001if you do know Rec thank you you I call this tonight at 6:4 join us from here have a whole tonight start Mee and tonight I would like to starton Amy and Jen to join us thank you so each year we have the distinct hon crating our exceptional education support professionals during a dedicated week of recogition truly value and appreciate our classifi St every single day we set the week of March 10 through the 14th to specifically acknowledge their final contribs tonight thanks foring Comm effs and critical Ro in Su District everyone please join board and myself [Music] m [Applause] ready we know we know from our student surveys and the students relationship matter and our dist an important part of that um teach Rel Rel Rel thank you all right next up we recognize
002trainer he play cral role incess of our student commit you she today all e e e and your teamw workk on the ma so uh super proud of our entire wrestling program you guys are setting standard as I said you are leading all all ages of kids in our community and we're just really proud of you as student athletes and so really thank you it's picture time and good oh yes I would love coaches captains if you'd like to say something at the podium we'd love to learn some highlights some things you're proud of [Music] I just want to say you know thanks for you guys support um you know it's it's a special place to uh be a to co wrestling I know it's not like this everywhere so we're really lucky um and
003I I think the kids grew up in the system so I don't think they know what it would be like to wrestle at another school um but they really have a unique opportunity here and they've been blessed uh from the time they've been this big so um anyways our Mantra this year was stronger every day and uh yeah they did so they push harder and harder every day and um really so anyways I a couple seniors up here you want to say something okay and they said they like say something to reiterate what Coleman said I just want to say thank you to guys uh I've wrestled uh ojc coming up so I've been here all throughout school I appreciate Quinton and for the recording it be good if you said your [Music] name my
004name's AJ s and I'm just really grateful for you guys' support and uh supporting us wrestlers as individually and as a team and it really helps lot like getting us two places traveling all the country to get the best of the best and competing so thank you guys for your support and AJ was a four time state champ as this is uh really year where I have think the I know know what their team has done but they've had two four time state champs on a team at the same time but they've also so uh abolutely I don't know if you guys know this your field trip permissions across our desk and we're like are we going to class but we know that's learning experiences too and it's contributed to your success for and we
005know that the quality of wrestl that you are to make sure that you have the opportunity to of your game and the only way to do that is to get experience and I have to [Applause] say basketall I just out there comp are was women's state champion very cool again we're super proud my husband and I we couldn't make it to the dome but we got to see you live stream all throughout the day so it's pretty exciting to watch so even if we're not there in person we're here supporting you and believing you and can't wait to hear where you go seniors after school and I have to say one of the things that I love having lived here for a while and known of these guys for a long time what I like
006is when I go to the the meets it's all your families there the whole Community goes there are kids that you know I have them in in second grade and they've got their kids in the junior program you know it's just it such a wonderful Community feeling so good job too on the being there for each other and making that making a strong feeling of being there together so that it's a wonderful experience for everybody and it's F absolutely and we have gifts for you so don't be we're going to give these to you but we also for our seniors we like to say we'll see you next on stage when you graduate yes so we have Miss Smith Mr fly coaches supporters athletes all gather right around the front here some of you can
007come up top or right down below but let's GA around the front of the [Music] stage I might stand on chair [Music] it awesome tight everybody hey Bry can you see their trophies [Music] I'll get it from you in a minute asses and Sh take two than other seniors legy wasn't able to make it whoever you just [Music] said's Britney Britney be good okay you guys ready okay all right way to go wrestlers job [Applause] here you go [Music] you and once again thank you so much for helping the middle school with the country [Music] going [Applause] get [Music] do [Music] Mr those good those whats oh yes yeah quite a bit of work that people put in on those quiet we still have more recognition all right so we still have a few more
008things to celebrate here around the district and uh if the community is watching it is tradition around here that once we recognize all the students they have very busy lives homework that we allow them to head home and we found them dinner tonight though if you didn't know which was pretty fun we got to have dinner with the wrestling team before the meeting so what a great group great group of student athletes so we still have some things to celebrate so I'm going to turn it over to the board to share some of the other good news Well I want to make sure I shared about re oring I don't I've forgotten how many years we've done it I have done it every single year since it began and Ed has been a reader this
009year and last year and Ed did a very good job with his puppet and his wet suit reading Big L and he did a really good job instructionally so I have to give my BL for he did he did yes I watched one of his rounds he did a very good job it's such a wonderful experience it's just it's families and kids coming to hear good stories as entertainment and a family evening and seeing that people love books yeah and it was it's just a a really nice family of and Ed did a good job thank you thank you Mrs mad I would real quick um one of the things I love about our district and is um is the community service that our schools and our kids do so um I would like to
010formally call out and recognize the incredible generosity of the oring elementary school for donating a total of 830 pounds of food to the oring food bank um this act of kindness reflects the spirit of giving and community that boarding Elementary Fosters thank you to the students staff and to helping our community and on the heels of that I'd also like to recognize boing um Middle School uh they recently hosted an anti- litter poster contest to raise awareness about the importance of keeping our community clean um again community and schools go hand in hand and I just love how our schools are just really on this all the time um so congratulations to the following students for their outstanding designs first place went to Able Butler second place the Payton judge and third place looked like
