001We'll call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. approval of the agenda. I move to approve the agenda. I'll second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carried. First up is information items. is a voluntary reduction of two additional days for 2526 contract year uh for the director of business and operations lease wed. Um this is just me uh following suit with our directors and principles and administrators uh with forfeiting two additional pay days for my 10 for 2526. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you and everybody else that's that's done that. So, thank you. Uh, do we have anybody here to speak to the board? Doesn't look like it. Blake, is there anybody online? Nope. We'll skip that part. Student representative reports. Ezri, uh, girls soccer
002is hosting a car wash fundraiser this Saturday at Northwest Farm Supply from 9:00 to 12 and an additional one will be held at Lewab next Friday, also from 9 to 12. Thank you, Olivia. Volleyball currently is having a youth volleyball camp. We had about 50 kids show up today and I think all the campers really enjoyed it and learned a lot. And then it goes on tomorrow too and the same kids will be coming. Um there is volunteer hours available at the Jubilee Food Bank on Wednesdays for students and also opportunities at the Princess Theater. Thank you. Any questions for us for your Olivia? How old do you have to be to volunteer at at Jubilee? Um, I know if you're at the high school, like it's any high school student, but I figure they
003will like have anyone volunteer or maybe it's like if you're a middle school if like an adult is present. I don't really know the age. Uh, moving on to discussion items. the 2526 student handbook. Okay. Um the handbook is is obviously available to you. We printed it for you to look at. It's a discussion item. I'd like you to understand there's not a lot of changes in the majority of it. It's in the discipline section. Um and um that has to do with the new laws. Um and we've taken guidance. it is in the hands of legal counsel right now to make sure that right that we're meeting that the RCWs are correct and different things like that. Um so you know what I mean that's that's where we're at. We're just trying to put
004it out for public comment and draft. We're working on some formatting um some different things like that. So I'm open to questions. Um but we wanted you to have a printed copy. We want it to be available electronic. We our goal if we were to have a goal would be to put it as an action item for approval at the July 23rd meeting because it has to go to print, right? But the very very latest we could do would be the first meeting in August. But unless we have major concerns brought forth, um if you take it home, read it or if we have any feedback, the sooner we can get the feedback so we can answer the questions would be great. Um, so that's that's kind of where we're at. I had one question.
005Um, I'm not even sure. I think it's page 64. It's kind of the discipline matrix when it gets into all the different categories of discipline. Um, can you help? I mean I I get it in some point but a lot of the a lot of the discipline issues don't apply to K through four is that and some of them can be very harmful I guess if not violent not to say that we would have one but to have no metric um we have no recourse I guess for discipline wise especially if it's removing them from school. Why is that? I'm gonna I'm gonna This sounds I'm not pushing it off, but I'm going to let Kevin talk a little bit about that. There are different rules and laws. We have that in our discipline handbook.
006Um, so I'm going to pass that down to Kevin a little bit. And Diana, we're going to tag team those answers because I don't think there's a like according to I don't know that there's a very specific rule, but there's very different guidelines for K2. And so through four. Okay. Oh, you don't have a microphone. We will share micro. Got a green light. I think you're talking about expulsions and long-term suspensions, correct? Yeah. By law, we're limited to just short-term suspensions. And um that limitation is I believe it's it's 10 days within a trimester for basically a short-term suspension for short term short term. Yes. You really can't. So I can I can tell you that your your high uh students with higher behaviors, you kind of have to track uh those days. Um for
007example, you could give 10 days right up front, but then you would be out of days for the rest of the trimester. And we don't have options on this. This is this is law. So, uh that's why the matrix limited for K4. It's also limited. It's really limited because students in for K4 are developmentally do they understand the choice they made that got them to that, you know, that decision or whatever action that they um u might have committed. So, it is also based on developmentally. It's kind of like when you hear in court of which age they might charge kids with certain crimes. I mean if you're talking about a eight, six, seven, eight, nine year old, um you know there's some limits because the discipline to a child that age even even the
008suspension you have a six-year-old or suspended they don't by the second day they don't even know why they're home. So it is about the developmental appropriateness also of what is appropriate for a child of that age and the younger they are the harder it is to for them to make that connection even like what Diana is saying a suspension what is that even to them it means they just get to go home and spend the day at home does it's not even like discipline it's fun for them they get to stay at home um but there's there is a very limited connection ship between the actual discipline and uh what they did. And I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna expand on that. The I think one of the questions you're asking is if we had a
009student who really severely harmed someone, let's use that as an example. The free and appropriate public education act regardless of disability says the pro if you live in our boundaries of our district we are responsible to educate you. The difference is if we have some a student in that situation it doesn't say where or how in which we may educate them. So the a clear piece that we discuss a lot is when you suspend you are taking the education opportunity from them. If if we say the the action was severe enough that the student other students are not safe or something like that, then the team in Yatsure student success team has to help find a way to educate them in an environment where all can be safe. when we say you're suspended or expelled
