3/12/2025 School Board Meeting

001Order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stand for all. Uh next up is a motion to approve the agenda. I'd second it. It's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Same sign. Motion carried. Moving on toformational items. I think that's Kim, but it is classified appreciation week. Yes. Good evening everyone. Um, today we had the honor of going to all of the different buildings and the different departments. Um, this is classified appreciation week and I sent out a um email telling everybody what we're doing on your desk or in front of your seats today. You all got a cookie. Those were what got everybody got that and a bottle of water. and

002we were able to shake hands. Um, Kim Bolt, who has recently retired from HR, she went with us and she said she she volunteered her time, but she went with us because she got to say goodbye to everybody that she's helped through the year. So, it's kind of fun. And I'm going to read this for the record. Classified staff. As we celebrate classified employee week from March 10 to March 14th of 2025, I want to take a moment to extend my heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of our classified staff members. Your roles encompass a diverse range of essential services including transportation, security, nursing, paraprofessionals, secretaries, business office, curriculum department, migrant services, technology, maintenance, and food service. Your dedication and hard work are truly the foundation of our school community, and it is important

003to recognize the significant impact you have on our collective success. Throughout this year, I've had the privilege of witnessing your unwavering commitment to excellence. From ensuring the cleanliness and safety of our school facilities to providing invaluable support to our teachers and students, your contributions do not go unnoticed. Whether it's preparing nutritious meals, maintaining orderly workspaces, providing safe transportation, offering security, attending to health needs, assisting students in classrooms, managing administrative task, supporting curriculum development, serving in our MI our migrant community, keeping our technology infrastructure running smoothly or maintaining our facilities. Your efforts are essential and greatly appreciated. It is often said that a school is only as strong as its staff, and I wholeheartedly believe that to be true. Your dedication and passion for your work make our educational environment a vibrant and enriching place for

004all. Thank you for everything you do to make our schools a place where every student can thrive. I hope you take pride in the vital role you play in the success of our students and of our district. With deepest appreciation and warm regards, Kim Casey. Great. Thank you. All right. Next up is uh board comments. Do we have we have signed up? All right. For 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 up here and state your name. Do not reflect adversely on political or economic view, ethnic background, character, or motives of

005any individual. Do keep your comments concise, non-emotional, and brief. The board is interested in hearing your concerns and compliments, too. is best to call the superintendent's office a couple days before the meeting. If this isn't possible, you can ask the board present to recognize you during the hearing section. And we'll go for three minutes uh per person for a total of 20 minutes. Uh first up is Jessica Hoer. Make sure the little green light is on on the microphone and pull it up close. Hello. Thank you guys for having me. U my name is Jessica Hoffer. Um I am a mother of three uh student athletes and I'm speaking in support of the WIAA resolution today. Um so my oldest daughter struggles with social anxiety and soccer and track have helped her with confidence stay

006healthy and connect with peers. Sports are an incredible outlet as all of you know and every child should have the chance to play. However, fairness and safety and girls sports are are being compromised in the name of inclusivity. Physiological differences between men and women are vast. U males have greater muscle mass, lung capacity, larger wingspans, and numerous numerous other physical advantages. And that's why we have separate categories. Yet in Washington state, male athletes can just identify to compete against girls without taking hormone suppressants. All they need to do is declare they are a girl. Girls who speak up are dismissed and their families stay silent out of fear of being called a transphobic person. But this is about fairness and safety and that is why I'm here today. Recently, a Tri City soccer club that

007I know was forced to choose between paying a fine if they forfeited or competing against a male player. Their concerns did not matter. Only the inclusion of a transidentified athlete did. Last year, Donovan Brown, who transitioned and now goes by Veronica Garcia, began competing in the GSL, which is a crossover with the SEWAC, which is what the Proster School District is in. My daughter called upset that a male athlete was competing against her Proser teammates. Garcia went on to easily win and then went on to win state. I was there and I watched as the mother of the girl who took second place cried because her daughter was denied that first place. I watched as she clutched the fence, the chainlink fence, balling. I watched as the girls that lost that were bumped down the

008podium um were just in just discouraged. The ninth place girl didn't even get on the podium because that spot was taken away. They only have eight spots. Some say it only affects a handful of cases, but how many is too many? And my answer is one. The impact ripples through teams, through siblings, through friends and all the girls who see their hard work erased. and they do work extremely hard. This year, my daughter last week at track ran 2100 meter sprints and she came home and her legs were like jello. But no matter how hard she trains, she cannot get over that biological disadvantage because she's not a boy. And this year, she's been asked to run the 400 meter race, which means she will compete against Garcia. How do we fix this broken system?

009There are some processes in place. Every student from seventh grade and above who does middle school or high school sports does need to compete or complete a a physical. And for boys, that's that cough test where you turn your head and cough. So there are some ways that we can have it ensured that it's sex specific needs are met and that we are identifying whether they should play in the boys or girls category. If we don't act now, girls sports will no longer be what we know they will be erased. Women's records and their efforts will continue to be erased. But I do want to be clear. I do not condone bullying and I don't want anyone to bully. Your time's up. Over, man. Time out. It's a quick three minute. Okay. But I do

010want to point out, please don't bully. I just want to protect fairness in girl sports. Thank you. Next up is Rachel Mercer. Can you hear me? Is that good? Maybe a little closer. Is that good? No. I'm apologizing. I'm going to read verbatim so I don't go over time. My name is Rachel Mercer. I'm here tonight to encourage the bo board to vote no on agenda item number seven. While I'm concerned about the legal justification of these amendments, I'd prefer to talk about the humanitarian side of the issue. In the late 90s, I left Horse Heaven Hills to for Olympia to study at the Evergreen State College. One of my first challenges was a personal one. One of my roommates was gay. I didn't know very many openly gay people and none my own age.

011By the end of my first year, I had completely adapted a new way of thinking when it came to sexuality. This didn't happen because of liberal educators or a dismantling the patriarchy lecture. It happened because I was surrounded by openly queer people. What I discovered was that someone's sexual identity was their identity. It wasn't for me to judge or have preconceived notions about. I cared about this identity because it was important to care about, especially during this time period. Being openly queer was risky in the '9s. I was proud of myself during those first few years years at Evergreen. I had grown as a person, and I gained friends from various backgrounds, life experiences, and identity. It enriched me. But during my third year, one of my lesbian friends was dating a woman, not unusual,

012and that woman came to our friend group one day introducing herself as Seth. Seth had been undergoing gender affirming care. He wanted to reintroduce himself to us and asked that we use his new name and his new pronouns. I didn't understand. Gay, lesbian, by none of that was puzzling to me. I understood that. But changing your gender, this seemed wrong. I'm so ashamed of how I process this information, the comments I made behind Seth's back, puzzling it over with other friends, being incredibly judgmental. As weeks went by, Seth did not become some totally new person from his former self. But he seemed more like himself. One of my favorite college memories includes Seth. I don't have the time to share and it's not really appropriate. Make good choices, kids. But at the heart of the

013story is Seth, who knew how to charm a whole room full of long shore men, challenging their own preconceived ideas about gender and identity while being incredibly funny, kind, and brave. I owe Seth an apology for being close-minded, and I owe him a huge thank you for being his authentic self. He taught me a lot. I'd like to end by speaking to current students, especially trans and non-binary students in ProEer. The entire community is not against you. Some of us are here for you. You matter. Your feelings are valid. We hope you excel in the school district and have the same opportunities as your peers. We care about you. Most importantly, we want you here. Thank you. Thank you, Rachel. Next up is Noah Dempsey. Good to start. Uh, I came here to speak today

014out of a place of disappointment and anger. Um, this comes as no surprise to me given past events and um, in the past nine months since I've graduated. Um, I've been to more of these meetings than I've wished to have um, since leaving my position as student representative. Um, but I find it necessary to return when it seems that division and bigotry is the main focus rather than education. Um the resolution tonight will pass without a doubt. I have no m doubt in my mind that it will pass because of a clear lack of understanding and respect for those who may be different than us. This resolution is in support of WIA amendment 7 and 8. These amendments seek to bar transgender women from playing in sports that match their gender identity sports leagues or

015divisions. Um, it has been reported by OSPI that nearly 250,000 students who compete in that there are nearly 250,000 students who compete in school sports in the state. At most 10 of them are transgender women. That works out to .004%. I believe this shows that this is a targeted attack on at most 10 people and a community as a whole rather than simple supports for amendments. We're in this position today because it is easier to fear someone rather than it is to understand them. I relied I I went back to this TED talk that I seen in seventh grade and it it still rings true to me today and this kind of led me to what I was going to say today. Um Daryl Davis was a black musician who interviewed Roger Kelly who at

016the time was the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Clan. He asked him the same question that I'm going to ask you today although different context. How can you hate me if you don't even know me? I have spent too many hours of my time in the past bringing stats, data, and sources to these meetings, all for them to be ignored. Now, I have simply appealed to your humanity and I hope that deep down members of this board find a basic amount of understanding and respect for those who may be different than ourselves and to understand that what is happening here today is unfair, targeted, and unjust in every sense of the word. Thank you, next up is Chelsea Deus. Did I have that right? Chelsea. Oh, hello. Hi everyone. My name is Chelsea Deus.

