001Okay, you're now unmuted. All right. Well, happy uh Tuesday, March 25th, and we're going to kick off the East School District um board meeting, and we'll start out with the uh pledge of allegiance. Join me for that. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. So, we will um start off just to see if there's any um public comment uh that has come in or sorry, first we'll see if there's any additions or deletions or changes to the agenda. I have not been contacted by anybody about a addition change to the agenda. Okay, perfect. All right. And we do not have anyone in attendance in the audience who is here
002for that either. So we can go ahead and jump to from public comment since there's nobody here with that. Um oh wait sorry we're just doing additions. Uh is there anyone any public comment that's been received? I have not been contacted by anyone wanting to make a statement to the board. I would however like to welcome our two student directors, Angela Bookwalter and Aaron Brown to being part of the East School Board. So, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we are super excited to have both of you uh joining as much as you can. Um and it's great that Aaron is jumping in with using Zoom to participate and Angela's here in person. So, there's also some resources for you guys as well around and doing just being a student director like some Washington state stuff
003at the center. So hopefully we can get you some resources to I didn't want to overwhelm him at the first meeting. So we met last week and kind of explained the process and got them logged into boards but I will soon start sharing them all the good acronyms that we've worked with. Yes, very nice. But main thing is feel welcome feel free to you know like speak up and represent. Uh so on to section five consent agenda review. Um we have uh in the consent agenda two meeting minutes. So the one from January 28th and the one from February 25th. Did anybody see any updates that were needed for either of those? Make a motion to approve both. Second. Okay. All in favor on approving the board meeting. Okay. All right. And then for the
004rest of the consent agenda, is there anything else that you want to add on? No, there was lots of general fund warrants because we missed the cut off last month. So that's why it's uh there's a significant amount this month, but nothing really out of the ordinary. just aren't normal uh normal bills. Um the one I would call attention to is the East and Trust Warrant. We did buy some library books students here. So that's probably the only one that's a little bit uh out of the ordinary. Everything else pretty regular motion to pay the bills and pay the people. Second. All in favor? I I All right. And then for the uh the student directors, you guys are also voting in on these. And just since we're on Zoom, if you can, you know,
005like show your hand with being in or if you were going with a no, give the old thumbs down, but that way the viewers out on Zoom World can can see what your responses are. All right, on to section six, the financial update report. Nicole. Hey, Nicole. Thanks. So, these um financials are as of February 2025. And this is our cash graph showing our ending cash at $962,000. And just reminding you, the yellow line is our 20% minimum fund balance policy. So, you can see that we're still above the 20% And then this is um our general ledger trial balance. We have one for every fund um to show that we tie our um system to the county treasur and everything looks normal on our um GLTV compared to our county treasur. Sorry if I'm
006having some trouble with my trackpad. I'm not able to scroll up for some reason. There we go. So, yep. So, there's a page for every fund and we um tie to the county treasur on every fund. So, everything's reconciling like it should be. And there's our county treasures to match the general ledger trial balance, the one you just um viewed. Show that we do tie and that we do reconcile every month to them. Track is not behaving, but there we go. Seems like there will be a delay. Was there anything uh out of the ordinary this month, Nicole, that you'd like to Nope. Everything looks really good and ties um to the county treasur. So, once we got up cleared up all those reconciling issues, um it's been pretty smooth sailing. And then this is
007our um budget status report, the one we're required to provide you monthly. This is showing that our ending fund balance is at a 25% and our fund balance is at $970,000. Um, I want to point out again that these reports are as of February. So that puts us about 50% of the way through the school year. And then I also like to point out that we have received 43% of our budgeted revenues and we've spent 42% of our budgeted expenditures, which is good since we're 5% Do you mind turning off your camera? You're kind of cutting out a little bit. Oh, sorry. I just like to point out Okay. I just like to point out that um our expenditures are at 42%. So that's under where we're at. Yeah. Can you not Yeah, I think
008we're having some internet issues here a little bit. So Oh, no. be kind of hit and miss, but if you wouldn't mind repeating what you just went through. Okay. Yeah. So, um, as of February, that puts us at 50% of the way through the school year. And I like to point out that our expenditures are at 42%. We want them to be under the 50%, so that's good. We're still at 42%. We just want to make sure we don't go over um the percentage of the way we are through the year um because we wouldn't want to do a budget extension. So, we're trending really well in the general fund. And then, um, the next fund is the capital projects fund. If you scroll down, our ending fund balance in the capital projects fund is