010or long-term suspended, we have certain requirements. So, I think that's the other part. If we had a six-year-old who took a pencil and stammed it in somebody's stomach, there's probably more to that situation that needs to be handled more than just the action of stabbing someone with the pencil, right? And so we have teams of people that will then help the family and help the student but we are still responsible for educating. So suspension means removing from the educational system. So I think fab I mean is there any other pieces we could use as an example there? So we also have to provide when they're suspended so the length of that suspension I'm going to piggy back on the educational opportunities. We have to provide an educational opportunity that that is very similar to what
011they would get in the classroom which would be very it's very difficult at kindergarten or first grade to have that same experience outside of the classroom with a a longer term suspension. So let's jump up to a little bit older age. We can say if you're in seventh grade and you do something and you're going to take your homework home, here's your English homework, here's your math homework, you have to return it so forth. you do that work at home. Um we cannot assure that we can send something home with the kindergartenner and that they are getting that equal education. So we may have a tutor that has to do that and deal with. So I think the other part is it's not in a matrix because it's a very case byase situation. No. And
012I I mean I I kind of get a lot of that. you know, the age um just seems that when you look at through the list, it's some pretty serious stuff. Um so that's why I wanted to bring it up. So, thank you. I think it's good for the record also, right? That that we're telling to the community, we are going to educate your children, but they have to be they have to be safe and so do the other students. Um the other families expect us to have a safe environment for all students. Are there questions on the handbook? Excuse me. So reading it here shortly. Yeah. So if you guys would like a copy as as board members, you're welcome to a copy. You could take them off the ends here or whatever um
013and take a look at them. You could compare them to what's online from last year if you wanted to do that or something. Um the big pieces are in this the law changes that are in there. So basically we'll this will come up at uh the first meeting in know the end of this. Yeah that's our hope and so any feedback or any questions during that time to Selena myself Diana and Kevin probably then we could look at them research them in the yellow Selena is that correct? Yellow is new. Oh, yellow is we're still reviewing like font and style whatever. Okay. Or we're waiting for answers on parts of the yellow. Yeah, I see some problems. Definitely. All right. Any other questions or discussion? Okay, moving on to discussion item number two is review
014of policy 3246, student and tele telecommunication devices cell phone policy. Okay, so the policies just for those who are listening or go back and listen, they're actually called students and telecommunication devices. We put cell phone policy in parenthesis because that's what most people call it. The other thing I think it's important for discussion is you will see Richland School District 3244, Grand View 3245, ours is 3246 because some numbers are used in different districts. So there I just want to make sure that everybody understands there's no numbering is just a convention for each individual district. Okay. So that's what I wanted you to see. What we've done is we've taken a look at Central Valley, Grand View, Richland, and Sunnyside for you as well as many others. Right. And then we took the WASDA policy
015and um through meetings that I've had with you and through meetings we've had with principles and and different things, we've we've heard you loud and clear that we think there needs to be a cell phone policy. So this is our attempt. That's why it's in discussion of that cell phone policy and it's up for as much discussion andor critiquing or anything of that we need to have. Oh, and then once we got closer to a policy, then our admin team will help write the procedure to make sure it's followed. Um, I I think it's I think it's good. It looks just like everybody else's for the most part. Um, I'm looking One thing that I'd like to add is what Richland put in basically their first couple paragraphs. um and I I've highlighted. So the
016bottom of the first paragraph is the purpose of the purpose of this policy is to increase student engagement at school and foster respect for a learning environment. And then the following paragraph that kind of definitely outlines more of like the um whatever the second par, you know, it's a big paragraph, but elementary and middle school age, you know, contact office basically. I'd like to see that in the policy. Okay. Um that's the only questions I had. Um, one thing we did, um, put into ours that some of them did not have was, um, the medical pieces. You just Oh, yeah. If you have a like because our students that track their diabetes and so forth, right? So, there's I think we had that in there. Yes. Thank you. So, that not all of them had
017a B in there. So we combined we found that and some that we liked and we thought that that would make families feel comfortable that we understand there's we have quite a lot of students that need to have their cell phone for it to for the next call. So that makes sense. Yeah. Just I just wanted in case you're comparing differences. That's one of the things that we saw in one that we didn't see in others that we thought was important. Well and when we looked we looked at a lot of different like a lot. We there's a few in here, but we looked at several other others. Um, so like for instance, the Central Valley one is kind of it's very similar, but a little clearer than Spokane's. We don't have Spokans in here,
