001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible. Uh is there a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Then moved and second to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. First up is the 2025 NHD regionals. Dean and Kayla Smith. Kyla Smith. Sorry. Is the green button on? Hey, I like tech. You kind of got keep it close so we can hear. Good evening. Uh my name is Dean Smith and this is my 33rd year um in Proer but about my 25th year working with National History Day and uh my wife and I my wife runs the club and uh we uh lead the National History Day program. Um it's a fantastic program
002that uh the students become the researcher, but they also decide what they're going to make. They decide how they're going to make it. They decide if they're going to work with a partner or not. Um, it's very much student driven and basically my wife for the high school, Kyla, I'll let her talk in a minute. Me at the middle school, we're just the coach uh and biggest fan supporting them and trying to help them. But, um, at our regional event at the high school about four weeks ago, um, we had about 62 students in the middle school and think about from Proer. Oh yeah, there are few hundred from other districts. Um and uh 17 of my students qualified to go on to state and um four of them are here to show their projects
003and the high school I'm sadly here the time of the year when high school students are extremely busy. Um but I had nine of my 10 who went on um continuing on to the uh state level. Um sadly our one that didn't make it was because of us. We cleared the category and we had four and they only take three to to the next level. So um but uh at the high school level it is not in the classroom like it is with over at how um they do it completely 100% on their own time. Um they don't get any school credit for it. uh and uh they just do a phenomenal job and I'm really really proud and I have a feeling we have some national bound projects in and amongst the two of
004our schools again. So um and I just want to say thank you. I know several of you judged for us at regionals holding here in Proer was um something we've wanted to do for a long time and we just didn't have the facility until we had the new high school. Um, and I don't know, we had somewhere in the neighborhood of between six and 700 people in the building. Um, and we got the nice compliment from the the head of the state saying of all the regionals, this one had the least amount of problems ever. We had one little tiny glitch with technology that was easy to fix and we had one little glitch with our um, registration, which was not something on our plate. It was on the state's plate. So, um, I just
005want to say thank you to those of you that donated the time and it means a lot to us to help see this program go forward because we see what it does for kids. I'll let you talk about your kids. Absolutely. We h so many of you helped so many community members and it was cool to see community members later on Facebook talking about how much they enjoyed it. That was really cool. Um so I have three groups, four students who've qualified um for state and what I was thinking is that the two young ladies who did individual exhibits if they could maybe I could ask them a question so none pressure but a little bit about their topic and maybe you could take a moment to see their wonderful exhibits and then I'd like
006to have the two young men who um took first place uh in group documentary show theirs if That's okay. All right. Um, so Noel with you. Hello. I like this. It's kind of like power. I need this. You don't have to. If you want to, you can wave. That's fine. I can talk about your wonderful project, too. Um, Noel uh is this is her second year doing NHD. And um last year I was like I'm very uncomfortable with exhibits and really let's do documentaries performances. She no I I want to do um an exhibit and she was a person in a while that went on to state and now she's going on to state again. Tell us about your project. Okay. My project is about women in the national parks um and their fight for
007being able to work in the national parks because for a long time they weren't able to they couldn't do it. It was like no because it was mainly male dominated and that changed during World War II and females well it they've been in parks for a while but not a plethora but during World War II they came in full force to take over the jobs of many men rangers because they went off to war. So that's mainly what my project is. Awesome. Hello. I won't put if you don't want to. Kylin is very first time doing uh NHD and she's also going to stay with the exhibit. You want to just say what your topic is or my topic is Senica Falls and the woman who took responsibility to fight for women's rights. It's about
008the first uh women's rights movement that was held in New York and it just started like started rolling the the women's like rights. Awesome. And if you get a chance to look at these, I'd like to point out that teacher never tells the students what their projects are. Not at all. And these topics they found out they're what they and it's really cool when your kids very quickly know way more than you do about your topic. That's very cool. Oh, what was the theme? Right and responsibility. Every year there's a different theme and the uh the projects uh whether they're ancient, um 1960s, whatever, they all have to fit the theme. And this year's theme is rights and responsibilities. And they had to show both rights and responsibilities. Um, I don't know the best way
009to You want to take a few minutes and go look at it? Yeah. So on um April Saturday, April 26th, we have a bus picking up our group. Um 17 from the middle school, nine from the high school leaving at 4:00 a.m. And because and we need to be we need to be able to set up exhibits um and everything. and then um probably finish uh Belleview Middle School, Belleview High School, I remember Lake Washington High School and um probably finish there about six o'clock and then we have a nice ride back home. So, it's going to be a long day. Um I'm going to ask these gentlemen to introduce themselves and their project and that'll be our last thing to show you. Thank you so much. Um, yeah. Um, my name is Tar Gupta.
