001Aaron, testing, testing. Can you hear me okay out there? >> Hi, Corey. Yeah, we hear hear you loud and clear. Can you hear me? >> I can hear you perfectly. >> Okay. Uh, we're about seven minutes out. My my board is gathering as we speak. So, uh, we'll see you soon. >> Perfect. And it looks like I can share. I'll throw it up on screen unless you want to run it from there. >> I I can Whatever you like me to do. I I can run it from here. Whatever you'd like. >> I I'll start it from here and if you need to take it over to make it work better so they can see it, then just let me know. >> That sounds great. Thank you, Corey. >> You bet. and uh get the
002meeting started uh with a call to order and welcome and pledge pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. And for those of you at home, you're missing out on a really nice open house that's happening. >> Yep. Lots of lots of folks here and free root beer floats provided by Eastern uh volleyball and football. So, >> all right. Do we have any um public comment? >> Actually, can we go back to item three? We have an addition. >> Yeah, sorry. Yep. >> Um in the agenda, I'm adding uh item 9.5, which is a purchase of some glycol >> uh for our hydronic system and Mr. Brennan will go into
003that. So, just add 9.5. >> Okay. Fantastic. All right. And any public comment? I have not been contacted by anyone, nor have I received any information from uh the community or staff. >> Okay. And we do not have anyone here in the meeting space for public comment either. All right. So, moving on to a board discussion uh 5.0 or 5.1. >> Yeah. We are joined this evening by Mr. Corey Plagger from DAD Davidson uh who will talk about uh an upcoming levy if the board decides to go that route and some other financial information. So Corey, are you able to hear us and take over? >> Yeah, I can hear you perfectly supern thank you for the invitation to join. I think I've uh joined the board previously as well via Zoom. So happy to
004be here. A little bit about me. I work for a firm named DA Davidson. I'm in the Spokane office today. Uh, I work across Washington state helping schools with the construction finance and education program operations levies. Back when I was a younger person, I used to do what Nicole does for ESDs doing contractual business management for schools in Eastern Washington. So, got a little bit of uh information back there, too. What I put together for the board this evening is setting the stage for a possible replacement levy. Your levy goes through year 2026. And to continue with that those uh support, those funds from the local community, you would need to uh have a levy on the ballot this upcoming year. And uh we're going to have some dates available for you. I'm going to
005share some statistics, but really just want to set the stage, give you a few fun facts, and really be kind of a thoughts partner and ideas partner uh to give you a couple thoughts to consider as you move forward. Um Aaron, anything else to add there before I dig in? No, I think just kind of the the background information for the board would be helpful, historical, and then if if anything you can do to help us possibly look forward so the board can make a their decision. >> Well, and and I think I use the word fun fact loosely. I think taxes are pretty darn interesting. I don't think anybody else maybe would say taxes are a fun topic, but you are the uh 148th largest school district when it comes to geography and tax
006base. So you were like the same size as Wapau, Freeman school district, medical lake, cashmere. So you have a pretty significant tax base. You're right in the middle of all districts in the state. But when it comes to FTE, you're one of the 10th smallest in the state. So you have a really unique situation here where you have a very large uh property value and tax base for a small uh percentage of population. So that's just a pretty interesting thing. And you have the lowest taxes of any school district in the state of Washington right now, excluding the six schools that have no levy. You think like Staken, Starbucks, there's a couple schools in the middle of like the Paloo or up north of Chalan that don't have levies, but so there's just a few
007fun facts for you. I'll put fun in air quotes. Uh but what we're going to focus on today is uh education programs and operations leveies. As I mentioned, you are heading into your final year of your existing levy. We say this a lot. Levies are for learning. This is flexible revenue from your taxpayers that you get to have control over. Whether you're using it for athletics, field trips, um or extra offerings in class and science, robotics, you name it. But unfortunately, we're still using a pretty good amount of this for special education, class size reduction, electricity, insurance, school nurses. So, while I say this is flexible revenue, it's still pretty critical. And I I bet you Nicole is probably shaking her head behind her screen saying, "Yeah, we we need this for basic programs still.
008It's not just a luxury for extra programs." Uh, you were subject to levy lid laws. And I'm going to tell you a little bit more about that coming up because you are at levy le laws today and these just require simple majority. I'm not going to go into too much about school bonds today. School bonds are for buildings. Your last bond was approved in 2000 for $3 million and that bond was completely paid off in 2019. But I do want to talk a little bit about capital projects levies. And the reason why is when schools are at levy lid, you're going to notice that those schools tend to do capital levies for technology or fix roofs or paint buildings or fix HBAC because they can't raise any more funds locally through the general fund to
009do those things. So, I'm going to show you a slide coming up that uh shows which school districts in your neighborhoods are doing capital projects levies. have had one in the past. But capital levies can use for technology safety and security. And if those things are being paid for right now to the general fund, it can kind of protect that general fund to be used for other enrichment where you have this other dedicated revenue stream to take care of these extra things and make sure that the buildings don't go into disarray. And so we'll talk a little bit about those coming up, but this is just a a one-page slide that shows uh the two types of levies and the types of bonds you can have. Uh Erin, there's one edit I made to this
010slide. I noticed I was missing one election, but this shows the history of support for levies in your school district. So, for example, if you look at the green, you can see some really high numbers across the state. The only red you will notice was before it was super majority for levies and now it's simple majority. So, there's a lot of schools that would beg for 56% for their levies that aren't passing that you used to have back in 2006. But you'll notice that it just took a couple tries back in 2003 and 2006, but your numbers are really high. And you'll notice that after the pandemic, it went down a little bit. And that's common throughout the state that we had some challenges with some perceptions of folks. I think in rural uh Eastern
011Washington, we kind of recovered a little quicker and got back to school a little quicker than the Puet Sound area. But we're noticing in 23 and 24 that those yes votes are starting to trickle back up. I also mentioned you do have a history of a capital projects levy in 2019 and 10 and that was supported by six out of every 10 voters. So please stop me if you have any questions as I go through these slides. I shared uh a fact that you can't ask for whatever you want for your local levy. You have a levy lid. Of course, this is set in state law and it basically is that you cannot ask for more than $2,500 per kid and that gets adjusted by inflation every year. So that number today is $3,247 and
012you are currently at that levy lid. So that really takes the pressure off the school board on do we ask for more, do we ask for less, what's the tax rate? because you're kind of right now at max and most schools at max kind of just keep going at that pace if they're feeling that their budget is supported and needs those funds. Uh if you hear me say EPO levies, that's the new replacement for M levies. If you've been on the board for a while, we used to call them M's. But maintenance doesn't really uh describe these levies accurately because it's not really for paint and carpet and to fix water fountains. It's really for for learning and for opportunities for students. Uh just a couple more facts. Simple majority 50% plus one and there's
013no validation. You get two shots at it per year. So um that's a little bit of that slide there. Moving on. Why are we talking today? And that is because there's four elections available for the school board to choose to bring this to the voters. February, April, August, and November. And if we focus just on the green, you'll notice that in February, levies pass 95% of the time. And the next best month is November. You'll hear some criticism from some folks that say, "You should run this in November. You should run it in a general election so we get the best turnout." And I agree. We want the most turnout we can get and get this in front of the most voters. But since you get two opportunities to pass a levy, if you wait