018but we felt like it was the most clear and concise, well written with the directions. So with some of the additions, yeah. Do students ever use their own headphones with the Chromebooks or that something that's not They do sometimes. Yeah. Okay. So we have language that says I think it was funny said that the specific be on the on the Chromebooks is there a calendar students like go open a calendar be like history yeah July 10 that's on they can do that on their phone no go ahead So there's a paragraph that talks about um how students are responsible for their devices. There's also a paragraph that says that the school can obviously revoke the devices. So how does those two connect? Like if the Would you mind pointing me out so I can read
019it with which paragraph? Yeah. So I think you're talking about how like basically school district doesn't want to have to like oh I don't know what happened to my cell phone and go and find it. But if you lose it because you violated the rule, that's the revoke part. So then if the like if the district or like the office has your phone and it gets stolen out of the office, that changes that if it was if that were to happen, that's then the district's responsibility. Yeah. I think that I'll give you some examples. You may have heard districts who depending on the size and whatever, some take your phone and then you get it back at the end of the day. That's not what we're talking about here. And I think that's where you're
020responsible for your own device and keeping it put away. And if you bring something, it's your responsibility if it's lost. However, if it is in our possession, then we would be responsible. It would be the same if a teacher took it from you in class and they then couldn't find it. It would be the same. Um, I have a question about the enforcement of the policy. So, is there going to be like a blanket like discipline each school will use or is it going to be more like teacher to teacher? Because I know in the past when it's been teacher to teacher, it doesn't work. So, I'm wondering if it's like a blanket enforcement. So that'll be part of the procedures that would be written by the administrative team and it would be our expectation
021that they that it would be it may be a little bit different based on the grade level but that it would be the same not at the high school this teacher gets to decide and that teacher gets to decide because you're right it doesn't work. So it would I think I would be more comfortable using the word building would be building driven um because we don't probably have as many problems at K2 and then about third grade they think they start needing a cell phone so 35 might have different right and then you've got widstrand with you know I mean you just have different things but it would be blanket across the district that it's not whatever procedures we put in place would be all students all the And yes, one teacher can't say yes
022and one say no because then they're the bad teacher and the nice teacher, right? It it also makes it a lot easier for administrators because um if it isn't fair and it and then we they need it to be the same and need to be able to uh have the expectation the same because of those very things. And then that way they also can say no our school rule is X and we need to follow it. I would challenge the leadership ASB and other individual groups of those groups of students to really start talking at your clubs and events and different things. Cell phones are slowly going away in schools. Um, and I shouldn't say slowly, I think maybe rapidly going away in school. Yeah, I mean it more and more schools are saying not
023not during the day, not in the bathroom, not in you know and I think that the important thing because when the whole cell phone thing kind of started and there was a lot of as a principal I was was dealing with that and you know parents might go well my my child has to have a cell phone to be able to contact me. We have hundreds of phones in every school. You can, if you need to call, you can call. And we're not telling you you can't have it at school. If you needed it for after school, if you're walking home or going, you know, to the to the babysitter or daycare, whatever that is, you can still have it. Uh, but you're not having it out using it during school. And so, we're going
024to go back to and and please understand these examples. If you need a message to a student, right, you call the office and we get a message. And normally it's three to five minutes that the message gets there. If it's emergent, something sad or traumatic, you don't want the student to get the message in the middle of class anyhow. You'd like them to be called to the counselor's office and the message delivered privately. Um, so there really are some traditional ways that actually work good for messages. You had a question. Um, not necessarily a question, but I do agree that the a cell phone policy is needed. I've noticed, especially last year, like I look up in the classroom and I see all my classmates on their phone. And I'm just wondering like where's like
025the verbal communication? We're just all texting like texting each other, but we're face to face. Why can't we talk? So, I do agree that a policy is needed and I think this is a good start. I think in some ways this was something that we did as a district probably in 2019 and and kind of through co it went away for whatever reason. So I think it's important and I appreciate your input on that but I think it's something that needs to to move forward and our previous policy was not this restrict. Yeah. parents. This is really the first publication that we've talked about it and so we'll start getting some feedback and and you know you'll I'm sure you know as soon as somebody starts listening and does whatever they'll come out and they
026listen to this the newspaper listens to this they always make a comment in the paper right so we'll start getting some things I think you're going to hear it's going to be very polar this is the best thing ever and I can't believe you're doing this um so it'll it's also how it's delivered Right? We're not telling families that we don't want them to communicate with the children. We just need in class eyes on the teacher, eyes on the board, eyes on the projector, not on, excuse me, not on a device. And I I think as we get uh through this, we're getting, you know, a little closer to maybe uh some suggestions and changes, then we can start to put the message out, give parents the heads up that this is coming. Great feedback.
