001The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I would like to before we approve the agenda, I would like to pull um item number 14, please. Uh basically, uh there's some language uh formatting on the the document that that's in there that needs to be updated and addressed. um like to bring that back to at the next meeting. Um I I'd make a motion to postpone that uh proposal 14 proposal for WASDA policy development procedure. Second that. All those in favor signify by saying I I motion carries. Uh now I need approval of the agenda. I move to approve the agenda. I'd second it. Been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. All
002those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh we have somebody signed up to speak. Get my thing out. Uh addressing the board. You may present a concern to the board during the time reserved for hearing public comment. If this is the case, we ask that you prior to the start of the meeting sign in noting the topic you intend to address to the board. Come to the microphone um and state your name. Do not reflect adversely on political or economic views, ethnic background, character, or motives of any individual. Do keep your comments concise, non-emotional, and brief. The board is interested in hearing your concerns and your compliments, too. It is best to call the superintendent's office a couple days before this meeting. Um, if this isn't possible, you can ask the
003board president to recognize you during the hearing section. And we'll go for uh three minutes per person for a total of 21 minutes. First up is Mandy Stevens. Hi. Today I am coming to you. Um, I on March 24th I actually went to a meeting um put on by FEMA called crisis management for school-based incidents. It was because I needed a certain type of clock hour and it ended up being quite eye opening. Um I also attended, it was ironic that I attended two days later to the board meeting and heard about the budget cuts and um the comment was made. We have a perimeter now at every school. We have one entrance at every school. Um and it was almost suggested that we no longer needed our um security officers. So I'm going to
004respond to that. Um, I've got different responses and within the minutes I'll see which ones I actually get to. Um, one of the reasons we need these um, men and possibly women in the future is that a perimeter might deter intruders, but sometime if someone breaches it, a security offer officer can respond immediately. Whether it's um contacting authorities, intervening directly, or initiating lockdown procedures, our students and teachers see the security officer walking around, checking doors, helping an incident all day, every day. It gives us the peace of mind that something bad probably won't happen because there is a person at our school constantly watching out for our best interest. We also have um more support during emergencies. in emergencies such as medical, weather related or even security threats. Um he can be part of they
005can be part of our um provide coordination through our security team. They can do crowd control helping staff and students stay safe and calm. I've actually recently had that training through FEMA when asked about schools having a perimeter. The former secret uh secret service officer teaching our course said, "Hey, that's great, but that is just a perimeter. a determined person can try and possibly seek to succeed to get past that. But he was more impressed that all of the schools present have the perimeter and the security officer. These people are not utilized for the um though these people may these people are not utilized for the horrific acts that we never want to have. They are utilized for the horrific acts we never want them. However, they help in um even with coordinating staff and
006students and in any crisis. It is a visible deterrent. Um, just having a security presence can deter bad behavior from students, visitors, and potential intruders. It shows the school takes safety safety seriously. We see our officer walking around our school, standing at parent pickup and drop off. Um, he's always maintaining a watchful eye on all that goes on when our students are most vulnerable to outsiders. Others see him too, and it sends a message. Um, the security office can manage who enters and exits the building, especially during school hours, ensuring only authorized individuals get in, even if there is a secure perimeter. At Heights, we have a one door system that opens both doors at once, which could allow a person to enter the building without being identified by the office. The security officer is
007often in his office, if not around, and can do that. Thank you. Thank you. If you want to submit anything, uh, feel free. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mandy. Thank you, Mandy. Anyone else wish to speak? Blake, is there anybody online? Thank you. We'll conclude that portion of the meeting. Now, moving on to student rep reports. Yoshimi, uh, not much to report for ASB stuff. We're doing budgets, too, for all of our clubs and, uh, band has lilac. um the 17th of May. And tomorrow, no, not tomorrow. Uh this Saturday, um the middle school band is going to march um in the Apple Blossom Wachi parade. And then um we're going to the carnival after that. And Miriam and I uh the senior drum majors are going to lead the middle school band um in
008that parade. And then um yeah, not much else for band stuff. Great. Thank you. Any questions for Yoshimi? Yoshimi Tammy, I don't have anything to report today. Thank you, Alexander. I don't believe I have anything to report. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Uh, moving on to discussion items, school building reports. First up, I am Bailey. Hello. Thank you for having me. Um, coming down to the end of the school year, usually the busiest time of the year for us. Uh, seems kind of counterintuitive, but it actually is. Um, I made a list here. There's a lot of things going on. We are preparing for state testing. Just started that today. Um, I believe more buildings than just ours is is starting to prepare for that. Um, SBA testing at the end of the year.
