001J US flag United States of America the stands naice all right this is an executive session um in reference to RCW 42310 performance of public official or employee um we will be heading into executive session there will no action taken after this session and it will go until 7 o'clock our next meeting begins at 7 so we're going to adjourn to ex session e e e how are you good all right we are bringing to close our executive s session at 6:5 and we will reconvene at in two minutes for our meeting at SU wa to have e all right we're gonna bring this meeting to order at 7 o'clock and if we could please St to the of the United States of America stands naice so we thank you all for being here we're
002really excited because we can start this this meeting out with recognition of some outstanding community members and for the work that they've done uh super Brower would you like to introduce um why these two have been nominated for these the special recognition yeah you know it's uh rare when you have when you're hitting on all cylinders and um one of the things that um has been a concern is how do we help students who may come to us at various stages of development mat charity academic prepar preparation and such and how do we help them to become um to move along just as other students move forward academically and then what about those who may move into the district or maybe over time something happens in their life and maybe they're just not keeping up
003with all of the um the academic requirements and such so last year um we had beev and mayor who came forward and they had um some money that had been given to help scholarship students and when we heard the word scholarship we sometimes you think well let students who are going straight to University of Washington or somewhere in that way but the idea was they were very willing to here and to collaborate and with ideas on how could we scholarships students who uh right here in the Eatonville School District uh and create a Perpetual fund wherein we had $2.3 million that would then if we were able to just on the interest of that money we could we could utilize that money each year to help those students to to keep up to catch up
004and to progress and so um through the full year we come up with some different ideas and eventually came out to be just a beautiful uh model of uh it's by school school before school after school during school at each level and um because of that then we have been able to put in place uh a tuning program which now is um if you read the latest dispatch um addition um then you'll see an article that talks about high school exceeds nth grade academic success goal and I'll go into that more when I superintend Communications but there's a little piece about a special things called Lisa Wolf who played a vital role in supporting struggling students through the lunchtime tutoring program for ninth and 10th grade students and so that's how that money is being
005utilized at the high school and each each school is utilizing a little bit but what we've been able to do now is we've been able to create a Perpetual fund that allows for tutoring based on the need of each and every school and for that and their for leadership and their generosity and for working with us to try to create the the very best scenario possible for all our students then um we would like to recognize and I'll let Schoolboard president go from here um could we have B and David could you come forward one little detail let's walk around that way with gratitude and honor and um appreciation for your Innovation and your willing to think outside the box and to decide what's best for students we um offer you this certificate of recognition
006that really doesn't adequately show our appreciation but hopefully you know that we recognize all that you do and we're so grateful to to you dat because of all that you've done over the years and everything that you've done to help with with helping students get Advanced and get to a place where they want to be can be and we know that that will go further and so thank you so much together want to come this turn into a big picture you look great just don't blink I got lots all right thank you all right always great to start a meeting with that kind of recognition so thank you and our community I just want to recognize that our community as a whole is so supportive and so great all right student representative comments so our
007wrestling team went to State and we had 11 wrestlers compete and two of our wrestlers play six c d Roa and Jameson beckard which is great for them and then I just want to say a thank you I know this is really personal for the basketball parents because they went out and decorated all of our cars for our state tournament which was really cool so just little shout out to them um we have conferences on March 7th for the spring conferences um seniors just finished off their senior papers and I have to say the senior teachers this year I have they I appreciate them starting that now because when we do our senior presentations and things get super busy at the end of the year them doing that as a first semester project took a
008lot off of us which was amazing because now we start cbas senior presentations graduation scholarships so that was a great planning thing on their part in my opinion um spring Sports start on Monday and another senior thing we got to hear the perspective of Kyle litzenberger as he came and gave his um experiences while he was living in Ukraine and that really went along with our Ukraine and Russia unit and it was just a great experience to be able to see firsthand what people were doing as we're learning about it so that was a great break from the notes for us all right and then pure students just finished um midterms which was super super fun and they're about two or three weeks out from the end of winter term and then spring term starts
009late April I'm pretty sure and then um I have some papers actually to pass out really EAS um well the anti-bullying and civility committee I'm actually partner with msna created the kindness gang which is super cool and it's um student leaders who are impacting EMS and trying to sh kindness and highlight kindness rather than recommend bullying and this survey just shows um goes down by students at EMS and it just shows the statistics and the rates of bullying and what was around that and it shows um they found that actually 45.2% of bling and intimidation alwaysall with the circle um so they're creating like School monitors instead of you know Administration monitoring the hallways they're actually having students do it their learning time to make sure and monitor hallways and I'm pretty sure sneak is
010also partnering with them to make some T-shirts let say like student leader ASB and instead of reprimanding bullying um they're actually going to try to highlight kindness instead so they're making kindness tickets so every time they see someone doing you know a kind action or something like that they're going to hand out a ticket and hopefully those tickets will then be accumulated and it's going to be turned into a raffle um just to highlight kindness around the school and then at the end of the year they're actually going to keep all of those tickets and at the end of the year at the end of assembly they're going to ask all the students who have ever received the kind of sign to come down onto the floor and their hope is that there's going to
011be more students on the floor than in the leachers and that'll just show how much they did the year so that's also really IDE and thank you for sharing that out youing the value of student representation a great examples thank you so much all right I would consider any changes or addictions to the agenda hearing none um I would consider motion to approve the consent agenda motion moved in seconded any discussion all in favor hearings of individuals and groups Bon can you check and see I just gra it okay thank you all right moving right along reports and presentations um super excited to have player here today with d Davidson if you have ever wanted to learn this is a great man to learn about school Finance he's got all the answers for every question
012would ever have and then he'll create questions you didn't know you needed to ask so thank you for being here she's setting you up gra these and familiar faces I apologize that we're in a crowd that doesn't want to hear about taxes tonight but that's my superpower about taxes I have a couple goals tonight I'm not sure if you'll be able to bring the presentation Onre I'm just gonna relay on my it the topic what I'd love to do is talk a little bit about your EPO Levy your Capital Levy that we just recently passed by voters talk a little about your bond and do a recap of tax rates for 2025 now that I have your your attention and so we're going to dig in a little bit and then just share um some
013updates and then we're going to dig into something that some schools are doing when they do pass a capital projects lbby to combat construction inflation whe they consider if they want to borrow against the capital Levy to start the projects earlier we're going to talk about the pros and cons of that as well so perfect so please let me know if you have any questions and thank you for being the DJ you move into slide two um this slide is just really to make sure that everybody in the room uh is all up to speed on what we're going to be talking about these three different type of school measures that are available to us and the first one is the education program and operational ly these are flexible revenues and I do air quotes
014are un flexible because we know we're still using local support to backhill basic education we don't get all the funding that we need for school nurses for special education for our bus routes for school lunches for electricity for insurance so I could go on and on here for class size reduction uh what that revenue is supposed to be is just basically straight up for Arts drama music sports extra things enrichment for our students but we're still using a lot of that to take care of basic get so it is the intent is there but we're not quite there yet from the state I know every year our legislators work really hard at trying to get it better I know a lot of you testify in a lot of those bills as well um you were
015sub subject to laws that will maximize what you can ask for and I think you're really close to that maximum right now if not at that maximum um you can do a four-year Levy and that's what you've done there's a balance people ask should we do a four-year Levy should we do a two-year Levy most of your peers are doing force and with a four year of stability and the voters say yes you know what you're going to have for four years and you don't have to get tax fatigue by asking them to pass measures over and over the nice thing about levies they're simple majority that doesn't mean they're easy and your current Levy is approved through 2028 isn't that nice you have to worry about levies for four more years time will fly
016though uh you most recently started passing capital projects levies in your community so a lot of our larger school districts EA about Seattle or Lake Washington or is all have these Capital levies so many schools are trying to follow suit and have a dedicated Nest Egg for fixing roofs hbac technology uh safety security and you guys have had now your second round of a capital projects Levy so congrats on that those are up to six years yours is six years and yours is approved through 2030 now bonds are for buildings so while Capitol Levy can help buildings they're not really for building buildings unless you're really big like Seattle they could do a capital Levy to build elementary schools but the school bonds are for new construction Renovations your last Bond was in 2006 and
017it was for 30 years so you still got about another 10 years on that one before it's paid off so if you're trying to think down the road um some schools do a new Bond before the other one paid off and it's a new tax some schools wait for the bond to pay off before they ask for the next one so if you're in that model think about about 2034 2035 is when you're going to have all those taxes mature bound Bonds are there 60% super majority for now so we're not going to dig too much into bonds we also keep an eye on your Bonds in case there's any refunding opportunities I think the last time I was here in front of the board was during a refunding uh before the pandemic so how
018have you done lately on your EPO levies in green your Capital levies in tan and your Bonds in Gray you'll notice levies and asking for people to approve taxes is kind of like a roller coaster and it goes up and down there's good years and bad years I would say in 2024 you get some really good years 57.3% 58% if you look around you there schools that have a really hard time getting simple Ma story and you might see some of the headlines to the I won't name those schools right now but just be grateful to get 50% let alone 58% I like to think you had really good timing you ran your 2020 Levy a month before the pandemic and then your 24 W about four years after the pandemic so really good job
