001[Music] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the September 2nd board meeting of the AMA school board. Uh this afternoon we'll be offering Spanish interpretation services from Jorge with language connection. If you need translation assistance in person, please check with Jorge for a device. And Jorge, would you please translate this for us? >> Good evening. >> Thank you. If you wish to make public comment this afternoon, there are two options available for you. The first option is for commenting on agenda items only and the second option which comes towards the end of the meeting is for all other topics. In order to speak tonight, you'll need to sign two different forms. The sign-in form and the guideline guidelines form which are both located in the back of the room. And we have live streaming for
002the meeting. The link can be found on our web page under board of directors or by going directly to the ysd7.orgme site. Barb, would you please take the role? >> Director Walker >> here. >> Director Navaro Jr. >> here. >> Director Rice >> here. >> President Beckett >> here. >> And Vice President Via Noea is unexcused. >> We will watch for her. She may come in any minute. Uh please uh join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. September's character word is respectful, valuing, and showing consideration for the feelings, rights, and traditions of others. Today, the schools of the Yakama school district rest on the
003ancestral lands of the 14 Confederated tribes and bands of the Yak nation. [Music] The people of the Yakan nation inhabited more than 12 million acres across Adams, Benton, Chalan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Kittas, Kat and Yakama counties. Today we honor those native peoples who are tied to the land through history, legends, and culture. We acknowledge our descendants who live in the world today. We thank the caretakers of this land who have lived here and continue to live here since time immemorial. An acknowledgement is a simple powerful way to show respect. [Music] and a step toward correcting the stories and practices that erase indigenous people's history and culture. [Music] As a school district, we will continue to build upon our relations with the Yakama Nation. >> To begin our meeting, we have a report to the board
004regarding the strategic plan refresh with Henry Samson, Andy Gonzalez, and Dr. Green. Dr. Green, would you like to handle the introductions? Thank you, President Beckett, members of the board. Uh to my right, you'll see our executive director of technology, Andy Gonzalez. And then to his immediate right, we have Henry Samson is u our assistant principal, one of our assistant principles at Eisenhower High School. He's also a doctoral student, doctoral candidate at uh University of Washington. and as part of his project, he's uh engaging with the both of us around um work with this uh strategic plan. So, as we start tonight, we all set up here. Okay. I just gave instructions to uh Andy Gonzalez to smack me when my turn is over. So, I am going to frame uh the presentation today and then
005turn it directly over and I'll I'll have a seat here in just a moment. Uh we're very excited to share with the board and to the with the community uh greater community at large that we are embarking on the strategic plan refresh. Uh I cannot believe that we're already here in year six. Uh it has really flown by and we've had a lot of unexpected uh issues that have come up uh during the time of the strategic plan which is precisely why we need one. Uh I've already introduced uh three of the four members of our uh district as far as the leadership core team. The fourth member uh not with us up front here tonight is Kim Newell. She was planning and logistics and we're grateful for her input and support uh as part
006of the core team in organizing the strategic plan refresh. So as you know uh strategic plan does provide direction for the district. In the past we had a roadmap prior to my arrival. Uh a strategic plan is a roadmap with many more um I would say specifics than what we were used to in the previous years. It helps guide directions around resource allocation. it uh calls out the uh goals of our district and what our community values and for that reason uh we're excited then to uh have this refresh and acknowledge what we have done uh up to date but then move forward in the coming years as we look at the strategic plan. This refresh is going to help us to align efforts around uh initiatives and activities across the district as well as
007enhance accountability of the measure measuring goals that we have the measurable goals that we do have and recognizing and I think this is something that I would call out with the board when we had the attendance goal previously uh some of the rough patches along the way we found the different ways that OSPI might measure versus what we have in our Skyward system. So uh we look at the version that we're just coming that's just coming to a conclusion as that uh a potential for a new iteration then uh to get more clear around the accountability measures and bring those to the board uh with regular updates. Also uh we know that the strategic plan work and fosters community engagement and we have um several uh people that will be involved in this new refresh