010I'm Enoch Timber. And, um, we, um, made a project on Brown v. Board of Education and how, um, Oliver Brown fought for educational rights for all children in America. Yeah. he was able to end segregation and we thought a documentary would be a good way to convey it because of like it would visually show the story and how it progressed and how it affected America. In the last three years that we've done NHD, um we've been to state three times and um we've made a documentary in sixth grade and a website uh in seventh grade. Um, we've learned a lot from our experiences and have been able to use our knowledge to create this documentary for you. So, um, enjoy. Thank you. [Music] Brown v Board of Education was a combination of court cases made
011by black men such as Oliver Brown in the 1950s to challenge the constitutionality of school segregation. It argued that separate education could never be equal and it was the country's responsibility to grant colored people the same educational rights as whites. The outcome of the case completely reformed America's educational system, being one of the first steps to ending segregation as a whole and sang the stage for major civil rights movements throughout the country. After the Civil War ended in 1865, America was still struggling with the effects left by slavery. The most prominent being the segregation of whites and blacks. The Jim Crow laws were black codes reinstated to combat reconstruction and can be traced back to the 1860s. Southern whites resented the reconstruction period as under it, blacks received rights through the newly ratified 13th, 14th,
012and 15th amendments. The Jim Crow laws after being created began to dominate the American South, legalizing the segregation of whites and blacks. In 1896, the Supreme Court officially legalized segregation in a case called EV Ferguson. The decision of this case established the doctrine separately equal. This allowed there to be separate facilities for white and colored individuals as long as they were deemed equal. However, this doctrine continued to allow racial inequality as education for colored children was often inferior in quality and resources. We call them paper shacks. They were really uh wooden buildings with paper on the outside and a wood stove inside. The stoves have gotten big holes in them. Uh when they made fires in them, the hot coals would jump out. Whoever sat behind the stove, that was your job to get the
013coals back in so the building wouldn't burn. And at the time, you know, when you flip the coals back in, you think it's funny, but we could see that this was no no condition for learning. And um we knew that we we deserve something better. All of this discrimination motivated organizations such as the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to reach out to colored parents who want to take a stand against school segregation. America had a responsibility to ensure the rights of its people, especially the equal education of all its citizens. And these parents could not keep waiting for change. Something had to be done. In the summer of 1950, schools in Topeka, Kansas, were segregated based on race and ethnicity. When Oliver Brown's daughter, Linda Brown, was about to enter the
014third grade, her father tried to enroll her in Sumar Elementary School. Linda had been attending Monroe School, which was for colored children, but Sumar was exclusively for white children only. The journey to get to Monroe School was both hazardous and long for Linda. To catch the bus, she had to walk around 2 miles through an active train depot. If the bus arrived on time, she had to wait another hour outside the school in the cold. Summer Elementary, however, was just seven blocks away. Being a young child, uh when I first started the walk, it was very frightening to me. Um and then when wintertime came, it was a very cold walk. I remember that. I remember uh walking, tears freezing up on my face because I began to cry because it was so cold and
015many times I had to turn around and run back home. Oliver Brown went up to Summer Elementary to talk to them about possibly enrolling Linda into the school. After a long and heated discussion, the principal replied, "Although I am not opposed to integrated schools, the school board is, and there's nothing I can do about it." After being rejected, Topeka's local NAACP approached Brown along with other black parents to join an action against the school board. All the parents were facing similar issues with their children's education. Either the schools their children attended were too far away from their home or too dangerous to reach. Along with this, schools for the whites and the colored were hardly equal. In an effort with the NAACP, the parents decide to sue and each of their cases were combined to
016form the case Brown v. Board of Education. Oliver Brown and the other black parents wanted to challenge the constitutionality of school segregation as it took rights away from colored children who wanted an equal education. Brown people board of education argued that separate education could never be equal and it was the country's responsibility to grant blacks the same educational rights as whites. This responsibility grant in the 14th amendment of the constitution was to provide equal protection under the laws, a right promised to all citizens of the United States, including blacks. In December 1952, the Supreme Court first heard arguments for Brown Board of Education. Many white and colored individuals waited in lines to see the hearing, but no conclusion was reached. During the court's recess, Chief Justice Vincent died and Chief Justice Warren was appointed. In
017December 1953, the court heard the case again and on May 17th, 1954, unanimously ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The court said separate can never be equal and that segregation also violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Undoubtedly, one of the main impacts of Brown Board of Education was that it gave blacks equal educational rights by ending school segregation. Surely the schools being required to immigrate would finally give blacks the equal education they had fought so hard for, right? America's responsibility to give these rights to colored people would no longer be neglected. Sadly, no. Unsurprisingly, the major societal change was met quickly with backlash and resistance. Protests from whites not wanting to integrate began, as well as even some schools shutting down in response to the ruling. In addition to this, many black
018teachers lost their jobs once schools reluctantly began integrating who would not hire them. Fortunately, despite opposition from schools, integration slowly began to take place throughout America with Brown v. Board of Education shining a light on America's neglected responsibility to provide the rights listed on its own constitution. Civil rights movements quickly began spreading throughout the country. With hope for desegregation in other areas of society, black Americans started more battles against the unconstitutionality of segregation and other violations of their rights. This is shown by the trend of the most major civil rights movements that directly followed the ruling of brown people of education. One of the major figures of the civil rights movement is Martin Luther King who wrote in an essay he published in 1969 that justice for black people will not flow into this society
019merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. This showed that even 15 years after Brown v. Board of Education, major civil rights leaders still focused on America's responsibility to provide equal rights for all its citizens. In conclusion, Brown v Board of Education by ending the segregation of schools changed the life of every American, showing that America had a responsibility to give colored people equal rights regarding education. This was not only a legal victory, but one of the greatest victories for the civil rights movement. This case was a powerful catalyst, igniting further efforts to end segregation in all aspects of community, allowing people to join the struggle for equality. With the landmark decision,
020the court case created a future for children to attend school together free of segregation and established a responsibility that America could no longer ignore. One that would expand the rights of all Americans into the coming future. America would have to accept that separate is never equal. Yeah, great job. Did it very well putting that together and thank you for sharing Okay, next up, do we have anybody signed in? No. Blake, anybody online? Okay, we're going to go past that one. And moving on to student representative reports. Cammy, you're up first. The one big thing happening in athletics right now is next Saturday, the 19th, is the 63rd Proer Rotary invite. That's all I have. Alexander, um before we went on break, uh the food service had their micro greens little show during uh lunch. Um
021they showed off micro greens such as like uh broccoli and uh radishes and got students feedback on how they thought of it. And today we went over like what the students thought and what we can do going forward to try to promote eating more greens. What was the perception? I didn't get to see the whole thing, but from what I did see, uh students did like uh the radish and they did like the broccoli more when they were told that it was sweet. Thanks, Alexander. Any questions for Cam or Alexander? Thank you. All right, moving on to discussion items. Uh building reports. First up is Jesse Wilson, Keen River View. Hi. Um, we're just, it's April and so that just means that we start kind of looking at what next year is all about. So,