019not running one in the middle of the pandemic um good timing there luck sometimes on our side you'll see a little bit of red there um bonds are tough it's tough you never know how people relate to a project or relate to new taxes or um have a personal idea about what they think you should do so while a lot of people can agree on levies for teachers and kids and sports and capital for technology bonds you really need everybody on the same page and you can see sometimes those are hard to get uh support for but sometimes like in 2006 everybody agrees so it really depends on those projects but you are are really firing out all cylinders this shows how much community support you have right now and that's something to really embrace
020so who are those people who are the taxpayers this is a chart that shows all of your uh homeowners put together all of your restaurants all your grocery stores all your business owners your uh car shops and what you'll notice is I I made a mistake here you can see the numbers were just right around a billion in 2013 2014 but because you've grown so fast those numbers didn't quite fit on the chart you've tripled in three years and I know a lot of you in this room maybe feel that that your assess valuations used to be a lot under real estate values you would never say what is assess for in the C is what I'd sell it for it was always like well ass sets for this much but I wouldn't sell it
021for that the counties kind of across the state post pandemic have really done a big shift to get your home values close to Market values you might have felt that so that's a big change also the lack of housing uh the people moving into the area the new constructions all also been a big aspect of your growth in the last few years you've had 100 million in new construction in the last three years alone so think about how many new homes that is and how much new business that is but you grew 26% in between 22 and 23 things have settled down since then so maybe people might not be noticing the huge spikes anymore I think across the state we're seeing assessors kind of take a step back and think maybe we might have
022overdid a little bit and we need to slow down now but your tax out at 3 billion it's a huge number so that's who pays the bill what is the bill and this is a copy in green of your education levies over the years you might wonder what that red is that red it says with roll back anytime you are asking for a levy and is above the state Levy lid loss you're kind of hamstrung to have either $2.50 of your tax space or a certain amount per pupil and if you're ever asking for more than that the county assessor is going to regulate that and put it back to the amount so you'll notice over the last few years the voters were more than supportive please we vote Yes on this and the state
023said that's above your limits and there's a lot of schools in the same boat as you where the voters are actually more generous than state law and actually approving things that you legally can't collect them so in your most recent Levy you made that adjustment and you said maybe we shouldn't ask for more than we're legally allowed to collect it doesn't make sense to ask for more than just roll it back so you can see now you're kind of more along the the trend line of where your Levy lid is so ask a question yes so if the growth continues and we are now at our current you know we are just equal with our current status that means the rate's going to go down for our community as our growth continues over the next
024four years correct you think about now your Lev approved you see how was just slightly more each year that meant to grow with new construction and just a slight increase for inflation and that's kind of been your model for years anytime your property values grow faster that doesn't mean the board has the magic power to increase taxes the voters have approved an amount it is locked in through 2028 that Capital Lev is locked in through 2030 your bonds locked in through 2035 there are other Municipal entities that do get a take a rate and without a vote of the people so do you think well my taxes are going up it's got to be something to school districts doing for the most part that's other Municipal entities that is a rate based and it grows
025with your community it would be really nice if we could be that way um but any long story short I'll show you your tax rates coming up and you'll see they've been kind of plummeting over the last decade but you have three more years left you're in the current year 25 we talked about being at your Levy lid and it's hard to estimate into the future right you had to look into the future for five years you are going to be about 49,00 ,000 shy your Levy lit that's pretty good so we say you left a little bit of money on the table but you got this close you're off by less than half a percentage point away from that amount and it also Grows by inflation each year so that number can just adjust
026just a little bit how much are um with inflation how much is it per student that we're getting right now I want to say 3200 per student rough I was thinking it was 3193 it started at 2500 in that little low in 2019 and it grows with inflation somebody might ask what happened there that's when the state fully funded education and added a state tax and then limited your local tax and the goal was we're going to tax everybody in the state and we're going to give you at least what you lose locally you lost almost $3 million and you probably didn't get $3 million money from the state it was not a win for us so there's chall so we we had to do some work to get back to where we were before
027the McClary lawsuit so it's a lot of information but hopefully it's just something that's interesting nothing here is something that's actionable that you need to go do it's just I think just interesting facts to share with the groups but you mentioned uh tax rates and it the community grows faster than our conservative projections when we go to the ballot what happens take a look at 2013 in green is your education L you was 3.95 in 10 your bond was a186 the tax rates for 581 yes a home was different value there but now look at today it's 324 so it's gone down by $250 and that hopefully is offset by the increase to people's property value so the goal here is people might still be paying more but if you would have left that rate
028at 581 all the way through here and their home home value doubled they'd be paying twice to you and that's not the case your Lev's only gone up slightly each year and then you were able to pass a brand new capital Levy Capital Tech Levy in 2019 and it's been just kind of cruising along and in 2025 you able to get an adjustment to do some more projects but right now $324 I would hate to talk about taxes and not talk about the state tax because there'll be a lot of naysayers like you're missing something well we don't have control over this the board can't do anything that first slide that it showed you before this that was the board approved resolutions that go to the voter for the ballot and they yes they don't
029get a vote Yes on state school sex that's something your legislators do and in Gray is the state school sex that's been there as before I was born and that's how we fund basic Ed so we collect all this money from everybody in the state it goes to Olympia gets put in the blender and it's going to get sent out based on how many kids you have serving lunch how many kids are in each class and how many routes you travel learning assistance program how many English language Learners you have Etc that's always been there the brand new one is the tax they passed in 2018 do you notice how the new tax in 18 started the year before your tax were dropped in 2019 the state didn't do the full swap have you ever
030seen Indiana Jones and there's like the thing and they're trying to get the sandbag on top so that the stone doesn't roll anyway they did that but they made a mistake piled all the taxes up a year early so everybody in the state felt a tax rate increase that's when we started failing levies when people were told you're fully funded and you're taxes went up if they would have smooth that out and had the taxes start in 2019 could have been a game changer for all those schools that struggled the past levies but now we have five lines on your tax statement so if you open up your property tax statement you're going to see Levy education Levy technology Capital Levy school bond State schools one state schools 2 so it's a little overwhelming that
031half the taxes on your statement are going to school but it is also the Paramount Duty listed in our constitution as well so today people in your community pay $563 total package for education in your community and it peaked at 844 in 2013 it's a lot of information State schools taxes are custom to each County so if there's somebody in thirston County at the other end of your property then they might have a different rate but I think most folks are imper so I use that as the example the interesting thing about the state schools tax to the I'll share is most schools get more back from the tax than they pay they might not get more back what that they used to have supported by the voters but they get back more than they
032pay unless you're Seattle Lake Washington Mercer Island Bel their homes are 1.8 million 2 million and they're paying a t tax rate that's going to Li so those schools are kind of helping all the other schools you might be breaking even you might be getting a little bit more but the big big schools in uh King County are paying the state school tax and not getting back what they put in this slide is I call the Community Trust slide how have you done in your estimates and what you've put on the ballot and then what actually has happened in green is what you put to the voters please vote Yes this is the amount that you're voting on but we estimate the rate to be this the rate isn't locked in until the county has
033all the property values added up but you'll notice for the last decade you've outperformed every year so you've been conservative in your forecasts and you've told voters this is what it's going to be and you've outperformed that so maybe one of the reasons you got 58% in your yes vote as well is because you're not telling them a Rosy story vote Yes and then the tax rate comes in higher than you promis this year you're uh under by two cents so pretty good it's a pretty good estimate so you have three years to go we'll see how you do the next three years but right now uh it look like your 11th straight year of outperforming your tax rate estimate on the ballot this next slide I don't think is a big slide for decisionmaking
034slide nine but I think it's interesting is your neighbors this is what their tax rates are so it's pretty small so I'll kind of summarize here there's a lot of there's a lot of schools in Pierce County and since not all are created equal with property values this is really different so you think about a bethl to your North right they have 23 billion in tax Bas to your 3 billion so they can generate a whole bunch more Revenue because they have so many more taxpayers but the tax rates aren't quite Apples to Apples but I do think it's still interesting you are ranked 11th how many you're in your county maybe 15 but you are 11th in tax rate so you're not the highest you're not the lowest you're kind of in that middle
0352/3 and these are for 2025 so if you're traveling and you're doing a a basketball game or you're doing a a match and you're their facilities and you're like oh my gosh these are state of the art these are XYZ you can take a look at this chart and say well what are their bond rates and you can compare them to yours and say okay our bond rate is 77 cents BAL of $1.75 that makes sense they're paying and they're getting tax for these improvements so something to keep in the back of your mind and this last slide uh before we talk about um loan options is slide 10 this shows your I I showed your bill for the EP no Levy this is now the bill that the voters approved all those taxers all
036your economy to pay your new capital Levy so you can see the first capital Levy approved started at 300,000 to 400,000 this one's 1.3 to 1.7 million so now you have resources uh you promised in that resolution and on your ballot what you will do with those resources and so now you have a little bit of flexibility on how to accomplish that and customarily in the old days we waited right we you looked at after year one so you haven't received a penny yet the voter said yes last February you haven't received a dollar yet but you'll start to receive it this spring so you'll have to wait the whole year to get 1.3 million so if your project is $1.5 million project you're waiting about a year and a half almost two years in
