001To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands under like a motion to approve the agenda. [Music] Okay. Discussion. So, a couple of items tonight with the organization of the board. And you'll notice at the very end tonight, we have a an executive session. This will be very brief. Jerry's got some handouts the board just give him some guidance dealing with our well contamination. So that's what the state of the executive session is. Outside of that I think everything else is pretty pretty um can I can I just clarify something? Yes. Our now solved well contamination that was but no longer is. Correct. Just just so everybody Yes, the contamination is u decontaminated. It's all helping good. Um we're wanting to talk about a lot with correct like some Yeah. Okay.
002That's what I had to say about the agenda. Any other clarities or questions? If not, I call for a vote. All in favor? I 100%. Okay. So, we're down now to the nitty-gritty. So, the re-election reorganization of the board. So, uh we it's interesting. We have a couple of things that are bookends. One of the bookendings is at the state level, Jerry. I don't know if it comes out of the office of public instruction or state level. It looks like that a board person may only serve up to four years consecutively as the chair. It turns out that u Britney has indicated that I'm in my last year of the four years. Our local policy were good for unlimited. So in other words, we can we're we're still in uh guided by our local policy
003which is unlimited. we're still within the guidelines of the state which is four years. I would volunteer another chairmanship of the board and u I just wanted to get that out there excuse me shut this thing down. So that's that was a good discussion. An earlier discussion we had around the vice chair Debbie last term it looks like at this point Henry had indicated an interest being the vice chair. So these are the discussions that we've been having outside of the board meeting just to get clarity around people from question. Yes sir. Is this an action item? It should have. It should show action. It says election. Yeah, it does not say but theoretically it should. So So in theory using our local our local policy to the district, um then it's not that big
004of a deal, right? And so I don't know, Wes, you're kind of like FDR. Go for your third term. I second that. And um you know if you want to if you're in glutton for punishment that's that's up to you and uh Andrea you know step into the breach. So I heard I heard a nomination and seconded I accept the nomination. Okay. All right. So I guess it appears that I would ask for a vote of my nomination to be the next chair or continue chair. All in favor? I 100%. Okay, now we're down to election of the vice chair. I nominate Edric Price. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? Okay. So that we've got to be the same. Okay. So now we're down to the fun part of the of the meeting.
005Karen, I'll let you take over the Well, we don't have any visitors. We don't have any public comment. Britney, we do have visitors. What happened? [Music] No stepped out. Okay. [Music] So, we're down to like a welloiled machine. We didn't have anything. Start with Cooper. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. So, Miss Pitchoff is our sixth grade um advisory teacher, but she unfortunately has the bug now. It's been going around all over the place. Um so, Miss Kitch asked if I would please um stand up here and talk about how wonderful Cooper is. Um Cooper came to us um three years ago now. you guys move over here three years ago and has non-stop show dedication to his work. Um he is a gator in every way to his friends. Um he shows effort and um he
006advocates for people when he feels that they um you know need to be seen or heard for different things and he works so hard in all of his classes. Um at great view we are safe, we are responsible and we are respectful. Those are our three um things that we try to to show an example in everything we do and Cooper does those on a daily basis. Um and he always shows our our cooperation which is our big character strong work with this month. He's cooperative and works with others constantly. Um so we are so excited to honor you with this Cooper and I just ask you something. I'm from Minnesota. We have a ton of those hats. I love that hat. Where did you [Music] Oh, yeah. I mean, we had those everywhere. Do
007you know where he got the hat? Uh, where did he get that? I think I got a couple years ago. He really liked it. One, two, three. the board. That way when you're rich and famous, we can have pictures that we have with you. [Music] On three. One, two, three. One more. Okay, one more for cheeseburger. Good job, Cooper. Nice job. Nice work, buddy. This is Crowder. Summer come on up. Who should I speak to? Oh, um, this amazing girl, this beautiful, precious girl is named Summer, and she has the perfect name for her personality. Summer has an incredible moral compass. She just does the right thing wherever she is in every situation. Summer has a phenomenal sense of humor. If you get a little glimpse into that, you are blessed. She is funny. Um,
008she has direction. She's going places. She walks her own path. I have noticed that with Summer, she chooses her friends. um she doesn't she lets them come to her. She she doesn't go to them. She's a very strong girl. She works hard. She's a lot of fun. She feels things very deeply. Um and in my imagination, I I see Summer in a few years being a wonderful emergency room anything because she stays calm. Um she thinks through it. One thing I really appreciate about a pretty weird development um correct me very gently and I I make a lot of mistakes and she's always right but she doesn't say it in a sassy way. Um she just kind of has this this aura of fearlessness. She's confident. He is this little piece of paper doesn't justice.
009[Music] How are you? Well, there's a reason why they call Lord All right. Good job. Thank you. Yeah. Good job, Mom and Dad. Thank you're impressive. Okay. So, I see Steve showed up. They recognize your hair. Thank you. But you locked me out. Is that true? Is there any wonder why? So, probably the only thing you're missed is that uh I will continue to be the board chair and will be the vice chair. Very nice. Anyway, except for one thing. Okay. All right. So, we've done the student recognition. Now, we're down to announcements here. The 28th of March is a new release. June conferences are the 2nd through the 4th. Great 7th through the 11th. I wish you already looking forward to that. April 14th track begins and the 23rd is our next board. Okay,
010moving forward. I'd like a motion to approve the consent agenda. something. Okay. Discussion. So, anything here in Cherry that that we uh garden coordinator that must be part of the the remaining portion who was doing it resign. So, who who is taking up? Oh, great. What are we? Um, do we still have the greenhouse? Are we greenhouse? So, we're we're doing uh like above ground gardens. And what are we growing in? Yeah. Yeah. There's a whole list of, you know, stuff that used to be illegal. No, I'm being You're being recorded. peas and lettuce and tomatoes and strawberries. Okay, I'll be buying with my safe place to make some kale in there right now over winter. We are taking donations of seeds. You know, you know the I have a really great recipe for kay
011wash it and you throw it away. Sorry. No, actually I I have good kale. Any more discussion around the contagion? You have not. All in favor? Hi. Okay, move right along to the superintend [Music] um I worked with Ryan and Cindy on a cyber security questionnaire for our insurance company which in itself is not very interesting at all except that we want to make sure you know that our company that our insurance company does have cyber security and that is important in the modern era and um we are engaging with them to sure they have the information they need so that we can be covered properly. So that's the so that would be the school version of McAfee or something like that above and beyond that kind of stuff. So it would be if there
012was an intrusion um and um there was cost associated if we had damage it covers and I thought it covers any actual cost you incur because of a breach insurance man here just in case. Yeah. Okay. Um So, uh, as you know, our school performs very well in the state. Um, and that is usually almost always measured by our SBA testing and, um, we do, um, by we, I mean, Hannah and really Cindy right now, um, really coordinate that really well. There's a, it's more than just passing out a test. Um it is a lot of coordination, a lot of scheduling, a lot of um communication with the state in terms of security measures and staff training and accommodations for children with special needs. And so it's quite a big undertaking to to to go
013through that process and um uh Cindy is doing that for us and um it's a ton of work and so the testing is coming. We always do well in large part because of the work these people are doing right now at Cindy um to make sure that we're ready and kids are prepared and everything's organized um and that's a it's an important factor in the success we have social in the last results that you presented to us that was like the beginning of the year where we left off and where the kids were how they were progressing through through what December wasn't just that was just our intern. So this was going to be the end of year holiday how we get excuse me I guess yeah understand it was about our internal testing which
014also drives our interventions which she runs which influences our SBA scores which is our state score. There's a lot that goes into that, a lot of work and um when you your family's talking about that it's not since the beginning of May we'll be doing actual testing. So anyway, thanks for all the work to make that happen. Um but Paulo, weather permitting, we'll be have everything operational at spring break. So that that's good news. So the July and August meeting with the door kicked open. That's yeah. Yeah. So um and then shortly after that they will um work on the um controls right so we're using the same control systems that we currently have and we're going to make sure they are um everything's operational charged and running and balanced and all that good stuff.