022bringing our leadership teams together and starting with that process. So, we're doing that. Um, right before break, my teams did some big big data dive and just kind of planned to give our last final push. um the last part of the school year. So looking at our ERA data and our Neil data and getting kids where they need to be at so that we can get them pushing until the last part of the school year. So um they're working hard on that right now. And then going into springtime, um just lots of events. We have Reptile Man tomorrow, Grizz's Farm on Friday, um and then May we'll do a family picnic. Um kindergarteners will do a a concert. Can't remember the date on that one. Um, our first grade's working on the Jungle Book with
023Princess Theater right now and then just all the other end of the year activities, play day and all that stuff the last week of school. So, that's all. You guys have any questions? Any questions? Actually, would you please share about your evacuation drill and the time response, please? Oh, yeah. Um, we just had safety and security. So, we did a evac drill um from obviously in the building to across the street to the park and we had everyone evacuated and accounted for within four minutes. So, it's pretty fast for our littles. Good job. Yeah. So, very excited about that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Next up is director of migrant bilingual Eric Lorz. Eric, are you online? Okay, I guess we'll move keep moving on. Uh, next up is review of policy 5281,
024uh, disciplinary action and discharge. So, um, the first thing I want to talk about is this is a discussion item. We're looking at all of our policies based on age, right? And so if you look at this, um, I have a printed out copy. Um, if you really word smith it, there's very little word change. A lot of is format listing, taking out a lot of the paragraph idea, listing things by items. Um, and um, so I'm open for discussion to our staff members that are here and are listening. There is no major changes on for example adding something to the list that you could receive discipline on or anything like that. Does that make sense? It's more in formatting. So WASDA Washington School Directors Association has a a legal team that reviews our and
025creates what's called a model policy and as either legal cases are done or things have been done they have it reviewed. So, what this is one that um is I hate to use the word used a lot because that means it sounds like people in I don't mean that but it's a big reference that we have to so Sean Mumford our legal attorney has looked it through. These are the pieces and so it's here for discussion. I'm open for any comments or questions and that's what I've got for you. Questions for Tim? Um, I have one. Okay. Under the non-disciplinary dismissal, it let me in. Are you reading looking in the blue? Um, in the one that's got all the You can even go to the draft. Okay. Okay. Um, it says for non-represented and
026classified employees. Let me get there. Non-disipline. Okay. and certific certifi certificated administrators may be subject to non-disciplinary dismissal or behavior such as but not limited to uh providing proof of vaccination or refusal to obtain a med medical or religious accommodation. Why is that the only thing in there? That's a very good question. I don't have an answer. So that would be something I would have to research for you. Um and is that typical for We represent collect that debt as well. We don't collect then I think it should be taken off of the policy. And I'm looking over my shoulder to Selena. We probably want to research that and ask where that comes from. There must be a reason. There must be a reason, but we need to answer the question and or remove it
027at your request. Um, but I want to know the answer to the reason and then um I can send that out to you as as an email as a do not reply all with the answer and then somebody could say please move forward with the removal. But um this is one of those pieces that when they give us something as a model policy then it's kind of right. I'm wondering if this went back to the COVID situation and the vaccination piece. I'm wondering if it's left over. It wasn't really required then. Wasn't even required then though. So, I don't know. So, I'm going to have to do some research as to why. I've got a big star there. Thank you. That was the only question I had. Anybody else? I think we could move forward
028with uh once we get the right information and I will bring the um next version but I will notify you ahead of time. So but I will answer publicly at the start of the next first reading. Okay. Thank you. A question. Uhhuh. Afraid to ask because I'm afraid to answer. Um but maybe it's one of those um ones that we don't know why it's in there. So, back on um page two under all the alphabetized bullets, it says in the event that allegations or charges are made against Which letter? Oh, it's just below that. Oh, I'm sorry. So, after the last after Z. Mhm. In the event that allegations or charges are made against a staff member for misconduct with minors, the superintendent may contact CPS for evidence regarding whether the staff member is an
029adjudicated or admitted perpetrator of child abuse or neglect. Is that not something that a background check would tell us already initially, but not necessarily? So I'm going to because my friend is here has been here a long long time. Um her initial background check but not something unless it came up in something in her 30 years there was reason to check it again. Banking for clarifying that. So we so it's not likely that would be a secret if something like that happened with somebody but I mean we don't go back and do a background check like periodically. Yeah. But typically this is something we would have already known about a staff member. Oh, before we hired them for sure. Yeah. So if it's something that way. Um so we have office of professional practice. We
030have our background checks and those kinds of logs. That decision to hire that person initially would be either pro or con. But like I said, if it was something that was going on and there hadn't been reason for us to be notified, then that would be a step that we would go through. Um, thanks for at looking at that. I It gave me another question. Um, I've lost all my notes or in my computer and it's not turning on. And um, under you, it says the use of habit forming drugs without pharmaceutical prescription. We all get that part. Uh, but there are pharmarmac suitical there are prescriptions that of for drugs that may render you your poor judgment or incoherent. How would that be handled as part of this? And would it make sense to
031I don't I don't even know how you write the language for it, but would it make sense to add something like that? So, if an employee has that type of medication, they're supposed to inform their supervisor that they could have something that it, you know, impacts them. I mean, it could be something that like, oh, my medicine might make me pass out, or something like that. But, um, if that were the case, that would be more like thinking somebody was under the influence of something, which would maybe lead to someone noticing that. But, it does. Um, I mean, you could be prescribed something that would not really allow you to work, but I would hope that the doctor would say you shouldn't be at work until you are off this medication. effect. I mean, we
032don't necessarily know those things, right? I read that as using a prescription drug without a prescription. These are the habit forming drug without pharmaceutical prescription by a doctor of medicine. So, you're getting you took the bike in, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that means Yeah. Right. And I get that part, but I'm just saying if if you had a bike in or whatever whatever drug that you know you always prescribed, right? prescribed that says don't run heavy machinery or you know drive a product or you know what I mean so if yes things that I've taken ventil says may cause drowsiness right I mean good medicine I mean but prescribed medicines may say that and so it may impede my operation or you know I'm sitting at my desk for can't hold my eyes open
033so I think that so I agree way I'm getting to it is if if you do have a prescription, but say you're not supposed to drive machinery, but you do say you get on a lawn mower, drive a a school vehicle, something bad happens in that case, they they they should I mean that would be so there's a fine line. No, no. And if an employee, say an employee, had a prescribed medication and came to work maybe under the influence of that and wasn't behaving in their normal fashion, it wouldn't be the same kind of situation as this. So, perfect. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Yeah. Um, yeah, this kind of brought up um question. Um, so kind of along these lines, and I'm by no means am I condoning the use of
034illegal drugs, but looking at the the use of alcohol beverages on district premises or a district sponsored activity, um, this discussion about drugs kind of led me to that line. Um, I guess what people are doing on their own time, um, shouldn't be a fireable offense, right? No, that would kind of follow lines of the alcohol not on premise. I'm going to pick on myself. I I I choose to have an adult beverage and and I receive a DUI leaving a facility. Um that would be something if you look at my contract um unprofessional conduct, right? And how I represent the school district. So that could fall under that piece. It would definitely relieve me from driving any district vehicles or so on and so forth. whether it relieves me from my duty as a
035superintendent and the other part would be the decision of the board. And so um I think we also have some responsibility to the community and the students in which we serve that if it's impeding the potential to impede the what you're representing it may come into play differently than um I can't think of an example right now but I mean like go to a Seattle Mariners game and you're a baseball coach and you get in trouble at the Mariners game I don't know if that's a direct reflection of you as a coach does that make sense what I'm trying to say so I think it would depend on but yet what you do in your person time does not necessarily directly impact your day job. But this policy does say um who conduct themselves on
