001To the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Bear with me today. Okay. So, we have little less. Hi, Deb. Hi. [Music] We have a I'd like to make make a motion to approve the agenda. So, moved. Um, would that be a second? Thank you. Okay. [Music] Any discussion? There any discussion? You have any items that need to be brought up? Okay. Um, don't have any visitors, Britney. Any signins at all? Nope. Um, public comment, please refer to board policy 1400. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. the Oh. Um, all in favor of the agenda, please. I I recognition. Any any oppos? Any oppose? I know Do we have no visitors? Um, and then do I have to make a motion for
002public comment? And then please refer to board policy 1400. [Music] No student recognition. And no student recognition. Uh, that recognition, will that resume in October? Uh, I don't believe it. Um, that's kind of a random thing actually. Um, yes, random. We don't really have a placeholder there. I uh uh can I ask a question about that? The student recognition. Um, so why would that why would that take till um yeah October to start um to identify like characteristics and yeah they're just getting okay and we um really have plenty of time to get them all recommended anyway. So it gives them an opportunity to get to know the case and Okay. And how does how does that go? Do you guys like say to the various teachers, okay, you're going to be, you know, October,
003right? So, you know, start thinking about who you want to recognize and then and then when October comes up, you go, okay, who is it? Right? Is that how that works? Okay. Okay. Very cool. Thanks. Okay, can we move on to announcements? Uh, first one's field day May 30th. Next one, June 5th is a TK second grade musical performance tweet. Um, next one is June 10th, 8th grade graduation at 6:30. Um, June 11th, 8th grade trip to Ocean 5 and Sky Zone. That sounds fun. June 12th, 8th grade breakfast. What does that entail? Yeah. Breakfast probably. Well, like for the upcoming eighth graders or the outgoing eighth graders for lunch to breakfast. Yeah. Awesome. exciting. So, is that before they go to SkyOn then? The day after. The day after. Okay. Uh June 13th, last
004day of school. Yay. And June 25th is the next board meeting. I have a comment. Okay. on uh the June 13th last day of school. Um if your schedule is such that you can be here for the uh departure celebration, it's a good thing to do. Thanks. You will smile. Yeah. So, and can we talk about your grade graduation? Is it it's expected that all of the four degrees are correct? Um it's okay. [Music] Tuesday. Okay. Um LA on the last field stool do board members typically put on the apron and you can barbecue hot dogs. So we do have an event on we have field day. field day. But for the last day, you don't do that daily. Field day, we have stuff. Oh, okay. What did we do the last day? Just bubbles.
005Last year we did costumes. This year got some teachers who are going to come up with some fun music. And one year we did we all learned the instinct dance. Bye. Byebye. So, you know, got some creative people on staff and uh y little something fun. Right. Right. It's cool. There's a lot of kids chasing bubbles. Lot lot of excited faces, too. Can I please have a motion for the consent consent agenda? So moved with a second. Any comments? Any comments? We vote on the consent agenda, please. All in favor? All in favor? All right. Hi. Okay. So, the general title. It's all accepted. Okay. So, now we're moving on to the next one. Correct. Yeah. Principal and superintendent reports. Jerry is correct. Um some uh lots of lot is happening at this time of
006year. It's uh for school administrators. It's probably like this time of year is a little bit like it is for retailers just before Christmas. I think it's just crazy with many things that we kind of get taken care of. Um so right now we're in the midst of um Henry and I classified and certified contract negotiations. So um working through a lot of uh items. Um, we're pretty much done with all of the I don't want to call the secondary items, but the language items. Um, and now we're uh talking about financial finances and compensation and u that one's usually the most interesting. So, we'll see how that goes. Positive will come out with some good solutions. Um, the HVAC system. I don't know if you have noticed, but you're probably not sweaty right now.
007Yeah. Right. It's working. And, uh, for yourself, except the guy on the end, the fever. Um, and so it's all working. and they spent uh good this morning with some of the experts kind of fine-tuning the systems and making sure everything's working properly and uh kind of fixing a few of the problems in the old system so that they all worked together. So that was that was good. Um if you when you parking lot you'll see um we extended the gate fenced area for the TK. We had a little money in the TA fund. So, we made that area a little bigger and put um more childproof locks on it on the gate so they can't just bang it open and get out. So, that was I'm very glad about that. A few times kids
008uh wanted to explore a little bit. Now, it's not so easy. So, we received a grant for a walk-in freezer um for behind the kitchen. It'll be outside a 6 by8 um next to the kitchen about the TV. That's awesome. Yes, we're very happy. Um Sherry worked really hard to make that happen and we got some support with a few others. Um, but she was the real driving force to make that happen. And we're cooking more meals and we're trying to cook healthier meals. And so being able to have access to more freezer space is uh that's fantastic. About $15,000. Um, I'm working with Sheldon to um do our redo our special ed contract. And we also have a family that has uh moved from Oregon. We used to live in our area previously with
009the high need special ed student who was in a self-contained program in Oregon. And so I'm trying to figure out how to um make sure we um provide for special needs. So they'll be in our district next year. Yes. But purchasing. So um we will statutoily require to provide their needs. So what happens when there's multiple students that require that much in our funds? We go broke. Yeah. We go broke. Um there you can get claim safety net funds. So, uh, we have some students with Lauren on student Mason that it costs about [Music] $120,000, but we were able to claim a chunk of that back for um safety net. So the state puts a giant pool of money into that and then you apply and you say this is my these are my special