015And then when that's all working good then we will um switch to the systems um shortly after that. So um that's progressing along. So, um, see, oh, um, just, um, sometimes I debate whether I should tell you that we're applying for grants or, um, wait till we get it, but sometimes we don't. We did a lot of work, but, um, a lot of people put a lot of work into trying to access grants so we could have a walk-in freezer around the back. Sherry did a big portion of it, but with Andrea and Tony and Carol and everybody um getting all the things together so that we could get all the information that we needed to apply for that because um Carol is and Peru are doing an amazing job. I'll talk about that more
016next time, but they've really stepped into a lot more scratch cooking and we have a lot more students eating lunch and so um the freezer will be um is very much needed. What kind of monetary expense would that be to us? Hopefully not. No, I I know. But what's the what's the overall [Music] 30,000 getting one thing and then place to put it? Is that including installation electrical? Sorry. Well, yeah, there's a lot that goes into it. Yeah, it'll be an engineer that has to design the electrical and it will sit on the outside build building behind the kitchen. So, Um it's a big deal and it's a lot of money. There's a lot of people competing for that money, but um so it could be it could be more, right? Because 30,000 is about
017the total for the installation about it's not as bad as I thought it would be. You know, I thought it would be more, but um but that that'd be great. And so what you're saying is we're guaranteed to get the grant. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yes. Right with you. You're guaranteed not to get it if you don't. Yes. Right. So, um anyway, wanted them to get recognition for the work and hopefully it'll come through and we'll be able to support Carol's work more fully. Um so next month I will um Britney and I will um kind of run through our tracking um sheet for for you the the um the facilities calendar and maintenance tracking that we've been developing. You know a lot of larger school districts might hire a company that already has that like
018school dude or whatever. They're pretty expensive and a little bit more robust than what we really need for our small space. But we also needed some way of tracking the work we do that wasn't just in Tony's head. And so um as great as it is, um we wanted to develop a spreadsheet for that. So we'll show you how far we've come with that um at our next meeting. And just knowing that it's a perpetual project, right? Yeah. It's always it's always it's never done. Yeah. Ever. Yeah. That'll be at our next time around. And as you mentioned, spring break is around the corner. I don't know if you've been around the building that maybe you've all been parents um and it's like they've had a big full busy day and um it's almost time
019for bed and the kids are you're tired, they're tired, and you know, you know, to be a good parent, you should read them a story, too, but you really don't want to. Um we're all kind of at that point right now. Spring break is just around the corner. We love them dearly, but they feel it too. Yeah. Yeah. So, um that's kind of where we're at and things are going well, but uh just around the corner, spring break and teachers very much deserve that time. And then my last thing is we have the executive session and I'll talk more about that after at that time. That's Anna like and Anna requested that soon as she's done she go enjoy her time with her at home daughter on spring break from Central. Yeah. listen to her
020say, "Hey, can I borrow the keys? I'll be home late." She has to share with her sister who's now driving. That's a real fun thing. I'm sure it is. I remember. I would comment on Jerry's presentation. Um, I think it's crucial that we be very alert and sharp and paying a lot of attention to whatever organizations will offer, whether it's the Department of Commerce in the state of Washington or uh foundations or groups that that uh give out grants and our ability to get the documents, make the application and prepare it so that it's as impressive as we are. Uh it'll make a difference in in the quality of our ability to deliver like we promised to deliver. I'm a big proponent of grants grant applications. We had a pretty good one. We we pursue
021them aggressively. Today's modern funding we kind of have to show. Okay. Um, let's see. I also really love the fact that every time Cindy and I say, "Oh, there's this script for this story." He's like, "Go for it." You know, it it's a good team effort um for because it does so many things. All right. So, the last board meeting um at the end of February, we had our second character strong assembly and we had it on honesty. Um and then we presented the March cooperation. Um so, our next assembly is coming up. Um, Miss Murphy, our second grade uh, teacher, has been celebrating March reading month with Shermok reading activities and contests, and the kids are doing great with it. Um, the classrooms are there's, if you see, you'll see share marks get colored
022in for how many books they're reading. And I mean, pretty much we're going to have to do an ice cream party across the board. Um, financially it might have to be cheap ice cream, but those things are good stuff for for the staff pool with a little Ben & Jerry's or something. Be a little more calorie um intensive um but delicious. And so the kids have been reading like crazy for the month of March. Um Mrs. Williams, uh she took on reading week, which was the first week of March, and reading night, which was the first Thursday night in March. And um it was so successful. It was a great event. Um we had um I think 140 meals um that we served and more more than that with people who came through. Um so
023that was great at the books. No, that was the the spaghetti night here when we Oh, okay. Um and Miss Breeze ran the whole book fair during that week and I don't know the totals but they were great. We've got free books to every single kid um at their grade level um in the school which is always really exciting. 3,000 and that's without giving every or with giving every kid a free book. That's awesome. Um Cindy's also just so relaxed about things like that like oh yeah writing an entire week of the book fair to show that all collected about things. Um, that's why it's such a good predator because she she just brings down that poem. Look at this. And it's perfect. She runs it beautifully. So, that was a really fun book fair.
024We're just able to celebrate the reading. Um, again, first we went to the hands-on children's museum on March 5th and they had a blast. ASV's past at the boat house was last week on Wednesday night. It was so awesome. We're not sure yet how much they what percentage. I mean, we know that they get the percentage, but we don't know what that amount perfectly is. But it was a packed event. It was constant seeing so many families. Um Jerry's parents came. It was really, it was really special how many community members came and how many kids who already graduated who came back with their families on that night to um celebrate. It was great. Upcoming events, we are starting a Quanis club um after spring break. It'll be every Wednesday after school from 3:15 to
0255:00. Um Mr. Olsen, our fifth grade teacher, has taken the staff lead on that. And um Mr. Cro, our substitute, he is a member of Kas Club in North Mason. And so he's coming out to help um with that organization. The students will be working on the trail um cleaning up the grounds and learning cooperation skills through the program. Uh our parent teacher student conferences are next week on Wednesday and Thursday from 1 till 7. Um teachers are leaving this Friday and the next Friday the 4th at noon. Um since they're staying for those two late nights on April 26, it's a Saturday from 10 to 1. We're having a trail and garden workday. Basically a campus beautifification day. Um can you say the dates to that? Sorry. Oh yeah, sure. April 26. And at
026conferences I'm going to have flyers put up for that, too. Um, so we're going to work on the trail and work on building benches at the amphitheater that the Garcia has built for us, which is amazing. Um, so yeah, we have the wood and the supplies. We're just going to get out and get to work. Um, and the garden as well. So Katie Walter, who's um taking over the garden position. She is is collecting seeds and starts and things like that so we can get get things going for that. Um, it's going to be a good day. Uh tomorrow, Andrew God, the fourth grade teacher, and I are taking 12 students to from each grade level, one through first through sixth grade to the Young Writers Conference in Birmingham Olympic College. Yeah, we used to
027do that pretty regularly and then CO hit and it kind of changed how they were running it for a while. We are back on it. Um I'm so excited to go with them. Uh so the kids are bringing manuscripts that they've been working on for a while because their teachers nominated them. Um then I'm running a a workshop session in Andrea's New York shop session and the kids go around work with different college professors on the campus um in writing workshops. So it's a really cool experience. We're excited to be a part of it again. Yeah. Um fifth grade is going to Pierce College next Tuesday uh to do a planetarium exploration. Um they're working um that goes with their science unit that they're working on and Mr. Trimble, who supports their STEM class, is
028also going with them. Um, so they're heading over there. And fourth grade is taking the salmon to be released at the week after spring break. And then there's more educationally programmed field trips coming up through the spring. And a lot of these have been um funded through grants um that the teachers have even applied for like the hands-on children's museum. Connie Se got a grant for it was completely paid for. Um the Pierce College of the Planetarium was significantly reduced to like a $40 group fee um educational fee to take the whole fifth grade um to experience that with an instructor teaching them about it. So it's pretty exciting that we're getting to do these things for for um and that's all I have for upcoming. You know, we've got a lot happening. um spring
