001And uh on behalf of uh the board, Diane, thank you so much for uh all you do for CILA and especially for the CIA schools. What what a deserving honor for sure. Thank you. All right. Our next item on the agenda is the um comments from the audience and I'll read the um uh the instructions for those comments. We invite all community members to address the board on an issue or topic. The agenda item titled suggestion or comments from the audience is for any comments related to topics that are not on the agenda. The audience can also provide addition oh excuse meformational comments on specific agenda items after being recognized by the board president. Individual remarks are limited to three minutes. Patrons making comments are asked to begin by identifying themselves. So my name is
002Dan Peters and then you can continue. Please appoint a spokesperson if the concern is a group concern. If desired, you may email written documentation to the executive assistant to be included as part of the official meeting record. While the board will listen to 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. Uh it looks like we have two people that have signed up to make public comments and I believe Don is it Don Klene? Don Klein
003is the first person. That's his time. So, I'm going my three minutes. Still have three minutes, right? Yeah, you do. So, the people uh virtually can hear you. Oh, okay. Great. Um, okay. I'm Don Klein. I'm the pastor of Baba Baptist Church. Um, and it was surprise, I think, most that I am not in favor of religion in schools. I think that's uh that's not good. There's too many religions. Which one do you teach? Um, I'm not in favor of Bibles in schools. Um, there's so many. Which one would you teach? Um, I'm not in favor of Islam being taught in schools, although it is in many schools being taught. Um, but I'm also not in favor of this woke religion being taught in our schools because it is a religion. Um, if you go
004by definition, it is a religion. and we saw a giant uh rainbow uh banner in the high school. Um and it had pictures. I'm assuming again I don't know these people, but I'm assuming that those were images of of leaders in that um LGBTQ plus uh movement religion. Um and we're indoctrinating our children. This is my opinion. I know. I believe we're indoctrinating our children though in something that is totally goes against God. Being a Baptist preacher, I believe that we should honor God in all things. And our schools should be a part of our community and they are, but they they shouldn't be indoctrinating. The purpose of a school is to teach. It's to teach. And when we are leading our children down these paths of not knowing a boy or a girl, you
005can change sexes, all these kinds of things, that's indoctrination. That's my opinion. And uh the Bible, if you if you believe in the Bible, I believe there's maybe we're all Christians here. I don't know. That'd be a good thing. But if we believe in the Bible, Jesus was clear of how we treat our children. And when we do things like this to our children, he says that it'd be better for that person to have a millstone tied about their neck and be thrown into the ocean than to treat our children that way. So someone's going to stand before God one day and give an account. So that's just me. That's my Baptist side. So we had a whole uh pride month and uh and uh that's fine for those who wanted to do that. again
006that the big banner. I wonder couldn't we put the great big banner, this great big beautiful American flag. Why not put a big old banner, big old banner like that in the same place where that that uh rainbow banner was? And why not put depictions of um uh George Washington and uh um Samuel Adams, uh Ben Franklin, um Abraham Lincoln, uh uh uh I don't know, General George Patton. Why not put those guys up there? Why not Why not teach our children the history of our country? Wouldn't that be a great thing? Have a patriotic month. We had Pride Month. Why not a patriotic month? Why not give give glory to the nation that God created? Thank you. Right. Thank you, Mr. Klein. Our next our next speaker is uh David Husted. Good evening. Thank
007you. It's Hughstead. But that's good. Sorry. Sorry about that. That's quite right. Hi, my name is David Hustead. I live here in Cila. My daughter uh goes to the high school. Never done anything like this before, so I'll try to be brief. However, um so I'm kind of going along the lines of my my gentleman here that just spoke a little bit. So my daughter came home and told me about the flag that was flying at the school. Usually I don't have a problem with these types of things. I kind of just said just get over it. Kind of just it was not that big of a deal to me. However, I do just kind of want to just object a little bit to that. I don't know what I don't know what the look
008I understand what the background of it is. I understand that we want to be inclusionary. I get it. However, we do have a whole month There's a lot of other areas they can get this information. I just don't think that it needs to be in the school. Not that it matters what I say. However, my daughter go is in the system. I pay my taxes. So, I just kind of wanted to express respectfully. Um, I just don't understand the I won't call an agenda and be it that aggressive. I just don't think that something like that is necessary, especially here in CILA. We kind of got a small group. Everybody can see it on the movies. Everyone knows everywhere else you go. The flag's flying everywhere. I just think that we can be inclusionary. We
009don't have to be exclusionary. I think that kind of puts some people I don't know. It re it does kind of keep I don't know how to say it. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I'm not that bright. I'm a sales guy. I don't I don't get in You guys are much more educated than I. Um I just I guess I just respectfully object to uh that flag that's in the in the in the uh in the high school. So something when when when she told me that it was there, I just kind of thought, well, maybe I should just mention it. So that's all I'm doing. And um I think they get exposed to that enough everywhere else. I just don't think it needs to be here. You know what I mean?
010So, anyways, I'll leave it alone. Thanks for letting me talk. Thank you, David. Uh, we also have a written uh uh comment. Oh, sorry. Uh, sure. There was a gentleman that came in late. I'm not sure if he wants to speak as well either. I'm Den Acriman. Um, just something he uh that Pastor Klein said that um I wanted to mention. I know uh personally uh a young man that goes to the high school and a few weeks ago he came up to me and just initiated the conversation to tell me about the pride display and that he had gone to the principal to ask if he could display a a patriotic, you know, the flag and a patriot have a patriotic display and he was denied because that might make some people feel uncomfortable.
