001meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Approval of the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I will second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carry. Next up is student reps. You know a thank you ceremonial end to your career. Okay. First All right. Next up is the Oh, Tammy, can you yell at Yoshimi real quick? Alexander's right here. We forgot the certificate. have a plan. Well, again, I appreciate all their service and uh dedication to this board. They've spent a lot of time here basically volunteering their time to represent the students and I think each one of them did a great job doing so. Uh so wish you all the all of you the best going forward and what you'll produce in the future.
002So, thank you. And next up is the oath of office for 2526 student board representatives. Okay. So, you're going to repeat after me. Raise your right hand. I Samantha Gimenez. Oh, I, Samantha Himenez, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Washington of the United States and the state of Washington and will faithfully faithfully perform and will faithfully perform the duties of schoolboard director the duties of school board director of the Proer School District number 116 16 of the Proer School District number 116 in the county of Benton, state of Washington in the county of Benton, state of Washington. according to the best of my ability. Welcome aboard. So, we'll ask you to sign And because you're
003all three new, we're going to do this alphabetically. So, here's your name plate. You get to put in your name plate. And that's your first seat. Congratulations. And have a seat. All right. Next, Olivia Smazy. Oh, Ezrey Roy. I'm supposed to do this alphabetically, but they were out of order. My apologies. You ready? Okay, I'm going to hold it like this or I'll forget. I, Ezrey Wright I, Ezrey Roy do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Washington of the United States and the state of Washington and will faithfully perform and will faithfully perform the duties of schoolboard director the duties of schoolboard director of the Proser school district number 116 of the Proser school district number
004116 16 in the county of Benton, state of Washington. in the county of Benton, state of Washington. According to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. All right. Now I know my alphabet. Olivia, your turn. Okay, right hand. Hey, I know it feels kind of weird, but to make this work, we got to stand by kind of close. I, Olivia Smasnney, I, Olivia Smasnney, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Washington of the United States and the state of Washington and will faithfully perform the duties and will faithfully perform the duties of schoolboard director of the Proer School District 16 of school board director of of the Proer School District
005number 116. I see I did it too long. In the county of Benton, state of Washington. In the county of Benton, state of Washington. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability. Woohoo. Let's give them a Let's give them a big round of applause. Great. Thank you. Well, welcome welcome to the board. We appreciate you taking the time and being here with us and throughout this whole next year. Um, you know, it probably won't it'll be a little slow at first, but you guys will get it. Kim will work with you. Um I'll try to ask for questions if you have questions on the agenda. Um this same as um on the votes, you know, it's just a thumbs up for you guys, but or thumbs down, whatever you
006want to vote for, but um but I do consider, you know, your votes and your opinions as so does the rest of the board. So, welcome. Thank you. All right. Next up isformational items recap of the national conference for m for the migrant education program. Mr. Laor um we're going to go ahead and share our screen here so that everybody online can see as well. Uh we just have a short presentation. Mr. Uh Campbell, if you'll go ahead and click to the next one. So earlier this year, you allowed us to participate in the uh national conference for uh the migrant program and we went down to San Francisco. It was a an a really special time because it allowed our students to present to the nation. Uh we're talking the whole entire 50 United
007States. And so we focused on a project that we did. Our theme this year uh was all about a strong tradition for a golden future. And so uh if you go ahead and click the next slide. Thank you. Um we were there through April 13th through the 16th. Oh just FYI, we did go down to the warf and have sour bread. So thank you Mr. Weinman for that special tip. Uh next slide. Can you hit the next slide, sir? Thank you. So, this was the team that we sent down. They did present for you in the beginning and ask for your permission to attend and you did um grant that. And so, I'm going to go ahead and let them introduce themselves and then they will have a little bit of a report for you
008and explain kind of um their experience while they were in San Francisco. Good evening members of the school board. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Natalia and I'm here with Ashley and Carlos. We're honored to represent the Pros High School and share our experience attending the 2025 National Migrant Education Conference in San Francisco, California. This trip was powerful experience for all of us. Not only because we got to travel and meet other migrant students from across the country, but also because we had the unique opportunity to present as part of the conference. We brought portable planetarium and let interactive presentations about space and astronomy. We presented approximately 15 times over the course of the event with about 10 to 15 people attending each session. These presentation gave us
