001And for the pledge of allegiance >> motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Motion carries. It's going to take me a second. You don't have a mic. Oh. Blake, is that work? Oh, okay. >> Sounds like it works. All right. Next up is uh hearing from visitors. You may present a concern to the board during the time reserved for public comment. If this is the case, we ask that you prior to the start of the meeting sign in noting a topic you intend to address to the board. Come to the microphone up front and state your name. Do not reflect adversely on the political or economic view, ethnic background, character, or motives of any individual.
002Do keep your comments concise, non-emotional, and brief. The board is interested in hearing your concerns and your compliments, too. It is best to call the superintendent's office a couple days before the meeting. If this isn't possible, you can ask the board president to recognize you during the hearing session. And we'll go for 3 minutes per person for a total of 21 minutes. Uh first up is Tessa Stanger. And make sure the green light on the microphone is checked. And you might have to hold it a little close to your closer to your mouth. >> A little bit closer. >> Not now. >> That sounds better. >> Um, I would like the district to look at the cell phone rule for lunchtime and breaks. Um, this is my first year. I've been homeschooling for six years.
003My son's cell phone was taken away at lunchtime on Monday. Um, there was about nine kids and there was five of the kids that had their phones out and he was the only one that his phone was taken. I was pretty upset. I will let you guys know that I did not sign the forms. I crossed all the cell phone stuff out and said I do not wave mine or my child's rights. I'm not against the rule. It's just like being at work. Phone should not be in the bathroom or the classroom. Okay, I agree with that. But when you're on your personal time, lunchtime or a break, I think these kids should be able to either check in whatever. You don't know if it's a single mom that's raising their child that maybe needs
004to get a message to them or they need to get a message to their parent to say, "Hey, I'm going to do A, B, and C." So, it can be set up that either a grandparent knows that they need to check in or something. I'm trying to be very logical about this. I understand where you guys are coming from and I agree with certain rules, but I also feel like what these ladies said, I don't know if it was you guys the first one that I came to, cell phone etacy. I agree with that. But I can also tell you that not every kid is glued to their phone, so they're being punished. I get that there's rules, there's concerns, but I really think that maybe we should look at how we're coming across, too.
005If we're supposed to be teaching them that they're young adults and there's consequences for their actions, I'm not against them losing their cell phones in classroom. But what I am against is them not being taught or learned that there's a time and place. And you have to start that at some point in their life. An eighth grader that's gonna be going to high school should be able to use their phone at lunchtime, not in the bathroom, not in the classroom. I agree with that. But I think that we need to look at this and maybe do an ad hoc or a survey or something. I think that some of the teachers are struggling too because these kids will take a picture of something, you know, like the last five minutes of class. Let them pull
006out their phones, take those pictures. the ones that abuse it, they don't get to do it. I wish Saturday school was still a thing because consequences were major when we were younger. Thank you. >> Thank you, Tessa. >> Uh, next up is Jim Hopwood. Man, you guys are kind of intimidating. I want to thank Tessa for her comments. That's kind of cool. So, um I have a I have a little saying that I don't publicize it or or say it. I just say it to myself in things that in my world that I'm involved in. I it's always that if it's of God, it ought to be better. And so I I would like to see the this proer school district kind of adopt that. You know, if it's a proer schools, let's make it
007the best it can be. So last last or two weeks ago at the last meeting, my ears were perked a little bit in regards to the substitute teaching pay. Um I'm one of these guys that's got my ears a little bit to the ground. I kind of hear what's going on and because it it's it's I'm a community guy, by the way. I'm a Mustang. I graduate from Proser and uh three kids graduate from Proser. I'm I'm here. I might as well buy a cemetery plot. Um, I I've known for the last 10 years personally, and I and I'm not a substitute teacher. Never even wanted to be, but I've heard I've known for the last 10 years that substitute teacher pay and proer is low. I I hear that. So, here's what I'm going
008to say is if neighboring school districts are paying 180 bucks a day, as a taxpayer, pay 200. but let's make sure we're getting the best subs we can get. Um, in addition to that, uh, a little bit of a clarification. I know I know of this year I know of two people that I know personally. I've kind of mentored and discipled, um, two people that have recently gotten their AA degree. one of which is in biblical studies and she was told that she couldn't subb. Um, and I said, "No, let's let's figure it out." So, we've we've contacted some people and evidently she can't. Okay. Um the other person also has an AA degree and she was told she can't sub unless she was enrolled in a education program uh like to get her M
009get her bachelor's in in teaching. So we just need to maybe at the administration level maybe we need to uh make some clarification there and fix fix some loopholes. But you know what? Um, I've been coming here for quite a while. Proer historically, and we learned this through the Tom Moore era. If if if it's if it's the best it can be, Proser is going to support you. And if you want to float a bond, be the best you can be. So, Proser, if it's of the Proser School District, it ought to be better. Thank you. >> Thank you, Jim. There anybody else or Blake? Anybody online? Okay, that will conclude the uh hearing of visitors portion. Moving on to student rep reports. Ezra, you're up. >> Um, so ASB and leadership have been preparing
010for homecoming, which is going to take place next week and I think we're all pretty excited. And then just looking in the future, we have chosen our recipients for pink week, um, which is going to be Miss Bagnel and then Coach Za, the soccer coach. So, we're really excited about that. Thank you, Olivia. >> Adding on to Ezri, we have like some events for next week are the regular powderpuff and blackout volleyball. And the theme I don't know what exactly, but it's related to Harry Potter. Um, so we're having Quidditch games, which I also don't know Harry Potter, so I don't exactly know what those are either, but that's something new next week that we're doing. It's going to be between grades. Um, and the middle school is also having spirit days next week. One
011of them that I thought was funny where students are dressing like teachers and teachers are dressing like students. That could be entertaining. Uh, thank you. Any questions for Ezri or Olivia? Thank you. Uh, moving on to discussion items. Uh, school building reports. First up is Jane Gronel, Witstrand. Hello. So, when I sat down this morning and went, "Oh, I better figure out what I'm going to say tonight at the board report." Started writing things down and I was a little shocked at how much we've actually crammed into six weeks. So, some of the instructional portion, all the students have went through their I Ready reading and math diagnostics. We have 99% of students who have went through all their baseline for the ARC and the ERA baseline assessments. Grade level PLC's are well underway. Our
012building PLC's we're going to focus on sequencing our lessons and common common formative assessments. So last year they did a book study on common formative assessments so they have the theory and so my goal is this year that we're going to do put that into practice and so we're going to be spending a lot of our PLC time on that. Um, several staff members recently attended a biiteracy ARC training. Teachers are doing a great job implementing all the thinking maps in their classroom. Our instructional coach is assisting with thinking maps PD throughout the district. So, that's coming up, too. Um, we've been doing some work with Chris Clam. So, I want to say thank you for approving that contract because she is she's a godsend. She's wonderful to work with. Um, a cool thing, Mid
013Columbia Library, I met with Mickey Simmons and they have this program called Literacy Links and they're choosing a couple pilot schools to do this with. They've done it in Oll and they would also like to do it with Witstrand. And what it involves is three classrooms get 40 books a month. They deliver them, they pick them up. And so if we want to do that with them, they're going to start that in January. And from the research that I've been doing, I think it's a great idea. So they have a lot of access to Spanish books and it'll just allow different books in our classroom at no cost to us. So we're going to pursue that one. At the building level, we had our beginning of the year expectations assembly. One of our teachers, Mrs.
