001I can I'll just do that now. It just shows the logo It is 7 o'clock. I don't know if we need to check with Daniel to see if Oh, there's Daniel. I was looking at this. You're good to go. All right. We're going to call this meeting to order at 7 o'clock. Please rise for the flag in the [Music] back of the United States to the stand. [Music] All right, we get to start out our meeting with the best stuff first. I love it when we don't have to wait save best for last. So, um we have the opportunity to introduce and express appreciation to our girls basketball team and I asked our student board rep. Um also, you are the team captain of I think one of them. Okay. So, she's the appropriate person
002to introduce you all. Um Bailey, take it away. Okay. So, at the end, we have the lady match the freshman. Please [Music] stand. She is a Junior, we have Josie Lever. She's a freshman. We have Sydney Wolf, who's a senior. She's our amazing manager. I seriously don't know what we do without her. Michael Hall, she's a senior. Sie is a junior. William is a senior. She's one of our other captains. And then Sh is also a student. She's also one of our captains. [Applause] Yes, we're missing a senior Land Meer, a junior Riley King, and another sophomore, Jordan Green. Excellent. So, thank you ladies for being here. We're super excited. Um I would, if you're willing, and if you want to pass, you can pass, but if you could share with me um a phrase,
003a word or a phrase that kind of exemplifies this year in basketball for you. And I'll start over here with her time to think. Yeah, it's going down that way. I would say exhilarating because it never stops. I would say unexpected. Why? For one, this is my first year playing here. I didn't really know what to expect, but also I feel like each game as it like progressed like people just pull out same pattern anyway that we didn't know. I love it. Thank you. I would say hard work because it definitely like a lot of hard work and perseverance from all of us to get to state this year and you know we keep pushing through the season and we all did it. Um I was just going to say family because I feel like
004we're just all one big family and we all care for each other a lot. Uh I'm going to say turn me up because we have to feed off each other's energy and build each other up on the court and uh we really got to turn each other up. I'm going to say memorable because I think like half my memories of this year were from basketball season. So um I'm going to say positive because like even though it was really hard like at the end of the day it was all positive. I would say teamwork because everyone together really well. Um I'm going to say together because we all work together to really create a good environment for everybody. Outstanding. Thank you so much. So now I'm going to ask you two to please introduce your
005coaches. In the middle we have our head coach. [Applause] And then [Applause] [Music] there in the middle we have our coach of the year. Yes. [Applause] Well, I did want to um you'll see later on the agenda that um Oh, yes. Please give us a word or phrase. For me, I would say proud because these girls dig deep and they don't cry. They totally make me proud all the time. And even when, you know, sometimes we don't get along, we can always fight through it as a family. Sometimes talks through things and they succeeded and got all our goals and I couldn't be more proud of them. I'm gonna say positive attitudes because no matter what, even when things like a couple you said got really really tough, we still came out at the end
006of the day with great attitudes and and just pride in in our school and in our team. Um, mine is inspiring because every single girl in front of you here has taught me so much and inspires me to want to be better myself and [Music] I I think um the great work that they've done is exemplified in their leaders. And I wanted to say recognize Diana um three years of team building has gone into this and you went to the second day of state in your 1A tournament and you went to the second day of state in your 2A tournament. You also were undefeated in league play this year 14 to zero. Um, you won the league championship and all seniors achieved league honors as voted on by other coaches in the league and Diana
007was voted as coach of the year. Congratulations to you all. [Applause] [Music] Absolutely. We need photos. Um, who want who down here could take a photo standing about five girls back and if we'll stand behind. Yeah, we'll just come down for you. [Music] One of the [Music] girls smiles look look smart and talented. Okay. Here's your coach to follow. [Music] We can stand up [Music] kids. [Music] You know, if I can just finish my landing, I don't know. Mr. I don't know if you remember at the end of last year we had all our juniors in here. Remember that? Yes. And I was asked maybe I wasn't asked. Okay. I wasn't asked. I just talked for a minute and I said you have no idea what you might accomplish this year. I'm talking mostly seniors
