001We're so seconded. >> Okay. So, we have just a couple little minor things we're going to let tonight and when we get down to item number 11, we're going to let uh change the order of presentation between Hannah and Jerry. And outside of that, I mean there'll be an exclusion later on in item 13 in the new business, but we that's really we're not adding anything. It's just a couple little minor tweaks. >> Okay. Thanks. And we're going to call for vote. All in favor? >> I >> 100%. Okay. So, tonight you welcome visitors to Jerry. It's invited Lance Carpel Van is from Brafield. Uh he will be running this November in the open position for Deb's position which she'll vacate in first of year. So, Lance is uh recently retired, longtime decorated military career
002in the United States Navy. Anything else you'd like to say, Lance? >> No, I'm just uh father of three, grandfather of 10. Born and raised. >> Yeah, born and raised in Washington, Columbia originally, but >> we won't hold that. >> No, it's okay. It's all good. But no, happy to be here. So, so just so you know this is Wes Martin by the way. Yeah, >> of course you met Jerry obviously you know me every from Pirates Gold and Wes and and Tom are basically Mason Lake area from Tumb I'm I'm on the I'm on the the better lake Benson Lake >> I'm on the bigger lake. >> How do you spell your last name, Lance? H A R P E L >> H A R Pelp H A R T E L. >> But
003you know what? I answered them both because it sound correct. >> Ok. Yeah. Really? >> No. Can Can I just ask the >> Yes. Yes. >> What interested you in in the school board? >> Father of three, grandfather of 10. Mhm. >> Okay. >> You know, uh I think our kids are probably our most precious resource and ultimately we'll take over where and make a better country, civil economy, whatever you want to call it. They're going to do better than we did and we're going to help them along the way. >> Yeah. One can hope. That's good. Yeah, it's really good. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Happy you stepping up. >> Happy you stepping up. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I really appreciate really cool. So you're more than welcome to stay and watch
004us how we go through this or if you like. >> Okay, awesome. So public comment. So Sher, I don't see anybody here. >> No, no public comment tonight. Student recognitions and then we get down to agenda item number eight, recognition. >> Yeah. So as a tradition every month we try to recognize students who have done well in our school who are outstanding because we want to acknowledge people that are working hard and doing good and so we do that with students throughout the year but once a year we like to recognize the community. So, uh, a few years back, uh, we established the the Great View Community Partnership Award. And that award goes to people who contribute to our school in some way. Um, usually through they're not staff, they're volunteers, people in the community
005who have worked hard um, to do to contribute to our school. When I speak at the volunteers, I I do the same speech. It's a little dull, but it I really mean it. Um, I say that one of the things that's um, we are I've worked at quite a few different schools and um, and I've probably watched and what makes them good or or better. Um, one of the things that I've noticed that what takes a school from good to great is the community and those people who invest in the school. And so, um, that's why I wanted to do this award and acknowledge those people that do that. And so, as we were thinking, administrative team thinking about who might that be, um, we saw a little red sport, little red car out in
006the drive parking lot of Louise who has been coming here regularly. Actually, she's been involved in the school before I was born. She was involved in the school and helping in various ways at various capacities for over 60 years. >> The old school. >> At the old school. Yes. It's all it's all great school and it was at the old school and then it continues on here. You come and you read with kids and contribute in an important way. So the longevity uh is really outstanding and your commitment to uh the success of the school over many decades is much appreciated. So if you'd come up, I'd like to give you the award for the Great View Community Partnership Award for 2025. >> Thank you. >> You got to remember I'm getting old. >> Yes,
007I know. Yeah, that's part of the reason 60 years of service. >> So, I want a picture with the board up there. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Well, let me set this down for a minute. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Don't get fingerprints on. >> Okay. Now, what are we doing? >> Stand right there and they'll surround you there. Okay. Oh, >> this is a proson moment. Hey everybody, >> all day. Well, I thank you all very much for for the thoughtfulness of this. >> Here comes the box. That's very nice. >> And I'm not gonna cry. >> I'm gonna see you crying. >> All the weeping willow in the DCA. And I'm not >> there. Take my arm. I'm gonna walk. >> Yeah. Just this year we had some good volunteers and that
008be is just a pro and knows the routine and I give her a schedule and she's like they're so thankful and the kids absolutely adore the she works on handwriting and um they love >> it's been it's been a good trip. If you if I might indulge you a little bit here. So the family moved to Gra View in 1922. My father was seven years old and of course the the school in in the old Fair Harbor Marina where is where my dad attended it had just been built and they vacated the one that's on the end of uh East Stadium Beach >> which I believe Ed Johnson and and his partner now they've incorporated in their garage that was playing coach. But I think when when we did that reunion back in 2020 or
009so, dad had picked up the microphone and thought this not the side of him. I'm saying, but he used to start the fire in the morning at 6:00 a.m. and mop the floors and I can't remember it was 25 cents a week or 25 cents a day. It might have been a week. And then of course, so he was there in the 20s and my brother was there at the original school at P Harbor in the 40s and I was there in the 60 50s and 60s. And then of course mom is part of the PTO and teachers association and observe with the fire department. So it's been a long been a long long journey >> and then of course the school location was open with the 80. So anyway but nice job. Thanks. >>
010Well thank you all. >> Yeah I just have a a comment. I met Louise early on. I started coming to the board in 2013 to replace one of the board members who was moving out of district and I quickly learned that Louise was an instigator. >> She was inator good of the school, the good of the community. >> I'm glad you okay. >> Thanks again. >> Mom, you're you're welcome to stay this. You're welcome to go ahead and with your evening whatever do whatever you want. >> Yeah. Well, I'll say >> Wes does this periodically that the reason they call >> there's no reason why they call it a board meeting. >> Anyway, okay. >> So, good job on that item number eight there. So, announcements. It looks like Fourth of July holiday board meeting
011is the 23rd of July. Next one. Okay. I'd like a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I move to consent agenda. >> Uh any discussion here? Um it's interesting this this anonymous donation of the yearbooks. This has been kind of an ongoing thing here. Is it four or five years anyway? >> Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah. I I remember yeah >> Julia is an anonymous >> I mean few of us know who it is >> the same anonymous >> that's really >> could you talk to them see if they have another friend that would like >> great >> any more discussion on the consent agenda if not I'd like to call for a vote all in favor I >> 100%. >> Okay. So, we're down now out of item number
01211. So, what I'm going to do here is change the order of presentation tonight. And Hannah, I'm going to have you go first. >> Okay. All right. Um, so I do want to say about the yearbook since I have it in here. What that does, that $1,000 donation is it makes it um we would have to charge like $22 a year per kit. Um, and it takes it down to $15 a year. And then we accept donations as well. So, um, several families will say, "Here's $30." So, then, you know, here's my kids yearbook, and then she'll have other kiddos. So, we made a list of kiddos. And this year, um, we were able to gift um, I think six year books to kids based off of donations. So, um, that's really meaningful. And, and,
013uh, some of those kind of selections of kids were um, kids who we knew could not afford a yearbook, who made that very clear, but who are also um, like eighth graders, sleeping great, and that's really important to us. or um students who are moving and know and that's really important. We want to make sure that they get that yearbook um to remember our great school. So that donation is really important to us and I hope they keep it going every year. Um all right, so the end of school brought some really joyous activities to great view. Field day was an absolute blast. We did not get a dark tank this year. um the total cost for us to get the duct tank with the rental and with the increased liability insurance because those insurance
014companies are just they're no fun. Um it it was going to be like $800 to something. It was ridiculous. And for one day um >> they didn't miss it. >> It was so much fun and they got to um you know host down with real powerful squirters um staff members. Um, so that was fun and you know and that the kids didn't miss it. You know, they had so much fun. Um, and that's all thanks to Megan Pearson, the way that she creates this as a middle school leadership opportunity. So, all the middle schoolers run the events. Um, and they partner with the little kiddos so that they can go to the different events and it's a really neat thing to see. Um, we had uh one of our par educators, Sierra Se is um
015um with the Miss Washington organization and she uh had a Miss Washington teen come out and crown and um dress and take pictures with the kids in her stash and then she allowed the kids to soak her. um she went put on teacher clothes because she allowed them um to just stow her completely and she was just thought this was the best school she'd ever been and all local girls and especially our tea cares just loved the fact that the princess was doing events with them. Um it was just special things like that. We had lazy county sheriff's office up here with K9 unit um the fire department. We just it's a great community event where we see um that this is a community school. So it was awesome. Um, and that's Megan Pierce's leadership
016and that I really she needs to not just to get her credit for that, but the recognition of the amount of work for months that she puts into that event is phenomenal. Uh, eighth grade graduation ceremony was great. We did have all 25 of our graduates here. Um, we had one who chose to not walk with his class or sit with them. He wasn't feeling very well and so he but he still came which we had heard that he wasn't going to but he still came and I don't know if it was truly he wasn't feeling well versus just anxiety or sadness to be in great field but he at least came know he participated in watching his class and getting a cupcake stuff like that which was great. Um, so we eighth graders also
017went uh to Ocean 5 and Sky Zone for their eighth grade trip that they earned through the Gator Gallup and other events that they do. And they had a great time. They had a lot of fun. Um, it was a long day between both of those those places that they had fun. Um, and that was all put on and organized by um our ASB Candace Joseph who you know picks on all of our A3 end of the year events and throughout the week with ASB. the curriculum adoption and pilot year. If you notice, we have a lot of materials in here. Um we are adopting a um well, we are piloting sampling math curriculum next year for an by next spring. You will hear our top choices and that's put together by our curriculum team.
