001Right. Oh, I'm late. Uh, welcome. It's 4:30. Uh, we have everyone here but Joe, who may be joining us a little bit later. Um, so I'll call the meeting to order and please stand if you're able and remove your hats for the flag salute. All right, great. Thank you. Welcome to the people that are in the uh audience this evening. Um we'll move on to item two, which is district highlights. And Kevin has a few words on schoolboard recognition month. Every year January is school board recognition month and in the CIA school district uh we try to recognize the board for all of their work and supporting our students, our community, our schools. One of the ways you will see right here, this has been posted on our website. It also goes out on social
002media as well. Um there are 295 school districts in our state. All school districts except for the Seattle school district has five elected officials. Uh the Seattle school district has seven just because of the the largest of that school district. Um we we try to all the time say how much we appreciate them. So this is more of the formal part of this because being an elected official and being a school board member is times a very difficult and challenging job. There are rewards. I think they will all tell you there are rewards to their job. Uh, and I think they would not be here unless they enjoyed the work that they do to to better our schools, support our students, and so forth. Uh, as I was looking, I mean, I each year, um,
003the governor provides us a proclamation, and the proclamation is is very formal in the way he provides it in all proclamations that our governor makes and all governors. Basically, in summary, it it wants to declare from a statewide the support of our school directors across the state. I believe there's 1,140 of them across the state the state. They're all elected by the community as well. Uh but I that's very formal. So, what I did is went a little bit more informal and I I looked for some things to to kind of give our audience and our school board thanks and appreciation. The first one is there was a statewide survey conducted that showed that its members who run for school board, they run for two primary reasons. Number one, to give back to their communities.
004And I would think that the the board that we have here uh does that. And two, to help children get a good education. Very simplistic things, give back to the community and help children get a good education. So with that, I personally on behalf of all the students within the school district, all of the employees of the our school district, our community as a whole, thank you. And we hope that you know how much we appreciate each of you individually and as a team. So thank you. >> Thank you, Kevin. We appreciate that. And there are definitely rewards along with the work that goes with it. Um and one of those rewards is getting to hear from the public. And that takes us to our next uh area of business tonight which are comments from
005the audience. Um and we do have a number of people. We have let's see one two three four people signed up to speak tonight. So I'll read the uh guidelines for public comment. We invite all community members to address the board on an issue or topic. The agenda item titled suggestion for comments from the audience is for any comments related to topics that are not on the agenda. The audience can also provide informal comments on specific agenda items after being recognized by the board president. Individual remarks are limited to 3 minutes. Patrons making comments are asked to begin by identifying themselves. So just stand up and say, "Hey, my name's Chris," for instance. Uh, please appoint a spokesperson if the concern is a group concern. If desired, you may email written documentation to Jennifer, our
006executive assistant, to be included as part of the official meeting record. While the board will listen to all public comments carefully, the board cannot respond to comments spontaneously or without further deliberation. The board may direct the superintendent to respond to the issues expressed at a later date. Complaints about specific personnel will not be heard in open session and will not be part of the record of any public meeting. Harassing or derogatory statements about any persons or groups of persons will not be heard. Okay, I think that's it. Again, thank you for being here this evening. And the first person on our list for public comment, I think is it Gina Colby? Jenna, I'm sorry, Jenna. Jenna Colby. Jenna, as you go up there, you're going to see a mic there, and you need to push
007the button on the mic and make sure that light turns green. You do because all the people from the uh that are not here that are virtually, that's how they get the sound. So, thank you. >> Okay. Hi, I'm Jenna Colby and I am the CILA High School vice president of the band booster club. I'm here to talk about band funding and mostly replacement of the instruments. I next year will be 30 years since I graduated from SILA High School and some of these percussion instruments have been there since before I was a senior. Um, so I have a petition with 122 parent signatures. It's over the past several years, Sila High School band program has expanded significantly in both size and achievement, performing at elite levels and proudly representing the district in a major
008regional and state events. However, most of the program's core percussion instruments are now more than 30 years old, failing, and in some cases unsafe or impossible to repair. Essential instruments including timonies, mormbas, xylophones, chimes, and concert bass drums require full replacement representing district level costs that cannot be met through typical fundraising efforts. Without updated equipment, students face barriers in pitch, accuracy, safety, rehearsal quality, and equitable learning opportunities compared to neighboring districts. Additional financial pressures such as increased instrument repair, worn out band and PEP in instruments, rising transportation costs, and enrollment growth further strain the program's limited resources. These needs directly affect the students achievement, access, retention, success, safety, and future musical opportunities. Here we are respectfully requesting that the CILA board allocate funds for replacement of core percussion instruments, establish a long-term instrument replacement cycle
009for the band program, and provide supplemental annual funding to support enrollment growth, instrument repair, and transportation needs. In 2021, Kevin Matson, the CILA High School band teacher, was allocated $60,000 to purchase new instruments. With those funds, the program acquired two bass clarinets, three souousones, and one baritone saxophone. At that time, there was a clear understanding that a comparable level of funding would be provided every three years to address aging, damaged, and unplayable instruments. That commitment has not been upheld. Speaking as a parent, it's incredibly frustrating to watch students in the band program struggle while other programs consistently receive substantial financial support. Athletic programs benefit from new uniforms, and regularly placed equipment. While the band, despite representing at all the school home games, state events, parades, teacher inservice days, first days of school welcome committees at
010both SMS and SHS, pep assemblies at SIS and SHS, state sendoffs, and numerous community functions is left standing in the rain quite literally and forced to fund raise simply to provide students with the bare minimum experience. Band students work just as hard, commit just as much time, if not more, and bring immense pride and visibility to the district. The SILA High School band program is one of the best in the state, as demonstrated by its selection to perform at the WMA Allstate Convention Concert Hour. That's next month on February 14th. Students are being recognized at state level, yet they are not receiving the same recognition or support from their own school or district. Within the high school band, there's concert band, jazz band, wind ensemble, percussion ensemble, and pep band. This is the first year
011the band has been given a designated budget of $15,000. However, that budget is being reduced by expenses that shouldn't come out of the instrument program funding, such as travel, repairs, curriculum costs. Meanwhile, significantly smaller districts such as Highland received about $30,000 for instrument and equipment repair and to enrich and expand their student opportunities. We are just asking that nothing be cut and that we get some kind of equipment replacement program in the works. We have over or around 300 band students in the middle school and we don't have enough instruments to support them right now. We have about 91 students at the high school in band and we have one teacher and he also is the choir teacher. So the music department is very stretched thin up there. Um currently students are expected to perform
012on decades old equipment. Often they're damaged, outdated, and not appropriate to side size. These things need to be replaced. They're required to perform literature at their appropriate level. The concern is they're not going to be able to do this. And with the band becoming a bigger thing and supporting more things, we don't know how we're going to you can't just turn away a kid who wants to be in band. Um, the original plan was to establish a comprehensive instrument repair and replacement cycle every three years. This plan has now been removed. The success and growth of this program should not result in reduced support. Students should not be penalized or overlooked simply because they sound good with limited resources. The band program is not currently being funded at a level that allows students to fully
