February 26, 2025 Grapeview School District Board Meeting

001Okay. I'd like a motion to approve the agenda. So move on. Second. Second. Thank you. Nothing jumped out of me on this one. Didn't surprise surprise. [Music] Unless there's some discussion on call for vote. All in favor? I 100%. Okay. So, welcome visitors. We don't have any other than the recognition for no public comment. So I guess we're item seven. Jerry, take it away. All right, Lindsay. Okay, this is where we honor of the month. And could you please describe why? Well, I'm new to Great View and I've had the pleasure of um teaching in the second grade classroom and right away Olivia stood out to me as a very successful scholar but also very sincere and kind to all of her classmates. Um she's very sweet and um considerate and she is learning to

002overcome obstacles and persist when she's faced with a tough thing like sometimes some of the tests we can do. But the really cool thing about Olivia is she hammered herself and she's also advocating for herself, asking for help um and also then offering help to others too. So, she really makes our classroom community a wonderful place to be and I super duper love being her teacher. [Applause] a couple pictures. Okay, come up and take photo. Am I in the photo? Gators on three. Gator. The board wants a picture of you. Oh, Olivia, you are a celebrity. [Laughter] I'm really relying on you a lot. On three. One, two, three. Wonderful. security. We are gonna honor go by KJ. Yeah, KJ. Can you would you guys please come on? Hey buddy, this is for you. This

003is for because you're doing such a great job in TK. You want to hold it so we can take a picture? Yeah. Ready? Three. One, two, three. Good job. You did great. Do you want to hear why you're doing such a good job? Yeah. You're a responsible student. Yeah. What else do you What do you like about TK? Play. You would like to play? Are you always making sure you're a kind friend? Yeah. Yeah. You learn a lot, don't you? Yeah. You're doing a great job. All right. Hey, kindergarten already has a certificate. Wow. Gator on three. Ready, KJ? One, two, three. Gator. Good job. Okay. [Music] It's transitional. Okay. All right. Wow. Yeah. On three. One, two, three. [Music] [Applause] Oh, really? [Applause] That's awesome. very easy. Yeah. Okay. Well, good. Little boy. Okay.

004So, the important stuff is over. I move that we Okay, Jerry. So, we're down to that presentation here with Yep. Okay. Okay, we're also using this as an impromptu on screen demonstration. So, you can kind of see where we were at a little bit and now the visual that kids now have. Wow. It's pretty awesome. Yeah. So, I won't be doing as much as the interactive part, but at least you can see how amazing it looks. So, our favorite time of the year, right, data presentation. Um, this is our midyear data. So we did our fall data checkpoint. This is midy year January and then um the fall or the spring will be before um SBA. This isn't they do work really well. I promise I actually none of the teachers thought that this would

005work and I told Adrian I'm like I got it work. Oh, so the screen in the back is responding. Yeah. No, I promise you. There we go. The on button is very important. I know. So, this is kindergarten early literacy and numeracy. And um you can see it's on a chart, but also down below where our first checkpoint was. We had 17 students and they scored like 0.0. So we have like prek scores. This is like right at um kindergarten. So they came at in that level and they moved to exactly where we wanted them to be at 0.4 months of growth for four months of school. And so great. Yep. Uh first grade also takes early literacy and numeracy. um we take a crack at star math um in the spring, but for our

006first two checkpoints, it's just early literacy and numeracy. So, they also went up for months of both. So, from 0.6, so six months um in school to first grade level. And you can also see one more student. Sometimes that impacts. I wish it was just a onetoone perfect um growth, but we always get new students, we lose students. So, second grade takes star reading and um they're rocking it. They came in at 1.6 and right now they're at 2.1. They also take STAR math, so two separate tests. and they started off the year at 1.4 um grade level equivalent and now they're at 1.9 so close third grade reading um they came in a little bit above grade level so 3.5 and they moved up to 4.2 too and they added two students as well.

007So, they're rocking the reading. And Star Math went up four months of growth from third grade level to 3.4. Um, so good growth. Okay. Fourth grade reading, they they started off right at fourth grade level. ly five months of growth so far this year with a couple extra students. And Star Math, um they came in at fourth grade and they've made fourth months of growth as well. So fifth grade star reading. So they came in above grade level about 5.4. We added two more students and um didn't make the growth we wanted to see, but I'll explain that um in our strategies part, but check out their math. So, their star math, they started off at 4.4 and they've really caught up and um now they're at 5.1 for their math overall with two additional

008students. Is fifth grade when boys and girls start noticing each other? It's where they're trying to like find their what I call the peacock stage, you know, like look at me. Were my friends mad at me? Am I mad at my friend? I don't know. Yeah, it's a hard. Yeah, I ate this piece of plastic. Yeah, whatever. It's going to ruin my day. No. Um, sixth grade reading. Um, this is our cohort. if you've been on the board a long time, they've been off the school a long time, but they are a really academically strong um group. So, you can see also it's I think it's one of our only classes that they started with 25 students and they still have 25 students. So, not a lot of movement. Some of them sorry to interrupt.

009They've lost a couple children. That's amazing that they started out at a high level, too. Yeah. Yeah, they're um they're just really collaborative and so and they're intrinsically motivated. Like you don't have to bribe this class with candy so much. They're just like they're competitive. That's really what it is. They are a competitive competitive group of individuals. You mean competition breeds good results in this case? Absolutely. Yeah. And to hang on to that, Cindy, they what she also it's competitive with themselves. So if they scored, they want to know what their score is when they take, you know, the test in the fall. And then they're like, I'm beating it by this match. This is saying, you know, I'm going to beat it. But like they're they're talking about how they're going to beat themselves.

010And I love it. It's pretty cool. They are. They're eccentric, too. Um, Star Math. So once again, they started off at 7.6 and they moved to 8.4. Um, they love their math class as well. They love Miss Chilson. She's got a groove on. I think she's got some something that just gets their attention. I think she's taught this math for so long and she teaches sixth, seventh, and eighth. So, she knows these standards like inside and out. and that at other middle schools you might just have a sixth grade math teacher, then you move to the seventh grade math teacher, but she does it all. So, she can fill in the gaps and um she has that content knowledge that's pretty rare to find. So, she's a gem. All right, seventh grade reading. Um they

011started off 7.1, they made eight months of growth, which for this class, incredible. like I teach their win class and when we went through our scores um they were so proud. They've worked really hard. And then for the math, this is also incredible. A year's worth of growth. Um 6.4 they started off and now they're at 7.4 which overall is at grade level. So it's good. And lastly, eighth grade, much like sixth grade, um they are competitive with themselves and each other. It will work. Wow. There we go. Holy smokes. Yeah. So, they started off, you know, well above grade level, 9.8. But what I love is even though they're higher achieving, they still made incredible growth. And that's what we're all about um with our data is even if kids are at gradeal level

012or above, they can still go higher. So they ended up at 10.5. And lastly, star math 9.3 to 10.2. And I'm more I can't. So at this when we talk about this math level now we're it's been a long time a lot of water has gone over just down we now at algebra level at this point okay and we have a large algebra class uh I think eight students in algebra so during that what I need time they're taught by Miss Chilson and then um Miss Pearson Mr. Trimble has the other 8th grade students working on goal setting and things. So she teaches this algebra class as a separate period. So yeah, so we're able to challenge um kids operating at a higher grade level. Absolutely. Okay. And even if they're not at eighth grade,

013if they're in seventh grade and sixth grade, it's a constant reminder if you want to do algebra high school level class, this is all three years of work. So that's also a kind of a carrot. This photo is fly. She starts to really turn about that sixth grade at least. They'll hear this data and it's really cranking up by this eighth grade. This is this is this is wonderful. I get really energized by this kind of stuff. What uh and and again this is a statewide assessment. So this is a national assessment. This isn't SBA data. This is our diagnostic benchmark. Um what you see here like percentile rank and scale score. Um that is based off of all the students in the nation that took this test in the same grade level. And it's

014a it's a national test, not a Washington test. Exactly. Oh, okay. I trust it a lot more now. Um, I've heard that OSPI is is changing the way that they do scoring so that they can make things look better. And, you know, I don't know, you know, that's a biased a biased viewpoint, but they're they're changing it. And usually they, you know, change comes from, oh, this other way doesn't look so good, right? And I was wondering if this was the new way and it's not right. No. So, okay, that's good. It's interesting watching your two body languages here as you're talking through this. This is this is a part this is really something to be proud of. Yeah, this is this is the kind of story that one of the things when we did

015our last off analysis, one of the things is an opportunity was to self-promote us. Yeah. Just the self-promotion. Even even the class that needed a a little bit of help compared to all these others, right? It wasn't that bad. No, it was pretty pretty good actually. So, um, so yeah, there's a lot that you you guys should be very proud. I'll go to the summary page just so um this and then we can see um all the other grade levels. But so each made four months of growth and then um this one is reading just so you can see it all on one slide. If you have any questions, just let me know. I want to know if the teachers like get real time information of like what c certain students are missing to where

016that they can tailor it to their classroom. Is there that sort of information or Yes, it so this um past Monday we finally got all the kids finished testing because of illness, snow days, what have you. But our whole purpose was going through our different reports. We our teachers aren't afraid of data like it's they love data and just like our fifth grade teacher which um we can see there for reading already I walked into his classroom today he had implemented some new strategies focusing on craft and structure which was his lowest part for all the kids. So um we have these beautiful reports that we can hone in on that. So you said you were going to elaborate a little bit more about the fifth grade. Yes, I will. So this is overview of

017of math. Are you guys okay if I move forward? Okay. So our strategies um we're data driven. It's the core of what we do. We use assessment data to identify students specific needs. That can be areas for growth and areas for enrichment. And we allocate our resources accordingly. We've had to do a lot of schedule changes this year, but we're going to where students need it the most. So, PAR schedules can change. We just are we do what's best for students based on our data. Our targeted um interventions, we have a whole group of people that work one-on-one with kids or in small groups. Um Miss Sher Williams, she does a phenomenal job with her small groups. Um we have our amazing volunteers. So, and our para educators too. Our professional development is a core

018of this. Um, some districts really lean into maybe like bringing in a bunch of professional development that's very expensive. Um, we we utilize our resources really well. We lean into each other's experience and we can really leverage our resources more. So, we've been diving into UDL, universal design for learning. Basically, it's how does that child learn? Let's create opportunities for how that child learns better. If they like to use a whiteboard, then they can use that and not pencil, paper, whatever practice they can get. So, um, in Great View, we have amazing family involvement. the teachers reach out all the time, positives and areas for growth and we send resources home. Um, so we're a team. And then lastly, the technology is a a big part of that. Um, we keep up to date on

019our educational technology. I just walked into first grade today and they had this screen split into fours. four different kids working math problems side by side together and that's engagement and those are first graders. So, um we're creating personalized experiences for these kids and also being able to track their progress using our testing um platform, all those things. And then lastly, our PLC is critical. Um we collaborate. We don't have a third grade team to talk to, right? It's vertical alignment, but our teachers share their resources because they're all of our kids. Everyone knows our kids' names. So, and our support staff is a huge part of that as well. Tony checks in with kids. Um, Carol has her structures with kids. And that overall well-being and mental health of our kids helps them learn.