014Swinhart, did a great job encouraging the kids to get away from their screens over the summer and they had to bring back projects. So one kid brought back this scrapbook of all the things they did. We had posters, we had some essays. So she had some really cool prizes for that. Then we did the student of the month assembly. We've had our first fire drill, lockdown drills. Completed vision and hearing screenings. We had the balloon rally out in the field. That was pretty cool. PTO, I want to give a huge shout out to Prosper PTO. They've done a lot of things. So they came out and did the jogathon, which was great. Then they do their monthly popcorn delivery. So support the PTO. They do great things. Um, thank you to Rotary for the donation
015for Princess Theater. Practices are underway for that for the Adams family musical. Kids are pretty excited to be doing that. On a personal level, I've been to several trainings, different trainings, doing a lot of the Cell 5D evaluative trainings. Did threat assessment trainings at the ESD, met with the I Ready coach for half a day. That was pretty cool. She noticed that we did not have the Spanish diagnostic turned on. which we were able to access. So, a couple of our grade level teachers have opted to redo the diagnostic in Spanish just so that they can compare the results to the kids that took it in English versus Spanish. Um, next week I'll be going through a breakthrough coaching cycle, which I've been told is a phenomenal training program for administrators and their secretaries. And
016since both of us are pretty new, we thought it would be a great thing to do. We've got the earthquake drill coming up, picture day coming up. Turkey trot, we're really excited about that. We had a community family donate a huge banner, which was pretty neat. That was on Facebook. We've got a couple family fun nights coming up. So, yeah, the biggest thing is there's not enough hours in the days, but it's been going good. >> Never is. Any questions for Jane? So Jane, on the student assessments, is that's something that we'll see soon >> like the I Ready diagnostic. Yeah, that's that's data I can share with you for sure. I would like to get to redo those grades that we can test them in Spanish as well for the reading because that's something
017new that we have access to >> so that we can compare and see what the difference is there. But yeah, we can send that to you. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Any other questions, students? Thank you, Jane. Appreciate it. Next up is department reports Sean Cook, technology director. >> Hi. Uh, this time of year for us is we actually get to catch our breath. So, it's really nice to kind of give a report this time of year. Uh, from the middle of May to the middle of September is crazy in our department. Uh, we work really hard. We push really hard to get projects done, but this time of year, we kind of get to fall back into a normal work schedule. Uh, I've been working really hard at updating servers, getting
018those things back in a maintenance schedule after summer. Uh, the department's been working on things like inventory, uh, catching up our Chromebooks from the summer craziness, uh, general maintenance. That's kind of what we've been up to over the last couple weeks, and just getting back into a normal uh, work life, which has been nice. uh three things that I thought I could bring to you. Three nice, exciting things. Uh in June, I brought a contract to the board for Brightpan. They were going to update our really old servers, uh which they did, and that project is now complete. Uh we no longer have any 2012 servers, so that makes me sleep a little bit better at night. Uh uh everything is current and supported. Just so you guys know, just to kind of keep in
019the back of your brain in case you're wondering, which you're probably not, but maybe you will after this. Uh our district has 15 physical servers and those 15 physical servers host 38 virtual servers. Uh it's a gigantic part of our network. Uh so when I talk about things that we're doing, that's always a a focal point. So, thank you for approving that Bright Span contract cuz that was uh great for us this summer. Our next big project with our servers will be to replace we have three door access servers. I'm going to uh merge those into one uh for ease of um for ease of maintenance, but also for so that fiscally down the road we're only replacing one instead of three. That will be our next server project. Uh whether I bring a contract
020to the board or I just see what I can do uh in a department-wise is yet to be determined, but that will be what we do next. Uh currently, Windows 10 is end of life October I still have three more minutes. Thanks, Kevin. Uh Windows 10 is end of life October 14th. So, we've been pushing really hard uh to get all of our uh computers. We are almost there. We are almost all Windows 11. So, we're at the end of that big push. I know we're in the 11th hour of doing that and that's not typically uh how I work, but it's just we just haven't had time over the last year. So, uh we'll get there, but probably not till midnight on August or on October 14th, though. Uh as far as what's on
021the horizon for us uh that you guys will see, our annual rate process is coming. Oh, now you're going to start it. Okay. Uh our annual e-ate process uh is coming up for me. I'll be filing our 470 this year. Uh typically that's our internet. Uh and we also have a managed service contract for our wireless in district. Uh this year I'm also going to try to I'm going to file a 470 which is really just the request to USA to go hey we have a need uh and I need you to help financially fulfill that need. Uh my request to USA this year is going to be that uh we have a managed service contract for our network. So currently we contract with technologize. Uh they're like our oh no we need help people.
022Uh we pay for that contract directly. So we don't that comes out of our general fund. Uh I'm going to propose that USA helps us pay for that this coming year. So you will see no matter how that looks or uh how that gets approved, you will see that probably on a board packet come March, Aprilish. Uh and uh then I'll be back talking to you about that. So that's my past, current, and future. >> Thank you, Sean. Any questions for Sean student? Thank you very much. Uh next up is uh for discussion is policy 4260A facility rental fees. So in the packet is our current fee schedule or in your pack fee schedule. Um I'd like to just for discussion we have a beautiful facility. We have beautiful I don't know if it's equipment
023but well maintain operational pretty state-of-the-art equipment. I think Sean would agree that we're we're there with that comes a cost. So when you're looking at operating the lights or operating the sound system or whatever um for many years we had at the very beginning we had SWAT students who got you know who got trained and then worked with either Mr. Norris or Miss you know the different teachers and they could help um through funding some of those or most of those types of programs have gone away. Okay. Now, many of the students still, for example, in the drama club still learn how to operate the lights, the different pieces, but it's not part of an official SWAT type program, right? And so, and most events in our auditorium, let's mainly use it, are at evenings
024or weekends, which then in turn is really overtime pay if we hire someone to come back. And I don't know that our fee schedule, like when it says it, I don't think that hourly rate comp uh fully covers our costs of that. Does that make sense? Um like tables and chairs, it doesn't say per 100 or it doesn't say um does that make sense? I just would like some I don't know if the word is guidance but I'd like some guidance as to we've started some work and getting information from example princess theater or other you know they were more than willing to share their fee schedule right we'd like to um still be able to offer student organizations and so forth potentially less fees right to our clubs clubs don't pay. But I'm going
025to give an example and students, you can help me here also. You know, if they do a big event, let's say I don't know, there's an awards assembly or something that auditorium still has to be cleaned and ready for the next day. And I'm wondering, and it's a wondering, it's no ideas behind the answer. Should those clubs per say pay the cleaning fee? I don't know. I'm not saying they should or shouldn't, but that's an example. If we do the big wrestling tournaments or the big basketball tournaments where the commons gym, all of that, right? And don't get me wrong, those organizations are picking up garbage, picking up clean, but they're not per se cleaning the bathrooms, right? Or mopping floors. Should there be a fee to our clubs and organizations that use them? And
026that's my question to you tonight. Another example is we um I don't know I'm trying to think of if it's a studentdriven organization yet it's for profofit what category does that fall under is right I'm just there's quite a few of them that are for student things or children but yet they're for profit And I need a I think we need to clarify that a little bit. So, so anyhow, just wanted to bring it up for discussion. >> I'm going to start with the easy ones first. >> Okay. >> Um, and I think that would be labor. I think all the labor fees need to uh represent the actual cost. Um I think that's the easiest one to attack first. You know, if we're going to pay, you know, if we need to bring somebody
027in to do all that, then um you know, I I think it's it's prudent that that they get charged appropriately. Um, I would also, you know, as we go down through, you know, the labor and the audiovisisual and all that stuff, I I think it, you know, I think we should have a rate and I don't know what that would be, but, you know, it should also include, you know, potential whether it's depreciated cost or, you know, cost of replacement over time, you know, and add that in there, whatever that might be, so that it's um, you know, things get outdated quickly. I think we just got a new what VA system for the stadium two years ago. Is that right? Um, you know, it's not cheap to have, you know, to buy all that.
