001the order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Okay. Uh before we approve the agenda, I would like to pull uhformational item number one uh and move that to the next regular meeting on the or the special meeting on the 29th that I will approve the agenda. moved and approved. Moved and seconded to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh now we will recess into executive session pursuant to RCW423010 1B and C. action to be taken uh to include Superintendent Casey uh to consider the selection of a site or the acquis acquisition of real estate by lease or purchase when public knowledge regarding such considerations would cause the likelihood of increased price and to consider the minimum price at which real estate will
002be offered for sale or lease when public knowledge regarding such consideration would cause a likelihood of a decreased price. However, final action selling or leasing public property shall be taken in a meeting open to the public. Uh we'll go for 10 minutes. So, we'll reconvene at 6:13. Okay. All right. We'll reconvene this meeting at 6:15. Uh now we will start uh the 2526 student board representative interviews. If all the candidates um as we go through this process, we'll move all the candidates into this room here. We'll call you in one at a time starting alphabetically. Uh do conduct the interview and then we'll dismiss you back into the executive session room and just do that till the end. And then we'll go into executive session and um go over the interview. process and and we'll
003come out and make a decision. Uh so if you guys could make your way there. The first we don't you don't you don't want to be locked in like us. Uh first up will be Samantha Jimenez. Samantha, you can take uh sit at at that table and then um on the microphone just make sure the green light is on and you might have to scoot it a little bit closer. It's you almost have to talk like directly into the mic. Hello. Testing testing. Thank you. All right, we get organized here. Uh first up, so we'll each ask a question. a board member. Um, you want the student rep. Maybe we'll do that. Maybe we'll go down the line. One, two, three, four, five, six, and then we'll just kind of start and just keep rotating.
004So, oh, they don't have a paper. Okay. All right, Samantha, thank you for coming. Um, thank you for having me. I think I have the easiest question. Um, what is your name in graduation year? My name is Sammy Himenez and I graduate in 2026. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the process school board? Yeah. Well, I wanted to apply because I believe that all students, no matter who they represent or where they come from, they should all be able to have a voice. And I believe I would do an excellent job at representing all of these students with an open mind and willing to do what's best to help them. And I believe that they deserve the best and I will work my hardest to give them the best. How
005would you gather feedback from your peers to sure their concerns are heard by board. Yes, I think this is a great question. I would get a notebook in the very beginning and I throughout the year I would gather whatever concerns they may have and I would bring that to the board and I would do my best to be able to represent them and get the issues resolved. Sam, what is one important issue facing students today and how would you address it as a representative? Yeah. So when I first read this on the paper, I had first thought about in leadership class a few weeks ago when a student had came in and talked about racism in the school and it had really opened my eyes and I believe that is a big issue that we
006are facing and I would do my best to be able to resolve that by spreading awareness and educational ways of making sure that that stops. Tammy, thank you so much for applying for this. Um, how will you balance your academic and extracurricular activities with the responsibilities of attending board meetings? Yeah, so I am a really involved student in my school. I do my best to be as involved as I possibly can. And I've been doing this since my freshman year. And so I've had quite a bit of time to be able to learn how to balance all of my prior priorities and make sure that I give my all to all of them. And so specifically with the board here and my responsibilities with this, I would directly communicate with all of my coaches and
007all of my adviserss beforehand and make sure that everything is fixed and everything is in place so that I can show up as much as I can and I can give my very all. Thank you. Alexander, what skills or experiences make you a strong candidate for this role? Yeah, like there are a few ways that I am a really good candidate for this. I'm really adaptive. I any new sort of role or any new experience that is being thrown my way, I do a really good job at adapting and giving my all. I am also a really hard worker. I give my all into everything that I do and I work my hardest to make sure that the job is done well. Samantha, that's uh that's it for the questions. Thank you very much. Thank
008you for your time. Okay. Oh. Oh, that's right. Okay. Uh next up will be Lena the favor. Thank you. Thank you. Why not? So part of this, thank you for coming. Do you pronounce it Lina or Lena? It's Lina. Lina. Okay. Uh, so we've got a series of questions. You've got a copy there. We're we're going to take turns uh asking. Uh, Cam is going to be the first up and then we'll swing back around. All right. What is your name and your graduation year? I am Lana Lefay. I will graduate in 2026. What motivated you to apply for the student representative poll on the proer school board? What really motivated me to apply was the thought that I could help people that I could help like students in Proer who aren't really comfortable voicing
009their opinions find a way to get their voice heard even if not directly through themselves. I feel that I'm a pretty approachable person. So, I thought that I'd be a good fit for the job. How would you gather feedback from your peers to ensure their concerns are heard by the board? Personally, to start the school year, I would start with maybe a slide in the bulletin to introduce myself and introduce the topic, especially for freshmen who don't know how to get their voice heard. And then throughout the year, change up approaches with maybe QR codes on flyers and maybe the bathroom or in common areas, and then work my way through with like spreading word of mouth hopefully. What is one important issue facing students today? How would you address it as a reference? One
010important that um students are facing lately is probably a lack of communication or struggle in communication between teach uh students and their adviserss. So a lot of students feel that like their adviserss don't want to hear them or are simply not to say ignorant but unaware of the actual realities of being a high school student and what a genuine workload balance looks like. So just working through their issues with the adults and seeing that in a realistic light instead of an idealized way would probably be an issue that students are working through currently. Yes. Lena, how would you balance your academic and extracurricular commitments with the responsibilities of attending board meetings? To balance my academic and extracurricular commitments, I would probably say that I keep a pretty dedicated planner. So, I am very aware of
011what I have coming up and what I have to work with. And all my other extracurriculars um like FFA are very understanding of other commitments in sports as well. So I have very understanding adviserss and coaches who understand that my commitment and priorities might need be otherwear for maybe 30 minutes out of like a last of practice. But balancing that probably just being aware of what's coming up and how to prioritize what needs to be done at the time. What skills or experiences make you a strong candidate for this role? I would probably say that an um my skills to make me a strong candidate for this role would be both between FFA and Girl Scouts. In FFA, I competed in a parliamentary procedure and we've had to think through problems very quickly and look
