001But I shouldn't spread out all over the All right, I think we're ready to start. K's coming in late and Stephanie won't be here today. Um, so let's call to order. Um, are there any changes or adjustments to the agenda? Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? Is there anyone who would like to make comments on our first order of business? Welcome to Washburg. >> Thank you for having us. Uh I'm Lee Spindler with Myron Construction and my role in the project is basically working on the pre-construction side of things. So working through the design with ISG uh the design partner on the job and getting to the point of having everything in order so that we can go to public bid getting bids in confirming that it aligns with the budget. So
002I'm working a lot with the budget and with the schedule. >> I'm Mike Christie. I work with ISG. Um I manage the team of architects and engineers that produce the designs that my takes to bid and build the project. >> You want to move the slide ahead? So, a little of the agenda here for tonight. We wanted to touch base it relates as it relates to timeline. Um, Mike wants to touch base as it relates to the design status. We're completed with the um design development cost estimate. So, what design development means is that we're 60% of the way through the design and now they're working on the construction documents. So, what that means to you is that we're really really working on the fine details now where the program Is is there any way
003that the kids are the students are being involved in what's going on and what they're seeing? >> They will be I actually just had a really great conversation this morning at an AODA meeting. um Drummond was there and sat at the same table as us and they just went through um with happened to be ISG and Myron and were raving without even knowing that. So Washurn was using about their building and how it turned out and they were talking about how I think they had three apprentice >> apprentices. Yes. >> Um as part of that actually worked on the project through the YA program. Um so maybe you have more to share. >> I'm glad that you're bringing it up because what you do Denise is make sure I connect you. We have a specialist
004within our organization uh that that's what she handles is the youth apprenticeship program and we highly encourage kids within the district to become involved in the project through that. Uh selfishly for both ends, right? Helps the school district um from just getting more kids uh involved in in the teched program and and the likes. Selfishly from our end, we need more employees for the future. And uh >> yes, >> we've had some really good students that we've done work in their school. They've gone through the youth apprenticeship, decided to join the trades. Uh you see them out there on our crews now. Uh we've also got in-house management staff that have come up that way. So I really appreciate you bringing that up because we'll make sure to make that connection. And is there I
005mean is there um in a larger picture with beyond the youth apprenticeship but for the other kids to also see what's going on and be able to anticipate what's happening and absolutely >> what to look forward to. Yes. >> Yeah. I think we can share the updates that we're sharing with the community the same way with students through their health program or I don't know if there's other >> well and just given the scope of this project meaning that we're going to be constructing through a school year and we're going to be in here doing construction there's going to be a working relationship between us the students and the district because unfortunately our business there involves some noise associated with construction. Um, so that's going to draw that curiosity of the kids in. >> Um,
006so there'll definitely be an opportunity for everybody to be involved. Uh, it's just making sure that we know the boundaries, right? >> So, but we've we've done it in numerous schools and we'll be happy to do it here. >> Okay. >> But thank you for the question. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. It has me curious if you could see a trend, you know, after a two-year project of like a larger number of students choosing like a path if they start to like learn about a trade or >> the construction management area, engineering, architecture, right? Well, even just the the design and picking things out and the samples and what's what's it going to look like and that kind of thing, you know, I don't know how much will be presented to the students of this
007is where we are and this is kind of what we're looking at and >> yeah, we'll absolutely make sure that they're going to be they're going to be the ones who are the most impacted. >> Yeah, I'll follow up with Shandra on that too because I feel like the help time that they have built in at least at the high school um middle school and then like even fifth and sixth graders. I mean, you know, coming up, the sixth graders sort of anticipating um the new building, they'll get a chance to tour and all of those pieces, but it's fun to engage everyone in the in the discussion. I I did also ask Kristen Tesar, I'll follow up with her in the fall about engaging her photography class in a project to take photos of
008the current building in its form now. And then I think it would be really great to do a like this was the space before and after so that as we bring the community and they can actually really see the transformation. >> Sure. That's a great idea. >> I spoke with her in the spring and she was aimed for including it as a unit project in her class, her photography class. So >> that's a cool idea. >> Yeah, it'll be a lot of fun. >> Yep. >> All right. Any other questions? Welcome, Tina. All right, district one spotlight. >> All right, so although I normally go the route of a presentation with PowerPoint visuals, they can sometimes get lengthy. Um, we just have a couple documents that were hopefully included in the board report and the
009visuals linked right in the agenda. >> Um, so for the wellness update, um, just a little overview of the wellness committee itself. So if you imagine the three overlapping circles on that visual, um what we do in the wellness committee is that we focus on student wellness, we focus on staff wellness, and then we focus on our wellness policy. And each of those things overlap. So in the wellness policy, there's a section specifically on staff wellness. Um there's just a section specifically on student wellness. And then where all three of those circles overlap is really like the culture, the community, and just like the wellness of our entire district. And so what guides that work would be our mission statement, the vision statement for our buildings, the collective commitments we have, and the strategic goals.
