001Okay, we are live for our board meeting uh Monday, May 19th, 2025. We are going to begin tonight's session in executive session. The executive session will last from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. We'll be back out to reconvene with the public at 7 p.m. No decisions will be made. Uh the purpose is to review and evaluate the performance of a public employee. So we will see you back here at 7 pm. All right, we are live coming back from our executive session at 7:2 p.m. No decisions were made. We are back for the opening session for the schoolboard meeting on Monday, May 19th, 2025. Mr. Scripture, take it away. We'd like to welcome you all to the May 19th regular meeting of Columbia School District School Board. We'd like to begin with the pledge of allegiance.
002I Since this will be your last harra with us, could you please lead us in that? I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. Good news. I'm excited to curious to see how Ivy was going to react on this one, but uh our Southeastern Wasa Community Award recipient this year, uh none other than Haley Worlinger. Um Haley has done an amazing job across our district. Um she's obviously a product of the system, so um makes us even more proud. Um but she's been working with PTO for over a decade. Um, I won't read the list, but uh, in the materials that were prepared for her, I just basically said if
003there's an event going on around here, there's about a 99% chance she's at it or behind it, uh, doing something with that. So, she's been amazing for our committee for many years. And so, we're excited to recognize her later this month at the SWAT community awarding. So, I just wanted to bring that to your attention. Thank you. Order operating principal review. You want me to go through that? Why don't we uh start at the J? Do you want to take the top bullet, please? If I knew it where it's on the screen. It's on the TV. Pursu pursue thorough understanding by minimizing misunderstandings and reducing conflict. support each other and address disagreements constructively and maintain confidentiality. Communications and interaction shall be constructive and free of personal attacks. Support the professional integrity of each individual in
004the Columbia school district as as a service organization. Involve those parties who will be affected by the decision and solution. Is there additions to the agenda? None. Okay. will play out just like it is on the agenda. Consent agenda. Motion has been made and seconded to accept the consent agenda as stated. Any other discussion? want to bring to your attention uh we have visitors here in um our audience but we have a Washington DC field trip if there are any questions um this is coming up an opportunity for some of our students we're excited about that opportunity but out of the not uh part of our regular consent agenda so how many kids are going what's that how many kids are going we're taking six from here how how are they selected uh we're part
005part of the migrant education program. And so we were granted an opportunity through the OSPI to take students from our program as kind of like a what you say like an exploration to learn, but it's like um oh my gosh they are practicing with our group to give us extra funding and so they picked selected our consortium because we have a unique consortium where we support Finley, Burbank, Richland and Prescott. Um and so we have direct like um we have we support students directly and so they selected us to select 12 students to all together and so we did six from here and then six from Finley because Adma our migrant student advocate um supports both schools. So we selected both of those schools to take the students. And how long will you be there?
006Um five days. Yeah. Five days. Fortnite. Yeah. So we leave on a Saturday and we come back on a Thursday. So, it'll be a fun experience for some of our students fortunate to have that experience. My policy all the information is there packet with information there. Uh, thank you for showing up. They might have some questions, but that's to bring that to your attention because that's not normally one that's you see in there. Does that trip take place? June 14th. And I did print an agenda of the trip if you guys would like to take a look at it. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. Appreciate you being here. Thank you. And this opportunity is for middle school students. Um, and so we have pre-selected eighth graders and then we also have some
007seventh graders that are interested in going. Um, and this is for our migrant students. So we support our seasonal farmworker families and so that's how our programed. How many adult chef roles do you have in that group? Um, we have right now two. Um, but it also depends on So we have 12 spots allocated. If we don't fit all 12 spots, that's completely fine. But as of right now, we have two, but if we get the full 12 spots, we're going to send three adults. Very good. Thank you. Okay, so we've had a motion and second on the consent agenda with some comments. No other discussion. All in favor? I I miss post. Okay, thank you. So, um Nikia is preparing uh some snacks for anyone, but uh Jay, this is the best Dairy Queen
008has to offer. And uh thank you, Mr. Anie. Obviously, uh it goes without saying, but uh this is your final capacity. want to thank you for your service to our community, our district, and our students. So, I thought I would appreciate all that you've done and enjoy some cake. All right. Any visitors? Not hearing any. All right. Schoolboard reps also in their final appearance with us this year. Um I'm excited to bring back to you one final time. Ivy and Oscar. I did ask if they're going to come back next year, but uh I'm waiting to hear from them on that. But I'm going to let them jump into their last presentation for the school year. Sorry. Oh, I'm gonna talk a lot, by the way, so be ready for that. So, softball, we made
009it to the last round of districts, meaning if we won our last game, we would have moved on to state. Um, super big bummer we did not. We lost to Warden 17-7. I guess had home runs on us. So, not much you can do about the ball when it's out of the park. So, a little bummer, but we're losing three seniors, which isn't that bad, but they really they were really an asset to team. We were really like I feel like this is the most gosh, sorry. This is like I feel like one of the most like family kind of teams we've had and so it really sucks that they're leaving, but it's nice that they got to be there for that. um several of our track athletes around the state. Um we have distance
010runners, throwers, jumpers. I think we have a few from every category and I heard one more just um was able to move on because somebody dropped out. So that's pretty exciting. Um baseball has come to a close and the university, but summer sports practices are starting soon. I know the football team is already in the weight room. There's a volleyball meeting tonight for those practices and I think cheer starts next week. So really sports never end when you're a high school student. Um other things going on graduation uh balorate the yearbook has been finished which is super exciting super proud of it. Um the we recently had the plant sale that honor society helped with as also the plant science class that was that was super fun. and I got a help with that and
011that's a really beautiful um honor society hosted the blood drive um which I had never been to. One person passed out, which isn't that bad, but he also passed out like four times. So, I don't know if that's a win or not, but um we had prom that was super duper fun. Mr. Hillberg's son went prom, so that's exciting. Um, we have state testing starting tomorrow for sophomores. And I think the my little brother said that they're doing it, too. So, I guess the elementary school and middle also have state testing, which is a bummer, but has to be done. It's that time of season. Yeah. Um, we had like a we have something called Kyle Cred where like if our teachers see us doing something we're supposed to, if we're participating a little bit
012better than we normally do, they give us a little slip of paper. It's called cut. You write your name on it, put it in a bucket and then they do drawings and you like win things and then we earned enough tickets as a school to have like kind of a party thing going on and we did like um I know there's movies in the auditorium and then we did cornhole tournament um or oh I think there was pingpong too. A lot of cool stuff. So that was fun. And then we also had the sades dancing while ago um which decorated super well in my opinion. I did help, but I think it looked great. Um, oh, the prom theme was disco divas and dudes. I didn't say that, but I thought that was a fun
013theme. And then the sades dance was sleepover at Sades, so everybody came in matching pajamas. I thought it was pretty cute. Um, middle school fast pitch and baseball just have one game left. Um, and then they are there are a couple middle school track athletes. I'm not sure if any of them are going to state. It would be for like No, they didn't. They did not. So, don't even worry about that. Um, they had their color run. Um, which those are all the pictures. They did one when I was in middle school and it was super fun. So that's exciting that they got to do it again. Um the seventh grade had a field trip to Ice Harbor Day. The eighth grade moving up ceremony. Um was also in June. There's a band concert tomorrow
