001and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay any changes or additions to the agenda tonight all right i think it is so consider a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so move no all right consent agenda is passed we'll report some presentations let's just listen to the uh corey plager is going to talk first about bonds the floor is yours cory agenda has passed we'll report some presentations let's just listen to the uh cory plager is going to talk good evening how are you and i'm also going to see i think i saw john just dialed in um sean are you out there he's not on our screen unless he's the phone number at the bottom he should be the phone
002number we uh i can log in i have a gmail account but our our work uh doesn't come isn't very compatible with uh with google so i'll give one more shot shout out see if he can unmute her or speak uh before i can just i can go ahead and do the intro too yeah john are you there can you hear us can you hear me there you go no and now he's here i'm there yay okay good well thank you and thank you for putting us so early on the agenda we put together a presentation tonight that will look at election results statewide we'll look at the epno levies we'll look at capital projects levies and we'll look at bond issues we'll answer some questions often raised when is the best time to run
003an election what are the results of running bonds and levies together a district district does know about that and then corey has put some information together specific to eatonville looking at the district's election success assessed value history and tax rates and then lastly we have some trends that we're seeing on elections mainly in the area of tax rates and our voters what kind of resistance are we running into with with voters and tax rates so with that corey are you able to share the presentation on the screen yeah kimberly would you like me to share screen try it from my end or are you going to share it from your end i can give it a try i can give it a try here can you see that you can yes perfect it might not
004be the largest but i think we can make this work here yeah and we have a paper in front of us too so we're good perfect oh good technology is a beautiful thing when it works so so the first page is an overview of what's going on with the what we now call epno levees or education programs and operations levees we used to know them as maintenance and operation levies you can see we've been tracking this for some time so far in 2021 more than 91 passage up slightly from what we saw in in 2020 even though close to 90 percent doesn't tell the whole story however because in 2020 we had six districts with double levy failures we actually had 12 that failed on the february ballot in 2020. so the numbers even though
005they're passing were passing as fewer numbers and we're passing by a smaller percentage you'd have to go back to prior to the simple majority passing in 2007 going to effect 2008 to see results as low as what we have right now on the next slide capital projects levees and that is showing continued strong support for capital projects levies the high water mark was really back in 2018 where we had 65 on the ballot a lot of districts using the capital project levy as a way to manage tax rates with the with the drop that was coming in the local levy due to mccleary and in 2021 we've had 13 on the ballot and we've had a 92 passage rate we did have something happen in 2020 that never has happened before and that's where we
006had a school district pass their capital projects levy but fail their epno levy we hadn't seen that before so that was a first on the next slide are school bonds well you can see so far in 2021 there haven't been any districts that have run in fact going back to november of 2020 we've not had a single bond on the november february or april ballot and this is my 32nd year working with school districts across the state and frank i can't ever recall seeing this but i do understand it because school districts have so many other things they're managing right now but you can see in 2020 we had 24 school districts on the ballot and the 33 passage that number would have been slightly higher aberdeen school district failed by literally one vote they
007were 59.999 it just oh and that happened in february of 2020 which you could argue was pre-covered and then when covet hit they decided not to run again so since that time we've just not had any bonds on the ballot question we often get on the next slide when is the best time to submit an issue to the voters february is by far and away the best for bonds epno and capital levies april is a good time for those ep o levies for those districts that failed in february february that we running in april we had that yesterday we had some districts that failed in february we ran in april there's a couple that are pretty close but it looks like we're going to have a better success than we did last year august just
008is not a good time to run we just have found that it's just not the time we want to run we actually had five districts run in 2020 they ran their epno levy because they had they had failed it in february and thought with with covid by august maybe all of this would be behind us well we certainly certainly not the case and five ran and all five lost it just august is a tough time we have found though that if you're a park and wreck district or a fire district they tend to do better in august i think the park and rec districts when they're running an issue for a pool people can't wait to get their kids out of the house and into the pool so i think that's one of the reasons
009and then august we've now had this kind of fire season that we've had it's later part of the summer but for schools it's not a good time in august but it's it's actually an okay time in november for bonds and we don't see too many levees but we see we see bond issues actually do a little bit better in november than we would see in april which has been a change the next slide is running an epno at the same time as a bone and the district has history with this these numbers are changing slightly over time we're actually seeing that running a bond and levy together has very little impact on the levy and actually increases the percentage yes of the bond issue now it doesn't mean it's an overwhelming success for the bond
010issue that 60 super majority is a is a is a high hurdle but the good news is we've not had a district fail an epno and pass a bond issue now i mentioned earlier we've seen that with the capital levy but we have not seen that with with the bond issue so the next slide is the district election history and i'll turn it over to corey thanks john so we have a few slides here that we're going to talk about uh specifics for edenville school district and i think this helps us paint a picture about what's been happening over the last two decades when it comes to elections and we see this a lot with school districts the ebb and flows of voter support seeing you know really high levels of support for all the
011green issues which are the education program levies um we've seen districts sometimes have a struggle in the mid 2000s we saw that to be more common when you needed 60 percent it's hard to see a uh ep failing at almost 58 but now with simple majority starting in uh your levies have received great levels of support and then you see in tan the new capital levy which in 2018 it was a great strategy as the state was limiting what you could collect locally to create that capital levy whether it's for technology or for support on the side the things the general fund might have paid for originally so and we know that that was a six-year capital levy scheduled to expire uh after the year 24. so your capital levy and your epno levy will
012be due at the same time and we shared a slide that the bonds do more favorably when run together but capital levy's even better so capital levies when run at the same time as an education program and operations levy do really well we think it's because you have to communicate both of them side by side you're not asking voters to approve things in back-to-back years or more recently they just said didn't we just pass this so the district set up really well for 2024 when it comes to renewing uh the ep levy and considering renewing that capital levy to some extent on this slide this shows your school assessed valuation history and in 2021 i i believe it was almost a record year for the school district with 11 growth in your community and um
013some of that growth was due to new construction which was almost 24 million dollars in new construction so the district is really flirting with that 2 billion dollars in property value and and john i look at this as a double-edged sword um new property base is really great for helping support the schools it really does reduce your bond tax rate since your principal and interest payments are set it also in the new mccleary model allows you in some flexibility with collecting additional resources but when we notice that growth gets to like the 10 plus range some people feel that their property values are getting too high from a perspective of being having taxes be affordable so it's a double-edged sword that's why we we shared that information about new construction your growth isn't solely from