011So, how come it's okay to make some people feel uncomfortable with this display, but we can't make other people feel uncomfortable with that display? That's not equity. So, I we need to be really careful of the road we want to go down here and the precedent we want to set. And you know, if we're going to talk about equity, inclusion, how come we can't include patriotic kids who are proud to be an American and want to display that? Thank you. Great. Thank you, Dane. Is there anybody else that we have? Thank Thank everyone for coming here this evening. Uh I'll read now the uh written statement. This is from Jeremy Hines. Mr. Mr. Hines writes, "I ready test scores are below 25% for mid-grade level or above at the end of the school year and
012have been since the 202122 school year. I met with Hunter system on 6205. And while he was quick to point out that ESPback testing has been downgraded by the state, he was not willing to say the board of educators that determined grade level readiness in the I Ready test was incorrect. The I Ready test scores in grades 1 through 8 have been super low for a few years now since 2021-22 school year. The federal department of education did a study with live MRI testing in 2012 showing that learning was directly linked to handwriting. 2012 would have been under President Obama. In the study, the areas of the brain responsible for learning lit up with handwriting but did not light up when information was typed or simply listened to. The CIA school district appears to have
013gone allin on issuing one Chromebook per student, particularly in the upper grade levels which have the worst I already test scores. Mr. Sysum said that my student shouldn't have been using his Chromebook except for the very last step in writing papers. But my experience is contrary. Mr. System said he'd look into that, but I have not heard from him. My theory is that the dismal test scores at CIA school district compared to much higher test scores from other districts in ESD 105 that teach handwriting are likely due to SSD not teaching handwriting. SEAL used to have the best test scores in ESD 105. However, since test store scores started plummeting in the 2021-22 school year, SSD is no longer the best failing business best failing business in the educational service district. Also of note, while
014the rest of the state is trending higher each year in test scores, SSD continues to fall lower and lower year overyear. Okay, that is our suggestions from comments for the audience. We'll move on to the approval of the meeting minutes. Um these are from two meetings. 61225 the study session we had earlier this month and 52925 the um the business meeting we had in May. Uh I will move to approve the board meeting minutes. Is there a second? Any comments or questions about the meeting minutes? Good. All those in favor of approving the meeting minutes signify with an I. I opposed and abstain. All right, the meeting minutes pass. We move on now to the consent agenda. Um, and we will take uh these as we uh do um as we have been as uh
015as one item to vote on here at the end. But I'll go through the the human resources action sheet is the first um the first item on the agenda. Uh is there anything we need to look at there, Chris, in particular? I just wanted to highlight that we continue to have a very low um number of resignations and retirements uh once again this month. Uh the on a good note though, we've had several positions that we needed to fill and we are down to six positions that still need to be filled. or uh shout out to our building principles and directors. They've just done a great job getting on the hiring uh process early. So, we're good about that. That gets us high quality uh folks coming in. So, that's all I have to say
016on the Great. Thank you. I I want to make a quick note. Uh first of all, um we work a lot with administrators as a school board and we're definitely going to miss Jeff Cochran, um the director of future learning as he moves on to a position at the ESD. And I want to make a special point of acknowledging the many years of service, the decades of service that Mark Galloway gave to the Cila School District as the principal of the Cila Middle School. Mark's a baseball fan and I I think of Alvin Davis as Mr. Mariner and I think of Mark Galloway as Mr. Cila Middle School or maybe even Mr. Spartan. Can we call him that still? He goes back, I think, to Spartan days at the middle school. um helped uh uh
017bring that school uh into its new building um seamlessly. And in fact, when I met with him this year, he said he had his one of his best years ever had at CEA Middle School. Um so we we absolutely thank Mark and um I I I'll say I thank Mark and I wish him the best in his new position at Educational Service District. And absolutely we we would agree with your sentiments there, Dan. He's done a tremendous job for the school district. I've worked with him for 25 years and Jeff also has just done a wonderful job as well. So, we're going to miss both of them. All right, we will Oh, sorry. Just want to publicly thank Lori Davenport um there at SIS. She was particularly kind to my wife as my wife worked
018there this last year. Someone who my wife would come home and talk about and so um yeah, we need more people like her in the district. Thanks, Derek. Excellent. All right, on next. Any other comments on All right. Excuse me. Next item is payroll goods and services for June of 2025. Chris, is there anything here that we uh need to draw our attention to? Um just a couple highlights. First one being the gov connection. Just so you know, we buy on state contract. We buy our uh actually we work with them on one of our subscriptions which is Microsoft. So that's our Microsoft renewal for 21,524 for the school district for the 2526 school year. Um, also the see here I just wanted to point out Raptor Technologies. That's our uh safe visitor program that
019we use in our schools to make sure that we have a good secure place for us to check backgrounds before folks are entered into allowed to enter the building. So that's going to be we're moving away from student visitor to raptor which does a similar thing for us that that's they they send me emails like three times a day. Does anybody else get wrapped? I didn't know what it was. So I'm glad now that I know what Raptor Technology. And the last highlight I would make is the payment to 70 construction. As a reminder, uh these payments to 70 construction are for the refrigerator freezer unit behind John Campbell. Um, since we moved to the uh all kids eat at no cost, we've our storage is running short. So, we're using uh program money in