029testing courses starting in May and hopefully get those kind of ramped up to that in a good way. Um I think I'm excited and um yeah working away. Mhm. Uh I have two comments and one of the comments is actually a question. Uh, but the first comment is I was able to go in last Thursday and participate and I believe it was Katie Walters third grade class and she was teaching the kids fractions and using the minutes in an hour and how much is a half an hour and it breaks it into five minute and two things really impressed me. What was well three things. She involved all the kids in the class and gave all of them the opportunity to answer a question or read a question and then uh I'm trying to remember
030how she did it. She whoever was answering the question then was told to give the pen or the stick or whatever it was to another child to participate in the next part of it. And these are third graders and they were nailing nailing it. And uh they were attentive and I just sat back in there in awe. And then after that was done, I got to go with the third graders into a PE class and I think it was with the fifth graders and the PE teacher was phenomenal. And um they did warm-up exercises and stretches and I thought I should get up and do them with them but I didn't because I was trying to be just stand back and then they played a game and the game used the whole length of the
031gym and there was you know how foosball is played? Well, so the kids were like a fooball player and they had to stay in a a cile or a section and then the other the opposing kids tried to run between them and get down to the other end without being tagged. Oh, it was amazing and it was really good. And then she coached them afterwards because some of the kids didn't follow the instructions. they ran out of bounds or they ran back through the the course and she talked about good sportsmanship and and following the rules. Uh it was very impressive and she didn't use the word but what I interpreted that mean is you can't cheat when you play a game. You have to do it by following the rules. And that brings me
032to the other recommendation. Uh, we got Cindy's report and it showed the progress and I haven't talked to the board yet, but I'll have a chance to and if they disagree with me, we're going to have a fight. I would like to celebrate the scores in that presentation. And I don't know what that looks like, but the the staff and the students deserve to know that this board recognizes growth. recognizes moving in the direction of our goals and improvement process and I don't want it to go by. I don't want it to come in and have one board meeting and we nodded our heads and asked some questions and said some nice comments. I want to celebrate progress and that will help grow. Does that look like an assembly or what what what would that
033look like? I don't know but I wanted to bring it up with you. We have an assembly coming up for story. Maybe somebody could come and Wow. Be cool. Yeah. Yeah. April 2nd, 11:30 because it's a half day. It's a new maybe we give them. Um the other option too though that could be fun is like we really love punch Friday. You know, if we celebrate we had a good week. Um especially with spring coming where we do like otter pops outside and we you know have fun things going on in the field. Um we could get a soccer ball out. Um God that sounds like fun. That's when when would that so when would that be? It would be a board event participate in or what? Yeah, I think so. speculating could the assembly
034be kind of five minutes of somebody from the board representing the board or more than one coming to say way to go guys recognize your scores and we're so proud of the hard work you're doing that would be the second Wednesday the second Wednesday that's one idea right [Music] um just in board member. Yeah, that'd be great. Or another idea, you mentioned the fun Friday where we just gave them some treat and and you announced that it was related to that. Yeah, I could do that too. Appreciation celebrate them. Yeah. Um Wednesday, I think they have a meeting in Harvard. So, move it around. We'll have time later in the meeting. We can kick around which one it might work better. The other thing the Oh, sorry. This is a matter to you as one
035of your life. I want the kids to have one. Okay. The other thing um Tom was mentioning, isn't the talking stick from Florida? I mean, I guess third grade is kind of like Florida, right? was a device they could walk up to the board and they could draw well like a drawing stick or whatever. Um I you had mentioned the amphitheater, right? And uh do we ever use the the the outside of the theater, you know, the the stage theater? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we we we use it for students. We haven't done like a a a schoolwide performance where we've had guests come in. No, but I mean but but it gets used for like small groups and Okay. All right. Good. Yeah, that was my idea. How about is there an option if
036somehow the teachers could be in our presence at them way just to show us the period? In other words, if we showed up at four o'clock for the next board, is that an option? That's that's Thank you. We also have um all staff meetings the first Monday of the month. Um so for April it won't be until the 14th. Um and we do all staff until from 8 to 8:25 and then bus drivers have to leave and then we have our PLC's professional learning communities um after that. But we the first Monday of every month we have the whole staff together. And that's kind of a rare thing um that um Jerry and I really initiated last year. Cool. Well, you're you're in support of Tom's recommendation. Absolutely. The other thing too is we have
037our all staff appreciation. You know, don't bring up the teachers and the staff. We have the all staff and that's that week of May the 5th through the 9th. I think that week um that's teacher appreciation week is our all staff appreciation week. So that is coming up soon as well. Good. We're doing the GST 54 on lunch. We have a tending schedule. We have a captain's breakfast. Yeah, that would be all staffed on the spot. So, I'm I'm gone the entire month of May. And uh I'll I'll try to zoom in for for the board meeting at that but um but yeah so okay maybe arrange something to be delivered or something Door Dash or I don't know I don't even know how do they do they serious just give us your credit card
038we'll take I'm not sure I'm not sure if there's any Okay, nice shot. Okay. Can I clarify something? May 5th is what we usually normally teach. Is that the day? Okay. Yeah. How many teachers? Okay. So, okay. Okay. So, I'm going to move uh item number 12. Andrea. All right. So, I'm doing something a little different. I wanted to share something electronically and I ended up just doing the whole thing. Britney's going to help and bring up a presentation. It changed up a little bit the format of what you're used to seeing. It's essentially all the same data. It's just in different so I'll call it you're on the last page so don't read. Um so this is the new look that I've come up with for our monthly report to the board on our
039financial situation for the district. And this is a work in progress. You can change this, you can amend it, you can tweak it. This is like start I know kind to grow but the first page of that can you move that little green line that um so this is just a snapshot of our enrollment and this is as of our March count you'll see in that grid on the right hand side it listed it by grade then the second column is what we budgeted to have this year column that says year-to- date average is the average of all the months have been counted to date September March and then the difference to the budget. So we're almost 16 FTE um not 16 whole children but 16 FT is fulltime equivalent um above what we budgeted
040for this year. So that's a good story for us and it's pretty you know spread out amongst the grades so it did not impact us enough that we had to I don't know only teach or the grades are still pretty close to our grade levels. There's some that are bumped up against their maximum. So, we're looking for teachers for that, but that's a good story. And then the trend on the bottom, it's kind of hard to see. I'll make this bigger next time. But the years you'll see along the bottom starting with 2017 18 school year at the far left. And then you'll see uh the dip, which I'm sure they all know what that is. That's the 2019. Did something happen in 2020? I don't I'm trying to forget it as well, but I
041think something did. And then back to where we are right now. Next slide. Um, this is our year-to- date revenues and expenditures. So, on the top on the top two little sections, what I did is compared our actual revenues year to date. And this is all I should preface every bit of data in here except enrollment is dollars through February because that's that month is over. It's all gone. We still have a little bit of time left in March, but that's through February. So, we've received um just over $2 million in revenue to date. And if I look at what we budgeted, what we thought we would get at this point with about 1.8 million, we have received a little bit more money than we thought we would this largely driven by the enrollment. And
042then the right hand side, expenditures. We've also spent a little bit more than we thought we would spend at this point, but not as much as the extra money we received, which is a good story. And then down below, um, I wanted to share a little bit, um, about how the money we spend is broken out. And I'm using the word object code in there. And I'm not sure if you're familiar with this. So if you all are, just tell me to stop talking and I will, but the state has us report expenditures by the object that they're spent on. So the 2000 through 9,000, and not every number is used. Don't ask me why we don't use every number, but we don't. Um, the 2000s are certificated salaries. So anybody with a teaching certificate