009$569,000. And our debt service fund doesn't um have any activity. That's just where we flow our debt payments through for like our bus The next fund is our ASB fund which has a ending fund balance of $28,000. And the last fund which buys our yellow school buses has an ending fund balance of $15,000. Are there any questions? I don't think the board has any questions. Thank you very much, Nicole. Yep. You're welcome. Thank you, Nicole. Yep. Thank you. All right. Thanks so much. All right. On to section seven, additional reports. And we can hop to 7.1, the Eastern Strategic Plan Update. We should have our secondary teacher, Miss Jessica Lewis, joining us. Jessica, can you hear us? Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yep. Hear you loud and clear. So, I'm not
010going to turn on my video so we don't so we avoid any problems. You just want to tell me when to move forward or back up slides? I can drive from my end, so no worries. Okay, cool. So, um this year we um did a survey because we're starting to collect data for you guys for the strategic plan. Um we did a survey using Google Yeah, you can go to the next slide. Sorry. We did a survey using Google forms. Um the goal was to gather data um to create further goals so that we can like uh plan for the future. Um the school board can and use data that is accurately representing the community and the students of the school. Um so this includes parents, staff, school, any basically was open to anyone. I
011do want to point out some of the data has been slightly revised in order to fit this PowerPoint and there was a couple of data points that we had to throw out because there were nonsensical data points did not make sense uh with what we were trying to do. So you can see that we have a lot of staff members and students who apply uh filled out the form along with community members and then um parents and then we have a little bit of past staff and those retired from Eastston. Um, so we have a pretty good overview of the community in terms of who answered the survey. Um, so each of these little slides is like the question and then the data given to it. So um, a majority of the people who answer
012were between 1 to three years they've been at Eastston or seven plus years. Um, there's some people who answered four to six, so the data came out a little skewed there, but basically a majority have been here at least 1 to seven years. You can go to the next slide. Um, a lot of people said that the quality of education at EIM was good. A few said excellent, some said fair, and then 1.9% said or. Um, some of those were students that left some interesting comments, some wondering if some of them were a little angry when they left them. Um, this was at the beginning of the school year, so it could have just been tired of being at school. Um, you can scroll the next one. So the positive points were like personalization, they
013like the sports, the quality of the education, the small school environment where they get personalized education or personalized education is offered. And then also the teachers that were at school, most of them said that they were excellent or enjoyed being around most of them. Next slide. Some ideas that came out of it from improvement, what they rated, why they rated what they did. As I said, there were limited opportunities because of it's a small school. We also had people point out that music and art options would have made their ratings go up. Um more sped resources or support for sped and then student student accountability um or student responsibility within the school. You can go to the next slide. So this is a big amount of data and I've broken it down in the next
014slide, but I just wanted you to see how many answers we got and like for what are the three biggest challenges faced by Eastston School District. And the if you scroll to the next slide, you can see the top three were resources and funding, student engagement, and support staff shortages. So a lot of that had to do with uh shortage of bus drivers, paras, um any extra help around the school. Uh you can do the next slide. Yeah. If I'm going too fast, please let me know. Um students know that that if I go too fast, they can let me know. Um and then you have any other challenges would be like academic accountability for athletes. Um updating it so it reflects our most their needs of our athletic students um and teachers. also more
015community involvement, support for students and teachers, and a proactive approach to mental health and student well-being. So, being a little bit more um offering a little bit more resources for mental health or checking in on students with and providing support for their well-being overall. So, treating the entire student, not just the academic version of the student. Um here's another big graph. Um, some of it is a little bit repetitive because they got to put their own answers in, but I thought it was important to see that a lot of the core values, um, and I broken it down on the next slide, too, is that they wanted more academic ex excellence like as the at the core of Eastston, they really want academic excellence, um, collaboration, student centered, and inclusivity and equity. So if you
