001I think I'm good. Uh, we'll call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I have a motion to approve the agenda. >> I will second. >> Second. >> Frankle second. So we moved in and seconded to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Uh first up is um our student board reps for 25 20 or 26 27 school year. Um what we'll do uh Reagan, Michaela, and Grayson is we'll excuse um who we got first. Sorry. You'll go with Miss Casey. She'll and then we'll bring you out one one at a time and we have a set of questions for each of you. And for the board, we'll just take turns until we'll just keep going around. >> Do you think you
002like that? >> I just for those who are in the audience probably For the the record, couple years ago, we went to a multi-year, I'm always telling everybody to use a microphone and then I forgot. A couple years ago, our student board reps um we were doing a turnover like all three would leave and then all three would come. And so we went to a where we had juniors and seniors and this year we're replacing one who's graduating. So this year we're have we're doing interviews and this person who is chosen will be on for two years because these ladies will be on for two years and that way we always have one experienced student board rep on the panel at a time. So that's for the record and um director Rener will just manage
003um what's going on today. They will do their interviews out here in public and then the board will go in to executive session to decide question on that. >> Um board members, you have your questions are on a should have three copies and you got pencils there and make your notes and go from there. >> All right. And the so the first one is Reagan Andrews. That's the easiest question. >> Can hear you. Well, if you want to have a pretty close >> Okay. Is this good? >> Yep, we can hear you. >> Okay, >> Reagan, welcome. Thank you for uh signing up for this. Uh part of this process is we've got a series of six questions. uh we'll take turns asking you the question and just answer to your best of your ability.
004>> Okay. Thank you for having me. >> You're welcome. The first question is probably the the easiest for me to to ask is what's your name and graduation year? >> My name is Regan Andrews and my graduation year is 2028. >> Thank you. >> Hi Reagan. >> Hi. >> Why are you interested in serving as student representative on the proer school board? I'm interested in serving as a student representative because I feel like I can give a voice to some students who might be a little bit too nervous to advocate for themselves. I feel like I'm an approachable person. And so at my school, people might feel more comfortable coming to me to talk about something than taking the step to come to the board to talk about it. And so I could bring it
005up with the board for them. And I think that everybody deserves like a chance to be heard. Hi Reagan. Um, if you could bring one student concern or idea to the board right now, what would it be and why? >> So, something that I think a lot of students are concerned about is the switch from trimesters to semesters and just the switch of five classes a day to seven. And I think they're concerned because of the different workload. Even though the classes will be shorter, the seven the additional two classes can create more stress and homework for them. So something that I think is a concern is the switch. Reagan, what would you do to make sure you're hearing a variety of student voices? So, something that I would do to make sure I'm hearing
006a variety of voices is first make sure that a lot of students know that I am on the board and that I'm willing to listen to anybody. Even if their idea is like a one-s sentence thing, I'm willing to hear anyone out. And then I would get a notebook at the start of the year and probably keep those ideas, jot them down as soon as they tell me and keep it in my backpack so I don't forget or set up something on my phone maybe so it's more accessible at all times and just make sure that I don't forget anything that people tell me. >> Reagan, uh, what what does being a good representative of your school community mean to you? To me, being a good representative of my school and community looks like being
007kind to everyone, making sure that everyone feels heard and understood, even if I disagree with what they're saying, still hearing them out, and making sure that they're comfortable talking to me, and making sure that I am respectful to everyone, responsible with what I'm doing, and making the environment comfortable for everyone. Thank you. >> I think this is the last question for you. What strengths or qualities do you have that would help you represent students well? >> So, one of my strengths is being responsible. I feel like I am good at maintaining my grades and on top of extracurriculars. So, I feel like that would play a role in my responsibility. And I'm very organized. I always make sure I have everything in line and in order before starting a project or something like that. I'm
008respectful. I always listen to the authority, you know, in the room. And I try to maintain composure. Even if I disagree with what someone is saying, still try and hear them out and then respond in the most respectful way. >> Well, Reagan, you did a good job. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um, you can go ahead and go. Well, yeah. I think you go back into that room and we'll finish these. We appreciate it. Thank you. >> Barely. Okay. Thank you. You really want to feel like you're almost eating when I Okay, >> Michaela, welcome. Thank you for signing up to to be a part of this. Uh, appreciate you doing that. Uh, how this will work is we've got a series of six questions. Each one of us will take a a turn
009asking a question and and um there's six total. So >> good luck. You see >> Oh, then it's fine. Sorry. >> Um what is your name and graduation year? >> My name is Michaela Raul and I graduate with the class of 28. >> Michaela, why are you interested in serving as a student representative on the proer school board? Uh, I want to be a voice for my peers and I think that I could do something with their complaints and I just want to bring them up instead of just complaining about it to other people around me. >> Thank you, >> Michaela. If you could bring one student concern or idea to the board right away, what would it be and why? >> That's a hard one. I think one thing students complain about is just
010like packed bathrooms. And I think we could find a better way to solve that other than just like combining other than like stuffing everything at one time. I feel like we could find a better like system of getting a little bit cleaner bathroom if that makes sense. Thank you. >> What would you do to make sure you're hearing a variety of student appointments? >> One thing I would do would be create like surveys or have like boxes where people could put any complaints that they have or things that they want brought up and improved throughout the district. >> Thank you. What does being a good representative of your school community mean to you? >> Being a good representative of my community is helping other people and doing the right thing even when no one's paying
011attention and just being a like being helpful to people and like not just your students but people older than you and younger than you because it kind of goes a long way no matter who it is. You need to pay respect to them because people younger are always watching who you or who you are and what you show to >> Michaela. What strengths or qualities do you have that would help you represent students? Well, >> my strengths is when I believe in something, I believe in it firmly and I go all in for things that I do. I don't just do something halfway and I'm very loud about what I believe in. >> Thank you, >> Michaela. That's the six questions. We thank you for for doing that. Uh Kim will take you back into
012that room and >> thank you. >> So appreciate it. Thank you. I'm pretty close to >> Okay, like this. >> Okay, >> Grayson, welcome. Uh, thank you for for signing up for this. >> Uh, the way it'll work is we've got uh six questions. each one of us will take turns um asking you those questions and and then you'll have the floor. So the the first one and the easiest one is uh what's your name and graduation year? >> Uh my name is Grayson Stockdale. Um I graduate 2028. Um yeah, sorry. >> Hi Grayson. Why are you interested in serving as a student representative on the Foster School Board? Uh, I'm interested because I think I could bring good ideas and I like I branch out to a lot of people so there could be