017I am not a resident of Proser. I am a resident of Sunnyside Washington, specifically the Yakma Valley. And I am here in both my personal capacity and as human rights commissioner with the Washington State Human Rights Commission. To this Foster School Board, as community members, educators, parents, and students, we must come together to ensure that every student, regardless of their gender identity or expression, is treated with dignity, respect, and equality. It is deeply concerning that some members of our school board are pushing for a policy that seeks to discriminate against our transgender students, especially when our school district's own statement makes clear that we do not discriminate but based on gender identity or expression. The proposed anti-trans policy is not just an issue of personal belief. It is an issue of human rights and fairness.

018We cannot allow policies that intentionally harm or exclude any group of students from full fully participating in the school experience whether in classrooms, extracurricular activities, or athletics. This policy targets transgender students, denying them the same opportunities, respect, and protections that all other students enjoy. It sends a dangerous message that certain students are less worthy of inclusion simply because of their identity. Our state Washington has been long been a leader in promoting equality and fairness. The Washington interchoolic athletic association has had an inclusive non-discriminator discriminatory policy for over a decade. Unfortunately, it is now being up for consideration. This policy has worked without in incident upholding the dignity of all students while following state anti-discrimination laws. In fact, Washington state only has four anti-LGBT bills under consideration. And it is telling that the ones we face

019are still rooted in discrimination. The proposed anti-trans policy is an attempt to roll back these protections in the name of personal beliefs that do not reflect the core values of our community nor our educational system. We must stand up for the principle that schools exist to support all students, not just some. This policy would undermine the safety, well-being, and inclusion of transgender students, and it would set a dangerous precedent for how we treat our most vulnerable. Furthermore, it is crucial that Proer School Board reconsider this harmful policy to avoid further damage and litigation, which will only result in unnecessary costs, not only for the district, but for other school boards that choose to adopt similar discriminatory measures. The financial and social consequences of defending such a policy would burden the community, diverting resources from the

020valuable work of supporting and educating our students. It is critical that we remember our collective responsibility to protect every student regardless of their gender identity. No student should be made to feel like they do not belong in schools or on sports teams. As a community, we must ensure that our schools are safe spaces where students of all backgrounds, identities, and orientations are Can you wrap up, please? We call on the school board to stand on the right side of history. We must protect all of our students, each and every one of them. Thank you. Thank you. All this means Elise. Elise means crosser, Washington. I have my address and phone number here. Um, Jessica described an instance in our region in which a transgender athlete won. I am curious if anyone on this board can

021site a specific instance in which a transgender student physically harmed another student during competition in Washington State. I'm curious about that. And um that's all. Great. Thank you, Elise. Blake, is there anybody online that would wish to speak? Okay, we will conclude that portion of the meeting. Thank you everyone for your comments. Moving on to student representative reports. Mashimi. Oh my gosh. So, for ASB, um we're going to be reviewing chord requirements. Um for band, we went to the Sundome for all games except for one on Wednesday, uh just to avoid missing too much school. Um and then we have the elementary tour next week on Tuesday, I believe. And then for miscellaneous, the tennis courts are really nice to play on. It's fun not thinking you're going to roll your ankle, you know. Um

022possible. Oh, I had um a teacher talking about how at their last district they all they had all teachers on the same type of like website. So like Canvas or like OneNote, like one of those um instead of being on various different um websites. So just to keep it neat for students, especially in high school, uh would which would be nice and thank you to a few people who commented tonight. Thank you, Kimmy. I just want to say congrats to our boys and girls basketball team for placing at state. Boys placed second and girls placed fifth. Thank you, Alexander. Uh, Thursday. No, not Thursday. What? Last Wednesday I met with uh There we go. Uh I met with Darlene and we uh talked about uh more ways to try to reach out to the students.

023Uh we discussed that during her event during lunch. It's next week uh sometime I forgot. Uh that uh we'll have uh people going around with a form in person to try to get more people to respond to that. Since what we think is our problem is uh that just students don't take the time to reach out. Just recently I was told about how uh a student didn't like one of our foods but just didn't want to go up and say that they didn't like it. So during our meeting I made sure to bring that up to Arlene. Um, but yeah, that's about it. Thanks, Alexander. Appreciate it. Any questions for them? Great. Uh, next up is discussion items, school building reports. Uh, Kevin Gilman, Witstrand. All right, here I go. Three minutes, right? Okay, it's

024already started. Um, we finished WEDA testing this week. That's a big accomplishment. Uh, we have MC Teachers Night March 25th from 4:30 to 7:15. Um, we get 15% of the sales during that time. So, it's Last year we did it as well. It was a good fundraiser for us. Today we had our o OSMI science assembly reacto blast. It's sponsored by the PTO. I want to thank the PTO for that. The second science event. Um very popular. Kids enjoyed it. We have traveling lantern coming tomorrow. Um and they're performing Peter Pan. We have a PUD presentation March 25th. They do a little electric show and talk about uh uh safety around electricity. Um we started attendance March Madness I think at every building. Um this month we started a reading challenge which will have week

025weekly and monthly recognition for classrooms and grade levels. Uh fifth grade will do their high school band tryyous next week. And we had uh individuals for archery qualified um for bullseye. Eastston he got ninth. Uh for the 3D, we had Aiden who had 10 got 10th and then East also got ninth in that. And we also had a team qualify for the 3D event uh nationals. They're still working on um whether you need eight players. So uh Wendy's working with those parents to see if we can get eight um families to commit to that. And that's my report. Great. Thank you. Kevin, any questions for Kevin? Thank you. Right. Next up is John Cook. Technology. Kevin just talked really fast. Clock's running. I know. That's okay. I'm going to talk fast, too. Uh, I have

026four things uh that I want to talk about tonight. All really great news for us. Uh I wanted to start with the fact that well not necessarily the fact with uh over the over the course of the last several years we've kind of been behind in staffing and uh when we were behind in staffing some things not got neglected. Uh I've been able to come up for some air lately and with that I was able to spend some time updating our wireless network. Uh that was really exciting. Our wireless network functions it functions well. Uh but because I haven't had the time to update it, I haven't had the time to keep it going. Uh it didn't allow for expansion. So I was able to update it last week, which has allowed us to do

027uh a couple of really neat things. During NHD on Saturday, we were able to have an open guest network, which was nice. We haven't been able to do that. So think when you go when you check into your hotel, you're able to like self-register for your Wi-Fi. We can now do that and we can turn that off and on as we need to. Plus more exciting uh than that is Art Feer now has wireless. So, uh that's really great news to Miss Rada because now she can do her track meets and use that as her classroom. Uh something that she's been trying to do for the last couple years and I just haven't been able to give it to her. She now has that. So, that's item number one. Uh item number two, uh the

028last board meeting that I was at, you guys passed a couple, uh different um contracts for me, one was the setting up of our new spam titan that is now fully functional. I've spent the last couple weeks getting that going. Uh that too, just like wireless, when we update things, we get new and better functionality. So, I'm super excited about a couple of new features with our new Spam Titan. Uh perhaps you've seen the emails go around that say, "Do you have time?" or are you available? And they uh particularly target our administration, our principles. They uh do what's called name spoofing. Uh our new um our new appliance or our new solution now allows us to protect against that. So it's not foolproof, but it's way better than we had. So that's great. Uh

029the third thing is our new uh communication archive appliance. We uh I have that in place. We are currently migrating over from our old appliance to our new appliance. That should be completely done this week. So, I'm excited that'll be bu put to bed, too. And then my fourth thing is just we're getting ready for the next school year, which sounds really weird because we're still in March of this year, but uh on the data realm side of our department, we've been getting things ready so parents can register for next year, and that's really exciting. So, I didn't talk as fast as Kevin, but those are my four things. Great. Thank you, Sean. Any questions? Appreciate it. Next up is the district SBA and I ready data. So Diana and I are going to tag

030team. Last meeting was a long one. We spent a lot of time talking about data and we talked as an admin team and thought that we should summarize it. So each of you have in front of us to those listening, we can certainly get this out to you, but it was that little bitty font that you can't see on the screen. Anyhow, um so we put it in front of you tonight. Um and so you can see the different schools in I Ready Math, I Ready Reading, Typical Growth, Stretch Growth, and then Smarter Balance Assessments. And Dana can expand a little bit, but it's really just self-explanatory on there, but we thought it would be good for you to see the district as a whole. Yeah, the one at the top also is our ARC

031data for our reading in K8. That just shows the overall number of students from the beginning of the year until now that um were emergency at risk and um are proficient now showing that they're proficient. But it was there was a lot of stuff thrown at you. So we thought just that one pager might help you see it a little bit easier. And so when you take a look at that, that allows you to look at the buildings as a as a whole. I mean, yes, buildings as a whole versus the district. And I do think it's important to remember um the green number versus the red number doesn't mean that the red students did not grow. I think that's really, really important. Um, my son who's now 35, he would laugh if I was

032talking about him tonight. But there was a point in his life where he did not want to read and all of a sudden one day he started to read in about fourth grade. And it wasn't because he couldn't. It was some other pieces like why read? I know how to read. That kind of thing. But that's what we're talking about here. Sometimes people just need to grow, mature, or do whatever. And we're welcome to any questions. Great. Thank you. Any questions for Kim or Deanna? Great. Um, when I did meet with the well, I haven't met with everybody yet, but I met with most of the principles this month. And I want you to know this is one of the things we've talked since I've taken this position is we're starting to spend a lot

