001video our audio is also on STI are you able to hear us just give us a thumbs up okay thank you hey this is Jen hi Jen I was a little yucky out today so I decided to stay um at the pass not contribute to the uh excess traffic today hang on I'm working on my video here understand so we are ready whenever you are okay Sor I'm just trying to hide my background here um where is it Phillips see the name okay well I mean this is fine too here hang on we see you okay well let's go ahead and uh get everything started then thanks for everybody for attending and we can start with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
002Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right just getting the agenda up here sh screen so those at home can see the agenda thank you thank you all right are there any additions deletions or change of agenda items on anyone's radar no I haven't been notified of any additions or changes okay all right and do we have anyone present for public comment either virtually or in person Mr Brenan in the audience here at the library I'm looking to see if I have any hands up online we have a few visitors but not seeing any hands raised to make a a comment okay all right we will move on um to section five of um the agenda the consent agenda review does anybody have any comments
003or questions about that before we work to approve the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda second great all in favor I I must confess I didn't have the minutes ready for last meeting so that's why you will not see those under the consent agenda we will be ready our March meeting for me Jen can you hear us there she is oh you're you're on mute unmute there I promise I will try not to uh click on the zoom meeting tab again all right so for the financial update um go ahead section six thank you we're ready whenever you are Nicole okay sounds good so this graph is our three-year cash graph showing our cash as of January at $989,000 and just a reminder of that yellow line there in the
004middle of the graph that would be our 20% minimum fund balance policy so um we are above we're well above that in January and our general ledger trial balance this is what I use to balance through the county treasure and there are no differences in the month of January and then this is the county treasure that I um received from the County Treasurer that I balanced that general ledger trial balance which we saw last to show that um we um tie in January last one I think is the budget status report jumped over it [Music] hereo tabs see that some tabs [Music] here Agenda Report I can just I can tell you what the different fund balances are if it's not in the oh there it is 6.4 my apologies so this report is the
005one that we're required to provide to you so these financials are of January 2025 um showing that we are 41% of the way through the school year we have received about 35.9% of our revenues that we budgeted to receive we've spent about 34.7 of our budgeted expenditures leaving our ending fund balance at $998,000 which puts us at a 26% ending fund balance um so we're 6% above uh our minimum fund balance that the board has passed and then the capital projects funds has an ending fund balance right there yep a 61 no debt payments in the month of January and then Transportation vehicle funds has oh I missed ASB ASB has an ending fund balance of 27,000 and transportation vehicle fund has an ending fund balance of 15,000 anything out of the ordinary this month
006that uh came across your desk or your computer nope this month has been really smooth does anybody have any questions for me on the financials are we tracking a little bit under on um just spending that we would have had on bus drivers and stuff that we haven't been able to hire do you feel like like we have a little bit of savings from that anywhere um we we are budgeting under our um budgeted expenditures um but we also do budget High higher than our um but we predict to spend that just gives us the capacity to do so if an emergency Rises or we need something um but you know if we had to we could always ask OSI for Budget extension um but I haven't seen anything come across my desk as far
007as requests from Aon or anybody else at the district about something that they're needing that hasn't been provided um if that happens I always like to give a teacher or who is Ever making the request a um I'll let them know what budget is and say you know if you need something Beyond this please let me know we'll make a wish list or work together on it and um but I haven't had any requests so um I think Aaron would probably know more but um he hasn't reached out saying that they're needing something that they haven't been able to be provided okay we're we're in pretty good shape me we did budget for you know a part-time music teacher that we were finally able to add second semester yes yes and we did we did
008budget for that position for the entire year in case we were able to the hire it you know right away um so we did have the budget for um the for sure for the last half of the year for that music teacher okay any other questions good no news is good news thanks Nicole y thank you Nico all right uh hopping into section seven additional reports um we have 7.1 the eastn academic data yeah I've asked uh stie Klein to join us and I know she's I believe in her in her waiting room and will be joining us shortly she is going to share um how Eastern kids are doing uh in comparison to some local school districts in terms of standardized testing the esac uh to see where you know um our areas of
009of strength are and our areas of growth so STI are you ready yep okay so just I'll drive so if uh you you need me to slow down or move ahead and a slide just just shout it out sounds good okay so this is going to look at from 2019 to 2024 um esack testing so State Testing the first one we're going to look at is English Ela and at the surrounding schools this is a graph that shows those surrounding schools about an hour and a half from Easton in a radius so you can look at those um scores you can see Easton is column three right there what we're looking at is red and orange are not passing yellow and green are passing this those State tests so I'll give you a moment to
010look at that you can see that there's a consistent dip throughout and that's due to covid so you can see that everyone was struggling and then at that after that 2019 and how we're hopefully working our way up and actually Smarter Balance has kind of recalibrated their level scoring so um basically if it's level one that means that the student is not at grade level performance level two three and four they're at grade level performance obviously level four they're at a higher performance yeah thank you excuse and then we'll go to the next one and then this is looking at Easton that same graph Easton compared to kitas and Thorp so looking at schools a little bit more like us in comparison so this is still English with us just a a few kids you
011know moving up a level or going down a level has a huge impact on you know our percentages because of our our end value is so so small so this is still English from another different graph which everyone you might like a little bit better again we're the column three with those same schools you can kind of see how that dip is a little bit more um obvious and then how we kind of are shooting back up almost back where we were before covid and then kind of leveling out again and then how we compare to those other schools see that huge dramatic drop from 2019 to 21 again looking at this a little bit more focused in uh keep in mind Co was a huge impact we have to you know it a couple