014reassessments but it's a combination of you know people's property values increasing with new development so there are new people coming to share in the responsibility of paying those school district taxes and on this slide it takes a look at your property values as the base but what is the district requesting when it comes to in green ep o levies you'll notice the significant drop in the epno levy after 2018 that was the mccleary act uh limiting you do a dollar fifty and they did one year they turned around one year later and in 2020 the limit was two dollars and fifty cents where the district has has settled in now in 21 now that they had the updated election in 2020 and in there's a little sliver there starting in 2019 it shows the brown
015capital projects levies which was well done with the timing there with the other tax rate drop and you'll notice your bond tax rate peaking in 2013 at 1.86 it is now down to a dollar and seven from a tax rate perspective due to that increase in property values that has been really strong all the way back to 2015. now this is what the school board and the school leadership as control over is setting these levies setting these bond and capital levy amounts but we take the same slide and we overlay it with the state schools tax this has been one of the biggest debates out there with people that are more concerned about taxes is well the state schools tax went up so what we did is we overlaid your your local taxes with the
016state tax in light gray it's always been there never really front of mind not nothing that we've really communicated with because it went to olympia uh it was fed through ospi and then put back out through apportionment formulas or special education formulas uh um so the new one though is in dark gray and you'll notice that spike in 2018 and when john talked about school districts struggling to pass epno levees like you know not as high support as we used to get and we think a lot of it might have to do with this tax bump in 2018. there was a lot of media scrutiny of that tax rate increase and no matter where you lived it was a pretty big topic back in 2018 2019 but one thing that isn't making the news anymore
017was how tax rates have dropped since then dramatically and even looking at 2021 where eatonville was able to maximize the 2.50 they're still significantly lower than taxes been on almost the last decade so we're not seeing a lot of that in the media and therefore we are seeing a lot of challenges and i'm not saying that cobit hasn't played a factor or you know spirited negotiations or the property values like i mentioned there's a lot of factors it seems like the perfect storm but those are some of the reasons we're seeing school districts struggling with passing epo levies at this current time but 2021 the rates were lower uh excluding 19 and 20 than they were almost a whole decade i think looks like we have to go back to 2010 to find a total
018rate lower with the state schools tax and one thing i learned today john might tease me a little bit but i was reading the budget bill that's what i used to do when i was at the esd is i used to have to analyze the budget impact on our school districts um that school tax that you see in 2021 that is a dollar three it appears it will sunset what i read in the budget um is that they didn't renew the state schools tax which is unfathomable i you know it was such a pivotal part of the mccleary bill but it doesn't i don't see it in the revenues or in the language it looks like they're going to have that sunset unless they go into action really early like right away in the next
019session so your taxpayers if everything stands as is now we'll see that dollar three tax rate disappear next year so districts may be considering how does that impact our long-term capital plan and our tax rate planning a little bit talking about trends we did notice that fewer school districts are asking for the maximum 2.50 cents and fewer districts are asking for the old maximum of a dollar fifty most districts are either limited because they can't collect a dollar fifty because they're per pupil or they're finding that sweet spot between a dollar fifty and two fifty and how do they do well this year you this is a on the left it shows the percentage of yes votes i know the slides a little bit small on the bottom is what the tax rate was and
020i put a trend line on here that shows well surprise the the more the tax rate was the less support they received and you know i'm not sure if you've seen the travel commercials where they have mr obvious and he's he's telling you things about travel very obvious i'm telling you something that sounds very obvious but in 2019 and before our trends were completely flat school districts were asking for five dollars and fifty cents or a dollar ten and receiving the same levels of support statewide so pre-mccleary we didn't see these tax rate sensitivities that we're seeing now in this new world so this is somewhat new that we've seen um just for your information probably not of information to talk about here but i think a lot of people are always curious about what
021their peers are doing you know hoping not to stand out as maybe the highest taxed or the lowest tax where they're putting the least amount of resources or having the highest tax rate and this you know when i look at this i think if anything you're right in the middle maybe to the low middle end from a tax rate perspective as comparing yourself to the pierce county school districts and we'll notice this this has been pretty fluid because not every school has had the chance to go back to the voters since mccleary to get their levy back up to two dollars and fifty cents and some have had the opportunity and not taken it yet so there is going to be some movement on here we haven't seen too much movement in bonds as john
022showed they're just not a lot of districts interested in asking for long-term construction financing this year but we're seeing a handful of school districts really considering 2022 one new thing that we did john is really good at coming up with these ideas on analyzing elections and i like the statistical side and so he said corey can you analyze the reopening phase as defined by ospi so four would be completely open as the traditional uh three is each grade section so elementary middle and high school are in some kind of in-person part-time two is some of the grade levels are in person and one is completely remote and we analyze that in gray those are the gray bars here so you can see for example battleground was in all online only but if i look at
023ephrata they were each building level some in-person instruction i overlaid that with a green line that shows voter success and this isn't a surprise this is maybe another uh obvious chart is voters responded uh to districts that had a more open plan and it wasn't across the board but the correlation data was pretty strong but there were some exceptions spokane where my kids go to school we were not open at all at this time but they outperformed it and had 65 yes support or mead school district their high school was open in september two days a week and they underperformed according to this analysis with 52 and a lot of the feedback from voters was you weren't open enough so we haven't had any data to be able to analyze how this might impact bond
024elections but we do know that the reopening plan when it came to middle school and high school did have a significant correlation elementary's not so much because almost every elementary was open to some extent this february statewide a couple uh final slides here that are not specific to edenville school district but i think important to your school district i saw rhonda testify on the simple majority bill for school bonds and we notice so many schools are getting 54 57 of support for school bonds and they're still not passing because of our restrictive laws dating back to the world war ii era um but we put these maps together because a lot of folks are reaching out to us to go testify and they said is there any materials that we can bring with us so
025we did a couple of slides here we're gonna share with you on some of the information now john i would love to go testify on behalf of simple majority for bonds but we think we might be biased a little bit uh being in the in this industry so we were glad to at least provide some information but one thing we want to point out here is you know when you look at the two coasts uh washington is one of the only school districts with super majority 60 and those are the uh states in green um there are a couple states more restrictive idaho and kentucky are two-thirds so maybe we don't have as bad as we think we do um and then missouri don't know where they got their four-sevenths uh some of their likes
026fractions and then california i believe somewhat recently was at 60 and went to 55 and there's been a lot of debate in our state should we go to 55 should we compromise with those that are not in favor of simple majority and john and i presented it in many different esds and there was an esd where we presented this slide and they said hey we're all in on 55 that would be great for us i analyzed the data almost every school district has been failing bonds at 55 56 and they'd be really well supported by a middle majority however we presented another esd over the olympic peninsula and they're failing bonds at 52 to 53 consistently and they said we're the 55 percent compromise would not support us as we move forward so i can
027see even in just different geography regions in our state a real difference in opinion on moving forward with with school bonds simple majority and we were asked what did the most recent elections look like well we just did the last four years we tried to keep it a pretty current there were 130 school district issues 97 of those districts were issuing those 130 so you could see a handful had to request multiple times or still requested multiple times and didn't pass arlington in republic tried four times castle rock tried three they've not been successful to this date and if we look at districts that were greater than 55 percent there have been 30 more issues passed 23 percent and it's simple majority there'd be 53 total more issues passed and thinking about uh this is