011they had a tie with Leila level and Milana dash dash I'm not sure if I said that right I apologize but thank you thank you to everybody there that helped inspire a cleaner and Greener boarding and thanks Britney for making sure that their posters were shown on on Facebook they did a nice job and glad that they were shared um I I want to give a shout out to uh the high school band um we had a band concert last week and uh it was phenomenal uh the dedication that that our band students are putting in to um to elevating it let me say that and then um we had solo ensembles that they got up there and they got to do their um for the group that was there and uh it's just phenomenal
012to see what we got going on with with the Performing Arts um I know we got a a choir concert next week and then a middle school concert coming up so it's going to be great uh I'll take the last one our oring high school stem 2 students have been busy investigating factors that affect the amount of damage to two eggs inside of a crew capsule do they know how valuable those eggs are we have to increase our budget for that very much so yes uh all to optimize their rocket designs super cool we extend a special thank you to Jimmy halberton class of 2016 and our District Maintenance team for their invaluable assistance with the Prototype testing I would imagine if we're firing rockets off on school grounds it takes a little bit of
013coordination yes uh your support has made this educational project possible so congrats to our kids for that I Love It Fun oh I wanted to make sure that I thanked the maintenance department because when I said earlier about the dugouts so Curtis and some of the other made story pre-made all these frames that then were put together by them and the families and the kids and I was just really in awe that they that they did that so that then it was a group project because they set it up so it would be successful so appreciate their work want me to talk about what do you want me to talk about it what did you tell us about it yeah all yeah yeah yeah I didn't know you I didn't know you were bring that
014one up but I I didn't know either so we we had a we had a donation from Project Graduation last year um that wanted they wanted to give it to a program that was going to do something with it so they donated half of the money to the softball team half of the money to uh the baseball team and that paid for um the concrete slab that we poured underneath it and with that yeah um and so they paid for that Mr Jones Our Community member former teacher came down helped us work on it um and then the softball team and the baseball team donate fundraising money um to pay for the materials we got a couple extra donations on some of the materials um and uh and then maintenance department while it was raining
015and pouring in December uh they were working inside to build all of the sections so that they could put the buildings up in a short amount of time so they had it all set up and done we did it on uh I think it was like less than a day we had all of the three walls for all four dugouts done and then on a Saturday we had parents and students come down and help put up the roof and we put it put it all together and then the last couple weekends we've had Parents down siding Roofing uh doing other parts of the other parts of the Dugout when when the weather gets better uh we have a couple of parents that are volunteered to come and paint the dugouts for us so if you
016guys get a chance to go down there they look really they're they're significantly longer and deeper um and uh more solidly built so I I was going to say I'm sturdier because he told me that the kids push down all those yeah the kids and parents came and demoed you know that's the fun part of any they came and demoed the old dugouts and then uh James Whitaker from uh uh Valley garage door right uh came and donated uh his time in his dump trailer so we could load up his dump trailer and take all the remnants uh up to the dump and then we tried to reuse as much material as we could 2x4s 2x sixes um and a lot of the other stuff that we use to help build it so yeah it
017went really smooth and happened very quickly because of uh Curtis's Curtis IBO is good planning they really did and have for new job thank you all right that was a lot to celebrate very clol and next on our agenda is community and staff comments and I understand we didn't have anybody sign up to speak tonight so we will move along to the superintendent report thank you director Tibido uh a few things I want to call out I want to start my report tonight just thinking about facil facilities as uh Bonnie pulls that up on the screen we've been working with our partners at the city to help to add and expand temporary facility space as you know oring Elementary and oring high school have no more classroom learning space uh so part of what we're
018preparing is communication to go out to families at both schools about some changes they can expect likely after spring break we'll know in the next couple few days here whether we get final permit approval but the plan is to add Portables in the main school parking lot and at this point we will have four located there and then the area we've cleared and made space for in the back uh will be additional parking part of our concern from the city perspective is that we have ample or adequate parking to satisfy what we're going to lose by putting Portables in that location so Britney's drafted communication that once we get the green light and goahead we'll go out to families prior to spring break so they know what to expect on the return uh we're putting
019a little map communication about how to get in and how to leave the high school parking lot part of the reason for the hog fuel or what doesn't look like gravel or asphall is that's peria surface allows water to drain it doesn't disturb native soils and reduces the scope of permits or work that we would need to do to get the the thumb up on that so that communication is drafted ready to go thinking about where we're going as a system we recently gave our bond task force we talk about that in a little bit our current demography report uh one of the things we saw is that our 10year forecast as they lean in and look at all the development that's happening and what that does for enrollment uh that puts our aggregate estimate
020a little over 6,000 children by 2034 thinking about the elementary where we've talked about a severe limitation of space uh that would put Tagan Ridge in the 2030s uh over 800 students reminder that was built for 460 students uh oring Elementary sees in this forecast a significant greater amount of growth due to tahal which much of that build out is in the late 20s and early 2030s uh that has us at 1,800 plus elementary students and as you recall that facility is built for 290 you have charged and directed A group of 13 community members to look into this issue and make a joint recommendation with you to the community what should we do next and why and when so part of the meetings we've had so far which have been two they've reviewed our