014I believe. And um the ASB did an egg hunt which looked super duper fun. I saw them setting up for it. Cool. Elementary school. The AR party in store are coming up. Uh they just had their bugs play. I love the bugs playing. It is so cute. Um, kindergarten graduation is coming up. Um, their field day is coming up. Mima Madness concert. Um, apparently there was like a literacy night where everybody got to read Charlotte's Web and I guess there was like some photo backdrops and stuff and bonding over the book, I suppose. Um, the Funny Money Marketplace coming up, which was one of my favorite days ever as a fourth grader. So much fun. Um, and then the fifth grade party. I think I went roller skating for something for mine. So, like that's
015coming up, which will be exciting for fifth graders. I'll try to match Ivy's energy in this slideshow. All right, here we go. So, FBA made it to state. It was three of us. We uh FBA did like cookies and student written letter. Thank you cards for teach for staff members for teacher appreciation week. Uh they're having a pizza party from the coyote den to for congratulations of the end of the year. Uh we competed at state for job interview accounting computer apps and American enterprise. We placed in one of our categories which is pretty good because there was 500 and something kids there. Um, we're very grateful to have Miss Anie as our chapter adviser. Uh, we found out she's retiring this year. It's very sad. She's done a lot for the club and without
016her, uh, FBA wouldn't be where it's at. She's taught me a lot and I'm very grateful for that because she's pushed me to be a better person. She's pushed me to not give up and she's she's done a lot for me. I'm very grateful for Miss. I wouldn't have competed this year if it weren't if it weren't for her. Uh, knowledge bowl is done for the year. The team qualified for state and place. Uh, now they're just practicing every Thursday. I put Tuesday. I meant every Thursday for fun just so they're ready for next year. Uh, honor society also did stuff for staff for teacher appreciation week. They gave drink free drinks from their drink business that they're running and they sold chocolates to raise funds. They held the successful blood drive and logged many
017volunteer hours. And now the club is just busy preparing for graduation week, which is like the best time to get the rest of your hours you need for your hour log, cuz I still need like four more hours to complete that. Uh, drama club performed their play over the weekend. Um, these pictures, Miss Weberg wanted me to emphasize that these are practice pictures. because she does not want I don't know but she said to emphasize that uh the members had a lot of fun practicing and performing the play. Uh I heard a lot of good things about it. It was free. Um they were just taking donations. It was something good for students who like couldn't afford to pay for the entrance of the play. I heard it was really really really funny. Yeah. I
018didn't go myself, but I heard, but I heard it was good. Me, too. Me, too. Uh, Dungeons and Dragons is re wrapping up their storyline. They're closing to the end and had a great another great year of this Dungeons and Dragons story that they called. I'm sorry, I don't I don't know it very well. Um, FFA, I had written it on there, but I don't know what happened. Um they Miss Kirkindall had mentioned that they might be going to state also like they had a few kids going to state for like ameck. Um and they prepared presentations and their members went down to the middle school and taught eighth graders about their club. So when they come when the upcoming eighth graders come to the high school, they'll hopefully like join the FFA. But yeah,
019that was cool. That's an idea that I hope to do for FBA next year if we have an FBA next year. Well, you too. Thank you very much for um month showing up and sharing always entertaining and Oscar. I caught something in my eye as you were talking about Mrs. Anie there for a minute. So, something that my eye Oh, we we had a thank you slide. We were gonna say thank you guys, but um it's not there either. It was a cute, you know, like the how the first side has a little fella go like this. It was that, but the little fellow say thank you. It was cute. But I must have missed that. Just wanted to throw that out there. But thank you guys for all your support work this year. Hope
020to see you soon. All right, I'm going to move right into budget status unless you've got any questions. By the way, if you got things you need to do, I'm sure you got to study for otherwise if you're okay. So, enrollment and budget status. Uh I'm going to move on to enrollment for May of this year. You can see we're at 748 students. That is not a typo. April and May. That is uh we're consistent if nothing um at that point. So, um pleased to see our enrollments remaining steady right now. The general fund you can see is at 2.826. You can see where we're expected to be down uh at August. Reminder, at the end of the year, we're going to start paying out a lot of our contracts, stipens, a lot of those
021things will start coming out over the next several months. So, you're going to see that adjustment happening over the next few months. Other end of the year pieces. Uh capital projects, you can see at $379,528 for capital projects. debt service $262,55 ASB fund we're up to $186,049 this obviously you've seen it's in your packets transportation vehicle fund $39,942 that is it for the financial statements and enrollment any questions not hearing any I will continue can you go back to the ending fund balance So this will be the first year we end the school year under two million. Uh that's an estimated seven years projecting. I think that's okay. Okay. Um okay so moving on to recognition. I am excited and thrilled uh that our schools have been honored by the state board of education. You
022heard me briefly just talk to you about that executive session as we looked at uh just goals and accomplishments. But you can see our middle school and high school are recognized by the Washington State program for our academic progress specifically the middle school and high school. Middle school for closing the gaps high school growth and special education services. Um reminder 16% of our schools or 16% of schools across the state are honored. So this is not just given out to all kinds of schools. They said one in six the numbers they used at the state level. But um obviously this is a huge thank you and effort to staff, students, uh parents. Thank you for their cooperation and supporting our schools. Um and I will just go through this. This will give you a brief
023update on that. So you can eat your cake, I guess. There you go. I'm Bill Clap, chair of the Washington State Board of Education. On behalf of the board, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight Accountability Committee, I want to congratulate your school for being honored by the Washington State School Recognition Program for the 2023 2024 school year. Hey everyone, Chris Raked Doll, superintendent of public schools for the beautiful state of Washington. I want to congratulate all of the school winners this year. Um, everybody in our state is committed to public education who serves our goals. But for 16% of you, just one out of every six, it's a tremendous honor to be recognized. your commitment to equity, closing gaps, student achievement, leaning into the thing we all know
024is so powerful around public education, which is serving students, their families, and our communities. So, thank you for your leadership. Thank you for being there every day and for giving your entire professional lives to trying to lift up the lives of all of our students. That's inspiring. You've done it with grace. You've achieved beyond the average for sure. And we are here to recognize you and thank you for everything that you do. Congratulations. Now you might be wondering how can a school be recognized by this program. There are three ways that schools can be recognized. Schools recognized for closing gaps have made significant progress for all students or specific student groups in areas identified for improvement in previous school years. These areas can include English language arts assessment scores, math assessment scores, English learner progress,
025dual credit completion, or graduation rates. Schools recognized for growth had at least one student group who saw some of the state's largest gains in annual performance on multiple measures. These include attendance, dual credit completion, ELA and math assessment scores, English learner progress, graduation rates, or the percentage of 9th graders who earn all credits they attempted. Finally, schools recognized for achievement are among the top schools in the state for at least two of the following areas: attendance, dual credit completion, English language arts assessment scores, math assessment scores, graduation rates, or the percentage of nth graders to earn all credits they attempted. No matter why you were recognized, it's a huge accomplishment that took a team of dedicated folks to make it happen. Your great in fact was so impressed that he wanted to extend a personal
