001To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nation with all text him right now. Okay. He's on his way. Okay. Start. All right. So, like a motion to approve the agenda. So, move. Okay. Y thank you. Discussion. Okay. So recognition of visitors we have Tony student recognition [Music] announcements. So consent agenda. It look like they approve some new business elections and some policies and that's it. Any discussion? And if not, let's call for a vote. All in favor? I I represent. Okay. Visitors. So, we don't have anybody tonight. Okay. And uh recognition. So, Jerry, I guess we got it. You should have died. Oh, no. I was going to say that the people sitting in the eyes are nobodyies. I mean, there are people. I'm just sorry. Sorry. Yeah, it
002is. No back there. So, all right. So, Jerry, what do we have here? Okay, I want to start. We received a copy um the recognition that a community church had for um pony and it spurred in my mind something that um it it just brought to the forefront my thinking about his work here and I'm going to read some of this for you and then and then say a few words at him. So, [Music] um, this person was a student long time ago at one of Tony's schools. Um, Mr. Tony, uh, is one of the many reasons Great View School is so special. Every time there is a need for a coach, Tony steps in and leads the kids with kindness and inspires the kids to work hard for them. He's been the guy who
003helps the students with busy with busy bodies and find ways to be productive. uh uh when a desk and classroom wasn't the option you needed. Um when when Santel first opened, he was the maintenance man too. He was the same then. I know I was one of the ADHD helpers who had helped help him uh back in the 80s and I have to believe that he's impacted hundreds of students if not thousands over the years in his own way. truly deserves uh this appreciation, this not of appreciation. So, I'd like to uh follow that with my message is I've worked with lots of in lots of different schools and there's maintenance men that are great with fixing stuff and grumpy with kids and some the other way around, but he has just a marvelous way
004of managing both. We've gone through a whole lot of stuff lately with with the wells and the screens and the um and the air conditioning system and we managed to all that without any troubles without missing a heartbeat and getting ready for events like musical and etc. Um but all that while um making sure that we took care of the kids, right? Um, not everybody who's uh in schools um not they don't always think of themselves as educators if they're not in the classroom, but Tony does and he spends the time to take care of him and I really appreciate him and so we wanted you to be recognized in front of the board for all your hard work and um keeping the priority on kids. So I want to say thank you for that.
005So thank you Tony for all you do. I appreciate hearing this personal [Music] detail. I cannot be yourself. very good leaders. I've seen you working with kids, too, and I was inspired to see I made me feel like the whole school was working for the same goal, and I love that. Thank you. Thank you. You have a great puppy, too. Thank you. Thank you, Tony. Okay. So, the next thing we've got here, Jerry, we have everybody. Yeah. Um, we spend a lot of money at the school to keep our internet going and computers in front of kids and one screens and and just pretty much everything we do seems to include technology. and Ryan keeps it all running smoothly. Um, and I wanted Jim to meet him if he hadn't, but also kind of do
006give us a a [Music] 20th January 22nd. Make sure your calendar. Okay. All right. So, if there's no more on that, I'd like a motion to approve the consent agenda. Move. Second. Um, discussion. Okay. I don't see much there. No payroll and stuff. No uh no donations this time. First time in a long time. Okay. Any any more questions or discussion on them? If not, I'm going to call the vote. All in favor? I Okay, now we're down to teacher. So, I'll start um at the top of my list um which is the water thing. We're um we're going going well. Um we're stepping up our testing um to um twice every two weeks just for a while just to make sure nothing sneaks up on us and building a a cover for the top
007of the well head just an extra level of protection just to to ensure that this will fill the main way. So, um, we're continuing to monitor that and, um, making sure we're So, so after it's all said and done, it turns out that the contamination came, you think, from pulling the old pumps out and doing it and reinstalling it unsanitized. Is that what we think? I think that the um based on my conversations with all of the various people that were involved, they they um when they reassembled everything, they were not as efficient and effective as it could have been. And so um it resulted in a compromised wellhead that'll have some contamination. So, okay. I'm not done having conversations on that portion of it, but um I'm still collecting my information. Thank you. Um
008the salmon center, we got a new fish tank and filters. So, when you walk out, you'll see new stuff and it won't be long till the Yeah, it's new stuff. So, won't be long till there's fish. When you Well, we're reading on a couple more things. 17 17 of January. Yeah, that'll be excellent. Yeah. Awesome. So, only because I came asked where do we have any those co-host or should [Music] um [Laughter] we did. Well, we've been doing this like 20 30 years. I don't Mr. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun and kids go watch it. They they check it. Yeah, it's a neat thing. We've we've begun the process of shopping for his bus. So, we met with one sales person and we're going to meet with some others. And um Wes had asked you to
