001Right. Call the meeting to order. Please rise for the flag salute. Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Approval of board meeting minutes for April 9th, 2025. I'll move for the approval of board meeting minutes April 9th, 2025. I'll second a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. Approval of meeting agenda. There are no changes. Move for the approval of meeting agenda. I'll second. It's been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Consent agenda. I'll second. Been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. I'll booster fundraiser approvals.
002We're going to start on the approval of track booster fundraisers. So we'll move to approval of class of fundraiser. I think it's pretty straightforward. So I'll move for the approval of the class of 2027 booster fundraiser. A second and a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Approval girls basketball booster fundraisers. Looks like it's just their normal ones. I'll move for the approval of girls basketball for the 2020. Oh, just for girls basketball. No boosters. There's been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Discussion items. Eagle Pride Committee presenter starting with Meredith Smith. Welcome. Okay, stand up. Okay. So, um, if any of you don't know me, my name is Mera S, and I'm a junior in high
003school. I play soccer, basketball, and I'm involved with FFA, and I'm our AC vice president this year. And then I'll have all of them go around and then say your name, grade, and what you're uh my name is Jackson Staples. I'm a sophomore at high school. I play football, track, and ball. My name is Sar. I'm a sophomore in high school play basketball and I just like a lot school. My name is Natalie Henry. I'm a junior in high school and I do girls soccer and track and ASB. My name is Presley. I'm also a sophomore and I'm involved in soccer and basketball powerlifting and I'm the secretary for My name is Carson Gres. I'm involved in baseball, football, and basketball. And my name is Sen Bons. I'm involved in track and football. I'm a
004freshman in high school. I'm David. I'm a junior and I'm involved in basketball. So, this is a group here that I started up a few weeks ago. This is our Eagle Pride committee that we have here at the high school. We're missing a few people, but this is majority of it. And um with that, we'll go ahead and get started. So to introduce we're trying to build back eagle pride. This an open participation surrounded by building that eagle pride just move on to the presentation. Okay. So school spirit. Um, we just want to bring back like that sense of community and have kids really feel like they want to be part of our school and show that. And so to us that means like more participation in our events and more support with our teams.
005And along with that, um, here this picture is from our unified basketball game this year. And this was a great turnout of students. Um, and this is what um, when I was younger, when I went to my brother's basketball games, this is what every single game was like. They were super excited. They There was tons of students there. And this was like one of our only games that we really had a ton of students there really having that pride. And so this is what we're really trying to help bring back a little bit. Uh one of the ways we want to do that is by bringing Black Flu Friday, which to my understanding has been a thing before, but we've lost it at the school. And it's basically just to unify everybody in the school,
006bring back a sense of pride. So we can all just hopefully enjoy school more, be more prideful in Elma. We want to bring it back to all schools. I think we started it last week at the high school with popsicles at lunch. wasn't really there but I think it's a good thing to bring back for our school bring back our so some of the ideas that we have are the eagle shirts obviously and that's the biggest thing so we want every single kid in the district and every single like staff member to have a blue shirt that just is like giggle pride and then a mascot. We want to get a new mascot costume and stuff and kind of have the mascot all over the place. I got more games and stuff. Um, and just
007around the school and the fight song on the intercom. No one knows the fight song anymore. So, we want to sing the fight song like like all the time. So, and then window paint like on the way to like an important game maybe against or something, we want to paint the windows of the bus like blue or something and kind of get that pride and get them piped. And then for the first game tailgate, we're hoping to have uh the new stadium by then so we can all get each other excited and stuff with the tailgate and barbecue and stuff before the game and then give away items. So like Cole said, we have popsicles on Blue Friday and then these are kind of the ideas for that. So we'll start with popsicles one Friday
008um a month and then everyone who's wear blue gets a prize. So, blue popsicles, finger puppets, beaded necklaces, pom poms, and like eagle tattoos and like a eagle flag and stuff like that. So, what's happening right now is spirit days and spirit weeks. uh like we'll have a there's a big game coming up know spirit day on that game day or spirit weeks like we had a fall spirit week and a like a winter sphere week and so just get everyone involved they were saying just like making sure we come together so we're community and then assemblies like most you guys seen uh he came Isaac butts was great came uh we do uh also trying to push for more assemblies on Fridays just for fun activities for us to come together and you know
009have fun and you know do our last power chains and bring that back. And another thing that we're kind of pushing forward towards at the end of the year is our move up assemblies. I'm sure most of you know what those are. Um if you don't, we really haven't done them in the past like five or six years um to my knowledge. And this is where we'll have on the very last school day, we'll bring in um all the students and all the staff members. We'll do some fun awards, some honor roll, those sorts of things. And then we'll also play some games. But the very last thing is we will bring in eighth graders and they'll come sit in the freshman spot and then the freshman will move to the sophomore spot. The sophomore