026congratulations on his own. I am Governor Bob Ferguson and it's really my honor to offer my congratulations to your school for being honored by the Washington state school recognition program. Students at your school are not only thriving but making incredible strides in key areas of their education. Educators and school leaders worked hard for these wonderful achievements. So did your students. You helped motivate them, put in the work. My mom, my late mother, was a special education school teacher in our public schools for many years. So I know from being her son, how challenging it is to be a teacher, also how rewarding it can be to make a difference and a kid. So I just want to appreciate you on behalf of the people of the state of Washington for your hard work. Congratulations on
027this really impressive achievement. So from all of us at the state board of education, congratulations. Let's take time to reflect but mainly celebrate and continue this energy as we move forward. Okay. So a lot of good work going on out there. Um this really goes again it's across our entire district. It's a reflection of the work that really is going on all across. So staff and students deserve a lot of recognition and praise for this. So excited about that. Sorry, I'm not gonna There we go. Andrew, we move on. Any questions before we move on to our administrative reports? Okay, I bring to you for the 16th year in a row, apparently. 18 years total, but 16 years doing the reports. Okay. 16 years reporting. Go ahead, Andrew. All right. So, this is kind of
028a year review on how last summer went all the way through the years. So, always like to begin the presentation with kind of describing and taking note of the help that I get. So, Mer Jones has been with us four years. He's been my right-hand guy to handle anything out in the field that's going on while I can kind of sit back, plan out, work on infrastructure, and so he's out in the field with the students, with the staff more than I. And so, I just wanted to recognize him for his uh help across the district. And I couldn't do it without him. And uh we also have the student tech program. And so throughout the year we try to hit on a few items uh briefly just kind of get a little bit of
029a taste of some of these concepts, kind of peak their interest, see if they're interested in any of those things. We go up their PC, mobile device troubleshooting, Chromebook repair, some cyber security, network engineering, and some web pages and some brief coding. This year we had Dominic Dominic Wei and Phoenix Pierce. Dominic's a senior this year. He's interested in teaching as he graduates. And Phoenix is a junior this year and right now she has interest potentially in biochemistry. Phoenix was really good in uh repairing Chromebooks. So, she was said bring it on whenever they would come in and we definitely had plenty of those. So, uh kind of the four main concepts of this year revolved around these four things we'll go through one by one. First up is app management. Uh since starting the
030onetoone program, it seemed like every year we kept adding more and more applications and usernames and passwords were just kind of a bit of a mess trying to keep track of them all. We needed one big solution to bring it all together and that was going with Class Link. Class Link offered a one-stop shop where you could tie all your apps into one username and login and that helped I believe staff and students out across the district. So, we've been I think we've been happy with that. Took a little bit to get going, but we've been running with that. We now move into Chromebooks. Chromebooks are a uh major uh focus for us, making sure that those are up and running. We're now uh with with our webinar program we've been running since 2019. uh
031we're well over se above 770 Chromebooks. We're focused on making sure we have availability and inventory, making sure those students have the Chromebooks and can do their work. Also, repairs, uh we're making sure those are repaired. Screens are still our number one uh repair that we do and making sure we have a refresh cycle going forward. The Chromebooks have an artificial date where they drop off. So, we just we're just going to try to stay ahead of that refresh cycle, make sure that none of them lose support. By the way, he works really hard on that refresh cycle. Sounds simple, but it's not. They build in those artificial dates to where the devices just become useless because it's a it's it supports the company, you know, where they after so many years they have a
032lifeline and they simply can't continue to use them. And so you're always having to look ahead, find out when those dates are, plan ahead and looking for those purchases, uh trying to keep those up to date. So I just want to, you know, I know Andrew is going through this pretty fast. asked them to work through this, but I don't want to discount the time and effort it takes to make sure we maintain and not only just the current pieces, but also several years out. We're looking ahead on these pieces. So, Andrew, continue. Yep. You heard the old adage, uh, in life certain things like death and taxes. I'd like to propose a third that's broken Chromebooks. They, uh, definitely come in. This is some of our uh graveyard that we work through. Whenever there's
033a a part to pull from uh a keyboard, a screen or whatever that may still be available, we kind of salvage out what we have and get those Chromebooks going again. Uh incident damage report, you can see last year's numbers to this year's numbers. Um middle school was our always our high number no matter which year it is and that's the same for any district across the United States. uh we are down a little bit with the middle school which is good and the other buildings kind of upticked a little bit. So those are those numbers there. Our next topic is student safety. A very important topic uh with our internet filter that we brought on about two years ago. Uh we uh always are looking for uh trying to keep students safe. So this
034uh new filter linewise focuses on three topics. Engagement, safety, and wellness. And whenever we get a notification, it could be benign is they used a trigger word that caused a flag and we investigated uh to something a little more serious. And so um in our 23 24 school year, we had about 88 notifications. We are now way down to about 299 for the year this year. So I really have to credit my for his work going to the middle school right at the beginning of the year and really identifying with the kids and talking with them on what expectations are. And this public system that we're using is recorded. people could see this and if there's issues going on, we're going to reach out. We're going to start talking onetoone uh and kind of just
035uh get to the heart of what's going on. So, we've really made an effort this year for that particular have this new visibility. So, as you can see there, those numbers are down. That's important. Just going back on those numbers though, I mean, I wanted him to emphasize that because we didn't lower the standard. Uh we didn't adjust a new threshold all of a sudden, you know. So, we've maintained that standard. They've just been very intentional about talking to kids that hey whether or not you believe it or not you know even when you go away we can come back we can still see and you know all these things go on there. So kids have kids are doing a better job with that. These interventions uh would uh help uh stop a fight before
036it happens as people are starting to talk about it. If uh kids were looking up their mental health issues we could catch it and get a counselor to them uh beforehand. Um and so it's been kind of an early uh warning system for us to really get ahead of something before uh things go bad. So uh again that first notification comes to the tech department and then we go ahead and notify counselors or principles or perhaps both scenario that comes across. We also are continuing to use classwise which gives uh stu par teachers the ability to monitor their class as they're moving through their lesson to keep kids on task present lessons or uh refocus and redirect a big help. We also launched custodial this year uh based on some parents asking some uh wanting
037some additional help and visibility for their Chromebooks at home. Uh to date we have about 124 parents signed up covering 121 students and that basically totals 57 households in our district that are using the athome app. Reminder on that one that request began here at a board meeting and some parent show for that. So cyber security is our last topic here and uh that's been my big project for the year. It was uh last year that I attended a tech conference and it was all the buzz on the recent uh cyber attacks that were hitting uh neighboring schools. I just felt like we were starting to get those attacks were getting closer to home. And so I we set up kind of a a re I was researching and set up an action plan on
038how we could get our systems protected. It kind of started two years ago where I beefed up our um backup solution. So we had a solution offsite and we had a solution onsite. So if we ever got our data attacked or ransomed, we would always have one set of data that we could always pull from. And so this year it's really been trying to protect our identity, protect the kids identity, protect the staff's identity in any way possible. And that was implementing multiffactor authentication, a username and a password is not enough. We need one more factor to step in here. And so we have an app-based uh uh thing you can download on your phone. Or if you don't want to use your phone, you can also use a little handheld key fob to get
