001Good call meeting order. Please rise to the pledge. Luke 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 March 26, 2025. I'll make the approval of board meeting minutes for March 26, 2025. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the board meeting minutes from March 26, 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 make a motion we approve the meeting agenda. I'll second. Are there any changes or addition? No. It's been moved and seconded to approve the meeting agenda. Uh with no changes, is there any discussion? Seeing none, all
002those in favor say I. I. I. All those post say nay. 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 cons consent agenda. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, seeing none, all those in favor say I. Sorry. All those oppose say nay. Motion carries. It's not really a discussion. I'll just say on a on a quick note that um thank you to Mr. Olsen for his contributions to our basketball team and school and whatnot over the last four years. That was great impact. Yep. I can make a motion we excuse board member Christelli. I'll second it. It's been moved and seconded to excuse board member Castelli. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those
003opposed say nay. Motion carries. All right. Doesn't look like we have any booster fundraisers. All right. Discussion items. Focus on kids. East Grace Harbor High School. Thank you for having us tonight. Um I have with us uh Jeff Sour, one of our teachers at East Grace Harbor and two students he brought uh to share with you guys about an experience that they've had that's collaborative and uh together and that is um Isaiah Bush and Kira Seaman. um before they present I just wanted to share with you that um there's some things that we're in in progress of doing is doing different uh attendance incentives um to encourage our students to come to campus and to be there and engaged um and we've seen an increase of of that. Um we're also working on um a
004truency board um and a enga engagement board and so we're working towards again connecting that the dots with the attendance and um and then Jeff and Bill of course are doing great things when it comes to combining things and really working team work together to bring in all of the different academics so that it's a hands-on mindson approach and the students get those real life experiences and so that's what I'm going to present to to you guys tonight. All right. Hi, my name is Jeff S. East Harbor High School. And I'm really not going to do a lot of the talking. I'm just let the students do most of the talking. Um I'm going to show you the picture here. This a picture from a field trip we recently took to the Washington State Legislature
005where we met with Senator Wilson. So, they'll talk a little bit about some of the conversation we had. They these two students in particular did a really great job in in having a conversation with the senator that went on for like almost an hour. It's a really interesting and great conversation. We learned a lot from that. So I'll let them share a little bit about that and I really appreciate that they were willing to show up tonight and had the courage to do that. And without fur further ado, I'll start off with Isaiah. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Isaiah Bush and I just wanted to discuss what we've been doing at East Grace Harbor High School uh regarding plastic waste and microlastic management and basically how uh it impacts uh the environment. We've
006been using plastic products to uh build models and representations of uh um marine life and other various uh creatures that have been affected by pro improperly disposed of plastics and stuff and making these models as well as going on a field trip to the Washington State Capital where we met with the Jeff Wilson uh Washington state senator which was very informal. also taking a tour of the capital. Uh we got to see the history of when it was built. Uh why it was built, why it took a longer time to build. Very informal field trip. Uh al together uh learning a lot more about bureaucracy and the legislative uh side of things. Getting a real hands-on of uh how the building is orchestrated on a day-to-day basis of all these staff members collaborating and doing
007a real good job of ma basically being effective in their work. And uh it was very interesting, very informal like I said. And uh we've been also researching a bill, the EPR uh um bill, which might may or may not go effect in Washington state uh soon. And basically um learning about that bill, very interesting. uh we got to go into the senator's office discuss this bill and other bills regarding this and uh and I think it was uh very informal but I think that we should uh keep this going as field trips because uh it might spark uh or invoke innovative minds to want to pursue this kind of career path as well as you know uh work in government official buildings and just um spark ideas and bring new innovative ideas to Washington
008date and uh and I think that uh it was probably the most informal field trip I've ever had. So, I think it was a really good uh use of educational time management for sure. And uh yeah, pretty much that's good. What was the EPR? Uh the Oh, yeah. They extended a producer responsibility law. Okay. Uh but yeah and it's basically talking about how uh they want to make producers uh pay for their uh production of plastics instead of so these factories get economic growth from actually recycling because only about 5 to 6% of recycle actually gets recycled. So you know they want to make it economically worth it for these factories to recycle. Right. Fabulous. So, uh, that's pretty much what I got to say, but, uh, it was very good and I think that
009I think that it should go on more every year. Were you surprised at how much voice you had being able to speak to the senator? Yeah, he seemed like where he wasn't just like cutting it off and just like, you know, he's the head launcher. He had a really open mind to anything that the students had to say and it was uh you know um kind of like you know he was all ears and you know wanted to hear from both sides of the spectrum. Definitely. Yeah. So yeah, I thought it was really good and uh just want to share it, you know, as well as I wanted to say, you know, Bill and Jeff have definitely been one of the best teachers I've had, you know, they've been really really good with like uh
010like she said with hands-on approach to learning all all different sides of learning, you know, and uh it's just I don't know, it just seems like a better way to learn than just the standard curriculums. Definitely. So awesome. Thank you for being so well spoken and using your inflection. It was a wonderful presentation. Yeah, thank you very much. Well, I don't even I have no speech written on my notes, but I had quite a few subjects that I wanted to speak on. So, um, thank you for having me here to be able to do this. So, today I'm going to be representing East Grace Harbor High. I've been a student here for two years now and I believe I've never been I've been more successful and interested in classes here than I ever have been.