010needs and this is what this IEP says and this is what we pay and then they have a formula where they calculate spread that money out to across the various needs. So last year I think we got what $65,000 from safety net from safety net. Yeah. So, um, we don't know what we'll get this last round, but how much was the about do you want? Oh, you're putting in the slide. I think it was similar or just Yeah, right around there. We You don't You're not guaranteed to get it, but um um it's so um and I I went visited Pioneers self-contained program last week to see check that out and see what they were doing. Is that where that student would be going then that they used the the child did go there previously
011when it was an elementary school but there are he's in our district and they do not have capacity so you try to come up with so what what is a self-contained building right so that would be um so I guess it contrasts the general a classroom right so the general a classroom There's your regular population of students using the standard curriculum and we would and would might have students of various disabilities that also are in the general ed classroom, right? Learning disabilities, whatever. Whatever. Yeah. Um, a self-contained classroom would be the context of that, but that would be a classroom that is exclusively students with high special needs. Okay. Yeah. They're usually very low function. So more tailored Yes. to specific um issues usually. Yeah. Okay. Um so you're not generally Yeah. They had 11
012students at their middle school self-contained special program at Pioneer that they only visited. Wow. Which is a lot. It's not a giant school. And each of those students require a parent. So in that room there's 11 kids and there were as a teacher and four paras that's um that's a big commitment. It's plus full-time nurse too. Um I didn't ask about that. Probably not in the room. No, there's probably a nurse on campus. So yeah because of that. So, um, and we'll have the one student who will be in our district. So, we're coming up with working on a plan. So, um, we, uh, Jason went to the, uh, North Mason, uh, advisory committee meeting around CTE and they approved him and his course. Um, so that that's good. Now we'll work with OSBI to
013get it certified and um get u get the course approved. Excited about that. It's a long process but um the state did expand CTE to include sixth graders. So um we can continue to expand our options for kids and collect enhance funds for that. and uh a lot of work but I'm learning a lot and slowly getting through done. Um as you know we had an issue with our well and um I worked with our lawyer to request funds from that company. Um and we've gone back and forth a bit and we settled um and it's all done. They sent us a check and we didn't date our lawyer and kind of it's kind of a wash but um we sent a message got so um a wash uh from our legal bill. Yeah, it
014covered our legal bill and a little more. Okay. Yeah. So, a little bit about of the fixed very little but very little. Yeah. The legal bill is in the Yeah, you'll see that. So, those items there the money. It's one of those things. How far do you push and how much you willing to risk and legal bills? Well, the real winners in lawsuits are attorneys. Yeah, that's what that's what attorneys say. Yeah. So, um, let's see. Oh, and when it comes to we're working on different budgets for next year, but something that, um, is kind of nervous for us is that the governor took a while to sign it, and that puts OSBI a ways back and getting all of their formulas and data and spreadsheets ready for rest of the week. So, um, we
015won't even have some of the forms we need until Friday to, um, really grapple with that process. We kind of know what we want to do and we have, you know, estimates of what we think we'll have, but um, we won't really be able to start grappling with that until Friday. So, our goal is still in June, but um there's possibility we might have to push it back a little bit to get the full budget all done. Just to let you know, our our thinking and timelines and goals on that. So, we're thinking our our be kind of steady. I don't see any losses of funds um in the in the state budgets. Not a lot of advances either. Um uh the title one money is a pretty big chunk of money for us, but
016they encouraged us to plan with um the amounts in mind that we got this last year of this year. So that's what we're doing. So anyway, that's all I have. Unless you have any questions. Hback's not signed off yet. Certified. Yeah. So closed up and done. Okay. Any questions? All right. Um, speaking of the HVAC system, it's been really funny because Tony has this really cool tool that it looks like a a really fancy um like fever reader, you know, thermometer, but it he goes and he he holds it up to certain corners and he's measuring temperatures and getting back to them and it was like 56 degrees over fifth grade today. Oh. At one point, you know, they're still trying to get things, you know, situated just right. So, it was it was they
017were all like just freezing. Um, and then in here it was like 75. Yeah, the systems were kind of set at the same. So, they're working out their case, but it's been kind of fun to see differences. Um, all right. I got some updates. Uh, all SBA testing is completed. Um, because of Cindy. Um, and all the staff are hard work in planning, implementing, conducting um makeups. And Sherry Williams um she's our interventionist. Um, Cindy, wouldn't you agree that Shereé has been a rock star in helping us with makeups, especially uh Cindy will pull out the data to see who maybe didn't finish the section and looking at the attendance and and who missed what and then Sherry will pull that kid in and you know set up a testing session with them and it's
018just it's really awesome because she also has to finish all of her lap progress monitoring because she helps with our lap interventions and there's a lot of end of the year things that have to get done but she's really taken on a priority with this And so um I really appreciate her um her and cities working this done. Um we are continuing to implement Renaissance Place assessments throughout these next few days and that data really pulls our SIP um to see our student growth with Renaissance Place and then our student growth percentiles with um SBA. We'll have more information probably in August or actually maybe September depends on get it to us. Um, final track meet was last week on May 19th. We uh placed in 35 events, which wow, based off of some research