043is paid out of that code. 3,000 are classified salaries. The benefits and taxes for all of those are paid out of 4,000. And then below that are the things that are not direct staff costs. So 5,000s are supplies, the instructional resources. So that's everything you could pick up in the school, the book, the paper, the pens, the anything that's not a personal. Um and then the purchase services are hired out services that we contract others to do. So the ESD13 we contract for um some supports through them. We have um someone might come and do repair work on the building. That's a contracted service. And then you've got travel with the little teeny teeny tiny portions. That's reimbursing our employees for driving, going to events, conferences, professional learning that they need to travel for. And
044then the last little building is capital outlay. Um I was going to pull up what that $19,000 was. I don't recall off hand, but that's anything that the state considers capital larger than a certain dollar amount or designed to significantly alter the building or last for a very long time. When you look at that, do you have any questions about those what those mean what those chunks are? So I'm a little hard to help. Yeah. So on the revenue side, we're down about 200,000 below expected revenue. No, no, that's budgeted. Oh, excuse me. Okay, we're Okay, we're 200,000 higher than budget. Okay, but on the expenditure, we're about 100 100,000. Okay, so it balances out. Okay, first time I somehow got myself. Okay, thank you. And the other thing that um you'll see on that
045bottom section is that incumbrance column. And I I don't know that that was shared very much in these presentations before, but whenever we create a purchase order and promise that we're going to buy something from an entity, it creates an incumbrance within our system and we can do that as well for payroll expenses. So those big chunks of encumbered money on those top three rows, that's our our financial system calculating. We could keep paying the people what we telling them we're paying them now and everybody stays in the positions that they are. This is how much our financial systems think it will cost us to pay our people. So like projected AP yeah kind of thing but not not an actual yet it's just projected right if everything stays as it as it is and
046nobody changes. Yeah. What was that capital LA? I mean it's I don't know. I was going to pull it up and the minute I saw it on the slide. I thought I didn't Is that the Because we would make the well out of that but then get reimbured. Could that have been Well, that would that was capital project. [Music] Yeah. Oh, computer technology might have been stack computers. It was the um Hawaiian hotel. Yes. Yeah, I was right. I forgot about that. Oh my god. Open bar just Oh, I'm being recorded. Okay. Um, so this is just this is our general fund balance, but the total in our general fund, not through transportation fund, not the capital fund, not just general operating fund. On the left hand side you'll see the year and funding balances
047for the last few years. So I just went back to the 2122 school year to give me an idea of what we've done historically. So 466,000 is what we ended that year with 22 23 was a bit higher. Last year was higher and this year we're on pace to do within 15,000. So pretty darn close to what we did last year. I have a crystal ball. I would say they'll probably come in a little bit higher than 26. Don't write that down, but if I'm right, I'm gonna remember this. So, you're guaranteeing the And then the the graph on the other side is just to show kind of what our fund balance does over time. The the spikes that you'll see around October and April on like quarterly, it goes certain bill. We a lot
048of us pay those times of year. So that's when we get our tax collections a big big tax collection. And then you'll see the kind of trend of at the end of the year the state pays us a portion but a certain percentage every month. They pay us a much lower percentage during those high months for taxes. The last few year few months of each year they pay us a higher percentage up a little bit. And this year is the green which is kind of the high watermark of everything. And this year you'll see it's um it's trending to do the same thing that it's done historically. So nothing there 71,000 again is a projection. So that'll change every month. See it gets closer to real. These are just snapshots of our other fund balances
049and you can see where we started the year, what we received, what we spent. Um the capital project. You'll see the beginning fund balance and ending fund balance are almost identical. The revenues and expenditures in the middle of that are from the Apollo project that we have and that's grant funds and spend the money to get the grant um as a class and expense reimbursements. That's just a wash and then the debt service is the bond for this building for the improvements on the building. ASB is all of our student government money. So that's all led by students and there's not a ton of activity in that this year after the any fundraising they do is what the revenues are and any student expenses will show up there that'll go up after the the fund
050that they just had. Right. Yeah. So it doesn't have that uh transportation vehicle fund. Uh that is fund that we have just to pay for the school buses and we have almost $245,000 in that fund right now. We did just commit ourselves to buying that new school bus. So about $180,000 expense to buy one new school bus. That'll leave us by the end of the school year maybe $80,000 or so left. And the revenues that you'll see in there, there's a very small amount of revenues, almost $3,500. So that's interest. So the county paid up interest on any any money that we have invested on how much we earn. Now that the revenue stream for transportation that comes out of our bond. No. So the the state has a depreciation schedule for school buses. We
051receive a depreciation payment once a year. So that revenue that you'll see small amount right now will get a few hundred bigger every month. And then in August, they pay us a lump sum depreciation. It'll be about $27,000 that they give us this year. Curious, what do they um what do they uh think is um typical for depreciating a school bus? There are Yeah. 14year. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Huh. Do they last 14 years? Yeah, they do. If you treat them well. Yeah, if you kind of like talk to him, make sure that the kids school buses one of ours right now that is just known to have some issues and this mess has cost us more than other buses. state doesn't care about no next slide. Okay, this one has a lot of words
052on it, but this is just um my ideas and looking ahead to budgeting for next year. So, last month I let you know that we sent out staff letters of intent and we've collected almost all those back and I don't from what we've been told there's not a huge amount of them been anticipated. We don't have a rash of people that said they're retiring or leaving. So, a few little conversations at this point. Um, we are continuing to watch um and monitor the state of legislative session. I'll let Tom speak to that in front of me. Um, unknown impact right now on the federal funding changes at this point. We've been told to just operate business as usual and soon we'll get those funds. And every time you hear that from this little ask at
053the bottom of the plan, make sure you have a just in case. We're watching that. We'll see what that looks like. I have some more information on that later in the presentation. At the moment, like we talked about early is earlier is continuing to try to above our budget and Hannah's been working doing some surveys with our families to plan for the upcoming year and then also to try to figure out and forecast our TK enrollment which is kind of hardest because you don't have a cohort, you don't have a class before. And then that last um paragraph is not designed to be scary and we'll certainly not figure out that more. But if if we have to do a reduction course, we do legally need to let the certificate of staff know by that
054date. They have to make that decision with us. Is that dictated by contracts or is it dictated by the states or Yes. Yes. And what what happens if after the May 15th thing that there's a catastrophic circumstance that drives how we're going to respond? If you all of a sudden get more money optimistic, we'll be optimistic. For certificated staff, you're obligated to have a contract with them. It just means you give it tobody else. Yeah. But it's not seven and a half. Hopefully the state will be done, you know, before that date. There's some caveats that we're not finished. I wish the state would just take a few days off. Give us all a break. So, this is this won't be in every um one of these presentations, but we've been talking a lot about
055the federal funding and how much federal funding that you receive. um what the state might you know what we might do if we propose to not give us that federal funding. Um, so I just pulled up for the current year on the top there. Those are our big buckets. The federal money. So we have a grant. Um, they call it that stands for funding at the moment. We're using it this year to pay for our renaissance learning program and one screen. That's about $30,000. Year-to- date actual is the money that we've received so far. just haven't claimed it yet. The second line is our special education, the idea grant, and we use the big bulk of that to pay for our the co-op that we have in Mason County. That's just under 50,000. Then the
056next three lines are title one, title two, and title four funding that fund parts of different people in the building. That's just right around $100,000. And then the school food service is also a big chunk, just under $100,000. So for great view, it's just under $300,000 that we have pledged to church and federal funding this year and we received just about that. The bottom two pieces that you'll see there, Britney's going to bring those up live on the screen and this was some data that OSPI put together. Um but OSBI did some comparison so that we could see statewide what federal funding districts received compared to one another. So they put together what's called a heat map now. And if you look really really closely on that map once you get it pulled up you'll