012years away from the consistency is going to make a a huge impact so I'm happy to see that the growth that we were able to get back up there and then learning and continuing to build on that what's the size difference um with like snowy Valley School District compared to the rest of them they're way bigger right so they're yeah they're much bigger I'm not sure on the exact numbers i' have to look that one up I think they're are they 2300 I know they're yeah like like s said much much larger I know they're over 2,000 yeah sample size yeah yeah so they're not going to have quite the fluctuation you know like us and kid Thor yeah major fluctuation Just Between the grades even in each student oh that's an excellent point this
013is for all students um forgot to mention that all students it's in whoever took the test it's that's what we're looking at and then this graph same kind of idea still English you can see kind of how we compare on a bar or on a line graph um the order that the schools appear on is how they appear on the dots so for example on that first Top Line Yakama is that first Dot and we're kind of overlapping there in the middle is and then that second graph right underneath it is the three schools we've been looking at so the first line is all the schools second line is the three schools that are in bold then math so we're looking at the same schools math is lower for almost everybody keep that in mind
014again we're the third column so it's is it the orange that's not grade proficient the one that's kind of in the middle or is it the bottom one yeah it's the bottom one the red okay and then that same graph with the three schools have a little bit closer idea e Kor to see again if you like this graph better maybe that it's easier to visualize we're the third column little bit closer visual with the three schools and then if you like this graph a little bit better um the first line is all the schools and then the second line is the three schools e is that first Blue Dot on both graphs can see obviously math not just for us is is an issue across the state and obviously across the US I think
015the only thing I would like to see on the is again back to sample size like for how many students if we have five dip dip our and that's what that's you know whereas another school could have 150 right could have the same fluctuation with that small sample size a lot of this that's not even statistically uh accurate exactly but I also want the board to kind of kind of see this just kind of see how we're doing in comparison to our other districts and you know where we need to grow and what we're doing well yeah no I think it's good data on this English one we we see that we have that drop in 21 and that's explainable and then it pops back up in 22 which is expected because it came back
016what happened from 22 to 23 and 24 why are they still dropping after that do we have I any idea I think a lot of it is sample size so you got kids who are coming through that maybe are a little bit uh more academically motivated than others and with our small sample size one or two kids you know can really uh throw off that that graph and that data um we haven't had a significant uh curriculum change yeah so I haven't had a change really in in teachers so comes down to that point if we don't have any outside teaches then it's we have kids that maybe their strong suit is more math or more Ela and that's kind of a give and take of working with with kids any questions for S but
017I do like the idea of add the sample size I think yeah just so we have actual numbers something go off because otherwise you you look at the graph and it's like yeah it's a little deceptive it is very deceptive I agree um well snami Valley they tested a thousand kids we tested right totally could but I mean if I was a parent looking at this I would be it it makes it look like we're terrible that's what it is well and you really have to almost go by individually and you know okay we have in this grade we had five third graders the next year we had four third graders ear instead of3 I do want to show you a another grph I was in a webinar OPI webinar and they showed a graph
018that I think was really telling again not just pertaining to East not just pertaining to Washington and not even just pertaining to the US but Nation worldwide so this is a graph in this case it's just showing eth red Mass Force so the state of Washington is kind of that gold color and the US is the the black want to make sure you can see the timeline here drag it up a little bit oops you guys out of the way there we go so you can see obiously you had the covid drop right in here but even before that you had a little bit of a drop think about what was going on not just in the US but what was going on in the world kind of you know 2014 15 16 and then
019beyond what was becoming popular with our kids what's that social media and Tech cell phones and technology and social media and this is this drop has been seen worldwide um you know you can see we're starting to recover a little bit from from covid but it's still a whole lot lower where than it was yeah again it's worldwide worldwide phenomenon most areas the test scores are dropping and the easy correlation to make is the accessibility and availability of digital devices and cell phones and social media to our children this is one of the reasons that you know we are part of that lawsuit against uh they meta now or whatever they are will we ever see the end of that we'll just keep appealing interesting data well and I mean one one thing to notice
020when we're looking at it's like 276 in 03 to 272 um now so is that significantly different or you know like now that we're kind of like well it's it's it's down a little bit over 20 years but it had been up I guess that's an improvement that we want to see but um between the start and the end you know like are those numbers like truly significantly different I would say you know back in what 2013 we were at a 290 and then dropping down to a 274 yes I would say that's significant okay one thing that I've become aware of is that like in larger districts where there's a separate middle school versus a high school I'm coming to find out that the way mathematics is taught in middle school is completely different
021than it's taught in high school so in in some areas like I'm hearing from high school teachers they're saying yeah if you took a class with that middle school teacher they don't teach it right so kids struggle or they fail and then they have to retake it in high school so I just want to make sure that we're not having any any anything curriculum wise that we're not preparing it's not following suit like each each class should be a stepping stone to next I would say we're much more cohesive than we were several years ago um now that we have you know M Lloyd who's teaching basically from grade six all the way up yeah that used to not be the case um and I know our math teacher or excuse me our elementary teachers
022have spent a lot of time looking at math frequin and actually a PD session looking at some other ways to make sure we're getting our kids where they need to be but much there's been some changes in the staff and I think that's much more cohesive I mean and when you guys are saying you haven't we haven't really changed curriculum but in that past 20 years we have changed from traditional math to the new math as well um and also a lot of it being you know instead of you doing all of your testing on paper exclusively um you're doing stuff now on computers and also um like tests where the students get skipped around based on how they answer things so maybe the tech that we're using to do the testing is kind of
023failing the kids a little bit in here too I don't know I always have questioned that since my kids have been going through this you know as little elementary students going you know when they're following the electronic path where it's not the same for every single student maybe that's not an equitable way to test everybody do you guys know where the break is between the new math and the old math um across the states and in Washington I would say somewhere probably in this area I'm just again I'm spitballing not math curriculum expert okay know just for my own child I would try to te help her with math and it was you have to teach it a different way yes and I didn't know how to teach it that way know I taught it