013succeed. These students deserve equitable support, safe and appropriate equipment, and a district that honors its commitments so they can continue to re represent CILA with excellence and pride. Thank you for listening to me. >> Great. Thank you very much, Jenna. Uh, our next uh public comment is from Chris Rodriguez. Is it already on? Yeah. Well, thank you uh CIA score uh CA school board u for allowing me to speak today. Uh my name is Chris Rodriguez and I'm here to address my resignation as the head coach of girls wrestling at the high school. I stepped down on December 17th at 1 p.m. I'm not here to be reinstated as I feel that that wouldn't happen under the present circumstances facing me. I just hope that my experience can help drive positive change. And if it
014can highlight what not to do um or expose system holes, I'm glad to serve as that example. And in the three years, we grew from 18 girls to 28 girls and then 49 girls this season. I'm proud of these athletes, their family, and the CILA community who built it with me. To be clear, my resignation did not come from improper interactions with any students, uh financial issues, or intentional cheating. My resignation resulted from two honest mistakes with a athlete eligibility in final forms. Early on in the season, one girl practiced without being eligible. Um, it was caught by the athletic trainer and was reported as it should be for all programs. Um, I immediately was honest about it and said that I agree to having it be reported to the WIAA as it should for
015all programs. Um, I received a one-year WIA probation and was given new instructions from the athletic department to be better on my recordkeeping. Now, I thought I could follow these instructions uh the district gave me while keeping my usual system and blending them both together, but that was a decision I wish I could get back, which led to the next part, my second mistake, which I own. Um I discovered a second girl had slipped through the cracks and ended up competing in an event while ineligible. There was no intent to cheat. Um it was an oversight I missed uh due to my recordkeeping. Uh I self-reported myself to the administration the next morning and offered to do whatever was necessary to protect my girls. When I was told that fighting it could lead to forfeits,
016sanctions, and fines, uh, no postseason for the girls, I resigned to protect the program, the district, and my own kids' activities because I was told in that meeting that it would possibly bar me from any school district activities home and or away. I preach accountabilities to my accountability to my athletes, and if I did not take responsibility for my actions, then I would be the biggest hypocrite. I own my role in this matter. While coaching in two separate sports, softball as well, um at the high school, I've seen broader challenges uh in the elig in the eligibility process. Coaches are after often the last line of defense yet bear the main consequences when issues arise. In my case, two athletes with similar early testing timelines were handled inconsistently. One flagged, other not suggesting possible gaps
017in data entry, updates, notifications, and final forms. How could this happen? This isn't unique to CILA. Many school district using digital digital uh systems face similar human error risk. Simple improvements, better automative alerts, uh mandatory double checks or refresh training could help everyone from coaches, administrators, student athletes, and their parents. Uh thank you for your time. >> Thank you very much, Chris. Our uh next person signed up to speak is Max Bugnney. Did I say your name right, Max? >> Yes. Okay, great. Welcome. >> Thank you. Is it already on? Good afternoon. Um, dear members of the CIA school board. Um, I'm Max and I am here to talk to you about the CILA High School music and its funding. Um, I'm proud to be a part of the band who has worked so incredibly
018hard and achieves at our high level. Our program has grown, sounds strong, and represents CILA with pride at football games, basketball games, pep assemblies, middle school events, and even state events. However, behind that success is a difficult reality. Our band program is not being funded in a way that allows students to truly succeed. Much of our equipment is decades old, broken, or not even appropriate for the music we are asked to play. This is especially true for percussion. As she was saying, we do not have a proper 4.3 octave mima, an instrument that is standard for high school literature at our level and costs approximately $15,000 or more. Without it, percussionists are limited in the music they can learn, perform, and compete with statewide. Other percussion equipment is falling apart and many of our school-owned
019wind instruments are worn beyond reasonable repair. [snorts] This is especially concerning when over 300 students participate in middle school band in CILA. Right now, the district does not have the inventory needed to support those students when they move up to the high school. Students who want to continue in band should not be discouraged because the tools simply are not there. As students, it is difficult not to notice the contrast. The district is investing millions of dollars into athletic facilities and equipment, new turf fields, new uniforms, and upgraded spaces. While our music program has no true performance venue, we have been moved out of the main gym and now perform in the auxiliary gym at the high school. The VPAC, while appreciated, is essentially a cafeterias based space and does not function as a legitimate concert
020hall. Music students often feel like an off afterthought. This is especially hard to understand because we give so much back to the district. We perform at SAS pep assemblies, SHS, that should say SHs, including the first day of school. We regularly perform at the middle school. We support home football and basketball games, travel to state basketball tournaments, and represent CILA with pride wherever we go. We are known as one of the strongest pep bands around. Despite this, funding has decreased. When Mr. Madson arrived, the program received approximately $60,000 in 2021 to purchase instruments. We purchased two bass clarinets, three souafones, and a baritone saxophone. At that time, the program was told there would be a plan to provide comparable funding every 3 years to maintain and replace instruments. That plan has disappeared. This year, the
021band was given a budget of $15,000, but that number is a bit misleading. Travel costs, repairs, and curriculum expenses are now taken out of that same amount. In reality, this leaves very little for actual instrument replacement. Meanwhile, much smaller schools such as Highland receive closer to $30,000. That funding enhances student experiences rather than barely sustaining them. It feels unfair that our program is being overlooked because it sounds good. We should not be penalized for excellence. In fact, our success should be reason to invest more, not less. This year, our wind ensemble was selected to form at the perform at the WNBA WMEA allstate conference, one of the highest honors a high school band can receive in Washington. We are being recognized at the state level, but it is painful to feel that the same recognition
022is not reflected at home. As students, we are not asking for luxury. We are asking for equity, sustainability, and basic tools that allow us to learn, grow, and succeed. Music students deserve the same commitment that athletes receive because our contributions matter, too. Please consider reinvesting in the CILA band program. We are proud to represent this district. We simply ask that the district stand behind us in return. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Max. Uh I also have this I would like to give. >> You can give it to me. >> Great. >> Okay. Thank you very much, Max. I I uh as as the um introduction of public comment district guidelines for public comment note, um we can request that the superintendent follow up on this. And I'd like to ask Kevin if he
023can give us an update on um uh on your conversations with the uh high school department and middle school department for musical instruments. Um so that um we can keep up on what's happening there. Yeah. Thank you. Yes, please. Yes. Thank you very much, Jenna. We appreciate it. All right. Thank you very much. Our uh next person signed up to speak this evening is Mary Scheler. Hi, my name is Mary Scheler and over the last couple years it's taken a lot of thought and a lot of time. Um, but first off I want to take everybody here and I want to say thank you because it brought a lot of tears to my eyes. I really wanted to cry because the beauty um because I've been to the parades in Yakama and I've been to
024the parades in Cila and um the band has showed a lot of pride in everything they do. Absolutely. But absolutely so has the students on the board, but so has the board. Um, so this month is absolutely board month and I'm very honored of our board and our student board. Um but our board and over the last couple years it's taken a lot uh inside me inside me and I came today to just say thank you because everybody here on the board has a voice and everybody's voice makes it what's here. So, I just wanted to come and say thank you and thank you. Thank you for being here and thank you for speaking up because if you don't and you wouldn't be here, nobody here would hear. So thank you. >> Thank you, Mary.