020So, thank you. Yep, we're good. Any questions? Oh, there's many, but Okay. Okay. Thank you. Nice job. Thanks, Cindy. Yeah, you're welcome. Okay, we're down here to let's see announcements and recognition. So we have a reading night coming up on the 6th and make it the 21st weather day. All right. I'd like motion to approve the consent agenda. So yeah, thank you. Discussion. So anything here outside? So, we got a donation from the county. Good. I have a question. [Music] Um, page one, it's it's basically got all this employees on here. And there's a bunch of little check amounts. I'm just questioning the I want to start names, but it's got Blossom, Miss Curtis. They're for $30.49.65 just in your page. We thought everybody was wearing new outfits. Yeah. Does she typically give you guys

021as much data on usually? Okay. So the part that you're questioning is just wondering what that's what all those little amounts are being paid out to how much are you talking I this would be my wild guess that it's some sort of employee reimbursement I'm guessing you always see a list like this but it doesn't normally have employee names on it uh no I'm was wondering what the payouts are for the It just doesn't seem right. [Music] Oh, I know what it is. I know exactly what it is. This is lunch money. Uh last, this is the first year that we haven't collected lunch money. These are families that had lunch money on deposit with us that we refunded because they didn't need it anymore. Some students have left the district or we're not charging

022this year for lunch. probably not going to charge you next year. Charge next year. So, we had a bunch of families that had like a school my school bus account here and these are refunds. So, I took him like what did she do? Because these aren't employee names that those are parent names of current former students. We're not we're not charging for lunch. Question about why is it so low? I feel like there there was more funds in ASB, correct me if I'm wrong, $647. That's not what it's saying. That's why I'm questioning it. That's the amount of a check. So, there was one check written. Oh, that's not the total. Yeah. It's weird that it's very similar to those total amounts. It's just a flip. Okay. Y. So those on that little grid and

023she's talking about the very the little grid at the bottom of the very first page. The column in the middle that has a bunch of numbers that don't really make much sense. Those are our check numbers or warrant numbers. So like on that ASB line, you see one number twice, the same number and the same number. That's the check number that we wrote. And that 61 is the two. Yeah. ASB spent money on something. Y questions [Music] the top check on page I'm going to call it three first actually says page one is financial group who is that that's the Bank of Montreal that's the administrator for our credit card so the district has a credit card purchasing card that we can use to make purchases online so all of the shopping that we did

024in January for example We'd pay the credit card bill in February. Okay. It could be Chase if it was your personal credit card or Visa or whatever. Got it. is an acron Montreal. Okay. You're good. Bank of Montreal credit card pay. So they um they partner with an associate national association called the association of school business officials. And there's a Washington chapter was a chapter for every state of that that parent company for the whole nation um went out to bid essentially for a credit card company to contract with that's who won. So all of the states that participate can use PMO and get the same type of benefits across the whole country. So they've tailored this credit card to work for school districts that have apartment cards and good payment strategies. So is keeping

025with like a personal credit card. We pay off the balance every month when you're carrying. Okay. Just We actually get a little rebate back every year. They send us some money back basing. So, um, Wes had a question I'd like to answer and it was related to the checks that we gave back parents back their money and that is free lunch, right? So, um, that every school district has a poverty level. So, you might be 10% poverty level, 20, and it varies all over the place. And that's um a number that districts collect because that helps drive a number of different funding mechanisms. Um title one being one of them and lap being another one. And and and the level at which your rate of poverty is rated um the percentage of kids that are

026below that level can drive your access to variety of different funds and grants etc. So, um, we've always had a poverty rate. What in its in its buried um um and I it I'm not sure where ours is right off the top of my head. I didn't come with that in mind, but um we reached the point in Washington state and I think it's around 40%. If 40% of your students are at or below the poverty rate, you can um have you have free lunch for everybody in your school. Wow. Are you in great view? Yes. Right. Free lunch. What's the poverty level? I might have to look that up for you. 172,000. I mean, there's there's a lot of students that um there's plenty of families that live on the lake and plenty of

027families that live on on the bay, but there's a lot of families in between with various income levels. And you don't have to be destitute to qualify. You just have to, you know, if you're a young family making ends meet, um you might qualify. And so um and that drives a lot of uh a lot of things including the the free lunch which is why we ended up writing check back to the families out of balance. Have they paid for lunches at this point? They have. Yes. So who's actually paying for the lunch? Is it the feds or is it reimbursement? It's state. Okay. And is that enough to provide uh high quality lunch or is it I saw commodity based? It's it's all of it. And and I'm actually really excited when I walk

028by our kitchen here working in this building. I watched one of our um kitchen staff today making bagels from scratch. From scratch. Never been in a freezer. Fresh food. Um they make homemade chili to serve to their kiddos, homemade pizza. The food here that I've seen is amazing. So, I came from South Kab, which is a large district. I work at North Kit before. My two boys have gone through the South K school district, but a couple weeks ago, I didn't have lunch, so I bought lunch here, and it was the children, which I can smell. I got this. I got the tray just like the kids got. I sat it down. I took a picture of it. And when I got home, I showed it to my 21-year-old who's a South graduate. And he

029looked at it. He goes, "That's the that's what you had at work today." I said, "Yeah, but this was a school lunch. This is the same with the kids." He goes, "That's what the students get to eat." Well, you know, he was impressed. He was impressed. I saw Tony bringing in a a roadkilled deer. We call that role. There's there's a lot of fresh stuff going on, which is amazing. Yeah. Yeah, good. We should I'd like plan on highlighting that. She has done a remarkable job. I think we should because um so the the budget doesn't affect her buying power and her menu at all. She works really hard um to manage that. It's not easy. Um but um we are totally fine with it. You know, school lunch gets gets a bad name, right?

030And I mean, deservantly so in some areas, but um but that should be something what you just said there. We should be talking about self-promotion. I will say always had great lunches. No, I don't think Mrs. Hall used to make the best breakfast pizza on Friday. my one of my kids um refused to eat lunch here and and I'd have to make her lunch and if you ever you know ate something that I made lunch would have to be pretty bad right and um so so as we've turned out co it was Carol and it was just pumping food out and it wasn't wonderful but since that time it's um she's really stepped up and um and made some remarkable progress. And this is still Carol. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We still have the salad bar

031thing, too. Okay. This is really good discussion. Sorry. Any more comments, questions? I'm going to call for a vote. All in favor? I. Okay. 100%. Okay. Moving on to the next item. So, principal and superintendent and we got one [Music] more. So, I'll start on the the talking points with the red red letters at the top. Um, I was really happy with Sherry and she and I worked on um the state of Washington felt they needed to do another civil rights review report with the legislature and so um I went kicking and screaming into that and um because we just went through all that process last year in our on our review. Um and so Sherry um going to have to kind of say mostly Sherry worked through that data and that information and we

032got it turned in and um of the 300 school districts in the state of Washington only 41 of us got that in on time for that for that report. I was proud of that. She worked hard to get all that data together and get it sent in. And um so we were one of the few districts that got our stuff turned in on time. I was pleased with that even though did get a an award for that or Yeah. No, the ones that don't. Yeah. I don't know. I I think eventually they got it turned in. But anyway, just wanted you to know that we're working hard to do lots of things that the state asked us to do that are, in my opinion, completely unnecessary, but take a great deal of time and effort

033and and work. Um um tomorrow I'll be meeting with our new insurance um company, the risk pool, and we'll um be doing a walk through of our facilities and reviewing and analyzing and doing kind of stuff. Um they're very handson um with their um insurance and guidance and and um and that's why they're able to be a little more portable. Um and we all kind of pull together. It's the same expectations for every school district. Seattle school district and we same expectations of setting goals. Is there structural insurance liability insurance? Okay. Nice. Anything with Tony at some point too? Um I I don't know if he'll be involved in that walk through. We'll include him if there's questions. I know I'm walking So that'll be tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. Um, as far

034as Apollo project, they've been fabulous to work with and we're kind of at a pause right now. Um, waiting for spring break where we can commission the systems. Um, and I'm very pleased that um, from a variety of contingency accounts that were built in savings, we were able to get some of those trees removed, which are are helpful to protect the systems that we have down there. And then also um, new control systems um, for our HVAC system. So um, basically we'll be bringing our um, how described this um you know you have your thermostat on your in your in your house that's your control system but it's fast and more complicated in our facility and that new HVAC update did not include that um because we had a control system but as we made

035savings um and um progressive the project we realized we'll be able to add um some new control systems so that not only will HVAC be upgraded but our ability ility to manage it will be um modernized and we'll be able to moni track and control our heating and cooling um from a from a laptop in my office or in Tony's office instead of the current very very old laptop that's down in the basement. Um and so I'm very excited about that. So that will be an additional um thing that we're adding into that process all within the same cost. Yeah. Yeah. So CTE is moving forward. Um Katie and Jason we were twice we've had their advisory meetings canled by um uh weather. once was a storm up snow and then the other one was