016scroll to the next slide, you can see those right there were the top three responses of what they wanted Eastston to kind of like include as in the future plans. You can go to the next slide if you guys are ready. Um and then we put a list of items in for this question and you like um Aaron has access to all this data. So if you want to see it in its raw form, you can. But basically it says that like what are the most important to like what are the most important top three things in the next three years you want to see. Um so if you scroll to the next slide I put the top well I put more than three. I forgot to edit that. Whoops my bad. Um the top
017responses were like class choices, student engagement, enrollment, extracurricular activities, and STEM and reading achievement. Those are kind of like the next three like the next three years. That's what they want to see happen. You can go to the next slide. So the next question was about the future. What would you like to see Eastn School do differently or add to the school? Um and so most of the responses were like adding non-sport extracurricular activities like music, art, clubs, um more parent involvement that came particularly from a lot of student um staff members. Um class choice having ability to choose more classes. Um there was mention of careerdriven classes CIT um C or CTE as it's more commonly called I think these days. Um and then substitute cover for admin office and other support careers in
018school. Uh someone noted that it's like when someone like in the support staff is gone, we don't have enough support like someone to cover that spot. So then we lose that support. Um some students mentioned more fun field trips and then others mentioned long-term sustainability of the school. And then I think this is Oh, is this We're not quite there yet. Um, what do you what is Eastston doing well that you would like to see continue? So, a lot of people said that it was fun. They like the small school size, the sports, outdoor ed, they like the clean school and the free meals. Um, some students said they like teachers and staff, student support, hands-on learning, school safety, and inclusivity. Ah, it's been a long day. And then um the other ones areas of
019growth that people were pointing out were communication and resources building updates. Um there was some mention of maybe tackling some bowling that has been happening. Um then staff professional development, career and advanced education preparation again with the CTE or the um AP class advanced classes and then parent and community involvement, behavior, academics or support. So you're seeing some common themes going on here um which you'll see continued I think in the next two slides. So if you want to scroll oh yeah this is about um communication with the district. A lot of people feel that the district does communate effectively and timely though there's a good 18% that said no. Um so maybe getting some more resources out there or making it more obvious were some ideas. Um were those people that were part of
020the school community already? I think or do you think it was I'd have to look carefully at the nose, but um I think a lot of staff and parents said yes. So I think some of the nos might have come from students. Okay, but I can look closer if you like. And then the last question is, what is the best way for the school to communicate with the community? East mobile app, email, website, text, Instagram, and Facebook were the top choices. I think that's it. Is there anything you want to look at closer or you want to know more about or as I said Aaron has all the raw data too. How is academic excellence? How is that defined? Um I think that's where somewhere we might want to look closer. Um there was no
021I think we defined it as the idea was like improving the overall scores and grades of the school and improving school school like the engagement of students in the classroom. Um but some people might have taken it as like growth of state scores or stuff like that. So I think we'd have to define that in future um conversations about the strategic development plan. Agreed. And again, this is our first take of data. So if there's something specific that we want to you want us to go back and get more data on, we totally can. We're in really no hurry to get that plan done. It's just, you know, do we feel like we have enough information to set a plan? Absolutely. I mean, there's some really good things that we can pull from this, I
022think. Yep. You need data. That looks good. Thank you. Any other questions for Jessica? Um, with the board's permission, my plan was kind of take this data, pull out, you know, kind of those kernels that we uh are coming through as themes and present a sample strategic plan maybe next month or the month after for you guys to edit, add, delete, and kind of kind of chew on a little bit. So that's that's the goal. Okay. I like it. Yeah. Good. Thank you again, Jessica. Yeah, you're welcome. Let me know if you need anything else. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you, Jessica. Yeah. Thanks for everybody for providing all your feedback as well. All right, on to 7.2, the East Operations Report. Jeff. All righty. Um, I'll start with uh reing pro uh project progress.