012how to solve them as a team and as well as Girl Scouts when discussing what we wanted to do with our uh troop. We had to think through realistically what would our effect what would our actions look like on our community and on our trooper itself. So I think my ability to think through problems on my feet and also do so quickly and realistically would be a um an skill that would make me a strong candidate. Yeah. Thank you very much. That concludes the questions and you feel free to have a seat and uh watch the rest of your candidates. Thank you. Sophia, welcome. Um, we've got a series of questions here. You have a copy there for your reference. Um, and we're going to take turns asking those questions. And Michelle, you're you're up
013first. First, thank you for applying for this role. Could you tell us your name and graduation year? My name is Sophia Mera, and I graduate 2027. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the crosser school board? Because I noticed even though many people say that other students voices need to be heard, they aren't really heard. And I really wanted everybody to be heard and have be able to express their opinion on any decisions that are made by the school. How would you gather feedback from your peers to ensure their concerns are heard by the board? I would like to listen to everybody and try to give satisfaction to everybody and make a negotiation between everybody. So that way there's not anybody getting angry for not being heard. Instead, come up with
014the easy solution with everybody getting heard. What is what is one important issue facing students today and how would you address it as a representative? One issue that I've seen a lot is that many people aren't included inside social groups or clubs and activities and many feel left out or maybe feel like they don't belong in school or they don't they just don't want to come because they don't feel included. And I feel like a good solution to that would be making um workshops for students to come and participate. That way everybody can get to know each other. Yeah. Um, how will you balance your academic and extracurricular commitments with the responsibilities of attending board meetings? I would keep an agenda and try to keep everything organized. Um, set up dates, um, times and try
015to have an easy schedule to work around. What skills or experience make you a strong candidate? I am very responsible. I am very hardworking and when I set my mind to do something, I will com complete it and try to do it the best way I can possibly make it. Thank you, Sophia. That concludes this these groups of questions. You feel free to take a seat behind you and we'll call in the next candidate. Thank you, Zen. Balen, welcome. Uh, so we've got a list of questions here. You have a copy there for you. Um, each one of us will take turns, uh, asking a question. Uh, Frank will be up first. Welcome. Um, Zalen, what is or what is your name and graduation year? Um, my name is Zilen Medina and my graduation year
016is 2027. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the proer school board? What motivated me to apply for the student representative role on the proer school board is to advocate for people who are too scared to themselves. I feel as if many people have many opinions and can decide on crucial ideas. And I feel that since I applied to be um to to be someone to voice it through the perspective of a student, I feel as if that's why what motivated me to really apply for this. Um, how would you gather feedback from your peers to ensure their concerns are heard by the board? I would definitely gather feedback from my peers through through voices where they're heard physically and also through physical copy of papers or surveys or anything as
017if they feel comfortable enough to come up to me and ask or to voice their opinions themselves. I feel like that's a very good way to gather feedback from them. What is one important issue facing students today and how would you address it as a representative? I feel as if an important issue facing students today is just not being included. I feel many people really feel within themselves and really introverted and scared to do things and I would address it just by creating clubs or any new ideas that would really incorporate them. How will you balance your academic and extracurricular commitments with the responsibility of attending board meetings? I would definitely pick days where I can attend my extracurriculars. I am very um involved in like FFA and my sports and I would definitely feel
018that my time management I would manage it well and I would balance it by making a certain schedule that I already have in my routine. What skills or experiences make you a strong candidate for this role? Um my skills are that I'm very I feel like I would be very vocal towards what I think is right. And another skill is being determined to also voice what I think is also right. And what makes me a strong candidate is for this role is that What makes me a strong candidate for this role is that I'm not afraid to voice what I think is right and I'm not afraid to stand on what I also think would be the best and for the better good of the students in foster school district. Thank you Zalen. That that
019concludes the questions. I appreciate it. And you can take a seat behind you and we'll bring in the next candidate. Valerie, welcome. Um, thank you for coming and and applying for this. So, you've got a list of questions in front of you. Uh, we'll we'll each take turns asking those questions and then you can respond. So, I'm up first with the the easy one. What is your name and graduation year? My name is Valer Kiana Munoz and my graduation year is 2026. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the process school? Yeah. Um what motivated me was that I um I feel like I can represent the school board like the student body really well within the school because of the multiple leadership roles I have. Um, I have been in
020ASB for three years, so I for my class. So, I feel like I can represent my class well in that sense. And I wanted to bring the like the issues or the concerns that students have today to the schoolboard in that perspective. And I feel like I can represent that really well. Feedback from your peers to ensure your concerns are heard by the board. I would gather feedback from my peers by first I since I'm an ASV I would um like address the student like the class president and I would probably um look out for I don't know like put out like forms or just reach out to different groups and different clubs and like ask them like what issues are in the school that they want to get fixed or something like or that
021or be open that they can come to me if they have anything that they want to be changed or they have any issues that they want to be heard. Valer, what is one important issue facing facing students today and how would you address it as a representative? I feel like one important issue that students are facing today throughout the entire like proer high school is the lack of support to their education. Um, I've seen through the different grades that there are like issues with their with they like drop their grades drop, right? And I feel like there it's because of a lack of support and a lack of like I don't know like belief in them. I think I would address this by working with different school groups to help, especially starting with the freshman's.