036or off the job um in ways that affect the that affect their effectiveness on the job. So if there's some sort of like issue that seems to be coming up in the public, it's creating some sort of disruption to the learning environment, those kinds of things. So, it is possible in this policy that your behavior outside of your actual work time could impact your employment. Yeah. Thank you. Any other questions? That same line that Brian brought up confused me a little bit when I read it because it said um I mean I get no use of alcoholic beverages on district premises and then it says or add a district sponsored activity off district premises and I was wondering like are there scenarios where that happens like you're at a district sponsored event somewhere else not
037a school and there's alcohol being provided. I'm going to use when I go to a state conference. I'm off to third property. I am representing the procure school district when I'm there and there's five superintendent. It's 10:00 at night. Somebody says, "Let's go have a drink down at the bar." Being very transparent. My behavior there is a direct reflection of me as a superintendent. I'm not saying I can't have a drink. I'm just saying my behavior there or if I get in trouble that is a direct reflection of how I represent the proxer school district and so I don't know the hotel says sorry Miss Casey you have been loud and obnoxious at 3:00 a.m. you are leaving our facility that is a black mark for the proer school district you I don't think you
038would want my that behavior for your superintendent right I'm just saying that as an example of an offer district property that's a direct reflection of my job yeah I suppose it's okay because it just says that behavior may pause right so I guess what I was worried about was like we're not saying you can't go have that drink at 10 o'clock Okay. And I think for everybody who's listening, especially if there's students listening or whatever, as a as an adult over the age of 20, it's called age majority. I have that, right? But I have a responsibility for the role that I'm playing even off when I'm not a superintendent, right? Um I go to the whiskey and beerfest in ProEer, right? That doesn't mean I can't have an adult beverage, but it does say
039I have a responsibility to our community to behave in a certain way. Thanks. Any other questions, students? Great. Thank you. Uh, moving on to the review of policy 1000, legal status and operation. This one's pretty cut and dried. Any questions on this one? I have I have a comment and I realize this is the model policy and school district, we didn't draft it, but this The S in state of Washington should always be alive in that instance. And just in general, whoever wrote this hates the language. It's just painful to read. But maybe we could maint I believe they're written by an attorney for WA. Well, they don't all had, right? Yeah. Right. Um, so what I will always ask is it is hard. So if when we bring you the first one, right, after
040we bring it in a draft form and it's first, we really do like you to be our critical fund. And if you see those things, we would like to make them before we bring them to you for a second. Any other questions on this one? Are you good to move this forward? Thank you. We will work on the spelling and potential punctuation. I'll give you a reply. Okay. Actually, you can give that to Selena. Okay. All right. Next up is action item. Uh number one, out of state travel request for boys and girls basketball to Post Falls, Idaho. Hello. Logan. Uh Toby's not here tonight, but I'm here representing boys and girls basketball. And we have a outofstate tournament planned for June 20th to Celane, Idaho. So we are asking for your approval to travel
041to Celane with our uh boys and girls basketball programs in June. If you have questions, please ask them. You did the fundrais for the ultra? Yes, we've I mean we fundraised all through our season and all through our summer last summer, this season. We'll fund raise again this summer, next season. So, we just turned in our budget and everything this week. So, we uh should be good to go with that. Any other questions? Is this replacing Oregon or Yes. So, it's similar to what we've done before at the Oregon Coast, but the tournament last year, if you all remember, we got approval to go there and then the girls tournament was uh not what we thought it was going to be. So, we made plans to do this one together this year instead. Nice. Questions?
042I move to approve out of state travel for the boys and girls basketball team to Post Falls, Idaho. A second. been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, next up is out of state travel request for HOSA to Nashville, Tennessee. Hello, I'm Mackenzie Lopez. I'm the host of future health professionals um adviser with the high school and this year we at state had three students who qualified for the international leadership conference in um Nashville, Tennessee in June and so I'm seeking your approval to take those three students as well as myself and a parent chaperone to Nashville for those states June 17th through 22nd. And if you have any questions let me know. you have the funds to go or you go fund
043raise. We have just about We're almost done. We're waiting on a hospital uh letter donation and then we'll be good. Yeah. What are the topics that that they qualified for? So, these three did a performance uh in the public health category and their topic this year was the epidemic of loneliness that's sweeping the young adult population. and they got second at state um in this event out of uh over 40 kids in Washington state that competed. And so they get to go do their performance. We get to figure out how to ship all of their props to Nashville, which is going to be a fun time. Uh but yeah, they get to go do their performance there um among international. It's a global thing. It's not just in the United States. So yeah. Awesome. Yeah.
044Any other questions? One move to approve out of state travel for HOSA to Nashville, Tennessee. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Good luck. Uh, next up is a consultant service agreement with Kyle Yedder. Hello again. Uh consultant agreement form for Kyle Yedder for our middle school track meet which is May 13th and it's $600 and I'm requesting if we can use him for his timing services for our meet. Any question? questions for Jackson. Before I leave though, just want to let everyone know our S team beat View in a shootout. It was epic. We were 54. That's why I was a little bit late. Well, that's exciting. Well, I move to approve the consultant service agreement with Kyle Gdder. been moved and
045seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Thanks, Jackson. Thank you. Uh, next up is the consultant service agreement for prom 2025. Hi, I'm Lacy Martin and I uh and this is Mrs. Vandergraph and we are the supervisors for prom this year and so we're here seeking your approval to use our venue and vendors that are part of your packet. Um prom will be hosted on May 3rd this year at Wine Country Gardens. And then part of the packet is um our DJ uh the photo booth and then also the vendor and photographer. Thank you. Any questions? No, but I would like to commend you for keeping it local. I really appreciate that. Thank you. That's important. we we're happy to be able to support local and also we are
046thankful that um our local venue wine country gardens they did give our students a discount so they do have a healthy budget in their ASV funds that but I it's our goal also to be respectful of the fact they're going to be seniors next year right so we don't want to blow their whole budget so u we're thankful to them and our photographer and some of these other groups who are working with us to help and we hope it's going to be a wonderful evening for our kids any other questions I move to approve the consultant service agreement for prom 2025. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the consultant service agreement for prom 2025. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Mo. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Uh,
047next up is a 2526 student calendar. It's a little bit later than it has been. Um, student calendars are probably one of the most tenuous, for lack of a better words, things challenging things that we do. One, we um coordinate things like Tri-Tech. So, we work with the Kenowick School District who manages Tri-Tech. We try and be respectful of our neighboring districts. So if a person lives in one district and works in a different excuse me lives in one city and works in a different district so forth. So um this was a challenge um to do that. And then I'm I'm just going to share with you in case anybody's listening the um Brand School approved their calendar last night at their schoolboard meeting which is the same week in case that comes up. The
048Pasco and Richland school districts are the next week. Penowix is this week, the one that we're using because of tri. Um, and that's the other piece. Jackson's no longer here, but we also look at the impact on our spring athletes. Um, and try and coordinate as close we can. practices are sometimes optional versus if we get too many then they don't ever really get a break with their family or something like that. So we try and take all those things into consideration. So the pea and the teachers group have approved this calendar and I'm bringing it to you today. Any questions? I do. By the way, Selena did that fancy formatting. This is our first time of using all these colors. So it was difficult. Um, Kim, I mentioned this to you before this year.