010will move to the junior spot. The juniors will move to the senior spot. So it's the last thing that all the students will do together and we'll make it all exciting, sing some summer songs and that will be the last thing that um we'll go into a summer. That way we just are more connected in the moment moving forward into the next school year. Um, also like Carson was saying, we had Isaac Butts come in and he did um a workshop with us leadership students and then he also spoke um for the whole school, the middle school and the high school and that was really great because students were really excited about it. students were very uh just passionate about what was going on that day and the further days leading or like after it
011and um we've been able to work with him more and more and um we actually have posters hanging up around the school and they are pretty big posters. It has one word on it like this week we're doing community and every single leadership student has gone around and talked to 12 different people and they've asked them what their favorite um EHS memory has been this year and it's just another way to build those small um relationships and connections and conversations but it's making a lasting impact because people are coming and telling Miss Elliot oh someone come came up and talked to me today and all those things are making the small effort into the bigger picture of it all and So that's been really something that's been great for us to work on. And also
012last week we had our spread the word week which I actually have some bracelets for you all. So take one. Thank you. So these have on here um we just have spread the word and to spread inclusivity because students made pledges and we had a picture a poster up on the wall and they were able to sign their name to spread more inclusion. It was a really cool movement that we did for national spread the word week. Um, this ties in with our unified program and students are continuing to sign pledges because they're seeing that other students are thinking that it's cool and it's cool to be includ in inclusive with each other. And so this has been something that's been really cool to see students do and just to further along that school spirit
013and community. Um, and then this year we're doing the car show and build day which we also did last year. And basically, it's just a day to like give kids a break from school because sometimes school can be tiring. And I think that if we're giving things for them to like look forward to, then they'll want to show up more. Um, just like show we can do fun things at school. Like school doesn't have to be totally boring. Um, so I think that's super fun. Like for sorry. Um, at the car show we have like a hot rod shop like donating some parts and like people bring in their cars. Um, and we have like different categories. They make fun little prizes. And then field day, we just have games all over again just for
014like a break of school and yeah, it's just a ton of fun. And then we've also moved away from doing our announcements over the intercom. And so now we're doing it. We have like a YouTube channel that you can access through the eagles.edu um email. Um, and so we make our video our announcements on that and they're just really fun. Like it it's like a little break from school too. Like the other day we did um like a little skit with Eddie the Eagle like hitting a baseball to like we're announcing the sports and we've like turned into like a little newscast. It's just And with that we also have our theme for next year. And so this has been something that we worked with Isaac butts on. We worked with our link crew a
015little bit and mostly our leadership um class and then a little bit of our staff as well. Um, so we're really trying to be the blue. We're trying to make students be a little bit more brave, a little bit more limitless, more uniting, and more encouraging. This is really something that we're going to try to implement into next school year and also will very much go along with our blue Fridays because we want students to be blue physically in what they're wearing, but also be blue in how they um work with students and just interact throughout the school day. And so with that, we are going to present our main thing main thing, which is our t-shirt project. So we are really wanting every student and every um staff member in the district to have
016Elma Eagle t-shirt. So we realize that not everyone has access to um something Elma that's just it's not affiliated with sports or clubs. It's just something Eagle Pride. And so every Friday they'll have something to wear. um they don't always have to wear it, but they have something, they have an option. Um and this will just really contribute to our sense of community, sense of school pride, really trying to bring back Eagle Pride. Along with that, we're going to try to have a uh t-shirt store for community members because again, we really don't have something that's like just Elma, nothing affiliated with it. And so, um we've definitely seen people wanting um different uh options for that. and you know you see it a little bit online uh people are wanting u more options that
017are just Elma and so that's something that we're working on further down the line with that we have looked at um PMW printing and D4 these are the two companies that we have mainly been looking at and reaching out to um and we realize this definitely is like a big project so we are trying to get a little bit of support between all of our ASVs our PTAs our flight foundations, but also we really wanting your support behind all this because it is a big project and you are some of the main leaders of our school. So, um, it's a little bit hard to read, but this is a quote for from D4. And these are rough quotes because they're not exactly accurate with like all the specific sizing, but their quote was around 14,200.