037the old days that wasn't a problem because construction inflation just went slow like everything else right you think about the price of eggs right now or the gasoline everything's kind of going crazy just like construction so some schools about five this year have packed Capital levies and said we want to get our projects done earlier and we want to prioritize those we don't want to do all the projects but let's let's get some done early and in instead of using these dollars in 27 or 28 to do the construction they're going to use those dollars in 27 or 28 to pay back a bank that let them do the construction early so let's talk a little bit more about that so on slide 11 this is a visual of a school that was similar in
038your size um I updated the numbers a little bit to show some of the challenges with uh Capital ly in blue is the growth of your fund balance if you saved every penny and you you had a project that was worth $5 million you could see you draw that line you'd have to wait until May of 2028 to begin your project um if you had a project that was worth 8 million you'd have to wait till May 2030 so you all that blue line to see where your revenue is that's cor if you didn't have a roof that failed or an HVAC that failed or others because then you have all those other expenses that come along as well well capital is great for Tech because you have Tech every year right you have you
039have new Chromebooks you have new carts or cows or whatever they call them you have uh new servers and so you just every year the money comes in you use it protect for construction it works as well too if your projects are perfectly scheduled for the next four or five years so the question is is is is it going to be worth it to think about the interest you might pay to accelerate the project so red is an example of the expenses that another school would see uh for their project you notice the money doesn't come in aligned with their project project they're done spending the money in 28 and uh they still have two three more years of collecting taxes so how do you bridge that Gap and do you borrow some up front
040Walla Wala passed a significant Capital ly for all athletic improvements throughout the community and security veses and other things and they said no we're going to do them all the summer so they have a six-year Capital Levy they did all the projects over the summer and then that Levy is no longer being collected to do projects it's just paying back the loan but there are some challenges so front funding Capital levies that first bullet point says it alleviates cash flow concerns but it can create other challenges and that first one would be interest right allows work to begin over the summer months and the reason that summer months are helpful too is the students are gone you can get some projects done over the summer and accelerate that um and the other tool that people
041think about is construction inflation I'm not an expert in construction inflation but it was about 15% during the pandemic and interest rates were 3% at that time so schools were borrowing at 3% and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the project and saying well this is the net wash right now construction inflation somebody's 20 is around 5% interest rates are around four and a quarter so it's not as much of a slam dunk right now it is it more of a can it be a break even for you but then you get your project done earlier or is it not a break even because you can only use your Capital Levy to pay back principal if the board wants to borrow interest has to be coming from State Forest Federal forests excise tax other
042non voter approved taxes so that is a big challenge so a little bit more about the process uh what is a limited General obligation Limited in three ways it's limited because you must repay it with existing Revenue it's limited because it can't be used for new Standalone four wall construction you can remodel you can amend you can rebuild uh but you cannot do new four- wall buildings uh it's also limited your debt capacity you can only borrow uh 38 of% that number for you is 10.2 million so that the most you could borrow without a vote of the people another thing that's a requirement if you do do go down this path is you must inform the public your intent and open up a public hearing to get their feedback anytime you borrow more than
043a quarter of a million dollars that's not voted by the people you want to give them a chance to come voice any concerns or ask questions uh I already shared that the interest must be paid by non- tax proceeds um yeah any questions on that before I talk about how districts get financing so the final slide shows three ways that schools get resources for their projects the very first one is the state treasure the state treasur has a program called the local program all them Bulls I have no idea what it stands for I've tried uh I'm sure it's something simple or could just be the word local because it's meant for local jurisdictions to use the state's power so the state has this un yielded just huge Capital they're rated AAA by the state
044and they can borrow on your behalf and get you really great interest rates they do it about two times a year and you can piggy back and what you do is you join uh so you're if you're looking at doing something for the football field let's say and then uh Y is doing something for fire trucks and aberon is doing something they're doing a pool everybody gets together in the state says all right we're going to issue $20 million in bonds and we're going to do each of your pieces together and there's power in that investors want big bonds investors want this from the state and they have their credit score so they're issuing bonds right now at 2 and a half 3% when we're at 4 and a quarter right now when we go
045to the banks so that's really powerful and it's a great option you lose some flexibility because the state does the whole thing for you you do what the state tells you to do they say okay this will be paid back over 10 years you say okay and they say we're going to refinance this on your behalf okay but you can't prepay there's a couple limitations but it's a really good option another thing that's an option if Pierce county is interested is they could buy it so you can say to them we need $2 million we want to accelerate some projects well you buy this and it's a really transparent way to do business because there's no banks involved there's nobody you know making big bonuses and big fees and um everybody can see the treasure
046information on the website is very transparent the one thing that the treasurer lacks is a competitive interest rate because they don't care that you're a municipal entity and that you're tax exempt they'll just they don't get a benefit from tax exempt Investments so they will give you a taxable rate so their rates are usually a little higher uh that's what we're doing in abine right now they're buying property for their seism Grant trying to find something up on the hill a little bit and they're considering using the state or the County Treasurer to do the loan so it'll be they'll have to work with the bank are there time constraints on that like there is with the state so that something you can negotiate at any time any if your county is willing and not
047all counties are willing correct not not all are willing uh we've seen Grace Harbor um SN homish and Spokane in the last five years have been interested and most others are like no thanks it seems complicated I don't want to buy debt from you so but it's a great thing to ask to start with and do we the ask does it go through a county commissioner do you know the process or uh it usually goes to the treasure and the treasure usually has a finance person an investment person that would be interested and the reason they're usually interested if it's short you know this isn't going to be a 20-year instum they' be shorter than your Capital Levy because that's how it's going to be repaid so that's one of the things in your favor
048and we can help help facilitate as well we can talk cly and go and the last thing if neither of those two options work and the board is interested that's when we could step in and help if um you're looking in that direction that's where we make Banks either compete or submit the lowest interest rate that they're willing to do there's a handful of banks that are local to Washington that are pretty good siiz Regional banks that are interested and that's what schools like Naes Valley did for their HVAC Highland did for their capital projects wall Wala for their athletic improvements as they went through the local bank process and uh had them kind of compete for it and try and get the lowest rate possible and there's some PODS of there working with local
049Bankers too like I kind of made some comments about you have to pay the fees anybody well sometimes if you are working with a bank they might be local employees they might be a local bank that could offer you a rate too so there are some trade-offs there Bank placements usually are pretty good on rate and they're pretty flexible there's a lot of good options um you just can't get as low as that state treasure rate but it's uh it's a it's probably our most commonly used option is the bank placement because it can be prepay it can you can set your terms and um there's just a lot of flexibility there and um is it prepay 100% or is it so there's no two-year prepayment penalties okay it depends on the bank yeah you
050know if you ever work with a large Bank like JP Morgan or Key Bank or Capital One they don't want you to call it they don't want you to pay it off and so they'll say after two years you can do this or but a lot of the regional Banks you might have seen cashmir Valley you might have seen North Cascades who are now Wheatland uh and they are always usually offering uh prepa anytime no penalty at par so excellent good to know thank you a lot of options but these are the three most customly used and really just planting the seed if there's any if you are looking towards this and you're working with your Capital facility staff and they think there's a benefit going faster we'd be happy to put you point you
051in the right direction or help you support with a bank option if that's to go and if we did a public hearing is that something you come and present at or is just something that we okay yeah the public hearing is usually supported by your legal team so the legal team that helped you with your Levy resolutions would put together a hearing script so that we make sure we shared all the legal requirements in that meeting and then you open it up for each person to testify and we'd be happy to give a presentation on the interest costs the the yields the anything that would be helpful okay excellent so a lot of information but hopefully just planting seeds on things that might be helpful and giving you an update on taxes and there's a
052lot of really good momentum on outperforming those estimates and things look great so I appreciate the time on your agenda happy to answer any of other questions thank you very very much very interesting app is it any of the board have any questions I appreciate you coming I always learn so much when I hear you talk so thank you we know it's a long drive so we would like to invite you to go ahead and leave don't po I was actually I was in bethl last night so was like it's just up there well and you come from Spokan right I live in Spokane and I split my duty back and forth and uh John gors if you remember John gors uh worked in Seattle I'd spoke hand covered when he retired I wasn't ready
053to move to Seattle yet but we're doing a lot we we work in just Washington State so if I lived here I'd be flying to Spokane so I can live in Spokan and fly here drive in the summer it's gorgeous like the drive here was gorgeous today was a good day it was a good day yesterday was not a good day are you driving home tonight say again are you driving home tonight no I have meetings in um North Bend tomorrow night so sometimes I link them all together well thank you so much for creating space in time and for and also the one thing about Cory is if you need if you ever have a question he will we call him he answers those questions so thank you so much for being a resource
054and good luck in Olympia I You' been very active there we need to keep keep working there well we look for here for I'm gonna sneak out right thank you so much okay um that was great Christa are you ready let's see on first um we've been really and Roman's been kind of fun this year um we've been up and down um so we kind of started out with the bang and then October went up and we were really excited about that well let's let's let's see what happens so um we have dropped some um so we're down about 13 students from where we started this year um but and so we're averaging right around where we budgeted so all in all it's good um one thing one thing to note is I've been watching