020the nutrition program to to build that container. So, 70 construction won the bid. So, that's why you'll see some expenditures going out to 70 and they'll be done with that project pretty quickly. They've done a tremendous job on it. That's all I have. Great. Thank you. We'll move on to item D under the consent agenda which is a second reading and adoption for a number of um um what do what do we call these here policies I guess uh from 2020 which is course design selection and adoption of instructional materials 2021 library information and technology programs 2230 transition to kindergarten 501 sexual harassment and district staff prohibited 3206 Pregnant and parenting students 5012 parental family and marital status and pregnancy or related conditions of staff and 6022 minimum fund balance. Maybe I'll pause here and
021ask if there's any questions or statements from the um board. The only one I have question uh question about is 50 oh sorry 6022. So the fund balance we've talked about increasing that. Would this be the appropriate time to make that change or do we need to do something else? I think we should probably wait until the budget's adopted. Um the change to the to the policy this time around is just to clarify that it the expectation is that that minimum fund balance is met at year end because as we all know cash flow happens during the year. So you don't always have we've been fortunate enough we're fiscally sound so we've been over the 8% all year long but there could be years where we dip under the 8% during the year depending on
022where we're at. But I I would recommend uh something that we consider after the budget presentation next meeting. All right, good catch. Thank you, Derek. Uh item E is a first reading policy update for 5010 non-discrimination and affirmative action and 3210 non-discrimination. These are revisions, I believe, to existing policies, not adoptions to um of new policies. and uh the board uh has a chance to take a look at those. Um the item F is an overnight travel request. This I think is an annual request that comes up for the ASB executive leadership team this year. It looks like they're going with Val Barnett. Is that who the leader is for it? They're heading to the Lazy F camp. It's a camp I visited as a kid. Great spot to go to get some kids some
023leadership uh training and some bonding for our ASB executive leadership team. Uh and then we have a number of contracts in the consent agenda. The first is the associate superintendent contract. The second is the executive director for student learning contract. Uh the third is executive director for human resources contract. The fourth is the executive director for special services contract. And um maybe we can stop there. We have uh a um chance to ask questions or add any comments. Um Chad, is there anything we need to know about those contracts or only if uh you know the board has additional questions? Uh I would just say that we're at the table with all of our uh association groups other than uh SCA the teachers association which will be uh back at the table with them next
024spring. Um, so all of our classifies our certified administrators are all um the contracts being proposed to the board tonight have been ratified um by the other group. So they voted and approved the conditions outlined for you to consider. And uh all three of those are three-year agreements which three-year contracts negotiations is really the gold standard. Um it's where the district has enough time to predict the future and make plans accordingly good or bad depending on what happens and what's provided from the legislature. Um and then the co-curricular was in the fall. We actually had a four-year which is bit unheard of um but we were fortunate to do that um with our new athletic director to create some stability with with those coaches too. But if you have particular questions I'm happy to answer.
025So you some of what you're referring to are items L&M just to keep the board kind of up on it here. That's the CILA educational support personnel or SCESP. What role would those uh personnel serve in our schools? Yes. So SCSP includes all of our PAR educators and all of our bus drivers and all of our yearround custodians. Excellent. And the other um contract that's been approved uh uh and is waiting for our approval of the consent agenda is the SEOP or the CILA educational office personnel. And that I think kind of defines itself. Uh there is also here item K which is administrators group 2025 2028 memoranduming memorandum of understanding. Um this is I believe also an annual uh approval their their contract for every three years excuse me. Yeah their their contracts um
026come back uh for their tenure each year. Um, but this is a three-year uh agreement with them as well. And this creates an administrative salary schedule along with other items on that. It does. They're they're because they're not a unionized represented group. So that's the difference in the terminology. Yes. Great. Okay. Um all so that we can open this up a little bit more, I'll move that we approve the consent agenda. Is there a second? I'll second. Great. And is there any comments or questions on any item on the consent agenda? Covered a few of them. Good. Okay. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda signify with an I. I. All those opposed and abstensions. Excellent. We'll move on now to uh a this is a public hearing of uh title six Native
027America title six, excuse me, Native American education for 2025 2026 activities. Um and this is um like when we have a budget open hearing. This is sort of like a mini uh a mini board within the board meeting um where we are um um applying for I guess you would say Christie uh a designation is a title six Native American education. Um do you want to tell us a little bit about this program and and why we're uh hoping to proceed with this? Yes. So, this uh Title Six is a formulafunded grant um that is established um to help Native American students um whether it's culturally, language, academic needs. Um so, it's extra funding based on those that qualify. So currently the district has 79 um American Indian Alaskan Native students and out of that
02879 we received prior to the application of the the grant for next year we received 16 um ED506 forms which is the requirement to be counted in that formula funding. And so that that form also has to accomp be accompanied by an enrollment card or a um um a CDIB card. And so the the the quantum blood card or certificate degree of Indian blood. So that those two documents have to come along with that as well. Um since we we uh submitted the grant, we are now up to 22 of those forms. Um so it's a one-time form that that parents fill out that we can carry over from year to year. Um so that formula funding will go up as we get more of those those um forms in. Um, with the 16 students,
029we generated just over $5,000 for next year. Uh, part of that grant, we have to have a parent advisory group. Um, and so we met um to review the grant in November and then we met in April to um create bylaws or kind of adopt bylaws um and an interim chairperson to try to get all of that signed and ready for the grant. And then uh next fall we will do a formalizing formalize a um um I guess um voting of chairperson. Um we have to have uh tribal representation on that that committee as well which we had in April. Um we also um need to identify an objective uh that is approved by the grant. There's some options there that I think are in the documentation. are um out of the eight I think