018And then P&W's quote was around 14,327. And so, they're definitely very comparable. Um, but ultimately it'll be around 14,500ish, maybe 14,000 depending on um exactly how many t-shirts we need and that sort of stuff. This is kind of what we're looking at. It's definitely a rough um mockup for now. We are possibly looking into putting be the blue on there maybe on the back depending on how much that costs. You might put that on the front and then do like the Eagle logo that just says Elma on it. Um, but this is kind of what we're envisioning, just simple Eagle Pride, like we're really just trying to push this Eagle Pride movement forward. Um, and so we have defin definitely reached out to some different building leaders and tried to kind of coordinate some funds
019there, but we're kind of just wanting um your support behind all of this and just to see like if you have any suggestions, comments, concerns, um, whatever it is, uh, now would be the time to share. Um, yeah. So I guess my big question would be um I mean it all kind of comes down to how many colors how many this how much that you do a single color I was pricing it out as you're talking it price can come down to about seven grand it's a one color shirt two color shirt almost doubles the price so I mean based upon how many colors you want or how elaborate you want to do and it changes what you want then my question is is is are you looking for this to be a ASV purchase
020which would put another student account funds. Are you looking for it to be like a district curricular purchase and that might mean that miss is going to have to kind of steady the around it or are you looking at selling sponsorships on the back? We are trying to stray away as much as we can from having any logos on the back because we really want it to just be like eagle, not just like a free t-shirt that you throw in the back of your closet because you bought it for free. Um, but we have just as we're trying to kind of wrap up all of our ASV funds, and this is something I don't know exactly on, but we were kind of thinking that it would just go we would make the whole like maybe
021we just have 15,000 that we give to one of the companies and then the other however we also fund it, then that just gets put back into our ASV account. And I know there's probably a lot more specifics to that, but um I think what I would like to have happen is is there a way we can have maybe two student rep leaders board in charge of budget, but my recommendation would be to have two student leaders with Miss Arnold. um because there are some rules for using taxpayer money on kind of navigate what would something look like that plan that you're taking guys on how this how so just a question um have you thought about asking anybody in the community because I'm sitting here going through my head and I mean I could
022probably think of like 10 people that I know that would contribute for this cause. Um, we have because we scheduled this board meeting a while ago, we have kind of reached out to a little bit of people within our district. We haven't quite expanded like we're on the agenda for a PTA meeting. Um, and we haven't quite gone out to the community um people yet. We kind of just wanting to get your all your support behind this and then take the next step forward because I really do think the funds are out there for us. I think it's just we would have a lot of different people to pull from. So then actually like depending on what account that all works under, I think we would just have to figure out like the specific details
023of it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that that we would have plenty of community members that would be willing to do this ad free. Yeah. I I like that. I think sharing the vision about why ad free um because we always want to support our our our donors at large. But I think this is a pretty unique passion project for as a community to get behind. So, um, I've got the bonus, we've got to have lots of conversation about this, but I think that it was enlightening to me and I think it would be to the rest of us of how much of what we would think of traditional high school experiences these guys have never actually experienced. like Meredith was just telling about like we did our first real class competition and we and we
024taught them the class chants and and in my head I'm like that doesn't even equate because it doesn't that's not part of to not be part of high school when these kids say like like we don't know the fight song and um ceremony. And the only reason that some of them had this is because they had enough older, you know, Meredith was blessed to be in a spread out family. So, I'm sure she almost had a whole generation to experience something, but um most they're trying to really push something uphill because they don't even have the role models of of and I think I love the fact that you're bringing on um the elementary school, the middle school because you can't wait till kids get to high school to get excited about being part of