055um our Al numbers climb um and when our Al numbers climb are our basic education numbers tend to correlate in the opposite direction um and that has an impact on our staffing um so it's really important that we're watching those Al numbers um because it can impact our um Staffing in basic education so trying to forecast those for next year and um see where we end up um as far as budget status goes um I just provided you with the general Skyward report this month um I'm working on the forecast 5 model a little bit to update it with the POR and those sorts of things um but our expenditures are on Pace for the year our revenues are slightly behind where we would expect to see them right now um but all in all
056we're we're on track um to be within well within budget thank you appreciate okay this is going to be a really exciting presentation or so um grateful and the timing is impeccable because U I think you're going to share some data and some perspective that will really I think see that the work that you're doing is p so thank you for being here to hear and staying to hear the presentation so we're going to turn the time over to Sally evening um I'm here to talk about our school Improvement plan and you'll see um as bit of our slideshow that um our theme tonight is elevation and Elation reaching base camp and as you know our our strategic plan is all about reaching the summit and so we are halfway through the air so one
057might say we have reached base camp learning um and we're here to recognize our strengths tonight as well as our areas of focus I connected our work around our principal work I should say and our staff's work around our strategic plan um you'll see that our sit plans really connect to academic success I numbered the objectives on our plan objective one and objective two i w read all those to you on slide two um but basically promoting and prior izing academic success with rigorous curriculum instruction and you'll see some of that reflected in our strategic plan goal note that um I'm going to be doing an overview of of the school goals um you're going to see some school by school breakdown your a little bit of progress updates um and our purpose tonight is
058really to um show accountability um we want to provide transparency this also is represented in one of our fell for the board and for the community regarding our commitment to Contin continuous School Improvement and Student Success um our part of our work around strategic sorry School Improvement plans is to monitor our progress and to track our Effectiveness in the work that we're doing and the goals in those plans and of course we want to collaborate U we want to Foster open communication between School District Leadership School administration our parents because it takes all of us to to uh reach height high heights high elevation with our students so community and belonging is also highlighted as um objective two aligns to the seeking Community Partnerships with um those who are supporting us through the mentoring and
059scholarship uh funding um that has really been a great impact for our students our LA and tile funds and other intervention funds really are limited and so this gives more opportunities for kids kids and which has impacted our dress that you're going to see tonight so thank you very much so when I think about our kids and if you know on slide I'm gonna go back to slide one Cassie because I want to know if anyone recognizes this location you're a mountain climber you might I'm not right here this is Camp and slide one is Camp Mir and then if you go I'm going to jum around I apologize c three um we know that our kids and also our staff take many climbing routes to success if you recognize this bace Camp it was
060oh sorry Camp sh which is on the east side and if you've ever had the opportunity to climb Mount rer you would have traveled through either of these locations um to the summit and then if you go to slide four it's not the summit that changes you but the countless decisions made on the climb itself and I would say that's the work our principles do every day um and this route anyone recognize this route this is the Liberty route which is one of the more dangerous routes of Mount rer if You' ever attempted to climb that one and less defined and so I just want to recognize on slide four the hard work of these people who U meet our kids at the door every day and our supporting staff and making a 100 decisions
061throughout each and every day to help create success for our students our principles and then slide five um in our strategic plan the Summit is what drives us but it's really the clim itself that matters that's a clome and I I'm sure you could relate to that it's the work we do along the way we can always celebrate and we do have some celebrations tonight when we reach the summit but it really is all the learning that takes place as we make that Ascent to the top and you know to always work with teammates as you look at um slide seven climbing higher know that learning is a journey not a destination and we have to count on each other as you as noted here when when you climb you have to rope up and
062you have to count on the leader of the rope team and also the follower the last person and know that the person in front is taking most of the risks but the person at the end is the one who has to dupay on if you fall into the crass and and uh Jo position and pull you out and so sometimes our teams are going to position to pull kids out and to help them get back on track and move in the right direction you sound like somebody who summited Mount rers uh I've attempted a few times about to 1300 13,000 feet and had to turn around because we were making safe decisions our kids to do that you you oh yes I worked at rain a um as a student ycc and then four years
063as a seasonal Ranger but yes great place to be lot of lessons learn um next slide um is I'm giving you a generalization of our sit plan goals across all five buildings all of our buildings have focus on increasing attendance rates um with targeting to to go to 75 or 80% across all schools um we have many many different ways in which principles are in pising um our community and students to want to be there and to come to school and increase attendance from rewards incentives um meetings with parents have needed recognizing classes recognizing individuals and just really trying to raise that and it takes a partnership with our parents to make that happen um our second goal is they're not numbered so I that doesn't mean anything to me sorry next slide um yeah
064that's one no no the one you were on okay there you go sorry Cassie um the next goal is enhancing Ela growth and enhancing math growth we wanted to aim for a 10% increase and that increase is really focused on the end of the school year when we look at when we come back in the fall and look at our SBA results but we track that and we know that we're using some data systems that really are tightly Al and that help us with that monitoring and we'll be talking about that and then um special education students and dra's really going to cover our subgroups tonight as well as mtss and we want to strive for a 20% increase in in um the number of special education students meeting state standards and then our high
065school has a focus on core subject proficiency and also working toward 10% in the core subject areas and increase the ninth grade on rate to 85% as measured by class passing rates we're going to do some celebrating around that and other things mentioned in these BS next passing so this this is using our the data you're looking at here is from Panorama it's a platform that our staff will use it puts all the kids data in one place and um so it's used for um some the systems we put into place want to speak a little that we use a lot of the Panorama data for our multi- support systems for mtss with our care teams so um we we home through our tier one students look for tier two students who are maybe needing
066some other interventions um the care team will look at those students think of ideas and accommodations and ways to meet their academic or behavioral needs um and we we work those plans that we put in place for 6 to8 weeks and then look at data again uh mtss will be the requirement uh for all districts to have in place by 2026 so we have really been designing our system and working on it and making tweaks as we go and I I will say um I think we're seeing a lot of growth and uh a lot of improvements by working as a team uh with with all the stakeholders involved and I think it's been a big positive um and uh a little bit different uh we've changed some things of the way they used to
067be in the past and really asking teachers and principles to focus on tier one interventions for all students and what that looks like in your classroom um and I think that's been a little bit of a model change uh and then if a student gets to tier three or tier four and and it's a special education referral we have a team here uh at the district level that that looks at those referrals and and making sure that we have our eyes on and oh why did did we try this or was that a research-based accommodation uh that you use um so really really making sure we're being authentic and and looking at individual student and so for this slide I really wanted to go to turn on one of our goals which was attendance um
068we have seen um from last year our total was 59% with um attendance rate and that is measured by students meeting um or at school you only miss 18 days for the year and then they drop into considered to be chronically absent so 59% last year Miss less than 18 days and already this year we're at 67% which is a great 8% increase and you can also see the colors and and data by school um one the lower one is the I'm sorry this isn't big enough for you to see but the lower one is last year's data and the upper one on the left is this year's data so you'll see that I want to speak to the academics here because you might wonder why this is different when we look at like I
069ready data the academics in this system right now that you're looking at is grades so you're seeing percentages based on grades that calculated to the formula in the system next one so we like to celebrate um we want to celebrate our K8 growth um mid year already um in ela District wide you're seeing an increase from 29 to 45% students um increasing to being not on level to on level in one and a half years's time and you'll see that we've gone from 35 decreasing the yellow which is what you want to do decrease yellow and increase green uh to 30% in the yellow and then uh dropping from uh 36% to 25% students behind in the red if you looked it on the right I don't know if you can see that very well
070but maybe if you have a slideshow in front of you that really is Ela areas that are set which incl awareness phonics uh non um double seeing myself in this slide um high frequency words vocabulary and then the two areas of comprehension literature and informational text so if we look at the next slide you'll see that we're looking at student growth in ela by building um so from the beginning of the year till now we've had 460 students already meet grade level standard or above um and this is across the building across the district um which means they've already met the standards they're supposed to meet by the end of the school year so when we look at IR assessment it's assessing where kids need to be by the endend of the year so we
071already have that many students already met their all the learning this school year in ela and you can see the green so there's two there's a diagnostic one and then the most recent one by building you can see how the green has grown and the yellow has shrank and the red has shrank in buildings from beginning of the year till midar so our staff are working really hard to create success for our students the next slide is math and you're going to see the same layout for math um of course we have a little more work to do in math um it is an area of focus to from some of our buildings as well so but you are see we are making progress just not as much as we would like and then um
072you see that also we've increased the green as well um and also Shrunk The get Shunk the group in red that um are most behind students if you look by placement you can see our kids tested by placement and those represent the areas of math that kids are assessed in numbers and operations algebra and Ma I'm going blank on that one and then geometry meas meas thank you um and then if we go to the next slide K8 I ready grow for m and um you'll see 402 students have already met the standards for the end of the year for Math and you can also see this by grade level and how each building has grown in the areas that you see in trunk in the areas of red you can see where we can
