001This evening, I ask that everyone please remain seated for the first portion of the meeting. Things will be a little different since President Reiner is absent and Vice President O'Brien is online. I will call the meeting to order as secretary of the board and will also preside over the election of our prom chair. After the election, we will stand for the pledge of allegiance once our prom chair chair asks us to do so. Proer school district board policy 1220 states the president shall preside at all meetings of the board and the that the vice president shall preside in the absence of the president. But since we have neither tonight, policy 1220 does not address what happens if both officers are not present. In continuing, board policy 1400 states that the board uses Robert's rules of
002order as a guide when bylaws or policies do not supersede them. Because our policy is silent on this situation, we will follow Robert's rules of order under Robert's rules. The secretary, that's me, calls the meeting to order and presides over the election of the prom chair. The board then elects a temporary chair by majority vote of those present and that individual serves only for this meeting or until the president or vice president arrives. I now call this meeting to order. At this time I will open the floor for nominations for prom chair for our meeting today, February 25th, 2026. I will nominate Director Riley as prom chair for our February 25th board meeting. >> A second. >> Second. >> We have a motion to elect um Alisa Riley for our prom chair and a second.
003All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank Thank you, Alisa United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, justice for all. All right. Tonight in person we have director Weinman, myself and online director O'Brien and Van. Oh my god. Sorry. >> Veral, sorry. Director Verol and our student representative. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> I would move to approve the agenda. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any. Motion carried. Are there any Is there anyone signed up to speak tonight? >> Blake, do we have anybody signed up online to speak? >> Okay. No visitors information items. Michael, any Thank you. >> Glad you're feeling
004better. Okay. So, two-part for tonight. One is the SIP review, school improvement plan review, and then the other is a quick update about um house middle school. So, I'll go over the update first just real quick. Um, we're at the last throws of our winter 2 sports season. Um, uh, girls basketball played their last game today. Um, finished up their season tonight against, um, Harrison Middle School. Um, it was a home game. Well attended. Uh, boys wrestling will be in Toppenish on Saturday for a 9:30 a.m. super meet. They'll all get together and wrestle till the the sun goes down. Um, we have a talent show. Uh we have an end of the month assembly assem uh awards assembly um each month and this one's going to include a talent show. So our students have
005signed up and been practicing and and we'll be showing what they um have available for their talents on Friday afternoon. Um we're working on our art, science, and spelling academic competitions um as part of our athletics. Um they go in between the winter 2 season and the spring sports season. So, we'll be sending students out to compete and represent um How's Middle School and Proer for that. Um FCCLA State is the um week of March 8th through the 14th. They'll be in Spokane representing um our school and our community. And NHD regionals will be at Royal High School on March 7th um for the regional competition, which then qualifies them for the the state competition. So, we're taking a couple buses of kids up to to Royal um to support the um NHD program there.
006Um, Camp Dudley, you guys have heard Camp Dudley for the last couple years. We're taking a group. Um, we had the week right after spring break was the time that they gave us and we were preparing with our parkas and everything to head up there and they called us and said, "Hey, middle of May just came open." So, we jumped on that. So, we'll be heading up there. I think it's the 11th and 12th of May. And then they contacted us and said that um they've been approved to give us a grant for next fall as well. I think it was either four or 5,000, but it would cover the cost for us to go again. So, we've penciled ourselves in there for now and um looking forward to that being a possibility. Um seeing
007how things go, but that should be um a self um you know, it should be pay pay for itself. It won't um require any um building or district funds for that. Um you'll hear about the ASB club um here a little bit for gardening, but that's a new and exciting thing that our kids have been um pushing for. Uh the end of the trimester is March 10th, and we have conferences at the end of at the end of March um right before spring break. So, a lot going on at the middle school. Um, I think the oh, I want to say it's the 20th, somewhere around the the 15th to the 20th, we start spring sports, and that's where we get most of our students. Um, we have track, baseball, softball, soccer. So, there's a
008a lot of moving and shaking going on at the middle school right now. Um, but let's get to the part that I've been um trying to get back to to talk to you guys about since um I think it was December, maybe January is our school improvement plan. Um, over the years we've had many school improvement plans at House and Middle School that I have authored. Um, a lot of those early on were let's put a bunch of stuff in there, hope some of it sticks, and see where we're at. Um, we got initiative fatigue. Um, it was another well, what are we doing this year? Um, and it lasted through that year and it wasn't sustainable. So, Chris Clem, um you guys have heard that name. She's on contract to to support us this
009year through coaching. Um she was our OSSI um coach through OSPI, our state coach, and so we're able to continue that this year, and that has been a blessing for us. Um she is um an implementation science um uh instructor, if you will. Um she's been to implementation science classes and is certified in that. And the first thing she said is, "You're just you're killing yourself. You're trying to do stuff, too much stuff. You're not focusing on it, and then you fail at it, and then you just feel miserable about it." And that that's where we were. And so we broke it down. You'll see that there's really only two goals. One for reading and one for math. And um underneath those goals are some activities that we have. So I'll talk about the goals