009Um, we are preparing students and staff for the end of the year graduation activities. I'm sure all these guys are really excited. I'm surprised to hear they didn't have anything to report. Uh but they will soon enough. We are going to have some meetings coming up to inform them of all of those and get them on board. Um I have communicated out to through parent square intend to do so again in May and again in June. So watch for that parent square to come out again. Um and we'll have updates to to the calendar. Um I want to give a shout out to Riley Maddox and the entire a department. They've done a couple activities that were very successful and a continuation of tradition. Um including Grizz's farm. We had a lot of little kids
010and the next generation of FFA students at the school going through the pens and and petting the animals and uh and livestock. We also have the plant sale coming up in the first week of May, so be prepared for that. It's very popular. If you want any plants, please show up early. Um otherwise, you won't get any. Prom is next weekend. Hopefully, kids are excited about that one. Um we have a few groups to celebrate as well. Uh we have whoosh is headed to state and we have three groups HOSA DECA and a mechanics that are headed to nationals. And I just learned today that we have a student because I eaves dropped and overheard this but we have a student that was accepted into the bridge to teaching program through WSU. Congratulations Cammy Duncan.
011Um, tomorrow we will be hosting a multi- agency event called Teen Target Zero to inform students um and and teach them about the effects of alcohol and other substances on driving. Uh we have successfully completed this for our upper level students already in years past and so we're focusing this year on our sophomore students. multi- agency. We have Benton County Fire, Police Department, um EMS, and our Thrive Coalition that will come to present that uh during school. Um and students will will learn all about that. We also are trying to piggyback that for next year. Uh Hayden Hicks and Benton County Fire Department came in and proposed a response simulation uh that we'd like to do closer to prom for the older kids uh next year. So, that's something we'll be talking about uh to
012try and and work through. Um, if we can make it work this year, we would love to do that before graduation. If not, then we're going to push that to next year. Um, we just passed the deadline for the last of our local scholarships and we're excited to see which kids get those and see their faces as they get awarded scholarships and move on to the next step. So, um, any questions for me? Questions? Brian? I know you won't give me the number, but what what are we projecting for class size this year? graduation still 250ish hopefully. Well, everything together. Yeah, we're pushing we're trying to improve upon our our former numbers. So hopefully we're pushing 90%. Um it's a little bit smaller than you might think. All kids total will probably have about 260.
013That includes our online students. Our in-person kids are only about 213. Um so again 90% hopefully of that 250. Thank you. Do you have a scholarship night on the calendar? It is on the calendar. Um, you have to go to the calendar. I didn't I don't know it off the top of my head. These guys might. Any ideas? I can send that to you. I can send that to you or you can pull up the parent square that I sent out. It has the list of dates on the on the left. Tuesday. It's the same night every year. So, it I I thought Tuesday night was open. So, I think it's Monday night actually. I think it's Monday night. Other questions for Brian? Thanks. Thank you. Thanks, Brian. Uh, next up is migrant director Eric
014Lores. Okay, he's on a he's at another meeting. Okay. Uh moving on to discussion item number three, review of policy and procedure 3413, uh student immunization and life-threatening health conditions. So this is the policy we had on previously and I was concerned in the procedure there was nothing about life-threatening health conditions. Um I had a conversation with the nurses. We did some research on other policies. The reality is that they have to kind of regulate the immunization piece. That's why the procedures are immunization has all the procedures whereas the life-threatening conditions are what they are and they those comes from the doctor with a health plan from the doctor. So it's not necessary to be in the procedures. Um we did talk about trying to define those but then in the end we thought it
015was better for it to be broad broad because you never know what might become a health-threatening condition for a certain child. So um we we feel that it's appropriate as is. Any questions for Dana on this one? Uh, so on the policy under exclusion from school, um, if if a student is expelled for either not having the vaccination or not having the medication, is a district still responsible for providing Right. It's not expulsion. It's not a disciplinary. It's not disciplinary in any way. Um it might feel that way. Uh but no, of course they students have even even if there was an suspension, students have the right to their educ to their education. So um no, they would get whatever that they need and we try to help facilitate if they need to get maybe
016sometimes, you know, folks might wait and think they can get something really close to school and they can't. So we help with that trying to get facilitate, you know, through urgent care and different places. We are having an immunization clinic. it was cancelled and then it was put back on. Um but so the farmworks clinic will be bringing a van um the LA that like the last week or second to last week of school so people can take advantage of that as well. Blake, we've been notified that the Zoom has frozen. Can you please check into that? Um so yeah, so they just have to, you know, we try to help them. They do lots of reminders. They send information out to parents. Um and then like even for like our homeless students if a
017student had a challenge or migrant students we help facilitate them getting to the back or whatever we help families so that they can started again. It started the working again. I had one question uh on the procedure and it's just it's at the very last page um under list of students not fully immunized. Um says the district will keep or be able to produce within 24 hours a list of children who are not fully immunized. Um is that by RCW or is is is that something we always have a list. It's not something we would ever we publish or anything. We're actually required to report numbers to the health department, but and I mean that's that would be we have a list all the time. Basically, the nurses could produce that at any time. Okay.