057see great view kind of a light pink color. So the darker red colors receive more federal funding and darker green colors receive less federal funding. I don't see Hook Canal on not the district zoomed in. It made it really hard to find us, but we are right there. So, we kept trying what did it say? Does this have the state average on it? So, the statewide average is 6.95% and Great View, our district receives about 8.3% of federal funding. I don't know Jerry if you want to talk or if you talk to that. So we get roughly help 10,500 back from the state per child very roughly. Okay. And then of that of that 105 we see that that there's a federal funding for FTE student. Is that what is that in that 10 five
058or is that in addition to the 105? It's kind of a separate thing that the the state looked at last year. That number that's up there is $350,000 and they just did a calculation. Great view received $350,000 in federal funding last year which included a good chunk of ESTR money from the pandemic and they just did it they just divided it by our FT. Okay. So you won't see it tied to any calculation in our portion. as a denial. I didn't but that included that sir. Yes. Right. Yeah. Um I'm sorry. I apologize. This didn't this one took it out of regular talk. Okay. The other thing that we'll pull up shows with and without. This is without I'm sorry with and without this is without. Okay. Okay. So, um, uh, Les pointed out, he
059knows his geography and the hot spots, the red spots are also looking where there's reservations. I was just going to ask that. Yeah. So, they get a lot more federal funding. And, um, Hood Canal also gets a lot more federal funding. Um, uh, but they are not, right? They're more right. Up. There you go. So, you can see because they're on a on a tribe, they don't collect 5875 though, we're at 8%. Right. Yeah. They're at 23% federal. Yeah. So, um just so you know, when you're talking about districts in the community, they it's not all equal, right? And sometimes it's very much uh worthwhile. Like I was at um uh Fort Lewis and Clover Park School District. They have a very large area that's the base that doesn't collect property taxes, right? So they
060get enhanced funds to to compensate for Yeah. And that's somewhat of what you see there. So there's some variations and a lot of them are for very good reasons. Is Breton like that then with the naval base? Birming is the same colors as if you go up and to the left a little bit. You're sitting bir down that little tiny part straight up. Now right there that green So, sorry. You guys want to look at this? Well, I think the light green too. That's like the mountains. So, there's no population there either. Should we look at index? Yeah. Don't make me find that. Wait, you don't know your geography? I do, but tell your right. No, no, it's to the right. No, it's not going to be green. up into the Now go straight east.
061Go a little search. Good. I'm just I'll get you a report. Please don't send me the link. Send me the link. Yeah, that would be great. The other That was really interesting. See, they still Yeah. And they just give us a little crumbs back. The other tool that they gave us is what Britney's pulling up now. We can compare the district. There is there is line number 3106 Street. Is that what that is? Or no, on the far left. Okay, keep going down. Looking for index. We're still at 6.57%. Wow. Well, that answer, Richard, actually what um they didn't understand that 300 news lunch money drive uh rates um drive your um title one and title four money and so they've not been collecting the money they should have because they didn't understand that. Um
062I cleared that up for them and they um their rates grew dramatically because they started asking people and so um our rate of funds will should go up for remedial supports. What a disservice. So at that level 8% on a full day budget that's 23 out so do we have any looking into the crystal ball at this point it's it's all up there as far as sensitivity of receiving that money in the future everything we've been told from pause P9 is that there's no indication that the government's really after taking money away from schools. Can I can I just express a concern over that? Is the the idea is to stop taking taking money from the state and and then giving a little bit back while not providing really any service, right? Anything meaningful. Yeah.
063Is kind of what the idea is, right? And my concern is they give the state back this money or they or they leave it. You know, they they hey, we're not going to take it anymore, right? And then it's up to the state to decide how to distribute that, right? And I and I just I I've lived in this state for a long time and I know how that goes. It's, you know, like, oh, well, Eastern Washington didn't vote for me, so, you know, pandemic, they're still under lockdown and then, oh, you know, this is, well, they they're supporting me and so I'm going to make that you essential jobs or, you know, I mean, it it so I'm just wondering if it's going to be fair, right? And so that's my big worry is
064when the state has to decide how the money gets divvied up, are they going to follow the same formulas that they that have, you know, have set precedent or are they going to use it for consultants and studies and that kind of stuff or are they going to, you know, is the grifter class going to get to it, right? And so I that's my that's my big big concern is leaving it to the states. Well, if you have well-intentioned people, then that's okay, right? But if if you don't, then you know, so it's kind of like a sort of a a crapshoot really. Do you have more to add on this? That was the end of my presentation. There's no there's no end slide to say like the end and question mark. So just a
065little go back to the second slide. Second slide is the revenue and expenditures way back to the beginning. Yeah, that one right there. Did you want that slide or the one that followed it? Let me see the follow. Nope. The previous slide. Do you know what slide? Uh, could I get a copy of that? What we're going to do, um, and I can have Britney email these out to all of you with the board packet information. We're also going to post it on our website, whatever that where is there a slide showing what we're what we have in our savings and are we a little bit above what we the board wants as a um the general fund. Is that the general fund? Okay, we don't have a savings as such. It's just a bounty.
066We have a reserve. That's that's what I was asking. The reserve. It's a 9. Yeah. 9%. But that's a 71, right? So this um this slide is all about our general fund balance. So when I say balance, it's our total of all the money we have within our general fund. And within that $711,000 The minimum fund balance reserve that we have per policy is 377,000. Is that what you mean? Yes. Yeah. Good learning. I was thinking that was 711. I like to see I'd like to see that. So, okay. I mentally can go, okay, we're sitting above our projected percentage rate or below or so the feedback I like comfortable with it too. So I don't know how the rest but and I can add things to it if you guys would like to see
067more. I will tell you if we were ever encroaching into that $377,000 you would not be hearing about it right here. Like for us humans is running a budget, I like to see like, okay, I've got that my savings. I know I've got that there. And then there's x amount sitting above it. So that show that% more questions here. I like it. Yeah. How many months are in the yeartoate numbers? Thank you. All right. Um, can I make a comment? Of course. Uh, I know that's shocking. Um, but the, uh, I really like that. That was really good and it it it kind of distilled it down very very easily and and I I really liked it. So good job. Yeah. I'm gonna ask the board if we could we just take a quick five
068minute by just just a quick [Music] year for 2025. Now it shows information buried and you need that action. Um it says approve and we're ready to approve. Um the district or um the admin has gone through it several times and we consult with the teachers union and they've signed off on it. So it's ready to to go if you wish to approve it today. So this is the one. So what he has in his hands is next school year's calendar, right? Yeah. And we also have an update for this school year's calendar for the changes that we made as it relates to this weather. So what I what I should have done is I should have asked for a motion to approve the 2025 2526 clear. So Tom Henry I didn't hear Ed. Okay
069discussion. So now we got the right order. So this is 25.6. Is there anything here that you say it has gone through review with the teachers? Yes. And you too. Union is all good. We're happy. They're happy. And um it's almost identical to Sure. Um what day what what day is graduation? Graduation. June. It's June. Right around. Oh, that hasn't been identified for next year. Okay. You're you're asking for this year or next year? Uh for uh for this year. For this year. Yeah, I believe it's June 10th. On on this calendar, for instance, like in October, June 10th, June 10th on November. I just want to make sure I'm here for it. Oh, yeah. I didn't. Well, in November, our our board meetings are usually the fourth Wednesday, but that would be the 26th
070and that's a noon release and nobody's going to want to hang out to talk to us. So, should we just now just make that everybody know it's going to be the 19th? So, we have a separate board calendar. Okay. This is the total school for everybody calendar. Um, and once this is approved, okay, um, without everybody, but we can also then separately make our order. Okay. Okay. So, okay. Got that will happen this summer. Okay. We'll identify those dates. Okay. Okay. Uh how far in advance are are um days planned like you know um lunch with loved ones or you know or your mom or dad or your grandparents or whoever comes and has lunch with you. How far in advance are those planned? I would say some things I mean it's dependent on when