010real quick. Their first goal for English language arts is that 75% of our emergency level students will make their stretch growth. So I'll break that down a little bit. Um the emergency level students are students that are two or more years behind where they should be in their placement. Um and we identified them through um uh our I Ready tests that we give in the fall. So if they are two or more years behind, we have identified them as a cohort and we're keeping track of those students all year long. If they come up and they're at grade level mid year, they still remain in that cohort. And so we're keeping track of that group. There's nobody coming and going. Um and so we're keeping track of them. We're looking at early growth on each
011month. We're looking at the smart goals that they're um writing in in the professional learning communities. And we're looking at um trimester reviews. And we looked at um I Ready. So, we're really trying to focus on who are the kids that are the farthest from um educational um equity and success. Focus on them. And then the idea of the rising tide, you know, raises all boats. um that the things that we're doing that we know that will work for emergency students will work for our um at risk students and then the students that are green that are at or above will continue to strengthen those with enrichment activities. So in ELA we're keeping track of those students that are in that emergency category that are more than two years behind and we're monitoring that as
012the year goes on. In math same thing we've identified our emergency level students and we want them to make stretch growth on the 2026 SBA. Typical annual growth is what we'd expect a student to do in a year's time. Stretch growth is if we want students over the course of time to get back to grade level. That's the additional growth on top of a of annual expected growth that they would make. You've heard others talk about that. So, our goal is we want students to be making stretch growth. Um, and 75% of our students to be making that stretch growth um at the end of the year when we get to the SBA. You know that the SBA is a one-time one once a year measure. So, we're looking at all those things that are
013in there. We're looking at the winter diagnostics. We're looking at smart goals. We're looking at trimester reviews, common assessments. And so, the the purpose of that is the and you'll see on the on the top of the next page, those are the students that we've identified that are in the most need. Um there's two areas that we've been identified as a student um or as a school um in improvement. Um and we have an improvement cycle for our English language learners and our students with disabilities. and they make up 32 and a half and 21.7% of our school um population respectively. Um key activities we're going to put in PLC's. You've heard a lot about PLC's. We've got them in. We're meeting a couple times a week. We're looking at data. Um we're having great
014conversations coming out of that. We're seeing success in students performance um from the work we're doing there. Tier one instruction. So you got tier one is something that all students it's your general instruction that we have. Then you have tier two is maybe um some supports in the classroom, maybe some small group. And then tier three is your something else somewhere else. It's your really targeted um interventions at a very specific level. Well, what we found was our triangle was upside down and our tier one wasn't giving us the the um the outcome that we wanted. So the district has invested heavily in that over the last couple years. our ARC reading curriculum and our illustrative math are two things that the district has provided which has really strengthened our tier one instruction and provided
015that common um instructional platform the resources that we need to really strengthen our tier one instruction so we're focusing on that as well and then timely and targeted interventions um are are parts that are in ARC that you've heard about the ERA um which is the toolkit work that is at a student's um specific um working level that is um one of the interventions that we've really relied heavily on. The second intervention in math is um teachers are coming up with some of their own interventions, but we also have I Ready. There's lessons within I Ready on their My Path that takes their most recent diagnostic and gives them lessons that are known to target the deficits and they build from there. So, um we're really working on getting our PLC's in place, tier one
016instruction, and then timely and targeted interventions. So the the part that I've I've heard um a lot of questions about over time as as I've listened to others present are the results and so um I've got some results here and um I just wanted to share. Our goal is that 71% of stu or 75% of students, excuse me, will meet their stretch growth. And when we looked at the midyear um I diagnostic um we were able to identify that in ELA 83% of students were on track to to meet their stretch growth and a mass 71%. So our end of the year is 75 and 75 and we're right on track with where we want to be and we know that there's room to improve. We'd like to see all students that are in emergency,
017but um some of the early results um came back that were were close to meeting that goal that we've set. Um when we looked at the I Ready, the students, the percent of students that had an improved placement, so it's a five placement um chart. So there's um three or more grade levels, two or more, one below. So three, two, or one, and then there's at or near or exceeding grade level. So there's two greens, a yellow, and two reds. Um, in math in sixth grade, 40% of students had improved at least one placement. Um, seventh grade 31%, eighth grade, 38%. In ELA, in sixth grade, 49%, in seventh grade, 54%, and in eighth grade, 53% of students had improved at least one placement from where they were in the fall. Um, and we tested
018in the fall and September, and we tested again in January, the first week back from from break. And then the number of students that had already met their annual growth in ELA in sixth grade was 54% of students that have been tested had already met their annual growth. So we're halfway through. They've already met their annual and they're working on their stretch growth now. 7th grade it was 56, 8th grade was 52. And in math um it was 30 for sixth grade, 23 for 7th grade, and 37 for 8th grade. Um, one of the things that we looked at was our grading and our um our uh progression of what units we're doing compared to what I already expect us to and we did some things out of order. So, we believe that that plays