027There questions or comments? So maybe we can bring this back. First reading or discussion? Um, probably discussion. Okay. But what do you think? Or do you want to go first reading? I think we're good. Then I would go first reading if and that is exceptionally timely if we want a first reading, a second reading and policy before school starts. So we can get the messaging out to families and that would be part of our handbook anyway. Correct. So I think that's good timing. So let's do first reading next week. Sounds good. Thank you. All right. Next up is once I get to it, inaugural Proser High School basketball golf scramble. Brian, welcome. Yes. Yes. Green light. All right. All right. Uh good evening. Uh my name is Ryan Wood. I am a girls high school
028assistant coach uh for basketball and a high school teacher. Um last meeting, uh Casem Blair came on behalf of me as I was out of town. uh him and I have been working on this uh this idea for what we kind of deem as a fundraiser, but it's kind of morphed. And I kind of after the feedback from the last meeting, uh we've kind of had some we we're kind of thinking of changing gears and how we word some of this. Um the I from what I understood with Kase and talking with him right after the meeting uh some of the the feedback that we got with this was number one kind of are we tapping out a community that's already kind of tapped out um and in terms of the fundraising. Are we stepping
029on the toes of of the golf coaches and some of the fundraising that is kind of maybe at their opportunity and their sport? um as well as I think the hospital, it was said maybe the hospital had their their golf fundraiser on the same day. Um so kind of looking at those three, I'll start with the easiest one. I I reached out to both boys and girls golf coaches. They said absolutely you can have it. Uh we have no plans uh for a golf tournament. Um, secondly, it kind of as of yesterday when Kase and I were really trying to figure this out and try and and make this possible, um, we kind of got to the decision that, you know, Rome wasn't built in a day. So maybe we are biting off too much
030uh for this golf tournament to start. Um, and kind of multi- kind of angles with it. We were worried that yes, you know, if I'll use Northwest Farm Supply because they've been a great sponsor for our basketball programs. How do we how do we number one kind of not upset them with like, hey, you guys have given us an, you know, a lot of money. Let's not include them in this fundraiser. And then, you know, they look at it as, oh, uh, you guys didn't even ask us. So, we kind of got in that battle of like, man, like how do we even start this? So, we kind of have gone backwards and and maybe we shouldn't offer this out as a sponsorship activity um and more of just kind of a community building uh
031piece where we are just having a bunch of teams, as many teams want to sign up as possible. Um to get it going for these this first year and maybe first couple years of just it's more of a community thing. Um and and going out kind of that angle. Um, we still would use a we would kind of split the funds. I believe it's like 6040 with the golf course. So, we still would get a little bit, but in terms of a fundraiser, but not looking at getting all the sponsorships and trying to tap out the community, uh, which probably would end up being the same people. Um, so we're going to, if it's okay, we kind of redact that out that we're not going to ask for sponsorships. It's more of just a community
032piece uh to kind of get everybody together at the beginning of the school year um and have some fun playing golf. Um the last piece um the last piece was I think the hospital has their fundraiser and theirs is actually um not saying that I maybe I misheard but it's actually Friday September 5th. Ours is the 6th. I know that's backtoback, but we have had people reach out and say, "Hey, you know, we're excited for for all all weekend golf, uh, activities." So, um, we don't know how people have heard. I don't know if it was because they watched the last meeting or what, but people have already kind of said we're excited. And so, that's kind of what we're looking kind of in seeking this approval. It's we're going to take the sponsorships and
033not go out and reach out to to businesses, small businesses, and try and tap them out. Um but leave it as a small fundraiser just uh splitting that fee um with Black Rock Creek Golf Course um and just kind of having it as a community uh kind of beginning of the year kickoff, I guess, for our basketball programs. Well, I'm the one that had all those questions. So, thank you. You did a great job um coming back with the information that um that I was interested in hearing. I wish you guys a lot of luck. I am sure that there are going to be golfers that go from the 19th hole at Canyon Lakes on Friday to the first hole on Saturday and have a big weekend. So, I wish you a lot of Any
034other questions, comments? I move to approve the inaugural Proer High School basketball golf scramble. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I I motion carries. Thanks, Ryan. Thank you. Thank you. Uh next up is contract for special services director. Um I've just tried to make a practice of when we have a new employee that you're aware of what their contract is, what it, you know, what it says. Um we don't technically have to bring them to you, but I think it's good public business. A question on the contract itself. I I don't think so. Um it's in 12 C. Um basically the sentence says if if terminated without cause, a director shall be entitled to severance compet compensation as outlined in section 11 of this contract.
