Yakima School District Board Meeting March 3rd, 2025 at Wilson Middle School

001[Music] e today this schools of the yma school district rest on ancestral lands of 14 confederated tribes and bands of the yma nation Yak the people of the yakam nation inhabited more than 12 million anres across Adams Bon Douglas Franklin Grant K and counties Frank 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 also honors the [Music] truth as a school district we will continue to build upon our relations with nation for

002yak e and whereas retired educators are encouraged to remain active in the education profession through volunteer activities associated with learning now therefore I J Insley governor of the state of Washington do hereby Proclaim March 177 to 23 2025 as school retire appreciation month week in Washington and I urge all people in our state to join me in the special observance signed this 30th day of January 2025 Governor Jay Insley thank you director rice the second Proclamation this afternoon is for Education support professionals month and it reads as whereas education support professionals play a vital role in nearly every aspect of Education including maintaining buildings and grounds preparing and serving nutritious meals ensuring school facilities are clean and orderly assisting in classrooms providing over 60% of all instructional hours to students with special needs English language

003Learners and those addressing opportunity gaps performing and supporting research activities delivering information technology and Media Services carrying out administrative support functions providing safe and reliable transportation and fostering a secure and healthy environment through many other specialized services and whereas more than 62,000 education support professionals work tirelessly to support students across Washington's universities colleges and public schools serving as the backbone of our public education system and deserving of recognition and gratitude for their exceptional contrib tions to the success of our schools and communities and whereas education support professionals are indispensable in fulfilling the state's responsibility to educate all students and by enriching the learning environment they serve as essential partners with teachers parents administrators and school boards in achieving educational Excellence now therefore be it resolved that the board of directors of yaka School yaka Public

004Schools does hereby Proclaim March 2025 as education support professionals month in honor of the outstanding dedication contributions and impact of those Prof these Professionals in fostering a highquality education for all students signed on the third day of March of 2025 let's break some awkward silence with a round of applause for our school retirees and for our education support professionals [Music] thank you very much thank you um at this point in time we begin our reports to the board and first on the list tonight is President Guerrero from the yaka Education Association welcome is this on testing okay so I'm going to be speaking to you tonight and probably for the next few weeks about Staffing because it's that time of the year and today I'd like to hit um specifically on admin Staffing and I

005know I've touched on this before with the lack not the lack but the inadequate admin Staffing and how that hurts my members particularly at the elementary level a couple more examples have come to my attention in the past couple months that again I want to make sure you are aware of when you are looking at Staffing so at the elementary buildings several of them were left with just one administrator and that causes huge problems on several different levels in one instance and I'm just going to use random names for the sake of the conversation Casey Mitchell he's a horrible administrator I I I I don't like him right and as soon as I hear his name I I'm automatically biased against him well this member came to me and she didn't even know how to

006reach out to the union she's been a teacher for 20-some years and she had no idea what the process was and I tried to explain to her you go through your building rep first and they try to fix it with admin and then you come to me and she's like yeah but admin is the problem I'm like okay that's weird because I know that jam Lee is your principal and she's fabulous I I can't imagine what problem you could possibly have with Jam Lee oh it's not Jim Lee it's that jam Lee is alone and so to try and lower Jim's work workload with the amount of teachers that she has to evaluate they farmed me out to Casey really okay so I I'm automatically on her side because like I said I don't like

007Casey he causes a lot of problems for me he's not a good leader he's a micromanager it's just awful but we go to the meeting and I I try to be fair and operate In fairness and I don't think Casey was the problem when it came to this particular evaluation the problem was that he was an outsider so here is my member she's in charge of this new CTE program and they put Casey as her evaluator because Casey has some experience with that she's got this new glass blowing class and he used to do that 20 years ago and so oh this should be perfect she's really nice and easy to work with except that's not how it turned out she met him maybe once 10 years ago for five minutes so he is a

008total stranger to her there was no relationship building nothing so the first time they have a real conversation I don't know November she's immediately on the offense and I get it because if it were me as a 20-year veteran and Casey came in and tried to tell me how to run my glass blowing program I'm sorry Who Are You When was the last time you were in a classroom you don't know me you're not in the building with me who are you to be question questioning me and thereby casting doubt on me honestly I think Casey was doing his job he has to check boxes on the evaluation he doesn't know these things about her because he doesn't work with her on a daily basis but that caused problems with the member and that burned

009a relationship Beyond repair I mean sitting there and listening I I'm not going to fault Casey for that because like I said it doesn't really sound like she did anything wrong I offered to sit in I said I'll be there for your next evaluation I will make sure that it is handled well I don't want jam Lee to have to take on this extra work she's alone no not having it not hearing it and so now there's a burned relationship and there's a teacher who is probably talking more smack about Casey that's not necessarily warranted like if I'm going to talk smack SM about you it's warranted but I don't think in that case that it was then another case came to light where this time it was Maria lucietto she's the administrator and I'll

010be honest she's kind of a frequent flyer she's been on Ya's radar I was expecting to hear her name this year but I haven't I think Maria has improved as an administrator because I have not heard anything from her members until recently turns out that Maria has a Rel in the building and that relative is my student I kind of feel like it's a conflict of interest for Maria to be my evaluator when that relative is in my class okay so how do we solve these issues I guess moving forward we could create a group of evaluators where when there's a conflict of interest or a burned relationship we can go to them but that doesn't solve the fundamental problem of Casey was an outsider and that was a problem to begin with when you

011doing evaluations a lot of times again let's say this is me and I'm the one that's being evaluated my evaluator doesn't have to ask me to provide evidence about how I work with students outside of my class how I work with my building environment how I work with parents how I'm a teacher leader because she sees that she sees it every day in the work that I do I don't have to do the extra work of providing evidence for that but when you're an outsider you don't see that and I think it's perfectly within your managerial right to ask to see that but you're putting an undue burden on my member that wouldn't be there if she had been with her original evaluator who already knows all of that so creating this outside kind of

012Cadre of valuators that can step in to help with workload like that that doesn't really solve the issue you build relationships with evaluators and that's how you get to coach them up if I'm not doing something well it's not going to get coached I'm not going to feel like I'm getting coached up when you assign a stranger to coach me so even when you're cutting administrators and shuffling other on around you're causing problems that way so an administrator that I worked with that I know personally is a good administrator gets moved to another building juel I'm G to pick on juel this time juel gets moved to another building I know juul is a good administrator because I have personally worked with her but now she's in a new building where she has to build

013new relationships those people don't trust her they don't know her and maybe her person a comes across as a little more strict than what they're used to now you have bad blood there unwarranted Bad Blood because in her previous building she was well loved but then you moved her you shifted her and granted I know that happens even when there aren't budget issues but forced moves like that do not help morale bringing in Outsiders like that doesn't help morale and it's so important right now for for many reasons that we're not doing anything additional to hurt teacher morale every student facing position that you cut affects my members every custodian every parah every cook every Protek every administrator we need them to help us do our jobs when you have an administrator and again this

014seems to affect mostly Elementary but it's a new administrator as the head person and then you put them in a building by themselves and it's a building that has 80 plus tier three level students highly impacted High Behavior level students and you want them to handle that by themselves and your answer perhaps is oh we'll coach them up I'm going to tell you right now that is not actually that helpful because what that does is to stress out the administrator and then that bleeds out into my members my members feel the effect of that stress that principle being stressed out it bleeds out better Staffing is an answer again if you have a building with 80 plus high impact High Behavior students and you have one administrator one Behavior specialist one counselor that's not enough

015that's not enough to handle all of those students student facing positions we just need to have more of them and I beg you to keep this in mind that we are trying to move forward to full inclusion and a couple of us just did a site visit and I'm going to tell you I hear full inclusion and I think that's a fantasy that's a pipe dream whatever it's not real but it is I saw it I touched it I heard it I smelled it I tasted it it's possible but it's not when you have a staff with low morale those buildings that we've been to site visits those teachers had 100% Buy in they were 100% volunteering they were Supernatural committed and they were putting insane amounts of work in but they were willing to