030our group chose increased knowledge of cultural identity and awareness. So that is what we're going to focus on. We will decide an activity first thing in the fall. Um and under that it could be anything from like a field trip or some kind of camp or experience depending on the data and what our our um our Native American parent advisory group um decides on. So all of that will the activities will actually be pushed off to the fall um because we needed to get our bylaws done. So today um you have the bylaws um to approve and and then moving forward with the grant um as such. And um so I guess I'm not sure if you guys have questions on the grant. Questions from the board? Question. So really the only question as I
031reviewed everything is what what is the possibility that this is going to move from grant status to school funded status in the future because that's the only thing that makes me nervous. I don't I look through it I look through the other presentation that you're giving. I just don't want to commit to programs that eventually we're going to have to fund out of pocket if we're not getting funding elsewhere. Yeah. I it wouldn't because it's formulaf funded. It's based on our Native American count. Um and it is our parent committee that really is deciding on the activity and the expenditures. Um and so it would be um because we have 79 K12, we might have to do a focus of high school or a focus of elementary. And so it wouldn't be um something that
032would be pushed off to to the buildings. And and ultimately what what do you see the group doing? The group of parents or students? uh the parents ask what would that group? Yeah. So the parent the the parent group is really um will be ran similar to a migrant pack group that we've we've had established for quite a few years. And so that the group themselves will meet um uh beginning and end of the year to really decide on the activities what we want to to really spend that money on based on data u based on need that they're seeing in their own students. And so um so that that's the goal is to really plan out how are we going to spend the funds and what activity are we going to do to fulfill
033the objective that they chose. And Christie, uh have we had an increase in the number of Native American students? How did this how did this come about that this became some new thing that we're working on? Yeah, good question. Um it actually started with um uh the STI uh curriculum and getting that going and and um that supplemental curriculum established with that that committee when we brought on um tribal consultation with that and working with our parent group with that um it parents really said you know what about you know because a lot of our parents are moving from um you know off the off the tribal land they're coming um into CILA so they they know this this exists in the lower valley and on when on tribal land and so um so a
034lot of them really were were wanting to know why why don't we have it um if we're having STI why don't we have um title six grant so uh we pursued it right after that and we put it off for a year due to you know just some complications of that 506 form and we had to have a minimum of 10 and so um so now we have over that 10 minimum and we're moving forward for next Is there a chance that this will um allow us to identify more native students in our in our schools? Yeah. And and um there's there's quite there there is actually a presentation with our um that that is pretty common um from a guy in Wapto about how our schoolformational systems really do kind of skew that data
035because it's hard to find Native American students if they go into our system as a multi-racial student. And so, um, so really it's trying to clean up that a little bit to really get that message out there that if you, um, are enrolled, if you have a CD IB card, that you really could, um, benefit from our Title Six program. And so, it is really just to get that message out there and clean up that that data in ourformational system. Great. Thank you. Uh, there's a time here for public comment if anyone would like to make a public comment as part of this hearing. Any other questions or comments from the board? All right, I think uh we'll vote on this then. Um I'll move that we uh approve the uh title 6 Native American
036education 202526 activities um as presented to the board. Uh is there a second? Second. Great. Any comments or questions? All those in favor signify with an I. I all those opposed with an A and abstensions. Great. Thank you for this Christie. We really appreciate the work you've done on that. Uh all right. We are moving on now to the administration um portion of our agenda uh which has a good number of things on here. Uh A through F are definitely something we do every year. I recognize a lot of these. Um resolution uh 2025-5 through 25-10 are authorization for warrant signatures, authorization to invest funds, designation of a district agent, authorization of faximile signatures, authorization or excuse me, authorized signatory and designation of auditing officers. Um these are fairly routine. Is there anything we want
037to add to it, Chris? Yes, these resolutions are required by the county auditor's off or county yeah county auditor's office and so um they do come back to the board every year that typically most of these involve my signature Kevin's signature um as authorized in the resolution. So they're pretty self-explanatory and again they they come back to you every year. So we we recommend approval. Great. uh all all can we take A through F all in one and then we'll do G separately. So uh I will move that we approve uh the administration resolutions 25-5 through 25-10. Is there a second? Great. Uh any comments or questions about these resolutions? Okay. Uh all those in favor of approving signify with an I. I. All those opposed with an nay and abstensions. Okay, great. We'll move
038on now to the superintendent contract. Um, this is a contract that uh is for uh superintendent McKay. This is a renewal. We've already had some discussion at this at previous board meetings, which is this is an extension of one additional year, I believe, onto the contract that you've had. The changes as I understand them are um the in inflationary price index is included in this and the option for um uh additional days for working on weekends. That's the only changes if I understand it to the contract that you've been working under. That is correct. It has to do with a lot with the first part of the extension of another year changes the dates that are identified within the contract for that signify the number of years. And then uh the second part is educational
