001oh okay here good evening scott we're working on making it so you can hear us all so all right good we can hear you tested that that's good right that sounds good and yes we can hear scott and everyone who's on the zoom i'm sorry i'm right in your face but uh we're working on setting up for the meeting so thank you for joining us and i'm gonna look for becky we're doing this a little differently than we have okay super big oh let's see if i can see becky it's is is it under i'm not seeing your name on that okay got it yes there we are come out to panelist see if i can make you like to be able to make her a co-host is what i'd like to be able to
002do i don't know i can do that yeah you guys good on that yeah absolutely and beth will be here and she's happy to answer questions you bet perfect works okay all right i think i have made becky the host now all right [Music] um hmm uh um [Music] thank not you [Music] um [Music] i think um no [Music] successfully all right scott congress now that sounds good yes okay we're going to work from this camera at this angle okay sounds good perfect i think we can see everyone there there we go everybody's in view okay is um indivisible with liberty and justice um [Music] um second i'd like to welcome alan jones [Music] says it may foreign up um during the meeting or even after the meeting and then shannon clinton is here she's
003running for our school board she's really interested in being part of the happenings of summer um the superintendency report will start at eight o'clock uh member comments start at 8 15. we're going to recess to executive session at 8 25. and that will only be 20 minutes and then we're going to reconvene the regular morning at 8 45 and return the regular meeting at 3 46 all right anyone have any other um additions or um for a motion to approve the amendment okay [Music] can you hear us okay should we go closer can you hear me now thank you okay um uh once i test review minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes a motion to approve the minutes from september 9th 2021. one second all those in favor say hi all right
004motion passes so now we're going to move on to the capitol facilities planned public hearing mel murray okay so um projects are included major capital projects are included in the plan but only those that have capacity to calculate impact our capital plan is incorporated by the city of tomorrow and pearson county their capital class components we start with a october head couch and they use a series of calculations to project importance that here so the class is only required for six years we use head count because that's the physical capacity compared to the physical capacity of the schools we will tend to um likely be more than like hr or financial services projections just because they tend to be more conservative we tend to be more wanted to make sure we have that capacity in
005place so we are forecasting more students then this year for the next six years and that will generate the need for a seventh elementary school that's the main capacity project along with um portables which we'll probably need before we build the seventh elementary other larger projects or both middle schools are eligible for a 30-year modernization ospica renovation a major renovation with state funding available 94 for bush middle school and 96 become modern 94 plus 30 would be 2024 96 plus 30 would be 2026 but they will be eligible each chapter in the plan is intended to be a requirement of a couple of facilities plans as required they look at demand capacity and proposed capacity improvement additions for those i developments see the developments done by the airport we need to have those in our
006plan which they are one of the interesting things is stable aid is a generation rate that compares the address of memory and out of every apartment we get 0.16 students which doesn't seem like very much especially when you consider that spread across grades take 12. but it seems to matter look at physical addresses compared with a development count so as i mentioned we are the projects that washington water middle school our major renovations the elementary school the portables are for capacity we also included in this capital facility an unspecified remodel for renovations at those high schools to identify the funds needed we have uh both remaining levy and voter approved bonds that we have on hand plus futures levy response for 95 million dollars to pay for those improvements finally one of the things that
007both the county and the city are interested in is they collect investment fees from us or on our behalf for every house and an apartment that was built in our district and those change every year and those are on the depopulation in the chemical facilities plan let's make a note that here in the memo for some reason they're the proposed fee for a multi-family unit is one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars which is a ten percent discount and that's about it enough for questions there is a public hearing so could you repeat those numbers one more time any questions from the board to grill the memory any questions from the public it is a public hearing anyone can ask a question of now if you stop now then you gotta further plan the time
008and then sydney the enrollment has gone down for the last four years and again this is a plan and plans are i like to say a common base for changes [Music] the plan for the 7th elementary to be built was 2025 and then sydney asked about um the connection between enrollment decreasing and this plan where we're assuming enrollment is increasing and its specific plans we still have to plan and let's keep figuring out what happens i think it's it's based a lot on there's the enrollment and then there's the growth of the housing bills and trying to balance all of that that's that's kind of what i understand right yes that's true the last year especially assuming unprecedented amount housing permits in our district hold on i'm shannon young [Music] no they can't hear so
009basically the question is how do we how can we learn about these housing developments before they happen and right now both the county and the city i get an email for every land use action there is in our district actually in the county or the city and so that will include any someone who's building a single family house and needs to get this land use exemption up to the tigner farms development that's going in around black hills high school and we work with or against the developers and how cooperative they are to make sure that we have safe walking routes to our schools and that's actually a requirement of state development we have to give them what we need and they have to give that to us in order to continue with their projects but
010yes we do watch that and when those projects start building we're really going to see a lot of need for schools thank you great question anyone else have questions he hasn't been done yet folks anymore all right thank you thank you all right now we're moving on to the consent agenda oh scott do you have any questions no questions so has the board had an opportunity to review the items on the consent agenda yes i'd like to make a motion to remove the personnel report from the consent agenda and approve the consent agenda minus the personal report will reprove the personnel report by itself is there a second everyone understand what what's happening here wait a second all right all those in favor of removing the personnel report from the consent agenda please signify they're
011saying hi bye bye right so now what we'll do um is the second part of your motion so now now you have to vote i need a motion generator without the personal report i'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda without the personal report i'll second all those in favor say hi all right so what you just saw there was a uh so consent agenda usually just goes straight on through we don't ask any questions unless we do have questions then we remove that report so then we can ask questions so now we're going to ask questions about the personal this is a very active personnel report based on our budget issues could you maybe explain this personal report a little bit to kind of walk through absolutely so you see a number of
012tires on there and you go wait a minute we're holding a lot of hiring so how is it we have a number of hires on personnel and i'm going to share that and i'm going to ask about to clarify if she can make my answer better so um and so what i would just share is what you see mostly on the personnel report are para educator positions that you see as one year only that generally means that is an educator that is assigned to a student due to their iep so students who have a one-on-one career educator in their iep we have to provide a fair educator for it so that's what that is necessary for me to comply with law and so those are hires that we have to make you'll also see some
013partial teacher ones a partial fte teacher and that's where we might have someone out on a leave for a while because for a variety of reasons that a teacher might need to be on leave for part of the year you didn't need to put someone on to replace that position um so those are primarily what you're seeing there some coaches that we have to hire and is there anything else that you would add to that that would clarify that i don't think so sorry i don't think so unless casey you had a specific question about a specific file no no definitely not that it's more sure thank you well any other questions scott do you have any questions on the personality no all right is there a motion to improve the personnel report they make
014a motion to approve the personnel report as president second all those in favor say aye all right now we will move on to public comments um certainly i'm going to move over and realize that i did not take the clipper with me i was moving things around [Music] when i was a teacher my students would always teach me about leading things sitting everywhere in the classroom [Music] hopefully we can see my powerpoint all right now maybe this will let me probably there we go okay so at our last board meeting we have uh one person who made public comment that was our tea president tim boyd and he's here to get this evening so we've continued to uh i would say just add to that that uh that was related to bargaining uh tea in
015the district a couple of nights ago so um more details coming on that that's recent news uh but i want to just say i wanted to say thank you to the pea in the district for working hard together through what's a really difficult bargain during the tough budget time so appreciate that collaboration [Music] um i have just a couple of numbers for you tonight that i want to share first one is 6122. and you may have seen this one before so um not sure if any of you recall what that number is up to you yeah that would be absolutely that is our projected average fte enrollment for this year so when we built our budget we built our ftd enrollment and if you this is the number if you don't include our skill center
016students running start or open doors because those are programs that we really don't count for our funding but we projected six thousand one hundred and twenty two students minus that and it's our october fte enrollment six thousand one hundred twenty two point eight twelve so uh we are right at that number uh we're about eight tenths of a student above it for our uh october home but call that pretty reasonable projection so it never gets that close no on a six [Music] it will help us available out what our average but it's nice to get that number second number i have for you is 25 and it will lead to our celebration how many [Music] this is about this is the number of our expert principals and assistant principals serving homewater schools october is national
017principles month and i think it's really important to take a moment just to recognize and thank our principals this is an extraordinarily difficult year for everyone for our teachers for our principals what i can tell you is um our principles are doing an amazing job managing a really difficult uh set of challenges including um as we come into this year's staffing shortages where you have difficulty getting substitute teachers where we're having difficulty getting bus drivers so that's maybe causing them to have to be on the fly constantly adjusting to adjustments that might come from busing adjustments that might come when they're short substitutes i know many of them are in the classroom teaching quite often covered in classrooms and then doing the regular duties um they are an amazing group and i just think it's
018important for us to take a moment and recognize them and i would have asked some of them to come tonight but i can tell you how busy they are i [Music] we've got two here so so you can see we have a couple of representatives here for that group and i would just say um for any others we want to make sure we pass along our sincere thanks to give you the opportunity anyone have something to say i don't think there are any words [Music] i would i would i would add to that just the same it's it's been an incredible slog for the principals and i give them all the credit in the world principles for doing all that they can to keep things humming and being going to the school so many many