018Thank you. Any other questions for Diana on this one, Stephen? You're welcome. Um I think next step is we can move it forward to the an action item first reading. Yes, please. Yep. We'll go back. Um, Mr. Lorenz, thanks for thanks for coming. Appreciate it. Sorry, I was I've been here, but I've been pack officers next door. So, a quick update where we are at currently. So, I've been working closely with uh All right, it does add a 10 seconds. Sorry. Okay. I've been working closely with uh Mr. Gilman as we work through the transition for the next uh 2526 school year, bringing him up to speed and updating him on all of the grants and processes that are currently in play. We are in the midst of working on registering students for our summer
019program which will be happening July, pretty much the month of July and finalizing dates and times and staffing and all of those things as well. All all through these processes, we're bringing Mr. Gilman along so he's fully aware and bringing the transition as smooth as possible for him. Right now, it kind of feels like it's drinking from fire hose, but said, "Don't worry, we're going to make sure you're all right." So, uh, he's also over there currently right now with the pack officers and providing some updates. We have a presentation coming up May 14th for you from the students and uh kind of a debrief of the NASBY conference that we just got back from. I will share just a quick tidbit. It's absolutely amazing. We are so proud of our students and what they've
020accomplished. that watching them blossom and grow in that scenario was absolutely pivotal to understanding how important it is to give kids as many opportunities as possible to break out and go see the world and understand that there's more that they can contribute to the betterment of the entire world. And so I'm really proud of what they accomplished. I'm really hoping um that we get a good turnout for the 14th board meeting and hopefully people online show up. Tell your friends that they uh log on so they can see that. We'll keep it around 10 minutes though just so you can see and then any additional questions or anything that you might have please feel free to swing by the kids would love to share with you on a more in depth focus. Also, we are
021working on making sure we have all of our stuff for reporting compliance probably going to have a review next year and getting everything in order for that as well. So again, smooth transitions and things are available and already set done. Guys have any questions that I can answer specifically? Questions for? No. All right, fantastic. head to the other meeting. Thanks. Thanks, Eric. Appreciate it. Moving on to discussion item four, review and policy procedure 3210, uh, non-discrimination. Uh, so we're required to, you know, as you know, update our policies and procedures. This is one that, um, was a little bit outdated. So this is the most current language. It basically provides um the path for a person if they felt like they were discriminated against to there's a complaint procedure and process that they can follow.
022So this is a policy we already have. This is just the new the updated version for WASDA. I'm going to add to this there is if you look through and then the combination it's quite overwhelming. Um I think the important piece here is uh notice our last um change in this was 19 but it was originally adopted in 2001. So there is a lot of changes that have happened legislative so forth. So this is one that um our legal council advised that we take a look at. Um and so I'm open for any discussion like we always do, but I just want you to know it was one very important that we take a look at. on the uh red line policy under the non-discrimination statement paragraph. And I I feel like we have this
023in another policy as well, but it lists Boy Scouts of America. I think we changed that. So, we will change this to whatever just you're you're very correct. I'm 100% correct. We just that's part of the problem when we would have this one up and our two policies would contra another basically or not work together. So, um all of those things are things that we bring up at this meeting so that we make sure that we bring you the first reading that we're accurate. Any other questions for Kim or Diana? So what I'm hearing is we want to make sure that the two policies language match. Is that a correct statement? Yeah. And I think we can move it forward to uh first reading. Thank you. Thank you. Moving moving on to uh review of
024policy and procedure 5406 uh leave sharing. So, this is one of these that you don't know you don't have or don't know that you don't need until you need it. And this has never been in our policy, but yet we have a leave sharing form. And there's no policy that monitors, controls, I don't know which one is it, guides maybe is a better word, are leave sharing. So um what you have in front of you is um leave sharing and where it came up was from the cross reference um conflicts between policy and bargaining limits and then um also there's leave sharing language in our laws and so we had to make sure that our form matched those and then I went to pull up policy 5406 and we didn't have one. So that's why
025it's in front of you tonight. Good catch. Any questions for Kim on this one? Nope. I think we can move this to for treat. Uh, next up is theou for Wednesday's schedule. So, don't do not necessarily have an action item, but I wanted to make sure it was on public and on the record. Um the teachers association and the district have agreed that for the remainder of the teachers contract that we will remain at a early release and not a late start. Great. Any questions on that one? Okay, thank you. U moving on to action items. Uh first up is recommendation for hire Woodstrand Elementary principal. So for people are um listening here tonight um it is our recommendations hired normally fall under a consent agenda item but there's not too many times in the
026Proer School District where you hire a new building principal because our principles stick around a long time. So, we separated it out and wanted you to be able to do that and then and once the vote is conducted then um we were going to ask our new employee to step forward and introduce themselves. Well, sort of [Laughter] new. Um well I will move to approve your recommendation for hire for the Witster Elementary principal. I'd second it. It's been moved and seconded to um to approve the recommendation for hire of Witstrand Elementary Principal Jane Gronov. Any please come forward. Comments students all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Congratulations. Congratulations. My name is Jane Gronov and I was very excited to be offered the position of White Strand Elementary Principal. So I'm