011Our teachers do their best to accommodate to every student's needs. I used to be a student at high school and it was insufferable for me. I never felt that my teachers understood me or even wanted to. Jeff and Bill always make sure to take time to ensure the in the success of each and every one of their students, which is something I've never experienced my whole school career up until coming here. We do lots of hands-on work such as science projects or field trips to do water testing and many more. We also learn to cook and bake, which I think is an essential skill for people to learn. Currently, I'm given the opportunity to work on a pathway project, which if you don't know what that is, it's a project where stu it's a studentled
012project where we can study and research any topic that's important to us. I think this gives us students a sense of control that's very important. They always give their students an opportunity to use their voices. Speaking of which, I got to use my voice on a field trip to talk to the state senator. I talked to him about thoughts on certain bills and had a very mature agree to disagree conversation in which he was quite impressed with my knowledge and understanding. We studied the bills weeks prior to see what was going to be happening with our state. I think it was an incredible experience and a credible and once in a lifetime experience to be able to express my thoughts and feelings to someone who had such a bigger voice. I feel that the students
013in the school of East Grace Harbor get a bad rap as students are just trying to get by. Many of us deal with mental or phys and or physical health issues and our teachers make sure to check in on us. I personally have mental health issues that have in the past when I was a student at Omaha made me feel so different, unwanted and unneeded. I only have two teachers that genuinely made me feel like I was a person. But in East Grace Harbor High since my first day, I felt that I was wanted, understood, and needed. I do have some concerns to express about our school. Our program is very different from the regular high school as I'm sure you're aware of. But I feel as if you guys want us to change to
014be more like your school. Ever since we moved buildings, we've had many different rules change which has made some students uncomfortable, such as not being served lunch in our own building. If we want food, we are required to go to the regular high school, which many of our students aren't comfortable with. I need you guys to please take a second to think, why is our school so different? Well, the main reason is not everyone is the same and people need different things to learn proper properly. Our school makes sure to check with each student what will make learning better and easier for us. We all have different school plans which accommodate to our different needs. I think it's very important that students are listened to when they express what they know is best for them.
015Something I have yet to experience at Alma High School. I truly have done so much better at East Grace Harbor than any school I've been to. In Elma High School, I felt like a fish in a tree expected to fly. But here at East Harbor High, I'm able to be a fish in the water and thrive more than I ever have in a regular school setting. Thank you for your time and hope taking into consideration. So, thank you. Here, just out of curiosity, what have you tried cooking? Um, I've made many different muffins. I've baked a cake before and I've also I haven't cooked anything yet, but I cook a lot more. So, thank you for imparting what you've learned and also the also the not so pretty stuff that you know not a lot
016of people like to talk about. It is hurting. I appreciate it. You know, I value the fact that you are understanding when you are and are not hurt. So, thank you. It's important for us to hear the real, not just get up there and tell us, you know, what we want to hear, right? It's very important. I know you are wanted and I I know that now. Thank you. Yes. Okay. All right. So, next on our agenda is Summit Pacific Medical Center. Josh, thank you. Thank you guys very much. It's okay if Commissioner Drew Hooper joins me. Absolutely. I was going to compliment these young students for getting up here and presenting. That takes courage. So excos well I'm Josh Martin and this is our board chair Drew Hooper. Hello. Thanks for having us today.
017Um you know I'm going to start here. What brings me here today is actually it's a very long journey but it's a very important journey a pivotal time I think for our community and I'll start with the why actually start here. So summit pac pacific our mission is in partnership with our community we passionately advance the health of all individuals with an emphasis on quality access compassion and safety that's the bedrock that's the foundation our vision is a very bold vision is that through summit care we will build the healthiest community in the nation and it's a very bold vision because I'm going to give some statistics to say that we are far from have a long ways to go um the way that I think about sacific is it's a three-legged stool You know,
018we have the community which would bear the weight to support the needs of that community. Uh the legs of the stool represent different parts or aspect of the health system which is well-being. A big focus of summit that you'll find very different than many other hospitals is a focus more on prevention and lifestyle, more community- based care. But we also have a hospital. We provide 247 life-saving services. and we're stepping more and more into medical arts which is more of a specialty focus cardiology gastronology and we kind of refer to that as a system of health and wellbeing. So now I'm going to go back and kind of share um our vision in action. So this is a really a great kind of example of what vision and action looks like is a 60,000 square
019foot transformational center first of its kind in the country fully funded by US Department of Agriculture. no tax on our community to pay for this in a place that you know isn't really I think an idea when people think about hospitals even in this community most rural America is the hospital's where I go when I'm broken and I need fixed but by then it's too late so our board gave the directive and the vision and we set forth to build this uh this hub that really starts to transform the model of healthc care is a place to go and be well especially for our youth and I'm going to talk about that So you can see we have a playground. I was approached by a community member when we were building and designing this playground.