025Elma, right? And um I think that you guys using your influence to excite the elementary school is is super powerful in making more of a longlasting sweep. So I mean when we were in high school I it's kind of a it's a small piece but I mean the rooter bus like you couldn't even get on the routter bus. You could pay your two bucks or four bucks to get on the rout. It was full. And I mean that really incited a lot of pride. everybody was ready to go and supporting and the more you have traveling, the more you have being at home. So, you know, you guys have a lot of a lot of things you can tap into for sure. I'm excited for it. I think the other thing I love hearing you
026say um is you're not just thinking about this through the lens of athletics. Um I think you guys are being really mindful about celebrating lots of things in your in your school, whether it's the big drama performance going on or, you know, um just the really thinking about the inclusiveness of all the things that you'd be celebrated with school spirit and so I you know commend you in that area. So Lisa, is that um it' be easier if you do mind. Is there somebody who contacts? Yeah. Does that mean I want to kind of have action and make that this is kind of how we plan action? But there's about four rooms we could go. So part of the reason why we're not saying yes or no figure out which we can you do me
027a favor. Can you go back to the different events that you're looking at? Well, we have a one that were this is kind of a what's happening now what's in planning. I don't know this what you're talking about first. Yeah, you were back there. There you go. Um, so this is what the board had done years ago and this is kind of the work that we working with Miss Elliot, Miss Hall and all of our students is we we we decided to take a year to restructure our student board reps. But this is also going to be my ask because the board probably in June would like to select two new student board reps. One of the student board reps is to actually do this kind of work. What are the updates for the asks?
028not where you're getting on the agenda in a special way, but you have a guaranteed avenue to always meet the agenda. So, I think my request would be is when we meet on Friday, said meeting Friday, right? Is that part of Friday's time is committed to how can we have ongoing conversations built into the board agendas for all through all next year that you're leaving what you're doing now. Just know we have reps that are always coming. Is that a conversation we have on Friday? I think so. Sounds like a good jumping off point. I'd like to make sure that we have a plan where you don't feel like you need to come make a big ask. We just have to make all your asses. Sense. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if you want to
029tell Meredith that she's a big dreamer. Um I think our board policy is is students apply. I think uh the board would entertain recommendations from that student leadership. So if you had recommend students that you'd like to write recommendations for. Sorry, I didn't mean to kind of cut off, but I think I wanted to go to this because um I'm interested in how we get to know how this is going as the year progresses. Sure. Just having this update. Yeah. So, it's not Well, and I want to put out there, too, if you guys need help with anything, we are all more than willing to volunteer and and help. You just got to ask. Thank you. Yeah, queen booster mom down there. This really excites me. I mean, I like this is cool stuff and
030this is what I love seeing and I love She probably has a trunk full of eagle giveaways. I actually do have some stuff. This one's got a gap between and grandson. Anyway, I'm just saying that at any time you need help with anything. Um, I know that most of us would be would be there in a heartbeat. So what you're gonna do I'm sorry now probably has been based upon if it's ASB money or district money district to make that approval would be my that's thing one thing two is on Friday we would like to have a plan on how we can identify two students boards will choose our policy says they choose but we have an idea on how you can recommend so that you know you're going to always come and provide our
031updates work that's happening so that Yeah, appreciate that. Well, thank you for letting us come here. We're super excited about this and it is slowly getting started. I've wanted to do this for a while now, so I'm very excited that it's actually kind of taking off. Um, yeah. So, thank you for letting us be down here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys for all being here. Are you doing a hashtag of anything? Are you doing it BTB or are you spelling it all out or how what's it going to look like? Perfect. I like it. Um, it would be cool when you guys come back. I think it'd be fun if we got to see one of your announcements, too. Oh, not obvious not tonight, but just over the next couple, you know, week.
