001plus one boyfriend. >> We're happy to have you guys. Yes, we are. So, what what else are we after? >> All right. So, um I have uh I wanted to bring our kitchen staff in here because um Carol, Annie, and Heather um because I've just noticed um they work really hard for our kids. It's not just a job, it's really an advocation, it's a love, they not only love the kids, um they love making good food for them. Um and couple maybe weeks ago, maybe a couple months, I'm not sure. Um, I saw I walked in the morning, I saw them putting pumpkins or squash that were all they cut them up. They were cooking them down and they were making soup from scratch. >> Um, and I had some and it was fabulous. And
002I I've been to some very nice restaurants in my my life and it was as good as anything I've ever had. And um but it's a group commitment to make sure our kids have healthy, high quality food. They um we had a grant for farm, excuse me, farm fresh foods, vegetables, and meat. And um and but more importantly, a commitment to making food from scratch as much as possible every week. So, it's not your ordinary um corn dogs and uh and pizza. They have the kids are having really good quality food every week and um and it's because they love them and they want to eat well and do well and we try our best to support them. I wanted to recognize them for all their hard work in front of the board so that
003um they they exude what we try to to accomplish here which is to serve and take care of our kids and so I wanted you guys to know these people are doing great work for us. So that's what I have to say. Thank you. Well, do you have any comments or do you just want to say >> it's just been, you know, I've been here for quite some time since 2008. >> Yeah. >> Where have we been getting your inspiration for the meals for the children? >> Um, uh, we've been going to Chef Male who's out of Bellingham, retired from Bellingham, and so he goes to different locations and has recipes already. um uh created that has all the components that we need for the school. >> That's awesome. >> And so Annie and I
004are going on the second and that's going to be at Grace Harbor College this year or this time and so I'll be excited to see what bring us >> um you know this time like breakfast items I've gotten from him >> um pumpkin soup. Uh we um you know done hamburger stroganov you know the spaghetti some of the time sometimes the spaghetti we do our own but um and we don't use spaghetti noodles because that's just too too hard to serve so we just use little noodles >> little noodles whatever we find but yeah it's been a lot of fun though pizza crust >> yeah the pizza on Friday was >> that's no either So, yeah. And so, yeah. >> Yeah. Homemade, right? >> Yeah. The only day I won't be homemade will be on
005the second because Heather's going to take over my own [laughter] sourdough. >> Oh, you have sourdough starts. >> Yeah, we do have sourdough start that we're still trying to tweak a little bit. So, we're going to have to stir that up and see what we can do. But we have like eight starters up there. >> Might end up being we might and by the end of the year just put it in the staff room and say, "Okay, who wants a starter [laughter] takes a lot of patience?" >> Annie has the patience for that. [laughter] >> Bless her heart. any vegetables that Emmy will blend out zucchini or carrots and put it in the sauce. So, we hide the vegetables in the spaghetti >> sauce. Wow. >> Yeah, we have a new um we bought a
006Robocube, which is a dicer and a shredder. And so, we were able to, you know, get that. That was part of the grant that we got from that, too. >> But there's still that vegetable resist. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes, there is. There is. [laughter] And they'll say, "What do you got in this sauce?" I said, "It's special recipe." But >> no, they won't. >> But they really do like the spaghetti. They've commented on that a lot. And the um hamburger stroganov, they really like that. We have kids that won't ever try it. Now, now they're eating a lot of this stuff, too. >> That's awesome. >> Well, thank you. Thank you for what you do. So, one little secret um was not here um Sherry um is also she's not in the kitchen,
007but she has an important part of helping with management of that because um a lot of the money is federal. So, you can maybe have a slight imagination of what kind of requirements [laughter] there are that go along with that. I won't make any comments about that, but you can imagine there's a lot to it. Um, and so she manages a lot of things there and has applied for grants for us and um is is a big help with the the management pieces of that. But she's not here tonight. >> No, she's not. Yeah. So, we we purposely did a lot of our grant money towards the um it's Coleman's Meat. It's out of Shahus and that's where we're getting a lot of our um meat from cows and pigs and all that stuff. it's
008being processed out of a wall or wall or when they actually or most likely as far as being processed out. But um they bring it in and um grassfed. >> Yeah, it's all grass-fed meat. So yeah, it's phenomenal. So we have a lot of that in the freezer right now that ready for next year that's already >> ready to go. And so we have stuff that's cooked for the rest of the year. >> So thank you for giving your time this evening driving back so that know what's going on. Appreciate that. Thank you for >> Thank you. >> So we have one person Mr. Cip Tra is here um if he can to talk about Guaness. >> I think it's going to be part of >> Oh. Okay. Well, thank you, Car. I must admit
009that student recognition was really really that was cool. It was really fun. >> That's really cool. >> Okay, let's uh looking down here at item number nine, announcements and recognition. Looks like you got a trail and work for 26 26. Okay. And then of course our our board hosted breakfast will be on the 5th and I I'm going to be bringing a cass dish to that fish. I'll bring casual too. I think that What did you say? You're not going to be here. >> I'm not that I'm going to arrange for coffee. I've already roasted coffee. >> So, um Wes said he's not going to be here. I think we should sign him for three gallons of juice or something like that. >> I don't know if we can use fruit. He No, he's like
010in Arizona. >> I know that it has to be a really big plate for 40 people. >> That's the deal. I mean, I hate to bring in like little things like this and say, "Here, we're going to feed 40 people." So, if he just brings in three gallons of juice, so at least we can give everybody or tea or something like that or something. >> We might have to after the meeting. Just meet a little bit. Okay. >> Okay. The 26th, Memorial Day, and our next board meeting is the 28th. Now, on that meeting, I will not I will be in Alaska with my kids. I will not be here. So, every we're gonna have gonna have to help coach Hebrew along. She's gonna be any. Okay. I'd like I'm going to move down to
011item number 10. I'd like a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Make a motion. >> Henry second, Tom. Thank you. discussion. Okay, so we've already amended the overall agenda. Uh we've amended the consent agenda then as well. Um we probably could have done that under the consent agend any any discussion around the consent agenda. >> Sounds okay. Agreed. Yep. >> Discussion. Okay. If not, they're all in favor. 100%. Okay. Principal and superintend. We're getting ready. We're scheduling some time to meet with the units. Contract negotiations. June. So >> the end of the year the end of August um Cindy and I and Hannah too worked on um some summer things that the South Reading Foundation in the library trying to get a few things going here to we don't have full on summer school
012options but um you bringing bringing in some books, keeping them think having access to books is what we're trying to to do with that. It's pretty uh cheap and uh work well. So, we're working on that again. Uh testing is just around the corner and uh Cindy also is working very hard to get that all scheduled. Um will that will there be a readout of will we have an update on that at the next meeting? >> Um not really. We will tell you that it'll be done, but we won't know how the test results are quite okay. Yeah. So, um I just wanted to highlight that it's really a lot of work. There's a lot of training, a lot of security measures, a lot of technology. Um and in a school like us who's very
013proactive, they do a lot of practice testing ahead of time so that those kids are very familiar and know what to expect and are wise. They do pretty well here. So, that's coming up in May. Um, let's see. Uh, HVAC Apollo that next Monday. You gonna fire it up and uh and uh make sure it's working and get it going. >> No more open door in July when you have >> Yes, that's what I told him. He kept asking Jul is I told him I said we can delay, but if it gets hot, you're in trouble. That would be the test. >> Yes. So, I think we we might make it under the radar on on the heat and we should be good. Um, kicking it off on on Monday and then then there's a
014lot of balancing and a lot of back work that comes with making sure it's all balanced and going right. I don't know all the the things, but there'll still be more work that it should be working by ending next week. Um, garden um is coming up at garden day. Feel free to invite friends or Tim friends or pull garden club, you know, wherever you like come and pull pull weeds and and whatnot. I wanted you to know that the TK, we had somebody in the TK fund. And so, um, if you've ever been around there in the morning at the TK playground, we we're very grateful to have it. We didn't used to have it. It's very suited for them and their age. Um but in [clears throat] the mornings it gets kind of crowded