009the chance to step outside our comfort zones and practice public speaking in a very real way. At first, it was a little nerve-wracking talking in front of people we didn't know, but after a few sessions, we gained confidence. The portable planetarium made it fun and we got really positive feedback from our audience. It was amazing to be able to teach other students, educators, and even parents about the stars, planets, and the universe. All while growing as leaders ourselves. We were proud to represent our school, our district, and our community on a national stage. Outside of presenting, we also had the chance to explore San Francisco. For many of us, this was our first time in a big city like that. We visited iconic places like the Exploratorium and Fisherman's Wararf, and we learned more about
010the diverse cultures that make up California. This experience give a new perspective not just on science or public speaking but on the opportunities that can come when we step outside of our everyday environment. We are incredibly thankful for the support of our teachers and Mr. Lorz and all of the other people that came with us to the migrant program and all of you who helped make this trip possible. It's something we'll never forget and it has inspired us to keep learning, growing, and sharing our voices. Thank you again for supporting students like us like us. Experience like this helps us build confidence, leadership, and lifelong memories. We're excited for what's next and we hope more students will get the same kind of opportunities in the future. Thank you. You guys have any questions? How many
011students were there total? Just out of curiosity from all 50 states. Uh I don't have that part of that program. It's awesome. Thank Thank you guys for representing ProEer. And did you say you gave 15 presentations? Okay. And then what was the best? Well, the more scary part for me cuz I don't really like being in front of people but that helped me after a lot. It got I caught confidence and it was fun seeing the people and their smiles and they want us to present more about the planetarium. I think the hardest thing was like speaking in front of people I didn't know. But I think the funnest part is like other schools wanting to do like the same thing and like try to like do something for their school as well. For me,
012I think the hardest part or like the scariest was when the machines weren't working properly and when we had issues and the best part was when some people would like actually enjoy it, start like showing their expressions out. Have a question. Um, what is one thing that um that you took from all the other I guess from other uh programs or other states? I mean, is there one thing that kind of sticks out that they're doing that you might want to bring to Proer? I can attest that Eric, can you grab the mic, please? Thank you. Thank you. I can attest that going to this conference was really eye opening. Uh Proer School District really is a lighthouse. Um it does really set the tone on a lot of different levels and so there were
013some great things. We uh also collaborate with uh our regional area, Sunnyside, Kenoway, so on and so forth. And they were there as well. And so I kind of want to um share that next piece. If you'll move to the next slide. uh our staff also presented as well. And so it wasn't so much that we were taking away, but we were giving to the nation. And so I'll bring up my teammates up here. We'll let the students step back and then my teammates can share with you uh their experience and what they shared in regards to the powerfulness of PLC work in a regional setting, not just a a district setting. Hello, my name is Selena Hazard and I'm the recruiter for the migrant education program. Um, we had the opportunity to share about
014a PLC that actually kind of initiated here in Proster by me and um a a neighboring district. Um, he's a former recruiter. we kind of um I had a conversation with him about this and I was a new recruiter and I said, "Hey, would it be a good idea if we all got together with other districts and honestly it has really grown obviously to the national um level and so it was a really great experience. It was a little nerve-wracking just like the kids said to talk in front of a lot of people but um I think a lot of the people that were there were very surprised and now we've actually been invited to present at the state conference as well. I honestly don't even know what to say. Um I was not prepared.
015Um I'm Lisa Werta, the program secretary and records clerk. Um I think it was a great opportunity for us to present and it's still a learning curve for for all of us. So thank you. You guys have any questions? I do feel like they're being a little modest. Uh if you can look in the pictures right here, we have associations with uh in Sunnyside and Granger and all kinds of place for um Woo all from the different regions. And so uh this PLC also rotates. It doesn't just stay here in Proer. So our team goes to Sunnyside, they go to Kenowick, they go to as far as Royal City. And now it's gotten to the point where there are other programs within the state who are coming and asking to be part of this PLC.
