001really quick before we can get to uh some of the fun and exciting stuff we have going on tonight with all of our students and staff that are here. Um the first thing we need to do is approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Thank you. A second. >> Second. >> Right. Any discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed? Motion passes. All right. Consent items. The administration recommends the board of directors approve the consent agenda items for August 20th, 2025 board meeting. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> All those opposed. >> All right. Motion
002passes. All right. Fun stuff. Got some recognition to do tonight. Uh and I will hand it over to Dr. Dent to uh fill us in on who's here and what we're going to be recognizing. Good evening. Uh it's my honor and pleasure to present uh Carrie Leblau from the blessing movement. Carrie, come on up. So, while I talk about this incredible human being that I love dearly, um you're going to see some pictures scrolling on the screen of our recent service project that we did with the blessing movement. And it's all because of Carrie Leblau. She is the founder, the leader of this blessing movement that that she goes out into the community and she blesses all sorts of people. We had the opportunity to paint the tiny homes at the uh at the Washington
003soldiers home for our veterans who live there and it was I mean I have to tell you it was an incredible experience. We had I'm looking around at my colleagues. We had the best time serving and giving back. And that's what Carrie does. She brings out the best in people in her team. And I mean, there were so many people that contributed to this service project, but it's truly because of her heart and she teaches us about leadership and about service and about giving back. Um, and about finding people in the community that need things. And man, she just like sprinkles these blessings all over them. And thank you to everyone who uh donate donated for care packages because we were also able to leave each one of our veterans with a care package that
004had um well yeah John White. He uh we had two two casualties with Beastings and then one with John uh had a little trip on a ladder, you know, but um but we delivered care packages to every veteran with home hygiene products. And then our good friends at Goodroots Northwest, they showed up and then they also provided fresh fruit and vegetables. And I wanted to invite Carrie here so that you could I mean many of you like if you don't know Carrie Leblau, right? Like where have you been? Um but I also just wanted to give her a second to talk about the blessing movement because it is it is a movement and it is blessing people all over our community and it's because of her vision. So Carrie and I think you've got some
005of your crew with you, don't you? Yeah. You want to invite them up? David Susan Winkler, >> David had all the paint, so that was like a Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you so much for helping. >> You're welcome. On behalf of the blessing movement, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to each volunteer who came together to help paint 35 cottages that our veterans call home. Your time, hard work, and dedication made an incredible impact, not only by painting the cottages, but by showing our veterans love and respect. This soldiers home project was a powerful reminder of what teamwork can accomplish when we come together. We shared a purpose and we can transform lives and strengthen the bonds of our community. I thank you. We thank you for your partnership. Would you
006like to add? >> Yeah. >> I just wanted to say thank you for everybody that volunteered out there. That was an amazing day. And uh you know, I'm sorry if I was a little rash with you when I was trying to pour your paint and stuff, but I just wanted to make sure that everything was good. Yeah, you guys did an amazing job and I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for just helping the blessing movement and being a blessing to this soldiers event. Um you know, these guys, they really didn't have anything and when we left, they were just sparkling. there's, you know, just tons of love that we poured into him and we're looking forward to doing that to many more people across this community. So, thank
007you so much. So, here's here's what's even better. Carrie does this with our students. And last year, I learned this powerful lesson by listening to this poem um called Kids Learn What They Live. And our kids are learning this from people like Carrie and then they will live this out through their entire life and this will be part of her legacy that she leaves behind as well. I mean look at all those people and that's those are just the people that painted. If you were part of this will you raise your hand because many of you were in here because there was a whole team that came before. Yeah. So, if you're a student in here and you happen to work with uh Carrie Leblau or are do we have any students here that work
008with you? Will you raise your hand? >> Because team >> Oh, yeah. You're like all over the place. I mean, >> yeah. So, Carrie, she she does this with our kids, which is even like more powerful. Tom, >> Dr. Dan, I was going to say I worked with Carrie before and Bonnie Lake and Ser the people older people need their house weeded weed mode. It's amazing how happy they are what we've done for them. doesn't take a lot and we have a lot of students to help out too. So, thank you Carrie for helping so many old senior citizens that way too. You're a real blessing. >> Absolutely. And then on top of all of this, right, you would think that that's enough. She does this so that she can give out scholarships to kids.
009So, you'll see her in June at the scholarship nights. And how like how much money are you like so far? $15,000 scholarship. >> $15,000 in scholarships. Yeah, she wants to give $100,000. And actually, I'm not even going to say anything because knowing her, this will happen one day, right? Um, but again, I just wanted you to meet Carrie Lioo, learn a little bit more about the blessing movement, and understand the impact that this service project had on our entire leadership team, our central office, and thank you for the items you donated for the hygiene packs that we left the veterans in. I mean, just look at those smiles. I mean, we were like we were working. That was not uh Well, my team matched. Um but cuz you know, we do match, but it was
010so fun. There's Michelle Lewis and Dave and Amy and Ellie's right. Yeah. On a ladder. Thank you, Ellie. That was great. Um >> Yeah, absolutely. Oh, and the mic. >> I am a painter by trade and a complete remodeler. And so >> right, but but to have you guys come out and do 35 homes in less than eight, actually it was 4 and 1/2 hours. We had four hours for masking and taping and paper and plastic and so on and so forth. But then you guys came out and you knocked it out in 4 and 1/2 hours. That is a record. That's just like amazing. And again, my hats off to everybody that did it, cuz I'm a I'm a remodeler and a painter and I can paint a house in 3 days by myself,
011but to have 35 homes done in four and a half hours, that's a record. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. I'll get a picture with you first, too. Okay. Thank you. up in there. Take a picture with you guys. >> You guys, you don't get away yet. And now I would like I mean this is this district is just an amazing place. So now we're going to celebrate some pretty outstanding staff members and students. Uh Aaron Tommen is our director of career and technical education and Michelle Lewis, where are you? There you are. Executive director of all things innovative and wonderful. Um they are going to tell you about some pretty incredible kids. Well, thank you for having us here today and uh given us this opportunity to recognize some pretty
012phenomenal uh things that are going on in the district. Um we came and talked with the board uh a couple months ago. Um but since then we've had even more great things happening. And so I just wanted to start off uh just sharing a a few of those highlights for today. So, we're going to start off uh with an a particular member of our our staff that uh was voted by his peers uh as the CTE staff member of the year. Um, and I'm going to tell you a few little uh things here. Jeff, you can come on up here. Uh Jeff Wolf here uh is pretty pretty phenomenal guy. Um we're super lucky to have picked him up uh what is it two years ago now. Um and he came in and just hit
013the ground running. Um he teaches um uh business and marketing up at uh Bonn Lake High School and he's created uh just a thriving environment and culture of excellence up there with his student store um and their DECA program. Um he's expanded opportunities through real world real world learning, community partnerships, events like the teal and steel car show and spring bazaar. Uh expanded that from what it's been and continues to grow that. Um and um one of the examples I also wanted to share is just the level that he's bringing kids up in their career readiness. So one of the examples we do uh uh career ready uh these cords, career readiness cords that students can wear at graduation. And one of the things that's a part of that is they do these uh resumes
