001If you do not wish to record it, please let us know at the time. Thank you. Thank you, Bonnie. I will call this meeting to order tonight at 6:01 p.m. Please rise if you're able for the pledge of allegiance. And we got to move the flag. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. >> Just one second. >> Huh? It's going to be harder than the last. The last one was >> Do you want me to kind of shuffle the communication category? >> I would shuffle. >> Okay. >> Try to get updated. I guess it's just coaches. >> Okay. >> Well, we are adjusting some of our board recognition plans.
002So, we had hoped to uh recognize Abby Collins today who was our daffodil princess, but she is at volleyball. >> I was just going to say she's volleyball. >> We uh we absolutely want to recognize her, but it's a lot more fun when she's here. >> We're going to just put a pin in that and wish her luck at state and uh we'll be looking forward to recognizing her when she comes back. Uh, so next I would love to invite Lovey, Carrie, Joy, and Darla. I don't see Darla here tonight. Uh, come on up to the podium if you don't mind. I have some words. >> Come up to the podium. >> Yes. Yes. >> Get up here. So, on behalf of the Oring School Board, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and
003thank you incredible community members, uh, Lovey Fischer, Carrie Joy, and Darla Winters for your outstanding support during the recent bond campaign. Um, there's nothing like a win to underscore that. uh in your service on the YES committee, the community yes committee, uh you went above and beyond to help keep the group connected, share important information with the community, and support the campaign in very meaningful ways. From coordinating emails and managing committee details to sharing updates online, attending the bond task force meetings, and helping with Treasury work, your time, energy, and dedication did not go unnoticed. uh Lovey and Carrie and of course Darla in her absence. Thank you so much for your commitment to our students, our schools, and our community. Your efforts definitely made a real difference and we're deeply grateful for all you've
004done to support Oring Schools. Uh both before your service on the YES committee and after. Uh also, happy birthday. >> I was going to say I was going to say happy birthday. >> Happy birthday. >> Thank you. And we're so weird that you're celebrating with us. >> Well, it's cuz my husband was he got home from work late and so he is like, "Do we have to do anything?" >> No, go sit in your recliner. >> We have We have gifts for you. costume. >> Um, I do have to say that we raised almost $15,000 that I went absolutely will never happen. We'll never do it. And we did >> and we still have $2,800 left to go towards the levy campaign. So, we as far as that goes, I was blown out of the
005water that we were able to raise that kind of money. So, >> it's amazing. And it passed. >> It passed. Finally passed. >> And I don't know what I would have done without Carrie because >> her expertise was fantastic. >> Oh boy. You have special gifts for you and one for Darla as well. >> Thank you. >> To honor your service and to tell you thank you and congratulations. Your this win is as much your win as it is the rest of the district. >> Thank you so much. photo. Wait, we got >> treats to celebrate, too. Photo. Let's do photo first before we get you. >> Bring our stuff. >> We have to be manifest. Okay, I think I got you all. Are you ready? One, two, three. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Yes.
006Not really. >> Oh, yeah. >> Happy birthday. We're going to pass up. >> I am too. Who was going to make that up? >> All right. Oh, well, we have some treats and some celebrations because a bond win on our fifth attempt is huge. You were a big part of that. really good numbers. >> Thank you. You can do whatever you want. That's your last too. You know what? Okay. Did you get >> It's not wrestling season. >> Oh my gosh. Yeah. What we should do in the earlyach was supposed to make it way and it didn't come yet Did I just grab yours? I think I did. >> Now you have one. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Got some. Wayne's got some. >> Did you guys get some napkins? Okay. Whatever
007your >> I did. I did. >> I really really did. One of Katrina said, >> "No, I got up today. I'll eat it." Are >> you doing this? >> Uh, toast, pop, whatever you whatever the president would like to do. How's Bridget? >> She's she hasn't had the surgery. >> However you would like to >> All right. So, >> super excited to be able to celebrate our yes committee leaders. >> Oh, perfect. >> We just wanted to stop. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to circle back around to Joe. Joe, welcome. You're just in time for the party. It's how we do things here every morning. >> He can have this one. He can have this one. Yeah. >> So, before we get too far into our meeting, >> one of our biggest >>
008goals over the last few years has been getting our students a new elementary school and a big investment in much needed CTE space at our high school. And through the work of the bond task force, our yes committee, the board, a phenomenal communication campaign that Britney the level of engagement each time I'm like this is the best this is the best and then we're like okay we're doing it again and then it levels up and then it levels up again and so five rounds of answering questions and engaging the community and begging for them bring us your questions come show up and I've heard a sneak peek that the numbers ers are incredibly impressive. Um, I'm not going to steal your thunder, though. So, I I would I'm I'm asking now for a report out.
009You've been great at doing that each time. And so, I'm looking forward to seeing the end result. But the ultimate end result is the passage of our school bond. And so I want to thank the community, thank this team, thank the district and everyone in all of our buildings and the families that rallied for our kids. I >> think we got everybody. So raise a glass >> for the new projects coming our way. >> Cheers. >> And we have these. Ready? Did anybody check my goal? supposed to know the other eye. I was considering the making right >> board member scald. >> Oh yeah. >> Delicious. This is one of my favorite. >> Yes. So, what I'd love to do is go to the next and then we'll continue with our remaining recommendations or recognition.
010It's like >> So, Director Freeze, now that your mouth is full, would you mind providing an introduction? >> It's like really smoky up here. Got to hate. Got to hate. >> He's not going to set off any alarms, are we? >> So, it's uh my pleasure to finally introduce Officer Joe Heloney. >> Did I say that right? That's great. >> Uh as many of you know, Joe is a former resident of Oring. Uh he graduated here from Eagle. All 13 years of >> No, I came here middle school. >> Middle school to high school. Um he had a great English education in Mr. Fe's class. and write a five paragraph essay like nobody's business. Um, you know, it's been a long time. I've talked to Joe for a number of years. I know many people
011in this community have talked to Joe for a number of years, really trying to get him back. Um, and I think it wasn't until SRO was floated out there that we finally won Joe over. Joe has become uh rooted back in our community. Joe volunteers. Uh, he coaches football, a volunteer multiple youth programs, done a lot of coaching. He is currently on staff or high school. Uh he will be coaching tomorrow in the state championship at our Cardinal Stadium. >> Um and I just want to say what's been really cool to watch Joe uh growing from just a young shy person to a confident um calming kind presence with our kids is exactly who we need in front of our students. Um Joe shows the humanity on the on the side of the badge. Uh
012and what a positive role model can be and a good father, a good husband and just a great community member. I couldn't be more excited in my role to welcome Joe into our community. So officer um I'm really excited like you like Mr. Pri said um I was in a pretty good spot in Kualala. I was riding a motorcycle. Um and if you know anything about police work, riding a motorcycle is one of the best things you can do. Um and he's 100% right. the SRO. It was it was a possibility and uh it was something I didn't want to turn down. So, um fortunately enough for me, boarding has treated me very well and allowed me to kind of transition into that fairly quickly. Um which has been amazing, right? Amazing. Uh so I
013really appreciate I really appreciate the support and uh anything I can do to help, please let me know. >> Yeah. What may don't know is we we had you all know uh money for a day maybe two of SRO just with limited role SRO there it's kind of new not what it used to be uh Chief Gabrielic said you know what I think we need a full-time presence as much as possible um so we're going to work really hard to uh try to make that a full-time present school district uh so that's because of partnership of the city the city is willing to uh use their own resources to make sure that our schools are safe and uh that they have Joe in the schools so you get a chance to thank our city partners.