039employees approved by our state legislature uh were provided a 2.5 2.5 IPD which is kind of a cola cola in a way. Yeah. And so that 2.5 is reflected. So any change in the in the salary is reflected by that 2.5. And then the other part is um I think you realize that I spend a tremendous amount of time on holidays, weekends uh working with school related business uh of what's transpired. Um and these are optional and these are in case of situations. That doesn't mean they're going to be used. I may not use any of them, but it does give me the ability to be compensated for time that would be spent on holidays and/or weekends. And those are the only changes to the contract. Any change to a contract has to come to
040you. So any anything that's changed, even if it's just a date or a piece of language, that doesn't mean anything having to do with money. It is a revision to the contract that you've already approved. So now this is new language within the contract that needs to be reapproved by you similar to the contracts that you already approved in the consent agenda. Any change in those contracts needs to have board approval. Great. Thank you. Uh I will move that we approve the uh superintendent contract for uh 2025 through 2028. Uh is there a second? I'll second. Okay, great. Any comments or questions? Derek, I just had a couple of items for clarification. Uh, under item six, and I know this isn't a change and and I'm not anticipating anything here, but uh it says at
041the end it of that paragraph that the district shall pay the superintendent the equivalent of 12 months and at the end of that sentence it says death. So, does that mean if you pass away that we pay 12 months of separation? I I didn't quite understand that. So, this is like the last sentence of item number six. I don't believe that's the intent of that language that if I die, you'd pay the remaining 12 months of the contract. Okay. I just was reading through that. I'm like, that's not real clear. No. And I will say this is language that has been in the contract ever since I was hired here. This has not changed. Um, so I I can do a little review on that to get a little better understanding of that and pass
042that information on, but my interpretation of that would not what you just said would not be compensating for 12 months with of on upon my death. Okay. I don't like talking about that, but you know, understand where you're coming from. It was just a question that I had when I was reading through it. So, um, and then the other the other comment that I had was, um, I know that really it says in here that we're supposed to go through the superintendent if employees approach us with issues and problems. Um, one thing that just as a board member, I do have people in the community, even just this Saturday, I see them, they talk to me, um, and teachers in particular, and they'll say that they're afraid to approach any administrator in the district out
043of fear of retribution. And so I know that I probably um step on your toes at times in that regard and it probably doesn't make me wellliked. But I also am concerned about that perception that whether it's with building administration or administration at this at the office here, um they're afraid to raise concerns that they have at their individual schools for fear of retribution. And that has come from several different people at different times. And so I just I guess maybe a little bit of defense from myself and that that's why I sometimes talk to people and don't necessarily redirect them because I understand their concerns and whether it's real or perception doesn't really matter. That's what I hear. So any other comments or questions? All right. Uh, all those in favor of approving the
044superintendent contract for 2025 to 2028 signify with an I. I. All those opposed and abstensions. Great. Uh, I'll just add uh Mr. McKay, thank you so much for uh your service to our school district and we're glad that you're going to be here. I'm glad you're going to be here. Um, and um uh uh boy, just keep up the great work. Yeah. We're moving on now to item eight, which is the student board representative report. And we do have a student board member with us. Uh Claire, how's Summer? I heard you're going somewhere. I'm actually I'm going on one of the overnight trips that was approved either this week or LA like a month ago. So, we're we have 14 students going down to the National Leadership Conference in Florida for FCCLA, which is Family
045Career and Community Leaders of America. So, um we're all competing in various events and so hopefully we'll bring back some some awards and accolades for CEA School District. So, fantastic. Do you have other things to report? I didn't mean to step on your report there. No, I don't. And 14. How many went the year before? Do you know? Um you've been before, right? Yes. This will be my sixth year going um whether virtual or in person because of COVID 19, but um last year we had nine students. So um and the year before that we had more, but we're building back up our um and I think almost half of those students are middle school students. So that's really great that they're getting involved in that CTE education and really that really great CTSO experience
046at such a young age. So and uh what teachers are going with you? Um so we have Mrs. Brink and Miss Eussin uh from the high school who are uh our adviserss and then we are also um the school district paid for um through a uh CTE grant that we got we had got to pay for to um chaperones to go. Um so we have uh Mr. Brink who's a teacher at SAS and then we have a student's parent who's coming with us. Um and then we also have um a few other teachers who are going um just to kind as guests to um really help the students. Well, my prayers are with your teachers and with your chaperones. Uh they really are and that's that it's obviously a testament to their leadership as as
047well as your ability and your skill. Um uh as a group and as as a club. Uh uh we're very proud of the FCCLA. So good luck when you go there. Hey, one follow-up question for you, Claire. Is this the beak big event for Parker? Uh yes where we will learn if he won the um the first ever national member of the year out of like it's 270,000 members nationally. So and he is in the top five. Correct. Yes. Okay. Yes, that's correct. Fantastic. Let us know. Thank you. I will. Great. And we are on the uh I'll I'll say this to everyone here since we've got a nice audience. We're on the lookout for additional student board representatives. We just had two uh seniors move on now to their college experience. Um and if
048you know any students uh if you have any kids or grandkids or know people through people that uh might be interested in being on the school board, uh please let them know that they can apply at the high school. Um there's an application process and then we kind of narrow that down and we do a scary interview with it's really way scary than it should be but they sit in front of us and we ask them questions and uh from that we pick what's they have to be a junior right uh it's rising junior I guess to use the lingo. Yeah. Okay. Uh thank you very much. We'll move on now to item nine which is our associate superintendent for district operations report. We have an enrollment report and a financial status update. Chris. Okay.