014and they turn those in and then they have to do applications and interviews and all these things. And um as we were reviewing those uh the resumes, I could pull out of those résumés which ones had been in Mr. Wolf's class because he'd spent the time and energy to really dive in and make sure that those kids had those resumes that represented them in a way that was going to really sell themselves to the industry. And so just a phenomenal experience to see those and be like, "Yep, that's another one of Jeff's. That's another one of Jeff's." And and sure enough, you'd look back in the classes that they taken and and there was a name. Um just across the board, we are super fortunate. Connects with kids, helps kids get to that next level
015and they really respect and grow. Um I think DECA uh had record at at Bonnie Lake for number of participants at state this year. Um did you you had nationals as well? >> Eight at nationals. That's what I thought. Uh just a phenomenal um and to be only a couple years in industry or in in teaching out of industry uh is is a phenomenal thing to see to to have. So just want to recognize Jeff Wolf as the CTE staff member of the year. >> Thank you. Yeah. a picture I guess symmetry. All right. So, that's just one of the recognition. We're going to uh get some more going here. So, I'm going to start off. Um, let's talk about Bonnie Lake High School's FCCLA chapter. Um, so, uh, the, uh, FCCLA chapter and Bonnie
016Lake High School took four students to nationals here recently. Um, pretty phenomenal experience. Uh, they went to Orlando competing in multiple events. And of those four students, each one earned at least a top three national placement and at least one competition. So, uh, pretty phenomenal to be in the top three in nation and have four for four do that. Uh, that's pretty phenomenal. So, really amazing. And on top of that, um, Bonn Lake was also honored as a natural program winner for the fax project on distracted driving, earning a thousand prize in national spotlight. Um, and these students really showed exceptional leadership, preparation, professionalism. U, we're so proud of that. And I'm going let Trisha Littlefield here uh who is their adviser share a little bit more and uh maybe welcome up those kids that
017uh did some of this fantastic stuff. So Trisha, >> thank you. >> Yeah. Could I have Chanel, Emmy, Jayla, and Christa come up here, please? you still >> I'm making Jayla show our amazing plaque that we got for being a national award winner for our traffic safety project where we worked on um limiting distracted uh distractions while driving and we did a whole bunch of calculating how many students in the parking lot were using their cell phones and then education campaign and then after the the decrease um which was amazing. Um, also we had the opportunity to take some, uh, to do projects and do, uh, challenge tests, knowledge tests. And so, um, I'll just go Emmy got first place in culinary food art. And so, she made a out of a cantaloupe and an
018orange made a little, uh, chick, uh, for a children's birthday party was the theme all together there. So, first place national champion. And then she got fourth place in the child development, uh, challenge test. And then Chanel um she in did a star event, a huge career investigation portfolio of being a preschool teacher. She had to do a speech and a huge binder and she got third in the nation for that. Yes. And 10th in her challenge test. So top 10 in the challenge test for child development. And then Christa, she um placed third in the culinary food art making a watermelon turtle for centerpiece. So we took first and third in that category for the whole nation. Yeah. And she got second in the nutrition and wellness uh challenge test knowledge test. And then
019last but not least, Jayla, she uh won first place in the child development challenge test. So we took first, fourth, and 10th in child development. So that's pretty cool. Yep. And then uh in her star event on teach and train, she got 27th, but she's that is still really good out of the hundreds of kids that are competing. So I'm really proud of them. They put in so much work this year and they was just amazing to have them in uh Orlando. So All right. And one more um I want to share. Uh now let's talk about Sar High. So Sar High also competed at FCCLA um and had an incredible uh summer at nationals, sending 25 students to Orlando for what became their most successful showing to date. Uh, Spartans earned numerous top 10
020finishes across star events, knowledge tests, skills demonstrations, competitions. Most notably, Sumner brought home two national championships, one in parliamentary procedure and another in personal finance. Um, and these student leaders are uh just amazing. Uh, showing what's really about. Um, I think the competition also as we talk about like putting things into context, this is national, so this is all 50 states and we had was it 10,000 students that were competing there. So, just to put some things into context to have that is next level. So, I'm going to let Rachel here, Rachel Ascard, tell us a little bit about her students and bring them up. >> All right. So, Sumar High School, do you guys want to come over to the front and we can talk about all our success? So, these are just some
021of the students who uh attended nationals. Trisha talked a lot about um the different types of competitions and so we had numerous students competing in both their challenge tests, skills competitions and also their star events. So I'm going to start out with just talking about uh the challenge tests that we took. Um so Colby Cook right over here, he took uh math for financial literacy and he scored third in the nation for that. We also have Ella Ford. She took a knowledge test on it was the teaching challenge. Correct. Yes. And although we didn't score top 10, but you did phenomenal. So, round of applause for Ella. Hannah right over here. And she is a graduate of Ser High School moving on to PLU. Yes, she used her CTE skills and uh scored top in
022the interview challenge. Correct. Yes. So, round of applause for her star interview. And then we also had Cara over in the corner. She used her child development knowledge and took the child development knowledge test and did amazing. Am I missing anyone for challenge tests? Okay. So, uh we're going to quickly highlight about their star event competitions. Um so, we had a couple of students who did and they're not here today. Uh Caitlyn Howard and Eevee Thun. They scored gold for sustainability challenge. Um Brook round of applause. We'll just do that. We have Brooklyn and we have Noel. And they uh scored silver in hospitality tourism where they had to come up with their own business. Megan overcash. She scored silver in chapter service project and she did a service project um all about reading buddies
023and uh encouraging literacy in the primary school. We had Ella Ford. She competed in early childhood education where she researched about kindergarten. She um did her internship at the kindergarten in teaching academy and she had to plan lessons and on the spot she was given a scenario in a certain group of students and had to plan lessons and accommodations for them. So she was using her skills in that area. And then we also had Hannah Sigus. She did job interview and she scored seventh in the nation for that. Alli Bwater Kinsley Hall and Sawyer Croxton. They did competed in Focus on Children where they planned uh two tea parties for our community. Um and they scored seventh in the nation. We had Daniel Wong and he competed in leadership and he had to create in
024a portfolio all about himself. He had to focus on certain areas for growth uh as a leader and he scored second in the nation. We also have Sophia and Soph Oh, you guys aren't together. Sophia and Sophia um they scored or they competed in event management and they planned two literacy nights for community members or community or yeah the students in our community. Um, and they scored second in the nation. We have two more and then we're done. I'm Um, we had Colobby Cook, Sarah Perez, Fiona Joseph Campbell, Ford, Cara Sailor, Kennedy Clawson. They scored first in the nation for parliamentary procedure holding and meeting. And last but not least, she is not here because she is out at ASU. Uh but Viola Elliot, she competed in uh personal finance and she scored first in
025the nation which is amazing and again they all have done phenomenal and it was an amazing this year uh amazing time this year and um we should be very proud of them. Yeah. [Music] All right, very last thing, I swear. Very last thing. So, I also want to I want to recognize uh Trisha Littlefield and Rachel Ascalar uh for something else pretty phenomenal. So, um they they were with these kids like all the time, working with them, helping them, giving them feedback, making sure that they were supported and ready for this event. And not only did they take kids to FCCLA for nationals, the uh week before uh they also took groups for our teaching academy uh educators rising group uh to Orlando also. So they went to Orlando, came back for a day or
026two and then went back to take more kids. Um so a couple weeks right out of school getting out and they're right back there with kids and taking them to do something phenomenal. And that was our first time ever going to Educators Rising and learned a lot and had kids compete which is pretty phenomenal to do. So, huge shout out to both of them for just supporting our kids. All right, that's it for me. Thank you. >> Yeah, that that is amazing. What a phenomenal group of staff and and students that we have that are out representing this district at a national level and coming home with top honors. So, thank you for all the time and dedication that you put in. Appreciate it. All right. This brings us in the agenda to board member
