001Uh first item would be approval of the agenda. I'd move to approve the agenda. Been moved and second to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion car. Okay. First up isformational items. is a 2425 retiree recognition. I'm going to go grab the other microphone while I stand up. So, thank you for all who have joined us tonight. Um, retirement is a special deal and we have some here and um I don't know if we have a couple online or not, but we need to make sure that we acknowledge and thank um all of the people who are retiring. Um, ret education is hard right now and to stick around um as long as some of these people have. We're going to acknowledge that all of everybody whether they're
002here or not this evening. Um but it's a tough job. Tonight we're honoring um special education employees, instructional coaches, teachers, bus drivers, security. We have all kinds uh 10 people total. Um actually 11 11. Yep. 11 people that we're honoring tonight. So um if we can do that when you come up, we'll um have you come up. You're welcome to say something if you want. You don't have to. We'll just take your picture and thank you for your years of service. I might ask you or Deanna might tell a story or two about you because she probably has a story or two she could tell. So, first up, um or we're going to honor Kim Bolt. Kim Bolt Bolt worked in our district office for a long time. Um she mainly spent her time in
003HR. Um but if you worked for us, you knew Kim Bolt, right? Everybody knew Kim Bolt. She 28 years. Yep. Next is Sandy Brousard. She had 25 years of service. She worked mainly as a par professional at heights. Last part that I know of, but yeah. Okay. Um. Yep. And then, um, many people know he's here with us this evening, Mr. Doug Fasler. Why don't you come on up, Doug? 37 years. um, some people, uh, know you through football, some people know you through teaching. I heard you did a great speech at the, uh, sports awards banquet, right? Um, and so I think I I know him for his dancing skills. When we went on an AVID, we were at an avid training and he was spotlighted and featured dancing with his wife. It was
004it was it was amazing and he I'm sure remembers it fondly. All right, so Selena, do you have your phone to take a picture? We'll have you come up here. I know that we're uh watching our germs and so forth. So, we're going to have you stand here right in the middle and we're going to Diana's going to hand your plaque and then we're all going to take a nice picture with you. All right. Next, we're honoring Lori Green. She worked in accounts payable, our district office, um, for a long time. I think she was in the neighborhood of 26 26 27 years. Um, so I have to tell a little bit a story about the other person, Cindy McLemore. Um, in between the month of December, January, and February, we lost a collective hundred
005years of service to our district. Each one of the ladies kind of started about the same time. And that historical knowledge we talk about is very difficult to replace. So, um, we're going to honor Cindy McLemore and Lori Green as well. They're not with us this evening. And then Dr. Dean, Cindy Parish Dean, come on up. Um, let's see. How many years is this one? 24. They're old. She's older. 24 years. Um, Dr. Dean has fought a courageous battle and she's with us here tonight. Um, I don't know, Dr. Dean, all the things you've done. I when you got here, I gave you a big hug. I asked permission to give you a hug first because I don't know about germs. But a teacher, special education director, behavior teacher, behavior together close to 45 years.
006So we just can't thank you enough. Please come forward. I worked with him for a really long time. Joe Snowbach, he um was here 31 years. I know there was more, probably more years that he worked in uh private school in the Tri Cities and he is also going to be retiring. So, Joe Schnel. Oh, we both can do this one. Um, I got to walk over here because my eyes are so bad. Sue Bray, are you online tonight? It doesn't look normally Fred's on, but I don't see them tonight. Sue Bray is at 43 years of service in the Proer School District. Um, I don't know. There's probably parents and grandpar. She probably had kids and their kids at the top of the Yep. So, uh, thank you Sue for all your work, the
007work that we've did through the pea, through the teachers association, so forth. Her kind of partner in crime, kind of in the same building. Number two, number two on the seniority list. Oh, remember when we open the school and we say who gets been here the longest next year, they won't get both of the flower plants because they'll have retired. of 40 years for Pauline Shener. She recently finished as an instructional coach, but before that, she's the longest standing instructional coach in the district, probably having been uh close to 20 years. And then before that, she was a kindergarten teacher. She was actually one of my daughter's kindergarten teachers and probably maybe Oh, there you go. All right. There we go. So, it's kind of a legacy. People had Mrs. Brace. So, thank you, Sue.
008Um, Carrie Wise, come on up. Um, thank you so much. Uh, Olive, she makes the long trip all the way down to the river, right? Well, but pretty dog on far. Halfway down. So, uh, 14 years of service in transportation driving a bus. Thank you. And we love our bus drivers because 14 years driving a bus is probably should be multiplied times two at least. Dog ears. Yes, doggers for sure. And a most recent retirement we do want to know. U Mr. Kurt Vogley has retired as of a couple days ago. He is on the list last minute. Um he is retiring from our security department. He's younger um but he's retiring. He says this is his second or third or fourth career. he doesn't know which one. So, um, he's retiring from us as
009from the district as well. And so, we kind of like the transportation security sometimes is those unsung heroes in the background. So, thank you, Kurt. Thank you for that. Appreciate all of our the hard work that our retirees have done over the years and and just wish them the best going forward. Um, next up is the Central Washington University summer field trip. Jose, are you can you hear us? Yes. Hello. Good afternoon. I can hear all of you. Hey, you're up. What your plans are and what all you're doing. Yeah. Hi. So, I'm the site manager with Gear Up. Um, my name is Jose Andrade. Um, so what we're doing with Gear Up this year is every year they coordinate a few field trips that are aimed towards cohort students and this one will be
010taking place at Central Washington University. So we'll be going to Ellensburg and the goal is there's going to be mainly junior and senior year students and we'll just be doing a lot of strate strategic preparation for those school years. They'll be doing workshops and just overall getting an experience of what it is to stay at the campus. It gives them a little idea if that's a campus they would like to be attending once they get to the college um college freshman year and uh yes so they kind of want to get approval towards that. So Jose, I'll come to sharings with the board. Um this is a Gear Up activity. It's more for information since it's a Gear Up activity. It doesn't necessarily need approval, but we always like to let you know where our
011students are going. Any questions? Jose student. Jose, thank you for coming tonight. Um, good luck with that field trip. Sounds sounds pretty good. Thank you. I appreciate it and thank you for having me. Um, okay. Next up is a 2025 district office summer hours. Just a publication for the community to let you know that we are committed to being there. Um, what our holidays are, things like that. Um, it's justformational so that it's for the record. Is that in the packet? Yep. I didn't see it. Oh, but it's not in the You have to click on the link. I see. Okay, great. Thank you. Um, next. So bas I guess I should say it. So it's basically um Monday through Friday 8 to 4. Great. Thank you. Uh next up is the 2425 audit report.