010So just as a refresher, I'll read through our district strategic goal on wellness. Our goal is to foster a culture of healthy living to support and enhance staff and student well-being in the school community. We're going to do this by expanding outdoor learning opportunities, the school gardens, and unique local experiences. Prioritize physical activity, outdoor play, create and healthy instruction, and nutritious food service offerings, support staff wellness, and create a healthy school culture, and improve school community communication and collaboration. And so those are the different components that we focus on throughout the year as we set our goals, monitor our progress on our goals, and report that back up to the board. Uh, one thing that we do very specifically with the wellness policy is we review it each year to see how well we're achieving
011uh, the requirements within that policy. We kind of do this in an informal way, but then every three years we do it very formally. And so you probably saw in the board of packet there was the wellsap, which is an assessment that we complete. So Denise and I went through this. We looked at our current policy and then um went through their rating system. Two would be u meeting it to the best fullest potential. One would be partially meeting it and zero would be not meeting it. And we took that data and we brought that to the policy committee. So then Sandy got to see that. Ellen saw that. Denise, Shandra, and I and then went through that to make um any adjustments or additions we wanted to see in our policy. So, those are
012why some of those changes and um are on that policy. And as you go through those scores, you'll see like we have mostly twos, which is really great. Um and the ones and zeros we have um make sense. There's a reason behind it. Um if you were to look on page four, it would say something here's a good example. Um we they don't want they're recommending that we do not use physical activity as a punishment. And that's something that we don't use. We don't make kids run laps or do push-ups. related to behavior, right? Um, but it isn't specifically stated in our policy that way because it isn't included in one of the newer options. So, it's still something that we we practice. We put it into practice. It just isn't specifically included. So, we
013have a zero though even though we are still doing that. So, just to clarify kind of how that scoring system works. >> And I'm assuming that means that we don't um deprive them of that physical activity >> away from them. That was another one of the >> Yep. So then based on that formal assessment that we completed, then we do what's called a wellness report card. And so um that was also included in the board packet and this will actually publish on our new website and that will be a great way for the community to see what's included in our wellness policy and then how well we're meeting it because it's included in our policy. Each of those components have to be met, right? So we really should have no zeros or ones being that
014we're not doing it. Um and you'll see that it's almost all threes meaning we're achieving that fully. And then there's a few twos and areas that could be some growth for us. So, one of them would be nutrition education. It happens informally all over the place, but we could do a little more work to formalize that instruction and have some specific units. Um, so that kind of helps us with our continuous improvement efforts. And so, our wellness committee will look through that, identify a couple of those twos, and focus on those for the next school year and support our students and our staff with that. And then we'll continue to reflect on this each year. And then in three years, we'll do another formal assessment, make policy updates if needed, and then republish that report
015card. Any questions about wellness either the policy itself or the work of the committee? Okay. Yeah, this is a little bit of a shift in that uh more of a data informed approach um to sharing what we're doing where normally would be a little bit more of like a philosophical presentation. Um, and then what we'll do throughout the year is as a wellness committee meets quarterly, um, I can include that in the board report on what our goals are and the progress we're making towards those goals and we'll likely have a common format for that that aligns with our other building level goals that we're working on too. >> The um the policy was the longest policy >> I've seen at this point. >> Pages. >> It was super long. >> Yeah. And we got
016a little excited because we were working on it and we got to the end of it and then we realized it hadn't all been copied over so we were missing about 10 pages. >> 10 pages. >> Yeah. >> Um so we had to come back and finish it. But >> Wow. Yeah. It was very long. >> Yeah. But something to be proud of when you look at our scores and every school has a publisher report. Our scores are really high in comparison to lots of other districts and we know that's a priority for us here and it's good to see that shining through. >> Where are they? Where where do they are they? Um, they can post it anywhere on their website. So, when I was just doing a little research, I just Googled wellness