020What in the world is a hospital doing building a playground? It's a fair question. Well, in a sick care environment, you're right. I mean, we just need more beds and more hospitals and more os and more doctors, of course. But in a vision of building a healthier community of future and focus on prevention and well-being, why doesn't every hospital like that's my question? So, we're leading by example and I just wanted to celebrate and highlight something that says first of all, thank you for your service, you know, as elected officials and your service to this community. Uh, my mother as a public school teacher for 39 years. Um, and I know what she did to serve and raise a generation. I was one of them. Uh I'm here to say that it's it's a wonderful
021thing when you have an administrator of a hospital who is raised in a by a public school teacher because then you start to identify how to integrate, you know, knowledge and education and and really the the ability of bringing our community together to help raise families, you know, uh as a as a community, not just as a family. And with your help, we were able to do something pretty innovative. first of its kind that I've ever heard of is uh we worked with you on a grant uh let remnants of COVID to implement a discovery trail and it was just highlighted in a few articles and magazines and it's getting quite a bit of local and national attention because you don't find a lot of hospital and school districts coming together with an idea of
022collaborating around focusing on uh school readiness especially for underserved populations both in English and Spanish and in implementing technology to focus on um orient ing our kids to education and outdoors. And if you haven't experienced the Discovery Trail, highly recommend it. There's nothing more beneficial than than coming to work and seeing not only the families, but the kids uh a lot of individuals using and accessing this new trail system. But that's not what I'm here to talk to you about today. So today is a focus on what determines a healthy community. Um so in a hospital district, we look at things called health factors. And let me actually pause and take a step back for a minute. We as a board invited Chris Nes to come and present and speak to us at our board
023planning retreat which we do every summer. It's one of the most important things we do as a hospital district. And we invited him to help us understand and give a perspective into what you measure, what's important to you as a as a school board and and try to see if there's anywhere of alignment, right? Are we are we this far off or are we this close? are we really united in trying to work towards and accomplish the same things? So, what we measure is what I'm going to show you today and I think at the end you'll start to see that we're not so different in what we're trying to accomplish. Well, first of all, when we think of uh health factors, there's 39 counties in the u in the state of Washington, and we
024rank health factors as a determination on length and quality of life. And those factors are derived by what we call health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment. Those four quadrants make up that determination on length and quality of life. Grace Harbor County ranks 36 out of 39. So we are one of the unhealthiest counties in the state of Washington. On average, if you reside in Grace Harbor County, you'll die three years sooner than the state average. But that didn't happen overnight. We didn't become the unhealthiest county. It's generation, right? It's it's a lot about built environment. That our environment is not leading us to make healthy life choices or lifestyle or decisions. It's multigenerational. It's cultural. It's economic. Many factors. But the only thing that the hospital district controls is one
025of those four quadrants, it's clinical care, which is access to services. In essence, as a hospital, the only we can do is build buildings and hire providers, right? In essence, this is what it's saying. But everything that influence your determination on health factors is outside of your control. Health health behaviors, physical environment, so housing and transit, diet and exercise, alcohol and drug use. So the question we ask ourselves the board is how do we get outside the walls of the hospital into the community and find partners that are willing to help to make a bigger and better impact for our residents. And so this is the slide that really determines health uh outcomes. So we rank 37 out of 39 and health factors 38 out of 39 and we fluctuate from 36 to 39. So
026this is an important statistic and I just updated this last week for this presentation. These are statistic that we look at that are derived from what we call a community health needs assessment. Something we do every three years. We look at by zip code. We look at statistics and here's just a few of them. And we rank ourselves as a county to the state and to US average. And then we also go down to the zip code by Elma, by mccclary, by origination to identify these statistics. I won't cover them all, but I will cover and highlight a few really important ones. Well, there's life expectancy right at the top. So, Grace Harbor County relative to state and US average. If you look at physical inactivity, 22% versus Washington state. Uh you look at excessive
027drinking 20% to 18%. Drug overdose deaths 48 to 29. Children in poverty 19%. Access to parks 44%. So, I think you're getting the point. the statistics are not working in our favor. And if I was a resident in Grace Harbor County, I'd ask the question, what are we doing about it? What is the leadership of this community doing to change these statistics? Furthermore, question about the um go too far the um drug related deaths. Is that gross headcount for Grace Humber County as opposed to other counties or is it per 100,000 10,000? It's gross. Okay. So, we have small population, but we're way way high. We have the highest incidence of opioid deaths, cost, and jail encounters per capita. Good question. I just wanted to get the context of Well, and this this will probably