012All I'm going to say is yippee. Um we I'm going to have Delise explain. Um but I think everybody needs to understand this is a big deal. One of the biggest audits we've had in a very long time. And so I'm going to let her explain. The audit report is there. It's a public records document. You can get it from the Washington state auditor's office. But Disease, why don't you share a little bit about the hours and hours of work and what happened? Uh yeah, so our audit was particularly big this year. Um you know, we had that uh finding with the FCC, so it it opened up a lot more items that they can audit. So typically what happens is you're audited for a certain dollar amount and when you have a finding that
013increases. So because we technically had the finding at the beginning of the year, they increased what they were audited. So we started in June in January and we just wrapped up last week at our final exit report. Um no findings. The FCC finding was actually dropped. Uh and we actually got a compliment from our auditor that um our sub fund report which the big one that we report that shows all our local money at year end that we um have the the cleanest and most transparent that she's ever seen and that they're actually using that to for example for other districts. And so that was pretty cool to hear. Uh but yeah, it was it was difficult and it took up a lot of time. Um especially since we're short staffed, but we were able
014to provide everything that they needed. Uh fine. Oh, there's one item in the management letter we want to be transparent about that. Um we had one employee who was a teacher who um had a certificate. Um Diana can explain this a little bit, but had a certificate from a different district and we should have gone in and clicked a little box that said they now work in our district. and we didn't do that and it strictly was an error. Um, and that's why it's not a finding, it's just a reminder to double check. Yeah, that's pretty much it. He had the certification he needed to teach here, but because it was a conditional, those ones that you guys approve, it was um it was missed because he had a conditional for what he was teaching,
015but it wasn't for our district because you have to get them by district and he no longer works for us. So, we don't have to we're not Yeah, we're not worried about that issue again. I think the other thing that people don't know um and I want to be transparent about is do you know that we pay a large sum of money to have the audit done? I think that's a a real odd thing. They're going to come and audit you and you pay for them to do the work. Um so I if you don't know that and you're listening tonight, that's something that I think is transparent too. We think any questions for Lee or Kim or Thank you. Yeah, good job. And it sounds like uh you know your processes or however what
016however you stated or you're doing a good job and and you know it showed by what you just said about the auditors using us as an example for others. So thank you. Uh next up is 2526 athletics. So we've been talking about this for a little bit and it's been asked that Kim will you please make a decision? Kim, will you please make a decision? Well, it's really tough to make a decision when you don't know the amount of money that you're getting. So, we have made some decisions and then I have to compliment the Proser Coaches Association and this has just been finished this afternoon. So, if you don't know about it, I'm going to fill you in. Um, so the reason that we're I don't want to say dragging our feet. We don't
017want to commit to something and then have to back up in the end of August when we actually approve the budget. We can officially say that our seventh and eighth grade combination teams will not be in 2526. If you don't know what that means, I'm going to slow down and I'm going to articulate that that we will have seventh grade A and seventh grade B. We will have eighth grade A and eighth grade B, but we worked really hard to never cut at middle school athletics. We want people to have the opportunity to try or experience. And so we had what was called a seventh and eighth grade combo. So if you can I know I've got my hands up and everybody can't see, but you had two A's and two B's and then you
018anybody that was struggling or just learning had never played a sport before, they went in this combo team. I want everybody to understand why that's being cut. mainly the cost of transportation. They don't ride the same bus as the A or B team. They participate on different days and different times and that means a large amount of expense plus a lot of times we don't have drivers. So we have to reschedule those games and so forth. So the main thing is the cost for transportation and then of course the cost of the coaches. The other part I like to talk about is this amazing agreement with about C squad athletics. So, if you have the opportunity to look at our collective bargaining agreement, they're called CBAs for the Foster Coaches Association. We have a head
019coach and we have assistant coaches. We don't have head coach. We don't have varsity coach, JV coach, and C squad coach. We they're not labeled that way in our CBA. So to be able and our CBA also says that we have to notify who's coming back or high school not middle school but high school athletics before the Monday before school is out. So we got anou on mon well last Friday to extend it from Monday till the last working day of school. That was first step. The second step was working with what does it mean to be need a C squad. So, here's what I need the community understand. And if you go back and listen this, we looked at or we asked the WIA if we could have a volunteer official, maybe somebody who
020understood the sport but wasn't a part of the official association. They told us no. Um, we do know that our C squad mainly that is well all of the C squad ride the bus with their varsity team. So it's not a separate bus going somewhere. Every once in a while there's a pre-season possibly, but if we're able to support C squad, that will not be able to happen. So our commitment to C squad is this. If the team has numbers to warrant, they need to understand we will not take a separate bus to a separate location. and we had to put out a contract and I could not put out in good faith put out a contract which had to go out by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, excuse me, not knowing what the budget was.
021So the coaches association came to us and said for the five teams that have potentially have C squad athletics, could we write anou about that? So, one of the teams said, "Our two, our JB coach and our C squad coach, we're going to write an MOU and we're going to split one salary." Our MOU on the other end is that the funding allows us and there's enough students, then we will fully fund the C squad. But we're not putting that C squad full coach salary out unless we know we have the students and the money. but because of the way the CBA was written. So I have to commend the proer coaches association much like our teachers association who said it's important to us to have that third coach. We're going to give up our
022salary. Now some of the coaches, the JV and C squad coach is splitting one salary. In a couple of our sports, the varsity coach, the assistant coach gave up 20 or 25% of their salary to fund the third coach. So, each one of the teams did something different. Some of the teams um that have sometimes have a third team said, "We don't want to do that. We're just going to wait. If you can afford if you can budget for the C squad, we'll wait and we'll fill it when we know we have enough students." So each one of those programs got to choose their own. Terresa Brad, their coaches um association president, Wendy Rodriguez, Corey Englesen, we worked together late into the evenings and we got them all done. So the community needs to know
023that C Squad athletics, actually all athletics are important to the community, but everybody took their part in saving us the money to be able to do that. So they all have to be commended. Great. Thank you. questions for Kim. I just I just need people to know how much money that is. That's that's a large commitment. Um like Darlene and Andy, that's like the two of you saying, "Okay, one of you is going to take half your salary this year and give the other half to the other so we can save the job." Right. That's it. I mean, that's it. I mean, people need to really understand the hours that those coaches put in and they're doing it for half their salary. No, it's greatly appreciated. So, thank you. Uh, next up is uh public
024comment. Do we have anybody signed up? Blake, do we have anybody online? And we will move through that. Students, now is your time for a report. Your first report. Don't forget to turn the microphone. Yeah. Samantha, you're first. No, just as long as it's green. Okay. Can you hear me? Yep. Okay. So, I would just like to say that we first started our summer practices last week for summer sports or for upcoming fall sports. And so, we're all enjoying that and it's going very well. As for the last day of school, we're getting closer. It's tomorrow and so for the past few days, we've been having a backpack donation drive filled with medical supplies. Both the high school and the middle school are doing this and we're sending it to Ghana. And so, it will
025be postsurgical supplies and backpacks. So, we are doing a great job of that. There are tons of backpacks being donated. Thank you. Any questions for Samantha? Good job, Ezrey. Um, so Sam and I both went to graduation and we thought that it went very well. It's very put together, organized. And then as some of you heard, Olivia, she um finalized at nationals for HD um which means that she is top 10 for individual performance um which is pretty impressive. I just wanted to share that. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Questions for Thank you. All right. Next up is department reports. Darlene for the food services. Good evening. We're finishing up with school. Tomorrow we serve breakfast. Kids get out at 11:15, 11:30, though we do not serve lunch. We're starting the summer uh feeding program
026on June 16th at Heights. It is open to the public. It is for children 18 years and younger of age. We have a flyer posted on our district website and on Parent Square to let parents know our uh breakfast and lunch will be available from Monday through Thursdays. We're going to take uh Fridays off because when our summer school students come in on July 7th, they will only be in the building for Monday through Thursdays. We're partnering with um Kathleen from WSU Snap. She's going to bring in a green stock. It's actually a container that we're going to start growing a garden in to get students uh familiar with where their produce comes from. We're going to do cherry tomatoes, leaf lettuce. Also, we have um Margarita from the Reading Foundation in the Tri Cities.