008and uh one of my colleagues here behind me will go into greater detail around that component. And then lastly, I would share that um we always want to be uh uh improving continuously across our system. And so this helps us to uh analyze where we've been and then set the uh mile post out in front of us to then meet the priorities that will be called out in this refresh. I'll turn this over to Andy at this point. >> Thank you. Um as Dr. Green uh stated our current plan is coming to an end and as we started to work we looked at the capacity of our systems in these years of changes and it became clear that our systems really needed a refresh not a redo and so it was based upon you know
009people's availability and how systems were changing and how that impact reverberated across the organization and so again it's a refresh not a redo. Um but our current strategic plan um though thoughtfully constructed and uh intentionally done is very dense and it's very hard to connect with it. I think anybody who has worked with it would agree that it's hard to really remember any of it in any time when you're in the buildings working with it or here at the board level or in the community level. It's hard to create engage with it. And so we set four goals for the revision. One was to simplify it and make it connectable for all stakeholders, students, parents, community members, staff. Um, everybody had to understand it. Um, and it needed to be in terms that worked for
010everybody, reflect our professional practices. It'd been created pre- pandemic and coming out of the pandemic. We were not the same organization. We had a lot of change in our organization PLC's and we needed to reflect the highquality teaching and learning strategies that are now fundamental to what we do and then update data and metrics and improve measurability. One of the things as we went through and analyzed the current strategic plan is that our goals were lofty um and taking metrics from like 67% to 95%. Weren't necessarily things that um were going to happen in incremental movements and we needed to really define those in ways that the board could actually see whether we were moving in the ways that we uh stated we were going to do. And then the last one was amplify student
011voices. Um as the hard work that had been done by the students um in the past to create and bring to fruition the student voice policy, it was important to acknowledge that in in our current on our next uh iteration of the strategic plan. Um the next thing that we did was really look at our goals and um we noticed that goal five, our graduation goal, uh needed a little bit of adjusting um because it's really not a goal. It's an outcome and shifts toward more integration of what we do and it's an graduation, college and career readiness and life readiness. And what it is is it reflects that all these goals are interconnected with this outcome. And so we moved it from the a compass goal to actually the northstar that everything feeds into
012and the results and outcomes. It should be the overarching uh work that happens to bring students to college and career readiness. And so one thing that will change is we'll go from five goals to four goals. >> Thank you. And I'm going to share about how we move from that planning to action um as part of our strategic planning process. Uh so this process is designed to ensure that every decision we make truly serves our students and community and in order to clarify the goals and make the process accessible and actionable for all those in involved we have put in place a hybrid model for the revision and by hybrid that means combining canvas a platform that our secondary students are already know with in-person meetings. This approach, this approach will ensure that stakeholders arrive
013prepared and can focus their face-to-face time on building trust, making decisions. So, in-person meetings will will build that trust between team leads and our community partners. And ultimately, the model is designed to foster collaboration, buyin, and community responsive goals by the end of the refresh. This approach will unfold across focus timeline that will take place during the first half of the of the school year and it will start in September 2025 and conclude in February 2026. Our goal for each team is to hold four to five meetings with their stakeholders and in-person meetings and canvas activities for the core committee groups will springboard um into the community as every team member now will be encouraged to gather qualitative feedback from other others in their spheres in their daily spheres. We've already laid strong groundwork for
014this process by doing se taking several action steps to date. As of today, um we've completed several objectives that have made this uh got the strategic plan underway. Some of the actions include identifying the four team leads, meeting with and preparing the team leads, designating stakeholders for each of the teams, designing the Canvas courses that will support the hybrid engagement model, and just continuously communicating and collaborating with our different team leads. The next steps that will guide this revision process kick off tomorrow night at Stanton Academy Tuesday, September 3rd. And the event will take place from 6:00 to 7:30. We invite you to attend this kickoff meeting tomorrow. Please, please feel free, please feel welcome to attend any team meetings that you would like to participate in. There will be breakout sessions for the different