049Um, so first enrollment report. This is our year-end enrollment report. So we ended the year in June with FTE of 3596. Uh, reminder that that FTE doesn't include our running start and open doors and TK uh, FTE, but we landed at 3596. On average for the year, we're at 362. So that's just under 17 FTE um shy of projection. So it's under projection. We prefer to be around 10 uh within projection and over is preferred because as a reminder, we are funded for based on our year-end average enrollment. Uh we get funded around $10,000 per FTE. So when you look at 17 under projection, that's about $170,000 that we don't receive as a school district. So it's really important for us to the enrollment projection is probably one of the most important things that we
050do. We use that to drive what our staffing levels are for the basic education program. Um we like to get within 10. It's tough. I mean, we've got several years now where we've been within 10, but this one uh under projection just shy of 17 is a little higher than a little worse than we like to see. So, our projection for next school year based on the cohort survival method is 65 less than uh what we projected this year. And that's based on what we're seeing in the uh survival rate from one grade to the next. We're seeing smaller classes moving through our system. So, if you look at the the enrollment uh projected enrollment over the next four years, we're at a decline of just less than 2% per year uh based on the
051number of students coming through our system. Now, kindergarten classes, they're coming in lower and lower every year. I think most people know the birth rate's down uh the county birth rate and uh most districts are experiencing the same thing. So, we it's important for us as a district to get the enrollment projection close to what year-end average is so that and we staff to it because that's 80 to 84% of our budget is people. So, if you don't get the staffing right, enrollment projection to staffing, then you can get yourself into a lot of trouble. So, that's where we landed. Any questions on the enrollment? this I we're looking if if our average for the year was 3600 we would be looking at 3550 roughly at next year that's kind of what we would predict.
052Yeah. Next year we budgeted uh 3519 um more more conservative. Yeah. And part of that is that as we watched uh the early enrollment stages of kindergarten, we we saw less. And so as we got the time to ready to budget, we we did not want to uh put ourselves in a bad situation by budgeting more kindergarteners that actually show up. So we bumped it a little bit even more conservative. And even now, if we had a kindergarten teacher leave at this point during the year, it's likely we wouldn't replace him. So, all right. On the other side of that though, if for for whatever reason we have a lot more kindergarteners, we're going to celebrate that and we're in a position where if there is a need to hire an additional kindergarten teacher there
053there's lots of people with teaching positions that I'm sure we'd be interviewing for that job. So, we'll see how things play out in the next few months. Great. Thank you very much. Uh, next on the item is the financial status update. All right. So, this report is as of May. I talked a little bit at the budget study session on where we're at at this point in time at the end of May. So, you you've heard a little bit of this, but at the end of May, we are 75% through the school year. We've received 71.3% of our budgeted revenues and expended 72.3% of our budgeted appropriations. So, we're pretty much on on the mark there. Uh we're a little lower than where we're at during the school year, which is good. Um revenues always
054lag a little bit. Our aortionment payment actually will happen in June. Our aortionment that just came in for June is low. This the state is has shorted us in June aortionment and they'll rec we'll recover the full amount in the July aortionment. So we'll see that reflecting in our June uh financial status report. At the end of May 2025, our year-end fund balance is $10,69,000. Um, which represents about a million dollars less than where we were last year, which is what we budgeted uh for and we expected. Um, just for the audience's sake, one thing that we're proud of here in CILA is that we've had uh fiscal stability over the years. It's a challenge now for us and many other school districts with the way that the state funds us for salaries and compensation.
055Uh we're seeing a gap in all of our classifications where they're not paying us to what uh is a competitive wage for for staff. So that's just one reason, but um we intentionally budgeted to hit our cash reserve a little bit this year and that's what we're going to do. Um, we're looking at potentially hitting it again next year and we'll talk about that more at the July business meeting. The other funds you can see pretty much ASB uh self-explanatory debt service fund. Um, we have our debt payment come up in in June. So, we'll have our last payment for the year there. Um, transportation vehicle, we're waiting on one bus to arrive and we'll we'll I we're supposed to get it before August. So, that will be paid out and we'll be right on
056track in our transportation vehicle fund and CAT projects. We uh landed at a nice spot. We're still at a good spot with our uh donor uh uh donation from uh Mr. Rep is in there and we've started our turf field project and the CTE edition as well. So, those two projects over the next two years will u take a good portion of that cap project's money. Other than that, that's all I have. Do you have any questions? We make any money at our yard sale? Okay. So, that's a little piece of good news. We we had we made $2500. Hey, nice. It's really not that we didn't have any vehicles in the sale. We didn't have any major equipment, but uh we are in full compliance of this the statute that requires us to surplus
057property, which the the board did, and we made it available to the community to come in and purchase. Uh we do have a process though, the day before the public sale. We have teachers do a walk through early in the morning. They can pick up things for their classroom. If they're buying, if they're getting it for personal use, they come back at the public sale. We then have private and public schools can come in by appointment and look and purchase things uh that day as well. And then finally, licensed preschools can come in at the end of the day prior to the to the public sale the next day. And we've had quite a few of our local um preschools come through. It's been a nice thing for them. So, yeah. So, we made $2,500.