039your second factor going. Right now, we've identified 147 staff. We've enrolled 65. We have 82 to go. Hoping to wrap it up before the school year ends. It's going to be a bit of a marathon, but we think we can do it. Last thing I'd say about that is that phone online piece. It's like it's about as easy as it gets. It's not even I've had some Google on the past. You have to go get codes and stuff. This is truly you're just pressing a button. and I don't like doing these things, but I don't even mind doing that one. So, uh, looking to the future, we're going to be continuing to focus on Chromebooks and that refresh cycle, building out our infrastructure as well with our network and our wireless, making sure they're moving
040to Windows 11, which that expires or that security uh updates expire in October. Always cyber security is a topic on my mind because every day the bad guys come up with a new method. Uh, and of course, how does artificial intelligence going to best fit within our classrooms? We're going to be definitely looking as that looking at those as we move forward. And in the famous words of uh Steve Jobs, there is just one more thing, a little preview, a little something uh that we're just got signed up for. Parent Square. This is a way to unify district communication all in one particular app. taking school messenger and taking uh Class Dojo and taking the website and bringing it all together into one unified platform that when a message goes out, it hits all platforms
041no matter what the parent or the student how they want to communicate. Texting, app, website, social media. It's an all-in-one one-stop shop. More to come on that later. This also fits into our district strategic plan as well. So, we're right on track with that. Any questions for Andrew? Andrew, I'm really grateful we haven't been hacked. So is Andrew. It's not fun for those districts that I talk to. I just spoke to Edmunds at the tech conference. Um and uh one of the guys said that got in at 7 in the morning and they said, "Hey, everyone, change your passwords. We just got we were just about ready to be attacked." They got done around 3:00 a.m. that night and they did about 90 hours of work that week when they were just about. How did
042they get that kind of intel that it's about to happen? Well, with uh Edmonds, they were the one of the few districts that actually caught it before it happened. All the other districts that happened and then they got the ransom. They have enough staff, 30 different staff members always monitoring, checking logs, doing everything that one of the guys caught just enough of it to be like, "Guys, this is happening. We need to shut down the internet." So they selected or they basically self- selected to shut the internet off for 10 days while they had to purge the systems, clean up and get everyone back on track. So for that district, they had to go back to remote learning to cover those uh those 10 days while they cleaned everything up. Uh what we might be
043looking in the future is finding an early alert system that we could purchase here that could help me look at logs and get that data. I'm not able to look at every single log all the time. And so it'd be really nice to have a system or a program in place that could help alert me just like we have that content filter for the kids. If we can have a cyber security alert system that would help me and start to detect those early signs as the bad guys are starting to look in and try things. So that may be something we look in the future. The districts that get hacked and then they pay the ransom. Is is that a is that a public notice, publicly available figure? That pretty hush- hush? Kind of depends
044on the situation. It's kind of been hush- hush here recently and more of it starting to come to light. So, it's becoming common with uh in the pieces that we do also with insurance as well too because of the the volume that's happening and the numbers that that are exchanged sometimes with those depend on the size of your district. Thank you, Mr. Anie. All right, your final athletic director. Andrew, he's just got the one slide. He's he's going he's got a hand up. Thank you. So, for my final harrah tonight, I'll give you guys kind of a quick rundown of how our athletic teams did this year. Um, and I want to cover our athletic interest survey. We're required to do that every three years. I put out a hand out on that to where
045I compared the last one we did, which was in 2022, to the one that we just did this year. Um, athletically this year was different uh than it has been, and we can thank our WIA for that. Um, last year the WIA combined our districts that we play in. So, we've always been in district five. They combined district five and district six together. And what that meant to us is that we had to figure out how are we going to have a playoff with the teams up north. So what used to be our district playoffs were when we crossed over with the other side of our EWAC league, that's no longer the district tournament. The district tournament is when we play the teams up north. That's caused a lot of headaches because we had to
046find neutral sites to where we could play those games. Um, the WA also informed us that when we found those sites, if they were going to charge us a facilities use that we had to pay, that was not coming or that was not going to be paid by the District 5. So, this spring, um, our league, the EWAC League, is going to have a pretty big bill that we have to pay for site use. Um, I can't say that that's going over real well with the athletic directors from our league and the athletic directors up north. But anyway, we found a way to get through it. I thought it was interesting with our girls basketball team because I can't remember what game it was that they had played. It was a game that we won
047and the girls came up afterwards and said, "Do we finally get to go to Spokane?" I said, "No, not yet. you still have to go through another tournament or another couple games. So, it was I say it was different. It was new. Hopefully next year it'll be easier because everybody's a little bit more familiar with how that this is going to play out. So, if we kind of go through the year, um starting with our fall sports, this is, I believe, the fourth year that we've had a girls soccer program. This was the first year that they made it to postseason and were involved in a three-way tie that we had to play that off at Granger. Our girls ended up winning that. So, they made it into our league tournament and actually won a
048match there and then lost out. I believe it was their second ma match in the EWAC tournament. football finished second uh in our division. Um managed to make it to the state tournament which is the round of 16 teams. Um got to travel to Napine, make the long trip, cold trip. Um and our their season ended there with volleyball still kind of in a rebuilding phase. uh they did not make it to the playoffs. Moving into winter, another change that was made with wrestling, we used to have a regional round that kids would have to go through in order to qualify for the state tournament, which has always been in the Tacoma Dome. So, the regionals this year were actually all of those matches were moved into the Tacoma Dome, which in our case allowed
049a lot more kids the opportunity to get to go and wrestle in the dome. Um, we had some kids that came very close to placing. Didn't quite get there. Girls basketball touched on this a little bit earlier. We ended up tied for the divisional championship. when there's ties that can't be settled, then we go to the number draw. And luckily, I pulled the right number out of the hat. And we ended up going going in number one. We played for the league championship. Uh came up a little bit short in that. They managed to finally make it to Spokane and the girls got to play one game in the arena which um takes a lot of work to get to that point and so that's something that they should be proud of. Then we get
050to the boys basketball team and you talk about having a tremendous year and do a whole lot better than what our boys did. They were the divisional champions. We won the league championship. We won the district championship. And as everybody knows by now, we won the first state championship in our school's history. And if you look at the run that those group of that group of kids had, I don't think that we really understand how hard it is to do something like that. Last year, the boys placed played in the championship game, came up a little bit short. this year they go back and they win it to not only get back to the championship game but to win the championship game that doesn't happen very often. So that's something that we can all be
051proud of. Spring uh baseball team kind of like our volleyball team they're in a rebuilding stage. Uh fast pitch we touched on that a little bit earlier. Uh they made it to the postseason, beat Goldenaleale in our league tournament, then they traveled all the way up to Brewster and that was a game that I don't think there was probably very many people that thought the girls were going to win that game and they did which put them moved them into Saturday and had an hour rain delay. They finally got to play came up a little bit short against Warden and their season ended with our track kids. They've gone through our divisional matches which we hosted here. That was just our side of the league. Then last Thursday, both sides of the league went to
