001Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> Sorry. >> God, thank you. All right, roll call. >> Les is here. Lance is gone. Wes is here. Tom is here. And I am here. >> Jerry, it's glad to have you. Everybody here. Christine, nice to meet you. Glad you're here. And to all the little ones, we excited to be recognized tonight. Proud of you all. Um for the agenda, can we please can I please have a motion? >> No. All in favor? I don't have anything else. >> All for vote. >> I recognizing visitors. Christine, thanks for coming. Thanks for being here. Thank you. Um, anybody else? Did you you have a floor if you want to speak? >> Oh, okay. Yeah, absolutely. So, um this way so I can see everybody. So, um hi,
002I'm Christine Michael. I'm the new superintendent of North Mason School District and I know we get the majority of great students at the high school. So, I wanted to take the opportunity to come and say hi and introduce myself to the board and I've interacted with Jerry at a couple different meetings and it's great that you're having student direct edition. Um, I brought a copy of the letter uh that we're getting ready to send to our community of the board and you're welcome to distribute that as as you see fit. So, I started July 1st and you spent a lot of time listening and trying to get to know people and uh get get a flavor for the community and uh I just I really love being here. I moved here from the state of
003Ohio with my husband and my father-in-law and it's just been great being part of this this Mason County community. Um, I know that as a school district we have some work to so we're excited about that as well as some of the work that we're doing. Um, and we welcome people. have some outreach with coffee. Um, there's some lunchtime coffee with the superintendent, soup with the superintendent. Um, or they can anybody can just call my office to schedule a time and and you know, we welcome outreach from the community. So, thank you for Thank you, Graeview, and thank you for letting me say hi at the beginning of your meeting. I'm not going to stay the whole meeting because we actually have an event at the middle school. So, I'm going to scoot out about
0045:20. That's fine. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, now we're gonna >> Thanks for taking this job. Oh, thank love to have. >> All right, now we're going to move on down to student recognition. Um, I would like to start with Miss Katie Pedro, sixth grade. >> Okay, Eva here. over here over there. >> All right. So, we nominated Ava. This is a human discussion among all the middle school teachers. Ava shows what great you mean. She's willing to help. She's willing to try new things. And she will persevere through touches when they are hard. And she does her best. >> Hey, good evening. So, um, do you have some family here? You can come up and get >> surprise. Yeah. Everybody wants their picture with you. All right. Ready? One, two, three. >> And another.
005One, two, three. >> All right. Do we want to have the board? >> Yes. The board likes it, too. Because then when you're famous, they can have pictures. Come on. discussions. >> All right. Ready? One, two, three. >> Another great So the next next student is Miss Brian. Is she here? >> Josephine. >> Yes. >> Oh, there you are. Right. Stand right there by the flag. >> Oh, this sweet girl is named Josie, and she is every good thing. Josie comes to school ready to learn, ready to help, and most importantly, ready to share her smiles. Emily Jinson wrote, "They might not leave me, yet they might. I'll let my heart be just in sight. A smile so small as mine might be, precisely their necessity." And Josie, we absolutely need your smile. Josie makes
006wherever she is a better place, whether it's the classroom or the playground or the cafeteria. I I wrote a little thing about Jos's name. Josie is a joy to be around. Josie sees where there's she goes and helps. Josie is serene, sensible, and steadfast in doing what is right. Josie is inspiring to me and Josie the last letter is E is effort effort effortlessly does good. It is a pleasure to be your teacher. the picture starting off great, right? >> Who knows where this is going to end? >> Place might be a little bit out of place. You're just going to look closer. >> Okay. Ready? One, two, three. And another Mr. Grin just a minute. Okay. Ready? One, two, three. >> All right. Let's move our picture. Okay. picture right over there. I'm going
007to get a picture of all these important weird. >> All right. You want to come in just a little bit? All right. Ready? One, two, three. >> Let's add another. One, two, three. Okay. And now we have fourth grade. Kira >> Kira. Awesome. Um, I'm proud to recognize Kira this month as she consistently demonstrates kindness and willingness to help others, making our classroom a more positive and supportive place. Um, throughout the year, she has shown tremendous growth both academically and personally, working hard and never giving up when faced with challenges. She cooperates with her classmates, her peers, showing respect, teamwork, and a positive attitude each day. So, I'm so proud of her progress and example she sets for others. >> Okay, sounds good. >> All right, that's part of the meeting. Parents, you don't have
008to stick around. If you want to hear the numbers, you can. Um, if not, have a good night. Thank you for coming. We really, really enjoy. That's my favorite part of the meeting and I really appreciate guys. appreciate you guys coming. Thank you. >> All right. Now, we're going to move on down to announcements and recognition. Uh March 20th is snow makeup day. >> Thank you. And then um March 27th is noon release. Also on March 27th um from 6:00 to 8:30 is geared. Um April 1st through the 3rd is spring conferences and there's going to be new release. April 6th through 10th um is spring break. and seeing this staff appreciation. I was bringing that up ahead of time just so that everybody knows and maybe we can plan a little bit today or
009the the breakfast in the morning. >> Um Gator >> I've heard it's going to be a really good time. >> It's karaoke. >> It's black life. What else is there going to be? Is that a PTO or anything? >> I like the gator. >> They stole his jacket. >> Who exactly is putting it on? >> Is it >> It's the Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Well, I I will make I will help make it an event and not show up as I do not sing very much. >> I bust a move out on the dance floor there. >> Oh, busting a boo. >> I was famous. >> Okay. >> All right. So, now we're going to move on down to the consent agenda. I need a motion, please. Uh discussion discussion at all >> I
010don't see anything discuss >> um for approval. All in favor I Moving on down to uh principal and superintendent reports. Jerry, please. >> All right. So, here's a couple of there. So, um I want to start off with recognizing Andrea for working so hard on safety net. um I got it started, but she did the bulk of the work and we got it submitted and um we're um asking for $16,000 to um cover our special a cost that exceed what we need paid for. Um uh the last couple of years we've got the bulk of what we've asked for, not the entirety. So I guess anything is helpful. If we get it all that would be fantastic and cover our cost or who do we ask from these? >> Oh, so that's that's the um