071usually as far as ahead as we can so that we can I was just thinking it'd be it'd be nice to have you know kind of a set date. I got the feeling that was on Valentine's Day. That's Valentine. I mean that particular one. Yeah. Yeah. And then the other thing is the Halloween whatever that is the Halloween party. It's always a Saturday before Halloween. Yeah. But I was thinking like like have some of the some of the fun days on on here, right? Um not just the the the hard business of the school, right? Anyway, I I don't I mean it's not a priority. I'm just kind of throwing it out there as an idea. So I'm ready to email those out too as they come in. Yeah. Yeah. I was just I was
072thinking to like for parental engagement, you know, to have so that they know what you know what some of the fun stuff is, but I don't know. Yeah, we send out we send out Skyward notifications to all the families as well as Hannah sends out emails too. Okay. Okay. Righty. Any more discussion? Call for vote. All in favor? Okay. Now, you've got an update then, Jerry, on your health. You have an update on Y. Just wanted you to see it. Those are the dates. You know, because of the weather, we kind of had to take things out just a little bit. So, it doesn't really need to be approved because we already filled in those days anyway. Did you fill in those days without our micromanaging approval? take care of business. Okay. So, then we're
073down to and during the class planning session, I think Deb brought up a really good point appreciation uh is to make sure we get it out there quick enough so that we can petrol and hopefully as many of us threw that out there. Your idea, Tom, of using that Thank you. Is that too late in your mind of a year to say thank you or if that's the only thing we're going to do, it's too late. Okay. We need to do something closer to the time frame when we got the report and we recognize the progress. Okay. And is your intent to recognize children and encourage that? Yeah, I that's what I took it as is. I feel it's both children and staff so if you do it with the kids there teachers will be
074there too so can can all right so that would and the 14th of April Wednesday 11:30 I I can I can move something around I think to be here. Um so April 14th is Monday April second assembly and what's the assembly about? It's character strong when we pass out certificates and um and hype uh the their success with the um the um character of the district that we have been working on the month that that would be cooperation. Um and then we highlight for them the next character that we're going to work on. It's usually pretty short and pretty fun. Yeah, it's just the time where we're ra good job way to show cooperation. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. And then we do a little skit um about the next thing. Cool. Okay. So, that
075would be and I'm committed to another spring break and but I won't be here. So, how about if we just plan it somebody can be there. We'll cheer it on. We'll put together some, you know, a little slide with cheers for data and if you can be there to join, I will be at this point at some point. Okay. If you can't, we can still do it anyway. And that's April 2nd. Yes. Yeah. I'll be there. I should be there. That'd be great. That'd be great. Great. Great idea. Great idea. So, teacher appreciation. What time do you want all the stuff? Well, we had 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock in the morning. Last last year I failed that one for the staff breakfast. What time we shoot? So, um like par educators contracted time is 8
076and then um certificated is 8:15. So some people get here earlier, but those are Yeah. So we're ready. Is that going to be a late start date or Oh, okay. Yeah, it is. Yum. Okay. Okay. And that's made. Okay. Yes. And and again it was demonstrated was pointed out that you know get this so that we got in the mind and we get c we get the food which we're representing. It's our it's our appreciation to them. No I I I know that. I'm just sorry I can't be there. We're sorry. I'm sure you are. Okay. I'm going to move on here to uh I think we've covered item 13. Tom, here up. Okay, you've got a copy of the document that I put together. Um, can I start off asking something? Has anybody called
077in or done anything to the legislation to oppose these bills? because I have and I I really think that's that's something that we can do as a board to make our voices heard and I'm very adamant about the parents rights and and that's critical. Yeah. So put that out there. Good. Let's take all right. Uh we've talked before about the big three which was the agreement between the school directors association the superintendent association and what's the name of the third one WASDA and AWSP's principles was superintendent's board director so they got together they decided if they just focused on those three that are listed there special ed funding increase, MSA funding increase and transportation funding increased, they would stand the best chance of having the success because of the collaboration and unified approach and hammering.
078And uh I wrote the bill numbers down in each of those three. You can go on uh you can go online to the you can Google Washington legislative bills and it'll lead you to the legislative opportunity and and you can select bills and then you can key those numbers in and it'll tell you today or any day that you look at it where those bills stand. And uh it has been a war in Olympia for the people that are pushing for special ed funding increase. And they do have the bills do have they're out of committees and they're going to be uh battled over for the exact language and it's going to probably get down either to the end of this the regular session which is the 27th of April and I'm just guessing that
079there's going to be an extension. they're going to go into special session in the month of May because I can't figure out if you go down to the bottom of the page or the middle of the page, it says there's a budget shortfall in Washington. This changes like almost daily, but the most recent one I read was $13 billion shortage over the next four years, which uh and it says in the next sentence, the legislature is mandated to pass a balanced budget. Period. You know, one way that they can do that is to make cuts uh or to not make increases that they all want to make. And we we live in a culture where special interest groups across the whole spectrum of what the government needs to be doing for us are all vying
080for and fighting for the money. Uh I'm very encouraged that the special ed funding has gotten enough traction to get to where it is right now. It may not be at the level of get me wrong, don't get me wrong, but I don't have all of the language. There's a a multiplying fact that the higher the multiplier is, the more money a school district or the state will allow for special education needs. [Music] Uh it's going to be very interesting to see if transportation gets any funding increase or how much funding increase will come for MSOC. I mentioned in the second paragraph below the top three uh the bills that came out in this legislative session to take initiative 2081, the parental rights bill and tear it apart and adjust it or repair it so
081it meets the legislaturator's intention of what either they think was the intent of the bill or whether what they wanted to read. uh the sponsors of that initiative last year about to launch another initiative to strike down the new bills if they become law. So when it talks about a health related issue is that what is that what I think it is or something? Yes, it is less. It's what you think. There are a number of laws in the state of Washington that deal with student health. And if if the legislature thinks that the laws the initiative that passed is tampering with those laws, then its goal was to go in and repair the legislation and pass it in bills so that it would quote accomplish the intent of the initiative. and uh be in
082accordance with other state laws that have been passed and there's a the fourth sentence in there is really interesting. There have been heated debates in both houses in this session about the crafting of these bills. one on the one side wanting to modify it to meet what they believe the the laws are supposed to intend and the other side is uh saying hey wait a minute you can't take an initiative passed by the voters in the state and modify it to suit your political political means exactly so you've got two bill numbers in there SB5181 and HB1296 6. I would encourage you to go into that legislative Google look up the portal the portal and type those bills in and see what the latest on it is. Uh I do think that they gutted it
083at 2 in the morning uh one day last week. So they so controversial things they they they pass in the middle of the night when we're all sleeping, right? So um you know Travis has been busy but but he'll like text me his frustration sometimes. I mean it sounds like it's just brutal but um yeah. So, the governor has uh come out and said he's going to cut budgets in state departments and his I I thought I heard earlier that it was 6 million, but the most recent number I got was 4 million billion billion, excuse me, billion. And uh the key thing is balancing a $13 billion shortfall. I just I'm worried that education is going to get short changed from where it is now and the the traction that we've gotten. Uh, I
084invited Travis to come visit us next month or in the May board meeting and I think in May will still be in special session, but that's just an opinion. And and I asked them to get a hold of me and I gave I sent a a lengthy text to him and I don't expect them to read the text today or even read it and answer me for a period of time and that's okay. Um he is fighting for us as are the other two members of our 35th district. And I'm going to watch him more and more closely as we move out of of March and into April. And if I see something come up, I'll get a hold of you guys. I'll shoot you a text. And I'm not going to send group texts.
