001Regular board meeting of Columbia School District School Board. Oscar, could you please lead us lead us in the pledge? >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> [clears throat] >> Good news. >> So, I want to start with uh we got some exciting news. The art show, the middle school art show is up. Uh just concluded at ESD23, but I just wanted to show and share some names and some artwork. We actually had quite a few participants this year in this year's art show. So, you can see we had a lot of students showcasing their work this year, the ESD and Pascal. There's just a brief uh summary of some names
002and some samples that you'll see in there in front of you. Um I'll keep going for a while. So we were well represented uh middle school art show at the ESD this year. So had a chance to go take a look at that and was very proud of our students work. So just wanted to showcase some of the work being done by local students that was showcased at ESD in Pasco. >> Thank you. Board operating principal review. dealing with citizen or staff complaints, concerns, or questions outside of board meetings. >> Let's see. Haley, can you start? >> Uhuh. Agree upon a process for dealing with complaints, concerns, or questions and the actions that need that will be taken when a board member is contacted by a community member, for example. >> Listen to the individual's
003concern. If the individual has discussed the issue with the person immediately responsible. If this has not been done, tell them how to contact the appropriate person. If the person has tried to resolve the problem with the appropriate persons and they are still dissatisfied, the board should then refer such criticism, complaints, and suggestions to the superintendent for study and recommendation. >> Go ahead, sir. [clears throat] Explain that as a final resource, a complaint is submitted to the board, but that the board practice is to refer complaints to the superintendent before taking any action. Explain that complaints raised against individuals cannot be addressed in a public meeting. >> Be cautious of giving the appearance of agreeing with the person. Sometimes just listening makes people think you're on their side. Anything you say might be understood as the
004position of the board or the administration. >> Thank you very much. Very straightforward. Any changes or additions to the agenda? >> No change tonight's agenda. It'll play out exactly it is in front of you. >> Consent agenda. >> I make a motion to accept the consent agenda. >> Paul second. Motion >> has been made and seconded. Any further commentary or questions about the consent agenda, the personnel, the payables, or anything else? reminder in front of you is the 2728 district calendar. The board approved the 2627 calendar last spring. So, uh, as we've been typically trying to do, staying two years ahead so we can get these out for our families. A lot of back past that so they can plan vacations, make those things on there. So, tonight county are looking at two years ahead
005of us. Okay. >> Any other discussion? >> All in favor? I >> any opposed? Thank you. Hearing of visitors. Thank you, Mr. Ali, for being with us. Okay, report to discussion. All right, our student reps are here. Um, we're not going to walk through a slideshow tonight. They're just going to kind of talk to me a little bit about things they've been starting. Okay, I'll start first with if you recall, Mrs. Maxwell came in to request approval for the uh spring break field trip. Um, that was the one to Portland and Seattle. I got the opportunity to attend. We left on Monday at 6 a.m., which is pretty early for me. Um, we went to Portland first. We got to see um, Portland State University, which is really interesting because it's like right in the
006middle of Portland. Um, that was really pretty. It was a really cool opportunity. We got to go to Nike headquarters, which was super duper cool. They have a giant lake in the middle of all their buildings and all these statues and things dedicated to different athletes. And they have all sorts of courts and fields there. It's It's really It's really beautiful. If you ever get the opportunity to go, I suggest you do. It's really It's really lovely. Um we also went to the Portland Zoo. That was actually the first place we went. Um it's just make me a little bit sad personally, but um it's still really cool. I like, so it's cool to see them. Um we went with about I think we went with six other schools. Finley was there. Mton was there.