025We really appreciate that uh those those comments and we appreciate comments from everybody this evening um who came to speak and uh uh I I want to assure you that we've heard you. Um we're going to move on now to there are no other people that would like to speak. I want to make sure that we've got everyone now. Okay, great. We'll move on to the uh next uh item on the agenda which is meeting minutes. I I I you're free to leave. You don't have to stay for the whole rest of the meeting. things get a little bit boring from time to time at school board meetings, but uh thank you again and uh have a good evening if you're leaving now. Um we are now moving on to the approval of the regular
026meeting minutes from December 11th, 2025 as well as the January 8th, 2026 meeting minutes. Uh I will move that we approve those meeting minutes. Is there a second? >> I'll second. And um are there questions or comments about those meeting minutes? Okay, great. Uh all those in favor of approving the meeting minutes signify with an I. >> I. All those opposed I >> with a nay and abstensions. Okay, great. We're moving on to number five now, which is the approval of consent agenda. Uh we have three, four, five items. No, four items on the consent agenda. The first is a human resources action sheet. Chris? >> Yes. Um you can see here that we have a few resignations and retirements coming in. Um this is typically the time of year where it really kind of
027starts because uh the the labor contracts do include an incentive payment if employees let us know about retirement by March 1st. not resignation, they don't get a a a stipen, but they do if they let us know about retirement. And it is important for us. Right now, we're in the we're already having staffing conversations for next year. So, the sooner that we find out uh who is leaving, the better because our intent is always to try to satisfy reductions through attrition. So, at this point in time, we have uh five we have uh three certificated retirements and two resignations. So, five total on the certificated side of things and we have two retirements on the classified side of things. Uh, so we're they're starting to trickle in now. So, we'll see a little bit more.
028However, I will make it mention that the attrition uh level is a lot less these days. People are tending to stay put instead of uh leaving uh resignation or retirement because districts are just not hiring with the budget challenges that are out there. Anything else you want to add on that, Kevin? I think that's it for the HR action. >> Great. Thank you. Are there any questions about the HR action? >> All right. Next on the agenda is the payroll goods and services for January of 2026. And that also is Chris. >> I will I I will highlight one expense. Uh like I say, every month I go through these. I sign most of these and approve them. Uh but I do go through before I highlight for the board and do my audit. You
029know, I was an in uh state auditor several years ago. So I always look for expenditures that look odd. Um and I just do a double check on them. So the one that I'll highlight tonight is on is the Gerber collision and glass uh charge for $80,200. Um, we did have an unfortunate situation where we had a one of our Suburbans uh and a deer get into a a collision uh coming back from a tournament. And so we did have that uh fix that we needed to make to the Suburban along with a couple other Suburbans that had severe oxidation on the hoods. So we had those done. So we did get our U insurance settlement back on this. we typically will pay the bill and then they reimburse us. So, I wanted to just
030highlight that that that was district vehicles involved in those fixes. >> Was was that related to the White Pass garage as well? >> Yes. Um actually that was a bus a bus fix in the on the White Pass and I actually looked at that one today and I thought they're going to ask me that question. [laughter] So, that's all I had to highlight tonight on payroll gibs and services. >> Great. Thank you, Chris. Uh, we are moving on now to the policy updates. Um, and we have first readings for policy 21108, learning assistance program 5011, sexual harassment of district staff prohibited 21106, program compliance 2140, comprehensive school counseling program 5010, non-discrimination and affirmative action. 6570 property data management, 6920 maintenance of facilities records, 6910 construction finance, and 1821 standards for individual school directors. And finally,
0316220 bid or request for proposal requirements. I I think I I I sent something out earlier to individual members of the board about 1821 which we might have a conversation about this evening, but Kevin, are there any of those policies updates that have anything that you want to draw our attention to specifically? >> Most of them uh are a good portion of them revisions that are required uh based on state law. uh 211068 5011 all have to do with updated non-discrimination language that needs to be included now in the state of Washington. Uh 5010 similar although that one was a retitle on that one for clarity purposes. Um again there's not a whole lot there's no new ones there's updated revisions. Um, I gave you the policy review. Again, it's first reading. If if in
032your time that you look through those and you have questions, please let us know. Ju just real quick on two of those. Um, 218 and 2140. Those are those talk about funding for those programs. Do we get money from the state? Because I noticed there's quite a bit of re revised language in those. We do get money from the state for learning assistance program. It you may hear of as lap. We call that lap as the acronym for that. So yeah, we do get funding for it for those. Um uh any other questions related to those before we take a look at 81 or uh 1821? Okay. So, what what I emailed out to individual uh board members was a clarifying statement. Um the the idea behind 1821 is to have some set of standards
033for individual school directors so that we're held to accountability the same way we hold um our the rest of the school district to accountability. Um and the the proposed language I'm I'm suggesting and I we don't need to vote on this, but maybe we could talk about it if you want to this evening. We don't need to vote on this until next uh month at the board meeting would be something like this. Nothing in these standards is intended to limit a school director's rights under the first amendment. Effective governance depends on open dialogue, thoughtful deliberation, and goodfaith expression of differing and at times minority viewpoints on matters of public concern. The standards guide ethical conduct and professionalism, not viewpoint conformity. and respectful disagreement, including minority viewpoints, is a normal and healthy part of a democratic
034board governance. And that that uh phrase there um was to um kind of deal with some of the concerns that came up about this set of standards for individual school directors being used as um as a a weapon against somebody who doesn't agree with everybody else. Um, does anybody have any comments about my proposal to add that statement to the end of the document so that as this document lives on beyond our time on the board, people will have a a better sense of what the intention is of the standards for individual school directors? >> I guess uh I I still am I mean I I appreciate that language um but I'm still not quite on board with it. I think the voters decide um through elections how the school if if they're happy with
035school board uh members or not. So I don't I still am not seeing the purpose of the policy. I know we've had several explanations, but I'm I'm going to have a hard time getting on board with it. No, nevertheless. >> Okay, great. Any other comments or questions? Yeah, I still um was it section five E where's all laws is the that I brought up last time? Um how to resolve that if it's conflicting laws? Um or if we just possibly leave that part out and just said where it just says complying with board policies and all laws just say complying with board policies. >> Okay, let me write that down here. And and this is about whether state or federal laws supersede each other. Um and I you know what's interesting about that is I
