001Good evening. It is 5:30 p.m. January 27th. Welcome to our regular board of directors meeting. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. 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. >> Daisy has our land acknowledgement. >> Evergreen Public Schools resides on the traditional lands of the Shinukan people of the Kowitz tribe. They have lived on and cared for this land and its waterways since time immemorial. We thank them for their stewardship and make this acknowledgement to open a space of recognition, inclusion, and respect for all indigenous students, families, and staff in our community. >> Thank you. The first item on our agenda is to adopt the agenda. Is there a motion?
002>> Move to adopt tonight's agenda as presented. >> Second. Director Grwalt, sorry, Director Grwalt moves that we adopt the agenda as presented, seconded by Director Boengra. All in favor? >> I posted. Motion carries. >> The next item on our agenda is public comment. Any community member wishing to address the board may do so during the designated time on the agenda for public comments. Comments are to be directed to the board of directors as a whole and may not be addressed to any individual member of the board, at staff, or the audience. Although the board will not engage in dialogue, the board chair may ask a speaker a clarifying question or follow up at a later time on an issue raised during public comment. Each speaker has a maximum of three minutes, there is no mechanism
003whereby a speaker can donate some or all of their time to another speaker. No individual may speak more than once per regular meeting. Please state your name and district affiliation if any. Online we have Clarissa High Totower. >> Good evening. Yes, my name is Clarissa High Totower. Uh I am a community member and former employee of the school district. I am going to talk with you this evening about two things. Uh the student walk out um as well as the evidence of equity. Um, so I was made aware that there were students who um at at least one of our schools who was threatened with a suspension but then given detention um for participating in the walk out um in a manner in which they chose because it was a studentled one. And what I
004mean by that is is there was a uh these students left the parking lot area to go and join um another school's walk out after having participated in what happened on their campus. And so um I I want us to be reminded that history reminds us that students voices have been like they've played a crucial part in advancing civil rights um and expanding access to education in general. And many of the freedoms that we value today were shaped by young people who were willing to speak up um often at great personal risk. So we honor that legacy by protecting students right to protest without punishing them. Um many of the students understood they'd be marked absent. Um but they were not aware that there were uh certain stipulations that they had to stay within besides
005staying safe and not interrupting instruction which these students did not do. Um and p penalizing students for peaceful protest sends a very contradictory message to our youth that you know learning about democracy is acceptable in theory but it is unacceptable in practice. And I I really encourage you all to um equipped our leaders with ways to help students understand that they are supported in what they do without penalizing them um in ways that can be harmful to what we try to teach. just for them to be leaders and productive citizens in our community. The second thing I wanted to address is that though I was disappointed it wasn't already included in the font and panel presentation um I was really happy to hear a board member ask about the cultural responsiveness of that curriculum. It
006gave me great joy to know that it is at top of mind for um some of our leaders and the reality is that um fontail is not a culturally responsive curriculum. Um the three queueing strategy that it uses to teach guided reading is heavily dependent upon the students knowledge of middle class cultural norms in the US as well as their handle on the um English language which as you can imagine puts our multilingual immigrant and low soio economic students at a disadvantage. So, but I know as well as you know that no curriculum is perfect and so it is our job as leaders um so academic officers and specialists directors executive directors to ensure that the gaps in curriculum don't translate to gaps um in access and achievement for our students. Um and I look
007forward to hearing how you all are filling in the gaps of any curriculum specifically this one. Um, and I encourage you to look at the leverage you already have in place such as the ready for rigor framework, equity transformation cycles, the creators conversation protocol, and close responsive teaching in the brain. Thanks for your time. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Hannah Co. Hannah Co. I need you to move the list up. Our next speaker is Edna Maya. Good evening. >> Good afternoon. Um, well, I'm Edna Maya. I'm a senior at Haiti High School and I'm here to propose a new program to reduce violence at my school and my district. Um, Vancouver's overall crime rate is 74.6 comparing to the national average of 33.37. as students from our schools will determine if this statistic
008increase or decrease. That's why it's crucial to give the correct foundation to our community. The goal of this program is to create a safe environment for everyone, reduce existing violence, provide support to those facing violence, educate our community, and create awareness. ensuring that going to school, going to the restroom, and attending PE classes are not a cause for concern for anyone. We know that most of the accidents, fights, fights, drugs, and more occur in the restroom, lockers, parking lots, or even the generous office. All the people that are in my school, we are vulnerable. According to the National Institute of Justice, this will be the easiest target is the most younger generations of my school. People who don't speak English and peoples who are isolate. The consequences are safe environment, low academic performance, they gradually
009isolate themselves, depression and suicide just to name a few. I had a presentation um I don't know if I can share with you guys but it was about uh in orchestas overall crime related drug it's a plus that means that we are in the top so this program it will be um accompanied by students teachers and security staff so it will be implement more terms and be more severed with the consequence quences. At my school, if they catch you smoking or vaping, the consequences are suspension for 3 to 5 days. And I have I heard that is picking trash. I think that is not going to solve all the problems there are in my school. Maybe implement more sever consequences. It will be not only picking trash, maybe washing the restrooms or do something else
010for your community and that will be all. >> Thank you. >> Our next speaker is David Bennett. I'm not running. Sorry. >> Hi. Uh my name is David Bennett. I am a parent in the school district of two kids currently and four that have graduated out. Um I'm also a member of the uh community advisory budget committee. Um thank you for having the budget committee first off. Um we appreciate it. It's been very informative for both myself, I'm sure, that other members of the committee and the community at large. Um, I did want um after our budget committee meeting last week to point out one kind of error and how we're approaching some of our communications related to that, I did ask for Lori to include a little piece of paper. This is one slide
011from the budget committee. Um, it's very valuable slide. It outlines the restrictions that we have associated with state mandates, um, collective bargaining agreement mandates, and I would even say, uh, federal mandates for, um, our budget restrictions. Um, one of the things that's missing here, and I think this is a great learning point, is there's no indication of budget restrictions as they are associated with supporting IEP and 504s. So, there is a federal mandate that IEPs and 504s have to be complied with. That associated expense, whether it be pareducators, time out of the classroom, was not really acknowledged on this slide. And I think it's one of those things that sends a small subtle message that says, hey, it's not at the top of our mind. Now, I know um the folks on the committee and
012I I know some of the folks in the district that are working on the budget. Um and I know that that is at the top of their mind because of course there's, you know, opportunities for us to complain, uh citizens complaints and things like that, federal mandates and all of that. However, not putting it specifically on the slide of restrictions, I think sends a slight small message that says, "Hey, maybe it's not as important as these other things like ratios of students in K3 and K12." So, um, I think it's a great opportunity and a learning experience for whoever's putting these kinds of things together to make sure that you, even though they're mandated and they're out there, that there's explicitly written down to support and acknowledge the fact that there are budget restrictions and
013mandated requirements, especially in this difficult time with budget communications associated with complying with IEPs and 504s. That's all. That's I appreciate your time. Thank you for all that you've done and I I do appreciate you bringing out the uh the budget committee and giving us an opportunity to have a voice in the SE. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Katherine Bertik. >> Good evening. My name is Katherine Ferdick. I'm a parent with 20 years of collective experience in EPS and a volunteer. I'm here tonight bringing up budget concerns. The reliance on our labor partners playing a significant role in the budget reconciliation plan inevitably brings to mind our district's most recent history and dynamics with many of them. What has leadership done to repair harm resulting from the 2023 teacher strike?