007Um and then some other schools. We had a guest speaker come in. That was pretty interesting. And then we went to Seattle um where we got to see Udub which is a beautiful campus. It is so beautiful there and they have cherry blossom trees that were so those were also really pretty and it was really interesting because a few of the frats were out actually like selling different things. So it was cool to see like that of campus life. Um, and then we got to eat in their food court and it was really good. And then we went to Boeing, uh, the airplane factory, which I actually had gotten really sick, um, while we were at UDub, so I didn't get to go on the tour, but um, another student of my grade, his name
008is Brooks. He wants to be a pilot when he's older. He's been taking classes for a couple years, so that was really awesome for him. He was really excited. It was a really great opportunity. It was really fun. Had a very safe time. >> Well, I just got back from our FA state competition. Um, I got to do a lot of networking and connect with colleges and other very smart students. Um, unfortunately, [clears throat] we didn't place, but we we fell short by like minimal points. It was like one, two. We were really close. Um, I got to meet a few students who are going to the same college as I next year. So, I was very excited because now I have friends. I mean, I got to do some business things. I practice my
009job interview skills. Um, I didn't place I was really sad, but I was really close. Um, Haley did the Microsoft Microsoft Office Specialist. She placed first at regionals and then she she was unfortunately disqualified at state just because her computer wasn't compatible with the FBA software. So, uh we didn't think it was fair, but uh her chances were really high because she had gotten like a 98 out of 100 at regionals. She's really good at that. We also got to meet like a lot of uh business people, some inspirational speakers who just taught us some minor things about business and how to apply it and what we can do in the field of business and why to continue to pursue it. Um also I was working with the middle school and I was working with
010this uh the broadcasting team. Uh my goal was to present a broadcast to you guys but we weren't able to finish in time. I'm sorry about that. There we literally we were going to finish it tomorrow. So, it was one day too late and to show you guys the behind the scenes of broadcasting and how it connects to CTE and the opportunities it brings to students at our school. >> I want to speak for Oscar. Um, you know, we we talk about and we're we're able to publicize a lot of so much of what we do extracurricular and a lot of times, you know, athletics is just what you see. It's very visible. But um had a group of kids up there for FBALA that really put a lot of heart and soul into a
011lot of stuff they did. And I'm going to brag specifically about Oscar himself kind of watching him grow through that process. Uh working through that. I mean it's unfortunate it's maybe not as visible sometimes we see on the play fields but a lot of kids that really put a lot of hard work into this and it was fun to watch him specifically kind of grow through this process. So really proud of the work he put into that and the work they all did when they went away. anything you want to add? >> Um, well, this last Monday, a bunch of, not a bunch, I think probably six seniors got picked to go to a Mariners game. Um, the qualifications were to have your FASA filled out, like complete, ready to go, and then a certain
012number, like you have below a certain number of unexcused absences, and I was one of the ones chosen, and it was honestly a really fun experience. Um, we went with I think three other schools. Um, Yakama, at least on our bus. I don't know all the schools that were there, but it was really fun. Um, I got to talk to some students that I don't really talk to at school. Got to hang out with them a little bit. And we I didn't personally because we were sitting too far up, but um during the game uh we were recognized for filling out our FASA and just getting that complete. And I think it's pretty cool to have our senior adviser, Miss Selena, like give us those opportunities. And yeah, and also Miss Selena, she um has
013helped me apply for so many scholarships. Um and I heard back from the Washington State opportunity one um five or six of us were selected. um we get up to $22,500 for college and that's just one of however many every student applies for. So, so I wouldn't have known about it if she didn't tell me. So, I just will praise her over and over about how good her program is. I >> think you're going to continue to hear more and more opportunities. That's our goal to continue to I mean, you've heard about kids getting off campus, seeing the world, doing those things. We're trying to expand, continue to things get better, right? Um they're always trying to get better. Um and so I know um Selena Maxwell, you've already hit me up about some other
014opportunities [clears throat] that are both local and out of state. Some that are quite far away from here for some of these opportunities for some of these kids. We're trying to expand some of these pieces. So I'll get you more reports on that. We adjusted how we how we communicate field trips and some of that, but you'll always be informed and updated before any of those go. Uh so I'll be back in front of you with another meeting with some more talk to you about about opportunities [cough] our students uh career and job you know trying to get them out into the world and seen you know beyond our community here. So >> she approached me today with the opportunity [clears throat] to go to NASA actually it's incredible. some opportunities we're looking at down
015Florida really cool opportunities. We're excited about those things. So, more to come on those. Thank you. Good. Anything for our reps? They're down to >> one that I'll be putting some information out looking for some board reps. We'll be that over again. So, okay, >> car before Amber jumps into this, I'll just steal her thunder that [clears throat] we're still waiting for Waw Wall County to uh get us all the financials for we're making progress. Maybe some of that, but we still don't have all the financials for you. Uh they're diligently working on it, but uh we'll continue to go. So, Amber, I don't know what you want to add to that, but We haven't got any updates since December. So status [clears throat] your cash flow in your packet. I did update the month