019that Jim's been doing, we believe that's a great view record. Wow. I mean, great views like that's definitely been a record for the 15 years I've been here. Um, but like we think that that might be the the record that we had placement in 35 events that district. So, it was pretty exciting. And a lot of those were our fifth graders, which when we had such a huge team of fifth graders and Tony and Megan were so excited about that, but they were also like, "Wow, it's going to be a learning year." Our fifth graders were fast and athletic and they took off. That was really exciting. Um, it was really cool to see. Question. Uhu. How big is the district? Uh, how big is district then? The boys um place second. Wow, that is
020impressive. And we I mean this is against like St. Mike's and like these really big private schools that have some top athletes. That's really really cool. We do too. We do. So, it's it's so exciting because we're years and years and years ago when I was coaching uh Wesley's daughters, it was like we were not we were always over school and that's wonderful to be but it was like if we ever won it was the most exciting thing in the whole world and now we are like we scored this thing to celebrate. Well, next year's going to be like they're gonna come out on dolls. That's awesome. Um, our Quanis kids, you probably saw them. They're out here every Wednesday from um 3:30 to 5:00 and they are working on um all sorts of different
021beautifification projects on our school grounds. Um they're planting trees um planting irises um in certain locations and they are doing uh trail maintenance constantly and they've been painting and doing these boards um to update our interpretive stations on the trail. That's really cool. I tell you plants and watering plants. Yeah, those kids are so polite. So, I've seen them as I've been leaving driving out and they recognized that a car is coming because I saw that right on the side as a driver coming up from school and they stood up and they looked and they watched and they all smiled and waved and waving and they went back to doing what they were doing and today I saw them watering and they were walking back and forth and I could tell when they were going
022that direction that the water was full. They're going a little bit slower because when they're coming back the other direction, they were getting more water, but they were still walking like politely talking to each other. They were presumably unsupervised at that point that they were sent back to get water. I'm just guessing. I have no idea this is from my window. But they were just so polite walking along doing walking back the other way. It really looks like they're having fun. And they're doing Yeah, they're And they're doing such a good job with it, too. So they meet with me on Thursday morning, their president and secretary and vice president to talk about the work that they did the Wednesday before and they have notes and they it's just really cool. They're they're taking on
023leadership responsibilities. It's awesome. Proud of those kids. Um our garden beds are um in current use and lots of things are planted in there and students and staff are like in there working in the garden. So it's going to be a great uh summer. I was just in there this morning and I was like, there's so many things that are growing so well because it's been so hot. Um, so that's been good. Um, all right. There's a ton of activities coming up, so bear with me. Here we go. Tomorrow is the bikes for books assembly. Um, and the giveaway is the bikes with the helmets. Um, it's 1:00. It's brought to us by the Sonic Lodge of North Mason. Um, so they come out um the students, the bikes for books organization, they read eight
024books. Um, they get their parents to sign off if they've read them an ebook at their reading level. Um, and then they get a teacher to sign off on it and then they turn in their name and I take that, put it in the little ticket for them, and they get their names into drawings. So, we have four drawings because they both do four bikes. Um, so we do first and second grade, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight. Yeah. So, they we had um not as many kids enter this year as in past. We had a lot in the younger grades. Um, but it was still exciting to see older grades still participate in a little bit. So, we have four kids and um, we drew their names last week on the 16th. That was
025the end of the um, drawing time. Um, and so we drew names and I called all those parents and told them I got sizes and information from them and they are coming tomorrow to pick up the bikes. So then the Masonic Lodge goes and picks up they picked up the bikes already and I dropped them off there in the shed. Um, and it's so cool. There's helmets in my office and we the Sonic Lodge will come and present the bikes with the helmet to the kid, get a picture, and it's it's and then they'll talk about the importance of reading in the community. And they do this in at Sand Hill, Ger Elementary, um, they Pioneer didn't work with them about it this year, but they've done that with Pioneer in the past. Um, and
026then a few of the elementary schools in Shelton as well. So a total of I think they said 36 bikes that they have bought this year for kids. So that's it's really exciting. Um so that's tomorrow. And um also I wanted to touch base real quick and let you guys know you know the murals like the big orcas that's in common and then there's two Van Go ones here. This year they're working on um one that's an eagle over the mountain and it's for it'll be displayed for tweet um the musical and I've been working with Margaret from the GCA and we are going to display those at um the water and art festival in July and so um Chris and Tony my Chris are helping us put them on like a foam back so
027they're really lightweight and then the small wooden frame um because they're giant the one like the orcas is um like 8 by 6 feet. It's really big. So, they're big. We're going to but they're not heavy or sweet. We're going to back them in a way be some light and then we're going to get them displayed um so I'm excited and our kids will they'll be able to see so even those who graduated can we'll have the chart up for who did what drink. I'm excited that we did. Yeah. All right. We have um Just as a side note, I uh I stop to admire those those projects every time I'm I'm in here. I think it's really amazing, isn't it? Yeah. It really is. It's spectacular. Yeah. Wait till you see the eagle. Yeah.