015and they they're they don't just stand still and visit. They bounce all over the place. And so um what we're trying to do we we're going to use some of those funds to um there's a a section of that playground over there where we can just take the fence and shoot it out and and create quite a bit more space for them. And um within that, we're also going to um our insurance company's going to help fund it on a grant for um for the gates that can be a little bit expensive because one of the challenges we have there is the gates are hard to they're not as secure as we'd like. So um they're they're going to help pay for a little bit of that too so that we can expand it some
016and uh make the gates a lot more secure. So that's coming up here pretty quick. Um and um I just tossing out a thought um I've attended in an Olympia the South Sound Reading Foundation fundraisers. A couple of them they usually have an evening one down by the bay books by the Bay that I've been to and then a couple of breakfast ones that they do in the community. And they've been really um generous to us. They've given us thousands and thousands of books and and technically their funding is thirsting county, but they like us and want to help. And so I I thought, what if we piggybacked on their um they do a breakfast every year. What if we piggybacked on that? And like the next day we brought there that that same agenda
017over to Mason County and then we tried to reach out to the community and get involvement in the community to create a breakfast fundraiser for um doing our part so that thirst county is not necessarily funding all our books but we are part of that. So um there's nothing you need to decide. I just wanted to let you know that >> would we do it out of the cafeteria? >> I'm not completely certain. have thought of that, but then I thought, well, I we could maybe the yach club or some other place um might want to help us with that. There's a lot of details, but um when we get there, we'll be reaching out to you guys to reach into the community to help us get people there so that we can raise funds
018to help support the books that we're >> What does the fundraiser look like? Is it you come in and buy a plate for breakfast or is it come in and buy books to help support the >> No, it's more um companies and people donating funds for breakfast >> and then then they'll have they usually have an author come and speak. So that's why if we think back we're not doing that author the next the next day and then there anyway that's something that it's a little ways away but I wanted to think about that. Um and then I had a handout for you in case you were interested. They recently had a special election that addressed um um um some bonds and levies um around the state and that's the preliminary results uh of those
019um we had five bonds that were run two of them at the time of it we're passing three capital projects leies which are um a specially designated levy for some specific project. It could be um you know building the shed or um doing technology or maybe uh expansion of an area on the buildings and whatever capital project. All of those failed and then uh at the time of this two of the lemies were passed of the seven. So, um, >> Not good. I don't know that. U can't speculate, but that's, um, the current status of those. And >> can I comment on that, too? cuz I'm I'm worried about the the the new laws and taxes coming out and they're going to turn pass this on to be more of a we need to pass
020it a levy percentage lift. That's going to create more nos and more angst against the schools by fear. Um this is not good. you know, people do have their limits of which they can really >> and that's we'll have our work cut out for them. That's why we work hard to do our best to publicize all the good things that are going on here. Um, and we have a pretty track record. I mean, so anyway, >> do you know when North's coming out with their new are they? >> Yeah. only two out of the shelving and they were on the ballot. Um and there was still it wasn't fully done. It was preliminary. So you were aware of all right that's all I have and now it's Hannah's turn for a report. >> Hi everyone.
021So, I have a a lot that I'm going to um talk about tonight, but I want to start with um down on my agenda, I've got Kanis of North and he um Michael Sit um who's been with us for years and years as one of our most valuable colleagues and substitute teachers with us. But he uh wanted to start a quantum here. Senate in North Basil and um this year was unable to but we got going here and we had I had needed a staff member to to help support it and Miss Rosson Gableson um our fifth grade teacher is helping to support the program and right now there are 15 kids that are in um they meet uh that's second through fifth grade they meet on Wednesdays right after school until 5 o'clock last
022week on Wednesday was their first meeting this was their second and uh they are working on on multiple things. Um but if you don't mind, are you okay if I can let you guys share a little bit about? >> Sure. >> Are you all familiar with the club? I've heard of it. >> Okay. So, we're a social service agency organization that's international truly around the world. The North Mason Quantis is my home club. I've been a member for over a dozen years. Past president a couple times and uh we do a lot for the community which we inspire the young people too. So we do litter pickups and we give grants. All the North Mason High School students can get a grant, a scholarship, whether they're attending a 4-year college, a two-year college, or they're
023going to go into their own business and they want uh they need tools for that. We give money for that, too. Um, and people who are entering the armed forces, we give scholarships for that, too. So, we're not uh hung up on, you know, you have to go to the four-year school thing. Um, we are the second largest provider of scholarships in North Mason, which is pretty cool for our little club. We have uh three garage sales a year to raise funds for those who sell at the concessions at North Mason High School. Um, a lot of the part, a lot of the work that we do is helping develop leaders. So, as we all know, the young people of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Um, but they also need some training to do
024that. So, we talked today about how next week we will be electing officers. And if you want to be a president who wants to help us on our trail walk, making sure that we're successfully getting back and we had several people who took turns and it's just a little bit of a demonstration like this is important. If you want to be secretary, you need to pay attention and take notes. So Mr. Olsen has been taking notes for the last two meetings, but we'll turn that over to a young person so that they can have that experience. This is our uh gavvel and we are using that as you do too just to you know come to order for our meeting and we do the pledge of allegiance as well as >> the K kids pledge
025which >> unless Gabe has something to add to it. It just reads, "As a KIT, I promise to serve others and to make the world a better place for all." >> Pretty simple, but it it makes a big difference in our world. Thank you. You want to say um it like Michael talked about, we are doing beautifification out of the trail, but not just the trail, the whole campus. Uh this is our community. I mean, we spend 280 days or 180 days here in the school um developing these little young adults to become awesome citizens. When they go outside of school, they may take care of their and just kind of spreads hopefully like wildfire where everybody helps out their little community. Um and community can be the classroom, it can be the building, it
026can be the county, the city, the state. Um so it's just kind of develops. Yeah. >> So is there anything that we the awareness? >> Okay. There isn't anything we need to commit from. >> We need $1,000. [laughter] Well, I'd love to be able to share what the what the club is um from their perspective that everyone's kicking it off and um we're so excited that there was 18 kids that now joined up. So, that's really exciting >> After a full day of school. Yes. >> Yeah. That's really exciting. Um so, thank you both so much. I really appreciate Michael bringing the idea and gay being so willing to to really excited. Um events and class board meeting. Um back on March 27th, uh Miss Godard and I, our fourth grade teacher, uh took the
02712 students, two from each grade, two young writers conference at college and the kids, that was we had such an amazing day. Our kids had such a great experience of working with college professors and um actual children's book authors and learning from them. They each had um a manuscript. Even our first graders had a manuscript of something they've been working on in their writing and they shared it in their small groups and then other kids shared their writing and their ideas for how the story could continue or their predictions of what might happen next. Um or the six-year-olds were sharing predictions and inferences um and they were using language they were so excited about. So it was it was such a great experience and I'm so glad that I got to go with them um
028and experience that. Um our fifth grade um with Miss Olson went to Pierce College on April 1st to experience the planetarium which is a really cool program that they are doing at Pierce College for um schools and communities um of up to 40 people. Um and it's just I mean they 40 people at one time in the planetarium and they a great program. So that was really exciting that they're getting to do that. Um, our fourth graders have taken the salmon um back to the Feler Center um salmon center with the help of um the Feller Salmon Center to release the salmon and they are gone. So, we said goodbye. The little ones really had a hard time understanding why we had to say goodbye to the salmon. And every year we go through this