016[clears throat] highlighted. my best to give you the most. >> Does the county have personnel shortage or did the fog hack them or what? They do say they have some staffing shortages, but they are in transition to do their recordings. >> They're getting small what we'll call I'll call it smaller incremental batch pieces out to them as they're experimenting with these. Even the first batch that came out, we noted and found some errors in some of those pieces. And so we're trying to get stuff out for what? So, they're slowly working on getting it ready uh for us, but um it'll be a little bit um I don't want you to think we're operating in the blind. We still have some indicators, which is why Amber keeps up on those cash flow statements and things
017like that. Um but it sure would be nice to get you actual numbers up here. And uh I just tell you, we're not alone in this. This is everyone in the count in Walaw Wall County. So, any [clears throat] county, unfortunately. So, We will start with enrollment 736. So general fund we're at 2 million project 374,000 194,000 transportation,000. We'll come to you when we have updated numbers to report out to you. We're hoping we very shortly have some updates for you. still in the in the process of writing budgets for next year and to finalize and round out this year. So living in two different worlds questions enrollment status. >> When do we cut a check to buy our next bus? >> Um we're anticipating the delivery of that bus. September or October. So we
018would do that next fall on the delivery of that. Okay, we're going to hand it over to our monthly CT uh administrative report and I have Keley Gant, our CT director here that's going to walk you through our district plan and uh your Perkins update. So Keely, thank you for being here. That that's my slide. Your your slide follow that was my just intro slide. Okay. Um, so real quick, I tried to give each of you a copy of the actual district wide plan, but you know, 13 pages, I didn't think you really felt like reviewing that. So, um, in the 13 pages, what it is or how we go through that is each of our program areas, which we have three in. So, we have business and marketing, a family and consumer science. And
019each of those we do individually, a four-year plan, and then we merge those together. U when we create our districtwide plan and we talk about what we're going to do in the districtwide plan and it's that district-wide plan that I'm bringing forward for you. Um as you can kind of see also then within that OSPI has 16 different quality criteria that they ask career and technical education to assess all of our programs by. So that's what's physically on your desk. Um, you can see some of the comments of like what our goals are over the next four years, like what's our current state and then where we're going to go over the next four years. But I think rather than go through that, which might bore you to death, um, I always think it's better
020um, just again to kind of see and hear from our students and our teachers um, and kind of where we're at. So, one of the big big lifts we had this last year obviously was really getting the business and marketing up and running again. and we had it, but we did some um I guess newness I put it as. Um so we hired a new teacher because with Patty's retirement, we hired Matt Johnson. Um Matt came to us from Gringanger, so he was a teacher there. Um he was a deck adviser, so he was new to FBLA this year um when he came to us. Um but he had also been um involved in their um as their IT tech kind of person, website manager. He's also got some background in website um visual communications,
021business operations and fiscal or financial. So some business management background behind him. Um we had, as we talked about last year, we put 30 new Dell computers into that computer room um with 30 new monitors. A lot of that was grant funded. Um and then with additional grant funding or different grant funding but with grant funding we were able to then renew some curriculum that we had for the Dave Ramsey for personal finance and the MindTap for Microsoft Office. And then we've been working this full last year um and on the April 15th deadline we submitted for framework approval so that we can start integrating what we're doing and and um mentioned to that point of the seventh and eighth grade um what Lori is doing down in the middle school. So she's got a
022seventh grade class that is a visual communications multimedia class and an eighth grade class. It's kind of a a stair step and then a broadcasting class. And so all three of those um we think we'll be able to integrate by next year by fall as career and technical education and which we'll be looking at um enhanced CTE funding for those classes and Lori's um excited about she's actually enrolled in right now but um the CTE going the CTE route and getting herself the CTE certification for that. So she's working on that. she's already enrolled. Um, and so we're working on how do we integrate those classes to what we'll be then building out in the high school from that, especially given Matt's skill set as well. It's going to be a really nice compliment. So,
023I'm super excited to see where that leads for us. Um, and Whoa, that's a really tiny font. I'm so sorry. So, I always really like to kind of ask really what are the teachers, what do they think as far as in their programs, what are some of their boasts and their brags? Um because I think it's really important just to kind of hear and I'm going to cheat on my sheets because sorry but that is like super teeny. I didn't realize it was going to come out so tiny. Um so Holly um in a like one of her accomplishments she just kind of laughed and said getting to the end of the year was an accomplishment sometimes for her but um so I appreciate the honesty in that. I think sometimes we all feel that
024way. Um but again she uh really brags and she has for the last two years really bragged about the freshman. Um really feeling like she's worked well with the freshman and getting those students to being critical thinkers. Um and then uh this year she said we had a student that we've talked about before here and I know I've mentioned her here is Stacy Madden. Um then also was able to earn her American degree which for those of you that are in FFA that's like the highest you can go with a student. So um that's a huge accolade. So, I I know if you're not in the FFA world, it's kind of hard to explain that, but I mean, just really huge pat on the back for her and her family, and what a a kudos