011the safety net is the spe the state's methodology for um helping school districts who have special ed costs that exceed what they're so um the last few years we've got about 40 to $60,000 in that range. Um this year the amount our costs were higher because we've had some higher need special ed kids and we've had um uh we started a new program for some of our um high needs kids and so um they cost a little bit more. We'll see how that all pencils out financially but it's quite an elaborate process to apply. Um it's include you include the IEPs and the minutes of service for all of the kids and then you calculate all the salaries of all the staff and all the minutes that they're working with the kids and um it's
012it's elaborate process. Um but it's what we have to help the cost of handle and break. >> Yeah, kind of. Yeah, it all goes to the to the the state and they look at all of the needs and they look how much money they have and they distribute it as best that they can. Could be a different way of funding it, but they didn't ask me. So, um, but we, uh, we got that turned in and a whole lot of work. We typing Chris >> apparently that is having some challenges. Oh, >> yeah. We have a new one to replace that. I thought maybe he had ordered this. >> Slightly bigger. >> So, I'm going to go for my announcements. Um I um watch newspapers management tool that we're part of for our insurance. um
013they have grants even not occasionally. So I applied for a grant to go to their um risk management conference in Florida money for that. So >> learn about risk management keep us all safe. >> Florida. Yes, they're gators. We're gator where are you going to be your plus? >> I mean you can go to the seven like >> should be contact >> if it's free for me. >> Um so moving down the the list. So um every six years the state um school districts to do a um a building condition assessment and so they have a a rating of all the condition of all the schools that you put around the state. And um usually you have to apply for a grant and then they will um fund it and then you hire somebody to
014do that for you. Um it's been about 10 years since we have done that um because we had a new building and probably just didn't think about needing that. So, but they changed their methodology. Um, instead of putting the grant out and asking them to apply for it, they just hired somebody to do the building condition assessments and um then I'm going to work with them. I don't have to get the grant somebody pay to do that. So, um I'm working with main analysis and they're going to evaluate our buildings and score them on their condition and whatnot. So the state has a a a collective view of the condition of school buildings in and in the state and it's also useful. We're not at the place where we would need to be looking for
015any um bonds or anything but that kind of information is useful for that stuff as well. But um so um I've mentioned it in the past and that's a federal program that you can sign up for and it will help subsidize um the cost of infra technology infrastructure right so um I signed up for it last year it gave us a little bit better rate on our internet but then um we had created a um a schedule for improvements for technology and so This year, u we put together a list of all the technology and we submitted it to them for approval. Um the total cost would have been about $16,000, but with the -ate discount, it looks like it's going to be about3 or $4,000. So, um we we'll we'll make some great strides
016in our updating of our technology and for not very much money raised. >> So, is this our computers for for the students? No, you can't buy a computer for that. It's all infrastructure. It's Wi-Fi. It's cabling, switches, and things like that. All the stuff you don't see that makes things go. >> So, is that through like like um bulk purchasing or what is that? >> So, I my understanding it's federal program that when you pay when you get your cell phone and there's fees, right? all those everything you every bill you get there's usually some sort of fee this fee that fee the other thing right and so this is one of the fees that where we can see it's actually >> doing something >> so well yeah I might be as angry the next
017time I pay >> next time you see that I'm so happy you pay that um >> my gosh >> so America 250 as you might recall this is our 250th th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And so there's um a number of programs I around Thank you for coming. State has a and every region has a a representative that's helping businesses and school districts and um community organizations to engage in activities to help celebrate the birth of our country. So I signed up to be a partner. You can see I have these. We're officially a partner and we have staff that are already on top of things working on on some things. Cindy, could you speak to a couple of things they're working on? >> Yeah. Um, the kitchen is working on the apple
018pie. >> So, TK has requested that they help make them and things like that. So, apple pie, homemade apple pie, and um then teachers in elementary are going to be a part of there these kits you can order and the students will design their little square and then you send them back to the national America 250 and it becomes this big part of like a football field or football field American flag. So, it's kind of like a nationwide um activity that you can great if you can be a part of. And then um Miss Pitrop has been working with the Mason County chair of um America 250 and he's dropped off um donated boy from Sierra Pacific and they're building the flags, the wooden flags that will be displayed at the festival. Oh, cool. Shannon's
019doing it too. >> So, the students chose it has to be a revolutionary time period flag and they chose which flag to make. So, 8th grade because we're US is making two. Mrs. Pierce's enrichment class will make one and then Miss Shannon's making several with her classes. Um, eighth grade chose to make Washington's squadron fly because it says Washington and the Green Mountain Voice. So, that one's pretty cool. So, not the traditional, not the classic Betsy Ross, >> but so because there'll be plenty of those along the parade route. These are flags that the kids are making. They will be displayed along the parade this summer, and then the school gets to keep them. >> So, we're joining in to celebrate our great country. >> Awesome. >> So, who who's the coordinator? >> Oh, Will
020Harris. Yeah. >> Yep. I know him. >> All right. So, um, I included a a, um, URL there for Washington school funding. Um, if you're interested in seeing the trajectory of school funding in Washington state, um, it's, uh, it's really well laid out and interesting. So, um, Washington has contributed a great deal of funding to to schools, but a lot of it has not channeled always where we need it, right? um we um we need to pay for our electric bill and our insurance and those have fallen way behind in their funding um special ed and transfer to if you'd like a really nice um layout of how funding um is current in Washington state. You may wish to take a look at that. It's um nicely laid out and very informative. Um and then