022And I see it a lot in like every grade, not just freshman, but maybe working with like school groups like link crew or leadership to like promote that there's always a place for these students and help for them. And I would address this like in a sense of like reaching out to different school groups and just reaching out to the students in general and maybe creating events for them like meetings in the auditorium during musting period so they can get the help they need or feel heard and seen. Valerie, help me balance your academic and extracurricular commitments with the responsibilities of attending board meetings. So, I would balance this since I'm going to have someone be other extracurriculars, especially senior year. Um, I have I'm actually an AVID student, so I've learned since seventh grade
023to have an agenda and to always be ready for anything that comes my way. So I would always make sure to have my agenda or planner just prepared with the schoolboard meetings and I have the extracurricular curriculars that I am in is National Honor Society. I'm going to be an officer and ASB I'm going to be a an officer as well. Um I would I feel like I have adviserss that are very flexible with different things. So, I think that I could balance that pretty well as long as I have good communication and I keep my commitment to the schoolboard meetings if I am selected. What skills or experiences make you a strong candidate for this role? Um, some experiences that make me a strong candidate for this role would be I have been an
024officer for three years. So I feel like I have that leadership opportunity to like hear out students without throughout the entire school and I have also had many leadership roles like I've recently gone to the um equity in sila the student the student summit and I learned a lot about what our school can fix and how other schools address these issues of certain topics that need to be addressed like an example being racial equality and racism. throughout like what we've seen throughout the school. Um I feel like through that I've learned a lot about representing students throughout the entire um community. And some skills that make me perfect for this role would be that I am extremely respectful and responsible. Whenever I have to do something, whenever I have something that I've committed to, I
025stick with it. I never change it for anything. I work through it no matter despite what issues I might have with it. Um, I feel like I'm also a good leader. I have had a lot of leadership opportunities throughout high school and I want to make this another leadership opportunity to build me for my future. Great, Valerie. Thank you. Um, you can go ahead and take a seat behind you and we'll call our next candidate, uh, Ezri Roy. Oh, you can take you can sit back here. Oh, okay. Welcome. Uh, thank you for coming. Um, you have a series of questions in front of you. Uh, we'll each ask you one. Um, and we'll just kind of take turns doing that. And Cam is going to be up first. Okay. What is your name in
026your graduation graduation year? My name is Ezri Roy and I will graduate in 2027. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the Proer school board? Um, I'm a part of very many leadership positions at Proer High School and because of that I come from a lot of different spaces that I think would have a lot of opinions that I would be able to represent. I also am the youngest of three daughters, so I've developed a lot of leadership skills and learning to raise my voice. So, I'd love to implement those skills in being a voice for not only myself, but also my peers. Um, how would you gather feedback from your peers to ensure their concerns are heard by the board? Um, like I said, I'm a part of leadership, FFA,
027um, and ASB. So, I come from a lot of different groups and because of that, I have bring a lot of different opinions. Um, I would make sure to be asking questions, listening to people, listening to their concerns, and also being willing to tell you guys about that and provide my honest opinion. What is one important issue facing students today and how would you address it at the record? Um, I think inconsistency is a huge issue in our school. I think it's a cause for a lot of um people to fail and struggle. I think that if we were able to provide a more consistent system for our school, we would have a better chance at gaining success and better success through our uh our student. How will you balance? Um throughout my life I've
028participated in a lot of sports and extracurriculars along with school. So I've developed the skills of maintaining organization which I have found has been really helpful to make sure that I have time for each individual thing in my schedule. What skills or experiences make you a strong candidate for this role? I am very compassionate um as well as driven. So, I really care about people's feelings, their opinions, their emotions, and I also am very determined. I am willing to stand up for what is right, and I want to do that for my students and myself. Um, well, thank you, Ezre. Um, thank you. You can go ahead and take a seat and we'll bring in the next candidate. Thank you very much. Esto, welcome. Uh, thank you for being here tonight. Uh, there is a
029list of questions in front of you um that we're going to ask as part of this. We're kind of each take turns doing that and Michelle will be up first. Thank you for coming. Um, could you tell us your name and graduation year? Um, my name is Ernesa Zantien and I graduate in 2027. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the Proser School Board? Um, what made me apply was I wanted to be like more involved in school and make sure every student at PHS like has a voice. How would you gather feedback from your peers to ensure their concerns are heard by the board? How I would do that would be by listening to like every like group of students at our school because our school is like very diverse
030and make sure I listen to every concern and what everyone wants and then inform the board about what they told me. What is one what is one important issue facing students today and how would you address it as a representative? An important issue like that students are facing today would probably be involvement and just like being seen. So, I'd make sure that like the groups at PHS and all the clubs are like more out there so kids have something to do outside of like school time and just make sure that they can be like active and um spending time with other students. Sorry. Um, how will you balance your academic and extracurricular commitments with the responsibilities of attending board meetings? I plan on having a calendar so I can mark down important things and important
031meetings that I have to attend and making sure I'm on top and top of everything and manage my time wisely. What skills or experience make you strong? Uh, I feel like I'm a very social person and I enjoy talking to people and I enjoy like being a leader and being like a voice for someone to express how they feel. Thank you, Ernesto. Uh, that concludes the questions. Uh, you can go ahead and take a seat behind you. Thank you. Levia, welcome. Um, they'll have a a list of questions. You know, thanks again for coming and and applying for this. Uh, the list of questions are in front of you. We'll take turns. Um, and we'll kind of go down the line. Um, with that, Frank will be up first. What is your name of graduation?
032My name is Olivia Smazny and I graduate in 2027. What motivated you to apply for the student representative role on the proer school board? I was motivated to apply for the student representative role on the proer school board because I think every student deserves a voice. I believe a lot of students are ignored. There's students who are really good at athletics or students who are really good at academics and then there's a lot of students in between who don't necessarily get represented all the time. And I believe every student, no matter where they are on the spectrum, should have a voice. I also believe a lot of kids don't know what is going on on the school board because it's not being communicated to them. So I think for them to have a voice it
033would be important for them to know what's going on so they can form their opinion about it. So I would uh communicate to the schoolboard about what the students want but also communicate to the students about uh what they can have an opinion on. How would you gather feedback from your peers to ensure their concerns are heard by the board? I would gather feedback uh verbally. Um talking to my peers daily also I mean with technology everywhere and prevalent um having forms where they can always put in their ideas we have the bulletin in the high school shown to the students in musting period um QR codes to those forms just making sure they all have a voice. What is one important issue facing students today and how would you address it as a representative?
034I believe one important issue facing students today is a lack of preparation for life outside of high school. We are prepared for tests in our classes. We're prepared for our next sports game, but we're not necessarily prepared for what life is going to be outside of high school. Some of us want to go into the workplace. Some of us want to play sports at a community college. Some of us want to go to a top university. And I believe we need to be helping students uh based on their individual plan outside of high school. How will you balance academic and extracurricular commitments with the responsibilities of attending board meetings? I would prioritize um my academics and board meetings and well I'd prioritize everything but making sure I have time divided between each section um so
035that I can get everything done. I'd make sure I was really organized, keep everything in a planner. I use reminders on my phone all the time. So just making sure I continue to be organized and prepared for everything. What what skills or experiences make you a strong candidate for this role? I have a lot of skills and experiences that make me a strong candidate. On the school level, I participate in volleyball and tennis. I have attended leadership conferences for the school. I have been the past president my freshman and sophomore year. Um, and then on a personal more personal level outside of school things that I've done, um, well actually this one is school, sorry. Um, I'm currently in whoosh, so I'm participating in NHD and going to nationals in June. Um, this club has
036really helped my public speaking skills and my research skills, which I think would be a great asset to this board. Um, and then on a more personal level outside of school, I paged for the Washington State Senate my freshman year, so I have a great understanding of parliamentary procedures and governments in general. Um, yeah, great. Thank you, Olivia. Uh, that concludes our questions. Uh, feel free to take a seat. Thank you. Um, I want to thank you all again for applying and and being a part of this process. And at this point, we will recess into executive session pursuant to RCW4231H. Uh, decisions on student board representatives for 2526 appointment. action to be taken uh to include Superintendent Casey and it is to evaluate the qualifications of a candidate or appointment to elective office. However,
037any interviews of such candidate and final action appointing a candidate to elective office shall be in a meeting open to the public and we will go for 20 minutes. So, we'll reconvene at 7 12. Right. Yeah. 7 712 That Okay, we'll reconvene uh the regular board meeting at 7:24. Just for the record everyone, I'm not feeling well and I'm going to be excusing myself and I will zoom in and be available by phone, but I will be exiting. So, if you see me exiting, I just want you to know where I'm going. All right. Well, first off, I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight uh presenting uh going through this interview. It takes courage to stand up and in front of us. So, I I really appreciate you stepping forward and
038being a part of this process. Um, and with that, I would like to nominate Samantha Jimenez, Ezri Roy, and Olivia Smasnney for the 2526 student board representatives. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve Samantha Jimenez, Ezri Roy, and Olivia Smazny as our 2526 student board reps. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. So, with that, congratulations. Thank you all for coming. and our our new student board reps will be sworn in at a special board meeting on Thursday, May 29th right here at 6 PM. Uh following the SE ceremony, we will celebrate and recognize the contributions of our 2425 student reps uh Yoshimi Garcia, Cammy Duncan, and Alexander Tveli. With that, thank you very much. you're free to hang out or or you'd be welcome to leave.