019thanks much appreciation for the board member and as a parent yeah i would like to thank you as a parent first and then their flexibility is truly amazing it will take any challenge thrown at them but let's try throwing less things down [Music] uh in my experience the principles of how to do pretty much everything else other than getting to focus on why they became principles which is the student learning and so thank you for doing contact thank you for making phone calls thank you for sitting in um in the coding room there's a lot of stuff no one no one went to school for um and so what that means is you're really having to be creative and think through things that you've never had to think through before and that text is your
020brain and you just want to get back to students like i i understand that so thank you for taking all this other stuff on um because you're also supporting the teachers who also have a whole lot of stuff on their plate that they didn't imagine that they would have to give either and so that's the other part you support teachers already if you're trying to support them in another way um it's just a it's just really really tough a lot of a lot of stuff so thank you um please share our thanks with your colleagues um but i do enjoy visiting with them so thank you uh what is there anything else all right and look at that we're ahead of schedule [Music] so now we're on to public comment um first of all um
021[Music] i just want to remind everyone that we're all here because we care about kids and we understand that and sometimes things can get heated um and i'm gonna have to gather you down if you get too heated um becky's going to call uh on each person that submitted their name and topic um prior to 6 pm via email allowing them the opportunity to read their statement the first submission on the topic will receive five minutes every submission after on that same topic we'll receive three minutes for a total of 20 minutes on any one time how many speakers do we have tonight seven on different topics i'm sorry i'm asking you this while you're trying to get the questions four different topics all right so becky is uh going to serve as timekeeper she's
022also it also looks like she's also serving as a person who pulls them out of attendee into participant mode so they can speak the board does not discuss personal matters or matters involving planning and open the board will not will likely not respond at this time because it's time for us to hear the issue all submissions will be shared with the board um if you end up emailing in a submission because you weren't because of the time limit then they'll be shared with us and the superintendent if i'm hearing their time the board will take it end of advisement and well as needed as they progress in order to follow up and as you saw earlier what happens is um right before public comment challenge does a public public um just to close the loop
023on that so are we ready [Music] for the first person no okay only letting me chat with her i did [Music] you're larger than life right now okay first up is and what's her topic and tara kimberly's talking about vaccine mandates for students and so she'll get five minutes do you want me in a time becky okay all right tara can you hear us yes can you hear me [Music] okay i'm trying to get my camera can you is that a possibility i mean because all i can do is talk i mean if that's if i can't get a camera that's fine but usually i have the functionality due to camera okay thank you i think we have to promote the panelists rather than use the allow to talk function for that yeah the host
024has to promote the speaker to panelists i should that should make it work [Music] there now now we can see you tara can you unmute yourself yes there you go okay perfect thank you everyone good evening my name is tara kimbro i'm here today because i believe that coven 19 vaccine mandates are wrong and i'm here today to stand with all the parents that don't agree with implementing one for k-12 students to attend public schools it hasn't happened yet but based on the governor's comments today it's coming and the district is probably having internal discussions about it right now the typical rebuttal i receive is schools already have vaccine mandates this is just adding one more vaccine it's no different but that is a lie it is different as you know the vaccine does not
025stop transmission it reduces the likelihood of severe illness and death just like a flu shot have flu shots ever been mandated in schools no why not because they don't stop transmission transmission so what is the point of mandating it you won't stop the disease so mandating a vaccine for it is simply unethical additionally the efficacy of vaccines for the flu and covid continue to change in the span of just 10 months the covert vaccination efficacy has changed multiple times another rebuttal is the only way out of the pandemic is the vaccination not entirely true it is one of the tools but not the only way and the rate of breakthrough infections and comparable viral loads and vaccinated versus unvaccinated are proof of this these government-created vaccinated utopias will still have outbreaks another justification is to
026compare it to measles smallpox and the polio vaccines did you know that those diseases had death rates between 10 to 30 percent the childhood death rate for covet is less than point zero three percent the flu has a higher death and severe illness rate than covid and still no vaccine mandate for the flu there is no long-term data for children especially those under the age of 12. only 4 500 children for each vaccine between the age of 5 to 11 have received this experimental vaccine other countries are actually banning the use of the modern vaccine for those under 30 because of the risk of heart problems that outrage the risks of getting coveted and recently an fda advisory panel denied the pharmaceutical industry the push for boosters for everyone due to the clear data showing
027that inherent risk for youth and receiving covert vaccines and a potential adverse immune response with a booster there is no long-term data and the covet hospitalizations and deaths for children clearly show that there is no urgent need for this vaccination in children despite the lack of vaccine data for children we do have almost two years of data on the impact of cova disease on children and it is clear that children are at a significantly lower risk of severe illness or death from covet 19. my kindergartner daughter is currently homeschooled i should just sit back and chill out knowing that i don't have a skin in the game but i want my kids to go to public school and i want all kids in our district to flourish and i'm here fighting today for all those
028parents who don't want their children to be part of an experimental an experiment and also they deserve equal access to public education most parents don't have any other options so they will fearfully and hesitantly subject their children to the vaccine even if they don't think it is the right choice right now so i'm asking for a choice in time i support those who are excited about the vaccine and i empathize with those who are nervous many parents are not saying never they're just saying not right now we deserve that after everything i just mentioned after all why would we rush it this is our children's long-term health in jeopardy over a disease that statistically poses little to no risk so i'm asking you today please survey the parents in your districts listen to the taxpayers
029upon doing so i truthfully believe that you will see the negative impact such a mandate will have on your enrollment and the very students that you are elected to represent and protect at least that way when the doh pushes this down from the governor you have the stats to show the impacts and to the parents listening who feel just like me now is the time to respectfully stand up and get loud it is time to voice your opinion wherever you may align even if you disagree with me your children's future depends on it so please i know it may be scary but if you have an opinion please let it be known because parents like me and the board members and the superintendent they all need to know how you feel so thank you very
030much everyone i appreciate you listening and thanks again combinations so it's christy shock speaking on accommodations first can you grab them christy and speak into it [Music] um [Music] um at their parents group so i come from a place of loving town water as i talk about this um thank you for that occasionally can i just i just found the chat this is amber amber so she can't hear okay so is this better if i go all the way is that better goes on zoom scott says thumbs up all right okay so i'd like to thank you for this opportunity it's nice to have a public forum um tonight i would like to talk about the accommodations and conditions that are planned for next week for tomorrow school district staff um i want you to
031know i completely understand that there is a mandate and that certain processes that have to be followed you know due to this mandate what i'm actually concerned about is the district decided condition and i have a copy of the district email i can board it you guys are i don't know here we have it but the district email that was sent out on october 7th to all staff not just fascinated or invested but not just needed stuff to the entire um district so they received an email outlining the conditions for the unvaccinated family members the list includes what must one of the conditions for unvaccinated staff is that they must wear a certain amount after the 18th specifically they can make effect glass this is a musk that at my school no one currently wears
032um [Music] um once again completely aware that they're in conditions and combinations for employment are necessary however making a person wear an item on their face that they have never worn before will tell everyone their status whether they're vaccinated which the district has stated is a confidential matter this strips these employees of all privacy absolutely no confidentiality offered for these staff members i'm really appalled that this district the blatantly disregard important numbers like privacy confidentiality and the protection of our employees right i cannot imagine this district asking those staff their hiv positive to wear a certain atlas or those that um are gay to have a certain or anything else you know so i i'm appalled that because of a personal choice you have to wear something on your face that distinguishes you from everyone
033else quite honestly it sounds like i'm repeating history um this just wouldn't happen with other situations so i asked myself why the situations are different and i'm having a hard time coming up with a solution because the science behind wearing it for that during the full hours just doesn't make sense too much maybe people get sick of it yes you unvaccinated yeah do unvaccinated people have symptoms do you vaccinate it yes do we do we all spread the virus yes so to me this felt like a punishment for a different belief rather than a needed accommodation i don't know how this even comes close to making that equity um equity programs that we have we have said that we have here in our district our constantly talks about equity i think it's time to act
034on the words that are spoken a belief that is different should not be published every staff member has the right to seek environment physically emotionally and mentally this condition instead promotes division and violates employees rights to privacy if i can speak from the heart right now i love hot water um i love the tradition i love the steadfastness of knowing that i can count on tongue water to stand for what is right what is best for students our community and our staff this is disappointing um i i want to be able to stand confidently on the equity issues that we've talked about and i don't really care what other schools are doing what other districts are doing i encourage you to take the positive right that even when we're afraid that we have the right
035to do what is just our staff deserves more from our district they deserve their respect they're amazing they do amazing things for our kids okay so helen what was last night [Music] so helen will get five minutes and everyone after helen speaking on the same talk we'll get three minutes okay i think i'm there can you hear me yes we can hear you helen great thank you um good evening so i am helen wheatley and i'm in introducing why there are people in the community including in olympia indivisible the salmon creek neighborhood association and others who are concerned about the impacts of panettone warehouse development in the new market area that bush middle school is part of and hopefully the board members have seen the maps that show the area that we're talking about which
036is very large panettone is an international scale warehouse developer it builds not just in the u.s but in europe and it's been very active up and down the i5 corridor so it has the financial capacity to take out an option over this whole area which is a whole new thing tom water has never really made large-scale warehouses a part of its planning process and neither did the port until a couple of years ago so before the warehouse boom attracted panettone to tumwater there was a major strategic effort to plan for the new market district back in 2018 that was conducted by the thurston regional planning council and you can still see the detailed plan on the trpc.org website it planned for it proposed four districts a very different character and one of those or two