021uh you know as people ask you about tools and funding and why what the legislaturator is doing I found that to be outstanding place u to to get information and if you want on that very quickly note if you want a copy um uh Jeff Snell is the executive director of the superintendent association and he has an opinion um that he wrote piece that he wrote for the Seattle Times about school finance and if you want a copy of that that's there for you is if you stated so that those um one of the projects that I'm working on with the risk pool is um updating and upgrading our harassment, intimidation and bullying reporting mechanisms. Right? So we have we meet the letter of the law by having that on our website, but um nobody's
022ever gone to it and um accessed the forms or whatever. So what we're doing is we're creating um the risk management pool has a contract with vector um who will create a site where um they have a link and um you can see it on the screen right there Vector Solutions so that the um if parents or children or staff even um wanted to um report um problematic behavior, they can do that there and that would go to several of us to for us to follow up and make sure that we're um taking action and looking into that. So >> does that come that I think I've asked already that comes directly to you correctly if a parent complains? >> Yes, there's several. Okay. >> So, but it showed that lady young lady look like
023a student. The kids access to this too. >> It's on the website and it's actually um we hope that kids would have access to it. That's what we want them to be able to do. If there there's a bullying or there's um u misconduct of some nature, we they might be afraid to speak to somebody and we want them to be able to do that. We could end up chasing silly things, but we also could be missing important things by not having it easily exist. If >> somebody reports, are they anonymous? Do they have the ability to be? >> Yes. Okay. And are we going to are we going to what's the education protocol to educate the kids on? >> Yeah, that's the next step, right? We just got it going. Um there's there's been
024a little bit of work to get it set up. Um and we're just starting to make it work and the next step is to inform teachers um which we'll do soon and then then work with the kids on that so that everybody's informed um about how it works. We'll also have it um somehow attached as a form within parent square so they could access it in that way too. I see. >> Does the state give in form like if a parent complains or a student comes through this >> and do they sell the information to any third party? >> This comes to us. >> Do we have a responsibility to turn that over if that is asked for? Is that it? So, like you get an email from Guidos or I hear you're being harassed
025by our anti-harassment program, right? Um, >> so I um we've been al talking about this since earlier in the year and so it's been on my radar. Um, our risk pool um has they deal with the things that come up, right? Um and um that situation in a district here in my other one came up recently that was significant and had they had a tool like this I think it might have helped to alleviate some of that problem and so um that's just uh we were already working on it but it just reuped uh in my mind the importance of value of having a tool like that. So that's something that um we are working on. Kim and I are working on Kim mostly. I think I see a theme here. Um so that vector
026alert and so um just a little a cute little thing I wanted to point out. I got some um information um some old stuff from the schools our school and um there's a school registry from u when it was um Detroit Washington >> school district number 54 1914 to 1917 um and it has kids and the teachers and um attendants you know here's they had like 14 kids there that year. Um I saw 22 kids um what there's 22 kids in Detroit um in uh 1951 that guy right there. >> Oh, there it is. >> That guy. >> That's me. >> That's you. >> Yes. years we saw this come >> what year >> 1960 >> and then we found that one and I had to put it up and then uh so RJ was
027the was the principal superintendent >> and he taught the four five six seven grades >> that's so >> and his son Joel is right there that's the whole school right there yeah that's the old grade school yeah and then Mrs. was like one through three I had her and then AR was four, five, six and seven. We went to Shelton's eighth grade. >> So we came across that and uh there was a kid I recognized in the front row. So, and he turned out okay. >> Walter sister that's >> she's got M or Parkinson sometimes. But yeah, that's that's us. >> There you go. >> There's no names. >> So, >> um it's on a different sheet. I didn't include that. baseball team and >> basketball through this too and some of the last names
028are now names of roads on >> so just so you know when teachers ask for materials and supplies some of the things that they had issue here uh four chairs one clock one yard stick one pointer um a hammer >> yes I saw >> bringing out and an axe. 1s is under their list of issues of the >> if you wish to look at this I think it was in the late 80s there was a reunion grade school grads my father was still quite with it and he used to get paid to come to the school in the morning >> and light the fire and clean the bathrooms and mop the bathroom floor for 25 cents a Oh wow. >> I think that was 19. He would have been seven 1922. >> So that was
029shortly after this. >> Yeah, that was long before this. But yeah, that we were looking at that. That was well after because that was 16. I got work that would have been there in the >> Where is that building? >> Yeah, that's one of the >> It still exists. It's part the other building was part as part of a there's a couple that own a house on the bay and that old school building the old old school building is part of their property you know >> um and and then that one is down by the >> and then here we are. >> So that's the end of my report. Cindy, can you top that grade first grade? Do you remember how famous? >> Wow. >> This one was built everybody. here. Thank you for bring
030this building is named today West Stadium >> East School Superintendent. I'll never forget the year when Kennedy was was at 60 >> and and our getting a phone calling going on going on radio and setting them so we could listen. >> All right. Now the principal report. Miss Cindy, can we hear from you? >> All right. Um couple updates on fundraisers. The kids heart challenge which was completely run by u Miss Pierce. I don't know if you guys saw the video of Mr. Trimble um with the pie with Tim because a lot of students signed up, but they raised over $1,900 and then the school got a bunch of recess equipment. So, it's pretty cool. >> Nice. And um the boat house um if you went was packed and uh the initial tally from the
031owner is over $1,500 which is the most we've made. So that's really good especially with like kind of a light McDonald's takeover. It was it was a good amount. Um, you got the flyer for Gator and they even got a DJ >> who designed this. >> I I'm going to say maybe AI designed it, but it's fun. >> Very >> I printed in color. I'm sorry, but come on. It needed to be in color. Um, they have DJ Mike. if you don't want to come but you still want to support Camp Seymour because all the funds for this >> camp Seymour >> yes they ear marked it for Camp Seymour so >> um you can buy one ticket or family is $20 and so it's pretty cool um the first of many gatorokis >> can