019a little bit into the the expected standards to be met at the midyear. We're out of sync a little bit in math. Um, but we're showing that um over half of the students in ELA have met their annual expected growth at this time. So um now the the students that had already met their stretch growth was 19 21 and 21% for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. So we already have students that have met their stretch growth and some have blown that completely out of water. So what we're doing being targeted we feel um has given us one we have a better idea than ever before where students are at and who's um needing the supports and where we're at and the the expectations that we've set on the kids. We're seeing the product in their
020test scores that show that what we're trying to do is working. Um we've taken out all some of the the side things that that we thought would be um great in past years and we're really focusing on those three things um PLC's tier one and interventions and so far we're seeing um numbers that are that are supportive of our success in those areas. So I've got other stuff that I can talk about. We're monitoring teachers at a different level than we ever have before. Um ARC and we've heard Kevin and and all the other principles talk about ARC has a 100 pieces to it. It is phenomenal what our teachers are able to do every day. But we focused on um were our students that are farthest from educational equity, our emergency students, are they
021getting the interventions that they're supposed to? And at first we were it's the expectation is at least once every 5 days. They do a small group instruction. And at first we were probably 20 25% and we ran it the other day and within 10 days of receiving that they're over 93% I believe and we're at 80 something%. So just us monitoring that, sending out uh an email to teachers every week. So that's what we're doing as leaders is we're monitoring the growth. We're monitoring the the um metrics that we have in the system and we're communicating that with our teachers, what's expected, and we're seeing more implementation, which is seeing the better results that we have here on the on the table. So um a lot of good growth. We're excited about that. Can't wait
022for the end of the year to see how SBA and the I Ready come out. And then we're going to we're going to correlate that and look at the number of grades that the kids had and what their grades were to I Ready to SBA and because I know that there's been a lot of talk about that. Does SBA really measure um what we think it does and does it hash with what our grades are? So that'll be a work we're going to do with Chris is the end is really correlate those and see is it a true indicator? Does our do students that have um grades? We had 130 something kids that were on the honor roll. Um we had I don't know it's like 30 something straight A's. um do those major and
023come across to a kid that's going to be a level four or a level three. So, that'll be work that we'll be doing um to finish out the year and and I'll be glad to come back and and share out all those results when we get to that time. >> Any questions, Mr. Denny? I just have to say since you continued your work with Chris Clem, if you went back and listened to your school improvement plan from three years ago >> to last year to this year, how you represent the data, what you talk about and your passion within that is a to you're a totally different leader and I commend you for that. >> Well, I can talk about anything but yeah, I think we're much more targeted and we're getting better in the
024work that we do. So yes, >> but I I just bet if you listen to you should be very proud of your work focusing on >> a lot of hard work going on at house. >> Thank you very much. >> All right, thanks everybody. Department report the maintenance department. Andy how >> mine is nowhere near as exciting as his money forunately. >> Thanks. We'll just keep the extras and put them at their spots. >> Oh, we'll keep them in there. We'll put them back. >> Okay. >> And if anybody cares about the actual math, the products, >> you can take that. >> Yeah. And then you we have as well. >> Do you want that numbers piece of paper? >> No, I don't I don't think I'll need Good evening. >> Good evening. So there's
025been a a lot of talk about budget. Uh so I decided this goround. Uh what I would present would be some of the things we've done in the last few months to try to save to save money. Um and this is not even close to all of them. Not even some of the more interesting ones. This was I just started typing and this is how it worked out. So, right off the bat, uh, we negotiated a deal with the, uh, the trash bag, the com the company that supplies all our trash bags. And instead of buying, you know, 10 cases, 15 cases every couple weeks, uh, we made room and we started buying by the pallet. They gave us a buck a box off, which is about 10%. It's not huge, but over the course
026of a year, it's still going to be, you know, a few thousand dollars. Um some of like it says there some of the some of the more popular sizes. We've already restocked the pallet say three times uh since we started. Uh next on the list is I have soap dispensers and this is a a two or three-part deal. We entered into an agreement with well Purel which is owned by Gojo. um they provided all of the dispensers and installed them and we switched from I think it was a renowned brand to their brand. Uh there's a couple a couple reasons for this, a couple ways we save. Uh one is the original soap dispensers held 1,250 milliliters. The new ones hold 2,000. So the custodians will have to change them, you know, about a third
027as often, so to speak. Um the second part of that is straight up price. The old ones were 1 cent per milliliter, which doesn't sound like a lot, but now we're down to 0.007. So, it's a 25% reduction u in in price that way. Um, the next thing on the list is also not as interesting as anything Michael had, but we had some some they're called jfill stations. They hang on the wall. You run a garden hose through them. They have chemicals in them. You select what you want, fill up a spray bottle as opposed to to buying uh well, kind of says it all in here. Um if if you bought a can of We used Sprayaway glass cleaner, kind of like Windex when I first started. We switched to a slightly cheaper brand.