037of those districts channeled commercial industrial development to a kind of a narrow rectangular strip along central street with a north-south forest buffer between that and the school but as you can see from the diagrams that were provided by the port now the port is proposing commercial industrial development over the whole area including next to the school with piecemeal project by project development instead of these planned districts and that really changes how the traffic will flow and mix and it changes the environmental design of the whole new market area with significant adverse impact to the school areas the bus barn too uh the western district that that would have been uh that where the school is was supposed to be strongly characterized as open space forest and recreational use with relatively little commercial industrial building the
038port's illustration of what panettone development looks looks like shows that the proposed urban forest buffers and the open space that was proposed will not be included so the school won't be buffered from industrial development about a year ago the public raised a lot of concerns about the panettone lease and large-scale warehouses these include traffic and safety of course for the school in the neighborhood air pollution loss of the trees loss of planned recreational and open space and no strategic plan for storm water management when flooding has been a big problem in the past so without a updated strategic plan the port really doesn't account for the neighborhood zoning for more density for future school capacity needs recreational capacity or bicycle connectivity so where we are now the public outcry forced the port in panatony to
039the table with tumwater the city to try to hammer out an interlocal agreement which is a kind of odd and unusual substitute for doing comprehensive planning it's basically a contract between the governments the only public presentations about this contract have been from the port tumwater city council members don't know what's being negotiated and based on the information that has come out we do know the port wants to grandfather in current zoning and regulations for the next 20 years when we know that climate change population growth new urban forestry plan and other big changes going on now will need to be dealt with sooner than 20 years from now so if the interlocal agreement doesn't get it right there's little chance to fix it later this is very concerning parents and residents should know what tom
040water is negotiating for especially in regard to the future of the school and the salmon creek neighborhood so i and a couple other speakers tonight want to take this opportunity to talk with you a bit more in depth about what our concerns are so you can consider whether the school district might have questions it needs answers to so thanks very much for taking time in the meeting to listen thank you thanks helen you are like right perfect on five minutes we're having some more fun tech issues so let's see if we can get back to the other computer got kicked off as a host so oh interesting enough i don't have host privileges either nope maybe i do all right water 33 there we are we can bring it back on and panelists okay [Music]
041all right patrick is coming up next you'll have three minutes all right patrick okay i uh can you hear me okay i'm trying to start my video but it doesn't seem like it's gonna go on so i don't know what's going on with that um i toggle start video but it doesn't um do anything so i guess you'll have to do it without oh there goes start my video maybe it'll come on now it says that yeah on our end it says your video is not working country okay well you'll have to do it without seeing me we'll just look at your name that's what we'll do okay uh good evening uh board members my name is patrick canratty and uh thanks for the opportunity to address you guys um i'm the president of the
042scatter the salmon creek basin neighborhood association it's a group that represents roughly 225 residences here south and south east of bush middle school and as a community we got serious concerns with the proposed panatoni warehouse development the impacts of the public health and safety for both our neighborhood and the school community um we've also expressed our concerns to the port and the time water city council in in recent weeks our we have several concerns one of course is the health concerns with the increase in noise and air pollution that's that's going to be it's bound to increase if we have warehouses there and and uh significant new uh trucks in the area so um the increase in traffic the congestion and the accessibility uh around the area and to the school kimmy road i don't
043know how how familiar you are with the roads hopefully you can you have a map so they'll show you but kimmy road 83rd avenue and center street are already busy with residential commuter traffic and these streets are the main access arterials for our neighborhood and the school for rot drop off and pick up we're concerned about future increased impacts on the traffic especially with the increase of large trucks and semis if kimmy road is closed to the north as it's proposed more traffic will even more traffic will be concentrated on the center street which is the only northern access to tumwater and i don't know about the bus barn but it's on kimmy street up there in the area that they're talking about closing off as well so it's been stated that the truck traffic
044will only enter an exit to the north of the development but i don't know how that could possibly be enforced or by who there's also proposed expansion by the international wood products on 83rd and center street that will butt up against the play field on bush middle school and it only seems logical that using the 83rd kimmy road route to access the truck stops and that and the and the off and on ramps at i-5 uh would be plausible so this would have a significant impact on on traffic and students accessing and leaving the school the other concern we have is environmental increased flooding potential 15 years ago or so our neighbors association with a letter to the city council referencing the the 200 acres of trees on kimmy street in our opposition to the
045removal because of flooding concerns in our neighborhood had over 100 neighbors signed the petition and and eventually city of tumwater passed an ordinance restricting large warehouse development [Music] thank you wolfsburg you also have three minutes you're gonna be promoted as a panelist and then all right there can you hear me now we can hear you good thank you um yes so uh my name is carla wolfsburg i've been a tumwater resident for the past 25 years many of those years as an employee for the city of tim water i'm a member of olympian divisible and member of the port action team i thank you for letting me speak to you tonight and for your public service to our tomwater schools so i am also among the extended group of concerned citizens in the community and
046those who you've been hearing from tonight we've been following the port's mega warehouse development with the panettone company for the past year we have many questions and concerns and we think it's important that you are aware of the issues that could potentially be harmful for the bush middle school for all the people associated with the school from this particularly large development so we recognize you have enormous responsibility as school board directors with over those 6 000 students and 800 employees in the districts and and we're sure that their health and safety are most certainly among your priorities so hopefully you've had a chance to uh look at the visuals we provided there are three maps and you've heard also a number of of our concerns including those about the truck traffic and i'd like to
047just expand a little bit more on the truck traffic that you uh heard uh patrick and helen talk about particularly the direction of the truck so what we've heard from the port is that the trucks are really going to be directed up to tumwater boulevard so tub water boulevard of now i mean has quite a lot of traffic so perhaps there are parents and teachers and others who use tomwater boulevard to get to the school but anyway um what they are planning is that those trucks are going to go to tumblr boulevard then west on i-5 but they also possibly will go south on center street and then they'll head to kimmy street and that'll go right past the school entrance and as you know the entrance to the school is a two-lane road so
048our concerns are whether these trucks are going to be potentially potentially a great danger for all those cars or buses that are entering or leaving the school parking lot and i think about the parents who drive their children to and from school so and of course there's also the issue of diesel exhaust and you'll hear a little bit more of that later so the tomwater city council will eventually enter into a contractual agreement with the port of olympia and if you also have concerns about this huge warehouse development project we urge you to request that the city of tumwater hold a well-advertised public hearing as soon as possible so that we can all get answers to our questions before this development takes place and the questions we all raise and the priorities we all identify
049that for three minutes okay thank you for letting me speak to you thank you please email us with any other comments that you weren't able to louisa oh lisa lisa sells out you will have three minutes to talk on this topic we're promoting you now all right you're there can you unmute yourself lisa yes can you hear me now we can hear you very good thank you good evening my name is lisa cezanne i live in unincorporated thurston county but i'm a tom water property owner and my daughter and granddaughter live in tumwater i'm a member of olympia indivisible and a support action team i also am active with the thurston climate action team as a board member and a member of the tree action group with my colleagues i have advocated with tom water
050city council members and staff for the improvement of tree protection ordinances which have been implemented in the new urban forestry plan and for the thurston climate mitigation plan adopted by tumwater and the other jurisdictions this year which includes tree preservation as one way to lower the amount of carbon our county emits my concern about the port of olympia's proposed warehouse development is the amount of trees that will be cut down and the impact on the health of the tum water community i like to refer to trees as the essential workers of our natural environment they draw down carbon which helps mitigate climate change effect they filter air pollution and water pollution including in storm water they cool the air and buildings during the hot summer months and they buffer noise the loss of hundreds of
051trees and the increased diesel truck traffic that will result from this development will contribute to increased air pollution which could lead to a higher rate of respiratory disorders it is a proven fact that communities with fewer trees have higher rates of asthma for example tom water already rates seven on a scale of one to ten ten being the worst in diesel pollution burden on the washington environmental health disparities map the use of this map is now legally required of all state agencies in their decision making processes in addition without the filtration function of the trees there is concern for flooding and how the city's drinking water will be protected in this area which has a high water table as the grandmother of a kindergartner at tumwater hill elementary a terrific school and so impressed with
052it i have serious concerns for her health and well-being and that of all children in tumwater we must do all we can to protect the natural environment we live in to ensure a safe and healthy future for all of them i urge the school board to request a hearing with the city council to review the impact of this proposed project on the immediate neighborhood including bush middle school as well as the city as a whole thank you for your time all right thanks for all of our public commenters now we'll move on oh one more speaker all right [Music] heather sheehan you're being promoted to panelists so you can speak for five minutes on your topic we can see you but you haven't unmuted yourself yet there we go how's that okay great um hi
053you guys i just want to thank you all for your time tonight i know that um we're all very busy and please forgive me in advance if i stumble my audience is usually second graders um so they're used to my my shenanigans so um here we go i'm heather sheehan and i'm one of the second grade teachers at michael t simmons elementary i have been a teacher here in the tomwater school district for nine years and i'm also a member of the tumwater community um to say that i have been disappointed by recent administrative decisions is an understatement and here's why in the important and necessary equity work that we've been doing in the district there has been much conversation around impact versus intent and as a staff member i'm asked to take these two