032Um, I think these guys would think it's really cool what we've been doing with the announcements. So, so put together a really cool one in the next two weeks and then bring it. Can I just Can I just say and I just have to interject um this has been totally grassroots student driven. I mean we had a kooky crazy idea. It might have even been Meredith or Presley about why can't we do televised announcements and John Guerrero's like we can do that and the next day the next day um and in just meeting with Isaac uh Vincent Perez Mark and ASB on Monday and just watching all of this come to life with the bring back eagle pride and it's all them. I just am really proud of you guys. I mean, I don't know
033if you guys have been able to look up or talk to parents or otherwise, but there was a thing called Eagles Live back in the early 90s myself. I mean, yeah, you're not totally thinking of every good idea. Fairly rough, but you know, it was there. Yeah. But you're also giving them the space to do that. And and I just have to like give a huge shout out to Miss Elliot because uh I I know from behind the scenes, she is listening. Hi, Miss Elliot, if you are listening. Uh I know just just from Meredith, how many hours uh outside of the school day. Um Miss Elliot spends texting and emailing and sending information and and prompting and and helping support ideas. So um just a huge I don't know. I think I think think
034you guys did awesome, but I think you have a really amazing advisor um supporting you too. So thank you for spending a little bit of your evening with us. Welcome. Thank you so much. Thank you. You do not have to sit through the rest of the meeting. You're welcome to stay though. Run. Run. Thank you guys. I say I got a long ahead of me. Public comment. Okay. Approval. That's unfinished business. Excuse me. Approval of Excuse me. I need to make this bigger. I forgot my glasses. Approval to remove policy 4010 staff communications. This policy is the one that was already policy. Policy clause also. I'll move for the approval to remove policy 4010 staff communications. I'll second. There's been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries.
035Discussion and approval of policy 4320 cooperative programs with other districts, public agencies, private schools, and daycare agencies. First reading this one just 4330 in 4320. Oh. Oh, I see. I didn't move for the approval of policy 4320 cooperative programs with other districts, public agencies, private schools, and daycare agencies. First reading. I'll second that. It's been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? I don't think this has any fiscal impact, but should I abstain from the this vote? No. Right. So, it doesn't I think we should play coopively with our local child careers. But okay, then I will still vote what it said. That was my discussion. Okay. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Approval to remove policy 4330 cooperative with private and paroial schools and daycare agencies. I'll
036move for the approval to remove policy 4330 cooperation with private parochial schools and daycare agencies. Second a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Approval of policy 5411 staff vacation second final rating. I'll move for the approval of policy 5411 staff vacation second final rating. I'll second that. Been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Approval of policy 6212 charge cards. Second and final reading. I'll move for the approval of LC last rivals uh 6202 charge card second final reading. I'll second a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Approval of certificated employee handbook. All right, Candace has been doing a lot of work on the employee handbook. She decided to
037take it down. So, we do have some working table contents that click on and it takes you to the appropriate page. And then the idea being that uh a lot of it references back to board policy. So then that way instead of having 15 documents that we need to maintain updates to, it'll just link you back to board policies. Kendus has also done a really good job moving forms much like how Marini did with the instructional materials adoption where you had instructional m board policy board procedure and we also had the forms that went along with it on ensuring that we have appropriate forms that go with those policies and procedures that's related to those staff handbook. So um it's been kind of a great process. I mean we've had a lot of um issues
038pop up like animals to the classroom how we trips or how to do the annual. Yes, that's right. Okay. We have Sorry, I wasn't going all of those things on it. Um, so how that as issues pop up, we know that we have policies. So then that way we have one-stop shop reference point for all staff, but we were looking at the initial draft having allies in it. And I do think I like Candace's um pivot to let's have it within the living board documents. Let's have links to the board doc board policies so that you can see or you know the process so you can see the so that we only have one location to keep it alive or maintain and we'll I'm assuming refresh this the beginning of each school year or when