032you just donate a donate button >> or whatever Okay. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. >> You're going to sing karaoke. >> How many donations? >> Is that what it would be? >> No. >> Underwood. >> No. Nothing like that. >> No. Are you going? Maybe it's Andrea saying he whispered underneath her breath. >> That'll be very funny. >> We got conferences coming up next week. Uh Wednesday, Thursday we have our two late nights and then Friday is a half day for all. And a few field trips. third and first grade went to the feller center today. Um as part of our mini grant with the salmon center um our field trips there are comped and some teacher professional development. They also come here and teach about nutrition and help in the garden. So
033it's a cool collaboration. Uh we're already seeing choice transfer request. I thought I'd add that in for next year. I've emailed them. Are you sure? Not this year. next year yet. They're already getting those in. Are of these like littles like third grade? I mean, honestly, all over some middle school. So, >> yeah. >> When you say that 10 people attend Zoom, 15's good, 20. What's your order magnitude? I'm just >> Yeah, probably around 10ish. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. And that's not including all of our families that we request in April, end of April to submit of, right? Yeah. >> So, so um Okay. >> Who's going to run the field trip again? >> Bern and third grade went today. And then Vicky Rice, she helps run the Shelton Junior programs. They have gone
034through a little bit of a funding thing, but they are committed to just spending the money until they don't have it. So, it's the Stinky Cheese Man for first, second, and third grade. They get to go on Friday to watch the Stinky Cheese Man. Is it a play? >> It's the Shelton Junior Theater program. So, at Shelton High School and their performance Yeah, it's a play. They switch it up every year, but they get to see theater, so it's pretty cool. And then on Friday also, it's the young writers, no, tomorrow is the young writers conference at Olympic College. >> So, grades first through six get to take their piece of writing and go to the college and workshop it. Um, they feed them a nice lunch. And uh Andrea Goddard, who you saw speak,
035she has put that together for the last couple years. So pretty cool. And um we're just really focused on attendance right now. That's the focus right now is getting the kids in the school. It's a daily focus. >> We got some incentive going. What's was the thought? >> Yeah. how you walk out. Um, Miss Teresa has spent a lot of time on her bulletin board. So, they can earn these. It's changed since winter earn every day that their their cohort is here for 90% or more, they get a little bee and if they fill up the hive, then they get some treat. And also, we got these little statues that if they win that month, their grade level, the kids will love them. They're like a little goat that says greatest of all time and
036so it has incentives and also lots of outreach to families. So that response >> h um the outreach has been like get your child to school, right? So it's like oh okay, you know burn in some cases but but good. I've not had any negative feedback, but tough conversations. Yes. But it's necessary. >> Yes, I agree. >> All right. And then Character Strong Assembly on the 31st, and we were invited to I haven't even told Jerry this yet. We were invited to um apply to present at the Character Strong um national conference because they like what we're doing here. So, that's pretty big. >> Yeah. So, I'll keep you'll be in the loop like recorded and then played somewhere else or >> I'll find out. That's very interesting. A breakout session 20 minutes of how
037we've implemented it here. Um >> it located in here. >> Yes. So characters Brown started in the PLA um and um and it's grown exponentially uh and is used around the country um and is continues to grow and they have their um national conference right there in Tacoma >> and so people I've been twice I think people come from all around the country. >> Who is that? Is there a coordinator? Was that you or >> um No. Well, I was kind of the initiator, but I I coordinated it. Cindy and who else is on >> leadership team and then also Mr. Olsen. Okay. >> Runs the leadership. Uh yeah, there's one of our >> I was gonna say >> he told me that on my way in. >> First year, right? first year here and
038already a leader. That's pretty awesome. >> Yeah, >> thank you. >> Yeah, it's pretty cool. >> All right, that's it for me. Thank you, Mrs. Operational Services, Miss Andreas. >> Yes, I love you. Printed this out, too. Yeah, >> but we tried a little a little different format this time. Hopefully it's more hopefully it's easier to read on the screen and then we by complete accident got a much larger screen today as well. Um but this is more information through the month of February through last night. So the first slide as it all is is about enrollment and on the bottom middle you'll see our year-to- date average for this year 232 June FTE. I'm pretty sure that this month will be this month or next month will be our high water mark. You have
039seen a planning for a few students to leave in the spring. That's what typically happens. But we're looking at um over 20 students above what we budgeted for and it's stay consistent all year behind those. So that's our enrollment. And then this slide in previous presentations has been two different pages and I consolidated or I'm sorry two different boxes on the same page but I consolidated a little bit. I think this might make it easier. It's easier for me to look at anyway. Um but the first column is our revenues. The second column is expenditures. The top line is what we've actually received, we've actually spent this year and then the bottom the middle line is what we thought we would have received and thought we would have spent at this point in the year.
040And the bottom line is just the difference between the two. So in the revenues, you can see we've received about $160,000 more than we thought we would have in February, but we spent about $140,000 less than we thought we might by the month of February. So this is a good a good trend to see. And then the next slide, this is the same as what you're used to seeing. Um the different buckets that we spend our money in, salaries, benefits, and taxes. And then the materials and supplies are the bottom half. The supplies for services and travel. And the bottom right hand corner is always the most important number on this slide. That's what we are projecting to have left in our budget for this year. that we're doing a good job of taking care
041of our money and not planning to spend it all. This next slide is our general fund balance. Couple slides. Um they used to be on one page and it made it kind of hard to see, so I split it up into two pages. This is just our general fund balance. And a reminder that our our board policy minimum fund balance is that 430,000. That's the purple chunk in the middle. The bottom green line is our transition to kindergarten carryover from last year. And then the blue bar on the top is the fundraiser fund balance. That's our discretionary funds that you could uh choose to spend. So when we talk about spending, the big thing we have coming up soon is curriculum that comes out of that blue bucket. >> So our total back up please.