027here to just tell you a little bit about my background and how I came to be sitting in this chair today. So way back in 1999, my husband and I relocated to the Akma Valley. And at that time, we're like, "Oh, it'll be a fun adventure. Let's go for two years." So two years turned into 25. And so we're slightly overdue on our return trip to Canada, but I would say it's safe to say we're here for the duration. Um, I was a stay-at-home mom for many years. And then when my youngest entered kindergarten, I decided it was a good time to switch courses and change direction. and I started working as a par educator at the Proser School District and in that was in 2013. So in 2014 I decided I wanted to become
028a teacher and I discussed some options with Diana over what the best route to be would to take and so I signed up with WGU and while I was doing that the district got me an emergency teaching certification and so I was able to sub for different teachers. I was still a parah and then they would pull me when they were really short staffed. And in 2017, I believe it was, I started working as a teacher full-time in a district level behavior program. And then in 2018, the life skills teacher resigned. And so I slid over into that position. And so when I finished with my bachelor's, I have an endorsement in elementary education K through 8 and special education K through 12. And at that time, I decided, you know, I'm used to sacrificing
029my weekend, so I might as well keep going. And signed up through Eastern Washington University and have a master's in educational leadership with a principal certification. And during my internship and the years that have followed, I've been able to sub in every building in our district, which was a great opportunity for me to observe different leadership styles and glean information from all the different leaders, things that worked, things that I thought might work for me one day or wouldn't work for me one day. And so that leads me here today. And that youngest child who started kindergarten a few months ago graduates in a couple weeks. And so again, it's a great time for me to change course, change direction, and take the next step. And so I'm very grateful to be able to continue
030to be part of the ProEer School District community and very excited to get to work with some great leaders. Okay, moving on to resolution 0625. Proer High School WIAA membership. Can you hear me? A little bit louder there, Jackson. Okay. Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay, sweet. Um, so this is just the policy. Uh I am asking that Proer High School and Helen Middle School uh remain in the WIAA. I'm asking that we uh allow our high school and our middle school to continue to participate um in order to uh compete against other schools and not be an independent school in which we wouldn't be able to compete for state championships, league titles, all that good jazz. So um that's what the first resolution is. And then the second resolution was of course how
031middle school uh being part of the WIAA as well. Thanks Jackson. Any questions for Jackson? Uh I move to approve both of them at the same time. There resolution. So it's a roll call. Roll call. Okay. So I'll make a motion to approve resolution 0625. The crosser high school WI membership. been moved and seconded to approve resolution 0625 Proer High School WIA membership student roll call vote Michelle I Brian I Frank I two will vote I motion carries now I'll move to approve resolution 0725 for Hel Middle School WA I second it's been moved and seconded to approve resolution 0725 for house middle school WIA membership students. So roll call vote. Michelle I. Brian I. Frank I. And I two will vote I. Motion carries. Thank you Jackson. You're welcome. Oh I guess you're on
032the next one. Yes sir. Next up is a consultant service agreement for track starters at proer invite. Um, so actually it's for our uh upcoming league meet on May 8th. I believe it's versus CILA and Ellensburg. Um, we've been trying to look for a starter uh who starts all the races for our track meet and we couldn't find anybody and so I reached out to these two gentlemen from the Columbia Basin area by Afraida. They actually are the two WIAA state um starters for the 1A2A. No, I believe it's 1B, 2B and 1A in in uh Eisenhower Eisenhower High School in Yaka. And so I reached out to to those two gentlemen. I know them pretty well and see if they could come down and run our meet for us. And they said for sure
033uh since we're going to be running your uh regional meet as well. Let's let's uh head on over to Proer. And so uh they're willing to do our our starting for our last league meet uh at $100 a piece. So Tom Parish is one of the gentleman's names and the other gentleman is Ken Mccardi and they do a really good job. So I'm just asking for permission in order to uh allow them to uh do our meat for us. Uh Jackson, real quick on one of them it says that proer invite or they both say proer invite. Is that the same thing as our last track meet? Yeah. So I think they made a mistake on that. It's supposed to say our league meet, not the proer invite. So, I can resend those files on
034over to you guys. Um, but it shouldn't be the proer invite. It's actually our league meet. Okay. I think we can make that adjustment. Got it. Any questions for Jackson? We'll move to approve the consultant surf consultant service agreements for track starters at the Proer League meets. been moved and seconded students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Okay. Now, thanks again, Jackson. Hey, thank you so much. Appreciate it. All right. Next up is out of state travel for HMS FCCLA to Orlando, Florida. Yes. So last month uh FCCLA uh for HMS uh two individuals qualified for national competition. H Harper Park and Carly O'Brien. So they qualified at star professional pres presentation event for Cyberbully. They were number one in the state and so they're requesting to go back
035to represent Washington state. They're going to fund raise all their all their funds to cover their costs and then the district will cover the cost of panic parks. Great job. Yeah. Yeah. Any questions? But I would move to approve the out of state travel for HMSA. Can I second it? I'll second it. All right. It's moved and seconded to approve out of state travel for HMS FCCLA students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carried. I'm the next one. Oh, you got the next be trouble if we didn't approve that one. All right. Next up is Proer High School agreement for education educational services with Columbia Safety LLC and Proer High School. So, Columbia Safety is the organization that provides our nursing assistant uh program. And so, there's some updates that need