014The teachers will start their next bargaining cycle soon. Bargaining conditions since 2023 clearly eroded to an all-time low, resulting in three strikes in six years. Strikes that grew increasingly fractious and disrespectful, which also affected the community's trust and confidence in the district and its leadership. The lead the need for our labor partners and staff to be on board for the three-year budget plan to work that includes no additional pay added to the IDP from the state to maintain wages is honestly a pretty gutsy ask considering of what at least appears to be lack of acknowledgement of and efforts to prevent reoccurrence of harm. There remains a divisive and disrespectful component of your bargaining team which still has not been addressed to prevent acrimony moving forward. And keeping blinders in place to it creates enormous risk
015to the district's well-being and the fiscal plan for budget reconciliation. Within this plan, I respectfully ask, as I did three years ago, that you include all levels of leadership and staff. It is unacceptable to ask some, but not all, to shoulder this weight. There are many examples to be found. The Hawinson School Board will freeze administrative salaries, including district office employees. EPS's own former superintendent John Deer froze his own salary for 5 years during the height of the Great Recession. Leading by example at Lake Stevens, Washington in 20 in 2009, uh administrators and principals decided to freeze their salaries for a year to save money. Coincidentally, because of Washington lawmakers cutting school spending and an expected decline in student enrollment, Puleup schools in 2013 froze admin salaries for a second year in a row. None
016of the options are ideal, but if circumstances are dire enough to ask our labor partners and staff to shoulder this burden in our harsh financial climate, then it needs to be carried by all in the boat. This is truly your time and turn to lead by example. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Angie Ba. >> Good evening. >> Hello. My name is Angie Bunda and I am a parent. I have been quiet the last 3 months patiently waiting for an investigation to be completed. During that time, many public records requests were made for emails sent out by detectives by a detective or received by the prosecuting attorney's office. I also had a chance after January 14th to look at the pol the police reports that the COO requested on January 5th and
017received on January 12th of this year. These reports were at the center of the COO's unnecessary and harassing contact with PSSE President Mindy Trougher Cooper on January 14th, 2026. At the last board meeting, I referenced evidence I had of board directors engaging in acts knowing about and/or providing false or misleading information to a public servant during a criminal investigation. Additionally, you all know what happened to PSSE president and the related intimidation by the COO. Well, one of you told a police officer per the officer's report written under oath that this incident, the supplemental contracts, occurred prior to your time on the board, but you were appointed in 2022, the contracts were issued in 2023, and the investigation was in 2024. So, why choose to give false information to a police officer? Also, in that report,
018you stated that people loyal to this former superintendent, Mike Marino, are the ones at odds with the COO. I've never met Mike Marino, and my kids didn't even attend public school until well after John Boyd was hired. Camille Lman is in the same position. So why would you provide such misleading information? One of you was alerted to these supplemental contracts in October 2023 by a teacher asking for an investigation. You chose to do nothing. You have stopped this. You could have stopped this from the very beginning. Why make voters pay an extra $35,000 to cover it up and allow falsehoods to continue? You were right about one thing in 2024. The optics on that are not good. One of you learned in 2021 in January that the COO had a third-party insurance report modified before
019turning it in for an appeal matter. The COO omitted information about someone's First Amendment rights being violated. This deletion was laid out in a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision and and it made the district look bad. Three of you sitting here were aware of this and did not take action or investigate. If you had acted out to respond to this willful deception, perhaps we could have avoided the most recent ones. Is looking the other way what you view as proven success? One of you was kept in the dark and finally learned what was happening. You agreed that the information given to law enforcement was false. Then after talking to another board director, you asked that it not be reported to authorities. How is not reporting a violation of Washington state laws as an elected
020official transparent or honest to your voters? to the superintendent whose name and reputation stands with every falsehood or misrepresentation that has occurred here. How can you allow the taxpayers hardearned money to be unethically spent while preparing families and staff for more budget cuts? How can anyone trust you to honor your own five mindsets when we look at the culmination of your actions? Why should we ever trust you on future requests for levy money? You promised in your oaths to support the state constitution and the laws of the state of Washington. Instead, almost every one of you engaged in willful negligence, knowingly playing a part, and allowing the situation to get worse at the expense and detriment of the district and community. You have shown your cowardice and complicity in refusing to speak up for what
021is right or protect those who elected you to to serve. At the very least, please take the action of placing the COO. >> Your time is up. >> Okay, I'll write I'll write you an email about the political action committee. Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Steve Houston. Good evening. >> Hi. Uh, my name is Steve Houston and I volunteer in four eighth grade math classes at White East Middle School and I also make a weekly appearance at first grade uh class in Riverview. When I'm with the students, I often tell them that a lot of the mathematics involves looking for and analyzing patterns. There are two distinct patterns that I have seen while undertaking this work. Uh now in my fourth year, um the first pattern is at a micro level. Um I've
022purchased several boxes of wooden pencils and rulers and several reams of paper for the uh teachers because well they just don't have any. And if you don't have any pencils or rulers, you can't do math. Math is done on paper and pencil, not in computers. Anyway, whenever when an electric pencil sharpener died, which you'd have to have in order to keep those pencils sharp, those little manual things don't work at all. Um, I purchased another. When that got stolen, I brought an older non-commercial model from home to for use in the class. It was gathering dust anyway, so I didn't need it. But anyway, in other classes, teachers have had to take care of similar shortcomings out of their own pocket. You probably know all this already, but I'll say it anyhow. The second pattern
023is at the macro level. Every Southwest Washington education district, Evergreen, Cameas, Washugal, Battleground, Vancouver, you name it, has had over the last few years employee strikes for more pay. You know this already, reductions of personnel, librarians, and staff and many levy requests for capital or other money purpose, monetary purposes. State of Washington says that education is paramount, but they haven't kept up the financial end of this statement. Again, you know that already. I've contacted our state representatives and senator imploring them to raise revenue, but my one citizen's cries have fallen on deaf ears. So, what I'm asking you is, and I'll preface this with something my old boss said, you know, no job is too hard for those that don't have to do the work. Uh, I don't have to do the work you would.