036um just was it last week when was it yesterday weather they had power outages so but the goal is to add a new course and that would be computer programming Jason's on board um and North Mason's very supportive so that's uh progressing uh well um I have um the next one I I I the great technology computer handout. I have gray there. Um remember when we had um Ryan come and talk about technology in the future. So what I asked them to do with that is put numbers on that. Put time um put dates and recommended dates and money, right? If we're going to do these things, what is it going to cost and when should we do them? So this is basically his rundown of what he thought. I um I added a few

037items down below just for information of things that I think um so from 2025 down to 2031 those dates are that's all information he put there um under where it said no specific dates or other things that I thought um um that didn't necessarily fall under his purview but were things that are tech related that I thought might be valuable to our school. at some point. Um and um our audio system has some problems here and there, microphones, etc. Um I as we move into STEM and CTE, there's going to be some demands on technology and and needs there to um keep that moving forward, keep our kids up to date. And then um our security camera systems um are getting um I'm going to use a phrase my wife teases me about. It's an

038old man phrase. Um I don't know where I got it, but it's long in the tooth. Um and that is does it work? Yes. Is it um really what we need? It's almost adequate right now, but as we move forward, as you know, we've already added some ring cameras to patch and new visibility around the building. And so, I want us to be um thinking um about what, when, and where, and how we want to be addressing these things. These are the costs. um we can ignore some of them and they'll have consequences or we can embrace some of them or all of them. I don't have a distinctive answer right now, but I wanted to follow up with his information and the recommendations and then the estimated cost and then um some things that

039I think would be additional which which pot of money that falls on our behalf would this be targeted? Is this capital expenditure? Um, so there's a lot of questions that about how we want to manage that and that's why I'm putting it in front of you now so we can start wrapping our minds around how we want to do that. Do we want to just um hope for grants? Do we want to slice off little bit of funds here and there as we are able to? Um and um I think we have a technology reserve or a technology um line item in the budget, don't we? But it's money budgeted for technology every year. So whether we spend it or not, right? And I don't know, but that's curious top of my head. Sometimes it'll

040be less and sometimes it'll be more but we did that when we modernized the building. We changed our budget to include that cuz we we knew that stuff would would wear out. It's really funny. My alarm clock at home is one of these big like woody paneling ones that was built in like 1972, right? And it still works. And you're talking about, well, it's getting a little longer, too. That's three years old or four years old. I'm thinking this is really terrible. Well, the camera system is um done when we built when we remodeled, right? Yeah. Yeah. And to me, it doesn't seem that long ago, but I guess now, but um but yeah, we we have that budget line item and I think we could probably go up for grants, right? We do work

041on those. We got a grant we've had several grants to update Chromebooks. Um and we get like a few at a time 10 I think one year and two the others. So um these are this is something that I'm thinking about. How do we map this out and plan moving forward to cover all these expenses? Um and I wanted you to know that these are things that are potentially in our future um things that we think about. a lot of them we can kind of use that tech money and work down. Um the where I start to get anxious is the 2028 Chromebooks. That's starting to get to be a pretty big bill. Um and then uh and then moving down camera security systems. Um that's not necessary. Um but it's not a bad idea

042when you thinking about student security. Um and um that's an estimated starting point. So these are future costs and I wanted to doesn't Google um I think you can apply to Google for for help with educational Chromebooks, right? Uh now that we've got 40% poverty in our district, right? I mean we might be able to leverage that. Um it matters. And I know that Apple you know, way back when would would provide systems to schools and things, but you know, so that that might help with that bill is I guess what I'm saying. So, we should probably look into it. I have a concern, too. We buy 145 Chromebooks rather than splitting it up. That's just 145 to buy the what in 10 years. So 20 38 we're going have to buy that many again

043rather than making smaller doses and well by that time they will have neural and we'll just be inserting chips in people's brains and they do one of the things um that happens with those strangely is they expire in their security measures so they don't like I have you know have a laptop at home I've had it quite a few years and It's fine, right? Um, and I don't know the longevity, but I do know that they have um, uh, timelines in which they expire in their, um, usefulness for security. That's right. Yes, that's right. So, um, I wanted this information in front of you because it's information that we're looking at and we'll be making decisions about moving forward and prioritizing for kids. There's some there's some stuff on here. The 3D printer is huge.

044ST Oh, yeah. I mean, that is Yeah. And there there's grants and there BCTTE money that will pick up some of these things here and there. Um, but there's some Is the $30,000 from R the the security cameras is that from multiple estimates or is that from one? We I've not done any estimates. Okay. Yeah. I I've talked with one company that I know of just and give give me a I have no idea what they cost. I've never purchased the security system, right? Tell me and I know that it's a state-of-the-art and highly respected tool used by one of my colleagues. Um and he said that's kind of a starting point for um for for depending on what features it goes. So [Music] um so the community values student security and um as do

045I and there's tools that can make that work better. Um, moving on. Um, I submitted last week we submitted a grant to the Secretary of State's office to um, uh, help fund um, they have a grant for um, helping community organizations, cities, towns, um, firewalls or keeping track of their data. there's a a list of um data information that we need to keep on on students on staff for over periods of time. And we have a large um quite a number I think close to 200 boxes of um things down below that that are just I we never seem to really have the time to dig through them and and um purge what's we need to get rid of. And so, um, just, um, we, so I applied for, I met with them to get

046an idea of how it would work and applied for a grant to, um, hire somebody to, um, sit down with the retention schedule for paperwork and go through and organize and and, um, clean that up and and hire a company to shred all the things that we don't need to keep. haven't gotten the grant, but I wanted you to know that um it's an important thing we need to do at some point and hopefully we'll be able to do a grant. If not, we'll need to um start piece going digging through it and um and how how much do you need to shr um it's hard to know exactly. There's 200 boxes of of um items down records down below and I don't have um that's what we'll be discovering is going through and pulling

047out things that we don't need to keep and then shredding. So, um, Kitap Bank has a yearly shred event where where they bring in a giant truck and they and I think it's Lame that that they partner with that has a big shredding machine that you can you can bring as much as you want to shred for free and you just you just bring some food to donate. And so it's a kind of a reciprocal thing. Miller would be somebody to talk to too. I think she works at Key Bank and they do the same thing I want to say. So we're required to keep track and get certificates on some of the certific they do provide a certificate. So for the grant I asked for 13,500. I think the shredding cost is about 400

048of that. So it's it's a very modest portion of that. Um yeah, I'm just saying that if you don't get the grand Yeah, but that's where I take my records. My flashlight that kind of stuff was scanned and went electronically. So actually that is some what happens the um this state secretary of state's office has um there's three levels of grants that are available. Um one of them the first level of grant which is what we applied for is just to organize and go through all the records and shred everything you don't need to have. Then then they have an equipment grant and then they have a digitizing grant. So hopefully in the future we'll be able to do that. A lot of stuff we have now is already digitized and can be kept that

049way. A lot of things from the past not and so we need to purge through get rid of everything we can and um then in the future move more towards digital digital. It's a disease that's easy to get. It's probably get rid of. Yeah. So, just making a pull bar. So, my hope is we'll get the grant um and the moving type. If not, we'll be looking at different ways of getting down there and digging through that stuff over probably over a longer period of time. Um, I also want you to know that um I work with Pacific Law Group to um communicate with the American Pump um requesting that they reimburse us and for the entire costs that were incurred to us for the um the well contamination. So now did they when they

050when we contracted them they should have a shy bond. Is that correct? That would that would be the pot of funds. I don't know how they're going to come up with it but I talked with the lawyer and she sent them a letter and said you need to give us some money. It' be their insurance. Yeah. How much are we talking? Um our initial ask was $20,000. um and they um will be coming back to us with some Okay, we'll see where they end up with a proposal. So, that's that's an ongoing process and I'll let you know or maybe a two-word answer. The letter was um interesting and I don't think I think there's potential there for us. So, um, and then the, um, let's see, there's some documents in here. The board directors,

051all of your information here, your name, contact, um, their expiration dates, and then, um, the PDC is also requesting that we update their information there. Was there what else did I say? What is the uh filing requirement date? There is a date where we have if we're going to May May 1st and you should have received the letter if you haven't already. You should be getting the letter shortly. There's a week in May. [Music] You're the just I'm here because you couldn't find a parent. I mean, she's develop [Music] So, that's everything I have for for my report. Good. Thank you. So yeah. All right. Before I make my report, the author of the shredding, my dad uh ran a business called Sign Works when I was a kid. And um sometimes we would get,

052you know, extra money for helping to shred materials and organize files. Was my favorite of all the, you know, extra destroy to go get a slurpee from 7-Eleven was to to just go through a box that he gave me permission and go through the little shredding machine that we had. It's just so much fun. So that that brings back going to the bank and participating. That sounds like the best way to spend a Saturday morning. Well, and it it uh they they raise a lot for charity. Yeah. They do that. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So I think Kitsup and Key both both do it and you know and the shredding company you know does provide you with with proof that that they're destroying it. So yeah. All right. So since the last board meeting we've

053had our first character strong student celebration assembly. Um we have it on Friday January 31st. It was really wonderful. the kids um got recognized, the parents came and celebrated with them. Um it was really fun and we had we had a great time. So uh it was a positive way to celebrate their successes and focus on our social emotional learning that you know program that we have. So that we're uh united as a school focusing on on these um attributes. Um, so the month of February has been honesty and focusing a lot on what honesty means and how we can show honesty. Uh, February 19th was a professional development training day for certificated staff on the new screens. Um, and I I hope everybody knows I think we've talked about it before, but Cindy B