033of time talking about instruction and data versus all operational. Thank you. Uh, next up is review of policy 116F, student reps to the board of directors. So, I'm going to kind of look at Yoshimi and Cammy and Alexander on this. Um, if you can remember when we updated the application, we, for example, previous one said, "Circle the year you are." Well, some circled the year they were going to be and some circle the year they are. So, you'll notice we now have graduation year on there so that we don't have to guess what grade in school they are. Um, there was some suggestions as you go down a little bit towards the bottom about extracurricular activities and then there was some stuff about attendance. So, um, it's not necessarily something that has to come for

034for approval, but I wanted you to know the work that your student board reps have done to make this more effective for this year. Great. Thank you. Um, any questions? any comments you'd like to make on it since you guys were um help build this? It looks good. I think the graduation year was the most predominant change. Um you know, so what I'm looking because our goal really is to not always have three seniors, right? The goal would be to have at least one 11th grader, if not two, so they're learning the ropes, they've been to the things, and then they can teach and grow as they kind of go on. Anything else you want to add? Awesome. Thank you. And that you're all three seniors. What's your plan for making sure the next set

035of student board reps can fill your shoes? I've uh talked to a couple of students that I feel would um represent a part of proer that doesn't necessarily get represented uh represented that well. Uh and hopefully they're not afraid to be outspoken. So yeah, kind of the same thing. I've talked to my leadership class who I think would be all great for this role. So I'm trying to get the word out there. Ditto. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. Thanks. Uh, moving on to review of policy and procedure 6702 wellness. Uh so the policy is one that Laura to me I think initially uh Laura is one of our district nurses and this policy really is about our health and wellness, our nutrition program, all the things that go into um helping our students

036be most prepared to learn and to be successful. so they can talk a little bit about it is I know a passion project of Laura so she might want to talk a little bit but just make sure you bring it close enough when you talk so and slide it back and forth if you both talk. So this is a passion project for me um when it I know and then I start tapping my feet. Um getting getting the the word out to not only the students but to our community that starting from the ground up we can be healthier. We can be healthier as a community. Um, and it takes a village to do that. And so, um, I'm on the wellness committee where we meet once a month. Um, Darlene helped draft this, uh,

037wellness policy that's that you have in front of you. Um Darlene and I met and uh went through several different wellness policies um including WISDA WSSDA um and pulled from several pulled from a top inish policy a Lopez island policy um another one and then WISDA and compiled this as a jumpoff point and Darlene was really instrumental in um the finer points as far as the nutritional piece of it and what the USDA guidelines are all those Right. Yes. OPI. Yeah. And OSPI what the guidelines are. Um and she can speak more to that, but I think between the two of us, and as Darlene and I were speaking, you know, it's not like we have it all figured out, but this seems like a really good jumping off point. Some of it it's um

038is like, wow, are we biting off more than we can chew? Well, it's not that we're going to get there today, but it's great to have a goal and keep our eye on the prize. So, welcome your um any questions. I've got a few. Um I don't know if this is I don't know what page this would be. This would be actually I mean I like the policy. I think it's it's good that we bringing it forward and I think it's important. Um I just had some questions on the procedure side of it. um which would be page two of the procedure under the healthy food and beverage option options when it talks about like um I think it's the third or uh no it's a fourth bullet point down the use of food that

039contains harmful residues of agriculture chemicals um to me that kind of reads basically organic or trying to get to organic would it be better to put more language in that would um Oh, what would it was my comment? Like the certifications to sell to the public. Yeah, I think that would be better. Okay. And then I had a couple other questions on the vending machines. I don't know if this will be popular for the people that use them, but so how does that get managed if you start to um I guess what kind of foods would that be in vending machines and so with the the vending machines we have to go by the OSPI guidelines on currently how they have to be healthy. They can only contain so much sugar or so much caffeine

040and those have to be [Music] um available for the students but like if we were to sell Pepsi to the students we could only sell Pepsi to the students 30 minutes after the school day was out. I have some u guidelines right here that I could pass out to everybody. an example. That's why in school vending machines you see baked potato chips and not traditional ways or like G2 instead of Gatorade. Gotcha. I see. Okay. So, it's sodium, sugar, caffeine, fat. Those are the M and fats. So, that's like you went with baked chips versus So, it's really not a change from what we're currently doing and not for vending machines. Would it it looks It also includes snack bars. Is that in would that be a concessions thing as well? But that's after school.

041That's 30 minutes after school. Okay. Well, that doesn't matter. Okay. Would you be able to share those guidelines with us in an email? No, I didn't give them to you right now. Well, I mean, I don't know if others want to see them, too. So, I want to take your paper. She brought She brought copies for everything. Oh, you did? Yeah. I would love a copy. Thank you. Uh let's see. I have another one uh wellness committee which is part of the pulse. Do we have one of those or is this something that you're trying to work on and developing as a as a group? And that is a question with the um with the committee that I'm on our our farm to school program uh committee that I'm on right now. we've been talking

042about is it important to differentiate the farm to school and a wellness committee. We don't want to muddy the waters, right? And so that definitely is something. Um but also with within that that being said, uh with a wellness committee having um community representation, student representation, um educational representation, and we really do have that within our our farm to school committee right now. So it it's a discussion we need to have and probably bigger um more in depth. I think um saying it a different way. We already have a group that's doing a lot of this work and that's what brought forth the wellness um policy, right? And we're like we need to have a discussion about that. And so do we rename the farm-toschool committee or do we put the words farm to school

043committee inside our wellness policy? And that's what I think we're talking about muddying the water. Do we need another committee just because so could we change the name in the policy to the farm to school committee instead of and be or wellness committee parentheses farm to school or something like that or maybe something that's more of a generic term and it wouldn't really matter what we call it. That's usually easier than putting in a name real specific on something. Yeah. Is your purpose? Yeah. That's all I had. Thank you. I appreciate that you elevated this um and that you're passionate about it. I think it is wellness as a whole, not just in food and nutrition, right? But in exercise and um you know, community involvement, all those aspects of good people, good well-rounded people.

044I think it's really important that we bring that up to the forefront. So, thank you for putting in the work and for acknowledging that. I agree with you. Yeah. And I'd like to thank you too because I just finished like my nutrition 101 class for my AA at CBC because I'm a Rang Start student and like nutrition is so undertaught in the US. So thank you so much for preparing this. Y quick question for you. Um on the physical activity, it says all students will participate um in physical education classes. Um what what's the plan? Obviously K through five, that's an easy one, but it seems like once we get middle school, high school kids, we're either trying to get out of PE class or you know. Yeah. So there there is state there's law

045around that that we're required to follow. We may have to do some work work on that wording as well to make sure that it would match what the law requires. I actually did a cross reference with that 2407 and they play 19 sandbox. Okay, good work. So I it's funny that you bring that up. So I have a professional peer uh superintendent um Amy Pratt out of Vashon Island and they're working on their wellness part and she just sent a text this morning. How many minutes of PE do your children have K through 12th grade? Right. Well, I let me back up. K through 8th grade because PE is regulated for a minimum at the high school credits, right? And so, and she goes, "Boy, you guys have a lot of PE and they're in

046Vashan Islands where it's supposed to be healthy place to live." So, we have more PE for our students than most. Great. Any other questions? Thank you guys. Thank you. Thanks for putting us together. Good work. Okay, moving on to review a policy procedure 3241 student discipline. So, um this is the second time and it may even stay on here again. Um last week or last meeting I just brought to you and said here it is, right? It wasn't there wasn't a lot of discussion about it. Um, one of the things that we all need to remember is that procedures, right, have to be um, they're not actually adopted by the schoolboard. They are, but they aren't, but the procedures have to go through the administrators and everybody else has to have a part of that.