085I'll send individual texts to you because if I sent you a group text and you text me back to the over open public meeting and I encourage you to drop a note, an email uh a US mail note uh to our reps reps and senator just encouraging because they're they're fighting for us. They're fighting for our school district and our schools. And u politics is a I'm just going to call it a difficult business. and deals get made and voices get heard and the attacks go on and it's just it's a monster of a shortfall and we're blessed by the fact that they have to come up with a balanced budget. The federal government hasn't come up with a balanced budget for years. We just keep fabricating more money and there's a whole bunch of
086states that that want to do the same thing with you. There's so many voices buying for money. We also live in a state where the constitution mandates that we fully fund education. for follow. Any other questions, comments? If you don't have a copy of the document that I sent out earlier or gave to you earlier, uh I've got the contact information for each of them, etc., etc. I'm optimistic at least slightly and I'm really hoping that the special funding insificant impact on this school district, not the other school district. That's all it does. The 13 billion in short, but the it's obviously is that is that new faculty the revenues aren't there that they anticipated having? Uh, no. Actually, I think it's just the amount of money that Medicaid has been know that the legislature
087wants to spend part of it. Of course, you know, we're in a a scenario where we have a two-year bienium and we have four-year plans, etc., etc. Inflation is driving costs up. And what they didn't accomplish last year in the legislative session, they're trying to accomplish now in this year's session. in spite of the fact that they have this monstrous shortfall. Okay, any more questions here? I mean your echo said thank you echo your frustration your voice is clearly heard. Nice job. Thank you for keeping us updated on these issues. Okay, I'm going to move on to Item number 15 on the policy attached packet. Um, as I was reading through coming to the meeting, I was surprised. I was surprised. So the one that stuck out to me that when I looked at it
08834 the superintendent will arrange and this is information on first reading but I'm not going to call for any sort of action. The student general arrange for health services be provided to all students but not limited to maintenance student health records. The development of procedures for building isolation and testing care students who include but consulting services healthcare visioning both distance and mirror and hearing screening immunization records and screening. That's something we do that probably. Yeah. Schools have done that for we doing that. Yeah. Even Even when I was a kid. Well, I can remember the site thing and we could have had the ability to do that. Yeah. We had a a hearing machine, you know, like a machine come in where do we have that here or we Yeah, we have a nurse that
089comes once a week and she has a quite a bit of process to go through and take care of. So what happened and why we have these two and there's actually one more that I've not brought before you yet because um uh our uh one of the regional nurse supervisors came through and met with our our um nurse and went through our policies and realized that we did not have these and so we're updating these policies to what their need and um and then there was one that has to deal with medical marijuana on it that was also recommended and I'm um going through that a little more little more scrutiny before I turn to you. Why is medical I was thinking about it why is medical marijuana treated any differently from ADHD meds or
090why is it why is it this category on the federal level? Um I think I'm pretty sure it's got recogniz only. Yeah. Um well no well it has specific procedures and we can't administer it. Only parent can and there's just real specific rules around it. Um and um I will bring there was some things in there that I just starting to know is pretty good. Um, and also, uh, like being having parents be able to, um, administer medical marijuana, um, on the bus, right? I'm like, that's not going to happen. So, I'm going to get that out of there before I even bring Don't So, I'm I'm reworking that. Yeah, I'll bring it next next time around for first reading. Why are you a bummer? Okay. Do I start out 3410 going to 12? Can
091I can I can I comment on 3410 real quick? So So four and five seemed perfectly normal because you know I experienced that when I was a little kid in school. the the thing that that I don't know I that kind of concerns me is the superintendent will arrange for health services to be priv provided to for all students health services. What is what's the definition of health services as it relates to a K through8 school? Right. Why why are schools being asked to be everything to everybody all the time? Right? And I get it. You know, you you go to the nurse's office, you're feeling a little sick or whatever. You know, you you don't want to take that test and you want to, you know, fake something or, you know, or maybe you
092really are sick, right? And um so I I get that but but that's pretty broad statement for health services, right? I mean so are we going to be arranging for an MRI and you know I I mean I know that's ridiculous but but I'm trying to say that there's no definition of really what our responsibility is as it relates to to health services in general. and you know um so I have a concern about that and then maintenance of student health records. Okay, I get the uh I get the vaccinations and and maintaining that making sure that everybody's got their measel shots and everybody's got their m shots and whatever else you know that has come along. But but what other health records are are we responsible to keep? So um an example might be
093if we had a child who was diabetic, we would need to make sure that we had that information recorded and that we that that they were diabetic. Right. Right. and we and that we um ensured that we trained staff properly and that um any any actions that we take with that child um or if there are any um severe allergies u but see see to me that that's that's more of a um specific need right and a health record to me is is keeping track of health history and and this and that and you know building a a health record within within the file and you know something that that your doctor does right and I I just don't see that as our job. I think schools all as a when I was a teacher
094though if I had a really brittle diabetic and I had to get on a bus with her I wanted to know everything. I wanted the protocols. I wanted carrying the bag. Oh, I I told you. Let me But then we also had kids with multiple concussions over the years. I don't know how that happens, but that needs to be in the record so the coach knows that this kid gets hit in the head one more time, you know, basketball, football, whatever it is. I mean, we did that's in the records and we've got this protocol for concussions. It's crazy. But see, I'm I'm saying that that's a that's a specific But that's the only stuff that really goes in health record. Well, that's my concern is what goes in, you know, what is that? I
095mean, somebody could could could make a huge, you know, vague I mean, this is so vague, right? And um I I totally agree with what you're saying, I mean, I'm diabetic, so I I I totally get it, right? But the um and you know, one of my kids' friends got a concussion here, right? So I I I understand those are really serious, but but it just I don't know. It just seems like it's so it's it's putting this extra burden on on us. And somebody could say, "Well, you're you're not keeping track of A, B, and C, and that's part of your policy 3410." I don't know. I mean could could this be somehow somehow words smith into a you know specific child's needs and how to handle those needs you know provide you know
096education on the specific need of that child or something like we generally only find out if it's um if it's a medical issue that's going to have an impact on their health here at school. Well, no. I mean I mean that's that seems fine. I just And so it's not like there's hundreds of kids who we don't really have any record of, but they might have a whole medical file that I know but this is what this has written is health services to be provided to all students. Right. Right. And and and their records. You don't have information on certain kid. Well, you know, this policy could come back and bite you on it. I I you know, I'm I'm not it's not a hill I'm going to die on, but I but I'm just
097saying that that it's way too vague and way too way too broad scoped for what our mission is. So to to the point of blessed nature in care yeah just hey address specific needs that that be we become aware of right or something um I just don't want to adopt a policy that that requires us to to have you know health records for all you know all students and maintain comment real quick. I believe the word record in here relates to a record that's created soon. So we have a records retention policy that relates to any thing that is created within a school. Well then say say that um well thinks they might just by using that word records. I'm not really working but that's how I would interpret it. that for the child that
098has all the health issues that we never ever hear about, there is no record of school for us. It doesn't exist for us. Well, why not? We have a policy. Well, you won't tell us. Well, that's exist. That's exactly right. We we need to just say that that the school be I'm I'm just simply asking for for a specific thing that says, you know, that the that the school becomes aware of, right? and you know uh and provide an understanding of how to meet that child's needs or something right instead of just I mean you know my world is all contracts and you you you have vagueness in in a contract you have varying perspectives on that I anyway I'm sorry to be a pain in the butt but but that that's the part that
099that stood out to me with that. How different is this policy revised from what we had 24 years ago? We don't have this one. We have this one. The only revisions are the areas highlighted in blue. So those cross references in the management resources have been updated and we're in line with those policies. [Music] Okay, spark interesting discussion. Sorry. I apologize specificity to Well, just just look at it and see if you can a little bit. Yeah, we want to support it. Yeah, I I will check um what we can change and still keep it legal. And then 3412 we could we're going to that do we have now in the building? Yes, we do. Okay. So this is this this was last August 2018 then is that right? Looking at that. Um yeah. Okay.
