001new item number three consider changes and additions to the agenda are there any add okay hearing N I would um move to hearings of individuals and groups this is for communication transparency and I see Susan you are signed up and just real quick the protocol um that you'll get three minutes and you will address board directly without comments from the audience as board president if need I will respond unless I recognize another board member to do so this will not be a discussion we will not negotiate in this public forum um we're here to listen to the concerns of the public and gather information um we may or may not act on the things that you bring to the board and the following items are not appropriate for open forms and will not be allowed
002complaints against individual board members complaints against individual employees complaints against individual administrators private data related to a student um as the board president I have prog to terminate remarks of any speaker who does not follow these guidelines if the speaker continues the privilege to address the board will be Reed where should I stand so I everywhere Ruby's I would just ask the board to remember um the state open public meetings law which says that executive sessions have to be announced in advanced I'm not aware that this particular executive session was [Music] so surprised that I know you meing before it was me so I'm just expressing my dismay and concern about the openness and transparency of this and I would like you to anounce Executive sessions before they are held that you have thank you
003thank you for your concern and I'd like to address your concern um the meeting was an exempt meeting and it is by law we have uh for the purposes of negotiations we can have meetings that are called without prior notice for that one purpose and that's for negotiating contracts within employee negotiations with that was the purpose of that meeting and it was exempt and it was lawful and abided by the RCW but I do appreciate how you are always so thoughtful and you participate so fully in our process thank you so much is it possible for you to just simply notify us when you are taking those kind of actions because I don't see any reason why you can't notify the public that you are meeting in a close session to discuss negoti when there's
004appropriate time I we will definitely take that in consideration thank you so much for your input all right continue visit we're going to consider the approval of transportation and Circ up the three buses and you're here to present to us on that more if you have any questions about I answer them we have three buses that are definitely appreciation list one is a 1999 one is a 2004 is 2005 um the two older ones are um we looked for parts they're OBET and they if we find they are going to be outrageously expensive to fix the other one has parts that are off already we we can't find them anywhere to fix them so we're removing them we would like to remove them from our lot so when our new buses come in the end
005of may and or middle of June then we have space to put that anybody have any questions for one I just want know where buses go bus I'm ask quite a few people purchased them as announcing the paper put in the paper as out doing that and then if they do not then um I've got two that are on Surplus for the last three years and they will be going to the scrapyard unless I can find something else to buy them and when do you do I just I guess for my own information when do you do you do this at specific times or we approve it and then within certain so this is my first time having put anything onto the Surplus list so um as far as what I understood is I have
006to get your approval it has to go to Opi and take it off our list and then it goes to um be put in advertisement for the silent auction and I don't think there's a specific date but I'm not positive about that but I don't think it's done it only a certain time get done when you okay great thank you appreciate that thank you all right um I would consider a motion to approve uh the surplus of three buses been moved and seconded any further discussion right all in favor any opposed motion carries consider approval of capital outlay purchase for eate equipment um from connection U so this is the eate purchase that we did hopefully every year uh this is for Network upgrades that we get we pay 30% of what the sticker price
007is is I believe you all got in your packet yes Cassie NDS so I believe so U so my Ma's right in my head it's about 37,000 that we actually would pay um this equipment is for um some battery backups because we had a few power outages throughout the district already this year and we're trying to keep the network alive for as long as we can during those outages because like our phones are we system meaning they use the network so you can't call us if our power's out and we'll try to keep that up as long as we can great right does anybody have any questions for Jim in regards and we see that we have the the comps here and the comparable BS thank you for providing that t that's very helpful we
008have that information um all right I would consider a motion for approval of the capital outl purchase moved in second any further discussion all in favor any opposed motion carries all right consider approval of capital outlay purchase um for our staff yes this is all the admin staff uh for instance Lind device right there uh it is they are getting to be pass their usable lifetime uh so this is to replace those throughout the district and these are purchase not least corre we can get a little bit longer life out of them through do we Surplus the old question we will be going through the Surplus process on those once I get them all back from everyone then you'll see that on one of your agendas after that any further questions for Jim regards to