049I think it's unusual to take the entire week of Thanksgiving off. I don't think there are any neighboring districts that do that. And until this year, we didn't do it either. Um, personally, I mean, maybe maybe it can be changed at this point, but I think those um extra two days probably be better used somewhere else, whether it's like a mid- winter break around presidents or um starting later or ending earlier in the year. But I wish our pea was here. Um Deiana and I can kind of tell you that story. Um we tried it last year and boy we got some like so if you remember before it happened it was either loved or hated right and so if you remember right one of my commitments was we were going to stop half days
050before vacations the cost of the subs. So when we went to the to them, we were like, we're not having a half day on the website before Thanksgiving and we're not doing the half day before winter break. And so it came about that we're going to try the whole week off, which a couple years ago, Sunnyside had Yeah, there were several districts that did it and that's where that idea I think came from. And so that was kind of how it happened. Then they initially said to us, "No, we're we're going back to just Wednesday, Thursday, Friday." And then several of their members spoke out saying they like the week off. So they proposed that and that's okay has happened. It is in the PA contract that it's a joint venture. The other thing to
051note here is the 6th of March is a snow day. If we I mean if we don't use it then use snow day which is the Friday of state basketball so that we can possibly try and save some substitute costs on that. Well in the future I think it'd be great if we could renegotiate that. Well noted. I have a question when it comes to the first day of school for uh TK and kinder. Um it starts on the Friday before uh Labor Day. And my qu does that even make sense? I mean if if instead of going and waiting till Tuesday of the following week. Uh it's because there's only so first thing is the reason they start later is because nobody can handle starting TK Kinder and everybody else on the same day
052in elementary building. Okay. It's it's Jesse's not here anymore, but it is all hands on deck the first day I can imagine. And then on the day that TK and Kender start, it's like all hands on deck plus like from the district office, we all we all go help. So, but there's only a certain number of days and I think believe that it's three. So, you have to start that day and so it is kind of a soft start for them though. Get a go, they're exhausted, they go home, rest for a few days and start over on Tuesday. Then the chaos starts all over on Tuesday. Then you Yes. But then it's about a week. So I don't know if you remember this, but our administrative support staff, we almost closed the office. It's
053all hands- on deck. We all go you enjoy last year, but that was the first day of school. You better come back for TK day this time. It was chaos. Organized chaos. Organized chaos. It was fun, but Jason worked really hard finding those lunch tickets for those kindergarteners and TK. It was It was It was a thing. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Does this need to be approved then? I move to approve the 2526 student calendar. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the 2526 student calendar. Students, it doesn't matter because you're not going to use it. They're like, I don't care. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is the professional agreement for the professional engineering service for Proer School District natural hazard assessment. I
054don't know. Andy, are you on? I don't believe so. I can tell you about this, but I'm just giving him the opportunity. Um, so I This is one of those that I'm going to try and keep a really straight face. We have to have a seismic plan and it is a state requirement and so it's I don't know 7,000 whatever 5500 5500 and then it's it's a pass through money. It's not something that comes out of our budget. We have to do it. There's no ifs or buts. And so we do it. We pay them. They come and do the testing or make sure our buildings meet the requirements and then submit it to the state of Washington. They do that when we build the new school. You have to do them every so many
055years. So we I I don't know they did it. Let's just pretend they did it two years before the building. I don't know what the rotation is and now it's our turn up again. So, of the 295 districts, you're on a rotation of every seventh year or every 10th year. Gotcha. Thank you. Any questions? No, that was my question on new construction. So, that's I I'm happy to say that's why it's like 5500 because the buildings are of a certain age that they had certain requirements. I think if you were in a district where your buildings were older and had other requirements, right, then your I don't want to say your evacuation plan, but your plans, your sustainability plans may be very different than if we didn't have the new buildings. Question two. I'll I'll
056move to approve the agreement for the professional engineering services for proer school district natural hazard assessment. I'll second been moved and seconded. Uh student. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Moving on to the first reading of policy 1430. Audience participation. The only difference that's presented to you is we did change it to 21 minutes instead of 20. So we now have good math in our in our agenda or in our policy. Everybody better use their full three minutes. That really messed up. That throws it off. Yeah. Any questions on this policy? I'll move to approve the first reading of policy 1430. audience participation. Second. It's been moved and second to approve the first readings reading of policy 1430 audience participation. Student. All those in favor signify by saying I.
057I. Motion carries. Uh next up is the first reading of policy 1420 proposed agenda and consent agenda. So there's really no different than what was presented here. Um I do want to talk about something and for people who are are regular um followers of our board meetings um you'll notice that the title of the line says first reading of policy 1420. But when you look at the supporting materials, it's policy and then a procedure. School boards approve policies. um district administration create the procedures to be able to follow the policies. So we always submit the procedures so people have access to them so they know what they say but our board is approving policy not procedures. Thank you. Any questions on that? Pol. I move to approve first reading of policy 1420, proposed agenda and
058consent agenda. I'll second. It's been moved and second to approve the first reading of policy 1420. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I I motion carries. Moving on to the first reading of policy 6115 information security. So I see something here and I'm going to I'm opening this up. It says 6115 but it says 6551 down on the policy. Can I have just a moment to see where the error is so I can address the error? I believe it is a typo in the heading supposed to be 6115 in in number nine where it says 615 it should be 6551 in actual not in the policy itself on our agenda. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Oh, the policy is correct. I just wanted to make sure before I spoke which one was
059Well, it was interesting to see that something fell through the cracks two years ago. There was a lot going on in August. Um, so reading this, um, Sean, I see you had a bunch of notes in there for changes or questions, concerns. What is in the board packet, I believe, included the red line, those policies actually come from ESD 112 out of Vancouver. Uh, we really mimic those. However, their policies were wrote for an ESD. I massage them to be relative to our district. So, Sean, let's take just a minute to explain the organization that's going to help us and the different pieces. Can you just kind of share that like what we talked about in my office? Yeah, I'd love to. So, uh, we're the the the whole point behind those policies and procedures
060are really so that we've got a guideline on how to, uh, to manage our network, how to manage access to our network, how to manage who has access to what, uh, when it comes to our vendors that VPN into our network, as well as staff uh, contractors that come into our district. Uh there's one there for PCI compliance. I have to by law have something uh because we take credit cards at the high school and well we take them all throughout the district now. Uh so that's really covering our basis there when we do our BCI compliance every year. Uh we have a policy or a procedure to back up how we handle those transactions. like can't open the your notes now that I'm on this thing. Um, but I know you had some notes
061and I I'm going to just go off of memory uh because I don't have my computer but no there's notes within the document. Um, can you get them to open up? They don't open on the iPad. Well, they opened on my computer and they probably did. Yes. Um, and I think you had some good comments there. I'm not going to be able to remember what they were, but I think some of them were languaged driven um or word driven or word smmith or something like that. Um should we have those? I mean, they seem valid to me, but I don't know. I'll be super honest. I did that two years ago. Uh do you remember what they were? I mean, I reviewed it when I took it to Kim to put it back on the
062on the document or back on the agenda. See, I I'll try here. So, I'm in the draft policy and after number four and the of the guiding principles on the first page, Shandis has a comment that she feels like that po portion on information privacy belongs in a separate policy is the first comment. Second comment is under security procedures. Uh the bullet number one um and it says I think that it's wordy and she didn't like the phrase likelihood. Um in the fourth bullet in that same area where it says employee tools uh she says we are not large enough to need multiple tools. I don't know if that's changed in the last two years but it could have. Uh and there's a dot on employee responsibilities. It says uh that the reference to an
063international security standard is unnecessary and requiring us to address these areas in our procedure looks it locks us into a format we don't need. And then lastly on the legal references um she just wanted to make sure that was uh evaluated for the correct content. Does that bring everything back to you? It does. Thank you. Perhaps we should postpone this to our next coordinator. Yeah, maybe. I yeah, I would think if we could put or at figure out what the if the language is correct and some of your edits and comments and um I guess if it's happy to how would you like me to bring that back to you? I would make the corrections you're suggesting. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, the yellow dots were fancy. We haven't had that before. Nice. We've waited a couple
064years. I think we can wait a week and a half. Yeah, I think that's probably just fine as well. Okay. Thank you. So, I'm going to move to take uh postpone this to our next meeting. Second. Okay. Oh, shall it. All right. Thank you. So, I've made a motion to postpone uh the first reading of policy 6551. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is the second final reading of policy 6702, wellness. No changes since our last meeting. Move to approve the second final reading of policy 6702. It's been moved and seconded to approve the final reading of policy 6702. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I motion carries. Uh moving on to the second and final reading of policy 3241, student discipline.