027comments. Does anybody want to start? Tom, you want to go first? >> Sure. >> Thank you. >> Um I attended the community for families meeting on the 7th this month. We talked about upcoming events coming in the first year, the community summit and um backpack programs of course and family support project where people needed things. We helped move things around that way. and the Sar Bonnie Lake toy box for coming up. It's a great thing we set up with this. We've got barcodes. They can scan them and whether you want to volunteer, what you want to bring, what you want to do. Makes much easier for us for both the cities that way for for a Christmas toy box. And August 14th, I was at the Daffodil Elementary School handing backpacks. And yesterday, I was
028at Livery Ridge handing out shoes. Just doing shoes once. went learned a lot there. But yeah, and one last thing I want to say is in front of me here is the Bonnie Lake Little League. I want to support them. They did a phenomenal job. We've been watching them last night and boy, they played their hearts out last night. They didn't win, but boy, they're a great team there and we're pretty glad to have them part of our community, too. >> That's all I have. >> Awesome. Thank you, Tom. >> Welcome. >> JB, did you have anything? Um I just I just want to kind of piggy back a little bit. Uh I also was at the um the last two kind of back to school events and one of the things I just want
029to mention about that is a big thank you to our community. Um I noticed uh there members of um the YMC somebody from the YMCA was helping out. There were people there from Rotary helping out. There were folks on the city council. The mayor of Sumar was at one of the events. So, I mean, it really does take um more than um we can imagine to make sure that everybody's going back to school feeling prepared, feeling ready, feeling excited, and um so, you know, there were lots of people from the school district and lots of teachers and and and whatnot, but um it's a full community that helps out. So, I just want to mention that. And also a quick reminder that the final third and final event is tomorrow afternoon from 3:00 to 6:00
030p.m. That's at Sumar Middle School. Um so if you hadn't had a chance to go if people haven't had a chance that they still have one more chance to go. So um again, it was a a really good event. >> And JB, is that in the commons or out in the parking lot this year? >> That's going to be in the commons. So that's going to be inside um this year. So yeah. >> Erin, you have anything? >> Sure. Real quick. Um first of all, thank you. So, I apologize again for my tardiness. Um, thank you. >> Flat tire isn't exactly your fault. >> You know, flat tires aren't convenient, but especially when they happen on the other side of a closed bridge. >> Not great. Yeah. >> So, I apologize. Um, yeah. So, anyway,
031um, I too participated in the back to backpack distribution, um, which is always such a great event, um, welcoming kids and kicking off the school year. It's one of the most fun things to do in August. Um, but I also got to, um, help stuff backpacks. Um, and I got to see Val in action and oh my goodness, I always knew that she was super organized and fun to be around, but working side by side with her, next level. So, big shout out to Val Marily and so many other people who made these events um happen and all the back behind the scenes work that it took to actually make um those events successful. So, um, just wanted to recognize that and those people who put school supplies in the hands of our kids. It's
032important stuff. >> Awesome. Thank you, Bill. Um, so I just want to mention the uh a big thanks to Carrie Lori um for the painting event. I got the chance to go down and uh I remember trying to get the school year started and all that's going on. They have the biggest training of the year coming up. the buildings have all their things, but everybody stopped, put their heart and soul into it. It was so fun to um visit with the veterans and to see how thankful they were to have when they heard it was going to be painted, they thought five or six people were going to come down. And I had the pleasure of being down there to do some taping and that and move ladders. And alls I kept hearing was, "Wow,
033where are all these people coming from?" That was just the the taping crew, which was much smaller than the painting crew, but they were so thankful. And to be able to sit down and listen to some of the stories that those gentlemen shared, um, for a group that really feels forgotten. I mean, when you talk to them, they ultimately just really feel forgotten. Also, um, being one of the oldest living people there, I got to meet um, Donnie, who from 8:00 in the morning to and I left about 510. We were listening to some really good Jimmyi Hendris for the whole time and he just kept coming out and going, "Do you know what song this is?" I'm listen. Yeah, I do, Donnie. He goes, "You're old." Finally, we got down to Donnie, how old
034are you? I'm 81. I'm looking for my third wife. So, if you see a good one out there, let me know. But it was just it was just a tremendous moment. And uh I'm going to look forward to trying to find some ways to have some connections down there because those people really deserve a lot of help and but some great storytelling. Some great storytelling. So, thank you guys for putting that together. Yeah, it's great to see all of the everybody getting involved. Everything the the smiling faces the backpack events are amazing. It's it's so nice to see good roots show up, handing out, you know, fresh vegetables and shoes are being handed out and backpacks and and other resources that are there for our students and families as they're getting ready to head back
035to school. It's it's pretty exciting. Summer's not over yet, but but it's school year's coming, so everybody's getting ready. Billy, >> I just forgot. I I just want to in abstentia thank Mrs. Gaines for letting me come tonight. >> Oh, yeah. Because what what's today? >> Today is number 48. >> 4 year anniversary. Yeah. 48 years. >> We won't talk about following her home in fifth grade because I was kind of smitten back then. >> That's great. Well, and we appreciate her sharing you with us tonight on your 48th year wedding anniversary. That's pretty amazing. All right, that brings us uh to the agenda to audience comments, Mr. Brower. >> We are moving into the audience comment portion of the meeting. The board recognizes the value of public comments on education issues and importance of
036involving members of the public in its meetings. Comments from the public are taken under board advisement and may or may not receive action at a future meeting. Topics including charges or complaints against employees, employment or dismissal of personnel, acquisition of real estate, lawyer client relationships, campaigning, and parameters for negotiations should not be discussed in audience comments. Other information, questions, or problems can usually be addressed by district staff. The audience comment period will end when all registered speakers have been heard. We ask that everyone adhere and understand the following guidelines. In order to maintain respect for all points of view, the school board requests no clapping, booing, or any other form of support or non-support be used. The board will not respond to comments, but will take them under advisement. Speakers should be courteous and professional.
037Refrain. Refrain from using profanity, vulgar language, threatening or defamatory comments. As a reminder, individuals are not permitted to name a specific staff member, board member, or student during public comments. Failure to do so may result in the board president or designate interrupting or ending the comment. Remember that your words have impact and you, not the school district, are responsible for your words. We caution all speakers that it is possible that your statements could violate the rights of others under various laws, including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation. If you're unsure of the legal effect of your remarks, please seek independent legal advice. In any case, we ask that you help us model for our students what a respectful and inclusive community looks and sounds like. The audience comment process is as follows. Speakers who
038registered by noon yesterday will be heard. If you're providing in-person public comment, when your name is called, please come to the podium and state your name. If you're providing virtual public comment, please make sure that your screen name matches the name under which you registered. When your name is called, you'll be promoted to panelist. Please take yourself off mute before you begin speaking. Please address comments to the schoolboard as a whole. Individuals will have three minutes to speak and may not seed or give their time to another speaker. I will signal speakers when one minute remains. Our first audience comment this evening is Alyssa Kersh. Alyssa. Our next audience comment is a virtual comment from Naomi Adams. Naomi Adams appears not to be in the waiting room. Our next virtual comment is Daniel Sanders. Hello.