028a perspective of maybe a kobit um relief bill or a stimulus bill having resources for school construction seems like a pretty positive use of that for me in my personal opinion and then finally uh john mentioned aberdeen this shows the districts that would have benefited from a 55 percent uh bond uh election threshold and that would have put 1.1 billion dollars into our school system for construction of new elementaries middle and high schools and vocational centers uh skill center so we we had this information available in the future if there's anything we can do to provide information to the board as there's any discussion uh moving forward on any of the legislative action uh we're happy to support and then lastly should the school board be considering any future capital levies or bonds before the
029epno runs out in 2024 we put the election filing dates for the next few elections here for 21 and 22 and it shows when the resolution filing date is in the middle and the date the mail that the ballots will be mailed so that you can meet those ballots with other district information or should there be a levy uh campaign they could be providing posts on those days so just some information for you to keep available and then we'll open it up for any questions i'm going to stop the screen so i can see everyone yeah any questions from anybody you didn't leave a lot of room for questions that is an awful lot of extremely targeted uh information i mean that really speaks for itself and answered questions i didn't know i had [Laughter]
030well i think john i find these topics really interesting and we've had a little bit more time this year to really dig in to supporting school districts with levies so traditionally our business is used is working on schools capital projects levies and school bonds and construction but due to the slowdown in that sector john i have just turned our focus and like we want to help districts pass epno levies and we shifted focus there so there's anything we can do uh for any of you or other board members or just make sure all the folks out there know we're ready to support very good it's really nice yeah anything else no sir very exhaustive uh information so thank you so much for that all right well thank you both gentlemen uh d.a davidson has been
031a great partner with the school district and we really appreciate your help for uh for a long time now so thank you for another great presentation and a lot of great information so thank you for your time and i'm certain we'll be talking again great well thank you appreciate it very much stay healthy take care all right so i had asked them to present to you knowing that we were up to renew both the capital and the epo in 2024 and so that you could have enough time to have discussion on the capital levy and to consider a bond issue if that was your brothers awesome thank you man those guys took a deep dive they did they are fantastic that is a lot of amazing information okay well let's move on to uh jana
032and diane and uh hear about some information okay john you ready i'm ready i'm gonna go ahead and present my screen so i won't be able to see any of you so if you have questions for me just just shout them out i can get them answered for you okay thanks janice well i'm really excited to introduce this presentation to you tonight this initiative was born out of a very collaborative process it starts with kim knight who had was thinking about how to best use the sr2 funds to support our students and she came up with a great idea and she brought in kristen bosquits and myself and we sat down and we kind of worked on the plan and massaged it a little bit and then we brought in jana rush and um from
033the beginning she was all in and then the next step was we sent a team to the west valley school district in yakima and we wanted to look at their innovative plans and see if there was anything there that we could take back and use in our plan for eating bone middle school and then after that we asked jana to create a vision and an extensive plan for this idea and this initiative and you will see tonight that jana was extremely innovative and thoughtful in creating this plan the freshman preparation initiative is an amazing opportunity for our students so the next slide is the grand plan this is kind of the basis for the whole initiative and it the idea was to infuse esther to fund the eatonville middle school over the course three years
034to support the class of 2026 and beyond and we wanted to increase uh cte offerings career technical education offerings and intentional excuse me increase cte offerings to create intentional middle school and high school pathways for the students along with that number three was another idea was to offset basic ed funding with ct and this truly is this is russia's plan and i want to turn the rest of the presentation over to her and will be available for questions at the end janet thank you diane all right so this is this is like the big picture of everything um i the details are not flushed out yet um but uh there's a reason why uh i went this direction and i'm really passionate about making sure that doors stay open for kids and being able to
035see doors and open them for kids that when they don't see that there's doors available for them that really is that really is something that i'm passionate about and being able to use this esser to money and cte funding in order to create doors for kids is really really inspiring for me and that's what i really took away from our visit to west valley so we have seen a historical drop in sba scores between fifth and sixth grade it's not a new thing this has happened year to year um and that we want to be able to re-engage kids in order to get them hooked hooked back in and and not see that drop from year to year we know there's going to be impacts of covert related learning loss those impacts are nationwide impacts
036impacts i think that this plan is going to provide kids a a really centered and practical problem solving based way to recoup that loss um we know that when kids get to the high school level and kim has actually had the forecast five folks run some data for us and i'll show that data to you in a second we know that kids are seeking different alternatives once they get to the high school level our data has shown that and we want to be able to provide alternatives earlier on so that kids don't have to go away from the district or seek alternate programs outside of the district to find that pathway so if we can keep them here that that's our goal and as you know in gosh way back when um quite a few
037years ago middle school was listed as a targeted one school by ospi and that started this process of really looking at things a little bit differently and the as a result of that targeted one designation we were given title one funding and that helped get some of this going so let's take a look at the data really quickly um so that i can uh show you what all right can you see the data yes okay thank you jeff all right so this first uh slide here and this is only four slides of data so i'll be really quick with that this first slide shows that um fifth to sixth grade uh scores drop in uh what forecast five was able to do for us this beautiful data dashboard that we have access to now that
038takes everything and all this great information about our students and lets us really dig in and i've had so much fun digging into the data so far i don't have access to all of the data i have access to just a limited piece because the dashboards are still being built but this is super exciting for me this is what i've wanted to have access to for a really long time so um this is built into cohorts so what the forecast five has done for us is to be able to show you that this cohort of students here from 2018 to 2019 you can see that they're declining in their sba scores for ela on the left and then for math on the right so the levels are broken down by the colors there and you
039can see so it's it's a significant drop in math not as much of a significant drop in ela the next uh slide is what i was talking about about those alternative programs and those things that kids are looking for that's a little bit differently um a little bit different than our traditional pathways so in 2018 that's when those the graduation requirements changed and all of a sudden kids needed 24 credits in order to graduate and that impacted our kids um we had a huge that big orange chunk in 2019 and 2020 and 2021 those are kids that are seeking alternative programs alternatives anything alternative in grades 9 through 12. and that huge big chunk of red those are the kids that are in our re-engagement programs so in 2018 when those graduation requirements changed that
040forced so many of our kids um to look for something different because they weren't going to be able to graduate without it um we want to try to fix that these next two slides go hand in hand um this this is our ninth grade on track and this is one of the things that ospi tracks for us and so one of the great things that is coming from this is that forecast five is building the middle school and ninth grade on track dashboard um and so i've been able to pick certain data points um from skyward for sba scores map scores grades all sorts of awesome things to be able to build this dashboard and get early warnings about kids that are not on track to be successful in um ninth grade and so we'll