021current capacity our condition challenges that we've had uh they've looked at that future growth we've talked about our previous Bond attempts and next Monday we're taking them on a tour during the day they'll get to go to talk to oring Elementary oring High School staff and students they'll tour the facilities and that'll help to give some background knowledge so ultimately when they make the recommendation to you in May that's grounded not only in what the data says but what are their own visual observations and what are the hearing so May 1st uh we're still intending that afternoon that the committee talk with you and help to have that conversation facilitated by our architect about what are those findings and what do we think should happen and why uh next one of the things they're seeing
022is the same thing that CAC and you saw as there's more to do than can probably be done at a first attempt so that's going to be a heck of a conversation March is music in our school's month uh director Milo spoke about the amazing band concert first time in my life uh and that's been a few years now where there is actually a triangle solo I've never seen a triangle solo uh that was the first time uh we're highlighting some middle school students as well really trying to elevate our music programs great things happening uh just some of the records I thought I'd bring that out in case we didn't get that out with our wrestlers here tonight eight individual state champions two four-time Champions one of the coolest things when I was principal
023we had three four-time Champions and the previous four-time Champions were there to celebrate and greet our current four-time Champions and it was just a beautiful site uh Jody Coleman photoshopped the one that couldn't be there into the picture so we have a picture of all five uh Drew was there at Spirit uh we had the highest point total at the Matt classic across any classification all time in history uh with 429 points uh there are wrestlers are being honored by the Tacoma athletic commission AJ Sara was honored with the wrestling athlete of the year at that function they're all there to help celebrate so amazing accolades uh that continued past the state tournament for them uh just a reminder for the community that we're coming up on Spring conferences great opportunity from your perspective for
024us to reach out and engage with parents as partners uh they're coming in we have lots of student Le conferences uh but that'll shift our schedule we have a couple of a half days for elementary conferences on April 1st and 2nd and then whole systemwide conferences on April 3rd and 4th which takes us right into spring break so a couple weeks from now conferences leing to spring break the week after we were happily recognizing educate support professional uh two things in that picture one the photo on the left is the rewarding Education Association honoring and celebrating their colleagues so across our system they were actually taking that AB step to say thank you we appreciate you and one of the directives that you have had is to elevate student voice I'm going to play a
025little video that Britney created we've been trying to get into this reel so this messages are accessible on your phone and easily shared uh here's what our kids had to say about our education support professionals and I go to school or in Elementary Miss Heather because she helps me with my writing when she comes in thank you M for helping me I'm and I'm in fifth grade and I go to oring Elementary School Miss J and Miss Stephanie and why because Miss Stephanie is nice to meet Jeremiah and Jackson uh and also miss G because she's nice and gives me snack Ma and CU he told me have a good day and be good so we did several reels throughout the leag just trying to highlight staff and get those good news and that's a
026strategy that we want to continue just to keep that voice out there front and centered in our work can you give me a click pretty please cuz there's more let's go to this this was one of the coolest things I've seen in my career uh we've been partnering with Dr Paul Bloomberg to help lean into our instructional puzzles of practice help us with our data get some systems and tools in place to really try to elevate what's in the way and uh tackle that he is writing a new book and he works with schools all across the country in agregate probably at least 150,000 students or more uh and he said to oring because of all the work you're doing with agency I would love to come and talk to your students and really really
027practice this idea I have around student-led instructional rounds so there he is on the left uh working with our middle school students on the right with our high school students Thursday and Friday last week he went in and interviewed students and they created success criteria what do we want to go in and look for related to ownership and related to risk-taking related to culture and the dignity work and so they created their success criteria about what do we really want to celebrate and look for they went in our classes they collected data they talked to their peers came came back and debrief on the left first time in my career I've actually seen students and teachers talking about instruction and ways to tap in and engage and support all Learners on the left side the
028students the things that High School said blew me away uh one of the kids on the left said uh I can't remember the exact question that Paul asked but uh asked a very deep reflective question and the student says I really think it would help our own agency if we're able to have some Independence and control and what we're doing and he's having an adult conversation at the table that you never would have known that's in his head and not only that but what came out of his mouth is a line to what we're actually wanting to do is get kids in the driver's seat so uh at the end on the right Paul says to his high school kids just casually he's like hey I have this blog there's like 400,000 or so followers
029on my blog would you all join me in the blog when you write about your experience and their eyes just kind of wide and open he said I got national International followers they'd love to hear what you have to say and so just one thing you never know where these things go but having our kids voice elevated and that be a probable Center of work when his book gets out and oring kids are featured how cool is that so that was a lot of fun and a great highlight last week uh we obviously want to keep and maintain those parent Partnerships our PTA ptte uh we invited them in yesterday we shared what we're working on they shared what they're working on uh great Bingo night they're expecting PTR tomorrow night to be filled upcoming
030activities and events we just can't appreciate them more for what they do to engage and connect parents and kids and Community uh may work session we have that coming up time to start thinking about your priorities for next year what's working what's in the way what would you like to see addressed whether we're thinking about student outcomes and our core goal areas you've discussed about parent voice Community Connection elevating student voice of course facilities have been an ongoing question so just remind you to think about what do you think that would be the most helpful tool how can cabinet how can we help set you up for that conversation and lean into that as we think about emerging priorities not everything can be a priority but what do you hold most essential in need of