016do that because a they like their administrators B they had a lot of support C there was good morale and cut Staffing we interfere with all of those things and you don't get good morale overnight you build up to that they acknowledged this is 10 12E project so we need to start now not later now questions thank you thank you Miss Guero at this point I get to introduce principal Arisa principal from Wilson Middle School come on ready to go ready to go y okay well um good afternoon uh warm welcome to our esteem board of directors superintendent green cabinet members ysd staff and visitors welcome to Wilson I first want to take the opportunity to thank you for this uh opportunity to just tell you a little piece of our Wilson story which I

017have titled every student every success datadriven growth and whole child support board members in the slide deck that you that was given to you you will have access to several slides that have information pertaining to the different facets of a middle school student here at Wilson many of the slides include formative and summative data of students academic performance in this current year as well as Trend data for the past three years you'll be able to read our mission and vision statements which play a crucial role and developing the systems that drive our daily school routines inside and outside of our classrooms you'll also find celebration information such as students exceptional success in the Sealab by literacy test where more than 44 of our students earned one or more high school credits and 18 of our

018students earned all all four credits officially receiving their Sila by literacy and that's an incredible achievement one that will benefit their High School careers college or any career pathway that they choose and so of course we're very very proud of them I know that you probably had a chance to uh explore the full presentation there's a lot of slides in there and I'm going I'm sure that you'll probably have some wondering so I I please you know don't hesitate to reach out to me um with any questions you may have either after this present ation or any other day Okay so uh now we're going to dive into a few key slides that I've selected to highlight today so um just want to share a little bit about our instructional leadership uh teams analysis A

019formative and summative uh assessments and reading math and science have led us to write challenging School Improvement goals to improve our student learning and social well-being so these are number one to improve and sustain student attendance at 92% or higher to close the achievement gap for our English language Learners and our students with disabilities and to create a safe Equitable and inclusive learning environment for all of our students so in this presentation I'm going to focus primarily on goal number two so data analysis of our student proficiency on on our SBA and other assessments it continues to show a a lingering academic proficiency gap between our English language Learners and our uh students with disabilities as compared to the all categories of students reported by Opa data and this just hasn't sat well with our

020you know with our team over the years and it still doesn't and it shouldn't right so our team uh has decided to make this goal a priority so in order to close this Gap we recognize that our elll students and student with disabilities would need to grow at a greater growth than our all categories and so so this is one of those like easier said than done things right uh it's an ambitious goal uh but it's one that we have placed a focus on and we are starting to see some uh meaningful progress towards it as you will see in the following data sets so this First Data slide is from our Washington State uh schools Improvement framework what this slide shows is that Wilson is above the threshold line used to determine the placement

021level of school Improvement and tier supports for schools in the state I don't know if you can see that line is kind of light there but it's right there okay so as you can see we are above the threshold in all of the categories incl including our elll and students with disabilities so because we exceed this threshold in all categories Wilson is classified as a school with foundational supports it's a designation that we're proud of but we know that we still have a lot of work to do uh because we would like to see every single oops let me see we'd like to see every single uh column a dark blue color so we know we still have a lot of work to do but uh just focusing on this goal it will continue to

022drive our commitment uh for continuing growth for all of our students so as I mentioned before our school Improvement plan uh it specifically calls out closing the achievement Gap so this slide this data set is found in the categories Link in the OPI report card website for our school and Analysis of this data reveals that we are making progress to towards this end goal so as you can see in this bar graph our elll students demonstrated greater growth than our non-english language Learners as measured by student growth percentiles in math the ELA data also shows the Gap narrowing so in fact we're close we we are are showing signs of closing the Gap in several of our categories so this indicates to us that action steps and our targeted interventions are taking hold and not

023only are we growing our elll students and our students with disabilities but students in uh many other categories as well so this is a key milestone for us in closing this Gap and we are committed to sustaining this progress uh through continued data driven instruction through targeted interventions and ongoing professional learning such as this year we've done an all staff glad training in fact we had a session today um and just encouraging our teachers to you know use these strategies in the classroom and during their instruction so this uh next slide Compares our our Wilson students performance on the ELA SBA um uh to state averages and so as you will notice Wilson scores which is right there uh so Wilson scores closely track the state performance average with our eighth graders nearly matching overall

024State performance so a particularly rewarding trend is to see the the the growth that students make that that trajectory of growth from sixth grade to 8th grade while here at Wilson so that's that that graph on this on the right side it's cohort Data Tracking student performance uh over a three-year period starting with the school year 2021 through 23 24 so this data reflects consistent growth as students progress through Wilson validating our instructional plans or strategies and and our interventions we feel good about the growth while they're here at Wilson and we feel good about setting and prepared to their respective high schools in the slide deck uh you're going to be able to find data that will show students growth in math now math is an area that we recognize requires additional support and

025resources for student Improvement and that is why we have placed an urgency for growth by dedicating resources to develop students math fluency and automaticity as well as providing tiered interventions during the day including identifying students that can benefit from our tier 2 math mindset class so this brings me to this next slide so you may recognize some of these uh Superstar Wilson math mentors so approximately two and a half years ago the math team took on the challenge to address the Gap in and basic math and automaticity skills uh caused by the covid closures our math team determined that in order for students to improve and show success in grade level standards we had to First address the loss of those basic math skills So the plan it required an all hands on deck and

026a schoolwide approach we purchased reflex which is a computer-based Intervention Program that has shown great success for uh developing these skills for our students so after two and a half years of implementation and monitoring our Trend data shows that our current eighth graders have grown from 45% uh proficient on math basic facts and automaticity from starting at sixth graders to now 81% proficient at the start of the Year already so you might be asking yourself what is what is math automaticity so we describe it as uh students having kind of mental math skills right a sort of math fluency being able to add subtract uh multiply and divide without a calculator maybe even using scratch paper and so uh another very important component of this math plan uh calls for students to set growth goals

027and to monitor their progress during the year so with nearly uh 850 students here at Wilson uh you can imagine you know we we thought we're going to need an army of mentors to pull this off right and to sit down with each student to help them reflect and to fill out their progress monitoring sheets so knowing the importance of this step uh the team decided to call on any building or District staff member available to help with this task and it wasn't a surprise to get such a great response from so many people okay across the district willing to help including a few of you sitting here at this these tables and in the room today so since I have this opportunity today I would like to publicly thank board board members Norm Walker

028gracel via who is just here last week superintendent green the many district directors sitting out there right now and building staff that have found their time and their busy schedules to meet with dozens of students to each to celebrate their growth okay and to challenge them to continue growing research is very clear and it shows that student driven goal setting has a significant impact on learning outcomes so both the mentors what I've kind of noticed now okay uh the both the mentors and the students now look forward to um to these meetings and have now developed this like Mentor mentee relationship and I see these high fives and kind of joking around and encouraging them and so that's that's really cool to see so uh if you haven't had the opportunity to come and meet

029with one of these Scholars yet um don't worry we'll have future opportunities for you so uh be uh you know if you if you can find time if you can find time we'd really would love you to participate and I I can guarantee you it'll be a rewarding experience for you so be on the lookout for an invitation from either myself or from our math interventionist Mrs Bachman um who I want to recognize also right now as one of the main drivers of our math plan so thank you Mrs Bachman so in closing I I just want to thank you again for this opportunity to just share a little piece of our Wilson story and to celebrate our esses okay none of this would be possible without the dedication of our students who work very

030hard every day from our staff and our parents who go above and beyond and from our school leadership team who lead with vision with commitment and with determination so again I just want to thank you for this opportunity to share a little bit thank you for being here and thank you for supporting our Cavs way thank you any questions right now are there any questions from members of the board for principal Horizon thank you for your presentation it was um it's encouraging yeah very encouraging to hear about Improvement in math yes um I reviewed the the the rest of your presentation and there's some really compelling data in here uh that I encourage the rest of the board to really take a deep dive in um it's math is one of those subjects either you