039we change policy more like when policy gets changed and then there'll just be a school board meeting update at the end of that each one since they're listed in there presently is what it stands for the year. I actually was hoping that we could table this. I was trying to click on some of the links and for whatever reason it said you have to get approve approval and I and I requested approval, but I never seem to get anything. So, I not sure if that's operator error on my part or if it's probably not. It's probably if it was something on a link or or something like that. So, I just wasn't sure. Okay. And I and I was just trying to look at Well, one, there's 33 pages of it, so there's a lot
040to to go over, right? And then I wanted to make sure like the links were working and all that, right? They work for me, but maybe not perfect. I can get with Eric if Yeah, later this week. That's a So, are you are you making a motion to table? I am making a motion to table to the to the next board meeting. Can Can we sub a question about it? Yeah. Um, are like all the like I saw the discipline forms or something where they highlight any yellow. Uh, was that something new that was added or so I just have a question why what the yellow was and then I'm assuming those are already all documents that like they've already come from the the buildings like the this I don't know the admin or the
041staff or somebody they've also looked through piece of this or they've had input on it. Yes. I mean actually that's the answer the answer to both your questions is the same. Okay. because admin had eyes on it. Those are the edits made in yellow. Okay. Okay. So, so the answer So you're I just want to make sure we aren't approving something that the the admin eyes are from the version you saw last time to the changes can put in yellow which are specifically the admin. No, you clicked the link to see if we can open it now. I'm able to open them. And then is I I did read through it but I might have missed it. Is there anything in there? Maybe we don't feel passionately about this. Maybe I just feel passionately about
042this. Is there anything about um soliciting donations prior to building approval or classroom approval? I mean, the board does have to approve all donations. So, we could have a section in there for donations. I we talking about like the um I don't love the Amazon. Yeah. Or to like GoFundMe for I need a printer when I mean this has really happened when I'm like Eric why are we having on Facebook that like we need technology like because nobody came and doubted me. So um we've seen it on on Amazon they've started a Yeah. Yeah. I I I don't know if that I would like to see that added, but do you mind shooting this or can I'll shoot them. I mean, are you in Well, there is a grant process under section three. I don't
043think they think of it as grants. Probably needs a little bit more because I don't think the staff think of that as the same thing. Yeah, it probably needs its own category. Are we in agreement that we want that? You want the grant and the donation separated out soliciting soliciting donation online donation? I mean, just some sort of language that directs them to appropriate places to ask for those questions. Oh, that makes sense. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Are you talking about when it does stuff like this? Because this is the form. Oh, it's just not letting you in. It's just not It depends on what it depends on what link that you click on. I'm just randomly selecting it. On the the district discipline matrix. Okay. And I'm thinking even parents should be able
044to should have access to that. And I tried to click on it. Can't still get it. It's a Google doc, but I don't know who actually owns the Google doc. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, so I'll second Brian's motion to table this. There's been a motion made and second to table until the next meeting. All in or is there any further discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Okay, motion carries. Is it too late? It looks really professional though. It looks She did very good. I think it's a huge a huge asset to have. Yeah. No, I mean everything's looking great. I just you know I just want to make sure everything was working. So I mean doesn't work but it looks really pretty. No, that's all right. Okay. New business approval of summer programs. I
045just I have one question in the summer programs. Um, there's two different Oh, I might have just answered my own question for cheer. There's two different requests for like cheer camp during the summertime, but I guess one of them says winter cheer, the other just doesn't specify. So, there's two different cheer groups. Okay, never mind. I answered my question. The big thing is to ensure that our insurance covers events. I'll move for the approval of summer programs. I'll second the motion made and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Approval of 2025 2026 school district calendar. Um this is the everything but late starts has been identified. do think this might actually be one of those controversial calendars because we have a very clear date start date but very clear