008right now, those who were juniors last year. and said, "What is going to happen is out there for grabs and anything is possible and you have the chance to make your senior year something that's memorable beyond memories and um and it seemed like you were missing and um you know and we just talked about you know like what like leadership and seniors and you know you have others under you know underassmen that you know you need to submit for and now here we are just almost a year later and look what you've accomplished and you know look what you've learned from your mentors and then the same will go for you as you grow as you become more and more you know senior for the senior year what you're going to do and it just
009keeps going going on and on and so I'm just awfully proud of you and really proud of coaches and for the way that you you know that that you taught these these girls to believe in themselves to be their best and to keep going you know further and further but also the sportsmanship you know um it's just uh something that makes us all very proud So, so thank you much and I think we just need one more round of applause for you. [Applause] Thank you very much. We we're I will invite you to stay until Bailey finishes her student rep comments and then after that you're free to go. You don't have to This isn't as exciting as I mentioned, but this is pretty exciting. Um, seniors got their caps and gowns this week. So,
010everybody's taking their cap and gown pictures and it's starting to feel real now. We had Ethan Carter. You guys have heard the name probably three times already, but he went out to Oregon. He got invited to an invitational meet and broke the school record again, so I'm sure that's not the last you'll hear him. Um, we are selling prom tickets right now. We sold almost 200 and farm is going to be held at the row in Tacoma on May 3rd. We started Mayday planning. So we have our whole Mayday court ready to go and queen. We have about a week and a half left of regular season for spring sports and then we go into districts and hopefully the state for some athletes. And then the last one we have AD testing coming up and
011we have two weeks everybody's so excited for but the year just coming to a close and everybody's really getting excited and having July. [Music] I would like to also invite all of you to consider or share um if you are a junior or senior we will be opening up applications for student board representatives. So I would like to invite you to consider being part of that or at least share that. And we're going to ask Bailey to also encourage people if you have any questions, you can talk to her about how that fits into your schedule and what the responsibilities and things. So, thank you so much. You're welcome to stay or tweet all of you. All right, we're going to continue on our agenda. Go ahead. They're kicking on the way out, too. Thank
012you. Yeah, you're welcome. [Music] All right, we're going to move on to our agenda. Um, I will consider any changes or additions to the agenda. Hearing none, I will consider a motion to approve the consent agenda. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Hearings of individuals and groups. I didn't see anybody's name. Yep. Everybody signed up. Um and that takes us on to our reports and presentations. So, um Okay. I don't have a ton to share. I don't have a ton to share tonight. Anything different from last month. Um we are right on pace with where we should be at for this time of year. Um excuse me. And um we are continuing to exercise fiscal responsibility, working really hard and potentially going to break even this year um thanks to a
013lot of hard work in in a few different departments. Um and that's really all I have for um budget status. Um see here enrollment [Music] please watching closely I saw it I think we've all had to review it so that's you okay yeah so we did see a slight uptick in April so that's good news um considering where we have been from these other Thank you so much. We appreciate that information. All right. Um legislative update. There's lots going on. This is the final point final week in legislative session unless they extend. Uh they've been burning the night oil and almost had to be in session on Easter Sunday which is astonishing. Um, one thing I want to bring your attention to and if you have time to reach out and um, make some comments
014on HB 2050. Um, and the reason I want to call out this proposal is uh, it really exemplifies how important it is that we have a reserve account. So, this bill is going to um, delay some of our aortionment. It's going to delay some of our funding from the state in the months of February, March, and April. So we won't get as much money as we spend in February, March, and April. If we don't have a reserve account, we cannot pay our staff. So we we just always need to be mindful of keeping that a priority to make sure that we're fiscally responsible and keeping kind of moving that forward. They they are claiming um by kind of delaying some of that payment and then paying more in August that the state will save $4