036think that's more or less working its way through the court systems right now. So we might we might wait to make that decision until we find out some court guidance, some judicial opinions on that. >> Believe some were in front of the Supreme Court last week. >> Yeah. And so who knows when we'll hear from those, but uh uh state or federal. Okay, great. Any other comments or questions about that? Uh, I'll share that uh that addendum language um with you, Kevin. I just I was uh sending that to the board first and I'll get that information to you. Okay, great. So, we will um we'll take those up for a vote at our next uh um business meeting in February. Uh the next item is a happy item. These are donations for uh January
03722nd. Uh I'm trying to remember is this Kevin or Chris that has the donations. >> I'll start with team. Go ahead. >> Start with the Kowanas Club uh donation that they made to the district for $7543. That was quite the surprise. We uh they dropped off the check at the high school and immediately this the high school principal brought it down to me. I spoke with the representative for the Kuanas Club and it was great. What a nice donation. and we're planning to give three $2,500 scholarships at the end of this year in the name of the Kuana's name. So, um really appreciated that donation from them. >> I'll jump in on another one. You'll see one for the the high school dance team. Uh Frank and Kathy Hendris uh have donated uh $2,000 uh
038to support dance team costs and competitions. >> And they actually donated twice, didn't they? >> They donated twice. The other one they donated to uh the high school club med or HOSA organization. again, Frank and Kathy Hendris uh for another $2,000 for uh support of the HOSA state competition for our students. >> And do you have a donation from the Viking crew to the uh high school band program for the wind ensemble uh which is coming up. So that's a nice for in the amount of $2216. So, >> there's also one from Viking Crew as well. Uh Viking Crew uh donated $2,500 to support uh a student trip for club med as well and HOSA. Again, we we see these I wouldn't say all the time, but when they come in, it it's just incredible
039what our our community does to support our students. And we are as a board very thankful to the um Hendrickx family, to the Kowanas, and to the Viking crew for um for really giving opportunities to our students to to go above and beyond um and to pursue their passions. So, thank you so much to those individuals. We're sending cards, I believe, to all of those people. So, be looking in the mail if you're watching this evening, be looking in the mail for our thank you. But um um from from the bottom of our hearts, we really do appreciate that kind of community support. Wonderful. All right. Uh we will now move to I I will move that we approve the consent agenda. Uh is there a second? Great. Are there uh all those in favor
040signify with an I? I >> I. >> All those opposed and abstensions. Great. Uh we're moving on now to item number six, which is a a draft of the 2026 school calendar. Evan, >> it is a traditional that annually we bring this to you in the month of January. I think there was one time it was February just because of some some logistical things that were being done. But we bring you next year's student calendar. Uh it looks very familiar to what it was traditionally done within our school district. I don't know how many years that this has been the calendar but a long long time supersedes my superintendent superintendencies Shane's superintendencies and all the way back to a gentleman by the name of uh Steve Ches. >> Steve Chestnut. >> Yeah. So this has
041been a long long process of having a calendar that looks like this. And for those of you who have had parents and been in or been in schools, you know that this a very very traditional calendar for our school district. It it every once in a while the calendar falls uh differently and this is one of those years because one of the key dates uh of our calendar has to do uh with Labor Day, the holiday. And so, uh, whereas we started this school year a little bit earlier, we will start next school year a little bit later. Uh, for students, uh, who are juniors, seniors, that this is not going to be important to you, but for the juniors and any of our other students, uh, first day of school will be August 31st.
042And then the last day of school, again, for seniors, you'll graduate long before this, but the last day of school will be June 15th. All holidays are very similar. Um, all the other any half days, all those other things uh are are very similar. And if you were to take last this year's calendar and put it together, you'd see exactly the same thing. >> Uh, any questions or comments about the school district calendar? >> May 28th is a date that we put into the calendar that is no school. It doesn't have a holiday, but it is the day that is the most missed day for our students and for our employees. And so, a few years back, we decided to why don't we put that as a day of non-school to not have to deal
043with a tremendous amount of our students being absent and trying to find subs. And I think it came down to there was one day we were really that was a day we were really worried about having enough bus drivers to be able to operate our buses. >> Yeah, that's why. >> How long has it been that way given that day off? >> It's been two years. >> Yeah, this is the second year. >> We're not noticing a drop off on Thursdays now. >> Not as significant, but I'm sure there are some. >> Want to start anything? I'm not. Yeah, >> I think you mentioned it. >> Yeah. >> Uh, and Kevin, just kind of for an overview, where is the state on balanced school calendars? I I know there have been some, what would you
044call them, pilot programs, including locally in the Akmal school district and I think maybe Toppenish and maybe White Swan, but I'm not sure. How is that do we feel pressure to move in that direction? I know that there's issues negotiating that with teachers unions and others. Um but what what is the state now uh in terms of their direction on that? >> Uh they've kind of stepped back. Uh there was an emphasis on on um looking at a year round calendar or a revised calendar to shorten the amount of time during the summer uh to make longer breaks within the school year. That I that idea is not one that's at the top of the list as it once was. it's kind of taken a backseat for a variety of different reasons. Um first and
045foremost, um those inter session time periods that were built in to provide students additional support, uh the amount of students that were participating in that was not what uh many districts had hoped for. And so you had a certain number of your students who were let's say meeting standard uh that were not participating and then the students that really would could benefit from being in there uh were not coming to school. So it also became very widely known that it was expensive uh to continue to operate. You needed to have a a funding source at at that time when this became popular. there were lots of lot more funds available to districts to look at this. So the ones that have held on to it, I I think it really became more of a local
046uh local decision that was the betterment for that specific district and the and the dynamics of that district. But for the most part, those that were waiting to see, like us, we're waiting to see what others were going to do, um, we've now noticed that is just not, uh, not the trend anymore in public education. >> Great. Thank you very much. A sort of, um, ESSER money helped support some of those pilot programs and when they lacked some success that they were hoping for, then they Okay. All right. Great. Thank you. Um, we are moving on now to item seven, uh, which is the student board representative reports. Can we start with the juniors and work our way towards the seniors? Is that all right? Uh, Marian and Aliana, do you have a report for