027She is coming to Heights on July 8th and she brings uh a large assortment of books for students to come and choose from. We will take a break with our program from June 30th to July 4th and start with our summer school students on the 7th. Um, I'm also working on the upcoming school menus and planning taste tests with local farmers and we'll be doing the harvest of the months. I'm also working on the grant from from the Department of Agriculture like I got last year where I was able to buy local food items to put on our menu and working on a couple equipment grants. And also this upcoming school year, we need to cut our sugar and our sodium on our school menus and add more fruits and vegetables and whole grains and
028proteins, make it available for students. I would like to also um welcome Samantha and I'm sorry, Ezrey and Olivia to join our um student advisory food team at the high school to get input on what you guys would like to see on your menus. Also, I will be attending the Washington School Nutrition Association conference on July 27th through 30th. I actually have an action item in the school board waiting for your approval. You have any Questions for Darling? No questions. I'm just uh excited for this stuff going on. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thanks, Darling. Thank you. Uh next up is uh Andy How with the maintenance department. Good evening. So, everything on here is just a snapshot of the last few months. I'm sure there's things I've forgotten. Um, start off at the
029high the new high school. Uh, the irrigation program is uh reprogrammed and installed it. Still some pains. We found out that there was some stuff I had labeled wrong. So when we thought something was running, something on the other side of the building turns on. Things of that nature. Uh the big sign on the side of the gym, we had a phase two come out. They brought a 70ft lift. They had to tear it apart, put in some ballast, new bolts. Uh the flag pole front. Uh the cables got all wrapped up, ripped wiring out. That's why they were putting apparently the American flag on the Washington flag pole because that was the only one that had a light. Nobody said anything for like two months. Um, graduation went well. As you know, a couple
030people that uh fainted through the heat and uh one little old lady that got bucked out of her walker and broke seven ribs. Um, grandson was pushing her apparently a little faster than was advised, but okay, I guess from there on. Uh, we have some to-dos we plan to tackle at the high school. Uh we do have some wiring issues at the stadium wiring. We're still trying to find there's a short somewhere. We have like six zones that don't work. We've just been running them by hand. Uh the large window in the stairway uh on the side of the gym has been broken now for like a month and a half. They're supposed to be here the 17th to fix it. They finally got everything in. They had to rent a big lift to tear
031the awnings apart from the outside. Uh but that'll be done on the 17th. Uh there's a couple of islands in the parking area that look like death. Uh that's by design. We round up the grass, took the sprinklers out. We're going to put uh landscape fabric and rock down because they were like not big enough for a real mower and it was just a mess. Um the other thing we're going to try and do, and we'll see how it goes, we're going to start off with the parking lot between softball and baseball. We're going to try and stripe it ourselves. I've never done it, nor has anybody else in the maintenance shop. So, we'll see how it goes. And we're going to start on a small one first. Um, from there, I'll move on to
032the middle school. Uh, the front doors are the entryways all done, working well. Looks good. Um, the football sprinklers are in, grass seeds in, everything was raked off, bedded. Uh, they've been running for a few weeks now. Grass. There's a couple there. Part is green and it's running itself. Um, we have atel uh there's three huge trees that are over the top of the portables out back and they're big half dead. I want to get uh that's one thing and that's u and then I have a map of the proposed underground sprinklers for the baseball diamonds. Uh I got one well I didn't get a bid tonight but I showed the first contractor the job. We have the map. We have the price list. uh meet another guy tomorrow and then hopefully Bagley will be
033here uh the first part of next week and we can budget allowing I would like to get it done Septemberish. That way we can get it back filled, seated, and hopefully water on it before this year's water gets shut off is the plan. I'm guessing it's going to come in probably about 12 12 to 15,000 total. It was 7,000 in parts and then uh uh labor at Heights. We have the big reader board sign went up out front. Uh we have one more run of wire to to pull and then it should be operational. We hope to have that done in the next week or two. We've kind of been tackling it as we have time in the mornings. Um I'm really hoping it gets taken care of and and we have uh no parking
034signs coming for for heights as well for along the kitchen wall. They should be ready to pick up probably by the first of next week and installed shortly after. Um, at Wit Strand, uh, we we had some issues with the storm drains where when they were installed, I don't know, 20 years ago or whenever it was, they did not grout the rings. And so when we were testing the firewater thing, everything soaked in, the parking lot around them collapsed. So over spring break, we had that cut out, tamped in. Um, Van Bell did it. Van Bell excavating. They grouted the rings, tamped everything, and then repaved and repainted what they cut out. And there's also at the very bottom it says bus shop sinkhole. There was a spot where the buses were backing out. Somebody
035at some point, Lord knows how many years ago, they had an old parking lot. They put like 16 inches of dirt, packed it, and paved over it. Well, the top parking lot, the top asphalt had a crack, soaked through and just mushed everything up. And it was so they punched a few holes in the bottom asphalt, re repacked it and re re uh asphalted it. Um the to-dos that I would like to get done for uh housel a power surge. Uh we well I think that's what it was. Knocked out both the water heaters at Howle because they're computerized or wand excuse me. Yes. Anyway, we just got those back online. I think last Thursday or Friday. So, we've had a little hillbilly jumper hose running from hot water line to hot water line to
036so the whole building actually had hot water off of one small one. Um, the other thing I'd like to get done at Witstrand, the guy that came out or one of the guys that came out was working on our boilers is also the fella that does the inspections for the state and he looked at our boiler room with all the stuff stacked in shelves and said, "There's no way this is going to pass next year when I go through here." Uh we don't really have a ton of storage. So what we're looking at doing is there's a like an awning out back of Woodstrand, taking a corner and doing some kind of a a shed. I guess it'd be like enclosing a carport. Uh it won't be heated, but we could keep dry dry storage
037in there and it would free up a ton of space in that room. We have time because we don't get inspected until next I think next June there. um here at the district office, the exterior paintings done, the power washing of the old brick on the on the the others done. We we had all the exterior lights put up over all the entrances. We put new lights up and then the big flood lights. We wired them all back in so they work again. Uh the last to do I have for the district office here would be the flower beds. We tore the grass out last year, but we put the curbing in and just haven't got back to it. We want to get some plants in there. And then uh in fact I just thought
038of one I missed. Oh no I didn't miss it. The islands at the high school when we do that we're going to get the same rock and probably have it brought over here and do the fresh basult just with a few plants in it. I want it to be super simple. So any Questions. Randy, what's what's going on with the grass at height? We have a couple of very green irrigators. We started out the season uh last year we had an irrigation person specific just for changing handlines and in trying to save a few bucks. I was trying to have my mowers do it and they weren't keeping up. Uh so we're we just literally put out to put another irrigation person on it. I mean it's pretty close to you. I I've been coming
039in and doing it myself on the weekends. Are they still watering those with hand lines or There was never underground. Nope. And the new baseball field that was never underground either. The new You mean I mean the baseball at Howle? No, at the high school. No, no, the high school has underground. Okay. Yeah. In fact, if if I mean, if we could afford it, I'd have it all done in underground, you know. I mean, I'd have the the bid tomorrow, but that's a lot of money. Yeah. So, what what we had talked about in the past is like trying to do like 10 to 15,000 a year, just getting the important spots done. Uh, you know, football football was was last winter. Uh, this year I'd like to do it before winter, but it would
040be baseball probably at Howle at Howle. And then probably like girls softball the following September until, you know, we get all the way through it. I mean, if we had if we had a couple more guys more days in the week, you know, we could rent trenches and do it oursel, but we're just their swamp. So, and the uh practice field by the new tennis courts like was bad last week, but this week it looks even worse. Yeah. So, I'm meeting with game who is the contract for filling the swell and so forth. We're walking at 8:30 tomorrow morning and that's still under what I call warranty work from the repair from that. So, um the irrigation's on but we didn't get good top soil. it didn't get put in um properly and another part
041of that is on each edge of the soil where they put the sod in. So they didn't put good dirt underneath it. So Dustin from game is meeting me tomorrow at 8:30. I should have some better information from you cuz like on the the middle to the south I mean it was looked pretty good last week but and when I was out there today I mean you can tell it's been watered but yeah that grass is well and even even worse than that if if you walk out to the edge of where the sod is there's a big yeah you know I so that's under our warranty and our um contingency money and and our retainage. Her retainage money won't be paid until that's to our specification. Other questions for Andy? Thank you, Andy. I
042I would like to say for graduation when you look down on the the football field, it was green as green can be. So, you know, good job for keeping that up for for last Saturday. So, thank you. Thanks, Andy. All right. Next up is OSPI aortionment. Go ahead. No. Oh, I think Oh, I missed one. Sorry. I got a little happy with the check marks. Uh, is review of policy 3112 social emotional climate. Uh, so policy 312 is a required policy in Washington state. This was one that was on before and you asked me to take it to our district MTSS team to MTSS SSS team and they've all reviewed it and approved it to move forward. Um it's they felt that it meets with our goals and our beliefs around what we're trying to
043do with students and that multi-tered system of support and the goal is really around that really positive climate for students at school. And again, this discussion, so it'll be back a couple more times if you haven't had a chance to dig into it. Any questions for Diana? Right. Thank you for raising your hand so nicely. All right. Um there's a line item for equity and then there's line item for equity focused which I'm just curious what if if the equity focus line item even needs to be in there. So if you look at the procedure, it defines equity and equity focus. And the definition for this policy of equity means that each child receives what he to develop his or her full academic and social potential equity. This refers to my microphone's going in now.
