001yeah okay we are live for a meeting on Monday Night February 24th at 7 pm for February Columbia School District business meeting let me get to the presentation Mr O'Brien before we get started stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance 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 all right good news so really good news um I want to take you back a little bit and talk to you about uh cudio Solutions which is our on new Online safety product that we're supporting both our students and really our parents and Community with if I take you back to a previous school board meeting you remember here on Monday November 25th we had a
002couple of parents that showed up and that wanted to speak to the board and talk about Online safety of their devices coming home to their children um and they really just talked about the want and the need and the desire to have more control over the device while at home while it's not connected to our Network at the time we sat and we listened um and I went away with that and I talked to Andrew um and really pushed that in Department of our tech department Andrew worked with mer Jones who oversaw this specific project um and I'm pleased and happy to announc the product of that was Clum School District launching our new parent support program in February 10th 2025 um it's just some additional software we were able to put together um that
003really allows our parents to have uh more local control over that device while they're at home um manage their screen time you can see check their online activity receive you know they can control and block different pieces I've set up an account for my own three children kind of it's pretty cool you can see what they're doing both during school hours and after hours when you sign up it gives you a report every 24 hours so you can actually see how much time they're spending on the devices and it still doesn't interfere with our internal firewalls and all those things it just allows them some additional support so it's not like giving this this access they can change things that won't allow us to still do the necessary things we have on our so I'm
004excited for those parents that want to or need to would like to access this it's an optional support they don't have to do this but those that want that additional ability uh they have the ability to um more closely monitor the activity of their children while they're away from us so Andrew anything you want to add to that in terms of our families and use and access of this we ran a report today we have 35 parents that have signed up and that's covering 75 students in our district right now so so we got the information out it was sent out and again this was all based on parents showing up um you know our hearing a visitors part you know so we were able to um offer something it doesn't cost them a thing
005and it's part of the product and system that we have so uh we're pleased with that awesome uh board reorganization um I give this to you and ask the question um to typically in January we organ we reorganized the board um I know last month we pushed it back a month we were short of board member we wanted to wait until the entire board was here I I I push this back to you uh if we would like to continue we can if the board at your will would like to push it off another month we certainly can there's nothing pressing us to do it timely like it has to be done this month just at some point we want to get this set up and done uh reminder um you know the three positions
006that come up that are at large the board chair the vice chair and the ledge rep uh the board chair is really kind of doing most of the heavy lifting with me when I say in terms of communicating regarding agenda items um in terms of the commitments um things that come up uh Vice chair overseas takes over in that role when the board chair is uh not present and the legislative rep has an opportunity to go to the State Assembly at a conference once a year we have not gone the last two years years but we did go three years ago um so in terms of those roles but uh I'm at your will however you'd like to proceed so I'll let you guys discuss that we wait or Michael guess if we could have
007got in the time machine and know that we would be two down tonight and only one down last time we've done it last time right I know we've come across this in the past and waited until we got the full board and just say a Coury to all that's fair off to next month come back and revisit it again there's nothing pressing it's just you need to look at it annually and get so off till next month operating principal review would you lead that hiring the responsibility for selection placement transfer of personnel shall be vested in the superintendent subject to board approval the superintendent will have the freedom to organize reorganize and arrange the administrative and supervisory staff including instruction and business Affairs which in his or her judgment best serves the school district okay
008any changes or additions to the agenda no changes to tonight's agenda it'll play out exactly it is on the agenda moving on to the consent agenda three four items make a motion to accept the consent agenda stated across all four items second any discussion any the four all in favor I I unanimous hearing of visitors anybody like to address the board thank you for coming though okay I'm G to pass it on to our Schoolboard reps go hi guys even um so high school um boys and girls are moving on to state for basketball so so excited um girls just recently lost but I think it only affected their placement when they go to state I believe you're correct but there is games this Saturday so boys are number one in the state though so