009talk to walking MTA as far as getting on the list for um we we surplus buses. Um when they deem them old and it's kind of like Ryan deeming, you know, something that is three years old, oh, so old and then, you know, so we we surplus them out. Okay. Sell them for bucks. So the process for us that we'll have old buses that we get rid of. So when we buy a new bus that's qualified, then we can start the depreciation process. Then the state will pay us um for that bus. And so by the time it's um old, we have enough money to buy a new one. Um and so if we buy something else, we won't be able to collect the depreciation money for it. So, um, essentially, yeah, spending money to
010save money. Yeah. So, we we get we have some of the old ones that have gone off the depreciation, meaning the state's not paying us anymore. So, we're going to sell those, but one they're getting old, but two, um, now we'll have another one on the depreciation list and so we'll be able to get for that. So, I'm gonna save my comment. Okay. I have a question. Are we looking for specific things in buses? Like are we going to upgrade the is there going to be a camera on there for safety purpes? And there's a lot of standard expectations. Okay. And we don't have a lot of extras. No, that pretty simple. [Laughter] includes the bus drivers and central kits app who does the maintenance on our buses and those do they have a preference
011of of what vehicle I'm sure they like to work on a certain engine yeah we're going to try to keep them in line with the work the most of the equipment they have because they have the parts they have the training and they don't know so um there's really not a whole lot of options for us and we consider their needs and then bus drivers and then how the safe covers. What's a brand that we usually go for? What are Thomas? Can we have like a little snack bar in there? You want to pay for it? Okay. Well, we're paying for it. We're just, you know, in other ways. So, we have one that's coming off appreciation and then won't be too far down the road next year. Another one will be um we discovered
012how important it is to have an extra bus when a windshield breaks or um you know goes down, you want to be able to get your kids to school. So, having that redundancy is really valuable. Um Apollo's working hard. They'll probably be slowing down here pretty soon um on on their work. They'll be get warmed up. They'll be doing some more of the electrical stuff in February. That's stuff that you were uh concerned about. You had conversations with them. So, that's uh moving along. Um just uh we're the governor has released his budget and then the legislature will be um doing their thing. I think the big dance will be starting soon. Um, going into it, I was uh pretty excited, but then I started reading reports on on the budget gap and um who
013knows what, you know, we have some serious needs when it comes to MSOs and special transportation that really end up coming out of levy money and um so we'll see what what happens. Um the um yes I yeah I saw the budget and it's it's interesting um especially for an outgoing governor but the uh Travis is actually been appointed a ranking member on the appropriations committee which is which is I think a big deal for being a sophomore. Yeah. This is his second term right. So, I had a conversation with him and I think you probably have too about um you know the need for MSoft funding and and um all of that. So, I'm I'm I'm cautiously optimistic about it. So, anyway, whatever. Um I I gave this color print out to you just
014to show you the typically where we're at in terms of the total budget we pay flow, but also at the bottom right hand corner there's a um website the link there that has a whole bunch of other references um and kind of plain speak on school funding and I found it to be pretty interesting if you if you want to dig into that and see what's going on. Um, a lot of it is W was stuff kind of compiling information and bringing it into kind of a historical and manageable ways. So that would be useful for you. And then um these Yeah. Okay. And I've passed that to you. Um the five goals that I would like to be working on and I think they're aligned with what we've discussed in the past. Um the
015things that um are important um part of um my work moving forward. We have a new business manager I'll be teaming with. Um still vision of expanding our CTE. We just dipped our toe into it and we collecting a few bucks right now, but hopefully we'll be able to expand that moving forward. That's my goal. Um I talked about our comprehensive calendar maintenance and facility services. So it's um something started last year. Our insurance company also um is interested in me work. That's one of my goals with them. Um, and uh, Tony and Britney and I are working hard on that. Um, and I think it will be very helpful for the school to move all of that tremendous knowledge of what we do out of Tony's head and into a system where other people