014until November of 2026 and for any reason there's a hiccup and it doesn't pass, then you get no local resources the next year. So that's why a lot of schools go in February and if for any reason it doesn't pass, then they have an election of April, August, or November for that second attempt. And the most common second month is usually April so that Nicole knows what to budget u moving into the next school year. But most school districts run in February. And if you run with your neighbors, you split the bill with the assessor, the all the assessor labor. So, you're going to pay your postage and your mailing costs and your printing costs. But all the staff at the county, if you can run with other folks, that's really going to help uh
015prevent a really large bill there. But most schools in our state, probably 99% do February elections. If you are thinking about a capital levy, maybe a technology levy for 20,000 or maybe a a safety and security levy to to make some improvements to fencing or or locks or you name it. Uh I wouldn't dis necessarily discourage the school district from doing them at the same time. And I'm going to focus just on this the the chart on the left. Anytime you run a capital levy alone, it passes 79% of the time. Anytime you run an education levy alone, it passes 91% of the time. When you put them both together in the same ballot, both of the yes percentages are increased and we have hundreds of samples on either size. It's really bizarre, but basically
016when you ask for more, it's more supported. And we have a theory. We don't know the exact answer, but the theory is is that you don't ask people all the time for taxes. You're not saying vote yes for the education levy and then next year the tech levy and then people like I just voted yes. You put them both together. You tell them exactly what they are. They can understand them when they're side by side and you don't exhaust them with a tax measure. And so we see the the data is really strange here. But when you ask for two levies, they pass better than when you ask for one. So quite bizarre. A few more. Set the stage dates before I show you your tax information. This is a the if you choose February
017is your election date. It is not on Valentine's Day this year. The board must file for a February 10th election by December 12th. So, it's really a luxury right now to be having this conversation because customarily boards start talking in October, they adopt in November and get it filed in early December. So having this extra month in September when I know there's a lot of excitement with the new school year to save a few minutes to talk levies is really a nice luxury so we can set the stage and make sure we really get everything set up for the board to preview in October. Uh and that levy would certify you'll know what the results are usually the night of the election but it will definitely certify by February 20th. So let's get into your
018data. This is a quite an interesting slide. I think I've shared this with the board before a couple years ago when you have an e your uh tax base was 500 million which is a pretty good size tax base and it was almost flat for a decade and then people started to realize that uh maybe they could commute over the past maybe they can work part-time maybe they can telecommute during the pandemic in areas like Cleelum Eastston um Cashmere anywhere just over the mountains from uh the Seattle area started to see massive booms in development and also reassessment of existing properties. So your tax base right now is over 1.3 billion with a B. It's crazy to see the growth that you've experienced. And a lot of that too is new construction. So it's hard
019to see because you're not seeing big apartment buildings or neighborhoods going up. But as people are buying those parcels and building homes, uh there's been almost 100 million in new construction in the last 5 years. So you can just see how fast things are happening and and those people are contributing uh towards your taxes and towards your levies. It's finally settled down though this year with only a 2% increase. So it we had almost three years in a row of pretty intense AV growth if you looked at your property tax statements. And unfortunately, the school board doesn't get to capitalize on any of that like other city sewer and water districts that are rate based. Once you pass a levy amount, it doesn't matter how much property values change. You don't get to change that
020number until this next election. So now is your chance to think about uh what you need as resources for your kids. So your tax base now 1.3 billion. This is who pays the bills. This is the bill. This is what you've asked for over the years. And this slide is a little confusing because you'll notice in 2010 it was 275,000. Then it held steady at 375,000 for 4 years. Now you're at 495,000, but the state had the the bright idea in 2019 to limit you what you could tax locally and fund you more statewide. This is the McCclary bill where you're now you're fully funded. So, they are now forcing you to roll back $225,000. $226,000. This is money that your voters approved that they're not letting you collect. This year, $216,000 rolling back. So,
021you'll notice you're just kind of flat there around $270,000 each year and you have one more year left on your levy. And there's one change coming at you now. And that is they just raised the levy lid again. So, they changed it. They cut you in 2019. They're raising you back up in 2026 by $500 per student. So I forecasted your number in 26 is going to be $330,000. So kind of keep that number in the back of your mind that your lid is no longer 270ish. It's around 330 or so. And that will grow just slightly each year. So a really interesting phenomenon. I you know Aaron and I have been speaking and corresponding and the question is is do you do the simple thing here and just continue to ask for 495 you've
022asked for that for the last decade uh it's what people are used to seeing the tax rate is lower than you forecasted that is one opportunity that you can continue to do and let the county and let the state roll you back to your your legal limit uh whatever that is each year. So keep that idea in the back of your mind. So if this is who pays the bills and this is the bill, we translate that to a tax rate. So I teased the idea earlier that you're ranked 289th in the state right now to collect that $270,000. It is assessed at 20 cents per thousand of all your property owners. And just uh 10 years ago you were at $1.78. So I would think that your taxpayers are getting a pretty good bargain
023right now. They might have some tax increases, but those are going to other governmental entities. It's not the school district's fault if anybody's tax bills are higher right now. This chart shows in green your education levy in tan your bond that expired in 2019 and your 4-year capital levy that matured last uh what two years ago in 2023. So, as I said, you've been anywhere from a$120 up to $1.78. And now currently you're at 20 cents. I forecast next year you will be at around 35 cents with the new levy lid laws should you wish to collect that. >> So Eron, I didn't mean to cut you off there. >> I was just going to say there's 295 districts and we're correct 289 >> and there's nobody after you with the levy. So, the six
024districts after you, as I mentioned, Steaken, Star, Starbucks, um, a couple districts over on the coast, you're a bargain. And my forecast for 2026, as I mentioned, I think it's going to go up to 35 cents, assuming you certify your full levy amount and the then the legislature rolls you back uh through the county assessor and county treasurer. But we would be missing a key piece of data if I didn't share with you that the state schools tax have changed over the years. And remember when I shared mccleary uh funded you differently in 2018 and cut your levy and said they're going to give you more. The way they did that is with a new tax in light gray. There's been a property tax on in your district going to Olympia and that's how we
025funded basic education, transportation, food service for decades and decades. But the brand new dark gray taxes from mccclary. So don't think that when I say the taxes are 20 cents that's all they're paying to education. They're paying about 2.71 to education. It's just that 200 $2.50 of that goes to Olympia and you do not get flexibility with that. You only get flexibility with the 20 cents. Any questions there? So, just a couple more slides to just set finish setting the stage. Remember I said you're at 495,000 and it's been level this whole time, but you're not able to collect that full amount because you're at the the OSPI levy lid. In green is what you've asked the voters for. In gray is what's actually happened. So you can see the impact of that property value
026spike is that if you're collecting a set amount but it's with more and more people then that rate is going down to collect that same amount. So the amount isn't going up at all but your property values are booming. So this is getting spread out with all the new taxpayers and this shows 20 cents. So technically you can run another levy at $4.95 at 99 that would be really overstating it. You could probably run 4.95 or is it 465? Let me see. 495 and you could probably get it down to 40 cents on that ballot and still have some cushion there um and most likely have roll back every year uh moving forward. So, just a couple ideas here, but you've been outperforming the tax rate estimate because of that 100 million in new construction