028A few weeks ago when they were just doing their squares and they were opening them up, I was like over there. I was like, "This is going to be a different one this year." But now, because they put them all up once they do and then they start to blend and then they start to do the detail. I didn't know the whole process with it. It's so amazing. It's going to be gorgeous. Cool. Yeah, it's really cool. Um, so that those are going up. But I'm excited for because I don't feel I feel like Great View's art hasn't been up there in years since we had the glass etching and and we have such beautiful art here. Um, it's just getting it there and getting it up. So, yeah, it was it was good. Um,
029Friday's field day and uh we're so excited. We're doing field day differently this year because it's a water event, you know, and and in the mornings it's often cold so fast around teachers and so we're doing lunch first then field day in the afternoon. So field day itself is 12:30 to 2. Those are going to be the activities. Um lunch is 11:30 to 12:30 and um we had a family um donate a um a black top what do you call the grill? Thank you. The Blackstone grill. um which is so helpful because you can cook so many hot dogs on that and such a really long time. So we have got parents volunteering and we're going to be cooking up kids hot dogs. We have chips, water, fruit and then um field day fun. After
030field day at 2:30 we're continuing the fun and we are having our character strong assembly for the month of May and it's our last one of the year where we honor all the kiddos that show creativity. Um, we we've kind of laid things out. I shouldn't say we, Sydney and Andrew, daughter, our fourth grade teacher, have really taken this. She's taken this on big time and ensured that in the elementary school that all kiddos are getting recognized in some way. So, um, it's really nice because we get to celebrate them and they're really excited about their creativity and the um, family. So, we're going to do that right after field today and we're going to send him home. He's so tired. Um, so it's going to be a fun day. Can I say one thing
031about the recognition? Um, you you never know the impact it has. Um, the kids are just fine and happy when they get up there. But then I went to the crab feed and sat next to a gentleman and his his grandson lives with him and um once he found out I was from the school he could not stop talking about how great his child felt his grandson about getting that award and how important it was. you know, the kids are just kind of quiet and thank you. But uh to get that kind of feedback about from from the granddad to the me was it was great to hear. So that's awesome. Yeah. And it's the same kind of thing with um uh the student recognition at the board meetings. We have a spreadsheet and we
032have it, you know, all the way back from I think 22 2122. So we see which kids have been recognized for what and then we can try to really look for different things. So when a teacher can see this month, they can be like, "Oh, that kid was just recognized for that last year. I want to see if I can find somebody else, too." So that way, we really make sure that we're looking for kids that that are showing these these traits. North Mason seniors are coming on May uh I'm sorry, not May on June 6. Um they're going to give a small presentation to our middle school students. They're answering three questions. They're preparing them right now. Um what um what are you doing these next couple of years after you graduate? um what's
033your favorite memory from Gradefield? And um I had a third question on there and I emailed them this whole thing. So they're coming up with their answers. Um and they are they're going to come talk to Oh yeah, the eighth grade eighth graders. Um what are some tricks for going to the high school? So they're going to work with our kiddos and I'm excited for that. Um our um eighth graders are going up to North Mason for the um basically the all the clubs and and assembly for the future Bulldogs. That's on Thursday, June 5th. And our volunteer breakfast is Friday, June 6th. All of you um volunteer and support our schools. You are very welcome to come. Um it'll just be um Cindy and I in here. Um so he's putting it on um
034going to Costco and getting some good respons. So please um come join us on on the six in here. Um what time is that? 9 to 10. Tweet the musical is uh June um June 4th um at 2:15 and then uh the main performance that's just for the kids here at the school, but if you can't if you want to come to that one, you're more than welcome. June 5th at 6:30. Um so June 4th at 2:15, we haven't confirmed if we're doing 2:15 or 2:30. Lor's kind of back and forth with it. So, be hesitant on that one. Couple more soon. But June 5th at 6:30 here, it's going to be adorable. Um, already they're saying all their lines and they're practicing every day. It's So, uh, you want to give us a a
035quick rundown about what Tweet the Musical is about? It's So, we did it a few years ago, the Barnyard Musical. Um, Tweet the Musical. Uh what's the the ant one or the bugs? Um going buggy the musical. So there ones where there's a bunch of these kids songs and there's a couple of lines in between. Tweet is um about they're they're like jungle birds and they are all in competition over something and then they learn to work together. So it has nothing to do with Twitter. Nothing. No. Although although I think the the writers of it, I I have to think they must have known that if they call something tweet and they're going to get a a response. Well, now that the name has changed, I suppose, but I was thinking, wouldn't it wouldn't
036it have been funny if you took all of President Trump's tweets and put them into a musical? It would be a TK37 would be it would be hilarious. It' be really funny. supposed to be a comedy. It would be a Yeah. Yeah. It was a little scary. Anyways, but that's all right. But yeah, there it's kind of like um you know, what's that? Rio, you know the Oh, yeah. It's not like Rio, but it's that kind of fun of birds. Um so, eighth grade graduation is June 10th at 6:30. Doors open at six o'clock. Um, and we've got we're working on our program for that and it's going to be great. Uh, Shelton's senior walk. So, the Shelton seniors are coming in on June 11th. Um, and I love the fact they bring all their
037seniors to us and but at North Mason, we have to go pick up ours because they won't bring to Great View. Um, which I I know that they have budget cuts and things like that. We have four seniors at Shelton and yet they still bring all the seniors to come but they always have any which is exciting. Um and we just go out in halls and ch they're excited. It's a good time. Uh the eighth grade breakfast oh yeah 8th grade trip June 11th to Ocean 5 and Gate Harbor and then Sky Zone to Tacoma. They're having lunch in between but they had they raised enough money over these past few years that they got to to do both of those things. So they're really excited. Um, eighth grade breakfast is June 12th and we
038have two eighth grade parents that oftentimes take the leadership on that. I mean, they contact me and and we make sure that we've got things arranged and stuff, but then they run with it and then I just enjoy having breakfast with the eighth graders along with them. So, they're going to come and set up on that morning um and it'll be it'll be really nice. Yearbooks are in um they've arrived and we'll be selling them starting again on June 10th. um a community member has um promised me a $1,000 donation. Again, she's done this a few years in a row and it brings the price down from $20 a yearbook to $15 yearbooks for kids. So, more so and then if there's kids that whose parents let us know that they want a yearbook and