031change and what can we do together to tackle that so just reminder that's coming up and sometimes this job is challenging because you have to look great people in the eye and say I'm sorry I don't have the position for you and other times you have sheer joy and exhilaration by recognizing their hard work and say it's come together and meant to be today was one of those times uh where I had the pleasure of introducing Matt Carlson as the next principal ofing High School where he received resounding Applause from the staff very cool uh he did a wonderful job and last board meeting when he talked about CTE You Could See Vision and forward thinking and values in place uh and we didn't know the opportunity at the time would present itself the way
032it did but uh he's the winner winner chicken dinner so we had a great great joy of sharing that out uh and July 1st he will assume that position taking over for a wonderful principal Mr Cliff freeze so with that that concludes my report for the month many more things happening across the system those are just a few key highlights there's a lot in I'm I'm very excited for Matt and to see his leadership leading high school I'm super proud of our stent board reps last night leading the interview um that was great and I appreciated hearing hearing their questions so I'm very proud of that uh we've never done that before yeah I liked it and I loved it yeah y so many so many things to celebrate I love the kid interview reels
033they're [Music] awesome yeah a lot of big wins for our district all around good update to take in there so muchen there's a lot happen I don't think it's going to slow down for a while no everybody thinks we relax during the summer time too there's so much happening that's great well we're happy to turn it over to our students for their report don't see that happening we elevated student voice so much they went right out of the room uh they did ask for twice as much time next month perect so I'm sure we will have a report then and both were part of the student Le uh piece so should be some great updates from the work out in our schools yeah yeah they we've got two very dedicated very busy students so they're
034forgiven I want to just comment real quick on watching um our student reps Jaden and Carly um watching them as they come in and how they speak and how they interact and even at this I is this even a midpoint but just that how even more well spoken that they are and their ability to kind of feel comfortable in their own skin speaking out and speaking in public and um I think that that's one of the things even learning at the OS um board work session that enabling the students to have that voice just makes them more confident and better as they go on you can't put a grade on that you can't put a test score on that um but these are kids that are becoming um fantastic societal members and that says so
035so much about what we're doing here it's very exciting and I think the wrestling team kind of brought it up too we're giving that we're making sure that they have opportunities to go out and put their best foot forward and get themselves out there in competition or like say taking the board reps to the the conference so they can get lead more leadership skills you know sometimes people they might question those dollars but I think from what I've seen those are some of the best dollars we spend because the kids get to really learn who they are and it's not just for their grade or for that year but those are things that will last them for the rest of their life and so I was glad that they brought up that they get to
036go to competitions in different places because I think that's a valuable thing that we make sure that that they can do that great report thank you so we did the report for we said what a great job they all right uh so the next report I'd like to invite fire dusing Valley fire and rescue thank you Central Pierce Fire and Rescue and Graham he's got a lot under his plate yeah so thank you members of the board Mr superintendent I really appreciate the opportunity to spend four or five minutes with you tonight U my name is Dustin Marl I am the fire chief of central peer fire and rescue wording Val F rescue and Grand far rescue I find myself in a very unique position uh these days but absolutely fun I just want to
037congratulate you first off I mean the the way with which you are conducting this meeting and engaging those students and recognizing your staff is just awesome I have to tell you you know in the first 47 minutes of this meeting I myself just feel extremely inspired and honestly I've been in this business since 1986 and most of the firefighters men and women that came in in my era actually were Harvest from the school system and I find myself sitting there thinking how did we lose that pathway and like I'm sitting there thinking about the only thing I need is a wrestling program and I recruit all those people and fill my Staffing so maybe we can talk about later but all serious this it's just I'm feeling inspired by everything that you're speaking to tonight
038so just a couple quick things I want to share with you so over the last 24 months uh led by 15 elected fire Commissioners we've been working on putting the three organizations together centring and it's been just a phenomenal project it's been a ton of work um but for all the right reasons those individuals have been directing myself and staff to really do what we're doing I want to tell you why we're doing it so the first thing is and I don't think this is uh probably too different than a school district but the growth and development that has occurred in the these three districts has just woven us together I mean it we literally are having trouble figuring out like are you in that District this District over there so it's just a natural
039byproduct of the way that this region has really developed and grown and it's just time for us to recognize that that those original boundaries just don't make sense anymore the second thing is in the fire service we live by these what their sharing agreements but automatic or Mutual Aid agreements where we're supposed to be offering uh each other through the communities the resources regardless of who they come from and and if we use them for a long time we're supposed to build each other which is crazy but we just outlive those they they hly Legacy agreements that exist in this County they're no longer relevant they don't make sense and honestly the community doesn't want to have any level of bureaucracy about making sure that the closest unit gets to the ciac arrest or their
040stroke or their house so we've just made a conscious Choice those those agreements work for us and we're going to rework those the uh third thing is really again you know emergencies don't recognize any geopolitical boundary you know uh somebody that's having a heart attack does not go to a phone book and say hey which fire department should I call they don't make any uh you know question about who whose fire district it is or not they just want to be served so same thing that growth that we this together we just need to stand down in geopolitical beverage we've done that through contracts so we're all a contract pooling our resources sharing those resources openly under the control we have five on duty Chief officers a day that literally before oring Valley had two