013like a lot of new input coming in and then also a little bit of greed. I do think it would look really good in like applying for college. So, >> if you could bring one student concern or idea to the board right now or right away, what would it be and why? um right away. Uh well, there are there are two bathrooms closed for the guys right now and it's really annoying. So, like I'm coming from the auditorium going to um the far classroom on the third story. And so if I need to make it to the restroom between those classes, I literally can't. So something that we could do to like fix them in faster, if that's even possible. But just that sort of thing. >> Grayson, what would you do to make sure
014you're hearing a variety of student voices? >> Um, just continuing to branch out. I like to talk to um a bunch of different types of people. Just like if I'm just sitting by someone, I'll talk to them. If someone I'm I like to think I'm an open-minded person. So if someone just brings up that they have an issue with something or they like something even I think it would be good input that I could interpret and then bring to the meetings. >> Grayson, um what does being a good representative of your school community mean to you? uh someone that would listen and would be like willing to put in any like necessary work, go to come to these meetings, come to, you know, clear their schedule just to help out the community in whatever way
015possible. >> Thank you. >> The last question for >> what strengths or qualities do you have that would help you represent students? Uh, well, like I said earlier, um, I think being open-minded definitely helps. I think also, um, I can I'm a pretty I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy, so I can communicate with people, uh, very well, uh, especially like one-on-one, so then I can get like their true thoughts on things. So, uh, that sort of thing. >> Thank you, Grayson. Um, that concludes that. Appreciate it. And >> thank you. I think we'll bring them all out and then and then we'll close this and go into executive session. All right. At this time, we'll um screw we will go into executive adjourn and go into executive session pursuant to RCW 42310001H
016decision on student board representatives for the 2627 appointment. Action will be taken afterwards to include a superintendent Kim Casey and it hes to evaluate the qualifications of a candidate for appointment to elective office. However, any interview or such of such candidate and final action appointing a candidate to elective office shall be in a meeting open to the public and we're at 18. We'll reconvene at 6:30. Does that work? It won't actually close, but always ask people. So we'll make a note that we reconvene the meeting at 6 >> two. Um, first of all, I want to thank each of you for, you know, taking the opportunity to sign up for this as well as, um, you know, sit through an interview in front of all these people. You got, you all did a great job
017and I really appreciate it. Um, and with that, any other comments? >> You guys did a great job. Thank you for taking the time. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah, I second that. It's probably pretty scary to come up here and answer all these questions in front of us. And just kudos to you for being brave enough to put yourself forward. >> Well, I would make a motion to appoint Reagan Andrews as the 2026 2027 student board representative for the Foster School Board. >> I second it. It's been moved and seconded to approve Reagan Andrews as the 202627 student board rep. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Motion carries. Congratulations, Reagan. Oh yes. Oh yes. >> Unless you want to hang out. And just to be clear, um the 2627 2627 student
018board rep will be sworn in at the regular meeting on May 27th. Following that, we'll celebrate and recognize the contributions of our current board representatives. So, thank you all for that. Is there anybody signed up to speak? Nobody online. And we'll skip that. Uhformational items. Kim or Jo or sorry, Jody, you're up first. I'm waiting. I'm all discomulating. >> All right. you know, I was thinking about what to say to you because I feel like I kind of say the same thing over and over. Um, but so I was really struggling with what to say and um I do I was thinking I I do want to give you an update on kind of we're testing we're in testing season. We're really starting to think about next year and our fourth graders next week are
019going to the fish hatchery and um they had a great time last year. It was probably one of the best um field trips that we've gone on and it's in Proser and it was just so well done that they were like can we go again and so we're headed fourth graders are headed to the fish hatchery and along with our students in the life skills room we're taking them this year also. Um we're super excited about that. We've got um our third graders are doing the Pacific Science Center in June 5th. So they're headed and you know that we have good field trips when um we are having to turn parents away and um everyone wants to come and so it's like I'm sorry we can't we only have a class of 24 and we
020can't take 14 of you as we don't you know they're super excited. So we've got our fifth graders scheduled to head up to the middle school for a visit. Um been working with the counselors at the middle school and we've got our second graders. we've got a day that they're coming up. So, we are um kind of wrapping those end of the year type of things. But um I do want to take a moment and just kind of reflect on what we've done this year. And um I've worked in two different school districts and this is truly and they they're wonderful school districts. I would go back to them in a heartbeat. Like they truly are great school districts, but um I just think that we have a lot to be proud of in the
021Proer School District. And um it kind of gets frustrating at the end of the year, you know, where everyone's just kind of tired and stuff, but the stuff that our staff has done this year, we've um you know, we've kind of made it uh like this is what we do at Heights. Our third graders perform a um a play with we partner with the princess. Um you know, we go on these field trips. Our current fourth graders, we have literally taken across the state. They've gone to Seattle for Pacific Science Center and they've gone to Spokane for our Lion King. Um the experiences that our kids are having like with the Starbase. I was talking to a parent um who was a chef room at Starbase and he was like that's cool. Like I didn't
022realize how cool that was, you know, and just those extra, you know, like the fish hatchery. I've never been to the fish. I don't know if you guys have, but as um I haven't and I feel like I pretty well traveled and I haven't gone maybe not to Proer I haven't, you know. Um and so we've just done some really cool things and that other communities and different schools um and school districts haven't been able to do. And I'm and I think that it takes a lot of energy and a lot of um work to put on field trips. And our teachers have done it um and our staff has done it and I'm I'm really proud of them for that. In addition to the PLC work with the academics this year and um fifth
023grade in particular, um I'm I'm really proud of them because and multiple ones are doing this. It's not just fifth grade, but I'm going to use them as an example. They have um kind of in our next steps when our PLC's of it's not just looking at the data, it's really about the next steps. And we've been working on that. I know I'm over three minutes, but this is important. um their over um their next steps. They're really breaking it down into, okay, what if our tier one or tier two and tier three kids, what are we doing to make sure that we're um helping them? It's not just like, okay, we have this data and now what do we do with it? Like, it's really focusing this next year um or this year on