042So the total fund balance is the accumulation of all three of those. Correct. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I should put a total I'll put a total on that slide >> which is 7800. >> Yep. You'll see that on the next >> on the next slide, but I don't have a total on any of this. >> Um, so this is what we're projecting our ending fund balance to be. The graph, the line graph on the left hand side shows you this year in the purple top line compared to the prior years. And then on the right hand side, the peach italics is what we're projecting this year's ending fund balance to be. And next month, that number will look different because I'll have the curriculum come out of there. the right finalizing. We actually
043just this week got the finalized quotes for our curriculum purchase. And Cindy's gonna talk about that near the end of the presentation, but to get that subtracted from that popline, the ending fund balance would look closer to 8.25. Pretty darn close to what we ended last year, but >> so with about a $4 million price tag, 10% would be about 400,000. So, we're we're we're well into the 14% range here. >> Yeah. For the moon. Yeah. >> Yeah. But I'm just sorry. I just got to work through this stuff. >> Yeah. >> And on the graph before the purple that 430, that's the 9%. >> On the slides, the men. >> Yep. But what you're saying though is that is that after the curriculum comes out, which is not in this figure, that we're going
044to be closer to the 242.5 school year ending balance. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> We're talking about some other things that we might need or want to do around the district this year. So that that'll change, but if we just took curriculum out, probably end this year the same as last year. And just just to reiterate so the point of relationship back up again so that 971 by 24 25 8:30 what was the reason for that >> the curriculum so the curriculum purchase is going to be that >> once we get those purchase orders put together next month that'll be a better estimate account. >> All right, next slide, please. >> This slide I kept the same as we've seen before. So, this is just our other funds, capital projects, um, ASB, debt service, and
045the transportation vehicle fund. The debt service will grow a little bit the next few months, and then we do another debt service payment in June. These are pretty stable, similar to what you see. All right, so look ahead. We've been busy meeting Jerry and and Debbie and I about budget for next year. We're starting to talk about it, starting to think about it. Not those dates wrapped up. There's session and we don't have any big changes planned to next year either in staffing or programs right now. I'll say right now because you never know what might happen. But for now, it's looking pretty similar to what we have going on this year. And then we did add a little curriculum adoption update. Um, we've added a few slides just to show you guys what's going
046on. Um, but we do have some information on curriculum. All right. Any questions from my presentation before we move on to the next section? >> Okay. This is good news. >> Very exciting. Take it away. >> Oh, okay. No. So, we did get a grant for $134,500 for improvements to the big toy event. >> Really? >> Yeah. So, >> the track too. >> Yes. Not like our version of a track. It's still a track us. >> Yeah. But, um, yeah. So, we I have I share the um mockups with you guys on the next slide. But um a gaga pit the only difference from um this mockup is we added this unity swing. We have many students um that swinging is their favorite thing and now they can do some students with sensory needs and
047everything like that now um they can do that outside instead of in indoors and it's good for all kids. So, um, the PE teacher, Miss Pierce, requested some more balance things, parallel bars. Um, so we're getting that extended. And, um, basketball hoop is way too high, but these kids want to play basketball. And so, a triple shoot is what it's called. Um, and then this giant um, rock pit. >> You're not getting rid of the tether ball, are you? >> No. So the black that black surface is not that bungy like what we already have. >> It's being extended um >> which is a >> huge cost like those these cost millions of dollars but um yeah this is very popular at camp Seymour >> with all of the kids. So many kids can play
048together. 20 kids together and um it's like footage ball is how I would describe it. I don't know. But um Miss Pierce has a unit on it. >> What was the name? Google >> between the middle two. >> Yeah. My 11-year-old can tell you all very >> the surrounding material. Is that wood or is there padding on it or the It's plastic. >> Plastic. >> Yep. And then there we have the um flooring or the composite instead of poor Tony. It's now whittleled down to dust because they play that much. >> Yeah. >> Grass down. >> But this will be more >> and it'll be sand like that in the middle or it'll just be dirt. It's a type of um composite. Okay. >> So, it's a it's not sand or dirt. It's a actual
049made for outdoor play matsish. >> Yeah. >> You know what? We really need one of those big discs that that you'd get on and spin around until everybody fell off and then it warp and then you get your your like ankle caught under it or break your leg. You know, it teach you a lesson to not forget and it's a lesson I haven't forgotten. >> The reason that >> Yeah. What were those things called? >> They're like Mary go wrong death machines made. It was ahead. >> Yeah. >> Well, then it's the whole point. >> Yeah. In reality. >> Are we going to use the existing big toy that we have too? >> Yeah. Like a pressure washing. >> Yeah. That's just a summer summer project, but the little there's like little add-ons that we
050put on there. Um, so yeah, that'll be done over the summer, but Tony's been putting in a lot of work working with contractor to do the track. And so we think we're going to be able to get it a little bit wider than we had originally thought. If you've ever been to like Evergreen Christian School, um they have built one too. But no matter the weather, the kids can run laps or staff can walk laps. Um it just Yeah, I'm so excited. That's cool. It's going to be cool for our community. You know, people will come up here and use it. >> Theirs is made out of polished gold. How did we get how did we get the grant up? >> So, it was a state competitive grant that Cindy applied for and so she
051filled out the application and told our story, talked about what we needed and submitted ideas. >> Well, that's pretty awesome. >> FBI Jerry saw it and was like, we should do something with this. Yeah. And our insurance is on board with this. >> She don't think you have an issue with any of the new equipment fall zones. That's that's why the company does that. He was I walked the campus with him. He's like, "This has a full zone of this." I'm like, "Okay, sounds good." But yeah. >> Yeah. >> So cool. >> It worked. >> Yeah. >> Nice job. >> Thank you. >> All right. And this is just a little update um on our curriculum. S's going to talk a little bit about the companies that you chose and what they all do, what
052the benefits will be for. >> Yeah. So, this has been a long process, but um for the last 10 years, we haven't had a K through8 curriculum for math or for any curriculum. So while I do hear the price tag is, you know, that's expensive, we are getting it's actually K through algebra one, the same curriculum. So instead of a middle school curriculum purchase as well. Um >> so it covers the >> whole it covers the whole school and >> we worked with them >> and I feel like we got a good deal. >> Um you can knock it down like a a car payment. People think you can, but you can't. Okay. >> So, I would imagine that this includes like uh online resources and that sort of stuff and and collateral books, right?