029with them and they've had them named which they all look the exact same but they they know these salmon. There's 138 I think when they open it was it was you know they they were sad to see them go but um there was a little farewell for that [laughter] >> so they've all been released again um and then there's just an update from POS tonight um it was asked how much was raised and uh we received a check for $1,100 for our ASB from the ASBO tonight um for their participation which is really wonderful so that's exciting >> and what what was that from from where the ASB cost tonight at the boat house. >> Oh, that how you how many? >> $1,100. >> Excellent. >> Sorry. I'm busy. >> And it was delicious and
030fun. So, it was really good. Um, April 26. Uh, that's the Saturday. Um, from 10il noon. I know it says on here from 10 till 1. I think that's how the gates are going to be open for. We are going to be from 10 till noon and working really hard um on cleaning up the trail. you know, the kids have been on it, um, which is great, but just, you know, pulling weeds and things like that and a little bit of work in their garden beds, too. Although the kids have been doing a great job in the gardens, um, of of planting and and cleaning up the beds. So, it's just going to be a couple hours this um, I think quite a few people are going to attend. Uh, track is in full session,
031as you saw. We have 40 kids and the first track meet is tomorrow at Pioneer. It's going to be a beautiful day for them tomorrow. Really excited. Um, May 22nd, I don't have these in the order of dates because this was my mental unload dates and I have five different areas where I put them in. So, May 22nd is kindergarten and TK roundup night. Um, we have started um we sent out letters few days ago and then some updates with them for um sexual health and education. Um, it's beginning the third week of May. Uh we have um uh Megan Pierce, our our middle school health teacher, and um Jason Trimble, our middle school science teacher, work together. They've worked on it last year together, too. The seventh and eighth grade required um sexual health
032education components have been sent out. They will be teaching those starting uh the third week in May and they will be the two adults teaching those. Um, we really like it when there's two adults there and the parents have received all of their um um the opt out notification letter and how they can opt out. A lot of parents choose to opt out a couple of the the content um but then you want um the other content all the content is available in the office labeled on what's going to be taught on what day. So the parents have a lot of of um avenues for input and you know how they would like their kids to be able to participate in that. Um, social studies nights is going to be really fun. It is April
03329th, so it's next Tuesday night. And it's a really low-key event. In fact, it's not even really an event. It's a walkth through. So, the elementary classrooms and middle school classrooms that are wanting to participate will be displaying their students awesome social studies projects and work in there. From 5:00 to 6:00, there's not going to be any announcements made, just some teachers so parents can walk through and look at their children's work. And that's next Tuesday night the 29th. And Miss Pitchoff and Miss Walter are heading that off. They've got some great projects on, you know, some like diarama ones and um the tri boards and different things like that the students have been working on for social studies projects. >> Is that for all grades? >> Yes, but not all grades are participating. Okay.
034>> So certain grades have bigger projects and some have just written projects that they've been working on. So, it's a display of the art projects that I've been working on. >> Um, we talked about Quana Club. SBA testing begins May 6th through May 15th and then there will be some makeups after that in the library. Um, but they will be the students will be with their home room teachers, third through 8th grade. Um, we really find that it's best practice for students to be testing in the morning and not in the afternoon. So, a lot of school districts only do like two or three days of set aside testing and they have the kids test from the moment they come in until the end of the day um with just a couple of breaks for
035food and and movement here. Um we find that our students don't do well that way. We find they do a lot better if we limit it to a few hours of testing in the morning and then they save and pause their work and they can come back to it the next day. It's just clear mindset. Um they're able to write out their thoughts. um wouldn't mind them. They can't talk about it, you know, to their friends if they're not finished because they are supposed to keep things confidential and they are great about that. Like they'll say, "Wow, this is really I'm really stuck. This is hard, you know, or something like that." But they it's it gives them a chance to kind of be reflective. They can't go back to work, but they can start
036from where they left off and continue on. Um the system allows that. So, we really encourage them to take their time um and not feel so over overburdened by finishing it all in one day because I mean I have a you know a older kids and I know when Maddie took it at the high school at Shelton High they did everything in two days and it she did fine on them but she was visibly drained and emotionally drained after two days. She couldn't um I mean she couldn't go to work. She was just so so done. Um, and Marian is at North High School. They do it the same way. And it's just I get why because scheduling it's really hard to put things spread out over these several days. But the kids, it's a
037lot of work. The tests are really, really, really hard. Um, I encourage people to go on to the sample test and see these kids are the kind of content that and the stuff that's coming up, but it's challenging. And so I like the fact that we spread it out. It's we're successful with that. Um, also May 5th through the 9th is all staff appreciation week. And I love the fact that Great View celebrates all of our staff, not just our teachers during that week, but all staff. Everybody in our school district um participates in supporting these kids. So, we're so excited to celebrate everybody and um and so thankful for the breakfast. We have different things happening um every day that week. So, that's really exciting. You know, make points to celebrate them. Uh May
0389th is the Gator Gallup and that's the other big ASB fundraiser that's very much class-based. So um fifth grade gets to participate in it, but they're not raising funds. It's just kind of an excitement to get them ready for middle school, but sixth, seventh, and eighth grade um the students will be going around um to their families and friends with um you know, donation requests. So you know, like if I run if I gallop, if they send it up here, if I gallop, you know, um eight laps, what will you pay me per lap? you know, for fundraising. So, it's a perlap fundraiser um or it can just be a one-time donation, but it's really exciting to see how they do. We have a Gator Gallup kind of um who's done the most on it.
039And the first year we did Gator Gallup, it says Mary Nelson there at the top. And that's because she had an uncle who was really stingy and was per lap and she got the most laps because she was determined to get the most out of it she possibly could. [laughter] So, it's really fun activity. Um the kids love it and they make a lot of money that pays for their um eighth grade trips is really what that takes towards it. Um May 30th is our field day. We have a lot of volunteers for that. We're really excited. June 5th. This is going to be important one. I'll talk about it next month also. June 5th is our TK through 2 grade musical performance of Tweet. [snorts] It's called Tweet and it's Birds. um mostly like
040um I mean it's just birds and it's they each will have their little you know parts and each class will have their will be a different kind of bird and they'll have costumes and they will be singing um it's just the cutest thing in the world these days. So we did tweet several years ago. Uh Miss Shannon has tweet barnyard musical and um the bug one um going on and she will rotate those. I mean, there's a few others, but these ones are really the kids have easy time accessing the material for it. And then the art around the commons will be done up in birds. Everything will be birds. It'll be so great. So, that's June 5th. Uh June 10th, 8th grade graduation um is yeah, Tuesday, June 10th, 8th grade graduation here at
0416:30. June 11th is that trip that they have earned money for and they're going to Oceans 5 in Gig Harbor and then they're going to the >> Sky Zone >> what's it called? >> Sky Zone trampoline park right? Yeah. So they're going to two locations in one's in Tacoma, one's in Big Harbor and then they're going up to lunch in between and they're so excited. Um but they raised this money for it. They worked really hard to raise this money for their exciting trip. So, we're excited for them. Uh June um 13th is our last day of school. Um there will be other things coming up with really from here on to the end of the school year. It's just a blur. There's so many events and fun things happening. Um so, these are just
042a few of them that we have here. But the last day of school is new release and we will be sending the kids home with their report cards on that day, too. Um so, Teresa and I will be um folding and stuffing envelopes on the 12th. >> [laughter] >> just like crazy people in the office. Um, but that's going to be that that's almost here. So, that's what I've got. [clears throat] >> I had a um last year last day of school. Oh yes. >> And I saw someone with the biggest smile you could ever imagine shooting bubbles around >> and very happy and watching the the joy of the kids and the joy of the uh >> the board member participating the bubbles and great. So to come and do bubbles with us too.