009that's super exciting that's really great um boys wrestling also made it to State I heard they did really well I personally did not watch anything I don't think any of them placed but we had four of them all uh right at that last round before play four of them went out that round right before placement so we had four of them go deep into day two and all fell one round short of the placement round so it was quite an event I've never been to the Matt classic seen videos pictures it's one of those that it's hard to explain unless you actually go there and experience it but it was an incredible experience um and I'm sure glad I went so is that all the state kids right there all of those went to State
010yes this year eight of them how big was the team um we only had um say two that didn't make it um one was an injury and one didn't Place three I'm sorry three didn't make it thank you um spring Sports start next week I believe I know our first softball game is the 13th of March so excited about that we're getting like new uniforms and stuff and new bags so we'll be looking pretty good out there I'm excited um we recently had a representative from College Bound come and do a presentation at our school College Bound is like I think it's mostly for like lowincome students or first generation students who want to go to college and uh the lady came and talked about mostly um like how to obtain the money and like
011where the money comes from so like the more the less your parents would make the more money you would get and it's just for Washington State schools but still really cool and um super beneficial especially to our school um the middle school girls and boys or girls basketball and boys wrestling are finishing their Seasons um staff members have created a sunshine Committee in order to spread more POS positivity um my mom's on it so that makes a lot sense to me but seems pretty cool um Elementary School Bingo night is March 21st and all proceeds go to Mrs Taylor's breast cancer fight so that is super duper Williams well Miss Williams Sorry Miss Williams I apologize um still super duper cool though um the Silverwood read ride program is going on currently um so the
012kids have to read like 10 hours and then they get a free to get to Silverwood I always did it as a kid and it was always super fun you get to fill up like little thermometers um FBLA got to present a presentation to the fourth grade classes so that's the high school elementary school crossover Oscar was there doing the presentation seems pretty legit um and then the one school one book thing is also going on I told you about that a few meetings ago where everybody in the school is reading Charlotte's Web um but that's like happening currently um as opposed to coming up so that's also cool and osar will do clubs um so for FB League everybody who competed at regionals qualified for state but we agreed that um we only go
013to state all together me and Kaye finished our uh 16 page essay on commercial construction on our American Enterprise project so um yeah and we um sold Valentine's grams in February and um Sharon I don't know if I said that right I don't know if you guys know who that is but she bought Valentin gram for everyone in the high school and FBA uh profited more than $466 from these Valentine grams a knowledgeable placed in their regionals they got third and so then they have state also on March 22nd then uh National Honor Society started a c a cafe event where they're like selling coffee and like energy drinks uh every Monday morning and Friday at lunch and we're also working towards the plant cell and uh we're going to start selling like chocolate candy
014bars soon and then The bbon Grange is also coming up where we volunteer every Sunday uh to help sell breakfast and then um drama club uh all I could figure out is that they're just practicing and rehearsing their play right now they they didn't tell me like when they're performing it yet or anything uh Dungeons and Dragons they're also like they I think they were meeting after school today and they they they were just like playing their game and like it's like a story they follow and then FFA had a competition in Goldendale today and FFA does like a lot of other types of competitions but I couldn't really get a hold of Miss G so they just recently went to one in Finley last week um but FFA has been doing a lot recently
015I think that's it right yeah any questions for our reps thank you update appreciate your time here the homework to get to okay en and bu so for February our enrollment is at 743 um that brings our average to 7568 Bud status um general fund as of the end of January we're at 277,000 Capal project 229,000 Debt Service fund were 261,000 ASB 180,000 207 private funds and transportation vehicle fund any questions thank you so uh Mr Taylor is going to be um doing a kind of brief overview of some information uh concerning his school Improvement plan things that are working on but uh what I want to highlight before he jumps into this is um try to kind of get into routine of some of the data you're beginning to see coming out of literacy
016math you know some of the things dealing with behavior mtss PBIS you've kind of heard all these things I'm excited for him to share with you kind of talk about what do we do with that data um something different he's doing and how uh he's working with his students uh to talk to them about some of the data so uh it won't look like maybe some of the things you've seen more recently with some of those pieces but you're going to see a different way of of of communicating And discussing this this information with our students so it's really kind of taken that data crunching that and then getting it out to them in another way so um I don't want to steal too much but go you're doing fine I can switch the slide