023Um, I continue to work with Puan Hardware on our uh reing progress. Um, calculations. The overall expense estimate looks like it'll be about $39,000. Um, overall that's including hardware replacement doors and the course and everything like that. U installing the new course. It's gonna it's looking like it'll likely be a summer project because the back order of the course. Um however, um some of the door hardware uh for the staff bathrooms uh front entry door closing arms uh can be accomplished by April or May. So some of that stuff will be coming in we can accomplish by April or May. Um but as far as the cores are concerned, we're looking at probably a summer project may um probably uh fire marshall uh reinspection uh went well. Um everything was repaired. Um there is a
024deficiency however that he noted um that we're overdue on uh for our sprinkler system. Initially, I thought that was due to the backflow device been repaired or central Washington fire protection didn't receive the um the receipt of repair from Johnson Control. So, I went ahead and sent that over to them and submitted that to the report. The deficiency still existed. So, did some inquiry um work with Central Washington Fire Protection trying to figure out what that is. Turns out that um we are overdue for a sprinkler systems test which I thought I had completed last year but that was just the alarm system test with the sprinkler system incorporated but the sprinkler system test itself is a whole different report that needs to be submitted. So we are overdue with that. Uh I wasn't aware
025of that at the time. I am aware of it now. So, I'm working with Central Washington Fire Protection to get that on schedule sooner rather than satisfy um uh for our uh sports field plans. Um we are working on getting a sports field put in. Measured it out. Believe it'll work. Out there right now close to getting it squared off about four feet off. But u I'm getting it down. Uh the field will measure about 100 yards by 40 yards. So we should be able to fit that in there. Uh let's see. Um the project um for how I have it planned out, the project will consist of three phases. Phase one is removing the shop foot pad. Um relocating the propane tank behind the bus garage, whether that means moving it or rotating it
026closer to the bus garage or moving it to a different location around the bus garage. Um and then uh moving a shipping container, airating the field, leveling and seating the areas where the sport field will be, areas where we need to raise the ground or whatot. Um and then get, you know, the uh getting how much soil we're going to need for it and everything like that. Getting that squared away. Um developing a method of irrigation for uh field where the actual field is so there's not going to be hazards of injuries if they step in a hole or in the kneecaps sprinkler or something. Eliminating that so we have surface sprinkler system so we can keep it with water. Phase two is um add padding to necessary areas in bus garage existing shipping container
027and potential parts of fencing. Additionally adding a cage around propane tank. That's just so extra precautions there. Phase three will be obtaining a scoreboard, whether it's portable scoreboard, getting one installed, um obtaining portable bleachers, and that should complete the project. All of it's likely not going to happen within a year, but if we get the field set up, that would be the biggest part of it really. Uh it's been a long time since we've had uh uh any field athletics here at East and quite a long time. I think 60s or later so get that going. I think that would be an amazing opportunity for students, amazing opportunity for the community. So wanting to help out with that, um we're open to it. So far, uh coach Nate, he's reached out to ProGrade. They've expressed
028interest in helping us out with the field. They have heavy equipment, you know, do some heavy lifting thing. they've already donated to the athletics program. So, they're they're very interested. So, hopefully we'll be working with them in the future with help with that. So, we are getting support um and hopefully get some support on that. Are there any questions with just one thing I want to add there? Mr. Hickman is going to go to an AD meeting tomorrow and ask the other league schools if there's any interest in looking at soccer, but maybe not, you know, 11 man soccer, 12 man, but looking at eight person soccer, six person like they do with football, so we can get I mean, there's lots of small schools that need to play. And so we're looking at that,
029too, which could potentially be a spring sport. So, not just for one sport, but multi multi sports, multiple sports, excuse me. Very cool. Moving on to the asphalt repairs um at the cross street parking lot entrance. Um right out there. Yes, thank you. Right out right out here on the east side of the school. Um there are cones and caution tape out there. That was due to the asphalt freezing, the last hard freeze we had. Um the alligatoring and the asphalt had enough it raised up so there's a nice size pot hole there. Um I've obtained quotes from Patriot Paving LLC all aces paving and seal coating incineer asphalt central paving LLC has not reached out to my inquiry. So I'm assuming they're not interested in small works project a larger project. But I do
030have uh I do expect three other estimates to come in. They're motivated to help. Um Patriot Paving LLC has provided a quote 12 thou 12,000 uh dollars. Um so uh they're the first ones to provide an estimate. They'd like to provide replacement asphalt in that area about five inches of asphalt so the buses driving vehicles all aces paving they're looking at about 4 in rainier as ball they I met with them today they're looking at more of three inches so a lot of things to consider in there rather than um just looking at the price tag what kind of um quality of repair are we getting with that price tag and then level of experience what kind of um sub layer are we getting do we want to upgrade the gravel to something more than
03158 minus maybe ballast contact. So that'll be something that I'll be looking at as far as the estimates when they were looking. Moving on to the transportation report. Um hard copies past maintenance logs have been uploaded to the share drive. Um you'll notice that the uh hard copies only go back to January. That's because prior to that, uh, my maintenance logs were included in my productivity report. So, I'll have to go through that, make a separate those months. Um, so that way I could upload those. So, I'll be working on that to pull those from my productivity report. So, from the time I started, everybody else needs buses. Um, as far as my CDL progress goes, uh, I have passed uh, the, uh, pre-trip test and the skills test. Still working on the driving test.