044Equity focus refers to strategies aimed at improving equity and experiences and outcomes for all students and adults. So improving their outcome so they receive can achieve their full academic and social potential. Um and then it it speaks to the the you know the various protected classes, race, gender identity, eth ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation. So it's it's a broad category. Um, so in this perspective, I think equity really does address what we want to do. We're not talking about equity the world we want students to all have those positive experience to reach our full potential. And again, it's the in draft so we can make amendments to it as we see fit. I I just Yeah. I I mean if my thought reading through it if if we if we didn't have to have the
045equity focus I mean equity I think in my mind kind of explains that all students okay should get what they need. That was my thought on that. Can you tell me what line you're pointing to because when I sit here and you talk you're in the policy correct and which paragraph? Uh that would be four and five or five and six I guess in the procedure or the policy only four paragraph sorry drop procedure. Okay. I'm sorry. I just thought maybe I was looking at the wrong thing. Um so you feel you feel that if equity was there the term and definition of equity that would feel you feel like that would cover what we're talking about. Say that again. I'm sorry. Yeah. My my thought is that I mean that covers equity. That's that
046was my thought on that one. Okay. Um on the multi-tered system of support um continuum of evidence-based practices. I guess I'm curious where this evidence-based comes from. Okay. So evidence-based practices um refers to um if we say we have some uh students that are struggling in math. So multi-ter system support covers academic, social, emotional. So students are are struggling in math and we decide to provide six weeks of an intervention for them to see if we can improve maybe they're struggling with um solving two-step equations. Okay? And then at the end of that, we want to see that they that they that actually worked. So the goal in in the whole MTSS MTS I'm getting too many S's. MTSS system is that when you provide an intervention, you look at where they are at the
047start, you do something you think is going to work to help them and at the end you also look at data and if it worked then great, you can move on. If it didn't work, then you need to do something else. Yeah. But that so that's our own in-house. Yeah. That's us providing evidence. we, you know, tracking students growth, whether it's their it for their social emotional, maybe they've taken another cell survey and we see that they maybe were having struggles with friends before, but now that's better. So, it's looking at data, not just trying something and hoping it works. I think the words researchbased would mean um I don't go and say we're going to do Kim Casey's intervention. We have to find something that has researchbased data behind it to use as the
048intervention tool. We just don't go to something off the shelf that has no it would be like saying I'm doing something with no um evidence behind what I'm doing. So that's what definition of researchbased means. And unfortunately in education that happens a lot. we try something and we sometimes either maybe we're not going back and examining if it's really working or we don't look to make sure it's something that's going to work before we try it. We know that's not always possible if you have a novel idea or something new, but then you have to look at the evidence to see if what you tried really worked. Thanks Blake. You saved the day again. And then I my last uh question is under positive school climate uh is 1.7 offer frequent opportunities for students to
049discuss and practice anti-racism and develop collaborative solutions to address inequities. So I'm just curious about practicing anti-racism. So remember when we took the students to CILA to tie to talk about the did you go Sammy did Ezra did? So we took the students and we were working about trying to abolish the word the nword that's used. Um that would be an example of that. Um it's trying to those are examples of things that we would do to um um improve anti-racism. And it it's our hope and our expectation that everyone is practicing anti-racism every day of their life at school. Um students, adults, and everything. It's kind of written in a odd way, I would say, a little bit. Um so any any suggestions you have in that would would be good for us but
050that's what its purpose is. It's really yeah I mean that was an active activity to try to work on a problem that was exists amongst our students but yeah this may be re rewarded a little bit more but it's like um having a a school culture and expectation of anti-racism to me makes I just think anytime you bring up the anti-racism discuss I mean it's basically love your neighborh I mean we could just put that in there I mean honestly it's Okay. I I long time ago was a student. I I know kids say dumb things, stuff they shouldn't say. I I don't know. I just practice anti-racism. I mean, that's just loving your neighbor. It's really And it's also about educating um education about why why we why we want you to act a
051certain way or treat people in a certain way. Yeah. So, I think you can look at what happened at Pasco High School's graduation this weekend and understand why that's important. Yeah. I'm not saying it's not important. I just I don't know about having a class on teaching anti-racism. Yeah. I don't I don't know that we have a class on that, but Samantha wants to say something, I think. Yeah. So you were mentioning the event that was hosted by CILA and although I didn't go I did hear lots of feedback and all the feedback I heard was positive and so it sounds like we are moving in that direction for a change and to make the the place the school the best place it can be. And I think that um probably most of us know
052and perhaps CILA chose to make that decision because of an event that occurred on their campus. I was actually there when that happened. It was a very um disturbing situation. And so it's those kinds of situations where that education around and and learning and understanding why that isn't appropriate and how what that does and how that hurts people is so important. I I 100% agree. And unfortunately this ton of this falls back on parenting too because if you got knucklehead saying that stuff in the stands then something wrong at home. But anyway, I think that's all the questions I had on that one. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions? I just would like to add a piece. Um, depending on our age and generation that are in the room, we can
053remember when the R word is no longer used in our society, right? We don't use the the word retardation or any combination thereof in our public setting. Um, that is what we're working forward in the world world in which we live in the 21st century. And so, um, we're working hard with Brian, be kind, what we, those kinds of things. Um, but we just have to call it out at what it is. And I think that's that's a piece. And so, um, to any board member, to the students, if you look at one of those bullets and you think this is a wording that would be more appropriate for our school board or our community, not our school board, our schools and our community, we'd love to hear the ideas and suggestions on how you
054think that wording could be done with the same meaning. Well, and if you look at it and you go, well gosh, it really seems like they missed X or mix missed Y. These are sample policies written by an attorney that works for um the school board. It's I mean I know she gets input and stuff from others but it is the reason they go before the board and for you guys to read them the community to see them is so people can give input. We're happy. We like input. We don't like to have to come up with it all on our own. If if someone does make a racial racial comment, there is I mean obviously that person is pulled out and talked to and uh you know that would be an opportunity for just
055to deal with that person. I I I think I'm a little bit in agreement because you know offering frequent opportunities for students to discuss this I I don't know that that's necessary. Um but yeah, when someone actually does it, then that needs to be and that's when the majority of the education occurs. And like Kim said, yeah, sometime there's punishment, but you have a a student, a third grader, a fourth grader, so that says something that inappropriate, a word that they shouldn't have used. Ultimately, our goal is to educate them, to educate them and help them understand why that's not okay. Sometimes they've, you know, they've seen something on TV or they draw a swastika and they they don't have any idea what that means. I I spent many many an hour with students at
056trying to educate them why something wasn't okay and do they really understand and know the history of that and most of the time they don't or they don't even know what the word really means. No. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? And now we're moving on to the OSPI portion. Um, I'd really, if you have the document, I sure would appreciate you opening it. Um, and I'm going to do the same just so I can I was kind of got into our last discussion, so I got to open that. Bear with me for just a second. Okay. I put this in here for the public almost more so than I did for the the school board. There's often this discussion when we say we don't have the money that somebody thinks and they've read the