039their kids can't afford one, we have staff, we have people who cover those. So, this donation brings the whole cost down for our families. And then we've got, you know, some some little donations here and there that that make it possible for students to be able to get yearbooks. Um, and Heather Beck did them again. She did a great job. She took a few eighth graders that wanted to be in yearbook club. She started working with them a few months ago and the eighth graders were taking her cameras around and taking pictures of things and getting them to her and it was great. Our last day of school is new on the 13th. Um, yeah, that's all I got. Yay. That's all. That's all. That's a lot. It's a lot. This like like Jerry said,
040this is like like what what shop owners must feel like with Christmas season every single day. And then if you're a parent, on top of it, your kiddo has a million different events. Yeah. off. Thank you. Operational services had a lot. I do not for this good for this damn season. I'm getting ready to budget. There's not really a lot going on getting ready for next year. Um, so I did send out two cards. I think I got it in time. was able to email it out to you on Friday. The budget status report for the month of April. All right. One second. being screen. I know it's here. I'm just not [Music] seeing. There we go. Okay. So, the first slide that we get to is enrollment and it's almost exactly the same as
041last month. I think we dropped the one or two students that left during the month of April. So the number that you see next month is all still going to be very close to this month because there's one more month to average for enrollment for the whole year. But all in all um looking like we're going to end up about 16 FT of what we budget for this year which is a good story. And then the next page I broke out the different expenditures that we had for the month of April by project. So the first two line first three lines I'm sorry are salaries and benefits. And then we've got supplies, purchase services, travel and capital outlay. So for April we spent a total and everything of a very odd or even number depending
042$333,333. So the balance if you look at the bottom right hand corner where we're coming in my projection to our budget is saving or not spending almost $2,000 as compared to budget. So yes we'll see how that trend at the moment. And um I put these on two different slides. The last graph and this one were all crammed the one slide last month. It's kind of hard to see. So hopefully you can see this better. Yeah. And this is a similar trend that you've seen the last two months also. So the top box is our revenues. Our actual revenue year to date is in the top. So just over $3 million in budgeted revenue where we thought we'd be at this point in the year under 3 million. So we're we're up almost yeah up
043$377,000 over what we thought we'd be. And the expenditures are up just over $100,000. That's the savings that you're seeing. We're signing a little bit more, but we're getting quite a good chunk more due to the increased enrollment that we have. The next page that you see is the general fund balance. I did that fund balance in different colors, so we should be able to see it a little bit better this time. That bottom green bar is the TK carryover, although need to make the words bigger still. Um, and then the middle, that purple, bright magenta color is our minimum fund balance requirements. That's the board directed minimum fund balance reserve. And then the blue on the top is the extra money that we could spend on anything right now if we wanted to. And
044then you'll just see the ending fund balance is the projection on the top line. And then where we landed the last three years below. I don't know that we've really been that much over 800,000 the month of April is when we receive a good chunk of our revenue from our levy taxes. So that amount always shows a higher revenue. So you can see in the graph the corresponding bumps that you see in October and then you get April and then kind of trends trends down slowly near the end of the year and the other technologies are all crammed into that page. Um this looks almost exactly again like you saw last month with the exception of the debt service fund. I think there's more money in that this month because we have the debt service
045payment in June. So, we pay that twice a year in December and June and that's the bond for the building. So, that kind of creeps up and we accumulate money in there and then we again this is a high water mark. Everything else is almost exactly the same. Uh transportation vehicle fund. Uh let's see. Probably won't see a change in that for June, but we will for July. I heard from our um our bus sales rep that our bus should be showing up. I won't say out loud what he said, but in the month of June. He said a couple weeks, so we'll see. It's scheduled to be delivered to our legal facility next week. And then they do some upfitting and check it out and put our great new name, our stickers and numbers
046on put the Northwest package on it. Well, that'll be enough. I'm very very offers to go drive to Costco and take it up and bring you that far. That's not helpful. It's on the mail. Um, very last page. This is uh I think almost exactly what I told you guys last month because this is a boring time of year for this, but no major changes to staffing. Uh you might have seen in the have one par educator uh retire. We're kind of hesitant if we need to replace that or not, but nothing major happening in the middle at this point. And then enrollment for next year. We're planning on those units than if we did for this year 210 because we think what what it looks like is the eighth grade class is a little
047bit bigger than the incoming TK class will be. That's all I got. You guys have any questions? Happy to answer this. If uh the new bus is a big deal there so and there's 200 How many students right now? Can I answer? Two about 230. 230. 230 kids are going to be excited about a brand new bus. Yeah. Just thinking uh I'd like to know when it's going to get here. I'd like to come up and see it early on. That is not coming during the school year because that I feel like that's something to have. You said a couple of weeks today. What about the county? Will it will it have the new bus smell before it has the old bus smell? I can tell you they're going to wait until it rains. They
048don't. They keep smelling like old buses. The ref brought one out that he was delivering to North Kids out for us to look at the bottle and see what the dash looked like. And um let Michelle's going to be the driver. And we walked on the bus and you just smelled that. My school bus. It's the standard. comes complete with old bus leather seats. But they were very excited when they sat on the one that was being a little. And our old bus is hanging on too. What happens to that bus? Do we are we going to sell it or are we going to Yeah, protocols get rid of them. Yes. Well, we will always have a backup bus. Correct. I didn't know if the backup bus gets kicked to the curb and then that
049one goes well in service between the buses. Then we have a 2006 model bus and a 2011 model bus. We will need to decide at that point which one of those two we'll keep and logic says keep the newer one. But us has got a few more issues than the older one has. We kind of decide and we've talked to Central Kids who maintains our input as well on you know you're going to be fixing this over the next few years. Which one would you prefer? Ask the drivers what they think as well. Yes. Yeah. They've all given trending. Thank you Andrew. You're welcome. any new business and or action items and I must have a motion saying that I to approve 2526 administrator contract Jerry Grubs. So second can we vote? Oh discussion D