017for you no you're fine picture no one else got a [Laughter] picture um I don't know what we got first so we're meeting as our building leadership team January just before the end of second quarter we looked through failure rates from last year and this year we looked through attendance data um now we looked through I already diagnostic data and reading in math from fall to winter as we were going through all of it I think it was japen said we should show this to the kids we need to let the kids know that everything that they're doing like they're making progress um so the next week in our how class each teacher had a slideshow specific to what grade level they had in their classroom some of the data is whole school data and
018then some was specific to each grade level and so the teachers then walked the kids through like data specific to their grade level and how they're progressing in reading and math and attendance and overall grades um so that's what I'm going to show you here this was the first slide this was the same in all grade levels um the first Circle there is the number of failing grades that we had at the end of first quarter last year this is like FS on a report card the second one the number of failing grades we had this year at the end of first quarter and not that I have to point out the obvious but last year we had 70 students with at least one failing grade at the end of first quarter and this year
019at the end of first quarter we had 53 students with at least one failing grade um our enrollment didn't go down that much to make that kind of change but that was pretty good news to see big deal the next one was for first and second quarter last year as compared to this year we had 61 kids last year missing 10% or more of the school days and this year we had 44% missing 10% or more in school days another number to see the next are specific to each grade level so the triangle on the right is what the I ready program spits out to us like it created these images for me that is the fall diagnostic that the kids take when they get back to school and the one on the left was
020their most recent one that they did this January so you can see we have fewer kids scoring in the red which is the lowest and more kids a ton more in the in tier two but more kids scoring in tier two and tier one this is sixth grade math I mean this is the trend that we want to see right it gets more drastic on some of the later ones is that slide explanatory enough if you say that you're calling yourself out um next one meeting for sixth grade from 62% in the fall to 51% in the fall and tier three at risk that's great tier one from 11% to 18% in the grade you're definitely making growth for seventh grade math 24% in Tier 1 to 35% in tier one awesome 10% drop in
021tier three as well seventh grade reading from 38% in the fall one to 52% in the winter like when you show that to a reading teacher an Ela teacher they get it pretty excited on every one of these you'll see it's trending in the right direction there's not one that goes backwards 8th grade was a little more stubborn move two from 17 to 28% it's pretty huge 14% in tier three this in the winter we had 100% of our kids that actually completed the diagnostic I think is a huge win you can get all your kids to complete this some kids take it in class period some kids can try to make this thing take three days so getting it scheduled in is sometimes a challenge even though you tell the kids it shouldn't take
022you more than a couple days just do your best if you're stuck make your best guess and move on some kids still take them our staff was excited to see all this and I got positive reviews from the teachers as they shared it with the kids it's important you can see they're making progressing them and not doing anything with it I'm even hoping that not only they continue to make growth in the academic area but when you can motivate a kid to take the assessment more seriously you're going to see a growth in their scores as well I'm going to jump in on that one that's that's a conversation we've had specifically uh at the secondary levels both middle school and high school um not only with the daily work of you know with things
023like the math work that we're seeing through I ready uh but through the assessments is how do we make this meaningful uh so that kids are truly showing us what they they know they're able to do um it's not 100% but most kids you know at the elementary level do it because you ask them to again not 100% right but you know predominantly the majority of kids want to do it because you tell them it's important and it's it's good work uh and it's important to them um you start to lose obviously some of that luster the older they get um and you can see data within the data which we're not talking about when we see that we look at this you can actually see how much time they're spending taking these things right
024and you can tell if a kid spent a few minutes and just rushed right through it and you know things of that nature so um you know but yet we're trying to make decisions based on this more formative you know uh the more formative data and so we're how do we make this more meaningful and we start engaging in conversations of you know do the students know what we do with it do they even see how we have conversations with it so this is again just the part of and this is the way uh the middle school started you know kind of cracking that egg for the lack of a better term how do we begin going back back to them with the data with the numbers showing them that you know hey we do