028It wasn't great, but the Sprayaway cleaner, we were paying 4.75 a can for a 19 can aerosol can if you bought 25 or more at a time, which we did. Um the a similar product through our JFill station fills a 1 quart spray bottle container for like 3 cents. Uh I mean if you do the math it's it's night and day. And the paper that's in front of Deanna there's actually four products in our JFill. It takes about a dozen products off the shelf. You know toilet cleaners and different things. Uh each custodian kind of has their their favorite products. So there's been a little growing pains where they're, you know, well, what happened to this? We used to get well, you know, we're not getting it. This is what we're using now. But the
029cost savings uh is is just as dramatic with those if if not more so in in a couple cases as the Windex. Uh the the Jill stations were also provided by a brand called Diversity, which is who supplies the the chemicals, and they paid for them. We we installed them. So, it was there was some manh hours, but I it won't take long to pay back, you know, every penny. And the and the bottles are like a buck and a quarter. They they provided all the labels and everything. Um, next thing on my list was field paint. I know uh uh Jason had brought up last year we had a bill for I want to say it was like $7,200 for field paint. And that's just we were paying it's a a 1.35 gallon container
030and it was close to 100 bucks and you'll go through maybe two and a half to three painting a soccer field or whatever. Uh so what we started doing is number one is we started buying bigger jugs. Uh it's a few cents cheaper you know per per gallon has same kind of paint. And then we started buying a b a bulk uh field paint from BJ's. uh we thin it down with water to be able to use it through our machine and it wasn't having great results. So, what we're doing is is we we bought less than half of what we purchased last year. We bought about $2,000 worth of name brand paint for our sprayer and the rest is going to come from BJ's. And then we're just going to go back and forth
031every other week and hopefully everybody will be happy with the lines and we're looking to save probably 35 to 4,000 bucks is is the estimate throughout the year. Um, fertilizer. Uh, we we're already putting fertilizer on. Uh, we bought it last fall while it was cheap and bought everything we needed for the for the season. So, we got quite a quite a cost cut on that. Uh, there are some flower beds that we did with rock over Christmas break and last uh Thanksgiving break. The thought process at the time was not having to mow it and fertilize it and so on would save us money. Well, as we're in coming into a water short year, this might have been the perfect time to do it. Uh we can shut zones off and you know, if
032they cut us back to 50 60 whatever percent, we'll have more for what we want to water. We still have a few more to do. Uh but it's probably about 80%. We've only got just a few more islands left to go and and it's done. Um, I know I'm forgetting a ton of stuff, but any questions? >> Questions for Andy? If not, thanks. Great report, Andy. >> Thank you, guys. >> Thanks, Andy. >> YMC outdoor school crystal poll. >> If anybody Thank you, >> Mr. next. >> So, yeah, Mrs. Kohl's um got a a sick little one at home, so she wasn't able to be in here today. Umformational items. So, we talked about Camp Dudley. We went last year. Um and the grant paid for for all of that. This year, we were um
033asked to come back and they they got us partial funding. So, like we had to take our own breakfast. We took our own lunch. We took some um ASB money to pay for the buses to drive up there. Um, and we were kind of sad that that was all we were going to be able to do this year because we knew funding was that, you know, just the money is is not available to to run up there a second time at the full cost. Well, in October, we found out the Association for Washington School Principles um has a outdoor learning grant and we were awarded that grant for the spring and it will cover um subs. It will uh cover transportation. They'll get breakfast there, lunch there, um snacks, and it's kind of cool. When
034we did our lunch there, everybody sat on a picnic table outside and kind of walked around cuz it was chilly and whatnot. But when we eat up there, we eat family style. And so that's kind of the cool thing is they sit at a big table. Um, you know, the food comes out, there's plentiful food, but you're actually sitting down talking to your friends. It's a little bit different than lunch. So, it's a very cool opportunity that, um, we weren't able to afford in the fall, so we'll have that in the spring. And so, we'll leave at 6:30 and we get home like sometimes 8:30, 9:00 at night. Kids are wore out, we're wore out. Um, but it's a it's a pretty cool opportunity. So, we needed to bring that back for you guys. Um,
035just so we could share the kind of the update on that. >> Wonderful. >> Question. >> Thank you. Going to discussion items. Business and operations report by Andrew ESD. >> Perfect. Thank you. Can you guys hear me? Okay. >> Yep. >> Perfect. I just got a couple things to touch on tonight. Um, first in your packet you had um, enrollment for the month. Um, the last time I spoke with you, we kind of touched on updating the enrollment packet. Um, it kind of had a lot of extra items that maybe you guys didn't really need. Um, so I've kind of built this down to a three or four page packet now. Um, and on the first page, we kind of just adjusted how it reads. Um it's the same information just in a little different
036uh format. Um so at the top you can see your your K12 base enrollment and then we have the AL open door and running start pieces split out below that. Um and then that compared to the budget. So overall your your total K12 enrollment you're down 27 students at this point compared to budget. Um below that we have TK. Um, we put TK further down because it's its own funding program and so I believed it should have a separate line. Um, on page two, there's a split out by building. Um, I just thought it might be helpful to kind of look at, you know, if there is a drop in enrollment, what what building is it happening at or buildings. Um, and then the last page has comparisons to prior years as well as a
037comparison to a budget value. Um, if there's anything else you guys would like to see related to enrollment, please let me know. Or if you have any questions on how to read the reports, anything else? Any questions on that before I move on? >> I I think it looks pretty fair to read. Any questions for Andrew? >> Thank you, Andrew. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Um, on the second piece I have is the cash flow document. Um, payroll this month came in 14,000 under budget, which is good. >> Everybody know, did you hear that? 14,000 less, not more. >> Yes, great news. Um, on accounts payable, it was larger than projected, but this is due to being able to pay for some grant um, some funds added grants. And so, we are getting reimbursed