015million. They're not really saving anything. What they're doing is they're just transferring that debt or that payment until the next bite meeting. So, it's just a calendar month. They're not saving any money by doing that, but they are um putting a large burden on school districts, particularly those whose fund balance aren't as robust as ours. And so, it's we're going to see some fallout from that. So, that bill is coming up for a vote. Um if you have a moment to weigh in on that, that would be great. LEA is also coming up for um a vote and See if I have that. It's a Senate [Music] bill. Let me check your comments up. It's Senate Bill 20. Um, it's SHB 2049 and that is on um extending the levy. The problem with that is
016it doesn't help with any level levy equalization. It's not going to help our district in any way, shape, or form. It really is benefits a few small, large districts. So again, um I would encourage you to hop on that pledge.wah.gov and give it a con click of the button or write a statement or I believe hearing tomorrow in front of Ways and Means at 1:30. So you can always sign test at night if I have time. Got to check my calendar. Um, so those are kind of the things that are impacting us the most at this time and there's always more, but high level. All right, we're going to go on to new business and we're going to uh consider approval resol resolution 749. And I'm going to turn this over before uh we address
017this resolution. Corey Cler has been kind enough to come all the way from SAN to present and talk to us about this. So the microphone I'm sure you're recording a meeting or not. I just yell from here. There's a microphone. This one might just be for you. I have mine, too. You're welcome. However, I don't know where the camera is looking, but I think it's perfect. You hear me? Okay, great. So, great to be back. I think a couple months ago, we talked about the opportunity to uh front fund a capital projects, letting what the options look like. I know district leadership has taken advantage of some of that information and done some additional research about possible different financing options, but I put together a one-page white paper for the board and there's extra copies
018up here if anybody in the audience would like to see them. I would love to just take five minutes to kind of recap a few of the important hot topics uh before you consider the resolution. One is just revisiting what is a limited general obligation bond. If you recall from the board meeting, we talked about different options where you could actually reach out to the county treasurer and and inquire if they'd be interested in loaning the district money, which is not common, but it does happen at times. It's very transparent process, but not quite as flexible. You're kind of the county's discretion. And of course, at this time, they're not interested, which isn't unusual. Now, we also talked about the state treasur that has an option called the local program where you combine with other
019entities whether it's fire districts or other sewer districts or parks districts and you lose some flexibility there. Ultimately, what leadership team is interested in is doing a bank placement. And these limited general obligation bonds to bank placements are limited in three ways. They're limiting the board from getting into 2D. So, you can only borrow 38 of 1% of your property value. So that limit seems pretty steep, but is 11.7 million. I know right now based on this project, you're looking at more of like a under five million range. So you're not maximizing your debt capacity, which is a good thing in case of extreme emergencies. Having debt capacity available is a good thing if there's a roof that collapses or something that you don't want to deplete your general fund balance for. Uh, two, it
020can only be used to purchase land, personal property, replace equipment, renovate existing facilities, and structural changes. You couldn't build a brand new four-wall building for education. Uh, and the last thing is you must use existing revenue to repay. In this case, you have a capital projects levies that the voter authorized. You also have some unique things that other schools don't have. you have resources in your debt service fund as Christ has researched, timber excise tax and state forest tax that's meant to offset any future obligations. So that could also help and that's in your account currently. Before issuing these type of bonds, you must host a public hearing which you did earlier to get public input to make sure it's a act a transparent process and the legal process. Um these are most commonly sold
021at the bank. I would say probably five to 10 schools per year do limited general obligation bonds. I think it's more common lately because of the difficulty to pass a 60% bond, especially in this time where inflation is a concern and the state schools taxes change. So to be able to operate and do a limited general obligation bond within your own means, it it can be a fairly powerful tool. Um, our firm manages the process. We make sure it's legal, transparent, and we work with banks that are analyzing your credit quality to take that pressure off your staff. Whether it's analyzing your financials, enrollment trends, population, fund balance, anything that they want to do to analyze your credit because you are essentially going to be there. They're going to be an investor of you directly.