016could know what's going on. Um, and then later in the year, we'll be uh, negotiating um, contracts classified and certificated. So that'll be a a big project um potentially. So and then um kind of wrapping up the power project this year. But those are just bigger things that go along with fun. So when we do our off and what we'll talk about here later in the agenda, this would be we literally put these in the Yeah. evaluation form. Yes, good job. That's all I have. All righty. So, I've got um just update, but the hasn't been that long since I've met, so it's not that much, but boy basketball is going great. Um we have um Ryan uh Pierce is our varsity coach and um Clay Albert as our JD coach, and they are working
017together really well. Our boys are doing great. It's two good place teams. Um there great few teams even if they're not always winning are always working harder and um we are winning some. So it's it can be really hard. There's traditionally some teams that are so hard for us to beat. Um but to see us win at all is always really exciting. It's really fun to play like Pioneer um um those we can be really competitive with sports because they're similar size schools. Uh it's really challenging um to play. Some of the private schools um some of them are great really at our level. Mason County Christian is really fun to play. Um St. Mike is really challenging to play often. Uh they're just really competitive and they they've got they're pulling in a lot
018of really good athletes into those programs. So those are really challenging. Um they always make us better players though. But our our athletes have really good attitudes which is refreshing to see and really positive about it. Uh, girls festival starts uh January 21st. Um, our enrollment is really solid. So, we are uh we were feeling a little bit concerned because there's two families that are moving during break and we're losing four um really great students that have been with us a long time, but there's a family um of 12 children and seven of them are enrolling um They're actually going to have a new first grader, a new second grader, new third grader, um a new fifth grader, um a new seventh grader, and an eighth grader. They're they've got four much older, and they've
019got one too young. So, it's it we're excited about that. And they they just they live right here in district, so um they've been homeschooling and then they did a private school in Euron for a little while. And um that's a lot. And we've got a lot of kids. So, um, they're really excited that you they feel like it's going to be a really good fit for them and I'm excited to have them here. So, um, we also have our fourth grade because we have a set of twins that are are moving um on the 30th of this month. We, uh, have spots for two choice kiddos since none of this big family are coming become a fourth grader. So, we was able to accept two choice um, transfer students for fourth grade. So, they're
020also starting on the 6th. So Teresa's really busy because all this paperwork is trying to come in now for registration for nine kids. So it's it's a lot, but it's really exciting to see that our enrollment oftentimes at this time of the year, and I'm sure you saw this last year as well. We decline a lot of families move um in the winter time jobs. Um so yeah, military sacri it's kind of one of those cycles. Um but to see all kids come in is um exciting as well. Um, last night was the TK first grade, third grade, and fifth grade concert with a visit from Santa. Um, although Santa's outfit is getting I've got to talk to Goodell about it. They um are in charge of cleaning Santa's. They're the elves, so they outfit.
021It needs it needs some updates. It's starting to be a little more wear on it. I love it. Um, but no, it was great. came out, gave candy canes to the kiddos and got pictures and the performers were fantastic. Miss Shannon does a great job. The DTSO um came and um uh purchased they helped us with the candy canes and securing Santa and they also brought um bouquet of flowers. Thank you for Shannon. They helped us set up. The PTSO also helped um do a um hot cocoa um bar in the staff room last week on Monday morning for the staff. Um, so, um, the PTSO and I set up tables and they decorated the staff room completely and they left the decorations and they were going to come and take them down on Friday.
022Um, but it was really fun and the staff members got to come in and I covered their class for a little while and they got to come get hot cocoa and treats and I really appreciated our PTSO members for helping with that. We have another show tomorrow night for kindergarten, second, and fourth grade. So, it's going to be a slightly smaller concert, but it's going to be um a crazy night because we have a home basketball game against Red Canal. We've got about 30 minutes to change from the basketball game into concert mode. Um Tony's going to work late and help um and we're it's going to be awesome. We're just going to get parents to help and volunteer and we're going to turn around bleachers and get chairs out and get it all put
023up. Um it'll be a busy night. Uh the 12 days of holiday spirit. Um, today is um the silly sweater day, which is why some of us started, oh, I guess I'm only watching Christmas. Sorry, I haven't gone home yet. I thought Yeah, there was some great kiddos have some great sweaters today. Um, and tomorrow is my favorite one. It's the great holiday cleanout or clear out. So, we are cleaning the school. The kids are taking everything home and we're going to reset. They're cleaning out their lockers. Um, we're inventorying textbooks again because some kids have two or three, you know, because there's one here and one here. So, we're getting the textbooks back in the classrooms like the math book so that they can be counted and checked. Kids are wiping out their lockers.