052Granger for what's now called our league meet. Then this week, we have what? 12 kids. Yes, 12 kids competing in 19 events that will go to Central Washington University for our district meet. From there then they will advance to the state meet which is in Yakama. So if we look at the 10 athletic programs that we have eight of those made it to postseason and not only made it to postseason but won some games in the postseason. And I think that that's something that we should be very proud of our kids and our coaches. Um, if we look at our middle school sports, um, obviously at the middle school level, it's not supposed to be about winning. It's supposed to be about improving and getting better. Our numbers this year, our participation numbers, uh, continue
053to be very good at the middle school level. We were able to have three volleyball teams. We had three basketball teams for both the boys and the girls. Uh, boys wrestling, uh, the numbers were a little bit better than what they normally are. Girls wrestling is probably the one sport to where our numbers were not what they I guess what we would hope that they would be. We had have enough kids for two baseball teams and two softball teams. Um, middle school baseball and softball baseball and fast pitch, sorry. They will end this week. Uh, they're playing in Woop today. And then I believe it's Wednesday, isn't it? Or Wednesday or Thursday. Wednesday they'll wrap the season up in Connell. Um, so like I say, that's kind of a quick rundown of how our seasons
054went. If you look at the sheet that I gave you, if not, there's some that are available over there. Since I'm not real good at PowerPoints like everybody else in here, and the reason that I'm not, Oscar was bragging on Mrs. Anie. Um, okay. I can't do a PowerPoint because my lovely wife won't allow me to do that because she just has to take over and do it for me. So anyway, that's why you don't have a PowerPoint today. That's a good thing though. So every three years we have to do what's called an athletic interest survey. And the weird part about these is that there isn't really any place that we officially have to turn those in. But if you ever have a situation to where we get audited and you want to see
055this information, we better have it or things aren't going to go well. So what I did, the last one we did was in 2022 and then obviously we just got done with one uh the other day. So I've compared those two years. So, if you look at the very first question on the survey, um, do you currently participate in a sport? If you look at the middle school column in 2022, 56% of our kids turned out for a sport. This year, it was up to 62%. So, we have an increase at the middle school level. If you look at the high school level in 22, we had 64% of our kids turned out for a sport. And then this year, that's down to 60%. So after the kids answer that question, if you're not turning
056out for a sport, then they ask you why you aren't, and there's some choices that you can that you can pick. The interesting part about this is that the top three year in and year out, usually those three things don't change. Okay, number one reason why kids don't play sports is that they're not interested. Uh number two, uh they're busy with their schoolwork. And number three, and I think that this is interesting, they have after school responsibilities. Now, I think you would assume that if you have after school responsibilities that a high school student is probably more likely to check that than a middle school student. But in our surveys that we've done the last two years, there's a higher percentage of middle school kids that are actually checking that that they have things to
057do after school, so they can't turn out for sports. Um, the next question, do you currently play a sport that's basically outside of school? This is typically kids that are in club volleyball, AAU basketball. Now we throw in seven on seven football. Um, there's several options that the kids can choose from. So, in 2022, 33% of our middle school kids said that they were playing a sport outside of school. Compared to this year, that's dropped down to 31%. At the high school, it was 10% in 22 and 15% in 2025. Um, aside from the sports that we currently offer here, others that kids seem to check, obviously we have dance because of Shauna's dance over here. Um, we have a couple of kids that are hockey players. I did not know this one, but we
058have some bull riders that go to school here, four of them. And then, uh, kids list snowboarding. And there's several others that they can choose from. A lot of those might only have one kid that checked them. So, in order to be put on the list, you had to have at least four of those. Um, the next question, are all the sports that you're interested in playing offered at your school? In 2022, 66% of our middle school kids said that they were. This year, that dropped down to 56%. At the high school level, it was 64%. This year, it dropped down to 54 54%. Okay, the big ones here, if you look at our middle school, we don't offer high school, we just offer girls soccer. Okay, at the middle school, there's no soccer that's
059being offered. So, boys and girls soccer, that was the number one on the list at the middle school level. Uh, tennis came in second, and then bowling came in third. Believe it or not, the top three were the same this year as they were the last time that we did it in 20 2022. So for excuse me for the high school, they can't check the box for girls soccer anymore because we offer that. So now the big one is boys soccer needs to be added at the high school level. That was number one in 2022 and it was also number one when we did it this year. That's followed up by bowling and tennis in 22 and then uh in this year it was golf and tennis. Now the interesting thing about tennis and we
060haven't had tennis now I think this is year three. Okay. The I didn't do it this year, but the last two years when we have sent a little survey out and had our signups for boys and girls tennis, we're not getting any kids that sign up for it. Yet, when we hand out this survey, there's a lot of kids that say that we should offer tennis. So, going forward, I guess that's something that that we need to consider. There's not very many schools in our league that have tennis programs. Those that do are combined with the 1A. Um, additional comments, as I mentioned, for middle school, the big one was add boys and girls soccer. Um, there were four kids that claimed that we have bad outdoor fields. Um, I thought that was interesting. At
061the high school level, had boys soccer. Um they want to add boys soccer, but then they claim that our football field is overused. However, boys soccer would be in the spring, not in the fall. Um the last two years, we've had kids that have mentioned that they have concerns over coaches in few of our programs and both of those were mentioned not only this year, but in 2022 as well. So, any questions on the survey? Info survey. So, we haven't had a tennis program for three years. For three years. Yes. Giving me a blank look. Know that. So, three years ago, we had nobody sign up for tents. Didn't cut it. It just we didn't have anyone. Yeah, we we didn't have any anybody sign up. So then last year did the same thing. Didn't
062have anybody sign up. And this year that's in our final forms that we use for all of our athletes. Tennis is no longer listed. So the first year though, we had had a coach lined up and nobody signs up. So what do you do with the coach? Employ them to something else or uh they were out of a job. And that's where I mean from my standpoint to where I mean for us to add tennis again obviously the board would have to approve that but the numbers would have to be fairly solid in order for us to do that because I don't want to have happen what you just said. We have a coach all lined up to go. They're all excited. They've worked hard about it and then we say, "Hey, I'm sorry. No
063kids, no program." So, anything else? Okay, the last thing that I have and hopefully I can get through this and hold my composure. Um, I would really, really like to thank the school board. Uh, Patty and I have, this is year 24 that we've been in Burbank. Um, we've moved here and when we moved here, we didn't know for sure if we were going to be here five years, 10 years or like the situation we in now or we're probably never going to leave. So, this has become home for a lot of years, not only for us, but for our kids. Um, I feel like I've always had a good relationship with the school board. You guys have been supportive and easy to easy to work with and I appreciate that very much. Then we