014Please do. >> Thanks. >> I mean, Kyle, there's your friend, Mr. Pena. I never see you without I never used to. >> I still hang out with him quite a bit. >> I know. >> Just down the street. >> Okay. I want to make sure I have this right. >> Hallelu. Haluni. Haloon. >> Halooni. >> Yes. Okay. Mine's tip it up. Much simpler than it looks. But >> And what year did you graduate? Mrs. Ellis asked >> uh 2006. >> Okay. So with Jamie >> with Jamie. >> Yeah, she was asking it today about it. >> Very good. Well, welcome. >> Thank you. >> All right. We have more things to celebrate. So board, I will turn it over to you. We've got five really cool things to talk about that have been happening in
015our district. >> Should you all eat my computer? Cuz now it's gone. >> I'll kick it off. Okay. >> Um, one of the things I love about what our schools do in their community services is the repetitive um, giving that they do. And this October, Miss Oling's fourth grade class at Tarmaggan Ridge Elementary took the spirit of giving to heart during their annual soctober drive. And I think that this is just an amazing gift that they give to the community and people. Um they collected an incredible 924 pairs of socks for those in need, the highest total PTR has ever seen. Uh their kindness, teamwork, and enthusiasm embody what community is all about. To celebrate their generosity, the class enjoyed a well-earned pizza party. A small treat for making such a big impact. >> That's
016a lot of socks. >> Lot of pairs. >> I'm actually personally very sorry I didn't know about it beforehand because I enjoyed donating to the to the cause. It was fun to buy fun socks for um for their drive. Very cool. >> Earlier this month, Mrs. Burns Careers and Education students and I'm so happy that program is back. Thank you. met their teacher mentors at Ording Elementary, Tar McGomeridge, and Ording Middle School. Throughout the year, these students will spend time in classrooms alongside their assigned mentors, learning the skills and dedication it takes to build a career in education. We're proud to see the next generation of educators learning from our own inspiring staff. And this is so important because we have such a teacher shortage that we need to grow our own whenever we can
017and let them find out if that's a road they want to go down or if it's not a road they don't want. So I'm so happy to see that back. Okay. >> I'll just talk about the school spirit. This last week was um homecoming week and they did uh I just watched a lot of the videos online and I don't know you guys were doing some week pulling off or something and it looked so like so much fun and I just loved how much fun you guys were all having and the fact that you're really getting into it sweat I've always wanted to see at the high school and it's it's been happening throughout the years. I see it getting more and more and I love that it's it's really coming to fruition and you
018guys are doing a great job promoting that promoting the school spirit because I see you all the time on video. So, thank you so much. >> Um I want to say a shout out to the Ordin High School civics class. um recently hosted an evening with local candidates giving students firsthand opportunity to engage in dem Democratic um process. During the event, um students met with the more uh the mayor um may um city council school board candidates to hear their visions for the future. Experience um like this um helps students connect classroom and learning to the real word world civic engagement and inspiring them to be informed active members of their community. And thank you to the students and staff for putting this on. Um I actually was part of it. So yeah, shout out
019to um >> the class that brought this in and and Mrs. Mayfield. Yeah, they did a great job. >> I love that it was student >> all student. >> It was all Yeah. >> Yeah. >> That's awesome. Um, in November we honor and recognize Native American Heritage Month, homeless youth awareness month, Military Family Appreciation Month. I'm so glad we do it with in conjunction with Veterans Day, Education Support Professionals Day, and Native American Heritage Day. In the Orning School District, we are proud to celebrate the diversity of our community and the many traditions meaningful to our students, staff, and families. And I'm so glad that we are recognizing that we are becoming a diverse community. >> Because Joe's here, I have to I have to say this one thing. I loved what Joe did. Joe
020put together the boys absolutely loved it and talk about it all the time. He made a video before we played Eatenville and he had recorded all of these old players from the past about the tradition with Eatenville and everything that happened and he showed it to the boys before the game and they loved it. It was like cuz a lot of them really didn't understand the the rivalry between Oring and Eatville and when they saw the old all of these players talking about it and saying, you know, just saying how they what they used to do, they just thought it was so cool. So, I thought that that was a really cool thing to do. show. I love that. >> Thank you. >> Very cool. >> Is there still that rock they paint? >> I
021don't know. >> No comment. >> There's a lot of things. >> And I also want to ask about food plugs. >> Wow. >> Kathy, you're planting ideas. >> No, no, no, no, no. They need something. >> I'm teasing. >> All right. Anything else? We had a lot of good celebration today. Good stuff. Good work happening in the district. Um, I appreciate how each one of these things elevates students and student voice and student action. I really uh I'm proud of our students and the work they're doing both in our schools, in our buildings, and in the community. Yes. Very good. >> All right. Community and staff comments. >> Seeing none, moving forward. >> Superintendent Hatsum Beer. >> Good evening, board. Uh some of these things you mentioned and some I haven't mentioned because I think
022the students will foreshadow some of what's happening uh this week on the high school front. So, uh, we'll see if we capture a lot. Election updates. Uh, the election is not certified for another about week and a half or so. Right now, looking at the local ballot, uh, Scott Drenan is leading Chris Moore by 57 votes. Pretty tight. Uh, Ed Torres is leading Tom Bush by a larger margin, 205 votes. John Williams is in the lead over Angie Bbeby. Uh, Don Tracy Dale Reed are unopposed. So, looks like they have this one in the bag. Uh, congratulations to our own board director, Michael Milo. He has a sizable lead uh in this race. So, it looks like he will win that seat for director district 1. Uh Matt Tason for director district 2, that's the
023director district. Director Tracy is vacating, uh has announced publicly to the board, you have a letter in your receipt that upon election certification, he will be resigning that election uh based on a conflict with the military. Uh long story short, his commanding officer or Marine Corps won't allow him to serve in that capacity. So he will be resigning before he takes the oath of office. He's announced that intent. So uh your next meeting December 4th, you'll have the opportunity to act on that resignation and approve it. After that point, uh we can post that director 2 vacancy to the public and anyone from that director district is able to apply and they would sit for a couple years in that seat. Uh so that's what's happening on that front and we won't say the word
024publicly beyond tonight until that's official but once it is official uh and that butts right into the holiday so we'll talk with you about the vacancy timeline and that sort of thing and try to work to get that communication out. Uh other election updates, uh director Milo mentioned, uh and I want to just say how cool that was because right at the very end, our students, uh Carly was one got a chance to talk to all the candidates about the needs at the high school and what is in the bond and how that would impact if approved based on the quality and condition of the facilities. And it was just a wonderful opportunity as the students grill them to hear their perspectives. What are the pressing needs in the community? What are the pressing needs
025in the district? and what would you do if elected to help support and improve that? So the questions were amazing. They were student generated, student led uh and it's wonderful activity in the midst of sometimes elections you forget that sense of we and community and things become polarized and it just was a unifying event. So kudos to the students and the staff for pulling that together. Uh, also on the election front, you may have seen the headline in King Five or you may have seen me gabbing about this because I've been excited for the last week uh since last Thursday night. We are headed for approval coming up in a week and a half. Uh, 64.63% is not the highest percentage, yes, in the state of Washington in 2025, but it is the second highest