043blows them to us like getting on the buses and walking off the music going. >> Last year we were in blow up costumes as well. [laughter] >> Really unsafe with the stop panel. >> It's great. I had uh Je and I went to the April 2nd all school assembly and uh what a treat that was. >> That's amazing. >> Yeah, it was. There's a lot of energy in all school assembly >> and I have to applaud Anna when there was too much energy because as awards were given out for the younger kids some of the younger kids were so excited they would squeal. She reminded them that uh squealing is fun, but it has some other characteristics that are not as helpful as as would like. And Deb and I had a chance to speak
044to the class and that was it was fun to stand up there and watch them. It was a joyous occasion. >> It was a far bigger deal than I thought it was going to be. I mean, amazing. First of all, I pulled up and thought, "Why are all these cars here?" >> Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's it's a big deal. >> Yeah, >> it was like SRO, I'm telling you. >> The next one is April 30th at 2:30 and it's for the month of April, which is courage, and then focusing on the May, which is >> creativity. Thank you, creativity. June is kindness. May is creativity. I I got the uh I reached the conclusion that the kids look forward to these and when it's time to go and they get called out by a
045grade in their class that they get pretty I'll just call it psyched up [laughter] gator energy. It was lots of fun. Thanks for that. >> Yeah. Thank you. What a nice student body. We were just so polite and even though they really could leave in 10 minutes, it was remarkable polite. Not all those kids can do that. >> Love your enthusiasm. >> Thank you. >> You're reporting. So there's there's information but the energy is [laughter] >> okay. Andre item number 12 operational services. Mine is not as exciting as especially as we approach the end of the year with all the stuff going on or not. Let me bring this up on the screen. But I added a couple little things and tweaked some of the graphs. So hopefully this shows a little bit better. Again,
046feedback appreciated a lot more information on there. Just one second, Andrea. I'm having some >> malfunction. So, this includes um all the information, all the numbers or data during the month of March. Um the only and I don't know if I mentioned this last month the only um page that has current information but if you go to the very first page the next page um the enrollment that has April datab so the enrollment trend I changed that graph a little bit I think it's a little bit easier to see those the dark blue on the left is our historical numbers over time you'll see the kind of jump up a few years ago is when the TK program was added um shortly after co but the bottom right hand corner is the most important number
047to me on the page that our average through this year we're trending just over 16 above what we budgeted for which a good place to be and all those kiddos ended up spread out spread out in different grades so we didn't have to change our staffing to accommodate that but it does increase our year enrollment information >> so so like if back up just on a on a per class basis. What? So the numbers of the kids are okay. Okay. So the the big classes this year is that fifth grade class is the biggest. Correct. >> The fifth grade class sixth grade class is pretty big and the eighth grade class. >> But there's nothing like that. What 30 or 30? What do you have before class? >> A few years ago was Yeah, it
048was in the 30s and they were since third grade. >> Okay. I have >> we um this slide shows our revenues and expenditures for the year. So the top left is our revenues what we actually have brought in on the top line and what we budgeted for at this point during the year. So again trending $270,000 almost above the revenue that we thought we would have at this point in the year. We do have a couple of grant claims outstanding. We we changed um some of our banking information. I've got about $20,000 in a grant that we need to claim that once they update that info for us, we'll be able to ask for that money. So, that should be closer to 300,000 and it is. So, just waiting to waiting to have the money
049show up, we've already spent it. So, that's good thing. Um the expenditure is just about a little over 120,000 above. Um I'm sorry. Yeah, above budget. Lost my I lost my words. Pretty similar. So pretty similar picture to what you saw last month difference either way. And then down below you can see that um same expenditures broken up by the different categories that we spended in. First column you'll see the budget. Second column is what we spent in March. Third column is the year-to- date activity. Fourth column is the incumbrance. what we plan to spend for the next for the rest of the year and then the balance and as you go top to bottom there's the certificated salaries so the salaries of all our teachers classified salaries and everything a certificated teacher benefits for
050all of that group is linked together and then supplies all the things that we can see and hold and touch around here and then purchase services are the things that we pay others to do for us and that includes everything from um work that might be on a facility, testing of our alarm, something like that, um to our power bill, electricity usage, garbage, all of that sort of thing. Purchase services. Travel is teeny teeny tiny. So that's generally violence reimbursement for people or if they pay they go to a conference or something, reimbursement for travel. And then that's the same for the last couple months. Any questions on this? >> Where's the money is the money we pay for the high to the high schools under one of those sections under one of those categories?
051>> It is. It's Oh, you're not 99% certain it's within purchase services. Yes. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay, next slide. This is our general fund balance. So um at last month's meeting Ed, I think you brought up where in our general fund can we see our minimum fund balance. So the district has a policy where we're we keep between 9 and 14% of our budgeted expenditures as a minimum fund balance. That's kind of our worst case scenario. they go sideways and can't get a portion to us this month, can we still run our payroll? So, I put up the bar graph in the bottom right hand corner. I realize right now looking at it, you cannot very well see that there's a little tiny blue bar at the bottom. I'll change that to a different color
052next month. Um, but that's our carryover and it's our transition our TK program carryover about 50,000. And that big green bar in the middle is our minimum fund value. So when you take away the carryover that's held aside for TK, our minimum fund balance, that purple at the top is what's left over. That's what we could spend on anything. Not if we want to, but what we could spend if you chose to uh the projected ending fund balance on that top green line is just under 700,000. I think it'll be just over 700 if I had to take guess. And then the um the trend graph on the side is the same as we saw last month. That just compares our year to do we have any trending for a big purchase towards the end
053of the year? >> Not that I'm aware of that we talked about. We don't have any big curriculum asks this year. We and you can maybe this is I'll plant a little seed since you asked that question but we we do have and and we've been talking about with the extra enrollment that we have this year we do have a little bit more money than we thought we would so that it is a kind of year to be thoughtful about what what should we do with that money? What could we do with that money? It's not it's not the kind of money that we can invest into long-term hiring because it's not guaranteed to stick around, but it is something if the district having need or desire, we talk about having a little extra to
054spend this year. you know, or is it dating? I don't know what that will bring >> or is there an opportunity for a CD or an investment or something that can build money or can we diversify those funds somewhere else to make more money? >> So, we do we do earn our investments like county all of our funds that are held by Mason County. the same with all public IDs like ports, water district, school district, cities um and we invest those funds. So when we and every month I talk to the county and and try to keep as much of our money invested as we can >> when we pay our payroll at the end of the month I run our accounts payable checks. I tell the county I need you to uninvest yourselves and
055leave >> the amount of money that we need and the rest of it sits invested earning interest. And right now the interest rates are up. If you look, we have a line. I know where we put all the revenue that we received for interest income. It's more this year than it's been in prior years. CD is really up right now, too. So, just wondering if there was something that we could do to increase or help keep that little nest egg. [laughter] We did as much as we can with the county, keeping the cash that we need minimal and investments. >> All right. Uh the next page this is just our our other fund balances. So this is almost similar almost exactly the same as what you saw last month capital projects the beginning and ending