039I'm just gonna say do not feel bad. It will be a very long meeting and you should go while you have the chance. You're going to have Yeah, just some advice. Thank you, Diana. Right. Okay. Um so moving on uh toformational items. Um it will be gear up nature bridge trip and we move yours to the next meeting. Right. I got to get fired back up. Sorry. Brian, do you know anything about this trip and see some things? Um, yeah, Gear Up has been great for us. Uh, nature bridge trip. Um, I don't know a ton about this one other than that they're they're trying to get kids out and see things that they wouldn't normally be able to see, and this is one of them. Um, anything that Gear Up has done has been
040amazing. uh they generally have pretty good support and um and always take the a nice amount of of supervision supervisors to help with the kids. Um I'm sure this would be no different and uh Jose Andrade has been very good so far to work with and hopefully that gets approved. You know this is funded through gear up. It is 100% funded through gear up. questions for Brian or Deanna. I don't know if you guys will know, but is are they just looking to take two students? No. Uh two I don't know where you I not see that. They uh will try to take way more than two. Um yeah, I don't know where those numbers is that on the link that you're seeing. in the offite contract says grade 10 number two. When I read
041it, I pictured a bigger group. It It should be a bigger group than that. Yeah. I don't I think that's maybe that's a typo because they're taking a charter bus. Yeah. I thought they were taking a a pretty large group of kids. If it if it was only two, they wouldn't approve it. They wouldn't do it because it would then cost them more. Um but so I would assume that that is a a typo. They generally try to at least take a bus of kids. So, um I can find that out for you and have them email you guys. I hope they're planning to take a bus. It sounds like great time. Well, yeah, that is their transportation is a charter bus. If you see on the little agreement, they are taking a charter bus.
042I thought it was 25 to 40 students, but it's been a while since I talked. So, don't quote me on that. Well, maybe we can just for next meeting. Yeah, we can bring bring Brian can bring that back for information for you. I think any more questions for Brian. Thank you, Brian. Uh, next up, um, is a memorandum of understanding between Proer School District and Proer Education Association. So, I'll just confess right now. I'm going to do my best to keep up with all this, but I was um, yeah, I I'm a good talker, so that's good. Um, so this is theou that we came to agreement with the teachers union. Um, it's been really wonderful working with them. They've been uh wonderful partners and um I just appreciate and I know Kim appreciates all
043of their work. They uh were really um concerned about teachers losing their jobs and about um how that impacts our students in our district. And so they proposed um some basically temporary holds on some of their benefits that would save money to save six jobs. That's awesome. Thank you. It was very awesome. Great. Any questions for Diana? Okay, moving on to theou between Proser School District and the Proser Principles Association. So, sorry. Um, this is a similar situation. The building all of our building principles that are in the principles association agreement. Um, oh, this is their regular, sorry, catching up again. Um, their extra work days. They uh also assigned theou andou um they're changing their number of extra work days also to save money for the district to save people's jobs. Great. Thank you.
044Any questions for Deanna too? Okay. Next up is a voluntary reduction of two additional days for 2526 contract year. Superintendent Kim Casey. Um, I know she's not here to same story. And actually, you're going to get one of these from me also. Um, I just didn't get it uh done in in time for the meeting. Um, unfortunately, right now, my father-in-law is not doing well and so I have been out some days, so I did not get this in. I am going um but this is Kim's um commitment to also reducing days to also save money um for the district so that we can save jobs. take any questions for that? Um, well, I'd just like to personally thank the PA and the principles association, uh, Kim and Deanna and, you know, all the work
045that's being done to help kind of write our financial uh, issues and I really appreciate the teamwork that it uh, that we're seeing as far as, you know, being a partner for, you know, the the outcome for kids. So, I really appreciate that and thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments on that? Thank you. Um, do we have anybody signed up to speak? Blake, is there anybody online? I'll skip that. All right. Student representative report. Yoshimi list one for ASB. Not much going on, but we we are also approving budgets over there for um clubs for next year. And then band is going to the lilac parade on Saturday. We're number 124. So, we'll be we'll be stepping off uh pretty late in the night. And then we have a concert on May
04627th with the choir. Where's the uh concert at? Um it's at the auditorium. I believe it starts at 7. So, are your praise songs? Uh, we have Rescue Me by Artha Franklin and um Oh, Think by Artha Franklin. Also, questions for Thank you, Cammy. Uh, track travels to Ephrada for the subd district prelims on Friday and girls tracker backtoback SWAC league champs. questions for Tammy. Tammy Alexander. Uh, since I forgot to mention this last meeting, uh, I have received a request by a student to ask for Artfiker's parking lot uh, stripes to be repainted because of them fading. I will just comment on that. I I think that we have a plan to repaint. Um I know Andy was going to get some quotes and if not some of our our staff would be doing
047it. Uh restriping at Art Fer, the district office, the softball field, and the middle school all needed. Great. Thank you. Questions for Alexander? Thank you. Okay, moving on to action items. out of state travel request for boys wrestling to attend the Montana Intensive Camp in Flathead, Montana. I believe you have this in front of you. It's probably also in the board packet. And I believe I've also been tagged to share about this one. Um because it was going to be late and as we know, uh one is also one of our maintenance folks. They go to work pretty early in the morning. Uh, but the cost of the camp, the there's going to be $100 come from the wrestling club, $50 out of ASB for each student, and each a participant would be responsible for
048$150 of their own money to participate. Great place to have a wrestling tour. sounds like you're I I would move to approve the out of state travel request for boys wrestling to attend the Montana Intensive Camp in Flathead, Montana. Second. Been moved and seconded to approve out of state travel request for boys wrestling students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh moving on to the consultant service agreement for the senior lunchon. Not do this justice. Um I am filling in for Mackenzie Lopez. She is at a health occupations parent meeting that is going on right now at the hospital. Um but these are the service agreements for the senior lunchon. We do this every year and take our senior group to the Princess Theater and uh that happens after our