032I'm waiting to hear when I'll be able to do a retest on that. Did not anticipate this being as difficult to display, but I accept the challenge and I'm feeling quite competitive with it. At this point, I am not ready to give up as long as the board is not ready to give up. So, no. Appreciate your tenacity and commitment to it for sure. All righty. Excellent. So, I will continue with that endeavor. But once you get it, don't ever let it go. Yes, sir. I do not plan on it. Uh summer uh Washington State Patrol vehicle inspection. Um that's due to occur on April 7th between the hours of 8 am 2 pm. Nice wide window. They generally show up um in the morning time for Easter. I guess it appears that they like
033to start here. So um and then I am confident that all the buses will pass. Um I have the assistance of uh Elk Point Services um going to help out with us. Mr. Dylan Sers is been instrumental in the past and helped me. So uh along with Mr. Philip Mian as well. Um so I'm confident the buses should pass. there's nothing currently um wrong with the buses that would cause concern. So um he's going to come out, help me check out the buses, make sure everything's cop, uh we should have a successful inspection there. Um continue to look for additional school bus drivers. So far uh um interest is very little. We have had one person that was interested and unfortunately expired driver's license or a revoked driver's license. So that's gonna be a hard
034Yeah. Yeah. So very disappointing there, but I continue to put the word out my mouth. Uh put it out there on social media. Um anyway, um so there's any out of the box ideas. Um Mr. Aron Combo was kind enough to order a banner. So we had that hang up on our fence. any traffic jams that occur to see the data. I might add some neon arrows pointing to it rather high as well further. Um but I don't know fireworks might be in the future. Um we'll see. Uh as far as van quotes go, I have reached out to BudClary Toyota. They are they do hold state contract. Um, they currently are the only dealership that I found that has all-wheel drive minivans uh in stock. Um, so some of their used minivans that I
035was looking at, not on the state contract, just general pricing, we're looking at about 404 to $50,000. With the state contract, um, they only do the state contract with new vehicles, but with the state contract, you can see a significant discount on those. So, um, looking at some of the new stock, it's about 54,000. So the difference between a low mile used and a brand new Toyota CN 7 passenger being with all drive is minimal. So um I look forward to getting their u getting their estimates there and they'll be reaching out here within the next couple of weeks. We're in pretty desperate need of this vehicle. Yeah. Yes, we are. Um the more uh we get into sports programs and field trips um and endeavor to grow those programs uh the higher the need
036gets uh not only for more bus drivers but as well for that vehicle. Um we've already run into a couple of times where having that additional vehicle uh would have relieved a lot of pressure. We were able to work it out as we always do, but um having that additional vehicle makes it that much easier for students. Uh that's all I have for you. Are there any questions? All right. Right. Up next 7.3 the superintendent report. Thank you, Mr. Brian for your report. Um, enrollment wise, we are at 86 is our headcount, which is a little bit lower than we were last year. Three students less. Still working on, you know, getting the word out just like with bus drivers, you know, put neon arrows and fireworks. I probably will come to the board next
037month with another proposal to do more social media marketing, uh, to get your moment up, but uh like I said, 86 down a little bit, but we're still working on increasing our numbers. I would like to say again, thank you to Angela and to Aaron for serving as our student reps for our board members. I appreciate it. And you know, you guys just add any kind of reports that uh you feel like you want, okay? There's no pressure, but we're we're delighted that that you're here. Um, Miss Klein and I are working on our master schedule for next year. Uh, taking into account kind of what we saw from the data from our our survey is, you know, we want to offer as many electives as we can with for our students. Um, we are
038limited by staffing of course, but uh, I think we have a we have a plan to to make some adjustments for next year. So hoping to get more music into the schedule and I think uh Miss Klein and I have a plan to do that. Also looking at uh Mr. Miley I think you mentioned last meeting about looking at some CTE classes. So I'm working on doing our frameworks uh for our CTE classes which I haven't done before. I've always had a CTE director do all that for me. So I guess I'm going to be doing that with some outside expertise from one of my former interns from the school district. So hopefully uh maybe next uh excuse me first semester next year we can have some classes that are also qualified for CTE career