018So, it's not just administration, it's teachers and um you know, it's staff that are working with the kiddos from all levels and and their say and their input is is really what makes the difference. Um when we did this back with math expressions, I was third grade teacher at the time. Um, and I remember that adoption process and it really didn't matter what the teacher said because they're the ones using it and and I really appreciated that at the time that we had that saying that voicement. So that's going to happen next year. We've got some really exciting samples I've gone through and I have my favorite >> I have a favorite purple name. So yeah, those look but not because of the color but because I mean that one helps but has been um
019our sales executive and our car salesman negotiator >> car salesman negotiator. >> Amazing the work because these companies want to they want to charge you for a a pilot year. They want to charge you small amounts for all these things with discounts on it or that will be deductible if you choose our, you know, curriculum. They want to, you know, because they're trying to make money >> and if you get the Northwest package, >> you know, it's so much about and years, you know, years ago services and I warned her. I said that's not my specialty is negotiations. I didn't know that that was something I would need to be really good at. So that was hard for me, but I we got I got through it. This was not hard for her. >> Bulock
020her way through. She got these samples completely costf free. And then we were just at the AWSP conference and we went to one of the vendors. Are I ready? And she was like, "Oh, I've been working with you over the phone. I was talking to one of the gals there who she's been working with and she goes, "Oh, your other two sets that you asked for in addition are are they were mailed out yesterday. They're all good." Thank you. >> This is amazing. So huge props because we have so many samples to go through and real curriculum she'll again try with our kids so we can see what programs we want to to hold on to. So um that's a amazing skill that I didn't know she had that she will be attending the next
021time I purchase a car. >> I have a question. How long do we hold on to a curriculum like that? Is it 10 years, five years? >> So you know it's a really great question. So we developed this um like a curriculum um looping calendar years ago um and then co hit when we were in adoption periods and pilot periods and so we liked it into doctor and what that what that did is it kind of pushed out calendars in a weird way. So it's usually 7 years and then a year of sampling and adoption. Um, so every eight years, but sometimes when standards change so dramatically, like when we went from Glee and Dealers to Common Core, we couldn't be on a curriculum schedule. We had to adopt new curricula for districts because that
022was such a significant change. And they're pulling a lot more STEM um components and requirements into curriculum. And so we're at a good place with our adoptions. Like this is a good time. Um, I believe that this adoption one is not going to be cheap. There is a full budget for it. You know, there's there's money set aside specifically for curriculum adoptions. Um, but I think that this one will be a full cycle. I don't see any interruptions. >> So, it's it's more banned for beds. I would say I think so. I mean, don't hold me to do that for, but I think I anticipate that. I've seen the patterns, you know, increase and change. Right. I anticipate that the newest of the new right now is um some things that's including more STEM and
023engineering components for kids. >> Also, I've got another question. Is it integrated with the new uh smart screens too? >> Um the ones that we're looking at are and there's one extra with it. Like there's one that's more so than all the others. It's also my favorite. >> It's really wellrounded. Well, it just adds more value in my opinion to have those interfaces and Yeah, that's awesome. >> Yeah, exactly. And those are all things that that we look at and consider. So, even though the maybe my favorite is the most expensive, there's components of it that are so well-rounded that cover so many different things and investments that we've made that it's really I think more for our back. >> So, I think what I hear saying is that there's going to be zero problems
024with implementing it, right? It's going to go super smooth >> and all of our scores are going to go way up. I think she's saying that >> I mean to hear her enthusiasm behind it Christmas for educators like >> when we unbox and exactly there's something about it that's really inspiring and helpful and so we looked through them and this is all Cindy she's gone through um the ed reports and um pulled it into three and met with the curriculum team and uh you know with those collections and you know and then they started to come in the boxes and it was so exciting to look through all of them. >> Another question how many like are these books specific to Washington state or are these national books that have a curriculum throughout the United
025States? Like how does that work? Most programs are national like and and hopefully >> a lot of our ELA programs will match up to state like they will have um state supports that have history components or you know social studies curriculum. So there's but the big companies are big and broad and then they'll have subsections that are specific to students. >> I have a question. Tell me about the last day and the kids rallying and then the departure. >> All right. Yes. Um so the last day of school um it was so fun. Uh the kids left smiling, some are sad. Um but they were sad for the long break and they were the eighth graders. That was the part that surprised me. So the eighth graders don't really have to laugh. There's a lot
026being recorded. There's 180 school days. So we don't like a lot of kids. A lot of eighth graders listening for the last day of school. It's a half day. The eighth graders is kind of the big deal for them to like it's like senior skip day type of a thing for the eighth graders. >> Um every one of our eighth graders was here last day of school. Um supporting the kids, walking around the classrooms, interacting with people. We played them in nitro ball staff against eighth grade. Um, it was fun and they they beat us. Oh, >> they beat us. >> Sean, we were in the lead like the first half and then they had subs and we didn't. >> You got chuckered out and they didn't. >> They switch out the whole side. It's
027like in kids soccer when you watch a team with 10 subs and they switch out the whole side. It's a beating. >> But actually was really fun. It was It was a blast. do it again. >> Yeah, we did bubbles and we did we all go outside and we move them all up a grade like our first graders, our second graders and they um their second grade teacher comes and greets every one of her second graders and so you know the move up ceremony is really fun. Um it was a really special day. Um good >> and then we play bubbles and sing songs with them as they get on buses and parents. It's it's really it's special. This year we made signs. Last year we dressed up in inflatable costumes. >> It's funny. >>
028Yeah. >> Um the school yearbook was a super success. We talked about the donation, but does that whole event um of the yearbook um throughout a whole school year um taking pictures and putting that together. And then this year she had a couple middle schooler eighth graders who wanted to start an as through ASB a yearbook club and help her with certain pictures and things that were important to them to be included. So, um, a couple of our eighth grade kiddos, maybe even a seventh grader helped on the yearbook club, um, and participated with that. So, that was exciting to see. And they would come through during this to make sure they were getting pictures. If somebody was missing from the yearbook, they were sent on a mission to find them. >> Yeah. Way pitch
029off um, broadcasting support and help as well because she got the good equipment. So, it was it was helpful. Um, some of you, uh, this is kind of on a sadder note, some of you have seen the information in the press release about the Hopkins Middle School dance that happened on June 7th, um, that the PTA put on with fifth graders. Um, the original press release said that it was an event that invited or that was involved grade students. Um, it was not an event that involved any grade students. We were not invited to the event. Um, and we were not a part of it. And I verified that with every single fifth grade family. Um and then I contacted um North Mason County School District and um they and verified with them and they
030redacted um that information from their statement and I contacted the sheriff's department and they put out an update that redacted great view from their statement. Excellent. Um and then I did reach out to um the local news stations that put out a report about it. Um, but I was sent to their media input voicemail and I let them know that those reports had been updated and great school district was taken out. Of course, nothing ever happened with that. But I just wanted you guys to know um I feel like we did our due diligence in ensuring that none of our fifth graders were involved um or any part of that um situation and um we informed our parents of that as well that none of our kids were involved in that. Not a single one
031of them even knew about it was inflicted. >> What was the the press that you left a voicemail for >> Cairo and I also did with KO because both of them did a story on it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And as a followup to that, the the article in the show journal that was kind of an update of ongoing discussion that is in your opinion is they are is it going to just die or is there going to be some discipline or >> not sure is this did the Mason County I haven't read the the newest journal. Did they include great view in it as well? >> No, it was not great was not included. >> It was they were just talking about the ongoing Yeah. >> Yes. Yeah. I have a feeling that um
032being that the situation happened um so close to summer break, it's my noticings often in the past that the the sheriff's office will do a phenomenal job with their investigation. Um but as far as the community um uh concern and disruption, they'll they'll notify people, but they the the parents are on summer break with their kids and when they come back in the fall um they might have concerns, but at that point a lot of it will probably be wrapped up and have more conclusions up there. >> Give me a thumbnail version of what happened. I didn't hear about >> Well, yeah. So, um I'm not fully sure of what happened, but the the stories that were reported was that um the sheriff's department was called at a PTA event where they invite both the
033fifth graders from Sand Hill and Beler Elementary. Um and they've done this a few years in a row where they've had a dance at the hub, but this year their dance was at Hawkins Middle School. And there have been times where few fifth graders have been invited and some move on up from fifth grade to middle school dance. And there are PT and parent shops at it. Um but this year they did it at Hawkins Middle School. Hawkins Middle School administration or the school itself was not involved. It was a PTA funded and sponsored event. Um and at the event there were accounts and um I guess you can say accusations that there were a few boys there who were using cell phones um to take inappropriate pictures of girls um like of their skirts,
034things like that. That was just what was reported. I'm not sure um what happened with that, but then some of the girls um went and told an adult and reported um the incident um as being um and there was also reports that there was aggression by some of the boys um of inappropriate um touching as well. Again, I don't know if any of those have validated or anything, but the I know that there were like three patrol cars that reported and started investigating situation to shut down. >> And in the news report, they said fifth graders from Great View, Sand Hill, and Belfare Elementary. And so that was what I wanted to immediately because we were not at heart. >> Yeah. Good. Ironically, it is it's a good It should be a healthy event. I
035was going back in my days of the old 4 camp that we used to pend out and used to shel in the lake and that was always a highlight for the dance that we were allowed to go to. So I mean it's interesting how times have changed. Well, you know, I mean, I think I think that the, you know, bad apples haven't changed. There's bad apples everywhere. And, you know, combine that with immaturity, right? Um, >> access to >> and access to technology and and um >> Well, yeah. you know, and and it just is too bad because you're right. I mean, that is a good event to to involve all the schools and, you know, I mean, and it's too bad that something like that would happen. >> Um, the next thing is really