026across 25 bonds ran. Uh, so really huge shout out to our local community. We've been putting messages out uh from a school channel, a district channel. Britney's reaching out to some of the news agencies. You might recall Tacoma News Tribune, King Five had a strong presence. Uh you may want to take some steps about maybe bond task force uh again looping back as a board of directors or maybe even the original SEFAC committee who helped to kick this in motion and build a long-term plan. So, good conversation or flatter for you to think about as a board of directors in terms of who you might like to reach out specifically to. Uh, but we're well on our way to certification at this point and very grateful to everybody that had a hand in telling the
027story. Uh, you'll see pictures uh coming up. Uh, some of these have already been shared on school sites and then there's going to be a video that we'll post once the election is certified. So, we're going to wait till the final word from Pierce County before we go really uh on a broader scale with that, but we definitely will continue to show appreciation and gratitude for voter support. Uh you might be wondering what happens next. The comm uh uh community may be wondering. Uh long story short, a couple things are going to happen in this next year. Part of the design phase is envisioning what our new standard of care is. Students are in facilities right now that are 60 plus years old. They were not built around the same safety security expectations. They were
028not built around 21st century learning and the kinds of technology that are available. They don't even have enough of a power grid to support our cooking equipment uh let alone other things. So part of what we get to do is dream uh and talk to community, talk to staff, talk to CT advisory board and most importantly talk to our students about what is that standard of care, what's that vision so that your builder and architect partners can bring that vision to reality. Uh so some of the early work to move in that direction. You did an RFQ a few years ago for architect and owners representative services. Cliff F and I have been having conversations with those that we have another conversation with Liz to make sure they have the time and availability and are
029ready to cover the scope approved by the voters. We talked about this pre previously with you about the different methodologies of what we can build. There's progressive design where you would go out and get a builder right out of the gate. Uh you might hire an architect and want to bring a builder on uh shortly thereafter. That's GCCM, general contractor, construction manager. Those are two alternative routes to build schools approved by the RCW, state legislature. Uh the traditional method is design bid build. We've talked about that. uh Cliff Breeze and I as we talk with the architect and we look at the complexities particularly of the high school project and then the spread out nature of an elementary and a high school here and then you need whatever we build to speak to a 70-year-old
030gym and a 50-year-old gym and a 60s era building uh 30 plus portables. you need all those systems to work and keep in mind that you have two different schools and a district office all in the same site you want to construct and build around. So we actually think it might be more advisable at this point in time to do the whole project through the GCCM methodology. So Cliff and I are doing some additional research. We have some phone calls and then uh once we get partners on board you can expect contracts for your approval and consideration publicly maybe as soon as December for architectural services and owners representative and then part of that early team conversation is about methodology and what are your interests and intent and we want to bring that to you
031for your consideration because if that's the direction you want to go well the next fun job is to hire a builder. So we need to solicit some interest and uh build that scope and then bring them on early on. And then the other piece part of your public transparency and open communication commitment is to really seek community involvement in oversight as well. So we think all of those things are happening in the next several months. Uh and then we get to continue that fun process of the design and the fun part for Mr. F and myself will be wetland analysis, traffic analysis, WASDOT, what's happening with the roundabout, welcoming new city administration. So, there is a lot of work to do to be able to get us to building and grading permits. Uh once we
032do all of that, uh then we're getting close to coming out of the ground and doing some building. Uh right now, we don't have any modifications to our timeline that we commun communicated previously. We think September 2029 is our opening date. However, we would love to be able to build this for less money than we indicated and improve upon that timeline. So, that's our goal moving in to build trust with the local community. But that's an idea, an overview of what really happens next. Um, so happy to answer any questions you have along the way or we can follow up at 2 by twos as well. Uh, good news. Uh, remember when I said I surprised you a month ago about applying for the school board of distinction award? Uh, you were picked. So, coming
033up at the conference, uh we will get to celebrate the president's dinner reception next Thursday night, uh where they'll do a photo of the board of directors. So, all of your hard work with strategic planning, data analysis, progress monitoring, uh was recognized at the state level. So, you'll receive that awards. Students, Dallas Carly, you can drive. It's in Seattle. Uh you can ride together or you can ride with me if you would like to ride. We'll need to talk cuz we'll want to leave about 11:30 next Thursday. Uh but you're more than welcome to drive either one of you if you'd like. That's a parent conversation. Uh but we'll get together on that board. We need you there. Registration opens around 12:30 or 12:00. The first session uh starts at 2:30 next Thursday. So you're
034going to want to be up there and registered and ready to go. There is a mobile app again this year. So you can look at your conference sessions early on either the website or the mobile app. And don't forget your own ording middle school choir out of the entire state, 295 districts, was selected to sing the national anthem and one other song next Friday. >> So that'll be cool. >> Uh meal counts, as you know, meals are free of charge. Uh last year at Oring Elementary. This year also at Tarmaggan Ridge Elementary, the very first month, we've served over 7,700 more meals than we did the previous year. Our first meal claim resulted in over $30,000 more in revenue uh than we got a year previous. And Kathy reported uh Cassie in conversation today that
035October's numbers were even higher. >> So we have many more students. I thought you'd like to see the numbers of meals and how many more students are accessing by site. Uh and it's really remarkable particularly if you look just over a few years ago. Uh so we love feeding kids. I would say thank you to the local taxpayer and voter. Your levy not only supports things like your SRO, Officer Halah Honey, but it supports uh things like scratchbased cooking to buy raw commodities and cook and prep takes more dollars on the commodity side. Also takes more labor side, but that's the right thing to do to serve nutritious meals for kids. And levy helps to cover what those deficits are, which are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Uh right now we're working on
036a multi-year funding where if we can get approval, we can keep that in place for the next four years for all of our K5 student. >> You know how she said she was juggling food when we took the tour? So on my walk the other day, I saw her drive up to the alley, deliver a box of tomatoes during lunchtime so they had enough food right there during lunchtime. >> We are blessed with amazing people. Not only is she one of the delivery people picking up her own commodities, we had a head cook and an assistant cook resign uh or unable to work. She is not only doing the ser uh work as a nutrition services director but also acting as head cook and her own assistant. >> Uh so Cassie is working like crazy