025look at this we take this seriously we look at this and and um you know we want you to do well it helps us prepare them um if we know exactly where they're at and what we can do and and uh how we continue to use this program with them yeah it was good just to celebrate them as well that we see them making progress you mentioned our Sunshine committee it was kind of a self- started group of people wanting to just bring more joy into the building in a variety of ways and historically our Sunshine committee has been in charge of throwing baby showers and celebrating birthdays and maybe getting someone flowers if there's a tragedy in someone's life they're taking it to a whole different level they organized what we call the underground
026Spirit day where we don't tell the about it all the teachers dress up and they're by you're using our coyote kudos to allow kids to acknowledge teachers would like good things and teachers to acknowledge teachers last tues well last Friday the previous Friday we had that snow day was the original schedule day of our first underground Spirit day Valentine's Day so all the staff were going to wear black um no school we pushed it to Tuesday and uh I was out sick Mike Marvel was out sick Smith was gone every other teach shows up in black there were kids lost a little bit of its fun started asking if somebody died it was it was still fun so that wanted to add to that so it looks like good growth um do you think we've
027been growing at the same rate years back are we seeing it now at a higher level I mean what are your thoughts of that data is consistent with historic data yeah I mean how do you think we were do you think it's the same picture four or five years ago or you think we're doing things a little different that makes us I could make up an answer that's a that's a big as there's a couple things I think we're getting more clear I think we have more knowledge of how to use the data I don't I couldn't tell you that two years ago I could have found for that particular slide was in I ready you know we looked at growth um I think we're getting a lot better at it I mean now that
028we have team of people sit down regularly and look at data grades to attendance to Performance data I think we were still making growth in the past like last year when we were able to look at some of this and see like students in our qualified for sped Services made more growth than our general ed students some pretty big stuff so think we're getting better at using the data and looking at it I think everyone's kind of starting to paddle in the same direction you know I see it as kind of a an investment you know to make the commitment to to track and to do all the assessments and pay attention to it evaluate it so naturally would kind of want to understand what the return is on it we getting any used uh
029nwa's map testing its interface to actually look at data is not near as friendly as I ready number of different ways you can look at it I I would have to take export a report from the maap system into Excel and then start to like out from there it was not near as friendly as I already is and maybe they've updated since and I don't want to trash nwaa but a lot is that anything I'm just curious if you can take those that were on your attendance take them out of the equation or that change the graph meaning how many of them that are in tier three the high risk them associated with attendence issues I'm sure you're seeing that yeah I mean we' definitely seen as we looked at at the end of last
030year I think I shared it the kids that have higher had lower gpas I know within our Swiss system for Behavior we can eliminate students so as we're trying to find behavior that could be impacted by a systematic approach of all staff focusing on something we know we have some kids that are kind of your frequent flyers that would skew the data if we left them in there so we can remove them just by clicking on them I don't know I have to do some work to see if I could remove students from a data set like you see there probably correlates so no I'm assuming that correlation is pretty strong yeah it be interesting to see yeah when when you've done this assessment mid year you know for the first quarter of the first
031semester do you typically see Improvement across all the boards I mean it seems like almost always in the past we've always had one or two groups that went backwards what do you think happened this time that nobody went backwards no no group I don't I have to look at the data to be able to say for sure if I haven't seen this slide from past years okay that couldn't say for sure thanks Mike apprciate it the next person have a fancy picture I guess the only thing I would add to that to your question I wanted Mike to answer is you know you kind of asked you know different data sets and if I was to answer that question it would be we've always had different measures to tell us kind of how we think
032students are able to do that looked a little bit different at the elementary where they're using something as Dibbles and the Middle School you went to maps and at the high school you're using some State Testing or we got summative scores or any of those things and we used all kinds of things um keep in mind the IR ready it's not perfect it's got some things we're you know we're we're working on it's it's it's slick and it's something we're using across so we can have some common conversations about these pieces and these data sets um but to ask what would this look like like you know uh in years past will depend on what building you asked and and and what you're looking at because you'd be looking at different measurements of different things
033uh outside of some summi of sets we didn't really have a whole lot that you could look across the system you know to look at those pieces so this is kind of getting us pointed in you know One Direction that we can have some conversations about these pieces um and and what do we go about doing with that you know what does it tell us about our students uh from the beginning I kind of said our goal is to get more F get more formative in some of these measures so we weren't waiting till the end of the year to tell you what happened with our students you know I believe the best measures you get from staff are the most formative measures even more so than that talking about with lessons and assessments and