036to be done to that program. And so, they need to get some their some of their own training. They need to do site inspections. They need to do paperwork. And so, that's what the contract is for is for them to get be able to be certified to provide the service for our health ox students to get their nursing assistant certificate. Is that them coming into into our building to do that or No, so ner so health is all at the hospital. Oh, okay. And so they'll come in and do a site visit there and inspect do their inspections there. And Carly Green's actually the facilitator for the online curriculum. Oh, okay. And then with that, they do give us, if you look further down in the contract, uh we do get the tuition for that
037course at a reduced cost like at $400 where it's anywhere from 13 to $1,800 if they went through Columbia Safety Direct. And then CTE picks up that part of the cost. Questions for Rick? Student? I move to approve the Proser High School agreement for educational services with Columbia Safety LLC and Proer High School. We'll move and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Thank you. Have a great night. Thanks. Right. Uh, next up is first reading of policy 1000 legal status in operation. There's been no changes since our discussion question. I'll move to approve the first reading of policy 1000. Legal status operations. I'll second it. Been moved and seconded to approve the first reading of policy 1000 students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I motion
038carries. Next up is the first reading. First reading of policy 5281, disciplinary action and discharge. No modifications. Any questions? I move to approve first reading of policy 5281. Second it, it's been moved and seconded to approve the first reading of policy 5281. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh number nine, first reading of policy 6551, information security. There's no changes. I mean, other than the ones that you asked me to make last week. Oh, okay. You got everything in there you want needed? Yeah. Questions for Sean? Well, I'd move to approve of first reading of policy 6551, information security. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the first reading of policy 6551. Question or students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Thank
039you. Um up next is the second read second final reading policy 1420 uh proposed agenda and consent agenda. I move to approve the second reading of policy 1420. Second moved and seconded to approve the second reading of policy 1420. two. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is a second reading of policy 14:30, audience participation. Any changes or I'd move to approve the second reading of policy 1430 audience participation. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the second reading of policy 14:30. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Moving on. Lastly is vouchers. Any questions on vouchers? I'd move to approve vouchers. All right, it's been right. It's been moved and seconded to approve vouchers uh students. All those in favor
040signify by saying I. I. Motion carried. Uh next up is the proer principal association memorandum of agreement for July 20 or July 1st 2025 through July 30th 2028. So this was an amazing um respectful partnership that we went through this. It's probably one of the fasteres. Um for those of you who have compared the two, there were not a lot of changes. We did changes that matched our teachers contracts so that we were doing that. Um, we put some limitations on professional development so we could budget appropriately. And the best part about all of this is the top left cell of the salary schedule. And for those who would like to understand it better, Mr. Baileyy's here because we worked on this together. that this is the in a nutshell it gives a responsibility factor
041above the highest paid teacher in our district so that our lowest paid administrator never makes less than what our highest paid teacher makes. And um that's a really good thing and as I explained to a couple board members who called and asked them questions about it was this we don't have to negotiate salary every year when the teachers ne negotiate their salary. It's a mathematical formula that goes in an Excel spreadsheet and it calculates the salary. Salaries go down, pay it goes down. If salaries go up, pay it goes up. But it's a really good way to conduct business. And other than that, I think that pretty much covers it. We did it in about we did it in two settings and we did it fast and very respectful and and nice to conduct business
042that way. Any questions for Kim? I move to approve the proer principal association and memorandum of agreement for July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. Second. been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up, that concludes our action items tonight. Moving on to consent items um one through three. only in the print one. Okay. I move to approve the consent items one through three. I'll second it. It's been moved and approved. Oh. Uh moved moved and second to approve the consent items. students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. That came. Moving on to reports. Deise, you're up first. Okay. Um, tonight I just have student enrollment for the month of April. Um, and as you can see, we are
043down to more students um than the month of March. and we will dwindle down a little bit for the next couple of months, but we should stay pretty steady. The only thing that I do want to point out um is last year at this time our enrollment was 2380. That is over $300,000 of money that we don't have per month um that we have to think about. So um as we are doing better than 22 23 and 2122, we we do have a significant change from last year. We we probably asked this a million times, but um we had three that withdrew from graduation away plan. Is that right? But back to class. That's what I wanted to make sure I clarified that. Thank you. Any questions for Disease? Thanks, Deise. Thank you. Uh, just
044a few things. Um, we are spending most of our time on budget planning, bargaining, working with the unions right now as we transition into trying to make some really significant reductions in our budget. Um, we we did Brian didn't report this, but our uh for the second try, our freshman pass rate has continued to grow. It's the highest it's been since precoid. Um it grew 8% since the beginning of the year. So, uh David is working really hard with his team to improve that. He's doing a fantastic job and they're making a lot of progress in um changing some of the practices and operations at the high school to help all kids be more successful. Um I was able to help lead principal or lead principal interviews um and get all of that set up.