054uh worked really hard to get grants that paid for our district to get these one screens and Jerry found as well. So out of our technology, you know, budget, this other side we do for technology. Our smartboards that we bought, it's crazy to me that it's been over 10 years since the remodel without those. Um, but they are failing bit by bit and we didn't know what to do because you can't buy those again. You can't even replace the parts for them anymore. Um, and so the the new one screens was the solution to that. And although it's hard for, you know, staff members when it's a new tool that they haven't been trained in, well, that's what happened on February 19th. Um Juel uh from the ESD came up and trained the certificated staff

055on how to use these devices um that we were able to pay for through the grants. So it's it's really exciting. Um, also Joel came up um as a costfree program because he was so excited that we used his advice and we're able to get all these one screens. So even that part of the training that Sydney also arranged was free um to the taxers in this region. So uh that's pretty phenomenal. Um it's a lot of expensive equipment that we are using for educational purposes. Um so that was really exciting training. And then we did uh focus on our par educators who had makeup hours they needed from the late starts um that we had come in and work with um our ESD representative Jane um Rangi who also does their fundamental course of

056study classes that are required as a par educator. She came and really focused on um students with greatest need, students with special needs in our classes. She had come in before and done observations in the classrooms um where we have a lot of high need students and then gave a phenomenal training for our PAR educators based off of her observations what those kids need and they felt really good and empowered their um reflections after the training were fantastic. Um so that was really exciting to see they're already implementing things that they learned um with those students. um report cards went home the first week of February. Even with all of our crazy snow schedules that happened, we still uh Teresa um our secretary in the office worked so hard um with some other help in

057the office as well. And we got those report card envelopes full and put into the backpacks and sent home so we didn't have to pay shipping costs which saves a couple hundred dollar. And we also put them on every kid's skyboard and we sent home messages, the text message that goes out to all the parents that says, "Your report card is in your kids's backpack." You know, and we um we did the Skyward messaging. We made sure that we got it out every put it on the the boards down below to let parents know if you look in the backpack, you will find it in this envelope and you will see the report card. So, um I think that works really well if we do it that way and it saves us money on um

058on cost of expans. Uh girls basketball is underway. They are learning and growing. We have another week and a half of girls basketball and we have a little break in our sports season before track. And um track always feels like such a spring sport. So, I'm really excited for track to start up again. uh upcoming events. Um this Friday is our character strong assembly um on Odyssey and then we representing March which is cooperation. So our middle school um we've got some wonderful dramatic um artists in our middle school who will be putting on a little skit about cooperation and our broadcast team put on already made a movie about cooperation for the month of of March and they did that for honesty last month. Um, so we're going to be presenting awards to our

059kiddos and celebrating their success on Friday at 2:15. Um, Mrs. Murphy, who you met today, our second grade teacher, she um, comes to us with many years of experience and she's kicking off March reading month um with a shar reading activity. Um, so I'm going to put these up here so that you can see through it. She's getting the whole school involved. Um March 3rd through March 31st, we are participating in a schoolwide reading challenge to engage all students in the joy of reading. Uh the goal is 160 hours read per class by um every class that participates and reaches the goal earns an ice cream party at lunch. Um so this is a really exciting thing and it's all in a bookmark where they're going to be writing in their hours and working through

060that. So um I'll put that up there so you can see. So March is reading uh it's kind of reading excitement month. Um and we in accordance with that we also have things like reading week and reading night and Miss Williams um Sher Williams our interventionist and Cindy P are putting on um the reading week and reading night and with the book fairs classic book fairs coming it will be here probably on Friday we'll be setting it up on Monday here in the library and we're going to have that all week Tuesday Wednesday Thursday it will be open right after school until 4:30 and then on Thursday again every night from 6:00 to 8. And students have to come with their parents. So, they can't just come in here and buy all of the pencil

061toys that they want. They have to come in with their parents. Um, every student can get a free book up to $10 or about that. Um, they're getting free book coupons and that comes in because of how much we sell. It's classic that we were able to get a free book. Uh, reading night is um Thursday, March 6 from 6:00 to 8. We have Dr. Seuss theme. So, you're already seeing some of the Dr. things coming up. Uh the whole week we have activities that we're doing with the kids and that night we have um I mean putt reading games um little golf. Um we have uh the the book walk where the kids get free books or instead of a cakewalk they get to pick free books. Um there's uh we have a local

062artist who's a parent here who will bring her books and talk to kids about writing books. Um it's just all sorts of things. Art stations. Uh there will be pasta with meat sauce that Carol will be making for all families because this is also a literacy event. So we have title one. Um we we tie in our curriculum and our reading um exploration. So we provide food for all. Um it's such a fun night and this scholastic book fair going on. So if you can make it to that, it's it's a lot of fun. What day is it? It's March 6. Thursday night, March 6 from 6:00 to 8. It's always fun. Um I'll be dressed up as um Miss Frizzle and reading magic school bus books for the kids again. And it's we just

063I the kids get so excited about reading. It's just so exciting to see them. Um March 19th is the ASB's rescheduled pasta night at the boat house. It got rescheduled from February I don't remember it was the 5th um because of snow. So we are March 19th Boston night at Bow House ASB is a go. So if you can make it I think it's from 5 to 7 still. Um that's going to be a fun event. And um last month we had put out um some schedules of board appreciation as thanking you to please welcome you into the classrooms. And um I know as you got to participate in a third grade um STEM activity that was pretty neat. Um, I don't know if you had a chance to go in there to see the

064finished plants and I came up and they're awesome. That's awesome. I had a blast. The third graders are a wild bunch of kids. They were machining planets. I had it all over my hand. I was helping. And what a great a not program, but just a little segment activity. It was How were they making with balloons? They had the balloons and then I came in on the second day and suddenly the balloons had popped. So they had to fix Yeah. and make them back round again and they were definitely doing their uh uh problem solving. Yeah. Really cute. So up here at the table is signed up again. Um and they sign up for like multiple people can sign up here. Oops. These are just the teachers who got me things in their schedule. like

065um I also put on here the characters from student assembly but the date and time so that if you want to come to it you don't I mean you just show up if you'd like to but if you want to sign up for that um Miss Pierce always says you're welcome especially fourth grade PE it's the first thing in the morning and they kind of do some wake up activities so she's got that scheduled down so Thursday March 6th grade PE but if that Thursday doesn't work for you um you can do another Thursday and March clusters that she had put down middle school ELA humanities class. Um, so that's our ELA and social studies combined with Miss Pitchoff. March 18th or 19th, she says she's doing some fun activities. I can't remember what they

066are, but she said if if you want to come in between 9:10 and 10:00 with her sixth grade group, there's going to be some fun things happening with that. And then fifth grade science class um Tuesday or Thursday um really any Tuesday or Thursday of March as long as you kind of write down you know when you plan to come in from 10:40 to 11:40 that's his um kind of science focus hour during the week. So is that Mr. Trimble Mr. Olsen Mr. Olsen but Mr. Trimble will be in for part of that team. So yeah that's his time when he goes between third and Oh neat. Yeah. So, I'm gonna leave this up here and that if you highly recommend it if you guys can go visit a class. It's so much fun. I

067wish I had more time. I I I showed up during the uh the lockdown and I wish I had more time in the classroom. Well, that was a learning experience. Yeah, that too. Yes. Yeah. So, this will be up here. If you um can see a time that works well for you, um please go ahead and and fill it out and then I can let that teacher know. And that is By the way, I noticed that little sash in there. Nice job. Any any more? Okay, let's move on. Yeah, thank you. So, uh Andrew, okay, so you have the two documents that you're used to in front of you and the financial report. You can see our balances and each of our funds that we have on deposit with the county there. Not too much

068overall difference from prior months. Um the exciting thing that I am noticing from this is our enrollment. We've acquired, you know, take on a few kids each month, which is exciting. And we're now tracking on average over the course of the year about 15 over our budget moment. So nice to see. Wow. Very nice to see. Um so we're about halfway through the year right now. February is the halfway mark and we're already dreaming and thinking about next year. So, budget conversations are starting to bundle up. Um, I wrote a little bit down here what we're what's going on in my world right now and what we're starting to talk about. So, this week I gave out letters of intent to all the staff here and it's just a question um asking them what their

069ideas are for next year. If they plan on coming back to us, if they plan on making leave, retirements, just so we can get an idea of what their plans are. nothing nothing binding and they can always change their minds but helps give us an idea of what our staff wants to do. So those are trickling in and then um just continuing to watch the state legislative session for anything having to do with fiscal money. There's a rumblings I'm sure um Tom I think you're talking later about about that. So I'll leave the long discussion on that too, but we're monitoring that for dollar impact. And then also keeping an eye out for what staffing we'll need next year. I know last year I wasn't here but I know we needed to do a reduction

070for SR before. So we need to take a look at if we will need to do that. We have to notify by May 15th. So we the board um everybody in this room needs to talk about that and decide what we need to do by April our April board meeting so that we have the authority to do that if we need to. if our enrollment trends continue. I don't want to say out loud that we won't and I won't say that out loud ever until until it gets closer, but it's promising. So hopefully that will work out. At this point, is there any I remember last year Tracy being very cautious as we went into the budgeting cycle in well June and was very cautious throughout the summer until we got a clear vision of

071the first of September. And I know the front work that you do and is that process do we have any better clarity or is it just it is what it is we're at the very beginning right now so I wouldn't say I have any better clarity yet I'm cautiously optimistic only based on what our enrollment is doing in typical school districts across the state in the spring the enrollment starts to taper off a bit usually um it doesn't happen as much in the elementary grades and we don't have high school here so it's a little different than what we're used to as far as watching those trends. Um, but I know you work with other families or talk to them and do enrollment surveys. So, I'm curious to see what comes of that and what

072we know. The big unknown for us is always kindergarten and now we have a TK. So, just a complete unknown of of who will show up brand new. It's usually easier to forecast who will stick around because you can talk to the family. You get that but you don't know who who will show up for that TK. Thank you. [Music] I've got a little tiny bit on the back of this page just about transportation. So, we did finally pick a bus and we're just waiting on the final quote back to purchase a bus and it is a bus that already exists. It's already been built. So, we'll get they told us within just a couple months we don't have to wait for it to be built or put together which would have put us out