022And when banks purchase these, they're required to hold it to investment. So, this isn't something they can loan you money and then sell it in little pieces across like a mortgage or like a car loan. you've ever had a car loan and all of a sudden they're saying, "Well, now you owe this person money and you didn't realize that they sold your car loan." So, they would be investing and the most common investor is a bank uh in the Seattle area that was founded in Cashmere and Lebanon area called Kashmir Valley Bank and they're prolific supporter of school uh obligations. So, what are the details of this possible resolution that you're about to review? Uh it sets the terms of the board. So this is called a delegation resolution. This does not say you just
023established a loan. This says the board is giving the authority to the leadership team to go into parameters with the bank should they meet your terms. And the terms right now are set by your legal team. It says not to exceed 4.8 million. It's a little higher than your project amount. If you need that flexibility, it's there, but if not, you can do the 4.5 or 4.4. Um the term is five and a half years. that matches your levy. So you would be able to decide and your levy is larger than this LJGO. You're only borrowing against some of it. The preference is for prepayable. So you're establishing prepayable terms in whole or any time. So that means you could refinance it as well. That doesn't just mean if you got a grant or were
024wrote into the state bill that you would just give them money. You could call them up and say interest rates have dropped 2%. We'd like to refinance. And most likely they would comply with that. But if not, you could prepay it or do a second bond and pay off the first one. You also have a term that says the interest rate is not to exceed 6%. Interest rates today are 4.88. Uh when we started talking with the bank about their options, I think Chrisa, we were at 4.4. So that's the result of the stock market crash about two and a half weeks ago. our timing is a little poor, but each day that goes uh forward, we're seeing a little bit of recovery. I tell folks, I'd rather have this event behind us than in
025front of us to surprise us later. So, we can recover from it now, but if it happened two weeks from now when you're looking at this opportunity that could be more challenging then. So, the next steps, should the board consider adopting this uh resolution? uh upon completion of that step, the leadership team has the oblig or the the right but not the obligation to proceed with negotiating favorable terms within your parameters and working with local, national or regional banks. So, it's a lot of information. So, hopefully this will be helpful as you refer to it, but I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions? I feel like you've done a really good job over the course of many months of helping us gain some perspective and insight and understanding. We're really grateful for your knowledge.
026Okay, with that I think Christa, did you have anything? Um, no, I think we covered it. Okay, great. Then I would entertain a motion to approve my resolution of 49. Um and it is to um for the limited general obligation bond it's been moved second and seconded. Is there any discussion? Yes. Thank you. Sorry. Yeah. Um, no. I just wanted to ask um so the community understands too as well is the money that's being used for this is not money that can be used for um anything else in the future or future funds for like um uh federal funding. This is not money that can be used to offset like titles or lap or correct correct. So if for any reason we were to lose federal funding or any other kind of funding, this is
027for capital projects only, but these dollars can only be used for that. The levy can only be used for that. So um they are protected. Just want to make sure the question I had earlier. Any other discussion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Consider approval of resolution 750. Crystal and the second resolution that we have is 750 um regarding the capital projects budget extension. Um we need this to support the LJGO should we move forward with that. Um so our current budget um in the capital project fund is 4 million 10,000. Um, I'm asking that you extend our budget by 7,150,000 to a total budget of 11,160,000 in the capital projects fund. That does not obligate us to spend that money. We cannot spend that money um unless the
028funds are there in the bank. That is only capacity and your authority um granted to spend those funds should they all become available. And you would be approving those projects because they would be capital outlay. So basically follow your authority as well. All right. Um I would entertain a motion to approve resolution 75 second. Is there any further discussion? I did um again just to make it clear again because I know people are going to want to know this is you made it's not to exceed this is just to lift the money amount so that we have it there to spend not that it's going to be spent to that amount because we also because we can receive grants [Music] and we have to vote in a public meeting and it would only be for
