids in that. But, really a shout out to the adults who who put that together and the the parent community members who did the sets and stuff. It was just really well done. Nice. Yeah, we uh we've had quite a bit going on. I know that I attended the benefit night um
022and that was pretty cool to see the community come together and raise funds for uh recent graduate of the district who's going through some hard times. And it's just great to see the community come together like that and uh and really pull together for them. All right. We'll uh move on to our next item on our agenda, which is audience comments. David, do you have any audience comments tonight? We do. As we move into the audience comment portion of the meeting, the board recognizes the value of public comment on education issues and the importance of involving members of the public in its meetings. Comments from the public are taken under board advisement and may or may not receive action at future meetings. Topics including charges or complaints against employees, employment or dismissal of personnel, acquisition
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025your time to another. I will signal you with the bell when you have 1 minute remaining. Our audience speaker for this evening is Dawn Land. Okay. I'm short. I always have to check. Um good evening. Um my name is Dawn Land and last summer I attended a pride event at Donald Eisman Elementary School. Um this event was created by Abby White and her Hope Development Practice. And despite the the adult entertainment, Abby designed her pride event especially for kids. Um Abby had a bouncy house and giant inflatable hamster balls plus an arts and crafts table, all right next to the playground of Donald Eisman Elementary. The kids were encouraged to make signs at the craft table for the Toddling Tots Pride Parade, um which was planned at the end of the event. Um the entertainment
026was very adult with several um with several adults, mostly men, dressed in drag. The male drag performers were very on point for a pride event in their very sexualized caricatures, dressing and performing in parody of women. Um as these suggestively dressed men danced around the playground, children were encouraged to give them money like strippers in a strip club. Um when the pictures and videos that I took of the event went public, people all over the nation were shocked by the grooming which happened at Abby White's pride event. After her pride event was exposed, Abby tried very hard to shift the blame to me. Abby said that my pictures and videos were inappropriate because of the angle I filmed from. But the reality is that Abby was upset that my pictures and videos showed there were
027children and what exactly was happening to those kids at her event. Um I have come here today to tell the board that you don't have to approve another pride event on school property for Abby White and her Hope Development Practice. Um not approving Abby's event for this year does not mean that the board members don't like gay people. Um it simply means that the board recognizes how Abby's pride events are wholly inappropriate for kids. Um there are countless parks in Sumner and Bonney Lake that Abby is fully capable of holding her grooming pride event somewhere other than school property. Um when it comes to highly publicized and really terrible incidents involving kids, I am sure that the Sumner Bonney Lake School District does not want to follow in the footsteps of the Puyallup School District.
028Um don't get me started on that. Um wherever Abby ends up holding her grooming pride event this year, it is it is sure to be fully documented again. Um this board can assure that Abby's grooming does not become a problem for the Sumner Bonney Lake School District. Please, if she approaches, please just say no politely and I'm sure she can find somewhere else. Um and I have pictures and such to pass out. Thank you very much. Thank you. That concludes our audience comments for this evening. All right, that takes us to our business matters. First one on the agenda is our budget and fiscal update. Uh Chief Financial Officer Brian Berry is presenting a budget and fiscal update to the board. Brian. Good evening, President Lewis, Superintendent Dent and all distinguished members of the board.
029You're out of water. Okay. Quick update on the legislative session and then a mid-year fiscal update for us. Um why is it so important to talk about the state and their budget? Because school districts in the state of Washington get about 80% of their money from the state. So the state budget is important to us. High-level overview. This is the second year of a biannual budget the state does. Um so this is considered the short session and there's usually not a lot of new policies in the short session. It's mostly updates. Um and that's was true this session. Um there were multiple bills introduced, but mostly they were crafted to limit state cost because the state is also in a financial um well, a somewhat financial crisis. They need to be careful with their money.