047us this evening? Or questions about what we've been talking about? >> I have a little bit. So, over the break, I got to go into the school more because I'm at YVC full-time. That was really good. and I got to talk to like a lot of the students. Um, uh, one thing I noticed when I was going in is they had me wear a visitor tag. So, like technically I'm a student, but they were like, "Since you're not here, you have to wear a visitor tag." And so, I thought that was kind of interesting. And so, I I was talking to my dad and thinking about it and I was wondering if there's a way that like like I know you guys have like the the passes things. I was wondering if that was something
048that the student reps could get because like as I went in like kids that I knew would come up to me and were like, "Why are you wearing a visitor tag? Like you're a student." And so that could also just to be a way for them to start asking more questions like about what we're doing. So that was one thing. And then last night, um, I was at a church activity and I was talking to some kids that go to the public school and, um, there's like a group from Chile up here right now. I think they're in they're with the harvest church, I think. >> And from what I gathered, it sounds like they've been going to like some of the Spanish classes and have just been like talking to the kids. So that
049was that was pretty cool. Yeah. >> Awesome. Thank you, Oyana. Uh, I don't really have much to say. I'm It's going good. [laughter] >> Okay, good. Claire and Charlie. >> Um, okay. So, Charlie and I talked to Mr. Monty about going to a um Thor Council meeting. So, um he kind of talked about it when he came in here last, but Thor's Council is like students at CILA High School who like all just get together and talk about issues. So Charlie and I aren't like a part of this group, but um we asked Mr. Monty and Mr. Martiny like offered like to bring us into a meeting because this is where students bring a lot of their concerns and stuff just to kind of get more perspective on things, maybe some more ideas of things
050that we can bring to you guys in. >> Yeah. Um I was a part of Thor's Council my sophomore year. Um, and it's it's a really amazing opportunity for um, students just be able to like share their perspectives um, and just be able to be open. Um, one thing I've also been talking to a lot of teachers and a lot of teachers are also on board with all the phone issues um, just within classes like I've been paying more attention to it. Um, and it does seem to be taking away from learning opportunities that we could be getting but in we're on our phones. So, um that was something else also like that's something that I've noticed and I've talked to a lot of teachers about. Um I know students students are very um not
051like very adamant about not getting like the yonder pouches that you guys have been talking about just because of how like they just they wouldn't want their phones locked away for a full day. They understand why we would get them, but they also just like they're just like I don't want them at all. Like they just don't think it would add anything to their school experience. Great. Thank you very much. We have we've been kind of tossing around some draft policy on students and telecommunication devices. I think we'll probably visit that at a future study session or at a business meeting. Um and one of the questions I think in it is should students be allowed to have it out at lunch for instance or is it a the yonder pouch would keep it sort
052of all day locked up but at lunch what what do you think about that? Um, so recently I sat at a lunch group that doesn't really have their phones out during lunch. Um, and it's because we are either like we're just like playing games. Like I bring a card game to lunch. Um, and we just play it the entire lunch period. So I think maybe if you have like opportunities open like that um where it's more of just like a social time instead of just like sitting there doing nothing like maybe providing like a game or two that students could play. Um, but yeah, like my group has currently been playing Taco Cat goat cheese pizza and that's like we just we're just not on our phones and it's something that's really fun. >> That's
053great. Thank you very much. That's a nice idea of in adding to the lunchroom something for them to do other than look at their phones. Claire. >> Yeah. Just on the point about like the having the phones in the classrooms, I do recognize that in the classes where the teachers are a lot more adamant and they stick to like the district guidelines and policy that our school has in place, there is a lot more learning happening, a lot less distractions for students. though. >> Oh my I do have a question about if they are locking up the phones. Do you know what would like I know it's not happening yet, but do you know what would happen if there's like a family emergency and how that would be dealt with? >> I I could only
054answer the way it used to be dealt with, which is somebody would call the school and then they'd send somebody down to the classroom and ask the student to come out. It's sort of an analog uh old old days, right? Exactly. Um so something like that perhaps. Um and I think the your email on your one to one devices, your Chromebooks would still be accessible, I think. I'm not sure. Um something like that. Yeah, >> that's that's how uh Ferndale they're the policy that I brought in. Uh that's how they handle it is you just go old school, you know? It's like meet me meet me in the parking lot at 2:30, mom. and pick me up. Um, and one of the issues that they did address just real briefly was uh the emergency service
055or if there's an emergency, say a school shooter or something like that at the schools, what happens with cell phones? Well, they can come out, but they did address that if you have 1,200 students trying to get onto the phone network at one time, that can create problems, not only uh communicating to parents, but also by the first responders. And so they actually encourage people not to bring out their phones. And if you've ever gone to the Sundoo for an event, you'll have that exact same problem there. When there are a lot of people in a small area trying to use their phones, you have really poor reception. So, >> or say trying to get into the parking lot at a Nate Bargotsi uh uh comedy special, an hour to get from Target to the
056Sundome. Uh anyway, um uh thank you very much uh for your uh communication with that and for paying attention to what's happening in the schools and in your classrooms. And I think Claire, what you said is consistency is the really hard part. Some some teachers make it uh a consistent part of what they do and others a little more lax about it. And so what we're trying to do is make something that is clearly known throughout the school so that there's not cool teachers and not cool teachers uh and that everybody has the same policy that they're operating from. All right, great. Uh we'll move on to item eight, which is the associate superintendent for district operations report. We have a budget timeline, a financial status update, and an enrollment update. >> Okay, Chris, >>
057we'll dive in on the budget timeline. So this is our 2627 draft timeline. have it in your in your packet on the port board docs tonight. So, um, as a reminder, just hit a c a few key points here that are involving the school board throughout this process. Um, as you know, of course, we've already put the draft enrollment and staffing projections together. We are already just a little side couple side notes here. We're already meeting with building principles on their updated projections for next year and we're what they're looking like whether they're un well nobody's understaffed so the overstaffed amount per building both on the certificated side of things and the classified. So we're already engaged in those conversations. Next week we have meetings with all building principles um to have our round one
058staffing collaboration. So, we'll begin or we'll continue our conversations that from this week to talk about um you know, we we simply look at okay, do you know of anybody else that's leaving in your building? Um do you you know uh do you have any ideas for changes in schedules and all those things? So, we're already engaged in those conversations. So the in January that's we start those uh those conversations, we uh present the the projections to principles and then we bring um the budget timeline to the school board and that's what we're doing tonight. Uh in February we'll bring the enrollment and staffing projections in presentation format to the board at the business meeting and we do that every year at the February business meeting. Um so we'll be here doing that. You can