073really celebrate our student growth um you'll see the kids have jumped not just at some buildings have jumped from red to Green in six months time it's not really indicated here because I'm not sharing with you individual student data but know that that's happening too can I um ask a question something that was brought to my attention um at the high school was the state is testing our kids in 10th Grade for geogra or geometry when typically they're not even in the class until 11th grade so they're being tested and held accountable for information that they haven't even learned yet and so that is also reflected perhaps in some of the slower D yes we have that we run into that at most grade levels where geometry is usually in most curcums at the end
074of it school year and we test you know beginning in May so yes so teachers are having to like pull some of that geometry in early even though they might not be through where they want to be so and in high school it's a different story because the whole whole year is geometry right so yeah um but they're still tesed on that before they have J and my understanding as the state changed the testing to earlier because they wanted students to have more time to catch up but the problem with the thinking is that they still haven't had the class to really acknowledge their learning so it's this constant change of testing um I don't know which stinks because it's reflected it's reflected but there's a whole story behind it that we don't always have
075all the information around so very true Okay so I'm going to talk about data for our subgroups that we have identified in our SI plans first being our Hispanic students and the second being our students who receive special education services so on um the first slide is our Ela I ready scores for Hispanic students and as you see from diagnostic one to diagnostic two we've had a lot of growth especially students moving to the mid or above grade level to that green area so it is very exciting uh de for our our students who um we knew we needed to put a big focus on this year um I attribute a lot to that is um making sure all of our students have multilingual plans that that qualify uh training our teachers on those plans
076and making sure they're aware of of what's needed uh for that growth so very exciting for that um the next is by building and I'm going to hand out this as well it's the same information it's just a little bit easier to see and read on the next slide so you can see by building um our students in each building are are moving to the green um at warehouser there are no longer students who are testing three or more years behind um that's a that's a great Improvement great job um to that staff and the same as um um at Eatonville Elementary as well so um no longer are there students testing that three years behind so um great movement on on in that area in ela um moving forward a focus that we'll have
077especially with our multilingual Learners is making sure um we're working on vocabulary supporting uh the The Core Curriculum vocabulary that's being taught and hopes to improve that communication score so that will be a focus Mr dandel works on who is working with our students the next is our math I ready scores the next slide I got you thank you thank you thank you uh you will see again uh overall Improvement um with our Hispanic and Latino students um students you know we move from zero to 8% now at our above grade level so um more students to the yellow area there and not as many in the red so um some really great growth in math and then next Slide by building um CCA and Heaton Elementary and warehouser overall Improvement um and we're seeing
078overall growth at the elementary as well so students the red is shrinking and bigger yellow and and some more green there as well so um an area Focus that we'll focus on with our m multilingual Learners is um really looking when you look at the data our subgroup that we need is algebra and algebraic thinking so that is a big component that we need to focus on in all buildings that that support the next is our Ela I ready scores for students receiving special education services um we we've really honed in on our curriculum in the special ed Department um we're not using as a wide range of kind of old outdated curriculum we've really been focusing on using um aligning our systems with our with gened and using I ready and and supplementing and
079I think that we've seen quite a bit of growth because of that I'm really focusing in on on that I know there are still kids students in the red uh but we did see more kids moving on to grade level and I'll show you on the next slide um this is my probably 12th year of using I ready um so I've sit in a lot of trainers and worked with a lot of trainers and in the special ed setting students who receive services are typically two and a half years or more behind um so really an important thing to look at is that stretch growth for special ed students so 40 2% of our students receiving special ed services have made a Year's gain already so they've met their stretch grow so um that that
080is a great Improvement big [Music] Improvement the next uh slides are our math I ready scores again we're seeing overall Improvement and by building as well we see some improvement and our stretch growth is 42% so 42% of our students have met seetch gr this year so um that is a big big Improvement um I think a focus for uh our special ed teachers and we're working with principles would just be to continue really honing in on this curriculum and not using with so much outside curriculum um so I think that's a big pulling from too many tools you're not being authentic and and you're not getting that time in so well it's good to have all the schools aligned yes yes we've done we've worked really hard aligning all don't working or not um
081just one quick question for do we know and just because I'm kind of competitive individual not that it matters versus um where our kids are as as far as the numbers we have over a certain amount but do we know with other districts or other people the across state in IR that are we are growing similar to them I mean do we do we know if we're if we're uh being as successful as our C and cohorts around the state and that growth I mean is that even possible to know I haven't looked at mid year ask that in the fall when I presented it did show that we were riding the ballpark or a little above in some areas I'm just curious to know I mean overall long term like that you know we
082I would assume we're naturally going to grow you know just because of what all the work you guys are doing and I'm just curious as to if somebody else is growing at X rate you what are they doing differently what you thank you and IR provides that you can comparative data to say if we were to take the SBA today this harder balance today where our kids would test and we keep making the same gains where they would land at the end of the school year as well I know it's a new component this year it's very handy great we out to other districts and find out comp prep they're doing I love I love your idea if somebody's killing it like they do especially in our similar size our similar demographic Financial base everything
083else that's you know you can't compare us to that's not what I mean but what is you know yeah yeah I think the stretch grow our special education students is I mean that that's right on track that's right where we want to be so I'm very happy with that and I'm very happy of our principles and teachers being patient while we make those little shets to to how we're hopefully they're feeling um successful like they're seeing that the teachers are doing the hard work but they're also seeing that there's growth and that helps encourage them to continue on and being patient so I'm going to talk a little bit about what you're seeing here and Rhonda spoke a little bit about SBA just a few minutes ago um our students have opportunities this this is
084data not necessarily looking you're not looking at this as growth data but these are the IAB um which is um SBA assessments along the way that our students can take um to see how they're doing and so our teachers have using this on the teacher in different ways they're using it as a preest they're using it as a post test they're using it as a teaching tool um it helps for student reflection as well so we'll see teachers use that to analyze trends of scores over time to check out students are progressing on specific skill areas and and also look at previous performan about ibas and sometimes iabs and sometimes to Target intervention or Justice struction so I'm just put up data just to give you a feel recently we have tested as you can
085see these are different grade levels where you can see how kids F out and remember this is not the comprehensive T this might be one area um there's iabs and there's F iabs and one has will have a more limited scope of um standards that it's evaluating and the other's a little larger but neither of them are comprehensive so what you're telling me is they've literally taken the state interim releases and they're part of their own they they do them now that's been around for a while I did not know new ring Brak that's awesome or we didn't have access to them I don't know that's awesome so yeah you know that's great so our schools have access to grades three to 12 um I don't we I don't think we put our Littles through
086it yet because we already discussing them IR have that option and you'll see that happen as we get closer to in the elementary schools as we get closer to the testing window to give kids practice on signing on and doing the practice what we call you can call practice tests for them to get used to the system um but here you're seeing our middle and um middle and high school some of the testing done um we are putting into practice going forward next year comp it'll be part of our common assessments that everybody grades three through 12 will do one math one Ela um each year so that they minimum we give students the opportunity to practice B trying that out um so you'll see um our kids are falling either on or approaching in
087this case it's called approaching on grade level and then red is um not yet approaching and which subject areas you can see that we've tested here teachers have tested geometry special expressions and equations um just to give you a feel of at um different grade levels in regards to our Hispanic students and students receiving special education services at the high school we've implemented grade checks on a monthly basis so um we're able to have more contact um our ml coordinator uh in his schedule has a time where you can p students who are struggling or or maybe have missing assignments and work with them a little more closely um we've increased accommodations in IEPs um and also in our multilingual plans and I'm also asking that our our Hispanic students and special education students participate
088in the IEDs as well so they're getting that practice and practicing their accommodations that and to the next slide this is more of the uh this is so we were doing math this is more math assessments um the previous had smaller groups so I thought I'd pull this one as well to see um teachers can use these as frequently as they want I I should have brought and I can share with you the list of all the Assessments in this system and these are basically you could call them PRS Spas so they get opportunities to test and reteach or test and see success and helps Thrive instruction for the final assessment and here again we're looking at math and then on this one we're looking at Ela and you see a combination of a specific
089area of ela so you'll see revision and research um one thing I I'm going to miss probably misquote Alex Christensen who was sharing we were talking about data last week and there's one area I want to say it's I'll get back to you on which area but anyway only 5% of the students in the state met that on the NBAA so he's asking for exemplars and how can we help our students do better as well we did have some students meet it in Eatonville but just like wow what a high scale for our kids to reach in that and so we're just looking investigating that as well so again know that these are not growth scores these are first time through um where kids are at could be after teaching the unit it could be
090before and it could be whole group so I know our Middle School teachers talk about at times a couple of them want to walk it walk kids through it as a full class I will say the one downfall about SP spas and has been echoed by our teachers is that we don't do the long form and so we don't get the good information we used to get about performance and why and where kids are at that we used to get and the state's not planning to shift that state of the short form which happens I think in Co went at the short form and they not planning to go back at this time so what's going well go to the next slide um these are what these are comments from principles about what's going well