038for these grant monies at the end of the month. So, really, it is a wash on the cash flow. um we were able to pay a couple bigger invoices um and then get the reimbursement in the same month. >> Drew, I'm going to explain that a little bit. >> So, there's two ways you can claim um uh grants. You can claim them when you're invoiced or you can claim them when you pay them. And this particular one, it's happening in the same month. So, you don't see the aortionment or the money's coming the following month. Right, Drew? On these two? Yes. Yep. It's you can either do it to where it comes in the same month or the following month. So once you once you've received the invoice, you've essentially incurred that cost. So then
039we can do the claim in the same month. And so that's what we did here with a with a couple of the invoices. Um other good news is that we have corrected the S275 report. So thank you to Sean on that and her great work. Um that means that the money that was lost on January aortionment um will be coming back starting in March on the March aortionment statement. Um I'm working on updating that cash flow and then sending it out to you all once it's complete. Um so that that is very good news. Um and it took Sean a while and the whole team a while for us to kind of sort through it and make sure that we had everybody coded correctly, but we do now. And so that's that's great to be
040able to get that money back. Um other than that, we are working on 2627 staffing outlook. Um kind of costing out what the agreements, you know, compared to this year costing next year. Um kind of figuring out what cuts we need to make and and kind of moving forward on that. So um any questions? >> I have no questions. Thank you. >> Thank you, Andrew. >> Thanks, Drew. >> Thank you. >> Question item B, which grants school nitrate? >> So, we just it's really there's really nothing to tell other than we the It's good. The nitrates are back under normal numbers. We were able to get rid of the water bottles and the water machines and all of the pieces. Now, I want everyone to understand that doesn't mean it will be good forever, but
041um as we prepare for future things, it may be something where we want to look at a filtration system, but we're financially not in a position to put in a filtration system out there at this time, but we wanted to publicly notify the community and you that we're all good to go. Andy, you had something you wanted to just so we don't cheer too much too soon. Traditionally, we've always had some nitrate show up, but it's always been, you know, far less. 5.0, 6.0. 10.0 is the is the the line in the sand. U we went from, I think, 10.2 to like 2.0. In fact, to a point where they went back and tested again because they thought something was wrong. Uh, so it is good now and we can get rid of everything, but
042just be aware she's very correct. It >> they could come back and and likely will to some extent. Hopefully not more than we want. >> And the filtration systems that we did price out, if we end up ever having to go that rate route, I want to say the cheapest one was somewhere around 15 grand and they go up from there. So it's is what it is >> in the long term. It's probably something we should when we talk about capital improvements, it's probably something we should invest in. We just are going to try and buy it ourselves some time. >> How often does that uh >> they test the water? Once a month. >> Once a month. >> Growing up in a different area and and having a farm that was impacted by that
043irrigation water coming on and going off has something to do with sometimes you had major snow runoff. For example, all of our rain we've had may have made it better or worse, right? You never know what's actually impacting the water tip. >> You 2026 2027 semester notification. >> So, we put out a letter on parent square to all of our community. This is formal notification also that we are officially going to semesters. I'm I'm going to use the example that the ladies and I had after the last board meeting. When it's thinking of playing cards with your children or a game or something at the start of the game, you know what the rules are. So the credit requirements for a junior are the same they were when they entered as a freshman. Okay? So
044there So this year's freshman have the same credit requirements. The only major difference is if you're a senior this year, you had the opportunity to have 30 potential credits and our students will have an opportunity to have 28 potential credits. Most classes, depending on their college and the high school, there's a couple exceptions are a half a credit, right? So, they'll have um basically eight classes of extra that they or excuse me, I said that wrong. four classes of extra classes that they would have available to them to either use for unique opportunities for electives or credit recovery. And that's I this conversation's been going on, but I just want to make sure it's on the record and everybody knows that the community letter went out. >> Question. >> All right. Student representative report start
045with We had our dual credit night at the high school Monday to talk about college classes, taking college classes in the high school. We also had a spring sports meeting yesterday that went well. Um, the National Honor Society Club is currently holding officer elections and right now there is a game night. I had to check the time. a spirit tunnel today to celebrate eight students who are traveling for DECA state this weekend. Um just this past weekend, Alexa Krasco, a junior girl wrestler, placed second at state and this week is FFA week. So a lot of fun exciting things are happening at the high school for FFA. For me, I went to the Miss Proser pageant a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun. Um, and it was great to see how much
046of the community showed up. The place was packed. There wasn't a single seat left open. And so, yeah, that went really well. It was a really big turnout. HOSA is sending 14 competitors to state on Monday. And so, we're looking forward to having a lot of fun and doing really well. I'm very excited for all of our competitors. And then state basketball is also heading to state next week. And so, I'll be going with them as a cheerleader and we're all very excited and enthusiastic about that. Great. Any questions for our state board representative? >> Yes. >> Action item. First action item is gardening club at house middle school or any. >> So one of the things that I've always talked to my kids about was the the higher number of opportunities for clubs and
047activities at the high school than there are at the middle school. And you guys can probably agree with me on that. One of the hard parts is a lot of our kids get on the bus at the end of the day and the the buses take them home and they don't have the ability to stick around and maybe do some of the F FFA or FCCLA or whatever the club may be. Um so we're looking at things that we could do at school and and Crystal and I walk around the building and check on um you know structure and different things that need to be addressed. And we've always looked at two areas. One in the back of the um 100 between the 100 and 200 wing by where the generators are. And there's a