024those next steps and really honing in on making sure that um the kids are getting what they needed. And that is a lot of the credit goes to those teachers and they're just they're working together and their reflection on their own teaching and I just am really proud of them and I think we have a great community. You have any questions? >> Questions for Jody? >> Thank you Jody. >> All right. Next up is Sean. Hi. Uh, I'm passing out a piece of paper right now. That'll be the last thing I talk about. Um, I have three things that I wanted to talk about today. I'm going to try really hard to keep it under my three minutes. Last time I wasn't restricted, so I'm going to I'm going to talk fast. Uh, last week
025I attended a conference, ACPE. Uh, all travel has been cut in our district. I attended the conference on my own dime. I believe it was important for our district to attend it and I was not disappointed. Uh things change all the time with technology, state and federal laws. Some of the bigger school districts, well most of the bigger school districts, they have dedicated legal teams, they have CIOS, CTOs. Uh this conference brings all technology directors together to include some school superintendent uh some desktop technicians and we all get together and we need and we get to talk about these things that maybe I don't get to spend dedicated time on but I can take advantage of the fact that other districts have dedicated people to study laws and and things like that. So I believed
026it was important that I attended. It was great. uh I spent three days in sessions. I kind of went with a focus on three things. Uh AI, AI is something that we talk about all the time anymore. Uh this is it's becoming super interesting in our world though because traditionally when you're talking about a school network, we either block or we allow things. And AI is kind of changing that landscape for us. We don't want to block AI because those are resources that we want our students to learn how to use, but we don't necessarily want our students to ask AI how to uh come up with a code to break my network or how to ask a code to do a 3D printed gun. We we need to have guard rails in place. So,
027how do we do that? Uh so I got to to talk to other districts about what they're doing, things that are coming on the horizon, things that we can look for. Uh some of the other things that we talked about at my conference was student data privacy. Uh this is huge. Perhaps you guys have been watching the news about the Canvas breach. Uh that's big. And so as laws are put in place, as things change, how do we protect our data? And so I spent quite a bit of time on that with a bunch of legal teams and cyber security that's always uh on the forefront. How do we protect what we have? So the conference was great. Uh it's open to anybody that has a stake in a school network. If you're ever interested
028in going, I would love you to go with me. It's kind of a spendy conference, but it's really eye opening. Uh it's held every spring. The second thing I wanted to talk about is in our department, what we've been doing, just kind of a touch base. Ashley has been working on our district inventory. That's a huge beast and she's wrapping that up. So, that's great. Loren is working on closing out the school year with the secretaries and filling in fill uh doing polling reports for end of the year uh applications. Blake has been consumed with testing and our student Chromebooks. Is my three minutes up? Okay, I'm talking faster. Uh, Israel's been working on uh regular desktop issues. Lastly, I want to talk about that piece of paper I just pulled out or that we
029just passed out. Uh, that's going to start a conversation. Probably my next report that we come to is we're going to talk about how to fund what's on that list. As our budget gets really tight, uh, those things on that list are consumables. They're things that have a life cycle. there. Member Jason, when you asked me at one point, how are we going to keep the that MDF at the high school running? How do we how do we keep that going? Uh the budget is tight. That does not include our everyday Office 365. That doesn't include our subscriptions. That on that paper is really just our enduser devices. So, how do we fund those when there's no money? Uh I don't I usually come to you with a plan A, B, and C. That's my
030personality. I don't have a plan B and C yet. Uh but I'm going to be working really hard on that. We've started the conversation about a tech levy and whether or not in the next couple years we go out for that to fund those enduser devices. I just kind of wanted to have a visual in front of you as we talk about what it costs to replace the consumable technology in our district and how we're going to go about doing that. So my next board report will start that conversation. So I talked really fast and went over. Do you have any questions? >> Um at that conference you the second thing you mentioned was student privacy. >> Okay. What like specifically can you give me some >> uh so we talk about data privacy. We
031talk about student data privacy and staff data privacy. We have copious amounts of information on our students and staff. Anything from personal identification information like dates of birth, social security numbers. We don't collect those anymore, but um we have all this information on our staff and our students. How do we protect that? If in the event of a breach, if somebody gets access to our network, how do we make sure that we're protecting all of that? And then the second component to that is we interact with other applications like Canvas. So do we have the appropriate legal paperwork in order to make sure that they are being careful with our data? Are we making sure that we're only sharing the base the bare bones of what's needed with these thirdparty applications? Uh making sure that
032we're super compliant with all of that. Our students have what's called very young information. So, it's very valuable. They don't have bad credit. They don't have bad history. They don't It's It's very valuable. So, we have a responsibility to protect all of that information for both our staff and our students. Uh so, we talk about that a lot, especially given all the breaches that happen. >> Yeah. Thank you. That seems like a real concern to me. Sean, in case the public is wondering, was our district at all impacted by the recent Canvas breach? >> So, the short answer to that is yes, we were impacted. Uh, the broader answer to that is it was not tragic. We share very minimal information with any thirdparty vendor. Canvas specifically, we share our students names, their emails, and
033their schedules. We also share their parent information in case a parent wants to uh be an observer in a class. We don't share any sensitive information with Canvas. So, were we impacted? Yes. Was it tragic for our families? No. It's good to hear. Um I wanted to ask you too about the Chromebooks. I see it says end of life 2028 and that's all 3500. Ouch. That's going to be a big ouch. Uh but again, we're gonna have a plan B and C. So, >> fingers crossed. Looking forward to seeing that one. >> Actually, I'm curious if I could take just another minute. >> Uhhuh. >> What were your big takeaways in the AI part of your conference? >> My biggest takeaway is AI is going to be everchanging every day. The reality is is we're
034probably going to be playing whack-a-ole for quite some time where us getting out in front of it is is kind of a a a dream at this point, but staying on top of it is going to be critical. I'm I personally to protect our district, I'm going to have to be super diligent about paying attention to not just the laws, but things that come out as to what's new and exciting and what the kids can get into and what they shouldn't get into. And uh it's it's not going to be a oneandone. It's going to be everchanging and it's going to change faster than any technology we've had in the past. Uh it it in itself is is fastm moving. And then you add that there are several platforms that are popping up. So it's