024Tony's on one corner, Jamie's on the other corner, and we're down here. We We've already got our extra garbage cans set up. Um, so we're going to clean tomorrow. It's going to be great if you're just the last hour of the day. If you are wanting to come and help, it's going to be a fun time. Um the and then the final one is towards the night before break where the kiddos can wear their comfy clothes or PJs to school on Friday. It is a half day on a Friday and we will have milk and cookies um and watch a sing along that's put on by um our very own judge Kadell right before retirement and our volunteer Ron Grenell who volunteers for our sing program with us um and they have put together with
025their trumpets, trombones, saxopones, a sing along with a bunch of holiday music and they're dressing up um as Grinch characters. Um, it's going to be hilarious. I've already Barb has already sent me pictures of um some of Dan's, you know, and like they have this sled that goes from an old man's bench that changes into a sled and there's Santa and it's going to be a blast. We're going to have a have a great time. So, uh, that is going to start at 9:30 on Friday morning. And, um, we're really excited. The kids will have cookies and enjoy it. um the 16th, January 16th, our fourth grade is performing with the Olympia Symphony and Orchestra, the recorders um that Wes helped us set up and so the recorders came in a little while ago and
026um it's awesome. The fourth graders are working hard on that as well as the Christmas performance that they're putting on. And I I emailed the orchestra a little while ago and I said, "Okay, Miss Shannon has committed to these two pieces to learn really really well, but the other fourth graders that are performing have had have had their, you know, they've been set up for this since much earlier in the year and so they've had a little bit more time and stuff." But the others she's just touching on and hoping that they practice at home and he was like, "That's perfectly fine. We're going to get that. That's great." But the kids are really excited. They're excited about it. They are so excited about it. Um, and we can hear their practices. Well, I I
027know that I know that the symphony director was really was really uh excited about it, too. Yeah. Yeah. This is going to be I hope this becomes a fun tradition that we get to be a part of every year. Yeah. Um, and the parents, there's a few parents that are choping that are really excited. Um, you know, kids are performing at the Washington Center. So, it's it's a fun time fun. Um January 17th and 18th is the middle school's theater production of Wizard of Oz and it's already so good. This theater group has been working really really hard together on this and I'm very excited. Um and January 21st our has the Martin Luther King Jr. Assembly and that's going to be in the morning um of January 21st. The 20th is Martin Luther King
028Day. They originally usually they try to do it before the holiday weekend. Um but uh that's the productions um 17th 19th the productions for the the Wizard of Oz. It just was too many things. So we decided on the 21st in the morning um and the AB will do a great job with that. Um other than that we are everything's going well. We're really really excited for breaking. Thank you Andrea. All right. Thank you. So, I I didn't start out by telling you that I made a mistake new papers to replace the paper. There's on the page with all the numbers and words together that You guys have to let me know if I give you more information what you would like to hear. But um to start with our um the balances that we
029had at the end of November at the county are listed on the top of the first document there. So general fund we had 606,445. Um ASV fund had 15,487, capital project fund 18,642, the transportation vehicle fund at 241345, and then finally our debt service fund was 259,508. Do you typically go through any more information on there or besides the last page? Actually, I'm go to the next one or however you want to do it. [Music] Okay. And then on the other document that has the colors, um, I did notice a little bit hard to see. I think we need to change the ink in our printer. So, if you guys have trouble seeing some of the words on the setting page, let me know. I might need to get other copies. Um but our projected
030revenues for the month of December were 294,918 and then projected expenditures at 461,283 and that projected expenditure numbers a little bit higher than a typical month would be. We have a couple quarterly payments for our special education program. So payment to North Mason school district um we make a payment to them for a high need student that attends there and then the Shelton school district co-op. We make that payment quarterly as well. So those are a little bit higher this month than a typical month. But that leaves us with a projected ending fund balance of 442,000 and 484, which is right in line with what December last year looking at enrollment almost identical to the month before. I think we dropped down by one student and then we had one additional student in our CTE
031program. So, it's nice to see an increase in CTE, especially if that's a program that we're looking to to grow here. Before you go, there one there about the Jack project ending fund balance in the general fund is 442. You talk about this uh a restricted balance of 52 686 which is the carryover from 2324 unspent TK revenue. Yes. Our our transition to kindergarten program we get revenue for that program that we're only allowed to spend in that program and we didn't spend all of the revenue that we we received last year. So we have carryover that we can spend this year or still control. We're just required to set it aside so it can't be spent on anything else. Thank you. So we're we're budgeted at 210 and we're running with 222. So got
032a little confused there with the in and the out. We had it looks like we lose some kids, but we end up with we were losing four. We're gaining nine. [Music] in the future. I thought my house was loud. Um I uh I have a question. Yeah. So, the um the presentation by Ryan kind of reminded me of of a conversation that happened years ago when we were having an IT discussion and I think I think the board at that time had or had talked about um a IT reserve, right? So, to replace things as they age out. How um we're still doing that, right? We still have a reserve for that. I'll speak to that. Thank you. Set aside approximately 20,000 in each year's budget. We don't accumulate it. We set it aside to