053Like actual and >> yeah, that's great. >> No annual shipping fees, no storage fees. That is it for the six years >> because it seems like in the past we've done you know to like fifth grade and then sixth through eight would be a different curriculum. So yeah >> and then algebra could be a different >> I like the fact that it covers the whole the whole shebang. Yeah. be cool for you guys to see a lesson too because it does bring in that tech technology component when you get to the um intermediate and upper grades. That is really cool >> and engaging for kids. The lessons are awesome >> and they're compatible with the onscreen like the the curriculum that you can bring it up on screen. >> So um fourth grade I I
054taught a lesson in there. She's kind of the guinea pig for the tablet. So, she wrote a grant. Andrea got her a tablet that she walks around the room and she can write with the stylist on her tablet and it sinks. >> Wow. >> Kids she can give this to the kid, they do their math on it. Um, it's like a game changer and it's all compatible. Um, she's been ensuring that it is. So, it's >> it's really easy. And then um along with the math curriculum, we also did the new testing and um assessment suite that comes with all the personalized instruction. We went over that at length last meeting, but that's shift to changing our data. It is more expensive, but we get a lot more with that teaching tools. with that. It
055links um their personalized instruction directly with their uh assessment score so they can work on standards that they need to. So, it's been good feedback. Um and I love the fact that we get one reading and math scores instead of that early literacy >> test that wasn't as valuable as the data we have now for kindergarten, first grade. So when you onboard this um do they come out and do a training with with the teachers and I mean how does that work? So for amplify it all of them do the zoom training right >> but that's the initial training I opted for the checkpoint training for a amplify person to come here >> and actually watch the teachers teach it >> and like hands-on professional development for implementation and then we can go from there
056>> and are we still doing common core where you don't actually have to get the right answer. It just you get close and that's good enough and you divide by orange and you know that kind of stuff. >> Are we good question? >> No answer good answer. I don't think I changed. >> I loved long division and you will be happy to know we the end goal is you can all do long division the way we were all taught. >> So >> by fourth grade you doing the standard algorithm >> as well as multiplication. >> Correct. >> But how do you how did the world exist be before before dividing by orange and not getting the right answer? >> Well, it's before computers. No, I like the fact that we're still teaching kind of like
057the the standard, you know, way of of doing that. Um cuz I I know we all well not we all I think I think Tom was on board but you know when they when we started to implement you know it was the big thing right and they had us do a lesson like a a math thought common and we just were like what >> I think I know that's probably but yeah Okay, >> the end goal is always standard algorithm, but it might conceptually take a few more steps to get there, but >> Okay. All right. >> Yeah, >> great. >> All right, that's it. >> Thank you, Cindy. >> All right, Andrea. Oh, sorry. Sorry. >> It's okay. Okay, we're gonna announce this calendar. >> Oh, um, we had anticipated having the calendar fully
058done, but um, um, Mason made some changes and we're we're trying to discuss it. I thought we'd be ready, but we're not ready to approve the calendar quite yet. So um we'll put that table that we're asking. >> We need to I need a motion to approve resolution 03.25.26A surplus technology. >> So moved. Second. >> Second. Discussion. >> Has anybody looked at this? >> Yeah. Ship it out. >> Ship it out. Okay. rapid ship it. >> This was the Amazon Kindle two-way radio and a laser jet printer. Okay, >> make it obsolete. Obsolete. >> All for a vote, please. All in favor? >> I I draft. >> Moving on down. Um, old business and legislative update. Tom, do you have anything? >> Boy, do I have anything? >> I'd love to hear from you. >>
059Now, before we get started here, before I give you the answer to this ask, can you tell me what uh a local effort assistance is? >> What is it? Well, it must have some >> That's where they go in and they give you extra funds if we don't meet the criteria >> taking from the giving to the >> I'm pretty sure >> that's still property bridge districts right >> so these are for districts that don't camp as a bridge way out of the >> actually. >> Okay. So the uh legislature completed their tasks. Well, that's not good terminology. They ended their session. >> No, they conclude their what they were after. >> Then uh WASDA provides this to myself and I think less you may have gotten a copy of it as well. >> Yes.
060>> I'm not sure. But this was this came out last Friday, the 20th, and it's a recap of the uh 2026 outcomes as it relates to schools. Traxxy, it's hard to uh talk about this stuff in light of the fact that from a very general standpoint, the legislature told us that they passed uh the millionaires tax that they were going to dump a significant amount of money into education. And in fact, they did pass the billionaires tax. At least it came out of the legislature and I believe the governor assigned it. Is that right? >> Um I don't know if he has or not, but it will. Maybe he's still uh so >> I think he's >> in response to their their promise that they were going to fund education through the the uh incredible
061amount of money that was going to come in from a millionaire's tax. And what they did actually is they cut education spending. All right, I'm not going to read through the the first few paragraphs here. Uh there's some good kind of a perspective that you can get by reading it. On the plus side, uh they removed through ESSB. This is down in the middle of the the page two. exempted public schools and school districts and educational service districts from all sales tax as created in 25 2025. That's a good thing. Uh I can't translate to you what that's going to save a district like ours maybe some maybe giant districts most. Uh what that was a a plus the wasda efforts and other people's efforts as well. Uh we stopped or changed many unfunded mandates.
062That's really important. The legislature has a a history of passing laws and mandating to school districts what the school districts must do and then they don't fund that. They expect us to absorb the cost of that. And uh third bullet point in the accomplishment section, small school modern modernization funding. Uh they funded an additional $71 million to support small school district planning and construction. Yes. So um on that particular one, we will benefit eventually on that. We are on the list um for a small school modernization grant. we're near the bottom, but um as they take as they fund districts and uh complete their projects, you move up the list. So, every dollar that goes there gets us a little closer to our project. And the project that I've asked them to be working on
063is the upgrading the middle school and created enclosure for that. Mhm. >> That's a few years away, but we're on the list and every dollar that goes there gets us closer. >> And uh we participated in in sim similar requests got on the list and finally it worked down far enough for us to get uh and I believe the wage back system was a really good example. Well, let's look down at the bottom of that page too to the setbacks and you all got a definition of what a local assistance is. >> Yeah. >> And it's just it's I love the the terminology they use there. It equal equalizes funding for probably four school districts that cannot generate significant revenue through local levies. Um Jared, do you have any experience in >> No, not yet.