057headline Washington state gives more money to special education but they don't understand what it takes to fund it or they're saying we want to order our supplies for the month of June but then we say well we really I mean for the next school year in June so we can pay them during the summer and we don't have the money to pay for them. People say, "Well, why don't you have the money?" So, a couple things. I This email came specifically, if you'll notice, it came from OSPI, Financial Services Department, and this is came exactly to me, and I wanted to put it on the public record. While it is information, um, I want people to hear it. So, I'm going to use an example and a household. If if you have two incomes in
058your household, you know approximately the amount of money you're bringing each month. For those of you in the farming world, I'm from the farming world. I know we got two checks a year. One when we sold the beef and one when we sold our crops. So, please understand, I'm not talking that every family is the same. But much like the farmer, we have to plan for that money whether the check was a good crop or a poor crop. We have to make it last for our expenses. Well, Washington state said, "Well, we're sorry school districts. We don't have enough money this month to give you all your money, so we're going to give you less money. And by the way, we'll make it up to you in the month of July." What people don't understand,
059and Delise can chime in anytime, our fiscal year begins in September. Their fiscal year begins in July. So what they did was put off what they couldn't pay us in June till they got their new money in July. People need to understand that that is a voting that is a legislative action. That is not something that Proser Washington did or Proser school district did or did not do. Um there are so many links. If you're into this, I suggest you go to the financial section and look at the maps and look what's going on within the state. So, the other thing that I was going to say was in your household, you say, "This is how much money we make this year and 112th of it we're going to use in January, one 12th we're
060use in February." Well, the state of Washington doesn't work that way. They say, "We're going to give you 5% in May and we're going to give you 9% in December." They don't give us one 12th of our money every year. You've heard us talk about having to borrow against our own money. So, a few days after this email came, we got another email that said, "Here's some banks that will lend you money. Five banks. Here's some banks that will happily lend you money. Oh, but please understand your interest is not reimburseable. So, if we borrow the money, then we have to pay the interest on that money out of your levy dollars, our basic eds to make that work. I just didn't think it was fair to not put this on the board packet for
061public record. I wanted people to be able to go back and listen and see the document. So, I'm open for questions. It was nothing more than that. I think um I just think you the people needed to hear it. Any questions or comments for Kim? Thank you for putting that on there. It's helpful. You know, I I look at this and I look at the last u oh there's a couple meetings ago you put a percent of budget that they spend on Washington schools and that continues to to drop. you know, they continue to fund things that don't help basic education and they just keep going and going and going while they they sit there and take the money from the school districts. It it's super frustrating. I know it's frustrating for all of me
062trying to manage this, but uh I mean this is kind of how you know understanding what's going on, learning how they they fund schools, you know, the different classes of money through the state and what what they're playing politics with education a little bit, right? They're pushing programs that aren't I guess they're not they're not they're not focused on students at at the legislative level in my opinion. if they're going to do stuff like this to underfund, you know, what we have to pay, you know, pay out, whether it's vouchers or payroll or, you know, anything else that the district has to do. So, it's extremely frustrating and I'm glad that that we put it on and we'll just keep working on it, see what happens. So, Deise, what kind of a potential pickle does
063this put put you in or us in, I guess, if we're waiting until July to get We Well, we're barely going to have enough money to make payroll. So, right now, we're in contact with utility companies um to see if they can take a partial payment or wait until next month. Um, we've talked about putting stuff on the credit cards, but the issue with that is we're still acrewing interest. Um, so you're you're ending up paying more down the line. Um, so right now our focus is making sure that our employees are are getting paid. Um, and we're keeping the lights. So I want everybody to hear when we say making payroll, I want everybody to hear me. Your check is not going to pass. Okay? But what does it mean? It means um for
064many of you, you can relate to this in some way. In December, you bought too many Christmas presents and you need to pay for them. And so in January, you didn't pay your Cascade Natural Gas Bill, right? So, do you hear me loud and clear? You're going to get your paycheck. But how we go about doing that is a very upsetting, sad, controversial issue. our local vendor. I mean, they wait for our check. Diana and I were talking about this the other day. We're the largest employer in our city. What does that do to the system if we no longer can make and pay? And I just I Kim is trying to give an analogy to explain, but the reality of the situation is not that we we bought too many Christmas presents in December.
065Um we can't afford any Christmas presents right now. No Christmas this year. Um but when they hold back several hundred,000 what are we supposed to do and with no warning at the end of May like no warning no warning so yeah now we have warning for June but that doesn't solve the problem our funding for LEA so we get four payments a year local effort assistance it's to supplement our levy tax dollars it was cut in the month of May and they did not tell usually we get five 600,000 and you can go back and see previous years when we got 200,000 in the month of May. Um, that's huge. That's no, everybody needs to hear it. No warning. That's like your automatic deposit came in. You thought your check was supposed to be and
066it was half as much as what you're supposed to. We didn't find out until they sent us that. Are there concerns about Yeah, we're going to Same thing's going to happen this month. Now, we don't I'm I mean, I've never seen anything like this in all of my years. And the reality is districts are already struggling. And if the state doesn't do something like they're talking about schools being in binding conditions, everybody's the state's practically in binding conditions right now, but they're supposed to oversee school districts that are in binding conditions. Come on. That like the whole thing is uh is ridiculous. It's making people it's it's it's taking from where it should be, you know, the places money should be spent. They're doing they're doing smoke and mirrors to save money this year is
067basically what they're doing because if they defer and then they don't pay it out, they've, you know, until you get into July, oh look, they saved however many million or billion dollars, but it's all fake. It's it's not real. And then the impact comes in with people, with individuals. Like Kim said, "Yeah, we'll make payroll, but if we, you know, we have a lot of local vendors. We have to be able to pay people." We were like fully prepared to get our orders done, get things in, ready to go for school. Our staff, our secretaries did piles of work getting all their teach orders in. All on hold right now. Can't do any of it. And I think another good example um about the binding conditions and just kind of the conundrum the state puts
068us in is they recently came out and said that you can borrow against your TBF if you're in binding conditions. So the state is controlling what you're doing and then you can borrow from a fund that you have a balance in. Um, so we're really just stuck in between a rock and earth. Yeah, they said that. But then in Chris Rectal's webinar or webinar yesterday, he said, "But if you're if you're doing that, that's a problem because you already don't have money, so you shouldn't be borrowing against funds." It's it's districts are doing everything they can they can to get by because of what the state is doing to us. So, is there anything I throwing I I don't know. Um, obviously dealing with the state and OSPI is kind of a losing battle, but
069I mean is there any talk amongst you guys districts in the state about just it's going to take numbers to get any movement over there? Like districts taking a stand together rather than one or two here or there? I mean, what I Don't touch it. Uh because I mean voices the reality is no matter what the voices are, they aren't g it isn't going to make any more money up here. And um but that is the the reality and the truth. Um, we Kim just finished handing out some reduction letters for our classified staff and in the end we we had to make some harder decisions and cut up deeper because I have zero confidence in my grant funding. I don't know what it is right now. I've always known by now. I've always had
070my amounts to budget and plan. I have nothing. It's June and we have to pay people out of money we don't even know if we're going to get. I think the other part is last year, if you remember, we were doing budget work in May and we were able to approve our budget in July and we had all kinds of spread. We can't even start that work because we have no idea and right now they haven't talked about giving us an extension, right? You normally have to have it approved. The law says by August 31st. That's not even our policy. That's a and I don't we don't even know how we can start. We don't know what our revenue forecast is. How do you know what to And so I don't I'm not a Debbie