054things into consideration when decision making and teaching in my classroom to look through the lens and see the impact beyond my intent no matter how positive it may be in this case i wish the district would for lack of a better word practice what they preach the mismanagement of the situations in the district have directly impacted my colleagues and the children that we serve and while the intention to save money is understandable in the budget situation that we're in the impact of what has been done and what was considered was beyond what anyone took the time to think through when making the decision i'm frustrated that the mismanagement of the funds by the district has impacted children and colleagues while i'm unable to name a single impact that the district building you're standing in has
055felt while we've been feeling it since day one of the 2021 school year i watched a colleague a dear friend and one of the hardest working people in the tum water school district for everything that she has and everything that she is into a position that isn't guaranteed to be hers this year simply because she understands what's at the heart of our business which is kids all while the district has hemmed and hawed over whether or not they would hire that position that our building so desperately needs we have historically been a three or four track elementary school and there was no legitimate reason for dragging the hiring process out for so long it has been especially difficult when other hiring was taking place throughout the district i think you guys were looking at the
056um the personnel report earlier so while all of that has taken place some of it justified as you guys discussed some of it i'm not sure that i understand the justifications it's my understanding that we recently hired a custodial position that had been sitting open for the last six or so months um all while that position went unfilled and it seemed as though things may have been running smoothly in the custodial world while that position was unfilled but we hired it anyways and we haven't been hiring teachers that's a move that i'm baffled by i've also watched our resource room at michael t simmons struggle as they've been down a para in our special education groups have had to get cancelled and it isn't due to the lack of effort from our teacher team i'm
057frustrated that from the outside it appears as though the departments continue to grow within the district building while our school building staff has continued to shrink if there's a list out there that can explain the budget crisis and the way that it's negatively impacted the district then i would love to see it because i could continue on with a laundry list of the way that it has impacted my colleagues and myself in our school buildings this year my hope is that someday our district looks at the impact of their decisions through a more far-sighted lens and takes the time to think through the long-standing impact of the decisions that they make instead of making rash decisions that are best in a moment that look the best on paper and that don't directly impact those that
058are making them but impact those of us that are in your school buildings doing this important work day in and day out i hope that moving forward we can make decisions that are equitable in their impact i hope that we can remember that we're in the business of people and the heart of our business are the kids that we serve in our school buildings i hope that we can work on impacting our kids last and as a last resort in setting instead of having them first on the list um that's what i have to say thank you for your time i appreciate you all for listening and i appreciate the important work that you continue to do for our students and our community thank you heather all right now that that was our last speaker
059okay um so now we will move on to reports to the board we'll adjust the agenda you'll still get 15 minutes right i won't limit you to all five um [Music] second one this one okay very good and i'm to try and share it into the into the zoom so people online can see it as well um so what you have in front of you is a table match um and um and some of the things that we're moving towards um these two things don't always play well together uh let's see there now try it um so this is what drives the work for us in fact what you'll see is enrolled in the first year after graduation are you trying to butter me up foreign and when we took a look at them 33
060of our kids basically [Music] for us to see the other piece below that is uh we look at an eight-year cohort uh and you'll see that thirty-five percent of our kids know the bachelor's degree um not necessarily what we consider the highways undermine the field uh i have to get to myself that's it um but also uh associate degree certificates 14 but the one who's acquiring our community is 51 it's our mission and purpose in our life and work with each other today just to shift that narrative from right to the left in other words what we want to do is increase the opportunities for kids no matter what they want what they want um what you'll see up there on the quick side but on the left side you see interesting goals and skills
061but that pertains to our career plan which starts in sixth grade we have an electronic platform called nannies and uh that is held in student interest and then drives that in a returning format over the course of the students transitions from middle school to high school and then into year 13. um the career pathway is something that we work diligently on you might say uh in fact you'll see maybe one or two pathways come up as an example but then coupled with the uh high school diploma and just to share with you we have 24 credits and there's not a lot of flexibility in the high school with a system that gives only 24 credits and uh so we've done is we've increased the number of equivalencies and that's significant when you understand about equivalency
062because in essence it's two for one you can check on two graduation requirements even though you still receive one credit and um there's more details of that but then the options for kids you know i crossed out college because there's a lot of options for kids you know i started off in the community actually i started off in the automotive industry then i went into um so the growth in the program for the career education if you take a look at 2017-2018 we really started getting things rolling and what we see is student enrollment and then below that would be the number of we have staff members in our 6-12 system um that are touching some type of career education really what it's about is putting into our clients and um and so a lot
063of the jobs that are out there right now in fact yesterday i was looking at the bureau of labor stats um the top 10 between 2016 and 2026. five of those are in the health sciences field and i'm happy to take the both sides of the freeway as we turned it um the mills um so bush middle school you see the growth that's going across and some of the bumps along the way uh so in your package there's a clean copy um you know what you see up here but uh what it is on the left side are programming programmers and current technical information you'll see the classes that we have between black hills and tomorrow high school uh in the column next to that um those also are our graduation levels of level one
064and level two so students can graduate with a cte if they on the right side i leave and um we'll get their algebra credit um there are a list of them there what you see for dc is new credit those are the current articulations that we have with community college is a target area for us this year uh it's a little difficult because of the code but that's not necessarily the excuse that we want to make we just need to reach out to other folk systems or what we call the pc3 which is the pierce county region uh last time i you know i was running a five-year plan it was asked about data [Music] our focus area is we'll be in developing business partnerships work with our kids in a variety of work-based learning
065capacities this is an example of a three-year plan i'm relying on this this is one piece of idea that all of our staff do that rely on this to take a look at and influence what happens with the five year plan um and this one happens again afnr which is um black hills and tumor high school partnered together to develop this plan in terms of direction where they wanted to go in their priorities um if we go back to let me go back to you and your um placemat that you've got in front of you and the placement is in front of you that is the five-year plan an attachment now what you'll also see um is are the descriptors for the criteria that are used to develop that it's pretty extensive uh we take
066a lot of pride in that work because it does drive what we do um i will tell you that things change there is a work in progress choice dynamic um but those are our target areas that i've highlighted based upon for your plants and also what we do in the student learning and those criteria i have just heard about in um this is our another goal for us when we were talking about student pathways this is one of black people's heights high school we decided this is an example of one that's in business management administration with a uh uh mosque where powerpoint computer science fields and business matter financial literacy and then they would select one of the following forces on the right side program recognition in the area of business management administration an example
067in some water high school i put construction up there four plus construction 180 has the partnership with plumbing aerospace uh excuse me the building industry and then aerospace manufacturing which is partnership performing and then uh between uh we're always soliciting for uh advisory members specifically in the middle level we want to build a very vibrant advisory panel that influence our teachers and industries uh materials but also help impact what students have going on so my card is in there um uh this is a piece of communication um [Music] all right if people have questions i'm going to tell you something with questions that we can take turns asking questions i think where we kind of get off track when one person takes all the questions so let's take friends asking our questions and then we'll
068just keep going until we run out of time right dirty 31 i would love to okay i actually have several stuff let's do that good idea um i'll say my first one is have you um engaged involved in career connect washington career launch has been a discussion for the tumwater programs and how to articulate um along with that effort yeah can we work with uh 113 and esp-113 and then also washington in terms of uh running what we felt career launched and then we also partnered with i want to visit that community uh committee with the bristol county chamber plus the water chamber so um thurston county actually runs a business ahead and they run the career launch program with um a variety of partnerships that we work with find your future and uh of
069course you're um more comment last question um first of all thank you for being here brian and thank you for that wonderful presentation you can never hear me i'm sorry um thank you i'll repeat it thank you brian for this wonderful presentation for being here it's clear that a lot of work has gone into it and i appreciate the immense amount of detail and care that it took to put this together um i i'm going through the highlighted portions here that's what my eye always goes to the highlight portion of my college state but um i'm reading for the top here with some review some grouping courses academic success certifications i think is that complete truth what is that word okay thank you yes i'm sorry i didn't know what that meant thank you um
070and then towards the end of the presentation you talked about how um this was this was meant so much to you what parameters of the board can we do to help achieve those questions uh [Music] more so than what we have done but they're really a foundation as students transition into grade nine um where to start with the launch your future i didn't talk about this but we're gonna start to launch your future program in the middle school where students get that idea [Music] do you have a question i don't uh brian and i have talked about this before so he knows how much i appreciate his work what he's doing for our district okay that we're out of time can you get other questions [Music] thank you all right now we're on to action
071items [Music] so we're on to the sean show um the second reading for policy 2108 2255 32-25 if you want to describe all of them before we or do you want to take them one by one just a short summary we'll go one by one and the opportunity to create career pathways for our students is unmatched to the level of commitment you see from him on a daily basis so our kids are in a much better place every day because of the work he does help prepare them for life after high school so i just wanted to have you there that's a good transition into policy 2108 because learning assistant program is all about creating more opportunities for students so if you remember the learning assistance program was pretty limited before this particular policy update
072has been expanded to include opportunities to pay attention to academic non-academic and social emotional support so it has been broadened so that we can spend time focusing on the things that kids need in any of those areas so remember one of your pillars and focus areas is around multi-tiered systems of support and those multi-tiered systems of support happen between academic behavioral and social emotional learning and so this now gives us a lot of flexibility to be able to utilize lab dollars to support anyone anywhere all of these are questions about learning assistance program don't see any questions all right 2255 then is alternative learning experience courses and we really just wanted to make sure we had a clear opportunity to update because with the addition of the tom water virtual academy as an ale online