017report card and just looked for some of the districts that I'm familiar with and it was interesting to see the difference in the policies and and where we're at compared to where they're at. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Well, of course, we're uh nearing the end of August, which means staff are starting to arrive in our buildings more frequently. our students will be back uh before we know it for orientation days as well as the start of the school year on September 2nd. So, we're excited for that. New staff orientation next week. So, we're going to have um I think it's eight new staff members here to do orientation and we'll get a chance to connect with mentors, spend some time doing a community tour as well as going to
018a local establishment for lunch. So just giving them this introduction to the Washurn community and all that it offers. So we're really excited for that. Um, we have now we our core safety team within the district met last week and Ivy and Homer had attended the Alice trainer training over the summer and Ivy did an amazing job uh implementing the training to that core team. And now uh we have an online platform that all staff will go through a training about an hour to become more uh knowledgeable in the Alice protocol. And then we have about an hour and a half in each building scheduled for in-person training as a followup to that online piece. And then that core team is going to meet again in the fall and continue to work on the implementation
019strategy and just refining um because there's a lot to the whole as well as communicating among the families of our change. But it's just really exciting to think that we are um implementing best practice and we're going to have everyone uh trained and on the same page when it comes to school safety. And then we will also be doing a little bit of work on sort of uh how you identify threats like doing more threat assessment work. So having an email geared up and Ivy and I will connect on that as well like kind of rolling that piece in to the um active shooter pieces and and updating our emergency binders and there's just a lot that will go into the work but it'll be good work. >> Now the police department was part of
020that training right? >> Correct. and they will be engaged in the conversation and in the work. And should we and when we decide we're going to do with staff only uh more active drills and then with students potentially some rally point participation will engage uh the police department in that as well. >> Will they be part of the training here with the staff or >> No, we're not planning on having the having them necessarily just having the two uh internal staff members. We feel really comfortable but definitely as liaons in the process and conversating with them has been a continued process. >> Sure. We who will maintain that. >> Is that the Washurn Police or is it the Bea County or both? >> No, it was Washurn Police Department. Okay. >> Um Yeah, it was
021Jeremy Helwig, right? Who attended I just wanted to make sure I had the name right. Uh with Ivy and Homer. Yes. So, what a partnership. I mean, to have the police department seek out the opportunity to go to the training with our staff and be engaged. Um, it's just amazing. Not all communities would have that engagement. >> Wonderful. >> I wonder if Fable County has had that. I mean, they must have had that training, too, don't you think? >> That's a really good question. I'm not sure about the county. Have you? >> Yeah. I'm not sure. I think, yeah, worth looking into. And we've partnered with um the fire department and the police as well. And yeah, kind of taking a community approach to it. Uh and then the last focus for my board report
022is you know one of our strategic goals is on improved communication throughout the district and that's been since last July a focus of my time here. So just wanted to highlight uh some of the work that we've done around improved communication. We have uh of course just recently moved to a single platform for our email and our you know documentation and sharing and collaborating which is going to streamline that work utilization of our Google calendar for sending sending invitations and you know blocking in time. We're getting much better at being consistent with that. We updated our facility use form to be a Google form. And now we have really great communication between our maintenance department, our district office, and our principles to ensure that that coordination is seamless and doesn't fall through the cracks. We've
023updated our activity calendar. We have one calendar now where we have our athletic director and administrator as well as our uh administrative assistant for athletics focused on like a one-stop shop, which um if things change, it's one place, one time. Uh we have a new website that we're continually improving upon but already has just simplified how to find things and where to go. And then u the principles are really excited about their first building newsletters that'll go out and monthly we'll have those to share with our families and our community. Um and I forgot one uh our new social media coordinator Heather Osborne who's doing just an amazing job of uh community and staff and student engagement. So, more great things to come on that front. I think she's already doing a really great job.