028uh give some more even more statistics. Thank you. So, if you look at, you know, some of the statistics, what I'll share is um as we start getting down to youth, but you look in one in three adults, one in five teens are obese. 87 or 80% do not eat enough fruits and vegetables. You know, the state unemployment is we're typically twice the state average of unemployment. You look at poverty. But then we started to look at youth and there's some other statistics and I didn't actually embed these but I will share them. Um you know if you look at the percentage of youth between the age of 13 and 17 years old in Grace Harbor County uh 23% have reported anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideiation. And it's really unfortunate when when they get into
029the health care system, it's because we're treating a disease i.e. mental health. And by then when they're caught in the system, it's really hard to get them out. So if you think about prevention of getting upstream from suicidal ideiation, where does it originate? Where do you start? It's a very very hard thing to accomplish. But one of the things that we set out in our goal of identifying is what is leading towards this feeling of anxiety, depression, and isolation. And we worked with Grace Harbor Public Health Department to conduct this third space analysis which is outside of school and home. Where do our youth go to gather safely and we spent years just getting this report? If you haven't seen it, I'm just putting a link in there. It's interactive. You can go in and
030and work with that interaction. But I'm going to share a summary. In summary, there was 50 youth. So a the first challenge is is we didn't have enough youth participate in the survey. That was problem statement number one is the end value is too small. So we need to get better engagement across the county. But of the 50 youth that we did survey between different age groups, we said where do you currently hang out? And this is again the entire county. Now between the ages of 13 and 17 years old, we have about 1,700 uh youth between that age. I think it's increased, but specifically the um of those 50 have identified where they hang out. Well, 11 said nowhere. uh parks is very common, house, um groups, the school, maybe a fun center, two
031at the YMCA. I think the point is you're seeing that there's not a lot of third spaces. So, we brought in a third party and what they did is they looked at this correlation to let's look at the entire county and identify where there's pockets of of significant youth or teens by population and let's look at the predictive analytics of growth across the county. So what this slide shows you is if you look at rural Elma on the left side, it has the highest propensity of growth, which means we're seeing more families and more people move here. And we know that as a hospital district because we're growing and building and expanding to meet the growing need. So we're seeing more families move here. That's a good thing. Now, as a school board, you're probably
032saying, "Do you even have the infrastructure to support that growth?" And that's for a separate topic. But what we're seeing is you look at the far right side of the correlation of the population density. So we don't see the density like you see in Aberdine but you see the significant growth. So what they do is they look at the dark blue area which is downtown Elma or even rural Elma say there is a higher propensity of need for third spaces. And so they gave some short-term solutions, midterm options and long-term options. And what we did then is the board started to say, well, what can we do to help to convene and bring together agencies that can address the lack of third spaces and why is it important for us? Well, Commissioner Hooper will share
033that in a minute in closing. But this bullet point that I highlight is long-term options is consider partnering with community- based organizations to build additional physical location region. You know, that's an example of saying, can we work with the YMCA or Boys and Girls Club or different groups faith-based or school or hospital to create space for youth to gather safely if not home and school? And you say, well, why is all that important? Again, I go back to the environment. I would say that we've done a lot of studies that say your determination on length and quality of life, uh, only 20% is genetic. 80% is your environment which means that how you grow up and who you grow up around determines your prevalence of disease and lengthen quality of life. So we as a
034hospital are stepping outside of the walls to focus on how are we helping to build that environment that blueprint for a healthier future. And so the board I'll turn over to Drew to close out and entertain any questions you have. As we said a very very bold vision but this is our vision in action. Yeah. So I'll let you kind of read that. I I don't need to read it to you, but the vision and action is where we look at movement that we can start making to actually see the vision come to fruition. So building the healthiest community in the nation and we created that vision a number of years ago. And as we've kind of we started first with looking at how do we help to just build the healthiest staff and to
035create the you know a good work environment just within our walls and at the same time as we uh built the hospital creating that environment of of play outside and fitness outside um with the outdoor fitness equipment. It's it's been something that we've really looked at internally. Well, then it got to this place starting to look, okay, now that we kind of understand what we can do within our walls, we need to start looking at what we can do outside of the walls. And within that process of interviewing a lot of of leaders in the in the community um right before CO actually right at the start of CO um what we discovered is that there is a a real desire it seems to have uh involvement in helping to improve the health of our