073program we wanted to make sure we had the chance to identify that as such and also identify cascadia high school and new market high school as alternative experience choices in our district to include what are those contacts are so all of this has really been a part of ale policy before and by that i mean we're always required to give you a full report and so we started doing that work with pva last year if you recall we would continue to come back at some point throughout the remainder of the year to give you updates on each of our ald programs and then of course there are some assessment requirements and some other things that are part of that policy that we consistently do on a regular basis so i think really just for you
074to know what are the ale programs are different for you to be aware of those so that we can report on our progress questions there [Music] and then the last 32-25 is school-based threat assessment and we did get a public comment back on this one so i want to talk about that a little bit remember we've always been doing i've been doing school-based threat assessment for many many years but in light of kind of coming off of food and they need to really recognize where student assessment might be this is our opportunity when kids demonstrate aggressive behaviors for us to take action on looking forward to see what we might be able to do to help support them so sometimes people always ask me well you know what kind of behaviors are we looking for
075so it may be the case where somebody reports that somebody may be in possession of 11 that somebody's going to threaten to do harm to somebody else once we get those triggers we then start initiating what's called a threat assessment step by step progress process excuse me to see what kind of response we want to have for that student in tumwater we have a trained name from each of our sites that engages in that work when these threats come forward now the public comment said we should be super aware of the fact that this doesn't this doesn't become generalized or stereotyped and by that i mean they want to make sure in this public comment that we have a system in place so that this isn't going after certain population of students in our community
076but in fact this is in response to real behaviors that we see happening in our system they also said how do we engage in the training that's going to support our teams to be able to be in a place to identify students openly and with precision when it comes to making sure that this isn't based on color or disproportionality or anything else but it's rather based on the fact that it's behavior generated so sean and i talked a little bit about this not only is our training for say cultural competency diversity equity inclusion can be important for this work but it's also going to be important to continue to provide ongoing training so we recognize those areas where we're not going into a space of marginalization or generalization or stereotyping but we're thoughtful about how
077we're engaging with all of our students in addition to that this said what kind of data would we be looking at in order to see whether or not we are not in places of generalization do you remember our policy where we have our sros and we created that data gathering sheet on that sheet every time an sro has a contact with a student we record what happens so we're very thoughtful about what is the incident you responded to how did it get resolved can we keep it data sheet by opponent that kind of shows who are the students that are impacted by those decisions i told sean i think it would be an important opportunity for us with our equity advisory committee to do this same set of data with them so for example we
078have the ability for every threat assessment that's connected to look at the student who is impacted by that threat assessment to see if we see patterns are either stereotyped or generalized data sets it would be important for us to address so if we started to see disproportionate data we could address that as it goes so the recommendation here is to move forward with the threat assessment but bring this to our equity advisory committee with the idea that they look at really distinguishing where you want to enter the conversation about what data collection would look like recording out and if there's a need based on the review of that data to update this policy that would be a good place to move forward but it is highly recommended that you have threat assessment policy that helps
079guide our work around how to help with students that are demonstrating behaviors with the immediate action questions on assessment policy i'm good thank you lori um quickly could you repeat again and football i guess first define sro for people who don't know student resource officer so student resource officers and campus supervisors absolutely um could you repeat the part towards the end where you discuss bringing um your findings to the committee yes one more time yeah it's recommended that you create a data sheet for lack of a better word that kind of codes who was which students were undergoing the threat assessment and then keep track of the demographic data for them so lori with our sros we ask for gender we ask for race ethnicity we ask for disability status we ask for categories that
080are defined by that policy this would be one where i would say it would be nice to mirror that same process so that for every kid that underwent a threat assessment we would capture that same demographic data and the equity advisory committee on the regular basis could review that data by category certainly you'd want to protect the student but by category you can't say oh is there any gender disproportionality is there any race ethnicity that would make sure that you weren't keeping up with the policy and it doesn't become something that's creating disproportionality in our system so you want to create a you know that just keep track of that data and make sure that it's not when i looked at students that had threat assessments could we also have been collecting these there isn't
081just proportionality at least from a race ethnicity side meaning that we have you know say there's 15 of the given category in ours you should roughly see that same percentage highlighted in your data we don't see disproportionality meaning like there's not a 45 50 or 55 of the students in that category it seems to match closely kind of where it is in situations where we are talking about aggressive behaviors that data definitely shows more of a white male orientation than any other group or category that's identified for students that are undergoing processes so we want to pay attention to that data and see what is it about those categories that we might want to take a look does that help a little bit yeah thank you scott do you have a question [Music] anyone else
082have questions laura do you have any more questions no thank you and like you know the door's always open [Music] i like the suggestion of having the equity advisory committee is that going to be part of the procedure or is it it's not enough not necessarily the policy right no procedure and it can be a practice it can be a part of the procedure i think the important part is is that we don't lose sight of the fact that we're going to be reviewing data on a regular basis and just want to bring this back and pay attention to it so i think if there's a practice you have that your equity advisory committee and we have that is an agenda item then we won't miss a chance to implement that in practice and i
083think some of you might be on that so you will know you will know whether that practice is being employed i think that's a brilliant brilliant solution thank you all right so shall we take action on these three policies so it's to approve now approve the policies i'll make a motion to approve policy policy 2255 and policy 3225 as president a second all those in favor aye aye aye all right motion passes thank you now we're on to resolution zero three twenty one twenty two the 21 22 capital facilities plan does anyone have any um this is the last this is the last chance to try to stop no more anyone the resolution approves the plan that we just had public hearing i don't know what they're doing here is there a motion to pass
084this resolution i move that we passed resolution 03 21 22 2021 to 2027 capital silva's plan all those in favor say right nice aye mr hurry okay so now we're almost back on track look at that okay so now we have we have 30 [Music] did [Music] okay so we are now into the time in which we're going to have our board discussion regarding the physician votes as the delegate has the general assembly so just super quick uh review um this big stack of paper sort of is the actual handbook for the general assembly so i have translated all of this information into a google spreadsheet to collect a very brief input from folks regarding if uh if you essentially concurred with what exists in the handbook by way of the input coming from the
085committee uh the resolutions committee or the legislative committee regarding you pass or do not pass um so what i have done as an approach is essentially to follow along with that unless there are questions um so i sent that out to everyone for input uh i've received some input as far as i could tell on the spreadsheet i was the only one who had questions so that's what we're going to go over tonight are the couple of positions in which i posed some questions so to focus our work i have provided a paper copy of each of the positions in question you should have [Music] page numbers okay so this is the first step and then once we get to this part i'll talk a little bit about how we will then approach prioritizing the
086physicians which has to happen kind of quickly at the conclusion of the assembly because that will also include any new position all right so here is my list this comes from the spreadsheet um the first one that i had a question about is number five a public option for online education that's page 31 yep page 31. the positions that i chose at least to focus in on and make sure that we had a chance to discuss them are primarily the new ones um because existing physicians a lot of these had minor language changes or they had consolidation um so this is one in which you know once again that kind of just a reminder that what this leads to is mazda will take all this information and build the other platform for the upcoming session
087and so these positions spell out what was a should she'll initiate as far as either developing the legislation or supporting legislation so this one is focused on quote learning as a valid modality basic special education alongside full-time in-person learning legislation should allow districts to offer remote instruction either a district or part of a cooperative other districts permit students to choose a value or combination of families without loss of opportunity and state funding should support all approved modalities at the fte levels defined for in-person learning including any originalization or other applicable local adjustments the part i was curious to hear what everyone thought about was the state funding should support all approved modalities at the fte levels defined for in-person learning i don't know as much about online education in k-12 familiar with it's not it
088wasn't called promote learning into colleges we've had online courses you know for years and years um there is at least at the college level there's differential e levels um depending on not only just depending on modality but also depending on if it's a if it's a course that requires extra support so there's a higher fte load that's there if you have one and a half instructor or small for example um and our career and technical education carries a higher energy level so what are what are those thoughts about this one okay i think what you're asking is right now in our classrooms we have like uh we have requirements uh what class size is and that perhaps an online environment would could support a larger class size is that what you're asking right the the
089concept of ftu levels as being exactly the same for in-person learning online is there some sort of scale that happens when you have online courses because that can be um well clearly that will have an impact on funding i have a comment i guess i um i don't know what to give them as far as feedback because this does seem we're getting down into how things should be funded or we're talking ratios on a board level and that's not something we would normally do so um i would like to see them talk to more of people in charge of curriculum or teachers versus the board i would uh i have lukewarm support for this just because of the wording mostly there's nothing really solid in here so that concerns me a little bit kicked around
090on the wording the action will be hard for this so those are my concerns no it's not might be able to just a factual clarification that helps you know last year because of the emergency they did allow remote learning to be um used in school districts and claimed as like basic education funding in our basic education program you could use remote learning and so like our tva program was a basic education program last year that's not normal in a normal year if you want to have kids in remote learning say in the tva program they have to be they have to fall under alternative learning experience program which isn't bad necessarily but it's a very different system of rules and so i believe this is saying you know after this pandemic kind of what we've