065Not good. There's nothing changes since our last meeting. I'm sorry. Move to approve the second plan reading of policy 3241 student discipline. Second, it's been moved and seconded to approve the final read final reading of policy 3241. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up is resolution uh 0525 declaring surplus technology. Pretty straightforward. Do you have any questions about anything on it? A lot of surplus there is. It should be our last batch of surplus from all the moving that has gone on. Uh if you remember, well I don't remember what happened yesterday sometimes, but a year ago we had a really large batch of surplus that went as well. Um this should be the final piece to that. After that, it should go back to pre-build
066type surplus. Two on. This is also part of the continuation of the emptying of the storage units, emptying of locations, all of that. There's just legal policies that we have to do, legal processes, excuse me, that we have to do and cleaning and destroying hard drives and there's different pieces like that and it's just very time consuming. There is, I don't know, I want to say 120 of those desktops that are on there I got from Richland High School. before COVID when we bought everybody laptops. So, that's a big chunk of it, too. And it's just been in storage since then. Um, I'll move to Well, is there any question? Sorry. Question. I move to approve resolution 0525 declaring surplus technology. I'll second. Been moved and second to approve resolution 0525 declaring surplus technology. This
067is a roll call vote. Students, you're good. Alexander, you good? Uh Brian, hi. Alisa, I I two will vote I. The motion carries and Michelle stepped out for just a second. So, we're going to move on to vouchers. Any questions on vouchers? kind of a light-hearted thing as you're looking through your notes or whatever. You like how we're spending less money? Yes, I do. Delisa is really glad when I quit spending money or when we quit spending money. Anybody have any questions, students? You don't have a question? Nope, I don't. Okay. I can make a motion to approve vouchers and payroll. I didn't mean to jeopardy. It's been moved and seconded to approve vouchers and payroll students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Uh, next up, that concludes our action
068items. Next up is our consent agendum. Consent agenda items uh one through three. Make the motion to approve the consent items. Second. Been moved and seconded to approve approve the consent agenda. students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. And that concludes all the action items for tonight. Moving on to reports. Elise, you're up first. Okay. Um I am doing February financials. Um and I emailed them all to you separately today, too, because I was a little late in getting these uh submitted. Um so it's I mean it's not a secret where we're at financially. um 3.91 fund balance is not great. Um however, it's a lot better than we were last month. Um and if we look at February of 2324, you're operating at a 3 3.43 fund balance
069at this time last year. Um a lot of that has to do with the aortionment advancement that we got from the state. Um and that also has to do with our increased expenditures in the month of February because we played catch-up. So you can see um M socks were around $200,000 for a few months and then they skyrocketed to eight um because we got to pay all of our bills and employees and all that great stuff. Um so uh we are still on track to come in under budget um as you can see we're at 49.26% of expenditures. Um and we're halfway through the year. So we're we're coming in under under what we predicted. Hopefully we can can keep that momentum through August. I have one question on the um the general fund financial
070statement. Mhm. When I look at the expenditures for the balance of the year, um, as a percent, yes. Um, you have regular instruction, special ed, and, uh, vocational ed all in that upper 80s, low upper 90s. Are the are you saying are is there potential that we could keep some of that money as far as savings on our expenses? I know some are is already in income. You're talking as in like the actual fund balance report. Um as in if if we're going to spend all of it, right? Is that what you're asking? Right. Um well, that that's a great question. Uh CTE, we don't have to spend all of it. We have to spend a certain amount. Um and then that gets carried over. Um so this year he had a small carryover. Um,
071and then with the state and federal grants, we want to spend those. That's that's a wash. Um, and so if we don't spend all of them, we lose that. We we can lose some of that money next year. Okay. Um, that goes with transportation. So transportation, if we don't spend all of what the state allocates us, they can dock us the year after because we it per se. Um, so we need to make sure that some of these programs we are we are spending so we don't lose money next year. So if I look at regular instruction, we're sitting at 99.23%. Right. Um, I'm on the very your very first. Yes. But that includes incumbences, right? But we still have a balance of 175,000. So, is that saying that we have a potential to not
072spend that 175,000 by the end of this fiscal year? Okay, that's correct. And these on the program expenditures we for regular instruction, it's it's a little bit different. Um, for sped again, we we have to spend all of that. Voke, we have to spend all of that. Um but it it intermixes. So like the support services that includes 9700 which is districtwide which also includes it's all general. Okay. So we still have $1 million to spend in that and we have to spend it. We do we do not have to spend that. No. That's that's all portion money. Okay. and whether or not and so our goal is to have the program monies spent and not spend general gen so we can carry forward and increase our fund balance continuously. So, um, a couple of
073state and federal programs are 100, there's a couple that are 100% carryover. Title two and, um, title three, my the migrant are 100% carryover. Uh, LAP is 10%, title one is 15%. Um, and then some you have to spend them all, but some of them have a little bit of carryover, so it gives you a little bit of cushion, which for us, I know that they would like me to spend it all. I would like to have some carryover because I know next year we're going to lose money again. So, uh, because of our enrollment and because of our, uh, yeah, poverty level. CTE. So, CTE is going down next year also. And so, you'll probably see Rick try and be more conservative this year and not spend as much as of his money so
074he can carry it forward to next year. So, he's not eating into the general. Why would CT going down for next year? Enrollment. Enrollment. Just start enrollment. Thank you. Other questions for Deise? Thank you. Okay, moving on. Deanna, I'll be quick and brief. I was on vacation for part of the past two weeks. So, uh, we did, uh, our Witstrand principal interviews. Uh, that's still in process. Kim will probably talk more about that. And uh we did get um today moving forward there's a new high school and beyond plan format called school links that the state is adopting um for all districts to use. So if you have a student that's been through the high school you've seen high school and beyond plan before. So this will be a new platform and it's it's required
075in 2627 but we opted in for 2526 so that we could learn how to use it and it starts actually at the middle school. they have to uh start by 8th grade, but they can start as early as seventh grade and then it rolls on with them up and through up through high school. So there'll be um there's a lot there's more learning for us to do on that for sure. But that's it for me. Questions for Diana? Sienna D. So as you know, I always give you a one pager. It doesn't mean that I need to talk through all of this. I just like to always touch on the prince uh Widstrom principal search. Um, they did round one. Diana was in charge of that. They had two groups. Diana can kind of tag