024>> It's been fun to see all the stuff on Facebook for summer school. >> Yes. >> So, just had to highlight some of the great communication efforts that we've made districtwide. And I I keep telling everyone this is hopefully more of a year of refinement while we continue to expand on the goals and and we'll refine our processes and our systems and um continue to take the input and feedback from others to make it better. >> Yeah, communication doesn't ever end. >> It doesn't ever end. No, it's so important. It's >> an ongoing thing. All right. Um CISA, >> we have our meeting next week. >> Okay. We'll be expecting a great report next. >> We have a lot to share. >> All right. Financials. >> Um I would like to uh defer financials. I
025was unable to uh get to the financial reports this last week. >> Okay. Um consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Discussion items. Well, I'll tell you, I totally forgot about word goals because homecoming and all that came in there and I said it seemed like our retreat was a year ago. So I I did do the goals. Um I did them in a little different fashion than what we have had before because there was there's definitely a little bit more direction um and things that are related to each one of us. So um I'm open for discussion to change whatever your thoughts are. Um the first um talking about strengthening our role as an
026advocate of public education in the school district of Washurn. Um the first part was developing a relationship with legislators um and communicating with them at least five times a year with each board member taking responsibility for one of those areas. Everybody comfortable with that? Um each board will research and present to the board. um something about a state or federal issue that is happening and that can be at any time during the year um and build and participate u participate with community advocates um you know like possibly attend one of their meetings and I just put you know the PTO education foundation wellness committee and I was I are there other examples of things that we could put in there? Well, would this be like the wellness committee is a committee of the district, you
027know? I don't know if that's what this is reaching at. I feel like is this region more like Lions Club and is that or or maybe I'm wrong with that assumption? I think that's fine. I mean, your assumption is as good as mine. >> Remember the context of that conversation? That's what I'm trying I'm trying to recall that [Music] >> advocacy outside of the school or maybe not necessarily even advocacy but just like relationships and like this is what the school is doing. This is how we fit into the community. This is actually how we fit into your organization. You know, like we all are here together. um especially in a small town like let's let's remember that and let's let's uh make it a point to just be a little more present um or
028even how how we can connect students with whatever they're doing you know um I'm just thinking like the beautifification committee in watch you know they often have projects >> and um I've talked to the person that is involved in it before doing working on a project and suggest using WITC's manufacturing, you know, um there's there's ways we can connect our school with different things that are happening. >> Yeah. And it's good for the kids. >> Absolutely. even in terms of like uh like a like a city committee, you know, service learning hours, you know, having like I mean that like we're not going to set up those kind of relationships, but just to make sure that like if those relationships already happening or if like somebody's already doing that thing, we can be like, hey,
029from a board perspective, like this is how it's helping our school district, you know, this is how these kind of engagements like make it better. So, thanks for like working with the students and like let's keep it going, you know, like just being a being another voice. And so, um so I don't know how like I don't know how that kind of collaboration or that kind of like reporting or that kind of relationship building would work. Like I don't want to like we're not going to waste anybody's time like if if the beautifification committee like has an agenda already or if they're like I don't know how like these committees would work in the city like as an example but um but like can we like could I go to this meeting in February and
030just say hey this is one other aspect to look at you know the school forest is open and they're doing maple syrup in the end of February and early March and you know like that's beautifification for the city, too. It's a public building. Like, that's part of the city. Like, you can, you know, um you can just highlight that like wonderful aspect that they can just add to their list of things that maybe they just weren't thinking about before. Um so, I don't know. I don't know. >> I think it can be a little bit of both. I mean, it could be a little bit of both district committees as well as city committees. I you know, I'm Are there other >> Other committees. The club I mean, I know that they have meetings. >>
031I think there's a lot of them. I I don't think we have to go with an agenda or a motive. >> No, I'm just I'm sure like sitting there listening to the meetings, your brains are going to be cooking. I mean, mine would be >> Well, yeah. Right. And even Yeah, maybe that's a better approach. Like look, like we have open meetings and people come and they witness and they observe and then they like take that information. And so like maybe that's what you're saying is let's go and be witnesses for a little bit and be present in the community and that way we can come back and say hey you know like look at this connection that that I made you know last last month. Okay. So, I'm I can continue to list other