034unit pieces that we can have so we're working on trying to granular size that to give you up Tod dat information as best at possible so uh it would be hard to answer that and we'll build build a history of this as we go through some of this um um um it it would be foolish to say we weren't making progress but it would be what does that data set look like and how do we compare apples to oranges without using a summative set of datas which would be our esack so we're trying to get more timely stuff is the way I would see it um that the real trick is to to keep your whatever you're measure and keep that the same throughout the years you know come up with a five biggest things
035that are the biggest Tails don't move them so that way we can get that history and and we're still working through it I mean I'll point to like things like at the secondary level you know like uh you know um you know I've talked to you about the high school levels we're using it with ninth and 10th graders and our 11 12th graders are still using it but that data is skewed a little bit right and the why that is so we're still working on how can we get a real clear picture of of of what that looks like um so we'll continue to refine it and get better as we go along with it but we're getting to the point now where we at least have you know a couple years of data we
036can go back and look at and these reports give us the ability to go back and look at multiple years and begin stacking these things on top of each other awesome question just real quick no I was thinking back to it like what's the reason for all grade levels to appear appearing to make progress in every subject and more kids are attending school with less FS right I didn't want to walk out of here telling you it's just an accident things just happen that way you know um with the work of our PBIS team and some different interventions that we're doing and just trying to impact the culture there's just a good feeling of things are just moving along things are moving really well with it sunshine committee our building leadership team the whole team
037as a middle school just feels like it's just going really well um and when you start trying to impact the culture for students and you see more kids being at school not to see that as being successful okay thanks again to go got things you want to hang out we're on to policies second reading yep so thank you I want to bring to your attention four policies and bringing back to you for a second reading if you wouldn't mind I know typically we jump right through it and I you know we can look at all at once but I want to just briefly talk to you about these because these are second readings and three of the four you've seen um reminder um policy 5400 regarding Personnel leaves again uh based on some changes that
038were made at state level the policy had to be revised there were some outdated language we need to clean up uh um personal leaves so that's was required by W sent down we just cleaned up some language nothing uh nothing um crazy about it just it's a Language clean up piece the non-discrimination piece 3210 um that was due to the language that was brought about um with the RCW you can see there um and it we had to adjust our language on uh discriminatory harass harassment that went through that we have finished completing the audit on that we submitted it this last month uh and the language that changed about it was some of the pieces districts had to do for example we've talked to you in the past you're familiar with us requiring to
039put different language in our handbooks around some of those pieces and we put a disclaimer note on some of that stuff um around some of those pieces but because of the requirements for the pieces dealing with the handbook language do that law there was some policy change that had to go in there on that uh the third one I want to bring your attention to is 5010 which is non-discrimination affirmative action that one is encouraged it's not required but I'm suggesting to the board that you pass this one along I in full support of it um because uh it provides more clarity to uh to employment discrimination and really in polic and procedure for me I wanted to clean it up because there were some pieces in the procedure that were no longer required for
040us to do that we could actually eliminate um and it's and it would just save us time um so I wanted to push that through there are some things with that we don't of to push through that are encouraged but this is one that I see as a good move for our district gets us in line with current practices we had old outdated languages Let me give you an example let's say you would convene an ad hoc committee and produce XY orz are no longer required to do and I want to get that old outdated language out of there uh the final one and you'll see it's in bold red up there 3205 I want to bring your attention to that because this is what you're hearing a lot about um the sexual harassment of
041students prohibited this is the things you're hearing right now the fight going on between the federal level and the state level and this is really a Title Nine issue that you're hearing that's going through right now um I'm bringing this one through to you as a second reading right from the beginning because what we're doing is you're taking the Title 9 2024 version by wasda and both state and federal have agreed we've moved away from the 2024 back to the 2020 version I did get a legal opinion from our attorney he said yes just do it we don't need to take it to a first and second reading because you're reverting back to an old language the board had already approved um when uh the latest Administration came through they updated and went to 2024