035not just managing chat GPT. It's not just managing Microsoft copilot. It's not just managing Gemini. Um all of those move at different paces. It it's going to take it's why it's really important that I have a great collaboration with other districts because it's going to take all of us to protect our students and to teach them how to use it, right? I'm a proponent and we should be able to use AI. I think that in the right hands and used the right way, it's a excellent resource and our students are going to use it in the real world. teaching them how to use it correctly and still maintaining our SIPA and FURPA compliant here in the district is what's going to be a little bit challenging. Uh so yeah, well I appreciate that you um
036felt that this conference was valuable enough that you attended even if it was on your own time. >> Thank you. >> Well, I appreciate this Sean. Thank you for putting this together and I'll you know echo Michelle's sentiment. Thank you for attending, you know, on behalf of the district. So, um, thank you for all your work. Appreciate it. And your team, Blake and Ashley, Israel, Lena, and everybody else. So, it's a lot of work. Uh, let's see. Next up is discussion items. School bus bids. >> I just um I just think it was important to this very um time when a time when money is something that we talk a lot about. Um, our process in which we depreciate buses, earn more money in our transportation vehicle fund through that depreciation. And then when vehicles
037fall off that depreciation schedule, they then in a strangest way start costing us money. That makes sense. And we are getting close or falling off really do need and I think my battery's going bad so I'm going to get closer. Um I do really think well not really we are in need of another special education bus right now we only have one with the lift and for example we had a problem the other day and we are really stuck when we only have one. Um, it was an easy fix that day, but that brought it to the attention of maybe we need to to look at that. We are not going to make any decisions. So, I don't want anybody to think that we're making a decision about the transportation vehicle fund off the cuff
038or something quick. Um, and we would make sure that there was no basic ed funding needed to cover any of that cost of that special education bus. Um Drew will do a full presentation and we will go through that whole process. So I just want everybody in case you're hearing something in the community or whatever, oh they're buying more buses or something like that, right? Um there really is a method in which a district is supposed to manage their vehicles. And we're not talking about another suburban or something. We're talking about a special needs bus with lift and seat belts and harnesses and things to help our most students with the most needs. Thank you. Any questions on that for Kim? >> Uh, next up is the 2627 board meeting schedule. This also is just
039really a discussion topic for quite a ways down the road or not quite a ways. I think we approve our next year in J uh August. Maybe maybe it's on the calendar for August. But I'd like you as board members to take a look at this. Um, we last year we moved our fourth or our second board meeting in November. Um, I think we should look into that. So, I thought if I talked to you about it now, you as a family members, you could decide if you want to do something like the 11th and 18th and two weeks back to back, right? Or do you want to move to exactly two weeks apart and then in November they'd be the 10th and 24th. I'm It's really just up for discussion, right? That's why it's
040on a discussion item. The December is a little bit different and unique. Our December one would be the 9th. We are out of school on the 18th. So the 9th and 23rd would be our normal, which would be okay. I mean, it's not Christmas Eve or something. I'm not we're not having a board meeting on Christmas Eve, but do you want to move it to the 21st or 22nd? Do you want to do two weeks back toback? So I thought if I gave it to you now you'd be able to talk with your families and what was going on in life because it is important that we have a quorum right so I thought if we have it today so I just wanted to bring this up for discussion I think um in the past
041we just moved the the you know basically the meetings at the end of November and December to the be what the 18th and the 16th is typically what what we've done. I don't know if we want to do anything different or >> I think that would be my preference to not have meetings the week that there is no school. Okay. >> Yeah, I think mine too for just have it on Wednesday nights works much better and even if backtoback like that would be better for us. >> Okay. Like I said, it was just a discussion item and then we'll bring it at the normal time when we have to approve the dates. But if we do it now, then we're not doing it. And then redoing immediate. >> Any other questions, comments, students? >> Okay,
042next up is student rep reports. Samantha turned it on real fast and then turned it off on accident. Okay. Last week we had our National Honor Society induction, so that went really great. and we elected new officers for the next school year. We also hosted a blood drive today which I helped out with. I don't have exact numbers of who all came, but it was a very great show up. It was packed the whole time I was there. And so that was very great to see community community members coming out and supporting the Red Cross, which is who we do it with. We also have our final home track meet tomorrow at 3:30. So if anyone is interested in showing up and supporting local Mustangs, please come. And then lastly, we had our top 10
043lunchon last week and we had really delicious tacos from Ready Now. So big shout out to them. >> Thank you. Questions Samantha Ezra. >> Um FFA left for Pullman today for the state convention, which is pretty exciting. Um I'm sure you can hear more details from Mr. man, but two of our tennis members uh qualified for state, so they'll be heading to that next weekend. And then lastly, leadership is planning a dodgeball tournament like we do every year. Unfortunately, we don't have any teams signed up, so if anyone's interested, um there's a dodgeball tournament. So, yeah, >> um I don't really have much. We had prom on at Country Gardens and that went really well. I think everybody had a good time and we're just approaching final season and gearing up for summer. >> Questions
044for them? >> Great. Thank you. All right, moving on to action items. First up is uh PHS club approval for the Abbott Club. Is it the green? >> It is now >> there. >> Good evening everybody. I hope everybody's doing good and we are here today. I'm here with Breezia Munoz. She is one of our AVID 10 students and we are here tonight to ask for approval for our PHS AVID club. We have had AVID in our school district for 15 years and over those the course of those 15 years there have been students that have at very various times often suggested oh why can't we have an AVID club to do more like there's excitement about opportunities after high school. So through the years there have been kids that have proposed that and then
045when it got to the nuts and bolts of like let's get our constitution, go to the ASB, jump through the hoops and do all those things, it just kind of fizzled. But I have a group that has been talking about this for at least a year if not longer that just have a real excitement for opportunities after high school. So I don't know I don't think I mean we were just in the beginning stages. There's a core group of about six kids and I think when it's approved we'll be there'll be a lot more interest but we haven't got that far yet because we're not approved yet. Um but I think yeah we're very excited about the AVID club and Breezy feel free to join in. >> Yeah. Um I know that AVID's always been
046something like really important to me and I've been with these like um group of people for four years. So, um, we built like this really tight-knit community. And originally, we wanted to make it so we could have like this better, like more stronger community and we could like build up the class and the all the different classes. But, um, now that it's like physically now, I think it's like more important to have it so we can have like, um, the middle schoolers coming in can experience it. Maybe not in the same way, but they can still have like the club to at least join, have something um, to go with. So I think too it's about exposure to not just for AVID students. The club would be open for isn't that what we talked about?