009St thank you for all the thorough work on thank you very much yeah it's great to have this information and we appreciate you giving that to us um so I would consider a motion for approval of Pur staff computers motion second been moved and seconded all in favor any opposed motion carries all right this is the good stuff we get to have our reports and presentation and we get to have I SP and give us their efic speeches so if you could come up introduce yourself tell us a little bit about um why you were here what you were doing that caused you to kind of come and and present to us and then we'd love to hear my name is Monica Howard I'm the district to reporter andv chapter vice president and uh couple
010weeks ago I competed at subd districts in two contests but I moved G to districts and one as an alternate and that is prepared public speaking where students May pick a topic of their Choice related to agriculture write a six to8 minute speech on it and then present it to a panel of Judges so I am here to give my speech to you guys as a form of practice wonderful thank you again when you're ready all right in 2017 a local Farmer in the county where I live started the process of developing some of his family farm it caused a local outrage during one public comment period hundreds of people left comments that Lely reflected a community that simply didn't want to see warehouses there was no outrage over land loss for food production only
011hurt feelings over what people preferred to look at I think this case really highlights a lot of the issues we're dealing with in our state and across the country when it comes to ethical issues in land production and food security every day Across America we lose thousands of Acres of Farmland most people don't notice what happens to Farmland until inconvenience them often times it gets turned into houses Parks or converted into wildlife habitat is this a bad thing that depends more houses to hold the ever growing population of America right yes more Parks allows people to get outside and touch Grass more wildlife habitat supports the thriving ecosystems in our communities however when the land being used to produce food is taken out of production we lose food security farmland and ultimate Farmers unfortunately Farm
012line has been disappearing at an ever increasing rate with some of the latest numbers for our state being an average of two Farms per day since 2017 by 2022 acreage taken out of food production over a 5year period amounted to over 100,000 acres while our agriculturists have been farming with unprecedented efficiency there will come a point when we can't keep up has long been a debate regarding the development of farmland for a growing economy we need a growing population for a growing population we need houses schools infrastructure and the list goes on however we also need food fuel clothing and the rest of the Myriad of agricultural products that every civilization has needed food security should be a priority for the expanding population of America we currently import approximately 15% of food supply as Farmland
013decreases this number is likely to grow some developers purchase and subsequently build on farmland farmland often has the added benefit of being relatively flat accessible and with an easy reaching distance of the local electrical grid and water supply however one of the most disturbing reasons that Farmland is disappearing in our state is because Farmers can't afford to continue farming State policies including the loss of overtime exemption and fuel tax exemption prioritizing apex predators over ranchers one of the highest minimum wages in the nation and legislators that liken Farmers to slave owners have made this state so expensive and unfriendly to Farmers that they are throwing in the proverbial tow policies and Protocols are making farming nearly impossible to draw profit from if we rewind a little and look at the list of comments look at
014the list of public comments regarding a farmer's decision on how to step away from the dumpster fire that our local agricultural scene is quickly becoming we find a community that Prides itself on its agricultural Roots but doesn't necessarily vote that way either with their ballots or their dollars it's not surprising though when we consider that the average American is at least three to four generations removed from the family farm and therefore doesn't understand that how they vote has an effect on how they will or will not eat so really we lose Farmland because we lose Farmers farmers are getting out of farming or going bankrupt if a farmer retires and there is no one left to farm that land what do we do the Next Generation can see the riding on the wall farming is
015becoming less and less profitable so the appeal is being lost there are some solutions available aside from the obvious and already used solution of more efficient farming far land conservation is becoming more widely practiced farmers can place their land in conservation e protecting the land from being developed if it is ever sold while this is not available in all scenarios and comes with its own complications it is nonetheless working for many people in our industry in some programs transfer of development rights allows developers to purchase the rights from Farmers and exchange them for credits to build taller apartment buildings vertical housing along with vertical farming are also both solutions that come with their own sets of pros and cons however in every scenario there are Skeptics that criticize these Solutions as infringing on people's rights