049senior walk. They we drive them over to the to the theater and watch a film, listen to a speaker and then feed them lunch at the end of that day. It's a very long day and uh seems like a good wind down for our seniors. Uh usually people love it and uh this is similar to what we've done in years past and we'd love for this to be approved. Well, I was getting all teared up just thinking about that all these seniors are about to graduate. How cool that is. Um, when I was reading this, I was like, "Oh, that's a slideshow. Oh, what a good day. The slideshow." Anyway, I would like to move to approve their consultant service agreements for the lunchon. I'll second. It's been moved and second to approve the consultant
050service agreement for the senior lunchon students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is request for out of state travel and sub coverage for Thursday and Friday, June 5th and 6th for archery. So, also because we thought this was going to take a while, I believe that Wendy and Linda are online to answer any questions. Any questions? Wendy, we can't hear you. Blake, can you unmute her? I'll say congratulations. I know. Isn't that amazing? That's I think this is internationals, right? Yeah, it's Yeah, it's like worlds. Yeah. Very cool. She's Yeah, she's still muted. Well, you're not muted, but we can't hear you. So um we did have some students se actually more than what a few students um qualified to go to the world's competition and
051um just like I don't know I kind of suggested this to um the Smiths because of National History Day and because of this and we have like this quick turnaround for all these things that probably like in February or March we should just do a just in case we qualify approval for out of state so we don't have to try to quickly turn things around, make phone calls and do all of that. That might be a good idea for Wendy and Linda's group as well because they've qualified for nationals and now worlds um more than on more than one occasion. Are you able to hear me? This is Linda. Yes, we can hear you, Linda. Okay. Um I was going to let Wendy speak, but she might be having some trouble with her computer. Um
052yes, Deanna, exactly what you said. So, we took the kids to nationals and the elementary team, they qualified for championships. That's coming up in South Carolina in June. And then we had one of the household middle school students qualify for um the championship that is in um South Carolina. So basically what happens is we go to western nationals in Utah where we went and kids had an amazing experience um competing and um they got to know other archers and it was it was great. Anyway um so now they take the western and the eastern part of the United States and put them all together for this championship that's coming up in June. So, we're really excited and um Deanna, I think you have a really good plan because it seems like every year we're coming
053back and requesting. So, if we could, you know, maybe look at that next year as kind of a um overall plan. So, um if you have some questions for us, please ask. Questions for Linda? I don't want to jinx anything, but I think we're kind of getting a track record on those two events. So, right. I would love to see a presentation for you guys to come back. I think it's I would make We can do We can do that. Great. Thank you, Linda. Um, so speaking of that, um, Linda, I'm just wondering because we have the gym so close, maybe we could even see the kids do some shooting. Oh, oh, we could do that, too. We could bring you all in and do a 11 steps to archery success. see how good we
054are. I'll second that. Okay, it's been moved and seconded to uh approve the out of state travel request and sub coverage for uh archery. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Um one last thing I or two last things. I really appreciate the support that you as a board have given us. We really really appreciate that. We're doing some fundraising because as you know to fly to South Carolina is Lil Smindy and so we have at least one adult going with each kid. We're running a raffle. We're going to be raffling off a Genesis bow. So get a hold of us if you'd like to buy a ticket. Thank you. Do you guys have just like a QR code that we could donate to or maybe do we just do
055a donation to maybe the buildings ASB? I think that would work too, Deanna. Um, we could do like a donation type of thing to to put into our fund to be able to distribute to the kids. That would make less competition in the raffle. Yes, Michelle is saying, "I have purchased my raffle tickets." Well, if you want no less competition, you'll have to purchase more. But please contact us to help support the kids and anybody out there in the public listening. Um, they could use support to help them pay expenses. So, please just get a hold of Wendy or I. Great. Thank you, Linda. Thank you. Uh, let's see where I'm at. Uh, next up, uh, is approve out of state travel for NHD Nationals 2025. Did you guys vote on that? Okay, just make
056it. Oh, I'm just here to request um approval for the trip to NHD Nationals in Maryland. Um, spoke of track records. I think our NHD program definitely has a track record of of getting kids to nationals. This year we only have two. One of them you met earlier, Olivia Smazny, and the other one is a middle schooler, Aurelia Arion. I apologize if I mispronounced that. Um, but those two made it and uh and would like to travel to University of Maryland to present their projects. Um they would be accompanied by our wonderful amazing supervisors and ASB um extraordinaire the dean and Kyla Smith uh who've done such an amazing job with this program. So shout out to all four of those people and uh congratulations and we would request that approval. Full disclosure, um, this
057is why I recommend we do something ahead of time because, um, they have to turn around and make plans so quickly. I tried to call Jason, but I couldn't get a hold of you. So, I called Lisa and said, "Can I please have permission to make the plans now, even though the board hasn't approved it, because they have to reserve that? They have to pay their fee. They have to get their hotel room. They have to do all well, it's not hotel, they stay at a college, all of these things. And there's like if we disapproved it now, they leave in less than a month. So just it is kind of post approving but yeah. Um I'll move to approve out of state travel for NHD nationals. Been moved and second to approve out of
058state travel for NHD nationals students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I motion carries. Congratulations and good luck. Thank you. Uh, next up is thinking maps, Eric and Kevin. My name's on here, too, but I already have talked too much tonight, so I'm going to let you two do it. Well, thank you for your time. Uh so I've been working a lot with uh Mr. Gilman from my last appearance here before the board letting you know we're working on the transition. A big portion of the work that's been done with the multilingual education department has been increasing our professional development for teachers around strategies and ways to address the civil rights of multilingual learners within our district. And one of the great things that we've done is use of thinking maps. Uh Mr.