028So, uh, not that it, you know, you're going to pay for it in one rental fee, but at least it can help, you know, offset some of those costs or maintenance items. >> I'll give you an example. We have coral risers, $20. Well, it almost takes two men and a boy to set up the coral risers. But I'm kind of look but I could not set them up by myself. You have to somebody chinned by the time you put them together. >> The coral risers, you know, where you st they're teiered where like the choir stands on them. Yeah. >> Right. >> So they're heavy. They they do need to be put together properly so someone doesn't fall >> and very seldom does somebody need one riser. Normally they want the whole set and we
029have a $20 fee and that just that doesn't seem to fit with the amount of labor and the equipment itself what you're talking about. But it's the labor and the So I'm thinking we have good liability insurance, but if two people go in and put it up and somebody doesn't push the last brace or doesn't do whatever and we have 20 kids filling on standing on it and it falls off or that crashes, I don't know, bends over, not not ceiling falling in, but and somebody twists their ankle, you know, we're responsible for that as well. I would agree with Jason. I think to your example of like the bathroom cleaning and whatnot um with whoever is using the facility. I guess my thought goes back to the old like vacation rental house and whatever
030you want to put into it gets taken off the bill. So I don't know if that could be somewhat worked out with whatever group is using facilities. Um, but I I do think any of that stuff that we're putting up, taking down, like we we do need to at least cover our costs there and not lose money on it. I guess my initial thought >> coming at this like from a perspective of being a part of a club, I think it's a really good idea to make us pay for as a club just because part of those like being a part of those clubs is improving our ability to work in the real world and stuff like that. And being in the real world, you have to rent things. So I feel like it's a
031good idea to implement those skills. Um so like would this mean like if choir held a concert would they have to pay for the labor charges for the facility? So the answer is I really don't know. So let's say if it's classreated the answer would be no, right? Because it's that quarterly or or sub trimester program. But let's compare that to drama. Right. So the drama program is a club and they pract and correct me if I'm wrong, but the drama club that puts on a play is not doing that during fourth period, right? It's a club that they do afterwards. So the answer to like the drama club example would be yes. But to the choir who practices during third period, the answer would be no because that's an academic program. I think the
032other thing to consider though is are they making a profit? If they're making a profit, there's always a cost to the district that so um I would uh being your friendly payroll lady recently. Um there's there could be an event like well a football game's a good example. We pay a lot of people to work at a football game. We take a big gate from that and the district's paying for that. Not ASB. And I believe that should be ASB the activities supported by the ASB ASB should pay for that fee. But if you like the example you gave or I did another time sheet today where we had someone go to a parade that's a co-curricular activity. Nobody's making a profit from going to a parade. But if we have a big basketball tournament,
033there's a lot of money that comes in and there's a lot of custodial cost and other costs that get that the district has been incurring and it really should be the program. The other thing that I thought on this is um especially when we have outside groups and it says a deposit may be required. I think we should require a deposit that it's at least the minimum of the cost. Like if they say we're going to be here four hours and we know we're paying a custodian time and a half or four hours, the minimum should be what we know they have to pay and not try to get it later. We're not I mean all that building and stuff is gets to and chasing people down. They if people want to use the facility,
034great. That's what it's here for. But if they're if they're making a profit and for some some groups that are outside, they might just want to use it, but there's still a cost to the district and that needs to be covered. >> An example is the grand piano. It's, you know, once we pay for it, we've got it, but has to be tuned twice a year, >> right? >> My research, it does not cost only $125 to tune a piano. >> That's what I was going to say. especially a grand piano and technically you're supposed to tune it every time it goes back and forth and I know that we don't have the budget for that but that's not close at all. Um so my other comment would be our profit business and you were
035less per day by several hundred. Um, and we have businesses that rent it and charge $20 a person ticket for three or four events. And we, you know, we're losing money on it. They're making a great amount of tickets. So, I would say let's look at this and adjust. Look at look at everything. I think you think that are clubs and classes for the school district should, you know, either be gratus or minimum, but they cover the cost to go to the courts um programs. I think we need to increase providing really a great service but so what I'm hearing is if it's okay with you, I'll put together something before I go to actually a policy review. How about one more time of discussion? Does that make sense? If I do one more discussion
036item. >> So like renting the middle school gym would be the same renting fee as renting the high school. >> Not necessarily. No. >> Okay. That was >> So Kim, are you saying you would maybe update this rate sheet first and we would discuss it again one more time? >> I think that's fair or more fair so that we have some ideas. A lot of times when I bring something to you for like a first reading of a verbal policy, it's a little different. We have a discussion and I bring it to you. I think this is probably a two discussion like this is what it is right now. I'm not bringing any ideas to you and then we would bring ideas to you. >> Do we have a lot of for-profit organizations that do
037use our facility? I don't I hate the words a lot because I don't it's relative to the person who's asking >> percentage. >> Yeah. I would say a a couple a month. >> Yeah. Because we don't want to make it unreasonable for student driven activities. And >> and we have four lines right now. We have private, commercial, for-profit, nonprofit organizations, nonprofit youth, internal use. Maybe we divide that out and now have six rows, right? So that it's a little right bear and then we divide it out a little better. >> Yeah, I would agree with Alisa though that I think the rates need to go up. >> The green room, the band room, the high school >> basically. Yes. I mean, I don't know if you've seen that. >> It's well, the band room and
038then there is another space there that has the dressing like the bathrooms and stuff, but yeah, I've seen a lot of outside agency people in that band room before. >> Yeah, it's a rough shape represent. >> Just a couple comments on this fee schedule then. Um, in the internal use school activities line, I'm a little confused by the $100 cleaning fee being mentioned there. It says no rental charges, $100, $150 cleaning fee, but none of the other categories say that on their line. Um, so I don't know is that if that's like for all of those space types they get $150 cleaning fee or is it still just for the auditorium in which case that's for everyone? So that just read >> I think the idea was I I see what you're asking, but I
039think the idea would be is when you get down to line um rows three and four, there's an hourly fee which wouldn't cover that except for the auditorium that also had the two red asterisks and got $150 fee. Well, and I do think we need to adjust that line as well because it might be an internal youth school activity like a giant wrestling tournament. And really what we need to charge is not is not put possible not like we need to say paying for all labor costs because and I don't like putting a number on that because it changes. >> Yeah. I mean, I think it's I think it's reasonable to say we need to recover our costs, right? Whatever those are. Um, in the equipment section, like you mentioned, some of this isn't really