047Yeah. The club would be open for any PHS student that wanted to explore postsecary options. And that that's the main purpose. And so they their thought too one day when we were in discussion was when the kids come up from the middle school that maybe had it in middle school and then the program that we they don't have it now they could still continue to have some of the similar experiences as far as they want to fund raise. They want to go do some things. This is a group of kids that didn't get to go do the heights trips to Seattle or any of that. So, um, they're not they're not shy about wanting to go out and raise money to go do things and have experiences and and do all that. So, I think
048that's about it, but does anybody have any questions? >> Why don't you Diana called you today and asked about Yeah. the word AVID and whatever and kind of talk about >> the word AVID as the club name versus like college and career readiness and like kind of that vision of what the main focus or goal of the club is. Originally when we started these conversations, it was long before we knew that AVID would be phasing out in our district. So we always just have called it the AVID club until just recently when those decisions were made. So I think it really is a college and career readiness. It's not just for AVID students, it's for any student that wants to have those opportunities to explore life after high school. >> Yeah. Um the readiness would
049include a lot like um helping students throughout school who are struggling in classes or who really just like um need like maybe to talk with others. It would also be like going out and trying to like look at future opportunities or looking at what they could um just interest or options for the future. >> One discussion point they had was like, "Oh, we could have like a guest speaker come in." It's it is hard to have guest speakers come in during the day because all of our AVID classes are spread out. In the past when I've had speakers come in, then we're taking up like first period, third period, fifth period, now seventh period, and then we're they're like taking a day of their time to come be a guest speaker. So, we thought the
050discussion was, oh, we could have the guest speakers come in maybe for an hour in the evening, and then we could debrief and have some community building after that so that students have, you know, exposure, especially with no elective classes moving forward after this year's freshmen. Um, >> so everything So you've got the your I guess your constitution or whatever you'd call it um has already been written. Yeah. Um and been approved through the SV. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And then we did submit a budget too based off anticipating this would be but that we just they have some fundraisers already kind of in the works that they're thinking of doing if it gets approved. >> Thank you. Well, I think this is a really fantastic idea, honestly. Um, you've brought your students in
051here quite a few times and it seems like AVID has been so impactful in their lives. Um, so I think it's really great that you want to continue kind of working on the same things that AVID achieved in those students lives even without the program formally in place. Um, I would like to make a motion to approve the AVID club. >> I'll second that. It's been moved and seconded to approve the AVID club students. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Thank you for coming. Appreciate it. >> And I I want to thank Breezia for coming tonight. I know that was to get it in and get home was a big deal. So, thank you, Briia. You did great. Her first time using a microphone. >> Not her last. Not
052her last. >> You did great. >> Also, I want to uh just remind everybody I sent an email out quite some time ago. I think it was like January. Um, we do have our Avid family night on Thursday. Is it on Thursday? It's on Thursday, May 28th, I believe. At 7:00 in the auditorium, and it actually, if you've never been, it's a pretty um it's a really neat experience. We all we honor all of the seniors. There's um guest speaker or the student speakers that have really powerful messages to share. And it's we'll try to keep it to an hour this year. It's going to be a smaller group this year without the middle school students, but we should be able to keep it to an hour and it's just a really nice evening of
053celebrating some of the great things that our kids are doing. So, just wanted to remind you. >> Okay, perfect. That's that's a wild card. This >> I should have asked you this from the beginning. Can you just to make sure everyone is clear, what does the abbreviation AVID for? >> It stands for AVID. It stands for advancement via individual determination. I think so. Like we want to give students the tools to be successful, but they have to have the individual determination to put those tools into play to um have success postsecary. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next up is a consultant service agreement with the reptile man. Oh. Hi, I'm Lexi Blair. I teach second grade at Keen Riverview and we're excited to hopefully have the Reptile
054Man um join us again this year. Um it'll be paid out of KRB's uh ASB fund which is funded by the kids who do fundraisers um for these types of things. So, we're hoping to get that back again. >> Great. >> Any questions? >> We've had the Reptile Man for the past five years, not more. Right. >> Um, >> I would make a motion to have the reptile man come to KRV and not to my living room. >> I agree. >> I'd second that. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the consultant service agreement with reptile man students. >> Thank you. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. >> Yeah. Uh June 10th. Sorry, June 10th. >> June 10th. Put it on your calendar. >> All right. Is
055the first reading of policy 6113, the capital capitalization threshold for leases and subscriptionbased information technology arrangements. So per our discussion um we put together what was discussed and this is for your first reading. I believe it reads correct but I always appreciate second and third eyes. >> Any questions on the the policy? And I guess for those who are listening, this was um a recommendation from the state auditor if you have weren't listening at the last discussion. >> Well, I would make a motion to approve the first reading of policy 6113. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the first reading of policy 6113 of students. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is vouchers and payroll. Any questions on that? I do
056have Well, I asked for questions and I came up with a question, but um, you know, we look at like the high school does. I think most of their officials are paid out of the ASB. Is that correct? >> How can we get that to transfer to the middle school? How do we develop with a similar system? >> I'm going to let the past middle school principal answer. >> The issue at the middle school is they don't have an ASB this size and they have no gate. >> So if you have a gate, then you can pay your officials. The middle school has no gate. >> That's right. Okay. >> Thank you. >> See, that's why I let her answer because that would have not come out of my Any other questions or comments on
057vouchers and payroll? If not, I'll move to approve vouchers and payroll. It's been moved and seconded to approve vouchers and payroll. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Uh moving on to consent items A through D. Making a motion to approve the item. >> You got I think Michelle got that one. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent items A through D. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Motion carries. That concludes our action items tonight. Moving on to reports. Uh director of grants and assessment elementary programs. last week. Okay. Last week we had uh Panorama PD. We had our uh counselors uh admin coaches, instructional coaches, and we uh looked at the panoram Panorama platform and dug into the data
058that's on it. uh student profiles to general data around I ready um and then how to utilize the tools in there which one of them is AI. It has its own closed AI system in there. The name of the AI is Salera. Um and closed instead of open means our information stays inside. It doesn't go out to the public. So eventually teachers will be able to use that AI uh to create uh rubrics for example or other documents you it's it's similar to the open AI systems where you can dump documents in narrow down your questions and your searches but it's in a safe space intervention plans. Um, you can put a student profile in there because it's all connected. Um, the student profile in there and you can ask for next steps based on
059the assessments that are in there and it will give you a plan even. Um, so it like Sean said, it's it's embracing the AI while still putting limitations on it the best that we can. Um, it it is it's pretty neat. I've been using it more more and more. Uh just here's an example. I put in um say a problem of practice, low test scores in math. What are the drivers for low test scores on the SBA? It's prints out all these drivers and possible um uh causes for for uh uh those low test scores which is also something that we're doing which I was going to go to into next is our elementary PLC which I brought up before uh our admin team started looking at math and the eight practices of teaching math.