041be able to track them early on and move forward but this is really interesting to me um so in 2019 um over 80 percent of our non-low-income ninth graders were on track and you can see we've had a positive nice positive trend for non-low income from 2017-2019 this last slide i have right here is our low income students they hit a spike a top out of on track at only 60 percent of our 9th graders in 2018 were on track in the low income category and they dropped down to about 55 percent in 2019. so our non-low-income students are making that great trajectory and they're on the right track we're struggling with those kids that are low income so this is the great these are the nice data points that we have in order to
042to look at some interventions so i'm going to go back to sharing um my tab again all right so that's the why so here's the plan and i the next slides talk about the plan as it's kind of the big rocks of the plan the big pieces of the plan over the next three years so starting we've already started um spring and summer um right now um i'm going to seek conditional cte certification for two of our science teachers they're on board they're ready to go i just need to work with kim to get into the uh pieces i need to do online to get that certification conditional and um and then the big orange check mark is next to the cte frameworks that we've already submitted and since you guys have access to this
043i believe not just in paper but digitally you the 7th and 8th grade science frameworks are linked there and what this basically does is just transfers the funding source for 7th and 8th grade science from basic education which is where those teachers were funded from before into the cte funding stream so that um it allowed that's that offset piece so if i'm funding teachers a different way then it allows me to be more more innovative and do different things with um the money that would normally be set aside for basic ad teachers um so those have been the cte frameworks have been submitted to ospi for approval we're waiting to hear back from them the science teachers are um going to be able to create the project-based lesson plans to go with those cte frameworks
044that have been submitted the sixth grade teachers are going to this is the this is the one that that we know we've got sixth graders that are coming in with um that need some skills and we want to be able to create a warrior skill class that uses our social emotional learning curriculum and our avid curriculum and front load all of those social emotional learning tools that they need to be successful at middle school and front load those executive functioning the organizational the note taking the how to study all those types of skills we want to hit them hard with that and i really want the sixth grade teachers to own that and so i'm going to give them time to be able to blend those two programs together and create that curriculum using the
045materials that we have that's really going to set our our sixth graders up for success so that they're going to be on the right foot when we start middle school in the fall and then to get some more staff trained in those avid strategies i will be sending up to five staff to the summer institute this summer which is all digital and so um we don't have to pay for travel we don't have to pay for hotels we don't pay for those types of things so that that's a nice thing so then next school year um and there's two slides for year one we'd like to add ninth grade health into the middle school master schedule jessica morish has taught ninth grade health at the high school level and so we'd like to be able
046to offer that to our eighth graders so give them that jump start opportunity to get some high school credits um out of their a half of high school credit and that standalone class that kind of holds some of them up down the road when they're trying to decide on that pathway and make those decisions we'll add the warrior skills class for our sixth graders um we want to not leave out our seventh and eighth graders um with our warrior time so we want to enhance that second step that social emotional learning curriculum has lessons that are designed for advisory so we're going to incorporate those as well as use the zello which uh high school uses but start building in those college and career readiness pieces at the middle school level um so we'd like
047to to work on that during our warrior time which is our advisory time again we're going to enhance seventh and eighth grade science with the cte frameworks but we don't want to leave sixth grade out and i cannot use cte funding for sixth grade uh but sixth grade needs to have something that's going to feed into what the seventh and eighth grade science teachers are going to do and so um the sixth grade teacher will work with the seventh and eighth grade teachers on creating a quote quote cte framework even though it's not cte it'll be a sixth grade science framework that make sure all of our science standards are covered um between sixth grade and eighth grade so he'll be able to fill the gaps and make sure that what he's doing lines up
048with what seventh and eighth grade are going to be doing as well um we'll continue um professional development for staff with blended learning serendipitously the middle school started our blended learning um professional development with staff last year before covet hit and before we had to scramble and become fully online and teachers benefited from that they really were thankful that we were able to start that last year and are ready to jump and move forward now and so we're excited about that um we're going to continue the staff teaming that we we started with our title 1 funding and looking at our data and um really analyzing what it is that students are coming to us with and what they need in order to be successful on the state test and and for those critical skills
049that take them from grade level to grade level and endure in the long term and uh content areas so like language arts and math and and all those social studies we'll all have a learning management a digital system to be able to keep track of those so we're going to be able to use this money to make sure that teachers have the time in order to analyze the data and create the common assessments that we can use to track things and load all of that into the learning management system i'm excited to be able to offer extended day opportunities for students avid has a collaborative study group training and process that's really great it takes what the avid students are able to do in their tutorials in the classroom and it kind of extends it
050um into it's designed for outside or extended day opportunities so we'll be able to do that so it'll be a kind of a very structured tutorial tutoring homework opportunity for kids after school and then we'll be able to extend our stem offerings after school as well so instead of just athletics and tutoring we'll be able to add some additional clubs year two um we'd like to add i'd like to add an applied algebra class for high school credit we took this idea from west valley which has a two-period applied algebra class um so students get algebra credit and for the algebra period of the class and then that they apply their algebra skills and they work side by side the algebra teacher and the cte teacher work side by side but although that all of
051that algebra learning was done in a very practical sense and had a project-based anchor to go with it so students were seeing the um the reason why we need to learn algebra and the reason why algebra is important in your everyday life so i'm excited for that and to do that we would need to do some remodeling of the existing art room and that would have to happen not this coming summer but the following summer so that it would be able to accommodate the class we would like to um this is a hope and a dream it may not this may not be able to have to happen um but use the mastery-based learning that you those board policies and procedures that were passed earlier and talk about competency-based credit in order to off start
052offering cte credit for uh grade seventh and eighth cte classes so that the height kids could start earning those cte credits for high school at the middle school level as well so there's a lot like i said there's a lot of kinks to work out there's doesn't have all the details this is one of those detail pieces that we're really going to have to work on next year that's why i didn't put it on the year one plan we'll have next year to work out the details so that we can implement that in year two to continue with year two we are going to continue to explore what things we can offer for high school credit at the middle school level continue our staff teaming so that they can continue to add those lessons to
053the learning management system and what i would also like to do uh over the summer in at the end of the 22-23 school year is at a college and career guidance staff member to the building so that my current social worker mrs parks can focus on the mental health aspects and the social emotional aspects that are needed at the middle school level and i would have someone else to be able to help with the college and career guidance the guidance counseling types of pieces that need to happen early on at the middle school level so that students are set up for success in high school um that summer 2023 we would look at taking our old home home economics classroom and remodeling that so that we're ready for in year three being able to add