056fund balance. Uh the revenues expenditures in the middle capital projects are the Apollo project that grant funding project as our student driven fundraising and their expenditures and they haven't had much activity anymore. That's the end of the year. So, >> transportation vehicle fund. We're still waiting on that bus to show up. Every other day I get asked by the bus drivers. I'm just I'm exaggerating only a little tiny bit. They're very excited to get through the bus. Um, so that'll probably sit like that for another month or two before we pay that bill. And then debt service is collecting and expending the money on our the building, the bond that we have for this building. >> Any questions on those? So in that debt service, that beginning fund balance, uh, is that our annual payout
057for this year? >> The beginning fund balance is just a snapshot of how much money was in that fund on September 1st. And then we receive the tax revenue goes into that a little bit each month. A big spike in October, a spike in April, and then twice a year in December and June, we make those payments for that bond. So you'll see um the fund balances or the the revenues are we've collected just over half a million so far because we're we collected each month to save up to make this payment that was not very clear. I apologize and the last is just some words and looking ahead to budgeting for next year and what we're doing. Um, I know Tom will talk a little bit more about the legislative update, so I'll leave
058that for him to go over, but um, there was a big question last month, and there still is a question on federal funding, and we haven't received any other information from what we shared last month. So, just holding tight on that. Um, we've talked to our staff about what their plans are for next year and trying to solicit any feedback we can get on people looking to retire, um, leave, you know, any plans. And I don't see any major changes of possible retirement. Nothing nothing dead, nothing unknown, nothing too terribly surprising. And then looking at what we'll budget for enrollment next year, I think 99% certain that we'll budget the same as what we budgeted this year, which is for 210. Um, which might seem a little odd because I've been telling you we have
059more kids this year. But if you um and if Britney if you could flip back to the very first page that enrollment slide. If you look at that grid on that top right hand corner when you were talking about the class sizes I could have talked about this then. Um if you look at that eighth grade class how big they are. They're 25. >> You see that TK class at 16. >> So those 25 are going to drop off. We're gonna bring in maybe up to another 16 in TK for that loss next year about 10 years. >> So globally view right now. Do you have any reason being in the in the air? Do you see anything optimistic or pessimistic? >> I I think um RTK this year this sometimes there are you know
060es and flows of just really lots of kids at a certain age cycle. we'll just see big classes, you know, come through. Um, I think our TK next year is going to be significantly smaller than 16. I think we're going to be closer to the, you know, 12 is where we, you know, budgeted. That's where we budgeted at last year. I think we're going to be a lot closer to that. Um, just because of the what we're seeing right now in the three-year-old prek, you know, and then moving into the the TK, which is for four year olds. I think that that's where we're going to be at with that. So, I think our TK will be smaller next year. Um, but I don't see any differences happening to um the rest of our classes.
061That would be pretty pretty similar. But just like Andrea said, if you if you that eighth grade class of 20 six moves out and then, you know, we move up with that that loss of of some kiddos, which I think, you know, budgeting at 210 is a really smart AT that 210 just on the outside looking in feels good. >> Yeah. And you've had conversations with parents since >> Yep. I've been collected some information and data and there's a lot of choice transfer requests and then there's a lot of people that move too this seen people that have just moved but they are you know staying with a relative right now so that they can keep their kids in school till the end of the school year. Um we've seen actually a couple of families
062do that. Um which totally makes sense. You know they want that stability for the next seven and a half weeks. Okay. Any any more input? >> That's all I have for you. Question. >> I would say I like this one. I will also tough it's tough. So I'm wondering if maybe in our GSD 54 account maybe we could that copy available we could print out we're not having you guys sh >> and I said last month that I would get this emailed out to you pack I failed on that month but I sent it to Britney I think I just sent it to you yesterday so she'll email it out to you >> just get I can tweak the format, too, and try to do a little discussion >> and just make it make it
063look better. >> Okay, thank you. [clears throat] >> All right. So, what do we got? We I lost my agenda here. Were we down to that point, Tom? >> Where are you? >> Okay. So, sorry about that. So timeline of it, right? >> Yes, that would be easy. So it was requested by this once we've discussed this. I think that um um there's a lot of discussion across the nation on this topic and so um a lot is being decided and it will be decided not by going to be decided. It's a battle between various states and federal government. Um we do know something for certain and that is that um that there were some um rules that were vacated by the Supreme Court. And so what that did is that reversed reverted the title
064N rules uh back to the 2020 policies. And so I hand to you um what we got from WASDA um and their statements about that. So they will be uh reviewing the the policies um that are related to title N and providing an updated version of the policies and um will be uh in line with Washington state and I don't know about how that will conflict with federal law. Um that's for the high paid lawyers and the um the governor and the um superintendent of public instruction to figure out. In the meantime, we will take their policies and uh adopt them and do our best to create a safe quality learning experience for all of our children. um and including athletics which was a piece today. Um I know in addition the WIAA is also
065in the midst of those conversations there is a lot of title n stuff relates to athletics and so they're in the midst of having conversations and trying to make um decisions about how they want to organize and manage that as well. they will make their decisions and we not necessarily members but we um um it's a great guidelines for us to um live by and it creates for us a framework for operating our athletics and so um they are in the midst of conversations and making decisions so um it's going to be an ongoing conversation and um we will follow the guidance and [clears throat] do what we've been doing from grade school and all of our children maximum. I don't know what there is to be discussed because there's so much being discussed so
066many decisions being decided by others. So that's the current status of where we at. But at the end of the day, I'd like you equal access. I mean, that's pretty much what we're about, right? Okay. She have any questions and move on to the next item. Um, and we've I mean, nobody finds spreadsheets um exciting. Well, okay. [laughter] I overst [laughter] Okay, I stand corrected. There are some people in this world that love spreadsheets. This one doesn't libraries. >> However, they're a very useful tool. And so we um have been working with with Tony, Britney, and I to um to create a tool that transfers as much of the knowledge that Tony has in his head, which is a phenomenal amount of information about the operations of our facility. And we're trying to transfer as
067much of that into our spreadsheet that's covering a whole variety of topics, fire systems, heings, doors, um, parking, playgrounds, etc. Um, and so, um, Britney has past experience with this kind of work. And so, um, it'll be a perpetual project, right? like a forever list. >> Forever kind of a besides really fancy honeydew list kind of >> of things we have to do and things we have done. Um Britney, do you want to highlight anything? >> Um so basically the heating and cooling sheet that we were just on that kind of the beginning part of that was the Apollo project. That was sort of the starting point. And then through these sheets, we're able to track the progress as it moves through. That way, it just allows more fluid communication between Jerry and maintenance and
068with the contractors as well. Um, and then we have a few other items. Um, we basically sat down and went through all of the major systems of our site to try to identify areas that were going to need to have um um more thorough updating information. Water well system for instance, that was another big one. Fire suppression. And when uh our IT guy Ryan was here, I distinctly remember he had some like issues as he had a chance to on the there was a section there. I think it was computers or or like electronics calling >> their security alarm systems. >> I'm not so sure we've um really considered his work in this. This is more about >> um Yeah. Yeah. >> It's more it's more around Tony's work um and unless >> institutionalized knowledge.