059see the other bullet points there on things that we do in February. For March, um we'll be bringing, as we do every year, a resolution for board approval on uh authorizing us if we had to go into a reduction in force with any of our groups. Again, we that's we have it approved every year because we don't know for sure what may happen. And if we miss our window for getting that approved before the end of the school year or the end of the student school year, then we've missed the opportunity. For instance, with teachers, it's May 15th is the deadline and so on and so forth. So, we asked the board to adopt that resolution to give us the ability to reduce force if we had to, if we didn't have enough attrition. Obviously,
060that's the last resort. We don't want to go into a full-blown riff. It's not um it's not a good thing. We've never had to do it since I've been here. We've riffed like a few hours here and there, but we've never had to riff up the seniority list and and then call back the positions that we we need. And we're hope hopeful that we don't have to do that. That's just not fun. And the the dissatisfaction by staff and the community is hangs on for a long time. I've heard horror stories about it. So, I know Kevin and I aren't interested in doing that unless we absolutely have to. So, we come back in in March with that resolution. Um, we'll the legislative session is scheduled to end in March, middle of March. So, uh,
061we'll take a look and see what kind of a legislative update we can provide the board in March. Um, and then in April for sure, we'll give a legislative update to the board. um if it's not available at the time of the business meeting in March, um we will bring uh our plan is to bring the budget reduction plan, the draft plan to the board in April. Um if we have an update in March, we'll provide it April, we'll bring it into the board so you can see the the items that we're looking at for budget reductions for the 2627 year. Um, we also asked the board to approve a resolution for supervisory and non-supervisory personnel. We get board authorization to employ those folks. In May, um, we'll bring actually in May is when we'll
062bring the final budget reduction plan. So, we'll bring the draft in April, bring the final back to the board in May. Um, we have our annual contracts, uh, individual contracts that come before the board typically in the June business meeting, but because we have to have the board or the budget adopted in June this year with our migration to the new upgraded accounting system, we'll be bringing those contracts to you in May rather than June. Um otherwise in June we are planning to present or I'm planning to present the draft uh budget to the board and hopefully we'll see an adoption. Again we are migrating to what they call cumulative which is an upgraded uh version of Skyward. That's our our accounting system accounting program that we use for student and for fiscal. Um so
063it's our time. We're in the midst of it now with all the data cleanup and everything that goes along with it. with that we actually migrate the second week of July. So we we have to have our budget adopted and out of we have to be out of the system with the budget in May by the end of May. So with that, that's really what it is. And the endgame for the budget, we have to have it adopted u by August 31st and to OSBI. Um we also throughout this process, the ESD is instrumental in reviewing our budget, our draft budget. When we get close um before it's adopted, we submit it to the ESD. They do a full review. we go over any input uh items for correction or at least um for things
064for us to review and so that that happens before adoption as well. So we do have outside eyes on our budget which is good. It's nice to have that look from them as well. Any questions on the budget timeline? Reminder, we'll be meeting with principles every month. I mean, January, February, March are huge months for us to continue that dialogue with principles to really nail down what our sk what our uh plans are for staffing. So, anything else you want to add to that, Kevin? >> Great. Thank you, Chris. >> Um, next thing, enrollment update. So, our January enrollment update, good news is from December to January, we only lost one F student FTE. So, that's always good. We want to hold on. So our count uh for January was 3503 and remember that doesn't
065include running start, open doors, transitional kinder, those are all reported separately. Um we if you look at January 25 to January 26, we've show a decrease of 47 FTE. So, just basically um confirms the enrollment decline that we're in like most districts across Washington state. And then also looking at the projection to the enrollment, you'll see there that we're 22 FTE over projection. We like to be over projection because when you're under projection, then you don't receive the amount of funding that you're planning on. So, we're 22 over. We'll see a drop in that. We it's just a trend that we see every year that the enrollment drops slightly throughout the rest of the months through June. We're hopeful that we'll stay over projection through June. Um with that, we're still open to non-resident students
066uh here in CILA. We we stay open typically all year every year and that um comes with the parents are required to submit an application. There's a review that goes through prior districts with discipline and that kind of stuff to determine if we have room for non-resident students. A lot of times we do. So, all right. Last item in the in my report is the financial status update. Um, so this is the update through December. We'll have January's uh at the next business meeting. We're always a month behind because the county treasurer doesn't get us the county treasur report until following 10th of the month. So, we get that done the next month. So, this is December. So, that represents 33.33% through the school year. You can see we've received 29.9% of our budgeted revenues
067and we've spent right at 33% of our budgeted appropriations. Now, we're almost 85% people in our budget. So you can see $67 million budget and we're 85 84.8% people. So you're going to see us stay pretty much on target here with our uh expenditures. We don't have a lot of material supplies and operating costs money in the budget. Um so we're sitting at the end of December at 8.1 million in fund balance and that fund balance is going to fluctuate based on the amount of money we receive from the state. our aortionment uh percentages vary every month. So, and in the tax collection months, October and April, we get a lot more tax collection. So, the state drops the percentage they give us and then they increase the percentage that they give us in June
068and July and August, actually July and August. So, it does fluctuate. Uh, one thing I wanted to just let the board give the board a heads up on. We have been in conversations with our union leadership group groups. We've been in conversations with our administrative team. Um, continuing those conversations about the budget challenges that we're uh that we have. And just very quickly for the board, we're really on a two-tier budget challenge uh situation right now. We're have we are seeing a decline in enrollment in addition to the shortages for uh the salary gap and for MOCS material supplies and operating costs and different B. So we're looking at a much different situation that CILA's had to experience before. CILA's had to experience pretty much for a few years the the shortfall in funding in
069a lot of different areas. Sub costs and material supplies and operating costs, salary gap and all those other things. We've been those have been challenges for us for a few years. But the new thing that we have now is an enrollment decline and it started in 2425. We lost 52 FTE. We're scheduled to lose uh 60ome this year and we're scheduled with our projection to lose 109 next year. So that's the that that complicates things. So, I just wanted to give the board a heads up that it's important uh for Kevin and for me to make sure that our key groups of people are in the know on what those challenges are now. And then Kevin will begin to communicate out to the district um here very soon, probably even next month, where he'll send