040clear, like is that a per piece or is it, you know, is it $20 a chair or is it $20 for a 100 chairs? Um, so that could use a little clarification. Um, the labor piece though, maybe sometimes there isn't overtime involved and sometimes there is. So, I don't know if that those need to be two separate these schedules like >> or you could do normal hours and overtime hours. So, if it's a Sunday, right? Or >> Yeah. So, like for example, I Sean's sitting here so I'll use an example. Israel does a lot of work in the auditorium and he works an eight hour day and very seldom is the auditorium rented during an eight hour workday, right? They do it at night or weekends and then he comes in and it's time and
041I haven't heard him. >> Well, and to be honest, if he's doing it during his workday, he's not doing his work. >> Yeah. When's the workday over? >> Uh, everybody varies, but between 3 3:30 and 5, depending on the person and what their schedule is. >> I'm just thinking about those like activities that are maybe right after school, you know, between that 3 and 5 time frame. I think what Dan is saying though is if we're pulling him from I'm sorry else. Um, fixing a a classroom projector. He and he's now in the auditorium. Then that other work's building up too. >> Probably for the sake of clarity, you would just do one rate and I would choose the overtime >> rate, >> right? >> I appreciated your comments about that you actually like the
042idea of clubs paying a rental fee of some type. Um because the students you real world and so it teaches you how to live in the real world. Um yeah let's look at a new schedule. >> Any other comments, questions? >> We'll bring something next meeting. Uh moving on to explanation of travel for spe special education law conference for special services director Dr. Jennifer Allen. >> Dan and I just wanted to put this on the agenda because we have been no travel, no travel, no travel. Um this I'm coming to you notice it's in discussion. Um we are going to um allow her to travel to that law conference. Our special education law is the thing that is the most sensitive, changes the most often and can put us her knowledge can protect us and
043or um make sure that we're doing all of the sped special education changes that are in the lot. I think it's um some of the best money spent to protect the district. Um so anybody who's listening, we are not opening up to travel. um she really had to convince us because we weren't we said no and she we just so it's not recorded it's not done online right this whole thing and it's the once a year it's a big deal so we are going to approve for her to travel to that >> um state no it's not out of state I just like I'm working very hard to be transparent on all spending um and so it would not normally need to come to you because it's instate, but I didn't want, let's say, next
044month and you see a bill for a motel and you're like, I thought we weren't traveling. So, I just wanted to be very transparent with that. >> Any questions or comments? Students are living. >> Very good. Thanks, Kim. All right, moving on to action items. Uh, consultant service agreement for picture this photography. It's pretty much self-explanatory. I don't even think we have anyone on. I'm well happy to answer any questions. >> The high school teachers aren't conferences right now. >> Oh, I didn't see a cost associated with this at all. Is that correct? >> The kids, the students pay. We just have to say it's okay for you to come. Well, I would move to approve the consultant service agreement for Picture This Photography for Homecoming. I'll >> second. >> It's been moved and seconded
045to approve the consultant service agreement with Picture This Photography Students. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Uh, moving on to uh seeking board approval for the formation of Love Our Elders Student Club at PHS. And I think Michelle is not here, so Olivia, you have the floor. >> Um, I'm wanting to start a club at the high school called Love for Our Elders. Um the proposal basically explains everything but it's a national organization and we can start a club chapter in our school and it alleviates social isolation among the elderly and builds intergenerational connections between students and the elderly. Um the constitution's written below and like the red comment watermarks those were not meant to be sent. I sent it through my phone really quickly so you can
046ignore those. But if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them. I have one. Can you tell us how you learned about this? I'm not sure. I do a lot of Googling for different opportunities and I think I just came upon this one day and I really connected to its mission. >> Um I love love the idea. Um I am. So the way I'm I'm reading it, you guys are going to select individuals to write letters to. Is that um we can do a variety of things. The national organization posts um a couple people that are nominated to be written to. So we can write letters to those people and those are um elders from across the country. And then I'm hoping to see if we can connect with the local retirement home and
047write letters to them. And then we can also just do like generalized letters and send those out. >> Thank you. >> Uh the only one question I think it's a great great idea and thank you for bringing it forward. Um, I guess in your in your mind how you see this thing going other than writing letters to uh our elderly community, what kind of community events do you think um you guys could build or or or put together that kind of bring all these folks together at least within you know proer and surrounding area >> on the letterw writing community side of it. Um, in February it's national uh it's either like national right to your elders day or national love for elders day. So I was thinking of hosting a community letter drive. So
048that would bring in the community um and obviously write letters to elderly there. And then I'm hoping to like host a Christmas event or something like that for the elderly. And then also um I want to connect uh the elementary school students as well. So there's a book the national organization has. It's a children's book that talks about writing letters to the elderly and social isolation. So what we could do is we go into the schools and read them the book which the club, the national organization will give us for free um and have them write letters to the elderly as well. So it's not just like a high school students are writing a letter to someone they don't know. I want us to actually build connections with the elderly. >> Great. Thank you. Any
049other questions or comments? >> Yeah, I think it's great. I mean that we saw such so much isolation even especially like during co and you know thing it it it was maybe more of an eye openener as to what those folks go through and you know sometimes there isn't people there but um but I really I love I love the idea and um be in full support of that is and if we could actually you know almost make our local community you know priority that would be that would be a Especially I would I'll be especially uh excited about that. >> Any other questions, comments? >> Just a beautiful idea. Thanks for bringing that up. >> Well, I move to approve the formation of love our love our elder student club at Proer High School.
050>> Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the formation of Lar Elder Student Club at Proer High School students. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Thank you, Olivia. Uh, moving on to theou at Princess Theater for the the Adams family musical kids. >> So, this is I'm happy to say this is becoming recurring. You'll notice the price of the Princess Theater um because two schools agreed to do the same program um and kind of put their dates together and kind of so everybody kind of compromised. We went from 5,000 a school to 6,000 for both schools. And then we got a Rotary donation of $3,000. And then the other money for the other portion will come from the ASB, which we, if you remember correctly, we got the
051Visa Credit Union, you know, swipe your Mustang card, and each building got $1,250 for that. So, I think it's a um a positive um that we're able to continue with um a compromise between the Princess Theater. They know how important it is and I think um I wish I could remember so I could have read you the email, but what they're seeing is more students interested in things as they get older. Um and that's what the arts is about, right? I think the fear of the unknown is kind of sometimes things that hold them back and then they're getting this experience in third grade, right? And thank you. Any questions for Kim? >> I move to approve theou with Princess Theater or second. It's been moved and seconded to approve theou with Princess Theater students.