036exciting that I want to talk about. Um, I'm so glad Katie could come because she can talk about it so much better. So, I'm going to give this over to Katie for just a couple of minutes. Um, because she took every two years she takes a group of our kiddos to Washington DC. This is not a great view school sponsored event. She does this through World Strides um or another travel company. Um and she is not paid for this. This is not something that this is something she school is just out and she takes a group of te of the middle school teenagers to Washington DC to experience some beautiful educational opportunities. So uh she had a great trip. She just got back on >> early Saturday morning. >> Yeah. 2:30 Saturday morning it pulled
037into my abuse parking lot to hand off the kids. So I'm not off the clock until those kids are out of my charge. Um so I had eight adults, eight children, three adults. So there was a total of 12 of us. It was it was really funny because we have to do head count all the time and they're moving and it got to where we like, okay, four girls, four boys, four adults because I would count and I'd be wrong. Um, we got to see a lot of really good things. I really fight to get to Gettysburg because that's how I end 8th grade year is the Civil War and Reconstruction. And this year's was really poignant. One, the Emancipation Proclamation only comes out once a year. They bring it out at Junth. Last time
038when we were there, it was a brand new holiday, so we were able to see it. This year, it was a much more well-known holiday. So the traffic and the crowds were ridiculous and the line was over an hour long which then meant my kids could see the Constitution this time because nobody's crowding around the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So there was a tradeoff. Um but we went to Gettysburg then we went to the Emancipation Proclamation and then we went to Fort Theater and we were able to go into the house across the street where they took Lincoln before when he died. Um, and so the theater museum underneath there was a lot of times when you get there either in the morning or the evening, you sit in the theater and they
039tell you the story. Well, they don't do that throughout the day, but there was a national parks ranger who stood in a backdrop stage and told the story with amazing engagement. The kids were just sucked in. Uh, so they're meandering and all of a sudden, they're there listening to this guy who has some really neat stories and some good tie-ins and things like that. And it really moved a couple of the kids, the whole idea that our world changed because of this one act of evil. >> U, we went to the Holocaust Museum and I don't get to do a lot with World War II with my students. A lot of them are just fascinated on their own and we touch on it with um the Soviet Union in geography, but I had one who
040was just near tears through the whole exhibit and his chapron and the other kids were walking faster and he was getting I'm like I will walk with you. That's why I don't have a group. I'm I'm your buddy now. And I just because I'd been there so many times I didn't need to worry about it. So we just walked at his pace and he just took it all in and absorbed it. Um so I think that was really beneficial to him. Yeah. >> Can I ask did you guys um get assigned I IDs when you start? >> Yes. So and I had warned them. I said when you go in you're going to get this card. It's going to be a person and don't read the back until we get through the museum. >> Uh
041most of them died. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. my person had died. A couple of the kids had someone who survived, so they were really excited. Uh if you do the spy museum, which is not as heavy, it's more fun, you get a similar idea that you get an identity to follow through. We didn't do that this time, >> but it's hard because we're such a small school. >> Yeah. >> Uh to get a bus to ourselves, we would have to have 35 people >> and I had 14 go my first year and I had 12 this time. So I figure that's going to be my average. So we get partnered up with a bigger school and we follow their schedule which most of the time is not a big deal. This year there was
042a lot more traffic because people have been told to come back to work and it doubled our commute time anywhere because they always put you in a hotel outside of DC. So we're always like in Virginia or Maryland this summer in Maryland. And we spent the first three days, one of my parents was just frustration because we've been on this bus for 14 hours >> like, "Yeah, it's just the traffic. There's nothing you can do about traffic." And then we had a thunderstorm roll in and derail our monument visits >> and these kids had never seen a east coast thunderstorm and we're on the bus and it was even. So then we ran into the National Archives where we saw the Magna Carta, we saw the Constitution and Bill of Rights and I get shot.
043>> That's it's quite a trip. I've been to DC >> ton a ton of times and uh it's it's amazing every time. >> This was my fourth time and I had three brand new experiences I had never done. We toured the National Cathedral, right? >> We um I went to the house where Lincoln died. And I remember what the third one was. Oh, we walked up to the Washington Monument. It's been under reconstruction the last two times I met. >> Yeah. >> So, we got to walk around it. We didn't go up, but we were up super close and the kids could do the perspective photos and strange things. >> So, I was told that kids are no longer taught um uh well, I guess it was called cursive writing when I was in school.
044Um, you know, so could they read the Constitution? >> Oh, no. >> So, I one, it's way >> translated. >> It the the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights are extremely faded. The in which is why they're dark. You're not allowed to use flash photography. That's the other reason the Emancipation Proclamation is only brought out once a year. Um, so that in and of itself proves how important these historical documents are. For cursive, I write our menu and our directions for home room every morning in cursive. >> Excellent. >> Because I at least want them to recognize the word lunch. >> So, so I I I had a contractor at my house, right? And and he had younger workers there. And I wrote I wrote on thank you notes and I write in cursive
045and and I've got bad handwriting anyway. So, you know, combine that with he he had no idea what it said. They had to read it to him. >> And I I thought, "Oh gosh, you know, why aren't we doing that?" But anyway, so uh what an amazing trip. Yeah, you you ought to uh you ought to uh there's some really interesting architectural notes about the Holocaust Museum and how it was designed. >> Yeah. When you walk in the downstairs floor that you're standing in before you >> walking above >> is made to look like a gas chamber. >> Yeah. So it starts off and what was really cool because I had told the kids on the bus, at least I told my group, this is a somber experience. You will not be loud. When you
046go in, you are going to take this respectfully. And the gal that told introduced us before we went into that elevator was one of the Holocaust survivors. There's a few of them left and she volunteers once a week and we just happen to get her. I I find it insulting that in today's society, everybody's calling each other Nazis and and if you really know what a what that word means, >> you know, there you know, >> and look at the anti- anti-semitism that's happened. Yeah. And my kids just went through this experience and it's like >> it's very difficult to see that. >> But anyway, wow, volunteering that time. what it's saying to >> recognize her and dance after this because this is like we were so tired um after the school year. It was
047wonderful, but it's like exhausting. And then I asked her to text me on, you know, Monday night, make sure they got their safe and sound, follow the kids, and she called me and she's like, "We're here." I'm like, >> "That's just amazing." >> I still remember some of the things we were talking about. >> I remember the opportunity. My brother did. I went with my oldest son and my dream was to be the leader of these trips and I even offered Josie way back when when somebody stepped out and they weren't gonna do it anymore. Said, "Josie, I know I teach kindergarten, but I'll be so glad." So, here I am. I haven't man or woman. >> It was a woman. >> Oh, she must be. I would have to say she would have had
048them been very young when surprisingly >> you got you got to see you went through crackout correct >> crackout >> excuse me >> yeah I've done that too and that was >> terrible >> yeah so they have a section there where the there are some pictures that they put behind a wall Mhm. >> And in they don't tell you what it is. So you are welcome to go around the wall and see. And then they also have a ch a room where you can sit and listen to actual recorded recountings. Um >> do they still show the the the file um videos that were being filmed during experiments? >> I don't know that I saw any of that. That might be behind the wall. Yeah. But there are pictures where they use the bodies of
049railroad ties >> there. I mean there are some really strong images again to prove that this was real. >> Um and it was I just felt that it was a it's such a benefit to my kids because they don't get that. >> Yeah. We're so far removed. Yeah. >> What what was really interesting is the tiles together for me last 10 years was the remake of the movie Lincoln. >> Yeah. >> And that was >> Yeah. >> Unbelievable. Gettysburg was tied into that as well as >> what he had to go through in order to get the patient proclamation ratified by >> it. People talk about tearing statues down and stuff. They they don't know what's behind it. There's an excerpt of a recording of him with Frederick Douglas. And I use Frederick Douglas's book
050in my eighth grade class when we start getting into the racial tensions or the tensions in the north and south to help them understand how our society could have done that. >> You know, you dehumanize, you take away their humanity and then having it in someone's own words is powerful. Yeah. Um, so it's it's a wonderful opportunity. I wish more kids could go, but it is financially burdensome. Um, and that's why we go every two years so they can spread the payments out and make it a little more easy to solve. and just say say something quickly that >> it it also teaches that that even though other societies like you know maybe the majority are doing the same thing you're doing it doesn't it it doesn't take away from the evil of what you're
051doing right >> and so you know when when you're in something and you know it's wrong but you know societyy's like well everybody's doing Well, >> should you be? >> So, anyway, thank you for doing that. Thank you. >> All right. So, >> thank you. >> So, our summer projects and things that are coming up um on Tuesdays we're going to have like reading days and stuff foundation books like the time to have there's a schedule up there for it. We're having preacher teachers come. Cindy's arranged all of it um to to make sure and Jerry with South Reading to to get that um operation again. So, they're going to be coming up and there's a schedule up there. Um really exciting. We've been working to get um bring you some art back in the
052um water festival because years ago we used to have um we used to have a booth for you know our pottery and things like that um that were in there and our glass etching and um we haven't had that for a while. So, we have our those beautiful new wheels that you pass um Tony is putting a special backing on them that will keep them lightweight. We've been working with Lori on um and Ed White um and we are getting um and Margaret can't remember Margaret's last name with the GCA, but we've been working and we have a location and Chris and I are going to get them and um help get them up on the 25th. And so then I'll be with them all day on the 26th to kind of talk about our
053students who did them, how the work is done. Um Gloria will come if she can and we're gonna have four of our amazing murals up on display at the water festival with her drove. Um so that's really what makes an impress. Okay. Um so this next part is going to be something that's really exciting and wonderful but also um an incredibly hard thing that I had to do. So um I just want you guys to know I'm not a crier. I never have been. I'm in the middle of six of seven kids. So I'm pretty pretty tough at your children. Um but um I've been at for 15 years now including a year of seven and it's my favorite place to be. So I'm just going to read this because I will do better reading.