071Downer. Many of you know that I am not a Debbie Downer, but I can't do a budget on no when I have no idea what my income is. And I don't mean mine, the Proer School District's income is. So, is there anything we can do with unfunded mandates that would help us out? Well, I'm going to be very transparent, Rick. I'm going to tell you what I told you yesterday or the day before. We are we had to have an inspection on some of our our facilities. I'm going to leave the department out of it, but we had to have a some inspections done. And they said, "You need to fix X." And in the meeting, a whole bunch of people, but we've let everybody go, so we don't know who's going to come back
072and check and see if you fixed it. That's what they said to us. Well, I mean, I'm not going to do something that's not safe for our students. Everybody hear me loud and clear. We're not not But you can't make us do something if if you don't give us the money to do it or have a way to follow to see if we did. I mean, Diana and I are filling surveys like I don't know how many OSBI if they're spending money on anything right now, it's making surveys and things they want me to answer because I've never seen so many ever. Ever. In the last two weeks, I've probably gotten eight and at least half of them are ones I've never seen before. And it's it's bizarre. And I don't know if anybody's reading
073them. And they're coming from people working for OSP OSPI. Most of them I don't recognize their names. For many many years, you knew exactly who you're talking to at OSPI all the time. And everything's changed so much. We have reports like our our district improvement plan basically do that. But we're we're supposed to turn these things in our school improvement plans. We don't they generic email. It doesn't even have a name on it. They don't even know if anybody's going to read them. They Kevin was with us. Are we spending time on things that we're not sure if I mean but we I'm a rule follower and I've been doing this job for a long time and there's things that I do every year that need to be done and um improvement plans are important
074because we do hold people I mean we have standards but the reality is there are these hoops that we're jumping through sometimes and I don't know what they're for and I probably am I'm always the glass half full But this is really this is the really frustrating. It's really really hard to lead through this kind of it's chaos. It's just and they told us at the meeting yesterday they lied off 68 people at OSPI last week. Is it 68? Right. Oh, over 60. And so now the emails don't say Kim Casey at OSPI, right? They say like like No, they say like like the department name. is a generic because I don't know who's gonna get the email to do the checking. Sounds like a trainer. Nice. I And I just want everybody to know
075that's for the public record. So somebody comes back six months from now or two years from now that this discussion was open and on the record. Well, I appreciate that. Uh any other further questions? Thank you guys for your hard work. Uh, next up, Rick, you're up. CTE four-year plan. Thank you for being patient talking about OSPI and things you have to do. He's doing one of them. That's what this is. This is an OSPI requirement uh to have the four-year plan uh approved by the board, the general advisory committee, and it's a compilation of all the other advisory committees. And so the advisory committees have four-year plans that they re they review with the teachers and then they approve. Then that plan goes on to the general advisory onto the district four-year plan which
076the general advisory committee approves and then it comes to to you guys for review and approval. And so then it goes into my endofear report. What a great segue. He goes into my end of year report which is comprised of the program evaluations for all of the different CTE programs, some PD explanations, and a couple other things that I have to have submitted by generally September 30th. Mine just got approved from last year, like three weeks ago. I need everybody to hear that last year's plan that we did all year was approved three weeks ago because they don't have the people to approve the plans. But we have a deadline to get this one approved now. Yes. Yeah. So, yeah. And so there's there's really not a whole lot of changes in this year's four-year
077plan. Already talked about some of the new courses that we've offered that you approved. There's one, like I've talked before, that this plan's a work in progress. Well, through our scheduling um process this year, we determined that we had a need for a a uh earbook instructor. So, CTE Jennifer McMerry agreed to take that on. Well, that was after we had the approval of the GAC. So, it's not in this year's four-year plan, even though it's going to be happening next year, but it'll be reflected in next year's four-year plan. So, it's once again, it's just a plan. as kind of a guidepost guideline that that we follow and change it as we go. Any questions? I know you guys got a copy of it. Questions for Ray? No, I think you know the CT
078program does a really good job and offering a ton of different opportunities for students and keeps growing and uh so I appreciate your work and everybody else that's involved with it. So yeah, it was some restructuring too in staffing this year. We we did take we had to restructure business and man management and or business and marketing and we took a look at which were the high priority classes of students and we made sure that we had those offered. So we weren't taking away that the you know really popular classes and students were and then I also want to say we have great advisory committees. All the advisor committees are very good, great input, great ideas. Um, really really good to work with and they've grown over the years and I really appreciate their their
079time and effort. I think you guys are uh yeah, you guys you guys do do an awesome job. I was interested. Let let me know if you do the uh global gap unit because I could probably use some help with that. The what unit? Global gap. Oh, brag. Yeah, they're they're working on it. All right. I might be a student. Okay. But thank you for uh yeah, thank you guys for everything you're doing for the school. It's awesome. Thank you. Well, I would make a motion on faith that the CTE four-year plan. Hey, our end's a good prank. I'll second that. Been moved and second to approve the CTE four-year plan student. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I motion carries. Thanks, Rick. All right. Thank you. Have a great evening. Thanks,
080Rick. Uh, next up is the Washington School Nutrition Conference. Darlene, you're back up back at the table. So, in my letter, I've asked for approval to go to the Washington Nutrition Conference. It's held in Splan on July 27th to the 30th. Uh this year the theme is the magic of school nutrition. We go there and we have um breakout classes where we learn everything to do with child nutrition, the new guidelines that are coming up where we have to reduce our sugar, reduce our sodium, add more fruits and vegetables and proteins to students. mills during the day. You have any questions for me? Questions regate travel for the Washington School Nutrition Conference. I second it. Thank you. When I return, I will come back and do a report on what I learned. Great. Thank you.
081Thank you. You So, it's been moved and seconded to approve students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Thank you, darling. Uh, out of state travel request for migrant education program recruiter invitational. Mr. Uh so I been meeting with Eric uh through May actually early part of April. This was already planned going forward. Um it's happening in September. This is when the team um Selena and Lisa uh Dena also as part of that will end up going to this conference to learn more about um similar breakout sessions that they'll go to to um either collaborate with colleagues to learn more or to learn something new to bring back um around the migrant uh program. questions for Kevin. We know this funding. We're not sure. Are we not sure? I don't
082know if you saw me whisper to Diana's shoulder. um this migrant will be funded for this portion and there is some carryover that would need to be spent regardless and so the we're I hate to use word I'm 99% certain something could come up but 99% certain this is fully funded. Yeah and I there is money in there currently. Yeah. Um and I have seen that. Am I up to speed on all of the things coming next year and the year after? No, I can't answer those. But I I do know that there's funding in there and this has been pre-planned. Another thing that's going to be happening is PD with thinking maps this next month. Um because that money is already there. Um that's questions that we have going forward though uh carryoverwise going
083into next year and then the year after. Who knows? We don't know if they're going to allow carryover over or if there's even going to be funding. And after listening to the meeting this last week, I I don't I think I was more confused after the meeting this Monday about the funding. You typically carry over the migrant. Different programs are allowed different amounts of carryover. The migrants 100% carryover. Yeah. And they're they're they're the most flush with cash. Yes. There's there's a substantial amount of money there. We got it. KG. I'd move to approve the out of state travel request for migrant education program. Recruiter invitation. Second. It's been moved and second to approve out of state travel for the migrant education program recruiter invitational students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.