024But I was asking you as an entire school board along with the other school boards in Southwest Washington, all of them. I'm sure you could get a some transportation uh thing set up there. We've got something sitting around here somewhere. Um to go to our elected representatives in person and insist that school funding be increased uh to deal with this reality of how much it actually costs to do this essential task. Um that is your job. Please do it. Um oh I have some extra time so I'm going to get some other stuff in here. Uh they recently te uh did testing and I Ready test. They I ready test you're supposed to do uh in the uh beginning, middle, and end and try to see how things change. And the math department, they decid
025they said they were doing an I Ready test a couple days ago. Uh none of that should count in 180 days by the way of learning. The kids do not learn anything when they take those tests. Um but then they said that they weren't going to be taking the test at the end of the year. That was it. And from a statistical standpoint, if you want to see how students are progressing, you want to have it at the end, beginning and end so that everything that is supposed to be learning gets tested on. You should know that, too. Anyway, that's all I have. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Adam Aguilera. >> Good evening, dear Evergreen School Board and Superintendent Maloney. My name is Adam Aguilera and I'm speaking as a
026member of the Evergreen Education Association. Any union member associated with the Evergreen School District should be able to work in a safe environment where free speech isn't subject to retaliation, especially when retaliation is dealt by guilt of association. I addressed this board last on January 13th, 2026. The public schools employee president was in attendance at that meeting. Also, I need to state clearly, she wasn't here because of me, or as I understand it, for the other two members of the community who spoke about the same concerns I did. Two weeks ago, it was shared with you that the school district's attorney acting on behalf of the board, the superintendent, and the chief operations officer provided false or misleading information to a public servant, specifically a Vancouver police detective conducting a criminal investigation. You were given
027specific information at the January 13th, 2026 school board meeting, and you have been provided with specific documentation since the board meeting by email. Less than 24 hours after that meeting on January 13th, the PSSE president was contacted during her attendance at a scheduled meeting on January 14th when the chief operations officer entered the room and directed her to attend an ad hoc meeting to occur immediately thereafter without knowing why it was called. The PSSE president appeared as directed with her union representative. The meeting started by the COO handing to the PSSE president and her representative documents with opinionated conclusions by the COO. The documents were police reports that documented the facts in part that the district attorney provided false or misleading information to a public servant and to other related allegations. At the meeting, the
028COO told the PSSE president that she knew that the PSSE president had come to the January 13th Evergreen School Board meeting with myself and two other Evergreen parents. Additionally, the CO told the PSSE president that the people in the PSSE who have been working against the COO and were part of the investigation were going to be held responsible. The PSSE president provided the COO with a truthful answer as to why she was at the schoolboard meeting. It is my understanding the PSC president left the meeting feeling extremely uncomfortable given the circumstances and her knowledge of the COO's past history of retaliation. The PSSE president read the documents that the COO gave to her. The PSSE president was then able to obtain and read the documents referred to in one of the reports. These were declarations
029that the COO chose not to provide her. I have read the PSSE president's declaration that was provided to you by email. As an EA member, I have questions for all of you. One, did you authorize the chief operations officer to engage in the contact with a PSSE president that occurred on January 14th, 2026? Two, did you authorize the COO to tell the PSC president that those who have reported the facts relating to the COO providing false or misleading information or the related criminal actions would be held responsible? And three, since you are all now aware the CEO took these actions against the PSSE president while in the midst of criminal referrals for investigation, why isn't the COO on administrative leave? >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Camille Lman. Good evening. >> Good evening. My
030name is Camille Lman. I spoke at the board meeting two weeks ago and Mindy Tropher Cooper was also present. However, she was not there because of me or Adam Aguilera or Angie Bunda. She was there literally just attending a school board meeting for a district she works for and lives in. I share this because the following afternoon at approximately 3:30m during the COO Jana Gome's contracted working hours, Mindy was pulled into an unscheduled meeting by Ms. Gomes. And based on the information shared, that meeting included significant efforts to intimidate Mindy and accused her of being at the board meeting with them. In reference to myself, Miss Aguilera, and Miss and Miss Bund Bunda. At this unscheduled meeting, Miss Gomes also conducted personal business unrelated to her position here as the COO, giving Mindy a printed
031copy of a police report related to the topic of the public comments from last meeting. Ms. Gomes proceeded to declare to Mindy that she had been in quote exonerated. I've personally been in ongoing contact with the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and at no point has anyone in that office stated that Jana Gomes has been exonerated. I've also read the VPD reports that were provided to Mindy by Miss Gomes where the detective states under oath that October 9th, 2025, he was told by EPS board president that concerns about the supplemental or extra duty contracts had already been brought to the board and nothing illegal was found. However, there is no known legal findings supporting that statement. In that same report, the detective quoted the president of this board who stated that the supplemental contracts occurred
032prior to your time on this board. Per public record, President Weatherspoon has been on this board since March of 2022. So why was a public servant who was engaged in a criminal investigation told anything otherwise? On September 8th, 2025, a detective emailed the board requesting documentation relating to any investigations into the supplemental contracts, but was not provided with any. And then on October 9th, a month after that request, why had he still not been provided with the report or even mention of it during President Weatherspoon's phone call with him? That omission creates appearance of intentional misrepresentation. All the members of this board, the COO, the superintendent, Adam Aguilera, Timi, Tim C, and Tony Miles were all present at the hearing in October 2024 when the supplemental contracts and the resulting third party investigation were central
033issues before this board. It is known that the concern around those contracts existed because there was no precedent for those use the use in that way. Yet, the detective was told by the president of this board that the prior superintendent, John Boyd, had a practice of doing out these extra duty contracts, despite the fact that is not supported by the third party investigators report. In fact, I provided evidence to the board at the October hearing that John Boyd's prior district, he only provided this type of extra duty contract when it was in fact actually extra duties, not already part of the bargaining team member's job description. So, why would anything be different uh be said differently to the detective under oath? Why is the COO Jana Gomes not on administrative leave pending investigation? Is it
034because the board condones and supports and approves of Miss Gome's actions? Based on the mountain of evidence, how do the members of this board still feel as if they are fulfilling their duty as elected officials? >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Jacob Smith. Good evening. >> Evening board and uh superintendent. Uh my name is Jacob Smith. Uh I ran for school board last year. Uh hope you all had a good holidays and glad to see you all back in person. So um strain a little bit uh from my usual topics. We're going to talk about forecasting because that's going to happen next month for um our incoming high school freshman and sophomores and juniors. Um just something I thought of to make it easier. Um try to make the um try to expand our
035course catalog a little bit. I know IB is probably not doable at this point because it's a two-year process to do that. I looked into that, but uh make it easier for student athletes to say these are the classes that you need to take in order to go play college sports. And that's something that I feel that the district should do is that highlight, hey, these classes will help you get into college. Um, also, I know we're going to go through budget cuts, but maybe look at each class. Does it provide value to the school? How can we do that? Cuz I went through Heritage and we have a phenomenal DEC and FBA program, and I basically sat through deck and FBA classes half my schedule for senior year, and I really enjoyed those classes.