059Gilman's building has been the flagship in this work. It comes from a book study that he originally started with his group over there. Um the gains have been amazing. They're actually on a different step, but we're trying to increase the capacity within the Witran Elementary and then catch up all of the other buildings within the district to meet the same training. So, everybody's trained. So far, uh, all of House Middle School has had their initial training. All of Witran Elementary has had their training. All of the paras within the district have had their training and then we're kind of catching up all the other pockets uh for this training as well. And Mr. Gilman can kind of attest to thinking maps and its effectiveness and what it's done and then how it really impacts early
060learning in early education. Uh so two of the lowest areas that we have on the WEDA and then also at the ELA is writing and we adopted this uh art curriculum which is great for the content and um the assessments that are in there. This actually helps to develop the uh students and teachers um around the structure of reading which will then help them write better. Um, so they have different thinking maps and it's really it the old school way would have been called they would have called them graphic organizers but it's really about the thinking and identifying the thinking that's going on while you're reading and then you with that thinking you could be using a double bubble which is comparing and contrasting. There's cause and effect. Uh so whatever that text structure and
061that thinking is is it drives the the u map that you end up using as a student that then translates. So after the the thinking map has been selected there's there's the speaking off the map. So the students have that information right there and they able to build their oracy with each other by sharing um whatever they're uh researching or writing about. Um, and then it translates right off that map into the writing which it's all very structured and organized and it's uh not only in that grade level uh the use of it but also across their grade levels. So, as the kids move through and yes, our kindergarteners are using the thinking maps. Um, you go in their rooms and they have all kinds of circle maps and um, uh, double bubbles and, uh,
062bubble maps, which it just depends on the thinking that they're doing. Now at kindergarten level that's with assistance but as they go through then there's more independence uh to where they start to transition from those using those and then connecting it to their writing in first grade second third grade that structure is down um and then from there they start building and getting deeper into figurative language dialogue things like that um so there's really the the thinking and the structure is in place all the way through K5 and uh we have our training which is expository. um they had the narrative earlier this year and it's really digging into the grade level expectations around writing um in in those two areas and then at the other two elementaryaries they're going to have the introduction to
063the thinking maps at Caribbe and and heights um so that going into the future then we can just keep building on it because it you have to create a one of the things that they they ask you to do through thinking maps is kind of to create this professional develop map development development map. And so there's prerequisites. You have to complete this before you move on to the next one. That's kind of where we're at right now. And all of the proposals that you have in front of you are for um instead of us being instead of us sending our team to uh a training, it's better and more beneficial for us as a district and we save money by actually just having them present directly to us. So the two proposals that you see
064from thinking maps itself, one of them is for specifically for the Witstrand Elementary because they're at a next level and that is working on the writing components and it's for grades K1. Um it's also for grades 2, three and grades four, five. The other thinking maps proposal that you have in front of you is for the day one training for those who have not had thinking maps training as of yet. Now, we do have some we we built some capacity within the system as well where we do have district trainers. Um, currently we have five of them throughout the district that are available and will continue to help with some of this professional development. But again, we are making sure that as many teachers as we can capture are going to participate in that. The
065other contract that you have in front of you is from Jennifer Calgill. This is a contract through ESD 123. She's been a great partner over the past four years in helping us develop many things. One of them, the EL master plan, which is on our website, kind of explains all the details and how we work within providing services for our multilingual students. In addition to that, she's also provided some initial training when we started the whole thinking maps process and she's really uh is aware of where our buildings are at and what our teachers need. Now, as Mr. Gilman was explaining earlier, there's a big component about speaking and writing from the map. Mrs. Cowgill is actually going to be coming in to help kind of facilitate that as well for those teachers after they've
066had their initial day one training. So, the goal of all of this professional development is for us to be able to be ready to go in the fall and have some units planned out and earmarked with specific ways we can implement this strategy and the teachers are less stressed. They feel more comfortable. They're well aware of what their plans are right in the fall. so we can get to other things like leveling our kids, improving our curriculum, and creating an overall positive experience for our kids. And this uh is fully funded through Title 3. That's a grant around professional development for multilingual learners. And the grant is specifically written by Eric back in the fall, last fall, to support this learning for teachers. Um, great. Thank you for presenting all that. Um, I had a
067question on the training through is it thinking maps? Is that the company? Yes, that's the company itself. Um, there's two contracts in here. One for the 18th through the 20th and then one on for the 16th. So, is it a whole week training or are we skipping Tuesday and No. So, Wit Strand Elementary is 18, 19, and 20 specifically. Oh, gotcha. And then we're having a day one training on the 16th for everybody. So, yeah, it's it's not a whole week. Um, there'll be essentially two two different training trainings going on. Okay. Thank you. Is it for teachers only or also parents? As of right now, it's for instructional professional. So, the teachers, yes, it's the content teachers. Now all the paras we we did a whole districtwide training already. So they've had the day
068one training and the paras have their binders and materials as well. So the other benefit is that the teacher many of our elementary teachers do small group work and so they can ask the parents would you please do this small group work be sure to use let's say a flow map in this particular content. Well the parent is going to have that background and understanding. So yes, we're training our teachers, but we also made the commitment to ensure that we're training all instructional professionals and so Paris have already had that training. Is there another question? Teachers have signed up or as of uh my most recent list was 18 and then I did extend out to the high school because um we did some initial trainings on Wednesdays but not everybody was able to make
069it. So, I did open that opportunity up to the high school as well. Any other questions for Eric and Kevin? I move to approve the thinking maps contracts. It's been moved and seconded to approve the thinking maps students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, next up is emergency substitutes. So, um, this is something we'll be doing each each year and really kind of have to do it at the end of the year after we have all them. I guess I could do them one by one, but if we have a substitute in a classroom for more than four weeks, that is an emergency sub. They have to be approved by the board. Most of these people have already subbed or are in the
070process of subbing for maternity leaves. It's really maternity and medical leaves that they're subbing for. So these these folks um all of them work a lot of days for us. Any questions for Diana students? I move to approve the emergency substitutes. Been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is aou with the University of Southwest practicum placement for Abigail Rodriguez. So, we I actually have two possibly three requests for um counseling placements for students that are doing their practicums, which is great because I know we have some counselors in the maybe near year or two that will be um retiring. Uh so Abigail Rodriguez has requested a internship at Proer High School and uh Jennifer Kogan has agreed to be her mentor university
071to the individual student submit a form to go for a uh Ally Cox. So uh this is just so Abby can tour her practicum next year. Any questions for Diana students? I move to approve number seven memorandum of understanding University of the Southwest project placement for Abigail Rick. Been moved and seconded to approve theou with University of Southwest students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carried. Uh moving on to resolution 0825. Um, this is an item that I pulled from the last meeting, making sure that I had it in the right format, uh, working with, uh, some other districts. Um, this is this is a vote that's basically, um, it supports a bylaw change. Um this doesn't go into effect just because we vote on it uh through WASDA. But