064get to the guy sitting over there, Mr. Hillberg. We've been through I guess I can count through Bruce Hawkins was the one that actually hired me, but so four superintendent. Okay. I have a lot of respect for Mr. Hillberg. He's always had an open door policy. Um he's very easy to talk to. He's in my opinion the best superintendent when it comes to a volatile situation. He has a way about him to where he can get his point across without upsetting everybody in the room. There's been so many positive things that have happened to us over the last 24 years. Do we want to retire? Of course we do. Are there going to be things that we miss? Yep. And I've already had some weird things that have happened in the last couple weeks, like
065walking into my office and sitting down in my chair and going, I've spent more time in this chair than I have my recliner at home. And there's just weird things that you think about. Um, it's going to be hard for me to go to our sporting events and not have my coach's hat on or not looking around for kids that are running around and doing things that they're supposed to. I hate to say that's not my problem anymore, but it's not my problem anymore. And I sit I'm going to have to learn how to just sit down and watch. So with that, thank you very much. Uh we really truly appreciate it and we'll be around. I was on the board when the when the ANIES got hired and I remember how excited Ruth Hawkins
066was when he came in that meeting. He said, "I found hardly Do you find two really good teachers who are married? He said, "They don't go together very often." He said, "We've got a couple, the wife has a strong business education, high school, FBLA, business stuff. The husband is a successful coach, athletic director." You know, Bruce Bruce Hawkins didn't get excited very often. He was really excited that day. We were excited, too. So, thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'm not going to try and follow that because I'm not um Thank you, Jay, for all you've done for our district. Thank you. You Um Julie. Okay. I don't I got to come behind that. Um okay. So in your packets um I gave you the big mammoth report um which is the districtwide four-year plan. So
067normally um all of our CTE programs do their four-year plan in conjunction with our advisory programs and they do their own individual plan over four years. And then we condensed that into our district-wide plan, which is what I brought to you today. So that's why when you'll see in your mammoth plan, in your boredom, if you feel like reading through that in the size eight font, um it's broken out by program area um with what our goals are. And it's also broken down by quality criteria, which if you look at OSPI's actual document, and I again I condensed because I would have killed you if I made you go through each of those criteria, but OSPI breaks that down individually and then by program area. Um, so we kind of merged that document and made
068that one simplified for you if you can believe it. But then I took that and I simplified it into what I'm hoping is a shortened presentation for you. So, I just kind of wanted to quickly go through um in a nutshell. Um and I'll leave this reading for you at a later time. Um so, real quick, just wanted to kind of go through some highlights. Um this is not always the case with us and I was really thankful this year um for some grant funding. Usually when I work with OSPI, I'm not always this fortunate. So, we applied for some grant funding this year and were able to get $60,670 with OSPI. um everything that we applied for we got. So I was really happy about that. Um I didn't always get the amount I
069wanted um but I was able to get the at least the grant awards and so in a quick nutshell these were the grant awards and um where we were intending to utilize those funds um and trying to help with our CTE budget so that we could at least still send our stu our teachers. We really like to get our teachers an opportunity for professional development. We like to be able to send them to their conferences um so that they can stay up todate. You know, we have to remember that our teachers are teaching every year and they're teaching in a content area where they're not able to really get back to industry and if they're teaching about industry to our students to get them out into employment, we really want to make sure that they're
070staying current with what's going on in employment and in industry. So, it's important that we send them to those conferences so that they can learn what's current. Um so, we really do try to get them to do that. And that's kind of a little bit of a summary of where we were able to spend some of our funds. Um, and I'll talk real quick about the last one here in another slide. Um, so we applied this year for a high demand grant and was real thankful that we were able to get not quite as much as I wanted, but um, happy to get what we did get. Um it's been a long time since we were able to get new computers in the business and marketing programming area and so really thankful to be able
071to do that because um OSPI really only allows us to roll over 10% of our CTE funds. So no matter how good of a job we do in saving, we're not a big enough district. We can't roll over um enough money that would allow us to take all of that money and be able to purchase an entire computer lab. So the only way we'd be able to do it is be able to purchase like one-third of the lab every single year. And that's not really feasible. So being able to get a high demand grant like this for us to be able to take the entire computer lab and be able to refurbish it with all brand new computers, which is really untimely because Patty's retiring. So um lucky we get brand new computers and then
072she's gone. But um really thankful for this opportunity. So, um, you know, Andrew's done a great job for us and able to to jump on this really quickly for us to get a low enough price before tariffs hit and everything, um, and get those ordered quick enough for us. So, we have them here, um, they've not all been installed, obviously yet, but we have them here, um, at the district, and then we'll be ordering 30 new monitors um, that have yet to be arrived. Um and then with the grant funds, which is a separate grant, but we were able to get um the amount there to also go ahead and pay for the renewal in the softwares so that Patty will have the new D. Ramsey curriculum for the new person that's coming on board
073and then also be able to renew our um software for the MindTap um licensing that we use for um Microsoft Office licenses for computer apps so that we can continue that again and not have to take that from our state budget. So excited about that. Thank you. Grant funding. Um and then our student um kind of highlighted this a little bit earlier, so I just wanted to kind of talk about this. Um and I'll show some pictures, but this was new. Um one of the things that we've really been having some conversation about is how we're bringing CTE down into the middle school. And so this year, um in Holly's ad classes, what they did, a freshman actually came up with this idea. And so what they did this year is they worked with Mike
074um in the middle school and the FFA students divided into small groups and they did teaching lessons and they took a look at every one of the different classes that they currently teach in Agg including a leadership and they went down into the middle school and they taught little lesson plans and I'll show you pictures here in just a second and they taught lesson plans about each of those different classes to kind of introduce students to what are the different classes that are offered at the high school so kids could kind of get an idea idea and it was a really good experience for our middle school students or I'm sorry our high school students as well in teaching some of those. So I'll show you those pictures in just a quick minute. But that
075was our spring into a and then we're looking forward this next year um into looking at building out the multimedia or broadcasting course into a CTE course. So we're we're working on that now and what that'll be looking like. Um, so we're excited to try to bring that down into the middle school and getting our eighth graders involved in CTE and again that early exposure. Um, because again, we really want to empower our students. Um, we're really having these conversations a lot earlier about letting students become the drivers of their academic and career learning. Um, and helping them drive where they want to go with their career aspirations as they think about their post-secondary. So whether that's onto a university or whether that's on to training or where that is, but really wanting them to
076kind of be that driver and getting that earlier exposure for them. Um so these are just some pictures of what the kids were doing in that spring into a um so hopefully I can kind of the let's see so the one that's teaching at the projector um she's teaching about plant science right there and I think you can see the students over here on the left. they're using pipe cleaners and so they were um they were actually learning about plant anatomy. So they were making plants with pipe cleaners but they were looking at um plant anatomy for horiculture. And then I kind of got a glare, but I think um I think the bottom one over here in the center and I think maybe the top one in the upper right. I think they were