047We do need them. I think Laura said it very well when she said, "Play nice in the sandbox." We have to make sure that our pro procedures don't contradict our policy. But the procedures once you've kind of looked at the policy and given then the administrative team and so forth puts the procedures together and then the procedures then are reviewed by you and everybody but the administrators do that then we make sure they're in the student handbook. So it kind of goes hand in hand. I just want to make sure everybody understands that policies are adopted by the board and procedures are reviewed and I'm ready for any questions if you've got them. Anyone have any questions? Okay, I'll go then. Okay, I'm ready or I hope I'm ready. So, under the very first page

048of the policy uh rights and responsibilities of the district, um it talks about uh train guide service and service animal um we have a current policy for that. Correct? Yes. Okay. Um the next question I'm wondering can we push Can we slow down a second? Do you think the policy number should go in that line? I would probably reference it, you know, as part of that. Okay. Um I just want to make sure I'm my brain and yours are tracking on the same. That's perfect. Thank you. Because at least it'll lead them to, you know, that the part on on the service animal guide. Um the very next one um talks about depriving a student at constitutional rights of freedom of speech, press, etc., etc. I do think that's important um that we don't infringe

049on that at all. Um but how do we address that if it interrupts uh instruction? I don't guess I don't have an answer off the cuff. I mean we don't allow it to interrupt instruction now but I don't know how to answer it in the form of policy. Would that be part of this in the or is that a a different policy? I I don't like I said I I'm looking at my shoulder. Diana, I don't know that it so when you So so of course students still have their constitutional rights when they come to school, right? Um but there's also um in law uh that you can't disrupt the learning environment. So, if a student wants to have a peaceable assembly out at the flagpole in the morning before school, that's fine. Um, but

050they um, you know, can't stand up in class on the desk and protest and disrupt the learning, right? So, it's a balance. It really is. Um and um like the one it talks in here about um not have being protected from unreasonable search and seizure. But in a school district, if you suspect if you have you have a reasonable suspicion that a student might have something that they should have, whether that's a weapon, whether that's, you know, illegal substances, school districts have have the right employees have the right to search. So, it's um whereas just someone walking down the street, but you might go, "Oh, I bet I think that person has the police can't just grab them and search them for no reason." So, um you frown upon that, right? Yes. So, um so

051it is a balance. I mean, we're still always trying to protect student rights, but at the same time, we're protecting student safety and learning, right? I had one last question under the procedure. Um it would be second page be the first bullet point on the second page. Okay. Um it it just references a judicial decree or order identifies a specific person or persons to act as a parent of the child or to make educ etc. Um how does a school district so obtain that type of information to make sure we do the right thing. So I'm going to use myself because I've been divorced for 25 years and my kids are now adults. when my um husband and I were divorced um we have a divorce decree that identifies who makes educational decisions based on

052that. So in the Skyward system 30 years ago we had family one and we have family two and when you have two families then there's a document that goes that supports that. And um then inside that there can even be um when I moved to the lower valley and the boys were still in Ellensburg part of the time then I was able in our parenting um parenting plan I was able to identify my parents that could pick them up in Ellensburg if it was time that I couldn't be there for my job in Graanium. So it's all legal documentation that we track and keep that through and that's very common. Yeah. I mean it would be the same. Um is that something that the you could have foster kids and um sometimes we've had foster

053kids where the they're in foster care placement but the foster care system is making decisions um in con you know maybe in conjunction with the foster parents sometimes not. Uh it just depends on the situation, but um and sometimes we have un unaccompanied youth that have been left with a grandma, a neighbor um and we don't have documentation, but that is where the child lives and that's who's taking care of them. So, uh it's it could be it can be challenging. Yeah. Thank you. I think that's it for now. Thank you. So, I'm going to ask for guidance as I do sometimes. Since I've not heard a lot of discussion on this, are we ready to identify those couple things and are you ready to move this to first reading? And then if that is

054um then I will be asked or I will be tasked with my administrative team to begin working on procedures. Does that make sense? So, are we am I being given the the green light to move this to first reading? I think I fill in the blanks and that's better in there. Okay. But I'm you're okay. Yep. Great. Let me look to my right. Is there anything else we need to clarify? So, now we've got the green light to move forward. We'll work with the procedures with the staff. All right. Thank you everyone. Thank you. All right. That concludes discussion. Moving on to action items. Uh the first action item is a consultant service agreement with SEWAC track 2025. Mr. Jackson. Hey everybody, how's it going? I am requesting um the use of Tri Cities Thunder,

055which is our timing system that we use every year. Um he's going to be timing two of our meets. The first meet is our Rotary invite, which is Saturday, April 19th. Uh his charge is $1,000. And then he'll also be timing our other meet, which is just a league meet, and that is Thursday, May 8th, and that's $600. The reason why it's the $400 difference because the invite is quite a long event and there's about 30 to 35 teams there and that's why he charges a little extra for that one. Um we did get lucky since we are hosting regionals this year as well which is the SWAC our league as well as the GSL which is the Greater Spokane League. Uh we're not going to have to pay that ourselves as a as a

056school because our league will cover that cost. So, we're just going to have two uh action items for these ones for this year. Any questions for Jackson? I move to approve the consulting agreement with the SEWAC track 2025 and the consulting agreement for the ProEer Invite 2025. I'd second it. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Post. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you, Jackson. Uh, next up is out of state travel for the National Conference for Migrant Education. Go ahead and stand if that's okay. Can you guys hear me? So, we're here before you today. We're requesting out of state travel. Uh as you know we've gone to this conference before the national conference and we usually do that by annually. Really not a whole lot of

057new and fascinating information every year that we to attend. However, this is an off year for us and the reason why we're coming for today is we have been selected uh to do two workshops. One of them is uh with our students that you see in front of you and all of our arian work. Some of you have participated in those events. And our second workshop that we've been selected for is to showcase the work the rest of our team has done in regards to regional PLC's, not just within, you know, our own team, but all the other districts throughout the state. So that's really grown and developed into some amazing work and collaboration with other districts. But this is about them. So I wanted to let them go ahead and showcase and explain a

058little bit of their perspective. Uh good evening. Is it on? Yeah. Good evening. Thank you for this time to allow us to speak to you about our work. Over the past year, we have learned a lot using the planetarium, and now we can share what we have done with the country. Your approval tonight will allow us the opportunity to continue to grow in our skills on a large scale. We are hopeful that we are can inspire other students in our district and region with the work that we have done over the past two years. We are very proud to be part of this community and school. We are asking that you allow us to continue showcasing the Proser School District on every level possible. Thank you for your continued support of the students here in

059Proser. I I don't have any questions. Um you guys are doing a great job. probably it's a cool opportunity for you guys. If you get the opportunity, I would try some sourdough from the Bay Area. It's It's just different. Any other questions for Are you the three students who'll be attending? What are you looking forward to the most? I know it's not the Brett. Probably. Sorry, what was that? inspire different districts in the regions to be able to show off what we've been practicing for a long time. Uh to teach people more about the planetarium. Are you taking the planetarium with you? checking it out of the bag. Digitalis, the company that we purchased planetarium from is actually sponsoring the demo planetarium. They're actually their cost. They're going to ship over there. Great. Any other

060questions? Sounds great. Well, I move to approve the out ofstate travel for the National Conference for Migrant Education Program. Been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I I post same sign. Motion carries. Good luck. Have fun. And uh maybe you come back and tell us tell us a little bit about it. So appreciate it. Okay. Next up is Proer High School new course proposal basic computer skills. So um we've you know bring brought new courses before the board before and the high school has seen the a need for a basic computer skills course. Um most students that have come up through our system have basic computer skills but we have students that are coming into our district quite a few students from either out of out of district out

061of state or even out of country and they have a need for basic computer skills course and so CTE is sponsoring this course and the cost of the course that'll be one trimester every every year Right. Well, it it'll depend on enrollment. All of their courses depend on student interest and need. So, if they were to have um they'll probably plan to put like one section in probably maybe and see how it goes. If they had a huge demand for it, they could increase the number of sections. Uh Mr. Blair uh Kase would be teaching it and he um so, you know, he teaches other courses as well. So, they'll probably start out with one, but I don't I don't know because they haven't done course requests yet. So, we'll see if there's a whole

062bunch of requests for that and then they'll make decision whether they need more sections. Is it something we should consider incorporating middle school or earlier? It's a basic entry level. It it could be an elective course or could be a course in the middle school right now. I mean, Michael Michael's not here today. Yeah. Um perhaps uh it would just be something I mean it would be something there's a lot of things personal finance there's so many things that would be useful but yeah those you know we went through co where kids had to use um their Chromebooks a lot and then almost sort of a revolt but some teachers like they didn't want to use them anymore or kids are like oh I don't want to do this anymore. I know that I've been

063working with the science teachers at the high school and particularly with their um underassmen, freshmen, sometimes even sophomores, they get that computer fatigue from doing a lot on the computer. So like when they were piloting one of the curriculums, there was a lot of reading on the computer and they really wanted print. So I think it's a balance. I mean, we all need those computer skills because you're most jobs have some sort of that skill that's required. Um but we're going to try it out here and we'll see. Yeah, we'll give it a shot. But we there's always opportunities. We have a STEM teacher at the middle school as well, so maybe down the road. Any other questions? I was just curious what the uh student reps thought about it. I think um this is

064essential. I come from a very electronic based family, but I know a lot of kids just don't. And like my Spanish teacher was teaching how to bookmark a tab today. So, I think that could save a lot of class time uh just in random classes. Um, thinking about my freshman year, I definitely could have used this class. So, I think it'd be very useful coming into the high school and learning how to use our Chromebooks. You don't have to say anything, Alex, if you don't want to. Do you feel like they go down the line like they want me to say something? Um, no. I feel like this this should probably be taught in like elementary to middle school. Um probably not like little little elementary, but maybe like fourth grade, fifth grade and up.