091when they reflect on their sit plans uh with their staff so um CCA has the opportunity to do when time in their school what I need so they really have a almost a two intervention time model in their building which is great for a building that has a free and reduced lung rate of 64% um higher needs again that's part of the which route you're going to take and different routes help you our kids to the cop and they have come with different needs and so L time offers that opportunity to really work on those for kids who might have need actor support um and also they also have the tutoring program there too that is having an impact as well so commenting that moving to teacher supported model um has been really helpful um
092in the past our intervention lap and title programs were kind of up to Paris to to manage not that they don't do great work but without some of the guidance of a classroom teacher instructionally that has been difficult so we did uh stien the teacher to really help build that model at P CR and we have interest in going to be expanding that at warehous or and possiblys as soon as we can so um just because if you're really looking at data and your um and our all of our schools can speak to this when we look at data we want to have flexible grouping we need someone who can analyze that data and then determine how we're going to move kids get them what they need at that time and not stay in the
093same stagnant group all year so if I'm meeting the standards on multiplication and that's the group I'm in we need to be able to move kids and so I already gives us that uh data to move kids around those domains uh within math and reading and we need someone with expertise to do that um at each building so West also has done a great job of including those with disabilities according to miss Lyn who's here tonight um all students including those with disabilities are fully included in court curriculum instruction I'm guessing that that has not been occurring and actually students on IEPs are supposed to have core instruction every day um so with and they get to be including in the general education classrooms interventions and tutoring programs are supported doing a great job of
094supporting her struggling students um she's using a DAT what's gone well is her data driven approach ensures that students receive personalized support leing the notice SCH growth and academic achievement anything you want to add then no and then EHS is really celebrating their um also well Mr Brower already spoke to the newspaper article and the great work that's happening at the high school with the tutoring program and there's lap support there's as well but it's had an impact on Ninth Grade on track outcomes for students surpassing their goal with a rate of 90.5% of students in ninth grade are on track that means they're not failing 90% 90.5% are not failing a class by the end of first semester that is really exciting and definitely a celebration um also uh Amy is celebrating uh the
095learning she's providing for teachers centered around the developmental relationships framework which to strengthen strengthens student connections and helps kids engage in learning with dra connections with their teachers um EES really has appreciated the implementation of a core magnetic reading curriculum um principal berkin feels it's been well received and and promoted also the use of I ready he appreciates the alignment with the interventions our intervention mats are aligned to the Core Curriculum which is is aligned to the assessment and the tool and so he's very his staff are very appreciative of that and has resulted in good growth for students and then EMS is seeing academics improving using the looking and ey reading growth um they are also really been focused on attendance and incentives and are adding in some Friday boost celebrations for students as
096well that is that has helped uh keep kids coming school so um Within great work we're never done when we're working with students we always have more more to do and so um our principles are focusing on these areas um although es is seeing growth in math um and I've heard this across our buildings and in different committees with teachers that we're doing some frankensteining of math our rure math corm is uh kind of outdated at this point I think it's been around we were trying to figure that out 13 14 years already oh my goodness I yes not too long so um principles Echo they would like to see something aligned to interventions we also need to look at math interventions as well across the district a little more closely but also possibly looking
097at the cohesiveness between interventions and wanting to take a look at uh possibly newm um CCA uh one of their primary challenges have have been the impact of Staff absences and we have that probably across the district many of these are echoed across the building when staff are absent we're pulling our intervention staff to cover so then kids aren't necessarily getting intervention time when we're pulling staff to help other places and we're short in buildings so then kids aren't um don't have anyone to lead groups so we're to address this um one solution would be to um have a larger pool of substitutes and then having them trained in intervention materials so when we do have Subs they can just jump in and do the work that's needed instead of not sure how to use
098materials when would you do that training would it be at the beginning of the year when you're doing some of the other training when train we have to figure that out I guess it would make sense to do it before they start but as we add new Subs all year um you know we may have to do some maybe figure out a model where they can go where it is happening as part of training instead of have it be formal or do a V video module out on you Sor so um also um so yeah they're looking also at CCA about uh effective interventions in the area of math um sub piece and also advocating for the new math curriculum and staff they also want to use the um magnetic as ready not magnetic sorry
099I ready we're not using any of the I math at this time we're using the toolkit uh supplemental lessons that come when kids don't are struggling with the my math but no we don't use the um math G in that program so there are other options out there we've heard I've heard other teachers speak to Eureka too so as well as interest so there's interest of wanting to make a Les key areas of growth is on achieving their SI goals is enhancing intervention support for students to require additional academic behavior and social emotional assistance as noted in the mtss process um they're looking to uh have a dedicated intervention specialist teacher that's someone who would do that work outside their teaching day usually paid for un stien uh to provide coordination of interventions monitoring of
100progress uh supporting Paras with instruction instructional materials how to teach those materials as well so and that that's what is happening right now in CCA yes okay so looking for the same right got it thank you it's been falling to the principles at eaes and West and it's just be um because it just needs a lot of focus and a lot of attention EHS uh another area of focus is Shifting the culture around School attendance I think that's echoed at all of our buildings that um one of the struggle is the you know parents value about having their kids at school I mean we want our kids home when they're sick but there's more of a what would you say a more not as LAX a daisy gold not as a not a driven thing
101to have kids we kind of really working with that culture about parents not seeing it as important I guess since Co after seeing it having kids at home and seeing what that can look like so we really want to shift that Focus around attendance and they're working with families to do that um again our schools are trying to be through incentives as well but um looking especially at focusing on the chronically absent students those who just 18 um that has to be that parents see that there's meaningful instruction happening when their child is at school that value and the other part of it is I think um parents are kind of pushing up against um schools aren't going to tell me what to do with my kids and so I think that that's an issue
102that needs to be a broader conversation in and um I've had community members say that the more we open up our schools for parents to to um be a part of their child's education I think that that will be really helpful so I think we have there's lots of things that we can do on that front to help regain trust and interaction with parents and families to put some of those ideas on the table explore that it's true um EMS um and other buildings student time and I ready um we're talking also about the personalized instruction um and working on making we know that if kids spend the time which is 15 minutes three times a week they're more likely going to hit that marker of annual typical growth or stretch growth which means more
103kids would be on level so really working on increasing that time on task and focus um attendance efforts also during High illness rates that was a concern in the last month we had some big drops at EDS at EMS with a lot of people out for quite a long time and then they want to work on problem solving uh the students the number of students behind two to three years when we look at our ready data and addressing the needs and struggling with addressing the needs with limited resources and then I just want to end with tying it back to our vision statement and our plan together with our community our families and Community uh we appreciate our principles and the work they're doing and we really need to continue to work to build our
104togetherness with our community because it takes all of us to educate our kids thank you so much any anybody have any questions you have any questions know it was a lot it is really thank you so much for bringing the data not just to us but to our community so that we can have thoughtful conversations and ask hard questions and also be accountable so appreciate that very much okay um the time is turn and this is running a late meeting so I'm going to do a really short legislative update it's attached to our board minutes if you want to see all of the policies that are out there what's important to know is last Friday was the cut off date if the bill didn't make it through their policy um committee it's dead so you
105know at any given time there was like 1,600 bills out there so now they're going to their Appropriations or W the means the way that they can be funded they have to go through those committees if they have any kind of a fiscal note and then they'll make it onto the floor um but what I really want to focus today on the legislative update is what is going to impact us personally as a school district and that is um our new public lands commissioner has put a hold on 23 sales Timber sales that have been put through the process and are ready to go they've just been stopped for about six months and this is important to us because why uh eille Community has a lot of DNR land and uh we have a lot
106of timber land and therefore we get less property taxes because we have more Timberland and the idea is that the excise tax from those sales will come back and benefit our community um one of those sales the railroad Creek sale will impact our school district minimum of $173,000 but up to $250,000 so um we will be and this will bring us to to our new business item um we are going to be passing or I would like to propose a resolution to the board that would um state that as a board we would encourage um the commission of public plans and the DNR board to finalize those Timber sales um and then hopefully Express to them the concern that we have and how it impacts small rural particularly Timber towns like Eatonville um so I
107would encourage all of our community to reach out to DNR uh the a is when they will be making the decision to finalize those sales or not so anytime a Community member and again I would imagine that this also impacts um the logging industry and the timber industry in our community so uh anyone who's willing to reach out to DNR and say we really would encourage you to continue with the sale of the um the tember that would be wonderful it's they've met all environmental standards they're all ready to go as a matter of fact this uh railroad Creek Timber sale would also help replace a culvert that would help with Sam with restoration so this is an environmentally conscious decision as well um as met all those standards so we're looking for your support