072if we get it at least five districts to pass uh this resolution uh it becomes up for a vote at the uh fall I think it's September early September general assembly. So then it' be voted for by on by all the districts. Correct. Jason, are do you know other districts that are looking at this the same way it's written? Does that be like exactly the same? Exactly the same. So, I've been working with Lind uh Lynden director on this um Lynon school district director and came up with this format and then I think between us and Lynen and whatever other districts um I think there's another one on the west side and maybe one over another couple over here or something like that that are all looking at it. I looked at the bylaws and
073didn't see anything about bottle policy. So, I think it's good that it's addressed, but they I mean was it must have a procedure. Do you know what it is how they what the current way they develop model policy is? I wouldn't know. Um but yeah, I would agree with you because there's really nothing there. They just pop out. Yeah, I was digging around trying I'm like there must be one but I didn't I mean I could find it. But yeah, I think you know with the way this is written if it gets approved then at least it makes the process more open and um an opportunity for parents, community districts to um put their two cents and I think to have that comment period for 30 days and published is very fair, right? So I
074would make a motion to approve resolution 0825 WASA model policy. Second. It's been moved and second to approve resolution 0825 WASDA model policy and procedure development. Uh this is a roll call vote. Michelle I Brian Frank. Alisa I and I two will vote I. The motion carries. Thank you. Uh, moving on to realer contract. Uh, Kim, are you on? I think I saw you on there. Looks like she is. But, uh, this is a contract for us to engage with uh, Coldwell Banker to list our properties that we're planning to put up for sale. You can see that in the addendum at the start for the three properties. Um, I think it's a total of five parcels. Any questions for Kim or Deanna? I would make a motion to approve the real contract. Been moved
075and seconded to approve the realer contract. Uh students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Um, next up is resolution 0925 authorizing the superintendent to negotiate with potential buyers of surplus district real property. We don't know if Yeah, Kim Kim looks like it's not there. Um it looks like she's muted right now, but um to facilitate the process, it makes sense to have your superintendent uh be able to communicate work with our realtor um through the process. Just I made it on. She's there. She is. Yes. Do you know which we're on the um Yes, I've been listening. Okay. Okay. So what this does to every the community and people who are listening, this allows me to receive the offers, work with the realer according to the contract, follow the
076RCWS and negotiate within the parameters of this resolution. It does not allow me to enter into a contract. Those have to come for public um just like we do any other contract. Um, but this just allows us to not have to have a special meeting every time we get an offer. Pull post 24 hours, do a negotiation, and then do it back. Um, I hope that makes sense. Any questions for Kim? to negotiate with potential buyers of surplus property. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve resolution 0925 authorizing the superintendent to negotiate with potential buyers of surplus district real property. This is a roll call vote. Michelle I Brian I Frank. Lisa I two will vote I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is a memorandum of understanding for Proer Coaches Association. So, this
077is the final ratification of their contract for 2025 through 2027. I did not negotiate this contract. I I am This was an amazing um opportunity for our coaches. Um the there is really no major changes in this contract at all. Um except one. Um we uh in the past our cheerleading coach received one contract for both fall and winter. Now that means every fall football game and all the assemblies and all the work as well as winter all games that's boys girls right all of the games if you've been ever involved that's a big ask for one coaching contract and it has now been divided into a fall coaching contract and a winter coaching contract. Um the both I and the coaches association felt that was a fair representation for the amount of work. Um
078it also would allow to divide the work. Now that's not the goal. The goal is to have one coach for both seasons because that creates continuity, but we felt the pay needed to be there. The rest of it is pretty standard. Any questions for Kim? I would make a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with the proer coaches association. Been moved and seconded to approve theou with the proer coaches association. Uh all the students all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I motion carries. Uh, next up is the eent three service agreement. So, there's a requirement, a new requirement that school districts have an electronic means to communicate during emergencies aside from just you can call in your cell phone or send an email. Emergent three is a program that Kim actually
079did um has experience with when she was in Soap Lake, but it's it's a I mean, for the cost, it's a pretty robust system that allows immediate real-time notifications. Um staff members can communicate from their phone through the app. If they you know how you right now if they have to send out a notice it's either radio which sometimes during an emergency you don't want to use a radio and um or get to their computer and so they'll be able to do that from their cell phone. Um it was it was um it was really interesting. I thought the the um the abilities of the application they map all of our schools. the law enforcement has uh immediate access to all of that as well. It was it was really um I think going to
080be a really important safety addition to our district. The other piece that's really really important with this is if you are in a classroom with students, you have ability to message security, fire or police like student needs medical care or we are all good. We can turn green or if you hear something changing go from green to yellow or you can say we thought we were in danger but we for safe now. So you can go from red to green and it's very fast. It's very seamless and emergent 3 does all the mapping work. I think in addition too is like sometimes if we go sometimes you go into lockdown like Johnny went to the bathroom and you don't know where he is and um a lot of times in lockdown teacher goes to lock
081their door if they see a student they'll just pull students into their room and so they have the ability to say Johnny's in my like Johnny's missing from my room Johnny's in my room. So that some of that those worries and things where you maybe some of your students might have been out of the room. All those those pieces of communication could happen. I I thought I was impressed by it. Question. Diana, you said this is now being required by the state an application not the program but we have to have in our safety plan an electronic means of communication immediate communication. Okay. But funding comes out of our basic ed if but it's required by the state. That that would be correct. Okay. Who who all has access? Would this be teachers admin? I'm
082guessing not students, right? Well, I think if you have the applications for notifications like a parent. Yes. So a parent can get the app app on their phone and they have a different level than a teacher would have or a paraprofessional but they get the instant notification. Um and so technically students could also right um and but they have a different level of communication between the building and like a student wouldn't be able to communicate with the police. So, do you envision that like for example if a school were to go on lockdown that this app could notify parents immediately that their child within seconds is in lockown? Yes. Within seconds. That's as fast as like a text would go. Yeah. I think I think that's been a big need of ours honestly. I I
083can tell you too when a school is actually when you're in an e situation, the ability for a leader to go and stop or get somebody to stop and put out a message on Parent Square or whatever it is, it's not very realistic. Yeah. Um and you do your communication as quickly as you can, but it's just not realistic because you're dealing with a situation. So this makes it and and and principles will be able to do their notification everything right there on their phone which for the most part they have their phone. Sometimes Brian Bailey doesn't have but that's a different problem. He has his other phone usually I um and you said it had direct line to the police department and sheriff's department. Is that how that work? Is that how they get