042Title 9 rules and those are no longer at effect because this is a federal piece um and so we do have legal guidance from our attorney says push this one right through so it has been adopt it was adopted in the 20 is that what you're saying in 20120 yes and since then between 2020 and where we're at now there was a new version of that so what we're doing is we're retiring the current policy and we're going back to the 2020 we had before which is why we're bringing it straight to a second reading okay I want to give you a little bit more descriptive on the wise and whats of this so there any questions for me let's get some motions and we can have some further discussion wa I'll make a motion
043we we do them all at once yes accept all four policies second reading second forther discussion hearing none all in favor I I I okay unanimous Tod you're comfortable that we can make these work absolutely I would if I had any question on any of it I wouldn't bring it to you we' deliberate this a little bit more anyone in particular okay be more than happy to talk to about that if you'd like but yeah I'm feel very comfortable with all of these I do believe it's in the best interest of our district okay new business I'm going to hand this over uh to Mr Kramer here in a minute but just to set this up um I'm bringing to you tonight the first uh time you'll see it's a capital assets death sensitive asset
044report you see in your board packet uh and you can see on the updates up there fign our our last Financial aot it this was a suggested practice we began bringing to the board annually I'll let him explain what it does and why this is important but reminder this is something now it's going to be coming to you yearly and it does uh require board action so Andrew you want to take it from here yep so in my uh previous um updates to the board I usually would give a damage report how things are going Acquisitions that kind of thing and so what this does is it really targets anything that uh was lost or stolen which was not on previous report so this really zeroes in on that status of those devices and so
045I kind of went back and it actually is an anniversary of Chromebooks this month marks 10 years of Chromebooks in columia school district and so I've gone back 10 years worth of purchasing records and lined everything up and pull things that either were in the lost or stolen category and Chromebooks uh starting if you go back to 2019 when we started our very first take-home program at the high school it was a little bit uh you know there's a bit of a nervousness there of having these things go home how are we going to keep track of them and so we put uh procedures in place uh inventory systems to kind of make sure that everything was tracked with the students um but even our best um uh efforts uh some of them still kind
046of disappear families kind of head out they move uh then Co hit and then it even became much trickier to try to keep track of families moving in and out so we did our best um over the last 10 years and so uh just a couple of quick numbers for you uh over the 10 years we purchased 1,460 Chromebooks in total using a mix of tech Levy funds federal grants uh State funds as well um and I we had a total of 57 in the lost or stolen category really one that was stolen and the others were lost so that's really a 4% uh lost or stolen out of the whole batch so we've done our best to track them down get a hold of families make sure they're coming back get them refurbished and
047get them back out to the next batch of students so really made sure to uh be good stewards of the taxpayers money and always super thankful of the community to continue support the uh the tech Levy as we move forward to keep this program going so is that 4% since 19 since we bought our first one or it uh marks the whole band of 10 uh or 10 years so thank you really started to disappear during that that last five years is really when we saw the movement of them it's a pretty good celebration though I mean 4% consider that's so yeah we're just going to be bringing kind of an annual report uh as we see them go out of the district or whatnot uh it's kind of tricky sometimes because a student may
048lose it and find it a couple times throughout the year so their status will change multiple times oh I lost it oh I found it so by the time you get to the end of the year is it really lost did they disappear over summer then they come back and say oh I found it in the fall uh it's been kind of tricky to kind of show which ones uh have are truly lost and it kind of takes a a little bit of time to figure out okay we've we've truly lost this one so but we'll just kind of Mark it in the sand we I'll probably uh give the report during my annual report uh toward the end of the year and I'll just run whatever the current status is and we'll go from
049there so Andrew of that of that 4% how many would you estimate were students that moved you know that just left the district oh maybe halfish perhaps we don't we don't really have any kind of a lever to put holds on transcripts or grades or anything like that do we that was never no in fact it's g in fact policy procedure and law is is teing the other direction you cannot do that unfortunately but we we've lost some of the not that we looking for a pound of flesh but I mean it would be nice to still have some of those pieces to do that but no you cannot the current record of total time lost and then found is about three years we had a grandma show up at the high school office and