065Um but I think it's always good to have at the high school because maybe uh newer kids to the district could enroll in it. I think too it's hard sometimes for us to think how do we put another thing in? But maybe it's possible to look over the span of grades over certain skills like maybe bookmarking a page is something you learn when you're in fourth grade. So everybody learns bookmark a page and we still wouldn't maybe have to have a class like this for kids who would have missed that because we of course have a lot of students that enroll. But those are all really good things to consider. Thank you students. Yeah, I think that was a great point, Alisa, that I mean kids are on their Chromebooks full time in elementary and

066middle. You know, bringing this just at the high school level is helpful for people who missed it. But definitely basic computer skills are needed much earlier. It looks like there's 100 up to 100 licenses though covered and only 28 potential people in the course. So that'd be in a section of 28. one section. Well, that's what they're looking at their max for students in one section. So, they could have multiple sections. But meaning oh like one class 28 seats must be how many computers he has. So he could have one first period and he could have one third period which would be they're called different sections. Yeah. A section is one period of the class, right? Yeah. A section would be one period of the class. You could have two sections. you got, you know,

067so they're they're just kind of doing a I mean really if you multiply 28 times three or four, you're not getting 100. But that's the idea that he's budgeted for. So if the course request was high, they could do two or three sections or even four and limit them to 25 seats a class. That would be the 100 licenses. Yeah. Any other questions for Kim or Diana? I would move to approve the Proer High School new course proposal, basic computer skills. Been moved and second to approve the Proer High School new course uh basic computer skills students. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Post same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, next up is a Helen Middle School chiller replacement. So, at one point we brought to you the actual chiller and

068now this is the labor to do the installation. Um, and I'm open to any questions, but that's what it is. This is for those listening or or reading along. This is using our capital levy dollars to do this work. So, the this price was just for installation. 6,000. Yes. Okay. And then I was trying to find like on the scope of work. It seemed kind of vague on it is a little bit vague. Basically, it's lifting it up, putting it on the roof, installing it, making it operational. It is a I think the terminology is like in kind replacement. So, the size and weight and whatever it should be similar in its replacement stuff. And so then they will make sure it's up and operational. The goal, this sounds bad, but I'm living in the

069world of construction if anybody else is. The goal is to get it on the roof and the really noisy, icky stuff is done during spring break. That's what the contract is for. Then the operational piece may take longer than that one week, but the one week is to get it on up noisy crane gone before work school start the next Monday. Oh, and I learned, remember when you asked me about this contract and what the little lines were and all the things. So, this is a standard contract. The little lines means that they've done changes in it to make it adjustable for our contract that what we needed. So, this is kind of like if you use a template and then they've made changes and then at the end where the change Are there questions

070for Kim? I was just noticing in 163 the termination of owner for convenience the um the last part of that where it states that uh that the um cost incurred by the reason such termination along with reasonable overhead and profit on the work not executed. So, I mean, it sounds like they're going to get paid away even if they didn't do the job. Um, I think it means May I read it just for a moment? Sure. 16. Um, so termination by the contractor is different than termination by us. And if we have cause, no, we're not paying. And then 16. You said three. Well, yeah. I just Yeah. The very last part for convenience. Yes. If we just say um Oh, you can leave it up there or we're not going to finish the project,

071then yes, we're still responsible for the bill. Now, if we have cause, then that's not and I think that's pretty standard in most contracts. If we have cause, there's no pay. If we just say, "Hey, we don't want you. We don't want to do this anymore. We still owe them the Are they disposing of the old unit for us? I'm going to be really honest and say I don't know, but I I will look at this real quick, but the answer is yes because I think it Mr. Denny here. I think it left on the truck. Oh, nice. Also, the old one's already gone. I think so. I think so. And I I want to be very transparent. This is one I don't know the answer to, but I can let everybody know, but I'm

072relatively certain it left on the truck. I will text Mr. Denny while we're moving unless you see another problem. But I will ask the question or you know who I'm going to ask is Waha. Jake has his phone on so I will ask them. while we're while you're working on that. I was trying to look for a a clear language warranty and I couldn't decipher half any of it. Um I it. I think it's a nine something nine or no 85 is the warranty, but it doesn't give us a time frame and it references section 125, but it still doesn't give us a Do we know what their because they're just supplying the work, right? We've already purchased the equipment has the warranty on it, but do they but what how long is the warranty

073on their work to be performed? And I can't find I don't know if you saw it. I don't know if it's 30 days, a day, a year. What's that? Right. Unless I don't understand the language and it says it somewhere. you want to table to move it to the end so I can work on this so we don't have to keep going and you can move on to something else while I'm getting the answers to your questions. Okay, I think we'll move this uh we're just going to move item five. Okay, on the removal of the equipment, it's Apollo that's removing equipment charge for the disposal. I just got that one answered. Uh we'll move it to uh number 13. Okay. Let's say 142. In addition to the contractor's other obligations, including warranties under the

074contract, the contractor shall for a period of one year after substantial work not require one year. See, I know I missed it somewhere. Well, there was a lot of paragraphs. Thank you. Said one year. So, I guess we don't have to move it unless you'd still like it. You guys want to move it to the end or any more questions, comments, concerns? Well, then we're going to repush it back to number five and I'll move to approve the house middle school chiller replacement. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. Student, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I post same sign motion carries. Moving on to vouchers and payroll. You may have questions on that. Any questions on vouchers payroll? I move to approve vouchers and payroll. I'll second. It's been moved and

075seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Post same sign. Motion carries. Uh, moving on to resolution 03-25WA for a fair, safe, and non-discriminatory practice in athletic and extracurricular activities. And I I'd like to clarify just a little bit. This isn't a policy. Um, our policies haven't changed. Um, this is just a in support of the delegates to the WIAA to vote yes on amendments seven and eight. Any questions on that? Um, I don't have a question per se, but first of all, I would love to thank everyone who came out tonight to speak. Um, I appreciate hearing all of your perspectives, um, both for and against the amendments. I encourage you to reach out to your legislative representatives as they are the ones who make the laws in our state. Um,

076speaking of laws, I was quite surprised to see this resolution on our board packet tonight. Um, especially after Tom Water passed a similar resolution. and I will read to you what the reply was from OSPI's Equity and Civil Rights Office. I won't read the whole thing, but for the public to hear this. Um they stated that the Equity and Civil Rights Office is responsible for ensuring school districts in Washington comply with state and federal non-discrimination laws, rules, and guidelines, including chapters 28A640, 28A 642 of the Revised Code of Washington RCW, and 392190 of the Washington Administrative Code. These laws prohibit Washington K through2 public schools from engaging in discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. They noted that the Tumbwater resolution very similar to ours does not align with the non-discrimination requirements

077of chapter 28A642 RCW and may expose students to discrimination on the basis of gender identity or gender expression. Resolution is not consistent with the state's civil rights guidelines prohibiting discrimination in Washington public schools which state that school districts should allow students the opportunity to participate in athletic activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity. This resolution violates state non-discrimination law. As a schoolboard director, we all took an oath to support the laws of the state of Washington and impartially perform our duties according to the law. So, I completely understand that your personal feelings may differ from Washington state law, but I feel that we are all compelled as board members to support the law of the state of Washington and oppose this resolution. Thank you, Ped. Any other comments? Um, I'll start

078by this is obviously my my opinion. This doesn't reflect the rest of the Foster School Board or Foster School District. Um, with that being said, at at no time should this ever be an issue about hating an individual um, by any means. It that that's for for me that that's not what it is. Um, I believe the way this is written up from WIAA, um, not saying that people can no longer participate, um, there will be male, female, and another category. You're you're not it you're not kicking anybody out from the ability to participate in sports. That that's not what this says. Um I personally I I feel this is first and foremost about safety and an equal level playing field. Uh we talk about inclusive equity and fairness. Males playing in female sports that's

079not fairness in my opinion. That that is not equitable. I I'm sorry. I I cannot cannot support that. Um, as far as any females in the state of Washington being hurt in a sporting activity, physically, I don't know. Mentally, I will say yes. Um, so in in in my opinion, this kind of gets us back to where where the sports fields need to be, right? Yeah. I think we have to protect biological females in this and um I am in support of at least giving giving our vote or trying to to to bring in some some common sense in this and um hopefully the WIA will will um you know protect biological females. So I think Jason's point in the beginning is important. This doesn't change a foster school district policy. It doesn't change the

080state law. The state law says transgender is a protected class. So whatever happens tonight, tomorrow, transgender student wants to participate and support foster school district and our league on our property. That's the law. They get to participate. It doesn't change that. Um just like we as board members get briefings with Kim on issues. We get updates from legal before we vote on certain things. I would imagine the WIA governors are getting updates from their council as well. And I would imagine the legalities of this proposed amendments are being discussed because it would violate the state law. And I think we had the speaker talk about the financial impact of that and what would happen. We did take an oath as board of directors to follow the law of the state of Washington. Um, so it's

081a resolution um before us. Not every district voting on it. It was brought in front of our board to vote on it. I don't think the WIA solicited. I'm not clear on that. Um, so it has no legal impact. Uh, we also discussed a lot when we're reviewing policies for our district what the procedure is that matches that. And there's no procedure with these proposed amendments as to how they're being enforced. and look at I'll read the language from proposed amendment number seven and it's number two under the comp privacy should be fully protected any appeal process could be complicated and may involve medical evaluations that raise privacy and ethical concerns and athletic organizations may face challenges implementing and enforcing the policy especially regarding medical assessment or appealing leading to administrative burdens and potential inconsistencies

082in implementation because there isn't a procedure in front of us regarding how that would be implemented. I can imagine various scenarios where it's weaponized and it doesn't say how a biological female would have to prove you know their sexuality male or female whether that's you know a standard physical as it is now whether it's a more intrusive examination um and that information isn't there so I find that to be intrusive I find it to be sexist because it only applies to women and not in having to prove their biology in participating in court. But most importantly, it violates state law and can't violate the law. We don't get to choose what law. The law changes, it's a different conversation, but we have to follow the law. Thank you, Alisa. Just one more comment about amendment