041fire stations a twers engine a twers medic unit a two person medic unit up at 43s the moment we all came under contract there's now a four person engine a Sixers engine a two person medic and a two person medic and they have access to 22 more fire stations unrestricted didn't cost the community time it was really just an administrative process I Ste forward of Courage of board members and staff like yourself that said this is the right thing to do it's what's expected in the community and then the fourth thing that really everybody had to recognize and Central Pierce is the larger organization in this equation but even Central pece there's no way for us to do it by ourselves anymore we cannot continue to go back to the community to ask for Bond
042after Bond after Bond after Levy after Levy after Levy after lift it just doesn't anym so the only way for us to stay current with growth is really to do it together start taking the margin from driving out the duplication creating the efficiencies ging the economy a scale that is what's letting us actually do the work that we're doing together so we're just calling it better together and it's working out really great so what has occurred so far uh the most challenging thing is that we have negotiated with our labor Partners a single contract a single labor contract contract that literally puts all the firefighter Chief officers under a single contract there's about 605 individuals in this organization now uh that was a ton of work but that's where we needed to start with our
043labor Partners so we have that done uh the Commissioners themselves they do have a requirement within three election Cycles to get back down to five so there's 15 with one x officio 16 the 15 of them in three election Cycles have to get back on five they have a wonderful plan they are great people that are really really open-minded and are are sitting at these diets for the very right reason some of them have already said i' I've done my part I've got here the moment I can I'm going to step aside so we can start reducing reducing costs and everything that goes with it uh the thing that I'm most proud of to be honest with you is in two spaces is one is culture uh this this board of fire Commissioners said for
044the very beginning we are going to attack culture we're going to get one culture assembled work in an intended culture it has just resulted in some really really rich aspects of what our values are and it's the weirdest thing for me I you may uh understand this statement possibly in the public sector we do a lot of work with mission statements vision statements all these different things and it seems like sometimes they sit up on the Shelf unlike what is on your board very very clear this is the first time in my career we've chosen just to be purposeful about our purpose and our purpose is just people helping people there is no uh it seems so simple but it's also very very complex when you dive into it's super cool so we have just
045done amazing work with culture and then the other thing is because we've come together I think you'll appreciate this we've been able to hire actually three teachers public Educators certified teachers that are really trying to get in the schools make sure that we're understanding your curriculum and how can work with our curriculum to teach fire safety in the schools we would never able to do any of that by ourselves we're really hoping to expand those programs so and then the last thing is that uh we have an administrative process that we have to conduct and it's happening in April 22nd it's it's weird in our business the rcws and government fire districts are quite old but in order to make this happen uh the oring valley communities and the and the grand communities have to
046vote to come into Central Pierce Central Pierce does not get a vote it's just the way that the law is written so uh we've been out talking about this everywhere we can sharing the information we can this is not a money majure this is simply an administrative process that allows the three organizations to come together that's happening on April 22nd we do believe that that will be successful then we'll move move from April to January 1 of 2026 into the new entity and then there's the final piece that Central peer says have a requirement at a minimum this new organization to go out in the community and solicit if there's a desire to change the name which has pros and cons you know comes with expense uh but there's some good things that could support
047the culture doing too so bottom line is we're trying to make our performance right on the street level go through the roof we're trying to either take our cost and make them flat or hopefully reduce them and uh make sure we're just providing the absolute best Emergency Services down here in the valley everywhere else we're serving 178 squ miles and I'm absolutely serious about the wrestling program but I'm going to figure out way to hly get us back in school so way that we can recruit directly it makes so much sense so and I'm happy answer your questions well actually the emergency did go to the match so basketball you know you do attend some I'm I'm really impressed because I understand I've been here a long time so I was here like when we
048had the earthquake I was here when there was a fire and I understand you know um that communication or the person that you need might not always be available so I really appreciate that organizational structure that you're doing and and the other thing is is that you know an emergency like you said you can't predict when it's going to happen but things like things like you know the fire the forest fire that we had in that I'm sure that's not just one one fire agency you know and so they need to have a structure that automatically gets together and and works together for those things when you're going to need it and I love when I'm listening to the news and they say something about well who is the emergency coordinator I said they didn't
049have that established who that would be because listening to you guys I know you know I know the kind of structure that is really like you said might not sound all that important but when you're there in an emergency oh yeah and SE thank you for that uh Zane Gibson is the actual fire chief over fire rescue Zayn has always been a master in the Emergency Management space I'm sure you know he's he's you know Master he came over to the organization and assumed the role of emergency manager for us as a deputy chief and now his great work has gone across this entire space it has brought so much energy to us about preparedness versus reactive to emergency it's just been fantastic we never would have that yeah because I remember a long time
050ago he was talking about was thear J said so what if because the command center was some place and he said so what if I can't get there so he made sure that there was somebody else who would be appointed because you know logistically he might not make it there you know so I I understand what you're saying yeah great I have questions for you uh two uh first how does this new structure benefit it's yeah it's excellent so for us having the like The Limited resource that oring Valley was stand alone right is now like multiplied by many factors so our ability to be more timely getting in your schools when there is a incident our ability especially down here in the valley to do more uh prevention and education related work our ability