046December so we're not having a lot of half weeks. So on the next approval of 2025 2026 school district I'll second that. It's been a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion? I'm going to just throw out that I'm asking and I wonder a question regards to late starts. Um I don't know if at large it might be worth maybe getting some community input about how our late starts go. Um, I can just share from my world like I feel like families get pretty frustrated when the Monday coming back with Christmas break is a late start and some of those dynamics. So, I don't know. Um, it just I don't I don't know how community input would look and maybe we would not want to seek that, but um I I'm asking more is
047it just a I wonder how we have that. Yeah. And I that's why I'm saying like I actually think we have it bargained where I need to look at our CPA. That's why it's a big I wonder. Yeah, it might be I wonder with no wonder. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. All righty. Do we have a motion? I do. Did you motion? You second. Okay. Thank you. So motion made and second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Approval of personal services agreement for Barb Schneider. This is just for mentorship of uh credit teachers. I for the approval of personal service agreement for our center. Second. Been a motion made second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? opposed. Motion carries. Reports, enrollment report, uh we're actually down a bit this
048month from March. Um graders by and large we're still on our pretty and she's sir. Yes. Moving on to budget report. concern. You guys have all the reports in front of you. Um right now we're run we're running a $5.4 million um fund balance and um just a little heads up with the way legislation is going. They're talking about moving our aortionment which they've done in the past but right now they're looking at doing a portion of three months moving it to August. So, I'm going to caution you. This unbeknownst is going to save our butts this year probably if they do that because we will need it to make it through July because that will be our vendor payments and our payroll which are running close to 4 million. So, um I appreciate you
049allowing the funds to be up but it's a good thing that we are saving grace for July. Yes. Um and also um federal revenue is still still up in the air for next year um between the state and the feds. So we're not sure how that would go. So that's another thing that that fund balance may have to cover until our federal money comes in. So when Go ahead. When do you know about the aortionment? When will that come through? When legislation is over. And that's uh they have you out by what? June. I don't remember the day of legislation. They haven't put June before legislation though. Yeah. Um so I'm waiting. Just waiting. Um, and then the other thing is is right now I put a hold on doing the um general fund budget
050revision for the roof because um I'm crunched with time right now and I'm going to use the capital projects money that's in there for the roof so we can get it done and then later I'll have to solicit OSPI to be able to move if we want to um replenish that back up. We have to get permission from OSPI to use our general fund because if we use levy, it's an enrichment levy. It's not an M levy. So, we have to have permission to move enrichment money to the capital projects. It's not going to delay the project getting done. It will just project. We're going to keep it going. Thank you. Um, I think that's all I had. Does anybody have any questions on the reports? Thank you. Uh donation report. I think it's just
051the general list of the uhations that which is very much appreciated and very kind of the community. Wow. Anybody have any thought about those? How do we respond when we have our donations? I know we've talked about this before, but can you remind me what we send? Generally, uh, thank you. Just comes from district office. Right. Go to the order. Went to the play this week and I just wanted to make a I did the matinea show and at intermission went a little long and came back and all the students were in bunch of students were different roles. Then at the end of the play our play directors came out and said there was a big mishap and the students just had to step up and adapt and it was really really good. So the
052perseverance and the adapting and the I need to do a different role mid play for something that was totally out of our control really speaks to the kind of the grit and the impressiveness of our students. So, um, I would, it's like I was debating, did we talk about it because sometimes it's always really kind of anxiety driven, but I do think it's worth celebrating how the play did an incredible job that the students did, our students did an incredible job adapting at that intermission point. So, I did the the uh Friday show and the Saturday matinea show and just incredible job at that adapting was just an incredible job by the students in our love notes. Yeah, they'll let I don't know if this is the place to bring this up or not, but