084So, I just I've just been meeting with the pack board next door and there's several rumors out there and I let them know the rumors that are out there so that they're prepared um and start thinking about that over the next year. But carryover, we don't know. So, I was sharing with them that if it goes this way, we're going to have to prepare to spend otherwise you lose it. If they're allowing some carryover, then we'll have to be a little bit more strategic that to be able to maybe fund something in the following year, but we just don't know yet. Great. Thank you. And hopefully it won't be a mystery like everything else right now. Great. Thank you, Kevin. Uh, next up is Seattle University College of Education, College of Education internship placement affiliation
085agreement. I'll just comment on the last one though, the first time we have Kevin Gilman listed on the agenda as the director of grants, assessment, and elementary programs. There we go. He's off to one of those programs. Uh this is a a placement agreement. We have a request to replace a Seattle University agreement um for their college of education student teacher and um we don't have an active agreement. So, we need one in place so that they can they can have their internship here. Yeah, this one's more generic. So, student teaching, counseling, it probably could be a a variety, but this is for a student teacher. I sorry, just a quick question. Let's see. We get a lot of these. Do you have a a rough guesstimate on how many of these type of agreements
086we have within the school district? Right now, we probably that are we have active agreements, but no student placements. um all the lo all the closest colleges, Eastern WSU, um Central, uh a lot of the private colleges, we have Witworth, we have some colleges, I can't even tell the name of them that we just did the one for Abby and I can't even remember the Abby Rodriguez. I don't remember the name of it. We probably have right now between 15 and 20. Um we had about 25 interns of various kinds whether they were student teaching doing practicum hours before student teaching counseling um social work um this you know this year we'll have school psychology um we already have a bunch of student teaching placements we have uh we had have had Janney so we've
087had uh Arizona State um yeah we we have a lot and every time it's and They are usually only good for about two years and we have to do it again. Great. Thank you. I'd make the motion to approve university quality education internship placement affiliation. Second that. So it's been moved and approved to the Seattle University College Education Internship Students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is resolution 1025 surplus sale. Well, I'm very happy to say that it's pretty short list. Um, if you remember right when I started two years ago, we did these huge huge things and now we should be having a list similar to this each year either for old, broken, um, outdated. Right? So, this is a manageable list. So, you've got it
088there in front of you. Some things get recycled, some things will get sold. Any questions on the surplus now? I move to resolution 10 surplus sale. Second, it's been moved and approved to moved and seconded to approve this resolution 1025 surplus sale. Students, this a roll call vote. Brian I. Frank I Lisa I and I two will vote I motion carries you. Next up is vouchers and payroll. Did have one question. I know we we seen ASB and I can't remember. Do we typically see the general fund vouchers come in next week or next meeting? So, there's no general fund because we did not have the money to do a midmon run this month. The only thing we're paying is utilities. So, we're still working on those phone calls and as soon as we have
089answers from all of them, Abigail will do um what we call an X cycle midmon random um run in the month and those will get paid the next day. then those will be on the next and that's the policy that's in place so that I can sign those to a certain dollar with you so we can pay them. We're trying to work with our utility. It's kind of what I suspected but I want to say it out. Yeah, it was a little bit weird when there's no general fund there. Yeah. But we did uh finally were able to cut the check for the electric bus. So that's what the TVF checks for. So that's done and Great. Thank you. Any questions on voucher? Is that bus running again? Oh, it's great. Yeah, it's up and
090running. Oh, yeah, it was. You were behind it. It's great. I moved to approve vouchers and payroll. It's been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. All right, moving on to consent items one through four. Question item. Second and second to approve the consent items one through four. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. That concludes uh all the action items for tonight. Moving on to reports. Deise. Okay. So, I have a couple. Um I have March financials and May enrollment. Um so to begin with March financials and you know I I am a little bit behind on my financial reporting. Um as you know we've been super short staffed. So I plan on having April as the next board
091meeting and then we'll be back on track for July. Um, so we have March's financials. Um, you know, we dug in about a half million dollars into our fund balance to cover um, expenses. However, you know, we are operating right now at a 3.91% fund balance, but this time last year, we were operating at a 2.68% fund balance. So, not as great as 5.57 as 22 23. Um, but we're still on the upward trend of hopefully getting back to that 4.5 uh middle ground that that board policy states. Looking at u just a considering what we just talked about with OSPI, but um do you what do you project us in August as our ending fund balance or can you give me a guesstimate or give us a guess? Um, I think it's going to
092be right around the 700,000 that we budgeted for. Um, you know, we really tried to cut expenses and we have, but even doing the fund projections, we're going to come out right right at the 447425. Um, hopefully a little bit under. Uh, right now we can spend our average is uh 4 million a month for the next three months. Um, we did 3.8 in April and then about 3.8 3.9 in or 3.8 in April and 3.9 in in May. Um and so if we can keep our expenses under that, we'll be we'll be fine. Um you can see just looking at the the graphs from last year to this year, our monthly expenses are going up. There was one month last year that we had over $4 million. Everything was under four. And if you
093look this year, we've had three months under four. Um, so expenses are are high, but we're doing everything we can to that. Thank you. Any other questions on the financial questions on enrollment? Or I guess you didn't get to I did. That's okay. Um, so for for May, we are down. Um, we did we did lose uh 12 FTE. I will say though, I just checked on June. Um, and we only lost two. So we'll end up at or three. So we'll end up at 2332 for the month of June. So we lost three in the month of June. So we'll get paid at the 2332 enrollment for the rest of the summer. So we're still above what we budgeted for. Um, but this this trend really goes back to what we're budgeting for next
094year, which is 2271, which is on the conservative side. But as you can see with the downward trend, that's that's what we're going to and probably will be at the end of next year. Questions for Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Good job, Diana. Thank you. Uh, so just one fun I have several things, but the first thing is a little fun thing. My sister is here from Boise. Last year she came and she they she brought her pickle ball equipment and wanted to know where she could go play pickle ball. And I'm like, I do not know because there's no pickle ball courts, but she's going to go play tonight on our pickle ball courts. Um, testing is done. Celebration on that. Um, which is good because school's going to be out. Um,
095I met today with the Boys and Girls Club and our far some of our farm to school people. Uh if you go out by the Boys and Girls Club by the old big greenhouse, there's an area there that looks not really great and it's in the fenced that little short fence that the boys and girls they were going to take probably about a third of that we're working with them. They're going to put their garden there. And um I'm going to work with we'll work with um the ECAP program, the ESD Boys and Girls Club got a grant to replace that really short fencing with normal size fencing because that will eventually be playground too. If we're able to develop that into preschool classrooms. So it I mean right now they are trying to keep
096stuff in the greenhouse. The green houses don't cool. They have to take everything out. it'll like die. Especially the last couple days it's been way too hot. So, um they're going to put a put in a real greenhouse. They're going to work with Andy so that we get the irrigation in there properly and take care of all of that. But right now, it's like the part that they're going to do in it, half of it is just is not even getting any water. So, it looks terrible. So, I said I think it's a fantastic idea. So, we're working on that. So, that's to come. um the 6 through 12 uh science adoption. We we're continuing to try um I do believe the high school has found um a curriculum McGra Hill that they like. Um
097we're going to continue to work through the on during the summer to try to make a decision so at least the high school can move forward even if the middle school's not able to yet. Um we are I met with um a member of the PTO. they uh did their arrangements for science on wheels to the Pacific Science Center for us last year for elementaryaries. I'm taking that on this year because there was a lot between scheduling and trying to figure everything out. It's it's kind of hard to have a middleman. Um although I guess that's kind of me now. So um the uh elementaryaries will have in November the second week of November science on wheels that we're going to do the engineering series this year. Um it'll be at Heights the first two
098days and then KRV for two days and the LA on that Friday the 3rd, fourth, fifth, 6th, 7th of November. So when we get closer to that, I'll give you guys a heads up. So if you have a chance to go and they do this stuff all day long, it's all day long. Two days in the bigger schools and they just need the one day instead. Um and then as you said, um Olivia is uh representing us well both kids are representing us well as always at NHD. But I looked I was looking while we were here because I had text Dean had been texting me about telling me how she did but don't tell anybody yet and all these things I go okay um but she's a top 10 there's 80 in just her
099category almost 80 kids so 10 top 10 in the nation so I text him today do I knew if something happened he would have texted me but he said that uh it's all announced in their awards ceremony tomorrow so they won't know tomorrow you know what our final placement is so that's really exciting we have sent kids to NHD national to nationals I would say at least 15 years and maybe longer and um at first it was a surprise it's not a surprise anymore when we go but we have never placed in top 10 um there's so many great projects there but so it's very exciting question for Diana okay um let's see the prop there's really no update on properties. Um, I want everybody to know the last Wednesday's paper had the correction on
100the parcel be in the paper. It'll it well and it goes tonight. I guess tonight's the second week. So, the next board meeting will be the addendum amendment to the resolution. So, the parts will be as clear. We have lots of interest in the property, but we can't move forward on that till then. Not a lot of We've had lots of showings on the Grand Avenue property. We feel that we haven't received offers or anything on that yet because it's a unique piece of property and whoever's going to do that is going to have to work through a permit process and I think there's a lot of investigation on they have to do to see if they can make that work for them. Budget um I I think I have I have a good news