077doing um I think this was AFNR and there was like some trust communication activity that they were doing um where they had no like they couldn't they had some activity where there was no talking and no vision and it had something to do with AFNR. the bottom one um there were some 2x4s and that was a leadership that they were doing and I'm not sure if that other one up in the top but they were also in animal science they had to learn uh anatomy the external anatomy of a dog oh is that what I what did I say the what does it stand for oh sorry uh AFNR is agricultural food and natural resources sorry had to think about that we use abbreviations so much that I I don't even stopped to think. Um,
078so those are some pictures of what some of the different units look like. And all of the kids also as they thought about their lesson plans, they had to take that back to um the FFA organization and propose how much they were going to be able to spend and whether or not they were approved for that spending amount where they were then able to take those lessons and teach. So, they spent a day in the middle school and then I'll Oh, what am I doing? I'll do it. Um Oh, boy. Okay. So, this is like really size small font. Holy cow. Sorry. Um, maybe I can do it on my own. I can read it fine. Can you? Okay. Well, I'm blind. Um, okay. So, what I did was I actually this year I just
079really wanted to kind of get an idea from the teachers directly themselves. So, I wanted to know um and brags. So, I asked them specifically. I said I sent an email out and I said, "What were your top three um accomplishments or what did you think was the best successes in your programs areas this year um because I'm not always in the classroom." So, I wanted to know what their thoughts. I had my thoughts, but I really wanted to know what their thoughts were. So, for Holly, um she said she had three sections of classes in a that were mostly freshman. So, she said she was really proud of the fact that she really got them um especially postcoid just really feeling like she was able to get those students back engaged and really understanding
080how to learn again. Um so, she was really proud of that. Um she said also this was one of her largest group of FFA members in at least 10 years or more. So, really found uh really really proud of the fact that she's finally starting to see that engagement, starting to see the growth, seeing it relate over into her FFA and what they're doing. Um, Patty, so this was kind of a joke, but she said, um, oh, that's not this part. Okay, wait. I can't tell that part yet. So, she said, um, last year they ranked eighth in the state for the number of Microsoft Office certifications that were earned um by students. Even read this because it's there. And this year, oh, and this year they even surpassed that. So they ranked sixth this
081year with 76 Microsoft Office certifications that were earned by her students at Columbia High School. So that's pretty huge. Um if you think about it, like sixth in the in the state. That's quite an accomplishment. And I don't mean to like put down any of my other school districts, but nobody even comes close to that with the other school districts that I serve. So I really want to brag on Patty for being able to do that. Um and I'll tell you some of the other numbers. So, I messaged her today. Um, she actually came back with um three of her kids placed in the top 10 in the state for PowerPoint certification because I was asking her last year. She had shown me um a picture of all of her students back when she had
082the eighth in the state. So, I asked her if she had taken yet another team photo of all of the kids that were um in this last group. and she said the girl that took the photo, she won't get it from for me until tomorrow. So I said, "Well, send it over to me anyways." But she said, um, that yeah, three kids placed in the top 10 in the state for PowerPoint this year. Um, James Finley Wilson placed fourth, Juan Patron, I think, placed eighth, and Joseph Link placed ninth. So that's huge. And PowerPoint at that, like we're not even talking about Word, we're talking about PowerPoint. So to me, that's huge. That's quite an accomplishment to get that far. Um, and that's to me honestly really good too because most of the time she
083spends in her class is mostly working on the front end is Word and then into Excel and then into PowerPoint. So that she's getting that far. So to get students to place that far, that speaks really highly of her skill. Um, she also said her students gain real world career experience with the mock interviews that she does. Um, we have a great advisory committee that works with Patty from PNL and WRPS. We have representatives that serve on that. Um she also had students that went with Natalie to um Columbia Basin College and they had an event called the Holiday Hustle and her students that were on the yearbook staff won first place and each of those students took home a $1,000 scholarship to CBC. So that was excellent. We were really excited about that. And
084Natalie came home saying that every class of hers um offers students employability certificates. So, um, right now she offers, let's see, she has all three of her health classes, every single student in there was able to take a test for their, um, CPR first aid certificate. And new this year, they all took their bloodborne pathogen certificate as well. And then her child sight class also comes away with their, uh, first aid, CPR, and AED certifications. And so, her two sections of foods actually also come away with their food handlers permit. So, every single one of her classes offers a student an employability certificate. So, that's huge for us. And then, um they also do some community service through their project Goodwill. And then just this last I think it was not last weekend, but the
085weekend before they came away with the judges choice awards this year. So, that was exciting news for us to be able to hear. Um and so this was again I asked fast forward. I said, "Tell me where you guys want to grow because I have my vision for where I think that the program should go, but um I really want to know what they thought." So, Holly said she again wants to bring back the FFA alumni um involve them now more in what they do, bring them back into the classroom, have them judge the events, help with the activities that are going on in the classroom, um and helping to recruit more members. Um this summer she'll be attending two more case institutes. So she's going to get trained um to be case approved in
086order to teach the small engines class and also be able to add in um I think it's the veterinary medicine and animal health class. And Patty said she's looking forward to sleeping in past 5:30 in the morning. Um spending your time with her husband outside of school for a change um and not having to live by a schedule. So, um, but in all seriousness, she said that she is, um, looking forward for us to being able to get those new computers in the business classroom. The new technology was much needed. She's excited for the classes that we have that are new here that are being approved in our business and marketing program. So, we have some new classes coming down the pipeline that we're able to offer. So, we have a business communications class that
087would offer students the opportunity to have a third uh third credit English class and we have a business procedures class, computer programming, and an intro to business class that could be coming. So, we had all four of those approved this year. And um family consumer science, Natalie said she would like to continue to grow her membership and participation in her family and consumer science club. Um again just more projects in community service projects postcoid and again just early college credits. So one of the things we did this year was we lifted all of our um articulations that we used to have with college and we've lifted all of those and moved to Walawala Community College for a lot of our early college credit and we've actually been able to get a lot more aligned so
088far. So we're looking forward to that pathway at Walaw Wala. And then just in general, um, all of them kind of came back with some of the same feedback about, but where do we see long-term CTE and where do we see some opportunities for growth in the district? So, we think again just more engagement in our leadership opportunities. So, all of our programs have a registered CTSO. Um, so like FFA, FBLA, um, all of them lead to something like that or a leadership equivalency. So, again, we just see a great opportunity there for our students. We want to continue to grow that. Uh we want to expand those credit equivalencies. So whether kids can take um a course as either like a CTE and they can choose to use it as math or CTE, CTE
089or English or CTE or art, we want to have those options be available to students so they can use it in more ways than just one. Um we also want to expand and diversify our advisory committees. We want to bring in more industry and business partners to what we're doing. We want their feedback into our curriculum. We want them engaged in our classroom. We want to get back out to the industry. We want more field field trips. We want to be able to hear straight from them. Um what we need to be doing with our curriculum. Um looking at job opportunities, internships, that those kind of things. And then again, just that bottom line is just how do we get more career exploration events um and really talking about multiple routes. So, not just university,