030Um no bill seriously considered that would address the underlying funding needs of districts. So as you probably know from reading newspapers, there's multiple districts across the state that are kind of in financial straits and there's no bills that are introduced this session that really was going to address that. Um most of the talk was about the millionaires tax and that got most of the headlines, most of the news. Um and I'm not going to comment much on that, but that was the big discussion. So, what really happened at a high level from a fiscal perspective and where the state's putting their priorities. When they adopted the 2-year budget last year as for the 25-27 cycle, um their spending for the general fund and actually they call it near general fund. There's some other sub funds
031that are very similar to to the general fund. They um projected and and budgeted to spend $77.9 million. You can see the increase You can see they increased that 2-year budget to 80.2 billion. So if you quickly do the math, 2.3 [clears throat] billion dollar increase. What about the education part of the budget? It went up about $200,000 or about 0.6% where the overall spending went up about 3%. Um so are the state's putting money where their priorities are? What does that mean to education funding as a percentage of the total state budget? It has dropped a little bit on a big picture. Overall, the 200 million is technically 207 million. And three big buckets. Maintenance level is actually up by 287 million. When we talk about maintenance level, I'll get into a little bit
032more detail. It's kind of what just has to happen when the cost of programs, the number of people, the number of special ed students, IPD, things like that. Policy level adds, they did add some, about 14 million, and there were some legislative cuts of about 94 million. A little bit more on that $287 million um increase on what they consider maintenance level. Most of that really is uh in the prototypical model. One of the components is the prototypical salaries and that was projected to be 2.5% in the upcoming year initially when it was adopted last year. It's going to be 2.6%. So there's a lot of extra dollars there. Actually, that's the biggest jump. But also some special ed counts went up and there were other benefit adjustment benefit the sub is costing more for
033state health insurance. Um went up a little bit. But again, most of these programs already exist and just the cost is going up a little bit more than they projected initially. I'll take questions during this. You don't have to wait till the end, too. So what did they actually add? Here's the actual new programs or significant expanded programs. Foster youth support went up, but again, look at these dollar amounts. These are small in the overall state budget. Again, $13.6 million of increased programmatic things. I don't think I need to spend a lot of time here. What went down? Okay. $94 million in reductions. Transition to kindergarten. Now we don't have transition to kindergarten, so this doesn't directly affect us, but this was over a 20% cut to the um TK program on the statewide level.
034And there is language that for the remaining for you the 80% that's still there, um it needs to be focused on high needs areas. So they're looking at communities, you know, financially distressed or higher free and reduced count. We probably if we even had it, probably would have lost spots anyhow um because of that. We don't fit that criteria in comparison. Local effort assistance. This also actually does not affect us. Remember, local effort assistance is additional money that what they call property poor districts receive. Um and the truth is about 5 years ago, the state was giving over $400 million in local effort assistance. It's now down to about 200 million. So there's a reduced number of districts receiving it and most districts that do receive it are receiving less. Bus depreciation. This will affect
035us. Um so we get money from the state to replace our buses and they have a it's not truly depreciation in the accounting sense, but it's a a funding mechanism for over the life the perceived life of the bus, they give you money to replace your bus bus fleet. Well, they've extended that length for both the small buses and large buses. So, in essence, every district will get less money per year for the buses um to replace. And there's $21 million savings for the state. And then running start, the eligibility criteria for how much and how many FTE in total between the local high school district and the college district, how much they can receive. It used to be a total FTE of 1.4. They reduced that to 1.3 between the two entities. And so,
036they um project you know uh save about $7 million statewide level. Um some other the best mentoring program is significant for new teachers. It's not a huge cost to state, but they're reducing it. And you see some other um savings. Other small programs, one example there that they think is a multi-year savings, but in the first year has very little savings, is they're freezing the um national board uh amount they're giving teachers. So, it's not going to increase by inflation in in future years. They're going to freeze it at this year's level. And there's a little bit of savings this year, but it'll be bigger savings in future years. So, there's the reductions. High-level overview, K-12 went up by 6/10 of 1% overall state funding. They increased by 3%. And so, um you know, our