054Um it is with a very full and grateful heart that I share my resignation as principal of school. I have accepted a leadership role in a larger district. I can't um disclose it until they have their um public disclosure um tomorrow afternoon. Um, but it's a really um exciting leadership role in that district with a lot of growing opportunities and one that will allow me to continue to challenge myself and expand my work in educational leadership with some new um opportunities and avenues that I can grow. But making this decision has been so difficult because great has been my home and workplace has been more than workplace to me. has been home um my kids homes and my husband has participated here for so long. Over the past 14 more years I have served um
055in this school as a parent, a teacher, a student services um coordinator and a principal and also as a proud community member. Each role has deepened my love and my appreciation for what makes this place so special. Great view has shaped me. I started out here at like 27. Like, it has shaped me. I'm in my 40s now. This district has shaped me. Um, it supported me and it's allowed me to grow in ways that I could never have imagined that I could grow while being the place that Chris and I have raised our children. We have raised our children in these walls. In the old building before all of the stream model, I have sewed pictures of my little girls unboxing curriculum, um, organizing my bookshelves. We've like literally raised our children in the
056school. Eden, my husband, helped out when he was working on his master's degree um with maintenance and operations and building. And I have pictures um of me coaching basketball and Maddie being in there and helping. She's only five and Chris vacuuming the middle school, building middle school buildings before they were um uh open with Mary and holding the rope for the for the vacuum cleaner as a little two and a halfyear-old because she'd rather be running wild in the gym. But my kids have literally been reached here. Um when Mary was two, Joe told me just to work because I didn't have a I was studying. I didn't have um child care for her. She said, "Just bring her in. She'll sit with Sherry." And she Sherry gave her a Tinkerbell um band-aid for a
057hangail. And then she wouldn't speak to Joan. She would growl at her, but she uh this little pit squeak um would just was her world. She would sit up on her lap and cuddle with her. So like like I really mean it. They were raised here. This community based them. This school board has been quite honestly a school leader dream. Your commitment to students, your trust in the professionals who serve them and your unwavering support for the school leadership are the cornerstones of our success and it's been an absolute honor to serve alongside of you. >> Thank you. When I'm stepping away from this role, I leave this school with the best team of leaders the school could ever hope for. And although I'm leaving this role, I remain a proud and consistent Great View
058community member who will always support the heart of this community, which is this school. Um, thank you for your belief in me and for your dedication to this community and this school and all the work that you've done. I think you you forgot the one line though at the end, which was I I mean I I've actually seen this letter ahead of time and you forgot the line that says just kidding. >> You're not going to read that? >> No, I'm not going to read that. Okay, >> then just so you know, um I've been thinking about that a lot this especially this year as my kids have grown and they moved on to new experiences and challenges and I thought you know the time is going to come for me to move on to
059new experiences and and new things that we do as humans. We grow and we change and things weren't happening. You know OSPI is was cut by 12% and districts were cutting positions and I thought okay this isn't the right time. Um, and then that changed literally a week ago from yesterday and then it's been like it it was just and when those kinds of things happen and um things come together and I have the most supportive mentor who says I'm not sure who says if this is right then this is right and and when it comes together and falls together that way. Um I haven't sort of anything yet. um still trying to like work through that, but I I also um have great help and and guidance that's you know been really supportive the
060entire thing. We appreciate the straight >> orientation. Congratulations on your tough but you uh you do very well. >> I'm guessing you probably have a bunch of friends up in the district, right? >> I actually I have one Oh, I have I have a couple of people that I know there, >> but overall >> it's going to be different. >> Yeah. >> You're going to come back as a great be community member and sit over there in the visitor section someday. >> Well, oh, you better. >> You're gonna get the tired little fingerprints all over it. >> She's gonna be tired. >> Oh, yeah. I can't wait to come into like a Christmas concert and just stand in the back and just love on those kids but be able to do it um in a
061different perspective. So 14 years 14 years in of contracted employment, but there was a year of subbing and I did like a long-term sub in kindergarten that year for um for Sherry and then um Sher Gil I um Marie Duckworth um went on one of her broad trips and so I did a longterm sub in that like so 10 11 is when I filled out an application fingerprinted and started there. >> Yeah. And I think I think that I got on the board shortly after that, like maybe about a year or two after afterwards. But uh but Hannah's class was one of the we used to as a board get invited to, you know, visit a class and participate. And I remember um the first time I did that was was in Hannah's class and
062it was so much fun. And you know, we were um we were doing some kind of trivia stuff and and I was competing with the kid. It was really it was really a blast. So, and I remember thinking back then, you know, what a what a great teacher you were, you know, because all the kids were engaged and, you know, just really into it, you know, and um and again, you've really grown here and as a as a principal, I I would I would say that you probably took a lot of lessons from from Nick as well >> and um and we have had great leadership here. Not not always the greatest superintendent, Jerry. No. Um uh but you know, you you you've been a really great principal and and you you know, Grape View
063is one of those places where either people um are beginning their careers, right? you know, with brighteyed, bushy tailedness and or they they come from, you know, the world that they've been they've been through it and now they're they're winding down and they need they need a district that just, you know, is already that doesn't need a whole lot of fixing, right? And and so it's one of those it's one of those two and it's kind of a a conundrum that we all fall fall into because you know we we hold on to good people as long as we can but if they're ambitious right you know the nerve right um you know there's there's opportunities in larger larger districts hopefully hopefully you've gotten your you know your your foundation here and they'll carry it
064with you. So, but yeah, we're going to lose an asset here. >> So, I'm sad. >> So, she she she almost said she was just kidding. >> I almost got her to say >> the cons of the next meeting will be her. >> Yes. >> So, this is your your oneyear notice. So that so we we have a year to >> Okay. Any more? >> Sure. >> Yeah. So yeah, we need to think about a a party. >> I love on. >> Okay, J. All right. So, um, this wasn't surprised. We've been to me. We've been talking. I was a reference. Wrote her a letter. Um, I talked my backyard to the one of their administrators. I said, "She's practically perfect is basically what they said." And they heard me and they snapped you up.