050said I found this under my bed in the guest room I thought I'd return it I was like thank you for her any questions for Andrew we are see age group loses more of them younger kids older kids the I think the high school because they get a little more there's a little more movement there they get on their own they're in cars we see our greatest damages at the middle school but we typically will find them the high school levels when we start to see them right so you're looking for Action yes to for this list here seeking approval of the of that report this removes it off of the inventory sheets for purposes so we can focus on the how did I miss that I ENT uh I guess I'll make a motion
051that agree to write off these lost or stolen Chromebook that work it's in the back I can't find it we ready for a second whenever you're ready guess I'll second no pressure no pressure further discussion we can wait timer well I mean it's kind of amazing to me that the average purchase price is is under $300 I mean it's it's not like they're you know I mean when you when you go to Costco and you look at the laptops and that I mean they start at start at you know 700 go up so it's like Andrew is a harsh negotiator we have a motion in a second any further discussion so so we write these off officially and um we've replaced them as we went right I mean we've had to keep up what do
052we do if they show up like we got a 2023 on here c22s is it likely I mean it's likely or I show I haven't quite figured out the mechanism if one does show up uh read add it to the inventory make another note a make a found list I would just say that it needs to remain schol District property I mean that would be my take and I assume yours too good good I I I 1460 here uh that was what was the 1460 that's how many you've bought in entirety of our 10 years yeah Okay resolution okay I bring to you uh two resolutions um see to seeking action on each one of them individually um the first resolution I bring to you this is part of something we do every couple of
053years in the audience this is part of our annual uh conferences and 180 day waivers we have to seek approval before the count of years show up um and what I do is I bring uh the State Board of Education packet to our board seeking their approval I then have to submit it to the State Board of Education it used to be OSI and they grant us permission to take the two days for professional development or the conference days off so this is just part of that process uh and so I'm seeking our 180 day calendar uh waiver for professional development the two days that we have and our conference waivers expire at the end of this calendar here so we have to go back and reapply to Opi so I bring to you two
054uh packets one's a little shorter one's uh quite a bit longer because they ask like what do you want to do during these professional development days so that's what you see in front of you I want to bring to your attention because I want to actually give you the math um to so you could actually see when we when you say and I say we meet the required instructional minutes I put the math right in front of you there to see building wide averages how you count those it gets very tricky um in terms of let me give you an example what you can count um in terms of passing times recess times uh the times before and after school what you can and can't count but I literally have our instructions time over the
055year down to the exact minutes by each building and then you see in the first page I have the District overview because we qualify as a district based on that instructional minutes count which is behind all the packets materials at the very end of that stuff is your instructional minutes so um what I'm seeking approval for the first one is resolution 2425 -3 this is 180-day calendar waiver seeking two days for our professional development this is a day that we have in October and a day that we have in say February or March some on this year we have a day off and we do professional development that's far 180 days the second one is the parent teacher conference waiver which allows us to um excuse some time uh from the 100 day calendar to
056conference with parents in the fall and the spring I will tell you the conference waiver looks a little bit different um and what I'm seeking to do moving forward is eliminate the half days out of this um and go to full day conference days and the other adjustment we're making which we'll be communicating to staff soon is we're looking to do conferences districtwide we're looking to um continue this practice with our high school levels as well and so that's part of this request so we'll be eliminating some half days going full days and requiring conferences across our district that's a personal philosophical piece of mine that I know fits in at least I can say at the secondary level Kyle's talking about that there's a request of the high school thatd like to do that
057and I believe and feel it's important that we shouldn't stop communicating with our parents and our community even when high school regarding um the progress kids are making so that's what you have before you tonight shoot away sounds really good but can the staff make good use of a full day conference schedule if most parents are you know I mean they're working so how do they do anything in the morning or the afternoon so we get flexible um stuff like our elementary and middle schools already doing um we get tricky and we offset our times having the full days actually allows us some flexibility to offer some evening times uh and do that so there's some ways we go about doing that and that's actually a benefit to our community we try to open up