108in that and with that I would um consider approval of the board resolution 747 that we um are going to encourage Department of Natural Resources to continue with the timer sales and I would consider a motion and we can open for discussion second okay mov second is there any discussion around this resol resolution hearing none all in favor any opposed right motion carries and we will be sending that resolution on not only to Department of resour Natural Resources but also to our legislative uh representatives and Senator as well as Pierce County Council because uh this money also goes to our fire services and Junior taxing authorities so Pierce county is impacted it's not just schools there's a lot of people in Pierce County who will be impacted this all right consider approval of board res
109resolution 748 Source Cooperative again uh CHR do you want to address us or do you um yeah so okay so I just discovered that we actually are a sourceable member but we never had a resolution um which we're required to do so so I thought since we are um navigating this new um project track and field with sourcewell now would be a good time to put for the resolution um so I'm asking for your approval um to do business with sour 12 um in our local great thank you and motion for approval motion it's been moved and seconded any discussion Hearing in all in favor I I motion carries consider approval of capital outlay for hbac optimization Kristal um yeah so this is just um to touch back on the grant that we received for
110um eatle High School um HVAC optimization and lighting replacement um this toal project cost is about 1.5 million um that will be in capital outlay um of which 1 million we will receive um back from the Department of Commerce um through the Gren so um we just need the approval to move forward with this purchase um for capital outlay for the Department of Commerce and yes okay that being said I would consider approval of capital outlay for AAG a motion been moved and seconded any discussion I would like to say thank you to Christa for your hard work and uh getting this grant grants are a lot of work and continue to be so thank you so much for your time all in favor I I any opposed motion carries consider approval to allow superintendent
111to negotiate the stadium contract with all play Southern bleachers through our Cooperative agreement with pcda go back one back right here superintendent uh consider approval Capital facilities plan thank you I have too many checks on um Christa so um a while back we um the school board approved a capital facilities plan um which basically outlines how much space we need according to our growth and class size and programs um and we put forth this plan and filed it with Pierce County so that we could collect impact fees um which we currently collect from Royal Pierce County um however in our current capital facilities plan um there's no Provisions in there to be able to spend those impact fees on the track and field so um I reached out to Doug Nichols um with Nichols Consulting
112who wrote the plan um there's a lot of tricky formulas in there um and he revised it so that to include the track and field so we do have that flexibility um to use the impact fees on the track and field um with the approval of this amended plan excellent and that is because that is academic Stakes our students use that as a learning space so yes all right wonderful um I would consider a motion to approve the capital amended Capital second moved and seconded any discussion all in favor or post motion carries now we're on to consider approval to allow superintendent to negotiate the stadium contract with all play Southern bleachers through our Cooperative agreement with kcda um is pretty straightforward same thing that we've done in the past this uh gives our superintendent
113the ability to continue with that so I would consider a motion for approval motion second second been moved and seconded any discussion want to be clear so the community that this is just the ability for him to negotiate a contract it's not signing is anything else correct right we are not signing the contract making Insurance yeah clear everybody being able to talk about it you can uh negotiate and make sure that it fits within the budget that we have sent forward yes but until we can negotiate to find out what out there to offer we can't we don't even know we don't know if it will fit into our budget thank you for your clarification appreciate that any other questions or discussion all right um all in favor I opposed motion carries all right this
114is really exciting and we're grateful to have community members here with us consider uh approval of the greater Eatonville Community Foundation fundra initiative allowing the GCF to fund raise for Eatonville Community track and field project mayor you're here would you like to say anything he's also the chair of that committee uh yeah we have started a new foundation in Eatonville we recognized actually it started at the school level because uh we knew that the Seahawks had contributed some dollars to yel for some of their Stadium issues and when we started looking to that we uh realized rather quickly that they can't uh donate money directly to the school it has to go through a foundation uh some kind of a nonprofit so uh we jumped in and it was thanks to Rhonda and be and
115Betty here um we've been talking about this for two years more than two years and we finally pulled the trigger on it and we are in play we have a meeting tomorrow at the Millhouse um at 7 to kind of introduce the uh foundation and uh two of the projects that we're going to jump on right away is one uh we know that there's a little bit of a shortage on the stadium the new stadium so we're kind of taking it on to try to raise $250,000 for some of the Ada improvements and some of those issues and we also know there's some issues wrapped around the band and some uh instrument needs that they have that aren't currently being satisfied and so that's the second um project that we're currently taking on so um
116it's uh a great Foundation we've got about 13 12 to 13 trustees currently and uh we're just excited about the whole thing and we're excited about helping the school get the funds they need to get the stadium where we want the stadium to be rather than doing perhaps a stadium that isn't quite what we want and so uh yeah we're looking for support all of that and we appreciate the uh School District allowing us to jump in and assist and just as a little plug and maybe a little advertising the mechanism for that would be the naming rights um for a seat in the stadium so that uh far and wide we'd love all community members to have the opportunity to sponsor a place they don't get to reserve it it's not their's forever but
117their name can be put on a a placard and that that will be they will be sponsoring that SE for our stadium so we're really excited thank you so much for the generosity of your time and um the hard work and again once again the Community Focus that you have in putting kids first we just really appreciate that so that being said I would consider a motion to approve uh the fundraising initiative so second it's been moved in seconded any discussion big thank you seriously all right all in favor any opposed right Mo carries we got a lot of good stuff going on here today I feel like an Auctioneer consider approval of replacement of each's baseball scoreboard and Brandon's not here but Christa I bet you know something about this yeah so some of
118our scoreboards are starting to fail um this is one of them um it's it's reached the end of a useful life the I don't know the largest Windstorm we've had in how many years came through a few months ago um knocked it over and just put the final mail in that cofin on that on that scoreboard so um we're asking for approval um to um for this Capital outlet and um I would expect to see more of them soon yeah and honestly it's getting a point where it's more expensive to repair than it is just to replace and so even when you repair you can go back and do another repair yeah yeah are we required to have more than one bid because I'm only looking at one that's so I believe this one was
119was actually oh this was a no this wasn't the weird one the weird one's coming up this one was was this one the co from tectronics yeah but I thought it was the co so if we purchase through the Cooperative then they do all of the bidding for us so we just need but you could still do an approval replacement and we need to go back make we this is an approval just to place it just that okay I know that they have been doing some um research as far as vendors and pricing um so I know they have some of that I don't yeah I don't see that this is but again this could be to approve the replacement we don't have to do contract this yeah not the contract yeah if we're using
120um State funds over certain dollar amount and we do have to have three quotes it's just that we like to do three quotes because it's good practice um just as you know when we go through co-ops sometimes those sometimes aren't always the best deal um sometimes like our food service van for example we could have gone through a co-op but it was cheaper to get something off the lot so um so that's one thing that I've noticed with Brandon that he's very Vigilant about getting the best price um and sometimes that takes a little bit longer but um we yeah it's definitely he's after the best price so but we can do some further looking into that thank you okay so do we need to approve the replacement without rep approving um the actual contractor
121contract okay um which is exactly what this item G says consider approval replacement so uh I will I would look for a motion to approve the replacement of the EHS baseball scoreboard a motion is there a second second okay um any further discussion I just want to make sure we're voting to replace it and I just want to make sure that we're getting a good value for we're replacing so I'd like to see more than one quote or whatever make sure it's going through our stour whatever so we'll follow up with that excellent um all in favor I oppostion carries consider approval of repace replacement Landings and stair purchase for eille Middle School Portables um so this is the the one that's a little bit different um it's actually cheaper to not go through a
122co-op um we ended up getting a quote from somebody and we were misquoted um so um we're ending up getting a really good deal on this one like I said going through the co-op would be a lot more um so this is just to replace um The Landings and stairs um I four of the middle school cortal which J's probably familiar with um they're patched together with plywood and are definitely a hazard that needs to be taken care of right away so just replacing what's there um and this is definitely the best deal without a doubt that that we can get so all right I would consider mission for approval second and it's been moved and seconded all in favor I I any opposed motion carries consider approval of independent contract for physical therapy yes
123so this is uh the contract for our physical therapist Bryant um we are writing the contract from March I believe it says 9th or 7th uh to the end of the school year um simply because we want to I want all contracts on the same start and stop time so beginning school year to end so that is the reason why it's just for the next few months okay great um I would consider motion for approval second it's been moved in seconded all in favor I sorry I didn't ask if you on a discussion curious all right consider approval of the and I'm going to do these together we're going to do J and K together uh 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 school year calendars consider a motion for approval second any discussion on either of
124those all in favor any oppos carties consider approval of procedure 2320 field trips and excursions updated wording and list and Cassie um did you want to address this yeah so uh typically every three years we reiew the just the list of the reoccurring U overnight field trips that typically are athletic and so it's just we go to the high school and the athletic director and get their list for what's in the pipeline and throw it on here and we're going to start moving towards reviewing it annually but because we're so far in the year we're g to Let It Go for next year as well and then start that annual review but this is just a list that Amy and um Gavin had put together of what's in the pipeline we also wanted to not
125just have it be athletic so we included academic so when our chess club and our knowledge bow are going to state every year it's just an automatic approval for them they don't have to go through the whole process every year can I ask anting question maybe why why it's just interesting policy we list out each individual place they goed it's a proceded oh I see I am gon to shut up thank I appreciate it all right and and we don't often um don't typically approve procedures it's usually just policy but because these are overnight travels for students we want to make sure that the board and um that they have the legal fundet and permission to travel say procedure right there crawle all right so I would consider approval of this procedure so mov second