029those projects that we would have already included. did in our original capital project fund levy resolution that was passed. Gotcha. That those are the only things that these funds can cover. Gotcha. Nothing in the general fund. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. All in favor? [Music] I All right. Um so what declaration of surpluses Sally? Yes we have surplus books for curriculum dating back to uh 2002 um as well as library surplus for reading material reading books that may be considered um outdated accuracy of the material or the relevancy of those uh titles that are on that list. And then we have outdated text from quite a while that um that we're also so blessing that no longer works um for us and so we've already replaced that with the great purchases and or
030I should say leases that person supported. Thank you. I see that these have a significant value of 80 cents. 80 cents is what their appreciating current value is appreciating value from. Thank you for doing that work. I would consider approval [Music] for second. All in favor? I [Music] opposed. Consider approval of capital outlay replacement purchase scoreboard that we just got. Yeah. Um so you re if you recall you recently um approved a purchase for the scoreboard at the um middle school or the ates for um boys baseball. Sorry, I moved my word here. um this that scoreboard was the same age as this scoreboard four board. Um and I said, "Jerry, I think you might want to go check that out for us." And he said, "Yep, it needs replacing." So, I think we had
031a few digits out. Um and and it it needs to be replaced. So, um part of this purchase is um going to be paid for um by ASB because they wanted to put their logo on it. So if B is um fundraising or has the funds already to pay for um the ad um the rest of the portion will fall to the district um purchase. Great. Thank you so much. So I consider a motion to approve the purchase local. [Music] Sorry. All in favor or any further discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Consider approval of West PTA donation $1,000 for land. And we're going to do the other one. Um well, let's do the other R donation at the same time. G considerable donation for 136167 for the schooltore.com for warehouse. has
032been moved and seconded. Um, any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? And I wanted to keep tough conservative donation for $8,000 for negative lunch account balance from an anonymous donor. And u I wanted to keep that separate because I wanted to recognize our gratitude for the generosity of whomever was willing to do that to do it. So, we're just very grateful and to our families. So I would consider a motion to approve that donation second. Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Question. Okay. If it's not used the whole amount, how does it work? Can we roll it over to the next? Is it line item? I can assure you that that will be used. Oh, it will. Okay. The last time I checked our debt was like 8,800. Um but if it we apply
033it um based on um graduating seniors and then free and reduced families and the act um sometimes paying but generally the need is there um and um it's not only going to benefit that are but it also is going to alleviate budget in the general fund that we would maybe have to send families to collection. And so it really benefits um families and the district and program in in a lot of different ways. But yes, it is definitely um we'll definitely be able to use it. No, I was just curious if something like that's not used, how does it roll over the use next year and then if someone wants to make that same donation again, it can go to something you know else. So you're not just [Music] Yeah, we keep it in a
034separate account. Um, so it's um not used for anything else. Awesome. All right. All in favor? All right. Superend. Yeah. So, all the members of the board, um, as always, there's a lot of great things going on. I want to begin with the fact that April is National Volunteer Month and here in Eatenville, I just don't know what we would do without our volunteers. Our students would not nearly be well served. Our our staff are working really, really hard to meet their needs. But by having our volunteers in place, they really do make a difference. And uh I just wanted to just note that we're very, very grateful for all of our volunteers. They're kind of the heartbeat of our community. Um, and then in addition, um, I recently nominated Darren Snezzac, uh, for what
035we call a Washington Association of School Administrators Region 11 Community Leadership Award. And this award recognizes, uh, a community member or group for outstanding contributions to education. Um, I've had the opportunity to know um to know Darren for the last couple years now and just notice that wherever something good is going on, he's there. It seems like he just volunteers his time uh contributes in a very positive way. He was recently on our artificial intelligence committee to talk about how we would responsibly roll out artificial intelligence. Um he is was uh previously on the high uh team that that worked to uh set the standards or how the highcap program is rolled out. He attends forums um activities, events at all times and he's also last year you recall we had an anti-bullying civility uh