025to Columbia School District to be able to put that out there. So, um that's a huge brag. Um >> congratulations, >> right? [laughter] Um and then uh in business and marketing again with Matt and I know Oliver you mentioned some of this but so again FBA and especially for Matt I want to give him some kudos like coming into this I mean having been a decade adviser is one thing but again he had to really learn FBA and that's not his like he didn't come from that right so he he hit the ground floor running with it and was willing and open to take on FBA. Um and you guys have been super successful with that this year. I know last year when I was here um you stopped me after and asked me like
026what are we doing deck are we gonna do what are we gonna do and can we get the middle school involved and like look at all of what he's been able to do what you've been able to do this year so again kudos to you two um because they've done great so um we had a regional champion with Kaylee five state qualifying students so um again that's quite an achievement in a year um and then again at the state competition and um mention mentioned that you know with the tie and you were like it's like that close and so only because of the ties did it bump you out and so again I would just count that as if you were there and I think that's an equivalent >> um and so then also Natalie
027uh talked again about her classes so Natalie took it upon herself this year I was really proud of this fact too that in her personal finance classes she went above and beyond looked at she's really been kind of focusing on getting our students some um industry recognized credential credentials, things that are going to help students with their employability um and her classes more than anyone else. Um students are able to earn more IRC's coming out of her classes than anyone else's at this time. So, she's got um she went ahead and got all of the students that ever I can never say it right, but ever fee ever. Um financial literacy certification and then our students in our foods classes get their food handlers. Um and then of course we obviously do our first aid
028CPR. um the AED cards and so um the other thing that she's looking into we've had some conversations around is because the food or the CPR is a two-year so looking at implementing now like a bloodborne pathogens certification so that that would rotate on it every other year what would be offered for kids um so super proud about that and then the other thing that they all do um and all of their classes honestly but again with with Natalie was just the giving back to the community through a lot of their service work that they And so super proud of that with Benton Franklin Humane Society, Second Harvest and Project Goodwill because I think we talk a lot about leadership skills and always the ways that our students gain leadership and we do that a
029lot um in career and technical education through our CTSOs, but we forget about the leadership that comes out of service learning and I think that's really valuable in what our students are doing and I think that's an important part that we embed into our classroom and we don't talk enough about. So um again kudos to her to uh adding that. Um, and so then I asked them again too like what what is your vision moving forward? Like what are your goals? Um, or do you see growth in our programs? And so with Holly, um, one of the biggest things that we've just kind of had to struggle with is just the aging of the facility and and how are we dealing with the maintenance, um, and the greenhouse and things like that. So again, as
030budget and funding permits, we're just going to have that that continual um, need to upgrade and upgrade. Um, and then we did go through this last year. she uh went and uh did some professional development. She went to some phase training so that she can get certified now or can teach um two new courses. So whether we offer a small engines class or we can now offer an additional um veterary science and animal health class. And so we ran those both also through um for approval to OSPI. So we're waiting on hearing back on those as well. that that could be some potential new offerings that we can put out for students. And then uh Matt, again, obviously the huge growth in FBLA, we anticipate that probably or settling by next year. Um also thinking
031about how that's going to work in the middle school and bringing down that leadership opportunity to the middle school because we can bring some of those middle school kids into FBLA. Um and then looking at possibly reopening some type of a school store and what would that look like? um and even possibly an esports team. So, there's been some student interest in that. So, what would that look like? Um and then what we did this year, Patty and Matt have different backgrounds on their vocational coding, so we had to do some changes to our introduction to business class. Um not a big deal, but we made some lifts there so that he can offer that class. And then also looking at the visual communications that we wanted to build off of what's going on in
032the middle school. So on the short term, we were able to get the intro to business. So we thought that's what he could do this year with kind of a rotational pattern that with the visual communications every other year. And we've really kind of started thinking about this every other year kind of concept so that we can start offering some breath to our students and giving them more choices um and allowing them to expand some of their interest because with only three teachers um it is hard to be able to give kids more areas. So by thinking about that a little bit differently. So that's kind of where we're headed with that. Um looking forward is then really building out what Gordy Clayton is doing in the middle school into what we're going to be
033able to start offering with math skill sets here. Um and then in family and consumer science with Natalie um again just an increase. She she too wants to increase the student leadership and growth of our family consumer science club. Um, and then one of the things that we did was add a new baking and pastries class because we do find that some of our students are really interested in the culinary side. So, we want to give them a little bit of a different taste or flavor. Haha, no pun intended. Um, but just offering foods and taking foods over and over and over and over again. So, giving them a little bit of something different. Um, and then thinking also along those lines so that if those are students that want to go to Tri-Tech, they