037portion of the state funding is going down. Any questions on the legislature? Okay. Now, what are what's specifically happening in our district? Through February, which is the 6 months in the fiscal year from September through February, we get the vast majority of our money from the state is based on enrollment. Our enrollment is basically has dropped to what it was not last year, but the year before. For February specifically, we're down about 130 students. Now, as a total percentage of students, it's actually not, you know, cuz we're about 10,000 students, not a huge number, but it is concerning if it continues and we're watching it very closely. Where we're seeing it specifically, I think I've talked about this numerous times, it's kindergarten, first grade, and 11th and 12th because of running start. So, will we
038get some of those back if there's less available in running start? We don't know. We'll see. But um kindergarten and first grade is the biggest drop. Now, my monthly budget status report and the monthly fiscal report will have much more detail. If you look at that, you'll see more. It's just a high-level overview here. Um revenue for this year through the first 6 months is up 2.3 million from last year. Expenses are up 2.4 million in total. So, we're tracking very similar to how we did last year. Um for the remainder of the year though, something is going to be different. Last year after the state legislature met, they gave all districts in the state a one-time unrestricted funding of $500 per student. Well, we got that last year after February. We're not going to
039get it this year after February. That's not in this year. So, we might end up in a little bit worse position in comparison, but we're in a good overall um place. And you look at the revenue, you can see local taxes have gone up, the state apportionment went up, um and a lot of the others are slight changes. On the expense side, the biggest increase, which makes sense, it's the biggest expense, is certificated salaries. But you'll see most categories went up. Classified salaries, benefits go up. Supply cost actually went down a small amount, and supplies are uh services went up slightly. And that's really all I have. Just a quick update. Any questions? >> any questions? I don't know if you have the answer, but a a question um on the spot, but I have
040a question just around running start. Like how um that decrease like and how that where we allocate that in general as far as is there kind of a quota? >> say question on the Okay. And is it going to affect the number they take? Well, it might. Again, I'm not sure OSPI is is the rule-making body around this, but what the state has said is the total FTE that you can get between the the usually it's the community college and the district is now 1.3 FTE in total as it was 1.4. So, theoretically, you could have a 1.0 at the high school, and you could have a 0.4 at the college, or you could have, you know, a 0.7 and a 0.7. And it depends working with the counselor at the individual high school, the
041college, what courses are available, um the graduation requirements. I'm not an expert in that area. I just know it the total you can get for next year will be 1.3 and not 1.4. And so, someone's losing a 10th for some students who choose to use all of it. Do you want to Give it Okay. Yeah, I think understanding the how the FTE is divided up and if it's changing from 1.4 to 1.3, what do you see obviously not everything we can see at this point, but do you see an impact? >> Yeah, so it's a pretty complicated formula. So, what we do for our counselors, so if a student does running start, they actually get more FTE than a regular like a student at the high school. So, they're only a 1.0 if you attend,
042you know, Sumner High School, Bonney Lake High School full-time. So, basically what we have is we have a counselor a calculator for the counselors. So, if a student takes one class at the high school, it shows how much of the FTE is left over to take at the college. So, at the college, if a student just took 15 credits each of the three quarters, that's 1.0 FTE, and it would leave them a leftover of 0.3 during the summertime. So, the reason they're getting the extra FTE, part of it would be as a student could extend it and do all four quarters at the college, but we it's a calculator we use, and so um it just like it goes the percentages change cuz and it's calculated each quarter. So, like they might take 16 credits
043at the college first quarter, which uses up a certain percentage, and then, you know, second quarter it's a different amount. They may decide to take one class at the high school second semester. So, the counselors really have to stay in tune with every single student and what they're taking, and then we have separate rules at summertime where we have to our registrar here recalculates what do they have left over? Do they have any money or, you know, FTE left to do summer classes, and yeah, it's when the 0.1 reduction isn't really a lot for a of a reduction. >> Right, because the if you're saying if you don't mind if I say it back to you to make sure I'm understanding it. So, a running start student is a 1.0 generally speaking, but sometimes they
044will extend into the summer to either make up or finish or whatever, and that is the the amount above the 1.0 you're talking about. >> Yeah. Theoretically, this impact would only impact students that were taking more than the typical year of schooling. If they extend in the summer, that's who's going to be impacted by this? Yes. So, sometimes the extra two students will often times take math at the high school. So, they'll do their three classes at the college, and then they'll stay at the school. Some kids will come back to do leadership or something like that, and that's where that kind of extra above the 1.0 kind of goes into play. Both directions. >> Mhm. Could go both, yep. Yep. I think Does that make sense? Yeah, that make Thank you. That makes a