101and a bad news. So, good news. Um, we can begin our work on budget on our staffing side because our contracts are ne negotiated. People have made sacrifices. I'm getting ready to send out a yearend budget um update for the whole staff. Obviously, as board members, you'll get it also, but we have to acknowledge the sacrifices have been made. Um, that's from our teachers, that's from our principles association, Deanna and myself. what you heard about the coaches today. Um, Proer has a lot to be proud of. There are not a lot of unions throughout our state or employees that say we're going to put kids first and we still have to pay our rent and our house payment, but we're going to take a sacrifice to for the better good. U Brian, it goes back
102to your word of being kind. I think this is an example of the kindness. Um, so I want to make sure we say thank you. Um, there are still so bad news. Um, if you're reading the newspaper, I'm going to sound like a teacher here for a minute. Remember the re the source, but regardless of your political beliefs and your political s um and your take on those things, the reality is the federal government budgets are going to change. And that is not something that the proer school district has any control over even less than we do with the state and we are going to have to weather that. Okay. So I want to talk about that. The other thing you need to understand is when we do a bienium right now they did 2526
103and 2627. Right now we have already been told per se but the federal government is giving us for 2526. We just don't know if we're really going to get it. So when you hear news going on about the federal government right now, that's for the 26 27 school year. So if you're hearing that a program's being cut or something, that's not necessarily for the 2526 unless we don't get the federal money we or state money we've been promised. It's about us planning for 2627. Anything else on that one about the federal money? some of our staff reductions with the PSSE have gone out. Um, I want everybody to know it's probably the hardest part of my whole job to walk up to someone and say, "I'm sorry, your position has been cut." It's we follow
104the CBA, follow the rules. It doesn't matter who you are, who you're related to, whatever the case may be. That's how it works. But everybody needs to understand when the PSSE negotiated a contract and they chose to take a raise that impacted the number of people that were laid off more. It's just a fact. It has nothing to do with belief systems or whatever. That's that was their choice and we have to to suffer the consequences thereof. However, if you're one of the employees who have received a letter, and we have more that need to go out, there's a couple things you need to know. In the current contract that ends August 31st, there was no timeline that we had to give you the notice. Deanna and I and our C are for our classified
105PSSE. There was there's no date in there. We chose to notify in June so those people could choose to look for employment. Otherwise, we could have waited till the 15th of August and said, "Oh, by the way, next week you don't have a job." We didn't do that. I don't work that way. However, we also told them, "We'd love to have you leave on the sublist. We'd love you to become a bus driver. There's so many things we need." Also, I when I specifically looked at each one of them in the eye and and looked at them and said, "We don't know who's getting married and moving, who's getting divorced and moving, we don't know who's going to find a better job, go back to college, whatever it may be." And you're put on a
106list, and it's based on seniority, and you will be called back according to that list. So, we're going to follow all of those. But, I want everybody to understand, we still have some food service um cuts to make and a maintenance and custodian. Now, those are a little bit different, but you will hear from me personally. I don't pass that on to Deanna. I don't pass that on to anybody else. That is what my signature is for, and you have to know that I'm doing my best. But the community needs to know when a contract is negotiated, there are implications for that contract negotiation. Um, so that's the bad news. Um, I think the other part is I I've been meeting with different people and I've said we are right sizing our district. We are
107only living within our means. Um, Frank and I have kind of joked when we talk or and Brian maybe even Jason too, but we joke about farming. I can remember growing up some years we didn't put on new tires on the pickup and we ate craft macaroni and cheese and some year everybody in the house got a new vehicle and we got to paint the house and put it mom got a new flooring. What I'm telling you right now is ladies and gentlemen, we are eating craft macaroni and cheese. I shouldn't say craft. We might even be store brand macaroni and cheese and nobody's getting a new car. Are always craft. Okay. But my point is we have to do what we have to do to educate our students and everybody needs to know that.
108And that means some of the fluff. And Jason, you always remind everybody who's listening, our capital levy money, our capital projects money is capital. We cannot take that money out of capital and pay salaries with it. It doesn't work that way. Um on to some other things. We have our capital committee meeting. Yes, we are meeting on Junth. Everybody agreed to. If you're around, that's great. Um, the new tennis courts, I don't know if you know this, but they really aren't finished. The colors aren't right. They start the spraying on the 16th. Um, we are, for those are listening, some of you are always on there. We are getting the quotes now for the remodel at the because capital levy remember ADA remodeling of the bathrooms and we're getting the quotes for the concessions and
109restrooms at the tennis baseball softball complex. I don't know where we're at. I don't know what the costs are going to be, but we're on the next phase. Uh many year end celebrations. Boy, did we see a lot of faces and a lot of happiness. Graduation was amazing. Um um we're still planning for August. It's really hard to plan A for August when you don't know what the money will be, but we're doing it. We are doing our first review of our special education director applications. It's tomorrow. Um we interviewed and offered a position for the new um accounts payable person and Abigail Roy will be moving into the fiscal specialist position. Um there's just some fun things going on and I'll be off a few days around a long weekend in June 20 and
11023rd and I'll be off a week in July. just the 20th. Also, my father-in-law passed away. Um, so I will also not be here on the 20th, but it'll be Kevin's first chance to be in charge. He doesn't know that yet. He's listening. He's going to be great. Thank you. Uh, Kim, any questions for Kim? Yeah, I just had one question. So, let's say on the sale of these properties and when that time comes and that is that that's capital money, right? Yep. Okay. Can that be used for like installing um sprinkler systems and things like that to to improve like to you know because we I heard Andy say we have a shortage of help and I'm wondering if that is something we could use for something like that. Irrigation is on the cusp.
111It's a little tricky. So here's why. If we had no irrigation we could put it and would be in facilities and projects right? But we already have irrigation. So it's an upkeep. Now I'm not saying we might not find a way to make it happen. But putting underground is tough, right? Because if we didn't have it, it would be an improve I mean a capital project because we didn't have it. But improving something we have is considered maintenance. Doesn't fall into capital. Yeah. So there are there I mean we're we're working on it. We hear you loud and clear. Um, but we remember that clean audit finding that we were bragging about. We want to keep having clean audit findings. Thank you. Questions for Thank you, Kim. All right. Next up is board member reports.
112Bryant. Um, I thought, uh, as far as graduation ceremony went, I think it went pretty well probably went pretty slick. Um, a little warm, but I didn't think it was too bad. But I think, uh, the staff just did a did a really good job of setting that up and implementing it. So, thank you guys for that. Uh, I want to thank um all the people that have served in our districts that are retiring this year. Um, Lisa said we both had Mrs. Bray back in the day. Um, Coach Faz has been uh just huge for our our district and community. But, um, thank thank you guys for all the work that you've done for our district over the years. Um, and then I mean honestly back to this OSPI and Washington State thing. I
113mean, I time to time encourage people to reach out to their state representatives and voice their opinions, but I mean, if if they're going to start withholding cash, then um some something needs to happen on on a more of a grassroots level. So I again students, parents, community members, I I just encourage you guys to reach out because this like Delisa said, we we're not we're not doing back flips in in money right now. Um things are tight and th this is just getting ridiculous to not only our school district but just the entire state. So I I just urge people to reach out and and let your voices be heard. Yeah. Um, yeah, I would just echo e echo what Brian said as far as giving a thank yous out to to everyone who's
114serving you guys working very hard and this is super frustrating with the budget stuff and um just I just really want to thank you guys for the hard work. Thank you for all the teachers who are retired and even the ones that served this whole year. is just um I mean that's what makes it makes it or breaks it. I mean this is the whole point we're here to do is to educate kids and uh and to turn them into into good citizens to turn them into good quality people who can come back and serve our community and um it's just I guess to see work and the sacrifice that teachers I was just reporting what my parents said about the KRB celebration. Um that said it was on time. It was just the right
115amount of time. It was very organized. So um I wanted to they wanted me to share how happy they were with it. And then I just think um people don't know that Brian Bailey should be get a producer award producing graduation. He has got that down and the up in the press box too. It's like okay ready. It's like backstage ready. What's going on? And it's just so organized on time on 60 minute show. Just a great day and I think everybody really enjoyed it. It just, you know, improved the weather. Great. Thank you, Alisa. Um, yeah, I just like to echo graduation great ceremony. Uh, everybody involved, you know, to put that together to get, you know, everything set up. uh the donation by yellow rose with the flowers and shrubs, you know, just
116a great ceremony. Yeah, it was a little hot, but uh um what's that? Right. Um but you know, one thing I noticed was, you know, Anna East when she read the name, she's very cognizant to keep it flowing. Um there wasn't a lot of backup. She did a great job, you know, keeping everything running pretty pretty smooth. So, I appreciate that. Um, also wanted to thank all the everybody that was involved in this party. I heard it was a blast. Uh, the kids had a great time and you know, they stayed there till I don't know 3 in the morning. I guess it was it was two, right? So I mean I think it was well put together you know for the time and money that the this community put in and uh you know
117the parents and chapra whoever was all there coring all those kids for till that late you know kudos to them. So thank you. Uh with uh no further business our next meeting will be June 25th right here at the district boardroom at 6 pm. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you. must have got in your meeting fast. Oh my gosh. Well, there was a meeting and then there was the meeting about the meeting. Oh, one of those. Yeah. It's like 4:30 and you got