031either you get it right away or you don't and if you don't and don't get the help that you need you're condemned for the rest of your life to not being able to really have those Core Concepts under control and and within your grasp so I want to congratulate you and and the rest of your staff on um your particular focus and on math and and seeing what that Focus has has wrought for us so thank you Ernesto very nice um thank you you know what we'd like to tell our kids is when they say I don't get it I'm not good at math we like to tell them you're not good at math yet right we're still going to be working on it we're gonna be looking at closing those gaps and so that's

032our job right so but yeah thank you for your comments thank you for the presentation uh principal Arisa um I really enjoyed my time last week um in Mr Robert's class and doing the math goal setting with the students um I'd not done that before and it was just really um impactful to me to see the kids um want to know exactly what they're doing know what their scores are um be disappointed or really excited if their score was higher or lower than last time and set really um assertive goals for themselves for the next month that was really neat to see that and it was uh really just fun to engage with Mr Roberts as well and to see his passion enthusiasm for for teaching math and to see how he engaged with the

033students was really neat to see the the connections and the relationships we had with students it was really um uh were able to see the uh a passion um in in his his passion for teaching and um as I walk through uh the school building uh just kind of going into the class and and back out um uh with with you for on on the way back out it was neat to see the energy in in the school it seemed you know I think a teacher kind of called out to you as you were walking by and you scheduled the meeting you know as you were walking through and and the the front office staff were really great as well so the culture that you've built here I think is is is really positive and

034and and clearly having an impact on a student achievement as as uh director rice mentioned so thank you for all your work appreciate it thank you and thank you for being here yeah do I understand that we have time for a tour yes we do whenever you're ready so at this point we'll take a 10-minute break and we'll do our guided tour R our mascot Wilson you know he tends to follow you with his eyes and you don't know the number of Tricks we've played on people over the years with you know people hooding that outfit on and jumping out yeah there some of our projects student projects art projects very talented uh we have very talented athletes you can see we have most of the trophies here at Wilson um and as well as

035you know art projects and other Stu our wrestling coach hasn't given us our wrestling trop yeah so come on down this way [Music] this is where uh Mrs Bachman teaches you know so uh really what what I wanted just to point out in this class is just kind of the how language Rich it is right and just so so many visuals and this is just how she teaches so we've identified five different uh uh periods during the day when she provides math intervention for the students and uh she if you ever want to see energy I invite to come into this class during the day and uh she I mean the kids just love it and they are on the minute they come in till the minute they go out in fact it starts outside

036the door because she greets them out there and asks them to uh you know give them give her a math fact or something before they even come in the door and so she does that and um you can see uh just displayed up uh uh she keeps track of our our math mindset class and our reflex you know data but if you read that one at the far up right Corner says students have solved over 3.5 million facts uh this far this year and that was u in December okay yeah and so I mean they've been busy and you can see the growth growth chart there from the beginning to the middle of our year uh how how much the the green areas have grown right just math math fluency and math facts and so

037yeah our students are they're doing awesome so really proud of [Music] so here we have our our Greenhouse area okay we started this uh man many many years ago uh I think you were probably around when we when we started it and so it was kind of a a science project started where we we wanted to engage students in growing their own plants and selling them as part of the ASB and uh and for a while there several years uh it was a pretty it was I mean remember every single um house was filled we had to buy extra ones and then we do a plant sale at the end of the school year so you'll probably see an email that goes out from from the superintendent's office inviting you know people to come and

038and Shop so I'm sure if it comes out of your office but it comes out of your office my office but so all of these are eighth grade classes so again we purposely keep them separated from our little sixth graders cuz they tend to be a little scary for them in the fall and so so they kind of catch up right but uh yeah so it's a so most of them are in Portables so all we have uh eight Portables okay so this is something that you probably don't see in many middle schools but our kids love playing Four Square really so we painted these four square you know lines out here and eighth graders are probably the biggest group of kids that they just love for square uh they do a little bit of

039basketball football but this is our main playground area and uh yeah I'm always amazed to see them playing Force they just I come out and play with them once in a while too I make it all the way to the king spot [Music] too okay it looks like everybody is back at this point in time we're going to resume our reports to the board and this afternoon we have two reports from Bonnie Smith the first in is in her capacity as executive director of Career and Technical education and the second will be as uh the principal of yv tech so please help me welcome Bonnie Smith to the podium [Applause] welcome all right there we go and which way to start are you pushing up bar thank you for having having us today school board

040president Becka esteemed members of the akamas school board and superintendent green and all of our board meeting attendees out there I came up and I have to tell you right now my heart rate's up in a good way we just did a tour we're starting to identify CTE classes that are going to come in that have already been in discussion so here I've got my heart rate up all excited as we get this start this conversation started today um this first presentation that uh we will be doing uh is a part of our College and Career Readiness department and again in this capacity I sered many ads for the district so in this capacity I'm serving as the executive director for College and Career Readiness and our CTE Career Technical education department as part of

041that and my colleagues our leadership team for that is Gabe STS director of CTE and then Nicole Bass um who is our special uh projects manager uh and she's in charge of our Middle School growing Initiative for CTE going into the middle schools we had to write this down because I'm got I'm getting all excited one of the pieces I just want to bring up I also served my other hat um as the principal director at yv Tech and the skill center so you'll see some stats in both presentations including WV teex numbers um but I also wanted to thank you for hosting uh Wy Tech is one of the Regional skill centers across the state um and we have 974 students we serve and 38% of those come from the AKA School District Ike

042Davis Stanton and online students today we presented um at the start of the school year to the school board but today as we look at what College and Career Readiness actually exhibits it's a three-prong system and you notice here on the left Career Technical education is part of that and that's the one we will talk about about today uhoh there we go all right now we're going to get into a little school we're going to talk about CTE vocabulary okay as we talk about CT vocabulary um we want to show and demonstrate to the board some of the wording that you might see as part of legislative initiatives as part of our discussion and I know that part of the system we throw around all these acronyms but we want you to become a little

043bit more versed in what we do um related to CTE and so here's the words we're going to cover today and what it means in the yamama school district first we're going to talk about CTE courses good evening everybody so we have CTU courses offered throughout our middle schools as well as all three high schools and we' have expanded offer three CTE courses at yaka online in 2023 there are 68 courses offered at the high schools this year we offer 72 different High School CTE courses well being the shortest one here we go all right now I am in charge of the middle school and there are eight courses currently offered in the 2023 2024 school year now if you pay attention you see that we've grown in one class but that one class doesn't

044equate to just one teacher we've actually expanded our CTE at the Middle School level with 14 different uh teachers added to our department now that moves on to our next section which is career clusters now career clusters in CTE we utilize a national Career Cluster to identify the state and local District program areas and the course Pathways so in the fall of 2024 a newly modernized career and cluster framework was developed and the reason to do this was to serve as a bridge between the education and the workforce providing a Central Foundation for well-designed highquality CTE programs now on this slide you'll see a green check mark and a brown or copper check mark the green indicates the career clusters that are present in our yakma school district CT courses while the other represents those

045that are offered at our YB Tech campus there we go our next section is program areas so OPI program areas or clusters help inform OSI on identifying the six State program areas that we in turn use to help develop our state approv Frameworks now these Frameworks are 10 to 20 pages of documents that outline the state core standards topics the units of study plus the Hands-On skills the projects the assessments that our teachers use so these 10 to 20 Page Frameworks are used by those CTE teachers that we have to develop the curriculum and lesson plans uh that they use in their classes all righty I'm here to talk a little bit about career Pathways so we use courses clusters and program areas to support students in developing their high school and Beyond plans as