027and property reassessments. Then my last slide I shared with you that there's other schools that are in your communities in your neighborhoods um on your boundaries that are also at levy lid. Clem is at levy lid. Ellensburg is at levy lid and kittas nachis. And so what those school districts do is they've started passing capital levies. So they cannot ask for any more. You can see Clem is at 41 cents on their levy. Um, Thorp District is close to levy max, but not quite there. They have a capital levy. So, what they've done is essentially realized that they can't raise any more funds locally. The tax rate might be lower than some of their neighbors look at Ellensburg at 350. And so, they've increased new capital levies to fix roofs, repair sidewalks, HVAC, have a
028little uh a pot set aside when there's emergencies and safety and security needs. And so you'll notice here that you wouldn't be alone if you considered a capital levy. And not saying you necessarily need to do it this election. You could do it anytime, but I just want to kind of plant that seed here too. Aaron and Nicole, anything to add? So really set the stage. not much advice on uh what next steps are, but other than, you know, I I I probably would not be too far of a stretch to say that these local funds are pretty integral to the supporting the students in your area. And so, I'm not sure what percentage your budget is local levy, but um that is something that, um we're seeing most school districts right now with EPO
029levies are looking at doing their replacements in 26. So, there's 150 school districts set to replace their levies. >> Okay. Thank you very much, Corey. I appreciate your time. And any anybody on the board have questions for for Corey? >> No. >> Oh, good. Thank you. >> Yeah. Really nicely prepared. >> Thank you very much, Corey. And I know you got to run. So, I appreciate you squeezing Eastston in on us. So, we appreciate it. >> Yeah. Thanks for letting me join you tonight and good luck on your decision- making. >> Thanks, Corey. Bye. Bye. >> Thank you. So, just for planning ahead, I just want Corey to come in and talk with us and we'll we'll look again in uh >> Yes. Yes. Um >> and we have till December 12th. >> We have
030till December 12th to kind of make a decision. So, probably in the next couple months. >> Is that something that's going to be on the next board meeting? >> Probably. Yeah. I'll work with Nicole and figure out what what our next steps are and what the board would would like to do by >> What's that? >> See if we can't make a new vote on it. >> Yeah. have a have a decision uh at that point in time. That way we can start doing our advertising to the community and um you know the funds as as you know are needed. >> U we're doing okay but um you know we're right now we're at 12% regalization. We don't know where that's going to go right now. That's why you say there's >> Yep. that are
031everybody's pushing. So, um, regionalization, you know, our enrollment is, uh, down a little bit as well. So, all things to for the board to to consider, but >> away we go. >> So, um, just, you know, in that projection when he's talking about the, um, new construction versus the home re-evaluations. Um, well, I guess he's just projecting all of it, but I was just wondering if we could see like how much of what we're getting is from the newer construction. Like, is there a way to >> see how that's benefiting us? Because it doesn't seem like >> ends up being, right? new homes or new homes. That's still%. >> Okay. >> And what if they're in development? Because weren't there some developments where we were asking for more money because of how much >> asking
032for impact fees. >> Yeah. >> I mean, that has to go through the county and they have to approve it. >> And that's why we got short changed on Mary Meadows because the previous previous administration didn't come to the table and ask for it. >> Yeah. And I know from my lo where I live locally, uh Lynon asked for impact fees because they're wanting to build a new high school and actually the the city turned them down. >> So it's how that would go over with Kittitas County. I don't I don't know. I don't know. >> All right. Any other comments? Okay. 5.2 two, district strategic plan update. >> Yep. I was going to have Jessica Lewis here tonight, but uh she's busy chatting with parents, so I'm going to do uh her part for
033her. So, again, just another draft of strategic plan with mission and vision for the board to review and edit and tell me what you like, tell me what you don't like, and Jessica and I will work on it. But uh I think it uh kind of fits what we are looking for as a district. We want options for kids. Goal number one. >> We want obviously enrollment is the big funer funding drive. Um we want to build a better sense of community. And how great is it what with our turnout here tonight? Um seems like our turnout was up from last year. just again anecdotally um didn't count but seems like we have more folks in the building meeting meeting their teachers and walking around which is awesome and even though we don't have a
034volleyball match tonight um you know uh we do have a lot of parents here which is which is awesome. um learn environment is we want to make sure the kids are getting what they need when they leave our doors whether it's university whether it's workforce whether that's military um basically increasing our academic rigor and I know I can say that we are on that path as you saw with our AP scores uh and kids doing well in AP and pushing themselves academically. I I feel pretty comfortable with all these goals. I think they uh they kind of fit with what we we need. Um you know, they're they're the big drivers. Maybe we want to do something on outdoor education in here, but I'll leave that up to the board. But, uh any feedback you
035can pro provide me, you can email me or call me and we can tweak this. But, uh probably have Jessica have this ready for us for next meeting to uh adopt if that's the board's wish. So, >> okay. just yeah just take a look and we'll make sure it you know has uh you know graphics and photos of our kids in action and things like that. This was just a pretty uh looks pretty dry now but we'll make it a living document that yeah we'll uh we'll we'll pretty it up so to speak uh as as we move on. So, just a >> Yeah, I mean context wise, I feel like it's just very well thought out and laid out um as far as what what the goals are, what to do, and how to
036measure like that's >> Yep. >> nicely done. Um >> I mean, I feel like for me maybe the one thing is just somewhere in there like uh we've got community, but just to be uh inclusive as possible was just really throwing it out there. Okay. Yeah, if you have any edits in mind, just yeah, just send them send them my way and we'll Miss Lewis and I will incorporate them. So, thank you and thank you to Miss Lewis for her work on this. >> All right, on to section six, financial update report. >> And here comes Nicole. Nicole, can you hear us? Okay. >> Yes, I can hear you. Hello. Well, and it's an interesting financial update this month. >> So, so Kittas County has um converted their software to a new software system. So,
037the reports they sent me did not capture everything that I need to reconcile our accounts. And after um going through everything they sent me and doing my normal reconciliation processes, I did find differences and missing information. So, I've been going back and forth with them daily for more information. And I believe I have everything now that I need for the general fund. And um and this is in August always in August is a preliminary month because August 31st is our year end. So, when I do our year-end reports in November, I'll circle back to these November reports that will be final, but my preliminary ending fund balance for general fund is $99,000. Um, with my reconciliation process with the counties to date, I've within $518. Um, and and when I emailed them saying that my
038cash was different from theirs by the $518, it was down to a property tax transaction on a day that didn't get properly uploaded to the system. So, since then, they fixed that, but they haven't been able to provide me warrants redeemed for any other fund but general fund. So, I haven't even been able to work up our capital projects um debt service or transportation vehicle fund ending cash balances yet, but I have tied into the cash and our cash for all funds does reconcile. So, I'm just waiting for those warrants outstanding numbers just to see um exactly where we land. But um she was going to work with the software um technicians to help her get that information to help me get it posted. Um but other than that I don't have a lot more
039information but the cash is tying so that is good. Just waiting for our um or outstanding for all funds except for um the general funds. And the report there on the screen that Aaron has up is the revenues that were received by the district. So this is um pretty much the cash that I was able to reconcile to. But from what you're seeing, no alarm bells or nothing that we need to be worried about from >> No, that's why I that's why I dug in deep first because one, they changed their software and I wanted to make sure that nothing got lost in the transition, which is why I really decided that I needed to spend a lot of time making sure all their transactions matched mine. And um so far besides the warrants redeemed
040I don't have yet. But so far um everything's it's it's looking good. It's just I wish they had a better way of giving me the information like they have in the past, which I know once they get more familiar with their new system, we'll get there. But it was a little rocky this month. >> Okay. But >> no no alarm bells going on. >> Yes. No. Yes. No alarm bells. Thank goodness. That's a good thing. >> So really, we only have this one report to share this month with Nicole. And >> yeah, and I will provide more information once we have final numbers and and for sure it'll be also in our year-end presentation. >> It's a it's a light month in the financial report this month. Thank you, Nicole. >> Yeah, >> thank you,