039and technical education. Great. So we're we're working on that. Um we now uh we are in the process of bargaining with our teachers union and that's been going very well. We've exchanged I think each side has exchanged 10 different proposals. So um we are working on working through those proposals and we now have a website where you can see all the proposals from both the district's point of view and also from EA's point of view and they are located right at this link or if you go on district under district on our website you can see everything there. Again this is I guess in the spirit of transparency. Yeah. um we want to make sure everything is out there in the open and um at this point there haven't been any uh financial proposals because
040we're still waiting on the state legislature. So right now it's just just language items and uh again I think we've met twice and we will meet again on Thursday to continue that that process. So please if you're interested it's there for anybody to look at. I've also put this in the newsletter so our parents and community can can also see the the proposals. Uh yeah, the web page is great. It's really nice. Reasonable assurance letters. These are letters that will go out to staff that we reasonably assured that we will bring them back next year. H also we have I have not heard of any staff who is plan on leaving Eastern School District which is great. Um, so those will be coming out in April to our staff and we do those every year.
041So it's just more of a procedural thing, but the board know about that. Um, the legislature is still in session this week. The House budget came out and senate budget came out. There are some differences in between those and I didn't even bother to put those down because there can be so much trading going on behind the scenes that I didn't want to invest a lot of time in it. If you recall, we kind of had there was three proposals that were the big priorities of WASDA, which was MOC, materials, supplies, operating costs, transportation, special ed. Looks like two of those are dead, so to speak. um MSOC and transportation and but there might be some um additional funds for special education which is great but um as you know the uh it's been a
042very tight budget session and uh yeah we'll see what happens. It's supposed to end at the end of April. Will it end at the end of April? I couldn't tell you. Um I've left some links in there and this this information here is from our lobbyist that works for ESD 105 about kind of where we are with things, but not the most promising of legislative sessions. Um, I anticipate that K12 will not be cut. I think we'll kind of maintain, which really means we're cut because of inflation, but other programs are severely getting cut. I got an email today, uh, if you recall for the last couple years, we've done an outdoor education grant, 354,000. That's kind of on the chopping block. So, lots of lots of things in the chopping block, but we'll we'll
043see what happens with that. But, um, this is just more legislative information. Uh, bill tracker. And as Jeff was saying earlier, with our increased number of kids in in in activities, we are feeling some pressure with uh, van use. some kids that are are classified as homeless that we provide transportation for every day. Um, so we are feeling that pinch. So I think next month we'll bring a proposal for purchasing a new school vehicle. But uh, we have now I just talked with Mr. Hickman between high school track and starting up middle school track in on Monday about 25 students involved in track and field. I mean just started the program last year. This year we have 25 kids. So that's awesome. I am I could I couldn't be happier with that. Having something for
044our kids are doing something that's positive and healthy and I think we're going to be very good in track and field. Couldn't be happier about that. That is the extent of my report. If there's questions I could answer, I'm happy to. Hopefully at our April meeting I will have a little bit clearer direction on where the legislature is headed. But right now, I don't think anybody has that crystal ball of where they're going, I think. So, just they didn't do the levy, the 50%. Yeah. I I didn't think that was going to pass, but be great. But, um, it's money. So, we'll we'll see what happens in the next uh upcoming weeks. Any other questions or comments? Thanks. You betcha. All right. So, before the board member report thing I have to report is our