024it's really hard for parents to support that like that's what I found and I'm in like an excellent at math person throughout all of my school and so it was like whoa I don't even know how to help this person in kindergarten in first grade when the kids first started um so maybe there's something that we can do also with parents to be able to enable them to help their kids to have higher math scores as well the the research with math instruction is much more you know conceptual based and you know block 10 and ones and T and five digits not a Content expert in math it was at one time but not now U but I know our three elementary teachers are much more on the same page and cohesive so hopefully as
025those kids a mature upwards with into middle school and high school we'll see those grades improve we are offering AP statistics for the first time and a lot of our kids are are doing well and enjoying that that challenge along with personal finance so there's a balance of what we're doing for our kids so it's yes College Bound but also some practical math too yeah that's awesome but I just found this graph in is R doll was going through his webinar that was his his analogy again not just not just e not just Washington not just the us but worldwide seeing the same and also metric is so much easier so if we can get our country off of the English stuff it would really really benefit our students to get them on the metric
026system do we know where we sit roughly with this eth grade math like where our eighth graders sit I know there's not very many of them it's obviously skewed because of that but we have an idea I I would have to look at the individual data of course with kids but yeah I think as far as the graphs go great starting yep first time I've seen them good stuff to track and this was shared with our staff last week too so they have seen it now and are starting to you know digest it and again I I like the idea of I might actually have Miss Lloyd work on kind of that St statistical significance of our low end size how it is skewed yeah and I think you know I think that the drawback
027is also our size yes because we should get more oneon-one time I mean I would hope to be seeing better scores not not for any other reason other than just what's what's going on over time y consistent pressure applied over time you go anything else for for S before we we let her go no I think it looks great yeah thank you thanks thank you stie thank you stie thanks stie I uh did some data mining on our grades from first semester um so looking at first semester data and where we are as a school with kind of the highs and lows number of a and and non-passing classes here's what we have in our secondary 50 kids fairly equal in terms of gender breakdown not sure why this didn't uh isn't in line because
028it was on my but as you know when you convert from a PDF or PowerPoint sometimes move around a bit so 50 kids and we posted 327 grades we have some kids that are only here part-time or some of our seniors Maybe only taken a couple classes here we met all our graduation requirements so that's why you got a strange number 80 82 grades were assigned by teachers so 25% of all grades were a that's a good thing flip side we had 47 uh non-credit earning grades students good news 38% of our kids 19 out of 50 above the 3.0 darn [Music] good um again 25% of the grades were a 78% of our kids over three qus out of four at least one a our grade 11 class is a very academically uh Powerhouse
029class so 45% of our a will earned by grade 11 22% of our a are in the grade 10 so grade 10 11 academic B is very strong six so one out of four students earned an a grade seven half of them earned A's grade eight total from here all of our Juniors at at least r one a nice some some good data remember now remember this good data okay we have some areas that we we need to improve on in areas that I need more attention we going there next in the future I always get bad news first well I I I want to start a p um then just a gender breakdown we have 56% of our kids are males and they earn 41% of our A's and 89% of our FS were
030earned by male students this is a trend that you're seeing you know Nationwide males and females the number of students entering college or that by gender follows the same kind of path Aron was that the data that's in the the superintendent report um I don't think I included in my superintendent report no pull I out so we could talk more here about it okay I just can't see it so oh I'm sorry am I not sharing screen um you are it's just showing the agenda item details um for the stuff that CD presented I'm me try that again sure I just remember seeing it so somewh is it okay can you see it now is that better yes there we go okay my apologies didn't didn't know that so like I said earlier 14% of
031all grades were were non-passing 42% almost half of our kids earned at least one half were those in math and um English or other I'm gonna get to those tots here in in in a minute I'll have it by subject area but our ninth and 10th graders especially our males are are struggling okay just by grade level 67% of ninth graders ear at least one F 45% of 10th graders had at least one F here's the probably the graphic that got me the most four students are 8% of our secondary population earn 38% of our FS multiple students earning multiple non-passing grades here's percentage of a by content 32% and then our non-passing grates also buy content again this was shared by the staff to the staff as well last week so they could see
032see our data and see where you know what areas we need to address I have met with every kid who failed a class at the end of the semester to see what was what we could do what was going on in their lives that you know prevented them from earning the pass and gra um by and large I think the kid the students were honest with me I would see a lot of it was just from she not turning in their stuff not motivated they had their stuff maybe done maybe they left it at home or they left it in their backpack they just didn't go that next step of turning it in and I asked why and they just just I guess I kind of forgot so like I said I met with each
033of them and kind of uh said what can we do to help you what can we do to support you what we can we do to do better and I say most of those students I talked with hard percentage just said you know I know what to do I I know how to pass I know the school game it's just I just for whatever reason chose not to do it some of them had some you know some situations at home that they shared with me and got them some some support to help deal with those issues yeah but a lot of it was just sometimes in theirs it's not cool to be academic I would say especially for our boys they don't view that as a a valuable thing for them right now well and
034the only thing I would say to that is once you get in the secondary especially depending on especially appears to be more the male population than the population and know that you have there those CT classes whether or not any of those FS could be converted over to a CTE at some point that would be more engaging and you know perhaps in the future perhaps yeah I mean we're willing to do whatever we need to do I've even made some uh say some bats with kids you pass all your classes I'll give you 50 bucks a class to do what we need to do to get them you know across the line and the kids I I do believe that they were very honest with me it's just like yeah just just spaced out time
035the semester came up it was kind of they had dug themselves too deep a Hool yeah now with our kids who have failed those multiple classes those four kids I'm meeting with them about every two weeks met with one of them today so how you doing I'm doing okay here here here still need to work here here so um I want to make sure that they understand that I want them to do well and we have staff that will care cares about them and wants them to do well it's how do we just take that next little step it's not a big step these are bright students it's just what's that next nudge that we need to do to get across that line curiosity how many of these failing grades have I in those classes