091learned is there was benefit to those being able to be a basic education program rather than needing to fall under alternative learning for example you could have students at tumwater high school involved in a in an online program and in classrooms and not having to be partially in an aoe world and partially in a basic ed environment so it's just kind of changed our world a little bit going through this and what i think that you'll see is a debate over should online programs continue to be only in the alternative learning experience world or should they become a part of basic education and be treated like any other class and so i think what you're seeing here is an argument that wants to should advocate for programs that make that part of the regular education
092experience rather than keeping it over in the alternative any other thoughts scott any thoughts on this one to be honest it's it's taking every ounce of my concentration to hear what you're saying i don't think it's the mics i don't think it's your projection it's the computer's quality to pick up the sound but everything i've heard so far i i'm comfortable with i do like that argument of does it belong in ale or does it belong in regular ed um and right now i'm undecided so this one did have you know again the do fast recommendation from the legislative committee so [Music] okay okay so speaking of uh curriculum casey mentioned um so the next one is number six curriculum protection and the new position statement is very brief and just as wazo shall oppose
093legislation aimed at coursing or directing school districts into providing an incomplete misleading sanitized or inequitable presentation of verifiable facts your mandated curriculum and or curricular resources for sanctions i'm not going to read the rationale so my notes on this one is this is really vague and of course we wouldn't do that and so it's so obvious there's no point in saying it so it suggests that there's something underneath the surface behind this one um so i i was i was confused about the spirit and the intent behind this one so before agreeing to support it curious what everyone else thought darby can you help get me caught up you i you said number six [Music] of the document you shared with me through email yes yes number six curriculum protection feedback i have some feedback
094this just reeks of political divisiveness i don't like the rationale being you buying a book of two plus two equals five there's something worth it in here i don't know what it is but like i said it just reads so this is meant to be divisive in some way and it's way too political so i might just do not pass i see it or you're you know i enjoy large vocabulary myself but all of these words i think is meant to throw people off you know on the scent so no i'm just tired of things being politically divisive so scott did you were you able to find it uh no um okay so i have the handbook open and i went to page six page 32 all right now scrolling down i apologize how are
095you i should have just come in and sat on the floor it would have alleviated [Music] 32. if you can't okay i'm there okay thank you i [Music] blunt this seems obvious but this is my world that why would i ever want to adopt substandard curriculum and i but i also know not every board has someone on there that does curriculum adoption on a regular basis um but i would hope all boards would reach out to someone who does have familiarity with curriculum adoption so they could take them through this process so i'm not sure why why is this here all right we're just going to say maybe we can say legislation aimed at coercing or directing school districts um into whatever you know that they mandate us to approve you know particular curriculum anything
096that that would be left up to us yeah so um i mean process questions [Music] are four amendments allowed through the process no they're not i just thank you for everybody so yeah so this is i still don't get it i don't know why this has to be why this is new it comes about today we it just by society before this doesn't have any value and somebody's pet project and we can ask questions i mean that's the purpose of the discussion so i mean i'll certainly ask questions i'd be shocked if somebody else doesn't get through it though um but uh we'll yeah we'll your feedback is incorporated on this one okay um page 36 mr killer that's number 10 and it's not page 10 page 37 10 linking graduation requirements for career pathways
097we just talked actually um so the reason i wanted to flag this one is because in my recollection of previous board discussions around looking at the total credits required for graduation i don't think we've ever had like a philosophical discussion about what is um being proposed here which is if mazda shall initiate amber support legislation that reduces total credits required for graduation 220 expands career technical education opportunities allows for course equivalencies for personalized pathways and awards on high school diploma based on successful attainment state management so we heard earlier about you know some of these uh some of this work in terms of partial equivalencies to focus on the pathway what i'm really keying in on is i know this is heavily charged in some other areas so before we vote to support wazda supporting
098graduation because they this what does the board think about supporting reducing from the 24 which is all years old right right i know because it affected my child and capitalism was the year that they did it and it became eligible that year they graduated so i have a question did want to support the going to 24 a few years ago i don't know i i don't know if they took a position on that one i can't imagine they didn't avoid a position i was wondering if they were in support of when it expanded to 24 uh yeah or if maybe they didn't take a position then and now they're wanting to you know impact versus intent they're wanting to reduce it back to 20. oh so it does say this position is positive support for
099the state board of education discussions around working for our traditional [Music] ability i did like the 24 inch it was stringent and kept people on track of course you know you couldn't miss a credit you did you had to work really hard to get that back so here's another interesting part so down in the rationale it states that the added language clarifies wasda's support for state board of education discussions around reducing grad credit requirements from 24 to 20. so my question goes to did the state board move to go up to 24. [Music] thank you for saying flip-flopper before me [Music] which four credits are no longer required is it the science this is the pe that was in the details i don't want to be in front of those conversations but that's where the
100fights will happen because yet the credit might be a policy a happy circumstance has been this course equivalencies that has been company where they can take the physics of flight and have a capital lab science but if it stays at 20. i don't know that we would have worked so hard to find course equivalencies and that's what i mentioned i like the 2014 you need to look for creative opportunities yeah mixed space there you go all right moving on to more [Music] next your page 47 uh number 19 so we have about five more minutes for this okay um this one actually this one i'm gonna given that because it was just a very small question about how to operationalize what are the factors um that's not super critical um the last one is though
101so i think it's important that we talk about that one so the last one that i have questions about is on page 90 i think so scott the document that i sent you is the revised general assembly handbook this was one of the positions that i had questions about in the original original it was on page 90 and it's one of the only ones and then they came through and it did during the amendment window and it was actually directly after [Music] so there's a uh so in the documents that you all have there's a copy of the original and there's a copy of the amendment so what i'll be voting on and essentially the question about this and what the amendment is how did you find it okay great uh what the amendment does
102is on the original sorry i don't know both of them should be in there actually um okay so the original if you go down to so this is about um legislation that promotes intentional strategies to prepare recruitment i believe it's blue four four yeah simplify the qualifications necessary to serve on school board rather than eligible candidate for and eliminate the citizenship requirement to allow permanent legal presidents to serve so the amendment um pulls back out that some specific bullet points around the whole pulling point around simplifying the qualifications necessary and um there's also one other bullet point in the original that said specifically to remove the requirement of being a citizen and so the language and the amendment gives some rationale as to why that bullet point should be removed and uh my position is
103to support the amendment my thoughts are to support the amendment does anyone have any questions or concerns about that this whole position concerns me it's not the intent of what they're trying to do is uh i would just like them to work on education funding model drop all the adjectives before that and spend half the time is writing a new policy and the money model can reflect that so i don't support this just because it's not we're not limiting anything quite open um number 57 yeah and i realize that's not positive feedback as well either but i don't want to stream from here [Music] any other thoughts i support the amendment because that was my first question about whether they could actually vote in the first place they can't so that does seem strange melissa
104i thought the exact same thing [Music] yeah i found that odd anything else that you need to talk to not at this time so at the conclusion of the assembly i will take any new positions that pass and put them into the last page on the spreadsheet and then we will use that list um to work through our top 15 um priorities so i will send down another email just over my instructions so if anyone so what i went through and then it's going to be a quick turnaround to give her the prioritized list i went through the google doc and just x you know just marked the ones that were priorities to me there were more than 15 and now i go back later and prioritize [Music] um so everyone has um priorities when
105they go to the legislative session our organization is called this is the washington state school director's association there's a what the i can never remember what was that stands for but there's a superintendent's association that our wpa has an association they go through the same similar process where they all have positions and their membership votes on those positions and then prioritizes them and that's what the lobbyists for those organizations use to go talk to the legislature about what's important to that organization and it's a beautiful thing to watch i know it's a beautiful thing for wme also in terms of the process of how we get to these prioritized lists and all and the only way that our school directors association knows what 1477 board members are thinking about is to go to our positions
106and if it's not talked about in our positions then they don't know how the organization thinks about it so some of this stuff there's a lot of words but it gives staff an opportunity to understand how we might look at a topic because nothing is exactly like it's written here and so um it just it gives the lobbyists for us more information about how we think and they don't have to come and ask us every single time something new comes up so that's what we've just done and daugherty has been derpy has been sharing her process and oh she just engaged the board and getting her feedback she's been doing a road show um sharing this process with other school districts because i can tell you that many school districts do not take the time
107to do this they just say let's rep just go and figure it out and um so i want to thank you darby um for for coming up with this process to engage engage us into this conversation [Music] casey taylor do you have an update this is the deadline yeah this is the w-i-a update i'll make it really quick uh so yeah false words are proceeding along there are some witches in the and these type of things however none of our programs have been shut down um pretty much every other district or a lot of industries can't say today they're all they've kind of lost the program here and there so that's their [Music] that's voted percent donated there are no district funds it's all donated time money material should we request spot hello like take
108some take some hits there since he was former baseball coach that would be fun right i'm sure he'll find it what am i doing i i think you should be one of the first people to use the bird cage the batting pages out there board member and former baseball coach i'd love to okay okay we'll tell tim and don let's see uh other sports that are going on uh with uh being creative with schedules sometimes that creates extended travel or overnight trips um some of those are happening but they have been previously planned and again there's not district money happening for these overnight trips this is where you're finding the money these type of things that they've been fundraising for all year uh to go out of state and play the tournaments uh these type
