001All right. Call this meeting to order. Please rise for the place of 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. >> Do we need papers up here tonight? >> All right. Approval of board meeting minutes for August 27th, 2025. >> I'll move. >> Go ahead, Jame. >> I'll move for the approval of board meeting minutes for August 27th, 2025. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the board meeting minutes for August 27th, 2025. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Uh, approval of meeting agenda. >> I'll move for the approval of the meeting agenda. >> I'll second. >>
002Has been moved and seconded to approve the meeting agenda. Is there any discussion or changes that we should address? Yeah, it's listed as the strikeouts already. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> They were struck out on the >> Okay, awesome. >> All right. Seeing none, all those in favor of approval of the meeting agenda say I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion carries. Consent agenda. >> I'll move for the approval of the consent agenda. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Booster fundraiser approvals class of 2030 booster fundraiser. >> We got a travel. >> Those are all inside that. Yeah. >> Anybody have any questions
003for Stacy? >> Sorry, I I'm at the middle school football game right now, so I'm stepping away from the action to jump on the meeting. I think my only question would be on the flower candygrams. Um, does the FFA do that and at the high school level and do they because they have kids in FFA in the eighth grade, do they do it at the middle school level would be my only question. It's the ornamental design class. >> Oh, is it the ornamental design? >> That and I don't know. >> Yeah. >> I mean, anyone can technically purchase it, but >> yeah, >> that would be my only thing is that that would be a conflict with the ornamental class. So, um maybe we table that one and get more information. Okay, that makes perfect
004sense to me. >> Okay. >> Anything else on there? >> I don't Everything else looks good. >> Want to make a motion to approve it with a >> I'll move to approve the fundraisers as requested with the exception of the candygram to be table. >> I'll second that. been moved and seconded to approve the class of 2030 booster fundraisers um as listed except for the flower candygram until further information is gathered. Is there any discussion >> uh as far as getting the information? Could should we do that? Should Stacy do that? >> We can do that. Okay, Stacy, we'll get that information to you. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> All right. I'm gonna go back to turn on the eighth grade football team. >> All right.
005Good luck. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. >> Bye. >> Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. All those post say nay. Motion carries. Just want to make sure I made myself a note on here, too. So, okay. All right. Moving into discussion items. Board retreat operating principles and communication protocols. I know the last time we met with Mary, we talked about some of these and we moved them around and we talked if if we feel like what we have on here still encompasses what we'd like as our operating principles. I don't know that we changed a whole lot. >> Well, I looked back at some of my notes. There were just a very few things. >> Um, honestly, >> we're done. We're not really done with. >> Well, when
006we went through it, we start a couple things, right? And that's what I actually ended up. So, I ended up sending the board a whole >> Yes. >> It was very helpful. Yes. >> Compiled what we had for notes and then put it in and then it built uh an operating principles based off of all that with subcategories. But the only thing that really was an addition to the operating principles that wasn't current policy was um I will not withhold information until a meeting and surprise my colleagues. If new items arise, I will ask the chairperson to place them on a future agenda. And then the second one was the executive session that probably on the back side. Yeah. I will participate in executive close sessions only for legally allowable subjects and only when specific
007needs arise. I will be extremely sensitive to the legal ramifications of my comments and I will maintain the confidentiality of the information shared in executive session. Those were the two added to our elements. Other than that, it basically rewrote this to just look and format and feel different because everything else is almost the exact same. >> Yeah. >> So, I thought it was a good starting point. >> I think it's terrific. >> Yeah. >> I liked the format because it gives uh subcategories, right? commitment to student and community and then it talks about what we're responsible as a board member as a principal and then commitment to the board team commitment to ethical conduct commitment to effective governance and then accountability and growth. So kind of and then it sprinkled in the actual policies that
008it especially the new policy that we'll be listening to. >> So anybody had anything for me? Well, I sent you my edits and um I I feel like under commitment to effective governance for me. I I like the if we're gonna I kind of debated about the executive session because we're really kind of addressing like the legal side of it and so is that really effective governance or is it ethical conduct? because so it could kind of go both directions. >> But regardless, I liked it being at the bottom of the bullet points. Not >> not kind of what we let off with. It just kind of let off. I don't know. It just kind of has a >> tomless. Yeah, it has kind of a just more of a harsher. >> Yeah. You know,