036um I did run that data I don't have it with me but of those four students I mentioned two understands is fairly limited but I don't think that's great no AG that's that's the purpose of the IEP is to make sure that we support their education and something's missing there and for two of those students the inclass model is not working for them so we have looked at uh the second semester they've been assigned a couple online classes and have done very well so their schedule might be changing um to more online because that is what's meeting their needs and getting them across the Finish Line how many of them are um athletes of the of the non-p passing grades uh yes have I'd have to go back I don't have my raw data with
037me um oh that's okay I would say half to three quarters okay just wondering if you know like they're not turning stuff in and they're but they're out you know doing the athletic stuff for us and um I don't know maybe they're just tired and stuff but they might going to practice they're not competing and you know I would say an hour and a half practice after school for 14 15 16 year old student should not make them tired no right but I mean like going on a three-hour bus ride to an event though that's what's going to make them tired and maybe not able to do their homework and stuff and those kids aren't traveling though okay well I hope we can get them to turn their um stuff in well and this is
038just a sample size of 24 25 yes 23 24 looked like 22 23 absolutely and again with our small size have them you look at our current junior class they are you know knocking it out of the park both boys and girls a couple years ago with my younger who's an eighth grader um definitely did have a lot of conversations about you know like if you miss turning things in you can't get back from that you know like you if you start the beginning of the year in control of turning things in and doing the best you can on every um you know test or homework or assignment opportunity that you have you know you're you're just automatically because of what you're contributing to your own progress for the year going to do that much
039better than if you just don't turn stuff in so I definitely know that is a conversation that we have specifically had a couple years ago that made a really big difference so I maybe other parents could come in and talk to their kids too about about that if we gave them some tools those conversations daily yeah just turn in your stuff yeah whether it's done or not you finished half of it turn it in it's okay turn it in so you know just a snapshot of where we are and I at the end of second semester so we can see how we're doing moving we're moving forward awesome sorry I'm deep in the zoom meeting here where is the agenda here are you able to see the agenda now again Jen Nope oh okay all
040right I'm back at it now all right so we are um finished with Section 7.1 the Eastern academic data and hopping into 7.2 eastn operations report Mr Brenning is in the room and share my screen his report Mr BR are you ready to roll yes sir uh let's see there's a couple of things that I did forget to put on the the main report it's okay that I those uh with the boilers and hbag boilers doing well so far through so that's that's positive um I do have I am experienced some loss of H controls in some of the rooms uh Miss Burton's classroom uh her room gets super hot right now I just turned off the FC unit for her classroom so it remains more uncomfortable in there during the night time I'll turn
041it back on so up temperature shut off early in the morning before she comes in that way the rim keeps a comfortable 65 70° within there uh the lights in the library as you can see have been repaired iron Creek electrical came in and did an excellent job with that they've been converted to LEDs as well so they should last user um the lights out in the foror those have been repaired they've already been converted to LEDs so need to happen there is change a few wires around so it wasn't light switch they are now security lights again so turn the light switch off security purposes um front entry window has been repaired see then see our kitchen refrigerator it did go down last week my kidst was very responsive to it we came out
042the same day was able to put in a starting capacitor that went out with it it's a common thing that goes out those refrigerators they put a temporary one in there and then uh about midweek last week they were able to get um an actual the right capacitor starting capacitor in there um and I had them order a spare one so if that one goes out I can put a new one in they showed me how to do it got of plug play two wires so should anything happen with the bridge future we have a spare replace that with uh moving on to the Fire Marshall inspection um all emergency lights that need to review repl have been replaced as well as the exit sites and batteries have been replaced so things are moving along
043smoothly with that I have power strips uh enhanced so I was just switching those out so we don't have daisy chain power strips and we made the extension cords with power strips have longer Tails so we should be ready um the Fire Marshall is willing to extend the reinspection till um March 14th so March 14th he'll be back out here to inspection at which point I think should be moving on to the transportation report I've created and shared with all of you the digital maintenance log so that way you guys be able to view that as yeah that was cool to be on there if there's anything you'd like me to add there if you see information that that's perhaps not necessarily necessary feel free to let me know and make it address accordingly um
044I have the hard copies from January and prior to that that I can upload as well because you know you like to see those as well um and where do you find those at uh I think I just email shared them with you they would be under the Google The Google Documents um or the Google spreadsheets yeah Phil uh especially if you see anything on it like see add to it or anything like that let me know I can add that make sure I annotate that I know we had one of the buses um was uh had a link on something and it turns out it was steering fluid yeah the power steering fluid right before turns out that one of the adjustable hose clamps was loose on there um so one of the things
045that I learned is when I do my inspections of the buses make sure twisting the hoses not just you them a light tub to see if they're loose on but also twisting they rotate tight them up them up so it wasn't a lot it was just eight ounces of fluid that was lost um refilled that no more lead it's where I can find the hose looks good order as well as the reservoir so that's uh good everything's working good there as well as far as CDL progress goes I've turned in documentation uh to Mr Jared foodz there Thorp School District uh the CDL uh tester isn't this week she came in uh this last Monday she was back in her office so hopefully get things moving along here she has documentation get me on there
046get schedu date soon sooner rather than later we're anticipating early March to mid March so hopefully early March away FIB yeah was it did it come from you Jeff or was it yeah yeah I got nothing guess go back for hey there Jeff and is the link to that is that a live document or it is yeah yeah so uh you guys would be a if I were on there and you were looking at you'd be able to see the typ well yeah I checked it out it looked very good the setup all right good Jeff thank you all right thank you thanks Jeff all right next up uh the superintendent report 7.3 thank you very much hope you've had a chance to take a look at uh at my report worked I know at