032examples because I still think like being at PTO or the education foundation would be good things. >> You know, I don't know. Typically, do you have board members aren't on the wellness committee? >> No. >> But they but they could attend. >> Absolutely. >> Um the Lions Club. What are other district uh committees that are like open meetings? Are there are there other council? >> We already have like represent representation there. >> Okay. I feel like that would be I feel like that's a little bit of a different conversation which is like do you want schoolboard representation on the wellness committee? You know that's a school. >> I wasn't I wasn't necessarily looking for something that already has a board representative. Got it. looking for some other organizations that we can be a part of
033to start working within the community. So I I I guess I'm sorry to get so hung up on like that's not like the school school that's not a community. >> Yeah. >> That is take that one. >> Well, no. I I kind of like I love a community. I would love we don't have no we don't have much of a long range planning committee right now. We're like using long range planning kind of >> yeah strategic planning and kind of ad hoc and so like we should have like >> but typically we do have a board member on the long range plan. >> It is a board committee. >> Yes. >> Right. Should we make the wellness comm Oh, I see what you're saying. Those are board committees. >> You do have the option to
034make it. We talked through that before taking it more >> the wellness comm >> but it wouldn't be that you went to it every time. It would be like you stuck in one time >> more of like but it's not an open meeting to the public that wellness is a school. >> Well technically is council technically is not. So curriculum council is not a decision-making group. It's just a like a like a field for you almost. Yep. And then the wellness committee technically is open >> and then policy committee is open. >> Policy committee, wellness committee. >> Uh and then long. >> Okay. So, do you have any other um spots of different committees that could be listed? I mean, we don't have to have them all listed, but those are some examples. And there
035might be something else that you know or rings your bell sometime during this. I think we should like maybe uh make it a point to um like maybe look at city and county agendas a little bit closer and be like, "Hey, that overlaps and then just go to the meeting." >> Absolutely. Like I said, we don't have to list everything, >> right? And so and so that's the spirit of number. >> Yes. >> Just set a goal of like everyone's going to attend >> at least one time per year each number. >> Yeah. And you can choose whatever portion you want. >> All right. The second goal is to increase community engagement. Um and so I have scheduling and attend community listening sessions. Um we talked I talked to Denise about it a little bit
036like four times a year. Um that each session possibly would have one or two board members at it. Um we talked about, you know, where if we wanted to do um some during the day, some in the evening, whatever. And then possibly having um other administrators so that we might have a focus of the elementary school, the focus of the middle school, high school, a focus on building and grounds, focus on playing. Those are just four that I came up with, but that could be something else al together. Um so that sounds okay with everybody. um develop relationships with community businesses to increase the youth apprenticeship program. And I have to get the numbers. I don't know how many participants we had and how many businesses participated and then increase it. >> Drew, do you
037remember how many I have it in my email from Olivia? I have the numbers. >> Okay. you want to do like an arbitrary increase or like 10% or like >> or is that not our job? I know that >> it's not really our job because Olivia says that with the district and she her goal is to increase it every >> and >> yeah another goal >> so just to kind of support those CISA goal >> building those relationships with the businesses and bringing that back to the school would be fabulous in meeting >> well I think what would be helpful too and Olivia would think it's helpful is she doesn't know all the businesses and like do we know people who own the businesses. >> Yeah. >> You know, like >> making that connection for
038her >> which helps the students, you know, >> I mean, I did that a little with her already and it's >> it's like she'll just have them say, I have a student that really has an interest in blah blah blah. Can you think of anything that would relate to that that you know? >> Okay. So, develop relationships with community businesses. we want. Yeah. But then how do we do it so that we can measure it in some way? >> I I think that we can just take the like I mean we would probably know >> I don't think the youth apprentice should really be in there at all. >> Oh because that's not our job. It's not even related to >> So just develop relationships with community businesses. Period. And then let's find a way
039to measure like what that means. >> Yeah. Like it could be even finding jobs for kids. You know, we can hear of a business and says, "Hey, I have openings. Do you know of any students or can you somehow tell Jen Lutz to post it that we have more positions for this because otherwise >> to be more of a liazison, >> right? >> Yeah. Which is a role of building that community. Yeah. Being a liazison to the community is a core role. A lot of businesses don't know that they could do that either. You know, >> how can we how can we do that and and measure it? >> Well, you could say you contacted so many businesses and then the results of that 14 people were hired or 12 people were hired or Yeah.