073into November of next year. But we'll have it by the end of this year, which will alleviate a concern of an aging bus we have that could have a catastrophic failure at any point. Hopefully, we'll hopefully we'll miss that happen. Who gets the upgrade? Do we get to see is it Herby? Is it So, I've been told that Michelle will drive that because she's our bus driver with the longest longevity. And we actually have a bus the salesman brought out a bus that is getting commissioned and getting ready to go to the local school district. So on Monday morning we all got to do I called it kind of like a reverse car. Yeah. We all got to look at walk around and um I you guys all know Michelle. is a very tiny person

074and she needed to make sure that this had adjustable footed pedals so that she's lifted. All the adjustable pedals I watch buttons on the dash and I'm fully supported open and closing the windows up just one finger. They go up so easily and they were mirrors too. So the visibility it was kind of fun. And then they took a little drive around to get it in action. Is it a conventional or cattle? It is a conventional. Okay. Is it yellow? Yellow. And what is this? What kind of capacity of the bus? Oh, I was doing so good on answering your question. Is it 77? I believe. Believe it's same size. That's what we have. It has the the standard wet bar in it. say for the couple hundred thousand almost small water. So, um yeah,

075they're not inexpensive, that's for sure. Well, the good news is it's already built. Yes. Because um uh on the MTA board when we were when they were buses and it has to be built. I mean, we're talking like a year to two years out. Yeah. right now if we were to order it would maybe show up by November and it would also cost more because it would be a newer model year for us. We're saving quite a bit by this bus that already exists and we're actually going to add some safety features I guess I would say. I don't know if snow chains are safety feature but we're going to get our first bus here that has the automatic deploying snow chain so that when we do have snow events we'll see how those work

076and see if that's something we want to So I told Jay if we buy them on this list then we will be stone next year. Pretty cool. Fantastic. Yeah. So a lot of our snow anxiety comes um with the the lake and so we're going to use that bus for basically because the concept of putting chains on all those buses just just doesn't it's not feasible. I mean could we do it? Yes. it takes hours and the impact. Um, so they do have a feature for a few thousand dollar. I'd like to see how that works. So they're basically um a um a motor and chains that dangle down and then when you engage them that they they come down and they spin and they they'll rotate underneath the tire. Wow. Interesting. that it can

077be done. Um, a lot of school districts have them. Um, and I think for that, Ron, it would be worthwhile because, um, what we face is we face a little bit of snow, a little bit of dry road, a little bit ice. It's not No, I know. I live on the lake, so So, we we have a dive feature and I think that will help us. Um, I have a question uh just real quick. Um, and this is just out of curiosity. The the projected $2,000 in tax receipts, is that just stragglers coming in on on people paying their taxes? Yeah, we get the bulk of our taxes in November when it's due. But we always get a little bit. And is there ever any that aren't collected that we don't get? I mean, there's

078probably a small percentage. I would think there's a very small percentage, but yeah, there are people, right? the uh higher FTEES. Have you noticed a bump in what we're getting now from? We started out with a much smaller than what we're showing now as far as like aortionment the funds we get. Yeah. Have we seen Yeah. So January is the first month that we got our real aortionment based on our average annual enrollment. Good. We did get more in January and more in February. Do they adjust it again or do they wait? They adjust it every month. Every month. So every month from now January until August, it's adjusted based on our average. So on the very on this page, the second to the last row from the bottom where it says average enrollment, if

079you if you took a $10,000 per student and multiplied it by the budgeted number of 210, we would get that amount September, October, November, December, and then in January, they take that average at the bottom, which is 22387 and they give us that math that 10,000 for student time. The 10,000 is not accurate. Don't quote me on that number. But and then they do February's average based on the whole year and March's hour. So it changes a little bit every single month. Very exciting. Okay. Yeah. Any any more? Yes. I have one more question. I have a question for you. I'll let you go first. Are you relaxing into your role? Yes, I've got almost everyone's names down. I keep surprising people when I say their name. You guys are helpful. Yeah, very comfortable there.

080Appreciate that. I have a question on the ASB. Tracy used to update us on the ASV funds and I'd like the total amount and are they doing on their savings like the total amount per? Yeah, the what would you do? She do the total just what they did they gain money over the month or just their average. I'm actually working on um now I have two questions for you to add in another question. Um I'm I'm working on a thoughtful way to to do these together into one document that might be more beneficial. Um there's a lot of really small numbers out here and I love them because I live in spreadsheets and data like this all day long. I don't know that it's it doesn't I want to put something together that's that's helpful

081for you and that will share with you what you like to see. So that type of stuff I'd love for you to tell me on you know of these papers what do you like the most what you want to change. Is there a section of this document that you don't need something that you would like to know more about? And I'm going to try to put a little bit more visual on here. Maybe the enrollment for example a graph I feel like might be easier to share with the public as well as to share in this. So any of that kind of stuff as I like to see that the kids are doing their fundraising and stuff your ideas. I'm going to put together just like a little draft but I'll I'll do it this

082way and then I'll give you the same information a little or could you make the sheet this wide and the numbers a lot larger? I don't know about that. We can do we can do whatever we can honestly do whatever you want to ask. There there's the one pie chart that is going to be part of your I think it's end of year end of budget cycle that essentially shows the large pieces all these salaries and then the other stuff that make up that our expenditure. I don't know periodically throwing that out is simple graphical and it sometimes sticks with me. A lot of times that's done in a budget presentation or a year endation. That's what I remember. I mean that that would be just a a prop that really easy to get your

083head around that single piece. It just just a suggestion. I'm not saying please do it. If you thought it would help you communicate to us, I like Yeah, I like sharing that particular piece of information. So, it it it's really interesting. I had a question for a concern and great about the cost of education in the state of Washington. Why is it so high? I couldn't answer that. But what was interesting is I Googled the national cost of education by state and what was interesting was to see that the the districts like in Washington DC uh Virginia were like $35,000 per student per year and then it dropped down to the state of Washington was like in the report I saw was like 195 pretty much out and your numbers are 4 million divided by

084the 230 but it was interesting you drop down into other neighboring states like in the case of Idaho was less than eight less than 9,000 cover their scores too and so those are the kinds of things that we get on the outside and I rarely do I bring them unless I have Jerry here for a bit but I don't know how if that type of stuff if we're equipped and I I'm not looking to try to burn you but it's really interesting is to see the dramatic difference between Washington State and say Idaho. Yeah. Smaller smaller states, less people definitely less people obviously less overhead for the counties in the states, but that's such a like half of the state of Washington. And I and I can remember my pastor recruiting at the University of

085Idaho in Moscow and WSU and the students were well gifted, well prepared just as well as the Washington State kids were. just my own I'm not familiar with how to do a wide a nationwide comparison the state our state has um a report card that you can see on the OPI's website they call the report card and you can look at the state information the district information and then the school level information where you can compare to the canal school district for example and you can even break it down by the different schools within each district. You can get longevity of teachers, class size, the dollars spent per student graduation rates for high school districts. So, I don't know. It's easy to do it for our state. You're just changing filters on screen and you

086get it all in the same format. It's harder to compare other states, but it's really interesting. Did we answer your questions? I didn't ask my last question. So, um, and Hannah kind of alluded to a cost savings in our report cards. We do a lot of report cards this year. I'm also looking at ways all the time to lower costs and how we can acquire more revenue through grant funding or other sources. One of my questions is directly related to the board. We mail you guys out a packet that has all of this information that you get in your mailbox at home. A question you don't all have to answer now. and think about how this would impact you and how it would change your work and your prep for the meeting. Um, is how

087would it feel if we emailed that to you as opposed to mailed it to you? She does already. I don't know. I enjoy in the mail because it lets me get the dinger and lets me know the meeting's coming and I like to physically go through it sitting down. What what is the annual cost just off the out? Britney did an average of the mailing the mailing itself comes out to a couple hundred a year and a few hund couple hundred dollar a year just over 200. Then there's also an internal cost on printing the paper. So, paying for the paper, paying for the ink, paying for the staples, paying for Britney's time to do it, which is really hard to extrapolate how much of Britney does it cost to do this. Um, I tried

088to equate it to something that was easy. So, every year in our classrooms, we give each teacher $400 for supplies. So, for me, it's probably about a one years of of the teacher allocation for supplies. I've got a great idea of how we could offset that. each one of us could forfeit our monthly um paycheck for putting in this time on the board to offset the cost. What do you think guys? I I'm willing to do that. I don't want to pressure my fellow board. I mean, in all seriousness, back to your question, we got the GS54 account. I know written good about populating that account with stuff I kind of like being a little spoken that's the way I was brought up but I mean I'm I'm certainly open and I to others to

089use a GSD 54 you can email yeah so if if this is something you want to think through. We're open. Okay. I don't want to make it harder for you guys. I know you have your routines and everybody. What's interesting is the amount of each one of these meetings. I know Tom's already got his staff. I'll have my staff. There's a lot of stuff that we get provided that just goes to shredder. And I don't know how much more effective we could be if in fact that was the source. Does does the school have a Dropbox account or anything like that where you can currently have a Dropbox account, but we could set something because you could just put that in there and share that folder with all of us. We could download it. I've

090always had a problem with my with my school email. I mean, you can email it to me, but you have to email it to my my work email. Can you not ask us that? Um, I could for a while and then and then something happened. Um, and yeah, I just it just is not the best way to reach me. So, have you been getting your emails every month? I've been getting the email at work at my work email. Yeah. But, um, we can fix that. I'm sure. I'm sure. But can you fix the fact that I've got several to check and I and I and the GSD 54 just you know it kind of comes up on the bottom right of my daily routine. Mhm. Not not saying you guys aren't important, but you know,

091it things things happen and then and then I have trouble accessing it. And so it's just I don't know this unlike Edgery where I would I prefer you know the old school but I was thinking if you had a Dropbox you know you could just put the materials into that or like I guess Google Google Drive. Yeah we use Google for a lot of things share folders and that would be a very put the document. We also talked a little bit about because I know I mean I come with some paper I write on it um about printing the packets out and just having it here for you to come pick up as opposed to mailing just saving the mailing cup. So we're just kind of brainstorming different well the good the the upside about