047the before our meeting started I was commenting we had our staff versus student basketball game last night but great success as the students were in awe of the basketball skills that the eastn school staff has um guarantee the students don't need as much ibuprofen today no was a great great game but there was a lot of limping around from uh from the staff today my lower back was uh was hurting we had some l cramps and things like that but it was it was a lot of fun it was worth yeah yeah thanks everybody for doing that staff out there working together so it was it was a lot of fun uh enrollments we are C and steady a little bit of of a drop we've had a couple kids who have who have moved
048on we had one who has joined us and we had a a 12th grader who has met all his graduation requirements so he decided I'm going to reduce my schedule and sleep in a little bit more which is certainly with him his right to do so that's why you see that minus 85 FTE there so he's taking advantage of that but overall we're a little bit less than we were last year at this time and I'm hopeful we'll get those numbers up um I had a conversation with our social media consultant earlier this week and um I'll share some data with you next week or excuse me next meeting about where we are what we want to might want to look into for our next kind of recruiting cycle or ad advertising marketing kind of
049finished up this this three months and decide what we want to do in the next was was the new student that started at the beginning of the semester um did they come from the social media blast no they did not they uh we're in Roslin uh now with us yeah okay um election results as we know uh came out a few weeks ago uh this was results from the 11th if you click on the that link you'll see the the overall total so those numbers have changed a little bit as some of them have kind of crossed the the threshold of the uh passing and some going the other way uh but again you can see bonds are still a hard sell you know but if you look at Seattle who passed a$ 1.8 billion
050of course Capital Levy um with I think 70 some percent because it basically has no impact on the taxes what not not million billion with the beat $1.8 billion doll Capital Levy uh why didn't we put in for one ion Capital unfortunately our T capacity was nowhere near um passed a transportation Levy I think for a new bus I think theirs was like two two cents on the thousand to get get a new school bus and you'll see know most of the EPO levies the operational levies they pass across the state which is good news for those communities and I do know a couple of those distri going to run again in April so talk a little bit more about the EPO Levy at East here in bit um I have been working with EA
051or our Union to develop some I guess I call them more specific classified evaluation forms the current form we had before prior to this whether if you were a bus driver food service worker or secretary per Ed it was the same evaluation yeah which didn't make to me a whole lot of sense so been working with the Union leadership and collaboratively we had our you know folk our bus drivers here are some sample evaluations what do you like what do you not like because I want to be able to provide them with you know professional development and you know the professionalism that comes with the tailored evaluation so we now have agreed upon uh we have a specific evaluation for administrative assistants Food Service bus driver par Educators uh custodians so which has again tailored
052to their job functions and they had a hand in developing those evaluations they said yes we like this we don't like this and now we have a much more specific evaluation so I'm very happy about that Tre their folks like professionals and have a professional evaluation this week is week two of we have a women's woodworking class here at East now U every Wednesday they are meeting in the shop uh first session was last week and um it's Jeff how many how many participants did we have uh they had a five-day enrollment so short notice but they got 20 participants cool they had more interest but they weren't able to work your schedule so they time tomorrow night we'll have a group of folks coming here to do some woodworking in the shop with the
053certified instructor we have their insurance and there's no cost to us other than you know providing the space war and good PR for the district and welome some folks to come up to see us and so this this class so we have all the tools in yeah it's you know they're pretty you know hand tools yeah told Jee I don't want to get the lath out not doing the but you know Min saws hand saws DRS whatever they and do you know Jeff what they're making in the class uh I don't know it sounded to me like they're making PL planter boxes very basic a lot of it's you know hammer and nails but they're using showing them how to do basic measurements you chopa Anda yeah and then by the end of the class
054they'll have their completed project they all be able to take home and whatnot so they did a really good job cleaning up the shop so yeah I was excited when they approached me about coming on board user space and is that 20 folks coming up to see how great e that's a way win I this is from the central Washington women in buildings okay so specifically specifically yeah for for women and I think they do have a I think a retired Carpenter or no excuse me a retired uh shop teacher from Fen who was serves as their instructor so nice yeah it's a pretty darn cool thing to to have have a group of community members come up here um I spoke about EP and O Levy and their success rates across the state which
055Still Remains fairly high that I also want to put this on our radar we don't have to make not making any decisions tonight but we're looking at uh uh possible replacement Levy in February of uh 2026 if that's what the board uh feels like they want to proceed on um I added the the previous flyer that was sent out to the community just so refresh our minds about what uh what we sent out in the past and Levy brings in about 260,000 a year for us and you can see basically what we're using technically you're not supposed to use lovey dollars for ongoing maintenance and operational costs but every school district does because we have to so you can see that what we're using those lovey funds for um out of curiosity How well was
056that Levy received like did it pass by in a landslide or were we pretty tight on it I believe it was in the mid 50s mid to Upper 50s for pass yeah I'm not specifically remembering on that one but it'll be nice to not have any masks in the pictures we a little bit different um student board directors are two seniors we're now uh doing senior stuff and as you know they they've been very busy athletes and haven't been here as much as uh because they wanted to be here with you know football basketball and now going on the track season but in process of kind of change of the Guard so to speak uh we now have an 11th grader who was interested and uh we also have a 10th grader who I spoke
057with yesterday who was interested in probably be joining us for next two years so um my plan is to have them join us for our March meeting I will have kind of a excuse me an introduction to them and a little bit of a a workshop to kind of get them attended on board so to speak but kind of the operations and how we do things and I'm looking forward to having more student voice with us absolutely don't have to talk at meetings but we want to hear their perspectives if you know once they feel comfortable and in sharing with us but to two very very good students to to have on board nice it great to get them to the wasda conference in Seattle in November too the challenges with our our current kids