009>> I didn't like how it cut off on the formatting, too, but I figured that was a thing. I'd rather move the head header down. Does that make sense? all the bullets on one page. >> Yes. Um so for me I guess just starting with you know coming prepared for the board meeting and things like that feels less direct necessarily than jumping right into something that feels um extremely important but also just how it's worded fairly harsh. And then um I know I said this before, but I still say um I'm still not a fan of the ver the wording for um uh basically I won't surprise my people. Um, so I would still rather us find a way to my edit to you was I will proactively communicate all time and subject sensitive information
010to my colleagues in a manner that allows time for processing of such information um prior to a public meeting. >> So a little more technical terms in the same meeting. I just I just feel like it sounds to me the other sounds like there was a beef and so we put it on there rather than this is a proactive way for us to move forward if I when when I read it as it's worded because the rest of them don't have the rest the entire piece is written about how we want to function not what we won't do in essence to somewhat not behave so I don't know it It almost elicits a Well, why was that put on there? >> Well, those are Mary's those are Mary's words. >> Yeah, that actually came off
011of >> It came off of another >> Hood Canal, I think, or something. >> Maybe Hood Canal had a had I'm not trying to be facitious. Maybe Hood Canal had a had a reason, but um >> I'm actually okay with the wording of that only because it is strong in the sense that there is no surprises and that's something that we've all discussed at one point or another. I would look it more as like Thomas like I will never do this. >> I to be honest I don't feel like I've had surprises. So maybe I'm forgetful but I feel like we haven't had those moments but I could be the spacey person that is missing it. But that's just my feedback and I could live with it. Um but if I was going to go
012through that list there would probably be other things that I would want us to feel stronger about than that one. So to me taking it out of context of the way everything else is written really to me it seems like it's really being accentuated and I don't know out of the whole big packet I mean the whole big list if for me as a board member that's not what I feel the most passionate about so it feels a little disproportioned but I'll live with whatever we all decide >> actually all three have them as no surprise >> yeah the other one has it too I think it's a boiler plate because if you look at this, this is section one. If you look at this one from Hood Canal, it almost looks like somebody's boiler
013plate, not actually theirs even though I wrote hood canal at the top. >> Well, maybe maybe our new better worded will become the new boiler plate. We don't have to. >> And what I can do too is if we have some edits after tonight, we talk these through edits. I can put them on there and then you guys can individually um bring that back and then I can compile it and and put out a couple drafts >> that we can take a look at. only the only wording draft and like said I can let with people >> it really is the operating principles right and we've been pretty good about operating within that it's it's the capture hopefully not to have anything happen or like there has been situations in the state just recently where
014some some have got outside of this right and then the board has to take a action and that this right now is not that but policy 1815 um I believe tonight that the state is asking us to look at has to do with that. So, um, and then this helps reinforce our own on top of that. >> So, I mean, that'd be a good thing to look at in 1815 if it actually has any wording in regards to the bullet you're talking about. >> Thank you for doing that. >> I didn't take a >> time other than I had to. our uh our version is PDF and it didn't want to play nice. So I had to uh I had to convert it and then for some reason everywhere where there was an I it
015deleted it out of the document. So that was the only weird thing >> which is kind of written in a lot of spots. >> It is I mean that's the other thing that I thought that we could take a look at. There's a lot of these are not written with I. It's written with we. So that the documents written in the sense that we as a board um agree on these operating principles rather than I. So I didn't know if that's a direction we wanted to go. A lot of these are I but there are there is one I think that says we >> kind of like I like the collective we >> Yeah. Hood canal. So I can go in and have it update it to we. Is that something we would like to
016>> I think so. Okay, >> I like that. >> I'm just going to throw this out there just because that's just who I am. The I holds each individual person accountable though, >> okay? um in my opinion and we have people that are going to be rotating in through the years that um when they're reading this telling basically they they are agreeing themselves and not looking at us collectively. >> Makes sense too. I mean, that's probably why they all actually say I. I just noticed that that one had we and I was like, "Oh, >> Jimmy, what if there was a um because I'm assuming this is something we all sign, right?" >> The previous one had all of our signatures. >> What if there was a I'm not even going to try with the
017wording, but something put at the bottom that that actually did put a like a overarching eye statement that you know you're signing as the individual. I don't know. So, one thing to consider when we were with Mary, she advised us that it would be in our best interest, and this might have been before that the state dropped 1815, to adopt this as a board policy. Now, does that change whether it's lead or I? I I I don't know because once it's policy, we're governed to it no matter whether we sign it or not. But you're right, it does say I am going to do this, not >> it's a collective. And some of these I don't even know if you can say we because they're very directed individually. So maybe >> Oh, right. Okay. Okay.