016And so, uh, we talk about PLC's a lot in all of these different categories for teachers to have these conversations in order to provide better learning opportunities, but for us as just professionals in general to have these same types of opportunities to work together and collaborate has really helped us grow our program and really provide excellent customer service to our migrant community within the region and within the state. Are there any other questions we can answer? So your your guys's presentation was it on PLC's or Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it was on the PLC that um started Yes. with a few um districts. I guess there's not a photo up there, but there was only five districts initially and now we collaborate from Granger, Sunnyside, Mapton, Ky, Walluk, Mount Adams, Penowick. It's just been evolving
017throughout the years and it's really a great way to share different things that go on in our districts. And yes, not everything works for every district, but we'll try it out and sometimes we keep it, other times we move on because it, you know, some districts are a lot larger than ours, like Kenowick for example. Um, but it is a really good way to collaborate and get to know each other. Um, we become great friends with other districts and that really helps us. Um, for example, we're having our graduation event tomorrow and Royal City's coming out to support us as as well as Sunnyside and other districts. So, it's really just become a family and um a really great collaboration. That's what we call it. Thank you guys. Yep. Thank you. I I'm going to
018repeat Jason's question to the to the students. What did you see during the conference that you thought you could bring back to the community or that someone's doing that would like to see Honestly, um, a lot of the things that we noticed at the state at the national conference is just the collaborations between everybody and just continually learning from one another. Um, I think for us here would be for our community and our staff to learn more what our program is about and how it works. I better I guess. Um, okay. Well, I guess I wasn't prepared on that question, but um Oh gosh, sorry. I kind of had something and I went out the window. I guess I'll say oh that I hope they took what we brought and want to take it back
019to their districts. We had a few directors in our session. They were so intrigued and they said they hope that I don't know what they're about the same thing, but um been asking a lot of questions. So I hope that then we gave them some back to their district. One of the biggest one of the biggest things I took from the conference with some of the keynote speakers. They delivered messages about the power of relationships and building positive relationships within students and so that they have trusted adults and they showcase a lot of experiences where students had you know challenges but because of trusted adults built within the school system allowed them to succeed and go on and do a great many things. The other thing that has really uh hit me the most especially
020kind of in my heart and soul is the scholarship winners over time. Uh they we were there when the scholarship winners were uh first initiated with the award and then now it's been three years uh since then and they've checked in and they are all doing amazing. It just goes to show that everything we do um day in day out, all of us in the district, is all for you guys. And we're hoping that you guys can take away from us something that's going to impact you and you can move on and do great things just like your classmates back here on a national stage. And so as we continue to move forward, it's been absolutely amazing uh being able to work with these ladies and these students. And so, uh, we look forward to
021all the wonderful things that they're going to create in the future. Question. Well, I really appreciate you coming tonight and and uh debriefing us on that. So, thank you. And thank you students for coming as well. You did very well. Good job. There anybody? Blake, is there anybody online signed up? Okay, we'll skip that. Um, so the next item on the agenda is student repres student board rep reports. You don't have to say anything tonight unless you want to, but uh it's your time to have, you know, a comment of of whatever whatever's going on. Oh, Alexander, go ahead. You He's ready to go. Yeah, just as uh uh last board uh report uh uh last Wednesday I had my final meeting with uh Darlene Morrow and we have uh implemented a uh physical box
022that students can uh put paper in to suggest uh changes or modifications to the lunch service at the high school. Thanks Alexander. Appreciate all the work you did on that too. So if you don't have anything, it's okay. You have a whole another meeting. So you got a whole year ahead of you. We're going to move on from that. Um, next up is action items. Number one is out of state travel proer FFA students to the national FFA con convention in Indianapolis. Mr. Hater around. Mr. Hater, Mr. Flet, anybody online? Rick. Yep. So, what we had this year, Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. What we had this year was um the Agmech uh team place first at state and so they qualified for nationals and then we had another individual uh place second in
023this Spanish FFA creed and Washington state is still sending two people on to nationals. So what Mr. is asking for is for out of state travel for those individuals and possibly some others who may want to go along uh to national convention and they will be paying for it out of FFA funds and fundraising and the the boys have been already practicing for the national competition because it's much more intense than the state one. Great. questions. One question. This is for next fall, right? Yes. I guess what happens if uh one of the students couldn't make it if they graduated, moved on. And so yeah, that's we're the boys are committed. Okay. Um it is a team of four but we do have five members that qualified and um the the boys are aware and
024they've made adjustments because we have like one young man is going to MIT in engineering I believe and another young man's going to the U and I'll keep it at that in engineering. Um and so they so they understand and so they're going to work with it and they plan on going. Good. Because yes, it was an all senior team. I move to approve out of state travel uh for proer FFA students to the national FFA convention. Been moved and seconded. Any discussion students? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Right. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say I think it's pretty um prestigious. I would say that you know two of our Amech students are going on to highly regarded engineering colleges to study engineering.