039>> We can hear you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You may begin. >> Uh good evening. Thank you members of the school board for giving me this brief opportunity to speak today. Uh my name is Daniel. I am appearing before the board today as a concerned parent to a young daughter who attends uh Donald Eisman Elementary located in the fairly new developing community of Tahali. It was brought to my attention through a flyer advertisement that a pride event was scheduled to be held at Donald Eisman during summer break on July 26 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Upon further review of the flyer, I had concerns about certain categories of events slated to be held, which included Trasosaurus Rex, a 90-minute drag show, and a toddling tots parade. Wanting to investigate further, I emailed the
040Sumar Bonnie Lake School District on July 14th to express my concerns about whether the district was aware of the categories of events scheduled and if so to provide details of the nature of the school's involvement and how this organization aligns with the school's mission to support our young students. On July 16th, I received a response from the principal of Donald Eisman Elementary School stating that it was approved based on a facility rental request to hold this event specifically at the school grounds. The email went on to explain that organizations must meet a quote unquote facility use agreement and that facilities are rented on a regular basis by a variety of organizations with the school's district having no way of knowing the types of events that may come as request in the future. My question to
041the board for the record today are as follows. One, did the Sar Bonnie Lake School District conduct a thorough review when approving this Pride event, which was run by Hope Development Practices on July 26th, 2025? Two, there was verified photo evidence at the event of a young child tipping a drag queen dressed as what appeared to be Ariel from The Little Mermaid, as well as a man dressed as Frank and Ferter from the 1975 adult comedy horror film The Rocky Horror Picture Show and making suggestive proactive provocative poses in front of children. After doing more research into this, it appears his agency was a vendor at the event called Riffrath Street Rats located in Kidsap that specializes in theater and paretically attend these pride events. My question to the board, since the district approved hosting
042this event on school property, is how does this align with the Sumar Bonnie Lake School District values? To the board members I am appearing before today, I have taken the time to research each of your biographies. And to my understanding, some of you have dedicated 20 plus years of service to the public school system as teachers and principles, even coach children in a variety of sports, and are even lifelong members of the community. With that, I implore you to please take my concerns into consideration and conduct a thorough examination to determine if hope development practices breach any facility use policies, including any appropriateness clauses. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Our next audience comment is Abby White. It's a virtual comment. Thank you for your patience as we promote Abby to panelist. >> Hello.
043Are you able to hear me? >> We can hear you and you can now begin. >> All right. Yeah. Um, first of all, I want to thank the um, first speaker. Um, I am actually Abby White, the executive director of Hope Development Practice. Um, we specialize in working with the LGBTQ community. We're a behavioral health agency. Um, and, uh, first of all, I would love to, um, give a little bit of education around the importance of drag for the LGBTQ community. Um, Pride initially started um out of um discrimination that was happening. Um, and uh, the first people to step up were drag performers and trans people in the community to rise up against the discrimination that was happening. And so the historical um, aspect of why we include that in a Pride event um,
044relates back to the historical impact. Um, but I do want to um acknowledge the um inappropriate photos that were taken. Um, our legal team did go back and um look into the pictures and what um was displayed without consent. Um, first of all, the photographer is someone who's well known to uh go to Pride events um and take inappropriate pictures to try to slander the LGBTQ community. Um, and the photos we went back and talked to Riffraff, those were not consensual, nor were they from angles that were ever at the audience. Those were intentual uh intentional photos to um unfortunately caused a rise up of hate which unfortunately resulted in me getting death threats, my staff getting death threats, our pride um performers getting death threats. Um so as a result um we did our
045due diligence and have connected the district with supports um and our performers with supports um to help them from uh cyber bullying um and hopefully uh any form of uh also protections um both legally as well as um anything that might be a viable threat. Um we've connected uh everyone that was impacted in the community with um ways to hopefully protect them from future um threats. Um the police department has been informed of the threats um and are aware of the potential. Um and we as an organization are looking into additional safety um precautions to help avoid um any um unfortunate uh pictures or things like that to be um used against a very vulnerable population. I that's all that's all I want to say. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next audience comment is
046in person, Dan Wolf. Where's the uh mute button? >> All right, time started. Oh, yep. Started already. I just wanted to talk about the same thing, the drag show. If it was uh not uh uh inappropriate behavior going on, then those photos wouldn't have had anything inappropriate to show. Um it's sickening that you guys allowed that there. You guys with your gay straight club at school, it just leave sexuality out of it. I don't care if a kid's gay or straight or if anybody is. It's not anybody's business. Leave sexuality out of it. Teach them sex ad, but leave the sexuality out of it. That that is just 16. It's it's groomer stuff. It really is groomer stuff to sit there and do that to preach sexuality to kids. Leaving having kids at something like
047that is just sickening. You know, have a pride event, have it indoors for adults. There's no reason kids should be able to attend something like that. That is disgusting. And I'm going to go ahead and just end it there because I don't want to go to jail. >> Thank you. Our next audience comment is Tristan Wolf. Our next audience comment is Shannon Lensigraph. Okay, let me pull something up. I'm gonna say something before I I say my speech. Okay, >> as somebody ready to start, then we just we have to start the time. >> As somebody with severe anxiety, for me to come up here, it means a lot to me to protect my daughter. I'm showing you those pictures today. as the person said, they were without their knowledge. They shouldn't have been taken.
048The fact is those were taken. That was in front of children at my daughter's elementary school. Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here. A lot of people I grew up in Enamclaw, Washington. A lot of people know about my past. I used to be what they call a midnight ballerina. A very toxic lifestyle. No different than this. Could you imagine a child going to an adult female strip club? How about I ask this because I got an email back saying you guys can't discriminate and so that's why you guys rented it to them. Okay. How about I go rile up all my strip club girlfriends have a nonprofit and teach the young girls that you can be a strip club dancer. How would that feel for you? Then you would finally understand. Now let
049me go to my speech without getting out of character. I would please like some time cuz I am I have raised my daughter to not be like me, not go through the path that I've gone through. And I pro I expect her to be in school and be protected. Yet I have to worry about groomers. Let's not bring up Sumner High School coach. He's in my family. I know more than you guys think I know. The board has a lot of explaining to do and I have to send my daughter to school every day to know she's protected. And that's the same morals that I teach her when that's what she's possibly groomed to. I never had a problem with Donald. And so when I found out this was happening in the backyard of our
050school, I was disgusted. Okay, now I'll talk very fast with a very appropriate speech that I said. My name is Shannon Lindgrab. I'm the parent of Mila Lindscrab, second grade student at Donald Eisman. I am here tonight because on July 26 25 this district allowed our elementary school placement for innocence learning and safety to host an event where drag performers including individuals in lingerie one dressed as Little Mermaid catering to children performed in front of children. This is not about my opinion on drag performers as an adult. This is about a public elementary school being used for sexualized entertainment involving minors. Something that every responsible adult should immediately recognize as wrong. Imagine a strip club going there. I've heard the excuse of it was summer as of predators and inappropriate influences. All all uh time
051may not be seated or given to another as stated previously. Sorry. Could you approach the microphone, please, to give your comments not about opinions about drags. It's about a public elementary school being used to sexualize entertainment involving minors. And this was for minors. It was brought to bring in minors to try to push this stuff to them. How is this not grooming? How is this not sick? How can any of you stand for this? This is ridiculous. I've seen all the pictures of all of this. My kid goes to this not this school. My kid goes to the next school a mile away, but he goes to this district. I don't understand how any this is acceptable to anybody. How is it possibly acceptable to anybody? You have guys wearing Z-strings, shaking their butts. Designed
052for little kids. Designed for little kids. They had a bouncy house, an arts and crafts table designed to bring little kids in there. This is a free free thing in a public area where kids play every day. How is this not grooming? How is this not targeting little kids for grooming? You should all be ashamed of yourself for allowing any of this. How ridiculous can you be? Despicable. Just completely despicable. Every one of you should be ashamed of yourself. Thank you. Our next audience comment is Donna Oav. Um, good evening school board members. My name is Donna Oavis, grandmother of four children in the Sar School District. I have been commenting publicly to the board for many years, coming to you with my concerns about ideologies not only being affirmed but also incorporated into curriculum.