050is she here with us? Shoot. Yes, I'm listening. I'm listening. Okay. Um, so no comment. Nope. Grateful to have you. Yes. So, let's go to a vote. All in favor? I I all of us 100%. Okay. And then um can I please have a motion to approve the 25 or sorry 2025 2026 administrative contract business manager for Andrea Cooper. So moved second comments a good one. Yes. We're happy to have Andrea. Um can we please bring it to a vote? All in favor? I I negatives%. All right. Congratulations you guys. Thank you. Great to see you here. Moving on. I'm sure we were all like, "Hey, come by the thread." I put on the other squeak by another one. Um, old business. Tom, any legislative update? Uh, just a very brief one. It's pretty hard
051to have not watch the legislature. The legislature in this most recent session that's been in the governor took all 20 or 21 days that he's allowed to have before he finally signs off anything. And this education got hammered in the state of Washington. All of the things that got improved, special ed and and some of the MSOC were not nearly what we needed. Not nearly what we needed. And uh the legislature in general passed a massive tax increase and they have painted a picture as though the tax increase is going to this kind of reminds me of Robin Hood. We're going to tax the rich and we're going to give it to the poor. And what it's going to mean for everybody in the state is everything is going to cost more. Everything is going
052to cost more. It's going to cost more for us to purchase goods and services and it's going to as a school district and it's going to cost more for your family and mine um to meet the basic needs that we have. And I was really hoping somewhere towards the last minute that the uh governor was going to line items veto a bunch of things and and he just didn't. He just signed it off and and at the risk of being too political, I'm just going to leave it at that. We'll just have to keep fighting when you're fighting. That's right. Oh, and uh it's going to be down and they would be in June agenda items, but I'm going to reach out to Travis and see if we can get Travis to come spend a
053little bit of time with us in June. And if he's not available, I'll try Drew or what? Dan. Dan. Okay. Comments. Um I might add um for they're all in the same party so pretty close so I don't think that that equitable distribution of presentations is an issue but um it's worth creating those opportunities. I did have I'll add one more thing. I did have the opportunity to go down to Olympia to the Capitol building during the legislative session and I was much more optimistic after having visited the capital and the the background information that I gathered and and then I was disappointed when the ultimate results came out. Uh we did have a few minutes that we spent with uh Dan uh which was awesome. It was during the session and he stepped away
054for a moment while some someone was being long-winded about recognition for someone else and he came in and talked to us and but he just really impressed me. We're very fortunate. And WASDA is I believe WAZA is extremely disappointed and uh they're spinning it back to what we can do to get ready for next year's session. And there will be a general assembly in September which I will tune into at least part of it where all the things that are going to be that WA was representing school boards for and how to prioritize those and that kind of stuff. As far as I'm concerned, the legislature is business as usual. That's all I got. Thank you. Down to policy. Just reading. [Music] First reading of policy 2020. course design, selection and adoption of interstructural materials,
055inter what do you think about this one? Um, I read through them all today and they're just kind of standard useful policies that we should have. Do we have anything in place for these? This patent revised. Yeah, all of these are policies that we Okay. Uh first reading of policy 2021 library information and technology programs that policy and discussed that we're in good shape. Policy 2230 transition to kindergarten class adopted February 2018. This is significant for the prospect of being able to continue the TK. We have plenty of students that are interested that the legislation put a freeze on it uh any new funding but we were about early enough. So it's not really affecting us in any in the near terms in the long term. We have duplicate they may allow a lot of
056but we're good for the future. So um can I ask questions? Yeah. Oh, are we on the transition to kindergarten? Um the the last paragraph um on the second page. Yeah. Uh in inventory developing well first of all statewide student identifier. I'm guessing that they're doing that with with everybody all students. Yes. Okay. So everybody every Yes. Do they do they tattoo it on? Just kidding. They give them a credit card. Yeah, I'm kidding. Um and uh is that like your permanent file? Yeah. Do you guys Do you guys really still use that? Hey. Hey. It's going to go in your permanent file. Oh jeez. For not real. Okay. All right. No, no, not my permanent. Well, we have them in the back room. We already You don't want to see mine, though. You could
057probably already tell what's in it. Um, so the inventory of developing skills while kids at the beginning of their enrollment at least one more time during the school years, children whose parents excuse them from participating in the W kids do not have to participate. So what what is W kids and and why would parents want to excuse them from it? because it's it sounds like it's another test and so some parents don't do the assessments with their kids. We don't have that problem. So what lockkins is it's the so when we started holding it's an assessment, right? It is but it's it's a one-on-one assessment. So like the best way to do it is is the teachers will have like a a device or or even a check off sheet and they're looking for different
058things like um can they know are they are they sorting by color? Are they sorting by number? are they where are they with their development of recognizing the difference between a number and a letter? Um with their holding a book, do they understand the front cover? Can they if you say can you open it from the front cover? Can they open it from the front cover? Do they do they recognize some of those basic things um in school? And it's it's not um punitive by any means. It's a it's a it's just a data taking assessment of where that child is um developmentally. and um you know what what helps them be more successful in school. So working on those skills throughout the year. So is that used in kindergarten? Is it? Yes. So we
059do it in TK. We do it um we actually do three data points um checks with those but it's a little bit more intensive and those are their report cards is the parents get to see where they're at in those developmental skills and then they do it in the very beginning of kindergarten and then they move into regular report cards. That seems like it would be useful anything, you know. Okay. All right. Just trying to identify if there was like anything controversial about that, you know, because whenever I see well parents can excuse them from blah blah blah blah blah and you know, then I think okay, is there something about that? We've had we've been using Walk Kids for like I don't know uh seven years now with our kindergarten program. We've never had
060a parent excuse from it. Okay. Great. You have any questions? No. Okay. Moving on. Uh policy 5011 sexual harassment is district prohibitive. Any questions? So, so was it permissible before this? Um, there was something to hear about. So, um, we have a policy, uh, an anti-discrimination policy, right? Right. Do you know what number that is? Okay. Why not, Jerry? Um, it's crossing 10 in the back. Wait, I think it's 57. 50. Yeah. That sounds smart. Wow. Way to go. Way to go. Feels good. So, so I mean this looks like it's just taking an anti-discrimination and just sticking sex into it, right? Because it's like reports of and then you add sex discrimination and then sexual harassment. Yeah. Conduct. Yeah. Okay. So, couldn't couldn't that be combined into one policy? No, they wanted it separate.