126moved and seconded any further dis wait any further discussion all in favor all right so then we have a host of first readings and I would like to block these together unless someone here would like to pull one out for further discussion we're just reading tonight right yeah just the first reading I read through them but I didn't see anything um Sally did you have anything specific you wanted to report out on any of these um I think in 20 um 2022 um around digital resources I think we've struggled like where those fit in C adoptions except defining that a little more in here and then use of Internet safety just updating some of the language um and cleaning the St a little bit so around internet use as well and making sure we also
127included language about even though we provide filters we can't always guarantee students are have cell phones and can do dat so can you speak at all to in general so the community knows everything else like where usually you get wording or updating these you speak to that okay so anything else that uh anybody would like to address or questions prior test okay all right then I would consider a motion for items M and o n p as a first reading for S policies motion move been seconded all in favor iing CES Jay yeah I'm Gonna Make It Real brief I really appreciate everybody hanging in there um I just wanted to uh begin first by saying that you know you can see the amount of work and the effic put in to make our district
128run so smoothly and to have the success that we're currently having it's a really great trajectory we're on right now likewise as a board members you're very involved really appreciate that and the way that you are informing um our instruction as such um I wanted to start with Bonnie and Bonnie's here good husband and get and uh I wanted to uh have her just speak a little bit about where we're at with Transportation maybe celebrate a couple of the things we'll talked about so um a positive note for trash King which is very nice to have for the last years we um so we have to date not had to cancel any routes for this entire school year and most and half I'm hoping that that has a very positive effect on our attendance rates
129and it continues that way um another positive note is that um when we input our information to the Stars program which is our funding program through OSI um last year um we were last year our funding amount that was sent to us after our uh report total was uh 1,294 47660 this year with the increase of students on buses um because we don't have any cancellations um our increase is uh we increased it by 2 4 4,951 9s so um just do my team please pass along on gra and to you we know how hard you yeah I I do remember the first days uh first school days of superintend i n out of 20 routes that I might have just moved everything over on my desk and focused 100% on on what we can
130do and uh I want to say thanks to the community also that stepped up but also the great leadership and U and the hard work from you and your team and U so um now we're looked at on the opposite now we were we were actually featured with on com news from getting it right and and uh so all of a sudden now other districts are contacting us to say how are you getting it right how are you not having routes how are you how are you recruiting retaining um you know your your your staff and so I just want I can't think it up so and again on that same note as we think about our staff we have about 288 staff and we have six here that are just really really hard workers
131and uh but that that same goes for all our staff we have a a lot of we have there's a lot of energy right now there's a lot of optimism there's a lot uh that we're moving forward on that just just feels like uh a school district under your leadership and with the leadership of so many hard working people that we are really heading the right direction and the great you know great things are are yet to come uh so for instance on our on the dispatch you see the first two pages are taken up by eville students so here's Bailey's I mentioned earlier that good luck on Friday night this state congratulations make State second year in a row and looking forward to that uh we have one of our students who's going on
132to play uh this Brody 30 acre going on to CL out uh College he'll be playing baseball at the next level that's a great thing and then on the next page was as I mentioned dville High School exceeding their ninth grade academic success record they they had SE they have 79.8% of their um ninth creaders uh pass all their classes then it then they set a goal for 85 and they're already at 90.5 and now it's higher because now we have between one and two more students so now it's even a little higher than 90% and again the fing program is helping to to to make that all possible so uh just want to say you know um this is a very supportive Community uh and our schools mean a lot our students mean everything
133to us and and there are just so many dedicated people who are working on that um we have an we we set two primary goals one was a means to an end and the other one's the end so the means to the end is that we we increase our attendance uh we're not where we're not still not where we want to be but we're happy to uh to announce that again Sally mentioned 8% increase in attendance between last school year where we are now so we're headed again in the right tra trajectory and we appreciate the parents and those that are supporting that we'll continue to work that pretty hard um as far as the academic success goes uh all of our schools are showing you know U academic success uh of times now we're
134getting a whole a whole Year's worth of growth and half a year and we'll be highlighting a little bit more of that on in social media um as we mentioned earlier we we promised in this capital projects Lev a track and a field and uh we are feeling very good about where that's at and uh on track pun intended to uh to complete that as hoped but the other part is is that thanks to some hard work pres some people and also a lot of u a lot of support uh including some who are in this room that um and and legislators and others that we getting dangerously close to being able to also get a stadium and let it be clear again that we promised to track in a field we did not promis
135a stadium um and so if that happen that's going to be primarily from outside money not for our taxpayers and so that's that would be a great uh boom to our community if we're able to pull that off and we're getting closer so we appreciate those who are stepping up to try to make the last um efforts to to accomplish that to have a safe Ada accessible um uh you know uh playing U stadium with with so we'll we'll um we'll keep being fiscally responsible but we're also going to stretch and U and we're going to we're have happen so um yeah with that then we also took a team to the AI Summit what was was particularly uh I guess wonderful about that was we have Travis right here who led that the state
136level and we were able to take a team we want to make sure that we you all the tools what we possibly can to make sure every student is successful and artificial intelligence is another way that or an additional way that we can make sure that all of our students learn the highest levels possible we don't want it to happen to us we don't we don't like to ever be on the on on the receiving end we want to be on the proactive end to make sure that we know what is what it's about and how to best utilize it for the betterment of all and so it was great to have a team who are now training our staff and so that we're informed and so our students are not disadvantaged when they leave
137our community and go to the next level so we're grateful for for that um with that I guess I just want to say that uh I I continue to appreciate the hard work of all of our staff members and your leadership and uh with that uh thank you very much and and honor we not wor it'll continue go thank you all right for comments um well I just want to um start out by yeah thanking the community thank you guys for all that you do um and just we have a vast community that are always like reaching out I I love the community that supports and uplifts and watches what we're doing they're paying attention and just they have stake and everything so just I I appreciate that um yeah congrats to everybody that went
138to State last week like that was that was exciting to watch basketball and wrestling and and just support the students that were just excited and have worked so hard um and uh so this week on Monday uh was the day that um kids could start signing up for Pierce count or Pierce County Skills Center so this just to let everybody know that it is the time to sign up now if your kids are interested so um to fill out the applications um and then just proud of our attendance that's huge so all the schools I thought you know growth and um it's making a difference and thank you Sally Gracie and Christa and um I I'm just happy to see measurable growth and and just that you know we we have the tools that we
139can see that and you know that we finally gotten the right curriculum that we can we can actually know what's going on so thank you so much you want Travis I that thank you you too um it's nice to have a foundation to build from and see what those building blocks are going to do over the next few years you know any single points never enough it's GNA be great to see the SBA this year but then what's that go as we go for it it's just awesome thank you it was really neat to see last thing I to say I had a benefit to visit a school um I won't mention the ne it wasn't the state anyway but it was a 4500 student High School um in our AI travels and everything else
140and coming back to see our high school and our size you guys should be very lucky you should I I mean I don't know how to explain this enough but you walk down the hallways and you see the disenfranchised number of kids I don't know it's a city it's larger than our town twice the size population and thank you uh Ruby for bringing this when it says students say it's the middle school but do you have a trust of adult or Guardian that you can talk to and we have 95.2% of our students said yes without being solicited by an adult to say that or anything else that's that's awesome um because all the other things we're never you you're not going to stop bullying with teenagers I don't mean to be disrespectful you're not
141you can make it easier you can make it better you can make it um less but having them have an adult to talk to and that's why this town was sort of neat this size District because seeing that size High School I was sad for every kid there so that's all thank you for bringing that awesome great perspective um ech everybody else has said also um to um Bailey and Ruby thank you so much for what you do to help other students not just you individually but the kind of things that you help put together and that you work with and to help other students to to excel to feel good about themselves to know that they have a place at e high school and I know you two are amazing leaders and I know
142there are many more of you over there and I just wanted to say thank you and spr thank you you're definitely blessed with awesome student Representatives we are so grateful for you um we are also blessed with a leadership team at a district level and at the building levels you guys are amazing you're working hard um you're taking accountability so so grateful um magic you're working miracles getting our kids to school it is hard hard work your dedication is so appreciated and I know that as a board we sit here in off of the work you do so thank you so much also we have a new record holder very humble and not only does she hold the record for uh the most baskets made it in over the course of your whole history right
143of playing a t for women but also for men is that correct yeah Jordan's all time record and it's just ratcheting up every game so we're just did so can't do that that is cute thanks for sharing but your hard work over the course is hard work you put in the dedication and you're so humble so thank you for that thank you um yeah and gu our community members we couldn't do this without you very very grateful with that I'm gonna keep it short because I want to get out here by say uh too late eat ville's chess team beat Sammy from Tacoma anytime he beat an acronym school oh I was we went and visited the chess team kids and I was afraid they were gonna challenge us to a game because they are
144wicked smarted and luckily we had warehouser made the cutest little that was so so nice all right we're goingon to end on that happy note at 859 thanks for an awesome meeting flowers flowers that's awesome