052All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Motion carries. >> Uh, next up is the second reading of policy 2020 course design and adoption of instructional materials. >> Except for the second to last paragraph. It's all the same. That was the paragraph we found a little bit confusing. So, it's just been amended to basically say there is a list and if the list is available just you just need you ask for it, we'll give it to you. It's available for public review. >> Any questions, comments? Um, I'd like to know who comes up with the the course designs as teachers and >> um so the so courses are really designed So there's two things. There's curriculum design and course design. Um for the primarily course design comes from the work in the
053buildings. So we want to have a course. We want to have we have a local history course at the high school that Mrs. Kee teaches. They high school actually designed that course when they were trying to offer some more elective options for kids. And then materials because that's local history. They're primarily local historical information from the museum. There's a lot of texts out there that are written about the history of Proser. But um if it's a say it's a science course, it's still designed by the teacher, but it really is driven probably more by the curriculum and the instructional program that they follow. So it kind of depends. um when you're looking at like a CTE course, you know, they have frameworks they have to follow, but the day-to-day of what happens in the class
054is really the teachers design or how they are implementing it. I don't know. Can you have anything to add to that? >> I was trying to think of an example I could give. Yeah. >> Um if we're learning um let's take a math subject, I don't know, solving for X, right? um the the teachers work together on how they're going to design the course to to teach that piece. The curriculum is what math curriculum we're using. The course design is how they're going to work together to teach that at um I don't know students you know foil if you all can remember first outside inside last well when you're my age when you're 60 we just memorized it. We didn't do it. We didn't ask why we did it that way. We just said, "Oh,
055this looks like a foil problem. I do first, outside, inside, last." Right? That was just the way we did. Now the concept is we need to understand why we do it in that order. What we do, how do we do that? So it's not a rope memorization that that's that problem because if you can remember if it didn't look exactly right, we didn't know whether we used foil or not, right? If it didn't met meet the model. And so I think that's what we're saying is >> I think also if you talk about course design too, it's how the teacher determines like what kind of assessments they're going to use. Was their classroom structured like each day? What kind of um a verbal assessment? Yeah, >> Kevin, Mr. Curriculum got something to add to that.
056>> Come on. He must have something. Yeah, I I think um um let's take a CTE course or an art course. Um like we added the ornaments that were done, the big ornaments that are done at Christmas and that became a part of the art program and that course then had to change because some of the projects changed with inside the course. So the curriculum is what we look at and we adopt a curriculum and let's pretend chapter 2 may be taught a certain way and it's designed by the teacher but not the talk that help that happen. >> Yeah. When I initially looked at the the policy, I mean, I I didn't really it didn't really nothing alarmed me too much until I read the RCWs and there's there's just, you know, some things
057in there that I'm I've got some concerns that are age appropriate and I'm wondering who actually um makes sure that that that is happen who decides what is age appropriate. So there's a lot of thought that goes into curriculum design and and selecting course materials and the reality is that's we whenever we adopt curriculum we have a committee that does that for like we're adopting core curriculum. So you have a committee that includes administrators, teachers, parents sometimes depending on what it is there might be counselors, nurses depending on the like when we're doing health or something like that. So there's that that committee and then um and we're always considering kid the appro what's appropriate for kids or not what's appropriate what's best for the kids of proser not just what's best for kids and
058then also we're always looking at that that whole developmental the idea of it came across very it was pretty interesting when we were doing the adopting the new sexual health materials depending on the curriculum we were looking at they could be so vastly different middle school was a place there was a lot of difference and the committee themselves were like, uh, we don't think this is really not what we think is best for our kids and chose something that seemed much more appropriate. So, that's always all of that's always considered. Um, there's not I'm going to give you an example because this came up when I was a building principal. So, some believe in math that you teach algebra, geometry, and then algebra 2. And some people believe you teach geometry in nth grade and
059then you teach algebra 1 and then algebra 2. Right? So that's an example where nobody's really saying we do do we teach algebra 1 or algebra 2 or geometry. No, they're saying what order in which they learn them in. And some will argue that the spatial stuff in in geometry helps peique the interest in nth grade. Then there's people that say, well, you can't really do geometry without some basic understanding of algebra. So, we do algebra and then we do geometry. Those that's just an example of of the difference between what you're kind of talking about, right? Right. Like age appropriate, like it's still high school, but what order do we teach it in? >> Yeah. And the and the laws are are pretty confusing some some places. I mean, obviously, >> for sure, lots
060of lawyers are making lots of money trying to decipher. >> And it's really easy, you know, to adapt policies just so that we're in compliance. we're in compliance, but you know, are we really doing what's best for the kids for their education and protecting them? And I just want to be very mindful of that. I I didn't see anything in here that concerned me in our policy, the way it was written. It just it's just looking at the way the laws are. I just I just want to be very mindful of that. >> Frank, we're always trying to do that. >> I just say that mainly because I get a lot of I'm getting a lot of feedback. >> Sure. >> Yeah. every curriculum adoption that I've been a part of um and even some
061going a little bit more deep a little deeper than others with outside members community members being a part of that um looking at all aspects of that pro providing feedback and making adjustments um so through a curriculum adoption process it's not just done in isolation >> and I think the feedback would be very critical because I mean at some point we have to connect the dots. Are are we losing are we losing kids because of the curriculum? So anyway, that's all I got. Any other comments or questions, students? >> Well, I'll move to approve the second reading and policy course design and adopt materials. >> I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the second final reading of policy 2020. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Uh,
062next up is secondary science adoption recommendation. >> So, we've been talking about this for quite a while. We had our open review time and I will tell you no, we had we put out we had newspaper article or ad in the paper that ran for two weeks and like an ad with a red line about it. It cost us more money than I thought it should have. Um and we put out me a parent score message to all of the families. I had zero people ask me to review the curriculum. Um I know pre previously earlier few months back I made it available to board members. Um, I don't know if I talked to the high school teachers, but they're doing conferences, so I don't know if they were able to. They were going to
063try to be here, but I don't they're probably not able to be here yet. Um, so this is uh the curriculum for our secondary science. It is not all of our courses because we still have CTE science courses and our college and the high school courses that have will have the same curriculum. See the college and the high school courses have to offer the curriculum that the college offers. So these would be for our core biology, physical science and chemistry courses. Um and our teachers are pretty excited. >> Why don't you share about the money part of it? >> Sure. So originally when we I did the quote for three years of implementation and that would include like you know a set of teacher materials. It would be the teacher materials, the online materials, a
064set of student materials for the classrooms for students that either don't want to use online access or just need the book, the printed book. Um, our teachers really feel like that's much more essential even for ninth graders as our K students get a little older. Um, they work better maybe online and some kids never like to work online. uh but uh just last week. So that was about $32,000 or sorry about 35 $36,000 and we have $31,000 of a grant remember that we got from PNNL. So last week um the science teacher said, "Diana, we really think we have to have even though there's a Spanish online, we need print materials in Spanish for kids who are prim or uh Spanish speaking." And so that did add some cost about about $14,000 to get print
065about seven to eight books in every class. So those were available for our Spanish speaking students. So overall the adoption is about $50,000 not the original like $36,000 that I thought it was going to be. Um we're going to look at some options for maybe how we can pay for that. But uh we I was the money was budgeted for the curriculum adoption. This is it was a really small amount. It was a lot of money last year and we didn't adopt. So, I have a small amount, but it's enough to cover the adoption costs. So, >> and I think the piece um we're watching cash flow, you'll hear me talk about a little bit later. We're going to try and plan it accordingly to when our taxes come or, you know, our tax come
066in and that type of thing. The other thing is is we're going to try and do it so that we don't lose our PMN when >> Yeah, >> that's another part, right? You have deadlines to meet grant windows. >> What is the deadline? So, we have to spend the money within a year, but they give you the money up front. So, we have the money. We're not paying for it and then expecting reimbursement. We already have it. >> When's the uh >> uh I I'd have to look exactly what day we got the check, but it was like in a March or April. >> Okay. >> So, we have time. >> Oh, okay. >> We have we have a year calendar year. So, we have we have about six middle or so to make sure