040Well, we don't know how many have been at this point in time, you know. So, I mean, I don't know. >> Well, Jen, it would be on the work study. Jen Lutz could tell you how many numbers >> that flatly covered all the kids that were working, not even youth apprentichip is another difference. I think I think this particular year though is also about like if it's really truly about relationship building which we've not necessarily been intentional about in the past maybe this year is just developing a database and developing a list of you know 10 businesses that are partners with the school in whatever partnership means whether it's hiring kids or donating services or using uh the apprenticeship program like whatever relationship whatever that means. or volunteering lots of >> Yeah. Volunteering or whatever
041service learning. Yeah. So, um so I think like developing like like datab might be the wrong word, but some kind of like group of like >> you know, you see all the businesses like a cane, you know, like some kind of like network of businesses that are like we love Washurn School and we have this collaborative agreement. Washurn sends us this list and I'm on and I'm on a list of like 10 other businesses, you know, whatever. I don't know. But like um but I think it's developing that list. I think it's developing um like who's the contact person and whatever goal comes out of that like that's not going to be us necessarily this year. And maybe something will come out of it, but I don't think that should be the goal. I don't
042think we can track how many students are getting jobs at IG and based on like >> I don't think that's our job to do that really. >> Well, I'm just going off of what we did talked about at the >> retreat and that was the youth apprenticeship was brought up and um you know the partnership with business with business community was one of the things that um showed up on that survey. >> Yeah. >> So developing >> Yeah. develop relationships, >> develop a list because that's very specific and measurable of the rel of the businesses, the local businesses that want to engage with this school district that are interested in some kind of engage. We don't know what that is, but we appreciate you business and I hope appreciate us too and they would. >>
043Yeah. I mean, and it might be, you know, when down at the hardware store, they do paintings on windows or those. I mean that's doesn't have to be a big thing. >> What if you send a letter to all of the businesses which is sort of an invitation for engagement and you know the district could even help with crafting that or helping to like determine what would those areas of engagement. >> Yeah, exactly. I think that just opening that door and say if you're interested please contacting Ivy and Chandra as the contacts >> for you know how we can do that work because I feel like if you connect >> the business directly to a person here too it's more tangible it's more like and then it might also help them think of those like
044what are those ways they can whether it's a donation whether it's opening their doors for service learning or a job opportunity >> um >> I mean the or can you be the ones responsible for you know sending it and we can help and creating it. I think that's a good idea with the letters because then you know that they're motivated just going door to door and saying you know just can't do it >> and giving them the ideas which could be really helpful. Okay, figure out how to write that one. Um, and then viewing the strategic plan is the last one on that one. Um, the third goal is talking about studying and improving operation procedures and techniques. Um, and we talked about developing a new board orientation plan. um providing training on parliamentary procedures
045and a review and reflect on board meetings to ensure that we have time for discussion and transparent reasoning for decision-m. So we would have a reflection period at the end of each meeting. Does that make sense? >> Okay. Any other suggestions or changes that you want to make to those goals? Are those good for you? >> Okay. So, we'll rewrite a couple of those a little bit and then um have this present for ready for the September meeting that we can finalize. >> Um and finalize, do you mean like an implementation plan or do you mean like just approve like, hey, these are the goals for >> Yes, both. uh these are the goals we're going to them >> and then we're going to have to figure out how we're going to implement that. Yeah,
046I think that because the the heavy lift here, I think for us, at least for me, something that I'm not necessarily um used to, and like I said, I'm going to have to like practice it a little bit and like work on it probably throughout the whole year, is that engagement, whether it's like listening sessions or like reaching out to a business on behalf of the board. like I feel like there might be like some like say this and not that that kind of like training, you know, for me a little bit, but also um uh developing those relationships and topics of politics that affect the district, >> you know, like legislative topics and like I report on those things. Um, can we get like a discussion item about like one of these specific like