041Nicole. >> You're welcome. >> All right. Um, on to seven additional reports. Uh, 71 superintendent report. >> Thank you very much. Oops. Make this bigger instead of smaller. Um, startup of the school year was was great. Uh, had a few days where it was pretty darn hot in the building. Uh but uh we Jeff was able to kind of I think dial in the AC a little bit. Now it's pretty cold in the building which is good. Uh had some uh air quality issues that we're still battling at the start of school and then obviously with the the fire near Blue Pass, we're uh dealing with that as well. We've had the kids in during recess for a couple days as we look at the at the air quality. Um but uh you know our
042our new students who are new to Easton, I've checked in with all their parents to make sure that you know they're enjoying it and I saw a lot of them here tonight at open house. So um I think from a from a school point of view it was pretty smooth. Uh I don't want to put u words in in the in Angela's mouth in terms of the the new block schedule or you know your own kids but the block schedule I think has had positive reviews from our secondary kids. um uh you know I guess as as positive as teenagers will get about going to school. Um but I would say the day has certainly is a lot calmer instead of doing all the you know the seven transitions that we had. So I don't
043know. Andrew, do you want to >> Well, I love it. I get to work during school. So it's fabulous. >> So she we we uh have one one positive. But again, most of the kids I've talked with, they appreciate the I guess the extended time. Kids are still learning, you know, purple day and gold day and then Friday is a little bit of a of a mix, but uh you know, o overall >> good transition >> has liked it to fair. >> Good. Good. >> I think they were a little confused the first day because they didn't weren't quite ready. >> Yep. Yeah. >> You can prepare for it, but until you kind of live through it for a couple weeks and you kind of get into the routine. Um, and just so you know,
044if we ever like say we have a snow day or a weather related day, we will just keep that pattern. We're not going to try to make it up. It just gets too confusing to do that. So, >> Mondays and Wednesdays will always be purple and Tuesdays and Thursdays always gold r regardless of of miss school days. Um, in terms of enrollment, uh, as you can see in my report, we've ha have had some families leave the district for a variety of reasons. and I I listed those reasons, but certainly housing is a big one. Um, obviously some change in family situations have have occurred as well, but uh we've had 16 students uh leave us and we've had uh seven students join us, but we're always looking for more. So, a net difference of
045nine. And as you know, financially that's that's a hit for us. Uh a fairly significant hit. Um, but we are not alone in that. Across the ESD, aside from two or three districts, uh, everyone else seems to be, uh, down as well. That's obvious a trend, not only statewide, but also nationwide. Uh, good news, a little ray of sunshine for us is our kindergarten numbers are up uh, for for East and most other districts, their kindergarten numbers are down. So, that bodess well for us for the future at least. Um, so you know, not not real good news, but uh it is what it is. And um I'm just happy to say, you know, the the students unfortunately left us. It wasn't a lot of these parents, they want to stay here, but they just
046can't find the housing that they need or, you know, there's pretty significant changes in family structure and things like that that really are outside of school. But uh um we're working on getting more kids in here. So, um, that kind of brings me my next point is we're again doing some marketing. I've switched vendors. Uh, we used to work with School Mint. Um, they provided the clicks, but I don't they didn't necessarily provide the service that I wanted. Um, weren't as timely as uh, the organization we're working now with. We're working with a group called Enroll Boost. Um, again, marketing on Facebook and Instagram now. So, um hopefully we'll start to to generate some clicks and some leads so we can uh get our parents in here uh and to look at uh look at
047the facility because I think once we get them here in the school, they see the school, they see the size, they see what we can offer and how we're different from maybe other places and generally they uh are excited to sign up. So, uh I I've asked uh Enroll Boost to be a little bit more aggressive in our marketing. um because again this significant amount of money that uh we have had walk away from us in terms of our of our budget. So uh just met met with him today and we'll continue to meet as we kind of fine-tune. You know there's all these Facebook analytics that the gentleman is working with and what gets clicks and what doesn't. So um we're we're working on that. >> Some good news. Uh, as you know, I
048love having kids active in activities at our school. So, Miss Mclofflin was a former cheerleader in high school and would like to start up a cheer club. So, I think we have at least four students who are going to start next week and hopefully we'll get some more out. As you know, once once other some kids see other kids involved in activity, the numbers will grow. So, um, we're going to start with four and perhaps have some u performances at upcoming volleyball matches and certainly basketball games when when they're ready, but uh u this will be a stipen position just like we do with our coaches. But again, getting kids active and doing something and off their off their screen. So, and she is uh beyond excited to do this. I know she's contacted them
049and I have a feeling this this will grow leaps and bounds once uh Miss M gets uh gets a hold of it. So I'm excited about that. >> It's great to see the some of the some of the younger kids out interacting and getting used to, you know, performing in front of others. So uh just to switch gears, I am leaving uh tomorrow early tomorrow morning and flying to Atlanta for a couple days. So Kyle uh Mr. Dr. Hickman will be in my administrative design while I'm away, but I this is my PD for uh leading now in Atlanta. Had a actually a coaching session today with one of the uh the presenters and um so I'm I'm looking forward to it. I've never haven't been to Atlanta and you know the other superintendents I
050think I will be the anomaly with just due to our our size. Uh I mentioned to this person, yeah, we have, you know, 77 students in the school. And she said, oh, so you have 77 seniors. So I said, I said, no, we have 77 students in the school. So, um I think that is going to uh be an eye openener for a lot of folks of how we operate because we do things a lot differently and in some ways it's it's a lot more challenging in terms of scheduling but uh I think it pro provides a better service for our for our kids and our families. But so again, no cost to the district for this. This is all paid out of uh from leading now. Um, so just uh let you know that
051I will be out and the staff is aware made them aware. Kyle is like I said be the uh admin designate if if need be. CTE um we are now uh conditionally certified for CTE. Mr. Penoyer we can start receiving our funding as early as next week when they do the next count. So, uh, Jeff Cochran has been instrumental in negotiating the CTE paperwork for us and, um, the return on investment if we can get 65 to 70,000 in CTE, extra CTE funding versus what, uh, you know, we're paying the, uh, the ESD for this service is is tremendous. So, um, we're looking at doing some pretty cool things with CTE. Um, Patrick has been is getting synced up with a teacher from I think CILA so we can start producing our own snowboards and
052skis. >> Uh, you know, vacuum press and carbon fiber and all that stuff. So, um, but, you know, we'll get the the dollar from CTE to help us uh purchase some of those uh some of those equipment needs we have. So, pretty cool stuff to start seeing kids produce their own, you know, Eastn snowboards and and things like that. So, that's that's that's on the way. Uh hopefully second semester, you know, we'll use this semester to kind of dial things in and build some of the formwork, but next semester hopefully we'll start cranking out uh Eastern branded equipment. Um state audit. I I know you're aware of this, but uh we came out with a I would say clean audit report from last spring. Thank you to Nicole and Katherine for all their their hard
053work behind the scenes of getting this done. But the audit report is found on the auditor's website at that link. And couple of things that I need to work on for some uh board minutes, but very minor things. Nothing uh financially that uh unfortunately we've gone through in the past. So, very good news. Very good news. And hopefully that's the last uh audit we have for a little bit. Uh give us >> I said something on there where they said 206. >> Yeah, it'll it'll it'll be back. >> Yeah. >> Uh and then then when you see the bills from the auditor come through, it's like, okay, really? You're a state organization and you're sending us a bill. >> Okay. Um this is uh the presentation that I shared at a couple prior board meetings.