036community forum and from that we formed a committee and he's also a member of that. Israeli. And so on May 30th, uh, at 7:30 in the morning, yes, that's early, at the Pierce County Skill Center, um, we'll be honoring him with an award uh, with this award. I do have tonight a certificate with him. I think it would be great if if we um, you know, could get a a picture with him. And I know we're posting them. Maybe we can just we'll do it now later. Yeah, let's do it. [Applause] [Music] that way. It's not I'll try not to fall. [Music] Take a bite. Thank you. also uh in keeping awards uh also nominated also nominated a student for what is called our student leadership award. It honors outstanding student leaders who play a
037significant role in initiatives that develop student leadership qualities with their peers and encourages all students to be successful in their school and in their community. And uh so that award actually worked out to our very own Ruby Skeleton that will be the same time at uh the May 30th uh event. So we'll we'll provide she's able to attend and we'll go ahead and give it to her at that time. So I just wanted to again thank everyone for that. The other thing I want to note is that we have Mayday just right around the corner. So, uh, it's nine days from now, we'll, uh, start at 11:30 with a groundbreaking ceremony. Uh, uh, one of the last big events hopefully in the in the stadium. We'll see. Uh, and that again 11:30. One of the
038highlights for that will be as we uh, do the ceremonial groundbreaking for our upcoming track, the stadium is that we actually have a centinarian. Yes, I think I said that right. centinarian who will be here. Um, her name is Betty Lafa, but her maiden name is Brewer and she graduated from High School in 1943. And if you're interested to track her picture, her photo down, we can find it over in um in South in South Paul. And u she's also going to bring her sister who will be saying a few words at the same time and she's a mere 90 years old. So, we'll have a 100 year old and a 90 year old. Weather permitting. We'll also have our famed U skydiver Rosie Thun. Maybe you heard of Funfield down in Graham. And uh
039she will be uh parachuting into the stadium at approximately 11:30. Um I will note that my daughter is graduating with a master's degree in educational leadership on Thursday evening down in Pro, Utah. And so I will be going down to that on Thursday and I'll be coming back real early on Friday. And so we'll have a secondary program, a secondary plan in the event that something happens with a delayed flight or something. Um but I felt like that was really important to do. So you'll have Yeah, thank you. That's our last anyway. So um so anyway, that that will be kind of the kickoff and then at 1:30 we'll have our coronation. We'll have our assembly like we have and you'll see some great performances and also uh you know the carnation for the king
040and queen and and and for all those kids who are kindergarten on up who will be attending as well. Um and then the the rest of the day will be filled with activities and events all the way into the evening. We're shutting down Michelle Avenue and there'll be all kinds of music entertainment and food and things going on there. So, it promises to be a a great day and um so obviously you're all invited to be a part of groundbreaking ceremony and we'll have ceremonial shuttles and we'll go ahead and and uh and move forward on that project. Um other than that, an awful lot of work right now going on preparation for our testing and and for our uh student academic successes that continues to move forward. I had a chance to do a
041learning walk um about a week ago and rest assured that a lot of great things are happening in in the classroom. the student management, the self-management, the rigor, the student engagement, uh the use of the curricula, uh in this case it was for our our English language arts adoption magnetic the um the students are very engaged and it's a it's a it's a that was a really great move I think to approve that. Um and so that was in two elementary and I've invited you I believe that third which is up at Columbia press first two we got a because we had so many people in that group was just already almost one person so but you'll be there for that um so with that I I appreciate the the support and the hard work
042that you're doing and we'll continue to do so and um I also um um signed on for a letter to for house 2049. Um, which unfortunately if if it were to go through, it's not going to help develop any. We would not get any persistence whatsoever. And we are the last school district in Pierce County to not have what's called regionalization. That's something that comes up every five years. We're still a couple years out, but I'm working closely. Um and other superintendents are also noting and starting to say green bill gets no extra help for regionalization which does not again put our kids on a level playing field and so we'll continue to fight and bill on all those measures that that support and fight those. Thank you. All right. Uh yeah, I just really
043want to thank everybody for going through the uh bond process or the on pardon the stadium or the track and field borrowing process. Pardon me as you can tell like it's very confused in my head. I am I don't like spending money so I super appreciate the learning curve. Um and I was reminded for a long time about back in the day when we the past 11 I sw the phone situation we went through uh years and years of trying to collect the money we could do the phone the phones never got done or something. It was a big issue every time around and this was a commitment we made and although borrowing can be considered hard but as you look at inflation and then you look at the rate at which the interest is