036Um but also um but also I think we should also be trying to look at getting more college um level classes because college costs have gone up since I left high school and I'm 55k in the hole for student loans but um you know try to try to explore ideas you know let's look at maybe bringing astronomy in we had an astronomy class but that got cut because of the recession forensic science that would be exciting to teach the schools but that has been cut. um try to expand economics cuz Heritage is very big on deck and FBLA stuff and um it's very hard to get AP economics at Heritage. Union can easily fill that because it's their expectation you go to college. Um but try to figure out try to explore why certain classes
037aren't getting filled. Um is there a way we can consolidate certain classes like theater and speech and debate can go hand inand at my viewpoint and um um and that's all I have to say. >> Thank you. That concludes public comment for this evening. The next item on our agenda is our board consent agenda. Is there a motion? >> I move adoption of the board's consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second. >> Director Perkins moves to adopt the board consent agenda as presented. Seconded by Director Okenegra. All in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carries. Our next item is our superintendent consent agenda. Is there a motion? Move to approve the superintendent's consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Director Gwalt moves that we approve our superintendent consent agenda as presented. Seconded by Director Bukanera. All
038in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Our next item is our superintendent report. Dr. Maloney. >> Right. Thank you. Um good evening. Um my topic today is actually one topic but covers three of the OES OE5 financial planning, OE7 asset protection and OE12 facilities. And the topic is use of facilities. As you know, Evergreen Public Schools student enrollment has been declining dramatically over the past number of years. As a result, we do have empty classrooms in many of our schools and some facilities that are not at capacity. I've asked several department leaders to begin to evaluate the work and make adjustments to become more effective and more efficient, focusing on systems that serve. I believe we must do that same thing regarding our facilities and their use. Community members also want us to make the
039most of our facilities. I've heard this as a point of interest at our EPS budget committee meeting. It's a group of parents and community members and staff learning about how our district finances work. They also ask for most efficient use of district facilities. For this reason, I am commissioning a facility's usage study. I'm interested in knowing more about the condition of each facility and how we are using each space. At a recent board of directors meeting, senior director of capital facilities Nicole Deltosa presented a report on the completion of several of our bond related projects. I have asked Nicole to gather data for a study of building usage, including capacity for remodeling and/or the lifespan of each building, along with updated demographic data. This study will help us answer questions about the potential consolidation of
040schools, our ability to move some programs or departments from a less efficient facility to one with more space. It might even allow us to consider revenue generating space we could capitalize on during these times of financial uncertainty. Currently, we are earning just a hair above cost even amount for the rental of our facilities because we recently increased our rates to market. We may be able to increase that revenue in the future if more spaces are and become available for us to rent. I'm expecting the facility usage study to conclude in the winter of the 2627 school year with potential impacts for the 2728 and/or 2829 school years. I want you to know that each day we consider ways to respond to dwindling financial resources. Over the past few years, EPS staff have become increasingly familiar,
041unfortunately, with budget cuts and the impact this has on the work that they do. We must consider ways to operate differently, evaluate in everything we do for the effectiveness and the efficiency and create those systems that serve. This concludes my superintendent report for this evening. >> Thank you. >> Our next item is our student board representative report. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Laureli Medina. I go to Heritage High School. Kind of touching on the topic of AP courses, a lot of students have raised concern on the limited AP courses at our school. A lot of students have been faced with the issues of not being able to take multiple APs at a time just because we don't really have students to fill up those classes and then they're left with, you know, limited a
042limited schedule where they either can't take a course because it's during the same time as another course or left to self-study, which in theory a lot of students think that like they can, but it's honestly very very difficult for these students. And this is especially concerning because having our school be like over half being low income, we really depend on these AP courses in order to afford college. And then again with the AP topic, uh a lot of our students are suffering with the work stoppage because we were cut almost a month of like content and that is really has greatly affected us because AP tests they don't move. They stay the same. So right now we're just cramming a lot which has created a lot of burnout and stress on stress on these students.