109of things so uh the district does cover transportation the basic events but again there are gonna be some sports that will um travel a little bit um let's see my next one was to talk about transportation of course um so transportation an issue with the district and the athletic directors are having to juggle that as well too they're using creative scheduling um meeting up kids early [Music] extending the times moving times up moving times back for event times they basically have a uh a no no bus that's gonna run for sports before 4 p.m a lot of things to get those kids home right so um so we've done a couple things to do that again they moved from the schedule around uh each high school has two bands now that can be used so
110a lot if not most or all this works minus football um can be done pretty much um we're also being a little more flexible in some of our transportation um allowing some parent transportation here and there uh we are not going to allow student transfer sell student transportation at this time it is an option considered but that brings on a whole other set of risks that may not be worth um that's it in a nutshell i will give us a small note here that lots i'm not gonna say lots but what uh the the sports are being very budget sensitive attentive to their budget needs those sports are kind of that's kind of planned out throughout the year coaches are already higher those things are in motion but they are being sensitive to their budgets
111um and we're gonna probably come up with a travel uh radius you have to keep it within 50 miles we're going to ask if they do that except for the things that kind of already been scheduled um so that'll help there we're also looking at other ways to cut costs directly in sports in the true so um at the end at all there'll be there's definitely some more action to be looked at but right now this is what i have to report next time we'll touch on any of those changes if we do those any questions questions for casey all right thank you sir okay superintendent's report you have 15 minutes yes and so i'm going to bring this up quickly so we're going to try and split this time about in half and i'm
112going to have sean come going to talk a little bit about this we want to discuss a little the work happening aligned with uh the strategic colors that we've identified and so scott so you can see it i want to share that screen and have it on there if i do this right somehow we'll actually be able to click it all right i think we got it so um you have a clicker over there and you're so yeah i'll just i'll go ahead and click through so remember we have identified these as our strategic priorities and um i want to talk to you briefly about our educational equity work now we've very briefly we have started our cultural confidence diversity equity and inclusion training at tumwater u with jeremiah connolly spending time with our staff
113in the afternoon monday afternoon some of you have the chance to see that our next date it will be on november 19th originally we hope to be able to start that in october but it's been an extraordinarily challenging start to the year in giving people a little bit more time to get their feet and really focus with their teams on how do they provide the support that our students need we believe is an equity move and pushing giving a little bit more time to get there we'll make sure that our staff is feeling ready to engage in this work when we come together on the 19th we have an equity leadership country a group of teachers who and administrators are working together to develop lesson plans and prepare the facilitators to leave that in each
114of our buildings with a consistent message across all our schools consistent uh curriculum in each of our schools and that is using those are trainings based upon modules that esd 113 has had built by jamaica's team that potential unlimited and the speak of the school curriculum but rather than just having people go through that training online we believe it's more what we have heard from jeremiah and what we believe makes it more engaging is giving people the chance to do that a more interactive way in discussion with facilitator on site rather than sitting at your computer and just interacting with computer screen so i really believe there needs to be discussion and interaction we also have our next equity advisory committee meeting coming up on october 20th and we have 42 people who have applied
115thus far to participate in that this year and we continue to receive those applications on a daily basis right now so i'm really looking forward to having a solid strong group of participants to help us with that work now i'll have sean pass it over to shawn to share a little about our plc plus work fantastic three focus areas for the district equity being one of course multi-tiered systems of support which we'll talk about after this one and then the third tier we look at is professional learning communities and the idea behind how can we re-engage in staff collaboration and within a framework that will help us get to student learning and achievement goals so as you know in total water school district professional learning communities is not a new idea in fact in tumwater
116it's called academic collaboration time however we really thought after doing some listening and hearing some of the feedback we had when we were first listening is the structure and framework for the support around professional learning communities is very much important so what i thought i would do is just kind of give you a sense of what academic collaboration type looks like and starting with the focus because we're using clearway's plc plus framework to help engage in that work so sean's going to pull up a link to a document we have that includes our act friday time and the kinds of things we're doing in act friday just to make sure that you have a chance to work as well if i can get to that here it is and if you can't get to that
117there we go there we are i think i can oh no update your browser to see these things um it is not wanting to cooperate with a sean on this one what i can do is make sure so where we started with plc plus and our plc work in the district including engaging and creating your own team norms and working agreements and recording the progress each team is making on a working agenda so we think that there's a real opportunity in any kind of learning recovery to reinvest in professional learning communities because of some folks here there is no better way to support recovery than have teams of teachers working together to make that happen and so we just wanted to revisit the professional learning community framework to include an opportunity for that engagement habit
118now you'll see in the calendar that i send you one of the things that became clear to us early on is that there was a lot of competing actions that were needed to help support a good start to the school year so very early on administrators reached out after teachers really said hey you know we have this plan to get through the modules pretty quickly in this work i'm wondering if we might take an opportunity to do at both end which is do some of the work in the plc plus but also give some of our building basic needs and so building basic needs can range from how do we deal with using quarantine to how can we support school-wide discipline plans and everything else in between so i will send you the link to
119that but i do want you to know that that work around professional learning communities starts with building a strong foundation and then we'll continue to update you on our progress and then wow right sean doesn't probably have that link there i will get that to you as well the idea here is we have a leadership team that is working towards identifying multi-tier systems of support and the process is to support it so andrew kelly fat stone is leading the work around this as our cell mtss coordinator but we have formed a team of administrators and teacher leaders that is beginning to take a look at the district-wide systems and how we can create systems of support for rti pbis and sel we are thinking of starting in the pbis realm which is positive behavior interventions
120and supports just because of the significant need we see for helping to support student behaviors in our schools so remember all three of those rti response intervention academic pbis positive behavior interventions and supports and cell self thinking right lots of acronyms but social emotional learning and supports are all embedded within these multi-tiered systems support and what we have not always done well is create systems right that are comprehensive across the district so this training we're involved in as part of a grant through ospi and this team is taking a look at how to implement mtss as a district-wide system so we'll keep you posted on the progress that's happening there but we didn't want to miss a chance to talk about equity mtss and plc plus because those are the three focus areas for the
121distribution yes absolutely thank you and then moving on to the fiscal pillar at our last meeting we said we would come back and share a little bit of information about and the fiscal history that led us to where we sit now uh in terms of our finances and our fund balance and i want to just briefly take you through that i appreciate having alan jones here because alan reminded me just at the beginning as we go back to that january 2019 the first date on this timeline um you see there that is uh in in the when the board decided to reduce the minimum fund balance from five to four percent that was uh after um making a substantial investment in contracts that year and uh and recognizing i think at that time that they
122were we were financially extended in a way that was likely to lead to a fund-balance drop and they keep us they kept us from meeting a five percent minimum fund balance in their productions so then excuse me so then in the spring of 2019 and this is before i arrived uh but it it's helpful to kind of hear from those who are there i've been hired in that spring and was starting to learn about what was going on in the district at that time the district was considering staff cuts a series of them there were some cuts made but then they were considering much more expensive cuts at that time the legislature changed the law raising the levy lid from 1.50 to 250 per thousand and that averted the need for those cuts at that
123time uh i recall at that time they said that should put us in a position where hopefully uh with that levy increase we could take the time to see if that put our our budget in a sustainable position so by winner of 2020 we were starting to see that january february 2020 the fund balance was declining and we again began to have a concern that we weren't in a sustainable position and came to the board and asked for uh let the board know we would need to start preparing cuts for the 20 uh 20 20 21 school year or that sorry if this was 1920 school year excuse me in the winter and in that spring we're saying we need to start preparing cuts for the following school year um we started preparing those cuts
124and then in march covet closed our schools when that occurred everything kind of went on hold we said we've got to now reevaluate and our finance director reevaluated at the time and jim came back and said given the changing dynamics and the way funding was holding we would balance our budget that year and it would it prevented the need for us to make cuts at that time so [Music] once that was balanced there was also the fact that we were in a lockdown and at the end of that year knowing that the following year we was very much an unknown what was it going to look like when we came back we made the decision that it was best not to go into making substantial cuts in preparation for such an unknown year so when
125we came into the fall of 2020 um so so you see that covered closure minimized cuts due to the pandemic we made some small adjustments but not larger adjustments in the fall of 2020 you may recall those who were here that we came back and recommended furloughing bus drivers and some of our food service workers that we didn't have routes for at that time in order as a cost-saving measure that was a hard one but it was necessary at that time due to the uncertainty and then what you saw happen in the winter and spring is we once again started to consider do we need to make cuts now because there was a lot of this uncertainty there but in january professor ii passed providing some funding we still didn't think that was adequate to
126backfill our needs and then on march 11 pastor iii passed and then soon after that washington legislature passed enrollment stabilization funding in april as part of their legislative session all of those funds when those bills pass you know the large amount that's coming but it takes a while to identify what the funds are that are coming to your district but what we knew was large investments were going to be made to support districts our hope and intent was to continue to focus on serving students through an unpredictable pandemic if you also remember in march and april of last year we were in the process of opening in two day and four day a week hybrid models and that was intensive from a labor perspective we needed people and we were already starting to experience those