045lot of sense cuz I thought more that it would impact the number of kids that could enroll at some point, but that's it's just And the 0.1 is so minor. It's Yeah, it's so minor. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. >> Thanks. Yeah, thank you. That was really good. Thanks. Any other questions for Brian? No? Awesome. >> Thanks for the update, Brian. Thank you. Appreciate you breaking it down for us. All right. Now, we have some fun action items to take care of under our business matters. So, our first one is resolution number 1725-26, non-renewal and reduction in force. Every year, as a common business practice, the board adopts a resolution authorizing a reduction of force. And keeping with past practice, the district administration recommends the board adopt resolution 1725-26 authorizing a reduction in force. Do
046I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. And any discussion? Uh And anybody need an explanation on this one? No? I'll We won't Yeah. So, for those of you maybe listening at home or or new to this one, this is something we do every year at this time um just in case some catastrophe happens between now and the end of the year, we have the ability to make a reduction if we need to. Generally speaking, most of the time we do not. So, it's uh it's kind of a just in case we need it. Otherwise, if we waited till we needed it, we wouldn't be able to execute it uh as quickly as it needs. Is that a good summary? Okay. Awesome. All right. Any other discussion? I was just going
047to say I I really wish we didn't have to, but it's just a fact of life, unfortunately. Yeah. No, we're we are. No, we're not. Okay. But it's But [clears throat] the fact that each year we have to do have to have people excited is not fun. Yeah, it could give people the wrong impression about where we're at, which is not where we're at. >> [clears throat] >> Currently not planning to do a reduction in force, but that's why we do this just in case. All right. Any other discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed? All right. Motion passes. All right. Our next resolution is number 1825-26, aggregate racial balance as part of the school construction assistance program process the district must certify that these
048projects will not create or worsen racial imbalance. The projects do not affect attendance boundaries or student assignments. The district administration recommends that SBLSD Board of Directors adopt resolution number 182526 aggravate racial balance certifying that the project will not create or worsen racial imbalance do I have a motion? So moved. Thank you do I have a second? Second. Awesome any discussion or questions? Very straightforward. All right, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes. Our next action item is resolution 192526 GCCM for BLHS and SHS into Holly Heights Elementary improvements. As part of the school construction assistance program process the district must formally document compliance with RCW 39.10 when using GCCM alternative public works contracting procedures. The resolution updates that action to include the required statutory language. The district administration recommends that
049the SBLSD Board of Directors adopt resolution 192526 certifying the use and compliance of the general contractor construction manager contracting procedures on improvement projects for BLHS SHS into Holly Heights zone. So moved. Do I have motion? Do I have a second? Second. Thank you do I have any discussion? All right, seeing none all those in favor say I. All those opposed. All right, motion passes. All right, next action item actually sorry next is our bond oversight committee annual report presentation. Director of capital projects bring it tonight will present the bond oversight annual power port to the Board of Director has included the annual report for information. Raina. I need higher heels. >> [laughter] >> I got it. I got it. Okay, sorry about that. Dr. Denton Board of Directors thank you for your attention this evening
050going to talk about the bond oversight committee. It is amazing that we have been meeting for over a year. So part of the charge and scope of work of the committee is to review our processes to solicit qualify and select our general contractors architects consultants etc. Review financial statements project scope construction documents bid solicitations and periodically great to inspect facilities and sites and there wasn't much action this last year. So we didn't have a lot of those but they're coming. They also are charged to make recommendations on procedures to the superintendent as may be appropriate to assist in our accountability and to also assist the district in communicating with the public. They're out there in the public every day and get lots of questions and so it's great to have those come back and we
051can discuss them. So also in their charge is to provide this annual report to the community every spring in addition to maintaining their consistent communication about the progress and L does a fabulous job with Allison to keep that website up to date and looking good. So who is on our bond oversight committee? It's interesting because they're broken up into different specialties so to speak and you can see who represents from a construction architecture mindset from finance and accounting from local business leaders parents and of course members that came from our facilities advisory committee and it's I will say that there are those that are serving other roles but had also served on that facilities advisory committee. There's a lot of ownership that they have that I think you'll see reflected and then also you can