015core teams tomorrow at Stanton. Team meetings will begin in at separate locations after the kickoff tomorrow. Once these meetings are underway, team leads and community committee members will be gathering data related to the specific goal that they are targeting. Our hybrid model will ensure flexibility and inclusivity and our committees are structured to keep this process focused and data informed. Throughout this process, we'll provide ongoing support to team leads and regularly assess progress to ensure our goals truly reflect the community needs. Now, this refresh process does uh represent our unwavering commitment to responsive and inclusive education and that the foundation of this work does rest on our promise statements and those statements really express our commitment to every student, family, and community member. Our promise statements will serve as our north star. As Andy, as Andres
016mentioned, ensuring every action we take prepares students for the futures that they choose. We're not just revising our goals. We are reviewing our partnership, renewing our partnership with Yaka. So, please review some of the following draft statements that are included on the slides. These will be shared with you board members on a Google form where you will be asked to vote on your favorite promise statement and make any comments on the language uh or suggestions to the language that you see there. Thank you for your time and attention to this important preparation step for the next phase of our instructional and operational alignment in Yakum. Do you have any questions for our team? First and foremost, I want to say thank you to both Andy and Henry for coming back today. For those of you
017who don't know, they were scheduled for our retreat uh to do this presentation. Uh they showed up, they were well prepared, and we were busy talking about so many things that we wound up having to bump them. >> So, we apologize for the the delay and the uh the h the round two, for lack of a better phrase, but appreciate you being here today to get this conversation started. Does anyone have any questions? >> Yes, I do. I I was I'm wondering about the monitoring piece, which is the board's excuse me, responsibility. So, you know, we we talk about when we monitor, we we talk about making reasonable progress, um meeting the goal or not meeting the goal or compliance, non-compliance. So, I'm just wondering, have you guys thought about how we can actually monitor
018that? Because as I've mentioned in the past and this is really loud that what what what does that mean right? What does reasonable progress mean? Does it mean 0.5 um a point five percentage increase? Does it mean what does it mean? Does it mean five five percentage points 10 percentage points? Uh does it mean that we did better than last year or that we're making some movement? Um, so I I looked up a definition of what reasonable progress means and it says demonstrating steady, noticeable, and acceptable advancements toward a specific goal. And so I'm just wondering if you guys thought about that, how you can make our job easier in determining reasonable progress and we're actually, you know, um, advancing towards that 65 or the 85 or the 95%. So when working with project leads,
019we discussed attainable and that definition of you know in a smart goal attainable that the goals have to be attainable uh for them to really matter. And uh as far as how that would happen at your level, it we've um we are committed to creating data dashboards once those structures and that information is moved to assessment to make sure that you have a way in which you can easily digest that data where you can visualize it and work with it in a way that it makes sense. Um and you can see that incremental change rather than these large swaths that are current. um uh strategic plan calls for. >> So so I think there's two things to consider. One is the actual percentage are we making progress right? The other thing is to determine and
020determine that reasonable progress is to determine what the sit if there's situation COVID if there's situ different situations that arise or or what is the area that we're looking at or monitoring that could provide us additional information. It might be the the ENS reports or might be some other type of um reports that we've provided to kind of balance that progress rather than just look at the the percentage increase. I agree and I think that's what a dashboard facilitates. You'll be able to look at it and progress monitor and then have those questions and we can work as teams to bring that other information forward that may give a situational awareness of what was happening and why the data looks the way it does. May I add uh just I'd like to share that uh
021the the refresh process is uh will involve uh also the measurements and so we we can't um share exactly what they would be right now because that would be inauthentic as we haven't brought the groups together to have those conversations. However, we are very aware as a cabinet the perspective around wanting to see uh that that the growth and and more than a small uh uh percentage and I think what has been very helpful over the last uh several months is having uh Dr. Lucero now as part of our cabinet and the emphasis around uh the the growth of our students and that's something that we have not demonstrated to the board in a way that was very uh easy to to understand and so I don't know if Maria would you be able to
022talk a little bit about growth measurements and what that could possibly look like knowing that we still have to have these conversations with the committees and see where they would go as far as the measurements that they would want to see. >> Hello. Um, I think what I'll specifically speak to is math. For example, um, you are aware of what our math data has looked like. And so, in collaboration with our leadership, we have cra crafted a a district-wide math goal. So, you're mentioning percentage. Something that we're working towards is what does that actually mean in terms of students? How many students would it take for each of our schools to show growth and proficiency to meet a district-wide goal that is attainable? And so, like um Andy mentioned, we've set these goals that that