034actually have a better foundation entering into TICK if that's something they truly want to do. So that's kind of where we're headed with those. These are just signs and agreed upon consensus. This is across the board [clears throat] for all of our CTE programs. So, no matter what class we're talking about, but again, wanting to increase our involvement in the leadership components, um really as we're talking about our classes and we're thinking about course offerings, we really need to be thinking about our high school and beyond plan and our grad plan. So, we're looking at a lot of what classes can we offer credit equivalencies. So, we add flexibility in their choices. So, if they're looking at a third-year math, like can they take a CTE class that meets that too? and they take an
035English class that is CTE or English. So, trying to build that out for students so that they have opportunities. So, like we added a business communications class um that's a third year English or fourth year English. Um and then again, we're always on the search for advisory committee members. We would really like to continue to expand that. We're often pretty tight. Um we need minimum of three in each program area to sign off on things. So, I know you guys are busy, but if you have friends um love to take more advisory members and expand that and diversify that. Um and then again, as budgets permit, we understand transportation and travel can be difficult, but really wanting to get our students as much out to industry or industry into us in as many ways as
036we can. Whether that's bringing in guest speakers, field trips, tours, hands-on projects, whatever it is, however it is, we really want to connect um our industry with what's going on in the classroom. So, that's a crucial piece of what we do. Um, and then just kind of some quick photos because I think it's always really nice to highlight um and actually see what our students are doing. So, on the far left, this is our A program had gone out and done the bikes for types. Again, this is kind of one of our community service things that we do. Um the middle photo the glare but the middle photo I believe is what our students are doing where um this I think I talked about this last year but um the students actually created this concept
037or this idea but they go down into the um lower age groups classrooms and teach a so they kind of get a concept of what would it be like to be an a educator. So it's part of that unit but at the same time it's a promotional piece for agg and it helps bring in that pipeline of students into what's going on uh in our high school. And then the pink pig that was a student's SAPE project that they had sold I believe at the might have been during the plant sale but it I just know it was it was one of their SAPE projects which SAPE is a supervised agricultural experience. Um and then the upper project that's Holly um because I asked them to this time I said please don't be afraid to
038send me photos of yourselves because I really want to embed that in here because what you guys are doing is important as well. Um, this is her in the summer doing some of her professional development learning. So, again, staying in tune with what's going on in our in our industry. Um, so here's Holly with the bees. And then this was a group of our students um at the FFA Jamberee that were competing um that that was located in Finley. And um Oh, one of my photos rotated, but that's okay. We can just turn our heads. It works. Um This is business and marketing. And so again, um these were the competitions from the customer service uh to individuals who stay qualified for that. And then um well, that was my bad. I'm sorry. I didn't
039mean to cut you guys off. Sorry, Oscar. I cut you off. [laughter] >> Um so that's the team that um then again that were uh state FBA um competitors. So >> really is a good photo of Oscar. Sorry. Right. Lost in translation. I'm so sorry. >> Transition. [laughter] >> Shoot. I'm sorry. Um, >> all right. And then uh I had to borrow these. So, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna admit my own fault here. This is family consumer science. So, um when I talked to Natalie, the photos had already been sent off to yearbook and she wasn't able to get them back. So, um pretend that these are current year photos. They're not. I'm going to be honest. Um, and so they always do Project Goodwill. And so again, I just wanted some example photos, but
040that the students always participate in Project Goodwill. Um, always in their foods class and stuff, do they do like some type of a baking or cookoff competition? Um, and uh, usually I don't have a photo here, but usually, you know, again, they are volunteering their time in some type of community service like the Humane Society. So, um, apologize that I'll be honest, those aren't the most current photos, so that was the best I could do. Um but that is pretty much um the CTE report in a nutshell. Um if anybody has questions >> questions for Keely CTE, >> I mean the 13page documents really fun to read in your spare time. >> Anything else? >> We'll have something for you to sign before you guys go today. It's part of your plan. So we'll have
041that we need signed. Thank you guys. [snorts] >> All right. So, in your packets, I'm going to move on, if there's no other questions, to the legislative update. What I wanted to give you is, um, I obviously sit through, let's just say countless legislative updates, you know, what's going on. Um, obviously the legislative session has ended. And what I wanted to give you was a one pager, right? If we were to summarize all the meetings, all the times I've had at conferences, ESDs, local people coming in saying, "Hey, what happened? What does this mean for Columbia school district?" I want to give it to you in one page. Okay. So, um basically, so you know, I'm re um revisiting that there was a 60-day session. Um WASDA and WASA went into it focused on three
042main goals. You can see they're talking about more money for our day-to-day costs. a lot of unfunded mandates through bills and things that are coming through. So, we're always trying to manage unfunded mandates um and securing money for building improvements. Uh there was some uh some work done on that. So, um, in the past I've talked to you guys that we did get our with grant, uh, information, we did get our name on that list for the small and rural schools improvement dollars way down to like number 70, you know, so they literally go sequentially in order, but hopefully one of these days, uh, we'll we'll our number will be drawn and called. Depends on each legislative session, they'll take so many at a time. But when we do that, the point and the hope