054a culinary cart arts pathway through cte and partnering with grits to take some of the food that they grow there and be able to incorporate that into our program and then year three our s or two money would need to be spent early on in the school year so we're going to continue looking at those pathways and expanding our high school credit offerings for students questions i have questions blame on me lisa okay at the beginning of your presentation janet you there was a forecast five uh chart ouch stop it i'm sorry oh my god um so um about the math uh chart um and you talked about the low income data um that there was a spike and then it went down the year of 2019. yep so let me pull that back up
055for you please so it's taking a long time to load i apologize that's all right but can i can i continue talking about you okay how is that i'm talking i'm asking about the intervention for those students and how is that related to the presentation that you just presented to us with the cte how are we helping the low-income students so that they can get out of that that um hardship in terms of the math um yeah performance yes so um are you talking can you see it's the one is non-low income students right here so this is ninth grade on track data okay i'm talking about the low income students right so i think this one is low income this is ninth grade on track data as well all right these last two slides
056this one where it says non-low-income students that was ninth grade on track for non-low-income students and then ninth grade on track for our low-income students okay so but how do we help them so to be to get back on track in terms of the programs that you're presenting right now okay so the programs that so by so by uh creating pathways for kids um that are career and call in both career and college uh those low-income students will use that project-based learning those types of things to provide a practical anchor for their learning rather than just sticking them in a remedial math class and having them do more skills practice that applied algebra class is really the one that i am really excited about that's what uh west valley did in for their students that
057were not on track to be uh skill ready for ninth grade math they did the practical application of algebra along with the alphabet skills all at the same time a physical and visual application of algebra to anchor those skills to so there will be a plan of action for those students in terms of intervention for those students so we can help them um yeah my hope is that i'm going to be able to send a different product okay right kids are not products right but in that sense i'm going to be able to send a different kind of student now to the middle school or to the high school as a result of being able to do all of the project based learning that's cte based at the middle school all right so the other
058thing correct me if i'm wrong on my track here is we're looking at about a 20 disparity between uh non low income and low income entering ninth grade so the presentation here from what i understood is we're trying to target them beginning in sixth grade so that we don't have the disparity entering the ninth grade to have everybody at a closer level as they enter high school you got it so i would like to kind of expand that the attempt of what the presentation that jana just did is going up river right lisa you were asking about those specific students those specific students are now juniors and seniors okay okay all right and regardless of this program that john janna is presenting i think i'm gonna go outside that and say how are we helping
059those students in terms of what type of intervention are we providing so that we can help them be successful in the next grade level i guess i went beyond just what jenna is presenting but i do understand what she has presented so that they can be prepared when they enter high school which i'm a little saddened by that because my son would have been very well prepared as he entered ninth grade so uh jana not to you know look backwards too much but have we identified anything or even hypothesized why that trend went down in 2019 for the low-income kids i we haven't had a chance to really dig into the data that way that data is that ninth grade on track data is based on their freshman performance so it's not in preparation for
060their freshman year that's not when the data is gathered is gathered when they're actually freshmen got it the second question is there a reason that sixth graders are excluded from cte funding is that something that is worth pursuing to change sixth graders are considered elementary students as far as ospi funding is concerned yeah so yes that would be something to consider i mean some lobbying around so there's really no good reason that they're not i mean this is yeah it's not based on any science like developmental ability or anything it's just a categorization yeah that's something that i would love to i should go talk to some people about so it seems to me there would be a definite benefit in being allowed to spend cte money on sixth grade another question is janet i
061think what what such a brilliant idea of combining the sr2 and cte um program with that and i just really appreciate that um once the sr2 runs out right um will cte funding be able to at least sustain the program that you have built did we forecast that beyond esser2 funds yes because cte is that that golden egg that has that extra bonus of funding that comes along with it so um there it's like you get your your apportionment plus a little bit extra so i foresee that with you know with that cte funding we'll be able to well the esr funding i see it kind of as a seed it's going to be able to develop those pieces and then the cte funding will be able to continue them on after that s for
062funding is final is done okay that's what i was wanting to because sustainability is very important in those type of programs so i appreciate that absolutely and i don't want to start kids on a path and then have to say i'm sorry we're all done we can't do it anymore that's i i don't want to build something like that yeah no thank you so much that makes me happy angelina hello thank you polite and use the raise your hand button yes i didn't want to interrupt anyone thank you very much um i just kind of have a question if you don't mind me asking about like your career and college readiness program are you like specifically only focusing on college are you focusing on all schools like including trade schools because i know some kids
063are not like college ready or college prepared or like school just doesn't work for them so i also want to promote trade schools too not just college and i was wondering if you worked that into your program as well absolutely we're talking about college and career ready it encompasses trade schools it encompasses community colleges it encompasses a lots of different things that's why it's not just college ready track it's everything combined together and avid has done a great job of promoting that college-going culture we need to support the kids that that's not what's going to be the thing for them that's not their ticket down the road they need something else to awesome thank you so much i and i also love the presentation that you put together and everything that you're doing i really
064appreciate it and i think it's going to be very wonderful for the kids thank you thank you angelina so jana and lisa and board i just would like to add that funding and the extra funding for cte does tend to be a lobbyable legislative act and so i would just encourage us to get as active as we can to meet that additional cte funding i know that has been an issue um at the state level and especially for our skill center students as well so just keep that on the radar and i think that if you did that and graded a sixth grade option as well that would be a really strong legislative um package that i do believe our legislators in this area would be very supportive of because it's highly regulated it's standards-based
065and it has to be approved through the state for regulation i vote that janna presents at the was the next this coming november about this program because i think it's such a brilliant idea thank you so much thank you lisa okay so if you would like to do that i will help the presentation submit it if you'd like to do this all right no there's a timeline okay any other questions right there is great thank you yeah okay any questions or discussions thank you jana thank you everybody thank you take care okay so kim you have an enrollment report for us i do and it's not nearly as exciting as fantastic presentations so please forgive me for that but i am happy to say that april enrollment was essentially flat to march so we finally
066stabilized a little for the first time this entire year um preschool registration has been open for about a month and a half now and eatonville elementary and warehouses are both full there are just a couple of slots left at columbia crest so we're really hopeful that this is and the hardware the trend that's coming for our regular enrollment for next year actually we actually revised our enrollment projections for next year we kind of moved up from worst case to more moderate return where houser has already met those enrollment projections as well so that is making me cautiously optimistic as far as our enrollment for next year cte enrollment at the middle school it's held strong all year so that for the first time they are actually covering their staffing costs with money to spare so