065And >> so, it's your fault. >> It's my fault. I I take the responsibility for that. Um but the thing is when you hire great people and ambitious people, you know that sometimes they move on, right? And um and that's hard, but it's also good because you love them and you want them to achieve and um and that's what's happened to me. So, um, but with that, I've learned that it's important to build your people and have a plan. Um, and so, um, we I've done that. We've done that and, uh, with with Cindy. Um, we've been working with her. She's been part of the leadership here at the school for quite some time. And, um, we used that position that she's in to really build her schoolwide leadership skills. And if you might have
066noticed, she gets mentioned a fair amount at these meetings um from all the work she's doing. So um I'm not left in the lurch because we have um Cindy here who I am going to appoint as principal of of Great View School um to start right away and she's already been very much part of our leadership team from in the very beginning that we will um um we're we're in good hands. She's fantastic. They've been working side by side for a number of years and um they um have been fantastic and Cindy's well prepared to take job. So, >> oh my gosh. So, this is like a double wh sad happy. >> It's not that sappy. >> That's sappy. >> Yes. Yes. all sorts of of bad tea now. >> You got the tea. You
067know, >> today was at to right next to the superintendent's district office for Shelton. They had a banner up there sitting. I was talking earlier that their proficiency in reading was 2006 was 26% or 20 >> 22% and now in 2024 it was 42 or 44%. it. Yeah. It basically says that a a quarter of our students >> uh are are proficient now now um >> barely less than half are and uh and how great that is and >> I see it every time I go to the I know I don't look like I go to the gym to pretend you know what what you folks have done here as a school board watching professionalism. Yeah, >> when all entities do the right good thing and make sure our bottom didn't fall out like it
068did a lot of districts. >> You can't say what school it is yet. No, but if not until 12:30 when they have their press release tomorrow. >> So, we're we're ready. It's a move. >> Yes. It's okay. It's okay. Um um I know these things happen. and I've watched them and um then seen great people with different skills come along and uh bring their own unique character to to the job. So um Hannah is fabulous to work with. One of my favorites, but Cindy is great and will be a dynamic team, I'm sure. Um on to my other announcements. Um we Sherry did most of the leg work for the application for the um the freezer that we will be receiving very soon and there'll be a big walk in freezer. So that's coming pretty
069soon and then we can ex uh make a little easier for our kitchen staff to have things they need readily available to do the high quality cooking that they're doing. So that's a good chunk of money was about 15 grand all together. >> 207 >> 27 we have to do for that grant. I had to write how the freezer would benefit our district >> because our freezer space we have now was so small and one day Carol was gone and um I agreed to accept her her shipment that morning. There was it was a no school day and there are these giant boxes that probably weighed 50 60 pounds that I'm like struggling with trying to like petress these into >> Yeah. right after that >> and then you're like >> so I really highlighted
070that just for pure safety reason we really needed this freezer that we could walk into because somebody's was eventually going to be hurt by just trying to juggle the huge boxes in the freezer that we >> have to push that forward and we had a short timeline and she was all over it >> and 57 schools applied and 11 schools were It was it was your amazing use of vocabulary. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Sharon. >> That's awesome. >> What are the smoothie machine? >> Um, they also got smoothie machines. The things that's been around >> like giant blenders. There's two of them. >> And that came from the >> Washington Dairy Commission. >> That was a brand. So, uh, when you're a little school, you have to, uh, be resourceful and, uh, go after
071things when they come up. And we have people that are ready to do that. So, um, >> Shelton, yeah, Shelton, I'm working on the special ed contract. That's um uh we'll be thankful for them and their specialized services that they provide to us um through the speech OT um site services um and um just kind of general oversight and advice when we have questions from their special ed director. It's very valuable. It's hard to do that kind of work when you're a little school district. So when you can contract that, it's it's really helpful and and it's good for them. Um, we have a high need student that is uh moved to our district that was in a self-contained special ed program in Oregon. Um, and I'm talking to Shelton about a possible placement there,
072but I'm I met the child and um when they it they seem kind of scary when it's this giant thick IEP with all this data and all this information and they're in a self-contained program. And then I asked the mom, "Can you just bring him in?" And and they did and it was wonderful and he was just a boy and we're going to it wasn't scary at all and it was lovely. Um nonverbal, but um we're going to try to see if we can do something in house um by hiring a teacher of our own to to support them. Um and I just feel good about that. Um I like to serve my own kids and he's our kid and so I'm working on trying to make that happen here real soon. >> What about
073doing this? Would there be an offset other teacher being in house as opposed to contracting out there be an offset expenses? Um, so >> it's the same. >> It's uh I can tell you we have a child in the He's program in North Mason and it costs us aboutundome,000 a year, right? I think we will serve this child for less than that here in our own program and provide them um a better service. I I feel that we can um bring that child into our community um and not push them on the contain space. And um yeah, whenever you outsource it, it it almost feels like you're you're turning somebody >> away, right? You're you're like paying somebody else. They're your problem now, right? And I mean, I don't feel that way. I'm just saying
074that it it it kind of looks that way. >> Yeah. I mean, sometimes it's >> sometimes it's necessary depending on what they need. >> But I think this child with our space and the access to a particular staff that I think we will able to find, we'll be able to provide a wonderful program for them, their family. And so that's what I'm working towards. I suck to serve our own kids if we can. Um CTE um North Mason Advisory Committee CTE. >> Yeah. Um current technical ed is a um federal nationwide program for technical ed. Lots of federal rules and regulations and expectations and ad nauseium. But um what it is around is providing opportunities for children to have career oriented course and technical. The bulk of it is at high school. Um a lot
075of it is very specific towards careers um medical or welding or various whatever it might be. Um in middle school um there are there kind of exploratory career and technical a courses um for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. We've not generally had that opportunity to do those. In other districts, what's happened is the high school has a career technical ed director and a um staff and then they kind of build backwards to build programs for their middle schoolers. Um, however, we don't have a high school that we currently work with that's ours. And so, we're trying to I'm trying to even though I'm not a CTE director, build up a program of our own um in our small space. Um, North Mason is helping me. Shelton has helped me some, too. I have one CTE
076course. I'm working on a second and hoping to get um a third the following year. It's quite a laborious process, but it's good for the kids and um we're um yeah trying to make it happen. Um we're done with the advisory committee and now I'm trying to work with OSBI to get the course approved. It's kind of there's tight timelines and it's going to be a little tough because the the framework for the course has to be shifted for his course. So I'm hoping to have it there. Um but we we will be offering the course whether we can call it CTE or not is u dependent on whether we can get the frameworks changed to match. There's some funding too that >> there is additional funding that comes along um with being a county
077kid as is funded in the career technical course and um they just recently in the legislature passed it so that sixth graders can um take be funded worth CTE courses. So, um, that's going to expand our our options for for kids, but it's a long process to get through that. Most schools will have a director to kind of lead that process. It's I just do it in my spare time, but we're getting there. Um, so I'm really pleased as you know some of my goals um um when one of my goals was to get through the process of negotiation contracts with teachers and PSSE. So uh uh Andre and I were able to to make that happen. We met with them and we have tenative agreements with both groups that are fair and uh reasonable
078for us and them. Um we um so we're still finalizing some of the wording but making sure it's um you know we have it all uh tight right but I'm I'm very pleased with the agreements we can afford. >> Yes. Yes. >> We were very um one of the things that we were able to do is um paint the picture of what all of our neighbors are doing. um and um how much they are all getting paid and how they're all going broke. And so um once they were able to see that we were all on the same teams, none of us are we're all um dealing with the same issues and we're we're relation to comparative pay um and we said this is what we can do and I think we came up with
079a very fair agreement. they were reasonable and un understood. Um and um we played our cards on the table and I think we came out with quite a good agreement. >> Yeah. So we'll share that at the next meeting >> and that's been a that's been pretty common here at this school is um management and staff have always, >> you know, sort of seen eye to eye. >> There's a lot of different things. >> Yeah. So >> I don't I I actually I don't remember the last time we had real contentious, you know, negotiation or whatever. >> So um we had an incident um when when was that >> the sixth >> the six? >> Yeah. So we had somebody doing target practice nearby and so um uh I didn't that was in my office.