025Yeah. They're going to do some good work. Yes. Thank you. Thanks, Rick. Uh, next up is recommendation for hire for transportation director. I may could you come forward. So, I'd like to introduce to you our new transportation director. Normally, our hiring is done in a consent agenda, but when we hire a director or someone of a administrative credentials, we like to bring them forward so they can say a few words. I want you to know that our interview panel was made up of three people from the transportation department, our maintenance director, Diana Flores, myself, um Jackson Hawk. Um, so we had a huge interview panel. Um, it took us quite a while to decide. I guess I should come closer. It took us a while to decide. Um, Hime's worked for us for a long
026time. Um, there's some unique things about Haime. He is a mechanic. He drives and um, he's going to start a program at CW. Um, it's called a transportation director program through CWU. I think it's three years, four years total. Uhhuh. they do it in the summertime like you know when there's not a lot going on. Um but I think that's really a plus. We're starting some leadership work with him specifically. Um but the first day actually before the first day that he knew he's doing he's been picking up some of the work. So we really want to um commend him. Um hi May. Do you want to say anything about yourself or what you want to tell the board or your commitments to the district? No. Like I uh spoke with you, Kim, I'm 110%
027committed and I'm not afraid of hard work and I'm ready to put that 100 110% to work. And that's evident by our text um and phone calls at 5:30 in the morning or 8:00 at night um when we're making sure things are going. I think the one thing that I've noticed in our about two weeks of working this together is his respons responsiveness to parents and emails. He's calling. He's committed. And he's making sure that things are done and and communicated very quickly. So, welcome aboard. I'll have to vote first. I shouldn't have said that yet, but my apologies. Any questions for Haime? Well, I move to approve uh the recommendation for hire for uh Himeme Martinez for transportation director. I'll second it. Been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying
028I. I. I. Motion carries. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you guys. Uh, next up is the public school employees of Washington two-year agreement. Um, as I've been shared in the documents here, um, we did try and get them out to you soon. Um, we had a, um, I think the PSSE had approximately Oh, Blake sitting back there. He was on the team. Was there seven of you? So they had seven PSSE members, Crystal Cole, myself, Deanna, Andy, uh, Darlene Mo, I mean, we had a big group and it was really nice. I think some things that we need to address here is that the working relationship between the two groups is pretty straightforward. We um in every negotiation you give and get some of the things that I feel was a good compromise. We worked on
029things like tools. We worked um on things like um trying to make sure wording was such that personal leave could be used accordingly. Um trying to make sure that we are honoring the people that are working in the trenches, I guess you might say. And um so I I I welcome any other questions, questions for Kim, comments. Great work. Move to approve the public school employees of Washington 2-year agreement. been moved and seconded to approve the ESC of Washington two-year. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Next up is the proer Association of Educ Educational Office Professionals agreement. Yes. So I don't know that a lot of people understand this. We have two secretarial bargaining groups. We have the ESP which is our district office or our allyear
030employee secret administrative assistant employees and then we have our building secretarial or administrative assistant group. Um our goal when we negotiate is that they're while they have different salaries and so forth because of the number of days we try to make sure that their salary benefit packages and similar are similar in nature. When you don't work all year you have different kinds of vacation and things like that. But that was what you see in this pro um part. Uh Heather is here. um Heather and Susanna and um their rep uh Kendall worked with myself and Deanna or let's see the lease was sitting with us. Um it was I think it took us like two visits, right? They came with what they needed. We made some adjustments on or not adjustments, but we talked through
031comp time, extended hours, making sure our employees understand that they're I don't want to say required. Well, it is required, but they need to take their breaks and their lunches accordingly. Um, and then we did just try to make sure that the ESP and the PA AEP have similar benefit structures. Anything else? You can come forward if there's anything else. Okay. Any questions for Kim? A move to approve the PAOP three-year agreement. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Moving on to the second and final reading of policy 3413, student immunization and life-threatening health conditions. Um, there are no changes since it was first presented. Diana is at Avid Knight tonight, so I'm happy happy to answer any