043Um kind of switching up. Our community has greatly been affected by the ICE sightings. A lot of our fears have come true. Before it was like oh ICE is around us but now a lot of our students have have don't have parents. Their parents are in Mexico. But and we had the walk out which honestly our admin handled really well. It was very neutral. Um, thankfully we didn't have any big conflicts, but I think staff need to be a bit more careful with sharing their opinions on it because a lot of staff has have shared that it became a street takeover and that can be really discouraging to a lot of students. But overall, I think the great good thing that came out of this was that students have come together and we've built a
044stronger community. Um, on a more positive note, we a lot of our jazz programs that are really great in our district and we're really blessed by that and we have our Clark Jazz Festival which is a really prestig prestigious jazz festival where students from all over the state come and perform. So that's another great thing for our sack meeting. A lot of students have expressed how students have been greatly impacted by academic stress, stress workload. And I think it's just emphasizing that to students that they do have these resources because we really do, but it's just a matter of promoting those resources. >> Yeah. Just going off Oh, my name's Daisy. I'm from Mount Via High School and I'm the junior student board representative. Um, just going off of what Lorelli already stated, I think
045what the district could maybe do better is just to make sure that like even though we do have resources, a lot of students don't know about them. So just making sure that they're more accessible and advertised um so that students have like ways to find support even outside of the district as well. Um like Lorelli was saying earlier uh the student walk out um a lot of schools did it and from like what I've heard so far it was very supportive. All the staff were very supportive um even though they had to maintain a relatively um neutral stance. Um regarding my school, we had a blood drive today that was pretty good. We had around 50 new donors um which like led to almost I think we got 70 units of blood. Um we also
046it's going well for our music department. We had Thunder Idol and then we also had Beetlejuice. Um generally we do have finals coming up which is causing some stress but honestly I think the atmosphere has been pretty good because we have a lot of other events that are happening and a lot of um extracurriculars have started reaching out to elementary schools and middle schools to like just like see how they're doing and also encourage more interaction within the community as well. >> Thank you. Uh Dr. Maloney, I was hoping that um our students could have a chance to connect with Ed Namaya, the student who spoke during comments, public comments. Okay, thank you. The next item on our agenda are presentations. We have an affirmative affirmative action update with Danny Aranchia. >> Good evening, Dr.
047Dr. Weather or sorry, President Weatherspoon, directors, student representatives, uh, Superintendent Maloney. Um, yeah, my name is Danny Arontia. I'm the senior director of human resources and just wanted to give you a short, uh, affirmative action plan update as to where we are, um, since last year, excuse me, as a reminder. Um last year uh we uh took a look at the current at that time affirmative action plan um and look to update it as as uh it was expiring actually this year the 202526 school year um and and uh we looked at data. We worked to engage stakeholders and um we looked to identify additional strategies and actions that we could take. um toward that toward uh improving our our u uh the diversity of our workforce. And so part of that was uh looking
048at the five different strategies that were identified uh which were um uh starting from the application process, recruitment of staff, selection of staff, retention and then education and training. Um, we also added uh to this new uh or this updated plan the concept of having an affirmative action plan committee um that would meet quarterly. Uh it would be made up of hiring managers from across the district, elementary, middle, high school district office. Uh and then it would be responsible for identifying the process and structure necessary to implement those uh action steps. So, I wanted to give you a little bit of data from last year to where we are this year. So, when when I presented to you last year, um you'll see in the green the 2425 uh school year data there. Um SEU
049stands for statistically expected utilization and the deviation from that ultimately what we want to see is zero. Um so, so the statistically accepted expected utilization is essentially in Clark County. This is the percent that we would expect to see um of of our uh global majority or racially racial minority um workforce. And so you can see from last year to this year, we've improved in each of the categories uh certificated uh as well as classified uh at least in getting toward toward that zero. There's positive um progress in that. We're still a little bit a ways away. Um however we are seeing positive progress to date. So um since I presented to you last year last school year uh we have we um at your request uh started the new plan or the updated plan
050this year the 2526 school year and we have uh created the affirmative action review committee. Uh that committee is made up of 12 people across the district. Uh two elementary, three at the middle school level, four high school level and fi and four uh district office level. And um to date we've met twice. Uh in those meetings we've reviewed uh the current data. We've reviewed our goals and action steps and we've also identified we've specifically identified uh selection and retention focus strategies in order to focus on uh this year. So looking ahead um from where we are right now um the affirmative action committee is going to meet again in April. We have at our last committee meeting we split into small groups to kind of take on different uh projects and each small group
051is going to report back in April uh with a process or a proposal for action in those two focus areas selection and retention and then in addition to that um we'll be attending or or some of us will be attending the culturally responsive leadership gathering um which is coming up soon uh in order to connect with our our community- based organizations about the work that we're doing um and identifying opportunities for partnership. Um so with that I'll just say is there are there any questions? >> Great. So yeah I I had a question or two. Um if you go back to the slide with the uh SEU data on it, >> um is the plan required to um disagregate that data from a total racial minority percentage um into the different federal groups. >> It
052isn't required. I can get you that information if you'd like. I tried to make this a little bit more readable. The other one is quite intense. No, my question is about whether um the affirmative action committee is considering strategies that uh um might uh draw the focus on uh very underrepresented groups as opposed to all groups that are not white >> not Hispanic. Um and so seeing the data disagregated someday during this process uh would be um really good >> for sure and I'm happy to provide that for you. >> Are is your committee making use of uh of the board's equity policies in its discussions? >> Um I guess I don't know exactly what you mean by that. the uh uh operational expectations zero. >> I'm I'm familiar with with what you're talking about.