076team me on this. She's going to cough. So, um, we had one group that had parents and administrators, one group that had teachers, paras, um, office folks, and then, um, and so they did two different interviews, and then, uh, Kevin Gilman took them on a tour of the building, uh, kind of just have an informal discussion. So now, so tomorrow, each group chose their top one and two. And so I want everybody to understand tomorrow they're doing a one- on-one. We're not a small private interview with myself and Kevin Gilman. Just because we're at this point of the piece doesn't mean we will or will not hire a principal. We have many options available. We can say, "Oh my gosh, here's the next principal." Or we can say, "I I I'm going to come to
077you as a board and say, I think we need to reopen this." Right? Or we we're going to We had a really good pool. We had 21 candidates. Maybe we didn't interview the right people, so we're going to go for a second set of interviews. We Diana explained, we're early in the principal piece. A lot of them are starting to post but they don't close them or they do different things. So we have to find the right person. Um we've heard from different members and different people meaning members of different union or bargaining groups and we've heard from all different people. So, just because we do these interviews and um I do a private inter or a small interview with them doesn't mean we're going to necessarily I may be bringing you a recommendation to
078hire or I may say we're going to go back and we're going to interview some more because these were great people but I don't know if it's the right fit for our community. Next thing is um we've started our negotiation with proer coaches association. We meet on Friday for ground two. Uh we've met with the PSSE. We've um had our first meeting. We meet um on the 18th. Um principal negotiation meeting is um first is complete. The second meeting is Friday afternoon. I want to talk about budget this evening. Um I I don't want to spend a lot of time on it, but I think it's important to spend some time. There's a couple things. Right sizing is a word that I'm or a I don't want to say a catchphrase, but a phrase that
079I'm going to use. When you're decreasing enrollment, which means decreasing revenue, you have to rightsize the system to fit with what the amount of money that we have coming in. One thing that was possibly um maybe misconstrued I guess would be when I said keeping Proser people working in Proser I think people were thinking I meant like if you live in ProEer we're going to keep you but the idea was that if you're employed by the Proer school district our goal is to keep you in working for us. It wasn't necessarily if you live in Richland you don't get a job because you don't live in Pros. that was not the intent of that statement. The other piece that's important there is um I always use Deanna because she's always my shoulder partner here, but
080Deanna may have taught in a certain position for a long time and now we're having to rightsize and Deanna may have to teach in a different uh position or different building or in a different something to be able to that adage of keeping Proer employees working in the Proer School District. And so we want to make that's really clear. The other piece that we need to talk about is I want to be very open and transparent. We know that we need to adjust by about two to$2.3 million. And if you talk to Deise, she's going to say, "No, Kim, it's 2.1 to 2.5." And I that we kind of arm wrestle that discussion. But no final decision can be made until things calm down in our federal government and our state adopts a budget. If
081you've been following this, the Senate proposed a budget, the House proposed a budget, and then the governor made a pretty strong statement about a week ago, give or take, that said, I'm not approving either one of them because we're not increasing taxes on these things or we're not increasing that type of revenue. Um the session is supposed to be over April 28th, 27th, 28, 29, last week of April. And it doesn't get over until the budget is done. And so while we can predict um we have webinars once a week with Chris Real from OSPI and they give us um some of these things may not be settled until they go through court and whatever. So we have to we cannot start too much work and guessing until we know what that is. An example
082is if you remember our WASDA publications their big three improve funding for special education, improve our MSOC. Remember we always talked about insurance and then um transportation. Transportation is totally off the they've quit talking about transportation. Um, that's mainly I mean it does impact us, don't get me wrong, but that's that district like Morton where they drive 65 miles into the mountains to pick up one child and there's no added funding for that. Um, special education, the rumor is that in both of the proposals it's not nearly what we were asking for, but there is a little bit of money there. Um, and so and the MSO is like a 1% increase. It's not even enough to even begin to talk about our operational costs. And and I mean, we all feel it. I don't
083care if it's your home taxes or your home power bill or your fuel bill. I mean, we're all feeling it. And they're giving us like a 1%. Um that doesn't even begin to tackle our increases. So, it's hard for us to say to anybody who's listening, we need to cut blank dollars because we don't know what that number is going to be because we don't know what we're getting. The tool that Deliss uses, they haven't even published and they're not going to publish it probably for give or take 5 to 10 days after it's done. That that puts us in May. I want to be really transparent also about we've I've received emails about CWAT athletics. I've re and by the way I've had some great conversations with people. They've actually come in with here's
084an idea. Here's some ways. What about trying this? So I have to thank anybody who's listening. All those emails, they really do matter because this group sitting right here, we can't come up with every idea that there might be. So, we want them to continue to come. Um, all areas in some way, shape, or form are going to be impacted. Every single part. And even though I've said to some groups, well, we still have to run the bus route. So, it but it's going to impact other things, a field trip or a which is transportation, right? because the fuel costs and the all of those pieces and the labor costs. It may not we're not going to I I I say may everybody hear me that I may but it may not cut a route
085so it may not cut a driver but it may impact their overtime or their extra trips. Does that make sense? So every part of our district is going to feel security. Um, and then Dan and I have had a long conversation about, and I, in case you come back and listen to this later, we did a big when we ran our levy, some items on there was athletics and security. Ladies and gentlemen, we're not cutting athletics. That's not what we're doing. We're trying to rightsize that so that everybody plays a part of it. We're not cutting security. It may look differently. We have secure vestibules. have different things over. So I don't want anybody to think we're taking program X and we're taking it out of what we're doing, right? But everything has to be
086right place and I'm looking at each of you in the eye and saying you hired me to take good care of the district and that is my responsibility and I have to make those decisions with obviously your support because you approved the budget but you don't want me to bring a budget that has less than what our policy says in a fund balance. You want it to be better. But the biggest part is we have to educate our students and some of the and we don't even call them bells and whistles but some of our extra pieces may have to adjust so that reading writing and arithmetic are still the focus of our f is our is our main paramount duty right so I just want everybody if you go back and listen to this
087together I want everybody to understand we all have a part in this um so that's it anything else that we've been talked about in the last couple days. Well, I would just say that um we really have we've spent a lot of time working on it already and we are not anywhere close to done. Um, and at the same time it's it's challenging in that like for me for state and federal programs because that if all of a sudden in two months a state and federal a state or federal programs cut and we've already staffed it then what I mean then that becomes an impact on the the general fund if we don't have the program funds to cover it. So it's it's a it's the most crystal ballish I've ever really felt in budgeting.