080I didn't hear it. Cindy heard it. um just took action um called a a lockdown um and shelter in place. We waited for the police. They came, we greeted them. Um and um it was towards the end of the day, so what we did is we uh stationed a police officer at the front and had one kind of go talk and explore what was going on. And then by then it was the end of the school day and they were here and um we communicated to all the families and let everybody know what you guys do. I didn't really ever feel like there was a direct threat but you can't be too cautious when there's nearby. So um but she uh took action made the decision and then we u walked it through and everybody
081was safe. >> So we've identified the neighborhood. Um, I did not. They I let the police handle the police stuff. Um, and um, we just had them here to make sure that nothing was happening. >> Was probably somebody that wasn't cognizant, >> you know, what could be interpreted, right? >> In this day and age. >> I I get it. I know. And I get it, too. I don't get it. >> Yeah. Um, we all hear target practice all the time. Amazing, >> especially around seems to >> I got an appointment and Cindy said, "You know what? This is real close." I mean, that's another sign of leadership right there. >> Okay. >> Um, you know, it's never good when as a board member you get a text from Jerry saying, "No matter what you've heard,
082it's okay." He's like, "What?" >> No. No. He didn't say that. He was just here call when you can. >> But but I it was it sounded like it was handled fairale. >> It was quick. They were safe. We were just ultra cautious because we like to >> Yeah. >> on the side of caution. Um so um civil rights um we went through every district in the state went through a civil rights review and um we um did as well. They gave us some recommendations for um what we should include. I think that um our we were on base with them on the the broad policies that are kind of broad some of the specific procedures that they recommend um or are different than how we approach some of the issues on civil rights. Um
083and so we kind of have a little bit of back and forth. Um um what I'm proceeded with is I I would there's lots of nationwide debate and um um legal battles going on about this and rather than us get stuck in the middle, we're going into summer and I submitted to them the procedures that they want and I'm going to in September um that it buys us a summer to see let everybody else fight through those procedures and um let the courts make their decisions and then review this again in September to evaluate court decisions and then review our procedures and ensure that they're reflective of work. So that's I've submitted that already to them. Um and procedures are generally uh superintendent's prerogative. Um but I know that we are all aligned in our
084views. Um and I in September I will want to revisit those procedures to ensure that they are consistent with um our community. So um that's just something that I just got the letter back from them that Sherry sended to them. Um and um they're they were just waiting on that one last thing. Um so again I can assure you that in September we will review that. that will not attack. Um, as we go into summer, um, we'll give them what they want and we'll review that when the courts have done their due diligence. The, um, Apollo, we're right at the end of that. Um, the, um, the chiller is running and it we had some nice, comfortable, cool days in here when it was hot outside. Um they're still working on some of the u
085adjustments for energy efficiency and some minor fixes that um they found in our system that kind of interact so that they could make sure just tweaking you know finalizing the projects. Um one other thing is that that we want them to um they still need to train us on using the control systems. Um, some of the things like scheduling, for example, we had air conditioner working, but we have a turn to shut off in the evenings and we happen to have a a show and it was hot and everybody um but we didn't know how to manage the controls yet. Yeah. So, um that that's coming and so we're just we're at the end of that work. Just a few things and I'm thankful for that. We go back in history when we were having
086>> and we knew it. So >> Yeah. So there's a couple big projects that were some of my goals. Right. Right. There they manage that program. Um mentor principal who I scared away. >> You mentor me. Okay. Um and then um CTE and then the teacher the agreement for a couple of major items that have always been able to check up the list for this year. That is my report. Thank you have taken the majority of the time. >> All right for the most important business. >> Thank you. >> Drum roll. Okay, I'll try. Mine mine will be quick. Mine is definitely boring those times of year for sure. >> So, Lance, if you're if you'd like to swing around more so you can see this or can you see? Okay, from there. >> Okay,
087>> so I did I did fail email out to you guys. I didn't want this month. This budget has been consuming all of my but to email this out. >> I did email it to all of you today. Please be selfish. Okay. So, this is um everything financial through the month of May. Next page, you'll see our enrollment trends over the last few years. And then that top right now box is um including our June enrollment. So, that's our year-to- date average. That's where we'll finish the the 2425 school year almost 16 FTE above what the budget is. So, a little bit work it over I thought we did this year and looking forward to next year. I've got a note at the back of this, the same note we've had for a few months
088that we're planning to budget for 210 students next year, same as we budgeted this year. And I did some quick math here with a quick whisper of Hannah on what she knew about our TK enrollment, looking for next year. And if we take that 225 yeartoday average and graduate the eighth graders and add in the 12 TK that we think we might have, and there might be more because it's still early in the year. Um and some parents families don't know when they have to enroll kindergarters. So that puts us at 210 212ish. So we should be budgeting for about what we'll have next year. >> So and and we have a degree of confidence that we're we're budgeting at the 210 that we'll be in that 225ish IMU. >> I don't see any decreases
089really people a few people moving this summer when that happens. I see people moving in Okay. So, so just at at a levels at a high level, we got like a $4 million year business about about that about 3 million comes out of this enrollment piece from OSBI with 10 10,550 or so. Yeah, people 550 is 10,000. >> So, the levy covers the other million or so. And that's the stuff that that isn't fully funded in education like cost of charity uh >> music and hand covered but the school bus the cook staff Tony's not covered pardon >> music >> so this is the stuff that we actually call it enrichment >> but anyway just wanted to kind of give that >> is that is is that still the requirement for your levy is technically
090>> to say that's enrichment Mhm. So >> basic education. >> So like buses, that's enrichment. >> Well, we call it operating. >> No, I know. I know. I just think it's kind of a shell game kind of thing. >> We receive >> I mean we get the money, you know, but it's like, >> you know, >> we do receive funding for transportation from the state of Queens. >> No, I don't. Thank you. I yeah, it's just every time that that that comes up, I just go, why, you know, why doesn't the legislature just drop that pretense and just call it, you know, a a shortfall because we're we're not getting funding from the state for that kind of stuff, right? So anyway, um, so what you're saying is is you think that this upcoming next
091year, we finished at at 225, right? And you think it's going to be similar next year or it's going to be 210 to 212. >> Based on current numbers, I think it'll be closer to the 210 to that we're >> buding. Yeah. Okay, then I heard you right. Maybe hope for more but yeah plan on less >> but we also have had told me since I've been here historically out of district families that want to come to great view so we can then add as many of those as we can fit in our classrooms >> and that's that 16 do we have te is that district piece that you're constantly being challen >> looks like we'll be in a good place before we're planning budget all right to the next slide this this third the
092money we spent last month May is in middle year to date activity encumbrance what we think we'll spend and then our balance of what we budgeted for this year so we are not on track to spend all of our money which is a good thing um it's a pretty close number though 122,000 so if you're talking about a $4 million budget 122 it's not that much of a buffer so that is one number that I'm very very closely keeping my eye on because we're not allowed to spend more than what we budgeted unless we ask for what's called a budget extension and when we get to the next live um and this is saying it's been the last few months we're receiving more revenue than we thought we would because of those extra students but
093we still can't spend more than we plan unless we've asked to request a budget extension so I think stay within I don't think we'll have to do a budget you schedule for the 210 and we go over that's what you're explaining. >> So this this is current year. So 2425 school year, we budgeted to spend $4,98,000. >> Mhm. >> And if we keep on track what we're doing right now, we'll end up spending 4,7,000ish or so. So we have 122,000 that still spend without exceeding our budget. and the state doesn't allow us to exceed our budget unless we tell them. We have to request what's called a budget extension. We have to do it before we spend the money. Um, and it has to be done before before August. So, it would be in the
094next few weeks. We just have to it's just really close. I just wanted to call that out and make you aware that we and it's because we we've received more revenue. We have more students. We have a little bit more money to spend than we thought we would, but we still don't get to spend it unless we add personally. Can we roll that over or is that a use it or lose it? No, it stays within the group and we should be good. I just I've been looking at that very closely since I got there. This is the slide that's um been a similar story for the entire year. The revenues compared to budget have been higher and the expenditures have been a little bit higher but not as high. So that's just the money
095we're saving. We're saving. >> That's a good story. Will insurance be going up next year, Jerry? Do you know that? >> A little. >> I know mine went up. >> It went up a little. >> Not too much. >> Not Not very much at all. Not uh the insurance provider, the Washington Schools Risk Management School sends out a letter in the spring every year of what they anticipate that increase by and then every school use a factor and every school district gets a different amount of increase. If you have a lot of claims, yours goes up more. If you don't have as many up as much. This is our second year with the risk pool and going off memory. You can correct me if you remember it. FKA projected a 12 or 15% increase in
096our single digits. >> Okay. >> Yeah, it's going up and I'm not exorbitant. A couple years five or six years ago, the districts were seeing 25% in their insurance. >> Yeah. switching to the school is a very good >> I mean that's what people are seeing you know >> I think mine was 43% increase in homeowners and and auto >> that's one of the things that's called out in the the state budget we get money for material supplies and operating costs and one of those operating costs is insurance so that pot of money went up a single you know a tiny little% enough to not as much as >> okay general fund balance is our um how we'll end the year. So this is just always looking at how we'll end the year and then
097historically how we've ended the last few years. So that top number in green um right now just using a projection formula we're projected to end the year at 792,000. we will not end up that high um because we have a lot of payments made in June. So, six months of our special education co-op payments we're making next week this week and I did some mask after June just to kind of see what it would look like and I think we'll be really really close to what we ended last year and that just about 700,000. um on that one. Those are the other fun balance. They are again almost identical to what you saw last month. We do have some exciting news coming. I was on the phone today with our school bus salesman scheduling a