023really have not been achievable or or attainable. So, what is something that is reasonable considering where we currently are with our math progress? What would it mean for each individual school's lift in terms of students to meet an overarching district math goal? And that is what we're currently working towards. >> So I I so just to comment real quick, I know that in the past the reason why we had lofty goals is because the district had this philosophy that all students can achieve, right? And there was a fear that if we said only 65 or 50% of our students were going to reach a goal, then we were setting low expectations for the entire student body. So is there going to be a shift in our philosophy and our uh where we're thinking in terms
024of student achievement? >> Yes. And in collaboration with our leadership, we also centered our our growth in decreasing for example the number of students who are performing at a level one and ensuring that yes, we want to show proficiency this number of students and growth from a level one or two to a three. So that does encompass everybody and also including the disagregation of a special groups and targeting their growth as well. I'm glad to see that student growth has been a part of your discussion. Um in the past we've dealt with um percentages of you know student so many percent points of students have reached whatever the level is. not sure that that's that that accurately reflects what our students achieve and are capable of achieving. So, I'm glad to see that that's part
025of your of your discussions. Um and then the other question I had was well there probably several questions in this but um the structure that I that I heard you describe is that you have a layer of team leads and then you have committees. And the committees are made up of what what what is the makeup of a committee? >> Um each goal lead was given a a charge to create a diverse uh representation of our community, students, teachers, uh educators, um community members to make sure that we were capturing um all the voices that are important to the work we do. So you'll include parents in that? >> Yes. >> Description as well. >> Community members. Parents. Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. So before it comes to the board in a in a
026kind of a semiformal way in a draft form. Um the committees will have done their work. >> Correct. the the team lead. Well, I just I guess I'm not understanding what the role of the team leads are. >> We broke the strategic plan into um the goal areas and assigned leads um the people closest to the work at central office but also in the trenches um to um work around that. I think maybe for uh clarity sake if we go back into the uh original strategic plan, it was a a process where we brought the entire community together in a massive room over multiple months uh an entire day each session and everybody was learning about all of the goals and we we it was a collective effort um with the entire community around all
027five goals. The refresh is different in that we have divided them into these four separate buckets and the people involved with the refresh will only be able to be part of one of the goals. So, we're becoming much more uh specific around the the the target and um and and then we reach out from there to we can still have surveys um um reach out and and and involve others beyond that that group. But the difference here is that each of the core team leads for those goals will have their own committee and focus on that goal with their expertise which we called out and that's how we identified the team leads uh around those four goals. Is that helpful? >> It is. Um and then the the I guess for now the last two
028questions are will the board receive um interim updates, reports, um status, whatever word you want to use for the progress of the strategic plan committees. >> What the board wants, the board gets. So, I I will meet with I will meet with President Beckett, and I would I would um challenge uh or ask very politely uh President Beckett to just be thinking about what uh uh what those updates could look like as far as how often. And we would be more than happy to um maybe have one goal uh presented um each month potentially or whatever uh you would like as a board. So, we'd be happy to do that. And uh last if you remember the uh strategic plan back in uh 201920 uh there were there was a lot of involvement from the
029board. I know you were part of that. We had several board members. Norm was part of that. Um I think that director >> uh yeah so we had several people uh a part of that. So that that still holds. The difference is you would have to select one of the four if you were uh interested in that component or we can s certainly just share out here uh collectively. >> And then the the last question and and I promise this is the last question. Um if if I think um what's what might be uh clarifying to the community and and at least to me I don't know about the rest of the board um is to outline the fact that the m the the um graduation goal is going away, but we'll still retain the