100Under adoption date. It's encouragement to the no adoption date we have. Oh right. Yeah. Is this Yeah. I don't think we have it a AED policy. No, this is a brand new policy that we're adopting. So, we don't have it. We do have, but we were ahead of our time, right? We were trends setters. Can I just say how uh how I used to think this was just the dumbest thing ever. and and I was in Arizona and uh a bunch of my friends and stuff was playing pickle ball and somebody actually had a heart they had a a heart thing and they had a auto automated defibrillator and they saved that person's life and I was like what all of a sudden I was like wow that's cool. Yeah. So anyway, well this is
101something that we should have that we should have and then obviously all the training with the people. Yeah, we're doing all the things that we're supposed to we just don't Okay. So that helps super develop procedures for placement and use of a school. Yeah. We have things in place currently that train etc. So who who are our AED? Well, all of them gone through a few minutes CPR first training to do that. That's standard in that. Does the device have to be looked at every year like a fire extinguisher does? Saturday. Okay. I will leave this all in line. Okay. So, as far as policy approvals go, no policy schedule. So, I'm going to move down to 16, which is the April board meeting, then the filing date. Anybody that outside? Let's see. Is there
102anybody on the board currently that has to run this year? I have to run Tom and I can run really fast. Okay. Tom and check. All right. As far as future agenda items we talked about, this would be the Oh, um, Les, can I just interrupt real quick? while you're talking about the filing week, uh, just to remind everybody about their F1s for the notification. Okay. And I still got to go and do my OPMA, too. Yes, please. I just said none of your business on every single I didn't. I submitted it. Just Yeah. So, are there Tom, you talked about trying to get up for the April meeting? Yeah, that would be a a something about any other um this is future event items. Yes. Yes. Um so as you know uh title title
103nine was chain title nine for the boys and girls sports right? Yeah. Um, Title N was changed changed back federally um to boys and girls sports and the the city of Tongwater um the school district there aligned they they passed a policy to align with that and basically said you know girls and girls sports, boys and boys sports and it created a big up order but um a whole bunch of other uh school districts have followed suit to be in line with the federal um and seeing it as a as a protection, right? Um and I would I would uh like to put that on the future agenda. So the the island actually is what? Um I discussed how Jerry I'm assuming you're going to take that I can present to us policy then ultimately
104it's the board's decision I think what happened is when they we reverted back to the way it was intended the way it was intended. Yeah. Yes. Um but Washington state um is more understood to be more lenient in that that area. So we can look at the policy as it's it's stated and you guys can make a decision about how you want to proceed with that. Yeah. I I would just like to see if if there would be any need to modify it or anything, but I I I think it deserves a discussion. I look at the policy especially since other districts are are are aligning. So any other agenda item that we can think of that need to be included now. Okay. I'm going to leave that. So at this point Brady I'd like
105to go ahead and and enter in the executive session do the superintendent board reflections. Oh, gosh, you're so right with Star Wars West. Oh, um I uh of course love the uh student recognition and the little the little girl summer really reminded me of my youngest daughter and um and I really missed those days. Uh, but I thought Andrew's report was was was good and it's a, you know, kind of a new format for us and I I felt like it was um that she's really acclimating to us and and the culture here and uh that's just kind of my my um my opinion on that. Um, getting Tom's reports from the legislature is super depressing. I've got to find find a way to to see the upside which might be, you know, better funding
106for um special ed. So um besides that, I I really um I really appreciate the school and the staff and and my fellow board members and I apologize for being personnicity on that one policy. That's it. Tom, uh, the report that I submitted for the legislate legislation going on as it relates to schools and parents and children, schools. [Music] I' I've been frustrated by our legislature for a long time. I'm frustrated that they they waited so long and the governor gave all the state employees a big race before he walked out the door and we have this giant shortfall and I can deal with it and I can fight and I feel like I for us, for our school, for our kids for the community that that we live in. And I'm just real grateful
107that we have such a fabulous staff and parents and kids. And I encourage you guys if you have not gone in this school year and sat in a classroom that you get with Hannah and figure out when you can do it. Highly recommend it. You will feel pumped up by the experience. And uh I'm glad we've got a good superintendent. That's it. Thanks. Should be thanking North Mason for coming. Um I'm happy that spring's coming around the corner and these little ones get a little break and seeing the teachers. I like the new report that Andrea presented to us. that was very helpful and she even put in some of the stuff that I requested. So, I like that. Um, yeah, all the hard work that the teachers are doing is paying off and these
108kids are thriving. It's more than we can ask. Thank you. Yeah. Um, thank you Cindy for doing all the testing stuff. Been there, done that, and I really understand how complicated that is. I was going to say miserable, but let's just go. So, thank you. Um, thank you Britney for negotiating your way through the uh slideshow game because we're asking you like find a place on the map that you [Laughter] can't you are just really nice. We are going to have some geography. I know is your other north. Yeah. So, um thank you Tom very much for the report. It's um concise and sad but concise. I appreciate that. Um you know, every time I come to a meeting, I'm so glad that I'm associated with the school. Um the things that they do, the
109gardening and the um the trail and there's just so much going on that that help that make kids want to be here. That's a huge issue for most school is getting the kids school. So I appreciate that. It's a big deal. That's about it. Who leads that trail project like on that what what was it the fifth or the what on that day? Who says I I need this done or I need and just asking for a friend to bring a pole saw and a chainsaw. Combination of this anything related to stuff like that would be a conversation with Tony. Um, and also our and the garden. So, Miss Walter. Yes. Oh, I should say I spent time in the fifth grade classroom. It was fun. I like Mr. Wilson. He's cool. My son would
110have liked him. I know. He didn't like everybody. Yeah, that's a big deal. I guess one of the things that Yeah, finally. So we talked about in the offsite about something new being put together from a why what's good about creating what why are we where we're at we talked about this outside I know the kids made a run at it you went where do we sharing is that still active effort no unless we want to pay money for a professional I don't see us doing wide uh great view that we put out on our website. Can can we put that a future agenda item for next month? I would like to talk about some ideas. Shall I bring you a presentation? Yeah. Who who try to sell it to? because we already have well
111the the community in general and and we want to maintain our um outside uh the people outside of the district have this viewpoint of you know oh there's a waiting list to get into great view right it must be really good and and we want to maintain that brand I mean we want to always build our our brand and and celebrate our our victories and um you know keep it a sought after right um but but I but we can talk about that next next month what you're here is is I mean it we talked about this assessments we talked about the level we've got to this is really I mean for taxpayer member of this board is really important to me. So, you get a chance to share it and and I'm speaking for
112myself. I'm not sure. I could probably speak for everybody, but I'm throwing it out there. This is this this is significant and I wouldn't be on this board. I wouldn't be running another asking for another chairmanship if I didn't believe hardly what you guys you guys are leading. You're you're pulling yours. You're just trying to help with it. Thank you. with you. Um I I one thing really stuck out to me that that's not not so common and that is um when we have a business report, numbers don't I'm not an accountant, right? I'm a people person and numbers don't always tell me a story. Um but um she used that word um in a report um of the numbers telling the story what's going on. Yeah. The good story. Yes. She said that. Exactly.
113Right. The good story. And I really appreciated that because I'm not an accountant and they don't always speak to me clearly. But um she was able to um tell the story and um and as we give her what our needs are um she'll be more able to clearly tell tell the story. And I I appreciated that phrase and um and I appreciated the um the tweaking of how we do the presentation because it's beginning to tell a story to me. So that that was my reflection. Diana's presentation. Yes. I feel like she's growing into her job. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah. Has she had to use Tracy much resource a few times? I think they're kind of done. They might need to get running budget prep, but she's she's pretty she's starting. So, we're at
11470 or Uturn this meeting a little bit. Good night. Have a good evening. Thank you for putting up with it.