048little piece of grass um in between the 300 wing and where the portables are. The fence cuts through there. It's hard to get a mower in there. The water doesn't always um come in from the main line that they they do from the hand lines. So, um it's just an area where we thought, could we do something else there? So, we kind of started talking about it um in the office and then Crystal talked to a couple kids and they got the idea of putting a gardening club together. Um, so we needed an adviser and so we have um Sandy from Sandy's Bloom Central. She's no longer running Bloom Central anymore. She's just working with us. So she said that she would take that um task on. Um we got from Mily um a copious
049amount of apple bins that we'll be doing um raised beds. I think we're looking at 30 plus raised beds in there. Um we've got students that have already started um meeting in the club and they've got some plans and ASB was able to um provide uh a startup amount that we do for all but they've also been raising funds through um uh sporting events running the concession stand. So they've got an additional $500 on top of what we were going to give them to get going. So we're I mean we probably have been in the growing season now for a couple weeks with the weather, but we're getting ready to to get the bins planted. Um Andy came in and they placed rock down in all that old grass so the old grass doesn't show
050anymore. We're going to be able to place the bins out. Um get irrigation to them. We've got water from the the building that we can use. And then those kids are going to work on a variety of plants, um some vegetables, some fruits, some floral designs. And so we're really excited to get that started and see what we can do with that club. >> That's really exciting. What will happen during the summer? >> It's a good question. Crystal Cole and Michael Denny will probably be in there quite a bit doing some weeding and whatnot. Um but the custodians will be able to to help us with the watering and the and the work there. Andy's putting in, as you guys know, um some of the automated irrigation, so we're able to shift that time and
051that effort a little bit to come over and work on that. But some of the kids have said, "We'll come in and we'll help with that and we'll do pruning and and gathering of the food and all that kind of stuff." That was our main concern, too. Um the main growing period is when we're not in school. So, um, we're working on some, um, plans for that, some contingency plans for students to come in and and help our, um, custodial crew work through that. >> That's great. Thank you. And thank you to everybody that Thank you. >> Oh, we're going to need a motion to approve the gardening club at Middle School. >> I have a motion to approve the gardening club at Hel Middle School. >> I'll second. >> Second. >> Rank second. All
052in favor indicate by saying I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carries. Consultant service agreement. Sharon Brandy Sharon Randy. Dr. Allen. >> Hello. Um I just wanted to share a little bit with you about this consulting agreement. So Hel has asked that we um consult with Sharon Lden. She's an autism specialist and she primarily works in the ESD 105 region. She's got over 25 years of experience and we've had a lot of transition in our household life skills classroom right now. Uh we currently have a teacher that's on a leave of absence. We had two pair educators that moved on to some other opportunities. So we've got new people in the room. Um we're getting two new students um in about a week that have significant needs and we've got another student who's going through
053some pretty significant medication changes. And so uh we would like to put together this consulting agreement with Sharon so that she can come out and provide some modeling and suggestions and um build some systems that will really help to support our team and our students. Any questions for Dr. >> I mean it it's the same question for everybody like funding for this. >> So we'll have to use special education funding. Um this is um one of the times where we look at the best use of money and her willing to do an independent contract with us um really does save the markup on services rather than us hiring ESD 105 that then marks services up. >> We get dollar for-dollar of services from her. >> Yeah. So we were able to do our best to
054negotiate a really good rate with her. Any other questions or discussion? >> I ask for a motion. >> I have a motion to approve consultant service agreement with Sharon Grandandy Lden. >> Second. >> All in favor indicate by saying I. >> I I representative. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion carries. >> Thank you. vouchers. I did not have any emails, so I don't know of any questions at this time. >> Is there a motion to approve the vouchers? >> I would move to approve. >> Go ahead, Brian. >> Give it to Brian. How about a second? >> I'll second you. All in favor indicate by saying I >> I oppose. Motion carries. Agreement with Washington State University. >> This is a pretty typical agreement we have so that student teachers from WSU can come
055um and do their student teaching here. Remember we have partnership with them for our uh students from both high school as well as our pair educators on their path to becoming um teachers. So this is just the regular agreement. So we cover all our bases >> questions for Deanna and call for a motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agreement with WSU. Is there a second? >> Second. All in favor indicate by saying I >> I just director Vermal you're muted I don't we haven't heard you >> okay thank you >> I thought you were there but I didn't see you were muted thank you >> any opposed hearing no none the motion carries first reading of policy 3115 students experience homelessness enrollment right >> we talked about this at the
056last meeting the deadline policy was missing. It's in there at this time so I can entertain any questions >> question hearing none. I would motion to approve the first reading of policy 3115 students experiencing homelessness enrollment rights and services. Is there a second? >> Second. All in favor any I >> I >> students. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carry. Action item F, second reading of the removal of policy procedure 6505, use of emergency palm personal digital assistance or PSA. >> So just the same thing. It's just it's there just to remove the policy. I'll >> motion to remove policy 6505. Is there a second? Second. >> Second. >> All in favor indicate by saying I. >> I. I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carries. Resolution 0326 transportation surplus. I may >> So,