058and offer times in the evening for our parents to do that so I don't want to put the cart before the horse but when we get this going specifically at the secondary level there's going to be some things that are Co coinciding with the kind of conversation that needs to be had at that level because there's some going to be some new requirements coming down with our high school and Beyond plans that are going to be requ IR ired starting as early as sixth as Middle School um and that's the plan that high school they're familiar with that kids walk outs they're postsecondary here um here's you know the classes we've taken have prepared us for whatever we're doing and there's going be some new things coming up in addition to a new software that's
059coming it's going to be coinciding with all of this so to me I see this as a win-win for us to build support around conversations we're having with parents and students that we've always done at the elementary begin to morph the change that conversation at the middle school and continue to change and more of that in the high school about things we always do how are you doing you know what are the grades but also how are we preparing you for whatever you choose to be Beyond high school so there's going to be a message delivered about how we go about this as we go through this it's not just simply hey come in if you want to talk about what you're doing in classes there'll be some things that go along with this that
060we're going to be required to do anyways and this time give us the time to do that so it's not me saying hey we have to do this anyways let's add it to your workload already on the days that you don't have to do this I'm always excited to get rid of half days I knew you'd be excited about that one yes it would eliminate it would eliminate two the half days on that schedule i' entertain a motion on resolution 24 25-3 an 80-day calendar waiver I'll make a motion can we do both of them we have to do one separate one at a time because the resolution yeah I'll make a motion for resolution 24253 the 180 calendar waiver second any further discussion all in favor I I unanimous resolution 24254 180-day parent teacher
061conference waiver I'll make a motion for resolution 24-25-4 0day parent teacher conference waiver I'll second discussion hearing none all in favor I I unanimous thank you calendar review um can I jump in one thing just finish off for you that Kevin on that one just so you know because I know we talk calendars all the time submitting this to the State Board just gives us the ability to have those days we finalize the wear that fits in and all that stuff during our regular calendar stuff on that one so I just want don't this is not it doesn't decide where those days are that comes out of that calendar voting and all that stuff eventually but we couldn't do that without these which is the this is the first step in that so in case
062that came up or there were any conversations around that we were just saying like having the the conference times and the the a great time to bring in um support organizations support organizations for students um just as parental retail some things uh so if we kind of those students were knew were coming in for these things we could have those agencies there to provide uh much needed resources that okay so I want to bring umk you anything else else good moving on Board calendar review the agenda um next meeting so I'm going off our regular schedule so I apologize um we are meeting in a couple of weeks so this is a mid-mon workshop uh I kind of mentioned we'd be looking at this I've uh got the support of Corey plager he is the
063new he took John gors if you're familiar with John gors is now in retirement Cory's brilliant and he's leading their department and public uh Public Finance um and he'll be mean with us he's going to come with the taxable information assessed value a lot of that stuff and keep in mind it's a board Workshop we're not making any decisions we're not looking for action on anything it's to feed you the information we need because our levies are up a year from now next February and so we're to begin starting to have some of those conversations about what does this look like and so he's there just to basically give us here's what we're collecting here's what we have here's what everyone else is doing you'll get kind of an overview on Public Finance on where
064our where our dollars and cents fit into everything locally and at the state level so he'll come in he's actually going to be here on site talking with you about it and it's just a work session for you to ask and understand our finances a little bit more so that in the fall I will be coming to you looking for board action to continue on with our levies so this is just to kind of prep you uh so we're making educated decisions and well thought out uh with some background in where we where all our dollars and cents set at the community level for all our voter ask uh levies any questions on that one so again this is don't you don't need to come prepare with anything other than just be hungry for the
065information and ask a lot of questions um you can get into a lot of things happening out there right now at this past election Trends um what we're seeing with bonds capital levies EPO levies all the above so um he's a great resource so you got a summary for how our neighboring districts did with their um attempt in early February I do I have a summary page I can hand to you I can it's yeah I have it emailed I can that and neither forward to you um it wasn't very good was it it's unfortunate no that's all I have for tonight everybody just got their property tax statement right everybody just got it just this last week right anything further for the good of the board will have some paperwork for me to sign
066thank you very much for being on the 10's noag I can put it up there if you're here should tell me say I don't e for