046required by the state now the purpose of career Pathways is to help students explore career and college opportunities we use visual tools like the career tree you can see right there for biomed science along with digital programs such as zel and School links these resources connect to students um take within the Aima School District to their future plans Beyond High School whether that's entering a career an apprenticeship the military Andor two or four year universities career exploration in the high school and Beyond plan begin as early as seventh grade now next are graduation Pathways which are very different from career Pathways in 2019 eight graduation Pathways were introduced as a part of House Bill 1599 and I'm here to talk about the CTE sequence of courses now previously students were required to pass all of

047their High School courses and the sback state exam in order to graduate now students have the option to choose one of eight graduation Pathways in order to completing their cour work now first one of the OPI approved graduation Pathways includes a sequence of two credits of CTE courses or 360 hours that offer either dual credit Andor an industry recognized certification these CTE sequences have to be approved by OPI now on this slide you can see same program core sequences so agriculture to agriculture business to marketing to business marketing now yaka School District offers 95 same program sequence courses to meet graduation pathway options students need to take two credits with one CTE program in order to meet that requirement now some examples first in the Health Sciences area a student could take one one credit

048of human body systems and another one credit of intro to Health Science careers and that would fulfill the CTE graduation pathway in the stem career pathway a student could take one credit of Material Science and one credit of computerated drafting and that would also qualify them for a graduation pathway and a final example I would provide would be out of the family and consumer Sciences program area where one credit of Child Development and one credit if careers in education would fulfill a CTE graduated graduation pathway oh there we go now students don't just have to take uh courses as a sequence within the same program area we also offer multi-program course sequences where students can still meet that graduation pathway currently the AA School District offers 79 multi-program sequences that are approved by the state

049of Washington for example a student could take one credit in a program area such as Agriculture and one credit in another program area such as business and marketing to fulfill that program pathway requirement here are several examples first a student could take one credit of plant science and one credit of accounting and to Opi that would qualify as a CTE graduation pathway another example one credit of game design and one credit of robot prodcts and the final example would be one credit of careers in education and one credit of Microsoft Academy off the suite and that would also meet that graduation pathway we are also identifying courses from more than one program area that have been approved by OPI as the sequence those will need board approval soon now shifting gears we are extremely proud

050that the CTE um Department can be found in every goal of our strategic plan here just a few ways number one our grads par professional prep connects to early childhood education and a foundation in the early years two highquality curriculum that is connected to real industry Readiness in a student's personal high school and Beyond Plan Three the medical seal of Biol literacy and American Sign Language the goal of being biliterate by graduation number four connected to a providing purpose purposeful Pathways for students and support in each student's high school and Beyond plan and five is Career and Technical student organizations or ctsos and to tell you more about ctsos here is Nicole all right in CTE and in education we know we like our acronyms so ctsos what does that mean so a ctso is

051a Career and Technical student organization and a part of our Frameworks is that we offer and support these organizations outside of our classrooms to offer leadership opportunities with our students some of the examples of the ctsos that we have are Deca who does have a name but nobody uses it so I won't bother telling you unless you know it you get 10 extra points okay so if you can can tell me what the DECA stands for I will give you 10 extra points where those points go that's a whole different story but then we also have hoso which is our future health professionals of Washington FCCLA which is our family career and Community leaders of America FFA which is our future farmers of America TSA which is not the airport security but rather it's the

052technology Student Association and then we have skills USA which is our trade Technical and skilled services and occupations now if you look on the screen you'll notice that we have some State contestants and locations and one of them has recently passed so our Deca participants at Ike and Davis went recently to Belleview for their Deca contest and did make finalists but unfortunately did not place at state but we are sending more this week so we have FCCLA going this week for their competition host and next week TSA the following week and FFA the following after that so we like to keep our advisers busy and our students excited after that uh long list of vocabulary words do you have any questions for us all right who sits down with the student and helps them develop

053their high school and Beyond plan and then who assists them to kind of Monitor and and see that they're sticking with their plan or altering their plan or following through there's three parts to that Norm right now it falls a lot on the counselors or and Chad is out here quiz now he's our College and Career Readiness specialist specialist that we have at each high school and at the skill center but we're actually um spreading that out so that the advisory class will be utilizing the school links the new high school and Beyond platform from OPI to have as a part of advisory class so those students get more one you know one teacher to 26 students instead of one counselor to 426 and so we're trying to get it into advisory and juel and

054Gabe had just put out a session for a work group to develop that so that we can make sure students are more pointed in what they want to go into and have the attention they need when they want to maneuver to different pathway yep any other questions Bonnie I don't I have not so much a question just a comment um I want to thank you and your crew for a great presentation there is a lot of stuff in this presentation um some of it I knew some of it I didn't know and for somebody who's been on the board as long as I have that's a compliment to you that you can throw stuff up here that I didn't know um what one of the one of the things that I'm so proud of in

055this district is our CTE program and uh what goes on at the skill center for a lot of our kids if we didn't have access to the skill center they would be lost as soon soon as they got out of high school if they got out of high school and we know that you have to snag them with something that they have an interest in so you know as well as I do that for a lot of our kids those CTE programs in the middle and high schools and the program at YB Tech is what we use as the bait right yes to um get their interest and to and to get them to the point where they can be successful in something after high school so I want to congratulate everybody at the skill

056center and all of the CTE teachers that are in the middle and high schools for what they do to really open up the world for our students it's it's it's amazing that that they have all of these options open to them now well thank you we want to say thank you um to the school board right to the teachers to the staff for embracing us and the changes uh I just started again back with the district last year and added on the team we were able to add on the team last year but to be open enough to see um what we're seeing in the eyes of the kids listening to the student voice and what they want so that we can make some changes like advisory class and putting that high school and Beyond

057plan in there so students have more um intimate time to make decisions right so thank you for allowing us that opportunity and being open with that so we can make a move forward on behalf of the district anything else before we go to the other 50 slide presentation I'm just kidding well I did have 50 slides and Barb told me no I'm just telling you which is good all right so next uh presentation going to see um is on College in the high school and the AA in the high school um so we wanted to share today also on the Dual credits and the course equivalencies um that we have within the realm of the College and Career Readiness Department again for the yakma school district at the high schools and also at Wy Tech

058um so the first from a dual credit perspective we're going to talk about AP um advanced placement and then IB the international Balor at Davis um there's nine courses at Eisenhower High School AP courses and then at Davis there are 20 courses um as part of that International Balor um programs and then we're excited to be able to work with uh principal Hasty and her team over there to add on the career program What's called the CP you'll hear it as the CP as a part of the international Balor for starting uh next school year and then G gab a little bit about that uh Gabe was our so Gabe when I wrote the grant last year to move into and support career program um as part of ID IB uh principal Hasty and then

059Gabe was the assistant principal at Davis so Gabe and I work together because of his knowledge and expertise in CTE and so Gabe the CP what is that going to entail for our kids then so IBC DP program is very similar to the DP program but it is not going to be a students full-time schedule currently with the diploma program students are taking IB classes all day have to score three or four higher in order to Des um earn that IB diploma um now as for the CP program this would start their junior year and students would take two IB courses either one junior year one senior year both senior year um in a combination of a sequence of CT courses and a personal and professional skills course as well um so for our students

060it's really going to integrate High rigorous academics in the ibcp program and integrate it with what students want to do within their CTE classes so they can really hone in on whether they want to do video game design robotics but they are pairing that learning with the courses that they are taking through IB and again my most favorite part of this program is the professional skills class where students are going through a semeer estong course um to learn about communication skills collaboration problem solving critical thinking um how do you properly Ed media throughout their day and if they can do these things and earn a three or four on just two IB tests they're going to earn that specialized diploma for an ibcp um as opposed to the DP um diploma that's currently offered well

061and uniquely from uniquely from the perspective of the director at WB Tech we applied for two classes two programs to be part of that nursing and medical assisting right and we had to come back and make sure the rigor from the science standards that were in there met the uh IB requirements and so it's not just for any class these are specialized classes that principal Hasty and Davis you know have honed in on and have worked with the CTE Department to make sure that that rigor still part of that IB Program exists um and moves forward but is open to many students now with this career program all right the next one for dual credit let's talk about a little bit about college and the high school um in 2023 uh the legislator passed Senate