092mailing is um you know we might catch something that we want to discuss. Yeah. rather than picking it up here and then, you know, trying to trying to review everything before you vote on it. You know, I mean, we're not like Congress. We we like to know what we're voting on, right? And we have it for you to pick up at the same time, right? Yeah. Sometimes it changes the board and sometimes it changes between when it was mailed and and the meeting, you know, like you guys might pick up on something that needs changing, right? Um, so it it but it's, you know, if if we could do it differently and provide a classroom with with $400 instead, that's probably a better use of money. So, um, anyway, I'm I'm open-minded even though I'm

093a dinosaur. So, I also am thinking once I get this in a different format that I'll probably just continue printing them this scenario and just showing them on the screen. We're also going to post them on our website after the fact. So, they could be printed if you need them, we can print them for you. That just I know with the extras that we leave out here, they just get shredded. So, I hate I print when I just shred things that I just printed. products. We do not have to decide today, but just wanted to put a bug in your ear and toner cops too, I suppose. Yeah, I can I mean I can open the email and print it. That's not Can I ask one question before I just noticed we've already spent 90

09490 excuse me 78% of our nine high budget. Is that an issue since we're only halfway through the year? It's like right above the blue line. It's not because they bill in big chunks. So the big Yeah. Okay. They don't bill consistently each month. The bill that we had a couple months ago was for the first three months of the year. So So because everything else is like about 50%, this means it's 70%. Do we have a bunch of high school kids show up that we didn't know about or No, it's just the way they don't they needed the money. I do need money. Are we still covering a percentage of the levies that they are supposed to pass? Levies that they're supposed to pass in the future, like their their their school levy. Yeah.

095Whatever levy they pass, they they just got But is it that that non high is supposed to be They're not collecting. Yeah, thanks. Great question. I think Yeah, I think that wasn't the main part of the non high going towards the bonds that they built the new school with. I mean, that's the primary. Interesting. Um because it's interesting when I when I joined the board, I can remember Tracy introducing me to this, explaining to me was right around 70,000 and now it's at 90,000. Yeah. I I I would like to know um you know they're they they have a hard time passing levies and so do we then have to pay in retro you know retroactively or you know do we get a break for a while for the that they couldn't pass if they're

096not collecting levy do we not pay I will find out more details this is the first time they work with I'm sure they're I'll find out. I can understand the basis of that non high cost that would be Yeah, it's it's it's I think it's primarily driven by the by the construction costs. Do we have a nonife of the students that go to show? Yeah. So, it's a comparable not to based on the number of students, right? We should get a discount for the grade point averages. There you go. Bringing their bringing their numbers up. Getting recruiting, right? Don't you think? Yes. Getting recruited. Okay. Uh unless there's more for Andrea, I'm going to move on. So, the next item that I wanted to ask Jerry and I put on was the the review of

097the board's retreat. We did a a slaughter house and you know, Andrew, I don't know if if you're interested in going through, have you have you had a chance to look at what we went through? You have time to go through this. I I'm just curious. I I don't know. J, you need to leave. Have you seen it yet from your board? So what we did is we took about an hour out of the the last time that we met last site and we put together this uh GSD 54 week and what was so this is I'm I'm asking for ideas is doing and capturing our comment and I and I just thought it was worthwhile. Are you gonna be able to pull that up? I'm looking right now. And we'll do this quickly. If

098we need to spend more time at a later date, we certainly can. Been a long day before and I appreciate that. SWAT team with our bulletproof vests. in our incredible physiques. Um, less if you want to keep moving forward, I'll keep looking for it. I know I have. Okay. So, maybe you three can look. Can't do a search. Maybe Jerry Jerry will give you. So what we did is we went through this and it was interesting looking at the strengths of what we collectively looked at that morning down and Allen was uh you'll notice a couple of those have got in front of them. A strength would be a weight less enrollment. uh we saw individual tracking of being a strength that you highlighted throughout the course of uh each student having a view of

099Ros having a view of each student's strengths and or weaknesses. We can see we can pick it rural support um a rural school with support uh a community involvement involvement with the community aid and and event belief in excellence just happened to be some of the ones that popped out. uh weaknesses our concern was our rural location in the effectively emergency response time uh K through eight no high school levy reliance on that million900,000 to a million dollars a year to allow us to run this business um few clubs hiring challenges expensive housing in the area lack of rentals maybe a transient population uh that's tough for us to go ahead and U and and budget on on full-time equivalent. Uh middle school building with getting well older, small financial reserve, financial vulnerability and potential

100consolidation, legislature pressure. Oh, you did get up there. Okay. And then limited staffing opportunities, goodwill within the community. In other words, and and one that was interesting here and and this came up under the concept of the STEM side and the and the kiddos with their with their presentation was they advertise our successes and if in fact we could we could have an outreach that would be uh the students you know why you want to cover what's good about and we pair it very frequently between you two uh uh video self-promoting Hawaii is greatly a good choice for parents. Uh we talked about growing the steam program and the uh the career technical education side uh networking and expertise of course the salmon center the shipyard through the scheme uh the tailor shellfish potentially u

101scheme volunteers I was part of that years ago awareness of issues faced by male and female students and this goes back to Jerry's making me aware of the the boys in Mhm. The threat's potential for being absorbed by another district. Um that's out there. Of course, we all know that we get absorbed their their basis for taxation is higher than ours. So reduce state and federal funding. Tom's going to talk about some of this stuff here in the future. Levy issues. The good news is we tell a good story. You got the results. Our levies are going as long as we have this performance. part is going to help our kids. Uh limited housing for for people moving into the area. Uh staff changes. Mother nature is a threat. Global warming I guess was something

102might have been thinking climate change. Earthquake. Okay, good point. Good point. It has more to do with being rural and mother nature demographic shift. Not sure what would drive that, but that was brought up. An economic shift. In other words, if something were to happen with the Navyyard in a in a downturn at a federal level, local companies, legislative consolidation, others, the pressure to consolidate from a legislative standpoint, loss of local control, rural versus urban values, another pandemic, children's tech addiction. What am I that was your screen now? Huh? Sit around. There's stuff on there. Oh, okay. So, a lot of that you've already covered by the cell phones remaining someplace not in the classroom. uh and sugar. I think what we meant by that was um you know children are kind of being desocialized

103and you know they're they're speaking in textes out loud and um and that is a threat you know to our kids. Can I can I maybe make a comment on one of the opportunities And I know when when we show this stuff to staff, right, you're already thinking, you know, when am I going to sleep? When am I going to eat? Am I going to be here 24 hours a day, right? You know, to try to enact, you know, some of these. But on the opportunities like the the video pro promoting Great View as a school, that could be that could be a project, a gradable project, right? And and you know, so some of these could be already worked into our curriculum and, you know, not have to suck up a lot of extra

104extra time. But but I wanted you folks to be able to see this as this is an outcome of what we thought was an effort that really have shared with you. We're sharing within ourselves. Was there anything else? Is is this going to is this document somehow fundamentally going to change the way we look and think about the school? No. But it is for me it was helpful just to kind of get a collective vision of a month. Any initial thoughts? Can you agree that jump out at you? And if not, go forward. I really like the opportunities. Um I think that they are things that we um I think they they mirror the strengths because when the strengths are going well, those opportunities increase. Um the strengths of us having strong community involvement and

105strong community financial support which is down there is because we have good build community. We have trust in the community and so we the more we can build on that the more they will continue to support us in our levies. Um and because we have goodwill with them we are responsible um we are fiscally responsible with our money. um we we try to do things I mean because a lot of us are also members of this community and so we're taxpayers and voters in this we it's it's personal and and it's intentional with our focus. Um I love the networking for expertise and I love the the fact that the salmon center there the shipyard Taylor Shellfish there's even more in our area that we can expand on it. That's something that um I'm I'm

106really excited to see grow. So that's an opportunity that um I really want want to get a hold of and not just with the expertise in our community in our area but networking with the resources. I think because we're so central Mason and rural um it's sometimes we're forgotten about. North Mason school district has a lot of resources um in the welfare community um for students of greater need and same thing with the shelter community um but great view kids those resources are available to them as well but they're harder to find and it's harder to for them to always get here. But we've done a really intentional job of that of starting that outreach this year um from Sydney and I have been working on that from the beginning of the year to get

107these resources coming in here. And so that's something I'm excited about is to network more with our community. Well, I I don't know how much more we need to spend time on this, but again, the communication and learn and it's definitely something that I I felt important that we did and communicate out of strength is the biggest call. Yeah. Yeah. On the opportunity side, there was conversation earlier about a video being produced. That would be something that we could take to the community. I would add that we made that video and I've watched that video and um it was student produced and um terribly cute. Um but not something um you put on your website. um it didn't really communicate. Um you have to be careful with things like that. And I we I did

108give that that request to our our video production class and they took that on and they made something about why um why a great view and for children it was that great. Um but uh when I thought to myself, yeah, put this out in the community because they were sixth graders and seventh graders and third graders and not much filter and not much um they had but um I can send it to you, but I I think you should I it's not something that um I'm not a communications expert, mind you, but I don't think all of our community members would understand the development of children and their um their video production skills. Um so I want to see it on the big screen. We'll send you the link. Um no, we should play it

109in the next uh board meeting. I'll uh I think that should be on the agenda. How long is it? I don't remember. I just You watch for a few seconds. I watched it. No, I watched the whole thing, but also it was I the link was complicated. I just couldn't follow who is um leading the the the video class or you know is that who? Pedro. Okay. You know, I'm thinking I was thinking when I made that that suggestion at the retreat that we enlist um Lord in in to that um that we could use some acting skills and and you know some professional writing and you know that sort of thing. Um, that's that's what I had envisioned and and I think if we maybe put forth that challenge, you know, I think, you