058We won't talk about the labor that it takes to run a surplus sale, but uh public uh kudos to Chris Harris and Brook Lee. They both were co-leaders first year that they've led uh the process for our surplus sale and they did a great job. So gross 2500 is what you're saying. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Shout out to our custodial staff across the district, too. the we tried something different this year and we basically established a location at that school and then went and got the stuff instead of bringing it all here and then transporting it all back. And so it really worked. But what it did is it put a lot of onus on our custodial staff and maintenance team to do all the moving around. Um, but it was, you know, the parking lot
059was buzzing with people as usually do on yard sales here very early in the morning, ready to go with trailers, pickups, vans. Nice. Yeah. All kinds of different vehicles to haul stuff out and they surely did. Excellent. All right. Thank you very much. We'll move on now to the superintendent report. There are two uh program reports, I guess I would say. The first is state and federal program update. Uh the board has a PDF and it's available online as well to the public of the 202425 annual report. This includes title one lap, family services team, dual language and ML growth. Is that multilingual learner growth? Right. Exactly. Um are there anything that you want us to uh to look at specifically, Christie? Um I'm sorry, Kevin. I didn't mean to jump ahead. Christie, great. Um
060we did uh five of the programs that I oversee went through program review which came out um um really well. We have two action plans um out of the 37. So um I'm glad that's over and was much a very good learning experience. Um then we um the lap um is based on um our poverty rate and it's a three-year average and so that's also a document that's posted on our website. Um and so all of our buildings will get that lap funding for for next year. Um so that's a celebration. It's much needed. It pays for a lot of our um non non-classroom uh certified teachers as well as uh parapros that help assist uh classrooms. And so um that's that's money that's well needed. Um the one thing though that I'd like to
061highlight is it is reliant on our um our child nutrition and educational benefits program and that paperwork is coming out in August. We're going to have open labs at each school in the week of the 12th. Um, and it is our four-year renewal year, so we need to get as many students in the district to fill that out as much as possible. So, um, so those will be that'll be a big push in August to keep those those numbers up for that three-year average. And then our, um, renewal in our fourth year. Um, then, uh, another thing that I'm, um, most proud of is our is our multilingual learner exit rate. It's going up each year with our dual language program. Um so right now the state has theirs um exit rate is 8.51 and
062this year um in your document it says 6.74 but we just got uh two more scores in that we're passing they now have an exit criteria for our alt access. So those students who may have a IEP um now have an exit criterion and we had two exit this year. So we're now at se 7.17. So very close to that state exit rate. Um and so duel is is doing its job and and I'm just excited as we move through that program what we will see a out of our 33 that passed the WEDA this year. 22 came out of the intermediate school. And that means if they're exiting at the intermediate school, they're not entering that long-term e status. And once you hit that status at that fiveyear uh mark in the program, it's
063harder to to get out because the rigor of the test is so it keeps going up. So um so I'm just super excited about that data. So could you tell us quickly or just define for us what do you mean when you say exit rate? So it is the the amount of students that are exiting um from the from the overall. So it's the and then the prog the other one that you see there is the student progressing. So exit rate is just who exited out of the overall um and then the student progressing is how many students in that program they may not have exited but they made growth from one year to the next. So those exit rate are students who are not considered multil- language learners. Yeah. So that that means they've
064got a high enough score on the WEDA to exit the um the program altogether and they exit based on their language skill but then we monitor their academics for two years after. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. That's great. Any comments or questions? That the district poverty rate is 55.59. Is that right? according to OSPI and fallen a little bit since 2023 2024 to today maybe as much as 7 or 6 and a half or so percent difference between those two. Um okay, great. And that helps uh with title one budgeting. Is that correct? Is that the main both of those? Yes. Well, the title title one is um developed based on the census data and we have to be over 40% lap. um that that three-year average for the poverty rate is what
065is is affects lap and so that is has to reach that 50% threshold. Great. All right. Thank you very much. Any uh comments or questions for Christie on the um state and federal programs. Thank you so much for your work with this Christie. Appreciate this. The annual report uh looks terrific. Um and that is very encouraging. the the multil- language learner group is really awesome. Hopefully, you had a chance to see the videos in there. They're pretty encouraging. They are, aren't they? Right. You know, the faces of of of the work that that we do for state and federal programs. Yeah. Very real. Uh yes. All right. Uh we'll move on now to the um athletic report. Um this is uh I believe Kevin, you're uh you've got a quick note on this. Yeah. What
066you have in your packets is a report from the high school done by the athletic director there and then another report from the middle school. Again, this is one of those areas that the board um after a number of years of uh reports coming to them in person. Uh these are examples of written reports that we were able to get to you prior to the board meeting. Let's take a look at them instead of having presentations here at the board meeting. So, um I think you could see that it was overall a pretty darn successful year for our student athletes. Um obviously the accomplishments individually and as teams are noted there. Uh I like from my perspective I really like to see the participation the sheer number of students involved in activities and athletics. uh
067we know that there is a direct connection to academic achievement of our student athletes and those involved in acti activities. Their attendance is better, their personal health is better. All those things are all rolled into one. So, it's really nice to see the numbers of students involved. If you have any questions, uh you can reach out to me or to Becky or Kip on both of those reports. Great. Any comments or questions on that? I see 525 total participants at the high school. That doesn't mean students. That means people that participated throughout the year. Could be 70 in football and the the 20 of those might turn out for some track later on. That's fantastic. And it's not obviously the only way to judge how your school is doing. Um but it is does say
068something about our school culture, I think. um to have that kind of widespread uh participation in these athletic events like uh like internships. Uh there are certain things you can learn in the classroom and certain things you learn outside of the classroom. And I think I think maybe all of us on the board are uh former high school athletes at some point. Um and we certainly remember those lessons that we learned um some fondly and some not. But uh uh we we learned a lot from that. And I'm glad so many students in CILA have the opportunity to participate. All right. Um, next item on the agenda is the superintendent update. You'll be happy to know that I don't have an update tonight. Uh, but I do want to tell you that you are moving