037uh and hasn't let go of that vision around healthy food for kids. So uh we've been putting a lot of love in her direction and showing appreciation. Uh we talked about SRO Halah Hoon uh and again right now we believe that is a full-time station uh primarily house adorning high school but at every site because that importance and visible connection is important for every one of our children preschool through high school and again that is levy supported safety and security cameras uh the servers to back that up bus cameras there's a lot of things that we do safeties and security wise that aren't supported with state dollars uh levy dollars help to make sure that happens uh when we talked uh this is Aaron and myself meeting with Carly in Dallas. Uh based on the
038WASA conference last year, Carly and Jaden at the time built strong relationships with student board reps from other schools. And we sat with these two and Jaden. They said, "What do you want to do this year?" And they said, "We want to work with other student board reps." So right now uh we're making plans for a three district ordering five enumclaw high schools coming together with a youth empowerment symposium. And the short version students from each school can learn about project management skills and have opportunities to not only connect and interconnect with one another from each school but then they get to plan their own community or school-based service project passion project something that's important to them. And so I talked with the enumclaw soup. I'll know tomorrow whether they're good. Fe is already good,
039so you will have that opportunity to work with the other board reps and make something magical happen. Uh F was meeting with author Benji Howard whom you are familiar with and trying to figure out what dates would work. So we think we're green light for December, February, March uh this year to make that dream come true. >> Awesome. >> Which would be pretty cool. >> So stay tuned for whatever they create. I don't know what it is, but that's part of the commitment around elevating agency and student voice. Uh this was really cool. Last uh this week, veterans assemblies, we had uh students sharing their own stories, speaking of thanks and gratitude to our veterans, amazing uh assemblies, our performing arts were just whether it's choir or band performing. Uh just it was incredible week
040this week. So lots of love for our veterans and our schools this week and we couldn't more be more thankful. Carly did a wonderful job at the high school kicking us off. And uh I would say the students were very respectful of who was in the house. A 1966 graduate Gary Jones was the guest of one of the guests of honor and speaker this year. So it's really cool to have another Oring grad come back and share his story. Uh student recognition uh part of that agency is around a sense of belonging and we have something happening in every school regularly. Every staff meeting at Nording High School, uh staff are filling out cards, positive recognition for students. Uh every staff meeting at the middle school, they have mailing labels. So staff pick a mailing
041label that hasn't been picked and write postcards home and those go home to uh families. And then uh that's a picture of our Cougar Pride Mountaineer Assembly. Same thing, character traits of the month, elevating dignity and making sure that student recognition uh is going a long way to build culture of belonging. Peer mediator training. This was really cool because some of our high school trained peer mediators from last year were involved in the training. That's part of the commitment to improve school culture and climate to reduce instances of harassment, intimidation, and bullying. And that's where students are getting trained to help mediate conflict with their peers. Uh the pictures don't do it justice, but they were actively engaged in role playing in the afternoon, and that was some of the funnest things I've got to
042see in a long time. and they were just fake yelling at each other and bringing it down and using the strategies and I just thought it was incredible. So, be on the lookout for new mediators. Uh, this is a picture of Dr. Lee working with Kevin. We've talked to you about the strategic work of improving our learning outcomes and focusing on fewer things but going deeper and really leveraging on the standards that have transferable learning skills that are high leverage that will re re uh improve our test scores and learning outcomes. Uh and that's a picture of uh those two working with our middle school ELA team to really understand those outcomes to revise scope and sequence. One of the commitments K10 is to really build in space in between units for intervention for more
043time targeted support so our students get the help they need. Uh and it that work I think is going to continue to produce measurable improvement for us. We saw great gains uh last year and I think we're just getting warmed up. So that work will continue and that's happening uh at every grade level in ELA and math. Uh some of that is in our PLC level, some of it's districtled depending on the nature of the work that we need. And I could go on and on, but I'm going to call it good there. Uh, amazing things happening in the Ording School District. >> Awesome. >> And hopefully I didn't take some of your thunder around athletic and activities and other things happening. Happy to answer any questions that you have. >> A lot of good
044stuff. >> Uh, a note I made while you were talking about bond. Um, I would love an opportunity, whether we do it as a group or two by ones or whatever, um, to talk about the all of the layers and levels of of engagement that our community has to be involved in this project. It truly is a community project. And so I'm thinking design input. What does that look like? Um, we have the bond oversight committee that will be engaging, assuming the board continues to support that idea. um you know what communication suggestions can we get from community that we can leverage during the length of the project and kind of like short-term long-term how do we keep the community updated with what we're doing. >> So uh I have lots of questions um about
045how that might work and I would love to be able to share that plan with the community so that they know when to step in and what those commitments look like. >> You got it. One of the early things after we uh secure that partners is I think you're going to be wanting to talk to Trevor Carlson in the very near future. Uh because without him you can't do anything yet, right? >> Uh and then some of your partners and then part of once we get those partners on board will be regular monthly updates from here on out. And I think that's a wonderful conversation with Matt and Liz. Yeah. >> Uh with you as a board to just frame it out. here's the timeline and here's how we can engage our people along the
046way. >> I think you're absolutely spot on. In fact, Cliff and I met with Matt today uh and we're talking dozens and dozens of outreach opportunities uh probably before we're all said and done. >> Perfect. Perfect. I've been so focused on the bond passing that I haven't allowed myself to think past passing too far. >> It's new territory. >> It's new. Yeah. I'm really excited about it. Wonderful. Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Anything else? All good. All right. Student reports. Who's going first tonight? I'll go first. Um today, actually, it's um the high school we held at 2A the SPSL sportsmanship conference. Um to create a basis understanding of what's expected in our league and build a stronger connection to one another, between our teams. Um it was kind of a meet
047and greet. A lot of this was Mr. Collie's like he has very strong ideas, very passionate guy. So we put this together, we organized it, we held every single school that's in our league. Um we had student leaders, we had sports captains, we had people come in and then we played games, we had discussion questions and I think it was it went really well. We had really good food. >> Always important. >> Yeah. So tell me like what's the what's the goal of that? Is it just kind of league relations between the schools or >> Yeah. So, it's more um kind of redefining what sportsmanship is or like kind of encouraging that um >> building a better basis. >> Um cuz currently like our sportsmanship I would say we have our in our league we
048don't really have a whole lot of sportsmanship issues. I think it's we have a very strong sportsmanship. Um, but I mean this one, this first conference was kind of more of a meet and greet because our next future one is, hey, we're going to have some coaches come in. We're going to have some a lot more people. Um, it hopes to kind of like bring more unity and also bring ideas to one another. And >> um also it wasn't just like it was mainly sportsmanship, but it was also how do we be leaders as athletes or how do you be how do you change your school environment as well as your sports team and their attitudes and overall just kind of make it >> nice. I like that. >> Yeah, that would be really cool.