069>> Yes. I said that last time. >> Yeah. So, um you know, it's not a lot in it right now. Um spent a lot of time figuring out what kinds of things we want to be talking about. And so we're not sitting down and filling it all up. But as we work through items, we're adding them. >> And so we have tools and developing that water institution. >> Yeah. The wells and stuff that I'm surprised going that water well. Okay. >> Okay. And septic is going to get pumped here pretty soon in the next So that'll be added in there. >> Yeah, every >> Okay. Pay us personel change our building won't collapse. >> Okay. 14 Tom legislative update. I have Britney type not a lot of an email. This is from ESD 115. Jerry,
070would you give give us a brief update of what an ESD is, how we work? >> Yeah, so TR um the ESD contracts with a gentleman and we're a part of that subgroup um to contribute a few hundred bucks participate and support some legislative activity. Troy, I'm not sure his last name and um he's basically our advocate. He tracks and monitors and gives us an employee that I've spoken with them this week about um a couple of items and um each week he provides us with an update. Um WASA wants to have updates. Also um they're kind of um they're for legislative oriented people. They're very complex. I kind of like this. It's just I can look down and see what's going on with each items that are more related to our work and I
071can click on it and get information. So the ESD educational service district is kind of our regional support network. They provide a lot of different services. Um they provide nursing services that we contract for. Um and then also uh this service they they have available if we participate in. And so they give us this because we are part of it. So the state is broken up into individual ESDs geographically. I think mostly geographically and we're in ESD 113. So I had her [clears throat] print these out so that we could look at the progress that's being made or the lack of in the legislature to move forward and We're required by the state law to have a balanced budget. We can't we can't print money like the federal government does. We have to figure out
072how we're going to pay for what we [clears throat] what the state has mandated or voted into law. So, we've talked quite a bit over the last several months about various various u problem areas, if you will. Uh the bottom line is the state of Washington says that it's a a constitutional issue that fully funding education is a mandate. Uh and they don't do that. They're doing I would say better since the uh court decision came down the plary decision six seven eight years ago. Uh how are they how are they going to let me before we talk about the the uh special education MSOC and transportation and some of the other items. It's been real clear if you watch the news, read the newspaper, watch TV, there's been a lot of posturing going on
073regarding the amount of money that has come in has come in revenue-wise and the amount of expenditures that have gone up. This is the whole state or the state's complete budget. And uh at one point 2 3 months ago we were talking about a $16 billion shortfall or maybe as high as an $18 billion shortfall depending on who was making the announcements. And u so the the legislature their job is to figure out bills that are already law and bills that will become law. how that's going to impact the budget and how are they going to generate the money to pay for the budget. And after uh the governor got elected, one of the first things he indicated uh not officially but comment-wise was that the state needs to figure out how to reduce the
074costs of each department within the state to bring the budget into alignment. Uh the legislature doesn't think in that regards. And when I say the legislature, I'm thinking all the all the reps and all the senators. Um, and there's a lot of them in the state. There's a limited amount of of senators be based on the the districts. Uh but there's a lot of reps and the districts that have a lot of population have a whole lot of reps and that's primarily King County with to some degree also Pierce County, Snowomish County and Thirstman County. Beyond those four counties, everything else in the state is small potatoes with the exception of Spokane has some reasonable numbers over there. this the legislature came in gung-ho to pass a whole bunch of laws to implement many more
075things that required money and and it's been battle royal in Olympia now for what are we in the latter part of April almost three months >> Saturday >> that it's called team me I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right. It's some sort of Latin term that they're supposed to be done by them. Uh, and they're struggling. And I'll be surprised if the governor doesn't require them to extend the the session or or call what do they call the extended session? >> Special session. Special is such a nice word. The challenge that this educational system has in the state of Washington is that yes, it's a a constitutional item that we will fully fund education. And there's a whole bunch of other interests in the state that work really hard to get their u agenda
076or their their departments or their expenditures planned in to this budget rrestling event. So, I don't I'm not optimistic that we'll get by without that we'll have a balanced budget on Friday. I mean, and maybe maybe they can go through Friday night and into Saturday and Sunday. I don't know about that kind of stuff. So, let's look at the the document that you've got in front of you if you've got one. have an extra one that document and uh you're will you're free to ask questions or make comments at any time if you want um to have the electronic version. Send me an email. I'll send it to you and you can um click on those and and it'll take you to the um legislative page that has more details later on. Can you email
077that to each of the board members? >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And here's the other thing and it's real easy. If you have a smartphone, you can go to your favorite search engine and you can type in doesn't have to be capitalized. So, we can turn to uh the top of the second page where it says Senate Bill 5263 and then in parentheses it says special education. If you type in SB5263 into your search engine, it will give you a couple of different options. And if you look at one of the options, it will say Washington SB5263. And you choose that item and bingo, it takes you right to the state legislaturator's status report of that bill. And if you flip the page over to the next page, what do we have here? 1 2
0783 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 different educational bills either house bills or senate bills and all the information is there for all of us. Some of them have been uh delivered to the governor. The governor has signed some of them. I'm not going to try and give you an update on those, but things have been working their way through the legislature. So, let's just talk about if you go to that second page and draw a circle around Senate Bill 5263, which is special education, and then draw a circle around Senate Bill 5192, the EMS funding. Those are really big deals for us, really big deals for us. Uh, and if you read the next two paragraphs, it's kind of disappointing. Uh the amount of money increase uh in the MSOC bill
079was uh just look at the end of that >> 10.23% >> $35 per student, $90 million statewide. So, Senate Bill 50263 will get passed and signed by the governor. Whether or not it has the funding in it that we had hoped for or that they have brought to this point, we don't know yet. And the same thing applies for the the MSC bill. And uh tell you what, I've been so frustrated by the legislature and this process this year and all of the wrangling that's gone on, all the opinions that get shared. >> Uh Andrea, would you explain to us briefly MSI funding? What is MS? >> So materials, supplies, and operating costs is what that stands for. These funds are designed to cover um things such as our power, utilities, expenses, insurance expense, there's
080supplies that we need for dayto-day, not it's everything that's not salaries and good and it's our struggle to pay for those things. That is part of the reason we run the levy because the state doesn't give us enough money to do those things. So we we had hoped that the MSOC bill 5192 as the Senate bills and the House bills come together and they wrangle. Uh, so if you guys go on to the WASDA website or if you're signed up for the Wazda daily clippings, you'll find that there's a whole bunch of schools that are really in trouble and they're talking about, >> you know, >> closing. I'm not I'm not going to quote school districts and exact numbers, but such and such is going to eliminate 46 teaching positions. That's drastic stuff. Drastic stuff.