036youth. And if we want to have the healthiest community, we really need to have the healthiest kids. And it's something that that I don't think any of us can do alone. That it takes partnership. And so our board has been very focused on working to develop relationships and partnerships where we can find organizations that have similar purpose. While maybe your focus isn't on building the healthiest kids because you want to build the me maybe the best well-rounded and work ready and you know smartest brightest kids at the same time to make that happen the healthier they are the better you're going to achieve that. So trying to find those organizations where we maybe don't have the exact same vision but we have a very common purpose and that's where um you know in looking at
037as you see here partnering with city schools uh public health um we really see an opportunity for us to be able to work together to help for us to help you achieve what's important to you and that through doing that we will ultimately achieve achieve what's matters to us in building the healthiest population in the country. So there's one small ask for consideration is uh our vision isn't isn't a you know straight shot to the moon. It's not the straight shot shot shot to the top of Mount Everest. We have to zig and zag and it's a journey. So as we kind of work on this journey together the request is your consideration to join us for a collaborative board retreat that we would host in the orquest conference center at the wellness center. uh
038for a half of a day it would be August uh Thursday August 8th uh for four hours we would provide the facilitation all the costs and the food to join us uh public health would participate Mike McN the director as well as the city to come together to really dive deeper into the data listening to school district identify what's important to you and your data what's what you're measuring what you're tracking What are your strate strategies and priorities and where can we come together to support each other in those shared shared priorities to really set a shared measurement over the next three or five years that gives us the directive that then we can help support you and vice versa. So that's an open invitation for consideration. We'll set a more formal invitation uh but
039is our commitment as a district on behalf of Ward to invite you for this uh this first ever first of its kind shared strategic plan to our organizations. I know I'm here to talk about that invitation, but have to entertain questions and also consider your time. You guys are all I just I'm curious. Um I don't disagree with focusing on youth. I think that's huge um in our community right now, but is there any focus on family family unit? Yeah. For these kids. So, it's a really good question. is very hard to unpack but I'll be brief by saying well is if you're focusing on youth are seniors that not important of course we have we have end of life it was an incredible hospice program and we really focus on the whole spectrum um
040um you know we set up a mental health clinic as an example to focus on the whole spectrum from youth to seniors to focus on reducing er utilization to creating access to to counseling services and engaging with with schools the family is important but I think what we look at as the family is how do we get into the househ because if you're a family that you look at your your your parents as they're disengaged in their health plan then we have a big problem. So here's an example. If you see your parent opening a bag of Doritos for 18 years, what are you going to teach your kids? We have more fast food restaurants per capita and it's not because of tourism. we have a lifestyle based on that family where within the house
041they they're not having those lifestyle choices that promotes that next generation to live that that trajectory. So for us as a board there's a lot of evidence say well if you're going to make a change you going to go to the parents to make that change. No you're not. But you can get to the youth because what we find out is kids will have the ability to help influence and change their parents to impact the family the household. But we're also seeing is broken families, broken households, the lack of mentorship, right? The lack of infrastructure within the house. And what happens then we start to see the mental health and the breakdown. And it's a very very important question. But the short of it is we do look at the entire family, but we're focused
042on the youth to to make an impact. And I'll I'll add to that just from a personal story which I think um is is actually my wife's story but it's one that I think kind of also helped in recognition that with a focus on children it becomes a focus on family and that is that you know my in-laws were chain smokers from the time they were in well really like 10 right they would smoke constantly well my uh wife was um 14 years separate from Bera's sibling And so she was pretty much kind of like a more or less alone in the house with like an almost like an only child. And um so she got a lot of attention that her siblings always, you know, make sure she they they let her know that
043she got all that attention. But one of the things that she did at four years old, she has no idea why, her parents have no idea why, is she started grabbing the cartons of cigarettes out of the freezer and flushing them down the toilet. Well, even back then, cigarettes weren't, you know, if you're getting ready that at a time, that's not an inexpensive thing. And what's interesting is at four years old, she got both of her parents to stop smoking. Now, why was that the case? What motivated her to do that? I don't know. But what's interesting is that cigarette addiction is one of the most difficult addictions to quit. And yet a foury old got two lifetime smokers in their late 30s, early 40s to just stop and they never smoked again. Right? So
044I think about if if a fouryear-old could have that impact in her house, then if we start to teach our kids what it is to live in a healthy way, they really do have the ability to impact the household. Sure. some statistics as well is that Grace Harper County um you know we have 50% less providers per capita. So if you think about that access to care but we also acknowledge that that we have even a smaller percentage of people that access primary care and if you can say well you know if you wouldn't pled and ask a lot of residents why don't you go to primary care it's like well I don't need it I feel great. Yeah. Well, the issue then and this is what we see is until until you're not, right?