054Very similar to what Corey presented to us tonight, but from a different company. um but basically has the same levy information. So, uh if you'd like to see that um preschool, we uh are running preschool again. We got four four kids in there. We started last week with half days or part days. Um parents had interest in going full day. So, we actually this was today was our first full day of preschool. Um there are some tired eyes at, you know, three o'clock when I walk down there. But uh again, the parents can be uh have their kids there full-time or or part-time. It's it's up to the parents to come in. And I just uh also made a note that one of the uh young ladies said I had shiny boots on as I
055was wearing my my new dress shoes. So, um, you know, if you're having a bad day, go to preschool for a while and it will, uh, certainly >> turn turn your mood around almost instantaneous. Um, lastly, WASDA conference. We are slated for Friday, uh, November 21st at 2:45 if any of you would like to present with with Jen and I. Um, and there's our what, uh, what what we submitted. Um, but yeah, if you'd like to attend, please let me know. Um, it's in Seattle. I know it's not everybody's favorite, but um, I'm kind of looking forward to this session and, uh, we'll be, uh, headtohead against, I think, three or four other sessions. So, we we'll see we'll see how many people show up to to hear us. So, so I'm kind of excited
056about that. But that is my report. Otherwise, East's a great place and uh we're cranking away and uh I know Jeff has had a busy few months and a busy uh what few weeks with a variety of things. So, I'll I'll turn it over to to Mr. Bren. >> As we all know, um end of June there, we had that water leak. So, um restorations as far as the hallway that That's complete. Um progress billing for that was about $162,450. Final $255, for that um we did get the protective wax and coating applied to it years. So that that'll be good as far as protecting our floor. We're currently working with Kin Street to replace the unit because the components for the SC we have are now obsolete. Finding the replacement parts is difficult. So
057they opted to replace it with pump. Insurance agreed with them. Pumps are more efficient, more reliable. >> Yeah. So that heater pump will be about $18,974.50. Um and then we have to replace the glycol that we lost in the system. That would be about 330 gallons. That's about $484 for a total of $442,56.75 all of which insurance may see but then insurance will >> yeah almost $500,000 >> we we received a check for $250,000 yesterday >> so um I was pretty about that. Found out about the CL glycol replacement that we needed to do. Called insurance levels. So glycol levels would be a 5050 mixture of glycol to water mix. Essentially what that means is temperatures can get down to Yeah, exactly. And we don't have to worry about glycol inhibitors in it. Corrosion inhibitors
058in it for the corrosion. Um I did have CH2O test our water just I was curious to see we had water that causing any corrosion. We are very low in iron and so our school is good news. They test the water they said your water's pretty clean. So that's a good indicator especially. So once we get that glycol in there in there uh preventative measures in the future to prevent any further catastrophic leaking water unit. So should auron that water hits notificates for >> if you're not available who does that go to? >> Um if I'm not available over the last couple months around you include our bathrooms. I know earlier when I started I mentioned that our bathroom isolation located tested check make sure the valves run smoothly so far. Nice. Is there I
059guess you wouldn't normally put them in the bathroom just so kids don't mess with them or something. >> Uh yeah, usually uh they'll so they'll have that isolation point underneath and how I understand is they are in the bathroom. Usually they're encapsulated behind a locking door of the wall. In our case, we don't have those locking doors in our school access points. Those are location. >> Too bad it's not like right there. But well, at least you know how to scroll down. >> At least at least we know where they are now. Yeah. So underneath the school essentially for the boys bathroom I turn off the hot water and cold water my line and cuts off and then any work I need to do whether it's changing out a quarter turn valve or that might
060be something I'm Thanks. >> Moving on to the lead and drinking water. So, retesting has been completed by Washington State Department of Health. The results will be provided to us probably within the next couple of weeks. Only two faucets required testing. Initially, there were four faucets that had elevated level up lead levels. Um, one of those was in the kitchen, 26 pavilion. Um, it is not a sink that we used for food, washing dishes or anything. They use that for mop buckets or cleaning buckets essentially. But nonetheless, I changed out the free faucet for it and spout as well as the supply lines with lead free. A couple of the supply guess nipples that basically stick out of the wall from the domestic water line. Those were not what I would consider. I don't want
061to say a galvanized steel. So I went ahead and those off got some copper lines with that. So I expect the light testing should come back. So the lines that are inside the wall are those copper lines. So copper still has it but it's still considered lead because the levels of lead. So, nonetheless, um, within the kitchen, I've replaced all components there on that faucet. The other location was concession stand that was a faucet that we do use for drinking was just over five parts per billion, six parts per billion. So, what I've done is I installed a filtration device inside of it, replaced the faucet as well as supply line, and then any more registers in the system in the future. So that should completely most of our school is under one park which
062is excellent. The other two class sprayers. I just remove the sprayers went ahead and changed out the faucets with light as well as supply lines and selfration. So I went ahead and supply finally um the um yeah so that essentially that was it. It was the two kitchen uh the two faucets and the spay classroom which they didn't retest those because what they had said was the faucets themselves didn't test above five parts per million actual sprayers but picture you mentioned before. >> Exactly. >> Yeah. And um what it got me to thinking that it had to have been the faucet is because on the supply lines um attached with co is the ice machine ice machine that showed less than one part per billion for the water which is tied in the same line
063that's sink. So um yeah any water standing water that's faucet it's not used very often rarely turned on it's likely I expect this time that we're going to see let's see testing results and action plan will be posted website so that see what the initial results were, what our action plans were done to. But other than that, um, out of the 24 different pictures that they tested and just change it. Might as well make sure. So, moving on. Um, we'll go into the Clean Buildings Performance Act. Um, we are a tier 2 building. We fall under the uh or we fall greater than 20,000 square feet, but just under 50,000 square feet. Um, leaving us in the tier 2 category for the queen uh the queen buildings energy act or performance, excuse me, um standards.