081And what if we just we just talked about the fact that the constitution mandates that we fully fund education. And if they they have to have students, they have to have enough teachers to teach the students in the schools. Okay, flip the page over and uh let's just we talked about ESOC and special ed. Quite a few of these are they're all educational related and and some of them are good things that are important to happen. But I want you to flip one more page over. And on this page, SB50009, that's an important one. It's an important one for me because I worked in transportation my whole career. It's an important one for me because we're buying a new bus. So, there's a bill for multiple vehicle types for transporting students. Drop down a couple
082of them. SB5041 concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. This one makes me crazy when I look at this bill. And that there's a pretty good chance that that's going to pass. Uh and I just highlighted a couple more down at the bottom of that page. U SB 5192, which I think was the number that was the side bill. it was uh this these bills if you want to draw circles around those those would be the bills that you could easily go to your search engine type in SB uh and the number and it'll give you a current status of SB5253 right behind that extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22. too, SP 5263, special education funding. Those are
083ones that we're going to want to watch for. And on the last page, concerning property tax report. Why is that listed on an educational page? >> That's what I was trying to talk about earlier. They're trying to backdoor our property tax increase into our the fund the levy funding. >> That's what I was trying to think about. At the bottom of that, I just wrote four words in a in an arrow. What you expect your property taxes? >> No. Uh three 3% and no cap, isn't it? >> It's bad. >> It's typically a 1% increase cap per year and the legislature wants it to go up to 3% increase cap. Now the tricky part about it is is the state the property taxes get paid us your county >> and so it's an option to
084the county. Have your property taxes gone up in the last couple years? >> Yeah. And go. It's gonna stick us too for when we go to ask for more lending funding too. >> Yeah. And and what what was the report that Jerry handed to us? Where is it here? The one about the second. >> Yeah. Washington school district. >> Yeah. We have a really good relationship in great people with our community. They think highly of us and and we're very fortunate. There's a whole bunch of school districts in the state that don't have those kinds of relationships and consequently when they go out for levies or pairs that go after a bond. It's a battle. I don't want to sound too negative. Uh but I'm not too optimistic. And when you throw in on top
085of that what we have inferred to with the federal government, what the federal government is wanting the states to do and state of Washington has dug in its heels uh on a number of issues that the federal government and the bulk of them are executive orders. So, we've got this battle in Olympia in our own legislature and then we have it's going to be a battle between the governor and the legislature on what he's going to be willing to accept with the additional taxation. And I know that the the legislature is telling us that they're going to take money from the people who have lots and lots of money. But I guarantee you one of two things happens. >> They charge us more for their services or their products etc etc or they move out
086of state and when they move out of state they make they take a big tax >> big tax bas. >> Yeah. So um you can say everything. [clears throat] >> So, I've spent a lot of but we have a lot of people advocating and dealing with those things and so I just let them do that. Um, there's a couple of items that I really chimed in a lot about was the men and boys commission um that I was hoping we could get some some more some movement on because we see across society and across schools. Um, it never made it out of committee. I have spoke to our legislators. I spoke to mine from my home. I spoke to mine from my other district. Thank everybody all over the place. Um and even the um
087committee members and I really it it never made it out. There was some interest, but it never made. So I I put a lot of effort into that because no nobody else in public education was really stepping up to that. I I did go testify to on the Senate committee a couple weeks ago about TK. They're trying to put a freeze on its growth and um um and so I did speak uh speak to that. Um and then just today, and I don't see it in the information, but Senator Gainor emailed me just this afternoon, a little bit before, asking about the bill and what how that would affect our schools. Um, and what what it's related to is about as as you know our um there's levy equalization money, right? Some districts get extra
088special money. I I really don't understand the formula. They most of them have a lot of money and they get levy equalization. We don't. None of my schools have ever gotten it. Um and um they're looking at making some adjustments and trying to establish a commission that would be make hopefully more fair. Um the other thing is one of the things that happens is our levy is capped, right? We don't get to choose, our community doesn't get to choose exactly how much we can run a levy for the legislature put a lid on that. And so, um, he, this legislation he sent to me is that we're working on trying to, um, adjust that levy. So, >> that's the Senate Bill 5798, is it? >> Um, I'm not so sure. Um, I don't think so.
089It really doesn't have to do with property, taxes, other units. So, um, it allows a community to decide how much they want, right? >> It doesn't, it doesn't get rid of the levy lid. It just adjusts it. >> And it's frankly that lid is arbitrary and it's killing districts. We've had to roll money back in the past when we have had enough students that we had to give money back to them because of because even though they the community voted for them. So, um, anyway, that's another thing that they're working on and something that I've been working on. So, I have limited time to advocate, but I try when it's something that's not when, you know, Royy's there. We pay him to do this and and the other there's other ones that are kind of
090sideways that come up that I try to >> also when they do it in the middle of the night, too. >> Yes. Anyway, we'll find out soon enough what they I'll leave you with one thought. We have uh two reps and and one senator 35th district which is part of Bas County and parts of Kep County. this 35th district. The three people that represent us work really hard for us and they work really hard for education for schools. Travis especially those guys would be they would be appreciative if they were to get to know many of us. Thanks for what you're doing. Keep up your work. Anything else? I know it took a long time to talk about it today. >> Well, I I thought Travis was going to come speak at this meeting. He
091is, but it's going to be when he can fit it in. >> Oh, I thought when it's timely probably getting real close to being what is that sign? >> Yeah, he's probably exhausted. >> Okay, Tom, thank you. more time. Daniel paper I believe is what we went through. Yeah, I took out I don't um I don't want to ride any buses to be in a nurse office and it's administered by parents and it's a [clears throat] it's a an extremely rare occurrence, but it's easier to have a policy when you need it than it is to break. Is this in this position at lep input from our our district? >> Yeah, the ESD nurse came and reviewed our our practices and policies and this is not required. just encouraged and she suggested that we said
092I'm not against it and uh except for the parts I edited that she was just first reading. Okay. Then we get up and then there's section 15 on policy and then we have to action and 3412. Okay. I'd like a motion to approve policy 3410. So moved. >> Yeah. Second on discussion. So just this this is one that we talked a little bit about this last time. So services will include not only maintain student health records. The bill of procedures building for the isolation care. We have that already. services that right. So we're not doing any immunizations only the fact that they've been so in order to get that information it has to come from the parents right okay there is an electronic database now that we're um get access database now the families so
093again this is an encouraged document we don't have this Um we have 2001. Okay. >> This is just a couple comments for me. Anybody else have any something that we need to run this place? This business? >> We do these things. We should have a policy around. Okay. All right. So all this is just institutionaliz. Well, okay. Okay. Any more discussion, questions? Not I'm going to call for vote. All in favor? >> I 100%. >> Okay. I'd like a motion to >> discussion. Good stuff. >> Yeah. So who who currently would be people that have been the requirement is we felt that there was a need to shop somebody who who's qualified now virtually all of our staff have been trained in CPR first aid and as part of that they look at and again
094this uh we we don't have this now looks document here in April. So again, this is something that we need and then do we have defibrillators? I'm sorry it to number one by the common is the other one in the office >> at the nurs. >> Yeah. And and how long do we both train? Um well CPR you get trained every two years. So kind of rotate staff to try to get as many people trained as possible. Is there some sort of wealthy train? Is there some sort of certificate that those of us like a first aid defi? >> Well, they do all the first aid CPR and that's a piece of who does the training? >> Um, fire department. So in our case either we would administer ourselves or if they could get here
095quick enough reasonably. >> Well any other discussion around this? Okay. Tom said no. All right. I'm going to call for vote. All in favor I >> 100%. Okay. Well we're down to item number 16. Wow. Christopher uh future agenda May board meeting. Okay. So that incumbent filth rather um do you think uh Tom at this I won't be here but I shouldn't stop that it would be prudent to try to get Travis in or is it still >> only once a break? [laughter] Yeah, >> that's that's my thing. I'm pretty sure he probably did after that. >> Well, that they might still be in special. Okay. So, let's >> let's go along. What else is out there you may need to have on this agenda outside of what we >> now did we get to
096anchor the last time meeting we were at in passing you asked about the timing um Jerry's uh extension contract and stuff and a lot of Hannah is about him and Andrea and you were all in that same >> um I'm one year. Okay. It runs out in June. So the one that the board needs to get that on. >> Okay. So we can say we plan on keeping you for 25 26 >> and and and when the question was asked planning we didn't take interest was to be off the contract. pet cherry contract. Do I need to do any more evaluation? >> There will need to be a final evaluation, but it doesn't have to happen before the contract since you already did a midyear. You should probably have a conversation with your Not much.