098delivery. We're going to have our new school bus show up at some point next week is what we're hoping. Um they could have brought it on Friday, but that didn't work for our bus drivers. So, we're looking at a day next week. If anybody wants to be here when it shows up, let me know. And >> is it brand spanking? >> It is brand spanking >> as the new bus scene all in all time. >> I will let him know when we find out what it will be. >> We have limited color options. >> We're doing chartreuse. >> It's the lights that we want. We want the disco ones. >> Mark with that state patrol inspection. >> All right. Some of the stuff we've already talked about enrollment. Jerry, you touched on hiring the additional
099sky teacher school bus. And then because of the delay in legislation wrapping up this year and our bargaining with the two groups and me being brand new to budgeting here at Great View, I'm going to get our budget to next month. I am obligated to get it turned into our ESC by July 10th. So it will be done before that and you'll get a sneak peek there. Just didn't have it in time for this meeting. Part of that has to do with advertising. required to advertise in the newspapers and that takes a week or so before the actual meeting and I didn't want to advertise a week ago today. >> Also about her is that we you can't do anything until the legislature finishes and then OSPI has to analyze all that and provide the
100workbooks that >> drive the funds. So we already been able to work with it. I did actually save redoing some work by this kind of procrastination that we ended up having to do. This state OSPI had all these systems, computer systems, and one of them that we put all of our information into. We got word late last week, they said, "Hey, if you've already started working in here, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to do it again because it wiped everybody's information out." And I said, "Score me." They usually have some bugs. That wasn't wasn't unexpected, but it was good to not have to read. >> Any questions about money stuff? Absolutely. >> Uh, one of the last pages shows an Apollo solutions uh payments. Is that trust money? I mean, >> that's grant
101funding. >> Grant funding >> for the project >> moving into piled up three months worth of um invoices for us. So, it was a big Jose was 238,000 I think or maybe something like that. >> We have a pile of money from the grant that that's coming up. >> All right. Any more questions on budget wise? Thank you. >> Y >> All right. So moving on to item number 13 in the agenda. So this is why I item number a the principal administrative contract princip stricken that so we won't consider that >> but if we approve it less >> then the other the the other district >> you won't be able to right >> but on the next agenda be approving Cynthius. >> So >> yeah, let's just cross out, you know, right? No. >>
102So I'm going to move then I won't consider item number A. We bring down the B, but J looks like we have a a board resolution 2525. Could I have a motion for approval? >> So move on. >> Second. >> Well, discussion. So as that list was attached to in our patent it look like computer stuff. >> Yeah. >> And so this stuff it would be sold in surplus and then revenue then come back into you have to make it available for sale but I'm not sure. We have to try it. We have to put it down there, sell it, and then no. >> Are you going to >> give it away? >> I mean, what do you >> eBay? I mean, >> can't make it available. >> They also get sent out to all
103the other districts. So, we all take a look at everybody's >> list of junk and nobody ever So in view of the discussion looks like it's relatively innocuous. Any more discussion? If not, I'll call for a vote. All in favor? I >> I didn't hear. >> Okay. All right. And then so I asked Jerry to in L of the justice I've seen showing to Shel Journal regards to lawsuits pending at North School regard school life safety or lack of or confusion would you please bring us up our >> Yeah absolutely. So, um, we've not there's a couple of major there's a whole lot of levels of management um that go into managing the classroom school. Um, and um, some of them are just people and building awareness, being observational. U, good practices of leading kids.
104Um, good relationships with kids. um those are a big part of maintaining a healthy safe school. So those are things that we emphasize making sure kids know we're watching and we're around and we're connected with them. Those are all important parts of the front end of creating a a quality learning environment. So but there's some other practical things that we do that are um uh to help with that process. One of the things we started doing last year is um adding a bus monitor, a staff to ride on buses there. We don't have another a second adult on all of our buses, but we do periodically and randomly. So, as we can we have a second adult on the bus um which is extremely helpful. I mean, it costs us money, but um it helps
105um them manage safety and discipline on the bus. It's a notoriously difficult place to uh manage children um and drive. So we we do that as much as we possibly can and that's a it's important part. We also have cameras so when things do go arrive we can monitor and track and find out what exactly happened. that's some sometimes useful. But but in this particular case where a child an older child was sitting with a a younger child and took advantage of them. Um the um we we don't let our little kids sit with our bigger kids. They all sit in the front of the bus and the bigger kids sit separately towards the back of the bus. So, um um so that's a there's a number of different practices that we do that help
106um prevent um any kind of um inappropriate conduct. So, I mean, it's not a guarantee that you can never have problems, but there's a whole long list of practices that go into our processes for managing a school bus that um make our bus um the odds of that are almost nil. So, um I think we um and those are things we already have in place. They're not in response to their problem. There are things that um they um we already did because we try to make sure those bus is safe, right? That they were things we already had in place and why we don't have that that same kind of problem. Kids kids do silly things and we get after them. Um and um but um I think to that degree so I uh it's
107not generally protocol do questions but I saw your hand go. >> Yeah. I was just going to tell you that I have some grandkids that have a sling suit on buses. >> Yeah. Yeah. They have a name plate. They do get moved periodically and so that's also a thing. >> So I was going to say that that that helps preclude. Exactly. And if you're already doing that. >> Yeah. So I I feel like we really run a pretty tight ship on where Barbie things like that. You know, we just deal with the goofy things of kids throwing something or crawling under a chair or, you know, poking each other and things that kids do, right? >> Yeah. So, that's that's >> anything going to be done about these lawsuits. >> Um, that's a different district.
108That's their thing. The only reason I asked Sherry to cover this is is it was it did hit the paper and I had some people question me in the community how could this happen and and so I wasn't going to speculate. I asked Sherry what do we do? And so that's why I wanted to make sure that that we didn't have a similar situation with six-year-old sitting next to a pretty debt. >> Oh, okay. Any any more? >> Yeah. Uh I invited Travis Co to come tonight and talk to us and he deferred until the fall based on his schedule. Okay. And the one thing that I'll mention, the Title N federal laws have come into conflict with the state laws in several states as it relates to gender issues and sports and those kinds
109of things. And it will be important for us to keep our eyes on the news as it comes out. There's some lawsuits that have been filed and uh it could impact budget money coming out of the federal government to the states which it would include Washington and nobody really has any answers right now. So we'll learn more about that over the next few months and maybe as we go into July and the August meetings we might have a little bit of news by then. >> It sounded like today one of the news was just Maybe I want to just run this by folks, but sounded like in the last two years of the state budget, there may be a 720 million shortfall that revenues were going to lag versus projected revenues. >> This is in
110Washington state. >> Yes. >> So, we're overspending. >> Uh, no. No, not well. It looked like that that there's projections that would indicate we won't get what they budgeted for and that we will fall short of that. Um, tax, >> I'd like to just make a comment uh about Travis deferring and it's because he owns a um a high-end custom cabinet manufacturer and right now it's like their Super Bowl season, right? So they're they're swamped and so that you know when he defers I don't think it's because wouldn't want to come talk to us you know it's just >> yeah he said there was a high >> so high probability you got to tell >> okay I'm going to move on here the policies that there's no other section 15 so first policy we've got
111Jerry just in discussion is capital asset defic subsidies policy we have already and we're updating it up. Actually, every one of our policies that we'll be looking at um are policies we already have. We're just updating them. >> Okay. January 17. Okay. for approval. Uh I'd like to have a motion to approve clause B 2020 move west second >> Tom. Thank you. Discussion. So course design selection in adoption. Uh that was 2020. I read it pretty straightforward. U I guess the thing that uh kind of stuck out for me. So we already have this one as well. So just an update. That's >> we need that. >> Any any more discussion? Okay. Call for a vote. All in favor? >> I present. >> I'd like to have a motion to approve a policy 2021 deal
112with library information and uh technology program. Sec Tom discussion. Nothing there jumped out of this. that say that's pretty new 2022. Any more discussion on call all in favor? >> I% >> Okay. >> All right. I'd like to have a a motion to approve policing 20 22 2020 20 2230 the trans addition to kindergarten. So moved second question. >> I love TK. It was really interesting how when you went when I read through that and I almost got feeling that correct me for a moment but there was almost a dissuation in there that we would have a TK program that we would be pawn this off to some other is that did that >> so the last five years the TK has been a quite a political entity I've I've spoken with the legislature twice
113on on it advocating for the programs because what happened is it got started without legislation. Um and um and so legislators didn't like that. Um and then there's also competing programs um in that serve early at um Head Start and some other funding programs. So they were they were kind of been out of shape. So there's been a lots of conversations this legislature about it. So they want to make sure that um we our community doesn't have any other options. So there's no controversy whatsoever. But in other communities there might be one or two very other programs that then we're siding schools are sighting enough students and then that impacts those programs. So there's there's a lot of factors and they want you to make sure you you think through those and the community are
114there's no other option. So we uh fortunate enough we got you guys got it started early enough. Um they did freeze funding. Um so we were not able to do any expanding of programs in the in the state. Um that should be for like two years and then we anticipate a slow allowance for growth enrollment. So um but uh so we're we're there, we're funded, we're solid, we got what we need. Um there's about 12. We're anticipating 16 16 this year. We're funed for 16. >> We only right now. So we are receiving funding for those 16. We're roughly 12 already for next year. But our cap, we will never get funding for more than 16 under the current 20. We just have to >> And one of the other things that the legislature had
115to do when they did dive into this, they removed it out of basic. So that's why um it because it at first I was concerned about it then I thought oh that's kind of brilliant for their perspective because if they make it basic kid that means they have to do it for every child in every school in the state of Washington >> but we still get the same 10,000 plus for those transition fees. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. Um but now it's just an optional program that um schools can have but aren't required and that's actually >> well broken clock is in place of you know >> okay any more discussion on this call in favor I >> I'd like a motion to approve policy 511 the sexual harassment of district Yeah, >> discussion.