035If I go up to 11, I can't find where there's any terms or definitions. And it and like I said, I could have missed it, but I read it more than once and I I can't seem to find it. I think go to 11B in bold. It says termination section of this contract, but then takes you down to the bottom. Oh, so we got to go to 11 and then it takes you to 12. I don't know why it was and that's kind of what I saw too, but there's no language that supports the severance compensation. Oh, it I couldn't find it. 13 is about separate. Oh, maybe it has the wrong number. Oh, I didn't read for Oh, I'm sorry. Instead of 11, it should be 13. My apologies. severances in 13. So, but
036now wait a second. That's really good. One public news here is that means we're reading it, right? I mean, we really are reading it. Well, but no, I'm I'm just saying we're reading it so we question the work. I thought I just want everybody to understand that then we will fix that number and it'll be resigned. Um, do you want it to come back to you or may I fix that 11 to a 13? I think I I'd feel comfortable approving it with the edits. I agree. Yeah, I would make it make a motion to approve the contract for special services director with the change. Second that any other questions, students? So, it's been moved and seconded to approve the contract. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Next up
037is comprehensive healthc care service agreement for 2526. So we've done this for the last several years. Comprehensive um healthc care. We have a uh counselor that works here with our students. If a student is on Medicaid, they those services are um build through Medicaid. If a student needs services and they have private insurance, um, then we get we are build for that and that is to allow for students to receive services and not have to go outside of the district. Um, and we have a handful of students that take advantage of that. Sometimes they don't have transportation. So, it's a good opportunity to be able to provide counseling services within our district at a relatively nominal rate. I mean, it's expensive, but it's not a lot of students. As long as I have the money,
038we will do it. And we don't pay for it unless they use the services. So, um, we'll once we know for sure what all of the money we have, we'll make a decision whether we can continue to do it or not. So, that was my question on the lap funds. Yes. Um, so right now lap funding is about at the same level as it was last year, but um, knowing that there could be some reductions in other areas, we may have to make some adjustments. Uh, last year we probably spent about $20,000 on this. Um, so for the opportunity to have outside mental health, you know, mental health support they could only get outside, that's pretty nominal. Um, most of the students that use it are at the high school. So, uh, they do have
039some high poverty funds that we were paying for our social worker that we no longer have. So, I feel like we'll be okay and not have to withdraw the services from the students. I have another quick question on section I'm pretty sure it's 11 compensation. Is it 11? I have to scroll. Yes, it is 11. Okay. Uh second paragraph which would be 11.2 um basically states uh comprehensive may charge school district to a cap of 15,000 for the 2526 school year. Uhhuh. Um, we actually pay uh I think that I think that's more in the case. Um, like if we didn't use our services, but that's really not the problem. That's not really the case. Oh, the contract value is 15,000, right? But we have used more than that. We average between $2,2500 a month
040during school time. So, yeah, that would be if we were under Yeah. we won't be. And they're really I mean they're really good to work with. I am working with right now though because our person that provides services is going to be out on leave at the start of school. They're working on getting us a replacement through December. That's my last question. Other questions for Diana students? I move to approve the comprehensive healthc care service agreement for 2526. I'll second. Been moved and seconded to approve the comprehensive healthc care service agreement. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, next up is the second and final reading of policy 3112, social emotional climate. So this is a a second reading. You've seen it a couple other times.
041So it's not everything we asked to the changes that were asked for. Well, I move to approve second final reading of policy 3112. I'll second it. Motion and seconded to approve the second reading of policy 3112. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Next up is vouchers and payroll. I would make a motion to approve the vouchers and payroll. Okay. Moved and seconded to approve vouchers and payroll. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is a request to adjust the board meeting schedule around the holidays. Well, I'm happy that we're talking about this in July and not in October. So, we looked ahead when we were working on the calendar. Um, our board meeting would be the week of Thanksgiving
042or the night before Thanksgiving and then the week of Christmas. And the way our policy is written, we would technically cancel those meetings and schedule special meetings. My suggestion is though they be the second and third weeks. Um so that my the dates are on there as suggestions. You're moving them to the 19th and the 17th. Correct. Correct. I don't see that. But I don't know why we wouldn't want to do it on Christmas Eve. It would be our gift to you. Would it? That'd be awesome. Maybe we'll have snow then. I'll be honest. In the past, we have had some times where there wasn't this agreement to move, especially like Thanksgiving Eve and Christmas Eve. It's pretty tough to go to, but I've done it. Thanksgiving eve board meeting. Yeah. Right. I would move
043to request adjust the board meeting schedule around the holidays and change Seconded. Been moved and seconded to uh move the regular schedule board meetings for November 26th and deve December 24th to November 19th and December 17th. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Moving on to the consent items one through three. I would move to approve the consent items. I'll second. Been moved and seconded to approve the consent items. Excuse me. All All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. That concludes all the action items for tonight. Moving on to reports. Director of grants Kevin Gilmer. I have to get you a microphone. All right, I finished finalizing my uh first grant today. That was good. A very good learning experience. I had to dig