047a little bit of a heavier lift or something that's new for us on the agenda also in the next like month or two so that we can work on that like sooner than later? Like I think I'm going to make one recommendation just as I'm listening and this is only from my past experiences. I feel like you have three amazing goals with three >> Yeah, nine goals >> and it's just a lot. So, I feel like honestly could take kind of like we did with our strategic goals and we took each goal and we said, "Okay, we're going to tackle one of these a year." >> So, these could be like three, this could be a three-year goal, >> you know, document that you're working on that you do really deeply and really well because
048otherwise I feel like it is a, >> you know, the months just fly and you feel like, oh yeah, we're going to be able to tackle that. Well, you'd have to do one a month. >> Yeah, exactly. and you'd be like, you know, with all of the rest. So, you know, like Joe Schroer will say, you know, you know, less is more. Can you do it deeper and do it >> much better um with >> with results? You know, you can't get results. So everything >> the only thing that I would question on that is because every year the board membership can change has like some turnover. That's true. >> Sure. They could be tweaked. >> They can be >> and things might not apply one year as it does to another. This is why
049we have a brokerage every year. Kind of look at this like the goal plan and say how much of this applies? How much of that? The other thing we could do is um keep the similar goals but cut it down. >> So maybe it's not maybe you pick one um issue that's going on the state and that's what you do for the year. One person might pick the something to connect with businesses and you do that. Um I mean the strategic plan is happening. We know that >> that's that's an easy one. >> That's an easy one so to speak. Um, you know, we might take an issue and maybe we maybe two people work on an issue and write a letter to a legislator and then bring it to the board to approve it.
050So maybe we can >> kind of divide. >> Yeah. So it's not so it doesn't feel like it's so much. Okay. >> So should we have that like maybe take like five more minutes and kind of pick out Sure. >> Let's start at the top. three like so we have like three of these top ones and we just kind of like focus on maybe one of those or figure out a way to to dive in a little bit deeper. Is that what you're am I hearing you right? >> Yes. Or you could do um one we just do one thing. I think of I think the top goal um you know it might be that it might be um I might be more comfortable doing A but Julie might be more comfortable doing C. >>
051I see. >> You know, so maybe we could do that. So it's not um so we do at least one of the one of those three things happen. >> Yeah. But if not all five of us are doing a it weakens a >> Yes. >> You know um maybe that's how we divide it up. There's three there's three things and we each figure out which one we want to do and one of them we might work together on or Well, those are all like A, B, and C are all pretty um pretty different and they all have like different purposes. >> Is there one that like strikes us more like in the early stages of us participating in relationship building and advocacy? Is there any one thing that's a good intro for us or is
052there anything that's more important than another? Like I think C is a good introduction because these are all like neighbors and that's easy. That'll be like an easier lift for us to accomplish. A might be more important. >> A is a is a little bit harder stretch but but very important. So that's where I'm kind of at right now is that like C would be easy. Not not easy. Nothing's easy. But C is like reaching out to people we already know and people we already probably have some relationship with. >> But maybe we don't know them >> or Yeah, that's true. >> I mean, you know them, but you don't know the committee. You don't know. >> You know, >> see, I A doesn't that wouldn't bother me at all. I would if I picked
053one of those, I would pick A. Yeah, >> that would be my choice. >> But I think A is really important. I think I think that that is something that we haven't done necessarily well. I don't think our legislators know us by name. >> Um they know of our school district, but only what they read in the paper or maybe they they've done tour they did a tour um spring was our legislator on any of our school referendum tours. I don't think so. So I feel like that's that's an important one kind of actually. >> Okay. So maybe we just take out that that we develop a relationship with legislator and communicate with them on a specific issue once a year with >> well I think you're saying that each board member would reach out
054>> I'm saying let's take that out the five times or each board member that we do it once as a board but one maybe one person is responsible for it so we do it one time. I'm saying >> I could do that one. I don't like that one. >> Good. >> I think it might be a good idea also maybe to do it more than once. >> Well, one or more or more. >> Yeah, great. Good idea to put it. Just one or more. One or more. >> Great. And um and it's like those other goals are important, too. And if we get a chance to put them on an agenda and discuss them and plan for them at a different time, I think we'll be so happy to do so. But I think let's
055go on to the next school and see if there's another >> um I mean we could do the same thing where we present on one state or federal issue a year and somebody can pick one. That might be something that somebody would like to pick. and we can pass around and see who wants to do it. Maybe two people and do it together or three people. And then the same thing with C >> that it happens at least once. So, okay. Does that make sense? >> It makes sense. I see it. But it's still a lot of different things. And like Denise said, then there's going to be like a thing every single meeting, which is fine. We can work harder. It's not a big deal, but it's a little bit of a bigger look