069into the first month where the board only meets once and so there is no study session in July. Obviously, you have the opportunity to call uh a special meeting or study session if you choose to. Also know that coming to you at the July meeting, the focus of that meeting all with all the regular board related business of the district that needs to be taken care of is really the budget. Yeah. And so, uh, again, we'll go through and open up a public hearing for those who want to, uh, speak in regards about the budget, but it also is a time for Chris, uh, and Stephanie and a little bit of me as well to to give you a very thorough understanding of all the work that's been done in regards to the budget. You've
070had updates obviously throughout the course of the school year, but this is really really all those are leading up to what you're going to see in July. Great. Thank you very much. Uh, next item on the agenda, I think, is uh, board communications. Does anyone have any board communications? Derek, I just uh I was expecting a lengthy meeting, so I want to make a brief a brief statement. Um, and it's regarding the display at the high school. Um, I don't think it's any secret that I wasn't real happy about that, but I've also noticed the display throughout this uh last couple of school years. And I feel like they're very one-sided. Um, when you look through the people and the books that are displayed, a lot of times in those displays, we can say that
071it's not political, but they really only represent one side of the equation. And I see I think that we see that um also in the enforcement of the dress code policy. We had an issue this last school year with the student in the band. Um, but then I've noticed that there are other students in the band at the football and the basketball games in particular who are allowed to wear um what I would consider to be social or political statements. And there's never any um enforcement on asking those students to leave or threatening them to not being able to participate in those activities. Um I looked through the board policies. We don't have anything specifically that addresses the displays. We do have policies that address the posters and stuff that can go up around the
072schools. And I understand that we need to allow freedom of speech. I'm all for that. Um, but I feel like with the display cases in particular that we have so many good things going on within the district that we should be putting things in those display cases that um represent the Viking values and the good things that are going on in the districts. One thing that we can all rally around is that we are Vikings. um whether what we believe politically is different, what we believe socially is different, but we all go to Seless schools. We're all Vikings and there's so much good that goes on here that I feel like that's really what we should be displaying in there. And those displays can be updated regularly. And so I think the board should consider
073um making a policy or directing the superintendent to make a policy that directs those displays to be um to highlight what's going on great with students like in who are involved with our FCCLA um or in our sports or the teachers who win national awards or like with Parker. you know, I'd love to see that sort of stuff as you walk into the high school uh in particular um highlighted rather than issues that can be seen as divisive. And I made a post on Facebook and the one thing that was very clear from the comments um is that displays like the pride display this month are very divisive, especially in this community. Um, I'm not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to display those types of things, but when it's on school property, it should
074be things that are um, like I said, items that we can rally around as as CELA residents and as CELA Vikings. And that's what I would like to see. Um, and just one more quick example. Um, I did have a a couple of students grab me after graduation and said that they had um gone to the stu because I understand the ASB is in charge of that display. Um, from from what I was told anyway, the FFA had been denied a request uh on two separate occasions this last year. And again, this is just uh what I was told by these students um to have a red, white, and blue day for spirit week and also to have a patriotic display in that display case and they were denied. Um I think Denene had said
075something about that as well. Um and I did have a member of the ASB confirm that um that that request was denied because it was deemed um controversial to display red, white, and blue. and the American flag in our schools. And um so that's when I go going back to where I started when I say that these displays are controversial um and not equally enforced, meaning we're not giving voice to all students. Um that's just another example that I would bring up in that case. And so I would just like to move away from the social commentary within our schools, focus on education. And that's where I've always been since I ran. Let's focus on education, academic achievement, let the social issues be handled at home. People can believe what they want to believe. Um
076students can say what they want to say at the school district, but within what we control. Let's just uh find things that we can rally around as Vikings and leave everything else to the home. So that's that's what I have to say today. Great. Thank you, Derek. Sure, Claire. Um, I am serving as the ASB president this year and I just wanted to clear up if there's any confusion that so the ASB does not is not in charge of that display case. That display case is um by some specific teachers at our school. And um the thing with the FFA their um the week not being approved was not uh because it was um a red, white, and blue day. That was because their um their spirit week um they didn't have their paperwork in
077on time. We didn't have a meeting upcoming so we couldn't approve uh their spirit week due to um legal reasons for the ASB body because we're very like by the book Robert's World Border. Um ASB has approved um days for next year where we are having USA um dressup days. And so I just want to say um ASB represents the students ideas and so we can approve it from a student perspective but um it has to go to the administrative perspective and we have not denied any of um those related things. So I just wanted to clear up if there's any confusion around that. Great. I appreciate that. Like I said, it, you know, that's what I was told. And so, I appreciate that clarification. And I guess if we have questions in the future,
078we could direct those questions to the administration at the the school or maybe talk to somebody who knows what's happened. Um, uh, any other comments or board communication? Good. Uh, I'll just, um, add my thoughts on this. Um, as a school board member, I I want to take a moment to recognize Pride Month. Uh, to speak from my heart, not for the whole board certainly, but to speak out of my own desire to say love is love. To be true to my own beliefs and to my faith. For me, June is a time to celebrate the strength, resilience, dignity, and contribution of the LGBTQ students, families, and staff in our community. It's also a time uh to reaffirm a commitment to making our schools welcoming and safe for everyone. I I'm concerned um I guess
079because we know that LGBTQ youth face unique challenges nationally. Over 40% of um the pride community teens have seriously considered suicide in the past year and more than half report symptoms of anxiety and depression. Many struggle to access the support they need. Over 50% say they couldn't get the mental health care they were seeking. And these aren't just numbers. I'm sure you know these are people. Some of children, some staff, community members. They're reminders of how critical it is that our schools are places of belonging and not exclusion. For me, Pride Month is a chance to show up. Affirming environments save lives. respectful classrooms, supportive teachers, and inclusive policies all make a difference. So, from me to every LGBTQ student and staff member, you matter. You belong here, and I'm proud to stand with you.
080Any other comments? Thank you. Well said, young man. Well said. Not that young. All right. Well, thank you very much. Uh any other comments? Uh we will adjourn the meeting then.