051to be present and hopefully influence you know some safety mindsets has been multiplied substanti and of course I mean I'm joking at the beginning but there is absolutely probably an acceleration Factor here where some of those students I suspect some of those men and women at some point in their early Journey may be thinking about the fire service and obviously for us to create additional Pathways for them just make total sense so that was my next question is how can you connect to our CTE program because we do have a a strong service-minded student body you heard evidence of the service work in our community and so I think there's probably some future firen and women love that so connecting to our CTE program it's very strong we're hoping to make it stronger and grow
052it in the years ahead and that there could be an opportunity there I love that it honestly the answer your question it just takes courage so you know having the recognition the way that most people got in this profession was through some educational system or volunteering in the community we've lost some of that so not unlike the work that we're doing out or together it just takes per so just shortly if I can say like this year is the first year that we have hired a hand crew so for four months it's temporary employment we're harvesting most of those kids out of the pis County Skills Center uh but it's just doing things like that that that take some courage that are maybe a little bit non-traditional in the current fire service environment and getting
053back to honestly where we can just take the talent directly out of our community instead of hiring people from Far outside the community I'm into it question we you stole mine so ask you were there not traditional I like that term it's go thank you I do hope to uh if I can just share you know we met uh a couple months ago and I got to really thinking about there's so much that we can learn from the school district system from this board from your staff and I do want to take advantage of the conversation we had about changing some folks just to learn different systems um when we get out of our own space is where we grow the most so I really appreciated the conversation we had and the offer to do
054some of that work so I'm going to take advantage of that thank you thank you than appreciate yeah if you don't mind I'm going to excuse myself in Head West oh treat when we do come raising the [Applause] howly display this show it off to the other districts as you go out will do thanks for coming thank you so much I really appreciate it thank you nice work thank you see you later thank you record I think we should wear wring t-shirts every meeting like this casual VI it's got that feel good yeah love it all right uh we are missing Miss Bannon tonight but I didn't see any questions come through on the financial report solid as always the Ed is available no questions all good it's January it is what it is the
055only place in any Financial system where January is the mid point School finances are special all right asset preservation program presented y not much to share just a reminder this is a yearly occurrence for any facility built with public funds for 20 years thereafter we were required at least once every year to hire an outside consultant that was most recently done on our study and Survey in 2023 and every off year if you have a trained professional which we do in Mr Curtis nibo we're required to do a condition I review of those facilities and make sure that we are taking good care of the facilities paid for by the Public's tax so attach is the report of what he has done for the buildings that qualify under the asset preservation program uh we have
056identified some areas like we typically do or we replace boilers or certain HVAC units and so we do have some things that we intend to replace uh part of our strategy is to minimize cost to the local taxpayer and seek grant funding as you recall We have replaced tons and tons of lights throughout the system uh and previous water heaters at PTR uh we have one more of our iring uh eying at OMS and those if you can really get good grant funding sometimes can have a return on investment in a year and a half to two which means the public dollar is green every year thereafter so uh we're going to continue to pursue those grants and Curtis has done that review this year and it'll be a few more years probably before we
057go back out and do a complete study and Survey since it's most recent done just a couple years ago but happy can answer any questions you have but that's the gist of what you have in your packet tonight thank you questions checking in with you do you have questions all good okay thank you thank you director Christensen transportation and school owned Vehicles report okay well I too will be brief this evening this is an annual report with regard to transportation and it has to do with our walking map which uh we have basically four filters for looking at the walking map for our K3 students uh to start with and that would be within a one mile radius of the school district if there's a hazardous situation if there's a disability that would imp their
058ability to get to school safely and also comping reasons so those are Case by case basis but generally speaking I did provide for you the four maps for each of maps for each of the schools so that you could see the walking areas and uh then we also provided a report with regard to our attachment that has the vehicles that we have within our Fleet the yellow Fleet which ises and the White Fleet which is vehicles and and additional students in our district and one of the pieces that you'll see within the memo is we're responsible for reporting each year if we have any staff members that have take home vehicles and we do not that continues to be consistent with all vehicles remain on campus day one question I didn't think to send in
059advance and I'm not expecting immediately but as we look at those enrollment projections I don't know that I've considered bus purchases along with those projections most of the development is well beyond that one mile radius I know that comes I know there's tons of operational costs that come with enrollment growth but that would be interesting to see at some point down the road what projection what a projection look like for yes and our transportation facilities are undersized already uh just po into my head a lot with little yeah right very much so um but that's that's a big ticket item that I hadn't really wrapped my mind around just yet aligned to those projections so at some point and one of the things since we have how many years in a row have we gotten