033be used for replacement. Right. Right. Okay. All right. And I didn't mean to look to her. I I wasn't figuring that you would have I was the knowledge of that. I'm safe and right. I was already but I am familiar with that. I actually made a note when Ryan was talking to ask Jerry and you about that. Um I have in in my prior districts and what districts do sometimes when they're planning for a cliff like them, especially when we have the Esther funds who are allowed to buy this big chunk of laptops that will focus on books that will expire all at the same time. What we can do is use similar to that TK where we can set aside in one thing the management of the district can decide to say we will
034set aside this much this year and not spend it different than just budgeting to spend it every year but to build up enough and and I think that's what the conversation was years back when you know we were talking about how technology ages out so fast right and um to be prepared for putting a lot more technology into the school than was already here and you know we needed a way to to uh make ourselves prepared to pay for it. So it sounds like we're budgeting 20 20,000 a year. Okay. So we've spent as the years have gone on. Yeah. Some we have it right. And we have it is a vest in so where where does that show up there in somewhere in the infrastructure budget that we were building for these? We don't
035have we have not set aside in this last year's budget that line item like Henry was doing but you certainly could do that. Yeah. All right. Think that would be that you could. So nice job. Had a couple more comments. Jerry's still my friend there on the transportation. So what he said everything that I was commening anyway. And then the other uh big thing that happens twice a year in December, we did make a payment on our bonds about there's updated numbers, but you can see the um ending balance on our bond that matures in 2033. So backing up just a little bit on the transportation side, there's 241 345. If we're going to buy a bus and you have to pay for it initially and then that money's come back in the depreciation to
036this account. What is a bus cost? They start at around 150,000. The Washington state has a a bus price that they think a bus would cost and a starting number. uh districts can then add if they want to um do the heated seats for the like it's an option you can air conditioning sometimes you know Eastern Washington air condition that up here so they can be more expensive but starting at 150ish one so one of the things that sometimes draw conclusions that aren't one of I'm and say FP, but it certainly gets my attention when you see a school bus that is less than 50%. I'm assuming we will size the bus or indeed pretty we'll get a standard bus. There's no sense in getting a smaller bus because um you can put less kids
037in a big bus, but you can't put more kids in a small bus. And so I'd like to Can you strike that they do have different size the standard size big bus you can buy different capacities but it doesn't usually financially make sense to buy one that's just a little bit small I and I trust you folks I just again I'm just it always see them thinking, "Do we need that big of us?" But okay, we want the best for our children. That's the We want their tushies to be Yeah. And that latte. Oh, yeah. The snack bar. Okay. We're going to move on here unless there's any more questions. Thank you. Thank you. Bye guys. Okay. By the way, that was a great party. Did you enjoy yourself? Well, down here to business approve
038resolution 12. Okay. So, I'd like a motion to approve resolution 12.18.24A designation for move. Last call. Second here. Oh, a second. I'm sorry. I thought you did. Okay. Discussion. So, it's a matter of um that we need to do switching over. Oh, this this is really just down to signature changes to Google all that kind of Andrea versus Okay. It's been a week since we talked and you've been sitting. Okay. So, this is all three of them. So, then if we [Music] approve which one is this [Music] trac, but they're all related to business. I can explain what they are. That would help. So the the first one is the designation of the auditing officer. The state requires that every school district have an auditing officer that looks at all the account payable and payroll
039payments to make sure that we're paying good things appropriately and legally. Um the second one's authorization to invest funds at the county. We have cash and we have investments. for us to tell the county to invest funds and the county investment pool require the district designate who's allowed to do that because not everybody could just call up the county they invest these funds and then the last one is for the um the finer on our actual bank account we have a bank account that's on the bottom we need to designate who's assigned the first yes it's taking name off what does Okay. So, what I probably should have done is ask for just do these one at a time. Okay. So, we've had a discussion on 12.18.24A. Any more discussion? All in favor? I I
040like a motion to approve 12184B authorization to invest funds. Tom. Okay. Discussion. If not, all in favor I 100%. And then of course uh motion to approve designation of account signer Andrew Cooper. I make a motion. Second. Okay. Any more discussion? All in favor? 100%. Okay. Good. Enter here. Got the power power of the pen. Okay. Next item. Old business interaction items. Legislative update. Tom don't have an update for you at this time. Okay. When does it kick off by January? No. Yeah. January. January something. January something. Okay. January 5th or something. And so then so right now they're talking about a budget shortfall of I saw the number 12. We're uh we're going to be able to talk about it at the board retreat. All right. Thank you. So board retreat date is an
041action item. So we we didn't make the November date for various reasons. And so looking at calendars here, is there any way we should try to throw it off earlier like say the 4th of January or move to the 11th of the 24th of December? So we'll read be happy. So what do we think predates? I can't do the fourth. Can't do the fourth. Okay. How's your uh I I think that's good for me. It's good for me. Tom, I can make a little Okay. Yeah, because this this we're getting to the point as as was noted in one of the last meetings, we need to get this done. And so this is this good. So, GSC 54 9:00 a.m. Uh, actually we started at 8 last time. So, now when we did this before,