110know, we could see how she feels about it. But, but I, you know, it might take a few takes to to come up with the right thing. However, I don't really think that the target is necessarily our community. I think the target is outside our community, parents specifically outside of our community to to keep the the the you know the demand for Great View high is is kind of what I'm thinking. Um and if you're if you're a parent in Great View, you're more likely to go to the school website than than if you're not. So anyway, just to just to answer the the will our community members, you know, recognize cute or whatever. But um the EDC has um on their website um partners and um they have a company that will work with

111you on uh a video to highlight your organization, the the Mason EDC. Yeah. And I've talked with them about that, but um it was just too much money. Yeah. Was that Kevin Shy? Kevin was not not the head of it yet. Not well. No, he was, but he's the head of the EDC. But then within their website, they have contacted and um and I I love that idea of us being on their website and being highlighted as a as a good resource in the community. But um we have, you know, we don't have a communications expert. We don't have a budget on those kinds of things. And so it was um something that I couldn't participate. I think Lori is a communications expert. I mean that's just my personal opinion. So and if you look

112at if you look at the other part that's in our packet I mean cool stuff. Really cool. Okay. We show here on the on the agenda that we were going to action this item. There's nothing to action. This should have been discussion. just to be clear. Okay. So, unless there's more I just say I want to share I think we've done that. I delayed you 10 minutes by request. I'm sorry. No, that's so we're going to go ahead and unless there's more to be said on this I'm going to move forward. Okay. So, thank you. You're welcome. So, officer incumbent ver excuse me office incumbent verification filing period deadline. That's that's say that's what this is about. Okay. And so like I believe as a question earlier in November we have either we can so

113is up very devastated night she won't be filed and then see myself and [Music] west. Okay thanks Cindy. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to move on from here. Hannah, before you go, I want you to know that I revisited this little thank you card multiple times, especially when I need a little uplift. And uh I I see where the kids wrote their names. Made me very happy. Nice job. Thank you. Okay. All right. So, we're down now to item 16, 14, 14, or other legislative public. Okay. My first question is, how many of you guys sent a card or an email to one of your legislative reps? I did. I called in I called in a couple of the legislative bills. Okay. Going on. Uh I did Zoom testimony. Good, good, good, good. Do you

114still have the packet that I handed out last month? Uh, there's a couple of of great spots in there if you want to get in on the Zoom. That's helpful. But what I think is really helpful as we move into now are we 40 45 days into the the session ends on April 27th which means we've got basically eight weeks 7 and 1/2 weeks. Those people are working really really hard. Uh in some cases it's almost a 7 day a week job right now. uh more encouragement would be valuable for for Dan and Travis and Drew and uh I'm going to say especially Travis, he's really a warrior for the special ed side of the funding. Uh and I'm going to give you a bill number. Do you guys know how to go on and

115get the uh get access to a bill to see where it sits in the progress phase? Okay. So, I'm going to give you I'm going to give you an email address and if you don't get this, I'll go ahead and give it to you. ledge leg.wah wa.gov gov slash bills leg.wah.gov Yeah leg.wah.gov/bills GV/bills. And with that information, all you've got to do is type in or enter in whether it's a house bill or a senate bill would be SB or HB. So then you're just logged in. [Music] But how is progress? You know, I mean, we we had hoped for some support at the state level for our special ed. Do we have any indication that that was gaining momentum or Yes, it is. And I'm going to give you the bill number. Okay. SB

116[Music] SB5253 There was a House bill and I'll give you the number but it's not that important because the two bills in the legislative process they get merged. Yeah. They get merged and and for one or the other side usually they have to do some finagling to get it there. But uh the special ed and this is the special ed bill uh is is moving along and and the process like I don't know how many thousands of bills get dumped. No. And and then they go into uh committee and the committees pitch some of them and and start working with some of them and then after they come out of committee uh I believe it goes to ways and means and maybe you have better information than that but it's a long slugging process and

117I want you to keep in mind that when the session started Or actually before the session started, it was identified that we had depending on whose information you wanted, a $16 million billion dollar shortfall and and how are we going to raise taxes in order to accomplish that? And one of the amazing things that was said by the governor is uh and I'm going to I'm going to paraphrase what he said. We're going to have to figure out how we can reduce costs in some of these departments. That's about I know a lot of us fell off our chairs. Yeah. Mhm. So, do you remember what the other remember we're talking about the big three WASDA which is the school directors association and WASA which is the superintendence and what's the other one is principles.

118Yeah. Uh they put their heads together which I think is a good idea and they came up with and number one was special ed. You remember what number two was? Transportation. Yeah. transportation and MSOC. We're real close between two and three. MOC is materials, uh, supplies, supplies, yeah, something something operating cost. operating costs. And and very interesting, that figure has been so under underfunded that districts have to go out and run leveies in order to get the money that they need to fund the school for the period of time that's in front of them. I want you to track that SB5253 and I'm going to send you a couple of more bill numbers. One of them that will deal with MSOC and the other transport. If you have a particular area that you want to

119find out how a bill is doing. Remember before we went to uh we went to bills. Now you can see on that screen it's moved from it hasn't moved out of committee yet in the Senate. It's in the ways and means and that's where you can call in and and either be for against it. Correct. Yeah. and and enough calls came in to significantly influence this bill to get passed. And uh they had inerson sessions, they had Zoom sessions, uh etc., etc. We're a chunk of the way in to the legislative session and there's a long distance to go and what a couple things are going to impact it. First of all, legislative sessions have a lot of deal making that goes on. And the other aspect of it is money. How are they going

120to divide the money and who's going to get uh money for the their pet projects or or their particular uh programs and are they going to give us new educational requirements that are funded by the state or are they going to give them to us unfunded by the state? Because if you look at transportation mach what our levy that's a big piece of our levy obviously it's superintendent obviously uh food services janitors aren't on there but that would certainly help the levy side. Yeah, but according to the McCclair decision% that we're that we should not be able to run a levy for that and and yet everybody does and there in lies a lot of frustration in Yeah. Right. [Music] I mean we have to you know but anyway I was kind of spearheading the

121special ed. He says that it's brutal. It's it's a it's a brutal session. And there's a lot of like really bizarre, you know, bizarre things besides education, but but he is he is definitely, you know, the SB that's a Senate bill. And um but you know, he's he's definitely in support of more special ed funding. And you know, if you just go back and you look at in our particular funding case, I believe we have one one student over $100,000. You know, we're over 100,000 that comes out of our levy. We only get 10,000 by 54. Yeah. I mean, there there in lies I and I don't know how you get it to run around. Part of part of the the uh special ed legislation, and I don't know whether it's going to come under

122a separate bill or be in this one here, is to change the funding formula for small districts who have a very limited number of children that need special ed. and and they're very aware of the fact that it is hugely expensive and we can expect that the new the bill that comes out will have some sort of a provision for them. They're trying to lower the percentage or the threshold of the approval rate for the levies, too. That's very true. That's very true. 55% instead of 60%. So, it's going to be easier to pass a levy a bond bond. Yeah. The lemies are I think are simple majority and and then the bonds are currently 60%. Yeah. And there is strong effort being made to lower that to the 50 plus percentage. Uh you guys

123triple your property taxes. By the way, you guys ever go on YouTube? Yeah. Okay. I want you to go on to YouTube and go up to the little magnifying glass and type in WSDA. That's WASDA. WSSDA. Just hit that and it's going to bring up WASDA. And it's also going to bring up some stupid things that are kind of like Wazda. just ignore those and and get on to the WASDA YouTube site and you can look at the most recent uh ledge rep meetings and the training that's going to come out or the updates. Uh you can get a uh a video of one of the legislators who I'm sure Travis works with. Uh her name is Wellman. And yes, and scroll around. There's a couple different sites or a couple different YouTubes that you

124can watch that areformational, but only take your blood pressure medication. Okay. working on. Uh, you got uh the the uh information on contacting those guys, Drew, Travis, and what's the other one's name? Dan, they need encouragement because they're they're getting pounded on really hard. And as I get some stuff comes, I get a lot of emails from WASDA. And uh I'm I'm going to sidebar real quickly. Go to the WASDA uh website and and click on the uh actually you need to go to the Wazda daily eclipsics. Have you guys ever look on that? Okay. Yeah. Uh there's a lot of dramatic reaction right now to what's going on on the federal department of education and the federal uh I'm going to just use the term executive orders that have come out and and how

125that's going to impact uh states and the laws that are in the states and the executive orders that have been issued and there's a whole bunch of dialogue going on about oh my what are we going to do with this and blah blah blah uh and we should probably for a a uh March agenda at least have a conversation about the impact the potential impact of department of education cuts in funding and how that will impact schools in the state of Washington, how that will potentially impact us and Jared can play by ear and uh when Les and Deb get together with him and they strategize on that, it's really early to talk conclusively about what's going on and it's not too early to be thinking about it and I'm sure the state of Washington

126is thinking about it as they work through their budget or budget shortfall and how they're going to fund all the things that they want to get funded. And on that happy note, if you have any questions about uh the legislative piece, you know, how to get a hold and I'll be back next month. [Music] Okay. Thank you. Yes. All right. So there's no under item 15, then move on to item 15. There's no first readings. However, we do have action items on 3210. So I'd like a motion to approve policy 3210 on nation. So second discussion. So it's interesting as I was reading through the there's utility policies that 32 canon I believe 510 one deal the personnel deal I asked cherry earlier who's to name the title of the office or the employee designated

127as a so that would be simply the good guy. Okay. So, this is you. All right. So, you yourself and some of those that and then the student handbook. Okay. Okay. I had I saw it here. I just summing your statement and then when we got over I saw a couple of typos here uh that attention under complaint complaint procedure or it is a complaint just complaint procedure of course that is again the compliance officer again sharing okay those are the only comments that I questions I have here and it looks like you guys need this business okay Any other comments? All right, I'm going to call for a vote then. All in favor? I 100%. Okay, I like it. Motion to approve policy 510 non-discrimination in the early election. So [Music] Tom discussion. So