044going down it's could be a wash could be 1% we don't know but it's going to get done and we're going to commit to it and I was probably the last convert on the board that as far as not wanting to spend the money or very nervous about it and I'm very excited and I appreciate it. I also want to do a shout out to Ray Arat who did the track and and field during earlier all by donation and now it's coming to a time to redo it. But I do think it's it it's on this board to recognize what what that was and times come around again and it's back up and a big shout out to him. Um times have changed. It's hard to to get the ability to do all that with
045the modern state laws and everything else. So I just wanted to make sure that was connection. Um I'm excited. So I thank you guys for all your work and working with me and my brain. I think when we come with good solid questions, we all learn more and better. So thank you for challenging your thinking. Uh, thank you everybody again showed up tonight and it's always good to see another faces and there's a you know happens to show and be involved. Um, I just appreciate everybody in the community whether um just being out there having a voice and um asking the hard questions and um the you know support us don't support us um the fact that they're involved means means everything. So, just yeah, great things going on. I love seeing the girls tonight
046and um being able to recognize them and just their hard work. And I did see the up for the record. It it was great to to appreciate all all the amazing things that we're doing and they exemplify it. Okay. Um, couple of things. Um, first of all, speaking of Bailey and the three generations here tonight, and I had the privilege of working with Dan from many years um in basketball and it's just a thrill for me to see, but um I've seen generations. It really is. So, thank you for the um the beginning of that process and those and what um what you taught. Um I also would like to give a shout out with the Davidson. We have worked with Dson for many many years and they've always been so thorough in everything they've
047done so upfront and great and I appreciate them and I didn't get a chance to hold and do want to give a shout out for school districts like ours and then um had the privilege at our last board meeting to be at CCA for their outdoor education. And I I didn't have any misgivings about outdoor ed, but I really didn't have any any way to understand what it was to really figure out if this was really education, you know, more than just playing outside, you know, kind of a thing. And um one of the things that I recognized or saw there um in the school was that the older students um take on the younger students and the things that they've taught them and the things that they collaborated on together and then the community
048involvement that we're beginning to see more and more in what's going on up there and to see um I mean to to see these middle schoolers excited about working with TK kids. I mean, it just blessed my heart and to see um all the the things that are happening now, which is amazing. And um so I I couldn't be more supportive of what I've seen education done. Want to thank all the staff and everybody that it's a lot of work. You know, it seems like it could be easy, but and those kids are out and staff are out there. Don't come to slow down or anything. Exciting to see. I love it. Thank you. Um, I want to start by expressing my great appreciation for our community that has such a passion for students and
049for families. Um, it means something when people are willing to step up and to speak out on behalf of children and I appreciate that. Um, Mayday, our community day is coming up. I think it's going to be a great time for us to gather and to recognize the strengths and to recognize all the amazing things that are going on in the school district. can't speak for all everything that's going on in the state, but in this district, we are keeping students at the focus of everything we do. Howlet so um beautifully highlighted the outdoor education program. Our test scores are going up. Travis is helping us with some innovation around alternative learning opportunities. We're getting a track field and stadium. Uh we have Superintendent Brower has accomplished some amazing things and we are so so
050grateful for everyone who's done that work and want to I think oftentimes it's easy to see the dark clouds and we forget about that beautiful sunshine that's on the other side of those dark clouds and the great things that have happened. So um but I do appreciate our community for the love that they have for our kids. And um one of the things that I'd like to recognize um Pioneer Farm is having a community day particularly for our students. It's free for our community on Saturday. So um from 10 to 5:00 p.m. So I'd like to encourage all families to take their kids up there and participate in that educational opportunity. And then on Mayday, May 2nd, we'll have our community business association is hosting a street fair. We'll have our groundbreaking and community day.
051can ask you can ask for a better more community. Yeah, it's going to be a great day. So, I'm super excited about that. Thank you all for being here for the great work that you've done for making good and hard decisions on behalf of that. [Music]