049>> Um we also had a veterans assembly where we had Mr. Jones is our guest, which got talked about. And then, um, volleyball, football are both set for state. Volleyball left today. Football leaves tomorrow, which is super awesome. And then what you were talking about for the our it was for our Halloween spirit week, which we've never done that before. Um, it was kind of just like, why not have a spirit week? Um, it's Halloween, why not have a spirit week? It'd be really fun. and we had like a pep assembly and like we've never done it before but I think it was such a good idea actually like why don't we just throw random spirit wigs whatever cuz it's so fun to dress up and then somebody give you candy because you dressed up
050and it's just really nice to like see how many people want to get involved like Dallas and Renee did this thing during um during those spirit weeks of like interviewing interviewing people dressed up and it was it's so cool that people wanted to be included in those interviews and people were like, "Oh, I'll see you tomorrow and I'm going to put my best outfit on for you to come talk to me." And like they were recognizing students and it was just like such a fun thing that brought people together. Like it wasn't like you wouldn't expect these students to want to be in the spotlight, but then they come out and they're like, "Oo, look at me." And like it's really cool. It was really cool. >> I love it. your energy uh bleeds out
051in the community. So, when you guys do something really fun like that, I know it's about the students and about it's about the high school, but >> I see the younger kids and the other buildings getting really excited and like what are they doing this week and what do I need to wear and the community sees your energy too and that you're doing you're doing good work. So, I just want to >> I'm so glad to hear it's super fun. >> Yeah. >> Um but I also want to know your impact is bigger. Um, we also had one before we talk about this week. We went to PTR and we talked to uh Miss Pillow's fourth grade class and we asked some questions to them as we usually do. But before that, I walked in
052and they're like, "Can I show you something?" I was like, "What?" It was a student and it had a poster and it was their core competencies and it was a poster of how to analyze of literature understanding their analyzing of literature and they broke down this I couldn't I can't even remember what it said it said some fancy words a bunch of stuff and they broke down the meaning of every single word and so that everyone could understand it and it was super cool and to have a student talk to us about it and a student present that to us and they're like, "Oh yeah, I understood this." And I was like, "Did you understand the word before you guys like broke it down?" She went, "Yeah, I did." >> You have to say it
053again for Dr. Lee cuz that's a huge celebration for his work translating to the student level. >> Cool. It was really cool. >> Yeah. So, um, we met with three students, Mia, >> Cameron, and Negamon, I think. >> Mega Minnow. Was that it? Okay. Thank you for letting me know because I wasn't sure. I was trying to remember. It was pretty It was pretty cool name. I've never heard anything like that before. That was pretty cool. >> Um, we didn't ask all the same exact questions. Um, the first question we did ask is, "What is something that you've learned that has made you go, "Wow, I can do this." And all three of them talked about um learning just increasing their math skills. um talking about like the standard algorithm which I get a full
054understanding what that is but I'm assuming just you know basic plus minus multiplication uh division but all of them seem to have really good skills at just understanding the multiplication chart and table and right off the top of their head like if you we asked them a couple questions like okay if you're so confident give us 3 * 8 or >> you know 12 * 12 and they were on top of it like >> I'm sure if you guys asked me and Carly some questions we're going to we're going to need to get out a calculator. Um because we we are not they they're just they're super they're super on it and it was super cool to see that all of them are super confident in that and whatever is working in the classroom it's
055getting better. So that was really cool to see all them confident in that skill. >> Uh we also asked them like what makes them feel better when school gets hard. Um, one student in particular kind of like like really caught my attention. He said this for a lot of different answers and um there's just like breathing and taking a break and I was like okay what happens when you can't step out you can't take a break and like it's not really working out power through always power through hard work power through I like that I like that a lot that was really cool and like um there's another students like even when I struggle I am like academically when I struggle um they just need to explain it to me. Like I just need someone
056to break it down to me and usually I'm open what they for what they have to say to me. Like I know a lot of the times cuz he said that and I was like you don't get upset when somebody tries to tell you what to do. He's like no like I I I'm open about it. I was like oh you're better than me. So that was really really cool to see. They're just so like hardworking and so have so much drive. It's just like >> I don't even remember having did I have that shirt? I don't know. >> What grade did you say these kids are? >> This is fourth grade. >> Fourth grade. >> That's really cool. >> Yeah. >> Um we then asked, "How do you know when your ideas are being
057heard and how do you know when they're not?" and they just talked about, you know, being able to recognize when people are actively listening, having eye contact, make sure they're quiet when they're talking, nodding their head, being very engaged. And other students talked about um not other students, but they also talked about um you know when they're in a group discussion and maybe they don't feel as heard in a group like conversation or some people are talking over and um Mia said that like you know sometimes she feels like it's harder to connect with like a bunch of boys if she's like the only girl in the group. But she also said like she doesn't think it's like anything because of her. She's just like harder. But she also shared that during recess um she
058has a Spanish speaker as a friend and they like get together with her friends and they're teaching um this is taking teaching her friends how to speak Spanish. All of them are super engaged and they're learning and it's like really cool to know that they have a group of people that they can go and learn with each other and they know how to like be respectful in that moment and engaged and so that they're still getting that experience and able to recognize when it's happening. >> Wow. >> I absolutely love that. I know she could take that. >> Can you guys Can we Can we do something more with it? I know. >> I'm curious. Sometimes when we hear you speak and the ideas and the thoughts that come from your voice, I'm like, "Wow."
059I'm just in awe. You're you're mature. You're processing. You're at a level that I don't remember seeing when I was in high school or being when I was in high school. And I'm curious if you share that experience like when you meet with the fourth grade students are you like wa they really really impressed me. I was very caught off guard cuz like last time we met with like second graders or >> it was fifth graders >> at OPS. Just kidding. >> I don't know. Wait, I just remember meeting and this might have been last year, but like meeting littles and so it's such a different dynamic and it's so weird to see how much can change in what 2 years >> and it's I'm like I'm hearing them >> and I'm like that that's
060a point that I wouldn't even like think of >> and that's so like oh my goodness. >> It like kind of humbles me a little bit but it's it's it's really impressive. It's really cool. And last year like I feel like we didn't get as much like deep conversation >> and I don't know if it's because oh we've been doing this what our second year going to schools >> but >> or like I don't know if it's a question I don't know what >> specifically it is but it's really cool to see how much they're engaging with us than before cuz a very before it was very surface level and like I definitely think that this can get a lot deeper and I think that this can be a lot more vulnerable >> but it
061was so much more surface level where it wasn't like I'm getting a whole lot of who you are or getting a whole lot of your goals or you know like what we were going for but seeing and talking to the kids this year it's like a huge difference and it's it's really >> and and different students this year right than we were interacting with last year. >> Yeah. All different students. So it's it's it's really cool. >> They're all super awesome, super confident. And with Mega Menow when we brought him out, Carly explains to him like what we do here and what you guys do. And I told him, "So if you want anything changed, you know, this is a good time to speak up." And he was he immediately was like, "Oh, I know
062exactly what I want to say." >> And he was just he was just ready. And even when we went back in to get cuz we only did three students. When we went back in, you know, teacher asked, "What do you want for?" I said, "Does anyone want to be interviewed?" And then just everyone there's made it really really hard because now everyone's excited. Everyone wants to do it. It's just super hard to decide, but it's cool to see all these students ready to talk to, you know, bigger people. They don't know what's going on. Especially when we first came in, like we didn't really say anything. We just talked to some short said, "Hey, come on." I was a little nervous, but by the end, um, you know, they were just excited and they wanted
063to share. It's just super cool to see students so eager. I love that you're taking your passion for what you're doing for your own immediate peers and starting that now with this time a fourth grade group that's going to take that and pass it and it's just going to keep going and growing into something amazing. I love that. >> We can look at a lot of data, but it's this. It's like the little there's twinkling happening, you know, sparkles are happening. >> Uh, and you guys are helping carry that through the system. So, as these students move through, I can't wait. Yeah. I can't wait to see you're having an impact. It's making it's making a difference. >> Yeah. I'm really excited. I'm like um but we also asked like favorite and least favorite things