064So, I've been working with set up an account with the energy star portfolio manager um so we can put our metrics in for energy usage as well as propane usage for the school district. Um, and what that basically does is it will track and allows me to set up a baseline as well as the target energy use usage for us. We are not required to submit anything until July 1st 7. However, um, I would like to get it done early, get familiar with energy star portfolio manager and get that baseline established as well. maint. What that allow us to do is if I can get it down within 180 days before the July 1st, 2027 deadline, we can qualify through commerce or early adopters incentive which essentially whoever our power supplier is, which would be
065sound energy, it's a first come first serve basis. So whoever puts the application in first with commerce then will be passed on to and they will pay us 30 cents per square foot. So, essentially that's about $14,000. So, anything we do as far as efficiency goes, whether we change lights out, LEDs, um they'll pay us whether it's a onetime payment or multiple things. Either way, it gets us money back in our pocket. So, as we go along with that, you know, if there's anything that we do or whether, you know, once we get the modernization money, essentially we spend that money, modernize facility, we can some about,000. So, huge amount of money, but penny save is penny earn. So if I can get that, I'm gonna try to get that pos. So that's where we're
066at with that. I've been working with Mckin Street, Mr. Ethano with Mckin's been helping me kind of finalize the information, going over the information that I'm putting in, making sure that our metrics are accurate. So it comes time to report it in there, make sure in place before that happens. So I've been working on that throughout the summer as well. Um >> so this is separate from the solar I wasn't completely separate. Okay. >> Yeah, it is separate than the the solar. Now, the nice thing is is because we got that solar grant and once we get those solar panels installed, that will be um incorporated um within the energy star portfolio manager under the green energy section, which just further makes us look better for the state. Um helps our baseline and helps us
067reach our target. Under the tier 2, we don't necessarily have to meet a target. That's not one of the requirements. However, for commerce, um they want to see us have some kind of target, though it's not require helps convince commerce to approve. Not to mention once we have solar energy during the spring summer we'll be saving,000. So um you know as much money as we can save as much money as we come back in that's what I'm all about. not necessarily fond of the reporting system but they have established it's not exactly user friendly different classes that they got to look at and most time >> put on some good music >> yeah but you know I'm starting early so my hope is by 2027 I'll notice something inside out that it's just gonna become
068another that to the state. So, Mr. Ethan Dano, he's been really excellent to work with. So, we're nearly there. Just got to finish up some of the propane going and Once I have all that baseline for us, baseline for >> Thank you for that. >> Absolutely. Yeah. And then let's see. Moving on to the drain field and septic. >> Everybody's favorite topic, the septic. Yeah, >> kids all want to know by the way this time. But I will say that the state health department has agreed to turn over our receptic system uh to county. Um this is good. Um all that's required is county has to accept that our drain system is not a large on-site septic system but is on-site septic system. In order for the county to do that Mr. Dan, he said
069essentially all we need to do is have one of the qualified uh septic engineers which Brian Jackson who already have an account with falls under that category. come out basically drop a report that our drain field it works and that our septic system it works and then they drop that report send it in county and they say yeah this would work as an onsite septic system which I've already talked to um the owner of Brian Jackson said yeah we can make this septic system even if we had exponential growth over the next couple of years of water consumption at peak with 100 students in building large onsite septic system that water if we grew to that level we have a bigger problem so we don't necessarily um I don't think we necessarily need like septic
070system now it could very if I'm being honest it could very well come back to bite us because we could have that big growth. Just suddenly everything blows up and we have that big growth and we just classified our septic system on septic system which would mean reclassified large onsite septic system which is a possibility but then we have to convince the state septic system. Also we' have to apply for an operating permit which is about $900 once you septic system county with an onsite septic system there is no operating um they just want to make sure that we're doing our make sure since then I've got those things repaired so I expect Jackson everything should look good. I do know that valve will work properly. We have flushed. So everything now once we get
071changed over to an on-site septic system that transition. So for we wanted to the at the west center athletic field down to grade level. We need to redesign the reserve drain field. Basically my idea short south drain field we have a narrow train with an onsite septic system that's more likely uh than not to be able to accommodate at least from what I understand. So if we can accomplish that then essentially um we can make a narrower and longer train field. Get it out of the playing field area and then we can go ahead and start leveling even further athletic fields. In the meantime, um because it's driving me nuts, there's no look for progress on the athletic field working with Raven Craft fabrication to get some steel also to get the scoreboard mounted and
072get that get that going in the works. Get some filter in the area where I carped gravel and then once we get filter in there, then get some top soil sections. especially we can get dirt in there. So, my goal is to try and get that done before snowfall comes. So, that way come spring as far as I'm concerned. Um, you know, just looking at the field, looking at naked eye, the field is playable as it is right now. So, it's just one of those things we go. As far as shot pad goes, um I've been working with the coaches find new location. So, we'll be working on getting that replaced as well. Um let's see. Moving on to the retaining projects. Sound hardware is nearing completion of the routine project. There are a few
073cores that we need to replace. They are what we have in our scores six pin cores. Um everything they now have are seven pin. So some of the cores aren't going to fit and the hardware. So they're going to replace the hardware. A little bit of money will come out of our pocket for that but they're going to take that first place. So there are those remaining cores, six or seven coursees, but right now the locks are working really nicely. several hundred >> right now. So, um yeah, so that that'll be nice. Um we have run into a bit of an issue front door and the district office. The power supply module that powers the key card access for those last Friday went out completely. So, we have no power to district office or the
074front door key. Now, the doors are securable. They lock very nicely. They just don't unlock very nicely. So, I have those parts on order once they start rolling. Hopefully by Friday this week. So in the meantime, >> do you think those got ruined by the flooding as well? Like when insurance covered that? >> I don't believe those were part of the flooding. The water never reached those areas. Um I do believe. So with the power supply, it's not uncommon for those to go out. they get hot, cool down, hot, cool down. So after, you know, after about 20 years, um, you know, they go out. So I have I have three of those actually on order. So that way we have spares. Should any of the other ones go out, I swap them out. Um,
075so I do have some spares on order there. As far as the motor control module that goes inside the push bar, I have one of those on order once I have that installed. The The only reason I'm replacing that is because I took the old one out. So guessing that there's also some function when it did have power whether it functioned or not kind of sometimes work nicely other times noticed. So um so at this point after doing test on it it's telling me there's an open circuit inside there. All the wires look like they're connected to me. Once I have the new one in, but as far as the mechanical function for the push bar, everything all the hing wireless that as well. So should we run into so a little bit of troubleshooting
076on that. Um, it sucks, pardon the language, uh, that, uh, it all just kind of happened all within the same week. The power supply went out and the control module and the door hing again. I just I like that. So anyway, >> a little kid to come help me. >> Yeah. So anyway, I am working on getting that. I'll get that negotiated and look out. Um, moving on to the gym floor replacement. Um, I've received multiple quotes. Some companies are not interested in providing a quote. Most of that's due to the too small to do a 600 or 6,800 square foot area. Their team they said the size of their team take a month to get that or longer. So they said they would like to provide a quote but they're not going to know.