053I I guess my question is uh more about how do you mean >> um as you're choosing your goals to make sure that there's an alignment with the board's policies. >> Yeah. So the all of the goals were established in the affirmative action plan. So the committee isn't looking to change any of the goals or anything like that. The plan was created with the affirmative with OE zero I think in mind or um that policy in mind. Um so we're not looking at adjusting or or amending any of the goals. Um the the committee is more focused on how do we implement. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Good evening, President Weatherspoon, members of the board. For tonight's teaching, learning, and equity update, we will be
054hearing from Kyle Helm, equity specialist in the EPS student equity and family engagement department about the pathways to partnership supporting families and communities guide. It's a mouthful, so I wanted to have a slide up there for you. This guide is being implemented in six schools this year. You can see them listed above. Burton, Marian, and York elementary schools, Pacific and W East middle schools, and Evergreen High School. This guide reflects our district's commitment to building strong partnerships with families by engaging, listening to, and valuing their voice. Kyle will introduce two principles who will share some of the ways their schools are strengthening family engagement practices, ensuring all families feel welcomed, informed, and empowered as partners in their students success. Kyle, come get us started. All right. Good evening. When you think about family engagement, what
055comes to mind? Maybe it's after school events or parent teacher conferences. And either way, you're right. But it's also so much more. Uh whatever the approach, researchers and educators working together find that the most meaningful and impactful family engagement strategies do similar things. They build trusting and respectful relationships that center learning, development, and justice. They begin when children are young and support families with navigating educational systems through high school and beyond. They include clear, accessible, and continuous two-way communication. They provide extra supports to meet the needs of families so that they can support their child's learning. They prepare educators to skillfully work with families of all backgrounds. And they enable families to lead through shared power and connection within their communities. This action research also shows that family engagement has positive benefits for students, families,
056educators, schools, districts, and communities. Students do better in and feel better about school. Families are empowered with knowledge, skills, and connections to support their children and their communities. Educators grow as practitioners in their ability to serve students in partnership with families. Schools gain the support of their communities and become more welcoming and inclusive. and districts and community partners serve students and families better through improved practices and policies. So in summary, everybody wins with effective family engagement, specifically students and families with minoritized and targeted identities and backgrounds. So with this body of knowledge in mind and a long-term vision to improve and steward those trusting relationships with EPS families, Dr. Dr. Jamila Singleton organized a multi-racial, multithnic, and multilingual advisory of community partners and APS staff and caregivers last year to co-design a path to making
057good on a strategic plan promise. We will engage, listen, and value input from our community. We will keep lines of communication open so that we can try to understand one another. The end result is the pathways to partnership guide to supporting families and communities. This guide is our commitment to building strong, equitable partnerships between families and schools by sharing effective approaches to family engagement grounded in the voices of our community. Our EPS families and community identified four key areas for improvement outlined in this guide. One, creating an environment where all families feel welcomed, valued, and part of the school community. Two, building trust through consistent and meaningful family interactions. Three, informing families with clear, direct, and culturally responsive communication. And four, providing families with tools and support that make it easier to navigate school systems
058and processes. Each area includes one to two actionable strategies for district and building partners to undertake, and six schools set out this fall to develop and implement plans based on them. Part of my work as one of two EPS student equity and family engagement specialists is to carry out this work forward with our implementation schools which include Evergreen High School, Pacific and WY East Middle Schools and York, Marian, and Burton elementary schools. I support them as a district level partner by doing the work alongside their school leaders to connect the work to existing district initiatives like decreasing the predictability of outcomes by racial or ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, or identification as a multilingual learner or student with disabilities. to tailor family engagement resources to each school while sharing these across school sites. To partner with
059and enable the work in schools and build in feedback loops before we roll this out to the whole district to create and test these resources with schools as well before that roll out and to build on successes big and small while clarifying and prioritizing specific efforts, actions, and approaches that work. Allow me to introduce two of the building principles leading this work. Rebecca Chase of Burton Elementary and Heather Tissson of Pacific Middle School. Up first, we have Mrs. Chaste to tell you about the work at Burton Elementary. >> Good evening. >> This year at Burton, we started a new family and community engagement committee with the goal of strengthening the partnerships that make Burton such a vibrant community. We also created this committee to build teacher leadership and family engagement so our work is shared,
060intentional, and sustainable. We focused on three main goals this year. First, we wanted to increase engagement in our culturally specific uh parent groups, especially our Hispanic and Native America, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander families. Second, we wanted to increase family volunteerism at Burton. And third, we aim to grow our community partnerships with a focus on deepening our work with the Boys and Girls Club. For our first goal, we spent time building stronger relationships with our culturally specific parent groups. Our Hispanic family engagement has grown through Charles Con Cafe and several hands-on family events. In November, families came together for a traditional Thanksgiving style tamalei celebration, followed by a turkey making activity with their children. In December, we hosted a family gingerbread house night, which brought many families together for a fun and creative evening. These events
061gave us chances to build real relationships and celebrate culture together. For our Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families, we planned social community centered events that match the group's values of gathering and shared activity. Tonight, right now, we are hosting a pizza night for these families and next week they will join in a family volleyball game which has been highly requested. These gatherings help families feel welcomed and connected into our school. Our second major goal was to increase volunteers at Burton. We know that volunteering is one of the strongest predictors of long-term family engagement. This year, we work to make volunteering easier and more visible. We're promoting volunteer opportunities more often and in multiple languages. We created a volunteer orientation to help families feel informed and confident. And we expanded the types of volunteer roles available
062to every family so they could find one that fits their schedule and interests. Families can now help as lunch helpers, playground partners, art discovery classroom assistants, button makers, laminators, and much more. These small roles create meaningful connections and help bring families into daily school life. Our third goal was to grow our community partnerships. We continue to strengthen our partnership with the Boys and Girls Club through the 21st century grant. We're offering monthly family nights that connect families with resources, enrichment activities, and each other. The partnerships also provide additional support for students or this partnership also provides additional support for students during or before and after not during and after school. Sorry. Beyond the Boys and Girls Club, we continue to work with many other community partners to bring services, events, and new opportunities to Burton