058they are uh they're they're both fall sport athletes and winter sport athletes so that might that might be a challenge I don't how effective that is a use of their it's um it's I don't think it's gonna be anything like the one that you went to in Spokane it's that's not my experience with the wda conferences what you guys went to this year so and the students are very uh active um at the one in the west side I will invite them and we'll we'll see if that's something they want to be part of um a little bit later in the meeting when we're talking about board policies we actually need to uh go back to a previous board policy there have been some changes at the federal level on some an executive order so
059we're not right now following 202 24 title n guidelines but the executive order uh is requiring us to go back to 2020 uh Title 9 guidelines so it's the same policy we had in 2020 we just need to go back to that this is a reminder trash sorry take out your trash Jen I love when Siri reminds me that I'm trash um CTE Jason mentioned that earlier one of my for former interns from back at Ferndale high school Maggie Bagwell she's the CTE director of Cedar willly School District she's also the director of snow snow is skill center over on the west side so great teacher and she's helping us kind of make the conversion to see what we can get covered uh with CTE provide a little bit more a little bit more direction
060for us and as with anything that goes through OSI the paper work in reporting is uh unbelievable which is why she's full-time CTE for not a huge District but there's a lot of work involved but sure your grants are covered make sure you have all your all your Ducks lined up so I I need her expertise because know CTE wasn't my area so she'll be working with us I'm meeting with her I think Friday at 7 to uh continue our discussion very cool most of Mr P's classes due to his background we can get um covered via CTE which will provide some dual credit opportunities for the kids and also some enhanced for us as well can can we do that yes yeah yeah I just I need her to help us kind of get
061started once we get there uh no we don't we don't need to have CTE another one of my types that I that I enjoy um legislature about halfway through nothing is coming out Crystal Clear yet obv see you might have some information that that that I don't have to visit there but you mean the dumpster fire that's going on down in Olympia it's so much fun right now down there things are uh going fast and furious and I'm just very nervous about what that means for us K2 system I did attach last week's qu for your late night reading um but you know there is some traction from what I'm hearing again this is through um some of the superintendent zooms I'm in that we might get some additional funds for AMX which are our
062operating costs and there's also a lot of traction on the 60% U reducing the 60% threshold of bonds down to % good some TR offs actually they wouldn't impact us but we'll see if if that continues to get traction so it's U I'm sure it's not a fun time for the legislators legislators down there either dealing with the budget constraints as they are if education is Paramount Duty then by golly we need to be the Paramount Duty for the Constitution and this is this is the same information I had on my last uh superintendent report I just thought it was helpful to have it in case people didn't see our weren't present during our last meeting and on the table I collected some items from our records room clean up there's I think some uh
063teacher grade books from like 1907 there's some pictures of I think the 1928 basketball team for you guys to to look at obviously we're not going to destroy out these items they'll be kind of kept and maybe trying to work out how we're going to display some of this really cool stuff but you know the penmanship in there is just unbelievable so that is the extent of my reports I didn't see any lol's or what's that I didn't see any lol's or wtfs there I didn't know how to read it beautiful curse of penmanship so the kids can't read it or the older kids that's good it is beautiful all right check that out next time in I'm in person all right so um section 7.4 board member reports I just wanted to thank everybody
064for um allowing us to postpone our executive session in January um so that we were able to go and support both the teams that were home that night it was really really fun to get in there and and support both the um women's and men's uh basketball teams so thanks for everybody for for doing that um did anybody have anything they'd like to report I don't uh I don't know if this is time to bring that up yeah yeah either now or I'll bring it up now okay just to get out of the way so one thing I was looking at is is community service so Community Service as far as graduation requirements to the state no longer a requirement for graduation uh along with policy 2410 that we have as a board also does
065not have a community service requirement although I do believe the community service is important for students just to just to be good stewards of the community and to know how to give back um one thing that I came across that I've be aware of is that United Way they used to do a program they used to fund a program where they would actually award uh a letter for letterman jacket for community service um now most United waves don't have the funding to do that anymore I think when I research I think it's the homish United Way still does it katas County does not which doesn't mean that we cannot do that as a as a district letters from my understanding are relatively inexpensive we would just have to come up with a patch and we'd
066have to build some structure around it like just just so it has it's more defined as far as what is a viable Community Service uh job for the students to do um so I I don't know I would kind of like to put it out there that I personally think that something you look at creating not as a requirement that is another Avenue so yeah absolutely especially since so small yeah I think it's important that that the students get in contact with their Community they're involved with it uh and again for students that are planning on going into higher education or or whatever they're planning on After High School you know all of these things are just another feather of your cast help guide them on your path so no I agree yeah and we
067can set it up however we want think United Way had like a 100 hours we can obviously change it and do whatever we want with as a board I think it's something we should discuss at some point want to implement yeah I I'll make sure it's on next month's agenda as well okay picking something that they could also get get credit for but I know we had to have a certain number of PE classes I know that the forest service is hurting for people clear Trail Yep they're capable of going out there with forest service for the summer and clear a trail and I don't have to do it A and B if they could get that written off as credit if they get signed off by Forest Service and we able to do something
068like that it might encourage them to open up their schedule gets them to be that senior that gets to sleep in a or it's almost like a work work experience credit yeah and we can offer that now and ideally I'd like to you know get out there make the contacts get the list set up that way they can choose from column a column b pre-arranged or or if the community itself their meetings they have anything you know I mean we'd obviously want to screen everything to make sure it's it's viable with what we're trying to do good yeah good stuff that's all I have I got um that's a good one yeah thanks um uh yeah I don't have any other things to bring for our board member report so moving on to board business
0698.0 8.1 sorry the 2526 school calendar so this is a draft calendar very similar to our current calendar I presented two different options to our staff of having our we have right now on FR most Fridays we have that one o'clock um early dismissal um I presented an option of a 1:00 early dismissal and then a 130 early dismissal but with more days more consistency on the Fridays because right now we don't have early release in September nor do we have it in the latter part of may just due to instruct loss of instructional hours so basically the amount of time is the same I just added a few more Fridays into this by uh reducing it by half hour on those days so this is the version that the staff uh preferred they preferred