030other goals in one form or another. Right? So, we'll still have an early learning goal. We'll still have a community engagement goal. We'll still have the B um whatever the others are. I've blanked, but we'll have we'll have all of those still. and and those will be the the the core the base from which the strategic plan refresh is developed. Correct. >> Certainly the uh the graduation goal and pathways that becomes a northstar to where all goals lead to that. So that is the the change and uh certainly that is part of the um at least for our committees that start tomorrow in the kickoff. That's something that we will share widely. And what I'm hearing is you asking uh or requesting that that be shared broadly with the community. >> I think it would
031be helpful >> for the community to to have access to that information. Um certainly maybe on the web page uh through our various electronic communication methods um perhaps through the media. those sorts of things so that folks are are aware of what we're doing and um know what the opportunities for engagement are. Okay, thank you. Anything else for members of the board? In that case, thank you gentlemen very much for your time and for walking us through this. Thank you so much. Section C for uh updates is updates from members of the board. I guess I would just start by thanking Vice President Vienno for uh setting such a high benchmark at the last board meeting in my absence for the speed of a meeting. So I'll I'll be sure to thank her when I
032see her in person. Um does any >> Yeah, apparently. Does any member else have a update for the board today? >> The only thing I have is that um the um legislative the not the legislative the um >> general assembly. Thank you. It's just been one of those days. The general assembly is scheduled for the 19th and for the that Friday, whatever that Friday is or Saturday. Um it's only one day this year and it's virtual. So, um I'll be getting the uh the the booklet here any day now and I'll forward that to you to the rest of the board for prioritization for us for our board. And um would ask that that come back before the general assembly. And I to clarify I just want to confirm that we have we um pre-registered
033for that. Have we have we registered for general assembly? >> Yeah. Um the only the only the we have one vote, >> right? >> And I think I'm registered. Um the rest the rest of you can log in and watch and provide feedback during the meeting to to me but I'm the only board gets one vote. So I'm the voting delegate for our board in as a part of my role for a legislative representative. And just just so you're aware, there is one one issue that came out of resolutions committee that we were to vote on as a committee, but we didn't get a quorum. So that it's a change in one of the uh standing um platform. So that will come up in general assembly, but it will not have a recommendation from the
034committee. So I'm just informing you that the committee does want a yes. a yes on that, but that we didn't have a quorum, so we couldn't put that out publicly. >> Okay. >> Just you'll you can vote on that in the general assembly. >> I appreciate that it's virtual this year. Um first of all we get a lot of participation from much smaller districts or uh remote rural districts who can't make it to a large conference in either Spokane or Seattle and don't have the funds to allow for that. So um this way everybody can participate. Now, whether they will or not is another issue, but um I'm looking forward to it. >> Well, as always, thank you for participating in those for us. Appreciate that very much. Anybody else from the board? In that
035case, Dr. Green, we'll have a superintendent's update next. >> Thank you. We have just completed the fourth day of school. We're very um excited about where we stand thus far and um we're so grateful to the community for the um efforts that they put forward on behalf of our students. I'd like to start with just the kickoff that we had last week and I'm um I wish that uh director Voeva were here because she was able to um give the kickoff message from the board uh both in the morning and the evening and the afternoon session. Uh we did have a video that was shown around inclusionary practices. It's a documentary which is uh called um forget me not and uh we were able to uh this is part of the work that we engaged
036with as our uh with the Balmer group and the University of Washington around inclusionary practices and uh uh we're able to have the director and his wife who stars in this documentary be a part of um answering questions and really grounding us in efforts around what it means to be an inclusive system. Uh it was very wellreceived in the morning session. It was wellreceived in the afternoon session. I think the greatest excitement came from understandably so the uh elementary level where we had worked extensively with our principles at the University of Washington and the Balmer group. So, we saw um uh uh and I heard uh some really great feedback from our our teachers and staff members around um uh what it meant to them and how we're recognizing in a more overt fashion uh
037where we are and what we can do to uh support all of our students across the board. Uh we had a couple of hiccups throughout the week obviously. Um there are things that happen. Uh uh we did have a power outage at one of our schools. So that tested some of our response uh times and what we can do to uh deal with uh issues that do come up from time to time. Uh we we were able to recover power. That was at Adams Elementary and um some of our students were able to eat outside and have kind of an adventure. So it's nice when um moments like that that are a crisis for an adult turn into a memorable moment for a student. And I'm sure that uh that will be the case here.