043is to overhaul our district's HVAC systems. Um, that's one of the big pieces and, you know, big money pieces that we would have to put into that we would have to go out to either capital, you know, levy. And so, we're hoping to overhaul that down the road. But hopefully, uh, we'll get to that one these days. So, real quick, just big picture, uh, wins and losses for schools. Um, this is going back. I'm just going to talk really big picture. Um, last year there was kind of a what I'll call an accidental uh sales tax piece that was un that was not intended to uh with schools that we kind of had to take on due to some oversight uh with that and so they fixed that. Uh so we don't have to deal
044with that this year. Um again, we talked about uh some of the pieces that were blocked and reduced with you see there's at least 20 bills um with any, you know, unfunded mandates. Um and we talked about the money for small school building projects. You can see 71 million was approved. Um seven new districts got planning projects, 12 new construction projects across the state. So those are working through there, but we're somewhere in the 60 to 70s once they fund that still there. So we're just kind of waiting our turn through that. setbacks. Um, big things you've heard about, these are all things you see in the newspaper and you've read uh online or somewhere. Big one is the first one you call local school funding. LEA, you've heard, you know, they cut LEA. Um,
045and so um that has had an impact on surrounding schools around us. For Columbia School District, there's no impact for us because we don't receive LEA dollars. Um, so even though you're going to hear about it, read it in the newspaper that some people were affected by this, for us that was no hit for us. Okay. Um, I can tell you the preK, um, which is our our TK program, um, they literally cut, um, really it was between 25 and 35% of the overall students that they're serving just right off the bat for next year. Um we had uh 16 what we call FTEES. So we had 16 spots for students this year. We lost a tenth of a spot. So we're getting paid for 15.9 spots next year. So really we we we did
046well. Um it's not anything that's going to change our programming and what we have. So we're still going to be able to offer TA next year. Again, there's a lot of schools around us that took large hits in this area. Um, but we were able to maintain that and really it had to do with how we put kids in. When we lost kids, we dropped kids right back in. We didn't allow that. So, they had to have a mechanism for how they reduce some schools not using all their sections and got a bunch of that stuff cut. So, um, two out of three doing okay. Um, the third one, um, is affecting us a little bit more. Um, and you've heard me talk a little about transportation because we keep all our buses that are
047on routes on the depreciation schedule. What they ended up doing with the depreciation schedule is they lengthened it. So, you got to keep in mind that this is a shortterm site. What they were trying to solve. They had budget issues. They needed to find it. So, they thought, here's an easy way to cut what's going out to schools from this much to this much. And how they did that was by taking, if you would say, what's on a 12 to 15 year depreciation schedule. They extended it. So, they're just going to pay it out a couple more years. Again, I'm not going to tell you long terms, it's not going to save the state a whole lot. In fact, it will cost the state more money long term. Um, but what they did is short
048term because at that end of that year, remember, they pay what I call like a balloon payment to a bus, right? So, if you're getting so much so much so much at the end, you get a decent chunk at the end to help offset to replace that bus. Um, for example, you know, a bus you get 4,000, you know, 3,000, 2,000. That last payment, you might get 20 or 30,000 because you're trying to offset the cost. So, all they did is they extended that balloon payment out a couple years. That balloon payment, unfortunately, goes on in the average cost to replace that bus. So by doing that they're extending that out and that bus is worth more two to three years now. So the total what they're going to pay us out for that bus
049in the end is is more but in the short term they need to cut money now right. So they're just not paying us nearly as much. So um that will have minor effect on us. It will not affect us not being able to pay for the bus. Um we'll still have the money to pay for it. It's going to be a little tighter. um we believe and if so we've got ways to go go about doing this. So um that is a what I call a minor inconvenience but it's not going to overhaul any way we change or do business. So we are going to operate business as we always have throughout this year. We planned a a budget moving into next year very similar to what we're going to do this year. Okay. Right.
050Amber questions on that. That's really you're going to read all this stuff and see all this stuff and you're going to hear districts that didn't get hurt through all this. So, I don't want to say that that that you know it's not out there. There were cuts. Um we we did okay. Questions on that? Any move forward to our next report? Uh this one is an update. So, a couple months ago I talked to you about the Wall County sidewalk project. Uh this is our last report. I want to show you a couple of things. Okay. So, if you remember, I mentioned to you that Walaw County approached us about securing dollars, grant dollars. This is not and I want you to hear me. If you could take away one thing from this and share
051this with our community, this is not a Colombia school district funded project. It is a grant-f funded project they are receiving from the climate commitment act through Walawal County. Okay. So they came out with an initial drawing design on what would it take to create safer walk routes for students from one of our downtown areas to get to our campuses. And that's what the goal of this grant dollar these grant dollars are. So I was about a month or two ago I showed you an initial drawing. They then took it out to the community. They took it out to do DOT. They got feedback and I'm showing you the updated map. So, I'll walk you through this because I want to I want to show you really what this means for us. It's big picture
052is great because we will have safer walking routes for students. The bad side of this, the only negative side to this you'll see is it's going to create a parking issue for us down the road which we're going to have to navigate and and still solve. Okay. So, one of the things that was changed, this is the elementary school. You can't really see it, but this is Main Street right here. The original drawing had these parking had uh sidewalks going down Main Street, turning coming up fifth connecting here. Based on the feedback they received from the people that put out there, they did get a lot of feedback saying they don't want sidewalks there on Main Street. They actually heard from our community. That's something they don't want. So, they actually removed that from their