057um, as you know, we've gotten some new buses, right? And so we have, as you can see on the list, all of the buses but one are working and operational. So after the resolution, what will happen is these will go up for surplus following our protocols, putting in the paper, we'll notify neighboring, well other districts in the state of Washington, they're available. And then the one bus for salvage, if no one needs it for what's left on the bus, we've taken a lot of things off of it. It will actually go to salvage lot. And oh, Andy's not here, but he'll be happy to get them out of his parking lot. >> Any questions? >> Just a reminder, it's a roll. >> And this will be a roll call vote. I'll move to approve resolution
0580326. Is there a second? >> Second. >> And Frank, your vote. >> I. >> Michelle, >> I. >> Brian, >> I. myself I resolution 0326 carries either way H resolution 0426 final acceptance of construction completion heights elementary school so I'm going to just I'm going to talk about both of them at the same time even though you'll you'll do them separately let me tell you what I've learned so if you remember we had Ed Champagne here um probably six or seven months ago and we were talking about this and then we tabled the discussion and we did some work and then I had to do a labor and industries claim um not claim close out sorry not claim close out everybody hear that not claim close out and through that whole process um we talked
059about closing them out but we never filed the resolution so Ed came did the presentation we answered some questions the next meeting if you go back you can see that but at that meeting we are supposed to bring the resolution and the contractors cannot close out these um LNI contracts and LNI work for those claim until we do this. >> Any questions for >> so one is for heights and one is for Keen River. So that's I I'm telling you about them both even though you'll have to do them separately. >> and our work is done even it's been done so long ago that we're out of warranty. So I mean it really is kind of a mute point but we have to follow protocol. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. A motion to approve
060resolution 0526 final expected of construction completion. We'll start with team overview school. This will be a roll call vote. >> Second. Frank >> I >> Michelle >> I >> Brian >> I >> myself I >> resolution 0526 passes and then we'll also Oh I went out of order I apologize. Now we're going to do resolution 0426 final acceptment of construction crosser heights elementary school. I'll make a motion to approve resolution 0526. Is there a second? 0426 >> 042 rest 0426 for >> a second >> second >> Michelle >> Frank >> I >> Brian >> I >> myself I motion for resol of resolution 0426 pass action item J declaration of general fund financial emergency and implementation of financial austerity 39. >> Okay. So, no one likes to talk about this. We've been talking about it
061for 18 months now, give or take. Um, the documents been to the board. Um, we've had drafts. We've talked about this. This is the first step in um telling the community and our school system that the financial situation in our district has got to get better. Now, many people have stopped me either from the grocery store or at a sporting event or on the street. What's going on? Um, is transparent. It's a um I don't want to use the word comedy, but comedy of errors is the things that come to mind. It's less state funding. It's big contracts. It's inflation. It's um all kinds of things like that. Um as you can hear from what Andy reported, what we talked with Michael about getting funding for Camp Dudley, all of the things we're doing, we're
062doing all of the right things. Um the things that were put in place last fall, such as well, you can see read them. All those things have to continue, but things have to continue. um to a greater level. And at some point, I use our home budgets if you're a rancher or a farmer. Um the price of a crop, the the price of ir um the amount of irrigation or fertilizer or your home budget, how much I don't know about you young ladies, but if you can remember when you first started, what was the cost of a burger at McDonald's and what is it today? And that sounds weird, but you're young and you can see the change that it's happened, right? So, inflation and things have happened and our staffing ratio, I'm going to
063look over my shoulder to Deanna and to Kevin. Um, we love having high school classes and middle Well, let me restate that. Any classroom that has small numbers of students in it, but the state funds at 28 students to a class. They don't fund at 20 students to a class. So if you have too many teachers, that doesn't mean too many like what Proser likes, but too many that aren't funded by the state, something has to give. And I'm welcome any specific questions or if anybody's online has specific questions, but it's been out for quite a while now. I've shared with everybody. This isn't something that I should be a surprise to anyone. >> Are there any questions for Kim? Hearing none. I'd make a motion to declare the general fund financial emergency and implementation
064of financial austerity. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor indicate by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Students. Declaration of general fund financial emergency and implementation of financial austerity is passed. consent items. I make a motion to approve the items. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor indicate by saying I. >> I. >> Any second? >> Any opposed? >> Student. Hearing nent items. It's approved. Moving to reports. Director of grant assessment and program. Uh, so we officially submitted the CPR on Monday that we've been working now on for several weeks, a very long time, and lots of documents. Um, but we're excited that that has been submitted. They're reviewing it over the next two weeks, and we'll get feedback later this month. Uh, I had a bilingual meeting
065or TBIP meeting with Gran View this last week. We just kind of went over their expectations and procedures, kind of compared it to ours, um, shared different ideas. Uh last week we had our migrant resource fair uh last Friday. Um and February 11th um I'll be bringing some WISP data in and talking about WISP and how that's decided by the state. Um what indicators contribute to the WISP data now that different buildings have been presenting that information to you uh to the board and to the community. So thank you. >> Any questions for Kevin? Kevin, >> assistant superintendent for >> I was only gonna say two things, but Kevin took one. So, I'm glad pro but not that we want to talk about CPR anymore. Uh, we are still working on implementation Red Rover. We
066are getting close to having HR ready. We've slowed down with the other pieces because we're finding that we need to do a lot of alignment in Skyward and we want to make sure both match. So instead of doing it with things, we're going to change. We're just going to slow down, fix everything the way we want it in Skyward and then use the same information into Red Rover. So it'll take a little bit longer for the time and attendance and the um basically the substitute portion, but once we do it, it'll be right done right the first time and we won't have to fix things down the road. >> Questions for Deanna? >> Yeah, >> superintendent report. >> Okay, short one tonight. Um, as Drew shared, very exciting that the K3 money is worked out.