083number seven that I found to be interesting and I don't expect anyone to have the answer to this. Um, but it does state, Brian, as you mentioned, it's not limiting anyone from participating in a sport, but it does state all student athletes, regardless of sex, gender identity, or gender expression are allowed to participate in the boys/open category. However, participation in the girls category is limited to students whose biological sex is female. I'm I'm curious. You know, we've had a number of female students over the years express interest in participating in football. Um I wonder if this open category then applies to females who wish to play on our football team. I don't know if anyone knows the answer to that, but it would read that way to me. Aside from the resolution, I just thought

084that was interesting. No, great. I appreciate those comments. Um, you know, like Alisa said, this isn't uh, you know, this isn't a policy change. This isn't um, you know, we're not all we are is supporting an amendment through the WIA. Um, like like Alisa said, nothing changes tonight or tomorrow. Um, but I I did do some a little bit of checking and and I kind of went through and and there are biological differences between male and female and how they perform in sports. Um, I went through the WIA state track um state records uh for the boys 100 uh they're at 10 10.35. The girls 100, they're at 1155. And I'm sure each one of those individuals worked tremendously hard to achieve that record. Uh if I move to the discus, uh boys is 203t

0857 in, girls is 173t 1 in. It's a significant difference. And like I said, each one of them probably works just as hard to achieve that goal, just like all our athletes do. Work very hard to get to where they're at, whatever sport they're playing. When I look at uh uh I've researched some tennis serves, uh men's on their first serve is 117 miles an hour. For women's it's 99. Doesn't seem like a lot, but you know, 18 miles an hour when it's coming up is is is significant. The second serve, uh men's is 96, women's is 84. uh when I look at and the one that really kind of opened my eyes a lot considerably more was weightlifting competitions. You take 150 lb man, the squat record is 520 lbs. You take a 158lb

086woman, the the record's 421 pounds. So there is a biological difference. Um and and we want to make sure that you know our female athletes have an appropriate place to compete and be safe. So I think that's a part of this whether it goes through or not. You know it's out of our hands. It goes to the you know our delegate through WIA. Um, but those are the things that that I'm concerned with the most. And you know, in no way should we, you know, uh, disparrage anybody. Um, you know, that that's not the point of this. The point is fair, um, and safe competition. So, I appreciate the comment. I think one point to remember, we have WIA reps. I believe our area rep is that you middle school and I don't know if

087he's open to making comments. I don't know if he's actually our rep and there will start that change. And then also of course um and so the WIA voting is over a few days beginning in April and it takes a 60% majority to amend their policy. Um and then also if you are concerned about changing the state law, we can't do that here. Um so contact your state legislator. They or a lobbyist. Thank you. Any other comments, students, anybody else questions? Um our district 5 rep is Russ Waterman. Thank you. So and thank you to Michelle and Alisa coming here. so educated. Any other comments? Um, I do appreciate you're bringing kind of some statistics on who holds the records and various activities. I just want to circle back to Alisa's comment. Um, there is

088a difference and we need to really remember there is a difference between winning and safety, right? So, just because boys might have better records doesn't necessarily mean that the girls they're competing against are less safe. They might have their feelings hurt, but I can tell you my tiny little short has a biological disadvantage in many sports. And I against other biological females, right? I mean, that's just how God made her. She can compete in something else advantageous to a little short girl. she wants to be a winner or find her own talents, right? Um, we can't all be winners all the time, but let's not mix winning with safety. I don't want to confuse those two. Correct. Well, I'd make a motion to approve resolution 03-25 WIAA for a fair, safe, and non-discriminatory practice in

089athletic and extracurricular activities. I would just ask for Yeah, I think we need to consider what Michelle said very heavily. Um, and I think we need to, as um, someone who's going into politics, I think you need to realize the funding implications this would very negatively affect your students that you are supposed to be taking care of. Yoshi, can I put you on the spot and you can say um, no if you don't want to comment, but I'm just curious as a female wrestler what your perspective is. I don't think um I don't think a male would intentionally put the intentionally put themsel in a position where they're wrestling females if they genuinely don't feel like a female. I don't think somebody's going to go out there and fake it just to make first place

090at state. And I think people need to realize that these are children. These are children. you should not be discrimin discriminating against children like that's that's not okay just in general. Students want to comment. I feel like uh if state law and OSPI says that the resolution is a bad idea then I think it's just a bad idea. If they were to change their mind, then I would change my mind. Thank you, Alex. Anything? We have a motion to approve. You have a second. It's been moved and seconded to approve resolution 03-25. And this is a roll call vote because it's a resolution. So Michelle, nay. Brian, Frank, yes. Lisa, and I will vote yes. The motion resolution carries. Um moving on to first reading of policy and procedure 3425 act anapolaxis prevention and response.

091So this is first reading. I will say the two yellow parts should be removed. We do are going to stop stock um anaphylaxis prevention medications um and we will have designated locations in all of the buildings. Um but that would be one correction need to happen before the final read. Any questions for D? Laura's here as well. You have any questions for the nurses? I I think it's good to have an antylactic prevention and responsibility. Laura, can you answer this question because I was wondering if a student has a prescri has a prescription? You know how um now if a student has an EpiPen and they do not have it at school when school starts, they can come to school. But if we have them in stock and they happen to not have it the

092first day, can they stay at school? Okay, we'll have to talk about that. Yeah, I think it could be too, but that that's a question that's come up and so we'll have to talk about that. Would that be something needs to be added to the policy? No, I don't think so. I mean right now our our um our stand our procedure is if student has a life-threatening condition they have to have their medication at school to attend school. Um it's a it's a can be a battle for sure every year. Um but if we can't ensure their safety if they don't have that then we have to we do have to um we do have to um they have to stay home until they do. So, our nurses do a great job of reminding parents

093375 times starting in the spring all the way up to school starting and we still get to school time and it's can be a challenge but most parents are really good about getting it done. We take in piles of medications the few days before school starts but it is Yeah. Yeah. Because it's not it's not just bringing your medicine to school. If you've ever had a child in that situation, you have to go to the doctor. You have to have your care plan. You have to have all those things. All there's documentation has to be on file. So, it's not as simple as just bringing your medicine to school. You have to go to the doctor every year and get that renewed. And so it is it's a it's it's the ladies do a lot

094of leg work to make sure all that's in place and students are safe. Thank you. Question. I move to approve the first reading of policy and procedure 3425. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I I I oppose same sign. Motion carries. Thank you, Deanna. Uh next up is the first reading of policy and procedure 2410, the graduation requirement. So this is a updated definitely formatting and everything has changed a lot. This is a new model policy. Um we went through several years as I told you before where there was different graduation requirements for like we had kids we had three different requirements at one point with kids just in the high school um because of different requirements from the state and there was covid and uh

095so this has been really nice that we don't have to have like oh from 2018 and before and from 2019 to 2021 so it has cleaned uh has cleaned it up considerably and re remember we are this also um we are making adjustment we have historically required three and a half credits of social studies and history and we are going to follow the state requirement of three credits of social studies and history. It does um yeah it doesn't it was not reducing our graduation requirement at 26 credits but it does help us with some staffing challenges that we're experiencing. So questions students you have any questions on this one? Move to approve first reading of policy and procedure 2410 graduation requirement. I'd second it. Moved and seconded to approve the first reading of policy and

096procedure 2410. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. Post same sign. Motion carried. Uh, next up is the second reading of policy and procedure 6114, gifts and donations. Think there's anything needed. There's really nothing. I don't know what I supposed to say. No changes. I'd make a motion to approve the second reading of the policy and procedure 6114. Gifts or donations. been moved and seconded uh to approve the second u and final reading of policy and procedure 6114 gifts and donations. Students, you have any questions, comments? Um yes, thumbs up, thumbs down. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Post same sign. Motion carry. Uh, second reading on policy procedure 3204, sex discrimination and sex based harassment of students prohibited. I am going to follow suit with Kim and say

097this is we've seen this several times. It's a second reading. So there's any Questions, comments? I move to approve the second reading of policy and procedure 3204. Second. students. All right, it's been moved and seconded to Did I already say that once? It's been moved and second to approve the second reading of policy and procedure 3204. All those in favor signify by saying I I I post same sign. Motion carries. Uh next up is the Lake City Consultant for Proer High School irrigation control system program. So, you've heard me talk and Andy has talked about we have this really complex control system for irrigation system and it was never really trained and done properly and the uh if you think about your personal yard, you have zones and you have so many sprinkler heads on

098your zones. Well, um I'm going to I'm going to say our conversations with Ed Champagne, the architect, and myself got really deep for a while. And finally, Bryce, who works at Architects West, said, "Well, I know the guy who created that program." So, this contract is with the guy who created the program. He's going to come in and he's um if you look in the agreement, he's going to do the first three lines and then option A. Um and then we're going to video and we're going to train and then we're going to go from there. We've had an update. Thank you. So, um what I'm referring to on the costs, we're doing one, two, and three, and we're doing um op number four, option A is what's in the book. Excuse me. I stand