042Britney, we had talked about changing locations. We mentioned that when we decide for a location, do it here. Ellen was charging us $200. that money. They reduced it, didn't they? They reduced it to $75 at the Allen at Allen Port of Allen. It's a great spot. It is. Yeah. Question that is not bad. I'm just mad that they came up with that number first and then go, "Oh, that's less than half that they're I think they realize that that wasn't something that was furnished in the contract originally when they agreed to let us use it and so they went back and renegotiated it." Yeah. So, if we go H&M, what we're looking at? Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you everybody for for getting our heads around. Wait, they they realized breakfast. Yes. Yeah. They realized
043what was the 200 supposed to include? Um the the time for whoever went and unlocked and then locked back up and then some custodial work. Um yeah. And I mentioned it was new. We had never been charged before. So yeah, that's when they came up with the It's good that they came to their senses. We've always taken really good care of the facility. We would know where we live. Yeah. Okay. So now we're down to no new policies, but the policy approval. So let me go through these one at a time. I would like a motion to approve policy 3241 student discipline. So move second discussion if none. Yeah, I have I I read through it today again after looking at it earlier and uh it's just really over the top and it it's redundant
044in several spots. Yeah. And it's frustrating. A lot of it was also renaming the discipline some right it bother down again if I look at Jerry and Hannah we need this kind of stuff to can run this business right yeah basically well do you have to have this discipline well I would say that um you would pay somebody extensive amount of time to go through and write a policy that would line up with state law, which is what they've done. We both read it and felt like um that we can continue to do our our quality work and have the judgment and um uh maintain a quality learning place environment um inside this pharmacy. The other aspect that was frustrating for me is the amount of documentation, the amount of training and categorizing. It just
045goes on and on and on. We're going to have more book work, paperwork, and it's going to get done by somebody in here. Yeah. But I think for discipline that needs to be done. So parents can't come back and say, "You did this and you didn't follow through." And we can go back and go, "Yes, we did. We've got paperwork from here and here and here to support the case. I know. But that's sad. Yeah. When you have an issue with the same student over and over again, you want that documentation. Well, yeah. What were you going to say now? I was just going to say I did have a parent come to me recently and say, um, I need to know that things are documented. I don't feel like they I feel like we've
046had these similar problems over and over again. And I I thought about it and I got defensive a little bit and I thought, you know what, when my own kids were in the school system and there were problems or concerns, I understood what the system was and I had that that was kind of my privilege. I didn't know what was happening with the consequences in those situations. Obviously, that's protected under FUPA, but I knew that there was a system in place. And so explaining to the parents that what how I document, why I document, um how I sign off on things, how everything gets listed in Skyward under, you know, discipline procedure. So I can see patterns as a student, how often have they used inappropriate language, violence, how often and what dates fall under
047this. I can see all of those lists. Um so we can see patterns of behavior. This is lengthy and tiresome but it is 100% being done on a very um firm basis and we have the documentation to approve it. Um we are incredibly um uh intentional with our documentation because when we have you know parent concerns and things like that we want to be able to say this is our system it is working. This is how we see patterns of misbehavior. I don't personally I feel like our hands are tied so often with what the state requirements are. Um but fortunately I do feel like this is the system that we are working in and we are doing um everything we can to make sure that we have strong documentation that we are seeing patterns
048of misbehavior um recognizing repeated victims of those patterns so that we're able to put in mitigating measures um to support students. Um so we it it is happening already like the documentation is happening instantly. [Music] Interesting. This was last updated February 23 and here we are a year later. Well, it's you guys that have to operate within it. So I'm happy to give it to you. Not the one doing it. So comment one. Okay. Okay. Any discussion? No. Okay. Let's uh let's vote. All in favor? I I Okay. I'd like to have a motion to approve policy 3420 asphixiation. Nois I move that we approve policy 34. That's okay. Tom discussion now this is the one with the that's no this is this is the so this is the heavy okay anything any any more
049discussion around 3420 no good policy okay all in favor I okay I'd like a motion to approve 34 424 opioid related overdose reversion. Move that we approve policy 3424. Second discussion. I have a discussion. It's highlighted and the lock zone will not be compensated from students. I feel like that's very broad. What if a student brings it to school and uses it against a student's will or has uh ill intentions for other students or on themselves? I don't know the complications of a drug of this drug if a kid does get it unintentionally uh what it can do to them. Can you guys educate me on that at all? Um and then um I also worry where can they access this device to to use it if they need be in emergency. I do removing
050that highlighted thing because I'm not going to let the kids just walk around. Right. I have an issue with that. Yeah. I I would be okay with that. concern because I can very much see that. And also a parent could come in be like, "Well, my I want my student to have that or you know, there needs to be some leeway." Is this language that the state wanted? Yeah. And so what happens if we if we remove that? Um do we just wait for them to tell us that's not okay? because because I I I think the mean is right. I mean that's ridiculous. I don't know why they would why they would say that or wanted I don't really understand. So that would and it's not even referenced in the legal reference there either.