067that they've actually been able to build on those programs as well okay and i know that uh janna and mr sneezak had planned putting their heads together on how to actually expend some of those additional funds this year um as far as the financial report i would like to put back point out that the projected fund balance that you see on the expenditure page does reflect the lost transportation and enrollment revenue that we were anticipating free flows of legislation which is my segue into kind of my comments if there are no questions on the printed report so as we know they did actually pass a budget over the weekend we are at the very beginning of trying to decipher everything in there but i have a few initial points that i would like to go
068over with you they did enact some transportation hold harvest in the budget we will actually qualify for both years this year and next year so for 2021 what they have done is to take the allocation we have now which is the reduced allocation you combine it with last year's allocation and divide it by two that's your high water mark and then they'll back fill you up to that mark from our current so that's going to give us about another 284 thousand dollar step for our transportation budget for next year it's a true hold harmless you get the greater of what their regular formula would generate or we get the 1920 allocation so that is tremendous news for us in terms of transportation funding columbia press as a high poverty school does qualify for some additional
069counseling funding that begins in the 2223 school year now keep in mind that a prototypical elementary school has 400 students columbia crest sitting at a 131 for next year would basically qualify for 0.16375 of the counselor which is one day a week but it does mean by the year 2223 they will be funded for two days a week right now they do split and settle with warehouser and so they're actually finally almost funded for the counseling staff that they have at the school beginning in 2223 the districts will receive an additional 25 per student for technology in their msox for an activity for devices and that will based on our 1920 enrollment that'd be about 48 500 for the district for technology enrollment stabilization is where it gets just a little bit fuzzier there are
070two provisions one for 2021 and one for 2122. they both reference esther funds they don't specify which surprise so i was able to sit on a webinar this morning with tj kelly and michelle the caucus from lspi in which for 2122 it was stated that only the sr2 funds counted towards the platform what that means next year is they've agreed to stabilize at per student with the combination of state funds and ester funds so if it is indeed as for two funds we will get an additional 384 000 enrollment stabilization for next year for 2122 you get to use 1920 enrollment same funding mechanism in place minus the ester funds but that's where it's just a little fuzzier it doesn't i don't know if it's one two and three i don't know if there's just
071one and two because right now we can't even apply for three that's not open so if it is the combination of all three we would not qualify if it is the combination of one and two then they would qualify and that would be another three hundred and thirteen thousand dollars so ospi said they hope to have the specifics out by the end of the week so i'll be able to give us some more definitive answers at that time they did eliminate all co-pays on lunches for our reduced students so that's something that we actually funded so it's not that one of those mandates for the district believed the costs for that so that is good news for all of our families and for our food certain stuff as well and they no longer have to
072attract that quite as well that's going to be a communications point for us to get out with our families that it really improves them then to turn in those forms so that they make sure that they qualify for those services and the last piece is some really great news for our levies so for the 2022 collection year we get to use our 1920 enrollment figures that's going to make the difference for those districts that are at the per pupil collections versus the 2500 per thousand and we are teetering right on that edge of going to our per pupil collection so um that is going to help us tremendously and we get to count those extra 140 and just on a side note they released our initial title one allocations for next year and we are
073seeing a tremendous boost a increase in our title on allocations which will benefit the middle school and columbia press so in addition to the esther funds that's really let's do some wonderful things of those buildings that's any more questions about that okay um so no hearings tonight um unfinished business second reading of equivalency credit for career technology go to diane and amy for this one amy there she is i'm here sorry i just got really dark in the room that i'm in so sorry this is what it is so we we've been reading this over quite a bit together and on our own and we're wondering how to do questions or you want to know about it so i'll just remind everyone when we were looking at all the mastery-based uh new policies that came
074through you wanted to pull this one out and kind of do a second reading there were questions about the that you wanted to address the high school principal and so that was the intent of bringing it forward for a second reading really the additions are primarily around mastery based if you look on page 3 of 5. uh the ela math science and cte courses and then the addition of the computer science so if you have questions about specific classes at the high my biggest question is what is this changing based on what we're already doing big questions i mean honestly nothing um it just formalizes um a process for students to earn mastery-based credit so that's something that we i mean we just try really hard to work with kids on that anyway um and
075you know letting them demonstrate competency so we've done it in other i mean we've kind of been doing it for a while so since we went to the 24 credits and just really trying to ensure that students are able to you know like like jana was just talking about if you have a kid that failed in a class in ninth grade or something you know how can we help them to recover that so if they've taken you know maybe they failed their you know their intro to computer science class but in their junior year they take a more advanced class and they do well then we grant that competency-based credit so it's really um it's just kind of formalizing that process so okay thank you yeah look at my notes i had some positive comments
076some i mean no concerns i don't know i think rhonda had a couple questions but um she's not here so she's gonna have she has some questions that she could go back to diane yeah she could just email the enemy and follow up that way just another way to remove barriers for kids to be successful huge right so i mean i certainly don't see any problems to this policy you know i like getting you know a computer into the science realm if the rest of us well i mean i know rhonda's not against it so i'm happy to vote on it tonight if you'd like to or we can wait lebron follow up okay so uh i would accept a motion then to uh approve policy 2413 for equivalency credit for career technology second movement
077second in any further discussion seeing hearing none uh all in favor please signify by saying aye please think about saying no okay 24-13 this is pending there is some information for you make sure that you have a chance to read that and understand you wanted to put that off and get an opportunity to have legal advisement so if you had specific questions between now and the next board meeting go ahead and send them to me um and we can front load that conversation um this is a tricky one it's it's interesting it's more interesting i think that than i had anticipated so i i look forward to our conversation and um we'll broker that later yeah just one quick question um what other ferpa allowed entities do we share information with i mean we have
078data agreement with just a small handful and most of them are government entities i know we do with dod recruiting things but i can't think of any no doh if there's a survey or something like that but um yeah this is an interesting one yeah so yeah okay well i wouldn't mind knowing who we who fits into that category um okay so if you want us to do some digging around that just yeah what other approved agencies are i know the dod one it was right information or wash the federal funding diane and i will investigate that diana because i don't know off the top of my head i'm thinking because we have to have data sharing agreement and if i can't find any any other questions or comments okay okay then let's move on
079to uh interlocal agreement between south pierce fire and school district for a little mechanics space it sounds like so this is something that i had been approached by uh mr ray i met about if you have rhonda and that about the possibility of utilizing our space up in the transportation garage so i had kristen's wrath just an initiative for you to get your thoughts and if it's something you wish to proceed are we going to be is our mechanics going to be servicing their vehicles possibly so we do have any agreement that that would be over time by pierce county fire and rescue so they do have some personnel there that are okay i didn't know they had any mechanic personnel so so if our mechanics service their equipment how does that work i'm sorry