045Until it's broken. And by then, I have too many stories to share. That's very unfortunate. Um, but the reality is that if our parents or those families aren't accessing the preventative side, then they only know to come when it when it's not working and they're teaching the kids the same thing. And so, we're trying to overcome that fear of participation. I mean, we do the same for our cars. We go for annual oil changes. We don't wait until the engine, but we don't take the m same investment in ourselves. So, we're trying to overcome that cultural component of resistance to participate because we don't want to be good at disease management. We don't want to build a bigger hospital. We have to. We want to focus more on prevention and getting upstream substance abuse part
046of that. Yeah. So, we worked with uh the attorney general years ago in the opioid epidemic to help Washington state get a settlement of $500 million of which we based on this percentage of per capita had the highest incidence of drug use per capita. Unfortunately, the funding algorithm was flawed and who got the most money was based on population, not based on the actual incident. So unfortunately, Grace Harbor County, who has the biggest prevalence of opioid addiction, got the least amount per county. And that's something that we advocate and campaign on about how the model is broken. Those that need it the most are getting the least. Um, unfortunately, but fortunately, we've been able to access other mechanisms of opioid treatment. An example is we have a medication assisted treatment clinic that we stood up
047from a $2 million grant. We have 90% of our primary care providers wavered with Suboxone. We did all that under the opioid crisis of six years ago. Unfortunately, opioid is only at the tip of the iceberg. Everything else underneath that is mental. So, though we have the ability to treat and interface with the addiction, we're focusing now on mental health to start to get upstream before it becomes the addiction. Well, thank you very much for your time. We'll give the meeting back to you and then send out a formal invitation. And before we lock in and confirm the date, the time, the facilitation, and everything, we'll we'll look to make sure that this is aligned with your directive. And hopefully we can do something really exceptional together. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
048Honor on the agenda. A report. Yeah. We do every year on the two structures that were uh funded through the state. the purpose room at the elementary and the the four additional classrooms. There'll be nothing as much change with the buildings other than like small like slow deterioration over time, but we haven't made any major improvements to them or we don't have any like pretty good shape. uh multi-purpose room. We're going to be starting to think about a roof and then air feels like roofs are at top. Yeah. Keeps out the rain. It really does. The last that crazy storm had I saw water at places I've never seen because it literally like went up and under up and under. But yeah, you guys have any questions about the The only thing that I noticed
049is that the condition seemed to get better. Is that is it go is that how that number works? Because from 19 since 2019, it goes 77.98 and it goes up to 86.15. Is that is that inverse? I I guess like what is the percent supposed to be a zero or supposed to be 100? I guess what's the highest you can get if you're invest 100%. Or is it zero? Uh, no. I think I think 100's good because based off the condition rating says 90% good. So, yeah, I would say we did do some furnishings. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of what I figured because there's some there's some stuff high school you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, there was a few things that actually graded higher. Yeah, that makes sense. And then like when the
050BC you have to have a BCA every three years. Okay. And that's kind of like when you're doing it the following year. You kind of like you're kind of like, yeah, they're hired to do that. So you look at what they say and then they they'll ask you questions like, "Have you approved anything?" And there there was some things that were furniture, electronics, probably like stuff that got us downgraded before like uh stuff on, you know, walls that we have since, you know, made better, stuff like that. And we have to do this the life of and we did the new camera system and stuff like that. So I saw that. So yeah. So I think it's a want to say 30 years or 20 years that we report on it. So I think our
051next next certified is due in 2028. This is funded in 96, right? Yeah. board accepted date 199 and that's they weren't on the same years for the DCA but now they are so that was one g looking at which one you looking at there's two different so I have the I have the addition which is 96 for the for the year of the building 97 is that one our score is above So, do they give you a ballpark of where you're supposed to be at at all or anything? I mean, I know I'm asking all these questions. I mean, they basically do by saying good, fair, or poor. I just kind of curious I guess basically what most places from the I have seen something that showed like an average or yeah like average by
052years but I don't have that they probably do it out on their website probably compared to yeah when you're looking at when you look at the course inos it'll give you some benchmark type stuff so it looks like it's color coded too it still has this in green and I did tell I did go to a training to learn how to do condition assessments. And the thought was like, well, I can't be a BCA to do my own, right? But then there was a thought like the neighboring school district had a guy that did it too each other. We never got Do you know if Mono has anybody? I don't think some of the people that anymore. Yeah, it's kind of how that usually goes. Evidently, this this profession is kind of stressful. I I
053didn't notice, but there's times, right? So, you're doing great, Jeff. Oh, yeah. No, I'm just Our buildings are like the day high school 196 somebody from out of like it seems so new, but I guess it's been a while pushing almost 40 years. Crazy how time. If you look at the building before that, got about 50 years out of it. I know they last a little bit longer now, but you know, I mean, just look at the we call it the new gym still. The new gym. The new gym. It's not so new, but they are great. [Music] Yeah. Anybody else have any other questions for They're not that old. And I help desks over to that building to move in. Right. That's all. That's us. Yeah. But it seems a lot of teenagers standing
054out of the exit. You're you're old enough to know and young enough to probably still remember exactly what was my timeline where this part of the building was. What was here before this parking lot? Because I was just trying to like solve the mystery. It's a fun one. I think I would have I was looking at the demo plans and there was a house and apartment complex where the staff parking lot is the brown apartments. So like sometimes you need to know like what used to be what's under the some really big trees stuff that keeps me up at night but yeah other you know the ones that were funed to the state knock on wood done all the reporting so we can ask them for fun start thanks Thank you. I got about 29
055year olds just playing ball without their coach. So, get out of here. We'll be done at 8:00 tonight under All right. Another long one on the list. All the seeds 4,000s. Where do we start on that? I have a few notes. Okay. The first set is 4320 and 4330 while just combined them. So updating 20 I did a little bit of research on those policies uh um combination and yeah pretty seems pretty standard. Nobody changed any of the verbs. They just basically bam together. So they um nothing too much going on there. So we could probably move those forward. Unless somebody else doesn't 4010 has already been put into program. So we just looked at getting rid of that one. Okay. 4230 contact with students 4314 and 4315. They're just Is there any explanation to