045So, it was it was a bit of a whirlwind, but it all worked out great. So, congratulations to Gelain. And then, um, and Brian mentioned it, but yes, we will be moving into SBA testing as well as the WeCAST testing, which is the science testing. Grades three through eight and grade 10 um take um ELA and math, plus any student that needs might need to retake at the high school. And then grades uh 5, 8, and 10 take the science assessment as well. So that'll be that's starting here quite soon. I think late uh April for uh Heights and we'll go on through June and I think the middle school might be the latest and they're going I think all the way till uh the first week of June. So um that will be busy.
046So parents, you know, have your kids well rested and just encourage them to do their best. Um and uh that's it for me. Thank you, Diana. Any questions for Diana? Yeah. Diana, do you know when you'll have an update on the um pilot of the computer science curriculum? Um I can give you that update right now. So um the middle school is wants some to talk to some school districts uh about the discovery curriculum. Um so we're working on arranging that. The high school is uh looking at at this point has moved away from discovery is are piloting some units for from Savas. Um, so we're going to be meeting again in is this April? We're going to be meeting again in May. Um, we didn't really want it to be this late, but you
047know, they want to make a good decision. It's a big deal. So, um, we'll be meeting again in a few weeks and trying to move forward with the decision. If if we're not able to make one, then or if we don't feel like we have the best curriculum, we'll come and let you know that. If we feel like we do, then you'll start hearing that as well. Maybe an additional question. uh if we pick a curriculum say in May or June. Yeah. Um when do we have to pay for it? So um if we select a curriculum most of the time they're going to ship in August. So once shipped then you you usually have to pay within 30 days. We have the money in our budget now. Although Deliss would like me not spend
048it for the adoption, but we have more in our budget now than I think it's going to cost us even if we selected both middle school and high school curriculum. Um so so that's good. Plus we we we do need to to use the $31,000 we received from Battel. So um we make a decision that's still kind of a long process because once they make a decision um it has to go to um the district in well it goes for community review district instructional materials and then to the board. So it it's still going to take a while and they're aware of that. We had that discussion. the union um the teachers union in their contract does have a provision if the teachers choose to exercise it that they have curriculum before they leave for
049the summer. But the good thing about curriculums now is it's all online. And this group is like we don't care when we get it. We, you know, if we want to make a good decision and when we get it, we get it and we'll get training so we can implement. So the goal would still be to implement in August to start school. Um, and I don't foresee that being a problem. Um, as long as we can make a decision. Yeah. Great. Thank you. You're welcome. Right. You're up. All right. So, um, super exciting. Um, it's funny to say exciting and yet it's stressful. Um, so in contract negotiations, we have meeting with the coaches association, that's our athletic coaches association is on Friday. Um we are doing our first negotiation with our um educational office
050personnel. So that's basically your administrative assistance on May 6. Um we also have our PSSE meeting um on Friday. And then um I I just thank you for the principal association for the the quick respectful way in which we conducted our negotiation budget. Um, you know, I want everybody to know I cannot thank our community, our teachers, our PSSE members. I bet I have had I don't know, Selena's not here, so she manages my calendar better. I'm going to say I bet I've had 15 stakeholder meetings about the budget. Everything from how can we do this, how could we fund raise, how could we do that? Um, thinking outside the box things. Um, and it is so great to see a community like Proer coming together and saying we're going to make a difference. We're
051going to do some things to um try and save programs and save jobs and do all of those things. So, that's amazing. I do think it's very important that people continue to watch our state and federal um money makers or decision makers. Um, we did hear in one small email today that they may extend this bud legislative session because they cannot make a decision on the budget. Um, the actual last day of session I think is April 28, maybe April 29th. I don't know remember the exact date and now they're talking about maybe not being able to be done and that would get extended. What does that mean to us? That means that decisions that we are making may get extended because we can't make decisions when we don't know how much money what revenue
052is coming in. Um, exciting. We did finally have a realtor um submit their request for qualifications to us and we're meeting tomorrow to go over that. Um, once again, when we sell property, that doesn't go into our basic education or operating money, but it does help us continue to maintain our property. Um, our capital committee met um on the 17th. We did write and finalize and adopt our mission. It reads to responsibly plan, maintain, and improve district facilities through fiscally responsible long range efforts that support great student experiences today and for generations to come. This is really important for people to understand. This is people that are of all ages, all facts of walks of life coming together and saying, "We've made some big investments in our community and we have to manage them." Not
053not any different than when if you're a homeowner and you know that in 12 years your roof's had a 20-year life and in 12 years you're going to have to replace that roof. Um, that's what we're talking about here. How do we manage that? Um, so that was very exciting. Capital projects, the housel chiller is in. It's working. And then I did hear something this afternoon that some part broke, but we're we're going to have air conditioning for housel this spring. Um, the vestibule is in. I don't know if you've been by lately. They did have to move the um glass board that holds like their meeting bulletin board. Thank you. And it has been moved. Now, we need to move the ADA button to where it's supposed to be and we'll get those few