067we spend it. So Kim and I talked about that adjust timing the for cash flow to make sure we're doing it at a time where we have the cash flow. >> So would this be adopted next school year then? >> No. Well, we're going to use it this year. They the teachers um are once it comes then they're going to they'll finish whatever unit they're on and they're going to start in their new curriculum. So they're excited about that. >> Overall, what kind of feedback did you get from the teachers? So, the teachers actually piloted multiple curriculums. Um gosh, it's hard to remember now because we've been working on this for so long. Um at least three. Um and maybe four. >> Middle school I think was >> Yes. And they um came to a
068consensus the three of them was like there was several curriculums they liked parts of but they wanted to put this part of this one with this part of this one. They didn't find something they felt met the needs of the students. Some curriculums they felt were so hands-on that they didn't students weren't expected to read content. And that's really one of our standards. They need to be able to to read as well as the have the hands-on applications. And this one they felt had a really good balance. It had the assessment support. It was online. It has the parent support. Has like some supports for students who might be struggling readers. So they just felt like I mean no curriculum is 100%. But this is the one that they all were like this this is
069the one. And it's been really hard to get to this point. Really, again, like I said, started before COVID, we've been working on this. So, um, I'm I'm really happy for them. They've been, you know, really, yeah, using old stuff or making their own stuff up or finding stuff online for so long. This will be We're pretty excited about this. I think one of the most important points of the cover sheet that was made in the first sentence that this is the first completed comprehensive science curriculum update for grades 6 through 12 for more than 20 years. So let's >> it might be longer. I knew it was at least 20, but it might be longer but I didn't exactly know how many years. So I just rounded to 20. >> But great work to
070the committee everybody and that co Um, the only thing I have and it's partially my fault is I have yet to review the the curriculum. >> You still can. It's in my office if you want to take it home. >> And I'll do that tonight. Okay. >> And my question is, can we move it to the next meeting? Has everybody had a full chance to review the curriculum? >> No, I would agree with that. And again, probably my fault, partly my fault, but I would really like to spend a little more time looking at it. Yeah, like >> I I don't I have no problem. I I don't think that's a problem because we won't actually order till no probably November. So, I think that's okay because we'll still be in October. Um we want
071Yeah, our timing is November. So, I don't think that's a problem. Um and like I said, I have two full sets of the material in my office and another like I have each of the content so I can hand out three of them tonight. Um, yeah, I wouldn't mind having it. And like I said, I think it's my fault that I didn't do it earlier, but >> I've only talked about it 47 times. >> I know it takes that. We'll just hold it. It's okay. >> Um, but I'd also if we can send out another email to Parent Square as well as maybe Facebook that says well it's open for another couple well until the next board meeting. Whatever. Yeah, we would probably if we Well, I'm not probably going to spend the money to
072put it in the newspaper again. >> I wouldn't. >> That's been our past practice. Um, but we can put out another parent message. We can put it on Facebook. Um, I was hope parents is who I'm hoping to reach, but I know there's a lot going on. So, >> yeah. Is there anything vastly different between what you shared online with us and the print materials? >> No, it's the same. It might just be easier sometimes depending on our um navigating skills or time just to be able to look at a book. Just like the kids, sometimes it's better to look at a book, but no, it's the same. >> Okay. >> I don't need to make time then to come look at the book. Um, this isn't related to this particular uh science adoption, but
073is there still at some point and I I mean I really struggle to bring this up knowing our budget constraints, but are we going to still look at middle school science curriculum at some point? >> So, we actually would have recommended both. Um, the middle school committee, part of the committee, it was the whole committee, but really middle school worked on middle school and high school worked on high school. um struggled to find a um an agreement to a curriculum, but I'm hopeful because this is a actually a K12 curriculum um that once it's implemented at the high school, we can do a little maybe collaboration and communication and and be something that they could consider. It um isn't a curriculum that the middle school considered at the time. Um but but I think there's
074maybe some hope there. But we do have >> this one they did not ever look at of the four. >> They did not only that they looked at probably 25 though. So it's yeah it's been a challenge and sometimes um we struggle a little bit to let go of our past. So uh yeah but moneywise for us right now this is okay. um curriculum wise it's not the best but because we don't have something for the middle school but um baby steps and if and if what we're doing now is cost is this is the cost I do think the middle school adoption would be quite a bit more because of the collaboration kids and some of the other things and probably even though they do it online we might need more prep materials middle
075schools just more appropriate maybe for them but um I think if we we work and we work through this maybe That's something we would be able to >> sometimes like us if they see it in action and they can go see it happening in class and and see what that instruction looks like in that course design right what does it look like then that may also sway the decision I mean and I think too there's probably some benefit um in consistency in the curriculum right if if it's a success at the high school setting the kids up kind of with the familiarity with that curriculum at the middle school level >> very much so because they set like it's like the structure is the same the kids know where to look for resources like once
076you learn it, you don't have to relearn how the book works or how you do the assessments or those kinds of things. So, absolutely. >> Right. I hope that's something we can talk about in the future. >> Students, you have any comments? We move to postpone secondary science adoption recommendation for the >> October 22nd meeting. I'd second it. It's been moved and seconded to postpone the science adoption recommendation to the October 22nd meeting. Students, >> all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you, Deanna. Appreciate it. Uh, next up is vouchers and payroll. you have it in front of you. I know the sheet is not blue, but it is the same piece. Um, Delissa is not with us this evening. I'm welcome. Any questions? Um, I did
077have one question and um unless I'm off off on a few weeks if we only getting ASB payables now and we'll get regular general fund warrants the next >> you'll you'll hear about that in my report after I meet met with the county. >> Okay. >> So that's on purpose. >> That's right. That's on purpose. >> Okay. Well, I move to approve vouchers and payroll. >> Second, >> it's been moved and seconded to approve vouchers and payroll students. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Uh that concludes our action items. Moving on to consent items one through four. >> I make a motion to approve approve consent items one through four. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded to appro approve consent items one through four students. All those in
078favor signify by saying I. >> I. Motion carries. Moving on to reports. Uh Kevin, you're up first. Actually, uh, today I finished meeting with all the buildings around Thinking Maps PD. And so we have, um, a PD cycle set for for each building. It's, um, designed and flexible enough, uh, to meet the buildings where they're at and kind of move them forward. Um, next steps will be meeting about math PD. Uh, KV I still have left to meet with them. And then the middle school and high school we had a conversation with last week about some math PD and kind of the direction they wanted to go with that. Uh we had our bersery arc PD uh last Friday. Um I had my pack officers meeting last Wednesday. We worked on the calendar for the
079year. Uh we dug into data um around where our students are at and uh the budget planning that going forward with that. Uh I have one grant left. Um and then we finished the big one. We had some revisions on that, but I finished the revision, submitted that. We had a school visit to Pasco. We were able to go through their uh oneway and two-way immersion programs and kind of to see what that is. They've reset their dual language program around 201819. us. So, that was just kind of an example to see where we're at compared to other districts in the area because we've had our dual language program for um quite some time now. Um for example, if you didn't know this, Richland is just now starting a dual language program, which that was
080new to me. I thought they had been a part of that for a while, but nope, they're just starting it. And there's several schools that are just starting it. So, um, Panorama, we're finishing up our student surveys that those actually end tomorrow for the little ones. Uh, right now we have 70% completion three three grades 3 through 12 and 75% completion for uh, preK through 2nd and then the parent uh, survey was released um, today went out today. So, we'll be getting those responses and sharing some of that information with you as when that's finalized. >> Thanks, Kevin. Any questions for Kevin? >> Thanks, Kevin. Diana. >> Uh, so I I guess I the things I have to report are more just uh because I've mostly been working on payroll and most recently HR. Um,
081I just want to say that Kevin has been a fantastic help to me because he's taken on a lot of things that I would have normally done to free up my time to assist with these other responsibilities. Raul, I've worked a lot with Raul um this last few days especially and he's a really quick learner. He asked a lot of good questions. He's doing really well and I'm feeling um really positive about his hire. I think that's been really great. Um we Kevin talked a little bit about some of the training and things that we have going on. Um and we do have parent conferences going on all over the district and we usually have a really great turnout rate for parent conferences. Um I wanted to address what Jim said talked to talked about
082with the substitutes. Um so in the past uh under previous superintendence and this could go back a ways um we never allowed anyone except someone with a bachelor's degree to substitute. And then early in my tenure in this role, I asked for a reconsideration on that because we had people with AAS, we were really starting to work on those grow your own programs and having people become um work for us and then maybe come and teach for us. And so we did open that up to people that had an AA and then we're in education program. Since that time, we've opened that up a little bit further. We have um PAR educators that have AA. Some of them are ed programs and some of them are not, but they have a lot of classroom experience.