038So, u kudos to our custodians, our teachers, our uh um uh our cooks, and everybody else that was involved in uh navigating uh that issue. I'd also uh touch upon the uh wonderful, I would say, um donations or the serviceoriented approach by our our uh Rotary clubs in town. We did have downtown Rotary that um gifted school supplies, a backpack with school supplies and also for the first time uh a teacher backpack uh for the uh staff member. So that was I received some wonderful uh messages from teachers who really appreciated that and a tip of the cap to uh downtown Rotary. This is the third third year that they've been involved in selecting a school. And um it was uh pretty powerful to see uh the president of downtown Rotary Sherry Vicil uh who
039had graduated from Mccclure attended Mccclure um go back there and and and be a part of that. So we're excited about that as well and and and continuing to build those bridges uh in our community. Uh we do have another donation coming forth if uh it's through a donation process with our media group in town uh and uh smart law and so they have been gathering. I think it's the glue stick drive that we've been hearing about for years. Um we have not had the radio presence that we've had in the past but I did connect with one of the program managers at connectoubled and we're looking to secure um those supplies within our system and then distribute those. And then the last thing that I would just share is that we wanted to call
040out that um over the summer we did have a uh a scare at one of the schools and uh we want to recognize a custodian and a maintenance employee from Ridge View. uh they're not here at the moment, but uh we'll call out that um had had they not had there not been the involvement of uh our very valuable classified staff and and and noticing uh an issue that was happening uh with a circuit board. Um then we likely would be h we likely have a building that could have burnt down at this point. And so, uh, one of our custodians was getting ready to leave and, uh, smelled some some smoke and went and investigated and, uh, we found out that we had some wires that were, uh, exceeding a very high temperature and
041and would have likely, uh, caused more problems. As you remember, we've had u I think we had a flooding issue at Ridge View this last year where we replaced I think the uh the floor in there and uh it's just been um a lot of things happening to Ridge View, but that is just a wonderful thing when you have people that take notice uh see something, say something just like at the airport and uh that really uh helped avoid a cost that would have uh exceeded uh more than we were willing to kind of face at this time. So, we're grateful uh to that uh custodian and the maintenance person. We'll make sure that we get them here to recognize officially. With that, I pass it back to President uh Beckett or answer any questions
042you might have about the opening. >> Any questions? >> When will we know attendance numbers at at least the beginning of school attendance numbers? on the 8th. On the eth yes um and I want to thank in advance next week. >> Yes. Yes. The 8th of September. Yes. And then uh we'll make sure that we have uh updates on that on about a two-eek basis thereafter. So I'm looking over at Erin Thomas. uh you've given me the opportunity to thank her uh publicly for the work that she puts in on behalf of making sure that our numbers are accurate and uh we get those out on a on a every other week basis to our entire school system. So we'll include you in that process so you have those bar graphs and can monitor the
043way that we're measuring in skyward. If you remember, we have the OSPI way of of monitoring, but uh we're looking at daily attendance AC across the board and we can break that down and uh for you as well and will. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we have a lengthy list of items under the highlights for community engagement this afternoon. Is there anything specific that you'd like to point out, Dr. Green? There is an attachment in board docs for the board members as well. >> If if you uh need something to do, there are plenty of opportunities. We've had many open houses already, but they are not they have not all uh been completed. We have more this week. And as you can see, um it's public content. We have quite a few that are happening.