099corrected. Think we're doing option B. I got to read my notes now. I just reread it. Just one second, please. Goodness gracious. We are doing option B. not the not the 6,000 additional dollars for doing the option B. I apologize. I apologize. Is this over districtwide or one site specific? This is mainly the high school tennis court, baseball, that propert softball, baseball, tennis, football practice, field, anything the hill. Anything that was done with that hill word of the new high school. Yeah. And part of this adjustment is now we're able to get more uniform water across. Yes. So, if you think about I'm going to just use my house. I have little drips around the close to my house where my plants are and then I have my big sprinklers out. Whatever. The way we

100were told initially was you could only do so much. And that is not correct. And so now we're going to be able to run I'm going to use my house two of my big sprinkers and six of my drips at one time so that I can don't have to do my 27 drips all in one time and then just one big sprinkler. There was a mathematical problem that said we were only going to then be able to touch the way it was. We only touched the water every two or two and a half days and Andy was having to come in and manually turn them on on other pieces because we didn't have the right programming in the system. So, was it more of the a controller issue? It was not the controller itself. It

101was how it was programmed and the lack of the training thereof. The programming. Yes. and we're going to do a video of the training. So, you know, this gentleman is older than me and so when people retire, right, we have an actual training and a way to continue on. Well, I think what what contributed to the degrading of the previous track, perfect example of, you know, you if this is going to include the football field, then, you know, there was always water spraying right over the track and well, that just, you know, over time pooling up and the sun beating on it with water and dry, wet and dry just Yeah. To me, it seems like it would be a good investment. Yes. And we are going to do a little bit of, you know,

102how we put this Wrinklers Underground at the Hel Middle School football where we're going to actually revamp some of the stuff around the ends of the track and around the high jump and so forth so that we're not spraying on those and having to buy new pad systems every four years. So, I'm going to prepare everybody who's listening and watching. If you see some brown areas this spring and summer or certain spots around the track, those are intentional so that we're not ruining the track and doing whatever while we're reworking the underground sprinkler systems in those things. So, if you're at the grocery store and somebody says they're not watering around the track, you're correct because we're not going to water the track until we can get the proper sprinkler heads and system in. Any

103other questions? Well, I move to approve the Lake City consulting agreement. I'd second been moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Same sign. Motion carries. That concludes our action items tonight. Moving on to the consent items one through three. I'd make a motion to approve consent items one. Second. Just a comment. We have two teachers on there that have worked for us for over 40 years, Mrs. Sher and Mrs. Spray. So, if you see them, we can congratulate them on their soon to be in retirement. Oh, we've got a first and a second to improve approve the consent items. Students, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Post same sign. Motion carries. I hope they enjoy their retire. We are going to have a new one and

104two on the seniority list next year. We might have to do the new prize of who has the most seniority on the opening day, right? Uh moving on to uh reports. Uh Disease, you're up first there. Okay. So, I have uh January's financials. Um we've been talking very openly about, you know, our cash issues. Um so, it's not surprising that our fund balance is is low, but it is trending upwards from the last few months and especially from September. Um if you look at our revenue and expenditures from the last three school years, December and January are both expenditures are down and revenue is up. Um and that is um with the three of us really putting a pause on spending, restricting what people are buying, traveling, um all all of that good stuff. So

105I've I've been doing my due diligence. Um enrollment in January is a little bit down from December. Um so remember that from here on out our aortionment monthly um is true fire enrollment. Um so that will affect going forward. Um and yeah, other than that we're we're moving slowly towards getting back to a 4.5% fund balance. Um, and I'm confident by at the end of the year that our predicted ending fund balance will be greater than than what we budgeted for. Thanks, Deise. Any questions? I I wanted to you kind of like Diana's talked about our 40-year 40-year employees. I want everybody to understand um that's a huge accomplishment in this in the world in which we're living in education right now and it is taking principles directors it's taking everybody to stop spending that

106makes sense and to our community who are entrusting their students and bringing students back to our district you're helping to by increasing the revenue so I just want everybody to understand it really does take us all. Thanks, Louise. Uh Diana, I've talked a lot tonight, so I'll be fast. Um I just want to say in the last two weeks, we've had so many great events for students in the Proer School District from state to science to arts to plays. I I mean, it just the the list just goes on. So, it's been really wonderful. Um, we've been doing a lot of work with staffing and budget planning and we're continuing to work on that. Um, Kevin and I are doing a lot of work together and Kevin is starting to work with our district um,

107leadership team as we transition him into his new position. Kim maybe is talking about that too. I don't know. We're also starting some work on the Witstrand attendance area because we don't have enough students in the attendance area to keep maintain the enrollment there. So, we're looking at some options that would uh increase the enrollment, level things out. So, we're not um pushing students out to Wit Strand that right now currently residing in Riverview's um attendance area. Don't know when we'll be where we're ready to implement that, but we're doing some numbers. Ammy and her staff are helping me helping with that. And then I've spent I'm spending time pretty much every day supporting Aurelia Guteras, our new HR person. Um she's doing a great job and oh my gosh, so full of energy. Um,

108and it was really great today having Kim back um to visit with staff and see everyone, which is really fun because sometimes our people in those kind of positions don't get a chance to maybe say goodbye or see everybody. That's challenging, but uh lots of good things are happening. I know the money thing is always it's going to be hard, but I think we got doing some good stuff. Danny, any questions for Diana? Y. Okay. Normally I go pretty fast. Not that we're but we're under our two-hour limit, so I'm going to talk for a couple minutes. Um Diana touched on it, but I think for the record, we really do need to talk about some of really amazing things that happened. We had third grade pre performing at the Princess Theater. I want you

109guys to know that's a lot of kids. And almost, and I hate to use the word almost, but I think it was every, but almost every single performance was sold out. It's important for the record to understand this is not I was sitting I had people sitting behind me and I heard them talking and if you know me very well I have kind of elephant ears so I kind of interrupt interrupted their conversation and what they were talking about was that their child would have never been at Princess Theater. They would have never had that experience and now they're going to try out for Finding Nemo this summer. Um, and more important than that is we have so many families that would have never gone to the Princess Theater had their children not performed there.

110So, by supporting the arts through this partnership, we're doing more for our community than just the third graders performing on stage. And I think when you hear me talk about school partnerships, whether I'm publicizing them or I'm fishing them, this is what we're talking about. um us even when money's tight and it costs our district approximately $5,000 per group to partner with that. If you think about the return on investment, I guess you might call it if you're in the world of business, that's card ROI, return on investment. That's a really good return on investment. The state basketball, for those of you who don't know this already, I am a athletic freak. I go to everything under the sun. Um, and so it really was an honor. And granted, it's kind of in our backyard,

111but boy, the red showed in high numbers in the in the stadium or in the Sundome, but I think more importantly than that, Court uh Kobe Mccclure did his 2000th point or scored his 2000th point. That's not done very often in high school athletics on in any athletics actually. But more importantly, did you see our players, boys or girls, lifting people up off the floor, doing whatever? Remember, that's what high school athletics is about, right? We're growing better citizens, we're growing stronger people because as much as all of them may want to play play pro basketball someday, I don't know that there's too many out there that we're going to see in the NBA in about six or seven years. Chamber of Commerce, I went to the monthly meeting last week. I'm still staying really

112active in that. National History Day to the Smiths and to I don't know the 60 or 70 people that were there. Um to see Royal City there with two Royal School District there with two buses and the buses are all over and the kids and the smiles and the laughter. Um remember we're about academics and this is a good way that we can show to the community and the state that we are about academics. Um, FCCLA, I don't know if you're aware of it, but we have a middle school program and a high school program. And we have middle schoolers going to nationals. You can figure out a way to pay to get them there, but that's a different place. But we have students doing and that's about academic, right? Um, we have the high

113school play this weekend. I think it's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night or Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. Right. That's another example. I think we're going to see larger drama programs, bigger things when our third graders are doing things and now we're going to be able to see them and they're going to understand what that means. Um, contract negotiations. We've started with the proer coaches association. We're doing meeting two next Friday. We're starting some of our work with one of our groups. We're working on Oh, Diana and I are working on next year's calendars and the 26 27. So, we're hoping we'll be able to bring those calendars to you at the next meeting. Um, okay. And Sean and everybody, watch this. I'm gonna do this. You're gonna get this. That's a little drum roll. We

114have been arguing with the state of Washington and the auditors association since the day I started about the FCC, Federal Communications Commission about Esser money than when we used to buy Chromebooks and Wi-Fi hotspots. And if you remember, I started in July and I had to come to this group in August or September and say we had an audit findings. If you you want to go back, you can listen. I had to share that. Then I got really frustrated. You've already given us an audit finding in the 23 year when I wasn't here. And then we got one last year for the second year of that audit finding. Well, ladies and gentlemen, today we received a letter from the federal government that said Proer School District, you were right. And so we are going to

115challenge the finding. We don't know that the finding will actually come off of our record because it does impact things like done in Brad Street, our credit rating, how we communicate with the community, if somebody looks us up on uh our levy, all of those kinds of things. It really, really does. So, I'm wanting it to go on the record that we did use our money, right? We did what we were supposed to and we did what the federal government told us to because the federal government is the one who gave us the money. So, I just want everybody to go on the record. That was a big deal to me because if you know me, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong and I admit it. But when I'm right, I'm going to fight till the