080that you'll ask how does that work with our risk management bar mechanics so just their quick that is an excellent question and one that i will need to follow up on into that business though that's a great question yeah that may or may not fall under the harmless yeah but that's that's a good question then who would be responsible i don't think it'll be a problem i mean there's lots of agreements like this fire just a lot of fire departments don't have mechanics yeah good capture like check yeah just to be sure no i'm not close to it at all but i i just wanna be sure okay any more discussion about that okay we'll find out about that next meeting and let's move on to policy six one two five voucher certification and approval
081so this is one doing a little sloping that we discovered has not been updated since 1988 so the amount the dollar amount for which we needed free approval from the board was five thousand dollars which is almost every voucher that carolyn processes every month and that would delay payment then by an extra month if they had to come to the board for approval before it could be paid so we are asking that you consider increasing that limit so that we can pay most of the bills without pre-authorization looks to me like it was just updating some numbers so yeah i don't have a problem with that so uh nobody else does that except the motion to prove uh policy 6215 this is actually aligned with rd in our district to see what the bigger distance
082there is any questions or discussion okay and uh all in favor please signify by saying aye hi hi signify by saying no okay now that is approved six one two five uh so let's move on to resolution 723 which is pretty so we did put this on as we have the last couple years standard procedure and early on in our economic projections at this time we don't believe that risks are going to be necessary in the district but it does allow us the flexibility if um we've had every unique opportunity in the last year possible should another such unique opportunity call upon us that we would be able to respond accordingly of course all these numbers so we have to make the rift decision before all the information is in so and we we have
083met with both of the union representation to inform them which is good news because we have been in different places in other years just something we have to do every once in a while yeah okay so uh any other questions okay i would consider an approval or consider a motion to approve resolution 723 as presented moved moving seconded any further discussion are you seeing and hearing none all in favor please signify by saying aye okay 723 is passed and then we will consider the commitment of funds for ems staffing stabilization so when we first began the discussion of esser yes or two is putting it at the middle school the family would think there were going to be some staffing reductions and at that point okay then then you don't actually get to do anything
084supplementing or making things better because you're just maintaining yes so what we would ask for for your commitment first disabled fte in the amount of one million dollars over four years so that she can continue to build upon the program rather than just have to fill existing staffing and if there's just a defensive skill discussions okay i've considered a motion to approve the commitment of funds for emo staffing stabilization as presented so move okay movement second any further discussion okay hearing none all in favor please signify to say hi hi all supposedly signify saying no okay is approved get that up and running thank you for doing that that's very progressive and a pretty important investment in our students you got your money jana let's go thank you it's like christmas okay let's go to
085superintendent comments nope nope yes yes sorry all right we will consider approval of the washington lea academic and student well-being recovery plan of resolution 724 supporting that plan well this is a compliance and an opportunity for us to submit once again to ospi so that we because we are required in order to access the federal and state funding of which we just had conversations about we must have two things one is the resolution uh as adopted um uh resolution 724 is a popular plate all required for us to be able to access our american rescue plan elementary and secondary school emergency relief that is the s e r a-r-p-e-s-s-e-r okay in addition to that this is a drop down exciting plan that is the work that we are doing now so if you have any
086specific questions but really the plan um number one we have to do at test stations and it has to be published it needs to be ospi by june 1st and then this is really around universal supports academically and social and well-being including the diagnostic assessments these are not this is not new work so mental health support in order to access the funding so i ask that you consider both this package and that with that we will be submitting it probably tomorrow and then posting it online along with our very long plan that we will need to update uh in order for fall 21. so i have a lot of i have a lot of questions preston so um is that something after we moved the motion or is it before uh well is it is
087it about the resolution well a lot of this when i reviewed there's some things here that i'm asking that i'd like to so is that something that we do it now jeff or is that ask away yeah right so on page one it says ethanville um part two it says ethanville school district attest that the school board approved this plan after allowing for public comment and the date is yesterday should that be today well yes all right so that should be 428 correct correct okay and then number two um the forecast five analysis tool is that something then that's going to be put or placed in the eatonville school district website as a link so when we met with ospi chris regdal we talked about the equity tool districts can use whatever they feel fit
088that would be so you saw an example today this evening with janna going through looking at data trend data historical data comparative data that would allow us to say wow that doesn't seem fair therefore we should use more money and we should address these things so we are stipulating out that we are using the forecast five analysis tool other school districts are using a variety of different things we will not be cool online so there will not be a link to the uh to the uh forecast five there will be a link to what we use but we will do that all right okay okay thank you preston and then part three part three page two and that is about the universal sports for all students should we be checking the bot's student voice and
089perception because that is via the student board representation like angelina's um uh position right now certainly would you like to add that please do okay that's great that would be awesome all right and then page four number six those that we mark we're missing grade levels is that by default that we're going to do it k through 12. no you caught that so that's page 4 and page 5 through page 6. yes actually actually well if you look at number six on page four this is the academic diagnostic assessment okay and then if you look at number seven it's the same question lisa so it's the same question and then it says grade and then how many times you did it correct so shouldn't we at least put the grade level on the page six
090yeah i mean yeah number six on those yeah all right i do believe and i might be might not be true but i do believe that the plan that we have right here that has been updated to reflect that okay all right they haven't i i was the first i was one of the first people to grab this and fill this out so but yes we can do that that's very easy because all right same data on number seven all right thank you can we move to page nine part part 6 and my question on this one is the question is that based on the least review of equity analysis of diagnostic assessment results what student groups need additional time support and or extracurricular activities etc etc we only mark low-income students with disabilities students
091experiencing homelessness i know that we're currently doing all this work but for the equity purposes for next year because this is going to be for next year should we because we are almost 90 whatever percent of white student should we be marking that because then we're leaving that living those students out if we don't does that make sense kristin yes i i understand i understand the question uh the data that we analyzed found that this was the preponderance of inequity if you want us to look at specific groups for the purpose of the diversity equity and inclusion i think we should uh what's the excluding groups in this list it would be the all those races so is your recommendation to to do all of the boxes it just seems like any group is going
092to have need additional time support i i'm fine with making that amendment i think for me it's not i'm not looking at the additional support from the district it's the exclusion of those students if we do not check those bumps sure so we will amend one nine we will do all of the boxes stop sorry guys and we don't we don't have students in foster care right preston is that oh no we do yeah yeah yeah yeah so my recommendation is we'll just through all of the boxes and then we'll actually look at individual data next year right yes will that work yes please okay that's my my own vote so i'm not quite sure if the rest of my board members agree with me but no it's not right now um and i think