064Worked in a district. They got local effort assistance funds. However, um it's not so much that whether a district can pass a levy or not. It's um trying to um let's say you're in a in a very rural district with lots of farmland, forest land, or or just general lower income, not not any industry or development. um you have in order to provide an equal amount of funding per student, you have to tax them at a higher rate, right? because we have a lot of waterfront property homes that have good value or uh or like North Thirstston for example, they have a lot of stores and commercial properties that are a higher value so that their rate can be lower and get the same amount of money to the students, right? And so they have
065on their on their website that I was looking at a a heat map where you could see which districts are are getting money. And so it's um an effort to try to um equalize funding um so that one district can get say $250 per kid at a rate of 75 cents where another district might have to charge $2.50 per thousand to get that same amount of money for kids. Right. So I think that um I don't know if it's a good system or not. the people who get it appreciate it. Um there is some disparities in in funding for school districts. Um and I'm not sure how to fix it. It won't affect us immediately. Got it. So in that first bullet point, you can draw a circle around $25 billion because that's how much
066they cut out of the LEA funding. The next bullet point, this one really bothers me and I'm going to ask you guys after we talk about it. The legislature funding was decreased by $27 million for TK or TTK as they call it. And uh that's really that bothers me because I I believe so strongly in in TTK or preK as we used to call the other one. But the legislature doesn't see it that way. They cut $27 million dollars out of that. Uh, and then the last bullet point is school bus depreciation. And I'm going to ask Andrea to explain a little bit to us how a school bus depreciation works and when they it says that they cut it by stretching out the number of years that you can claim the depreciation. So you
067take less each year because it's spread over in this case 10 years instead of eight years. >> So we we have um the second section. So the buses our buses >> we don't have any of the smaller buses. We have the large fulls size buses. Ours right now are on a schedule for 13 years and those will be extended to 15 years. So if we used to get I'll just use very round numbers $100,000 over 13 years for a bus. Now we get that same $100,000 spread over 15 years. That's not how much it cost to buy a bus, but it's just easier to >> get benefited to stay. >> They're taking they're taking longer to get the same amount of money. The risk to us is that typically when a bus gets or gets
068close to the end of it depreciation, the bus is wearing out. That's why we need to buy a new bus at that point. So, bus districts are going to have to do more in maintenance potentially or even repairs and fixing buses when normally they would have been able to replace all new bus. So, it might cost districts money and maintenance and repairs that we wouldn't have had to pay other ones. They really >> they're just they're they're just transferring >> responsibility to us, >> right? >> For two more two more years. >> Thank goodness we don't have any electric buses because I don't think they would last 10 years >> sorry. Well, MTA, so I'm on the on the board there for four of us on behalf of us and um and they they've decided
069not to get electric buses despite being harassed for it, right? And the people that are getting the electric buses, you know, they like light on fire and they're they're not pro r proven yet. But um but yeah, it's it's a good thing that we don't have those, >> but we have a really cool looking bus that goes around Benson Lake. >> I see it every uh >> Yeah. >> every afternoon that I'm out there. >> That thing is like the Mercedes of buses. >> Very nice. Very nice. Everybody on the bus is smiling. The next page is is some things that are going to be necessary, new policies that we're going to see coming through based on the field language that are shown on there. I'm not going to spend any time on those that
070there's something on there that grabs your attention. You can sure get some more information on the uh last page. One of the things that I um was already likes to take a lot of pictures of themselves >> smiling smiling. Yeah. Color pictures and spread it around and and uh if I was person that'd be like, "Yeah, why did you take that?" >> I like the one on the inside. That's a real great picture. >> Yeah. It's like like Yeah. Great. And the last thing I'm going to say is uh their version of how to uh move money around. If you look on that very front page and if you look down at the bottom, there's a a figure that says 880 million. You see that? >> That's a gap. And what they're doing is they're
071taking that money out. which is supposed to be used in crisis circumstances. And the only crisis that we're looking at here >> is uh the legislature wants to spend more and more and more more and more money and and here we are in a state that the constitution says you will fully fund education. And they're not fully funding education, but they're bringing in new bills, new programs, and spending more money. and borrowing almost a billion dollars out of cover. >> I talked to a firefighter about that 40 million that came out of their >> pension pension plan. Boy, that was an interesting think about that and the vote lit up. They were not. >> Okay, >> I got it. Thank you. >> Thank you, Tom. Appreciate it. Now, we're going to move on down to
072policy. First reading of policy uh 1111, oath of office discussion. >> Beautiful update. >> First reading review, right? >> This is just first reading. >> Yeah. >> It didn't appear to be anything earth shaking what we've done in the past, but uh I don't see any boss here. >> Us landslide winners of the most recent election. >> Yes. Okay. Can we move on to policy 21106 program compliance? >> Any any discussion? It's an interesting terminology. Program compliance. What program they want us to get with the program? Is this like a checkpoint to make sure that the board is making sure that the superintendent is doing all these check points? there's adequate provision for health and safety of students. It's just what you recommend. So we already >> update the red against religion honorable I I
073have to attest to this the state that we're comparing that I have to do what we do. >> Okay. >> Any other questions? Moving on down to policy 2140, comprehensive school counseling program adopted November 2000. What is that? When When week >> we have a counselor here three days a week. >> Three days a week. >> Are they they utilize? >> Yeah. Yes. She's fabulous and she spends a lot of time and attention on her. It's a it's a real gift and it's a real help from for the principal who really didn't have that resource to to go to court. >> Can we move on move on to policy 5010 non-discriminate non-discrimination and the permanent action? >> I like the way we changed the title on that. >> Yeah. Discrimination free workplace. >> Yeah. So,
074just so you guys know, I'm going to renew my what you guys probably believe is um not a valid objection, but but I still think that the neurode divergence thing is too valid. It's in it's starting to become in every piece of paperwork every doesn't mean that I can't complain. No, I No, I'm just pointing that out that it's because >> it is in everything and anybody at any time can say, >> "Well, you picked on me because I'm neur neurode divergent." And there's not a scrap of I mean, they don't need a scrap of evidence for that. And then and then, you know, now we're we're violating policy, right? And so I I'm just renewing my objection to the the vagueness of it and that it could be it could be used against us.