084the notifications? So they'll get um they get a feature. They're considered part of our employee setup makeup, right? And so their dispatch has one level. Their responders have a different level of app and then it's kind of like if you've ever been somebody says join this app and then they give you a code of to accept, right? So then we issue the codes to accept. So we send the notification then we accept their addition to the application. Questions for there's communication. Yeah it's a district application. Uh Kim if uh household middle school goes into lockdown does it notify like on a certain level notify like principal another building? Yep. Yep. It's been about a month since we watched it. So, yeah. So, so yeah, if you could amend his questions for Kim or Diana students
085move to approve the emergency three service agreement. It's been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carried. Uh next up is River Ridge Vision Service. So uh we have a very small number of students in our district that have some very specific needs for vision services that we are not able to provide in our district. A person with these skills. We don't have enough students to justify having a person. So we've uh contracted with this um person before and uh Gelain herself called me and said we absolutely have to get this contract in. She does an amazing amazing job with my student that has a vision impairment. So, this is to continue for next year to provide those services that are in the IEP for those students. They
086only come to our school. Yeah. Twice a week. Um, she will come, yeah, two days a week for 72 days. Um, the total number of hours are there because I right now I think it is two students that she works with, but don't quote me on that. I don't know if Nikki's on the on there because I don't think she is. Assuming it's all paid out of special. It is. Is this an increase or a decrease for I can't answer that for you. I don't know. I don't know. I can find out send it to you, but I don't I don't want to say we don't have an option, but we kind of don't have an option. I move to approve the River Ridge Vision Services. I'll second. Been moved and seconded to approve reser
087river vision services students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is the first reading of policy 3413, student immunization and life-threatening health conditions. Yeah. Um, note there's not really changes. This is when we've actually had on this is the third time because we had pulled it off. Uh, this is required basically for us to administer the requirements for students enter school and their immunization rules. And it does mention the life-threatening health conditions um because those are and those are basically governed by the the doctor's um healthcare plan. This is the same as the last time. Yeah. I'll move to approve the first reading of policy 3413, student immunization and life-threatening health conditions. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve first reading of policy 3413. Students, all
088those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is first reading of policy 3210, non-discrimination. Yes. So, this is a required policy that we had in place, but it needs to be updated with current language and law. Move to approve the first reading of policy 3210. Non-discrimination. Been moved and seconded to approve first reading of policy 3210. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is first reading of policy 5406, leave sharing. I'll just say we've been leave sharing for the 34 years I've been here and this will be the first time we have a policy. We should have had this on the books and did not. So, there's that. I'll make a motion to approve first reading of policy 5406. Please
089share. Moved and seconded to approve the first reading of policy 5406. Excuse me. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is second final reading of policy 1000, legal status and operation. Is this the same one, Selena? We need to have this one and we do not. So, it's a required policy we didn't have on place. And make a motion to approve the second reading of policy 1000 legal status operation. Second. moved and second to approve the second final reading of policy 1000 students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh next up is second reading of polic second final reading of policy 5281 disciplinary action and discharge. So this is again I think another one one of those policies that we have needed to
090update and yes there's been since the discussion after the discussion in the first reading is this the boy scouts one they did you did update yeah to approve the second reading policy 5281 action second been moved and seconded to approve the second final reading of policy 5281. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carried. Uh, next up is second reading of policy 6551 information security. Were there any changes, Selena, from the last reading? Okay. I move to approve second final reading of policy 6551. Second. Been moved and seconded to approve second final reading of policy 6551. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is vouchers and payroll. Any questions on vouchers and payroll? I move to approve vouchers and payroll. Second.
091moved and seconded to approve vouchers and payroll. Excuse me. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh that concludes our action items. Moving on to consent items one through one through three. Move to approve consent items one through three. Second. been moved and seconded to approve consent items one through three. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. That concludes our action items for tonight. Moving on to reports. Deise, you're up first. Nothing for me tonight. Just trying to keep my head above water. She's doing a great job. Diana, um, science adoption. We're going to have our last meeting of the year on Tuesday. Uh we are still uh I I haven't heard yet about the most recent pilot at the high school. We'll hear about
092that at the meeting. A middle school um we've gotten a little feedback and met with some schools on discovery. So we're going to make talk about that also on Tuesday and hopefully after that point we'll have some ideas moving forward. That idea maybe we're not doing anything yet because we really want to make sure if we're going to spend this money, it's a really good curriculum that's going to be the best for us. and um we're not sure we're there yet. Okay. Um and the second one is I have been working on staffing and budgeting for my grants. Um we and that is all based on our best estimates because they will not tell us how much money we're going to have next year yet. So we're being very conservative, but it is it is
093much more of a mystery than it's been in the past right now. Thank you. Any questions for Diana? Thank you. Uh Kim, I'm not going to spend a lot of time I um like I normally do. Um but I do want to make sure that we acknowledge and thank the community for the pickle ball courts and tennis court for the community. The signs for usage will be going up in the next couple days. Remember they are a school for school use during the day. So we need to ask that you respect that. if a student does show up. But if you would like to reserve them for any spe special event or set time, there's a facility use agreement that you can use. Um, other than that, it's been crazy busy. Lots of contract negotiations
094and budget, but we'll leave it at that for tonight. Any questions for Kim? Thanks, Kim. Thanks, Kim. Uh, next up is board reports. Sure. For the sake of time, I'm not going to say anything, but whoever put this graduation week schedule in front of me, thank you. I'm really excited for all of the fun that's coming. And for all you seniors here, thanks, Michelle. Yeah, it's a great great info to have. Thank you. Um, I'll just echo what Jason said earlier. Just want to thank uh our district teachers, uh principles, superintendent Casey, and super assistant superintendent Deanna um for making the sacrifice that you guys did for the district going into next year. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. Frank, yeah, I would echo that as well. Uh much thanks for that. Um but I don't have
095anything else. I'm going to echo the thank you to teachers, principals, and administration for getting these contracts taken care of for the best for the district. Um, echo Kim comments on the pickle ball court Monday and Tuesday night um in the evening. They were full this week of uh middle-aged people having a really good time. The courts were really full. I'm glad they're enjoying them. I also want to thank um our community members and there's a lot of them that donate their time to review the local community scholarship. The Mountain Foster Scholarship, Edgar Whitehead, um Harold Pleasant, the ones that Mr. Adams um organizes, take care of and just so many people and then so many people that have been so incredibly generous. The ability to submit to our graduates is just incredible and it's
096all from Foster. Thank you, Lisa. Um, I don't have anything. Um, so with that, uh, no further business being conducted. Uh, we'll have a Oh, please note that the regular board meeting scheduled for May 28th has been rescheduled to a special board meeting on Thursday, May 29th at the usual time and location right here at 6 PM. Uh, Superintendent Casey and Assistant Superintendent Flores will be attending the Southeast Assoc Association of Washington School Administrator Administrators awards on the evening of the 28th. So, our next meeting is uh May 29th, Thursday, May 29th at 6 PM. This meeting is Jiren. Thank you.