060So we all gained that knowledge. Right now they're they're digging into the data. last Friday as an elementary PLC, they were digging into the data. They were coming up with drivers and doing a root cause analysis to create plans going into next year. Um, and then we'll we'll have a monitoring plan on uh those goals and to to see if uh we can make some changes around our mask scores. But it's going to be uh basically creating PDSAs which comes from the business world and determining if those uh uh goals that we're creating and the monitoring of those determine if they're having an impact on students or not. Uh so you'll be you'll be seeing some of that data come out next year and I'll be updating you throughout the year based on that. Another
061thing that we've been looking at is we're looking at alternative assessments. We have a really good assessment in ELA and I've said this before as a principal and e even as in my new role. We have in the- moment data in ELA and we can make decisions. Teachers can make decisions on a day-to-day basis on what skills those kids need. We are looking at math. We're we're digging into assessments that we can rep replicate that same model but in math where we have this real time data u that teachers can make uh common data common assessments where they can make decisions on on instruction which then should impact students and also we're also looking at ways to save money um based on the current assessment system that we have. So, we did have a little
062presentation on that last week. We wrapped up our thinking maps PD uh last week and then also the building thinking classroom. So, you're going to be hearing more about building thinking classrooms because it that's really based it's a model that's based on the eight uh effective teaching practices in math. And um I'm hoping to be able to share some data around that once the SBA's scores come out um without teacher names or anything like that, but uh the impact that it is having on on on students, but we wrapped that up this this last week as well. The last thing is which was brought up uh by Ezri about the two students uh or two athletes that made it to state. One is my niece Hannie Hannah Sonics. uh she won the girls district championship
063and she's headed to state and then um the other one is my son won the district championship and he's he's headed the state so proud of them both. It was a great family moment uh with the Sonic. >> Any questions for Kevin? >> Thank you Kevin Deiana. >> Oh my kids are too old. Nobody's going to state unless it's unless it's to watch. Um we are um we our red rover we are getting really close to having everything in there getting the data for individual positions and schedules and everything. It's a it's a bit of a monster but we are managing all of our hiring in Red Rover. We have 14 positions we're managing right now in Red Rover. Everything from our business manager to substitute food service. Um we have through that with that
064system we've now just hired our second life skills teacher which is very exciting as those are difficult positions to fill um today and working on some some other positions for the future. So uh Amy Flores our our new HR clerk is really doing a great job and is just she's she was a really great hire for us. Um we uh met earlier, I think it was Monday, uh placing RTK students uh so far. We implemented a screening process this year uh as required by OSPI and Jesse Wilson, thanks to her because she managed that process and screened all of our uh potential incoming TKs. We have to screen them for need. Um and most of the kids have a need and so uh families are being starting to be informed so they we can get
065their registrations done and have them ready. Uh most students that age the parents need to know now because everybody's arranging child care or other um preschool or and and if you're doing that in August it's really challenging. Um so it's still open. If people are interested you can complete the registration. We got five new ones like in the last just the last week and those will be screened and we'll consider those students as well. But we won't have a problem filling those three classes and we partner with ESD because the students are also the three-year-olds uh for ECAP and four-year-olds that get placed in ECAP. So, we're working to get places for for all the students and families that would like placement. We know we won't be able to place everyone, but we try to
066get as many as we can. I gave a tour of Proer High School today. I haven't done that for a couple of years. Um, Proser leadership, I taught a class for them today and did a tour and even people um I I was thinking like when is this going to get old? I don't know. Um, but there were a couple of people that hadn't been to Proer High School and people that had, but most people have never been past the commons in the gym. So getting to see the, you know, the um the air the the wood shop and welding and look at the science labs and see the locker rooms. One of my favorite spots to show if you've been in Proer High School's old Proer High School's gym is the women's bathroom that
067has a lot of stalls. And so people who went to Proer High School get very excited when they see they come out going, "Oh my gosh, so many stalls." Um so that was uh so that was fun. The leadership class was lots of fun. Uh they um got to walk downtown in the very windy and rainy weather and then when they went to leave they're like, "Well, can we go up through the bottom?" I'm like, "Well, you guys came from there." They like, "Well, we walked they walked the whole way all the way around." They're very committed to their walking tour proer today. So, they were lots of fun to have. Um Kim and I and Kevin um and Sonia got to do appreciation week last week. Kim will probably talk about that as well.
068And then as Kim will probably talk about, we're reviewing like every contract, all of our ordering practices, just doing everything we can to save money, something that we should always do, but we're having to be extra strict and tight. And actually, in our buildings and our instructional coaches who do a lot of our elementary ordering, they are working really hard to um find good quality materials and to save money or do things in a different way that won't cost us as much money. So, thanks to them as well. KD, I I have a couple questions on the red red rover. U >> I know it's been a long process getting it implemented and we're kind of starting that process. Will we have that fully implemented by the start of school district or start school next
069year? >> That's the plan. So there's really there's kind of three parts to it. So, the part that we've been able to get up and going is the hiring, but that's I don't want to say it was easy, but the easiest process because you don't have to have all your people in. Getting your people in on the right contract, on the right schedule, the right days of the week, all that is a big process. And we're Yeah. And so, that's for the time and attendance absence management. So, the plan is that we'll have training um in um the fall so that we'll be using it for all of our time tracking, our absence management. We have historically certain groups of employees have not really been required to use front line or track that way and
070we're going to require everyone to do that. It can be app on your phone very simple to check in and out. It can be at a kiosk. Um you you know submitting forms and paperwork. Sometimes we we just have to teach more people to fish so that they can do the work and um and and truly because some of our um administrative assistants take on a lot of work that for employees to help support them, but we we need people to be able to do all that themselves. So yeah, so that's yeah, it's it's a it's a project though and it's we're not done certainly with all the contracts and all that, but we will be. And then the records piece, I I will tell you, I just showed a couple administrators today in Red
071Rover. Just the hiring piece, they're like, "Oh my gosh, this is so much easier than anything we've done." It's it's it's very easy. >> And records retention. We will >> Yeah, >> we're heading towards a paperless file recording system. >> Our new employees right now as we hire will not have paper files. We're not at this time going to go back and digitize paper files. That would be a project beyond If you guys saw my file, it's it's probably close. It's probably eight or nine inches thick because I've been here so long and every paper we have to keep is in there. But there's no way nobody wants to digitize that. We'll wait till I'm gone then maybe. But um but as we move forward, that's what we're going to do. So yeah. Yeah. Um
072my next question kind of spurred and I don't know for maybe it's you three but um have we we've been doing TK for four years or three years? >> Uh I think this will be our fourth year. >> A fourth year. >> Yeah. I think we've we're at two and a half years. The first one was a half year and then I think we had two more. Yeah. So, and I don't know how we would do this, but is there a way to track our students that start in TK >> to K to first grade to second grade? Do you have that data? And what and what is the what are their metrics compared to kids that aren't getting that that TK program? >> So, we can we can pull data on all of those