053This of course goes against our state constitution. With all the evidence-based information regarding the harm these ideologies do to minor children, I am disheartened Sumar School District has not put a stop to it. And I got to say too, I've been doing this for about six years, and I think I've always been chosen kindness. As you see here tonight, the anger and frustration by concerned parents are the culmination of years of ignoring the evidence presented. Even when most all developed nations are making laws against gender affirmation, drugs, and surgery on minors, you have turned a blind eye. I understand our state has buckled down and refuses to adhere to new federal laws and guidelines regarding this. I understand that makes it difficult for you as you feel you must adhere to state laws. But that
054does not mean that you cannot discuss the facts and speak out against what our state is mandating. You are here to do what is best for the students and their families. May you be silent no more. I would also like to address the Supreme Court decision in Mammud versus Taylor which will affect every school district in the country. Justice Alo wrote that mandating our children to engage with these materials presented as normative and celebratory substantially interfered with parents rights to raise their children according to their sincerely held beliefs. In effect, the schools crossed a constitutional line by conditioning a public education on acceptance of viewpoints conflicting with their family's faiths. What does that mean for our district? First, the school should provide clear advanced notification to parents for any upcoming lessons covering the topics of
055gender identity, sexuality, or other related themes. Second, parents have the right to opt out their children without penalty or stigma from specific lessons that conflict with their religious convictions, and district policies must be aligned. Third, children who opt out should be given meaningful equivalent educational opportunities, ensuring they don't fall behind while respecting family beliefs. Fourth, teachers will need guidance to handle optouts sensitively and to implement alternative lessons professionally. This ruling reinforces parental rights, ensuring families can agree or disagree with specific content presented to their school age children. I urge the district to swiftly align its policies with this decision, ensuring transparency, respect, and balance moving forward. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next audience comment is Bill Davis. Good evening, members of the board. Dr. Dent, I'm here tonight because your district has been caught
056in the crosshairs of an online online outrage cycle, one that misrepresents what actually happened at Plateau Pride, and in doing so has put community members in real danger. Here are the facts. Plateau Pride was organized by Hope Development Practice, a nonprofit behavioral health agency. The event was held on a weekend during a summer break in a district facility rented rent rented under the same rented under the same community use policies that allow churches, sports leagues, and other groups to use school assets. It was a public pride celebration with music vendors, drag performances, and yes, some parents chose to bring their children. The school district did not sponsor the event, did not dictate its content, and did not compel anyone to attend. Despite this, an influential local commentator posted, quote, "If you support this, you're sick."
057Men in lingerie praying around for children at an elementary school." End quote. Alongside this, she published close-up photos of individual performers without their consent. The result, performers and the event organ organizer have received threats, including death threats. This is not about whether you personally enjoy drag shows or pride events. It's about telling the truth. It's about not allowing halftruths, missing context, and loaded language to smear schools or endanger members of our community. Your facility rental program works because it treats all groups equally. You don't yet uh you don't vet sermons when you rent to a church and you don't censor theater costumes when you rent to a performance group. That's fairness and that's the law. What happened online a few weeks ago wasn't quote unquote holding the district accountable. It was using your district's name
058as a prop in a culture war narrative. One that ignores parental choice, community policy, and the basic fact that the district was a landlord, not a producer. I urge you to stand by your facility by your facility use policy to clearly communicate these facts to the public and to recognize the harm that comes from letting misinformation run unchecked. Our community deserves light, not heat. And frankly, it deserves better than being a pawn in someone else's outrage machine. Thank you. I have a little bit of time left. I have a packet that shows the photo that was passed around earlier. Um that local rage cer who uh put the photo on her uh Facebook page said quote unquote lots of people in the comments who need the FBI to sweep their PCs. This ragecaster wanted rage
059and she got it. Unfortunately so did a lot of other folks which resulted in death threats death threats and fear-mongering. That's not cool. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next audience comment is Patricia Thomasia. My name is Patricia Tamsia and I am a parent in the Sumar Bonnie Lake School District. Sorry. Good evening members of the board and Dr. Dent. I want to begin by thanking you for renting school facilities to our whole community. Whether it's a church group on a Sunday, a youth sports league on a Saturday, or a pride event in the summer in the summer, these buildings belong to all of us. They are community assets and the way uh excuse me and the way you make them accessible brings people together. I also want to say a word about Plateau Pride.
060This event isn't about politics. It's about creating a safe, joyful space for LGBTQ plus youth and their families. Families who live right here in our district. These kids are our neighbors, our classmates, and our future. They are part of this community and events like Plateau Pride tell them you belong here, too. The data reminds us why that message matters. Nationally, LGBTQ plus youth are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide as their peers. They face higher rates of bullying, depression, and homelessness. But the good news is that supportive communities make a measurable difference. When young people feel accepted, suicide attempts drop significantly and mental health outcomes improve. That's the power of inclusion. So, what can we do as a community? First, we can keep providing spaces like your schools where people can gather
061safely. Second, we can model respect even when we don't agree with every choice others make. And third, we can push back against misinformation that turns neighbors into targets because safety and truth go hand in hand. I am grateful that our district treats all groups equally under its rental policy. That fairness is not only legal, it's the right thing to do. and I'm hopeful that as a community we can move forward with compassion, clarity, and yes, a little common sense. Thank you all for your time. >> Thank you. Our next >> excuse me, >> our next comment. >> Show some respect. >> Thank you. Our next audience comment is Cody. >> Sir, please stop. >> Cody, thank you. Our next audience comment is Terry McCoy. >> I know this is your first time to stay close.
062>> Hi, good evening board of directors and superintendent Dent. Thank you all for so much of what you do. I'm here tonight to speak in strong support of adopting a formal district policy that recognizes and upholds parents as primary stakeholders in the upbringing, education, and wellness of their children as stated in RCW28A.605.005. Parents are primary meaning of chief importance. Stakeholder means a person with an interest or concern in something. Whereas parents have the chief interest in and concern for their child's upbringing. This policy would acknowledge the authority of parents to opt in to LGBTQ plus educational curricula, instructional materials, and activities versus opting out. This policy would also address our Washington state constitution, article 9, education, section 4, sectarian control or influence prohibited. Quote, all schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the
063public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence. End quote. This policy would specifically acknowledge all parents have the choice to opt in to LGBTQ plus classes and activities versus opting out. Whereas there are two Washington state laws RCW28A.345.130 and RCW28A 320.230 230 requiring school boards to accomplish a long list of responsibilities regarding course design, selection, and adoption of instructional materials that I don't even have the time in three minutes to review tonight. Which leads me to wonder how the board how our board is doing with all the requirements on you made by OSPI, RCWs, and WADA. Community members, parents, business owners are hoping you will abide by the law, acknowledging in our district, parents are the primary stakeholders in the upbringing, education, and well-being of their children by drafting an opt-in policy
064versus opt out policy regarding policy and procedure required under RCW28A 320.230. There are school districts currently in our state that are reviewing and considering model optin policies. Will be we will we be one of them? Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next audience comment is Becky Conway. Uh good evening to all of you. I am here to support the parents um who are very much against what happened at Donald Eisman Elementary. And just for the record, uh the person who did the video was on public property. It was not an indoor event. It was a parking lot event and it was hosted by the 31st District Democrats. So, um I do believe there was an agenda there and I'm very sad that any part of Summer Bonnie Lake had anything to do with authorizing the