032questions, but there are no changes since the first reading. I move to approve second final reading of policy 3413. Moved and seconded to approve the second final reading of policy 3413. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is the second and final reading of policy 3210, non-discrimination. Same explanation. No changes since your last first reading. Move to approve second and final reading of policy 3210. Second. Been moved and seconded to approve the second and final reading of policy 3210. students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh second final reading of policy 5406. Leave sharing. Same explanation. Any questions? I move to approve second reading of policy 5406. been moved and seconded to approve the second final reading of policy 5406.
033Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is vouchers. Any questions on vouchers? Um, Delise Wed is actually quite ill this evening. It's not like she's online. Um, if there is something, we would want to put it on the record and we will, um, if you have a question of when, uh, Selena and I will make notes and we will get it out and then we would bring it back for the public at our next meeting. Anybody have any questions on the vouchers? I move to approve vouchers. It's been moved and second to approve the vouchers. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, moving on to the consent items one through three. Make a motion to approve the consent item.
034been moved and seconded to approve to approve the consent items. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. That concludes our action items for tonight. Moving on. Well, we maybe we'll just delay releases till next meeting. So, can you Diana's Deanna's not here. Um, I think the part that the communities understand, um, I I'll share my report. Um, but we don't normally have board meetings on Thursday night and so when Avid night and so forth was put together and it's been published for a long time, they thought our board meeting will be on Wednesday. Um, so um, and between illness and life. Um, so we'll set the their we'll just move Delis's to first meeting as well as Diana's. She has the update. So Kim, here so um I want
035to make sure um first of all I apologize for having to leave the last board meeting. Um it was a good thing I left. Um I do want to talk about my report tonight. on the back of the report. I don't normally do that, but this came from my superintendent advisory council meeting yesterday. Um, and I'm going to talk through it. Um, it will be in our minutes, so it'll be, you know, for public to see once the minutes are approved. There's a couple things that are very important here. You're going to hear legislative discussion that they've added so much money to our to us. Well, when you when it comes right down to it, if you consider whichever inflationary item you would like to use, whether you use C um inflationary price index, IPD,
036or CFI, um that inflation plus what they gave us really doesn't even play for the inflation. Um the And so on the back it shows that the total increase was um 2.4 billion, but it took $2.09 billion to just keep up with inflation. So, we got a $376.9 million addition, which if you divide that between the number of students in our state and so forth, the number is just cents on the dollar. The other thing that I think it's very important if um you look at the paramount duty of the state of Washington um or actually let me restate that any state in the union is for public education and if you look at this graph in the 1517 buyin 47.5% of the state budget was for education then in 1719 it went up to
03750.3 right then is when the mccclary act came into place they went up to 52% of the state budget, but I want to make it very clear that we are back down to 43.2% of the whole state budget, which is lower than it was in 2015. Um, and wondering why the districts in the state of Washington are financially struggling. Um, all political. I'm a nonpartisan person sitting here at the table today, but we as communities, we as schoolboard directors, we as superintendent, this has got to change or this situation's not going to get any better. So, that was that. I do want to talk about um our budget. Um we are working diligently. We've worked um through community um we've shared what the teachers have done, what our our staff are doing. um you do
038see some raises in here that potentially could lead to additional if that's the case. we have to rightsize our budget um and right side our excuse me right size our staffing to match our enrollment um so we're gonna um you know that our budget has to be approved by August 31st but we are can't even really start in our budget till we finish the national piece because we don't know where it's going to have to come from take from the Peter to Paul situation we're not going to know where that happens probably for another 30 days or more so we probably will have to have some study sessions in July or early August once that number comes once that comes into play on some good thing good things. Um our property is up for sale.