062Bill 5048 um which meant that the state was going to pay for the college and the high school tuition and fees instead of placing it back on the districts or the families great news right so you can see from our perspective uh Davis has seven courses right now for college and the high school approved approved Eisenhower 18 and ybt 6 courses but with that when we're saying we have courses approved that means the um requirements set by the colleges universities in our case Central and Eastern our faculty at the EA school district have met adjunct faculty level status to teach college and the high school um classes they've got to meet a certain standard to be able to do that in the requirements for the state which relates to the colleges and the University's um

063accreditation so they can't just walk in and sign up they've got to meet standard um with that okay and then as you can see the number of students that are registered Davis 485 1,178 at Eisenhower and yvtech we have 105 that will happen this year a total of 1768 students the great news that did a little quick math coming here making sure his current one credit class at the University level is 24 $433 so a five credit class is $1,215 15 so when you multiply that out a th000 students for a five credit class and the 768 students for one credit class um we are saving 1.5 million that the state is paying for um in tuition and fees okay the better news that I that's amazing for college and high school because our faculty

064are adjunct and stay in our buildings and teach the FTE stays in the aimama school district right so that's great news from that perspective and it's growing we just got another um two from Eisenhower approved for next year and we're to the point now as we're setting up our college and high school classes um we're saying we're missing these sections of classes in these specialty areas who can teach and what does our faculty have some of our faculty are finished in their master's degrees um and some are having to have three years experience or experience in teaching um College prior before they can even apply some of our high-end chemistry or physics um and our faculty are meeting those requirements both at Ike and Davis and at WV Tech great news all right Arizona State

065a AAA cohort you might have heard this back in 2020 when did we start this 2022 our students are now Juniors at Arizona State in an online Cort and will graduate next year in 2026 after that we will be sunsetting this program one it's out of state and two it costs us money right so we um committed Dr Green is committed to a cohort of students as um has principal Hasty and principal Diner um and so we have 16 Davis students and 39 Eisenhower students um that are part of that cohort we do pay we've paid 23,123 2,648 um to Arizona State for those classes reduced rate because we're doing a cohort model and there's three other school districts around the nation but our cohort model where kids support kids and we have faculty identified

066that are supporting the kids and their counselors our kids are going through in this cohort model that's successful the other districts Across the Nation the other two are not seeing success or traction and so they're actually asking us questions knowing that we're going to Sunset it next year right like we're best practice model but we're going to Sunset it because we're going to stay in state um with our uh college credits after that okay all right um ybc or dual credit courses these are courses that are taught by CTE teachers at our high schools Ike Davis Stanton and YB Tech but uniquely we still pay for these courses and they're taught by RCT teachers so they will transfer into ybc and count for ybc courses but if they go to take these credits anywhere else

067they might only count as an elective each University or college in the state gets to choose these dual credits offered through CTE classes how they will take them and most of them if they don't go to ybc will get taken as an elective class okay now um miss Mayberry and Miss gray who both teach teacher Academy actually teach ybc um you're keeping me on my facts right to make sure uh at ybc if you teach an ampers Sam class it's a credit class that counts for all community colleges across the state of Washington like Ed 107 ers we'll be counted at ybc we'll be counted at wam College in Bellingham we'll be counted as Spokane um in Spokane we'll be counted at Lower Columbia or Clark's College as that ed class for that student because

068it has this magical ersm credit but not all of them do so those coures again CTE courses that are taken by the college and we have 20 courses at yaka IE and Davis Stanton and then five at uh Wy Tech and again we pay for these um and it's per um it's about $65 credit so in Yakama School District we just paid a $5,040 bill for dual credits for yaka school district and yvtech paid $ 8,450 it's the higher the bill the more kids that participate right so divide that number by 65 all right running start great news our kids have opportunities to leave our campuses and go to ybc for running start to be able to get that AA um degree opportunity but uniquely we're still the yakma school district is still paying for

069these courses and it comes out of our department um right now notice the numbers great numbers uh last year we were in the 80s for enrollment for Ike and Davis um notice though we have 112 at Davis we have 107 at Ike and we even have online students that that are participating in wondering start amazing amazing amazing um for five students but I'll tell you for those 20 24 students um for fall quarter we paid $586,000 for those courses and that money because those kids are leaving our campus we're losing FTE and again ybc is doing their part as a amazing uh Community partner right and that's what it's there for we still just have to pay for those courses and those credits versus the college and the high school the other way where we're

070able to keep the FTE and keep the money and the savings all right we'll have time for questions at the end I see Martha writing them down all right so I'm going to jump into our course equivalencies real quick currently in the AA School District we offer 60 CTE courses that also uh cross credit towards math science English and art graduation requirements so the first one's going to be in the agriculture program area now on theend end of those six total classes we have in agriculture you're going to see a double Aster which means that the state OSI has done a review of those Frameworks so for example with plant science at the bottom 1.0 Credit in biology Andor lab science that is approved by the state of Washington without our own review now in

071business and marketing we also offer six uh different classes that cross credit for graduation requirements um computer science can count as a third-year math credit or even a one credit of science elective family and consumer Sciences would offer four different ones so ASL careers and Ed Family Health Andor food science um but with food science again the state of Washington does count that as a science credit and students do get that marked on their transcript now on Health Sciences we also offer six from biomed uh biomedical science principles that count as a one credit lab science all the way through Sports Med 1 and two which also count as lab science with other classes being offered for health Andor third-year math uh credit requirements and here's Miss Bonnie to talk to you guys well not

072quite yet skills and Tech Sciences this is actually our biggest program area we offer 19 different courses in there so we offer things like architectural drafting very heavy in the math so it counts as one credit for geometry um but due to the Fine skills that would also cross credit to a student's art um graduation requirements as well and finally we have our stem equivalencies so applied algebra or what we're going to be calling integrated algebra could count as a one credit for algebra um all the way through our robotics classes that count can count as either third-year math credit or lab science credits as well and here's Miss Bonnie to talk about the YB Tech equivalencies and just like Gabe said right like so we too have the equivalencies um from each of our

073areas but because if you go to yv Tech it's a year-long program 540 hours so you get three credits and so we're able to give more than the elective credit so we're able to give a couple graduation requirement credits and an elective piece to that and so I've just listed the business marketing the Ed ones and the family consumer science um and then here's our health science kind of like what Gabe said but again we're able to give those three credits many of them lab science to making sure our students at our programs are dissecting right we have adage tables now just like Ike and Davis do so that they can dissect on a computer screen and even assess on a computer screen before they get in I walked in on sheep eyeball dissection last

074week right as part of one of the courses so um and then Law Public Safety and our stem uh again making sure that we're keeping our faculty in CTE um relevant and also training them we just sent uh four teachers this summer to the applied math conference from OPI to make sure they're getting the labs and the training they need if they're CTE the finance guy right in banking but if they're going to teach that um Financial Fitness third credit of math we want to make sure that they're also trained and ready for that our skilled technical Sciences which are a large amount too again many of them are state of Frameworks and then we've come to our end any other questions for dual credit or equivalency classes just to comment it's amazing just the

075opportunities and that are exist now for students to pursue a career path and also meet their graduation requirements with all these equivalencies it's just it's really it's really amazing to just see what it's complicated but it's also just very creates a lot of opportunities for students I think it's Wonder ful very good well thank you and again thank you for allowing our staff our CT staff which is growing this past year um to take on this work as we continue to grow so thank you for your time tonight I do have one quick question oh sorry yeah and just regards to is their opportunity to earn a certificate by students can they get like a certificate in auto body or as a medical assistant or is that is that an opportunity that they have um

076yes so we have a couple different ones um the students at the end will get a completer program certificate for 540 hours um the kids the students that came in from other districts maybe at halftime in January we'll get a 270 hour completion certificate but many of them are receiving just like our Yakama School District when they get that industry recognized credential like OSHA 10 um for example that is costing us over $150 per student to get to gain that but they're getting that as part of their training in their programs both in the yma school district classes and also at yvtech so they're coming out with a credential and a certificate so even more than that that flashy sign that flashy shiny card that means something to those employers um and then the the