056any of that? I couldn't figure it out. Most districts kept 4315, which 4315 is release of information concerning sexual and kidnapping offenders, which I thought was interesting that it was being suggested to be deleted. It's just not on policies anymore. Okay. No explanation. From what I could see, nobody's dropped it. And then and some of the boards or some of the districts that follow Blast's policies to the tea when they come out, it's still there. So, um I'm assuming we still use that policy, but that was a question for Mr. Nesmith. I wonder if there's a legal it puts you a little bit more at a legal risk um if something doesn't get disseminated because I mean ultimately you're supposed to be sharing information that's not really you don't own the information. That's why I
057was I don't the authority on it. So you're, you know, if somehow we don't get the information, but we're supposed to have had the information and and or we fail to communicate it, it feels like it puts us at the impact at risk. Yeah. Uh it still feels like it may be best. I could understand why it may be best practice, but I'm just wondering if there's like a legal Could we reach out to legal and ask that question? Yeah, because from what I could tell it was still there and the verbiage is exactly the same as uh as prior. So, but it would be nice to know what legal has to say before we do anything on that one. So, um the other ones were kind of I didn't the contacts with students and
058notification of threats of violence and harm. those ones seem to have disappeared, which is not not from ours or just in general um from districts. So um we can take a look at that or we can leave them. There's no harm at leaving the policies. Depends on what what we want to do going forward. And remember, it's just a discussion. So we don't even have to actually do anything with them. We just leave them as is. I'm honestly good with leaving it as is for right now. And I also feel like I we don't have what we're selling. Yeah. If we don't have any input, I we have a take on it. So, well, regardless, even if we put them on new business, we would have to vote on them and stuff. So, but we
059can just hold off on those. Um, my intention was just to go through these in discussion. Um, and since it was me presenting, that's why I actually moved to tell when I was here and thought we were gonna have everybody, but it's uh always always works out that way. Somebody gets sick and that's that's how it goes. Um, on the notification of threats, I mean, that is a practice that we do in the district currently. So, it it feels like we would need some policy to stay in place if that is would continue to be a practice. But maybe what I'm curious about about the 4314 is whether we cover it in another policy. Like some of these are match policies. Um the 4,000 is community related. Correct. So this match with community and there's
060also student related stuff in there that's already in our policy. So it may just have might just be red. Yes. Exactly. Well, we can we can also find out if that does have a match. And if it does, make sure that there isn't anything that's left off that we don't want to include. Maybe do a revision. It also doesn't hurt to have Right. No, that's where I was saying earlier. Like we can do nothing with them and leave them. It doesn't hurt any. I mean, they've stood for what last revision on the the 4315 was 2017 and then just the one we're talking about 4314. 2019 2019. Yeah. So, they've been around. So, I don't think there's any harm there. Just like I said, I wanted to go through these because we were going through
061each series. So, we'll go through just like this. Um, and then the next, if we're done talking about those, the next series is policies available to adopt. Great. which will be uh two are encouraged and that's effective communication and limiting immigration enforcement in schools and one is essential for school safety and security systems. However, you know the security officer yeah it talks about RSO all over the place in it. Again that's stuff we don't have to do anything with. We can leave them alone. We can leave it as is. Um, a lot of districts, I mean, they're so new that nobody's really, there's only a couple that have touched those policies. I guess I'm more inclined to leave as is for right now. Okay. Anybody have an objection? I can move it forward or we
062can move it. Okay. Jamie, do you mean not add not add them in or or add them in when um question I I guess my thought would be would be to to table these three for right now. Um, these three I would really actually like to hear uh be able to discuss with Brian as well. Yeah. And because it does talk about the RSO, it talks about enforcement and I think his insight in his profession would be very viable for and I um I have questions on the immigration enforcement stuff um that I'd like to look into a little bit further myself before I make any type Yeah. Any type of decision. I'm in the same camp with the integration because the wording is very pointed. Yes, it and it is very driven. Um, so
063it I don't want to take it lightly. So, I think more research is necessary. I just wanted to bring these since they are part of the 4,000s and have us take a look at them. Fair enough. So, we'll keep those off for now. And then uh the last one is the 4500 unmanned aerial systems and model aircraft. And our policy does not model the WAT policy. Correct. Because ours is from the insurance company. I think we circled this one before and talked about putting it on when we got here. So yeah, I looking at it, I kind of like our insurance company's uh model over WASA's model. The fact that MOS was wants us to regulate the airspace is not actually lawful. So, I'm kind of confused about that because it says in and around
064and if something flies into our airspace, that's not our authority. So, it's definitely out of our lane. Yeah. So, I'm like, what are they talking about? So, so we can just leave that one alone. All right. That was freaking painless, even though it seemed like a lot. All right. Do you anything else before I move on? Uh, anybody for public comment? To come back to the policies public comment. Give me a second. Let me read the thing just so we're got it. We're good to go. Did you write your name down on the public comment thing? No, I didn't. Do you want to do that and then I'll let Megan go first? So, she wrote her name down. Sure. All right. Really fast for both of you just so that I get this out of
065the way. Uh, we welcome your comments which are very important to us. Uh all com comments are obviously limited to three minutes. It's helpful for the board if you give us your name. Please address your remarks to the chairperson. Note that we will not be entering into dialogue at this time. The purpose of this agenda item is for you, the public, to inform us, the board, about your views. So please, Megan, welcome. Thank you. Megan Porter. Um, I just want to say thank you for adding the link to the PDFs on the policies that are marked up. That's helpful for people when you're doing the first and second ratings. Um, and then this agenda has some great presentations from kids in your schools about kids in your schools and about the building that house your
066schools. It's really disappointing that there's not a single administrator here. Um, and so that was kind of all I wanted to say. There's no no administrator scared to hear those or even on on right now watching um to hear these great things that are happening and um that's not helpful for getting less toxicity in the school district. So that was all that's all I can do. Thank you for your comments. also just a general comment of reaction um to the limiting of immigration enforcement subject and that that simply being um it seems as though if we have I I have no idea how many of our students might be subject to concern for but even if it's just a few it seems as though having policy in place to provide them some safe zone sort
067of while we're studying to learn would be good for their learning environment and their general general. Thank you. All right. Anybody else have any comments? All right. Again, thank you for your comments. We do appreciate it. Sorry that it's freezing cold in here. Maybe not. All right. Uh no unfinished business. Uh, new business approval of the Ajax agreement. I'll move for the approval of Ajax agreement. I'll second. Then move a second and approve the Ajac agreement. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Um, discussion and approval of policy 5411, staff vacation first reading. I do want to draw our attention to the fact that we did add the uh policies um so that the public could see them as we review them.