097>> We'll cut for real last time. >> You look at you and bear with me here. >> Okay, I'm going to basically move on here if there's no more items and I'm sure there'll something come up. >> Question. Yes, sir. Are you going to be here for the the pre-planning? >> Yeah, the pre-planning. Yes. Yeah. so far. >> I will definitely make sure. Let me let me >> Okay, >> let me check my Mickey here. >> Like that. >> Help me. [laughter] >> Yeah. So, the 28th is the next Tuesday. So, I'll sh So, we're going to have to move it up. I'm going to be flying on the on the 21st. So, we might have to move it up a day. So, >> but I will commit I will commit to making sure >>
098you won't be here on the 14th or the 21st. I >> I will be. So remember it was that whole week of the 12th and couple days of the 19th. So I will commit to whatever and I need to do with Jerry. There we go. Sorry. >> Yeah. 1450. >> Maybe we can move it up to the 14. >> We have to do the like I did the last time call again. And by the way, that calling in seemed to work. Okay. >> You had a copy of it. >> We did. It worked. Appreciate that. >> Yes. I'm glad that I will commit to that. >> Okay. We're down to item number 17, which is reflection. So, Tom, let me start with you. Uh, I thought the whole track team came in. >> [laughter] >>
099And that was just wonderful. That was seven of the 12. Wow. I'm I'm still excited about being at the the assembly of April September. good staff, really good administrative staff. And uh I referenced before going to the e- clippings. There's some crazy stuff going on in some of the school districts around the state and I'm glad that we're here at great. What would be an example you see type of >> uh directors getting up in the meeting very unhappy and walking out resigning on the spot. uh parents coming in to a board meeting and highly frustrated and people being unhappy with the laws that are being placed uh the policies and and procedures being placed on the schools that is inconsistent with what the the community wants to see happen. I think it's also a
100disservice to our community that parents don't know how to properly come in and comment on a meeting too. That's the part of the frustration. >> People come in and think that they can just comment rather than placing their comments ahead of time so that it's on the meeting agenda. >> There's something you'd like us to do about it. I mean, it's Wasa that needs to educate. not not necessarily our district, but it's across the state that parents come in and they're, you know, they want something changed and they think they can just come in and there's it's that's it's the education part that I think needs to figure out or >> there's been a history of of frustration with folks making public comment about a limited time and u and that's I know that there
101was some of that going on in Portion School District were a lot of detention. I know if you really witnessed any of that >> was a lot of craziness >> and in fact it was even discriminated the board members to question people. Yeah, remember they >> and the board [clears throat] when somebody comes and says something, the board's not supposed to reply to it then either because >> if we say something, other people should know that we were going to say it in advance. And that's what used to tick me off because I didn't get that. I when I was when I was a teacher, I didn't get why the board wasn't responding. Kind of made me mad. Now I get it, but I wish somebody told me. >> So yeah. >> Okay, Tom. Thank
102you. a very great outcome that resonates. >> Um um tonight as as many times as we've done this, this is the first time I was almost I teared up when Deina was talking. I I told her you made me tear up the first time. I don't even know what she said, but something got to me. So, I mean that something was quite impressive there. I don't know. Um I think um every time someone askked me about the school I just say it's wonderful. I mean it's pretty easy to say that. Um I can I segue to a little bit about schoolboard just not schoolboard but um PTO just like um we met last week. Do I need to apologize to you because that was kind of quite a bit. >> Not at all. >> Okay.
103um because there only two other there like five of us on the that come to the meetings and those two of them keep having to give up a day of work to do stuff and so I said cuz you know kind of like my roll of fruit comment tonight I said um what do you want us to do between now and the end of the year we need some some specific things because I'm not sure we can say we can do everything because there's like five of us >> you know and I probably came off really well so I kind of I got home and felt Yes. But anyway, but they're trying really hard and so we're going to do um teacher appreciation day where we we're going to do a taco bar for the
104teachers. So we'll have the here the food here at 10 in the morning because we start sometimes kids go out for lunch and eat early. So that's what we're going to do >> on the same day. >> No, on Wednesday I'm sorry I should have said that. Wednesday on Wednesday we're gonna do that. And they're like, we're doing taco bars, but you guys get Monday, which is, you know, Cinco de Mayo, but oh well. >> Exactly. Exactly. We're going to do that. And we're going to do some other things that we're working them out, too. But the problem, part of the problem is um the people who were on the board before have full-time jobs and they can't really get out either and they can't leave their jobs in Shelton and get to welfare in
105time to sign the form to release the money. So, we really don't know. We don't know how much money they have. I mean, seriously, you know, in economic times, you can't just say, "I just need to take a day off >> because you might need it for your kids' dentist appointment or something." So, did they >> they got it? >> Did they get it? >> Yes. Oh, good. >> Did you make that happen? Well, >> nice. >> I mean, she did the work. I I um asked repeatedly, but she Yeah, she did two and signed off and got the um Nova showed me the check today. She came and met with me. Oh, nice. And um it's just under $9,000 from the other account that she moving today into. >> So, it's finally getting into
106a PTSO account. Okay. >> Cuz it was in the old account. >> That's what you've been dealing with. It's just like so there's six people trying to do all of these things and it's just kind of crazy. But I mean, you know, we have plans. We'll get there. We'll get some stuff done. Sorry. >> Oh, I loved what you said. It was so important. >> I was just worried about those two especially when I have days off. No, I'm done. >> I'd like to say Britney, thank you. She helped me print out paperwork. And she's also the backbone to to us getting making the appointments or creating meetings and all that. And then also I just love to see the spring sports here and the kanas. That's a big thing. It's a huge thing to
107have children come and stay after school instead of sitting at home by themselves or wondering what friend's house to hop over to. So, I I think that's awesome that we have more of of programs like that and keep them coming. >> Well, I'm going to use my time to kind of get to appreciate what you're doing, Ann. And it's pretty cool, Sherry. It's pretty cool. It's it's amazing that my life our lives are very good in the environment that we make from property. I'm not interested in that. So, >> let's keep it going. >> Um, probably the thing here that I would use my time too is that the way I thought it's not on the agenda, but I would put it in my comments about the May 5th breakfast. And it sounds to me
108like I heard you say maybe I had to have Theresa on your should make two casserles from top. >> I don't know. I'll bring I'll last year I bought a casserole and then I brought a berry thing. Uh some kind of a berry I don't know crumble thing. And they were both regular cake size pants. So I'll bring those two things this year. >> I will say I dropped the ball last year and brought the coffee late. [laughter] Um and I will be there on time this year. I think we should be here about like 6:30 7 >> I would think between 7 and 7:30 so we can I'll bring some stuff. I'm thinking 10 tables. >> Are we going to have it set up in here or in the in the break room in
109the comments? >> In the comments. Okay. >> So, I'll bring 10 tablecloths. Kind of like just cheap old things. You just so it covers them up. Looks better. Okay. >> I'll bring some stuff like that. >> And um let's see. Tom, what did you kind of have on your >> uh I'm gonna have a baked kind of breakfast. >> Yeah. >> Cake. >> I'm not sure exactly what it's going to be. I'll be talking to my chef >> in more detail. >> So nice you guys have these personal chefs that >> love it. >> [laughter] >> We can't do a recording. >> I guess you can edit that. >> Okay. So, you you had the berries and the cinnamon. No, I had the cinnamon. >> I had cinnamon rolls. And then and I'm not sure
110where Wes uh where Wes on his I might reach out to him and just see what >> tell Wes he can Uber eat something here. [laughter] >> Uber eat something here of juice would be good. He understand everybody of orange juice. >> Yeah. Just >> Okay. I'm gonna finish it with you. Um, you know, we get feedback a lot about how school is, but probably one of the most amazing feedback we've had is that family through was a homeschooled family and I had lots of friends and um and church families that um that do homeschool because they don't always trust what happens at school. >> Um, and it's not just staff, but it's other students. just a variety of reasons why they choose to homeschool. um uh and they've been homeschooling a long time and
111for various reasons they needed to not do that. But they've come here and um they've been wonderful. But also they've given me a tremendous um uh feedback um that we're a place that is safe for families to bring their children and they can actually get a a good quality safe place to to go to school. So they are a great feedback for me that would create school. >> All right, let's show that we got no and all right. Thank you all. >> Thank you all.