016particularly When people's property rights are on the chopping block while some citizens may not like seeing a field turned into houses or commercial buildings there are many who would argue that only a property owner should be able to to decide how to develop their land or not a growth management act seeks to control the growth of certain areas within a city's boundaries which can be an excellent tool for preserving rural lands but can also limit one's ability to develop their land as they see fit there's a famous saying a farmer's last crop is often houses close quote that farmer that wants to develop his land into warehouses wants to be able to afford retirement is it ethical to tell him that he can't alternatively when we have already lost so much land to warehouses is
017it ethical to allow these buildings to infringe on our nation's food security the famous chef Jose Andre said quote food is National Security food is an economy it is employment energy history food is everything close quote regardless of what are individual views on property rights land use conservation and politics are we all need to eat if farming is profitable I say lucrative Farms will not keep disappearing at this alarming rate we need policies and protocols to keep Farmers on farms and families fed thank you there's a few bills that probably need to have you testifying on it that was really compelling thank you very much thank you um my name is Leah Briggs and I competed in Creed speaking at subd districts weeks ago I think yeah and so it's a different competition so it's
018it's It Was Written in like 1920 and um uh so yeah I believe in the future of Agriculture with a faith born not of words but of Deeds achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists in the promise of better days through better ways even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years I believe that to live and work on a good Farm or to be engaged in other agricultural Pursuits is pleasant as well as challenging for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an important fondness for those associations which even in hours of discouragement I cannot deny I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly
019with such knowledge and skill as I can secure and the ability of public in the ability of progressive agriculturist to serve the public in to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining and the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so for others as well as myself and less need for charity and more of it when needed and being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and then I can exert an influence in my home and community that will stand solid for my part in this inspirational task thanks
020anybody else have anything they want to share thank you incredible incredibly welcome oh we would love to have pictures mind a picture with all of us quick what do you think yeah that sounds good [Music] there we go that's perect they've already poct perfect thank you hope you don't mind us Dash I mean just crazy I mean yeah that was outstanding I love that I love that the students bring forward issues that we can really relate to our community and questions for I know itations that's great okay so thank you to those students and so grateful that we have the empath program back super exciting all right now we get to go on to our warehouser elementary school presentation we're super excited about that thank you for hosting us welcoming us here this turn the
021time over to you Jim's going to put the presentation up on the screen thank you J for helping me with that um there are some handouts that Shar tonight and slideshow is the first part of it you don't so we'll be talking about um I'll be talking about academic success that goes along with our strategic plan as well as our school sit plan um in reading and map and then weend as well and some ex to increase our attendance percentage here at school and then we'll take a tour of the school and I'll show you some of the that teachers have put out in the hallways for you to to to look at um and I when I when we got to that point of the of the presentation what I did is I asked
022teachers to please you know if you want to please share a project or an assignment or something that you working on a class that's not extra I wanted it to be part of what they're already doing their normal day I wanted it to be something that is a standard that is covered at their grade level and and they came forward with with projects that you'll be able to see throughout the school so it was it's not an extra it's part of a regular school day and and regular school and grade level standards so scr thank pet is B the first thing that we'll talk about when the um show the SL shows up there is um at we are SI goal around acemic success in in ela and so we'll talk about what our goals
023are and we'll look at some data from the last couple of years looking at SBA data for grades three through five and then we'll look at um Ira data for um grades C through to although I already data does go with but grade as you know um I just included it for the K2 um because we were looking at SBA scores for so um in third third through fifth grades um we in 20 the 22 23 school year we had 40% of our third through fifth graders meet standard on the S last year we were we increased that to 50% 50.3% met standard and that matched the state average and that's in ela so we were right at the same level as as students across the state I included a little bit of information about