116Looks like uh this is relatively new. We're just updating it. >> Any uh more discussion? >> All in favor? >> I 100%. Okay, we're through the Harley agenda. We're down now to item number 16. This is the July board meeting of the 23rd. Um so we've got the calendar that we're going to be looking at Jerry plus uh that would be our us and then of course then you'll have the budget in. >> Okay. As of right now >> pretty much anybody else have anything that we need to jump out? Um, uh, yes, and and this might be for future retreat conversations, but at the last meeting I was at, um, I talked about in investigating or at least looking into what it would take to put our own special needs uh, program together and
117where where other schools might be able to outsource to us. and and have um and have that that program and it might it might pencil, right? Um and then the second one is um I'd like to seriously discuss how because Jerry, you're you're still spreading your time between the two school districts, right? I would really like to uh be able to to discuss how to get Jerry back to to being being here, >> right? And and maybe we can do it and maybe we can't, but um but I at least would like to discuss that. >> Would you say we we had gone to four >> and then we went back to three. Would it be that you go beyond four to five? Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> So, I know it's
118a money it's a money thing. Um but uh but it's also an investment >> in our school and I just um I don't know. I mean I I know that the that index right is benefiting from you but um but I'm a little little jealous. I'm a little, you know, I'm kind of I kind of think that that you're really a gator at heart. >> Yeah, I know. I'm going to ask Cherry to include these into that next agenda and and knowing full well it won't probably be a a one presentation discussion at least it puts it on puts it on is the element. >> Yeah. I mean that's just kind of like talks that would be in its infancy but but we should you know it every every goal needs to have a start
119right so on on the SP front if I could make one comment um um that was informing my look towards having our own program that that idea >> no I I and I and when you were talking about it tonight I was I was thinking Oh, great. That could be the kernel that starts that starts that program. >> Do we have some facilities capital needs that need to follow that? >> If um for a more robust um contained program, we would need to do some work for this particular child. We can manage what we have. >> All right. Well, but there's no more on the agenda items. I'm going to move down to so what we do here at Lance is when we get all said and done with with the meeting have a history
120on the board kind of reflecting about our boardmanship. So you'll hear a comment kind of our own assessment of of what we So I'm going to start with you guys. Um, I kind of I kind of hate the concept of commenting on our on our boardmanship because it always sounds like we'll patch each other up, you know. Well, I did a great job tonight, you know. It's like it just I don't know. I'd rather talk about sort of, you know, what the school is doing and all the all the good things. Sherry, that was amazing about the about the freezer. Those things are not cheap. think we can get over that. Um Hannah, I I don't know what to say. Um you know, I'm kind of a shake and bake parent. You know, I went
121to the kids store and we bought, you know, we got our kids and we adopted our kids and, you know, they were six and eight, I think, when we came down here and interviewed Joan because we were like, "Oh, public school. We should send them to a private school or whatever." And Joan was just so she was just you got you got, you know, she what she presented was who she was and and we really loved her, right? And and so, you know, we didn't know what to expect. I mean, we were, you know, Py and I were both both really like helicopter parents and and very, you know, protective, you know, of our kids and and and Hannah, you just you you just solidify the I mean, you you really I mean, even even
122at your beginning here at the school and when I think about when I think about great view I you know I think about you know Hannah I think about Mrs. Adele, I think about Cindy, you know, and all of you, you know, really emphasize why we're here, what the mission is, and and everybody here has such um clarity of of why we're here, right? And they're and they're not bogged up with political garbage, right, on both sides, right? and they're not, you know, they're not looking at it through those lenses. And that is that is a special talent these days. And uh and I am so sorry to see you go. However, I'm happy to see Cindy advance and you know and you've been on that track for for some time and you you know
123you have been doing some amazing things and I hope I hope you guys are going to still be connected. >> Oh gosh. Like one of my best friends that sounds cheesy but like >> Yeah, >> we have so much fun together. >> Yeah. and and so um so I'm happy and I'm sad and I'm savvy savvy >> another new African >> anyway that's I I should just shut up >> when I first got involved in the school the BGA was pretty active and Hannah was pretty active in it and we had uh we had parties and we raised money And we had music and people danced and >> Ann's a good dancer, but Chris >> is a John. >> Those were the days. >> Yeah, I've uh class visited most of the years that I've
124had the opportunity to. I was in Hannah's class at least twice, maybe three times. I couldn't go to her class this year because she was a big shot. >> Whenever we get to all our class, you >> I love your hand. >> Makes me cry. >> It was right for you to become the principal. And I hate to say it. No, I don't hate to say it. And I acknowledge the fact that it's right for you to move up. You have a skill set and a heart that's going to help whatever district you >> Louise, I'm glad you got honored tonight. >> Yes. >> When I talked about those times when I was first in the community and involved, you were there. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> just like uh all over the place if you
125know what I mean. And I would hope that the board would go down to the uh Great View Arts and whatever the festival's called and stand in front of the murals and have your picture taken, >> see greatly you on display. >> Not only that, but you greatest our fearless leader. responsible. >> Oh, gracious. I I have to take I take >> responsibility. >> Okay, Henry. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I want to uh this this progression of uh super principal assistants or assistant principles into the principal slot. I've seen it a couple of times now and uh uh I just have the greatest respect and confidence in you Cindy. We won't miss we I don't want to say we won't miss a beat, but we have a real strong person moving into a position that
126needs that strength and you're very wellrounded. And uh I watched you scurry around and just take care of all kinds of things. We're in good hands. >> That's it. every >> like I said before, I think you know you're going to miss we're think we're going to miss you 100% and the next school is going to be better off with you there. You're going to be a ray of sunshine there and it's going to leave a hole here. And Cindy, I I've watched you. I've I'm super involved in school. I'm excited. So, the bully returning a chapter. >> Yeah. >> And as a mom, too. I'm I'm not just a board member. I'm a mom. And sharing a relationship with you is I'm heartbroken. I don't get to hear the the phone calls from you
127anymore. >> But yeah, both of you are on on track for a great journey. And I'm so proud to hear that you guys are moving up and see it firsthand and I know you both rise to the occasion and um I'm also happy to see that our current FTE or our our projections are looking good. I was a little concerned about that and I just hope and pray that um they stay up and we're able to keep going along. >> Anything? >> No. >> I miss I really want to see this very very >> well that's like a good news bad news. >> Yeah. >> Good news for you. not going to like the commute. >> I I go back and I I remember when just after coming into the board, of course, uh income
128incomes clear and in comes Josie leaves and Nick comes in. I remember each child basically having a little spreadsheet about the range and I can remember the statements about Nick saying, "Uh, if we recognize a weakness, we can fix it." And I sure that you came and I heard those same words and I and I if I haven't heard of advice keep that in in the book >> because it seems to be very like I like I tell people you know that this is an interesting business uh that we're all running here and at the end of the day our product is the quality of these these kids and much to Lancet point that it's the future that we're talking about and and and that I point our goal here collective goal that everyone gets
129an equal opportunity for that education and that's that's really you won't get a private school with a better uh better vision than that and moner than that. So to your credit you're going to go away with some good stuff and whoever whoever the school district is benefit but I love this organic stuff Cindy told you earlier this is really cool. So now your job is to make sure that 10 years down the line the next person the next thing be added is going to be that with that person. So and it's been a long journey. Well congratulations well >> and on that turned over to you. Okay. Um just the last comments. Thank you for leaders and encouragement. You're right time. So, um, and it's a joy to work at and it's it's been a
130joy to work with you and and see you just take to that to that position and do that for work. Always enjoyed coming in and greeting you in the morning what you did with such great enthusiasm. And that wasn't just me, it's kids and everybody and the scripture. So thank you for the great work you did for us for me. Um and um and your to move on is not not to encourage you to move on but to your growth um is I I was anxious about it but as we talked more and more I I think that and thought about it and prayed about it I feel like it's right. Yeah. Yeah. We're we're sad when we believe in you perhaps. So proud of this. >> We build monarchs here. That's what we're doing.
131And we're setting her free. >> So Shar, let's show that 657. Thank you all, Lance. Thank you. >> I'm excited to have you on board. >> Okay. We thank you