065use of that space for the vice chair of uh the Kitab Democratic Party who was the MC and dressed in their satal massacus clothing. I don't know how anybody could possibly possibly think that this was suitable for children. I am the grandmother of a grandson who graduated, two grandsons that graduated from Sumar and one of my grandsons was a victim of the latest casualty from Sumar. But I wanted to give the audience and uh possibly any children that might be left here some statistics that $52 million has been paid out to resolve sex abuse allegations in Pierce County school districts over a decade, most of which was in the last four years. This does not include 2025's anticipated 1.4 additional million only for the Tacoma School District. But Sumar Bonnie Lake came in third place,
066paying out $7,850,000 in sexual abuse. Okay. $7,850,000. Where does Pierce County come up with $52 million? Where do you have Where do we have $52 million to pay this out? I live on Lake Taps. We had to take the diving board down off of our park because our insurance company would no longer provide insurance to our HOA if those if those provisions were left in place. So, we would have no insurance. I'm asking you, where's our insurance going to come from? And where did the $52 million come from? I think this is a very, very appropriate question to you. I think it deserves an answer. I'm going to say that anytime I've ever been up before the board, nobody has ever answered a single solitary question I've ever had. And I'm ashamed, but I love
067all of the participation. I love the teacher that was sitting here. Kudos to this teacher. Kudos to Carrie Leblau. Kudos to all of these kids that went to state. That's the kind of thing that we want to see happen in our school district. We don't need drag shows in a parking lot in our school with men rolling over and showing their behinds in Sato massochist clothing to children. >> Thank you. >> Our next audience comment is an virtual comment. James Kelly Mccclimmans. Okay, appears to no longer be in the waiting room. Our next audience comment is Teresa Mccleimmans, also not there. That concludes our audience comments for this evening. >> All right. Um, if it's okay with the board, I would suggest maybe a fivem minute bathroom break before we go on to the rest
068of the agenda. Um, so let's go ahead and we'll come back at 7:15. Thank you. Back. Uh, the next thing on our agenda is a presentation um for budget adoption. Chief Finance Officer Brian Barley will present the 2526 school year budget adoption. >> Good evening, board. Last month I did a presentation on the public hearing and the budget you're approving tonight is the same budget was that was presented last week. So I'm not going to spend a ton of time but you're welcome to ask any questions. I'll go through all the highle slides but again if anyone wants to go into any detail I am available. I will go through the 232 page F1 and5 that's being submitted to the state but tonight because mo all the board was here last week and many members
069of the staff and public were the same and you have the ability to view it online also but we will go through this presentation again on a high level a budget is just a plan in time and remember plans do change as circumstances change I'm not going to read all the bullet points But um we're required to do it by the state and we have to file it with the state. So last time I had a table that had the same information. I made it into a graph so that you could visualize it. Um what it's showing here, this is a 4-year general fund, the trend that it's on. The first purple line is the revenue for each one of the years that's being projected and the black line is expenditures. As you can see,
070the expenditures are a little bit higher than revenue in each one of the years. And what that will do, it'll slowly eat away our fund balance if we don't make changes. So, we're going to have to make strategic adjustments in spending and programs um to protect the long-term fiscal health of the district. And again, right now, this year, we started about 22% fund balance. We look like we're going to end this year at about 18% fund balance. spend it down by another 10 million next year that' bring it down to 11.7 and then if we don't make changes like we have to. So our plan is actually to make changes. This is not my prediction of what's going to happen. This is what would happen if we don't make changes we have to change. But
071if we don't make changes within four years we'd be down to less than two weeks of operating expenditures. Why the need for fund balance? Well, there's a multitude of needs. It helps our bond rating is one I've been talking about recently because we have more bonds to sell for the capital projects. Um, but beside that, it helps to interrupt disruptions when you uh have to do deficit spending. It gives you time to make more strategic plans and really think about the changes and prioritize what needs to be done rather than acting. You know, if you only had a f $5 million fund balance, you would have to make the cuts right away. You wouldn't have time to strategically think about them. They'd be very disruptive to the students and the programs at the district. So,
072the fund balance slows that down and allows you to make changes more thoughtfully. Um, high level overview of the general fund. Estimated beginning fund balance, like I said, would be about 35 million for next year. are revenues of 207 million expenditures and transfers out of about 217 when you combine them. So ending fund balance would be about $25 million at the end of next year. Again, if you have any questions during this, don't be afraid to stop and ask. Um student enrollment, we're projecting a enrollment that kind of fits the trend that's been happening the last few years about a 50 student growth for next year over this year. And remember, I talked more deeply about this last month, but that's where most of our revenue comes from. Um, because of the trends and what
073we know we have to do, we really can't add much staffing. Just minimal staffing ads for 25 26 and 26 27 and actually a slight slight reduction from the current year, but really stable staffing. Big changes in the general fund. Um, here's the on the revenue side. We're projecting $27 million. What's changed from the current year? Levy amounts increased by 4.5, the general portion up by 3.4, and special education, we're getting about 2.6 more from the state for that. On the expenditure side, our biggest increase is on the salaries and the benefits that goes along with the salaries. And I talked deep uh I went into some depth last month. I won't do it again but again if anyone has questions follow up I'm more than happy to answer highle overview of where the revenues
074come from most of it comes from the state 76% and of that state money about 70% of that 76% is from the prototypical funding model other big sources are for the transportation and special ed um local money you see the two purple categories are actually broke them out on the right so you see how much is from the local levy and the other's local non- tax for student fees and fees for other things at the district. And one of the big actually the biggest part of that the big biggest single item is the interest we're receiving on the fund balance. But as the fund balance goes down, that interest we receive will go down. Um and a lot of people have questioned how much we get from the federal government. It's about 3% of our
075total revenue. Where do we spend the money? We spend most of it on people about 85% on people both certificated class flight and the benefits that go with it. Um I pointed out last time even though you see 0% for travel and c capital outlay we do spend some money there. It's just less than a half a percent each. So it rounds down to zero. Mox disclosure just quickly showing how much we get from the state and how much we actually spend. So we are projected to spend 8.5 million more than we get from the state for MSOX. That's material supplies and operating costs basically non-employee expenses. What we pay for fuel and food for the children and um utility bills and all those things. The extra money obviously comes from the levy. The other
076funds I also turn these into graphs. Associated Student Body um fund here is opposite of general fund. We're actually the the students are bringing in more money every year than they're spending and they have a 40% fund balance and if the trend continues it'll increase to 66%. But realize these numbers are much smaller. Instead of $200 million or 215 million we're talking about $3 million um just for perspective. So that gap is not millions of dollars. It's a couple hundred,000 transportation vehicle fund. Same idea here. Just put it in graphic form, but the green line is the fund balance. How we see that tracking and then um revenues and expenditures. Capital projects fund. This one looks more volatile, but that's just because we sell the bonds. It's a big revenue source. In certain years, we
077don't sell bonds every single year. We kind of run through the money. Then the fund balance builds back up. We sell some more bonds and we spend it down. Again, a lot of detail behind this. This one looks super smooth debt service fund, but in reality, um, we make two big interest or principal and interest payments a year in December and, uh, May. And so at that point, the fund balance for that this one almost goes to zero. And then we build it back up and then we make the interest and principal payment again six months later. So this is what it looks like as of August 31st each year. High level. This is how much you're giving authority what if you approve the budget in each one of the funds to spend in the
078upcoming school year and it takes a team to do this. Any questions? >> Any questions? >> Yes. >> Brian, I just want to say thank you for spending the time with me. I had quite a few questions for you and you invited me to your office. We went through all of them and really was very helpful. So, I appreciate that. >> Well, thank you, Tom. >> Do it again later on in the future. >> Okay. I'm looking forward to it. I do like people coming to ask questions and understanding in more depth what's happening in school finance. But thank you very much. >> Thanks. >> All right. So that moves us to our action. Oh yes, Brian D and his team definitely definitely deserve a round of applause. the just just the pure fact, Brian,