060the A+ rating on our our buses you know so that shows you just the the maintenance that they are doing to maintain our Fleet keep it going and and like you said circumstances that U leave a lot to be desired at that building they do a great job of what they have anticipa rolling into a good report again when they are here again for the Washington State Patrol on March 31st yeah one thing you can expect with the growth of UPS uh we're looking at redoing the routing to send a home run or direct bus there probably before the end of this school year to minimize ride time so director christensen's working with our transportation supervisor director now to really kind of analyze that and there will be some short-term adjustments and part of the
061recommendation we're talking with their team is about how do we modify school start in end times to create a little space there's ongoing congestion and future construction hitting our district and we want to make sure kids aren't stopped or that we can make those times because parents worry if we say we're going to be here at a certain time and we get stuck in traffic so we will have some recommendations for you for next year's school schedule based on the routing times and what we see and what we're trying to forecast we do receive depreciation money for vehicles so Megan and Debbie right now have some money to make some decisions for next year and the year after at some point growth could exceed depreciation in that case you do have the ability to run
062a capital Levy for transportation vehicles uh and ask the public for support in that area and then part of your consideration in the bond task force is do you want to look at the next Bond or Bond after about a potential new maintenance uh and transportation facility and if you provide that direction then our job is to look at feasibility of land and where would we put such a facility but you really don't need much acreage maybe four acres or so and I'm assuming um that we're looking at big buses and the short buses too because I know that the short bus are also packed at the end of the [Music] day any questions for no questions thank you the next item is our consent agenda items one through six no wrestling field trip this
063time glad app yeah all right I will entertain a motion I move to approve items one through six on the consent agenda thank you all in favor from good motion passes right we've got a couple action items first one okay just really quick uh the hazard mitigation plan which is a five-year plan is sunsetting in November of 2025 I think I mentioned this one time before somebody much younger and way more handsome than me will be uh bringing it to your approval at some point in the fall um and um this is one part of that the hazard mitigation plan is tied to f funding for hazard mitigation and and different things the community survey is something that's required in the plan it's not something that I had previously developed until just now and so
064what it does for us is it it sends it goes out to the community and asks for their input we look at their input and then out of that we could maybe possibly generate some ideas of some things that we would put within our plan that would potentially need FEMA funding so we're just trying to get their sense of what they understand about safety as individuals families community that kind of a thing um I don't know what kind of feedback we'll get but what feedback we do get we'll we'll kind of take a quick look at it and see what we can do and if there's anything we could add to our kind of our goal structure of the plan so is the survey generated by that by FEMA or by so this so the
065survey that that was uploaded for you was um uh I got that from White River and White River got it from Pierce County Emergency Management so the people that are helping us do that so they have some boiler plate stuff so they they got that stuff from Pierce County management they put it into the form of a survey and sent me a hard copy and then Joe Garcia kind of turned it into a form for us um but it's the same questions that they got from Pierce County Emergency Management there that's the group that's really helping us go through the hazard mitigation plan very thankful for it because they take each section and they personalize them per district and then they send us those sections and say these are the pieces that uh you need
066to look at change so I'm in the process of looking at some of that but they also pull these kinds of resources like Community surveys and stuff from sources that they know are FEA friendly you know so that they'll provide you good information that if there is something out there that our community needs it'll be identified in a way that it fits within kind of the feema guidelines for potential funding I read this but now I'm not sure I was following along so we complete the survey the community identifies potential mitigation that could be needed and then we ask FEMA for the funds based on that information no we build it into our plan so there's a section of our plan where we've got to identify what our mitigation goals are for the next 5
067years we already know of those things are this will just be another piece of information that will add to our thinking about that so my guess is the kind of stuff that we've already identified is probably I mean they don't even they probably won't even respond to some of that stuff but if what we see in our community as a high level of concern over something specific that maybe we weren't thinking about then then we would probably bring that forward to take a look at it and say this might be this might be a mitigation goal that we have for the next five years and the theme of funding can come from that if if we can there's I I don't fully understand how you apply for the funding I know that if you do
068have a hazard that is a part of your plan and that's already identified in your plan that kind of greases the skids a little bit to get to get the funding but in terms of providing funding for the different things we put in our plan I'm not completely familiar how that happens and you may have done this before you may have a better understanding of that no I've never taken okay so it's it's it's more it's more information right it's for example like you're trying to decide how to um uh what kind of a bond you you know what our needs are right but then you go out you hear some other things from people and it confirms or maybe it even makes us think about something that's like oh we weren't seeing that you
069know people have been pretty silent about that but now we see that that's a big issue so it's an opportunity for us not to miss and not to miss what the community concern about and to also hear their voices I see the value of the survey yeah I'm just not sure about the connection to the FEMA funding I can I can I can dig into that for a little bit okay because I don't know either open bail me out but how yeah how what is what is the connection there and yeah yeah I'd be happy to I'd be happy to find that out for it it's something that's still funded when does the survey get some soon as you guys say it's good to go no uh we'll send it out through parents Square the