061Thanks. Any questions? Any other questions? Yeah, this is really interesting. Are complaints alleging violations of the Boy Scouts of America will be referred to did do any of us know what that is? Um, no. So, frankly, it was kind of a knee-jerk response by um to the boys to um it was a political issue some time ago and I I don't remember all the details the boy they didn't want to so they created a caveat the boy scouts. It makes no sense any well God started I'm not against uh people not or people let's see I don't want to do a double I am totally for this policy totally in in case there was any questions. Okay, moving on. You're all good with that. Um, we're going to do policy approval. Um, I have a
062motion for the new policy 3, I'm sorry, 3423, uh, parental administration, parental administration of marijuana for medical purposes. So moved. Oh, second. Okay. You have a discussion. So, uh, yes. Surprise, surprise. Um, I was not I I think I missed classmate. Um, this is coming from our nurse saying that we should have this false, right? If the bias is romantic, okay? And she says we should have it because some parents want to admin want to give their kids some kind of marijuana medical stuff during the school. Right. Correct. Okay. And then put the parameters around that. We as a educator or even our school nurse will not administer any of those things. The policy also um previously had um sections about buses and stuff and I mixed those. I'm like there's no way we're buses.
063Yeah. Parents and ministering of various places including buses and I to the whole new bus smell doesn't it's more TA bus. Yeah. add some stale cigarettes in there. It's a good marketing because these things do get sold to people when we're done. Yeah. But I mixed all of that language. I'm like, there's no way we're making any accommodations on field trips or transportation for I got rid of those because it was silly and um but kept it intact for the that rare instance when we have a child with significant medical conditions for this. My question is, is there going to be soon well enough to go to school to take marijuana? Like if a kid has leukemia and they're taking marijuana for nausea, they're not going to be here if they're that sick. I don't
064think it's possible. These days, people take marijuana for, you know, anxiety and dyslexia, right? And broken toe. They they need they need to, you know, kind of get mellow, right? And so, I don't know. The good news is if you look down towards the bottom in the cross references, we have a a drug-free school policy and this does not compromise or lower against the drug-free school and we have a drug free school. I know they say that but what have what have you guys seen? I mean, is there a big call for this? Isn't part of the reason this policy was recommended to give us some guidance and boundaries if a parent does ask for this. We haven't really had parents asking now, but this will give us guidelines and boundaries that we would want
065to have in place. So if someone asked you you could say well this is this is our four corners of wild it's useful for me should I have guidance we have a we have an opinion on this and this is state law and this is how it's going to be handled. Um has it ever happened to me? No. But that doesn't mean it never will because clearly it's been an issue because um I won't be bit out of shape if you don't don't uh choose this policy. It's just a useful thing to have in our catalog resources. What if we adopt this policy and a parent decides okay I'm I'm going to do this and they find somewhere around this policy what is the what is what is the actions that would be taken to
066that parent or that student if they were using it improperly or would be violation of their permanent file right I mean if they use it in Any way outside of the description of this then school rules and about the drug preschool. Are we ready to vote? Y to call. Can I call for a vote, please, for policy 5012? All those in favor? I I [Music] All pass would be a small eye of a small eye. future agenda. Thank you. Oh, sorry. I skipped over that one. Yeah. So you think that I mean that was that's a policy that's retired and I didn't want to just take it out decision to take it out because policy 510 on non-discrimination covers this item as well as 5404. Okay motion question and all that. You're so smart. Okay.
067So, going back uh for retired to retire policy, uh I would like a motion for policy 5012 um uh a motion for policy 512 to be retired. So, moved. Second discussion much to discuss. No. Uh we'll move to a vote. All in favor? I now moving on. Thank you for bearing with me. Future agenda items. June board meeting to approve the 25 or 2025 2026 budget. Current date. Yes. and to approve administrative contract. Jerry. Yes. No. No. Additional didn't. Okay. Next time. No, I was asking. Sorry. And then community uh partnership award. Yes. And then um at the bottom is is it from Travis too? Yeah. Yeah. We will have a legislative representative. Just come talk to us. Anything else I miss to say? Um I I this doesn't need to be for necessarily the
068the June board meeting, but um I'd like to start introducing discussions around um uh maintaining our um our level of service at Great View, you know, so we have some extraordinary talent here, but you know, time marches on and people march towards retirement and and you know, there's there's some folks that are very talented and when they retire, like I need to fill that void, right? And um I'd like to kind of talk about maybe see if anybody has any strategies around that. I can talk about how we do it in the private sector, but it's not as it's not as easy. Are you talking about recruiting like No, just recruiting and and you know kind of kind of crossraining or identifying talent that you know could slip into different roles. You know it's a
069conversation I frequently have about developing the leaders and the building and strengths. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I uh I've been thinking about that for a while and uh and you know there's a there's a reason why we're doing really well and and that's because we've got a great team but you know a cog falls out of the out of alignment right and that you know I just want to conversation want to have a conversation around that. We'll put it on the agenda. Most fair some of the things that we are looking at. Great. Also, uh, one other thing too, not necessarily for June, but I'd like to you were you were telling me about Pioneers, um, dedicated special needs program that had 11 people in it, which to me is is a lot is is
070a lot of people, you know, considering the size of district, but I I would like to learn more about that to find out if they're using that as a separate revenue structure within their budget. And if that gives them sort of an advantage of other districts, you know, outsourcing specialty services to them and could we build a program? I know hands cringing right, but could we build a program around that here somehow, right? I'm I'm not saying No, I'm not cringing at all. These are constant discussions. Okay. I was just my nipples. Oh, okay. No, this is a constant discussion. I mean, it's just, you know, I'm just saying things that that Oh gosh, you know, as if I don't have enough to do on my plate, right? But but if we if we did