079that that you you and your team keeps all of this straight and all of this running from a financial standpoint and and kudos to you and your team for seeing and having the foresight to see this expense and revenue imbalance and taking action to make sure that we don't end up in a in a bad place and we stay in a good place. So, thank you so much for your work on that. All right. So, to our action portion. Um, resolution number 212 24-25. Um, adoption of 2425 budget. The district administration recommends the board adopt resolution 21/2425 for the 2526 school year budget which reflected the four-year budget plan summary and enrollment projections. Do I have a motion? >> So, move. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Okay. No. Seeing
080none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Right. Resolution passes. Yes. Yeah. Budget for next year is done. Thank you. All right. The next resolution on the agenda is resolution number 22425. Write off uncollectible accounts. District administration recommends the board adopt resolution number 222425. write off of uncollectible accounts for customer account balances in the amount of $9,817.99. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Thank you. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed. >> Right. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. And uh information only in your packets is the budget status report. Chief financial officer Brian Barley has provided a budget status report to the board for your information. Our next up
081is a presentation. Uh Wade Jensen, senior associate from BC Incorporated, will present the schematic design and educational specifications for the Bonnie Lake High School expansion to the board of directors. Welcome, Wade. I just want to take a second to introduce Wade. Um, I've had the pleasure of knowing Wade for a number of years. So, it was really exciting to when she moved to BC and we had an opportunity to work with uh her and the team there at BC. This is Chris Spataphor. He is a principal and Wade is a senior associate there. And again, it's just a pleasure to work with Wade again. You >> Thank you. Welcome. Well, I have to say I have so enjoyed working with Marina and her team and the district and so I'm so happy to be back
082working with um Sar Bonnie Lake School District again. So glad we got to uh do this project together. So um today we're going to talk a little bit about the educational specifications process. I'm going to call it edspecs because that's kind of a mouthful. So hopefully you all know what I'm talking about. Um and uh uh you know just as a quick reminder I know you uh went through the edspec process on another project last month but uh for anyone in the audience who uh is not familiar with what we're talking about today I wanted to just read the um edspec definition that's in the wack and also in the board resolution. Uh so uh the purpose of the edspecs is to prepare an architectural program to create a framework to identify, organize and describe
083critical elements of the project to decide to to guide decision- making including instructional and non-instructional activities and their inter relationship special provisions which could improve the learning environment, furniture and equipment needs and consideration of efficiencies and future needs. So that's a lot of things. So we we covered a lot of area uh and essentially uh the short version of that is we are um looking at uh you know providing the building blocks and the plan for uh the new addition. Okay. And we are here uh today to request that the board accept the EDS specs uh as required by OSPI uh and as part of the um funding provisions for uh state funding. Okay. Let's see. Am I going to go the right way? Oh, okay. Good. All right. So, um we had uh several
084meetings. Uh this is kind of our schedule up here. Uh the district uh put together an ETSspec committee which was comprised of uh district staff, teachers, students, and community members. So, we had a wide range of uh voices uh that were part of the conversation uh which is always great to have those uh voices heard uh as part of the project. Uh the kickoff meeting uh started off with a tour of the existing building. Uh we all walked the halls together so that we could kind of see what the issues were and talk about them as in real time in the space uh to make sure everyone was on the same page when we started out. Uh we also uh you know established kind of the guiding principles and goals for the project that meeting.
085And then we had a series of um uh focus group meetings where we uh dived into different uh specific areas of the building to get a more in-depth look at uh what those needs were for each of those spaces. Uh and then finally, we closed out uh by kind of doing a recap uh and putting together a a proposed plan for the addition uh and um getting feedback on that from the committee. Okay. So first we started off uh looking at the hopes and dreams. Uh and this uh information uh helps us to kind of focus find out what we need to focus on in the addition. So we did a little polling exercise. Um you can see there in the word art that the most important uh items or the ones that got the
086most votes were the biggest text, right? So clearly more classrooms, more space, more storage. Uh the schools bursting at the seams. So that was um kind of a an obvious one, but great to get feedback on. Um some of the some of the ones that you know we didn't quite know, right? So this is also a tool to start conversations. So the no flex classrooms that was kind of, you know, one that we used as a conversation starter, right? So why why is that? And it turned out it was because of course there's classrooms in there and that is is not working very well. So, a great start to get a lot of feedback from people. Oh gosh, the um it's looking a little funny in the the the slide there. Um >> only you
087know supposed to look like uh and so we did then establish uh the vision. Uh so build the hill came out uh you know strong. I think it was unanimous amongst the committee members. uh the high school has already embraced that and they really wanted the addition to uh you know ex explore that and make sure we you know make a welcoming space for the community and uh and exhibit that pride that they have in their student body. Uh so also modern, flexible, timeless. Um those those were very strong thoughts uh on the part of the committee as far as what they want the building to look like and feel like. And then the guiding principles um those we've just kind of organized uh into brackets but uh to kind of ease you know to
088ease of of sort of understanding the material uh but still very um very strong thoughts there from everyone and I think the whole uh committee was in alignment on um you know on these principles. So this also gives us a great um way you know as we get farther in the process we can look back at these goals and principles uh to make sure that you know the building and the design is progressing and we're meeting these goals. And then we looked at um some space requirements. So we go through a whole process of um cataloging all of the spaces in the building. I know. Sorry, this is probably hard to see, but it's a spreadsheet of all of the areas, lists all the spaces that will be in the building, how many, and then
089also divides it up by uh the pieces that are new construction and those that are renovations. So, there are a few portions of the building where, you know, a program moves out and then that piece of the existing structure will get renovated. So, we ended up with about 44,000 square ft of new addition and 10,000 square ft of uh renovation space and that does include the uh JOTC program that's moving out of the portable uh into the building. So, we also went through each of the spaces in more detail. This is just one example of a general classroom. Um so looking at uh not only the area and the number of classrooms but also when it's used uh the finishes, the utilities, the infrastructure, the furniture, all of the everything that needs to go in
090there so that you know we can look back at this later and make sure that we kind of check all those boxes, use it as a checklist uh to make sure that we get all the parts and pieces into the building that we need. Uh we also looked at adjacencies. So you can see the bubble diagram there of the um learning community where the classrooms are surrounding the flex area and they have services adjacent to that. So um that was part of the discussion and then at the um final meeting so we took all of these parts and pieces and put them together. So these are still very diagrammatic floor plans, but they are do represent the right size uh areas and the location uh in the existing building. So we're looking at a threestory
091um structure just to make sure we have a small footprint, right? We know the site area is critical and we got to keep as much of it as we can. Uh so on that first floor uh is the DLC program. They have a suite uh which allows them to walk straight out uh to a new bus loading zone. So very uh easy for them to get in and out of the building now and to the commons because it's also on that lower level of the commons. Uh the JOTC program is in kind of royal blue there. So that is going to be on the stage. So we don't need the stage anymore now that we have the pack. Uh and so um that area has been converted to um their space. And then as we
092move up uh to the second floor, which um if you've been to the building, that is the the level where you enter from the main parking lot. Uh so you can see the big uh entry there kind of in a a light blue color. So that is the welcome center. So that was uh a big welcoming two-story space um that you know really shows the community where to go when they arrive on site and is meant to be a a celebratory spot where the community can come for events and also um to celebrate student work. So the uh group or sorry orange that's the that's the word I'm looking for uh area is the main uh administration area. So that is all new uh or most of it's new. I think if you can see
093where those two the two classrooms which are kind of in a beige color on the left um those are that's where the existing building ends and the new addition begins. Uh and so um they also uh have uh sort of combined uh where the uh student services areas are. So they were kind of all over the school. Now they have one place. So, those are the pink spaces in the building. And then we have the new classroom wing with a flex area um off to the sort of the bottom of the screen there. And that stacks up on the third floor. Uh and then we also had some opportunity to add some extra classrooms um over the stage area. So, really trying to maximize classroom space as much as we could. >> Yeah. To be