083So, we have several PAR educators in our district um that have an emergency substitute certificate as well. We have not ever allowed anyone without um an AA and one of those two areas to substitute in the past. Um so, it is something we could talk about. Having a degree doesn't ne necessarily make you a good sub and uh not having one doesn't necessarily make you a bad sub. So, I do think if we were opening up to people who really had no experience working with children or plans on working with children, because most ed programs have people in the classroom starting very early in their ed program, um we would need to provide probably more professional development for those folks before we put them in the classroom. The other thing that I've done with some
084of our folks who um maybe lack some of that experience is I've asked them to substitute as a par educator first and then once they've substituted as a parent educator and have some experience in the classroom because just coming off the street with zero experience working with kids I would it would be a little bit of a struggle throwing them up in front of a classroom. So those are just some things to consider. But you brought up some really good points, Jim. I appreciate that. Um it's something that I think we can talk about as a team about and it sometimes it is also on a case- by case basis. Um sometimes um yeah so we do have a uh next year we'll have our first student who was in our grow your own bridge
085program. She's a sophomore right now. She'll be a junior next year who potent who's literally 20 years old and uh so or will be 20 years old. So those are all things to consider. you know, we don't um we we truly can't just hire anybody, but um and I am working on getting subs hired. It's a process and I'm learning how to do it on my own right now. Uh but uh people should reach out to me. I don't know anything about the I I I can I'm not surprised about being told about the ED program. I don't know anything about the two people that you're particularly talking about because I didn't speak to them. They're welcome to email me. Um, I will tell it might take a little bit of time right now because
086we're getting through this month's payroll stuff. Um, but hopefully in the next week or so I'll be kind of freed up to be back a little bit to normal. So, uh, so I can get caught up with some of those some of the other things going on. So, ultimately I will tell you normally if someone wants to become a sub, it's me that says yes or no. Okay? And um, but I don't I don't think I know about those two. So, because I haven't had anything recent. Okay. And that's it for me. >> Great. Thanks, Diana. Any questions for Deanna? >> Diana. >> All right, Kim, you're up. >> Um, just a clarification, if you're following along in the agenda, Deise is not available this evening. If you have questions on the financial statements, let
087me know. Drew, um, his name is Andrew Rob R Aab, um, will be with us next, um, board meeting and we'll be available for questions. Um, our year end is due to the ESD by the 25th, which is then due to OSPI by the 8th, and you'll have a full report at the first board meeting in November. Um, who's presenting all of that will be up in the air between Drew, myself, andor Delise. Okay, so that's just to bring it up to speed there. Um, you've got my report in front of you. Um the property things pretty quiet um on the parcels because as we've talked about the waiting on the city planning we did have a couple more showings on the Grand Tony property. I think people are just struggling. It's zoned um a
088couple different ways but I don't think people always know quite what they can do and really no grass and so they do certain things right there's some investments there. Um times are tight or as tighter or tighter than ever. Um I do want to share a little bit about this. I met with our county treasurer and his team. Um we are going to start meeting every uh the third Tuesday of every month at 1:30. Um it was very So I'm going to you know me I just tell you everything. Um I walked in and you know it felt kind of like I was going to the principal's office and I walked in and I said you know actually what I said to him is I feel like I'm going to the dentist. And he kind
089of jokes and he says that's all right. I use Novacaane. So, I mean, it kind of broke the the the tension, right? And we talked about cash flow, we talked about whatever. And what a professional, first of all, but he really opened um Drew. Drew went with me to the meeting uh about one was this Kim, every school district we're working with is in the same shirt or worse. Um, the other thing he said was because every district is experiencing the same thing. And I'm telling you if you're listening because this is a legislative problem, right? Meaning it's a state problem. Like we have to fund education differently. Um, but he says because there's so many school districts in my county, you're all needing my support and their coffers are only so big. Right. Um,
090and so we we had a really good conversation. The other piece that he shared was you and your board are very proactive was a compliment to us cutting doing right what the county so people understand um actually a couple people in the last couple days have said I keep saying here you go say you're going to the county you're going to the county well I don't think people realize the county is our bank and I I think there's this idea that we go and we go down to Yakfed and we deposit our money. That's not how that works. So the county is our bank. I mean their holdings are held by key bank and different things, right? Do you see what I'm getting at? But our our funds go through the county. And so um
091I just really opened up a really sincere dialogue about the problem with cash flow. The other thing that people generally don't understand is the state of Washington does not give a school district, think of a calendar, 12 months, they do not give us one 12th of our money every single month. Well, our teachers get paid 1112th of their salary every month. Well, some months they give us 5% of our money and some months they give us, you know, it's just kind of funky. And it was initially designed, so I got a little history from our county treasurer. It was originally designed because your taxes are due in October and da da da and then you get money in October and November, right? And so then those months you you have a beggar coffer and then
092you don't need as much help in December and January. It also goes back when teachers used to get paid 10 months out of the year. Teachers went to 12 months about 25 years ago or so. for my >> Oh, before you you're you're longer than me, so >> 35. >> Okay. So, but he says some of the rules that are still in place on those percentages were even before teachers had used to have the option. I believe you could be a nine or I'm not looking at you, but a nine or 10 month versus a 12 month. >> Uhhuh. >> On a side note here, this has to deal with this. My grandmother was a teacher in Wapto. She told me that she went to unemployment during her day her months off. So that kind
093of forced the state to reook to to look at the allocation of the salaries because they were able to go and get unemployment as they recall. >> So So it was quite a good history lesson for not history but a financial history lesson. So I'm just telling the community um it it was really good partnerships. You know I'm about partnerships. you're sitting here, the partnership with the Princess Theater, the partnership with the Pickle Ball people, and now the partnership with our county treasure. Um, so I just I think it's really important that we know that um that that it does take all of us together to figure it out. Um, we left in leaving, like I said, we're going to meet the third Tuesday of every month at 1:30 to look at how things are
094going. And he says, "You know, Kim, I'm joking, but I'm serious. It's just paper and toilet paper. That's it. Right? Meaning like when you have to cut back and you have to in a school, right? Meaning he was just saying it's bare bones. It's like Right. And so I gave him example of the travel being on the board packets. Um so those are things that we're working on. Um legal I'm happy to say. Um there's nothing open or pending. We did have a letter from the IRS about our viva. Um that's not on your list. So, that is coming up as a discussion item before long. Facilities. We have a late growing season. It's been pretty warm. Our grass is still growing by like crazy except the irrigation water is off. So, um I have