077senior class right we're looking at offering that opportunity of career choices but mainly to put together that portfolio so when they're walking into the employer they have all those certificates and they also have those credentials right there because that's what the first thing the employer is going to want do I have a qualified employee entry level and even the student now that is using CTE skills on the weekend to per DM money I think of our nursing assistant students that are going to college maybe to go to nursing but they're working as an NAC on the weekend and they need that department of licensing card there right but they also need those credentials and that's what they're walking out of at the Yakama school district and at WB Tech so it's amazing uh amazing amazing

078thank you Bonnie with the implementation of college and the high school within our district are we seeing a decrease in the amount of students that are choosing to go to ybc for running start this year so or is it too early so it's too early we uh we had a 74% increase in the number of Faculty that are qualified to teach college and high school last year because that was our Focus we needed to get faculty ready so this year instead of last year 80 students going to uh running start we have over a hundred right so if you looked at our data but we just got the faculty ready and got them onto the master schedule so we're now seeing the numbers increase that we can do so they can take them right on

079our own campus um versus leaving uh to other places like running start I'm just think yeah I'm thinking about the amount of money that we send to ybc every year for um running start when we have probably probably have um equivalencies right in our own school buildings for college and a high school yes so we now that we have faculty in place and can expand we also have to uh Meet the Parents halfway and let them know about this um in the language that they prefer of the opportunity for the student right we need to let the student and the family choose not letting must say if they're ready or not right like we're educating if if they're ready or not to take that college and the high school course but we need them to

080be able to understand the opportunities that exist for them in the aimo school district thank you thank you thank you very much thank you Bonnie Gabe and Nicole for the information this evening this afternoon I guess still afternoon that takes us to section c in our agenda for updates to begin with are there any updates from members of the board this afternoon Al righty then we'll move along to the update from superintendent green uh thank you first and foremost I'd like to uh recognize that Stacy lock our Deputy superintendent is still out uh so she has some um issues that are being taken care of at a personal level so I wanted to call that out that she's simply not missing and she's she has Main rain contact and uh wishes wishes us all well

081uh i' I'd like to also thank uh I didn't have the opportunity but I'm looking over at Bonnie and uh just incredible work this uh uh I found myself gripping the chair not to jump up and celebrate and clap my hands because the information that she's sharing is the numbers the increases I think she said 74% increase in college and the high school uh one number or just it's it's astounding the work that she's done and I think it's important to Daylight I think at a at a public level uh I think back a couple of months when I was talking about our student services and how great our emergency response team does and how I would just match them up against any District in the state and then to hear our president Franny Guerrero

082from yaa uh Echo that sentiment after she learned what they do was just astounding and and just gratifying to have that recognized across you know multiple levels I feel the same way about our CTE department and the way that it continues to grow uh if I had one person that I could pick in the entire State and I've been in across the state uh it would be Bonnie and then the team that she's assembled so uh she's well respected uh tremendously respected from uh across the state Olympia Spokane everywhere uh just seems to know everybody and is doing a tremendous job for the students uh not only in Yakama uh but the multiple other districts that are served at yvtech and I just I don't think we know how blessed we are sometimes in our

083district to have somebody of her caliber um the things that she's doing sometimes when you look at uh when we look at our College in the high school and our AA in the high school that is something that we started six years ago that's that that was a vision a dream and then now having the absolute right person in the position that she's in to take that to the next level and continue to build that I I think we could probably spend a couple of hours going through the material that she has shared and come up with many questions but I I think it's U I don't think oftentimes I I want to confess and be vulnerable here to to our our board of directors uh I think maybe um one of my strengths is

084not daylighting enough to you what the great things are that happen in the district and I think um when you hear negativity and not so much of the positivity that negative sentiment can overtake or overshadow some of the positive things that are happening but this is truly an amazing program and the way that she has done and led and developed this it's an Envy really across the state and so I'm I'm I'm I want to Daylight that and just share with you that as part of our Limitless Grant which he's involved in also um we have been able to develop a more robust partnership with um Central Washington University president Paul warport who has now been there I believe four years um and then Teresa Rich who's the interim president currently at ybc and putting

085in for the permanent position uh the relationship that I have with them has been uh magnified uh through her ability and um I was able to present uh on a panel uh last week and go up to Central and be with president walport and president rich and uh share what's working uh in our in our system and look at ways that we can become really seamless uh the way that we are from elementary to middle school middle school to high school the goal is to have that extend and go from high school to either ybc or directly to Central and I think we've uh uh we've got some great people in place to do that speaking of all three of those organizations ation so it truly is a um a regional partnership unlike what I've

086seen anywhere else in the state and U and I think that's worth uh daylighting what I'd like to share uh uh in in addition to what I've already uh mentioned here this evening is that Janelle keing uh was here on site last Wednesday and she's the uh individual that's uh working with us uh on the professional learning communities as I look up at Maria Lucero and jam Lee and Hector and others who uh participate to lead that work uh just a reminder plc's are it's the only initiative that we can remember uh that's impacting the entire system uh last Wednesday of course is one of those half days where we have work happening to unpack the standards and to uh go through the assessments and to uh go through data and improve instruction I'd like

087to call out in just a very again transparent manner that our numbers are our absent numbers from adults during those Wednesdays continue to be low and that would tell us that that all of the commitment or buying is not there yet uh but knowing that there is that time set apart for our early adopters and those that continue to advance um and that flywheel is moving and we're confident that the commitment that the district has made to have that Wednesday early release and have that time to where we can work as professionals uh our teachers uh are the experts and as that expert if you're working with experts then you become smarter together and you be you become more effective together so when we talk about professional development I would like you to think about

088that professional Learning Community opportunity as the professional development standard that we have in the district and that is the reason uh that we have that internal opportunity to um uh to be the best that we can be for our students uh but do that in a in a partnership one with another uh as teachers the uh last item that I just like to share is that I know that President Guerrero was up here earlier talking about principles and I just wanted to clarify because it might not be clear to the audience that when she was mentioning uh people names which we Tri typically try to stay away from I know she mentioned um Casey Mitchell as an example and she mentioned Maria Lucero I believe that was out of respect and um understanding for the

089work that those individuals are doing uh what she was talking about were our principles and and I believe not wanting to use the name of of of any principal so instead of saying principal a or principle be it was let's say for example Casey or Maria so I just want to call that out um and uh and let you know that you know we did uh cut early and we cut deep we reduced in January of last year significantly um uh of our leadership and uh we are are looking for ways to continue to maintain uh the numbers that we do have as I look out across the state and you know that I'm doing some work very close work with Belleview school district and Kelly armaki they're they're reducing all of their um Elementary

090uh assistant principles this year except for I believe two or three and they have more elementaries than we have have and we continue to see that uh come across the state I know that all of you are probably signed up for the uh wasda the e- clippings in wasda yes so I I encourage you to continue to look at those e- clippings because they're the information coming across just gives you a paints a wonderful picture uh I shouldn't say wonderful but a a very clear picture of what's happening in the state regarding funding when you hear like eastm reducing 2.6 million Kelo 2 million Seattle 60 million 30 positions in tum water 100 Pair educator hours uh it goes on and on Blaine merging schools um you've got Mount Baker uh talking about the crisis

091sending schools students to W uh uh Olympia uh this is uh uh something that is affecting our entire State and to have the oped that came out last week I don't know if you saw it but there was an opinion article that came off uh came out it was a guest commentary and it was titled it's time to fully fund education uh it was uh um came out in the Yakama Herald the online version and it was co-written uh myself and Franny uh came together to make sure that we were sharing a perspective that we wanted the community to have so uh coming together around the Paramount duty of the legislature which is to fully fund education just like to share one quote that we were able to uh share in the paper which was