070the 130 but with the more consistent Fridays so you see here on the gold these are the early release so not increasing the amount of time out of the classroom hours are the same but a little bit more consistency uh for our staff and for our our community okay all right so it's a 1:30 dismissal on Fridays instead of one correct okay and it like I said it adds some some days in September and also in in May because I think we're scheduled to stop on probably May 16th this month or this this year didn't want to add more at the one o'cl just du a loss instru time so I think the holidays are very consistent with what we have this year um see Veterans Day is November 11th has a starting after Labor
071Day like we did this year oh it's very early yeah September one September excuse me September June 12 that's just a white also has some built-in snow days like we have this this year we built in two or three days very similar to our current calendar point I can't see it any question that I can answer for for the board I just question myself every day Phil be monographic the bar where it says June 12th yes is all white to me oh the yeah the white the white text on the right when you print a lot different when you print it so needs a gray scale pretty much I don't do colors well this has graduation built in on Saturday the 6th so that's what the white square on start planning early oh well because
072look at us like are we really going to the 23d of June I mean it looks good to me yeah no I I have no opposition the 23rd of June is that that's the school board meeting yeah is green with maybe that was like the last day of school I don't even know what I'm looking at so I I've reviewed a lot of the Ada act come on school calendars and you know lots of schools are doing a lot lot of different things with their calendar um some of them I think are pretty Innovative some of them I just kind of don't know what they're doing some districts are kind of extend the school year so you know they add in a mid winter break so we're going almost July this year yeah the kids
073are going later and I don't know if that's what our community wants if you recall that we did a calendar survey my first year here and people we're pretty uh pretty satisfied with this kind of current model we have here we want to change things we we certainly can but yeah presenting this to the board for their review and or approval I'm okay to approve it nothing stands out yeah like I said it's very similar to what we're doing now motion to approve with the ability to amend if needed second all in favor and if we do find something that is out of the ordinary we'll come back and we'll just do what we just did that out of the way're the ones who don't have kids here like tell us Grand kid it's yeah
074it's not the school to be in if if you want year round um school at least as far as you know our current population has requested all right uh 8.2 board policy update sharing in here so see [Music] this have our policies that we are continuing to go through and review last month we tabled two policies as we were looking for exactly what the the budget totals were so for policy 6114 uh that basically is for board approval of accepting gifts set the Threshold at $5,000 if that is okay with the board and for 6210 this is uh purchases that the superintendent can authorize up to 10,000 without board policy or excuse me board approval um as you know if we get over a couple thousand I always bring it to the board but uh
075we can certainly change that toll that was just what was recommended by W I'm fine with those updates and I will I'll just continue going down the the list 6225 was the basically policy to accept electronic signatures we do that now with yes sign do we do we need to have a policy place we probably should since we using docus sign um 6230 was relationships with vendors basically talk about conflict of interest I think that would be a good one to have y that was a good one 6250 was use of cell phones and providing cell phones Andor stiens for District staff like myself I receive a stien I think Rachel receive a stiens so probably should have that y um 6500 risk management obviously we want to have insurance so I would say yes
0766511 was staff safety and probably another one we should adopt actually it's essential so we have to 6512 um now has been absorbed by other policies via wda 6513 is workplace violence prevention probably a good policy we should have yes 6530 uh providing District insurance coverage and liability coverage 6535 is uh the district can provide student Insurance um that one I put a question mark by I don't know if we want to get into the student Insurance business um there are some vendors out there that can provide you know let's say sports insurance I haven't researched any of them in terms of what the price would would be for for our students who want to participate in sports hasn't been an issue from my three years here of kids getting coverage so um again I
077put a question mark by it 6540 is private uh prop private property responsibility so basically if staff member brings a a fancy radio to the school and it gets broken it's not the school district's responsibility 6550 was some subs Tech subscription um we do have considerable amount of tech subscriptions like for docks that we should probably adopt that policy as well 6570 is property and data management probably a good thing to have in our uh in our policy book and 6580 is just the continuity of operation plan so I think that was put in place after Co it as to make sure that we have a plan to continue operation there is a event that would require that so the really the only one that I have questions about was 6535 I don't think that's
078quite I don't want to get into the student Insurance what is um what is this insurance that we send out at the beginning of the year that's like a health offering or is that not the same thing no that we we do a Health a student health information sheet you know if students have allergies asthma you know just a kind of a medical sheet um we don't send out any kind of student insurance information okay it's more about if your family has insurance or not right okay y not that we're offering it yeah I don't think we should get in that business either need families that you know are needing health insurance certainly you know Sr counselor would work with that bu agency yeah the motion to adopt the 6,000 series of wasda policies with
079the exception of 6535 I'll second what he said all in favor I thank you very much thank you Erin on the cliff notes on all of those stop sharing and again another document policy 3205 this is what I mentioned in my superintendent report this is where we are going back to the 2020 version uh of policy 3205 I've put some background information this is actually some information from OPI in case the Border was interested in again this is the same policy we had until we required to change it to 2024 and we're going back to 20 uh 20 version that something we need to vote on or since it was executive order just you know I think maybe just for tracking let justt it we reopt it I make a motion to 3205 adopt 32052
080Jason second I'm in favor how about I I'm in favor I'm not sure I'm in favor on this one what are we what are we losing I I will Mark you down as as a no okay thanks couple of discussion items for the board and I know Jeff has more knowledge of this than I I do I think we talked to to the board last month about doing District ring and we now have quotes for that ree so cheap so I think there's two separate uh quot there Jeff do you want to walk through room the yeah so looking at this first quote here this deals with doorways and the hardware uh initially the plan was to upgrade the girls locker room door to a metallic door as well as one of the bo room