024students with disabilities who were at less than 15% meeting standard and that is an area that um where Houser has um we've been identified as a priority School and that's the area that we're working on that's what it's called right priority school okay so um that's an area that we are working on to improve um because we were labeled at the state as being a school that needs to focus in on that so that's one of our academic goals is to increase that percentage of students with disabilities um meaning standard on the SBA and then our goal for this year so we we went from 40% to 50% and we're looking at 60% this year crust that we can do that that's an Ela in that um in the 22 23 school year we were
025at 52.7% meaning standard and last year we were at 51.3% meaning standard the state average was 39.7% so we exceeded the state average by quite a quite quite a bit quite a few percentage points and then our students with disabilities in math again was at l 3% so that's and then our goal again we're going to go for that 60% um we can get that so we'll see we'll see by August um I already Ed that warehouser is a support and you'll see the handouts in the paperclip packet that Cathy handed out and this is what this is showing is one is showing October one is showing January and it shows by grade level use of irate which has been a a big implementation at all of our schools in the district as you know
026and it has um been such a great um intervention I might say in helping kids helping meet kids where they are and getting them to where we want them to be and what this shows is how many minutes students are spending um per week so it's the average for for a week average weekly Lessing time on task and we want them to be in the green area we're trying to hit to 45 minutes per week per subor so that's that's what this is showing so one is showing our October usage because we I put this together right after we did the first Diagnostic and then the January one was Ted right after the the second diagnostic so that's that's what that D is showing I can leave that with you want so I guess oh
027yeah one thing I'm just wondering yeah um I see that kindergarten um it reduced in the I ready is there a reasoning behind that is there was there a thought process I think at the beginning of the year when they were um at the beginning of the year using time to get to know students and having them doing lots of different kinds of Assessments I think the students were able to get on of their computers and try the I ready and get used to the I ready and so it was a lot there was a lot more usage at the beginning and then as they got more more into curriculum and their routines I think less time less screen time great okay thank you I appreciate that still meeting that blue per which which is
028good but you know we really are heading towards that that's okay um and then our academic success at um kindergarten through second grade so this is um the first already already uh from the fall 2024 it's only first and second grades because um we had a window open for kindergarten to take the assessment a little or the first diagnostic a little bit later than the rest of the kids did just to get them into school year but the kind went ahead and gave the assessment the diagnostic sorry the diagnostic before that window opened so I I can't see the data um the teachers can see the data on there and if I went in teacher by teacher I think I could see it but at the a kindergarten was not included percentage just so you
029know that so 31% of first and second graders were at grade level on the fall Diagnostic and then we took the IRA winter Diagnostic and 51% were at grade level so that was a great job for us and that did include kindergart on the on the the win and then our goal for the um end of the year is to be at 60% level and then now 16% of first and second graders were at grade level in the fall and in the winter we had 41% at gr level and that was paid the second and you're using I already now I ready yes I and all right and then our third CLE is around attendance which is the ni SL J thankk you and um we are looking for that goal of soon as attending
03090% or more school days so not two days per month works out to be in 2324 the state average shows us at 72.7% and this students disabilities I included this piece of information was at 65.3% last last year we were at 73.5% um and students disabilities the warehouse AR so we were above the state average in in both areas and then for this year we're going for 80% of our students to be school time and you can see there we draing it um each year by month and this year so far right 9.77% so we're exceeding um some of our strategies that we're using are um we send home a quarterly u a quarterly postcard and if the we put the average number or the percentage of attendants at school on the line and we
031tell parents if your student is at 90% or higher sign the card the kids return it and they get a roar ticket and ticket um stands for respect on task attitude responsibility and they get to put this in for a drawing here at the school so that's one of our strategies we also have um these tenants that this is C made and she is the the secretary in the office and she made these if the class has 100% attendance on a DAT they get to hang this on their on their door for the day and then it comes back to the office and daily the teachers just let the U Mrs K know or Mrs Carrie know that they're been back we've been also doing if a student reaches every time every month we hand