093that is it for me sorry don't be sorry it's what you're here for number 15 the last page number 12 um and then the last uh question are we supposed to be respond i mean answering that question can you repeat what you're asking here you said number 12. yeah page 12 yes number 15 asks uh up to three strategies right up to three strategies the inclusionary practice will continue to be a focus and there's no answer to that one so is is there going to be a response to that number 15 from us no that our response is that inclusionary practices will continue to be a focus that's our answer including very proud oh okay does that make sense strategies interventions it has implemented okay so the answer is the inclusion okay that's okay got
094it that's correct i thought it was just part of the sentence that's why i was asking yeah i appreciate uh because i actually taught a couple other people as well so we end this just know that this plan is intended to be adjusted over time so once we post it edge or we say oh gosh we're not going to use math think more we can just go in online and take it off so you're not locked into anything other than making sure that it's in on june 1st so that we can ask for their money okay so thank you for that i appreciate that lisa of course thank you anything else okay then i would accept a motion to approve washington lea academic and student vulping recovery plan and resolution 724 in support of that
095plan so move movement second any further discussion so thank you very much um i wrote down what janna wrote she said doors open for children and i want to really appreciate this board for being explicit about the children come first so thank you very very much just a few things that have happened recently we really have dabbled in vaccinations i want to thank the board for supporting um we've had multiple uh last week we had uh our second dose clinic up at ashford and today we had our first student clinic at the high school during lunch time and we had 25 students that came some of them brought their parents age 16 all the way up to 19. we're finding that our athletes are understanding that if they are vaccinated and if there's an outbreak
096or if there's an exposure on the team they will not have to be quarantined so i appreciate the support around that and kirk's pharmacy so he's been really really great and a great partner we have been seeing some spikes just like in pierce county we have seen them in our schools and they seem to be clustered around families we are not seeing spread amongst children what we're seeing is positive cases and then heidi our nurse is having to go through the contact tracing and being very clear that the pierce county health department tells basically each and every case it is very frustrating for families it is um it is really hard on heidi and it is really you know it is this it's almost a no-one situation at times so when we look at sports
097even like the rules that have come out for wrestling they're really really difficult to do well having the students test twice a week and then if there's one case the entire team is quarantined it's really you know we have lobbied we continue to lobby that we've got to get to a different place because it's just we feel like one step forward two steps back so i just want to publicly say we recognize that this has been a really hard year we also have had conversations with the pierce county health department i don't know if you saw today but they changed their numbers and their metrics and they're like 300 and plus cases per 000. so how we went from 100 like even the numbers don't make sense so my heart goes out to our families
098who are trying to navigate through this please know that we are partners in your education and it is just as frustrating for us um it's really heartbreaking so we hope that fall of 21 is easier we hope that there are things that will change so that it will make it easier for our educators however i must say i'm very pleased with our not having transmission in school i think that we've proven that over time we've been open for a long period of time we have not had outbreaks with our staff we have not had outbreaks between staff and students so thank you to all of you that are sending your children and we will continue to provide wonderful care for them we do have sports there is normalcy so middle school has intramural football and
099girls basketball and they are outside the weather was great last week i want to thank the coaches it's been interesting because the high school coaches are actually going down and kind of working with the middle school which is really great and it just seems normal the kids are excited they're they're you know it's just if you want to see kids doing great things our high school is rocking it they're doing really really well they're winning and they're complying with these crazy rules that we have right now so um there is normalcy really if you're in schools if you have an opportunity i know that you know we're not letting not letting visitors in but really it seems like real school and kids are normal teachers are normal we've all kind of normalized this new um
100world that we're in so it's pretty amazing um as you know that assessments have been put off into the fall and so that is one good thing we'd like them to be maybe push down the road a little bit however we have as you just passed that plan we have ongoing assessments and student voice i mean we incorporate all of that on a regular basis many times i think that's much more accurate and appropriate uh legislative i just want to thank our local legislators for supporting schools they're always very very uh progressive jt has visited with the superintendents from pierce county and has really wanted to understand about mental health just really leaning in so i want to just thank thank them for this has been a hard session and it's all been zoomed and
101it's been strange and there hasn't been the connection um but they didn't really you know they did a great job for for our school and for other schools so we want to thank them we know that that was really yeoman's work i want to thank kim for her work with fiscal uh and thank you for passing the plan it's been a lot in a short amount of time and so to digest that i know i've been on financial zooms i know she's been locked up in her office um just to try and figure out the i don't know how many pages of rules a couple questions that i have for you um you mentioned about the wazda presentation if you do want to present as a group i am happy to submit that so if
102you have an opportunity to talk about that or you want to send me an email i can't remember when the presentation is due but it's due late soon for the pre-session and then um curious about next month if you would like to have amy on right now yes okay amy i'm gonna offer you up for next next month sometime would you allow amy and marianne to really present next month on their ideas for wraparound services for the freshman and sophomore it seems like a logical progression into the next uh and if you would like to have them do that i think that that would be kind of the next step you heard the middle school and then all children go to the high school so if if you're interested in that i just wanted to
103offer that today if so let's get that scheduled time amy is that okay yeah let's check with marianne's schedule but she she is coaching but i'll have to see as long as it's not with her it's fine with me she doesn't have a match okay and that is it for me on one last note i haven't written a letter of resignation because i'm just not ready to do that yet but you've already accepted my resignation but i will write you a letter just not quite ready to write it so you'll get a letter from me oh yeah you will thank you just better be good it will it will be or not you can correct it okay uh board comments uh angelino you like to start us off do you have any comments to make
104it's really good to see you guys i feel like i haven't been here in a while um daffodils kept me super busy so i apologize for that but yeah i think that's it mrs rush did a great job on her presentation um and i'm very excited to see everything that the middle school has to offer and see how much we can actually help the students get prepared for high school because that is very important i think it will benefit them a lot so i'm really excited for that all right anybody have anything to i am even though i know kind of walked around and kind of looked over how they were doing things and chatting with some of the teachers and i felt like it was fun to influence her face-to-face and i felt like
105they appreciated that too and it was good for me to be in the building it was good to be here and i think can in my view we're agents of the district in my opinion yeah it was definitely that's a good idea anything matt no we said anything from you nope i've enjoyed the dog situation yeah i'm so sorry right now okay and then you know i would just say in support of what creston brought up because i have replied to a lot of emails myself in the last several weeks and you know this this whole situation is still a hot mess and it's the school district is doing everything we can together back in school and we don't get to make these decisions we don't get to come up with these numbers and we
106are stuck implementing them so i know everybody here is talking to everybody we can we are making as much noise as we can and um yeah this is what we're stuck with for the foreseeable future so we appreciate the community's uh patience and uh you know we'll just keep going get through this so uh anybody have anything else to say all right then let's adjourn this meeting at uh 2045. good night you