128again a very similar policy verbatim to 3210 again the compliance um over here discriminary discriminatory harassment should that will not rise to the le should that be less the last word the last rise to the Okay. I mean again the complaints officer in this case is cherry. Okay. All right. That's all I have on this. Anybody else have any? I was just wondering about the affirmative action plan. What is that? What's our plan um to comply with all state regulations and hiring practices? So, it says the district will develop an affirmative action employment plan or program that includes appropriate provisions designed to eliminate discrimination based on protected status. What what exactly does that mean? That means we so yeah it means in our in our notifications and our communications and hiring practices we don't discriminate

129for um and we make those statements and we hire people um with the right skills and qualifications for for their position regardless of their is that allowed nowadays. Okay. All right. I'm just making sure. Any more discussion on 2010? If not, I'm going to call for motion for vote. All in favor? I%. Now we get down to personal [Music] needs. And I have a motion to approve policy 5400 in personal leave. So [Music] again discussion um seems to me this is one that we just update [Music] update. No more discussion. Okay. I get a call for a vote. All in favor of policy 5400. I 100%. Okay. I'd like a motion to approve policy 6600 on transportation from a second. Sorry. Thank you. Okay. Discussion. Um we bought a new bus. Excuse me. We bought

130a new bus. We're committed to transportation. Uh any anything jump out here? I mean again this is kind of what we do apologies and that's the uh I do have a comment. The special ed bill that comes out for transporting special ed students is really critical. Wow. and that will have an impact on us and I'm assuming that it's going to be a positive impact because I'm anticipating that there will be a different compensation formula for that um for small schools transporting students distances to get the right help that they need. So in this it it says each year the superintendent or designate will present to the board the number of students to live within the minimum distance of the schools and for whom there appears sufficient justification for the district to provide transportation. In

131this report the superintendent or design will provide the reasons why each of these students is transported. I'm wondering, Jerry, when can we expect such an Do you want to buy students or Well, it says why each of these students is transport transported. I mean, we're we're passing this policy and it's it's going to require you to we provide I just can't believe the the time wastingness of this. Yeah. Um being a rural school, we transport every student in the district unless they are um a uh choice transfer. Um and so it's kind of a moot point for us because we transport every child. Yeah. But you need to provide a report that says why. It would be interesting to see a map of GS54 and just where and let's put little little pins where all

132the students are. She has that. Yeah, that's how we get here. Well, then you're the designate. Great. Wow. Okay. Good question. I mean I mean it is it's said there and you do do it already in some fashion that you run the transportation system. Yeah. We have no safe walking routes in district and so we transport it. Some of them could go through the woods if you had a path for them. ATV. Okay, we're down here to the last one now. Is there any more discussion on this? If not, I'm going to call for vote. All in favor? I 100%. Okay, so we're down to future agenda items. I just heard Tom request an impact of the federal department of of education touch uh to uh potential. Let me know if this would mean to

133me. We won't know what the legislature or the federal government will be doing by then, but we most certainly can provide a list of all the federal funds that we obtain. That would be interesting. Yeah, that again that's a that's a transparency that we don't have. That would be a great way to do that. Okay, we'll get that broken out for you. Titles and special ed. Some districts are anticipating they'll be underwater based on the loss of federal funds. Interesting. And there's some districts that are anticipating being underwater because they don't have the money already. I have a question about North Mason. What happens if they build their levies? We absorb them. They did fill this kids out. I know a little bit. I know personal experience. I looked at like um I was in

134Rochester school district and so they have I believe this was their first um vote to pass the levy for the for the next election. They have another chance to pass to get the voters to pass that. Um and um if they don't pass, if they pass a second time, it's all good. If they do not pass, that's a double levy failure. And what that means is they have to wait another whole year before they can collect um levy funds. My question is, do they still collect the previous levy? Do they still collect taxes? If they don't pass a levy, they will not be able to collect. No, because it expires. expires no more on the levy. Now, I don't know what their bond situation is or um so they might be still collecting that money,

135but they won't be able to collect their, you know, levy um for one year if they fail it. That's drastic. That's a lot of money. I I lost a job because I got laid off in Rochester and others did too. Um they made because the levy is a uh it's an important part of our new superintendent certainly got some nice titles behind their name. So Oh, who is it? It was in the paper. Yeah. And Jerry wanted to step into that. I was just going to say G. Sorry. She dodged a bullet there. Okay. All right. So, we've got and then we talk to you about crisis reality training for student as of March. Yeah. Okay. So, um we've had um I forget his last name, Jesus. Um come in the past and talk about

136um security and safety and preparing students and staff uh for for responding to crisis. So, um we um have contacted with them to come back and as an agenda item, will this be report out? Sure. Okay, that's what this is. Um no, we're do it can be an agenda item for you put in here is a future agenda. Oh. Um okay. Yeah. I think it was more um it's a future activity I guess but not not an agenda. Did you come talk to us? Um it's not I'm guessing the agenda. Yeah. And he's hard to get to. I think that's Are we allowed to come and listen to his presentation? We've done that in the past. We have. [Music] Okay. I'm going to go ahead and move this thing forward. It is 7:15. Uh let's

137do some reflections. So, I'll start with Wes. Uh okay. Um I was super excited to see uh Cynthia's uh Cindy's presentation and um it's really something to be proud of. I mean uh this this state education has a lot of challenges and for us to be you know rural school that you know people don't really think much of you know I mean great view right to be doing so well and it's just it just really um under underlines the fact that we have such a great staff and the dedication here and the and what happens when you have parents that are involved in their own children's education. I I think we have the right the right mix and I was really happy to see that. Thank you. Um, uh, I'm glad to see Andrea relaxing

138in her position. I've read her each time she's come in and uh, tonight was the most relaxed. Yeah. And confident. Yeah. So, that would be fun. And I thought we practiced some really good boardsmanship here tonight. Sorry. Okay. We just joked about it during that. Okay. Um, let me segue for a minute to the PTO on the 14th. They had um a lunch with loved ones here and they I get I came through and you understand there's like five of them and they had to give up a day of work to be here. We had to take a day off of their nail jobs and they we came in early in the morning. Well, it was a late start because of snow. So, we came in late and they decorated the place and the tables

139were decorated and these little kids were so excited. Their parents came in, we just scream, "Oh, daddy." Or or they had the parents brought in their favorite lunch. They came in with bags of hamburgers and pizzas and uh Lunchables and um it was just the coolest thing ever. sushi. That's so cute. Yeah, that was really cool. And then um we put up a balloon arch and everybody got their picture taken in it. And three days later, I real I was taking the pictures realized later that if anybody thing was going around, I had touched everyone's phone, but I didn't get sick of mine all those years. Apparently, I still have it. Um but it was the coolest thing ever. It really really was. It was like if PTSO does one thing a year, I would

140say this was even cooler than Halloween. I don't know. Anyway, I just loved it. That one I just had I just had to say that because nobody probably knows it even happened. Um and that was because the kitchen made it happen and Anna made it happen and you made it happen and I mean it was a thing, you know. Okay. So then, oh, I love looking at the test um scores and um as a teacher, I know that you think you're rolling along and then you get two new kids and you're not rolling as fast as you were. So, two new kids makes a huge difference. So, every time there's new kids and they keep those scores up, that's something that's a really commendable thing for teachers. I mean, it really really is. Um I

141think that's it. And andrea looked like she was kind of almost having fun tonight. I was about that. And thank you for all you do, too. I'm excited we're getting a new bus. Yeah, that's really what I'm excited about. Is it cool? I'm just excited about that. Um I am also excited about the test scores and I I really commend our teachers for really collaborating and and taking their use or their their tools and really utilizing them to their benefit. that that's part of what our success is, I think, and and making sure that, hey, you try this or you get this done and and having each other's back that really it oozes in this in this school. So, but that is a huge thing for me. And um of course the little kids, the

142little that little PK. Oh my gosh, melt my heart. So, I want to leave it on that note. All right. So for me, I'm just going to summarize it. Everybody wants to be part of the winning team. We're on one. I'm just going to leave that. So this is that was my my thoughts tonight and we're going to end with you, Jerry. I want to I haven't first. I just want to give kudos to Britney because she does an awesome job for us technology, paperwork, etc., etc. expert and and the way you prepare us, you know, when Deb and I or whatever team puts together agenda with superintendent and then you prepare us to be that's very important. Thank you. Good, good, Jerry. I we got you. That's very true. Um it makes um walking

143into these meetings a lot stressful and just making sure everything works. Um I guess I would share one thing about being here that um uh in gratitude and that happened um just a couple of weeks ago. We have a a little girl with a disability who um last year in TK um was kind of a runner and and um oftent times it'd be a phone call administration and and I would always help as much as I can and and so I'd help and I'd show up and she'd look at me wideeyed and terrified and run back to class. Right. I'm like, I guess that's good because she's where she's supposed to be. Um, and she that that tapered off in the year and then um she started riding the bus this year and I would

144greet her every morning and mostly she ignored me. Um and um and then um a few maybe a month or so ago, months maybe, she stopped ignoring me and would look at me and um say then then it progressed to a small good morning and then a good morning and then um this last week. The wonderful part about it and why I love being here is that she I was standing farther up on the sidewalk and she w was walking behind me and she chose to engage me because I didn't see her and um and that was a lovely moment that is great about being a kids. You you feel a lot of the um the struggles and the hardships and the challenges of kids but um those kind of moments are wonderful. Good. All

145right. So, Britney, let's show that it's 7:24 p.m. We've adjourned this. Thank you, Britney. Before you turn on that camera, could we check to see if we could like move our two tables around a little bit so I could see those guys like this way? We can get to that and still be in the camera. That's okay. Oh, yeah. Are you like a round table? I don't know. You just tip this even on the camera. Would that be okay with you? We do that. It's completely up to you. Whatever. I mean, cuz I have No, I have Yeah, Tom does go back like this when he I mean, it's important to the camera. I really want to be on camera. I'm really worried about that. We can work on it. Okay. I mean, I just

146did it. I think we're good. Okay.