071something like that, it would it would also help protect us from uh the es and flows of of political winds and the economy and that kind of too. We would be sh shoving students out where we'd be embracing them. Correct. Yeah. I also wonder too like what would it take? two more teachers, three more teachers, and probably a full-time nurse. Yeah. I mean, and a room. We would we would have to we would have to kind of analyze it, but um and I'm sure that thinking about I'm sure the students that we are have in special ed art programs even now would benefit more if we had more teachers and available. It's a matter of benefits and costs, right? Space, etc., etc. There's all all kinds of considerations. [Music] However, if it can be done,
072you know, it it might be a benefit to our community and and to our district. So, anyway, that's those are the two items I wanted to stick on there. Great. Thank you. All right. Okay. So, now we're down to super or board superintendent reflections. Any comments? Can I start with Sure. Uh, I'm stunned that we're getting ready to go home at 6:15 and it's so light out and uh we covered a lot of material and the board likes it when there's a lot of information available and we can ask questions and give comments and feedback. And uh we're going to go into a quiet time here for a couple of months. Yay. And I miss the fact that there aren't kiddos in here today. And I really like the uh the comments that were made
073earlier about staff recognition and the importance of that. Then I'm delighted that we're locking up Jerry and Andrea. [Music] It's not from a beagle. I have a policy for you to read. We have the first read about and Deb, it was good to have you on. Deb, are you still there? I'm still here. Yep, I am. Can you give us your reflections, please? Okay. Um, I I loved the what I heard tonight. Um, first I want to say that I'm glad Jerry and Andrea are coming back because that makes us all feel safe and um makes me think that next year will be just as good or better than this year. That that's good. Second thing was um the CTE class being certified or really close to it. That's very very exciting for a school
074as small as we are um to bring all that in. I I love that. that I love and I know how much work Jason must have had to do to do that and and everybody I think that's wonderful. Um the third thing is scoring in 35 events in a track meet. My dad was a track coach in a very tiny town so I've been to millions of track meets and I love them. So 35 scoring in 35 events is a huge thing. And the last thing, um, I really like, um, the idea of having seniors come back and talk to eighth graders because they need to know that, um, next year may not be as scary as it sounds. People that they kn know are still okay and they're still fine. Because I can remember
075looking at high school kids and thinking, how can they joke around when they have homework? I mean, I know it sounds crazy, but I didn't know what high school meant. So when they get to see him and ask questions, that's that's a big part of education. Other than that, thank you very much for letting me do this. I will not be back for the June meeting either. We'll we're I'm in Maryland. Oh, because um our son's having um treatment for cancer. So we're here making sure that he's um okay, you know, like after the chemo and stuff. So, um, this is going to be till the middle of July anyway. If if everything goes great, I'll be home sometime in the middle late July, I guess. So, anyway, I'm in Largo, Maryland. It's 9:18 here.
076Oh my gosh. Oh, that's okay. We won't. Thank you so much and we appreciate you and we wish the best for your son. Hopefully, what is this? What's his name? Deb. Stephen. Stephen. All right. I'll be praying for Stephen. Thank you. Thank you, De. Oh. Um, I've already talked a lot tonight. I I agree with everybody. Um, the the track me thing is really fantastic. And I I remember like Claire, my my oldest daughter, she was in she was kind of one of those into everything, you know, and she was into track and and uh she did hurdles and things and then Wow. Grace was in uh volleyball volleyball and you know God bless they you know but I mean people come to compete you know St. mics would come here, they they'd be like,
077"Let's give a let's, you know, give a Christian cheer to Great View for trying." You know, you'll do better next time, you know, that kind of thing. It's like, "Wait a second." It's like this backhanded, you know, kind of sportsmanship kind of thing. and and uh and now I'm just sort of like, yeah, when they see that they're playing Grape View or they're competing against Grape View, I bet I I bet that smuggness kind of goes away a little bit. Yeah, it's at least reduced a bit anyway. So, I just I'm I'm just really proud that we're I don't know, maybe that's not something I should be proud of, you know, but it it is good that we're that we're really, you know, we have a reputation that's that that is a good reputation. It's
078earned, right? That's it. Thank you for stepping up very late. You've been in the vice chair for 15 minutes. You're leading it. So way to go for that. Thank you. And um I'm just say I'm just grateful to have a job. Thank you for critical means in a nice place of good people to work with. So that's a true blessing. um to back on to the track. I my son played track and I was able to go to every single meet. Their sportsmanship was topnotch. I cannot say more about them. We even like at P or we went to Hook Canal and for the 800 all the boys had to be too deep to the lane all the way through and some of the pioneer kids and the hook canal kids they were all shaking
079hands and then great be was shaking hands with them. It was just really neat to see. So um the the track team was really nice to see them step up and ready to bring in numbers. Um I'm proud of my eighth graders or these eighth graders. I say mine, but the eighth graders here, they what a feat, you know, to move on and I'm really proud of them and I hope they soar to the stars in in in the years to come and um I'm looking forward to the field day. I will be there and graduation and I'm just all the stuff end year stuff I'm looking forward to. So that's that's what I have to say. One more comment. Yes. Uh There's a lot of school districts in our state that are in serious
080trouble financially. Uh some of them a lot more than others. And there's a lot of uncertainty in those districts and and that makes for very difficult times as some districts are looking at layoffs, school closures, etc., etc. And we're very very fortunate that we're not Yes, we're not in that position yet. I think it's I think we were very lucky that we passed it when we did without the legisl legislative crap going around to help persuade people to think a different way. Can I make a comment on that? the um where where we did it right was we didn't think the code dollars were permanent. Yeah. Yes. Such a dumb dumb thing to to build that into your budget as a totally pay you look at school districts that did that and you're just like
081you know uh okay that was not right. So anyway, you know, we we're, you know, trying to handle the best we can, right? Mhm. So anyway, I'm going to adjourn the meeting here. Uh it's 6:24. It's right here. Thank you, Deb. We're gonna send you guys. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks, Britney. Very much. Thank you.