064about school and a lot of them is like very reasonable. like not really anything we can do, but it's like I can't believe I have recess before lunch. And then it's just um but one thing that stuck out to me a lot. Uh again, same student was hard projects. I was like, what what's what's projects are harder? What do you do to like kind of get through those hard projects? It's like I just do them and I power through. It's just like it's so it's such a cool mind like I can't get over it cuz it's such a cool mindset to me to have that >> keep on trucking keep on going power. >> I've never seen that like either in me. I don't like I didn't see that before. For me like other students
065I didn't see that but like I got the same like kind of energy from every single one of those students that were like oh I'm so like favorite thing of favorite thing in class. All of them said this this this math game that they play this capt it's called like capture the flag and they do a they play a math game and you get points based on your thing but you have to work as a group to solve this math problem and it's a like I would have said recess my favorite thing about lunch like and they their first like immediate it didn't even take a second for them to think about it first immediate thing was capture the flag with my class learning math. >> Wow. And that is just so like I don't
066know what they're feeding them. I don't know them. But it's just such a different mindset change than what I had growing up and like what I see in other students of them >> being excited to learn and to keep on pushing through when it's hard. >> And so that is just I'm so I'm so happy. >> I think that's a good thing to share with their teacher that they love the the math games and the caption they play. I think that's good good information for them. >> Yeah. I'm thinking of the student surveys. There's a question that we ask students about their belief in their ability to to do hard things. >> And I'm just wondering, you know, are we going to start to see that we scored low? >> We scored really low in
067that >> with that question. So, I'm hopeful that we have kids now saying they're powering through. >> We need to ask the question differently. >> Yeah. Are you able to power through hard things? >> You could be a future school board director and try to pass the school bus. You >> can do hard things. >> Yes, you can do hard things. >> Great. Well done. Good work, you guys. >> Okay. Oh, yeah. >> I'm kind of want to stop right there. >> I know, right? What's my password? Financial report. Next. >> Financial report. >> Marcy's absent. Cliff and I are answering questions. >> Good thing. No, I'm kidding. I I don't have any questions and I didn't see any come through. Nope. >> Yeah, if you have any questions, I can >> I know. I
068really want to try to stomp you. >> Fun one to note is just kudos to to Marcy. If you look through the revenues, budget revenues, budget expenditures in August, the number of 96 to 102% you're going to see is just the skill that Marcy has in her budgeting. that shows how close she is at the end of the year looking at a $50 million budget. How many of those are within 3 to 4% of her estimates is >> the testament to her building budget. >> That is the percentage I look at. >> That's the that that section is the thing that most closely resembles a commercial budget. >> So, I'm pretty familiar with it. Like how much how much money have we spent and how much has come in and are we on track and
069is it coming in at the right time of year? >> Yes. Y >> that makes sense to me. All right. So our next uh next item on the agenda is the choice transfer and waiver data. This is presented by director free. Not much to present but I just want to sit in front of you just in case. There's often community questions about this uh how we decide who comes in and who comes out. Um so just big picture you'll see that 555 students go out. The math on that is about 224 of those students. you could clump some things together have to do with location of residents either location of work, location of childare, where they live. I think that's a trend you're going to see with our growing geographic of where the homes are.
070And until we get footprints spread out throughout the place, you're going to see that it's often mom's working towards Auburn and we live in Tahali, so it doesn't make sense or to take my second grader that direction. So most of that you're going to see is is location based. Um second uh to that is students coming in 63 students coming in 46 of those the state losses you if your employee works here you need to take their student with a few major exceptions so 46 of those students are here and then you're going to see some remaining students those are students when we were open to waiverss which is now I don't know probably 5 years ago >> once students are in our district we try not to kick them out once they've metriculated through
071our system to try not to say all of a sudden we're just going to kick you out so there's still some remaining students that are there. In my tenure here, I have not seen both as principal or in this position. Now, um the law pretty much says you need to apply that equally. So, you can't have a good kid rule or a bad kid rule. You know, it's it's really if you say we're close to all students and you really need to be closed to all students and any exception you make for one, you need to make for all. So, there's been a lot of disappointed phone calls I've gotten this year, a lot of folks trying to come into our school district that there's not a lot of schools around us that have the
0722A atmosphere, that small town feeling where the principles know your name. um that you get all around us as for schools. So, we get a lot of folks kind of, you know, my kids struggling. I'd really love to come down in your school district. So, I got to have those those are tough calls. >> Um lastly, you're going to see we we have a large home school population. I know Director Tracy years ago is part of that program. Um 240 students in our school district are homeschooling one way or another. Um so, that's a strong percentage. Um and then we have 14 students that are intra district, which just means OES versus BTR. Is that one of those reasons listed in that report? >> Yes. >> I just lost my question. >> Home school, I
073think. >> Yeah, homeschool. >> I'll come back to it. I have a question. I And I'm not sure I maybe I should be asking Mr. Polly this. I don't even know. But I I was just hearing that they changed their rules for WI. They changed their rules. So now if a p a kid wants to play football he he might be in summer and he wants to come to oring and play football that he doesn't have to wait a year now to >> yeah unfortunately it doesn't work out for oring students but yeah the WA said you can come as a nth grader particularly nth grade has a special indication and there's some other exceptions too but you can say I'd like to come here to play football and that's totally acceptable and you will
074be eligible in your transition years. Um, unfortunately your school has to be open to waivers. We're not. So, although the WA would allow it, we don't allow new waiverss. Nothing to do with athletics, so students don't get to take advantage of that. But yeah, then there's also another exception. It's new this year, which is you can switch schools for sports reasons, and you have to miss I think it's 40 to 50% of the season. >> But yeah, students can now legally switch for the purpose of sports if the school accepts waiverss, which we don't. >> Okay. I was listening to Pollock talk about it and I was like, I just >> It's kind It mirrors college a lot. I'm waiting for us to have NIL payments next. >> I remember too. >> Yeah. >> Uh
075if I I know some of the homeschool kids take a class here, for example, band or a PE or something. >> Are they counted as a student in ordering or are they part of that home school number? >> They are both. Uh so they get we get FTE. So they fill out a form for ancillary services. So they might be a point 2 FTE. So if they're in a class, if they're on a roster, we they count as that's why you'll see FT of 530.2. Okay? >> Cuz we have partial students in either skill center start or homeschool students that come in. So those are counted in our FTE and those kids are also counted headcountwise you could say at home school as well. >> Okay. >> That means they filled out an intent to
076home school form. >> Yeah. >> Partial or full. >> So they're the students that we are aware of who have filled out a form. >> Yes. If they've never filled out the form and never come to our school district, we'd be unaware. We actually get audited um annually. >> We have to get that home school form every year. So, okay. >> We're our registars are pretty dogged about running them down, but if they've never told us about that, >> then yeah, it's that's a tough case for us. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I don't expect you to have data on people that don't provide it. So, >> they're usually pretty good though as they get older and older. There's usually an ancillary service, a dance, a library card that there's something that they reach out to
077us for or running start usually in 11th or 12th grade. >> Yes. So what you're saying then is we are not trucking in students from other districts. >> No accused of that. >> I get that question a lot. No. >> Yeah. No, we're not trucking in I I think people get confused because they're in our district near another school district and we're busing them down. Therefore, we're bringing them >> and their address is Bonnie Lake. So it, you know, seems to make sense to people don't understand our boundaries that that's maybe the Bonnie Lake school district. But no, we are taking no one from any other school district. I am breaking lots of hearts constantly. have parents going. >> We've got a good thing going here. I don't blame you. >> I would say director
078F and myself be working on our enrollment projections moving forward. Uh we've been very tight because of the lack of space. Now with a bond passage, we can foreshadow basically what we have where capacity exists and what that would do. And we didn't want to be able to not serve students that are within the district uh and simultaneously accepting out of district. So that does change our context a little bit. So this spring we may have a different recommendation of how to move forward. Uh but uh stay tuned because that'll be probably February March calculations that we'll do. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Cliff, I have one more question. I was just looking at this. So the online program, what is that? >> That's if someone So there are school districts have online program.