032out these certificates and to the students in every class who are 90% this month we have an added challenge we're calling it March attendance spingo and um they're keeping track of this vingo card and um this is the v card and then they're keeping track of the information on here because some of them are things like um um the class has no charies for seven days in a month so they Mark the seven days on this this is just to keep track of the data when they get seven days then they get to mark that up on the B card I can tap some of these around with you um so those are just like the little strategies using here at the school uh to keep to keep attendance in our fa and we'll I'll
033show you the bullet and work for the school that we down the cafeteria so that the students can see it as they're ring for lunch they can see which great band is% we had a couple of that was okay can I just add also in every communication with her parents she also is putting in into you know the academic and the and the attend the school so there something that is seen every time and that's been to think something that I'm hearing people say oh you would have to try hard not to know what yeah that was I wanted to make that a front set you know just improving that communication too okay we are at two or time and um so we're going about this over here and we'll start with first grade this
034is the list of the grade levels that we'll be looking at and there's more on the back grade levels and programs we look at and then this is describing the standards and um how the project some some of the teachers included how much time it took so you'll see first grade and third grade on the front so first grade was writing um inform writing third grade was math working on area fourth grade is the back of the first page and that's four grade so far what they've done and this was the actual um page the directions for the student they had to create a poster that explained and showed one of the concepts and these are the concepts that they were working on and then I will examine other posters and explain to a partner
035what I understand about that poster so then they include a rubric which is on the next page to show how the projects were scored and this came from and then um on the back of that page is the fifth grade and we'll all play more as we walk around but um the fifth grade one they gave me an actual copy of the assignment from the magnetic reading book so you could see it's called Ready writing so you could see um what the assignment looks like in the book for the students and then the next page show the anchor text that they use and Mrs hats and Mrs Johnson were explaining to me that the um the the actual assignment was supposed to be comparing two anchor Texs to each other and then writing about it
036in the training that we had with one of the magnetic um train they explained to the fifth grade teachers that you can take that and break that down because students needed to know how to do the informative writing first and then they can bring in the the anchor the two anchor texts and have them do the the compar comparing tring in at a better topic so this was just breaking that down a little bit but that trainer helped the great teachers see how they could break that down you most time with that down and then get to that so that's what they they're SC okay so we can move around a little bit yeah it's too bring your coat I don't know oh yeah we won't be having any other e e e the great
037work on the walls is indicative in the great growth that we're seeing and I that so important thank you for sharing both with us we really appreciate it and continuing to work work towards those locky goals we really appreciate it all right um we are going did anybody else have anything they wanted to say before include it in your board comment I suppose we move on to superintendent comments well um as you can see I think our um strategic plan pillar of academic success is working um and each of the schools are going to and I think L your model as far as you know working really hard to make sure our students are here so that they can be academically successful and uh and we're seeing that we're seeing things like the more time
038that they're practicing the better they're doing which only makes sense and so we appreciate the way that she are monitoring that and uh and building on that and continuing to improve and go back to the drawing board and think of another way so uh please pass it on your St so one of the things I wanted to talk about was uh the fact that our our students and our staff members continue to be on the front of Publications so on the RAR light U magazine we see Mr Danielson and his team and the fact that they are taking kids of all ability levels and including them in activities that in that sometimes does not happen but it does even them and so we featured our only friend AR here and I just wanted to highlight
039that fact that we're showing that more and more um the second thing is that speaking of showing up so there's the American Heart Association we work pretty well with them and uh we just today if you look on social media you'll see that we became the first school district in Washington state ever that as far as I know at least they know to have every school participate in the kids heart challenge or the America's heart challenge depending on the level so you might say well what is that like this is a pretty big deal to be the only School 295 school districts or never what to get this done as well as so it includes uh instruction about heart healths heart healthy heart just the basics also about lifestyle healthy habits uh learning physical activity