045guest member dropped your phone. Throw that. Hopefully it's okay. carpet cushion, you know, kind of going back to to the whole planning thing as far as getting community involvement. Uh, do you want those slides up? No. You know, I after school clubs, like what does it take to start an after school club? Student interest. We tried to do knowledge bowl, right, earlier this year and we just didn't have enough. Yeah. Yeah. I'm talking more like uh things like small engine repair construction or just got to have the the bodies that want to teach the club and the kids that want to be part of it. Absolutely. Our buildings open till we have somebody here now until 8:30 every night. So yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, because I always just look at anything that you could teach
046a student that it may not be a career prospect, but being able to do things on your own and save from having to pay somebody to do it, I mean, it's equally as good and puts money in your pocket. So, yeah. Yeah. I wish I knew more about car repair. save myself. Yeah, that would be interesting. What kind of ideas? Yeah, I'm just kind of stood on here. Anything else? Anyone? Angel, what kind of She's already here before school. What? Tuesdays. Oh, good. What? I know someone that you're willing to You get a lot of interest in that. One of the things that I was chatting with about was it was with the photography kids out and I was like, "Yeah, we as realtors get charged about 200 bucks a shoot. It takes 15 minutes."
047I just went out and did it myself for one. So being able to teach these kids how to work through that and I mean it's a life skill that they'd be able to take and transfer outside and then he was also talking about getting looking into a program where they could go and get this is probably not the correct term but essentially their pilot's license for these drones. Yes. Okay. I don't know what it is. Um, I know that like my photographer that I use, he has his because it's for commercial use. I think I should have it. That's it's a different story. Um, but I know what it does for them is it gives them it gives them access to different drones that they're able to use. They can put them up in Sky.
048So that was just something that they would be able to as students you guys would get to take that with you after high school and already have that as a quote unquote marketable skill. So I would just like to correct one thing. We don't have drones. We have quadcopters. Sorry. If we have drones, that's a whole different level of insurance we need to do. So we have quadcopters. We have quadcopters. We have quadcopters. My bad. Quadcopter operators. Yes. They pilots. And them kids come zipping down the halls with those and I'm like, "You guys are good at this. Like, you should be doing something with this." So, All right. Um, Aaron Brown, do you have any comments for us? Can you hear me? Yes. Loud and clear. All right. No, there wasn't anything like specifically
049that I wanted to mention. I just thought everything was good. Great. Thank you, Erate. a little shout out on your guys podcast that you're doing too. Those were were very fun and looking forward to seeing more. Yeah, this week's edition is actually Erin and I talking about teenage slang. I I gave him some good ones from from back in my day. Yeah. Wow. Be very interested to see what's on that list. That will be in this week's newsletter. Oh, and thank you for some amazing newsletters, too. Oh, that's it's hard to remember to keep all the pieces together, but as long as teachers send me pictures and we put them in there. So, trying to make it useful for parents. Is somebody howling? I know. I was just No, I think I think maintenance is
050going to take a bird's nest. Oh, okay. Set up something that that I'm trying to do for it's my Yep. It was I was pointing out there it's bird. All right, I think that's it then for our board member report section. We are good to hop into section 8 board business starting with 8.1 the WIAA board resolution. This is our annual resolution that we I asked the board to do so we can continue to be part of WIAA and their activities. So just kind of a cut and paste from last year. This is something that's got to be renewed every year. and then we submit it to WIA. So they they have it as well. So yeah, we just need to make a motion. Y I'll make a motion. Do you WA membership? I'll second
051it. All in favor? I thank you very much. All right. And everybody's favorite 8.2 the board policy update section. will share that u trackpad is not working but I think after next month's meeting we are finally done with the 6000 series but then we get to go back to the 4000 series because we skipped over those after our so we're getting we're getting close after the 4000s were we're all caught up so um the proposals or excuse me the model policies that I saw in there really the only two that I thought maybe the board would want to uh consider thinking about were 66.90 which is um basically contracting your transportation out to you know company first ser is a company that does transportation. We have no local companies that will do that for us