079So, um, K12 is an example or insight. Those are actually housed from public schools. >> Uh, there's one way Eastern Washington. Um, I forget school district, but they actually house it. Federal Way has an inner academy. So, it's technically you're transferring to Federal Way even though you never go there. So, you'll see those are transferred to Federal Way, but they're going to their online program or Bethl online program. So, there's public schools that open up online programs to the whole state. >> Okay? >> But you have to technically do an inter school transfer because we're giving our our funds to to them >> that district. Okay. Okay. All right. Uh, next item is data management and this is prepared by Dr. Lee and I believe it's informing us of the price increase. And so I
080don't think there's any discussion other than we should probably continue managing our data. We just have to eat the cost increase. >> Be good. >> I was making a flip assumption. >> No questions. >> Thank you, Dr. Lee. First three policy considerations. I had a couple questions and I apologize for getting to my notes uh late before the meeting. Um I had a question on the evaluation of the superintendent. There's reference at the bottom to Wazda having resources that I think we can remove and I'll send these in an email as a summary. I had a question about policy 2020 and 2021 policy uh that refers to being able uh to have students opt out of certain curriculum. And there was a word in there sincerely. we have to sincerely believe that they have a
081religious objection to the material and that puts us in the position of determining if a family is sincere or not. So I I I question whether we need that or if we're required by law to have that word. Um and also in that same paragraph in both policies it's repeated. Uh, it says it is the district's responsibility to respond to those requests and I wondered if it's actually the building administrator's responsibility or if that's a district level response that is required to be given. So, those were questions. And then, um, on 6881 board policy, I got to this one last minutes before getting here. Um, and it didn't show the markups that the document. I think it was just the wrong file. So, we'll need to look at that. So, I had questions on 16:30
082board policy P and 2021 P. >> And I think the markup in the one is the red edition. >> It is 681. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Oh, that was it. Okay. >> That was it. Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. It just had different >> formatted >> that. Well, it's different because that was one that executive director Free put forward. >> Gotcha. >> Um it did not come from stuff. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> that makes sense. >> Okay, then I will take that one off my list. Um but the other three, I would just like to take a look at that before we move them forward to second reading. And you'll send me notes on there. >> I will. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> And if you guys are okay with the others,
083we will go ahead and move those forward. Sounds good. Okay. Why do I feel like I need to have an action to do that? I don't. Do I? >> Yeah. >> Thank you. All right. Consent agenda. Lots of good stuff. Lots of wrestling tournaments. >> Very good. >> It's that time of year. >> It is that time of year. Oh, I meant to mention that the uh wrestling teams like call to have kids come to practice the Oh my gosh, >> they kill me. They're riding a llama. They're riding an elk. >> It's real obvious that the wrestling coach is an art person because they have had some really amazing >> outreach. Very, very fun. Yep. >> I really like when he's pretending he's um auctioning. >> All right. So, consent agenda is all good.
084I will entertain a motion. I move to approve items 1 through 11 on the consent agenda. Thank you. >> I second it. >> Thank you. All in favor? I I motion passes. The next item we have is presented by Director Freeze regarding our enrichment levy. Is that not It says presented by, but we're just taking action on it. >> Yeah, >> I don't think there's >> I don't believe we have a presentation. Uh we're happy to answer any questions. I believe we presented last month conceptually to the amounts and uh areas that are addressed by it but publicly say that it's uh we're we're collecting the same amount. We didn't look at an increase. So uh our average we were collecting $2 and remain that um so it's a levy to replace the prior four
085year levy >> there wasn't an increase in what we're collecting. >> Excellent. Great. >> Okay. >> All in favor? You're ready to do this again? >> Thank you. Yep. >> Can I get a motion? >> I move to accept resolution number 3.2025-2026 for the February 26, 2026 election for the enrichment levy as presented. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I >> Motion passes. to that number. >> I think we did that on the >> 2020. >> Thank you for pointing out the the different things that our levy supports in your presentation. I hope we continue to do that as we move closer to >> we I will have much more of a discussion next month. >> Yes. >> And even more in February. >> Very important. >> All right. So, next on
086our list is the surplus request. There's no discussion. I'll take a motion. I move to accept the surplus list as presented in the board memo. Thank you. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes. >> Are we running out of room as to whether no? We're going to be clearing more out. Your approval allow us to clear surplus out. So, >> okay. Uh, next item on the agenda, we are going to go into executive session. So, this session is closed to the public for our open public meetings act statute 110. And the following topic will be discussed. We will be reviewing the performance of a public employee and only announced topics will be discussed and no final action will be taken in the executive session and discussions are confidential.
087So currently we estimate the time for executive session to be 15 minutes. So I will ask everyone but the board with a I like flowers. No. >> Oh, I have some stuff to say. >> And I have Christina. You know, I've been asking Christina for advice. >> Oh, good. >> Cuz I was because we agree. We We both have little We I bought some Are we on? >> We are back ready to go. Okay. Do we want to bring some in place? So, I will call us back into session at 7:37 >> 1 7:31 p.m. Sorry, been listening to airplane stuff all day. Uh, okay. So, I should have done this at the front of our agenda, but I want to recognize your service with us. So, bear with me. I wrote out some things.