052see our district and moderator district representatives and I will say that our whole capital projects team is very proud of the work that they do and very invested and I think that these bond oversight committee meetings give them a chance to really see the fruition of their work. So you see quite a few of our department there. Obviously we have a rhythm to how we meet. We meet quarterly and the meetings follow a cadence and this slide just kind of walks you through some of those things in this first year with the kickoff establishing schedules BOC Charter to how we prioritize projects and then moving into finances and procurement taking a deeper dive into GCCM and some of our risks that we've faced and then you know now that we're getting further in and we're
053getting closer to projects needing to kick off that jurisdictional permitting becomes a bigger issue and we're getting into those final designs. So a lot of fun stuff has been shared over the past year with the committee. What their report is all about is how are we doing? That is the big thing we want to know and it is nice to see a unanimous affirmation from the committee that we're doing well. So you can see from financial integrity to how we mitigate risk to being accountable to our schedules and just that radical transparency. I love that term and I'm I'm really proud that I think our committee members are surprised at how open and transparent we are about the process of bringing these projects to fruition. And I wanted to highlight this comment that's in the
054conclusion and appreciation from the annual report because I think it really speaks to the committee and their dedication. As I said many of them served on the CFAC committee and they feel that connection that like that binding to having a responsibility to making sure that we're doing the right thing keeping best practices and and really meeting and exceeding the expectations of our community with the that have trusted us with this bond. So I'm very proud to see how well we've done this first year and it has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with the bond oversight committee this last year and looking forward to another good year ahead. Any questions? I just have one that is just can you remind me as the facilities advisory committee was that the committee that was established
055in order to help identify which projects we were going to move forward with and place on the bond? Absolutely. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, that's that's true. And that was about a year of work. >> That was a long time. More than a year. Yeah. So you have some of these members that have been invested in this process for years now and they feel probably as much ownership as we do which is pretty cool. Well, thank you for presenting this. This is such an important part I think of this bond for us for the community. I mean I think it just gives me a tremendous amount of reassurance and to hear unanimous result on all you know these four major platforms is really terrific. Thank you. Oh, thank you JP. Thank you very much. Thank you
056Tom. I just want to say that even though I'm not in the game anymore I get a lot of calls from people around the state and that and you know what did you do to get the bond passed in that and we've talked about that and directed them back to you guys but one of the things that that really catches their attention is this committee and what we're doing once the bond has been passed and we're collecting the funds and that and be able to show it and I'm hoping other districts pick up on that because I think it's such a positive. Absolutely. I agree and I'm really pleased that you know the board charged us with creating this committee and doing this work. I think it's important. Yeah, I think the idea to goes
057to the for the bond goes to the leadership and appreciate it being brought to our attention that it was necessary because with every type of thing like this is an opportunity to build trust when you have that opportunity take it and this bond oversight committee should help build that trust in the community that when we do a bond and it does go exactly how we say it's going to go. So Well. With a little bit of mile. It's a very interesting ride but we get to the right spot. >> The spot we're going for is where we get to. How it happens in between is is always part of the story. Feels like being in a firestorm some days. We appreciate everything you're doing to make sure the bond is done correctly and it's exciting
058to see all the progress. So thank you. Yeah. Much to show in the coming months. We're excited to see some of the new stuff. Yes. Keep moving on this stuff. Thank you. Thank you. All right, that takes us back into a couple of action items for our business matters here. The other action items we have is resolution number 20 25-26 Lakeridge Middle School parking and queuing bid award. Bids were open for the Lakeridge Middle School parking and queuing improvement project April 9th 2026. The district administration recommends the Board adopt resolution number 2025-26 awarding BEAU construction the contract for the Lakeridge Middle School parking and queuing improvements project. Do I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Awesome any discussion? Other than the comment that this is going to be really cool
059when this project gets done. There's going to be some very happy parents that do do drop off and pick up at LMS. All right, all those in favor say I. I. those opposed. All right, motion passes. All right, our next one is resolution number 2125-26. Absher Construction Company and to Holly Heights. The district administration recommends that the SBLSD Board of Directors adopt resolution number 2125-26 approving the agreement between Sumner Bonney Lake School District and Absher Construction Company as the general contractor and construction manager for the Tally Heights Elementary Expansion project and authorizing the superintendent to execute the cute set agreement. And I do have a motion. So moved. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? Another cool project to see getting kicked off, so that's exciting. All those in favor say I.