044Uh and again, I think the main thing that we have this week is the uh kickoff for the strategic plan, which is tomorrow night at Stanton, I believe, six o'clock. Is that what we said? Six o'clock. Yeah. >> Excellent. Well, that takes us to our first comment or first comment section for uh members of the public to comment on agenda items. Do we have anyone signed up for comment today? Not yet. Okay. Thank you very much. Then we'll start our approvals process with number one. This is the collective bargaining agreement. And am I turning this over to Mr. Marietta or to Dr. Green Anthony? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um so we are looking for the approval of the board of the collective bargaining agreement between the Yakima maintenance association and
045the Yakima school district. You the board should have the red line version uh for over a week along with the highlights here. If you have any questions uh we'll be more than willing to take them. Any questions from members of the board before we move to the action item? >> Just a more of a comment. Um, thank you Anthony for all of your work and that of your team for bringing us this um this agreement and the members of the bargaining team YMA which is Yakama Maintenance Association. Correct. >> Yes. Um, Dustin Vickers, Van Henderson, Juan Hernandez, Justin Morford, Alex Lundstöm. >> Yes. >> And Lavasha, >> Lavasha Murdoch, >> Levia Murdoch, >> Lavves Murdoch. um please extend our um appreciation to them as well for their hard work and a reminder that this is
046a three-year >> three-year agreement. Yes. >> Thank you. >> The board is being asked to approve the agreement between the Akimma Maintenance Association and the Akimma School District. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none. Barb, would you please take the role? >> Director Walker. >> I. >> Director Navaro Jr. >> I. >> Director Rice. >> I. >> President Beckett. >> I. >> Motion passes four to zero. >> Thank you, Barb. Our second approval today is for the collective bargaining agreement between Teamsters Local 760, the Tech Services, and YSD. And again, Mr. Muretta. >> Thank you. This is more of the same. It is a three-year agreement. Learning from the addition there that Teamster's 760 Tech bargaining team was
047Terry Vaughn and Rudy Perez along with their business rep Richard Richard Selenus. I also want to point out for this agreement and the previous Chris Miller was the lead negotiator on that. Uh this too is a three-year agreement and I am recommending approval. The board is being asked to approve the agreement between Teamsters Local 760 Technology Services and the Yakima School District. Do we have a motion? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? >> Hearing none. Barb, would you please take the role? >> Director Walker. >> I. >> Director Navaro Jr. >> I. >> Director Rice. >> I. >> President Beckett. >> I. Motion passes 4 to zero. >> Thank you, Barb. Thank you, Anthony. That brings us to our second opportunity for public comment on any other
048topic. Do we have anyone signed up for open mic? No. Okay. Thank you. Then with our policy governance section, the first section is regarding policy 1000.4.0 zero, the global governance management connection that is linked in your board docs and it can be reviewed online through our policy section and it looks like the survey will be sent tomorrow and due back on September 8th. Does any board member have any question about that policy before we move on? The second item on policy governance is regarding policy 1000.4.1 which is the unity of control policy and again it is linked in board docs and the survey will be sent tomorrow due back the 8th. Any comment or question from a member of board hearing? None. We'll move to item number three which is the approval of ratings for
049policy 0550 which is the educational and racial equity policy. The data is attached as are the responses in board docs. We have three responses that were back. All three were unanimous that the interpretation is reasonable and that the superintendent is in compliance. Does any board member wish to elaborate or expand upon written comments? Um, we extended this one to this meeting because at the last meeting there were only two responses. Um, I'm not sure that adding one more is sufficient yet, but in the version of this agenda that I looked at, the third response didn't have any responses in it. it was respondent respondent skipped this question for every one of the elements within that. I don't know if that's still the case >> or if the respondent really did skip all of the elements