088So to the crowd who's now on video, >> thank you on video. So uh with gratitude, I would like to honor Joanne Tracy as her term on the Oring School Board comes to an end. For the past four years, Director Tracy has been an instrumental force for positive change in our district. And I believe that and longer than the four years, >> you know, really >> your leadership is a unique blend of cander, thoughtfulness, and an unwavering passion for the Ording community, our staff, and our students. One of Director Tracy's most significant contributions has been her consistent commitment to prioritizing student voice. She has always ensured that our decisions were made with the students best interests and perspectives at the forefront, believing fundamentally that they are the primary stakeholders in our work. We have been
089incredibly fortunate to benefit from Joannne's valuable insight as a retired teacher. That deep practical experience from the classroom has provided an invaluable perspective in our discussions and helped us bridge the gap between policy and practice. Director Tracy also made it a priority to bring forward staff feedback, serving as a link between the board and our dedicated educators and support personnel. This direct line of communication has been essential in fostering a collaborative and responsive environment within our district. Director Tracy's thoughtful leadership will be missed in these meetings. She was never afraid to ask the tough questions to ch to challenge the status quo and to ensure we were striving for excellence. While her official term on the board concludes tonight, her legacy will continue to resonate. We look forward to Joanne continuing to be a presence
090in our district, in our community, as a volunteer, a mentor, and a steadfast advocate for Oring students and schools. So Joanne, on behalf of the entire school board and the Oring community, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Your service has been a true gift to our gift district, and you have left an indelible mark. We wish you the best in your next chapter. >> Thank you so much. That was so nice of you. >> You're welcome. You're welcome. >> Thank you all you guys. We have >> We do have Of course we have gifts, right? >> So you get Wow. >> I think we need to give her a big chachki, too. I see one over there. >> Oh, yeah. >> Let's give her a big one. We'll get a new one >> just for
091you. >> Thank you. Oh, this is so nice. Thank you so much. It's sad. I'm sad. A >> You will be missed. >> Yes. You're going to be very missed. I'm going to miss having you at the WS conference. >> Absolutely. >> Yes. >> Oh, wow. >> Swag. >> That's nice. My water. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Jo. I'm going to make a suggestion and you can tell me if it's okay. Clementina always felt bad that she didn't take her name tag. >> Okay. >> So, you might want to take your name off your mantle, your front door. >> Yeah. >> Oh, I know. I got in so much trouble today from all Carson and his friends. >> Oh, I'm not giving them their diploma. >> Oh, no. Oh, >> you know,
092you gave Mason his and his friends and you're not going to give us. >> Oh, no. >> There's a pathway. >> Yes, there is. >> Yeah, it was so funny. It was like, >> all right, guys. I'm sure we can still reserve you a seat up front. >> Yeah, you might be able to get >> I don't know if I could get through that one emotionally. This this group is >> is Yeah, >> a little too much. Well, any words of wisdom for us as we remain here? >> I just feel so I mean the reason I feel good about leaving is cuz you guys were really awesome. >> It's okay. But I'm thankful. >> I'll miss having somebody back up my teacher to do it so that they don't know I'm being goofy. Well,
093you know, when you first run, you're thinking, "Oh gosh, I'm running because of this, this, this, and this." But you guys have do such a good job. And we could not have a better. >> So, you will be extremely missed, Joan. >> Your passion has been contagious. >> Yes. >> Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not. >> That's the thing about passion. >> That's the thing. Your heart was your heart is never in question though. >> Never. You want what's best and that >> has been consistent the entire time. >> Well, just what I think is best. I guess I'm learning that, you know, like it's like I do I I do it because this is what I really want for the community. But, you know, I can't always think that my way is the best
094way. Even though, you know, you go in there thinking, okay, this is the way it's got to be for the community or whatever. I'm the I'm right in my thinking. But, you know, maybe I'm not. I don't know. that and I was like, "Yeah." So, I >> Well, you have and I I think I've shared this with Lovey, too. As a former board director, you have a free pass to ask at any point, what are you guys thinking? >> Yeah. And >> and to please continue to bring your ideas forward and >> I I will. you do have your eyes and your ears and relationships throughout the district that have been really valuable >> and so I hope you'll still in when there's >> I love that that your um passion has been with the
095sports and and right and you you were >> ingrained in it right so I'm watching that and and >> um I see it and I'm like wow that's awesome to see right on that side of it and uh I think when you come from a small community, well, you know, you you know it and you love it, you know. >> It's part of who you are. >> It really is part of who you are. >> Yeah. It's like >> And I love watching the the spirit that's happening. It's like so cool. >> It's changed a lot in the four years. >> Yeah. Hasn't it? >> They're having so much fun and I love that they're having fun at school. >> Yeah. Cuz why would you want to go if you want to have fun? And
096it's it's and I mean I can't say enough. I mean that we have amazing principles right now. Math is amazing and you know it's just been it's it's a good note to to end on because you guys you guys are you guys are going to have so much fun now. You're going to get to do the school and that's going to be so much fun. So I'm excited about it. Excited for you guys. And I know the job is not always easy but you know you guys do a great job. So, and I would tell everyone that I have complete confidence in this board in in our superintendent. So, so well, who do you know that would like to join this happy gang? >> Well, you know, I was I was disappointed about um >>
097Matt because he was like in that demographic that I thought would be so good for us. you know, it's like he's younger, he has younger kids, he sees all that, he knows all the younger parents, and he's often really well thought of, you know, and so I was really bummed when when that happened cuz I thought he would be a good addition. >> Yeah. >> You guys. So, yeah. I know. It's like >> it's just kind of, you know, just it'd be nice to have that that that voice, you know. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Yeah. So, yeah. So, I'm hoping that we can get a voice like that because, you know, we all have so much wisdom, but then it's nice to have somebody that might be coming up through the ranks, you know,
098like because it's a different perspective when you're actually we have grandkids, so we kind of, you know, see it in our kids, but >> but having little kids and and coming up, that's another, you know, >> I mean, I'm not whoever you guys get you, who's not going to get along with you. I mean, Ed could get along with anyone. Seriously. So, it's like I'm not worried about it. You guys will have whoever it is will be fine. So, yeah, I think you'll you'll have a you'll have a great board always. >> Don't be a stranger. Come back and we're going to absolutely invite you to tour what you started. >> Oh, thank you. >> So, just just be aware that when it comes time, we want you to come back and tour and walk
099and celebrate. >> I would be either at the front. >> Yeah, I would love that. And if there's a Thursday night, you don't have anything going on. >> I'm used to coming on. I will just, you know, >> a month from now, you're going to be like, I haven't be doing something tonight. >> At least you won't feel torn between attending a sports event, grandchildren, or being with >> Yeah. Arizona last year. >> That's a hard thing. I'm just going through all these weird changes in life. >> I tagged you in that article from the Olympia. >> It was nice. Yeah. Yeah. >> I didn't know. I don't know how it showed up in my feed. >> Yeah, I saw that, too. Front and center. >> Yeah, that's cool. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. Good point.
100I'll close my meeting. >> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. >> Sorry, Britney. Sorry, Britney. Any other board comments that we need to address? just want to say to our community um that passed this bond, you know, that that was amazing to see where we're at and we're second highest and and that's amazing. That goes to our people that that came together that >> got that word out there and uh it just it's exciting. >> That's a great message to the kids and the staff and everyone. >> There's so many critical people there too to thank. The list is going to be long. It's going to be long. And I will say, um, >> Britney, >> I mean, it was touched on, but what you did this time was >> it was amazing. It was
101amazing. And you'd think maybe you'd get a rest, but no, something is going to be coming after you. So, >> I know you kill it. >> Yeah, it was real. I think it got real personal this time. And I think that was good. You know, people responded to that. >> Yeah. >> And to Matt's hot wings. >> Oh boy, that was awesome. >> Britney and Matt. >> And I have to Margaret Collins video of the rain pouring onto the the pavement and nice. >> Oh god, just such a good feeling. >> I'm just so happy for our kids. I'm so happy >> cuz when I do those >> when we go through all those the we have to go through and look at everything I get so upset for them. It's like oh >> I
102can't stand it you know that they're having to go to school in these conditions. So I'm so happy about that good stuff. >> Yes. Thank you boarding communities. >> And I look forward to four more years. So it's awesome. >> Thank you. It's a big thing. >> Thank you. Yes. All right. >> You might be the last one standing. >> Here we go. Mike's like, "Wait a minute. >> Wait till certification." >> Yeah. >> All right. So with that 7:45 tonight, I