077So I appreciate their honesty. With the quotes that I have received from IRS environmental, we're looking about $141,348. their estimate is elevated intentionally just because they don't know necessarily, you know, how hard is it going to be to lift up the vapor barrier like what does, you know, the concrete pad look like? They just don't know any of that. And so this gave us a higher bid just to let us know. So, I just really there [Music] I'm waiting for a quote from absolute best services. They've been kind of slamming us that Pacific solutions for us 139,960 advanced asbestous company LLC. They us $89,358. Um, Fed Service LLC, they're kind of a keyhole project. So that would include tearing out the floor and specificate and then installing the new floor as well as the walls.
078All of that is about 600. If I were to pay a company to separately $41,000,000, we're still half the ATI restoration. again I'm not really sure if they're interested project or not but they are interested so I've been working with them pictures so once we have the as done and we're able to figure out process my hope is by spring we can begin that process but really just depends on what funds look like and I like to see it happen in springtime. But you know the quotes are rolling in. So after that outdoor ed athletic storage sheds sheds been delivered. So those nice space inside swinging doors roll up door and it'll be nice to have those nice Oh, uh, Aaron, did you want me to address the, uh, additional quote? >> No, we'll do
079that under board business. >> Okay. Uh, well, with that said, that completes my Oh, wait. That completes my maintenance report. As far as transportation report, we did get new digit talk radios for the um buses. need to get those wired in. They will need cell phone use. Um also they will provide us with last GPS location. Seattleot we can see where they're parked GPS but it will let us know. So that's nice at least on dispatch station also allows for real time communication whether it's needing updates from bus drivers the student miss the bus at the school pick up allows or situations probably school. So really I think it increases security questions. So that'll be nice. Um and then as far as our CE student drivers sty progressing nicely. Um they're preparing to take their
080final test. Um just kind of through pre-trip inspection. That's what I got for you. >> Thank you, Jeff. >> I know. Just just a little bit. >> Streamline it though. >> You're right. >> Thanks, Jeff. >> You bet. >> Yeah. Thanks, Jeff. >> Are there any questions? I mean, >> I know you can. I've known you a long time. I think we're good. >> And it's been good to see you out at the sporting events, too. So, >> I'm the volleyball's number one fan. >> They've been awesome. Those guys rock it. Their last competition, they were smoked, man. They just kept going. I was so proud of them. the school and Jade out there. They were just smoked. Just >> But you know what? Never gave up heart. Love that. That's right. >> That's for
081the pom poms. >> With the pom with the pom poms. Those would get in good trouble, too. >> Only for you guys, though. Only for you guys. I'll stomp on the bleachers. >> Yeah, >> um any board member reports? >> Okay, Haley. >> Nope, I don't have anything. >> Sorry, guys. >> Things must have changed. >> Uh no, I still have a meeting. I'm just trying to be on for as long as I possibly can before I walk to it. Well, I could hear you. >> We appreciate it. >> Y >> um consent agenda. >> I don't know if you need to make a motion on there >> to pay the bills, pay the people, as Chris would say. >> Second motion. >> All in favor? >> I >> got it. Thank you very much.
082>> Y All right. Oh, yeah. The other thing was under >> Yeah. Okay. All right. And then on to section 9 um 9.1 uh the board will conduct its annual reorganization discussion and elections. Um >> so basically who get who gets the short straw of being board chair? >> I don't mind doing it again because everybody covered for me for so long. Um if you guys want me to stay doing the chair I will. >> I won't force Jason. I don't mind taking it if Jen if you don't want to take it. I don't have a problem with that. >> Yeah, I'm totally fine with keeping it. I I didn't do it at all in the 10 years prior. So, this is literally the first year that I've done it. >> My thought is I
083think we're going to want to get someone that to chair it that is able to be here more. >> Well, if I need to be here more, then you guys just need to let me know. Like, what do you mean? >> There are several Zoom ones or just absent ones. to have someone here so we're not scrambling to because there was one instance in particular where phone call on the way here Jen's not here Jason's not here this one I'm stuck in traffic had a bus to get here so >> right >> it's helpful to have somebody >> everybody can be the victim of traffic problems I don't really >> miss one >> right you've missed other you haven't been here for other meetings that I've been on >> I've missed one this year >>
084I personally >> you've missed more than one meeting because I know of just one this summer and earlier in the year. >> I'm not tacking you, Jen. I'm just saying that it's nice to have somebody in person, >> right? And that's great. I can be here in person more. Like, I'm literally coming off of being treated for cancer where I haven't been able to be here very much. >> I'm not attacking you. >> Well, it feels that way. >> I'm saying just saying that it's nice to have someone sharing it when they're in person. >> That's the only thing I'm saying. >> Okay. Jason, you you you had you were saying something started thinking that she mentioned that she as long as she's able >> and I say that because she is involved [Music] >>
085you know we can also Wait till Chris gets here, too. >> We're We're not in a hurry to make a decision tonight. So, if you guys want to table it, just let me know if you want to. >> I've only done them around November anyway. So, >> usually it's supposed to be the first board meeting of the year to >> Yeah. >> And a lot of times when I haven't been able to be here, some of it is medical stuff and that definitely feels like you're attacking me for >> I'm not attacking you. >> Okay. Well, it feels that way reference in the summertime you're not here much, >> right? I was gone for 6 weeks in the summer. >> I'm going to make a suggestion. >> I made I made plans with Aaron to
086make sure that I wasn't going to be able to be rejected from that meeting and it didn't work >> you. I just said it's nice to have a chair that's in person. >> I'm going to make a suggestion that we table this till next meeting. >> Yes. >> Is it Does the board agree with tableabling? >> Yeah. >> Agree with tableabling this. >> Thank you. I second the motion to table. >> All in favor? >> I >> thank you everybody. >> I >> um our next item is our board principles that were adopted back in uh 2022. Um just wanted the board to revisit these. You know, are there are there things that we need to adjust? Are there things that we need to add, delete? Um, if so, I'm happy to make any changes
087that the board would like us like me to do. Uh, if not, we can adopt or we can table table this again and wait for uh Chris's attendance as well. So, whatever the board would like to do, >> everything I and I in there that I saw looked good to me. So, I'm good with adopting if everybody else is. >> Yeah. It's pretty self-explanatory of how we operate now and you know >> it's it's student first and so if we want to adopt or table I just need a motion one way or another motion to adopt readopt the 1222 school district board of directors operating principles Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> Thank you very much. >> All right. Ongoing board policy review. >> Yeah, this is just the second reading from
088our previous uh policies that we looked at last month. I didn't uh add a first reading because I I knew all of us were busy. So I can give you a summary of what these policies were. Just give me a moment. Uh 5203 was staff assistance program. 5222 was job sharing. 5231 length of workday. Uh 5240 evaluation of staff. 5251 conflict of interest. 5252 uh staff and political activities. 52 actually it should be 52 53 uh was professional boundaries 5254 staff expression and 5260 was uh personal records staff personal records so uh I don't think anything really there uh controversial or earthshattering and again they are up to date with all of WASDA legal language behind them so it would be my recommendation that we would adopt Uh the waza policies 5203 uh to 5260.