044into some other things to find answers. So, it was a great learning experience. Um, thinking maps training went on in June. It that's all wrapped up. Uh, so KRV Heights, they ended up getting the first round of thinking maps training on foundations on the foundations. Uh, Wistrand had expository andformational writing. Uh tomorrow we're we're listening to a webinar tomorrow. Not webinar, it'll be live, I think. But there's also another special session tomorrow with multilingual directors and how to use carryover budgets and um adjust for the funding. So that will be tomorrow. So next time when I report, I'll have some more information on that. Um the recruiter invitational to uh Virginia Beach that you approved a few weeks ago has been cancelled. Um there are not enough uh funds available for the districts across the
045United States. So it's going to be virtual. The last thing is uh last week Michael and I visited Rainbow Lodge. There was a leadership migrant leadership uh for the students there. Um really nice facility. The kids enjoyed it. Had some great opportunities to work with other districts. Questions for Kevin on the uh oh the conference that was cancelled. Did we issue any money before it was cancelled or did we get it back or refunded? Um so we cancelled the hotel so that will be refunded and we never ordered flights. So, um it's basically the cost of the conference which will still continue but virtually. Oh, gotcha. Okay. All right. Next up, the lease. Um I don't have anything tonight. I asked you a question. Yes. And I apologize if you went over this before, but
046do you have the total that we were shorted for June? Do I have uh I can get I can grab it. If you can get it, just send it forward. I'd appreciate it. Yeah, I just need to go. There's a like a interactive map on OSPI. So, I'll go and pull that information and then I'll know. Oh, it's on. It'll actually tell you what. Yeah, it's on OSBI, but I can email. It's probably easier for me to I tried looking. Well, and it's it's hard to find and they actually sent us email directly with a link to click on and if you didn't have it. I mean, that website's possible, but I can definitely get you there. Perfect. Thank you. You're welcome. They really they enjoy an interactive map. I recently have one today. We
047have so Deiana. Um I have a few things. I know there were uh Kim told me there were some questions about the high school and beyond plan and what do we have to do it? Well, it currently still is in law. Actually, moving to school links, the new state required plan that we opted to go in a year early actually saves us money because we would have paid between seven and $8,000 for the program we were using and we've been able to cancel that contract and not pay that money. So, moving over to school links is free at this time. I don't know if that will always be the case and if it's not, we can revisit that. Um, our high school teachers are the books that our high school teachers are interested in for
048science came in um and they were picked and picked were picked up this week. So, they're looking at them. I'm supposed to talk with them tomorrow. Um, I'm going to I have an email sitting here I'm going to send to you. It's online access, so you can go in and look at the curriculum online. um you really focus on uh biology, chemistry, and physical science because those would be the ones that we would be interested in. Um Kevin and Kim and I and Kim will probably talk about this too, have been working on funding for the retreat, professional development next year. Um all of those things. Um it's been great to have the three of us um doing that. Um and Kevin, like he said, he's learning grants. Um and we all sometimes learn the
049hard way. Uh but it's it it's it it's great. He did a great job getting that done today. Summer school got started this week. Um and we have had 90ome then 80some then back to 90ome. It has been a little bit of a challenge with transportation just with new people and figuring out routes which is you know you go from your normal routes that don't change a lot during you know between school years. Um, but we have a lot of kids at Heights and uh enjoying summer school. I hear about it. I've heard about teacher has been there to visit and um so I think we're supposed to get a there was a group of kids that I think initially were registered but they're are at one of our local daycarees that hadn't been. So
050now that's been worked out. So those kids those kids will be added tomorrow as well. All getting some breakfast and lunch when they get to school and lunch before they go home. So it's great. That's all for that. For me, is the hope for the science book, the curriculum to incorporate it this year? Yes. As long as I can get money from this lady over here. Now, keeping in mind, we have a little over $30,000 was that was uh uh given to us in a grant from Battel that we have to spend on adoption. So, um I'm waiting for some information on the cost and the numbers. Um but it would just be high school at this point. questions for Diana. I see Kim, you're up next. Okay. Um, so there's no real changes on
051the property. Uh, we do have two offers on the White Church. We're hoping to finish that sale next week. Uh, we did talk with um the realtor and our legal council. We had a meeting yesterday um just to make sure we're following all processes and procedures to make sure we're not going to make any mistakes or any make anybody uncomfortable as it go. The budget um very messy and not good is my statement here. We have a webinar tomorrow with um OSPI. Um, now I typed this about 4 and I got an email at 5:09 or something that um with an interactive map. And so, um, I'm, if you don't mind, I'm going, it's a little bit tacky, but I'm going to, um, pull up, um, a summation to kind of get you an idea
052of, um, now remember everybody, it's changing daily. Everybody, it's changing daily. Right now, the interactive map shows us losing approximately $843,000 for next year in title. And I'm going to read you um you have the email the total that it would be title one part C which is migrant education, title two which is teacher and principal professional development, title three which is um bilingual professional development basically and title four which is enrichment funds. See when she's done said them long enough she can tell you the whole thing. Okay. Um, but the part that I um I really want people to understand here is it's about $349 a student that we're losing. That's based on this year's enrollment. When you look, and I'm I'm doing this because sometimes people have people in other districts. I want
053you to hear for MBON, that's $620 a student. for um uh Sunnyside. I've got the numbers and you can pull it up. It's like 349. It's different districts based on what your enrollments are. And those are huge. And so when we get the information that we're not getting title one part C2, three, and four, it's more than this. That's it's more like $1.4 million. So, I'm a little concerned this is inaccurate if none of those funds are coming. Um, and so I think it's still like their projection. And the average in the state, the map says, is $99 a student, but workhorse is we're in the red zone, so we're $349. Slide over MP. Mapton's is higher. Um, Walu school district is a little bit smaller than us. They're supposed to use lose 2.2 2