018>> And that's something I think Mary's going to circle back with us, the fact that we might want to adopt this as our own policy, which would sit in front of the state 1815 and then 1815 would cap capture whatever we don't capture legally. many papers in there. >> Well, if that's the case, anybody have any other comments on it? I mean, I can massage that a little bit and see if if not. And if everybody's not, then we can come back to the drawing board and see where everybody has collectively on on that one bullet. But >> I think getting Mary's perspective on that. >> That's not a bad idea, too. >> Because we're going to take this as a draft and she can take a look at ahead of time, I think. >>
019So, that's the hope is to have these ready so it's more of a review and then we can go over how we're going to move forward for the year. >> All right. Now that I've actually buried the real agenda, we're going to be doing an agenda from a couple months ago. All right. Wasa Direct magazine. >> So our WASA Direct magazine was supposed to be here by now, but I just thought, but we are featured in I think four year. We'll get it next time. Oh, that's kind of funny. It really is, right? Like we're featured in it and we don't even have it yet. I like how you tried to saving the best for last, I guess. Okay, let's see. >> All right. Do we have anybody for public comment? >> Yeah, hold on
020just a sec. >> I'm gonna read my spiel and then you can go ahead and talk. We welcome your comments which are important to us. All comments are limited to three minutes. It's helpful for the board if you give us your name. Please address your remarks to chairperson. Note that we may not be entering into dialogue at this time. The purpose of this agenda item is for you and the public to inform us the board about your views. Your floor is yours for three things. >> So Paul just a concerned taxpayer citizen. Um background I did public relations for the army back in early 70s. So hearing the discussion about the operating principles hit me professionally from there. Um I would suggest as I was listening in conversation, it seems as though what you're one
021of the things I've been uh very happy to hear and observe the times here is you guys have very very effective collaborative communication and it seemed as though when you were talking about that's the kind that's a phrase that might fit with what you were seeking and and struggling with. How do we express that? So it's just an idea there um for that. But that's if you have that effective collaborative communication that provides a really good foundation for troubleshooting um working through problem to solution which again you you've shown to me anyway that you're very good at that. Um the other thing comes back to the idea of the I versus we. My thought is that operating principles and community protocols are we a board representing the community issue. If you have a document that
022you all sign then we hold. If you individually sign there's nothing that says you can't have two documents. One's the statement of principle and the other's that individual sign one signature that gets you around the week. >> That's awesome. >> Thank you. Thank you. My giggle before you started talking wasn't because you were talking. I was giggling at Michael having to read the You've been here enough to know your name. I don't have to do it. >> I I was trying to say it with a straight face, too. So, >> I'm trying to say that quite frankly, I didn't hear your >> Oh, you did. >> Okay. >> But I want to be as fair as >> I appreciate it. I just wanted you to know that was no disrespect to you at all. I
023I've been laugh at less often than myself, so we're good. >> Any other public comment? All right. Unfinished business. >> Approval of policy 1111, oath of office, first reading. I'll move for the approval of policy oath of office first reading. >> I'll second that. >> Been moved and seconded to approve policy 1111 oath of office first reading. Is there any discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Approval of policy 1310, policy adoption manuals and administrative procedures. First reading. >> I'll move for the approval of policy 1310 policy adoption manuals and administrative procedures. First reading. >> Second. >> She robbed it. It's been moved and seconded to approve policy 1310 policy adoption manuals and administrative procedures first reading. Is there any discussion? Seeing
024none, all those in favor say I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. >> Approval to adopt policy 1815, ethical conduct of board members. First reading. Make a motion to approve policy 1815, ethical conduct for board members first reading. >> Second. >> It's been moved to second approve to adopt policy 1815, ethical conduct of board members first reading. Is there any discussion? >> I just have one thing to point out in here. See the book? It's it states that ethical behavior is an individual responsibility. >> Okay, that's what I was asking earlier. Yeah, I was curious if that was the case. Okay, >> which would take me back to the >> I versus we >> versus the. >> So really you could look at 1815 as the policy perhaps and then this is the