073students. The thing that TK the goal of TK because we have a lot of kids that come in and they're so gold skills are six areas they get assessed in. We have we'll have 25% of our kids come in really ready for kindergarten and then we'll have you know the 50% range that middle 50% that are ready in some areas and not in others and about 25% are really not ready for Kinder. So it is a little bit of it's is about growth because we we did do an assessment. It wasn't really a full scale six category assessment but um how many kids could count to 10 and where can they count now? So we can pull data on the students. I will tell you Kevin Kevin is very passionate about early learning so he
074could tell care about it as well. But >> this was a conversation I actually was talking with Jesse about being able to narrow those kids down and then start pulling their um ARC data and I ready data. So, we're having convers about that and I can get the data and and present it in a future board meeting. >> I will say I was at a state um I were you done? >> Sure. >> And I'll just read >> I really am done. Yeah. So, I'll keep going the question, but um so we happen to have we the rural education um schools which we're a part of um we had Governor Ferguson for 30 minutes captive audience and I don't know if anybody really gets that but to have the governor captive for about 67 or
07568 of us and really putting him in the hot seat was um interesting to say say the least. But one of the big talk topics that came up was TK and fully funding TK when it dramatically and the reason I'm bringing this up now is we had three districts that have had it one more year than us that actually brought the graph and brought the things and used their um there's a state SS ID number but their local student ID. So it was all an you know what I mean all protected and put it up there and showed him and he didn't know what to say. My point is it was such strong data that he was kind of like h how come I didn't know about this? You know what I mean? Like so
076um it was really really strong data and and I think we'll see that same strength here in any question. Sorry, any questions for Deanna, Evan, or Kim on >> the the state data has been very strong. So, a lot of people that are upset about TK is it's like one of the things that you were paying for that actually is having an impact and that's what people are getting upset about. So, um but locally, like I said, will pull that data for you. >> Thank you. Yeah, you're up. >> Okay. Um very important that we talk frankly and um openly about our financial condition. Um we finished our state audit. Um and so that'll come to the board for approval and for um I don't know if it'll be fully finished and our exit interview
077done by the May 28th meeting, but definitely the first meeting in June. Um there is pretty much no way around binding conditions for our district. Um I want to say that uh if you depending on what you'd read in media and we know we have to be um good um processors of the information that we receive what what source it's from and so on and so forth but we will be one of approximately 12 districts in August and then um there's predicted and pretty strong prediction like with names of districts when we're talking about so that will there will be 35 by December. The other thing is um to look at the Washington State financial condition. It came out in a Seattle Times article. It came out in um now that's not that's not talking
078about Washington state schools. That's talking about Washington State. Washington state. And please know that I'm looking at you and not reading it off a piece of paper is either the second to the bottom or the worst financial condition of any state in the nation, which is a direct reflection of what's happening in our school system because their paramount duty is to fund education. So, I just want everybody to understand that while we have a problem, yes, and we have to rightsize our budget, we have a declining enrollment, we have to absorb all of those things, it's not a problem that is unique to Proser. And it's not unique to a little bitty school or to huge schools. Belleview, for example, which people in Eastern Washington often say one of the richest places in the state
079is to go to Belleview, right? and they're in worse financial situations. Sophia, so I just think people really need to understand that it's a it's a systemic problem. Um, so the audit is done. We do have we'll have a few things are called management letters and the one finding will be our financial condition. Um, and so I just want to be really upfront and honest about that. Um, so Diana brought up reviewing all contracts. Um, so some of them literally are pieces of paper in a binder and some of them are electronically. We are going through every single contract from the exterminator to the HVAC to the copier company to every single contract. Um, a good one, um, Peter from Weaver Exterminating, I asked for permission, but I talked about it is we've looked at
080what could we do with our contracts that keep us um in good taking care of our buildings and so forth, but what could So, instead of going to every other month for certain things, we're going to every once a quarter, right? So, we're not saying we're not going to be exterminating our buildings for spiders and things, but we're going to look at that and that takes out one cycle, right? Um, every little single thing we can come up with. Some of them are $2,000, some of them are $10,000. Um, some of them we can't do anything about if we're in a lease contract, but we can quit using them. So, there's just unique things that we've done. Personally, had meetings with Apollo. Um I I mean I sat down with every one of the contract
081holders and said as bluntly and respectfully with smile and professionalism I can say you have to help us fix this or you might not get paid at all. And so it was just that blunt of an honest conversation and and that's what we're doing with I Ready. That's what we're doing with every curriculum. We've got every single piece because yes, we've had to make reductions in staffing, but it has to be a systemic change. It can't just be in one area or one thing. And we need to be able to tell our community that we're doing the right thing the right way. So, um, in legal, we don't really legally, um, other than we have this one that one huge public records request that we're on installment four on, and we still probably have two
082more installments to go. Um, facilities, things are actually looking great in our facilities. Um, we're doing smart things. We're working smarter, not harder. I want everybody to know in the community, you might see the grass being a little longer than what you might like to see because we're mowing it instead of every seventh day, we're mowing it every ninth day, right? No overtime, things like that. So, um, if you want to participate or help or have a thought on that, more than happy to listen to you. Um, we're getting ready for a surplus sale. Um, it's very small. I'm happy to say people are using what we have, but we'll do it. I think we set the dates for the 23rd and 24th of June. Um, our ELF, our early learning facility grant, I finally
083I got the okay from Juan at the Department of Commerce today. He's going to send us our contract so we can start. It sounds weird. You have to be able to spend the money, but they won't let you spend the money till the contract's written. Well, that seems counterproductive to me, but we got the count uh contract approved, so we can start go out to bid. Um, union relations. I know I've said this before, 90% of my job is about people and it's very difficult sometimes when you're sitting on the opposite sides of an issue with the same goal in mind. And we have great partnerships with our unions. We don't always, you know, they're protecting their members, I'm protecting the district, those kinds of things, but we do it with grace and professionalism with
084really always keeping the student at the center of the focus, right? And so that's it's been a good thing. Um, we're planning for 2627. I think that's strange. The year's not over and we're already planning for next year. Uh, the CPR review, I know I've said it before, but it was a lot of work, but we got that done. This uh our part until they tell us different is done until they ask for more. The audit was a big challenge. Um I think there was a couple big challenges that people need to be aware of. One, we had a change in staffing with um Kevin's pred, you know, Kevin who worked in Kevin's position before and with our business manager situation. So the auditor would ask us things. Drew would do his best. Our team
085would do our best. We'd go look for things and it was difficult to find the documentation that we needed sometimes. So, some of the management letter items, the lower level items will be clarifying processes and procedures. Um, it was nice to have the ESD come to me instead of me always going to the ESD. And we spent some time talking with Steve Mcola and Drew and like what can we do maybe to help other districts um what can I share or what could the Foster School District share with other districts to make sure they're right sizing and doing things sooner than later so that it's not a fix, right? What could I do with the 13 or 14 districts that are in ESD23 and share my learning? um gear up meeting. For those of you