081doors and the server room doors but um the cost of this initial quote as it turns out would actually increase quite a bit because we would need to get a contractor and come kind of reframe that so it can support a metal door so I've asked them to uh maintain the wood doors just make sure they're fire rated so we can use the existing framing uh so that actual quot will probably drop just a little bit they get a new quot from them with that said uh with the girls locker room door ask if we're going to keep the um wooden door can we do an ADA Compliant handle on it so that way any dis will be able to get access um the new hardware be new locking systems that are put on there
082dead board Locking System could be locked from the inside for security purposes and then open with key froms so there access um with the other quote uh that deals with overall building uh locks Hardwares handles change outs uh anything like that uh this is the quote that we're looking at for all of that Hardware with regard to upgrading the door locks uh so that way it's a bit easier for emergency services should they need to gain access to any of the bathrooms what not emergency it's easier for it have standardized key rather than small square key that you're trying to get in there situation so that'll improve security there and also it'll have a little logo on there that'll notify anybody on theide where it's occupied or unoccupied uh we'll have basically a grandm to
083a Master System and then we have a select few doors that'll have a unique key for them that'll be at the concession stand the name the concession STS to this Flags classroom the reason we had those uh Keys is they don't require a daily cleaning they don't require a constant access and there's only hand especially the transition door from the concession St this FL room that's one that ideally would like to keep blck at all and use fores so I would have the key to that Mr combo would have key I would likely have key to that that's really all that's required there so it should be a um all said done once the key re is done hopefully it'll take uh this well I have another key line with keys as well down to
084hopefully this so you know eliminate it down to about four or five Keys rather than je what are you going do with all that space inck right right some kind of art project what you do when you get mug we still have a couple of keys it'll be fine yeah so I think you've already answered this before but the Pug sound Hardware who is coming from they're already a preferred vendor yes cont yeah they are St contract that way we don't need to well it's under the bid threshold anyway so in the commercial world that what I deal with work what they're doing cost yeah so yeah no I think I think it's a good thing to pursue and it will increase the security yeah well then ideally take all the old keys out of
085the system that might be floating around yeah and with the the current Hardware that we have um all they're really changing out is a majority I would say 90% of the hardware all they're really changing out is the lock cylinders because the DOR Caba and the best cylinders are compatible with each other so they'll just be removing the cylinders and replaceing kind if we had to replace all of the door handles mes and everything yeah the price would likely double and triple I'm all for in Timeline is it um it was April if I remember right wasn't it yeah I I believe April is what they're looking at um they're getting provided them with a building layout with all the door systems so they'll coordinate you know according to what when we did the walk
086through what do speed what kind of walks whatnot they'll lay it out on the building layout so when they come in they can expect the process um and then we're just kind of finalizing the door measurements so we get the repl course for the girls lock room server room in one of the H rooms nice speaking from experience there will be people that historically have had access to places that won't have access anymore and they will come you sideways yeah speaking from experience I am prepared for it so have you seen the size of his keying he's prepared I have the same size where I yeah no I'm all for it it's going to be exciting thing to do good good change change I pulled out the just so it'd be easier track for future
087reference beginning our ly conversation down the road again this is just the rure and as we get closer to that and start looking with Nicole about if the board want to pursue Levy we one put in more discussion so it's a little bit easier 10 years down the road if some trying to search for it right it's easy to find other than that that was the only information all right uh so we're going to be moving into the executive session um where we will be uh reviewing the performance of a Public Employee for about 30 minutes uh time is it 701 701 okay so we should be back around uh 7:31 can I get a motion to go into I make a motion break for executive session thanks okay all right anyone seconding it I
088did oh you did oh okay woo all right off to Executive session we go and you guys can call me I gotta go grab my phone just realiz it's we'll call you J thanks trash thank you Mr BR might [Music] been okay we'll see see you tomorrow [Music] you e e e [Music] this is perfect here here just my temperature so I did do some digging talking common cord math on that graph was adopted in 2011 and enforced in 20134 and that's where you saw that that's where you see that drop yeah that's where math went from two steps to five steps to five steps and be very verbal and it's not the same M draw pictures I can't even argue that I done M by 2013 I was calculus is Central at that point
089what do you mean I was having kids well I mean I never said I did great in calculus we're not talking about that I would have qualified for it unless the teacher played chess okay so Jen is back with us audio is on our video is on and we're screen sharing all right welcome back everybody and uh can somebody um motion us back into the regular meeting I'll make a motion for us to reconvene I'll second that said motion all in favor I all right um and to close this out uh number 11 there for the good of the district I got nothing snow shoe tomorrow with kids in Marshall's class that'll be fun see how many times I can down water yeah we have two fabulous field trips Cougar Mountain Zoo on Wednesday and
090then Hamilton for our older kids at the Paramount on Thursday nice nice wait little going this week yes four four FES okay four fives are going to Cougar Mountain on on Wednesday nice that's the reward for winning the ASB Penny draft yeah that's cool but um and the pictures from up at the summit on doing the Nordic that was really cool so glad we're we're getting kids out there um it's it's just that's such an um open opportunity maybe to work more with the summit for getting more kids after school on like Fridays on those early release days uh to a just pretty much like private club ski resort area that's doesn't have too many people there I'd love to see more healthy activity that way in the future are they done now or is
091it still no Mr pooer I think he's taken his first group up uh of secondary students on Thursday after school next three Thursdays yeah next three Thursdays so that's our snow snow Sports Club cool are they going to which area do you know I'm not sure which one they they're going to Chris do you know I'll try to go find him out there he was on the uh PA system this morning seeing if there's any other interested students that he's got Ru in the van for him get in the van beautiful get in the van and go shred cool right uh I don't I don't have any other good news to share we've had lots to share this evening so I will second that motion all right all in favor all have a great night
092everybody thank you you as well got two kids at home seven by themselves yeah me too