050and then not provide any rationale for doing that. Um given that I would like to suggest that we move this to maybe the business meeting. Our next meeting is I think the business meeting so we can get a um a full response from the board and um because this is this is one of our one of our ultimate policies in my opinion and um >> well I'll leave it to the um to the members of the board. I would um I would counter that no response is in fact a response. Um we see that in the private sector every day and we've had ample opportunity if board members wanted to elaborate or to respond. They've been emailed three times I believe four times. Thank you Barb. And if they choose to do so they can
051choose to do so. And if they choose not to that's up to them. I I guess I guess if there's um no response, I I'm not sure what message that sends to the rest of the board first of all and to the community in general. Um does it mean that the board member supports the policy, doesn't support the policy? Um, and as far as the the one that's in that's in the version that I saw where the respondent signed in and then skipped all the questions. I don't know what that tells me either whether whether the board member supports the the that element of the policy or doesn't support it. I don't think that that that doesn't tell me what what I need to know in order to answer this answer respond to the the
052discussion around this particular policy. So, >> well, we would need we need a motion if you want to make a motion to expand it. Otherwise, >> I would I would >> stands it as it is. >> I would move that that the um discussion on 0550 which or 05 >> 0550 uh the equity policy be tabled for this meeting and extended to the business meeting. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Any discussion on the motion? >> Okay. >> I would I would say I was one of the the board members that didn't respond and I've been the last month or so I've been in places where I haven't had access to or connectivity. So, and this does take some thought and some time to to monitor to evaluate. So, I can say that that's
053uh it's not an issue whether I support it or not. As as the board knows, I do support some parts of it and others I don't. And so it's more of a an issue with me with time and being at the right place at the right time or wrong time, so to speak. Okay, we have a motion to extend it until the business meeting in September. Any other comments? You know, all in I guess uh Barb, I'll ask you to please take a roll call vote on this, please. >> Director Walker, I >> Director Navaro Jr. I >> say nay. Director Rice >> I. >> President Beckett >> I. >> Motion passes 3 to one. >> We will revisit in September. >> Thank you. >> Dr. Green, do we have need for executive session this
054afternoon? >> We do not. I have one request. So for clarification of that, >> go for it. Absolutely. So, it uh takes a village to help the superintendent at times. And uh it's been pointed out to me. Thank you all of you out there who uh texted and others who nudged me. Uh Costco also donated backpacks. So, I wanted to call that out. I' I'd missed that. At which school? Martin Luther King. Um of course, our past principal at Martin Luther King would definitely call that out. So, thank you, Dr. Lucero. And then I think I may have misinterpreted uh and when you were asking about the uh attendance, were you talking about enrollment numbers? >> Yes. >> Or attendance. Okay. Then I I took that down the the wrong rabbit hole. Thank you everybody
055for indulging me in that. And uh you all rolled your eyes going, "What is he talking about?" >> Yeah. So, uh I was I was forgive me for that. So, uh, we will get you that information so we can give you the attendance update of what, uh, of what it looks like for our students every two weeks, which we will do. Uh, but we will also send you the enrollment number so that you know what that looks like. So, thank you for a clarification. Shout out to Omar and, uh, others. I think I going to forget somebody, but thank you all. >> My apologies for not being very clear today. >> I'm sure it was me because everybody else understood. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank >> Thank you, Dr. Green. There's nothing else
056for the good of the order. Our next board meeting will be 7 p.m. on September 16th right here. So, we look forward to seeing you all then. And until then, we are ajourned.