067We'll see that aortionment money come back. You know, they don't ever give it to you all at one time, so you'll get it through March through August. Um, but we do get all of it back. The legislative session ends March 12th. There's not a lot more to report until after that. The both the House and Senate have presented their budgets as well as the governor. All of them have pluses and minuses and things going on. the big things that truly directly impact proer. Well, there's more than two, but the two big ones is levy equalization money. So, if you remember, if you have so many dollars, then you get levy equalization. Well, the state's trying to take some of that money back. And so, that's a big one that we're watching um in the tune
068of potential from keeping what we've got to losing 400,000 to losing like 1.2 million. So, this is another piece. We're talking about the budget. This is when you when the like we talked about your when you started school, you knew how many credits you have to get. When we started the year, we thought we knew how much money we're getting and now they're moving the needle in the middle of the road, right? So, that's what's going on here. The other one is transition to kindergarten, but we have some good exciting news. Um, we're not going to share it yet, but I looked at Kevin, so that gives you a hint. It's program related. Um, but we're hoping that we're going to be able to find a way to keep our tea transition to kindergarten even
069if the state doesn't fully fund it. Um, some other pieces that are some other things that are going that are important. Um, the MSOC money, do we get the extra $100? We not we don't think we're going to get that. Um, there's some little money, little it's still in the millions of dollars, but things like ninth grade success and some of the other program dollars are still potentially on the chopping block. Nothing going on on the legal format uh front. We just have that one huge public records request still going on. We finished our emergency repair grant, Mr. Denny, for the we're asking for 270 or 270,000 to fix your roof. We'll see if that comes through and we will get the egress door for the classroom in KRV. Um, I've learned more about the
070Department of Commerce and federal government than I sometimes may do, but our ELF grant I've got the paperwork going. Um, that pretty much typical. Oh, we had a great not email today from the Rotary. they are going to support um the clock at the Rotary Trackmate this year instead of it coming out of district funds. So that was a big deal today. So we're excited on that. And since I'm going to cough some more, I'm going to stop for now. >> Thank you. Have questions for Ken? Might be best to email her those questions that she can get back to you later. Board member report. Michelle Um, thanks. Well, first I wanted to thank you, Alisa, for chairing the meeting tonight since I couldn't be there in person. I really appreciate that. Um, I wanted
071to just point out to everyone that the Proser Thrive is again hosting the Incredible Years parenting program. Um, so it begins March 3rd next week. It'll be Tuesdays and Thursdays in the evening, 6:00 to 8, and they are providing free child care. So, if you're interested in that, just reach out to the Thrive Coalition. And then finally, I wanted to just give a big congratulations to boys swim. They did place eighth at state overall over the weekend, which I think is the highest they've placed in over 25 years. So, congratulations go to them. >> That's all I got. >> Thank you, Michelle Frank. Um, yeah, I just wanted to echo Kim's concern on the levy equalization. I, you know, I know that's that's definitely a concern and, you know, as they're still in session. Um,
072hopefully these things will not affect us too much. But, um, also wanted to give a thanks to Drew for the work he's doing with the finances. it seems like things are easier to read, easier to understand, and and uh we just it just uh helps us have that correct information we need to make good decisions moving forward. That's all I got. >> Thank you, Brian. >> Uh just another reminder on the 35 WIAA amendments that are coming up to vote this spring. Um sent that out to our board members. Um, second Zoom meeting was last week. Just kind of went through all of them, got a little more information, answered some questions. Um, so if you guys have any inputs, um, I think we vote on that in about a month from now. So, um,
073if you have any thoughts, concerns, or questions, just, uh, reach out to me. And uh just uh congratulations to all our our our students who participated and wrapped up with winter sports here than the past week and hoping to see a big run from our uh girls basketball team at the state tournament. >> I'll echo the statements I think several people spoke to. Um the legislative session still is going on. There are going to be devastating cuts to educational funding and other groups. I would encourage people to reach out to your representatives. Our representatives email um better than sitting on your opening company trying to make happen. Thrive is hosting a raffle. They have wonderful prizes. Talk to a Thrive representative and they will sell you a ticket. I think they're $10 each to support
074the effort of Thrive. Um, I missed two meetings, but or I missed those two meetings, I spent an evening at the House of Little School for the National History Day, our local National History Day. Livia was there, other people were there, and it's always one of the best nights of the year Washington. Incredible. I think we had lots of sixth graders that did wonderful, incredible presentations that were just outstanding. The crucible carrying several foster students this weekend. Yes. Also, I will adjourn our meeting. There's no other business future meetings. Our next meeting will be March the 11th here 2005 the boardroom 6 p.m. Our meeting is adjourned.