054things and then we have the badges and we'll get them printed and for the staff and get that going. So, we're super close. But the punch list items, the metal that was behind the back that had the big dent in it has been fixed and replaced. So, we're getting to punch list. Okay. Hey, I don't know if any of you drove around Proer A past the library tonight, but if you're listening, it is green and red on the old tennis courts. The fence is in. The lines are striped. Community, are you listening? Don't go on the new turf. It or surface. It has to cure. So, Andy, how um we spoke this evening. They're going to lock it up. We have some pieces we have to do. We have to get our garbage cans in
055place. we have to get our signage for usage rules and so forth. So, um I really have to thank our pickle ball community. I have a few people that I've been calling every day. What color do you want the non volley zone? Does it need to be? I mean, because I I truly don't know those answers. And so to those pe the community members who and others who voted for our capital levy, this is a community and school facility and we have to make sure we take care of it and that it's managed properly and we I think our pickle ball community is super excited to go play six courts all at one time and do whatever. Um, I know our PE is excited to be able to come down and have six courts and
056we have the one tennis court. So, I know I've talked a lot about it, but it's a big deal. So, hang on, but stay off it for a couple more days. Give me some time. Um, I don't know if you've noticed this building has been pressure washed. Um, if you want to think about how dirty and old it, the stuff coming off the sides of the building was amazing, but it s certainly looks much better. The hard water even on some of the lower windows is better, but it it took off a lot of that. I have a meeting with a glass or a window company. They're coming. They've told me that they might have a resource for a grant for um buildings over and I don't know. Please don't quote me, 80 years or
05790 years or something. So, we may be able to find windows for this building. We are also going to put the landscape rock in here now that the building's been washed. Excuse me, everyone. And then, um, so we're getting pretty close. It looks like we took the strings off the trees. The weed eating is getting done. Things are looking good. Um, the WASA regional meeting is tomorrow night here in this building. We've sent it out. We're I think as of this afternoon sometime we have 18 or 19 other board members coming. So that's exciting for us. We get to um show off a little bit. And then um I'm still I don't know be I don't know how many webinars Diana and I are doing right now between legislative state and federal all kinds of
058things trying to keep up reading the TWIA which is this week in Olympia. It's this document that we get every Friday or but I mean it's just so much. So we're doing trying to keep up on that. I did do my registration and payment for both my leadership conferences in May. And for public information, I will be um traveling to my family in Wyoming. I'll be leaving on after work on Thursday the 1st and I will return on Tuesday the Thanks, Kim. Any question? Oh, um I know. So, this has been Thank you. Um we have had so many appreciation days. Just want to make sure we talk about that publicly. Um so we have had transportation bus driver appreciation right we had administrative appreciation um I want to make it public known we do
059not meaning across our school district we don't set the date we don't set what they're called um there was a little bit of I got a couple emails and so forth well why do blank group get a week and we get a day and all of this things we don't set those things those are things we follow state and or national guidelines and we try and participate and honor everybody. So please understand those aren't things that we the proer school district put together or we control the date that's chosen for her. I see crystals on we always kind of joke that for years she says that admin uh assistant principal week was always during spring break so she never got celebrated. So this way they this year they did her up good because it was
060a different day. So we don't set those dates and I just want to know but everybody needs to know our administrative assistance and our transportation this district doesn't run without you. So, thank you very much and you are greatly appreciated. Great. Thanks, Kim. Any questions for Kim? I actually Kim had a question about um budget talks and community feedback. So, it sounds like you've got a lot of good um had a lot of good stakeholder calls with community members who are looking for solutions. And I just wanted to ask you this question publicly because I think I know your answer, but I want everyone to hear it. Um, I have heard from a number of people who've said, "We would love to help. How can we fund raise? How can we get the community involved
061to pay for this or pay for that?" And then they're told by someone, we don't do that in Proer. The Proer School District does not accept fundraising. No. So, first of all, thank you for bringing it up publicly. We do. There are avenues and ways in which we have to do that. So each one of those stakeholders that may be listening tonight or listen to the recording later, depending on the type that it is, um I'm going to say music boosters has a program, athletics have a has a booster club. If there's a um I'm going to use science curriculum, somebody wants to do a donation for science curriculum. So the basic education, you know, it sounds silly, but $100 that and it can be directly earmarked. that donation comes in, it goes there, it's
062part of it. Um, there are many, many avenues to support it. The other thing, um, and I'm going to go from our friends of the fields discussion. Um, mo our beautiful green grass, by the way, I want you to compare the green grass right now to what it was July, the year I started. I just want you to know the color of it. I'm going to just note that for record, but with green grass comes lots of mowing. And I don't know if you ever feel like this at your house, but in March or excuse me, April and May, sometimes you're mowing the lawn every 5 days instead of the once a week that you do. That's where we're at right now. If somebody wants to donate or help, if you your family wants to