063students and families. These partnerships expand what we can offer and help us to meet more needs in our community. Our work this year has been strengthened by Burner's partnership with the district. This support has helped us move faster, stay focused, and learn from others across the system. We receive ongoing coaching that helps us plan, reflect, and improve our engagement practices. We have monthly check-in meetings where we share progress and receive useful feedback. District partners share ideas from other schools so we can adapt successful practices to Burton. The they also connect us with multiple district departments which gives us tools and resources to strengthen our events, communication, and outreach. This partnership ensures we're not working alone. It helps us align with district goals, build our capacity, and create meaningful experiences for families. In just a few
064months, our family and and community engagement committee has made strong progress towards building a more connected, collaborative Burton community. We are proud of the momentum we've created and excited to continue growing this work throughout the year. Thank you for your time and continued support of our families, our staff, and our students. Good evening. Uh myself and Jack Thompson, one of my associates, are really happy to be here and brag about some things going on at Pacific. Last year, Pacific implemented two separate initiatives in an effort to support student success and strengthen our family partnerships. We value connection and growth at Pacific, and we know that having a strong partnership with our families is key to that success. These initiatives are Viking Academy and our conferences with care. Viking Academy provides sixth and seventh graders with
065consistent, concentrated instruction on how to be a successful student at Pacific Middle School with a focus on organization, grades, and behaviors. We are in our second year of implementation. This is our second year with working with exclusively with our sixth graders and we are in our first year of moving that work up to our seventh graders. So, we're essentially following up the sixth graders from last year. And then next year, we're looking forward to having it implemented in our eighth grade as well. This is also the second year that we are engaging in our conferences with care. We believe that conferences are a pathway to foster authentic partnership with families as we help students unlock and recognize their own expertise. They serve as an opportunity to discover insight on the strength, need, and wisdom of
066each student while also creating a dialogue with families about student progress towards co-created goals. In the spring of 2024, we had the opportunity to hear about a method for student conferencing that Shahala was doing, and we decided to give it a try. We started last fall where we had every one of our teachers have a conference with care for at least five of their students. These conferences place the student at the center of the conversation together with their teacher and their families. Students get to describe their strengths. They set their goals for their classes and they co-create a plan with all parties cooperating together. This means that rather than just being able to conference with approximately 25 to 40 students, as had been the practice for years and years, our teachers were able to facilitate
067conferences with over 15% of our total student population. In March, our teachers will meet with these families and students again to check in on progress, celebrate success, and create a plan for how they will finish the year strong. One way we are measuring our effectiveness is how these students goals align with what we're doing in Viking Academy. What you see here is um graphs that we made by taking all of our student goal uh growth goals that they made for themselves in their conferences and then aligning it with what we want to focus in on Viking Academy. When we analyzed all of these goals our students developed in their conferences and matched it with our key areas of focus, we saw that both of these initiatives at Pacific are supporting each other. Data also tells
068us that the next step for supporting student efforts in Viking Academy is supporting students in self- advocacy, confidence, and collaboration because those are the things that our students are telling us they want to get better at. This work has reinforced our belief that it is through thoughtful and authentic collaboration with our families that we can help our students shine. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> I really appreciate having the principles and associate principal uh here this evening and want to thank them for the work they do in their schools. Um, also want to thank you, uh, Becky and Heather for the time that you put into preparing this evening's presentation. And Becky, I'm sorry you're missing such an important event this evening. Hearing from Kyle, one of our equity specialists this evening, reminds
069us that the EPS student equity and family engagement department continues to work hard to support schools in their important work. Looking ahead to your meeting on February 10th, we will feature Frontier Middle School. Principal Ruben Dornf will be celebrating growth in student achievement with a focus on growth in mathematics. And on the 24th, Kate Dwine, principal at East Middle School, will be here to tell us about the East Spanish Parent Network and their work with Hispanic and Latino families. And then as we proceed through the spring, you'll hear more from our schools as they implement the work of equitable and inclusive education. This concludes the TLE update. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Can I ask Principal Chase a question about the volunteering? How is that going? The increase in trying to get new volunteers.
070Um, so we're just getting started with it, but we have some volunteers that have just started. We have a more robust um, art discovery program and we're just doing our first um, orientation next week. So, um, our our work just started at the beginning of the year, so we're just getting our momentum going. But, thank you. >> Right. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is matters reserved for board action. We have our 2026 2027 EPS school calendar second reading and approval. Dr. Maloney, do we have have we had any questions since the last meeting? Um >> we did have one from um one of the local superintendants who has students who attend Cascade Cascadia uh Tech Academy and um we were able to connect him directly with our director over there and um
071his questions were answered and um I recommend moving forward with the calendar. Yeah. >> Any questions from the board? >> Is there a motion? >> I move uh adoption of the school calendar as it's been presented to us. >> Second. >> I guess I do have a Could we raise it just a bit? I don't see the bottom. I'm sorry. >> Okay, that's the one I Yeah, thank you. We're good. Director Perkins moves that we adopt the 2026 2027 EPS school calendar as it presented. Seconded by Director Grunwalt. All in favor? >> I I >> opposed. Motion carries. The next item on our agenda is our good news report with Mr. Burbach. >> Good evening, President Weatherspoon, board of directors, and Superintendent Dr. Maloney. Thank you as always for letting me present the good news.
072And I'm going to start with a um a brand new event to Evergreen Public Schools, our district. It's called the Battle of the Bear. And this is going to be between Evergreen High School and Mountain View High School. Uh both sides are gearing up for the first ever Battle of the Bear. And you could see that's Barry right there. And that's what they'll be battling for. Uh they made him. So, uh, now it this is kind of based on an event in Spokane that they've been doing for over 40 years. They battle for a rubber chicken named Chuck. Um, but, uh, Evergreen High School and, uh, leadership group, they decided they wanted to kind of, um, do something similar. So, they came up with the battle for the bear. They went over to Mountain View's
073leadership group, kind of pitched the idea. Mountain View's leadership group loved it. Uh so they are collaborating for this uh event which is during the basketball games on February 6. Uh the girls play at 5:30, the boys play at 7, but it is basically a spirit war that's going to take place all night long. Um they've each chosen a theme. Uh you could see it's Bobby's Playhouse, which is Barbie's Playhouse, and it's Bobby and Black, which is Men in Black, uh for Mountain View. So there'll be a lot of pink and a lot of black on on on two sides. They've done some incredible social media with this uh and collaborated together and um they hope that this is a a first year event that eventually will go as long as the event in Spokane.