092it's inexcusable that in state as rich as Washington that we underfund education and that we determine success in many cases by ZIP code and not adequately funding All Counties districts and school and that's part of what the state needs to do and we continue to work uh with our legislature to um to make that known to them and we'll continue to do so we're about halfway through the legislative session so for any of you who have an opportunity on Thursday I believe that's the next wasda um um midday kind of update so I know that uh Martha will be on that session but if you wanted to hear that or learn more about that next week I'm sure Martha will have that information director rice will have that information for us um that concludes my

093report for today thank you Dr Green are there any questions for Dr Green before we move on if not um Kiren there is a large list of items on the calendar and I have a feeling this list is going to continue growing for the rest of the year are the things you would like to highlight for us I am just going to highlight um some from March that are coming up so you don't have me at the podium with long lists but I first do want to pay tribute to um Barb viscus who does compile uh these for all of us I occasionally throw one or two her way but she is very good about collecting these for you so that you have them at all times and she even went to the um trouble

094of making sure that anything that she knows of through the end of the year and Beyond is listed there as well so I do encourage the board and others to refer to board docs to see everything that is going on in our district um but first we do have some upcoming School District board meetings as many of you know there are five Mondays in March 2025 so we are meeting today and then we also have you have a virtual Wasa Schoolboard session um your second session which is on March 13th at 5: and then in at Central Services at 7M on March 18th um there's a board business meeting and then also in March on the 31st which is a Monday at 4M you will be at Discovery Early Learning Center um which will include

095K8 virtual for um your school site visit moving on to school events I wanted to make you aware that on March 4th there is the Davis midwinter band concert um in the auditorium at Davis and the next night on the 5th there's the Eisenhower band and orchestra concert in their Commons on March 14th there's the David Davis Folly production in the auditorium and then we get into spring season the spring musical at Eisenhower is the music man and it will be between March 20 and March 29 and you can look up um all of the details and times and then I'm going to skip ahead to just let you know since I'm talking school plays that we also have school plays coming up in dve at Davis in mid April next we have um a

096couple of uh District events that I wanted to bring to your attention and one is a bit near and dear to my heart and that is on April 17th which is the Japanese cultural fair and show that will be at Eisenhower at 4M this year and we will not have that again until 2027 so if it's been something that you've wanted to see um please come on that day to see that there are lots of cultural booths you can dress in a summer Yukata and get your picture taken for Instagram you can um also eat some yummy uh Japanese food that's prepared by our own Food Services and um sort beans with chopsticks Etc and then there is an actual performance that's done in the auditorium so next time I'm up here I will tell

097you about everything else that's going on and if you want to start to ease into spring Sports we do have a couple of games next week so check the listed for that any questions I just want to request that maybe that we could add the um wasda spring Region 8 meeting which is May 1st and it's in Thorp at 6 o'clock thank you Kirsten Mr Cooper we'll turn it over you to you for a update on our 2025 26 budget good evening everybody I'd say Best For Last but the budget is often not the best topic in the room but I do appreciate following all the illustrious Educators who gave awesome and impactful uh speeches about their programs I would like to Echo Dr Green's um uh congratulations to the CTE team there of the

098bright spot both financially and enrollment would be CTE they're enrollment they're helping us financially and they're running a really great program for kids so and I've been around the state too and I I can't say I haven't seen the team as good as them so sorry Bonnie and team but you're gonna get it twice now uh you're probably wondering why I'm up here tonight are you're probably wondering why I haven't been up here yet potentially so this presentation of course uh last board meeting I spoke about kind of the shifting calendar it was a year ago approximately um what March 21st 22nd when we did uh a very large reduction to the district's budget to uh stop some of the deficit spending was occurring and you're probably wondering why it hasn't happened yet so I'm

099going to tell you why so we're in the middle of a long session it's an odd year and I say that on purpose and odd years are 105 day sessions so for an odd year for me means that we often go into the deep springtime when it comes to budgetary decision so first year of the bayum is 105 day session last year we had had a 60-day session which means what well it means a few things to us it means last year on the second year of the bayum on the 60-day really awkward um on the 60-day session we had uh most of the budgetary information we needed earlier not a final budget it was also the second year of the Bing which means there was hardly any policy adjustments so continued Insley was governor

100second term a lame duck we knew that the legislature was in the second year of the bananium usually only small budget changes not huge wholesale changes in policy usually what happens however now we're in an odd Year we're in a long session um director rice and I talk about this a lot when it comes to the legislature because it seems like it never ends especially when it's an odd year so this pushes all of our budgetary decision back between 30 and 45 days yes between 30 and 45 days and you ask why because the more ACC the most accurate and correct information I have as a CFO the better I can be towards the district and serving its um community and board members and staff meaning I will have more accurate information and be able

101to do accurate budgeting So currently now the other interesting thing is when you talk about the budget deficit and the superintendent and I talked about this uh today well what what is the budget deficit and if I asked you right now you would give about four different responses when the number because the numbers you hear are often a four-year number so the state's required to give you a four-year Outlook so when you hear 10 or 15 billion that's the four-year number what I have been able to ascertain through all my digging is trying to find the banian number which is the most important number that's just under seven billion as of today okay so you hear 10 15 billion the state budget gets talked about in a multitude of ways sometimes it's the carry forward

102are the maintenance levels What should happen at all is in policy that could be a deficit then it's all what they want to add as policy enhancements so that deficit continues to grow currently though the best understanding I have of the budgetary situation in the banum was about 6.7 billion is the banial deficit you saw this weekend or recently um Governor Ferguson uh put out A4 billion do reduction across all his state agencies so that is approximately what three4 two-thirds of the problem mathematically speaking if that were all to go forward so he may have taken care of4 billion dollar of the issue with his agency reductions however those are just a recommendation where they have to be enacted by the legislature so any questions on what the short versus long session and what the

103deficit is currently just my goal tonight is to give you some understanding and also just show you what we all grappling with at senior lead senior leadership levels let's talk about dates um you'll notice a very important date so in a long session the legislature particularly in a deficit position not as important if we're in Surplus but we're in deficit which means the revenue forecasts are likely to be in Decline right I would imagine the same thing is going to hold true for this next forecast Washington has a mix of economic measures we have uh one of the highest Exodus of businesses in the United States of America we have outflow of population um so demographically we we and business-wise we becoming somewhat challenged economically we'll see how that goes forward into gross receipts but

104gross receipts I'm talking about state revenue so they're wait for that forecast and the forecast is going to say you're up or down four or 500 million whatever the amount then they're going to go back and they have that week and first part of next usually and they're gonna each chamber will drop a budget senate or house house or Senate do you know which one goes first I I Marth I'm not sure which this year usually they take a turn so one chamber will drop a budget that'll be tea leaves for us okay the second chamber drops a budget more tea leaves and then they have to go into conference and reconcile some years the chambers are close and the job in the springtime for the CFO is a little easier because you can you

105can assume and into it what's going to happen but if the chambers are far apart in sometimes in situations like this in deficit they can be widely apart on where they're going to reduce because the amounts are so significant that's going to be an important Milestone when we get the revenue forecast our goal right now superintendent talk to me um about what would be potentially reasonable from when we would roll out our uh potential reductions and program changes I'll say if they're needed right because that's as right of right now it appears we will have some but there's a lot of water to go under the bridge and I'll I'll talk about that shortly the goal then would be in the middle of April you have in April you have a meeting I guess your

106April you have a March 31st meeting which right and then you have your April 15th if I'm correct so April 15th would be the meeting where we would likely go over budgetary scenarios and um program reductions Etc that would be the time frame would allow approximately one month before the statutory deadline for when you have to notify certificated staff of their employment status for the future school year so there and then sign a d as I forgot in between those legisl of session and sign a die ends April 27th you can see that's very late again in my career I think I've been through four five six special sessions especially when there's large budget gaps deficit year new governor I would not be surprised if there was a special session which usually that taxs that