116end until we get the letter. Um, this capital committee meeting started. We had our first one. We're have our second one April 17th. What a great time to bring people from our community to work on taking care of our facilities and our assets for many, many years to come. If you're listening or you're going to go back and listen to the recording, please, if you're interested, please join our capital committee. It's open to anyone. fields of friends of the fields meeting have started. Uh we had a little bit of going back and forth today, but the um liquid fertilizer or the I don't know weed and feed, thank you, is going on in the next couple days on our play fields, our our sporting fields um playgrounds and things will follow up later. Capital projects

117update. We've heard about the chiller. We do have the RFQ open for realtors. Uh we are really looking for someone to help us and become part of our team to sell some of our properties that we have already for sale and the old tennis courts. I know it wasn't really exciting, but if you look out there, there's posts in there to separate us a low fence, the tennis from the pickle ball. And pretty soon you're going to see some major work going on out there. Um ecap for um play uh recess type things. They're going to be using some other facilities, but it shouldn't take too long. and will be having pickle ball in Proser. Um the rest of it leadership is continuing on. I do want to make it for public record. I have

118registered for women in leadership and the um WASA annual conference and I am going and I'm paying my way that way. So I don't want anybody to think that I were saying no to someone else but the superintendent's going. What's good for one is good for all. Thank you everyone. Thank you Kim. Any questions for Kim? How good did you go? You know, it was great. Diana was there. Um it was Thursday night of state basketball. So, I just want everybody to know that there may not have had some of the people there that may have been there otherwise. Um we wrote we got started word smithing our mission and our goal and we're so we were going to just do once a quarter which is still the goal, but we're going to do a

119second meeting on April 17th to kind of finalize some of that and set out what is the purpose of it. Um, we talked at some length at the meeting about you change a superintendent and so it's like you go back to ground zero and then you start again. Well, we're trying to keep that type of stuff from happening. Oh, one question that was asked by some of the members, does that mean I'm the capital bond committee or am I the capital levy committee? No, that's not what this job is. This job is about being um a partner and looking at what's going on in our system so we take good care of our facilities. Any other questions? Okay, moving on to director reports. Michelle, you were right that there is a lot of good things

120going on in our district, so I had to be really choosy with my list of things I wanted to mention and I was like really hard. It was still pretty long. Um, I was so thrilled I wasn't able to go to the Lion King, but I was really thrilled to see that we were doing that. I just have a really really soft spot in my heart for theater and I love it so much. Um so I'm glad that we're able to offer that to our students. Um speaking of theater, like you mentioned Kim, um PHS Theater, Shakespeare's 12th night will open tomorrow night, 7 o'clock, and um also Friday and Saturday night. I also couldn't make it to the um PTO's MSI event this was last night which I was really bummed about because I'm

121like really into science stuff and I thought that would be so cool. But I was at um the eighth grade student and parent night at the high school for incoming freshmen and I thought um they did an excellent job putting that on too. It was really informative. um dragged my son around, made him talk to all the different tables that were there, even though he just wanted to go home, but um he got to learn a lot about what the high school has to offer, and I appreciated that that was put on for the parents. Um spring conferences opened up today. So, anyone who hasn't snagged their spot already, um such a great opportunity to talk to your kids' teachers and figure out where, you know, what they need help in and how well they're

122doing in school. Um, I did go to the PHS art showcase. That was the day after our last board meeting. I thought that was really great. Got to see a performance from the band, the choir, the theater. A lot of good great art exhibits on display in the common. First ever performance of our mariachi. Oh yeah, mariachi. Um, also was a judge at NHD regional. So that was really cool to see um the projects I got to watch and then just all the excitement, enthusiasm of all the kids and the volunteers of course. um my first experience there and it was pretty incredible to me everything that went into it. So definitely a lot of thanks go to the Smiths for I mean they it's just a tremendous effort that they pulled together. um FCCLA.

123So, I was there at state championships last week and um that was also really cool. I I only learned about FCCLA just this year. You know, I think we put a lot of attention on FFA, especially at the high school, but the FCCLA program is really, really quite impressive. um being there at state conference, seeing like over 500 kids from around the state there to do their projects and just the rowing leaders that that program spits out. Um it's really incredible. Like you mentioned, the U middle school did have a first place and a third place moving on to nationals. Um pretty sure they're going to fund raise their way so you don't have to worry about paying for that. And then um just also looking forward to having Friday off. Yay for unused snow

124days. Oh, and uh I just wanted to put a shout out to the um Mr. Jenny at the middle school. I've appreciated getting my second monthly newsletter. So, that is a great addition and very helpful for parents. Michelle. Yeah, Brian. Uh yeah, I want to just uh congratulate Boys and Girls Basketball on uh another another great year. Um and then yeah, Dean and Kyla Smith. um thank them for all that they've been doing for this National History Day and then obviously getting to host regionals here in our community. Uh pretty pretty cool to see those pictures were were cool over Kim. Appreciate that. Um and then yeah, just thank you classified staff. Thank you for all the work that you guys put in. Um and then safety committee meeting tonight. I felt really good about

125that. Um I think we're Yeah. get things rolling in the right direction. So, thank you, Kim. Thanks, B. Uh I was just really happy to see just the concern with wellness and nutrition. Thank you guys for what you're doing. Um just I believe it's so important for kids. Um well, all of us for eating more fresh and whole foods and and supporting our local farmers. I I love that program. It's just it's just awesome and I hope we can do a lot more of it. Um and you know more processed and packaged foods that concerns me. I think that's that's u we just we need to get back to more whole foods and I think it'll make for a healthier community. Uh love to see the community involvement with the sports and all the community

126events. Um sure would love to see and hear from more of the parents here at of our parents of our students here at our meetings. Um I hear from them pretty regularly on you know just on an individual basis but uh if they're out there hear listening I' we'd sure love to hear your input. Thanks Lisa. Well I have a list of the great things too. So I'm not going to try to be a pile on her of how great the things have been. Um, I wanted to say, um, the arts night after we approved the mariachi band the night before, the arts night was fabulous on every level, but the mariachi like sold the show far and away. They had a soloist who was singing in the choir, the high school choir, and was

127wonderful. But in the mariachi, I mean, it was like a professional level performance. She was stunning. Um, so just congratulations. They've only started December and just put on such an incredible performance. All the exhibits were great. Last week, you know, being downtown um for the tournament. It was like a It was like Marty GR. There was a parade every day, right? The buses were coming through town. Everybody's waving out the windows of the bus. People in town were waving. It was It was a lot of fun. And just congratulations to everybody. Uh thank you to Linda Hall who posts quarterly score reports so on Facebook so we know what's happening. I think that's wonderful. I appreciate that very much. Um I got to be a judge for the National History Day and in the training

128um the state history day coordinator reminded us and said you know we were going around and talking to these kids um they don't talk a lot of these kids don't talk to kids every you know they're on their tech they're not used to that. So every time there's an opportunity for public speech like our kids going to San Francisco to talk about the planetarium or the FCLA or National History Day is just another opportunity. that Ninja Lion King. This wasn't like just a performance of kids standing on a stage. There's professional. There's costumes. There was makeup. There was a multi-tier set. They had choreography and singing. Everybody at the theater except in the concessions that's making your tickets that helping you find your seats, the ushers, that's all volunteer. Um the people that do the

129sets, it's all volunteer. So, it's such a great partnership like Kim said. Um wonderful. For those of us who've lived in the Pacific Northwest a long time, MSI is referred to as OMSI if you watch Portlandia. So, thank you to the PTO for bringing OMSI to crosser. Um, and then also all the volunteers like Frank said, um, just making everything happen in this community this last few weeks for kids and all the time. And for the first time in Proer tomorrow, there's a Boys and Girls Club U friends breakfast. There's one in the Tri Cities every year club. This one is exclusively for Foster tomorrow in Foster right over here in our new club part of our partnership. So wonderful to see so many good things happening and they're all added a high caliber. Nobody

130was expect um just kind of want to reiterate again that you know classified staff and we appreciate all the hard work you put in to uh to making a school day uh productive and um you know so we appreciate all the I appreciate all that hard work. Um you know again gradu you know congratulations to all the the winter athletes that made you know state or regional competitions. uh the basketball teams of course, you know, we finished last week, but I also wanted to um I went to the first day of practice, you know, for softball, tennis, baseball, and it was it was kind of surreal because we've never had that as a district, you know, where you have every, you know, all the teams, you know, tennis used to be way off over here

131and they were all together and you could just scan and there's just kids everywhere having fun and enjoying that. So, I think it was a I think it's a blessing that we're able to get the tennis courts and be able to put them in that spot. Uh it's a great facility. So, um I'm going to add to that, just so you know, the count is 363 students participating in spring sports this year. That's high school. I don't know what the number is for the middle school because it hasn't actually kicked in yet. So, that's high school. 363 of what was the count? But anyhow, a lot a high percentage, right? Uh well, that concludes uh tonight's meeting. We have another regular board meeting March 26 right here in the district boardroom at 6 PM. This

132meeting is adjourned. Thank you.