040and the enjoyment of that and obviously you guys are doing very well on that um avoiding tobacco and vaping uh and then this part I really like a lot is the kids learn hands only CPR um the statistics as far as as who is lucky when you have a heart attack as as whoever is close to somebody body who knows how to do and on CPR and now we have all of our all of our students in the school district who are getting hands only um CPR training which is just phenomenal that's great it's just amazing um and then also obiously teamwork helping others um there is an optional for fundraising um that's an option for the students but these others are part of that of the heart health challenge but for those who do
041participate in fundraising we also you'll see another post today that we a to uh raise $6,000 we actually have in our community those who are heart survivors heart transplant and so um those kids that want to participate in the in the fundraising we do so and so in nille school district um over the years we've reached over $100,000 that we've been able to give to um research on how to how to improve um heart health or or or work toward getting you know um work on because you know like doctors and things to to uh and patients working together to you know work on their heart so that's really what we saying a lot but I think you GA kind um so yeah so that's that's a that's another uh thing that that we just
042got word for I think last but not least um one of the things that we're trying to really hard is to work toward the progress of projects that were not be funded and um so one of the promises that we made we made a lot of promises and so you start to see some of those unfolds you'll see uh for our Capital Levy things like our device rotation and and more to follow but we we've been meeing to to create the sixe to make sure that that we are promises made promises kep School District that we're following through on all those promises to our voters and it's being noticed and and and we hear about it um projects like trying to make sure that we comply with a clean buildings act um uh meet certain
043energy standards uh again you know we recently got million dollar Grant we put in 500,000 we got a million back I think we reported on that and so that makes our dollar stretch further in other ways um but it also helps us avoid penalties for non-compliance um and then as you know we promised a a a new track in a field so we've been working really hard on making that happen and so we're still on Taps uh we'll be announcing uh a ribbon cutting ceremony for the groundbreaking and then we'll also do a dedication when we're finished and so we'll be sending out those invitations to the community and uh we've got a few special guests that are going to be coming um or so we're looking um so just wanted to just report that
044the other thing that we're getting is more and more districts reaching out to us to ask how we're doing it how we're making our budget dollars work how we're getting our projects through how are we getting our levies passed um how are we M the nalon academics and uh so I'm really proud of the work done by our you know 280 plus employees uh all the way from from from our you know those who are directly in the classroom to those who were indirectly making it all happen make sure that our students are taking care of um and of course we really proud of our nearly night of our nearly 1900 students along way so I just wanted to say that the leadership that you provide as a board is paying off your being there
045your being part of things um makes a difference and we appreciate it last but not least this is classifi appreciation week and so we're going around and um Mak so we're um letting our letting our class staff know that they're the backbone of our community they're doing more than what they could ever be recognized for but at least they're getting some appreciation for that and so uh by the end of the week hopefully I will be able to uh be with you to hand out um all of our certificates to to our classified staff we really Ser toate thank you thank you so much all right Travis you want to start uh yeah Qui thank you ly for tonight school's wonderful it's great appreciate to her and she always so happy here so appreciate uh
046just want to say thank you to EA for having soccer back in count unusual kind of deep my daughter though and I know may not be every parents cup of tea but there wasn't enough young lady teams overall so they had to fold the older girls in some of the younger girls got mentors on the field though so it's really really cool actually because there's two middle school girls that are helping with my daughter's 10-year-old team and they kind of mix together and all the teams have two or three Middle School girls on them as well to play and so it's more of a coaching slash mentoring and it's just really really cool in a small town like I I was Flor it was neat so um and on that vein um for crack this
047year they guys if they reach out the Jay there's anything they need as if we break ground whilea there season is still going let us know so we help brainstorm best way to support those guys and yeah so that's it thank you thank you for sharing that yeah it was really it's really cool I like I said a lot of very competitive people that won't be their cup of tea but a lot of our kids like my daughter's age for the I hate to always bring up the evil seword of Co but they're the kids that missed a lot of seasons of playing or being involved in different activities because of that so to have that uh number of girls all together um from middle school on down and then for mixed from different schools