094creative. >> Yeah. Uh and so this is kind of a massing uh exercise with those blocks um just to show um you know this is the main entry. So you can see that double height welcome center very uh distinct and uh you know you'll see it from far away once you enter from the parking lot but also uh you know we were looking at trying to keep the whole massing of the building uh pretty equal to what is already there. So the gray peaked roofs in the back are the existing commons that which is the highest point in the building. And so we're able to fit two floors there um you know where there was only uh one before. And here are a few other views uh from the northeast massing. So that one is
095a little bit more of an aerial. So you can kind of see those where those classrooms nestle in above where the existing stage is on the third floor. Uh the stair tower is that gray um tower there. So that's how you get in and out. Uh and then I think on the southwest massing, that's probably the one of the only places where you really see that it's a three-story edition uh because you're down uh at the lower level. But um that allows again the DLC entrance and a nice little courtyard there to get daylight into all of the wings. And then as far as the site plan goes, um so you can see the new addition there is that teal uh with the entry plaza. Uh and uh we were able to actually I think
096we're at a net maybe loss of only a couple parking spots uh on the site uh because of the compactness of the building and the way we're kind of reorienting it just a little bit of the parking lot to make a better drop off area there in front. Uh there is an additional queuing lane uh to the side as you enter in uh from you know 199th by Mountain View. So so you won't have to try to you know get into the parking lot while a bunch of people are waiting to pick up uh students which we got to experience firsthand. So we we knew that problem. Um and so um yeah and then you can see the two fields they will get our official turf and new lighting and then um also the intersection
097improvements. So um yeah I think that sums up the process and kind of where we were at at the very end of the educational specifications process and so we use that then as a starting point for the next phase uh the schematic design. Uh and we are still on schedule to um bid the project uh 2026. Uh we'll start construction in the summer and uh estimated completion date is for fall of 2028. Uh we also got some good news uh yesterday. So we had we're in the middle of schematic design. We got our first estimate back and we are under budget. So pretty exciting. Yeah. So with that, are there any questions? >> It's always the big one, right? >> Yeah. >> Did does anybody on the board have any questions? >> Oh, I think
098it's it the amount of work that that you're putting into and the thoughtfulness that you're putting into and the the imagination it takes to to work that kind of space. And then bringing the community in to get their feedback, bringing the students in, bringing the staff in. I think that's huge. And I think they're going to see that reflected when shovels go on the ground and it's completed. I mean, just the fact that the DLC is getting a space that they need and deserve um is just it's so heartwarming to see them supported in that way. >> That's wonderful. Yeah. Well, thank you. We're we're so happy to be here to help. >> Looking forward to it. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> All right. So, that leads us to Oh, yes. Round of applause. So,
099that brings the board to the action that we need to take tonight. Um, on the Bonnie Lake High School edspec, uh, the district administration recommends that the Senar Bonnie Lake School District board of directors adopt resolution number 23/2425, Bonnie Lake High School education specifications to expand Bonnie Lake High School. Do I have a motion? >> So, move. >> Thank you. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> No. All right. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. All right. Motion passes. Congratulations. That's awesome. >> All right. Some other good stuff on the agenda tonight uh is that we will be voting on the IUE collective bargaining agreement. The district administration recommends the board adopt the IUE. It's a lot of uh vows there. Child Nutrition Services and
100Transportation Bargaining Agreement for September 1st, 2025 through August 31st, 2027. So, that'd be a two-year agreement. Uh, do I have a motion? >> So, moved. >> Uh, do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? I I just want to thank both sides, the leadership of groups that worked on this. I know it it takes both sides to make movement like this and really appreciate it. >> Yeah, definitely. Definitely great group of people and and just happy to continue to support them. All right, all those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed. All right. Motion passes. Congratulations. That's awesome. All right. So, information only. We have some instructional materials adoption. In accordance with policy 2020, course design, selection, and adoption of instructional materials. The following resources have
101been reviewed and approved by the district curriculum curriculum and instructional materials committee. Uh we have two uh two for you here in the information. We have environmental science your world your turn. Uh Cara Wilson Tossa secondary curriculum has shared a recommendation for the following instructional material to be used for high school environmental science for first reading. Uh and that one is titled environmental science your world your turn. And then we also have earth and earth and space science. Cara Wilson. Also, TOSO secondary curriculum has shared a recommendation for the following instruction material to be used for high school Earth and space science for first reading and the title of that material is Earth and Space Science. So, that is information for you in your packets. Yeah, thank thank you Cara for all that hard work.
102Those look like those will be fun classes. Much appreciated. All right, so some policy matters that we need to take action on. So for board policies in accordance with policy 1310, adoption and amendment of policies and bylaws, the following policies are included for adoption. The district administration recommends the board adopt the following district policies in accordance with policy 1310, adoption, amendment of policies and bylaws. We have 2020 course design, selection, and adoption of instructional materials as well as policy 2021 library information and technology programs. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. >> Thank you, Tom. Any discussion? >> Okay, seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. All right. Motion passes. Thank you. Uh we have some additional information
103in your packets. Uh in accordance with policy 1310, adoption amendment of policies and bylaws. Policy following policy is included for first reading. Uh that is policy 4218 language access as well as uh curriculum instruction as required by WAC180-16-195. The district's annual application for state basic education allocation funds were submitted to OSPI. A report submitted by assistant superintendent Kelly Den is linked below in your information. Uh and that is 202526 minimum basic education requirement schoolboard report as well as 2025-26 minimum basic education requirement collection review. Thank you Kelly for all your hard work on >> those reading those last night. Those were so Kelly Dan. >> Yes. Yes. Very well very well done. Yes. We can see that when we read those. So thank you. That concludes all of our action and information. Uh that brings
104us to board discussion. Is there any topics that the board wanted to discuss tonight? >> I just want to uh I just want to say one thing as I sat here tonight and um and I'm actually really very thankful um you know we are incredibly lucky that we were able to provide a open safe space for our community to come in and talk to us um about things that are important to them. And you know, I know sometimes it's frustrating because we don't say anything or acknowledge um but our job here is to listen to the community and we did and and not just listen but to hear what they have to say. Um so that that is something that we had an opportunity to do and I really appreciate that and I think about
105that in the context too of of some of the other things that happened tonight. We got to recognize some amazing staff and students. We do that almost on a daily, you know, every every time we get together and how lucky we are to have a district that functions like that. Um, we had our CFO come up and talk about our budget. This is the second meeting in a row. I mean, the transparency and the fiscal um, responsibility that that represents is just a great thing to be part of and we're lucky about that. And finally, we had a great presentation on the future of this district, right, and and where it's going and how it's growing. So, um I just leave the meeting and I'm I'm really grateful for today and grateful for how every
106how um respectful and passionate and caring um our community is. I mean, I started this with my comments and talking about when we're giving back backs out to our our students and keeping our students in the center of what we're thinking about and how many different community members came to help out there. So, um, yeah, I I'm walking away today very grateful and thankful for all of you who hung out hung around for the whole thing. So, um, yeah, thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you, JB. Anybody else have any topics for discussion? All right. I know Erin, you've had a rough a rough evening, so I'm sure you just you probably got to figure out where your car is and where it got towed to and Yeah. So, good good luck with that. All right.
107So, that brings us to uh Tom, did you Sorry, did you have No. Okay. That brings us to our announcement of our next regular board meeting. The board meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. We'll begin at 6 PM in the central board office. Again, reminder for the next school year. We will be holding our meetings on Tuesdays, not Wednesdays. Tuesdays. So, Tuesdays going forward. Um it's a great change. I think it aligns a lot of things and gives members that couldn't come on Wednesdays a chance to come on Tuesdays. So, uh it's a nice uh nice change. And with that, we are adjourned.