054million. So I I still am hesitant to believe that this whole amount if that money doesn't come it's not 800 plus thousand it's not. And so the reason I think this is really important is the community needs to understand that this is not procer. This is and if you read this and you read the news this is happening nationally we in different areas have different impact right depending on what your enrollment is. So I just I just want people to understand I did publish and notice in the um newspaper and I sent out the pulse of procer and it's all it's I hate to tell you it but it's a kind of a boring read got a little graph on it. It's about trying to get people to understand that action needs to be taken
055at a legislative level in our state and or if you're a grandparent listening in the state you live in or or whatever. This is it's a legislative action. There is you are hey girls US history one of the foundational things that the federal government gave to each state was the ability to monitor and manage their own education system. That's one of the first paramount duties of a state government. And every state then has the ability to manage that as they see fit, right? But it should not be a lottery for which state you live in depending on the quality of education and so forth. So, um I'm just I'm kind of getting on a soap box here, but we have to do something. The Proser school board and the Proser administration can only do so
056much with the money that we're given. Um, I want you to know I'm talking in superintendent meetings. We had one this morning at 8:00 a.m. Um, I met the new superintendent Kenowick. Um, different pieces. The number of students that will be in a high school classroom is going to be in the high30s throughout the state, right? and girls, you know, you you know, right, student board reps, the bigger the class, the less singleton single attention you get, the harder it is to ask questions, right? Um it it just it's just the reality. If there's not money to pay teachers to get the numbers down to the 20s in class, it goes to 30. And the state requirement is seven. Uh Kevin and Deanna under third grade and under the number they're shooting for is 18,
057right? Yeah. Third three. Third and under is the average of 18, but yet they're not giving us the money to keep those classes at. So I just like I said, I don't like to be the bear of bad news, but I just want you to know. Um capital committee meeting, we met um on July 2nd. We have another meeting. We did um I attended some different meetings and I have some people from Benton PUD coming about lights for housel and lights for the old PHS gym and windows for this building and windows for housel. Now I want to make everybody hear even if we get a 9010 grant I don't know that we have the 10 to do those things. Look at Delic. She's saying no. But I mean, we're going to investigate and know
058what it is so that we can come and just have it as a discussion. We don't know what the options are if we don't do the work. Um, once again, money's the thing, but we have our capital levy money. We're starting the drawings for the art biker restroom renovation. So, we're working on that. And I should have put it on here. They're simultaneously doing the concession stand restrooms for the softball, baseball, tennis complex. Um, Friends of the Fields meets tomorrow. Leadership, um, H uh, Hel Middle School still needs to hire their license schools. They did interview today. I have not heard if they made a hiring decision. I can actually I got a phone call. They they they have um, a top candidate, but I asked them to do a little more investigation before we
059made a decision. Um, we still need an athletic trainer. We did have two qualified candidates. One, um, pulled back. We are looking at our list. We had a few more added, but nothing. What we're seeing in the applications are athletic trainers, but they don't have teaching certificates. And we really need someone to be able to teach our medical sciences. We have three classes that we're trying to um Diana mentioned and so did Kevin. We're planning our opening days, our start of school. Um I think there the last piece I want is our district office team together to train so many new people. I'm going to talk about this again. when we lost our administrative assistant at transportation, food service, and maintenance, and then we lost an accounts payable and a a human resource person. They
060were all in the neighborhood of 30-year employees. That's about a hundred years of historical knowledge. You can't just replace that overnight. Um, and I'm going to go back to money again. There are not systems in place because of either the lack of employees or the exorbitant cost to hire someone to come in and train. What happens then? Well, I I call them mistakes, but mistakes are made in payroll. Now, we ran an X cycle, which is a second check cycle. So, some people got a check on the 30th of June, and they get a a second check on July 2nd. So, somebody's not not getting paid. I want to make that very clear, but we don't have the right training cap capacity to train these people that are really intricate systems. Um, so I've worked
061I've been emailing all day. We're looking for someone that we one can afford, but what I al often say is what at what cost can we not afford to do it? Does that make sense? You still have to train people. So, we're working on that. I do want to uh thank uh Sean Cook, Lorena, Ruiz, Deanna, um Alyssa actually. Um what we found in this um I'm each of you have done your jobs probably for a portion of your career. If you've done something yourself for I don't know over 10 years or so, you have a way in which you do that. And sometimes because we're creatures of we do it the same way. Even though it may not be the easiest or the most efficient or the most modern, what we're finding is they
062did a fabulous job, those three people, but they did things that are not necessarily and they had their idiosyncrasies of filing and doing things and we're having trouble deciphering that. And so we're having to we spent two days updating our staff tables to I spent four hours today alone going through every single staff member to update who is a current employee and who is should be inactive because that hasn't been kept up. Um Sean actually already spent a bunch of time because there was about 1500 active employees and then it was down to about 700. today we're probably all pretty much down to what is AC well they still have to do go in and edit them and yeah basically term employees that are not working subs that aren't here anymore um and most of