074Uh we're also doing a video story on that to help pro promote that that uh will be out later this week. Uh next up we're going to we had a lot of holiday uh events in our schools um including at Cascade Middle School where they had a uh MLK assembly assembly to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. right before that holiday. Um there was a lot of uh giving and music during uh December, but I do want to highlight uh Furrest Elementary School. Many of you probably know they do a canned food drive every year and they blew the record away. Over 5,000 cans uh they collected. Um and I do want to highlight third and fifth grade um winter court uh Mr. Court's fifth grade class. They alone uh collected over a thousand cans
075which is just awesome. You can see um the school does this. They get together. Just a great great uh job by them. Next up, I want to go back to Mountain View. We're just this weekend and Daisy mentioned it. It was Beetlejuice Jr. though, right? Not Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice Jr. And uh this play um they call it a junior play. I think it's three days. It was or two performances uh two days Friday and Saturday, but the show is completely produced, directed, designed, and performed by Mountain View students. Uh and then I want to move down to some honor uh some one other uh kind of holiday event over at Shahala. The Shahala administrative team welcome back their staff with a pancake breakfast. Uh it was cold uh but you could see the uh principal uh
076was on the grill. I want to uh recognize um Union High School's wrestling coach John Gadino. He was recently inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Hall of Fame. He was a great wrestler uh when he was in high school. Uh but he has coached in Evergreen Public School since 1992. So uh anytime you get in a Hall of Fame, it's it's a really big deal. Uh last but not least, um January is uh National School Board Recognition Month. Uh we did post a recognition on social media, but I did want to also thank uh our board of directors for uh their service and their dedication to our students um every month, but especially in January. And that is my report. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Next item on our agenda is
077board comments. Who would like to start? >> Talk about the budget. Um, no. Go. You start on that. >> Okay. I actually wasn't quite ready. Um, uh, since the last board meeting, I was able to attend on behalf of WASDA, uh, the online learning advisory committee, uh, at OSPI. Um, and my term was renewed for the next two or three years, something like that. It's it's either a two or a three-year term. I'd have to put the acceptance letter in front of me to remember exactly what um I've noticed a change in OSBI um since they did some reorganizations and things but uh um their discussions with uh with us regarding online learning and some of the policy changes that they're making and some practice changes uh in order to make the process of um
078obtaining uh single district certifications for an online school, a public online school, or the multi-dist certifications are clearer um and that they're much more responsive than um people have perceived in the past. This has been a an a concern of districts around us and I believe we still have an application pending for a multi-dist offering. Is that still true? >> Um yes. >> Yeah. And I and I just wanted to share with the board that uh it's nice to see government working uh as well as they have. Um as an advisory committee, we don't have any decision-making authority. Uh what we found was a lot of humility and interest in the advice of the people assigned there. Um so that was a good day. I we also uh Gary and I also attended the budget
079committee meeting uh as advisory members and I want to thank you for the organization um that you brought to that uh Dr. Maloney and uh who else was with us? senior um director of instruction leadership Griffin Payton and then also u our chief financial officer um uh Jennifer Jacobson is instrumental in the background and putting the together those meetings >> was through the process that they set up they were able to um really focus all of the people working on it on creative ideas uh some of which have come out in uh the superintendent's report. Uh so it's good to be uh responsive. It's it's good that the district is already responsive to those concerns. It's a it's a good grouping of people. um and they were able to keep the focus on um kids
080and uh and the environment that they'll have and uh the worry uh that it's going to hurt uh because they're really isn't any fluff left uh to go with a budget plan. Um, so I'm appreciative of I think it was one of the public commenters to talk about um communicating uh using that student centered focus so that our budget um the communications during the budget process uh have a humanity to them in the hopes that uh as we go through this what we what we do is mournful um rather than hateful. Um and that's where I am right now. >> Oh yeah. I'd like to thank each of the commenter commenters tonight and I want to address some of the comments. Um first the first comment about the youth walk out. Um, we have an
081obligation for safety for each student and if a student leaves the property during school hours then that is a problem and if that is the reason they were disciplined then I support that 100%. And I believe um I've also my understanding is that uh demonstrations like that are not to be carried out during school hours. It's supposed to be um non-school hours if um is that correct Dr. Maloney? >> Yes, it is in board policy. >> Okay. Thank you. Um also I have a I want to ask the board and superintendent Maloney if there are any RCWs that would prevent me from commenting on an email we got um January 22nd. Uh that part of it uh detailed um some uh emails between um the Vancouver PD and our lawyer. And um just want to
082know am I able to comment on any of that or is there an RCW that would prevent me? I don't want to do anything. I'm not allowed or illegal or do you guys know of any? >> I'm not sure exactly which email you're talking about, but I'm happy to talk with you um afterwards and find out exactly what your request is and then uh research that for you. >> Okay. Okay. I'd like Yeah. I'd like to address it eventually. Yeah. Um, also the budget workshop um and David Bennett tonight um mentioned about the page that he gave us the non-negotiables restrictions and um he mentioned about IEPs and 504s meeting those are not on the um statemandated um restriction. So just was wondering would that be something we might want to add if we circulate
083that in the future or >> um yes that's not a problem. whatsoever. Um, that was just a couple of examples of some restrictions that we have to deal with regarding budget restrictions. By no means was that an exhaustive list. And actually, in the video that I um created um that talked about um non-negotiables, etc. um or the presentations I've been working on with um other groups, actually states, and they're just state laws, federal laws, and that is specifically um around our students who um have IEPs and 504s as well, but it's it is definitely something we can just make sure we just call out. Um yeah, >> right. And um also another commenter mentioned about um uh a freeze on admin salaries looking at our next budget. Um, and I know for and I know
084that was mentioned at the Thursday night board meeting and um, I know I shared that months ago with another board member and they that was on their radar as well. Um, I think I worded it as salary freeze on non-bargaining admin. And so it sounded like there was two of us that were leaning that way. And I know I brought it up at our two on two, actually it was more like a two on four meeting uh Friday and um and I don't know Julie you were I mentioned it and you followed up but wasn't quite sure where your leaning was on that but I I would just you know I think for if we're going to have a good um contract with the the upcoming teachers contract I think that being in place would
085really uh be a a positive for those negotiations. So, um just we'll leave it there and hopefully we can have more discussion on it and I guess I'll just leave my comments uh on the other item uh after further uh analysis. Thank you. >> All right. uh to that I think thank you for the budget presentation that we had the um the two on twos um really helpful and I'm uh very informative and I'm thankful for the work that the budget committee has done around that and I think that really anything um could be up for discussion really as we're looking and moving forward. Um, and we're not even sure yet what our funding will look like for sure, which brings me to a couple of things um, legislatively that we're kind of looking at.
086And just as a brief update, but there was since session started, it's been pretty um, heavy in the bills, 120 that are being watched, 20 that are unfunded mandates. Couple of them that have of particular interest is House Bill 2551, which is the fund balance um, to sell property to help districts that are in binding conditions to sell property. So then they can use that, but changing the way that you could do that before because you had to use it for capital improvements. And so they're looking at that one. And then the other one is House Bill 2593, which then adds the minimum and maximum fund balance with some reporting um which could be problematic because a lot of the districts are falling below in their fund balances. And so to order to get back
087to that would be really tough on some district budgets. So something for us to keep an eye on. One thing I forgot to add. Um I know Thursday night at the um um the budget advisory committee um it was brought up that the salary freeze on non-bargaining admin and it did get um several dots. So that's just that was one of the items. So thank you. The dots were people saying yeah that's a good idea. So thank you. >> All right. Um, I just wanted to draw the board's attention to an email that I sent you earlier today that had an update to the police report that was mentioned in multiple um, comments today. Two weeks ago, I called the police to have them update the report because, of course, I've been on the board
088since 2022, and I did not say that I was not here when those events happened. So, just please um, take a look at that. I know they've made several supplements to that report since then, so there's probably multiple updates that we haven't seen. The time is 6:46 and this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.