086who don't know, we're a part of Gear Up. Um they are in different cohorts. We had the Gear Up meeting. Um we are um waiting for answer about our next Gear Up grant. Um but things are going well and looking good there and um lots of lots of operational work except I did get a suntan going to baseball, fast pitch softball and tennis. And I will say I am a fair weather spring sports person and I lucked out. I didn't have to carry a sleeping bag. So it was great seeing everybody and what an amazing and I have to say watched you guys play a little tennis. Um I have to say the amount of stamina to play that long, right? And I also said to Mr. Gilman one morning. I think your professionalism on
087the court, the fact that you respectfully call your own outs, do your own score. Um, I see how you create. And I'm looking at the two of you, but I'm talking about all tennis players at this point. How you speak with one another, your court presence is there. Something that you should be very proud of. I know we can see it sometimes in team sports, but to see two students go forward in work the way they work together and even when maybe you like how you did something but you were honestly and um forthcoming with your calls and what you do and I think it's a big thing to be said for high school athletics when you're looking at golf is a lot like that also. um doing the right thing. Um I think one
088of our candidates said that doing the right thing even when no one's looking, right? So I think that's a big deal and so I'm proud of you. >> Thank you, Kim. Any questions for Kim? Students. All right, moving on to board reports. Michelle. >> Well, first off, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all the cost-saving measures that everyone districtwide, staff, teachers, I mean, everybody I know is really being careful about how money is being spent in the district right now. And I personally just appreciate it so much. Also, that our community continues to show up and support our student needs in ways that a district can't right now. So, um just very very grateful for our community for always stepping up for the kids. Um four weeks left I think as of
089today less for you Samantha. I'm going to be getting excited. I'm not counting down or anything but I am. Um Friday I'll be at the middle school in the morning tasting food truck war food. So, um I'm pretty excited about that. I know it I know it's a big deal at the middle school and I can't wait to see what the kids have prepared. I don't know if any of the other board members are going to be there, but um I'm pretty excited. And this is kind of a note to myself, too, but to anyone else, if you haven't registered yet, your students for school for next year, registration is open. So, you can go ahead and do that. And then also, it looks like um sports as well opened up today. So, you can
090register for next year sports as well as summer sports. I think um Proser PTO is still looking for volunteers who might be willing to step up and run the board. So the PTO can continue to provide all these really great science um STEM opportunities for our kids. Um I think popcorn Fridays I read will will continue maybe not but um please consider participating with the PTO as a board member. Um they have just done so much great work in the last few years for our students. And then finally I want to just congratulate Samantha on uh receiving the PH scholarship. So welld deserved I'm sure. And that's all I had. >> Thanks, Michelle. Frank. >> Yeah. Um, just we I was spent a lot of hours or I guess could have spent more, but it
091wasn't there on the whole time with the legislative committee and um, you know, deciding what the platform was going to be for this this coming year. And, um, there were literally over 90 issues that we had to discuss and talk through. And um I wasn't able to be a part of all of them, but I I did all this stuff that you guys were talking about is is a concern across schools all across the state. I mean, schools being asked to do more with less, you know, unfunded mandates and it's just it's a very widespread issue. But, uh, you know, I really was surprised how unified that that committee was and that these are real problems that we're dealing with. And I think that's what Kim was saying too is like you when you had
092a chance to to talk to the governor, I mean they're they're pretty clueless about a lot of things that are that are going on and almost everything we we did unless it was funding related was do not pass. So it it was very it was very I learned a lot. Um, but uh there's a lot of good people on that committee and I I feel like they could be heading the right direction, but we can make recommendations, but that's the legislators and do their thing. So, um, but yeah, other than that, I also would like to thank, you know, everybody who's working through this budget stuff because it's not easy and, um, just, um, tightening our belts and everywhere we can. Hopefully, we don't have to cut too many people, but uh it's uh yeah,
093we gotta we got to do more with less. I guess that's all I got. I touch on a few things that Michelle also spoke on, but especially the scholarship from the Frost Memorial Foundation, NASA u and also just in general um what a good partner PH has been to the school district in so many ways. And I think it's so important going forward with our budget cuts and the relationship we have with our partners um throughout the school district and I spoke this before but you know when you see a banner up in throughout the district or people that are supporting kids supporting our partners make sure that you're supporting them. want to continue supporting us. But, you know, be be a good neighbor, be a good community member, and try to shop local when
094you can. You know, thank thank those businesses that have for many, many years support our kids school. Um, I was surprised to talk to a community member recently that didn't know how much the PTO was doing as far as like the enrichment programs, the art visit programs, bringing assembly um so so much. I you know at one point recently we have a PTA and dissolve kind of I think during COVID and we had nothing for a few years and our current PTO officers brought it back up re-energized and they've been the same board since then for I think their third or fourth year and they have said this is going to be our our last year coming up 26th 27th school year we need more volunteers or or kind of it's we don't know where
095it's going to go. Um they have given a lot of time. They've got people here every Friday popping popcorn, taking it to kids in classrooms, but the cookie delivery to school on special holidays, bringing the assemblies, bringing the program. Um bingo night. I saw lot I see Mr. Gilman the great bingo caller and lots of other teachers and it is, you know, a parent teacher organization. We have a lot of kids in this district and a lot of families and you know, it doesn't have to be your full-time job. We all have what, 24 hours in a day. I heard once you have eight to sleep and eight to work. So what are you doing with your other eight? You can give an average of one hour a day to something and you can make
096a really big difference. So please consider helping the PTO. It makes an incredible difference right now at all times, but especially when you know we're having very very tight budget. Those extra things the PTO does it it's what makes our district special. It makes the enrichment opportunities so nice for our kids. Please consider giving your one hour a day out. Um, also I think it's important, you know, there's a lot of questions going on regarding cuts that are happening. Um, go go to the source. Go to a building principal. Go to the would love to take your call all all day long. Um, and that she and that would be the source. It's not your neighbor. It's not your sister's best friend's cousin. Please go to the source and get, you know, accurate information and
097try not to speculate. Um, you're not able to attend board meetings. Thank you to everyone who does. They're on YouTube. You can read the minute. You can talk to a board member. The record bulletin does a summary every week. Um, there's, you know, 10 years ago those possibilities weren't all available yet. You had to be here or talk to somebody that was. I hope that they listened and paid attention carefully. Um, but more ways than ever to be involved or to at least know accurate information of what's going on. >> Great. Thank you, Alisa, for um bringing that to light. Again, I think it's very important, you know, and I appreciate both you and Michelle talking about the PTO and what they do and bringing that to light because I I do think that sometimes
098that gets lost in uh you know, in the busyiness of life and uh but so thank you both for doing that, you know, Frank, thanks for the uh update. Uh it should be an adventure come the general assembly time, I'm sure. Um, I don't have much uh to add to to what you guys have said. So, um, I just appreciate that. And I know we're counting down to the last days of school, which I don't know, would you say, three weeks or four weeks? >> U, it'll come faster than we all know it. So, um, just hope everybody stays safe until then. Uh, with that, uh, our next meeting will be we'll have a study session meeting on May 21st right here at 5:00 p.m. >> Yes. That's a Thursday, not a Wednesday. >> And
099then again, we'll have our regular board meeting on May 27th right here at 6 PM. With no further business, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.