090you know, we know that there's those routes, but we also want to look at other opportunities for students that are just as much high wage, high demand, but what are those other al alternative options for employment? Um, we were really lucky this year. We took the kids um on an apprenticeship 101 day and we took them over and we were able to see um we've never been able to really get into the unions before. Usually they come out on a like one and done kind of a careerfare type thing, but we were able to get them in and actually be able to see the sheet metal. Um we did electrical, sheet metal, and pipe fitters all in one day. And it was great. Kids loved it. They actually got hands-on and got into the union,
091got talked to the training directors, got all the information about how to get in, how to get signed up. So hopefully to do things like that again in the future. And last but not least are just some more real quick photos. So again, like you mentioned, this is a state a photo of the FBA group. Um this is a senior lunchon from um business and marketing and then of course the yearbook staff there in the middle. And then over on the far right on the upper corner is when they had won the $1,000 scholarships for winning the um holiday hustle at CBC. And then in the bottom with a ed, this is a picture of some of the students that were building the bicycles for the bikes for tikes. And then um this is an
092alumni from the AED program and I apologize I can't remember his name but he was coming back and helping the students work with how to do some proper electrical wiring. Um again the FFA club I think this was like uh it was like first first year award winners can say that one right and then this is again another um a mechanics student that was doing uh electrical wiring and competing on the bottom right and oh that's not what I wanted sorry and then for family consumer science the two photos over here on the left those are examples of the students that were um showcased there at the Project Goodwill where they won the choices award, judges choices award and then um the upper was one of the I think that was one of their crepes
093units in instruction. Um and then the bottom two photos there are their cupcake wars competition that was going on in class and on the very far right on the bottom is one of the elementary classes that they are working with. And in the upper right, every year they're able to take the students to um um Paul Mitchell and go over and tour their facility. So, um another example of how we're able to try to get our students out to industry to kind of see what the opportunities are that exist. So, um and that's my last Thank you questions. CT, where's the Paul Mitchell facility at? It's over in Kenowick. Um it's changed, but I think it's still over in Kenowick. Um, I want to say it's if I think if it's still there, but I
094want to say it's behind or runs parallel to gauge. I guess technically that's probably Richland. It seems like in past years we kind of saw this slide of enrollment in CTE. Is it has it has it leveled out? Are we back on the up or by number of students since I've been here, which is what, three years now? Four. Um, it's been about the same. I haven't really I mean, I think I would say I'm more encouraged now that we're able to go into the middle school. I mean, it's kind of been capped because we have the same three teachers. Um, we've been able to change some courses. Um, I would say I'm excited in the fact that we've been able to offer now like we've been building some courses. So, we have some different
095offerings that are going to be able to come come to our students. Um, and I think some of the future discussion we've been having is thinking about like um being more strategic in our offerings and stacking things so that if to add more breadth um being able to do things on a every other year rotation so that students have access to more. So, um, thinking like if Holly, for example, has more case classes that she's now certified to be able to offer, but obviously she only has say six class periods or five class periods, she can't offer all of those things. So, maybe being able to stack them on a every other year rotation so the kids can still access things even though you only have the one teacher. So trying to look at things
096like that or trying to look at classes like in business where can we take classes that can offer that extra credit equivalency. So if students can still take a business class but still be able to access that third credit English. So where can we fit that in and still only have those three teachers available to you? So thank you. Yeah. Questions. Okay. I'm going to keep rolling. Um we're going to move right into policy. This is our first reading and we have one, two, three, four, five policies before you tonight. Uh all five policies are essential uh from WASDA uh for various reasons whether it's RCWS um several of them updates on that but um it's our first reading so I'm not going to go through any of them super uh in depth unless you
097want me to to provide you more of an explanation. We'll have opportunity to come back for a second reading next month. So, if you've had opportunity to take a look at those, uh, feel free. But you can see we've got a new policy on course design, selection, adoption of instructional materials. Um, library information, technology, programs, transitional kindergarten. Again, you kind of see a lot of this has to do with changes in laws, RCWs, uh, sexual harassment of district staff prohibited. This kind of has do with the 2024 2020 version of title 9 that's recently been going on between the state and the federal level. Um and then up more recent the capital assets theft sensitive. Andrew and I have been having many conversations about that more so recently but adjusting uh that based on recommendations
098at the state level. Any questions about first read through policy? You have an entire month. You have any questions for me? Let me know. will come back a month from now. But I'm perfectly okay with them as they said. Not hearing any. I'm going to come back to unfinished business. I haven't brought much unfinished business back to you, but this is one I've notified you via email about. Uh last uh month, our April 28th board meeting, we declared two buses uh one for surplus and one obsolete. In our process of uh declaring one of those buses obsolete, it came upon that we may have someone interested in that um through one of the local dealers that had worked with it. If we declare it obsolete, you eventually just scrap it. So um to be good
099stewards of not only our community, our public, but with dollars. Um, I'm coming back to you tonight seeking a declaration of bus 4, moving it from obsolete to surplus so that we can properly surplus it. Obviously, if it doesn't go by surplus, it would go to obsolete as it was before. But you took action, declared it um obsolete on my request. But um I'm coming back tonight asking if we can flip that, if you're okay with that, to surplus, allowing us to surplus that if needed. That would take action, necessitate action. I will make motion to move for obsolete obsolete surplus surplus. I will second that. been seconded to move bus number four obsolete surplus. Other discussion. I thought we approved this. I guess we talked about it last month. Yeah. And we did do
100again one we did surplus and that one is still going through the process. But if you remember, there was a question on the turbo on this one and the amount of money it would take. And we thought there was no way anyone um would possibly be interested in that based on the money it would take to overhaul that engine. And the process of saying, "Hey, we're going to surplus this." Some said, "Hey, wait, hold on. I might be interested in that." So again, it was kind of dumb luck, but uh all in favor? I post. Thank you. Okay. Moving on. Out of curiosity, have we had anybody interested in bus 16 yet? I would have to go back and check. Um, it's a formal bid piece on it, so I got to go back. We've
101we've um completed the cycle where you have to offer it to public schools and we have not completed the cycle where we're out to our community yet. So, that's not due yet. So, at our next meeting, I can tell you what that uh what that is because you have you're required to put so many days in between that. So, it just hasn't finalized yet. Ask me again next month. Um, new business, uh, looking to accept the CTE four-year plan. Um, talked to you about this and this is, uh, looking for action. I do have all the slides. We're not going to go through that because you just heard her talk to you in detail about that, but this is what, uh, I'm seeking approval on tonight. I will make a motion to accept a CTE
102fouryear plan. I will second that. Is ours going to say Kona Benton districtwide four year plan on the ride? No. Okay. All in favor? But your local will stay the same. Thank you. Okay. Moving on. Uh board calendar review uh next month, June 23rd. Um We'll come back and see if we can get that B board reorganization done. Um and uh end of the year we'll have our administrative SIP updates. That's kind of the end of the year wrap-up. We'll have our administrative team. Any other suggestions at that time? Uh our board um budget piece will not be coming to you until July. So um we have a month before that. So any other questions or thoughts before we adjourn? stand adjourned at 826. Thank you very much. Thank you all for coming. Have a
103good evening.