051So I might I had a kid walking around with it. I would not I would take it then contact her parent. Do these have to be prescribed to a student? No. So we have it we have it located places and it's secure and um I don't know why a kid would have it. We would if they did we would have a conversation with them. Do we want to then pull this off discussion today and make change the next? You can or you could just draw today. Okay. All right. So, do we need to the motion? Yeah, we would we would need to uh to amend as revised. So, I I I move to um I amend my motion to approve policy 3424 as revised. uh removing the words and then added on. Yeah. The highlighted
052section. Second. Okay. Wrong. Sounds like we've had discussion. Let's vote on it. All in favor? I Okay. I'd like a motion to approve policy 55 employment and volunteers employment. Oh. Uh I'm move to group policy 505 discussion. I didn't find when I read through this I didn't find any. All right. Any questions? Going to call for vote. All in favor? Hi 100%. Okay, we're done with the business side. So future agenda January board, we have the takeover. So how does that work? Do when you say hey takeover, do they somehow know we're coming and they close the doors except for No. So, what happens is our kids and us go in and we um work um we serve, we clean tables, we pick up garbage, we empty garbage cans, um we clean trays, we can't
053handle food because we're not employed even if we have food handling, you know, permits, but we um we we do everything else like clean out the playground area, ball pit, and we go out to Highway 3 and wave signs and encourage people to come in um and we give out coupons. um as they come and that also count towards um donating. So we take it over in that sense of the word. If they go through the driving for drive through the application you or they just does that automatically happen it's automatically yes for a specific time frame. Yes. For those two hours any revenues they make we get we get like a percentage of it. Last time we made I think $1,200 something. So it was great for two hours. I guess that what did
054you say? 1200 and something. That's great. Okay. All right. January of course we'll do the retreat and you did your evaluation February board we had uh you're going to do the crisis response training for staff and students. So that would not be necessary for the board meeting. You would just report out that. Is that correct? And then the fundraiser now the vote house past the night. Now that's where we line up and take over too. So, they're normally closed on Wednesday nights and they um the past couple of years they've opened on Wednesdays on a night when they're not normally open to just just for our fundraiser. Um so um we again it's they keep a portion of it just to pay their staff but our kids do a ton of the work um and
055clearing tables um wiping messes cleaning up the floors um encouraging people to come greeting them at the doors they seat they host it's you know host and hostess and seat everybody um and it's a limited menu it's like three pasta items um that you can order so it's it's very limited menu um but Yeah. Uh the public is welcome to the public is welcome. Last time was um it was crowded. Uh it got really which is great. You know, it was very exciting. They closed the bar side, right? They closed the bar side. They didn't last time. They did it. Well, they did at one point because it got it got too full. But um they you know, obviously the bar side is only for 21 and older. Um but yeah, it's they'll they'll work
056in there. No, these cannot work in there. All right. Any additions to those two future agenda items anybody can think of? Tom, we'll have obviously we continue to put you down for legislative update. So, you're sir this crazy stuff. All right. I'm going to go ahead and do reflections. So, I'm going to start with Wes. Okay. Um, I really really enjoyed Ryan's Ryan's talk. I uh I kind of geek out about that stuff and um really really like the fact that he's thinking um forward and and about expenses that that we don't need, right? Because I mean, think of your own lives. How many of us are on a monthly payment for something that we signed up for way back when? Yeah. And you know, and we just kind of take it for granted because
057it's, you know, just a little bit of money every month and you just Right. Um so anyway, I I just really like that. I really um I really enjoyed Tracy's retirement party. Uh, I was I was hoping to see Pam there. And did anybody hear from Pam? She's the last piece of I got back. She's not doing real well. She had taken a fall out here living with her, I think her daughter in Tacoma. Okay. So, Tom, have you heard from her mom recently? No, but I I know the same information. I'd love to get a mailing address so I can write a little note. But but anyway, so it was it was nice to see Tracy and Mike retiring at the same time and and then some of our previous superintendents, you know, not