070monthly emails out to give folks a heads up on those things. >> Yeah. At some point in time in the coming months, we'll also start uh communication in a different format to different audiences. So different stakeholder groups will be getting communications as well, whether that be parents or community members and so forth. So our goal is to not just to be extremely transparent and to not make a surprise when uh the budget comes around and and there may be uh maybe visible changes. >> Great. Thank you. Are there questions or comments? >> I I just have more of a personal comment because I can't speak for the board. Um I mean ultimately we are the ones who approve that budget. I know you guys are in the thick of it. So you understand what needs
071to be done. Um, I mean, but for me personally, I would like to see a balanced budget this coming year because it does concern me where we're headed and it's not a great uh realization to anybody in the community where we we can't raise taxes. There's resistance for that. Um, we're spending more than what we're bringing in. We've got pressure from state and federal government funding. Um, we're losing enrollment. I mean, we're getting pressure everywhere. And so for me personally, um, I feel like you can put that blame on the board because for me, I'm asking for a balanced budget. And so I would rather take that heat in an election than blame you guys for doing something that has to be done. >> Great. Thank you. Other questions or comments? Okay, great. We'll move
072on to the next item on the agenda. uh which is the superintendent report and tonight we have the superintendent midyear report. Maybe just a brief comment about the the role of the midyear report in um the superintendent's uh position here, Kevin. >> All right. So the the role of the midyear report is to give you a a halftime uh view of what we've been working on. And I say we but it's really me and the emphasis that I am placing on other people. the the areas are identified either through the evaluative process and areas that you as a board have asked me to focus on or on topics that are um that have been discussed and I know they're of big importance to the district as a whole as a whole. For example, one of
073the areas was a greater focus on improving student behavior. Okay, obviously that was a was a both that was a part of the evaluative process and it was things that we we had talked about repeatedly whether it be in a study session in a board meeting individual conversations uh that was very obvious whereas another example of of one that uh is regardless of of conversations we know it's the importance and that's what we just spoke about was Chris spoke about is the budget um So the four areas that that you've seen are the infinence emphasis on our student behavior uh aligning expenditures and revenues with regards to the budget. Uh the other ones are implement our Viking promise uh 2.0 with a revising vision of that. And then the last one is to oversee uh
074successful uh projects with regards to the Wilbur Rep Center and the Carl Graph Stadium edition. So those those are areas that I have um dedicated a lot of my time to to making ensuring that they're being done in the correct way. Uh and then I wanted to report to you at midyear about what some of the areas uh and evidence of of the work that's been done. So as I've said in many times of these over the course of my career, this is a halftime report. If you have questions about this, these are just bulleted, easy to read. I do have data. I do have further details on many of the bulleted items. If you have an interest in that, don't hesitate. Give me a call, set up a meeting. Be happy to go through
075that. But again, um if you were asked what's the superintendent do, here's at least four things that that I'm working on pretty much on a daily basis. Today we were today our entire day was spent on um uh working at with our architects and engineers on the two projects and getting updates with that. Uh Chris and I spent time on discussing budget things and I watched uh the legislative session for a little bit this afternoon and I did review. We did get some preliminary good indication that there may be a a bipartisan uh funding bill at the federal level that continues the same level of funding uh for uh our federal funds regards to title. I know that was a concern that we we were having. So there was some good news today. But that
076that kind of gives you an idea of of of what I'm doing in a big picture with regards to this. So that's that. Any questions? Happy to take any. I um the only question I have was around reading through that it mentions the reset program. What is that? Is that a a researchbased evidence-based program? >> Yes, it is. Yeah, it's is a it's a an evidence-based program to to manage within a school uh a behavior system to support students whether they have uh behavior disabilities or exhibiting behavior that's disruptive to themselves or to other students. But yeah, it has research and evidence behind that and I can get you some of that if you'd like to look. I would like to see it. >> Yeah. Yeah. There was a time that I was wondering, is
077this something we just made up on the whim just to try to get by? And and as I asked the question, I found out no, this is a a common practice. Uh the term reset is the most common. Uh but every probably every school district has a different title to what the program is. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Kevin. And um >> and if I could just do my normal report as well. Um >> update on construction projects in general. All are on schedule. all are moving on uh forward as planned. No big surprises at this point. Uh but again, we haven't started digging uh in the ground on any of those. So uh but as of right now, all are moving forward in in really a good good manner and on
078schedule. Uh February study session, student voice panel. I know that's been a real positive thing for the board to listen to our students speak about it. uh kind of the the focal point or idea is to tie in what they view as a student experience from a student perspective which would then move us to uh our uh work in February about an update with uh uh the Viking Promise 2.0 and the student experience. So, uh, Hunter will be and I will be working with that of gathering students more than likely. Uh, it it may be a seniorbased group that they can reflect maybe on their experiences uh, as a outgoing senior and then be able to share with you. But we'll I'll be prompting you with some questions that you may want to ask them.
079And if you have others, we can figure all that out between uh, now and the study session in February. That's on the 12th morning study session. 26 board meeting. As Chris mentioned, we'll have some some uh information for you at that board meeting. Uh in regards to staffing and enrollment updates, that will be it'll be pretty interesting for you to see where enrollment is going and the impact on every building when it comes down to the staffing levels that are there. We'll also talk about Viking Promise 2.0 updates at that meeting as well. In February, two events. Um I'm working with our faith-based partners um uh for a faith-based partnership meeting on February 11th. Uh that is in their hands to confirm that's a good date. Uh that'll be sometime late morning is the best
080time for them for them. It's it's communication m meeting. If you don't know, we have we have faith-based groups who are partnering with individual schools and providing all kinds of terrific things to our mostly to our students. So, um and then uh on the schedule as of right now on the 24th of February is another edition of my uh community forums. So, that's where we're at right now. We haven't haven't really promoted that yet to start getting topics out. That's it unless you have any other questions. Great. Thank you very much, Kevin. Appreciate uh all that information. We'll move on to item number 10, which is board communications. And uh I'll I'll start this evening um but with uh a note uh going back to the very beginning of the meeting about board appreciation month.