056than what what we've done in the past. >> Why don't we look at the second one and see what's >> Okay. The the listening sessions. >> Well, the strategic plan is the important one, right? That's what's happening. It's already on the books. >> Um we're already working towards that goal. Um, and I think that if you needed to add anything like if there was anything else that you wanted to add to it, I think those I think the listening section goes hand in hand. But I'm comfortable with just having a strategic plan focus for this year. >> I agree because I think it's important >> because with the strategic plan, there will be communication about it and there will be like things that we're going to want to report out and whatnot, but um, but
057we gota that's going to be really important and I think that the communication is kind of embedded in that strategic plan. So I think if that's our focus of that particular goal for this school year, I think that's enough. >> All right, we'll take everything on flow. Um the third one, new board orientation plan, training and parliamentary procedures and did the review and reflect. Um one and two kind of go hand in hand. Um because I'm sure that like part of orientation I would think would be eventually like this is parliamentary procedure and and we'll I think grow into that. >> Um we do have like a governance idea after this like kind of strategic plan. We've been thinking about like oh let's improve our governance structure over the next um year or two but
058like after the strategic plan is done. But uh that third one um I think in our survey that we did for each other I think there was like something very specific about like self assessment and I feel like that's what this is saying like at the end of every meeting review the meeting. >> Well I think we can easily do that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, >> so the third one we would leave C um it's kind of our priority for 25 26 >> and were we telling me how we were going to do this Denise we were talking about doing the strategic plan this year and then we looking at that governance plan for the following year. I think if we focus on those three things, so like relationships with at uh with legislators
059and communication about Washurn School District needs, um strategic plan and board reflection, you might find that those other two sub goals get incorporated into those actions. >> Okay. So, I think it is good that they're all still listed on there, but I think maybe we can just like change the order and like we said like maybe make this can you call it like a three-year goal plan, you know, instead of a goals for 20 call it 25 26 maybe go or goals I don't I don't really want to do that because of the strategic plan. We don't know. We don't know what the strategic plan is going to hold. >> Well, every year we kind of look at it in some way say we did this, did this, let's move it to the next year
060so we can still do the same thing. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And keep the dock be like a living, >> right? Yeah. >> Okay. All right. We'll try to put it together somehow or other and get it out so you can take a look at it. All right. Um, individual action items. I'm going just let you guys see motions and seconds and move on. I move to approve the first reading of the policies as listed. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. >> I move to approve Ashley Press as the district's official publication. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. I move to approve Old National Bank as the official depository for the district's funds. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed.
061Motion carried. I'll move to approve the district activity accounts. I'll second >> discussion. >> I'd like to make a comment. >> Okay. I was impressed to see that there's 75 activity accounts. That's pretty good for a little school. It is. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carried. To approve the 2526 elementary school student. >> A second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carried. >> I'll move to approve the 2526 uh middle school high school student handbook. I'll second >> discussion. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carried. >> I move to approve the 202526 coaches handbook. >> Second >> discussion. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. I move to approve the 2526 middle school high school athletic handbook. Oh, second discussion. All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Make a motion
062to approve the 2526 ESC parent handbook. A second >> discussion. Aler I >> opposed. Motion carried. Make a motion to approve the 2025 26 ELC step 10. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carried. Are we going to um look at tableabling both non- staff and staff? >> Just the certified staff. >> Okay. I move to approve the 2025 26 non-certified staff handbook. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. And then um I believe we're going to um table the certified staff handbook. That works for everybody. That okay. All right. And we need a motion to adjurnn. >> Make a motion to adjurnn. I'll second. >> Motion carried. We're good. Thank you everybody.