089>> Motion to adopt policy 5203 to 5260. >> That's with the numbers being corrected. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. >> Anybody there for a second? >> Second. Sorry, I can't hear you guys very well. >> Sorry about that. All in favor? >> All in favor? I >> I >> thank you everybody. >> And four is a request for updating our key quote. Uh as we've gone through this process, we've had some additional items that uh Mr. Bryan has noticed. So, we'll bring that to the board for their uh their vote tonight. Jeff, do you want to talk about anything that's in the quote uh >> as far as the reame? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Briefly. >> Sure. Yeah, I'll keep it brief. So, uh essentially most of it has to do with um just kind of
090downstairs um with the door sweeps, some of the hardware on the doors, making adjustments to the door, whether they're catching whatot. So, there's some security issues there. Um, I I get worried about the doors sticking in the fire or if we need to close them closing access. As far as the door sweeps goes, you know, if we get any gym floor, one of the things I would hate to have happen is we have faulty door sweeps on exterior doors. Snow melts off. Now, we get overabundance of humidity, moisture on floors. So, I had asked that repair the doors as well as put these rubberized sweeps as opposed to bristle sweeps on there. So that way any water that comes up there will not be able to bypass those just helps us. So um it's also
091the hardware in some of the classrooms putting indicators on indicators on Say locks. So those are some of the additional expenses as well as preventing further use of door wedges drives fire marshall nuts. So we found more compant option which is the door closers adjusted door the door open however closers are so total cost for that for that quote was >> 10,73 $13.80. >> Yes, sir. That is correct. >> So, this is the amount that the board has not approved. And because it's over 7,500, that's why I'm bringing it to the board. We've already approved the bulk of it for what um close to 40,000, but this is in addition to to get us to that 51,000. So, that's why >> just to prevent further damages to the building from water penetration as well as
092>> Yep. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All in favor. >> And Haley sent me a text that she approves the re key stuff. So So we're we're good on the re key stuff. So thank you to Haley. She's now dropped had to had to go to her other meetings. >> Okay. 95 the quote for the glycol hydronic. >> Yeah, this was what we added. I added to the agenda and actually we have some good news that I just found out from Mr. Burning. I was going to ask the board to approve this quote for I think what $7,600. I will still ask the board to approve this. Uh but then we will be reimbursed for the 7600. So >> motion to approve it. >> Thank you very much. >> All in favor? Okay. 96. >> And
093the last item is Yeah, it's just Sorry. >> Done their um assessment. I got mine finished today. I wonder if anybody else had a chance to go in there and >> do their board assessment. That' be great. >> I'll just keep putting it on the uh the agenda until I get the data. So, uh I might nag you a little bit if you if you could. It's it is part of our uh our board policy. So, >> um, with Aaron Brown, um, resigning from the board, are we going to be selecting another >> I would absolutely like to have another student. So, um, >> no, you you certainly can if you'd like. Uh, but I don't want to put more more work on your shoulder. So, if you you're more than welcome to. So, yes,
094I will. I just haven't had a chance with the start of school, but I will ask uh any of our juniors and seniors if they'd like to serve. Ideally, a junior. So, you know, when Angela graduates, um, they can, uh, take, uh, take herstead at the table. >> Okay. All right. 10 uh, for the good of the district. Sharon, you have any good news? >> Volleyball team is rocking and rolling. Lots of kids out for volleyball. >> Energy is there. Results are good. Um, great turnout at open house tonight, I thought. So, I'm happy about that. And again, the uh start of the school year was very smooth. And um, you know, we have some challenges ahead of us, but we'll get through them. We got a great team. So, >> that's all I have.
095>> I'm hoping the old saying, they will come. Now, we got everything. >> Yeah. I do know that two of our two students from actually from one family, they purposely came to East because of what we're doing with the outdoor >> and having that focus. So that was what attracted them. Now, if we can get that messaging out and, you know, overcome any historical hiccups with with with Eastston. And >> I'm also hoping that once we get post >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think, you know, having the new playground certainly is a a nice thing. As you as you drive by, you can see that nice purple and gold out there. But I agree, having a the back of the scoreboard, maybe you can, you know me, I'll we'll put some some Jag logos on
096that thing and have people notice it. We have donkey basketball coming up in November. >> The floor might as well. >> Uh, you know, it's a it's a good time to do it. >> That was always the reason before was didn't want to destroy the floor. I >> mean, they they wear their little rubber >> boots and Oh, we did it for years until 90s. >> The the donkeys are treated like kings and queens. >> Did you have to be 18 back then, too? >> No. >> That's stupid. >> You also didn't have to be under 200 lb. >> Oh, there's a there's a 200 pound rule now. Yeah. To be under 200 lb have to be 18. >> Okay. The the diet starts tonight, I guess. Man, >> that's kind of what I said
097when they asked. >> I didn't I didn't know the 200 pound limit. Oh, man. Uh, so for some bigger donkeys, >> I'd like to embarrass somebody to make them blush, but the county EMS division is making an exception for one of our cadets to go through the EMT class this year. It's the first time anyone under 18 has ever gone through EMT class. And to build the pressure for this individual, I won't name names, Angela, but 10 people that were 18 and just out of high school taking the class and only one that passed. >> So, no pressure. No pressure. >> No pressure. >> You got this. You got this. >> But if everything goes all fine and dandy, just after she graduates, she will be a state certified EMT, nationally certified. >> How about
098that? Congratulations. >> Talk about alternative paths, right? >> That's that's awesome. >> The only reason why this is being allowed is because of the exceptional qualities that she showed during AFA and showing up to all of our OTP trainings for the past four years. So, she has really impressed people. >> That's awesome. Congratulations. You should be very proud of yourself. >> That's awesome. >> Good news. Good news. I see the recent audit report is on there. We already talked about it, right? >> Yes. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Recent audit report. We came out clean. Thank you. Didn't see it there. >> That is good news. Yes. >> All right. Well, a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Right. All in favor? Hi. >> Hi everybody. >> Thank you everybody.
099>> Angela, I think one of your