060I. All those opposed? All right, motion passes. All right, our next one is the Absher Construction Company contract. The district administration recommends that the SBLSD Board of Directors approve Absher Construction A133-2019 contract with the Sumner Bonney Lake School District for general contractor construction manager for Tally Heights expansion. Do I have a motion? So moved. Thank you. >> Second. Thank you. Uh any discussion? All right, seeing none. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? All right, motion passes. And then for information only, there's a budget status report. Chief Financial Officer Brian Berley has provided the February budget status report to the board, which is in your packet. And our policy matters. Yep. So on our policy matters tonight, in accordance with policy 1310 adoption and amendment of policies and bylaws, the following policies
061are included for adoption. The district administration recommends the board adopt the following district policies in accordance with policy 1310 adoption and amendment of policies and bylaws. We have policy number 2108 and policy 2140. Do I have a motion? So moved. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any discussion? All right, seeing none. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? All right, motion passes. And for information only in your packets, in accordance with policy 1310 adoption and amendment of policies and bylaws, following policies are included for first reading. Number 3245, 5250, 5401, 6022, 6920, and 6955, as well as board procedures 4040P, 4260P, 6920P are all for information only in your packets and first reading. Also for information only, the director of technology, Robin Rich, has provided a department update
062to the Board of Directors for the 25-26 school year. Thank you, Robin. Appreciate it. And we also have an information only in your public in your packet is public records transparency report. General Counsel Abigail Westbrook has provided a quarterly public records report to the board. This is a summary report regarding new public records requests that have been filed with the Sumner Bonney Lake School District over the last 3 months. Thank you, Abigail. Appreciate that. And that brings us to board discussion. Any board discussion tonight? No. Feel a little pressure over here. Well, probably everybody's looking over you. >> I know. Uh I just want to mention, you know, when I came to this district many, many years ago, one of the things I was taught right away was do what's right for students and staff.
063And uh I made a mistake one time of coming with a proposal. I was told to go forth. I came back with the budget and that, and I was told no, we'll do what is right for kids and staff. And um throughout the year, we have seen so many things that involve our students, not only in the great classroom work that constantly is going on, but before school, after school, those things that connect kids, and whether it's the play, the band, the ROTC, the JROTC. I knew I'd get it right. Um the the things going on in the elementaries and that, it's there's just so much, and you know, there are some kids who, believe it or not, reading, writing, and math is not what hooks them and gets them out of bed every day
064and makes them come to school. But what helps them in the classroom is being connected, being involved, having those advisors. And at times you can use that pressure to get them to school a little more often to do a little bit better. So we really do a great job. I know there's such a variety of things for the kids to be involved with and that that I just want to commend um all of you for what you're doing with with that because um you know, we need them to be there every day. We need them involved, and sometimes, like I said, it's nice to have that little bit of pressure that you can have an adult say, "Hey, if you do this a little bit better, you can come be involved with us." So thank
065you guys for all that. Yeah, that's a really good point. I mean, that our last study session when we did the JROTC presentation, just hearing the students talk about the confidence it's built in them to be a part of that program, and including some of the students who said, "I wouldn't be at school if it wasn't for this program." So definitely agree a lot with that, Bill. Any other topics related No, I just think it's funny that you brought that up because I was thinking about that a couple weekends ago. Um I think one thing we didn't talk about I thought everybody would mention, but was the culture fair, which was pretty amazing. And um that same weekend you could have gone to a choir presentation. There were plays going on. Um you know, we
066just finished up the state fair, where we had students that were, you know, learning about how to market their animals and and how to the business parts of those and and winning there. So it's just amazing to me um the and and I guess I thought about it in the culture fair, but just the culture that a district can provide on so many levels that you'll never have that experience to be able to touch that many different things and have these great um educators and teachers and just humans that are putting their time and effort into providing an amazing experience for the kids. Um it's it's really a special uh it's a special time in everybody's life, and it's not always the easiest time for everybody, but it is it is we we do an
067excellent job as a district in providing this broad spectrum, and I hope that people can sit back every once in a while and just go, "Wow, you just aren't going to get that again." I mean, you'll have to work very hard or pay a whole lot of money to get any of those lessons and those experiences um and any other time in life. So I'm glad that you brought that up. >> Yeah. All right. Well, I think I definitely think that the cultural fair was was a great event that I mean, I loved how it was structured this year with having the presentations up front and then going and seeing all the booths. Just all of the different cultures that were represented on that stage. Uh the room was packed. It was standing room only.
068Um and so it was just amazing to see that. I I my favorite, not that you're supposed to pick favorites, but the Latinx club, I believe, that did their did their the dance that they did to the traditional music and then turn around did the exact same dance to Justin Timberlake. And I thought that was just the coolest. I didn't see it coming, and it was just like a wow moment, and of course all of the the different, you know, dances that everybody did were amazing, but that one definitely stood out to me. The line for food was crazy. So and worth it. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. All right. Uh seeing no other discussion tonight, uh that brings us to our announcement of our next regular board meeting, which has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 19th,
0692026. It will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the central office board room right here. We are adjourned.