088like you got to kind of hope you can make the right guest based on what your your knowledge. Um and we are going to we're going to lose money in title one. Uh we'll lose money in lap. Part of that is enrollment. Part of that is our free introduce not our free introduce but our poverty level in proer not in the district but in crosser. Um so you know it's challenging. Our kids need everything and we want to do everything for our kids, but we there's definitely limits. I think the one thing that we've tried been very proud of in our area in our district is we've worked towards reducing the gap. And that can be the gap in um skin color and races. That could be our our poverty levels, right? increasing between and
089in and some of you who may listen this is the diff decreasing the gap between the halves and the have nots and that can be any you can use any kind of spect and this type of problems increase the gaps because the things that we're using to support to decrease the gaps are being taken from us okay enough down on the bummer stuff but um I'm going to keep going uh capital committee meeting is um April 17th so we you you know you you have you wish for something and then you have it creates another problem. Well, now we have really green grass, but it's like a foot tall in some spots. So, now we have to figure out how to get it mowed regular, get it cleaned up and manage some weeds and some
090other pieces. So, don't get me wrong, everybody's listening. We're really happy it's green, but now we have to figure out how the management um by the way um Andy and um his team, we've divided and conquered. We're making these teams, the irrigation, the um you improved the gentlemen to work on our irrigation. It's amazing when you have the right people sitting at the table and what can happen. So things are really getting better. It's just kind of like anything. I don't know if you feel this at home. Sometimes in this in May, you have to mow your lawn every four or five days because you put so much fertilizer. By the time August, you can get to seven or 10 days. And that's what we're experiencing right now. We still only have so many people.
091So, I put a little joke on here. Who wants to get out their mower and come mow? Um, and some people have. And so, I'm I'm joking, but I'm serious, right? like we we know that it's a problem but I guess it's better to be thick and tall and green than brown and short and know so um capital projects you heard Mr. Denny say that um oh it was at the safety meeting but the chiller is on the roof and is running um so we've got at the middle school so we're super excited about that now we're in that limbo land you happen in the fall and now it see um the scrum hill is now we struggle with we want the heat on in the morning and we want the air conditioning on in
092the afternoon and you can't turn the boiler on and the air conditioning on and it's kind of a a messy piece but the chiller is here and we shouldn't have 90 degree rooms this year. Um the vestibule at um Housel is now working. The badge access works. Um we have some growing pains. Um it's called a punch list item. There's some punch list some of the metal on the backside got put in. It was tweaked. It had dent. It just wasn't put in right. So they're fixing it. Um I don't know if you've noticed they've started some work out here and they've also been pressure they're getting ready to pressure wash the whole building and painting the building. for everybody's asking. You just had a negative Nelly conversation about budget and here we are doing
093paint and whatever. Remember, we're talking different pockets of money. We have different things that we're doing with that. I don't want anybody to think that we're Miss Susie uh Wazda regional meeting. I'm very always proud of this. We're doing our regional meeting here at the end of April. This is where school board directors come from our region and come and we get we're going to do it right in here. and nice opportunity. And I think that's it. So, I'm welcome for any questions or any comments. And if you're listening or you listen to this after the fact, if you have any questions or concerns, pick up the phone and call, ask me. I'm here. My phone number's posted everywhere it is. Ask ask or suggest suggest suggest because we can't think of them. Thank you,
094Kim. Any questions for Kim? Yeah. Okay, moving on to board reports. Michelle, um, just a couple things. So, I don't think it's been well advertised yet, but the FCCLA club for the high school and the middle school is putting on a free Easter egg hunt this Saturday at 9:00. So, that'll be at the HMS baseball field. And they say it's from ages of infant to 11. I I don't know how infants hunt for eggs, but there will be a category for infants to two years old. Um, but it is free nine o'clock. I encourage everyone to come um and just have some fun and support FCCLA. Also wanted to mention the Proer PTO is hosting another family um bingo and silent auction night here at the old high school on the 18th. I went last
095year. It was really fun. I bought um way too many things. I'm still trying to use them all before they expire. Um but please go and encourage or support the PTO. I believe they're going to use those funds to help support um STEM activities and field trips for the coming year. And then also just wanted to mention I'm really excited that the sixth graders are going back to Camp Dudley for um a day trip at camp next week. And as much as I wanted to join as a chaperon, I was informed by my child that I wasn't welcome. So I hope they have fun. That's it. Thanks, Michelle Brian. Uh hope uh hope students and staff had a great spring break. Um I did work the Rotary track meet a couple years ago and then
096I wasn't asked back for some reason and I don't know why, but I did get the invite to come back this year. So hopefully I will uh be able to come volunteer there. It's a pretty pretty amazing event. So, um, yeah, looking forward to that. Hey, thanks, Brian. The trackme is all hands on deck. I'm sure that with an oversight, you're qualified. Anybody with a heartbeat is qualified and it is heavily dependent on volunteers. um always a lot of fun and there's lots of Rotarians that you know give a lot of time and there's few that would tell you the history of the whole event if you have an opportunity to hear how it came about. Thanks Alisa. Um I don't have anything. I think we're just on the downhill slide of of school. You
097know, graduation's right around the corner. So here we go. Uh with that we have a regular board meeting April 23rd uh right here in the boardroom at 6 pm. This meeting is ajourned. Thank you.