039You can see the signs around town. We've actually had offers on the white church. Everybody needs to understand there's a process that that has to happen under doesn't it's not like your house you accept the first offer and then you go to there's a whole process that happens um after you you post it and do whatever there's 45 days the attorney says it's not like cooling off period but I that's what I associate it to you have to do those things we've had a lot of showing I think in the neighborhood of neighborhood of 10 showings at our Grand Avenue property and um I want to make it very public. You're going to see in the newspaper starting next Wednesday, our our local paper. When we did our hearing in January about parcel B, that
040was the plots that were over in Riverview. There's an error, not a big error, but we did not have all three in that public hearing. So, you're seeing a corrected public hearing that will be at our June I can't remember the date. 25 our second board meeting in June and we'll have a public hearing and then we'll be able to we can entertain offers but we have to follow the procedures because we have to do it right. We don't want somebody to think we didn't do it. And if you look at the the description that's on the realtor posting, it lists all three parcels, but our public hear and we have to go back and and correct that. So you will hear that resolution, the first resolution that we did will also have an amended.
041It'll be the same number, but it'll have amend with a new date because those parcels have to be listed on that resolution correct. The legal descriptions, we had one legal description. We did not have all three legal description. I think before you move move on, I think it's important to note too that the sale properties goes to specific funds of money. It's not just basic ed, it's capital projects. So, um that doesn't help our budget to sell these properties. It's got to be very specific. And I think that's great. Um, it'll come up a little bit down in facilities, but no, no, but it'll come down a little bit. What you've challenged me for from the ve one of the very first days when I started was how are we going to take care of
042our new buildings for years to come? That money is what's we're going to use to paint or fix a roof or do a sewer or whatever may come up. That's what that money is for. so that we can be good stewards of the taxpayers dollars and our facilities for many years to come. And so I want to make sure that we really talk that through. So thank you for bringing it up. Umformational um we so um good news there was some more spad money um it increases the multipliers. So in special education we get a higher multiplier for a special education student and that number's gone up. our safety net it has um the threshold is has gone down so we have the opportunity to do more um the MSOC money they make a big
043deal that that's our maintenance right service and um operational cost however the 3527 per student um and an additional increase of 469 for the high school students doesn't that increase does not even cover the cost of our increase in our insurance So, I think I I don't want to be not grateful or thankful that we got something, but it's not even enough to cover the insurance. Um, some bad news, there was no increases for transportation at all. Um, and I don't want to get into the weeds on this, but we used to report MSOC money in eight categories. And so, we could say in this category, we got more or less money. In this category, we spent more or less, right? Well, now they've lumped all of those into one. So, we're going to continue
044to use our accounting codes to separate them, but how we get the money is in one lump sum. So, we can't I think it was a political move that we can't say you're not giving enough for that because there's no way to separate those out. Um, we had a capital committee meeting, sorry. Um, and we'll have another one on the 19th and we'll be talking about the selling of the property. Um, new tennis courts, I know everybody thinks they're beautiful and they're great, but I don't know if you know this, but the all the surfacing is not done. It starts on Monday. So, where it's black around the new tennis courts will be green and the second coat will go on. Um, so they'll be closed for a few weeks, but then the coaches will