053um design. So, I'll walk you through this. This is a schematic uh of what it's going to look like. Now, in order to to secure the money through the grant, Walaw Wala has to uh meet the standards of this group, right? To secure the money. So, some of the designs and some of that stuff was intentionally because they had to meet these standards. And I'll show you what I mean by that here. So, what you're going to see here, this is the back of the elementary school of the 45 playground. Uh if you're on this side, this is what you call Shauna's house. And you know, here we have our advanced stuff here with the Cherry Street. Um the the problem this is going to cause for us at the elementary. Um it's going to
054be a parking piece. And I've already started talking with Jillian about what do we do about after school parking because if you look at this, this is the road. You're going to see on two sides. So if you're going to to both sides, this is what we call the south side down here. It's going to edge off to the existing ground and gravel. So this south side here will not change. Nothing will happen here. But on the north side attached to the school, you see we have a brand new curb. Okay? So it's a cement curb. So it's going to go up. So on the end of a school day, we got cars parked all along on both sides of here. And then back here, you're not going to be able to park on the
055north side of this street. Uh following this summer, if this goes through, you're going to have a curb and a safety buffer. That safety buffer, you can see just like it is there. It's a painted line. It's they've got to do something. They talked about a texture piece for ADA purposes. If someone was walking along with a cane, they can feel something, you know, different so they're not walking off the road there for that. But then you see um on there, and this is not a good drawing of that, but I believe it says on there, want to make sure I got this right on this side. Yeah, you are correct when you see that it is a 13 foot sidewalk. So, it is a both dual bike and walking path. I asked specifically, did
056I read that right? I contacted them. I've met with them. Joy at the wall county said you are correct. This is the standard they need to meet in order to do that. >> It's wider than a traffic lane. >> Okay. It's 13 ft. They they had to meet these dimensions to get the to get this. So I'm Yes, I've seen it. We've talked about it. That's that was done intentionally. Okay. But you're going to see that's going to take up that entire space. So, I don't want to suggest this. Unless you got a truck, you're pulling up on a curb, there's no place to park there. Okay? So, I just want you to be aware of that. Okay? All right. Let's flip it over to the front side now. I'm going to walk you through
057the front side. Now, same thing. The idea is to get students walking there safely. So, they're actually going to start I'm going to go all the way over here. This is Ranken. Okay? So, you're coming out of the downtown Burbank area. Okay? And you're going to have I'm going to go to this bottom drawing here where it says ranking. Okay. Again, two sides, okay? On the opposite side of the road, you're going to see they haven't touched it. The other side, they've got a little drainage swell there like you'd see and a reasonable six-foot sidewalk right there. Okay. So, you see the sidewalk curve around from Robin up there. Uh, and you're going to see that to so they have their start of their sidewalk. Now, Crystal, you'll be curious to see this. Uh because
058as you get on to humorist, I'm going to go to the top drawing up here. Okay. What's interesting about this side is you can see really right here. It says begin curb and gutter, which happens to go right at your almost property line coming in there. If you look at this road, there'll be gravel as it always is. So Crystal, your fence line's going to be somewhere back in here, but you're going to have a curb, a cement curb that's going to be on there. So, in order for people to get on the other side of that, if they plan to park on that side, which some would do during events and games, you're going have to go up a cement curb. Okay, starting from there. [snorts] So, one, that's going to be a little
059problematic for some parking. Okay. Uh, the second side you see is our road, and this is going to go on the north side, which you're going to see on the opposite direction, which by the way, Crystal, if you see the curve stops there because you've got the church and all those other pieces there, but you will have tentatively, they don't change that plan, a curb going in there. north side of that. Uh big picture here you go. You've got another cement curb. It's going to start all the way over back here where the track starts. Okay? And you're gonna have a continuous three-foot safety buffer with a 13 foot sidewalk there. Cement sidewalk. They've done the site visit. I've walked out with them. Uh I made note of making sure they understand you've got elevation
060changes. You park there. You know, you know, you kind of go down in there. We talked about how you're going to have to build that up. possibly put a college block or whatever. And then we got to figure out what they're doing because if they build it up before the fence and then you park there or sidewalk, now you had a sixoot fence, it's like a three-foot fence or vice versa, right? So, we're going to have to figure some of those things out. But you can see a 13ft sidewalk all the way down to the end of Columbia School Road. Okay. So, we've lost all that parking. Okay. Now, good news is will this create safer travel for our students? Absolutely. right? You you can't, you know, say that. So, good news is that it's
061it's it's solving that. It creates a parking problem for us, right, for our events. So, now I'm going to go on Columbia School District Road right here. As you turn here, this is our football field, our baseball field. This is our empty parking area that you see to the we'll call it west. Same thing. You get cars typically park here. You've got a fire truck typically here for games. You've got the same thing right here on this side. You've got the shoulder. So, the empty lot side has nothing. You've got a cement curb on this side with that same buffer. And again, a 13 ft path going all the way down here. And you've got the opposite problem where you've got high elevation here. Here you've got low elevation problems up here closer to the