075And I I don't care if someone is actually like that that is, you know, and I don't even know what that Okay. But if if they are then then they should be diagnosed. >> But um >> but I I think it's I think it's slightly dangerous >> and many instances they are would be like an autistic child in a narrowing range would be considered. >> Sure. >> Okay. That's >> but what if you but what if you have tr you know I mean I know that great view would never have any troublemakers right but what if you do and then you you've got you know the the parent you know go oh my little Johnny he's so neurodeiver you know they look up a policy or whatever I I just it's it's way too big
076so just be prepared for me to vote no on Okay. So, now we're down to policy approval. Um, policy 218, learning assistance program. Um, I need a May I please have a motion to adopt policy 218? >> I move to approve policy 21. Wes >> and Tom. >> Tom discussion. >> No discussion. >> Um, I have a question. We used to see on these whether they were recommended or mandatory. >> Down here. >> Oh, >> I don't see it. >> Doesn't say it was recommended. >> I think >> they did change the wording with the new wording. You might >> Yeah, they updated those. But I think we are we were taking those off the one. Do we leave them on the um the first reading and it'll take us a while? >> Yes. >>
077Yeah. >> It just shows a revision dates. >> Yeah. It won't show it won't show the classification after the first tracing. So you're looking for the critical importance of >> Yeah. Um, can that be put on here or >> you know the criminal ones just say um mandatory but discretionary or else and then a little picture of Rice at you. >> We can keep that on. >> Thank you. >> Um, any questions, comments? >> Okay. Uh I need to do >> yeah the lab program we have to have this policy we get some funds from the state lab assistant. >> So please make it or take it to a vote. All in favor >> I hear Moving on down to policy 511, uh, sexual harassment of district staff prohibited. This was last updated June of
0782025. >> Is there any questions, comments, discussion? Well, we have to um Well, we have to have to move on it and then Yeah. So, I move that I do I need to make a motion or >> I was going to move that we approve policy deal. >> Thank you. I'm sorry. >> No, that's already >> and then discussion. >> Okay. Now discussion jumping ahead. >> This is one that we just updated last summer. >> Yes. >> I know. You just have that. >> Was there anything that jumped out of nothing versus >> Okay, we'll take it to a vote. All in favor? >> I now moving on to policy 6220. May I please have a motion to adopt this policy? >> So moved. Second. discussion. >> There's a lot of uh technical stuff in
079here terminology and various things that have to be done. So has this dramatically changed your I think the primary change is the the numbers the amounts of money that you >> they just basically follow all of the numbers just to make >> so instead of 10 it's 15 >> yeah make it a little more in line with financial is that correct >> absolutely >> good uh take two vote please all in favor I I >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, David. Now, we're going to move down to future agenda items. Moving on here is the April board meeting uh April 22nd. Any comments to that? >> So much when we were talking earlier, you want to make sure that we appreciate >> and that was I just wanted to remind everybody that was at
080the beginning um the staff appreciation. Yeah. >> Um what day is that officially? Do you have the dates are in the morning of the night? What what day is the because it's when we do >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's usually >> I think we've done the first day or the staff app kind of when you guys can come. >> Yeah. But we've done it um because we have late start on Monday. It worked well to do the breakfast. >> All the all the teachers are already here. >> Yeah. And that gives them a little more time to interact and have a pleasant morning. >> Is that okay for everybody? >> Um yes. >> Yep. And I would like people to be there in the morning just so that the staff can see us and
081know that we appreciate them and what they bring to our community. >> Awesome. >> I'll bring the scotch. >> That's wonderful. >> I think scotch tastes like band-aid. >> Yes. >> Used band-aids or new band? >> Band-aid. Like the adhesive. I don't know. Now that you say that, it does kind of >> Yeah, I'm gonna be thinking about that. Bandaid. >> So, brand brand name. >> What time might you be doing? >> Well, it's usually 7:00. Is that a time if the teachers get here? >> No, they don't be here that early. We've been usually getting there right after seven to get set up and have them ready and they they'll show up after that. We'll get some specific times. >> Okay. Okay, >> down to board superintendent reflections and comments. I'll start with so
082much now in the actual teaching working with teachers on the map teaching skills teaching themselves in the classroom for the school kids. somebody just >> she was excited about it. So >> yeah. >> Um and then everything and then by and large and good good report. I appreciate this for Thank you for helping the eyeballs. >> Yes, very much so. they improve. But no, by and large like I'd like to look the student enrollment always look like they're solid that so people watch it don't play itself up. >> Anyway, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um well, as always, my favorite part of board meeting is the student recognition. That is um that's why we're here. And uh and it's just, you know, it's just really it's just really great. And um I'm going to
083echo uh Les's sentiments about having this right in front of me. It's easier to see and big and bold and >> presentation. As far as the enrollment goes, it, you know, it es and flows and when it's when it's great, it's great. It's not, you know, you kind of white knuckle it, but but we've always weathered that and uh I think it's $35,000. That was really great. So, um I might have to hire Cindy to make some grants for my house. The taxes just went way up. >> So, anyway, yeah, those are those are my comments. >> Thank you. Thomas, >> I like seeing a TK kids come up there. Guess younger they are, the more fun they are to watch and as she is being described, she is kind of nodding their head. acceptance
084and I would hope that maybe the the other child that was selected uh could come at some other >> yeah come to the next meeting >> I will go to the class tomorrow or next time we had also the share student that couldn't come they were informed class >> that's good as long as they can recognize >> that depends on the family being able to get >> I like the picture of that handsome young child standing in front of great view school >> and slept around the board with the guy next to him. Pretty cool. >> Sherry, you have anything to say? Um, well, I just say I I'm really h so I signed this up for the to be a partner for America 250 because I'm excited. I love my country and you want
085to celebrate and I thought my board is a kind of place that these people would uh celebrate that as well. And I was even happier to find out that we had staff already connected with them um severally. So, um I look forward to um uh to doing that. I remember um speaking of being around a little while, I remember the 200 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and that was a great fun American celebration and I'm happy to have a board and a school that wants to do something that can just say something real quick about that. Um, so Pauline and I, we were taking our ages and we were we were doing what percentage of the entire time our country has been a country have we lived and you know it was like 24%
086of the life of our country her and I have been alive and it just shows you how young our country you know you go to England and it's like Well, back in 1106, you came and blah blah, right? And and just it it's just amazing to think about how how our country hasn't really been around that long. >> Well, right. There are certain aspects that are fighting against us. Anyway, it's really kind of just neat to think about. >> I'm really excited to see the plays. I want that. Sounds like >> they're really pouring heart and soul into that. I'm excited for the new playroom. That looks great. Um, and to echo Wes's comment to the kids, they're just so you can genuinely tell that they're happy to be here and they are thriving. They're
087you don't see I don't personally see a sad face here and I'm pretty proud of that. Um, what else? The new curriculum, too. I think that's going to be great to adopt and finally get that behind us. I feel like that's just been this whole culmination this year. We got to adopt this curriculum and and now I'm here. And so, I Cindy, she's not here, but her haggling and gave us a good deal on it, too. That's everything as well. So, um, yeah, everybody's doing a great job and I'm happy to be on board and happy to support everybody here. >> Thank you. >> Um, it is 6:34. Um, this meeting is a journal. Well, I keep Oh, yeah.