048like my daughter's name was very much from three all three different Elementary so they getting to know each other it's just really I I I think it's great because in the end We're All Creatures yeah it's just it's it's just a really neat coming back after all those things and we have a host of kids in the Middle School good problem to have so many kids turning out for sports they don't know what to do right now the space everything else I'm just needing have kids starving for things to do so that's awesome and parents supporting thank you so much okay I just want to um yeah say thank you and thank you for um yeah just constantly setting the bar High and um you know your staff is seems to be it and the
049kids that like like Rhonda said the proofs on the wall and um so that's awesome yeah shout out to classified staff um they they are amazing they are the backbone and they do way way way more than they get CR for yeah just shout out there um yeah you know I I am just really happy again just having um the uh stats to be able to look at to show the growth in the kids and uh that we have a you know a trajectory to work our way up to and um I look forward to seeing it um here on out continue to grow continue to go up thank you so much what um I EO what what you had said and um thank you and for presenting um and for your staff presenting the
050way they did and the Hol I really appreciated that and able to see and um I appreciated that even if there were some errors they were there and I think that's great because I think it's important that that uh kids get to present their work and so um I really do appreciate that very much and I appreciated the two girls that gave the speeches tonight they are excellent and um I too I'm happy to see the other fath program thate thank you it's my favorite school [Laughter] so this schol my kids went here so um I just I really appreciated the FFA that was something that I don't even know why that ever left a small little town like ours like that's I can tell you why lost the teacher sad wasn't another teer if
051you don't have the certification you can't do it and the downside of being a small community yeah but that was that was amazing I learned a lot I want to talk to those kids again because that that really did bring a lot and I just loved going through the tour seeing everything on the walls makes it nice and easy it's nice and calm and I get to greet things so yeah yeah thanks awesome thank you um again can't say enough good about our kids so the FFA women were outstanding great representatives of our community I'm very grateful for that so excited about uisa um had an interaction with them today at the eaten bille Business Association because they actively want to participate and he helpful and be partners in our community and our schools so
052I'm super excited about their leadership and the energy that they're bringing forward they really are kid first mindset I love that and it's a good reminder for all of us as a community to keep that same vision um Jay and Zi presented at the eille Business Association today on behalf of the school they talked about our growth goals and the things that we're achieving academically um they talked about our uh community work that we're doing on our Stadium Etc and they did a wonderful job and I the reason I know they did a wonderful job is after they scooted out and we had kind of our social half an hour I had multiple community members come up and say I am so excited about the great things that are going on in this community they
053T you know we had people talking about Mayday and about our career fair at the school and you know the stadium and the field and the academic success and all of those things all of those business people felt that it was their community and their win even though they're they're business individuals they were celebrating with the schools and there were such a positive energy so it really I left that meeting feeling really good and everybody did so thank you thank you for the work that you're doing thank you for um being great representatives for our community and um I did have the opportunity to present in front of the um the board for Department of Natural Resources uh advocating for small world communities in Timber sales and Timber excise um we are not the only
054School in this position there are many and so we'll continue to Advocate and work together and tell our stories um I think this is a learning time I think that our new commissioner is new and he just needs to learn about the importance of these funds to our community and I'm grateful that we've had the opportunity to share our story with them excited about the work that our community is doing on Mayday and looking forward to uh going back to our historical roots of it being true community school and Community Day and uh there 's great things to come on that and we're grateful for everyone that H is giving their time and our classified staff is outstanding and Karen I love the way you Advocate you've been and continue she still volunteers her time
055in that capacity and I'm so um grateful to our classified staff I'm grateful for this board and for the unique talents and strengths that you each bring I'm so proud to um to be a part of the work that you're doing so with that um I think we can call this meeting to an end at 812 thank