095a little note on here. Be prepared for long grass. Um because our mowers are done Friday. We did give them an extension. They were supposed to be done on the first and I was afraid we weren't going to get everything mowed one more time and they really needed to be mowed. If you would like to be a friend of the field, if you're a neighbor, I'm just going to give you an example. If you live by KV and you would like to mow the front left corner and you want to weed it and do whatever and somebody else wants to take the front right corner and you want to be a part of that, we're happy to work with that. I verified that you're covered by our insurance, things like that. So, we have that
096open. Um, so I did say, are you interested in weed eating, mowing, or helping us get ready for winter? Just give me a call. Um we have a lot of um community members that are very proud of our comm community our schools and opening that up to you. Um we're still working on the design phase. It's not going to go fast for ECAP. Um we probably would have done a meeting last month, but uh Deanna and I between payroll and HR. Um thank you for the maintenance for striping our lots. We've heard some pros and some cons. Everything has a stripe on it. Yes, it's not the fancy white reflective paint. Um, yes, it'll probably have to be done, but as I put in my note, it only cost us the paint because we did
097it during our normal hours and now at least people have a place to to park. Um, and the irrigation water's off. I'm did get to meet with all the principles. We're back on our on our rotation. Um, I know Diana doesn't like it when I I give her big thanks or make public things, but I just want everybody to know historical knowledge is a valuable thing. and Diana's historical knowledge um saved this district when we were doing payroll last month. Um and what I mean by that is I can go in and um do someone's payroll or I can do whatever and but Deanna can catch it and go I don't think they're a fiveyear. I think they've been here 10 or 11 or 12 years. And she can catch things that your historical knowledge,
098right, can catch that somebody who doesn't have the historical knowledge doesn't catch. So, I'm going to publicly thank you. And uh we have a new task in front of us now. We're working with HR. So, that's going on. Um transportation. Um the uh Benton Franklin transit stuff is going great. We did some work with Wit. I know Julene's not here. We got that worked out. Um, Haime, our transportation director, and Jackson are working together literally every morning at 9:30 to see what we have to tweak and what we have to do because we just don't have enough drivers. So, if you are interested um in doing working mornings only or you want to run an afternoon route only, there are union requirements. You can't just say, I'll do the football trips or something like that
099because those, you know, there are union requirements. But we really really could need some drivers. We do pay for your training and then right. So you get paid while you're training and we pay for the training. Um and we could really use we really need about four. Um and if we get you in um you could be say I'm only available on Mondays and Tuesdays or whatever, right? But we need some substitute drivers. Bad. Um, and then, uh, went I did get to do some of my normal things. I went to the Chamber of Commerce meeting. I'm going to Rotary tomorrow. It's on my calendar and our capital committee meetings tomorrow night. And I think that's it. Unless you have any questions, unless I forgot. Oh, Mr. Weman, look at your phone. I called you
100back about four times. I realize you weren't practice. I am going to answer a couple of your questions here. Um, shoot. Except my computer went to sleep. Um, one was the irrigation. It's so it got an extra dose of water that week because I knew it was going off. Um, the science curriculum does include the professional learning support. We going to get you that. That's those pieces. Um, we are working on I'm trying to get to the root of your question about absenteeism and Skyward. So, it Panorama, we talked about Panorama has some flagging systems. Um, and then we do have daily reports that come out that that tell us what it what I think you're asking me is does it pop up and say Tommy like does it like a warning like your bank
101or something does it say Tommy's been gone three days this week? No, we don't have that kind of a flagging system, but principles and secretaries and counselors are able to run reports as often as they need to be in their setup. And then Panorama has a feature that the staff will be learning about as well. And then the other one we can touch on. But I did. I'm gonna be honest. I forgot to email you back. I read it while I was driving and then I forgot to read back. >> Oh, I admit when I forget to email somebody back, I admit it. Oh, I looked it up while I was driving. Yeah, >> any questions for Kim? >> Thank you, Kim. >> Uh, next up is board reports. Michelle, >> I don't personally have
102anything, but I did want to thank um Jim and Tessa for coming in and talking. I think it's really important that the community come in and share feedback with us when you have it. And so I just um we don't often get many people here in our audience if anyone. So just thank you for coming in and taking the time to share with us your thoughts. Appreciate it. >> Yeah, I want to thank Tessa and Jim as well. Um it's always good to have people voice their concerns, good, bad, and indifferent. um opens up conversation and hopefully lead to more dialect here in the future between you guys that came in. Um heard from a couple people as far as parent teacher conferences that um thing things were looking well as far as attendance. Was
103told by a high uh yeah staff member at the high school that they were on pace for an all-time attendance record for parent teacher conferences. So it's good to hear. Frank. >> Yeah. Um, just want to thank you guys. I know we've all said it, but I had it on my notes. They stole it. So, um, but no, the community input is is critical. I I believe that and I've gotten a few phone calls this week and and it was it was really interesting because I was able to like a lot of the things it's just having that open dialogue is very important because you can you can stave off a lot of things that that could turn into something big and you know just answering simple questions and so it's it is very important
104that we have open dialogue and we get input from our stakeholders but um thank you for everybody who who's reached out to me >> Lisa I I don't have a formal report either. I would just like to thank Anna and everybody that's working extra to do not just your everyday job, but the other job. I think I say this a lot of that. I think one of the hardest things in life having to clean up a mess you didn't make. And I know that you're giving a lot of time that. I think everybody that came in spoke tonight and I agree with Frank like the more dialogue and discussion you have take care of the issues while they're little >> um I didn't have a lot. I think it was well said by everybody on
105the uh the board here. Um, I would encourage I don't know how many we have online, but you know, if you have an opportunity to to spend a few minutes and look at the science curriculum, you know, you got a couple weeks to do it. Um, you know, and part of that is just to have input by everybody. Uh, you know, at least to look at it, um, you know, and if they provide input, that's great. But if we don't get a response from anybody, parents, um, community members, stuff like that, you know, you know, we don't know. We can look at it. But I think, you know, just like everyone said, you know, open dialogue, uh, have discussions and we get things done. So remember that science curriculum, you got two weeks before it
106comes back. Um, with that, just uh future meetings. We'll have a regular board meeting right here October 22nd at 6:00 p.m. Uh, no further business. This this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.