081Kevin uh mentioned that the reasons were on this board are to help students and also to give back. Uh, and I um uh I I previously spoke about Norma Brackens as a person who inspired me to be on this board and I want to mention another person who we recently lost uh who is also somebody who I I try and honor by my service on the board. So I I I've written a few things here. I I I'd like to take a moment to recognize the life and service of Marilyn K. McDivet who passed away on January 3rd, 2026 at the age of 80. Uh Kay was raised in CILA and graduated from CILA High School in 1963 as an uh a star swimmer for the CILA swim team and part of a kind of
082a legendary class. The 1963 class was I think the only state basketball championship we had which comes in in a minute. She went on to earn her elementary education from Washington State University in 1967 and returned back home to CILA. You'll notice a pattern of her leaving and coming back where she began teaching third grade at Gilbert Elementary in the Akimal school district which was the start of a lifelong commitment to children learning in the community. In addition to her years in the classroom, Kay was deeply involved in CILA schools as a parent volunteer, bond and levy committee member, Sunday school teacher, campfire leader, and longtime board member for various youth organizations. She later returned to teaching in the CIA school district after 1987, the year Shawn, her son, and I graduated from high school
083until 1995. Her commitment to CILA schools continued through her family, including her daughter, Mindy Forbes, who serves as a counselor at CILA High School. And Mindy did an absolutely incredible job at speaking at her mother's services recently um which were also um led by Scott Ruark um and um just a beautiful tribute uh to Kay's life. Kay and her husband John shared a lifelong partnership raising their two children in the CIA school district and later enjoyed many years as devoted grandparents of CIA school students. Those who know her who knew her remember her warmth, optimism, and steady presence. Even after her cancer diagnosis in 2024, she continued to live with grace, gratitude, and a positive spirit. Yeah, I think that's it. Um, amazing woman and uh, greatly missed. So, that's my board communication for this
084evening. Are there other board communications? >> I just have a [clears throat] a couple of questions. Um you sent a um Kevin, you sent an email out um about an incident with Grand View and CIA basketball game. Do you have an update on that? Make last you saw there was none of our kids were involved in that. >> Still at this point, none of our students, none of our fans, none of our coaches involved in that. The only involvement would be as a witness to what was transpiring with the Grand View situation. They were asked to uh provide some um an investigator was hired by the Grand View School District to try to figure out what was going on outside investigator and the investigator questioned some of our staff about that. Uh volunteers who work
085at the scores table, our athletic director, high school administration. As of right now, I don't I uh the last thing I heard from the superintendent in Grand View was a heads up that this is going to be happening. Um wanted to make sure that I was aware and that um everything that they had found out did not point any direction to any of our student athletes, students as fans, our fans, coaches, administration not involved in it. It's all all related to Grand View. >> Is that still ongoing then? >> Yeah, it's my understanding it is. We have not heard from them about any followup from that. >> Are are we supposed to >> I that's kind of up to them. So I I would assume since he reached out and said it's going to happen
086that he would circle back, but it does more than likely involve some of their uh fans employees as well that were part of it. Uh it was not this was not a student related issue. Even the Grand View students or Grand View players were uh not involved. This was an adult uh related issue. >> Okay. Uh I guess the other the last question I have is um for the kids that left campus, you said there were consequences. What would the range of consequences for something like that be? >> It could well it it could be anything depending on where that individual student was with regards to progressive discipline. So let's just say that it's a student that has repeatedly left campus prior to this. All right? Then that then there would be consequences leading up
087to that that may be greater than another student that this would be their their first time leaving campus. So it's all individualized depending on the student. Consequences could be obviously you know uh you've got a responsibility to make up uh the time that you missed and it goes on your disciplinary record as a truency skipping school. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Related to that were any I I'm hoping that the answer to this is no. Were there any uh faculty or staff involved in leaving the school early and getting paid for that time? >> No. And I actually observed uh you know there's there are students they left uh they chose to leave but I we I think I share this with the high school administration we feel still feel responsibility to provide
088some level of supervision. So I sat in the church parking lot and watched them as they crossed the road and then walked down the sidewalk. And one of my was to also ensure that there was no uh adults or our employees present in there and there was not. >> Okay. Yeah. My phone got blown up about that one. And I'm like, well, you guys, if we support freedom of speech, then we got to support it whether we agree with it or not. So, I support the kids in their protest. Um, but once they left campus, that's where they violated policy. And um, so >> are we Sorry. Go ahead. Are we still responsible for them once they leave campus? >> We are not. And I mean some might differ that opinion that you let them
089leave. Uh so I would never say completely 100% not. The legal system may have different views on that or attorneys may have different views or parents may have different views. But uh from my knowledge and study of what this is when students do walkouts is that once they leave your campus then the responsibility is on them. >> Okay. >> And then if there's nothing else uh just really quick for the next meeting I would like to discuss two things since typically our morning meetings are a little bit shorter. Um, I'd like to talk about um standardizing a grading scale for uh 6th through 12th grade and my recommendation for that and we can have discussion about it is to adopt the college in the classroom uh central Washington University grading scale. I think uh I
090harp on uh student achievement in academics and I see that as one way where we could kind of raise the bar compared to what we have right now. And then I know another issue that m may may not be as easy to address, but I would like to talk about implementing policies that again require students to turn in assignments in a timely manner and do tests and stick to that. I know that there's state law that will affect that, but can we somehow set expectations? And so those are just two things I I don't think we need to have long discussions about those, but two things I I feel like would help with our academic achievement in the district. >> So since our conversation after the meeting the last time, I have done a little
091research on that and I can go further into that and be prepared to speak to both of those uh when when needed. >> Would that fit at the study session or would it be better for a business meeting? I'm worried about the student voice panel which oftent times takes up the whole study session. So let me let me tell you depending on the the the how much our students want to talk you know they could really want to talk a lot or they don't really don't want to talk I will be prepared to share what I know about those two topics uh that Derek has mentioned and be prepared if there are is time permits us to do that at the study session and if not then we can obviously move that into the the
092business meeting. Those are certainly two items that we'd like to hear from you on your opinions about. >> Great. Any other board communication? Okay. We now are going to pause our uh our our uh business meeting um and open up an executive session which we will move to another room to complete um for performance of a public employee uh which is our evaluation a yearly evaluation of the superintendent. Um and it is currently 5:48. I think we can safely say I think we can say we'll be back in about a half an hour. Um, for those in the audience and those who are online, hey Joe, we may have lost him. Do you have any Do you have any board communication? How are you Joe? >> Hey, I'm doing well. How y'all doing? [clears throat]
093>> We're not bad. >> Uh, yeah, good. Good. I just real quick and I appreciate you Dan for helping facilitate this but just a gentle nudge to fellow board members to get our school visits scheduled. Um it was good to communicate with all the administrators in all the different buildings and um there's [clears throat] some good opportunities coming up to make visits on campus and um something that I personally have not always fulfilled that obligation. So wanted to take the initiative to make sure I was doing that and would encourage uh fellow board members to do the same. >> Excellent. Uh I I know that Thor's Council is one that uh Colton has specifically invited people to come to and I think it it really does help us. You want to talk about the rewards
094of being on the board. Being in the classroom is one of the great or in the schools in general is one of the great rewards of of being on the board to see the hard work that our staff and faculty are doing along with the students. So, thank you, Joe, for that excellent point. All right. Uh, it is now 5:50. So, we will return at 6:20 um to the uh boardroom uh and uh we will adjourn when we return. I don't know. Do I need to gabble? I'll gabble. >> And once you executive session, there is nothing else on the agenda other than to adjourn the meeting. So, you're the the video will continue to go. You're more than welcome to stay around until we return, but there will be no further business after that.
095>> And just for clarity, can you all still hear me? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Joe. >> Hey, so for the executive session, will will one of you call me on the phone or however we want to communicate? >> I'll give you a call, Joe. >> Cool. Thank you.