063be, you know how you can pick up garbage on the freeway or on a highway, if you want to be the mower for a certain area or field or something, you just let me know. We already covered with our insurance company how that liability works. All that goes on. If you want to be a friend of the grass or if you want to help with restoring the windows in the building, I'm hoping to find a grant. But if you want to be involved, I will listen to you and I will find you a way we will do it above board legally and follow all state um IRS protocols for doing so. And see that lady right over there, Cind, she makes me sure I follow all my rules. So I just don't say yes. I
064have people that I check with. Great question. I'm happy to hear that. because now I'm not a liar. I've been telling everyone. No, I don't think that's true. Uh, next up, board reports. Michelle, I don't really have anything. I just wanted to wish um the group of kids who are going to NHD state this weekend. Buck and that's it. Thanks, Michelle. All right. Uh just yeah, I want to obviously uh what Kim was saying, want to thank assistant principles, bus drivers, administration professionals. A lot of days in there, but uh thank you guys for what you do for the district. um had the opportunity to get back and help with the roadie track meet this past weekend and that was uh pretty pretty cool to see 30 plus schools I believe um and the weather
065that we had given what the morning looked like um I don't think you could ask for a better afternoon and uh evening at Biker Stadium that was that was pretty cool so that's all I got Frank yeah and I I would add to that is the fight. I just it just looked like so well managed. Like whoever was in charge of that uh did a really good job. I know Jackson he he was part of that. Um but there's just a lot of moving parts with and a lot of people and it just stayed as state of time. It just it just wellrun um track meet. So that was really cool. Um, you know, then talking about budgets as far as the state goes, I, you know, there the state is in trouble. You know,
066there that's probably the reason why they're not able to to, you know, find a or to pass a budget yet. So, you know, I think it's good just good for us to prepare for the reality that our state is in trouble financially and um, you know, how do we get creative with our with our communities like like you were saying, Michelle, and just preparing for those realities? But uh and you know the other the other piece was how do we listen to our community and our enrollment where we need it. You know there's uh I know I've heard statistics about you know families having less kids and all that but uh you know I think we just do need to have an ear have our ear to our community as well. Um or you know
067these young people when you get married you got to have more kids. Just this is the way it's going to have to be. But um but anyway, there's uh yeah, there there's just a lot of a lot of needs out there and um I think I think it's important that we we listen and try to plan the best we can. Great. Thanks, Frank. Um I don't have a report. maybe have someformational items uh for the board and everybody here and left on. Um recently um a bill was passed ESHB 1296 um and it it did have a lot of different language in it. Um you know part that I found a little bit interesting is um I don't know if it was at I think it was added but I could be wrong. uh they
068took if you didn't follow the the bill uh through your policies and the way you interact uh OSPI could cut funding up to 20% of your allocated um allocated funds. In addition to that uh by initiative last year the parents bill of rights was uh was passed by uh the voters of Washington state. Um, as of now, they basically dismantled that entire initiative. And I was just going to kind of brief a little bit of what they took out. Um, they took out records like, uh, medical records, uh, any records pertaining to mental health counseling, uh, any vocational counseling, etc. But they did kind of reward it. So I don't think that includes all of that. But I think the big thing um is they took out completely stricken from is to receiveation when medical
069services are being offered to their child except where emergency medical treatment is required. to receive notification when any medical service or medications have been provided to their child that could result any financial impact. Uh to receive notification when the school is arranged directly or indirectly for medical treatment that results in follow-up care beyond normal school hours. Um I think that was kind of the big ones. There's a whole bunch of in the things that they've t taken out. Uh parents aren't to be notified if their child is um if they're a victim of a crime, then the parents get notified, but if they're accused or arrested or or stuff like that, they aren't notified. At least based on my my reading of this um and and you can go on and read through it. It's
070very long. I think it's like 30 pages. Um it's hard to follow if you're not used to reading that kind of uh language because you have to read it then follow the law that they're referencing. Um, so for instance, I I went down a wormhole when it becomes medical records. You know, you're of consent age at 13, right? You can't get a tattoo till you're 18, but you consent to medical service at 13. Um, and there's some instances and you have to go through the health bill to figure all that out where you could actually do it younger um than 13. So I, you know, we we talk about getting to our legislators and have, you know, having them be a voice for us, um, you know, here in Proser and in our community. Uh,
071but I think they have an uphill battle, you know, with a, you know, Democrat majority that that are going to do stuff like this for stuff that voters approve. So that's all I have. Um, and I'm sure we'll see more of that as it comes through some policy. Um, we'll go from there. Um, yeah. So, future meetings, there's a safety and security meeting May 14th, uh, right here in no in the staff development room at 5:00 pm. And a regular board meeting May 14th right here at 6 PM. With no further business, this meeting is adjourned.