053I'm going to go ahead because um I'm going to call it the be the blue movement uh has inspired me here a little bit. Um I think that what the kids are doing is is uh is pretty cool. Uh with that, years ago, we had Mary Facus came in and worked with the new board um in helping us with um strategic planning and our mission, our vision um and just kind of guided us and how a board um what our roles are and how we stay in lanes and what our expectations and whatnot are. Um I don't know, Seth, if you were part of that. I I don't remember. Michael and I were Okay. I I maybe I caught like the main training you guys did you had just done when I came on and
054I know Michael I don't think got any night I so I don't feel like I so I feel like we're at a to move to move forward with this movement with the kids I think that it's time that maybe we have um invite Mary back to work with us again um especially on strategic planning Michael has not been a part of it um yeah to to um you else said really positive things about Yeah, I would love to. Can we Can we get married? Wait, we um do you I know Josh Martin spoke to you. I just sent you an all all email about doing a collaborative on morning of March August 7th. You open to doing collaborative on the morning of August 7th and then an afternoon with Mary Pacus and seeing if we
055could do some of those two. Zoom in from the island. I won't be here. Um Hennis will go looking for somebody. I prefer a different I want maybe yeah find some things but I just think it would be beneficial to us as a as a forward again to get some direction and moving forward especially now that we're out of co and could we if it's possible look at it earlier then I mean sometimes August feels like the train's already kind of you need to I feel like if it's a little earlier that might Yeah, even be better if if it suits for Mary. Yes. Whatever she can, especially if we're gonna try to strategic plan and board goals for the next school year. Yeah, get us started like she's fantastic with the leading of it.
056So, yeah, that would be earlier would be and I guess it's dependent upon what her schedule looks like. We will come back at the next board meeting with some dates. Okay. and if if beforehand they didn't mess with us individually and try to get something going. But I Yeah, I think that um especially to get behind the kids and our movement. Um I think yeah, we need to be stronger. Yeah. So if a date comes up and it's before like we need to make a decision from her calendar, then I say that we can all get an email and answer back. Yeah. If that happens before the next meeting that might have to do I think that's by proxy vote by proxy that's still not violating they did a vote on Mary do we have
057to vote is an official vote for a date for training because we just have to announce the date Right. No, what I'm saying though is we had certain dates, but Mary needed to know right away and they pull them to see what they can do and send it off. We don't count a vote to do a date just just the notice to the public having a meeting. Okay. Okay. There's no setting up. Well, the talk has just double check that I'm doing by promising. Yeah. Okay. Either way, it's just can you make it or not. Okay, double check. Okay, by proxy breaking. Okay, perfect. That's great. Never ask for a vote. I don't necessarily have much good of the order other than opening day for baseball was fabulous. No, that was good. It was so
058great. It was I wait. I mean, it was cold, but we didn't have rain and and it was well attended and they had the fire department down there doing all fun things for all families and whatnot. So, it was was good. I mean, no matter what, that is good. I was just seeing their post when there's 350 kids and that's why I think I love that high school vision about really there's obviously some good stuff happening and we can get kind of lost in discouragement a little bit, but you know, to make 32 teams work, that's a lot of grown-ups in our community. um giving up a lot to do some good stuff for kids. So um uh just reminding everyone that Enhance Elma is this Saturday from 9 to 1 meet at the visitor
059center if you'd like to help do some community cleanup. Uh and I know if Michael is here, he would share that uh the boys soccer team had their first win against Monoseno in four years. these uh boys have lost every single game since they were freshman and um you know mentally that's a big uh that's a big hurdle and he was very they're very excited obviously so um just a shout out not necessarily that they beat Monty just the middle yeah so um a lot of Elma all over the paper that's some good good stuff last night there was a great turnout for the little league youth days at the boys baseball game and uh and we actually pulled out the win against Tanino which I I believe was the number one ranked team in
060the state. I was really excited. They went 10 to four or something. Yeah, 10 to four. It was touch and go till the last inning, but then we got things rolling. So, good stuff. It's great news. That's it was nice to see a lot of the youth out there recognized in their f because they stuck around and watched Okay. I make a motion we adjourn. Second. Been a motion made and seconded. All in favor? Okay.