025reinforcement of the policy of us saying we whatever. I mean we still make it a policy eventually and then put the I in there and sign it all that. >> So just pointing out >> yeah I just on the operating you know principles that we're talking about I just think that how they're all all the names are listed there at the bottom of it. I think my opinion is we would be appropriate >> by us all signing it >> means that we have individually say I I get what you're saying >> because it does actually say each board member and the board as a whole. So to me I read that it's a whole um like we actually need to address two parts. We have the board as a whole needs to function responsibly and
026the board's individual members need to function responsibly. So >> there's a way we can I was just getting ready to say we either do that or you have we and then the statement right before you sign it says I as an individual attest to these >> core operating principles or something. >> I'd still like to see >> but I can put that in there. red line it and put it. Hold on. I got to write that down or we're going to forget that. I have more time to remember that it's shortanded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. I. All those oppose say nay. Motion carries. approval of PTA donation for playground improvements. Sounds exciting. >> Yeah. >> Um I'm Ashley Blowers. Uh I am part of the
027PTA. Um, and kind of my focus with the PTA is grants because my background is in grants and I know grants aren't free money, but if you can navigate the reports and stuff, it really is free money, you know, in the end. Um, so I've been collaborating uh with the PTA, with Mr. Scrogggins, um, uh, and Mrs. Moore. Um, they had a walkth through with Jeff. Uh and so I'm requesting approval on behalf of the PTA and in collaboration with the elementary school to apply for a $30,000 uh grant through the Grace Harbor Community Foundation. Um and that would be to fund um I think the original plan was just basketball hoops and as we've been scoping the project we've realized that um it it doesn't need to just be basketball hoops and so it's
028basketball hoops. um new tether balls. We're going to come up with like a the goal would be to come up with a quick disconnect way so that the kids can actually use the tether ball poles um at recess in a safe way and they can be taken down, you know, at the end of the school day really easily. Um and then there are other like related playground improvements that have been requested by Bray um when we've done walkthroughs. Um I just want to share that if awarded the PTA intends to like be the recipient of the grant funds and you know manage the grant funds um as well as like lead the collaboration you know with facilities and the school to have this um construction project completed. Um, and I guess one of the things
029I didn't mention is the uh scope of the project is not just the the hoops and the backboards, but it's also finding a company who can work with us like through the whole install project and who understands, you know, what it's like to work on school campuses and understands the like the safety and all the different considerations that come into play. It's a great thing. >> Yeah. I'll move for the approval of PTA donation for playground improvements. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the PTA donation for playground improvements. Is there any discussion? >> Only the fact that we can never have too much grant writing support. So, um, anytime you would like to extend those skills into some other areas, I'm sure that there's a plethora of other areas in
030the district that would greatly appreciate some grant expertise. >> Awesome. Thank you very much. >> Yeah, we really appreciate your efforts and PTA's efforts to uh to help upgrade a lot of the stuff. So, really appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those oppose say nay. Motion carries. >> Thank you. You don't have to stick around. You can take off if you like. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> All right. Discussion and approval of policy 1825 addressing school director violations. First readings. I'll move for the approval of policy 1825 addressing school directories violations first reading. >> I'll second that. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve policy 1825 address addressing school director violations first reading. Is