127fast shortages that we're seeing now so as you go through all of that at that time the decision that we made and the decision i supported was let's not make those cuts now so now in the summer with that opening the increased payroll cost coupled with our loss of enrollment stabilization insufficiency funding and some revenue losses and transportation special education and food services among other programs has put a huge pressure on our budget and caused our fund balance to decline so that's the big picture of how we came to where we are now and i'll just add to that if you look we also experienced in the last three months in that same time period we also experienced a substantial enrollment decline over three years now what's the good news is our enrollments turned in
128a number of districts they're still experiencing depressed enrollment ours has rebounded almost to our 2019-20 levels and that has a lot to do with the construction that's going on in the district as well so there's a lot of positives when we start to turn enrollment if our enrollment continues to grow that will be a positive force but in the meantime it's not enough to make up to put us in a position where our statements federal covet relief funding is going to fully cover our need additional pressures this is not in the right order of map i'll just tell you that enrollment decline we're also experiencing as property values go up we collect a little more in levy funding but we're also losing by the equalization dollars which are um so there's kind of an offset
129we have highly experienced staff and that means they cost us more than the state average not enough that we receive enhanced funding that was determined a few years ago but enough that it does put pressure on our budget we've had substantial benefits cost increases rising insurance costs and of course our uh our collective bargaining agreements and then pandemic staffing costs so all of those increases are putting pressure on us so wanting to come back to these are the things that are putting us in the position where we are stretched to a point that um we don't have that we have to start making difficult cuts now um and we're to do everything we can to minimize impacts this year as we make those adjustments but we know that those will get substantially bigger next year
130as the coveted relief dollars are no longer with us so just that's the information i have regarding kind of the background and how we got here quick overview and we'd be happy to take any questions you have so we only have a minute left i'll allow any everyone one question go ahead casey sure so can you recap real quick [Music] do not go through the whole presentation nice job those teams they recalculated what we qualified for when they calculated it initially they didn't factor in it was an estimate and that estimate was substantially off and our best understanding was substantially off due to summer skill center enrollment and some other enrollment that they just didn't factor in so when they calculated our actual enrollment in august they said oh you don't qualify for about a
131half million dollars with that so we're not going to give you your last payment that was scheduled for august we took no responsibility at all for their mistake and the impact [Music] i mean they said that's the formula that's you know [Music] anymore laura do you have a question yeah it's a simple question um i see the slide here dating back to january 2019 when i want to know and i think you know we're at about a eight million dollar said over the next 18 months is why we haven't gone back farther i don't think this gives us a complete picture why are we going back to like 2017 all right um so you go back and go to 2017 okay uh scott do you have a question i you're really small on the screen
132so if you're shooting with like no i can't i do not have a question okay thank you all right now we're on to board member comments two minutes each who would like to go first i'll go first all right thanks alan for coming tonight i appreciate it thank tonight as well too um i like having people in the community attend their meetings and help you get a better perspective of everything certainly appreciate it also thank our public comments of people uh especially tara christie and heather i appreciate your input um i'm going to touch on budgeting and funding real quick obviously this is a bit of a disaster and we're not getting a lot of discussion in the state so to make changes we have to notify the state in our legislatures we'll do what
133we can but it is becoming a joke uh for those who don't know uh state senator sam poner took upon himself to let tomorrow know that we need to do a better job of wearing our masks at football games even though there wasn't a mass i wish senator hunt spent as much time on figuring out budgeting and funding for schools as he did for tomorrow's mass candidates um the last thing i want to really talk about i'll talk about a couple the unfunded mandates have continued they started a couple years ago and they haven't stopped we started with mass mandates and protocols forced into hybrid forced into remote mandated to return back to school sex ed bill there are several mandates that have been unfunded by the state and they continue that cannot happen we
134are in a financial emergency here and to continue more mandates is going to further impact our budget you can tell i'm a little frustrated with the wasa position and the budgets as well too there seems to be a political uh sense of movement in this session when it really should become your own funding and budgeting so thank you thank you cece who would like to go next um just appointing casey statements i also want to thank all the speakers tonight our public comment speakers try to sell the names tara christie um helen patrick carla lisa and heather thank you all so much for your comments and your concise and your opinions all for heard and all are valued thank you to brian mel and sean for your presentations and obvious care and work that you
135put into your jobs thank you very much um and i just want to give a quick thank you to our students for being so brave i'm coming to school every single day um raving a pandemic and i'm proud of all of them whether they're exploring at home it's a tough time to be a student and i thank all of them and our parents for working so hard whether you have to be at home with them or you're at school and then finally i just want to touch really quickly on um the warehouse uh the port of olympia public comments um we have asked uh during our retreat for some information more information about that and as far as i know we haven't received it and i had mentioned that the retreat that i knew what
136comment would be forthcoming and i hope to be a little bit more um we have some more preparation uh so i don't know i forget the yellow name who spoke to us at our retreat but i would like to kind of follow up and get more information about this project um so we have more input from uh from them that we can possibly share with the community and then also i just want to we'll say one last thing um one of our speakers tara mentioned doing surveys and i would just like to um that's something i have wanted to do for a long time as far as getting and gleaning more information from our community um i think it's a good way for us to know where our community stands on issues and i would
137just like to say that i support doing more survey work and i hope you can incorporate it into what we do going forward um two things uh the first is related to the update we just received around our um progress on the pillars so in one of our last meetings they're all blending together now at this point we talked about how how we're supposed to know that we're being successful in these really established any metrics yeah um so i've started doing some thinking on that i would like to request that we come back to that very soon so we can all get on around the mtss all of it we need to understand how those activities are specifically linked to the measures that we consider to be successful because otherwise i'm just not seeing the
138connections um related to that one thing i would like to specifically ask around the follow-up is the risk panorama survey we did have several discussions last year around these metrics to advance back and forth around what kind of data we should be looking at and the conceptual idea behind that survey was i'm really overwhelmed with the climate survey to understand how our students are feeling this false killer and i really like to know what the results are what the climate response is coming from our students um and then the second thing is related to that we've also talked in the past about the importance of student voice and i don't know where the student reps are i'd love to see them at the next so our student reps have been identified uh we've been i
139know we've been working with the high schools to get them identified which i would like to see us go to a springtime process for identifying all things not working for me if not we should have been here right right it's up to the high schools to choose them yes so okay we have representatives yeah we have we've been working with the high schools black hills and cascadia have identified representatives we're still waiting on our high school all right how's my volume great okay uh so i met with dave myers and ken dowdy uh about a week and a half ago as kind of my first quarter meeting with the two of them i just want to thank them both for always making time for me and they're always so candid with how things are going
140what's their successes their challenges and their solutions to those challenges um both there are two things they they said to me that i found striking one they've never seen teacher stress levels at this level at this early in the school year and so that worries them just but we are very focused on attending to our students social emotional levels and learning we also need to make sure that we are attentive to our teachers social emotional levels and helping them get through this and then secondly it's one thing to to see a number but when you hear it and put it in context it really is a kind of a gut punch and dave said you know scott our ninth graders did not have a normal school year their last normal school year was sixth grade
141and then kim said the same thing she goes scott you know our fifth graders their last normal school year was second grade where there was no interruption and when you put that in context of those two years that had passed and you think about middle schoolers what they do when they go through middle school and what that then translates into a freshman or a second grader and how they go through third and fourth grade and how that translates into becoming a fifth grader and those opportunities were not um not experienced in the classroom or on the playground it it is lending itself to issues that teachers are having to deal with and so i know the phrase giving grace was a big one back in march of 2020 that phrase still needs to exist for
142our teachers our building admin and our district leadership they are still dealing with this um so i just want us all to keep that in mind thank you um i [Music] it's been it's it's been a rough it's been a rough a couple of years it's just a couple months but it's been a rough couple of years getting to cover um and i i agree with scott in terms of granting grace for our students and for our staff i also want to make sure that we're granting grace for each other as we're working with each other and i want us to get back to working together um i'm not feeling like we're working together uh i'm truthfully um not sure how to get i don't know how to get back there and so i need
143everyone to help me figure out how to get back to working together on getting back on track um [Music] i i need i need help and i i'm trying to decide if i'm going to be honest i woke up this morning not sure how excited i was about this meeting tonight based on last week's meeting and uh this is not the time water that i grew up in this is not the tomato that i've been um involved in and i'm not sure how we get back then but we all need to work together i i hope that we can all work together and get backwards i know we all have the same goal which is to serve kids and um how do we make sure that that's what we're focused on and i don't know
144what more to say other than i'm i'm uh i'm ready to put in the work to work together so anyone else who wants to i would love to hear from you all right so now we're going to go on to executive session uh we're going to reset the regular meeting and enter into executive session to discuss personal performance evaluation or qualifications for employment pursuant to rcw 4230 110 1g the executive session is expected to last approximately 20 minutes so if you would like to stay because our meeting is not completely over until i come back to adjourn you are welcome to but the only thing i'm going to do after executive session is coming here and during the meeting no action will be taken and no decisions will be made so if you'd like to
145stay here while we're in that room feel free but then also feel free to go home and spend time with your family so let's take five minutes let's be an executive session by ten tail we'll figure out how to get started i'm good yeah i think i need to you