045do summer tennis. They'll be ready to go. I think it's the 22nd of June. Um, I know that somebody's going to call me a liar on this, but house chiller is working. Now, we have a couple warm rooms, but that's not related to the chiller chiller. That's related to some duct work and some other pieces. So, good news. I have not had one teacher call me and say, "My room like it isn't here tonight." Saying that the room is hot. Um, leadership, um, I know that they're not here tonight. Um, we might bring them back in the summer. We had the Southeast Wasa Awards last night. We honored the PTO uh four of the PTO um like officers came with us to By the way, I've never been to Meadow Springs Golf and Country Club
046in Richland. I like to play golf. My dad loves to play golf and I don't know why I've never been there, but it's beautiful. Um we honored them with a community award. So, it was great. I think that was a big deal. Um they've been back since, and I did not know this. They're up to 150 members. So, they do some amazing work for her. So, I wanted to make sure that. And then Deanna was honored with a 20-year award. Um, I don't know why she didn't get it at 20 years, but she's a 30-year award person, but I gave it to her because that's the category she fits into. Um, last pulse of processor will either be the second or the ninth. It kind of depends on what I have to report out, but
047we'll do that for the summer. Um, where you're going to find me, you'll see me at my graduation tomorrow. Graduation year end school celebrations. Um, active. Um, I don't think I have to do the dunk tank at the 4th of July. They're trying to talk me into it. I told them they should find Mr. Bailey. The kids would probably want to dunk him than me because I don't even really know who I am. But, um, I'll be participating the 4th of July. Um, Garden Party, if you're a Rotary person, Garden Party is coming back after about four or five years maybe being gone six before COVID. And so, it's August 30th. I'm active in that. And I'm the Red and White Knight uh committee chair and it will be on Saturday, September 20th, and there'll
048be a lot more to come. It will be at Mercer Estates Winery outside. And I think that's my report for tonight. And I love my job. Thank you, Kim. Any questions for him? Uh, moving on to board reports. Brian, uh, pickle ball courts have been crazy busy, which has been awesome to see. Um, community out there, kids out there, families out there. Um, so that's been pretty entertaining to go by and and see the only action out there. It's been been good. Um, as we're approaching graduation here, end of school, just praying for our students to finish off the year um with all the activities and kids being kids going on. So, just uh praying for their safety and um I know they're all looking forward to wrapping things up. Um, Alex, you're the only
049outgoing student rep that stuck around, but did want to thank you guys uh for your work and uh we are looking forward to seeing uh all the great things you guys will do um on this path called life. So, thank you. And to our new student reps, uh appreciate you guys, as we like to say, throwing your hat in the ring and hope it's a enjoyable experience for you guys. Lisa, but Lisa, before I start, everybody, I did a live video went out this morning about how you can use the QR the tennis court to reserve it for special events. And there's another QR code if you want to know what's available. So, it is free. It's open to anybody, but if you reserve it, you do have precedence over the other person who may
050just walk up. So, we put a QR code there so you can see the calendar. So, I just I thank you for saying it. Should have been in my report. It wasn't, but you can find it on the website. Um, we're going to uh on the website and um on our Facebook post um and you can listen to the live and see how it works. I'll follow up with some court information in that our library across the street from the pickle ball court is offering um checking out pickle ball equipment to take across the street and use and they're also accepting donations. It's been very popular. So the more stuff that they have to check out in you, they will check out and it's a couple it's just been wonderful to drive by in the
051evening during the day. That's wonderful. I'm excited for graduation week, scholarship night and graduation, all the wonderful events in the community and welcome to the board rep and um I don't have much um you know there is a lot going on I think for these seniors as they the clock ticks for another week. Um you know so like Brian said just you know praying for safety. Um, I still haven't figured out how some chairs got on the roof at the high school, but uh it would that's a um job well done, I guess. So, with that, um our regular board meeting uh will be next June 11th right here in the school district boardroom at 6 pm. No further business. This meeting's adjourned.