052here too small for for their business anyway. And 6810 is an energy conservation program. It's encouraged. It's not certainly required. So, I thought maybe that would be something the board would want to think about. Everything else, you know, either we have uh policy in place or it's probably a recommended one that we should we should do. I definitely think we should do the energy management. Um, pretty much everywhere I've existed except at Eastern School has a plan for that. So, that'd be great. I wasn't finding the one about the transportation. Did you say 6690? 6600 is transportation overall but contracted transportation is 6690. 6610. We should adopt that. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. We have Yeah. You can see prior there wasn't a policy. Yeah. The only ones that kind of gave me pause were 6810 and
0536690. Everything else I think is probably good for us as a as a district to adopt any recommendations. Yep. So you want to go with your recommend? I make a motion that we approve recommendations. Second. All in favor? I All right. Thank you very much. [Music] All right, next up we are up to the section 9 board discussion and 9.1 second settlement from Juel Lawsuit. And Juul is the ecigarette company, the vape company that we are part of a class action lawsuit. We have received our second or we will be receiving our second payment from them um for let's see $716. Uh we should have two more payments coming, but I'm guessing they will decline in uh the amount. The first uh check if you recall last year was about $2,400. Um but we'll put
054it in the general fund and we'll go from there. So just want to make the board aware of that. Uh the other two items under board discussion, I just I put them under board discussion so they're easily more easily to search down the road. Um you know, Jeff has already talked about those in his report just so we have the quotes there and it's a little bit easier to find down the road. Anybody have want to talk about the rec? What's Jeff going to do with all that extra space in his pocket? All right. Asphalt repair. All right. So, we are up to uh section 10 for the good of the district and for the good of the district. Um, Angela and Erin, you guys haven't been on the board meetings before, but just if
055there's anything that you want to like quickly share uh before we kind of sign off for for the uh end of the meeting here, you can share, but everybody else can, too. Sorry, I'm rambling. We're waiting. Track good. Yeah, I actually have a question with the football field and removing the shot. Are we going to put another one in or Yeah, my plan for that if I can, I would like to just relocate the current shop for the field. But if that proves unsuccessful, probably at the east end. I'm just excited. It feels like spring's here. At least for today certainly helps. Well, I'll take it. Yeah. I'd like to share we have our final JV uh excuse me, junior high volleyball match tomorrow night. girls. I think they've only lost two matches all year.
056Awesome. And are just doing great. So, can't remember who they're competing against, but if you have time, please come out and support support the kids. They have done a tremendous job this year. So, what time's that game against? Be at 5:00. Yep. I got I got a whole line of girls that are asking about great hair tomorrow after school. You're gonna be busy. So, Yep. All right. I didn't know that was in your uh your skill set. And it it they all of a sudden figured out that it was part of my skill set one day when I didn't want to do my hair when I came in. Well, thank you for getting the uh the Jags all and it'll be fun. We'll have we'll just set up a whole train of them and just
057get everybody's hair done before the game. The kids have been great and the crowds the community has really come up to support girls, too. So, it's been awesome. Awesome to see. Thanks for supporting Easter and everybody. Absolutely. Um and I just wanted to and end with it being that hopefully everybody's been really celebrating uh the women out there in their lives because it's women's um history month and there's just an incredible amount of women here making this place uh what it is. So thanks to everyone who's there and all the women in my life are history. So yes, very good. I got to write that down. That was pretty good. All right. Well, on that note, um would anyone like to make a motion to adjurnn? I will make a motion to adjurnn. Okay. I
058will second the motion. Yeah. All in favor? I I Yeah. I know. Look at us go. I'm just so excited about this.