068This just updates the hours and days received to match our CDs and they do do obviously match the CVA. Yeah. I'll move for the discussion. No, for the approval of policy 5411, staff vacation first reading. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve policy 5411 staff vacation first reading. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Discussion and approval of policy 6212 charge cards first reading. This is an update 1999. I saw that. I'll move for the approval of policy 6212 charge cards for screen reading. Second. It's been moved in second approve policy 6212 charge cards first reading. Is there any discussion? I did notice that there I have no problem with as is, but I did notice a few districts had
069actually added some verbiage after the superintendent will establish procedures for the issuance and use of charge cards. And then they added where did where did it go? subject to final board approval of payments. Well, that's through the voucher. Yeah, I know. I just thought it was interesting that they reinforced the fact. I'm okay if we don't because it actually says it up in the paragraph ahead, but for some reason a few of them had moved it down. I just Okay. way because it does say the superintendent or design is responsible for the author authorization and control of the use of credit card funds subject to final board approval of payments in the middle which is interesting okay um any other discussion seeing none all those in favor say I all those oppos say nay motion
070carries approval of resolution 062425 WIAA resolution. That's just the general approval to be a member race. Okay. I'll move the approval of resolution 062425 WIA resolution. I'll second. It's been moved and second to approve resolution 062425 WIAA resolution. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those oppos say nay. Motion carries. All right. Board reports. Um actually what Chris would like me to bring to you guys is for the learning blocks and Ken's going to fill you in on what's going on with those things. She's setting them up. The day in the life is on Friday. I'll send out emails tomorrow with your student and schedule 8 to noon like Boston. middle school. Are we able to do lunch again like we did at high school? Yes. Okay. You
071really love that lunch. What? You really loved that lunch. No, I'm just Actually, it really wasn't that bad. I actually had a really good lunch. It was a really good lunch. I gravitated toward pizza, but that's what I did in high school. So, I guess creature of habit. So, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, we just heard about it tonight from Josh, so I guess I'm the pizza guy. Mhm. Not quite Doritos, but at least pizza. Does anybody else like to go? Anything to share? Uh, just a reminder that that April 19th is this enhanced Elma citywide cleanup day. I assume some school groups are doing some things, but um I think Eric, do you know where you meet? You meet at the chamber and get all of your garbage apparatusy things
072and then get some maps and get dispersed out and and might be a gorgeous day to play with the community. supposed to be nice. Yep. Speaking of nice, if you're at home tomorrow and around, there is a soccer game come out. Love to have everybody. I mean, Fork's coming all this way to play. So, it is Fork's coming all this way. So, as long as we have a referee, we'll be good. So, should be a good day. I'm really excited uh for the day in the life on Friday. So for those maybe listening or listening to this later, day in the life is where we get to basically go with a student in the middle school and see their day as a middle schooler. So from 8:00 a.m. from start to noon and join them
073from lunch if we want to. And if not, there's kind of a separation there. And then kind of just take it all in. The real that I talked about earlier when um our guest was up speaking earlier, that's really what we're trying to accomplish is the real. get out and see what our kids are doing in the district and see it firsthand um unfiltered which we we definitely got a good dose of at the high school. So hopeful the same will be at the middle school. Yes. If you have a senior um and you feel like you would like to put your name on the list, April 14th is the senior parent night meeting. Can't my brain's not working. at the library six o'clock and sign up for some fun senior activities. Anything else? Oh,
074yeah. Ready for some better weather? All right. It's coming. It's coming. Right. Coming. No more water. All right. Since there is no further business, I adjourn the meeting. You have to question. No, we don't. But if you guys want to, you can. What? You just wanted to take control of that moment. The boys pump and circum that's it. I was getting there one night. Like I'm really upset when he comes back and see you've been overruled. Why I didn't do