070website so we'll just send it out there so that they can did the city just do a similar surve well they're also doing their Hazard mitigation plan so it probably doesn't surprise me what we're trying to do and and maybe we could have done this a little bit earlier joined hands on that but we also have to have a community event as a part of this plan development and I think I think that's been done like during the daffodale festival or something like that and send up a tent out there and um um I remember Steve Paretti did this when he was here so and so um but I've been talking with the uh the safety individual of the city and seeing if maybe we could join if we could partner on the community event
071so we don't have to actually when they do the at the fire station when they do what do they call it like yeah it's a safety event helmet the emergency we've had a table at that where that that was covered yeah yeah interesting okay and that's a really they got a lot of peopley well funding is always on my mind so I'm curious mostly curious about that so we're not missing an opportunity there um and it it you know the survey I think is helpful I know when I first was elected to the board we didn't have laar in one of our plans like you know one of our biggest risks we were still quiet on um so I think it's good that we're asking Community for input on that maybe there's something on their
072radar that's maybe outside the scope for our conversations currently that we could expand to that's good to do with it yeah they have they have an interesting requirement that uh that the way they phrase it is that you need to get permission from the board to CH to to revise the plan but you have to revise the plan so it's it's very weird and I talked back and forth trying to figure out what exactly it means it's not a it's not a a board official action or something but it has to show up in the minutes that we had the conversation about the hazard mitigation plan and that you're informed of it you're aware you're you know you're in alignment with the you know the improvements and the changes that we're doing for it so
073this will this will actually be two birds with the same Stone all right we do need to take AC I'll get some information for you on that yeah I'm curious about the funding but we still need we still need to take action and allow you to do the survey yeah I need to know that you guys are okay with that yeah I did read through the survey I don't see anything that's chocking or surprising there yeah I thought so too I hope people respond when they see how long yeah yeah I mean it doesn't have to be that long I mean if you think that's going to be a a nailbiter I mean we can uh we can modify [Music] it send it I think White River got like 220 responses is what I heard
074yeah so we learn it's the first time we've done the survey so we'll learn if it's too long by how people participate in it but I'm reluctant to edit it okay yeah me it's my first rode too so i' be perfect i' mess it up and the additional comment is short this then I did the city I participated in the cities and it was comparable to this one I had the same feeling still well I wonder if they're going to see this again go didn't I already fild this out I think that'll happen I think that'll happen so it'll be interesting all right the other thing I can do is I can talk to Tim B at the city and and we can compare notes yeah like if he got a bunch of responses back
075and their similar questions we can we can consult it he's he's he's a new uh he's a new uh member of the city organization this year and he's gho he's going to have on board and brought up the good point that they're looking at a 2 mile radius and we're looking at a 45 mile radius pretty different terrain than the valley floor so it would be interesting to compare um but also knowing that we're getting a much broader scope of people wild fires mean something different when you live up in the hills so all right so we need to take action on this I don't feel like I have any changes for no changes Joan good okay I will move to approve the haard plan and Community survey as presented second thank you all in
076favor I motion passes and next item is the conditional Certificate request yes every now and again I come before you and ask for your consideration and approval or a conditional Certificate request this one is a little earlier than you often see a couple reasons for that one we want to make sure that we have stop Gap coverage for an employee that already exists often times I come to you with a shortage that we have with someone that we're trying to hire this is someone that's already part of our um environment part of our employee Workforce unfortunately like myself has test anxiety and uh needs to take that test again and our um certification office is now requiring about phasing into a six Monon renewal process so you don't Renew at the end of the summer
077or the beginning of the summer even nowadays and expect to get by September so this employee will continue to take the test and maybe we won't even need this conditional certificate that's the that's the goal but we want to make sure that we have plenty of time to get this certificate in place for someone who is doing well with kids and just needs to be able to take this test and pass it so that the final issu thank you questions no questions I will take a motion I move to approve the request for reissuance of a conditional certificate by Opa for Jenna kerson for the 2526 school year second thank you all in favor I I I thanks motion passes you comments this meeting made me [Music] Happ just had a good feel okay and
078and you know what at this point in time want to recognize good I'd like to recognize the work of the task force for for Bond task force um we were uh it was encouraging we asked for five community members to step forward and I think we said 12 uh so that was fantastic that we had so many dedicated people willing to put in the time uh and do the homework we've given them stacks and stacks of data and information uh from our previous La work that they're using to evaluate and provide a recommendation on how we should move forward so uh I just appreciate that time commitment we're meeting weekly and two meetings so far and handful more to go so thank you um shout out to the wrestling team and the trophies that are
079here and and just you know yeah back to this was great you know board meeting and and to be able to elevate them right and shine light on them that's that's what it's all about it definitely was a meeting that exemplified that connection relationships keep hearing that over and over again and that was we have that in space so we're living our model that's right that's right I I also just want to put Spotlight on the work that Paul's doing with our students uh first of all but the cool work that's happening within our building is recognized and ack Knowledge from somebody outside the system um and that we're able to engage our kids in a very different way that will impact learning not just for themselves but for many students so that's cool I
080can't wait to see how that unfolds over time cool all right should be no surprise that we're going to recommend agency be our word of the year next year and our kickoff speaker speak about learner agency and how all of us can play a role in the development advancement of of that concept so just foreshadow to May's conversation with you you know what be cool some of these students that we saw tonight have them do little clips about cool all right then with that idea I will adjourn tonight's meeting at 7:23 p.m.