058the best one, of course, but Jay Hamley and and Kurts and you know, and it was just really it was uh Jim Stein was there too. you. Well, I didn't see you, so you know what? We came I've only showed up for a short period of time to drop a card off, but I really enjoyed it and um and I'm looking forward to Christmas and looking forward to to next year. Tom. Uh, I've had a lot of interaction in my career with IT people and most of them talk really fast and as soon as Cosgrove started talking, I thought this guy's dialed in and I don't think we could have asked him a question that he couldn't have given us a good answer for and gone into extreme detail if we were willing to let
059him do it. And you know, I've sat in here. I've never seen the guy before. I've sat in here at a lot of board meetings and sometimes there'd be questions on the uh the expenses of what's this cause? I don't think and after listening to him and and his willingness to provide us with good information on his report and some ideas and suggestions about where we're going to be looking at issues. Uh I'm delighted that that it's in his hands. I the uh the retirement party was a lot of fun and I'm really excited about working with Andrea Cooper. Welcome aboard and now you have the power. [Music] Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Um thank you Andrea. The first night is probably a little nerve-wracking. I would imagine. I don't know. Um, but thank you. Um,
060I thought that Tracy's party was nice and I miss Jim. Suddenly, I want them to change clothes. So, darn. Um, the concert last night, if you have a chance to go tomorrow night, go because last night was adorable. Um, of course, the little kids with their little dresses and movies and stuff were cute, but the parents and the grandparents are also darn cute. I mean, they're just their little faces just light up and people you would never imagine are standing up and waving and thinking, I bet they don't do that in church. So, they get the kids home Friday. I mean, but it's just it's wonderful. Um, I thought the presentation about it today was great. Um, I am so old. I can remember bringing computers into schools and how frightening it was to think
061that we had that much power and kids had that much power. And, um, he made it so that we can understand what he was saying and I like the fact he's a penny pincher like we are. So that's a wonderful thing. So it's been a busy month and merry Christmas. Happy new morning. I'm happy that we celebrated Tony. I think Tony is a gem in the rough for us especially like you know he loves his job. You could see it. I hear it from my son. Um and for him to step up for football too. you didn't get recognized for that and I think that's a that's a big thing as well. Um I'm happy to see the energy here. I love holiday so you know it's probably the best time to have kids here
062and um I'm excited to see what the new year is ready to hit the ground running and hopefully we can pass some good stuff. Looking forward to giving up to Jerry. So I too will say Andrew. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. looking forward to long long relationship. So thank you and u I'm going to attend tomorrow night or Friday night. I look for things that make me happy and those kids make me happy presentations. So anyway, uh uh it's been a been an interesting year that we've been through. you stop about a year ago when we talked about Tracy announced her retirement plans and and the the unaunting effort that we were having to go through the replacement. So, it's it's been a long time coming and a lot of a lot of good things
063have happened and appreciate your tenacity on that ecoli and working with you. Nicholson that you're going that you're working with and same thing with me. [Music] America to say with with um Ryan, we um we really did a great deal um with working with him. He was marvelous. He's articulating, very responsive um and he's a bar. So it all works and I've known him for a few years because he worked for Nikki, too. So um he's a great great man. Um and then uh gratitude which is a character from character that we cover with kids um for Tony which we talked about and I was so thankful that the that that the church gave us gave him that certificate um because it it really touched on what I think um but I think um Ryan
064Maxwell has a believer on leadership and one of the things he said is that you can lead from any position in the facility. It doesn't have to just be the superintendent. And um he does that. He leads in how we treat kids. And so I'm grateful for that which is why he brought him in today. So that's it. I said one more thing. That party was it worked because you worked hard. You worked hard. Nobody even I don't know if anybody knows how hard you worked. And Sherry, I had a previous engagement. And I got here like at 10 after 12 and I don't even know how many chairs were I mean desks or tables and chairs and the fancy paper everything was set up at 10 after 12 and um then we just did
065some other stuff but it wasn't I want to make sure that Britney and you get the correct and shared okay let's show for the record that at 9 minutes 6:47 will be making.