063them are not people that just resigned this year. So it's uh the the cleanup has to happen so the data is clean so that our the people in our office have good data to work from and we can use the systems the way they were intended because they haven't been used the way they were intended. So, um, it's kind of all hands on deck. We're working on it or bad or poorly. It's done differently and we need to bring it up to current ways in which things are supposed to be done. Um, good news, I actually saw Himeme Martinez in the parking lot today. Um, they're trying out a new time sheet. Working well. The drivers even like it. And so, we're excited for that. Um, because we've had some things going on. So, that's
064good. Um, just a reminder, I'll be zooming in next board meeting. I'll be at the beach, so I'll find a closet or a room to sit in so you don't have to hear the grandkids screaming. Um, and I think that's about it. Questions for? Yeah, I got one. Um, just regarding the the um capital committee meeting, the research on the um energy is saving. You're meeting with Benton Ra. Is that We're Benton PUD. uh REA we widstrand is even so it's not REA do they have programs that allow like they're subsidizing for for changing lights for updating upgrading lights that's what we're meeting about and I in case you're listening they have huge programs right now they're even going to come and look at my house um there's some huge programs going on um especially
065senior citizens I don't quite qualify yet but uh um but for senior senior citizens. They did a great presentation. It was very informative. And so if you're listening and you have um needs a they actually do an LED light bulb program um and they'll you get a I'm going to say 25 cents on a dollar or whatever they and turn in all your old light bulbs and they give you new LED bulbs. There's all kinds of things out there. So we're going to try and take advantage of that. Another question I got on in regards to the the federal money that we're probably not going to get. Is there any relief for the mandates and how what would that look like if we we still have to run those programs or Well, I'm going to
066Dan and I and Kevin are probably going to team up on this. The answer simply is most of those federal programs would go away. What do you think? We really don't know because that's a question. So if we don't get the funding for X, are you expecting us still to do that? I mean, there's plenty of things that we're expected to do that we don't get funding for. So I can't imagine that the expectations would be the same without any funding because that impacts staffing and all of that. Um, but we have no official word on anything. So I I do want to clarify for those who will be listening later, we have contractual CBAs, collective bargaining agreements that say certain things. And so for example, we did a reduction in first notice. We did
067that resolution, remember, because of financial hardship, but we still had till May 15th. So any teacher that has received their um tentative contract that their agreement to return those people will not lose their job for this year. Um but that money has to come from somewhere and so that comes from people in PSC or other unions that are whatever and then we need to plan for big reductions again the following year. Right. And then also with any like resignations and things like that, there's certain positions we just don't have a choice but to fill. Um, primarily those come in around special education. Uh, but there's others that we're not going to be able to fill. Do we usually receive the federal funds like August 1st or a date certain? We we usually know like I
068usually have preliminary numbers in the spring to you know maybe late spring and then the grant always comes open. It's open with all your verified July 1. There's there's it there's uh they've just basically put in what you got last year in the grant for this year just so we could do what's called uh approve our substantially approvable status which allows us to spend money in September. If we don't do that we even if we have the money we can't spend it until the grant's approved and so this gives us the opportunity to spend it before the grants officially approved but we still don't have the any official numbers. lap. We do have lap, but that comes from the state. So, they we've received our numbers for that, but that's it. Other questions, students? Thank
069you, Kim. Um, moving on to board reports, right? No, I have nothing, Lisa. Okay. I have the AP US history test results for Pro High School. Mr. Delahun's AP history class, our only AP pass that 87.5% of students pass, which is higher than the national average, and they had a score of three or higher, giving them college credit. That's awesome. So, great job. Yeah. Then you happen to be in that class. No. They're like, uh, yeah. Well, maybe it's not old enough, right? One more year. The junior class. Is it class for juniors? Yeah. Um, I I was going to go into the budget stuff, but you guys took care of that for me, so thank you. Right. Um, we aimed to please. You read my mind. But yeah, I think it, you know, it's
070a dire situation when the state doesn't give you all your money and that, you know, get losses in federal money and um, you know, the frustrating thing, you pay taxes, especially for your state money and they don't get um, so that's a big frustration for me. I get the LEA money, but the the direct whatever the direct taxes I think is a little frustrating. So, on a brighter note though, um so we had uh the local Babe Ruth team from Proer 18U um went to state last weekend and ended up winning state. Wow. So, um it was a great day of baseball and they did a good job. kids played hard and and most of them are on, you know, the graduating that graduated this year, but um and so now they qualify for regionals,
071which is starts on Sunday. Actually, it starts on Monday. Sorry. Uh Kelso, Washington. So, we'll have teams from Canada, Washington, Wyoming. That might be about it. Kind of cool. So with that um I am done and we are going to move into an executive session pursuant to RCW4231101G. Superintendent's evaluation with no action to follow. Uh superintendent Casey along with the board will be present and is to evaluate the qualifications of a of an applicant or public employment or to review the performance of a public employee. However, subject to RCW423144, discussion discussion by a governing body of salaries, wages, and other conditions of employment to be generally generally applied within the agency shall occur in a meeting open to the public. And when a governing body elects to take final action on hiring, setting the salary
072of an individual employee or class of employees, or discharging or discipline an employee, that action shall be taken in a meeting open to the public. In 7:05, we will return at 7 20. And you're you guys don't have to stick around. So you're free to leave. Okay. We reconvene uh the regular meeting at 7:45 with no future or with no uh additional comments. The next regular board meeting is July 23rd uh right here in this room at 6 PM. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you.