107on to just before June 30 they always seem to settle right before the bium uh officially would end now that's conjecture at this point but there are large disagreements on policy and huge disagreements on what should be reduced so as I read it right now um patience is be a virtue we must wait for the revenue to come in the chambers will prepare their final budgets or their prospective proposed budgets and then we will set out and do our final bit of work um between now and then questions okay Jake could you share with the rest of the board what happens if by May 15th we don't have a budget yes please so the question before the board was if if there is no State Budget prior to May 15 then what do you do

108well what you do then is you read the tea leaves um director rice you make assumptions from reach chambers's budget and then you would conservatively reduce program by I conservatively mean I mean you would reduce program in a way that would protect the district from any potential fiduciary Financial issues because you don't have a state budget that I have done that three or four times in my career it does cause you to be more aggressive on how much you reduce because you just don't know how what the legislature is going to do particularly when I talk about some of these swings that we're seeing in policy so generally what districts would do if the legislature does not settle before May 15 and ideally you want to make those actions because in the end a notice

109a reduction in program I talk about them but they are it's it's a legal process right you have to have a rational basis you have notification du process rights are embedded so ideally you would like to make those decisions you know two weeks before May 15th because everything has to go a certain way but you're you're right and what happens is districts then reduce larger amounts to protect themselves and then they wait for the legislature to settle is an unfortunate Cadence but one that happens across the state when legislature goes along in a session so my goal is to tell you where I believe we're at now so last year ended 13.6 million in fund balance 4.7% in total uh January ement is in budget versus actual it's better than I thought because well better

110than I calculated originally because of CT in part um so there we're only about a $1.5 million difference in the aggregate when all the puts and takes are accounted for um we've also had Savings of about 1.2 million that comes in the form of attrition decrease in extra pay and overtime Etc so we have achieved savings this fiscal year and then we adopted a surplus as you recall from our second meeting um in August so if if all is flat we would end about 13.7 just under 5% fund balance right stable okay sorry it's small but there's a lot more in there now this is always the most difficult part for a CFO because I want to show you what I'm looking at for variables but I also want you to take into account that

111this is a point in time okay I just talked about the legislature running long my goal tonight is to show you what I'm seeing and believe the puts and takes are from the legislature and I'll talk you through some things and then you'll you'll probably understand why so what I like to do is figure out what the known costs are so I know currently that we have negotiated increase of about 150 Grand above ipd for some of our smaller units those are known costs those are those deals are done um I know currently that the governor proposed an ipd which is a cola and based on the implicit price deflator of 2.4% now why that's important is and I've said this before right now the way the numbers in line every 1% costs the district

112about one million out of local Levy funds so the cola is at 2.4 that's a $2.4 million draw on Levy if the cola is zero that's a zerar draw on Levy hence a swing of $2.4 million so lower the Coler lower the ipd better for the organization as I've said before not the best financially for the individual right they're not getting a Col or ipd that is a huge swing right multi-millions of dollars on the ipd amount currently those are the known figures so Governor Insley released a budget with a 2.4% increase in salary allocation model um inflation for Material supplies uh I have a $2 million hedge there which is fairly conservative given that our insurance went up almost 900,000 alone last cycle so two million to set aside for M Soxs for inflation

113is at a minimum what we should be setting aside right I I don't perceive inflation has calmed in some areas but not in insurance or legal fees or Etc right those those things continue to rise um Lev Equalization current the current model so Lev Equalization is another teaching component so there's a lot of bills around Levy and Levy Equalization those have huge impacts so one of the Lea bills moves our Lea up by $4 million right well that's that changes things dramatically there are other options where they would do nothing and then that's what I'm currently modeling I'm I'm modeling status quo that shows a decrease in our Levy Equalization collection because our student enrollment is dropping and our assess valuation gone up so those things decrease your Lev Equalization so I'm modeling what is

114known in policy not what is unknown currently but there could be huge swings in Levy Equalization and local Levy collection as well um estimate so we have uh enrollment um that came from above so I had enrollment decline from prior year and then project projected enrollment for next year so you take those two together you're um 37 million sry $4.7 million those are known quantities I'm projecting flat um enrollment to continue this year or sorry slightly downward and then next year 240 FTE mostly kindergarten and lower grade levels um that takes us down to the I have $1 million in and reserved for unknown costs and enrollment deine so one thing that's outside my demographic models would be any impacts that that Federal immigration policy may or may not have on our enrollment I don't

115know what that's going to be it's not in anybody's model right enrollment models are only as good as the past data that drives them forward so that will be an anomaly that potentially could impact our enrollment I don't know for the community boards or staff's sake what that could be it would be fool hearty of me not to assume there's going to be some downward impact on our enrollment um given given current federal policy so I don't know what that is but I know CFOs in up and down the valley are trying to figure out what that impact could be on enrollment and over the long term we and we just don't know so it is prudent to set aside some money for a million dollars roughly 100 Kids 80 to 100 kids so some

116hedge but not overly aggressive then I'll get to the positives so second year of our Levy Levy um uptick goes 2.6 million and then um we have the estimated prior year Savings of 1.2 and then the two amounts here that I want to talk about Sor with the enrollment in Decline uh the current Staffing models will reduce about 3.2 to 3.3 million in staff just based on rate current ratios lower enrollment so that'll be part of what we need to do for financial solvency is to tighten up our ratios just based on new enrollment that'll be about three to three and a half million I am proposing program reductions in this scenario of about $4 million so those would be additional reductions uh Beyond ratiod driven reductions for certificated staff those reductions could come from

117all over the organization and and likely will as we talked about some of those um in the past but we are working on a spring board as before so just to put it in perspective3 million $3.2 million in ratiod driven reductions of Staff as lower enrollment drives lower Staffing numbers and then we still need to reduce likely given the current Financial set an additional $4 million that will have to come from other parts of the organization so to put in perspective that'd be about a two2 and a half perc deficit versus last year's six six and a half percent deficit or 6% deficit um all that being said what it does what that plan accomplishes it does add to fund balance we remember this is without the fund balance before you is without the tax

118anticipation note that was just for liquidity so that takes us to a 5.44% total fund balance I will say for to liquidity needs we're going to need in the end to be close to that2 million Mark based on our budget just so we have sufficient cash flow we're not going to be there yet but with given this amount we will not have to borrow any further to make any uh liquidity needs so there is a lot there um oh I didn't touch on another anomaly in the budget is the the Office of the State actuary the and the pension board the markets uh had a good return and what happens sometimes when the legislature is short on money they uh they reduce employer retirement contribution so it's a reverse Cola so I have weird things

119going on so in one scenario I have a cola that will drive 2.4 million local Levy expense if the retirement contributions drop we save a million dollars right because it's it's a it's a benefit in Reverse so our employer contribution would save us money and then the cola would cost us money those those things are still very in flux and very large dollar amounts so I know I went through a lot but I would gladly entertain questions so that is what I'm seeing right now given the policy set before us there's a lot of unknowns but I did want to make sure that we had a chance to go through uh the potential reductions and the dollar amounts that we're seeing before us because there's a lot lot of moving water um particularly policy and

120legislatively but so that is where we are today um again it the overall reduction in April will will depend upon huge policy decisions that are still yet to be made legis atively but questions any questions from the board comments okay see done okay thank you if not I guess I'll recommend the rest of the board does a mental health and wellness check on Jake about the 20th when the forecast comes out and we'll uh hope yeah thank for the best thank you president Becka it and I do apologize it always feels longer this the first year of the bayum and everybody wants answers soon but it's just 105 days of pure misery and joy so thank you sometimes that describes the session very well thank you Jake appreciate your information this evening that brings us

121to our first comment or a first opportunity I should say for comment from the public this would be a section for commenting on items that are on the agenda this evening do we have anyone signed up for comment tonight we do not okay then the second opportunity which is of course is for all other items not necessarily agenda items we have anyone we do not no need for executive session thank you that takes us to the end of our to our uh meeting agenda for