062baseball field where dirt runs down closer to that. So, walk with them on it. They think they've got this all figured out and ready to go. I'm excited for that. But nonetheless, when if this if they secure the funding like they believe they'll have uh done, this is their second version of that. Really, I'm going to come back to you guys and say, "All right, great. Have we solved safe travel for that for our students?" Absolutely. The new problem for us as a district is we need more parking space. Now, the reality is what we want to do with that. I mean, if we're really honest, that actually makes safer night parking there with cars walking, cars not being there, kids going to and from. So, that's great. That is a positive for community, but
063we really need to look at expanding this parking whether, and I've already started calling, getting quotes, what would it take to basically almost double the size of that. I'll start talking about whether we push that rock out. I've had some uh conversations about what they call crushed concrete, crushed asphalt to where it's not a permanent piece. So, if we ever build on that, right, we can still do something with it, but it'll give us a nice hard compact surface out there. If we do the crushed asphalt in it, we can even go out there and paint lines. I mean, heck, make it look like a real parking space out there, right? To where it's not something we're going to sink long-term costs into that, but still have a nice parking space for our community. So,
064it's great. I'm excited about that for our students, but nonetheless, it's still going to cause us some it'll cause us some problem solving. So questions on the scope of what they want to do. Okay. Not hearing anything. Thoughts? >> Well, there's 13 ft. Maybe we can put the logo on there. >> Yeah. >> A lot. It's a lot of space there. It's >> a lot of space. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, you know about it. So it doesn't shock you if I come back and say, "Hey, I'm looking at these quotes to expand some pieces on there." I'm just trying to set the stage for There's probably going to be coming time where I'm going to come and talk to you about an ask for expanding some of that stuff. >> What does the RW
065stand for? >> You can tell me where we're at. >> I said dash line all the >> right right away. >> Is it the right way? Do you know what that means? >> It's probably right away. I'll >> assume so. Yes. >> Okay. >> Also on that, I mean, are we going to be moving fences and things? >> That's not the plan. They haven't talked to any of those pieces. I've talked about depend on what happens with the elevation. We may have to, you know, if they fix elevation, we may have to, you know, redo put them up there or maybe they'll fit that in the scope of their work. Those are things I'm working with them on about how that looks in the process of they're securing their final funding for this. They've met
066what they need for this. Um and they're in the process of working that through the county right now. They've checked the boxes. They put it out for public uh input. That's how they made those changes I talked to you about previously. DO's had a look at them. They've had their say in this stuff. So that was that whole process and period for for that information. Okay. I just want to bring that to your attention, let you know what's going on. If everything hits the timelines, they will begin working on that this summer, June, July, and August. >> Finish over three months. So potentially we might need to move as also as early as this summer to solve possibly a fall issue for us. Okay. All right. Exciting times in Berby. All right. I'm going to
067move on to policy. Reminder, this is second reading. Um all three of these I'm suggesting we move forward on. We had a chance to look at them a month ago. Um one I asked for it was important. not not a critical one but I asked for that one uh because it removed unnecessary language we had for that the other two are critical based on revisions uh that uh we're suggesting so any questions feel free to let me know but seeking approval on the second reading through policy >> I'll make a motion to accept the policies listed second discussion All in favor >> post. >> Thank you. >> With that, we move to next month, May 18th. Uh we will have um meeting it's up a week early due to there's a holiday following week. We'll
068be meeting on May 18th. We'll have another administrative reportful updates, enrollments and notice of reasonable assurance. Those are Noras. Any suggestions? Not hearing any. Mr. Chairman, it's yours to conclude. Is there anything else we need to bring up? High school graduation is Friday, May, June 5th. same time. >> I have a question. Um, so I was talking to some seniors. I've heard that we've done graduation on the football field before. >> Why did we stop doing that? >> Because so good out there on the field. >> Oh, what? >> Sorry. >> Really? Brad should have been here for this because >> well historically it's kind of been a decision of the class. >> Okay. >> And everybody understands that when you elect to have it outside you do have some risk of the weather not
069cooperating. >> Okay. >> But inside you don't have that risk but if you want to have it outside I mean you can have it outside >> right that's it's up to the class. I don't know if there was like a specific reason why they >> it was sometime before got here and it was always put back to senior class has a say in how that how that works. >> I feel like when we got the new gym, you know, there was more room >> because my class had bad weather so we had to graduate in that gym which was not >> Excuse me. I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> No, I had nothing more. I was it was just >> I suggest you think I mean, we we had it outside more than a few times
070after we >> just it just kind of moved back and forth. >> Todd, >> may Monday, May 18th is also the WASA area 11 director meeting in Walaw Wala. >> That is correct. So, I was going to talk to you guys about that afterwards about the conflict of that. Um, outside of that, we'd have to move up two weeks, but you are correct. You're beating me to the punch on that one. remind you that our spring regional meeting is scheduled for wall on the 18th. Um so talk about how you want to manage or handle that. >> Okay. >> Sure. Sorry I'm I'm calendaring here. I'm sorry. So we stand here at 7:55. Thank you all for attending for your contributions. >> Finish the recording. Get signatures.