031there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. >> All right. Moves us to the good of the order. Uh I will start with we have our first ever uh be the blue prep assembly Friday at 10:10. really excited. Should be a sea of blue. Hopefully everybody can make it out there. Does everybody know if they will be able to make it on Friday? >> I'll be a blue. >> Okay. >> Uh you can find your shirt on. >> Probably not. >> It's okay. We're just trying to kind of figure out if he's going to be able to be there. You got work stuff. That's That's >> understandable. >> I will be there. >> So will the entire middle school. >> Yeah. It's my
032son told me that today. He's like, "Dad, that's kind of funny, but he's like, "Dad, yeah, we're going over the fight song. First fight song that came up. I kept singing the WCU fight song." I'm like, "Yes, I raised him right now." >> But no, he's pretty excited. He's like, "Yeah, we're gonna all go over to the high school and talking about the fight song and stuff." So, there's a lot of excitement. Um, I I can't It speaks volumes about the individuals in this class and all the classes that we or all the students that we have. Um just how I mean shoot this the soccer game last night. >> Was that so amazing? >> It was pretty cool. I wasn't there but I saw the videos and it was awesome, wasn't it? >> It
033was amazing. >> So uh the energy is just amazing. So all I can say is if you guys are listening, keep it up. It's pretty amazing. I I think that we were trying to count and I think there hadn't been at least I would have said 50 um if conservatively students which is a lot of students to show up to a you know Tuesday night soccer game and those kids were amazing and you would have thought we were in like the world top every single thing they were excited about. So, um, and the stands looked amazing and sparkly and you could have eaten off of them. They were just beautifully freshly just tended to. So, thank you, Jeff. My Oh, and the kids are also doing that talon party uh Friday before the game, they
034are instead of being a tailgate, it's a talon party. >> Oh, it's right list. So, they're doing like snow cone. >> I don't think that was for us. >> Here >> there there's currently still some pretty stuff. Yeah. Um anyway, uh just super fun stuff that the kids are getting excited about. So, um it's good. So, there's that going on. Um, as we move forward towards our retreat on the 26, uh, we'll see a few more things because there's a few more things that she would like us to go through. Um, uh, communication protocols now rather than operating protocols, how, you know, communicate clearly like we talked before. So, if we can get that dialed down, um if we get those dialed down and all rough draft, then that leaves us a lot more time
035to go through uh kind of how we're going to operate and set our uh goal for the year. >> And and she's sent us all of that so far. >> No, she has not sent us that yet. We're working on the latter part of that. >> Okay. I just things have come up. So, that's what we've been working through. Anybody else have anything to add? Anybody out there have anything to add? Admin ones in Do you want to talk about the policy we need to have before October 1st? >> Oh yeah. Um, so we were supposed to have policy 2020 on the uh agenda tonight. Did not make it on the agenda before we went out 24 hours ahead of time. So we couldn't add it to the agenda. We have to have it officially
036to the state and done by October 1st. Uh the bulletin says that Chris has to report it or we are in violation. I don't know what the said violation is. It speaks towards a monetary violation. So we might have to have a special meeting to address that because we have to have a first and a second reading to approve policy 2020. So we'll be in discussion this next week about how we're going to do that and then I'll reach out to you guys with availability because we will have to have two meetings because we don't have a meeting. We only have one meeting for October 1. >> Yes. One more. Yeah. >> So, I'll just put it out there right now. I am leaving on Monday and I won't be back until that meeting on
037Wednesday. >> But I could do that. >> We could do it right before the Yeah, we could do it via Zoom and we could do it right before the retreat too, right? Because that's on 26. >> Yeah. >> So, we could put that all on the same day, do it a little bit, and then go into our retreat, do a business meeting, and then do our other meeting and be all on the same. >> Okay. Is that >> Yeah, >> that was I just I'm just letting you know I'm not going to zoom on my that I'm taking. >> Absolutely not. Okay, >> don't do that. >> Unless you guys want to see the Black Hills of South Dakota and the Bad Lands and all that. >> I wouldn't mind. They got they got to
038see they got to see they got to see Texas. >> I mean, you didn't really get to see much, but >> you know, half my trip with my aunt. >> Is that anything else that I missed? >> Awesome. >> Okay. Make a motion we adjourn the meeting. Second. It's >> been moved and second to adjourn the meeting. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those post say. Meeting journey. Thank